Chapter Summaries

After exposing Bai Ting and Che Lixuan at the birthday party, Su Qiao left to eat and then set up a scheme involving Bai Ting and Che Lixuan’s father. She left them unconscious together in a private room, while 444 realized she was seeking revenge for the suffering Bai Ting had caused her in a previous life.

• Su Qiao left the party, and the students began suspecting Bai Ting and Che Lixuan were having an affair, damaging their reputations.
• Su Qiao ate at the hotel restaurant, then returned upstairs and waited near the restroom for a middle-aged man.
• Su Qiao knocked out the man and Bai Ting, carried them into an empty private room, and had 444 hack the hotel surveillance equipment.
• Su Qiao explained that the man was Che Lixuan’s powerful father and dismissed 444’s suspicion that she was taking revenge for Madam Che’s insult.

Su Qiao returned home after helping Bai Ting and ran into Huo Hanfeng, who demanded to know where she had been and grew jealous when he learned she attended Che Lixuan's birthday party. After Su Qiao criticized Che Lixuan as weak, Huo Hanfeng's Darkening Value fell from 9/10 to 7/10, though she did not understand why.

• Su Qiao finished helping Bai Ting, erased her traces, and went home.
• Huo Hanfeng grabbed Su Qiao when she entered and angrily asked where she had gone.
• Su Qiao admitted she had attended Che Lixuan's birthday party and eaten afterward.
• Huo Hanfeng asked whether Su Qiao liked Che Lixuan, and Su Qiao called him frail and weak.
• Huo Hanfeng agreed that Che Lixuan was a weakling, and 444 reported that his Darkening Value had dropped to 7/10.
• Huo Hanfeng sprawled onto the sofa and said he was hungry.

Su Qiao cooked noodles for Huo Hanfeng and indulged his demand that she pick out the scallions. After following her upstairs, Huo Hanfeng criticized her revealing clothes and told her to wear her old ones.

• Su Qiao went to the kitchen and offered to make Huo Hanfeng noodles with an egg.
• Huo Hanfeng complained about the scallions and made Su Qiao pick them out of his bowl.
• Huo Hanfeng ate all the noodles and broth, then claimed they were only passable.
• Su Qiao went upstairs to sleep, but Huo Hanfeng followed her and criticized the clothes she had worn that day.
• Huo Hanfeng said her exposed arms and thighs made strangers think she worked in the adult industry, leaving Su Qiao speechless.

Huo Hanfeng realized he wanted to be Su Qiao’s man, but she shut the door on him before he could respond. Meanwhile, Bai Ting woke up after an encounter with Che Lixuan’s father, blamed Su Qiao, and vowed revenge.

• Huo Hanfeng stopped himself from claiming he was Su Qiao’s brother and realized he wanted to be her man.
• Su Qiao dismissed Huo Hanfeng and shut her door, leaving him to return to his room in anger.
• Bai Ting fled the hotel and discovered marks on her body, then recognized the man involved as Che Lixuan’s father.
• Bai Ting blamed Su Qiao for what happened and vowed to make her suffer and be despised.
• Bai Ting’s mother announced she was going out to play mahjong, and Bai Ting angrily threw a crystal hair clip at the door.

Bai Ting resolved to keep her past hidden from Che Lixuan and take revenge on Su Qiao after blaming her for the secret coming out. Su Qiao spent Sunday studying in her room, while Huo Hanfeng lingered outside her door and then rose early Monday morning.

• Bai Ting rejected the idea of becoming someone’s mistress and focused on marrying Che Lixuan to escape her current life.
• Bai Ting erupted in anger and grief over her unknown father and her strained relationship with Bai's Mother.
• Bai Ting decided Che Lixuan must not learn what happened and blamed Su Qiao as the only person who knew.
• Bai Ting called someone and planned to ruin Su Qiao’s reputation.
• Su Qiao stayed in her room reviewing high-school material while Huo Hanfeng repeatedly hesitated outside her door.
• Huo Hanfeng got up at six o’clock early Monday morning.

Huo Hanfeng drove Su Qiao to school, where her striking appearance in casual clothes drew attention and made students who remembered her from before question her dramatic transformation.

• Huo Hanfeng asked Su Qiao to ride with him to school, and she reluctantly accepted after he insisted.
• Near the school, Su Qiao asked to get out to buy a pen, and Huo Hanfeng mistakenly suspected she was avoiding being seen with him or Che Lixuan.
• Huo Hanfeng waited while Su Qiao bought stationery, then drove her into the school parking lot.
• Su Qiao and Huo Hanfeng entered campus together, attracting students’ attention because Su Qiao was not wearing a uniform.
• Students recognized Su Qiao from Che Lixuan’s birthday banquet and were stunned by how different she looked.

Su Qiao went to school despite Bai Ting’s return and kept her guard up, then left campus without Huo Hanfeng to handle an important errand. In an alley, she was cornered by three dangerous-looking men who appeared to be acting on Bai Ting’s plan.

• Huo Hanfeng asked Su Qiao to wait for him after school, but she refused and entered her classroom.
• Su Qiao noticed Bai Ting acting as though nothing had happened and continued studying while staying alert.
• After classes, Su Qiao headed away from home without waiting for Huo Hanfeng.
• Three men approached Su Qiao, and she deliberately led them into a nearby alley.
• The men surrounded Su Qiao, and their leader told her he wanted to play a game with her.

Su Qiao defeated three men sent by Bai Ting to assault her and take photos, then forced their leader to reveal the plan. She let the men get up, but their fearful reaction suggested she had more in mind.

• Su Qiao confronted the three men who had ambushed her and swiftly paralyzed them in a fight.
• Su Qiao restored the Flat-top Man's jaw and threatened him with a scalpel until he admitted Bai Ting had sent them.
• The Flat-top Man revealed that Bai Ting had ordered the men to assault Su Qiao and take photos.
• Su Qiao struck all three men again, fixed the other two men's jaws, and told them they could leave.
• The men struggled to their feet, and Blondie nervously addressed Su Qiao as Big Sister.

Su Qiao threatened three men with needles and ordered them to help with a plan involving Bai Ting’s gambling mother. The men agreed, and after Su Qiao left, they wondered whether they should seek medical help.

• Su Qiao made Blondie and the others beg her for mercy after she threatened them with needles.
• Flat-top Man explained that Bai Ting’s mother had once been involved with their boss and was now gambling at their den every day.
• Su Qiao offered to remove the needles if the men carried out her request, gave Flat-top Man her phone number, and warned them against going to a hospital.
• After Su Qiao left, Blondie asked Flat-top Man what to do, while Small Triangular-eyed Man suggested going to the hospital.

Su Qiao left the alley after forcing the three men to retreat, but they planned to take revenge on Bai Ting by targeting her mother. She then found an old man suffering a heart attack and prepared to treat him with her newly made pills and a silver needle.

• Flat-top Man stopped his companion from attacking Su Qiao, then left with the others and decided to torment Bai Ting's mother.
• Su Qiao told 444 that she had learned her poisonous-parasite tactic from the Demon Sect.
• Su Qiao found a crowd gathered around an old man who had collapsed with purple lips.
• A middle-aged man warned the crowd that the old man was having an attack and might not survive the wait for an ambulance.
• Su Qiao identified the old man's heart attack, opened his shirt, and produced a silver needle as the middle-aged man tried to stop her.

Su Qiao treated an old man who had collapsed, ignoring the crowd's accusations and leaving him to recover. The old man woke up feeling well, while the onlookers and the middle-aged man were left stunned.

• Su Qiao pierced the old man's chest with a Silver Needle, gave him a black pill, and removed the needle after his breathing returned.
• The middle-aged man and onlookers accused Su Qiao of acting recklessly and tried to stop her from leaving.
• Su Qiao said the old man would have died without her help and pointed out that he had awakened.
• The middle-aged man helped the old man sit up, and the old man said his chest no longer hurt and he felt comfortable.

After saving the old man from a heart attack, Su Qiao offered to treat his illness and urged him to undergo surgery. The old man was left considering her blunt claim that she could give him another twenty years of life for a hefty fee.

• The middle-aged man told the old man that Su Qiao had saved him, and the old man thanked her.
• Su Qiao offered to sell the old man her medicine, but he said he had accepted his heart disease and did not want to undergo risky surgery.
• Su Qiao told the old man that he had at most three months to live without surgery, and the middle-aged man defended her by explaining that she had revived him with acupuncture.
• Su Qiao urged the old man to take a chance on surgery and claimed she could give him twenty more years of life.
• Su Qiao said that her surgery usually cost at least five million and that the medicine ingredients were expensive.

Su Qiao saved Old Master Lin from a sudden attack and offered to perform surgery to remove the metal fragment near his heart for at least five million yuan. Old Master Lin accepted her number and believed she was a capable healer, leaving open the possibility that he would seek her help.

• Su Qiao told Old Master Lin that a metal fragment near his heart made surgery difficult and quoted a minimum price of five million yuan.
• Su Qiao gave Old Master Lin her phone number and offered to sell him pills that could extend his life by two years.
• A teenager admired Su Qiao and declared that he had fallen in love with her at first sight, while his friend mocked him.
• A middle-aged man warned Old Master Lin not to take Su Qiao seriously, but Old Master Lin insisted she was normal and recalled the battlefield injury that had left the fragment in his chest.

Su Qiao postponed her plans after helping an old man and told 444 to return the ten million it had taken from Liu Yan’s account. On her way home, she encountered Huo Hanfeng, who had been searching anxiously after hearing she was attacked, and he asked whether she had learned Taekwondo.

• The old man thanked the people who helped him and left to attend to an urgent matter, while bystanders urged him to get checked at a hospital.
• Su Qiao worried about needing money for her future, and 444 offered to provide funds through legitimate means.
• Su Qiao ordered 444 to put the ten million back into Liu Yan’s account to avoid causing trouble.
• Su Qiao abandoned her plan for the day and headed home, where she ran into a sweaty, angry Huo Hanfeng.
• Huo Hanfeng said he had heard Su Qiao was cornered by thugs and had feared she was hurt; Su Qiao reassured him she could handle them.
• Huo Hanfeng asked Su Qiao whether she had learned Taekwondo.

Su Qiao told Huo Hanfeng she had learned martial arts to survive, prompting him to apologize and promise to protect her. As they headed home, Su Qiao remained confused by his sudden concern and noticed blood on his shirt from an injury he brushed off.

• Huo Hanfeng asked Su Qiao why she had learned Taekwondo, and she said it had been to survive.
• Huo Hanfeng felt guilty about Su Qiao's past and apologized to her.
• Huo Hanfeng pulled Su Qiao into an embrace and promised to protect her from now on.
• Su Qiao wondered why Huo Hanfeng was acting so kindly, while 444 said he felt sorry for her.
• Huo Hanfeng led Su Qiao toward home and told her to walk on his left.
• Su Qiao noticed blood on Huo Hanfeng's shirt, and he said a car had scraped his arm on the way out of school.

Su Qiao treated Huo Hanfeng’s injury at his apartment and agreed to cook him noodles. After watching her care for him, Huo Hanfeng’s Darkening Value fell to 5/10, though Su Qiao remained unaware of his feelings.

• Su Qiao insisted that Huo Hanfeng get his injury treated and went with him to his nearby apartment.
• Su Qiao bought vegetables, then treated the wound on Huo Hanfeng’s upper arm while he blushed and watched her.
• Su Qiao warned Huo Hanfeng to keep the wound dry and be more careful, while he denied coming to find her.
• Su Qiao went to cook, and 444 reported that Huo Hanfeng’s Darkening Value had dropped from 7/10 to 5/10.

Su Qiao cooked for Huo Hanfeng, while Bai Ting learned that her plan against Su Qiao had failed and decided to fabricate evidence instead. The next day, Su Qiao found herself targeted by rumors at school after fake photos appeared on the campus forum.

• Su Qiao served Huo Hanfeng noodles, then gave him rice and meat dishes after he complained about having only noodles.
• Huo Hanfeng praised Su Qiao’s cooking and admitted he had criticized it before because he did not want her to get conceited.
• Bai Ting called Brother Hu, who angrily told her never to contact him again after their plan failed.
• Bai Ting decided to make fake photos to ruin Su Qiao’s reputation.
• Su Qiao arrived at school and heard students spreading rumors about her before discovering fabricated photos on the campus forum.
• 444 recognized that Bai Ting had made the photos and offered to delete them.

Su Qiao discovered that fake, compromising photos of her had been posted on the campus website and refused to let Huo Hanfeng take her away. After the school summoned her to explain, she challenged Teacher Li over the school's failure to prevent the incident.

• Su Qiao told 444 that deleting the photos would only make people suspect a cover-up and said she would handle the matter through proper channels.
• Huo Hanfeng saw the photos, defended Su Qiao, and offered to take her home, but she insisted on staying at school.
• Su Qiao entered class despite the students' stares, and classmates argued over whether the photos were real and spread rumors about her and Huo Lifeng.
• The class monitor told Su Qiao that Teacher Li and the Dean of Students wanted to see her in the office.
• Teacher Li demanded an explanation, but Su Qiao criticized the school's management and silently considered that Bai Ting had created the photos.

Su Qiao confronted Teacher Li and Director Wang over the accusations against her and said the school could not give her justice. The police arrived to investigate the online photos and the cheating allegation.

• Su Qiao challenged Teacher Li’s judgment and asked Director Wang to acknowledge that she had been treated unfairly at school.
• Teacher Li accused Su Qiao of cheating on the placement exam, but Su Qiao demanded evidence.
• Teacher Li said she had called Liu Yan and insulted Su Qiao, who responded by insisting the accusations and photos be investigated by the police.
• Director Wang tried to dissuade Su Qiao from involving the police, but two officers arrived and Su Qiao identified herself as the caller.
• Director Wang tried to dismiss the matter as a minor issue when the officers asked who had called.

Su Qiao recounted the accusations and the teachers’ attempt to expel her to the police, demanding justice for the harm they had caused. When Liu Yan arrived and tried to slap her, Su Qiao confronted her about years of mistreatment and neglect.

• Su Qiao told the police that the school had tried to expel her without investigating and asked them to clear her name.
• The male officer promised to investigate, and the female officer comforted Su Qiao and vowed to find whoever was responsible.
• Liu Yan rushed in, apologized to a teacher, then moved to slap Su Qiao and ordered her to apologize.
• Su Qiao dodged Liu Yan’s hand and accused her of ignoring the bullying and ostracism she had endured at school.
• Su Qiao asked whether Liu Yan was truly her mother as her suppressed anger toward her erupted.