Chapter Summaries

Xie Ran wondered why Xie Yuan had secretly bought medicinal herbs, while Xie Yuan avoided explaining and worked on making medicine. Mu Ze and Xie Yuan shared a suggestive video call, and the chapter ended with Xie Yuan agreeing to Mu Ze’s rush to be by his side on the condition that he eat regularly and sleep before midnight.

• Xie Ran questioned Xie Yuan about the medicinal herbs, but he evaded her and she decided to ask Uncle Wang instead.
• Xie Yuan answered Mu Ze’s video call while bathing, then hung up after realizing Mu Ze was staring at him suggestively.
• Xie Yuan worked on preparing medicine and later teased Mu Ze with a promise of a surprise when he returned.
• Mu Ze worked late on the company relocation, then went home to a nearby property and answered Xie Yuan’s midnight video call.
• Xie Yuan urged Mu Ze not to exhaust himself, but Mu Ze insisted he wanted to reunite sooner because he had already lost so much time with him.
• Xie Yuan agreed to Mu Ze’s plan but warned that he would ban Mu Ze from his bed for a month if he failed to eat on time and get home before midnight.

Mu Ze and Xie Yuan kept in touch while Xie Yuan recovered, and Xie Yuan saw Mu Ying and Shen Shuyao off at the airport. With Old Master Gu’s birthday banquet approaching, Xie Yuan resolved to protect Xie Ran from the danger he expected there.

• Mu Ze and Xie Yuan spent two days keeping each other company by video call as Xie Yuan rested and Mu Ze worked.
• At the airport, Xie Yuan promised Shen Shuyao and Mu Ying he would visit them in Hai City after finishing his business in Nan City.
• On the drive home, Xie Yuan agreed to attend Old Master Gu’s birthday banquet with Xie Ran and resolved not to let Su Wanyue’s plot against her succeed.
• Xie Ran told Xie Yuan that Gu Yanzhou had been sending flowers to her office, and the two went to an expensive beauty salon for treatments.
• Back home, Xie Ran complained that her skin still did not look as good as Xie Yuan’s, and he teased her about being older than him.

Xie Yuan and Mu Ze shared an intimate video call before Xie Ran took Xie Yuan to Old Master Gu’s birthday banquet. There, Gu Yanzhou approached his grandfather with Su Wanyue, while Xie Yuan and Xie Ran suspected Su Wanyue might cause trouble.

• Mu Ze admitted he was jealous of Xie Yuan’s time with his parents, and the two became intimate during their video call.
• Xie Ran and Xie Yuan got dressed for Old Master Gu’s birthday banquet, where Xie Ran’s stylist asked about Xie Yuan’s marriage to Mu Ze.
• Xie Ran and Xie Yuan arrived at the banquet and drew attention from the guests, while Gu Yanzhou repeatedly watched Xie Ran.
• Su Wanyue persuaded Gu Yanzhou to let her wish Old Master Gu a happy birthday, though he told her not to mention their relationship.
• Xie Yuan and Xie Ran watched Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue approach Old Master Gu, wondering whether Su Wanyue would reveal their relationship.

At Old Master Gu’s birthday banquet, Gu Yanzhou brought Su Wanyue, then faced questions about his broken engagement to Xie Ran. Xie Yuan challenged Gu Yanzhou’s version of events in front of the guests, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Gu Yanzhou brought Su Wanyue to greet Old Master Gu, who accepted Gu Yanzhou’s jade gift but treated Su Wanyue coolly.
• Su Wanyue asked Gu Yanzhou if his grandfather disliked her, and Gu Yanzhou reassured her that Old Master Gu treated everyone the same.
• Xie Ran warned Xie Yuan that she would not drink, then went to greet Old Master Gu, who asked when she and Gu Yanzhou planned to marry.
• Xie Ran told Old Master Gu that she and Gu Yanzhou had broken off their engagement, while Yang Lianting blamed the breakup on President Xie.
• Xie Yuan challenged Yang Lianting, and Old Master Gu summoned Gu Yanzhou to explain what had happened with Xie Ran.
• Gu Yanzhou accused Xie Ran of complaining to Old Master Gu, and Xie Yuan rebuked him for his disgraceful behavior.

At Old Master Gu's birthday banquet, Xie Ran ended her engagement with Gu Yanzhou and left with Xie Yuan, who suspected Gu Yanzhou might have tampered with her drink. After a commotion broke out and Xie Ran disappeared from the crowd, Xie Yuan searched anxiously until two people approached him.

• Xie Ran defended Xie Yuan and explained that she was breaking off her engagement because Gu Yanzhou loved Su Wanyue and had disrespected her.
• Old Master Gu rejected Su Wanyue as a member of the Gu Family, and Xie Ran left the banquet with Xie Yuan.
• Gu Yanzhou tried to speak privately with Xie Ran, but Xie Yuan distracted him by suggesting other men might pursue Su Wanyue.
• Xie Yuan worried that Gu Yanzhou might have tampered with Xie Ran's drink, but saw Gu Yanzhou drink from the glass himself.
• Xie Ran went to socialize while Xie Yuan stayed behind; after a commotion, he could not find her and began searching.
• Two people suddenly appeared beside Xie Yuan and asked what was wrong.

At the Gu family’s birthday banquet, Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue were discovered together in a Lounge after apparently drinking wine that had been tampered with. Old Master Gu confronted them and considered sending Su Wanyue abroad, but the chapter ended with him declaring that Xie Ran would never become Madam Gu.

• Xie Yuan and Xie Ran joined the guests searching for Nana’s missing keepsake and noticed that the Gu family and Gu Yanzhou were absent.
• Nana found her jewelry in a Lounge, discovered Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue together, and screamed, drawing the guests upstairs.
• Gu Dewang and Yang Lianting ended the banquet and sent the guests away while Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue dressed and faced the family.
• Gu Yanzhou told Old Master Gu that something was wrong with the wine and pleaded to be with Su Wanyue, while Old Master Gu said the guests might keep the incident quiet but the truth could eventually spread.
• Old Master Gu revealed that Gu Yanzhou had been sending flowers to the Xie Group and said he could have married Xie Ran if he had not brought Su Wanyue to the banquet.
• Yang Lianting asked Old Master Gu to give Gu Yanzhou another chance, and Old Master Gu declared that Xie Ran would never become Madam Gu.

After learning that Su Wanyue claimed to be pregnant with Gu Yanzhou’s child, Xie Ran and Xie Yuan pursued the server they suspected of drugging wine at the banquet. They had him brought to a villa for questioning, then returned to the Xie Family Villa as an anonymous post about Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue appeared online.

• Su Wanyue told Gu Yanzhou and the Gu family that she was pregnant, and Old Master Gu arranged for her to be examined again before discussing the marriage.
• Xie Yuan reunited with Mu Ze after the banquet, and he and Mu Ze suspected Su Wanyue had arranged for the wine to be drugged.
• Xie Ran received word that the suspected server had been caught and took Xie Yuan and Mu Ze to question him.
• The server denied drugging the wine and protested that taking him was illegal, but Xie Yuan ordered the bodyguards to make him talk before dawn.
• An anonymous post appeared online claiming Gu Yanzhou had been caught in bed with Su Wanyue and that she was over a month pregnant.

The Gu family dealt with an online scandal about Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue, while Old Master Gu revealed his plans for the family’s succession. Xie Yuan learned that Su Wanyue was pregnant and realized the timing contradicted what he knew about the story.

• Old Master Gu reprimanded Gu Dewang for failing to contain the online gossip and ordered Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue to stay out of public view while warning that the baby would face a paternity test.
• Old Master Gu told Yang Lianting that Gu Yanzhou was unsuited to inherit the Gu Group and that he would raise Su Wanyue’s child as heir if the baby belonged to the Gu family.
• Xie Ran told Mu Ze that the person had been handed over to the police and asked him to tell Xie Yuan they would discuss the matter later.
• Mu Ze told Xie Yuan that Su Wanyue was trending because she was pregnant, and Xie Yuan realized she had been pregnant before his injury, making the timing wrong.
• Mu Ze reassured Xie Yuan that Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue’s schemes would not succeed.

Xie Yuan learned that Su Wanyue’s pregnancy resulted from Gu Yanzhou comforting her after Xie Yuan’s car accident. A video showed Old Master Gu agreeing to the marriage only if the child was proven to be of Gu blood and raised apart from its parents, while Su Wanyue chose Gu Yanzhou over the child; Xie Yuan wondered whether the plot was forcing the pregnancy.

• Xie Yuan asked the Wicked System why Su Wanyue was pregnant, and it traced the conception to the night Gu Yanzhou comforted her after Xie Yuan’s car accident.
• Xie Yuan viewed Su Wanyue’s prenatal results and confirmed that she was pregnant.
• Old Master Gu told Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue that he would permit their marriage only after a paternity test confirmed the child was of Gu blood.
• Old Master Gu demanded that he raise the child and that Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue see it only once a month, or Su Wanyue would never marry into the Gu family.
• Su Wanyue told Gu Yanzhou she would choose him over their child, reasoning that they could have more children.
• Xie Yuan questioned whether Su Wanyue’s pregnancy had become necessary to correct the plot.

Xie Yuan learned that Gu Yanzhou might still have feelings for his sister and asked the Wicked System to keep watching him and Su Wanyue. After Mu Ze left, Mu Ze’s younger sister Mu Xiao arrived at the villa, befriended Xie Yuan, and told him Mu Ze planned to give him all the assets in his name.

• The Wicked System told Xie Yuan that Gu Yanzhou had shown lingering feelings for his sister and that the plot might be trying to prevent them from getting back together.
• Xie Yuan questioned the original novel’s portrayal of his sister and told the Wicked System to keep watching Su Wanyue and Gu Yanzhou.
• Mu Ze left to handle work after promising to bring Xie Yuan strawberry cake.
• Uncle Wang told Xie Yuan that a girl was asking for him, and Xie Yuan met Mu Xiao outside the villa.
• Mu Xiao introduced herself as Mu Ze’s younger sister, clung to Xie Yuan, and asked him not to tell Mu Ze she had visited.
• Mu Xiao told Xie Yuan that Mu Ze planned to give him all the assets in his name and was unusually generous with him.

Mu Xiao visited Xie Yuan, complained about Mu Ze’s secret marriage, and learned that Xie Yuan could make effective ancient skincare formulas. Xie Yuan arranged to prepare them for her, then showed her to a guest room and worked out until she came to ask about his secret exercise method.

• Mu Xiao told Xie Yuan that Mu Ze was frugal and that she had come to Nan City after discovering he had married without telling the family.
• Xie Yuan teased Mu Xiao about punishing Mu Ze, then offered her skincare ancient formulas after learning she wanted better skin.
• Mu Xiao proposed selling or investing in the formulas, but Xie Yuan said they could discuss business after she tried them and asked Uncle Wang to buy the ingredients.
• Mu Xiao explained that Mu Ze was possessive and praised Xie Yuan for loving him; Xie Yuan said Mu Ze was wonderful just as he was.
• Xie Yuan arranged lunch and a guest room for Mu Xiao, then went to exercise in the gym.
• Mu Xiao entered the gym and asked whether she could watch the secret exercise method Xie Yuan had mentioned on a dating show.

Xie Yuan and Mu Xiao spent the day together, but a photograph of them holding hands sparked rumors that Xie Yuan was cheating with her. As the pair noticed the sudden surge of online attention and hostile comments, Mu Xiao suspected someone was deliberately targeting Xie Yuan.

• Mu Xiao asked Xie Yuan about the rumors concerning Gu Yanzhou and Su Wanyue, and Xie Yuan confirmed that they had been involved while Gu Yanzhou was still engaged.
• Xie Yuan and Mu Xiao went to an amusement park, where someone photographed them holding hands.
• Xie Ran called Xie Yuan after he started trending and demanded to know who the girl was, but Xie Yuan said he would not break up with her.
• Xie Yuan told Mu Xiao that people online were calling her his other woman, and she asked him to protect her from Mu Ze's reaction.
• At a drinks shop, Mu Xiao and Xie Yuan saw that the online attention seemed unusually high, and Mu Xiao noticed comments attacking Xie Yuan and her brother.

Xie Yuan and Mu Xiao faced online attacks and followed onlookers, while Gu Yanzhou learned that Gu Dewang was behind the smear campaign and agreed to his scheme against the Xie Family. The chapter ended with Xie Yuan confronting people livestreaming him outside a haunted house and threatening legal action.

• Mu Xiao asked Xie Yuan to go live in response to the online attacks, but Xie Yuan refused because he worried about her reputation.
• Xie Yuan and Mu Xiao left the shop after people recognized them and followed them, then went to a haunted house.
• Gu Yanzhou confronted Gu Dewang about the trending topic targeting Xie Yuan, and Gu Dewang admitted that he had arranged it with paid trolls.
• Gu Dewang persuaded Gu Yanzhou that destroying the Xie Family could make Xie Ran depend on him, and Gu Yanzhou tacitly agreed while asking him not to go too far.
• Xie Yuan told the people livestreaming him and Mu Xiao outside the haunted house to stop, then warned that they would face consequences if they kept streaming.

A livestreamer accused Xie Yuan of cheating and provoked him into a fight, but Xie Yuan destroyed the man's phone and Xie Ran threatened legal action. As they prepared to leave, the streamer blocked their way, and Xie Yuan challenged his accusation by asking how he could be cheating with A-Wu.

• The livestreamer refused to stop filming Xie Yuan and Mu Xiao, then attacked Xie Yuan after Xie Yuan mocked him.
• Xie Yuan dodged the livestreamer's punch and kicked the man's phone into an artificial rock formation, ending the livestream.
• Xie Ran arrived, said the streamer had violated Xie Yuan and Mu Xiao's rights and attacked first, and warned that the Xie Family would pursue the matter legally.
• Xie Ran apologized to the onlookers and began leaving with Xie Yuan and Mu Xiao, but the streamer blocked them and continued accusing Xie Yuan of cheating.
• Xie Yuan asked how he could have known A-Wu was cheating.

Mu Ze publicly defended Xie Yuan and revealed that the woman seen with him was his biological sister, Mu Xiao, clearing up the cheating rumor. Gu Dewang gave up trying to keep the accusation alive, while the group left the amusement park with Mu Xiao staring intently at Xie Ran.

• Mu Ze joined Xie Yuan, dismissed the cheating accusation, and took his hand despite the livestreamer's protests.
• Mu Ze introduced Mu Xiao as his biological sister and asked the onlookers to clarify the misunderstanding online.
• Photos of the group spread online, and commenters corrected the rumor that Xie Yuan had cheated.
• The Troll Farm Boss told Gu Dewang the accusation had fallen apart, and Gu Dewang decided to let Xie Yuan clear his name.
• Xie Ran drove the group away from the amusement park as Mu Xiao stared at her from the front passenger seat.

Xie Yuan and Mu Ze discussed their wedding and whether Mu Ze or Mu Xiao would become a live-in son-in-law, while Mu Xiao stayed with them in Nan City. Elsewhere, Su Wanyue enlisted someone to help her destroy Xie Ran, and the chapter ended with Mu Ze confronting someone following him and Xie Yuan toward their bedroom.

• Xie Ran teased Xie Yuan about making skincare ointment for her and Mu Xiao, while Mu Xiao complained that Mu Ze and their parents had kept his marriage secret from her.
• Mu Xiao learned Mu Ze had been preparing to marry Xie Yuan since they made their relationship official, and Mu Ze said his parents supported him becoming a live-in son-in-law.
• Mu Xiao decided she wanted to find a live-in son-in-law so she could stay with her parents, and Xie Yuan told her there was no rush.
• Su Wanyue blamed Xie Yuan for her circumstances, resented that the Gu Family would not let her live in their villa, and messaged someone who promised to help her destroy Xie Ran.
• At the Xie Family Villa, Mu Ze stopped and asked why someone was following him and Xie Yuan toward their bedroom.

Xie Yuan made skincare ointment for Mu Xiao with help from Mu Ze and Xie Ran, then postponed finishing it until morning when the preparation ran late. In bed, Mu Ze checked the fading marks on Xie Yuan’s waist and kissed him.

• Mu Xiao asked to watch Xie Yuan make her ointment, and Mu Ze reluctantly agreed after Xie Yuan invited her to wait downstairs.
• Mu Ze teased Mu Xiao about keeping her distance from Xie Yuan, while Mu Xiao called him jealous and asked Xie Yuan to keep him in line.
• Xie Yuan had Mu Xiao grind the ingredients, and Xie Ran joined them to help prepare the ointment.
• Xie Yuan sent Mu Xiao and Xie Ran to rest, then told Mu Ze the ointment needed to simmer for three or four hours; Mu Ze decided they would finish it the next day.
• After they tidied up and went to bed, Mu Ze noticed medicine on Xie Yuan and examined the fading marks on his waist.
• Mu Ze asked to have a look, and after Xie Yuan showed him the marks, Mu Ze kissed him.

Xie Yuan and Mu Ze shared a quiet morning before Xie Ran learned that Xie Mo was bringing his girlfriend, Xia Yunrou, to the Xie Family home. Xie Ran and Xie Yuan decided to stay and face her, while Mu Xiao learned that the household might soon be unsettled.

• Mu Ze cared for the sleepy Xie Yuan, then teased him the next morning before leaving for work after breakfast.
• Xie Ran joined Xie Yuan for breakfast and joked about Mu Ze before Uncle Wang announced that Xie Mo would return with his girlfriend.
• Xie Ran and Xie Yuan objected to Xia Yunrou joining the family, but agreed to let her come to the Xie Family home.
• Xie Ran stayed home to see what Xia Yunrou wanted, while Xie Yuan finished making skincare ointment and Mu Xiao asked why Xie Ran was not working.
• Xie Ran warned Mu Xiao that Xie Mo was bringing home a scheming, fake-innocent girlfriend, and Mu Xiao called him unlucky.

Xie Ran and Mu Xiao discussed Xie Mo’s girlfriend, Xia Yunrou, before Xie Mo brought her to the Xie home. After learning that the Xie Family forbade sex before marriage, Mu Xiao understood why Mu Ze had rushed to marry Xie Yuan and asked Xie Ran whether Gu Yanzhou had minded the rule.

• Xie Ran told Mu Xiao that Xie Mo was the unlucky man who had failed to see through a fake innocent woman, and Mu Xiao asked to stay when Xie Ran explained the family situation.
• Xie Yuan let Mu Xiao stay with Xie Ran while he finished preparing ointment in the kitchen.
• Xie Ran received word that Xie Mo and Xia Yunrou had arrived at the villa, and Mu Xiao promised to watch out for Xia Yunrou.
• Xie Mo introduced Xia Yunrou as his girlfriend, while Xie Ran addressed her as his assistant and warned Xie Mo not to disturb Xie Yuan in the kitchen.
• After Xie Mo took Xia Yunrou upstairs, Xie Ran told Mu Xiao that the two had not slept together because the Xie Family forbade sexual relations before marriage.
• Mu Xiao realized the rule explained Mu Ze’s rush to marry Xie Yuan, then asked Xie Ran whether Gu Yanzhou had been angry about it.

Xie Mo returned home with Xia Yunrou, apologized for missing Xie Yuan’s injury, and introduced Mu Xiao before announcing that he and Xia Yunrou planned to register their marriage. Xie Ran disapproved, but Xie Yuan restrained her and told Xie Mo the decision was his to make.

• Xie Ran refused to tell Mu Xiao more about her dating boundaries and said she and her partner had agreed to wait until marriage to have sex.
• Xie Mo came downstairs with Xia Yunrou, apologized to Xie Yuan for not visiting while he was injured, and received reassurance from Xie Yuan.
• Xie Mo mistook Mu Xiao for Xie Yuan’s wife, and Xie Ran scolded him for not checking whom Xie Yuan had married.
• Xie Ran reprimanded Xia Yunrou for not informing Xie Mo about the news online, and Xia Yunrou apologized.
• Xie Mo introduced Xia Yunrou as his partner and announced they planned to register their marriage; Xie Yuan told him he could decide for himself.