Recaps

Pei Yubai recalled how he began paying attention to his fans after seeing one of them mocked, and how he used legal threats and lavish red-envelope giveaways to support them. During his livestream with Qiguan Yuan, he shifted the camera toward Qiguan Yuan as Xiao Yuan Grains arrived and asked to send Yuanyuan gifts.

• Pei Yubai remembered how he had once ignored his fans and how a blogger’s post exposed their heartfelt comments to public mockery.
• After seeing a young fan’s message, Pei Yubai issued legal demand letters to the blogger and commenters who had attacked his fans.
• Pei Yubai admitted he had neglected his fans and arranged nearly twenty million yuan in red-envelope giveaways.
• Pei Yubai recalled telling fans not to waste money on livestream gifts because his giveaways were larger than anything they could send.
• Pei Yubai turned the livestream camera toward Qiguan Yuan as an Xiao Yuan Grains commenter asked to send Yuanyuan gifts, prompting the Imperial Fans to react in alarm.

Qiguan Yuan livestreamed while Pei Yubai left to film, then walked around and stopped at a teahouse for tea. There he spotted Go champion Song Zhuangyi struggling over a game, and the chapter ended as Qiguan Yuan studied the board beside him.

• Pei Yubai left to prepare for filming, and Qiguan Yuan agreed to arrange a giveaway of red cords for his fans.
• Qiguan Yuan took his livestream viewers on a walk through the filming location and entered a teahouse.
• Qiguan Yuan ordered Dragon Rounds Surpassing Snow and sat by the window as the tea was served.
• Qiguan Yuan noticed Song Zhuangyi studying a difficult Go position and approached his table without speaking.

Qiguan Yuan rescued Song Zhuangyi’s Go position with two brilliant moves, prompting the world champion to invite him to play a game. Qiguan Yuan’s livestream audience grew to include professional players and Go Association officials as the match began.

• Qiguan Yuan played a shoulder hit that opened an escape route for White, then followed with another move that brought White back to life.
• Song Zhuangyi praised Qiguan Yuan’s skill and invited him to play a game, and Qiguan Yuan agreed to let his livestream viewers watch.
• Qiguan Yuan turned his phone toward the Go board, and viewers began commenting on the game as professional players joined the livestream.
• Go Association officials, including the vice president, entered the livestream, and viewers recognized Song Zhuangyi as the Association president.
• Song Zhuangyi and Qiguan Yuan prepared to play, with Song Zhuangyi making the opening guess to decide who would go first.

Qiguan Yuan defeated Song Zhuangyi in a Go match, impressing the Go Association and earning Song's respect. When Pei Yubai arrived and introduced Qiguan Yuan as his boyfriend, Song urged him not to hold Qiguan Yuan back from pursuing Go.

• Qiguan Yuan took black and built an early advantage with sharp, unconventional moves against Song Zhuangyi.
• Qiguan Yuan suppressed Song Zhuangyi throughout the middlegame and captured three white stones in the lower-right corner.
• Qiguan Yuan maintained an eight- or nine-point lead through the endgame, and Song Zhuangyi resigned after the vice president praised Qiguan Yuan's strength in the livestream comments.
• Qiguan Yuan and Song Zhuangyi shared Longtuan Shengxue tea and spoke respectfully about their game.
• Pei Yubai arrived, sat beside Qiguan Yuan, and told Song Zhuangyi that Qiguan Yuan was his boyfriend.
• Song Zhuangyi praised Qiguan Yuan's Go mastery and told Pei Yubai that Qiguan Yuan belonged in Go, not the entertainment industry.

Qiguan Yuan defeated Song Zhuangyi in Go and declined his invitation to join the Go Association, while Song reflected on how his focus on winning had stalled his progress. After Qiguan Yuan returned to his livestream, fans and Go Association members argued over whether he belonged in the entertainment industry or the Go world.

• Pei Yubai realized that Qiguan Yuan was beating Song Zhuangyi at Go and suspected Song wanted to recruit him for the Go Association.
• Qiguan Yuan declined to join the association and told Song that focusing only on winning would prevent him from improving.
• Song reconsidered his priorities after examining Qiguan Yuan's moves, then treated him to tea and watched him leave with Pei Yubai.
• Qiguan Yuan remembered his livestream and raised his phone so viewers could see his face again.
• Go Association members urged Qiguan Yuan to join them, while Xiao Yuan Grains, Imperial Fans, and Taro Balls protested that they were trying to take him from the entertainment world.

Qiguan Yuan refused to join the Go Association and agreed to let Pei Yubai give fans red packets instead of his red strings. After Pei Yubai ended the livestream and kissed him in an alley, Qiguan Yuan stopped at a streetlight and asked where they were.

• Qiguan Yuan said he preferred to do as he pleased, confirming he would not join the Go Association.
• Qiguan Yuan asked Pei Yubai to arrange a giveaway, and Pei Yubai persuaded him to send fans red packets instead of red strings.
• Pei Yubai ended the livestream, prompting fans to denounce him and make him a trending topic.
• Pei Yubai walked hand in hand with Qiguan Yuan and kissed him in a dark alley.
• After leaving the alley, Qiguan Yuan lost his bearings at an intersection and asked Pei Yubai where they were.

Pei Yubai and Qiguan Yuan walked back together, and Qiguan Yuan said he could not stay with Pei forever until he finished something he had not explained. The next day, the variety show began filming at an amusement park, where the guests split into pairs for rides and Qiguan Yuan chose to look around first.

• Pei Yubai asked how long Qiguan Yuan could stay, and Qiguan Yuan said he could stay for the next few days but had something unfinished to do.
• Song Zhuangyi told Song Yuan that he had lost a Go game to Qiguan Yuan, and they discussed how Qiguan Yuan seemed out of place in the ordinary world.
• Song Yuan said he had agreed to join Pei Yubai's variety show filming at an amusement park the next day.
• The guests gathered at the amusement park, where Meng Xu explained that each pair had to ride at least five attractions and earn points based on their thrill level.
• After the guests split into their usual pairs, Qiguan Yuan watched the Ferris wheel and told Pei Yubai he wanted to look around.

At the amusement park, Qiguan Yuan discovered that the woman trying to take Chenchen away was a dangerous trafficker, while Pei Yubai contacted someone for help. The woman tried to lure Qiguan Yuan along too, unaware that he had seen the baleful energy surrounding her.

• Pei Yubai and Qiguan Yuan walked through the amusement park, where visitors and onlookers kept staring at Qiguan Yuan.
• Pei Yubai offered Qiguan Yuan ice cream, and Qiguan Yuan tried it for the first time.
• Chenchen tugged at Qiguan Yuan's clothes and called him big sister before agreeing to call him big brother.
• A woman named by Chenchen as his aunt arrived and tried to take him, but Qiguan Yuan saw her dark fate threads and learned Chenchen's relatives had all died.
• Pei Yubai set down the ice cream and stepped aside to make a call while the woman tried to pull Chenchen away.
• The woman claimed she was taking Chenchen to his mother and invited Qiguan Yuan to come along, privately deciding he would be worth a lot of money.

Qiguan Yuan stopped a child-trafficking attempt and condemned the traffickers to suffer at the hands of their victims, then helped Chenchen reunite with his parents. Chenchen’s parents said they had to leave for a long time and asked him to guard their home until they returned when he was grown.

• Qiguan Yuan agreed to help Chenchen find his mother while Pei Yubai stayed behind and watched them go.
• A woman led Qiguan Yuan and Chenchen to a van, where two accomplices prepared to drug and abduct Qiguan Yuan.
• Qiguan Yuan immobilized the traffickers, summoned their victims, severed their fortunes, and granted them long lives so the victims could take revenge.
• Pei Yubai’s people took the traffickers away, and Pei Yubai wiped ice cream from Qiguan Yuan’s hand while Chenchen finished counting to ten.
• Qiguan Yuan revealed Chenchen’s parents waiting at the alley entrance, and Chenchen ran to embrace them.
• Chenchen’s parents told him they had to leave for a long time, asked him to guard their home, and promised to take him on the Ferris wheel when they returned.

Qiguan Yuan helped Chenchen part from the spirits of his parents, then asked Pei Yubai to investigate the child’s home and guardians. At the amusement park, Lu Zhao told Qiguan Yuan that he had found a clue linking the Tree of Fate to the divine essence of the person Qiguan Yuan was seeking.

• Chenchen said goodbye to his parents’ spirits and went with Qiguan Yuan, believing his parents would return soon.
• Pei Yubai took a photo of Chenchen and asked his assistant to find the boy’s information, address, family circumstances, and guardian.
• Qiguan Yuan left Chenchen with Pei Yubai and went to speak with Lu Zhao at the amusement park entrance.
• Lu Zhao reported that people had questioned him about Qiguan Yuan meddling with a mortal’s fate, and Qiguan Yuan told him to give them his name.
• Lu Zhao told Qiguan Yuan that his discoveries about the Tree of Fate might be connected to the divine essence of the person he was seeking, and Qiguan Yuan agreed to visit him.

Qiguan Yuan and Pei Yubai took Chenchen to ride the Ferris wheel, and Pei Yubai learned about the boy’s illness and the tragedy that left him orphaned. Pei Yubai proposed arranging better treatment and bringing Chenchen to the Pei Family if he recovered.

• Qiguan Yuan gave Chenchen a golden feather that Lu Zhao had grown, and Pei Yubai walked with them to the amusement park.
• Qiguan Yuan asked Chenchen if he wanted to ride the Ferris wheel, and Pei Yubai took him and Qiguan Yuan aboard.
• Pei Yubai received Chenchen’s information from his assistant and showed it to Qiguan Yuan, revealing Chenchen’s leukemia, his parents’ deaths, and how a trafficker had taken him from the hospital.
• Pei Yubai suggested returning Chenchen to the hospital for treatment, promised to cover his medical expenses, and offered to have his parents care for him at the Pei Family if he recovered.

Qiguan Yuan and Pei Yubai took Chenchen around the amusement park before arranging for the Pei Family to raise him and for him to receive hospital care. After teasing Pei Yubai with an intimate kiss and promising to take him somewhere after Chenchen’s surgery, they regrouped with the other guests, leaving Meng Xu studying Chenchen thoughtfully.

• Qiguan Yuan and Pei Yubai took Chenchen on children's rides while Qiguan Yuan attracted a crowd of children and made Pei Yubai jealous.
• Pei Yubai carried Qiguan Yuan away, and Qiguan Yuan kissed his Adam's apple before Pei Yubai kissed him back and calmed down against his neck.
• Qiguan Yuan told Pei Yubai he would take Chenchen to the hospital the next day, and Pei Yubai agreed to film without them.
• Qiguan Yuan asked Pei Yubai what reward he wanted for arranging Chenchen's care, and Pei Yubai asked for Qiguan Yuan, who agreed.
• Qiguan Yuan promised to take Pei Yubai somewhere after Chenchen's surgery, and the group later reunited after Shen Yuzhou and Cheng Yanqiu earned the highest score.
• Meng Xu looked thoughtfully at Chenchen while the other guests refrained from asking why he was with Pei Yubai and Qiguan Yuan.

Qiguan Yuan took Chenchen to the hospital for admission ahead of his surgery, while Pei Yubai left him a phone and money to use. The chapter ended with Pei Yubai wondering why Qiguan Yuan had not replied, unaware that Qiguan Yuan could not read the phone’s keyboard.

• Pei Yubai left Qiguan Yuan a note, a bank card, and a phone before going out.
• Qiguan Yuan took Chenchen to the hospital, where staff admitted him and prepared him for surgery scheduled in three days.
• Chenchen asked Qiguan Yuan to visit him and said he wanted to grow hair like Qiguan Yuan’s when he recovered.
• Qiguan Yuan accepted the information about Chenchen’s caregiver and waited in the car while the assistant handled the fees.
• Qiguan Yuan opened Pei Yubai’s message asking when he would return, but could not figure out how to reply and turned off the phone.
• Pei Yubai wondered why Qiguan Yuan had not answered, unaware that Qiguan Yuan could not recognize letters or use the keyboard.

Qiguan Yuan accidentally wandered to Song Zhuangyi’s teahouse, where the variety-show guests were learning Go, and accepted Song’s invitation to play another match. As their game drew an excited livestream audience, Qiguan Yuan remained relaxed and Song recognized that he was still holding back.

• Pei Yubai handed his phone to his assistant and returned to filming while Qiguan Yuan set off in the wrong direction through the studio.
• Qiguan Yuan heard Shen Yuzhou call to him and realized he had reached Song Zhuangyi’s teahouse, where the variety-show guests were learning Go.
• Song Zhuangyi welcomed Qiguan Yuan and invited him to sit down for tea and another game.
• Qiguan Yuan and Song Zhuangyi began a match, with Song playing black and Qiguan Yuan playing white.
• The livestream audience and Go Association members reacted excitedly as Song noticed Qiguan Yuan was not playing at full strength.

Song Zhuangyi played Go with Qiguan Yuan, who advised him to seek out the monk Jixian for a worthy opponent. Pei Yubai arrived to coach the others, but grew irritable about not sitting beside Qiguan Yuan, until Qiguan Yuan called him over.

• Qiguan Yuan told Song Zhuangyi that Jixian at the Yue Lao Temple in Cloud-Hidden Town would be an even match with greater artistic depth.
• Pei Yubai received Qiguan Yuan's ID card and noticed that Qiguan Yuan had not replied to his message.
• Qiguan Yuan defeated Song Zhuangyi in their game, and Song Zhuangyi asked Pei Yubai to teach Shen Yuzhou and the others.
• Pei Yubai helped Shen Yuzhou and Cheng Yanqiu with their Go games, then teased Shen Yuzhou about holding stones like chopsticks.
• Qiguan Yuan called Pei Yubai over as Pei Yubai continued wishing he could sit beside him.

Qiguan Yuan learned pinyin from Pei Yubai at the teahouse and painted the Tree of Fate while the guests finished their Go lessons. After filming ended, Pei Yubai helped him register a Weibo account under the name Yuan Arrives Between Yu.

• Qiguan Yuan taught Shen Yuzhou how to save his Go stones, and Pei Yubai later watched Shen play until he passed.
• Pei Yubai explained pinyin to Qiguan Yuan, who learned to type his name and used voice input to transcribe “Say what?”
• Qiguan Yuan painted the Tree of Fate with fine red threads as the guests completed their Go lessons and filming ended.
• Song Zhuangyi admired Qiguan Yuan's painting and invited him to return for better tea.
• Pei Yubai gave Qiguan Yuan his ID card, finished setting up his phone, and helped him register a Weibo account as Yuan Arrives Between Yu.

Pei Yubai created a Weibo account for Qiguan Yuan, followed him, and changed his own profile to a photo of their clasped hands, setting off a frenzy among fans. After the account was verified and Xiao Yuan Grains rushed to follow it, Qiguan Yuan silenced its notifications and bit Pei Yubai's chest.

• Pei Yubai photographed his and Qiguan Yuan's clasped hands with the Dust-Settling Red Cord, created Qiguan Yuan's Weibo account, and changed his own following list and profile picture to highlight it.
• Chen Xiaolei saw Pei Yubai's changes, asked Shen Lingyi if he could resign, and learned that she wanted Qiguan Yuan's account verified and was willing to give him a raise.
• Imperial Fans and Xiao Yuan Grains argued over whether Yuan Arrives Between Yu belonged to Qiguan Yuan or was Pei Yubai's alt, while Huateng Group and luxury brands joined in with matching posts.
• Chen Xiaolei verified the account as Qiguan Yuan's, prompting Xiao Yuan Grains to follow it in huge numbers.
• Qiguan Yuan was startled by the flood of Weibo notifications, so Pei Yubai silenced them while covering Qiguan Yuan's twitching ears.
• Qiguan Yuan pressed against Pei Yubai and bit his chest, then licked the spot.

Qiguan Yuan teased Pei Yubai in the bathroom until Pei Yubai asked him to stop, then they returned to bed. Pei Yubai played with Qiguan Yuan's ears and tail and fell asleep holding him.

• Qiguan Yuan kissed and teased Pei Yubai, tracing his abs and pointing out his racing heartbeat.
• Pei Yubai asked Qiguan Yuan to stop teasing him and said he did not want their first time to happen in the bathroom.
• Qiguan Yuan agreed to wait, returned to bed with his book, and told Pei Yubai to get dressed.
• Pei Yubai took another cold shower, dressed with his first two buttons undone, and sat beside Qiguan Yuan.
• Qiguan Yuan lay down and said it was time to sleep, while Pei Yubai touched his ear and held his tail around his waist as he fell asleep.

After Huateng Group publicly backed Qiguan Yuan, the rumors against him faded, and Pei Yubai went to the warehouse set to film a fight scene. Qiguan Yuan later arrived unnoticed and watched Ji Shiyu shoot.

• As Qiguan Yuan’s followers surged, Chen Xiaolei alerted Shen Lingyi to marketing accounts spreading rumors about him.
• Huateng Group’s official Weibo account called Qiguan Yuan their little boss, prompting the critics to back down.
• Pei Yubai left Qiguan Yuan asleep and went to the warehouse set, where Meng Xu teased him about clearing his following list.
• Pei Yubai filmed a fight scene smoothly, while Ji Shiyu struggled and had to shoot a second take.
• Qiguan Yuan entered the warehouse unnoticed and watched Ji Shiyu from beside a camphor tree.

Qiguan Yuan coached Ji Shiyu through his fight scene, helping him deliver a fluid, powerful take. He then stunned the cast and livestream viewers with a sword dance using a branch, leaving everyone wondering how he could perform such feats while insisting he knew no martial arts.

• Song Yuan remained dissatisfied with Ji Shiyu's third take, and Ji Shiyu asked Pei Yubai for advice on his fighting technique.
• Qiguan Yuan demonstrated how to punch and helped Ji Shiyu improve his form, after which Ji Shiyu completed a take that satisfied Song Yuan.
• When Shen Yuzhou praised Qiguan Yuan's fighting, Qiguan Yuan said swordsmanship was different, and Pei Yubai asked him to teach him sword techniques for an upcoming film.
• Qiguan Yuan took a branch from the camphor tree and performed a graceful sword dance, then sent the branch through the tree trunk and into the ground.
• The warehouse guests and livestream viewers were stunned, but Qiguan Yuan denied knowing martial arts or kung fu.

Qiguan Yuan teased Pei Yubai by giving him a close, hands-on sword lesson, while realizing Pei Yubai already knew how to use a sword. After returning to the tree to lounge, Qiguan Yuan reflected on the sword dance Yun Yin had created for him and suspected Pei Yubai still retained unconscious habits from his former self.

• Qiguan Yuan took a prop sword and performed a sword dance for Pei Yubai, drawing the attention of the martial arts instructor, crew, and livestream viewers.
• Qiguan Yuan guided Pei Yubai's hands through the sword movements and invited him to take the sword, but Song Yuan called them back to work before Pei Yubai could respond.
• Qiguan Yuan returned the sword to the prop rack, and Shen Yuzhou asked Pei Yubai whether he had learned the technique; Pei Yubai admitted to himself that he already knew swordplay and had focused on Qiguan Yuan instead.
• Ji Shiyu accepted a tissue from Jiang Wantang and secretly tucked it into his pocket, while Pei Yubai arranged refreshments for Qiguan Yuan before returning to discuss the script with Song Yuan.
• Qiguan Yuan leaped into the camphor tree and lounged on a branch, then recalled that Yun Yin had created his sword technique specifically for him and recognized Pei Yubai's lingering unconscious habits.

Qiguan Yuan and Xiu Yun Yin were born beneath the Tree of Fate and grew close as Xiu Yun Yin helped him with his duties and cared for him. When the Tree of Fate condemned Qiguan Yuan’s love as an ill-fated bond, Xiu Yun Yin took its punishment and vanished, leaving Qiguan Yuan to search for him and preserve his memory.

• Qiguan Yuan emerged from the Tree of Fate, tied a red cord around Xiu Yun Yin’s wrist, and named him.
• Qiguan Yuan repeatedly mishandled his duties as Yue Lao, while Xiu Yun Yin patiently helped him and cared for him.
• Qiguan Yuan and Xiu Yun Yin shared warm osmanthus wine, teased each other, and spent many years together.
• The Tree of Fate condemned Qiguan Yuan’s feelings for Xiu Yun Yin as an ill-fated bond and sent black mist to punish him.
• Xiu Yun Yin shielded Qiguan Yuan from the black mist, revealed that he would bear the bonds Qiguan Yuan tied, and dissolved into motes of light.
• Qiguan Yuan left the Heavenly Realm, transplanted the Tree of Fate to the mortal world, and continued searching for Xiu Yun Yin while preserving his wine and memories.

Qiguan Yuan visited Chenchen before his kidney surgery and tied a red cord around his wrist. When Chenchen’s condition became critical during the operation, the cord drew him away from his dead parents in a misty vision, and the surgery succeeded.

• Qiguan Yuan fell asleep in a tree, then Pei Yubai caught him when he flipped down and agreed to take him to Chenchen’s surgery.
• Qiguan Yuan passed a sobbing woman named Yanyan at the hospital, where she soon learned that Xiaohai had a matching kidney donor.
• Qiguan Yuan visited Chenchen, accepted his drawing, and tied a red cord around his wrist before the nurse took him to surgery.
• Chenchen’s heart rate and blood pressure plunged during the operation, and medication failed to stop them from falling.
• In a misty vision, Chenchen met his dead parents, but the red cord tugged him back toward Qiguan Yuan.
• Chenchen’s vital signs recovered, and the lead surgeon completed the operation successfully.

Chenchen’s successful surgery brought Qiguan Yuan together with Pei Yubai’s parents, who had come to visit and were considering whether to adopt the child. Their meeting was interrupted by Meng Xu, who also arrived to check on Chenchen.

• After Chenchen’s successful surgery, Pei Yubai asked his assistant to meet Shen Lingyi and Pei Zhongkang, and Qiguan Yuan went along.
• Shen Lingyi and Pei Zhongkang discussed adopting Chenchen but worried about the risks to Pei Yubai, so they had not decided.
• Shen Lingyi greeted Qiguan Yuan warmly when she saw him at the hospital entrance, and he kept the gathering crowd at a distance.
• Meng Xu arrived to visit Chenchen, saying he had come ahead of Pei Yubai while the assistant director watched over the production.

Pei Yubai’s family and Meng Xu settled who would care for Chenchen, with Meng Xu agreeing to adopt him after his father relented. Pei Yubai became Chenchen’s godfather, and the Pei family bought the hospital where Chenchen was recovering, making it his first asset.

• Pei Yubai arrived at the hospital and learned that Meng Xu wanted to adopt Chenchen, though Meng Xu’s father initially opposed the plan.
• Qiguan Yuan noticed Chenchen’s thread of familial affection leaning toward Meng Xu and decided not to interfere with the match.
• Pei Zhongkang persuaded Meng Xu’s father to allow the adoption, and Meng Xu began preparing the documents.
• Shen Lingyi proposed making Pei Yubai Chenchen’s godfather, and Meng Xu supported the arrangement.
• Pei Zhongkang and Shen Lingyi told the hospital director they would buy the hospital and place it under Chenchen’s name.