Chapter Summaries

Jiang Mingxi exposed Bai Yunyu’s role in driving him from the Bai family home, and Bai Zheming uncovered Bai Yunyu’s ties to Bai Zhonghui. Jiang Mingxi became the Bai Corporation’s largest shareholder, then wondered whether his mother might still be alive before learning someone had come to see him.

• Jiang Mingxi identified Bai Yunyu by the scar on his arm, and A-Wang struck Bai Yunyu’s wrist so the scar was revealed.
• Bai Zheming accused Bai Yunyu of being Bai Zhonghui’s illegitimate son, and police arrested Bai Yunyu for allegedly selling company secrets.
• A-Wang oversaw the transfer of Bai Zhonghui, Bai Yunyu, and Vice President Gao’s shares to Jiang Mingxi, making him the Bai Corporation’s largest shareholder.
• Song Lan encouraged Jiang Mingxi to accept the shares and told him Bai Zheming had always kept him in mind.
• Jiang Mingxi asked whether his mother could still be alive, and the Bai Family residence’s butler announced that someone was asking to see him.

Qianqian and Manman arrived at the Bai Family villa with news that a woman in Qianqian’s hometown looked very much like Jiang Mingxi. Their account left Jiang Mingxi shaken, while Gao Le and Zhao Jiayuan urged caution before showing them his mother’s photo.

• Song Lan and Jiang Mingxi recognized Qianqian on the security footage and went to meet her at the gates.
• Qianqian arrived with Manman, who explained that they had come to tell Jiang Mingxi about a woman they met in Qin Family Village who resembled him.
• Jiang Mingxi asked Manman to look at his mother’s photo, trembling as he tried to learn more about the woman.
• Gao Le warned that Bai Zheming might not withstand the shock of a mistaken identification.
• Zhao Jiayuan proposed photographing a family picture and showing it to Qianqian and Manman first.

Jiang Mingxi and his companions learned that a woman from Qianqian’s village might be his missing mother, and they suspected she could have been trafficked. Unable to wait for confirmation, Jiang Mingxi set out with the group to investigate while Song Bai and his grandfather stayed with Bai Zheming.

• Qianqian and Manman showed Jiang Mingxi a photo of a village woman whose eyes closely resembled his.
• Qianqian said she could ask around about the woman, and Gao Le asked whether she was married, had children, and was free.
• Gao Le warned that the woman might have been trafficked, so the group decided to investigate discreetly without alerting anyone.
• The director proposed using a variety-show shoot as cover, while Feng Moshan raised the possibility of a DNA test and Song Lan suggested watching the village first.
• Jiang Mingxi said he could not wait and wanted to go immediately, so the group arranged for A-Wang to keep Bai Zheming occupied and Song Bai promised to stay with him.
• Jiang Mingxi and the others drove to the village, planning to resume the interrupted livestream as the third episode of “Survival Challenge.”

After the Bai Family tragedy, the production crew moved Survival Challenge to Qin Family Village, where Zhao Ke told Zhao Jiayuan that Jiang Mingxi had called himself an “original host” and might have transmigrated into a book. The chapter ended with the director restarting the livestream and viewers angrily condemning the show for resuming so soon.

• The director arranged to film in Qin Family Village, and Song Lan challenged him for secretly inviting Bai Zheming onto the show.
• Gao Le insisted on opening the treasure chest for its promised reward, leaving the director to complain that the rewards were still at the seaside.
• After arriving at the village, Zhao Ke told Zhao Jiayuan that Jiang Mingxi had described himself as an “original host” and suggested he might have a mental illness.
• Zhao Jiayuan agreed to tell Chen Chong to watch over Jiang Mingxi, while Zhao Ke advised against telling Gao Le because Zhang Lin had once bribed him to hurt Jiang Mingxi.
• The next morning, the director restarted the Survival Challenge livestream, and viewers condemned the production crew for resuming after the Bai Family tragedy.

The guests began a courtyard-cleaning challenge in Qin Family Village while viewers criticized Jiang Mingxi for appearing on the show after his family suffered a major tragedy. Gao Le opened the treasure chest from the previous round, and Jiang Mingxi took a rag doll that matched a boy who appeared at the end.

• The director paired Jiang Mingxi with Song Lan, Gao Le with Chen Chong, and Zhao Jiayuan with Zhao Ke, then assigned each pair thirty-six courtyards to clean by noon.
• Gao Le reminded the director that his treasure chest came with a promised reward, and the director said it would be handed out later.
• Gao Le opened the chest, revealing assorted supplies and a Summoning Card, and let Jiang Mingxi take the rag doll.
• Jiang Mingxi examined the doll while Song Lan complimented its eyes, prompting Zhao Ke to gag and Zhao Jiayuan to joke that he might be pregnant.
• A little boy wearing denim overalls and a red shirt, matching the rag doll's clothes, kicked his scooter toward the guests.

Jiang Mingxi met a village boy whose appearance and kindergarten uniform resembled his rag doll, then learned that the village kindergarten principal looked like him too. As the guests split up to sweep courtyards, Jiang Mingxi headed toward the eastern end of the village, where the kindergarten stood, wondering if the principal could be his mother.

• A boy on a scooter arrived wearing clothes like Jiang Mingxi's rag doll, and the guests noticed that his eyes resembled Jiang Mingxi's.
• Song Lan gently encouraged Jiang Mingxi to speak to the boy, who said his kindergarten principal mother had made the uniforms.
• Villagers told Jiang Mingxi that the boy's parents did not resemble him as much as the kindergarten principal did.
• The director split the guests into pairs to sweep courtyards, assigning Jiang Mingxi and Song Lan to the eastern end of the village.
• Jiang Mingxi learned that the kindergarten was at the village's eastern end and wondered whether its principal was his mother.

Jiang Mingxi and Song Lan found that the kindergarten director, Director Zhou, was connected to Xiaoxi’s family and recognized Jiang Mingxi’s rag doll as identical to one Xiaoxi’s mother had carried. As Director Zhou went to check on Xiaoxi’s mother, Zhao Ke noticed something unusual about Xiaoxi’s father’s arm.

• Jiang Mingxi and Song Lan met Xiaoxi and Director Zhou at the kindergarten, where Xiaoxi said his mother was sick and his grandmother thought she would die.
• Jiang Mingxi asked Director Zhou about the kindergarten uniforms, and she confirmed she had made them before declining to let the crew film inside.
• After recognizing the rag doll and its clothes, Director Zhou hurried to Xiaoxi’s home and learned that Xiaoxi’s mother had been waking from nightmares.
• Xiaoxi’s grandmother insulted his mother and tried to drive Director Zhou away, while Xiaoxi’s father quietly invited her inside.
• Zhao Ke pulled Zhao Jiayuan back from greeting the family and told him to look at Xiaoxi’s father’s arm.

Zhao Jiayuan and Zhao Ke discovered that the scarred man in the courtyard might be Jiang Mingxi’s father, then learned from Teacher Zhou that he was Xiaoxi’s son. After the old woman fell, viewers noticed she looked strikingly like Su Hui’s mother, Su Zhang Lin, leaving the group with a new unsettling connection to investigate.

• Zhao Ke pointed out that the scarred man had the same triangular birthmark as Bai Zheming’s father in the family photo, and Zhao Jiayuan confirmed the resemblance.
• The old woman invited Zhao Jiayuan and Zhao Ke inside, offered them osmanthus cakes, and asked where the fair-haired celebrity boy was.
• Teacher Zhou said she had been waiting for Xiaoxi at the kindergarten and identified the scarred man as his father.
• The old woman joined Zhao Jiayuan and Zhao Ke in sweeping the courtyard, then suddenly fell backward and was caught by Zhao Jiayuan.
• Viewers remarked that the old woman resembled Su Zhang Lin, Su Hui’s mother, whom Bai Zheming had said worked as a servant in his household.

The Song Family realized the old woman with Su Zhang Lin’s face might be Su Hui’s mother and warned Bai Zheming that Jiang Mingxi could be in danger. At the courtyard, the old woman offered Jiang Mingxi osmanthus cake, and he took a bite before the family could reach him.

• Song Bai’s eldest sister-in-law showed Old Master Song and Song Bai a photo of Su Zhang Lin that resembled the old woman on the screen.
• Old Master Song sent Song Bai to tell Bai Zheming about the evidence, and Bai Zheming feared Jiang Mingxi was in danger.
• Song Lan and Jiang Mingxi entered the courtyard, where the old woman greeted Jiang Mingxi and grabbed his hand as Song Lan’s phone rang.
• Bai Zheming recognized the osmanthus cakes as the kind Su Zhang Lin had made for Xiaoxi and urgently tried to warn Jiang Mingxi.
• The old woman repeatedly urged Jiang Mingxi to taste a cake, and Jiang Mingxi took a bite.

Jiang Mingxi’s search for his mother led him to a house where an old woman tried to keep everyone away, while a scarred man’s strange visions warned him about the osmanthus cake. Jiang Mingxi reached an unconscious woman inside, and Bai Zheming recognized her as his mother.

• Jiang Mingxi was about to eat Xiaoxi’s osmanthus cake when the scarred man knocked it from his hand, apparently sensing that it was dangerous.
• Teacher Zhou called for Xiaoxi’s dad and said Xiaoxi’s mother was gravely ill, but the old woman ordered the crew to leave and tried to force Teacher Zhou outside.
• Jiang Mingxi headed into the house, and Song Lan carried the old woman aside so he could pass.
• The scarred man froze as he heard desperate cries from Xiaoxi, while Zhao Jiayuan called for the crew’s doctor after finding an unconscious woman beside a puddle of vomit.
• Bai Zheming watched the woman on camera and cried out, “Mom!”

Song Lan learned that the unconscious woman was Jiang Mingxi’s mother and rushed to help as the crew tried to save her. After the old woman attacked the crew and her son, a doctor suspected poisoning, and a helicopter brought more doctors to the courtyard.

• Song Bai told Song Lan that the woman inside was Jiang Mingxi’s mother.
• Jiang Mingxi carried the unconscious woman outside, and Song Lan arrived and revealed she was his mother.
• The old woman attacked the crew with a broom, then pulled out a knife and lunged at her son.
• Song Lan kicked the old woman down and held her in place while Chen Chong restrained her son.
• The crew doctor suspected the woman had been poisoned and called for her to be taken to a hospital.
• A helicopter landed, and more than a dozen doctors hurried into the courtyard.

After Jiang Mingxi was rushed away by helicopter, the burned man realized his wife might die and called her Muyun, prompting Chen Chong to connect him to Bai Zheming and Jiang Mingxi’s family. Special Assistant Su identified the old woman as Su Zhang Lin and accused her of targeting Jiang Mingxi to help Su Hui.

• Song Lan took the nearly numb Jiang Mingxi onto a helicopter, while the burned man realized his wife might not survive and ran after it, calling her Muyun.
• Chen Chong told the burned man that Bai Zheming and Jiang Mingxi’s biological mother was named Zheng Muyun and pointed out his matching birthmark.
• Gao Le stopped the old woman from escaping, and she claimed the group had stolen her sick daughter-in-law and demanded that the burned man help retrieve her.
• Special Assistant Su silenced the old woman by addressing her as Su Zhang Lin, then threatened to show her a photo of Su Hui after he had been beaten in custody.
• Special Assistant Su accused Su Zhang Lin of targeting Jiang Mingxi because Bai Zhonghui’s arrest had left her with little hope of getting Su Hui released.

Special Assistant Su confronted the old woman as Zhao Ke found paraquat, and the burned man realized she may have poisoned Jiang Mingxi’s mother. Su Zhang Lin revealed her revenge plot, while Bai Jinghan’s fractured memories began to return and left him demanding to know who she was.

• Special Assistant Su told the old woman that DNA tests and a police investigation could expose her identity and threatened Su Hui to force her compliance.
• Zhao Ke found a bottle of paraquat, and Zhao Jiayuan and Teacher Zhou feared that Jiang Mingxi’s mother had ingested it.
• The burned man questioned Su Zhang Lin about the paraquat and why she had made osmanthus cakes, while she tried to dismiss his suspicions.
• Su Zhang Lin lunged at the man, but Chen Chong kicked her down; she then confessed that she had poisoned the cakes and wanted Jiang Mingxi and his mother dead in revenge.
• Bai Jinghan asked Su Zhang Lin who she was, and she revealed that she had been the family’s cook, had rescued him and another woman from a fire, and had used proof that he was alive to blackmail Bai Zhonghui into raising her son.

Police interrogations revealed how Su Zhang Lin and Bai Zhonghui conspired around the fire that separated Bai Jinghan and Zheng Muyun from their children, and how Su Zhang Lin later killed Jiang Mingxi. At the hospital, Bai Jinghan learned the truth about his children and, urged by the others, agreed to rest while Zheng Muyun remained in danger.

• Police statements revealed that Bai Zhonghui arranged the fire and Su Zhang Lin helped keep the family close while her husband secretly rescued Bai Jinghan and Zheng Muyun from the blaze.
• Su Zhang Lin confessed that she killed a woman after she recognized Jiang Mingxi, then killed Jiang Mingxi because he had helped get Su Hui arrested.
• Su Zhang Lin admitted that she had manipulated Bai Jinghan and Zheng Muyun into losing their memories by telling them horrific lies about Jiang Mingxi and Bai Zheming.
• At the hospital, Bai Jinghan read the paternity test confirming he was Jiang Mingxi and Bai Zheming's father, and he grieved over the years he had missed.
• Bai Zheming, Zhao Jiayuan, Zhao Ke, and Gao Le urged the exhausted Bai Jinghan to rest, and he finally agreed.

After twenty-five days in the ICU, Zheng Muyun woke and reunited with Bai Zheming, then learned the people behind her family’s suffering had been arrested. She remembered her past and searched for Xiaoxi, and the chapter ended with Feng Moshan asking whether Xiaoxi could visit her and Bai Jinghan.

• Zheng Muyun woke from her long unconsciousness, cried out for Xiaoxi, and embraced Bai Zheming when she recognized him.
• Doctors examined Zheng Muyun and said she was recovering well, with her burns to be treated after she regained strength.
• Zhao Jiayuan, Zhao Ke, and Gao Le introduced themselves as Xiaoxi’s friends, reassuring Zheng Muyun that Xiaoxi was still around.
• Bai Jinghan arrived, and Zheng Muyun told him she remembered everything and that they were not from Qin Family Village.
• Bai Zheming told Zheng Muyun that Su Zhang Lin and Bai Zhonghui had been arrested, while Bai Jinghan admitted he still could not remember.
• Feng Moshan relayed that Song Lan and Xiaoxi wanted to visit Zheng Muyun and Bai Jinghan, then asked whether they agreed.

Jiang Mingxi reunited with Zheng Muyun, Bai Zheming, and Bai Jinghan, and introduced Song Lan as someone he loved. Song Lan awkwardly promised the family he would not attempt suicide again.

• Song Lan brought Jiang Mingxi into the hospital room dressed like he had been as a child, and Jiang Mingxi hesitated before approaching Zheng Muyun.
• Zheng Muyun rushed to embrace Jiang Mingxi, and he hugged her as the family of four cried together.
• Song Lan told Feng Moshan that A-Wang was preparing the Yonghe Road house for the Bai Family after they left the hospital.
• Jiang Mingxi introduced Song Lan to his parents and brother as someone he liked, then kissed Song Lan and said he really liked him.
• Song Lan accidentally called Zheng Muyun “Mom,” and then promised her family he would not attempt suicide again.

After Zheng Muyun left the hospital, Bai Jinghan and Bai Zheming brought her to No. 58, Yonghe Road, where Jiang Mingxi and their friends welcomed her home. As the family gathered for a meal, A-Wang recalled preparing wine for the day Xiaoxi found his mother, and Special Assistant Su asked why he had told Song Lan about Xiaoxi’s illness.

• Zheng Muyun chose to live at No. 58, Yonghe Road with Bai Jinghan and Bai Zheming instead of returning to the Bai Family residence.
• Zhao Jiayuan and Zhao Ke welcomed the family and described plans to grow vegetables in the courtyard.
• Zheng Muyun remembered how Manman and Qianqian had unknowingly helped her recognize Jiang Mingxi, and she learned that Qianqian was a fan whom Jiang Mingxi had saved.
• Gao Le called out to the arriving family, and Jiang Mingxi invited his parents to eat dumplings he had made with Zhao Jiayuan and Zhao Ke.
• A-Wang brought out wine he had buried for the day Xiaoxi found his mother and explained that he had always intended to find Xiaoxi a mother.
• Special Assistant Su asked A-Wang why he had told Song Lan about Xiaoxi’s illness when he had not told the Bai Family.

During a family reunion dinner, A-Wang recounted Jiang Mingxi’s lonely childhood and the family learned how much he had missed his mother. Zheng Muyun later asked A-Wang about Gu Yanchu’s role and worried that Jiang Mingxi seemed detached, asking whether he was sick.

• A-Wang told the family that young Jiang Mingxi feared the dark, cried at bedtime, and once called a friend at the river Mom.
• A-Wang explained that the orphanage’s director cared for Jiang Mingxi and that he later looked after him himself.
• Grandpa Song invited Bai Jinghan to see Courtyard 57 and told him how Jiang Mingxi had saved his life.
• Zheng Muyun asked A-Wang about the stone Jiang Mingxi had kept since he was four and said she had watched his variety show.
• Zheng Muyun asked whether Gu Yanchu had been invited because of Jiang Mingxi, and A-Wang confirmed it.
• Zheng Muyun told A-Wang that Jiang Mingxi seemed detached and asked whether he was sick.

A-Wang told Zheng Muyun how Jiang Mingxi and Song Lan first met as children after both had lost their mothers, and how they found each other again years later. Zheng Muyun learned that Song Lan had once promised to be Jiang Mingxi’s mother and that many of the items in Jiang Mingxi’s treasure chest came from him.

• Zheng Muyun wondered whether Jiang Mingxi had a split personality and guessed that he had pursued Song Lan because Song Lan made him feel safe.
• A-Wang revealed that Song Lan had given Jiang Mingxi the star she was holding and explained how they had met beside the river behind the orphanage.
• Song Lan comforted the young Jiang Mingxi by calling a stone a star and promising to be his mother if he could not find his own.
• After Jiang Mingxi was taken away and nearly drowned, Song Lan waited for him, then later attempted suicide again when the child never returned.
• A-Wang recalled how Jiang Mingxi and Song Lan reunited near Mingde High School, where they cried together and Song Lan again promised to be Jiang Mingxi’s mother.
• A-Wang said Jiang Mingxi had visited Song Lan at school and treasured the things Song Lan gave him before his memories became confused.

Zheng Muyun rejected sending Jiang Mingxi to a sanatorium, choosing to let him stay happy rather than risk bringing back painful memories. The next morning, the Xiaoxi from Qin Family Village arrived at the Bai Family's gate with Teacher Zhou, crying and clinging to Zheng Muyun.

• A-Wang told Zheng Muyun that Gu Yanchu had recommended either sanatorium rehabilitation or letting Jiang Mingxi's recovery take its course.
• Zheng Muyun insisted that Jiang Mingxi did not need to regain his memories and should be spared the suffering of hospitalization and painful recollections.
• Zheng Muyun explained that the other Xiaoxi was Teacher Zhou's child, whom she and Bai Jinghan had adopted, and promised A-Wang she would not bring him over.
• The next morning, Teacher Zhou brought the child to the Bai Family's gate because he had been crying, refusing food and sleep, and missing Zheng Muyun.
• The child clung to Zheng Muyun's legs and asked why she did not want him anymore, while Teacher Zhou said she could not bring herself to tell him that she was his mother.