Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhiyao grieved over Su Qiao rejecting him and begged his mother to help him win her back. Wang Lingxi suggested he earn more money and get Su Qiao pregnant, leaving him with a coercive plan to pursue.

• Wang Zhiyao cried to Mother Wang after recalling that Su Qiao had criticized his looks and no longer wanted him.
• Mother Wang and Wang Lingxi comforted Wang Zhiyao and insisted Su Qiao was not worthy of him.
• Wang Zhiyao said he only wanted Su Qiao and asked Mother Wang to help him.
• Wang Lingxi advised Wang Zhiyao to find a higher-paying job and get Su Qiao pregnant so she would be pressured to give birth.

Wang Lingxi and Mother Wang urged Wang Zhiyao to seek Cen Yue’s help finding a better job, and he began to reconsider. After dinner, Cen Mohan drove Su Qiao to her residential complex, where she realized he seemed to live there too.

• Wang Lingxi told Wang Zhiyao to get close to Cen Yue and ask her for help finding a well-paying job.
• Wang Zhiyao worried that Cen Yue’s involvement would further harm his chances of winning Su Qiao back, but Wang Lingxi and Mother Wang persuaded him to reconsider.
• Cen Mohan offered to drive Su Qiao home after they ate hot pot, but Su Qiao initially said she would take a taxi.
• Cen Mohan drove into Su Qiao’s upscale residential complex, surprising her and making her suspect that he lived there.

Su Qiao discovered that Cen Mohan had moved into the apartment next door, while he reflected on how meeting her had ended his decade of nightmares. His memories revealed the brutal family circumstances that had forced him to fight for himself and his twin sister.

• Cen Mohan drove Su Qiao home and revealed that he lived in apartment 1209 next door to her.
• Su Qiao questioned when he had moved in and declined his invitation to come inside.
• After Su Qiao shut her door, Cen Mohan entered his apartment and went to the balcony overlooking hers.
• Cen Mohan thought about how his nightmares had stopped on the night he saw Su Qiao.
• Cen Mohan recalled his mother's death after giving birth to him and his twin sister, and how he had fought to keep them from becoming tools of the Cen Family.

The chapter recounted how Cen’s recurring nightmare began when he was fifteen, causing years of sleeplessness and transforming him into the Cen Family’s ruthless head. After returning to Haishi to seek help, he got lost in an old residential complex before he could find a venerable monk, and the chapter ended as he approached his encounter with her.

• At a little over fifteen, Cen dreamed of falling through darkness while a woman told him, “In my heart, you are nothing.”
• Cen repeatedly had the nightmare, and his worsening sleep and violent temper led him to quietly eliminate people who angered him.
• Cen rose to power in the Cen Family, exiled his father to Africa, expelled his father’s mistresses, and outlasted his grandfather.
• After twelve years of sleep problems and failed treatments, Cen returned to the country at his older sister’s suggestion to consult a venerable monk.
• Cen got lost in an old residential complex in Haishi before he could find the monk, and he had not yet encountered her.

Cen Mohan recalled how thinking of Su Qiao had stopped his nightmares, while Su Qiao planned to keep their relationship ambiguous so he would not have an excuse to cling to her. After repeatedly running into each other in their building, Cen Mohan asked her to travel with him, and she remained unconvinced by his invitation.

• Cen Mohan remembered first seeing Su Qiao and realized that thinking about her before bed kept his nightmares away.
• Cen Mohan moved closer to Su Qiao and found that the thought of her sleeping nearby helped him sleep peacefully.
• Su Qiao ignored 444’s suggestion to reject Cen Mohan outright and decided to keep their relationship ambiguous.
• Su Qiao repeatedly ran into Cen Mohan while collecting deliveries and taking out the trash, and he claimed he was on vacation.
• Cen Mohan invited Su Qiao to travel with him, but she doubted they were close enough to go together.

Su Qiao and Cen Mohan discussed traveling together, though Su Qiao was focused on her graduate school entrance exam. The system then told Su Qiao that Wang Zhiyao had caused a costly car accident and had no valid insurance.

• Cen Mohan suggested that he and Su Qiao travel together and asked her about famous temples.
• Su Qiao said she could not travel until she had handled her studies and other responsibilities, but agreed to join Cen Mohan for food.
• The system told Su Qiao that Wang Zhiyao had hit a man with his car, leaving him with a broken leg.
• The system explained that Wang Zhiyao's insurance had lapsed and the accident could cost nearly three million yuan, while his car was impounded.
• Su Qiao welcomed the news that Wang Zhiyao would face the financial burden.

Su Qiao and Cen Mohan grew closer through shared meals and workouts, while the Wang family sold their home to pay compensation and struggled financially. Wang Zhiyao became increasingly depressed as he failed to find Su Qiao.

• Su Qiao changed and went next door for lunch, where Cen Mohan invited her to work out with him.
• Su Qiao and Cen Mohan went to the gym, and Cen Mohan led her to his private training room after noticing her exposed waist.
• Su Qiao and Cen Mohan began regularly cooking and eating together before working out in his private training room.
• Mother Wang and Father Wang listed their house for a cheap sale to pay compensation, forcing the family to rent a home and live on Father Wang's modest salary.
• Wang Zhiyao failed to find Su Qiao and became more depressed under renewed pressure from his family.

After waking in Cen Yue's room following a drunken night, Wang Zhiyao learned that they had both drunk too much and insisted he had done nothing wrong because he respected his girlfriend, Xiao Qiao. He left embarrassed and suspicious that Cen Yue had also set up their earlier meeting at the Western restaurant.

• Wang Zhiyao woke hungover in Cen Yue's room and was shocked to see her doing yoga on the balcony.
• Cen Yue explained that their companies' employees had dinner together and that both of them drank too much.
• Wang Zhiyao tried to leave wrapped in a bedsheet, and Cen Yue stopped him to point out that he was naked.
• Cen Yue teased Wang Zhiyao about whether it was his first time and asked if he had a girlfriend.
• Wang Zhiyao said his mother taught him to wait until marriage and that he respected Xiao Qiao.
• Wang Zhiyao remembered that Cen Yue's earlier invitation to the Western restaurant had left him alone with her, and suspected she had arranged it deliberately.

Cen Yue confronted Wang Zhiyao about their drunken night and demanded that he date her, but he refused and insisted he would return to Su Qiao. The chapter ended with Cen Yue threatening to tell Su Qiao about what happened, leaving Wang Zhiyao asking what she wanted.

• Cen Yue challenged Wang Zhiyao's claim that their night together meant nothing and raised the possibility that she was pregnant.
• Wang Zhiyao asked whether Cen Yue wanted money, but she told him to date her and criticized Su Qiao's commitment to him.
• Wang Zhiyao defended Su Qiao, saying she loved him and would return after he reconciled with her.
• Wang Zhiyao tried to leave and refused to take responsibility for the night, prompting Cen Yue to threaten to tell Su Qiao.
• Wang Zhiyao demanded to know what Cen Yue wanted.

Cen Yue offered Wang Zhiyao a high-paying job at her company, hoping to distance him from his girlfriend, and he went home to discuss it with his family. She then invited Su Qiao to a café, where she sized her up and began their conversation.

• Cen Yue offered Wang Zhiyao a project manager position with a high salary, and he hesitated because he did not want to become entangled with her again.
• Wang Zhiyao considered his family's debts and financial hardship, then told Cen Yue he needed to discuss the offer with his family.
• Cen Yue invited Su Qiao to meet her, and Su Qiao arrived at the café and sat across from her.
• Cen Yue appraised Su Qiao's appearance and asked whether she needed to introduce herself, while Su Qiao privately dismissed her arrogance.

Su Qiao met Cen Yue, Wang Zhiyao’s boss and girlfriend, who tried to persuade her to leave him. Su Qiao dismissed Cen Yue’s claims and revealed that Wang Zhiyao kept begging her to come back.

• Cen Yue introduced herself as Wang Zhiyao’s girlfriend and said she had slept with him, but Su Qiao showed no concern.
• Cen Yue urged Su Qiao to give up Wang Zhiyao, arguing that their families’ conflict made their relationship unlikely to succeed.
• Su Qiao retorted that Wang Zhiyao had no feelings for Cen Yue and mocked her for threatening to drive Su Qiao out of the city.
• Su Qiao told Cen Yue that she would gladly let Wang Zhiyao go, but he called and messaged her every day, begging her to return.

Su Qiao negotiated with Cen Yue to end her relationship with Wang Zhiyao, leaving with one million after agreeing to make him give up on her. She planned to keep the money and cut off contact with him.

• Cen Yue offered Su Qiao three hundred thousand to leave Wang Zhiyao, but Su Qiao refused the amount as too small.
• Su Qiao demanded one million, and Cen Yue agreed to transfer it.
• After the money arrived, Su Qiao moved it to another card through Little Four so it could not be taken back.
• Su Qiao told Cen Yue she would message Wang Zhiyao to break up and would no longer answer him, though she had already blocked and deleted his number.

Su Qiao took one million from Cen Yue and left the café relieved that Cen Yue was willing to be with Wang Zhiyao. The next day, Wang Zhiyao confronted Su Qiao at the gym about their breakup and whether she had taken Cen Yue’s money.

• Su Qiao told Cen Yue that Wang Zhiyao was an immature man-child and wished the couple a lifetime of happiness.
• Su Qiao left the café, relieved to have the money and planning to pick up her new car.
• The next day, Wang Zhiyao blocked Su Qiao outside the gym and demanded to know why she had broken up with him.
• Wang Zhiyao asked Su Qiao whether she had really taken one million from Cen Yue after learning about the money from Cen Yue.

Su Qiao confronted Wang Zhiyao over his family’s demands and his double standards about women and daughters. She left him with a cutting comparison between his sister’s suffering and the treatment his family expected her to accept.

• Su Qiao told Wang Zhiyao that his mother had offered her one million after they had already broken up, and that she had accepted it as compensation for being threatened.
• Wang Zhiyao hoped his mother’s threat had caused the breakup, but Su Qiao reminded him that their relationship had already ended.
• Wang Zhiyao defended his mother’s expectations that the man provide a house, the woman pay for renovations and furnishings, and the couple have a son, saying Su Qiao should have compromised for him.
• Su Qiao pointed out that Wang Zhiyao’s sister had been cheated on and driven from her home, then sarcastically asked whether she deserved it for not aborting her daughter.
• Wang Zhiyao accused Su Qiao of being vicious for speaking about his sister, and Su Qiao condemned his family’s double standard toward daughters.

Su Qiao confronted Wang Zhiyao about his family’s demands and his dependence on his mother, making clear she would not marry him or sacrifice for him. Wang Zhiyao then asked for money to repay Cen Yue, revealing that he had another reason for approaching her.

• Su Qiao told Wang Zhiyao she had deliberately insulted him to make him feel what it was like to be demeaned by his family’s standards.
• Wang Zhiyao insisted his family’s hurtful remarks were trivial and asked Su Qiao to tolerate them because they had been together for two years.
• Su Qiao refused to put up with his family’s plans and rejected his appeal for her to make sacrifices for him.
• Su Qiao mocked Wang Zhiyao’s dependence on his mother and rejected the idea of caring for him after marriage.
• Wang Zhiyao asked Su Qiao to repay the money he needed to return to Cen Yue, and she realized that his real motive had surfaced.

Su Qiao refused to return the one million Wang Zhiyao wanted for his family and drove him away when he tried to stop her. Wang Zhiyao left still convinced she had deceived him, while Su Qiao was on her way to the gym.

• Wang Zhiyao demanded that Su Qiao return the one million, revealing he wanted it to help his family pay debts and buy a house.
• Su Qiao refused and told Wang Zhiyao that Cen Yue would have to come collect the money herself.
• Wang Zhiyao chased after Su Qiao, but two bodyguards blocked his way.
• Wang Zhiyao accused Su Qiao of finding a rich man, and Su Qiao kicked him and warned him not to provoke her.
• Wang Zhiyao ran off, then accused Su Qiao of having pretended to be obedient and well-behaved.

Su Qiao taunted Wang Zhiyao after he insisted he had earned his company position through his own ability, then told Cen Mohan she had taken one million from Cen Yue after Cen Yue threatened her. Cen Mohan asked how Su Qiao knew he was related to Cen Yue, and she said she knew a lot about him.

• Su Qiao mocked Wang Zhiyao for relying on a woman, and he vowed to make something of himself.
• Su Qiao told Little Four that two men had followed her, while admitting she had secretly investigated Cen Mohan too.
• Cen Mohan arrived at the gym and asked Su Qiao why she was laughing.
• Su Qiao explained that she had taken one million from Cen Yue after Cen Yue threatened to keep her from staying in Hai City.
• Cen Mohan asked whether Su Qiao needed money, and she said she had taken the money because Cen Yue had treated her with contempt and threatened her.
• Su Qiao revealed that she knew Cen Yue was Cen Mohan's maternal cousin, and he asked what else she knew about him.

Su Qiao told Cen Mohan about her online Detective Agency and confronted him about having bodyguards follow her. They sparred afterward, and Cen Mohan accidentally fell with her when he hesitated to strike her.

• Su Qiao explained that she ran an online Detective Agency selling information, and Cen Mohan warned her to protect her identity.
• Su Qiao asked Cen Mohan when the two bodyguards had started following her, and he admitted he had sent them to find and protect her.
• Cen Mohan agreed to withdraw the bodyguards, while Su Qiao said she had picked up her car and no longer needed rides from him.
• Su Qiao and Cen Mohan sparred, but he repeatedly pulled his punches and accidentally took her down with him.
• Su Qiao teased Cen Mohan for seeming anxious and laughed that she had only been kidding.

Su Qiao and Cen Mohan agreed to train separately after he struggled to spar with her, then made plans to eat mutton hotpot and look at houses together. Cen Mohan revealed he had researched the local real estate market before returning to the country.

• Su Qiao and Cen Mohan agreed to train separately and discuss questions together because Cen Mohan could not bring himself to hit her.
• Cen Mohan noticed Su Qiao had lost weight and suggested several foods, then agreed to her plan to eat mutton hotpot.
• Su Qiao recognized that Cen Mohan was using food suggestions to invite her home for lunch, while 444 complained that she called it an old fox for being crafty.
• Cen Mohan offered to accompany Su Qiao to look at houses after they ate.
• Cen Mohan told Su Qiao that he had researched the country's industries before returning and that real estate was part of his investment portfolio.

Su Qiao learned why Cen Mohan had returned to China and heard him explain that meeting her had eased his nightmares. After they trained, they went to a restaurant for hot pot, where he quietly served her lamb.

• Su Qiao asked Cen Mohan why he had returned to China, and he mentioned problems with the domestic branch's accounts and his poor sleep.
• Cen Mohan explained that Cen Yue was a distant relative, then told Su Qiao that he had slept peacefully the night they met.
• Cen Mohan said he believed their meeting had a purpose and that he would wait for the answers connected to his dreams.
• Su Qiao and Cen Mohan trained for about an hour and a half, showered, and went to a restaurant together.
• Cen Mohan ordered hot pot and other food, served Su Qiao cooked lamb, and asked if it was good.