Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao showed Yu Shengan how to navigate everyday life in the city, and promised to take him traveling and buy him a car. They returned to the residential compound with their shopping, where Su Qiao told the suspicious security guard that Yu Shengan was her tenant.

• Su Qiao took Yu Shengan on a bus, through a pedestrian street and supermarket, and taught him about daily life, including how to use an ATM.
• Yu Shengan told Su Qiao that he had learned how to buy train tickets and use the subway, and she praised him.
• Su Qiao promised to help Yu Shengan get an ID card, take him on trains, subways, and airplanes, and buy each of them a car.
• Yu Shengan worried that Su Qiao had little money, but decided to trust her and thought he would earn enough to support their family if needed.
• Su Qiao and Yu Shengan returned to the residential compound with their bags, and Su Qiao told the security guard that Yu Shengan was her tenant.

Su Qiao confronted the residents who spread rumors about her, while Yu Shengan protected her when one of the older women tried to attack. The older women recoiled in fear after seeing Yu Shengan’s blood-red eye.

• Yu Shengan admired Su Qiao after she intimidated the security guard and led him toward Building Seven.
• Several older women insulted Su Qiao and accused her of immoral behavior, cohabiting with a man, and having an abortion.
• Su Qiao denied their accusations and rebuked them for spreading rumors and meddling in her life.
• When one older woman charged at Su Qiao, Yu Shengan stepped in front of her and gripped the knife in his pocket.
• The older woman stumbled back and screamed when she saw Yu Shengan’s left eye turn blood-red.

After neighbors recoiled from Yu Shengan’s unusual eyes, Su Qiao reassured him and led him home. 444 suspected that his eyes reflected a powerful, possibly true form and planned to investigate his origins.

• The neighbors saw Yu Shengan’s mismatched eyes, called them creepy, and hurried away while saying he and Su Qiao should be driven out.
• Yu Shengan grew pale and hid his face beneath his windbreaker as he heard the neighbors’ comments.
• Su Qiao comforted Yu Shengan and explained that his eye colors might come from mixed ancestry.
• 444 warned Su Qiao that Yu Shengan’s changing eye color and origins as the Ghost Domain Demon King suggested he might be a powerful demon.
• Yu Shengan said he wanted to go home, and Su Qiao led him upstairs to their sixth-floor apartment.

Su Qiao gave Yu Shengan colored contact lenses to disguise his eyes, helping him believe he could go outside in daylight. As they started cooking together, their landlady arrived angrily and pounded on the door.

• Su Qiao searched Yu Shengan's room and found him curled up inside the wardrobe.
• Su Qiao took Yu Shengan to her bedroom, found brown-black colored contact lenses, and explained how to care for them.
• Su Qiao put the lenses in Yu Shengan's eyes, and he stared in surprise at his changed reflection.
• Yu Shengan thought the lenses might let him search for food in daylight and escape life in the Underground Passage.
• Su Qiao and Yu Shengan began cooking, but the landlady arrived with a black cloth bag and angrily pounded on their door.

Su Qiao confronted the Landlady over her demand that she and Yu Shengan move out, insisting on the return of her deposit and rent as well as compensation. The Landlady agreed to pay, but Su Qiao and the Landlady still had to settle when they would leave.

• Su Qiao demanded her deposit and three and a half months' rent, and said she would leave the day after tomorrow.
• The Landlady refused to return the money and insisted that Su Qiao and Yu Shengan move out immediately.
• Su Qiao pointed to the rental contract and demanded the money back, plus a month's rent in compensation for the Landlady's breach.
• The Landlady backed down after seeing Yu Shengan holding a Small Knife and agreed to return the deposit and rent if they moved out the next day.
• Su Qiao corrected the Landlady that the rent covered three and a half months and demanded a month's rent as a penalty for leaving early.
• The Landlady asked Su Qiao when they would move out.

After the Landlady ordered Su Qiao to leave, Su Qiao negotiated a week to find a new home and promised to go once she had her money. She planned to move somewhere quieter with Yu Shengan, who wanted to learn computers so he could earn money and buy them a house of their own.

• Su Qiao negotiated with the Landlady to stay for one more week while she found a house, and the Landlady agreed.
• After the Landlady left, Su Qiao told Yu Shengan they would buy a large house with a yard, and he said he knew how to grow vegetables because he remembered his grandfather doing it.
• Su Qiao praised Yu Shengan for becoming more confident and speaking more clearly.
• Yu Shengan asked Su Qiao to teach him computers because he wanted to earn money and make sure they would not be driven out of their home again.
• 444 suggested teaching Yu Shengan computer programming so he could earn money from home, and Su Qiao jokingly dismissed the idea.

Su Qiao prepared to teach Yu Shengan practical skills and set up a powerful device in their living room. Guo Yuan arrived with an appraiser and two bodyguards to inspect the treasures, leaving Su Qiao calmly facing him.

• Su Qiao considered teaching Yu Shengan skills so he could support himself.
• Su Qiao and Yu Shengan installed equipment that fired a beam powerful enough to slice a corner off their wooden table.
• Guo Yuan arrived with two bodyguards and an appraiser after examining photos of the treasures and deciding they might be genuine.
• Yu Shengan served Guo Yuan and the appraiser water while Guo Yuan questioned whether anyone else was with Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao told Guo Yuan that the two of them were enough and sat opposite him at ease.

Su Qiao met with Guo Yuan to sell him a ruby, insisting that he prove he could transfer the money before she showed him the stone. Master Yang examined it and confirmed it was a top-grade ruby, leaving him shocked at how casually Su Qiao had handled it.

• Guo Yuan questioned Su Qiao about her online popularity and how she had obtained such a valuable item.
• Su Qiao asked whether Guo Yuan had prepared the money for her overseas bank account, and he placed a black card on the table.
• Su Qiao tossed a black velvet pouch containing the ruby onto the coffee table for Master Yang to inspect.
• Master Yang examined the ruby and confirmed it was top-grade, then scolded Su Qiao for carrying it in a cloth pouch and tossing it carelessly.

Su Qiao had a rare, untreated 5.66-carat Pigeon Blood Ruby appraised by Guo Yuan and Master Yang, who recognized it as a genuine treasure potentially worth far more than a comparable ruby sold decades earlier. Guo Yuan began to negotiate by pointing out that it lacked a certificate, and Su Qiao challenged his reasoning.

• Su Qiao assured Guo Yuan that the ruby was too hard to break, while Guo Yuan worried it might be scratched.
• Master Yang identified the ruby as a genuine, untreated Pigeon Blood Ruby with exceptional clarity and a likely Myanmar origin.
• Master Yang confirmed that it weighed 5.66 carats and explained its rarity and the value of comparable rubies.
• Guo Yuan calculated that Su Qiao's ruby could be worth far more than a 5.2-carat ruby sold at auction twenty years earlier.
• Guo Yuan tempered his excitement and told Su Qiao that the ruby's lack of a certificate affected his assessment.
• Su Qiao asked Guo Yuan whether she would have come to him if the ruby already had a certificate.

Su Qiao negotiated to sell her certified ruby to Guo Yuan for fifteen million dollars, then exposed the danger of her suite’s security system after one of his bodyguards triggered it. Guo Yuan accepted her price, and Su Qiao gave him a long string of numbers.

• Su Qiao offered Guo Yuan the ruby for fifteen million dollars, explaining that she had already discounted it below market value.
• A bodyguard entered the kitchen doorway and triggered a laser that severed his sleeve.
• Su Qiao disabled the alarm and warned Guo Yuan and his men not to wander or touch anything.
• Su Qiao accused Guo Yuan’s side of wasting her time and said they could leave if they were not sincere.
• Guo Yuan agreed to buy the ruby for fifteen million dollars, and Su Qiao handed him a sheet covered in numbers.

Su Qiao sold Guo Yuan a ruby and sapphire, then asked him to help with several tasks. Guo Yuan agreed, leaving Su Qiao with a new business contact and an offer of assistance.

• Guo Yuan transferred the ruby payment to Su Qiao's overseas account, and 444 began moving the money into domestic accounts and investments.
• Guo Yuan asked Su Qiao to consider him for future gemstone deals, and she offered him a sapphire.
• Master Yang confirmed the sapphire was genuine, untreated, and weighed 4.3 grams.
• Su Qiao agreed to sell Guo Yuan the sapphire for three million RMB in exchange for his help with a few things.
• Guo Yuan agreed to help Su Qiao with the tasks.

Su Qiao arranged to buy Guo Yuan’s secluded suburban villa and asked him to obtain Yu Shengan’s identity card and move both of their household registrations onto a separate record as siblings. She paid for the house with two Deep Sea Pearls, while 444 worried that Yu Shengan might not see her as an older sister.

• Su Qiao told Guo Yuan she wanted his suburban villa and asked Little Four to estimate its value.
• Guo Yuan offered to give Su Qiao the villa in exchange for her considering him when she had goods to sell.
• Su Qiao asked Guo Yuan to obtain Yu Shengan a real identity card and move her household registration away from her family, adding Yu Shengan to her new record as her younger brother.
• Su Qiao dismissed 444’s concern that Yu Shengan might feel differently about her, saying he was innocent and introverted.
• Su Qiao gave Guo Yuan two Deep Sea Pearls as payment for the villa, and he accepted them.

Su Qiao finalized the transfer of Guo Yuan’s house and reassured Yu Shengan that she had no plans to marry. A few days later, they moved into the small villa, which Su Qiao liked and chose to keep as furnished.

• Su Qiao declined Guo Yuan’s offer of the pearls and asked him to arrange the house transfer.
• Yu Shengan worried that Su Qiao would marry, but she told him she was not planning to.
• Yu Shengan grew excited about living with Su Qiao and asked about growing vegetables in the house’s yard.
• Guo Yuan helped Su Qiao complete the house transfer that day.
• Three days later, Su Qiao and the others moved into the villa and cleaned it without replacing its furniture or appliances.

Su Qiao gave Yu Shengan his identity card and welcomed him into her household, then encouraged him to learn to drive and work toward earning his own money. In the following days, she equipped a small laboratory in the villa’s basement.

• Su Qiao handed Yu Shengan his identity card and the household register, where their relationship was listed as younger brother.
• Su Qiao took Yu Shengan out to learn to drive and buy groceries, and gave him a bank card for his expenses.
• Yu Shengan said he wanted to earn his own money, and Su Qiao agreed he could work once his studies and computer skills were advanced enough.
• Su Qiao suggested teaching Yu Shengan financial management so he could try a small investment, and he agreed.
• Su Qiao ordered equipment and gathered rare medicinal materials, turning the villa’s basement into a small laboratory.

Su Qiao continued researching a treatment while monitoring Lan Jiaye’s family and building Little Four’s online following. When Yu Shengan returned with a stray cat, she welcomed it and reassured him that she would look after him, leaving him promising not to go out alone without his phone again.

• Su Qiao kept searching for an effective treatment and watched Ji Guiyun, Lan Jiaye, and Lan Chenshan while Little Four helped manage popular online accounts.
• Little Four’s accurate predictions about stocks, horse races, and an esports competition drew many followers, and Su Qiao stopped it from nearly revealing their address.
• Su Qiao returned with medicinal herbs and found Yu Shengan hurrying into the courtyard with a familiar tabby cat he had secretly gone to retrieve.
• Su Qiao recognized the cat from Yu Shengan’s first meeting with its former owner and agreed to keep it as a stray.
• Yu Shengan asked whether Su Qiao would really come looking for him, and she reassured him that he was her family.
• Su Qiao scolded Yu Shengan for going out without his phone, and he promised not to do it again.

Su Qiao rested after her tiring walk while Yu Shengan cooked and later showed her massage chairs he wanted to buy with his first earnings. She praised his success and agreed to consider the chairs, leaving Yu Shengan flushed and eager to give her a gift.

• Yu Shengan set the cat down, poured Su Qiao water, and went to cook while she rested.
• Yu Shengan noticed Su Qiao's sore legs and began massaging them, but she told him to stop and cook.
• After dinner, Yu Shengan brought Su Qiao a laptop screen showing two expensive massage chairs and said he wanted to buy one for her with money he had earned.
• Su Qiao praised Yu Shengan's financial success and told him his good judgment and luck were impressive.
• Yu Shengan blushed and asked Su Qiao whether he should buy one massage chair or both.

Su Qiao let Yu Shengan buy her a massage chair and asked him to prepare hot water to soothe her aching legs. She then launched a professional challenge to an online voiceover owner, with Fourth Brother Takes You Flying adding support and evidence.

• Su Qiao chose a black massage chair, and Yu Shengan ordered it despite the five-day delivery time.
• Yu Shengan offered to massage Su Qiao’s legs, but she asked him to prepare hot water and medicinal herbs for a foot soak instead.
• Su Qiao worried that she and Yu Shengan could not be together in this lifetime and hoped he could live happily without her.
• Su Qiao wrote a post raising five professional concerns about the voiceover owner and published it through a major influencer’s Weibo account.
• Fourth Brother Takes You Flying backed Su Qiao’s post with evidence, drawing on his large and influential following.

Su Qiao continued training Xiao An while researching a cure for her illness and trying to make arrangements for Yu Ansheng. As online speculation about Xiao Si’s identity grew, Su Qiao confronted the doctor who had treated her and revealed a video to challenge Lan Jiaye’s hospital photographs.

• Xiao Si’s accurate horse-racing predictions drew investors and fans, who began investigating the identity behind its online voice-over.
• Su Qiao taught Xiao An practical skills, including computer technology and reading investment charts, while he learned quickly.
• Su Qiao tested medicines on herself in hopes of treating her illness, prompting a quarrel and cold war with Xiao Si.
• Su Qiao disguised herself and asked her former doctor to confirm that she had visited the hospital for a neurological complaint, not an abortion or treatment for a sexually transmitted disease.
• When the doctor refused, Su Qiao showed him a video and questioned why Lan Jiaye had photographs of her at the hospital.

Su Qiao used the doctor’s records to disprove rumors that she had visited the hospital for an abortion or a sexually transmitted disease, then had Little Four expose the blogger who spread them. Lan Jiaye tried to contain the fallout and enlisted her father, but they could neither suppress Little Four nor uncover Brother Four’s identity.

• Lan Jiaye’s role in obtaining the original host’s medical records and spreading false accusations became clear, and the doctor issued a statement confirming Su Qiao had come for a neurological examination.
• Little Four spread the doctor’s statement across social media, and the records quickly disproved the accusations against Su Qiao.
• Angry internet users attacked the blogger behind the original post, and Su Qiao had Little Four expose his identity.
• The blogger, overwhelmed by pressure from people around him, went to Lan Jiaye for help, but she initially refused.
• After the blogger threatened her, Lan Jiaye hired professionals to suppress the story, but they failed against Little Four.
• Lan Jiaye asked her father to intervene, but they still could not stop Su Qiao and Little Four or discover Brother Four’s identity.

Su Qiao exposed Lan Jiaye’s scheme to frame her, and evidence online revealed Lan Jiaye had orchestrated the rumors and dubbed the recording herself. The internet pieced together that jealousy over Ji Guiyun had motivated Lan Jiaye’s revenge, and users turned on her accounts.

• Lan Jiaye’s father paid the original poster to keep quiet, and Su Qiao released photos, recordings, and video exposing their meeting.
• Netizens learned the hospital stories and accusations about Su Qiao were fabricated, while voice comparisons showed the online recording was far more similar to Lan Jiaye’s dubbing than Su Qiao’s.
• Fourth Brother and his fans verified the voice-comparison results and shared their own tests.
• A dubbing-industry insider revealed that Su Qiao and Ji Guiyun had worked together, prompting people to connect Lan Jiaye’s jealousy to the smear campaign.
• Netizens pieced together how Lan Jiaye had staged the hospital rumors and pinned a dubbed sex scene on Su Qiao, then flooded Lan Jiaye’s accounts with abuse.