Recaps

Bai Le warned Ye Xiaosi against investing in a drama, then took charge when Xiao Yang was accused of cheating online. After the crisis was contained, Bai Le suspected someone had arranged the scandal, while Bai Huizhang began treating him more warmly.

• Bai Le told Ye Xiaosi not to invest in a drama, claiming he had received a warning in a dream, then felt nauseous during Ye Xiaosi's lecture.
• Bai Le saw Xiao Yang trending for suspected cheating and called an emergency meeting with the company's staff.
• Bai Le learned that Xiao Yang's team had faked his romance with Shu Mei to promote their drama, while Xiao Yang's real girlfriend was portrayed as a mistress.
• Bai Le ordered the PR team to remove the trending topic, had Shu Mei clarify that she and Xiao Yang had broken up, and arranged for Xiao Yang to post an apology.
• Bai Le told Ye Xiaosi to have Xiao Yang take a break and suspected someone had orchestrated the scandal.
• Bai Huizhang became less hostile toward Bai Le, while Wu Hua and the others began tagging Bai Le in their group chat again.

Bai Le met Wu Hua at a café and unexpectedly encountered Xi Yan, who invited them to sit with him. As they talked, Xi Yan reacted strangely when Bai Le complained about someone targeting his company, while snow began falling outside.

• Bai Le told Wu Hua he was being watched and reminded their group to vote for Mu Bai’s trainees, especially Fang Rong.
• Bai Le and Wu Hua met at a café on Wutong Road and found Xi Yan sitting by the window with his attendant.
• Xi Yan initially ignored Bai Le’s offered handshake, then called him back and invited both men to sit.
• Xi Yan mentioned receiving Bai Le’s payment for the car accident, and Bai Le joked about getting a friends’ discount.
• Bai Le complained that someone had arranged for a person from his company to trend online, and Xi Yan reacted strangely before denying anything was wrong.
• Wu Hua teased Bai Le as they ate, and the men noticed snow falling outside.

Bai Le went downstairs to help Ye Feifei when several girls attacked her, then learned she valued money over romance and had no interest in Xi Yan. Xi Yan watched them from the café as Bai Le realized the story’s expected romantic pairing would not happen.

• Bai Le saw several girls attack Ye Feifei, but Xi Yan stayed seated and watched him leave.
• Bai Le broke up the fight, and the attackers left after the lead girl threatened Ye Feifei.
• Ye Feifei showed Bai Le two kittens she had rescued and explained she had been stood up by a man who lied about being single.
• Ye Feifei told Bai Le she liked money more than love and denied having feelings for Fourth Master Xi.
• Ye Feifei said goodbye to Bai Le, then felt an icy gaze fixed on her.

Ye Feifei warned Bai Le to stay away from the Xi Family, while Xi Yan left the café without explaining his anger. Bai Le was forced to attend the Xi Family banquet, where he and his family arrived to find guests gathered outdoors in the cold.

• Ye Feifei hugged Bai Le goodbye, warned him that the Xi Family’s affairs were dangerous, and left him puzzled.
• Xi Yan had Secretary Xing take him away from the café, leaving Bai Le and Wu Hua wondering why he was angry.
• Bai Huizhang insisted that Bai Le attend the Xi Family banquet, and Bai Yin refused to go unless her brother came too.
• Bai Le was dressed up and escorted to the Xi residence, where he arrived with Bai Huizhang, Chen Suqiu, and Bai Yin.
• Bai Le and Bai Yin saw the lavishly dressed guests socializing outside and wondered why the Xi Family had left them in the cold.

At the Xi family banquet, Bai Huizhang realized that Bai Yin and a girl from the Xie Family were being considered as possible wives for Xi Yan, leaving Bai Le shocked by the thought that Xi Yan might become his brother-in-law. The guests entered the hall, where Xi Yan appeared in a wheelchair and explained that taking his medicine had delayed him.

• Xi Defeng studied Bai Yin and then showed greater warmth toward a girl from the Xie Family, prompting Bai Huizhang to suspect the Xi family was choosing between the two women as Xi Yan's future wife.
• Bai Le realized Xi Yan might become Bai Yin's husband and felt uneasy because he had previously slept with Xi Yan.
• Bai Le reunited with Xiaozhouzi and Wu Hua, teased Wu Hua about his flashy perm, and warned him that someone had already set his sights on Bai Yin.
• Bai Le entered the banquet hall with the guests after noticing Bai Yin shivering outside.
• Xi Yan was wheeled out before the guests and said taking his medicine had delayed him, while Xi Defeng expressed concern for his health.

At Old Master Xi’s birthday gathering, Bai Le watched the Xi and Bai families maneuver around Xi Yan and Xie Qizhi before slipping away from an awkward conversation. He discovered an aquarium holding three goldfish like the ones he had given Xi Yan, then encountered the man emerging from the shadows in a wheelchair.

• Old Master Xi arrived late and told the young guests to enjoy themselves at his birthday celebration.
• Bai Le and Wu Hua discussed the party’s matchmaking prospects, and Wu Hua showed interest in a girl from the Xie Family.
• Xi Yan brought up Bai Le, prompting Bai Huizhang to introduce him to Old Master Xi.
• Xi Defeng and Xie Qizhi joined the conversation, while Chen Suqiu awkwardly tried to draw attention to Bai Yin and Xi Yan.
• Bai Le slipped away to the second-floor bathroom, then noticed an aquarium with exactly three goldfish resembling the ones he had given Xi Yan.
• A man in a wheelchair emerged from the shadows and asked Bai Le what he was doing.

Bai Le was caught looking into Xi Yan’s room and then accompanied him downstairs, where Xi Defeng discussed possible marriage matches and his schemes involving Ye Feifei and Xie Qizhi. After feeling nauseated from eating dessert, Bai Le went home to rest and saw that his company’s trainee had made the final boy group.

• Bai Le admitted that he had seen Xi Yan’s birthday present, and Xi Yan told him to come downstairs.
• Bai Le asked how Xi Yan had brought the fish back and guessed that he had used a private plane.
• Old Master Xi told Xi Defeng that he preferred the Bai family girl as a match for Xi Yan, while Xi Defeng considered how to use Xie Qizhi after his plans involving Ye Feifei faltered.
• Bai Le pushed Xi Yan downstairs, tried desserts Wu Hua brought him, and began retching and feeling unwell.
• Bai Le went home to rest and later saw that a trainee from his company had earned a place in the boy group.

Bai Le learned that Bai Yin had been chosen as the empress, while Chen Suqiu pushed Bai Yin to marry Xi Yan despite her objections. At the Xi residence, Xi Yan confronted his abusive mother and kept his plans in motion, but his questions about the pastries hinted at a new suspicion.

• Bai Le told his WeChat group that Bai Yin had been chosen as the empress and joked that they should call him the imperial brother-in-law.
• Chen Suqiu urged Bai Yin to marry Xi Yan for his wealth and status, but Bai Yin insisted she did not want to marry him.
• Bai Huizhang found Bai Le playing on his phone and threw a pillow at him for pretending to be sick, before Bai Yin and Chen Suqiu calmed him down.
• Secretary Xing reported that Tan Lianxin had been released from her room, but she rushed at Xi Yan and cursed him before Secretary Xing restrained her.
• Xi Yan told Secretary Xing to keep the plan unchanged, then asked who had made the pastries and ordered that person dismissed.

Bai Le learned that the drama he had warned the company against had run into trouble, then attended Wu Hua’s family wedding with Bai Yin. At the reception, Xi Yan arrived looking unwell, while Wu Hua explained that his father had forced his second brother to marry the college student he had gotten pregnant.

• Ye Xiaosi told Bai Le that the drama Bai Le had warned against had run into trouble, and Bai Le credited his prediction to metaphysics.
• Bai Le remembered Bai Yin pointing out that he had gained weight and considered starting to exercise.
• Wu Hua invited Bai Le and Bai Yin to his second brother’s wedding, which was arranged after the groom tried to abandon the pregnant college student.
• Bai Le explained to Bai Yin why Xi Yan was called Fourth Master and learned that Xi Yan’s older brother had died and his two older sisters lived abroad.
• Wu Hua brought Bai Le to the main table, where the Wu family greeted Xi Yan as he arrived looking pale and hoarse.
• Wu Hua told Bai Le that his father had forced his second brother to marry to prevent the college student from exposing the scandal.

At a wedding, Bai Le learned that men could become pregnant and began to fear that his own rounded belly meant he was pregnant. As the ceremony and banquet continued, he grew increasingly anxious while Xi Yan noticed his distress.

• Bai Le learned from Wu Hua that his second brother had married a man, then saw the pregnant groom and was reminded of his own rounded belly.
• Wu Hua explained that men could rarely become pregnant, leaving Bai Le to wonder whether the same had happened to him.
• Bai Le watched Xi Yan during the wedding ceremony and grew pale as he recalled his recent behavior and a night with Xi Yan.
• Bai Le barely ate, and Xi Yan noticed his tense, unsettled expression.
• The newlyweds toasted Xi Yan, and he picked up his wineglass despite Secretary Xing's concern for his health.

After Xi Yan offered Bai Le a ride home, he teased him in the car and asked why he had felt unwell at the wedding banquet. Bai Le avoided answering and later rushed out to the pharmacy, convinced he needed something urgent.

• Xi Yan congratulated the newlyweds, surprising the Wu family, while Wu Hua speculated that Xi Yan was thinking about his own upcoming marriage.
• Bai Le left the hotel in the drizzle, and Xi Yan insisted on driving him home.
• In the car, Xi Yan ordered Bai Le closer, then asked whether he had been feeling unwell and who he had seen.
• Bai Le got out at his villa without answering Xi Yan's question and hurried inside.
• Bai Le disguised himself with a hat, sunglasses, and scarf, then told Bai Yin he was going to the pharmacy for something that could decide whether he lived or died.

Bai Le secretly bought a pregnancy test and narrowly avoided being seen by Xi Yan after Secretary Xing recognized him at the pharmacy. Back home, Bai Le took the test in the bathroom while Bai Yin waited outside.

• Xi Yan allowed Secretary Xing ten minutes to buy medicine for his daughter, while Bai Le stopped at the same pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test.
• Bai Le tried to conceal his identity, but Secretary Xing recognized him by his clothes as he reached for the test.
• Secretary Xing promised not to tell anyone he had seen Bai Le, then returned to Xi Yan without mentioning the encounter.
• Bai Le waited until Xi Yan's car had left before heading home with the test.
• Bai Le began taking the test in the bathroom and sent Bai Yin to use another bathroom when Bai Yin urgently knocked.

After discovering his positive pregnancy test, Bai Le struggled to accept that he was pregnant with Xi Yan’s child. A hospital ultrasound confirmed an early singleton pregnancy, leaving him to face the reality as the doctor asked about his habits during pregnancy.

• Bai Le discovered two red lines on his pregnancy test and realized he was pregnant.
• Bai Le returned to his room, wondered whether to end the pregnancy or give birth, and went downstairs to dinner with his family.
• Bai Le clung to the hope that the test was wrong and went to the hospital for an examination the next day.
• The doctor showed Bai Le an ultrasound report confirming an early singleton pregnancy and explained that the fetus was in its first three months.
• The doctor asked Bai Le whether he had drunk alcohol or smoked during the pregnancy.

Bai Le learned he was pregnant but remained unsure whether to keep the baby, then wandered into a bookstore to buy books that might dissuade him from having an abortion. There he ran into Ye Feifei, who said she planned to pursue a career in entertainment.

• Bai Le told the doctor he had not decided whether to keep the baby, and the doctor urged him to discuss the decision with the baby's father.
• Bai Le left the hospital and wandered the streets, telling girls who approached him that he had a child.
• Bai Le went to a bookstore and bought books about abortion's harms and awakening fatherly love.
• Bai Le bumped into Ye Feifei and claimed the childcare books were gifts for a friend's baby.
• Ye Feifei told Bai Le she planned to interview at one of his companies and enter the entertainment industry as an artist.

Bai Le struggled with the news that he might be pregnant and dreaded telling Xi Yan, then attended a charity visit to an orphanage. Mu Mu’s plea that Bai Le take him home unsettled him, and the director explained that Mu Mu had been abandoned by his father as a baby.

• Bai Le tore up his test report, hid his book, and lay awake most of the night worrying about whether to keep the child and tell Xi Yan.
• At the company, Bai Le reacted angrily to hearing the Xi family’s name and learned he had to attend a scheduled orphanage visit.
• Bai Le visited the orphanage, played with the children, and grew especially close to Mu Mu, who asked him to take him home.
• Bai Le promised Mu Mu he would visit again, and the director told him Mu Mu had nearly died after his father abandoned him as a baby.

Bai Le learned that the Xi Family was arranging for Bai Xiao Yin to marry Xi Yan, and he worried about how his pregnancy could affect his sister and the families. Unable to bring himself to end the pregnancy, he planned to secretly leave town and give birth, but Bai Huizhang came home to check on him.

• Bai Le overheard Bai Huizhang and Chen Suqiu discuss Old Master Xi's support for Bai Xiao Yin marrying Xi Yan and the possibility that Xi Yan might not want children.
• Bai Le realized his child could complicate Bai Xiao Yin's future and bring shame on the Bai family, but he could no longer bear to abort it.
• Bai Le decided to run away and secretly planned to carry the pregnancy to term in a small southern county town.
• Bai Le pretended to be sick, withdrew a large amount of cash, wrote a note for his family, and planned to leave at three in the morning.
• Bai Huizhang returned from work, learned Bai Le had stayed home again, and went to check on him.

Bai Le secretly left the Bai family home for a small county town, taking money and two books while hiding his pregnancy. After finding his note, Bai Yin searched his room and discovered scraps of a prenatal examination report.

• Bai Huizhang checked on Bai Le, believed he was unwell, and let him sleep.
• Bai Le left a note, removed his phone's SIM card, packed money and two books, and took a taxi to the eastern suburbs bus station.
• Bai Le boarded a bus to a small county town and thought anxiously about the child he was carrying before falling asleep.
• Bai Huizhang found Bai Le's note and grew furious, while Chen Suqiu claimed Bai Le would return soon.
• Bai Yin doubted that Bai Le had left without a reason and searched his room for clues.
• Bai Yin pieced together scraps from the trash and recognized part of a prenatal examination report.

Bai Huizhang learned that Bai Le was the one who had become pregnant, but the family’s secret leaked and spread as increasingly distorted rumors. When Zhou Kun told Xi Yan that Bai Le had supposedly been forced into sex and thrown out, Xi Yan reacted violently, and Secretary Xing revealed that he had seen Bai Le buying a pregnancy test.

• Bai Yin found Bai Le’s prenatal checkup report in the trash, and Bai Huizhang confirmed that Bai Le was the patient.
• Bai Huizhang warned Chen Suqiu and Bai Yin to keep the pregnancy secret, but gossip spread after a maid overheard them.
• Bai Huizhang replaced the maids, but rumors grew to claim Bai Le had been violated and expelled by his parents.
• Zhou Kun told Xi Yan the rumors about Bai Le, prompting Xi Yan to order him out.
• Secretary Xing told Xi Yan he had seen Bai Le buying a pregnancy test, and Xi Yan began coughing violently and scattered the game pieces.

Xi Yan told Old Master Xi he wanted to marry the Bai family's eldest son, believing the child he was carrying might be his, and Old Master Xi agreed on the condition that the child undergo a paternity test. Days later, the Xi Family held a banquet where guests gossiped about the Bai family's scandal and anticipated a marriage announcement.

• Xi Yan told Old Master Xi he wanted to marry the Bai family's eldest son and suggested the child might be his.
• Old Master Xi agreed to Xi Yan's decision but required a paternity test before the child could enter the Xi Family genealogy.
• The Xi Family invited prominent families to a banquet, prompting guests to expect an announcement of a marriage alliance with the Bai family.
• Guests whispered about the Bai family's eldest son's pregnancy and mocked the family while Bai Huizhang and Chen Suqiu listened.
• Bai Huizhang snapped at Chen Suqiu when she complained about the gossip.

At Xi Yan’s banquet, he announced that Bai Le—not Bai Yin—would marry into the Xi Family because Bai Le was carrying his child. Bai Huizhang reluctantly accepted the arrangement if Bai Le agreed, and he publicly corrected the earlier claim about Bai Yin.

• Chen Suqiu scolded Bai Yin after she returned, then Wu Xueying confronted Bai Huizhang over Bai Le’s disappearance.
• Xi Yan arrived and told Bai Huizhang and Wu Xueying that he had invited them to announce something.
• Xi Yan declared that Bai Le would marry into the Xi Family and revealed that Bai Le was carrying his child.
• Bai Huizhang asked what would happen if he refused, and Xi Yan said he was informing him rather than asking permission.
• Bai Huizhang agreed to proceed if Bai Le agreed, while Chen Suqiu grew furious and Bai Yin appeared pleased.
• Bai Huizhang clarified to the banquet guests that Bai Yin would not be marrying into the Xi Family.

Xi Yan learned that Bai Le was hiding in Yishui County, while Bai Le stayed at a local inn and went out for a stroll after waking. The chapter left Xi Yan searching for him and Bai Le unaware that his location had been found.

• Bai Huizhang guessed Bai Le had left to protect his younger sister's marriage and planned to confront him when Xi Yan brought him back.
• Secretary Xing told Xi Yan that Bai Le was in Yishui County, and Xi Yan asked where he was.
• Third Auntie and a local woman discussed their fussy guest and wondered whether he was pregnant.
• Bai Le came downstairs, declined breakfast, and hurried out for a stroll.

Bai Le struggled with the cold, food, and discomfort of his stay in the county town while thinking about home and his pregnancy. After developing symptoms of a cold, he refused medicine and decided to seek a doctor’s advice at a hospital.

• Bai Le went to a breakfast shop, where he met Liu Niannian and her school friends and offered to arrange a meeting with Meng Rong.
• Bai Le returned to the inn, curled up in bed against the cold, and worried about his family, friends, and the child in his belly.
• Bai Le developed a sore throat and a heavy head, so he asked Third Aunt about nearby hospitals.
• Third Aunt offered him cold medicine and said her husband could take him to the hospital the next day, but Bai Le refused to take medicine without consulting a doctor.

Bai Le tried to hide from Xi Yan after hearing him arrive, but Xi Yan found him in the alley. Xi Yan ordered Secretary Xing to fetch shoes for Bai Le, while Bai Le asked how he had tracked him down.

• Third Aunt noticed Bai Le's unusual abdominal swelling and sent him upstairs to rest, then brought him ginger and brown sugar water.
• Liu Dong told Third Aunt that black cars were searching for someone on the road into town.
• Bai Le woke with a worsening fever and heard Xi Yan arrive at the house.
• Bai Le fled barefoot through the back door, but several men in black blocked his way and Xi Yan appeared behind him.
• Bai Le asked Xi Yan how he had found him, and Xi Yan told Secretary Xing to fetch Bai Le's shoes.

Xi Yan found Bai Le after he ran off and brought him to the hospital when he collapsed with a fever. After Bai Le woke, his family visited, and he realized they knew about his situation too.

• Xi Yan had Secretary Xing give him Bai Le's shoes, then helped Bai Le put them on.
• Bai Le grew dizzy and feverish, then lost consciousness while holding Xi Yan's sleeve.
• Bai Le woke in the hospital, where a doctor told Xi Yan that he needed rest.
• Bai Le asked Xi Yan why he had brought him back and wondered if it was because of the child.
• Wu Xueying, Bai Huizhang, and Bai Yin visited Bai Le, and Bai Le realized they knew too.

After Bai Yin revealed that Bai Le had tried to escape, Xi Yan reassured him that his sister had no objection and asked him to marry. Bai Le was startled but weighed his feelings, the child, and the prospect of sharing his life with Xi Yan.

• Bai Yin admitted that she had figured out Bai Le's secret, and Bai Le felt guilty as the family asked what he wanted to do.
• Xi Yan sent Bai Huizhang and the others out, then told Bai Le that his escape did not need to be because of Bai Yin.
• Xi Yan told Bai Le that he had discussed the situation with Bai Yin and then asked him to marry.
• Bai Le said he needed time to think and considered that he did not dislike Xi Yan and that their child might need a complete family.