Recaps

Dong Xuebin called Xie Huilan for help after Jingcheng Times leaders mistreated Qu Yunxuan, and the newspaper office was ordered to suspend publication and undergo rectification. The director reinstated Qu Yunxuan, removed Gong Wei from his post, and made him operate an elevator before Dong Xuebin left.

• Dong Xuebin told Xie Huilan how Gong Wei had retaliated against Qu Yunxuan, but the Chief Editor refused to take her call.
• A staff member announced that Jingcheng Times had been ordered to suspend publication and undergo rectification, and a Propaganda Department leader confirmed that the Central Propaganda Department had criticized the newspaper office and Gong Wei.
• Dong Xuebin confronted the newspaper office leaders and demanded that Gong Wei apologize, lose his position, and operate an elevator for a week.
• The director reinstated Qu Yunxuan to the Advertising Department, removed Gong Wei as Deputy Director, and ordered him to operate an elevator after he apologized.
• Dong Xuebin rode the elevator with Gong Wei, retrieved his work ID, left the newspaper office, and called Xie Huilan to say the matter was settled.

Qu Yunxuan resigned from the newspaper office after Dong Xuebin helped her stand up to Gong Wei, and the two grew closer as she let him tend to her injury. When Mother Qu arrived unexpectedly, Dong Xuebin hid under the bed, and Qu Yunxuan let him stay the night in her bed to avoid being discovered.

• Qu Yunxuan told Dong Xuebin she had resigned and described how Gong Wei had been reassigned to operate elevators after the newspaper office scandal.
• Qu Yunxuan thanked Dong Xuebin for helping her and asked him to apply ointment to the injury on her back.
• Dong Xuebin fetched Qu Yunxuan’s underwear and treated her wound, and she kissed him before telling him to go home.
• Mother Qu arrived while Qu Yunxuan was still undressed, so Qu Yunxuan pushed Dong Xuebin under the bed and told her mother she had hurt her back.
• Qu Yunxuan’s mother decided to sleep over, so Qu Yunxuan let Dong Xuebin share her bed under a thick quilt.

Dong Xuebin pressed Qu Yunxuan to define their relationship and, after she repeatedly hesitated, she agreed to sleep with him. They began having sex in her bedroom, but the chapter ended with them continuing beneath the quilt while her mother slept in the next room.

• Dong Xuebin asked Qu Yunxuan to become his girlfriend, and she said she needed time to consider the serious relationship and their age difference.
• Dong Xuebin kept touching Qu Yunxuan beneath the quilt, and she set limits before reluctantly allowing him to go further.
• Qu Yunxuan agreed to sleep with Dong Xuebin after checking that her mother seemed asleep in the next room.
• Qu Yunxuan cried out in pain, and when her mother called to ask what happened, she said she had bumped her injury.
• Dong Xuebin continued beneath the quilt while Qu Yunxuan asked him to wait, and the bed shook as they had sex.

After spending the morning with Qu Yunxuan, Dong Xuebin went to Hanhai Auction House to sell her pearl necklace. He used Back to make Wei Nan pay 1.55 million yuan for it, leaving him with more than 1.3 million after fees.

• Dong Xuebin and Qu Yunxuan woke together, and she told him she still needed time to decide whether to be his girlfriend before helping him sneak out of her home.
• Dong Xuebin met Teacher Sun at Yaan Hotel and entered Hanhai Auction House’s morning auction with bidder’s paddle number 33.
• Wei Nan argued with Dong Xuebin over seats, then competed with other bidders for Dong Xuebin’s pearl necklace as its price climbed to 880,000 yuan.
• Dong Xuebin bid 1.6 million yuan, then used Back to reverse time after Wei Nan won the necklace, restoring the auction to the bidding at 1.2 million.
• Dong Xuebin stopped bidding after Wei Nan raised the price to 1.55 million yuan, and Wei Nan won the necklace for that amount.

Dong Xuebin gave Qu Yunxuan the 1.32 million yuan he earned from selling a Golden Pearl necklace so she could pursue her dream of starting a company. After they spent the evening together, Qu Yunxuan accepted the idea of investigating business opportunities, though she insisted the money and company would remain Dong Xuebin’s.

• Dong Xuebin brought home 1.32 million yuan from the auction and ate dinner with Qu Yunxuan and Mother Qu.
• Mother Qu urged Qu Yunxuan to find a job and settle down, while Qu Yunxuan said she would handle her work situation herself.
• After Mother Qu left, Dong Xuebin and Qu Yunxuan went to the bedroom and became intimate.
• Dong Xuebin showed Qu Yunxuan his savings account, and she initially scolded him for suspecting the money might be improper before he explained its sources.
• Dong Xuebin offered the money to fund Qu Yunxuan’s company, and she agreed to investigate what business to pursue while refusing to take ownership of his money.

Dong Xuebin returned to the Chengxi Branch Bureau after leave, hoping to build a case for promotion while keeping a lower profile. He clashed with Yan Lei, the new branch chief’s secretary, and the conflict quickly became office gossip.

• Dong Xuebin returned to the General Office, where coworkers warmly welcomed him and he learned that Zhen Anguo and Wang Jie had joined the branch bureau leadership.
• Guo Panwei told Dong Xuebin that Zhen Anguo had brought Yan Lei from the Ministry of Public Security to serve as his secretary.
• Dong Xuebin reported for duty to Xu Yan, who told him to work hard and put in a good performance.
• When Yan Lei ordered Dong Xuebin to help carry things, Dong Xuebin sent Guo Panwei instead, angering Yan Lei.
• Staff members who witnessed the exchange said Yan Lei had provoked Dong Xuebin, and the clash spread through the bureau as people anticipated more trouble.

Dong Xuebin delivered housing keys to Zhen Anguo and used their shared hometown connection to build rapport, while Xu Yan warned him about his clash with Yan Lei. He left convinced his promotion to deputy section chief was within reach and spent the afternoon working conspicuously hard across the bureau.

• Xu Yan summoned Dong Xuebin, questioned him about clashing with Yan Lei, and gave him the keys to Zhen Anguo’s assigned residence to deliver.
• Dong Xuebin met Zhen Anguo, delivered the keys, and chatted with him after claiming a shared hometown in Fenzhou City.
• Dong Xuebin encountered Yan Lei in the corridor, and both men silently maintained their hostility.
• Dong Xuebin returned to the General Office and spent the afternoon eagerly completing tasks for leaders across the bureau, prompting coworkers to suspect he was pursuing another promotion.

Xu Yan tried to win Zhen Anguo’s support for promoting Dong Xuebin to deputy section chief, citing his achievements. Zhen Anguo remained undecided after Yan Lei gave him a biased account of a recent dispute with Dong.

• Xu Yan subtly signaled her willingness to work with Zhen Anguo and praised Dong Xuebin’s record while urging his promotion.
• Zhen Anguo said Dong seemed capable but questioned whether he had enough seniority, leaving his position unclear.
• Xu Yan told Dong that she had raised his promotion with Zhen and urged him to perform well in the coming days.
• Zhen Anguo asked Yan Lei for his opinion on Dong’s promotion, and Yan Lei portrayed Dong as disrespectful after twisting the story of their encounter.
• Zhen Anguo dismissed the dispute as minor and recognized that Yan Lei might be biased.

Dong Xuebin learned that the Sixth Division had wrongly arrested and injured a relative of Director Jiang, the city bureau’s top leader, prompting an emergency response from Chengxi Branch Bureau. With Director Jiang refusing to ease the tension, the branch bureau’s leaders called Dong Xuebin to Xuanwu Hospital to try to resolve the crisis.

• Zhen Anguo received an angry call from Director Jiang after the Sixth Division arrested and injured Director Jiang’s relative.
• Tan Limei and Guo Panwei told Dong Xuebin about the emergency meeting and explained that the arrest stemmed from a misleading earthquake-rumor tip.
• Zhen Anguo summoned the relevant leaders, then went with Xu Yan and Director Jian to Xuanwu Hospital to meet Director Jiang.
• Director Jiang rebuffed Zhen Anguo’s apology and told the branch bureau leaders to wait outside while he visited his nephew.
• The Sixth Division’s deputy director urged Xu Yan to call Dong Xuebin, and Xu Yan summoned him to the hospital.

Dong Xuebin was sent to defuse Director Jiang’s anger over his nephew’s arrest and beating, then used Back to redo a disastrous exchange about a calligraphy piece. He turned the discovery that Director Jiang had written it into a chance to flatter him, and Director Jiang agreed to stop pursuing the branch bureau leaders.

• Xu Yan ordered Dong Xuebin to meet Director Jiang at Kangde Restaurant and promised to settle his promotion if he handled the crisis.
• Director Jiang ignored the Chengxi Branch Bureau leaders’ apology and criticized their responsibility for his nephew’s arrest and injuries.
• After Dong Xuebin insulted Director Jiang’s calligraphy and learned it was his, he used Back three times to rewind the scene.
• Dong Xuebin defended the calligraphy as a masterwork and praised Director Jiang after the restaurant owner confirmed that Director Jiang had written it.
• Director Jiang accepted Dong Xuebin’s explanation, invited him to sit and eat, and said the incident would not be pursued further.

Dong Xuebin defused Director Jiang’s anger by praising a piece of calligraphy he knew Jiang had written, preventing further consequences for the Chengxi Branch Bureau. The bureau’s staff learned of Dong’s feat and, as Yan Lei discovered, saw it as another example of his extraordinary ability to solve crises.

• After Director Jiang left, Dong Xuebin apologized to Zhen Anguo and Xu Yan for contradicting Jiang, and explained that he had tried to signal them about the calligraphy.
• Zhen Anguo and Xu Yan praised Dong Xuebin for resolving the crisis, while the deputy director of Sixth Division thanked him for saving his position.
• Back at the branch bureau, Guo Panwei and Chang Juan told the General Office staff how Dong had praised the calligraphy until Director Jiang revealed that he had written it himself.
• Dong Xuebin told his staff to prepare to leave and warned them not to spread the story about the calligraphy.
• News spread that Director Jiang had held nobody else accountable, and bureau employees credited Dong Xuebin with solving the problem.
• Yan Lei asked about Dong Xuebin’s past achievements and realized why the other employees were unsurprised by his latest feat.

Dong Xuebin celebrated his expected promotion to deputy section chief with Qu Yunxuan, and the two grew closer during a night out. A few days later, the bureau completed its assessment and proposed his promotion, stunning colleagues with how quickly he had advanced.

• Dong Xuebin told Qu Yunxuan he was certain to be promoted to deputy section chief, and they planned a celebration together.
• Dong Xuebin and Qu Yunxuan went shopping and to a movie, where they flirted and grew more intimate.
• During the movie, Dong Xuebin spoke to Luan Xiaoping on the phone while Qu Yunxuan surprised him with an intimate gesture.
• Pang Bin and the Political Department conducted Dong Xuebin's cadre assessment, consulted colleagues and General Office leaders, and submitted their report to the bureau party committee.
• The bureau party committee proposed Dong Xuebin for promotion to deputy section chief with his position unchanged, astonishing colleagues because he had joined the agency only four months earlier.

On New Year’s Eve, Dong Xuebin celebrated his recent promotion with his mother and coworkers, who were astonished by his new standing and treated his family warmly. After Tan Limei and Sun Zhuang asked him for help, he agreed to seek a transfer for Sun Zhuang and sent them home with their gifts returned.

• Dong Xuebin prepared dumplings alone, received New Year calls, and phoned his leaders to offer holiday greetings.
• Guo Panwei visited with gifts and helped make dumplings before Luan Xiaoping arrived and learned that Dong Xuebin had become a deputy section chief.
• Tan Limei and Sun Zhuang came to help, and their attentive hospitality convinced Luan Xiaoping that her son had truly risen in the government.
• Dong Xuebin invited Guo Panwei, Tan Limei, and Sun Zhuang to share lunch with his family.
• Tan Limei asked Dong Xuebin to help Sun Zhuang get transferred to the Political Department, and Dong agreed to look into it after the New Year.
• Dong Xuebin returned Tan Limei and Sun Zhuang’s cigarettes, gave them a bottle of Maotai, and saw them off.

Dong Xuebin visited Xie Huilan to thank her and left after giving her a New Year gift. He later learned that Xie Huilan had drowned while rescuing a little girl, and he shouted “BACK” to try to save her.

• Luan Xiaoping left for the village after celebrating Dong Xuebin’s promotion with him.
• Dong Xuebin bought perfume and visited Xie Huilan at her apartment to thank her for helping him.
• Xie Huilan accepted Dong Xuebin’s gift, and they talked briefly before he left for lunch.
• Dong Xuebin saw a man shield Xie Huilan from a firecracker as she went out to lunch.
• An elderly man called from Xie Huilan’s phone and told Dong Xuebin she had drowned while rescuing a little girl.
• Dong Xuebin shouted “BACK” after hearing the news, determined to save Xie Huilan.

Dong Xuebin used his BACs to return to the moment before Xie Huilan fell into the ditch and rushed to save her from the water grass. After reviving her, he took her home to recover, where she hinted at her influence in the Capital City.

• Dong Xuebin called Xie Huilan, got no answer, and raced toward the ditch with a fruit knife.
• Dong Xuebin cut the water grass trapping Xie Huilan, then escaped the weeds himself and carried her to shore.
• When Xie Huilan had no pulse or breath, Dong Xuebin performed CPR until she coughed up water and woke.
• Xie Huilan declined the hospital, and Dong Xuebin took her to his apartment, where he helped care for her as she developed a high fever.
• Xie Huilan told Dong Xuebin she was unmarried and offered to help if he ever ran into trouble, mentioning her influence in the Capital City.

Dong Xuebin feared Xie Huilan would confront him about the embarrassing incident with her stockings, but she invited him to lunch and treated him warmly. At Wangfu Restaurant, he saw how influential she was when the hotel staff and a senior city official greeted her with special deference.

• Dong Xuebin anxiously answered Xie Huilan's call and agreed to meet her for lunch.
• Dong Xuebin expected Xie Huilan to criticize him, but she thanked him for saving and caring for her and acted as though nothing had happened with the stockings.
• Xie Huilan drove Dong Xuebin to Wangfu Restaurant, where the manager greeted her and arranged a table in Bamboo Garden.
• Xie Huilan toasted Dong Xuebin and asked about his family, and he learned she had invited him to thank him for saving her.
• Feng Xueliang, a member of the Capital City Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee and Director of the Public Security Bureau, greeted Xie Huilan warmly, leaving Dong Xuebin stunned by her influence.

Dong Xuebin used BACK to discover that a street-stall bowl was genuine Qing Qianlong imperial porcelain, then sold it for seven hundred thousand yuan and reached two million in savings. He told Qu Yunxuan he would entrust her with their money, while Xie Huilan learned how skilled he was at spotting antiques.

• Xie Huilan took Dong Xuebin to Liulichang, bought him a two-thousand-yuan cricket gourd, and browsed antique stalls with him.
• After failing to identify a blue-and-white bowl, Dong Xuebin smashed it to inspect its clay body, confirmed it was genuine, and used BACK to return to the moment before Xie Huilan left.
• Dong Xuebin bought the bowl for forty-two thousand yuan and took it with Xie Huilan to Rongbaozhai for authentication.
• Rongbaozhai experts confirmed the bowl was valuable, and Dong Xuebin sold it for seven hundred thousand yuan after haggling.
• Dong Xuebin deposited the check, realized his assets totaled two million yuan, and told Qu Yunxuan he would transfer his money to her to manage.

On the first workday after the Spring Festival, Dong Xuebin clashed with Yan Lei over the secretary’s treatment of Wang Xin, a new General Office employee. Dong defended his staff and left the branch bureau watching to see how the conflict with Director Zhen’s secretary would unfold.

• Yan Lei ordered Dong Xuebin to prepare meeting materials and warned him that Director Zhen had assigned the task.
• Dong learned that Xu Yan had arranged Sun Zhuang’s transfer and welcomed Wang Xin, a nervous new Civil Servant, to the General Office.
• Yan Lei scolded Wang Xin for not typing a document quickly enough, and she began to cry.
• Dong confronted Yan Lei, blamed him for failing to specify the deadline, and ordered him to stop shouting at his staff.
• Dong reassured Wang Xin and asked Chang Juan to finish the document as word of his argument with Yan Lei spread through the Chengxi Branch Bureau.

Dong Xuebin apologized to Xu Yan and Zhen Anguo after clashing with Yan Lei, but Yan Lei’s account swayed Zhen Anguo and Dong was excluded from the Jiangzhe Province exchange while Yan Lei received a slot. Xu Yan challenged the decision, while Dong left furious after seeing Yan Lei celebrate.

• Chang Juan told Dong Xuebin that the Branch Bureau’s study exchange slots usually went to leaders, high achievers, or people with connections, and Dong worried his dispute with Yan Lei might affect his chances.
• Dong Xuebin admitted his impulsive behavior to Xu Yan, who urged him to keep the peace with Yan Lei and warned that the conflict could trouble Zhen Anguo.
• Yan Lei complained to Zhen Anguo and portrayed Dong Xuebin as unreasonable, leading Zhen to believe Dong had provoked the confrontation.
• Dong Xuebin apologized to Zhen Anguo, who said both men were responsible and sent him back to work.
• Dong Xuebin learned that Yan Lei had received an exchange slot while he had been left off the list, then confronted Xu Yan about the unfair decision.
• Xu Yan asked Zhen Anguo to reconsider, but Zhen said he had removed Dong from the list to temper him and keep a capable worker available; Dong then saw Yan Lei celebrating his selection.

Dong Xuebin watched the branch bureau’s attempt to clear students from its gate turn into a crisis after officers cuffed them and discovered their powerful family connections. The students refused to leave even after the bureau ordered their release, leaving the situation on the verge of escalating.

• Dong Xuebin found the General Office upset that he had been excluded from the Jiangzhe Province study tour while Yan Lei was included, and he told everyone to return to work.
• After students returned to the branch bureau gate to seek out a female civil servant, Li Qing and Guo Panwei failed to persuade them to leave, so Zhen Anguo sent Sixth Division officers to intervene.
• The officers handcuffed all six students and confined them in a storage room after they refused to go, but Zhen Anguo soon learned that one was related to a central leader and ordered their release.
• Officials and associates called Zhen Anguo, Xu Yan, and Cheng Haimei to protest the arrests because the students had influential family connections.
• When Sixth Division officers tried to remove the handcuffs, the students refused to cooperate and demanded an explanation, while Dong Xuebin watched the crisis unfold.

Dong Xuebin was called to resolve the standoff with six powerful students who refused to remove their handcuffs, after the Chengxi Branch Bureau’s leaders failed to persuade them. He discovered that their leader was Xie Hao, Xie Huilan’s younger brother, and got the students to unlock themselves and leave; the bureau’s staff watched in amazement.

• Zhen Anguo and the other leaders tried to persuade the handcuffed students to leave, but the students refused and demanded apologies.
• After Director Jiang gave Zhen Anguo twenty minutes to end the incident, Pang Bin suggested calling Director Little Dong, and Xu Yan promised to address Dong Xuebin’s recent grievance if he resolved the standoff.
• Dong Xuebin initially resented being summoned after the bureau had favored Yan Lei, but he went to the students after Xu Yan appealed to him.
• Dong Xuebin kicked open the room’s door and confronted the students, then recognized their leader as Xie Hao and threatened to tell Xie Huilan what he had done.
• Xie Hao persuaded the others to unlock their handcuffs, apologize to Dong Xuebin, and leave the Branch Bureau to return to school.
• Dong Xuebin reported that he had handled the matter, leaving the bureau’s leaders and staff astonished at how quickly the students had changed their attitude.

Dong Xuebin confronted Zhen Anguo over Yan Lei’s treatment of him and his clerks, leading Zhen Anguo to uncover Yan Lei’s lies and replace him with Dong on the Jiangzhe Province inspection team. Xu Yan and Zhen Anguo cleared up their misunderstanding, and Dong’s position on the trip was secured.

• After Dong Xuebin settled the crisis with the visiting students, Xu Yan told him to explain his dispute with Yan Lei directly to Zhen Anguo.
• Dong Xuebin told Zhen Anguo that Yan Lei had berated Wang Xin until she cried and had falsely claimed Dong refused to respond when summoned.
• Zhen Anguo verified Dong Xuebin’s account, reprimanded Yan Lei, and ordered him out of his office.
• Zhen Anguo apologized to Xu Yan and offered to replace Yan Lei with Dong Xuebin on the Jiangzhe Province inspection team.
• Xu Yan offered her own quota instead, but Zhen Anguo kept her as team leader and confirmed Dong’s place on the trip.
• News spread that Yan Lei had been removed from the inspection list and replaced by Dong Xuebin.

Dong Xuebin traveled to Lin'an and discussed opening an Auction Company with Qu Yunxuan, then used BAC to turn a discarded Chicken-Blood Stone rough into a valuable Big Red Robe. After selling it for seven hundred thousand yuan, he had two million seven hundred thousand yuan, enough to start the company.

• Dong Xuebin arrived in Lin'an with Xu Yan's inspection team and called Qu Yunxuan to discuss starting a business together.
• Qu Yunxuan proposed opening an Auction Company, and Dong Xuebin decided to seek more capital by gambling on stones in Lin'an.
• Dong Xuebin waited at a Chicken-Blood Stone shop but saw no exceptional stones until a mustached man tried to sell a badly cut rough for thirty thousand yuan.
• Dong Xuebin rewound time and bought the rough for ten thousand yuan before the employee cut its bloodless end and revealed rare Big Red Robe Chicken-Blood Stone.
• Dong Xuebin sold the stone to the shop owner for seven hundred thousand yuan, bringing his total assets to two million seven hundred thousand yuan.

Dong Xuebin used BACK to prevent a firecracker from detonating explosives in an abandoned mine, revealing valuable chicken-blood stone and prompting him to lease the mine with Qu Yunxuan. He left convinced the mine would bring them enough money to open a larger Auction House.

• Dong Xuebin told Qu Yunxuan he had earned another 700,000 yuan and agreed she would begin preparing their Auction Company.
• Xu Yan took Dong Xuebin to Changhua, where they toured chicken-blood stone shops and visited a mining area.
• A firecracker triggered explosives in the abandoned mine, exposing a vein of chicken-blood stone that Dong Xuebin recognized as a chance to make money.
• Dong Xuebin used BACK to return three minutes earlier and kicked away the firecracker before it could reach the explosives.
• Dong Xuebin summoned Qu Yunxuan and persuaded Old Yezi to lease them the mine for two months for two million yuan.
• Dong Xuebin told Qu Yunxuan to watch the mine and promised the first batch of chicken-blood stone would prove the lease was worthwhile.

Dong Xuebin’s chosen Chicken-Blood Stone Mine struck valuable rough stone on its first blast, while he considered how to advance his career. After Xu Yan told him he would need to wait years for another promotion, he decided to seek a transfer from national security to the Public Security System.

• Qu Yunxuan called Dong Xuebin to report that the mine’s first blast uncovered a large vein of Chicken-Blood Stone Rough Stone.
• Dong Xuebin returned to work and thought about setting a new short-term career goal.
• Xu Yan thanked Dong Xuebin for helping her choose a laptop and told him he could not expect another promotion for three years.
• Dong Xuebin concluded that he should try to transfer from the National Security System into the Public Security System.