Recaps

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu finished filming their adaptation, while Qian Le Le accidentally became the answer to rumors of a ghost in the woods and was cast as Little Lecher. At the farewell banquet, Director Li drunkenly praised Tong Yao before admitting he had initially been horrified when she was cast as the lead.

• Qian Wanyu thanked Director Li for his hard work, and he gave the exhausted crew an early finish and a morning off.
• Qian Le Le went alone into the woods to practice, knocked down three drunken men who harassed her, and continued her forms while they fled in terror.
• Tong Yao endured exhausting night shoots and insect bites as ghost stories about the woods spread through the crew.
• The crew mistook Qian Le Le for the rumored ghost when she emerged from the woods, and Director Li calmed the panicked set before suggesting she play Little Lecher.
• Tong Yao agreed with Director Li that Little Lecher needed a fuller development arc, and Qian Le Le filmed the added scenes as the production wrapped.
• At the farewell banquet, Gan Rui drunkenly called Tong Yao the boss's wife, and Director Li praised Tong Yao before revealing he had initially doubted her casting.

After “Female Lead” became a hit, Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu took Qian Le Le on a trip to Inner Mongolia, where Le Le later revealed she had been accepted into a military school. Back home, Tong Yao was approached with an offer to return to medicine, leaving her to reconsider the career she had left behind.

• Tong Yao, Qian Wanyu, and Qian Le Le watched the premiere of “Female Lead,” while online abuse about Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu resurfaced.
• Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu took Qian Le Le to Inner Mongolia, where Le Le made friends, learned to ride, and won a horse race before the family returned home.
• Qian Le Le confessed that her master had arranged for her to attend a military school, and Qian Wanyu persuaded Tong Yao to let her go.
• “Female Lead” gained attention, and Tong Yao’s identity as a comic artist and her relationship with Qian Wanyu became public; Tong Yao began posting drawings online.
• Gu Ping found Tong Yao and thanked her for saving Gu Ping’s mother, then offered her a doctor’s position at her grandfather’s private hospital.
• Tong Yao accepted Gu Ping’s business card but remained uncertain as she reflected on leaving medicine and the hurt she had experienced at the hospital.

Qian Wanyu encouraged Tong Yao to accept a job offer at a private hospital and return to practicing medicine. Tong Yao called the hospital, taking her first step back into her career.

• Qian Wanyu noticed Tong Yao was distracted and discovered a business card for a private hospital in her coat.
• Qian Wanyu learned the hospital had offered Tong Yao a position after being impressed by her résumé and grateful that she had saved the director's daughter.
• Qian Wanyu reassured Tong Yao that her private life should not affect her medical skills and promised to support her.
• Tong Yao gathered her courage and called the number on the business card.

Ding Ding consumed Mountain Cone’s metal treasures and went on a pillaging spree to gather enough metal-element spiritual power to advance. After reaching the Royal Academy, it began its breakthrough and left Qing Mo and Little Lecher trapped beneath the descending thunderbolt.

• A villager found the Longevity Cauldron amid Mountain Cone’s ruins and carried it home, waking Qing Mo and Little Lecher inside.
• Ding Ding collected metal objects from the villager’s home and nearby towns, while Qing Mo and Little Lecher urged it toward a populated city so it could advance.
• Ding Ding stole weapons from a group of locals who tried to bait and catch it, then raided the Royal Academy’s Arsenal and Metal Element Hall.
• Ding Ding reached the Pharmacy Institute, burped after eating its fill, and announced it was going to find Little Ninth.
• Ding Ding began advancing by enlarging the Longevity Cauldron and opening a hole in the sky, while Qing Mo and Little Lecher were caught beneath the approaching thunderbolt.