Chapter Summaries

Lu Bochen punished himself for pushing Lu Jiaoyue and worried that he might never become normal. Song Zhilan and Lu Yuan’s renewed closeness ended after Lu Yuan mistook her affection for an attempt to secure help for her nephew’s company, leaving them estranged again the next morning.

• Lu Bochen cut his arm to punish himself for pushing Lu Jiaoyue, then bandaged the wound and hid his scars.
• Lu Xiaoxiao came downstairs and found Song Zhilan upset while Lu Yuan left without eating breakfast.
• Song Zhilan recalled that Lu Yuan had misread her attempt to reconcile as a ploy to help her nephew’s company.
• Song Zhilan had once stood by Lu Yuan after her family refused to help the struggling Lu Corporation, but she had never told him she had asked them for support.
• Lu Yuan’s suspicion hurt Song Zhilan, so she pulled away from him and went to sleep facing away.

Song Zhilan sought Lu Xiaoxiao’s advice about her unspoken feelings for Lu Yuan and decided to talk to him. Meanwhile, Lu Xiaoxiao planned for Lu Yubai’s birthday plot event, and Lu Yubai left for his party with Lu Jiaoyue while excluding Lu Xiaoxiao.

• Lu Xunli noticed Song Zhilan was upset but left with Lu Yuan without questioning her.
• Song Zhilan disguised her marital disagreement as a friend’s problem and asked Lu Xiaoxiao for advice.
• Lu Xiaoxiao told Song Zhilan that loving spouses should speak openly, and Song Zhilan decided to talk to Lu Yuan.
• The system reminded Lu Xiaoxiao that Lu Yubai’s birthday party was two days away and that she would need a present and a disguise to get in.
• Lu Yubai went to his karaoke-club birthday party with Lu Jiaoyue and left Lu Xiaoxiao behind.

Lu Xiaoxiao disguised herself to attend Lu Yubai’s birthday party and planned to get Lu Jiaoyue upstairs so she could meet Gu Sipei. She found Lu Jiaoyue at the bar, where Qi Yin was asking about Lu Yubai, and Lu Jiaoyue began searching for her sister.

• Lu Xiaoxiao learned that Lu Yubai’s party was in private room A5 and spotted Gu Sipei heading to the sixth floor.
• Lu Xiaoxiao decided to make Lu Jiaoyue feel dizzy and feverish so staff would take her upstairs.
• Lu Xiaoxiao entered the crowded party disguised as a classmate and turned down several people who tried to flirt with her.
• Lu Xiaoxiao found Lu Jiaoyue talking with Qi Yin, who asked what Lu Yubai usually liked.
• Lu Jiaoyue heard Lu Xiaoxiao’s thoughts, realized Qi Yin liked Lu Yubai, and looked around for her sister.

Lu Xiaoxiao disguised herself to test Lu Jiaoyue’s opinion of her, while Lu Jiaoyue recognized her through her thoughts and defended her with unwavering loyalty. Lu Xiaoxiao gave up on the conversation and urged Lu Jiaoyue to drink the juice so she could get her to the sixth floor.

• Lu Jiaoyue searched the banquet for Lu Xiaoxiao and told Qi Yin she did not know what Lu Yubai liked, prompting Qi Yin to leave in annoyance.
• A disguised Lu Xiaoxiao sat beside Lu Jiaoyue, who recognized her from her inner thoughts despite her changed voice and appearance.
• Lu Xiaoxiao criticized Lu Jiaoyue’s older sister to test her, and Lu Jiaoyue passionately praised and defended Lu Xiaoxiao.
• Lu Xiaoxiao abandoned the test and urged Lu Jiaoyue to drink the juice before taking her to the sixth floor.

Lu Xiaoxiao drugged Lu Jiaoyue’s juice and left her in a lounge, intending to set up a meeting with Gu Sipei. Afterward, she ran into Ji Yunhuai in the corridor and claimed she was working part-time at Phantom.

• Lu Jiaoyue drank the drugged juice and pretended to be too dizzy to walk, enjoying the chance to cling to Lu Xiaoxiao.
• Lu Xiaoxiao took Lu Jiaoyue to the sixth floor and left her in lounge eight, despite being warned that it belonged to Gu Sipei.
• Lu Xiaoxiao checked with the system that nothing would happen between Lu Jiaoyue and Gu Sipei yet, then removed her makeup and prepared to leave.
• Lu Xiaoxiao turned a corner and collided with Ji Yunhuai, who recognized her and asked why she was at Phantom instead of cleaning toilets.
• Lu Xiaoxiao accepted Ji Yunhuai’s suggestion that she was working part-time at Phantom.

Ji Yunhuai brought Lu Xiaoxiao to a private room at Phantom, where she hoped to earn tips by serving him. He gave her a one-yuan coin, and she learned that he survived to the end of the original novel.

• Ji Yunhuai invited Lu Xiaoxiao for drinks and led her to a private room, while she followed because she feared offending him.
• Lu Xiaoxiao watched Young Master Lei throw money to women who praised his singing and decided she wanted tips too.
• Red Hair and Diamond Studs teased Ji Yunhuai for bringing Lu Xiaoxiao, and he called her an old acquaintance who could broaden her horizons.
• Lu Xiaoxiao poured Ji Yunhuai wine and waited for a tip, but he gave her a one-yuan coin.
• Lu Xiaoxiao asked the system when Ji Yunhuai died in the original novel, and the system told her he survived through the ending.

Lu Xiaoxiao defied Ji Yunhuai, sang for his companions, and injured her knee before he carried her to a lounge. There, Ji Yunhuai asked why she had brought the Lu family's daughter into Gu Sipei's private lounge and whether she feared Gu Sipei would retaliate.

• Lu Xiaoxiao poured most of the wine back into the bottle, and Ji Yunhuai let her get away with it while agreeing that Young Master Lei could compete with his father, Ji Cheng, for land.
• At Ji Yunhuai's urging, Lu Xiaoxiao sang “My Motherland and I,” leaving the room stunned; Ji Yunhuai told her not to sing again.
• Lu Xiaoxiao slipped and hurt her knee, so Ji Yunhuai ended the gathering and carried her out over his shoulder.
• In the lounge, Ji Yunhuai tossed Lu Xiaoxiao a first-aid kit and asked why she had brought the Lu family's daughter into Gu Sipei's private lounge.

Ji Yunhuai exposed Lu Xiaoxiao as the Lu Family’s adopted daughter after catching her pretending to work at Phantom. He offered to keep her secrets in exchange for her help, leaving Lu Xiaoxiao furious that her entertaining antics had gotten her into trouble.

• Lu Xiaoxiao worried that Ji Yunhuai had caught her trying to interfere with Lu Jiaoyue and pretended she had not known Gu Sipei’s lounge was private.
• Ji Yunhuai revealed he owned Phantom and confronted Lu Xiaoxiao about her conflicting claims of working at a restaurant and at the club.
• Ji Yunhuai identified Lu Xiaoxiao as the Lu Family’s adopted daughter, and she admitted who she was while bracing for punishment.
• Ji Yunhuai said he would keep her actions secret if she agreed to help him when called, threatening to tell the Lu Family if she refused.
• Ji Yunhuai explained that he wanted her company for outings or events because he found her particularly entertaining, and Lu Xiaoxiao inwardly cursed her bad luck.

Lu Xiaoxiao left Ji Yunhuai after he gave her shoes for her injured foot, while Gu Sipei secured a business deal and advanced his plan against Gu Sijing. He returned to his private lounge to rest and discovered Lu Jiaoyue had mistaken him for her sister.

• Lu Xiaoxiao exchanged contact details with Ji Yunhuai, accepted his flat shoes, and left for the Lu Family home.
• Gu Sipei finalized an overseas investment deal with a seventy-thirty profit split and used Gu Sijing's planted spy to feed him misleading information.
• Assistant Lin left Gu Sipei alone in his private lounge so he could sleep after an exhausting day.
• Gu Sipei entered the bedroom without noticing Lu Jiaoyue was in his bed, and she pulled him close while calling him her sister.
• Gu Sipei turned on the bedside lamp and recognized Lu Jiaoyue.

Gu Sipei woke Lu Jiaoyue and questioned why she was in his bed, suspecting at first that she had been part of a scheme. Lu Jiaoyue explained she had come to rest after drinking at her younger brother’s birthday party and believed Gu Sipei might be the destined partner she had been told to meet; he dismissed the idea and told her to leave.

• Gu Sipei caught Lu Jiaoyue’s wandering hand and shook her awake, then asked why she was sleeping beside him.
• Lu Jiaoyue recognized Gu Sipei as the man her sister wanted her to meet and asked him to introduce himself.
• Gu Sipei suspected Lu Jiaoyue had deliberately arranged to get close to him and asked who had sent her.
• Lu Jiaoyue said she had come to her younger brother’s birthday party, gotten dizzy after drinking, and been sent upstairs to rest; she added that someone had predicted she would meet her destined partner that day.
• Gu Sipei lowered his suspicions but said he did not believe in divination, would not hold the incident against her, and told her to return to where she belonged.

After Lu Jiaoyue left Gu Sipei’s lounge, Lu Yubai found her and warned her to stay away from him, while she encouraged him to scratch off anonymous lottery tickets from his gifts. Gu Sipei later learned that the lounge’s surveillance footage was unavailable and decided his encounter with Lu Jiaoyue had probably been a coincidence.

• Lu Jiaoyue called Lu Yubai after noticing his missed calls, and he hurried to find her on the sixth floor.
• Lu Yubai learned that Lu Jiaoyue had met Gu Sipei and warned her that their father had told him to avoid Gu Sipei.
• Lu Yubai told Lu Jiaoyue about the anonymous Scratch-Off Tickets, and she urged him to scratch them; he won fifty thousand yuan.
• Lu Xiaoxiao sneezed at home and suspected Ji Yunhuai was thinking about her.
• Gu Sipei requested the surveillance footage from Lounge 8, but staff said the system had been under maintenance, so he dismissed his suspicions about Lu Jiaoyue.

Late at night, Lu Xiaoxiao chatted with System 037 and learned that the original Lu Xiaoxiao had died before she transmigrated. 037 explained why systems sent hosts to keep collapsing story-worlds alive, then hinted that Lu Xiaoxiao had been chosen because she and the original shared the same pain.

• Lu Xiaoxiao asked the system whether it had a name, and it revealed its designation was 037.
• Lu Xiaoxiao questioned whether 037 was human and asked what happened to the original owner; 037 explained that the original Lu Xiaoxiao had died from taking sleeping pills before the transmigration.
• 037 explained that story-worlds could collapse when unfinished plots unraveled or important characters died, and that systems used transmigrators to sustain them by advancing their stories.
• Lu Xiaoxiao challenged the need to follow the original plot, and 037 said that sticking to its key events was the safest way to complete the mission.
• Lu Xiaoxiao asked why 037 had chosen her, and 037 answered that she and the original Lu Xiaoxiao shared the same pain before Lu Xiaoxiao fell asleep.

Lu Shiyan returned home and invited Lu Xiaoxiao to join him on a desert-island survival variety show, but she assumed the spot was meant for Lu Jiaoyue. Her family persuaded her to accept, and she realized Lu Shiyan had intended to take her all along.

• Lu Xiaoxiao met her handsome second brother, Lu Shiyan, when he arrived for dinner and privately admired his looks.
• Lu Shiyan invited Lu Xiaoxiao to join him on a variety show, but she declined and suggested he take Lu Jiaoyue instead.
• Lu Shiyan heard Lu Xiaoxiao's thoughts and realized she believed the opportunity would go to Lu Jiaoyue, though he had chosen Lu Xiaoxiao before Lu Jiaoyue joined the family.
• Lu Yubai encouraged Lu Shiyan to take Lu Jiaoyue, prompting Lu Yuan to reprimand him and Song Zhilan to worry that Lu Xiaoxiao felt unworthy of good opportunities.
• Lu Shiyan, Song Zhilan, and Lu Jiaoyue urged Lu Xiaoxiao to go, and Lu Shiyan reassured her that he had already promised the director he would bring her.

Lu Xiaoxiao tried to stage a fall so the Lu family would blame Lu Jiaoyue and give Jiaoyue her spot on a variety show, but the family’s response left Lu Yuan questioning how Xiaoxiao knew about their hidden cameras. The chapter ended with Jiaoyue crying and insisting she had not meant to hurt her sister.

• Lu Jiaoyue told Lu Xiaoxiao that Lu Yubai had won fifty thousand yuan on the Scratch-Off Tickets Xiaoxiao had given him, making Xiaoxiao secretly jealous.
• Lu Jiaoyue happily chatted with Lu Xiaoxiao as they went upstairs, sharing that she had entered the same university and met Mr. Gu.
• At the top of the stairs, Lu Xiaoxiao asked Lu Jiaoyue to fix her hair clip, then deliberately fell down the stairs.
• Lu Xiaoxiao pretended to be injured and told the family not to blame Lu Jiaoyue, while secretly hoping they would check the surveillance and give Jiaoyue her variety-show spot.
• Lu Yuan heard Lu Xiaoxiao’s thoughts about the hidden cameras and wondered how she knew they were there.
• Lu Jiaoyue rushed to apologize, crying that she had not meant to hurt Lu Xiaoxiao.

Lu Xiaoxiao staged a fall to give Lu Jiaoyue a chance to join a variety show, but Jiaoyue mistakenly believed Xiaoxiao had sacrificed herself for her and confessed to pushing her. Lu Yuan dismissed the incident, leaving Xiaoxiao wondering why her scheme had failed to convince anyone.

• Lu Jiaoyue cried, apologized for pushing Lu Xiaoxiao, and resolved to protect her from being blamed after hearing Xiaoxiao's thoughts.
• Lu Yubai comforted Jiaoyue and told Xiaoxiao to get up and walk, then learned from Xiaoxiao's thoughts that she had given him birthday scratch cards.
• Lu Yuan and Song Zhilan struggled to reconcile the girls' words and thoughts without revealing their mind-reading ability.
• Lu Yuan warned the siblings to be more careful, sent Xiaoxiao to rest, and asked Lu Shiyan to take her to her room.
• Lu Xiaoxiao questioned why Lu Yuan and Lu Shiyan had not seen through her act and wondered whether she was unsuited to be a villain.

Lu Shiyan offered to bring both Lu Xiaoxiao and Lu Jiaoyue on the variety show, and Lu Xiaoxiao agreed after the system confirmed the change was safe. The next day, Lu Yubai called and reluctantly asked Lu Xiaoxiao to come to his school because a teacher wanted to meet with a parent.

• Lu Shiyan offered to arrange an extra variety-show slot for Lu Jiaoyue and Lu Xiaoxiao, while keeping his Lu Family identity private on the show.
• Lu Xiaoxiao agreed to Lu Shiyan's plan after the system assured her the plot change would have no negative effects.
• Lu Shiyan tucked Lu Xiaoxiao into bed and became eager to film the variety show with her.
• Lu Xiaoxiao woke at noon and learned that the rest of the Lu Family was away.
• Lu Yubai called the villa, asked Lu Xiaoxiao for Lu Jiaoyue, then pleaded with Lu Xiaoxiao to come to his school for a meeting with a teacher.

Lu Xiaoxiao went to Lu Yubai’s school after he begged for her help and learned that classmates had locked Fan Chiran in a sports equipment room, leaving him hospitalized. Lu Yubai denied doing it, but two boys accused him of ordering the bullying.

• Lu Yubai asked Lu Xiaoxiao to come to his school, and she made him call her “sis” before agreeing to help.
• Lu Xiaoxiao arrived at Teacher Zhu’s office, where parents and students had gathered over the bullying incident.
• Teacher Zhu explained that Fan Chiran had been trapped in the sports equipment room for over four hours and had gone into shock from severe gastric bleeding.
• Lu Xiaoxiao asked Lu Yubai how he was involved, and he denied locking Fan Chiran up.
• A buzz-cut boy and another student claimed Lu Yubai had suspected Fan Chiran of stealing his belongings and had asked them to teach him a lesson.

Lu Xiaoxiao defended Lu Yubai as the other boys’ mothers tried to shift responsibility for Fan Chiran’s confinement and medical emergency. She challenged Haoxin’s mother to apply her own demand for fairness to the situation.

• Lu Yubai denied telling his friends to lock up Fan Chiran, but the buzz-cut and curly-haired boys blamed him.
• The curly-haired boy’s mother and the buzz-cut boy’s mother argued that their sons had acted under Lu Yubai’s influence and should receive lenient treatment.
• Lu Xiaoxiao pointed out that the boys were old enough to understand right and wrong, while the short boy’s mother offered to help pay Fan Chiran’s medical expenses.
• The curly-haired boy’s mother disputed responsibility for Fan Chiran’s condition, and Haoxin’s mother blamed the school’s supervision and tried to end the discussion.
• Lu Xiaoxiao reminded Haoxin’s mother that she had demanded fairness through finding the root cause of the incident.

Lu Xiaoxiao challenged the boys who had blamed Fan Chiran for Lu Yubai’s missing scratch-off ticket and suspected the buzz-cut boy had stolen it. A search of the classroom found nothing, leaving the buzz-cut boy confident that his theft would stay hidden.

• Lu Yubai revealed that he had lost a scratch-off ticket worth fifty thousand yuan, and Teacher Zhu was shocked he had not reported it.
• Lu Xiaoxiao asked the boys whether they had recovered the ticket from Fan Chiran and warned that theft could bring police involvement.
• The buzz-cut boy privately recalled stealing the ticket to buy a game console and hiding it outside the classroom.
• Lu Xiaoxiao proposed searching the classroom, and the buzz-cut boy agreed, believing the ticket was safely hidden elsewhere.
• Teacher Zhu led a search of the students’ desks, bags, and belongings, but the ticket was not found, and the buzz-cut boy suggested Fan Chiran had hidden it.

Qi Yin revealed that Jiang Haoxin had hidden Lu Yubai’s Scratch-Off Tickets, confirming Lu Xiaoxiao’s suspicion and exposing Jiang Haoxin’s theft. Teacher Zhu warned that Jiang Haoxin could face severe discipline or expulsion, and his mother begged Lu Yubai to forgive him.

• Qi Yin testified that she had seen Jiang Haoxin hide something near the sports field, and Jiang Haoxin accused her of taking Lu Yubai’s side.
• Qi Yin led Teacher Zhu and the others to a loose brick and retrieved the Scratch-Off Tickets, which Lu Yubai confirmed were his.
• Jiang Haoxin’s mother slapped him and admitted he was in the wrong after the stolen tickets were found.
• Teacher Zhu cited Jiang Haoxin’s theft and his role in bullying Fan Chiran, warning that he could face severe discipline or expulsion.
• Jiang Haoxin’s mother pleaded with Lu Yubai to tell Teacher Zhu that he forgave Jiang Haoxin.