Chapter Summaries

Ji Wangyun and Li Yankai began dating and announced their relationship to friends and family at a celebratory dinner. At a later gathering, they performed piano and cello together, leaving Xie Zhuzhou with a new impression of his second brother.

• Li Yankai asked Ji Wangyun to start dating, and Ji Wangyun agreed, though Li Yankai bashfully kept him from hugging him because he was sweaty.
• Ji Wangyun invited his friends and family to dinner the next day and officially announced his relationship with Li Yankai, surprising everyone.
• Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang briefly left the dinner together, while Mo Liang and Fu Liefeng struggled to hide their laughter at Ji Wangyun's unusually composed behavior.
• At the Ji Family's bar room, Ji Wangyun played piano while Li Yankai accompanied him on cello, and the guests applauded their performance.
• Li Yankai drank several glasses for the flushed Ji Wangyun, whose appearance made Li Yankai's heart skip a beat.

Ji Wangyun and Li Yankai began dating, and Li Yankai took an internship at Ji Wangyun’s company to spend time with him and help supervise his work. Ji Wangyun enjoyed having him nearby but found their office romance frustratingly wholesome.

• After getting drunk, Ji Wangyun slept soundly instead of making a move on Li Yankai, and regretted missing his youngest brother’s assist the next morning.
• When Ji Wangyan brought up Ji Wangyun’s old photo album, Ji Wangyun explained that he had once seen Li Yankai as a younger brother before falling for him; Li Yankai kissed him and said he was touched that Ji Wangyun remembered their shared past.
• Ji Wangyan teased Xie Zhuzhou by telling Aolai that his owner had neglected him, so Xie Zhuzhou picked up the dog and promised to spoil him instead.
• Ji Wangyun learned that Li Yankai had quit his part-time jobs to intern at his company and help keep him focused, and he happily hugged him until Li Yankai mentioned the cafeteria food.
• Ji Wangyun showed Li Yankai around the office and took him to lunch, but Li Yankai urged him not to think about him while working, leaving Ji Wangyun exasperated by their proper, uneventful office romance.

Ji Wangyun and Li Yankai settled into their new relationship at work, sharing a kiss and a nap in the office lounge. Ji Wangyun invited Li Yankai on a weekend date, but agreed to go with him to watch a fish-netting trip instead.

• Ji Wangyun took Li Yankai out for lunch, held his hand openly, and explained the company’s rules for officially dating coworkers.
• Ji Wangyun and Li Yankai kissed in the CEO’s private elevator as news of their relationship began spreading through the company.
• Ji Wangyun let Li Yankai persuade him to rest in the lounge, where they fell asleep holding each other.
• Li Yankai kissed Ji Wangyun’s cheek after waking, and Ji Wangyun pulled him close and asked him to sleep longer.
• Ji Wangyun suggested a weekend date, but Li Yankai asked to watch a fish-netting trip, and Ji Wangyun agreed to prepare clothes for him.

Xie Zhuzhou, Li Yankai, and the Ji brothers helped Wen Shuming’s family with farm work before gathering for a late-night barbecue. Ji Wangyun took Li Yankai to his apartment, where his collection of robots and figurines revealed how carefully he had tried to win Li over, and the next morning they discussed Li’s sore back after he had slipped in the bathroom.

• Xie Zhuzhou and the others helped Wen Shuming’s family with farm work, while Ji Wangyan and Ji Wangchen joined the group and picked strawberries and cucumbers.
• At the barbecue, Ji Wangyun struggled to grill fish, so Li Yankai cooked for them while Ji Wangyun gave his own fish to Aolai.
• After the gathering ran past one in the morning, Ji Wangyun took Li Yankai to his apartment, where Li discovered the robots and figurines Ji Wangyun had collected to please him.
• Ji Wangyun and Li Yankai embraced as they shared their feelings, and they fell asleep together at the apartment.
• The next morning, Li Yankai’s sore back worried Ji Wangyun, who learned that Li had slipped and fallen in the bathroom after Ji Wangyun’s nosebleed startled him.

Li Yankai’s parents asked to meet the person he was dating, and Ji Wangyun agreed to face them despite worrying about his past and reputation. The meeting began with Li Shangfeng realizing his son had chosen a member of the formidable Ji Family.

• Li Yankai told Ji Wangyun that his parents wanted to meet his partner, and Ji Wangyun agreed to go with him.
• Ji Wangyun gathered his siblings and Chu Yanzhang for advice, and they encouraged him to make a good impression by showing what he had accomplished.
• Xie Zhuzhou lost the family’s rock-paper-scissors contest and stayed behind, while Chu Yanzhang suggested they eat in the room next door.
• Ji Wangyun, Ji Wangchen, and the other Ji brothers arrived at the meeting in formal suits, making Li Shangfeng briefly think Li Yankai was dating three people.
• Li Shangfeng recognized Ji Wangyun as Li Yankai’s partner and worried about the power and ruthlessness of the Ji Family.

Ji Wangyun visited Li Yankai’s parents to ask for their approval and gradually won them over with his sincerity. After Li Yankai carried him home, the two became intimate, and the chapter ended with Xie Zhuzhou speculating about their relationship.

• Ji Wangyun introduced himself as Li Yankai’s boyfriend and brought Ji Wangchen and Ji Wangyan to meet Li Shangfeng and his wife.
• Li Shangfeng and his wife grew more accepting of Ji Wangyun after seeing how much he cared for Li Yankai.
• Li Yankai carried Ji Wangyun home, remembered how Ji Wangyun had cherished him since childhood, and the two became intimate.
• The next morning, Li Yankai woke sore while Ji Wangyun tried to make him breakfast and offered to feed him.
• After the semester began, Xie Zhuzhou saw Ji Wangyun again and speculated to Chu Yanzhang about which of the two men was on top.

Thirty years after terrorists killed her parents, Xie Guanxia pursued revenge and was suspended after helping destroy the Black Lizard organization’s hideouts. While taking a job in Country H, she met Ji Wuqiu in a combat zone and agreed to leave with him for twenty million.

• After her parents were murdered in a terrorist attack, twelve-year-old Xie Guanxia vowed to kill the Black Lizard members responsible and trained for eight years to become a special agent.
• Xie Guanxia and her teammates destroyed five Black Lizard hideouts, but her aggressive actions earned her a one-year suspension despite the operation’s success.
• During her suspension, Xie Guanxia took a mercenary job in Country H, fled after discovering the arms dealer she was escorting was sexually harassing her, and entered a combat zone.
• Xie Guanxia found Ji Wuqiu standing over what he thought was a land mine, learned he had woken up in Country H after being in Country P, and carefully checked the device as gunfire approached.
• After discovering the supposed mine was only a cookie tin, Xie Guanxia initially refused to leave with Ji Wuqiu but agreed when he offered her twenty million.

Xie Guanxia and Ji Wuqiu reunited in a war zone, escaped their pursuers together, and fell in love before she left him with a farewell letter. Years later, both were forced to part from their son Xie Zhuzhou to protect him, leaving him alone and Xie Guanxia heartbroken.

• Xie Guanxia led Ji Wuqiu through the war zone to a village, then learned from the black market that people were searching for him.
• Ji Wuqiu revealed his background to Xie Guanxia, and they fled together for a month before becoming lovers.
• Xie Guanxia left Ji Wuqiu a farewell letter, refused the twenty million, and discovered three months later that she was pregnant.
• Xie Guanxia chose to keep the baby after three coin tosses landed heads, and raised Xie Zhuzhou as a single mother.
• Six years after their parting, Ji Wuqiu learned he had another son but kept him away from danger amid family and business conflicts.
• When Black Lizard came after her, Xie Guanxia left five-year-old Xie Zhuzhou behind to protect him, and he watched her go as she grieved their separation.

Ji Wuqiu traveled to find Xie Guanxia and tried to rekindle their relationship while she remained on a dangerous mission. After he helped capture the last fugitive from Black Lizard, Xie Guanxia teased him about his spending and indulged his clingy declarations of love.

• Ji Wuqiu learned Xie Guanxia was still single, arranged for his sons to take over his businesses, and secretly traveled to her country.
• Ji Wuqiu tried to spy on Xie Guanxia with a powerful telescope, but she appeared at his bedside that night to cook for him.
• Xie Guanxia teased Ji Wuqiu by calling him an old man, and he sulked under the covers until she asked what he wanted from their relationship.
• Xie Guanxia warned Ji Wuqiu that a fugitive Black Lizard member had threatened her and the people around her.
• Ji Wuqiu offered a fifty-million bounty, and the last Black Lizard member was captured within a week.
• Xie Guanxia scolded Ji Wuqiu for spending so much, then laughed as he asked her to say she loved him.

Xie Zhuzhou met the original owner in a shared dream and they caught each other up on their lives after swapping souls. They parted after agreeing to care for each other’s families and discussing the original owner’s ties to the emperor.

• Xie Zhuzhou woke in a strange gray world and greeted the original owner, then threatened to hit him over the homework he had left behind.
• The original owner explained how the state preceptor had enabled their dream conversation, and both men shared news about their families and lives.
• Xie Zhuzhou learned that the original owner had regained his health, married, and was happy with his husband, while the original owner learned that Xie Zhuzhou planned to marry next month.
• The original owner asked Xie Zhuzhou to look after his parents, and Xie Zhuzhou agreed while asking the original owner to care for the marquis’s estate.
• Xie Zhuzhou urged the original owner to use his royal connection to help his husband advance, but the original owner rejected the idea of becoming emperor before they said goodbye.

Xie Zhuzhou confessed to Chu Yanzhang that he had transmigrated from the Great Yan dynasty, and Chu Yanzhang believed him without hesitation. Chu Yanzhang comforted him and promised to stay by his side, but Xie Zhuzhou later regretted trusting him when Chu Yanzhang agreed to let him take the lead in bed.

• After breakfast, Xie Zhuzhou told Chu Yanzhang that he had died in the Great Yan dynasty and transmigrated into a modern body with the same name.
• Chu Yanzhang accepted the confession and said he had already suspected Xie Zhuzhou was not the original person.
• Chu Yanzhang praised Xie Zhuzhou’s noble bearing and martial skills, then reassured him that he would love him even if he were a ghost.
• Xie Zhuzhou explained that he had been sickly in his past life, and Chu Yanzhang felt guilty for asking about his former romantic life.
• When Xie Zhuzhou asked Chu Yanzhang to let him take the lead, Chu Yanzhang agreed and carried him to the bedroom; over an hour later, Xie Zhuzhou regretted believing him.

Chu Yanzhang and Xie Zhuzhou celebrated their wedding, then spent their wedding night together while their heartbroken former rivals drank and lamented. The next morning, Xie Zhuzhou assigned Li Yankai to supervise his brothers so he could leave on his honeymoon with Chu Yanzhang.

• At their wedding, guests learned that Chu Yanzhang led Divine Sea and that Xie Zhuzhou was connected to Aurora Future, while the couple proudly announced their marriage.
• After the guests left, Chu Yanzhang and Xie Zhuzhou returned home, pledged not to divorce, and Chu Yanzhang carried Xie Zhuzhou to bed instead of counting their red envelopes.
• Ji Wangyun, Li Yankai, Ji Wangyan, Ling Zhenyang, An Xinian, and Qin Fang gathered at a bar, where the heartbroken trio mourned losing Xie Zhuzhou and the group drank heavily.
• Ji Wangchen found Ji Wangyan drunk and Ji Wangyun being carried by Li Yankai, then gave the older brothers three days off.
• The next morning, Xie Zhuzhou argued with his brothers about their unexpected leave and put Li Yankai in charge of supervising them before setting off on his honeymoon with Chu Yanzhang.

On their honeymoon, Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang turned into a cat and a wolf on a mysterious island, where an old man explained that the island's magic would transform them into animals during the day for a week. After meeting other animal couples and hearing a warning about uninvited guests, they returned to their room to discuss what to do.

• Xie Zhuzhou woke as a cow-patterned cat, and Chu Yanzhang discovered he had become a snow wolf; they realized they could understand each other.
• An old man appeared, restored them to human form, and explained that the island's Animal Dream transformed loving couples into animals by day for a week.
• The old man vanished, and Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang turned back into animals before heading to the resort restaurant for breakfast.
• A brown bear warned them not to wander because they might encounter uninvited guests, but could not explain the island's magic further.
• Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang returned to their room, where Xie Zhuzhou worried that being small cats could leave them vulnerable to couples with bad intentions.

Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang stayed inside their suite after witnessing a dog being attacked, while a brown bear tried to lure them out by claiming the island was testing couples. They remained safe behind their reinforced door and discovered the suite had food and smart appliances, leaving Chu Yanzhang to prepare fish for Xie Zhuzhou.

• Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang saw a dog being bullied downstairs, but stayed inside because they feared the dangers outside.
• The brown bear knocked on their door and claimed Animal Dream was a test that couples had to pass to return to the real world.
• The brown bear tried to break into the suite and threatened to eat them, but the door held firm.
• Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang decided to wait out the seven days, and Xie Zhuzhou saw that the dog had disappeared, leaving blood behind.
• Xie Zhuzhou found fish in the suite, and Chu Yanzhang took it from the refrigerator and prepared to cook it for him.

Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang cooked fish while transformed into a cat and wolf, then returned to human form and ventured out to find more food. After Chu Yanzhang drove off an attacker, they reached a stream where other people were fishing and decided to watch for an opportunity.

• Chu Yanzhang prepared fish for Xie Zhuzhou, and the two shared it while still transformed into animals.
• Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang changed back into human form, and Chu Yanzhang pinned Xie Zhuzhou to the bed after seeing him lick his paw.
• The pair found the hotel stripped of food and supplies, so Chu Yanzhang packed equipment and led Xie Zhuzhou out to catch fish.
• A man ambushed Xie Zhuzhou to steal his keys, but Chu Yanzhang kicked him into a tree and the pair continued on without helping him.
• Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang reached a stream crowded with people trying to fish, then hid to observe and look for a chance to act.

Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang searched for fish on the island, took a fishing spear from a would-be thief, and prepared a meal while discussing how to survive the next seven days and return to normal. When a crowd gathered to take their fish, Xie Zhuzhou stood his ground, and the chapter ended with him noticing someone behind the stubbled man.

• Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang went upstream to fish, where a shabby man threatened them and Chu Yanzhang disarmed him.
• Xie Zhuzhou kept the man's fishing spear, and he and Chu Yanzhang agreed they would have to survive seven days on the island while looking for a way to change back.
• Chu Yanzhang lit a fire and grilled fish while Xie Zhuzhou cleaned their catch, and they chose grilled fish for their meal.
• A crowd gathered around the pair, and Xie Zhuzhou warned them not to try taking the fish.
• A stubbled man threatened Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang with a wooden club, and Xie Zhuzhou noticed someone standing behind him beside a tree.

Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang turned the tables on the men who tried to rob them, and Xie Zhuzhou used threats and a fabricated explanation to unsettle the crowd. The islanders grew suspicious when he revealed their satellite phone could not make outgoing calls.

• Xie Zhuzhou teased the stubbled man for targeting them, then advanced with Chu Yanzhang.
• Xie Zhuzhou seized the bespectacled man and threatened him with a sharp stone while Chu Yanzhang held off the others with a fishing spear.
• Xie Zhuzhou told the stubbled man that only one of the two robbers would survive, and warned that he might kill them despite the witnesses.
• Xie Zhuzhou claimed the island’s strange conditions were a trap that took their lifespans as payment, making the crowd question what was happening.
• Xie Zhuzhou revealed that their top-tier suite had a satellite phone that could not make outgoing calls, and the crowd erupted in alarm.

Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang realized they were inside a game and cleared it, then returned to their villa. A week later, Xie Zhuzhou regretted asking Chu Yanzhang to dress up, as his husband kept finding ways to torment him.

• Xie Zhuzhou told the plunderers that killing their partners was the only way to break the spell, leaving them in despair.
• Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang returned to the stream, recognized the island as a game, and triggered the game-clearing announcement.
• Wen Shuming and Wu Chang waited as Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang emerged from their gaming pods less than two hours after entering.
• Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang relaxed together on their villa's rooftop and joked about wearing animal-themed outfits.
• A week later, Xie Zhuzhou regretted his request when Chu Yanzhang repeatedly tormented him in bed.