Recaps

Sun Zhufeng exposed Jiang Honghu’s calculated marriage into the Zhong Family and Yang Jiali’s pursuit of wealth, while Yang Yi privately confronted the truth about her parents’ neglect. The chapter ended by asking how Yang Yi and Jiang Zhijie had come to work together, followed by an author’s note clarifying the timeline around Sun Jiajia, Bo Yanqi, and Qi Si.

• Sun Zhufeng told the livestream that Jiang Honghu had deliberately won Zhong Xinyao’s love and seized power in the Zhong Family after Zhong Zhong died.
• Sun Zhufeng described Yang Jiali as Jiang Honghu’s former girlfriend, and Gu Yun and Jiang Han criticized both parents and defended Zhong Xinyao.
• Yang Yi recognized that the accusations about Yang Jiali’s greed and her parents’ motives were true, despite the story she had told earlier.
• Yang Yi recalled being abandoned at an orphanage, learning her parents favored Jiang Zhijie, and discovering that Yang Jiali claimed to have only one son.
• Yang Yi developed an interest in psychology and Jiang Zhijie’s research while secretly observing him, leaving unexplained how the two later began working together.
• The author clarified the timeline of Sun Jiajia’s death, Bo Yanqi’s investigation, Qi Si’s rescue, and the Jiang Family’s later identification of Sun Jiajia.

Qi Si challenged Jiang Zhijie's confidence in his experiment and questioned whether he was mentally ill. Jiang Zhijie insisted he was normal, while Qi Si remained trapped and hoped Bo Yanqi would find them before Jiang Zhijie killed him.

• Qi Si asked Jiang Zhijie why he had arranged the livestream, and Jiang Zhijie said he expected his experiment's success to make people remember his achievements.
• Jiang Zhijie revealed that he believed he could succeed by using Qi Si as his test subject.
• Qi Si argued that success with him would prove nothing because he was an exception and everyone else had failed.
• Jiang Zhijie excitedly insisted that success with Qi Si would help him identify the variable preventing the experiment from working on others.
• Qi Si asked whether Jiang Zhijie had taken his medicine, and Jiang Zhijie solemnly denied having a mental illness.
• Qi Si stopped provoking Jiang Zhijie and silently hoped Bo Yanqi would find them before Jiang Zhijie killed him.

Bo Yanqi and Yu Zhen searched for the missing Qi Si, while Yu Zhen identified hospital locations that might conceal him. During a livestream, Qing Yaole asked Yang Yi why he had helped his family commit evil, and Yang Yi began to answer.

• Bo Yanqi searched the area around the hospital with Zhong Ming but found no sign of Qi Si.
• Bo Yanqi trusted his feeling that Qi Si was nearby and returned to search the hospital.
• Yu Zhen and Bai Hanzhou discussed possible hiding places and decided to check the parking lot, storage rooms, and morgue.
• Qing Yaole asked Yang Yi why he had helped his mother and younger brother commit evil.
• Qi Si chose to keep watching the livestream instead of asking Jiang Zhijie about Yang Yi's answer, irritating Jiang Zhijie.
• Yang Yi laughed softly and replied, "Perhaps."

Shen Shuyu confronted Yang Yi over her connection to the experiment that had harmed the kidnapped children, while Sun Zhufeng condemned Yang Yi and Jiang Zhijie for trying to create a god. As viewers unearthed records of an eighteen-year-old kidnapping case in A City, they began to suspect that the wrong culprit had been caught.

• Yang Yi said she had wanted to see whether Jiang Zhijie's experiment could create a god, enraging Sun Zhufeng.
• Shen Shuyu remembered the orphanage basement and Qi Si's sacrifice, then grabbed Yang Yi and demanded to know where Jiang Zhijie was.
• Yang Yi denied responsibility for the past but stayed silent when Shen Shuyu accused her of helping trap them and hypnotizing her.
• Netizens uncovered reports about the kidnapping of Shen Shuyu, Bo Fuyu, and Qi Si, noting that Qi Si had been found more than a year after the others.
• Viewers questioned why the old case had been closed and suspected that Yang Yi's brother had committed the kidnappings while someone else had been caught.

Netizens uncovered evidence that the eighteen-year-old kidnapping case may have involved a wrongful conviction, and the authorities announced a reinvestigation. Jiang Zhijie revealed his obsession with Qi Si and prepared to inject him with an improved version of the drug he had used in the past.

• Netizens connected livestream remarks with old newspaper reports and pressured the authorities to reopen the kidnapping case.
• The authorities announced a reinvestigation and began releasing fuller details about the old case.
• Jiang Zhijie remained calm about the case reopening, while Qi Si concluded that Jiang did not expect to escape punishment.
• Jiang Zhijie told Qi Si that he had waited long enough and praised him for being unusually resilient.
• Jiang Zhijie took out a syringe containing an improved drug, and Qi Si feared losing control if he was injected.

Jiang Zhijie dismissed Qi Si’s appeal to research rules and prepared to drug him for his experiment. Meanwhile, Bo Yanqi and the others searched the hospital for Qi Si, and Bo Yanqi spotted a location on the map they had not checked.

• Qi Si tried to stop Jiang Zhijie from injecting him by arguing that experiments using a prohibited drug could never earn academic recognition.
• Jiang Zhijie said his experiment had been illegal from the start and moved the syringe closer as Qi Si struggled and cursed him.
• Bo Yanqi met Yu Zhen and learned they had searched the hospital while she had lied to Qi Wang that Qi Si was asleep in his room.
• Bo Yanqi reasoned that Qi Si could not be hidden in the cold morgue, and Bai Hanzhou returned without finding anyone there or nearby.
• Bo Yanqi studied the hospital map, stopped at one location, and asked whether it had been searched.

Bo Yanqi searched the hospital for Qi Si and followed his instincts to an abandoned medical waste storage room. He found Qi Si inside and carried him out, though the reason no one had heard him remained unexplained.

• Bo Yanqi led Bai Hanzhou and Yu Zhen to the medical waste area marked on his map, convinced Jiang Zhijie had hidden Qi Si there.
• Bai Hanzhou stopped Bo Yanqi from opening the active storage units without protective gear, and hospital staff searched them but found no one.
• Yu Zhen noticed a battered, abandoned storage room, and Bo Yanqi rushed inside despite Bai Hanzhou's doubts.
• Bo Yanqi emerged carrying Qi Si, shocking Yu Zhen and the others.
• Bo Yanqi left with Qi Si while everyone examined the abandoned room to understand how it had concealed him without anyone hearing movement.

Yu Zhen and Bo Yanqi worried that Jiang Zhijie had hypnotized Qi Si during his abduction, while Qi Si remained unconscious in the hospital. As they kept vigil and feared what might happen when he woke, Li An struggled toward Qi Si’s room and encountered Zhong Ming.

• Bai Hanzhou and Yu Zhen found Jiang Zhijie's hidden, soundproofed storage room and questioned its staff, who appeared genuinely confused about it.
• Yu Zhen returned to the hospital, where doctors said Qi Si had serious external injuries and traces of a low-dose hallucinogen but expected him to wake by night.
• Yu Zhen told Bo Yanqi she suspected the storage-room staff had been hypnotized, though they could also have been bribed.
• Bo Yanqi feared Jiang Zhijie's hypnosis might change Qi Si, and he and Yu Zhen pleaded for Qi Si to wake safely.
• Li An struggled toward Qi Si's room, where Zhong Ming arrived just as he was about to open the door.

Zhong Ming caught Jiang Zhijie outside the hospital, and Bo Yanqi went to confront him while Qi Si remained unconscious. Jiang Zhijie showed no fear after being captured, leaving Bo Yanqi and the others to question what he had planned.

• Li An nearly struck Zhong Ming when he tried to support him, then learned that Zhong Ming had found no useful clues around the hospital.
• Zhong Ming told Bo Yanqi that he had recognized and captured Jiang Zhijie, who had been disguised in a hat and backpack and had offered no resistance.
• Yu Zhen warned that Jiang Zhijie might escape, so Bo Yanqi went to the director's office while Yu Zhen stayed with Qi Si and Li An.
• Yu Zhen supported Li An into Qi Si's room, where she said Qi Si's external injuries were not the main danger and Li An reassured her.
• Bo Yanqi and Zhong Ming found Jiang Zhijie tied to a chair in the director's office, and Bo Yanqi sent Director Zhang away before confronting him.
• Jiang Zhijie calmly greeted Bo Yanqi, saying he had not expected them to meet under these circumstances.

Bo Yanqi confronted the captured Jiang Zhijie and demanded to know what he had done to Qi Si, but Jiang Zhijie continued provoking him and hinted that he had tampered with Qi Si. Bo Yanqi nearly killed him, then let him go, leaving Jiang Zhijie surprised by his restraint.

• Bo Yanqi questioned Jiang Zhijie about whether he expected to be caught, and Jiang Zhijie said he cared more about achieving his goal than being captured.
• Bo Yanqi grabbed Jiang Zhijie by the throat after Jiang Zhijie mentioned Jiang Nantian, but Zhong Ming persuaded him to loosen his grip.
• Jiang Zhijie taunted Bo Yanqi by suggesting he had tampered with Qi Si, and Bo Yanqi threatened to make him a test subject if Qi Si was harmed.
• Jiang Zhijie mocked Bo Yanqi's threats and said he would welcome being used in the experiment, prompting Bo Yanqi to tear away part of his scalp.
• Bo Yanqi released Jiang Zhijie and asked whether he had expected Bo Yanqi to kill him in a blind rage.

Bo Yanqi resisted Jiang Zhijie's provocation and had him handed over to the A City police, while Zhong Li concealed Qi Si's condition from Qi Wang. After learning that Qi Si was unreachable, Qi Wang rushed to G City, where his arrival alarmed Bo Yanqi and Yu Zhen at the hospital.

• Bo Yanqi saw through Jiang Zhijie's attempt to provoke him into killing him and challenged him to stay alive and witness his experiment fail.
• Bo Yanqi ordered Zhong Ming to take Jiang Zhijie away, and Zhong Ming followed Zhong Li's advice to hand Jiang Zhijie over to the A City police.
• Zhong Li refused to tell Qi Wang that Qi Si was unconscious in the hospital, but Qi Wang suspected something had happened after Qi Si did not answer his calls.
• Qi Wang ordered Cao Yu to book him the earliest flight to G City and traveled there with bodyguards, telling Cao Yu and Zhou Zhi not to alert anyone in G City.
• Zhong Ming saw Qi Wang outside the hospital and warned Bo Yanqi and Yu Zhen, who realized Qi Wang had arrived without their knowledge.

Qi Si woke in the hospital and complained that everyone was too noisy before falling asleep again. After the doctor confirmed he had no major problems, Qi Wang demanded that Bo Yanqi explain how Qi Si had been hurt.

• Qi Wang arrived at Qi Si's hospital room and questioned Bo Yanqi and Zhong Ming about what had happened.
• Qi Si woke up and told Yu Zhen that everyone was too noisy.
• Zhong Ming called the doctor, who examined Qi Si and said he needed rest and recovery.
• Everyone left Qi Si to sleep and gathered in Li An's room, where Qi Wang demanded an explanation.
• Bo Yanqi admitted that Qi Si's accident was his fault, and Qi Wang asked him to explain what had happened.

Qi Wang learned that Jiang Zhijie had taken Qi Si and questioned Bo Yanqi about the threat to his brother, while Bo Yanqi hinted that he had left more than Zhong Li to protect A City. As Qi Si repeatedly woke and fell asleep in the hospital, viewers online pieced together the kidnappings and psychological experiments behind the escape-room story, and learned that Jiang Zhijie had been arrested.

• Bo Yanqi told Qi Wang that Jiang Zhijie had taken Qi Si for several hours, and Zhong Ming said Jiang Zhijie had been handed over to the A City police.
• Qi Wang revealed that Zhou Zhi was managing A City and inferred that Bo Yanqi had left Zhong Li as a backup; Bo Yanqi hinted that he had arranged further support.
• Qi Si woke briefly several times at the hospital before falling asleep again.
• Sun Zhufeng and Qing Yaole corrected Yang Yi's account, and viewers reconstructed the Jiang and Zhou families' history and the earlier kidnapping of Miss Zhou's daughter.
• Forum users connected Qi Si's kidnapping to the illegitimate son’s abductions of wealthy children and discussed unverified claims that he had conducted psychological experiments and brainwashed them.
• The forum post was deleted, while fans reacted with shock to Yang Yi and Qing Yaole's identities and positions.

After Jiang Zhijie was captured, authorities ended the escape room livestream and took everyone involved away for investigation, while revelations about Yang Yi and Shen Shuyu set off an uproar online. Before Yang Yi’s case was resolved, Bo Fuyu unexpectedly seized control of the Bo Household while Bo Yanqi and Qi Wang were away from A City.

• Jiang Zhijie's capture prompted the authorities to shut down the livestream and move against the Jiang Family.
• Authorities declared the escape room game over and took the guests, the person in charge, and all employees away for investigation.
• Netizens debated Yang Yi's and Shen Shuyu's involvement in past crimes, and Yang Yi lost more than ten million followers.
• Yang Yi's company and team refused to address the allegations after police took her away.
• Bo Fuyu suppressed the other contenders and seized control of the Bo Household while Bo Yanqi and Qi Wang were away from A City.

After Bo Fuyu seized control of the Bo Household, Bo Shengan’s allies questioned what she would do, but she calmly predicted that his new backer would eventually bring him trouble. She hinted at a drastic response by asking what would happen if the Bo Household went bankrupt.

• Bo Yonghao accepted Bo Fuyu’s rise to power without concern, while the other Bo descendants were unsettled by his sudden success.
• Bo Shengan’s subordinates confronted her about Bo Fuyu’s takeover, and several abandoned her when she refused to fight for power.
• Han Yan and Liu Qi stayed with Bo Shengan, who said Bo Fuyu would not enjoy his victory for long because bargaining with a tiger could not end well.
• Bo Shengan told Han Yan and Liu Qi to wait and see, then asked Liu Qi what would happen if the Bo Household went bankrupt.

Bo Fuyu moved to take control of Bo Corporation and Qi Corporation while the Zhou Household allied with him after its leaders were injured in a car crash. As Qi Wang worried over Qi Si’s condition, Qi Si finally woke up and fixed his sharp gaze on Bo Yanqi.

• Bo Shengan asked whether Shen Shuyu had returned, and Liu Qi said she was still in G City assisting with Yang Yi’s case.
• Bo Fuyu pursued control of Bo Corporation and Qi Corporation, prompting Zhou Zhi to tell Qi Wang that the Zhou Household had allied with Bo Fuyu and that Zhou He, Zhou Yang, and Xia Mo were hospitalized after a car accident.
• Qi Wang suspected the crash might be part of a conspiracy, while Zhou Zhi suggested Zhou Linzhe had acted because he was secretly in love with Bo Fuyu.
• Qi Wang and Zhou Zhi worried about Qi Si’s mental state as he remained unconscious in the hospital.
• On the third morning, Qi Si regained consciousness and stared sharply at Bo Yanqi, who had just woken beside him.

Qi Si woke in the hospital with his memories reverted to several months earlier, and he no longer recognized Bo Yanqi. The doctors said he needed a psychologist, leaving Qi Wang, Yu Zhen, and Bo Yanqi facing the possibility of seeking help from Jiang Zhijie.

• Bo Yanqi approached the awake Qi Si, but Qi Si asked whether he was Bo Fuyu's uncle and refused to let him touch him.
• Doctors examined Qi Si and found that his body was stable apart from an aggravated broken rib.
• Qi Si told Qi Wang that he thought he had been drinking with Xiao Chou and the others, revealing that his memories had reverted to several months earlier.
• Qi Wang learned from the doctor that Qi Si might need an authoritative psychologist, or they might have to turn to Jiang Zhijie.
• Yu Zhen, Qi Wang, and Bo Yanqi realized they could not risk harming Jiang Zhijie while Qi Si's condition remained uncertain.

Li An threatened to kill Jiang Zhijie, but Bai Hanzhou restrained him and Bo Yanqi silenced them. In the hospital, Qi Wang tried to help Qi Si warm to Bo Yanqi, then revealed that Qi Si had forgotten several months of his life.

• Li An vowed to kill Jiang Zhijie, and Bai Hanzhou held him back, reminding him that Jiang Zhijie was already in police custody.
• Bo Yanqi ordered Bai Hanzhou and Li An to stop arguing, and Yu Zhen went outside to try to calm him.
• Qi Si asked Qi Wang why Bo Yanqi was in his hospital room and learned that he was Bo Fuyu's uncle, Third Master Bo.
• Qi Wang challenged the rumors Qi Si had heard about Bo Yanqi and encouraged him to judge Bo Yanqi for himself, surprising Bo Yanqi and the others outside.
• Qi Si said his ribs hurt and asked how they had been broken, so Qi Wang revealed that several months had passed since Qi Si went to the club with Xiao Chou.

Qi Wang asked Bo Yanqi whether he planned to give up on Qi Si, whose memory loss had left him unaware of their relationship. Bo Yanqi insisted he would not abandon Qi Si, then finally entered his hospital room, where Qi Si was startled by his arrival.

• Qi Wang found Bo Yanqi smoking on the hospital rooftop and asked why he had not visited Qi Si.
• Bo Yanqi explained that he did not know whether to approach Qi Si as Third Master Bo or as his boyfriend, Bo Yanqi, but denied wanting to break up.
• Qi Wang offered to return Bo Yanqi's transfer document and asked him to forgive Qi Si's behavior while he was ill.
• Bo Yanqi refused the document, told Qi Wang he was not giving up on Qi Si, and accepted Qi Wang's request for patience.
• Bo Yanqi stood outside Qi Si's room before entering, and Qi Si accidentally hit himself in the face with his phone when he saw him.

Bo Yanqi visited Qi Si in the hospital and asked how much he remembered about their relationship. Qi Si admitted he remembered nothing, and Bo Yanqi began asking how couples were supposed to get along.

• Qi Si hurt his nose by hitting himself with his phone, and Bo Yanqi approached him at the hospital bed.
• Bo Yanqi told Qi Si that Qi Wang had gone back to the hotel with Yu Zhen and would not return until the next day.
• Bo Yanqi reassured Qi Si that he would not do anything against his wishes, then asked what he remembered about him.
• Qi Si admitted that he remembered nothing about Bo Yanqi, though Qi Wang had explained their current situation.
• Bo Yanqi confirmed that he and Qi Si were a couple, then asked whether Qi Si knew how couples should get along.

Qi Si struggled to accept that he and Bo Yanqi were engaged and had been living together, while Bo Yanqi tried to establish their relationship. Bo Yanqi’s jealousy over Lin Weiwei frightened Qi Si, who hurt his ribs during the confrontation, and Bo Yanqi left to find a doctor.

• Bo Yanqi told Qi Si they were engaged and had lived together in the home Qi Si shared with his brother, leaving Qi Si stunned.
• Bo Yanqi warned Qi Si not to make him wait too long to accept their relationship, then stopped him from hiding under the blanket and cautioned him about suffocating.
• Bo Yanqi asked whether Qi Si remembered Lin Weiwei and pressed him to say whom he liked now.
• Qi Si denied liking Lin Weiwei, but struggled and aggravated his rib injury.
• Bo Yanqi released Qi Si and went to find a doctor while Qi Si breathed a sigh of relief.

After Qi Si’s injuries were examined, Bo Yanqi decided to pursue him again and climbed into his hospital bed, claiming they were a couple who shared a bed. Qi Si ended the night trapped close against Bo Yanqi, flustered by his embrace and his claim that he was used to holding Qi Si while sleeping.

• Bo Yanqi had a doctor examine Qi Si, then decided he could make Qi Si fall for him again as long as Qi Si was not the personality obsessed with Lin Weiwei.
• Bo Yanqi ignored Qi Si’s attempts to send him to sleep elsewhere and climbed into Qi Si’s hospital bed, claiming they were a couple meant to sleep together.
• Qi Si edged toward the side of the narrow bed to avoid Bo Yanqi, who kept shifting closer whenever he turned over.
• When Qi Si nearly fell off the bed, Bo Yanqi caught him around the waist and pulled him close.
• Qi Si protested that Bo Yanqi was crowding him, and Bo Yanqi apologized while saying he was used to holding Qi Si as they slept.

Qi Si woke up in Bo Yanqi’s arms, embarrassed by their closeness, while Bo Yanqi sought answers about whether Qi Si’s personalities could control one another. Bo Yanqi recalled that Dun Dun had briefly awakened overnight and explained that Jiang Zhijie’s experiments had created many personalities inside Qi Si.

• Qi Si woke up curled in Bo Yanqi’s arms, pulled at his injured rib, and hurriedly avoided Bo Yanqi’s attempts to help him.
• Bo Yanqi left the ward to ask Qi Si’s attending physician whether a primary personality could control other personalities, and the doctor said that was generally impossible.
• Bo Yanqi remembered that Dun Dun had awakened during the night, kissed him, and said he could remain conscious only temporarily.
• Dun Dun told Bo Yanqi that Jiang Zhijie had used an enhanced drug and hypnosis to awaken the personalities inside Qi Si.
• Dun Dun said he could suppress the other personalities, but revealed that Jiang Zhijie had created so many of them that Qi Si was now full of personalities.

Qi Si prepared to devour the other personalities within him, warning Bo Yanqi that the process could make him seem unhinged. When Bo Yanqi asked about a secret connected to Qi Si’s claim that he used to be an actor, Qi Si chose not to reveal it yet, but promised to explain after the battle and asked Bo Yanqi to wait for him.

• Qi Si told Bo Yanqi he could suppress his other personalities only temporarily and planned to devour them all.
• Qi Si warned that the personalities might emerge unpredictably during the process, and Bo Yanqi recalled how radically different Qi Si had already seemed.
• Bo Yanqi pressed Qi Si about his claim that he used to be an actor because hidden information could affect his safety, but Qi Si hesitated to reveal his previous life.
• Bo Yanqi said Qi Si would not let anything irreversible happen because he cared about Qi Wang and would not want his brother to grieve.
• Qi Si told Bo Yanqi that he cared about him as much as he cared about his brother and promised to explain the actor secret after winning the battle.

Bo Yanqi learned that Qi Si’s personalities had emerged from the acting roles he played, and that they were fighting for control of his body. After Bo Yanqi left to rest, Qi Si was disappointed not to see him return, while Qi Wang teased him about missing him.

• Bo Yanqi recalled that Qi Si had many personalities competing for control, most of them shaped by characters from his acting roles.
• Bo Yanqi returned to the ward and learned that Qi Si and Qi Wang had eaten breakfast; Qi Si blushed when Bo Yanqi asked if he had eaten.
• Bo Yanqi told Qi Wang that Qi Si’s main personality had briefly appeared overnight and explained how his acting roles might have shaped his personalities.
• Qi Wang offered to watch Qi Si while Bo Yanqi went back to the hotel to catch up on sleep, and Bo Yanqi asked him to tell Qi Si he would not come in.
• Qi Si looked for Bo Yanqi when Qi Wang returned alone, and Qi Wang teased him for missing Bo Yanqi.