Chapter Summaries

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.

Fang Fang remained determined to escape her family’s poverty and marry Gu Zheng, while Song Ning remained unconscious as her hereditary disease threatened her life. Gu Zheng learned the preliminary details of her C4 blood test and called to her, and Song Ning heard his voice from within her unresponsive state.

• Sun Jiahui gave up trying to arrange a marriage for Fang Fang, who planned to improve her appearance and wait for Gu Zheng.
• Jiang Chengshi warned Gu Zheng that Song Ning’s organs could fail if she remained in shock, and urged him to seek information from her blood test.
• Gu Zheng visited the laboratory and memorized the doctor’s description of the C4 serum test, though its results were not yet ready.
• Gu Zheng returned to Song Ning’s hospital and called to her beside her bed.
• Song Ning, trapped in a blank space and fearing she would die without returning to either her life in the twenty-first century or 1979, heard Gu Zheng’s voice.

Song Ning used Gu Zheng’s report about the serum sample to identify a likely treatment while her body in the hospital deteriorated. Her call for fresh frozen plasma reached Gu Zheng, and the infusion stabilized her, but Gu Zheng collapsed from exhaustion and grief.

• As Song Ning’s vital signs worsened, Gu Zheng described the serum test results, and she used the incomplete data to work out a likely diagnosis.
• Song Ning shouted that she was eighty percent sure the condition involved HAE, but the others could not hear her clearly.
• When Gu Zheng tearfully begged Song Ning to answer, she briefly made contact and called for fresh frozen plasma, or FFP.
• Gu Zheng recognized the letters, and Jiang Chengshi ordered fresh frozen plasma for Song Ning, whose oxygen saturation and ECG improved after the infusion began.
• Jiang Chengshi told Gu Zheng that Song Ning should recover, but Gu Zheng swayed and collapsed beside the bed.

After Song Ning woke from a life-threatening HAE attack, she explained her illness and treatment to Jiang Chengshi and revealed that Lei Ming was her grandfather. Gu Zheng remained unconscious, and a second examination found that no one could wake him.

• Doctors attributed Gu Zheng's collapse to exhaustion, but he remained unconscious overnight as Zhang Ming watched over him and informed Lei Ming.
• Lei Ming learned that Gu Zheng and Song Ning were hospitalized, then went to see them and felt deeply unsettled when Song Ning remained in the observation room.
• Song Ning woke up, cried at the sight of Lao Qi, Jiang Chengshi, and Lei Ming, and explained how to treat her HAE attack and avoid aggravating medications.
• Song Ning told Jiang Chengshi that Lei Ming was her grandfather before she grew too tired to continue speaking.
• Han Xiao arrived at the hospital, raised concerns about Gu Zheng's prolonged unconsciousness, and prompted doctors to examine him again; they found that he could not be woken.

Gu Zheng remained unconscious despite repeated examinations, so his family and friends transferred him to Xiehe Hospital, where doctors still found no explanation. Fang Fang learned that the pill she had given him was meant to make him fall in love with her, and the chapter ended when a young woman arrived claiming to have a folk remedy that could save him.

• The hospital transferred Gu Zheng to Xiehe Hospital after finding no abnormalities, and Tang Wei alerted Wei Jinjun and Tan Qingru.
• Sun Jiahui told Fang Fang that Gu Zheng had been hospitalized, and Fang Fang went to ask Song Lan about the medicine she had given him.
• Song Lan told Fang Fang that the Bone-Binding Lure would make Gu Zheng fall in love with her, but warned her not to use the secret remedy improperly and ended their contact.
• Fang Fang revealed that she had also added an aphrodisiac to the medicine, then left holding another pill and smiling.
• Doctors at Xiehe Hospital found Gu Zheng physically normal despite nearly two days of unconsciousness, and Zhang Ming reported that a young woman outside claimed to have a folk remedy that could save him.

Song Ning recovered from the car accident and learned that Gu Zheng remained unconscious, but she could find no cause in his test results. She told Jiang Chengshi that she had briefly returned to the other world while in shock, and he asked what triggered her condition.

• Fang Fang visited Gu Zheng with a secret remedy, but Tan Qingru refused it and sent her away with her gifts and phone number.
• Song Ning’s tests confirmed she had hereditary angioedema, and doctors moved her to a regular ward after her condition stabilized.
• Song Ning thanked Zhou Yuanhang for saving her during the car accident and learned that he was hospitalized next door with a scraped back.
• Song Ning learned from Jiang Chengshi that Gu Zheng was still unconscious, then examined his test results without finding a cause.
• Song Ning told Jiang Chengshi that she had heard her mother and maternal grandfather while in shock, and he asked what triggered her condition.

Song Ning learned what could trigger her rare condition and suspected Fang Fang had drugged Gu Zheng before his collapse. Too weak to visit him, she planned to recover and try acupuncture the next morning, while Han Xiao and Chen Liang went to collect her silver needles and encountered an unexpected guest at Song Wang's home.

• Song Ning connected her past episodes to severe blood loss, hormonal fluctuations, and possibly infection, while Lao Jiang worried that the many triggers could not all be avoided.
• Han Xiao and Chen Liang told Song Ning that Gu Zheng had remained unconscious for nearly two days and that Fang Fang claimed to have a remedy that could wake him.
• Song Ning suspected Fang Fang had added another substance to the aphrodisiac she gave Gu Zheng on October first, and Han Xiao agreed to watch her without alerting her.
• Song Ning tried to get out of bed to visit Gu Zheng but nearly collapsed, so she asked Han Xiao to bring her silver needles the next morning and fainted after requesting energy infusions.
• Han Xiao and Chen Liang left to collect Song Ning's needles and found a young woman with two braids helping Song Wang clear the dishes; Song Wang called her a colleague.

Song Ning recovered enough to examine Gu Zheng, whose body reacted to acupuncture but remained trapped in unconsciousness. She suspected someone had tampered with him, and Tan Qingru ordered Wei Jinjun to bring Fang Fang in for questioning.

• Wu Tao Ying visited Song Wang at his home, stayed for dinner, and Chen Liang warned Song Wang to watch out for thieves.
• Han Xiao and Chen Liang worried that Song Ning's prolonged sleep might resemble Gu Zheng's condition, but she woke feeling better and agreed to visit him.
• Lei Ming accompanied Song Ning to Xiehe Hospital, where Tan Qingru welcomed her to Gu Zheng's bedside.
• Song Ning used acupuncture on Gu Zheng, whose body reacted strongly before he cried out, "Song Ning! Don't go back!" and passed out again.
• Song Ning told Tan Qingru that someone might have tampered with Gu Zheng, and Tan Qingru suspected Fang Fang and ordered Wei Jinjun to bring her in.

After Song Ning recovered from the accident, she reflected on her connection to Gu Zheng and agreed to let Fang Fang try waking him with a secret remedy. Fang Fang arrived with black liquid, but Song Ning urged Tan Qingru to give it to Gu Zheng herself while they remained uncertain what Fang Fang was relying on.

• Tan Qingru arranged to transfer Song Ning to Gu Zheng's hospital room so she could stay near him.
• Song Ning recalled how Gu Zheng's tears had helped her return from the other world and felt more confident about facing her body's problem.
• Fang Fang arrived wearing the same yellow dress she had worn on October first and said she could wake Gu Zheng with a secret remedy.
• Fang Fang drank some of the black liquid herself and claimed it would have no side effects, but she refused to explain Gu Zheng's condition.
• Song Ning nodded to Tan Qingru, then suggested Tan Qingru try feeding Gu Zheng the remedy herself.

Fang Fang gave Gu Zheng a secret medicine and, after he woke, he pretended to favor her so she would leave without suspecting his plan. Once she was gone, Gu Zheng reunited with Song Ning and concluded that someone had directed Fang Fang to attack and control him.

• Tan Qingru reluctantly allowed Fang Fang to administer her secret medicine to Gu Zheng.
• After Gu Zheng woke, he acted confused and warmly invited Fang Fang to visit again, while Song Ning silently went along with the act.
• Fang Fang left with Chen Liang, believing Gu Zheng welcomed her, and Gu Zheng immediately embraced Song Ning.
• Gu Zheng told Tan Qingru that Fang Fang had likely been directed by someone and that the timing of the attack was no coincidence.

After Song Ning woke, Gu Zheng confessed how afraid he was of losing her, and she told him about her fatal hereditary disease while asking whether he would still choose her. Gu Zheng affirmed his love, and as they began to acknowledge their feelings, Lei Ming arrived and Song Ning prepared to explain her identity.

• Tan Qingru and Wei Jinjun left the hospital room, and Gu Zheng held Song Ning while confessing his fear of losing her.
• Song Ning told Gu Zheng that her hereditary disease had no cure and asked whether he still wanted to be with her.
• Gu Zheng said he had wanted her for a long time and would choose her even if they had only days together.
• Song Ning returned Gu Zheng's embrace, and he asked whether he could kiss her, but Lei Ming interrupted them.
• Gu Zheng told Lei Ming that Song Ning was one of them, and Song Ning asked Lei Ming to sit while she explained.