Recaps

Shen Fangli prepared to play the little princess for the production’s opening performances, while Yan Xianjue praised her and discussed the role with her. As filming preparations continued, Lei Xuan explained the schedule and the male lead’s contract to Yan Xianjue.

• Yan Xianjue reassured Shen Fangli that he did not judge her by her villainess role, and they agreed that the little princess was not a traditional villainess.
• Shen Fangli’s makeup artist finished her natural-looking makeup, and Yan Xianjue complimented her beauty as Lei Xuan teased the couple.
• Lei Xuan urged the stylist to make Shen Fangli’s makeup livelier for the scene of the little princess exploring the streets.
• Shen Fangli changed into her costume and transformed into a carefree little princess, then went with Yan Xianjue to perform her scene.
• Lei Xuan told Yan Xianjue that Shen Fangli’s scenes were arranged around her schedule and explained that the male lead had received a B-level contract with promotion clauses.

Yan Xianjue watched Shen Fangli film and learned why the little princess survived in the story, remaining a spoiled pet of the Grand Princess rather than becoming an heir. Later, Shen Fangli recognized that Yan Xianjue wanted to see someone and told him to go.

• Lei Xuan gave Shen Fangli a B rating, arguing that her professional skills could also suit behind-the-scenes work.
• Yan Xianjue asked Yao Weiran to send him clips of Shen Fangli's scenes, then smiled at her during filming and briefly disrupted her performance.
• Yao Weiran explained that the male lead spared the little princess because he feared the Grand Princess's power and the consequences of exposing his borrowed troops.
• Lei Xuan and Yan Xianjue agreed that the little princess could remain carefree as the Grand Princess's spoiled pet, while Yao Weiran called her underlying nature tragic.
• Shen Fangli told Yan Xianjue that the little princess could not awaken and then urged him to go see the person he wanted to see.

Shen Fangli learned that Yan Xianjue felt Lin Shi was familiar, raising her concern that his lost memories might be returning. Yan Xianjue visited Lin Shi, who refused treatment and firmly insisted they had never known each other before, leaving Yan Xianjue unsettled.

• Shen Fangli connected Yan Xianjue's sense of familiarity with accounts of people recovering lost memories, but concealed her concern and asked whether he and Lin Shi had been childhood friends.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli that Lin Shi had refused treatment because he considered a liver from the Lin Household dirty.
• Yan Xianjue visited Lin Shi in the hospital and asked whether they had known each other before; Lin Shi initially said they had met at childhood banquets.
• Yan Xianjue took away Lin Shi's cigarettes, and Lin Shi later insisted that they had never known each other.
• Lin Shi said he would take over the Lin Household within five years and refuse treatment because he feared pain and did not want to spend his remaining time in a hospital.
• Yan Xianjue asked again whether they had known each other before, and Lin Shi firmly answered that he was sure they had not.

Lin Shi explained why he had pushed Yan Xianjue away, then recalled meeting Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli as children and escaping with Yan Xianjue after they were kidnapped. His memory ended with young Yan Xianjue following him obediently through the grass as they fled.

• Yan Xianjue slammed the door as he left, and Yu Bai asked Lin Shi why he had provoked him.
• Lin Shi accepted a hidden cigarette from Yu Bai and said he had not wanted Yan Xianjue to learn that his childhood would-be rescuer had become a terrible person.
• Lin Shi remembered meeting young Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli at an amusement park while each waited for a family member who did not return.
• Lin Shi reluctantly joined the children’s game, and the three played together until Shen Fangli’s father arrived to take her home.
• A rookie kidnapper took Lin Shi and Yan Xianjue, but Lin Shi escaped with the tearful young Yan Xianjue when the kidnapper stopped in the mountains.

Lin Shi remembered his childhood rescue of Yan Xianjue and the betrayal behind their separation, then discussed Yan Xianjue’s possible returning memories with Yu Bai. Yan Xianjue left the hospital in a fury and met Zhou Ye at a private club to talk, where Zhou Ye offered him a celebrity lineup.

• Lin Shi recalled carrying Yan Xianjue down the mountain as a child, later learning that the Lin Household had been involved in Yan Xianjue’s kidnapping and that he alone had been rescued.
• Lin Shi asked Yu Bai to help him get discharged, but Yu Bai said Yan Xianjue had the final say and warned that Yan Xianjue might have someone assassinate him.
• Ni Qiu arrived for rounds as the hospital room door fell into the hallway, and Yu Bai told Lin Shi that Yan Xianjue’s questions suggested his memories might be returning.
• Yan Xianjue called Zhou Ye and invited him for a drink, insisting that they meet alone to talk.
• At the private club, Yan Xianjue sent away a third-rate singer, and Zhou Ye offered him a program of the club’s minor celebrities.

Yan Xianjue got Zhou Ye drunk to ask about his childhood and uncovered a hint that the Lin Household had kidnapped someone. He called Ji Xi and ordered him to investigate everything that happened to him before he was seven.

• Yan Xianjue invited Zhou Ye for drinks and deliberately kept refilling his glass to get him drunk.
• Yan Xianjue asked whether he had forgotten anything and whether they had known Lin Shi as children.
• Zhou Ye warned Yan Xianjue to stay away from Lin Shi and the Lin Household, then muttered that they had kidnapped someone when they were little.
• Yan Xianjue sent for someone to pick up Zhou Ye and left the club after seeing him off.
• Yan Xianjue called Ji Xi and told him to investigate everything that had happened to him before he was seven.

Yan Xianjue sought information about his childhood and arranged to see a neurologist, while his family worried about his recovering memories and concealed the truth about his kidnapping. Meanwhile, Lin Shi returned to the laboratory and planned revenge despite his injuries and liver cancer.

• Yan Xianjue asked Ji Xi to investigate his childhood and find a neurology specialist without using the Yan Household's connections.
• Yan Xianjue went to Beijing to see a doctor, while the Yan family discussed his anger and decided not to tell him about his kidnapping yet.
• Yan Wan and Yan Yi'an revealed that the Lin Household had helped the kidnappers, and Yan Yi'an said he had begun taking action against the Lin Corporation.
• Lin Shi left the hospital and returned to the pharmaceutical laboratory, where the doctor treated his injuries.
• Lin Shi planned to get revenge for the bullet and asked the doctor to test an inhibitor for his liver cancer, but the doctor refused.

Yan Xianjue learned that his brain was healthy and that recovering memories from before age seven might be difficult, but he insisted on remembering them. Frustrated by the doctor’s advice not to force it, he left intending to confront Lin Shi.

• Lin Shi’s former teacher wondered how Lin Shi would react if his experiment failed, while Lin Shi warned him not to say anything unlucky in the laboratory.
• Yan Xianjue told Ji Xi that he suspected Uncle Lu would not feel guilty about reporting back to his family, then underwent medical examinations.
• The doctor found no brain trauma or signs of poor mental health and explained that Yan Xianjue’s missing childhood memories could be due to childhood amnesia or a protective response to trauma.
• Yan Xianjue asked how he could recover his memories, but the doctor advised against forcing treatment because his brain was not sick.
• Yan Xianjue stormed out, saying he would beat up Lin Shi, while Ji Xi tried to calm him and suggested finding a psychologist.

Yan Xianjue concluded that his missing memories were probably caused by a childhood kidnapping and asked Ji Xi to find the old case files. While looking through Shen Fangli’s childhood album, he unexpectedly found a photo of himself as a child.

• Yan Xianjue suspected he had been kidnapped between the ages of four and six and told Ji Xi to ask Ji Heng for the old case files.
• Yan Xianjue chose to go to Shen Fangli’s home, and Ji Xi agreed to let Yan’s side hear about the investigation.
• Shen Fangli offered to look through her childhood photo album with Yan Xianjue to cheer him up.
• Yan Xianjue recognized himself as the child standing in the middle of a photograph that had fallen from the album.

Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue discovered a childhood photo that suggested they had met before and returned to Shenzhen to ask Father Shen about it. He revealed that Fang Zhiyuan had deliberately abandoned Shen Fangli at an amusement park, where she had been found playing with two boys, including Yan Xianjue.

• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue examined the photo and wondered whether the third child was Lin Shi.
• Shen Fangli suggested asking Father Shen, and the couple returned to Shenzhen the next day with the photo.
• Father Shen recognized the circumstances of the photo but was surprised to learn the boy in the middle was Yan Xianjue.
• Father Shen explained that Fang Zhiyuan had deliberately abandoned Shen Fangli at the amusement park, and she had been playing with two boys when Father Shen arrived.
• Shen Fangli questioned why she had never seen the photo before, and Father Shen gave an awkward smile without answering.

Yan Xianjue learned more about the Yan Household’s response to the childhood incident involving Lin Shi and went to find him, but Lin Shi had disappeared. Yan Wan arrived at the Shen Household to take Yan Xianjue home and admitted the family was keeping something from him, then asked whether he bore any responsibility.

• Shen Dad recalled finding Shen Fangli at the amusement park with two children, one of whom had promised to look after the younger child.
• Ji Xi told Yan Xianjue that the Yan Household had suppressed the incident, summoned many doctors, and later made a large donation to the police department.
• Yan Xianjue learned that the Lin Household and Ji Household had appeared to be bystanders, and decided to seek an explanation from Lin Shi, who had vanished.
• Yan Wan came to the Shen Household to take Yan Xianjue home and admitted that the Yan Household was keeping something from him.
• Yan Wan asked Yan Xianjue whether he bore any responsibility, surprising both him and Shen Fangli.

Yan Xianjue returned to Yan Corporation and reluctantly accepted an acting vice president position as Yan Yi'an prepared to target Lin Corporation with Lin Shi. He then learned Yan Wan might enter a marriage alliance with Ji Heng and confronted Yan Yi'an for an explanation.

• Yan Wan warned Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue to keep their bodyguards close because of tensions between Yan Corporation and Lin Corporation, then took Yan Xianjue to company headquarters.
• Yan Wan told Yan Xianjue that Yan Yi'an had agreed the family should stop hiding the truth from him, and Yan Yi'an recruited him as an acting vice president.
• Yan Yi'an revealed plans to short Lin Corporation's shares, using Lin Lang's illegal stock trades and Lin Shi's involvement to move against Old Master Lin.
• Yan Xianjue agreed to the temporary position after Yan Yi'an offered him access to ten billion in liquid capital, then complained about corporate work to Shen Fangli.
• Yan Xianjue learned Ji Corporation had joined the plan against Lin Corporation and that Yan Wan might enter a marriage alliance with Ji Heng.
• Yan Xianjue stormed into Yan Yi'an's office demanding an explanation, and Yan Yi'an struggled to explain the proposed alliance.

Yan Yi'an tried to persuade Yan Xianjue that Ji Heng was a suitable person for Yan Wan to consider, but Yan Xianjue opposed the match and insisted his sister did not need to marry. Their discussion ended with Yan Xianjue asking why Yan Yi'an could not be the one to marry for an alliance.

• Yan Wan ignored Yan Yi'an's call but texted that she was on a date, leaving him to explain her reasoning to Yan Xianjue.
• Yan Yi'an told Yan Xianjue that Ji Heng was a suitable match because the families were well-matched and Ji Heng had no troublesome in-laws or exes.
• Yan Xianjue objected to treating marriage as an alliance and said Yan Wan could remain unmarried as the Yan family's eldest daughter.
• Yan Yi'an explained that Yan Wan and Ji Heng could get to know each other and end the arrangement if they proved incompatible.
• Before leaving, Yan Xianjue asked why Yan Yi'an could not marry for the alliance, and Yan Yi'an said he would if the Yan Household needed it.

Yan Xianjue retaliated against Lin Lang by spreading and amplifying rumors about Old Master Lin’s health, and Lin Corporation’s stock plunged as a result. Just as Lin Lang considered using company funds to stabilize the price, the Securities Regulatory Bureau arrived to investigate alleged illegal stock trading.

• Yan Xianjue returned to his office in a bad mood and decided to take it out on the Lin Household.
• A rumor that Old Master Lin was critically ill and unconscious spread through the upper class, frustrating Lin Lang as he tried to discover its source.
• Lin Lang denied the rumor to reporters, but a Yan Corporation tabloid published a headline implying that his words confirmed it.
• Lin Lang issued a clarification, while Lin Corporation’s shares hit the daily limit down for two consecutive days and many shareholders bought more.
• Lin Lang’s executives discussed using liquid assets to stabilize the stock price, but the Securities Regulatory Bureau entered the meeting and accused Lin Lang of illegal stock trading during a restricted period.

After Lin Lang was taken away for investigation and Lin Corporation’s stock plunged, the company’s vice presidents asked Lin Shi to step in. Lin Shi agreed to act as president and help stabilize the stock, but made them share responsibility, then ordered a review of the company’s accounts.

• Reports of Lin Lang’s investigation sent Lin Corporation’s stock falling and worried its employees and vice presidents.
• The vice presidents decided to invite Lin Shi, Lin Corporation’s other vice president, to take charge.
• Lin Shi distributed a joint petition and made clear that he expected them to choose sides before he would help.
• After the vice presidents offered to recommend him as acting president, Lin Shi agreed to apply with them to use company funds to stabilize the stock.
• Lin Shi ordered someone to review Lin Corporation’s accounts.

Lin Shi returned to the Lin Household Old Residence and told Old Master Lin that Lin Corporation faced a serious funding shortfall caused by his uncle’s embezzlement, proposing that the family inject funds to cover it. Meanwhile, Yan Yi'an and Yan Xianjue monitored the stock response, and Yan Ci handled a bank matter.

• Lin Shi decided to return to the Lin Household without Yu Bai, who changed his medicine before he left.
• Lin Shi visited Old Master Lin and presented the vice presidents’ petition, then explained that his uncle had misappropriated 180 million and that Lin Corporation lacked enough usable funds.
• Lin Shi offered Old Master Lin bankruptcy or a Lin Household cash injection of at least three billion, and Old Master Lin rejected bankruptcy.
• Old Master Lin asked who was targeting Lin Corporation, and Lin Shi compared the attackers to wolves drawn to a prime piece of meat.
• Yan Xianjue told Yan Yi'an that Lin Corporation’s stock would begin rebounding the next day, while Yan Yi'an dismissed Lin Corporation’s efforts to interfere with Lin Lang’s case.
• Yan Xianjue learned that Yan Ci had gone to handle the technology company’s bank loan.

Yan Xianjue faced university finals while juggling work, and he and Shen Fangli made a bet about failing a course. The chapter ended with them agreeing that whoever failed would post a dog bark on Moments without blocking anyone.

• Yan Xianjue complained that Lin Shi could work without attending school, but Yan Yi'an ignored his hint, so Yan Xianjue teased Yan Ci about returning to school.
• Yan Xianjue studied the heavily highlighted textbooks Zhou Ye had prepared for him and despaired at having to take university exams again.
• Shen Fangli showed Yan Xianjue her thick law textbooks during their video call, and they joked about their studies and work.
• Shen Fangli suggested they both aim to pass every course, and she and Yan Xianjue agreed that whoever failed would bark on Moments without blocking anyone.

The Yan family discussed Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli’s relationship, while Yan Yi'an gave Yan Ci more work instead of letting him meddle. After finishing his final exam, Yan Xianjue invited Zhou Ye to join a wilderness-survival variety show on his private island, and Zhou Ye agreed to ask his second uncle.

• Yan Wan, Mother Yan, and Yan Yi'an speculated about Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli getting engaged, marrying, and having children, then asked Yan Ci to find out what Yan Xianjue wanted.
• Yan Ci refused to interfere, and Yan Yi'an confirmed that he had assigned Yan Ci plenty of work.
• Yan Xianjue studied hard to avoid embarrassing himself by posting a dog bark in his Moments, then finished his final exam.
• Yan Xianjue invited Zhou Ye to join a wilderness-survival variety show on his private island, explaining that Lei Xuan would promote his drama while they enjoyed themselves.
• Zhou Ye hesitated because his second uncle would not want him on camera, but Yan Xianjue reassured him, and Zhou Ye decided to ask his uncle.

Yan Xianjue took Shen Fangli and their friends to his island for a vacation before her variety-show shoot, where they met his pet tiger and shared an outdoor lunch. As the group prepared for the livestream, Lei Xuan insisted everything would go smoothly, though Shen Fangli feared his confidence was tempting fate.

• Yan Xianjue invited Ni Qiu to join the island trip, and he, Ji Xi, Shen Fangli, Zhou Ye, and Lei Xuan boarded the private jet with him.
• The group arrived at Yan Xianjue's villa, where Shen Fangli discovered that her balcony connected to Yan Xianjue's bedroom and they relaxed together in a custom double hanging chair.
• Yan Xianjue introduced Shen Fangli and the others to his tiger, Little White, and suggested that Shen Fangli ride it.
• Little White brought back two wild chickens, and Yan Xianjue's bodyguards prepared one for grilling and the other for soup.
• Lei Xuan defended the preparations for the upcoming variety-show livestream, while Yan Xianjue warned him that he would be held responsible if anything went wrong.

During a wilderness-survival show, Shen Fangli and the other guests found ways around the production crew’s luggage rules, while Yan Xianjue watched the chaos from home. The chapter ended with Yan Xianjue taking Ni Qiu’s place to play Overcooked! with Ji Xi.

• Shen Fangli finished the luggage inspection first and watched staff confiscate the instant noodles she had hidden for the show.
• Zhuang Yushu argued that his pot counted as tableware rather than cookware and snatched it back from the staff.
• Shen Fangli and the Best Actress backed Zhuang Yushu, and the other younger artists joined them in challenging Lei Xuan’s rules.
• Viewers joked that the show should feature Yan Xianjue, and Yan Xianjue complained about the guests’ childish behavior while watching with Zhou Ye, Ji Xi, and Ni Qiu.
• Yan Xianjue asked to play Overcooked!, and Ni Qiu gave up his seat before Ji Xi could claim it.

Ji Xi joined Yan Xianjue and the others while they joked around at the villa, until Ni Qiu spotted a fire during the variety show's livestream. Shen Fangli and Lei Xuan evacuated the artists and put out the fire, then discovered Liang Yi had caused it by hiding a lighter at the filming site.

• Ji Xi reluctantly picked up a controller to join the game while Ni Qiu messaged his ex-girlfriend and joked with Zhou Ye about dating older women and relying on his brother.
• Ni Qiu noticed what looked like a fire on the variety show's projection screen and alerted Yan Xianjue.
• Shen Fangli and Lei Xuan directed staff and bodyguards to put out the fire and led the artists to safety.
• Shen Fangli and the Best Actress questioned Liang Yi, while Zhuang Yushu asked where he had hidden the lighter.
• Liang Yi admitted he had hidden the lighter in the restroom, and Shen Fangli told Lei Xuan what had happened.
• Lei Xuan said the production team's fire prevention plan had worked.

After Liang Yi’s actions caused a fire on the island, Shen Fangli and the crew managed the aftermath while Little White arrived and startled everyone. Shen Fangli learned that Yan Xianjue had fainted, and when she returned to the villa, his doctor said he would wake on his own, leaving the group to hope she could calm him.

• Lei Xuan told Shen Fangli to contact Yan Xianjue and reassure him, but he did not answer her calls.
• Little White appeared near the fire, and a bodyguard who had raised it approached the tiger while Yao Weiran reported that the salvaged livestream equipment was intact.
• Zhou Ye called Shen Fangli and told her Yan Xianjue had fainted, so she took most of the medical team and hurried back to the villa.
• Yan Xianjue’s doctor examined him and said he had fainted from emotional agitation and would wake on his own.
• The doctor said Yan Xianjue did not need a tranquilizer, and Zhou Ye and the others looked to Shen Fangli as a humanoid tranquilizer.

Yan Xianjue relived traumatic memories of being imprisoned as a child after seeing the fire, then recalled meeting Shen Fangli and escaping a kidnapper with Lin Shi. He woke up and asked Shen Fangli to call him “brother,” and Ji Xi began arranging for the vacation to end early so he could receive a proper examination.

• Ni Qiu went out to meet Shen Fangli while Ji Xi stayed with the unconscious Yan Xianjue.
• Yan Xianjue saw the fire on the projection and relived being locked in a cabin as a child, where he had been left hungry with a dagger.
• Yan Xianjue remembered meeting Shen Fangli at the amusement park and being kidnapped with Lin Shi before they escaped.
• Yan Xianjue woke and asked Shen Fangli to call him brother, and she agreed before asking the doctor to examine him.
• Yan Xianjue told Ji Xi the vacation might have to end early, and Ji Xi began making arrangements.

After returning from the island, Yan Xianjue took Shen Fangli to his villa and began questioning Uncle Lu, while Shen Fangli realized she could no longer hear Yan Xianjue’s thoughts. She informed Mother Yan and waited as Yan confronted Uncle Lu in his study.

• Yan Xianjue brought Shen Fangli to his villa and postponed her examination until the next day.
• Ji Xi dragged Ni Qiu to the company for work after Zhou Ye revealed Ni Qiu had helped Yan Xianjue monitor Lin Shi.
• Yan Xianjue asked Shen Fangli to call him Brother before leading her into the villa.
• Shen Fangli noticed Yan Xianjue’s thoughts had gone silent and messaged Mother Yan about the change.
• Yan Xianjue sat with Uncle Lu in his study and asked how many years Uncle Lu had been by his side.

Yan Xianjue questioned Uncle Lu about his kidnapping and learned that Uncle Lu had joined the rescue, while the Yan family prepared to tell him the truth about his lost memories. As Yan Xianjue and Lin Shi advanced their plans against Lin Corporation, Yan Xianjue stayed away from home and assigned Yan Ci a task.

• Yan Xianjue asked Uncle Lu about his role in the kidnapping and learned that Yan Xianjue's grandfather had erased Uncle Lu's investigation records.
• The Yan family discussed how to tell Yan Xianjue the truth and agreed to answer honestly if he asked.
• Yan Xianjue comforted Shen Fangli, suggested adding bodyguards for her father, and joked about finding a grave for Lin Shi.
• Yan Xianjue's damaging disclosures about Lin Corporation's production lines angered Lin Lang, while Lin Shi and Yu Bai discussed the company's troubles and their plans.
• Yan Xianjue failed to return home the next day and gave Yan Ci a task, leaving the family to tease Yan Ci about it.