Chapter Summaries

Shen Yannian denied having an ex-boyfriend and cleared up Su Cimu’s misunderstanding about Bai Yuanheng. To placate Su Cimu, he signed a restrictive contract governing their intimacy, then argued that it left him three rights for the current week.

• Shen Yannian protested Su Cimu’s accusation that he had a former boyfriend and insisted he had only been with Su Cimu.
• Su Cimu asked about Bai Yuanheng, and Shen Yannian explained that Bai was a childhood friend who was married abroad.
• Su Cimu returned to the argument about Shen Yannian going too far in bed and demanded that they set rules.
• Shen Yannian signed a contract limiting his initiative to three times a week while allowing Su Cimu to request intimacy at any time, with a one-million penalty for breaches.
• Su Cimu said the contract began that week and claimed Shen Yannian had already used his allotted times, but Shen Yannian challenged his interpretation.

Su Cimu and Shen Yannian discussed attending the Shen family patriarch’s seventieth birthday banquet and joked about Su Cimu winning a red envelope from his future father-in-law. Back at the Su home, Su Yunchao helped Su Cimu choose a gift and pressed him about whether he had fallen for Shen Yannian.

• Shen Yannian invited Su Cimu to his father’s birthday banquet and agreed to have Shen Kezhou call Su Cimu “Uncle.”
• Su Cimu joked that Shen Yannian’s father would need to give him a red envelope before he called him Dad.
• Su Cimu told Shen Yannian that his uncle had raised and spoiled him, and warned that the uncle viewed Shen Yannian as another wild boar taking away his cabbage.
• Shen Yannian learned that Su Cimu had maternal grandparents with unusual identities, but Su Cimu declined to explain further.
• Su Cimu returned to the Su home, where Su Yunchao suggested taking a valuable calligraphy or painting from their father’s collection as the birthday gift.
• Su Yunchao asked Su Cimu whether he had truly fallen for Shen Yannian.

Su Cimu reassured Su Yunchao that he could handle his engagement to Shen Yannian, then went to a bar with Liang Tian, unaware that Shen Yannian was there too. Fang Youwei spotted Su Cimu from the second-floor loft and pointed him out to Shen Yannian.

• Su Cimu told Su Yunchao not to worry about Shen Yannian and joked that he could divorce him if their marriage did not work out.
• Su Cimu met Liang Tian at a bar, where Liang Tian warned him that Shen Yannian sometimes visited the same place.
• Shen Yannian celebrated landing a major project at the Night Bar with Fang Youwei and said he was serious about Su Cimu.
• Fang Youwei looked down from the second-floor corridor, spotted Su Cimu, and alerted Shen Yannian.

Su Cimu danced and drank with Liang Tian at the bar before fighting off two men who harassed them. Shen Yannian intervened and had the troublemakers dragged away, leaving Su Cimu shocked to find him there.

• Shen Yannian spotted Su Guaiguai drinking with Liang Tian after Fang Youwei teased him about his claims that Su Guaiguai rarely went out.
• Liang Tian urged Su Cimu to dance, and Su Cimu drew cheers from the crowd with his performance.
• Two men offered Su Cimu money for a private show, then tried to touch him; Su Cimu twisted one man's hand and kicked him.
• The second man pulled a fruit knife, but Shen Yannian knocked him down and pinned his palm beneath his foot.
• Shen Yannian had security remove the two men, and Su Cimu asked what he was doing there.

Shen Yannian confronted Su Cimu and Liang Tian after rescuing Su Cimu from a knife-wielding thug, then brought them to a private room to discuss the danger. The group’s tension eased as they introduced themselves and chatted about their studies.

• Shen Yannian found Su Cimu and Liang Tian at the dance club, scolded Liang Tian for bringing Su Cimu there, and took them upstairs while Fang Youwei stopped Liang Tian from leaving.
• Shen Yannian reprimanded Su Cimu for facing a man with a knife, and Su Cimu thanked him for stepping in despite disagreeing with his attitude.
• Fang Youwei introduced himself to Su Cimu, who introduced himself as Shen Yannian’s fiancé and warned Fang Youwei jokingly not to toy with Liang Tian’s feelings.
• Fang Youwei teased Liang Tian about his age and learned that he was Su Cimu’s older cousin with a family business overseas.
• Su Cimu told the group he studied materials chemistry at University A and praised Liang Tian for double-majoring in finance and business administration there.
• Fang Youwei and Liang Tian began drinking together, though Liang Tian and Su Cimu had already drunk quite a bit.

After a night of dancing and forced intimacy, Su Cimu prepared to attend Shen Yannian’s father’s birthday banquet with him. They arrived at the Shen Residence, where guests watched Shen Yannian personally help Su Cimu out of the car.

• Fang Youwei agreed to take the drunken Liang Tian home while Shen Yannian left the bar with Su Cimu.
• At home, Shen Yannian demanded that Su Cimu dance for him, then broke their intimacy agreement and transferred him three million in breach-of-contract penalties the next morning.
• Su Cimu took a master’s calligraphy and painting from his family home as a birthday gift, then got styled and dressed for the banquet.
• On the drive, Shen Yannian apologized for the previous night, while Su Cimu told him he had to find another way to make it up to him.
• At the Shen Residence, Shen Yannian personally opened the car door for Su Cimu and helped him out in front of the arriving guests.

Su Cimu attended Shen Chuannan’s birthday banquet with Shen Yannian and answered the guests’ insults and Shen Chuannan’s attempts to put him in his place. Shen Chuannan stopped the argument in front of the guests, leaving the family’s tensions unresolved.

• Guests at the banquet gossiped about Su Cimu, but he ignored them and told Shen Yannian that they were jealous and that his family really was nouveau riche.
• Shen Yannian reassured Su Cimu and offered to have anyone who upset him thrown out.
• Shen Yannian brought Su Cimu to greet Shen Chuannan and seated him beside the old man.
• When Shen Chuannan criticized Su Cimu for sitting without permission, Su Cimu challenged his authority and joked that Shen Yannian had no real power.
• Hao Mei scolded Su Cimu, but Shen Yannian defended his fiancé and told her to treat him politely.
• Shen Chuannan ended the argument to avoid making a spectacle before the guests, then glanced at Su Cimu.

At Shen Chuannan’s seventieth-birthday banquet, Su Huaiyuan impressed him with an original Wu Daozi painting, while Su Cimu presented a work that shocked the guests. The chapter ended with the guests questioning whether Su Cimu’s painting was authentic.

• Shen Chuannan told Su Cimu to stay beside Shen Yannian and avoid embarrassing the Shen Family.
• Su Huaiyuan arrived with his wife and son and presented Shen Chuannan with an original Scroll of the Eighty-Seven Immortals by Wu Daozi.
• Shen Chuannan praised Su Huaiyuan’s gift and invited him to appreciate paintings together another day.
• Shen Zhongyuan challenged Su Cimu to show his birthday gift, and Su Cimu had Shen Yannian help unveil it.
• Shen Chuannan identified Su Cimu’s gift as Qi Baishi’s Twelve Landscape Screens, and guests marveled at its value while questioning whether it was fake.

Su Cimu presented Shen Chuannan with an authentic Qi Baishi painting, winning Shen Chuannan’s approval as Shen Yannian’s fiancé and drawing attention to the Su Family’s wealth. At the birthday banquet, Su Cimu traded insults with Hao Mei, who was rebuked by Shen Chuannan and Shen Zhongyuan.

• Su Huaiyuan recognized the Qi Baishi painting Su Cimu had taken from his storeroom, while Su Cimu avoided his angry glare.
• Su Cimu assured Shen Chuannan the painting was authentic, and Shen Chuannan praised him and accepted him as Shen Yannian’s fiancé.
• News that the Su Family’s birthday gifts were worth nearly one billion spread through the banquet, prompting gossip and envy from the guests.
• As the guests moved to the banquet hall, Su Cimu mocked Hao Mei for staring at him, and Shen Chuannan told her to stop.
• Shen Zhongyuan rebuked Hao Mei, while Shen Yannian squeezed Su Cimu’s hand to signal him to leave the argument alone.

After Shen Yannian's birthday banquet, Su Cimu asked him to keep him from being taken home by Su Huaiyuan, who was furious that Su Cimu had given away an eight-hundred-million painting without permission. Shen Yannian defended Su Cimu and helped him apologize, leaving the father and son reconciled for the moment.

• After the old man stopped the criticism at the banquet, Su Cimu quietly asked Shen Yannian to take him away afterward and not let him return to the Su Family.
• When the banquet ended, Su Huaiyuan tried to take Su Cimu home, but Su Cimu hid behind Shen Yannian and insisted on staying at the Shen Residence.
• Su Yunchao tried to calm Su Huaiyuan by arguing that the painting had improved Old Master Shen's impression of Su Cimu.
• Shen Yannian learned that Su Cimu had taken the eight-hundred-million painting from Su Huaiyuan's storeroom without permission and promised to give his father-in-law an even more valuable painting.
• Shen Yannian told Su Cimu to apologize, and Su Cimu apologized to Su Huaiyuan and promised to ask before taking anything from the storeroom again.

After Shen Yannian defended Su Cimu before the Su Family, the couple teased each other and spent the night together at the Shen Residence. The next morning, Shen Yannian brought breakfast upstairs to the exhausted Su Cimu, while Shen Chuannan told him to treat his fiancé well.

• After Su Cimu's parents and eldest brother left, Su Cimu worried about family discipline over the eight-hundred-million-yuan gift, and Shen Yannian reassured him.
• Su Cimu said he could handle the Su Family himself, then promised to protect Shen Yannian from outsiders.
• At the Shen Residence, Shen Yannian kissed Su Cimu and kept him up through the night, leaving Su Cimu hoping school would start soon so he could move into the dorm.
• The next morning, Shen Chuannan told Shen Yannian to treat Su Cimu well and explained that he trusted the Su Family and liked Su Cimu's resemblance to his mother.
• Shen Yannian took the plate of soup dumplings upstairs, where Su Cimu had finally woken and asked what was for breakfast.

Su Cimu spent the morning with Shen Yannian before returning to campus to meet Liang Tian and work on their project. He noticed Liang Tian looked unusually pale, but Liang Tian dismissed his concern, leaving Su Cimu uncertain as they headed to the library.

• Su Cimu ate steamed soup dumplings, drank milk after Shen Yannian promised it could help him grow, and borrowed Shen Yannian’s clothes.
• Su Cimu and Shen Yannian joked with Shen Chuannan, who promised Su Cimu a gift if he began calling him Dad.
• Shen Yannian dropped Su Cimu at the university and arranged for a driver to pick him up later.
• Su Cimu met Liang Tian at a campus milk tea shop and noticed he looked pale, but Liang Tian said he had stayed up gaming.
• Su Cimu and Liang Tian worked on their project at the library and struggled to share ice water after eating extra-spicy chicken pot.

Su Cimu went to Liang Tian’s apartment to nap and received a flirtatious call from Shen Yannian that left him blushing. When Liang Tian asked whether Su Cimu had fallen for his fiancé, Su Cimu hesitated, and Liang Tian warned him not to get emotionally involved.

• Liang Tian took Su Cimu to his apartment for a nap after Su Cimu joked that he was a taken man who needed to keep his distance.
• Shen Yannian called Su Cimu, asked about his plans, and admitted that he missed him and envied Liang Tian for knowing him when he was younger.
• Su Cimu hung up, flustered, and told Liang Tian what Shen Yannian had said.
• Liang Tian asked whether Su Cimu had fallen for Shen Yannian, and Su Cimu stammered that liking his fiancé would be normal.
• Liang Tian warned Su Cimu that Shen Yannian was out of his league and that getting emotionally involved would leave Su Cimu hurt.

Liang Tian warned Su Cimu that Shen Yannian was not right for him, but Su Cimu swore he would not give his heart away lightly. After a long day studying, Su Cimu went home with Shen Yannian and blamed him for delaying his project, and Shen Yannian indulged him.

• Liang Tian argued that Su Cimu and Shen Yannian would have trouble if either of them fell in love, so Su Cimu promised not to give his heart away lightly.
• Liang Tian and Su Cimu agreed to meet at the library the next morning, then went their separate ways.
• Shen Yannian picked Su Cimu up from the library and drove him back to Huaishan Manor.
• Su Cimu complained that he and Liang Tian had finished only ten percent of their project after a full day of studying.
• Su Cimu blamed Shen Yannian for delaying his project by keeping him busy with their engagement and flirting, and Shen Yannian accepted the blame and offered compensation.

Su Cimu sulked at Shen Yannian after their conversation, but could not explain what had made him angry. When he threatened to find a new fiancé, Shen Yannian stopped him, and their bedroom antics kept Butler Shen from calling them to dinner.

• Su Cimu rejected Shen Yannian’s offer of money and suggested a car instead, then rested against him on the way to Huaishan Manor.
• Su Cimu rushed to his room when they arrived, and Shen Yannian told Butler Shen that he would coax him back into a good mood.
• Shen Yannian teased Su Cimu as he angrily pummeled a pillow, and Su Cimu insisted that Shen Yannian had made him angry without saying why.
• Su Cimu threatened to find a new fiancé, and Shen Yannian warned him not to; Su Cimu continued his threat before Shen Yannian silenced him with a kiss.
• Butler Shen came upstairs to call them to dinner, heard suggestive panting from the bedroom, and hurried away.

Su Cimu confronted Shen Yannian about breaking their intimacy agreement, and they agreed to void it and revisit the issue when his semester began. The next day, Fang Youwei confronted Liang Tian at the campus gates, revealing that they had slept together while drunk and insisting he wanted to date him.

• Su Cimu accused Shen Yannian of ignoring their agreement, and Shen Yannian promised to control himself once Su Cimu's semester started.
• Su Cimu agreed to tolerate Shen Yannian for the remaining half month before voiding their agreement.
• Su Cimu and Liang Tian studied in the library, then ran into Fang Youwei near the campus gates.
• Fang Youwei demanded to know why Liang Tian was avoiding him, and Su Cimu stepped in to defend Liang Tian.
• Fang Youwei said he would report Liang Tian for raping him, but Liang Tian insisted they had both consented while drunk.
• Liang Tian hurried away with Su Cimu as Fang Youwei shouted that he would eventually persuade Liang Tian to date him.

Su Cimu interrogated Liang Tian about his one-night stand with Fang Youwei, then convinced him to stop avoiding Fang and talk things through. Liang Tian met Fang Youwei at a café, where Fang asked whether Su Cimu’s advice or his own feelings had brought Liang Tian there.

• Su Cimu questioned Liang Tian about when he slept with Fang Youwei, their roles, and why Fang had waited for him at the school gates.
• Liang Tian said he had ignored Fang’s attempts to contact him and felt guilty because he had initiated things while drunk.
• Su Cimu blamed Fang, encouraged Liang Tian to meet him, and Liang Tian decided to clear things up the next day.
• Su Cimu told Shen Yannian he planned to beat up Fang, and Shen offered to help, then asked Su for another round.
• Liang Tian met Fang Youwei at a café, and Fang asked whether Su Cimu’s words or Fang’s feelings had persuaded him to come.
• Liang Tian told Fang Youwei that Fang had not moved him at all.

Liang Tian tried to settle things with Fang Youwei after their one-night stand, but Fang Youwei insisted that Liang Tian date him instead. The chapter ended with Fang Youwei earnestly asking Liang Tian to consider it, leaving Liang Tian stunned by his sincerity.

• Liang Tian told Fang Youwei they should consider the one-night stand settled and stop seeing each other.
• Fang Youwei rejected Liang Tian's proposal and said Liang Tian had to take responsibility for sleeping with him.
• Liang Tian offered money or other compensation, but Fang Youwei said he wanted Liang Tian to date him.
• Liang Tian objected that he did not want to date Fang Youwei and wanted his first relationship to be with someone he loved.
• Fang Youwei praised himself as a handsome, faithful partner who would pamper Liang Tian, then asked him to seriously consider dating.
• Liang Tian was stunned when he realized Fang Youwei was serious.

Liang Tian agreed to date Fang Youwei for three months, and Fang Youwei accompanied him to the library. When Su Cimu discovered they were together, he confronted Liang Tian and realized Fang Youwei had won him over.

• Liang Tian agreed to give Fang Youwei a three-month trial relationship after Fang promised to cut off his other flings.
• Fang Youwei added Liang Tian on WeChat, labeled him “Wife,” and insisted on accompanying him to study.
• Su Cimu saw Fang Youwei with Liang Tian and demanded an explanation from Liang Tian outside the library.
• Liang Tian explained that Fang Youwei had asked him to take responsibility and promised to spoil him, so he decided to try dating him.
• Su Cimu scolded Liang Tian for expecting Fang Youwei to agree to an amicable breakup after three months.

Liang Tian stayed with Fang Youwei despite Su Cimu’s warning, while Su Cimu and Shen Yannian argued over living arrangements and agreed that Shen Yannian would move into Su Cimu’s apartment during the semester. After seven days of indulgence, Su Cimu searched for medicinal prescriptions to restore his energy.

• Su Cimu urged Liang Tian to break up with Fang Youwei, but Liang Tian kept his promise to give their relationship three months, and Fang Youwei waited for them at the campus café.
• Shen Yannian called Fang Youwei and asked him to notify him when Su Cimu finished his research work, then picked Su Cimu up and took him home for dinner.
• Su Cimu and Shen Yannian argued about living together during the semester, and Shen Yannian agreed to move into Su Cimu’s apartment and limit their intimacy from Monday through Thursday.
• Before classes began, Shen Yannian indulged himself with Su Cimu for seven days, leaving Su Cimu searching online for restorative medicinal prescriptions.