Chapter Summaries

Lin Ying and Fu Jingyan met Cai Yanyan and Father Cai to learn about the people who attacked Lin Ying in Sea City. Father Cai gave Lin Ying documents identifying the person behind the attack, leaving her to discover who in the Lin Family was responsible.

• Lin Ying and Fu Jingyan drove to meet Cai Yanyan, and Lin Ying made it clear she considered Cai Yanyan only a coworker.
• At the private room, Lin Ying told Father Cai she had come to discuss the Sea City attackers and denied that she and Cai Yanyan were childhood sweethearts.
• Father Cai pressured Lin Ying to drink, but Fu Jingyan stopped him and challenged him to take cephalosporin before drinking.
• Fu Jingyan served Lin Ying food while Cai Yanyan watched, then reminded Father Cai to discuss the Sea City investigation.
• Father Cai said the person targeting Lin Ying was from the Lin Family and handed her documents with the information he had found.

Lin Ying discovered that her eldest uncle, Lin Yongning, was behind an attempt on her life and explained the family history that fueled his resentment. She and Fu Jingyan went to the Lin Family Compound, where the butler tried to keep Fu Jingyan out.

• Lin Ying left Father Cai's gathering with Fu Jingyan after he deflected Father Cai's attempt to make her drink and mocked him over the suspicious drink.
• Lin Ying told Fu Jingyan that the documents named her eldest uncle, Lin Yongning, and explained that he blamed her for his son's disability and death.
• Fu Jingyan insisted on accompanying Lin Ying to confront her family, and they collected his luggage from the hotel before heading to the Lin Family Compound.
• The butler refused to admit Fu Jingyan, calling him a stranger despite Lin Ying identifying him as her partner.
• Fu Jingyan angrily compared the butler to a dog barking at its owner.

Lin Ying confronted Lin Yongning with evidence that he had plotted to harm her and Grandpa, then had him arrested. She brought Fu Jingyan home to stay with her, where their teasing continued as she showed him her room.

• Lin Ying and Fu Jingyan confronted Lin Yongning, and Lin Ying accused him of plotting against her using evidence investigated by the Cai Family.
• Lin Yongning admitted he wanted Grandpa dead, and special police officers arrested him after Lin Ying reported the crime.
• Fu Jingyan questioned why Lin Ying had brought him to the Imperial City, and she said he should stay with her for safety.
• Fu Jingyan tried to leave for a hotel, but Lin Ying took him upstairs to her room and unpacked his luggage.
• Fu Jingyan admired Lin Ying's LEGO models, and she teased him about how patient she had been with him.

Lin Ying and Fu Jingyan visited Old Master Lin, who apologized for the past, accepted their relationship, and died shortly afterward. As Lin Ying prepared for the funeral, Fu Jingyan insisted on staying by his side, and Old Master Fu arrived to offer support.

• Fu Jingyan asked for a guest room, but Lin Ying teased him before agreeing to visit Old Master Lin after he unpacked.
• Old Master Lin told Lin Ying he had done the right thing regarding Lin Yongning, apologized to Fu Jingyan for the mistaken wedding, and accepted their relationship.
• Old Master Lin said he was ready to join Lin Ying's deceased sister and father, urged Lin Ying to rely on Fu Jingyan, and passed away.
• Lin Ying grieved and began arranging Old Master Lin's funeral, while Fu Jingyan comforted him and agreed to stay despite concerns about danger.
• Old Master Fu and Fu Yiyao arrived for the funeral, and Old Master Fu offered Lin Ying help as part of the family.

During Old Master Lin’s funeral, Lin Ying and Fu Jingyan faced relatives who tried to interfere in the Lin Family’s affairs, and they drove the troublemakers away. That night, Lin Ying mourned her grandfather, asked Fu Jingyan not to leave her, and fell asleep after drinking too much.

• Fu Jingyan stayed beside Lin Ying for a week and helped her fend off collateral relatives seeking to exploit the Lin Family’s situation.
• Auntie accused Lin Ying of neglecting the Lin Family’s future by being with Fu Jingyan, but Lin Ying defended her choice and introduced him publicly as her partner.
• Fu Jingyan exposed Auntie’s plan to marry a young woman to Lin Ying and gain influence over the Lin Family.
• Lin Ying ordered the troublemakers escorted out and warned that anyone who disrupted the funeral would make an enemy of the Lin Family, while Fu Jingyan added the Fu Family’s support.
• That night, Lin Ying drank heavily, told Fu Jingyan she felt empty after her grandfather’s death, and asked if he would leave her; Fu Jingyan promised he would stay.
• Fu Jingyan carried the sleeping Lin Ying to her room, wiped her down, and covered her with a blanket.

After Old Master Lin's death, Lin Ying took charge of the Lin Family businesses and won the shareholders' silence with a calculated show of force. She and Fu Jingyan returned to Sea City to seek Fu Jun's blessing for their marriage, and the chapter ended with Lin Ying discovering Fu Jingyan's many female WeChat contacts and taking him to a hotel to explain himself.

• Lin Ying recovered from her hangover with Fu Jingyan's help, then told Xu Yuanqing she had decided to shoulder responsibility for the Lin Family.
• At the Lin Family shareholders' meeting, Lin Ying confronted the shareholders over their obstruction and threatened to demand answers if they interfered again.
• Lin Ying revealed to Fu Jingyan that she had acted intimidatingly to make the shareholders lower their guard, and he offered to bring his father to help her.
• Lin Ying returned with Fu Jingyan to Sea City and asked Fu Jun for permission to marry him; Fu Jun agreed after teasing Fu Jingyan about his past female companions.
• Lin Ying checked Fu Jingyan's phone, found thousands of female contacts, and watched him block a woman who messaged him before taking him to a hotel to explain himself.

Song Shi'an discovered that he could hear Lu Mingyu's lustful thoughts and tried to resign before Lu Mingyu's generous offers changed his mind. After Lu Mingyu threatened in his thoughts to imprison him, Song Shi'an confessed to liking him, and Lu Mingyu took him home, where they became intimate.

• Song Shi'an's memories awakened, and he realized that he was Lu Mingyu's assistant in a domineering CEO novel, but he deleted his resignation letter after Lu Mingyu sent him a bonus.
• Song Shi'an heard Lu Mingyu thinking about touching and kissing him, then heard him consider tying Song Shi'an up and keeping him at home.
• When Song Shi'an tried to quit, Lu Mingyu offered him a 50% raise, sent him money, and gave him time off; Song Shi'an decided to stay after hearing Lu Mingyu's lavish plans for him.
• Lu Mingyu asked whether Song Shi'an liked him and threatened in his thoughts to drug and imprison him if he did not answer, so Song Shi'an confessed that he liked Lu Mingyu.
• Lu Mingyu accepted Song Shi'an's confession, took him to his villa, and became intimate with him.
• Lu Mingyu reflected that he had carefully coaxed Song Shi'an into a relationship because he knew Song Shi'an would never take the initiative.