Recaps

Dong Xuebin won the Investment Bureau directorship, went to Korea with Yu Meixia for successful facial surgery, and began a relationship with her. He gained Old Master Xie’s approval of his relationship with Xie Huilan and returned to find Guo Panwei asking to work under him.

• Xie Huilan secured a six-to-five Standing Committee vote to appoint Dong Xuebin as Investment Bureau Director, with Xiong Zhiyong casting the deciding vote.
• Dong Xuebin took Yu Meixia to Seoul for facial surgery, then challenged Taekwondo halls after Korean students and authorities mistreated Chinese people.
• Yu Meixia’s surgery healed her face, and she and Dong Xuebin became intimate before reuniting with Yu Qianqian in Beijing.
• Xie Huilan brought Dong Xuebin to meet her family, where Old Master Xie gave him the calligraphy “A Clear Conscience” and later presented the couple with “Match Made in Heaven.”
• Dong Xuebin returned home and learned that Yu Meixia and Yu Qianqian had stayed after their bus broke down.
• Guo Panwei asked Dong Xuebin to help him transfer to the grassroots and work under him, and Dong agreed to look into it.

Dong Xuebin took over the Investment Bureau and used his time-stopping ability to foil a hotel setup intended to disgrace him and Luo Haiting. As he battled Lu Dafa’s resistance, Dong discovered a possible source of leverage against him.

• Dong Xuebin discovered that BACK, MENU, and STOP were commands for his ability, then left the County Bureau amid an emotional farewell from colleagues and residents.
• At the Spring Festival Gala, Dong Xuebin turned a staged brick-breaking embarrassment into a magic act by using STOP to make the bricks vanish, earning the audience’s approval.
• Dong Xuebin and Xie Huilan spent New Year’s together, learned that she and Qu Yunxuan had agreed to a five-year marriage arrangement, and resolved to advance his career so he could marry Xie Huilan.
• Dong Xuebin took charge of the Investment Bureau, challenged its weak performance, and put Luo Haiting under his direct supervision, provoking Lu Dafa’s resistance.
• Dong Xuebin brought Guo Panwei in as his deputy director and secretary while Lu Dafa’s camp spread rumors about cuts to staff bonuses and commissions.
• Dong Xuebin used STOP to escape a staged prostitution raid at the hotel, exposed the officers as impostors with Deputy Captain Feng’s help, and returned to Luo Haiting.
• Dong Xuebin searched Lu Dafa’s apartment for incriminating evidence but found none, then saw Lu Dacai embracing Li Hong and recognized that the scene might give him leverage.

Dong Xuebin took control of the Investment Bureau, secured major projects, and protected Luo Haiting at a county dance while his relationship with Qu Yunxuan moved toward parenthood. The arc ended with him confronting Ding Li over the Finance Bureau’s refusal to release the Investment Bureau’s allocation.

• Dong Xuebin used photos of Lu Dafa’s wife and younger brother to weaken Lu Dafa’s influence, then tightened his control over the Investment Bureau.
• Dong Xuebin accepted the county’s 500-million-yuan investment target and promised to resign if the bureau failed to meet it, rallying his staff with a bonus plan.
• Dong Xuebin helped secure Liang Zeyuan’s twenty-million-yuan pork processing plant by appearing to drink three bottles of Maotai, then encouraged his staff to pursue more projects.
• Dong Xuebin used Little Tiger’s online game to persuade Peng Kenong to reconsider investing in Yantai County, while Peng agreed to revisit the site.
• Dong Xuebin danced with Xie Huilan and used a magic trick involving Ding Li’s coat to retaliate after Ding Li touched Luo Haiting, then drove Luo Haiting home.
• Dong Xuebin learned that Qu Yunxuan was pregnant, realized the child was his, and agreed with her to wait until his Five-Year Agreement with Xie Huilan ended before they married.
• Dong Xuebin returned to the Investment Bureau and learned its three-million-yuan allocation had been delayed, leaving staff bonuses unpaid.
• Dong Xuebin found Ding Li hiding in the Finance Bureau and insisted on waiting there until Ding Li transferred the Investment Bureau’s funds.

Dong Xuebin dealt with bureau disputes, political and family matters, and helped those close to him. After the Bodhisattva Statue was stolen and taken to Japan, he decided to go there himself to recover it.

• Dong Xuebin forced the Finance Bureau to transfer three million yuan to the Investment Bureau, then expanded the bureau’s projects and dealt with Wang Shaoyan’s disputed commission.
• Dong Xuebin confronted Xinhua reporters who were stirring up trouble at the county’s processing plant, and Xie Jing intervened to send them back to Beijing.
• Dong Xuebin discovered Pan Zhou had helped arrange the reporters’ visit and later met Yang Zhaode, who was dating Luan Xiaoping and agreed to help Xu Yan seek a transfer.
• Dong Xuebin helped Luan Xiaoping welcome Yang Zhaode’s family, gave Su Jia a valuable jade ring as a first-meeting gift, and arranged for Yu Meixia’s friend’s son to keep his television station job.
• Dong Xuebin exposed fake State Security officers who had tried to scam Yu Meixia, then became intimate with her after helping her family.
• Dong Xuebin found Xie Jing’s apartment ransacked and learned that the stolen Bodhisattva Statue had been sold to a Japanese businessman and donated to the Tokyo National Museum.
• After the museum refused to return the statue, Dong Xuebin left Han Jing’s hospital and called Xu Yan to arrange a passport and Japanese yen for a flight to Japan that night.