Recaps

Lu Xiaoxiao and Ji Yunhuai grew closer as they shared secrets and began openly acknowledging their feelings, while Lu Xiaoxiao helped Lu Shiyan reunite with Yu Sangning. The arc ended with Ji Yunhuai promising to keep pursuing Lu Xiaoxiao, who went upstairs to speak with her second brother after finding Lu Xunli and Chen Xiwan at home.

• Lu Xiaoxiao and Ji Yunhuai traded truths during a dice game, and she drunkenly comforted him before revealing that she believed their world was not real and that she liked him.
• Lu Xiaoxiao confronted Chen Xiwan about her pregnancy and possible deception, while waiting for Ji Yunhuai’s investigation before taking further action.
• Lu Xiaoxiao helped Lu Shiyan meet Yu Sangning at the airport, and the two reconciled and became a couple after he confessed his enduring feelings.
• Cui Anhe tricked Cui Anze and Lu Xiaoxiao into a dinner meeting to push them together, but Cui Anze refused to pursue Lu Xiaoxiao and invited Ji Yunhuai to join them instead.
• At dinner, Jiang Feiwan explained that Fang Youcheng was competing with Ji Yunhuai over a project, while Lu Xiaoxiao supported Ji Yunhuai and teased him about childhood stories and jealousy.
• Before reaching Lu Xiaoxiao’s home, Ji Yunhuai asked whether she sided with him as a friend or because she liked him, and she said both before he kissed the back of her hand and promised to keep pursuing her.
• Lu Xiaoxiao returned home to find Song Zhilan, Lu Xunli, and Chen Xiwan watching television, then went upstairs after Lu Xunli said her second brother wanted to speak with her.

Lu Xiaoxiao uncovered Chen Xiwan’s affair with Chen Haiqing and exposed her scheme to deceive Lu Xunli, while Ji Yunhuai and Lu Xiaoxiao grew closer as she wrestled with the possibility of returning to her original world. The arc ended with Chen Xiwan pleading that she had been coerced, and Lu Xiaoxiao refusing to excuse the harm she had caused.

• Ji Yunhuai confronted Ji Cheng over the Jiang Family project, rejected his demand to hand it to Fang Youcheng, and warned him to stop interfering in his life.
• Lu Xiaoxiao brought Lu Jiaoyue and Lu Shiyan to Wei Yun’s production set, where Wei Yun revised Spirit Abyss Chronicle and cast Jiaoyue and Xiaoxiao as different versions of Xiao Lingyun.
• Ji Yunhuai’s investigator Qian Annie showed Lu Xiaoxiao evidence that Chen Xiwan had an affair with Chen Haiqing, sold Lu Xunli’s gifts, and may have used a pregnancy to deceive him.
• After Chen Xiwan miscarried, Lu Xiaoxiao presented the evidence to Lu Xunli, who apologized to Lu Yubai for suspecting him and agreed to pursue a paternity test.
• Lu Xiaoxiao told Ji Yunhuai she might eventually leave for her original world, and he said he would support her while promising they could see each other whenever she was free.
• Lu Xiaoxiao and Qian Annie confronted Chen Xiwan with evidence of her affair, financial deception, and the paternity test showing Lu Xunli was not the baby’s father.
• Chen Xiwan claimed Chen Haiqing had coerced her and begged to see Lu Xunli, but Lu Xiaoxiao rejected her excuses and said neither she nor Lu Xunli would forgive her.

The Lu family admitted they could hear Lu Xiaoxiao’s thoughts but agreed to keep it secret, while Lu Xiaoxiao supported her siblings and pursued her acting work. As Ji Yunhuai grew closer to her on set, he learned that Ji Cheng was exploiting Cui Anhe’s estrangement from him for his own plans.

• Lu Yuan gathered the family and confirmed that they could hear Lu Xiaoxiao’s thoughts, and everyone agreed to hide the truth from her.
• Lu Xiaoxiao encouraged Lu Jiaoyue to visit Gu Sipei, then entered a strange dark space where she saw a figure resembling herself and later learned from 037 that it might have been a rift in a collapsed world.
• Lu Yubai apologized to Lu Xiaoxiao for resenting her as a child, and Lu Bochen emerged from hiding after An Tingxue tried to reach him.
• Lu Xiaoxiao and Lu Shiyan visited the set of Spirit Abyss Chronicle, where Ji Yunhuai had arranged milk tea for the crew and joined her in costume.
• Lu Xiaoxiao met Jiang Ci and learned from 037 that a stalker had killed the actress in the original plot, so she resolved to prevent any tragedy she could.
• Ji Yunhuai taught Lu Xiaoxiao sword flourishes for her photoshoot, and Lu Shiyan arrived as she playfully held the sword to Ji Yunhuai’s chin.
• Ji Yunhuai told Lu Xiaoxiao that Ji Cheng had invited Cui Anhe over, while Ji Cheng comforted Cui Anhe and privately planned to use her estrangement from Ji Yunhuai.

Lu Xiaoxiao helped Ji Yunhuai repair his relationship with Cui Anhe, confronted problems affecting Jiang Ci, and finally met the Original Host. The Original Host asked her to find her biological parents, while Lu Xiaoxiao kept the search secret and prepared to help Jiang Ci.

• Ji Cheng brought Fang Youcheng to meet Cui Anhe, while Lu Xiaoxiao learned from 037 about Ji Cheng’s deception of Shi Zhiyi and his family.
• Lu Shiyan warned Lu Xiaoxiao about online attacks, then publicly defended her as his chosen family, and Lu Xiaoxiao suspected Chen Xiwan had leaked her adoption certificate.
• Lu Jiaoyue visited Gu Sipei, gave him handmade cuff links, and returned home describing his kindness to Lu Xiaoxiao.
• Lu Xiaoxiao defended Jiang Ci from Zhao Chunfang’s demands on set, then went shooting with Ji Yunhuai and Cui Anhe, where a defective gun exploded in her hands.
• Ji Yunhuai apologized to Cui Anhe and revealed Ji Cheng’s mistreatment of him and his mother, and Cui Anhe forgave him for the day.
• Zhao Chunfang followed Jiang Ci home and pressured her for gambling money, and Jiang Ci transferred part of the debt while saying it would be the last time.
• Lu Xiaoxiao met the Original Host in the dark space, reassured her, and promised to secretly search for her biological parents.
• Lu Xiaoxiao chose to investigate through the orphanage and decided to lend Jiang Ci money after learning her agency contract blocked a direct production advance.