Recaps

Yan Yi'an watched the surveillance footage of Yan Xianjue fighting Lin Shi, arranged for Lin Shi to get medical care, and approved Yan Xianjue’s plan to turn an unfinished building into a library. After Yan Xianjue left, Lin Shi offered to replace Ji Xi as his assistant and help Yan Yi'an deal with the Lin Household.

• Yan Yi'an watched footage of Yan Xianjue throwing Lin Shi and dislocating his hand, then agreed to cover Lin Shi’s medical expenses.
• Yan Xianjue proposed turning an unfinished school building into a library, and Yan Yi'an told him to submit an application to Yan Corporation.
• Yan Yi'an arranged for Uncle Lu to take Lin Shi to the hospital while Yan Xianjue returned to class to get his backpack.
• After Yan Xianjue left, Yan Yi'an asked Lin Shi why he had approached him, and Lin Shi said he wanted to find out why Yan Xianjue favored Ji Xi.
• Lin Shi asked to become Yan Xianjue’s assistant, claiming he had better etiquette training and could help Yan Yi'an deal with the Lin Household.

Yan Yi'an questioned Yan Xianjue about fighting Lin Shi and learned that Lin Shi had deliberately provoked him. Yan Xianjue concluded that Lin Shi had targeted him from the start, while his thoughts raised suspicions about Lin Shi’s motives and his father’s death.

• Yan Yi'an picked up Yan Xianjue after school and told him Lin Shi had declined a ride to the hospital.
• Yan Yi'an asked why Yan Xianjue had fought Lin Shi, and Yan Xianjue said Lin Shi had been annoying and triggered memories of the poverty and humiliation he had suffered before.
• Yan Yi'an considered whether Yan Xianjue had memories from a previous life and listened as Yan Xianjue worried that Lin Shi might be pursuing a hidden scheme.
• Yan Xianjue recalled that Lin Shi had studied medicine with the intent to kill his abusive father and wondered whether Lin Shi had been involved in the death of a Lin Household heir.
• Yan Xianjue concluded that Lin Shi had deliberately chosen the timing of his confrontation with Ji Xi to provoke Yan Xianjue, and Yan Yi'an asked what Lin Shi's objective was.

Yan Xianjue and Yan Yi'an discussed how to handle Lin Shi's request for the Yan Household's help, with Yan Yi'an advising him to keep his leverage hidden. At home, Yan Xianjue joined Mother Yan in choosing clothes while Yan Yi'an secretly sought novels for himself and asked Yan Ci for insight into the story.

• Yan Xianjue concluded that Lin Shi wanted to borrow the Yan Household's influence and asked Yan Yi'an whether Lin Shi could be used.
• Yan Yi'an advised Yan Xianjue to keep his bargaining chips in reserve and make Lin Shi work for his help.
• Yan Xianjue and Yan Yi'an returned home, where Mother Yan had them choose formalwear and told Yan Xianjue that Yan Wan had chosen outfits too.
• Mother Yan revealed that she had called Yan Wan partly to check whether she was dating anyone, and Yan Wan had said she was not.
• Yan Yi'an asked his special assistant to find novels suited to Yan Xianjue's age, then messaged Yan Ci to ask for insight into the novel.

Yan Yi'an suspected Yan Xianjue knew the plot of a novel and asked Yan Ci for reading recommendations, then had Ji Xi prepare synopses. Ji Xi brought Lin Shi’s 500,000 yuan back to confront him, and Lin Shi offered more money to make him quit his job with Yan Xianjue.

• Yan Yi'an called Yan Ci, said he suspected something about Yan Xianjue, and asked for books about transmigration and knowing a story’s plot.
• Yan Ci sent Yan Yi'an a reading list, and after skimming novels, Yan Yi'an ordered his assistant to double the legal staff prepared for Yan Xianjue.
• Yan Yi'an tasked his executive assistant with collecting novel synopses, and the assistant delegated the work to Ji Xi.
• Ji Xi prepared synopses of novels Yan Xianjue had read and was told to get measured for a suit before going to Cloud Summit.
• Ji Xi found 500,000 yuan in his desk, recognized it as Lin Shi’s attempt to buy him off, and dumped the money over Lin Shi at school.
• Lin Shi offered Ji Xi one million yuan to quit his job, while Ji Xi taunted him about being jealous of Yan Xianjue.

Ji Xi confronted Lin Shi over his arrogance and reflected on how Yan Xianjue’s support had improved his family’s life. Back at lunch, Yan Xianjue joked that Lin Shi was dog-like, prompting Ji Xi to wonder if he could even be treated as human.

• Ji Xi called Lin Shi a pathetic wretch, shoved past him, and left the Top Student Class.
• Lin Shi told his lackeys to split the money he had offered Ji Xi, and they speculated about whether Lin Shi would retaliate.
• Ji Xi recalled Lin Shi’s years of bullying and thought about how his Yan Corporation salary let his mother rest at midday.
• Ji Xi returned to class, ate the meal Yan Xianjue had saved for him, and reported on his work at the Yan Corporation.
• Shen Fangli asked Yan Xianjue why he had compared a male peer to a kitten, and Yan Xianjue said Lin Shi seemed dog-like.
• Zhou Ye explained that cats and dogs naturally did not get along, while Ji Xi privately wondered if he could even be human.

Yan Xianjue confronted Lin Shi in the locker room, then learned that Lin Shi had offered Ji Xi five hundred thousand to resign from Yan Corporation. Their rivalry escalated into a rough basketball game between Class Seven and the Top Student Class, which ended as a direct clash between the two.

• Yan Xianjue went to the locker room to change, where Lin Shi provoked him and refused to move aside.
• Yan Xianjue pinned Lin Shi against the lockers by the throat, then left after Lin Shi showed no sign of fear or surrender.
• Zhou Ye told Yan Xianjue that Lin Shi had offered Ji Xi five hundred thousand to resign from Yan Corporation, but Ji Xi had thrown the money back at Lin Shi.
• Zhou Ye said Lin Shi's followers had split the money among themselves, and Yan Xianjue understood why Lin Shi had been acting so wildly.
• The PE teacher announced a basketball game between Class Seven and the Top Student Class, and Yan Xianjue told Zhou Ye to play rough.
• The game quickly became a physical contest between Yan Xianjue and Lin Shi.

After Yan Xianjue’s team narrowly beat Lin Shi’s in a tense basketball match, Yan treated the team to dinner at Imperial Garden while Shen Fangli discovered she could hear his thoughts. Ji Xi, who had missed the game, faced Su Su after she learned what he had said about her.

• Yan Xianjue dismissed Lin Shi’s warning and left after the match, while Zhou Ye worried that Lin Shi might target Ji Xi.
• Shen Fangli ran into Yan Xianjue after his shower, accidentally high-fived him, and heard his thought calling her stupid.
• Yan Xianjue gave Zhou Ye his Imperial Garden card to treat the basketball team, with instructions not to cause trouble.
• Ji Xi reflected on Class Seven’s athletic ability and regretted missing the match because he had been caught up dealing with Su Su.
• Su Su confronted Ji Xi in tears after reading forum posts reporting what he had said about her, and admitted that Yan Xianjue had been her ideal target.

Su Su tried to use Ji Xi to make Lin Shi jealous, but Ji Xi rejected her and warned her to stay away. When Lin Shi ignored her afterward, Su Su blamed Yan Xianjue for disrupting her plans and began to resent Shen Fangli as well.

• Su Su recalled how she and Aunt Fang had planned her gradual approach to Lin Shi, hoping to begin a relationship with him after the Gaokao.
• Su Su pretended to cry and claimed she had only tried to protect Ji Xi from Lin Shi, but Ji Xi told her she annoyed him and warned her not to provoke him.
• Su Su ran away crying, while Ji Xi returned to the classroom to study instead of going to the basketball game.
• Su Su cried through class, expecting Lin Shi to comfort her, but he left without acknowledging her.
• After school, Su Su saw Ji Xi board a bus in the opposite direction and read harsh comments about herself on the school forum.
• Su Su blamed Yan Xianjue for interfering with Ji Xi and Lin Shi, and suspected Shen Fangli had influenced him.

Ji Xi presented his first variety-show investment proposal to Yan Xianjue and Yan Yi'an, who identified its weaknesses but decided to let him handle the investment. Yan Xianjue left Ji Xi in charge of negotiations and the project, with the executive assistant only helping refine the proposal.

• Ji Xi presented his investment proposal while the executive assistant reviewed it alongside him.
• Yan Yi'an criticized the proposal and warned the executive assistant to adjust his attitude, while Yan Xianjue suggested refining the existing plan and adding more contingency measures.
• Yan Xianjue told Ji Xi to negotiate the investment and take responsibility for the work that followed.
• Ji Xi asked whether the executive assistant would continue guiding him, and Yan Xianjue said the assistant would only help refine the proposal before Ji Xi handled the rest alone.

Ji Xi received advice from Yan Xianjue and Yan Yi'an before taking charge of a business proposal, while Yan Xianjue reunited with his returning eldest sister, Yan Wan. When Yan Wan announced she planned to start a dance company, Yan Xianjue's thoughts alarmed her, and she tried to hide her reaction from their mother.

• Yan Yi'an warned Ji Xi to represent Yan Xianjue and the company confidently, while Yan Xianjue defended giving the inexperienced eighteen-year-old a chance.
• Yan Xianjue enjoyed a quiet stretch at school and left early because his eldest sister was returning home.
• Shen Fangli asked when Yan Xianjue would visit the Ji Household for Ji the Old Master's birthday banquet, and Yan Xianjue said he would arrive at the proper time.
• Yan Wan welcomed Yan Xianjue home and gave him Ferrari keys as a belated coming-of-age gift.
• Yan Wan told Mother Yan she planned to stay in the country and establish a dance company, and Yan Xianjue silently reacted with alarm.
• Yan Wan heard Yan Xianjue's thoughts and tried to conceal her trembling hands as she noticed Mother Yan's knowing smile.

Yan Wan learned that her family could hear Yan Xianjue’s thoughts and struggled to adjust to the nonstop stream of his complaints. The family realized they had forgotten to tell Yan Ci, who first planned to return the next morning but ultimately decided to drive home that night.

• Mother Yan explained to Yan Wan that the family could hear Yan Xianjue’s thoughts and that he believed they lived in a novel.
• Yan Wan went to bed but could still hear Yan Xianjue complaining about his physics homework.
• Yan Yi'an reminded Yan Wan not to tell Yan Xianjue that they could hear his thoughts, and the family realized they had forgotten to inform Yan Ci.
• Yan Yi'an called Yan Ci, who agreed to come home the next morning after learning Yan Wan would visit him at the base.
• Yan Ci remembered that Yan Xianjue’s thoughts revealed how much he complained about his family and decided to drive home that night.

Yan Ci returned to the Yan Household and joined his family in discussing Yan Wan’s plans to start a dance company with her partner. At Old Master Ji’s birthday banquet, the Yan family arrived and saw that the Lin Household had brought a startlingly large entourage.

• Yan Ci came home early and was pulled into choosing outfits with the rest of the Yan family.
• Yan Xianjue warned Yan Wan that her dance partner might be taking advantage of her, and the family urged her to reconsider making him a business partner.
• Yan Wan agreed to think again about the company arrangement, while Yan Xianjue anticipated that the Ji Household banquet would expose her to more scumbags.
• The Yan family set off for Old Master Ji’s birthday banquet in two Rolls-Royce Phantoms escorted by four bodyguard vehicles.
• At the Ji Household Old Residence, Yan Xianjue watched the butler scramble to clear space for the Lin Household’s convoy and wondered how many people they had brought.

At the Ji Household gathering, Yan Ci and Yan Wan went to observe a quarrel involving an exiled illegitimate son, while Yan Xianjue joined Yan Yi'an in meeting Lin Rui and Lin Lang. The chapter left Lin Lang approaching Lin Shi, who was smoking in a corner, with a show of concern.

• Yan Ci persuaded Yan Wan to explore the Ji Household residence and look for the illegitimate son Yan Xianjue had said would stir up a fight.
• Yan Wan identified the thinning-haired man with glasses as the exiled illegitimate son and explained that he might be disguising his ambition to return to the Ji Household.
• Yan Yi'an and Yan Xianjue met Lin Rui and Lin Lang, and Lin Rui proposed a joint project to signal that the Yan and Lin households had reconciled.
• Yan Xianjue thought that Lin Rui was a sadist at home, and Yan Yi'an inferred that he had beaten Lin Shi.
• Lin Lang dismissed Lin Rui's reconciliation efforts as futile and found Lin Shi smoking, asking him to be careful that their father did not catch him.

Lin Shi concealed his plan to take revenge on the entire Lin Household while Lin Lang considered how to use him against Lin Rui. At a gathering, Lin Shi and Yan Xianjue traded barbs with Lin Rui, while Shen Fangli searched for the source of Yan Xianjue’s unusually rude thoughts.

• Lin Lang asked Lin Shi whether he wanted revenge on Lin Rui, and Lin Shi hinted that he intended to destroy the whole Lin Household.
• Lin Lang recalled how Lin Shi had skinned a hamster after Lin Rui killed it and considered using Lin Shi as a weapon in his own bid for power.
• Lin Shi approached Lin Rui and Yan Xianjue, who denied being close to him despite Lin Rui’s attempt to connect them as classmates.
• Lin Rui praised Yan Xianjue’s insistence on wanting only the best, while Lin Shi mocked Yan Xianjue about his preference for top students.
• Yan Xianjue silently wondered whether Lin Rui was sick, and Shen Fangli tried to find him after hearing his thoughts.

At Ji the Old Master's birthday banquet, Shen Fangli searched for Yan Xianjue and was suddenly pulled through a moving wall. Yan Xianjue and Zhou Ye realized Shen Fangli was missing, but did not know where she had gone.

• Shen Fangli met Zhou Ye, who said he had seen Yan Xianjue with his older brother and the Lin Household heirs.
• A hidden hand pulled Shen Fangli through a moving wall, leaving her ornament behind.
• Lin Rui sent Lin Shi to show Yan Xianjue around, and Lin Shi warned him not to trust Lin Lang's gentlemanly image.
• Yan Xianjue met Zhou Ye, who asked whether he had seen Shen Fangli.

Yan Xianjue realized Zhou Ye might have been drugged at the Ji Household banquet and summoned Ji Heng and the family doctors. He brought Zhou Ye to a lounge, while Shen Fangli remained missing and the Ji elders argued upstairs.

• Yan Xianjue called Shen Fangli but got no answer, then set off with Zhou Ye to look for her and told Lin Shi to stay behind.
• On the way, Yan Xianjue noticed Zhou Ye was flushed and slow to respond, and suspected he had accidentally taken the drug meant for Ji the Old Master.
• Yan Xianjue called Yan Ci for Ji Heng’s number, then asked Ji Heng to bring the Ji Household’s family doctors to the first floor.
• Ji Heng excused himself from the reception room and hurried downstairs with three family doctors, while Father Yan and Mother Yan left the gathering.
• Yan Xianjue supported Zhou Ye into the lounge and dropped him onto the bed.

Yan Xianjue and Ji Heng searched for Shen Fangli after she disappeared from the Ji Household, while Zhou Ye lay incapacitated from a suspected drugging. Locked in a dark room, Shen Fangli listened to Yan Xianjue’s thoughts and suspected the waiter who had been near her had tampered with Zhou Ye’s champagne.

• Yan Xianjue treated the drugged Zhou Ye while trying unsuccessfully to reach Shen Fangli, then told Ji Heng that she had disappeared in the Ji Household.
• Yan Xianjue contacted Yan Yi'an and President Shen, who confirmed Shen Fangli’s outfit and warned Ji Heng that the Shen Household would hold the Ji Household responsible if anything happened to her.
• Ji Heng ordered a search of the surveillance footage, but Yan Xianjue pointed out that the Ji Household had many blind spots; they found a faint scratch near the lounge doorway.
• Shen Fangli sat alone in a pitch-black room and listened to Yan Xianjue’s intermittent thoughts, learning that Zhou Ye had been drugged.
• Shen Fangli recalled giving Zhou Ye champagne and suspected that the unusually forgettable waiter who had hovered near her had tampered with the drink.

Yan Xianjue pressed Ji Heng to let the Yan family help investigate Zhou Ye’s drugging and the missing person, then used Ji Heng’s slip to find the Ji residence’s confinement room. Shen Fangli hid as someone approached her through the darkened building.

• Yan Wan and Yan Father watched the courtyard and spotted Ji the Eldest, Ji the Second, and Ji Yue together.
• Yan Xianjue persuaded Ji Heng to reveal the confinement room’s location and called Uncle Lu to bring people inside.
• Ji Heng picked the lock with a piece of wire while Yan Xianjue questioned the security chief about surveillance and what Zhou Ye had eaten or drunk.
• Yan Ci complained to Yan Wan about Yan Xianjue, while Shen Fangli found his inner complaints amusing and wondered if he was growing closer to her.
• Shen Fangli heard uneven footsteps approaching, darkened her phone, and pressed herself against the wall to hide.

Yan Yi'an and Shen Fangli's father searched the Ji Household surveillance footage and realized Shen Fangli had been targeted, while Yan Xianjue and Ji Heng discovered a hidden room where she was trapped. The chapter ended with Yan Xianjue ordering his bodyguards to smash through the wall to reach her.

• Yan Yi'an suggested that Shen Fangli's father consider giving her a tracker, and he said he would ask her first.
• Shen Fangli's father spotted footage of Shen Fangli handing Zhou Ye champagne and realized someone had plotted against his daughter, so he asked Yan Yi'an to call the police.
• Yan Xianjue and Ji Heng entered the Ji Household's dark confinement room and heard footsteps behind a wall.
• Uncle Lu arrived with Yan family bodyguards, and Shen Fangli tapped on the wall from the adjacent room to signal them.
• Yan Xianjue warned Shen Fangli to move back and ordered his bodyguards to smash through the wall, while Ji Heng protested that they should ask his father about the door first.

Yan Xianjue led his bodyguards in breaking through a wall at Ji Household to rescue Shen Fangli, who revealed another person was trapped inside. The unconscious captive was carried out and recognized by Ji Heng as his Seventh Brother.

• Yan Xianjue ordered Uncle Lu and the Yan Household bodyguards to smash through Ji Household's wall despite Ji Heng's hesitation.
• Yan Xianjue told Ji Heng that Ji Xi had chosen to work for him for twenty years rather than ask Ji Heng for help, prompting Ji Heng to worry about Ji Xi.
• Yan Yi'an told Yan Xianjue that the surveillance footage had not shown how Shen Fangli obtained the alcohol, and Yan Xianjue said he had found her.
• Yan Ci and Yan Wan arrived and stared in shock at the demolished wall.
• The bodyguards opened a gap, and Yan Xianjue helped Shen Fangli climb out; she told him another person was still inside.
• The bodyguards continued demolishing the wall and carried out an unconscious captive, whom Ji Heng recognized as his Seventh Brother.

Yan Xianjue and the others dealt with the aftermath of the chaos at the Ji Household while trying to determine who had been drugged and why. When Yan Xianjue asked Lin Shi whom he had brought, Lin Shi mentioned Ji Xi, prompting Ji Heng to question how both men knew his brother.

• Yan Wan explained that she and Yan Ci had heard the commotion, then helped Shen Fangli after Yan Xianjue noticed her torn dress.
• President Shen thanked Yan Xianjue for protecting Shen Fangli, and Yan Xianjue criticized the insincere contract he had received before.
• Yan Xianjue asked Ji Heng to arrange a lounge, while Lin Shi arrived and praised Yan Xianjue for smashing up the Ji Household.
• Yan Xianjue ordered someone to check on the unconscious Ji the Seventh and pointed out that at least two people had been drugged.
• Yan Xianjue asked Lin Shi who he had brought, and Lin Shi's mention of Ji Xi made Ji Heng wonder why both men knew him.

At the Ji Household’s banquet, Ji Heng agreed to investigate the attack on Shen Fangli before involving the police, while Yan Ci’s photo provided a clue. Shen Fangli changed into a spare gown and learned that Zhou Ye had gone to be checked on.

• Yan Xianjue reminded Lin Shi that Su Su had received an invitation, and Lin Shi admitted he had given her one.
• Ji Heng promised President Shen that the Ji Household would cooperate with the police if he could not solve the incident by the end of the banquet.
• Yan Ci found a photo of Ji the Seventh upstairs and sent it to Ji Heng as a clue.
• Ji Heng led the guests out of the confinement room so it could be inspected later.
• Yan Wan helped Shen Fangli alter and change into a spare gown, then President Shen told her Zhou Ye had gone to check on another classmate.

Shen Fangli reunited with her father and returned to the banquet after changing dresses. Yan Xianjue lent her his leopard brooch, which her friends recognized as an expensive piece associated with the Yan Household.

• President Shen checked that Shen Fangli was safe, then discussed the rejected waste disposal project with her.
• Shen Fangli went downstairs with her father after learning Zhou Ye was in another lounge.
• Yan Xianjue pulled Shen Fangli aside while Zhou Ye's uncle fussed over the recovering Zhou Ye.
• Yan Xianjue pinned his leopard brooch onto Shen Fangli's dress and told her Zhou Ye was fine.
• Shen Fangli's friends recognized the brooch as an expensive auction piece and realized it belonged to the Yan Household's young master.

Su Su learned that her plan to trap Shen Fangli had apparently failed, even as Shen Fangli became more popular at the Ji Household banquet. The man Su Su had bribed insisted he had locked Shen Fangli away and demanded to know whether Su Su intended not to pay him.

• Shen Fangli kept quiet when a guest probed her about her brooch and noticed the rich young ladies growing warmer toward her.
• Su Su arrived alone at the Ji Household birthday banquet in an altered secondhand gown and imagined herself as Lin Shi’s future wife.
• A woman messaged Su Su angrily, blaming her because Shen Fangli had changed outfits and gained even more attention.
• Su Su called the man she had bribed, and he claimed he had locked Shen Fangli away and had also put the drunk Seventh Young Master in the same place.
• Su Su challenged the man after saying she had seen Shen Fangli at the banquet, and he asked whether she did not want to pay.

Su Su abandoned her failing scheme and began looking for a way to pin the blame on the rich heir, while Yan Xianjue attended Ji the Old Master’s extravagant birthday banquet. The celebration ended with a round man loudly kowtowing to Ji the Old Master, leaving Yan Xianjue asking who he was.

• Su Su recalled envying Shen Fangli since childhood after watching Shen Fangli’s father patiently comfort her, and remembered recognizing her again at high school enrollment.
• After receiving angry messages, Su Su decided to distance herself from the failed plan and find a way to make the rich heir take the blame without implicating her.
• Yan Xianjue met Yan Dad and Yan Mom on the stairs and thought Shen Fangli was lucky they had not witnessed her embarrassment at the Ji Household.
• At the birthday banquet, Ji the Old Master gave a speech and received extravagant gifts from the Ji Household’s descendants.
• A round man suddenly kowtowed loudly toward Ji the Old Master, and Yan Xianjue asked Yan Ci who he was.