Chapter Summaries

Ouyang Xuanyue arranged surveillance of Annie Kate and contact with Tian Jing, then agreed to expand a private golf-club gathering into a meeting between Tang Song and [Xuanji Light Realm] executives. In Zurich, Annie Kate activated Crown & Co. Private Bankers’ financial channels, received a warning from Secretary Jin, and sought Tang Song’s approval, leaving her to acknowledge that she and Mira were not the same.

• Ouyang Xuanyue ordered weekly risk reports on Annie Kate and Crown & Co. Private Bankers, and arranged a private invitation for Tian Jing.
• Secretary Jin proposed inviting [Xuanji Light Realm] executives and Tang Jin committee members to the Guan City golf-club event so they could meet Tang Song before Friday’s relocation ceremony; Ouyang Xuanyue agreed to organize it.
• Annie Kate activated the bank’s Cayman Islands and Luxembourg trust channels and directed that processed funds remain in the pool until she gave further orders.
• Secretary Jin warned Annie Kate that she was a replaceable tool and told her to remember her place when they met in Shencheng.
• Annie Kate reflected on her history with Mira Jin and Tang Song, then reported to Tang Song that the Zurich arrangements were complete and apologized after he corrected how she addressed him.

Jiang You Rong settled into her new role at Xuanji Light Realm and agreed to share Shen Yuyan’s luxury apartment, then received an urgent assignment to accompany Tang Song to Guan City. Meanwhile, Su Yu learned that Zhou Ran was targeting Bei Weiwei and arranged to have him turned away from the Mission Hills event before setting her sights on Wen Ruan and Zhang Yan.

• Jiang You Rong received Shangguan Qiuya’s notice to travel to Guangzhou that night and accompany Tang Song to the Mission Hills Golf Club event in Guan City.
• Shen Yuyan showed Jiang You Rong the duplex apartment Tang Song had provided, and Jiang You Rong agreed to move in with her.
• Cheng Xiaoxi told Su Yu that Zhou Ran was behind paid scandal posts about Bei Weiwei and had pressured her to attend the event as his companion.
• Su Yu ordered Secretary Chen to remove Zhou Ran from the event’s admission list without warning him, so he would be refused at the entrance.
• Su Yu learned that Wen Ruan and Zhang Yan were at China Resources Shen City Bay Yuefu and decided to visit them.

Bei Weiwei struggled with Zhou Ran’s pressure and feared that Tang Song would misunderstand her, while Gao Mengting completed Songmei Clothing’s AIGC partnership meeting and reunited with Tang Song in Guangzhou. The chapter ended with Gao Mengting and Tang Song kissing in a private negotiation room.

• Bei Weiwei learned that Zhou Ran’s retaliation had cost Lin Ke Ke and her other contacts their roles, while Tang Zong Entertainment quickly removed online gossip about her and Zhou Ran.
• Bei Weiwei decided not to call Tang Song and planned to explain the situation to him face-to-face before the production crew’s event; Lin Ke Ke began to suspect that Bei Weiwei had a powerful patron.
• Gao Mengting approved the overall direction of Zhilian Future’s AIGC collaboration with Songmei Clothing and prepared to finish the remaining planning details.
• Tang Song surprised Gao Mengting at Zhilian Future after the meeting, and she embraced and kissed him in a private negotiation room.
• Gao Mengting and Tang Song exchanged intimate teasing before she challenged him to see how long he could last.

Zhang Yan moved into Wen Ruan’s Shenzhen Bay residence and arrived to meet the mysterious sister Wen had mentioned. When she finally saw the woman waiting by the window, she was stunned by her beauty.

• Wen Ruan asked Zhang Yan to move into her home and meet her sister, who was an important shareholder and partner with a special relationship to Tang Song.
• Zhang Yan packed with Lu Lu and put on the Iris Flower Diamond Earrings Tang Song had given her for courage.
• Zhang Yan and Lu Lu reached the Shenzhen Bay residence, where Cheng Xiaoxi introduced herself as Sister Yu’s personal assistant and welcomed them inside.
• Zhang Yan entered the living room and saw a beautiful woman standing by the window, leaving her speechless.

Su Yu welcomed Zhang Yan to her new room and revealed that she was Tang Song’s woman, then shared a song inspired by Zhang Yan’s memories and asked her to help revise its lyrics. Zhang Yan agreed, and Su Yu named the song “Our Song.”

• Su Yu greeted Zhang Yan and Lu Lu, introduced herself, and showed Zhang Yan the room Wen Ruan had prepared for her.
• Su Yu told Zhang Yan that she was Tang Song’s woman, eased her nervousness, and kissed her cheek as she welcomed her as a friend.
• Su Yu hosted dinner, helped Zhang Yan unpack, and presented her with a historical costume before leaving to prepare a meeting gift.
• Su Yu returned dressed as Ling Yue and sang a song based on Zhang Yan’s memories of Tang Song.
• Su Yu explained that she had written the song after hearing Tang Song’s account of Zhang Yan and asked Zhang Yan to help revise the lyrics.
• Zhang Yan accepted, and Su Yu said the song would be titled “Our Song.”

Tang Song met Zhang Yan at the Four Seasons Hotel, where she gave him the Dragon Ball collection and confessed that she wanted to work at Xingyun International Group. After Zhang Yan shared her long-held feelings for him, Tang Song confessed that he liked her and kissed her outside her home.

• Tang Song learned that his private jet would make its first flight from Guangzhou to Yancheng and focused on Songmei Clothing’s Double Eleven promotion and the launch of HEYISTUDI0.
• Zhang Yan called Tang Song late at night and asked to see him, then brought him all thirty-four Dragon Ball volumes at the Four Seasons Hotel.
• Zhang Yan told Tang Song that she wanted to work at Xingyun International Group, and he agreed to help her join while she prepared to resign from Shucheng Technology.
• Tang Song took Zhang Yan for a walk along the Pearl River, where she recalled their middle-school years and confessed that she liked him.
• Zhang Yan kissed Tang Song on the cheek, and he took her home to Lanxinyuan Residential Quarter.
• Tang Song told Zhang Yan that he liked her and kissed her on the lips.

Tang Song and Wen Ruan prepared for the Zhilian Future investment while Zhang Yan accepted a job at Xingyun International and stood up to her manager over her resignation. After Zhang Yan’s mother qualified for CAR-T treatment, Wen Ruan visited her at the hospital to meet her in person.

• Tang Song reflected on his confession and first kiss with Zhang Yan, then planned to join Wen Ruan for the Zhilian Future signing meeting with Shen Yuyan’s help.
• Wen Ruan welcomed Zhang Yan on WeChat, and Zhang Yan accepted Xingyun International’s opportunity, submitted her resignation, and told Lu Lu they would soon be colleagues.
• Tang Song, Wen Ruan, Lin Mu Xue, and Shen Yuyan arrived at Zhilian Future headquarters, where the investment team began the TS signing meeting with Li Hao and his executives.
• Bai Rui tried to delay Zhang Yan’s resignation and make her sign an agreement, but she refused, cited the money owed to her, and left for the hospital.
• Zhang Yan learned that her mother met the criteria for CAR-T treatment, then received Wen Ruan at the hospital and was struck by her warm, striking presence.

Bei Weiwei discovered that Tang Song was the powerful guest whom Mission Hills had gathered to receive, and she joined him as he bypassed the event’s usual procedures. The chapter ended with Tang Song, Bei Weiwei, and his entourage heading directly to the No. 1 tee while the other guests waited at the clubhouse.

• Wei Tingsong led the production crew through polite greetings as the guests waited for the opening tee-off ceremony.
• Bei Weiwei learned that the guests included executives from Xuanji Light Realm and advisers from the Tang Jin Family Office, who were waiting for Ouyang Xuanyue.
• After Tang Song said he would arrive soon, Bei Weiwei left to meet him and saw Zhou Lingjun unsuccessfully try to apologize to Secretary Chen for Zhou Ran.
• Secretary Chen personally welcomed Tang Song when his Rolls Royce arrived, and Tang Song introduced Bei Weiwei as his friend and Songmei Clothing’s upcoming spokesperson.
• Tang Song invited Bei Weiwei to join him in a private golf cart, which bypassed the clubhouse and took them directly toward the No. 1 tee.

Zhou Lingjun questioned Starlight at Fingertips’ crew about Zhou Ran’s conflict with Bei Weiwei, then learned that Tang Song was the powerful guest Bei Weiwei had gone to meet. At the ceremony, Ouyang Xuanyue publicly welcomed Tang Song with a restrained embrace and whispered, “Welcome back, sir.”

• Zhou Lingjun asked Wei Tingsong and Li Wenmo to explain Zhou Ran’s encounter with Bei Weiwei and demanded that Bei Weiwei meet him when she returned.
• Lin Ke Ke told the crew that Bei Weiwei had gone to pick up a man, and the group speculated that he was her financial backer.
• Tang Song arrived at the golf course with Secretary Chen, Jiang You Rong, and Bei Weiwei, while Tang Jin Family Office, Xuanji Light Realm, and Tang Yi Precision executives greeted him with deference.
• The crew recognized Tang Song, and Zhou Lingjun realized his son’s conflict with Bei Weiwei had involved a person far beyond Hengke’s reach.
• Ouyang Xuanyue arrived at the tee-off ceremony, embraced Tang Song in public, and quietly welcomed him back.

At the Xuanji Industrial Ecosystem event, Ouyang Xuanyue publicly showed Tang Song unusual respect, while Bei Weiwei used her connection to him to restore her standing with the Starlight at Fingertips crew. Later, Ouyang privately invited Tang Song to her villa to collect an equity agreement, and his system triggered a desire effect that could alter her behavior for twelve hours.

• Ouyang Xuanyue embraced Tang Song at the event, shocking the assembled business elites and making Bei Weiwei realize how powerful her patron was.
• Tang Song and Ouyang Xuanyue opened the golf ceremony with ceremonial drives, then played alongside Zhang Heng and Liang Shixun while Bei Weiwei spoke with Jiang You Rong.
• At the banquet, Bei Weiwei confronted Wei Tingsong and Li Wenmo, who apologized for the production crew's past treatment of her and offered to prioritize her recommendations; she also learned Xu An had left with a reported stomachache.
• Ouyang Xuanyue took Tang Song to a private clubhouse room under the pretext of discussing business, where she prepared a cigar for him and sat close against him.
• Tang Song's system triggered the special item Desire Echo on Ouyang Xuanyue, allowing her to act on her strongest desire for twelve hours.
• Ouyang Xuanyue told Tang Song that their equity holding agreement was in the safe at her Shencheng Half-Mountain Villa and invited him to collect it that night; Tang Song agreed.

Tang Song signed Bei Weiwei as a Songmei Clothing endorser and learned more about Xuanji Light Realm while Ouyang Xuanyue arranged for him to stay at her villa. As Jin Meixiao prepared to meet Liu Qingning, Su Yu planned to use Zhang Yan to challenge Liu Qingning’s belief that she had been Tang Song’s only childhood sweetheart.

• Tang Song shared an intimate encounter with Ouyang Xuanyue, who later arranged to change clothes and privately struggled with how far she had let their relationship go.
• Tang Song met Bei Weiwei, finalized her endorsement contract, and resumed their intimacy as she told him about the months they had spent apart.
• Tang Song attended the golf gathering and banquet with Jiang You Rong, studying Xuanji Light Realm’s business structure and ambitions.
• Secretary Chen told Ouyang Xuanyue that Jin Meixiao had arrived in Shencheng to meet Liu Qingning, and Ouyang arranged for Mo Xiangwan to join Tang Song at her villa under the pretext of discussing business.
• Su Yu told Mo Xiangwan to give Ouyang Xuanyue and Tang Song space, then resolved to use Zhang Yan to break Liu Qingning’s belief that she was Tang Song’s only childhood sweetheart.

Liu Qingning met Jin Meixiao, who helped her understand how she and Jin reflected different versions of Tang Song’s idealized image of her and urged her to take a role in Tang Jin’s affairs. Jin warned that Ouyang Xuanyue could become a dangerous internal risk, leaving Liu Qingning considering whether Tang Song might change Ouyang’s loyalties.

• Qin Yingxue accompanied Liu Qingning to Jin Meixiao’s home and revealed that she had been watching over Liu since 2017.
• Jin Meixiao welcomed Liu Qingning with tea and desserts, praised her work, and gave her a marked copy of The Story of Civilization.
• Jin explained that she and Liu shared traits and that she might represent the perfected version of Liu that Tang Song had once admired, prompting Liu to cry.
• Liu asked whether Jin had arranged the Moonlight Trust, and Jin said she wanted Liu to enter Tang Jin’s systemic field rather than remain outside its inner circle.
• Jin warned Liu that Ouyang Xuanyue’s loyalties could shift if her family’s interests conflicted with Tang Jin’s, and argued that Liu could help balance that risk.
• Jin suggested Ouyang might become like Su Yu if she surrendered herself completely for love, and Liu began considering the possibility of Tang Song changing Ouyang’s loyalties.

Tang Song stayed at Ouyang Xuanyue’s villa after she arranged for Mo Xiangwan to remain there and urged him not to interrupt Wei Xiao and Qing Ning’s private meeting. Ouyang Xuanyue invited him to her study under the pretext of calligraphy, and the chapter ended with them kissing after she openly welcomed his advances.

• Tang Song and Ouyang Xuanyue discussed business and flirted during their drive to her villa.
• Mo Xiangwan joined them to discuss a potential streaming-platform investment, then agreed to stay overnight for a morning meeting.
• Ouyang Xuanyue told Tang Song that Wei Xiao had gone to see Qing Ning and persuaded him to stay at the villa rather than visit anyone else.
• Ouyang Xuanyue led Tang Song to a guest room, then invited him to her study to review her cursive calligraphy.
• As Tang Song guided Ouyang Xuanyue’s brushwork, she wrote a suggestive poem and asked him to complete its final line.
• Ouyang Xuanyue asked Tang Song to address her as “Madam,” and he kissed her.

Liu Qingning left Secretary Jin’s apartment after discussing the Moonlight Trust and her place in Tang Song’s future, while Secretary Jin learned that Tang Song had gone to Ouyang Xuanyue’s villa. After Ouyang Xuanyue restrained herself and spent the night with Mo Xiangwan, Tang Song’s Desire Echo instance began, directing him to draw Ouyang Xuanyue into a sea voyage in Monaco.

• Secretary Jin urged Liu Qingning to accept her role in the Moonlight Trust and told her she could not truly leave Tang Song; Liu Qingning departed with the matter still weighing on her.
• Shangguan Qiuya reported that Tang Song had left with Ouyang Xuanyue’s secretary and that Mo Xiangwan had gone to Shekou, prompting Secretary Jin to arrange for Lin Mu Xue to deliver Tang Song a suit and special supplies.
• At Ouyang Xuanyue’s villa, Tang Song and Ouyang Xuanyue grew intimate in the study, but she stopped him and retreated to her bedroom to regain her composure.
• Ouyang Xuanyue went to Mo Xiangwan’s room and claimed they needed to discuss business, then arranged to share Mo Xiangwan’s bed for the night.
• At dawn, Tang Song’s Desire Echo instance for Ouyang Xuanyue appeared and instructed him to invite her to Monaco for high-level meetings and a yacht inspection, where she could loosen her restraints away from public scrutiny.

Lin Mu Xue returned from London and learned that Tang Song had stayed at Ouyang Xuanyue’s villa, while Secretary Jin discovered signs that Ouyang had contacted Tang Song’s family and rushed to confront the situation. At the villa, Ouyang gave Tang Song an old equity agreement and shared an intimate moment with him, but Secretary Jin’s arrival with Lin Mu Xue and Shangguan Qiuya interrupted them.

• Lin Mu Xue woke in Wen Ruan’s apartment, discussed Zhang Yan and Tang Song with Wen Ruan, and answered a call from Shangguan Qiuya.
• Shangguan Qiuya told Secretary Jin that Annie Kate might miss the launch ceremony and reported Ouyang Xuanyue’s contacts with Zhang Yan’s family and Tang Song’s father.
• Secretary Jin grew furious at the possibility that Ouyang had secretly approached Tang Song’s parents, then decided to deliver Tang Song’s clothes and attend the villa’s fund meeting herself.
• Ouyang Xuanyue summoned Tang Song to the study, gave him the Nominee Holding Agreement for an eight-percent stake in Tang Yi Precision, and kissed him before they became intimate.
• Secretary Chen announced that Lin Mu Xue and Shangguan Qiuya had arrived, and Ouyang and Tang Song went downstairs to receive them.
• A woman in a white suit stepped out of the elevator and fixed her gaze on Ouyang Xuanyue.

Secretary Jin confronted Ouyang Xuanyue at the villa over her secret relationship with Tang Song and her involvement in his family affairs. She declared that she would handle Tang Song’s family herself and would not yield to anyone over him.

• Secretary Jin arrived at Ouyang Xuanyue’s villa and challenged her for holding a private Pan-Entertainment Fund meeting without including the fund’s person in charge.
• Tang Song welcomed Secretary Jin, accepted her birthday suit, and went upstairs to try it on while Secretary Jin stayed behind to speak privately with Ouyang Xuanyue.
• Secretary Jin hinted that she could smell another woman on Tang Song, leaving Ouyang Xuanyue humiliated and unsettled.
• Secretary Jin questioned Ouyang Xuanyue about her relationship with Su Yu and accused her of using family connections to influence Tang Song.
• Ouyang Xuanyue admitted that she and Tang Song had become intimate, but insisted Secretary Jin had no right to judge them.
• Secretary Jin said she would visit Tang Song’s family in Jing County for the Spring Festival and insisted that Tang Song had to be hers first.

Ouyang Xuanyue and Secretary Jin confronted each other over their feelings for Tang Song and the changes in him, while Tang Song reconciled with Secretary Jin and agreed to spend the next holiday with her. Liu Qingning, still processing her feelings, accepted Su Yu’s invitation to talk at Qingning Technology.

• Ouyang Xuanyue challenged Secretary Jin’s claim on Tang Song and questioned whether Secretary Jin loved the changed Tang Song or an idealized version of him, but Secretary Jin insisted their bond was unique.
• Lin Mu Xue apologized to Tang Song for failing to warn him that Secretary Jin had come along, then helped him dress before Secretary Jin entered.
• Tang Song apologized to Secretary Jin for concealing his dealings with Annie Kate and Crown & Co. Private Bankers, and Secretary Jin accepted his affection while asking him to spend the next holiday with her.
• Liu Qingning saw Liu Shuang’s messages and photos of Tang Song at Xuanji Light Realm, but focused on sorting out her own thoughts rather than joining him.
• Su Yu called Liu Qingning from the tea break lounge at Qingning Technology and invited her to talk, and Liu Qingning hurried downstairs to meet her.

Secretary Jin monitored Annie Kate’s push into European old-money circles and let Su Yu meet Liu Qingning, expecting Su Yu to force Liu Qingning through an emotional reckoning. Su Yu described Zhang Yan’s decade of devotion to Tang Song, leaving Liu Qingning overwhelmed and weeping.

• Sarah told Secretary Jin that Annie Kate had moved billions of Swiss francs, pursued European alliances, and drawn scrutiny from the Kate Family and Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Secretary Jin rejected intervention but planned to slow Annie down.
• Shangguan Qiuya reported that Su Yu had gone to Qingning Technology, and Secretary Jin ordered her staff not to interfere with Su Yu’s meeting with Liu Qingning.
• Liu Qingning met Su Yu, and they talked over milk tea before Liu Qingning asked whether Tang Song had given Su Yu her Qingning Technology shares.
• Su Yu described Tang Song’s gentle side and asked Liu Qingning to imagine how their relationship might have unfolded in an ordinary life; Liu Qingning admitted they likely would have become a couple in university.
• Su Yu challenged Liu Qingning to consider whether their differences and Tang Song’s pride might have driven them apart, then described a devoted woman who could make him happy without pressure.
• Su Yu showed Liu Qingning a photograph of Zhang Yan and recounted her decade of devotion to Tang Song, including her October 31, 2023 confession; Liu Qingning broke down in tears.

Liu Qingning learned about Zhang Yan and confronted the painful history behind her relationship with Tang Song, then accepted that the present offered a chance to avoid losing him. She rushed home to Tang Song and asked about their separation, ending by thanking him for bringing her back from a future without him.

• Su Yu explained Zhang Yan's difficult life and described how her existence challenged Liu Qingning’s belief that she had been Tang Song’s only important love.
• Liu Qingning recalled meeting Tang Song as a child and explained how her family’s struggles made her push him toward success instead of confessing her feelings.
• Liu Qingning recognized that she might have left Tang Song in a future shaped by hardship and conflict, and said she was willing to believe he had changed their fate.
• Liu Qingning received a smart-home alert showing Tang Song entering her home, then hurried back to meet him.
• Liu Qingning asked Tang Song whether their separation in the Imperial Capital had left him heartbroken, and he quietly confirmed that it had.
• Liu Qingning apologized to Tang Song and thanked him for bringing her back from a future in which she had lost him.

Liu Qingning apologized to Tang Song for neglecting him and for the distance between them, then chose to enter his present-day life and confessed her love. Tang Song returned her feelings, and the system recognized his reconciliation with the person who had shaped his youth, increasing his Charm by one.

• Liu Qingning held Tang Song close, admitted she had resented feeling shut out of his life, and apologized for neglecting him in the past.
• Tang Song remembered how their growing differences and Liu Qingning’s move to Shencheng had led him to give up pursuing her.
• Liu Qingning cooked for Tang Song, shared memories of university, and told him she would learn to love him more maturely by entering his world.
• Liu Qingning confessed that she loved Tang Song and asked him to be with her, and Tang Song said he loved her too.
• Tang Song and Liu Qingning embraced and became intimate, after which the system announced his reconciliation with his past and increased his Charm by one.