Recaps

After seeing a video of Jiang Xun and learning he had been kidnapped, Shen Wangjing rushed to save him, blaming himself for putting him in danger. In the hospital, Shen Wangjing held Jiang Xun tightly until Duan Qizhao and Jiang Yanchu arrived at the door.

• Shen Wangjing watched a video of Jiang Xun, realized he was suffering, and decided to return to him.
• Before Shen Wangjing could send a letter explaining his feelings, he learned Jiang Xun was missing and received a photograph of him bound and unconscious.
• Shen Wangjing ran through the alleys to reach Jiang Xun, consumed by fear and guilt over the kidnapping.
• Jiang Xun let Shen Wangjing hold him despite barely being able to breathe, and noticed the fresh scar on Shen Wangjing's neck.
• Duan Qizhao opened the hospital-room door, saw them embracing, and quietly shut it before telling Jiang Yanchu not to go in.

Jiang Yanchu tried to reconnect with his injured brother, Jiang Xun, but found him comfortably close with Shen Wangjing and Duan Qizhao. After Jiang Xun barely accepted the chicken soup Jiang Yanchu had painstakingly made, Duan Qizhao ushered Jiang Yanchu out, leaving him alone in the dark corridor.

• Duan Qizhao stopped Jiang Yanchu from barging into Jiang Xun’s room, but Jiang Yanchu entered anyway.
• Jiang Yanchu found Shen Wangjing tending to Jiang Xun while Duan Qizhao fussed over him, and he watched their easy closeness from the doorway.
• Jiang Yanchu offered Jiang Xun homemade chicken soup, but Jiang Xun barely spoke to him and only drank some after Duan Qizhao fed it to him.
• Jiang Xun said the soup tasted gamey and refused more, so Duan Qizhao pushed Jiang Yanchu out of the room.
• Jiang Yanchu stayed leaning against the corridor wall after the light went out.

Jiang Xun recovered in the hospital with Shen Wangjing at his side, while Duan Qizhao and Jiang Huaixiao visited in different ways. As Jiang Xun enjoyed a playful outing in the hospital garden, Zhou Yanqing arrived and introduced himself to Shen Wangjing as a criminal investigation captain.

• The nurse limited the hospital room to one visitor, so Duan Qizhao left Shen Wangjing alone with Jiang Xun, and the two shared the bed and held hands.
• Duan Qizhao secretly photographed Jiang Xun and Shen Wangjing, then told Jiang Huaixiao that they were cuddling; Jiang Huaixiao continued keeping his distance because he feared upsetting Jiang Xun.
• Over the next half month, Jiang Xun's injuries improved, and he played cards with Duan Qizhao and Shen Wangjing before Duan took him to see the roses in the garden.
• Jiang Xun and Duan Qizhao chased each other through the garden, and Shen Wangjing watched Jiang Xun laughing in the sunlight.
• Zhou Yanqing introduced himself to Shen Wangjing as the captain of the Municipal Bureau's Criminal Investigation Detachment.

Zhou Yanqing asked Shen Wangjing to help the task force lure an overseas crime boss back into the country, offering a chance to uncover the truth about Shen Wangjing’s mother. Shen Wangjing had not agreed, but Jiang Xun feared for his safety and offered to go with him, prompting Shen Wangjing to say Jiang Xun was the person he could least afford to risk.

• Zhou Yanqing told Shen Wangjing that the task force needed him as bait to draw the man behind the trafficking ring back from overseas.
• Zhou Yanqing explained that solving the case could reveal Shen Wangjing’s mother’s identity and left him a business card.
• Jiang Xun saw Shen Wangjing at the ward window, rushed upstairs, and demanded to know who had visited him.
• Shen Wangjing told Jiang Xun about the task force’s plan, and Jiang Xun angrily challenged him for considering it.
• Jiang Xun said he would accompany Shen Wangjing if he went, but Shen Wangjing told him he was the one he could least afford to risk.

Jiang Xun struggled with fear as Shen Wangjing left to settle dangerous matters and investigate his mother's past. The chapter ended with Jiang Xun waiting for their nightly calls and wishing every blessing he had for Shen Wangjing’s safe return.

• Shen Wangjing promised Jiang Xun that he would resolve the danger at its roots and return safely, while Jiang Xun clung to him and cried.
• Jiang Xun stayed close to Shen Wangjing during their final days together in the hospital, and Shen Wangjing cared for him despite his own injuries.
• On the day they were discharged, Jiang Xun gave Shen Wangjing a handmade protective charm and watched him leave by train.
• Jiang Xun returned to his usual routine and waited every night for Shen Wangjing’s promised call, listening for signs that he was safe.
• Jiang Xun understood that Shen Wangjing had to protect his family and learn what happened to his mother, and wished to trade anything for Shen Wangjing’s safe return.

Duan Qizhao and Jiang Xun prayed for Shen Wangjing’s safety while Jiang Huaixiao confronted Jiang Changping over the danger Jiang Xun had faced. Seeing how deeply Jiang Xun missed Shen Wangjing, Jiang Huaixiao quietly worked to learn his status and protect Jiang Xun until they could reunite.

• Duan Qizhao found Jiang Xun praying to a Guanyin statue and offered to visit Daxiangguo Temple with him to pray for Shen Wangjing’s safety.
• Jiang Changping returned and confronted Jiang Huaixiao and Jiang Yanchu after learning that Jiang Xun had been kidnapped and targeted.
• Jiang Huaixiao blamed Jiang Changping’s choices and neglect for Jiang Xun’s suffering, then promised to protect Jiang Xun while the task force closed in on the people responsible.
• Jiang Huaixiao recalled spending nights outside Jiang Xun’s villa before quietly entering and seeing him clutch the Brass Telescope while waiting for Shen Wangjing.
• Jiang Huaixiao messaged Secretary Chen to contact Zhou Yanqing for news about Shen Wangjing and resolved to keep Jiang Xun safe until his call came.

After a suspicious car appeared outside school, Jiang Xun called Shen Wangjing, who told him to go home and stay safe. Duan Qizhao refused to leave him alone, secured the villa, and was left facing an unexpected visitor at the door.

• The school warned students that outsiders had been loitering nearby, and Jiang Xun spotted a black Santana that had been parked outside since morning.
• Duan Qizhao got Old Zhao to pick them up and took Jiang Xun out through the back entrance; Jiang Xun called Shen Wangjing, who told him to go home and not be scared.
• Jiang Xun urged Duan Qizhao to return to his parents, but Duan Qizhao refused and went with him to the villa.
• Duan Qizhao checked the windows and secured the house before sitting down to play a game with Jiang Xun.
• The doorbell rang, and Duan Qizhao grabbed a baseball bat and looked through the peephole at a figure beneath the porch light.

Jiang Huaixiao arrived at Duan Qizhao’s villa with bodyguards after Shen Wangjing warned that Jiang Xun might be in danger. After Jiang Xun let him into his room, they discussed Jiang Huaixiao’s surveillance of him, and Jiang Xun asked what Shen Wangjing was doing and whether he was in danger.

• Jiang Huaixiao brought bodyguards to Duan Qizhao’s villa and took up watch over Jiang Xun.
• Duan Qizhao said he was protecting Jiang Xun, then retreated upstairs after Jiang Huaixiao entered.
• Jiang Huaixiao waited until after one in the morning before knocking on Jiang Xun’s door, and Jiang Xun let him in.
• Jiang Xun pointed out that Jiang Huaixiao’s people had been following him, and Jiang Huaixiao admitted he had feared for his safety.
• Jiang Xun asked Jiang Huaixiao what Shen Wangjing was doing and whether Shen Wangjing might be in danger.

Jiang Xun pressed Jiang Huaixiao for the truth about Shen Wangjing’s dangerous assignment and reluctantly accepted his reassurance that Shen would be protected. As Jiang Huaixiao’s guarded answers and added security fueled Jiang Xun’s suspicions, Jiang Xun invited him to dinner and had him drink glass after glass.

• Jiang Huaixiao told Jiang Xun that Zhou Yanqing’s people were guarding Shen Wangjing and that the operation was expected to close its net within a week, and Jiang Xun agreed to trust him for now.
• Jiang Huaixiao prayed for Jiang Xun and Shen Wangjing after leaving his brother’s room.
• Over the following days, Jiang Xun traveled to Jinghua Middle School in a guarded convoy while school life continued as usual and the black Santana disappeared.
• Jiang Xun used casual conversations with Jiang Huaixiao to ask about Zhou Yanqing’s progress, growing suspicious of Shen Wangjing’s evasions and the increased security.
• Jiang Xun invited Jiang Huaixiao to dinner on Friday, where Jiang Huaixiao drank more than a dozen glasses of Moutai while Jiang Xun mostly watched and Duan Qizhao egged him on.

Jiang Xun got Jiang Huaixiao drunk to retrieve Zhou Yanqing’s contact information, while Jiang Huaixiao pretended to be unconscious and let him do it. The next morning, Jiang Xun and Duan Qizhao evaded the cars following them and reached the Municipal Bureau, where Jiang Xun asked Zhou Yanqing about Shen Wangjing.

• Jiang Xun tried Jiang Huaixiao’s phone passcode and unlocked it with his own birthday, then photographed Zhou Yanqing’s contact information.
• After Jiang Xun left, Jiang Huaixiao revealed he had been pretending to be drunk and had allowed his brother to take the contact information.
• Jiang Xun and Duan Qizhao left early the next morning, and Duan Qizhao drove through alleys to lose the two cars following them.
• Jiang Xun and Duan Qizhao entered the Municipal Bureau after giving the guard Zhou Yanqing’s name.
• Zhou Yanqing brought them to his office, where Jiang Xun asked how Shen Wangjing had been lately.

Jiang Xun proposed using himself as bait to help the police catch the people targeting Shen Wangjing, but Zhou Yanqing refused to approve the plan. The next morning, Jiang Xun disappeared from school, and Jiang Huaixiao confronted Zhou Yanqing after finding that Jiang Xun’s last call had been to him.

• Jiang Xun told Zhou Yanqing that he could draw out the people following him by acting as bait, but Zhou Yanqing rejected the idea as too dangerous.
• Jiang Xun explained that he wanted to end the case sooner so Shen Wangjing could be free again.
• Jiang Huaixiao picked Jiang Xun up from the Municipal Bureau, and Jiang Xun went home and said he was going to sleep.
• The next morning, Jiang Huaixiao received a report that Jiang Xun had disappeared after the school’s morning exercise break.
• Jiang Huaixiao called Zhou Yanqing and demanded to know whether Jiang Xun was with him.

Jiang Xun joined a police operation as bait to draw out the gang that had kidnapped him, while Jiang Huaixiao rushed to the bureau to stop the plan. The gang abducted Jiang Xun and took him to a warehouse, unaware that he was tracking their location and deliberately playing frightened.

• Zhou Yanqing told Jiang Huaixiao that Jiang Xun had insisted on helping lure the gang into a trap, and Jiang Huaixiao confronted him and Director Yao at the bureau.
• During a break between classes, Jiang Xun met the gang in an alley and secretly marked an escape route before letting them capture him.
• The kidnappers put Jiang Xun in a van and drove him to a warehouse at the South Suburb Secondhand Market, without noticing his transmitting school badge.
• After waking in the warehouse, Jiang Xun pretended to panic and offered the kidnappers money, prompting the thin underling to question him about his wealth.

Jiang Xun planted Zhou Yanqing’s tracker on a kidnapper, escaped the warehouse, and fought off a pursuer in the alleys. A mysterious rescuer pulled him into hiding, where Jiang Xun heard the man’s heart pounding against his chest.

• Jiang Xun convinced the kidnappers that Shen Wangjing would not trade for him, then secretly planted Zhou Yanqing’s tracker in the fat henchman’s jacket while the man stole his watch.
• Jiang Xun used a shard of broken glass to free his hands, smashed the warehouse light, and escaped through a ventilation window.
• Jiang Xun ran through the secondhand market alleys, but a kidnapper caught up and attacked him with a steel pipe.
• A dark figure knocked the attacker unconscious, pulled Jiang Xun into a narrow gap, and held him close as Jiang Xun heard his pounding heartbeat.

Shen Wangjing shielded Jiang Xun from armed pursuers until Zhou Yanqing and the police arrived. As the officers tracked the kidnappers toward the docks, Jiang Xun rested in Shen Wangjing’s arms, hoping the chase would bring them answers and peace.

• Shen Wangjing hid Jiang Xun in an alley and protected him as armed men searched nearby.
• The pursuers found blood and turned back, but police sirens forced them to scatter.
• Zhou Yanqing arrived with armed plainclothes officers, and Shen Wangjing carried Jiang Xun to a car and tended to his bleeding feet.
• Shen Wangjing held Jiang Xun as he admitted his feet hurt and the two shared a quiet moment.
• Zhou Yanqing tracked the kidnappers’ signal to the docks and ordered the police to close in.

The Special Task Force uncovered records linking Shen Wangjing’s mother to a missing woman from Capital City, while Jiang Xun slept in the hospital as Shen Wangjing and Jiang Huaixiao kept watch. The chapter ended with Zhou Yanqing telling Shen Wangjing that they had identified his mother.

• The Special Task Force raided a warehouse and recovered records of trafficked women, including evidence of Shen Dayong’s payments for buying people.
• The technical division matched fingerprints from the ringleader’s phone to Li Wanhua, a missing woman from Capital City who had been sold into Shiban Village and become Shen Wangjing and Shen Yu Xing’s mother.
• Shen Wangjing carried the exhausted Jiang Xun to the hospital and stayed beside him while he slept.
• Jiang Huaixiao arrived, took Jiang Xun’s hand, and silently watched over his injured younger brother.
• Zhou Yanqing arrived after three in the morning, gave Shen Wangjing a document, and told him they had an answer about his mother’s identity.

Jiang Huaixiao confronted Jiang Xun in the hospital for risking his life to lure the knife-wielding attackers out, insisting that Jiang Xun was not on his own. He begged Jiang Xun to trust him, leaving Jiang Xun overwhelmed and unsure how to respond when the room door opened again.

• Jiang Huaixiao challenged Jiang Xun for thinking he could handle the attackers alone, and Jiang Xun defended his plan to lure them out.
• Duan Qizhao burst in with breakfast, then left when Jiang Huaixiao ordered him out.
• Jiang Huaixiao told Jiang Xun that he had risked his life and asked him to trust his brother.
• Jiang Xun struggled to respond to Jiang Huaixiao's gentle plea, and someone pushed open the hospital room door.

Jiang Huaixiao confronted Shen Wangjing over Jiang Xun’s injuries and questioned whether he would join the Li family, but Shen Wangjing refused and said he wanted to build a life with Jiang Xun himself. Li Zhaoheng arrived to invite Shen Wangjing back to Hong Kong City and bury his mother in the Li family cemetery, leaving the decision unresolved when he noticed someone peeking from the hospital room.

• Shen Wangjing apologized to Jiang Huaixiao for failing to protect Jiang Xun, and Jiang Huaixiao punched him in the corridor.
• Jiang Huaixiao asked Shen Wangjing whether he would return to the Li family, and Shen Wangjing refused, saying he wanted to earn the life Jiang Xun wanted.
• Jiang Huaixiao told Shen Wangjing that Shen Yuxing had already met Li Zhaoheng and agreed to go back to Hong Kong City.
• Li Zhaoheng recalled judging Shen Yuxing as grasping and impatient, while Shen Wangjing had impressed him as steady and resilient.
• Li Zhaoheng asked Shen Wangjing to return with him and promised to bury his mother in the Li family cemetery, but Shen Wangjing refused.
• Li Zhaoheng noticed a tousled head peeking out from the hospital room door.

Li Zhaoheng met Jiang Xun at the hospital and tried to pair him with his grandson, Li Jingyao, for the sake of the Li family’s ties to the Jiang family. After leaving, Li Zhaoheng urged Shen Wangjing to pursue money and power so he could protect the people he cared about, then made a phone call as his car left the hospital.

• Li Zhaoheng spotted Jiang Xun eavesdropping and decided the handsome young master would make a useful match for his grandson, Li Jingyao.
• Li Zhaoheng praised his grandson to Jiang Xun and offered to introduce them, while Jiang Xun teased Shen Wangjing by asking whether Li Jingyao was as handsome as him.
• Shen Wangjing dismissed Li Zhaoheng and took the old man’s business card from Jiang Xun, claiming he was keeping it safe.
• Outside the hospital, Li Zhaoheng told Shen Wangjing that money and power could secure justice and protect loved ones, and urged him to think over his advice.
• After the stretch Bentley left the hospital, Li Zhaoheng opened his eyes and called a number from his phone.

Shen Yuxing brought soup to Jiang Xun’s hospital room and overheard him joking with Shen Wangjing, prompting reflections on his complicated feelings toward Jiang Xun. After Duan Qizhao warned him about the dangers of returning to the Li family, Shen Yuxing erupted over his difficult upbringing, and Jiang Xun stopped him from leaving.

• Li Zhaoheng ordered Li Jingyao to come to Capital City and meet the Jiang family’s newly found youngest son, Jiang Xun.
• Shen Yuxing watched Jiang Xun and Shen Wangjing play cards together and realized his former jealousy had become a more distant, complicated feeling.
• Duan Qizhao warned Shen Yuxing that the Li family’s collateral branches might target him if he returned without protection.
• Shen Yuxing defended his desire for a better life and described his mother’s death, his paralyzed grandfather, and his father’s violence.
• Jiang Xun opened the ward door, and when Shen Yuxing tried to leave after delivering soup, he caught his wrist and invited him to stay.

Jiang Xun, Shen Wangjing, and Duan Qizhao comforted Shen Yuxing and advised him to finish school before facing the Li family. Li Zhaoheng agreed to fund Shen Yuxing’s education and arranged for Shen Wangjing to return to school, but the brothers’ new supplementary cards left Shen Yuxing uneasy.

• Jiang Xun shared soup with Shen Yuxing and urged him not to rush back to the Li family before finishing school.
• Shen Wangjing told Shen Yuxing he could acknowledge his roots later, after gaining an education and the ability to stand up for himself, and Shen Yuxing agreed.
• Li Zhaoheng agreed to cover Shen Yuxing’s schooling in Capital City on the condition that he review his end-of-term report card.
• Li Zhaoheng met Shen Wangjing, who said he wanted to return to school rather than join the Li family immediately.
• Li Zhaoheng enrolled Shen Wangjing at Jinghua Middle School with Jiang Xun and Shen Yuxing, and gave both brothers unlimited supplementary cards.
• Shen Yuxing accepted the card uneasily, and within two days that unease came to a head.

Li Zhaoheng received documents accusing Shen Yuxing of poisoning Jiang Yu and Shen Wangjing of killing his father, then learned Jiang Yu had sent them. After dismissing Jiang Yu, Li Zhaoheng confronted Shen Wangjing, who denied killing Shen Dayong but said he had wanted him dead.

• Li Zhaoheng received surveillance images and village statements accusing Shen Yuxing and Shen Wangjing of wrongdoing.
• Li Zhaoheng’s assistant traced the anonymous package to Jiang Yu, who had sent it to expose the Shen brothers’ past.
• Li Zhaoheng had Jiang Yu brought to his suite, rejected his attempt to turn the accusations against the Shen brothers, and ordered the bodyguards to remove him.
• Li Zhaoheng summoned Shen Wangjing and pushed the documents toward him for an explanation.
• Shen Wangjing denied killing Shen Dayong but said that Shen Dayong deserved to die and that he had wanted him dead.

Li Zhaoheng questioned Shen Wangjing about his father’s death after reviewing evidence about Shen Yuxing’s past. Shen Wangjing recounted how Shen Dayong stole his savings, beat Shen Yuxing, and drowned during a fight with him, leaving Shen Wangjing to return home badly wounded and find his brother near death.

• Li Zhaoheng recognized that Shen Yuxing’s actions against Jiang Yu followed years of hardship and asked Shen Wangjing how Shen Dayong died.
• Shen Wangjing recalled how Shen Yuxing had stayed by his side and helped him carry the burden of their impoverished household.
• Shen Dayong returned home, found Shen Wangjing’s savings, and beat Shen Yuxing when the boy tried to stop him from taking the money.
• Shen Wangjing confronted Shen Dayong by the river, where Shen Dayong’s axe wounded him and Shen Dayong fell into the water and drowned.
• Shen Wangjing struggled home and found Shen Yuxing lying in a pool of blood after Shen Dayong had nearly beaten him to death.

Shen Wangjing told Li Zhaoheng the truth about saving Shen Yuxing and how the boy's amnesia left him believing his brother planned to abandon him. After Li Jingyao arrived and announced his interest in Jiang Xun, Shen Wangjing warned him to stay away, then received several messages from Jiang Xun.

• Shen Wangjing explained that at fifteen he had saved money to send Shen Yuxing away to study, but Shen Yuxing had misunderstood and believed the money was for his brother's escape.
• Li Zhaoheng promised to deal with Shen Dayong and the human traffickers, and told Shen Wangjing he would protect the brothers.
• Li Jingyao introduced himself as Shen Wangjing's cousin and asked about his fiancée, Jiang Xun.
• Shen Wangjing grabbed Li Jingyao's shoulder and warned him to stay away from Jiang Xun.
• Li Jingyao fled after promising not to pursue Jiang Xun for now, and Shen Wangjing then received several messages from Jiang Xun.

Shen Wangjing returned to the hospital and spent the evening with Jiang Xun, whose teasing revealed that Shen Wangjing was jealous of Li’s younger grandson. As they settled in for the night, they urged each other to avoid taking risks again, and Jiang Xun pretended to sleep after accidentally admitting he had planned an escape route.

• Jiang Xun called Shen Wangjing back to the hospital, where he shared fruit dessert with him and joked with Duan Qizhao.
• After Duan Qizhao left, Jiang Xun noticed Shen Wangjing was upset and teased him about Li’s younger grandson.
• Shen Wangjing said the other man was not as handsome as him, and Jiang Xun delightedly realized he was jealous.
• Shen Wangjing held Jiang Xun close, fetched him water, and reminded him to eat properly after his discharge the next day.
• Jiang Xun told Shen Wangjing not to take such risks again, and Shen Wangjing pointed out that Jiang Xun had offered himself as bait to Captain Zhou.
• Jiang Xun accidentally revealed he had scouted an escape route, then pretended to sleep until Shen Wangjing’s breathing steadied.

Jiang Xun was discharged from the hospital with Shen Wangjing and Jiang Huaixiao, but Li Jingyao arrived to take him to meet his grandfather and declared himself a candidate to be Jiang Xun’s boyfriend. Jiang Xun rejected Li Jingyao’s advances and had Shen Wangjing throw away his extravagant bouquet, leaving Li Jingyao humiliated and angry.

• Jiang Huaixiao woke Jiang Xun and Shen Wangjing, brought soup, and took them to complete Jiang Xun’s discharge.
• Li Jingyao arrived at the hospital and said his grandfather had ordered him to bring Jiang Xun to see him.
• Li Jingyao introduced himself as a candidate to be Jiang Xun’s future boyfriend, and Jiang Xun mocked his blond hair by calling him a golden retriever.
• Shen Wangjing blocked Li Jingyao from approaching Jiang Xun, while Jiang Xun said he liked seeing Shen Wangjing act possessive and intimidating.
• Duan Qizhao arrived, mocked Li Jingyao’s hair and extravagant bouquet, and joined Jiang Xun and Shen Wangjing outside the hospital.
• Jiang Xun let Shen Wangjing accept Li Jingyao’s bouquet, then watched him throw it into a sorting bin and told Li Jingyao to leave.