Chapter Summaries

Gao Yuyang planned to return to Weicheng to deal with Gao Zhen, while Qi Jiawang accepted Qi Ji’s explanation for hiding the truth about his mother. At dinner, Yan Wen learned that Qi Ji’s hired assassin was waiting for a chance to strike and considered asking his parents for help.

• At the Gao Family Old Residence, Gao Yuyang told Old Master Gao he would return to Weicheng to find Yan Wen and deal with Gao Zhen.
• At the Wenle Five-Star Hotel, Qi Ji told Qi Jiawang that he had concealed the truth about Huang Ting to protect the Qi Family, and Qi Jiawang accepted his explanation.
• After Qi Jiawang left, Qi Ji called someone and asked why they had not made their move.
• At dinner at the Mu Family Villa, Yan Wen and the others ate crayfish, and Mo Chengzhou peeled meat for Yan Wen.
• Xiao Qi told Yan Wen that Qi Ji’s cautious assassin had not struck because Yan Wen stayed close to Qi Shu Yu, and Yan Wen rejected using Qi Shu Yu as bait.
• Qi Shu Yu brought Yan Wen a drink, while Yan Wen decided to ask Yan Dad and Yan Mom for help catching the assassin.

Yan Wen, Tang Yun, and Gao Yuyang discussed how Gao Zhen might seek revenge, while Yan Wen used Xiao Qi to learn that Gao Zhen was working at a Bar and secretly planning to strike back. After deciding to investigate, Yan Wen reunited with Mo Chengzhou, who embraced him for comfort.

• Yan Wen, Tang Yun, and Gao Yuyang suspected Gao Zhen had been secretly supported by his father and realized he might also want revenge on Yan Wen.
• Xiao Qi told Yan Wen that Gao Jianwei had secretly sent Gao Zhen money, but Gao Zhen was working at a Bar and had no intention of abandoning his revenge plans.
• Gao Yuyang and Tang Yun texted about Gao Zhen’s situation and agreed to gather evidence before telling Gao Jianwei.
• Yan Wen proposed finding Gao Zhen and visiting the Bar, and Tang Yun and Gao Yuyang agreed to wait for more information.
• Yan Wen explained to Xiao Qi that he was pacing the investigation so his knowledge would not seem suspicious, then Mo Chengzhou came in and held him.

Qi Shu Yu and Mu Xu Ye discussed a risky plan to draw their enemies out, and Mu Xu Ye returned early because he was worried about Qi Shu Yu. Yan Wen learned that Gao Zhen would have an accident at a bar that night and planned to go there with Mo Chengzhou and the Mu family members involved.

• Qi Shu Yu agreed to wait for Mu Xu Ye to return before carrying out their plan, and Mu Xu Ye changed his flight to come back the next morning.
• Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou woke up together, dressed in matching outfits, and joined the family for breakfast.
• Mu Xu Ye arrived early and told Qi Shu Yu he had returned because he was worried about him; Qi Shu Yu took him upstairs to rest.
• Yan Wen learned from Xiao Qi that Gao Zhen would have an accident at a bar at ten that night and decided to go look into it.
• Mo Chengzhou offered to accompany Yan Wen, and Mu Xu Ci and Mu Xu Xi agreed that they should go too.

Qi Shu Yu and Mu Xu Ye reunited and spent a quiet morning together before getting up for food. In Old Moon County, Yan Wen said goodbye to his parents as they prepared to move back to Cloud Creek, then joined them and Mo Chengzhou for a farewell meal.

• Qi Shu Yu woke in Mu Xu Ye's arms, and the two talked before Mu Xu Ye pulled him close and asked him to wait a little longer.
• Yan Wen and Su Huilan toured the emptied house, reminiscing about the eight years they had lived there.
• Su Huilan told Yan Wen that she and Yan Lin were moving back to Cloud Creek, and Yan Wen worried about being far from them.
• Yan Lin arrived and told Yan Wen that Mu Xu Ye's family had offered them a nearby villa, but Su Huilan said they still had to leave.
• Yan Wen asked his parents to celebrate his birthday with him, and they promised to try to come and assured him he would still get a present.
• Mo Chengzhou invited Yan Wen, Su Huilan, and Yan Lin to a restaurant, and Yan Wen volunteered to drive.

Yan Wen said goodbye to his adoptive parents as they left Weicheng, then headed with Mo Chengzhou to Evening Breeze Bar to confront Gao Zhen. He planned to expose Gao Zhen’s presence there by leaking the story to influential reporters.

• Yan Wen drove Su Huilan and Yan Lin to the airport, where he promised to visit them in Cloud Creek during his break.
• At the Mu Family Villa, Xie Yunshu ordered Yan Wen a remote-controlled plane to cheer him up, while the family planned to secretly film Gao Zhen at the bar.
• Yan Wen told Xiao Qi that he was sad about his parents leaving but would not let it stop him from dealing with Gao Zhen.
• Yan Wen asked Mo Chengzhou to take him to Evening Breeze Bar and help find influential reporters in Weicheng.
• Yan Wen planned to publicize that Gao Zhen, the Gao family's former heir, was working as a waiter at the bar.

Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou went to Evening Breeze Bar to investigate Gao Zhen and followed him upstairs to a private room. They learned that a man was pressuring Gao Zhen to spend the night with him in exchange for granting him a request, and Gao Zhen left the room to prepare.

• Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou arrived at Evening Breeze Bar, where Yan Wen restrained a man who tried to touch him and Mo Chengzhou called Assistant Xin for backup.
• Xiao Qi helped Yan Wen locate Gao Zhen and identify a man in a black shirt as the other main player.
• Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou joined the black-shirted man's booth and learned that Gao Zhen had been cast out of the Gao Family after offending someone from the Mu Family.
• Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou followed Gao Zhen and the bar manager upstairs after the manager pushed Gao Zhen into a private room.
• Yan Wen used Xiao Qi to see inside the room and learned that the black-shirted man offered Gao Zhen one request in exchange for spending the night with him.
• Gao Zhen said he would prepare a few things, left the room, and headed downstairs without noticing Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou.

Yan Wen arranged a surprise police raid on the Bar, exposing its forced labor and Gao Zhen’s presence in room 218. Gao Zhen was arrested as reporters photographed him, while Yan Wen taunted him.

• Yan Wen learned that the Bar was holding people against their will and asked Xie Yunshu to report it to the police.
• Mo Chengzhou’s assistant brought reporters, and Yan Wen told them to photograph only room 218 during the raid.
• Police arrived and searched the Bar, despite staff trying to warn people upstairs.
• Officers found many people detained upstairs and forced open room 218, where Gao Zhen was staying.
• Reporters photographed Gao Zhen, and Yan Wen mocked him as he was taken into custody.

After the Evening Breeze Bar was shut down, Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou returned to the villa, where they washed up and went to bed together. The chapter also followed Mu Xu Ye caring for an exhausted Qi Shu Yu after their night together.

• The captain thanked Xie Yunshu and the others, and Yan Wen and the group left after the bar's manager was jailed and the victims got their ID cards back.
• Gao Yuyang told Tang Yun that Gao Zhen had brought his troubles on himself by ignoring his eldest uncle's advice.
• Yan Wen fell asleep in the car, and Mo Chengzhou carried him upstairs when they reached the villa.
• Yan Wen woke while Mo Chengzhou showered, then washed up and watched Mo Chengzhou come out in a bathrobe.
• Mo Chengzhou blow-dried Yan Wen's hair, and Yan Wen changed into pajamas and fell asleep in his arms with Xiao Qi on the pillow.
• Mu Xu Ye bathed, dressed, and tucked the exhausted Qi Shu Yu into bed.

Yan Wen and the others planned to lure out the assassin hired by Qi Ji before he could recruit help or obtain a gun. Qi Shu Yu agreed to act as bait, and they chose a secluded wasteland behind the shopping center for the trap tomorrow evening.

• Xie Yunshu brought Yan Wen beef noodles, and Mo Chengzhou woke him and helped him eat.
• Yan Wen learned from Xiao Qi that Qi Ji's assassin was growing desperate and that another assassin might be hired if the first failed.
• Qi Shu Yu proposed using himself as bait, and Mu Xu Ye agreed after Yan Wen asked for his approval.
• Yan Wen rejected sending bodyguards to follow Qi Shu Yu because the assassin might spot them and attack.
• Yan Wen proposed that Qi Shu Yu lure the assassin to a wasteland behind the shopping center while the others waited nearby, and they scheduled the plan for tomorrow evening.

Yan Wen and Qi Shu Yu used an evening shopping trip and a long dinner to lure Black Hawk toward a vacant lot, while Mo Chengzhou and Mu Xu Ye’s mercenaries prepared nearby. After Yan Wen and Qi Shu Yu entered the dark lot, Black Hawk approached, and Yan Wen heard footsteps behind them.

• Yan Wen and Qi Shu Yu spotted Black Hawk watching them in the supermarket, and Qi Shu Yu recognized the masked assassin as a former ninth-ranked Assassin whose real rank was eighteenth.
• Yan Wen and Qi Shu Yu shopped and then spent hours at a slow restaurant, giving Mu Xu Ye’s mercenaries time to hide around the vacant lot.
• Yan Wen invited Mo Chengzhou to join them, and Mo Chengzhou said Mu Xu Ye and Yan Wen’s second brother were nearby to help.
• After leaving the restaurant, Yan Wen claimed he needed a bathroom and led Qi Shu Yu into the vacant lot behind the supermarket.
• Xiao Qi warned Yan Wen that Black Hawk was coming, and Yan Wen picked up a wooden stick after hearing footsteps in the grass behind them.

Yan Wen and his companions captured Black Hawk and lured Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang to the unfinished building. The chapter ended with Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang mistaking the sleeping Black Hawk for Qi Shu Yu, while Xiao Qi recorded them.

• Yan Wen knocked Black Hawk unconscious, searched his belongings, and used his phone to arrange a meeting at the unfinished building.
• Yan Wen gave Black Hawk a Deep-Sleep Pill, and a bodyguard carried him into the building and tied him to a chair.
• Yan Wen sent a message to lure the sender of Black Hawk’s orders to the building, then waited there with Mo Chengzhou, Mu Xu Ye, and Qi Shu Yu.
• Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang arrived, and Yan Wen and the others hid nearby as the two men approached Black Hawk.
• Qi Jiawang mistook Black Hawk for Qi Shu Yu, and Xiao Qi revealed that he had started recording.

Yan Wen and Mu Xu Ye’s group exposed Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang’s murder plot after they killed Black Hawk instead of Qi Shu Yu, and the police arrested them. At the station, Qi Shu Yu learned he could formally sever ties with his father and messaged Bai Yuezhen about what Qi Ji had done.

• Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang planned to kill Qi Shu Yu and have Qi Jiawang take his identity, but Qi Jiawang stabbed Black Hawk, the assassin they had mistaken for Shu Yu.
• Mu Xu Ye’s bodyguards surrounded Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang as Yan Wen and Qi Shu Yu revealed themselves and confronted them.
• Qi Shu Yu condemned his father and brother, and Yan Wen pointed out that Qi Jiawang’s fingerprints were on the murder weapon.
• Xiao Qi’s call brought the police, who arrested Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang and took Yan Wen, Qi Shu Yu, and the others to the station for questioning.
• Yan Wen handed the police a recording of the crime, and Qi Shu Yu messaged Bai Yuezhen after learning that a father and son could formally sever their relationship.

After Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang confessed, Yan Wen arranged to help Qi Shu Yu obtain a Severance Agreement. At the Gao residence, Old Master Gao severed ties with Gao Jianwei’s family, while Gao Yuyang prepared to visit Yan Wen and bring him a gift.

• The police confirmed the evidence against Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang, who confessed, and Yan Wen messaged Qi Shu Yu about getting a Severance Agreement for Qi Ji to sign.
• Old Master Gao confronted Gao Jianwei, who admitted paying to keep Gao Zhen out of prison and agreed to sever his family’s ties with the Gao Family.
• Old Master Gao cut ties with Gao Jianwei’s family and reclaimed half of the shares he had given them.
• Gao Yuyang told Old Master Gao that Yan Wen had helped them and invited him to visit, so Old Master Gao chose a wooden sword as a gift.
• Gao Yuyang arranged to visit Yan Wen the next afternoon, and Yan Wen encouraged him to take the initiative with Senior Schoolmate Li.

Yan Wen helped Qi Shu Yu sever ties with Qi Ji, who was sentenced to prison for hiring a murder, while Qi Shu Yu and Yan Wen prepared to celebrate with friends. The chapter left Yan Wen surprised when Mu Xu Ye sent him two million as thanks for protecting Qi Shu Yu.

• Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou planned to have matching rings made, and Mo Chengzhou showed affection for Yan Wen.
• Mu Xingfeng brought back Qi Shu Yu’s agreement to sever ties, and Qi Shu Yu handed it to Qi Ji at the police station.
• Qi Ji signed the agreement, and he and Qi Jiawang were sentenced to twenty years and life imprisonment respectively for their crimes.
• Huang Ting visited Qi Ji and Qi Jiawang in prison and left homemade dumplings for Qi Jiawang.
• Xie Yunshu suggested a celebration, and Yan Wen went with Gao Yuyang, Tang Yun, and Mu Xu Ci to buy cold dishes.
• Mo Chengzhou and Mu Xu Ye agreed to partner on new energy vehicle components, and Mu Xu Ye sent Yan Wen two million as thanks for protecting Qi Shu Yu.

Yan Wen joined the family dinner and insisted on drinking beer despite disliking its taste. He eventually fell asleep while washing his feet, and Mo Chengzhou carried him to bed.

• Mu Xingfeng toasted with Mu Xu Ye, Qi Shu Yu, and Mu Xu Ci while Yan Wen invited Mo Chengzhou, Tang Yun, and Gao Yuyang to drink beer.
• Yan Wen drank beer despite finding it unpleasant, and Mo Chengzhou kept serving him food and drinking alongside him.
• The meal continued until late, and Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou went upstairs to their room after saying goodnight to the others.
• Yan Wen became unsteady after finishing his beer, and Mo Chengzhou helped him brush his teeth, wash his face, and use the toilet.
• Yan Wen fell asleep bent over his legs with his hands in the foot basin, so Mo Chengzhou carried him to bed and held him as they slept.

Mo Chengzhou took Yan Wen shopping after buying him strawberries, and they talked about Mo Chengzhou’s difficult rise in the company. Yan Wen remembered the relative who had caused Mo Chengzhou’s near-fatal accident and intended to confront him when he visited the Mo Family.

• Mo Chengzhou drove Tang Yun and Gao Yuyang to school, then bought strawberries for Yan Wen on the way home.
• Yan Wen thanked Mo Chengzhou with a kiss and ate strawberries with him before deciding they should go shopping.
• Mo Chengzhou explained that company evaluations and scrutiny from the old guard had made taking control of the company difficult.
• Yan Wen recalled Xiao Qi’s account of the relative who orchestrated Mo Chengzhou’s near-fatal accident and planned to meet that relative at the Mo Family home.
• Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou set off to buy toiletries and a recliner, though Yan Wen objected to the recliner suggestion.

Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou visited a craft workshop and made a pair of silver rings together. They returned home with the engraved rings, which Yan Wen saved to put on later.

• Mu Xu Ye told Mu Xingfeng and Xie Yunshu that he and Qi Shu Yu were leaving at noon to visit Aunt Bai.
• Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou drove to a ring shop for their reserved workshop, and Mo Chengzhou chose the most expensive materials.
• An elderly craftsman guided Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou as they shaped and polished their rings.
• Yan Wen engraved Mo inside his ring, while Mo Chengzhou engraved Wen inside his.
• Yan Wen admired the finished rings over dinner but decided to wait until they got home to wear one, then he and Mo Chengzhou drove back.

Yan Wen and Mo Chengzhou exchanged rings at home, affirming that they belonged to each other. After Mo Qingguo invited them to visit Yan Jing and reminded Mo Chengzhou to prepare a meaningful birthday gift for Yan Wen, Mo Chengzhou found inspiration for what to give him.

• Yan Wen presented Mo Chengzhou with a ring and slipped it onto his right ring finger, and Mo Chengzhou solemnly put Yan Wen's ring on his hand.
• Mo Qingguo video-called Mo Chengzhou to check on their relationship, then invited him and Yan Wen to visit Yan Jing.
• Yan Wen told Mo Qingguo they would visit after next month, and Mo Chengzhou explained that Yan Wen's birthday was on the twentieth.
• Mo Qingguo urged Mo Chengzhou to choose a unique, meaningful birthday present, and Mo Chengzhou suddenly realized what he could do.
• Yan Wen admired his ring before falling asleep, and Mo Chengzhou joined him in bed after drying his hair.

Yan Wen's family discussed holding a birthday banquet, and Yan Wen felt sad that Yan Dad and Yan Mom might not be there as they had been in past years. His parents planned to invite them, while Mo Chengzhou kept his birthday present a secret and Tang Yun and Gao Yuyang discussed gifts.

• Mu Xingfeng and Xie Yunshu discussed celebrating Yan Wen's birthday with a banquet and asked what he wanted.
• Yan Wen agreed to let his parents decide, then went to the garden with Mo Chengzhou and admitted he missed having Yan Dad and Yan Mom at his birthday.
• Mu Xingfeng suggested sending a private plane to bring Yan Dad and Yan Mom from Cloud Creek, and Xie Yunshu planned to call Huilan.
• Mo Chengzhou comforted Yan Wen and hinted that his birthday present was a secret.
• At Shengyuan Academy, Tang Yun and Gao Yuyang planned gifts for Yan Wen and discussed inviting their relatives to the banquet.
• In Yan Jing, Mo Qingguo unexpectedly sneezed and wondered if he had caught a chill.

Yan Wen and the Mu family planned his first birthday banquet since he returned home, while Xiao Qi revealed that the Ouyang Family was headed for collapse and the Shen Family would replace it. At the Mo residence, Chu Huaiyu learned that Mo Chengzhou was in Weicheng with his boyfriend, and Mo Qingguo hoped he would accept that his feelings could not be returned.

• Xie Yunshu gathered the Mu family to plan Yan Wen’s birthday banquet, and they discussed guests, food, and decorations.
• Yan Wen reviewed the invitation list and said to invite Shen Yueli and families close to or doing business with the Mu Family.
• Xiao Qi told Yan Wen that the Ouyang Family would fall in two years and that Shen Yueli’s family would become one of the Four Great Families.
• Mo Qingguo received Chu Xiao, Qian Anli, and Chu Huaiyu at the Mo residence to discuss business.
• Chu Huaiyu asked why Mo Chengzhou was absent, and Mo Qingguo explained that he was in Weicheng with his boyfriend.
• Mo Qingguo reflected that Mo Chengzhou was happy with Yan Wen and hoped Chu Huaiyu would accept that his feelings were unrequited.