Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao visited Lu Jingheng's office with soup for Lu Jingwen, but Lu Jingheng insulted her and warned her to stay away from Bai Zhilan. She left after learning Lu Jingwen had already gone, secretly vowing to make Lu Jingheng regret his words.

• Lu Jingheng mocked Su Qiao for bringing Lu Jingwen soup and told her to stay away from Bai Zhilan.
• Su Qiao controlled her anger and pretended she had mistaken Lu Jingheng for Lu Jingwen because they looked alike.
• Lu Jingheng asked whether Su Qiao knew Lu Jingwen had fallen for Bai Zhilan, and Su Qiao insisted they were only ordinary friends.
• Lu Jingheng told Su Qiao that Lu Jingwen had left and that she should look for him at his own company.
• Su Qiao left the office carrying the thermos and warned Lu Jingheng to remember what he had said.

After leaving Lu Jingheng’s office, Su Qiao decided to act like a weak, devoted woman who trusted him despite his betrayals. She went to Lu Jingwen’s entertainment company and headed straight for his office.

• Lu Jingheng wondered about the meaning of Su Qiao’s final glance, but Liu Yuan could not explain it.
• Su Qiao told 444 she would pretend to trust Lu Jingwen and play the role of a weak, infatuated woman.
• Su Qiao arrived at Lu Jingwen’s entertainment company and bypassed her assigned recording studio to go to his top-floor office.
• The company’s assistants hesitated to stop Su Qiao because she was Lu Jingwen’s fiancée and the heiress of Su Group.

Su Qiao visited Lu Jingwen to explain herself, but he insisted on ending their engagement and offered to compensate her. He then revealed that Bai Zhilan was Su Qiao’s half-sister and asked her to treat Bai Zhilan kindly, leaving Su Qiao stunned by his demand.

• Su Qiao brought Lu Jingwen a thermos of leftover soup while the system warned that it could make him sick.
• Lu Jingwen told Su Qiao he had no romantic feelings for her and would explain the broken engagement to his parents.
• Su Qiao raised concerns about the damage the broken engagement would cause her family, and Lu Jingwen promised compensation.
• Su Qiao asked whether Lu Jingwen was protecting Bai Zhilan, and he revealed that Bai Zhilan was her half-sister.
• Lu Jingwen asked Su Qiao to be tolerant and kind toward Bai Zhilan, leaving Su Qiao incredulous.

Su Qiao pretended to be shocked by Lu Jingwen’s claim that Bai Zhilan was her sister, then left after agreeing to ask her father. She planned to use the time to prepare against the Lu Family and collect compensation from Lu Jingwen for breaking their engagement.

• Lu Jingwen asked Su Qiao to persuade her father to welcome Bai Zhilan into the Su Family and treat her as a sister.
• Su Qiao claimed her father had never taken another woman after her mother’s death and pretended to go home to ask him about Bai Zhilan.
• After leaving the Lu Corporation, Su Qiao joked about creating an illegitimate younger brother for Lu Jingwen’s family.
• Su Qiao told 444 she had acted to keep Lu Jingwen from immediately targeting the Su Family’s company while she prepared her next moves.
• Su Qiao decided Lu Jingwen owed her compensation for breaking their engagement, and 444 encouraged her to fleece him.

Su Qiao transformed her appearance with a handsome short haircut and stylish gender-neutral clothes, leaving onlookers convinced she was a wealthy young man. She returned home in the car while considering what to do next, and 444 wondered whether her remark about cutting off unnecessary things meant more than her hair.

• Su Qiao went to International Building, where she got a short haircut and bought gender-neutral clothes.
• Su Qiao emerged in a silver-gray suit and drew admiring attention from girls passing by.
• Su Qiao told Old Li not to call her Miss when they were outside and asked him to receive her purchases at home.
• Old Li grew concerned about Su Qiao's sudden change and decided he needed to report it to Mr.
• Su Qiao scrolled through her phone in the car and told 444 that extra things should be cut off.

Su Qiao practiced singing and decided to use her money to set up her own studio after learning that her company had shelved her. She called Assistant Zhang to ask whether her father had received the package she sent him, but the answer was still pending.

• Su Qiao decided to become a famous singer and asked 444 to collect popular songs from previous planes so she could register their copyrights.
• Su Qiao returned home, went to her recording studio, and tested her singing voice.
• 444 told Su Qiao that the company had shelved her, but Su Qiao said she would start her own studio using her money.
• Su Qiao called Assistant Zhang to ask whether her father had received the package she sent him, and Assistant Zhang admitted he had forgotten to check.

Su Qiao worked on a song and reassured Su Qiao's Father that she had cut her hair for her album, not because she was heartbroken. She told him she had dumped Lu Jingwen and planned to use their breakup to extort money from him, while warning her father that Lu Jingwen might target their company.

• Su Qiao told Assistant Zhang to return the recording without opening it, then revised its lyrics and sheet music until dinner.
• Su Qiao's Father video-called her and anxiously asked why she had cut her hair and whether Lu Jingwen had bullied her.
• Su Qiao said she had cut her hair for her album and had already dumped Lu Jingwen.
• Su Qiao warned her father that Lu Jingwen had bad intentions toward their family and might secretly move against their company.
• Su Qiao told her father she planned to demand a large breakup settlement from Lu Jingwen, and he agreed to let her handle it while urging her to be careful.

Su Qiao spoke with her father, who encouraged her to pursue piano studies abroad and prepared financial safeguards for her. After their call, she suspected Lu Jingwen had already begun targeting her family’s company and asked Little Four to investigate.

• Su Qiao's Father praised her clever plan to take advantage of Lu Jingwen, and she reassured him that she had missed him.
• Su Qiao's Father offered to send Su Qiao abroad to study piano, and she said she would compete in the B-Paris International Piano Competition to earn admission herself.
• Su Qiao's Father told Su Qiao he had mailed her an education fund card and arranged high-value insurance policies for her.
• After ending the call, Su Qiao suspected the company was already in trouble and asked Little Four to check whether Lu Jingwen had made his move.

After learning that Lu Jingwen was pressuring the Su Family to force her father to cancel the engagement, Su Qiao retaliated by attacking his company’s game server. Lu Jingwen rushed back to find the server down and his technicians unable to restore it or trace the hacker.

• 444 discovered that Lu Jingwen had led the Lu Family’s efforts to suppress Su Qiao’s father’s company.
• Su Qiao realized Lu Jingwen was using the pressure to make her father give in over Bai Zhilan and decided to retaliate.
• Su Qiao attacked the server for the Lu Family’s popular game, Wilderness Frontline, while 444 helped hide her traces.
• The computers at Lu Jingwen’s company went black, and technicians found that the game server had been shut down by a mysterious attacker.
• Lu Jingwen returned from his date with Bai Zhilan and demanded that the technicians restore the server, but they said the hacker had outmatched them and left no traces.

After Lu Jingwen’s company servers crashed, Su Qiao and 444 planned to develop a holographic online game and raise money through foreign stocks. Su Qiao later met Lu Jingheng at a café after he unexpectedly called her, leaving him stunned when he recognized her.

• Lu Jingwen ordered his assistant to recruit Tom, the leaderboard’s second-ranked person, at a high price.
• Su Qiao decided to create a holographic online game and assigned 444 to handle its programming while she worked on the equipment.
• Su Qiao told 444 to invest her money in foreign stocks to build capital before the Su family’s company faced a cash-flow crisis.
• Su Qiao spent the next few days recording songs and working on the game, then went to meet Lu Jingheng at a café.
• Lu Jingheng recognized Su Qiao and began to respond in surprise.

Lu Jingheng met Su Qiao after seeing a viral photo that reminded him of the woman in his dreams, but he struggled to reveal that he had called her because he wanted to see her. He claimed he wanted to discuss a business project with her father, while Su Qiao saw through the excuse and kept up her lovestruck act.

• Lu Jingheng recognized Su Qiao in a viral photo and realized why he had been drawn to her and jealous of Lu Jingwen.
• Su Qiao sat across from Lu Jingheng and pretended to change her appearance to suit Lu Jingwen's preferences.
• Su Qiao said she would marry Lu Jingwen when she turned twenty-four, leaving Lu Jingheng increasingly frustrated.
• Lu Jingheng recalled that he had called Su Qiao because he longed to see her eyes up close, but he could not admit it.
• Lu Jingheng claimed he wanted to cooperate with the Su Group and meet Su Qiao's father, and Su Qiao asked why he would not approach her father directly.

Su Qiao reassured Lu Jingheng about meeting her father, then left to make soup for Lu Jingwen. Afterward, Lu Jingheng questioned Liu Yuan about why Su Qiao seemed unmoved by his looks, and Liu Yuan suggested she simply preferred Lu Jingwen.

• Su Qiao told Lu Jingheng that her father was handsome, kind, and easy to get along with, and said he could approach him directly about the project.
• Su Qiao explained that she wanted to keep her distance from other men so Lu Jingwen would not misunderstand, then left to stew soup for him.
• Lu Jingheng called Liu Yuan over and asked whether he was really unremarkable-looking or whether Su Qiao was face-blind.
• Liu Yuan assured Lu Jingheng that Su Qiao had good taste, but suggested Lu Jingwen might be the most handsome man in her eyes.

Lu Jingheng refused to promise cooperation with the Su family, though he still worried that Su Qiao would be bullied without him. Su Qiao went home, asked 444 for information about DL’s biggest competitor, and began putting a plan into motion.

• Liu Yuan told Lu Jingheng that Su Qiao’s drastic changes showed how important Lu Jingwen was to her, and Lu Jingheng snapped at him for talking too much.
• Lu Jingheng denied that he was going to the Su family to cooperate, while Liu Yuan realized his boss was preoccupied with Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao returned home and learned that Lu Jingheng had visited the Su family but had not agreed to cooperate.
• Su Qiao told 444 she had met Lu Jingheng to confirm that his attention would become fixed on her, and she was pleased with the result.
• Su Qiao asked 444 for information about DL’s biggest competitor, then began working on a design as a plan took shape.

Su Qiao sold weapon blueprints for two hundred million, then continued provoking Lu Jingwen with calls until he agreed to meet her. She pretended to be heartbroken and asked whether she could change into the kind of woman he liked.

• Su Qiao used her hacking skills to sell half of her weapon blueprints, sent the rest after payment, and erased the traces.
• Su Qiao refused 444’s suggestion to earn more money by drawing blueprints, saying the technology could disrupt the world.
• Su Qiao repeatedly called Lu Jingwen while he was with Bai Zhilan, and Bai Zhilan quarreled with him after the eighth call.
• Lu Jingwen met Su Qiao at a Western restaurant and offered her three percent of his company as compensation.
• Su Qiao dabbed Cooling Oil near her eyes and told Lu Jingwen she had been changing her appearance for his sake.

Su Qiao let Lu Jingwen believe she was giving up on their relationship and the shares, then persuaded him to turn the shares into cash for her father’s struggling company. Lu Jingwen apologized and wished her happiness, while Su Qiao privately celebrated getting what she wanted.

• Lu Jingwen told Su Qiao he loved Xiao Lan and asked her to stop causing trouble for Xiao Lan and persuade her father to welcome her back.
• Su Qiao said she no longer wanted the shares, then asked Lu Jingwen to convert them into cash to help her father’s company.
• Lu Jingwen agreed to arrange the funds through his assistant and apologized for wasting Su Qiao’s years.
• Su Qiao told Lu Jingwen she would let him go, and he wished her happiness.

After Lu Jingwen transferred one hundred million yuan to Su Qiao and left, Su Qiao celebrated alone until Lu Jingheng joined her. As she drunkenly vented about Lu Jingwen choosing Bai Zhilan, Lu Jingheng listened and felt an uncharacteristic, shameful delight.

• Lu Jingwen took back the contract, arranged for one hundred million yuan to be transferred to Su Qiao, and left.
• Su Qiao ordered food and wine, then celebrated by drinking alone.
• Lu Jingheng entered the private room, took Su Qiao's wineglass, and asked whether Lu Jingwen had visited.
• Su Qiao told Lu Jingheng that Lu Jingwen had chosen Bai Zhilan and complained that she had supported Bai Zhilan and received no consideration in return.
• Su Qiao cried over Lu Jingwen's demands, while Lu Jingheng felt secretly delighted by her breakup.

Lu Jingheng carried the drunken Su Qiao out of the restaurant and sent her home with her driver. Afterward, Liu Yuan explained Su Qiao’s longstanding bond with Lu Jingwen, leaving Lu Jingheng jealous and irritated.

• Su Qiao shoved Lu Jingheng away and drunkenly accused men of being no good, then tried to call her driver.
• Lu Jingheng took Su Qiao’s phone, spoke to Old Li, and carried her out of the restaurant.
• Old Li drove Su Qiao home after Lu Jingheng told him she was drunk and to give her hangover soup.
• Liu Yuan reminded Lu Jingheng about an important meeting, then explained that Su Qiao and Lu Jingwen had grown up together and been engaged since childhood.
• Lu Jingheng reacted angrily when Liu Yuan said Su Qiao might simply be unused to losing Lu Jingwen.

After recovering from drinking, Su Qiao attacked Lu Jingwen’s company server and left viruses behind, then received a video call from Lu Jingheng. She rejected his teasing offer to marry and ended the call to record a song.

• Su Qiao woke after dark, ate hangover soup and porridge, and checked that Lu Jingwen’s company server had been restored.
• Su Qiao hacked the server, nearly got caught by the world’s second-ranked hacker, and left viruses behind.
• Su Qiao ignored repeated video calls until 444 told her the caller was Lu Jingheng.
• Lu Jingheng asked whether Su Qiao was sober and joked that they could marry if she could not find anyone else.
• Su Qiao rejected Lu Jingheng’s offer and said she was hanging up to record a song.

Su Qiao recorded two melancholy songs after a tense video call with Lu Jingheng, then spent the night cultivating while 444 promoted her videos. The songs went viral, and viewers recognized her as the handsome person from a recently popular photo.

• Su Qiao ended her video call with Lu Jingheng and told 444 she had no interest in a man still entangled with Bai Zhilan.
• Su Qiao recorded two sorrowful songs at her studio, then stopped when 444 worried she was upsetting herself.
• Su Qiao sat by the window and cultivated through the night while 444 uploaded and promoted her song videos.
• Su Qiao's videos went viral, and viewers realized she was the handsome person from a photo that had recently circulated online.

Su Qiao’s new songs spread online, and listeners praised them while doubting that she had stolen Bai Zhilan’s song. Meanwhile, the Lu Family’s company suffered another cyberattack, and Lu Jingwen was left searching for someone capable of stopping it as Lu Jingheng remained absorbed in his tablet.

• Listeners shared Su Qiao’s new songs and praised their lyrics, saying they were better than the song she had supposedly stolen from Bai Zhilan.
• The Lu Family’s company suffered another server crash, and players reported missing equipment and demanded compensation.
• Lu Jingwen learned that TOM could not defeat or trace the hacker attacking the company.
• TOM suggested that Lu Jingwen seek help from NO1 before leaving the office.
• Lu Jingwen lost his temper as the company’s systems remained paralyzed and complaints overwhelmed its phone lines.
• Assistant Lin Bai entered Lu Jingheng’s office, but Lu Jingheng told him they would talk later without looking up from his tablet.