Chapter Summaries

Song Shi'an's awkward encounters with Lu Mingyu continued as they began sharing breakfast and a commute, while Fu Jingyan revealed he had claimed to like men to escape an arranged match. The chapter ended with Fu Jingyan telling Lu Mingyu that he had named him as the man he loved.

• Song Shi'an accidentally spilled water over Lu Mingyu, then fled after Lu Mingyu told him to stop wiping and change clothes.
• Song Shi'an met Lu Mingyu at a breakfast stall, and Lu Mingyu offered to have breakfast sent to the office for him.
• Song Shi'an and Lu Mingyu arrived at work and found Fu Jingyan waiting in the office.
• Fu Jingyan told Lu Mingyu that he had claimed to like men to avoid the match arranged by his grandfather, contrary to the plot Song Shi'an remembered.
• Fu Jingyan warned Lu Mingyu to avoid his grandfather because he had said that Lu Mingyu was the person he liked.

Fu Jingyan told Lu Mingyu’s family that he and Lu Mingyu were involved, then suggested that Lu Mingyu might like Song Shi'an. Song Shi'an tried to ignore the rumors, but after dreaming about his boss and being mistaken for someone in a same-sex relationship, he worried that he was being led astray.

• Fu Jingyan explained that he had told his family he was involved with Lu Mingyu, angering Lu Mingyu before he fled.
• Song Shi'an pretended not to hear Fu Jingyan’s comments when Lu Mingyu questioned him, and Fu Jingyan later claimed that Lu Mingyu might like him.
• Lu Mingyu told Song Shi'an he was going to the old residence, while Song Shi'an wondered if he would have to deny Fu Jingyan’s rumor to his family.
• Song Shi'an called Chen Jiashu and learned that he would be away in Imperial City for half a month.
• Song Shi'an woke from a vivid dream about Lu Mingyu and went to work with dark circles under his eyes.
• Two women in Song Shi'an’s elevator assumed he had fought with his male friends and encouraged him to pursue someone regardless of gender.

Song Shi'an signed up for a matchmaking service while trying to dismiss his attraction to Lu Mingyu, then learned that Lu Mingyu's first love, Jiang Churan, had returned. When Jiang Churan arrived at the office and thanked Song Shi'an for taking care of Lu Mingyu, he wondered why she acted like the mistress of the house.

• Song Shi'an bought a top-tier Matchmaking Hall membership and signed up for a gathering, hoping to put his thoughts of Lu Mingyu aside.
• Song Shi'an discovered Lu Mingyu was absent, then learned he was on his way to the afternoon meeting and arrived with Lu Tingting.
• Lu Tingting told Song Shi'an that Lu Mingyu had come home late because his first love, Jiang Churan, had returned after eight years abroad.
• Song Shi'an challenged Lu Tingting's assumption that Lu Mingyu still loved Jiang Churan, asking why he had never visited her overseas.
• Jiang Churan came to the office to wait for Lu Mingyu, and thanked Song Shi'an for taking care of him, leaving Song Shi'an questioning her familiarity.

Jiang Churan visited Lu Mingyu at the office, where she grew suspicious of Tang Ruan, the only woman in his Executive Office. After work, Song Shi'an reluctantly agreed to have dinner with Tang Ruan, who led him to the bar where she worked, leaving him uneasy about her behavior.

• Tang Ruan brought tea to Jiang Churan, who questioned Song Shi'an about her and her relationship with Lu Mingyu.
• Lu Mingyu told Jiang Churan he would join her and Lu Tingting later, then told Song Shi'an he would not return to the apartment that night.
• Tang Ruan invited Song Shi'an to dinner and cried until he agreed to go with her.
• Tang Ruan took Song Shi'an to a bar in Sea City's red-light district, saying she worked there to save money for her mother.
• Tang Ruan led Song Shi'an deeper into the bar to try its fried potatoes, and he felt uneasy about her behavior.

Tang Ruan revealed that she remembered a dream in which she became Lu Mingyu’s wife, then tried to force Song Shi'an to help her win him back. The chapter ended with Tang Ruan and Ye Shi drugging and restraining Song Shi'an.

• Tang Ruan told Song Shi'an that she dreamed of marrying Lu Mingyu and having three children, and demanded to know why events had changed.
• Tang Ruan asked Song Shi'an to arrange a meeting with Lu Mingyu so she could sleep with him and restore the future she remembered.
• Song Shi'an refused to help Tang Ruan, but Ye Shi grabbed him when he tried to leave.
• Tang Ruan forced a drug down Song Shi'an's throat while Ye Shi restrained him, then revealed it was used to breed sows.

Tang Ruan drugged Song Shi'an and arranged for three men to assault him, hoping to use him to control Lu Mingyu. After Song Shi'an sent Lu Mingyu a distress message, Lu Mingyu left Jiang Churan's welcome-back dinner and arrived just as Song Shi'an was pinned down.

• Tang Ruan revealed that she had drugged Song Shi'an and ordered Ye Shi to lock him in a room with three men.
• Song Shi'an searched for an escape and used his personal phone to share his location and ask Lu Mingyu for help.
• Lu Mingyu left Jiang Churan's dinner despite her attempts to stop him and hurried to find Song Shi'an.
• Song Shi'an fought off the men as long as he could, but the drug weakened him and they pinned him down.
• Lu Mingyu kicked open the door just as the men prepared to assault Song Shi'an.

Lu Mingyu rescued Song Shi'an from Ye Shi and Tang Ruan's setup, but both men were drugged and returned to Song Shi'an's apartment. The chapter left Lu Mingyu facing Song Shi'an, who was overcome by the drug and begged him for help.

• Lu Mingyu arrived with bodyguards, knocked one of the three men unconscious, and helped Song Shi'an retrieve his phone and demand compensation for his torn shirt.
• Ye Shi and Tang Ruan claimed Song Shi'an had merely drunk too much, but Song Shi'an accused them of drugging him and trying to use a video to threaten him, then slapped Tang Ruan twice.
• Song Shi'an's legs gave way, and Lu Mingyu caught him, carried him out, and told Tang Ruan that he trusted Song Shi'an over an outsider.
• Lu Mingyu took Song Shi'an home, where both men felt increasingly overheated; Lu Mingyu realized he had been drugged and suspected Jiang Churan.
• Lu Mingyu prepared to leave, but found Song Shi'an sprawled on the sofa with his clothes partly removed, asking him for help.

After Song Shi'an was drugged, Lu Mingyu helped him through the night, and the two slept together. The next morning, Song Shi'an tried to pretend he had forgotten, but Lu Mingyu offered to recount the details.

• Lu Mingyu discovered Song Shi'an had a high fever and learned from Doctor Huang that the aphrodisiac had to run its course.
• Song Shi'an clung to Lu Mingyu, and Lu Mingyu carried him into the bedroom and helped him through the effects of the drug.
• After Song Shi'an regained his senses, he realized he and Lu Mingyu had slept together and tried to excuse his behavior as the result of being drugged.
• Song Shi'an offered to find a woman for Lu Mingyu, but Lu Mingyu said Song Shi'an should help him in return.
• The next morning, Song Shi'an tried to claim someone else had been with Lu Mingyu, but Lu Mingyu challenged him to remember what had happened.

Song Shi'an told Lu Mingyu how Tang Ruan drugged him to pressure him into helping her pursue Lu Mingyu, and Lu Mingyu fired her. Tang Ruan confronted Lu Mingyu at the company and accused Song Shi'an of lying, while he challenged her claim that he had wanted her.

• Lu Mingyu asked Song Shi'an to take responsibility for their night together, and Song Shi'an pretended he had once done the same with a friend who had died three years earlier.
• Song Shi'an explained that Tang Ruan had drugged him after he refused to help her get together with Lu Mingyu, and Lu Mingyu promised to make her answer for it.
• Song Shi'an cleaned his wrecked room, discovered a painful bite mark on his chest, then went with Lu Mingyu to the company.
• Tang Ruan barged into Lu Mingyu's office and demanded to know why he had fired her.
• Song Shi'an recounted how Tang Ruan had threatened and drugged him, but she denied it and claimed he had pursued her.
• Song Shi'an mocked Tang Ruan's accusation by asking what he could possibly have wanted from her.

Lu Mingyu fired Tang Ruan and rejected her claims that they were destined to be together, then confronted Jiang Churan about drugging food at the welcome party and dismissed her childhood-sweetheart claims. Jiang Churan began coughing and tried to explain that she was sick, while Lu Mingyu kept his distance and told her to go to the hospital.

• Lu Mingyu ordered Tang Ruan to leave after she claimed she was his future wife and the female protagonist, and security dragged her out.
• Jiang Churan visited Lu Mingyu, who accused her of arranging food that had been drugged at the welcome party and warned her not to do it again.
• Song Shi'an wondered why Lu Mingyu seemed to dislike Jiang Churan despite supposedly loving her, and Lu Mingyu learned that he was supposed to harvest a female lead's kidney for her.
• Lu Mingyu rejected Jiang Churan's claims that they were childhood sweethearts, pointing out that they had merely been neighbors and asking why she had not returned in eight years.
• Jiang Churan began coughing and said she was sick, so Lu Mingyu backed away and told her not to bring an illness into his company.

Lu Mingyu rejected Jiang Churan’s appeal for help and ordered Song Shi'an to keep her away, suspecting she wanted to exploit the Lu family’s power. Mrs. Lu then summoned Song Shi'an and urged him to help bring Lu Mingyu and Jiang Churan together, leaving him wondering whether he was not already caring for Lu Mingyu enough.

• Jiang Churan claimed she was dying and wanted to spend her remaining time with Lu Mingyu, but he refused to help and had Song Shi'an usher her out.
• Lu Mingyu told Song Shi'an he believed Jiang Churan had returned to use their childhood connection for the declining Jiang family, and ordered him to stop her from visiting.
• Song Shi'an went to the Villa, where Mrs. Lu scolded him for driving away women she had selected for Lu Mingyu.
• Mrs. Lu praised Song Shi'an for getting rid of Tang Ruan, then said she wanted Lu Mingyu and Jiang Churan together because they had known each other since childhood.
• Song Shi'an silently objected that he already cared for Lu Mingyu whenever he felt unwell.

Song Shi'an went to a matchmaking event to meet women and avoid his feelings for Lu Mingyu. He arrived at the event only to discover Lu Mingyu had followed him there.

• Mrs. Lu told Song Shi'an to bring Jiang Churan and Lu Mingyu together, but dropped the plan after learning Jiang Churan had a terminal illness.
• Lu Mingyu invited Song Shi'an to dinner, but Song Shi'an declined and later agreed to attend a matchmaking event.
• Song Shi'an dressed up for the event and refused Lu Mingyu's request to come along, claiming he was meeting a friend.
• At the matchmaking hall, Song Shi'an introduced himself to several women and said he earned over a million a year as a CEO's assistant.
• A commotion drew Song Shi'an's attention, and he saw that the handsome man everyone was crowding around was Lu Mingyu.

Song Shi'an attended a blind date and tried to get to know Chen Yinjie, but his boss, Lu Mingyu, arrived and unsettled him. After the matchmaker publicly praised Song Shi'an and drew a crowd around him, Lu Mingyu described how easily he blushed, leaving Song Shi'an even more embarrassed.

• Song Shi'an met Chen Yinjie, who proposed they get to know each other with marriage in mind, and he was about to agree.
• Lu Mingyu arrived, caught Song Shi'an at the blind date, and sat beside him while asking whether he had found anyone suitable.
• The matchmaker pulled Song Shi'an onto the stage and praised him as a handsome, successful, shy man.
• After Song Shi'an returned to his seat, several people gathered around him, and Lu Mingyu said that Song Shi'an blushed all over whenever he got shy.

Song Shi'an fled the Matchmaking Hall after Lu Mingyu exposed his lack of dating experience, then joined his boss for lunch at Yalan Pavilion. Lu Mingyu offered to keep him company and asked him to find a partner like himself, leaving Song Shi'an unaware of how directly Lu Mingyu was pursuing him.

• Song Shi'an left the Matchmaking Hall in embarrassment, and Lu Mingyu followed him and invited him to lunch.
• Song Shi'an changed his mind when he learned Lu Mingyu had reserved a private room at expensive Yalan Pavilion and ordered lavishly.
• Lu Mingyu asked why Song Shi'an had gone on a blind date, and Song Shi'an claimed he was lonely and wanted someone to share his interests.
• Lu Mingyu offered to keep Song Shi'an company, while Song Shi'an tried to refuse and secretly planned to find another match.
• Lu Mingyu said someone like Song Shi'an would suit him, then asked about his romantic experience, and Song Shi'an admitted he had never dated or spent time around women.

Lu Mingyu rejected Jiang Churan’s attempts to reconnect and explained why he distrusted her sudden return. He brought Song Shi'an to the old residence to speak with Old Madam Lu, insisting Song Shi'an was not an outsider.

• Song Shi'an choked on his water when Lu Mingyu brought up an embarrassing memory, then hurried to finish the meal and leave.
• Lu Mingyu stopped Jiang Churan from approaching and rebuffed her questions, telling her to appear before him less often.
• Song Shi'an asked whether Lu Mingyu had feelings for Jiang Churan, and Lu Mingyu explained that her eight years of silence made her sudden confession seem suspicious.
• Old Madam Lu called Lu Mingyu to the old residence, and Lu Mingyu brought Song Shi'an along to explain why he had fired Tang Ruan.
• At the old residence, Lu Mingyu told Old Madam Lu that Assistant Song wasn't an outsider and that she could speak freely.

Lu Mingyu and Song Shi'an explained Tang Ruan's misconduct to Old Madam Lu, who forgave the debt of her life-saving favor with a payment. After Song Shi'an revealed his fears about Tang Ruan's hidden identity and ambitions, Lu Mingyu offered to grant him a request, then unexpectedly said he agreed to Song Shi'an wanting him.

• Lu Mingyu told Old Madam Lu that Tang Ruan had drugged Song Shi'an and planned to blackmail him, and Song Shi'an confirmed it.
• Old Madam Lu accepted that Tang Ruan had acted wrongly, gave Song Shi'an two hundred thousand yuan in compensation, and decided to repay Tang Ruan's life-saving favor with money.
• Lu Mingyu offered to secretly have Tang Ruan beaten, but Song Shi'an refused and privately worried that she was the Ye family's biological daughter and might retaliate.
• Lu Mingyu inferred Tang Ruan's identity and offered Song Shi'an any request as compensation; Song Shi'an eagerly thought about asking for a raise.
• Lu Mingyu greeted his dog Panghu, then lifted Song Shi'an's chin and said he agreed to Song Shi'an wanting him.

Song Shi'an tried to retract his accidental declaration of affection, but Lu Mingyu insisted on keeping him company. After Song Shi'an agreed to meet Chen Yinjie for tea, Lu Mingyu arranged a resort trip for the two of them the next day.

• Lu Mingyu teased Song Shi'an about wanting only him and insisted he would keep him company.
• Song Shi'an agreed to meet Chen Yinjie for tea the following weekend, then hid his excitement from Lu Mingyu.
• Lu Mingyu accompanied Song Shi'an home, and Song Shi'an hurried into his apartment to rest.
• Lu Mingyu asked Fu Jingyan to arrange a trip to his resort for two people the next day.
• Fu Jingyan invited friends to the resort, hoping to discover who Lu Mingyu was bringing.

On his day off, Song Shi'an was brought by Lu Mingyu to a resort so he could relax. Lu Mingyu left the crowded gathering with him and explained that he had wanted them to spend time away from everyone else.

• Lu Mingyu persuaded Song Shi'an to get ready for a weekend outing by offering him triple overtime pay.
• Lu Mingyu drove Song Shi'an to a resort villa and told him they were there for a vacation.
• Fu Jingyan mistook Song Shi'an for Lu Mingyu's girlfriend, then invited Lu Tingting and other friends to join them.
• Seeing Song Shi'an sit nervously among the guests, Lu Mingyu took him away from the group.
• Lu Mingyu told Song Shi'an he had only pretended to have work to escape the gathering because Song Shi'an could not relax with everyone around.

Lu Mingyu took Song Shi'an to Fu Jingyan's resort for a quiet vacation, where Fu Jingyan teased him about his feelings for his assistant. After Song Shi'an accidentally touched Lu Mingyu's abs during a nap, the two went to the hot springs together, where Lu Mingyu took off his shirt.

• Lu Mingyu and Song Shi'an enjoyed a quiet walk before sharing lunch with Fu Jingyan.
• Fu Jingyan asked Lu Mingyu whether he had feelings for Song Shi'an, and Lu Mingyu said no one else could decide his affairs.
• Lu Mingyu lay down beside the sleeping Song Shi'an, who unconsciously cuddled up to him.
• Song Shi'an woke with his hand on Lu Mingyu's abs and denied touching them when Lu Mingyu teased him about it.
• Song Shi'an and Lu Mingyu went to the hot springs after Fu Jingyan left, and Lu Mingyu revealed his eight-pack abs.

Song Shi'an nearly fainted after soaking too long in the hot spring, and Lu Mingyu carried him back to his room. Fu Jingyan teased them over the incident, and heavy rain left Song Shi'an and Lu Mingyu staying at the resort overnight.

• Lu Mingyu invited Song Shi'an to admire his physique and tried to get him to take off his clothes, but Song Shi'an refused.
• Song Shi'an became dizzy in the hot spring and plunged into the water, so Lu Mingyu pulled him out and carried him back to rest.
• Fu Jingyan teased Lu Mingyu about what had happened between him and Song Shi'an, while Song Shi'an pretended to be unconscious.
• Lu Mingyu brought Song Shi'an to his room, where Song Shi'an worried Fu Jingyan would spread rumors about them.
• Rain began on the way to dinner, and Lu Mingyu told Song Shi'an they would stay at the resort until the next day.