Recaps

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun watched Jia Mingchuan lavishly stock up on breakfast for someone at home while discussing how normal they were by comparison. Yan Guiyun nagged Yan Zhibei into going to work, and Yan Zhibei reflected on how he had hidden his intelligence for years, leaving Yan Guiyun amused and hurt that kidnappers had targeted him instead.

• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun noticed Jia Mingchuan filling a serving cart with breakfast and joked that they were more normal than he was.
• Yan Zhibei messaged Yan Guiyun that he did not want to go to work, and Yan Guiyun urged him to keep working and write more for his readers.
• Yan Zhibei recalled how people had mistaken him for a good-for-nothing because he spent his time gaming and reading, while he had concealed his academic ability until the college entrance exams.
• Yan Zhibei thanked Yan Guiyun for being outstanding all these years, and Yan Guiyun thought about how kidnappers had targeted him rather than his brother.

Yan Guiyun reflected on his past kidnappings before sharing breakfast with Chi Yining, while Mo Li struggled with guilt over how he had treated Chai Yi. The chapter left Mo Li noticing Chai Yi’s oily breakfast and wondering if it was too greasy.

• Yan Guiyun snapped out of his thoughts when Chi Yining fed him a shrimp dumpling, then teased Chi Yining about calling him “hubby.”
• Chi Yining noticed Chai Yi and Mo Li seemed more reserved with each other than they had the day before.
• Mo Li remembered learning that Chai Yi had once bought him a birthday present and regretted pushing his old friend away.
• Mo Li struggled to apologize to Chai Yi, then offered to share his food with him.
• Chai Yi declined and chose stir-fried rice noodles, prompting Mo Li to ask whether they were too greasy.

Mo Li struggled to hide his attraction to Chai Yi during breakfast, while their friends turned the table into an awkward spectacle. Wang Xinyang revealed that Chai Yi had saved a roomful of gifts for Mo Li, leaving both of them stunned.

• Chai Yi explained that Cantonese dishes were normal breakfast food in his family, and Mo Li tried to hide his embarrassment as he admired Chai Yi's exposed chest.
• Chai Yi noticed Mo Li staring, buttoned his shirt, and joked that the air conditioning was cold.
• Bai Chongxuan called out Mo Li for staring, while he and Wang Xinyang took seats beside Mo Li and Chai Yi.
• Chi Yining watched the tense gathering with curiosity as Yan Guiyun quietly arranged follow-up work with the bodyguards.
• Wang Xinyang asked Chai Yi whether he had given Mo Li the gifts he had saved up in a whole room, shocking Mo Li and prompting Chai Yi to recall Wang Xinyang's old reaction.

Chai Yi fled after Mo Li thanked him sweetly, while Mo Li offered to help Wang Xinyang borrow the Mo family’s light metals research team as compensation. From afar, Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun discussed Wang Xinyang’s covert tactics and Bai Chongxuan’s hidden schemes.

• Mo Li thanked Chai Yi for the gifts, and Chai Yi blushed and hurried away.
• Bai Chongxuan admitted Chai Yi had given him the chance to meet Wang Xinyang, while Mo Li apologized to Wang Xinyang on Chai Yi’s behalf.
• Wang Xinyang asked Mo Li to arrange access to the Mo family’s light metals research team, and Mo Li agreed to speak with his father.
• After Bai Chongxuan and Wang Xinyang left, Mo Li resolved to help make the collaboration happen.
• Chi Yining remarked on Wang Xinyang’s covert schemes and Bai Chongxuan’s overt ones, and Yan Guiyun revealed that Bai Chongxuan had supplied disappearing ink and secret-message pens.

Chi Yining watched the other guests discuss their relationships, ambitions, and family responsibilities over breakfast. As more people gathered, An Yan challenged Li Qingmi over the future of his relationship with Chen Shiyu, and the conversation turned tense.

• Yan Guiyun explained that he had kept quiet about Bai Chongxuan because he considered him a rival and thought Chi Yining had pursued Gu Chengyuan.
• Chi Yining watched An Yan and Hu Bing arrive together and thought their long-standing bond made them seem like an old married couple.
• Chen Shiyu sat beside Hu Bing, who urged him to return to violin concerts and keep pursuing his other interests.
• Li Qingmi argued that people did not need to push themselves to be outstanding, and An Yan questioned how he and Chen Shiyu would handle their families' busy businesses.
• Li Qingmi told An Yan that their future was none of his concern as Chi Yining watched the exchange grow tense.
• Shao Chongsi and the others arrived as Chi Yining noticed it was almost nine.

Shao Chongsi silently kept the secret of a game he was playing with Gu Chengyuan while the other guests guessed what it meant. Back at Crimson Flame Courtyard, Yan Guiyun left for the police station, and Chi Yining livestreamed a horror game in his absence.

• Shao Chongsi signed that his silence was a secret between him and Gu Chengyuan, and Gu Chengyuan called it a little game they were playing.
• Yan Guiyun went to the police station and told Chi Yining to stay home.
• Chi Yining livestreamed the horror game Hu Yi had recommended, frightening and entertaining the viewers.

Yan Guiyun dealt with the police and another attempt to crash his car, then retaliated against the rival Ou Enterprises before returning home. Chi Yining welcomed him with relief and anger at the trouble he had faced.

• Yan Guiyun arranged for the police to oversee the risky removal of chips from more than a hundred people.
• Yan Guiyun and his bodyguards stopped a car sent by Ou Enterprises and delivered its driver to the police.
• Yan Guiyun ordered Special Assistant Xu to expose Ou Enterprises' scandals online, sparking public outrage and angering chairman Ou Rong.
• Chi Yining recognized Yan Guiyun's car in a crash report and worried until he saw that Yan Guiyun was replying to his messages.
• Yan Guiyun returned home, and Chi Yining embraced him and asked who had caused trouble.

Yan Guiyun reunited with Chi Yining after dealing with the people who had targeted him, while their friends and family discussed his habit of intimidating would-be admirers. The chapter ended with Wang Xinyang asking Bai Chongxuan about his own romantic rejections.

• Chi Yining promised to settle the score for Yan Guiyun, and Yan Guiyun's parents worried about how badly he had hurt the people involved.
• Yan Ting praised Yan Guiyun for holding back, while Murong Xue suggested he had only avoided making trouble so he could return to the dating show.
• Bai Chongxuan reassured the worried Wang Xinyang and recalled how Yan Guiyun once attended class with someone else's blood on him after an attempted murder.
• Bai Chongxuan told Wang Xinyang that Yan Guiyun rejected confessing girls by saying he liked people smarter than him and taller than 1.8 meters.
• Wang Xinyang asked whether girls had liked Bai Chongxuan, who said he rejected them because he liked people prettier than himself.

Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun stayed home while Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi went to the mall, where Chi Er’s men tried to attack them and were arrested. Li Qingmi then asked Chen Shiyu where he wanted to go the next day.

• Bai Chongxuan told Wang Xinyang that he only liked him, and Wang Xinyang teased him about being picky.
• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun checked on their growing melon seedlings and arranged to buy nutrient solution.
• Chi Yining refused Chen Shiyu’s invitation to go out, wanting to stay home with Yan Guiyun and avoid danger.
• Chen Shiyu and Li Qingmi went to the mall with bodyguards, where Chi Er’s men tried to target them but were caught and sent to the police station.
• Chen Shiyu played the claw machines, and Li Qingmi won him two toys before inviting him to go out again the next day.

Su Ziqian and Jia Mingchuan caught fifteen of Second Uncle Chi’s men, while Shao Chongsi rescued Gu Chengyuan from an assassin at a holiday resort. Afterward, Gu Chengyuan realized that his reckless stunt had deeply frightened Shao Chongsi and apologized.

• Chen Shiyu asked Li Qingmi to visit her university, and she agreed to take him there.
• Su Ziqian and Jia Mingchuan went out and identified fifteen suspects marked with spider scars on their earlobes.
• Shao Chongsi and Gu Chengyuan visited a holiday resort, where an assassin posing as a waiter held a gun to Gu Chengyuan’s head.
• Shao Chongsi disarmed the assassin, shot him, and ordered the bodyguards to take him to the police station.
• Gu Chengyuan apologized to Shao Chongsi for sending the bodyguards away and risking his life for a thrill.

Gu Chengyuan agreed to date Shao Chongsi after frightening him by risking his life, while several others focused on studying and school plans. After watching An Yan and Hu Yi interact, Hu Bing mistakenly suspected they were romantically involved, got drunk, and sought comfort from Chi Yining.

• Gu Chengyuan apologized to Shao Chongsi for gambling with his life and promised him a real relationship, which cheered Shao Chongsi up.
• Chi Yining studied for his exams while Yan Guiyun brought him food and prepared pastries.
• Chai Yi agreed to drive Mo Li to school in exchange for Mo Li doing one thing for him.
• Hu Bing passed every exam, then tried to avoid An Yan by visiting Hu Yi, but An Yan insisted on accompanying him.
• Hu Bing misread An Yan and Hu Yi's arguments as flirting, drank heavily, and returned to the compound seeking Chi Yining's comfort.
• Chi Yining questioned An Yan about what had happened to Hu Bing, and An Yan said he did not know.

Chi Yining studied a mysterious chip while the livestream viewers watched the couples flirt and stumble through awkward moments. Meanwhile, Chi Er plotted to bring Chi San back from overseas to help target Chi Yining.

• Chi Yining told An Yan to explain his calls with Hu Yi to Hu Bing, then went home with Yan Guiyun.
• Jia Mingchuan and Su Ziqian again failed to agree on who would take the bottom role.
• Chi Yining finished studying, discovered he ranked first in the region, and asked Yan Guiyun for cake while tracing a chip's code.
• Chi Er called Chi San to demand his return and then contacted people in Country Y to pressure him.
• Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi flirted during a card game, while Hu Bing awkwardly answered livestream comments and accidentally blurted out that An Yan was “big.”

An Yan reassured Hu Bing that he would keep supporting him, while Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun discussed the dangers surrounding Chi Yining and his missing birth parents. The next day, Gu Chengyuan persuaded Shao Chongsi to go to work with him, where Shao Chongsi helped him dress in provocative formalwear.

• An Yan told Hu Bing he would keep supporting him, and Hu Bing took this as a promise to stay together forever.
• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun discussed the planned trip to the school, the search for Second Uncle Chi's base, and the uncertainty surrounding Chi Yining's birth parents and the treasure.
• Chi Yining rejected Yan Guiyun's attempt to initiate intimacy and insisted that he needed to rest.
• Shao Chongsi clung to Gu Chengyuan and refused to go to work until Gu Chengyuan promised to accompany him.
• Shao Chongsi helped Gu Chengyuan dress, choosing leather shirt stays, sock garters, and sleeve garters for him.

Mo Li reconsidered how unfairly he had treated Chai Yi and began recognizing Chai Yi’s care for him. When Lian Zhouzhou accused Mo Li of bullying Chai Yi, Chai Yi’s phone call exposed that he did not even know Lian Zhouzhou, leaving Mo Li and his classmates stunned.

• Mo Li remembered how jealousy had led him to mistreat Chai Yi, while Chai Yi still walked him to class and gave him a jacket.
• Mo Li encountered Lian Zhouzhou, who accused him of bullying Chai Yi and claimed Mo Li had threatened Chai Yi into bringing him to school.
• Mo Li called Chai Yi on speakerphone, and Chai Yi said he did not know Lian Zhouzhou and told Mo Li to avoid unsavory people.
• Mo Li agreed to Chai Yi’s advice and ended the call, leaving Lian Zhouzhou embarrassed as the classmates laughed at him.
• Lian Zhouzhou fled the classroom, and Mo Li realized he had been fooled by him for two years.

Chai Yi defended Mo Li from Cheng Ke, who was later expelled and whose family head was arrested. A week later, Chi Yining passed his early graduation exams and told the university president he planned to stay home, supported by his husband, Yan Guiyun.

• Chai Yi took Mo Li's hand and confronted Cheng Ke when he blocked their way and grabbed Mo Li.
• Mo Li told Cheng Ke he did not know him and chose to leave with Chai Yi.
• The university expelled Cheng Ke for plagiarism, bullying, and having someone attend classes for him, and reported him to the police; the head of the Cheng Family was also arrested.
• Mo Li learned about Cheng Ke's downfall and saw classmates speculate that Chai Yi was possessive of him.
• Chi Yining completed his graduation exams under close supervision and told the president he planned to rot at home because he had money and a husband to support him.
• Chi Yining showed the president his wedding ring, and the president realized his partner was Yan Guiyun.

Chi Yining finished his exam, toured the lavish estate Yan Guiyun had prepared, and continued searching for clues about the Chi Family. Meanwhile, Chen Shiyu let Li Qingmi into his music hall after Li Qingmi climbed to the third floor to escape his bodyguards.

• The principal praised Chi Yining's performance on the dating show, urged him to care for his health and communicate with his family, and offered support; Chi Yining thanked him and offered to upgrade the school's computer system.
• Yan Guiyun took Chi Yining to see their new estate at the foot of Empty Mountain, where Chi Yining explored its villas, gardens, and extensive rooms and collections.
• Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining joked about using a two-seater mobility wheelchair to get around the estate before returning to the apartment.
• Chi Yining continued looking for clues about every member of the Chi Family despite Chi Er's people keeping a lower profile.
• Chen Shiyu, looking for performers for an upcoming concert, heard someone at the window and let Li Qingmi into the music hall after Li Qingmi said his bodyguards were about to catch him.

Li Qingmi visited Chen Shiyu after finishing a long-delayed research project, and the two teased each other before Li Qingmi asked him to date. The chapter left them together the next morning, with Chen Shiyu still undecided about the relationship and Li Qingmi teasing him about their night together.

• Li Qingmi arrived at Chen Shiyu's room after finishing his research project, and Chen Shiyu scolded him for ignoring his messages and calls.
• Li Qingmi asked Chen Shiyu if he wanted to date him, but Chen Shiyu refused and said he needed time to think.
• Chen Shiyu called Li Qingmi big brother and asked him to cuddle, then tried to take back his earlier claim that Li Qingmi was impotent.
• Li Qingmi held Chen Shiyu close, and the two spent the night together.
• The next morning, Chen Shiyu woke with a sore lower back and hoarse voice, while Li Qingmi teased him about whether Li Qingmi could be a shou.

Shao Chongsi and Gu Chengyuan grew closer during a playful morning together, while Jia Mingchuan and Su Ziqian went furniture shopping and ran into Bai Chongxuan and Wang Xinyang. Their chance encounters continued at a restaurant, where Chi Yining invited everyone to eat together.

• Shao Chongsi climbed in through Gu Chengyuan's balcony window and suggested they become intimate, and Gu Chengyuan agreed.
• Shao Chongsi revealed that he had bought the building across from Gu Chengyuan's company and suggested they try being intimate at the office.
• Jia Mingchuan and Su Ziqian went to buy furniture and encountered Bai Chongxuan and Wang Xinyang, whose teasing conversation about their homes embarrassed Jia Mingchuan and Wang Xinyang.
• Su Ziqian drew attention to Bai Chongxuan and Wang Xinyang in the furniture mall, and the pair had to flee a crowd of fans.
• The six couples' friends met again at a hot pot restaurant, where Chi Yining invited them to join his and Yan Guiyun's meal.

Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining shared a meal with their friends, then visited Yan Zhibei at work with snacks and milk tea. Yan Zhibei revealed that Chi Yining’s biological parents would soon return, leaving Chi uncertain about how to face them.

• Yan Guiyun learned that Yan Zhibei had been driving the Yan Falls business negotiations and agreed with Chi Yining to bring him food at work.
• Bai Chongxuan admitted that he and Wang Xinyang had gone to buy a bed, and the group teased Bai Chongxuan and Su Ziqian about their bed collapsing.
• Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining visited Yan Zhibei at the Yan Falls headquarters and brought him snacks and milk tea.
• Yan Guiyun told Yan Zhibei that he had bought him a film and television company and would arrange work for him.
• Yan Zhibei told Chi Yining that his biological parents would soon return, and Chi Yining reflected on his uncertainty about meeting them.

Yan Guiyun reunited Chi Yining with his former teachers, and Chi Yining celebrated the dating-show couples and settled into married life with him. Meanwhile, Chi Er and Chi San turned against each other, and two days later Chi Yining prepared to perform at Chen Shiyu’s concert.

• Yan Guiyun took Chi Yining to Ivy College of Arts, Science and Technology, where Chi Yining reunited with the teachers who had taught him near his grandmother’s home in Hai City.
• On the way home, Chi Yining read lively dating-show group chats and learned that Shao Chongsi had given him shares in several companies; he asked Yan Guiyun to manage them for him.
• Third Uncle Chi threatened Chi Er during a phone call, claiming that he loved Mengying, and Chi Er’s suspicion grew despite the woman in a red qipao dismissing the claim.
• Two days later, Chi Yining arrived at Chen Shiyu’s packed concert to perform two piano pieces and two pipe-organ pieces, while Yan Guiyun and Li Qingmi waited for the concert to begin.

After Chi Yining helped Chen Shiyu shine at his concert, the former dating-show guests celebrated together, while An Yan and Hu Bing discussed their relationship and upcoming time apart. Back home, Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun teased each other, and the next day Yan Guiyun received a message that prompted him to challenge its sender to come over.

• Chi Yining suggested blood duck after the concert, and Chen Shiyu praised his musical skill while Li Qingmi proposed a celebratory meal.
• An Yan reassured Hu Bing that he would visit during military training, and the two joked about jealousy and the schemes that had brought them together.
• Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun teased each other at home after eating blood duck, joking about kissing and starting a blood duck battle.
• The next day, Yan Guiyun received a message and replied, “Come over if you have what it takes,” before Chi Yining asked what had happened.

Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining met the person claiming to be Chi Yining’s fiancé, only to discover that it was Yan Guiyun’s seven-year-old nephew Yan Shu, a young hacker who wanted to pursue Chi Yining. The meeting ended with Yan Shu offering to visit Chi Yining’s home, while Yan Guiyun tried to keep him away.

• Yan Guiyun arranged to meet the person who called him about being Chi Yining’s fiancé, and Chi Yining secretly invited Bai Chongxuan and Shao Chongsi to support him.
• Yan Shu arrived at the café dressed in a suit and declared that he wanted Yan Guiyun to let him see Chichi.
• Chi Yining asked Yan Shu how he had obtained the phone number, and Yan Shu offered to teach him hacking in person.
• Yan Shu declared that he would pursue Chichi, explaining that he wanted to play with him and felt happy watching his videos.
• Yan Shu invited Chi Yining to his home, then offered to visit Chi Yining instead, while Yan Guiyun objected and asked whether he had skipped school.
• Yan Shu said he had persuaded his family’s bodyguards to accompany him and claimed elementary school classes were pointless because he could easily get full marks.

Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining began caring for Yan Shu and Yan Yao, whose rivalry for Chi Yining’s attention tested Yan Guiyun’s patience. Meanwhile, Yan Zhibei and Mei Heqing enjoyed time apart from their sons, and Shao Chongsi visited Gu Chengyuan and asked to take their relationship further.

• Yan Guiyun brought Yan Shu to the apartment, where Chi Yining and Yan Guiyun beat him at a series of games.
• Yan Yao arrived, and Yan Guiyun set rules for the nephews, including that they sleep in their own rooms, but both boys protested because they wanted to stay with Chi Yining.
• Yan Shu teased Yan Guiyun for being an old bull eating young grass, and Chi Yining laughed instead of comforting him.
• Yan Zhibei and Mei Heqing enjoyed the quiet at home, and Yan Zhibei helped finish her work in hopes of getting cuddles.
• Yan Shu and Yan Yao joined Chi Yining at bedtime for a story, and Yan Shu commented that people should not be love-brained.
• Shao Chongsi entered Gu Chengyuan’s home by climbing onto the balcony, then asked to try something more intimate; Gu Chengyuan declined and Shao Chongsi pressed him for a reason.

Gu Chengyuan and Shao Chongsi discussed getting married, but Gu Chengyuan kept Shao Chongsi confined to the bedroom after their night together. At Yan Guiyun’s house, Chi Yining gave the children advice that left Yan Shu wondering why it differed from his father’s lessons about not studying all day.

• Gu Chengyuan, jealous of other couples’ marriage licenses, agreed to get one with Shao Chongsi, then regretted how eagerly he had acted.
• The next morning, Gu Chengyuan brought Shao Chongsi breakfast and refused to let him leave because the housekeeper was coming and might report back to his mother.
• Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining beat the children at every game, while Bai Chongxuan and Wang Xinyang watched.
• After two days, the children left Yan Guiyun’s home, and Chi Yining told Yan Yao and Yan Shu to develop practical skills, music, and art alongside their studies.
• Yan Shu promised to listen to Chi Yining, though he privately contrasted the advice with his father’s habit of telling him not to study all day.

After the child went home, Yan Guiyun and Chi Yining discussed adopting a pet, vacation plans, and Yan Guiyun’s hobbies before deciding to go horseback riding. At the riding grounds, Yan Guiyun grew jealous of Su Ziqian’s teasing and carried Chi Yining to choose a horse.

• Yan Guiyun told Chi Yining he no longer wanted to adopt a child and would accept only a pet that would not distract his wife too much.
• Chi Yining gave Mo Li advice about resolving misunderstandings with a childhood friend who might become a romantic partner.
• Yan Guiyun suggested a vacation, and Chi Yining chose horseback riding after asking what activities Yan Guiyun enjoyed.
• Yan Guiyun invited Jia Mingchuan and Su Ziqian to the riding grounds, where Su Ziqian teased Chi Yining and made Yan Guiyun jealous.
• Yan Guiyun carried Chi Yining to the horse stalls, told him to choose any horse, and asked if he wanted to give horseback riding a try.