Recaps

Su Guohua and Su Wanning rejected Jiang Lan’s wish to honor Su Wanning’s Childhood Betrothal to Yue Xiaofei, then became convinced an important figure was arriving under military guard. As a figure emerged from the cordon, Su Guohua and Su Wanning waited eagerly to see who it was.

• Su Guohua defended breaking ties with the fallen Yue Family, and Su Wanning said she would never marry Yue Xiaofei.
• Jiang Lan argued with Su Guohua and Su Wanning until soldiers arrived and sealed off the airport exit.
• Su Guohua speculated that a powerful figure connected to the upcoming Military Parade Grand Ceremony was arriving.
• Su Wanning became excited when Su Guohua said her national-hero idol might attend, and he promised to get her a ticket.
• Soldiers opened a passage through the cordon, and an unidentified figure slowly emerged as Su Guohua and Su Wanning watched.

Yue Xiaofei arrived at the airport and reunited with Jiang Lan, while Su Guohua and Su Wanning treated him coldly. When Su Guohua opened Yue Xiaofei’s plainly packaged gifts, he mistook their rare contents for junk and took offense.

• Yue Xiaofei emerged into the airport concourse, disappointing the crowd until Jiang Lan recognized him and rushed over.
• Jiang Lan tearfully reunited with Yue Xiaofei and introduced him to Su Guohua and Su Wanning, who greeted him with disdain.
• Yue Xiaofei offered Jiang Lan and Su Guohua two modestly wrapped boxes of local specialties prepared by Xu Wenqiang.
• Su Guohua opened the boxes, mistook the Thousand-Year Wild Ginseng and Blood Bird's Nest for worthless goods, and became angry.

Yue Xiaofei told Jiang Lan that the Airport lockdown may have been arranged by friends welcoming him, but Su Guohua and Su Wanning mocked him and called him a liar. Jiang Lan defended Yue Xiaofei and took him with the family toward home, where Su Guohua asked which university he planned to attend.

• Su Wanning mocked Yue Xiaofei's gifts, while Jiang Lan thanked him and protected his feelings.
• Jiang Lan asked Yue Xiaofei why the Airport had been locked down, and he said it might have been for him.
• Su Wanning and Su Guohua mocked Yue Xiaofei's claim and accused him of bragging and lying.
• Jiang Lan rebuked Su Guohua and Su Wanning, then led Yue Xiaofei to their Maybach.
• Su Guohua drove the family away from the Airport and asked Yue Xiaofei whether he planned to attend Longdu University or Qingbei University.

Yue Xiaofei told Su Guohua he planned to attend the National University of Defense Technology, provoking Su Guohua to insult soldiers and Yue Xiaofei’s father. Yue Xiaofei’s killing intent frightened the car’s occupants, and he ended by insisting that his father had been framed.

• Yue Xiaofei told Su Guohua he planned to apply to the National University of Defense Technology rather than a prestigious civilian university.
• Su Guohua argued that military service offered no future and urged Yue Xiaofei to study business and work at his company.
• Yue Xiaofei defended soldiers and said he wanted to protect his country like his father had.
• Su Guohua insulted Yue Xiaofei’s father, and Yue Xiaofei released a terrifying killing intent that frightened Su Wanning and Su Guohua.
• Jiang Lan rebuked Su Guohua and apologized to Yue Xiaofei, who insisted that his father had been framed.

Su Wanning found online reports that a mysterious national hero had arrived in Longdu and mocked Yue Xiaofei for implying the airport lockdown was connected to him. Yue Xiaofei stayed calm, privately confirming that he was the hero, while the Su family continued to mistake him for an ordinary young man.

• Su Wanning showed Su Guohua and Jiang Lan a trending report claiming the national hero had arrived at Longdu Airport.
• Su Wanning excitedly asked Su Guohua to get her an invitation to see the hero, while Su Guohua compared the hero favorably with Yue Xiaofei.
• Su Wanning challenged Yue Xiaofei to claim he was the hero who planted a flag on Mount Fuji, then laughed at him.
• Jiang Lan scolded Su Wanning for humiliating their guest, while Su Guohua pretended to defend Yue Xiaofei and hoped he would lose his temper.
• Yue Xiaofei watched the passing streets without reacting and privately confirmed that he was the hero.

Yue Xiaofei arrived at Jiang Lan’s home in Longdu, where Su Guohua tried to relegate him to a storage room until Jiang Lan insisted he take the upstairs guest room. After settling in, Yue Xiaofei contacted Han Duoduo, who reported that Cao Xuanye was secretly gathering money and manpower for an unclear scheme.

• Su Guohua bragged about Longdu’s wealthy estates and his own connections as he drove Yue Xiaofei, Jiang Lan, and Su Wanning to his villa.
• Su Guohua told Yue Xiaofei to stay in a downstairs storage room, but Jiang Lan firmly insisted he take the upstairs guest room.
• Su Guohua stormed into his study, and Jiang Lan apologized to Yue Xiaofei for his behavior.
• Yue Xiaofei settled into the guest room and called Han Duoduo using an encrypted communicator.
• Han Duoduo told Yue Xiaofei that Cao Xuanye was secretly mobilizing substantial money and manpower for a scheme whose target remained unknown.

Yue Xiaofei learned that Ye Jincheng would attend the Military Parade Grand Ceremony, while a family dinner at the Su villa exposed the divide between Jiang Lan’s warmth and Su Guohua and Su Wanning’s disdain. Su Guohua tried to show off his connections by seeking Yue a parade ticket, but his first calls failed.

• Yue Xiaofei ordered Han Duoduo to investigate Cao Xuanye and the Cao Family’s actions over the past five years, including whether they were involved in the old case.
• Bai Bing told Yue Xiaofei that six of the Eight Great Clans would attend the parade and that Ye Jincheng would represent the Ye Family.
• Jiang Lan served Yue Xiaofei his mother Ye Qingmei’s favorite dishes, while Su Guohua and Su Wanning remained cold toward him.
• Su Guohua asked when Yue Xiaofei would leave Longdu, and Yue replied that he would stay until after the Military Parade Grand Ceremony.
• Su Guohua and Su Wanning mocked Yue Xiaofei for expecting to attend the parade, but Jiang Lan asked Su Guohua to try to get him a ticket.
• Su Guohua called Director Liu and Colonel Wang to request a ticket, but both attempts failed.

Yue Xiaofei promised to get the Su family three front-row tickets to the Grand Ceremony military parade despite Su Guohua and Su Wanning doubting him. After visiting his mother’s old photos with Jiang Lan, he asked Zhao Mengsheng to arrange VIP seats and left Su Wanning with a cryptic message hinting she might meet her idol.

• Yue Xiaofei offered to get three parade tickets, but Su Guohua and Su Wanning mocked his claim until Jiang Lan defended him.
• Yue Xiaofei promised the Su family seats in the first three rows of the Reviewing Stand and left with Jiang Lan to look at old photographs of his mother.
• Yue Xiaofei called Zhao Mengsheng, who agreed to deliver three tickets for the VIP section’s second row the next morning.
• Yue Xiaofei texted Su Wanning that she might meet her idol sooner than she thought, but she dismissed him as a liar and braggart.

Yue Xiaofei learned that his mother, Ye Qingmei, had abruptly ended her close friendship with Cao Ruolin, whose family might belong to Longdu's Cao Family. As Yue Xiaofei began investigating Cao Ruolin, Cao Xuanye ordered his men to pressure Su Guohua and make him spy on Yue Xiaofei.

• Jiang Lan showed Yue Xiaofei a photograph of Ye Qingmei, Jiang Lan, and their former dormmate Cao Ruolin, then explained that Ye Qingmei had cut off contact with Cao Ruolin after visiting her home before graduation.
• Yue Xiaofei suspected Cao Ruolin's family was connected to the Cao Family and possibly to the events involving his father, then sent Han Duoduo all the information he had.
• Cao Xuanye learned that Yue Xiaofei was staying with Su Guohua and that Su Guohua's wife, Jiang Lan, had been close to Ye Qingmei.
• Cao Xuanye ordered his butler to pressure Su Guohua and turn him into a spy who would watch Yue Xiaofei.

Yue Xiaofei learned that Cao Ruolin was the Cao Family head’s sister and that her conflict with his mother might be linked to a broken engagement. At breakfast, Zhou Yun recognized the ginseng Yue had brought as a genuine wild root at least twelve hundred years old.

• Han Duoduo told Yue Xiaofei that Cao Ruolin was a prodigy and the sister of Cao Tianxiao, and reported that Cao Tianxiao broke off his engagement after Ye Qingmei visited the Cao Family.
• Yue Xiaofei joined Jiang Lan, Su Guohua, and Su Wanning for breakfast, where Su Guohua and Su Wanning mocked the gifts Yue had brought.
• Jiang Lan introduced Zhou Yun, heir to Jiren Hall, and Zhou Yun asked to see the gifts after hearing the family’s complaints.
• Zhou Yun opened the box containing the root, examined it in shock, and identified it as genuine Old Mountain Ginseng at least twelve hundred years old.

At breakfast, Zhou Yun identified Yue Xiaofei’s gifts as extraordinarily valuable medicinal treasures, prompting Su Guohua to suspect they were stolen. After Yue Xiaofei explained their legitimate origin and Jiang Lan accepted them, she asked him to become her godson.

• Zhou Yun recognized the thousand-year-old Wild Mountain Ginseng and Dragon Saliva Blood Bird's Nest, estimating their combined value at over a hundred million.
• Su Guohua accused Yue Xiaofei of acquiring the gifts through crime, while Jiang Lan defended him.
• Yue Xiaofei told Jiang Lan that a wealthy relative on his grandmother’s side had sent the gifts in gratitude for her care of his mother.
• Jiang Lan initially refused the gifts, but Zhou Yun encouraged her to accept them for the sake of her health.
• Jiang Lan accepted the gifts and asked Yue Xiaofei to become her godson.

Jiang Lan adopted Yue Xiaofei as her godson, while Su Guohua and Su Wanning regretted their earlier treatment of him. Yue Xiaofei told Jiang Lan he had come to Longdu to avenge his parents, and her fearful reaction convinced him she might know more about their deaths.

• Jiang Lan overruled Su Guohua and accepted Yue Xiaofei as her godson, and Yue Xiaofei called her godmother.
• Su Wanning felt ashamed of having mocked Yue Xiaofei, while Su Guohua tried to use their new family tie to meet Yue Xiaofei’s wealthy relative and was rebuffed.
• Su Guohua regretted losing a chance to connect with the overseas tycoon, and Su Wanning shut herself in her room.
• Jiang Lan invited Yue Xiaofei to stay with her and offered to show him Longdu, but he said he had come to avenge his parents.
• Jiang Lan warned Yue Xiaofei not to act rashly and insisted his father’s case had been decided by the state and his mother had died of illness.
• Yue Xiaofei told Jiang Lan that his father had been framed and his mother’s death was suspicious, then noticed her fear.

Yue Xiaofei pressed Jiang Lan about his mother Ye Qingmei’s death, and she revealed that her secret investigation had led to a threatening call and a crash that nearly killed her. He promised to stop investigating to reassure the Su family, but left the villa alone.

• Yue Xiaofei confronted Jiang Lan, who admitted that Ye Qingmei’s death had seemed suspicious and that she had secretly investigated it.
• Jiang Lan said an anonymous caller warned her to stop, then a dump truck struck her car the next day and left her with shattered legs.
• Su Wanning and Su Guohua overheard Jiang Lan’s account, and Su Guohua urged Yue Xiaofei to focus on school and abandon revenge.
• Yue Xiaofei promised Jiang Lan he would not investigate further, then left the villa to walk around the neighborhood alone.
• Jiang Lan worried Yue Xiaofei might act recklessly, while Su Guohua warned that he would throw him out if he caused trouble.

Yue Xiaofei traced the plot behind Jiang Lan’s car crash to Li Taishan and went to Purple Jade Manor to confront him. The guards blocked his way, and he prepared to collect the debt by force.

• Yue Xiaofei asked Han Duoduo to investigate the car crash that crippled Jiang Lan.
• Han Duoduo found that the driver had received five million after going to prison, and traced the money to Taishan Capital, chaired by Li Taishan.
• Han Duoduo discovered that Li Taishan was staying at Purple Jade Manor and warned Yue Xiaofei not to act rashly.
• Yue Xiaofei took a taxi to Purple Jade Manor and told the guards he had come to see Li Taishan.
• The guards refused to let Yue Xiaofei in, and he said he had come to collect a debt as they threatened to break his legs.

Yue Xiaofei stormed Li Taishan’s estate and defeated the guards who tried to stop him. He confronted Li over the attempted murder of Jiang Lan, but Li denied responsibility and summoned Tu Gang to fight.

• Yue Xiaofei broke one guard’s arm and knocked out the rest in seconds without moving from his spot.
• Li Taishan emerged and asked why Yue Xiaofei had attacked his men.
• Yue Xiaofei accused Li of hiring a truck driver to stage an accident and kill Jiang Lan a year earlier.
• Li denied knowing Jiang Lan or having any part in the attempted murder.
• Li ordered his bodyguards to block Yue Xiaofei and summoned Tu Gang to confront him.

Li Taishan brought out Tu Gang, a former deputy commander of the Ironblood Division, to threaten Yue Xiaofei, but Yue condemned him for betraying the unit’s honor. As Tu Gang charged at Yue, Yue revealed that his father, Yue Changlong, had once commanded the Ironblood Division.

• Li Taishan introduced Tu Gang and demanded that Yue Xiaofei kneel and apologize or break his own arm.
• Yue Xiaofei denounced Tu Gang for serving Li Taishan and disgracing the Ironblood Division.
• Tu Gang erupted in anger and challenged Yue Xiaofei’s right to lecture him.
• Li Taishan ordered Tu Gang to break Yue’s limbs, and Tu Gang charged at him with a punch.
• Yue Xiaofei stood his ground and revealed that his father, Yue Changlong, had once commanded the Ironblood Division.

Tu Gang recognized Yue Xiaofei as Division Commander Yue’s son and broke down in remorse for nearly attacking him. Yue Xiaofei stopped Li Taishan from kicking Tu Gang, injured Li, and asked Tu Gang why he had become Li’s bodyguard.

• Tu Gang recognized Yue Xiaofei as Division Commander Yue’s son, knelt before him, and slapped himself in guilt.
• Li Taishan ordered Tu Gang to get up and insulted Yue Xiaofei’s father, but Tu Gang ignored him.
• Li Taishan tried to kick Tu Gang, and Yue Xiaofei grabbed his ankle and dislocated it.
• Yue Xiaofei helped Tu Gang stand and told him his father would not want him to kneel.
• Tu Gang explained that his mother’s kidney failure and costly dialysis had forced him to take Li Taishan’s bodyguard job.

Tu Gang turned against Li Taishan after he threatened Tu Gang’s mother, and Yue Xiaofei forced Li Taishan to reveal that Young Master Cao had ordered the car crash targeting Jiang Lan. Yue Xiaofei spared Li Taishan but demanded compensation for Tu Gang’s mother and an apology to Jiang Lan.

• Li Taishan threatened to stop Tu Gang’s mother’s treatment, so Tu Gang beat him senseless after Yue Xiaofei told him to stop.
• Yue Xiaofei promised to pay for Tu Gang’s mother’s treatment and questioned Li Taishan in a secret room at Purple Jade Manor.
• Li Taishan admitted that an unidentified, influential man had paid him to arrange a car crash and silence Jiang Lan.
• Under pressure, Li Taishan identified the man as Young Master Cao, whom Yue Xiaofei connected to Cao Xuanye, and said Cao seemed to be searching for something.
• Yue Xiaofei spared Li Taishan but ordered him to transfer half of Taishan Capital’s shares to Tu Gang’s mother and apologize to Jiang Lan in person the next day.

After arranging for Tu Gang’s mother to receive treatment, Yue Xiaofei sent him back to the Ironblood Division to restore its former glory. At the Su Family villa, Su Guohua’s company collapsed under sudden pressure, and Butler Cao arrived with armed men to confront him on the Cao Family’s behalf.

• Yue Xiaofei arranged for Tu Gang’s mother to be treated at Longdu Military Region General Hospital and told Tu Gang to return to the Ironblood Division.
• Tu Gang pledged his loyalty to Yue Xiaofei, who instructed him to tell his old comrades that Yue Changlong’s son had returned to lead them.
• Su Guohua learned that authorities had halted his company’s projects and banks were calling in its loans, while a business associate warned him he had offended someone powerful.
• Su Guohua blamed Yue Xiaofei for the company’s troubles as a group of black-suited men arrived at the Su Family villa and forced open its gates.
• Butler Cao identified the Cao Family’s power and demanded to know why Su Guohua’s projects had been halted and his loans called in.

Butler Cao demanded that the Su Family either spy on Yue Xiaofei or throw him out, offering restored business and a billion-yuan contract in return. Su Guohua agreed, but Jiang Lan refused to betray her godson, and the family’s argument was interrupted by a military-plated off-road vehicle arriving at their villa.

• Butler Cao told Su Guohua and Jiang Lan that the Cao Family blamed Yue Xiaofei and demanded that they report his activities or expel him.
• Butler Cao offered to restore the Su Family’s projects and award them a billion-yuan contract if they obeyed, and Su Guohua immediately agreed.
• Jiang Lan opposed Su Guohua and insisted she would not let anyone throw Yue Xiaofei out, so Butler Cao gave the family three days to decide.
• After Butler Cao left, Su Guohua and Jiang Lan argued over whether to protect Yue Xiaofei or save the family business, while Su Wanning struggled with the choice.
• A black off-road vehicle bearing a special military plate arrived outside the Su Family’s villa.

A senior colonel delivered an envelope for Yue Xiaofei, but Su Wanning, furious with him, threw it into the garden. Su Wanning’s rival Gao Yuanyuan found the envelope and discovered it contained a card granting access to the distinguished guest viewing area at the Dragon Kingdom Day Military Parade.

• Su Guohua mistook the senior colonel’s arrival for an attempt to arrest Yue Xiaofei, but the officer explained that he had come to deliver him an envelope.
• Jiang Lan accepted the envelope, and Su Wanning took it to her room, blaming Yue Xiaofei for her family’s troubles.
• Su Wanning threw the envelope into the garden and tried to suppress her guilt over discarding it.
• Gao Yuanyuan and Gao Yi came to gloat over the Su Family’s financial crisis, and Gao Yuanyuan found the envelope in the bushes.
• Gao Yuanyuan opened the envelope and found a card for the second row of the Dragon Kingdom Day Military Parade’s distinguished guest viewing area.

After the Cao Family threatened the Su Family and blamed Yue Xiaofei for its troubles, Su Guohua tried to throw him out. Jiang Lan defended Yue Xiaofei and threatened to divorce Su Guohua, leaving him stunned.

• Gao Yi and Gao Yuanyuan found a valuable invitation in the Su Family's bushes, took it, and hurried away.
• Yue Xiaofei arrived at the Su Family villa and found Jiang Lan crying, Su Guohua furious, and Su Wanning frightened.
• Su Guohua blamed Yue Xiaofei for the company's shutdown and the Cao Family's threat, then ordered him to leave.
• Jiang Lan defended Yue Xiaofei and reminded Su Guohua that Yue Xiaofei's parents had once helped him.
• Jiang Lan refused to let Su Guohua expel Yue Xiaofei and threatened to divorce him if he did.

Yue Xiaofei challenged Su Guohua’s fear of the Cao Family, but before Su Guohua could strike him, Li Taishan arrived and confessed to arranging Jiang Lan’s car accident. Li begged Jiang Lan for forgiveness and offered her fifty million, while Yue Xiaofei kept his involvement hidden.

• Yue Xiaofei told Su Guohua that the Cao Family would discard him even if he threw Yue out, and Su Guohua raised his hand to slap Yue.
• The doorbell rang, and Sister Zhang opened the door to find Tu Gang and a badly beaten, disheveled Li Taishan.
• Li Taishan knelt before Jiang Lan, admitted that he had hired people to cause her car accident a year earlier, and begged her to spare him.
• Li Taishan introduced himself as the head of Taishan Capital, and Yue Xiaofei’s warning glance stopped him from revealing Yue’s role.
• Li Taishan claimed a nightmare had driven him to confess, then offered Jiang Lan a fifty-million check as compensation and pleaded for her forgiveness.

After Li Taishan left the Su Family's villa, Su Guohua and Su Wanning credited the Cao Family for his apology, while Yue Xiaofei quietly sought help for the Su Group's financial crisis. The chapter ended as a phone rang just after Yue Xiaofei texted Xu Wenqiang to invest one billion.

• Tu Gang dragged Li Taishan out of the Su Family's villa, leaving the Su Family with his fifty-million check.
• Su Guohua decided the Cao Family had frightened Li Taishan into apologizing, and Su Wanning agreed and mocked Yue Xiaofei.
• Su Guohua worried that the check could not cover the Su Group's several-hundred-million bank loans due in three days.
• Jiang Lan promised to protect Yue Xiaofei and support him through college if the Su Family went bankrupt.
• Yue Xiaofei texted Xu Wenqiang to inject one billion into the Su Group, and a phone rang before Su Guohua could finish rebuking him.

Azure Alliance Group invested one billion yuan in Jiang Lan’s company, ending its crisis and giving her new confidence to protect Yue Xiaofei. The Su Family celebrated the windfall before Gao Yuanyuan called Su Wanning to boast about her family’s invitation to the Military Parade.

• Jiang Lan received a call from Azure Alliance Group offering a one-billion-yuan investment in her company.
• Yue Xiaofei suggested the group wanted to oppose the Cao Family, and Director Wang confirmed the investment was sincere.
• Su Guohua and Su Wanning doubted the call until the finance director confirmed the billion yuan had arrived in the company account.
• Jiang Lan promised Yue Xiaofei that she would support him and prevent anyone in the family from bullying him.
• Yue Xiaofei said he did not need money or want to run a company, while Su Guohua criticized him for lacking ambition.
• Gao Yuanyuan called Su Wanning from the Chang'an Club and challenged her to come see the party celebrating her family’s Military Parade invitation.