Recaps

Yan Ci and the Yan family investigated a commotion next door and found Shen Fangli’s family in turmoil after she exposed her second aunt’s plan to marry her into the Lin Household. Father Shen rejected the scheme and defended his daughter, while the Yan family recognized his principles and considered befriending him.

• Yan Ci refilled the family’s tea before a crash from the neighboring private room prompted him and Yan Xianjue to investigate.
• Yan Yi'an explained that President Shen had risen to wealth through his own efforts and had once been difficult to deal with.
• Yan Ci entered the wrecked room and found Shen Fangli calmly watching her second aunt’s hysterics after Shen Fangli exposed the proposed marriage alliance.
• Father Shen condemned Shen Fangli’s second aunt for trying to marry his daughter into the Lin Household and vowed he would not sell her, even if he went bankrupt.
• Father Yan told Yan Yi'an that President Shen had principles and was worth befriending, and Yan Yi'an agreed to consider working with him.

Shen Fangli’s second aunt tried to arrange her engagement to Lin Shi using a supposedly auspicious birth-chart match, but her plan unraveled during a family dinner. Shen Fangli found the birth charts and a recorder, and Father Shen called the police.

• Father Shen confronted Shen Fangli’s second aunt after she provoked Shen Fangli and caused a scene at dinner.
• Yan Xianjue realized that the Lin Household had sought a match based on birth charts, and Shen Fangli learned her second aunt had targeted her after another match failed.
• Shen Fangli snatched her second aunt’s handbag and found her birth-chart slip alongside Lin Shi’s chart.
• Shen Fangli also found an activated voice recorder, and Father Shen ordered someone to call the police.

Shen Fangli rejected the arranged marriage her second aunt had tried to arrange, and she and Dad Shen decided to call the police over the recording and other possible wrongdoing. After the police arrived, Yan Xianjue privately revealed that the male lead was manipulating Yan Ci’s stock purchase, while Yan Ci and his parents prepared to use the move to track him.

• Shen Fangli told Dad Shen she would never enter an arranged marriage, and she chose to call the police so they could investigate her second aunt’s recording and anything else they uncovered.
• Dad Shen sent Shen Mom home with Shen Fangli and warned Shen Fangli’s second aunt that he would retaliate if she targeted his daughter again.
• Dad Shen apologized to Yan Yi'an and offered to cover the meal, while Yan Ci arranged for the restaurant to assess the damage.
• Yan Yi'an stayed behind to speak with Dad Shen as the police arrived, and Yan Xianjue returned to the private room with Yan Ci.
• Yan Xianjue thought that the male lead was using Yan Ci’s recent stock purchase to make him lose everything, and Yan Ci and his parents decided to watch the male lead’s moves closely.

Yan Ci reflected on his distrust of his family and sent Yan Xianjue two million as pocket money. Yan Xianjue celebrated the transfer and began planning how to grow his savings.

• Yan Ci reconsidered how Li Yang had exploited his distrust, accepted responsibility for his mistake, and abruptly sat up to act.
• Yan Xianjue played a game with Zhou Ye, lost after Zhou accidentally shot him, and then discovered Yan Ci had transferred him two million.
• Yan's parents heard Yan Xianjue's excited inner monologue and discussed their concern for him and his habit of overeating.
• Yan Xianjue read Yan Ci's message calling the money pocket money, sent a grateful sticker, and calculated that he had eight million in savings to invest.

Yan Xianjue considered investing in a variety show as he looked for ways to grow his family’s money, then learned that Shen Fangli’s second aunt had been arrested. Shen Fangli said her aunt had not yet told the Lin Household her birth details, leaving Yan Xianjue to wonder whether the marriage alliance would be avoided.

• Yan Xianjue asked Zhou Ye about investing in a variety show, and Zhou Ye said the entertainment industry seemed profitable.
• Shen Fangli brought Yan Xianjue and Zhou Ye milk tea and thanked Yan Xianjue and his family for helping her the day before.
• Zhou Ye learned that Yan Xianjue’s family had transferred him money, and Shen Fangli heard that he received fifty or sixty thousand yuan in monthly allowance.
• Yan Xianjue asked whether Shen Fangli’s second aunt had been arrested, and Shen Fangli said police had found recordings of her conversations with more than a dozen girls.
• Shen Fangli said her second aunt had not told the Lin Household her birth details, and Yan Xianjue wondered whether Shen Fangli could avoid a marriage alliance with Lin Shi.

Yan Xianjue rejected studying with Shen Fangli and chose to manage his investments himself, relying on his memories of the novel. After meeting Ji Xi at school, he realized Ji Xi looked strikingly like Officer Ji Heng and wondered whether they were related.

• Shen Fangli suspected Lin Shi or Su Su of stirring up trouble and sent her father information about Su Su knowing her second aunt.
• Shen Fangli invited Yan Xianjue and Zhou Ye to study with the Top Student Class, but Yan refused because he wanted to avoid the main characters.
• Yan Xianjue rejected Zhou Ye's suggestion to hire a manager, deciding he could use his knowledge of the plot to invest and consider getting an assistant after the Gaokao.
• Shen Fangli explained that Ji Xi had spent lunch helping his mother, and the three students ran into him on their way back to class.
• Ji Xi thanked Yan Xianjue for lending him a towel, and Yan suddenly realized Ji Xi resembled Officer Ji Heng and shared his surname.

Xian Jue returned home and heard the details of Second Aunt Shen’s abuse and exploitation of girls, including Fang Qin. Father Shen arranged help for Fang Qin and said he would wait for her to declare that she was severing her parent-child relationship with her mother.

• Shen Fangli realized she could hear Xian Jue’s thoughts during class and noticed he focused on every subject except physics.
• Xian Jue reunited with Uncle Lu, who explained that Yan Yi'an had brought him back after arranging better care for his mother.
• Xian Jue arrived home and learned from Yan Yi'an that Second Aunt Shen had exploited girls to fund her son’s gambling and had been detained by police.
• Father Shen told Second Aunt Shen that Fang Qin had been found severely injured after being locked away without food, and that he would sponsor her university education.
• Second Aunt Shen denied wrongdoing and insisted Fang Qin could not sever their relationship, while Father Shen and the Yan family condemned her treatment of her daughter.

Yan Yi'an tested Yan Xianjue by asking him to evaluate Shen Corporation’s investment proposal, then let him reject it as practice. Yan Xianjue’s thoughts revealed that the project would soon be undermined by new waste-disposal policies, and he urged the Yan Household to focus on its own subsidiaries.

• Yan Yi'an told Yan Xianjue that President Shen thanked him for tripping Second Aunt Shen and asked what he thought of the Shen Household’s proposal.
• Yan Yi'an explained that President Shen had brought a project proposal and offered Yan Corporation three percentage points, then told Yan Xianjue to decide whether to approve it.
• Yan Xianjue rejected the proposal, reasoning aloud that it carried high risk and little return.
• Yan Yi'an handed Yan Xianjue a fountain pen and let him write “Not approved” on the proposal, while Father Yan and Mother Yan encouraged him.
• Yan Xianjue thought that new waste-disposal policies would doom Shen Corporation’s project and that the Yan Household should invest in its own subsidiaries instead.

Yan Xianjue learned more about the Lin and Ji households while Yan Yi'an recognized Lin Lang as the heir behind a business-world story. Yan Yi'an began recounting the Ji family’s tangled history, leaving the most dramatic part of the tale still to come.

• Yan Yi'an and Father Yan realized Lin Lang was the Lin heir who had placed first in the family’s assessment and matched Yan Xianjue’s description of a young bald man.
• After gathering gossip about the Shen Household and approving his first document, Yan Xianjue asked Yan Yi'an about the Ji Household.
• Yan Yi'an explained that Ji Heng had served in the military before becoming a police officer and was only two years older than him.
• Yan Yi'an told Yan Xianjue that Old Master Ji had several sons by different women before one mistress gave birth to a daughter and became Ji the Old Madam.
• Yan Yi'an revealed that the eldest son’s mother had secretly switched a vagrant’s daughter with Old Master Ji’s real daughter, a secret exposed when a pregnant woman appeared more than ten years earlier.

Yan Yi'an told Yan Xianjue the story behind the Ji family’s real and fake daughters, revealing that Ji Xi was likely the real daughter’s son and Ji Heng’s nephew. Yan Xianjue then asked Yan Yi'an to arrange a five-million investment in a variety show, leaving the family ready to contact its producer.

• Yan Mother and Yan Yi'an teased Yan Xianjue about his lazy childhood and the origin of his name, while Yan Xianjue laughed at Yan Ci’s childhood jealousy.
• Yan Yi'an explained that Ji the Old Madam rejected her biological daughter, who was later driven out while pregnant, and that the fake daughter was married off after the truth came out.
• Yan Yi'an revealed that Ji Heng was the biological daughter’s younger brother and that Ji Xi was likely her son, prompting Yan Xianjue to wonder whether the Ji family would retaliate against him.
• Yan Xianjue asked Yan Yi'an to invest five million in a variety show and possibly reserve a spot for Ji Xi, while privately expecting the show to become a hit.
• Yan Yi'an warned that the investment risked most of Yan Xianjue’s money but agreed to arrange it the next day.

Yan Xianjue invited Ji Xi to join a livestreaming variety show while continuing to prepare for the Gaokao. At dinner, Yan Ci explained how the club’s investigation had exposed Li Yang and their coach, and Yan Xianjue identified the likely rival club behind the scheme.

• Yan Xianjue asked Ji Xi whether he wanted to make money by appearing on a variety show livestreaming a top student’s life before the Gaokao, and Ji Xi asked whether the school approved.
• Yan Xianjue spent two hours reviewing his textbooks before Yan Yi'an called him downstairs to dinner, where he found Yan Ci home from resolving the club matter.
• Yan Ci told the family that Li Yang’s drug craving confirmed his drug use and that the club had arranged blood tests for its first- and second-team players.
• Yan Ci revealed that Li Yang’s phone contained evidence of the coach conspiring to sell club data and that the coach had forced Li Yang’s recruitment by threatening to expose his match-fixing.
• Yan Xianjue guessed that the coach had been planted by the club of Yan Ci’s former support player.

Yan Ci learned the organizers would pursue evidence against the team that planted a mole, while the Yan family worried about Yan Wan’s future dance partner. Yan Yi'an began investigating the danger to Yan Wan and arranging work for Yan Xianjue, but he frowned at the proposal his assistant brought him.

• Yan Ci told the family the organizers would seek police evidence against the team that planted a mole, and Yan Xianjue thought a competition ban would be fitting.
• Mother Yan announced Yan Wan would return next month, prompting Yan Xianjue to fear she might bring back the dance partner who would betray her and cause her injury.
• Yan Xianjue recalled that Yan Wan’s dance partner was still choosing and training a younger dancer, and that he would only dare act after the Yan Household declined.
• Yan Ci and Yan Yi'an met downstairs for milk, and Yan Ci suggested investigating Yan Wan’s situation while Yan Yi'an agreed to look into it.
• Yan Yi'an tasked his assistant with investigating Straight-A Students' Daily Life and assembling a team for Yan Xianjue, then frowned when the assistant presented a draft proposal.

Yan Yi'an arranged an extravagant office, staff, and investment opportunities for Yan Xianjue’s modest investment plans. Meanwhile, Yan Xianjue ate lunch with Shen Fangli, discussed Lin Shi’s cruelty, and revealed he wanted Ji Xi’s contact information for a Top Student variety show.

• Yan Yi'an rejected the assistant’s office suggestions and secured Cloud Summit’s seventy-ninth floor for Yan Xianjue by offering Boss Lei favorable lease terms.
• Yan Yi'an ordered the assistant to prepare investment candidates, create a subsidiary for Yan Xianjue, and send him details about the Top Student Variety Show.
• Shen Fangli brought lunch to Yan Xianjue, chatted with him and Zhou Ye, and criticized Lin Shi for bullying weaker classmates.
• Yan Xianjue warned Shen Fangli to stop discussing Lin Shi’s skinned animals, leaving her too unsettled to continue eating.
• Yan Xianjue confirmed that he wanted Ji Xi’s contact information so Ji Xi could join the Top Student Variety Show.

Yan Xianjue considered Ji Xi for the Top Student variety show and discovered that Ji Xi wanted his help escaping a threat from the Ji Household. The chapter ended with Ji Xi revealing that the Ji Household had invited him and his mother to a birthday banquet.

• Yan Xianjue explained that the variety show needed genuine Top Students, and Zhou Ye and Shen Fangli offered to invest in it.
• Ji Xi asked Yan Xianjue to help him transfer classes and proposed working for him for twenty years in exchange for protection and investment.
• Yan Xianjue realized that Ji Xi would become a powerful figure in the Ji Household, but suspected the family posed a danger beyond Lin Shi.
• Ji Xi admitted that the Ji Household had invited him and his mother to a birthday banquet, leaving Yan Xianjue puzzled by the unexpected invitation.

Yan Xianjue learned that Ji Xi’s mother had been invited to Ji the Old Master’s birthday banquet, where the old master planned to announce his will. Mother Yan revealed why the Ji Household’s former fake daughter was seeking Yan Corporation’s support, leaving Yan Xianjue to see that both sides wanted the Yan family’s backing.

• Ji Xi told Yan Xianjue that he wanted to prevent his mother from attending what he suspected was a trap, but refused to seek help from the Ji Household.
• Yan Xianjue returned home and helped Mother Yan escape an awkward visit from the Ji Household’s former fake daughter.
• Mother Yan explained that the fake daughter had been married into a struggling family, borne three children, and lost her standing after Ji the Old Master abandoned her.
• Mother Yan revealed that Ji the Old Master planned to announce his will at his birthday banquet and that the fake daughter wanted Yan Household support for her children.
• Yan Xianjue told Mother Yan that Ji Xi’s mother, the Ji Household’s real daughter, had also received an invitation to the banquet.

Ji Yue waited in vain for the Yan family to receive her, while Ji Xi urged Mother Ji to avoid the Ji Household and learned she still intended to visit her father. Ji Xi then asked to leave his elite class, and Mother Ji resolved to fight for what belonged to them.

• Father Yan and Yan Yi'an ignored Ji Yue and went upstairs, then turned toward the study after hearing Yan Xianjue complain about physics tutoring.
• Ji Yue waited another half hour at the Yan Household before leaving without speaking to anyone.
• Ji Xi helped Mother Ji pack up her snack cart and asked her not to visit the Ji Household, but she said she wanted to see her father once.
• Mother Ji told Ji Xi that Ji Heng had offered to arrange a private meeting, but she refused because she had nothing to hide.
• Ji Xi asked Mother Ji what Ji Heng had said, then requested a change from his elite class.
• Mother Ji accepted Ji Xi's request and resolved to fight back for what belonged to her and her son.

Ji Xi considered changing classes and wondered whether Yan Xianjue would help him. Meanwhile, Yan Yi'an urged Father Yan to take a more active stance against the Lin Household, and Yan Xianjue eagerly accepted an office building for his investment company.

• Ji Xi told Mother Ji he would ask his teachers about leaving the elite class so he could have more time for his own plans.
• Yan Yi'an told Father Yan that Yan Corporation should openly support Yan Xianjue's growing investment company to deter threats from the Lin Household and others.
• Father Yan agreed to ask Yan Xianjue's opinion before deciding whether to make the company more prominent.
• Yan Xianjue enthusiastically accepted the top floor of Cloud Summit as his office and asked Mother Yan to help decorate it.
• Yan Xianjue said he wanted to find a partner so he would not have to handle all the tedious work himself.

Yan Xianjue accepted another two million yuan from Father Yan while insisting he would recruit Ji Xi, and he revealed the chaos expected at the Ji Household’s birthday banquet. The Yan family decided Yan Xiao Wan should attend, while Yan Ci wondered why no one had asked him about the banquet.

• Yan Xianjue took Father Yan’s two-million-yuan allowance and promised to find a partner, while Father Yan urged him not to underpay employees.
• Yan Xianjue thought he would get Ji Xi on board and recalled that the Ji Household’s birthday banquet would bring family schemes and scandals to light.
• Yan Xianjue’s parents suggested Yan Xiao Wan attend the banquet, and he thought it might help her see through her dance partner’s sweet talk.
• Yan Yi'an reconsidered attending the banquet so he could protect his family.
• Yan Ci, who had been busy handling the aftermath of Li Yang’s blood test, wondered why his family had not reminded him about Ji Heng’s grandfather’s birthday banquet.

Yan Ci called Yan Yi'an to ask about the family and learned they planned to attend the Ji Household's birthday banquet, where Xian Jue's thoughts might cause a spectacle. Meanwhile, Boss Lei arranged to move his insurance company down a floor so a new Yan Corporation investment company could take Cloud Summit's top floor, leaving employees and his assistant to speculate about the Yan Household's influence.

• Yan Ci called Yan Yi'an and learned that the whole family except him was planning to attend the Ji Household's birthday banquet, where Xian Jue's thoughts would make things lively.
• Yan Ci decided that the banquet might be worth attending to watch the spectacle.
• Boss Lei ordered his insurance company to move down one floor after reaching an agreement with Yan Yi'an, despite not yet signing the contract.
• Employees wondered why the company was moving until a work-group notice explained that a new Yan Corporation investment company would occupy Cloud Summit's top floor.
• Boss Lei told his assistant that Yan Yi'an had handled the move skillfully and praised the Yan Household's three sons, while his assistant struggled to find one advantage in their own young master.

Boss Lei assessed the benefits of yielding his office to Yan Xianjue, while Yan Xianjue reviewed investment materials with Yan Yi'an and explained his plans for a student-focused variety show. Yan Xianjue rejected the director’s other proposal and decided against buying the show, leaving his investment plans focused on its top-student guests.

• Boss Lei told an old friend that yielding to Young Master Yan could bring future opportunities, and he declined to reveal what sector Yan Xianjue planned to invest in.
• After his visitor left, Boss Lei told his assistant that he had finished testing people’s reactions and expected new rumors to spread soon.
• Yan Xianjue complained about the stack of investment documents Yan Yi'an gave him, then learned the director had accepted only one million for Straight-A Students' Daily Life.
• Yan Xianjue said the show’s success would come from the Gaokao-related traffic, not the director’s skill, and explained that he wanted to invest in the student guests.
• Yan Xianjue tossed the director’s other proposal into the trash and declined Yan Yi'an’s suggestion to buy Straight-A Students' Daily Life.

Yan Xianjue agreed to hire Ji Xi and arranged for him to transfer out of the elite class, while Ji Xi accepted the opportunity and brought him breakfast. The deputy principal learned that Ji Xi was willing to transfer and had already secured a job with Yan Xianjue.

• Yan Xianjue messaged Ji Xi that he agreed, then pressed the deputy principal to arrange Ji Xi's class transfer and hinted that the school could renovate its unfinished building.
• Yan Xianjue looked forward to seeing Ji Xi the next day and wondered whether Yan Yi'an would help fund the building renovation.
• Ji Xi read Yan Xianjue's message and, the next morning, brought him breakfast while telling Mother Ji he had made a new friend.
• Yan Xianjue accepted Ji Xi's breakfast and told him he had hired him for more valuable work, not miscellaneous chores.
• The deputy principal asked Ji Xi about transferring to an ordinary class, and Ji Xi agreed, explaining that Yan Xianjue had offered him a job and promising to maintain his grades.

Ji Xi settled into Class 7 and became caught up in school gossip as Yan Xianjue arranged an intensive schedule for him. When Lin Shi blocked his way and mocked him as Yan Xianjue’s dog, Ji Xi fired back with an insult that stunned the corridor.

• Ji Xi left the Top Student Class for Class 7, and rumors spread about why he had joined Yan Xianjue’s circle.
• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue discussed the forum gossip, Shen Fangli’s second aunt, and Su Su’s growing fixation on Ji Xi.
• Yan Xianjue arranged books for Ji Xi to read and an internship at Yan Corporation, leaving Ji Xi little time for Su Su or Lin Shi.
• Lin Shi and his lackeys blocked Ji Xi in the corridor and mocked him as Yan Xianjue’s dog.
• Ji Xi pushed Lin Shi’s hand aside and retorted that Lin Shi was worse than a dog, insulting the onlookers as well.

Ji Xi confronted Lin Shi, who mocked him and questioned whether Yan Xianjue would protect him. Yan Xianjue arrived and called Ji Xi over, but Lin Shi blocked his path and traded insults with him.

• Lin Shi taunted Ji Xi after Ji Xi shoved him away, and Ji Xi said he had no interest in Su Su.
• Ji Xi mocked Lin Shi for failing to surpass him in exams, and Lin Shi challenged his confidence in Yan Xianjue.
• Lin Shi recalled frightening Yan Xianjue as a child while collecting his dead hamster, and Ji Xi called Lin Shi sick.
• Yan Xianjue arrived, ignored Lin Shi, and told Ji Xi to come with him.
• Lin Shi blocked Yan Xianjue and insulted Ji Xi, while Yan Xianjue disparaged Lin Shi in return.

Yan Xianjue fought Lin Shi after Lin Shi provoked him over Ji Xi, then threatened him and dislocated his wrist. When a teacher arrived, Yan Xianjue released Lin Shi and sent Ji Xi and Shen Fangli away, leaving him to face the teacher and Lin Shi demanding his wrist be fixed.

• Yan Xianjue grabbed Lin Shi and threw him to the hallway floor, but Lin Shi resisted until Zhou Ye helped restrain him.
• Yan Xianjue accused Lin Shi of targeting Ji Xi and threatened to expose the abuse Lin Shi suffered at home.
• Yan Xianjue dislocated Lin Shi’s right wrist and warned that he could ruin Lin Shi’s plans to become a doctor.
• Yan Xianjue told Lin Shi that Ji Xi was a stray cat he had picked up, not a dog.
• After Zhou Ye warned him that a teacher had arrived, Yan Xianjue released Lin Shi and urged Ji Xi and Shen Fangli to leave.
• Lin Shi got to his feet and asked Yan Xianjue to put his wrist back in place.

Yan Xianjue and Lin Shi were called to the vice principal’s office after their fight, and Yan Yi'an arrived as Yan Xianjue’s guardian. The vice principal explained the school’s concerns, while Yan Yi'an defended his brother and noted that he had trained in combat.

• Yan Xianjue cleared the onlookers away as the vice principal hurried to the hallway to check on him and Lin Shi.
• Shen Fangli reassured Ji Xi that the school would not issue a disciplinary demerit, but Ji Xi considered calling an assistant to handle the school matter.
• A special assistant told Yan Yi'an that Yan Xianjue had fought at school and that a parent had to come, so Yan Yi'an went to the vice principal's office.
• Yan Xianjue moved away from Lin Shi and joined Yan Yi'an, who teased him about being called in over a fight.
• The vice principal asked why Lin Shi's guardian had not arrived, then explained to Yan Yi'an that Yan Xianjue had thrown the first punch and the school wanted to check on the students' safety and emotional state.
• Yan Yi'an said Yan Xianjue was emotionally stable and had trained in combat with retired veterans, making him difficult for ordinary people to threaten.