Recaps

Shen Yunzhi survived the mountain ordeal but badly injured her ankle, while Xiao Yao looked after her and kept gaining affection for her. In the hospital, she learned the mission could not be abandoned and Xiao Yao's affection had already risen to 20%.

• Shen Yunzhi mistook Xiao Yao's gas-cylinder cooker for a dangerous setup, then warned him never to cook again after tasting his oversalted mushrooms.
• The production crew found Shen Yunzhi and carried her down the mountain, while Jiang Yunli worried about whether her failure to help would be exposed.
• Shen Yunzhi told Xiao Yao she did not want to see Ji Nanxian, and Xiao Yao carried her past Ji Nanxian and away in the crew's vehicle.
• Doctors treated Shen Yunzhi's serious ankle injury and put her leg in a cast.
• The system told Shen Yunzhi that her mission could not be abandoned, then went to consult other systems about a solution.
• Shen Yunzhi saw that Xiao Yao's affection had risen from 10% to 20% and complained that the mission was bugged.

Shen Yunzhi recovered from her leg pain in the hospital, then received a mission to give Xiao Yao warm affection before his coming corruption arc. After the production team suspended the show, Shen Yunzhi went home and found her popularity had grown to two million followers.

• Shen Yunzhi found that the system had renewed her pain suppression, and she no longer felt pain in her injured leg.
• Xiao Yao watched Shen Yunzhi act at ease and reflected on her vulnerability, raising his affection for her by two percent to 22%.
• Shen Yunzhi received a mission to comfort Xiao Yao with hugs and kisses before he entered his pre-corruption arc, with electric shock as the failure penalty.
• The system learned that its Smart Assistant had caused other systems' hosts serious problems, including one host's final showdown being reset after a kiss reversed the timeline.
• The director suspended the show after Shen Yunzhi's injury led her to leave, and viewers criticized the production team.
• Shen Yunzhi returned home and discovered she had about two million followers and a Super Topic called “Gathering Place for Unhinged Geniuses.”

Shen Yunzhi went online and joked with her fans, who had wildly exaggerated her injuries into a rumor that she might lose her leg. Alarmed by the rumor, Jiang Chi rushed to visit her, and the siblings ended the chapter arguing after Shen Yunzhi struck him with her crutch.

• Shen Yunzhi logged into Weibo, traded jokes with fans about her ideal partner and relationship advice, and reassured them that her ankle injury and leg cut were not serious.
• Shen Yunzhi's fans and other viewers spread exaggerated claims that her injury involved a broken leg and a wound exposing bone.
• Tang Jianing heard that Shen Yunzhi might need an amputation and urgently alerted Jiang Chi, who searched for her location.
• Jiang Chi arrived at Shen Yunzhi's home and accused her of hiding the supposed amputation from her family.
• Shen Yunzhi mistook Jiang Chi's outburst for an insult and hit him with her crutch before learning who he was.
• Shen Yunzhi gave Jiang Chi a hard-boiled egg for his bruised forehead, and the siblings continued bickering.

Shen Yunzhi was forced by her AI assistant to agree to attend a Ji Family birthday banquet, then lent Jiang Chi money and prepared to return to the Jiang Family. After Jiang Chi warned her about Jiang Yunli, Shen Yunzhi asked whether he had ever helped her when Jiang Yunli framed her.

• The AI assistant shocked Shen Yunzhi into agreeing to attend the Ji Family birthday banquet and win Xiao Yao over.
• Jiang Chi asked Shen Yunzhi for money in exchange for letting her beat him twice over winter break, and she gave him a bank card with a zero balance.
• Jiang Zhen told Shen Yunzhi to return to the Jiang Family the next day, and she decided to go rather than let him send someone to fetch her.
• Jiang Chi returned, asked Shen Yunzhi to transfer him eighty-eight thousand, and told her Jiang Yunli would be at the family home that night.
• Jiang Chi warned Shen Yunzhi not to keep opposing Jiang Yunli, and Shen Yunzhi asked if he had ever helped when Jiang Yunli framed her.

Jiang Chi carried Shen Yunzhi to her car, while Xiao Yao saw them together and reacted with jealousy he did not admit. Shen Yunzhi later messaged Xiao Yao about apartment paperwork and asked him to pay the fees, but he refused.

• Jiang Chi admitted he could not outdo Jiang Yunli at playing dirty and decided he would speak up for Shen Yunzhi more often after she lent him money.
• Jiang Chi carried Shen Yunzhi, whose leg was injured, down to the garage and helped her into her car.
• Chen Lin spotted Shen Yunzhi being carried by a handsome young man, and Xiao Yao stopped his car to look; Chen Lin teased him about Shen Yunzhi liking puppy types.
• Xiao Yao accelerated sharply after Chen Lin joked that Shen Yunzhi would not be interested in a twenty-six-year-old like him.
• Shen Yunzhi received a notification that Xiao Yao's affection had dropped by two percent, then messaged him about paperwork for her apartment.
• Xiao Yao confirmed the paperwork and refused Shen Yunzhi's request to cover the fees, saying he was in a bad mood.

Shen Yunzhi returned to the Jiang Family villa with Jiang Chi, where Xie Mingzhen berated her and Jiang Yunli subtly turned the family against her. Shen Yunzhi challenged Jiang Yunli’s act by pointing out the contradiction between her claims about her savings and the expensive jewelry she bought for Xie Mingzhen.

• Jiang Chi brought Shen Yunzhi to the Jiang Family villa, where Jiang Zhen, Xie Mingzhen, and Jiang Yunli were together.
• Xie Mingzhen criticized Shen Yunzhi for her behavior online, and Shen Yunzhi retorted by asking Jiang Yunli whether she could take a slap instead.
• Xie Mingzhen blamed Shen Yunzhi for Jiang Yunli’s online backlash and compared her unfavorably with Jiang Yunli’s gifts and savings.
• Jiang Yunli tried to make excuses for Shen Yunzhi, but Shen Yunzhi pointed out that Jiang Yunli had claimed to give her savings to Shen Yonggui and Wang Dezhen while also buying Xie Mingzhen expensive jewelry.

Shen Yunzhi exposed how Jiang Yunli had used an empty card to provoke Shen Yonggui and Wang Dezhen, then challenged Xie Mingzhen for believing rumors while knowing nothing about her abuse. When Jiang Zhen tried to discipline her, Shen Yunzhi bluntly rejected the Jiang family’s expectations and insulted his efforts to change her.

• Shen Yunzhi mocked Jiang Yunli for using an empty card to goad Shen Yonggui and Wang Dezhen, then argued that Jiang Yunli had caused her own online backlash.
• Xie Mingzhen blamed Shen Yunzhi for the backlash, but Jiang Chi pointed out that Jiang Yunli’s own schemes had caused it.
• Shen Yunzhi asked Xie Mingzhen whether she knew about the abuse and injuries Shen Yunzhi had suffered, and Xie Mingzhen admitted she had not known.
• Jiang Zhen silenced the room and criticized Shen Yunzhi for how she spoke and for failing to meet the family’s standards.
• Shen Yunzhi retorted that the Jiang family had persuaded her to return and that they were incapable of changing her, leaving Jiang Chi stunned by her transformation.

Shen Yunzhi asked Jiang Zhen to cancel her engagement to Ji Nanxian, but he refused and urged her to marry him. Afterward, she told Jiang Chi that Jiang Zhen’s warning to Jiang Yunli was only a reminder to secure the engagement for herself, and the chapter ended with Xie Mingzhen serving Shen Yunzhi food at dinner.

• Shen Yunzhi asked Jiang Zhen to cancel her engagement and recalled how Jiang Yunli had entered Jing University, making Jiang Yunli worry that her secret might be exposed.
• Jiang Zhen told Jiang Yunli to spend less time with Ji Nanxian, then argued that Shen Yunzhi should rely on her future husband and would need the Ji Family’s approval to end the engagement.
• Shen Yunzhi answered that her underwear would always cover her, making Jiang Chi laugh and leaving the family speechless.
• After the others left, Shen Yunzhi explained to Jiang Chi that Jiang Zhen’s warning was meant to prompt Jiang Yunli to secure the engagement with the Ji Family.
• At dinner, Xie Mingzhen placed food in Shen Yunzhi’s bowl, and Shen Yunzhi thanked her.

Shen Yunzhi agreed to attend Ji Nanxian’s father’s birthday banquet with An Zhizhi and discovered that the event would trigger Xiao Yao’s tragic descent into darkness. After deciding to help him avoid a ruined leg, she called Xiao Yao but struggled to begin the conversation.

• Xie Mingzhen remembered rejecting Shen Yunzhi when she first came to the Jiang Family, while Jiang Chi helped Shen Yunzhi leave dinner.
• Shen Yunzhi agreed to attend the birthday banquet after An Zhizhi hinted that she wanted them to go together.
• Shen Yunzhi reviewed Xiao Yao’s past and learned that a bloodstained piece of his younger brother’s clothing would lure him into a trap at the banquet.
• Shen Yunzhi decided to help Xiao Yao and called him, but he answered without speaking.

Shen Yunzhi arrived at Ji Nanxian's father's birthday banquet intending to stay with Xiao Yao, but learned he had rushed off after receiving a message claiming his younger brother was alive. Xiao Yao sped toward the kidnappers' meeting place, uncertain whether the message was true but determined to confront the people who had killed his family.

• Shen Yunzhi called Xiao Yao, joked with him, and accepted his offer to pick her up before he abruptly hung up.
• At the banquet, Xiao Yao decided to stay after first planning to leave, then received a photo of a bloodstained child's jacket and a demand to come alone to an unfinished building in the west of the city.
• Xiao Yao left the banquet and told Chi Zong to inform Shen Yunzhi that something urgent had come up.
• Shen Yunzhi arrived, learned from Chi Zong that Xiao Yao had left, and hurried after him.
• Xiao Yao drove recklessly through the night toward the kidnappers, remembering his parents and younger brother's deaths.

Xiao Yao confronted one of the men who had kidnapped and killed his family, hoping to learn where his brother Xiao Xi was. As armed men surrounded him and the kidnapper demanded a trade route in exchange for Xiao Xi, Shen Yunzhi arrived and offered to take the kidnapper’s money instead.

• Xiao Yao remembered escaping the warehouse as a teenager while his parents and younger brother Xiao Xi stayed behind, only to learn that they had died before he returned with the police.
• After seeing a bloodstained jacket from that time, Xiao Yao called Chen Lin and went to meet the middle-aged kidnapper at an unfinished building.
• The kidnapper revealed that armed men surrounded Xiao Yao and offered to let him see Xiao Xi in exchange for the trade route in Country X.
• Shen Yunzhi reached the tenth floor, leaned on Xiao Yao for support, and told the kidnapper to bring all his money to her instead of insulting her friend with a 1.5-billion project.

Shen Yunzhi disrupted the kidnappers’ attack with bags of feces while Xiao Yao’s men arrived. As a kidnapper taunted Xiao Yao about his family’s deaths, Xiao Yao began to lose control, and Shen Yunzhi spotted a sniper across the way.

• Shen Yunzhi followed Xiao Yao to the negotiation site, and he pushed her behind him as the middle-aged kidnapper threatened them.
• After a thug reported that the lookouts had gone silent, Xiao Yao shot the middle-aged man in the shoulder.
• Shen Yunzhi threw bags of feces at the armed thugs, buying time for Xiao Yao’s people to arrive.
• Chen Lin led Xiao Yao’s men into the fight, and Xiao Yao pulled Shen Yunzhi into cover.
• The middle-aged kidnapper taunted Xiao Yao about abandoning his family, provoking him as Shen Yunzhi tried to hold him back.
• Shen Yunzhi spotted a glint from a sniper scope in the unfinished building opposite.

Shen Yunzhi saved Xiao Yao from a sniper’s shot, then tried to rein in his anger after the middle-aged captive provoked him with rumors about Xiao Xi. She slapped Xiao Yao on the system’s advice, only to discover too late that it had also suggested comforting him with hugs and kisses.

• Shen Yunzhi tackled Xiao Yao out of the sniper’s line of fire, and the bullet struck the spot where he had been about to step.
• Xiao Yao shoved Shen Yunzhi into cover and ordered her to stay put, while she vented her anger by beating a wounded henchman with a steel rod.
• Xiao Yao’s men captured the middle-aged man, who taunted Xiao Yao with claims about Xiao Xi and the events of the past.
• Xiao Yao chambered a round without responding, and the Smart Assistant warned Shen Yunzhi that his corruption level was fluctuating severely.
• Shen Yunzhi slapped Xiao Yao and told him to calm down, then saw the system’s delayed suggestion to comfort him with hugs and kisses.

Shen Yunzhi’s two slaps stabilized Xiao Yao’s corruption level, but they led to a furious argument between the two. Xiao Yao sent Chen Lin to escort Shen Yunzhi back to the banquet, where Chen Lin asked how she had met Xiao Yao.

• The Smart Assistant confirmed that Shen Yunzhi had completed her mission and that Xiao Yao’s corruption level was stable.
• Xiao Yao confronted Shen Yunzhi about slapping him, and they traded angry insults over her decision to save him.
• After Shen Yunzhi walked away, Xiao Yao told Chen Lin to take her back safely.
• Chen Lin caught up with Shen Yunzhi and drove her back to the banquet.
• On the way, Chen Lin asked Shen Yunzhi how she had met Xiao Yao.

Chen Lin told Shen Yunzhi about Xiao Yao’s traumatic past and tried to explain his harsh behavior as concern for her. Shen Yunzhi discovered Xiao Yao’s affection had inexplicably risen to 60%, while Xiao Yao remained behind to interrogate the surviving kidnappers and wondered who would comfort him.

• Chen Lin recounted how Xiao Yao’s family was murdered, his relatives had him confined in a psychiatric hospital, and he later reclaimed power despite his untreated PTSD.
• Chen Lin said Xiao Yao’s anger during the kidnapping showed he was sincere about wanting to get along with Shen Yunzhi, and she accepted that he had a conscience.
• Shen Yunzhi checked her system panel and saw that Xiao Yao’s affection had jumped from 20% to 60%.
• Chen Lin returned to Xiao Yao, warned two underlings to stop gossiping about him and Shen Yunzhi, and asked what to do with the surviving kidnappers.
• Xiao Yao ordered his men to extract information from the lackeys and keep the kidnapper boss alive, then asked Chen Lin whether he had dropped Shen Yunzhi off.
• Chen Lin urged Xiao Yao to treat Shen Yunzhi more gently, and Xiao Yao asked who would be gentle with him.

Xiao Yao stayed in S City to lure the hidden mastermind behind his family’s tragedy into lowering their guard, while Chen Lin teased him about Shen Yunzhi. After Chen Lin found Xiao Xi’s old jacket, Shen Yunzhi received a message from Xiao Yao at Ji Nanxian’s father’s banquet and chose not to reply.

• Xiao Yao told Chen Lin to spread the word that he was staying in S City to focus on the entertainment industry, and Chen Lin joked that he should also say he wanted to keep Shen Yunzhi company.
• Chen Lin recalled his long friendship with Xiao Yao and how they had joined forces after Xiao Xi died and Xiao Yao was confined.
• An underling brought Chen Lin the jacket Xiao Xi had worn when tragedy struck, stirring memories of Xiao Xi and their childhood.
• At Ji Nanxian's father's banquet, Shen Yunzhi received Xiao Yao's message asking if she had arrived, but she did not reply.

Shen Yunzhi returned to Ji Yueshan’s birthday banquet intending to face the Jiang family and reconsider her engagement, while Xiao Yao rushed after her despite claiming he would not coax her. After changing into an evening gown, Shen Yunzhi confronted Ji Nanxian about keeping Jiang Yunli at his side, leaving their engagement unresolved.

• Xiao Yao paid Shen Yunzhi for replies, learned she was back at the banquet, and bristled when she called Ji Nanxian her fiancé.
• Xiao Yao left his men’s work to Chen Lin and drove toward the banquet, prompting Chen Lin to laugh that he had run off to find Shen Yunzhi again.
• An Zhizhi helped Shen Yunzhi enter the hotel and arranged an aqua-blue evening gown for her after she arrived in scruffy clothes.
• Ji Nanxian approached Shen Yunzhi and said he would take her to meet his parents, calling her his fiancée while Jiang Yunli stood beside him.
• Shen Yunzhi told Ji Nanxian to give Jiang Yunli a proper place by his side instead of acting like a fool.

Shen Yunzhi rejected Ji Nanxian’s excuses for refusing to give Jiang Yunli a proper place in his life, then faced Jiang Yunli alone. Jiang Yunli revealed how the Jiang Family had concealed Shen Yunzhi’s identity and defended her own choices, but Shen Yunzhi dismissed her self-pity.

• Ji Nanxian blamed family expectations for his inability to make Shen Yunzhi his wife, and Shen Yunzhi mocked him for being useless.
• Shen Yunzhi refused Ji Nanxian’s offer to exchange WeChat contacts and left, while Jiang Yunli sent Ji Nanxian and An Zhizhi away to speak with her alone.
• Jiang Yunli told Shen Yunzhi that Jiang Zhen and Xie Mingzhen had known about the adoption mistake and had chosen not to bring Shen Yunzhi back because they were ashamed of her.
• Shen Yunzhi agreed that the Jiang Family cared more about appearances than their daughter, frustrating Jiang Yunli’s attempt to provoke her.
• Jiang Yunli admitted she had pursued Ji Nanxian and tried to please the Jiang Family to preserve her status, then described her efforts and depression as sacrifices.
• Shen Yunzhi questioned Jiang Yunli’s claims and told her that she knew how easy she had had it.

Shen Yunzhi confronted Jiang Yunli about blaming others for her own choices, then left her with a sarcastic farewell. After Jiang Yunli’s friends promised to exclude Shen Yunzhi, Chen Lin overheard them and decided to rally his Capital City connections to support her.

• Shen Yunzhi challenged Jiang Yunli’s claims that she had been forced into her actions and pointed out how she had harmed the original Shen Yunzhi.
• Jiang Yunli defended her ambition and argued that everyone fought for a higher position, while Shen Yunzhi mocked her reasoning and called Ji Nanxian an idiot.
• Shen Yunzhi left after wishing Jiang Yunli’s schemes would never backfire.
• Jiang Yunli’s friends assumed Shen Yunzhi had insulted her and offered to make sure no one in S City would include Shen Yunzhi.
• Chen Lin overheard the friends threatening to ostracize Shen Yunzhi and opened his Capital City group chat to seek help for her.

Chen Lin heard Jiang Yunli and her friends slander Shen Yunzhi, then An Zhizhi exposed Jiang Yunli’s lies and confronted the group. An Zhizhi left them humiliated by reminding one man that his father was seeking her family’s help with a project.

• Chen Lin joined the group chat and asked Jiang Yunli what Shen Yunzhi had said to anger her friends.
• Jiang Yunli falsely claimed Shen Yunzhi had told her to leave Ji Nanxian alone and return to Caoli County.
• An Zhizhi overheard the gossip, accused Jiang Yunli of provoking Shen Yunzhi, and said Jiang Yunli had claimed things that belonged to Shen Yunzhi as her own.
• An Zhizhi insulted Jiang Yunli’s friends and defended Shen Yunzhi against the group’s ostracism.
• When a man challenged An Zhizhi, she recognized his surname as Wang and revealed that his father had asked her to introduce him to her father for a family project.

An Zhizhi confronted Jiang Yunli’s allies and left them facing the consequences of spreading rumors about Shen Yunzhi. Chen Lin warned them that a friend of his liked Shen Yunzhi, then shared her photo in his group chat, where Xiao Yao removed a member who volunteered to be her fiancé.

• An Zhizhi rebuked a man who had insulted Shen Yunzhi and said she would tell his father why she had changed her mind about helping him.
• An Zhizhi mistook Chen Lin for one of Jiang Yunli’s supporters, threatened him, and left to tell Shen Yunzhi about her actions.
• Chen Lin told Jiang Yunli and the others that a buddy of his liked Shen Yunzhi and warned them to watch themselves.
• Wang Yi accused Jiang Yunli of using her friends as pawns, then stormed off as others began distancing themselves from her.
• Chen Lin shared a photo of Shen Yunzhi in his group chat and explained that she had been ostracized in S City and mistreated by her family and fiancé.
• After a group member offered to be Shen Yunzhi’s fiancé, Xiao Yao removed him from the chat.

Xiao Yao removed a man who offered to be Shen Yunzhi’s fiancé from the group chat and deflected guests’ attempts to discuss business and matchmaking. Shen Yunzhi told Jiang Chi she no longer had feelings for Ji Nanxian, and Jiang Chi revealed that Jiang Yunli had claimed a diary found at Shen Yunzhi’s old home as her own.

• Xiao Yao removed the man who offered to be Shen Yunzhi’s fiancé from the group chat, then told Chen Lin his finger had slipped.
• Xiao Yao denied liking Shen Yunzhi and fended off guests who tried to talk business and introduce him to a potential date.
• Jiang Chi told Shen Yunzhi that the Ji Family was waiting for her to cut the cake with them.
• Shen Yunzhi told Jiang Chi that she no longer had feelings for Ji Nanxian.
• Jiang Chi told Shen Yunzhi that Jiang Yunli had found a diary at Shen Yunzhi’s old home in Caoli County and claimed it as hers.

Shen Yunzhi discovered that Jiang Yunli had lied about the diary and worked with Jiang Chi to expose her. At Ji Nanxian’s birthday celebration, just as the Ji Family publicly affirmed Shen Yunzhi as his future wife, she announced that she had come to break off their engagement.

• Shen Yunzhi identified the diary as her original body's, while Jiang Chi learned that Tang Jianing had matched its handwriting to hers and sent him the evidence against Jiang Yunli.
• Jiang Chi explained that Jiang Yunli had not been abused in Caoli County and had used a false claim of depression to win the Jiang couple’s sympathy.
• Shen Yunzhi whispered a plan to Jiang Chi, and he enthusiastically led her toward the birthday cake ceremony.
• Ji Yueshan declared that Shen Yunzhi and Ji Nanxian would marry within a year or two, publicly acknowledging her as the Ji Family’s future daughter-in-law.
• Shen Yunzhi rejected the cake-cutting invitation and announced that she had come to discuss breaking off the engagement.

Shen Yunzhi publicly called off her engagement to Ji Nanxian, prompting the Ji family to deny his relationship with Jiang Yunli and uphold Shen Yunzhi as his fiancée. Jiang Yunli confronted her family and Ji Nanxian over their rejection, and Jiang Zhen slapped her in front of everyone.

• Shen Yunzhi announced that she wanted to end her engagement to Ji Nanxian and said she was willing to let Jiang Yunli and Ji Nanxian be together.
• Jiang Zhen threatened Shen Yunzhi, while Jiang Chi pointed out that Ji Nanxian had introduced Jiang Yunli as his girlfriend.
• Ji Yueshan claimed Ji Nanxian saw Jiang Yunli only as a younger sister, and Ji Nanxian called their relationship rumors.
• Jiang Yunli felt humiliated by the families' rejection and accused Shen Yunzhi of pretending to be kind.
• Jiang Yunli demanded to know whether Jiang Zhen had ever felt fatherly affection for her and confronted Ji Nanxian about his promises.
• Jiang Zhen slapped Jiang Yunli as she began to reveal more in front of the guests.

At Ji Yueshan’s birthday banquet, Shen Yunzhi rejected the engagement, while Xie Mingzhen tried to secure it for Jiang Yunli and Jiang Zhen’s slap sparked a public scene. Shen Yunzhi later gave Ji Yueshan a handwritten Lotus Sutra, and viewers noticed its handwriting resembled Jiang Yunli’s diary.

• Jiang Zhen slapped Jiang Yunli, and Xie Mingzhen shielded her before proposing that the engagement go to her instead of Shen Yunzhi.
• Jiang Zhen shut down the argument, while livestream viewers criticized the Jiang Family and sympathized with Shen Yunzhi.
• Xie Mingzhen promised Jiang Yunli she would help her get the engagement, but Jiang Yunli ran off after seeing the Ji Family welcome Shen Yunzhi.
• Shen Yunzhi gave Ji Yueshan a handwritten copy of the Lotus Sutra, which he praised and showed to the guests.
• Viewers who had seen All Villains recognized that the scripture’s handwriting resembled the handwriting in Jiang Yunli’s diary.