Chapter Summaries

Black Pig broke into the He Family Villa to kill He Mu, but became distracted by his desire to assault him. After He Mu pretended to cooperate, Black Pig released him, leaving He Mu with a chance to act.

• Glasses Man cursed Black Pig after their call ended, while Black Pig chose He Mu as his first target.
• Black Pig used sedative smoke to incapacitate the He Family Villa’s occupants and entered He Mu’s bedroom.
• Black Pig woke He Mu and pinned him down, ignoring his mission to indulge his desires.
• He Mu stopped struggling when Black Pig threatened him with a knife and pretended to offer himself willingly.
• Black Pig released He Mu, curious to see how he would serve him.

Black Pig spared He Mu after forcing him to become his lover, then went to Yanbin Restaurant to kill Su Chen. He left the receptionist unconscious and entered Su Chen’s suite after releasing gas into the room.

• Black Pig decided to spare He Mu and demanded that he submit to a lasting relationship.
• Black Pig threatened He Mu with a recording of their encounter, then left to pursue Su Chen.
• After Black Pig left, He Mu smashed up his bedroom in rage.
• Black Pig arrived at Yanbin Restaurant and killed the receptionist at the front desk.
• Black Pig gassed Su Chen’s suite, unlocked the door, and entered.

Su Chen used Da Wang, a master of disguise, to lure the Dark Web assassin Black Pig into a trap. Black Pig stabbed Su Lili in the shoulder before Su Chen and Da Wang subdued him, leaving his escape attempt thwarted.

• Black Pig entered Su Chen's room, where Da Wang was disguised as Su Chen, and chased him toward Su Lili's suite.
• Da Wang picked Su Lili's lock and rushed inside, then clung to her while Black Pig pursued them.
• Black Pig stabbed Su Lili in the shoulder, mistook her for no longer a threat, and dragged Da Wang back to Su Chen's room.
• Da Wang kicked Black Pig into a wall, and the real Su Chen emerged from beneath the bed, leaving Black Pig stunned by the two identical men.
• Su Chen and Da Wang pinned Black Pig to the ground and beat him, but Su Chen recoiled after realizing Black Pig had ogled Da Wang while he wore Su Chen's face.

Su Chen and Da Wang killed Black Pig by stabbing him eighty-one times, then dissolved his body with a mysterious medicine. The next morning, Su Lili arrived at Su Chen’s room, expecting to find him dead after the assassin she hired had attacked him.

• Su Chen and Da Wang tortured Black Pig with repeated knife cuts, then slit his throat after eighty-one cuts.
• Da Wang dissolved Black Pig’s corpse in the bathtub and left, while Su Chen went back to bed.
• Zhang Zhong and the other bodyguards woke up, found Su Chen safe, and opened the door for the anxious hotel staff.
• Su Lili followed the hotel staff into the hotel, believing the assassin she hired had killed Su Chen and hoping to see his corpse.

Su Chen denied that anyone had threatened him, leaving Su Lili unable to explain her accusation and angering her. After the hotel apologized and Su Chen kept his bodyguards on the job, he found a video on Black Pig’s phone and prepared to use it to pressure He Mu.

• Su Chen emerged unharmed and denied being threatened, confusing the hotel staff and Zhang Zhong’s group.
• Su Lili accused Su Chen of lying, but the hotel staff called her accusation a prank and warned her not to cause trouble again.
• Su Lili left in anger to confront the assassin who had taken her money without completing the job.
• The hotel gave Su Chen a seventy percent discount, and he insisted that Zhang Zhong and the other bodyguards receive their usual fees.
• Su Chen took Black Pig’s phone and said He Mu would pay to keep the video from being seen by anyone else.

Su Chen found a compromising video of He Mu on Black Pig's phone and called to sell it to him. He Mu agreed to pay ten million to keep the video from being exposed, and Su Chen promised to destroy it once the money arrived.

• After Black Pig's death, Su Chen searched his phone and discovered a video of He Mu with Black Pig Head.
• Su Chen called He Mu and offered to sell him the video.
• He Mu initially denied knowing what Su Chen meant, but recognized the footage when Su Chen described it.
• He Mu agreed to pay ten million to prevent Su Chen from spreading the video.
• Su Chen promised the video would be destroyed once the money reached his account.

Su Chen took ten million from He Mu in exchange for deleting the video, while He Mu secretly plotted to kill Black Pig. Su Lili’s hired assassin had vanished, and her argument with the Dark Web contact left her afraid to demand a refund; meanwhile, Liu Yanran began sweet-talking Su Qiqi at the Su Family Villa.

• He Mu paid Su Chen ten million, and Su Chen deleted the video while suggesting they work together again.
• After ending the call, He Mu plotted to kill and castrate Black Pig.
• Su Lili confronted Glasses Man because Su Chen and He Mu were unharmed and her hired assassin had injured her.
• Glasses Man could not reach Black Pig, assumed a rival had sabotaged the job, and refused to refund Su Lili.
• Glasses Man warned Su Lili that she might not live long enough to collect a refund, so she backed down and planned to find another way to deal with Su Chen and He Mu.
• At the Su Family Villa, Liu Yanran held Su Qiqi’s hand and studied her while Su Qiqi felt that her mother’s touch had turned cold.

Liu Yanran tried to persuade Su Qiqi to pursue a glamorous future by dating a powerful, well-connected man, but Su Qiqi realized her mother was asking her to trade on her looks and refused. The chapter ended with Liu Yanran angrily insisting that it was a normal relationship, not selling herself.

• Liu Yanran showed Su Qiqi news about Su Lili becoming president of Fusi Duo, and Su Qiqi wondered whether her father had secretly helped her eldest sister.
• Liu Yanran claimed she had paved the way for Su Lili and promised to help Su Qiqi gain an equally glamorous status.
• Liu Yanran told Su Qiqi to go to America and let He Mu introduce her to a powerful boyfriend who could provide resources and status.
• Su Qiqi accused Liu Yanran of asking her to sell herself and refused to go.
• Liu Yanran rebuked Su Qiqi for using such language and insisted that the arrangement was a normal relationship.

Su Qiqi rejected Liu Yanran’s attempt to make her trade her beauty for resources, while Liu Yanran vowed to make her obey. Su Zhenxing visited Su Lili to offer financial support, but she angrily rejected him, leaving their fractured relationship unresolved.

• Su Qiqi refused Liu Yanran’s suggestion and went upstairs, warning herself that she might tell Su Zhenxing if her mother kept pressuring her.
• Liu Yanran watched Su Qiqi leave and vowed to force her daughter to obey.
• Su Zhenxing recalled that he had once trained Su Lili as a possible heir, but had expelled her after she endangered Su Chen and the Su Family.
• Su Zhenxing decided to offer Su Lili a trust fund so she would not have to struggle financially, then went to her room at Yanbin Restaurant.
• Su Lili tried to shut the door on Su Zhenxing and told him to leave, but he entered and insisted that he was her biological father.
• Su Lili wondered whether Su Zhenxing still considered her his daughter after driving her out of the Su Family.

Su Zhenxing confronted Su Lili, hoping she would apologize to Su Chen and leave Fusi Duo Company, but she rejected his offer to return to the Su Family and accused Su Chen of wronging her. She mocked Su Zhenxing’s offer to support her with a monthly fund, leaving their relationship bitter and unresolved.

• Su Lili rejected Su Zhenxing as her father and blamed her estrangement from him on his choice of Su Chen.
• Su Zhenxing offered to welcome Su Lili back into the Su Family if she apologized to Su Chen and promised to stop harming her siblings.
• Su Lili insisted that Su Chen owed her an apology for sending Yang Siwen to prison and tricking her into the hands of the Border Region criminals.
• Su Zhenxing gave up trying to reconcile with Su Lili and demanded that she leave Fusi Duo Company to protect the Su Family’s reputation.
• Su Zhenxing offered to establish a fund that would pay Su Lili fifty thousand yuan each month, and she mocked his offer.

Su Zhenxing confronted Su Lili over her life and offered support, but she rejected him and he left in anger. He returned home suspecting Liu Yanran had enabled Su Lili, and arrived at her bedroom with an axe to demand answers.

• Su Lili called Su Zhenxing's proposed fund pathetic, rejected his help, and he stormed out after warning her about her future.
• Su Lili cried until she passed out, fearing Edward would ruin her if she left him and believing Su Zhenxing would always choose Su Chen over her.
• Su Zhenxing returned to the Su Family and shouted for Liu Yanran, who ran upstairs and barricaded her bedroom door with a vanity.
• Su Zhenxing took an axe upstairs, while Li Ma hid in the kitchen after seeing him carrying it.
• Su Zhenxing asked Liu Yanran whether she knew about Su Lili, and Liu Yanran pretended not to know while he concluded that she was guilty.

Su Zhenxing attacked Liu Yanran’s bedroom door with an axe, and Liu Yanran begged him to spare her. He softened when she admitted fault, but demanded she explain exactly what she had done wrong, leaving her desperately searching for an answer.

• Su Zhenxing blamed Liu Yanran for leading Su Lili astray and began chopping through her bedroom door with an axe.
• Su Qiqi woke to the noise, saw her father attacking her mother’s door, and quietly retreated to her room in fear.
• Liu Yanran wet herself, knelt, kowtowed, and begged Su Zhenxing to spare her.
• Su Zhenxing lowered the axe after seeing Liu Yanran yield and offered to let her go if she sincerely admitted her mistake.
• Su Zhenxing demanded that Liu Yanran name her wrongdoing, and she anxiously tried to invent an answer despite believing she had done nothing wrong.

Su Zhenxing confronted Liu Yanran after learning she had arranged for Su Lili to seek powerful men in America for support. He beat Liu Yanran with the blunt side of an axe and decided to confine her at the Su Family residence, then warned Su Qiqi not to obey her mother.

• Liu Yanran admitted that she had sent Su Lili to America to find men who could restore her status and provide resources.
• Su Zhenxing realized Liu Yanran had used He Mu to find Su Lili’s connections and angrily condemned her for putting their daughter in danger.
• Seeing that Liu Yanran still did not believe she had done anything wrong, Su Zhenxing struck her repeatedly with the blunt back of his axe.
• Su Zhenxing decided to confine Liu Yanran at the Su Family residence so she could not continue harming his children.
• Su Zhenxing told Su Qiqi not to listen to Liu Yanran and to come to him if her mother forced her to do anything.

Su Qiqi sided with Su Zhenxing after he warned her against Liu Yanran’s influence, and Liu Yanran fainted in anger. In Kyoto, Wang Bo brooded over Wang Baoguo’s failure and Su Corporation’s award bid, then called an old classmate at the National Technology Committee.

• Su Qiqi ignored Liu Yanran’s glare and promised Su Zhenxing that she would listen only to him.
• Liu Yanran fainted, and Su Qiqi called Doctor Li to treat her injuries.
• Su Zhenxing left Liu Yanran’s bedroom, regretting that he had married her.
• Wang Bo grew furious over Wang Baoguo’s exposure and Su Corporation taking the National Top Technology Award selection.
• Wang Bo called an old classmate at the National Technology Committee.

Wang Bo bribed his old classmate, a National Technology Committee judge, to block Su Corporation from receiving the National Science and Technology Top Award. Su Chen prepared information on the judges before returning to the Su Family Villa, where he found Liu Yanran wrapped like a mummy behind a broken door.

• Wang Bo offered his old classmate a house in Four Seasons Emerald in exchange for preventing Su Corporation from winning the award, and the man agreed to help.
• Su Chen investigated the National Technology Committee members and prepared information about them for the upcoming selection.
• Su Chen video-called Fang Qingqing, then picked her up and returned with her to the Su Family Villa.
• Su Chen noticed a person-sized hole in Liu Yanran's bedroom door and found her wrapped up like a mummy.

Su Chen joined Su Zhenxing, Su Qiqi, and Fang Qingqing for dinner, where Su Zhenxing explained Liu Yanran’s schemes against the family. Su Chen revealed that Su Lili had hired an assassin to kill him, leaving Su Zhenxing asking whether there had been a misunderstanding.

• Su Chen taunted Liu Yanran through the hole in her bedroom door, then went downstairs to dinner with Fang Qingqing.
• Su Chen asked why Su Zhenxing had beaten Liu Yanran, and Su Zhenxing recounted her schemes involving Su Lili and warned everyone not to listen to her.
• Su Chen told the family that Su Lili had hired someone to kill him the previous night.
• Fang Qingqing cried and checked Su Chen for injuries, while Su Zhenxing and Su Qiqi worried over him.
• Su Zhenxing questioned whether Su Lili had really ordered the attack and suggested there might have been a misunderstanding.

Su Chen revealed that Su Lili had hired the assassin who tried to kill him, leaving Su Zhenxing devastated and Fang Qingqing resolved to retaliate. The next day, a disguised attacker slashed Su Lili’s face outside Yanbin Restaurant and vanished.

• Su Chen told Su Zhenxing that he had evidence proving Su Lili hired the assassin, and Su Zhenxing left the dining room in despair.
• Su Qiqi also left, while Fang Qingqing cried over Su Chen’s danger; Su Chen carried her upstairs and comforted her.
• After waking, Fang Qingqing decided to ruin Su Lili’s beauty, power, and wealth so she could no longer threaten Su Chen.
• The next day, Su Lili returned to her hotel while plotting against Su Chen and He Mu.
• A tall man in a Black Windbreaker slashed Su Lili’s face twice outside Yanbin Restaurant, then disappeared as she screamed for help.

Su Lili was disfigured outside Yanbin Restaurant and accused Su Chen and He Mu of attacking her, prompting the police to summon them for questioning. Su Chen suspected Fang Qingqing had arranged the attack, while Fang Qingqing privately celebrated her revenge.

• The Yanbin Restaurant manager called the police and an ambulance after recognizing the injured Su Lili outside the hotel.
• In the ambulance, Su Lili accused Su Chen and He Mu of disfiguring her and demanded that the police arrest them, but the female officer said she would investigate properly.
• Fang Qingqing admired a photo of Su Lili's bloodied face and transferred a large sum of money through overseas accounts.
• The Police Station called Su Chen and He Mu to assist with the investigation after Su Lili was disfigured outside Yanbin Restaurant.
• He Mu was pleased by Su Lili's misfortune but did not know who had attacked her, while Su Chen suspected Fang Qingqing and went to the Police Station pretending to know nothing.

Su Chen left the Police Station after officers ruled him out as a suspect, and He Mu withdrew his accusation when Su Chen hinted at his connection to Black Pig. Su Lili remained convinced that they had attacked her, while Su Chen went to Kyoto for the National Highest Technology Award selection and Edward sent bodyguards to bring Su Lili to America for surgery.

• Su Chen left the Police Station, and He Mu accused him of disfiguring Su Lili until Su Chen's veiled threat made He Mu take back his claim.
• The police questioned He Mu and also ruled him out, while an officer told Su Lili that neither man had the motive or time to harm her.
• Su Lili cursed at the officer and threw a wineglass after he left without arresting Su Chen and He Mu.
• Su Chen traveled to Kyoto to participate in the National Highest Technology Award selection, postponing his plan to teach Fang Qingqing a lesson.
• Edward learned that Su Lili had been disfigured and ordered two bodyguards to take her from Hua Country to Cow Waist Hospital for cosmetic surgery.

Su Lili’s hospital stay was interrupted by two of Edward’s bodyguards, who came to take her back to America for plastic surgery. She persuaded them to ask Edward about punishing Su Chen and He Mu, and Edward authorized them to act according to her wishes.

• Su Lili cursed the police and blamed Su Chen and He Mu for disfiguring her until two of Edward’s bodyguards entered her hospital room.
• Su Lili hoped Edward had sent the bodyguards to help her retaliate, but they told her they had come to take her to America for plastic surgery.
• Su Lili argued that she could not leave before Su Chen and He Mu were punished, and the bodyguards agreed to ask Edward what to do.
• Edward approved teaching Su Chen and He Mu a lesson and told the bodyguards to find out how far Su Lili wanted them to go.