Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao exposed Su Yue’s motives and explained why she believed true love demanded complete loyalty, leaving Ye Beiyao shaken. Ye Jinghua spared his nephew’s life but exiled him to Lingnan, then left with Su Qiao.

• Su Qiao told Ye Beiyao that Su Yue had approached him for revenge and power, while keeping He Zhou’s affection alive for her own benefit.
• Su Qiao argued that true love meant giving one’s heart and body only to one another, and Ye Jinghua was deeply moved by her possessiveness.
• Ye Jinghua told Ye Beiyao to go to Lingnan to temper himself, choosing exile over execution.
• Su Qiao remarked that Lingnan’s harsh conditions meant Ye Beiyao would never return, and Ye Jinghua teased her as they headed back to eat.

Su Qiao refused to see Ye Jinghua until their wedding, so he planned to visit her in secret with food and herbs. Meanwhile, ministers urged Ye Jinghua to become Emperor, but he refused because Su Qiao did not want him to take the throne.

• Su Qiao pushed Ye Jinghua away and returned to pack for a move back to the Prime Minister's Residence, saying they must not meet before their wedding.
• Qing Feng and Xun Feng advised Ye Jinghua to visit Su Qiao secretly and bring her delicacies and medicinal herbs, and he agreed.
• Ye Jinghua rewarded Qing Feng with rare herbs and permitted Xun Feng to marry Fifteen, on the condition that Fifteen leave the Shadow Guard Camp and keep its affairs secret.
• Ye Jinghua went to Yushu Pavilion, while Qing Feng and Xun Feng hurried to prepare food for Su Qiao.
• Ministers urged Ye Jinghua to ascend the throne, but he refused, saying Su Qiao did not want him to become Emperor; when a minister objected that he should not heed a woman's words, Ye Jinghua challenged him.

Ye Jinghua told the ministers he wanted the throne only if Su Qiao approved, then assigned Ye Beirong to rule Eastern Yue in his place. The ministers went to Su Qiao to ask her to reconsider, and she said she was acting for their own good.

• Ye Jinghua asked the ministers to gently persuade Su Qiao to let him become emperor, without pressuring or frightening her.
• Ye Beirong questioned whether Ye Jinghua's plan would make Su Qiao uncomfortable, and Ye Jinghua said the ministers were the ones who should be afraid of her.
• Ye Jinghua told Ye Beirong he did not want the throne and ordered him to manage Eastern Yue alongside Xiangcheng.
• The ministers visited Su Qiao at the renovated Su Prime Minister's Estate and asked about Ye Jinghua becoming emperor.
• Su Qiao told the ministers she was doing this for their own good.

Su Qiao told the ministers that Ye Jinghua's violent impulses and inability to have children stemmed from a past head injury and poisoning, then reassured him that they did not need to have children. The two continued their comfortable life together while Ye Beirong remained burdened by the throne, and Su Qiao moved on to the next plane.

• Su Qiao explained that Ye Jinghua's past poisoning had caused his bloodlust and left him unable to have children, frightening the ministers into accepting her instructions.
• Ye Jinghua heard the news, left the palace, and went to see Su Qiao at the Su Prime Minister's Estate.
• Su Qiao asked whether he would mind if they never had children, and Ye Jinghua agreed to remain childless if that was what she wanted.
• Su Qiao and Ye Jinghua traveled and lived comfortably, while King Ye Beirong envied them but remained tied to his duties.
• Su Qiao left the plane and went directly to the next one.

Su Qiao woke in a private room surrounded by debauched strangers and realized she had been drugged. As her strength began returning, Huo Sihan passed nearby and heard crude language from the room.

• Su Qiao asked 444 whether the original owner had really behaved so wildly after seeing the people sprawled around the private room.
• Su Qiao suspected her drink had been drugged, and 444 explained that its Reinforcement Agent was helping her recover while nearby men prepared to approach.
• Su Qiao considered whether to flee or disable the men, while the drug's effects gradually weakened.
• Huo Xiaoyan visited the clubhouse with her brother, Huo Sihan, and he ordered Yu Kun to take her home.
• Huo Sihan continued down the corridor with Yu Hao and heard filthy language coming from a nearby private room.

Huo Sihan saw Su Qiao in a club room with a group of men and decided to divorce her, while Su Qiao remained unaware that he was her husband. As several men closed in on her, she prepared to fight back.

• Yu Hao recognized Su Qiao in the private room and alerted Huo Sihan.
• Huo Sihan saw Su Qiao among the embracing guests, turned away, and ordered Yu Hao to draft a divorce agreement.
• Su Qiao learned from 444 that the man who had just left was her husband, Huo Sihan.
• Three men approached Su Qiao, and she stood up and grabbed a wine bottle as one reached for her.

Su Qiao fought off the men in the private room and left while struggling with the drug’s effects. Zhang Mingyue escorted her toward a safe room as Huo Sihan remained outside the club, unable to leave.

• Su Qiao knocked out the three men who attacked her and left the private room.
• Zhang Mingyue offered Su Qiao help, and she asked for a safe room where she could be alone.
• Zhang Mingyue led Su Qiao toward the elevator after assuring her he would not take advantage of her.
• Huo Sihan waited beside his car outside Hyatt Club, unable to make himself leave.

Huo Sihan learned that Su Qiao had gone with Zhang Mingyue to a private room, but angrily decided not to retrieve her. In the room at the Hyatt, Su Qiao checked that it was safe and told Zhang Mingyue she would recover without going to the hospital.

• Yu Hao warned Huo Sihan that Su Qiao looked as though she had been drugged, but Huo Sihan dismissed his concern.
• Yu Hao reported that Zhang Mingyue had taken Su Qiao to a private room, and Huo Sihan crushed his cigarette and refused to bring her back.
• Huo Sihan told himself that Su Qiao could go wherever she wanted, while Yu Hao feared their marriage was ending.
• Su Qiao scanned the Hyatt room and asked Little Four to check for cameras; Little Four confirmed there were none.
• Zhang Mingyue offered to take Su Qiao to the hospital, but Su Qiao declined, saying the remaining drugs would soon leave her system.

Su Qiao endured the effects of the drug and sent Zhang Mingyue away before cooling herself in a bathtub and sorting through the original Su Qiao’s memories. Those memories revealed her mother’s severe illness and the Su Family’s refusal to help, before Su Wentao devised a plan.

• Zhang Mingyue gave Su Qiao his business card and left after she said she could not entertain him any longer.
• Su Qiao tossed the card aside, filled the bathtub with cold water, and asked 444 to keep watch while she sorted through the memories.
• The original Su Qiao’s memories showed that her father had died when she was six and that her mother later developed kidney failure, uremia, and heart disease.
• Su Qiao learned that the Su Family had refused to help her mother because she had rejected an arranged marriage and married a poor man instead.
• Su Qiao recalled that her second maternal uncle, Su Wentao, had come up with an idea.

Su Qiao recalled how the Su Family forced her into marriage with Huo Sihan, exploited her, and caused her mother’s death before she herself died. After waking up with her memories, she identified Huo Xiaoyan and the Su Family as her targets and decided to disrupt the romance between Huo Xiaoyan and Zhang Mingyue.

• The Su Family forced Su Qiao to marry Huo Sihan in exchange for paying for her mother’s medical treatment, and Huo Sihan treated her coldly.
• The Su Family pressured Su Qiao to steal Huo Corporation’s tender documents, then blamed her after losing the bid and cut off her mother’s medical expenses.
• Su Qiao’s mother died, Huo Sihan divorced Su Qiao, and Huo Xiaoyan threw her belongings out before a truck struck and killed her.
• Su Qiao woke up and recognized Huo Xiaoyan as the female lead of the world and an enemy alongside the Su Family.
• Su Qiao learned that Zhang Mingyue, who had rescued her, was the male lead and decided to separate him from Huo Xiaoyan.

Su Qiao considered pursuing Zhang Mingyue despite 444's warnings about the Great Demon King, then decided to study mechanisms, poisons, and insects. She asked 444 to find information on those subjects, inspired by an adventure novel and her interest in ancient tombs.

• 444 worried that Su Qiao had fallen for Zhang Mingyue, but Su Qiao admitted he was pleasing to the eye.
• Su Qiao dismissed 444's warnings about the Great Demon King and said she could make him behave by beating him.
• Su Qiao tried to cultivate, failed, and asked 444 to find information about mechanisms.
• Su Qiao explained that her architecture studies and encounters with tomb robbers had sparked her interest in ancient tombs, Gu, poisons, and insects.
• Su Qiao told 444 she had read its adventure novel, which described mechanisms and strange poisons and insects.

Su Qiao returned to the Huo Family villa after spending the night away, while Huo Sihan’s jealousy and violent mood eased when he heard she had left a hotel soon after arriving. Huo Xiaoyan greeted Su Qiao and probed whether anything had happened.

• Su Qiao decided she could study poisonous creatures in the Ancient Tomb and fell asleep after speaking with 444.
• Huo Sihan drank alone at the villa, struggling to control his urge to destroy things.
• Yu Hao called Huo Sihan to report that Young Master Zhang had booked a hotel room for Su Qiao and left less than five minutes later.
• Huo Sihan’s violent mood immediately eased, though he insisted that Su Qiao could go wherever she wanted with anyone she chose.
• Su Qiao returned to the Huo Family villa the next day and told Huo Xiaoyan she had rested at a hotel after drinking too much at her class reunion.
• Huo Xiaoyan asked Su Qiao whether anything had happened.

Su Qiao went to the study after Huo Xiaoyan told her that Huo Sihan was angry and waiting for her. Huo Sihan threw a divorce agreement in front of her and ordered her to sign it.

• Huo Xiaoyan told Su Qiao to go to the study and hinted that Huo Sihan was furious.
• Huo Sihan saw that Su Qiao had returned safely and let out a quiet sigh of relief.
• Su Qiao entered the study, sat across from Huo Sihan, and asked why he wanted to see her.
• Huo Sihan gave Su Qiao the divorce agreement and told her to sign it.

Huo Sihan gave Su Qiao a divorce agreement after accusing her over the previous night, and she signed it and left without hesitation. As Su Qiao packed to leave the Huo Family, she told 444 she was making a strategic retreat and would handle the rest later.

• Huo Sihan handed Su Qiao a divorce agreement and said she knew what she had done the previous night.
• Su Qiao mocked Huo Sihan’s claim that he was showing mercy, then asked if he was sure he wanted her to sign.
• Huo Sihan said he was in a hurry, and Su Qiao signed the agreement and left.
• Huo Sihan panicked when Su Qiao departed without trying to stop him, then sat down irritably after she slammed the door.
• Su Qiao packed her luggage as 444 questioned why she had signed the agreement.
• Su Qiao told 444 that leaving the Huo Family was a strategic retreat and that she would deal with the situation gradually.

Huo Sihan struggled with his anger after Su Qiao signed the divorce papers and prepared to leave, while Huo Xiaoyan tried to exploit the misunderstanding between them. The chapter left Su Qiao determined to finish her mission and leave as soon as possible.

• Huo Sihan brooded over how readily Su Qiao had signed the divorce papers and struggled to suppress his desire to bring her back.
• Huo Xiaoyan brought tea to Huo Sihan and pretended to question why he was divorcing Su Qiao, but he angrily ordered her out.
• Huo Xiaoyan met Su Qiao carrying her suitcase and urged her to explain herself to Huo Sihan, mentioning the Hyatt Club and the class reunion.
• Huo Sihan saw Su Qiao's suitcase and grew even more upset, while Su Qiao silently resolved to complete her mission and leave.

Su Qiao confronted Huo Xiaoyan over her schemes and revealed that she had signed the divorce agreement, leaving Huo Sihan and Huo Xiaoyan facing each other. Huo Sihan grew suspicious of Xiaoyan, while Su Qiao exposed the diary and effigy that showed how deeply Xiaoyan hated her.

• Su Qiao told Huo Xiaoyan to stop pretending and accused her of knowing what had happened the previous night.
• Su Qiao said she had signed the divorce agreement and challenged Huo Xiaoyan to confess her feelings to Huo Sihan.
• Huo Sihan suspected Huo Xiaoyan had tampered with events the previous night and stared at her coldly.
• Huo Xiaoyan denied Su Qiao's accusations, but Su Qiao said Xiaoyan's diary contained evidence of her schemes.
• Su Qiao recalled finding a needle-pierced cloth doll labeled with her name in Huo Xiaoyan's wardrobe.

Su Qiao rushed to the hospital after learning that her mother’s condition had worsened, leaving the Huo family before Huo Sihan could decide what to do with her. Yu Hao then reported that the Su Family had obtained Huo Sihan’s leaked bidding proposal, and evidence pointed to Su Qiao.

• Huo Xiaoyan accused Su Qiao of framing her and trying to remain in the Huo Family.
• Su Qiao received a call from Doctor Li saying her mother’s condition had suddenly worsened, then hurried to the hospital.
• Yu Hao saw Su Qiao leave but chose not to stop her, leaving the decision to Huo Sihan.
• Huo Sihan ordered Huo Xiaoyan to get out of the study.
• Yu Hao told Huo Sihan that the Su Family had obtained the bidding proposal and presented camera footage and phone records linking Su Qiao to the leak.
• Huo Xiaoyan returned and insisted that Su Qiao had stolen the proposal to help the Su Family.

Su Qiao learned that Su Wenbin had stopped her mother’s medication and rushed to the hospital, furious at the Su Family. Huo Sihan pursued her in his car, but he and Yu Hao had no way to call her.

• Huo Sihan ordered Huo Xiaoyan to leave, and Yu Hao told him Su Qiao had taken a taxi downtown.
• Su Qiao learned from 444 that Su Wenbin had stopped her mother’s medication after the bidding meeting.
• Su Qiao told 444 to ensure the Su Family did not win the bid, refusing to help Huo Sihan.
• 444 spotted Huo Sihan’s black Cayenne following their taxi, and Su Qiao urged the driver to speed up.
• Huo Sihan told Yu Hao to call Su Qiao, but Yu Hao realized he did not have her phone number.

Su Qiao was gravely injured when a steel-laden truck struck her taxi, and Huo Sihan rushed to save her. After Yu Hao confirmed she was still breathing, Huo Sihan carried her to the car and they sped toward Central Hospital.

• 444 warned Su Qiao about the truck, but she was badly injured by flying glass and lost consciousness.
• Huo Sihan saw the wrecked taxi, forced open its door, and pulled the unconscious Su Qiao from the leaking car.
• Huo Sihan clutched Su Qiao and begged her not to leave him as Yu Hao moved them to safety.
• Yu Hao checked Su Qiao's pulse, confirmed she was still breathing, and urged Huo Sihan to take her to the hospital.
• Huo Sihan carried Su Qiao into the car, and Yu Hao drove them toward Central Hospital.

Su Qiao woke after ten days in a coma and learned that Huo Sihan had watched over her while she recovered from severe injuries. She also learned that her mother had died, and she began investigating the suspicious crash and her mother’s death.

• Su Qiao woke and thanked 444 for saving her with a hemostatic potion and a Reinforcement Agent.
• 444 told Su Qiao that Huo Sihan had taken her to the hospital and watched over her until his assistant, Yu Hao, persuaded him to leave.
• Su Qiao learned that her mother had died the day after the accident and that Huo Sihan had buried her.
• 444 said Madam Huo’s death might be connected to Huo Xiaoyan and suspected that the truck driver had deliberately caused the crash.
• Su Qiao asked 444 to preserve the road surveillance footage and investigate the truck driver, but 444 said it had already done so.