Recaps

Song Ning prepared for Capital City Jinghe Hospital’s trial opening while learning that Li Yanzhou faced a difficult choice about joining a long-term confidential project. The hospital opened to public attention, and its doctors began receiving the first patients.

• Song Ning watched Li Yanzhou leave, then retrieved the crumpled paper and studied the name Cheng Yuan written on it.
• Song Ning asked Chen Liang to arrange contact with Gu Zheng and requested a renewed investigation of the exhibition hall connected to Zhou Xiaotang’s painting.
• Capital City Jinghe Hospital began its trial operation on March 6, 1980, with officials, reporters, and crowds attending the opening ceremony.
• Zheng Chang'an delivered the hospital’s speech, and Song Ning joined the officials for the group photograph despite her worries about affecting history.
• Song Ning led officials through the hospital, where clear signs and public price lists impressed them.
• Jiang Chengshi paced anxiously through the consultation rooms until Director Liu sent him away to let the doctors begin seeing patients.

Song Ning’s hospital began its trial opening, but the day’s routine consultations were interrupted when Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan rushed in with Feng Yujuan, who was suffering a dangerous labor. Song Ning took charge of the emergency operation, while Kong Jianming arrived and was confronted by Li Yanzhou; Feng Yujuan’s fate remained uncertain.

• Song Ning showed officials and reporters how patients received care, then reviewed a busy morning of routine consultations after they left.
• Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan carried Feng Yujuan into the hospital after she fell, began bleeding, and was transferred from a community hospital in critical condition.
• Song Ning sent Feng Yujuan to the operating room, asked Han Xiao to notify Kong Jianming, and reviewed the medications the community hospital had given her.
• Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan waited anxiously outside the operating room as staff brought in medication and blood bags.
• A military comrade brought Kong Jianming to the hospital, where Li Yanzhou punched him and accused him of neglecting Feng Yujuan.

Kong Jianming signed the risk acknowledgment for Feng Yujuan’s emergency treatment and remembered how he had abandoned her after she became pregnant. Song Ning saved Yujuan for now, but she still faced a critical twenty-four hours, while reporters gathered at the hospital.

• A nurse brought out Feng Yujuan and Kong Jianming’s newborn daughter and said the baby needed oxygen for a few days.
• Song Mei told Kong Jianming to sign the risk acknowledgment, and he accepted responsibility after recalling how he had betrayed Feng Yujuan.
• Song Ning emerged from surgery and said Feng Yujuan was alive but had to survive the next twenty-four hours to be out of danger.
• Xu Yang told Song Ning that reporters were waiting to cover the hospital’s first emergency patient, and she went to address them.
• Song Ning sent Song Mei to take Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan to her office and told them to wait for her.

Song Ning briefed reporters after saving a mother and her baby, then gave Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan comprehensive free health checkups. She took them to the hospital’s underground Research Center, where they discovered that leading faculty and students from Qingbei had joined her team and the Military Medical University’s best team was expected to arrive.

• Song Ning told the reporters that the mother and baby had survived, then allowed two representatives to photograph them through the door without disturbing the patient.
• Song Ning sent Jiang Chengshi to the Laboratory Department and Research Center after discussing something with him in private.
• Song Ning took Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan through a comprehensive free health checkup, explaining that the hospital planned to promote preventive examinations.
• Song Ning brought Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan to the underground Research Center, where a medical student recognized Li Yanzhou and revealed that Professor Jin was there.
• Song Ning said the Research Center had attracted top teams from Qingbei and that the Military Medical University’s best team would join later.

Song Ning brought Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan to donate samples at the research center, then told Jiang Chengshi she feared Li Yanzhou might become the expert Cheng Yuan, who had died in her grandfather’s case. She resolved to prepare to save him if he joined the confidential project, while Jiang Chengshi agreed to manage the hospital.

• Song Ning took Li Yanzhou and Liang Lichuan to the research center, where Professor Jin’s team collected blood, hair, saliva, and nail samples from them.
• Li Yanzhou offered to help cover Feng Yujuan’s medical costs, but Song Ning said the hospital and her father’s work unit would help and that she would handle Kong Jianming’s responsibility for the baby.
• Song Ning told Jiang Chengshi that Li Yanzhou had been chosen for a confidential project and was drawn to the name Cheng Yuan, the alias of an expert who had died by poisoning in her grandfather’s case.
• Song Ning feared Li Yanzhou would join the seven experts working with Gu Zheng and remain unidentified if the project failed, so she planned to analyze his samples and ensure he survived.
• Jiang Chengshi agreed to take charge of hospital affairs, then wondered whether he would have to keep running the hospital for decades if Song Ning returned.

Song Ning stayed up all night writing research findings for medicines that could help her family and herself, then handed them to Professor Jin to develop. She left the hospital to go home and sleep, while the research projects began their formal process.

• Song Ning called Lei Ming to arrange for Meng Yu and Lei Hongyuan to come to the hospital, then spent the night writing down pharmaceutical research findings.
• Zheng Chang'an found Song Ning still working at dawn and urged her to protect her health; she finished writing and asked him to send Professor Jin to her office.
• Song Ning ate breakfast with Zheng Chang'an and asked Yu Qiuye to bring her mother to the hospital for treatment.
• Song Ning gave Professor Jin four research documents, including three completed findings and one research direction, and asked his team to prioritize them.
• Professor Jin promised to lead the research and development team in verifying the findings, and Song Ning went home to catch up on sleep.

After leaving the hospital to rest, Song Ning met Song Shaoyang, director of the Third Ring Pharmaceutical Factory, who proposed an exclusive manufacturing partnership. She learned his factory hoped to become Huansu Pharmaceuticals and that his cousin Su Tong had encouraged him to approach her.

• Song Ning left the hospital with Han Xiao and Chen Liang after explaining the costs and procedures for its free medicine program.
• Song Ning and Chen Liang recognized a young man and woman from the Qin Family outside the hospital, then returned to the Siheyuan Courtyard so Song Ning could sleep.
• Song Shaoyang visited Song Ning at home and proposed that his factory secure exclusive manufacturing rights to her hospital's research results.
• Song Ning agreed to read Song Shaoyang's factory materials and visit the factory before deciding about a partnership.
• Song Shaoyang revealed that his cousin Su Tong had suggested the partnership and named his factory Huansu Pharmaceutical Factory.

Song Ning considered partnering with Huansu Pharmaceutical Factory, agreed to help Regiment Commander Lei persuade Meng Yu to stay in the hospital, and arranged care for Su Ying’s difficult pregnancy. Chen Liang’s investigation found no meaningful link between Zhou Xiaotang and the painting Looking Up, while Zheng Chang'an fled after Song Ning hinted he might become hospital director.

• Song Ning reviewed Huansu Pharmaceutical Factory’s proposal and decided she was willing to partner with it if it met production requirements.
• Dong Yuan told Song Ning that Meng Yu resisted hospital admission and that Su Ying was suffering from severe pregnancy symptoms; Song Ning promised to help both women the next day.
• Chen Liang reported that Zhou Xiaotang had attended two lectures by Looking Up’s artist, Du Song, but Du did not know her and investigators found no other suspicious clues.
• Song Ning arrived at the hospital on time and praised Zheng Chang'an’s hard work by suggesting she could hand him the director’s position.
• Zheng Chang'an nearly fell over, then announced he was going back to Bijie to apologize to his mother.

Song Ning struggled to handle the sudden influx of pregnant patients at Jinghe Hospital and welcomed Meng Yu and Little Hongyan, arranging treatment for Meng Yu’s condition. The chapter left Meng Yu agreeing to surgery and Hongyuan expected to return from the grasslands for treatment.

• Song Ning dragged Zheng Chang'an into her office after he tried to leave, insisting he keep working.
• Newspaper coverage of Jinghe Hospital’s opening and its emergency delivery brought a surge of heavily pregnant patients before the obstetrics department had officially opened.
• Song Ning worked through exchange applications to find more staff, then welcomed Meng Yu and Little Hongyan to her office.
• Song Ning told Meng Yu that she needed a minor operation and persuaded her to be admitted and undergo surgery soon.
• Little Hongyan told Song Ning that her brother Hongyuan was coming back from the grasslands and insisted that she was his older sister.

Song Ning rapidly built Jinghe Hospital’s obstetrics and gynecology team while its trial opening drew more patients. A week later, Professor Jin completed three research projects, and Song Ning told him to credit the researchers who carried them out as the hospital began seeking approval and production.

• Song Ning treated a surge of complicated obstetric cases and helped an associate chief physician from Xiehe Hospital take over patients through the night.
• Two more associate chief physicians and four attending physicians arrived, completing Song Ning’s high-caliber obstetrics and gynecology team.
• Jinghe Hospital’s trial opening maintained strong outpatient numbers as admissions rose and patients recognized the credentials of its doctors.
• Professor Jin presented Song Ning with reports on three successfully developed products after the research teams followed her procedures.
• Song Ning refused to claim developer credit and asked Professor Jin to list the researchers who performed and verified the work.
• Professor Jin agreed to pursue fast-track approval for the hospital’s projects as Song Ning prepared to contact manufacturers.

Song Ning appointed Qi Shiyuan vice president and reassigned hospital duties before leaving for a planned pharmaceutical factory inspection. Han Xiao then told her Zhou Yunzhi had died in an accidental fall, and Song Ning hurried to the hospital to see her body.

• Song Ning arranged an inspection of the Third Ring Pharmaceutical Factory with Zheng Chang'an.
• Qi Shiyuan arrived from Shanghai, and Song Ning appointed him vice president, redistributing work among him, Jiang Chengshi, and Zheng Chang'an.
• Song Ning sent Jiang Chengshi to the factory visit in her place after Han Xiao reported Zhou Yunzhi's death.
• Tian Juying and Zhou Yuanhang found Zhou Yunzhi dead in the backyard, with a pool of blood beneath her.

After Zhou Yunzhi died from a fall, Song Ning and Han Xiao learned that the Zhou Family had reported her death to Public Security, which was investigating the case. Song Ning suspected the fall might not have been accidental and wondered what Zhou Yuanhang had wanted to learn from Zhou Yunzhi.

• Song Ning and Han Xiao paid their respects to Zhou Yunzhi and offered condolences to Elder Zhou and Professor Yang.
• Chen Liang reported that Doctor Huang found Zhou Yunzhi had died from a fatal head injury and fractures after falling from the roof.
• Chen Liang told Song Ning that Elder Zhou had reported the death to Public Security, and Song Ning said they should wait for the investigation's raw findings.
• On the drive home, Song Ning recalled that Lin Xiaoming had likely tried to kill Zhou Yunzhi before, then suspected Zhou Yuanhang had secretly tried to revive her.
• Song Ning wondered what Zhou Yuanhang had wanted to learn from Zhou Yunzhi.

Song Ning suspected Zhou Yunzhi might have known about the black jadeite cases, but Chen Liang returned with the police investigation’s findings. The police concluded that Zhou Yunzhi had died by suicide after falling from the rooftop.

• Song Ning connected Zhou Yunzhi to Zhou Yuanhang and the black jadeite cases, then asked Han Xiao to take photos of Zhou Yunzhi for Chen Xiaoyu.
• Song Ning arranged Meng Yu’s discharge after confirming that her surgery wound was healing well, and planned to visit again when Hongyuan returned home.
• Chen Liang reported that the autopsy and scene evidence supported a fall, while the Zhou family’s statements described finding Zhou Yunzhi in the backyard.
• Song Ning read Tian Juying’s statement and noted that the family had planned to return to their hometown after the first lunar month.
• Chen Liang explained that brain and psychological damage could cause self-harm, and reported that the police had ruled Zhou Yunzhi’s death a suicide.

Song Ning and the others found no evidence in Zhou Yunzhi’s death, though they suspected someone had wanted to keep her in Capital City, and Han Xiao began accompanying Song Ning for her protection. At the hospital, Song Ning noticed a film event that gave her an idea for Lao Jiang, then checked on Feng Yujuan and learned Li Yanzhou had gone far away.

• Song Ning, Han Xiao, and Chen Liang reviewed Zhou Yunzhi’s case and found no evidence of foul play, but Song Ning suspected someone had prevented her from returning home.
• Han Xiao told Song Ning to keep him and the others close for protection because she was the only person still connected to the Xiaolu Mountain incident.
• Chen Liang said Regiment Commander Lei had left Capital City on a classified mission and went to confirm arrangements for his family.
• Song Ning read that Love at Cape's End would host a discussion event on March 20 and hinted to Han Xiao that spring was coming for Lao Jiang.
• Song Ning checked on Feng Yujuan and encouraged her to recover; Feng Yujuan said Kong Jianming had helped with the baby and that Liang had visited alone because Li Yanzhou had gone far away.

Song Ning investigated Zhou Yunzhi’s connections and learned that Wu Shuangshuang had once seen Zhou Xiaotang with another woman and a man. After helping Wu Shuangshuang handle a frightened patient, Song Ning prepared to ask her about what she had seen.

• Song Ning asked Han Xiao to find out whether Li Yanzhou and Regiment Commander Lei had left the capital on the same day.
• Chen Xiaoyu recognized Zhou Yunzhi from Chief Engineer Zhou’s memorial service but said she had never seen her elsewhere.
• Chen Xiaoyu told Song Ning that Wu Shuangshuang had seen Zhou Xiaotang rowing with a man and another pretty woman.
• Song Ning brought Chen Xiaoyu and the others to find Wu Shuangshuang, then ordered a frightened patient to cooperate so Wu Shuangshuang could insert his needle.
• Chen Xiaoyu introduced Song Ning to Wu Shuangshuang, who recalled that her mother had once locked her in her room to stop her from applying for a job at Song Ning’s hospital.

Song Ning confirmed that Lu Changqing had gone boating with Zhou Xiaotang and Zhou Yunzhi on September 30, then connected the black jadeite to the people surrounding them. She searched Zhou Xiaotang’s room and the Exhibition Hall for clues hidden among the paintings, but had not yet confirmed her suspicion.

• Wu Shuangshuang identified Zhou Yunzhi and Lu Changqing in photographs and recalled seeing them with Zhou Xiaotang boating on lunar August 10, September 30.
• Song Ning reconstructed the timeline of Lu Changqing’s movements, the theft and murders, and Zhou Xiaotang’s kidnapping, concluding that the black jadeite’s whereabouts were linked to Lu Changqing and the Zhou family.
• Song Ning, Han Xiao, and Chen Liang searched Chief Engineer Zhou’s house, where Song Ning carefully recorded and counted the paintings in Zhou Xiaotang’s room.
• Song Ning went to the Exhibition Hall and studied the paintings, their titles, and artist introductions while looking for another clue.

Song Ning investigated the paintings in Zhou Xiaotang’s room and found they were all prizewinning works, with Du Song’s publicly exhibited paintings displayed most prominently. She concluded Zhou had deliberately given her Du Song’s famous painting to lead her toward the artist, but Du Song had retired and gone away to paint without telling anyone where he was.

• Song Ning asked about Du Song’s other works and went with Han Xiao and Chen Liang to Qingbei Academy of Fine Arts after the exhibition hall had closed.
• Director Wang showed Song Ning an album of Du Song’s work, and she confirmed that the twenty paintings in his current exhibition were among those displayed in Zhou Xiaotang’s room.
• Director Wang told Song Ning that Du Song had retired and left to paint from life, without revealing his destination.
• Song Ning explained that Zhou Xiaotang had specifically chosen Looking Up as her gift and that all twenty-six paintings in her room came from the Fifth National Art Exhibition.
• Song Ning concluded that Zhou had selected Du Song’s most famous painting to make her connect the gift to him, and Han Xiao said Zhou’s purpose had been to lead them to Du Song.

Song Ning learned that Zhou Xiaotang had copied Du Song’s paintings to draw attention to him while guarding against Zhou Yuanhang, and she prepared to help Little Hongyuan receive treatment. She arranged for him to be admitted to the hospital the next day and promised to help him recover so he could grow up and join the army with Little Hongyan.

• Han Xiao and Chen Liang discussed how Zhou Xiaotang’s copied paintings pointed toward Du Song and added to the circumstantial evidence against Zhou Yuanhang.
• Song Ning reflected on Du Song’s paintings and wondered whether he had sensed danger before leaving.
• Director Jin told Song Ning that the medicine application had been approved and clinical trials could begin once they received the approval number.
• Song Ning met Little Hongyuan, Meng Yu’s parents, and the family at the Military District Compound, then cooked a meal for them.
• Song Ning examined Little Hongyuan and arranged for him to be admitted to the hospital the next day to prepare for heart surgery.
• Song Ning promised Little Hongyuan she would make him well, and Little Hongyan told him they would join the army together when they grew up.

Song Ning and Chen Liang investigated Professor Du Song’s connection to Zhou Xiaotang and found no evidence the two had ever known each other. Song Ning realized Zhou Xiaotang may have attended Du Song’s October 3 lecture only to sign in, shortly after learning her father had been killed.

• Song Ning read Chen Liang’s report on Du Song and concluded that his character and reputation were beyond reproach.
• Chen Liang told Song Ning that Du Song knew neither Zhou Xiaotang nor her father, and investigators found no private connection between them.
• Song Ning and Chen Liang established that Zhou Xiaotang could have encountered Du Song only at his public lectures, whose content revealed nothing suspicious.
• Chen Liang reported that Zhou Xiaotang signed in for Du Song’s October 3 lecture after learning her father had died that morning.
• Song Ning noted that Zhou Xiaotang was picked up near the Exhibition Hall around eleven and had no time to hear the lecture, suggesting she went inside only to sign in.

Song Ning chose Huasu Pharmaceuticals as the partner for producing the new drug and planned to sign a contract after production approval. She gave Jiang Chengshi new clothes and a day off, then sent him to a discussion event for Love at Cape's End.

• Zheng Chang'an and Jiang Chengshi reported on the factories they had visited, and Song Ning confirmed that Huasu Pharmaceuticals was the best partner because it offered to share profits from her research.
• Song Ning explained that the factory visits had documented a careful comparison, and Zheng Chang'an agreed to coordinate with Huasu Pharmaceuticals.
• Song Ning told Zheng Chang'an to prepare to sign the contract that week and begin a small production batch the following week if approval came through.
• Jiang Chengshi complained about his workload, so Song Ning gave him the next day off and showed him a newspaper notice for a discussion event about Love at Cape's End.
• Chen Xiaoyu delivered clothes Song Ning had bought for Jiang Chengshi, and Song Ning told him to wear them to the event tomorrow.

Song Ning arranged for Jiang Chengshi to attend an event where he might meet Grandma Jiang, while she cared for Little Hongyuan and prepared the hospital’s pharmaceutical partnership. Jiang Chengshi reached the theater, but whether he and Grandma Jiang would meet remained uncertain.

• Song Ning gave Jiang Chengshi new clothes and urged him to attend the event, hoping he might encounter Grandma Jiang without revealing her plan.
• Song Ning spoke with Lao Qi at breakfast, then admitted Little Hongyuan and arranged examinations and an herbal prescription for him.
• Director Jin told Song Ning that the approval had been granted, and she tasked Zheng Chang'an with negotiating the Huansu Pharmaceutical Factory agreement.
• Jiang Chengshi arrived at the National Arts Theater with Chen Liang, accepted his invitation card, and entered the venue area.

Jiang Chengshi attended a public event for Love at Cape's End, expecting Song Ning's plans to explain why she had arranged his seat. He refused to trade places with a fan and watched the film's team arrive, but none of the actresses stirred his heart.

• Jiang Chengshi entered the event with his invitation and found his seat beside the film's team.
• A young woman asked whether Jiang Chengshi was a fan of the film's stars and requested to swap seats so she could sit closer to Chen Boyuan.
• Jiang Chengshi refused to swap seats, deciding to follow his heart, and told the young woman that he liked someone else.
• The host introduced Love at Cape's End as clips from the film played and the audience cheered for its leads.
• The film's team came onstage, and Jiang Chengshi studied the cast but felt no attraction to any of the actresses.

Jiang Chengshi attended a film discussion event and became angry when an American guest mocked the audience and creators of Love at Cape's End. After a woman defended the film, Jiang Chengshi delivered a rapid English rebuttal, leaving the reporter struggling to translate him.

• Jiang Chengshi sat through the discussion event, unable to identify the woman Song Ning had sent him to see.
• An American guest named Mr. Smith criticized Chinese audiences and filmmakers for being moved by a cheek kiss in Love at Cape's End.
• A woman in the audience answered Mr. Smith in fluent English and defended the film, earning thunderous applause.
• Jiang Chengshi rushed onto the stage and delivered a forceful English rebuke of Mr. Smith.
• The reporter struggled to translate Jiang Chengshi's rapid speech as the woman began speaking again.

After Jiang Chengshi defended the film’s portrayal of love, he met its screenwriter and was captivated by her. When she suffered a severe asthma attack, he rushed her toward the hospital, leaving the chapter with Chen Liang driving them to Jinghe.

• Jiang Chengshi passionately refuted a foreign reporter’s criticism of the film and learned that the woman translating for him was its screenwriter.
• Jiang Chengshi nervously shook the screenwriter’s hand, then stayed behind after the event hoping to see her again.
• The screenwriter suffered a severe asthma attack, and Jiang Chengshi recognized her symptoms and tried to help.
• Jiang Chengshi used the screenwriter’s inhaler, then carried her out when she could not breathe on her own.
• Chen Liang drove Jiang Chengshi and the screenwriter away as Jiang Chengshi ordered him to get to Jinghe as fast as possible.

Jiang Chengshi rescued Wen Xin during an asthma attack, and Song Ning treated her at the hospital. After Wen Xin agreed to stay and recover, she told Song Ning that she seemed strangely familiar.

• Jiang Chengshi brought an unconscious Wen Xin to the hospital, where Song Ning and the medical staff treated her asthma.
• Jiang Chengshi told Song Ning that he believed Wen Xin was the woman he was destined to meet.
• Wen Xin’s director arrived, thanked Jiang Chengshi for saving her, and learned that he was the hospital’s vice president.
• Wen Xin woke up, and Song Ning explained that she needed to stay in the hospital and recover from exhaustion and poor health.
• Wen Xin agreed to be admitted and told Song Ning that they seemed meant to meet because Song Ning felt familiar.