Chapter Summaries

During a storm, Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min took shelter in a cramped wooden room, where they warmed up, washed, and ate together. The chapter ended with them sharing a quiet meal while Dong Xuebin noticed Jiang Min’s revealing bathrobe neckline.

• Boss Lady led Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min to a small wooden room and arranged hot milk, bread, and an extra quilt for them.
• Jiang Min showered first while Dong Xuebin waited, then she offered to wash their wet clothes.
• Dong Xuebin showered after Jiang Min and discovered her clothes and underwear beside the sink.
• Jiang Min washed and hung up their clothes, while attendants brought the requested food, quilt, and a bathrobe for Dong Xuebin.
• Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min ate bread and drank hot milk together, and he stared at the glimpse of skin revealed by her robe.

On a rainy night at a cramped inn, Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min shared a late snack and discussed her family before settling down to sleep. With no dry space on the floor and only a narrow single bed, they squeezed into it, leaving Dong Xuebin awake and uneasy as they tried to get comfortable.

• Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min ate a late-night snack and talked about her daughter, husband, and eyesight.
• Jiang Min told her husband by phone that she was safe and traveling with a former student who was driving and looking after her.
• Dong Xuebin offered to sleep on the floor, but Jiang Min insisted that the wet, cramped room made it unsafe and told him to share the bed.
• Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min squeezed onto the single bed under separate blankets, with Jiang Min turning onto her side to avoid falling off.
• When Jiang Min's body pressed against his leg, Dong Xuebin became flustered and tried to calm himself so he would not disturb her.

Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min spent the morning at an inn waiting for their rain-soaked clothes to dry, then prepared to leave. The chapter ended with Dong Xuebin paying the bill and walking with Jiang Min back to the Land Rover.

• Dong Xuebin woke to find his hand resting on Jiang Min’s chest and carefully pulled it away before she woke.
• Dong Xuebin ordered breakfast and hung their wet clothes while Jiang Min read an Advanced Mathematics textbook and explained how teachers adapted to changing students.
• Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min ate breakfast, then spent the morning discussing Advanced Mathematics until noon.
• Dong Xuebin checked that the clothes were mostly dry, changed, and helped Jiang Min prepare to leave the inn.
• Dong Xuebin insisted on paying the bill and left the inn with Jiang Min to return to the Land Rover.

After the rain, Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min set out by car and decided to explore nearby ancient towns instead of rushing to Capital City. When they could not find a restroom, they changed their wet clothes in the car, leaving Dong Xuebin flustered by what he glimpsed of Jiang Min.

• Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min left the farmhouse courtyard and discussed finding a restroom and somewhere to eat.
• Jiang Min suggested visiting an ancient town nearby, and Dong Xuebin agreed to follow her lead.
• After driving without finding a restroom, Dong Xuebin pulled over so Jiang Min could change in the car while he kept watch.
• Dong Xuebin accidentally glimpsed Jiang Min changing and hurriedly looked away.
• Once Jiang Min had finished changing, Dong Xuebin changed his own pants and continued driving with restless thoughts.

Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min stopped at a resort near the border of West Mountain Province and spent the evening fishing and grilling their catch. They returned to their suite after sharing a meal, with Dong Xuebin settling into the second bedroom for the night.

• Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min agreed to stay at a resort and visit its Fishing Garden for dinner.
• Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min began fishing at a quiet lakeside section, and Jiang Min caught a carp while Dong Xuebin struggled to get a bite.
• Dong Xuebin cleaned and grilled Jiang Min's first carp, and they shared it while continuing to fish.
• Jiang Min hooked a larger fish, and she and Dong Xuebin hauled it in together after her shirt button popped open.
• Dong Xuebin and Jiang Min caught three fish in total, ate them, and returned to their suite, where they went to separate bedrooms.

After Teacher Jiang left for Capital City, Dong Xuebin planned to drive back to Fenzhou City and learned that Xie Huilan might receive another promotion. The chapter ended with him setting off home to meet his wife.

• Dong Xuebin found Teacher Jiang gone and called her, learning she had taken a long-distance bus back to Capital City.
• Teacher Jiang invited Dong Xuebin to Lian University’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, and he promised to attend.
• Dong Xuebin fell asleep again in Teacher Jiang’s bed after she left.
• Xie Huilan told Dong Xuebin that she might transfer to another city and become its Acting Mayor or Party Secretary after giving birth and recovering.
• Dong Xuebin said he would take on anyone who opposed Xie Huilan’s advancement, then set off for home.

Dong Xuebin drove toward Fenzhou City and was caught in a traffic jam caused by a truck road-raging with a school bus. The truck overturned, triggering a chain-reaction crash, and Dong Xuebin narrowly maneuvered his Land Rover to a stop as soybeans covered the road.

• Dong Xuebin stopped at a service area to eat after hunger made him feel weak, then continued driving toward Fenzhou City.
• Dong Xuebin learned that a truck was blocking the highway while swerving against a school bus carrying elementary school students.
• Dong Xuebin spoke with Xie Hui Lan and said he would deal with the truck and have traffic police stop it.
• The cargo truck overturned, and the school bus and several cars crashed in succession as soybeans spilled across the road.
• Dong Xuebin's Land Rover slid on the soybeans, but he steered into an empty patch and stopped without hitting the other vehicles.

A catastrophic collision on Fenzhou City's South Highway left dozens injured and many trapped, including children on an overturned school tour bus. Dong Xuebin called Xie Huilan for help, and as she rushed to the scene and organized emergency services, he began rescuing people from the wreckage.

• Ten cars collided on the South Highway, leaving vehicles wrecked, people trapped, and one car burning.
• Dong Xuebin told Xie Huilan about the crash and warned her that a school tour bus full of children had overturned.
• Xie Huilan sped toward the accident, called for road closures, ambulances, helicopter support, and notified city leaders.
• Dong Xuebin ordered bystanders to help and rushed into a burning car to pull an unconscious driver free.

Dong Xuebin rushed to a catastrophic highway pileup and rescued the injured while rallying bystanders to help. He left the wreckage after lifting a car to free a badly injured man, with the rescue still underway.

• Dong Xuebin pulled an unconscious man from a burning vehicle, used Reverse to wake him, and told his wife to take him to the hospital when the ambulance arrived.
• Dong Xuebin and a young woman used fire extinguishers to put out the vehicle fire, inspiring other drivers to help rescue people from the wrecks and Tour Bus.
• Dong Xuebin smashed open a warped car door, helped free a father and son, and reset the boy's dislocated arm.
• Dong Xuebin lifted an overturned car with Slower so two men and the young woman could pull out a bloodied man trapped underneath.

Dong Xuebin used his abilities and improvised medical treatment to save several victims after a highway accident, while other rescuers organized around him. He rushed to help a ten-year-old girl named Xiao Yan, whose abdomen had been pierced by a school ruler.

• Dong Xuebin stopped a badly injured man's bleeding and revived him, then went on to treat other victims.
• Dong Xuebin revived a girl with a severe head injury and stabilized a woman with fractures in both legs.
• Highway staff joined the spontaneous rescue effort as teachers and bystanders evacuated students from the tour bus.
• Rescuers discovered that Xiao Yan had a ruler lodged in her abdomen, and Dong Xuebin ran to her as her teacher begged him to save her.

Dong Xuebin began an emergency operation on Xiao Yan, a critically injured girl, using improvised tools and supplies. After removing the ruler and repairing her bleeding blood vessels, he stitched her abdomen as her blood pressure rose.

• Xiao Yan was found with a plastic ruler stabbed into her stomach, and the young woman from hospital logistics said she could not get her to a hospital in time.
• Dong Xuebin learned that the young woman had sutures and needles, borrowed a Swiss Army Knife, and announced that he would operate.
• Dong Xuebin prepared Xiao Yan for surgery, knocked her unconscious because there was no anesthetic, and began the operation with the young woman assisting.
• Dong Xuebin used Slower to remove the ruler, control the bleeding, and stitch the ruptured blood vessels.
• The young woman measured Xiao Yan's blood pressure and reported that it had risen to 50 over 80, while Dong Xuebin stitched her abdominal flesh and skin.

Dong Xuebin treated several injured people at the accident scene, saving Xiao Yan and stabilizing an elderly man with a suspected heart attack. He then stopped a young boy’s severe leg wound from bleeding, while the injured still needed hospital care.

• Dong Xuebin finished operating on Xiao Yan, who was temporarily out of danger, and urged the group to move her somewhere sheltered and take her to a hospital for a second operation.
• Dong Xuebin examined an elderly man struggling to breathe, recognized a sudden heart attack, and used acupressure and Reverse to stabilize him.
• A teacher called Dong Xuebin to treat a boy whose deep thigh wound had kept bleeding beneath a bandage.
• Dong Xuebin and the hospital logistics worker cleaned splinters from the wound, used Reverse to restore the boy’s blood volume, and stitched the wound until the bleeding stopped.

Dong Xuebin continued treating the crash victims despite his exhaustion until ambulances and rescue teams arrived. Xie Huilan took command of the accident site, while the medical personnel were stunned to discover that Dong had already stabilized and treated the injured.

• Dong Xuebin treated and prioritized more injured people as he grew mentally and physically exhausted, with Sister Sun helping him.
• Ambulances approached, and Xie Huilan arrived in a Porsche while heavily pregnant and immediately asked about the situation.
• Xie Huilan directed the highway officials and ordered them to clear the road, organize transport, and send the injured to hospitals as quickly as possible.
• Doctors, nurses, traffic police, rescue workers, and reporters arrived at the crash site as Dong continued tending to victims.
• Sister Sun told the medical personnel that Dong had treated more than a dozen people, and they examined the patients in disbelief at his professional work.

Dong Xuebin treated the injured in a ten-car pileup and directed their evacuation to the hospital. When the city leaders arrived, they learned that his emergency care had helped all twenty injured people survive.

• Dong Xuebin finished treating the injured and told the medical staff which patients needed urgent follow-up surgery and hospital observation.
• The doctor in charge followed Dong Xuebin's instructions, arranged the injured patients' transfer, and recorded their conditions and treatment.
• Xie Huilan told Wan Fanglei and Zhong Zhengwei that the death toll was still being counted as the ambulances continued to leave.
• The doctor reported that the crash had injured twenty people, thirteen seriously and seven lightly, with no fatalities.
• The doctor credited Dong Xuebin's emergency treatment with keeping the injured alive until the ambulances arrived.

Dong Xuebin finished rescuing everyone in a massive accident, then beat the unrepentant truck driver who caused it. The traffic police realized he was the notorious Director Dong, just as Mayor Xie stood behind them.

• Wan Fanglei and Zhong Zhengwei learned that Dong Xuebin had saved everyone in the accident, while bystanders and reporters praised him.
• The injured passengers' families thanked Dong Xuebin, who then asked where the truck driver was.
• The truck driver denied responsibility and provoked the crowd, forcing traffic police to intervene and separate everyone.
• Dong Xuebin attacked the truck driver and brushed aside officers who tried to stop him, saying he was punishing the man for the people he had hurt.
• An older traffic police officer recognized Dong Xuebin as Director Dong, and the younger officers realized Mayor Xie was standing nearby.

Dong Xuebin reunited with Xie Huilan at the crash site, where officials learned he had been promoted and would soon return to the Capital City. After the rescue, the city leaders and victims’ families thanked him, and he told reporters that helping the people was his duty.

• Wan Fanglei and Zhong Zhengwei recognized Dong Xuebin, who greeted them and said his post had been transferred and he would return to the Capital City next month.
• Xie Huilan criticized Dong Xuebin for hitting the truck driver, while Zhong Zhengwei praised his emergency medical skills and excused his temper.
• Dong Xuebin checked on Xie Huilan, and the onlookers realized he was Mayor Xie’s husband and the well-known Earthquake Relief Hero.
• The city leaders continued managing the crash cleanup as families arrived and reunited with the survivors.
• Zhong Zhengwei thanked Dong Xuebin before reporters, and Dong Xuebin said officials existed to serve the people.

Dong Xuebin returned to the Capital City after helping rescue people in a highway accident and reunited with his family. The chapter ended with him seeing a newspaper photograph of Xie Huilan directing the rescue and himself helping an injured person.

• Dong Xuebin arrived home covered in blood, reassured Luan Xiaoping that he was unharmed, and told her Xie Huilan had gone to the hospital after the accident.
• Dong Xuebin spoke with Luo Haiting and other Fenzhou City friends, agreeing to meet them for dinner while he was back in town.
• Qu Yunxuan arrived with Xiao Qianqian, and Dong Xuebin happily played with his daughter while catching up with them.
• Qu Yunxuan showed Dong Xuebin a Provincial Newspaper front-page photograph of Xie Huilan directing the rescue and Dong Xuebin carrying an injured person.

After Dong Xuebin helped save everyone in a major traffic accident, the news credited his efforts to his pregnant wife, Xie Huilan, and boosted her promotion prospects. Xie Huilan returned home and learned that her transfer had been decided: she would become Municipal Party Secretary of a city in the Southern Region.

• A provincial newspaper praised Xie Huilan for directing the rescue and described Dong Xuebin only as her husband, while Dong realized the coverage was building support for her promotion.
• Dong Xuebin explained to Luan Xiaoping that his emergency treatment had prevented any deaths and turned the accident into a political achievement for Xie Huilan.
• Xie Huilan came home, reunited with Dong Xuebin and Qian Qian, and watched a television report in which Dong said helping people was his duty.
• Xie Huilan received a call from her father, who told her that her transfer had been decided.
• Xie Huilan told the family she would become Municipal Party Secretary of a city in the Southern Region, and they celebrated her promotion and the upcoming birth.

Over dinner, the family celebrated Xie Huilan’s coming transfer and discussed her plans to give birth in Capital City before moving to the Southern Region. Dong Xuebin secretly spoke with Yu Meixia, then returned to face Xie Huilan’s teasing suspicion.

• Qu Yunxuan and Xie Huilan congratulated each other on their work prospects, while Qu Yunxuan explained she might turn down opportunities at Provincial TV Station and CCTV to care for Qian Qian.
• Dong Xuebin offered to look after Qian Qian, but Luan Xiaoping and Xie Huilan doubted his childcare skills and worried about him being separated from Xie Huilan.
• Xie Huilan said she would return to Capital City with Dong Xuebin after the accident was resolved so she could give birth at a better hospital.
• Yu Meixia called Dong Xuebin because she and Qian Qian were worried after seeing the accident in the newspaper, and he promised to visit them the next night.
• Xie Huilan guessed Dong Xuebin’s caller was a woman and teased him about his interest in pretty women, while Luan Xiaoping promised to scold him later.

Dong Xuebin spent the day tending to his heavily pregnant wife, Xie Huilan, at their villa in Capital City. When her water broke a week before her due date, he rushed her toward the hospital.

• Dong Xuebin swam in the villa pool before Xie Huilan called him upstairs and ordered him to help her get dressed and make breakfast.
• Dong Xuebin helped Xie Huilan outside, fanned her by the pool, and then cooked lunch at her request.
• As Dong Xuebin prepared lunch, Xie Huilan called for him in pain after her water broke.
• Dong Xuebin lifted Xie Huilan, grabbed the car keys, and drove frantically toward the hospital.