Recaps

Dong Xuebin and the Zhenshui County Investment Bureau prepared for the City Investment Conference despite being assigned a remote, poorly equipped booth. After a large crowd of investors arrived and the conference opened, the competition to attract investment began.

• Dong Xuebin calmed the angry Zhenshui County staff and told them to set up their booth before addressing its poor location.
• Deputy Mayor Hua Li and Director Lu Weiguo arrived to inspect the conference grounds, but Dong Xuebin stayed quiet and waited at the booth.
• Investors arrived in large numbers, and the delayed conference began with speeches from Hua Li and Lu Weiguo.
• Women performed onstage, officially opening the City Investment Conference and starting the competition among Investment Bureaus.

Dong Xuebin and the Zhenshui County team struggled to attract investors at the conference, finally securing two for an inspection before Lu Weiguo diverted them to Meiyang District. Gong Na returned to report that the investors had abandoned their visit to Zhenshui County, leaving the team furious at Lu’s interference.

• Dong Xuebin sent Chen Yunsong, Gong Na, and the others to distribute Zhenshui County’s brochures and seek investors throughout the conference grounds.
• After working through lunch, Chen Yunsong persuaded two investors to schedule an afternoon inspection of Zhenshui County.
• Lu Weiguo invited the investors to lunch in the city, and Zheng Dayou sent Gong Na with them to keep the inspection plans on track.
• Gong Na reported that the investors had changed their minds after lunch and gone to Meiyang District instead, allegedly on Lu Weiguo’s recommendation.
• Chang Juan and the Zhenshui County staff condemned Lu Weiguo for undermining their effort to bring the investors to the county.

Dong Xuebin and Zhenshui County’s investment team struggled through the conference after Lu Weiguo’s interference, while rival districts and counties announced new investment deals. The first day ended with Zhenshui County the only delegation without a single investor or letter of intent.

• Dong Xuebin added Lu Weiguo to his Blacklist and told the team to continue soliciting investors despite their anger.
• Chen Mingming and Ma Yanfen taunted Zheng Dayou about Zhenshui County’s poor results and compared them with their own districts’ investment figures.
• The first day of the Investment Conference ended, and Lu Weiguo announced that Meiyang District had signed an eight-million investment letter of intent.
• Lu Weiguo announced additional investment intentions from several counties and districts, including Yangli County and Chenggang County.
• The crowd noticed that Zhenshui County had secured nothing, and Zheng Dayou and his team felt humiliated while blaming the unfair treatment they had faced.

Dong Xuebin confronted Lu Weiguo over Zhenshui County’s inferior hotel rooms and booth placement at the Investment Conference. As officials blamed the county’s lack of results, Chang Juan challenged their standards and defended Zhenshui County.

• The Zhenshui County delegation discovered that its leaders had to share rooms while officials from other counties and districts had single rooms.
• Lu Weiguo gathered the Investment Bureau leaders for a meeting, and the officials recognized Dong Xuebin as the county chief.
• Dong Xuebin confronted Lu Weiguo about Zhenshui County’s room assignments and booth location, but Lu defended the arrangements as necessary sacrifices.
• A Municipal Investment Bureau official blamed Zhenshui County’s poor conference results, prompting Dong Xuebin’s delegation to object that the bureau had interfered with their investors.
• Chang Juan argued that the county’s past results and the advance arrangements should count, leaving the junior official unable to respond.

Dong Xuebin refused to accept Zhenshui County’s unfair room assignment and decided to book the hotel’s vacant Presidential Suites instead. He left Lu Weiguo and the others stunned by ordering one suite for every member of his group.

• Lu Weiguo insisted that Zhenshui County would receive no additional rooms, while Dong Xuebin and Chang Juan challenged the city’s treatment of the county.
• Dong Xuebin led his group downstairs to the hotel front desk, despite Zheng Dayou’s worry that leaving would cost them access to investors.
• Dong Xuebin learned that the hotel had six vacant Presidential Suites costing 8,888 yuan per day each.
• Dong Xuebin booked all six suites for ten days and told his group to bring their IDs so each person could have a suite.

Dong Xuebin responded to the Municipal Investment Bureau’s unfair room assignments by paying for six Presidential Suites in Zhenshui County’s delegation’s own names. He left the other officials stunned and Lu Weiguo furious, then gave up the city-booked rooms and headed upstairs with his delegation.

• Dong Xuebin booked six Presidential Suites for Zhenshui County’s delegation, including driver Lao Wei, and paid more than 500,000 yuan himself without requesting a receipt or invoice.
• Zheng Dayou, Chang Juan, Chen Yunsong, Gong Na, and Lao Wei registered for the suites as the hotel lobby watched in disbelief.
• After others saw Dong Xuebin’s Land Rover key, they realized he could afford the expense and that the payment would not come from county funds.
• Dong Xuebin returned three of the city-booked room cards to the Municipal Investment Bureau official, saying Zhenshui County would give up those rooms for others.
• Lu Weiguo angrily left for the meeting and meal, while the other district and county officials resented Zhenshui County’s sudden move to the hotel’s top floor.

Dong Xuebin settled Zhenshui County’s delegation into the hotel’s expensive Presidential Suites and waited for Old Zheng to return so they could discuss the next day’s work. Chang Juan visited his suite and cooked him dinner, leaving Dong Xuebin admiring her beauty more than her cooking.

• Dong Xuebin told the delegation to rest in their Presidential Suites and said they would meet after Old Zheng returned to discuss tomorrow’s arrangements.
• Dong Xuebin persuaded Lao Wei to stay at the hotel rather than drive back to Zhenshui County overnight.
• Hungry, Dong Xuebin opened the refrigerator but decided against cooking for himself.
• Chang Juan arrived dressed up, and Dong Xuebin complimented her before she offered to cook him a meal.
• Chang Juan cooked in Dong Xuebin’s suite while he watched, distracted by her appearance and unconcerned about whether the food tasted good.

Dong Xuebin ate dinner with Chang Juan in the hotel suite, then let her massage his shoulders and head. The massage grew intimate, and he remained nestled against her chest as she spoke with her husband and son by phone.

• Chang Juan served Dong Xuebin a home-cooked dinner, and they ate together on the sofa.
• After dinner, Chang Juan massaged Dong Xuebin's shoulders and scalp while he relaxed.
• Dong Xuebin realized his head was resting against Chang Juan's chest, but he stayed as she continued massaging him.
• Chang Juan answered a call from her husband and spoke with him and their son while Dong Xuebin remained pressed against her chest.
• Chang Juan told Dong Xuebin to look after his health and offered to massage him whenever he needed it.

Dong Xuebin thanked Chang Juan for caring for him by giving her perfume, a lighter, and a belt. After Chang Juan tried on the belt, she left Dong Xuebin flustered by exposing her waist and stockings.

• Dong Xuebin ended Chang Juan's massage and thanked her for helping him feel more relaxed.
• Dong Xuebin brought Chang Juan a bottle of Dior perfume from his suitcase, and she happily accepted it.
• Dong Xuebin also gave Chang Juan a Dupont lighter and a purple luxury belt.
• Chang Juan lifted her shirt to try the belt around her waist, leaving Dong Xuebin staring at her exposed belly and stockings.

Dong Xuebin spent the evening with Chang Juan, helping her adjust a belt and later resting while she massaged him. The chapter left them alone in his room, with Dong Xuebin lying on Chang Juan’s lap as she continued the massage.

• Chang Juan tried different ways to wear her new belt while Dong Xuebin praised her appearance.
• Dong Xuebin cut the belt shorter while it was still around Chang Juan’s waist, then fastened its buckle again.
• Chang Juan took the gift items back to her room when Dong Xuebin received a call from Zheng Dayou, who reported that the Municipal Investment Bureau had criticized Zhenshui County.
• Dong Xuebin asked Chang Juan to tell the others that Zheng Dayou would return late, then showered and fell asleep on the sofa.
• Chang Juan returned with a blanket, found Dong Xuebin asleep, and offered to massage his head.
• Dong Xuebin lay with his head on Chang Juan’s lap as she massaged him.

Dong Xuebin rested while Chang Juan massaged him, then prepared to meet with his returning colleagues. When Meng Rui challenged the Investment Conference’s poor results and questioned his hotel bookings, Dong Xuebin defended his actions by describing how Municipal Investment had treated Zhenshui County unfairly.

• Dong Xuebin relaxed on Chang Juan’s lap as she massaged him, then answered Old Zheng’s call and arranged a meeting.
• Dong Xuebin got up, washed his face, removed Chang Juan’s hair from his clothes, and waited for his colleagues.
• Meng Rui called Dong Xuebin to question the Investment Conference results and his decision to book every Presidential Suite.
• Dong Xuebin explained that Zhenshui County had been given a poor booth location, had two investors taken by Lu Weiguo, and had been denied separate rooms.
• Dong Xuebin told Meng Rui he had booked the suites in response to Municipal Investment’s treatment of Zhenshui County.

Dong Xuebin discussed the city’s obstruction with Meng Rui, then rallied the Investment Bureau team to keep pursuing investors and rearranged their hotel rooms. The chapter ended with Dong Xuebin unable to reach Zhang Longjuan and wondering whether her promised surprise meant she had come to help.

• Dong Xuebin told Meng Rui that the city and other counties were obstructing Zhenshui County’s investment work, and Meng Rui urged him to stay calm and focus on attracting investors.
• Dong Xuebin told Zheng Dayou, Chang Juan, Chen Yunsong, Gong Na, and the others to press on and seek a belated opening success the next day.
• Dong Xuebin reassigned the Presidential Suites so the team could share two suites, leaving the extra rooms available for visiting investors.
• Chang Juan and Gong Na took rooms in Dong Xuebin’s suite, while Zheng Dayou, Chen Yunsong, and Lao Wei stayed next door.
• Dong Xuebin called Zhang Longjuan, found her phone switched off, and wondered whether she had arrived to deliver her promised surprise or had been delayed.

On the second morning of the Investment Conference, Dong Xuebin enjoyed breakfast with Chang Juan and Gong Na before Zheng Dayou reported that a major foreign investment delegation was heading to Meihe City. Dong Xuebin remained unconcerned and told his team to prepare for the conference.

• Dong Xuebin woke early and found Chang Juan and Gong Na exercising on the balcony.
• Dong Xuebin ordered breakfast, and he, Chang Juan, and Gong Na ate together in the presidential suite.
• Zheng Dayou and Chen Yunsong visited Dong Xuebin and reported that more than a dozen wealthy foreign investment groups were expected to arrive in Meihe City.
• Dong Xuebin said the delegation probably had nothing to do with Zhenshui County and told the team to get ready for the venue.

Dong Xuebin led Zhenshui County’s delegation into the investment conference, where other officials resented their expensive hotel rooms and isolated them. When a powerful foreign investment delegation was announced, Dong stayed calm and told his team to focus on domestic investors, leaving Zhenshui County unhurried while the other districts scrambled to prepare.

• Dong Xuebin led Zhenshui County into the venue as other delegates criticized their Presidential Suites and treated them coldly.
• Dong Xuebin cheerfully greeted Hua Li and Lu Weiguo despite their frosty response, then returned with his team to their booth.
• Hua Li relayed the Municipal Party Secretary’s instructions that the city should try to secure investment from an arriving delegation of more than a dozen major foreign and Chinese companies.
• The county and district investment directors rushed to prepare for the delegation, while Zheng Dayou asked Dong Xuebin how Zhenshui County should respond.
• Dong Xuebin told his team to stick to their existing plans and focus on domestic investors, reasoning that they had a better chance of winning those deals while others chased the foreign delegation.

Zhenshui County’s staff faced threats from city officials despite having finished their preparations, and Dong Xuebin and Chang Juan pushed back against the accusations. The chapter ended when Zhang Longjuan told Dong Xuebin she had arrived in the city to surprise him.

• While other counties rushed to prepare, Zhenshui County’s staff relaxed after completing their preparations.
• Hua Li and Lu Weiguo discussed canceling Zhenshui County’s booth, and a Municipal Investment cadre threatened the county with revocation.
• Zheng Dayou and Chang Juan challenged the cadre’s accusations, and Dong Xuebin demanded that any booth cancellation be formally approved.
• Dong Xuebin received Zhang Longjuan’s call and learned that she had arrived in the city.

Dong Xuebin and the Meihe City officials welcomed a foreign investment delegation, but struggled to communicate with its members while waiting for their leader. When the delegation leader arrived, Dong Xuebin recognized her and froze.

• Dong Xuebin reassured Zhenshui County's staff that their booth would not be canceled as the foreign investors arrived.
• Hua Li and Lu Weiguo welcomed the delegation, and the provincial female leader introduced several investors and their companies.
• An overseas Chinese investor said the delegation's leader would introduce the remaining members, while local officials struggled to communicate with the visitors in English.
• The provincial female leader announced that the delegation leader had arrived, and Dong Xuebin froze when he saw the mature woman step out of the car.

Zhang Longjuan introduced a delegation of wealthy foreign investors to Meihe City and said they would inspect the area on their own. The chapter ended with her revealing that Dong Xuebin was the friend who had invited her, surprising the officials around him.

• Zhang Longjuan arrived and took over introducing the foreign investors after the provincial leader left.
• Zhang Longjuan introduced the delegation’s shareholders and investment consultants, then offered to help with their inspection and possible investment.
• Dong Xuebin declined Zheng Dayou’s suggestion to approach the investors, and Zhenshui County’s officials stayed back.
• Zhang Longjuan told Hua Li and Lu Weiguo that she had come at a friend’s invitation and wanted to inspect independently.
• Zhang Longjuan spotted Dong Xuebin, walked over, and greeted him with a hug as the other officials stared.

Dong Xuebin was surprised when Zhang Longjuan arrived at the investment conference with a large delegation of foreign investors, giving Zhenshui County an unexpected advantage. He refused Hua Li and Lu Weiguo’s request to have city officials accompany the investors on their inspection.

• Zhang Longjuan greeted Dong Xuebin with a familiar hug and introduced him to the investors she had brought.
• The other conference attendees realized the investors had come for Zhenshui County, though many doubted the county could hold on to them.
• Hua Li and Lu Weiguo softened their attitude toward Dong Xuebin and praised his invitation after seeing Zhang Longjuan’s group.
• Lu Weiguo asked Dong Xuebin to persuade the investors to let Municipal Investment officials accompany their inspection.
• Dong Xuebin said he would not press Zhang Longjuan and insisted the city should respect the investors’ wishes.

Dong Xuebin secured Meng Rui and County Chief Jiang’s full support to keep Zhang Longjuan’s foreign investor delegation in Zhenshui County. He arranged their lodging and lunch, leaving his colleagues to continue courting domestic investors as the delegation prepared to rest before inspections the next day.

• Dong Xuebin told Meng Rui that Zhang Longjuan’s delegation had arrived, and Meng Rui put him in charge of keeping the investors for Zhenshui County.
• Zhang Longjuan asked to eat and rest before discussing inspections, and Dong Xuebin offered six Presidential Suites for the delegation.
• Dong Xuebin told Zheng Dayou and Chen Yunsong to keep pursuing domestic investors while he accompanied Zhang Longjuan’s group to lunch.
• Zheng Dayou realized Dong Xuebin had arranged the delegation long before the Investment Conference and had used his confidence to secure authority and funding.

After details confirmed the foreign delegation’s enormous wealth, Meihe City’s officials eagerly courted the investors. At a banquet, Dong Xuebin rebuffed county and district directors who wanted his help steering the delegation their way, leaving their inspection plans undecided.

• Information confirmed that Zhang Longjuan’s company held more than ten billion yuan in assets and that most members of the delegation represented major overseas conglomerates.
• At the banquet, Zhang Longjuan invited Dong Xuebin to sit at the main table, but he chose the second table with the county and district Investment Bureau directors.
• Ma Yanfen and other directors questioned Dong Xuebin about the delegation’s schedule and asked him to arrange visits to their jurisdictions.
• Dong Xuebin said the investors would decide their own route and repeatedly refused to promise any introductions.
• Remembering how the city and neighboring bureaus had previously treated Zhenshui County, Dong Xuebin ignored their overtures and focused on eating.

Dong Xuebin arranged lodging and meals for the foreign investors, then left the banquet to bring food to Chang Juan and Gong Na. He assigned his staff preparations for the Investment Conference before heading downstairs, where the city officials learned he had taken the investors’ signature dishes.

• Dong Xuebin learned that six Presidential Suites could not accommodate all thirteen investors, and Zhang Longjuan offered her suite so the extra guest could stay there while she took a business room.
• Dong Xuebin stopped waiters carrying dishes from entering the banquet hall and took the food upstairs for Chang Juan and Gong Na.
• Dong Xuebin told Chang Juan to coordinate preparations in Zhenshui County and instructed Gong Na to return to the conference venue and have Zheng Dayou oversee matters back home.
• Dong Xuebin assigned Chang Juan responsibility for the Investment Conference after his departure and urged the staff to secure real investments, not just inspections.
• After Dong Xuebin left, Hua Li learned that Dong had taken the Soft Fried Shrimp and Squirrel Fish, leaving the banquet guests astonished and Zhang Longjuan amused.

Dong Xuebin oversaw arrangements for Zhang Longjuan and the foreign investors in Meihe City, then met Zhang in her hotel room after Municipal Investment staff escorted her upstairs without informing him. Zhang rested on the sofa and flirted with Dong, leaving him flustered.

• Dong Xuebin arranged the investors' luggage and coordinated details for their stay while they finished lunch with the city leaders.
• Xu Yan called Dong Xuebin, teased him about Zhang Longjuan's visit, and declined his invitation to visit Zhenshui County because she had work to do.
• Lu Weiguo and Municipal Investment staff escorted Zhang Longjuan to her room without notifying Dong Xuebin, who suspected they wanted to cultivate ties with the investors on their own.
• Dong Xuebin followed Zhang Longjuan into her room and offered to find her a better place to stay, but she said the executive room was comfortable enough.
• Zhang Longjuan teased Dong Xuebin, drew him onto the sofa beside her, and trapped him between her legs as he grew flustered.

Dong Xuebin spoke privately with Zhang Longjuan after she brought foreign investors to support his city’s investment drive. They agreed to visit his county the next morning, and Zhang Longjuan ended their conversation with a kiss before going to sleep.

• Zhang Longjuan explained that she had brought investors to help Dong Xuebin, though she could only guarantee her own investments and had persuaded some of the others to come.
• Dong Xuebin thanked Zhang Longjuan, and she teased him while he lit her a cigarette.
• Dong Xuebin and Zhang Longjuan arranged for the group to leave for his county at eight the next morning.
• Zhang Longjuan joked about undressing and sleeping with Dong Xuebin, then said she needed to rest.
• Zhang Longjuan pulled Dong Xuebin close, kissed him, and sent him away as she went to sleep.

Dong Xuebin prepared to take the foreign investors to Zhenshui County the next morning, but Lu Weiguo tried to make him postpone their visit so the city and other districts could receive them first. Dong refused, defending Zhenshui County’s right to a fair chance to secure investment.

• Meng Rui called Dong Xuebin to confirm the investors’ schedule and urged him to bring every investor to Zhenshui County.
• Dong Xuebin alerted Chang Juan, Chen Yunsong, and the others to watch for attempts to contact the investors privately.
• Lu Weiguo summoned Dong and asked him to delay the Zhenshui County visit so the investors could first attend the conference and tour the city.
• Dong said Zhang Longjuan had already arranged the visit and argued that changing plans would damage the county’s credibility.
• Dong confronted Lu over Zhenshui County’s repeated mistreatment and declared that he would take the delegation to the county the next morning regardless.

Dong Xuebin prepared his Zhenshui County team to take the foreign investors to their county despite the city's efforts to keep them. At a Municipal Investment Bureau banquet, he realized Lu Weiguo’s sudden friendliness and a succession of toasts were likely meant to get him drunk and disrupt the next day's plans.

• Dong Xuebin told Chang Juan, Chen Yunsong, and Gong Na to arrange vehicles and take the foreign investors to Zhenshui County the next morning, while warning them to watch for underhanded tactics.
• At the banquet, Dong Xuebin refused Lu Weiguo’s invitation to sit with the officials and chose a nearly empty table with his colleagues.
• Lu Weiguo praised Zhenshui County’s work and announced there would be no drinking restrictions at the banquet.
• Lu Weiguo toasted Dong Xuebin, who reluctantly finished a glass of strong liquor, and Chen Mingming then stood to offer another drink.
• Dong Xuebin suspected Lu Weiguo and the others were trying to get him drunk so they could keep the foreign investors in the city the next day.