Chapter Summaries

Jiang Nian wondered whether Wen Jincheng would choose love or his future, and he insisted he would strive to have both. At the airport, his friends discovered Jiang Nian was missing after going to Cloud Buddha Temple to meet Shen Yang.

• Jiang Nian recalled how the original novel’s events had caused Wen Jincheng to miss the TOM Math Competition final while searching for Fu Zhenzhen.
• Jiang Nian asked Wen Jincheng whether he would choose his future or the person he liked, and he said he would never choose only one.
• Song Jici and the others gathered at City A Airport to see Wen Jincheng off to Country A for the final.
• When Jiang Nian failed to arrive or answer calls, Song Jici contacted Uncle Liu, who said he had driven her to Cloud Buddha Temple.
• Uncle Liu told Song Jici that Jiang Nian had met a friend there and that he believed she had called that person Shen Yang.

Jiang Nian went to Cloud Buddha Temple with Fu Zhenzhen, hoping to get Wen Jincheng a protective charm, but the two fell into a pit and Jiang Nian briefly spoke with Shen Yang. The chapter ended with Jiang Nian realizing she had forgotten to see Wen Jincheng off, and night had already fallen.

• Jiang Nian accompanied Fu Zhenzhen into Cloud Buddha Temple and got an evil-warding charm for Wen Jincheng.
• Fu Zhenzhen asked Jiang Nian whether she knew about systems, but Jiang Nian pretended not to understand.
• Jiang Nian and Fu Zhenzhen fell into a pit after Jiang Nian grabbed Fu Zhenzhen to cushion her fall.
• Shen Yang briefly took control of Fu Zhenzhen's body and told Jiang Nian about Fu Zhenzhen's system, its items, and her plans.
• Fu Zhenzhen woke up, and both women discovered their phones had broken in the fall and could not call for help.
• Jiang Nian realized she had forgotten Wen Jincheng by Daming Lake, and it was already dark.

Jiang Nian escaped the pit with 88’s help and was found by Song Jici, Tong Chuhe, and the others after they searched the woods. She learned Wen Jincheng had come with them and asked whether he had missed his flight.

• Jiang Nian tried to climb out of the pit, but Fu Zhenzhen scaled the wall and abandoned her there.
• 88 offered to carry Jiang Nian out, then lifted her to level ground while preventing her from seeing his appearance.
• Jiang Nian followed 88’s directions through the dark woods until he detected Song Jici and the others searching nearby.
• Jiang Nian reunited with Tong Chuhe and the search party, told them she and Shen Yang had fallen into a pit, and said Shen Yang had gone for help.
• Jiang Nian turned to the person in the middle of the group and asked whether he had taken his flight.

Jiang Nian arranged a private flight so Wen Jincheng could attend his competition, then realized he had returned to Cloud Buddha Temple after she left. She found him there at dawn, cold and exhausted, holding the Peace Charm he had searched for all night.

• Wen Jincheng gave up his competition trip to find Jiang Nian, but she arranged for her family’s plane to take him to Country A the next morning.
• Jiang Nian searched for the Peace Charm she had meant to give Wen Jincheng but could not find it.
• After Jiang Nian went home, Wen Jincheng returned to Cloud Buddha Temple and stayed there searching through the night.
• When 88 told Jiang Nian that Wen Jincheng was still at the temple, she went back to look for him.
• Jiang Nian found Wen Jincheng cold and exhausted, and he showed her the Peace Charm he had found.

Jiang Nian scolded Wen Jincheng for staying up all night to find her lost peace charm, then made sure he was ready for his exam flight. Three nights later, Wen Jincheng announced that he had won a perfect-score award, and the group celebrated by planning a winter-break trip to H City.

• Wen Jincheng found Jiang Nian’s lost peace charm in the pit where she had fallen, after searching through the night before his exam.
• Jiang Nian led the exhausted Wen Jincheng away, told him to shower and drink ginger soup, and took him to his flight.
• Wen Jincheng shared a photo of his perfect-score certificate in the group chat, and his friends congratulated him.
• Jiang Nian suggested a winter-break trip, and the group chose H City for skiing, ice sculptures, and food.
• Shen Hui removed Tan Xuguang from the group chat after he complained, then argued that Tan was trying to steal his deskmate.

Jiang Nian learned that Shen Hui had helped expose the Shen Group’s wrongdoings, then traveled to H City with her friends for winter break. After ignoring a couple’s warning about a restaurant, the group discovered its Headache Candy lived up to its name when Jiang Nian and Tan Xuguang both banged their heads against the wall trying to bite it.

• Jiang Nian saw a report that the Shen Group’s projects had been suspended and asked Shen Hui whether his family was in trouble.
• Shen Hui told Jiang Nian he had gathered evidence against the Shen Family and had helped bring the problems to light, while ensuring the employees would be taken care of.
• Jiang Nian and her friends arrived in crowded H City and looked for a place to eat.
• Jiang Nian asked diners through a restaurant window whether the food was good, and the couple warned her to run away.
• Jiang Nian and her friends went into the restaurant anyway and ordered Headache Candy.
• Jiang Nian and then Tan Xuguang pulled at the tough candy and hit their heads against the wall.

Jiang Nian and her group joined an ice sculpture contest, where she made crocodile sculptures of her son and daughter-in-law and won a special award. At a restaurant afterward, she recognized a tourist being chased by geese as Shen Lei.

• Tong Chuhe led the group from lunch to the ice sculpture contest she had signed them up for.
• Jiang Nian praised a child making snow ducks, then bought him replacement molds after he broke one.
• Inspired by the child's duck, Jiang Nian carved her crocodile son and daughter-in-law, and Tong Chuhe and Feng Xing recognized them.
• The judges gave Jiang Nian's sculptures a "Talented groom, beautiful bride" award, and she posed for a photo with them.
• At a restaurant, Jiang Nian saw a tourist fall while fleeing geese and recognized him as Shen Lei.

Shen Lei repeatedly sought Shen Hui’s forgiveness on Shen Qifei’s behalf, but Shen Hui rejected him and told him to leave. On the group’s fourth day in H City, Shen Lei followed Jiang Nian and Shen Hui into a ski resort lounge, leaving Jiang Nian wary of what he planned to do.

• Shen Lei entered Shen Hui’s private dining room, knelt, and apologized while asking to be forgiven.
• Jiang Nian exposed Shen Lei’s four kowtows as a malicious gesture, and Shen Hui rejected his plea and sent him away.
• Shen Lei continued appearing throughout the group’s trip to beg Shen Hui for forgiveness, but the group ignored his efforts.
• On their fourth day in H City, Jiang Nian went to rest in a ski resort lounge, and Shen Hui joined her.
• Shen Lei entered the lounge and closed the door behind him, prompting Jiang Nian to ask what he was going to do.

Shen Lei trapped Shen Hui and Jiang Nian in a lounge with Molotov cocktails, set the room ablaze, and fled while claiming mental illness would shield him. As Shen Hui prepared to rush through the flames with Jiang Nian and 88 tried to protect them, Jiang Nian remembered an unused buff.

• Shen Lei locked the lounge door, revealed two Molotov cocktails, and advanced on Shen Hui and Jiang Nian.
• Shen Lei blamed Shen Hui and Jiang Nian for his disgrace and revealed that Shen Qifei had urged him to kill Shen Hui and promised to help him evade punishment.
• Shen Lei threw a Molotov cocktail onto a pile of ski clothes and racks, igniting the lounge.
• Shen Lei fled, laughing that he could claim to be a mentally ill patient, while Shen Hui prepared to shield Jiang Nian and charge through the flames.
• 88 began activating its program to protect them, but Jiang Nian stopped them by asking about her unused buff.

Jiang Nian used the Advanced Dancer buff to make Shen Lei dance into the burning building, where he died as Shen Hui and Jiang Nian escaped. After the rescue, Shen Hui briefly tried to distance himself from Jiang Nian, but she comforted him and he embraced her, while she told the police Shen Lei’s mental illness might have caused his behavior.

• Jiang Nian gave Shen Lei the Advanced Dancer buff, and he began dancing uncontrollably when he heard the resort music.
• Jiang Nian called Shen Lei into the flames, while Shen Hui kicked him aside, carried Jiang Nian out, and escaped with her.
• The fire spread through the building, and Shen Lei continued dancing among the flames until he died.
• Rescue workers extinguished the fire, and Song Jici, Tong Chuhe, and the others embraced Jiang Nian and Shen Hui after learning what had happened.
• Shen Hui let go of Jiang Nian, believing he brought her disaster, but she took his hand and comforted him before he embraced her in tears.
• Tong Chuhe asked why Shen Lei had danced in the fire, and Jiang Nian suggested his mental illness had flared up.

Jiang Nian reunited with her godparents and spent New Year’s Eve with Song Jici at the Jiang Family home. After falling from a swing and being caught by Song Jici, she noticed a familiar-looking faded flag beneath a nearby tree.

• Jiang Nian welcomed Song Ling, Song Zhiyao, and Song Jici to the Jiang Family home for Spring Festival.
• Jiang Baisong and Song Zhiyao began their annual chess match while Jiang Nian and Song Jici watched and teased Jiang Baisong.
• Jiang Nian and Song Jici walked through the garden and reminisced about their childhood together.
• Song Jici pushed Jiang Nian on the swing, and she lost her balance and fell; he caught her and softened her landing.
• Jiang Nian spotted a faded little flag beneath a tree and wondered why it looked familiar.

Jiang Nian and Song Jici celebrated New Year together, exchanged red envelopes, and agreed to open their childhood time capsule when they turned twenty. Song Jici recalled how he had once given Jiang Nian red envelopes to protect her, then wondered why they had forgotten each other during their six years apart.

• Song Jici reminded Jiang Nian that they had buried a time capsule at age ten and agreed to open it together when they were twenty.
• Jiang Nian could not remember what she had put in the capsule, and 88 claimed it could not scan its contents.
• Jiang Nian and Song Jici celebrated New Year with their families, exchanged greetings, and received red envelopes from the elders.
• Jiang Nian found red envelopes from 88 and Song Jici under her pillow, thanked them, and exchanged New Year wishes with Song Jici.
• Song Jici remembered secretly giving Jiang Nian red envelopes as a child and wondered why they had both forgotten their close friendship during her six years abroad.

Jiang Nian learned how Shen Qifei and Old Master Shen met their ends, then agreed to visit Feng Xing and meet his stepmother and young half-brother. The group planned to go to Feng Xing’s home the next day to wish him a happy New Year.

• Jiang Nian joined a video call where Tan Xuguang and Shen Hui told her that Shen Lei had died while trying to kill Shen Hui, after Shen Qifei manipulated him.
• Shen Hui revealed Shen Qifei’s affair and new son to Shen Lei’s mother, who stabbed Shen Qifei; he survived, was convicted of multiple crimes, and went to prison.
• Old Master Shen died of a brain hemorrhage after learning that his company was gone and his son had been imprisoned.
• Jiang Nian regretted that the group had cut their H City trip short, and Feng Xing invited her to visit his home and meet his stepmother and six-year-old half-brother.
• Jiang Nian proposed that the group visit Feng Xing the next day to wish him a happy New Year.

Jiang Nian and her friends arrived at the Feng Family estate, where she forced a rude attendant to carry their gifts before they could enter. In the garden, she turned a boy’s accusation against Feng Xing into a cruel joke that made him cry.

• Jiang Nian confronted the haughty attendant at the gates and made him carry the guests’ expensive gifts inside.
• The attendant led Jiang Nian and her friends toward the main villa after finishing the task.
• The group found Xiao Qi throwing stones at Feng Xing while a lavishly dressed woman pretended to stop him and nudged more stones his way.
• Jiang Nian approached Xiao Qi, asked why he was crying, and offered to tell him a joke.
• Jiang Nian joked that the person who had knocked at the door was not Xiao Qi’s dead dog, and he burst into tears.

Jiang Nian confronted Feng Qi after he threw rocks at Feng Xing, then exposed Feng Lang’s favoritism when he tried to appease the powerful guests. The chapter ended with Jiang Nian insulting Feng Lang, Xiao Bailian, and Feng Qi as three kinds of trash.

• Jiang Nian made Feng Qi cry after he threw rocks at Feng Xing, and Xiao Bailian accused her of mistreating her son.
• Feng Lang arrived, recognized Jiang Nian and the other guests as children from top-tier families, and abruptly switched from defending Xiao Bailian to welcoming them.
• Jiang Nian revealed that Feng Qi had been throwing rocks at Feng Xing, so Feng Lang punished Feng Qi and Xiao Bailian left with him.
• Feng Lang apologized to Jiang Nian and Feng Xing, but Feng Xing rejected his apology as a performance.
• Jiang Nian accepted Feng Lang’s apology and mocked him, Xiao Bailian, and Feng Qi as three kinds of trash.

Feng Xing told his friends that Xiao Bailian had drugged the Samoyed and framed him, and he resolved to avenge the dog. Jiang Nian started a team charades game, where she and the waiter immediately struggled to guess “Romeo and Juliet.”

• Feng Lang left the gathering and told the butler to look after Jiang Nian and her companions.
• Feng Xing explained that Xiao Bailian had drugged Feng Qi’s Samoyed and blamed him, leading Feng Lang to punish him.
• Jiang Nian and Feng Xing’s friends encouraged him not to blame himself and to seek revenge.
• Jiang Nian chose a charades game and made the waiter her teammate, with wrong guesses bringing punishments for the actor.
• The waiter acted out “Romeo and Juliet,” but Jiang Nian guessed “Romeo and Kublai Khan.”

Jiang Nian’s team finished last in a guessing game, and the attendant drew a punishment requiring him to pin the first person through the door against a wall and confess his affection for three minutes. Feng Qi entered first, rejected the attendant afterward, and the attendant’s confession ended with the woman he loved witnessing the whole scene.

• Jiang Nian deliberately confused the attendant during the guessing game, and her team came in last.
• The attendant drew a punishment requiring him to pin the first person who entered against a wall, confess his affection for three minutes, and get a response.
• 88 told Jiang Nian that Xiao Bailian was approaching with her son, Feng Qi, and Xiao Bailian brought Feng Qi into the room before leaving him there.
• The attendant carried Feng Qi to the wall and delivered a three-minute confession while Feng Qi waited silently.
• Feng Qi rejected the attendant, and the attendant saw the woman he loved watching from the doorway.

Xiao Bailian tried to secure Feng Qi’s future by urging Feng Lang to let him befriend Feng Xing’s powerful companions. When she returned to the reception room, she learned a startling secret about Feng Qi’s parentage.

• Xiao Bailian plotted to humiliate Feng Xing’s guests, but Feng Lang punished Feng Qi after the attendant mistreated them.
• Feng Lang apologized to Xiao Bailian and Feng Qi, promised Feng Qi dinner, and urged them to win over Feng Xing’s friends.
• Feng Lang privately decided to dispose of Feng Xing and replace Xiao Bailian, while Xiao Bailian believed Feng Qi would eventually take over the Feng Family.
• Xiao Bailian brought Feng Qi to the reception room, then nearly attacked the attendant after overhearing his words before Jiang Nian explained that he was playing a dare game.
• Jiang Nian heard 88 say Feng Qi was conceived with another man and realized Feng Qi was not Feng Lang’s child.

Jiang Nian learned that Feng Qi was the child of Xiao Bailian and the butler, not Feng Lang, while Feng Xing used Feng Qi’s punishment to keep him from lunch. Feng Qi returned to the dining room with a crab, which pinched him as he watched everyone eat.

• 88 told Jiang Nian that DNA tests showed Feng Qi was unrelated to Feng Lang and was likely the butler’s son.
• Xiao Bailian suggested that everyone go eat, and Feng Xing insisted that Feng Qi should miss lunch as punishment for hitting him.
• Xiao Bailian promised Feng Qi a separate meal, then led the others to lunch while Feng Qi’s place setting was removed.
• Feng Xing teased the hungry Feng Qi by pretending to offer him crabmeat before eating it himself, and Feng Qi ran out of the dining room.
• Feng Qi returned with a crab in a small tank and bragged that it was alive, but it pinched his hand while he stared at the food.
• Jiang Nian laughed at Feng Qi’s scream, and Feng Xing asked whether she found it that funny.

After Feng Xing agreed to visit his grandparents, Jiang Nian discovered that a bomb was hidden in his car and rushed to stop him. She got inside as the driver sped away, and 88 stored the bomb safely, leaving Feng Xing moved by the risk she had taken for him.

• Feng Qi ran off crying after a crab pinched his hand, and Xiao Bailian went after him.
• Feng Lang asked Feng Xing to visit his grandparents, and Feng Xing agreed while recalling how they had supported him.
• Jiang Nian was about to leave when 88 detected a bomb in Feng Xing's car, so she ran after him.
• Feng Xing ordered the driver, Li, to stop, but Li accelerated and locked the doors; Feng Xing could not free himself from his seat belt.
• Jiang Nian jumped into the moving car, and 88 located the bomb and placed it in Storage.
• Jiang Nian explained that she had feared for Feng Xing's safety, and Feng Xing silently reflected on how much she risked for him.