Recaps

Wu Jiangyuan and Pei Jinghe were pushed into marriage after their drugged encounter, while Wu tried to repair his public image and keep their relationship at a distance. The arc ended with Wu accepting a meeting to try on their wedding suits, then discovering the bite marks Pei Jinghe had left on his gland and remembering an old incident between them.

• Wu Jiangyuan found his engagement partner Pei Jinghe drugged and going into heat, and the two slept together after Pei Jinghe pinned him down.
• Wu Jiangyuan and Pei Jinghe realized they had both accepted the engagement expecting the other to refuse, and Wu decided they should marry while keeping separate lives.
• Grandpa Pei set their marriage registration for the following month, and Wu learned his brother Wu Chengnan had arranged to remove damaging trending topics and gave him six months to improve his reputation.
• Wu Jiangyuan visited Xi Jie with Pei Jinghe and asked him to clarify that the scandalous encounter had been a misunderstanding, while Xi Jie worried about drawing attention to Nan Xiaoxing.
• A storm forced Wu Jiangyuan to stay overnight at Pei Jinghe’s home, where Pei calmed Wu’s pheromone reaction and the two became intimate again.
• Wu Jiangyuan held a livestream interview, but an extravagant gift spree from Shining Star Candy overwhelmed the show and became a trending topic.
• Wu Jiangyuan traced Shining Star Candy to Tangsheng and discovered Pei Jinghe had sent the gifts to support him and promote Tassilo’s watch, then left angry at Pei’s intervention.
• Tassilo offered Wu Jiangyuan an ambassador deal, and after agreeing to meet Pei Jinghe to try on their suits, Wu noticed teeth marks on his gland and remembered Pei had bitten him before.

Wu Jiangyuan and Pei Jinghe negotiated the terms of their arranged marriage while Wu Jiangyuan pursued his acting career and confronted memories of Pei’s earlier mark. They married, moved in together, and began navigating Pei’s approaching rut and insomnia.

• Wu Jiangyuan visited Pei Jinghe after his teacher sent him to check on Pei, and Pei revealed his newly differentiated Alpha pheromones before biting Wu’s gland and temporarily marking him.
• Wu Jiangyuan confronted Pei about the Tassilo endorsement, and they agreed to cooperate as a loving couple after marriage while keeping their relationship and business partnership private.
• Wu Jiangyuan learned that their families expected them to register their marriage, and Pei promised to help make him an A-lister as Wu pursued acting.
• At Tassilo, Pei comforted Wu after he overheard rumors about himself, apologized for the unauthorized mark, and later presented a postnuptial agreement requiring them to help each other during ruts.
• Wu Jiangyuan signed the agreement, completed the Tassilo commercial, and learned that Pei had invested in Liang Changju’s film and wanted him to audition for a role.
• Wu Jiangyuan found the blue-diamond ring Pei had prepared, then married him at the Civil Affairs Bureau and secretly put on his ring before their wedding photo was taken.
• Wu Jiangyuan delayed moving in with Pei to take Dai Lan to the hospital, where a doctor linked Dai’s fever to an untreated gland bite and disrupted pheromones.
• After moving into Pei’s home, Wu Jiangyuan agreed to soothe Pei’s approaching rut with pheromones but refused to sleep with him, then brought him medicine for insomnia and was kissed by Pei.

Wu Jiangyuan won the second male lead role in Liang Changju’s film and became Tassilo’s public ambassador while facing rumors and renewed closeness with Pei Jinghe. At their old school, he discovered that Pei Jinghe had once been trapped in an equipment room after differentiating, and Pei Jinghe promised to come find him.

• Wu Jiangyuan auditioned for Yuan Cifeng, impressed Liang Changju, and was later chosen as the second male lead in the film.
• During Pei Jinghe’s rut, Wu Jiangyuan tried to take the lead as they had agreed, but Pei Jinghe took control, and Pei later denied influencing the casting.
• Wu Jiangyuan revealed himself as Tassilo’s brand ambassador, and Pei Jinghe’s public support helped the launch and commercial draw widespread attention.
• Wu Jiangyuan confronted reporter Tong Yong about the damaging stories he had spread and suspected a deliberate campaign against him.
• Wu Jiangyuan and He Qu resolved the rumors caused by Zhang Fan’s post, while Wu Jiangyuan and Pei Jinghe continued to tease each other about fidelity and their marriage.
• At their old high school, Wu Jiangyuan found Pei Jinghe’s schoolbag and followed his pheromones to a jammed equipment room, where he found Pei unconscious.
• Wu Jiangyuan carried Pei Jinghe to the infirmary and learned that Pei had been trapped while physically weakened after differentiating.
• Wu Jiangyuan sent Pei Jinghe a photograph of the renovated corridor where he had rescued him, and Pei Jinghe replied that he would come find him.

Wu Jiangyuan learned that he and Pei Jinghe had been lovers before his memory loss and confessed that he had fallen in love with him again. As their relationship deepened, Wu Jiangyuan's conflict with Wang Anlian followed him onto a variety show, where the director learned that investor Wu Chengnan was his older brother.

• Pei Jinghe traded a prize refrigerator for a mango plush for Wu Jiangyuan, then asked to mark him again as their intimacy deepened.
• Wu Jiangyuan beat Wang Anlian after his insults at a cast gathering and later confessed his growing feelings after Pei Jinghe told him he loved him.
• Wu Jiangyuan discovered that Dai Lan had slept with Wu Chengnan after mistaking him for someone else, and Wu Chengnan admitted that he had been looking for Dai Lan.
• Wu Jiangyuan caught Zhang An secretly photographing him with Pei Jinghe and hired him to turn against his employer.
• Wu Jiangyuan learned that he had lost memories of his relationship with Pei Jinghe after falling from a bridge at eighteen, and Pei Jinghe recounted their past together.
• Wu Jiangyuan confessed that he had fallen in love with Pei Jinghe again and requested a Permanent Marking, but Pei Jinghe postponed it until Wu Jiangyuan could accept the possibility of pregnancy.
• Wu Jiangyuan joined a variety-show recording, where Wang Anlian threatened his career and the production paired them for a mud-crab task.
• Wang Anlian staged a fall during their confrontation after the task, but Zhang Wenruo called Wu Jiangyuan aside to ask whether investor Wu Chengnan was his older brother.