Chapter Summaries

The narrator tied with Number 18 for first place and learned they would each receive five million. Shen Nian challenged the tie because Gu Hansheng had not voted, and the chapter ended with the narrator begging him for his vote and offering to do anything as the audience jeered.

• Shen Yanchuan told the narrator she and Number 18 would each receive five million, then said he had voted for her.
• Shen Nian objected to the tie and pointed out that Gu Hansheng had not cast his vote.
• Number 18 approached Gu Hansheng flirtatiously, while Shen Yanchuan urged the narrator to appeal to him.
• The narrator asked Gu Hansheng to vote for her because she needed the prize money, and he pressed her to say more.
• The narrator offered to do anything Gu Hansheng asked in exchange for his vote, prompting laughter and jeers from the audience.

Yu Han begged Gu Hansheng to change the final vote, but Shen Nian cast it for contestant No. 18, leaving Yu Han humiliated. Backstage, Shen Yanchuan admitted he had mentioned the event to Shen Nian, and Yu Han realized they shared a surname.

• Gu Hansheng handed Shen Nian the voting device and let her cast his final vote.
• Yu Han pleaded with Gu Hansheng to help her, but he stayed silent as Shen Nian voted for contestant No. 18.
• Shen Nian claimed her hand had slipped, then reminded the audience of Yu Han’s past treatment of Gu Hansheng.
• Gu Hansheng left with Shen Nian while Yu Han called after him and broke down in tears.
• Shen Yanchuan suggested Yu Han consider him as a source of money, then said he had mentioned her event to Shen Nian.
• Yu Han realized Shen Nian and Shen Yanchuan shared the surname Shen.

After Shen Yanchuan admitted that Shen Nian was his cousin, Hanhan realized the cousins had used her in a cruel game. Qin An'an sheltered her and gave her money, but Hanhan’s troubles worsened when a man called to demand five million yuan for Yu Hui’s release.

• Hanhan left in the rain with nowhere to go after learning that Shen Yanchuan and Shen Nian had played her for a fool.
• Qin An'an found Hanhan, brought her to her apartment, and comforted her as Hanhan described what had happened at Goddess Night.
• Qin An'an warned Hanhan to stay away from Shen Yanchuan, gave her a bank card with four million yuan, and offered her a key to the apartment.
• After Qin An'an left, Hanhan developed a high fever and received a call from a man claiming Yu Hui had stolen from his boss.
• The man demanded five million yuan and threatened to kill Yu Hui if Hanhan contacted the police.

Yu Hui’s sister went alone to an abandoned factory after kidnappers threatened him, only to be captured and confronted by their leader. As the bald man grabbed her, Yu Hui remained beaten and bound, and her fate was left uncertain.

• Yu Hui’s kidnappers sent his sister the factory’s location and threatened to kill him if she called the police.
• Yu Hui’s sister went to the factory alone after repeated attempts to reach Gu Mingze failed.
• Two blond-haired men dragged Yu Hui’s sister inside, where she found Yu Hui beaten and hanging.
• The bald leader demanded ransom and threatened Yu Hui’s sister, who offered to stay as a hostage so Yu Hui could go free.
• The bald leader approached Yu Hui’s sister and grabbed her chin while Yu Hui struggled against his restraints.

The narrator gambled that Gu Hansheng would rescue her from the thugs who had taken her hostage, and he arrived just as they were about to assault her. He carried her away after ordering his men to break the bald man’s hands, while she remained hurt and conflicted about returning with him.

• The narrator persuaded the bald man to send Yu Hui away to get money, then fought off the blond thug as the men tried to assault her.
• Before entering the warehouse, the narrator had sent Gu Hansheng her location and asked him to come save her.
• Gu Hansheng burst into the warehouse with three bodyguards, who quickly subdued the thugs.
• Gu Hansheng covered the narrator with his jacket and ordered his bodyguards to snap both of the bald man’s hands.
• Gu Hansheng reproached the narrator for coming alone and told his men to clean up the situation, while she resisted the idea of going home with him.

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.