Recaps

Su Yi accompanied Ye Xiaxuan and Lin Yiyun to Liu Hongyun’s art exhibition, where he agreed to pose as Bai Miaomiao’s boyfriend. He greeted Bai Miaomiao with convincing affection in front of her blind date, while Lin Yiyun showed only surprise and the man seethed.

• Authorities attributed the worldwide plant growth to magnetic fluctuations caused by a passing celestial body, and Liu Hongyun’s art exhibition went ahead as planned.
• After lunch, Ye Xiaxuan took Su Yi to pick up Lin Yiyun, and he told her he had agreed to pretend to be Bai Miaomiao’s boyfriend for two thousand yuan.
• Ye Xiaxuan brought Su Yi and Lin Yiyun to the Mountains and Rivers Private Club, where Bai Miaomiao was waiting with her blind date.
• Su Yi took Bai Miaomiao’s hand and acted like her loving boyfriend, watching Lin Yiyun for signs of jealousy.
• Lin Yiyun showed only shock, while Bai Miaomiao’s blind date became livid at the sight of them holding hands.

At a clubhouse entrance, Su Yi pretended to be Bai Miaomiao’s boyfriend and humiliated Liu Shi by exposing his poor health and mocking him. Bai Miaomiao dragged Su Yi inside, where she scolded him for embarrassing her too, and he asked her to settle the bill for his performance.

• Bai Miaomiao introduced Su Yi as her boyfriend to Liu Shi, who was stunned to learn Su Yi was a freshman at Qingzhou University.
• Liu Shi questioned whether Bai Miaomiao’s father knew about their relationship and disparaged Su Yi for being young.
• Su Yi told Liu Shi that his lower left abdomen ached and mocked his poor health, leaving Liu Shi furious and embarrassed.
• Su Yi said he could give Bai Miaomiao his body, making her blush and leaving Ye Xiaxuan and Lin Yiyun surprised by his bluntness.
• Ye Xiaxuan urged them inside, and Bai Miaomiao pulled Su Yi into the clubhouse while Liu Shi stayed silent.
• Bai Miaomiao pinched Su Yi and complained that he had cost her dignity; Su Yi said he had followed her instructions and asked her to pay him when they were done.

Su Yi accompanied Bai Miaomiao through the art club, where she showed him Liu Shi’s painting and teased him about his painting skills. After hearing Lin Yiyun say she had no romantic feelings for him, Su Yi let go of his fixation on her and resolved not to dwell on love.

• Liu Shi waited outside until Su Yi and the others entered the club, then followed them inside intending to teach Su Yi a lesson.
• Bai Miaomiao showed Su Yi Liu Shi’s painting Ten Thousand Galloping Horses and challenged him to compare his ability with Liu Shi’s.
• Ye Xiaxuan and Lin Yiyun discussed whether Su Yi and Bai Miaomiao might become a real couple, and Lin Yiyun said she had no feelings for Su Yi.
• Su Yi heard Lin Yiyun’s answer, accepted that she was an independent person rather than his destined reincarnation, and let go of his fixation on her.
• Bai Miaomiao asked Su Yi whether he liked Lin Yiyun, and he teased her while Ye Xiaxuan overheard their exchange.

At an art exhibition, Bai Miaomiao introduced Su Yi as her boyfriend to fend off Liu Shi and learned her father would stop arranging blind dates for her. Qin Lin photographed the pair and confronted them, but Su Yi exposed that Qin Lin had lent him 180,000 and said he could not repay it yet.

• Bai Miaomiao held Su Yi's hand and introduced him to the art exhibition guests as her boyfriend.
• Bai Yangyan called Bai Miaomiao, learned she had presented Su Yi as her boyfriend, and told her he would stop arranging blind dates.
• Bai Miaomiao told Su Yi they could stop pretending, but he asked her to pay him; she insisted they keep up the act until the exhibition ended.
• Qin Lin photographed Bai Miaomiao and Su Yi, sent the pictures to Yu Huiyin, and started recording before approaching them.
• Su Yi told Qin Lin he owed him 180,000 and admitted he had no money to repay it yet.

Su Yi refused Bai Miaomiao’s offer to repay his debt and said he would earn 180,000 himself, while Qin Lin’s phone suddenly caught fire. At the exhibition, Su Yi met the painter Liu Hongyun, who challenged him to judge a painting.

• Bai Miaomiao offered to pay Su Yi’s 180,000 debt, but Su Yi refused and told Qin Lin he would earn the money himself.
• Qin Lin’s phone exploded in his pocket and burned his thigh, and staff took him away for bandaging.
• Bai Miaomiao confirmed that Su Yi could paint at the exhibition, and he began considering what to paint for the evening auction.
• Su Yi met Liu Hongyun, an early Qi Refining immortal cultivator, and examined his paintings.
• Liu Hongyun asked Su Yi what he thought of his Peony Spring Revival Painting.

Su Yi criticized Liu Hongyun’s Peony Spring Revival Painting and explained its flaws, prompting Liu Hongyun to destroy it. The crowd fell silent until Liu Shi challenged Su Yi to paint one himself.

• Su Yi called Liu Hongyun’s Peony Spring Revival Painting terrible after the surrounding masters mocked his opinion.
• Liu Hongyun demanded that Su Yi explain his criticism or be thrown out.
• Su Yi identified flaws in the painting’s shading, composition, brushwork, and lack of character.
• Liu Hongyun tore down the painting and trampled it in front of the stunned crowd.
• Su Yi questioned whether the gathered painters represented the era, and Liu Shi challenged him to paint something himself.

After refusing to paint for Liu Hongyun’s jeering supporters, Su Yi decided to paint at the exhibition to repay Qin Lin the 180,000 he owed. He asked Ye Xiaxuan to help grind the ink, hoping to keep the crowd from watching him work.

• Liu Shi and the painters mocked Su Yi and demanded that he prove his skill, but Su Yi walked away with Bai Miaomiao instead.
• Bai Miaomiao asked whether Su Yi could paint better than Liu Hongyun, and Su Yi said Liu only knew a little less than he did.
• Qin Lin approached Su Yi to remind him of the debt, and Su Yi said he would paint something to earn the money.
• As Su Yi turned away from Qin Lin, Qin Lin’s bandaged wound began bleeding heavily, and staff took him back to the infirmary.
• Su Yi found Ye Xiaxuan and Lin Yiyun, then asked Ye Xiaxuan to come help him grind the ink.

Su Yi began teaching Ye Xiaxuan to paint and created a simple ink painting that triggered a powerful cultivation insight in her. After she expelled impurities and feared she had a terminal illness, Su Yi recognized what had happened, leaving Ye Xiaxuan wondering whether he had somehow seen her in the bathroom.

• Bai Miaomiao arranged a studio, where Liu Hongyun and several painters gathered to watch Su Yi paint.
• Su Yi took Ye Xiaxuan into the studio, told her to grind ink, and said she should put her name on the painting afterward.
• Su Yi painted a few strokes that formed a little eagle, and Ye Xiaxuan experienced an insight that rapidly improved her physical constitution.
• Ye Xiaxuan rushed to the bathroom as her body expelled impurities, then emerged frightened by the filthy-looking result and asked Su Yi to check her pulse.
• Su Yi asked whether what she had passed was filthy, and Ye Xiaxuan blushed as she wondered whether he had peeked.

Su Yi painted a great roc for Ye Xiaxuan, briefly exposing her to a terrifying vision before suppressing the painting’s Dao resonance and giving it to her. He then had her sign another painting for sale, and Liu Hongyun and Liu Shi saw Su Yi’s little-eagle painting, leaving Liu Hongyun speechless while Liu Shi mocked it.

• Su Yi reassured Ye Xiaxuan that her bodily changes were normal, then painted a great roc whose artistic conception overwhelmed her with a vision of destruction.
• Su Yi crossed out a line that had triggered the vision, suppressed the painting’s Dao resonance, and inscribed it for Ye Xiaxuan as a gift.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to sign the other painting and sell it for a hundred and eighty thousand to repay Qin; he then ordered her to practice writing her name a thousand times each day.
• Su Yi left the studio to read while Ye Xiaxuan prepared the paintings for mounting, and Liu Hongyun’s group entered.
• Liu Hongyun froze when he saw Su Yi’s little-eagle painting, while Liu Shi laughed and mocked it as an ordinary little bird.

At an auction, Liu Hongyun recognized the mastery and Dao resonance in Ye Xiaxuan’s little eagle painting, then was stunned by Su Yi’s even more extraordinary Painting of Kunpeng Soaring. The paintings were mounted, and Ye Xiaxuan made clear that Su Yi’s gift to her was not for sale.

• Liu Hongyun recognized Ye Xiaxuan as the painter of the little eagle and learned that she was Ye Lin’s granddaughter.
• Liu Shi mocked Ye Xiaxuan’s simple painting, so Liu Hongyun slapped him and ordered him to leave.
• Liu Hongyun saw Su Yi’s Painting of Kunpeng Soaring beneath the little eagle painting and was overwhelmed by its artistry and inscription.
• Ye Xiaxuan refused to sell Su Yi’s painting, and Liu Hongyun called for both paintings to be mounted.
• The other painters examined Su Yi’s work and were deeply impressed by its vivid depiction of Kunpeng.

Liu Shi tried to kick Su Yi but collapsed in terror, while Liu Hongyun recognized Su Yi’s painting skill and apologized before leaving. Ye Xiaxuan basked in the effects of her cultivation breakthrough as Bai Miaomiao misread her glow, and Su Yi returned to his book.

• Liu Shi attempted to kick Su Yi, froze in fear, fell, and hurried away after staff helped him up.
• Ye Xiaxuan left her Painting of Kunpeng Soaring with Liu Hongyun, who realized her cultivation surpassed his.
• Liu Hongyun apologized to Su Yi for doubting his ability, but Su Yi dismissed him and the other painters.
• Bai Miaomiao praised Su Yi’s talent, while Ye Xiaxuan and Lin Yiyun sat across from him and Lin Yiyun noticed Ye Xiaxuan looked prettier.
• Bai Miaomiao privately imagined that Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan had been intimate, while Ye Xiaxuan admired Su Yi as he read.
• Su Yi noticed the women watching him and told them to go look around, then resumed reading.

At the art exhibition, Su Yi paid Qin Lin back by borrowing money from Yu Huiyin, exposing how differently she treated the two men. When Qin Lin tried to prove Yu Huiyin would lend to him as well, she rejected him, then sent Su Yi even more money on request.

• Qin Lin left the infirmary and challenged Su Yi about whether he had painted something for the auction.
• Su Yi asked Yu Huiyin to lend him 180,000, and she transferred 200,000 without asking why.
• Su Yi paid Qin Lin back and told him that whether he painted was none of Qin Lin's business.
• Qin Lin asked Yu Huiyin to lend him 200,000, but she refused and said she did not want financial dealings with him.
• Su Yi asked Yu Huiyin for another 200,000, and she sent eighteen transfers before saying that was all she had.

At the club, Xia Shanhe targeted Ye Xiaxuan after noticing her painting and sensing her cultivation, while Su Yi recognized the owner as a cultivator who harvested yin to replenish yang. The chapter ended with Su Yi dismissing Xia Shanhe’s offer of friendship.

• Su Yi amused himself by teasing Qin Lin, who had been left embarrassed after the young man he greeted ignored him.
• Xia Shanhe arrived after seeing Ye Xiaxuan’s signature on an auction painting and became interested in her and Lin Yiyun as potential targets for dual cultivation.
• Xia Shanhe introduced himself to Ye Xiaxuan, Lin Yiyun, and Bai Miaomiao, but Ye Xiaxuan bluntly declined his offer of friendship and sat beside Su Yi.
• Xia Shanhe followed the women to Su Yi and introduced himself, mentioning Su Yi’s victory over Liu Hongyun.
• Su Yi recognized Xia Shanhe’s cultivation technique and decided the man was unworthy of his disciple, then told him he did not usually make friends with men.

Su Yi rejected Xia Shanhe's attempt at friendship and sensed the killing intent behind his anger, while Bai Miaomiao worried that Xia would attack him. After she called her grandfather for help, Bai Qishan ordered the family to withdraw from Xia Shanhe's businesses and prepare to seize them, convinced that offending Su Yi was fatal.

• Su Yi rejected Xia Shanhe, who left angrily after Bai Miaomiao tried to smooth things over.
• Qin Lin left mocking Su Yi, but his thigh wound began bleeding again, and staff took him back to the infirmary.
• Bai Miaomiao called Bai Qishan to warn him that Xia Shanhe might attack Su Yi.
• Bai Qishan questioned Bai Miaomiao about her relationship with Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan, then advised her to befriend Su Yi without pursuing him.
• Bai Qishan ordered the Bai family to pull out of Xia Shanhe's businesses and prepare to seize them.

Su Yi attended Xia Shanhe’s charity gala with Bai Miaomiao, Ye Xiaxuan, and Lin Yiyun, attracting attention with his feast and refined table manners. As the auction began, he saw that his painting, listed under Ye Xiaxuan’s name as “Young Eagle Painting,” had a starting bid of 180,000.

• Su Yi and the others arrived at the clubhouse’s second-floor gala and chose an empty table.
• Su Yi went to the buffet with Ye Xiaxuan and Lin Yiyun, loading his plate with food while guests watched.
• Su Yi ate the king crab elegantly and served crabmeat to Bai Miaomiao, Ye Xiaxuan, and Lin Yiyun.
• Su Yi let go of his plans to pursue Lin Yiyun and decided to let their relationship develop naturally.
• The charity auction began, and Su Yi read the catalog, finding his painting listed under Ye Xiaxuan’s name with a starting bid of 180,000.

At a charity auction, Ye Xiaxuan bought Su Yi’s Young Eagle Painting for nine million after Xia Shanhe and Wang Degui drove up the bidding. As Su Yi and Bai Miaomiao prepared to leave the Shanhe Club, Su Yi called Wu Wenze for help because Wang Degui was following him, and Wu Wenze told them to wait.

• Su Yi’s Young Eagle Painting attracted bids from Xia Shanhe and Wang Degui, who raised its price to eight million.
• With Su Yi’s permission, Ye Xiaxuan bid nine million, and Xia Shanhe and Wang Degui both stopped bidding.
• Su Yi asked Bai Miaomiao to leave with him after the auction, and she warned him to watch out for Xia Shanhe.
• Su Yi called Wu Wenze and reported that the man from earlier was still following him at the Shanhe Club.
• Wu Wenze told Su Yi to wait inside while he came over, and Su Yi told Bai Miaomiao he had called the deputy director of the subdistrict office.

Su Yi waited at the clubhouse for Director Wu while Xia Shanhe and Wang Degui argued over Ye Xiaxuan and the painting. The girl accompanying Wu Wenze effortlessly subdued Wang Degui, and Su Yi recognized her cultivation technique as one he had practiced tens of thousands of years earlier.

• Su Yi refused Bai Miaomiao’s offer to leave and waited for Director Wu, while Ye Xiaxuan retrieved her painting.
• Wang Degui and Xia Shanhe clashed over the painting and Ye Xiaxuan, and Wang Degui declared that he would protect her.
• Wang Degui asked Ye Xiaxuan whether she was Ye Lin’s granddaughter and introduced himself as Wang Xiu’s master.
• Wang Degui led Su Yi and the others out, while Xia Shanhe made clear he still intended to pursue Ye Xiaxuan.
• Wu Wenze arrived and ordered Wang Degui to come with him, but his young companion knocked Wang Degui unconscious and dragged him away.
• Su Yi recognized that the girl practiced a cultivation technique he had used tens of thousands of years earlier.

Su Yi recognized that Lin Yiyun had used a cultivation art he had taught only to the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens, leaving him puzzled about how she knew it. He led Ye Xiaxuan into an alley to confront the lurking Xia Shanhe, and the chapter ended with Su Yi immobilizing Xia Shanhe as he reached for Ye Xiaxuan.

• Su Yi asked Bai Miaomiao to take Lin Yiyun home, then left with Ye Xiaxuan to deal with Xia Shanhe.
• Ye Xiaxuan mistook Su Yi's talk of a secluded alley and a first time for a sexual advance, but Su Yi revealed he had sensed Xia Shanhe following them.
• Xia Shanhe emerged and challenged Ye Xiaxuan to dual cultivate with him, then boasted of his nickname, Xia Luanliu.
• Ye Xiaxuan attacked Xia Shanhe after he made a lewd remark, but he dodged her punch and reached for her chest.
• Su Yi stopped Xia Shanhe with an unseen force, freezing him before he could touch Ye Xiaxuan.

Su Yi suppressed Xia Shanhe and had Ye Xiaxuan beat him, then forced him to become her sparring partner. Ye Xiaxuan learned that Xia Shanhe was stronger than her in cultivation, while Su Yi claimed to have no realm.

• Xia Shanhe froze when Su Yi restrained him, and Ye Xiaxuan beat him while he was unable to move.
• Su Yi released Xia Shanhe’s cultivation and ordered him to spar with Ye Xiaxuan, then stopped him when he attacked.
• Terrified by Su Yi’s power, Xia Shanhe agreed to obey and gave Ye Xiaxuan his phone number.
• Ye Xiaxuan questioned whether Xia Shanhe was useful, and Su Yi explained that she needed combat practice against a Golden Core Realm cultivator.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked Su Yi what realm he had reached, and he answered that he had no realm.

Ye Xiaxuan and Su Yi dealt with Xia Shanhe, whom Su Yi revealed had been targeting her, then went their separate ways for the night. At the Ye Family estate, Ye Xiaxuan found her family discussing Zhang Qibei, who was gravely ill and begging them to save his life.

• Ye Xiaxuan arranged for Xia Shanhe to watch the bookstore the next morning, while Su Yi warned her that Xia Shanhe had been targeting her to harvest yin and replenish yang.
• Su Yi left alone to go home, and Ye Xiaxuan returned to the Ye Family estate carrying his painting.
• Ye Xiaxuan noticed Zhang Qibei kneeling outside the estate gate, looking so emaciated that he seemed close to death.
• Ye Jingtian told Ye Xiaxuan that Zhang Qibei had offered to sell all his assets in exchange for treatment, but he feared the man might die in their home and damage the Ye Family's reputation.
• Ye Jingguo urged Ye Jingtian to let Zhang Qibei in and examine him, while Ye Jingtian said their father was unlikely to treat him.

Ye Jingguo challenged Ye Jingtian’s leadership by proposing that the younger generation compete to cure Zhang Qibei and inherit control of the Ye Family. Ye Xiaxuan went to fetch Ye Lin, but he chose to hear about her day and admire Su Yi’s painting before getting involved in the dispute.

• Ye Jingguo argued that the Ye Family head should be whoever could cure Zhang Qibei, and Ye Jingtian agreed to make the winner the next family head after informing Ye Lin.
• Ye Jingtian sent Ye Xiaxuan to fetch Ye Lin, while she privately thought the family could simply let Ye Jingguo take charge.
• Mo Ze noticed that Ye Xiaxuan had advanced from Qi Refining to a false core in just two days.
• Ye Xiaxuan told Ye Lin that Xia Shanhe was alive and would watch her bookshop and serve as her sparring partner.
• Ye Lin declined to leave for the family dispute and took Ye Xiaxuan and the painting from Su Yi to his study to hear about her day.

Ye Lin admired Su Yi’s painting and then settled a dispute over the Ye Family leadership by challenging Ye Hongqiu to treat Zhang Qibei. The chapter ended with Ye Hongqiu beginning treatment while Ye Lin watched with growing concern.

• Ye Lin saw Su Yi’s painting, accepted that Su Yi had acknowledged Ye Xiaxuan, and asked for his ashes to be kept near the painting after his death.
• Ye Lin confronted Ye Jingguo, who proposed that a younger family member become head of the Ye Family by curing Zhang Qibei.
• Ye Lin told Ye Hongqiu that he would lead the family if he cured Zhang Qibei, but would have to reflect and study if he failed.
• Zhang Qibei entered the hall, begged Ye Xiaxuan to save him, and kowtowed until his fragile skin bled.
• Ye Hongqiu began treating Zhang Qibei with silver needles, and Ye Lin grew concerned because he did not recognize the technique.

Ye Hongqiu’s apparent cure of Zhang Qibei exposed his use of a dangerous technique and a medicine taught to him by Xia Shanhe, while Ye Jingguo and Mo Ze staged a takeover of the Ye Family. Ye Lin refused Ye Xiaxuan’s offer to call Su Yi for help and resigned himself to the family’s betrayal.

• Ye Hongqiu used nine needles and a pill to revive Zhang Qibei, but Ye Lin warned that the treatment had only stimulated Zhang’s body and left him with at most five days to live.
• Ye Lin ordered Ye Hongqiu to kneel and explain who taught him the acupuncture and supplied the medicine; Ye Hongqiu blamed Ye Lin for withholding his skills and demanded the family leadership.
• Ye Hongqiu declared Ye Lin too old to lead, while Ye Jingguo revealed that he and Mo Ze had already rebelled and brought armed men into the room.
• Ye Jingguo forced Ye Jingtian to sign prepared contracts and revealed that Xia Shanhe had taught Ye Hongqiu the technique and was backing the takeover.
• Ye Xiaxuan treated Ye Lin and offered to call Su Yi, but Ye Lin stopped her and said the conflict was an internal Ye Family matter.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes and told them to do as they wished, appearing close to death.

Xia Shanhe interrupted Ye Jingguo and Mo Ze’s attempt to seize control of the Ye Family and switched sides after realizing Ye Xiaxuan was tied to Su Yi. He crippled Mo Ze and helped Ye Lin regain command, leaving Ye Jingguo and Ye Hongqiu to be taken into custody.

• Xia Shanhe rushed in, ordered Ye Jingguo to put down his knife, and hurried to check on Ye Xiaxuan.
• Xia Shanhe apologized to Ye Jingtian and rebuked Ye Jingguo when he suggested Xia Shanhe take Ye Xiaxuan as a match.
• Xia Shanhe slapped Ye Jingguo, condemned the family’s coercion, and accused Mo Ze of being shameless.
• Xia Shanhe punched Mo Ze and crippled his cultivation, then asked Ye Lin how he wanted Mo Ze handled.
• Ye Lin asked his black-clad subordinates to choose whom they would follow, and they pledged their loyalty to him.
• Ye Lin ordered his men to take Ye Jingguo and Ye Hongqiu away and lock them up.

After the Ye Family’s rebellion was put down, Ye Lin refused to let Ye Xiaxuan summon Su Yi and went alone to his study to face his regrets. Ye Xiaxuan cured Zhang Qibei, then learned that her grandfather had died.

• Ye Xiaxuan accepted Xia Shanhe’s handling of the rebellion and left him to guard the hall while she helped Ye Lin away.
• Ye Lin refused Ye Xiaxuan’s offer to call Su Yi and ordered her to return and treat Zhang Qibei.
• Ye Xiaxuan examined Zhang Qibei and used silver needles, cinnabar, and peach wood to drive the yin energy from his body.
• Ye Lin sat before Su Yi’s painting in his study, reflected on his betrayal, and died.
• Ye Xiaxuan told Ye Jingtian that Zhang Qibei was cured, then cried out that Ye Lin was gone.