Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao confronted Xia Yao over accusations that she had disgraced the villagers, then revealed that she had reported someone for impersonating her and spreading obscene videos. She offered to prove her innocence and left Xia Yao under the officers’ scrutiny.

• Su Qiao stopped Fu Jingyao from taking her away and demanded that Xia Yao explain how she had supposedly smeared the villagers’ reputation.
• Xia Yao accused Su Qiao of sinking low for money, while livestream viewers urged everyone to stay away from her.
• Su Qiao implied that Xia Yao had schemed against her and said the truth would soon come out.
• Two police officers arrived and asked who had called them; Su Qiao identified herself as the person who reported the case.
• Su Qiao told the officers that someone had impersonated her and spread obscene videos, then offered to provide proof of her income.

Su Qiao showed the police records and devices to refute the online accusations, but suspected the staged video and a recent mushroom poisoning were connected attacks against her. The police promised to escalate the investigation.

• Su Qiao presented receipts, her bankbook, computer, and phone to the police for inspection.
• The officers questioned Su Qiao about enemies, and she described driving off Li Ming and other village thugs.
• The police agreed Li Ming was unlikely to have arranged the sophisticated frame-up, while the female officer glanced at Xia Yao.
• Su Qiao told the officers that poisonous mushrooms had been mixed into food at a village banquet the previous day, poisoning a married couple.
• Su Qiao suggested the poisoning and the online frame-up were both aimed at her, and the male officer said he would request more investigators.

Su Qiao challenged Xia Yao after the police left, while Fu Jingyao pressed her to explain what happened between them ten years earlier. Su Qiao deferred the conversation until they were away from the cameras, leaving Xia Yao relieved and the livestream audience questioning her.

• The police officers left after promising to investigate the suspected poisoning, and Su Qiao taunted Xia Yao for looking frightened.
• Xia Yao apologized and claimed she had been shocked by the videos and wanted to help her old friend, but Su Qiao mocked her for pretending to be sincere.
• The production crew and participating celebrities began to doubt Xia Yao after hearing Su Qiao's response.
• Fu Jingyao grabbed Su Qiao's hand and asked what Xia Yao had said ten years earlier, but Su Qiao said they should discuss it after filming.
• Xia Yao sighed with relief when Su Qiao declined to explain, while livestream viewers defended Su Qiao and criticized the haters.

After the police discovered Su Qiao’s online shop earnings and viewers praised her clothes and artwork, Fu Jingyao confronted Xia Yao about why Su Qiao had left ten years earlier. Xia Yao denied knowing the reason, but Fu Jingyao still distrusted her and challenged her to explain Su Qiao’s accusation that she had become better at pretending.

• Viewers discussed Su Qiao and Xia Yao’s past, criticized Xia Yao, and noticed Su Qiao had earned 420,000 yuan through her shop.
• Viewers praised Su Qiao’s Hanfu, paintings, and calligraphy, while the shop continued receiving orders.
• Fu Jingyao rejected Su Qiao’s explanation, left the courtyard, and dragged Xia Yao to a vegetable plot.
• Fu Jingyao demanded to know why Su Qiao had suddenly left ten years ago.
• Xia Yao claimed she did not know and said Su Qiao had asked her to take care of Fu Jingyao before leaving.
• Fu Jingyao said he did not believe Xia Yao and asked why Su Qiao had called her more eloquent and better at pretending than before.

Fu Jingyao confronted Xia Yao about her past treatment of Su Qiao, but she denied saying anything and turned to Fu Heng for comfort. Later, Fu Jingyao found Su Qiao taking pills she had prepared to strengthen her body and left after she dismissed his warning.

• Fu Jingyao questioned Xia Yao about whether she had said something to Su Qiao, and Xia Yao denied it while accusing him of overlooking her devotion.
• Fu Jingyao walked away without responding, and Xia Yao called Fu Heng in tears for company.
• Fu Heng reassured Xia Yao that he was on his way to the village, and she felt confident he would help her if her actions came to light.
• Fu Jingyao returned and found Su Qiao taking black pills she had made to improve her constitution and physical strength.
• Fu Jingyao warned Su Qiao against taking medicine without medical advice, but she assured him she knew what she was doing, so he went back to his room.

Fu Jingyao discovered Su Qiao using acupuncture needles on herself and angrily demanded to know why she had abandoned him years ago. As Su Qiao prepared to explain, Xia Yao interrupted, and Fu Jingyao mistook her hesitation for another refusal to answer.

• Su Qiao took a Body Tempering Pill and began using acupuncture needles to unblock her meridians.
• Fu Jingyao burst into Su Qiao's bedroom, snatched away a needle, and scolded her for risking her life.
• Fu Jingyao smashed his phone and demanded that Su Qiao explain why she had left him without a word.
• Su Qiao began to answer, but Xia Yao entered the courtyard and interrupted her.
• Fu Jingyao told Su Qiao he would believe whatever she said, then shook her shoulders and demanded an answer when she stayed silent.

Fu Jingyao confronted Xia Yao over Su Qiao’s departure and her past illness, demanding to know whether Xia Yao had driven Su Qiao away. Su Qiao finally told him that leaving had been her own decision.

• Fu Jingyao accused Xia Yao of knowing that Su Qiao had lupus and hiding it from him.
• Fu Heng defended Xia Yao, while Xia Yao insisted that Su Qiao had chosen to leave on her own.
• Fu Jingyao asked Su Qiao whether Xia Yao had forced her to go, and Xia Yao argued that Su Qiao had never treated him as family.
• Fu Jingyao clung to Su Qiao and demanded to hear the truth from her directly.
• Su Qiao told Fu Jingyao that leaving back then had been her own decision.

Su Qiao explained why she had left Fu Jingyao and showed him keepsakes from the years they had been apart. Fu Jingyao remained hurt by her silence as she began recounting how she had struggled to support herself and pay for treatment.

• Su Qiao told Fu Jingyao she had left only after learning his family had found him, because she feared her recurring illness would burden him.
• Fu Jingyao reproached Su Qiao for leaving without asking what he wanted, describing his loneliness, hardship at the Fu Family, and years spent searching for her.
• Su Qiao comforted Fu Jingyao and brought out a box of shoes, embroidered insoles, a diary, and preserved tickets.
• Su Qiao explained that after Fu Jingyao returned to his family, she struggled to find work and survived by selling goods at street stalls and sleeping in parks, under bridges, and in underground rooms.

Su Qiao told Fu Jingyao how she had found him years earlier but left after seeing his miserable life at the Fu Family, then described the illness and hardship that led her to live in the wooden house. She revealed that she had still tried to visit him every year on his birthday, and Fu Jingyao embraced her in tears.

• Su Qiao explained that she had found Fu Jingyao in a park near the Fu Family but decided not to approach him because she feared becoming a burden.
• Fu Jingyao examined the keepsakes on the table, asked why she had not acknowledged him, and broke down apologizing as he pulled her into an embrace.
• Su Qiao recounted how worsening illness and poverty left her unable to sell goods or afford medicine, so she moved into the abandoned wooden house and survived by growing vegetables and gathering herbs.
• Su Qiao pushed Fu Jingyao away and told him that she had tried to travel north to see him every year on his birthday whenever she was well and had money.

Su Qiao explained to Fu Jingyao how she had silently supported him for years, making him birthday shoes and watching his dramas from afar. She reassured him that she had recognized him when he returned, leaving him to realize she had welcomed him into her home because she knew who he was.

• Su Qiao showed Fu Jingyao ten sets of cotton shoes she had made as birthday gifts and explained that she had carried them with her whenever she traveled.
• Su Qiao told Fu Jingyao she had watched his dramas at a town supermarket to see how he was doing and had been happy when he won awards.
• Fu Jingyao apologized for misunderstanding her and failing to notice her illness, but Su Qiao insisted she needed to explain everything so he would not blame himself.
• Fu Jingyao asked whether Su Qiao had recognized him immediately, and she said he had changed very little in ten years.
• Su Qiao pointed out that she would not have let a strange man move into her home, confirming that she had known who Fu Jingyao was.

Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao joked about their closeness as she teased him for acting like a child, while Fu Jingyao reflected on how his feelings for her had changed over time. Their conversation revealed their shared past to the livestream audience, who sympathized with Su Qiao and condemned Xia Yao.

• Su Qiao told Fu Jingyao that she cared for him like family and teased him for pouting and expecting her to comfort him.
• Fu Jingyao refused to call Su Qiao Big Sis and chose to call her Qiaoqiao instead.
• Fu Jingyao reflected that he had once wanted to rely on Su Qiao as a sibling but later wanted to protect her for the rest of his life.
• The photography crew and livestream viewers reacted to learning that Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao had grown up together and been separated for ten years.
• Livestream viewers expressed sympathy for Su Qiao and criticized Xia Yao for having schemed from a young age.

Su Qiao confronted Xia Yao over her schemes and warned her and Fu Heng not to harm Fu Jingyao. Fu Heng watched Su Qiao with a trace of contemplation but still considered her no threat.

• Fu Jingyao angrily accused Xia Yao of using him for protection and resources, and said she had fooled his older brother.
• Xia Yao pleaded with Fu Jingyao to acknowledge what she had endured, but Su Qiao stood up and criticized her for trying to climb higher by using others.
• Su Qiao told Xia Yao that Fu Jingyao had his own feelings and was not someone to fight over, and said Xia Yao and Fu Heng could do as they wished.
• Su Qiao warned Xia Yao and Fu Heng that their actions would eventually be exposed and that she would not let them hurt Fu Jingyao.
• Fu Heng studied Su Qiao briefly but dismissed her as no serious threat.

Fu Heng reconsidered his feelings for Xia Yao after recognizing how calculatingly she had used him, while Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao grew closer. The chapter ended with Fu Jingyao promising not to let his older brother succeed, as livestream viewers celebrated the couple and worried that trouble remained ahead.

• Fu Heng realized Xia Yao had treated him as a backup while pursuing Fu Jingyao, and he became disillusioned with her.
• Su Qiao dismissed Fu Heng and Xia Yao, then told Fu Jingyao someone had stolen information without his knowledge.
• Fu Jingyao understood what had happened but focused on being with Su Qiao, who warned him to watch his older brother.
• Fu Jingyao clung affectionately to Su Qiao, and she let him know he could pinch himself to prove the moment was real.
• Livestream viewers praised Fu Jingyao and Su Qiao as a couple, though one viewer sensed things would not go smoothly.

Fu Jingyao happily spent the day with Su Qiao while 444 helped the police uncover Xia Yao’s connection to an obscene video case. The police returned to the village and confronted Xia Yao with evidence linking her to both the video and the poisonous mushrooms, then prepared to take her in when she refused to cooperate.

• Fu Jingyao cooked, chopped firewood, and watered the vegetables while wearing a blissful expression and stealing sweet glances at Su Qiao.
• 444 told Su Qiao that he had led the police’s technical staff to Xia Yao and uncovered her call to the woman who impersonated Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao told 444 to finish the investigation quickly because she was tired of playing with Xia Yao.
• The police returned to Small Mountain Village and ordered Xia Yao to assist in an investigation into the online distribution of obscene videos.
• The middle-aged policewoman told Xia Yao that two children had identified her as the person who gave them poisonous mushrooms at the Willow Tree Village banquet.
• Xia Yao denied the accusations and demanded a lawyer, so the policewoman said they had complete witness and physical evidence and would use force if necessary.

Xia Yao was arrested after her role in the village poisoning plot was exposed, while Fu Heng refused to help her. Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao returned together as the villagers and livestream viewers reacted to Xia Yao’s actions.

• The officers took Xia Yao away, and she begged Fu Heng to save her, but he stayed silent as he faced the evidence against her.
• Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao discussed Xia Yao’s cruelty and walked back together, with Fu Jingyao reassuring Su Qiao and listing how he had improved.
• The Old Village Chief confronted Director Lu as villagers learned Xia Yao had planted poisonous mushrooms to target Su Qiao.
• Villagers and livestream viewers condemned Xia Yao after realizing she had endangered the entire village and had harmed Su Qiao for years.

After Fu Jingyao left Small Mountain Village, Su Qiao finished modifying a robot and flew to Northern Capital City to join him. She learned that he had been called away from the airport to an urgent press conference.

• After the production crew left, Fu Jingyao stayed at Su Qiao's place until company business forced him to return.
• Fu Jingyao asked Su Qiao to come back with him, and she promised to follow within three days after finishing her work.
• Su Qiao asked 444 to help program a human-sized Transformers into a household robot, then spent two more days completing the modifications.
• Su Qiao flew to Northern Capital City on the third morning, but Fu Jingyao was not at the airport to meet her.
• Two men sent by Fu Jingyao told Su Qiao that he had rushed to a press conference after something happened.

Su Qiao learned that Fu Heng had used materials Xia Yao stole to beat Fu Jingyao’s company to the launch of its household robot. She arrived at the press conference with a Transformers, while Fu Jingyao faced reporters accusing him of copying Fu Heng’s robot.

• Su Qiao suspected that Xia Yao had given Fu Heng the stolen robot materials to secure her release from prison.
• Su Qiao learned that Old Master Fu’s sudden illness had left Fu Jingyao without his protection and suspected Fu Heng was responsible.
• Su Qiao ordered Little Four to send the directors evidence that Fu Heng had embezzled company funds.
• Su Qiao arrived at the press conference with a Transformers and told her men to unload it carefully.
• Reporters confronted Fu Jingyao, asking why his robot matched Fu Heng’s in appearance, functions, and structure.

Su Qiao arrived at Fu Jingyao’s press conference and defended him against reporters accusing him of stealing company research. She activated a Transformers robot to help him, and its teasing left Fu Jingyao with advice on how to appease her.

• Reporters questioned Fu Jingyao about allegedly plagiarizing research, framing his brother, and faking his credentials.
• Su Qiao entered the press hall and warned the reporters they could face charges for defamation and false accusations.
• Su Qiao activated the Transformers robot Daqiang and ordered it to help Fu Jingyao organize the items onstage.
• Daqiang straightened Fu Jingyao’s tie while teasing him about marrying Su Qiao and advising him to buy her roses and food.
• Fu Jingyao nodded as Daqiang told him how to appease Su Qiao whenever she got angry.

Su Qiao demonstrated that her company’s second-generation intelligent household robot was a complete, customizable product, unlike the half-finished model Fu Heng’s side had copied. After 444’s unexpected appearance stunned the press conference crowd, she explained the robot’s functions and options, leaving the audience to see who truly led the industry.

• 444 teased Fu Jingyao while clearing the display area, and Fu Jingyao asked Su Qiao if 444’s claim about her preferences was true.
• Su Qiao ordered Little Four to stop showing off and make 444 charge, and 444 plugged himself into an outlet.
• Su Qiao told the stunned crowd that the second-generation robot could handle household tasks, answer questions, and adjust its voice and personality.
• Su Qiao explained that the robot on display was the true intelligent household model, while the earlier one was only a discarded half-finished product.
• Su Qiao said owners could customize the robot’s appearance to their preferences.

Su Qiao saved Old Master Fu from Fu Heng’s poisoning and took him with Fu Jingyao to Small Mountain Village, while Fu Heng lost his position and was expelled from the Fu Family. Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao later lived happily together, and their adopted sons buried their mixed ashes beside the wooden house where they had reunited.

• Su Qiao ended the press conference and took Fu Jingyao to the hospital, explaining that Old Master Fu’s collapse was unlikely to be an accident.
• Su Qiao identified a plant-based neurotoxin in Old Master Fu and treated him with acupuncture and an antidote.
• Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao took Old Master Fu to Small Mountain Village, where Fu Jingyao said the Fu Family was not safe.
• Fu Heng faced scrutiny over his robots and misappropriated funds, was forced out of office, and lost the Fu Group’s lead in the technology industry.
• After waking, Old Master Fu removed Fu Heng from the family and entrusted the family’s assets to Fu Jingyao, then moved into Su Qiao’s wooden house.
• Su Qiao and Fu Jingyao lived happily together; after their deaths, their adopted sons mixed their ashes and buried them beside the wooden house.