Chapter Summaries

As Yu Qingchuan prepared for his birthday banquet, he received birthday gifts, praise for his painting, and news that his work might enter a museum collection. At the banquet, he encouraged Yu Chenyi to publicize the Yu Corporation’s charitable donation and noticed signs that Lu Shiming might be unable to fall for anyone but Yu Qingluo.

• Su Ningyue suspected Yu Qingchuan had a split personality and plotted to have him disqualified from inheriting the Yu Corporation, while Yu Qingchuan remained unaware of her schemes.
• Yu Chenyi gave Yu Qingchuan five million yuan for his birthday and announced he would transfer five percent of the Yu Corporation’s shares to him at the banquet.
• Yu Qingchuan received birthday wishes from fans and an invitation from an art memorial museum to collect one of his paintings, then asked Xiao Qin to handle the invitation.
• Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi arrived at the hotel, where they dressed for the banquet and took photographs together before Yu Chenyi, Su Ningyue, and Yu Qingluo arrived.
• Yu Qingchuan asked Yu Chenyi to announce a charitable donation of smart home devices to a welfare home, and Yu Chenyi approved the plan.
• Lu Shiming told Yu Qingchuan he could not imagine falling for anyone else, while Yu Qingluo lingered outside the room; Yu Qingchuan suspected the book’s rules might be keeping Lu Shiming and Yu Qingluo destined for each other.

Yu Qingchuan celebrated his birthday at a banquet where he publicly appeared with Lu Shiyi and received shares in the Yu Corporation. He recognized Huo Nanqiu from the novel and tried to avoid him, but Lu Shiyi noticed Yu Qingchuan’s reaction and questioned him afterward.

• Yu Qingchuan insisted that Lu Shiyi stand beside him at the banquet, and Yu Chenyi reluctantly agreed.
• Yu Chenyi introduced Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi to the guests before they signed the share transfer documents and announced a donation to welfare homes.
• Yu Qingchuan recognized Huo Nanqiu, who suffered from low blood sugar and accepted candy from Yu Qingluo after Lu Shiyi steadied him.
• Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi cut the birthday cake, then Lu Shiyi carried the exhausted Yu Qingchuan home.
• After Yu Qingchuan woke from a nap, Lu Shiyi asked whether he had known Huo Nanqiu before, startling him into dropping his phone on his face.

Yu Qingchuan told Lu Shiyi that he had transmigrated into a book and explained how their original fates had changed, and Lu Shiyi reassured him of his love. On Yu Qingchuan’s birthday, Lu Shiyi celebrated with him and asked him to become his partner, which Yu Qingchuan happily accepted.

• Yu Qingchuan explained his transmigration and the original plot to Lu Shiyi, who asked whether Yu Qingchuan loved Shiming and feared he might leave.
• Yu Qingchuan told Lu Shiyi about his difficult life before transmigrating, and Lu Shiyi comforted him and promised his love.
• Lu Shiyi surprised Yu Qingchuan with longevity noodles on his birthday, then took the day off to go with him to an amusement park while Lu Shiming handled work at Xingyi.
• Lu Shiyi gave Yu Qingchuan a castle-shaped cake, 999 roses, a custom heart-rate-monitoring watch, art gifts, a diamond ring, and legal documents for sharing their assets and appointing each other Chosen Guardians.
• Lu Shiyi asked Yu Qingchuan to be his partner, and Yu Qingchuan accepted while embracing him.

Yu Qingchuan recovered enough to visit Chen Shujun for a painting lesson, while Lu Shiyi returned to work and left Lu Shiming to review investment proposals with Liang Xingyao. The lesson ended with Yu Qingchuan preparing for a national painting competition, and watching Chen Shujun reunite with Qin Yichuan made him miss Lu Shiyi.

• Lu Shiyi took another day off to care for Yu Qingchuan, leaving Lu Shiming at Xingyi to handle project proposals with Liang Xingyao’s help.
• Yu Qingchuan urged Lu Shiyi to return to work and went to Chen Shujun’s villa for an afternoon painting lesson.
• Yu Qingchuan gave Chen Shujun an antique folding fan, and Chen Shujun promised to give him one of his works in return.
• Chen Shujun taught Yu Qingchuan and encouraged him to prepare a painting for an upcoming national competition.
• Qin Yichuan saw Yu Qingchuan and Chen Shujun together, sent Lu Shiyi a photo, and then warmly reunited with his husband.
• Yu Qingchuan watched Qin Yichuan and Chen Shujun leave together and began missing Lu Shiyi.

Yu Qingchuan continued studying painting for his competition while enjoying Lu Shiyi’s steady affection and support. He brought lunch to Xingyi, where Lu Shiyi’s jealousy surfaced after Liang Xingyao and Lu Shiming shared the food, and the chapter ended with Lu Shiyi asking Yu Qingchuan to make it up to him.

• Yu Qingchuan left Chen Shujun’s home with Lu Shiyi, told him about the painting competition, and found a spark of inspiration while studying paintings together.
• Yu Qingchuan cooked Lu Shiming’s favorite dishes and brought lunch to Xingyi to visit him and Lu Shiyi.
• Lu Shiming welcomed Yu Qingchuan, and Lu Shiyi joined them after finishing his meeting.
• Liang Xingyao accepted Yu Qingchuan’s invitation to lunch, and the four men ate all the food together.
• Lu Shiyi sent Lu Shiming and Liang Xingyao out, then pulled Yu Qingchuan into his arms and asked him to make up for sharing his cooking.

Yu Qingchuan aced his exams and delivered a successful presentation at the Yu Corporation’s smart home launch, drawing attention to the products and strengthening the company’s sales. After the event, he prepared a playful gift for Lu Shiyi, while Yu Qingluo began looking forward to presenting onstage himself.

• Yu Qingchuan earned a ninety in English, ranked first in his major, and qualified for a ten-thousand-yuan scholarship, which he planned to spend on Lu Shiyi.
• Yu Qingchuan bought fox ears and a red historical costume after Lu Shiyi sent him a link, then prepared to present the Yu Corporation’s new smart home products.
• Yu Qingluo told Yu Chenyi he wanted to transfer to the project department, and he encouraged Yu Qingchuan before the launch.
• Yu Qingchuan gave a polished presentation and answered reporters’ questions, boosting attention to the Yu Corporation and sending its share price upward.
• Huo Nanqiu praised Yu Qingchuan to Yu Qingluo and thanked him for the candy he had given him before.
• After the successful launch, Yu Qingchuan took out the fox ears while Lu Shiyi showered, intending to coax him into wearing them.

Yu Qingchuan completed a bleak painting about victims of abuse and recovered from the emotional strain with Lu Shiyi’s support. His painting won first prize in a competition, and he prepared to present it at the streamed award ceremony when explosive news began spreading online.

• Yu Chenyi moved into an apartment, focused on growing the Yu Corporation, and gave Yu Qingchuan a sports car and several million.
• Yu Qingchuan painted “Victims,” a group portrait depicting four people and animals suffering abuse, for the painting competition.
• After Yu Qingchuan had nightmares and became overwhelmed by the painting, Lu Shiyi took him to watch a sunrise, helping him regain his spirits.
• Yu Qingchuan submitted his painting, won third-ranked first prize, and met fellow second-prize winners Qi Bai and Ashley backstage before the livestream ceremony.
• As Yu Qingchuan waited to present his painting, explosive news began spreading online.

Yu Qingchuan faced online claims that he had a split personality, but with Lu Shiyi’s help he redirected attention to his stepmother Su Ningyue’s long-term abuse. After Yu Qingchuan presented evidence and accused Su Ningyue publicly, Yu Chenyi agreed to divorce her.

• A marketing account posted videos comparing Yu Qingchuan’s former appearance, handwriting, and paintings with his current ones, prompting claims that he had a split personality and drawing Lu Shiming into the gossip.
• Xiao Qin helped Yu Qingchuan leave the awards ceremony, and Lu Shiyi comforted him while he told Yu Chenyi that the allegations were false and that he was investigating.
• Lu Shiyi proposed explaining that Yu Qingchuan’s former ignorance and poor health had resulted from Su Ningyue’s actions, and Yu Qingchuan showed him a timestamped post that could support the claim.
• Lu Shiyi drafted and posted a clarification in Yu Qingchuan’s name, accusing Su Ningyue of deliberately undermining him and feeding him incompatible foods that harmed his health.
• Yu Qingchuan told Yu Chenyi that Su Ningyue was behind the leak and had caused his illness, and Yu Chenyi said he would divorce her.

Yu Qingluo chose to leave the Yu family with Su Ningyue, while Yu Chenyi finalized their divorce and supported his son with assets. Yu Qingchuan then learned he was expected to inherit the Yu Corporation and insisted that Lu Shiyi become its CEO, leaving the company’s future in their hands.

• Yu Chenyi asked Yu Qingluo whether he wanted to stay with him or leave with Su Ningyue, and Yu Qingluo chose to go with his mother and give up his position at the Yu Corporation.
• Su Ningyue attacked Yu Qingluo after Yu Chenyi left, while Yu Chenyi barred him from working at the company and later gave him a one-percent stake and other assets.
• Yu Chenyi and Su Ningyue finalized their divorce, with Su Ningyue receiving their villa and ten million as a settlement.
• Yu Chenyi told Yu Qingchuan that Yu Qingluo had withdrawn and urged him to take over the Yu Corporation, but Yu Qingchuan agreed only if Lu Shiyi became CEO.
• Yu Qingchuan worried that President Liang would resent him for recruiting Lu Shiyi, then decided Lu Shiyi should join him at the Yu Corporation.

Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi celebrated Lunar New Year's Eve with Yu Chenyi and Lu Shiming, while Yu Qingchuan livestreamed and introduced Lu Shiyi to his followers. The evening ended with Yu Chenyi asking whether Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi planned to hold a ceremony.

• Yu Qingchuan agreed to spend New Year's Eve with Lu Shiming and Yu Chenyi, and Lu Shiyi arranged for all four of them to celebrate together.
• Lu Shiyi told Liang Xingyao he planned to take on Yu Qingchuan's responsibilities at the Yu Corporation, and Liang Xingyao agreed while joking about his closeness with Lu Shiming.
• Lu Shiyi, Yu Qingchuan, and Lu Shiming visited Yu Chenyi's villa, where Yu Chenyi taught Lu Shiming about business.
• Yu Qingchuan livestreamed while preparing lunch, and Lu Shiyi appeared to tell viewers not to call either of them someone else's husband or wife because he belonged to Yu Qingchuan alone.
• Lu Shiming told Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi that Yu Chenyi had wanted to make him his godson, and Yu Chenyi later asked whether the couple planned to hold a ceremony.

Yu Chenyi accepted Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi’s plan to hold a wedding after Qingchuan graduated, then welcomed Yu Qingluo into the family gathering after he arrived bruised from a visit to his mother. On New Year’s Eve, the family shared dinner and made dumplings, and Yu Qingchuan told Lu Shiyi he wanted to support him as well as rely on him.

• Yu Chenyi agreed that Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi could hold a wedding after Qingchuan graduated, and Qingchuan felt touched by his acceptance.
• Yu Qingluo arrived carrying gifts for Yu Chenyi, and Yu Qingchuan invited him inside despite the handprint on his face.
• Yu Chenyi applied ointment to Yu Qingluo’s injury, told him not to visit his mother again, and invited him to stay for dinner.
• Yu Chenyi asked about Yu Qingluo’s romantic interests and work plans, and Yu Qingluo said he would join a senior’s studio.
• Yu Chenyi and the four younger men shared dinner, made dumplings, and exchanged New Year’s red envelopes.
• Yu Qingchuan gave Lu Shiyi a watch and told him he wanted to be someone Lu Shiyi could lean on, and Lu Shiyi replied that he felt vulnerable.

Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi celebrated the New Year, bought a villa together, and began working hard to rebuild their savings. Meanwhile, Yu Qingluo worked on a demanding business project and ended the chapter feeling suspicious and unwell after dinner with Tang Ronglin.

• Lu Shiyi reassured Yu Qingchuan of his love, and Yu Qingchuan welcomed the New Year feeling happy and secure.
• Yu Qingchuan greeted Chen Shujun and his grandmother, who offered him a rough diamond for wedding rings, while Lu Shiyi took him on a snowy hot spring trip.
• Lu Shiyi and Yu Qingchuan bought a three-hundred-million villa and insisted on putting both their names on its ownership papers.
• Lu Shiyi returned to work, Yu Qingchuan took art commissions, and Yu Chenyi gave them twenty million, which Yu Qingchuan called his dowry.
• Yu Qingluo worked overtime on a gaming-company project and joined Tang Ronglin for a celebratory dinner, where he briefly saw Lu Shiming.
• After drinking with Tang Ronglin, Yu Qingluo grew dizzy and weak, and he felt wary when Tang Ronglin offered to take him to a hotel room.

Yu Qingluo was drugged and nearly assaulted by Tang Ronglin, but Lu Shiming rescued him with Liang Xingyao’s help. After Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi joined them at the hospital, Yu Qingchuan took Yu Qingluo home and agreed to share his bed for the night.

• Yu Qingchuan realized the novel’s plot might be repeating when he sensed Yu Qingluo was in danger and learned Lu Shiming had seen him being taken toward a hotel room.
• Lu Shiming and Liang Xingyao obtained a master key card and rushed into the room, where Lu Shiming knocked Tang Ronglin away from Yu Qingluo.
• Lu Shiming carried Yu Qingluo to the hospital, where doctors confirmed he had been given a muscle relaxant and was not otherwise injured.
• Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi joined Yu Qingluo at the hospital, and Yu Qingchuan comforted him as he recovered.
• Yu Qingchuan decided to spend the night at Yu Qingluo’s home, and Yu Qingluo cautiously asked him to sleep in the same bed, which he accepted.

After Yu Qingluo learned that Su Ningyue had arranged his abduction, he helped send her to a secure care facility and declined to return to the Yu Corporation. He joined Xingyi instead, while Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi began planning their wedding and the Yu Corporation continued to prosper.

• Yu Qingluo told Yu Qingchuan what Tang Ronglin had said, and Lu Shiyi recognized that Tang Ronglin had tried to force Yu Qingluo back to the Yu family.
• Yu Chenyi discovered that Su Ningyue had paid Tang Ronglin to frighten Yu Qingluo, sent Tang Ronglin to jail, and arranged for Su Ningyue to be taken to a secure care facility after Yu Qingluo signed the paperwork.
• Yu Qingluo declined to return to the Yu Corporation and accepted Yu Qingchuan's suggestion to work at Liang Xingyao's Xingyi, where his successful projects made Liang Xingyao the biggest winner.
• Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi chose September 8 for their wedding and began planning the ceremony.
• Yu Qingchuan gained more than ten million followers through his paintings, while Lu Shiyi's leadership helped the Yu Corporation build a reputation for high-quality products and strong sales.

Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi finalized their wedding plans and spent two days taking elaborate wedding photos. Yu Qingchuan posted some of the pictures online, where fans celebrated their relationship and upcoming marriage.

• Yu Qingchuan toured the renovated villa with Lu Shiyi and loved the studio prepared for him.
• Yu Qingchuan learned their private-island wedding had more than three hundred guests after Lu Shiyi and Yu Chenyi sent invitations to their business contacts.
• Lu Shiyi arranged an expensive professional photography team and cleared his work schedule so they could take wedding photos.
• Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi posed in matching suits, vampire costumes, historical outfits, and other looks during two exhausting days of photography.
• Yu Qingchuan chose photos to print, saved the rest on his phone, and posted a slideshow on his video account, where it quickly gained likes and congratulatory comments.

Yu Qingchuan finished an ambitious painting for the ARTSAY competition while Lu Shiyi took care of their wedding preparations. The wedding party gathered on a private island, and Yu Qingchuan spent the night before the ceremony apart from Lu Shiyi, excited for their wedding the next day.

• Yu Qingchuan secretly painted an extravagant entry for ARTSAY, and Chen Shujun praised it and offered technical guidance.
• Twenty days later, Yu Qingchuan finished the large painting, showed it to Lu Shiyi, and sent it to the competition headquarters in America.
• Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi flew to their private island three days before the wedding, where they prepared their outfits and rehearsed the schedule.
• The groomsmen arrived and shared a beach barbecue, where Yu Qingluo shyly gave Lu Shiming a skewer while Liang Xingyao watched their slow-moving romance.
• Yu Chenyi enforced the custom that Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi spend the night before the wedding apart, so they talked by voice call until Lu Shiyi sang Yu Qingchuan to sleep.

Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi celebrated their wedding, where Yu Qingchuan’s painting also won major awards. After the festivities, the newlyweds returned to their room and began their wedding night.

• Lu Shiming woke Yu Qingchuan early, and Yu Qingchuan prepared for the wedding with help from Lu Shiming, Liang Xingyao, and Yu Qingluo.
• Lu Shiyi arrived to fetch Yu Qingchuan, and the two exchanged affectionate vows while the videographer filmed them.
• Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi completed their wedding ceremony, while Yu Qingluo told Yu Chenyi that he currently liked a man.
• Yu Chenyi sought reassurance on an online forum about his sons being gay, but the replies turned to speculation about his own sexuality and flirtation.
• Yu Qingchuan learned that his painting had won first prize and the Best Composition Award, and Lu Shiyi proposed auctioning it to resolve competing buyers’ interest.
• Yu Qingchuan’s award went viral online, and he and Lu Shiyi returned to their room and agreed it was time for their wedding night.

Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi shared their everyday life on a livestream while Yu Qingchuan established a foundation for young artists, and their loving marriage won over viewers. After years of happiness together, Yu Qingchuan woke one day in his old home with Lu Shiyi missing.

• Yu Qingchuan’s award-winning painting sold for 4.8 million, and he established a foundation for children who wanted to paint but lacked the means, with Lu Shiyi’s help.
• Yu Qingchuan and Lu Shiyi agreed to appear on a livestream variety show and welcomed the crew into their villa.
• Yu Qingchuan showed viewers his studio and portraits of Lu Shiyi, while both husbands declared they would love each other for life.
• The couple’s two days of livestreaming ended, and they later traveled together and enjoyed a happy, quiet life.
• Yu Qingchuan woke to find Lu Shiyi gone and himself back in his old home.

After waking in the real world, Yu Qingchuan feared that his life with Lu Shiyi had only been a dream, but he used illustrations and an extra story to try to bring his lover to him. Lu Shiyi found Yu Qingchuan, and they reunited at his apartment, where Lu Shiyi comforted him and checked his injured wrist.

• Yu Qingchuan discovered that only one night had passed in the real world and reread the unchanged novel, then began drawing three illustrations of Lu Shiyi for the author.
• Yu Qingchuan posted the illustrations online with a plea to find his missing lover, and the images spread widely.
• Yu Qingchuan persuaded the author to write an extra story in which Lu Shiyi came to the real world, then promoted the post to attract attention.
• Yu Qingchuan received a message from Lu Shiyi, exchanged his location and phone number, and waited for him at his apartment entrance.
• Lu Shiyi arrived, embraced Yu Qingchuan, and went home with him; he tidied the apartment and kissed Yu Qingchuan's scarred wrist.

After Yu Qingchuan vanished from the novel’s world, Lu Shiyi found him in his own world and helped him rebuild his life, expose the people who had harmed him, and return to painting. Yu Qingchuan revealed his relationship with Lu Shiyi during a livestream, then chose to return to the book’s world with him.

• Yu Qingchuan disappeared from the villa, and Lu Shiyi feared he had transmigrated back to his original world; Lu Shiming stayed with Lu Shiyi and tried to reassure him.
• Lu Shiyi arrived in Yu Qingchuan’s world, contacted him, and reunited with him after Yu Qingchuan had spent two days there and a week had passed in the novel’s world.
• Lu Shiyi found work, supported Yu Qingchuan’s conservative treatment and painting, and gathered evidence against Lin Baiqiu and his wife for the attack that injured Yu Qingchuan’s right hand.
• Surveillance footage and the assailant’s confession exposed the attack, while Yu Qingchuan won a national painting award for his painting "Left Hand" and received public recognition.
• Yu Qingchuan livestreamed as Qinglindu, introduced Lu Shiyi as his lover, and Lu Shiyi revealed that he had bought the book’s rights from its author.
• When Lu Shiyi asked whether they should stay in Yu Qingchuan’s world or return to the book, Yu Qingchuan chose the book’s world, and they fell asleep together expecting to return.