Recaps

Yan Ci and Yan Xianjue fought at home, then blamed the damage on Yan Yi'an, leaving Father Yan to deal with the family’s usual chaos. Later, Shen Fangli invited Yan Xianjue to her wrap party and learned he had been researching ways to travel through time.

• Yan Ci teased Yan Xianjue about suspecting their parents were hiding things, and the brothers fought until Yan Shan told them to use the training room.
• Yan Xianjue and Yan Ci blamed Yan Yi'an for breaking Father Yan’s treasured tea set, and Mother Yan offered to pay for the damaged coffee table.
• Yan Yi'an denied responsibility while Father Yan threatened to deduct the brothers’ allowance, and Yan Wan arrived with Mother Yan.
• Shen Fangli noticed Yan Xianjue seemed happier and invited him to her wrap party, which was scheduled for the day after tomorrow.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli he had serious business at home: researching a hundred reasons for traveling through time.

The Yan family discussed whether their world was a novel and speculated about Carefree Master’s death and the four-year clue. Yan Yi'an and Yan Xianjue proposed eliminating the Lin Household, leaving their parents alarmed by the family’s increasingly dangerous ideas.

• Shen Fangli teased Yan Xianjue about using webnovels as research material and joked about his physics grades.
• Yan Ci argued that webnovels could help Yan Xianjue understand their novel world, while Yan Shan guessed they would stop hearing his inner thoughts when the world returned to normal.
• Yan Xianjue blamed the Lin Household and speculated that Carefree Master had died after revealing a heavenly secret, prompting Yan Yi'an to mention a monk who had died in meditation at the detention center.
• Yan Xianjue reasoned that the four-year clue implicated either Lin Lang or Lin Shi, since the Lin Household had two male leads and opposed the Yan Household.
• Yan Yi'an suggested getting rid of both Lin leads, and Yan Xianjue proposed wiping out the entire Lin Household, shocking Father Yan and Mother Yan.

Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli agreed to cause trouble for the Lin Household, while Yan Xianjue began questioning how Yan Yi'an knew about the female lead's theft. After Shen Fangli teased him about a gift, Yan Xianjue eagerly got up for morning practice and found Yan Yi'an already training.

• Yan Xianjue recalled Lin Lang's recovery and wondered how Yan Yi'an had known the female lead stole from him.
• Yan Shan suggested Yan Yi'an could pretend to be a transmigrator as a backup plan for fooling Yan Xianjue.
• Yan Xianjue agreed to have Ji Xi arrange trouble for the Lin Household.
• Shen Fangli told Yan Xianjue that a gift would arrive the next day, then teased him by calling it an ordinary Saturday.
• Yan Xianjue got up early to practice with Carefree Master's sword and found Yan Yi'an already training in the training room.

Yan Yi'an taught Yan Xianjue sword forms from their grandfather’s manual and answered his question about the research institute’s surveillance. When a package from Shen Fangli arrived, Yan Xianjue hurried downstairs to open it, leaving the gift’s contents unrevealed.

• Yan Xianjue tried to learn swordsmanship from their grandfather’s manual, but Yan Yi'an stepped in to teach him.
• Yan Yi'an demonstrated with wooden swords, and Yan Xianjue eagerly decided to learn.
• Yan Xianjue asked why Yan Yi'an had installed surveillance at the research institute, and Yan Yi'an gave an explanation that Yan Xianjue believed.
• Mother Yan called to say Yan Xianjue’s package had arrived, and he rushed downstairs to open it.
• Yan Ci teased Yan Xianjue about the gift being from Shen Fangli, then covered his mouth when he threatened to reveal an old secret.
• Yan Ci offered Yan Xianjue a Golden Bear in exchange for his silence, and Yan Xianjue focused on opening the package.

Yan Xianjue admired Shen Fangli’s customized ceramic figures and learned they could be arranged in several affectionate poses. Two days later, he interviewed Wang Peter, who joined the company to search for the boy who had helped him years ago.

• Yan Xianjue opened Shen Fangli’s gift and found ceramic figures resembling Shen Fangli and himself, prompting his family to tease him.
• Yan Xianjue photographed the figures and learned from Shen Fangli that they could be detached and displayed in several ways.
• Yan Xianjue went to the company on Monday, where he found Lei Xuan’s pet turtle crawling around the office.
• Yan Xianjue interviewed Wang Peter and learned he wanted to find and repay a boy from Hua Country who had helped him more than ten years earlier.
• Ji Xi asked Wang Peter what he thought about overtime.

Ji Xi introduced Wang Peter to the company’s punishing work hours and explained that Wang would help manage the office while Ji Xi spent several years at a branch. Yan Xianjue left them to discuss the handover, then recruited Zhou Ye to dig up roses for Shen Fangli to grow.

• Wang Peter questioned the company’s overtime practices, and Ji Xi claimed he worked voluntarily while Yan Xianjue promised to pay him.
• Ji Xi told Wang Peter that he would leave for the branch office in September and asked him to keep the company running, advising him to bring problems directly to Ji Xi.
• Yan Xianjue left Ji Xi and Wang Peter to discuss Wang’s start date and responsibilities, and Wang realized that Ji Xi and Yan were friends.
• Yan Xianjue went to Zhou Ye’s home and reminded him of his promise to dig up roses from his second uncle’s Rose Garden.
• Yan Xianjue and Zhou Ye dug up eleven rose plants for Shen Fangli to grow, with Yan explaining that imported cut roses would not survive as well.

Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue celebrated her filming wrap and talked about her move to university, where her father had bought Yan Xianjue a car too. She also joked that Yan Xianjue was the reason so few wealthy students in their year went abroad.

• Zhou Ye saw the news about Yan Xianjue sending Shen Fangli 999 roses and asked why he had sent cut flowers.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli he had sent the roses to quiet gossip, then asked about the apartment she had bought near her university.
• Shen Fangli told Yan Xianjue that her father had bought him a car for getting around when he visited her at school.
• Zhuang Yushu warned Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue to be careful about being photographed at the film studio.
• Shen Fangli said wealthy students stayed in Shenzhen because Yan Xianjue offered better connections, and Yan Xianjue replied, "Zhou Ye."

Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli discussed his grief for his grandfather, then attended the drama’s wrap party. On the final day of registration, Yan Xianjue completed enrollment at Shallow Sea University with his family and headed to the class meeting, asking Zhou Ye for his location.

• Shen Fangli comforted Yan Xianjue as he talked about missing his grandfather, and they agreed to visit his grave before school started.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli that his mother had prepared Yellow Peach Monster paper offerings for the visit, and he said Yan Shan would soon return to her research institute.
• At the drama’s wrap party, Yan Xianjue accepted polite toasts from the cast and explained to Shen Fangli that he treated them courteously because they were making money for him.
• On the last day of registration, Yan Xianjue completed his enrollment at Shallow Sea University with his family, and Yan Yi'an gave him a meal card with a hundred thousand on it.
• After seeing his family off, Yan Xianjue headed to the class meeting and asked Zhou Ye to send him his location.

Yan Xianjue began university and discovered that many classmates had enrolled hoping to get close to his wealthy family. After leaving class to take his girlfriend to school, Zhou Ye explained Yan Xianjue’s unusual order for making friends.

• Yan Xianjue found Zhou Ye, Ni Qiu, and Wang Zihe in his small major’s class and learned that many classmates wanted to befriend him for his family’s wealth.
• Yan Xianjue gave a terse introduction, prompting the class to cheer and jeer, while Zhou Ye and Wang Zihe joked with him.
• Qi Tianchou invited Yan Xianjue to get together, but Yan Xianjue tossed Zhou Ye his keys and left to take his girlfriend to school.
• Ni Qiu asked Zhou Ye why his attempts to befriend Yan Xianjue had not worked, and Zhou Ye explained that Yan Xianjue preferred to establish a relationship before spending time together and becoming friends.

Yan Xianjue helped Shen Fangli settle into an apartment near her school and prepared to leave her for college, while Father Shen worried about her living in a dorm. Their plans changed when Yan Xianjue learned that his second brother had been in a car accident.

• Father Shen showed Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue the apartment he had arranged near campus, including a separate bedroom for Yan Xianjue.
• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue discussed her school supplies, dorm arrangements, and his plans to visit her despite their coming separation.
• Yan Xianjue checked the names of Shen Fangli's three roommates and concluded that none were connected to the plots he remembered.
• Father Shen offered to stay until Shen Fangli finished military training, but she persuaded him to return home and work.
• Yan Xianjue received a phone call and told Shen Fangli that his second brother had been in a car accident, so he needed to leave.

Yan Ci admitted that he had deliberately crashed into Lin Lang’s car, prompting Yan Wan and Yan Yi'an to reprimand him and Yan Xianjue to punish his bodyguards. After returning home, Yan Ci faced Yan Shan’s alarming question about whether his injured ankle needed amputation.

• Yan Wan and Yan Yi'an confronted Yan Ci at the hospital about the collision, and he admitted he had crashed into Lin Lang’s car after seeing him nearby.
• Yan Ci explained that he wanted to scheme against Lin Lang, and Yan Yi'an warned him to explain himself to Yan Xianjue.
• Yan Xianjue arrived and revealed that he now managed the family’s security company, then ordered Yan Ci’s bodyguards to be sent for retraining.
• Yan Wan left with Yan Xianjue, while Yan Yi'an handled the hospital paperwork and later took Yan Ci home.
• Yan Shan asked whether Yan Ci’s ankle needed amputation, so Yan Ci hopped to the sofa to prove his fracture was minor.

After Yan Ci’s car accident with Lin Lang, Yan Xianjue confronted him with the bodyguards’ investigation and warned him about reckless driving. Yan Ci’s family accepted that the crash had been an accident, but Yan Wan cautioned him not to repeat it, and told him to make peace with Yan Xianjue.

• Yan Xianjue showed Yan Ci and the others the bodyguards’ report, which confirmed that rain had washed away evidence from the accident scene.
• Yan Ci regretted driving his usual car instead of a modified one, prompting Yan Xianjue to warn that reckless driving could have killed him instead.
• Yan Ci said he disliked Lin Lang and joked about his early death, while Yan Xianjue agreed to have the damaged car repaired and modified.
• Yan Wan warned Yan Ci that there could be no repeat of the accident, and Yan Ci said he had not intended to kill Lin Lang outright.
• Yan Wan told Yan Ci to soothe Yan Xianjue, and Yan Ci complained that the family had spoiled his younger brother.

At Lin Family Hospital, Yan Xianjue and Lin Shi discussed their childhood hatred and Lin Shi’s plans to seize control of the Lin family. Lin Shi offered the family’s influence in exchange for Yan Xianjue saving him, then offered Lin Lang’s life as a deposit, leaving Yan Xianjue tempted but unwilling to accept the bargain.

• Yan Wan teased Yan Ci about having no girlfriend while Yan Xianjue’s relationship drew the family’s attention.
• Lin Shi met Yan Xianjue at Lin Family Hospital after Yan Xianjue conveyed the Yan Household’s condolences for Lin Lang’s surgery.
• Lin Shi recalled wanting to be friends with Yan Xianjue as a child and described how Yan Xianjue had been spoiled.
• Lin Shi said he might not return alive from college and offered Yan Xianjue the Lin family’s influence in exchange for help.
• Yan Xianjue refused to be morally blackmailed and said he would take what he wanted himself.
• Lin Shi offered Lin Lang’s life as a deposit while he and Yan Xianjue stood outside Lin Lang’s room.

Lin Shi told Yan Xianjue he planned to study pharmacy and revealed his extreme sensitivity to pain before they visited the hospitalized Lin Lang. Yan Xianjue offered Lin Lang a provocatively chosen bouquet and compensation, while Lin Shi openly refused to mediate between them.

• Lin Shi told Yan Xianjue he would study pharmacy at Medical University and explained that his heightened pain sensitivity made him avoid fighting back.
• Lin Shi revealed that he had developed a drug that could make people go mad, and Yan Xianjue declined his offer to use it on Lin Lang.
• Yan Xianjue carried a bouquet of chrysanthemums and greenery into Lin Lang's hospital room and blamed Lin Lang's driver for the accident.
• Lin Lang recognized the flowers as resembling a graveside offering and accused Yan Xianjue of choosing them on purpose.
• Lin Shi admitted he disliked both Yan Xianjue and Lin Lang and would not intervene if they fought.
• Yan Xianjue tucked a bank card into the bouquet as compensation and warned Lin Lang against confronting him, pointing out that Lin Shi was ready to take Lin Lang's place.

Lin Shi took Yan Xianjue’s money and declared his conflict with Lin Lang had only begun, while Lin Lang faced blame from Old Master Lin. Back at the Yan Household, Yan Xianjue learned his family would deduct the payment from Yan Ci’s allowance and recalled the classmates’ extravagant gift of a private esports room.

• Yan Xianjue left Lin Lang’s hospital room after Lin Shi accepted the bank card, and Lin Lang promised to repay the gift.
• Lin Shi confronted Lin Lang, broke the finger he was pointing with, and warned that their war had only begun.
• Old Master Lin called Lin Lang to scold him for mishandling the conflict with the Yan Household, and Lin Lang angrily blamed his assistant for leaving him alone during surgery.
• Yan Xianjue returned to the Yan Household and told Yan Yi'an that the Lin Household had accepted the money, so Yan Yi'an ordered it deducted from Yan Ci’s allowance next year.
• Yan Xianjue spun Yan Ci’s wheelchair when they met, then recalled how Zhou Ye and the classmates had given him a villa room outfitted with more than twenty computers.

Zhou Ye recruited Yan Xianjue into his gaming guild, and Yan Xianjue later tried to persuade Yan Ci to power-level his character while he attended college military training. At dinner, Yan Xianjue questioned Yan Yi'an about revealing his chosen major, but Yan Yi'an dodged the issue and instead asked how he would manage meals during training.

• Zhou Ye invited Yan Xianjue to join his guild and made him deputy guild leader, prompting Yan Xianjue to suspect Yan Yi'an had helped spread news of his major.
• Yan Xianjue asked Yan Ci to power-level for him while he attended military training, and Yan Ci protested that he wanted to play with friends instead.
• Yan Xianjue raised the possibility of getting a medical leave note, but Yan Shan pointed out that his examination report showed he was healthy.
• At dinner, Yan Xianjue asked whether Yan Yi'an had deliberately let people know what major he had chosen, and Yan Yi'an claimed not to know about it.
• Yan Yi'an redirected the conversation by asking whether Yan Xianjue needed meals brought to campus, and Yan Xianjue said he would return to the villa at noon and had arranged for the butler and chef.

Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli discussed their new online game, university classes, and whether she should buy a bicycle. They ended their call talking about her dormitory rules and the burden of keeping her room ready for inspections.

• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli that he had assigned his second brother to level through their game's story, and she was astonished that he had a professional esports player power-level for him.
• Shen Fangli said she wanted to play the game with her roommates and might join Yan Xianjue's guild later, depending on her busy class schedule.
• Yan Xianjue recommended that Shen Fangli apply for an English exemption, as he had done.
• Yan Xianjue suggested that Shen Fangli buy a bicycle, but she preferred an inexpensive one because bicycles were often stolen at school.
• Shen Fangli complained that her dormitory held night inspections and did not allow students to lie on their beds.

Shen Fangli adjusted to dorm life and shared raspberry mini cakes with her roommates while reflecting on Yan Xianjue and Zhou Ye’s guarded past. Yan Xianjue warned Ji Xi not to harm Lin Shi, then Lin Shi visited his mother in the psychiatric hospital and unexpectedly offered to take her to see Li Shuo.

• Yan Xianjue comforted Shen Fangli about military training and arranged raspberry jam mini cakes for her dorm.
• Shen Fangli shared the cakes with her roommates, explained Yan Xianjue’s fondness for sweet-and-sour food, and wondered whether Zhou Ye had kept Yan Xianjue away from Lin Shi.
• Yan Xianjue called Ji Xi to warn him not to kill or physically confront Lin Shi, but Ji Xi only promised to try to avoid trouble.
• Lin Shi visited his mother in the psychiatric hospital, smoked beside her, and asked whether she wanted to go find Li Shuo.

Lin Shi confronted his imprisoned mother and learned that she had never loved him because he was conceived through marital rape. He left her alive but promised to make her a burden to Li Shuo, then told the doctor to make her look human before he returned for her.

• Lin Shi told the woman that Li Shuo had offered anything, even his life, in exchange for her, and she begged Lin Shi not to use Li Shuo as a test subject.
• The woman pleaded with Lin Shi to spare Li Shuo, calling him Lin Shi's biological younger brother.
• Lin Shi asked why she had chosen Lin Rui over him, and the woman said she never loved Lin Shi because he was the product of marital rape.
• Lin Shi refused to let the woman die and said he wanted her to live in pain as a burden to Li Shuo.
• Outside the ward, Lin Shi told the doctor he would return in a few days and ordered him to make the woman look human again.
• Lin Shi said he would tell the old master the truth about the woman.

Yan Xianjue learned that most of his major had skipped military training with sick leave notes, then watched them return after he showed up. He turned down Qi Tianchou’s request for help with his family inheritance dispute and ended the day with a classmate inviting himself over to play games.

• Yan Xianjue discovered that nearly everyone in his major had taken sick leave, and Zhou Ye explained that they would return because Yan Xianjue had shown up.
• Qi Tianchou said he had come to the school hoping to get close to Yan Xianjue and described his fight with his stepmother’s child over their family inheritance.
• Yan Xianjue suggested Qi Tianchou seek help from Lin Shi but refused to get involved in the family dispute.
• Yan Xianjue considered skipping afternoon training but attended after Zhou Ye warned that the others would resent him for it.
• After training, a classmate invited Yan Xianjue to his villa to play games, and Yan Xianjue rebuked him for wailing.

Yan Xianjue’s classmates persuaded him to host a gathering at his villa, then discovered that Yan Yi'an was visiting and nervously waited outside. Yan Yi'an checked that Yan Xianjue had settled in and asked whether he had made new friends.

• Yan Xianjue agreed to host his classmates after Zhou Ye urged him to socialize and offered to organize the gathering.
• Yan Xianjue arrived home to find more than twenty classmates waiting outside because they had not known Yan Yi'an was there.
• Yan Xianjue invited the hesitant group inside and asked Yan Yi'an why he had come.
• Yan Yi'an explained that their parents had asked him to check on Yan Xianjue, then asked whether he had made new friends.

Yan Yi'an visited Yan Xianjue, delivered his medical certificate, and left him with his classmates. Later, Yan Xianjue learned that an online scandal about luxury cars at his school was being deliberately kept trending, and he prepared to address it himself.

• Yan Yi'an asked Yan Xianjue about his life, gave him a medical certificate, and left after Yan Xianjue insisted he go home instead of working late.
• Yan Xianjue and his classmates went to the esports room, where Zhou Ye joked that Yan Yi'an had united them better than military training had.
• Ji Xi told Yan Xianjue that a trending topic about luxury cars leaving the school could not be taken down and also mentioned accusations that students had skipped military training.
• Yan Xianjue suspected Lin Lang had arranged the posts, told Ji Xi not to worry about Lin Shi, and said he would make a post of his own.
• Yan Xianjue turned to his classmates and announced that he had two pieces of bad news, prompting Qi Tianchou to ask whether the order mattered.

Yan Xianjue and his classmates responded to an online article that accused him of forming cliques and implied he had led students to skip class. He arranged for Ji Xi to use dirt from Lin Shi against Lin Lang, then posted a brief denial.

• Yan Xianjue showed the students a trending article that criticized their cars and accused him of forming cliques after several classmates took leave.
• The students split into two groups and blamed each other for taking leave, then agreed to repost statements clearing Yan Xianjue.
• Yan Xianjue realized the smear campaign echoed an earlier one and suspected Lin Lang was behind it.
• Yan Xianjue offered Lin Shi access to Lin Corporation shares in exchange for dirt on Lin Lang, and Lin Shi sent him a file.
• Yan Xianjue forwarded the file to Ji Xi and told him to choose appropriate material.
• Yan Xianjue deleted his draft and reposted the original article with the brief comment, "Didn't take leave."

Yan Xianjue’s classmates defended their mass military-training absences online, while Qi Tianchou offered to investigate who leaked the information. Meanwhile, Yan Yi'an learned that Lin Shi had skipped training and kept the news from Yan Xianjue, intending to keep Lin Shi away from his younger brother.

• Yan Xianjue told his classmates to repost their genuine medical excuses casually, and Qi Tianchou volunteered to find out whether the student who leaked the story had acted deliberately.
• Wang Zihe agreed that the group should give the school a reasonable explanation, and Yan Xianjue learned they had arranged a quieter leave schedule for the remaining training.
• Yan Yi'an's special assistant reported that Lin Shi had boarded a plane with his mother and skipped military training.
• Yan Yi'an chose not to tell Yan Xianjue, believing he might soften toward Lin Shi, and said Lin Lang could give him something to do.

Yan Yi'an asked Yan Wan to have Lin Shi watched overseas, while Lin Shi argued with his assistant and cousin about taking his mother abroad. Lin Shi stayed committed to his decision, and the assistant’s memories revealed how his family had been forced out of the Lin Household.

• Yan Yi'an called Yan Wan and asked her to arrange surveillance of Lin Shi, who was traveling abroad.
• Yan Wan agreed to handle it and asked Yan Yi'an not to tell Yan Xianjue, since she feared he might go soft on the Lin Household.
• On the plane, Lin Shi’s assistant and cousin confronted him for deciding to take his mother abroad without consulting him.
• Lin Shi said he had repaid his mother for her abuse and owed her only for the life she gave him, then insisted he would not change his mind.
• After landing, the assistant tried to stop Lin Shi, but Lin Shi persuaded him to let them proceed.
• The assistant recalled that his father had saved money in anticipation of being driven from the Lin Household, though the family had ultimately been expelled because of the assistant’s childhood foolishness.