Chapter Summaries

Shanshan pursued Wen Ze after their flight back to Cloud City, but he continued to reject her even as her advances stirred feelings he tried to suppress. After she climbed into his villa and nearly encountered his guard dogs, Wen Ze rescued and comforted her, carrying her inside.

• Shanshan teased Wen Ze on the plane, clung to his hand as she slept, and insisted on following him home.
• Wen Ze tried to take Susan home, but she revealed she lived at Golden Street Community and kissed him; he knocked her unconscious and called her family.
• Susan told Su Chen that Wen Ze had knocked her out after she bit him, and Su Chen warned her to stay safe.
• Susan went to Wen Ze's villa, found a sign barring her entry, and climbed over the wall with help from two Sugar Babies.
• Two German Shepherds cornered Susan in the yard, and Wen Ze rushed out to drive them away.
• Wen Ze comforted the frightened Susan and carried her after she asked him to, while she privately celebrated her success.

Susan tricked Wen Ze into coming to a hotel by making herself ill, and he gave in to her advances. Afterward, Wen Ze offered to marry her, and they registered their marriage.

• Susan grew anxious that Wen Ze's leave would end before they made progress, so she devised a plan to make him come to her hotel.
• Wen Ze learned from Susan's brother that she had not come home, located her at a hotel, and rushed there to find her feverish on the floor.
• Susan refused to go to the hospital and provoked Wen Ze until he gave in to her, and she later fainted from exhaustion.
• After Susan woke at Wen Ze's home, he presented her with his documents and proposed that they register their marriage.
• Susan hurried Wen Ze to the registration office, and they married before she took the certificate and teased him about regretting it.

Susan and Wen Ze settled into married life while Su Chen began dating Qin Yue. The chapter ended with Qin Yue and Su Chen growing closer after she stopped a thief and asked him to carry her.

• Wen Ze transferred to Cloud City to be closer to Susan, and the two reunited at home before he left on another assignment.
• Susan urged Su Chen to go on blind dates, and a year later Shanshan's Mother learned Susan had married and received ten percent of the shares.
• Shanshan's Mother helped care for pregnant Susan, while Wen Ze promised to spend two days at home with her before leaving again.
• Su Chen started dating Qin Yue and brought her to Tang Lin's game launch, where she learned Tang Lin and Han Feng were a couple.
• Qin Yue and Su Chen walked by the sea, where Qin Yue chased down a thief and then asked Su Chen to carry her home.

Tang Shiba woke in ancient times, learned she had to complete a novel-transmigration mission to return, and immediately fought with her eldest brother, Tang Xuan. She discovered that her cousin Ouyang Xuan was manipulating the General’s family and that the household faced execution if Tang Shiba failed to expose her.

• Tang Shiba and the system realized they had transmigrated to ancient times and received a mission to complete before they could return.
• Tang Xuan ordered Tang Shiba to apologize to Ouyang Xuan, but Tang Shiba attacked him and threw him to the ground.
• General Tang and Madam Song dismissed Tang Xuan’s claim that Tang Shiba had beaten him, then scolded her for arguing with Ouyang Xuan.
• Tang Shiba learned that her family had repeatedly favored Ouyang Xuan and that the original novel ended with Ouyang Xuan framing the household, leading to the execution of all 108 members.
• The system explained that Tang Shiba’s mission was to expose Ouyang Xuan and save the General’s Residence, then wondered whether this Ouyang Xuan was someone they already knew.

Tang Shiba confronted her parents over their favoritism toward Ouyang Xuan, then broke confinement to confront her cousin at the Fragrant Water Residence. Her parents heard her unspoken thoughts revealing that servants had rescued Ouyang Xuan before Tang Shiba after their fall into the pond.

• Tang Shiba accused General Tang and Madam Song of ignoring her injuries and asked what else they expected her to give up.
• Chunjuan recounted the pond incident and said Ouyang Xuan had punched Tang Shiba unconscious, but General Tang and Madam Song dismissed the accusation and ordered Tang Shiba confined without dinner.
• Tang Shiba decided to recover her dignity and reputation, bribed the servants, and left for the Fragrant Water Residence with Chunjuan.
• The system revealed that Ouyang Xuan was only pretending to be ill, while Tang Shiba privately criticized Madam Song for comforting her niece instead of her daughter.
• Tang Shiba arrived to find Madam Song comforting Ouyang Xuan, and her parents heard her thoughts that the servants had rescued Ouyang Xuan first after the fall into the pond.

Tang Shiba refused to apologize to Ouyang Xuan, attacked her instead, and was ordered confined to her room. After returning to her courtyard, she rebuffed Tang Xuan’s attempt to make peace, while her system detected a possible system inside Ouyang Xuan.

• General Tang and Madam Song demanded that Tang Shiba apologize to Ouyang Xuan, but Tang Shiba insisted Ouyang Xuan owed her an apology for nearly drowning her.
• When General Tang threatened to send Tang Shiba to the army camp, she grabbed Ouyang Xuan by the hair and slapped her until she fainted.
• General Tang ordered the guards to confine Tang Shiba, and Madam Song called for a physician for Ouyang Xuan.
• Tang Shiba’s system detected an energy fluctuation and suggested that Ouyang Xuan might have another system.
• Tang Xuan visited Tang Shiba’s courtyard, scolded her for hitting Ouyang Xuan, and offered her a dress if she would stop opposing her cousin.
• Tang Shiba dismissed Tang Xuan and shut the door, while he threatened to make her regret it.

Tang Shiba learned that Ouyang Xuan and Si Wuyu had also traveled to ancient times, then discovered Ouyang Xuan was targeting Tang Xuan to steal the Tang family’s fortune. Her family decided to send her to the Military Camp, where she accepted the plan while warning in her thoughts that Ouyang Xuan could bring the household to ruin.

• The system told Tang Shiba that its increased power had accidentally sent them through time and that Ouyang Xuan and Si Wuyu were there too, though it could not locate Si Wuyu.
• Tang Shiba went to the front hall and learned that Ouyang Xuan had bound herself to a fortune system that would kill her if she failed its missions.
• Ouyang Xuan played on Madam Song’s sympathy, and Tang Cheng agreed to take Tang Shiba to the Military Camp after she finished eating.
• Tang Cheng, Madam Song, and Tang Xuan realized they could hear Tang Shiba’s thoughts, while Tang Xuan blushed when she thought he liked Ouyang Xuan.
• Tang Shiba threw food at Tang Xuan, then calmly agreed to go to the Military Camp and thought that Ouyang Xuan would ruin the Tang family if she married into it.

Tang Shiba went to the military camp after Ouyang Xuan fainted before she could apologize, then stirred up gossip about Tang Cheng favoring his niece. Tang Cheng confronted her and overheard her warning that Ouyang Xuan planned to compromise his eldest son at the Princess's Residence.

• Tang Shiba agreed to apologize to Ouyang Xuan to avoid the military camp, but Ouyang Xuan fainted as soon as she approached.
• Tang Cheng took Tang Shiba to the military camp, where she changed into men's clothes and joined the soldiers' training.
• Tang Shiba told the soldiers that Ouyang Xuan was jealous of her family and savings, and that her parents favored her cousin over her.
• After learning about the rumors, Tang Cheng went to confront Tang Shiba and heard her say Ouyang Xuan intended to compromise his eldest son at the Princess's Residence.

Tang Shiba tricked Tang Cheng into taking her to the Princess's Residence, where he learned that Tang Xuan and Ouyang Xuan had been caught together at the Elder Princess's Flower-Viewing Banquet. Tang Cheng offered to take responsibility by marrying them, but the Elder Princess warned that the marriage would end Tang Xuan's prospects at court, and Tang Cheng vowed to send him to guard the border forever.

• Tang Cheng confronted Tang Shiba for spreading family rumors, but she bit his wrist during an arm-wrestling challenge and won his promise to take her back.
• Tang Shiba asked Tang Cheng to stop at the Princess's Residence, where he heard from departing guests that something had happened to Tang Xuan and Ouyang Xuan.
• Tang Cheng rushed before the Elder Princess and learned that Tang Xuan and Ouyang Xuan had been caught together during her banquet.
• Ouyang Xuan claimed Tang Xuan had dragged her away, while Tang Shiba's thoughts revealed that Ouyang Xuan had arranged the drugging and the witnesses.
• Tang Cheng offered to take responsibility for Ouyang Xuan, but the Elder Princess warned that marrying her would cost Tang Xuan his place in the Imperial Court.
• Tang Cheng promised that Tang Xuan would marry Ouyang Xuan and guard the border for the rest of his life, shocking Tang Xuan.

After Ouyang Xuan agreed to marry Tang Xuan, Tang Shiba discovered that Ouyang Xuan planned to ruin his reputation and helped her family uncover the scheme. The family interrupted Ouyang Xuan’s attempt to visit South Wind House, and Tang Shiba was pulled away just after entering it.

• The Grand Princess ordered Ouyang Xuan and Tang Xuan to marry, leaving Tang Xuan distraught over losing his chance to earn military merit.
• Ouyang Xuan’s system told her to spread the story of the engagement to ruin Tang Xuan’s reputation, while Melon System secretly copied their plans.
• Tang Xuan chose to trust Ouyang Xuan when she claimed her actions were for him and the general's household.
• Tang Shiba left the carriage to follow Ouyang Xuan, and Tang Cheng and Tang Xuan followed as well.
• Tang Shiba’s inner voice revealed that Ouyang Xuan was taking Madam Song to South Wind House, so Tang Cheng stopped them and took everyone home.
• Tang Shiba entered South Wind House, intending to look for Si Wuyu, but someone pulled her back out and asked why she was there so late.

Tang Xuan followed Ouyang Xuan and discovered she had secretly gone out, while Tang Shiba’s inner voice revealed that Ouyang Xuan had spread rumors about him. The next morning, Tang Xuan opened the General’s Residence gate to confront the crowd and was immediately pelted with a rotten egg.

• Tang Shiba threw Tang Xuan over her shoulder outside South Wind House, then left when she remembered Si Wuyu was still missing.
• Back at the residence, Tang Shiba ignored Tang Xuan, then sneaked out over the wall after hearing that Ouyang Xuan had gone out.
• Tang Xuan followed Ouyang Xuan through the back gate to Fragrant Water Residence and realized she had gone out to hire people to spread rumors.
• The next morning, Tang Shiba revealed that rumors about Tang Xuan and his cousin at the eldest princess’s flower-viewing banquet had spread through the capital.
• Tang Xuan ignored Tang Cheng’s warning and opened the gate, where a crowd threw a rotten egg at him.

Tang Shiba arranged for officials to expose the paid troublemakers at the Tang residence, while Tang Xuan and Madam Song continued protecting Ouyang Xuan. Tang Xuan decided to seek a frontier posting, unaware that Ouyang Xuan was looking for a powerful backer so she could break off their marriage and leave him disgraced.

• Tang Xuan returned inside after being hit with an egg, and Tang Shiba’s thoughts revealed that Ouyang Xuan was pretending to be ill and planning to target the Tang family.
• Tang Shiba left to investigate the food, while Tang Xuan learned that his parents had also been unable to speak normally and Tang Cheng refused to report the egg-throwing to the authorities.
• Tang Shiba told Chunjuan what to do, and officials arrived to arrest the people causing trouble after receiving a report that they had been paid.
• Lord Cao said the person who paid the troublemakers belonged to the Tang household, but Tang Xuan took the blame to protect Ouyang Xuan, and the officials left.
• Tang Xuan asked Madam Song to arrange his wedding before he left for the frontier, while Tang Shiba’s thoughts revealed Ouyang Xuan was seeking a powerful backer to escape marrying him.

Tang Shiba took Tang Xuan boating, where her gossip-sharing voice exposed Ouyang Xuan’s plan to stage an attack and rescue Prime Minister Su. After Tang Xuan accidentally disrupted the assassination, he identified Ouyang Xuan’s boat to Prime Minister Su’s men.

• Tang Xuan paid for a luxurious boat trip after Tang Shiba agreed to take him along.
• Tang Shiba’s gossip-sharing voice revealed that Ouyang Xuan had hired an assassin to attack Prime Minister Su and planned to rescue him afterward.
• Tang Shiba threw Tang Xuan onto Prime Minister Su’s boat as the assassin attacked, and Prime Minister Su killed the assassin.
• Prime Minister Su’s men guarded the shore and detained the boaters, while Ouyang Xuan worried that her plan had been exposed.
• Tang Xuan explained that someone had thrown him onto the prime minister’s boat and pointed out Ouyang Xuan’s boat.

Tang Shiba was recognized as the person who saved the prime minister, who offered her a reward, while Ouyang Xuan tried to prevent her from gaining his protection. After Tang Cheng ordered Tang Shiba confined for misleading him about the lake incident, she resisted, still intent on collecting her reward.

• The prime minister realized Ouyang Xuan could not have thrown Tang Xuan, and Tang Xuan corrected himself by pointing to Tang Shiba’s boat.
• Tang Shiba met the prime minister, who concluded she had saved him and asked what reward she wanted, while Ouyang Xuan tried to discredit her.
• Ouyang Xuan deliberately fell into the lake, and Tang Xuan jumped in after her, disrupting the prime minister’s conversation with Tang Shiba.
• Back at the General's Residence, Tang Shiba told Tang Cheng that Ouyang Xuan and Tang Xuan had gone swimming, while her inner thoughts blamed Ouyang Xuan for dragging Tang Xuan into the water.
• After a servant reported what had happened on the lake, Tang Cheng ordered Tang Shiba confined, but she beat the servants sent to escort her and continued enjoying gossip.

Tang Cheng and Madam Song discovered that Xiaocui had been licking Tang Cheng’s cups and food, and Madam Song sent her away after beating her. The next day, Tang Shiba refused to help her family and went to the Chancellor’s Residence, where she unexpectedly thought the prime minister was several months pregnant.

• Tang Cheng vomited after learning Xiaocui had been licking his cups and food, and Madam Song slapped Xiaocui until she confessed.
• Madam Song sent Xiaocui away and kicked Tang Cheng out of their room, while Tang Shiba’s thoughts hinted at more romantic trouble ahead.
• Tang Shiba refused her family’s request to help Tang Xuan, grabbed his ear, and left despite their protests.
• Ouyang Xuan wondered whether her uncle would take the bait for her mission and suspected Tang Shiba would cause trouble.
• Tang Shiba visited the Chancellor’s Residence, where the prime minister greeted her before her thoughts about his pregnancy made him choke.

Susan learned she might be pregnant by Tang Cheng and paid Tang Shiba five hundred taels, while Tang Shiba sabotaged Ouyang Xuan’s plan to frame Tang Cheng by turning the staged rescue into a chaotic street brawl. Tang Cheng escaped the women clinging to him just as his wife arrived, after overhearing Tang Shiba’s teasing thoughts about him.

• Susan asked Tang Shiba how much silver she wanted after hearing she might be pregnant by Tang Cheng, then paid her five hundred taels.
• Tang Shiba learned Ouyang Xuan planned to spread rumors that Tang Cheng kept a mistress and enlisted beggars to publicize a staged encounter at the Good Fortune Teahouse.
• A crowd gathered to watch Tang Cheng, but the staged beatings sparked a street-wide brawl as people competed to become his mistress.
• Women swarmed Tang Cheng, clung to him, and tried to pull off his clothes while Tang Shiba laughed and Ouyang Xuan watched her plan fall apart.
• Tang Shiba announced that Tang Cheng’s wife was approaching with soldiers, and Tang Cheng threw off the women before his wife arrived and heard his daughter’s teasing thoughts.

Madam Song decided to send Ouyang Xuan to the country estate unless she agreed to marry Tang Xuan, while Tang Shiba went to ask the chancellor for an imperial marriage decree. Tang Shiba’s arrival also revealed Ouyang Xuan’s plots and the chancellor’s pregnancy to the Second Prince.

• Madam Song took Tang Cheng home after another scheme involving Ouyang Xuan failed, and Ouyang Xuan lashed out at beggars who called her an evil spirit.
• Tang Shiba learned that Madam Song’s disappointment had risen to fifty percent and Tang Cheng’s to thirty percent, then decided to go find the chancellor.
• Madam Song proposed sending Ouyang Xuan to the country estate, but Tang Cheng suggested asking His Majesty to decree her marriage to Tang Xuan.
• Tang Shiba’s thoughts revealed the chancellor’s pregnancy to Li Xiao, the Second Prince, who confronted the chancellor about it.
• Tang Shiba asked the chancellor to help obtain an imperial marriage decree for her eldest brother.

After the Emperor decreed Ouyang Xuan and Tang Xuan’s marriage and ordered them to the border, Tang Shiba mocked Ouyang Xuan and worried about her missing coachman. She later learned Lord Yang had a personal history with Tang Cheng’s wife, leaving Tang Xuan stunned by his parents’ reactions.

• The Emperor ordered Ouyang Xuan and Tang Xuan to marry within ten days and leave for the border the day after their wedding.
• Tang Shiba teased Ouyang Xuan about the border and warned Tang Xuan that his bride might escape, prompting Ouyang Xuan to faint after he defended Shiba.
• Tang Shiba wondered whether Si Wuyu had been reborn as a noble and decided to find a chance to look inside the palace.
• The system revealed that Ouyang Xuan had used modern knowledge to attract a wastrel whose father, Lord Yang, oversaw the Ministry of Justice and was Tang Cheng’s sworn enemy.
• Tang Shiba inferred that Lord Yang had once loved Tang Cheng’s wife, and Tang Xuan noticed his father’s anger and his mother’s silence.

Tang Shiba discovered Ouyang Xuan and Yang Jinzhou were plotting against the General's Residence, then followed Yang Jinzhou and exposed his nighttime antics to a crowd. The next morning, Ouyang Xuan came to see Tang Shiba, and the system revealed she wanted Tang Shiba to attend a meetup in her place.

• Tang Shiba learned that Ouyang Xuan and Yang Jinzhou might frame the General's Residence for treason and planned to meet the next day.
• Tang Shiba followed Yang Jinzhou to the Yang Residence and watched him sneak outside in his underpants, pretending to sleepwalk.
• A crowd gathered to see Yang Jinzhou, but Tang Shiba left when his servants came out and ran into the furious Tang Xuan.
• Tang Xuan scolded Tang Shiba for staying out late after Chunjuan had feared she was missing.
• The next morning, Ouyang Xuan came to see Tang Shiba, and the system said Ouyang Xuan wanted Tang Shiba to take her place at a meetup.

Tang Shiba discovered Ouyang Xuan’s plan to drug her and catch her with Young Master Yang, then turned the scheme against Ouyang Xuan’s maid Chunmei. The chapter ended with Chunjuan pinning Young Master Yang down as Ouyang Xuan told the gathered crowd that her cousin had been caught secretly meeting a man.

• Tang Shiba agreed to let Ouyang Xuan leave with Chunjuan while she waited at a teahouse with Chunmei.
• Tang Shiba noticed Chunmei secretly pour undissolved drugs into her tea and forced Chunmei to drink it instead.
• Young Master Yang entered the private room, and the drugged Chunmei clung to him and asked him for help.
• Ouyang Xuan and Chunjuan arrived, and Chunjuan attacked Young Master Yang while Tang Shiba urged her on from hiding.
• Ouyang Xuan addressed the crowd and claimed that her cousin had been secretly meeting a man.