Recaps

Rong Feng grew increasingly unhappy watching Jiang Xuefu and Rong Chao together, while Jiang Xuefu’s parents arrived to stay with them. Liu He bullied Rong Chao in the kitchen, and Jiang Xuefu chose to ignore it.

• Rong Feng cooked for Jiang Xuefu but grew jealous as he watched her and Rong Chao share dinner.
• Jiang Xuefu told Rong Chao that her parents were coming to City A, and Rong Chao worried about their visit.
• Jiang Xuefu picked up Jiang Yinghua and Liu He, while Liu He criticized Rong Chao for not coming to help and complained about him on the way home.
• Liu He inspected the apartment, sent away the part-time cook, and ordered Rong Chao to help him make dinner.
• Liu He pinched Rong Chao hard while berating him, and Jiang Xuefu heard them but accepted Liu He’s explanation and stayed out of it.

Jiang Xuefu comforted Rong Chao over his injury, while Liu He arranged for Chen Yu to join her as a second husband. Rong Chao rejected the arrangement and ordered Liu He to leave the house, ending the chapter in a confrontation.

• Jiang Xuefu saw Rong Chao's bruised arm, comforted him, and told him she loved him.
• Rong Chao stayed at his own family's home while Jiang Xuefu worked, avoiding Liu He.
• Liu He brought Chen Yu home and announced that he had arranged for Chen Yu to be with Jiang Xuefu.
• Chen Yu introduced himself to Jiang Xuefu as her husband, and Rong Chao objected.
• Liu He dismissed Rong Chao as an outsider, so Rong Chao told Liu He to get out of his house.

After Rong Chao confronted Liu He and the Jiang family, Jiang Xuefu left his home with her parents and Chen Yu, planning to give Rong Chao the cold shoulder. Liu He then arranged for Chen Yu to enter Jiang Xuefu’s bedroom, and she welcomed his advances, while Liu He listened outside and hoped for a granddaughter.

• Rong Chao told Liu He and the Jiang family to leave, and Jiang Xuefu took her parents and Chen Yu to a hotel rather than stay with him.
• Jiang Xuefu brought them to her city-center apartment and decided to give Rong Chao the cold shoulder for a while.
• Liu He whispered to Chen Yu that he should approach Jiang Xuefu, and Chen Yu agreed.
• Chen Yu got into Jiang Xuefu’s bed, and she recognized him before giving in to her desire.
• Liu He listened outside the bedroom and smiled, hoping Jiang Xuefu would have his granddaughter.

Rong Chao learned that Jiang Xuefu had known about his condition and that Rong Feng wanted to help conceive a child with her, leaving him devastated and furious. Meanwhile, Jiang Xuefu enjoyed her time with Chen Yu before agreeing to resume work and tutor Xiao Ning the next day.

• Mother Rong repeatedly called Jiang Xuefu, but she did not answer, and Rong Chao became more distraught.
• Rong Feng told Rong Chao that he and Jiang Xuefu had learned about his condition years earlier, then offered to provide reproductive cells so Jiang Xuefu could have a child.
• Rong Chao slapped Rong Feng and ordered him to leave, and Father Rong reacted with shock when Rong Feng explained what had happened.
• Jiang Xuefu stayed away from work and changed her phone number while spending nearly a week with Chen Yu.
• Xie Jinhua called Jiang Xuefu, and she said she would return to work the following week and attend Xiao Ning's tutoring session the next day.

Jiang Xuefu’s tutoring brought her closer to Xie Ning, who began developing feelings for her despite knowing she was the woman his father loved. Xie Jinhua noticed the attraction, and Xie Ning was left horrified after dreaming about Jiang Xuefu.

• Xie Ning studied diligently and tried to persuade Jiang Xuefu to grant him a request, but her beauty distracted him.
• Jiang Xuefu ignored and blocked Rong Chao’s family, then teased Xie Ning into calling her “Sister” in exchange for cake.
• Xie Jinhua walked in on Jiang Xuefu covering Xie Ning’s mouth, and Xie Ning pushed her away while Xie Jinhua recognized his son’s attraction to her.
• Xie Jinhua told Xie Ning that Xu Guiyu might join the lessons, and Xie Ning felt uncomfortable at the thought of Jiang Xuefu giving her attention to someone else.
• Xie Ning dreamed of Jiang Xuefu that night and woke to a suspicious patch on his bedsheet.

After Rong Chao was injured at a bar, he woke with amnesia, and his family decided to use the opportunity to seek a divorce from Jiang Xuefu. Jiang Xuefu received Rong Chao’s signed divorce agreement and agreed to sign it.

• Rong Chao drank alone at a bar, slapped a woman who harassed him, and was followed into a restroom, where she struck him and knocked him unconscious.
• Xu Zhu found Rong Chao injured in the restroom and drove him to the hospital, where his family gathered around him.
• Rong Chao woke unable to recognize his family, and the doctor diagnosed stress-induced amnesia.
• Rong Chao’s mother suggested using his amnesia to ask Jiang Xuefu for a divorce, and his father agreed.
• Jiang Xuefu received Rong Chao’s signed divorce agreement and asked whether he truly wanted a divorce.
• Rong Chao confirmed he wanted to divorce, and Jiang Xuefu agreed.

After divorcing Rong Chao, Jiang Xuefu moved in with Chen Yu and planned to pursue a pregnancy match with him. Meanwhile, Rong Chao grew closer to Xu Zhu, while Rong Feng defied his parents and insisted on being with Jiang Xuefu.

• Jiang Xuefu received the divorce certificate and moved her belongings into the apartment she shared with Chen Yu.
• Jiang Xuefu told Chen Yu they were divorced, and Chen Yu asked whether her parents knew.
• Jiang Xuefu told Liu He about the divorce, and he asked when she and Chen Yu would go to the hospital for matching.
• Xu Zhu visited Rong Chao, and Rong Chao's father watched them together, hoping they would become a couple.
• Rong Feng knelt before his parents and demanded they let him be with Jiang Xuefu, but Mother Rong refused and they parted unhappily.

Rong Feng confessed to Jiang Xuefu, and they began dating, while Rong Chao’s family pushed him toward marrying Xu Zhu. As Rong Chao remained unsure about the engagement, Rong Feng showed him a photo of Jiang Xuefu, but Rong Chao recognized her only as his beautiful sister-in-law.

• Rong Feng confessed his feelings to Jiang Xuefu, and they began a relationship.
• Rong Chao asked Rong Feng about dating, then admitted he did not know whether he liked Xu Zhu.
• Father Rong told Xu Zhu that Rong Chao might like her, and she agreed to treat him well and offer him her property if they married.
• Rong Chao eventually agreed to get engaged to Xu Zhu, and their families quickly arranged the ceremony.
• Rong Chao asked Rong Feng whether he should marry Xu Zhu, and Rong Feng showed him a photo with Jiang Xuefu.
• Rong Chao called Jiang Xuefu beautiful but showed no sign of recognizing her.

After Rong Chao married Xu Zhu, his unexplained grief over a lost love persisted, while Jiang Xuefu returned from abroad unaware of the wedding. Xie Ning confessed to Jiang Xuefu on his birthday, but after she refused to pick him up, his friends urged him to drug her and fake an encounter.

• Rong Feng investigated Xu Zhu, approved of her, and went abroad with Jiang Xuefu rather than attend Rong Chao's wedding.
• Rong Chao married Xu Zhu, but he felt distressed when she tried to kiss him and remembered losing someone he had loved.
• Jiang Xuefu returned from abroad and gave Xie Ning a birthday gift and Xie Jinhua another present, then declined Xie Jinhua's invitation to dinner.
• Xie Ning called Jiang Xuefu from a bar and awkwardly asked her to date him, but she teased him and the call ended.
• After Xie Ning's friend called to say he was drunk, Jiang Xuefu refused to pick him up and told them to contact his father.
• Xie Ning's friends suggested drugging Jiang Xuefu and pretending they had slept together so she would feel obliged to take responsibility for him.

Xie Ning drugged Jiang Xuefu, and the two slept together before arguing over who should take responsibility. Jiang Xuefu warned him about Xu Yi and left their relationship open to continuing, while Xie Ning secretly celebrated.

• Xie Ning gave Jiang Xuefu water laced with an aphrodisiac, and she realized what he had done before kissing him.
• Afterward, Jiang Xuefu challenged Xie Ning's demand that she take responsibility and made him call her "big sister."
• Jiang Xuefu asked who had supplied the drug, and Xie Ning identified Xu Yi of the wealthy Xu Family in City A.
• Jiang Xuefu warned Xie Ning to stay away from Xu Yi and said their future depended on how he performed.
• Jiang Xuefu left, and Xie Ning hid under the blanket and laughed excitedly.

After Xie Jinhua caught Xie Ning and Jiang Xuefu together, he sent Xie Ning to Switzerland and impersonated him in messages with Jiang Xuefu. When Jiang Xuefu came to the house expecting Xie Ning, she found Xie Jinhua waiting beneath the quilt instead.

• Xie Jinhua overheard Xie Ning and Jiang Xuefu together and watched in pain as they continued.
• Xie Jinhua told Xie Ning that Old Madam Xie wanted to see him and sent him to Switzerland without his phone.
• Xie Jinhua used Xie Ning's phone to message Jiang Xuefu, agreeing to stay home with her and asking for matcha cake.
• Jiang Xuefu arrived at the house, found someone beneath the quilt in Xie Ning's darkened room, and began touching Xie Jinhua without recognizing him.

After discovering that Xie Jinhua had pretended to be Xie Ning, Jiang Xuefu rejected him but reconsidered when she thought about his wealth. Xu Zhu confronted her over Xu Yi’s broken leg and left after Jiang Xuefu dismissed her; then Chen Yu called.

• Jiang Xuefu pushed Xie Jinhua away after he pleaded to stay by her side, but later considered accepting him if he changed his ways.
• Xu Zhu entered Jiang Xuefu’s office and demanded an explanation for Jiang Xuefu having Xu Yi’s leg broken.
• Jiang Xuefu said Xu Yi had sold the banned drug Arousal to Xie Ning and told Xu Zhu to take her complaint to Xie Jinhua.
• Xu Zhu accused Jiang Xuefu of acting out of jealousy over Rong Chao, and Jiang Xuefu denied it and ordered her to leave.
• Xu Zhu threatened Jiang Xuefu and left, and Chen Yu called Jiang Xuefu shortly afterward.

Liu He visited Jiang Xuefu and found Rong Feng staying with her, while Jiang Xuefu’s business rivalry with Xu Zhu escalated over the Firmament acquisition. After Xu Zhu framed Jiang Xuefu for stealing trade secrets, Xie Jinhua rescued her from the police station and revealed that a hospital pairing using what remained from their encounter had succeeded, leaving Jiang Xuefu stunned by the news of their child.

• Liu He arrived at Jiang Xuefu’s apartment, met Rong Feng, and served dinner to Jiang Xuefu and Chen Yu.
• Jiang Xuefu signed the proposal for Xie Corporation’s acquisition of Firmament while Xie Jinhua was away in Switzerland.
• Xu Zhu beat Jiang Xuefu to the Firmament deal, then Jiang Xuefu slapped her outside the building.
• Police took Jiang Xuefu in for questioning after Xu Zhu arranged to frame her for stealing trade secrets.
• Xie Jinhua returned from Switzerland and got Jiang Xuefu out of the police station.
• Xie Jinhua told Jiang Xuefu that the hospital pairing had succeeded, and she was left wondering what this meant for Xie Ning.

After Xu Zhu was arrested for suspected involvement in stealing Xie Corporation trade secrets, Rong Chao begged Jiang Xuefu to drop the matter. Jiang Xuefu called him her ex-husband, triggering Rong Chao’s lost memories to return.

• Jiang Xuefu let Xie Jinhua and Xie Ning remain at the manor, while Xie Jinhua handed the company’s affairs over to her.
• Police arrested Xu Zhu at the Xu Family home over suspected involvement in Xie Corporation’s trade secrets, and Rong Feng brought Rong Chao back to the Rong Family home.
• Mother Rong asked Rong Feng to persuade Jiang Xuefu to stop pursuing Xu Zhu, but Rong Feng refused and said Xu Zhu had brought it on herself.
• Rong Chao overheard the conversation and memorized Jiang Xuefu’s name.
• Rong Chao blocked Jiang Xuefu’s car the next morning and begged her to let Xu Zhu go.
• Jiang Xuefu called Rong Chao her ex-husband, and he suddenly remembered his past.

Rong Chao reunited with Jiang Xuefu, but she rejected him and reaffirmed their divorce. He turned against the Rong Family, while Jiang Xuefu later expanded her family and wealth before dying at eighty.

• Rong Chao found Jiang Xuefu and pleaded with her to forgive him, but she refused to reconcile and told him not to seek her out again.
• Rong Chao returned to the Rong Family home, smashed the furnishings, and accused his family of arranging his divorce and marriage to Xu Zhu without his consent.
• Rong Chao demanded that Rong Feng leave the family, and after Mother Rong told Rong Feng to yield to his younger brother, Rong Feng stopped coming home.
• Ten years later, Rong Chao sold the family restaurants and donated the proceeds to an orphanage, where he spent the rest of his life.
• Jiang Xuefu later took two more young lovers, lived to eighty surrounded by descendants, and left the Jiang Family prosperous and powerful.

After Qi Jingshu was killed during an attack on the Jiang Residence, Jiang Xuefu escaped the city carrying a bundle meant for Xue'er. She discovered it contained valuable jewelry and chose to keep it, running in the opposite direction from where Xue'er was supposed to be.

• Qi Jingshu gave Fu'er a bundle and told her to find Xue'er and seek Lord Ling in the capital as men in black attacked the Jiang Residence.
• Jiang Xuefu recalled how Qi Jingshu had taken her in as a beggar and raised her alongside the Jiang Family's daughter, also named Jiang Xuefu.
• Jiang Xuefu evaded the men guarding the city gate by squeezing through a hidden dog hole in the wall.
• Jiang Xuefu opened the bundle and found letters and a collection of gold, jade, pearls, and other jewelry.
• Jiang Xuefu decided to keep the jewelry and ran in the opposite direction from where Xue'er was supposed to be.

Jiang Xuefu fainted while traveling south toward the capital and was rescued by Jimo Chi's carriage party. After she left for Jade City alone, Jimo Chi learned she had dropped an imperial jade pendant and sent Mo Yu to catch up with her.

• Jiang Xuefu ran out of strength and fainted beside the road while traveling toward the capital.
• Jimo Chi ordered Mo Yu to give Jiang Xuefu water and food, and she woke and thanked him.
• Jiang Xuefu told Mo Yu she had no home and was going to Jade City to find relatives, but Jimo Chi refused to give her a ride.
• Jiang Xuefu accepted pastries and continued toward Jade City on foot while Jimo Chi's carriage set off later.
• Mo Yi found a jade pendant Jiang Xuefu had dropped and identified it as belonging to the imperial family.
• Jimo Chi recognized the imperial surname Qi on the pendant and ordered Mo Yu to catch up with Jiang Xuefu.

Jiang Xuefu was taken in by the Jimo Family after Jimo Chi recognized the jade pendant in her bundle and learned her identity. Jimo Cheng welcomed her and recalled how her mother, Qi Jingshu, vanished while fleeing a forced marriage, leaving her fate unknown.

• Jimo Chi asked Jiang Xuefu about her name, parents, and a jade pendant, then invited her to stay with the Jimo Family.
• Jiang Xuefu arrived at the Jimo Residence, where servants attended to her with a luxurious bath and meal.
• Jimo Cheng invited Jiang Xuefu to breakfast and promised to protect her as he remembered her mother.
• Jimo Cheng recalled that he and Qi Yuan had tried to rescue Qi Jingshu from a forced marriage to the Xiongnu king.
• Qi Jingshu fled into the forest during the rescue and was never heard from again, while Qi Yuan later won the throne.

Jiang Xuefu kept her identity as Qi Jingshu’s daughter secret while Jimo Cheng brought the Jiang Family’s ashes back and buried Qi Jingshu on a mountain in Jade City. As the funeral ended, Jiang Xuefu resolved to live well in the dead girl’s place.

• Jimo Cheng told Jiang Xuefu that he had sent word to the emperor and asked Jimo Chi to show her around Jade City.
• Jiang Xuefu struggled with the danger of deceiving the emperor but chose to keep her lie hidden for the life of wealth it promised.
• Jimo Cheng returned from Wang City with the Jiang Family’s ashes and explained that the former crown prince had ordered the family’s massacre before killing himself.
• Jimo Cheng, Jimo Chi, and Jiang Xuefu buried Qi Jingshu on a mountain, where Jiang Xuefu kowtowed before the grave.
• Jiang Xuefu asked Jimo Cheng to carry the unwell Jimo Chi down the mountain, then accepted a ride on Jimo Cheng’s back and silently vowed to live well in Jiang Xuefu’s place.

After two months at the Jimo Residence, Jiang Xuefu left for the capital and was welcomed into the imperial palace as Princess Fu'an. Once settled in the Splendid Palace, she asked the emperor to change her name because she hated the character “Fu.”

• Jiang Xuefu endured Jimo Chi’s insistence on attending school and began behaving after the teacher struck her palm for unfinished work.
• Before Jiang Xuefu departed for the capital, Jimo Chi gave her a bracelet and asked her to visit his mother, Li Yarou, at the Li Residence.
• Jiang Xuefu said farewell to Jimo Chi and Jimo Cheng, then traveled with the imperial procession to the capital.
• The emperor housed Jiang Xuefu in the Splendid Palace, granted her the title Princess Fu'an, and showered her with gifts and rewards.
• Jiang Xuefu asked the emperor to change her name because she disliked the character “Fu” and wanted to leave her former identity behind.

On Jiang Xuefu’s birthday, the emperor’s favored princess went to the capital’s lantern festival with Qi Mujing and Ling Chengfeng, then fled after hearing the real Jiang Xuefu call for her. The real Jiang Xuefu, who had survived her parents’ murder and spent two years studying medicine, remained determined to find her and learn the truth.

• The emperor arranged a public holiday and lantern festival for Jiang Xuefu’s birthday, and she set out with Qi Mujing and Ling Chengfeng.
• Ling Chengfeng gave Jiang Xuefu a birthday present and went to buy her candied hawthorn while she waited with Qi Mujing.
• Jiang Xuefu heard the real Jiang Xuefu calling in the crowd and hurried away with Qi Mujing toward the Li Family Restaurant.
• The real Jiang Xuefu’s senior brother Wang Xiaolu accused the other girl of stealing her identity, but Jiang Xuefu said she still believed in her and wanted to speak with her.
• Jiang Xuefu recalled finding her parents murdered, escaping with Wang Xiaolu’s help, and spending two years studying medicine before traveling to the capital.

Jiang Xuefu abducted Jiang Xuefu and Wang Xiaolu, poisoned and mutilated them, then ordered Bai Zhou to kill them, but Jiang Xuefu escaped by jumping off a cliff. After returning to the palace, Jiang Xuefu punished Bai Zhou for letting her escape and ordered him to find her.

• Jiang Xuefu had Bai Zhou seize Jiang Xuefu and Wang Xiaolu and take them to an abandoned house.
• Jiang Xuefu threatened Jiang Xuefu, poisoned both captives, and cut Jiang Xuefu's face while explaining that the poison would leave them helpless.
• Jiang Xuefu ordered Bai Zhou to kill the captives and dispose of their bodies, but Wang Xiaolu woke and shouted for Jiang Xuefu to jump, and she escaped over the cliff.
• Jiang Xuefu returned to the restaurant, shared candied hawthorn with Ling Chengfeng, and later went back to the palace.
• Jiang Xuefu ordered Bai Zhou to accept punishment and search for Jiang Xuefu, demanding that he bring back her body or capture her alive.

On her coming-of-age day, Jiang Xuefu was preparing to leave the palace, while Wang Xue—her former self, now a masked medical disciple—returned to the capital seeking revenge. The chapter ended with Ling Chengfeng asking Jiang Xuefu to consider marrying him.

• The empress presided over Jiang Xuefu's coming-of-age ceremony in Qinghe Hall.
• Wang Xue descended from Kunlun Mountain after nine years and set out to find her senior brother, Xu Jingwu, before pursuing revenge on Jiang Xuefu.
• Wang Xue failed to find Xu Jingwu at Prince Kang's Residence, unaware he was passing by in a carriage as Princess Fu'an's male favorite.
• Jiang Xuefu left the palace for her princess's residence, and Ling Chengfeng joined her carriage after returning from the military camp.
• Ling Chengfeng told Jiang Xuefu that he had missed her and asked her to consider him when the emperor arranged her marriage.

Jiang Xuefu rejected marriage, but Ling Chengfeng insisted he would be her husband and kissed her before she returned to her residence. There, she reunited with Jimo Chi, who had come to give her a coming-of-age gift, and he left after they arranged to meet again.

• Jiang Xuefu told Ling Chengfeng she would never marry, and he insisted she should consider him first.
• Ling Chengfeng pulled Jiang Xuefu into his arms, and their first kiss left her flustered and her lips swollen.
• Ling Chengfeng promised to become Princess Fu'an's husband if she would not become Madam Ling.
• Jiang Xuefu reached her residence and recognized Jimo Chi, whom she had not seen since they parted in Jade City eleven years earlier.
• Jimo Chi gave Jiang Xuefu a coming-of-age gift and declined her invitation to come inside.
• Jiang Xuefu offered to visit Jimo Chi at the Duke of Zhen's residence another day, and he departed.

Wang Xue built a reputation as a low-cost healer and entered the palace to help the noble consort conceive a son. At a Dragon Boat Festival banquet, Jiang Xuefu forced Wang Xue to reveal her scarred face before the emperor, who reacted with disgust, leaving Wang Xue devastated.

• Wang Xue opened a clinic in the capital and attracted patients by charging low prices, earning a reputation as a miracle doctor.
• The noble consort asked Wang Xue to help her bear a son, and Wang Xue warned her about the dangers before moving into Zhongcui Palace to care for her.
• Wang Xue prepared medicine for the noble consort, who became pregnant and secured Wang Xue's place at her side.
• At the Dragon Boat Festival banquet, Wang Xue saw Jiang Xuefu again, and Jiang questioned why the noble consort's veiled relative concealed her face.
• The emperor and the noble consort pressured Wang Xue to remove her veil, and she revealed her scarred face to the horrified guests.
• The emperor dismissed Wang Xue with visible displeasure, and she returned to her quarters and wept.