Chapter Summaries

Zheng Muyun and Bai Zheming rejected Teacher Zhou’s attempt to make them take Xiaoxi back, and property management escorted her and the child away. Afterward, Bai Zheming called A-Wang to say the confrontation was over and reflected on his brother’s care for Jiang Mingxi.

• Zheng Muyun refused to take Xiaoxi back, and Teacher Zhou accused her of abandoning the child.
• Teacher Zhou forced Xiaoxi to his knees and pleaded with Zheng Muyun as property management arrived.
• Bai Zheming revealed that A-Wang had already given Teacher Zhou a million and an apartment, then accused her of using Xiaoxi to seek more money.
• Bai Zheming had property management remove Teacher Zhou and Xiaoxi, then told A-Wang the matter was settled and asked Song Lan to bring Xiaoxi over.
• Bai Zheming felt jealous of A-Wang’s careful support for Jiang Mingxi and resolved to treat Xiaoxi better himself.

Jiang Mingxi and Song Lan discovered Teacher Zhou had abandoned her young son and watched over him after she fled to Yunnan. When they brought the crying child into their car, he blamed Jiang Mingxi for taking his parents and attacked him.

• Jiang Mingxi worried that Teacher Zhou might mistreat the child she had left with his adoptive parents, and Song Lan warned him about taking the boy in.
• Jiang Mingxi and Song Lan saw Teacher Zhou promise her son cookies and an amusement park trip, then leave him behind and flee by taxi.
• Song Lan remembered chasing after his own mother as a child, then suppressed the painful memory and asked a friend to track Teacher Zhou.
• Song Lan learned Teacher Zhou had boarded a train to Yunnan while the child waited outside, crying until he was hoarse.
• Song Lan carried the child into the car, where the boy blamed Jiang Mingxi for losing his parents and struck him.

Jiang Mingxi picked up the child Zheng Muyun and Bai Jinghan had once raised, but the child blamed him for losing his mothers and spoke cruelly about Zheng Muyun. Jiang Mingxi gave up on taking him home, while Zheng Muyun and Bai Jinghan watched the call and were left heartbroken by what they heard.

• Song Lan called Zheng Muyun as he went to collect the child, while the child attacked and cursed Jiang Mingxi in the car.
• Jiang Mingxi tried to comfort the child, but the child said Zheng Muyun had only pretended to care for him and called her a cripple.
• The child said his grandmother had told him Zheng Muyun was going to die, and Jiang Mingxi remembered hearing him say something similar in a replay of Survival Challenge.
• Jiang Mingxi told Song Lan to put the child back, and Song Lan left him where they had picked him up before taking Jiang Mingxi to Compound No. 57.
• Zheng Muyun and Bai Jinghan watched the video call and were devastated by the child's words about the care Zheng Muyun had given him.

Jiang Mingxi arrived at Grandpa Song’s home feeling gloomy, but Grandpa’s warm welcome lifted his spirits. After spending the night with Song Lan, he asked to see the toy car and noticed a battered shoebox among Song Lan’s treasured keepsakes.

• Grandpa Song welcomed Jiang Mingxi with his favorite soup, cold dishes, and a television set up for him at the table.
• Jiang Mingxi told Song Lan that he loved Grandpa, and Song Lan insisted that Jiang Mingxi should love him too.
• Grandpa Song and the butler talked about Song Bai and Song Lan’s childhoods and worried over the possibility that Zheng Muyun might bring back a child from Qin Family Village.
• Song Lan and Jiang Mingxi flirted at dinner and spent the night together in Song Lan’s glass-roofed room.
• Near dawn, Jiang Mingxi asked to see the toy car, and Song Lan took it from a display cabinet where Jiang Mingxi also spotted a battered Double Star sneaker box.

Song Lan showed Jiang Mingxi keepsakes from his childhood, prompting memories of their shared past to return. Jiang Mingxi recognized that he was Bai Yunxi and had never transmigrated into a novel.

• Song Lan told Jiang Mingxi that a little boy had stopped him from jumping into a river and given him a stone he called a star.
• Song Lan revealed that the boy who gave him candy attended Mingde High School, and Jiang Mingxi recognized the school from his own past.
• Jiang Mingxi read the birthday wish he had written in a book for Song Lan and remembered their childhood together.
• Jiang Mingxi threw himself at Song Lan and realized he was Bai Yunxi, not Jiang Mingxi, and had never transmigrated into a novel.

Special Assistant Su and A-Wang’s argument over seeing each other naked escalated into a violent encounter in a club room. The next morning, A-Wang threatened to cancel his partnership with the Song Corporation, but Special Assistant Su showed him a photograph of Su Zhang Lin, stopping him short.

• A-Wang demanded to see Special Assistant Su naked, and the two fought over A-Wang’s attempt to pull down his pants.
• A-Wang kissed Special Assistant Su, who then overpowered him, tied his wrists with a necktie, and kept him in the private room until morning.
• A-Wang woke in a hotel room with Special Assistant Su working at a desk nearby.
• A-Wang threw a pillow at Special Assistant Su and declared that he was canceling his partnership with the Song Corporation.
• Special Assistant Su showed A-Wang a photograph of Su Zhang Lin, and A-Wang’s anger abruptly subsided.

Special Assistant Su traced Su Hui’s financial ties to Bai Zhonghui and suggested the payments might connect Bai Zhonghui to the attack on Xiaoxi. A-Wang ordered an investigation into Du Wei, but Special Assistant Su turned their conversation into another provocative encounter.

• Special Assistant Su told A-Wang that Du Ming had funded Su Hui’s studies abroad and that Du Wei had returned to the Bai Corporation after Bai Zhonghui took over.
• Special Assistant Su revealed that Bai Zhonghui had sent annual payments to an account in Su Hui’s name, and A-Wang suspected Bai Zhonghui had ordered Su Hui to run Xiaoxi over.
• A-Wang called to order an investigation into Du Wei, who managed the project he had given Bai Zheming.
• Special Assistant Su asked A-Wang for his opinion of him, then climbed onto the bed and offered to improve his performance.

A-Wang uncovered evidence that Bai Zhonghui had helped hide Jiang Mingxi from Bai Zheming and arranged a plan to expose him. Su Chi volunteered to handle the hospital trap, then realized he wanted to court A-Wang and bring him roses.

• A-Wang identified a Bai Corporation employee who had denied Jiang Mingxi was part of Bai Zheming's family when Jiang Mingxi was a child.
• A-Wang ordered a DNA test for Jiang Mingxi and Bai Zheming, protection for Jiang Mingxi at his show, and a livestream that would stay online.
• A-Wang planned to lure Bai Zhonghui by claiming the missing driver, Guan Yuntao, was alive and receiving treatment at a hospital.
• Su Chi embraced A-Wang, insisted on taking the dangerous hospital assignment, and told him he wanted a chance to court him.
• Su Chi left wearing A-Wang's shirt and considered buying him roses on his way back.

At the orphanage, A-Wang tried to distract three-year-old Jiang Mingxi from missing his mommy by taking him to the river. When A-Wang went into the water to play, Jiang Mingxi wandered off to find a stick and ran into Song Lan, who was heading to the river to drown himself.

• Jiang Mingxi insisted he still had a mommy, and A-Wang dragged him away from the gate before noticing his scraped leg and carrying him to the infirmary.
• A-Wang asked the deputy director to take Jiang Mingxi outside, then promised the boy he would help him find his mommy.
• A-Wang took Jiang Mingxi to the river and played in the water while the boy worried about finding his mommy.
• Jiang Mingxi went searching for a stick so he could enter the river safely and collided with Song Lan.
• Song Lan caught Jiang Mingxi, set him down, and continued toward the river to drown himself.

Ten-year-old Song Lan comforted Jiang Mingxi, who had mistaken his mother’s death in a hotel fire for her being trapped in a river. Song Lan gave him a smooth stone as a “star mommy,” but when Jiang Mingxi learned Song Lan had no mother, he invited him to return the next day for one too.

• Song Lan remembered his mother and brother’s deaths and tried to put the painful thoughts aside as Jiang Mingxi asked him for a long stick.
• Jiang Mingxi said he wanted to use the stick to find his mother in the river, and Song Lan worried that she had been drowned.
• Jiang Mingxi explained that a fire had broken out at the hotel while he was shut inside, and he sobbed that he missed his mother.
• Song Lan told Jiang Mingxi that stars were mothers watching over children and promised to help him find his star mommy.
• Song Lan found a smooth stone in the river and gave it to Jiang Mingxi as his star mommy, then told him not to play in the water.
• Jiang Mingxi asked whether Song Lan had a mother, and when Song Lan said no, Jiang Mingxi invited him to return the next day for a star mommy.

Song Lan kept meeting Jiang Mingxi by the river instead of carrying out his plan to die, and the child shared his small comforts with him. After giving Song Lan lollipops and their secret stones, Jiang Mingxi called them both brave children, leaving Song Lan with a reason to meet him again.

• Jiang Mingxi asked Song Lan to wait for him by the river the next day, and Song Lan agreed.
• Song Lan waited by the river for nine hours while Grandpa Song and Song Bai watched him from afar.
• Jiang Mingxi arrived with a stone he called a dog mommy, and he and Song Lan arranged to meet again for lollipops.
• Song Lan returned before dawn with a jar of lollipops, and Jiang Mingxi shared his favorite flavor with him.
• Jiang Mingxi asked whether Song Lan cried because he had no mommy, then kissed his cheek and told him they were both brave children.

Song Lan comforted Jiang Mingxi after he lost his beloved star-shaped stone, and the boy began calling Song Lan his mommy, delaying Song Lan’s plan to die. Later, the orphanage director took Jiang Mingxi and A-Wang to a villa in Yun City that Jiang Mingxi recognized as his home, leaving them poised to search for his family.

• Jiang Mingxi cried that his star-shaped stone was gone, and Song Lan searched the river for hours but could not find a stone with the right stripes and tiny dent.
• Song Lan promised to be Jiang Mingxi’s mommy if he could not find the boy’s real one, and Jiang Mingxi embraced him and began calling him Mommy.
• Song Lan put off his plan to die because he felt responsible for Jiang Mingxi, who would be devastated if he died.
• The orphanage director found a residential area in Yun City matching Jiang Mingxi’s descriptions and took him there with A-Wang to look for his family.
• Jiang Mingxi recognized the villa as his home and told the director that he remembered how to get there.

The director brought Jiang Mingxi to the villa he remembered as home, but the residents and security guards insisted he had the wrong house and drove them away. Jiang Mingxi stabbed the boy who tried to stop him, then passed out from crying on the way back.

• The director brought Jiang Mingxi and A-Wang to the villa Jiang Mingxi identified as his home, where a boy answered the door and denied knowing him.
• Jiang Mingxi and A-Wang fought with the boy, and the director tried to explain to the security guards that Jiang Mingxi had been lost and had led them there from his memories.
• Jiang Mingxi broke free and rushed into the yard, recognizing his balance bike, but the boy slapped him and the security guards prepared to remove him.
• Jiang Mingxi stabbed the boy in the arm with the little knife he had received from the mommy by the river, and the villa door was slammed shut.
• The director took the sobbing Jiang Mingxi away, and he insisted he had remembered correctly before passing out from crying on the way back.

Song Lan learned that Xiaoxi had gone to find his parents and, overwhelmed by the loss, tried to enter the river before Song Bai stopped him. Meanwhile, Jiang Mingxi woke up crying to go home, and the orphanage director questioned the strange events surrounding Xiaoxi’s visit.

• Song Lan waited all day for Xiaoxi, and Song Bai coaxed him to visit the orphanage with a jar of lollipops.
• Song Bai remembered Song Lan’s abuse, his mother’s fatal car accident, and how the trauma had left Song Lan convinced he was a jinx.
• Song Lan learned that Xiaoxi had gone to find his parents and returned to the river, where Song Bai rushed to stop him from lying down in it.
• Jiang Mingxi woke in the hospital crying to go home, and A-Wang suggested asking the riverbank mother what had happened.
• The orphanage director recalled that Xiaoxi had stabbed another child and wondered why the security guards had simply sent them away.

After Jiang Mingxi disappeared from the orphanage, A-Wang found him injured and drifting in the river, then rescued him and carried him back. Jiang Mingxi survived after nearly a month in the hospital, but the director’s investigation into the attack found no evidence or suspect.

• A-Wang noticed Jiang Mingxi was missing after returning to the orphanage and ran out to search for him.
• A-Wang found Jiang Mingxi’s shoe and doll stuffing by the river, then spotted Jiang Mingxi drifting downstream with a severe head wound.
• A-Wang struggled against the current, pulled Jiang Mingxi onto the bank, and carried him back until the teachers found them.
• A-Wang woke in the hospital and learned that Jiang Mingxi had been saved; he joked that Jiang Mingxi should acknowledge him as his dad.
• Jiang Mingxi told the director that someone had lured him to the river by claiming his mother was there, then hit him with a rock.
• The director called the police, but they found no evidence of an assault, and she suspected the attack was connected to Jiang Mingxi seeking his way home.

When four men attacked A-Wang, Jiang Mingxi tried to draw them away and find help, but the men caught up with A-Wang in an alley. Jiang Mingxi ran back toward the fight while Gao Le went to get the police.

• On the way home, A-Wang fled when four armed men suddenly attacked him, and Jiang Mingxi chased after him.
• Jiang Mingxi found A-Wang hiding under a basket while the four men searched the alley, then ran off to lure them away.
• A-Wang emerged from hiding and called the men back to him when they pursued Jiang Mingxi.
• Jiang Mingxi tried to borrow phones from passersby, but they refused to help.
• Gao Le spotted Jiang Mingxi near the alley and, after seeing the men beating A-Wang, rode toward the nearby police station.

Jiang Mingxi saved A-Wang by distracting his attackers with a slingshot, then took a knife wound while protecting him. After waking in the hospital, Jiang Mingxi learned A-Wang had been adopted and taken far away, leaving him grieving their separation.

• Gao Le returned Jiang Mingxi’s slingshot, and Jiang Mingxi shot one attacker’s wrist to disarm him.
• A-Wang seized the dropped knife and stabbed an attacker, but the remaining men overwhelmed him.
• Jiang Mingxi threw himself over A-Wang and was stabbed in the back as the police arrived.
• Jiang Mingxi woke three days later, learned A-Wang was safe, and heard that a well-off family had adopted him.
• Jiang Mingxi said he would visit A-Wang after leaving the hospital, but the director told him A-Wang was too far away.

Three months after A-Wang left, Jiang Mingxi struggled with sleeplessness and longed for a mother, while Gao Le tried to cheer him up by taking him to a basketball game at Mingde High School. There, a little boy recognized Song Lan and clung to his legs.

• Jiang Mingxi lay awake night after night, wondering what having a mother was like and whether A-Wang was being treated well after his adoption.
• The orphanage director arranged for Jiang Mingxi to take leave from school because his sleeplessness had left him in poor shape.
• Gao Le visited Jiang Mingxi, shared crispy noodles with him, and suggested that exercise might help him sleep.
• Gao Le rode his bicycle with Jiang Mingxi to Mingde High School to watch a basketball game.
• Feng Moshan urged Song Lan to play in the game, but Song Lan refused.
• A little boy ran up to Song Lan, hugged his legs, and said he had seen him before.

Jiang Mingxi reunited with Song Lan outside school and broke down over having no mother and losing A-Wang. Song Lan comforted him while revealing his painful memories of his own mother, and the chapter ended with Jiang Mingxi insisting that Song Lan had been good.

• Jiang Mingxi hugged Song Lan outside the school, and Song Lan told Feng Moshan to leave them alone.
• Song Lan asked Jiang Mingxi whether his mother treated him well, prompting Jiang Mingxi to cry that he had no mother and no A-Wang.
• Jiang Mingxi recognized Song Lan as the older boy from by the river, and Song Lan led him into an alley to comfort him.
• Jiang Mingxi cried about missing his mother, while Song Lan admitted he remembered his own mother but did not want to recall how she treated him.
• Song Lan said he would find his mother after he died and wanted to ask whether he had been good; Jiang Mingxi hugged him and told him he was.

Song Lan joined his class’s basketball tournament and, after losing the final, reunited with Jiang Mingxi, who cheered him up with candy and dinner. Years later, Jiang Mingxi recalled their high-school outing and the painful events that followed his adoption, while Song Lan regretted forgetting him.

• Song Lan played in the school basketball tournament, where his class lost the final to Class Two but beat Class Eight.
• Song Lan declined his classmates’ hot pot invitation and went with Jiang Mingxi, who offered him a lollipop to comfort him about the loss.
• Song Lan and Jiang Mingxi ate hot pot and went to a bookstore, then Jiang Mingxi was adopted the next day and disappeared from Song Lan’s life.
• Song Lan explained that he had searched for Jiang Mingxi after he was adopted, but later lost the memories of their high-school meeting.
• Jiang Mingxi recalled being abandoned by his adoptive parents and mistreated by an elderly man until A-Wang returned and found him.