Chapter Summaries

Wen Ning helped Bo Yan feel safe enough to eat lunch by tasting his food first, then spent the afternoon teasing him and standing up for him. After Bo Yan had Xu Lin and the others fired, he received Wen Ning’s messages and found himself looking forward to her waiting outside to take him home.

• Wen Ning ate first and chatted with Bo Yan until he felt safe enough to try the lunch she had brought.
• Bo Yan reluctantly tried the dishes, and he and Wen Ning joked and teased each other throughout lunch.
• When Xu Lin and the others begged Bo Yan to ask Wen Ning to spare them, he told them to go die instead.
• HR fired Xu Lin and the others, while the team leader worried that Bo Yan might turn against her too.
• Bo Yan replied to Wen Ning’s messages after finishing work and left the building when he heard her Ferrari honking outside.

Wen Ning and Bo Yan grew closer, and Xie Luping realized Wen Ning was no longer the original person. The next day, Wen Ning was kidnapped, while Bo Yan sensed something was wrong and began to panic.

• At dinner, Wen Ning teased Bo Yan with affectionate remarks, and Xie Luping confronted him about whether they were dating.
• Bo Yan began to tell Xie Luping that Wen Ning was not the same, but Wen Ning returned before he could finish; Bo Yan then confirmed Xie Luping had noticed the change.
• Jiang Tingwan visited the Bo Family home with cakes and apologized for A-Xu, but Bo Yan later threw the cakes away.
• The next morning, Wen Ning gave Bo Yan the Ferrari and left to meet the original owner's best friend for lunch.
• A group of people grabbed Wen Ning in an underground parking lot, and she was knocked unconscious.
• At work, Bo Yan's glass shattered, and he felt sudden panic as Wen Ning failed to message him about lunch.

After Wen Ning disappeared, Bo Yan used a tracker on her phone and rushed to find her, while Wen Jing and Tian Xin waited anxiously. Wen Ning woke in the kidnappers’ hideout, where they mistook her for Bo Xubai’s woman, just as Bo Yan called to ask where she was.

• Wen Jing told Bo Yan that Wen Ning had failed to meet Tian Xin and could not be reached, and Bo Yan promised to find her.
• Bo Yan tracked Wen Ning’s phone and hurried toward its location in the eastern suburbs, while Tian Xin sought surveillance footage and set a half-hour deadline.
• Bo Xubai rejected a kidnapper’s ransom threat and blocked his number, leaving the kidnappers shocked.
• Wen Ning pretended to wake as the kidnappers threatened her, then learned they had targeted Bo Yurong’s son to avenge the boss’s brother.
• The kidnappers answered Wen Ning’s ringing phone, and Bo Yan asked where she was and why she had not brought lunch.

Wen Ning was kidnapped by mistake, and Bo Yan infiltrated the warehouse to rescue her. After the kidnappers discovered his disguise, Bo Yan put himself between them and Wen Ning, telling her to hide as the fight began.

• The kidnappers called Bo Yan for ransom, and Wen Ning used their phone call to signal that she had been kidnapped.
• Bo Yan taunted the kidnappers over the phone while Wen Ning secretly told him how many men there were and what weapons they had.
• Bo Yan climbed into the abandoned factory, knocked out the lookout called Fourth, and stole his clothes as a disguise.
• Bo Yan entered the warehouse, freed Wen Ning's hands, and reassured her through gestures.
• The kidnappers realized Bo Yan was not Fourth and charged at him, so he pulled Wen Ning behind him, handed her his baseball bat, and told her, "Wen Ning, be good."

Wen Ning hid while Bo Yan fought off the kidnappers, then discovered his note promising that she would be safe and that Wen Jing had already called the police. As Bo Yan’s violent attack brought back memories of his brutal past, Wen Ning stopped him from going too far, only to take her own turn beating the musclehead.

• Bo Yan gave Wen Ning his phone and attacked the musclehead, while Wen Ning hid and found his note saying Wen Jing had called the police and telling her to stay hidden and not be afraid.
• Bo Yan defeated the musclehead’s lackeys and pinned their leader down, consumed by memories of his childhood abuse, underground fights, and his mother’s attempt to poison him.
• Wen Ning ran out and grabbed Bo Yan’s hand when he kept beating the musclehead, and Bo Yan came to himself and fell back in alarm.
• Wen Ning reassured Bo Yan, then took off her heels and began striking the musclehead for pulling her hair, while Bo Yan moved aside.

After Wen Ning was rescued from the kidnappers, she reunited with her family and agreed to give the police a statement. When her injured foot hurt, Bo Yan let her hold his hand and crouched down to carry her.

• Wen Ning mocked the kidnappers as the police arrived and arrested them.
• Wen Jing and Tian Xin rushed to embrace Wen Ning, and Bo Yan steadied her when they made her stumble.
• Wen Ning told Bo Yan she thought she had twisted her foot, and she agreed to go with the police to give a statement.
• Wen Jing clung to Wen Ning until Mrs. Wen scolded him, making Wen Ning and the others laugh.
• Wen Ning held Bo Yan's hand and told him her foot hurt, and Bo Yan crouched down and told her to climb onto his back.

After Wen Ning’s kidnapping, her parents confronted Bo Xubai at the police station while Wen Ning and her companions watched. On the ride home, Wen Ning comforted Bo Yan, whose emotional reaction left him hiccuping in embarrassment.

• Bo Xubai arrived at the police station after Wen Ning and Bo Yan had given their statements and anxiously apologized to Wen Ning’s parents.
• Bai Rong and Wen Haichuan indirectly accused Bo Xubai of taking his grievances against the Wen Family too far, then invited Wen Ning and her family home.
• Wen Ning, Wen Jing, Tian Xin, and Bo Yan watched from behind a wall and gave Wen Ning’s parents thumbs-up; Wen Ning made Bo Yan raise his thumb too.
• Bo Yan carried Wen Ning past Bo Xubai, who struggled to apologize and watched them leave with resentment.
• In the car, Wen Ning returned Bo Yan’s phone only after telling him not to be afraid because she was there.
• Bo Yan began hiccuping after Wen Ning praised him, and he turned toward the window in embarrassment as she laughed.

After Wen Ning suspected the kidnapping had been aimed at Jiang Tingwan, Bo Yan agreed to help investigate and let her fall asleep against him. He left the Wen home after receiving a call from his father, while Wen Ning dreamed of an old monk telling her about a gifted boy who died by suicide at twenty-eight.

• Wen Ning asked Bo Yan whether the kidnappers had targeted Jiang Tingwan, and he agreed to help her investigate.
• Wen Ning linked her arm with Bo Yan's and fell asleep on his shoulder during the ride home.
• Bo Yan carried Wen Ning upstairs and gently patted her back until she fell asleep again.
• Bo Yan declined the Wen family's invitation to dinner after his father called, and the family thanked him for protecting Wen Ning.
• Wen Ning dreamed that an old monk had once told her about a boy who became a top science student but later jumped off a building at age twenty-eight.

After dreaming about Bo Yan’s possible future, Wen Ning woke and recovered among her loving family and best friend. At the Bo household, Bo Yan’s father made him kneel in the pouring rain until he collapsed, and Wen Ning rushed to catch him.

• Wen Ning dreamed that Bo Yan might lose his sense of taste and die by suicide at twenty-eight, then woke unsettled by the dream.
• Wen Ning joined her family and Tian Xin downstairs, where they cared for her injuries and cursed the kidnappers and Bo Xubai.
• Bo Yan’s father refused the butler’s request to move Bo Yan out of the rain, insisting he keep kneeling until he admitted his mistake.
• While kneeling in the rain with his injuries bleeding, Bo Yan thought about Wen Ning and hoped she was safe at home.
• Bo Yan collapsed, and Wen Ning rushed to catch him in the rain.

Wen Ning rushed to the Bo Family's house after Bo Yan stopped answering her calls and found him badly injured from his father's punishment. She comforted him and prepared to confront Bo Yurong, leaving Bo Yan to recognize that he did not deserve the blame or abuse.

• Wen Ning failed to reach Bo Yan by phone, so she and Wen Jing drove through the storm to the Bo Family's house.
• Wen Ning and Wen Jing found Bo Yan kneeling outside the main house, bleeding from severe whip wounds.
• Bo Yan collapsed into Wen Ning's arms, and she discovered he had a fever before covering him with Wen Jing's jacket.
• Wen Ning told Wen Jing to stay with Bo Yan while she went inside to speak with Bo Yurong.
• Bo Yan stopped Wen Ning and begged her not to go, but she told him he should not accept punishment for someone else's wrongdoing.
• Wen Ning hugged Bo Yan and told him that no one, not even his father, had the right to beat him and that he should not hate himself.