Recaps

Gu Wenze forced Qiao Hua to move into his bedroom and refused to agree to a divorce, while Qiao Hua resolved to find another way to end her pregnancy. The next morning, she spoke with Yan Yu about returning to work and learned Gu Jinman was preparing a birthday party, unaware that her boyfriend was cheating on her with her best friend.

• Gu Wenze moved Qiao Hua's belongings into his bedroom and insisted they continue living together, citing the effect a divorce could have on the company's share price.
• Gu Wenze made Qiao Hua sleep beside him and urged her to have the baby, but she decided she still needed to find another way to get an abortion.
• Qiao Hua called Yan Yu, apologized for missing work, and heard him promise to keep her job open until she could return after the divorce.
• Gu Jinman visited to invite Gu Wenze to her birthday party and told Qiao Hua she would not be invited.
• Qiao Hua realized Gu Jinman did not know her boyfriend was cheating with her best friend in the hotel room arranged for the party.

Gu Jinman brought Qiao Hua to a hotel to prove her boyfriend and best friend were loyal, despite Qiao Hua’s warning that they planned to betray her. She discovered Song Zixuan and Xu Peiya together and overheard them plotting to sell her to traffickers.

• Gu Jinman failed to reach Song Zixuan or Xu Peiya and decided to take Qiao Hua somewhere to disprove her suspicions.
• Gu Jinman took Qiao Hua to a hotel while Gu Wenze warned Qiao Hua not to cause trouble and bodyguards followed them.
• Gu Jinman obtained a key card for Song Zixuan’s room and led Qiao Hua upstairs.
• Gu Jinman opened the room and found clothes scattered across the floor as Song Zixuan and Xu Peiya spoke inside.
• Gu Jinman heard Song Zixuan and Xu Peiya admit their affair and discuss selling her to traffickers.

Gu Jinman caught Song Zixuan and Xu Peiya cheating and plotting to sell her to human traffickers, but Qiao Hua’s security guards stopped them. While consoling the heartbroken Gu Jinman, Qiao Hua revealed that Jiang Nan had once discouraged the search for her; afterward, Qiao Hua slipped away to a hospital and asked to buy abortion pills.

• Gu Jinman confronted Song Zixuan and Xu Peiya, slapped them, and learned they planned to sell her to human traffickers.
• Qiao Hua arrived with security guards, who restrained Song Zixuan and Xu Peiya, and Gu Jinman said she wanted them to suffer the same fate they had planned for her.
• Gu Jinman went drinking with Qiao Hua, and Qiao Hua revealed that Jiang Nan had persuaded Gu Wenze to stop searching for Gu Jinman when she went missing.
• Gu Jinman got drunk and regretted trusting Jiang Nan, while Qiao Hua slipped out through the bar’s back door.
• Qiao Hua went to a hospital and asked an obstetrician-gynecologist to sell her abortion pills.

Qiao Hua returned from the hospital with abortion pills and hid them after Gu Wenze took her home. Suspicious that she had slipped away from the bar, Gu Wenze ordered the bodyguards to check the footage from its back entrance.

• Qiao Hua came back to the bar with the pills and told Gu Wenze that Gu Jinman had sent the bodyguards outside so she could cry in private.
• Gu Wenze questioned Qiao Hua about drinking, then ordered the bodyguards to remove the alcohol and took her home.
• Qiao Hua retrieved her bag, hid the pills in the toilet tank, and went to bed while Gu Wenze searched her bag without finding anything.
• After the bodyguards reported that Gu Jinman had been taken home, Gu Wenze asked whether Qiao Hua had left the private room and ordered them to check the bar's back-entrance footage.

Qiao Hua secretly retrieved abortion pills while Gu Wenze investigated where she had gone the previous night. The bodyguard revealed that she had visited the hospital and obtained abortion medication, leaving Gu Wenze shocked.

• Qiao Hua woke to find Gu Wenze absent, then took the medicine she had hidden in the toilet tank.
• Gu Jinman told Gu Wenze that Qiao Hua had helped save her from Song Zixuan and Xu Peiya by calling hotel security.
• Gu Wenze questioned whether Qiao Hua had stayed with Gu Jinman while they drank and ordered the bodyguard to investigate.
• The bodyguard reported that Qiao Hua had left through the bar's back entrance but had not gone to meet Yan Yu.
• The bodyguard revealed that Qiao Hua had visited obstetrics and gynecology and obtained abortion pills.

Qiao Hua tried to take abortion pills, but Gu Wenze caught her and forbade her from ending the pregnancy. He confined her to the villa and ordered the nanny to watch her, leaving Qiao Hua furious and trapped.

• Qiao Hua prepared to take abortion pills in the bathroom, but Gu Wenze burst in and seized the medicine.
• Gu Wenze confronted Qiao Hua with surveillance footage showing she had secretly gone to the hospital, and she admitted she did not want his baby.
• Qiao Hua told Gu Wenze she would keep trying to abort the pregnancy, and he threatened to lock her up and make her become pregnant again if necessary.
• Gu Wenze banned Qiao Hua from leaving the villa and ordered the nanny to take away the medicine and follow her around the house.

Gu Wenze kept Qiao Hua confined to the villa, while Jiang Nan struggled with his sudden coldness and Gu Jinman's curt response. When Yan Yu visited Qiao Hua, he learned she was pregnant and offered to take her away from Gu Wenze.

• Gu Wenze rejected Jiang Nan's invitation to dinner and asked her to support Gu Jinman after her breakup.
• Jiang Nan called Gu Jinman, but Gu Jinman refused to go shopping and ended the call.
• Qiao Hua, confined to the villa, went to the gate to meet Yan Yu, who had come because he was worried about her.
• Qiao Hua told Yan Yu that Gu Wenze refused to divorce her and would not let her terminate the pregnancy.
• Yan Yu asked whether Qiao Hua wanted the baby, and after she said she did not, he offered to take her away so Gu Wenze could never find her.

Qiao Hua weighed her options while Gu Wenze continued to confine her over her pregnancy. After deciding she had to escape, she messaged Yan Yu that she agreed to his proposal.

• Yan Yu urged Qiao Hua to consider what he had told her, and she asked the nanny to keep his visit secret from Gu Wenze.
• Qiao Hua considered aborting the baby and leaving Gu Wenze, but worried that having the child could prevent Jiang Nan from ending up with him.
• Gu Wenze confronted Qiao Hua and said he would let her leave the villa only after she gave up on aborting the baby.
• After Gu Wenze went to sleep, Qiao Hua quietly took her phone and messaged Yan Yu, "I agree."

Qiao Hua accepted Gu Jinman's costly gift and watched Gu Jinman reject Jiang Nan's false concern. When Jiang Nan staged a fall to frame Qiao Hua, Gu Wenze questioned her and the household Nanny revealed what she had seen.

• Gu Jinman visited Qiao Hua, gave her an expensive necklace to repay her, and said she no longer wanted to spend time with Jiang Nan.
• Jiang Nan came to see Gu Jinman, then accused Qiao Hua of turning Gu Jinman and Gu Wenze against her after Gu Jinman left the room.
• Jiang Nan tried to grab Qiao Hua and then fell against the coffee table, claiming Qiao Hua had pushed her.
• Gu Jinman defended Qiao Hua, and Gu Wenze asked Jiang Nan whether she had fallen on her own or been pushed.
• Gu Wenze called on the household Nanny, who said Jiang Nan had fallen deliberately after trying to drag Qiao Hua down with her.

Gu Wenze exposed Jiang Nan’s staged fall and ended their personal relationship, while Qiao Hua challenged his past distrust and demanded he keep Jiang Nan away from her. As the chapter ended, Gu Wenze reconsidered whether Qiao Hua had really sent someone to follow him and asked to see her phone.

• Gu Wenze confronted Jiang Nan after the nanny revealed she had framed Qiao Hua, then told Jiang Nan they would only communicate about work.
• Gu Jinman refused to help Jiang Nan and left, while Jiang Nan departed still hoping to win Gu Wenze back.
• Gu Wenze checked whether Qiao Hua was hurt, and Qiao Hua reminded him that he had repeatedly disbelieved her explanations.
• Qiao Hua asked Gu Wenze to keep Jiang Nan away from her, and he promised Jiang Nan would not return to their home.
• Gu Wenze reconsidered Qiao Hua’s claim that Jiang Nan had told her to catch him cheating and asked to see Qiao Hua’s phone.

Qiao Hua planned to escape with Yan Yu’s help while concealing their arrangement from Gu Wenze. Gu Wenze learned that Jiang Nan had been using her late mother’s phone number to send Qiao Hua details about his meetings, leaving him with a new suspicion about Jiang Nan.

• Gu Wenze checked Qiao Hua’s messages, found the meeting tips, and asked his assistant to identify the sender’s number.
• Yan Yu told Qiao Hua that he had prepared an escape and offered to rescue her, but Qiao Hua said she would find her own way out with help from Gu Jinman.
• Gu Wenze told Qiao Hua he would hear her out and stop doubting her, but refused to let her leave the house.
• Gu Wenze’s assistant reported that the number used to tip off Qiao Hua belonged to Jiang Nan’s late mother and was now used by Jiang Nan.

Gu Wenze learned Jiang Nan had sent Qiao Hua the messages and began investigating whether Qiao Hua had really drugged him three years earlier. Qiao Hua got permission to leave the villa for a shopping trip with Gu Jinman, then left a signed divorce agreement behind as she went out.

• Gu Wenze confirmed Jiang Nan had sent Qiao Hua the messages and asked his assistant to investigate everyone who had contact with them at the bar three years earlier.
• Gu Wenze rejected Jiang Nan's call and told Qiao Hua he would keep his promise to stay away from her, but Qiao Hua remained indifferent.
• Qiao Hua asked Gu Jinman to take her shopping, claiming Gu Wenze had wrongly suspected her of having an affair with her former college classmate.
• Gu Wenze allowed Qiao Hua to go shopping with Gu Jinman on the condition that bodyguards accompany them and Gu Jinman keep her in sight.
• Qiao Hua changed, took her ID and bank cards, and left the signed divorce agreement on the table before leaving the villa.

Qiao Hua went shopping with Gu Jinman and used a staged confrontation to distract the bodyguards guarding her. She escaped through a staff passage, leaving Gu Jinman and the bodyguards unable to find or contact her.

• Qiao Hua reassured Gu Jinman that Jiang Nan’s past schemes were not her fault, and Gu Jinman grew angry after learning Jiang Nan had framed Qiao Hua before.
• At a Chanel store, Qiao Hua provoked two men who were ogling her, prompting them to attack and the bodyguards to intervene.
• While Gu Jinman watched the bodyguards subdue the men, Qiao Hua slipped away through a staff passage.
• Gu Jinman realized Qiao Hua was gone, but her phone was switched off, and the bodyguards searched the mall without finding her.

Gu Wenze confronted Jiang Nan after learning she had framed Qiao Hua, fired her, and rejected her attempt to win him back. He then learned that Qiao Hua had gone missing after an argument at a store with Gu Jinman.

• Gu Wenze confronted Jiang Nan with evidence that she had used her mother's phone to provoke Qiao Hua, then fired her and ended their contact.
• Jiang Nan admitted she had targeted Qiao Hua out of jealousy and offered to become Gu Wenze's wife, but he rejected her and left.
• Gu Wenze asked his assistant about the investigation into what had happened in the past.
• During a meeting, Gu Wenze answered repeated calls from his bodyguards and learned that Qiao Hua had disappeared after arguing with customers alongside Gu Jinman.

Qiao Hua escaped while shopping with Gu Jinman, and Gu Wenze mobilized people to find and bring her back. He discovered her signed divorce agreement at the villa and vowed not to let her go.

• Gu Wenze arrived at the mall and learned that Qiao Hua had disappeared while Gu Jinman and the bodyguards were distracted.
• Gu Wenze reviewed the mall surveillance and saw Qiao Hua leave through a staff passage with no cameras.
• Gu Wenze ordered his assistant to check every transportation passenger list and sent Gu Jinman home under guard.
• Gu Wenze returned to the villa and learned that Qiao Hua appeared on none of the passenger lists.
• Gu Wenze found Qiao Hua's signed divorce agreement, tore it up, and vowed to catch her.

Qiao Hua escaped the Gu Family with Yan Yu’s help and settled into a secluded apartment, determined to leave Gu Wenze behind. Yan Yu asked whether he would have a chance with her once she and Gu Wenze separated.

• Qiao Hua slipped away from the bodyguards and climbed into Yan Yu’s waiting minivan.
• Yan Yu gave Qiao Hua a new SIM card, and they fled the area while she slept during the drive.
• Yan Yu found Qiao Hua a secluded apartment, and she agreed to stay there and pay the rent and utilities.
• Qiao Hua told Yan Yu she no longer had feelings for Gu Wenze and would be single once he signed the divorce agreement.
• Yan Yu asked Qiao Hua whether he would have a chance with her after she and Gu Wenze separated.

Yan Yu confessed his feelings to Qiao Hua, who declined to start a relationship, while Gu Wenze searched for his missing wife. Suspecting Yan Yu had helped her disappear, Gu Wenze confronted him and demanded to know whether he had taken Qiao Hua away.

• Yan Yu asked Qiao Hua for a chance, but she said she was not ready for a new relationship after separating from Gu Wenze.
• Gu Wenze failed to find Qiao Hua, and Weng Fenghua and Gu Junxing confronted him about her disappearance and his closeness to Jiang Nan.
• Gu Wenze told Gu Junxing that Qiao Hua intended to divorce him and began suspecting someone had helped her escape.
• Gu Wenze went to Yan Yu's company and grabbed him by the collar, demanding to know whether he had taken Qiao Hua away.

Yan Yu confronted Gu Wenze over Qiao Hua, and the two men fought before Gu Wenze left to search for her. Back at the villa, Gu Wenze revealed that Qiao Hua had disappeared with a divorce agreement, prompting You Xiaonian to suspect Gu Wenze had fallen for her.

• Yan Yu admitted he loved Qiao Hua, and he and Gu Wenze fought in Yan Yu's conference room.
• Yan Yu refused to tell Gu Wenze where Qiao Hua was, and Gu Wenze warned him not to hide her before leaving.
• Gu Wenze ordered his assistant to watch Yan Yu, then returned to the villa and found You Xiaonian waiting.
• Gu Wenze told You Xiaonian that Jiang Nan had framed Qiao Hua and said his feelings for Jiang Nan were in the past.
• Gu Wenze revealed that Qiao Hua had left a divorce agreement and disappeared, and You Xiaonian asked if he had fallen for her.

Gu Wenze learned that Jian Xiling had drugged him three years earlier and framed Qiao Hua after Qiao Hua unexpectedly intervened. He realized Qiao Hua had told the truth, while she remained in hiding as he searched for her.

• You Xiaonian suggested that Gu Wenze's anxiety over Qiao Hua meant he liked her, but Gu Wenze denied it and said he would decide about divorce after finding her.
• Yan Yu warned Qiao Hua that Gu Wenze suspected him of helping her escape, so they agreed not to meet for a while.
• Gu Wenze ordered his assistant to keep watching Yan Yu and learned that a former secretary, Jian Xiling, had bribed a waiter to drug him three years earlier.
• Gu Wenze confronted Jian Xiling, who admitted that she had planned to sleep with him and force him to marry her.
• Jian Xiling revealed that Qiao Hua had entered Gu Wenze's room and that she had sent bed photos to the paparazzi, leaving Gu Wenze to realize Qiao Hua had been innocent all along.

Gu Wenze learned Jian Xiling had drugged him and regretted wrongly blaming Qiao Hua, while growing anxious that Yan Yu was hiding her. Yan Yu secretly visited Qiao Hua, and Gu Wenze confronted him afterward, offering to accept any terms to get Qiao Hua back.

• Gu Wenze ordered Jian Xiling sent to work at a nightclub and regretted not trusting Qiao Hua or investigating her claims.
• Gu Wenze dreamed that Qiao Hua had aborted the baby and married Yan Yu, then ordered his assistant to monitor Yan Yu's supposed business trip.
• Yan Yu sent his secretary to attend the meeting and secretly flew to visit Qiao Hua at her rental apartment.
• Yan Yu and Qiao Hua spent half a day talking before he returned, keeping his visit hidden from Gu Wenze.
• Gu Wenze confronted Yan Yu at his apartment and offered to agree to any terms if Yan Yu handed Qiao Hua over.

Yan Yu refused to reveal Qiao Hua’s whereabouts to Gu Wenze and later discussed her pregnancy with her, agreeing to handle her plan to end it. After noticing Yan Yu’s unusually frequent business trips, Gu Wenze discovered that all four had taken him to Hua City, where Qiao Hua might be hiding.

• Gu Wenze confronted Yan Yu and demanded that he reveal where Qiao Hua was, but Yan Yu refused.
• Yan Yu told Qiao Hua that Gu Wenze had offered any terms in exchange for her return, and Qiao Hua said she planned to seek an abortion at an unlicensed clinic.
• Yan Yu warned Qiao Hua that the clinic was dangerous, then agreed to take care of the matter himself.
• Gu Wenze learned that Yan Yu had taken four business trips since Qiao Hua disappeared and ordered his assistant to investigate them.
• An airline employee told Gu Wenze that Yan Yu’s trips had all included connecting flights to Hua City.

Gu Wenze discovered Yan Yu had secretly traveled to Hua City and sent someone to investigate, while Yan Yu gave Qiao Hua a fake ID and offered to accompany her to the hospital for an abortion. The chapter ended when Gu Wenze learned that Qiao Hua had moved into the apartment Yan Yu visited.

• Gu Wenze ordered his assistant to have Yan Yu followed after suspecting his business trip to Hua City was a cover.
• Gu Wenze refused to see Jiang Nan and told her to leave after completing her handover.
• Yan Yu traveled to Hua City and gave Qiao Hua a fake ID so she could seek medical care and work without being found by Gu Wenze.
• Qiao Hua planned to go to the hospital the next day, and Yan Yu insisted on accompanying her before they shared dinner.
• A man following Yan Yu reported to Gu Wenze that Qiao Hua had moved into the apartment Yan Yu visited.

Qiao Hua went to the hospital with Yan Yu to terminate her pregnancy, but Gu Wenze tracked them down and stopped the procedure. He abducted Qiao Hua and, furious that she cared about Yan Yu, began to undo his zipper in the car.

• Qiao Hua and Yan Yu went to the hospital, where Yan Yu told the doctor the baby was her ex’s so he would approve the abortion.
• Gu Wenze’s bodyguards restrained Yan Yu, and Gu Wenze beat him before having the men drag him away.
• Gu Wenze found Qiao Hua in the corridor and stopped the abortion after learning she was carrying his child.
• Gu Wenze seized Qiao Hua and dragged her out of the hospital despite her calling for help.
• In the car, Qiao Hua asked what Gu Wenze had done to Yan Yu, and Gu Wenze angrily began to undo his zipper.

Gu Wenze brought Qiao Hua back to the villa after stopping himself from forcing himself on her in the car, but he remained furious over her escape attempt and her ties to Yan Yu. He restrained her in the master bedroom and took a chain from a bag, leaving his next move unclear.

• Gu Wenze tore Qiao Hua's shirt, but stopped when she reminded him she was carrying his child; he punched the car window instead.
• Gu Wenze took Qiao Hua back to the villa and threatened her when she considered escaping and asked what he had done to Yan Yu.
• Gu Wenze kissed Qiao Hua and demanded to know whether Yan Yu had touched her, warning her that he would make Yan Yu regret it if he had.
• Qiao Hua tried to run when they reached the villa, but Gu Wenze caught her and dragged her upstairs.
• Gu Wenze ordered Auntie Feng to fetch a bag, had the bodyguards hold Qiao Hua down, and took a chain from the bag.

Gu Wenze chained Qiao Hua to the bed, took away her phone, and ordered her confined after she tried to escape with Yan Yu. Qiao Hua refused to eat until he freed her, and Gu Wenze threatened to feed her through a tube.

• Gu Wenze dismissed Qiao Hua's promise not to run away and chained her ankle to the bed.
• Gu Wenze ordered a bodyguard to take Qiao Hua's phone and told the nanny to bring her meals.
• Qiao Hua refused dinner and worried that her escape attempt had put Yan Yu in danger.
• The nanny told Gu Wenze that Qiao Hua was refusing food, and he angrily ordered her to be left alone.
• Gu Wenze found Qiao Hua's dinner untouched and threatened to use a feeding tube when she refused to eat unless he freed her.