Recaps

Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun secretly watched Cheng Zitao meet his online boyfriend, only to discover he was Lin Yufan. As the couple chatted happily, Cheng Zitao wrestled with anxiety about whether their promising relationship would work in person.

• Lu Xingchen spotted Cheng Zitao waiting at a dessert shop and persuaded Huo Chuyun to disguise himself and spy on Peach’s meeting.
• After Lin Yufan entered the shop, Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun followed and saw him sitting with Cheng Zitao.
• Huo Chuyun explained that Lin Yufan had never dated in his previous life and described how Huo Junchi had left him disabled before Huo Chuyun’s accident.
• Cheng Zitao recalled how attentive Lin Yufan had been since they began dating, but worried that their in-person meeting might reveal they were incompatible.
• Lu Xingchen had comforted Cheng Zitao by telling him to focus on the present rather than fear outcomes that had not happened.

Cheng Zitao met Lin Yufan in person, and Lin quickly declared their relationship official before taking him on an extravagant shopping trip. After Lin bought him a costly gold bar and a plush toy, he asked Cheng for a kiss as his return gift.

• Cheng Zitao met Lin Yufan at the dessert shop, and Lin persuaded him to call him Gege and agree that they were happy with each other.
• Huo Chuyun and Lu Xingchen watched the pair from nearby, with Lu hiding under the table when Huo turned around.
• Lin took Cheng to a gold shop and bought him a five-hundred-gram gold bar despite Cheng's protests, then bought him a plush toy.
• Lin drove Cheng home, where Cheng worried that he could not afford a gift in return.
• Lin said a kiss on his cheek would be the best return gift, and Cheng wondered if his lips were worth three hundred thousand.

Lin Yufan kissed Cheng Zitao after admitting his jealousy, then remembered how they first met when Cheng Zitao offered him a sweet potato as a child. The next morning, Huo Chuyun and Lu Xingchen took Tofu and Xiao Huang out by bicycle to buy breakfast.

• Lin Yufan pulled Cheng Zitao close and kissed him, then admitted he was jealous when Cheng Zitao teased him about the kiss.
• Cheng Zitao told Lin Yufan that he had given him his first kiss, then went home and left Lin Yufan watching his lit room.
• Lin Yufan recalled meeting Cheng Zitao as a child, when Cheng Zitao offered him a roasted sweet potato and begged him to come home as his big brother.
• Lu Xingchen watched Lin Yufan take Cheng Zitao shopping, while Huo Chuyun offered to buy Lu Xingchen jewelry.
• Huo Chuyun helped Lu Xingchen get ready, then took him, Tofu, and Xiao Huang on a bicycle ride to buy breakfast.

Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun ate beef tossed rice noodles with Xiao Huang and Tofu, then a mysterious old Taoist approached Lu Xingchen with a warning about Huo Chuyun. The Taoist revealed he had sought Lu Xingchen out for help, but did not yet explain what he needed.

• Huo Chuyun took Lu Xingchen, Xiao Huang, and Tofu to his favorite beef noodle stall, where the owner warmly greeted the animals and assumed Lu Xingchen was Huo Chuyun’s partner.
• Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun ate noodles and soy milk while chatting about the owner’s matchmaking efforts and how people treated celebrities.
• After Huo Chuyun took Xiao Huang and Tofu to the bathroom, a ragged old man asked Lu Xingchen to buy him noodles in exchange for information.
• The old man claimed Lu Xingchen was not from this world and warned that Huo Chuyun would soon face a bloody calamity.
• Lu Xingchen bought the old man noodles and demanded a solution to the danger, but the old man asked him to help with something first.
• Lu Xingchen identified the old man as a Taoist from his hairpin and waist ornaments, and the Taoist admitted he had found the right person.

Lu Xingchen recovered the old man's stolen savings in exchange for two prayer-bead strands that could transfer Huo Chuyun's bloody calamity to him. After learning Huo Chuyun would be left half-dead, Lu Xingchen accepted the risk and returned the old man's money, then saw Huo Chuyun waiting with sunflowers.

• The old man admitted scammers had stolen his life savings after he gave them his bank details while seeking a wife, and Lu Xingchen agreed to help recover the money.
• Lu Xingchen used his phone to retrieve the stolen funds, then demanded the old man explain how to resolve Huo Chuyun's bloody calamity before returning them.
• The old man offered two century-old prayer-bead strands, explaining that wearing one each would transfer Huo Chuyun's tribulation to Lu Xingchen.
• Lu Xingchen learned Huo Chuyun would be left half-dead, but put on a strand and accepted the risk because he feared something happening to Huo Chuyun more than dying.
• Lu Xingchen returned the old man's savings, then turned toward Huo Chuyun, who stood nearby holding sunflowers with Xiao Huang and Tofu.

Lu Xingchen comforted Huo Chuyun with prayer beads and accepted the sunflowers he brought, then investigated Huo Zhiyuan's suspicious activities and found no evidence against Song Zhihua. By dinner, Lu Xingchen was discouraged, so Huo Chuyun postponed discussing a visit to the Song family.

• Huo Chuyun arrived with sunflowers and found Lu Xingchen shaken; Lu Xingchen told him the wind had bothered his eyes and put prayer beads on his wrist.
• Lu Xingchen warned Huo Chuyun not to remove the beads, then forgave him after he apologized for teasing.
• Huo Chuyun cycled home with Lu Xingchen, who counted thirty sunflowers and realized Huo Chuyun had chosen them to mean “please accept my love.”
• Lu Xingchen monitored the Lu and Huo families and investigated Huo Zhiyuan, suspecting his gambling would lead to trouble for Huo Chuyun.
• Lu Xingchen found nothing unusual about Song Zhihua and seemed listless at dinner, so Huo Chuyun dropped his plan to discuss visiting the Song family.

Lu Xingchen suffered a high fever and nightmares about Huo Chuyun being tortured by Song Zhihua, while Huo Chuyun stayed by his side. After waking, Lu Xingchen confessed that a Taoist priest had warned him Huo Chuyun faced a bloody calamity and given him prayer beads to avert it.

• Huo Chuyun made Lu Xingchen stop working and carried him to bed.
• Lu Xingchen dreamed that Song Zhihua held Huo Chuyun captive and threatened Lu Xingchen, forcing Huo Chuyun to sign a share transfer agreement.
• Lu Xingchen ran a high fever and remained trapped in nightmares as Huo Chuyun watched over him through the night.
• Sun Rui examined Lu Xingchen and suggested psychological treatment, while Huo Chuyun declined further consultations for himself.
• Lu Xingchen woke in the evening, and Huo Chuyun asked what had caused his nightmares.
• Lu Xingchen confessed that a Taoist priest had warned Huo Chuyun would suffer a bloody calamity and said their prayer beads could avert it.

Lu Xingchen told Huo Chuyun that wearing the Buddhist prayer beads would transfer Huo Chuyun’s predicted calamity to him, and Huo Chuyun refused to let him risk himself. They summoned the old gentleman to explain the consequences, and learned that Lu Xingchen would only lose his memory temporarily.

• Huo Chuyun realized Lu Xingchen had investigated the Huo and Lu families because a Taoist priest predicted Huo Chuyun would die.
• Lu Xingchen explained that the Buddhist prayer beads would transfer Huo Chuyun’s calamity to him, but Huo Chuyun tried to throw the beads away.
• Huo Chuyun told Lu Xingchen that he loved him too and would not accept him sacrificing himself, then apologized for shouting.
• Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun brought the old gentleman to their home and offered him five million to answer their questions.
• The old gentleman said Lu Xingchen would only lose his memory temporarily if he took on Huo Chuyun’s calamity.

Lu Xingchen joined a new episode of the variety show alone while Huo Chuyun traveled for work. After escaping a locked room aboard a ship, Lu Xingchen discovered he was at the vessel’s bottom as the filming challenge continued.

• Old Mr. assured Huo Chuyun that Lu Xingchen would not be hurt, and Huo Chuyun put on the Buddhist prayer beads.
• Huo Chuyun traveled to Country A for work, so Lu Xingchen went alone to the show’s filming in S City.
• The production team blindfolded Lu Xingchen and locked him in a room, where he ate a burger containing his mission slip.
• Lu Xingchen played “Two Little Tigers,” found clues and a chickens-and-rabbits problem, then opened the lock with the code 1830.
• Lu Xingchen walked through a dark, gasoline-smelling corridor and saw seawater through windows, realizing he was at the bottom of a ship.

Lu Xingchen and Jiang Jingyi escaped her prison and discovered that the ship’s second task required them to uncover its secret and reach the deck. They entered a masked auction where people were sold, and the chapter left them watching for clues about the Obsidian.

• Lu Xingchen solved the arrow puzzle to free Jiang Jingyi from her art-studio prison, and they headed upstairs together.
• Lu Xingchen received the second task, which required players to find the ship’s secret and escape from the deck while avoiding Hunters and suspicious staff.
• Lu Xingchen stopped Jiang Jingyi from telling a staff member they were there for the auction, then explained that the guests likely had to give irrelevant answers to avoid being taken away.
• Lu Xingchen and Jiang Jingyi joined the masked audience and watched a young man, number 1509, sell for thirty million to bidder 6277.
• Lu Xingchen observed the bidders and attendees, but he and Jiang Jingyi found no clue yet to the ship’s hidden secret.

Lu Xingchen and Jiang Jingyi recognized Song Anran at the auction and outbid a rival to rescue her. After faking the hundred-million payment, they fled with the unconscious Anran as the auction staff realized something was wrong.

• Jiang Jingyi and Lu Xingchen spotted Song Anran displayed in an iron cage as No. 1512.
• Lu Xingchen outbid Number 6277 and won Song Anran for one hundred million.
• Lu Xingchen and Jiang Jingyi followed the staff upstairs, where Lu faked the payment and collected Song Anran.
• Lu Xingchen told Jiang Jingyi to run, and she carried Song Anran out of the wheelchair as a commotion erupted behind them.

Lu Xingchen caused a blackout to evade the guards, then uncovered evidence of a secret operating room aboard the ship. After Song Anran woke, she explained how she had been captured and described the people held in cages.

• Lu Xingchen blacked out the ship and led Jiang Jingyi and the unconscious Song Anran toward the guarded fourth floor.
• Lu Xingchen found a surgical plan to make an older woman look young and realized it belonged to the woman he had seen kissing a young man at the ball.
• Lu Xingchen suspected the ship was involved in replacing people’s faces and went to investigate a room that still had power.
• Lu Xingchen fought off a hacker connected to Country A and broke through to access the room’s surveillance footage, but searchers approaching from downstairs interrupted him.
• Song Anran woke and explained that a staff member had knocked her unconscious after she refused water, and she had later found herself in a room full of cages holding young people.

Lu Xingchen, Jiang Jingyi, and Song Anran uncovered that the ship’s wealthy buyers were purchasing young bodies to use as vessels for their brains, and learned that captives were likely held on the fourth floor. After reuniting with Su Tianle and Shen Shuyang, they prepared to search the floor and rescue the other prisoners.

• Lu Xingchen showed Jiang Jingyi and Song Anran surveillance footage of buyer 6277’s brain being placed into the body of number 1509.
• Lu Xingchen recognized the older woman from the ball as the buyer who had won the young white woman’s body, and the group realized the buyers intended to transfer their brains into younger bodies.
• Song Anran recalled being taken to another room on the fourth floor, and Lu Xingchen decided they should search the floor and rescue the people in cages.
• Su Tianle and Shen Shuyang entered with the unconscious Zhu Wei, whom they had rescued for a million, and Su Tianle mistook Jiang Jingyi for a ghost before recognizing the group.
• Lu Xingchen explained that he had bid a hundred million for Song Anran and escaped using a fake payment, then showed Su Tianle and Shen Shuyang the surveillance footage.
• Song Anran suggested leaving one person to watch Zhu Wei while the rest searched the fourth floor, and Lu Xingchen asked whether they had worn masks during the transactions.

Lu Xingchen and his companions disguised themselves to search the ship, but he realized the group had gone silent and rushed to find them. He exposed Zhu Wei as an enemy collaborator, rescued the others from a trap, and discovered captives locked in cages.

• Lu Xingchen dressed in a short gray bodycon dress and a long black wig to disguise himself, while Song Anran and Jiang Jingyi also changed their appearances.
• After searching the fourth floor, Lu Xingchen noticed the group chat had gone quiet and ran to find Shen Shuyang and the others.
• Lu Xingchen dodged an attack at a doorway and shoved Zhu Wei into a concealed pit, where the others revealed Zhu Wei had been working with the ship's crew.
• Lu Xingchen found young people locked in iron cages and used tied-together quilts as a rope to help Jiang Jingyi, Shen Shuyang, Su Tianle, and the others climb out of the pit.
• Zhu Wei admitted his task was to help the ship's crew capture the others, and Jiang Jingyi mocked him for being captured and auctioned first.

Lu Xingchen exposed Zhu Wei’s plan, then helped the others free the people imprisoned in cages aboard the ship. As the ship’s guards attacked in the darkness, Lu Xingchen and Shen Shuyang fought back while the captives fled toward the deck.

• Zhu Wei admitted he had tried to push the others into a trap, and the production staff led him away.
• Lu Xingchen explained that he had noticed Zhu Wei’s story did not add up and dodged his shove, sending Zhu into the trap instead.
• Jiang Jingyi found that the captives’ cage locks could not be opened by hand, so Lu Xingchen used his gadget to unlock them all at once.
• Shen Shuyang heard people approaching as Lu Xingchen worked, and the ship’s staff began trying to break into the room.
• When the lights went out, bodyguards rushed inside and fell into Zhu Wei’s trap hole, while Lu Xingchen urged the freed captives to escape to the deck.
• Lu Xingchen and Shen Shuyang helped Su Tianle escort two girls out, then pushed the ship’s people into the trap hole.

Lu Xingchen and Shen Shuyang escaped the ship’s interior and helped the captives reach the lifeboats, but Lu Xingchen caught 6277 Buyer trying to reopen the iron door. 6277 Buyer recognized Lu Xingchen as 8088 Buyer and blamed him for ruining his plan to live forever.

• Shen Shuyang and Lu Xingchen fooled the ship’s reinforcements by posing as customers and showed proof of Shen Shuyang’s purchase of Zhu Wei.
• Shen Shuyang and Lu Xingchen reached the deck, where Jiang Jingyi told them the lifeboats would arrive when three minutes remained in the game.
• Shen Shuyang threw a ladder to the lifeboats, while Su Tianle, Jiang Jingyi, and Song Anran organized and reassured the escaping crowd.
• Lu Xingchen spotted a man sneaking toward the iron door and pinned him down, discovering that No. 1509’s body held 6277 Buyer’s brain.
• 6277 Buyer admitted he had joined the crowd and revealed his plan to obtain immortality by buying young people’s bodies, then recognized Lu Xingchen as 8088 Buyer and accused him of ruining everything.

After completing the variety-show mission, Lu Xingchen was kidnapped and brought face-to-face with his older brother Lu Yize, who blamed him for the Lu family's losses. Lu Xingchen freed himself and turned the tables by holding Lu Yize at gunpoint.

• Lu Xingchen finished the ship mission, then flew to the Capital and was knocked unconscious outside the airport.
• Lu Xingchen woke bound in an abandoned factory and overheard his kidnappers discuss a client who wanted him alive.
• Lu Xingchen was knocked unconscious again and woke to find Lu Yize accusing him of damaging the Lu family and ruining his business plans.
• Lu Yize attacked Lu Xingchen, but Lu Xingchen freed himself, drew a gun, and ordered him to his knees with his hands raised.

Lu Xingchen confronted Lu Yize and Lu Yichen at the factory, while their arguments revealed the deception behind the Lu-Huo marriage alliance and the shares left to him. Huo Chuyun arrived to rescue him, but Lu Xingchen reacted to him as a stranger despite feeling inexplicably familiar.

• Lu Xingchen held Lu Yize at gunpoint, and Lu Yize revealed that he was Lu Xingchen’s eldest brother and had taken the twenty percent stake Grandpa Lu left him.
• Huo Junchi and Lu Yichen arrived, exposed their families’ lies about the marriage alliance and the Country A joint project, and Lu Yichen blamed Lu Xingchen for his misfortunes.
• When Lu Yichen lunged at him, Lu Xingchen fired a shot that grazed his cheek and warned him not to attack again.
• Huo Junchi accused Lu Xingchen of conspiring with Huo Chuyun and swung at him, but Huo Chuyun entered the factory, shot Huo Junchi in the shoulder, and ordered Lin Yufan to remove the captives.
• Huo Chuyun put his coat around Lu Xingchen and called him his baby and husband, but Lu Xingchen stepped away and told him to behave because they had only just met.

Lu Xingchen woke with amnesia and learned from Huo Chuyun that they were a couple, while Huo explained his transmigration and the circumstances surrounding Lu’s memory loss. Huo then admitted he had been hiding something, and the chapter shifted to his earlier conversation with Sun Rui about his treatment and Sun Rui’s mother.

• Lu Xingchen slapped Huo Chuyun and threatened him, but Huo showed him their affectionate chat history and convinced him they were partners.
• Lu Xingchen accepted Huo Chuyun’s explanation that he had lost his memory, learned that Huo had transmigrated into a book, and asked to visit his mother.
• Huo Chuyun told Lu Xingchen about the Taoist priest and admitted he had stopped wearing the Buddhist prayer beads outside Lu’s presence.
• Lu Xingchen asked whether Huo was hiding anything, and Huo admitted there was one thing before recalling Sun Rui’s final assessment visit.
• Huo Chuyun falsely told Sun Rui that he had been taking his prescribed medication, then asked about Sun Rui’s mother’s upcoming surgery.

Sun Rui hypnotized Huo Chuyun and tried to steal the Huo Corporation seal and shares for Song Zhihua, but the scheme unraveled when the transfer document showed zero shares. Lin Yufan arrived to restrain Song Zhihua, and Huo Chuyun condemned her as a mother.

• Sun Rui hypnotized Huo Chuyun into revealing the seal was in his study safe and signing a share transfer agreement, but Huo Chuyun entered zero for his shareholding.
• Sun Rui struggled past Xiao Huang and Tofu while moving the safe and waiting for Song Zhihua and her people.
• Song Zhihua arrived, discovered the agreement showed zero shares, and guessed that Baby was Lu Xingchen before opening the safe with Lu Xingchen's birthday.
• Song Zhihua stamped the agreement with the official seal, but Lin Yufan arrived and had his men restrain her and her people.
• Lin Yufan told Song Zhihua that Huo Chuyun had struck her from the family register, and Huo Chuyun said no mother would disregard her child and try to take everything from him.

Huo Chuyun exposed Song Zhihua and Sun Rui’s schemes, then confronted them with their betrayals and the consequences of their choices. Song Zhihua broke down after hearing her mother’s message, and police took both her and Sun Rui away.

• Song Zhihua accused Huo Chuyun of tricking her, and he explained how she had used Zhou Fenghe and Sun Rui to control him.
• Song Zhihua revealed Huo Chuyun’s schemes against her and Huo Zhiyuan, while Huo Chuyun blamed her for the scar that ended his attachment to her.
• Huo Chuyun told Song Zhihua that her parents had not favored boys and played her mother’s recording refusing to see her.
• Song Zhihua sobbed and wondered if she had been wrong, while Huo Chuyun confronted Sun Rui over betraying his family’s support.
• Sun Rui collapsed after Huo Chuyun reminded him that his mother would condemn his betrayal, and police took Song Zhihua and Sun Rui away.

Huo Chuyun told Lu Xingchen how Sun Rui and Song Zhihua had conspired to drug him, then brought Lu home, where they reunited with Tofu and Xiao Huang. As Lu adjusted to their life together, Huo teased him about their nights out, leaving him flustered and unable to remember what happened after he passed out.

• Huo Chuyun explained that Sun Rui had drugged his medicine at Song Zhihua's urging, and said he still intended to help Sun Rui's sick mother.
• Huo Chuyun covered the sleeping Lu Xingchen with his coat and kissed him, vowing not to let him go.
• Lu Xingchen woke at home to Tofu and Xiao Huang, and Huo Chuyun told him the pets had helped them deal with Sun Rui.
• Huo Chuyun cooked for Lu Xingchen, who called him gentle and felt at home with him.
• Huo Chuyun teased Lu Xingchen about their drunken nights together, explaining that Lu usually passed out and remembered nothing afterward.

Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun spent the night together while news of Huo Chuyun’s identity as Huo Group’s CEO and his relationship with Lu Xingchen spread online. After paparazzi published photos of them, Wang Pengfei failed to reach either man, and Lin Yufan told him to wait for instructions from Mr. Huo.

• Huo Chuyun teased Lu Xingchen in a revealing outfit, and the two began their night together.
• Huo Group announced its joint project with Country A’s success, and fans recognized Huo Chuyun as the company’s CEO.
• Paparazzi published photos exposing Huo Chuyun and Lu Xingchen’s romance, prompting heated reactions from fans.
• Huo Chuyun switched off both phones when Wang Pengfei’s calls disturbed Lu Xingchen’s sleep.
• Wang Pengfei contacted Lin Yufan, who told him to leave the matter alone until he could ask Mr. Huo for instructions.
• Han Lu revealed that she had tried to stop the paparazzi from releasing the photos, but they leaked them anyway.

The Lu family faced Huo Group’s lawsuit over Lu Xingchen’s inheritance while Lu Yichen and Huo Junchi’s families clashed at the Lu residence. Zhou Fenghe hinted that Lu Yichen was Zhou Fenglan’s child, leaving Zhou Fenglan to confront her cousin over allowing Lu Yichen and Huo Junchi to marry.

• Lu Wenshan scolded Lu Yize for the scandal surrounding Lu Xingchen, while Lu Yichen revealed he had leaked alleged chat logs accusing Lu Xingchen of cheating on Huo Chuyun.
• Huo Group’s legal department sued the Lu family for withholding Lu Xingchen’s twenty percent inheritance, and Huo Junchi and Huo Zhiyuan arrived seeking shelter.
• Lu Yichen rejected Huo Junchi and Huo Zhiyuan, while Zhou Fenglan pretended to reunite warmly with her cousin Zhou Fenghe in front of Lu Wenshan and the neighbors.
• In private, Zhou Fenghe suggested that Lu Yichen was Zhou Fenglan’s child, and Zhou Fenglan asked why she had allowed Lu Yichen and Huo Junchi, who were cousins, to marry.

Zhou Fenghe used her knowledge of Huo Junchi’s birth to pressure Zhou Fenglan into letting the Huo family stay with the Lus, while Lu Yize and Lu Wenshan planned to protect the Lu Corporation’s shares. Huo Chuyun learned that a Taoist priest had left without a return date and that Lu Yichen’s fortune was still affecting his memory loss.

• Zhou Fenghe mocked Song Zhihua’s choices and threatened Zhou Fenglan, who agreed to let the Huo family stay with the Lu family.
• Lu Yize protested losing twenty percent of the Lu Corporation’s shares, and Lu Wenshan advised him to buy up stock while Lu Yize revealed his plan to mislead rival groups about a development site.
• Lu Yichen complained to Zhou Fenglan about Huo Junchi occupying his room, then packed to move in with Lu Yihao after she agreed.
• Huo Junchi taunted Lu Yichen about sharing a bed, and Lu Yichen insulted his performance before leaving with his luggage.
• Lin Yufan told Huo Chuyun that the Taoist priest had left a letter saying he had gone traveling with no set return date and that Lu Yichen’s fortune still affected Huo Chuyun’s memory loss.
• Huo Chuyun called off the search for the priest and promised to triple the pay of Lin Yufan and the legal department staff.