Recaps

Jiang Xun manipulated Chu Xingye into believing Ji Yuntian had abused him, and rumors soon ruined Ji Yuntian’s reputation. As Chu Xingye struggled with Jiang Xun’s attention and sought advice from Fu Yanli, Jiang Zixing unexpectedly found Jiang Xun working at a café and said their parents missed him.

• Jiang Xun convinced Chu Xingye that Ji Yuntian had locked him up with snakes, prompting Chu Xingye to leave and blame Ji Yuntian.
• Rumors spread through City A’s upper circles that Ji Yuntian was a cruel, animal-abusing pervert, while Chu Xingye privately kept quiet about his role in spreading them.
• Chu Xingye accused Jiang Xun of clinging to him, then fled to Fu Yanli for help getting rid of him; Fu Yanli told him to figure it out himself.
• Jiang Xun worked a weekend café shift with Lin Jian and encountered Jiang Zixing, who said their parents missed him and invited him to return home.
• Jiang Xun agreed to go home the next day and offered Jiang Zixing a drink, while Jiang Zixing concealed that he had been trying to find Fu Yanli.

Jiang Xun delivered coffee to Zhongyu Group with Jiang Zixing and unexpectedly met Fu Yanli, who arranged to drive him home after work. On the way, Jiang Xun bought bubble tea and pointed out a man in black who had offered him a drink.

• Jiang Zixing volunteered to accompany Jiang Xun on a coffee delivery to Fu Yanli's company, hoping to see his maternal uncle.
• Fu Yanli came down to the lobby, addressed Jiang Xun, and arranged to give him a ride home after work, leaving Jiang Zixing hurt that Fu had approached for Jiang Xun.
• Jiang Zixing asked whether Jiang Xun and Fu Yanli were close, but Jiang Xun did not hear him.
• At seven, Jiang Xun messaged Fu Yanli, and Fu picked him up outside the café five minutes later.
• Jiang Xun stopped to buy bubble tea and told Fu Yanli that a man in black had first asked him for a drink, then offered him one after he refused.

Jiang Xun tried to make Fu Yanli laugh to complete a random mission, then realized a man had been flirting with him and received reassurance from Fu Yanli. As they returned to the apartment, Jiang Xun asked when Ye Jing would come back, but Fu Yanli did not answer.

• Six-Six-Six gave Jiang Xun a mission to make Fu Yanli laugh within five minutes, and Jiang Xun tried jokes and funny faces.
• Jiang Xun completed the mission and earned five hundred points when Fu Yanli smiled faintly, though he barely saw it.
• On the drive back, Jiang Xun realized the man they had encountered had been trying to hit on him.
• Fu Yanli told Jiang Xun he was perfectly fine and should not worry about what other people said.
• Jiang Xun asked Fu Yanli when Ye Jing would return, but Fu Yanli responded only with a questioning look.

Jiang Xun returned to the Jiang Family home with a rescued puppy and saw his family favor Jiang Zixing when they objected to keeping it. That evening, a car ran a red light and Jiang Xun threw himself over Jiang Huaijin to shield him from the collision.

• Jiang Xun stopped to rescue a stray puppy, took it to a veterinary clinic, and brought it home to the Jiang Family.
• Liu Ma tried to stop Jiang Xun from bringing the puppy inside, but he ignored her and entered the house.
• Jiang Shiyuan, Deng Shu, Jiang Zixing, and Jiang Huaijin objected to the puppy because Jiang Zixing was allergic, and Jiang Xun said he would find it another owner while keeping it in his room for now.
• Jiang Xun noticed Jiang Shiyuan wearing the watch he had given him, then went upstairs and prepared a bed for the puppy.
• Deng Shu visited Jiang Xun in his room, apologized about the puppy, and joined him in playing with it.
• On the way to dinner with Jiang Huaijin, Jiang Xun saw a sedan run a red light and shielded Jiang Huaijin with his body.

Jiang Xun protected Jiang Huaijin when a drunk driver ran a red light and hit their car, then injured his head after slipping on a discarded watermelon rind. In the hospital, Jiang Huaijin learned that Jiang Xun had pretended to remain unconscious and asked why he had shielded him; Jiang Xun answered that it was because they were brothers.

• A drunk driver ran a red light and crashed into Jiang Huaijin’s Maybach, and Jiang Xun instinctively shielded Jiang Huaijin from the impact.
• Jiang Huaijin called the police, while Jiang Xun got out of the car, slipped on a watermelon rind, struck his head, and passed out.
• Jiang Huaijin took Jiang Xun to the hospital, where their parents and Jiang Zixing heard that Jiang Xun had protected his brother in the crash.
• After the family left, Jiang Xun revealed to Jiang Huaijin that he had been pretending to sleep, then ate the porridge Jiang Huaijin brought him.
• Jiang Huaijin asked why Jiang Xun had protected him, and Jiang Xun replied that it was because Jiang Huaijin was his brother.

After Jiang Xun was injured, his family and several visitors came to see him in the hospital. When Ji Yuntian frightened him with a snake, Fu Yanli arrived and became his refuge, leaving Jiang Xun safe but embarrassed.

• Jiang Huaijin stayed overnight with Jiang Xun and urged him to remain in the hospital for observation the next day.
• Jiang Xun bought a discounted Peach Face Mask from Six-Six-Six, then Chu Xingye visited and claimed he had come to laugh at him.
• Ji Yuntian arrived with a fruit basket and revealed a little black snake, terrifying Jiang Xun.
• Jiang Xun pressed the nurse call button, then hid behind Fu Yanli when he arrived and begged his uncle to save him.
• Ji Yuntian put the snake away and left, and Fu Yanli caught Jiang Xun when he stumbled before asking whether he was afraid of snakes.

After remembering that Lin Jian was due to meet Bai Lian, Jiang Xun rushed to keep Lin Jian away from the alley where the encounter was meant to happen. A random mission then ordered Jiang Xun to rescue Bai Lian from debt collectors, and he hurried into the alley to find him.

• Fu Yanli and Ye Jing visited the injured Jiang Xun, then left together.
• After Six-Six-Six reminded him of the main mission, Jiang Xun realized Lin Jian was about to meet Bai Lian and rushed to A University.
• Fu Yanli drove Jiang Xun to campus, where Jiang Xun found Lin Jian at his restaurant job.
• Jiang Xun took Lin Jian to Lin's Pastry Shop, keeping him away from the alley where he would have met Bai Lian.
• Six-Six-Six assigned Jiang Xun a timed mission to rescue Bai Lian from debt collectors and take him home.
• Jiang Xun ran to the alley, heard a commotion, and cautiously peered around a corner.

Jiang Xun tried to save Bai Lian from debt collectors, but Fu Yanli intervened and beat the men before leaving. Jiang Xun helped Bai Lian wake up and pursued him to take him home, but Bai Lian remained wary and walked away.

• Jiang Xun spotted three debt collectors beating Bai Lian in an alley and prepared to call out for help.
• Fu Yanli appeared behind Jiang Xun, told him to stay hidden, and attacked the debt collectors with a brick and a steel pipe.
• Fu Yanli drove the men away, then left after telling Jiang Xun to come to him if he needed anything.
• Jiang Xun checked on the unconscious Bai Lian, helped him sit up, and woke him.
• Bai Lian brushed Jiang Xun away and staggered out of the alley, so Jiang Xun chased after him and offered to take him home.

Jiang Xun helped the injured Bai Lian get home, treated his wounds, and secretly left him money, but learned that Fu Yanli had been credited with rescuing him. The system declared Jiang Xun’s random mission a failure and made him spin a wheel to determine his punishment, which began with calling the fourth contact on his WeChat list.

• Jiang Xun carried the injured Bai Lian to his apartment and helped him climb to the sixth floor.
• Jiang Xun treated Bai Lian’s injuries, bought medicine, and left thirty thousand yuan hidden in the medicine bag before departing.
• Bai Lian found the money and realized Jiang Xun had left it for him.
• Jiang Xun received a system reward for progress on the main mission, but Six-Six-Six told him he had failed the random mission because Fu Yanli had rescued Bai Lian.
• Jiang Xun spun the punishment wheel and nearly fainted when he saw it required him to call the fourth contact in his WeChat list.

Jiang Xun completed the system’s embarrassing punishment by asking Fu Yanli what color underwear he was wearing, then returned to the apartment and found Fu Yanli watching him grow closer to Chu Xingye. A call from Jiang Huaijin revealed that the puppy Jiang Xun had brought home had been kicked and killed after it ran to Jiang Zixing, who was allergic to animal fur.

• Jiang Xun asked Fu Yanli what color underwear he was wearing to fulfill the system’s punishment, and Fu Yanli answered that it was black.
• Fu Yanli saved Jiang Xun’s contact under the name “Little Coal Ball.”
• Jiang Xun stayed on campus until late, then returned to the apartment after Fu Yanli called to ask where he was.
• Chu Xingye denied worrying about Jiang Xun, but Jiang Xun teased him about being handsome while Fu Yanli watched them together.
• Jiang Huaijin called Jiang Xun and told him that Liu Ma had accidentally killed the puppy after it ran to the allergic Jiang Zixing.

After Jiang Xun returned to the Jiang Family home, he found the puppy dead and suspected that its death was no accident. He confronted Liu Ma by claiming the puppy had revealed that she deliberately killed it.

• Jiang Huaijin told Jiang Xun that the puppy had died, and Jiang Xun said he would return home.
• Fu Yanli drove Jiang Xun and Chu Xingye to the Jiang Family home, where the family was waiting beside the puppy's body.
• Jiang Zixing apologized, while Liu Ma said she had kicked the puppy in a panic and blamed its escape from Jiang Xun's room.
• Jiang Shiyuan defended Liu Ma and told Jiang Xun he could not keep another dog at home, prompting Chu Xingye to criticize his favoritism.
• Jiang Xun picked up the puppy and claimed it had opened its eyes and told him Liu Ma had deliberately kicked it to death.

Jiang Xun exposed Liu Ma’s deliberate role in the puppy’s death by frightening her into confessing, and the Jiang family decided to fire her. Before Liu Ma left, Fu Yanli pressed her to reveal that Jiang Zixing had known about the plan and was meant to encounter the puppy.

• Jiang Xun pretended to hear the dead puppy speak and threatened Liu Ma with a fruit knife until she admitted deliberately letting the puppy out and kicking it to death.
• Jiang Xun confronted Liu Ma for hurting the puppy out of spite toward him, and Jiang Huaijin demanded that the family fire her.
• Deng Shu ordered Liu Ma to leave the Jiang family the next day, while Jiang Zixing stayed silent when Liu Ma begged him to plead for her.
• Fu Yanli stopped Liu Ma from leaving and asked what else she was hiding.
• Liu Ma confessed that she had told Jiang Zixing about her plan and instructed him to pass the puppy in the hallway; Jiang Zixing began to cry.

After Liu Ma admitted she had let the puppy out, Jiang Zixing cried and denied responsibility, while the Jiang Family comforted him and Jiang Xun mourned the puppy. Jiang Xun left with Fu Yanli for the night, and his family began considering how to make amends as Jiang Zixing silently resented the attention he received.

• Fu Yanli's intervention prompted Liu Ma to admit she had told Jiang Zixing about letting the puppy out, and Jiang Zixing claimed he had refused her plan.
• Jiang Xun stroked the puppy's body before arranging for its cremation, while Fu Yanli praised him as sensible and Jiang Huaijin checked on his wound.
• Jiang Xun asked to return to Fu Yanli's home because it was closer to school, and Fu Yanli agreed to take him.
• After the car left, Jiang Shiyuan promised Deng Shu he would treat Jiang Xun better, while Jiang Huaijin looked for a gift and Jiang Zixing quietly resented their concern for Jiang Xun.

Jiang Xun rode home with Fu Yanli and Chu Xingye after a draining night, teasing Chu Xingye before falling asleep in the car. He woke after leaning against Fu Yanli and retreated awkwardly, and the three returned to the apartment.

• Chu Xingye tried to comfort Jiang Xun, who hugged him and then frightened him with a ghost story and threats about chopping people up.
• Jiang Xun fell asleep, and Chu Xingye struggled with whether to let him rest against his shoulder.
• Fu Yanli switched places with Chu Xingye and let the sleeping Jiang Xun lean against his shoulder during the drive.
• Chu Xingye noticed Jiang Xun leaning on Fu Yanli and complained that Fu Yanli was spoiling him.
• Chu Xingye braked sharply, waking Jiang Xun, who apologized to Fu Yanli for leaning on him.
• Fu Yanli told Chu Xingye to drive more smoothly, and the three arrived at the apartment and went to rest.

Jiang Xun’s morning with Fu Yanli turned awkward after Fu Yanli caught him bowing to the watch he had given him, and Fu Yanli asked him to keep his lost wedding ring a secret. Later, Jiang Xun delivered coffee to Zhongyu Group and entered Fu Yanli’s office, where he found him working.

• Jiang Xun placed chocolates beside Fu Yanli’s watch and bowed to it, but Fu Yanli appeared in his doorway and caught him.
• Fu Yanli drove Jiang Xun to the café, joked about Jiang Xun bowing to him, and asked him to message when his shift ended.
• Jiang Xun asked why Fu Yanli was not wearing his wedding ring, and Fu Yanli said it had fallen down a drain and asked Jiang Xun to keep it secret.
• At the café, Jiang Xun and Lin Jian avoided Ji Yuntian, who stayed in a corner watching the staff.
• Jiang Xun delivered a coffee order to Zhongyu Group, and a secretary asked him to take another cup to the president’s office.
• Jiang Xun entered the office and found Fu Yanli working at his desk.

Jiang Xun shared lunch with Fu Yanli, who showed him unexpected closeness, before Ye Jing arrived and Jiang Xun left. Later, Jiang Huaijin picked Jiang Xun up, gave him money to stop working part-time, and agreed to take him for hotpot.

• Fu Yanli invited Jiang Xun to share lunch and personally wiped a grain of rice from the corner of his mouth, leaving Jiang Xun puzzled by his closeness.
• Ye Jing arrived to ask Fu Yanli to visit her mother and remarked on how handsome Jiang Xun had become, so Jiang Xun quickly excused himself.
• Fu Yanli reflected that Jiang Xun had grown popular at school, with several people pursuing him.
• Jiang Huaijin picked Jiang Xun up, and Jiang Xun teased him about whether Little Zixing would be jealous.
• Jiang Huaijin offered Jiang Xun money so he would stop working part-time and transferred him two hundred thousand; Jiang Xun accepted and chose hotpot for dinner.

Jiang Xun grew closer to Jiang Huaijin over dinner, while Jiang Zixing struggled with sharing his family. Fu Yanli helped Ye Jing maintain appearances at the hospital, then discovered Jiang Xun had lied about taking a cab; days later, Jiang Xun felt someone following him and turned around to confront them.

• Jiang Huaijin took Jiang Xun to dinner, and Jiang Zixing felt that he was losing his brother and parents to Jiang Xun.
• Jiang Huaijin drove Jiang Xun home and gave him hand cream, stirring the original owner's lingering emotions in Jiang Xun.
• Fu Yanli accompanied Ye Jing to visit her gravely ill mother, then returned to work and messaged Jiang Xun.
• Jiang Xun told Fu Yanli he had taken a cab, but Fu Yanli saw him riding a shared electric bike and realized he was avoiding him.
• Jiang Xun increasingly felt watched over the following days and suddenly turned around after leaving class at A University.

Jiang Xun reunited with Bai Lian, who had been following him to repay the money he had lent him, but Bai Lian continued trailing him after he refused payment. Chu Xingye saw a photo of them together, rushed to confront Jiang Xun, and left with him while Bai Lian watched from behind; a black Bentley waited across from the campus gates.

• Jiang Xun discovered Bai Lian hiding behind a tree and learned he had been looking for him to repay twenty thousand of the money Jiang Xun had lent him.
• Jiang Xun told Bai Lian to keep the money, but Bai Lian followed him and eventually asked his name.
• Bai Lian revealed that he had found Jiang Xun after recovering from his injury and had learned about Jiang Xun’s wealthy-family background while watching him.
• Chu Xingye’s friend showed him a photo of Jiang Xun with Bai Lian, prompting Chu Xingye to hurry back toward the Third Teaching Building.
• Chu Xingye confronted Jiang Xun with a jealous remark, then left while Jiang Xun followed him and Bai Lian remained behind.
• A black Bentley with a license plate ending in 11111 waited across from the campus entrance.

Chu Xingye invited Jiang Xun into Fu Yanli’s car, where Jiang Xun teased him while Fu Yanli drove him home. That evening, Fu Yanli brought Jiang Xun desserts and showed him unexpected closeness, leaving Jiang Xun wondering whether his uncle had noticed something unusual about him.

• Chu Xingye invited Jiang Xun to join him on the drive to his grandparents’ house, then asked Fu Yanli to drop Jiang Xun at the apartment first.
• Jiang Xun flirted with Chu Xingye in the car, making him blush, while Fu Yanli listened in silence.
• After dropping Jiang Xun off, Fu Yanli drove Chu Xingye away and told him to be quiet when he complained about Jiang Xun.
• Jiang Xun worked on the original owner’s diary, planning to let the Jiang Family find it, when Fu Yanli came to his room with desserts from Fu Sang.
• Fu Yanli asked whether Jiang Xun was settling in, stood close to him, and brushed his cat-ear headband before leaving.
• Jiang Xun noticed Fu Yanli had touched the headband and wondered whether he was testing him.

At a birthday party, Jiang Xun spotted Ye Jing kissing another man outside a hotel and concluded that she was cheating on Fu Yanli. Drunk and shaken, he agreed to let Fu Yanli come pick him up, while Fu Yanli set out after getting Jiang Xun’s location.

• Jiang Tian coaxed Jiang Xun into drinking beer at his birthday party, and Jiang Xun hurried out before the alcohol took effect.
• Jiang Xun saw Ye Jing leave a hotel hand in hand with a young man, watched them kiss, and secretly photographed them.
• Jiang Xun examined the photos and concluded that Ye Jing had a lover behind Fu Yanli’s back.
• After the beer made him dizzy, Jiang Xun answered Fu Yanli’s call and agreed to wait for him to come get him.
• Fu Yanli asked Chu Xingye to send Jiang Xun’s location and left immediately.

After finding Jiang Xun drunk and waiting outside the club, Bai Lian kept him from hurting himself and watched Fu Yanli take him home. On the drive, Jiang Xun wondered whether Fu Yanli had a secret medical problem, then fell asleep before Fu Yanli found Chu Xingye's messages on his phone.

• Jiang Xun waited outside the club for Fu Yanli, while Bai Lian stopped him from knocking his forehead against a pillar and urged him to come inside.
• Jiang Xun refused to leave without Fu Yanli, mistook Bai Lian for a drinking companion, and gave him all his remaining money as advice to focus on school.
• Fu Yanli arrived in his Bentley, and Jiang Xun silently withheld his warning that Fu Yanli was being cheated on before leaving with him.
• Bai Lian recognized Fu Yanli as the head of Zhongyu Group, pocketed Jiang Xun's money, and returned to work.
• In the car, Jiang Xun wondered whether Fu Yanli had a secret medical problem, hid the photos he had taken, and fell asleep without replying to Chu Xingye.
• Fu Yanli covered the sleeping Jiang Xun with his overcoat and picked up his phone as another message from Chu Xingye arrived.

Fu Yanli brought the drunk Jiang Xun home, where Jiang Xun unexpectedly revealed his exceptional piano skills and left Chu Xingye baffled. After tending to him, Fu Yanli reflected on Jiang Xun’s secrets and restrained his growing feelings.

• Fu Yanli carried the unsteady Jiang Xun into the apartment, surprising Chu Xingye.
• Jiang Xun insisted on playing the piano and performed Canon at remarkable speed, astonishing Chu Xingye and capturing Fu Yanli’s attention.
• Jiang Xun grew tired and collapsed onto the piano, so Fu Yanli carried him to bed while Chu Xingye followed and questioned his uncle’s attentiveness.
• Fu Yanli tucked Jiang Xun in and wiped his face and hands; Jiang Xun held his wrist, nuzzled it, and called him “Dad.”
• Fu Yanli considered Jiang Xun’s secrets, leaned close to his sleeping face, then pulled back and gently ruffled his hair.

After Jiang Xun woke with a fever, Fu Yanli cared for him at home, including calling a doctor and feeding him congee. As Jiang Xun asked about Fu Yanli’s absent wife and missing wedding ring, Fu Yanli asked why their relationship mattered so much to him.

• Jiang Xun discovered Fu Yanli’s expensive watch on his wrist and learned from Chu Xingye that Fu Yanli had carried him home after he got drunk and played the piano.
• Fu Yanli found Jiang Xun feverish, measured his temperature at thirty-nine degrees, and arranged for his doctor to visit while Jiang Xun took the day off.
• Jiang Xun returned Fu Yanli’s watch, but Fu Yanli told him to keep it and said Jiang Xun had done nothing else unusual.
• Fu Yanli’s doctor treated Jiang Xun, and Fu Yanli made mushroom and shredded chicken congee and fed it to him.
• Jiang Xun asked why Fu Yanli had not replaced his wedding ring and whether he and his wife still had a good relationship, and Fu Yanli asked whether that mattered so much to him.

Jiang Xun recovered from his fever at Fu Yanli’s apartment, where Fu Yanli seemed to discover a secret about him. Jiang Xun returned to the Jiang family home with his parents and brother, still wondering why Fu Yanli and Ye Jing’s marriage was so distant.

• Fu Yanli cared for the sleeping Jiang Xun and quietly spoke into both of his ears, leaving Jiang Xun to wonder if his left ear had felt wet.
• Jiang Huaijin learned Jiang Xun had a fever, and he, Deng Shu, and Jiang Shiyuan went to bring him home.
• Jiang Zixing learned that his parents and eldest brother had gone to pick up Jiang Xun and worried about his second brother.
• Jiang Xun said goodbye to Fu Yanli, who teased him about looking inside his bedroom, and then left with his family.
• Jiang Xun reflected on Fu Yanli and Ye Jing’s distant marriage and wondered if Fu Yanli had a hidden condition.

Jiang Xun returned to the Jiang Family home with his family after Jiang Zixing sprained his ankle, then tried to hint to Fu Yanli that someone was being cheated on by sending him an all-green outfit photo. Fu Yanli missed the hint and focused on Jiang Xun’s medicine and shorts, but secretly saved the photo.

• Jiang Shiyuan’s family went to the hospital after Sister Wu reported that Jiang Zixing had sprained his ankle, and Jiang Huaijin carried the sick Jiang Xun through the lobby.
• Jiang Xun told Deng Shu that Fu Yanli had cared for him while he was sick, leaving out that Fu Yanli had personally fed him porridge.
• After dinner, Jiang Xun researched how to tell someone they were being cheated on and made notes while Jiang Huaijin carried Jiang Zixing upstairs.
• Jiang Xun dressed in green clothes and sent Fu Yanli a mirror selfie, hoping the outfit would hint that Fu Yanli was being cheated on.
• Fu Yanli praised the outfit, asked whether Jiang Xun had taken his medicine, and told him not to wear shorts in the cold; he then saved the photo and admired it.