Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao confronted He Taisheng over his crimes, including framing Li Jingtai, and accused him of starting the fire that killed his parents. He Taisheng tried to undermine her trust in Li Jingtai by claiming Li had once planned to use him to kill her, but Su Qiao remained unmoved.

• Su Qiao stopped He Taisheng from resisting and said He Meishu would suffer for helping him frame Li Jingtai with a bloodstained knife.
• He Taisheng spoke in his damaged real voice and insisted his crimes had nothing to do with his sister.
• Su Qiao accused He Taisheng of starting the fire that killed his parents and described his lack of empathy.
• He Taisheng admitted Su Qiao was right about him and claimed Li Jingtai had been an abnormal child who learned to exploit sympathy.
• He Taisheng said Li Jingtai had once intended to use him to kill Su Qiao, but Su Qiao refused to be shaken.

Su Qiao revealed that the people targeting her had actually been trying to kill He Meishu, who had witnessed Li Jingtai’s family being murdered sixteen years earlier. She exposed He Taisheng’s disturbing past and left the siblings confronting what He Meishu had long tried to forget.

• Su Qiao told He Taisheng she knew his true nature and would not truly harm or kill him.
• Su Qiao pointed out that she resembled He Meishu and said Li Jingtai, Zhou Keqin, He Shangyuan, and An Yixi had been targeting He Meishu, not her.
• Su Qiao revealed that He Meishu had witnessed Li Jingtai’s mother being murdered sixteen years earlier but had fled without calling for help.
• He Meishu appeared, and Su Qiao suggested she had stayed silent because she knew He Taisheng tortured animals and suspected he had caused their parents’ deaths.
• He Meishu recalled discovering He Taisheng dissecting a puppy and explained that she had joined the Police Academy partly to confront her fear and guilt.

He Meishu confessed that she had fled when a woman begged for help years earlier, and that her brother’s cruelty had driven her to join the Police Academy and investigate the deaths. He Taisheng pressured her to kill Su Qiao and escape, but He Meishu could not raise her trembling gun.

• He Meishu recalled seeing a woman reach out for help when she was eight, then fleeing because she feared her brother’s violent behavior would be exposed.
• He Meishu said she had secretly vowed to find the killers and later investigated the case, but the evidence had been erased.
• He Meishu asked He Taisheng whether he had killed their parents, but he ignored her and urged her to kill Su Qiao.
• He Taisheng reminded He Meishu that she had already helped him and threatened that they would both be in danger if she refused.
• He Meishu hesitated with her gun trembling, unable to shoot Su Qiao, while He Taisheng called her useless.

Su Qiao manipulated He Meishu into revealing her intent to silence her, while He Taisheng urged his sister to avenge Min Xingyu. Li Jingtai and the Major Crimes Unit arrived in time to protect Su Qiao and arrest the siblings, leaving Li Jingtai anxiously examining her scraped arm.

• Su Qiao told He Meishu that killing her would let He Meishu and He Taisheng keep their secrets.
• He Taisheng blamed Su Qiao for Min Xingyu's downfall and urged He Meishu to take revenge.
• He Meishu raised her gun at Su Qiao, but Li Jingtai rushed in and shielded her.
• Team Leader Fan and the Major Crimes Unit ordered He Meishu to lower her gun, and she dropped it.
• Team Leader Fan's team restrained He Meishu and He Taisheng.
• Li Jingtai checked Su Qiao for injuries and found abrasions on her left arm.

Su Qiao gave the police evidence against He Meishu and He Taisheng, bringing their scheme to an end. After the truth about sixteen years earlier came to light, Su Qiao and Li Jingtai settled into a happy life together, though her rising modeling career left him fewer chances to train with her.

• Li Jingtai scolded Su Qiao for taking risks, then agreed to let her give a statement before they went to the hospital.
• Su Qiao told the police what had happened and handed over her recording-and-filming earring as evidence against He Meishu and He Taisheng.
• The truth from sixteen years earlier was exposed after President An fell, while Li Jingtai chose to keep his current identity.
• Su Qiao and Li Jingtai enjoyed their life together, with Su Qiao cooking and Li Jingtai training with her.
• Su Qiao entered the international Supermodel arena, leaving Li Jingtai fewer opportunities to train with her.

Su Qiao’s modeling work and fashion design preparations kept her away from home, leaving Li Jingtai unhappy about how little time they spent together. She explained that she was preparing to leave modeling and become a designer, but Li Jingtai remained unconvinced that she had noticed his recent changes.

• Su Qiao returned home late and found Li Jingtai sulking on the sofa.
• Li Jingtai complained that Su Qiao had been coming home late and that they rarely spent time together.
• Su Qiao explained that she was busy with training and preparing a Fashion Week entry, and said she planned to leave modeling to design clothes.
• Su Qiao told Li Jingtai she wanted a flexible life in which they could work from home and travel together.
• Li Jingtai asked Su Qiao to look closely at his face, but she said he was still as handsome as ever, leaving him dissatisfied.

Su Qiao realized she had neglected Li Jingtai and promised to spend more time with him after finishing her work, including traveling home with him. She tried to make time for him, but her busy businesses kept her from giving him the company he wanted.

• Su Qiao corrected her praise after Li Jingtai complained that she had failed to notice his improved appearance.
• Li Jingtai told Su Qiao that he felt emotionally neglected and wanted her concern and company rather than medicinal porridge.
• Su Qiao promised to take Li Jingtai traveling and return home with him after she submitted her work.
• Su Qiao began setting aside time to eat and watch television with Li Jingtai, but her businesses remained too demanding for her to spend much time with him.

Su Qiao noticed Li Jingtai had bought travel brochures and boxes of household supplies, but he claimed they were for his writing and for her return home. After learning she had no living relatives, Li Jingtai reassured her that he would be her family, while privately planning to keep her to himself.

• Su Qiao saw travel brochures and boxes of daily necessities at home, and Li Jingtai gave excuses for buying them.
• Li Jingtai asked Su Qiao whether she had relatives back home, and she explained that her parents were both dead and she had no family left.
• Li Jingtai comforted Su Qiao and privately thought that he would be her only family once they got there.
• Su Qiao told Li Jingtai he was acting strangely and asked whether he was hiding something, but he denied it and she chose not to press him.
• Li Jingtai offered to run Su Qiao a rose-scented bath and said he could earn enough money to support her.

Su Qiao became a celebrated international runway model but declined offers to keep pursuing her dream of designing her own clothes. She woke in a luxurious room on an island with Li Jingtai, who admitted that jealousy over other men watching her had driven him to act, and she asked what he was doing.

• Su Qiao made a striking impression at an international fashion show and received offers from top designers, including KJ.
• Su Qiao declined the offers because she wanted to become a designer and model in her own creations.
• Su Qiao woke in a luxurious room wearing silk pajamas and asked Li Jingtai where she was.
• Li Jingtai said he was jealous of men watching Su Qiao on the runway and did not want her to keep modeling.
• Li Jingtai told Su Qiao they were on an island, and she asked what he was doing.

Li Jingtai explained that Su Qiao’s constant busyness had revived painful childhood memories, so he drugged her and brought her to a deserted island to keep her attention on him. He had stocked the island for self-sufficient living, and Su Qiao asked how he would publish his writing without internet.

• Li Jingtai told Su Qiao that being left alone as a child made him hate the word “busy,” and her recent focus on other things had brought those feelings back.
• Li Jingtai said he had decided to keep Su Qiao on the island so neither of them would be distracted by the outside world.
• Su Qiao asked whether Li Jingtai meant for them to live like savages, and he reassured her that he had stored supplies and planned to grow crops and catch seafood.
• Su Qiao asked whether Li Jingtai would keep writing and, when he said yes, asked how he would publish without internet.

Su Qiao turned the tables on Li Jingtai after he revealed he wanted to keep his writing and designs just for her. She bound him and shackled him to the window, leaving him pleading to be released so he could cook for her.

• Li Jingtai told Su Qiao she could use the sewing machines in her new studio and said he would only share his writing with her.
• Su Qiao pinned Li Jingtai to the bed and tied him up with a bedsheet.
• Su Qiao searched the room and found a pair of shackles with long silver chains.
• Su Qiao shackled Li Jingtai to the metal window bars and asked how it felt to be locked up.
• Li Jingtai tried to placate Su Qiao by reminding her that it was noon and offering to cook for her.

Su Qiao explored the deserted island where Li Jingtai had brought her and rejected his attempts to help, insisting she could manage alone. She reminded him that she could reclaim the heart he had promised to keep for her and warned him that she knew enough medicine to remove it intact.

• Su Qiao said she was hungry and declined Li Jingtai's offer to cook, explaining that she could prepare food herself.
• Su Qiao surveyed the island and saw only a large forest, the sea, and the house where she and Li Jingtai were staying.
• Li Jingtai offered to show Su Qiao around and help her gather medicinal herbs, but she told him he was useless to her now.
• Su Qiao reminded Li Jingtai of his promise that she could take back her heart if it ever betrayed her.
• Li Jingtai invited Su Qiao to dig out his heart, and she warned him that she could remove it intact because she knew human anatomy and medicine.

Su Qiao revealed that she had used jewelry to spy on Li Jingtai after discovering his pinhole camera, then left him chained up on the isolated island. Li Jingtai tried to argue that they wanted the same thing, but Su Qiao insisted she was keeping him captive because she felt like it.

• Su Qiao demonstrated that her jewelry had recorded Li Jingtai and explained that she began spying on him after finding his pinhole camera.
• Li Jingtai reacted with anger and frustration, then joked that he had enjoyed watching Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao smacked Li Jingtai on the head and left to get food, ordering him to stay and reflect on his actions.
• Li Jingtai asked Su Qiao to release him, claiming she had allowed his actions because she wanted to be with him.
• Su Qiao warned Li Jingtai that he could not escape the island and that the supplies, shackles, and helicopter arrangements were all in his name.

Su Qiao kept Li Jingtai confined and ordered him to handwrite a 300,000-word Self-Reflection Letter before she would let him out. After exploring the island for five days, she received his completed letter on the sixth day.

• Su Qiao refused to return Li Jingtai’s computer and told him to write a heartfelt Self-Reflection Letter of at least 300,000 words.
• Li Jingtai accepted his punishment but teased Su Qiao about serving her as a slave.
• Su Qiao found an ice room stocked with enough frozen food for months, fed Li Jingtai, and left to explore the island.
• Su Qiao spent five days exploring the island and found abundant resources and medicinal herbs.
• On the sixth day, Li Jingtai handed Su Qiao the completed Self-Reflection Letter, and she accepted it doubtfully.

Su Qiao released Li Jingtai after he presented his absurdly romantic self-reflection letter, and he chose to stay and cook for her. As Su Qiao relaxed on the balcony, Li Jingtai secretly congratulated himself on isolating her from the outside world.

• Li Jingtai read Su Qiao passages from a lengthy letter declaring his love and promising to make up for past mistakes.
• Su Qiao stopped him and doubted whether his letter was really a self-reflection.
• Li Jingtai claimed he had spent five days writing the letter and suggested they lock it in a safe.
• Su Qiao unlocked Li Jingtai's ankle shackles, but he initially refused to leave because he wanted to keep writing.
• Su Qiao told Li Jingtai to cook, then went to relax on the balcony while he prepared food.
• Li Jingtai privately decided that their secluded life would keep Su Qiao focused on him.

Ten years after settling on a deserted island with Li Jingtai, Su Qiao reflected on their life together and learned that 444 could not predict what kind of plane they would enter next. When she seemed unhappy, Li Jingtai offered to take her back home, and she showed interest in going.

• 444 awoke from hibernation and learned that Su Qiao had stayed on the island with Li Jingtai, though they went out for their wedding, medical visits, and part of each year.
• Su Qiao asked whether 444 had leveled up, and it explained that it lacked the Points to do so and could not predict their next plane.
• Li Jingtai brought Su Qiao juice and worried that she was upset about not being able to have children.
• Li Jingtai suggested taking Su Qiao out to clear her head, then proposed returning home to enjoy the food there.
• Su Qiao showed interest in the trip, and Li Jingtai immediately helped her get ready to leave.

Su Qiao woke in Second Prince Chi Zhengze’s room at the royal palace and learned that Ouya had locked her inside as part of a setup. With 444’s help, she escaped the palace and reached a huge rear garden, wondering whether she had left without doing anything useful.

• Su Qiao realized she was in a man’s bedroom in a technologically advanced future and learned from 444 that she was in the royal palace.
• Su Qiao discovered the door was locked and learned that Ouya had set her up after the original host entered Chi Zhengze’s room to help him.
• Su Qiao questioned why Ouya would set her up when she did not want to be with Second Prince Chi Zhengze, and 444 said Ouya wanted an ordinary, peaceful life.
• 444 opened the door and took control of nearby surveillance equipment, guiding Su Qiao safely out of the palace.
• Su Qiao arrived at a huge rear garden and wondered whether she should have done something before leaving.

Su Qiao plotted to force Ouya into Chi Zhengze’s room and make her entangled with the drugged Second Prince. After carrying out her plan, Su Qiao returned openly to the rear garden.

• Su Qiao watched Ouya in the rear garden and waited for her to go to the restroom.
• Su Qiao knocked Ouya unconscious, carried her to Chi Zhengze’s room, and placed her beside him.
• Su Qiao used Silver Needles on Chi Zhengze before leaving the room.
• With 444 controlling the palace’s security systems, Su Qiao returned to the rear garden and appeared openly before everyone.

Su Qiao returned to the Su residence after the palace banquet and began sorting through the original owner's memories. She learned that the original Su Qiao was the daughter of a marshal and that her boyfriend, Second Prince Chi Zhengze, had secretly begun pursuing Ouya.

• Su Qiao left the palace with a servant and flew home while her father's bodyguards followed her.
• Su Qiao entered her pink-decorated room and started reviewing the original owner's memories.
• Su Qiao learned that the original owner was a frail, sheltered girl whose mother had died when she was young and whose father was one of the Empire's five marshals.
• Su Qiao recalled that Chi Zhengze had rescued the original owner from bullies, and they had later become a couple.
• Su Qiao learned that Chi Zhengze had met Ouya, his destined love, and had begun pursuing her in secret while refusing to give up Su Qiao.

Su Qiao learned that Chi Zhengze had arranged her death and her father Su Beicheng’s murder to hide his deception and protect his ambitions. The account also explained how Ouya became Chi Zhengze’s lover and later Queen Consort, despite learning the truth about Su Qiao’s death.

• Su Qiao noticed Chi Zhengze acting suspiciously, but he deceived her into keeping their relationship secret because he feared Marshal Su’s reaction.
• Su Qiao’s aircraft was attacked on her way home, and she died amid a fight between her bodyguards and a group of fugitives in the wilderness.
• Chi Zhengze had orchestrated Su Qiao’s death and later arranged Su Beicheng’s murder to keep his crimes from being exposed.
• Ouya, the illegitimate daughter of Ou Zhengyuan, was acknowledged by the Ou Family after her exceptional Mental Power drew attention at school.
• Ouya met Chi Zhengze, and they eventually married after he inherited the throne; when she later learned of Su Qiao’s death, she felt no guilt.