Chapter Summaries

Song Yutang learned that Song Ruowei was not Song Jianye’s biological daughter and that Wang Tianlong was her father, while evidence showed Sun Meifang and Wang Tianlong had been meeting secretly. Jiang Muyan also sent Song Jianye’s will, which left Song Yutang nothing, and warned her to protect his health.

• Song Mingzhe argued with Song Jianye, accused him of protecting Sun Meifang and Song Ruowei, then stormed out after Song Jianye ordered him to leave.
• Butler Wang told Song Yutang that Sun Meifang had been seeing her first love, Wang Tianlong, and Song Yutang promised to support Butler Wang’s daughter’s treatment.
• Song Yutang and Butler Wang reviewed household and business documents until she noticed three missed calls from Jiang Muyan.
• Jiang Muyan sent DNA reports showing Song Ruowei was not Song Jianye’s biological daughter and that Wang Tianlong was almost certainly her biological father.
• Song Yutang watched hotel footage of Sun Meifang and Wang Tianlong meeting, then learned Song Jianye’s will left her no inheritance.
• Jiang Muyan warned Song Yutang that if Song Jianye died, she would receive nothing, and told her to take care of his health.

Song Yutang discussed medical care, business school, and her growing reliance on Jiang Muyan’s mysterious brother, then finalized plans for the private kitchen restaurant and student aid fund. Exhausted after a busy day, she went to bed wishing only to rest and sleep.

• Jiang Muyan told Song Yutang he had found an overseas clinical-trial drug for Butler Wang and urged her to thank him by giving Jiang Muyan kisses each day.
• Song Yutang invited Jiang Muyan to her friend’s birthday and asked to meet him, but he changed the subject and sent her detailed information about business schools.
• Jiang Muyan promised to protect Jiang Zhixia and investigate Ji Chengyu, while Song Yutang reflected on how comforting it was to rely on him.
• Song Yutang worked with Jiang Guoqiang and Jiang Zhixia to finalize the private kitchen’s renovation plans, and Butler Wang prepared to start construction and recruit a manager.
• Song Yutang instructed Assistant Dong to prepare the student aid fund documents for her to sign the next day, then collapsed into bed exhausted.

Song Yutang cared for the comatose Jiang Muyan while thinking about how much she admired his helpful friend, Brother Yan, and privately imagining what their relationship might be like. Jiang Muyan listened to her thoughts and grew jealous, while Song Yutang hoped he would wake up and treat her well.

• Song Yutang fed Jiang Muyan his medicine, kissed him as promised, and admired his handsome face while he pretended to sleep.
• Song Yutang wondered whether Brother Yan had a girlfriend and what he looked like, leaving Jiang Muyan confused and jealous.
• Song Yutang watched male-model livestreams and sent gifts, while Jiang Muyan opened his eyes and reacted angrily to the streamers.
• Song Yutang decided Brother Yan deserved her money and praised how reliably he had helped her, making Jiang Muyan feel as if he had gone green with jealousy.
• Song Yutang hoped Jiang Muyan would wake up and love her, but she also considered pursuing Brother Yan if Jiang Muyan pursued her younger sister.

Jiang Muyan realized Song Yutang’s feelings for Top Star Brother came from exhaustion and a desire for support, and decided to care for her through that identity. He arranged beauty salon memberships for her, then acted cold when she thanked him.

• Jiang Muyan overheard Song Yutang thinking about relying on Top Star Brother and concluded that she mainly envied the support he offered.
• Jiang Muyan asked Gu Zheng where his sister went for treatments and secretly massaged Song Yutang’s sore shoulders.
• Song Yutang dreamed that Top Star Brother was massaging her, making Jiang Muyan jealous again.
• Jiang Muyan arranged annual beauty salon memberships for Song Yutang, Li Xiulan, and Jiang Zhixia, then sent Song Yutang the membership numbers.
• Song Yutang praised Jiang Guoqiang’s improved osmanthus milk curd and received the memberships from Top Star Brother.
• Song Yutang thanked Brother Yan, and Jiang Muyan replied coldly while privately feeling pleased she had used that name.

Song Yutang misread Jiang Muyan’s attempts to keep their relationship restrained, then gave his body a treatment while checking whether the Shenbao Tablets had helped him recover. The chapter ended with Jiang Muyan reacting intensely as she examined him, while Song Yutang concluded that the tablets were working.

• Song Yutang asked Jiang Muyan why he seemed cold, and he insisted they were ordinary friends while assuring her that he would help whenever she needed it.
• Jiang Muyan privately regretted distancing himself and sent Song Yutang another message urging her to rest and use the beauty salon card.
• Song Yutang booked a beauty salon appointment for herself, Li Xiulan, and Jiang Zhixia, then decided to give Jiang Muyan a care treatment.
• Song Yutang massaged Jiang Muyan with essential oil and wondered whether her earlier treatments had harmed his sexual function.
• Song Yutang examined Jiang Muyan and judged that the Shenbao Tablets had helped him recover, while he tensed under her touch.

Song Yutang mistook Jiang Muyan’s attempt to keep their relationship appropriate for a request to distance herself, while Jiang Muyan tried to arrange a massage for her and regretted his words. The chapter ended with Song Yutang treating their friendship as a business relationship and spending ten million at Lan Residence, leaving Jiang Muyan dismayed.

• Song Yutang checked Jiang Muyan’s recovery, and he arranged for her to get a beauty treatment after realizing she was exhausted.
• Song Yutang enjoyed the massage and wondered whether Top Star Brother was married, while Jiang Muyan listened to her thoughts and grew frustrated at her mistaken assumptions.
• Song Yutang decided to keep her distance from Top Star Brother and stop asking him for help outside business matters, and Jiang Muyan resolved to salvage their friendship.
• Song Yutang went to Lan Residence and spent ten million on her account, crediting the sales to Top Star Brother.
• Jiang Muyan learned about the purchase and feared their friendship had reverted to a cold, transactional relationship.

Jiang Muyan explained away his cold messages to Song Yutang and reassured her that she could keep relying on him. After she accepted his explanation, he reflected that being her husband was difficult, while Gu Zheng called to ask if Jiang Muyan believed in the occult.

• Jiang Muyan blamed his coworker’s gossip for his angry messages and told Song Yutang he had no girlfriend, wife, or fiancée.
• Song Yutang worried that helping her might cause trouble with Young Master Gu, so Jiang Muyan claimed Gu Zheng had apologized and encouraged him to help her.
• Jiang Muyan arranged for Song Yutang’s account top-up to be refunded and promised she could still come to him for help.
• Song Yutang thanked Jiang Muyan and decided to find another way to repay him, while he resolved to stop letting jealousy complicate things.
• Gu Zheng called Jiang Muyan, suspecting someone was cursing him with a doll, and Jiang Muyan told him to trust in science.

Song Yutang watched footage of Song Ruowei, Sun Meifang, and Wang Tianlong secretly reuniting, then ordered Butler Wang to help Sun Meifang conceive while rewarding him with treatment abroad for his wife and daughter. The chapter ended with Song Yutang asking three contacts for updates on their investigations.

• Butler Wang showed Song Yutang surveillance videos of Song Ruowei, Sun Meifang, and Wang Tianlong behaving like a family at a resort in Haicheng.
• Song Yutang deduced that Sun Meifang was rushing to have a child and told Butler Wang to keep watching them and help cover their tracks so Sun Meifang could get pregnant.
• Butler Wang explained that his wife had breast cancer and worried about her traveling abroad alone, so Song Yutang arranged for his daughter to accompany her for treatment and promised to cover the expenses.
• Song Yutang offered Butler Wang a week's leave after the arrangements were made, and he pledged to help her against the Song Family.
• Song Yutang logged into her encrypted social media account and asked three contacts how their investigations were going.

Song Yutang used private investigators to uncover evidence that Jiang Muyan’s crash had been deliberately arranged and ordered them to investigate the earlier crash that killed Third Uncle and his wife. After confronting Jiang Shiya, she went to celebrate Tuantuan’s birthday, where she unexpectedly encountered President Zhao and a tense family argument.

• Song Yutang received evidence that the truck driver in Jiang Muyan’s crash had been paid through a shell company and that the collision had been planned.
• Song Yutang paid the investigator to identify who was behind the shell company and to investigate Third Uncle and his wife’s fatal crash abroad.
• Song Yutang frightened Jiang Shiya by threatening to send her for electroconvulsive therapy, and Jiang Shiya fled upstairs.
• Song Yutang went to Tuantuan’s birthday party and learned that Youyou’s mother had paid the bill.
• Song Yutang encountered President Zhao leaving a private dining room, and a pregnant young woman rushed after her to complain about her behavior.

Zhao Cuifeng confronted Zhao Qiqi and Li Zifeng’s family over their demands for a lavish dowry and control of her company, but Qiqi sided with Zifeng and threatened to cut ties with her mother. The confrontation left Zhao Cuifeng distressed as Zifeng’s relatives pressed her to hand over her business and accept their marriage terms.

• Li Zifeng followed Zhao Cuifeng and apologized for his family, but Zhao Cuifeng rejected him as her son.
• Zhao Qiqi defended Li Zifeng’s demands for a thirty-million-yuan dowry, a car and home, and apartments for his nieces and nephews.
• Li Zifeng’s mother claimed she had raised Zhao Qiqi, and Qiqi threatened to disown Zhao Cuifeng if she kept opposing the marriage.
• Li Zifeng suggested breaking up and raising the baby himself, and Zhao Qiqi accused Zhao Cuifeng of treating her worse than his family did.
• Li Zifeng’s six older sisters insulted Zhao Cuifeng and demanded the dowry and her company, while Li Zifeng promised to take over the business and care for her.
• Zhao Qiqi declared that she would cut ties with Zhao Cuifeng unless she agreed to the marriage.

Song Yutang intervened when Zhao Cuifeng’s daughter and the Li family withheld help during her medical emergency, then took her to the hospital. Zhao Cuifeng was left critically ill as Zhao Qiqi discovered Song Yutang also called her mother.

• Zhao Qiqi demanded thirty million and property from Zhao Cuifeng, while Li Zifeng and his mother kept her from getting help as she suffered a medical crisis.
• Song Yutang slapped Li Zifeng’s mother, Li Zifeng’s eldest sister, the other sisters, and Zhao Qiqi before supporting Zhao Cuifeng.
• Song Yutang called an ambulance and summoned the restaurant manager, whose staff helped stop the Li family from obstructing them.
• As Zhao Cuifeng was taken to the ambulance, Song Yutang called her “Mom,” prompting Zhao Qiqi to demand an explanation.
• Zhao Qiqi pounded on the ambulance window, but the staff pulled her away and the ambulance sped to the hospital while Zhao Cuifeng’s condition worsened.

Song Yutang comforted Zhao Cuifeng after she collapsed, then told her how Song Jianye had driven Song Yutang and her mother into poverty and threatened them. The chapter ended as Song Yutang recounted how stray dogs attacked her as a child.

• Song Yutang urged Zhao Cuifeng to hold on by reminding her of the people who depended on her and the trips they could take together.
• At the hospital, doctors treated Zhao Cuifeng for angina caused by emotional agitation, and Song Yutang stayed to care for her.
• Zhao Cuifeng lamented her family troubles, including Zhao Qiqi's affair with Li Zifeng and the Li family's attempt to take over her company.
• Song Yutang brought Zhao Cuifeng wontons and fruit, and Zhao Cuifeng teased her for trying to curry favor.
• Song Yutang described how Song Jianye blacklisted her mother, threatened them, and how stray dogs attacked Song Yutang after school.

Song Yutang told Zhao Cuifeng how Song Jianye and Sun Meifang had ruined her mother’s life and explained why she admired Zhao. She helped Zhao face her guilt over Zhao Qiqi, then left after making clear she had helped out of gratitude, not to get closer to her.

• Song Yutang recounted how Song Jianye had abandoned and abused her, and how his family had helped drive her mother into poverty and social isolation.
• Song Yutang told Zhao Cuifeng that her mother had admired Zhao and would have chosen Zhao’s life, prompting Zhao to grieve over her own failures as a mother.
• Song Yutang explained that Zhao Qiqi’s indulgence and dependence on Zhao made her vulnerable to Li Zifeng and his family.
• Zhao Cuifeng admitted she had given in to Qiqi’s demands and feared the Li family would exploit her assets and leave Qiqi worse off.
• Zhao Cuifeng said she could never give up on Qiqi, then asked Song Yutang for advice about saving her.
• Song Yutang denied trying to get closer to Zhao, said she was repaying Zhao’s kindness, and left the hospital room.

Song Yutang comforted Zhao Cuifeng in the hospital and built a connection with her by speaking frankly about family, hardship, and charity. Zhao Cuifeng recognized Song Yutang’s intentions and invited her to become her goddaughter.

• Song Yutang offered to arrange company or a private hospital room for Zhao Cuifeng, then bluntly agreed that Zhao had failed as a mother.
• Song Yutang explained why she respected Zhao Cuifeng’s achievements while resenting Old Master Jiang’s treatment of her.
• Zhao Cuifeng recalled the people who had helped her and said she wanted to repay society through charity.
• Song Yutang proposed removing Wu Caixia from the Jiang Clan Charitable Foundation, and Zhao Cuifeng warned that Wu’s position depended on her husband, Jiang Qingyu.
• Song Yutang suggested that a mother’s standing through her son was more secure than a wife’s standing through her husband.
• When Song Yutang prepared to leave, Zhao Cuifeng reminded her that she had called her Mom and asked if she wanted to be her goddaughter.

Song Yutang advised Zhao Cuifeng to stop shielding Qiqi from the truth and let her face the consequences of her choices. Meanwhile, Jiang Muyan joked with Eldest Young Master Gu over the phone, who arranged to meet him at the Lan Residence the next night, then hinted that a problem had come up.

• Song Yutang explained that Zhao Cuifeng’s protection had left Qiqi unable to understand her biological father’s cruelty and advised Zhao to accept responsibility for how she raised her daughter.
• Zhao Cuifeng reflected on Song Yutang’s advice and considered letting Qiqi experience the harshness of the world.
• Eldest Young Master Gu teased Jiang Muyan about his devotion to his wife and joked about finding her another husband.
• Jiang Muyan and Eldest Young Master Gu agreed to meet at the Lan Residence after nine the following night to sing and unwind.
• Eldest Young Master Gu said there was one problem, but had not yet explained what it was.

Jiang Muyan prepared for Song Yutang’s meeting with Top Star Brother by pretending to be in a vegetative state and hoping she would focus on him. Song Yutang instead spent the evening carefully grooming herself for their meeting, while Jiang Muyan lay beside her, jealous and unnoticed.

• Eldest Young Master Gu pointed out that Jiang Muyan had to get Song Yutang out of the way while maintaining his vegetative-state act, and Jiang Muyan messaged her as Top Star Brother to arrange a meeting at Lan Residence.
• Jiang Muyan prepared for Song Yutang’s ovulation window with rose-scented toiletries and perfume, then paid Doctor Fang to claim he could do nothing because he was in a vegetative state.
• Song Yutang received Top Star Brother’s invitation and grew nervous and excited about finally meeting him.
• Song Yutang carefully treated her hair and skin to make a good impression on Top Star Brother, while Jiang Muyan watched from bed and grew increasingly jealous.
• Song Yutang went to sleep without noticing Jiang Muyan’s exposed chest, thinking she needed to rest before meeting Top Star Brother.

Jiang Muyan grew jealous as Song Yutang eagerly prepared to meet Top Star Brother, unaware that the man was his own alternate account. At the meeting place, Song Yutang arrived first and recognized Top Star Brother when he came out to greet an important guest.

• Jiang Muyan lay awake beside Song Yutang, resenting Jiang Qingyu and Jiang Sichen for keeping him bedridden and feeling jealous of Top Star Brother.
• Song Yutang arranged for Li Xiulan to visit President Zhao, then spent the day on beauty treatments, yoga, and shopping for gifts.
• Song Yutang carefully dressed and chose a subtle perfume for her meeting, while Jiang Muyan resolved to make her understand that she was married.
• With Doctor Fang's cover, Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang left separately, and Song Yutang arrived first at the private room arranged by Eldest Young Master Gu.
• Song Yutang went into the corridor to look for a restroom, saw a powerful-looking man arrive, and recognized Top Star Brother when he emerged from a room.

Song Yutang misread Top Star Brother’s affectionate reunion with a man as proof that he had a boyfriend, then got lost outside and was harassed by drunk rich young men. Jiang Muyan stepped in to protect her, leaving the confrontation with the group unresolved.

• A man embraced Top Star Brother and teased him about finding another big brother, while Song Yutang overheard them from the corridor.
• Song Yutang concluded that Top Star Brother was attracted to men and wondered whether he and Jiang Muyan had a relationship, then returned to her private room.
• Feeling restless, Song Yutang left the Lan Residence to get some air and became lost on the grounds.
• Several drunk young men surrounded Song Yutang, insulted her, and tried to touch her.
• Song Yutang slapped the young man who tried to grab her, and Jiang Muyan appeared, broke the man’s wrist, moved her behind him, and told her not to be afraid.

Jiang Muyan tried to protect Song Yutang from the rich young men and their bodyguards, but Song Yutang revealed her own formidable fighting skills and fought beside him. After they defeated the first wave, another crowd of attackers arrived, leaving them surrounded again.

• Jiang Muyan swiftly defeated the rich young men who attacked him and Song Yutang.
• Seeing the bodyguards rush toward them, Jiang Muyan shielded Song Yutang and told her to run if they were overwhelmed.
• When a bodyguard attacked Song Yutang, she disarmed him, struck back with his electric baton, and joined Jiang Muyan in the fight.
• Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan beat more than a dozen bodyguards, with Song Yutang removing her high heels to fight more freely.
• A new group of twenty or thirty men arrived, led by the injured rich young man, who threatened Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan.

Song Yutang and Jiang Muyan fled after fighting off men who harassed her, and he carried her out of the villa grounds and bought supplies for her injured feet. Song Yutang misunderstood Jiang Muyan's words as a hint about his sexuality, while her thoughts about how close they were made him jealous and he stopped treating her wounds.

• Jiang Muyan and Song Yutang ran from the men after she struck them between the legs with her club.
• Jiang Muyan carried the barefoot, injured Song Yutang out of the landscaped grounds and bought her slippers and first-aid supplies.
• Jiang Muyan crouched to treat Song Yutang's feet, but she hesitated and told the pharmacy assistant that he was not her husband.
• Jiang Muyan heard Song Yutang think he was different from other men and that he could touch her feet, then grew jealous and told her to treat the wounds herself.