Chapter Summaries

Ji Mingzhu woke in a modern world after falling into a swimming pool and learned that the Ji Family planned to force him to marry Gu Shang. He refused to help the family steal from Gu Shang, but remained under guard as he prepared to meet his fiancé and explore his new surroundings.

• Ji Mingzhu woke in a hospital room and learned from Ji Yonglin, Cao Wanhua, and Ji Zhian that he was expected to marry Gu Shang in place of Ji Zhian.
• Ji Yonglin regarded Ji Mingzhu as expendable, while Cao Wanhua urged him to marry Gu Shang and retrieve a secret document from the Gu Family.
• Ji Mingzhu rejected Cao Wanhua's plan to deceive Gu Shang and steal the document, then refused the marriage assignment.
• Ji Yonglin ordered bodyguards to watch Ji Mingzhu and keep him at home until the wedding.
• Ji Mingzhu examined his unfamiliar appearance in the mirror and decided to explore a market and make himself presentable for Gu Shang.

Ji Mingzhu returned to the Ji Family home and went shopping for modern clothes, choosing an outfit that Ji Zhian tried to steer him away from. At the checkout, Ji Mingzhu’s card was declined, and Ji Zhian used the moment to embarrass him and urge him to go home.

• Ji Mingzhu was assigned a room in a secluded corner of the Ji Family home and asked permission to buy new clothes.
• Ji Mingzhu rejected Ji Zhian’s suggestions and chose a stylish white outfit that made him look like an elegant gentleman.
• Ji Zhian insisted the outfit did not suit Ji Mingzhu, but Ji Mingzhu bought it and selected a similar one as well.
• The cashier said Ji Yonglin’s card did not have enough credit to cover the clothes.
• Ji Zhian mocked the card’s low limit and urged Ji Mingzhu to leave, offering to ask Ji Yonglin to buy the clothes later.

Shan Ziyu intervened when Ji Mingzhu tried to buy clothes, explaining that Gu Shang had sent him to help. Ji Mingzhu reluctantly accepted Gu Shang’s offer to pay, then left the store with his new outfit while Ji Zhian secretly looked down on him.

• Shan Ziyu stepped in as Ji Zhian tried to stop Ji Mingzhu from buying clothes, and Ji Mingzhu challenged his younger brother to wait while he got the money.
• Shan Ziyu revealed that Gu Shang had sent him, and Ji Mingzhu hesitantly told Gu Shang he could not accept such an expensive gift.
• Gu Shang firmly told Ji Mingzhu to accept the clothes, while Ji Zhian privately suspected his brother was trying to curry favor and steal a Gu Family document.
• Shan Ziyu paid and left, and Ji Mingzhu wore his new outfit out of the store while keeping his old clothes.
• Ji Zhian watched Ji Mingzhu leave and scorned him as shabby and poor.

Ji Mingzhu returned home transformed, then prepared to meet the designer Gu Shang had arranged for his wedding clothes. He left the designer and his assistants stunned by his appearance and poised manners as they began taking his measurements.

• Ji Zhian returned home with Ji Mingzhu, whose makeover surprised Ji Yonglin and Madam Ji.
• Ji Zhian explained that Shan Ziyu had paid for Ji Mingzhu's purchases, and Ji Mingzhu retorted that the family had failed to give him enough money.
• Ji Mingzhu ignored Ji Yonglin's anger and went upstairs, thinking he could use his savings to make nightclothes for his fiancé.
• The next morning, Ji Mingzhu exercised, showered, and brewed tea before Chu He arrived with assistants to make his wedding attire.
• Chu He was stunned by Ji Mingzhu's beauty and hurried to take his measurements.

Chu He visited Ji Mingzhu to take his measurements and was impressed by his looks, then told Gu Shang that Ji Mingzhu was nothing like the rumors. Gu Shang dismissed his marriage as an act but, after hearing similar reports from Chu He and Shan Ziyu, grew curious about his fiancé.

• Chu He measured Ji Mingzhu and praised his physique, while Ji Mingzhu asked to buy fabric from his studio.
• Chu He added Ji Mingzhu on WeChat and went to Gu Corporation's headquarters.
• Chu He told Gu Shang that Ji Mingzhu was exceptionally good-looking and suggested he was his type.
• Gu Shang said his marriage to Ji Mingzhu was only an act, then wondered why people kept saying Ji Mingzhu was unlike the rumors.

Ji Mingzhu finished arranging a fabric purchase with Chu He, then traded barbed remarks with Ji Zhian about his upcoming marriage to Gu Shang. Ji Zhian told him to call his husband “hubby,” leaving Ji Mingzhu quietly intrigued and flustered by the unfamiliar form of address.

• Ji Mingzhu settled the fabric purchase with Chu He and smiled as he looked at his phone.
• Ji Zhian accused Ji Mingzhu of chatting with another man and warned him not to embarrass the family before his wedding.
• Ji Zhian mocked Gu Shang’s appearance and implied Ji Mingzhu should be grateful to marry into the Gu Family.
• Ji Mingzhu retorted that Ji Zhian had lived with his status but had never met his fiancé either.
• Ji Zhian told Ji Mingzhu that he had to call Gu Shang “hubby,” and Ji Mingzhu silently tried out the word.

On his wedding day, Ji Mingzhu rejected Ji Zhian’s attempt to humiliate him over his lack of a diamond ring and made a ring from his bouquet instead. Gu Shang arrived and told Ji Mingzhu to wear the ring he had brought for him.

• The Ji Family’s wedding staff dressed and made up Ji Mingzhu before he went to greet the guests with a bouquet of white camellias.
• Ji Zhian showed off his borrowed five-carat diamond ring and offered to lend it to Ji Mingzhu, implying the groom should not have bare hands.
• Ji Mingzhu refused Ji Zhian’s ring, wove a camellia ring from his bouquet, and put it on his finger as guests looked on approvingly.
• Ji Zhian scoffed that the flower ring was not the same as his diamond ring, and Gu Shang approached and agreed that they were different.
• Gu Shang told Ji Mingzhu that since he was marrying him, he should wear the ring Gu Shang gave him.

Gu Shang put a rare pink diamond wedding ring on Ji Mingzhu and brought him to meet the Gu Family, whose members were surprised by his polite demeanor. As they entered the venue, Ji Mingzhu grew flustered over not knowing how to address Gu Shang, while Gu Shang remained unaware of his thoughts.

• Gu Shang gave Ji Mingzhu a pink diamond wedding ring and asked if he liked it.
• Gu Shang led Ji Mingzhu to meet his parents and younger brother, and Ji Mingzhu greeted them politely.
• Gu Shang’s family recalled that Old Master Gu Xuan had mysteriously arranged the marriage after consulting a Taoist priest.
• Gu Shang agreed to marry Ji Mingzhu to fulfill his grandfather’s wish, though he felt indifferent toward marriage.
• Ji Mingzhu grew troubled because he had not addressed Gu Shang, and he blushed when Gu Shang asked what was wrong.

At their wedding, Gu Shang offered Ji Mingzhu a cupcake to test whether his new, obedient manner was an act. Ji Mingzhu blushed but accepted the intimate gesture, leaving Gu Shang stunned by his response.

• Gu Shang led Ji Mingzhu to the food table and told him to choose whatever he wanted.
• Ji Mingzhu asked permission to eat and smiled with delight when Gu Shang agreed.
• Gu Shang suspected Ji Mingzhu was pretending to be harmless and decided to test his reaction to intimacy.
• Gu Shang offered Ji Mingzhu a pink cupcake and suggested he eat it while holding his bouquet.
• Ji Mingzhu blushed, closed his eyes, and tilted his head back obediently, leaving Gu Shang frozen.

At the wedding banquet, Gu Shang fed Ji Mingzhu cake and mistook his curiosity and sweetness for a clumsy attempt at seduction. Ji Mingzhu’s newfound attention embarrassed the Ji Family, and Gu Shang led him to the entrance ceremony while Ji Mingzhu happily thought his husband treated him well.

• Gu Shang fed Ji Mingzhu strawberry cake and privately wondered whether the boy was pretending not to know the flavor to manipulate him.
• Guests praised Ji Mingzhu to the Ji Family, leaving Ji Yonglin embarrassed that his neglected eldest son had won the attention he had hoped Ji Zhian would attract.
• Cao Wanhua consoled Ji Zhian by promising that Ji Mingzhu’s possessions would ultimately belong to the Ji Family, while Ji Zhian watched his brother with jealousy.
• Gu Shang wiped cream from Ji Mingzhu’s lip, dismissed his own reaction as a failed seduction, and took his hand toward the center of the hall for the entrance ceremony.
• Ji Mingzhu smiled and thought that his husband treated him very well.

After their wedding ceremony, Ji Mingzhu rode with Gu Shang to the Gu Residence and wondered why the celebration lacked the bridal-chamber games he expected. Gu Shang reconsidered his approach to their marriage but resolved to treat Ji Mingzhu as an ornamental spouse, while the newlyweds remained out of step with each other.

• Ji Mingzhu and Gu Shang exchanged vows and left the wedding hall for the Gu Residence.
• In the wedding car, Gu Shang reviewed his earlier haste and decided he would indulge Ji Mingzhu as long as he followed his lead and did not overstep.
• Ji Mingzhu asked whether they were going home and why no guests were playing bridal-chamber games or feeling for apples.
• Gu Shang explained that no one dared prank him or make him drink, while Ji Mingzhu quietly accepted the answer and felt disappointed.
• Ji Mingzhu realized he was thirsty after eating only one strawberry cupcake, and Gu Shang watched his damp lips before looking away.

Gu Shang brought Ji Mingzhu to the Gu Residence, where Ji Mingzhu’s sincere, awkward behavior left Gu Shang unsure whether he was pretending or genuinely naive. Gu Shang explained the household arrangements, while an attendant worried that the cold couple might struggle to live together.

• Ji Mingzhu fell asleep in the car, and Gu Shang waited until they reached the Gu Residence to wake him.
• Ji Mingzhu forgot to unfasten his seat belt, and Gu Shang released it for him.
• Ji Mingzhu apologized for his behavior and told Gu Shang he could be stricter with him.
• Gu Shang led Ji Mingzhu into the residence and explained that his parents and younger brother used the second floor while the couple’s bedroom was on the third.
• An attendant observed Gu Shang’s distant manner and worried about the couple’s future together.

After Gu Shang left Ji Mingzhu in his elaborately decorated bridal room, Ji Mingzhu bathed and waited for his husband, then went looking for him. Gu Shang worked in his study and heard someone moving quietly in his bedroom next door, but the door closed again before he could investigate.

• Gu Shang took Ji Mingzhu to his room, then left after telling him to rest.
• Ji Mingzhu bathed, changed into a bathrobe, and waited on the bridal bed for Gu Shang to return.
• When Gu Shang did not come, Ji Mingzhu slipped out to find him.
• Gu Shang handled work in his study and paused during a video conference when he heard movement in the bedroom next door.
• Gu Shang guessed Ji Mingzhu had entered his bedroom, but heard the door close before he could go and catch him.

Ji Mingzhu found Gu Shang during a meeting and felt hurt when Gu Shang questioned him sharply. After Ji Mingzhu explained that Gu Shang had kept him waiting, he admitted that he was thirsty.

• Gu Shang recalled how previous attempts to arrange companions for him had failed, while he studied Ji Mingzhu and suspected he was acting.
• Secretary Chen paused the meeting when Ji Mingzhu interrupted it to find Gu Shang.
• Ji Mingzhu lowered his head and began to cry after Gu Shang demanded an answer.
• Gu Shang asked why Ji Mingzhu was crying and listened as he complained about waiting and being snapped at.
• Ji Mingzhu told Gu Shang he was thirsty because he had not had any water during the long wait.

Ji Mingzhu impressed Gu Shang by recognizing and describing a rare tea, deepening Gu Shang’s suspicion that his young wife was more than he seemed. In the bedroom, Gu Shang tried to reassure him, but Ji Mingzhu offered dinner, a bath, or a book—and finally called him “Hubby,” leaving Gu Shang stunned.

• Gu Shang offered Ji Mingzhu tea, and Ji Mingzhu eagerly accepted and drank from the cup.
• Ji Mingzhu identified the tea as top-grade Junshan Silver Needle and described its qualities, surprising Gu Shang.
• Gu Shang took Ji Mingzhu to his bedroom and told him he would not do anything he did not want.
• Ji Mingzhu mistook Gu Shang’s reassurance as kindness and offered to arrange dinner, a bath, or read to him.
• Ji Mingzhu called Gu Shang “Hubby,” and Gu Shang froze in shock.

On their first night as newlyweds, Gu Shang and Ji Mingzhu struggled to navigate their sudden intimacy as Ji Mingzhu tried to help him undress. The chapter left Gu Shang teasing Ji Mingzhu about seducing him, while Ji Mingzhu indignantly silenced him.

• Ji Mingzhu called Gu Shang "hubby," forcing Gu Shang to confront that he now had a wife, though he still regarded Ji Mingzhu as a stranger.
• Ji Mingzhu suggested Gu Shang shower first and thought they should eat before consummating their marriage.
• Ji Mingzhu tried and failed to undo Gu Shang's tie, leaning against him as he struggled.
• Gu Shang grabbed Ji Mingzhu by the waist and asked whether he was deliberately trying to seduce him.
• Ji Mingzhu denied doing it on purpose, covered Gu Shang's mouth, and told him to stop talking.

Gu Shang suspected Ji Mingzhu had a hidden agenda and warned him not to pursue anything he shouldn't, while Ji Mingzhu mistook his words for a discussion about consummating their marriage. After sharing a late-night meal, Gu Shang found Ji Mingzhu in his bed when he came out of the shower.

• Gu Shang warned Ji Mingzhu not to entertain ideas he shouldn't, suspecting him of pursuing a secret agenda.
• Ji Mingzhu urged Gu Shang to make a mutual effort, embarrassing himself as Gu Shang misunderstood what he meant.
• Gu Shang ordered a late-night meal, and Ji Mingzhu's anger faded as he ate and judged the food against his own cooking.
• Gu Shang showered after they ate, then found Ji Mingzhu lying in his bed when he returned.

Ji Mingzhu and Gu Shang went to bed together, where Ji Mingzhu teased his inexperienced husband with a kiss and suggested they learn together. Gu Shang turned the tables on him, but stopped when Ji Mingzhu admitted he was wearing nothing beneath his robe and asked him not to move.

• Ji Mingzhu coaxed Gu Shang into bed and said he was excited because it was his first time sleeping with someone.
• Gu Shang admitted it was his first time too, and Ji Mingzhu delightedly concluded that her husband was inexperienced and untouched.
• Ji Mingzhu kissed the corner of Gu Shang's mouth and suggested they learn together.
• Gu Shang pulled Ji Mingzhu on top of him and teased him about being experienced enough to teach him.
• Ji Mingzhu became upset and told Gu Shang to stop moving because he was wearing nothing underneath his robe, so Gu Shang froze.

Ji Mingzhu woke up beside Gu Shang and joined him for breakfast with his parents, while Gu Shang tried to understand his new husband and keep their relationship within clear boundaries. Ji Mingzhu remained unaware that his family expected him to make the post-wedding visit alone the next day.

• Gu Shang woke to find Ji Mingzhu cuddled against his neck, and Ji Mingzhu greeted him with a kiss and called him "hubby."
• Ji Mingzhu said he had stayed in bed so he would not wake Gu Shang, and Gu Shang told him to get ready because his parents had arrived.
• Ji Mingzhu hurried to dress and urged Gu Shang to hurry, while Gu Shang considered explaining the marriage alliance and setting boundaries.
• Gu Shang gave Ji Mingzhu a black card for shopping and said he could charge the company if the balance ran out.
• After they went downstairs, a message from Ji Yonglin appeared on Ji Mingzhu's unattended phone, telling him to return to the Ji Family alone for his post-wedding visit and wear his wedding ring.

Ji Mingzhu joined Gu Shang’s family for breakfast, where Gu Yan accused him of pretending to be innocent and doubted that he had slept beside Gu Shang. Gu Shang ignored Ji Mingzhu’s whispered question about his morning grumpiness and instead rebuked Gu Yan.

• Shen Yue Ru praised Ji Mingzhu’s polite behavior, but Gu Yan warned her that Ji Mingzhu was only pretending to be innocent.
• Ji Mingzhu greeted Gu Shang’s parents and brother at breakfast and told Shen Yue Ru that he and Gu Shang had both slept well.
• Gu Yan challenged Ji Mingzhu’s claim, insisting Gu Shang could not have slept through the night and was grumpy when he woke.
• Ji Mingzhu whispered to Gu Shang and asked what morning grumpiness meant, making the family pause.
• Gu Shang ignored Ji Mingzhu and told Gu Yan to leave the table if he did not want to eat.