Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen humiliated Wang Tengfei at the restaurant opening and secretly arranged for Wang Tengfei’s father to be fired from Dihao Group. When thugs demanded a stake in the restaurant, Wang Tengfei tried to use his connections to help, but the official he called brushed him off, unaware that his father’s dismissal had already spread through Jinling’s leadership.

• Wang Tengfei apologized to Ye Chen after losing their wager, and Ye Chen persuaded the classmates to drop the demand that he eat the table.
• Ye Chen asked Wang Dongxue to fire Wang Donghai, Wang Tengfei’s father, from Dihao Group, and she agreed.
• A scar-faced gang leader and his thugs barged into Daokun Restaurant and demanded a twenty percent stake from Wang Daokun and Liu Lili.
• Wang Tengfei stepped forward and threatened to call a development-zone official, then promised Liu Lili he would help.
• Wang Tengfei called District Chief Li, but Li said the matter was outside his jurisdiction and ended the call.

Wang Tengfei lost his connections and was beaten by Scarface after trying to interfere with Wang Daokun’s restaurant. When Scarface recognized Ye Chen and begged for forgiveness, he spared Wang Daokun’s business and left the classmates astonished by Ye Chen’s influence.

• Wang Tengfei learned that his father had been fired and that the development-zone official would not help him.
• Scarface beat Wang Tengfei, then demanded forty percent of Wang Daokun’s restaurant in free shares and threatened him with a dagger.
• Ye Chen ordered Scarface to put the knife down, and Scarface recognized him from Heavenly Fragrance House and dropped to his knees.
• Scarface promised to protect Wang Daokun’s restaurant without charging protection fees and had his men carry the unconscious Wang Tengfei to the hospital.
• Liu Lili and the other classmates thanked and fawned over Ye Chen, wondering how the live-in son-in-law had gained such influence.

Ye Chen took Xiao Churan to the Buckingham Palace Grand Hotel for their third wedding anniversary, keeping his surprise secret. Before they went upstairs, they ran into Xiao Churan’s former roommate Zhao Liqing, who mocked Ye Chen for being a live-in husband.

• Ye Chen gave Xiao Churan explanations for the day’s unusual events, while Dong Ruolin resolved to watch him more closely.
• Wang Tengfei was hospitalized unconscious, and his father was arrested after the Dihao Group fired him and filed a lawsuit against him.
• Ye Chen asked Xiao Churan to dress formally for their anniversary and brought her to the Buckingham Palace Grand Hotel, saying he had booked a table near the Hanging Garden.
• Xiao Churan and Ye Chen met Zhao Liqing and her wealthy husband as they entered the hotel.
• Zhao Liqing mocked Ye Chen as Xiao Churan’s live-in husband, and Ye Chen frowned at her hostility.

Ye Chen exposed Zhao Liqing’s past and her deception to her husband, Zheng Hao, after she insulted Xiao Churan. Zheng Hao turned on Zhao Liqing, while Ye Chen threatened to reveal even more.

• Zhao Liqing boasted about Zheng Hao’s wealth and mocked Ye Chen and Xiao Churan, urging Xiao Churan to divorce her husband.
• Ye Chen texted Chen Zekai and received information about Zhao Liqing’s past.
• Ye Chen revealed Zhao Liqing’s sexual history, abortions, and infertility, prompting Zheng Hao to demand an explanation.
• Ye Chen exposed how Zhao Liqing had altered her appearance and deliberately pursued Zheng Hao before their marriage.
• Zheng Hao slapped Zhao Liqing and threatened to expel her family from his home and the Zheng Family company.
• Ye Chen claimed Zhao Liqing had continued seeing her former patron after marriage and offered to find a recording of them.

After exposing Zhao Liqing’s past and leaving Zheng Hao to attack her, Ye Chen took Xiao Churan to the Hanging Garden for their third wedding anniversary. He gave her a private wedding celebration, and she embraced him in tears, feeling happier than anyone in Jinling that night.

• Zheng Hao beat Zhao Liqing and threatened to divorce her without money, while Zhao Liqing broke down and blamed Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen led Xiao Churan away, explaining that a classmate had uncovered Zhao Liqing’s past, and revealed that the Hanging Garden was their destination.
• Ye Chen told Xiao Churan he had booked the Hanging Garden and arranged a grand wedding celebration to make up for the wedding she never had.
• The hotel staff left Ye Chen and Xiao Churan alone in the lavishly decorated garden as onlookers watched from outside.
• Ye Chen professed his love and presented the wedding to Xiao Churan, who embraced him and thanked him through tears.

Ye Chen secretly gave Xiao Churan a lavish wedding and a jade necklace, but concealed his identity to protect her from the Ye Family. After they returned home, Xiao Churan’s parents demanded the BMW, and Ye Chen offered to buy his father-in-law a better car instead.

• Ye Chen gave Xiao Churan a jade necklace and told her it was a replica, promising that no one would bully her again.
• Ye Chen and Xiao Churan left the Hanging Garden privately, and the city continued to speculate about their wedding.
• Ye Chen told Xiao Churan that an old orphanage friend had helped him reserve the Hanging Garden.
• Xiao Churan’s parents saw Ye Chen’s BMW and accused him of being unfilial for buying it for himself.
• Ye Chen claimed the car was a low-end BMW 520 and promised to buy his father-in-law a BMW 530 the next morning.

Ye Chen went to buy his father-in-law a BMW 530 after giving Xiao Churan the BMW 760, but at the dealership he spotted Wang Daokun’s fiancée Liu Lili acting intimately with another man. The chapter ended as Liu Lili disparaged Wang Daokun, leaving Ye Chen angry and aware of her betrayal.

• Ye Chen reassured Xiao Churan that he had enough money to buy another car, while she tried unsuccessfully to get him to share her bed.
• Ye Chen gave Xiao Churan the BMW 760 to drive to work and promised his father-in-law he would bring home a BMW 530.
• Audi salespeople surrounded Ye Chen to pitch an A8, but he brushed them off and went to the BMW dealership.
• Ye Chen inspected a BMW 530 and prepared to pay for it.
• Ye Chen recognized Liu Lili, Wang Daokun’s fiancée, flirting with another man and heard her insult Wang Daokun.

Ye Chen discovered Liu Lili was cheating on Wang Daokun and warned his friend, who refused to believe him. Ye Chen bought a BMW 530 and returned home, where his in-laws asked him to drive them around.

• Liu Lili told Zhao Dong she planned to leave Wang Daokun and agreed to go home with Zhao Dong in exchange for a BMW X6.
• Ye Chen called Wang Daokun and told him Liu Lili was with Zhao Dong, but Wang Daokun accused Ye Chen of slandering his fiancée.
• Ye Chen warned Wang Daokun to protect the painting he had given him, then ended the call when Wang Daokun still refused to believe him.
• Ye Chen bought a new BMW 530 and drove it home with his electric scooter in the trunk.
• Ye Chen's father-in-law test-drove the BMW and asked Ye Chen to drive him to an appointment, while his mother-in-law asked for a ride to afternoon tea.

Xiao Changkun took Ye Chen to Antique Street, where he broke a Tang dynasty vase and tried to leave Ye Chen responsible for the damage. After the shop sent people to retrieve Xiao Changkun, Ye Chen discovered a hidden book in the vase and began reading its extraordinary contents.

• Xiao Changkun insisted that Ye Chen drive him to Antique Street to inspect an antique vase.
• At Auspicious Celebration Hall, Xiao Changkun broke the vase, told Ye Chen to handle the compensation, and fled.
• Zhou Liangyun demanded 5.38 million from Ye Chen, who refused to pay for a vase he had not broken.
• Zhou Liangyun sent people to catch Xiao Changkun, while Ye Chen noticed a wooden box hidden inside the vase.
• Ye Chen opened the box, found the Nine Profound Heavenly Scriptures, and read about medicine, divination, feng shui, and other extraordinary arts.

Ye Chen used a lost method from the Nine Profound Heavenly Scriptures to restore a broken Tang dynasty vase and save Xiao Changkun from a ruinous bill. Song Wanting recognized the restoration’s value, reprimanded Zhou Liangyun for damaging it, and demanded to meet the restorer.

• Xiao Changkun was dragged back to Auspicious Celebration Hall, where Zhou Liangyun demanded payment for the broken vase and threatened to send him to the police.
• Ye Chen remembered a porcelain-restoration method from the Nine Profound Heavenly Scriptures and offered to restore the vase in exchange for Xiao Changkun’s release.
• Using egg white and the broken fragments, Ye Chen restored the yuhuchun vase, but Zhou Liangyun mocked him and reached to touch it.
• Song Wanting arrived and stopped Zhou Liangyun, declaring that Ye Chen’s restoration had greatly increased the vase’s value and his touch had cost it at least two million.
• Song Wanting ordered Zhou Liangyun to pack his things and demanded that he bring her to meet the master who restored the vase.