Recaps

Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi uncover Shen Ziqing’s scheme as Cheng Cheng and Shen Qi help kidnap Shen Ranxin, leading to a fire and explosive confrontation. Shen Ranxin survives, but Lu Zhi goes berserk after losing control of his gland, and Shen Ranxin heads to the Anomaly Management Center to try to calm him.

• Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi write and film their microfilm together, while Shen Ziqing urges Shen Qi to help cause Shen Ranxin’s death so Lu Zhi will escape the Anomaly Management Center’s supervision.
• At the Lu family banquet, Shen Ranxin humiliates a young man who attacks him, then finds Cheng Cheng injured and asks why he left the medical pod.
• Cheng Cheng tells Shen Ranxin about his abusive childhood, then makes him lose consciousness and takes him to Shen Ziqing, who has arranged the kidnapping with Shen Qi.
• Shen Ranxin burns through his bonds, sets the bathroom on fire to open the emergency exits, and escapes the burning villa as Cheng Cheng and Shen Qi pursue him.
• Shen Ranxin remembers the fire five years earlier, when Shen Ziqing abandoned him and his mother, and Lu Zhi arrives to rescue him from the collapsing building.
• When Shen Qi’s men overwhelm Lu Zhi, Shen Ranxin cuts his own gland to break the pheromone pressure, allowing Lu Zhi to defeat them and escape with him.
• Lu Zhi returns to warn Cheng Cheng about Shen Ziqing’s bombs, and explosions strike as Shen Ranxin is carried away, and Shen Qi dies, while Lu Zhi survives but goes berserk after losing control of his gland.
• A week later, Shen Ranxin takes Lu Zhi’s worn clothes to the Anomaly Management Center, where a talisman among the bloodstained garments bursts into flames and a row of people waits at the entrance.

Shen Ranxin stayed with Lu Zhi through his worsening instability and uncovered the truth behind Wei Huizhi’s death by entering the AI’s memories. He used Wei Huizhi’s genetic material to force Shen Ziqing to meet him, while making clear he would do anything to keep Lu Zhi alive.

• Shen Ranxin returned to Lu Zhi’s detention room, where Lu Zhi’s outbreaks and jealousy over Shen Ranxin’s scent repeatedly strained their reunion.
• Shen Ranxin learned from Cheng Cheng that Shen Ziqing knew Lu Zhi needed a gland transplant, then discovered Lu Zhi was willing to risk death rather than remain separated from him.
• Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi investigated Wei Huizhi’s erased records, and Cheng Cheng revealed that Shen Ziqing had arranged Shen Qi’s escape to obtain Lu Yeshan’s genetic sequence.
• Shen Ranxin and Cheng Cheng entered the Core Zone, where Shen Ranxin met Wei Huizhi’s AI, copied its memory code, and activated its self-destruction program.
• Shen Ranxin reviewed Wei Huizhi’s memories and saw Shen Ziqing and Lu Yeshan arrive after military officials had tortured Wei Huizhi, before Wei Huizhi took his own life in Shen Ziqing’s arms.
• Shen Ranxin told Lu Yeshan and the dean that he would not excuse Shen Ziqing for Wei Huizhi’s death, then threatened to destroy the genetic sequence unless Shen Ziqing met him within three days.
• Shen Ranxin left to buy breakfast for Lu Zhi, while Lu Yeshan and the dean considered how dangerous Shen Ranxin might become if Lu Zhi died.