Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao returned to the apartment with clothes, necessities, and food for Jiang Yihan, who was anxious after she left and wondered how to support himself. Over dinner, she told him she liked him, and he struggled to admit that he liked her too.

• After Su Qiao left, Jiang Yihan sat alone and wondered if he had truly escaped his former life and how he could earn money.
• Su Qiao returned with clothes, daily necessities, and late-night snacks, and Jiang Yihan hurried to join her.
• Su Qiao told Jiang Yihan he could act and speak freely around her, and she said she treated him well because she wanted to.
• When Jiang Yihan asked why, Su Qiao said she liked him, and he admitted he liked hearing it.
• Su Qiao asked whether Jiang Yihan liked her, but he blushed and could not say the words.

Su Qiao proposed marrying Jiang Meng off so she would stop fixating on Jiang Yihan, and he eagerly agreed. She promised to stay by his side for a lifetime, leaving Jiang Yihan afraid to lose the only person he cared about.

• Su Qiao teased Jiang Yihan about his failed attempt to confess, while he privately acknowledged that he already liked her.
• Su Qiao proposed finding Jiang Meng a husband and asked Jiang Yihan what he thought.
• Jiang Yihan agreed enthusiastically, believing marriage could keep Jiang Meng from tormenting him and help him avoid killing her.
• Su Qiao promised Jiang Yihan that she would stay with him for a lifetime.
• Jiang Yihan asked Su Qiao not to lie to him, saying she was the only person he had.

Su Qiao retaliated against Jiang Meng by sending damaging company information to Madam Yu, then focused on tutoring Jiang Yihan for the mathematics competition. Jiang Yihan and Su Qiao won first place in mathematics and physics respectively, leaving Yu Xiujie and Chu Yi as runners-up.

• Su Qiao ordered Little Four to send Jiang Meng's company information to Madam Yu and the Yu Family's company information to Jiang Meng.
• Jiang Meng became too busy to bother Su Qiao or spend time with Jiang Yihan, and Su Qiao and Jiang Yihan resumed their affectionate routine.
• Su Qiao applied for the physics competition while Jiang Yihan entered mathematics, then intensified her tutoring to help him beat Yu Xiujie.
• Jiang Yihan won the mathematics competition by more than ten points over Yu Xiujie, and Su Qiao won the physics competition ahead of Chu Yi.
• Su Qiao taunted Chu Yi and Yu Xiujie after encountering them in the corridor, declaring that they would remain runners-up.

After Su Qiao beat Chu Yi, she taunted her and watched her leave with Yu Xiujie, then celebrated with Jiang Yihan. Su Qiao brought home food Jiang Yihan had cooked for Su Mama, who invited him to eat with them and worried that his studies were suffering.

• Su Qiao had Xiao Si send the video and photos to Chu Yi's mother.
• Su Qiao taunted Chu Yi, whose plans to escape her family by winning first place had been ruined, and Yu Xiujie took Chu Yi away.
• Su Qiao and Jiang Yihan bought groceries, cooked a feast together, and ate at their new house.
• Su Qiao carried home food Jiang Yihan had made for Su Mama and told her he wanted her to try his cooking.
• Su Mama praised Jiang Yihan and invited him to eat at their home, worrying that cooking and studying late could affect his exams.

Su Qiao concealed Jiang Yihan’s painful past from Su Mama and waited to see whether her plan to get Jiang Meng pregnant had worked. At the Chu household, Liu Su confronted Chu Yi and her husband over Chu Yi’s attempt to steal her husband, and the argument turned violent.

• Su Qiao told Su Mama she had already eaten at Jiang Yihan’s place and went inside to study.
• Su Qiao reflected that she had drugged Jiang Meng and brought her together with a man surnamed Liu, hoping to make Jiang Meng pregnant.
• Chu Yi returned home after spending time with Yu Xiujie and found Liu Su furious and her stepfather crouched in a corner.
• Liu Su slapped Chu Yi, accused her of trying to steal her own mother’s husband, and beat her.
• Liu Su attacked her husband with a broom, while he denied doing anything wrong and shoved her away.

Su Qiao’s photos drove Chu Yi, Chu Yongjun, and Liu Su into a furious family confrontation, while Su Qiao kept Yu Xiujie in the dark. Late that night, Su Qiao found the drunken Chu Yongjun in a park.

• Liu Su confronted Yu Xiujie and Chu Yi after receiving photos of them hugging, and Yu Xiujie threw her phone onto the sofa.
• Chu Yi denied having an affair and accused Chu Yongjun of harassing and threatening her, while Chu Yongjun blamed her for provoking him.
• Liu Su slapped Chu Yi and broke down wailing; Chu Yongjun left to drink, and Chu Yi ran out in tears.
• 444 praised Su Qiao for the photos, but Su Qiao said it was not yet time to show Yu Xiujie.
• Around eleven that night, Su Qiao followed Xiao Si’s directions and found Chu Yongjun drunk beside a flower bed in the park.

Su Qiao waited in the alley for Chu Yongjun to act on his hypnotic suggestion, while arranging for Yu Xiujie to be alerted when Chu Yi was attacked. The chapter ended with Chu Yongjun trapping Chu Yi and threatening to assault her as Su Qiao and Jiang Yihan watched nearby.

• Su Qiao hypnotized Chu Yongjun to repeat what he had done two years earlier and to strike first when Chu Yi tried to report him.
• Chu Yi decided to endure her home situation until the college entrance exam, planning to leave once she entered college.
• Su Qiao and Jiang Yihan waited in the alley where Chu Yongjun had hidden, and Su Qiao arranged for 444 to message Yu Xiujie and send him Chu Yi's phone location.
• Chu Yongjun dragged Chu Yi into the alley, accused her of planning to report him, and smashed her phone when she tried to call for help.
• Chu Yongjun threatened to claim Chu Yi had seduced him, while Su Qiao and Jiang Yihan remained nearby.

Su Qiao intervened when Chu Yongjun attacked Chu Yi, leaving Yu Xiujie with a broken leg before she and Jiang Yihan escaped. Back at their new home, she explained her revenge, and Jiang Yihan asked to learn martial arts so he could protect her.

• Yu Xiujie arrived as Chu Yongjun attacked Chu Yi and fought him in the alley.
• Su Qiao used a golden needle to make Yu Xiujie fall onto broken glass, injuring his leg, and Chu Yongjun fled.
• Su Qiao left a tattered black wallet in the alley and took Jiang Yihan back to their new home.
• Su Qiao told Jiang Yihan that Chu Yi had falsely accused her brother and that Yu Xiujie had tried to ruin his right hand.
• Jiang Yihan said he wanted to learn martial arts to protect Su Qiao, and she agreed to begin training him the next morning.

Su Qiao left Jiang Yihan with strict instructions and arranged for 444 to keep watch on Chu Yongjun and Chu Yi and send Yu Xiujie evidence after he woke. The police arrested Chu Yongjun for attacking Chu Yi and other suspected crimes, leaving Liu Su shocked to learn that her daughter was a victim.

• Su Qiao allowed Jiang Yihan one ice cream cone, reminded him to go to bed early, and left for home.
• Su Qiao told 444 to watch Chu Yongjun and Chu Yi and send Yu Xiujie their pictures after he woke.
• The police took Yu Xiujie to the hospital and questioned Chu Yi, who eventually identified Chu Yongjun as her attacker.
• At dawn, Chu Yongjun confessed to attacking Chu Yi but denied responsibility for Yu Xiujie's leg injury.
• The police arrested Chu Yongjun on suspicion of aggravated rape, attempted murder, and causing disability.
• Liu Su learned that Chu Yi was one of the victims and attacked Chu Yongjun in fury.

After Chu Yongjun’s crime was exposed, Su Qiao used the incident to revive doubts about Su Yunhai’s conviction and reassured Su Mama that she would clear her brother’s name. The chapter left Su Mama hopeful that Su Yunhai could return home.

• After the police left, residents gossiped about Chu Yongjun and Chu Yi, while Su Qiao reminded them that Su Yunhai had been falsely accused two years earlier.
• The neighbors began questioning whether Chu Yongjun had committed the earlier crime and Su Yunhai had been wrongfully convicted.
• Su Qiao took Su Mama upstairs and promised that the truth would soon come out and she would clear Su Yunhai’s name.
• Su Mama asked whether Su Yunhai could really be released, recalling how the accusation had ruined his future and caused him severe emotional distress.

Su Qiao told Su Mama that evidence could clear Big Brother in the case from two years ago and prepared a new home for the family. After Chu Yongjun and Chu Yi were arrested, police began questioning them about that case using Su Qiao’s video evidence.

• Su Qiao reassured Su Mama that she had sent evidence of Chu Yi’s false accusation to the police and said Big Brother would soon come home.
• Su Qiao gave Su Mama the keys to a renovated house in North City and asked her to check on the work.
• Su Mama visited the new house the next morning to oversee the renovation.
• Chu Yongjun confessed to the current crime but claimed Chu Yi had seduced him, while Chu Yi blamed him and denied wrongdoing.
• Police verified Su Qiao’s video and separately questioned Chu Yongjun and Chu Yi about the case from two years earlier.

Chu Yongjun confessed to the old rape case, and Chu Yi was exposed as having known the attacker’s identity, clearing Su Yunhai’s name while he awaited trial. Su Qiao’s relationship with Jiang Yihan became public, while Yu Xiujie faced life after his leg was amputated.

• Chu Yongjun admitted he had committed the rape two years earlier, and Chu Yi could no longer deny knowing who had attacked her.
• The police cleared Su Yunhai’s name, but he remained in a guesthouse until his case went to trial, while Su Qiao hired a lawyer to sue Chu Yi.
• News of the case spread online, and people harassed Chu Yi’s family as they condemned the false accusations against Su Yunhai.
• Su Mama saw Su Qiao and Jiang Yihan together at the mall, and she accepted their relationship with conditions about studies and intimacy.
• Yu Xiujie’s badly damaged leg was amputated, and he became despondent and refused treatment.
• Madam Yu showed Yu Xiujie her phone and scolded him for ruining himself for a woman.

Yu Xiujie learned that Chu Yi had deceived him and broke down over the loss of his leg. Meanwhile, Jiang Yihan returned home to get his household register, but Jiang Meng confronted him about his absence and her company’s problems.

• Madam Yu showed Yu Xiujie evidence that Chu Yi had deceived him, and he smashed his phone and other things in despair.
• Madam Yu urged Yu Xiujie to accept a prosthetic limb, but he wept and regretted saving Chu Yi.
• Su Qiao began dealing with the Yu Family, then her Little Friend got into trouble again.
• Jiang Yihan returned home to move his household registration, intending to make future marriage arrangements easier.
• Jiang Meng stopped Jiang Yihan and scolded him for staying away while she faced serious problems at her company.

Jiang Yihan confronted Jiang Meng and demanded the household register so he could leave, but her threats against his girlfriend pushed him to attack her. The chapter ended with him pinning her against the wall and demanding to know why she kept forcing him.

• Jiang Yihan told Jiang Meng he would not return and insisted that he would decide his own future.
• Jiang Meng blamed his girlfriend and threatened to have her expelled from school and confront her mother.
• Jiang Yihan warned Jiang Meng not to harm his girlfriend.
• Jiang Yihan grabbed Jiang Meng by the collar and slammed her against the wall.
• Jiang Yihan glared at Jiang Meng and demanded to know why she kept forcing him.

Jiang Yihan confronted his mother, Jiang Meng, over how she had controlled his life and told her to die, but Su Qiao arrived before the situation escalated. After Jiang Meng refused to hand over the household register, Su Qiao took Jiang Yihan away and rebuked him for risking his own life to solve problems.

• Jiang Yihan told Jiang Meng that she had controlled every part of his life and accused her of trying to destroy his last source of comfort.
• Jiang Yihan told Jiang Meng to die, and she was devastated by his words.
• Su Qiao arrived and found Jiang Yihan confronting Jiang Meng.
• Jiang Meng said she had hidden the household register in a safe and refused to give it to Jiang Yihan.
• Su Qiao took Jiang Yihan away and told him that failing to value his own life was his biggest mistake.
• Jiang Yihan asked Su Qiao whether she was afraid of him after he admitted he had wanted to kill someone.

Su Qiao advised Jiang Yihan to control his dark thoughts and kept him occupied by asking him to buy groceries and cook for her mother. The next day, she met Liu Shao to tell him about Jiang Meng’s pregnancy and urged him to investigate whether the child was his, leaving him to consider the possibility of gaining an heir.

• Su Qiao told Jiang Yihan that dark thoughts were not frightening if he controlled his actions, and he agreed.
• Su Qiao asked Jiang Yihan to buy groceries and prepare extra food for Su Mama, and he eagerly went to the supermarket.
• Su Qiao met Liu Shao at a café on The Island and told him that Jiang Meng might be carrying his child.
• Su Qiao explained that Jiang Meng had not been intimate with another man in two years and urged Liu Shao to investigate and decide whether he wanted the child.

Su Qiao explained to Jiang Yihan how she had arranged for his mother, Jiang Meng, to become pregnant by a new lover, hoping to give her a family beyond her son. When Su Qiao and Jiang Yihan returned home, Mother Chu knelt before Su Qiao and begged her not to sue Xiao Yi for framing Su Qiao’s brother.

• Su Qiao left the café after telling the man she had chosen him to become Jiang Meng’s lover.
• Jiang Yihan admitted he had felt jealous, and Su Qiao told him the man was Jiang Meng’s new lover and the father of her unborn child.
• Su Qiao reassured Jiang Yihan that she had a way to get Jiang Meng to hand over the household register, and the two walked home hand in hand.
• At the residential compound, Su Qiao found Su Mama amid a crowd and asked what had happened.
• Mother Chu knelt before Su Qiao and pleaded with her not to sue Xiao Yi, claiming Xiao Yi had panicked and had not meant to frame Su Qiao’s brother.

Su Qiao refused Liu Su’s pleas to drop the charges against Chu Yi, insisting that her brother deserved justice after being falsely accused and imprisoned. After Jiang Yihan escorted Su Mama away, Su Qiao confronted Liu Su over the money she had extorted from the family.

• Su Qiao accused Chu Yi and Liu Su of ruining her brother’s future and tormenting her mother for two years.
• Liu Su returned the money and begged Su Qiao not to sue Chu Yi, but Su Qiao refused to withdraw the charges.
• Liu Su angrily accused Su Qiao of driving her to desperation, and Su Mama worried that Liu Su might act recklessly.
• Jiang Yihan led Su Mama back to the residential compound so Su Qiao could handle Liu Su without worrying about her.
• Su Qiao told Liu Su that returning the extorted money was the least she could do and said she could have sued her for extortion.

Su Qiao told her mother that Chu Yi would face legal consequences and that her brother could return once the court overturned his conviction. Her mother celebrated the news and began planning the new house, while the family grew closer to Jiang Yihan.

• Su Qiao told Chu Yi that her family would not be responsible if she harmed herself and urged her to think about reducing her sentence.
• Su Qiao told her mother she had hired a lawyer to sue Chu Yi and said her brother could return after the court declared him innocent.
• Su Qiao's Mother broke down in tears of relief, and Jiang Yihan and Su Qiao comforted her.
• Su Qiao's Mother said she would finish renovating the new house before her son returned.
• Su Qiao's Mother recognized that Su Qiao had likely changed her ways because she had fallen for Jiang Yihan.

Su Qiao met Jiang Meng to confront her about her son and her failing company, then offered to make a deal. The chapter ended before Jiang Meng heard the terms.

• Su Mama started making dinner while Jiang Yihan offered to help cook for Su Qiao.
• Two days later, Su Qiao met Jiang Meng, who demanded to know why she had been summoned.
• Su Qiao told Jiang Meng that her son was doing well and warned her to worry about her own situation.
• Su Qiao revealed that Jiang Meng's company faced a cash-flow crisis, mounting debts, and no help from Liu Shao until he confirmed the unborn child was his.
• Su Qiao admitted she wanted to make a deal with Jiang Meng.