Chapter Summaries

Qian Wanyu offered Zhang Yanqing a job at her planned entertainment company and used evidence of Zhang Qian’s misconduct to expose her carefully crafted public image. Zhang Yanqing resigned from Starry Sky Entertainment, while Tong Yao learned that Qian Wanyu had orchestrated the revelations and ended the chapter teasingly focused on her.

• Qian Wanyu offered to help Zhang Yanqing clear his name if he joined her new company, and Zhang Yanqing said he would consider it.
• Qian Wanyu arranged for photographs of Zhang Qian meeting a man at a hotel to be published, leading Zhang Yanqing’s boss to suspect him of retaliation.
• Zhang Yanqing denied causing the revelations, submitted his resignation, and left Starry Sky Entertainment.
• A second wave of disclosures revealed Zhang Qian’s past drug use and time in the Reform-Through-Labor Center, wrecking her innocent public image.
• Tong Yao inferred that Qian Wanyu had arranged the exposés, and Qian Wanyu confirmed that Zhang Qian had framed Zhang Yanqing after he rejected her attempt to lure him into joining her.

Tong Yao saved an elderly woman who was choking, while Qian Wanyu proposed adapting Tong Yao’s comic into a web drama. After Tong Yao enrolled Le Le in kindergarten to make friends, she learned that Le Le had been organizing the children into fights across the school.

• Tong Yao treated an elderly woman whose breathing was blocked by a chicken bone, and a bystander’s video of the rescue went viral after Le Le was recognized.
• Qian Wanyu offered to adapt Tong Yao’s comic into a web drama while preserving its characters and letting Tong Yao approve the cast, but Tong Yao asked her to wait until the company was established.
• Mother Tong gave birth to a boy named Tong Xin, and Tong Yao and Le Le visited them at the hospital.
• Tong Yao persuaded Le Le to attend kindergarten, where Le Le quickly gained her classmates’ loyalty and led them in conflicts with children from other classes.
• Principal Cai showed Tong Yao evidence of Le Le’s schoolwide campaign, and Tong Yao learned that the kindergarten had summoned her over the repeated fights.

Tong Yao learned that Qian Le Le had been caught leading her junior class in bullying the middle and senior classes at kindergarten. She returned to the Café distressed and planned to discuss how to handle the situation with her partner.

• Tong Yao asked Dean Cai to let her discuss the situation with her partner and to keep it from Qian Le Le for now.
• Dean Cai explained that the kindergarten had called Tong Yao in to discuss how to handle Qian Le Le's behavior.
• Tong Yao returned to the Café feeling dejected and buried her head in a cushion.
• Qian Wanyu asked Tong Yao if she had been bullied, but Tong Yao and Qian Le Le had not been victims.
• Tong Yao realized Qian Le Le had joined her junior class in bullying children in the middle and senior classes, and had been caught.

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu dealt with Qian Le Le’s disruptive kindergarten behavior, then sent her to a monastery for three years under the terms of her wager with Qian Wanyu. After Le Le adapted to monastery life and Tong Yao’s comic became successful, the family went to bring her home, while Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu also discussed adapting the comic into a web series.

• Qian Wanyu questioned Qian Le Le about kindergarten, learned that she had deceived her teachers and looked down on the other children, and told her to accept the consequences of their wager.
• After Qian Le Le caused more trouble at kindergarten, Qian Wanyu arranged her withdrawal, and Qian Le Le admitted she had completed the task her mother gave her.
• Qian Le Le chose Qian Wanyu’s arranged path and was sent to a mountain monastery, where Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu watched her settle into its strict routine before leaving her there for three years.
• During those three years, Tong Yao drew comics and Qian Wanyu grew Royal Entertainment Company; Qian Wanyu told Tong Yao that Le Le would return soon and proposed adapting Tong Yao’s comic into a web series, which Tong Yao agreed to star in with her.
• A month later, Tong Yao, Qian Wanyu, Mother Tong, and Tong Xin traveled to the monastery to bring Qian Le Le home.

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu reunited with Qian Le Le after three years apart, then brought her home, where she quickly settled into family life and disciplined training. As Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu prepared their comic’s web drama, Le Le helped push Gan Rui toward a role, and filming began with the couple struggling to act as enemies because they kept looking at each other lovingly.

• Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu met Qian Le Le at the temple and brought her home, while Tong Xin eagerly attached himself to his new big sister.
• Tong Yao discovered that Le Le woke before dawn to practice martial arts, and later took her to visit Qian Wanyu’s company, where Le Le remembered Gan Rui for insulting her mother.
• At the open auditions, Gan Rui was unnerved by Tong Yao and performed poorly, but Tong Yao suggested casting her as Dongfang Lizhu, and Qian Wanyu offered her the role.
• Qian Wanyu persuaded Situ Xu to play Situ Hao, and the family traveled to the filming location when production began in June.
• During the first scene, Gan Rui struggled to stay in character around Tong Yao, then Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu forgot their hostile lines and exchanged affectionate declarations until Director Li called cut.

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.