Recaps

Su Qiao found Yu Shengan hiding under the bed and discovered he had a high fever. She went out to buy medicine, leaving him instructions to rest and eat porridge.

• Su Qiao found Yu Shengan missing from his bed and discovered him hiding underneath it.
• Su Qiao gave Yu Shengan slippers and learned he had slept on the floor because he was not used to the bed.
• Su Qiao noticed Yu Shengan had a high fever and told him to lie down and eat meat-slice porridge.
• Yu Shengan worried that medicine would cost too much, but Su Qiao said she had money and left to buy some.

After leaving Yu Shengan’s apartment, Su Qiao faced gossip about her scandal and returned home with medicine and dumplings. There, director Hu Yueshan forced his way into her apartment after claiming he wanted her for a film role.

• Yu Shengan watched Su Qiao leave and decided her visit had not been a big deal.
• Su Qiao ignored the residents’ insults and suspicious looks as she went to buy cold and fever medicine and dumplings.
• Su Qiao found Hu Yueshan waiting outside her apartment, and he praised her appearance while proposing her for his film’s female lead.
• Su Qiao entered her apartment without answering Hu Yueshan, but he blocked the door with his hand and leg and pushed his way inside.

Hu Yueshan tried to recruit Su Qiao for a film, but she recognized the scheme as another attempt by Ji Guiyun to exploit her and drove him away. Back inside, Su Qiao stopped Yu Shengan from confronting Hu Yueshan and cared for him while he was sick.

• Hu Yueshan offered Su Qiao a female lead role, high pay, and help suppressing negative news in exchange for signing his contract.
• Su Qiao learned from the host that Hu Yueshan was a pornographic-film director backed by Ji Guiyun, and she kicked him when he made a lecherous advance.
• Hu Yueshan threatened Su Qiao as he left, and she warned him not to harass her again.
• Su Qiao stopped Yu Shengan from going after Hu Yueshan with a broom and sent him back to bed.
• Su Qiao gave Yu Shengan cold medicine and a fever reducer, covered him with a quilt, and asked whether he had eaten porridge.

Su Qiao cared for Yu Shengan and prepared to go out to buy an Infrared Security System and arrange identification for him. She learned that he was actually twenty and considered how to help him recover from his years of deprivation.

• Su Qiao and Yu Shengan ate breakfast together, and she urged him to sleep afterward.
• Su Qiao prepared to leave, but Yu Shengan asked where she was going, so she taught him how to use the television and promised to bring him a phone.
• Su Qiao asked Yu Shengan how old he was, but he did not know, and she initially planned to put eighteen on his identification card.
• 444 told Su Qiao that Yu Shengan's bone age was twenty and explained that regular meals, nutrition, and sunlight might still help him grow taller.

Su Qiao destroyed the photographer's retained negatives and bought supplies, while deciding to implicate Ji Guiyun in the photographer's secret photography. Back home, she cared for the boy as his fever subsided and gave him warm clothes and a phone.

• Su Qiao left the boy at home and went to the photographer's residence, where she took and destroyed the negatives with Little Four's help.
• Su Qiao decided to pin the photographer's secret photography on Ji Guiyun and believed both of them would eventually face consequences.
• Su Qiao visited Trade City to buy electronic equipment, but found no leads on obtaining an ID card and considered asking someone at the Black Market for help.
• Su Qiao returned home and found the boy watching cartoons; she checked that his fever had gone down and told him to take his medicine.
• Su Qiao gave the boy a fleece-lined tracksuit, thermal underwear, and a royal-blue phone.

Su Qiao gave Yu Shengan a phone and helped him start studying, then spent the day modifying the security system while he recovered. Her health continued to worsen, and she worried about having little time left to settle everything and make arrangements for him.

• Su Qiao taught Yu Shengan how to use his new phone and downloaded lessons and everyday-life apps for him.
• Su Qiao reflected that Yu Shengan's childhood had left him sensitive to kindness and resolved to treat him well while she still could.
• Su Qiao felt exhausted and unwell after only a few hours out, and 444 advised her to rest and avoid getting sick.
• Su Qiao stayed home to modify the Infrared Security System while Yu Shengan attended an online class nearby.
• Su Qiao ordered light takeout for dinner because both of them were unwell, and they ate together.

Su Qiao finished building a laser security system and arranged for a gem buyer to visit because she had run out of money. As she helped Yu Shengan unpack his new clothes and knife, she warned him to be careful outside, and he stopped her from throwing away cardboard boxes that could be sold.

• Su Qiao told 444 to message the buyer surnamed Wang and invite him to inspect the gem at her home within three days.
• Su Qiao dressed Yu Shengan in the clothes she had bought him and took pictures while he shyly smiled.
• Su Qiao warned Yu Shengan not to smile like that outside because it could attract dangerous people, and he agreed.
• Su Qiao gave Yu Shengan the knife he had asked for and reminded him to handle it carefully.
• Yu Shengan stopped Su Qiao from throwing away the cardboard boxes, saying they could be sold for money.

Su Qiao answered Ji Guiyun’s call and heard him threaten to leak hotel photos unless she listened to him. As he justified deceiving and exploiting her, Su Qiao ordered an investigation into his other victims.

• Su Qiao let Yu Shengan keep the cardboard boxes, reminded him to finish his homework, and told him she would teach him to cook.
• Su Qiao instructed someone to investigate Ji Guiyun for cheating and exploiting other women.
• Su Qiao answered Ji Guiyun’s call after telling Yu Shengan to be careful with his knife.
• Ji Guiyun threatened to send Su Qiao’s hotel photos to small websites if she hung up.
• Ji Guiyun blamed Su Qiao for trusting him and claimed the photos were repayment for his help and gifts.

Su Qiao confronted Ji Guiyun over the explicit photos and recordings he had used to control her. He offered her a female lead role as an apology, but she had not yet responded.

• Ji Guiyun threatened Su Qiao with the photos and recordings to pressure her into working for him.
• Su Qiao accused Ji Guiyun of deceiving her and coercing her into taking photos and recording voiceovers.
• Ji Guiyun blamed Su Qiao for his actions, claiming she had forced him to upload the recordings by refusing jobs and blocking him.
• Su Qiao realized Lan Jiaye had not told Ji Guiyun about her current situation, so he continued to believe he could pressure her.
• Ji Guiyun offered Su Qiao a female lead role in a script and proposed they call the past even.

Su Qiao confronted Ji Guiyun over his attempt to lure her into a film and revealed that she had accessed his and Lan Jiaye’s devices. She left him rattled by threatening to expose his confidential files and insisting she had nothing left to fear.

• Su Qiao rejected Ji Guiyun’s offer and accused him of trying to send her to a lecherous director for a pornographic film.
• Su Qiao warned Ji Guiyun to be careful, then admitted she knew his phone and computer data had been erased and that she had obtained the files.
• Ji Guiyun panicked over the confidential files and threatened Su Qiao and her family, but she told him her family had disowned her and her school had expelled her.
• Su Qiao challenged Ji Guiyun to kill her if he dared, saying she was no longer afraid of dying or taking him down with her.

Su Qiao rejected Ji Guiyun’s attempts to placate her and demanded that he prove his love by breaking up with Lan Jiaye. Ji Guiyun offered excuses and promises instead, while 444 secretly sent Lan Jiaye a recording of his words and the evidence they had uncovered.

• Su Qiao threatened Ji Guiyun and mocked his claim that powerful people could escape death.
• Ji Guiyun apologized, blamed his anger on caring for Su Qiao, and asked her not to act recklessly.
• Su Qiao demanded that Ji Guiyun call Lan Jiaye, confess his love for Su Qiao, and break up with her.
• Ji Guiyun blamed the Lan Family’s influence and promised to leave Lan Jiaye later, erase the online evidence, and help Su Qiao become a top-tier celebrity.
• Su Qiao pointed out that she could erase the recordings and photos herself, while 444 revealed it had sent Lan Jiaye a recording of Ji Guiyun and their earlier evidence.

Su Qiao tricked Ji Guiyun into receiving recordings and photos of his affairs, while online speculation about her backing grew and she ignored the abuse. Lan Jiaye confronted Ji Guiyun at his office after seeing the evidence, and he tried to talk his way out of it.

• Su Qiao told Ji Guiyun she had sent Lan Jiaye a recording of his words and photos of him with four other women, then hung up.
• Ji Guiyun cursed Su Qiao, while the photos disappeared from the internet and people speculated that someone powerful was protecting her.
• Su Qiao ignored online insults and messages, and 444 reported that it had blocked the accounts contacting her.
• Lan Jiaye saw the recording and photos, drove to Ji Guiyun's company, and demanded an explanation for his affairs.
• Ji Guiyun tried to take Lan Jiaye's hand and coax her, but she was no longer easy to fool.

Lan Jiaye exposed Ji Guiyun’s affairs, ended their relationship, and withdrew the Lan Family’s investment from his company. The chapter ended with Su Qiao buying fresh ingredients the next morning.

• Lan Jiaye rejected Ji Guiyun’s claims that the photos were fake, saying her father’s company had verified they were real.
• Lan Jiaye accused Ji Guiyun of secretly contacting Su Qiao and said she would withdraw the Lan Family’s investment and end all business dealings with his company.
• Lan Jiaye drove away while Ji Guiyun vowed to win her back and blamed Su Qiao.
• Ji Guiyun’s employees wondered whether Su Qiao had been wrongly accused, but stayed silent to protect their jobs.
• Su Qiao went to the supermarket early the next morning and bought fresh ingredients.

Su Qiao tried to help Yu Shengan feel secure in his new home while encouraging him to eat well and exercise. She left him with snacks and money before taking him to the living room for his morning workout.

• Su Qiao searched Yu Shengan's room and found him asleep in the wardrobe, wrapped in his quilt.
• Yu Shengan asked if he could keep sleeping in the wardrobe, and Su Qiao agreed while suggesting he use thicker quilts.
• Su Qiao gave Yu Shengan a bag of snacks and five hundred yuan, but he hesitated to accept the money.
• Su Qiao reassured Yu Shengan that she could afford it and told him to follow her to the living room to exercise.

Su Qiao encouraged Yu Shengan to exercise and learn practical skills so he could grow stronger and feel useful and secure. He agreed to take on household responsibilities, and at dusk he reluctantly followed her outside to learn about life beyond the home.

• Su Qiao persuaded Yu Shengan to exercise by promising to feed him and asking him to grow strong enough to protect her.
• Yu Shengan agreed to exercise and help Su Qiao, and they cleared space in the living room to practice.
• Su Qiao assigned Yu Shengan cooking, cleaning, laundry, and other household duties, which made him feel happy and needed.
• Su Qiao encouraged Yu Shengan to leave the apartment with her so she could teach him basic life skills.

Su Qiao showed Yu Shengan how to navigate everyday life in the city, and promised to take him traveling and buy him a car. They returned to the residential compound with their shopping, where Su Qiao told the suspicious security guard that Yu Shengan was her tenant.

• Su Qiao took Yu Shengan on a bus, through a pedestrian street and supermarket, and taught him about daily life, including how to use an ATM.
• Yu Shengan told Su Qiao that he had learned how to buy train tickets and use the subway, and she praised him.
• Su Qiao promised to help Yu Shengan get an ID card, take him on trains, subways, and airplanes, and buy each of them a car.
• Yu Shengan worried that Su Qiao had little money, but decided to trust her and thought he would earn enough to support their family if needed.
• Su Qiao and Yu Shengan returned to the residential compound with their bags, and Su Qiao told the security guard that Yu Shengan was her tenant.

Su Qiao confronted the residents who spread rumors about her, while Yu Shengan protected her when one of the older women tried to attack. The older women recoiled in fear after seeing Yu Shengan’s blood-red eye.

• Yu Shengan admired Su Qiao after she intimidated the security guard and led him toward Building Seven.
• Several older women insulted Su Qiao and accused her of immoral behavior, cohabiting with a man, and having an abortion.
• Su Qiao denied their accusations and rebuked them for spreading rumors and meddling in her life.
• When one older woman charged at Su Qiao, Yu Shengan stepped in front of her and gripped the knife in his pocket.
• The older woman stumbled back and screamed when she saw Yu Shengan’s left eye turn blood-red.

After neighbors recoiled from Yu Shengan’s unusual eyes, Su Qiao reassured him and led him home. 444 suspected that his eyes reflected a powerful, possibly true form and planned to investigate his origins.

• The neighbors saw Yu Shengan’s mismatched eyes, called them creepy, and hurried away while saying he and Su Qiao should be driven out.
• Yu Shengan grew pale and hid his face beneath his windbreaker as he heard the neighbors’ comments.
• Su Qiao comforted Yu Shengan and explained that his eye colors might come from mixed ancestry.
• 444 warned Su Qiao that Yu Shengan’s changing eye color and origins as the Ghost Domain Demon King suggested he might be a powerful demon.
• Yu Shengan said he wanted to go home, and Su Qiao led him upstairs to their sixth-floor apartment.

Su Qiao gave Yu Shengan colored contact lenses to disguise his eyes, helping him believe he could go outside in daylight. As they started cooking together, their landlady arrived angrily and pounded on the door.

• Su Qiao searched Yu Shengan's room and found him curled up inside the wardrobe.
• Su Qiao took Yu Shengan to her bedroom, found brown-black colored contact lenses, and explained how to care for them.
• Su Qiao put the lenses in Yu Shengan's eyes, and he stared in surprise at his changed reflection.
• Yu Shengan thought the lenses might let him search for food in daylight and escape life in the Underground Passage.
• Su Qiao and Yu Shengan began cooking, but the landlady arrived with a black cloth bag and angrily pounded on their door.

Su Qiao confronted the Landlady over her demand that she and Yu Shengan move out, insisting on the return of her deposit and rent as well as compensation. The Landlady agreed to pay, but Su Qiao and the Landlady still had to settle when they would leave.

• Su Qiao demanded her deposit and three and a half months' rent, and said she would leave the day after tomorrow.
• The Landlady refused to return the money and insisted that Su Qiao and Yu Shengan move out immediately.
• Su Qiao pointed to the rental contract and demanded the money back, plus a month's rent in compensation for the Landlady's breach.
• The Landlady backed down after seeing Yu Shengan holding a Small Knife and agreed to return the deposit and rent if they moved out the next day.
• Su Qiao corrected the Landlady that the rent covered three and a half months and demanded a month's rent as a penalty for leaving early.
• The Landlady asked Su Qiao when they would move out.

After the Landlady ordered Su Qiao to leave, Su Qiao negotiated a week to find a new home and promised to go once she had her money. She planned to move somewhere quieter with Yu Shengan, who wanted to learn computers so he could earn money and buy them a house of their own.

• Su Qiao negotiated with the Landlady to stay for one more week while she found a house, and the Landlady agreed.
• After the Landlady left, Su Qiao told Yu Shengan they would buy a large house with a yard, and he said he knew how to grow vegetables because he remembered his grandfather doing it.
• Su Qiao praised Yu Shengan for becoming more confident and speaking more clearly.
• Yu Shengan asked Su Qiao to teach him computers because he wanted to earn money and make sure they would not be driven out of their home again.
• 444 suggested teaching Yu Shengan computer programming so he could earn money from home, and Su Qiao jokingly dismissed the idea.

Su Qiao prepared to teach Yu Shengan practical skills and set up a powerful device in their living room. Guo Yuan arrived with an appraiser and two bodyguards to inspect the treasures, leaving Su Qiao calmly facing him.

• Su Qiao considered teaching Yu Shengan skills so he could support himself.
• Su Qiao and Yu Shengan installed equipment that fired a beam powerful enough to slice a corner off their wooden table.
• Guo Yuan arrived with two bodyguards and an appraiser after examining photos of the treasures and deciding they might be genuine.
• Yu Shengan served Guo Yuan and the appraiser water while Guo Yuan questioned whether anyone else was with Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao told Guo Yuan that the two of them were enough and sat opposite him at ease.

Su Qiao met with Guo Yuan to sell him a ruby, insisting that he prove he could transfer the money before she showed him the stone. Master Yang examined it and confirmed it was a top-grade ruby, leaving him shocked at how casually Su Qiao had handled it.

• Guo Yuan questioned Su Qiao about her online popularity and how she had obtained such a valuable item.
• Su Qiao asked whether Guo Yuan had prepared the money for her overseas bank account, and he placed a black card on the table.
• Su Qiao tossed a black velvet pouch containing the ruby onto the coffee table for Master Yang to inspect.
• Master Yang examined the ruby and confirmed it was top-grade, then scolded Su Qiao for carrying it in a cloth pouch and tossing it carelessly.

Su Qiao had a rare, untreated 5.66-carat Pigeon Blood Ruby appraised by Guo Yuan and Master Yang, who recognized it as a genuine treasure potentially worth far more than a comparable ruby sold decades earlier. Guo Yuan began to negotiate by pointing out that it lacked a certificate, and Su Qiao challenged his reasoning.

• Su Qiao assured Guo Yuan that the ruby was too hard to break, while Guo Yuan worried it might be scratched.
• Master Yang identified the ruby as a genuine, untreated Pigeon Blood Ruby with exceptional clarity and a likely Myanmar origin.
• Master Yang confirmed that it weighed 5.66 carats and explained its rarity and the value of comparable rubies.
• Guo Yuan calculated that Su Qiao's ruby could be worth far more than a 5.2-carat ruby sold at auction twenty years earlier.
• Guo Yuan tempered his excitement and told Su Qiao that the ruby's lack of a certificate affected his assessment.
• Su Qiao asked Guo Yuan whether she would have come to him if the ruby already had a certificate.

Su Qiao negotiated to sell her certified ruby to Guo Yuan for fifteen million dollars, then exposed the danger of her suite’s security system after one of his bodyguards triggered it. Guo Yuan accepted her price, and Su Qiao gave him a long string of numbers.

• Su Qiao offered Guo Yuan the ruby for fifteen million dollars, explaining that she had already discounted it below market value.
• A bodyguard entered the kitchen doorway and triggered a laser that severed his sleeve.
• Su Qiao disabled the alarm and warned Guo Yuan and his men not to wander or touch anything.
• Su Qiao accused Guo Yuan’s side of wasting her time and said they could leave if they were not sincere.
• Guo Yuan agreed to buy the ruby for fifteen million dollars, and Su Qiao handed him a sheet covered in numbers.