Chapter Summaries

Gu Wenze left after Qiao Hua showed no jealousy about his dinner with Jiang Nan. The next evening, Qiao Hua attended a banquet with Yan Yu, where her striking appearance drew attention away from Jiang Nan.

• Gu Wenze accepted Jiang Nan's dinner invitation after noticing Qiao Hua listening, then stormed out when she seemed indifferent.
• Gu Wenze stayed away overnight, while Qiao Hua hoped he and Jiang Nan would get together so her mission could end.
• Yan Yu picked Qiao Hua up for a banquet and gave her an expensive black evening gown to wear.
• Yan Yu praised Qiao Hua's appearance, and they entered the banquet together as guests began asking about their relationship.
• Gu Jinman complimented Jiang Nan, but the guests' attention shifted to Qiao Hua when she appeared in the hall.

At a business banquet, Qiao Hua was confronted by Gu Jinman and Jiang Nan, who assumed she had arrived without an invitation. Yan Yu revealed that he had invited Qiao Hua as his date, and the chapter ended when they ran into Gu Wenze.

• Gu Jinman and Jiang Nan criticized Qiao Hua's dress and demanded to know how she had entered the banquet.
• Qiao Hua challenged Gu Jinman to leave if she had organized the event, while Jiang Nan pretended to offer a gentle warning.
• Yan Yu arrived and said he had invited Qiao Hua as his date, leaving Gu Jinman humiliated and Jiang Nan displeased.
• Yan Yu and Qiao Hua walked away together, and Qiao Hua told him Jiang Nan was her husband's first love.
• Qiao Hua and Yan Yu came face-to-face with Gu Wenze, whose expression turned icy when he saw them.

Qiao Hua attended a business banquet with her boss, Yan Yu, provoking Gu Wenze's jealousy and a confrontation. Gu Wenze dragged her into a room and demanded she quit her job with Yan Yu, but Qiao Hua refused, leaving him furious.

• Gu Wenze confronted Qiao Hua and Yan Yu at the banquet, while Gu Jinman accused Qiao Hua of seducing Yan Yu and Qiao Hua retorted that Yan Yu was her boss.
• Yan Yu left Qiao Hua to mingle, and she went upstairs to get some air before Gu Wenze pulled her into a dim room.
• Gu Wenze accused Qiao Hua of getting too close to Yan Yu and demanded to know whether she liked him.
• Qiao Hua explained that Yan Yu had asked her to accompany him at the last minute, but Gu Wenze refused to believe her.
• Gu Wenze ordered Qiao Hua to quit working for Yan Yu, and she refused, prompting him to say she had really angered him.

Gu Wenze cornered Qiao Hua and suspected she was pregnant, but she escaped before he could press her further. After Jiang Nan led him away, Gu Wenze texted Qiao Hua a threat demanding that she quit her job.

• Gu Wenze pinned Qiao Hua against a wall and demanded that she quit her job and cut contact with Yan Yu, while she insisted she would not keep him away from Jiang Nan.
• Gu Wenze felt Qiao Hua's swollen abdomen and asked if she was pregnant, but she denied it and refused to have a child with him.
• People outside the storage room interrupted Gu Wenze, allowing Qiao Hua to escape and return downstairs to Yan Yu.
• Gu Wenze approached Qiao Hua, but Jiang Nan stopped him to take him back to meet the head of the Facheng Group.
• Gu Wenze texted Qiao Hua that she had to tell Yan Yu she was quitting before the end of the day or face consequences.

Qiao Hua attended a business banquet with Yan Yu, then clashed with Gu Wenze over her job and his attempt to resign on her behalf. The next morning, Gu Wenze ordered her to stay home, and the nanny stopped her from leaving.

• At the banquet, Gu Wenze considered transferring Jiang Nan because of Qiao Hua, then abandoned the idea.
• After Yan Yu drove Qiao Hua home, Gu Wenze confronted her about ignoring his text telling her to quit.
• Gu Wenze sent Yan Yu a resignation text from Qiao Hua's phone and insisted he could resign on his wife's behalf.
• When Qiao Hua told Yan Yu she would come to work, Gu Wenze hung up and smashed her phone.
• The next morning, Qiao Hua prepared to go to the office, but the nanny told her Gu Wenze had ordered her to stay home.

Qiao Hua was confined to the villa by Gu Wenze, and her attempt to escape left her with severe stomach pain. After a doctor examined her without discovering her pregnancy, she pretended to agree to resign from Yan Yu's company so Gu Wenze would let her out.

• Qiao Hua tried to leave the villa but two bodyguards blocked her under Gu Wenze's orders.
• Gu Wenze returned and said he would keep Qiao Hua confined until she agreed to resign from Yan Yu's company.
• Qiao Hua tried to run past Gu Wenze, who caught and flung her onto the sofa, leaving her with stomach pain.
• Gu Wenze called You Xiaonian, who examined Qiao Hua and said her pain was probably caused by a stomach condition.
• Gu Wenze offered to release Qiao Hua if she promised not to return to Yan Yu's company, and she pretended to agree.
• Gu Wenze gave Qiao Hua his phone and told her to call Yan Yu and say she had quit.

Qiao Hua tried to regain contact with Yan Yu and return to work, but Gu Wenze kept her under surveillance. She secretly went to the hospital to arrange an abortion, and Gu Wenze overheard her thoughts as she lied about the visit.

• Gu Wenze made Qiao Hua call Yan Yu and quit her assistant job, then warned her not to return to Yan Yu's company.
• Qiao Hua planned to visit Yan Yu, but Gu Wenze insisted a bodyguard accompany her as she looked for work.
• Qiao Hua spent the day submitting résumés while a bodyguard monitored her and reported back to Gu Wenze.
• Qiao Hua went to the hospital after Gu Wenze left, shook off the bodyguards, and obtained an appointment slip for an abortion.
• Gu Wenze called to ask why Qiao Hua was at the hospital, and she claimed she was having a routine blood test.
• Gu Wenze heard Qiao Hua think that she had come to abort his child.

Gu Wenze discovered that Qiao Hua was pregnant and learned she had gone to the hospital to terminate the pregnancy without telling him. He reached the operating room in time to halt the procedure and confronted her about lying.

• Gu Wenze overheard Qiao Hua thinking that she was about to have an abortion and realized she was pregnant.
• Gu Wenze asked his assistant to investigate Qiao Hua’s hospital visit and learned she had collected a pregnancy test confirming she was one month pregnant.
• Gu Wenze realized the pregnancy had resulted from the night he slept with Qiao Hua and called his bodyguards to find her hospital.
• Qiao Hua entered the operating room and agreed to terminate the pregnancy, but the medical staff halted the procedure.
• Gu Wenze arrived at the hospital and confronted Qiao Hua, accusing her of planning to have an abortion behind his back.

Gu Wenze stopped Qiao Hua from having an abortion after learning she was pregnant, and she insisted he would never have wanted the child. He took her from the hospital, confronted her about her plans to divorce him and possibly be with Yan Yu, then kissed her furiously and vowed to make sure she kept the baby.

• Gu Wenze stopped Qiao Hua's abortion procedure and confronted her, but she admitted she wanted to end the pregnancy.
• Gu Wenze suspected the child might be Yan Yu's until he remembered Qiao Hua's pregnancy report and realized she could not have been with Yan Yu.
• Gu Wenze dragged Qiao Hua from the hospital and ordered the driver to take them away, ignoring her demands to be released.
• Qiao Hua told Gu Wenze she planned to abort the child and divorce him because she assumed he would not want it.
• After hearing Qiao Hua's thoughts about being with Yan Yu, Gu Wenze pinned her down, kissed her, and vowed to prevent her from aborting the child.

Qiao Hua refused to keep Gu Wenze’s baby, but Gu Wenze insisted she carry it and ordered the nanny to move her belongings back into the master bedroom. The chapter left Qiao Hua facing Gu Wenze’s attempt to control where she lived.

• Gu Wenze told Qiao Hua she had to keep the baby, and she argued that he should have a child with Jiang Nan instead.
• Qiao Hua accused Gu Wenze of crossing the line with Jiang Nan, while Gu Wenze assumed she wanted a divorce because she was jealous.
• Qiao Hua claimed she had fallen for Yan Yu, and Gu Wenze threatened her not to abort the baby.
• Back at the villa, Gu Wenze ordered the nanny to prepare pregnancy-supporting soup, but Qiao Hua repeated that she would not have the baby.
• Gu Wenze followed Qiao Hua to the guest room and ordered the nanny to move Qiao Hua’s things back into the master bedroom.

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.