Recaps

Mother Yan revealed that the Yan family could hear Yan Xianjue’s thoughts and explained that he had amnesia. She told Shen Fangli how Xianjue had been kidnapped as a child, leaving her with a chilling account of his captivity.

• Mother Yan asked Shen Fangli if she could hear Yan Xianjue’s thoughts, and Shen Fangli realized the Yan family knew her secret.
• Mother Yan reassured Shen Fangli that she had not summoned her to punish her, then explained that Yan Xianjue had amnesia.
• Shen Fangli signed a confidentiality agreement after Mother Yan said she had a right to know about Xianjue.
• Mother Yan recounted how four-year-old Yan Xianjue had been kidnapped for revenge against the Yan Household and imprisoned alone in a boarded-up cabin with a dagger.

Mother Yan told Shen Fangli how Yan Xianjue survived his childhood kidnapping by drinking his own blood, then warned her about the dangers of joining the Yan Household and asked her to accept a Yan Household bodyguard. Shen Fangli recognized the request as an open scheme motivated by concern for Yan Xianjue and realized both sides were drawing closer because of him.

• Shen Fangli asked whether Yan Xianjue's wrist scars came from a fight, and Mother Yan explained that kidnappers had imprisoned him without food or water, leading him to cut his wrist and drink his own blood.
• Mother Yan warned Shen Fangli that the Yan Household and Yan Xianjue's life could be dangerous, and asked her not to bring up his forgotten trauma in front of him.
• Mother Yan said the Yan Household wanted to provide Shen Fangli with a bodyguard to prevent another kidnapping and avoid triggering Yan Xianjue's lost memories.
• Shen Fangli reflected on Mother Yan's warnings and recognized that the family had deliberately tested her before making its request.
• Shen Fangli realized that the Yan Household's friendliness toward her and her willingness to cooperate both came from her feelings for Yan Xianjue.

Shen Fangli told Father Shen about Yan Xianjue's family prescription and sent Yan a picture of herself wearing the bracelet he gave her. At Zhou Ye's place, Yan saw the bracelet app confirm Shen Fangli was home and told her he was still dealing with the drunken classmates.

• Shen Fangli told Father Shen that Aunt Yan had given her an ancient prescription to help her grow taller, and he said he would have a traditional Chinese doctor examine her.
• Shen Fangli put on Yan Xianjue's bracelet, took a picture of it, and sent it to him.
• Yan Xianjue and Zhou Ye discussed their classmates, including Ji Xi, who had passed out after drinking.
• Yan's phone vibrated, and the bracelet app showed that Shen Fangli had put on the bracelet and was at home.
• Yan opened Shen Fangli's picture and teased her, then sent her the app instructions and a photo of the drunk classmates at Zhou Ye's place.

Zhou Ye arranged lodging for the drunk guests while Yan Xianjue went home and messaged with Shen Fangli. The next day, Yan Xianjue took Shen Fangli to his racetrack, where she met his horses Goldie and Treasure.

• Zhou Ye put the guests into shared rooms and arranged a separate room and supervision for Ji Xi.
• Yan Xianjue confirmed Uncle Lu was driving him home, then saw Shen Fangli exploring their couples app and sending him screenshots.
• Shen Fangli called Yan Xianjue, realized he had drunk too much, and persuaded him to take her to his racetrack the next day.
• Yan Xianjue showed Shen Fangli Goldie and her foal, but Goldie snorted at Shen Fangli after she tried petting her.
• Treasure shoved Shen Fangli aside, and she joked that the two horses were her love rivals before learning their names.

Shen Fangli visited the racetrack with Yan Xianjue and heard how he had supposedly taught Goldie as a child. Yan Xianjue promised to show Shen Fangli his childhood photos, then distracted her with the chance to feed Treasure an apple.

• Yan Xianjue claimed Goldie had learned from his lessons when he was a child, and Shen Fangli teased him for teaching a horse.
• Shen Fangli asked to see Yan Xianjue's childhood photos, and he agreed in exchange for a reward.
• Yan Xianjue pulled Shen Fangli into his arms and promised to show her the family album.
• Yan Xianjue offered Shen Fangli an apple to feed Treasure, but Goldie pushed in and took half first.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli to share the apple fairly between Goldie and Treasure, and she suspected he had set up the situation on purpose.

Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue talked about her upcoming acting role, the investigation into Zhao Jiazheng, and Yan Xianjue’s family before riding around the Yan Household’s grounds. They ended their outing at Zhou Ye’s strawberry patch, where Yan Xianjue explained why the attendant recognized him.

• Shen Fangli worried about joining the cast, and Yan Xianjue reassured her that Zhuang Yushu had prepared her for the scenes.
• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue discussed Yao Weiran’s revisions to Lei Xuan’s script and the investigation into Zhao Jiazheng’s affair and the tourmaline matter.
• Yan Xianjue recounted how Ji Xi’s subordinate avoided helping his girlfriend get Movie Queen Lin blacklisted and advised him to approach Ji Xi instead.
• When Shen Fangli asked about Yan Xianjue’s uncle, Yan Xianjue said to pretend the man was dead, and Shen Fangli dropped the subject.
• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue rode together around the Yan Household’s grounds and visited Zhou Ye’s strawberry patch.
• Yan Xianjue explained that the attendant recognized him because few people rode horses there, while the stable horses were not permitted to leave the grounds.

Yan Xianjue recognized that the sudden downpour was part of the plot and helped coordinate a response, including stopping work at construction sites. He revealed that he had predicted a mudslide and a tomb being unearthed on land developed by the Lin Household, and a news report confirmed it had happened.

• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue spent a leisurely day together before Lei Xuan and Yao Weiran’s opening ceremony was disrupted by torrential rain.
• Yan Xianjue realized the downpour matched the plot, canceled the ceremony, and warned Yan Yi'an to stop work at construction sites and protect workers.
• Yan Yi'an said Yan Corporation was coordinating emergency supplies with the government and asked Yan Xianjue to have Ji Xi help with publicity.
• Ji Xi urged Yan Xianjue to check the class group chat, where classmates were discussing his prediction about the Lin Household’s development land.
• Ji Xi explained that Yan Xianjue had predicted the rain would cause a mudslide and uncover a tomb, then shared news confirming a mudslide had unearthed one.

Yan Xianjue arranged a pause in work until the rain stopped, then traded teasing messages with Shen Fangli and his classmates. The chapter ended with Shen Fangli praising him as his classmates fell silent after his mock threat to stab people according to the class roster.

• Lei Xuan worried that Yan Xianjue had awakened a Word Spirit Ability, and Shen Fangli and Yao Weiran joined the others in teasing him.
• Yan Xianjue reviewed the upcoming schedule, giving everyone except Ji Xi time off or work-from-home arrangements until the rain stopped.
• Shen Fangli told Yan Xianjue that his classmates teased him because they knew he would not take their jokes seriously.
• Yan Xianjue threatened to stab classmates at random according to their student numbers, silencing the group chat.
• Shen Fangli agreed that Yan Xianjue's classmates were idiots and called him the best.

Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli joked about meeting her father for dinner and discussed the Lin Household’s troubles and Yan Xianjue’s big brother’s latest move. After Yan Xianjue went downstairs, his parents decided they needed to prepare a villa for him so they would not keep overhearing his conversations.

• Shen Fangli invited Yan Xianjue to dinner with her father after the rain stopped, and Yan Xianjue worried about how her father would treat him.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli he would blame the Lin Household if anything happened to his family and said the Lin Household was too busy dealing with its own problems to cause trouble.
• Yan Xianjue reflected that his big brother had cut off the Lin Household’s cash flow, while Father Yan and Mother Yan knew Yan Xianjue’s prediction had influenced the move.
• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue joked about Ji the Old Master envying the Yan Household’s heir as Yan Xianjue finished calming their class group chat.
• Yan Xianjue went downstairs to eat, and Father Yan and Mother Yan decided to prepare a villa for him so they would not keep overhearing him.

Yan Xianjue discussed getting a private villa near his college and asked for one with a swimming pool and its own back hill, unaware that his father would obtain Zhou Er’s reserved property for him. As heavy rain and mudslides continued, he gloated over the trouble facing the Lin Household before going to look at his grandfather’s paintings.

• Yan Xianjue learned his parents were considering applying for him to commute to college and agreed to live near school, requesting a swimming pool, a small house, and preferably a back hill.
• Mother Yan agreed to Yan Xianjue’s demands, and Father Yan later gave Zhou Er a bottle of wine and secured the villa for his son.
• Zhou Ye called Yan Xianjue the next day and laughed that his father had given away Zhou Er’s villa, leaving his second uncle furious.
• The Yan family discussed the ongoing torrential rain, flooding, and mudslides, and Yan Xianjue admitted he was pleased that the Lin Household was suffering.
• Yan Xianjue went to look at his grandfather’s paintings, while Yan Shan said she would take some books from his place.

Lin Shi challenged Lin Lang at a board meeting over Lin Corporation’s failed construction project and the company’s public-relations disaster. As directors questioned Lin Lang’s judgment, Lin Shi offered to take his place, and an elder director urged Old Master Lin to reconsider Lin Lang’s leadership.

• Yan Xianjue lounged at home with Grandpa’s scroll while Father Yan, Mother Yan, and Yan Shan blamed Grandpa for his freeloading nature.
• Lin Shi defended his earlier opposition to Lin Lang’s project and mocked Lin Lang for the losses, reputational damage, and illegal construction work in rainy weather.
• Lin Shi revealed that Lin Lang had approved the company’s condescending apology and warned that Lin Corporation could lose customers and face backlash.
• Lin Shi reminded the directors that his father had cared about their earnings, then suggested Lin Lang return to managing his subsidiary and offered to take over if Lin Lang was willing.
• An elder director told Old Master Lin that Lin Lang’s stubborn decisions reflected poorly on his leadership and that Lin Rui would not have handled the matter that way.

Lin Shi was assigned to investigate the unrest at Lin Corporation’s construction site, but found Yan Wan running the shelter for the displaced workers. He was struck by her authority and learned how firmly she had reorganized the Yan Charity Foundation.

• Old Master Lin ordered Lin Shi to visit the construction site, calm the workers, and investigate whether the whistleblower had been directed by someone else.
• Lin Lang was left responsible for following up on the matter after Old Master Lin dismissed his defense.
• Lin Shi saw that the Yan Corporation had arranged shelter for Lin Corporation’s workers and decided to visit it despite the storm.
• At the shelter, Lin Shi was surprised to find Yan Wan representing the Yan Household and learned she was chairwoman of the Yan Charity Foundation.
• Lin Shi watched Yan Wan reassure people and admitted he had been captivated by her, while the foundation’s vice chairman told him to address her as Chairwoman Yan.

Lin Shi visited the Lin Corporation workers staying at Yan Corporation’s premises and offered compensation for the failure to stop work during the rain. The workers turned to Dazhuang for a response, revealing a shrewder side beneath his rough appearance.

• Lin Shi recalled Yan Xianjue’s posts about his sister’s ballet performances as he and the Yan Corporation vice president headed to the workers’ lodging.
• Lin Shi heard someone urging the workers to unite and demand compensation, then reassured the vice president that he would ignore the remark.
• The vice president introduced Lin Shi to the workers, and Lin Shi noticed the muscular Dazhuang among them.
• Lin Shi offered the workers compensation for the failure to halt work during the rain.
• The workers asked Dazhuang what he thought, and his sharp gaze contrasted with his seemingly honest appearance.

Lin Shi resolved the workers’ dispute by paying compensation and arranging interviews that shifted blame away from Lin Corporation, then used the outcome to press Old Master Lin into giving him subsidiary companies. The next day, Yan Xianjue recognized Lin Shi’s hand in the workers’ public statement, and Lin Shi ended a business call by asking whether Yan Xianjue’s eldest sister had a boyfriend.

• Lin Shi offered the workers wages, compensation, and two years of work in exchange for a unified statement, then raised their compensation to twenty thousand yuan each when Dazhuang negotiated.
• Lin Lang objected to Lin Shi’s spending, but Old Master Lin backed Lin Shi and ordered Lin Lang to give him a Beijing subsidiary and the other subsidiaries previously planned for him.
• Lin Shi agreed to take charge of the subsidiaries, dodged Lin Lang’s thrown teacup, and warned him against escalating their conflict before leaving and knocking over a shelf.
• Yan Xianjue identified Lin Shi as the person behind the workers’ interview statements, and his family agreed that the incident had not involved any deaths.
• After discussing the pharmaceutical company with Yan Xianjue, Lin Shi asked whether Yan Xianjue’s eldest sister, who managed the foundation, had a boyfriend.

After a vehicle carrying workers from the Yan foundation crashed in the rain, killing three and injuring sixteen, Yan Wan rejected suspicions that Lin Shi had arranged it and coordinated a response with Yan Yi'an. The chapter ended with Lin Shi calling Yan Xianjue to say that Lin Lang had gone crazy.

• Yan Xianjue grew uneasy after Lin Shi joked about marrying into the Yan family, while Yan Wan insisted Lin Shi had shown no romantic interest in her.
• Yan Wan learned that a vehicle sent to collect workers had crashed, killing three people, including Dazhuang, and injuring sixteen.
• Yan Wan dismissed the vice president's suspicion that Lin Shi had retaliated against Dazhuang and ordered an announcement and condolence payment.
• Yan Yi'an told Yan Wan that the head office was coordinating public relations and instructed her to respond firmly if the foundation was targeted.
• Lin Shi called Yan Xianjue and said Lin Lang had gone crazy.

Yan Xianjue learned that Lin Shi had been detained after a deadly car accident and arranged for someone to bail him out while joking about leaving him in jail. His parents also handed him control of the Yan Household’s bodyguard company, and he planned to make Lin Shi clean up the trouble surrounding the accident and the foundation.

• Yan Xianjue learned from Ji Xi that a Lin Corporation car crash had killed three people, injured sixteen, and led to Lin Shi being taken in for questioning, while Lin Lang publicly defended him.
• Yan Xianjue saw that Lin Shi and Lin Lang had fought in front of reporters and police, then asked his parents to arrange an unfamiliar person to bail Lin Shi out.
• Father Yan and Mother Yan gave Yan Xianjue control of the Yan Household’s bodyguard company, including the personnel protecting the family and its properties.
• Yan Xianjue considered making Lin Shi wait in jail, but decided he needed to get out and handle the fallout from the accident and the accusations against the foundation.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli he had arranged Lin Shi’s release and joked that Lin Shi might have to eat scraps from trash cans, while Shen Fangli doubted his claims that Lin Shi needed to resolve the foundation’s comments.

Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue discussed his family, and Yan Xianjue arranged for her to review bodyguard candidates. After speaking with Yan Yi'an, Yan Xianjue learned more about the dispute involving Lin Shi but decided not to give him the information yet.

• Yan Xianjue reassured Shen Fangli that he would defend her and explained how he and his siblings often turned to their eldest sister for help.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli he would send her bodyguard profiles, then messaged Yan Yi'an to discuss their family affairs.
• Yan Yi'an asked why Yan Xianjue had not come to him about getting Lin Shi out, and told him to inform Yan Ci about their father's help.
• Yan Yi'an sent Yan Xianjue information about Lin Shi, and Yan Xianjue learned that someone had sought compensation from Lin Shi and that Lin Shi had refused to compromise.
• Yan Xianjue decided not to pass the information to Lin Shi yet, thinking that a small setback might teach him a lesson.

Yan Xianjue learned that Lin Lang had bribed Dazhuang and likely tampered with the car, then proposed helping Dazhuang’s brother without paying condolence money. After Lin Shi left the police station with a driver assigned by Yan Xianjue, the car suddenly swerved and sped off.

• Yan Xianjue told Yan Wan that Lin Lang had bribed Dazhuang and suspected Lin Lang had tampered with the car, then asked her to arrange treatment for Dazhuang’s brother without condolence money.
• Yan Wan agreed to consider the proposal, and Yan Xianjue asked Yan Yi'an to teach him how to gather information before complaining to Shen Fangli about his brother’s double standards.
• Shen Fangli invited Yan Xianjue to dinner with her father, and they bickered about Yan Xianjue’s fear that her father would hurt him.
• Lin Shi and Lin Lang left the police station bruised after fighting, and Lin Shi complained that Yan Xianjue’s driver had not brought him an umbrella.
• Lin Shi treated his injuries in the car and learned the driver’s name was Lin Wei.
• Lin Wei abruptly swerved, told Lin Shi to fasten his seat belt, and accelerated away.

Lin Shi and Lin Wei escaped Lin Lang’s pursuit, then Lin Shi learned that Test Subject No. 3, his mother, had escaped from the lab. He decided to let her believe she was free for a few days before having her brought back.

• Lin Wei drove Lin Shi away from Lin Lang’s black sports car while demanding that Lin Shi pay for the modified vehicle.
• Lin Wei rammed the pursuer’s car, and nearby bodyguards boxed it in and arrested its driver.
• Lin Shi identified the captive as someone he did not know, then returned safely to the villa and drank ginger soup.
• Lin Shi’s teacher told him that Test Subject No. 3 had escaped, and Lin Shi realized she was his mother.
• Lin Shi told the doctor to let his mother hide until the rain stopped, then planned to take away her hope of escape.

Lin Lang faced the failure of his scheme against Lin Shi and the discovery of the archaeological site, while Lin Shi prepared to investigate Lin Lang’s accidents and demolition plans with help from his hacker cousin. After the rain stopped, Yan Xianjue tried to persuade Yan Shan to join him for dinner, but she stayed home reading.

• Lin Lang learned that the man sent after Lin Shi had vanished after a car wreck, ordered his assistant to search for him, and received news that experts had confirmed the site’s archaeological value.
• Lin Lang ordered compensation talks and withdrew workers from the site, assigning their future employment to Lin Shi, who then considered how to exploit Lin Lang’s demolition project.
• Lin Shi used his jade dice to choose a method, then asked his assistant to investigate the two car accidents and check whether Lin Lang planned to visit the demolition area.
• Lin Shi revealed that his assistant was his cousin and a hacker who had altered his appearance to take revenge on the Lin Household, though the assistant insisted that his cousin was dead.
• Yan Xianjue found his parents gone and invited Yan Shan to dinner with Shen Fangli’s family, but she pointed him toward the door and continued reading.

Yan Xianjue prepared for his first dinner at Shen Fangli’s home by buying an overwhelming number of gifts. He arrived at the Shen Household villa with the purchases, including dresses for Shen Fangli, and she had the housekeeper put them away.

• Yan Shan inferred that Yan Xianjue had summoned her guard before telling her and decided the small breach did not warrant retaliation.
• Yan Xianjue asked Uncle Lu for advice while shopping for a gift for Shen Fangli’s family, then bought so many items that one car could not hold them all.
• Shen Fangli watched her father arrange an elaborate dinner and reminded Yan Xianjue that he did not need to bring anything.
• Yan Xianjue arrived at the Shen Household villa with mall staff carrying his purchases inside trip after trip.
• Shen Fangli questioned why his gifts included more than a dozen dresses, and Yan Xianjue admitted he had bought them because they looked pretty.
• Shen Fangli had the housekeeper put the dresses away.

Yan Xianjue visited Shen Fangli’s family home, where he and Shen Fangli joked around while Father Shen prepared dinner and tried to welcome him. Their meal ended with Shen Fangli revealing the ordinary background of her role in an upcoming production, leaving Father Shen questioning the company’s screenwriting.

• Shen Fangli showed Yan Xianjue around the Shen Household while Father Shen cooked dinner, and she stopped Yan from trying to demonstrate his cooking skills.
• Yan Xianjue recognized the smell of traditional medicine on Shen Fangli and realized she had met his mother; Shen Fangli admitted she was taking the medicine but withheld some details.
• Yan Xianjue teased Shen Fangli about her height and placed a fish’s eye in her bowl at dinner, making her realize his joke referred to her sincere-looking eyes.
• Father Shen thanked Yan Xianjue for looking after Shen Fangli during a variety show, and Shen Fangli corrected him by pointing out that the show had been called The Young Master and His Laborers.
• Yan Xianjue explained that the cast would wear their own clothes to save production costs, and Shen Fangli described her ordinary-family character, prompting Father Shen to question the company’s screenwriters.

After meeting Shen Fangli’s father, Yan Xianjue received Lin Shi’s complaints about Dazhuang and dismissed them as an excuse to avoid paying for car repairs. With his family still occupied after the disaster, Yan Xianjue invited Yan Shan to Lei Xuan’s upcoming launch ceremony, but she refused.

• Yan Xianjue reassured Shen Fangli and her father about the film, then left while Shen Fangli happily tried on clothes and sent him photos.
• Yan Xianjue read Lin Shi’s messages in the car and learned that Dazhuang was already in Lin Shi’s hands despite being sent to the detention center.
• Uncle Lu explained that Dazhuang was waiting for space in the overcrowded detention center, and reminded Yan Xianjue that Lin Shi had committed plenty of crimes himself.
• Yan Xianjue decided Lin Shi’s complaints were an excuse to dodge the car repair bill and ignored his promise of a good show in a few days.
• Yan Xianjue invited Yan Shan to Lei Xuan’s launch ceremony, but she refused because there would be too many people and it would be too hot.

Yan Xianjue discovered that Yan Shan and Yan Xianjue had secretly taken Yan Yi'an's helicopter to watch a meteor shower, leaving Yan Yi'an responsible if they were caught. At Shen Fangli's delayed opening ceremony, Lei Xuan tried to get a sleepy Yan Xianjue to take his turn on camera.

• Yan Xianjue suggested that Yan Shan secretly use Yan Yi'an's plane to watch a meteor shower, and Yan Shan agreed.
• Yan Shan applied for a helicopter flight route and airspace clearance without telling the family, and Yan Yi'an found out only after the plane took off.
• Yan Xianjue attended Shen Fangli's opening ceremony, where Lei Xuan hosted the livestream and viewers commented on the production and Yan Xianjue.
• Yan Xianjue explained that he was sleepy after planning the trip with Yan Shan until midnight and drinking coffee from Shen Fangli.
• Lei Xuan told Yan Xianjue it was his turn to appear on camera, and Yan Xianjue complained that Lei Xuan was treating him like a child.

Yan Xianjue attended Lei Xuan’s drama opening ceremony, where his joking threat about the production’s profits made the actors and audience laugh. After the ceremony, he learned Lin Lang had been injured in a fall and joined Yan Shan to secretly take their eldest brother’s helicopter to watch a meteor shower.

• Lei Xuan pushed Yan Xianjue onstage, where Yan Xianjue wished the drama luck by warning that Lei Xuan would be dead if it failed to make money.
• Yan Xianjue lifted the cloth from the camera, joined the cast in wishing the production a successful start, and then asked Lei Xuan if he could leave.
• Lei Xuan discovered that his promised number-one trending topic had been displaced by news that Lin Lang had fallen from the fourth floor.
• Yan Xianjue told Yan Shan that Lin Lang had broken both legs and that the police had found problems with his demolition procedures.
• Yan Shan and Yan Xianjue prepared to secretly fly their eldest brother’s helicopter to watch a meteor shower, and Yan Xianjue refused to let their security officer pilot it.