Chapter Summaries

Ye Xunzhi’s thoughts revealed how Ye Xi’s disastrous attempt to please her in-laws ended with her mother-in-law welcoming her marriage, so Old Master Mo Ye decided to wait for her return. Ye Xunzhi then got caught raiding the New Year’s supplies and boldly admitted she had eaten them.

• Ye Xunzhi’s thoughts told Old Master Mo Ye that Ye Xi had stayed with her in-laws by choice to win her mother-in-law’s blessing, and that she would return that night after a string of household disasters.
• Old Master Mo Ye heard that Ye Xi’s mother-in-law ultimately accepted the marriage, then stopped Old Master Ye from asking about an embarrassing incident and decided to wait before fetching his daughter.
• After the old men left, Ye Xunzhi ate chocolates, cookies, cherries, and beef jerky from the New Year’s supplies and planned to blame her brothers.
• Ye Chuyan and the others returned and caught Ye Xunzhi with the wrappers in her lap, and she admitted she had eaten the food without shame.

Ye Xunzhi spent New Year’s Day collecting red envelopes and greeting the Ye family’s many visitors, while her thoughts exposed secrets that surprised the elders. The family ended the evening celebrating together with fireworks and a group photograph.

• Ye Xunzhi put up unusual Spring Festival couplets, then bowed to Old Master Ye for a red envelope, prompting Ye Qi'an to bow as well and ask her for money.
• Ye Xunzhi greeted Old Master Xue and the chairman of Xue Group, earning red envelopes while revealing private details about Uncle Xue’s family.
• Old Master Mo Ye introduced Ye Xunzhi to Grandpa Li, whose grandson’s unexpected rise to top student had started when a stand-in accidentally took his exam.
• Qiao Man and Yan Qingqing returned and gave Ye Xunzhi red envelopes, while their sons watched from the side.
• Zhu Ya'an arrived with a truck full of fireworks, and the family gathered for a New Year’s photograph as Ye Lan lit the fireworks.

Ye Xunzhi joined her family’s New Year’s Eve card game and unexpectedly beat Old Master Mo Ye, winning the red envelopes Old Master Ye had offered. The game moved to truth or dare, and Old Master Mo Ye chose truth.

• Ye Xunzhi and Ye Xiao tried to play a phone game, but Old Master Ye made them put their phones away.
• Ye Chuyan proposed a card game with truth or dare, and Old Master Mo Ye joined after hearing Ye Xunzhi’s thoughts about asking him for another red envelope.
• Old Master Ye offered Ye Xunzhi red envelopes if she beat Old Master Mo Ye, and she eagerly accepted the challenge.
• Ye Xunzhi became the landlord and won the round against Old Master Mo Ye, surprising the family.
• Ye Chuyan asked Old Master Mo Ye to honor the bet, and he chose truth.

During the New Year celebrations, the Ye family traded gossip, while Eileen resolved to accelerate her plans against Ye Xunzhi. The next morning, Ye Qi'an recruited Ye Xunzhi to accompany him on a blind date, and they arrived at an exclusive resort.

• Ye Xunzhi heard Old Master Mo Ye complain that his tricycle had disappeared, then Ye Xiao shared a strange story from an agricultural college and Ye Yunhuai teased him about it.
• As the Ye family played cards and exchanged gossip, the New Year bells rang and fireworks ushered in the new year.
• Eileen reflected that her plans against Ye Xunzhi were failing and decided she had to act faster.
• The next morning, Ye Qi'an caught Ye Xunzhi and persuaded her to accompany him to a blind date by promising the prospective partner's family had plenty of money.
• Ye Xunzhi and Ye Qi'an arrived at a famous, exclusive resort, where Ye Qi'an admitted that living off someone else's money was harder than he had thought.

Ye Qi'an and Ye Xunzhi went to meet Miss Feng for a blind date, but Ye Qi'an tried to discourage her by pretending to be a divorced man in his forties with several children. Miss Feng accepted anyway, and he ended the meeting by recommending she see a traditional Chinese doctor.

• Ye Xunzhi saw Miss Feng berate a resort server over a wine stain and compared her appearance to the heavily edited photograph.
• Ye Xunzhi reminded Ye Qi'an that they still had to attend the blind date, though he lamented that he only wanted a devoted partner.
• Ye Qi'an introduced Ye Xunzhi as his daughter and falsely claimed that Ye Lan and Ye Yunhuai were his sons.
• Ye Xunzhi secretly recorded Ye Qi'an's lies as potential blackmail material, while he realized she was taking advantage of his predicament.
• Ye Qi'an claimed he was divorced, in his forties, and burdened with children and family responsibilities, but Miss Feng agreed to marry him and promised to treat Ye Xunzhi well.
• Ye Qi'an advised Miss Feng to see a traditional Chinese doctor and take herbal medicine.

Ye Xunzhi listened in on a couple's argument from a rooftop, where her pose made the police mistake her for a dead child. After clearing up the misunderstanding, she was taken to the couple's apartment, while Ye Qi'an learned she was at the police station.

• Ye Xunzhi noticed Mrs. Feng mopping nearby and privately mused about her relationship with Chairman Feng while Ye Qi'an endured his blind date with Miss Feng.
• Ye Qi'an stole Ye Xunzhi's waffle, then used a five-million-dollar check to make her give up her phone and leave him alone.
• Ye Xunzhi rushed into the city to reserve a dessert, then climbed to a rooftop to listen to a woman's argument with her husband.
• A police officer mistook Ye Xunzhi, draped over the rooftop railing, for a dead child, but she startled the officers by speaking and explained why she was there.
• The officers reenacted Ye Xunzhi's pose and showed how it looked like a hanging body from the apartment balcony; Ye Xunzhi named the incident “Sin on the rooftop.”
• Ye Lan called Ye Qi'an and angrily summoned him to the police station over how he had looked after Ye Xunzhi.

Ye Xunzhi recounted the shocking family relationships and dispute that had led her to call the police, while Ye Lan and the officers listened. The chapter ended with the squad captain discovering his officers gathered around her for gossip instead of training.

• Online users discussed Ye Xunzhi's stunt after she was caught investigating a suspected murder and calling the police.
• At the station, Ye Xunzhi promised to tell Ye Qi'an the gossip if he helped her deal with Second Brother, then revealed that the couple downstairs were siblings, father and daughter, and spouses.
• Ye Xunzhi explained that the older adopted daughter had become pregnant by a coworker after getting engaged, and the father wanted the younger daughter to marry the fiancé rather than return the bride price.
• An officer's girlfriend sent Ye Xunzhi milk tea after learning she was thirsty and asked to hear the gossip herself.
• The squad captain bragged that his officers were training, then saw them gathered around Ye Xunzhi listening to her story and shouted at them.

Ye Xunzhi was forced to face a mountain of homework and agreed to join Ye Xiao’s school outing, hoping it would give her a chance to escape the assignments. Wade then warned her that an enemy had arranged the trip to target her through Ye Xiao, leaving Ye Xunzhi wary as she prepared to go.

• Ye Lan and Ye Xunzhi fled the police station without Ye Qi'an, who was left behind without his car.
• After a week of freedom, Ye Xunzhi learned school started the next day and panicked over her unfinished homework, recruiting her family and the old butler to help.
• Ye Xiao invited Ye Xunzhi on his school’s team-building outing, and Old Master Ye agreed on the condition that she bring and finish her homework.
• Wade messaged Ye Xunzhi that an enemy had arranged the outing, planted a hidden pawn in Ye Xiao’s class, and prepared plans depending on whether Ye Xunzhi attended.

Ye Xunzhi stayed up to study but fell asleep at her desk, then rushed with Ye Xiao to catch their school trip flight from Pudong Airport. On the subway, she praised a young boy’s wildly idealized survey answers about students, and the chapter ended with her declaring them perfect.

• Ye Xunzhi tried to study through the night, but Old Master Ye found her asleep at her desk and woke her, prompting her to complain when he ate the cake he had brought.
• Ye Xunzhi and Ye Xiao raced through Pudong Airport after learning their gate was in the distant H section.
• Ye Xunzhi helped a pregnant traveler carry her suitcase, and the three of them power-walked for an hour before reaching the subway.
• A young boy asked Ye Xunzhi to answer survey questions about middle school, high school, and university students in exchange for spicy strips.
• Ye Xunzhi praised the boy’s idealized descriptions as absolutely perfect while Ye Xiao silently objected.

Ye Xiao and Ye Xunzhi joined their classmates for a three-day snow-mountain team-building trip, where Ye Xiao traded insults with Lu Nan and learned their class had recently been reshuffled. When Xiao Wen asked Lu Nan to join a major business project, Ye Xiao heard a thought that Xiao Wen’s parents were about to lose their power and decided to stay and watch.

• Ye Xiao and Ye Xunzhi met Lu Nan at An Saya Snow Mountain and traded shameless threats while Ye Xunzhi imagined helping them stab each other.
• Homeroom Teacher Cui gathered the students, confirmed everyone was present, and explained that the snow-mountain trip was meant to build resilience among stressed seniors.
• Ye Xunzhi learned from Yu Yuan that the class had been reshuffled after exams, putting Ye Xiao and Lu Nan together with many new classmates.
• Xiao Wen asked Lu Nan for an answer about investing in a project in the east of the city and promised the Xiao Group would back it.
• Ye Xiao heard the thought that Xiao Wen’s parents were about to be stripped of their power, so he stopped leaving and turned back to watch.

Ye Xunzhi recounted how Old President Xiao’s first wife and his elder brother’s son planned revenge against the Xiao family, while Xiao Wen rushed Lu Nan to act before his own identity was exposed. Ye Xiao learned that Mrs. Xiao killed Old President Xiao after he arranged a DNA test, giving his biological son the opening to claim the family fortune.

• Ye Xunzhi recalled that Old President Xiao’s first wife discovered her sister’s pregnancy was by another man and married the elder Xiao brother to pursue revenge.
• The elder Xiao brother allied with his former sister-in-law, and her son secretly entered the Xiao Group and rose into senior management.
• Xiao Wen urged Lu Nan to seize an opportunity, but Lu Nan questioned why he was in such a hurry.
• Ye Xunzhi explained that Xiao Wen’s upturned eyes contradicted the Xiao family’s features, and Old President Xiao had ordered a DNA test.
• Mrs. Xiao switched Old President Xiao’s heart medication, causing his sudden death before the DNA results could be used against her.
• The first wife’s son and the elder Xiao brother’s allies gathered evidence and took legal steps to claim the Xiao family fortune.

Ye Xunzhi joined her classmates and brothers on a team-building trip, where a room lottery paired her with the outgoing Zhuang Yuehan. After Ye Xunzhi discovered Zhan Tang being cornered by three men, she chose to walk away, leaving Zhan Tang in danger.

• Xiao Wen persuaded Lu Nan to invest in his project, but Mrs. Xiao called to warn that the family fortune was at stake, and Xiao Wen rushed away before Lu Nan could sign.
• At the hotel, Xi Rongrong hoped to room with Ye Xunzhi, but a shortage of rooms led the school to assign students in groups of three by random draw.
• Ye Xunzhi drew room 913 and met Zhuang Yuehan, her friendly new roommate, while Xi Rongrong explained that their other classmate, Zhan Tang, was a lonely scholarship student.
• Ye Xunzhi and Xi Rongrong went to the hot springs, and Ye Xunzhi planned to ask Ye Xiao to bring her the hotel's limited breakfast the next morning.
• Ye Xunzhi found three men cornering Zhan Tang and calling for compensation after she frightened them, but Ye Xunzhi apologized and walked away instead of helping.

Ye Xunzhi rescued Zhan Tang from the men pursuing her, and Zhan Tang insisted on repaying her by staying close during the upcoming team-building activities. Back at their shared room, Zhan Tang and Zhuang Yuehan traded hostile game usernames while Ye Xunzhi remained oblivious.

• Zhan Tang used pepper spray to escape two men, but a third caught her and knocked the spray from her hand.
• Ye Xunzhi returned with a fire extinguisher, struck the man holding Zhan Tang, and led her away from the other pursuers.
• Zhan Tang offered to repay Ye Xunzhi by serving her during the upcoming team-building activities, and Ye Xiao interrupted their conversation and carried Ye Xunzhi off.
• Zhan Tang appeared outside room [913], where Ye Xiao and Ye Xunzhi learned she had drawn the same room as them and Zhuang Yuehan.
• Zhan Tang invited Ye Xunzhi to play a game, and Zhuang Yuehan joined; the two chose the hostile usernames [Blow Your Head Off] and [Shut Up Dumbass], while Ye Xunzhi shared her ID, Little Pooping Fairy.

Ye Xunzhi ate breakfast with Ye Xiao, Yu Yuan, and Lü Fan, who worried that his sister had shut him out after asking him to rescue her from their parents. Ye Xiao advised Lü Fan not to return home or ask what his sister was hiding.

• Ye Xunzhi complained about the early breakfast, then perked up when Ye Xiao brought her beef noodles.
• Yu Yuan introduced Lü Fan to Ye Xunzhi, who recognized him as Fifth Brother's old friend.
• Lü Fan told Ye Xiao and Yu Yuan that his sister had called asking him to rescue her, but would not explain why their parents had locked her in her room.
• Ye Xunzhi recalled that Sister Lü had once made Lü Fan eat corn kernels from sheep droppings and later had been caught with her boyfriend in a school biology lab.
• Lü Fan asked whether he should go home, and Ye Xiao advised him not to ask too much about what went on out there.

Ye Xiao carried Ye Xunzhi up Snow Mountain while she recalled the tangled romance involving Zhuang Yuehan, her best friend, Yi Li, and Zhuang Qian. The group reached the summit, and Ye Xiao concluded that gossip had driven him all the way there.

• Ye Xiao carried the exhausted Ye Xunzhi up Snow Mountain and insisted he was not tired.
• Xi Rongrong called Zhuang Yuehan by her former name, Zhuang Benjuan, prompting Ye Xunzhi to recognize her from remembered gossip.
• Ye Xunzhi recalled how Yi Li became involved with Zhuang Yuehan and her best friend, only for the two women to reveal they had long been together.
• Ye Xunzhi recalled that Yi Li ultimately won over Zhuang Qian, who was revealed to be his older first cousin.
• Ye Xiao realized the group had reached the summit while he listened to the gossip, and Ye Xunzhi praised him for carrying her all the way up.

Ye Xunzhi noticed Zhuang Yuehan’s unusual interest in her during the class trip and later caught her secretly swapping tissues from Ye Xunzhi’s coat. At two in the morning, a disguised caller claimed to have Ye Xiao, and Ye Xunzhi answered that she had no money and only one life.

• Ye Xunzhi took snowy photos while Ye Xiao and Yu Yuan rested, and she teased them about their friendship.
• Zhan Tang took pictures of Ye Xunzhi and Zhuang Yuehan, and Ye Xunzhi spotted a candid photo of herself on Zhuang Yuehan’s phone.
• Zhan Tang warned Ye Xunzhi that Zhuang Yuehan seemed to show her special attention and might have ulterior motives.
• Homeroom Teacher Cui ended the students’ mountain break, and the class descended to the hotel before dark.
• Zhuang Yuehan took tissues from Ye Xunzhi’s coat and replaced them with a fresh pack while Ye Xunzhi watched from bed.
• At two in the morning, Ye Xunzhi found the beds beside hers empty and answered a disguised caller who said he had Ye Xiao.

Eileen and Zhan Tang put their plan to abduct Ye Xunzhi into motion by kidnapping Ye Xiao and using him to lure her out. Ye Xunzhi rushed to rescue her fifth brother and alerted Homeroom Teacher Cui that two roommates were missing.

• Eileen told Zhan Tang to activate Plan B after Zhuang Yuehan overheard their conversation, and Zhan Tang tied Zhuang Yuehan up in a room.
• Zhan Tang used a voice changer and a signal jammer to convince Ye Xiao that Ye Xunzhi had been captured and lure him to the Hot Spring Hotel entrance.
• Ye Xiao called Ye Xunzhi, but Zhan Tang interrupted their conversation and ordered him to come alone to save his sister.
• The White Strongman ambushed Ye Xiao as he left his room and carried him away in one of the waiting cars.
• Ye Xunzhi received a photo of the unconscious Ye Xiao, dressed quickly, ran toward the hotel, and called Homeroom Teacher Cui to report that two roommates were missing.

Ye Xunzhi rescued Ye Xiao and confronted the kidnappers, then freed Zhan Tang after discovering she had been captured too. The chapter ended with Ye Xunzhi holding a knife to Zhan Tang’s throat and demanding to know who was controlling her.

• Ye Xunzhi ambushed Joseph and Huaya, forced them to drive her to the kidnappers’ destination, and knocked them unconscious.
• Ye Xunzhi emerged with two kidnappers as hostages, while Ye Xiao struggled helplessly in the car and Zhan Tang warned that they were both going to die.
• The kidnappers brought out Zhan Tang instead of Ye Xiao, and she warned Ye Xunzhi that the plot targeted her and involved Zhuang Yuehan.
• Ye Xunzhi shot the man who grabbed Zhan Tang, freed her, and then pressed a knife to her throat, demanding to know who was pulling her strings.

Ye Xunzhi exposed Zhan Tang’s attempt to mislead her, but Zhan Tang triggered an avalanche on Snow Mountain. With the avalanche bearing down, Ye Xunzhi forced Ye Xiao onto skis and sent them racing down the slope.

• Ye Xunzhi revealed that Zhan Tang’s own creepy behavior had convinced her that Zhuang Yuehan was not an enemy.
• Zhan Tang apologized, then said she had no intention of leaving Snow Mountain.
• An explosion at the summit triggered an avalanche, and Ye Xunzhi knocked Zhan Tang unconscious before freeing Ye Xiao.
• Ye Xunzhi put ski gear on Ye Xiao and told him they had to escape down the cliff.
• Ye Xunzhi shoved Ye Xiao down the slope and clung to his back as they raced away from the avalanche.

Ye Xunzhi and Ye Xiao fled an avalanche on An Saya Snow Mountain, where Ye Xunzhi recognized the place from an earlier mission. After she was knocked unconscious twice, a livestream caught their ordeal, and a young man in a lab coat recognized the snow ferret around her neck as his “Stinky baby.”

• Ye Xiao and Ye Xunzhi slid down the mountain ahead of an avalanche, and Ye Xiao caught her after they were thrown into the air.
• Ye Xunzhi recognized An Saya Snow Mountain as the place where she had previously met Feilanz during a mission.
• A snow ferret collided with Ye Xunzhi and clung to her neck, then an iron box hit her and knocked her unconscious.
• The snow ferret and Ye Xiao slapped Ye Xunzhi awake, and she directed them southwest toward shelter before passing out again.
• A scientific expedition livestream recorded the trio, and a young man in a lab coat recognized the snow ferret and called it “Stinky baby.”