Chapter Summaries

Zhao Rou’s plot to kill Zhou Yi was passed through a chain of hired men until Zhang Qun reported it to the police, leading to the arrest of all six suspects and sparing him punishment. Afterward, Zhou Yi accepted Vice Mayor Wen’s invitation to dinner and a hot spring visit, where Zhao Qiushui waited for them at a private villa.

• Zhao Rou hired Ghost Face to kill Zhou Yi, and Ghost Face subcontracted the job to Niu Guang'an, who passed it to Kang Sheng and then Hong Xiansi.
• Hong Xiansi gave Zhang Qun money and Zhou Yi’s photographs, but Zhang Qun called 110 after hearing about rewards for reporting crimes and revealed the assassination plan.
• Wang Huawen informed Liao Wensong, who sent Xing Zhaojia and officers to investigate; within two days, they arrested Zhao Rou and five other suspects.
• Zhang Qun avoided criminal punishment by turning himself in and exposing the others, while the authorities arranged assistance for his mother’s medical expenses.
• Vice Mayor Wen invited Zhou Yi to dinner and a hot spring visit, and Liu Ying arranged a private room at Youjia Northeastern Chinese Cuisine.
• Zhou Yi and Wen Wan went to a private villa at Qiushui Garden, where Zhao Qiushui waited to welcome them.

Zhao Qiushui asked Zhou Yi for advice about partnering with developers on a demolition project, while repeatedly making suggestive advances that he rejected. The chapter ended with Zhou Yi refusing to involve himself in her business or entertain her flirtation.

• Zhao Qiushui told Zhou Yi that she wanted to pursue Longwan District’s Old Housing District Phase Two Demolition Project with a partner.
• Zhao Qiushui named Xinhai Real Estate and Cloudrise Group, and Zhou Yi realized both companies had connections to him through Tian Ruping and Li Ruoyun.
• Zhao Qiushui moved close to Zhou Yi and joked that she wanted to speak right into his mouth, then asked whether the developers could form a three-way partnership with her.
• Zhou Yi refused to advise her on the business and warned Zhao Qiushui not to make suggestive jokes if she wanted them to remain friends.

Zhao Qiushui tried to seduce Zhou Yi at the hot spring, but he resisted and turned her away. After the three met again, Wen Wan received news that Tongtong had been in a car accident and collapsed from shock.

• Wen Wan and Zhao Qiushui discussed Zhou Yi's refusal to get involved in their business and agreed to stay within legal limits.
• Zhao Qiushui approached Zhou Yi's room and, in his imagined scenario, kissed and pinned him before Wen Wan caught them.
• Zhou Yi realized he had nearly fallen for Zhao Qiushui's ploy and told her through the door to leave him alone.
• Wen Wan, Zhao Qiushui, and Zhou Yi reconvened in the living room after soaking in the hot springs.
• Wen Wan received a call saying Tongtong had been in a car accident and collapsed before she could finish responding.

After saving Wen Wan, Zhou Yi continued his crackdown despite a political agreement to contain the corruption case, and a murder-for-hire confession led him to arrest Yuan Hong. The chapter ended with Han Jianguo learning that Zhou Yi had also arrested the son of the Political Consultative Conference chairman.

• Zhou Yi caught Wen Wan when she collapsed, performed emergency treatment, and revived her before she left for Baiyun City.
• Wen Wan learned her daughter was out of danger and planned to hand over her duties while she cared for her.
• Officials agreed to let the case against An Wei end there, but Zhou Yi refused to stop investigating.
• Wang Guilian confessed that Yuan Hong had hired him to arrange Cao Meng's murder, leading the police to arrest Yuan Hong.
• Han Jianguo learned that Zhou Yi had also arrested Chairman Song's son.

After Yuan Hong implicated Song Jingyan in Cao Meng’s case, Zhou Yi arrested Song Jingyan, alarming Changtian’s leaders and the Song family. The city leaders learned that Zhou Yi would not back down, while Yuan Jiangjun worried that his son might implicate him too.

• Yuan Hong accused Song Jingyan during questioning, and Zhou Yi had Song Jingyan arrested that afternoon.
• Han Jianguo, Pang Ruiwu, and He Donglin passed inquiries about Zhou Yi through intermediaries until they received his stance: “Evil and I cannot coexist!”
• Song Yi warned his family that Zhou Yi had provincial backing and said he would first seek contact with him, then ask a former superior for help if necessary.
• Yuan Jiangjun asked Xie Chenglin whether Yuan Hong’s arrest could implicate him, and Xie questioned whether the investigation might reach him.

After Yuan Hong and Song Jingyan were arrested, anonymous tip-offs about corruption in Kunshan County reached Zhou Yi, forcing Han Jianguo and Ye Feng to decide whether to investigate. Zhou Yi also rejected three provincial officials’ requests to intervene for Song Yi, leaving the corruption case poised to widen.

• Yuan Jiangjun admitted that he had ordered Jiang Tao to bury a case, but Xie Chenglin told him to let Jiang Tao take the blame and warned that Yuan Hong was unlikely to escape Zhou Yi’s grasp.
• Cao Zhisheng thanked Director Zhou for pursuing justice for Cao Meng, whose history of raping young women had ended when Yuan Hong’s hired killer murdered him.
• After Yuan Hong and Song Jingyan were arrested, Kunshan County residents sent Zhou Yi three anonymous tip-offs alleging misconduct by local officials, including Yuan Jiangjun.
• Zhou Yi passed the tip-offs and supporting evidence to Ye Feng, and Han Jianguo ultimately decided to bring the matter before the committee rather than set it aside.
• Three provincial officials called Zhou Yi to seek leniency for Song Yi, but Zhou Yi refused to interfere with the case.

At a Changtian Standing Committee meeting, anticorruption investigations began targeting several Kunshan County officials after Zhou Yi forwarded residents’ complaints. Meanwhile, Li Ruoyun and Zhao Qiushui agreed to follow Zhou Yi’s lead on their cooperation, and Jian Shuyue told him she and Little Tiantian would visit during the May Day holiday.

• Han Jianguo chaired a Standing Committee meeting where Ye Feng announced allegations against Yuan Jiangjun, Bu Keji, and Ji Changlian.
• Han Jianguo and Zong Weixin accepted that the complaints had to be investigated amid the central government’s anticorruption campaign.
• The Changtian Discipline Inspection Commission summoned Yuan Jiangjun, Bu Keji, and Ji Changlian for investigation.
• At dinner, Li Ruoyun and Zhao Qiushui exchanged compliments and agreed to take their direction from Zhou Yi on their cooperation.
• Jian Shuyue told Zhou Yi that she and Little Tiantian would visit him during the May Day holiday.
• Li Ruoyun and Zhao Qiushui toasted their meeting as Zhou Yi returned to the table.

Li Ruoyun and Zhou Yi reaffirmed their friendship after she offered him a share of the profits from their planned cooperation, while provincial leaders debated how far to pursue the widening corruption investigation. At Limin Bridge, urban management officers brutalized an elderly vendor until a patrol officer learned that one of the protesting girls was Zhou Yi’s cousin and rushed to intervene.

• Li Ruoyun asked Zhou Yi to appoint someone to collect a share of the profits, but he declined and the two toasted their lasting friendship.
• Wei Siqi, Yan Huafeng, Kang Fujun, and Chu Hejun debated the expanding investigation in Kunshan County, and Wei Siqi ordered it to continue with limits on its direction and intensity.
• Urban management officers chased vendors from Limin Bridge, fined an elderly man, and tried to seize his tricycle, spilling and crushing his strawberries.
• Liangliang and her baby-faced friend protested the officers’ treatment of the old man, but a patrol officer initially said he could not interfere.
• After hearing the girls mention that Liangliang was Zhou Yi’s cousin, the patrol officer called two colleagues out of the car and ran to confront the urban management officers.

Jin Liang and Hu Qingjie’s confrontation over the assault on an elderly fruit seller escalated into a brawl that injured two young women. After Captain Mu Junjie arrived, Feng Liangliang recognized him from a previous arrest, prompting him to rush the students to the hospital.

• Jin Liang and his urban management officers beat an elderly fruit seller, and Hu Qingjie confronted them with two young women.
• Jin Liang shoved Hu Qingjie, but the two men argued and waited rather than start a fight.
• A drunken enforcement officer shoved Hu Qingjie, and the officers on both sides erupted into a brawl that injured the elderly seller and both young women.
• Mu Junjie arrived with reinforcements and took control of the scene, then questioned the injured students.
• Feng Liangliang recognized Mu Junjie from a previous wedding arrest, and Mu Junjie ordered officers to take the two students to the hospital.

After urban management officers injured Feng Liangliang and Song Lingxin, Mu Junjie arrested them, and He Junkang learned that Feng Liangliang was Zhou Yi’s cousin. At the City Hospital, He Junkang apologized to the students and their families, while officials crowded in to pay their respects.

• Mu Junjie ordered the urban management officers arrested after they injured Feng Liangliang and Song Lingxin and clashed with police.
• He Junkang called Liao Wensong to demand the officers’ release, but Liao told him to visit the injured students and seek their forgiveness.
• He Junkang discovered that Feng Liangliang was Zhou Yi’s younger cousin and hurried to the City Hospital with urban management officials.
• Public Security Bureau leaders and the students’ families visited Feng Liangliang and Song Lingxin as they received hospital examinations.
• He Junkang apologized to Feng Liangliang, Song Lingxin, and their parents, and promised to discipline those responsible.

Zhou Yi visited Feng Liangliang in the hospital, then praised the police officers who had protected the public and controlled the incident. After Feng Liangliang and Song Lingxin were discharged, the elderly fruit vendor thanked them and gave them a beautiful green bracelet.

• Zhou Yi visited Feng Liangliang and Song Lingxin, while He Junkang apologized and accepted that the urban management officers would still face penalties.
• Zhou Yi reassured Guo Siwei and Feng Liangliang’s family, then left the hospital after speaking with the two young women.
• Zhou Yi praised Hu Qingjie, Zhang Enwei, Wang Zhengming, and Mu Junjie at the Public Order Management Detachment, earning their relief and enthusiastic applause.
• Political Department Deputy Head Wu Shixian watched the officers’ support for Zhou Yi and hoped to advance under his leadership.
• Feng Liangliang and Song Lingxin left the hospital, and the elderly fruit vendor thanked them before giving them a green bracelet.

Feng Liangliang and Mu Junjie traced a valuable bracelet to a buried body, leading police to Jia Yuanzhong and a theft that hinted at corruption. The investigation ended with the suspected corruption inquiry appearing to be contained, though the stolen fortune had not been reported.

• Feng Momo told Feng Liangliang the bracelet was valuable, so he asked Mu Junjie to help find Uncle Wang and return it.
• Uncle Wang led Mu Junjie and his officers to the place where he had found the bracelet, and they uncovered Niu Xueren’s body.
• Xing Zhaojia learned that Jia Yuanzhong had left town, and Director Zhou ordered a manhunt.
• Public-spirited citizens helped police apprehend Jia Yuanzhong in Kunshan County, where they found cash and valuables in his suitcase.
• Jia Yuanzhong confessed that he and Niu Xueren had stolen the valuables and that he had killed Niu during a dispute over their loot.
• Li Zhen realized the unreported theft could expose corruption, and Ye Feng briefed Han Jianguo and Zong Weixin that the officials under investigation had confessed only to what they were supposed to.

After Zhou Yi uncovered evidence linking Changtian City CPPCC Chairman Song Yi to stolen cash and hidden assets, Ye Feng and the provincial leaders escalated the investigation. Wei Siqi realized the case could connect with a separate Central Commission for Discipline Inspection inquiry into Song Yi’s former superior, Huo Xicheng.

• Zhou Yi told Ye Feng that murder suspects had confessed to stealing cash and valuables from a home belonging to Song Yi.
• Ye Feng informed Han Jianguo and Zong Weixin, then reported Zhou Yi’s findings and surveillance of the property to them.
• Chu Hejun relayed the case to Wei Siqi, who ordered a full investigation into Song Yi.
• After Chu Hejun left, Wei Siqi recalled that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection had begun preliminary inquiries into Huo Xicheng.

Zhou Yi’s investigation exposed Song Yi’s hidden fortune and led to his detention, while a Central Commission for Discipline Inspection inspection team arrived in Jiangnan Province. After picking up Jian Shuyue and Tian Tian, Zhou Yi returned home with Jian Shuyue, who asked him to talk.

• Han Jianguo announced that a murder investigation had uncovered a major theft from an official’s home, and Song Yi realized the case pointed to him.
• You Wenhua arrived with Discipline Inspection Commission staff and took Song Yi away as investigators recovered over six million in cash and valuable items from his apartment.
• Han Jianguo praised Zhou Yi for his work, while provincial officials who had tried to intervene in Song Jingyan’s case grew alarmed about Zhou Yi’s role in officials’ downfalls.
• Xie Zheng led the Sixth Inspection Team from Capital City to Jiangnan Province during the May Day holiday.
• Zhou Yi picked up Tian Tian and Jian Shuyue at Ganquan Airport; after Tian Tian went to inspect her company’s office, Jian Shuyue returned home with Zhou Yi and asked him to talk.

Zhou Yi and Jian Shuyue spent the afternoon together before Tian Tian joined them for dinner and stayed the night. After Tian Tian secretly watched Jian Shuyue and Zhou Yi, she worried about her place in their future, and Jian Shuyue returned to bed to talk with her.

• Tian Tian called Jian Shuyue, who invited her to Zhou Yi’s home for dinner.
• Tian Tian teased Jian Shuyue about the disheveled sofa and the couple’s intimacy while Zhou Yi went shopping.
• Zhou Yi cooked dinner for Jian Shuyue and Tian Tian, and Jian Shuyue persuaded Tian Tian to stay overnight.
• Tian Tian crept to the bedroom door and watched Jian Shuyue and Zhou Yi together.
• Tian Tian lay awake wondering how her bond with Jian Shuyue would change after Jian Shuyue married Zhou Yi.
• Jian Shuyue returned to bed, embraced Tian Tian, and whispered that they should talk.

During a trip with Zhou Yi and Jian Shuyue, Tian Tian rejected her family’s efforts to arrange blind dates with Gong Shixiong and Sun Haoran. As her father reprimanded her by phone, a sedan crashed onto the sidewalk, and Zhou Yi pulled her and Jian Shuyue out of its path.

• Zhou Yi, Jian Shuyue, and Tian Tian toured Spirit Lake and True Buddha Temple, hung prayer pouches, and spent their evenings sharing their experiences.
• Xie Zheng told Xie Chenglin that his responsibilities would soon be adjusted and asked what he thought of Zhou Yi.
• Xie Chenglin told Xie Zheng that Sun Haoran and Gong Shixiong had come to Changtian to pursue a woman.
• Tian Tian refused Xu Weiling’s request to meet Gong Shixiong and Sun Haoran, then ended the call after telling her aunt to stop arranging blind dates.
• Xu Weiguang demanded that Tian Tian apologize to Xu Weiling, but Tian Tian refused and reiterated that she did not want blind dates.
• A black sedan struck pedestrians and drove toward Tian Tian, but Zhou Yi grabbed her and Jian Shuyue and rolled them out of its path.

Zhou Yi and police officers stopped a drugged driver after he crashed into pedestrians, then traced his methamphetamine use to the Golden Dragon Entertainment Center. The police arrested the driver, his companions, and a roomful of people using drugs at the club.

• Zhou Yi pulled the disoriented driver, Zhuang Hua, from his Audi after it nearly hit him and Tian Tian, and called Huang Youmin for assistance.
• Patrol officers arrested Zhuang Hua and the two drugged women in the car, while Mu Junjie found two bags of suspected drugs in the trunk; tests confirmed all three had taken methamphetamine.
• Zhuang Hua confessed that he had bought methamphetamine at the Golden Dragon Entertainment Center and, while hallucinating, driven onto the sidewalk and injured several people.
• Zhuang Rongliang tried to use money and connections to secure lenient treatment for his son, but Ji Fengning refused to intervene.
• Police raided a private room at the Golden Dragon Entertainment Center and arrested the revelers who were using drugs.

A police raid at the Golden Dragon Entertainment Center caught Guo Wuxing among suspected criminals, and he tried to use his cousin Director Zhou to avoid arrest. Director Zhou instead ordered Mu Junjie to slap Guo Wuxing, leaving the officers stunned.

• Mu Junjie led a joint police raid on the Golden Dragon Entertainment Center, where officers caught Guo Wuxing and others amid prostitution, gambling, and drug activity.
• Guo Wuxing identified himself as Director Zhou's cousin and demanded that Mu Junjie release him and apologize.
• Mu Junjie ordered the officers to uncuff Guo Wuxing, but Wang Gang refused and stood by the arrest.
• Guo Wuxing called Director Zhou, who heard Mu Junjie's account and then ordered Wang Gang to approach Guo Wuxing.
• Wang Gang refused the director's order, so Director Zhou told Mu Junjie to go instead and instructed him to slap Guo Wuxing.
• Mu Junjie struck Guo Wuxing across the face as the officers and onlookers watched in shock.

Mu Junjie arrested Guo Wuxing and the other drug users after Director Zhou exposed Guo’s claim of being his cousin as a lie. At the Golden Dragon Entertainment Center, police then burst into a VIP room where Zheng Peng had raped Xiaorou.

• Director Zhou ordered Mu Junjie to slap Guo Wuxing again and arrest him for impersonating the director’s cousin.
• Mu Junjie and the officers took Guo Wuxing and everyone else in the private room to the station for questioning.
• Gong Shixiong drank with Feifei while he brooded over Tian Tian and Sun Haoran.
• Zheng Peng raped Xiaorou on the sofa while Gong Shixiong and Feifei watched.
• Five or six police officers burst into the VIP room and ordered everyone not to move.

Mu Junjie arrested Gong Shixiong and Zheng Peng after they assaulted and humiliated his officers, despite pressure from senior officials who said the pair were powerful visitors from Capital City. Vice Mayor Xie asked Zhou Yi to respect the people backing them, but Zhou refused, pointing out that they had shown him no respect.

• Mu Junjie’s officers tried to detain Zheng Peng and Gong Shixiong, but Zheng Peng struck an officer and resisted arrest.
• Xiang Liping and Fu Dongsheng arrived, identified the pair as guests of Mayor Zong and Vice Mayor Xie, and told Mu Junjie to leave them alone.
• Gong Shixiong offered to settle matters with an apology, but Zheng Peng forced Mu Junjie to repeat and loudly deliver it.
• Zhou Yi called Mu Junjie and ordered him to bring the two men to the bureau, so Mu Junjie’s officers handcuffed them despite Fu Dongsheng and Xiang Liping’s protests.
• Vice Mayor Xie urged Zhou Yi to show consideration for the powerful people behind the pair, but Zhou asked why he should respect men who had shown him none.