Recaps

Yan Xianjue asked Ji Xi to send flowers to Lin Lang, while Ji Xi dealt with backlash against Lei Xuan’s new production. Zhuang Yushu saw his fans’ boycott as a chance to loosen their ties to him.

• Yan Xianjue messaged Ji Xi to send flower baskets to Lin Lang, and Ji Xi eagerly arranged it.
• Ji Xi learned that online controversy targeted Lei Xuan over his past dramas and the accidents at two opening ceremonies.
• Ji Xi ordered the public relations team to send lawyer’s letters to the loudest paid commenters and redirect attention toward memes.
• Zhuang Yushu’s manager blamed Tourmaline Entertainment for the backlash and worried about the fan boycott.
• Zhuang Yushu said the controversy could help separate him from his fans after Tourmaline Entertainment had tied them too closely together.

Zhuang Yushu and his agent discussed why he had left Tourmaline Entertainment and how to manage his fans’ response to the dispute. Ji Xi also placated Lei Xuan, who was angry that the company had turned his bad luck into an internet meme.

• Zhuang Yushu explained that cutting ties with Tourmaline Entertainment had been necessary because Qian Quan might retaliate once the company recovered, and that Yan Xianjue had offered his best option.
• Zhuang Yushu agreed that his fans’ support was also putting pressure on him and said he wanted to create distance by asking them to focus on his work.
• Zhuang Yushu’s agent planned a public statement praising the script and their cooperation, while bargaining with Random Entertainment for a lead role and payment for online public relations.
• Lei Xuan called Ji Xi to complain that the company had turned his misfortune into a meme, and Ji Xi told him to focus on filming and promised the comments would disappear if the sitcom succeeded.
• Lei Xuan accepted Ji Xi’s promise but asked him to give the written guarantee to his father, leaving Ji Xi speechless.

Lei Xuan accepted Ji Xi’s decision after his father urged him to focus on the work, while Ji Xi negotiated with Boss Lei to remove Lei Xuan’s bad-luck stigma and considered opening a branch near the Lin Household. Meanwhile, Yan Xianjue and Yan Shan watched a meteor shower, and Yan Xianjue sent photos to Shen Fangli, who was busy filming and could not join them.

• Boss Lei advised Lei Xuan that Ji Xi’s business decision was understandable, and Lei Xuan admitted he still liked writing scripts and was usually happy working with the others.
• Ji Xi persuaded Boss Lei to accept a few months of hardship for Lei Xuan by promising that a successful sitcom could lead to a costume drama under Lei Xuan and Yao Weiran’s control.
• Ji Xi reviewed sites for Random Entertainment’s new branch and noticed that the options were clustered around Lin Corporation offices; he also saw Boss Lei post a Fortune-Turning Turtle to encourage Lei Xuan.
• Yan Xianjue and Yan Shan recognized Boss Lei’s turtle as one from the mountain temple they had visited, and Yan Shan offered Yan Xianjue her ranch on the grasslands.
• Yan Xianjue waited with Yan Shan for the delayed meteor shower, took photos, and sent them to friends who were working, including Shen Fangli.
• Shen Fangli told Yan Xianjue she could not leave filming on its first day, and Yan Xianjue admitted he was moved by how she considered Director Yao and Lei Xuan.

Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli about his meteor-viewing trip with Yan Shan and revealed how he had kept Yan Yi'an from interrupting them. He invited Shen Fangli to watch meteors with him at the ranch Yan Shan had given him, leaving their next outing to come.

• Yan Xianjue and Yan Shan stayed at a hotel after their outing, and Yan Xianjue video-called Shen Fangli from his suite.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli that he and Yan Shan had secretly taken Yan Yi'an's helicopter to watch meteors.
• Yan Xianjue admitted he had blacklisted Yan Yi'an during the flight so his eldest brother could not call them back.
• Yan Xianjue explained that Yan Yi'an was skilled at business negotiations but not good at handling family matters, and often took the blame for him.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli that Yan Shan had given him a grassland ranch and invited her to watch meteors there with him next time.

Yan Xianjue spent a late night chatting with Shen Fangli and teasing Ji Xi and Zhou Ye, while Yan Shan helped Yan Yi'an search for their grandfather’s hidden inheritance. Days later, Yan Xianjue attended Zhou Ye’s graduation banquet with Shen Fangli and warned Zhou Ye to stay out of the Lin Household’s power struggle.

• Yan Xianjue ended his video call with Shen Fangli, then traded messages with the overworked Ji Xi and Zhou Ye, who asked about graduation banquets.
• Yan Xianjue decided not to hold a graduation banquet, and Zhou Ye said his second uncle would publicly announce him as heir at his own banquet.
• Yan Shan secretly helped Yan Yi'an locate several hidden boxes using a puzzle in their grandfather’s notes; Yan Yi'an found a warning not to head north.
• Yan Yi'an finally replied to Yan Xianjue, offered him a card to cover helicopter expenses, and Yan Xianjue failed to notice how long his brother had been out of contact.
• At Zhou Ye’s graduation banquet, Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli gave him a peace pendant and advised him to avoid the Lin Household’s affairs.

At Zhou Ye’s graduation banquet, Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli discovered that Ruan Baibai and her mother Zhao Lesi were tied to a sensational family situation involving Zhou Ye’s second uncle. After the revelations and a glimpse of Zhou Er rejecting Zhao Lesi’s attempt to press him into remarrying, the group joined Zhou Ye’s classmates for games, where Shen Fangli took Yan Xianjue’s place at the mahjong table.

• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue discussed Zhou Ye’s new role as heir, and Zhou Ye joined them to complain about the pressure and attention surrounding his second uncle’s marriage prospects.
• Zhou Ye revealed that his deceased second aunt had a twin sister who wanted to marry his second uncle, then introduced Ruan Baibai as that sister’s daughter; Yan Xianjue recognized her and privately realized she matched the plot of a novel he knew.
• Yan Xianjue’s thoughts alarmed Shen Fangli and the Yan couple with the possibility that Ruan Baibai might become Zhou Er’s substitute wife, while Zhou Ye remained confused about their reactions.
• Zhao Lesi brought Ruan Baibai to meet Zhou Er and urged him to have a child of his own, but Zhou Er pointed out that she benefited from his remaining devoted to his late wife and left to return to work.
• Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli returned to the classmates’ lounge, where Zhou Ye invited them to play; Shen Fangli took Yan Xianjue’s seat at mahjong and showed she had developed her own strategy.

Yan Xianjue offered Wang Zihe a plan to sell his family’s ugly, unsold sporting goods through collaborations and blind boxes. The classmates were stunned by the ruthless strategy, while Yan Xianjue suggested Wang could frame any failure as youthful experimentation.

• Wang Zihe asked Yan Xianjue for advice on clearing his family’s backlogged sporting goods and offered him a share of the net profit.
• Yan Xianjue saw the products’ garish designs and learned that Wang Zihe had already fired the designer and the manager who approved them.
• Yan Xianjue proposed collaborating with small manufacturers and selling the least appealing products as hidden-edition blind boxes.
• Shen Fangli worried that the plan would damage the brand’s image, so Yan Xianjue suggested Wang’s father could explain away failure as his son fooling around or describe success as a business transformation.

At Zhou Ye’s banquet, Yan Xianjue’s parents warned the Zhou family that Zhao Lesi seemed interested in Zhou Ye, and the warning helped them prevent her from carrying out a scheme. After the banquet, Zhou Ye told Yan Xianjue that Zhao Lesi had tried to get her daughter, Ruan Baibai, drunk and into Second Uncle Zhou’s bed; the chapter ended with Zhou Ye saying he would leave the Zhou Household if the scandal had succeeded.

• Yan Xianjue forced Zhou Ye and Ni Qiu to stay and play cards after they tried to leave.
• Mother Yan warned Eldest Zhou and his wife that Zhao Lesi seemed to be watching Zhou Ye, and Father Yan suggested sending Old Lu to the children’s side.
• Zhou Ye’s banquet passed without incident, and Yan Xianjue wondered why Ruan Baibai and her mother had not caused trouble.
• Zhou Ye called Yan Xianjue and said Zhao Lesi had gotten Ruan Baibai drunk and tried to send her into Second Uncle Zhou’s bed.
• Second Uncle Zhou cut off all cooperation with the Zhao Household after the plot was exposed, and Ruan Baibai was hospitalized with alcohol poisoning.
• Zhou Ye told Yan Xianjue he would leave the Zhou Household if the scheme had succeeded.

Yan Xianjue visited Shen Fangli’s film set and discovered that Yao Weiran and Lei Xuan had radically changed the script’s ending. He challenged their choice to have the protagonist abandon school for streaming success, leaving Lei Xuan confident despite Yan Xianjue’s warning about controversy and ratings.

• After Shen Fangli’s demanding filming schedule left little time for him, Yan Xianjue used a company inspection as an excuse to visit the set.
• Yan Xianjue watched Shen Fangli rehearse a scene in which her character burned an admission letter, then learned the crew had been struggling to capture the right emotions.
• Yao Weiran told Yan Xianjue that the crew had changed the script, and Yan Xianjue discovered that its ending had been rewritten.
• Yan Xianjue questioned Lei Xuan and Yao Weiran about ending the story with the protagonist choosing streaming over school and reconciling with her parents.
• Lei Xuan defended the new ending as more relevant to current job prospects and said he would film what he wanted, while Yan Xianjue warned him about review, controversy, and ratings.

Yan Xianjue worried that the drama’s controversial direction might prevent a second season and asked Yan Wan to find someone who could advise on broadcasting approval. Meanwhile, the crew prepared a more intense scene in which Shen Fangli’s character was slapped, while Lei Xuan and Yao Weiran concealed that the scene was already in their script.

• Yan Xianjue asked Yan Wan whether she knew anyone at the broadcasting authority, and she agreed to ask around about the drama’s review.
• Yan Xianjue played a game with Zhou Ye, who hoped to support himself by taking in-game jobs.
• Zhuang Yushu suggested adding a slap to intensify the conflict in Shen Fangli’s scene, and Shen Fangli agreed to perform it using camera angles.
• Yao Weiran pointed out that Yan Xianjue would need to approve the change, so Shen Fangli planned to explain it to him after filming.
• Yao Weiran and Lei Xuan revealed that the slap was already in their version of the script and planned to blame Zhuang Yushu if Yan Xianjue objected.

Yan Xianjue confronted Shen Fangli and the directors after a slap scene in her revised drama script alarmed him. He eventually accepted their explanation but decided to send a supervising producer to keep watch over the production.

• Yan Xianjue saw Zhuang Yushu rush toward the brazier before the scene ended with him slapping Shen Fangli, and he moved to confront the directing team.
• Yao Weiran explained that the slap was only a camera angle, while Yan Xianjue said he would not let Shen Fangli work with other crews until she became famous enough.
• After the take, Yan Xianjue checked Shen Fangli's face, then learned that the script had been extensively revised without his knowledge.
• Lei Xuan said he had emailed the changes to Ji Xi and copied Yan Xianjue, who admitted he had not read the email and warned them not to make further changes secretly.
• Yan Xianjue decided to have Ji Xi send a supervising producer to the crew.

Yan Xianjue visited the film set, treated the crew to lunch, and discussed censorship approval with Yao Weiran and Lei Xuan. He later teased Shen Fangli about her acting before leaving to visit his company.

• Yan Xianjue sent an elaborate lunch for the crew and offered to have his sister connect them with someone at the broadcasting bureau to explain approval standards.
• Yao Weiran said the film’s core message remained unchanged, and Yan Xianjue asked Lei Xuan to arrange a dinner with the bureau contact.
• In Shen Fangli’s dressing room, Yan Xianjue asked why she had helped keep the production’s changes from him, and she said she had found it fun and had followed the director’s instructions.
• Yan Xianjue joked that Shen Fangli’s scene burning an admission notice looked like burning funeral offerings, then suggested she study Lin Shi’s distinctive performance style.
• Shen Fangli walked with Yan Xianjue in the shade and teased him about Ji Xi and the company receptionist before Yan Xianjue grabbed her cheek and warned that he would not fall for her tricks again.
• Yan Xianjue said he would leave after Shen Fangli fell asleep and stop by the company, while she said Ji Xi was working himself too hard.

Shen Fangli spent time with Yan Xianjue during his visit to the film set, then fell asleep before he left. Yan Xianjue discussed a costume drama with Lei Xuan and headed to Yan Corporation, leaving casting and script decisions to the production team.

• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue joked about Ji Xi, her tiring filming schedule, and her Tai Chi practice with elderly women at the film city.
• Yan Xianjue escorted Shen Fangli back to the lounge and waited until she fell asleep before leaving with Lei Xuan.
• Lei Xuan asked whether Yan Xianjue was serious about making a costume drama and argued that Shen Fangli should not play the female lead.
• Yan Xianjue told Lei Xuan to discuss casting with Yao Weiran, investigate the actors' character, and stop writing scripts that would fail review.
• Yan Xianjue told Uncle Lu to drive him to Yan Corporation.

Yan Xianjue visited Yan Yi'an at work to ask for money after investing most of his cash, then asked his brother to help him find a former Wall Street investment manager. The chapter ended with Yan Xianjue explaining the manager’s talent for short-term trading and risk avoidance.

• Lei Xuan and Yao Weiran joked about Yan Xianjue before Lei Xuan went to rest.
• Yan Xianjue waited in Yan Yi'an's office while his brother met with two men in suits.
• Yan Xianjue asked Yan Yi'an for money, and Yan Yi'an handed him two bank cards.
• Yan Xianjue explained that his cash was tied up in investments, including an amusement park project.
• Yan Xianjue showed Yan Yi'an a news article about a former Wall Street investment manager and asked for help finding him.

Yan Xianjue persuaded Yan Yi'an to help recruit a short-term investment trader, then turned their father’s office into a gaming room. Meanwhile, Father Yan and Mother Yan discussed Yan Xianjue’s grudge against Yan Ci and the misunderstanding about the Olympics, which they planned to explain when they revealed they could hear his thoughts.

• Yan Xianjue asked Yan Yi'an to contact a potential trader, and Yan Yi'an agreed to make the introduction while leaving negotiations to Yan Xianjue and Ji Xi.
• Yan Xianjue asked to play computer games at Yan Yi'an’s office, so Yan Yi'an arranged for a gaming desktop to be delivered to Father Yan’s office.
• Yan Xianjue shared a video of the new gaming setup in the family chat, prompting Mother Yan to joke that the brothers had fired Father Yan from the company.
• Father Yan and Mother Yan discussed Yan Xianjue’s continued anger at Yan Ci and agreed that Yan Ci’s decision about the Olympics had caused a misunderstanding.
• Mother Yan and Father Yan decided they would have to explain the situation when they eventually told Yan Xianjue they could hear his thoughts.

Mother Yan and Father Yan searched for clues about Old Master Yan at an abandoned Taoist temple, while reminiscing about their children’s mischief. There, they met Mai Mai and Chubby, and Mai Mai demanded to know what she would get for explaining the temple’s condition.

• Mother Yan and Father Yan discussed their search through the locations listed in Old Master Yan’s note and worried about keeping Xian Jue in the dark.
• Father Yan recalled Xian Jue repeatedly tattling on Yan Ci at different ages, while Mother Yan defended the family’s old mischief.
• Mother Yan and Father Yan arrived at a dilapidated Taoist temple and wondered whether Old Master Yan had been a feng shui master.
• Father Yan and Mother Yan found Mai Mai and Chubby in the back courtyard, where Chubby blurted out that they had not stolen anything.
• Mai Mai asked why the couple had come, and then demanded to know what she would get for telling them about the temple.

Father Yan and Mother Yan followed Mai Mai to the mountain graveyard, where they discovered the Taoist temple they had been searching for and learned that its priests had died protecting the village during a war. They headed back with Mai Mai to ask the village chief for permission to photograph the gravestone.

• Mai Mai explained that the village chief had taught her and Chubby that children should help others and that parents working away from home earned money to send them to school.
• Mai Mai led Father Yan and Mother Yan through a hole in the fence and up the mountain, while Father Yan left the bodyguards behind to keep watch.
• Mai Mai showed them the burial site and the stone tablet listing more than twenty Taoist priests who had died; Father Yan recognized the epitaph as his father's handwriting.
• Mother Yan read that the priests had protected the village during a war but had all died, and Mai Mai agreed to take them to the village chief as a second job.
• Mai Mai led Father Yan and Mother Yan back down the mountain and called for the village chief near the village entrance.

Yan's father and mother met the village chief, who revealed he was Yan's father's martial brother and a living legacy left by his father. He explained that he had waited in the village for more than ten years because of a bet with Yan's father’s dying father.

• Mai Mai brought Yan's father and mother to the village chief, who greeted them as though he had been expecting them.
• The village chief took Mai Mai's payment for safekeeping and sent her to play with Chubby.
• The village chief led Yan's father and mother to his home, where they saw cranes in his courtyard and Yan's father made him tea.
• The village chief said he and Yan's father’s father had been martial brothers and identified himself as the living legacy Yan's father had asked about.
• The village chief revealed that Yan's father’s dying father had bet that he would wait for the family to arrive, and that he had waited for more than ten years.

Father Yan and Mother Yan learned about their father’s past as a Taoist and received a jade plaque bearing a cryptic message. The village chief then asked them to look after the village’s children after he passed away.

• The village chief told Father Yan and Mother Yan that their father had studied in a mountain sect, and that he had once accepted him as a disciple on behalf of his own master because their family had money.
• The village chief explained that their father’s warning was to leave quickly if everything in the family began going wrong, then gave them a wooden box containing a jade plaque engraved with eight characters.
• The village chief interpreted the plaque as a reminder that ancestors’ virtue or wrongdoing could affect their descendants.
• Father Yan asked whether his father had enemies, and the village chief described him as a talented, wealthy, lucky man whose lack of modesty had made others jealous.
• The village chief asked Father Yan and Mother Yan to look after the village children after he died, especially the girls and orphans who might struggle outside the village.

Father Yan and Mother Yan learned more about the village chief’s history with Father Yan’s Taoist father and discovered that the village temple had belonged to his disciples. Meanwhile, they asked Yan Xianjue about a jade plaque, while he and Zhou Ye realized their game gold-making scheme had lost money.

• The village chief told Father Yan that his father had sought answers from religious leaders before joining the mountain sect because the chief was poor, and that he had never wanted his son to know he cultivated the Dao.
• The village chief revealed that the village temple had been his Taoist temple, that the Longevity Adept had written epitaphs for his slain disciples, and that the jujube tree had been planted afterward.
• The village chief invited Father Yan and Mother Yan to stay overnight and promised to show them around the village the next day.
• Father Yan and Mother Yan photographed the jade plaque and asked Yan Xianjue in their group chat whether he liked it, disguising their question as a possible pendant gift.
• Yan Xianjue confronted Zhou Ye after their game crafting scheme lost several thousand gold, and he discovered they had wasted resources by drinking stamina potions while making more potions.

Zhou Ye and Yan Xianjue discussed Ruan Baibai and Zhou Ye’s second uncle before Yan Xianjue noticed a jade pendant his parents had found. Yan Yi'an learned that their grandfather’s village chief connection and Yan Xianjue’s thoughts about inherited burdens might be linked, and he began investigating while Mother Yan affirmed that Yan Xianjue was her son and his younger brother.

• Zhou Ye told Yan Xianjue about Ruan Baibai’s family situation and suggested arranging a blind date for his second uncle, prompting Yan Xianjue to joke that he would visit Zhou Ye in the hospital.
• After ending his call with Zhou Ye, Yan Xianjue examined a jade pendant in the family chat and asked whether it had been engraved; Mother Yan said their grandfather might have left it with the village chief.
• Yan Yi'an noticed Yan Xianjue’s thoughts about their grandfather being the male lead of a metaphysical novel and privately asked Mother Yan what was going on.
• Mother Yan told Yan Yi'an that she and Father Yan had met their grandfather’s senior fellow disciple, the village chief, who had kept the jade pendant for them.
• Yan Xianjue decided to take the jade pendant, then wondered whether inherited burden could mean bearing the consequences of a previous life; Yan Yi'an researched Taoist texts and forwarded his words to Yan Shan and Mother Yan.
• Mother Yan told Yan Yi'an that Yan Xianjue was her son and his younger brother in this life, and Yan Yi'an said he had never doubted it.

Father Yan and Mother Yan visited the village school with the village chief, who told them to bring Yan Xianjue to see him after hinting that his health was failing. Yan Shan dragged Yan Xianjue out of bed to travel to the village, though he did not know the elder either.

• The village chief asked Father Yan and Mother Yan to bring Yan Xianjue to see him after they noticed his apparent weakness at the school.
• Father Yan proposed replacing the village's traditional private-school system with a proper school that prepared students for university entrance exams, and the village chief agreed.
• The village chief pretended to be dead to tease the children, but Father Yan and Mother Yan remained concerned because he had said he was close to death.
• Mother Yan sent Yan Yi'an a message, and Yan Yi'an arranged for Yan Xianjue to travel to the village.
• Yan Shan woke Yan Xianjue and insisted he go because a distant elder was about to pass away.

Yan Xianjue met Carefree Master, his grandfather’s senior martial brother, who revealed that Yan Xianjue’s grandfather had resisted a world that forced him onto a predetermined path. Carefree Master warned that the world could return to normal only if its protagonist disappeared, then gave Yan Xianjue his last wishes and entrusted him with a sword and prescriptions.

• Yan Xianjue arrived at the school with Yan Yi'an and was brought to meet the village chief, who revealed he was over one hundred and twenty years old.
• Carefree Master asked Yan Xianjue whether he wanted to go back, and Yan Xianjue insisted that his current home was his only home.
• Carefree Master told Yan Xianjue that the world’s reality depended on his thoughts and that it could return to normal only when its protagonist disappeared.
• Carefree Master explained that Yan Xianjue’s grandfather had resisted a world that pushed him along a predetermined path, and Yan Xianjue questioned whether his grandfather had truly cared for his family.
• Carefree Master identified himself as Yan Xianjue’s grandfather’s senior martial brother and asked to be buried beside his disciples.
• Carefree Master left Yan Xianjue a wartime sword and a box of prescriptions, asking his family to care for the village’s children.

Carefree Master revealed that Yan Xianjue had been chosen to end the plot-driven distortions of the world, then died after warning him that he had four years and one last chance. After the funeral, Yan Xianjue returned home and obsessively studied transmigration settings while his family tried to get him out of the house.

• Carefree Master told Yan Xianjue that his grandfather had saved his life and that Yan Xianjue alone could travel through time and space, then warned him to end everything within four years before dying.
• Yan Xianjue grieved with Yan Mother, and Yan Father and Yan Yi'an began arranging Carefree Master's funeral with help from the villagers.
• Yan Xianjue claimed the role of Carefree Master's heir and smashed the funeral basin with the sword Carefree Master had left him.
• Before leaving the village, Yan Mother asked about Chubby's care, and Yan Father promised to arrange schooling for the children.
• Back home, Yan Xianjue stayed up studying transmigration settings, while his family encouraged him to visit Lili or spend time with Zhou Ye, who had lost several thousand trying to make money in online games.

Yan Wan tried to lift Yan Xianjue’s spirits by mentioning Ruan Baibai’s dance career, while Yan Xianjue reflected on his complicated feelings about Carefree Master and questioned his parents about their trip. Yan Ci returned home with a bronze medal, gave it to Yan Xianjue, and asked about his bad mood.

• Yan Wan told Yan Xianjue that Ruan Baibai had left for a dance career abroad and invited him to watch a dance troupe audition, but he declined.
• Yan Xianjue questioned Father Yan and Mother Yan about why they had visited the village and how they had found the jade plaque.
• Yan Yi'an and Yan Wan defended Yan Ci’s third-place finish, while Yan Xianjue called him useless.
• Yan Ci returned home two days later and gave his bronze medal to Yan Xianjue, who dismissed it as counterfeit goods.
• Yan Ci asked Yan Xianjue about his bad mood after learning about it from Yan Yi'an.