Recaps

After Song Ning collapsed during an apparent attack, doctors found no injury and admitted her for observation. She warned Jiang Chengshi that his mother might be in a traffic accident, rejected the idea of dating Zhou Yuanhang, and left Gu Zheng watching them together with jealous suspicion.

• A masked man fled after Song Ning fell unconscious, and Gu Zheng later woke in the hospital after fainting while thinking about her and Zhou Yuanhang.
• Han Xiao told Gu Zheng that Song Ning had been attacked and hospitalized, so Gu Zheng pulled out his IV and rushed to find her.
• Doctors found Song Ning had no head injury and was in excellent health, but admitted her for observation.
• Song Ning recognized July 20, 1979, from the calendar and warned Jiang Chengshi that his mother, Lin Huiping, might be involved in a traffic accident on July 23, prompting him to hurry home.
• Song Ning told Zhou Yuanhang she did not intend to marry or date, and he agreed they could simply be friends.
• Gu Zheng saw Zhou Yuanhang caring for Song Ning through her hospital-room door and wondered whether she had accepted him.

After waking in the hospital, Song Ning discovered that reading subjects she cared about could awaken news memories from her previous life, including events that might soon happen in Rong City. She left with Han Xiao to get away from Zhou Yuanhang, while uncertain whether her recalled news was reliable.

• Song Ning answered public security officers’ questions about the masked attacker and told Zhou Yuanhang she could not sleep with him watching over her.
• Song Ning read the newspaper and recalled reports about a coming landslide involving a heroes’ delegation and a successful foreign trade fair for small electronic goods.
• Song Ning realized that subjects which had interested her in her previous life could trigger forgotten news memories, and she wondered whether the recalled events were trustworthy.
• Zhou Yuanhang woke and called Song Ning adorable after watching her inspect the newspaper and hospital objects, prompting her to hurry out of bed.
• Han Xiao arrived to visit Song Ning, and she left with him, telling Zhou Yuanhang she would be discharged.
• Zhou Yuanhang watched Song Ning hurry away and concluded that he had been too impatient and had scared her.

Song Ning and Gu Zheng compared the strange effects they experienced after fainting and taking pills from Dong Village. Song Ning revealed that she had foreseen a car crash, leaving Gu Zheng stunned by the possibility that she could predict the future.

• Han Xiao told Song Ning that Gu Zheng had fainted and was missing from his hospital room.
• Jiang Chengshi arrived distraught and explained that his mother had avoided a crash that killed five of her colleagues.
• Song Ning checked Gu Zheng's pulse and asked him how he had fainted.
• Song Ning and Gu Zheng realized they had both suffered sudden head pain, lost consciousness, and felt clearer after waking.
• Song Ning said she had foreseen the crash involving Jiang Chengshi's mother, and Gu Zheng asked if she could predict what would happen.

Song Ning told Gu Zheng that the medicine had awakened memories of future news, but an accidental kiss and his reaction drove her away. After identifying the man who attacked her, she spotted two men from the alley and asked Jiang Chengshi where Chen Yuting was.

• Song Ning explained her future-news memories to Gu Zheng, but he struggled to believe her and accidentally pulled her into his arms.
• Song Ning and Gu Zheng accidentally touched lips, and Gu Zheng slapped himself, angering Song Ning and prompting her to leave with a warning about a July 24 landslide threatening the Hero Regiment on its way to Yu.
• Jiang Chengshi and Han Xiao passed Song Ning's landslide warning to Gu Zheng, then followed her to the district police station.
• Song Ning identified the fourth of eight suspects as the man who attacked her, while Han Xiao stayed behind to help investigate.
• Song Ning spotted two men who spoke Sichuan dialect near the guesthouse and asked Jiang Chengshi where Chen Yuting was.

Song Ning planned to buy repaired and surplus electronics for a government Commodity Expo, while Gu Zheng adjusted a heroes’ report troupe’s schedule to keep them in Rong City until the twenty-fourth. The chapter ended with Song Ning seeing Zhou Yunzhi cling to Gu Zheng after he helped her up.

• Song Ning told Yu Zhengyang to hurry the repairs on his five hundred and fifty radios and cassette recorders and buy additional unsold electronics for the expo.
• Song Ning explained her plan to Jiang Chengshi, who offered to seek money from his family and advised her to borrow from Gu Zheng rather than Zhou Yuanhang.
• Gu Zheng confirmed that the report troupe’s schedule matched Song Ning’s warning and asked the publicity department to keep the heroes in Rong City until the twenty-fourth.
• Gu Zheng returned to the hospital to arrange his discharge, but Zhou Yunzhi blocked him and pleaded for his attention.
• Zhou Yunzhi fell and grabbed Gu Zheng’s leg; when he helped her up, she hugged him, and Song Ning saw them.

Song Ning found Gu Zheng with Zhou Yunzhi and mistook their embrace for a sign they were involved, but Gu Zheng hurried to explain and learned Song Ning had come to borrow money. As Gu Zheng went to get his bankbook, Jiang Chengshi revealed he had taken 8,000 without asking his mother, leaving Song Ning unwilling to use it.

• Song Ning saw Gu Zheng steady Zhou Yunzhi and, believing they might be together, tried to leave without asking him for money.
• Gu Zheng caught Song Ning and insisted he had only steadied Zhou Yunzhi, while Song Ning questioned why he had let her hug his waist.
• Jiang Chengshi arrived and accidentally told Gu Zheng that Song Ning needed to borrow money.
• Gu Zheng happily agreed to lend Song Ning money and hurried to get his bankbook.
• Jiang Chengshi showed Song Ning the 8,000 he had obtained, then admitted he had taken it without asking his mother, prompting Song Ning to demand that he return it or explain himself.

Song Ning gathered money from Jiang Chengshi and Gu Zheng to pursue a deal for electronics, then went with Yu Zhengyang to negotiate with Red Star Electronics Factory. She introduced Yu Zhengyang as a manager and began speaking with Director Zhang.

• Jiang Chengshi lent Song Ning his mother's money, and Gu Zheng gave her his savings, bringing her total to twenty-two thousand yuan.
• Yu Zhengyang told Song Ning that the electronics factory would not sell to him, so she changed into business attire and decided to negotiate herself.
• Gu Zheng joined Song Ning and Yu Zhengyang as their driver when they headed to Red Star Electronics Factory.
• Song Ning met Director Zhang and presented Yu Zhengyang as a young manager learning the market with the company's funds.

Song Ning negotiated a seven-yuan-per-unit deal with Director Zhang for 3,000 radios and tape recorders from the Red Star Electronics Factory, promising to promote the brand at an upcoming trade fair. After leaving the factory, she told Yu Zhengyang they would find a place to sell the goods.

• Song Ning learned that Yu Zhengyang had not paid the factory's repair bill, so she had him settle the 550-yuan debt in cash.
• Song Ning explained the trade fair and offered to promote the factory, then negotiated a price of seven yuan per unit.
• Director Zhang agreed to sell the stock at seven yuan per unit and arrange promotional banners and leaflets.
• Song Ning limited the contract to 3,000 units so the factory could inspect them carefully and reserve the other 300.
• Yu Zhengyang worried they would not sell the goods, but Song Ning said they would find a place to sell them right away.

Song Ning and Jiang Chengshi visited the Rong City Exposition site, where they confronted foreign planner Kevin over his exclusionary demands. After Kevin quit, Song Ning presented Jiang Chengshi as an experienced returning expert, and Director Li Yucheng accepted his help.

• Song Ning and Gu Zheng traveled to the Exposition's temporary office at a development site in the Southern Suburbs.
• Song Ning and Jiang Chengshi found Kevin insisting that organizers impose high entry requirements that would exclude many domestic businesses.
• Jiang Chengshi insulted Kevin in English, and Song Ning told the furious planner that the Exposition could proceed without him.
• Kevin quit and stormed out after Director Li Yucheng explained that he had been hired to guide the event.
• Song Ning introduced Jiang Chengshi as Mr. Ethan, a returning finance and business expert, and Director Li accepted his offer to help run the Exposition.

Jiang Chengshi and Song Ning helped the municipal commerce bureau solve practical problems, and Gu Zheng arranged official recognition for Jiang Chengshi under the name Ethan. Song Ning persuaded Director Li to let her register as a vendor and secured a booth at Rong City's first Commodity Expo, scheduled for the twenty-second through the twenty-fourth.

• Jiang Chengshi and Song Ning resolved several problems for Director Li while Gu Zheng called Commander Jiang to confirm Jiang Chengshi's background.
• Commander Jiang praised Jiang Chengshi's ability, and city leaders authorized an Exposition work badge for him as Mr. Ethan.
• Song Ning learned that Director Li was reporting to the city leaders and confirmed that Gu Zheng had already spoken on their behalf.
• Song Ning proposed allowing vendors to register and suggested a blacklist system to punish vendors and brands that sold substandard products.
• Director Li approved Song Ning's experimental registration, and she received a booth at the back of the venue for the upcoming Commodity Expo.

Song Ning prepared exhibitors for strict consumer scrutiny and helped launch Rong City's first Small Commodity Expo, where Yu Zhengyang's imported tape recorders sold rapidly. Director Zhang arrived with plans to deliver more goods, and Song Ning began discussing the price of Red Star Electronics Factory's products.

• Song Ning informed Director Zhang about the exposition's quality agreement, prompting him to order a full inspection of Red Star Electronics Factory's three thousand machines.
• Rong City's first Small Commodity Expo opened on July 22, and overwhelming crowds forced Director Li to request more police reinforcements.
• Yu Zhengyang and his crew drew customers to their booth with music, demonstrations, and Song Ning's sixty-eight-yuan price for imported tape recorders.
• The booth sold through most of its stock before noon, and Director Zhang arrived to arrange a truckload of Red Star Electronics Factory goods.
• Song Ning asked Director Zhang to suggest prices for his factory's products so the exhibition would not harm future sales.

Song Ning helped the Red Star Electronics Factory promote its products at the trade fair with theatrical mascots and a memorable slogan, drawing a huge crowd and selling nearly all of its stock. Director Zhang returned to the factory determined to expand production, convinced the publicity could change its future.

• Director Zhang agreed to price Red Star's tape recorder and radio at thirty-eight yuan and sent a thousand units to Song Ning's booth.
• Song Ning arranged for Red Star staff to help at the booth and directed them to hang banners and distribute flyers.
• Song Ning unveiled full-scale cardboard models of Red Star's products and had two workers wear them to attract customers.
• The costumed workers shouted Red Star's slogan, drawing a crowd and newspaper reporters to the booth, while Song Ning and Yu Zhengyang helped serve customers.
• By closing time, only a little over a hundred of the thousand Red Star units remained, and Song Ning told Yu Zhengyang to prepare more sales teams for the next day.
• Director Zhang arranged to deliver more stock and called for an emergency factory meeting to increase production, explaining that Song Ning's promotion could change the factory's fate.

Song Ning celebrated the exhibition’s successful sales with Gu Zheng, Yu Zhengyang, and Jiang Chengshi, then encountered Lu Changqing and Lin Xiaoming at dinner. After Gu Zheng drove her back, Zhou Yuanhang appeared at the guesthouse and asked to speak with her before leaving for Shanghai City, while Gu Zheng watched coldly.

• Yu Zhengyang handed Song Ning the exhibition proceeds, and Gu Zheng helped carry the cash before they deposited fifty thousand yuan and kept the rest as working capital.
• Song Ning treated Gu Zheng, Yu Zhengyang, and Jiang Chengshi to dinner, where they ran into Lu Changqing and Lin Xiaoming.
• Gu Zheng saw Song Ning and Lu Changqing interact cordially and wondered whether Song Ning had agreed to Zhou Yuanhang’s matchmaking proposal.
• Yu Zhengyang warned Song Ning not to associate much with Lu Changqing, then left the car before Gu Zheng drove Song Ning back.
• Gu Zheng planned to ask Song Ning about Zhou Yuanhang but found her asleep in the car and waited quietly at the guesthouse.
• Zhou Yuanhang woke Song Ning and asked to speak with her before returning to Shanghai City the next day, while Gu Zheng sat beside her with a cold expression.

Gu Zheng mistakenly believed Song Ning had agreed to become Zhou Yuanhang’s girlfriend and, overwhelmed by jealousy, drove her to a river to confront her. Song Ning explained nothing about the case or romance had happened, but Gu Zheng was left heartbroken by his belief that she had chosen someone else.

• Gu Zheng watched Song Ning speak with Zhou Yuanhang and mistook her agreement to keep him informed about his father’s health for romantic consent.
• After Zhou Yuanhang gave Song Ning his contact details and left, Gu Zheng bundled her into his car and drove to a river.
• Gu Zheng asked Song Ning whether she had agreed to Zhou Yuanhang’s request, and she confirmed that she had.
• Song Ning explained that Zhou Yuanhang had asked her to update him about his father’s condition and contact him when she visited Shanghai City.
• Gu Zheng wrongly concluded that Song Ning had become Zhou Yuanhang’s girlfriend and lamented that he had missed his chance again.

Gu Zheng got drunk while trying to confess his feelings to Song Ning and passed out before he could finish. Song Ning took him to the Guesthouse, then left for the Exposition; after Gu Zheng woke in embarrassment, Jiang Chengshi warned Song Ning that Gu Zheng probably liked her too.

• Song Ning worried that Gu Zheng was troubled by Zhou Yuanhang, but Gu Zheng drank heavily and begged her not to agree to Zhou Yuanhang, asking for a chance to take responsibility for her.
• Gu Zheng passed out in Song Ning's arms, and Song Ning drove him to the Guesthouse with help from an attendant.
• The next morning, Song Ning asked Jiang Chengshi to claim he had found them and driven Gu Zheng back, so Gu Zheng would not learn that she could drive.
• Gu Zheng woke at the Guesthouse and remembered his failed attempt to confess, while Song Ning hurried to the Exposition venue.
• Jiang Chengshi questioned Song Ning about driving and going to the river with Gu Zheng, then told her that Gu Zheng probably had his eye on her too.

Song Ning wondered whether Gu Zheng’s unusual behavior came from guilt or responsibility after their mission. At the Exposition, she proposed displaying local brands and allowing advance orders to keep the venue lively for the provincial leaders and foreign visitors, but Director Li returned with an unresolved concern.

• Song Ning questioned whether Gu Zheng’s behavior toward her was caused by their physical contact during the mission.
• Factory Director Zhang prepared women to greet customers as the Exposition opened to a larger crowd.
• Director Li told Song Ning that provincial leaders and foreign businesspeople would visit the next day, while many vendors risked running out of stock.
• Song Ning suggested displaying well-known local brands and letting vendors take discounted advance orders.
• Director Li said the leaders had approved both ideas, then returned with an apprehensive expression and began to explain a further problem.

Song Ning helped extend Rong City's Investment Exposition, arranged preorders for Red Star Electronics Factory, and bought stock from the struggling Forward Electronics Factory. On the official opening day, the foreign delegation arrived, and Song Ning thought the provincial official leading it looked familiar.

• Director Li told Song Ning that the Exposition would be extended through July twenty-sixth, and she suggested letting vendors take preorders while selling their existing stock.
• Song Ning agreed to buy three thousand electric irons and one thousand radios from Factory Director Kong to help the Forward Electronics Factory pay its workers.
• Song Ning arranged a booth for Forward Electronics Factory beside Red Star Electronics Factory, where the vendors could sell Forward Brand products and take Red Star preorders.
• Red Star sold all but a little over three hundred of its two thousand products on July twenty-third, and Han Xiao picked Song Ning up because Gu Zheng was away on a mission.
• Rong City's first Investment Exposition officially opened on July twenty-fourth, and Song Ning placed the Forward booth at the entrance beside Red Star's preorder display.
• The foreign business delegation arrived with provincial officials, and Song Ning thought the official leading them looked familiar.

Song Ning’s sales ideas helped the factories sell out much of their stock at the Commodity Expo, while Gu Zheng explained to Commander Jiang that Song Ning could predict disasters after taking a mysterious medicine. The chapter ended with Lin Huiping asking Gu Zheng to find out whether Song Ning returned Cheng Shi’s feelings because she wanted Song Ning as her daughter-in-law.

• Song Ning’s electric iron demonstration helped Qianjin Factory sell nine hundred irons and secure more than three hundred advance orders, while Red Star Brand products sold out and took more than five hundred advance orders.
• An announcement promised free transit services to the Expo, and Gu Zheng reported to Commander Jiang that landslides had blocked the highway between Zhanglin Town and Wanggang Town after the route was closed in advance.
• Gu Zheng told Commander Jiang that Song Ning had predicted the landslides and had also warned him to protect Auntie Jiang, explaining that a medicine had seemingly given them extraordinary memory and her the ability to foresee events.
• Commander Jiang accepted that Song Ning’s warnings had protected people and told Gu Zheng to keep her ability secret from everyone else.
• Lin Huiping thanked Gu Zheng for helping Cheng Shi and asked him to find out whether Song Ning had feelings for Cheng Shi because she wanted Song Ning as her daughter-in-law.

Gu Zheng learned that the Jiang family wanted him to ask Song Ning whether she would consider Jiang Chengshi, but he decided to confess his own feelings instead. After Song Ning returned from handling business with Yu Zhengyang, Jiang Chengshi interrupted Gu Zheng's attempt to speak with her, leaving Gu Zheng to call after her.

• Lin Huiping and Commander Jiang asked Gu Zheng to find out whether Song Ning would accept Jiang Chengshi, and they were relieved to hear she had refused the Zhou family's match.
• Yu Zhengyang deposited Song Ning's money at the bank, then agreed to follow her plans and pay his workers better wages.
• Gu Zheng found Song Ning talking with Jiang Chengshi and Han Xiao after arranging for Han Xiao to drive them around for safety.
• Gu Zheng asked Song Ning for a chance to talk, but Jiang Chengshi urged her to leave with him, and she went along.
• Gu Zheng called after Song Ning, insisting he had something to explain.

Song Ning left Gu Zheng with Jiang Chengshi, who urged her not to begin a romance because she might return to her own time, then asked her to tell his elderly self about their friendship. Gu Zheng watched them together in anguish, while Jiang Chengshi returned home to find his mother questioning him about Song Ning.

• Jiang Chengshi stopped Gu Zheng from speaking to Song Ning alone, and Song Ning left with Jiang Chengshi.
• Song Ning told Jiang Chengshi that Gu Zheng was a good friend but that she did not yet like him romantically, and Jiang Chengshi warned her against starting a relationship across their time difference.
• Jiang Chengshi asked Song Ning to tell his elderly self about their friendship if she returned to her own time, and Song Ning promised she would remember.
• Gu Zheng watched Song Ning and Jiang Chengshi share a warm, emotional conversation, and Han Xiao saw how deeply Gu Zheng was hurt.
• Jiang Chengshi returned home and told Lin Huiping that he had been working as a consultant for the Exposition with Song Ning.
• Lin Huiping asked Jiang Chengshi what had happened with the Zhou family's matchmaking attempt and then asked what about him.

Jiang Chengshi promised his parents he would marry someday, then explained why Song Ning had repaid his borrowed money with extra. After the Exposition ended, Song Ning divided her profits and prepared to take Yu Zhengyang home to treat his mother before going with him to Shen City to earn more.

• Jiang Chengshi promised Lin Huiping that he would eventually marry and give her grandchildren, and she and Commander Jiang began considering wedding preparations.
• Lin Huiping and Commander Jiang discovered that their bankbook balance had doubled, and Jiang Chengshi explained that Song Ning had borrowed eight thousand yuan and repaid sixteen thousand.
• The Exposition closed on July 26, and Song Ning calculated a net profit of 212,250 yuan from the goods she sold.
• Song Ning repaid Yu, Lao Jiang, and Gu Zheng, paid her crew and other expenses, and kept roughly 158,000 yuan.
• Song Ning told Yu Zhengyang to settle his affairs, then go with her to his hometown to treat his mother before they traveled to Shen City to earn more money.

Gu Zheng learned that Song Ning had repaid his loan with extra money and watched her leave for Meishan with Jiang Chengshi. In Yu Zhengyang’s village, Song Ning examined his mother and promised treatment, then learned that Chen Yuting had already supplied her with medicine.

• Gu Zheng saw that Song Ning had repaid his loan with sixteen thousand yuan extra, but Han Xiao told him she had already left for Meishan with Jiang Chengshi.
• Song Ning and Jiang Chengshi traveled with Yu Zhengyang to his village and admired the unusual design of his house.
• Song Ning recognized Yu Qiuye as a future cafeteria manager and went to examine Yu Zhengyang’s bedridden mother.
• Song Ning said Yu Zhengyang’s mother’s lung condition could be cured over time and offered to prescribe a month of treatment.
• Yu Qiuye said Chen Yuting had bought effective medicine for her mother, and Song Ning reacted with astonishment.

Song Ning heard Yu Zhengyang explain his past relationship with Chen Yuting and learned that he had hidden himself because he believed he could not provide for her. The chapter left Song Ning realizing that Chen Yuting had sacrificed her reputation in the hope of being worthy of Yu Zhengyang.

• Yu Zhengyang told Song Ning that Chen Yuting helped his family and brought medicine for his mother after they began secretly dating.
• Yu Zhengyang said he ended their relationship and went into hiding because he thought he was too poor to make Chen Yuting happy.
• Yu Zhengyang recalled that Chen Yuting found him before leaving Rong City, gave him medicine, and said she would accept her father's arrangements but never love anyone else.
• Yu Zhengyang explained that he had people follow Song Ning to defend Chen Yuting, not to take revenge, because he feared she would be bullied or dismissed.
• Song Ning listened as Yu Zhengyang broke down, then realized Chen Yuting had been the more lovestruck one.

Song Ning encouraged Yu Zhengyang to build a stable future before visiting Chen Yuting and promised to take him and his family to Capital City. After returning to Rong City, she ran into Lu Changqing, who asked her to dinner, and she hesitated to accept his invitation for lunch the next day.

• Song Ning told Yu Zhengyang that his savings were not enough to establish a secure future with Chen Yuting and urged him to wait until he found suitable work.
• Song Ning said she and Jiang Chengshi would return to Rong City, then take Yu Zhengyang to Shen City and later bring his mother and Qiu Ye to Capital City.
• Yu Zhengyang saw Song Ning and Jiang Chengshi off at the Meishan bus station and agreed to let Song Ning stay in one of his spare rooms in Rong City.
• Jiang Chengshi insisted on accompanying Song Ning to Shen City, and they returned to Rong City that evening.
• Song Ning encountered Lu Changqing at the Military District's Guesthouse, where he asked to treat her to dinner and then invited her to lunch the next day.

Song Ning agreed to examine Old Zhang’s comrade and left the Guesthouse, but Gu Zheng drove her to the riverbank where he had confessed to her. The chapter ended with Song Ning facing a haggard, red-eyed Gu Zheng and wondering why he had brought her there.

• Lu Changqing asked Song Ning to examine Old Zhang’s comrade, and she agreed to see the patient at lunch the next day.
• Lin Huiping pressed Jiang Chengshi about his relationship with Song Ning, and he insisted Song Ning would not agree to be with anyone without his say-so.
• Song Ning checked out of the Guesthouse and declined Lu Changqing’s offer of a ride, then accepted a lift from Gu Zheng instead.
• Gu Zheng drove Song Ning to the riverbank where he had confessed to her, caught her before she hit the windshield, and stared at her with bloodshot eyes.