Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao arranged to escape the hospital that night with Zhang Mingyue’s help, fearing Huo Xiaoyan would target her again and that doctors would discover her rapid recovery. She pretended to remain unconscious while Huo Xiaoyan entered her ward and revealed her hatred, as 444 recorded her insults.

• Su Qiao told 444 to contact Zhang Mingyue and offer confidential Su and Huo family information in exchange for getting her out of the hospital that night.
• Su Qiao refused to tell Huo Sihan, reasoning that he might not act against his sister without evidence and that he felt guilty rather than affectionate toward her.
• Su Qiao rested while waiting for evening, then awakened when 444 warned her that Huo Xiaoyan had entered the ward.
• Huo Xiaoyan insulted Su Qiao and admitted she resented her closeness to Huo Sihan; 444 recorded the tirade.

Su Qiao woke and confronted Huo Xiaoyan, accusing her of causing Madam Huo’s death through an allergen in her tea. Huo Xiaoyan panicked, but before their standoff escalated, Huo Sihan arrived.

• Su Qiao woke and mocked Huo Xiaoyan for pretending to care about Huo Sihan.
• Huo Xiaoyan claimed Su Qiao had been caught with another man and had stolen Huo Corporation’s bid proposal.
• Su Qiao suggested Huo Xiaoyan had caused Madam Huo’s death by putting an allergen in her tea, and Huo Xiaoyan reacted with fear.
• 444 warned Su Qiao that Huo Xiaoyan was dangerous, but Su Qiao remained calm.
• Huo Sihan entered, and Huo Xiaoyan quickly pretended she had come to visit her injured sister-in-law.

Su Qiao woke in the hospital and spoke with Huo Sihan, whose concern for her contrasted with their strained relationship. She teased him about his newfound kindness and divorce, leaving him uncomfortable and guilty as he remembered her former warmth.

• Huo Sihan ordered Huo Xiaoyan out after she mentioned Aunt Su's death, and Huo Xiaoyan left the room.
• Huo Sihan asked Su Qiao how she was, and he hurried to get a doctor when she claimed she was in pain.
• Su Qiao admitted she had lied, and Huo Sihan told her not to lie to him again.
• Su Qiao thanked Huo Sihan as Mr. Huo and offered to repay the medical expenses, which made him feel the distance between them.
• Su Qiao teased Huo Sihan about his concern and said getting divorced had been the right choice, leaving him uneasy and guilty.

Su Qiao confronted Huo Sihan with the pain of loving him without receiving affection in return, then sent him away so she could rest. Huo Sihan left confused by her feelings and his own growing inability to let her go.

• Huo Sihan postponed discussing their relationship and told Su Qiao to focus on recovering.
• Su Qiao recalled her mother's lessons about love and sincerity, and the original host's lonely efforts to earn Huo Sihan's attention.
• Su Qiao told Huo Sihan to leave and not return, then insisted he go home because his presence kept her from sleeping.
• Huo Sihan reluctantly left after promising to return the next day.
• Huo Sihan reflected on how he had once resolved to divorce Su Qiao but had chased after her, and realized he could no longer abandon her.

Su Qiao secretly left the hospital with Zhang Mingyue’s help after asking Xiao Si to disable the surveillance cameras. She asked Zhang Mingyue to hide her from Huo Xiaoyan, leaving him surprised that Huo Sihan’s younger sister was the one she feared.

• Huo Sihan questioned whether he could trust his family, while Su Qiao discussed her plans with Xiao Si and learned Zhang Mingyue would help that night.
• Su Qiao slipped out of her hospital room and had Xiao Si block the cameras along her route.
• Zhang Mingyue picked Su Qiao up at the hospital’s back entrance and offered her a secluded place to recover before arranging for her to go abroad.
• Su Qiao asked Zhang Mingyue to cover her tracks and revealed that she was hiding from Huo Xiaoyan, not Huo Sihan.

Su Qiao told Zhang Mingyue that Huo Xiaoyan was behind the attempts to harm her and explained that she and Huo Sihan had signed divorce papers. She shared the Su Family and Huo Corporation’s bidding proposals with Zhang Mingyue and confirmed that her mother’s situation was why she had agreed to cooperate with him.

• Su Qiao warned Zhang Mingyue that Huo Xiaoyan was jealous of her marriage to Huo Sihan and might try to silence her, and she linked Huo Xiaoyan to the incident at the Hyatt Chinese medicine clinic.
• Su Qiao told Zhang Mingyue that she and Huo Sihan had signed divorce papers after he suspected her of sleeping with other men.
• Su Qiao cautioned Zhang Mingyue that Huo Sihan might suspect him of helping her, but Zhang Mingyue said he was not afraid of Huo Sihan.
• Su Qiao told Zhang Mingyue that she had emailed him the Su Family and Huo Corporation’s bidding proposals and would alert him if anything changed before the bidding.
• Zhang Mingyue asked Su Qiao about her mother, and Su Qiao said that was why she had decided to cooperate with him.

Su Qiao moved into a suburban house after Zhang Mingyue helped her leave, while Huo Xiaoyan discovered her escape and suspected someone had rescued her. The chapter ended with Zhang Mingyue receiving a call from his assistant.

• Zhang Mingyue dropped Su Qiao at a prepared suburban house and insisted to his assistant that she had no reason to lie to him.
• Zhang Mingyue dismissed the possibility that Su Qiao still had feelings for Huo Sihan and privately appeared pleased to have helped her.
• Huo Xiaoyan learned that Su Qiao had vanished from the hospital after she and two thugs went to deal with her.
• Huo Xiaoyan demanded to know who had rescued Su Qiao, while Zhang Mingyue received a call from his assistant.

After Su Qiao disappeared from the hospital, Huo Sihan was overwhelmed by worry and regret as he realized she might not return. Butler Lu reflected on how childhood trauma had made Huo Sihan withdraw from others, leaving him isolated even after he came back to manage his family’s affairs.

• Zhang Mingyue learned that Huo Xiaoyan had sent someone to sneak into Su Qiao’s hospital room and ordered his people to watch Huo Xiaoyan while keeping Su Qiao’s whereabouts secret.
• Huo Sihan worried about Su Qiao’s health and wondered why she had left despite saying she liked him.
• Huo Sihan remembered that Su Qiao had told him not to visit the previous afternoon and feared she had already decided to leave.
• Huo Sihan lay on the sofa, regretting that his coldness and distance might have driven Su Qiao away for good.
• Butler Lu recalled how Huo Sihan’s trauma at age seven had led him to withdraw from others, and how he later returned from abroad after his mother died, his father’s plane crashed, and Old Master Huo fell ill.

Huo Sihan resolved to find Su Qiao and ask her forgiveness, but memories of a childhood trauma triggered a violent episode before Butler Lu calmed him. When Huo Xiaoyan asked about Su Qiao, Huo Sihan suspected her involvement in Su Qiao’s disappearance.

• Butler Lu reassured Huo Sihan that Su Qiao would return, but Huo Sihan believed she would not forgive him for his past behavior.
• Butler Lu urged Huo Sihan to seek Su Qiao out and beg her forgiveness, and Huo Sihan resolved to do so.
• Huo Sihan remembered a puppy being skinned alive and feared Su Qiao could suffer the same fate, triggering a violent episode that Butler Lu helped him suppress.
• Huo Xiaoyan came downstairs and asked whether Su Qiao was missing, and Huo Sihan demanded to know where she had been that night.
• Huo Sihan suggested Su Qiao’s disappearance might be connected to Huo Xiaoyan, who protested that he suspected his own sister.

Huo Xiaoyan tried to convince Huo Sihan that Su Qiao had framed her and betrayed the family, but his memories of Su Qiao made him reject Xiaoyan’s comments about the car accident. He left the truth of his feelings unresolved as Xiaoyan continued to disparage Su Qiao.

• Huo Xiaoyan denied framing Su Qiao, and Huo Sihan warned her to tell the truth.
• Huo Xiaoyan asked what they would do about the stolen bid proposal, and Huo Sihan revealed that the real proposal had never been in the house.
• Huo Xiaoyan celebrated Huo Sihan’s precautions and criticized Su Qiao for leaving after signing the papers.
• Huo Sihan recalled how little he had done for Su Qiao and remembered her bright smile.
• When Huo Xiaoyan blamed Su Qiao’s car accident on her own wickedness, Huo Sihan ordered her to shut up.
• Huo Xiaoyan insisted that Su Qiao had deserved what happened and complained that Huo Sihan had defended her and stayed with her in the hospital.

Huo Sihan rebuked Huo Xiaoyan for slandering Su Qiao and ordered Yu Hao to continue searching for her. Meanwhile, Su Qiao planned to secure Huo Corporation’s real bid proposal before deciding what to do with it, and Huo Sihan stayed home the next day.

• Huo Sihan told Huo Xiaoyan to stop interfering in his affairs and speaking ill of Su Qiao, then went to his study.
• Huo Sihan asked Yu Hao about the search, learned that someone had frozen hospital surveillance footage, and ordered him to keep looking for Su Qiao.
• Yu Hao told Huo Sihan that the Su family did not know Su Qiao was missing and had shown little concern for her.
• Su Qiao learned that Huo Corporation’s real bid proposal was in the company safe and decided to photograph it, but not give it to Zhang Mingyue yet.
• Huo Sihan stayed home the next day, and after exercising and showering, he saw Huo Xiaoyan directing servants to pack things.

Huo Xiaoyan ordered the servants to remove Su Qiao’s belongings, but Huo Sihan stopped them and told them to store everything carefully. When Huo Xiaoyan accused Su Qiao of spying on the Huo family, Huo Sihan defended her and demanded to know how his sister knew so much.

• Huo Xiaoyan ordered the servants to throw out Su Qiao’s belongings, including cushions and crystal dinnerware.
• Huo Sihan stopped the servants and ordered them to put everything in storage without damaging it.
• Huo Xiaoyan questioned why Huo Sihan was keeping Su Qiao’s things and accused Su Qiao of being a spy for the Su Family.
• Huo Sihan challenged Huo Xiaoyan over how she knew Su Qiao had sent information to the Su Family.
• Huo Xiaoyan claimed Su Qiao had stolen the tender proposal and called her a thief, and Huo Sihan ordered her to stop speaking about Su Qiao.

Huo Sihan turned against Huo Xiaoyan and continued searching for Su Qiao, while Su Qiao recovered and worked toward an architecture certificate. She asked 444 for ancient tomb floor plans, but dismissed his suggestion that they explore tombs for treasure.

• Huo Sihan suspected Huo Xiaoyan was two-faced and warned himself to investigate her, especially if she harmed Su Qiao.
• Huo Xiaoyan angrily watched Huo Sihan leave, while the servants believed she had framed Su Qiao and secretly disapproved of her.
• Huo Xiaoyan found that Huo Sihan avoided her and the servants treated her coldly after Su Qiao left the Huo Family.
• A week passed as Huo Sihan kept searching for Su Qiao and Su Qiao nearly recovered.
• Su Qiao told 444 she planned to take the National First-Class Architect Certificate exam and asked for ancient tomb floor plans to study.
• 444 suggested exploring an ancient tomb for treasure, but Su Qiao said she had no need to make money that way.

Su Qiao asked 444 to find major construction projects she could pursue to earn money, while Huo Sihan returned to Huo Residence and confronted the emptiness left by her absence. He spent the night on the sofa with her cushion and woke at dawn.

• Su Qiao asked 444 to look for famous construction projects at home and abroad, and insisted she would try despite having only a Level-Two architect's license and no experience.
• Huo Sihan chose to return to Huo Residence after work, where he found the house dark and no one waiting for him.
• Huo Sihan remembered Su Qiao leaving a light on and waiting on the sofa to ask if he wanted a late-night snack.
• Huo Sihan turned on the television, found Su Qiao's cushion in storage, and hugged it while sitting on the sofa.
• At dawn, Huo Sihan woke on the sofa with stiff hands and feet.

Mama Zhang told Huo Sihan that Su Qiao had cared for him and learned to cook for his sake, prompting him to blush and deny that he had held her pillow. The following night, he came home drunk and demanded to know where she was.

• Mama Zhang found Huo Sihan asleep on the sofa clutching Su Qiao's favorite pillow and asked if he missed her.
• Mama Zhang told Huo Sihan that Su Qiao had learned to make his favorite foods and had patiently accepted his coldness.
• Huo Sihan blushed when Mama Zhang suggested he liked Su Qiao, then claimed the pillow had merely been left behind the sofa and told her to store it.
• Butler Lu, Yu Hao, and Yu Kun helped Huo Sihan home drunk the next night.
• Huo Sihan shoved the men away, staggered around the hall, and repeatedly demanded to know where Su Qiao was.

After Su Qiao left following her divorce from Huo Sihan, he came home drunk and demanded her snacks, sago milk, and rabbit-eared pillow. He learned she was gone and mourned her departure, while Huo Xiaoyan reacted badly to his words.

• Butler Lu helped the drunk Huo Sihan onto the sofa as he asked for Su Qiao and demanded snacks, sago milk, and her rabbit-eared pillow.
• Butler Lu told Huo Sihan that Su Qiao had left, and Huo Sihan asked where she had gone.
• After getting the White Rabbit Pillow, Huo Sihan learned from Butler Lu that he and Su Qiao were divorced and accused her of leaving without saying goodbye.
• Huo Xiaoyan came downstairs and scolded Yu Hao for letting Huo Sihan drink so much, but Huo Sihan continued pounding the pillow and calling Su Qiao heartless.
• Huo Xiaoyan's expression stiffened as she heard Huo Sihan lament Su Qiao's departure.

After Huo Sihan drunkenly defended Su Qiao and pushed Huo Xiaoyan away, Yu Hao warned Yu Kun not to pursue her, suspecting she was manipulative. Two days later, the major bidding conference began, and its final result astonished many attendees.

• Huo Sihan insisted Su Qiao had not betrayed him and complained that she had left without saying goodbye, while Huo Xiaoyan grew resentful after he shoved her.
• Butler Lu helped Huo Sihan upstairs, and Yu Hao and Yu Kun left with Huo Xiaoyan following them.
• Yu Kun asked Yu Hao why Huo Sihan was acting inconsistently, and Yu Hao said he might be unwilling to let go and unaccustomed to Su Qiao's absence.
• Yu Hao warned Yu Kun to stop setting his sights on Huo Xiaoyan, saying she was too calculating for him; Yu Kun agreed to listen.
• Two days later, the bidding conference in Hai City began, and its final result surprised many people.

The Zhang family won the bid, leaving the Su brothers and Huo Sihan’s aides questioning what had happened to the expected prices. Huo Sihan ordered an investigation into whether Su Qiao had ever truly leaked information to the Su family.

• Su Wenbin blamed Su Qiao for giving the Su family a false Huo Family bid price, but Su Wentao said Huo Sihan had never trusted her with useful information.
• Su Wentao rebuked Su Wenbin for insulting Su Qiao’s mother, their elder sister.
• Yu Kun pointed out that the Su family had bid 260 million while Zhang Mingyue’s bid was 268 million, only five million above the Huo Family’s actual 288 million bid?
• Yu Hao suggested Su Qiao might never have leaked the Huo Family’s bid price, and Yu Kun wondered whether she had refused to help the Su family.
• Huo Sihan told Yu Hao to investigate Su Qiao.

After losing the bid, Huo Sihan confronted Zhang Mingyue, accusing him of hiding Su Qiao. Zhang Mingyue denied it, while Huo Sihan revealed that Su Qiao had been seriously injured in a car accident and demanded that she be returned to the hospital.

• Su Wentao congratulated Zhang Mingyue on winning the bid and mocked Huo Sihan for losing.
• Huo Sihan grabbed Zhang Mingyue and pulled him aside, while Yu Hao and Yu Kun held back Zhang Mingyue's followers.
• Huo Sihan accused Zhang Mingyue of hiding his wife, Su Qiao.
• Zhang Mingyue denied hiding Su Qiao and said he had only helped her at the Hyatt.
• Huo Sihan warned Zhang Mingyue to hand Su Qiao over and revealed that her heart and lungs had been seriously injured in a car accident.

Su Qiao learned that the Zhang Family had won the bid and discussed her health and divorce from Huo Sihan with Zhang Mingyue. Huo Sihan remained convinced that Zhang Mingyue was hiding her, while Su Qiao dismissed his pursuit as anger over losing the bid.

• Huo Sihan learned that Su Qiao had not sought further hospital treatment and worried that she might push herself until she died.
• Zhang Mingyue urged Huo Sihan to find Su Qiao quickly, then left as Huo Sihan grew certain she was with him.
• Su Qiao congratulated Zhang Mingyue on the Zhang Family winning the bid and assured him that she was recovering.
• Zhang Mingyue told Su Qiao that Huo Sihan had pressured him to hand her over and questioned whether she was truly divorced.
• Su Qiao insisted that Huo Sihan had treated her like a stranger and suggested he was merely upset about losing the bid.