Recaps

Song Ning paid her respects at Zhou Weide’s memorial service and learned that Zhou Yuanhang would join the Qingbei laboratory project. Lei Ming warned security about a possible threat to the conference guests’ transport, and his warning proved justified when the original route was targeted in a staged crash.

• Song Ning bought newspapers, learned of Zhou Weide’s memorial service, and went to the Guo'an Machinery Factory to pay her respects.
• Song Ning saw Zhou Yunzhi caring for Zhou Weide’s frail daughter and then met Zhou Yuanhang, who told her he had joined the Qingbei laboratory project.
• Lei Ming contacted Han and urged him to change and inspect the vehicles transporting the conference guests.
• Lei Ming checked his hidden money tin and wondered how Song Ning knew his private preferences, while Meng Yu praised Song Ning’s gifts and complained that their daughter had become the courtyard’s tyrant.
• Han told Lei Ming that the original vehicle and route had been caught in a near-fatal collision after two trucks ran red lights at Tongfeng Intersection.

Song Wang accepted a technician position at the factory, while Gu Zheng warned Song Ning that saboteurs had shifted their attacks to manufacturers supporting the Dawn Project. He also revealed that the first intercontinental missile launch might be delayed until 1981, leaving Song Ning wondering why history had changed.

• Lei Ming reported a suspected plot targeting experts after two truck drivers involved in a collision were found to have taken stimulants.
• Zheng Chunzhi and Wang Youliang offered Song Wang a technician job, and Song Ning secured his appointment as chief technician with the factory's trust in his expertise.
• Song Wang signed the agreement and agreed to start work the next day.
• Gu Zheng told Song Ning that the K organization had shifted its sabotage efforts from Blue Shield to manufacturers supplying components for the Dawn Project.
• Gu Zheng said the earliest launch date was now 1981 because experts had not solved crucial technical problems and research from Xiaolu Mountain Base had been destroyed.
• Song Ning questioned how the historical launch date could have changed.

Song Ning told Gu Zheng about recent and upcoming historical events so he could check whether history had changed, then warned him that Lu Changqing might have concealed information. Gu Zheng explained the investigation into Lu Changqing and the factory, and the chapter ended with Song Ning accepting Gu Zheng’s watch and the two embracing.

• Song Ning listed recent events and upcoming developments in Hua Country for Gu Zheng to verify against history.
• Song Ning questioned whether Lu Changqing had brought out more than the two strings of numbers, and Gu Zheng explained that the numbers covered all usable project codes from Xiaolu Mountain Base.
• Gu Zheng said Lu Changqing was still missing and that investigators were checking for leaks, while he continued looking into Lu Ming’s connection to the factory.
• Gu Zheng told Song Ning he would stay in Capital City and asked whether she liked the watch he had sent her.
• Song Ning said she liked the watch, and Gu Zheng embraced her happily.

Song Ning helped launch the Hua-De Laboratory and later witnessed Zhou Weide’s daughter being dragged off a bus under false pretenses. She got off at the last moment to follow them.

• Song Ning attended the Hua-De Laboratory’s inauguration and learned that Mike would arrive after dealing with trouble involving his father, Kurt.
• Song Ning organized the Laboratory’s research assignments and planned to overcome its technical hurdles within three months.
• At a Ministry of Commerce banquet, Song Ning saw Lin Xiaoming dining with Zhou Weide’s daughter and later followed them toward a bus stop.
• Song Ning watched Zhou Weide’s daughter board a bus alone, then heard an old woman and a burly man pretend to be her relatives and force her off.
• Song Ning got off the bus just before its doors closed, following Zhou Weide’s daughter’s apparent abductors.

Song Ning followed Tian Mazi and his mother after they took Zhou’s daughter to their home, but Officer Xiao Wang accepted their cover story instead of investigating. Song Ning sent a message through him to Gu Zheng and then resumed watching the house, where Tian Mazi soon began moving the girl and other belongings away by tricycle.

• Song Ning saw Tian Mazi and his mother carry Zhou’s daughter into their home in Mao’er Alley and reported the kidnapping to Officer Xiao Wang.
• Officer Xiao Wang visited Tian Mazi’s home, accepted his explanation that his sick wife had been taken to see a doctor, and told Song Ning there was no cause for concern.
• Song Ning asked Xiao Wang to contact Wei Jinjun and pass a message to Gu Zheng about her report at Mao’ertun Police Station.
• Song Ning waited outside Tian Mazi’s home and watched him and his mother load someone, quilts, and other belongings onto a tricycle.
• Tian Mazi told a neighbor he was going to the hospital, and Song Ning followed him out of the courtyard.

Song Ning followed Tian Mazi to a hospital, where she discovered that the sick woman he brought there was not Zhou Xiaotang. After Gu Zheng joined her, they suspected Xiaotang had been taken to the Red Light Machine Tool Factory and climbed over its wall to search for her.

• Song Ning followed Tian Mazi to the Red Light Machine Tool Factory, then watched him take a sick woman to the hospital and realized she was not Zhou Xiaotang.
• Gu Zheng arrived with public security officers, assigned them to watch Tian Mazi and search his home, and listened as Song Ning explained how Xiaotang might have been taken from the tricycle.
• Song Ning suggested someone had taken Xiaotang while Tian Mazi was speaking at the factory guardroom window.
• Gu Zheng learned that the Red Light Machine Tool Factory had suspended production and arranged for help while he and Song Ning prepared to search it.
• Gu Zheng gave Song Ning a sheathed dagger, marked the jeep, and led her over the factory wall.

Gu Zheng and Song Ning searched the Red Light Machine Tool Factory for Zhou Xiaotang and found no signs that anyone had entered its final assembly workshop recently. A triangle-marked switch activated a hidden square opening, leaving them facing a possible underground passage.

• Gu Zheng and Song Ning slipped into the factory duty room, found the sleeping guard Li Youquan, and studied his patrol log and the factory layout.
• Gu Zheng and Song Ning entered the final assembly workshop through a broken window and found only undisturbed dust, with no footprints or traces of Zhou Xiaotang.
• Song Ning noticed a triangle beneath a knife switch on the workshop’s electrical panel and recalled seeing the same mark in the place where Li Zekun had been tortured.
• Gu Zheng and Song Ning powered the panel and closed the triangle-marked switch, causing a square opening to appear nearby.

Song Ning and Gu Zheng discovered a hidden underground facility beneath the factory, including two corpses and a symbol linked to Ghost. After military personnel took over the site, Song Ning reconsidered Zhou Xiaotang’s kidnapping and began tracing how she might have been taken from the alley.

• Song Ning and Gu Zheng entered the underground passage and found two decomposed bodies, one beside a symbol Gu Zheng recognized as Ghost’s mark.
• Gu Zheng concluded that the factory required an official search and summoned military personnel, who arrived and took over the grounds.
• Han Xiao drove Song Ning away from the factory, and she reconsidered whether Tian Mazi had really planned to bring Zhou Xiaotang there.
• Song Ning asked Han Xiao to stop at the alley where Tian Mazi had parked, then reasoned that someone might have taken Zhou Xiaotang through a nearby back door.
• Han Xiao pointed to the right-hand door as the likelier route.

Song Ning helped direct a search of the Guesthouse before beginning work on the IC research project, while Zhou Yuanhang left to assist the Public Security investigation into his cousin’s case. At the Laboratory, Song Ning set a confident schedule for the project, then suspected that a woman pleading with a Qingbei student was his abandoned wife.

• Song Ning urged Han Xiao to search the Guesthouse, and Yang Qi arrived with men to cordon off the area and search it.
• Zhou Yuanhang told Lao Qi and Song Ning that his cousin had also been caught up in trouble and left to cooperate with the Public Security investigation.
• Song Ning led the Laboratory team in setting detailed project milestones and assured them they could meet the schedule.
• Song Ning and Lao Qi saw a young woman pleading with a male Qingbei student, and Song Ning guessed that she was his abandoned wife seeking a debt.

Song Ning helped Feng Yujuan after Kong Jianming struck her and caused signs of a miscarriage, then learned that Liang Lichuan’s friend Li Yanzhou was the National College Entrance Examination’s top scorer. She discovered that Li Yanzhou studied nuclear physics, leaving her startled by his connection to her own field.

• Song Ning left the laboratory and encountered Kong Jianming slapping the pregnant Feng Yujuan outside the university gate.
• Liang Lichuan and his classmate Li Yanzhou intervened, and Song Ning recognized that Feng Yujuan was bleeding and might be miscarrying.
• Song Ning accompanied Liang Lichuan and Li Yanzhou as they took Feng Yujuan to the hospital, where doctors admitted her and warned they might not save the baby.
• Feng Yujuan begged them not to inform her mother, and Song Ning helped her while Liang Lichuan and Li Yanzhou handled the hospital arrangements.
• Liang Lichuan introduced Li Yanzhou to Song Ning and revealed that he had been the National College Entrance Examination’s top scorer.
• Song Ning learned that Li Yanzhou studied nuclear physics in Qingbei’s Engineering Physics Department.

Song Ning learned why Feng Yujuan had been abandoned by Sun Jianming and discovered that Liang Lichuan’s father had disappeared while working on a secret project. On the way back, she connected the missing men to Liang Shunsheng, the engineer from Factory 282 who had stayed at the guesthouse that burned in Yanling.

• Liang Lichuan told Song Ning that Feng Yujuan had supported Kong Jianming while he studied at Qingbei, but he later betrayed her and found another girlfriend.
• Liang Lichuan and Li Yanzhou explained that Feng Yuping worked at the Hua Country Academy of Sciences Institute of Physics and that their fathers had worked in physics-related fields.
• Liang Lichuan revealed that Feng Yujuan’s father had been missing for months after important documents disappeared from the Guoguang Instrument Factory, and that Sun Jianming had left her out of fear of being implicated.
• Liang Lichuan told Song Ning that his father had been away for two years to work on an important project and had left only a note for his family.
• Song Ning connected the secret work at Capital City Institute No. 6 with Factory 282 in Heng City and remembered that Liang Shunsheng, an engineer there, had stayed at the Yanling guesthouse that caught fire.

Song Ning listened as Gu Zheng updated her on Zhou Xiaotang’s kidnapping and Zhou Weide’s death, then learned that Lu Changqing had come to Capital City for a blind date with Zhou Xiaotang. After Gu Zheng fell asleep at her home, he caught Song Ning’s wrist and asked her to help him feel more secure.

• Song Wang reassured Song Ning that his new job was going well, and they agreed to build their own social lives.
• Gu Zheng told Song Ning that Yang Qi had found Zhou Xiaotang drugged and hidden at the police station, while investigators traced Zhou Weide’s death to a power outage in the Constant-Temperature Workshop.
• Gu Zheng revealed that Lu Changqing had arranged to meet Zhou Xiaotang on a blind date but fled after seeing a threatening symbol drawn on his table.
• Gu Zheng explained that Lin Xiaoming had introduced the pair and had taken Zhou Xiaotang to Quanjude to arrange roast duck for Zhou Weide’s seventh-day observance; investigators had verified their accounts.
• Gu Zheng said Lin Xiaoming was currently with the Arts and Culture Troupe and was not considered a suspect, though investigators would continue watching him.
• Song Ning covered the exhausted Gu Zheng with a blanket, and he caught her wrist and asked her to help him feel more secure.

Gu Zheng comforted his jealousy by eating noodles Song Ning cooked for him, then learned that Feng Jicheng’s disappearance might be connected to the classified Dawn Project. The next day, Song Ning questioned Zhou Yuanhang about Zhou Xiaotang’s job offer and asked whether he had investigated her past kidnapping.

• Gu Zheng came to see Song Ning feeling unsettled, and she cooked him noodles that eased his mood.
• Song Ning told Gu Zheng about Feng Yujuan and Feng Jicheng, and Gu Zheng decided to meet Lei Ming about Feng Jicheng’s disappearance.
• Song Ning asked Gu Zheng to investigate Liang Lichuan’s family circumstances, making Gu Zheng jealous again.
• Zhou Yuanhang told Song Ning that Zhou Xiaotang was reluctant to take over her late father’s factory position.
• Song Ning asked Zhou Yuanhang whether he had looked carefully into Zhou Xiaotang’s earlier kidnapping.

Song Ning learned more about Zhou Xiaotang’s kidnapping and refused Zhou Yuanhang’s request to persuade her to take a factory job. When Feng Yujuan attempted suicide, Song Ning helped the doctors treat her, but the wound on Feng Yujuan’s wrist seemed strange.

• Zhou Yuanhang told Song Ning that Zhou Xiaotang had been kidnapped before in an attempt to extort technical documents from her uncle.
• Song Ning advised Zhou Yuanhang to let Zhou Xiaotang and her aunt consider the factory job carefully, but declined to speak to Zhou Xiaotang herself.
• Liang Lichuan told Song Ning that Feng Yujuan had attempted suicide, and Song Ning rushed with him and Li Yanzhou to the hospital.
• A nurse said Feng Yujuan was critically ill and that medication could save her life but endanger the baby; Song Ning urged them to prioritize Feng Yujuan’s life.
• Song Ning entered the emergency room and used silver needles to slow Feng Yujuan’s bleeding and reduce her pain during treatment.
• As the attending physician prepared to stitch Feng Yujuan’s wrist, Song Ning found the wound increasingly strange.

Song Ning arranged care for Feng Yujuan after her suspicious wrist injury and forced Kong Jianming to accept responsibility for the baby and hospital bills. While asking Gu Zheng to investigate, she learned Feng Yujuan’s sister Feng Yuping was the woman found dead in the Red Star Machine Tool Factory basement.

• Song Ning noticed that Feng Yujuan’s wrist wound looked hurried and suspicious, then helped guide her treatment after the doctors stitched it.
• Kong Jianming admitted that Feng Yujuan’s unborn baby was his, and Song Ning made him pay her hospital expenses.
• Song Ning called Wei Jinjun to reach Gu Zheng and asked him to investigate Feng Yujuan’s apparent suicide attempt.
• Gu Zheng told Song Ning that Feng Yuping had been identified as the woman found dead in the Red Star Machine Tool Factory basement.

After learning Feng Yuping had died, Song Ning and her friends visited the Feng family and helped police identify a possible body as Feng Jicheng. On her way home, Song Ning found a heated dispute over spoiled wine at the Xingfu Road Winery, where Zheng Chunzhi and Wu Tao Ying argued over whether to issue a refund.

• Song Ning told Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan that Feng Yuping was dead, and they decided to visit Feng Yujuan's family.
• At the Feng family's apartment, Song Ning met Chen Liang, who revealed that police suspected the second body was Feng Jicheng and that Feng Yujuan's mother had also died.
• Liang Lichuan told Chen Liang that Feng Jicheng had once broken an arm in a machine accident, giving police a possible identifying clue.
• Song Ning, Li Yanzhou, and Liang Lichuan brought groceries to Grandma Feng and withheld the worst news about her family.
• Song Ning arrived at the Xingfu Road Winery and saw Tao Ying argue with customers over bad wine while Zheng Chunzhi ordered a refund.

Song Ning reassured Song Wang about his work at the struggling distillery, then heard from Gu Zheng that Feng Jicheng had been identified and his family targeted. Gu Zheng stayed with Song Ning for tea, feeling comforted by their growing closeness.

• Wu Tao Ying protested after Zheng Chunzhi refunded customers, while Song Ning called Song Wang out of the storeroom and took him home.
• Song Ning told Song Wang to focus on making liquor and promised she would eventually buy the distillery for him if the factory failed.
• Song Wang cooked for Song Ning at the Siheyuan Courtyard, and she later welcomed Gu Zheng when he came by that night.
• Gu Zheng told Song Ning that the basement victim was Feng Jicheng and that he had disappeared with secret factory documents before his daughter Feng Yuping was imprisoned and killed.
• Gu Zheng said Feng Yujuan was under protection and recovering, and that investigators were looking into the razor blade and visitors to her ward.
• Gu Zheng told Song Ning he felt at ease at her home, and they sat quietly together drinking tea.

Song Ning and Gu Zheng concluded that K and Ghost were targeting chief engineers to obstruct the Dawn Project, and Gu Zheng asked her to use her ability to help protect them. The next day, Song Ning led a laboratory meeting before accompanying Zhou Yuanhang to find out why his cousin's wife had suddenly asked to see her.

• Gu Zheng explained that K and Ghost were murdering chief engineers to delay the Dawn Project, while he and Song Ning worried that the research could not meet its expected launch date.
• Gu Zheng asked Song Ning to use her ability on a list of chief engineers, and they agreed she would meet her grandfather the following evening.
• Song Ning presented research proposals at a laboratory meeting, and the engineers discussed possible approaches to a CT scanner problem.
• Zhou Yuanhang received a call saying his cousin's wife wanted to see Song Ning, so Song Ning decided to go with him to investigate.

Song Ning visited Zhou Xiaotang and her mother, Luo Lin, after learning that Xiaotang wanted to thank her for saving her. Xiaotang gave Song Ning one of her paintings, but after examining it at home, Song Ning wondered whether she had been given it simply as a keepsake.

• Zhou Yuanhang took Song Ning to Zhou Xiaotang's home, where Luo Lin thanked her for rescuing Xiaotang and explained that Xiaotang could not leave her bed.
• Song Ning visited Zhou Xiaotang, who was recovering from the ordeal and said that she and Luo Lin planned to return to their hometown in Ji Province.
• Zhou Xiaotang offered Song Ning one of her watercolor paintings as a keepsake, and Song Ning chose a painting of the Tiananmen Gate Tower.
• Zhou Yuanhang helped Song Ning secure the painting to her bicycle, and Song Ning rode home alone.
• Song Ning examined the painting closely and wondered whether she was overthinking the gift or whether Zhou Xiaotang had simply wanted to leave her a keepsake.

Song Ning learned that Feng Yujuan had been attacked and chose to keep her baby because she felt it move, then confronted Kong Jianming over abandoning her and demanded he repay her. As Song Ning crossed the road, an out-of-control truck hit her and sent her flying.

• Song Ning went to the hospital with Liang Lichuan and Li Yanzhou, paid Feng Yujuan’s bill, and learned from Han Xiao that a man disguised as a doctor had slashed Feng Yujuan’s wrist.
• Song Ning asked Feng Yujuan why she wanted to keep the baby, and Feng Yujuan explained that she hated Kong Jianming but could not bring herself to kill her innocent child.
• Liang Lichuan and Li Yanzhou went to confront Kong Jianming, and Song Ning followed them to the medical school.
• Song Ning stopped Liang Lichuan from hitting Kong Jianming, slapped Kong Jianming herself, and gave him three days to repay Feng Yujuan.
• Song Ning waited for the pedestrian light and began crossing the road when an out-of-control truck struck her.

Song Ning was struck by a speeding truck and taken to the hospital, where she suffered a sudden, severe reaction to medication during emergency treatment. Gu Zheng arrived and waited anxiously outside the emergency room, still unaware of how critical her condition had become.

• A truck hit Song Ning and Zhou Yuanhang as Zhou rushed to pull her out of its path, and the truck crashed into a roadside retaining wall.
• Li Yanzhou, Liang Lichuan, and Zhou Yuanhang rushed Song Ning to the hospital in a car flagged down by Tang Wei.
• Doctors treated Song Ning's bleeding leg and started an intravenous medication, after which her throat swelled and she lost the ability to breathe.
• Tang Wei called Gu Zheng, then returned to the accident scene to help ensure the truck driver was held accountable.
• Gu Zheng arrived at the hospital, learned how the accident happened from Liang Lichuan, and waited anxiously outside the emergency room.

After Song Ning's car accident, doctors struggled to save her as Gu Zheng and Song Wang tried to warn them about her fragile health and medication restrictions. Song Ning heard her mother and grandfather speaking to her in a dreamlike state and realized she was back in the twenty-first century, where her loved ones were waiting for her to wake up.

• Chen Liang told Gu Zheng that the driver had died in the crash and that investigators suspected brake failure.
• A nurse said Song Ning was in shock and asked her family about medical conditions, prompting Gu Zheng to summon Song Wang.
• Song Wang told the doctor that Song Ning must not be given medication, and the doctor rushed back into the resuscitation room.
• Song Ning heard her mother recount events after the accident, including the award ceremony and Qi Rui collecting her trophy.
• Lao Lei spoke to Song Ning about missing her and asked when she would wake up, and Song Ning realized her family and friends were waiting for her in the twenty-first century.

After Song Ning suffered a life-threatening reaction to several medications, Gu Zheng waited helplessly outside the resuscitation room while doctors and experts gathered to assess her. The specialists learned that her throat had swollen nearly shut and that her condition had only stopped worsening after all medication was withdrawn.

• Gu Zheng was stopped from entering the resuscitation room, and the doctor told him Song Ning remained in danger.
• Lao Qi and experts from Capital Military Medical University arrived to join the consultation, while Gu Zheng recognized Jiang Chengshi among them.
• Lao Qi and Jiang Chengshi reunited and went to assess Song Ning after Gu Zheng explained the circumstances of her visit to the doctor.
• Gu Zheng waited outside, fearing that Song Ning might leave this world and never return to him.
• The attending doctor reported that Song Ning had gone into shock after receiving cephalothin and sulfonamide drugs, developed severe laryngeal edema, and improved somewhat after medication was stopped and topical silver sulfadiazine was washed off.

Jiang Chengshi and Lao Qi examined Song Ning while she lay unconscious and asked her to reveal how to treat her mysterious condition. Song Ning recognized their voices, identified a likely cause, and managed to signal that her complement protein needed testing.

• Jiang Chengshi and Lao Qi entered the resuscitation room and saw Song Ning in critical condition.
• Jiang Chengshi sent the hospital staff out and repeatedly called to Song Ning, while Lao Qi kept interrupting him.
• Song Ning heard the men, recalled her symptoms, and worked out a likely diagnosis.
• Song Ning's heart rate and blood pressure began rising as Jiang Chengshi spoke to her.
• Song Ning whispered “C4,” and Jiang Chengshi and Lao Qi recognized that they needed to test her complement protein.

Jiang Chengshi and Gu Zheng tried to understand Song Ning’s mysterious illness while waiting for her C4 test results, and Gu Zheng resolved to protect her. Meanwhile, Sun Jiahui visited Fang Fang with another prospective match, but Fang Fang remained convinced she would marry into the Gu family.

• Jiang Chengshi sent Song Ning’s blood sample to Union Hospital for urgent C4 testing, but Gu Zheng learned the results would take at least twenty to twenty-four hours.
• Jiang Chengshi told Gu Zheng that Song Ning was conscious inside but could not wake until doctors identified and treated the hereditary disease affecting her body.
• Gu Zheng believed Song Ning was fighting to return and vowed to remove threats from her path.
• Sun Jiahui visited Fang Fang to offer her another prospective match after Fang Fang had resigned from her teaching job.
• Fang Fang told Sun Jiahui she was still certain her marriage into the Gu family would happen.