Chapter Summaries

Wu Hao defied Wu Kui’s threat to disown him and reaffirmed his love for Cui Xiangxiang. Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan traveled to Hengdian for filming, where Yin Zhengchuan embarrassed himself by calling Shen Huaiqing “Teacher Wang.”

• Wu Kui threatened to disown Wu Hao if he stayed with Cui Xiangxiang, but Wu Hao accepted the consequences and promised he would still care for his father.
• Wu Hao met Cui Xiangxiang downstairs, told him they would stay together for life, and got him to confess that he liked him before they kissed.
• Wei Zisu prepared to leave for Hengdian, and Yin Zhengchuan pouted until Wei agreed to let him come along.
• Yin Zhengchuan gave Wei Zisu a sweater he had knitted, decorated with a cute message and illustrations, and said he was making him another one.
• Yin Zhengchuan and Wei Zisu flew to Yiwu and traveled to Hengdian, where Zhu Zhu and Shen Huaiqing greeted them at the hotel.
• Yin Zhengchuan mistakenly called Shen Huaiqing “Teacher Wang” before catching his error and apologizing.

After dinner, Yin Zhengchuan and Shen Huaiqing got drunk and turned the short walk back to the hotel into a chaotic series of antics. The chapter ended with Zhu Zhu and Wei Zisu still trying to manage them as Shen Huaiqing woke up in a puddle and asked whether he had gotten his period.

• Yin Zhengchuan treated Zhu Zhu, Shen Huaiqing, and Wei Zisu to barbecue, where he and Shen Huaiqing drank beer and baijiu until they were drunk.
• On the way back, Shen Huaiqing mistook a painted bicycle symbol for a bicycle, then he and Yin Zhengchuan spun a stone bollard like a top until Wei Zisu stopped it from reaching the road.
• Shen Huaiqing and Yin Zhengchuan kept performing songs and dances, while Zhu Zhu and Wei Zisu struggled to guide them toward the hotel.
• Yin Zhengchuan sat on the curb lamenting that he had lost his tail, while Shen Huaiqing scattered petals and did a backflip into a puddle.
• Wei Zisu stopped Yin Zhengchuan from stripping, and Zhu Zhu pulled Shen Huaiqing from the puddle before he asked if his wet backside meant he had gotten his period.

After a chaotic night of caring for their drunk husbands, Wei Zisu and Zhu Zhu saw Yin Zhengchuan and Shen Huaiqing sober up and shared a cheerful goodbye before Yin Zhengchuan returned to Shandong. There, Yin Baozhu planned to take Gu Ziran to an anime convention and devised a scheme to get the costume and permission they needed.

• Zhu Zhu helped the drunken Shen Huaiqing use the toilet while Wei Zisu coaxed Yin Zhengchuan to bed without his missing wolf tail.
• In the morning, Yin Zhengchuan remembered his drunken antics, then said goodbye to Wei Zisu before leaving for the airport.
• Yin Zhengchuan returned to Shandong, where Yin Baozhu had been teaching Gu Ziran to read and write.
• Yin Baozhu invited Gu Ziran to an anime convention and proposed that he cosplay Xie Lian, but needed her brother to buy the costume and wig.
• Worried that her family might refuse to let them go, Yin Baozhu whispered a plan to Gu Ziran, who agreed despite his doubts.

Yin Zhengchuan saw through Gu Ziran and Yin Baozhu’s attempt to trick him into buying a cosplay outfit, then went to Dimension Street after speaking with Wei Zisu. At Grandma Wang’s funeral, Sun Liang gave Wei Zisu her jade bangle and sealed letter, and Wei Zisu chased Sun Zhe from the funeral before confronting him on a remote road.

• Yin Zhengchuan recognized Gu Ziran beneath Wei Zisu’s clothes and exposed his and Yin Baozhu’s scheme, then promised Wei Zisu he would take the children shopping for a cosplay outfit.
• Sun Liang called Wei Zisu to tell him Grandma Wang had died, and Wei Zisu attended her funeral.
• Sun Liang gave Wei Zisu the jade bangle Grandma Wang had returned to him and a letter she had sealed herself.
• Wei Zisu spotted Sun Zhe fleeing the funeral, followed him by car, and called the police as he chased him onto a remote road.
• Wei Zisu and Sun Zhe got out of their cars and approached each other, and Wei Zisu punched Sun Zhe in the face.

Wei Zisu confronted Sun Zhe over his abuse of Gu Ziran and fought him while waiting for the police. Sun Zhe fled with two accomplices when the police arrived, leaving Wei Zisu shaken after he stabbed one of them.

• Wei Zisu fought Sun Zhe and accused him of abusing Gu Ziran, forcing him to get plastic surgery, and mistaking control for love.
• Sun Zhe recalled that Gu Ziran had first captured his heart at the nightclub, but insisted that Gu Ziran still loved him and would return.
• Sun Zhe threatened Wei Zisu and Gu Ziran, prompting Wei Zisu to attack him again.
• Two men in black emerged from Sun Zhe's car and tried to overpower Wei Zisu so they could kidnap him.
• Wei Zisu stabbed one thug with a dagger, and Sun Zhe ordered his men to flee when they heard approaching police sirens.
• The police arrived, and Wei Zisu collapsed, trembling and shaken by having wounded someone with a knife.

After Grandma Wang’s funeral, Wei Zisu read her letter and discovered a hidden USB drive in the box for the jade bangle. The video on it showed Sun Zhe watching his father drown, leaving Wei Zisu with possible evidence of Sun Zhe’s crime.

• Wei Zisu told Yin Zhengchuan that Sun Zhe had threatened him and worried that Sun Zhe might target the Yin family, so Yin Zhengchuan booked a flight to see him.
• Wei Zisu opened Grandma Wang’s letter and learned that she and his maternal grandmother had been lovers, and that the jade bangle had belonged to his grandmother.
• Grandma Wang told Wei Zisu that a hidden compartment in the bangle’s box held something that could help expose Sun Zhe.
• Wei Zisu found a USB drive in the compartment and played a video showing Sun Mingchang falling into a lake as Sun Zhe watched without helping.

Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan gave the police evidence implicating Sun Zhe, intensifying the search for him. In hiding, Sun Zhe plotted with Yuan Zizhen to protect the Sun clan and gain Yuan power, while Yuan’s hopes of influence grew despite a humiliating accident in Sun Zhe’s basement.

• Wei Zisu showed Yin Zhengchuan the video, and they handed the USB drive to the police while suggesting Sun Zhe caused the fishing platform collapse.
• Police upgraded Sun Zhe’s wanted notice from Class B to Class A and expanded the search.
• Sun Zhe told Yuan Zizhen that he should take responsibility for the prepared-meal deaths so he could gain power in the Sun clan, while the Kang Corporation would help shift blame to the Yin Corporation.
• Yuan Zizhen slipped in Sun Zhe’s filthy basement, fell into instant noodle broth and the cat’s litter box, then left in tears and retched in the car.
• Yuan Zizhen lied to Sun Liang about falling into a trash can, while Sun Liang dismissed him and prepared to go to the office over the food factory investigation.

Sun Liang planned to shift blame for the poisoned food scandal onto Yuan Zizhen, while Yin Zhengchuan was summoned to the police station and warned Sun that the transfer could cost him his company and reputation. Yin suspected that the board members who approved Yuan’s appointment were working with Sun Zhe.

• Yuan Zizhen offered to take over as Sun Clan Food Factory director during the investigation and persuaded Sun Liang to transfer shares to him as well.
• Police traced the Sun clan’s supply channels to the Yin Corporation and summoned Yin Zhengchuan for questioning.
• Wei Zisu panicked about Sun Zhe’s scheme, but Yin Zhengchuan reassured him that he would stay by his side even if the family lost everything.
• Sun Liang told Yin Zhengchuan about Yuan Zizhen’s plan and praised his devotion, while Yin warned that Yuan might keep the shares or leave Sun Liang looking heartless.
• Yin learned that the board had approved Yuan’s appointment and urged Sun Liang to investigate the supporters as possible allies of Sun Zhe.

Yin Zhengchuan used his Second-Class Merit Medal to stop the police from framing and detaining him, then worked with Wei Zisu and Uncle Xie to investigate Sun Zhe’s father’s suspicious death. Meanwhile, Sun Liang confronted Yuan Zizhen and demanded the truth.

• Yin Zhengchuan refused to accept blame for the pesticide report until he showed the officer his Second-Class Merit Medal, after which the police let him leave.
• Wei Zisu and Uncle Xie met Yin Zhengchuan outside the station, and Uncle Xie told them the fishing platform Sun Mingchang fell from had been hollow underneath.
• Yin Zhengchuan, Wei Zisu, and Uncle Xie discussed a plan to expose Sun Zhe and make him confess to his father’s death.
• Yuan Zizhen tried to manipulate Sun Liang with tears and a threat to hurt himself, but Sun Liang watched coldly and demanded that he tell the truth.

Sun Liang confronted Yuan Zizhen about conspiring with Sun Zhe, and Yuan confessed after his attempt to fake stomach pains failed. Meanwhile, Sun Zhe grew enraged watching Gu Ziran at a convention, and the police raided his basement hideout.

• Sun Liang accused Yuan Zizhen of working with Sun Zhe to gain a board seat and undermine the Yin Corporation, and Yuan Zizhen tried to evade questioning by pretending his stomach hurt.
• Sun Liang threatened to divorce Yuan Zizhen after the baby was born unless he told the truth, and Yuan Zizhen knelt and agreed to confess.
• Sun Zhe watched videos of Gu Ziran at an anime convention, became jealous when Gu Ziran interacted with a man in red, and smashed the computer and other belongings.
• Yuan Zizhen led Sun Liang and several police officers to the basement where he had met Sun Zhe, and the officers broke down the door after receiving no answer.

After Sun Zhe escaped the police again, Yin Zhengchuan decided to return to protect Gu Ziran while Wei Zisu stayed on set until the New Year break. In Shandong, Gu Ziran enjoyed his first snowfall, but a snowball fight turned rough when a teenage boy hit him with a huge snowball.

• The police searched Sun Zhe's empty room, but Sun Liang's raid had warned him, and he had already fled to Shandong.
• Yin Zhengchuan scolded Sun Liang for tipping Sun Zhe off, then told Wei Zisu he needed to return to protect Gu Ziran; Wei Zisu agreed to reunite with him before New Year's Eve.
• Gu Ziran eagerly played in the snow with Yin Baozhu and Fang Mian, and the three plotted to wake Yin Zhengchuan with a snowball ambush.
• Yin Zhengchuan chased Fang Mian through the snow, stuffed snow down his pants, and then took the group to the village square.
• A teenage boy struck Gu Ziran in the face with a watermelon-sized snowball, and Yin Baozhu retaliated by flinging snow at him with a shovel.

Yin Zhengchuan spent a snowy day with the children and video-called Wei Zisu, while Yin Baozhu made Gu Ziran a badge with a hidden tracker. At an anime convention, Fang Mian’s cosplay attracted a group of men who chased him while calling him “Master.”

• Yin Zhengchuan shoved Fang Mian down the snow slide, and Fang Mian later slipped into a split while trying to shake snow from a tree.
• Yin Zhengchuan sent Wei Zisu a video of the snowy square, and they talked about missing each other and the snowmen Gu Ziran had made.
• Yin Baozhu crafted Gu Ziran a small gold badge and transferred the tracker from his phone watch into it.
• Yin Baozhu and Gu Ziran attended an anime convention with Yin Zhengchuan and Fang Mian, who wore a white cosplay outfit, a wig, and cat ears.
• A black-clad cosplayer with purple contacts asked Fang Mian for a photo and a hug, then lifted him in a princess carry; Fang Mian fled as more cosplayers chased him, calling him “Master.”

Sun Zhe’s hired men failed to draw Gu Ziran’s guards away, but Gu Ziran disappeared after going to the restroom. Yin Zhengchuan and the others used the tracker in Gu Ziran’s badge to locate him just outside the exhibition hall.

• At the convention, Gu Ziran enjoyed taking photos while Yin Zhengchuan stayed alert and refused to investigate a nearby commotion.
• Sun Zhe ordered his men to abduct Gu Ziran, and one disguised man followed him into the restroom with an empty suitcase.
• Yin Zhengchuan exposed the disguised man’s plan and kept watch at the restroom entrance while a bodyguard chased and caught him.
• When Gu Ziran failed to emerge, Yin Zhengchuan sent a staff member inside and learned that the restroom was empty; he found Gu Ziran’s bamboo hat and called the police.
• Fang Mian and Yin Baozhu joined the search, and Yin Baozhu used the tracker in Gu Ziran’s badge to show that he was just outside the exhibition hall.
• Yin Zhengchuan and Fang Mian hurried toward the tracker’s location.

Sun Zhe kidnapped Gu Ziran and tried to force him to return to their former life, but Gu Ziran refused and insisted he wanted to go home. Sun Zhe prepared to mark him again as Yin Zhengchuan and Fang Mian followed their location tracker.

• Yin Zhengchuan and Fang Mian followed the tracker after Sun Zhe abducted Gu Ziran and discarded his phone watch.
• Sun Zhe told Gu Ziran he would take him to the United States and have children with him, while Gu Ziran recalled how his brothers had helped him understand that Sun Zhe's abuse was wrong.
• Gu Ziran woke in Sun Zhe's custody, warned him not to touch him, and tried to escape despite still being weakened by the drug.
• Gu Ziran bit Sun Zhe and refused to go with him, saying he wanted to return home and did not want to be with a bad man who had hurt Baozhu.
• Sun Zhe pinned Gu Ziran down and said he would mark him again so Gu Ziran would depend on him and be unable to leave.

Yin Zhengchuan and Fang Mian tracked Gu Ziran to an abandoned building and fought their way through his kidnappers. Yin Zhengchuan rescued Gu Ziran from Sun Zhe, then stayed behind to confront him.

• Yin Zhengchuan and Fang Mian found four kidnappers at the abandoned building and subdued them, forcing one to reveal that Gu Ziran was in the basement.
• Sun Zhe tried to assault the drugged Gu Ziran while recalling their past, but paused when someone knocked at the basement door.
• Yin Zhengchuan arrived at the basement with the bound skinny man and knocked Sun Zhe to the floor.
• Yin Zhengchuan covered Gu Ziran with his jacket and asked Fang Mian to take him upstairs as the police arrived.
• Yin Zhengchuan shut the basement door, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to settle the score with Sun Zhe.

Yin Zhengchuan reassured Gu Ziran after Sun Zhe was arrested, helping him stop blaming himself and believe the Yin family wanted him to stay. Gu Ziran regained his confidence and asked what Yin Zhengchuan was good at, prompting him to boast that he was All-Purpose Zhengchuan.

• Yin Zhengchuan left the basement after beating Sun Zhe, who was badly injured but alive, and told the police that Sun Zhe had fallen.
• The Yin family checked on Gu Ziran, while Yin Zhengchuan reported that Sun Zhe was hospitalized and faced established charges that could result in life imprisonment.
• Yin Zhengchuan visited Gu Ziran and learned that he feared being a burden because Sun Zhe had told him the family would eventually drive him away.
• Yin Zhengchuan reassured Gu Ziran that the family cherished him and pointed out his talents, including chess and imitating sounds.
• Gu Ziran smiled and declared that he was not stupid, then asked Yin Zhengchuan about his own abilities.
• Yin Zhengchuan proudly called himself All-Purpose Zhengchuan and claimed there was nothing he could not do.

Yin Zhengchuan and Wei Zisu accidentally flew in opposite directions as Wuhan went into lockdown, leaving Yin Zhengchuan stranded there for New Year. As Yin Zhengchuan volunteered during the epidemic, Wei Zisu worried about him and decided to volunteer to drive supplies to Wuhan.

• Yin Zhengchuan flew to Wuhan to surprise Wei Zisu, while Wei Zisu changed his flight and returned to Shandong, so they missed each other as Wuhan went into lockdown.
• Wei Zisu called Yin Zhengchuan in Wuhan, and Yin Zhengchuan told him the truth about Gu Ziran; Wei Zisu reassured him that he did not blame him.
• Yin Zhengchuan joined his family’s New Year’s Eve celebration by video call, then spent his days volunteering at a hospital and helping build Thunder God Hospital.
• Wei Zisu heard Yin Changjun was seeking drivers to deliver supplies to Wuhan and offered to go himself.

Wei Zisu defied Yin Changjun’s objections and joined a convoy bringing supplies to Wuhan, where he reunited with Yin Zhengchuan at a checkpoint. After spending more than two months there and completing quarantine, the couple returned to Shandong, welcomed by their families.

• Wei Zisu used his B2 license to join the convoy to Wuhan without telling Yin Zhengchuan, and reassured him during a voice call that he was out shopping.
• After fourteen hours on the road, Wei Zisu reached Wuhan and recognized Yin Zhengchuan at the checkpoint; they reunited tearfully while unable to embrace.
• During Wei Zisu’s quarantine, Yin Zhengchuan delivered meals to his floor and entertained him with a different persona each day.
• After staying in Wuhan for more than two months, Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan left for Shandong, where Qin Qin and Yin Changjun welcomed them with a large banner.
• On the plane home, Yin Zhengchuan asked Wei Zisu to put his safety first in any future crisis, echoing a promise they had made before.

Gu Ziran continued learning to read and studying voice acting until his teacher recommended him for small jobs. Qin Qin took him to audition at Manyin Studio, where a staff member recognized his resemblance to a famous star and gave him advice before the audition.

• Gu Ziran studied reading and voice acting, and his teacher praised his talent and said he was ready to audition for small productions.
• The teacher recommended Manyin Studio to Qin Qin, who arranged an audition for Gu Ziran.
• Gu Ziran eagerly went with Qin Qin, explaining that he wanted to earn money to help with household expenses and buy presents for his family.
• At Manyin Studio, Qin Qin waited outside while a handsome staff member led Gu Ziran to the audition room.
• The staff member told Gu Ziran that the studio's handsome, single boss was visiting that day and advised him to keep his answers brief.

Gu Ziran impressed the interviewers with his voice acting and was hired, then met the shy boss, Lu Qi, who signed his contract and arranged for him to work at the studio. Gu Ziran left happily to tell Qin Qin, while Lu Qi realized he had forgotten to add him on WeChat.

• Gu Ziran performed a cartoon dog’s lines so well that the interviewers offered him the voice actor position.
• Lu Qi secretly watched Gu Ziran’s audition and became flustered when Gu Ziran came to his office for the boss’s signature.
• Lu Qi signed Gu Ziran’s contract and arranged for him to work from ten to four on weekdays at the studio.
• Gu Ziran told the receptionist he would be a coworker, then excitedly showed Qin Qin his contract.
• Qin Qin praised Gu Ziran and took him out for cake, then misread Lu Qi’s signature as “Qilu.”