Recaps

After transmigrating into the cruel Wen Ning, Wen Ning tried to protect Bo Yan and replace her former hostility with affection. She left for her family home after the drugging incident, while Bo Yan began to question her changed behavior and received an unexpected visitor.

• Wen Ning woke in the novel beside an injured Bo Yan, then kissed him and promised to love him properly.
• Bo Xubai beat Bo Yan, but Wen Ning intervened, called the police, and helped Bo Yan back to the annex.
• Wen Ning defended Bo Yan at breakfast and thwarted the drugging plot by throwing away Jiang Tingwan’s tainted bird’s nest soup.
• After Bo Yan suffered the drug’s effects, Wen Ning contacted Doctor Xie for help and went to her parents’ home with injuries of her own.
• Wen Ning told her family she no longer liked Bo Xubai and wanted to build a life with Bo Yan, while Wen Jing began to reconsider his treatment of Bo Yan.
• Wen Ning removed the Bo Xubai decorations from her room and sent Bo Yan affectionate messages, promising not to force him when he was unwilling.
• Mother Wen advised Wen Ning to stay away for a few days and make Bo Yan come for her, while Bo Yan wondered whether Wen Ning had truly changed.
• Bo Yan heard someone knock, armed himself, and then heard the visitor identify himself as A-Yan.

Wen Ning grew closer to Bo Yan as she defended him from Bo Xubai, rescued him from kidnappers, and learned more about his painful past. The arc ended with her finding Bo Yan badly injured after his father forced him to kneel in the storm and urging him not to blame himself.

• Jiang Tingwan brought Bo Yan medicine and food, but he discarded them and suspected she was hiding a secret about him.
• Wen Ning welcomed Bo Yan back, filled her bedroom with his merchandise, and shared increasingly intimate moments with him at the Wen Family home.
• Wen Ning stood up for Bo Yan at the Bo Group, exposed He Cheng’s insults, and left with Bo Yan for lunch as his coworkers watched.
• Wen Ning was kidnapped, and Bo Yan tracked her down, infiltrated the kidnappers’ hideout, and fought them until she stopped him.
• The police arrested the kidnappers, and Bo Yan carried Wen Ning from the station while she reassured him and promised to investigate why she had been targeted.
• Wen Ning dreamed that Bo Yan would lose his sense of taste and die by suicide at twenty-eight, then learned he was kneeling in the rain under his father’s punishment.
• Wen Ning and Wen Jing found Bo Yan bleeding from whip wounds, and Wen Ning held him and told him that no one had the right to beat him or make him hate himself.