Recaps

After Gu Hansheng rescued Yu Han from the warehouse, he stayed with her while she recovered from a fever, then told her Yu Hui was in the hospital. Yu Han visited her injured brother and gave him four million to help ease the family’s debt.

• Gu Hansheng carried Yu Han out of the warehouse, and she drifted through feverish memories before waking in his arms.
• Gu Hansheng explained that the event Yu Han attended was a consort-selection banquet, and the two argued over her choices and Shen Nian.
• Gu Hansheng told Yu Han that Yu Hui had been taken to the hospital and that their parents had not been told.
• Yu Han visited Yu Hui and comforted him as he apologized and struggled with his injuries and shame.
• Yu Han gave Yu Hui An'an’s bank card, which held four million, and asked him to use it to ease the family’s loan pressure.

Hanhan went to Gu Hansheng’s company hoping to borrow six million for Yu Hui’s treatment, but found her mother publicly attacking Shen Nian and accusing her of breaking up Hanhan’s marriage. Gu Hansheng arrived and defended Shen Nian, leaving Hanhan trapped between her mother’s outburst and her ex-husband’s cold gaze.

• Hanhan decided to ask Gu Hansheng for the six million Yu Hui still needed and went to his office after he said he was there.
• Hanhan learned that her mother was causing a scene at the company and recognized Shen Nian as the woman her mother was attacking.
• Hanhan tried to pull her mother away and explained that she and Gu Hansheng were divorced, but her mother refused to believe her.
• Hanhan blurted out that she had asked for the divorce because she could not stand Gu Hansheng, who overheard her.
• Shen Nian leaned against Gu Hansheng and asked him to clarify that she was not a homewrecker, while Hanhan’s mother continued praising Gu Hansheng and preparing to ask him for money.
• Gu Hansheng denied that he had liked Hanhan, then shielded Shen Nian as Hanhan tried to restrain her mother from slapping her.

Yu Han struggled with her mother’s demands for money and fell ill after the confrontation at Gu Hansheng’s company. At the hospital, she unexpectedly encountered Gu Hansheng accompanying Shen Nian, and his warmth toward Shen Nian turned cold when he saw Yu Han.

• Gu Hansheng rebuked Yu Han’s mother for causing trouble at his company, and Yu Han dragged her away before she could demand money from him.
• Yu Han argued with her mother about the debt and promised to repay the four million she had given Yu Hui while finding a way to handle the remaining six million.
• Yu Han returned to the villa with a fever, took medicine, and dreamed that Gu Hansheng asked who had told her he liked Shen Nian.
• After her fever persisted, Yu Han went to the hospital for blood tests and sent Gu Hansheng a message, but he did not reply.
• Shen Nian and Gu Hansheng arrived at the hospital together, and Gu Hansheng’s gentle expression changed to an icy one when he saw Yu Han.

While receiving an IV for a fever, Yu Han asked Gu Hansheng to lend her six million, but he mocked her and left with Shen Nian. Unable to get help from her old friends, she broke down in the infusion hall and was approached by a young boy who returned her phone.

• Yu Han encountered Gu Hansheng and Shen Nian at the hospital, where Gu Hansheng mocked her for managing alone.
• Yu Han asked Gu Hansheng to lend her six million, but he questioned how she could repay him and refused to help.
• Yu Han called Yu Hui, who worried about her and offered to visit, but she told him to focus on recovering.
• Yu Han called her old friends one by one, but none would lend her money and some mocked her.
• Yu Han dropped her phone while crying, and a little boy picked it up and handed it back to her.

Hanhan learned that her mother had gambled away the four million she gave Yu Hui to repay debts, then borrowed another four million from loan sharks, bringing the family’s debt to fourteen million. After collapsing, Hanhan refused her mother’s demand to beg Gu Hansheng for more money, while her parents continued to argue.

• Hanhan was comforted by a little boy at the hospital and decided she had to find a way to raise six million.
• Hanhan returned to the villa and messaged Gu Hansheng, but he did not answer.
• Yu Hui called Hanhan home and told her the four million was gone, so she rushed to her parents’ house.
• Hanhan found her father beating her mother and learned that her mother had lost the money gambling and borrowed another four million from loan sharks.
• Hanhan collapsed after realizing the family owed fourteen million, then woke to her mother begging her to ask Gu Hansheng for more money.
• Hanhan refused, reminding her mother that Gu Hansheng had already paid their debts, while her father blamed her mother for the crisis.

Yu Hui tried to raise money for the family by fighting in an underground boxing ring, while Yu Hui’s sister faced a fourteen-million debt and had no way to pay it. After finding Yu Hui injured in the hospital, she urged him not to return for more matches, but he insisted he could earn five million by losing.

• Yu Hui helped his sister leave their parents’ home after their mother demanded fourteen million.
• Yu Hui’s sister returned to the villa, worried that borrowing money from Gu Hansheng would bring more humiliation.
• Yu Hui transferred his sister one million and said he could earn two million more that night.
• Yu Hui’s sister learned from their father that Yu Hui had gone to an underground boxing ring.
• Yu Hui’s sister found Yu Hui injured in the hospital and learned he planned to fight five matches over three days for five million.
• Yu Hui’s sister told Yu Hui not to return to the ring that night.

Worried that Yu Hui would return to the underground boxing arena, the narrator tried to persuade Gu Hansheng to lend her thirteen million and used the lingerie set to approach him. The chapter ended with Gu Hansheng kissing her as she asked whether he would lend her the money.

• The narrator returned to the villa, learned Gu Hansheng was still out, and messaged Yu Hui to rest instead of fighting again.
• While waiting for Gu Hansheng, the narrator tried on the lingerie set Auntie Zhang had given her.
• Gu Hansheng came home and found the narrator wearing the lingerie.
• The narrator asked Gu Hansheng for thirteen million, then kissed him and promised to do whatever he wanted if he agreed.
• Gu Hansheng questioned whether she would seduce another wealthy man and asked if she had considered going to Gu Mingze; she denied it.
• As Gu Hansheng deepened the kiss, the narrator remembered Yu Hui might be at the arena and asked if Gu Hansheng would lend her the money.

Yu Han pushed Gu Hansheng away after he agreed to give her money, prompting him to leave while accusing her of treating him as a source of cash. She used the money to settle her family’s debt and returned to the villa determined to earn money and start over, still worrying that Gu Hansheng might end their relationship.

• Yu Han panicked over Yu Hui’s fighting match and pushed Gu Hansheng away after he agreed to give her money, and he left in anger.
• Gu Hansheng transferred fifteen million to Yu Han, who sent the money to her father to repay the family debt.
• Yu Han made her mother write Gu Hansheng an IOU and warned her not to cause trouble again, while her father stopped her from asking for more money.
• Yu Han returned to the villa and worried that Gu Hansheng would reject or retaliate against her, but she decided to focus on earning money and rebuilding her life.

Yu Hui struggled to find a way to start a small business and began learning to make snacks from Auntie Zhang. Hoping to ease the tension with Gu Hansheng, she brought him one of the snacks, and he told her to come into his office.

• Yu Hui called her father for business advice, and he suggested a food business before warning that she could not manage one without cooking skills.
• Yu Hui learned to make a snack with Auntie Zhang, and they agreed the flavor still needed improvement.
• Auntie Zhang urged Yu Hui to take Gu Hansheng his favorite snack, and Yu Hui went to his company hoping to ease their tension.
• Gu Hansheng came out of a meeting, entered his office without speaking to Yu Hui, then called for her to come in.

Yu Han brought Gu Hansheng lunch, but he rejected her efforts and showed tenderness toward Shen Nian, leaving Yu Han hurt. She decided to look for work instead, but after applying for clerical jobs, she woke to find no replies or interview invitations.

• Yu Han brought Gu Hansheng lunch, and he mocked her by asking how much money she wanted to borrow.
• Shen Nian arrived with groceries, and Gu Hansheng spoke warmly to her while dismissing Yu Han’s food.
• Yu Han returned to the villa with the untouched food and told Auntie Zhang that Gu Hansheng had not been in his office.
• Yu Han decided to find a job, discussed entry-level positions with An'an, and chose to apply for clerical work first.
• Yu Han sent out several résumés, but the next morning she had received no replies or interview invitations.

Yu Han attended a sales interview at a luxury watch company but was rejected after an interviewer accused her of mistreating a saleswoman when she was the Yu Family's heiress. Outside, she encountered Shen Nian and Gu Hansheng, and Shen Nian's account of a watch worth over thirty million reminded Yu Han of how much she had sacrificed for Gu Hansheng.

• An'an encouraged Yu Han to try sales, and Yu Han received an interview invitation from a luxury watch company.
• At the interview, an interviewer accused Yu Han of insulting a saleswoman and complaining to headquarters, and the interviewers rejected her as unsuitable for the brand.
• Yu Han replied that the saleswoman should seek medical help if mocking customers was an illness, then left in tears.
• Yu Han ran into Shen Nian and Gu Hansheng, and Shen Nian asked her to help choose a watch while revealing that Gu Hansheng planned to spend over thirty million on it.
• Yu Han told Shen Nian not to buy the watch if she could not bear the expense.

Yu Han failed another job interview and ran into Shen Yanchuan and Gu Hansheng afterward. Shen Yanchuan teased her with false claims of intimacy, while Gu Hansheng questioned her about the job she had said she found.

• Yu Han returned to the villa after her interview with Shen Nian and Gu Hansheng, then sent out more résumés and looked for work the next day.
• Yu Han interviewed for a customer service job, but an interviewer dismissed her as a pampered wealthy young lady and called in the next applicant.
• Shen Yanchuan spotted Yu Han outside the interview location and called her Xiao Hanhan.
• Gu Hansheng confronted Yu Han about how close she was to Shen Yanchuan, and Shen Yanchuan deliberately claimed they had an intimate relationship.
• Gu Hansheng questioned Yu Han about why she had a résumé if she had already found a job, and the interviewer asked her why she had not left yet.

Yu Han failed another job interview, and Gu Hansheng mocked her until she finally confronted him and left. Back at the villa, Auntie Zhang and An'an helped restore her resolve, and Yu Han resumed looking for work while telling Yu Hui she needed a job to support the family.

• Gu Hansheng and Shen Yanchuan mocked Yu Han after an interviewer rejected her, and Yu Han angrily called herself useless before leaving.
• Shen Yanchuan offered Yu Han clerical or secretary work, but she declined and walked out.
• Yu Han returned to the villa, where Auntie Zhang comforted her over dinner and asked how her job search was going.
• Yu Han called An'an for encouragement, reopened a recruitment website, and considered applying for a cleaning job.
• Yu Hui told Yu Han he had been discharged and that their father was keeping their mother in check.
• Yu Han told Yu Hui she was tired from looking for work and needed to support the family because their parents could not find jobs.

Yu Han learned that DK Cultural Communication Company had hired her for a clerical job, and she celebrated with An'an. At the karaoke place, she saw Shen Yanchuan following a woman who had crashed into her and An'an.

• Yu Han received a call from DK Cultural Communication Company and was told to report to HR the next morning.
• Qiao Na confirmed Yu Han had been hired, completed her onboarding, and told her to start work on Monday.
• Yu Han shared the good news with An'an, and they went shopping, had dinner, and went to karaoke.
• A woman carrying a cigarette crashed into Yu Han and An'an near the restroom and cursed at them.
• Yu Han recognized Shen Yanchuan as the man following the woman out of the restroom.

Yu Han and An'an clashed with a woman who had bumped into them, and Shen Yanchuan made her apologize before inviting them to drink. Yu Han realized he had led them into a private room where Gu Hansheng and Shen Nian were celebrating Shen Nian’s birthday, and she hesitated over whether to stay.

• An'an argued with a woman who had bumped into them and demanded an apology.
• Shen Yanchuan took Yu Han’s side and ordered the woman to apologize.
• Shen Yanchuan invited An'an to drink in his private room, and An'an accepted before Yu Han could stop her.
• Yu Han entered the room and saw Gu Hansheng with Shen Nian, then tried to leave.
• Shen Nian invited Yu Han to stay for her birthday, leaving Yu Han unsure whether to accept.

Yu Han attended Shen Nian’s birthday party with An’an and Shen Yanchuan, where guests taunted her about being Gu Hansheng’s ex-wife and her connection to Shen Yanchuan. Gu Hansheng called Yu Han someone who did not matter, and the chapter ended with Yu Han trying to get a drunken An’an to leave while Shen Yanchuan kept drinking.

• An’an pulled Yu Han into the party, where Shen Nian welcomed her and Gu Hansheng demanded to know why she needed a personal invitation.
• Shen Yanchuan and An’an began a drinking contest as guests mocked Yu Han and suggested she and Shen Yanchuan were dating.
• Yu Han explained that Shen Yanchuan had brought her after they ran into each other, and Shen Yanchuan said he had sent his original date away for offending her.
• Shen Nian apologized for not inviting Yu Han sooner, but Gu Hansheng said Yu Han was someone who did not matter.
• Yu Han watched Gu Hansheng’s attention remain on her and noticed his diamond watch gift on Shen Nian’s wrist.
• An’an became drunk during the contest, and Yu Han urged her to leave while Shen Yanchuan continued drinking with an unchanged expression.

At a party, Yu joined a King's Game after Shen Nian persuaded her to stay, but she avoided a bridal carry with Gu Hansheng by choosing to drink. The next round paired her with Shen Yanchuan for an intimate challenge, leaving him visibly embarrassed as Gu Hansheng reacted coldly.

• Shen Yanchuan proposed the King's Game, and the players agreed that anyone who refused a challenge would have to drink two glasses.
• Shen Nian drew the king and ordered number three to carry number eight bridal-style; Yu drew number three, while Gu Hansheng was number eight.
• When Shen Nian pretended to feel dizzy and leaned against Gu Hansheng, Yu chose to drink rather than carry him, and Shen Yanchuan took her second glass and drank it himself.
• A later challenge paired numbers one and five to touch noses and hold hands, and Shen Yanchuan announced that he was number five while looking at Gu Hansheng.
• Shen Nian urged Shen Yanchuan to hurry, and he looked embarrassed as Yu wondered if he was afraid to do the challenge.

At karaoke, the narrator teased Shen Yanchuan, then watched Gu Hansheng leave with Shen Nian and tried to convince herself not to compare herself to his white moonlight. Gu Hansheng returned and ordered her into his car, but she rode with Shen Yanchuan to make sure An'an got home safely, ending the night troubled by Gu Hansheng’s cold stare and his tenderness toward Shen Nian.

• The narrator challenged Shen Yanchuan to drink four glasses after he brought up her feelings for Gu Hansheng, and Shen Yanchuan drank them.
• Shen Nian said she felt unwell, so Gu Hansheng left with her while the narrator stayed behind with the sleeping An'an and Shen Yanchuan.
• Shen Yanchuan told the narrator that she and Shen Nian held different places in Gu Hansheng’s heart, but An'an woke before he could explain further.
• When Gu Hansheng returned and told the narrator to get into his car, she chose to ride with Shen Yanchuan so she could see An'an safely to her door.
• After Shen Yanchuan’s driver dropped off An'an and took the narrator home, she dwelled on Gu Hansheng’s cold look and the way he had treated Shen Nian gently.

Yu Han returned to the villa with Shen Yanchuan and found Gu Hansheng waiting in her room, furious and jealous. After she denied that she liked him, Gu Hansheng threw her onto the bed and pinned her wrists, warning her about her position.

• As Yu Han and Shen Yanchuan neared the villa, Shen Yanchuan remarked that Gu Hansheng must be going crazy.
• Yu Han entered her dark room and found Gu Hansheng waiting with a cigarette; when she tried to leave, he blocked her and confronted her.
• Gu Hansheng accused Yu Han of being interested in Shen Yanchuan and kissed her forcefully, but she pushed him away and challenged his right to care whom she liked.
• Yu Han told Gu Hansheng that she owed him money and had already suffered for how she had treated him before.
• Gu Hansheng asked whether Yu Han had meant what she said at the KTV about liking him, and she replied that an unthinking remark revealed the truth.
• Gu Hansheng called Yu Han heartless, threw her onto the bed, pinned her wrists, and asked if he should remind her of her current position.

Gu Hansheng told her he was sleeping with her for revenge and mocked her while she cried. He forbade her from getting close to Shen Yanchuan, then refused to let her leave the arrangement until he got tired of sleeping with her.

• Gu Hansheng said he was using her as a lover to get revenge and insulted her by comparing her unfavorably to Shen Nian.
• She broke down crying, and Gu Hansheng wiped her tears before kissing her to silence her sobs.
• Gu Hansheng demanded that she stay away from Shen Yanchuan and from other men.
• She asked whether repaying her debt would let her leave, and Gu Hansheng asked what she could pay him with after she mentioned finding a job.
• Gu Hansheng told her to wait until he got tired of sleeping with her, then kissed her.

On her first day at work, the narrator was delayed by Gu Hansheng’s jealousy and possessiveness, then left alone at a subway station when Shen Yanchuan called about Shen Nian. The chapter ended with Gu Hansheng rushing off to help Shen Nian while the narrator was upset and unsure how to get to work.

• Gu Hansheng kept the narrator up late, and she woke sore on the morning of her first day at work.
• The narrator hurried to get ready, but Gu Hansheng teased her and argued that she should stay home instead of working.
• Gu Hansheng drove the narrator toward her workplace and questioned whether her new job was connected to Shen Yanchuan.
• Shen Yanchuan called Gu Hansheng, who became anxious and told him to have Shen Nian wait.
• Gu Hansheng stopped at a subway station and ordered the narrator to get out before rushing off, leaving her upset and uncertain how to reach work.

After Gu Hansheng left her stranded, the narrator struggled through her first subway commute and arrived at work with an injured leg. She began her new job at the secretarial office, where coworkers questioned how she had been hired and mocked her beauty.

• Gu Hansheng drove away, so the narrator took the subway, rode in the wrong direction, and hurried to the office on foot.
• A handsome man pointed out that the narrator's leg was bleeding, and she treated the wound before reporting to HR.
• Qiao Na sent the narrator to the twenty-fifth-floor secretarial office to begin work.
• A coworker handed the narrator documents to deliver to customer service on the third floor.
• Two women in the restroom speculated about the narrator's hiring and said her face could bring a nation to ruin.

Yu Han started her first day at a new job and was left with little to do before the CEO helped her change the water bottle and asked her to make coffee. Her colleagues suspected she had a special connection with him, and Yu Han finally answered their insinuations sharply.

• Yu Han found her assigned desk cluttered and spent her first hours with almost no work.
• After a colleague told her to change the water bottle, Yu Han nearly fell because of her injured leg, but the CEO caught her and replaced the bottle.
• The CEO confirmed Yu Han was the new hire and asked her to bring coffee to his office.
• Gu Hansheng called repeatedly, but Yu Han rejected the call when two colleagues entered the break room.
• Two colleagues insinuated that Yu Han had used tricks to get the CEO's attention, and Yu Han retorted that she did not help women who wagged their tongues.

On her first day, the narrator confronted coworkers who gossiped about her knowing the CEO, then was tripped by a female coworker while bringing coffee to his office. The CEO defended her, assigned her project materials, and as she entered the elevator for lunch, Gu Hansheng called with a frightening voice.

• The narrator warned two coworkers not to spread rumors that she knew the CEO after they mocked her.
• A female coworker tripped the narrator in the CEO's office, spilling the coffee, then denied doing it.
• The CEO ordered the coworker to clean up the spill and removed her from the project.
• The CEO gave the narrator project documents to study and told her she might help organize or participate in the project.
• As the narrator entered the elevator for lunch, Gu Hansheng called, and his voice sounded terrifying.

Yu Han’s phone broke on her first day at work, leaving her unable to answer Gu Hansheng’s calls. When she returned to the villa, he accused her of seducing another man and dragged her into the bedroom, asking what Gu Mingze had said to her.

• A coworker bumped into Yu Han, knocking her phone to the floor and cracking its screen.
• Yu Han ate lunch with Qiao Na and spent the afternoon reading project materials without further trouble at work.
• Yu Han repaired her phone after work and discovered more than a dozen missed calls from Gu Hansheng.
• Gu Hansheng waited for Yu Han in the dark villa and dismissed her explanation that her phone had broken.
• Gu Hansheng grabbed Yu Han’s wrist, accused her of seducing men, and dragged her into the bedroom.
• Gu Hansheng pinned Yu Han on the bed and asked what Gu Mingze had said to her.