Recaps

Chi Ning abandoned his former drive to overwork and began building a future for himself while protecting his family and growing closer to Qin Heng. He prepared a laboratory and set his sights on patents that could help the Chi family recover its shares and challenge the Shen Family.

• Chi Ning reunited with his young father, resumed contact with Chi Yang, and recognized Qin Heng after finding him injured and later buying bayberry juice from him.
• Chi Ning challenged Jiang Shijie at the activity center and impressed the billiards hall with his skill, while he and Chi Yang repaired their strained relationship.
• Chi Ning refused academic competitions, took up billiards lessons with Mo Yuanzhou, and arranged a photoshoot with Qin Heng as he pursued plans for his future.
• Chi Ning offered Ye Xinran financial support in exchange for joining the Chi family after graduation, and encouraged Chi Baichuan to explore new business opportunities.
• Qin Heng defended Chi Ning from Jiang Shijie, and Chi Ning persuaded Xu Jiahao to consider partnering with the Chi family before renting a townhouse for a laboratory.
• Chi Ning questioned his family about liking boys, while Qin Heng destroyed paparazzi photos of him and continued bringing him bayberry juice.
• Chi Ning backed Gu Zhe when his friends tried to make him pay a false bill, then arranged for Qin Heng to manage the laboratory rental and equipment.
• After Qin Heng accidentally brushed his lips against Chi Ning’s forehead, Gu Zhe confessed his feelings and Qin Heng admitted to himself that he could not suppress his own.
• Chi Ning defended Qin Heng’s gold medal against Shen Minyi’s insults, threw Shen Minyi’s discarded medal away, and went with Qin Heng to furnish their laboratory.

Chi Ning exposed Shen Minyi’s schemes against the Chi family while helping Qin Heng study and growing closer to him. The stolen research materials proved to be fake, and Old Sun decided to leave the laboratory with Sun Boxing as the Shen Family promoted its new medicine.

• Chi Ning stayed overnight with Qin Heng, then returned home and found tabloid rumors about him had hurt Chongning Group’s stock, a turn his family planned to use.
• Chi Ning delivered the opening-school speech, topped the placement exams, and began tutoring Qin Heng in exchange for bayberry juice.
• Chi Ning overheard Shen Minyi’s plans to acquire Chi family shares and learned more about his abusive past, while Qin Heng comforted him and continued studying with him.
• At Chi Yang’s birthday banquet, Chi Ning uncovered Sun Boxing’s effort to steal research data for Shen Minyi and confronted Shen Minyi after he grabbed him.
• After Sun Boxing paid Yue Yaozong to provoke Chi Ning and Qin Heng, Chi Ning helped expose the scheme and brought evidence of the theft plot to Chi Baichuan.
• Chi Baichuan arranged to protect the real research plan with decoy data, while Qin Heng and Chi Ning grew closer through study sessions, cooking, and a promise to attend Gangnan University together.
• Chi Ning saw Qin Heng rise in the exam rankings and reassured him about his family’s gambling connection, then learned that Sun Boxing had stolen fake laboratory materials for Shen Minyi.
• Old Sun decided to take Sun Boxing abroad and resign, while Chi Ning read that the Shen Family was promoting its new medicine and Ye Xinran told him he would receive guaranteed admission.

Chi Ning developed the medicine stolen by Shen Minyi, advanced his studies and snooker career, and grew closer to Qin Heng until they confessed their feelings. Their camping trip ended with Shen Minyi’s failed ambush, which Qin Heng interrupted.

• Ye Xinran told Chi Ning he had been accepted by Capital University of Science and Technology, and Chi Ning gave him a commemorative fountain pen before the sports meet.
• Chi Ning won the shot put with a 10.1-meter throw, watched Qin Heng lead Class 18 to a basketball victory, and went with him to eat hot pot.
• Chi Ning recognized that Shen Minyi had stolen the Chi family’s formula, calculated an improved version, and helped bring it through clinical trials and special approval.
• Chi Ning reunited with Qin Heng after winter break, recreated patents while keeping up with school, and won an amateur snooker tournament before the college entrance exam ended.
• At the graduation gathering, Chi Ning and Qin Heng exchanged teasing remarks, and Chi Ning promised to join Qin Heng on a camping trip.
• At the campsite, Qin Heng confessed that he liked Chi Ning and wanted to marry him, and Chi Ning kissed him after Zhang Qiuwen warned them that Shen Minyi had hired criminals.
• Shen Minyi arranged scandalous newspaper stories about Chi Ning and Qin Heng, but local residents dismissed the accusations and the Nanyang Daily defended Chi Ning.
• Shen Minyi ambushed Chi Ning at the campsite washing area, but Chi Ning fought off the hired thugs and Qin Heng arrived to pull him away.