Recaps

Su Qiao confronted Gu Xue about her choices and drew her into discussing the crimes she had helped set in motion. Gu Xue defended her actions and explained her resentment toward Xia Xiaolin, but the chapter ended before she finished describing her grievances.

• Gu Xue told Su Qiao that she had envied Su Qiao’s looks, career, freedom, and lack of family burdens.
• Su Qiao argued that Gu Xue had been trapped by her own choices and the twisted responsibility instilled by her family.
• Su Qiao reminded Gu Xue how she had encouraged Xia Xiaolin to seduce Sun Zhihao and provoked Ding Peixin into plotting against Xia and her unborn child.
• Gu Xue dismissed the others as fools and blamed Xia Xiaolin’s greed for her own involvement.
• Gu Xue said she had only wanted Xia Xiaolin to keep her plastic surgery secret and help her stay with Liu Songyuan, then complained about the hostility ugly people faced.

Gu Xue vented about the cruel treatment she endured over her appearance, and Su Qiao challenged her for hiding her plastic surgery and accepting extortion. Gu Xue said she had broken up with Liu Songyuan, then described Ding Peixin’s unhappy marriage and asked how Su Qiao had persuaded and helped her.

• Gu Xue condemned Sun Zhihao for insulting her publicly when she confessed her feelings.
• Su Qiao told Gu Xue that everyone could seek happiness but criticized her for hiding her past and letting Xia Xiaolin threaten and extort her.
• Gu Xue said she had broken up with Liu Songyuan and no longer felt attached to him.
• Gu Xue asked how Su Qiao had persuaded Ding Peixin and helped her after she killed someone.
• Gu Xue mocked Ding Peixin for discovering her husband Sun Zhihao’s infidelity and hypocrisy only after years of marriage.

Gu Xue explained how she had manipulated Ding Peixin into confronting Sun Zhihao and Xia Xiaolin by revealing their relationship and betrayal. Su Qiao recognized that Gu Xue had targeted Ding Peixin’s deepest fears, and the chapter ended with Gu Xue describing how Ding resolved to make Sun and Xia suffer.

• Gu Xue said she had shown Ding Peixin photos and details about Sun Zhihao’s former girlfriends, causing Ding to break down.
• Gu Xue said Ding blamed her for the revelations, so she told Ding that Sun Zhihao and Xia Xiaolin had been together for over half a year and that Xia was pregnant.
• Su Qiao guessed that Sun Zhihao had sent Xia Xiaolin away with money to have an abortion, and Gu Xue confirmed it.
• Gu Xue said she had told Ding that Sun Zhihao had secretly taken contraceptives because he never intended to have a child with her.
• Gu Xue said Ding finally decided that if she could not have a good life, Sun Zhihao and Xia Xiaolin should not expect one either.
• Su Qiao recognized that Gu Xue had used Ding Peixin’s deepest concerns to push her toward action.

Gu Xue confessed that she had planned Ding Peixin’s scheme against Sun Zhihao for a promised five million, then killed Ding Peixin when her disobedience threatened to expose her. She explained that the Sun family’s valuables tempted her to change her plans and gamble on a better life for herself and her family.

• Gu Xue admitted that she devised Ding Peixin’s plans and arranged to disable surveillance cameras along the route she had chosen for disposing of the body.
• Su Qiao realized Ding Peixin knew where the body was because she had wanted to frame Sun Zhihao, not hide the corpse forever.
• Gu Xue said she killed Ding Peixin because her disobedience and exposure risked leading the police back to her.
• Gu Xue revealed that Ding Peixin had promised her five million, which she hoped to use to buy houses for herself and her family and gain Liu Songyuan’s parents’ approval.
• Gu Xue explained that Ding Peixin had told her the basement safe held more than twenty million in jewelry and gold, and that she decided to steal it after Ding Peixin strayed from the plan.

Gu Xue told Su Qiao how her family’s demands and her own choices had left her overwhelmed, and Su Qiao urged her to stop living by others’ expectations. Gu Xue regretted that they might have become friends if she had not made those choices.

• Gu Xue described how her parents pressured her to send money home and support her younger siblings, while she struggled with her own expenses and debts.
• Su Qiao told Gu Xue that supporting her parents was her responsibility but raising her siblings was not, and advised her to leave Ding Peixin with Sun Zhihao.
• Su Qiao said Gu Xue’s jealousy and greed had helped bring her to this point, and Gu Xue admitted she understood where she had gone wrong.
• Gu Xue said she had suspected this day might come but did not regret it, while Su Qiao urged her to break free from others’ expectations and live for herself.
• Gu Xue wondered whether she and Su Qiao might have become best friends if she had not done those things.

Su Qiao confronted Su Xiyan about her biased judgment and left the interrogation area with Du Muhan after speaking with Gu Xue and Tao Junhui. Du Muhan asked when they would register their marriage and take their honeymoon, while Su Qiao said they would decide tomorrow, leaving Su Xiyan stunned by their plans to marry.

• Su Qiao said goodbye to Gu Xue and reminded Tao Junhui that everyone had to bear the consequences of their actions.
• Su Qiao mocked Su Xiyan for calling Gu Xue innocent and pitiful, then criticized her for letting personal bias affect her work.
• Su Xiyan admitted Su Qiao was capable but said she would not back down when it came to her parents.
• Du Muhan embraced Su Qiao and traded affectionate remarks with her, then asked when they would register their marriage and take their honeymoon.
• Su Qiao told Du Muhan they would decide after seeing how things looked the next day, while Su Xiyan stared at them in disbelief.

After the case was solved, Su Qiao rejected Tao Junhui’s apology, while he and Su Xiyan agreed to part ways and accept responsibility for Wang Yan’s condition. The next day, Su Qiao learned that Gu Xue had killed herself in custody.

• The police recovered the stolen jewelry and gold from beneath Gu Xue’s bed, found her disguises, and located Xia Xiaolin’s final skull fragment in the chemical plant’s wastewater tank.
• Tao Junhui asked Su Qiao if she hated him, but she dismissed him and left without hearing his apology.
• Tao Junhui and Su Xiyan admitted their mistakes, agreed to go their separate ways, and decided to await the higher-ups’ instructions about Wang Yan’s case.
• The next day, Xiao Li told Su Qiao that Gu Xue had smashed her head against a wall and died.

On the day Su Qiao and Du Muhan planned to register their marriage, Su Qiao confronted him about a book, but their meeting was interrupted by an attack from Ding Wencheng. After Su Qiao and Du Muhan subdued him, she learned who he was and attacked him again.

• Su Qiao arranged a week of leave after the National Day holiday and hired builders to construct a school nearby.
• On the day she and Du Muhan planned to register their marriage, Su Qiao found a detective casebook and rushed out to confront him.
• As Du Muhan tried to answer her, he spotted an attacker and lunged to protect Su Qiao, injuring his wrist in the process.
• Su Qiao fought back and stomped the attacker until security guards restrained her.
• The attacker revealed himself as Ding Wencheng, Ding Peixin's father, and cursed Du Muhan and his mother.
• Su Qiao slapped Ding Wencheng, and Du Muhan held her back, warning that she could go to prison.

Su Qiao confronted Du Muhan about the book connected to Gu Xue’s attack on Ding Peixin, and he explained how Gu Xue found it. He admitted he hated Ding Peixin, but his account ended before he explained why.

• Su Qiao forced Du Muhan to go to the hospital after he injured his hand, and a doctor stitched the wound.
• Su Qiao called Little Li to collect Gu, then drove Du Muhan home after he refused to stay in the hospital.
• Du Muhan told Su Qiao that he had accidentally left the book on a park bench, where Gu Xue found it, and admitted he had hoped Gu Xue would teach Ding Peixin a lesson.
• Su Qiao questioned Du Muhan’s honesty and recalled seeing him stare at Ding Peixin’s photograph.
• Du Muhan said he hated Ding Peixin because she had watched silently while he and his mother were beaten, then began to explain further.

Du Muhan told Su Qiao how he had escaped Ding Wencheng’s abuse and helped his mother after she became a vegetable. Su Qiao forgave him for what he had done, but postponed their marriage license and put him on probation for a month while he recovered from his injured hand.

• Du Muhan explained that Ding Wencheng had abused his mother and that she had falsely testified her fall was an accident.
• Du Muhan said he had run away at ten, taught himself from discarded books, and later reported Ding Wencheng and moved his mother to another facility.
• Su Qiao let Du Muhan off for his past actions but warned him not to take revenge that way again.
• Su Qiao reminded Du Muhan to protect his injured hand and follow the doctor’s instructions.
• Du Muhan asked Su Qiao for reassurance, and she put him on probation for a month before agreeing to approve their marriage license.

Su Qiao and Du Muhan settled into married life while she built schools for children and advanced her work as a psychological profiler. Their careers and philanthropy flourished, and they continued solving difficult cases together.

• Su Qiao made breakfast for Du Muhan and spent their vacation overseeing construction of a school, setting up computers and online lessons for the children.
• Su Qiao reported Ding Wencheng's past human-organ trafficking crimes, sending him back to prison until he was nearly seventy.
• Tao Junhui and Su Xiyan grew apart after their transfers and eventually married other people, while Su Qiao gained recognition for solving major cases.
• Su Qiao and Du Muhan became renowned for cracking difficult cases together, and Su Qiao built special schools across the country with Du Muhan's support.

Su Qiao woke in a frontier tent where Crown Prince Xi Hanzhou had killed two men, and learned that he was destined to be imprisoned for life and die in a fire. She considered escaping into the woods while watching the ruthless prince and the people scheming around him.

• Su Qiao woke kneeling among frightened people beside the bloody bodies of two men.
• Xi Hanzhou drank from a wine jug with his bloodied Great Machete after killing the two men.
• Su Qiao asked 444 what had happened, and 444 identified Xi Hanzhou as Xilin Kingdom's Crown Prince, attending negotiations in place of his ill father.
• 444 told Su Qiao that Xi Hanzhou would be imprisoned for life over his crimes and alleged rebellion, then die in a great fire.
• Su Qiao judged Xi Hanzhou and his scheming opponents ruthless, and thought about escaping into the woods.

Su Qiao recovered enough to face Xi Hanzhou, the Crown Prince, but found herself unable to understand why he had singled her out. The chapter ended with her cautiously asking him to stop killing people.

• Su Qiao asked 444 for Reinforcement Agent and felt better after it used a tube on her.
• Xi Hanzhou approached Su Qiao with a bloody knife and asked whether she was afraid of him.
• Su Qiao discovered that the bone in her right leg was crooked and wondered whether the original owner was crippled.
• Xi Hanzhou watched Su Qiao space out, and his anger unexpectedly faded as he studied her.
• Su Qiao pushed the knife away and asked Xi Hanzhou not to kill anyone anymore.

Xi Hanzhou forced Su Qiao to take the knife, then left her unharmed and ordered the gathering to continue. He confronted Prime Minister Su over his treatment of Su Qiao, leaving her father terrified and regretting that he had brought her to the event.

• Xi Hanzhou put the knife in Su Qiao's hand and told her to kill, but she did not act.
• Xi Hanzhou left and ordered Eunuch Yu to send Su Qiao back, then had the bodies removed and the gathering resumed.
• The ministers and tribal chieftains became cautious after witnessing Xi Hanzhou's violence.
• Xi Hanzhou accused Prime Minister Su of failing to provide for Su Qiao and offered to support her himself.
• Prime Minister Su knelt, promised to take good care of Su Qiao, and regretted bringing her beyond the frontier.

Su Qiao learned that a mysterious man may have placed a black Soul Mark on her in an earlier plane, allowing him to find her across worlds. She ordered 444 to scan Xi Hanzhou and investigate the mark, but its nature remained unknown.

• Prime Minister Su withdrew after speaking with Xi Hanzhou, who remained dissatisfied.
• Su Qiao surveyed the grassland and learned she was the prime minister's Eldest Legitimate Daughter, who had once saved the Crown Prince.
• Su Qiao told 444 to inspect its memory spheres and identify whether Xi Hanzhou was the man who had appeared in her previous planes.
• 444 revealed that a black Soul Mark had appeared on Su Qiao's soul when she changed planes and that it seemed to be a contract.
• Su Qiao recalled meeting the man in the Supernatural Plane and seeing him again in later planes, then ordered 444 to scan Xi Hanzhou and investigate the mark.

Su Qiao questioned whether a mysterious contract was influencing her feelings toward the Crown Prince, then entered her tent and reviewed the original body's past. She uncovered suspicious details about her stepmother's marriage to Prime Minister Su and the timing of Su Yuxin's birth.

• Su Qiao dismissed the palace maids' concerns and followed them to the tent on the outskirts.
• 444 reminded Su Qiao that the contract might be nothing more than a contract.
• Su Qiao learned that the rough bed belonged to her while the refined side belonged to her half-sister, Su Yuxin.
• Su Qiao recalled that Prime Minister Su had married her mother's younger half-sister shortly after her mother's death.
• Su Qiao noted that Su Yuxin had been born supposedly premature but seemed unusually sturdy and energetic.

Su Qiao pieced together suspicious details about Su Yuxin’s birth and reflected on how the seemingly beloved second miss fit into a story that favored Xi Muyan. She recalled that Su Qiao had been informally betrothed to Xi Muyan two years earlier.

• Su Qiao suspected that Su Yuxin’s mother had become pregnant before marrying into the Prime Minister’s residence and questioned the circumstances of Su Yuxin’s birth.
• Su Qiao recalled that Su Yuxin acted like a carefree modern woman, befriending servants and winning the favor of princes and nobles.
• Su Qiao recognized that Su Yuxin’s story cast her as the heroine who helped Xi Muyan defeat the Crown Prince and claim the throne, while portraying Su Qiao as a villain.
• Su Qiao recalled that Imperial Noble Consort Yun had obtained an informal betrothal between thirteen-year-old Su Qiao and Xi Muyan two years earlier.

The chapter recounts Su Qiao’s neglected upbringing and how the Fourth Prince manipulated her into spying on the Crown Prince. It also explains Xi Hanzhou’s position and temperament, and how the original Su Qiao once saved him after he was ambushed.

• Imperial Noble Consort Yun proposed that Su Qiao become the Fourth Prince’s Primary Consort after her fall left her crippled, while the Fourth Prince secretly resented the match.
• The original Su Qiao grew up neglected by her father and stepmother and blamed by her maternal family, then came to trust the Fourth Prince when he treated her kindly.
• The Fourth Prince persuaded Su Qiao to approach the Crown Prince and gather information, though she was only a decoy and accomplished nothing.
• After the Crown Prince was imprisoned and died in a fire, his subordinates killed Su Qiao as a spy and left her with a reputation for being unchaste.
• Xi Hanzhou remained the Emperor’s favored heir despite his unpredictable, violent temper, and the Emperor never considered removing him as Crown Prince.
• After Xi Hanzhou was ambushed and fled into Su Manor, Su Qiao stopped his bleeding and helped him contact his searching subordinates, earning rewards from the Emperor and his care.

Su Qiao pieced together why Madam Su had crippled her and tried to clear the way for Su Yuxin to marry Fourth Prince Xi Muyan. She asked to heal her leg quickly so she could practice martial arts, but the required medicine would cost one hundred Points and mean breaking and resetting the bones.

• Su Qiao recognized that Su Yuxin had not been involved in injuring her leg and considered the girl’s timid, simple nature.
• Su Qiao recalled that Madam Su wanted Su Yuxin to marry Fourth Prince Xi Muyan and had treated Su Qiao as an obstacle to that plan.
• Su Qiao reflected that her injury had freed the position of Fourth Prince’s Primary Consort and left her as his Secondary Consort.
• Su Qiao asked for a fast-acting medicine to heal her leg so she could practice martial arts.
• The system told Su Qiao that the medicine cost one hundred Points and required her broken bones to be broken and reset, which would hurt greatly.

Su Qiao went into the deepest part of the forest to reset her crooked leg and heal it with medicine. She left the leg properly set inside a cave, though it would still take time to recover.

• Su Qiao took a hidden silver saber from her chest and rode a horse away from the camp.
• With 444's help, Su Qiao found a cave beneath a cliff deep in the forest.
• After failing to find anesthetic herbs, Su Qiao blocked the cave entrance and prepared to treat her leg herself.
• Su Qiao broke the crooked bone again, endured the pain, and set it straight.
• 444 injected medicine to help Su Qiao's bone heal quickly.

After recovering from her leg injury, Su Qiao used a wish to try to restore Xi Hanzhou’s memories of his previous life. The system revealed that the wish required intimate contact, specifically a kiss, leaving Su Qiao reluctant to approach the dangerous Crown Prince that way.

• Su Qiao tested her healed leg and decided to avoid running or jumping while it continued to recover.
• Su Qiao drew a wish from the Newcomer Gift Pack, but the reward could not alter the system or affect anything outside the plane.
• Su Qiao wished for Xi Hanzhou to recover his memories of his previous life, believing his changed temperament and alleged treason were caused by outside interference.
• The system clarified that Su Qiao had to name Xi Hanzhou and revealed that restoring his memories required intimate contact.
• Su Qiao and 444 discovered that the required intimate contact meant a kiss, and Su Qiao balked at kissing Xi Hanzhou.

Su Qiao learned that Xi Hanzhou could regain his memories through a kiss and planned to arrange it secretly, hoping to protect him and gain his support. After discovering she could cultivate, she washed up and searched the forest for food, but found no prey.

• Su Qiao discussed with Little Four the risks of kissing Xi Hanzhou to restore his memories and decided they would have to do it secretly.
• Su Qiao confirmed that she could cultivate in her current body and that her cultivation progressed quickly.
• Su Qiao moved the stones blocking the cave entrance, went to the river to wash, and returned to the woods.
• Su Qiao searched the forest for game, gathered medicinal herbs, and ate a few sour fruits when she found no prey.

Su Qiao fought and killed a tiger in the forest despite her injured leg, securing food while ruining its hide. She licked the tiger’s blood and regretted that its pelt had been damaged.

• A hungry tiger leaped from the Dense Forest and attacked Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao dodged the tiger’s charges and struck it with her saber while using trees and rocks for cover.
• Su Qiao climbed a tree, leaped onto the tiger’s back, and stabbed its neck and belly.
• Su Qiao split the tiger’s belly open and killed it, then severed its head.
• Su Qiao tasted the tiger’s blood and regretted ruining its hide.

After killing a tiger, Su Qiao was approached by Xi Hanzhou and his companions. Xi Hanzhou noticed her injured leg and carried her away, asking whether she usually went without food.

• Su Qiao scolded the dead tiger, then noticed four people watching from the edge of the woods.
• Xi Hanzhou dismounted and approached Su Qiao, offering her better tiger pelts.
• Xi Hanzhou noticed Su Qiao's right leg hurt and asked if it was injured.
• Su Qiao admitted that her leg ached, and Xi Hanzhou lifted her into his arms.
• Xi Hanzhou carried Su Qiao away and remarked that she was too thin, asking whether she normally did not eat.

Xi Hanzhou took Su Qiao away from the woods after accusing her of lying about secretly looking at him. Su Qiao jumped down before they left the woods and challenged his arrogance, while Xi Hanzhou promised to let her see him take power.

• Xi Hanzhou accused Su Qiao of deceiving him and secretly glancing at him during the banquet, but she denied it.
• Xi Hanzhou carried Su Qiao onto his horse and summoned guards, while she asked him to take the tiger meat and her horse with them.
• As Xi Hanzhou rode toward the edge of the woods, Su Qiao pushed him away and jumped down from the horse.
• Su Qiao told Xi Hanzhou not to act arrogant before he held power, and he promised to let her see the day he did.