Recaps

Jiang Dingkun exposed Chen Ruyin and Jiang Qingyu’s crimes and ordered their assets recovered and the two held legally accountable. As Chen Ruyin was beaten and taken down, she taunted Jiang Dingkun over the family he had sacrificed and the damage she had done.

• Jiang Muyan revealed that Dr. Lin had been arrested and that Director Liu would treat Jiang Dingkun, while Song Yutang said the setup had exposed Chen Ruyin and Jiang Qingyu.
• Chen Ruyin and Jiang Qingyu begged Jiang Dingkun for forgiveness, but he rejected their excuses and ordered the evidence sent to the police station.
• Chen Ruyin turned on Jiang Dingkun, and Jiang Baozhu rebuked him for sacrificing his family to indulge her.
• Jiang Dingkun told the butler to notify the lawyer and recover the assets he had given Jiang Qingyu and his son under false pretenses.
• Jiang Muyan ordered Zhao Chuan to repay Jiang Qingyu’s slap a hundredfold, and Jiang Baozhu struck Chen Ruyin on behalf of her late mother.
• Pinned down after the assaults, Chen Ruyin taunted Jiang Dingkun for the damage to his family and called him a joke.

Jiang Dingkun learned that Chen Ruyin had secretly switched his medication, while Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang explained why they had let the scheme unfold under their control. After Jiang Dingkun conceded that Jiang Muyan had won and named him president of Jiang Group and future heir, Jiang Baozhu asked what would happen to Jiang Sichen.

• Butler Wang agreed to take the evidence and have Chen Ruyin and her son sent to prison because Song Yutang had saved his family.
• Director Liu explained how cyclosporine had been secretly substituted for Jiang Dingkun’s medication, and Song Yutang showed a video of Chen Ruyin switching the bottles.
• Jiang Muyan and Jiang Baozhu accused Jiang Dingkun of enabling Chen Ruyin and explained that they had arranged medical care to keep him alive.
• Jiang Muyan called in the legal team after Jiang Dingkun asked what his family wanted from him.
• Jiang Dingkun praised Jiang Muyan, declared him president of Jiang Group and future heir, and Jiang Baozhu asked what would happen to Jiang Sichen.

Jiang Dingkun accepted the evidence against the second branch and signed a fair will, while learning his kidney was failing and he had limited time to live. Jiang Muyan took control of the company and the police advanced the kidnapping investigation, but Jiang Dingkun later accused Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang of treating him like a puppet.

• Jiang Muyan and Zhao Chuan showed Jiang Dingkun evidence linking the second branch to the murders, car accident, and other crimes, and Jiang Baozhu urged him to protect the family’s rightful heirs.
• Jiang Dingkun called in the lawyer and signed a will dividing his assets among his three children’s branches while excluding the second branch.
• Director Liu told the family that Jiang Dingkun’s transplanted kidney was failing and that he might have six months to a year to live; Jiang Baozhu’s family refused to donate a kidney.
• Jiang Muyan took over as company president the next morning, and the audit team began sweeping changes as evidence against Chen Ruyin and her son went to the police.
• The Li brothers confessed that they had strangled their mother on Jiang Sinian’s instructions, advancing the kidnapping investigation, while evidence involving Jiang Sichen and the third uncle’s family remained undisclosed.
• Wu Caixia made a scene at Jiang Dingkun’s hospital, and after bodyguards threw her out, Jiang Dingkun accused Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang of turning him into a puppet.

Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang pressured Jiang Dingkun into luring Jiang Sichen back by appealing to his favoritism and promising forgiveness. After Jiang Sichen agreed to return, Jiang Dingkun began explaining the old resentments that had shaped his choices.

• Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan revealed that they had withheld evidence against Jiang Sichen and urged Jiang Dingkun to summon him home.
• Jiang Muyan confronted Jiang Dingkun about favoring Jiang Sichen and the second branch despite their refusal to save him.
• Song Yutang showed Jiang Dingkun a compatibility report and suggested he promise to forgive Jiang Sichen if he donated a kidney.
• Jiang Dingkun called Jiang Sichen, claimed he was near death, and persuaded him to come home.
• As Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang left, Jiang Dingkun described his resentment toward his wife and son and began recounting Chen Ruyin's claim about Jiang Qingyu's birth.

Jiang Muyan reassured Jiang Dingkun that he would continue to honor him as his grandfather, while making clear he resented what he had done. After Zhao Qiqi began recovering and planning a new life, Jiang Sichen returned and met Song Yutang.

• Jiang Muyan told Jiang Dingkun that he would fulfill his duties as a grandson, though he held a grudge against him, then left with Song Yutang.
• Jiang Muyan explained that his plan would keep Jiang Sichen confident that the family scandals could not yet implicate him.
• Secretary Dong told Song Yutang that Li Zifeng kicked Zhao Qiqi, causing her to lose the baby, and Song Yutang ordered that Qiqi receive medical and psychological care.
• Zhao Cuifeng told Song Yutang that Qiqi had been discharged, was no longer seeking help from Li Zifeng, and planned to find work and start over.
• Jiang Sichen arrived at Song Yutang's home and introduced himself as the grandson who had been told since childhood that she was his fiancée.

Jiang Sichen returned to the Jiang residence claiming he wanted to visit his sick grandfather and offer a kidney, but Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan exposed his criminal schemes. Police arrested him as Wu Caixia tried to shield him.

• Song Yutang refused Jiang Sichen's request to see Jiang Dingkun and challenged his claims that he had not known he was a kidney match.
• Jiang Sichen suggested he and Song Yutang might have ended up together, but Jiang Muyan rejected the idea and refused to let them meet socially.
• Song Yutang revealed that she and Jiang Muyan had submitted evidence of Jiang Sichen's crimes to the police.
• Jiang Muyan accused Jiang Sichen of plotting murder, transferring nearly ten billion in company assets, selling core technology overseas, and arranging kidnappings and killings.
• SWAT officers surrounded and arrested Jiang Sichen while Jiang Dingkun watched from the stairs.
• Wu Caixia rushed in and tried to protect Jiang Sichen, insisting the officers arrest her instead.

After Jiang Sichen was arrested, Wu Caixia attacked Jiang Muyan with a flowerpot, leaving him unconscious in the hospital. Song Yutang stayed by his side as doctors worried he might have suffered nerve damage.

• Wu Caixia tried to stop the SWAT officers from arresting Jiang Sichen, but Song Yutang's bodyguards restrained her and Jiang Sichen was handcuffed.
• Jiang Muyan warned Jiang Dingkun not to interfere in the family's cases and said Jiang Sichen would face the death penalty for murder-for-hire.
• As Jiang Muyan left for the station, Wu Caixia dropped a flowerpot from the balcony and struck him on the head, then tried to attack Song Yutang before Butler Wang restrained her.
• Doctor Fang examined Jiang Muyan and found no serious injury, but he remained unconscious, prompting the doctor to suspect possible nerve damage.
• Song Yutang held Jiang Muyan's hand and fell asleep beside his hospital bed without letting go.

Jiang Muyan, now living as Wei Xun, found Song Yutang being abused at Water Moon Nunnery and learned that she had no memory of him. After discovering her connection to the imperial court and her betrothal, he resolved to protect her, then froze when his grandmother named the crown prince.

• Jiang Muyan awoke as Wei Xun and accompanied his grandmother to Water Moon Nunnery to escape pressure to marry.
• He stopped two nuns from whipping Song Yutang and realized she shared the name and face of his wife but did not recognize him.
• Jiang Muyan learned Song Yutang was the daughter of Song Huaiyuan and Princess Danyang, whose family had fallen from power after the Zhenbei Army was wiped out.
• He found Song Yutang in a ruined meditation room, treated her wounded hands, and decided he would not let her suffer alone.
• Jiang Muyan's grandmother explained that Song Yutang had been betrothed to Crown Prince Li Zerui, and he interrupted her in shock at hearing the name.

Jiang Muyan realized Song Yutang might be the crown princess reborn and tried to protect her while courting her at Water Moon Nunnery. After saving her from a wild wolf, he carried her down the mountain, and she accepted his promise of marriage.

• Jiang Muyan proposed marrying Song Yutang, but his grandmother refused because her status was too sensitive.
• Jiang Muyan visited Song Yutang, brought her pastries, and declared that he was courting her, but she refused his gifts and advances.
• After learning Song Yutang had been accused of stealing pastries, Jiang Muyan confronted the nuns and placed her under his grandmother's protection.
• Jiang Muyan found Song Yutang injured on the mountain and fought off a wild wolf, suffering serious wounds himself.
• Jiang Muyan carried Song Yutang down the mountain, and she quietly agreed to marry him after he promised to wed her openly and take no concubines.

Jiang Muyan tried to rescue Song Yutang after discovering seven years had passed during his blackout, but she rejected him and had him beaten. As he lay injured in the street, a beggar recognized that he was not of this world.

• Song Yutang told Jiang Muyan she would wait for him to marry her, and he vowed to protect her while visiting her at Water Moon Nunnery.
• After Song Yutang was appointed crown princess, Jiang Muyan tried to take her away, but his grandmother knocked him unconscious; he awoke seven years later and learned Song Yutang had married the crown prince and borne a child.
• Jiang Muyan entered the Eastern Palace as a prospective tutor and told Song Yutang he had tried to rescue her, but she rejected his explanation and claimed to value wealth and power.
• Song Yutang ordered guards to beat Jiang Muyan with thirty strokes and throw him into the street.
• An old beggar recognized Jiang Muyan as someone who was not of this world and asked what he had come there for.

Jiang Muyan woke from his coma, and Song Yutang explained how his crossings between their lives had shaped their past and brought them together. After they reaffirmed their love and left the hospital, Song Jianye stopped their car and begged Song Yutang to save her brother from prison.

• Jiang Muyan woke up to find Song Yutang beside his bed and learned that she had witnessed his visits to the Jing Dynasty in a dream.
• Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan realized that he had briefly occupied Wei Xun's body and that Daoist Xuan yang's gift had let Jiang Muyan hear her thoughts.
• Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang embraced, affirmed their love, and shared a kiss after he clarified that he had been the man who rescued her in the nunnery.
• Zhao Chuan told Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan that Wu Caixia had been handed over to the police and Li Xiulan had sent Jiang Shiya back for treatment.
• Song Jianye blocked the couple's car at the old residence and begged Song Yutang to save her brother from prison.

Song Yutang revealed that Sun Meifang’s daughter and unborn child were Wang Tianlong’s, not Song Jianye’s, and confronted Song Jianye with evidence that his family had deceived him for decades. She used his son Song Mingzhe’s arrest and the fate of the Song fortune to pressure him into reconsidering his will, leaving him to decide whether to protect his own son or benefit Wang Tianlong’s family.

• Song Jianye told Song Yutang that Song Mingzhe had killed Wang Tianlong while defending himself from a gang attack.
• Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan recognized Wang Tianlong’s name, then Song Yutang showed Song Jianye evidence that Wang Tianlong was Song Ruowei’s biological father.
• Song Yutang revealed that Sun Meifang’s miscarried fetus was also Wang Tianlong’s, and Song Jianye passed out from rage.
• Song Jianye blamed Song Yutang for destroying his family, but she argued that the family had already been divided by mutual suspicion and deception.
• Song Yutang warned Song Jianye that his current will could leave the Song fortune to Sun Meifang and Song Ruowei while Song Mingzhe remained imprisoned.
• Song Yutang threatened to secure Song Mingzhe a harsher sentence if Song Jianye left his fortune to her, then challenged him to choose between his son and Wang Tianlong’s family.

Song Yutang secured an equal share of the Song family fortune and arranged for the guilty members of the Jiang family to face their sentences. As Jiang Dingkun’s health declined, the family reunited for his eightieth birthday and took a portrait together, welcoming Jiang Shiqing and Jiang Siyu home.

• Song Yutang demanded an equal division of Song Jianye’s estate, and he agreed after Jiang Muyan promised to help manage the company.
• Song Yutang sent lawyers to protect her inheritance and instructed Butler Wang to steer Sun Meifang and her daughter into bad investments after their divorce.
• Lin Lu received a life sentence, while members of the Jiang family’s second branch received sentences ranging from death to twenty years; Wu Caixia was sentenced to two years.
• Jiang Dingkun’s worsening health led Song Yutang to organize a family gathering for his eightieth birthday.
• Jiang Shiqing and Jiang Siyu returned home, and the family gathered for a portrait after making longevity buns.

After the Jiang Family confronted Jiang Dingkun about his treatment of Jiang Shiqing, Song Yutang tried to coax the withdrawn girl into going out with her. Jiang Siyu arrived hungover and warned Song Yutang that associating with Jiang Shiqing would bring misfortune.

• The Jiang Family gathered for breakfast, where Jiang Shiqing sat silently with her head lowered.
• Jiang Dingkun reprimanded Jiang Shiqing, and Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan defended her by blaming him for her suffering.
• Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan reminded Jiang Dingkun that Jiang Shiqing's illness was not an act, and Jiang Dingkun offered to give her and Jiang Siyu more shares.
• Song Yutang invited Jiang Shiqing to shop for autumn clothes and explore restaurants, but Jiang Shiqing did not respond.
• Jiang Siyu arrived smelling of alcohol and warned Song Yutang that anyone who associated with Jiang Shiqing would meet an unlucky end.

Jiang Siyu blamed Jiang Shiqing for their parents’ deaths and defended Jiang Sichen despite the evidence, prompting Song Yutang to slap him twice. Jiang Siyu demanded his parents’ inheritance, and Jiang Muyan questioned what he had been spending his money on.

• Jiang Muyan, Jiang Guoqiang, Li Xiulan, Jiang Boyan, and Jiang Shiqing tried to explain that Jiang Qingyu and Jiang Sichen had plotted the parents’ murder, but Jiang Siyu continued blaming Jiang Shiqing.
• Song Yutang slapped Jiang Siyu twice after he threatened her and insulted the Jiang family.
• Jiang Muyan stepped between Jiang Siyu and Song Yutang when Jiang Siyu tried to punch her.
• Jiang Siyu insulted Jiang Dingkun and demanded the share of his parents’ fortune that Jiang Dingkun had been managing for him.
• Jiang Muyan asked Jiang Siyu why he needed so much money and what he had been spending it on.

Jiang Siyu demanded money to free relatives sentenced to death, while Jiang Shiqing injured herself and Song Yutang was hurt trying to stop her. After the family doctors treated them, Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan agreed to investigate what had happened to the two, and Jiang Muyan transferred three downtown storefronts to her.

• Jiang Siyu said he wanted the family assets to try to save his sentenced relatives, and Jiang Dingkun collapsed after hearing him.
• Song Yutang had Jiang Siyu dragged to the ancestral hall, then stopped Jiang Shiqing from harming herself and was cut across the palm.
• The family doctors treated Jiang Dingkun and Jiang Shiqing, while Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan discussed investigating what had happened to Jiang Siyu and Jiang Shiqing abroad.
• Jiang Muyan prepared an application to transfer three downtown storefronts to Song Yutang, who was moved by his gesture.
• Jiang Muyan hinted that Jiang Dingkun should bear responsibility for the trouble with Jiang Shiqing and Jiang Siyu, and Song Yutang understood.

Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan confronted Jiang Dingkun about the harm his past choices had caused Jiang Shiqing and the family, then learned how Jiang Sichen had manipulated Jiang Siyu. As they planned to help the siblings, they heard that Jiang Siyu had escaped the ancestral hall and driven away.

• Song Yutang showed Jiang Dingkun Jiang Shiqing’s assessment and demanded that he take responsibility, while Jiang Muyan secured promises of support and assets for Shiqing and Song Yutang.
• Jiang Shiqing overheard their conversation, thanked them, and ran off, giving the couple hope that she might begin to trust them.
• Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang read a report explaining that Jiang Sichen had deliberately spoiled and misled Jiang Siyu, who blamed his sister after their parents were killed.
• Jiang Muyan vowed to care for his younger siblings, and Song Yutang proposed using beatings to make Jiang Siyu change.
• The couple received word that Jiang Siyu had slipped out of the ancestral hall and sped away in a car.

Song Yutang confronted Jiang Siyu at a nightclub for spending the Jiang Family’s money to help his parents’ killers, then defended him from his cruel former friends and brought him home. As they reached the Jiang Family estate, Jiang Siyu quietly asked why she had spoken up for him.

• Song Yutang learned Jiang Siyu was meeting his parents’ former friends at a nightclub to get Jiang Sichen and Jiang Sinian off the hook.
• Song Yutang told Jiang Siyu he had to pay the nightclub bill himself and stop using the Jiang Family’s money, and he tried to punch her.
• Song Yutang pinned Jiang Siyu to the floor, then threw one of the wastrels onto a table after they mocked him and his dead parents.
• Song Yutang rebuked the wastrels, defended Jiang Siyu, and dragged him out of the nightclub to take him home.
• When they reached the Jiang Family estate, Jiang Siyu asked Song Yutang why she had spoken up for him.

After Jiang Siyu's drunk-driving crash, Song Yutang made him face the legal and financial consequences, then cut off his access to the Jiang Family's wealth. She sent him to a construction site to earn his keep, where he was left with a choice between working and going hungry.

• Song Yutang slapped Jiang Siyu at the traffic police station, took his valuables to cover the injured man's expenses, and refused to clean up his mess.
• Jiang Siyu received fifteen days of administrative detention for drunk driving, running a red light, and injuring the elderly scooter rider.
• Song Yutang froze Jiang Siyu's bank accounts and credit cards while he was detained.
• After Jiang Siyu returned to the Jiang Family estate, Song Yutang gave him a new ID listing his surname as Chen, three hundred yuan, and work gloves, then had bodyguards take him to a construction site.
• The foreman told Jiang Siyu that, on Miss Song's instructions, he could earn room, board, and monthly wages by working, or leave and go hungry.

Jiang Siyu was abandoned by his former friends and began working at a construction site, where he struggled through his first days carrying bricks. After his blisters burst, he taped his injured hands and continued working.

• Jiang Siyu called more than a dozen acquaintances for help, but none agreed to take him in or lend him money.
• The foreman gave Jiang Siyu water and a meal, then told him to change and start work if he wanted to be paid.
• Jiang Siyu moved into the crowded workers' dormitory and learned a safer way to carry bricks from an older worker.
• Jiang Siyu finished his first day with shaking arms and blistered palms, then ate dinner beside workers who spoke about their families and wages.
• On his second day, Jiang Siyu's blisters burst, so the foreman gave him medical tape and he wrapped his hands before continuing to carry bricks.

After earning his first wages at the construction site, Jiang Siyu began to understand how hard his parents had worked to support him. Meanwhile, Song Yutang patiently gave Jiang Shiqing space and found a way to draw her into conversation through her interest in archaeology.

• Jiang Siyu received fifteen hundred yuan for nine days of work and reflected on the effort his parents had made to provide for him.
• Jiang Shiqing remained withdrawn and barely spoke during her sessions with Doctor He, who advised Song Yutang not to pressure her.
• Song Yutang began quietly keeping Jiang Shiqing company each day and adjusted how she approached her to avoid startling her.
• Song Yutang noticed Jiang Shiqing's archaeology books and placed antiques beside deliberately inaccurate appraisal notes in the living room.
• After studying the notes for several days, Jiang Shiqing pointed out an error to Song Yutang.

Song Yutang helped Jiang Shiqing regain confidence by encouraging her interest in antiques and taking her to an exhibition, then brought her to a dinner reception. The reception had gone smoothly until Song Yutang returned from a brief conversation and noticed something was wrong with Jiang Shiqing.

• Jiang Shiqing corrected Song Yutang's dating of a bronze mirror, and Song Yutang asked her to teach her about it.
• Song Yutang brought Jiang Shiqing antiques to discuss, and Jiang Shiqing gradually spoke more confidently about their history.
• Song Yutang took Jiang Shiqing to a Qin and Han bamboo-and-wood-slip exhibition, where Jiang Shiqing showed clear interest and happiness.
• Jiang Shiqing told Song Yutang that her parents expected her to study business, and Song Yutang gave her time to consider her future.
• Jiang Shiqing began going out with Song Yutang, chose new clothes, and attended a dinner reception with her.
• Song Yutang left Jiang Shiqing by the terrace while she spoke with a chamber of commerce president, then returned five minutes later and sensed something was wrong.

Song Yutang intervened when three girls bullied Jiang Shiqing and poured wine on her, then comforted her and challenged her to stop enduring their abuse. Jiang Shiqing’s grief and anger surfaced as the girls’ insults reopened her wounds.

• The lead girl and her two friends cornered Jiang Shiqing, mocked her parents’ deaths, and poured wine over her dress.
• Song Yutang splashed ice water in the lead girl’s face and identified herself as Jiang Shiqing’s sister-in-law and the current head of the Jiang Family.
• Song Yutang warned the girls against offending the Jiang Family, and they fell silent.
• Song Yutang told Jiang Shiqing that her parents’ deaths and the bullying were not her fault.
• The lead girl repeated her insults, and Song Yutang asked Jiang Shiqing whether she would keep putting up with them.

Jiang Shiqing finally released years of grief and anger after confronting girls who insulted her parents, then began recovering at home. She told Song Yutang she wanted to study archaeology, and Song Yutang helped her question whether honoring her parents meant following their career plans or living happily.

• Jiang Shiqing smashed the champagne tower and attacked the girls who mocked her parents, crying that their deaths were not her fault.
• Song Yutang caught Jiang Shiqing as she collapsed and reassured her that she had done nothing wrong and that she would always support her.
• Doctor He examined Jiang Shiqing at home and told Song Yutang that the outburst helped her face the anguish she had suppressed.
• Jiang Shiqing slept deeply, stayed in her room for two days, then went to Song Yutang's study and said she wanted to study archaeology.
• Jiang Shiqing worried that choosing archaeology would let her parents down, and Song Yutang asked whether they would want her to live unhappily just to follow their wishes.

Song Yutang helped Jiang Shiqing pursue archaeology while Jiang Siyu worked to earn back his place in the Jiang Family. After he returned the money he owed and asked to start at the bottom, Song Yutang told him that Jiang Sichen and Jiang Qingyu would be executed in half a month, while Jiang Sinian and Chen Ruyin could still be rescued.

• Song Yutang encouraged Jiang Shiqing to study archaeology and gradually helped her join academic groups and make friends, while Jiang Zhixia supported her at charity dinners.
• Six months later, Jiang Shiqing received Elder He's offer to audit his archaeology classes for a year and prove herself for mentorship.
• At a construction site, Xiao Li rebuked Jiang Siyu for blaming his sister instead of his parents' killers and challenged his ideas about friendship.
• Jiang Siyu returned to the Jiang Family home, repaid Song Yutang the three hundred yuan he owed, and asked to earn the right to inherit his parents' estate.
• Song Yutang assigned Jiang Siyu to the understaffed warehousing department and told him Jiang Sichen and Jiang Qingyu would be executed in half a month, while Jiang Sinian and Chen Ruyin could still be rescued.