Chapter Summaries

Jiang Jinran arranged an early birthday celebration for Jiang Yuehan and Jiang Qiche, bringing the brothers together at home. After Jiang Qiche returned to school, Jiang Yuehan paid Jiang Jinran the promised five million for helping bring him home.

• Jiang Jinran surprised Jiang Yuehan and Jiang Qiche with birthday cakes and sang for them as they made wishes and blew out the candles.
• Jiang Yuehan thanked Jiang Jinran and wished for the Jiang family to grow closer.
• Jiang Qiche left the Jiang family home after dinner and returned to school, while Jiang Yuehan accepted that rebuilding their relationship would take time.
• Jiang Jinran reminded Jiang Yuehan that he owed her five million for getting Jiang Qiche to come home, and he agreed to pay.
• Jiang Jinran returned to her room and received a five-million transfer from Jiang Yuehan.

Jiang Yuyan secretly returned to the castle estate and discovered through its surveillance cameras that Han Yi was living there with Bai Ling and their daughter, Xiaoxue. Heartbroken by his betrayal, she watched Xiaoxue ask when they could stop hiding in the castle.

• Jiang Yuyan returned from abroad without telling Han Yi and went to the castle estate to find out what he was doing.
• Jiang Yuyan entered the surveillance room and saw Han Yi relaxing on the terrace.
• Bai Ling joined Han Yi, and he promised to give her proper status once the time was right.
• Jiang Yuyan watched Han Yi and Bai Ling embrace and realized his love for her had been false.
• Xiaoxue arrived and called Han Yi and Bai Ling her parents, confirming that they had a daughter.
• Xiaoxue asked Han Yi when they would no longer have to hide in the castle.

After discovering Han Yi’s betrayal, Jiang Yuyan decided to divorce him only after securing the Jiang Family’s assets. Before returning home, she sold Rose Manor, leaving Han Yi to learn that he and Bai Ling and Bai Xue had to move out.

• Jiang Yuyan deleted the castle’s surveillance footage, left, and decided to plan her divorce from Han Yi without alerting him.
• Jiang Yuyan bought a flight home but chose to take care of something before leaving.
• Han Yi watched Bai Ling and Bai Xue practice piano at Rose Manor and reflected on his plan to control the Jiang Family.
• A buyer called Han Yi and told him that Jiang Yuyan had sold Rose Manor and expected him to move out that day.
• Han Yi, stunned and furious, called Jiang Yuyan, who answered and asked what he wanted.

Jiang Yuyan sold Rose Manor, forcing Han Yi to move out with his girlfriend and illegitimate daughter. At a café, Jiang Jinran and Ji Shuying refused to leave when men in black cleared the place for Lu Wanning, who ordered them thrown out.

• Jiang Yuyan told Han Yi she had sold Rose Manor because he disliked it, and said he could move to an upscale apartment downtown.
• Han Yi swallowed his anger and asked after Jiang Yuyan and the children before she ended the call from the airport.
• Jiang Jinran and Ji Shuying studied together, then went to an expensive café, where Jiang Jinran treated them with her saved pocket money.
• Men in black cleared the café for Lu Wanning, but Jiang Jinran stayed to finish her coffee and Ji Shuying stayed with her.
• Lu Wanning entered, saw the two girls still there, and ordered her men to dump out their coffee and throw them out.

Jiang Jinran tried to get even with Lu Wanning by sneaking into the café to photograph her with a handsome man, but got trapped in the ladies' room and overheard Lu Wanning discussing someone who kept avoiding her. The chapter ended with Jiang Jinran listening as Lu Wanning spoke to her brother, Lu Yunxiao.

• Lu Wanning's men in black forced Jiang Jinran and Ji Shuying out of the café after Jiang Jinran challenged their behavior.
• Jiang Jinran recognized Lu Wanning and sent Ji Shuying home, then stayed behind to investigate her meeting with a handsome man.
• Jiang Jinran saw Lu Wanning affectionately feeding the man and prepared to photograph them, but Lu Wanning looked toward her hiding place.
• Jiang Jinran tried to escape through the side door, found it locked, and hid in a restroom stall as Lu Wanning entered the neighboring one.
• Jiang Jinran overheard Lu Wanning call her brother Lu Yunxiao and complain that someone had repeatedly put off seeing her.

Jiang Jinran overheard Lu Wanning plotting to drug Jiang Yuehan at the Vienna Hotel and rushed there to warn him, but she could not reach him or find his room. At the hotel, she unexpectedly encountered the novel’s male lead, Lu Tingshen.

• Jiang Jinran overheard Lu Wanning arrange with her brother to drug Jiang Yuehan at the Vienna Hotel that night.
• Jiang Jinran tried several times to warn Jiang Yuehan, but he did not answer his phone and was not at home.
• Jiang Jinran decided to go to the Vienna Hotel and asked the driver to wait outside while she searched alone.
• Jiang Jinran discovered she did not know Jiang Yuehan’s room number and found that his phone had been switched off.
• Jiang Jinran saw Lu Tingshen in the hotel corridor as he spoke with his mother, who worked there as a cleaner.

Jiang Jinran found Lu Tingshen and his mother, Lu Ying, at the Vienna Hotel and learned that Jiang Yuehan was on the twentieth floor. After following Jiang Yuehan and Lu Yunxiao to a private room, she hid when Lu Wanning arrived.

• Jiang Jinran greeted Lu Tingshen and Lu Ying, who was relieved that his classmate seemed friendly.
• Jiang Jinran asked Lu Ying to help find her brother and described Jiang Yuehan as a driver for a tall, handsome rich man.
• Lu Ying recalled seeing Jiang Yuehan and several other suited men on the twentieth floor, and Jiang Jinran hurried upstairs.
• Jiang Jinran spotted Jiang Yuehan walking with Lu Yunxiao, followed them to private room 2013, and debated whether to warn him.
• Jiang Jinran heard heels approaching, hid behind a pillar, and saw Lu Wanning arrive.

Jiang Jinran disguised herself and entered Jiang Yuehan’s private room, where she pretended to be a worried, clingy younger sister to explain her sudden arrival. When Lu Wanning tried to toast Jiang Yuehan, Jiang Jinran intervened possessively, leaving Lu Wanning visibly unsettled.

• Jiang Jinran put on a face mask and returned to private room 2013, where security guards grabbed her after she entered.
• Jiang Jinran called out to Jiang Yuehan, and he ordered the guards to release her.
• Jiang Jinran sat beside Jiang Yuehan, hugged his arm, and claimed she had been worried because he had not answered her calls.
• Jiang Yuehan discovered his phone had been silenced and comforted Jiang Jinran, while the guests treated her gently.
• Lu Wanning offered Jiang Yuehan a toast, but Jiang Jinran grabbed his arm and declared that he was hers, making Lu Wanning’s smile stiffen.

At dinner, Jiang Yuehan rejected Lu Wanning’s advances and sided with Jiang Jinran, who openly insisted he not speak to her. When Lu Yunxiao brought out wine, Jiang Jinran suspected he had tampered with a glass and stepped in to help him pour.

• Jiang Yuehan recalled that Lu Yunxiao had secretly been winning over his subordinates, but decided to conceal that he knew and turn Lu Yunxiao’s scheme against him.
• Jiang Yuehan refused Lu Wanning’s toast and ignored her, while Lu Wanning resolved to make him drink the spiked wine later.
• When Lu Wanning tried to speak with Jiang Yuehan again, Jiang Jinran grabbed his arm and told him not to talk to her; he agreed, surprising everyone with their mutual devotion.
• Lu Yunxiao announced that he had brought an old bottle of wine and prepared new glasses, prompting Jiang Jinran to suspect that he had tampered with the glass set apart from the others.
• Jiang Jinran offered to help Lu Yunxiao pour the wine, interrupting him as he began serving everyone.

Jiang Jinran sabotaged Lu Yunxiao and Lu Wanning’s scheme by switching the spiked wineglass, causing Lu Wanning to drink it instead of Jiang Yuehan. After Lu Wanning fell in front of the guests, Jiang Jinran left the room and encountered a young man in the lobby.

• Jiang Jinran switched Jiang Yuehan’s prepared wineglass with an ordinary one while Lu Yunxiao poured the drinks.
• Lu Wanning snatched the remaining glass from Jiang Jinran and drank the tampered wine.
• Lu Wanning became flushed and disoriented, then lunged at Jiang Yuehan, who dodged and let her fall to the floor.
• Jiang Yuehan told Jiang Jinran to leave and thanked her, though he did not explain that he had heard her thoughts.
• Jiang Jinran left private room 2013 and met the gaze of a young man on the first floor.