Recaps

Xie Huilan chose Hu Silian to become her secretary and a deputy director in the County Government Office after Dong Xuebin recommended her. Hu Silian celebrated her sudden return to official life and visited Dong Xuebin with her husband to thank him.

• Yao Yi presented secretary candidates to Xie Huilan, who asked him to bring Hu Silian to her office instead of selecting Xiao Wang.
• Xie Huilan offered Hu Silian a secretary role and a deputy director position, explaining that Dong Xuebin had recommended her.
• Hu Silian returned home and told Hu Ge about her new post, then decided to visit Dong Xuebin to thank him.
• Hu Silian and Hu Ge brought cigarettes to Dong Xuebin’s home, where they shared dinner and drinks.
• Hu Silian became emotional and promised to help Dong Xuebin whenever he needed her.

Dong Xuebin went to County Chief Xie Huilan’s office to report on the escaped prisoner and learned that she planned to reveal their relationship to Huang Li. The chapter ended with Huang Li stunned after Xie Huilan announced that Dong Xuebin was her boyfriend.

• Hu Silian called Dong Xuebin and asked him to come report to Xie Huilan about the escaped prisoner.
• Dong Xuebin met Huang Li on the way into the county government building, and Huang Li offered to introduce him to his niece.
• Hu Silian told Dong Xuebin that Xie Huilan wanted him to go straight into her office and was in a good mood.
• Xie Huilan teased Dong Xuebin about having carried her during the school hostage incident, then told Huang Li that Dong Xuebin was her boyfriend.
• Huang Li expressed astonishment, accepted the news, and praised Xie Huilan and Dong Xuebin as a well-matched couple.

Dong Xuebin secretly visited Xie Huilan’s home, prepared a candlelit dinner, and spent the evening growing more intimate with her. The night left him embarrassed when Xie Huilan teased him by giving him the clothes she had just taken off.

• Xie Huilan told Huang Li that she and Dong Xuebin were dating and explained that she trusted him to keep their relationship secret.
• Xie Huilan gave Dong Xuebin the keys to her apartment and invited him over to talk and have dinner.
• Dong Xuebin bought groceries, roses, and candles, then entered Xie Huilan’s apartment and prepared dinner before she returned in the rain.
• Xie Huilan showered and changed into clothes Dong Xuebin brought her, then accepted his roses and praised the meal he cooked.
• While they watched television after dinner, Xie Huilan took Dong Xuebin’s hand, and he touched her thigh as their evening became more intimate.
• Xie Huilan handed Dong Xuebin a bag containing the clothes she had taken off, teasing him about his earlier use of her stockings.

Dong Xuebin hid in Xie Huilan’s bedroom while she received visitors, then helped her relax and cautiously kissed her. Xie Huilan accepted his affection, held his hand, and invited him to stay the night.

• Dong Xuebin hid in Xie Huilan’s bedroom when Director Sun and his wife arrived to offer her gifts, and he listened as she refused them while agreeing to help with their matter.
• After the visitors left, Dong Xuebin brought Xie Huilan tea and massaged her shoulders while she revised a document.
• Dong Xuebin kissed Xie Huilan’s forehead, then her face and lips, while she watched him without stopping him.
• Xie Huilan told Dong Xuebin she had never been kissed by a man, then held his hand and teased him as they sat together.
• Xie Huilan invited Dong Xuebin to stay the night, and he agreed.

Dong Xuebin spent the night at Xie Huilan’s home, shared a kiss with her, and left after breakfast. After she explained the hurdles to an exceptional promotion, he resolved to pursue more major achievements and earn a nomination for a Zhengke Level post.

• Dong Xuebin prepared for bed at Xie Huilan’s home, and she sent him to the small bedroom after sharing a good-night kiss with him.
• Dong Xuebin woke early, prepared breakfast for Xie Huilan, and left her a note before she got up.
• Xie Huilan joined Dong Xuebin for breakfast and explained that his short civil-service tenure and limited political achievements made a Zhengke Level promotion unlikely.
• Xie Huilan said Dong Xuebin would need major merits and undeniable accomplishments even to be nominated for an exceptional promotion.
• Dong Xuebin decided to pursue more political achievements and set his sights on a substantive Zhengke Level post.

Dong Xuebin rushed to the County Party Committee Compound after a cotton-mill worker threatened to jump, creating a crisis for Xie Huilan. After the worker fell beyond the rescue cushion, Dong used BACK repeatedly to adjust the landing and saved his life, though he collapsed afterward.

• Hao Shun notified Dong Xuebin that a cotton-mill worker had climbed onto the County Party Committee office building and demanded to see Xie Huilan.
• Dong Xuebin arrived as county leaders tried to calm the worker, while Xie Huilan told him to save the man but not set a precedent by meeting him.
• A gust knocked the worker off the roof, and he fell toward hard concrete beyond the rescue cushion, dying on impact.
• Dong Xuebin used BACK to rewind two minutes, then ran beneath the falling worker with a small inflatable boat and tried to catch him.
• After repeated rewinds and adjustments to the worker's position, Dong Xuebin made him land feet-first on the air cushion, saving him before collapsing from exhaustion.

Dong Xuebin recovered in the hospital after injuring his arms while saving a worker, and learned that he had received a Third-Class Merit. Xie Huilan thanked him and shared an intimate moment with him before he left the hospital to stay with Yu Meixia and Yu Qianqian, embarrassed to ask anyone for help with his basic needs.

• Dong Xuebin woke in the hospital with both arms badly strained, and Liang Chengpeng told him he had been awarded an individual Third-Class Merit and extra leave.
• Xie Huilan visited Dong Xuebin, thanked him for risking himself, and kissed him before his family arrived.
• Luan Xiaoping and Dong Xuebin's relatives visited him, and Luan Xiaoping stayed to care for him despite her high blood pressure.
• Dong Xuebin spent the afternoon receiving a stream of visitors, then persuaded Luan Xiaoping to go home and rest.
• Embarrassed to ask a nurse or female caregiver for help, Dong Xuebin left the hospital and took a taxi to stay with Yu Meixia and Yu Qianqian.

Yu Meixia and Yu Qianqian welcomed Dong Xuebin, who arrived with an injured hand and asked to stay with them while he recovered. Yu Meixia agreed to care for him, and the chapter ended with her tending to his needs at home.

• Yu Qianqian worried that Dong Xuebin had stopped visiting, while Yu Meixia reassured her and hosted Qianqian's classmates.
• Dong Xuebin arrived with his hand bandaged and asked Yu Meixia to let him stay for a few days; Yu Qianqian and her classmates greeted him.
• Dong Xuebin praised Yu Qianqian's exam results and gave Yu Meixia money to buy her a phone, after which Qianqian showed her friends the laptop he had bought her.
• Unable to use his injured hands, Dong Xuebin asked Yu Meixia to help him in the bathroom, and she assisted him despite her embarrassment.
• Yu Meixia agreed to stay and care for Dong Xuebin, then fed him fruit and helped him smoke while he rested on the sofa.

While Dong Xuebin recovered from his injuries, Yu Meixia cared for him at home, and the two discussed her future and her unknown birth parents. Mosquito bites left Dong Xuebin unable to scratch himself, so Yu Meixia helped him, ending the chapter in an awkwardly intimate moment.

• Yu Meixia washed and dried Dong Xuebin's hair, and he urged her to stop treating him like someone she owed and accept that he considered her and Yu Qianqian family.
• Yu Meixia agreed to stay overnight to help Dong Xuebin, then danced for him when he could not sleep; he later invited her to lie beside him instead of sleeping at the desk.
• Dong Xuebin asked about Yu Meixia's plans, and she revealed that she had learned she was adopted and hoped to find her biological parents; he offered to help her search.
• Mosquitoes bit Dong Xuebin and Yu Meixia during the night, and Yu Meixia swatted one and applied medicated oil to their bites.
• When Dong Xuebin realized a mosquito had bitten him beneath his briefs and he could not scratch the spot, Yu Meixia hesitantly offered to help and rubbed the itch away with her fingers.

Dong Xuebin relied on Yu Meixia to care for him, and their closeness grew as she helped him bathe and massage him. After an intimate question-and-answer exchange, Yu Meixia left to buy groceries, while Dong Xuebin was left embarrassed by what had happened.

• Yu Meixia helped Dong Xuebin relieve himself after he pretended his injured body still itched, and she reassured him that she did not mind.
• The next morning, Yu Meixia fed Dong Xuebin and let Yu Qianqian use the money he had given her to buy a phone with classmates.
• After Yu Qianqian left, Yu Meixia bathed Dong Xuebin and told him that she and her daughter missed him when he was away.
• Yu Meixia gave Dong Xuebin a massage and offered to help him when he reacted to her touch.
• While Yu Meixia helped him, Dong Xuebin asked about her private habits, and she answered that she had touched herself that morning while he slept.
• After Yu Meixia cleaned him up, she hurried out to buy groceries, and Dong Xuebin told her to come back early.

Dong Xuebin questioned Yu Meixia about the intimate secrets she had shared with him, and she eventually admitted she wanted to pleasure herself. After he sent Yu Qianqian to use the computer, Yu Meixia went to the bathroom and returned flustered, while Dong Xuebin realized what she had done.

• Dong Xuebin and Yu Meixia talked online while Yu Qianqian played with her new phone.
• Dong Xuebin asked Yu Meixia whether she had pleasured herself recently, and she admitted she had done so the night before and wanted to again.
• Dong Xuebin called Yu Qianqian into the bedroom to use the computer and sent Yu Meixia to watch television.
• Yu Meixia went into the bathroom for several minutes and returned with hot tea for Dong Xuebin.
• Dong Xuebin noticed the soap scent on Yu Meixia's damp right hand, and she retreated to the living room, regretting what she had told him.

Dong Xuebin rushed to Wutian Township after learning Tang Jin had been injured, then confronted the people responsible and rejected their attempt to settle the matter with compensation. The chapter left him ordering the township police to arrest the shop worker after Liu Li knocked him down.

• Dong Xuebin learned from his second aunt that Tang Jin had been beaten and hurried to Wutian Township with Yu Meixia.
• Tang Jin explained that a Smoke Shop worker had shoved her after she complained about counterfeit cigarettes, making her hit her head and bleed.
• Dong Xuebin confronted the shop owner, but Lu Dafa called and asked him to accept compensation and drop the matter; Dong Xuebin refused.
• Dong Xuebin kicked the shop owner and then attacked the worker when he challenged him, while Liu Li stepped in to protect Dong Xuebin and knocked the worker down.
• Dong Xuebin ordered the Wutian Township police officers to cuff the worker and take him back for questioning.

After Dong Xuebin defended Tang Jin from a shopkeeper who had beaten her, he helped her persuade her parents to accept her relationship with Liu Li. The family left the county-town development with a two-bedroom apartment reserved for Tang Jin, paid for by Dong Xuebin as her wedding gift.

• Dong Xuebin reassured Qin Yong that he was recovering after defending Tang Jin, and Tang Jin excitedly recounted how he had confronted the cigarette shop owner.
• Tang Jin introduced Liu Li to her family, but her parents objected to the match because his family was poor and his parents were unwell.
• Dong Xuebin offered to help Liu Li and Tang Jin find work in the county town, while Luan Xiaoping offered Tang Jin her remaining savings for rent or a home.
• Dong Xuebin agreed to buy Tang Jin a house, and her parents accepted after he said he would also cover its renovation and furnishings.
• Dong Xuebin and the family reserved a bright, north-south-facing two-bedroom apartment of more than ninety square meters for over five hundred thousand yuan, and Tang Jin thanked him tearfully.

Dong Xuebin returned to work during a torrential storm and rushed to Qingnan Road, where a landslide overturned and buried a tour bus during a rescue. The chapter ended with the bus completely swallowed by mud and rocks, leaving passengers trapped and an auxiliary police officer dead.

• Dong Xuebin returned to the County Public Security Bureau, and Liang Chengpeng told him to rest and said he would receive a Third-Class Merit at a commendation meeting.
• After Liu Dahai reported dangerous road conditions in Huitian Township, Dong Xuebin drove there despite the storm and narrowly avoided a torrent of rocks and mud.
• Dong Xuebin arrived at the overturned tour bus and helped Liang Chengpeng, Xie Huilan, Cao Xupeng, and rescue workers evacuate the trapped passengers.
• A massive landslide swept down the mountain and buried the bus before the remaining passengers could escape.
• The landslide killed Xiao Sun, an auxiliary police officer, while rescued passengers cried out for relatives still buried inside the bus.

Dong Xuebin ordered Huitian Township Police Station to evacuate the civilians and county leaders after a dangerous rescue attempt killed two officers. He stayed behind and walked toward the buried tour bus with a shovel, leaving the others stunned as he prepared to rescue the trapped passengers himself.

• Xie Huilan ordered an immediate rescue, but two officers were killed or gravely injured when rocks and mud struck them, and Little Li disappeared into a mud pit.
• Cao Xupeng reported that Xiang Daofa had ordered them to rescue the trapped passengers, while Xie Huilan stayed to direct operations and told the others to evacuate.
• Trapped passengers’ relatives begged the leaders to save their loved ones as more landslide booms shook the area.
• Dong Xuebin ordered Chen Fa and the Huitian Township officers to force the civilians and county leaders, including Xie Huilan, onto buses and take them to shelter.
• Dong Xuebin refused to leave, picked up a shovel, and walked toward the buried tour bus as Chen Fa drove the others away.

Dong Xuebin risked his life and used Back to cross the unstable landslide and dig into the buried tour bus. He opened a passage for the trapped passengers, who escaped as the danger and his dwindling Back left his own fate uncertain.

• Dong Xuebin ignored Xie Huilan and Liang Chengpeng's pleas, stayed behind with a shovel, and ordered Chen Fa to drive the minibus away from the landslide.
• Dong Xuebin used Back to avoid sinking into mud and being struck by falling rocks as he crossed the slope toward the buried tour bus.
• Dong Xuebin dug through the mud despite his injuries and opened the bus door, letting fresh air reach Liu Dahai and the trapped passengers.
• Liu Dahai organized the trapped people and helped the children and other passengers climb out before escaping himself.

Dong Xuebin led the rescued civilians across the landslide zone, repeatedly using Back to keep falling rubble from killing them. With Back exhausted and a larger slide approaching, he shielded Liu Dahai from a flying rock and was struck in the back.

• Dong Xuebin pulled six trapped civilians from the Tour Bus and guided them toward safety along his footprints as rubble continued to fall.
• When Xiao An was hit by a rock, Dong Xuebin used Back to rewind time and warned him to duck, then repeatedly used Back to help the others dodge falling debris.
• Liu Dahai and the civilians crossed the dangerous slope, and Xie Huilan, Cao Xupeng, Liang Chengpeng, and their families arrived to help receive them.
• A massive landslide began as Dong Xuebin and Liu Dahai were still crossing, and a flying rock struck Liu Dahai.
• Dong Xuebin found that Back had run out, lunged over Liu Dahai to protect him, and took the rock's impact on his back.

Dong Xuebin was caught in a landslide after shielding Liu Dahai, but turned back to save Niu Niu when she emerged from the bus. He threw her to safety just before the landslide swallowed him.

• Dong Xuebin shoved Liu Dahai ahead and struggled to escape the approaching landslide.
• Niu Niu's parents realized she had not escaped the bus, and she emerged just as the landslide neared.
• Dong Xuebin ran back for Niu Niu despite the warnings of Xie Huilan, Liang Chengpeng, and the others.
• Dong Xuebin lifted Niu Niu and hurled her toward the County Leaders, and Liu Dahai carried her to safety.
• The landslide swallowed Dong Xuebin.

Dong Xuebin survived being buried in a landslide and woke in a Capital City hospital after three days unconscious. He learned that his rescue had earned him First Class Merit, while Xie Huilan revealed how deeply she had worried about him.

• As the landslide buried the Tour Bus, Liu Dahai tried to dig Dong Xuebin out, but Liang Chengpeng and Xie Huilan focused on organizing rescue efforts and moving the injured.
• Dong Xuebin crawled into the bus before the mud covered it, blocked the doorway with a seat, and endured the rising mud until he lost consciousness from lack of oxygen.
• Rescuers broke into the bus after the rain stopped and pulled Dong Xuebin out in time; he woke three days later at Jishuitan Hospital with fractured legs.
• Luan Xiaoping told Dong Xuebin how he had been rescued, and he learned the provincial news had reported on his actions and that Yantai County had approved three months of leave.
• Liang Chengpeng told Dong Xuebin he would receive First Class Merit, and Liu Dahai vowed to repay the debt he owed him.
• Dong Xuebin called Xie Huilan, who scolded him for risking his life and admitted she had barely slept or eaten while worrying about him.

Dong Xuebin recovered in the hospital while Qu Yunxuan came to care for him after learning how badly he had been injured. She stayed overnight with him, and he persuaded her to be intimate despite his broken leg.

• Dong Xuebin urged Luan Xiaoping to return to Yantai County and rest, then Qu Yunxuan arrived after Luan Xiaoping called her.
• Qu Yunxuan cried over Dong Xuebin’s injuries, then cleaned and cared for him while he flirted with her and asked for a cigarette.
• Qu Yunxuan pushed Dong Xuebin downstairs for examinations and X-rays, then agreed to stay with him at the hospital overnight.
• Dong Xuebin persuaded Qu Yunxuan to share his bed and coaxed her into intimacy, though she warned him to recover before trying again.
• Qu Yunxuan cuddled Dong Xuebin and called him her dear brother before they fell asleep together.

Dong Xuebin and Qu Yunxuan planned to source jadeite for Yun De Auction’s upcoming special auction, but discovered rival Feng Yi had scheduled his auction for the same day. Qu Yunxuan refused to change their date, and Dong Xuebin promised to help them win the competition.

• Qu Yunxuan told Dong Xuebin that Yun De Auction’s assets had grown to more than twelve million yuan, and appointed him to oversee the jadeite special auction.
• Dong Xuebin proposed going stone gambling in Ruili, but Qu Yunxuan refused to let him travel while injured, so they decided to search for rough stones in the Capital City.
• At Panjiayuan Antique Market, Qu Yunxuan and Dong Xuebin met Feng Yi, the owner of rival Jiaxin Auction Company, who revealed that his company was also holding a jadeite special auction.
• Qu Yunxuan learned that Feng Yi had scheduled his auction for the same day as theirs and explained that his larger company posed a serious threat to Yun De Auction.
• Qu Yunxuan decided not to change the date despite Feng Yi’s powerful connections, and Dong Xuebin vowed to secure high-quality jadeite and make Feng Yi back down.

Dong Xuebin rewound time to reach Shi Hai Auction House after Feng Yi uncovered Glassy Jadeite, then risked Yun De Auction Company’s funds to outbid him for the raw stone. The auction ended with Dong Xuebin winning the stone for 9.2 million, leaving the company’s fate dependent on what it contained.

• After ten days of searching, Dong Xuebin still had not found high-grade jadeite, and Qu Yunxuan worried that Yun De Auction Company would have to postpone its special auction.
• Qu Yunxuan told Dong Xuebin that Feng Yi had bought raw material at Shi Hai Auction House and uncovered enough green Glassy Jadeite for several pairs of bracelets.
• Dong Xuebin used B to rewind about fourteen or fifteen minutes, then hurried with Xiao Taoer to Shi Hai Auction House before the final stone was cut.
• Dong Xuebin told Qu Yunxuan that the Open Stone could yield Glassy Jadeite and persuaded her to let him bid, despite Teacher Wei’s objections.
• Dong Xuebin outbid Feng Yi and won the Open Stone for 9.2 million, committing nearly all of Yun De Auction Company’s funds.

Dong Xuebin’s gamble on Yun De Auction Company’s jadeite rough stone paid off when it yielded valuable Glassy Jadeite, and Qu Yunxuan announced the bracelets would headline the company’s upcoming auction. Feng Yi learned the stone he had passed up had produced the jadeite and, after his uncle warned him about Dong Xuebin’s connection to Xie Huilan, moved his own auction date forward.

• Teacher Wei cut away the exposed ice jadeite and found it was only a small piece, then continued cutting the rough stone at Dong Xuebin’s insistence.
• Teacher Wei uncovered a substantial piece of richly colored Glassy Jadeite, which he estimated could make two pairs of bracelets worth about thirty million.
• Qu Yunxuan ordered the jadeite secured and announced that the bracelets would be auctioned at Yun De Auction Company’s upcoming Jadeite Special Auction.
• Feng Yi learned that Yun De Auction Company had Glassy Jadeite from the rough stone he had failed to buy and regretted giving it up.
• Feng Xueliang warned Feng Yi not to provoke Dong Xuebin and explained his unusual connection to Xie Huilan.
• Feng Yi ordered his company to move its Jadeite Special Auction forward by half a month.

Yun De Auction Company's jadeite auction pushed its assets past 30 million yuan, and Qu Yunxuan gave Dong Xuebin several jadeite gifts and an expensive watch. When Qu Yunxuan's parents arrived unexpectedly, Mother Qu proposed that the families discuss a marriage, leaving Dong Xuebin troubled by his feelings for Qu Yunxuan and Sister Xie.

• Yun De Auction Company's jadeite bangles sold for high prices, raising its assets above 30 million yuan and boosting its reputation.
• Qu Yunxuan gave Dong Xuebin jadeite jewelry and a Patek Philippe watch, while he praised her and asked for a more intimate reward.
• Dong Xuebin and Qu Yunxuan were interrupted by Mother Qu and Father Qu after they had been intimate in the dark living room.
• Mother Qu asked Dong Xuebin to have his mother come to Beijing so the families could discuss his marriage to Qu Yunxuan, but Qu Yunxuan postponed the discussion until next year.
• Dong Xuebin reflected on his feelings for Qu Yunxuan and Sister Xie and decided he could no longer delay resolving his romantic entanglements.

After leaving the Capital City, Dong Xuebin remained troubled by his feelings for Qu Yunxuan and Xie Huilan, then ran into villagers extorting tolls on a road in Dashou Village. He beat the villagers after they punctured his tire, and the chapter ended with word spreading through Yantai County that he had returned.

• Dong Xuebin left the Capital City after saying goodbye to Qu Yunxuan and spotted Wei Nan on the way out.
• Dong Xuebin detoured around a traffic jam and found Dashou Village villagers blocking the road to demand tolls from passing drivers.
• The villagers demanded two thousand yuan from Dong Xuebin, dismissed his police badge, and punctured his Mercedes tire after he called for help.
• Dong Xuebin used Back to defeat all six villagers despite his injured leg.
• Deputy Captain Feng arrived with officers, arranged to take Dong Xuebin back to the county, and promised to pursue the villagers.
• News of Dong Xuebin beating the villagers spread through Yantai County, where people realized the fiend had returned.