Chapter Summaries

After Liu Yanran lost thirty million, Su Zhenxing decided she could no longer manage the Su Family’s fixed assets and revoked her authority. He planned to find a financial advisor, while Su Chen watched him face the consequences of Liu Yanran’s recklessness.

• Su Chen warned Su Zhenxing that Liu Yanran might have squandered other Su Family assets, and Su Zhenxing claimed he had already arranged to hire a financial advisor.
• Liu Yanran woke up and wailed over losing her thirty million, then blamed Su Zhenxing for not getting it back.
• Su Zhenxing restrained Liu Yanran and told her she was no longer fit to manage the Su Family’s houses, land, shops, antiques, and other fixed assets.
• Liu Yanran protested that Su Zhenxing was taking away her status, but he said her lost thirty million proved he could not trust her with assets worth billions.
• Su Zhenxing considered the additional work of overseeing the family’s assets, glanced at Su Qiqi, and then looked at Su Chen.

Su Zhenxing tried to recruit Su Chen to help manage the Su family's fixed assets, but Su Chen rejected the idea that he owed the family a contribution. The chapter ended with Su Zhenxing offering to hire him on the family's behalf, finally earning Su Chen's attention.

• Su Zhenxing weighed his options for managing the Su family's fixed assets and decided Su Chen was the only suitable family member available.
• Su Chen noticed Su Zhenxing watching him but kept playing his game, refusing to ask what he wanted.
• Su Zhenxing told Su Chen it was time to contribute to the family, but Su Chen objected that the family had never invested in him.
• Su Chen redirected Su Zhenxing to Su Qiqi, who volunteered to help, but Su Zhenxing dismissed her and told her to look after her mother.
• Su Zhenxing offered to hire Su Chen on behalf of the Su family, and Su Chen put down his game and listened.

Su Zhenxing tried to persuade Su Chen to manage the Su Family’s fixed assets as a training opportunity, but Su Chen insisted on being paid. Su Chen left the negotiation unresolved after Su Zhenxing finally asked him to name his price.

• Liu Yanran demanded compensation for managing the Su Family’s fixed assets, but Su Zhenxing accused her of secretly profiting from them, and she fell silent.
• Su Zhenxing presented managing the family’s assets as a valuable opportunity to train Su Chen, without mentioning payment.
• Su Chen interrupted to demand a salary, and Su Zhenxing insisted the family’s trust and cultivation should be enough.
• Liu Yanran mocked Su Zhenxing as he argued with Su Chen over compensation.
• Su Chen stood up to leave, and Su Zhenxing called after him and asked how much he wanted.

Su Chen negotiated with Su Zhenxing over managing the Su family's fixed assets, rejecting a commercial property as payment and proposing a share of any profits he increased. Su Zhenxing was stunned by Su Chen's demand and confidence that he could improve the returns.

• Su Zhenxing offered Su Chen any one of the family's commercial properties to manage its fixed assets.
• Liu Yanran objected that the property was too valuable and unfair to the other children.
• Su Chen agreed with Liu Yanran and refused to take the property.
• Su Chen proposed receiving fifty percent of the increased profits earned during his management.
• Su Zhenxing realized Su Chen would receive nothing if profits did not rise and questioned whether he could actually improve them.

Su Chen accepted responsibility for managing the Su family fixed assets in exchange for a share of any increased returns, while Su Zhenxing and Liu Yanran doubted he could succeed. After taking over and meeting the family’s financial advisor, Su Chen was left to begin the work.

• Su Zhenxing offered Su Chen a share of increased returns on the Su family fixed assets, and Su Chen agreed to manage them.
• Liu Yanran supported the arrangement, expecting Su Chen to fail and the assets to return to her management.
• Su Zhenxing hired financial advisor Zhou Wenhua and placed him under Su Chen’s coordination as Su Chen took over the assets.
• Su Zhenxing learned Su Chen was following standard procedures and doubted he had a plan to increase returns.
• Zhou Wenhua met Su Chen, briefly frowned at his youthful appearance, and greeted him warmly.

Su Chen recognized Zhou Wenhua from memories of a scandal involving Zhou and fund tycoon Qiu, then found Zhou’s compromising video online. As Zhou tried to lure him into investing, Su Chen played a recording that exposed his connection to Qiu.

• Su Chen recalled how Zhou Wenhua and fund tycoon Qiu had profited by cheating clients before their affair was exposed.
• Zhou Wenhua mistook Su Chen’s lowered head and silence for shyness and planned to swindle him.
• Su Chen found Zhou Wenhua’s explicit video on a forum while Zhou offered to answer any questions about wealth management.
• Su Chen asked whether Zhou was close with President Qiu, alarming Zhou, who tried to clarify which Qiu he meant.
• Su Chen played a recording of Zhou’s own voice addressing Lao Qiu, leaving Zhou stunned.

Su Chen exposed Zhou Wenhua’s scheme and made him pay 500,000, though Zhou Wenhua realized Lao Qiu had filmed and uploaded the compromising video. Su Chen then sent the video to Su Zhenxing, who recoiled in horror after opening it.

• Zhou Wenhua recognized the recording of himself and Lao Qiu and discovered the video had already been posted online.
• Zhou Wenhua knelt and begged Su Chen to remove the video, then transferred him 500,000.
• Su Chen revealed that Lao Qiu had filmed and uploaded the video, and Zhou Wenhua left to confront him.
• Su Chen sent the downloaded video to Su Zhenxing, who opened it and threw his phone away in terror.

Su Zhenxing accidentally played a gay video on his phone at work, then learned from Su Chen that its performers were the financial advisor he had hired and the advisor’s business partner. Su Chen mocked him for failing to spot the suspicious pair, and Su Zhenxing ended the call only to receive a teasing message asking him to send his collection of videos.

• Su Zhenxing’s phone kept playing a gay video as Secretary Zhao entered his office, and Zhao misread Su Zhenxing’s attempt to silence it as a sign that he was interested in Zhao.
• Su Zhenxing called Su Chen and scolded him for sending the video, then offered to send him other kinds of material instead.
• Su Chen told Su Zhenxing that the video featured the financial advisor hired to reorganize the Su family’s assets and the advisor’s business partner, a fund manager.
• Su Zhenxing realized Su Chen was right, grew angry at the poor background check, and hung up on him.
• Su Chen messaged Su Zhenxing asking him to send all the strange videos he had, making Su Zhenxing even angrier.

Su Lili returned from her trip and persuaded Su Zhenxing to let Su Chen continue managing the Su family fixed assets, then offered to buy him a storefront as an apology. Su Chen suspected her sudden kindness and remembered that a friend of hers had once disappeared after meeting her.

• Su Lili returned home looking calmer, and Liu Yanran urged Su Zhenxing to transfer the Su family fixed assets’ management from Su Chen to her.
• Su Lili insisted that Su Chen keep managing the assets so he could gain experience, and Liu Yanran stopped pressing the issue after reading Su Lili’s signals.
• Su Lili gently congratulated Su Chen and said she wanted to treat him better, but Su Chen distrusted her sudden change in attitude.
• Su Lili offered to take Su Chen to Haishi’s commercial street and buy him a storefront to make amends.
• Su Chen remembered that in his previous life Su Lili’s close friend had disappeared after meeting her and was later rescued in a severely damaged state.

Su Chen went with Su Lili to the shop where she planned to drug and abduct him, but he anticipated her scheme and prepared to use the surveillance camera against her. The chapter ended with Su Chen attacking Su Lili in full view of the camera.

• Su Lili offered Su Chen a shop on Xinli Street and invited him to visit it with her, while secretly planning to make him drink Obedient Water and hand him over to criminals.
• Su Chen prepared a change of clothes and wet wipes, expecting Su Lili to rely on surveillance footage to conceal her actions.
• Su Lili drove Su Chen to the shop and offered him a bottle of water as they looked around.
• Su Chen refused to drink the water and offered it back to Su Lili.
• Su Chen grabbed Su Lili by the hair, slammed her against the shop window, and slapped her repeatedly so the surveillance camera would record the attack.

Su Chen forced Su Lili to drink the Obedient Water she had prepared for him, then disguised her while she grew drowsy. He left her squirming on the shop floor, with the encounter visible to the surveillance cameras.

• Su Chen beat Su Lili and demanded that she drink the water she had brought for him.
• Su Lili resisted, but Su Chen forced the water into her mouth until she swallowed it and began losing consciousness.
• Su Lili begged Su Chen to let her go and promised she would not trouble him again, but he pretended he was only returning her kindness.
• Su Chen changed Su Lili into his clothes, wiped off her makeup, and cut her hair while making sure the surveillance cameras recorded his actions.
• Su Chen took the remaining water in his backpack and left Su Lili lying and moving on the shop floor.

Su Chen returned home and revealed that he had beaten Su Lili and left her unconscious at the shop. When Su Zhenxing and Liu Yanran reviewed the surveillance footage, they saw Su Lili dragged away by an iron hook and three men load a bundle into an unlicensed van.

• Su Chen told Su Zhenxing and Liu Yanran that Su Lili had tried to drug him and that he had left her lying in the shop.
• Liu Yanran went to the shop but found Su Lili missing, and Su Zhenxing arranged to retrieve the surveillance footage.
• Su Zhenxing and Liu Yanran watched footage showing Su Chen force the drowsiness water down Su Lili’s throat before leaving her on the floor.
• At around ten o’clock, the footage showed an iron hook dragging Su Lili into the shop and three bald men loading a large bundle into a black van without a license plate.

Liu Yanran tried to report Su Chen for beating Su Lili, but Su Zhenxing stopped her and explained that a police investigation could expose Su Lili’s own plot and ruin her future. Liu Yanran abandoned the complaint and begged Su Zhenxing to rescue their daughter, while he hesitated over whether saving Su Lili would bring further ruin to the Su Family.

• Liu Yanran blamed Su Chen for Su Lili’s abduction and threatened to sue him, but Su Chen calmly invited her to proceed.
• Su Zhenxing knocked Liu Yanran’s phone away and warned her not to ruin Su Lili’s chance to live and marry with her reputation intact.
• Su Zhenxing explained that Su Lili had prepared the trap and that a police investigation could uncover her collusion with the kidnappers.
• Liu Yanran stopped threatening to sue Su Chen and wept as she pleaded with Su Zhenxing to save Su Lili.
• Su Zhenxing considered whether rescuing Su Lili would bring the source of conflict back into the Su Family, and Liu Yanran knelt and begged him to help their daughter.

Su Zhenxing learned how thoroughly Yang Siwen had corrupted Lily and decided to bring her back despite her crimes. Detective Xie located Lily abroad, and Su Zhenxing arranged for her rescue while planning to make Yang Siwen suffer in prison.

• Su Zhenxing decided to investigate Lily's dealings after Liu Yanran pleaded with him to save her.
• Detective Xie's investigation revealed that Yang Siwen had introduced Lily to the criminal organization and urged her to target Su Chen.
• Su Zhenxing learned Lily had planned to subject Su Chen to trafficking and organ theft, and concluded she could no longer be trusted or used for a marriage alliance.
• Su Zhenxing resolved to rescue Lily but keep her under the Su Family's control, and to make Yang Siwen's time in prison miserable.
• After a week of searching, Detective Xie found Lily abroad and used Su Zhenxing's money and connections to bring her back.

Su Chen and Su Mu began their internships at Su Corporation, where Su Zhenxing assigned Su Chen to the Sales Department and Su Mu to Finance. Director Zhou gave Su Chen old sales records to review as part of a trap, but he calmly accepted the assignment.

• Su Mu was pleased that Su Zhenxing assigned him to Finance, where he hoped to win Director Huo to his side.
• Su Zhenxing introduced Director Zhou and Director Huo, then sent Su Chen with Director Zhou to Sales and Su Mu with Director Huo to Finance.
• Su Chen noticed Director Zhou and Su Mu exchanging knowing looks and recognized that they had likely prepared a trap for him.
• Director Zhou assigned Su Chen to organize past sales plans and annual, quarterly, and monthly sales reports.
• Director Zhou assumed Su Chen was a fool who would learn nothing from the records, while Su Chen raised no objection.

Su Chen maneuvered Director Zhou into lending him her computer so he could search for her private videos. He found encrypted files instead, leaving him needing to get past their protection.

• Director Zhou assigned Su Chen to review dusty archives while planning to embarrass him at the monthly sales meeting.
• Su Mu read Director Zhou's messages and imagined Su Chen failing in front of Su Zhenxing.
• Su Chen left the archives and persuaded Director Zhou to lend him her computer to study the complete Sales Department materials.
• Director Zhou moved her private videos into an encrypted folder before handing Su Chen her computer.
• Su Chen searched the computer for the videos and found encrypted files, but could not yet access them.

Su Chen had Detective Xie decrypt an encrypted file while Director Zhou tried to sabotage his studying and coordinated with Su Mu. At the Sales Department meeting, Director Zhou began her presentation, unaware that the screen behind her showed her riding a horse with Su Mu’s face.

• Su Chen asked Detective Xie to decrypt an encrypted file, and Detective Xie warned him that Su Mu might be involved.
• Detective Xie sent Su Chen a video, which showed Director Zhou reassuring Su Mu that she had kept Su Chen from learning and arranging to meet him that night.
• Director Zhou brought Su Chen to the afternoon meeting and told Su Zhenxing that Su Chen had studied the sales records.
• Director Zhou began presenting the department’s rising sales while Su Chen turned the PPT pages.
• The screen displayed Director Zhou dressed as a king and riding a horse with Su Mu’s face, and Su Zhenxing recognized the horse.

Su Zhenxing discovered Director Zhou’s relationship with Su Mu when her private video played on the office display, while Su Chen watched and taunted her. Director Zhou attacked Su Chen in anger, and he flailed wildly, striking and kicking her.

• Su Zhenxing accused Director Zhou of seducing high-school student Su Mu and exploiting him for future benefits.
• Director Zhou realized her intimate video was playing on the display and shut off the projector.
• Su Chen and Director Zhou’s subordinates continued watching the video on her laptop until Director Zhou shut it down.
• Director Zhou blamed Su Chen for ruining her and lunged at him with clenched fists.
• Su Chen backed against a wall and flailed his arms and legs, hitting Director Zhou in the face and kicking her repeatedly.

Su Chen beat Director Zhou after she attacked him, and Su Zhenxing summoned Su Mu to answer for the scheme to make Su Chen lose face. Su Mu tried to turn Director Zhou’s injuries into evidence against Su Chen, but Su Chen saw through his provocation and prepared to strike him.

• Director Zhou frantically tried to punch Su Chen, but he dodged and beat her until Su Zhenxing ordered them to stop.
• Su Zhenxing took Su Chen and Director Zhou to his office, then called Su Mu and angrily ordered him to come there.
• Su Mu entered the office and saw Director Zhou bruised and disheveled while Su Chen remained unharmed.
• Su Mu implied that Su Chen had attacked Director Zhou and deliberately provoked him to make him look unfit to manage people.
• Su Chen understood Su Mu’s plan, stood up, and loosened his wrists and ankles as Su Mu eagerly waited for him to hit back.

Su Chen beat Su Mu while Su Zhenxing pretended not to notice, and Director Zhou realized Su Mu had misled her about Su Chen and their father. The chapter left Director Zhou regretting her alliance with Su Mu and resolved to make him pay for ruining her career.

• Su Zhenxing closed his eyes and let Su Chen confront Su Mu, believing it would curb Su Mu's ambitions in Su Corporation.
• Su Chen charged at Su Mu and kicked him to the ground.
• Su Mu pleaded with Su Zhenxing to stop Su Chen, but Su Zhenxing kept pretending not to see or hear him as Su Chen punched and kicked him.
• Director Zhou watched Su Chen beat Su Mu and realized Su Zhenxing did not despise or disregard Su Chen as Su Mu had claimed.
• Director Zhou regretted siding with Su Mu and decided to teach him a lesson for deceiving her and damaging her career.