Recaps

Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen cooked together, shared meals, and spent two days enjoying the village before leaving. Lin Jingchen continued hiding the truth about Bai Chen’s life and memories, while Bai Chen trusted him without question.

• Bai Chen offered to cook for Lin Jingchen, and Lin Jingchen plucked the chicken while Bai Chen took his medicine.
• Bai Chen made chicken with mushrooms and vegetable soup, and Lin Jingchen praised the food as they ate together.
• Lin Jingchen lay awake, wanting to tell Bai Chen the truth but deciding to keep it hidden; Bai Chen slept soundly.
• The next morning, Lin Jingchen made stir-fried noodles, and Bai Chen embarrassed himself with a remark that sounded suggestive before admitting Lin Jingchen’s earlier porridge had been bad.
• Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen spent the day browsing the market, enjoying the scenery, and cooking, then left after staying for two days.
• Bai Chen asked why they had come to the village, and Lin Jingchen said Bai Chen had developed a fever and forgotten; Bai Chen believed him.

Bai Chen encountered Ajike at the village gate and tried to learn who he had come to Miaojiang to find, but Lin Jingchen stopped her from revealing the name. Ajike suspected Bai Chen had lost his memories because someone had poisoned him with a rare Gu Poison controlled by the High Priest.

• Ajike arrived at the village gate with a group of young people and recognized Bai Chen, who did not remember her.
• Ajike began to tell Bai Chen about the girl he had come to find, but Lin Jingchen warned her to stop.
• Lin Jingchen claimed that he had been looking for someone and told Bai Chen that the person was not in the village.
• Bai Chen wondered whether the person Lin Jingchen sought was important to him and felt jealous, while Lin Jingchen reassured him that someone else mattered more.
• Ajike decided not to reveal the girl's identity and suspected that a rare Gu Poison had caused Bai Chen's memory loss.

Ajike helped Bai Chen maintain the lie about the girl in Mu Village and lent him a motorcycle so he and Lin Jingchen could travel down the mountain. After delivering the bike to a milk tea shop, Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen received hot drinks from its owner before setting off.

• Ajike claimed there was no girl like the one Bai Chen sought and offered him her motorcycle for the trip to Town.
• Bai Chen checked that Lin Jingchen was comfortable riding with him, then accepted Ajike's bike and its key.
• After Ajike left, Lin Jingchen climbed on behind Bai Chen and wrapped his arms around his waist.
• Bai Chen rode Lin Jingchen down the forest path, reflecting on how he had once learned to ride for Fang Ye and how Lin Jingchen treated him kindly.
• Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen reached the milk tea shop, returned Ajike's motorcycle to its owner, and accepted two cups of hot milk tea.

Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen visited a local restaurant in Miaojiang before heading to the station, where a girl asked for their WeChat. Bai Chen refused by saying he already liked someone and that the person would get jealous, leaving the girl to hurry back to her friends.

• A milk tea shop owner gave Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen drinks, and the shop later received a payment notification after they left.
• Bai Chen took Lin Jingchen to a crowded local restaurant to try Miaojiang specialties, including oil tea.
• A group of young women admired Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen and debated asking them for their WeChat.
• One girl approached the pair, but Lin Jingchen politely refused to give his contact details to a stranger.
• Bai Chen also refused, saying he already liked someone and that he would get jealous, so the girl returned to her friends in embarrassment.

Bai Chen admitted that he planned to confess his feelings to the person he liked, while Lin Jingchen encouraged him without revealing that he knew. They shared a meal of Miaojiang specialties, and Bai Chen urged Lin Jingchen to eat more at lunch.

• Lin Jingchen asked Bai Chen whether he liked someone, and Bai Chen said he did and planned to confess when the right moment came.
• Lin Jingchen told Bai Chen that any day he chose would be the right time to confess.
• A server introduced the Miaojiang dishes Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen had ordered, including three-color rice, Miao King Fish, and Cotton-Grass Cake.
• Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen tasted the food, and Bai Chen ate three bowls of rice and finished the remaining dishes.
• Lin Jingchen explained that he usually ate little at lunch, and Bai Chen advised him to eat more for the sake of his health.

Bai Chen returned to G University and learned that Gu Yun and Li Xingzhu had gone home because of trouble in Gu Yun’s family. Gu Yun confronted his biological father, Gu Zhengde, and rejected his attempt to bring him into the Gu Family.

• Bai Chen returned to the dorm, gave Lin Sen candy, and learned that Gu Yun and Li Xingzhu had left for home after something urgent happened.
• At the Gu Family residence, Li Xingzhu encouraged Gu Yun not to forgive Gu Cheng or his mother for the injustices against him and his mother.
• Gu Zhengde told Gu Yun that he was his biological father and explained how he had met Gu Yun’s mother and why they had separated.
• Gu Yun accused Gu Zhengde of abandoning his mother and rejected the idea of returning to the Gu Family as an illegitimate son.
• Gu Zhengde gave Gu Yun his phone number, and Gu Yun reluctantly kept the paper while intending to throw it away.

Li Xingzhu told Gu Yun that Sheng Feng wanted to reveal the truth about the crash that killed Gu Yun's mother, so Gu Yun went to visit him in detention. Sheng Feng revealed the crash had been deliberate and sent Gu Yun to retrieve evidence from his house, leaving Gu Yun overwhelmed by rage and grief as Li Xingzhu helped him leave.

• Li Xingzhu told Gu Yun that Sheng Feng wanted to speak to him about the truth behind his mother's death.
• Gu Yun traveled with Li Xingzhu to the detention center and confronted Sheng Feng, the driver who had killed his mother.
• Sheng Feng told Gu Yun that he had evidence of the deliberate crash saved in his phone and hidden in a drawer at his house, and told him to ask his wife for it.
• Li Xingzhu stopped Gu Yun from acting on his rage, and Gu Yun told Sheng Feng he would never forgive him before ending the visit.
• Outside the detention center, Gu Yun struggled to breathe and nearly collapsed, so Li Xingzhu supported him and led him forward.

Gu Yun and Li Xingzhu retrieved Sheng Feng’s old phone from his family, hoping it held the truth about Gu Yun’s mother’s death. Gu Yun left without blaming Sheng Feng’s innocent daughter, then returned with Li Xingzhu to the house where he had once lived with his mother.

• Li Xingzhu told Sheng Feng’s wife that Sheng Feng had sent them to retrieve his phone, and Gu Yun said there was more to what happened back then.
• Sheng Feng’s young daughter approached Gu Yun, who spoke coldly to her before deciding not to take his anger out on a child.
• Sheng Feng’s wife gave Gu Yun the phone and pleaded with him not to blame her daughter; Gu Yun said whoever did it should pay.
• After Gu Yun and Li Xingzhu left, Sheng Feng’s wife told her daughter that her father might never come home and recalled the debt, the accident, and her years of guilt.
• Gu Yun gripped the phone, which he believed held the truth about his mother’s death, and went with Li Xingzhu to his childhood home.

Gu Yun returned to his mother’s house with Li Xingzhu, offered incense and spirit money, and cried as he told her he had evidence against the man who wronged her. The rest of the chapter was an author’s note explaining Bai Chen’s forgotten memories and his connection with Lin Jingchen.

• Li Xingzhu recalled meeting Gu Yun as a child after Gu Yun rescued him from a cellar, and how they became close friends.
• Gu Yun unlocked his mother’s house and lit incense at her altar while Li Xingzhu prepared spirit money.
• Li Xingzhu stepped outside to give Gu Yun privacy, and Gu Yun wept as he spoke to his mother and mentioned evidence stored on a phone.
• The author explained that Bai Chen’s sister made him forget painful memories because of his severe depression, and that Lin Jingchen wanted him to be happier.
• The author said Bai Chen’s memories would return eventually and promised happy endings for the body’s original owner and Bai Xi.

Gu Yun listened to recordings on Sheng Feng’s repaired phone and learned that Miss Xiao had hired Sheng Feng to kill Guan Ci and Gu Yun. The final recording revealed that Guan Ci died protecting Gu Yun, while Sheng Feng kept Gu Yun’s survival secret; Gu Yun was left consumed by grief and murderous anger.

• Gu Yun mourned his mother and told her he distrusted the father who had recently come looking for him.
• Li Xingzhu reminded Gu Yun of their childhood height marks on the poplar, and Gu Yun recalled how they measured themselves there.
• Li Xingzhu repaired Sheng Feng’s old phone, allowing Gu Yun to access its recordings.
• Gu Yun heard Miss Xiao offer to pay Sheng Feng’s debts if he killed Guan Ci and her son, Gu Yun, and Sheng Feng agreed.
• In a later recording, Sheng Feng told Miss Xiao that Guan Ci had died but Gu Yun had survived because Guan Ci pushed him out of danger.
• Sheng Feng promised Miss Xiao he would keep her involvement secret after she threatened his family.

After hearing recordings that revealed the truth about the fire and his family, Gu Yun agreed to return to the Gu Family, leaving his plans unspoken. He and Li Xingzhu cleaned the house and prepared to share a room, while Li Xingzhu reminisced about Gu Yun's childhood scent.

• Li Xingzhu explained how his investigation traced the fire to the eldest daughter of the Xiao Family and uncovered Gu Zhengde's role in Gu Yun's family history.
• Gu Yun called Gu Zhengde and agreed to return to the Gu Family, saying he would visit the day after tomorrow.
• Gu Yun asked Li Xingzhu to share his room, and they cleaned the house together.
• Gu Yun gave Li Xingzhu a childhood pillow, and Li Xingzhu teased him that it still smelled like his floral water.

Gu Yun mourned his mother, Guan Ci, and blamed Miss Xiao and Sheng Feng for her death. While sorting through his childhood clothes, he remembered Guan Ci’s lonely life, the cruel rumors she endured, and her decision to raise him despite the sacrifices it demanded.

• Gu Yun rejected Li Xingzhu’s attempts to cheer him up and focused on finding Miss Xiao, whom he blamed for ordering Sheng Feng to kill Guan Ci.
• Gu Yun sorted and put away his childhood clothes, remembering how often he had been sick and how hard Guan Ci had worked to care for him.
• Gu Yun recalled how townspeople spread cruel rumors about Guan Ci and judged her for raising a child alone.
• Gu Yun remembered that Guan Ci had refused suitors who would not accept him and had centered her life on raising him.
• Gu Yun reflected that Guan Ci had loved Gu Zhengde despite knowing he valued power and wealth more than their relationship.

Gu Yun accompanied Gu Zhengde to a reception, where Gu Zhengde publicly acknowledged him as his son and introduced him to the Gu Family. Back at school, Bai Chen caught up on missed assignments, displayed an inexplicable fighting reflex, and talked with Lin Sen about their studies.

• Gu Yun called Gu Zhengde Dad and followed him to the reception, where Li Xingzhu and the guests watched them arrive.
• Gu Zhengde introduced Gu Yun as his son, while the guests privately suspected he had acknowledged him because Gu Cheng was no longer useful.
• Bai Chen struggled with the assignments sent by his classmate after returning from Mu Village.
• Lin Sen showed Bai Chen his bridge model, and Bai Chen reflexively pinned Lin Sen when he playfully approached him.
• Bai Chen could not explain his sudden fighting reflex, then told Lin Sen that a childhood copy of The Wizard of Oz had sparked his interest in plants.

Bai Chen accepted escape-room tickets from Lin Sen and revealed that the person he liked was a man, though he could not remember why he had previously believed they could never be together. Later, Xiao Muling attacked Gu Yun with a knife, and Li Xingzhu took the blade in his arm to protect him.

• Lin Sen gave Bai Chen escape-room tickets for him and the person he liked, and Bai Chen said he would invite him.
• Bai Chen told Lin Sen that his crush was a man and that he believed the man had feelings for him, but he could not remember why he had said they could never be together.
• After the reception, Xiao Muling charged at Gu Yun with a knife as he walked through the corridor.
• Li Xingzhu blocked the knife with his arm, kicked Xiao Muling down, and reassured Gu Yun despite his injury.
• Gu Zhengde arrived and questioned Xiao Muling, while Gu Yun concealed his hatred and agreed not to blame her.

Gu Yun realized Li Xingzhu had been the person who saved him years ago and confronted him about keeping the truth secret. Li Xingzhu promised to explain everything the next day, while Xiao Zhao arranged a meeting about her childhood betrothal to Li Xingzhu.

• After Gu Zhengde left, Gu Yun took Li Xingzhu upstairs to treat his injured arm.
• Gu Yun recognized Li Xingzhu as the person who had saved him, and Li Xingzhu admitted it by taking off his shirt.
• At the Xiao Family residence, Xiao Zhao arranged with Li Xingzhu's mother to meet him the afternoon after tomorrow about their childhood betrothal.
• While Gu Yun treated Li Xingzhu's arm, he asked whether Li Xingzhu had also arranged for Sheng Feng to speak up, and Li Xingzhu tacitly admitted it.
• Li Xingzhu promised to take Gu Yun to meet someone the next day who could explain the matter and help him.
• Gu Yun asked whether Li Xingzhu knew Bai Chen, but Li Xingzhu said he had met Bai Chen even later than Gu Yun had.

Bai Chen invited Lin Jingchen to a horror escape room, where the two shared a meaningful handhold before the game split them into separate areas. Bai Chen found clues in a dark office, while Lin Jingchen searched a maze with two other players.

• Bai Chen invited Lin Jingchen to the escape room, and Lin Jingchen accepted despite his busy schedule.
• Lin Jingchen met Bai Chen at the venue, and they entered the horror-themed orphanage game with other players.
• Bai Chen held Lin Jingchen's hand under his coat, and Lin Jingchen held his hand in return before staff sent Bai Chen to a solo area.
• A little girl in red asked Bai Chen to sing, but he refused and searched the dark room until he found a light switch.
• Bai Chen examined a group photograph, memorized the names and faces of five children, and found a rusty key behind the frame.
• Lin Jingchen searched a maze with a young man and a young woman, studying the surroundings for clues while the others rested.

Bai Chen escaped his room, helped two frightened players solve theirs, and reunited with Lin Jingchen after both navigated the maze. Together, they solved the final door and won the escape room’s first-place prize.

• Bai Chen used clues from a picture frame and children’s records to unlock his room, then offered to help two girls solve theirs.
• Bai Chen worked out the girls’ room code, warned them about approaching NPCs, and fled when red shoes appeared in the corridor.
• Bai Chen led the girls through the maze as the game of tag began, and they accidentally triggered a trap that dropped them into a net.
• Bai Chen found Lin Jingchen below the trap, and the two explained how they had searched different floors before helping the girls climb down.
• Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen combined their clues to solve the final door, escaped first, and received an escape room strategy guide as their prize.

Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen spent the afternoon riding attractions at the amusement park, where Bai Chen confessed his feelings. Lin Jingchen accepted, and they embraced as a couple, though Bai Chen grew embarrassed by how intimately they were holding each other.

• Lin Jingchen set aside his work to accompany Bai Chen around the amusement park.
• Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen spent four hours riding attractions, including the drop tower and roller coaster.
• Lin Jingchen asked whether Bai Chen's actions in the escape room had been an answer to his feelings.
• Bai Chen confessed that he had fallen for Lin Jingchen and asked if Lin Jingchen would be with him.
• Lin Jingchen accepted happily, and Bai Chen hugged him back before noticing how tightly and intimately they were embracing.

Lin Jingchen brought Bai Chen to the Lin Family Ancestral Home after they spent the day together, openly introducing him as his boyfriend. The two had not eaten yet, so Uncle Chen went to prepare dinner while they waited.

• Lin Jingchen invited Bai Chen to stay at the ancestral home, and Bai Chen agreed.
• Lin Jingchen teased Bai Chen into sitting in the passenger seat, and they agreed that it was Bai Chen’s seat and that Lin Jingchen could ride on the back of his motorcycle.
• Bai Chen fell asleep during the drive, and Lin Jingchen woke him when they arrived at the ancestral home.
• Lin Jingchen led Bai Chen past the guards and introduced him to Uncle Chen as his boyfriend.
• Uncle Chen welcomed Bai Chen and went to prepare dinner for him and Lin Jingchen.

Lin Jingchen insisted on cooking for Bai Chen and had him stay in the Lin Family’s main residence, revealing how seriously he regarded their relationship. After Bai Chen discovered that Lin Jingchen had bought all the pottery he had made at the teahouse, they grew more intimate by choosing new names for each other.

• Lin Jingchen stopped Uncle Chen from taking over the cooking and sent Bai Chen to rest in the main residence.
• Chen Yang showed Bai Chen around the rear courtyard and explained that Lin Jingchen’s grandmother had tended its flower beds.
• Bai Chen admired the room Lin Jingchen had prepared and recognized the pottery he had made at the teahouse, realizing Lin Jingchen had bought it all.
• Lin Jingchen woke Bai Chen for dinner and asked to call him Little Chen instead of Xiao Bai.
• Bai Chen agreed to call Lin Jingchen Jingchen, and Lin Jingchen smiled at their new, more intimate names.

Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen shared a meal after Lin Jingchen explained how his parents’ marriage and his mother’s departure led to years of abuse by his father. Bai Chen promised to stay with Lin Jingchen for life, and they ended the chapter eating Lin Jingchen’s unexpectedly delicious cooking.

• Lin Jingchen gave Bai Chen a warm coat and led him through the place where he had grown up with his grandmother.
• Lin Jingchen told Bai Chen that his mother left with another man on his fifth birthday and that his father later abused him, while his sister arranged for their grandmother to take him in.
• Bai Chen took Lin Jingchen’s hand and promised he would never leave unless Lin Jingchen asked to break up.
• Lin Jingchen served the dishes he had cooked, and Bai Chen found that they tasted delicious.

Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen settled into sharing a room for the night after dinner, and Bai Chen told Lin Sen that he had confessed first and was now taken. The next morning, Bai Chen worried that their difference in height and build might determine their roles in the relationship.

• Lin Jingchen praised Bai Chen's cooking, and Bai Chen offered advice on improving the soup next time.
• Lin Jingchen lent Bai Chen clothes and said he would sleep in the room next door, but Bai Chen agreed to stay in Lin Jingchen's room.
• Bai Chen told Lin Sen that he was officially taken and had confessed first, and Lin Sen asked to meet his boyfriend.
• Bai Chen fell asleep in Lin Jingchen's bed while Lin Jingchen worked late in the room next door.
• The next morning, Bai Chen struggled with ill-fitting clothes and worried after reading online about how height and strength affected relationship roles.

Bai Chen explored the Lin Family Main Residence, admired its flower garden, and learned that Lin Jingchen had tended it himself. Lin Jingchen promised to support Bai Chen if the branch family troubled him, then prepared to deal with the branch family after breakfast.

• Bai Chen visited the flower garden, photographed its flowers, and asked Lin Jingchen about their care.
• Lin Jingchen offered Bai Chen his grandmother’s gardening notebook and showed him around the ancestral home.
• Lin Jingchen warned Bai Chen to stand up to the branch family, and Bai Chen promised not to suppress what he truly wanted.
• Chen Yang reported that the branch family had come to cause trouble again, and Lin Jingchen ordered them to wait quietly in the front hall while he and Bai Chen ate breakfast.

Bai Chen stayed behind while Lin Jingchen went to hear his relatives argue over a disputed plot of land. Lin Jingchen began listening to the competing claims, but the dispute remained unresolved as Lin Sheng angrily confronted An Yan.

• Bai Chen declined to accompany Lin Jingchen to the front hall and waited at the residence while Lin Jingchen dealt with his relatives.
• Uncle Chen told the arguing relatives to quiet down and wait for Lin Jingchen.
• After making them wait, Lin Jingchen arrived and gave his relatives half an hour to explain their dispute, asking An Yan to speak first.
• An Yan claimed Lin Sheng’s side was trying to take land left to her by the old patriarch.
• Lin Sheng said An Yan’s late husband had sold the land to them and signed an IOU, while An Yan accused Lin Sheng of exploiting her husband and said he owed her money.
• Lin Sheng sprang up angrily and insisted the land was his private property.

Lin Jingchen settled the dispute over the land and Lin Sheng’s debts, while warning his aunt not to misuse the property if it was returned. Bai Chen read through an old gardening notebook and discovered childhood photographs of Lin Jingchen, who then teased him until he admitted how much he liked him.

• Lin Jingchen silenced the relatives and questioned Third Aunt’s claim that Third Uncle had signed over the land while impaired.
• Lin Sheng revealed that he wanted to sell the land to repay his debts, prompting the creditors to accuse him of withholding money.
• Lin Jingchen gave Lin Sheng two choices: repay the debt or return the land, and warned Third Aunt against keeping the profits for herself.
• Bai Chen studied Grandma Lin’s gardening notebook and found photographs of Lin Jingchen from childhood onward.
• Lin Jingchen entered the room, flirted with Bai Chen, and made him confess that he liked him very much.