Chapter Summaries

Ye Xunzhi left the chaotic filming set and went home with Ye Lan, who carried her upstairs while she slept. The next day, Ye Lan discovered she was still asleep and argued with Ye Qi'an, insisting that he cared about his little sister despite hating bratty children.

• Lin Ranran blamed Ye Xunzhi for the fight, but Ye Xunzhi mocked her and left while Lin Ranran and Jiang Qi comforted each other.
• Ye Lan's manager drove Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan home, and Ye Lan carried his sleeping sister upstairs.
• Ye Lan woke at two in the afternoon, checked on Ye Xunzhi, and found her sleeping inside a seashell-shaped beanbag.
• Ye Qi'an visited Ye Lan and questioned why he tolerated Ye Xunzhi, and Ye Lan said he hated bratty children but not his little sister.
• Ye Lan claimed that an eldest brother was like a father, and he and Ye Qi'an traded insults.

Ye Qi'an came to take Ye Xunzhi away, and her thoughts exposed how poor he was despite his refined appearance. As they left together, he revealed he had no money for a ride or lunch and asked her to transfer him some.

• Ye Qi'an arrived to take Ye Xunzhi, but Ye Lan mistook him for a human trafficker and shut the door on him.
• Ye Lan let Ye Qi'an in, and Ye Xunzhi packed her belongings while thinking about her third brother's poverty.
• Ye Xunzhi's thoughts revealed that Ye Qi'an earned money by making jianbing and putting on screen protectors, and Ye Lan sent her thirty thousand yuan and Ye Qi'an one hundred yuan.
• Ye Qi'an and Ye Xunzhi left the apartment complex, where he pointed to a shared Harley bike as his transportation.
• Ye Qi'an admitted he had not eaten and asked Ye Xunzhi to transfer him money for a ride and food.

Ye Xunzhi saved a pregnant woman from a drunk driver, then accidentally made the bank security guards think Ye Qi'an was robbing the bank while he withdrew her breakfast money. After the misunderstanding was cleared up, the siblings received a commendation banner and left arguing over who should hold it.

• Ye Xunzhi agreed to give Ye Qi'an five thousand in cash for breakfast money, and he went into a bank to withdraw it while she watched the car.
• Ye Xunzhi spotted a car speeding toward a pregnant woman and tackled her out of its path, taking the impact herself.
• Seeing a traffic officer approach the car, Ye Xunzhi rushed into the bank shouting that the police were there, and security guards pinned Ye Qi'an to the ground with his cash.
• Ye Xunzhi and Ye Qi'an explained the misunderstanding to the bank manager, with the pregnant woman, her husband, and the driver confirming what had happened.
• The couple and the driver gave the siblings a commendation banner, and Ye Qi'an objected when Ye Xunzhi asked him to hold it so she could photograph its message: “666!”

Ye Xunzhi accompanied Ye Qi'an to an academic conference, where their enthusiastic raid on the free refreshments amused Professor Zhang and embarrassed Ye Qi'an. When Professor Bruce invited Zhang Cheng and other experts to visit Country M, Ye Xunzhi recognized the situation as connected to the MZ657 Air Disaster, leaving Ye Qi'an alarmed.

• Ye Qi'an took Ye Xunzhi to an academic conference after she insisted on going with him.
• During the tea break, Ye Xunzhi and Ye Qi'an ate desserts and packed cherries into a bag, while Professor Zhang tried to hide them from his friend.
• Ye Xunzhi showed Professor Zhang a photo of Ye Qi'an pinned down by bank security guards, prompting Ye Qi'an to explain the misunderstanding.
• Professor Bruce asked Zhang Cheng to consider visiting Country M for a technical exchange, and Zhang appeared tempted.
• Ye Xunzhi remembered that Zhang Cheng, his expert team, and Country M were connected to the MZ657 Air Disaster, and Ye Qi'an stopped as he heard her thought.

Ye Xunzhi warned Ye Qi'an that Country M planned to kill Old Professor Zhang and the researchers by sabotaging their return flight. Ye Qi'an tested Professor Bruce about the travel arrangements and recognized his guilty reaction, leaving him certain that Ye Xunzhi’s warning was true.

• Professor Bruce invited Old Professor Zhang to exchange research with Country M and promised support for developing new technology.
• Ye Xunzhi recalled that Country M had arranged a fatal plane crash to steal research results and kill Old Professor Zhang and the other researchers.
• Ye Qi'an encouraged Ye Xunzhi to explain her warning, and she claimed to be Zhuge Liang reincarnated before sharing her suspicions.
• Ye Qi'an asked Professor Bruce about travel arrangements and said the Ye Family would provide its own plane for the return journey.
• Professor Bruce reacted guiltily to Ye Qi'an’s mention of the plane, convincing Ye Qi'an that Ye Xunzhi’s warning was true.

Ye Qi'an and Old Professor Zhang rejected Professor Bruce’s pressure to travel to Country M after Ye Qi'an warned of danger. That evening, Ye Xunzhi went with Ye Qi'an to Myriad Wonders Hall, where his other teacher, Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian, greeted her with a threat to throw her out if she made noise.

• Ye Qi'an urged Professor Bruce to speed up approval of their flight route, while Old Professor Zhang avoided giving a definite answer about visiting Country M.
• Old Professor Zhang listened to Ye Qi'an’s suspicions and decided he would not risk his life or endanger his colleagues by going.
• Ye Xunzhi and Ye Qi'an left the meeting carrying bags of refreshments as Old Professor Zhang followed behind them.
• Old Professor Zhang invited Ye Xunzhi to his home, but she declined because she wanted to meet Ye Qi'an’s other teacher.
• Ye Xunzhi accompanied Ye Qi'an to Myriad Wonders Hall, where Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian warned her not to make a racket.

Ye Xunzhi joined Ye Qi'an and Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian at the hospital, where her sharp observations impressed the veteran doctor as she examined patients through the night. After exhausting her, the night ended with Qian Li arriving and enthusiastically pinching her cheeks.

• Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian diagnosed a young woman with kidney deficiency, and Ye Xunzhi privately suggested late nights and other habits might explain it.
• Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian asked Ye Xunzhi to take a young woman's pulse, and she identified her bottled-up anger before writing her a prescription.
• Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian praised Ye Xunzhi's natural talent for Chinese medicine, though he denied complimenting her to Ye Qi'an.
• Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian and Ye Qi'an sent more patients to Ye Xunzhi until she was exhausted by the end of the night.
• Qian Li arrived, introduced herself as Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian's granddaughter, and enthusiastically pinched Ye Xunzhi's cheeks.

Ye Xunzhi realized Qian Li was dating Duan Sifan, the man who would later kill her, and persuaded Qian Li to take her to his nearby home at night. Ye Qi'an let them go while secretly worrying about what they might uncover.

• Ye Xunzhi recognized Qian Li from a future tragedy and learned that Qian Li was dating Duan Sifan.
• Ye Xunzhi heard that Duan Sifan would exploit Qian Li and eventually kill her, so she decided to investigate him.
• Ye Xunzhi persuaded Qian Li to take her to Duan Sifan’s home under the pretext of getting a late-night snack.
• Ye Qi'an allowed the girls to leave and told Ye Xunzhi to stay beside Qian Li, while Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian complained that he was an indulgent brother.

Ye Xunzhi accompanied Qian Li to Duan Sifan’s home and helped her discover that he had been using her for money. After leaving the old district, Qian Li broke down in tears as Ye Xunzhi comforted her.

• Qian Li led Ye Xunzhi through the old district to Duan Sifan’s home, and Ye Xunzhi asked to look through a window rather than knock.
• Qian Li and Ye Xunzhi overheard Duan Sifan asking a red-haired woman about the three million he planned to get from Qian Li.
• The woman told Duan Sifan to keep Qian Li under his influence, and he agreed before they became intimate.
• Qian Li realized Duan Sifan had deliberately pursued her for his own purposes, and Ye Xunzhi led her away from the house.
• Ye Xunzhi hugged Qian Li and told her she deserved someone better, and Qian Li broke down crying in her arms.

Ye Xunzhi spent an outing with Qian Li, amused Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian, and then spent three exhausting days following Ye Qi'an around his workplaces. After she tricked Old Master Ye into scolding Ye Qi'an, she learned that final exams were coming.

• Ye Xunzhi and Qian Li returned with malatang, which Qian Li tricked Senior Chinese Medicine Physician Qian into tasting; he liked it and reluctantly accepted Ye Xunzhi's apology and takeout list.
• Ye Xunzhi fell asleep on Ye Qi'an, and Qian Li offered him five thousand a day to let her look after his sister, but he declined.
• For three days, Ye Xunzhi followed Ye Qi'an to the outpatient department, research institute, and Myriad Wonders Hall, doing little work while losing three jin.
• Ye Xunzhi told Old Master Ye that Ye Qi'an was making her work and depriving her of sleep, so Old Master Ye scolded him over the phone.
• The next day, Ye Xunzhi was shocked to learn that her final exams were coming.

Ye Xunzhi dreaded returning to school for final exams, but her family sent her to a new class after arranging protections against her former classmates and teachers. She arrived at Class 26, where Teacher Shi welcomed her and gave her a sunny, inconspicuous seat by the window.

• Ye Qi'an told Ye Xunzhi she had to return to school for finals, and she failed to persuade Ye Lan to let her spend the time on his film set instead.
• Ye Qi'an attempted a French princess hairstyle on Ye Xunzhi, left hair scattered on the floor, and proudly shared a photo of his work with the family group chat.
• Ye Qi'an drove Ye Xunzhi to school, where she reported to Teacher Shi and introduced herself to Class 26.
• Teacher Shi seated Ye Xunzhi beside a sunny window overlooking the sports field, and she decided the spot was ideal for slacking off.

After Yu Yuan narrowly escaped being struck by a falling kitchen knife, Ye Xunzhi discovered that the red envelope from his eldest uncle was Life-Buying Money, which had caused his recent string of bad luck. Yu Yuan had not spent the money yet, and Ye Xunzhi began explaining how he could deal with it.

• Ye Xiao and Yu Yuan offered to celebrate Ye Xunzhi joining her new class with hot pot.
• Ye Xunzhi pulled Yu Yuan out of the way of a kitchen knife that fell from a nearby building.
• Yu Yuan told Ye Xiao and Ye Xunzhi about his recent accidents and worsening health.
• Ye Xunzhi examined Yu Yuan's red envelope and found his birth date and time written on it.
• Ye Xunzhi identified the envelope as Life-Buying Money and explained its effects to Yu Yuan.
• Yu Yuan confirmed he had not spent the money, and Ye Xunzhi began telling him how to handle it.

Ye Xunzhi helped Yu Yuan escape the life-buying curse by redirecting the payment to a vengeful ghost, whose revenge soon killed Yu Yuan’s grandfather. As Yu Yuan thanked her at breakfast, Ye Xunzhi realized she had final exams and asked to be called Guo'er.

• Ye Xunzhi took Yu Yuan and Ye Xiao to the Public Cemetery and told Yu Yuan to burn money for a dead man with heavy yin energy, making himself a middleman instead of the target of the life-buying curse.
• Ye Xunzhi identified Yu Yuan’s bedridden grandfather as the person who had tried to borrow his life and warned that the grandfather or the vengeful ghost would face consequences within three days.
• Yu Yuan returned the next morning and said his grandfather had died after demanding that his family burn money, but his eldest uncle refused.
• Ye Xunzhi told Yu Yuan to warn his mother to leave and pray at a temple, and Yu Yuan called her with the advice.
• At breakfast, Yu Yuan offered to buy Ye Xunzhi a meal to thank her, and Ye Xunzhi suddenly remembered her final exams and asked to be called Guo'er.

After the final exams, Ye Xunzhi was kidnapped by a gang working for a client, but she stayed composed and learned that Xu Qi and Nie Chu had both bid to buy her. The chapter ended with Ye Xunzhi loudly scolding the gang's boss for choosing the wrong deal.

• Ye Xunzhi lamented her poor performance on the humanities exams in the family chat, where her brothers offered to help her study.
• Ye Xunzhi was seized at a secluded intersection and taken to an abandoned warehouse.
• Ye Xunzhi pretended to pass out, then revealed she was carsick and asked her kidnappers for water.
• The gang's boss told Ye Xunzhi that a client would pay ten million for her and named Xu Qi and Nie Chu as buyers.
• Ye Xunzhi shouted that the gang's boss was being foolish after he explained that he had chosen Xu Qi's higher offer.

Ye Xunzhi persuaded her kidnappers to double-cross their employers and sell her to Xu Qi, while Ye Xiao discovered she had been abducted and alerted Special Assistant Zhou. Xu Qi paid the kidnappers and entered the private room, unaware Ye Xunzhi and the kidnappers were preparing to target him next.

• Ye Xunzhi escaped her ropes and convinced the kidnappers to take Xu Qi’s money, rescue her, and demand another ransom from her family.
• Ye Xiao realized Ye Xunzhi had not come home and could not reach her, so he and Lu Nan found surveillance footage showing someone pulling her into an alley.
• Ye Xiao contacted Special Assistant Zhou and told him that his little sister had gone missing.
• Ye Xunzhi’s kidnappers took her to a nightclub and staged her as bound and unconscious while she waited for Xu Qi.
• Xu Qi confirmed Ye Xunzhi was in the private room, transferred the money, and went inside as the kidnappers smiled.

Ye Xunzhi escaped Xu Qi’s attempt to exploit her, sent her eldest brother information about the kidnapping, and moved on to confront the next target. Nie Chu arrived at a warehouse believing the kidnappers had delivered Ye Xunzhi, only for her to recognize his revenge plan.

• Xu Qi explained that Bai Zhao had funded Ye Xunzhi’s kidnapping so he could extort money from her brothers and flee abroad.
• Ye Xunzhi broke Xu Qi’s wrist, incapacitated him, and used his phone to message Ye Yunhuai with his location and a warning that she was moving to another target.
• Ye Yunhuai read Ye Xunzhi’s message in a police car with Captain Liu and prepared to respond to the locations she provided.
• Nie Chu agreed to pay the kidnappers nine million and drove to their warehouse after they claimed they had captured Ye Xunzhi.
• Nie Chu found Ye Xunzhi tied to a chair, and she accurately guessed that he had arranged the kidnapping to take revenge and demand money from her second brother.

Ye Xunzhi escaped her kidnappers, beat Nie Chu, and was rescued by the police. As she left with Ye Yunhuai, Captain Liu learned that she had also badly injured Xu Qi at a nightclub.

• Ye Xunzhi freed herself from her ropes and beat Nie Chu until he called for help.
• Captain Liu and the police arrived, and Ye Xunzhi claimed she was the hostage while Nie Chu accused her of attacking him.
• Ye Yunhuai checked that Ye Xunzhi was unharmed, and she argued that everyone had broken the law at some point, prompting Captain Liu to stop her.
• Ye Xunzhi confronted the captured kidnappers about the innocent people they had sold before leaving with Ye Yunhuai.
• Captain Liu learned that Xu Qi had been arrested at a nightclub and asked Ye Xunzhi what she had done to him.
• Ye Xunzhi said Xu Qi had lunged at her and that she had accidentally struck him with her Foshan Shadowless Kick, leaving him potentially unable to perform sexually.

After Ye Xunzhi escaped her kidnappers, she and Ye Yunhuai gave statements at the police station, where an officer urged her to join the National Defense University. The kidnapping became a trending topic, and back at the Ye Family Villa, Old Master Ye and her brothers argued over how to protect her and what to do if she ever had a crush.

• Ye Xunzhi told the police everything about the kidnapping, and an officer tried to recruit her for the National Defense University while Ye Xiao arrived to check on her.
• The police posted a carefully edited interview with Ye Xunzhi, and Ye Lan's repost helped the story trend online.
• Old Master Ye scolded Ye Yunhuai and Ye Xiao for failing to keep Ye Xunzhi safe and considered assigning her several bodyguards.
• Ye Xunzhi rejected the bodyguard plan, while Old Master Ye and her brothers warned, joked, or threatened what they would do if she ever liked someone.

Ye Xunzhi enjoyed dinner with her family, then went with Ye Lan to the hotel ahead of the second episode of "Burn Bright, Family Bonds!". The next morning, she recognized actor Chen Zuo and recalled that he would later abuse his wife and assistant, leaving Ye Lan aware of a future scandal and danger.

• Ye Xunzhi served Old Master Ye and her brothers food during dinner, while Old Master Ye smugly claimed the special treatment he received as her grandfather.
• Ye Lan carried Ye Xunzhi home, then took her to the production team's hotel and reminded her to wash up before bed.
• Ye Lan woke Ye Xunzhi the next morning and styled her hair into twin ponytails before they went to breakfast.
• Ye Xunzhi met Chen Zuo in the hotel corridor and recognized him as a future abuser whose assistant would expose his crimes with other victims.

Chen Zuo took out his anger on Assistant Li, but Ye Xunzhi quietly helped the assistant after overhearing the abuse. Later, Zhang Gui arrived with his godson An Yuan, who announced that he had joined the show to beat Ye Xunzhi at their game.

• Chen Zuo berated Assistant Li, forced him to pick up broken glass, and threatened him with their service contract.
• Ye Xunzhi found Assistant Li in the hallway and gave him tissues to handle the glass shards safely.
• Ye Lan met Zhang Gui, while Ye Xunzhi’s thoughts revealed Zhang Gui’s wife kept other men and he knowingly tolerated it.
• An Yuan arrived with Zhang Gui, and Ye Xunzhi recognized him as the board-game opponent she had beaten before.
• An Yuan told Ye Xunzhi that he had come for her and would not leave until he beat her.