Recaps

Su Qiao visited Grandma Chu, who enthusiastically tried to match her with both of her grandsons. The conversation left Chu Jingchen embarrassed and Chu Zhenghao flustered as Grandma Chu praised and criticized them in turn.

• Su Qiao arrived at Grandma Chu's home, where the old woman happily held her hand and chatted with her through dinner and tea.
• Chu Jingchen stayed nearby to serve tea, cut fruit, and attend to Su Qiao and Grandma Chu, while Chu Zhenghao quietly remained on his phone.
• Grandma Chu asked Su Qiao what she thought of Chu Jingchen and whether he could become her boyfriend, making him blush and Su Qiao unsure how to respond.
• When Su Qiao hesitated, Grandma Chu suggested her elder grandson Chu Zhenghao instead, causing both grandsons to protest.
• Grandma Chu praised Chu Jingchen as a good person despite his shortcomings, and Chu Jingchen argued that handsome celebrities could make a living from their looks.

Chu Jingchen tried to defend himself after Grandma Chu teased him about admiring beautiful people, while Su Qiao watched him suspiciously. His big brother intervened to enforce Grandma Chu’s dietary restrictions, leaving her frustrated.

• Chu Jingchen agreed with Su Qiao that admiring handsome men could lift people’s spirits, prompting Grandma Chu to admit she had liked looking at handsome men when she was young.
• Grandma Chu teased Chu Jingchen about liking beautiful women, and Su Qiao grew suspicious when he became flustered.
• Chu Jingchen tried to distract Grandma Chu with a tangerine and asked his big brother for help.
• Chu Jingchen’s big brother took away the tangerine and tea because of Grandma Chu’s health, then asked Old Butler to bring her warm unsweetened milk.
• Grandma Chu complained that her grandsons would not let her eat or drink anything she wanted.

Chu Jingchen and Su Qiao coaxed Grandma Chu out of an argument and into taking a walk around the courtyard. Chu Jingchen promised to take her to Sanya, and Su Qiao agreed to join them as he began booking their trip.

• Grandma Chu rejected the milk and oatmeal Chu Jingchen offered, but Su Qiao distracted her by suggesting they look around the courtyard.
• Grandma Chu led Su Qiao toward her flower garden, while Chu Jingchen joined them, citing the pond as a safety concern.
• Chu Jingchen promised to take Grandma Chu to Sanya once she felt better, and she invited Su Qiao to come along.
• Su Qiao agreed to the trip, and Chu Jingchen immediately began booking plane tickets and a hotel.
• Grandma Chu reminisced with Su Qiao about past trips to Sanya with her husband.

Su Qiao visited Grandma Chu and left with Chu Jingchen, then warned Chu Zhenghao not to pursue the West Mountain plot because something important lay beneath it. She had secretly arranged for He Jianhui to acquire the land, hoping to prevent the deaths she knew had happened in a previous life.

• Chu Jingchen booked plane tickets and hotels while accompanying Su Qiao and Grandma Chu, who reluctantly let Su Qiao leave.
• Chu Jingchen teased Su Qiao about liking beautiful things, and she agreed that he was better-looking than Chu Zhenghao.
• Su Qiao asked Chu Zhenghao to speak privately and warned him that the country would not allow the West Mountain plot to be developed or excavated.
• Su Qiao recalled that Chu Zhenghao and Chu Jingchen had died in events connected to the plot in her previous life, and that she had arranged for He Jianhui to acquire it.
• Chu Zhenghao accepted Su Qiao's warning and thanked her.

Su Qiao warned Chu Zhenghao that someone close to him was leaking his whereabouts, and he trusted her because he trusted Chu Jingchen’s judgment. As Su Qiao prepared to leave, Chu Zhenghao reassured Chu Jingchen that he liked someone else, then asked whether Su Qiao was the person Jingchen had searched for over the past two years.

• Su Qiao told Chu Zhenghao to watch the people around him because someone had been leaking his whereabouts.
• Chu Zhenghao accepted Su Qiao’s warning and considered dealing with Gu Hualei’s side.
• Grandma Chu asked to join Su Qiao’s stall, and Su Qiao said she could come after her health recovered.
• Chu Zhenghao teased Chu Jingchen about being nervous over Su Qiao and described the petite, fish-loving person he liked.
• Chu Zhenghao asked Chu Jingchen whether Su Qiao was the person he had been looking for, and Jingchen was surprised that he knew.

Chu Zhenghao urged Chu Jingchen to confess his feelings to Su Qiao before Gu Hualei could act, and Chu Jingchen drove Su Qiao home while struggling to speak to her. Su Qiao explained how Gu Hualei had exploited her grief and tried to remake her in the image of another woman, and Chu Jingchen asked whether she knew Gu Hualei had been searching for her.

• Chu Zhenghao accepted Su Qiao into the Chu family and urged Chu Jingchen to pursue her before Gu Hualei could get ahead of him.
• Chu Jingchen told Chu Zhenghao he had not confessed to Su Qiao, then resolved to act after his brother offered to hold Gu Hualei off.
• Chu Zhenghao helped Grandma inside while Chu Jingchen drove Su Qiao home and remained distracted.
• Su Qiao prompted Chu Jingchen to ask what he wanted to know, and he asked about her past with Gu Hualei.
• Su Qiao said Gu Hualei had taken advantage of her grief to try to remake her as the woman he loved, and that she had eventually turned the tables on him.
• Chu Jingchen condemned Gu Hualei, then asked Su Qiao whether she knew he had been searching for her for two years.

Su Qiao told Chu Jingchen how she had disappeared for two years and reassured him that she would stay. Chu Jingchen offered to be there for her, while Su Qiao noticed his embarrassment and quietly teased him.

• Chu Jingchen asked Su Qiao not to leave again, and she promised she was not going anywhere.
• Su Qiao explained that she had disguised herself as a man, used a man's ID, and taken a train to teach in a small town in the northwest.
• Su Qiao said the quiet, fulfilling life had suited her and that her mother's wish had been for her to become a teacher.
• Chu Jingchen apologized for bringing up painful memories and offered to treat Su Qiao as family and help her with future problems.
• Su Qiao pointed out Chu Jingchen's red face, and he blamed it on wine and the heat in the car.
• Su Qiao agreed to let him open the window while privately admitting she had teased him on purpose.

Su Qiao discovered that people online were spreading accusations that she had seduced someone else’s fiancé for money, and she grew furious at the insults and demands to expose her personal information. She decided to teach the people responsible a lesson.

• After breakfast, Su Qiao heard 444 warn her that online rumors were calling her a gold digger and mistress.
• Su Qiao checked the posts and suspected Yu Aiwei was behind the accusations.
• She read commenters’ insults about her appearance, work as a street vendor, family, and supposed motives for pursuing a wealthy man.
• Su Qiao became enraged by the false claims and the commenters’ personal attacks.
• Su Qiao decided to teach them a lesson.

Su Qiao ordered 444 to investigate Yu Aiwei and a company owner who had helped stir up abuse against her online, while planning to expose Yu Aiwei’s private behavior without breaking the law. The chapter ended when an unfamiliar middle-aged man called and asked whether she was Su Qiao.

• 444 recorded the identities of people attacking Su Qiao online, while Su Qiao ordered it to find the small company owner's information for He Jianhui so his company could be driven bankrupt within three days.
• Su Qiao asked 444 to investigate Yu Aiwei's life overseas and gather evidence of the difference between her public image and private behavior.
• Su Qiao agreed that 444 should expose the worst online abusers but warned it not to break the law or attract official scrutiny.
• An unfamiliar man called Su Qiao, asked if she was Su Qiao, and left her wondering who he was.

Su Qiao rejected Su Yunyang and blocked Su Chifeng, then discovered that her personal information and address had been leaked online amid Yu Aiwei’s accusations. She left the leak unresolved as she faced growing public scrutiny.

• Su Yunyang called Su Qiao and identified himself as her father, but she denied having a father and blocked his number.
• Su Qiao wondered whether He Jianhui had received the inspection results for the skincare products and Bird's Nest, then worked on blueprints for medical technology.
• Su Chifeng called, and Su Qiao blocked him without answering.
• 444 told Su Qiao that her information and address had been posted online, apparently at Yu Aiwei’s instigation.
• Su Qiao searched for one of her videos and confirmed that her personal information had been leaked.

Su Qiao reviewed photos 444 had taken of Yu Aiwei and decided they could ruin the perfect-goddess image Yu Aiwei had cultivated. The chapter ended with Su Qiao questioning whether the uncouth behavior in the photos was real or fabricated.

• Online commenters argued over rumors that Su Qiao was a kept mistress, while a few defended her.
• Su Qiao told 444 to post Yu Aiwei's private photos online and expose her.
• 444 showed Su Qiao photos of Yu Aiwei behaving crudely in private, with mocking captions.
• Su Qiao was stunned by the photos and asked 444 whether it had fabricated them.

Su Qiao retaliated against Yu Aiwei’s abusive fans by posting photos of Yu Aiwei’s private behavior and accusing her family’s skincare products and Bird’s Nest of being dangerous. The post first silenced the comment section, then triggered a flood of worried questions and harsher attacks.

• Su Qiao read the abusive comments on her video account and became angry that Yu Aiwei’s fans were insulting her family.
• Su Qiao uploaded Xiao Si’s collected photos of Yu Aiwei and described her behavior, her mother’s past, and alleged hazards in the Yu Family’s products.
• Su Qiao admitted she had not planned to expose the product claims yet but posted them because the fans had angered her.
• The comment section went quiet for more than ten minutes as viewers reacted to the photos and accusations.
• Viewers then flooded the comments, with some asking whether the products were dangerous and many others attacking Su Qiao more viciously.

After Yu Aiwei’s supporters attacked Su Qiao online, Su Qiao arranged for companies to buy and document large quantities of the disputed products. Test results revealed dangerous contamination, and Su Qiao told He Jianhui that the bird’s nest virus was very likely connected to the influenza outbreak.

• Yu Aiwei’s supporters cursed Su Qiao and defended Yu Aiwei after she posted certificates for her skincare products and bird’s nest.
• Su Qiao pinned comments dismissing the attackers, then logged off.
• Su Qiao told He Jianhui to have their companies and business associates buy large quantities of products from the Gu Family, the Yu Family, and Yu Aiwei, while collecting evidence of the purchases.
• He Jianhui received test results showing that a skincare ingredient exceeded safe limits and that the bird’s nest contained a virus.
• He Jianhui asked whether the bird’s nest virus was linked to the spreading influenza, and Su Qiao said she was over ninety percent sure they were connected.

Su Qiao and He Jianhui discussed evidence that Bird's Nest and skincare products were linked to the epidemic, and agreed to collect patient blood samples and report their findings to the authorities. After He Jianhui left to contact his friends, Su Yunyang arrived at Su Qiao's door.

• He Jianhui reacted with alarm when Su Qiao said more than ninety percent of patients were linked to Bird's Nest or skincare products, and planned to send his family to the countryside.
• Su Qiao proposed building a research lab and collecting patient blood samples to investigate the connection.
• He Jianhui agreed to send samples to an official institution and left to contact friends who could help gather them.
• Su Qiao resumed drawing, but Su Yunyang arrived at her door and asked to come inside.

Su Qiao confronted Su Yunyang after he came to see her, rejecting his attempts to invoke their family bond and question her about her mother. She revealed that her mother had died and condemned him for abandoning the family who had supported him, leaving their argument unresolved.

• Su Qiao let Su Yunyang into her home but treated him coldly and told him to change his shoes.
• Su Yunyang asked whether Su Qiao remembered him and tried to appeal to their blood relationship.
• Su Qiao demanded that Su Yunyang state his purpose and challenged him for failing to show concern for her and her mother.
• Su Qiao told Su Yunyang that her mother had died, which surprised him.
• Su Yunyang claimed he had given her mother enough money to raise her, and Su Qiao accused him of abandoning his wife and exploiting her sacrifices.

Su Yunyang visited Su Qiao and urged her not to interfere with Yu Aiwei and Gu Hualei’s engagement. Su Qiao rejected his appeal and confronted him about the past, and he defended how he had treated her mother.

• Su Qiao told Su Yunyang to leave and said she wanted nothing to do with him.
• Su Yunyang asked Su Qiao not to disrupt Yu Aiwei and Gu Hualei’s relationship now that they were engaged.
• Su Qiao pointed out that Yu Aiwei had betrayed Gu Hualei before she and Gu Hualei got together.
• Su Qiao compared her mother to Yu Aiwei’s mother, accusing the latter of pursuing a married man and getting pregnant before his divorce.
• Su Yunyang lost his temper, defended his past actions toward Su Qiao’s mother, and said he was acting for Su Qiao’s own good.

Su Qiao challenged Su Yunyang’s account of her breakup with Gu Hualei and rejected his claim that he was acting in her best interests. She said Gu Hualei and Yu Aiwei were the ones who would not leave her alone, and offered to stay away if Su Yunyang could make Gu Hualei stop pursuing her.

• Su Qiao told Su Yunyang that her thirty thousand yuan in support and thirty thousand yuan in divorce compensation could not make their breakup amicable or secure her and her children’s future.
• Su Qiao questioned why Su Yunyang assumed Gu Hualei had kept searching for her and pointed out that she and Gu Hualei had never agreed to break up.
• Su Yunyang reconsidered the rumors that Su Qiao had ruined Gu Hualei’s face, then urged her to let go of the past and find someone more suitable.
• Su Qiao replied that Gu Hualei and Yu Aiwei were the ones refusing to leave her alone, and said she would stay away from Gu Hualei if Su Yunyang could make him stop pursuing her.

Su Qiao warned Su Yunyang that she would not tolerate any more tricks from Xiao Wei and rejected his offer of help. As netizens investigated the leaked photos and the family’s past, they uncovered Su Qiao and Yu Aiwei’s relationship and began questioning the accusations against Su Qiao.

• Su Qiao told Su Yunyang to leave and warned that she would make Xiao Wei pay if she pulled more tricks.
• Su Yunyang offered to help Su Qiao in the future, but she dismissed him and he left, choosing his current family and career over reconnecting with her.
• Netizens found no signs that the photos of Su Qiao had been edited and dug into her connections with Yu Aiwei and Su Yunyang.
• Online discussion revealed that Su Qiao and Yu Aiwei were half-sisters and that Gu Hualei had once been Su Qiao’s boyfriend.
• Netizens began suspecting that Yu Aiwei had fabricated the mistress story and that Su Qiao might have bought her house with money she earned herself.

Online viewers began questioning Yu Aiwei’s products after Su Qiao’s past relationship with her was exposed, while Yu Aiwei and her family faced a wave of public backlash. Su Yunyang discovered that his past actions had been revealed online and feared the damage to his standing at work and with his in-laws.

• Viewers connected Su Qiao’s disappearance to her breakup with Gu Hualei and began worrying that Yu Aiwei’s skincare products and Bird’s Nest might be unsafe.
• Su Qiao realized 444 had exposed her relationship with Yu Aiwei, and 444 admitted it wanted to make the people who had attacked Su Qiao panic.
• Yu Aiwei saw indecent photos and mocking comments spreading online, while people questioned the products she sold.
• Su Yunyang returned home to find Yu Aiwei threatening suicide and his wife unconscious, so he calmed his daughter and sent his wife to the hospital.
• Su Yunyang learned that public opinion had turned against his family and that his past treatment of Su Qiao had been exposed, damaging the image he had built.

Su Qiao prepared for her afternoon plans, but Gu Hualei came to her home to confront her about the pictures she posted of Yu Aiwei. She insisted the pictures were real and left him to face the possibility that Yu Aiwei was not the person he thought she was.

• Su Qiao planned to read and rest before setting up her street stall, but someone rang her doorbell.
• Su Qiao found Gu Hualei outside and refused to let him into her home.
• Gu Hualei accused Su Qiao of fabricating pictures and captions to defame Yu Aiwei.
• Su Qiao challenged Gu Hualei to have the pictures professionally examined, and he admitted he had already had them authenticated.
• Su Qiao asked whether Gu Hualei could accept that Yu Aiwei behaved differently in private than he had believed.

Su Qiao mocked Gu Hualei and rejected his offer to resolve the lawsuits against her, suspecting his motives. Gu Hualei confessed that he still loved her and asked to start over, but Su Qiao remained wary of him.

• Su Qiao insulted Gu Hualei and the woman he admired, and Gu Hualei told her not to go too far.
• Gu Hualei warned Su Qiao that the Yu Corporation and Gu Corporation planned to sue her over her public accusations about their products.
• Gu Hualei offered to resolve the matter for the sake of their past relationship, but Su Qiao questioned what he wanted in return.
• Gu Hualei said he had searched for Su Qiao for two years and still could not forget her.
• Gu Hualei tried to take Su Qiao's hand and asked to start over, but she moved away and suspected he was plotting something.

Su Qiao rejected Gu Hualei’s proposal to keep her as his lover while remaining engaged to Yu Aiwei, and the two men clashed when Chu Jingchen arrived. The chapter ended with Gu Hualei preparing to fight Chu Jingchen.

• Gu Hualei promised Su Qiao he would treat her well, but admitted he was still engaged to Yu Aiwei for the sake of their families’ interests.
• Su Qiao accused Gu Hualei of wanting her as his mistress and rejected his excuses about marriage and feelings.
• Gu Hualei threatened Su Qiao with a court summons, so she attacked him and kicked him in the abdomen.
• Chu Jingchen arrived, handed Su Qiao a pastry box, and punched Gu Hualei.
• Gu Hualei accused Chu Jingchen of interfering with his search for Su Qiao and rolled up his sleeves to fight.

Su Qiao watched Chu Jingchen fight Gu Hualei, then let Chu Jingchen know she was on his side. Chu Jingchen revealed that Su Qiao owned the entire floor and had assets worth over a hundred million, leaving Gu Hualei stunned.

• Chu Jingchen and Gu Hualei began fighting in the corridor while Su Qiao ate pastries and watched.
• Su Qiao stopped the fight after Chu Jingchen repeatedly knocked Gu Hualei down.
• Gu Hualei offered Su Qiao gifts and help with the Yu Corporation and Gu Corporation lawsuits if she chose him.
• Su Qiao declined to delete a neighbor's secret livestream, deciding she could use it, and asked whether Chu Jingchen had damaged Gu Hualei's brain.
• Chu Jingchen mocked Gu Hualei and revealed that the entire floor, including four other apartments, belonged to Su Qiao and that her assets exceeded a hundred million.

Chu Jingchen confronted Gu Hualei and warned him to stop bothering Su Qiao, while Su Qiao revealed the history of her family’s betrayal and made clear she would not be bullied again. Gu Hualei left after Chu Jingchen declared he intended to pursue Su Qiao for marriage, but he asked her whether she had ever liked him as he went.

• Chu Jingchen told Gu Hualei that Su Qiao had earned over a hundred million and warned him not to bother or harm her again.
• Chu Jingchen put his arm around Su Qiao and said he planned to pursue her with marriage as his goal.
• Su Qiao told Gu Hualei about her mother’s suffering and warned him to tell Yu Aiwei and her family that she would fight back if they schemed against her.
• Chu Jingchen blocked Gu Hualei and told him to leave, while Gu Hualei vowed he would not give Su Qiao to him.
• Gu Hualei prepared to leave and asked Su Qiao whether she had ever liked him.

Gu Hualei tried to win Su Qiao back, but she rejected him and went inside with Chu Jingchen. Chu Jingchen resolved to keep Gu Hualei from bothering her again, and asked why Su Qiao had arrived earlier than planned.

• Gu Hualei admitted he had been wrong but insisted he had not known Su Qiao and Xiao Wei were half-sisters, and asked Su Qiao to forgive him.
• Su Qiao rejected Gu Hualei, recalling his deception, control, and attempt to remake her into another woman.
• Chu Jingchen threatened Gu Hualei, and Su Qiao pulled Chu Jingchen inside without engaging further.
• Chu Jingchen sulked over Su Qiao’s past suffering and resolved to deal with Gu Corporation so Gu Hualei could not harass her.
• Su Qiao teased Chu Jingchen about acting like a child, then asked why he had come earlier than planned.