Chapter Summaries

Jiang Nan and Fu Jingzhou argued over intimacy, and Jiang Nan left for the mall after waking up in Fu Jingzhou’s arms. He met Fu Xingli to secretly shop for wedding rings, but Fu Xingli failed to recognize him in disguise.

• Jiang Nan refused Fu Jingzhou’s preferred position, and Fu Jingzhou acted hurt until Jiang Nan agreed to continue another way.
• Jiang Nan brought out a separate quilt and let Little Black Ball sleep beside him after it called him Daddy.
• Jiang Nan woke up in Fu Jingzhou’s arms, accused him of moving him there during the night, and left without breakfast.
• Jiang Nan waited for Fu Xingli at the mall so they could buy wedding rings for Jiang Nan and Fu Zhouzhou.
• Fu Xingli mistook a stranger for Jiang Nan, then failed to recognize the disguised Jiang Nan sitting at another table.

Jiang Nan took Fu Xingli ring shopping while disguised in a wig, joking that he was out to have an affair and provoking a scene at a milk tea shop. After searching several jewelry stores without finding a ring he liked, he asked about having one custom-made.

• Jiang Nan's joke about having an affair made a young Omega spit out his milk tea, and the boy mistook Fu Xingli for Jiang Nan's lover before learning he was Jiang Nan's biological son.
• Fu Xingli shouted Jiang Nan's name in the milk tea shop, drawing attention from customers who recognized it, so Jiang Nan hurried out with him.
• Jiang Nan pressured Fu Xingli into accompanying him to buy a ring by threatening to encourage Shengsheng to break up with him if he failed his entrance exams.
• Jiang Nan and Fu Xingli browsed gold and diamond rings, but Jiang Nan rejected the available designs.
• At another jewelry store, Fu Xingli chose a plain band for himself, while Jiang Nan asked how long a custom ring would take and learned it would take at most half a month.

Jiang Nan ordered Fu Jingzhou a flashy pink diamond ring and bet Fu Xingli that Fu Jingzhou would like it. After a photo of Jiang Nan dressed as a woman became a trending topic, he saw that the post showed him only in a tiny corner beside Fu Xingli.

• Jiang Nan chose the largest pink diamond for Fu Jingzhou’s ring and bet Fu Xingli that Fu Jingzhou would say he liked it.
• Jiang Nan learned from Zhu Xia that a hashtag about his unusual fetish was trending on Weibo.
• Jiang Nan received teasing messages from Shangguan Feng, Shen Xingli, Qin Feng, and Fu Jingzhou, who asked if they had not been intimate the previous night.
• Fu Jingzhou heard that Fu Jinchuan was seeking funding through marriage and told Lin Shen to let him keep hopping around for a few more days.
• Jiang Nan opened the trending post and saw two photos in which Fu Xingli filled most of the frame while Jiang Nan appeared in a tiny corner.

Jiang Nan discovered that Fu Jingzhou was an Enigma, then prepared with him for the marriage reality show After the Honeymoon Phase. As the show’s livestreams began, Jiang Nan watched Yan Ling and Lin Cheng’s affectionate appearance while Fu Jingzhou was still at work.

• Jiang Nan read online speculation about his outing with Fu Xingli and ignored the malicious comments.
• Fu Jingzhou teased Jiang Nan about the outing, and later explained that he was an Enigma, a fourth sex beyond Alpha, Beta, and Omega.
• Little Black Ball played with scented SpongeBob SquarePants water beads while Jiang Nan and Fu Jingzhou spent time together at home.
• The crew installed cameras throughout Jiang Nan and Fu Jingzhou’s home for After the Honeymoon Phase.
• Jiang Nan watched the show’s opening livestream with Little Black Ball, and Yan Ling joined Lin Cheng on-screen with a plate of oranges and an affectionate kiss.

Jiang Nan watched Lin Cheng and Yan Ling defend their relationship against livestream comments, then tuned in to Qiao Haiyue’s segment. Qiao Haiyue said Xiao Yu was away on business and explained that he joined the show to support him, while viewers continued attacking him in the chat.

• Jiang Nan liked a comment criticizing Yan Ling and remarked that there were still normal people in the world.
• Lin Cheng told viewers who disliked him and Yan Ling to stop watching, then pretended to cry in Yan Ling’s arms over the comments.
• Lin Cheng asked Yan Ling to buy him a Ferrari, and Yan Ling agreed.
• Lin Cheng announced that he and Yan Ling would answer three questions from viewers.
• Jiang Nan got snacks and watched Qiao Haiyue’s livestream, where Qiao Haiyue said Xiao Yu was away on business and would likely return the next morning.
• Qiao Haiyue said he had not planned to join the show but came because Xiao Yu wanted to, while viewers accused him of lying and insulted him.

Jiang Nan watched Qiao Haiyue’s awkward livestream reunion with Xiao Yu before starting his own broadcast while Zhouzhou was still away. Viewers saw Jiang Nan’s luxurious home and speculated that his wife was rich.

• Jiang Nan and Little Black Ball watched Xiao Yu arrive during Qiao Haiyue’s livestream, and Xiao Yu joined Qiao Haiyue on camera.
• Xiao Yu told viewers he was putting work aside to spend time with his family, leaving Qiao Haiyue visibly uncertain about their relationship.
• Qiao Haiyue ended the livestream, and Jiang Nan and Little Black Ball found the exchange unsatisfying.
• Jiang Nan received permission from the production staff to start his livestream, though Zhouzhou had not returned yet.
• Jiang Nan began broadcasting alone and said his wife was still at work as he walked through their lavish home.
• Viewers saw Jiang Nan’s large, luxurious house and concluded that his wife was wealthy.

Jiang Nan introduced Fu Jingzhou to his livestream viewers, who first mistook the driver for his partner before being dazzled by Fu Jingzhou’s looks. The couple answered questions from the production team, leaving Jiang Nan flustered when Fu Jingzhou questioned whether Jiang Nan had really pursued him.

• Jiang Nan bantered with his livestream viewers while waiting outside for his wife to arrive.
• Lin Cheng mocked Jiang Nan’s apparent attempt to present himself as wealthy and assumed the driver was his partner.
• Jiang Nan greeted Fu Jingzhou affectionately and brought him into the livestream, prompting viewers to praise his appearance.
• Jiang Nan explained that Old Yang was his driver and gaming partner after viewers asked who he was.
• Jiang Nan answered that he had pursued Fu Jingzhou first, but Fu Jingzhou challenged him to say when he had actually done so.
• The chapter ended with Jiang Nan struggling to defend his claim as viewers sympathized with Fu Jingzhou.

Jiang Nan and Fu Jingzhou answered questions during a livestream, where Jiang Nan’s teasing confession and Fu Jingzhou’s caretaking delighted viewers. After the stream, Jiang Nan learned his positive trending topics might be part of a plan to ruin his reputation, while an online forum began digging into his public persona.

• Fu Jingzhou and Jiang Nan joked about who was the head of their household while answering livestream questions, and Jiang Nan revealed they had married before falling in love.
• Jiang Nan told Fu Jingzhou that he was annoyingly irresistible, while Fu Jingzhou told him to drink more water and made him finish his glass.
• After Jiang Nan ended the livestream, he complained that Fu Jingzhou had embarrassed him, and the two reconciled intimately.
• Zhu Xia warned Jiang Nan that someone might have paid to push his trending topics as a way to raise expectations before damaging his reputation.
• Jiang Nan went to bed in Fu Jingzhou’s arms, while an online forum started a thread investigating a male celebrity who supposedly loved crafting personas.

A Douban post accused Jiang Nan of manufacturing a wealthy-young-master persona and dragged Luo Hang into the dispute, pushing related hashtags up the trending list. The variety show After the Honeymoon Phase went live the next morning, showing Xu Lan and Zhang Ci’s routine and the distant, quiet morning of Qiao Haiyue and Xiao Yu.

• A Douban post accused Jiang Nan of faking his wealthy background and suggested he would adopt a wife-doting persona on the variety show, sparking a heated discussion about him and Luo Hang.
• The hashtags #Jiang Nan's Persona Collapses# and #Feeling Sorry for Luo Hang# climbed near the top of Weibo’s trending list overnight.
• Zhu Xia tried to call Jiang Nan repeatedly, then decided to wait and see how the controversy developed.
• Luo Hang’s manager told him about the trending topics, but Luo Hang refused to issue a statement and told the manager to stay out of it.
• After the Honeymoon Phase went live, Xu Lan and Zhang Ci greeted viewers while following their disciplined morning routine.
• Qiao Haiyue and Xiao Yu quietly prepared breakfast and then returned to their separate work, prompting viewers to comment on their awkward relationship.

Jiang Nan and Fu Jingzhou’s morning livestream showed Fu Jingzhou caring for the sleepy Jiang Nan, while viewers tuned in expecting drama. As Jiang Nan discovered that he had trended again, he opened Weibo to find out why.

• Lin Cheng and Yan Ling started their livestream with an affectionate breakfast, and Yan Ling fed Lin Cheng when he asked.
• Jiang Nan and Fu Jingzhou’s stream drew a large audience eager to see Jiang Nan’s reaction to the previous night’s drama.
• Fu Jingzhou covered the bedroom robot’s camera, then a second camera showed him helping Jiang Nan get dressed and wake up.
• Jiang Nan learned from his messages and missed calls that he had trended again, though he had not yet checked the reason.
• Fu Jingzhou served Jiang Nan boiled eggs with vinegar, and Jiang Nan opened Weibo to investigate the trending topic.

During a livestream, Jiang Nan dismissed the smear campaign against him, and his fans pushed back against rumors that lacked evidence. After breakfast, the couple received a mission to make their partner say they were happy to have married them, and Jiang Nan hid the mission card as Fu Jingzhou returned in a suit.

• Jiang Nan read viewers' comments while eating eggs, and Fu Jingzhou called him a big, strong man, which delighted him.
• Jiang Nan questioned why Luo Hang was being dragged into the smear campaign, and Fu Jingzhou wondered whether the original Jiang Nan had borrowed money from him.
• Jiang Nan complained about the smear articles, while his viewers criticized people for believing an anonymous post without proof.
• Zhu Xia saw the hashtag #KeepAClearHeadWhileFollowingDrama# rise on the trending list and paid to boost it further.
• The production team gave Jiang Nan and Fu Jingzhou a mission to get their partner to say, "I'm happy I married you," and Jiang Nan crumpled the card when Fu Jingzhou approached.
• Fu Jingzhou returned in an ink-black suit, while Jiang Nan continued using his recovered wheelchair like a bicycle around the residential complex.

Qiao Haiyue struggled with the show’s task while viewers revisited his complicated history with Xiao Yu, whose romance had once seemed sweet before rumors and public scrutiny surrounded their marriage. Lin Cheng and Yan easily completed their task, Xu Lan calmly assessed his, and Jiang Nan and Fu Jingzhou arrived at the Fu Group as their livestream resumed.

• Qiao Haiyue received the couples’ task card and looked stumped as viewers mocked his chances of completing it with Xiao Yu.
• The chapter recounted Qiao Haiyue’s rise to fame, his brief romance with Xiao Yu, and the rumors that he had used their two sons to force Xiao Yu into marriage.
• Lin Cheng told viewers that he and Yan found the task easy because they said the required words to each other all the time.
• Xu Lan briefly examined his task card and set it down without concern.
• Jiang Nan and Fu Jingzhou arrived at the Fu Group at nine thirty, and a hundred thousand viewers entered their livestream when it resumed.

Jiang Nan kept Fu Jingzhou company at work, joked with the livestream audience, and browsed another couple’s broadcast. On Xiao Yu and Qiao Haiyue’s stream, Qiao Haiyue revealed how long he had admired Xiao Yu, while the narration recalled how their relationship began and how little Qiao Haiyue expected from it.

• Jiang Nan started the livestream and asked Fu Jingzhou how to tell whether it was on, then joked with the director after mistaking his affected voice for a wrong number.
• Jiang Nan borrowed Fu Jingzhou’s tablet to read the comments, argued with viewers who teased him about being a delicate Alpha, and wondered why so many people were watching.
• Jiang Nan remembered the livestream task, then opened Xiao Yu and Qiao Haiyue’s broadcast to see them together in a study.
• Xiao Yu asked whether his guitar playing disturbed Qiao Haiyue, who confessed that he had admired Xiao Yu since childhood and spent his first part-time earnings on his album.
• The narration recalled that Xiao Yu and Qiao Haiyue began a sexual relationship after a drinking party, and that Qiao Haiyue expected neither love nor a lasting commitment from him.

Qiao Haiyue recalled falling for Xiao Yu and the misunderstanding that had kept them apart, then heard Xiao Yu confess that he had loved him at first sight and was happy to marry him. Xiao Yu’s words completed Qiao Haiyue’s task, while Jiang Nan tried and failed to get a romantic confession from Fu Jingzhou.

• Qiao Haiyue remembered preparing to confess to Xiao Yu, then leaving after seeing him trend with someone else.
• Xiao Yu asked Qiao Haiyue why he had never said how much he liked him and told him he wanted to hear it.
• Qiao Haiyue tried to dismiss Xiao Yu’s affection as love for a fan, but Xiao Yu said his feelings were different.
• Xiao Yu told Qiao Haiyue it had been love at first sight and that marrying him had made him happy, completing Qiao Haiyue’s task.
• Jiang Nan left the livestream after seeing the comments, then asked Fu Jingzhou for something romantic to say; Fu Jingzhou told him to drink more hot water.

Jiang Nan searched for advice on his task during a livestream, showed viewers a squishy toy, and received a custom pink diamond he hoped would help him complete it. Meanwhile, Lin Cheng checked the trending searches and found that neither he nor Yan Ling had made the list.

• Jiang Nan asked his livestream viewers for ideas and showed them his GG Bond squishy toy, but they mocked his choice.
• Fu Jingzhou told Jiang Nan that a package had arrived under the recipient name Left Bank Coffee, Right Bank Hunk, and Lin Shen handed it to him.
• Jiang Nan opened the package and realized it contained the custom pink diamond he had ordered, which he hoped would move Fu Zhouzhou to tears and help him complete his task.
• Jiang Nan and the others ended their livestreams for lunch.
• Lin Cheng checked the trending searches, expecting to find himself and Yan Ling, but saw no mention of them.

Lin Cheng watched the livestream clips and tried to redirect public attention toward Jiang Nan’s wealth, while Jiang Nan’s livestream featured Fu Xingli’s visit and their teasing banter. Fu Xingli then joined Fu Jingzhou to sign a share-transfer contract, which Fu Jingzhou approved after recalling Fu Xingli’s childhood bed-wetting incident.

• Lin Cheng watched clips of Xiao Yu and Qiao Haiyue, then dismissed the public’s reaction to Jiang Nan’s gifts as gullibility.
• Jiang Nan began his livestream, joked with viewers, and introduced Fu Xingli as his son when Fu Xingli arrived.
• Fu Jingzhou returned from a meeting, confirmed Fu Xingli had once called Jiang Nan Dad, and asked why Fu Xingli had come to the company.
• Fu Xingli hinted at a bet with Jiang Nan, while Jiang Nan denied that Fu Jingzhou was jealous.
• Lin Cheng and Yan Ling streamed from a rooftop beside a helicopter, and Lin Cheng arranged for Jiang Nan’s wealthy-young-master label to trend again.
• Fu Xingli followed Fu Jingzhou to sign a share-transfer contract, and Fu Jingzhou told him to sign after recalling the night Fu Xingli wet his bed as a child.

Fu Jingzhou took control of the company’s shares while preparing to join Jiang Nan on a show, and Jiang Nan tried to cheer him up after sensing his unhappiness. The chapter ended with Jiang Nan revealing a pink diamond ring and telling Fu Jingzhou he had bought it for him.

• Fu Xingli transferred his five percent shareholding to Fu Jingzhou for a hundred yuan and joked with him about his relationship with Jiang Nan.
• Fu Jingzhou returned to the office, where Jiang Nan asked if he was unhappy, but Fu Jingzhou denied it.
• Jiang Nan argued with viewers who criticized him while building Lego beside Fu Jingzhou.
• On the drive, Jiang Nan stopped the car and returned with a roasted sweet potato for Fu Jingzhou.
• Jiang Nan teased Fu Jingzhou with a riddle, then revealed a pink diamond ring worth six hundred and seventy thousand and promised to save for a better one.

Jiang Nan gave Fu Jingzhou a pink diamond ring during the livestream and cheered him up, then defended him after online commenters accused him of having plastic surgery. With Jiang Qingye’s help, Jiang Nan filed a lawsuit against one commenter, and Fu Jingzhou reassured him that he was right to be angry.

• Jiang Nan gave Fu Jingzhou a pink diamond ring and told him to look at Little Jiang whenever he felt unhappy; Fu Jingzhou said he had been happy every day since marrying him.
• After the livestream ended, Jiang Nan kissed Fu Jingzhou in the elevator, then messaged Fu Xingli until Fu Xingli posted the requested message.
• Zhu Xia told Jiang Nan that he was trending again, and Jiang Nan saw online comments claiming Fu Jingzhou had a plastic-surgery face.
• Jiang Nan reposted one commenter’s accusation as evidence of defamation and told Zhu Xia he would not let anyone insult Fu Jingzhou.
• Jiang Nan asked Jiang Qingye to find him a lawyer, filed a lawsuit against the commenter, and announced it on Weibo.
• Fu Jingzhou learned why Jiang Nan was angry, affirmed that Jiang Nan was right, and praised him as fierce.

Lin Cheng tried to revive a smear campaign against Jiang Nan, but Fu Group intervened after Jiang Nan said he planned to leave entertainment and return to school. The chapter ended with Jiang Nan seeing Fu Group’s trending declaration that it would pursue accountability to the very end.

• Fu Jingzhou accepted Jiang Nan’s proposal, while Lin Cheng discovered that Jiang Nan’s lawsuit had replaced the trending topics he had arranged.
• Lin Cheng concluded Jiang Nan had staged the lawsuit to divert attention and paid trolls to promote a claim that Jiang Nan’s rich young master persona was fake.
• Jiang Nan told Zhu Xia he was tired of the entertainment industry and planned to return to school.
• A staff member told Zhu Xia that Fu Group had spoken out, and Jiang Nan confirmed Fu Jingzhou was connected to the group.
• Jiang Nan opened Weibo and saw the trending topic #Fu Group will pursue accountability to the very end#.

Fu Group publicly defended Fu Jingzhou and Jiang Nan, prompting Jiang Nan to feel reassured by Fu Jingzhou’s support. Zhou Qianqian realized Lin Cheng was abandoning her to take the blame, and Lin Cheng received an angry call from Shen Anbai.

• Fu Group reposted Zhou Qianqian’s rumor post and announced it would sue over the claims about Fu Jingzhou and Jiang Nan.
• Jiang Nan thanked Fu Jingzhou for protecting him, and Fu Jingzhou reminded him that they were married and should protect each other.
• Lin Cheng told Zhou Qianqian that Fu Group would sue her mother and denied responsibility for the rumor campaign.
• Lin Cheng reminded Zhou Qianqian that he had paid her father’s hospital bills and warned that she had no leverage against him.
• Lin Cheng answered an unfamiliar caller impatiently, and the man identified himself as Shen Anbai.