Recaps

Huo Sihan rebuked Huo Xiaoyan for slandering Su Qiao and ordered Yu Hao to continue searching for her. Meanwhile, Su Qiao planned to secure Huo Corporation’s real bid proposal before deciding what to do with it, and Huo Sihan stayed home the next day.

• Huo Sihan told Huo Xiaoyan to stop interfering in his affairs and speaking ill of Su Qiao, then went to his study.
• Huo Sihan asked Yu Hao about the search, learned that someone had frozen hospital surveillance footage, and ordered him to keep looking for Su Qiao.
• Yu Hao told Huo Sihan that the Su family did not know Su Qiao was missing and had shown little concern for her.
• Su Qiao learned that Huo Corporation’s real bid proposal was in the company safe and decided to photograph it, but not give it to Zhang Mingyue yet.
• Huo Sihan stayed home the next day, and after exercising and showering, he saw Huo Xiaoyan directing servants to pack things.

Huo Xiaoyan ordered the servants to remove Su Qiao’s belongings, but Huo Sihan stopped them and told them to store everything carefully. When Huo Xiaoyan accused Su Qiao of spying on the Huo family, Huo Sihan defended her and demanded to know how his sister knew so much.

• Huo Xiaoyan ordered the servants to throw out Su Qiao’s belongings, including cushions and crystal dinnerware.
• Huo Sihan stopped the servants and ordered them to put everything in storage without damaging it.
• Huo Xiaoyan questioned why Huo Sihan was keeping Su Qiao’s things and accused Su Qiao of being a spy for the Su Family.
• Huo Sihan challenged Huo Xiaoyan over how she knew Su Qiao had sent information to the Su Family.
• Huo Xiaoyan claimed Su Qiao had stolen the tender proposal and called her a thief, and Huo Sihan ordered her to stop speaking about Su Qiao.

Huo Sihan turned against Huo Xiaoyan and continued searching for Su Qiao, while Su Qiao recovered and worked toward an architecture certificate. She asked 444 for ancient tomb floor plans, but dismissed his suggestion that they explore tombs for treasure.

• Huo Sihan suspected Huo Xiaoyan was two-faced and warned himself to investigate her, especially if she harmed Su Qiao.
• Huo Xiaoyan angrily watched Huo Sihan leave, while the servants believed she had framed Su Qiao and secretly disapproved of her.
• Huo Xiaoyan found that Huo Sihan avoided her and the servants treated her coldly after Su Qiao left the Huo Family.
• A week passed as Huo Sihan kept searching for Su Qiao and Su Qiao nearly recovered.
• Su Qiao told 444 she planned to take the National First-Class Architect Certificate exam and asked for ancient tomb floor plans to study.
• 444 suggested exploring an ancient tomb for treasure, but Su Qiao said she had no need to make money that way.

Su Qiao asked 444 to find major construction projects she could pursue to earn money, while Huo Sihan returned to Huo Residence and confronted the emptiness left by her absence. He spent the night on the sofa with her cushion and woke at dawn.

• Su Qiao asked 444 to look for famous construction projects at home and abroad, and insisted she would try despite having only a Level-Two architect's license and no experience.
• Huo Sihan chose to return to Huo Residence after work, where he found the house dark and no one waiting for him.
• Huo Sihan remembered Su Qiao leaving a light on and waiting on the sofa to ask if he wanted a late-night snack.
• Huo Sihan turned on the television, found Su Qiao's cushion in storage, and hugged it while sitting on the sofa.
• At dawn, Huo Sihan woke on the sofa with stiff hands and feet.

Mama Zhang told Huo Sihan that Su Qiao had cared for him and learned to cook for his sake, prompting him to blush and deny that he had held her pillow. The following night, he came home drunk and demanded to know where she was.

• Mama Zhang found Huo Sihan asleep on the sofa clutching Su Qiao's favorite pillow and asked if he missed her.
• Mama Zhang told Huo Sihan that Su Qiao had learned to make his favorite foods and had patiently accepted his coldness.
• Huo Sihan blushed when Mama Zhang suggested he liked Su Qiao, then claimed the pillow had merely been left behind the sofa and told her to store it.
• Butler Lu, Yu Hao, and Yu Kun helped Huo Sihan home drunk the next night.
• Huo Sihan shoved the men away, staggered around the hall, and repeatedly demanded to know where Su Qiao was.

After Su Qiao left following her divorce from Huo Sihan, he came home drunk and demanded her snacks, sago milk, and rabbit-eared pillow. He learned she was gone and mourned her departure, while Huo Xiaoyan reacted badly to his words.

• Butler Lu helped the drunk Huo Sihan onto the sofa as he asked for Su Qiao and demanded snacks, sago milk, and her rabbit-eared pillow.
• Butler Lu told Huo Sihan that Su Qiao had left, and Huo Sihan asked where she had gone.
• After getting the White Rabbit Pillow, Huo Sihan learned from Butler Lu that he and Su Qiao were divorced and accused her of leaving without saying goodbye.
• Huo Xiaoyan came downstairs and scolded Yu Hao for letting Huo Sihan drink so much, but Huo Sihan continued pounding the pillow and calling Su Qiao heartless.
• Huo Xiaoyan's expression stiffened as she heard Huo Sihan lament Su Qiao's departure.

After Huo Sihan drunkenly defended Su Qiao and pushed Huo Xiaoyan away, Yu Hao warned Yu Kun not to pursue her, suspecting she was manipulative. Two days later, the major bidding conference began, and its final result astonished many attendees.

• Huo Sihan insisted Su Qiao had not betrayed him and complained that she had left without saying goodbye, while Huo Xiaoyan grew resentful after he shoved her.
• Butler Lu helped Huo Sihan upstairs, and Yu Hao and Yu Kun left with Huo Xiaoyan following them.
• Yu Kun asked Yu Hao why Huo Sihan was acting inconsistently, and Yu Hao said he might be unwilling to let go and unaccustomed to Su Qiao's absence.
• Yu Hao warned Yu Kun to stop setting his sights on Huo Xiaoyan, saying she was too calculating for him; Yu Kun agreed to listen.
• Two days later, the bidding conference in Hai City began, and its final result surprised many people.

The Zhang family won the bid, leaving the Su brothers and Huo Sihan’s aides questioning what had happened to the expected prices. Huo Sihan ordered an investigation into whether Su Qiao had ever truly leaked information to the Su family.

• Su Wenbin blamed Su Qiao for giving the Su family a false Huo Family bid price, but Su Wentao said Huo Sihan had never trusted her with useful information.
• Su Wentao rebuked Su Wenbin for insulting Su Qiao’s mother, their elder sister.
• Yu Kun pointed out that the Su family had bid 260 million while Zhang Mingyue’s bid was 268 million, only five million above the Huo Family’s actual 288 million bid?
• Yu Hao suggested Su Qiao might never have leaked the Huo Family’s bid price, and Yu Kun wondered whether she had refused to help the Su family.
• Huo Sihan told Yu Hao to investigate Su Qiao.

After losing the bid, Huo Sihan confronted Zhang Mingyue, accusing him of hiding Su Qiao. Zhang Mingyue denied it, while Huo Sihan revealed that Su Qiao had been seriously injured in a car accident and demanded that she be returned to the hospital.

• Su Wentao congratulated Zhang Mingyue on winning the bid and mocked Huo Sihan for losing.
• Huo Sihan grabbed Zhang Mingyue and pulled him aside, while Yu Hao and Yu Kun held back Zhang Mingyue's followers.
• Huo Sihan accused Zhang Mingyue of hiding his wife, Su Qiao.
• Zhang Mingyue denied hiding Su Qiao and said he had only helped her at the Hyatt.
• Huo Sihan warned Zhang Mingyue to hand Su Qiao over and revealed that her heart and lungs had been seriously injured in a car accident.

Su Qiao learned that the Zhang Family had won the bid and discussed her health and divorce from Huo Sihan with Zhang Mingyue. Huo Sihan remained convinced that Zhang Mingyue was hiding her, while Su Qiao dismissed his pursuit as anger over losing the bid.

• Huo Sihan learned that Su Qiao had not sought further hospital treatment and worried that she might push herself until she died.
• Zhang Mingyue urged Huo Sihan to find Su Qiao quickly, then left as Huo Sihan grew certain she was with him.
• Su Qiao congratulated Zhang Mingyue on the Zhang Family winning the bid and assured him that she was recovering.
• Zhang Mingyue told Su Qiao that Huo Sihan had pressured him to hand her over and questioned whether she was truly divorced.
• Su Qiao insisted that Huo Sihan had treated her like a stranger and suggested he was merely upset about losing the bid.

Su Qiao stayed away from Huo Sihan and prepared to move against the Su Family, while Huo Sihan learned that she had been wronged and was the Su Family patriarch’s biological granddaughter. The chapter ended with Huo Sihan ordering Yu Hao to watch Zhang Mingyue, where he believed Su Qiao was staying.

• Su Qiao assured Zhang Mingyue she would be careful, then refused to return to Huo Sihan and began planning against the Su Family.
• Yu Hao reported that the Su Family had altered Su Qiao’s tender documents, changing the reserve price from 268 million to 258 million before bidding 260 million.
• Yu Hao revealed that Su Qiao’s mother was Old Master Su’s biological daughter, making Su Qiao his granddaughter.
• Huo Sihan told Yu Hao to keep a close watch on Zhang Mingyue, and Yu Hao left the office with his younger brother.

Yu Hao and Yu Kun discussed why Madam had left, with Yu Kun arguing that Huo Sihan had failed to help her when she was in danger. Huo Sihan overheard them, then ordered someone to keep watch on the cemetery.

• Yu Kun wondered whether Madam had fallen for Zhang Mingyue, who had escorted her to her room that night.
• Yu Hao explained that Zhang Mingyue had met Madam for the first time that night and argued she had left because Huo Sihan had failed to help her.
• Yu Kun said he would have left too if he had been in Madam's position, and Huo Sihan overheard him.
• Yu Hao and Yu Kun nervously apologized to Huo Sihan, who ordered them to have someone keep watch on the cemetery.

Huo Sihan returned to the Old Manor and confronted Huo Xiaoyan for moving into the second floor and changing the room that had belonged to Su Qiao. After Huo Xiaoyan insulted Su Qiao, he slapped her and ordered her to leave the Huo Family if she spoke against Su Qiao again.

• Yu Hao realized the cemetery was the place they should consider, while Yu Kun was relieved to have escaped a beating.
• Huo Sihan returned to the Old Manor and found servants clearing the room next door after Huo Xiaoyan ordered them to make it her study.
• Huo Sihan ordered Huo Xiaoyan to move back to the third floor, but she argued that she wanted to live closer to him.
• Huo Xiaoyan called Su Qiao a thief who had betrayed Huo Sihan, and he slapped her and warned her not to slander Su Qiao again.
• Huo Xiaoyan ran away crying, and Huo Sihan ordered the servants to restore the room and move her belongings into it.

Su Qiao planned to leave the house to get money while reflecting on her estrangement from Huo Sihan. Huo Sihan slept in the newly restored bedroom, while the Su Family struggled with deals being taken away and Su Wentao began investigating.

• Huo Sihan inspected the restored bedroom, picked up a rabbit-ear cushion, and soon fell asleep on the bed.
• Su Wentao noticed the Su Family was losing deals, warned executives, and began investigating the Huo Family and Zhang Family.
• Su Qiao decided she had recovered enough to go out and planned to pay respects to her mother after buying a lottery ticket for money.
• Su Qiao told 444 she did not miss Huo Sihan because he was cold toward her, while 444 urged her not to give up so easily.
• Butler Lu offered Huo Sihan a late-night snack at the study, but Huo Sihan refused.

Huo Sihan learned more about Madam from Butler Lu and quietly indulged his fondness for her rabbit-eared cushion. He returned the cushion to her room, still unaware of how much he had begun to care about her.

• Huo Sihan tasted the pastries and sago dessert Mama Zhang had made and ate them despite finding them too sweet.
• Butler Lu told Huo Sihan that Madam was talented, got along well with everyone, and often painted by the lake.
• Huo Sihan realized he knew almost nothing about Madam after living with her for two years.
• Butler Lu brought Huo Sihan the clean rabbit-eared cushion he had asked for while drunk.
• Huo Sihan stroked the cushion, then carried it to Madam's room because it belonged to her.

Huo Sihan read Su Qingyao’s diary and learned how lonely and miserable she had been after their marriage, leaving him overwhelmed with regret over his coldness toward her.

• Huo Sihan entered the room, took Su Qingyao’s diary from the bedside table, and read it despite feeling guilty about snooping.
• Su Qingyao’s entries described her reluctant marriage, her mother’s illness, the Huo Family’s coldness, and her despair over the cruelty she had faced.
• Huo Sihan remembered Su Qingyao alone in the hospital and realized his avoidance had added to her pain.
• Huo Sihan closed the diary, returned it to the bedside table, and lay down on the bed, haunted by regret.

Huo Sihan learned that Zhang Mingyue was at a suburban house and rushed there with Yu Hao and a group of bodyguards, convinced that his missing wife might be with him. He confronted Zhang Mingyue and demanded to know where she was, but the chapter ended before Zhang answered.

• Huo Sihan stayed awake until dawn, then went to work determined to find his wife.
• Yu Hao told Huo Sihan that Zhang Mingyue had gone to a small house in the suburbs, and Huo Sihan immediately set out with him and Yu Kun.
• Yu Hao and Yu Kun speculated about why Huo Sihan's wife might have sought Zhang Mingyue's help, and Yu Hao warned Yu Kun not to suggest she find someone else to rely on.
• Huo Sihan's group surrounded the suburban house, and a bodyguard confirmed Zhang Mingyue was inside.
• Huo Sihan entered the house and demanded to know where his wife was, while Zhang Mingyue accused him of trespassing.

Huo Sihan searched Zhang Mingyue’s hideout for his missing wife and blamed Zhang for taking her away while she was recovering from surgery. After Huo Sihan nearly choked him, Zhang said she had already left but did not reveal where she had gone.

• Huo Sihan and Yu Hao searched Zhang Mingyue’s hideout, but they found no sign of the woman.
• Huo Sihan accused Zhang Mingyue of taking her from the hospital without medical care and threatened the Zhang family if her condition worsened.
• Huo Sihan grabbed Zhang Mingyue by the throat and demanded to know where she had gone.
• Yu Hao warned Huo Sihan that Zhang Mingyue could not speak, so Huo Sihan dropped him.
• Zhang Mingyue said the woman had already left, and Huo Sihan demanded to know where she went.

Huo Sihan confronted Zhang Mingyue about Su Qiao's disappearance, then learned she had sent Yu Hao a message about repaying medical expenses. After a failed attempt to trace her phone, Huo Sihan received word that a woman resembling Su Qiao had entered a cemetery, and he rushed there.

• Huo Sihan demanded that Zhang Mingyue reveal where Su Qiao had gone, but Zhang Mingyue said she had left a note and accused Huo Sihan of mistreating her.
• Zhang Mingyue admitted he wanted to pursue Su Qiao, while Huo Sihan insisted she was still his wife and Zhang Mingyue would never have a chance with her.
• Yu Hao told Huo Sihan that Su Qiao had transferred her medical expenses to his account, and Huo Sihan took his phone to trace her number.
• Yu Hao reported that the number could not be traced because an exceptionally skilled hacker had erased the records.
• A subordinate told Yu Hao that a woman resembling Su Qiao had entered a cemetery carrying flowers and a plastic bag, and Huo Sihan rushed toward it before suddenly turning back into the car.

At the cemetery, Su Qiao planned to bring down the Su Family and reflected on Zhang Mingyue’s interest in her. 444 warned her not to betray her man, then revealed his traumatic childhood and that he had just confronted Zhang Mingyue at her former residence.

• Su Qiao concluded that without Zhang Mingyue, Huo Xiaoyan would lose support, and she planned to finish collecting evidence against the Su Family.
• 444 warned Su Qiao that Zhang Mingyue appeared to be pursuing her and urged her to stay loyal to her man.
• 444 explained that Su Qiao’s man had been kidnapped as a child, suffered severe trauma, and developed autism after kidnappers killed and fed him his puppy.
• Su Qiao asked about his Darkening Value, and 444 said it had risen from 8 to 9.
• 444 reported that her man had searched her former residence, found her gone, and nearly fought Zhang Mingyue there.

Su Qiao visited Su Mama’s grave and vowed to break away from the Su Family and make Huo Xiaoyan pay for the deaths she blamed on her. Huo Sihan found her at the cemetery, but Su Qiao reminded him that they were divorced and owed each other nothing.

• Su Qiao brought offerings to Su Mama’s grave, apologized for not saving her, and promised to live freely apart from the Su Family.
• Su Qiao and 444 discussed making Huo Xiaoyan suffer for the deaths Su Qiao attributed to her.
• Huo Sihan arrived at the cemetery with Yu Kun and others, then approached Su Qiao at the grave.
• Huo Sihan asked Su Qiao why she had left the hospital without telling him and said he had been searching for her.
• Su Qiao said they were divorced, had nothing to do with each other, and were even because she had repaid his medical expenses.

Huo Sihan told Su Qiao that their marriage was still intact and insisted on taking her home. When she refused, he carried her out of the cemetery and held her on his lap in the car, where she continued resisting his attempts to make her rest.

• Huo Sihan told Su Qiao they were not divorced because he had not used their agreement, and insisted she was still his wife.
• Su Qiao refused to go home, while Huo Sihan promised Zhang Mingyue would not bother her and said he would not divorce her or live apart.
• Su Qiao pointed out that they could still divorce after living apart for two years, but Huo Sihan urged her to return because her health was poor.
• When Su Qiao kept walking, Huo Sihan scooped her up and carried her toward the cemetery entrance, claiming she was unwell and walked slowly.
• At the car, Huo Sihan carried Su Qiao into the back seat and settled her on his lap, then covered her eyes and pressed her head to his chest as she protested that she was not tired.

Su Qiao brought Huo Sihan to her rental apartment to collect her belongings, where his fear of dogs resurfaced when he met her puppy, Little Snow. She urged him to pet it, leaving him tense but reaching out to stroke its fur.

• Huo Sihan clutched Su Qiao after she bumped into him, then abruptly set her down when a traumatic memory of his childhood kidnapping and the Little White Dog surfaced.
• Huo Sihan apologized for handling Su Qiao roughly, and she reconsidered her view of his aloofness.
• Su Qiao asked Yu Hao to drive her to her rental apartment to collect her things, and Huo Sihan agreed.
• Huo Sihan recoiled when Little Snow rushed toward him, and Su Qiao picked up the puppy and offered it to him.
• Despite his fear of dogs, Huo Sihan placed his hand on Little Snow as Su Qiao encouraged him to stroke its fur.

Su Qiao coaxed Huo Sihan into petting Little Snow, then let him carry her and her belongings back to the Huo Family's Old Manor. The household welcomed her with excitement when she arrived.

• Su Qiao guided Huo Sihan's hand over Little Snow and asked him to hold the puppy while she packed.
• Huo Sihan carefully set Little Snow down, then picked it up again and began petting it as it crawled onto his leg and licked his palm.
• Su Qiao finished packing, but Huo Sihan took her backpack and carried her while she held Little Snow.
• Su Qiao returned to the Huo Family's Old Manor, where Butler Lu, Mama Zhang, Uncle Li, and the others greeted her happily.

Su Qiao returned to the Huo Family and reunited warmly with its household staff, while Huo Sihan insisted she get a medical examination. After 444 reappeared, Su Qiao teased the system and threatened to pluck its fur.

• Su Qiao greeted Mama Zhang, Uncle Li, Butler Lu, and the other household staff, who were relieved to see her.
• Huo Sihan carried Su Qiao to her untouched room and noticed the impressions on the bedsheets, then hurried to arrange a comprehensive examination.
• Su Qiao stopped Huo Sihan from arranging the examination, worried it would expose how unusually healthy she had become after the accident.
• 444 appeared and teased Su Qiao about her progress, while she accused it of having a mental impairment.
• Su Qiao let 444 off with a warning that she would pluck its fur and make it a bald cat if it malfunctioned again.