Recaps

Zhang Yang recruited Su Xiaoran for Premium Goods’ Reading Festival, acquired Soup King Hotpot, and traveled through Liangxi and Hangzhou while pursuing business and personal relationships. After saving Tian Chuxi and completing his filming mission, he claimed a CEO experience reward and began preparing the InterContinental Garden Hotel for a summit.

• Zhang Yang recruited Xie Shuting, who wrote as Su Xiaoran, for the Reading Festival, but she left in tears after he admitted he had approached her with a purpose and had a girlfriend.
• Zhang Yang completed the Soup King Hotpot acquisition and toured its Liangxi operations with Bai Jingyi, then bought an apartment for her at Li Lake Camphor Garden.
• Zhang Yang impressed Tian Chuxi and Luo Wenzhou by bench-pressing 300 kilograms, joined Tian for dinner at his Soup King Hotpot, and began filming a web drama with her.
• After Tian Chuxi’s car went over a ravine during a rainy shoot, Zhang Yang rescued her and kept her warm in a cave until help arrived.
• Zhang Yang showed Xiang Xiaotian, Dong Jun, and Liu Qingqing his lavish Peach Blossom Spring residence and InterContinental Garden Hotel, while Xiang Xiaotian warned her family not to give Dong Jun money for a car.
• Zhang Yang completed filming after sharing on-camera kisses with Tian Chuxi, and the system announced that his mission was complete.
• Zhang Yang claimed the Global 500 CEO Experience Book reward, impressed President Liu, and addressed the InterContinental Garden Hotel staff before the summit.

Zhang Yang expanded his businesses and supported his family as Haiqin Restaurant grew from one busy location to two. When Old Liu and his apprentices left for a rival restaurant, Zhang Yang and Zhang Zhaohai kept the new branch running and preserved Haiqin’s familiar taste.

• Zhang Yang expanded Soup King Hotpot, helped Bei Wei open Youjian Book Cafe, and drew crowds of supporters to its launch.
• Zhang Yang celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival with his family, gave Song Wenqin a Bentley, and took ownership of Yinghai Four Seasons Hotel, where he uncovered procurement fraud and reorganized management.
• Zhang Yang gave Lin Jingmin and Li Xiaoxuan gifts, while a documentary crew discovered the comfort of Zhang Zhaohai and Song Wenqin’s home-style cooking at Haiqin Restaurant.
• At Zhou Xiaona’s birthday banquet, Zhang Yang refused to defer to Zhou Wencheng, and his family’s three luxury cars outshone Zhou Wencheng’s display of status.
• Song Wenbo apologized to Song Wenqin and Zhang Zhaohai after the family’s success, but Song Wenqin rejected his gifts and sent him away.
• Zhang Zhaohai and Song Wenqin opened Haiqin Restaurant’s Dongyuan Road branch, which quickly won customers and drew the attention of rival Dongyuan Family.
• Dongyuan Family’s owner recruited Old Liu, who demanded a raise and then quit with most of the kitchen staff, while apprentices at Haiqin’s first branch also went on strike.
• Zhang Yang brought temporary Four Seasons Hotel chefs and helped Zhang Zhaohai cook, keeping the branch open as diners praised Haiqin’s unchanged flavor and Old Liu joined the rival restaurant.

Zhang Yang expanded Soup King Hotpot in Beijing, secured major investment, and grew closer to Meng Baihan, Han Lu, and Shi Xuan. After a nightclub fight brought him into contact with Chen Zhang, Zhang Yang planned the chain’s wider regional expansion and discussed Tian Chuxi’s career.

• Old Liu’s cooking damaged Dongyuan Family’s reputation, and after Old Luo fired him, Song Wenbo and Zhou Xiaona offered his group jobs.
• Zhang Yang and Meng Baihan acted on their feelings, and he helped her family win a laundry contract with the Four Seasons Hotel.
• Zhang Yang inspected Soup King Hotpot’s Beijing branches, oversaw the Joy City opening, and reached Level 8 before redeeming a voucher for a 300-million-yuan villa at Beijing Manor.
• Zhang Yang grew closer to Han Lu and Liu Chang, helped Liu Chang confront her ex, and took both women shopping after meeting Tian Chuxi in Beijing.
• Zhang Yang accepted Li Xingyu’s offer of 600 million yuan for ten percent of Soup King Hotpot, then filled in for a missing participant in Zhuo Jing’s campus matchmaking video and met Shi Xuan.
• After Qin Fengjie and Ouyang Kai confronted him, Zhang Yang defeated them and their classmates, and Shi Xuan went with him to Beijing Manor.
• Zhang Yang and Shi Xuan spent the night together, while he and Li Xingyu planned to use the investment for factories, a central kitchen, and expansion.
• Zhang Yang sparred with Chen Zhang and exchanged contact information, then kissed Shi Xuan goodbye and discussed the future of Soup King Hotpot and Tian Chuxi’s career.

Zhang Yang settled Tian Chuxi’s blackmail problem, became Mr. Long, and swept Tianjin’s martial arts halls and tournament. Back in Beijing, he expanded his business and film-studio holdings while growing closer to Chen Wu, Shi Xuan, and Liao Kexin, whose commitment he left unresolved.

• Zhang Yang bought Xiong Cai’s photos, then used a Truth Card during Xiong Cai’s livestream to expose celebrities’ secrets, after which Xiong Cai crashed while trying to flee.
• Zhang Yang met Li Xingyu’s girlfriend, watched Li Xingyu end their relationship, and agreed to help Tianjin’s martial arts halls with a masked tournament challenge.
• Zhang Yang defeated Tianjin’s martial arts masters, learned their fighting styles, and earned the name Mr. Long as he prepared for an international mixed martial arts tournament.
• Zhang Yang saved Chen Wu from a charging bull, treated her facial scars with Ice Skin Ointment, and left with Chen Zhang to compete in Tianjin.
• Zhang Yang won the tournament as Mr. Long, then returned to Beijing with Chen Zhang and Chen Wu, whose healed face drew attention from Chen Zhang’s friends.
• Zhang Yang reunited with Shi Xuan, hosted her and her cheerleading friends at his manor, and later met Liao Kexin while intervening to protect her senior schoolmate from Luo Zhenyu.
• Zhang Yang’s Soup King Hotpot chain reached one hundred stores, earning him system rewards and ownership of Huaying Film and Television Base, which he planned to rebuild.
• Zhang Yang met Liao Kexin and Lin Hui at the film base, heard about Lin Hui’s father’s medical crisis, and later spent the night with Liao Kexin, who told him she wanted him to be her first and last boyfriend.