Recaps

Dong Xuebin established a Complaint Window at the Street Office and pushed a reporting plan for the communities through a meeting with their leaders. The officials stayed silent during the meeting but complained afterward, waiting to see how Wang Yuling and Wang Anshi would respond.

• Zhou Yanru opened the Street Office Complaint Window, and Qu Yiqiang proposed extending reporting procedures to the communities.
• Dong Xuebin decided to present the community reporting plan himself and asked the Party and Government Office to draft the documents.
• Dong Xuebin met with community officials, announced the Complaint Window and matching penalty standards, and ordered implementation to begin the next day.
• After the meeting, community officials criticized the plan among themselves and chose to wait for Wang Yuling and Wang Anshi to react.

Wang Yuling surprised Dong Xuebin by bringing him a written self-criticism and admitting she had been wrong. They reconciled over a friendly conversation and lunch, leaving the Street Office staff astonished to see them getting along.

• Wang Yuling entered Dong Xuebin’s office and waited while he deliberately ignored her.
• Wang Yuling began crying and gave Dong Xuebin her written self-criticism, admitting she had been wrong.
• Dong Xuebin comforted Wang Yuling, apologized for his harsh tone, and chatted with her until she relaxed.
• Dong Xuebin invited Wang Yuling to lunch and lent her his meal card.
• Dong Xuebin and Wang Yuling ate together amicably, and Zhou Ynru joined them while the other staff watched in surprise.

On his day off, Dong Xuebin discovered a gas leak in the apartment across from his and repaired the faulty hose. He learned that the beautiful woman in the apartment was District Governor Geng Yuehua, a former Guangming Street Office Party Committee Secretary and Geng Xinke’s older sister.

• Dong Xuebin took the morning off and left his apartment to look for breakfast.
• Dong Xuebin smelled gas coming from the open apartment across the hall and went inside to investigate.
• Dong Xuebin found a leaking gas hose, replaced it, and confirmed the leak had stopped.
• Dong Xuebin called Zhou Ynru and asked her to arrange gas inspections for the Family Building and other Street Office residences.
• Zhou Ynru told Dong Xuebin that the apartment belonged to District Governor Yuehua, and he realized the beautiful woman he had helped was Geng Yuehua.

Dong Xuebin visited District Governor Geng Yuehua to discuss his resident-reporting pilot, which she allowed him to continue. As he helped close the windows during a storm, he caught and returned her red underwear, leaving their already tense encounter awkward; Geng Xinke then arrived to take Dong out.

• Dong Xuebin visited Geng Yuehua at home and explained that he had tried to report to her about his work.
• Geng Yuehua questioned Dong Xuebin about resident reports and objections to his program, then approved it as a pilot.
• When a storm blew through the open windows, Dong Xuebin shut the balcony window and caught Geng Yuehua's red underwear before it fell outside.
• Geng Yuehua calmly took back the underwear and rehung it, while Dong Xuebin struggled with the awkward moment.
• Geng Xinke arrived to invite Geng Yuehua to breakfast, and she asked him to see Dong Xuebin out.

Dong Xuebin struggled to understand his Reverse ability until an accident revealed that it could restore broken objects. He ended the chapter astonished by the power’s apparent effect.

• In heavy rain, Dong Xuebin saw Geng Yuehua rush out to manage a serious traffic accident and called Zhou Yanru to prepare the street office for dangerous road conditions.
• Dong Xuebin tested Reverse repeatedly but saw no effect and nearly exhausted his remaining time.
• Zhou Yanru brought food to Dong Xuebin’s dormitory and cooked breakfast for them.
• During breakfast, thunder startled Dong Xuebin, causing him to knock a glass off the table and forget to cancel Reverse.
• As Dong Xuebin reached for the shards, they flew together and reformed into an intact glass, revealing Reverse’s effect.

Dong Xuebin discovered that Reverse rewound a single designated object rather than the whole world, and found that its limited energy could send that object far back in time. After using nearly all his remaining seconds on a pomegranate, he left with proof that Reverse could reverse months of an object's history.

• After a cup fell, Dong Xuebin saw it reassemble intact and realized Reverse had restored the cup to its unbroken state.
• After Zhou Ynru left, Dong Xuebin smashed a porcelain cup and focused on its fragments until Reverse fused them back together.
• Dong Xuebin questioned why Reverse consumed so much time to restore one object, then remembered that the glass cup had reassembled in less than a second despite being broken several seconds earlier.
• Dong Xuebin used Reverse on a rotten pomegranate, watched it become ripe and then unripe, and discovered that it had rewound months before his remaining time ran out.

After a deadly traffic accident caused by a collapsing illegal building, Dong Xuebin led Guangming Street Office’s crackdown on illegal construction and inspected Willow Lane Alley. He discovered the cleanup was complicated by hostile residents and a building owned by a relative of District Minister Xue Qingrong, then found another illegal structure under construction.

• Dong Xuebin gathered Zhou Ynru, Yu Rongfeng, Guo Mingfeng, and Peng Gang and ordered them to begin a crackdown on illegal construction, focusing on Willow Lane Alley.
• Dong Xuebin called Geng Xinke to explain the cleanup, but Geng gave only vague support and took no practical action.
• Zhou Ynru told Dong Xuebin that previous cleanup attempts in Willow Lane Alley had stalled because residents resisted, and that a relative of Xue Qingrong had built two illegal structures there.
• Dong Xuebin decided to inspect Willow Lane Alley and issue demolition warnings before deciding how to proceed.
• Dong Xuebin and Zhou Ynru arrived in the alley and saw crowded, unsafe illegal shops, tangled wiring, and piled-up rubbish.
• Dong Xuebin spotted a nearly half-finished illegal building at the end of the alley and strode toward it.

Dong Xuebin and Zhou Ynru saw how Xue Gui’s illegal buildings had blocked Willow Lane and angered its residents. When the Street Office tried to serve demolition notices, Xue Gui and his supporters resisted and tore them up, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Dong Xuebin questioned elderly residents and learned that Xue Gui had built illegal shops, occupied neighbors’ walls, and used thugs to assault people who objected.
• Zhou Ynru explained that Top of South Alley had drawn many complaints and that Xue Gui had helped disrupt an earlier forced demolition.
• Yu Rongfeng, Guo Mingfeng, Peng Gang, and other officials entered the alley to issue demolition notices for sixteen illegal structures.
• Merchants protested the notices, and Xue Gui emerged with several young thugs to challenge the Street Office officials.
• Xue Gui tore up a demolition notice, and other merchants followed suit as Dong Xuebin watched with a cold expression.

Dong Xuebin tried to clear illegal constructions in Willow Lane Alley by arresting their ringleader, Xue Gui, but pressure from above forced the police to release him. The chapter ended with Xue Gui’s allies and local merchants blockading the Guangming Street Office compound.

• Zhou Yanru reported that Willow Lane Alley residents suffered from the illegal businesses’ garbage, smoke, and blocked traffic, while the directors failed to find a solution.
• Dong Xuebin ordered Peng Gang to arrest Xue Gui, whom he identified as the ringleader opposing the demolition effort.
• The police arrested Xue Gui at a restaurant, but a District Public Security Branch Bureau leader pressured Peng Gang to release him.
• Dong Xuebin began planning to use Xue Gui’s arrest to frighten the merchants and demolish his illegal constructions the next morning.
• Zhou Yanru told Dong Xuebin that Willow Lane Alley residents and merchants had gathered to block the Street Office entrance, demanding that the demolition notice be revoked.

Dong Xuebin faced a crowd of shop owners and thugs protesting Xue Gui’s arrest and the forced demolition notice, while senior officials pressured the Street Office to resolve the disturbance. After the crowd dispersed, Dong ordered the Street Office to prepare to demolish Xue Gui’s illegal construction in Willow Lane Alley the next morning.

• Red Hair and Yellow Hair led shop owners in blocking the Guangming Street Office entrance and demanding that the forced demolition notice be withdrawn.
• Dong Xuebin tried to reach Xue Qingrong, but Xue Qingrong did not answer his call.
• Geng Yuehua called Dong Xuebin, criticized the Street Office, and ordered him to handle the disturbance within an hour.
• A Yellow Hair thug received a call and led the crowd away from the Street Office.
• At a meeting, Dong Xuebin ordered Peng Gang to contact the Urban Management Enforcement Team and directed the staff to prepare for the forced demolition in Willow Lane Alley the next morning.

Dong Xuebin led Street Office staff, police, and urban management officials to South Willow Lane Alley to force the removal of illegal businesses and construction. After shop owners resisted and attacked a clerk, Dong publicly threatened criminal charges, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Dong Xuebin arrived with Street Office staff, police, and an urban management team, and ordered the staff and officers to warn the illegal businesses that this was their final ultimatum.
• Dong Xuebin kept Wang Yuling outside for her safety while residents praised the planned demolition and urged the government to clear the alley.
• Xue Gui and the shop owners rejected the warnings, armed themselves with tools, and threatened to fight the demolition team.
• A shop owner's punk shoved a Street Office clerk to the ground, enraging the staff.
• Dong Xuebin used a loudspeaker to declare that the illegal construction would be demolished that day and warned that anyone obstructing the operation could face criminal charges.

Dong Xuebin intimidated the merchants opposing the demolition of illegal buildings and prepared to proceed, but Peng Kun of the District Committee Organization Department arrived and urged caution. His warning emboldened the merchants again, leaving the demolition facing renewed resistance.

• Dong Xuebin threatened the merchants with arrest and prison, ordered Wang Yuling to record their actions, and convinced most of them to step back as the excavator started.
• Peng Kun arrived at the alley, and Street Office cadres suspected he had come to support Xue Gui on behalf of Xue Qingrong.
• Dong Xuebin ordered the demolition to continue, but Peng Kun objected and argued that the Street Office should first address the residents' opposition.
• Dong Xuebin and the Street Office cadres accused Peng Kun of meddling, while Peng Kun threatened to report their methods to the district.
• The merchants took heart from Peng Kun's warning about responsibility and picked up their sticks again, shouting that the Street Office did not dare act against them.

Peng Kun’s remarks turned the merchants against the Guangming Street Office during a demolition operation, and the crowd attacked officials and police. As Dong Xuebin ordered his staff to retreat, he stepped forward and knocked the tailor shop owner down with a kick.

• Peng Kun blamed the Street Office for failing to persuade the merchants, while Dong Xuebin and Zhou Yanru berated him for inciting the crowd.
• The tailor shop owner struck Zhou Yanru with an iron rod, and other merchants attacked a police officer and Street Office staff.
• Peng Kun fled to his car as Xue Gui joined the attackers and stomped on a fallen clerk.
• Dong Xuebin ordered his staff to take cover in their vehicles and stayed behind to hold off the crowd.
• The tailor shop owner charged after the retreating staff, and Dong Xuebin kicked him to the ground.

Dong Xuebin fought off shop owners who attacked the Street Office staff and tried to stop the forced demolition of illegal structures. After the Tailor Shop owner attacked him with a knife, Dong Xuebin retaliated as more shop owners rushed at him.

• Dong Xuebin ordered Peng Gang and the other staff to get the injured into the Jinbei Car while he faced the charging shop owners alone.
• Dong Xuebin knocked down the breakfast stall owner and three more attackers, then advanced on the crowd.
• Dong Xuebin targeted Xue Gui, knocked him unconscious, and defeated the thugs who rushed to his aid.
• Dong Xuebin warned the crowd that the illegal structures would be demolished and rushed to protect the officials in the Jinbei Car.
• The Tailor Shop owner attacked Dong Xuebin with a knife, and Dong Xuebin slammed his head against the car door.
• More shop owners charged at Dong Xuebin with clubs as attackers fell around him.

Dong Xuebin fought off the merchants resisting the forced demolition of Headline Hutong, then ordered the demolition to proceed. The operation succeeded, leaving the Street Office staff and local onlookers stunned by his fighting ability, while Dong blamed Peng Kun for fleeing.

• Dong Xuebin knocked down twenty-six merchants and residents who attacked the demolition team, causing the remaining opponents to drop their weapons.
• Dong Xuebin ordered Zhou Yanru, Peng Gang, and the others to arrange medical care for the injured, then discovered Peng Kun had disappeared.
• Dong Xuebin told the urban management officers to begin demolishing Headline Hutong’s illegal structures.
• When merchants shouted in protest, Dong Xuebin stood in the alley as the excavator demolished the stalls, and no one dared approach him.
• Local residents cheered the demolition, while the Street Office staff recognized that Dong Xuebin’s actions had made the operation possible.

After Dong Xuebin protected Guangming Street Office staff from armed merchants during an illegal-construction cleanup, rumors of his actions spread and the merchants protested at the District Committee. The Discipline Inspection Committee summoned him, and he defended his decision to fight back as Wu Liang began asking for the full account.

• Guangming Street staff spread stories that Dong Xuebin had defeated more than twenty merchants and was the Tiger-Beating Hero.
• Dong Xuebin checked on Zhou Yanru and ordered Peng Gang to pursue and punish the merchants who had attacked their colleagues.
• More than a dozen merchants blocked the District Committee gates and demanded Dong Xuebin's dismissal and punishment.
• While visiting injured staff at District Second Hospital, Dong Xuebin received a summons from Wu Liang and went to the Discipline Inspection Committee.
• Wu Liang criticized Dong Xuebin for injuring ordinary people, while Dong argued that the merchants had attacked his staff with knives and clubs.
• Wu Liang accepted that details might be missing and asked Dong Xuebin to recount what had happened.

Dong Xuebin reported the violent clash during the forced demolition to Wu Liang and blamed Peng Kun for inflaming the crowd and abandoning the Street Office. After Wu Liang ordered action against the attackers, Dong returned to the office and learned Peng Kun’s promotion might be in jeopardy, then received a call from Cao Xupeng, who had heard about the incident from a district leader.

• Dong Xuebin told Wu Liang that armed merchants and residents had attacked the demolition team and said Peng Kun’s intervention had provoked the clash.
• Wu Liang criticized the Street Office’s preparations but said the district would investigate Peng Kun’s conduct and ordered that lawbreakers be detained.
• Dong Xuebin returned to the Street Office, where Zhou Yanru told him Peng Kun was expected to attend cadre training before a likely promotion.
• Cao Xupeng called Dong Xuebin and said Secretary Anshi had asked what kind of cadre Yantai County had recommended to Nanshan District.

After Peng Kun arranged for Nanqi Morning News to publish a one-sided account of the Willow Lane Alley clash, Dong Xuebin faced public backlash and learned the district might punish him. He grew furious and prepared to fight back against anyone who blamed him.

• Dong Xuebin confirmed with Peng Gang that ten illegal merchants had been arrested and the unrest had stopped.
• Peng Kun called a Nanqi Morning News contact after worrying that the clash could jeopardize his upcoming transfer.
• Reporter Liu Gang accused Dong Xuebin's office of injuring more than twenty citizens, and Dong ended the call after challenging his account.
• Nanqi Morning News published Liu Gang's report, omitting the merchants' attack and portraying Guangming Street Office staff as aggressors.
• Zhou Yanru and Qu Yiqiang condemned the report, and Qu recalled seeing Peng Kun dine with newspaper executives.
• Dong Xuebin learned the district might punish him, then vowed not to let his opponents get away with it.

Dong Xuebin learned that district leaders might punish him over a hostile Nanqi Morning News report and suspected Peng Kun had arranged the story to shift blame. Rather than confront the newspaper directly, he asked Su Jia to handle the matter and waited for the City Daily to publish, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Zhou Yanru, Qu Yiqiang, and Wang Yuling voiced concern about the district's possible punishment, but Dong Xuebin sent them back to work and refused Wang Yuling's offer to seek help from her uncle.
• Dong Xuebin suspected Peng Kun had used the Nanqi Morning News to redirect attention from his own trouble with the Discipline Inspection Committee.
• Dong Xuebin called Su Jia and explained the report and the district's unclear response; Su Jia agreed to handle the matter.
• Dong Xuebin asked Zhou Yanru to bring him a copy of the afternoon's City Daily.
• Rumors that the district would punish Dong Xuebin spread through Guangming Street Office, and the City Daily was published at five o'clock.

Dong Xuebin used a favorable front-page report in the City Daily to protect himself and the Guangming Street Office after Nanqi Morning News criticized their demolition campaign. The district left Dong Xuebin unpunished but gave Peng Kun an internal Party warning, derailing his expected promotion.

• Zhou Yanru brought Dong Xuebin the City Daily, whose front-page article praised his work demolishing illegal structures and omitted the assault allegations.
• Peng Kun realized the City Daily report had thwarted his attempt to shift blame onto Dong Xuebin and feared he would bear the disciplinary pressure alone.
• The district’s rumors of punishing Dong Xuebin faded as officials reconsidered their response to the City Daily’s favorable coverage.
• The district gave Peng Kun a Party warning while issuing no punishment to Dong Xuebin or the Guangming Street Office.
• Peng Kun smashed a cup after learning the warning had cost him his Party school training and expected promotion.

After a gas leak forced Geng Yuehua from her apartment, Dong Xuebin helped her identify the cause and offered her a place to wait. When the airflow slammed her apartment door shut with her keys inside, she had to return to Dong Xuebin’s home in her bathrobe.

• After watching a comedy and returning home, Dong Xuebin noticed Geng Yuehua arrive at the Family Building late at night.
• Dong Xuebin smelled gas coming from Geng Yuehua’s apartment and rushed in as she shut off the main valve.
• Dong Xuebin realized the low gas stove had burned through the hose and urged Geng Yuehua to air out the apartment.
• Geng Yuehua waited at Dong Xuebin’s home while her apartment aired out, then tried to go to her brother’s place to wash her hair.
• The airflow slammed Geng Yuehua’s apartment door shut, trapping her keys inside, and Dong Xuebin invited her back into his home to wash her hair.

After Geng Yuehua’s home became unusable because of a gas leak, she stayed overnight at Dong Xuebin’s residence. Dong Xuebin prepared to sleep in his room while she took the small bedroom, but he discovered that she had left her dark red panties drying in his bathroom.

• Geng Yuehua finished her quick shower at Dong Xuebin’s home and asked to use one of his towels.
• Dong Xuebin offered to give Geng Yuehua the small bedroom and find a hotel, but she insisted he stay in his room while she slept there.
• After turning off the lights, Dong Xuebin noticed Geng Yuehua had used his face towel and folded it back into place.
• Dong Xuebin found Geng Yuehua’s dark red lace panties hanging discreetly behind his shirt and realized she had washed them after her shower.

Dong Xuebin hosted Geng Yuehua after a gas leak left her locked out, and she borrowed his clothes before her parents arrived. The chapter ended with Geng Yuehua telling her parents she had spent the night at the District Committee Family Compound, concealing that she had stayed at Dong Xuebin’s home.

• Dong Xuebin woke up, remembered Geng Yuehua was still at his apartment, and made breakfast for her.
• Geng Yuehua borrowed Dong Xuebin’s phone to call Xin Ke, then asked to borrow his clothes because her parents were coming.
• Geng Yuehua changed into Dong Xuebin’s shirt, trousers, and suit jacket before her parents arrived.
• Dong Xuebin greeted Father Geng and Mother Geng, who remained wary of him.
• Geng Yuehua told her parents that she had spent the night at the District Committee Family Compound and had breakfast at Dong Xuebin’s place.

Dong Xuebin drove his expensive Porsche Cayenne to the Guangming Street Office, surprising his colleagues. Their astonishment reinforced his reputation as a bold and unconventional new director.

• Dong Xuebin found Wang Yuling and Zhou Yanru admiring his Porsche outside their dormitory building and revealed it was his car.
• Dong Xuebin said his mother had given him the Cayenne, and he drove Wang Yuling and Zhou Yanru to work.
• Wang Yuling asked Dong Xuebin for leave to attend a classmate’s wedding, and he approved it.
• Dong Xuebin parked at the Street Office, where staff learned his car was worth around three million yuan.
• The Street Office staff recalled Dong Xuebin’s earlier clashes and concluded that their new director was a thorn among thorns.

Dong Xuebin joined the wedding banquet for Chu Qinghua’s son after learning that Wang Yuling was attending, and his arrival drew attention from officials who had heard about his reputation and his Porsche. The banquet was underway when a relative announced that District Governor Yuehua and Madam Yan had arrived.

• Dong Xuebin heard firecrackers near Peace Street, found Wang Yuling at Chu Qinghua’s son’s wedding, and decided to attend despite having received no invitation.
• Guests recognized Dong Xuebin and whispered about his past actions and his expensive Cayenne as he entered the restaurant with Wang Yuling.
• Chu Qinghua greeted Dong Xuebin and explained that he had been unable to contact him, but Dong Xuebin remained suspicious of the excuse.
• Dong Xuebin spoke with Pan Zhengyi before joining the main table, where he and Wang Yuling congratulated the bride and groom during the toast rounds.
• A relative rushed in and announced that District Governor Yuehua and Madam Yan had arrived.