Chapter Summaries

Bai Jin was held at gunpoint by a wounded stranger who forced him to take out a bullet and stitch his wound in Bai Jin’s apartment. The man stayed the night, leaving Bai Jin trapped under his watch.

• Bai Jin returned late to his apartment and was seized by an armed, bleeding stranger.
• The stranger forced Bai Jin upstairs, searched the apartment, and ordered him to remove the bullet from his abdomen.
• Bai Jin extracted the bullet and stitched the stranger’s wound without anesthetic.
• The stranger made Bai Jin prepare noodles and water, then identified him as a first-year student at Xu City Medical University.
• The stranger said he would leave in the morning, sent Bai Jin to his bedroom, and slept in the living room with his gun in hand.

After secretly watching Lu Chengze leave, Bai Jin discovered that he had returned with a fever and reluctantly treated him. When someone rang the doorbell, Lu Chengze restrained Bai Jin and opened the door to let the visitors in.

• Lu Chengze woke before dawn, secretly touched Bai Jin, covered him with a blanket, and left after receiving a message.
• Bai Jin revealed that he had been awake and watched Lu Chengze get into a car, then went back to sleep.
• Lu Chengze returned that morning, admitted he was staying because he had a fever, and asked Bai Jin to take his temperature.
• Bai Jin measured Lu Chengze's temperature at 39 degrees and gave him fever-reducing medicine.
• When the doorbell rang, Lu Chengze covered Bai Jin's mouth, pressed him against his chest, and opened the door to let the people outside enter.

Lu Chengze learned that Bai Jin was an eighteen-year-old medical student whose life abroad had been deliberately erased from the records, and he was more concerned with whether Bai Jin had a partner. After Bai Jin fled to shower, Lu Chengze followed him into the bathroom and drew him into the shower with him, leaving them both naked and face-to-face.

• Lu Jin and Lu Mu arrived, and Lu Chengze asked Lu Jin about the investigation into Bai Jin.
• Lu Chengze read that Bai Jin was the eldest son of the Bai Family, had no recorded life abroad, and had no girlfriend or boyfriend.
• Lu Chengze told Lu Jin to investigate the bullet, then went to check on Bai Jin in the bedroom.
• Lu Chengze entered the bathroom while Bai Jin showered, caught him when he slipped, and asked him to help keep his wound dry.
• Lu Chengze made Bai Jin apply waterproof strips over his wounds, then pulled him under the shower, where they realized they were both naked.

Lu Chengze forced Bai Jin to help him bathe and kissed him repeatedly despite his resistance. After escaping to bed, Bai Jin fought back with a pillow as Lu Chengze teased him.

• Bai Jin protested as Lu Chengze held him in the bathtub, but Lu Chengze seized his chin and forced a kiss on him.
• Bai Jin tried to kick Lu Chengze, but Lu Chengze stopped him and eventually let him retreat to a corner.
• Lu Chengze asked Bai Jin to rinse him, and Bai Jin reluctantly returned with a towel wrapped around himself.
• Lu Chengze pulled Bai Jin into his arms and forced another kiss while they were bathing.
• Lu Chengze dried Bai Jin, dressed in his clothes, and teased him beside the bed.
• Bai Jin lunged at Lu Chengze with a pillow after telling him to shut up.

Bai Jin secretly accepted a War Wolf Base mission to hunt a drug lord hiding in Xu City, while Lu Chengze pursued the same group after learning they were linked to an R Country Army colonel. Both men headed for Hokkaido Tian Japanese Restaurant, unaware they were converging on the same target.

• After Lu Chengze left, Bai Jin used a hidden phone to answer Black Wolf’s call and received orders to hunt a drug lord suspected of hiding in Xu City.
• Bai Jin checked War Wolf Base and confirmed that the drug lord’s capture was his assigned mission.
• Lu Jin told Lu Chengze that the group pursuing him might be drug lords brought to Xu City by someone from R Country.
• Lu Chengze recognized the R Country Army colonel in the file and ordered his men to locate the group and end matters quickly.
• Lu Jin discovered that the suspects had booked a private room at Hokkaido Tian Japanese Restaurant for noon, and Lu Chengze set out there.
• Bai Jin hailed a taxi and told the driver to take him to Hokkaido Fields.

Bai Jin killed the four men meeting in the private room beside his, then pretended to be a frightened diner when Lu Chengze took him away. After leaving in a taxi, Bai Jin reported that his mission was complete.

• Lu Chengze and his companions checked the restaurant’s private rooms, while Bai Jin entered the room beside the traffickers’ reservation.
• Bai Jin saw the traffickers and two men from R Country arrive, then used the ceiling vent to reach the neighboring room and kill all four.
• After the waitress discovered the bodies, Bai Jin pretended to be terrified, and Lu Chengze led him out of the restaurant.
• Lu Chengze told Bai Jin to say he had booked the room for him and sent him home in a taxi.
• Once Lu Chengze was out of sight, Bai Jin regained his composure and messaged that he had eliminated all the targets.

After police cleared Bai Jin of involvement in the restaurant murder, a group of thugs ambushed him in an alley, but Lu Chengze arrived and rescued him. Lu Chengze took Bai Jin home to treat his bruised back and began asking him about the killer from the Japanese restaurant.

• Bai Jin repeated Lu Chengze's account to the police, and they dropped their routine inquiry after it matched the surveillance footage.
• More than a dozen thugs attacked Bai Jin in a dark alley, and he quickly knocked most of them down.
• Bai Jin deliberately let a thug strike his back and fell into Lu Chengze's arms, claiming that the attackers had beaten him.
• Lu Chengze kicked the remaining thugs down, called Lu Jin to investigate who had hired them, and carried Bai Jin home.
• Lu Chengze found a bruised, swollen mark on Bai Jin's back and massaged it with medicinal wine while asking about the restaurant killer.

Lu Chengze learned Bai Jianian had arranged for Bai Jin to be attacked and ordered Bai Jianian’s right hand crippled. After treating Bai Jin’s injuries, Lu Chengze revealed a wound of his own and asked Bai Jin to help him.

• Lu Chengze warned Bai Jin to go straight home after school because a skilled killer was active in Xu City, while Bai Jin suspected Lu Chengze had already been secretly watching him.
• Bai Jin shoved Lu Chengze away, retreated to the bedroom, and locked the door; Lu Chengze stayed outside and reflected on how strongly he had fallen for him.
• Lu Jin reported that Bai Jianian had arranged the attack after Bai Jin was chosen to lead a medical experiment that Bai Jianian had researched.
• Lu Chengze ordered Lu Jin to cripple Bai Jianian’s right hand, and Lu Jin relayed the order to their group chat before hurrying to carry it out.
• Bai Jin came out of the bathroom and saw Lu Chengze expose an injury on his waist and abdomen, then blush when he noticed what else Lu Chengze was showing him.

Lu Chengze tied Bai Jin up and made him sleep in his arms, while Bai Jin secretly welcomed the familiar warmth. At the Bai Family villa, Bai Jianian screamed behind a locked door, and his family found a bloody scene in his walk-in closet.

• Lu Chengze caught Bai Jin trying to escape, tied his hands with a towel, and carried him to bed.
• Lu Chengze offered to release Bai Jin if he kissed him, but Bai Jin shut his eyes and eventually fell asleep.
• Lu Chengze stroked Bai Jin's cheek, then pulled him into his arms; Bai Jin relaxed against him and went back to sleep.
• Bai Jianian screamed behind his locked bedroom door, prompting Yuan Xiaohui and Bai Deye to rush to his room.
• Bai Deye ordered four bodyguards to break down the door, and the family found a bloody, horrifying scene in Bai Jianian's walk-in closet.

Bai Jianian was left with a crushed right hand after Lu Jin and Lu Mu attacked him, while Bai Jin knew nothing about the incident. Lu Chengze stayed close to Bai Jin, using his wound as an excuse to keep watch over him, and offered him money to buy better food.

• Bai Deye sent the unconscious Bai Jianian to the hospital and arranged for people to investigate the attack instead of calling the police.
• Bai Jin woke to find Lu Chengze holding him and asked him to move his leg so he could get out of bed.
• Lu Chengze revealed that his wound had bled through, though he had deliberately pressed it until it bled to keep Bai Jin nearby and protect him from Bai Deye.
• Bai Jin changed Lu Chengze's dressing and warned him to go to the hospital if he tore the wound open again.
• Bai Jin made noodles with greens and a fried egg for breakfast, and Lu Chengze handed him a black card to buy more nourishing food.

Lu Chengze confessed to Bai Jin and declared that he was now Bai Jin’s boyfriend, then left him at school. Bai Jin learned that Bai Jianian’s hand had been irreparably injured and wondered if Lu Chengze was responsible.

• Lu Chengze forced a black card on Bai Jin as payment for food and lodging, then bluntly asked to pursue him.
• Bai Jin tried to refuse, but Lu Chengze kissed him and claimed that they were now boyfriends.
• Lu Chengze dropped Bai Jin off at school and told him to wait for him after class.
• Li Ming told Bai Jin that Bai Jianian’s hand had been ruined despite treatment at the Li Family hospital.
• Bai Jin wondered whether Lu Chengze had crippled Bai Jianian’s hand.

Bai Jin spent the day at school and in the laboratory before Lu Chengze picked him up and brought him home. There, Bai Deye and Yuan Xiaohui confronted him over Bai Jianian’s injuries, and Bai Jin slapped Yuan Xiaohui after she insulted him and Lu Chengze.

• Li Ming dragged Bai Jin to class while Lu Chengze learned that Li Ming was Bai Jin’s only friend and declared Bai Jin his future young madam.
• Bai Jin worked in the laboratory all afternoon, saved his data, and deleted the traces he had left on the computer.
• Lu Chengze picked Bai Jin up, gave him warm milk tea, and teased him about kissing, prompting Bai Jin to call him a pervert.
• Bai Deye and Yuan Xiaohui waited outside Bai Jin’s apartment to demand an explanation about Bai Jianian’s injuries, and Bai Deye recognized Lu Chengze.
• Yuan Xiaohui mocked Bai Jin for bringing a strange man home, and Bai Jin slapped her.

Bai Jin struck Yuan Xiaohui after she insulted him, and Lu Chengze protected him from Bai Deye before taking him home and caring for him. After dinner, Lu Chengze kissed and teased Bai Jin, who cursed at him while trapped in his arms.

• Bai Jin slapped Yuan Xiaohui after she insulted him, and Bai Deye tried to hit Bai Jin in retaliation.
• Lu Chengze stopped Bai Deye, defended Bai Jin, and ordered him and Yuan Xiaohui to leave.
• Lu Chengze comforted Bai Jin and promised to protect him from anyone who bullied him.
• Lu Chengze took Bai Jin home, served him dinner, and fed him until he was full.
• Lu Chengze finished Bai Jin's leftovers, kissed him, and kept teasing him as Bai Jin cursed fiercely.

Bai Jin learned that a kill order targeted him and others who had been at the Japanese restaurant, then secretly left home to eliminate two assassins abusing a couple. The chapter ended with Lu Chengze arriving at the scene shortly after Bai Jin escaped.

• Lu Jin told Lu Chengze that the dead drug lord’s brother had placed a kill order on everyone who had been at the Japanese restaurant, and Lu Chengze left to gather his men.
• Red Wolf warned Bai Jin that he was being watched, and Bai Jin saw that his name topped the kill order with a one-million bounty.
• After Lu Chengze left, Bai Jin waited to make sure he would not return, retrieved weapons and tactical gear from a hidden cabinet, and rode a motorcycle to a remote demolition zone.
• Bai Jin entered a house where two assassins were assaulting a woman and shot them both, then made the couple forget what they had seen.
• Bai Jin left the house, and Lu Chengze arrived downstairs less than five minutes later.

Lu Chengze and Lu Jin found two assassins dead and their victims alive in an apartment, then hurried back to Eight-Star Residential Community fearing Bai Jin was in danger. Bai Jin evaded suspicion by hiding his gear and pretending to bathe, while Lu Chengze found him safe and carried him from the tub.

• Lu Jin and Lu Chengze discovered a tortured couple alive and two dead assassins in an apartment, with no sign of the person who had killed them.
• Lu Chengze realized Bai Jin might be in danger and rushed back to Eight-Star Residential Community with Lu Jin.
• Bai Jin received a camera alert that Lu Chengze had returned, hid his tactical gear and gun, and climbed into his apartment through a window.
• Lu Chengze searched Bai Jin's apartment and found him relaxing in the bathtub with a face mask and headphones.
• Lu Chengze pulled Bai Jin from the tub, and Bai Jin wriggled and complained as Lu Chengze carried him away.

Bai Jin concealed his connection to the murder case while Lu Chengze left to investigate the assassins’ deaths. After Lu Chengze arranged breakfast and a ride to school for him, Bai Jin faced questions from Li Ming about who had driven him.

• Lu Chengze questioned Bai Jin about why he kept asking him to leave, then kissed and marked Bai Jin’s shoulders before departing to handle the case.
• Bai Jin traced the hit order against him to a deleted anonymous account from A Country and wondered who had hurt his mother.
• Bai Jin received a yellowed photograph of his mother and lamented that he still could not discover what had happened to her.
• Lu Mu delivered breakfast arranged by Lu Chengze, and Bai Jin finished the meal before Lu Mu drove him to school.
• Li Ming asked Bai Jin which man had driven him to school, and Bai Jin identified Lu Mu as Lu Chengze’s subordinate.

Bai Jin heard that Bai Jianian had taken leave to recover from his injured right hand and that rumors blamed Bai Jin for the injury. When Chen Mo confronted him at the laboratory, Bai Jin demanded evidence and walked inside with Li Ming.

• Li Ming told Bai Jin that Bai Jianian had taken leave and was spreading more rumors about him.
• Li Ming warned Bai Jin to stand up for himself, but Bai Jin said he would retaliate if someone truly angered him.
• Bai Jin and Li Ming overheard laboratory students claim Bai Jin might have arranged to cripple Bai Jianian's right hand.
• Chen Mo confronted Bai Jin and demanded an explanation for Bai Jianian's injury.
• Bai Jin told Chen Mo to produce evidence or stop accusing him, then pushed open the laboratory door and went inside with Li Ming.

Bai Jin threw Shen Mo to the floor after Shen Mo grabbed him, then faced him again when Shen Mo charged with a vase. Lu Chengze stopped Shen Mo and summoned the dean, while Li Ming portrayed Bai Jin as helpless, leaving Lu Chengze even angrier at Shen Mo.

• Bai Jin used a shoulder throw to knock Shen Mo down after Shen Mo grabbed his arm.
• Shen Mo pursued Bai Jin with a vase, but Lu Chengze kicked Shen Mo and the vase to the floor, where Shen Mo was cut by the shards.
• Lu Chengze knocked Shen Mo unconscious and called dean Ai Huainan.
• Ai Huainan arrived with Zhan Zhou and Wang Hongfeng, while Lu Chengze kept his attention on Bai Jin.
• Li Ming told Lu Chengze that Bai Jin was too frail and frightened to dodge, and Lu Chengze's expression darkened as he looked at Shen Mo.

Lu Chengze defended Bai Jin after students challenged his appointment as experimental group leader, and the university officials promised to discipline those responsible. As the crowd dispersed, Li Ming introduced himself to Lu Chengze, who recognized his family.

• Lu Chengze comforted Bai Jin and confronted Ai Huainan about the students who had targeted him.
• Jiang Hongfeng explained that the experimental supervisory team had unanimously chosen Bai Jin as leader based on his abilities, and the students apologized.
• Lu Chengze warned the university officials, and Ai Huainan promised public apologies and punishments before having Chen Mo carried away.
• Zhan Zhou dismissed the crowd, while Li Ming introduced himself to Lu Chengze and described his family’s connection to Lu Group Corporation.
• Lu Jin arrived and overheard Li Ming trying to ingratiate himself with Lu Chengze.

Lu Chengze let Bai Jin enter the lab while Lu Jin drew Li Ming away to discuss the Li Family’s contract with Lu Group Corporation. Bai Jin took charge of the experiment team and won the researchers’ cooperation, but he secretly watched Zhan Zhou and Jiang Hongfeng leave with a cold smile.

• Lu Chengze reminded Li Ming that the Li Family’s medical cooperation contract with Lu Group Corporation would expire in two months, and Lu Jin pulled Li Ming aside to discuss it.
• Bai Jin asked Lu Chengze to ensure Lu Jin did not make things difficult for Li Ming, then chose to go into the lab rather than take leave.
• Ai Huainan took Lu Chengze away to keep him from interfering as Bai Jin entered the lab.
• Bai Jin assigned tasks based on his knowledge of everyone’s experimental progress, and the team accepted his leadership without protest.
• The researchers recognized Bai Jin’s expertise and began seeking his help, improving their cooperation as Zhan Zhou and Jiang Hongfeng watched.
• After Zhan Zhou and Jiang Hongfeng left the window, Bai Jin looked toward where they had stood and smiled coldly.