Recaps

Lu Xiaoxiao was rescued by Ji Yunhuai after Gu Sipei forced her to meet him, while the Original Host asked her not to question Lu Jiaoyue about the encounter. Lu Jiaoyue confronted Gu Sipei, who ultimately agreed to apologize to Lu Xiaoxiao and withdrew the Gu Corporation from the Riverside project.

• Ji Cheng gave Fang Youcheng a revised tender document to swap in and urged him to use it against Ji Yunhuai.
• Lu Xiaoxiao encouraged Yu Sangning to pursue her jewelry ambitions and offered to introduce her to designer Luna Devereaux.
• Gu Sipei had Assistant Lin bring Lu Xiaoxiao to his private room, where a bodyguard forced her to her knees as Gu Sipei questioned her past.
• Ji Yunhuai arrived, freed Lu Xiaoxiao, and threatened to take the Gu Corporation’s Riverside project before escorting her away.
• The Original Host asked Lu Xiaoxiao not to question Lu Jiaoyue about Gu Sipei, and Lu Xiaoxiao agreed to wait for a safe chance to investigate her birth parents.
• Lu Jiaoyue confronted Gu Sipei over how he had treated Lu Xiaoxiao, then told him she hated him and was kissed by him.
• Lu Jiaoyue told Gu Sipei he needed to apologize to Lu Xiaoxiao and correct his wrong, and he agreed to do so.
• After Uncle Sun told Lu Jiaoyue about Gu Sipei’s lonely childhood, Gu Sipei reflected on her sense of right and wrong and messaged Ji Yunhuai that the Gu Corporation was withdrawing from the Riverside project.

Lu Xiaoxiao and Ji Yunhuai faced a hotel intruder and the fallout from Jiang Ci’s mother selling her information, while Lu Xiaoxiao learned the truth about her birth parents and reconciled with the Original Host. The arc ended with Jiang Ci confronting Zhao Chunfang at a casino with Shen Yufeng’s help.

• Ji Cheng sowed suspicion in Ji Wenzhong about Ji Yunhuai’s Riverside project plans, but Fang Youcheng later left Ji Yunhuai’s tender documents untouched despite Ji Cheng’s order to alter them.
• Lu Xiaoxiao traveled to Seacity with the film crew, where Jiang Ci fainted during rehearsal and quietly traded her ocean-view room to Lu Xiaoxiao.
• Jiang Ci received a warning that a man knew Lu Xiaoxiao’s room number, and the crew rushed back to find Lu Xiaoxiao had subdued the intruder.
• The intruder confessed that Jiang Ci’s mother had sold him her schedule and room information, and Ji Yunhuai took Lu Xiaoxiao to his guesthouse after the police cleared her.
• Lu Xiaoxiao helped Ji Yunhuai work through his conflicted feelings about Fang Youcheng, then offered Jiang Ci a path to join Starlight Media and encouraged her to confront Zhao Chunfang with witnesses.
• Lu Xiaoxiao visited Cixin Orphanage, where Du Cixin revealed that her birth parents, Xie Huaisha and Cheng Miyun, had died in a tomb collapse and entrusted Du with her care.
• The Original Host told Lu Xiaoxiao she had broadcast Lu Xiaoxiao’s thoughts to the Lu family to win their affection, then apologized and left after Lu Xiaoxiao forgave her and urged her to stop.
• Jiang Ci met Shen Yufeng at Starlight Media and went with him to a casino, where she confronted Zhao Chunfang at a card table.

Jiang Ci broke with Zhao Chunfang as Lu Xiaoxiao prepared for her acting debut and clashed with Ji Yunhuai over his influence on her audition. Their rift remained unresolved when Ji Yunhuai was summoned to Old Master Ji’s bedside, where doctors said the old man was dying.

• Jiang Ci confronted Zhao Chunfang over selling her information, ended their relationship, and accepted Shen Yufeng’s offer of support at Starlight Media.
• Lu Xiaoxiao invited An Tingxue to move into the Lu family home, pursued an acting transfer, and began preparing to audition for Wen Yao in Graceful.
• Ji Yunhuai and Gu Sipei formed a partnership on the Riverside Project, while Ji Cheng tried to frame Ji Yunhuai and later offered Lu Xiaoxiao money to leave him.
• Lu Xiaoxiao auditioned for Wen Yao and won the role over Tang Ruoning, then learned Ji Yunhuai had asked the director to look out for her and gave the role back.
• Lu Xiaoxiao rebuked Ji Yunhuai for influencing the audition and told him not to contact her until he had reflected, while he realized he owed her a sincere apology.
• An Tingxue helped Lu Xiaoxiao consider how she and Ji Yunhuai approached others differently, and Lu Xiaoxiao resolved to give him a chance to make amends.
• Ji Yunhuai rushed to the Ji Family’s old residence after learning Old Master Ji was dying, and doctors told the family to say goodbye.

After Ji Wenzhong’s death, Lu Xiaoxiao comforts Ji Yunhuai and chooses to stay in his world, while she and her family make peace with the truth about her mind-reading ability. At the funeral, Ji Yunhuai inherits the Ji estate, then learns that Ji Cheng may have caused his grandfather’s death and faces a choice about the evidence against him.

• Ji Yunhuai found Old Master Ji dying, but his grandfather called him “A-Huai,” leaving Ji Yunhuai feeling that his family had never seen him as himself.
• Lu Xiaoxiao found Ji Yunhuai alone in the snow, asked to become his family, and began a relationship with him.
• Lu Xiaoxiao learned from 037 that her real-world body was near death and that returning home was unlikely, but chose to stay in the story and asked for one day to confront her former coworkers.
• Lu Xiaoxiao told her family she was dating Ji Yunhuai and revealed that their ability to hear her thoughts had stopped, then invented a story about an immortal granting and ending that ability.
• Lu Jiaoyue explained how Gu Sipei had apologized and shared her feelings for him, while Lu Xiaoxiao encouraged her to make her own choices.
• At Ji Wenzhong’s funeral, Ji Yunhuai introduced Lu Xiaoxiao as his fiancée, and Uncle Zhong read a will that gave Ji Yunhuai the controlling stake and excluded Ji Cheng.
• Shi Zhiyi gave Ji Yunhuai evidence that Ji Cheng had replaced Old Master Ji’s emergency medication with counterfeit medicine, and Fang Youcheng offered records of his father’s other crimes.
• Fang Youcheng asked Ji Yunhuai to let him and Shi Zhiyi leave peacefully, while Shi Zhiyi waited for Ji Yunhuai’s answer.