Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao and Qi Jingmo shopped for ingredients together, with Su Qiao insisting on handling the physical work. They left the supermarket with Su Qiao carrying both bags while Qi Jingmo worried about her doing everything herself.

• Su Qiao pushed the cart and told Qi Jingmo that she handled the outside work while he took care of the housework.
• Shoppers mistook Su Qiao for only a year or two older than Qi Jingmo, and he blushed when he overheard their comments.
• Su Qiao dismissed 444's teasing about the shoppers' compliments and said she did not need friends or fear loneliness.
• After they bought the ingredients, Su Qiao picked up both bags and avoided Qi Jingmo when he offered to carry them.
• Su Qiao told Qi Jingmo to watch where he was going and reminded him not to strain his wrist.

Su Qiao and Qi Jingmo left the supermarket after she let him carry a small bag of greens, and she encouraged him not to care about strangers laughing. After lunch, she treated his wrist, and Qi Jingmo wondered whether her hands had been healed in the same way as he reflected on his growing desire for closeness.

• Qi Jingmo insisted on carrying something, so Su Qiao gave him a small bag of leafy greens.
• People laughed as Su Qiao and Qi Jingmo left the supermarket, and he admitted that he thought they were laughing at him.
• Su Qiao offered to go back and stop them from laughing, but Qi Jingmo said he did not care what others thought.
• Su Qiao carried the large bags home, and Qi Jingmo followed with a smile.
• After lunch, Su Qiao inserted needles and massaged Qi Jingmo's wrist with ointment, and he said it felt warm.
• Qi Jingmo asked whether Su Qiao's hand had been healed the same way and thought about how he had begun wanting to grow closer to her.

Su Qiao treated Qi Jingmo’s wrist, and they went out to dinner together. At the restaurant, Qi Jingmo ran into teammates Deng Fan and Zeng Feng, who met Su Qiao as his friend.

• Su Qiao finished treating Qi Jingmo’s wrist and told him not to use that hand for two days.
• Qi Jingmo invited Su Qiao to dinner as thanks for treating him, and she agreed.
• At a Chinese restaurant, Qi Jingmo encountered teammates Deng Fan and Zeng Feng.
• Deng Fan introduced himself and Zeng Feng to Su Qiao and reached out to shake her hand.
• Qi Jingmo secretly bumped Deng Fan, then denied having moved when Deng Fan questioned him.

Su Qiao, Qi Jingmo, Deng Fan, and Zeng Feng sat down to eat together after Deng Fan ran into his former captain. Su Qiao hinted that she and Deng Fan had played a game before, but he still could not place her.

• Deng Fan urged Zeng Feng to greet Su Qiao, and the two former teammates joined her and Qi Jingmo for a meal.
• Deng Fan asked Su Qiao why she seemed familiar, and Qi Jingmo glared at him until he clarified that he meant no disrespect.
• Su Qiao ordered the restaurant's signature dishes and told Deng Fan that they had played a game together before.
• When Deng Fan could not remember, Su Qiao revealed that she was a Game Streamer.

Su Qiao and Qi Jingmo met Deng Fan and Zeng Feng, who recognized her as the masked Leader and confirmed Qi Jingmo had been the Guardian. The conversation turned to Qi Jingmo’s recovering hand, and he hinted that Su Qiao was the doctor who had helped him.

• Deng Fan recognized Su Qiao as the Leader, and Qi Jingmo confirmed he had been the Guardian that night.
• Deng Fan introduced himself as One-Eared and Zeng Feng as White Bone, while Zeng Feng praised Su Qiao’s unpredictable fighting style.
• Qi Jingmo served Su Qiao food, and Zeng Feng asked about the recovery of Qi Jingmo’s right hand.
• Qi Jingmo said his hand should soon return to its former condition, surprising Deng Fan.
• Qi Jingmo hinted that he had met a Divine Doctor and thought of Su Qiao, who had admitted she had no medical license.

Qi Jingmo and Su Qiao shared a meal while Deng Fan and Zeng Feng realized the two were a couple. Qi Jingmo said he knew what he was doing about his family and expected to return to the team soon, leaving Zeng Feng asking whether VG had already found Su Qiao.

• Deng Fan and Zeng Feng joined Qi Jingmo and Su Qiao for a meal, and Qi Jingmo gently limited how much juice Su Qiao drank.
• After Su Qiao went to the restroom, Deng Fan asked Qi Jingmo about their relationship, and Qi Jingmo confirmed it was what Deng Fan thought.
• Zeng Feng warned Qi Jingmo that his family might target Su Qiao, but Qi Jingmo said he would make his own decisions and knew what he was doing.
• Zeng Feng asked whether Qi Jingmo could return before the semifinals, and Qi Jingmo said he expected to be back soon.
• Qi Jingmo asked if Zeng Feng had come to look for Su Qiao too, and Zeng Feng asked whether VG had already found her.

After Su Qiao rejected Qi Jundong’s recruitment, Qi Jingmo shared his contact details with his teammates and prepared to leave with her. Su Qiao decided to investigate Guo Xu and everyone involved in harming Qi Jingmo, while his teammates debated whether their relationship could work.

• Qi Jingmo told Zeng Feng and Deng Fan that Su Qiao had turned down Qi Jundong and Liang Ting, then gave them his address and phone number and asked them not to reveal his hand injury or disturb him.
• Deng Fan asked whether they would let the previous incident go, and Qi Jingmo said Guo Xu could gloat for now but would not get away with scheming against him.
• Qi Jingmo went to meet Su Qiao, and she used 444 to hear the conversation and asked it to investigate Guo Xu.
• Su Qiao resolved to get justice for Qi Jingmo and everyone involved in hurting him.
• Deng Fan praised Qi Jingmo and Su Qiao as a good match, while Zeng Feng worried about their differences in age, social class, and life experience.

Su Qiao learned that Guo Xu had caused Qi Jingmo’s car accident and taken money to throw a match, then started her stream as Qi Jingmo watched from across the room. After her parents called to arrange a blind date, Su Qiao worried that refusing might upset her father, whose heart was weak.

• 444 told Su Qiao that Guo Xu had been driving during Qi Jingmo’s accident and had taken money from VG to deliberately lose a match.
• Su Qiao told 444 to find transaction records and create image evidence if necessary, then began her stream.
• Su Qiao drew a growing audience by playing a variety of popular games while Qi Jingmo watched and occasionally defended her in the chat.
• After ending her stream, Su Qiao answered a call from her parents and learned they wanted her to go on a blind date.
• Su Qiao told Qi Jingmo she did not want to go but feared upsetting her father because of his weak heart.

Su Qiao worried about her parents’ blind dates and postponed telling them about her feelings for Qi Jingmo. She went to meet Zhu Jun, whose probing questions and growing impatience left the date awkward.

• Qi Jingmo asked whether Su Qiao planned to find a boyfriend, and she said the timing was not right for marriage.
• Su Qiao decided to delay dealing with her parents’ matchmaking until she turned thirty.
• Su Qiao went to a Western restaurant to meet Zhu Jun, a single white-collar worker in his early thirties.
• Zhu Jun questioned Su Qiao about her home and transportation, then grew cold when she said she had ridden a bicycle.
• Su Qiao told Zhu Jun she was not used to eating with knives and forks, and he looked disappointed.

Su Qiao endured Zhu Jun’s intrusive questions about marriage and children until Qi Jingmo arrived and sat beside her. Qi Jingmo explained his delay and apologized, while Zhu Jun reacted with hostility to their apparent intimacy.

• Zhu Jun mocked Su Qiao’s frugality and asked how many children she planned to have.
• Su Qiao said she did not plan to have children and challenged Zhu Jun’s belief that women had to become mothers.
• Qi Jingmo arrived, took Su Qiao’s glass of ice water, and scolded her for drinking it.
• Qi Jingmo sat beside Su Qiao and claimed he had gone to get his car after telling her to wait for him.
• Qi Jingmo apologized for leaving her waiting, while Zhu Jun looked on angrily and asked who he was.

Su Qiao left her blind date with Zhu Jun after Qi Jingmo gave her a Mercedes key and offered to cook for her. She later told Su Qiao's Father and Su Mother what had happened, and they became angry at Zhu Jun's behavior.

• Qi Jingmo gave Su Qiao a Mercedes key to use while her own car was unavailable.
• Qi Jingmo and Su Qiao left the restaurant together, despite Zhu Jun's protests.
• Zhu Jun accused Su Qiao of toying with him and threatened to make her pay, but Qi Jingmo calmly challenged him until he left.
• Qi Jingmo put his arm around Su Qiao and said he would cook for her at home.
• Su Qiao told Su Qiao's Father and Su Mother about the blind date, and they grew angry after hearing what Zhu Jun had said.

Su Qiao learned that Gu Lanting had exposed a video of the original body beating a dog to death, unleashing vicious attacks online. She protected her parents from the backlash and urged them to take a trip while she handled the culprit, but they insisted on facing the trouble together.

• 444 told Su Qiao that a video of the original body beating a dog had spread online and that Gu Lanting had learned her identity from Qi Jundong.
• Su Qiao ordered 444 to cut off her parents’ internet and mobile networks and arrange plane tickets and a hotel for them in Yunnan.
• Su Qiao took leave and went home to calm her furious parents, who had seen the online abuse and threats against their family.
• Su Qiao said she knew who was behind the attack and had booked her parents a vacation, but both refused to leave her to deal with the trouble alone.

Su Qiao sent her parents to the airport so she could handle the person behind the online trouble herself. Her parents learned she was close to having a boyfriend and began discussing her future marriage, while Su Qiao returned home to investigate the deleted video.

• Su Qiao assured her parents she had a plan and persuaded them to leave, promising to find the person responsible within a week.
• Su Qiao admitted she was close to establishing a relationship, but postponed telling her parents more until the matter was settled.
• Su Qiao drove her parents to the airport in Qi Jingmo's Mercedes and watched them board their flight.
• On the plane, Su Mama excitedly discussed preparing a dowry, while Su Qiao's Father worried about his daughter's future with a wealthy man.
• After returning to the rental house, Su Qiao learned that Gu Lanting had paid off the friend who took the video, and that the friend had already deleted it.

Su Qiao stayed calm after the smear campaign and told Qi Jingmo she already knew who was responsible and had a plan. She then opened her livestream, disabled the comments, and had 444 investigate the people making the most vicious attacks.

• Su Qiao refused to punish the woman immediately and decided to investigate her secrets.
• Qi Jingmo rushed home worried, but Su Qiao reassured him that she knew who had caused the trouble and would handle it herself.
• Qi Jingmo cooked and cleaned while Su Qiao remained calm, then she logged on to check the post and open her livestream.
• Su Qiao ordered 444 to disable the comments and find information on the people insulting and threatening her.

After the school told Su Qiao to take temporary leave, she went out alone and secretly punished five people who had attacked her online. Qi Jingmo continued investigating the person behind the online harassment, unaware of what Su Qiao had done.

• Su Qiao accepted the school's request to stay home temporarily and left despite Qi Jingmo offering to accompany her.
• Qi Jingmo asked Deng Fan to investigate the person who had exposed Su Qiao's personal information, and Deng Fan traced them to Nancheng.
• Su Qiao used powders and a stray mad dog to attack an online harasser, then had 444 erase her from nearby surveillance footage.
• Over three days, Su Qiao used the same method against five people who had insulted her online, and all five were bitten and hospitalized.
• The person who had cursed Su Qiao most viciously suffered the worst injuries, with a chunk torn from his thigh.

After Su Qiao returned from being away for three days, Qi Jingmo confessed how worried he had been and she comforted him by making dinner. The chapter ended with Qi Jingmo discovering that Su Qiao was an excellent cook and learning that she had passed a chef qualification exam.

• Qi Jingmo rushed to embrace Su Qiao when she came home and demanded to know where she had been.
• Su Qiao explained that her phone had died and apologized for forgetting to tell him she would be away for several days.
• Qi Jingmo told Su Qiao he had waited on the sofa and barely slept while worrying about her.
• Su Qiao sent Qi Jingmo to shower and offered to cook noodles for dinner.
• Qi Jingmo tasted Su Qiao's noodles and asked whether she was secretly a chef, and Su Qiao said she had passed a chef qualification exam.

Su Qiao let Qi Jingmo sleep in her bed while she prepared to expose the people who had harmed her and her family. She planned to use Gu Lanting’s account to make them turn on each other, and also decided to reveal the cruelty of Gu Lanting’s father’s restaurant later.

• Su Qiao urged Qi Jingmo to eat and sleep, then reassured him she would not go out.
• Su Qiao invited Qi Jingmo to sleep in her bed, and he awkwardly lay down while she took her laptop to the balcony.
• Su Qiao asked Little Four to upload the recorded evidence, photos, and personal information of the people who had beaten and killed a stray dog.
• Su Qiao told Little Four to post the evidence using Gu Lanting’s ID and make it appear that Gu Lanting had created the post.
• After learning about Gu Lanting’s father’s treatment of dogs and her mother’s resentment toward Su Qiao’s mother, Su Qiao decided to expose the restaurant later.

Videos showed five people abusing dogs, prompting public outrage and renewed arguments over whether Su Qiao had been wronged. Deng Fan warned people against making baseless claims and privately wondered whether Qi Jingmo had arranged the revenge, while Zeng Feng said it did not matter.

• 444 quickly spread videos of five people beating dogs, and the internet turned against them.
• Online commenters resumed attacking Su Qiao, while her fans defended her and explained that a rabid dog had badly injured her hand.
• Qi Jingmo furiously rebuked people who dismissed Su Qiao’s injury and wished they would suffer the same way.
• People noticed that the five dog abusers had previously insulted Su Qiao and began speculating that the attacks were revenge.
• Deng Fan warned people online not to make baseless accusations, then asked Zeng Feng whether Qi Jingmo had arranged the attacks; Zeng Feng said it did not matter, and Deng Fan guessed that he had.

After her livestream was banned, Su Qiao confronted Gu Lanting online, and police arrested Gu Lanting for editing and posting misleading videos about the rabid-dog incidents. Gu Lanting denied responsibility, but the officers connected her recent conflict with Su Qiao to the investigation.

• Su Qiao discovered that her livestream had been banned and ignored Blue Butterfly’s messages inviting her to play and taunting her.
• Gu Lanting imagined Su Qiao crying, but Su Qiao warned her that she would not be pleased for long and logged off.
• The families of the six people bitten by rabid dogs called the police after discovering that Gu Lanting had edited footage to portray the victims as animal abusers.
• Police took Gu Lanting to the station, where she denied recording or posting the videos and claimed someone had hacked her account.
• The police questioned Gu Lanting about enemies and pointed out that her only recent streamer conflict was with Su Qiao, whom Gu Lanting’s fans had attacked.

Gu Lanting left the police station under suspicion in the dog-abuse investigation, while Qi Jingmo helped expose the online evidence against her. Su Qiao remained unfazed by the backlash as Qi Jingmo stayed home to care for her.

• The police told Gu Lanting to remain in the city while they continued investigating, and she left angrily, blaming Su Qiao.
• Qi Jingmo arranged for photos of Gu Lanting being taken away and evidence from Su Qiao’s attack by the rabid dog to be posted online.
• Su Qiao’s system told her that people online were apologizing, though the harshest critics still had not shown themselves.
• Qi Jingmo comforted Su Qiao over dinner, and she said she did not care about the online comments.
• Qi Jingmo told Su Qiao he had taken ten days off because he did not want to leave her alone.