Recaps

At the Lu Family banquet, Lu Changcheng announced that Lu Muchi and Qi Xuehong would get engaged next month, while Lu Muchi was messaging Yan Heqing. Yan Heqing revealed he was at the Lu residence, and Lu Muchi hurried off to find him.

• Lin Fengzhi hoped Yan Heqing had refused Lu Muchi, then felt crushed when Lu Lin walked past without recognizing him.
• Lin Fengyi greeted Lu Lin at the villa entrance, and Lu Lin entered without further conversation.
• At the banquet, Lu Changcheng seated Qi Xuehong beside him and encouraged her to call Lu Lin “Uncle.”
• Lu Muchi messaged Yan Heqing, who replied that he knew Lu Muchi was eating and that he was at the house.
• Lu Changcheng announced Lu Muchi and Qi Xuehong would hold their engagement ceremony next month.
• Yan Heqing ate seafood fried rice in a corridor and switched off his phone, while Lu Muchi decided to go find him.

Lu Muchi rushed to find Yan Heqing after seeing him with Lu Lin, while Lu Lin left the banquet and Yan Heqing disguised himself as kitchen staff to pass him unnoticed. Yan Heqing told Lu Muchi to enjoy his engagement, and after Lu Muchi declared it would not happen without his consent, Yan Heqing left and encountered Lin Fengzhi, who was interrupted by a familiar voice.

• Lu Muchi ignored Lu Changcheng and hurried out of the banquet to find Yan Heqing.
• Lu Lin left the table, and Lin Fengzhi chased after him but lost sight of him.
• Yan Heqing, disguised as a kitchen assistant, passed Lu Lin in the corridor without being recognized.
• Lu Muchi found Yan Heqing, urged him to leave, and was told, “Congratulations. Happy engagement.”
• Lu Muchi declared that the engagement would not happen unless he agreed, while Yan Heqing left the residence.
• Lin Fengzhi ran into Yan Heqing, sensed something unusual about his eyes, and froze when a deep voice called his name.

Yan Heqing received an anonymous gift of pineapples and a carefully preserved superhero comic, which stirred memories of finding a quiet refuge as a child. After registering for his driving test, he accepted Lu Lin’s offer of driving instruction and a practice ground in exchange for a favor.

• Yan Heqing opened two deliveries and found pineapples and a copy of Superhero with a message written inside.
• Yan Heqing recalled childhood memories of being scolded for reading comics and finding comfort in an old comic at a recycling station.
• Yan Heqing accepted the anonymous gift without contacting the sender, while Lin Fengzhi did not reach out or post on Moments.
• Yan Heqing registered for his subject one driving test and received an offer for driving lessons from an instructor outside the vehicle administration office.
• Lu Lin called Yan Heqing and offered instruction for subjects two and three and a matching practice ground in return for a favor; Yan Heqing agreed to help.

Yan Heqing passed the theory test and joined his new class’s WeChat group, where classmates recognized him and Gu Xingye welcomed him. At the orphanage’s Lantern Festival outing to the Lu Group amusement park, Yan Heqing carried a frightened child downstairs, and Lu Lin ordered an elevator installed.

• Yan Heqing accepted Yang Rucheng’s WeChat request and joined Biological Sciences, Class 2, where Gu Xingye and the other students welcomed him.
• Yan Heqing kept studying and volunteering, then passed the theory test with a score of 100 and planned to tell Lu Lin about it at the amusement park outing.
• Yan Heqing arrived at the orphanage as the children prepared to board coaches for the Lu Group amusement park opening, and learned that Lu Lin had sent employees to help.
• Yan Heqing found Xiao Rong crying because she was frightened by an unfamiliar male employee, then carried her downstairs himself.
• The assistant told Lu Lin what had happened, and Lu Lin ordered an elevator installed.

Yan Heqing took the children from Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home to Dream Amusement Park, where they spent the day enjoying its attractions. At the sky lantern release, Lu Lin appeared and handed Yan Heqing a lantern, inviting him to make a wish.

• Yan Heqing took the children to Dream Amusement Park, where Lu Lin had arranged a special day for welfare homes from across the country.
• Yan Heqing pushed Xiao Rong around the park, and Lu Lin remained out of sight despite having arrived.
• At dinner, Yan Heqing noticed an elderly former welfare-home employee watching him.
• Yan Heqing brought Xiao Rong to the sky lantern release as a song he and Lu Lin had heard together played nearby.
• Lu Lin appeared with a sky lantern for Yan Heqing, then handed him a fountain pen and asked him to make a wish.

At the sky lantern event, Yan Heqing made a wish to see a sunrise two years later and gave Lu Lin a lucky coin. As the outing ended, Yan Heqing arranged to practice driving with Lu Lin the next morning and returned to the orphanage with Xiao Rong.

• Yan Heqing wrote a wish to see the sunrise on March 4, 20XX, on his sky lantern and released it with Lu Lin and Xiao Rong.
• Lu Lin recalled hearing that a wealthy man had once wanted to adopt Yan Heqing, but Yan Heqing had disappeared and later taken his younger brother instead.
• Yan Heqing gave Lu Lin a cleaned one-yuan coin he had found in his food, saying it would bring good luck.
• Yan Heqing made another wish, and Lu Lin said he had a wish of his own now and would let Yan Heqing's wish come true.
• Yan Heqing told Lu Lin he had passed his driving theory test, and they agreed that Lu Lin would pick him up at eight the next morning for practice.
• Yan Heqing took Xiao Rong back to the orphanage, returned home near eleven, and went to bed after standing against the wall for fifteen minutes.

Lu Lin returned to the Lu residence and found Lu Muchi trying to escape after refusing the arranged marriage, while Lu Changcheng blamed Lin Fengzhi for the rebellion. The next morning, Yan Heqing waited at school with a lunch box, and Gu Xingye mistook him from a distance for Lin Fengzhi.

• Lu Han summoned Lu Lin to the Lu residence, but Lu Lin tried to leave after learning Lu Changcheng's blood pressure had come down.
• Lu Muchi broke out of his room with a bleeding hand, then stopped when he saw Lu Lin at the gate.
• Lu Changcheng blamed Lin Fengzhi for Lu Muchi's refusal, while Lu Muchi let him believe it to keep him from seeking out Yan Heqing.
• Lu Changcheng ordered the bodyguards to take Lu Muchi inside for treatment, and Lu Lin left without intervening.
• Yan Heqing prepared breakfast and extra dumplings before waiting at the school gate, where Gu Xingye briefly mistook him for Lin Fengzhi.

Yan Heqing brought Lu Lin breakfast and took him to Xiumei Flower Garden, where Zhu Xiumei recalled Yan’s difficult high-school years and later received a flower-supply contract. On the drive back, Lu Lin shared memories of his modest childhood, and Yan offered to cook him instant noodles.

• Yan Heqing gave Lu Lin homemade steamed dumplings, and Lu Lin ate them on the drive to the flower garden.
• Zhu Xiumei welcomed Yan Heqing and sent him to harvest lychee honey while she told Lu Lin how Yan had worked for her as a teenager and often stayed for meals.
• Yan Heqing bought three jars of honey, and Lu Lin asked Zhu Xiumei for her business card before leaving.
• Zhu Xiumei received a call offering Xiumei Flower Garden a two-year flower-supply contract.
• In the cramped car, Lu Lin told Yan Heqing about his childhood bicycle, a confrontation with Xie Yunjie, and his past meals of instant noodles.
• Yan Heqing offered to cook Lu Lin instant noodles sometime.

Yan Heqing remembered the abuse that had taught him to hide his claws, then shared a warm farewell with Lu Lin after driving practice. When he returned home with groceries, Lin Fengzhi appeared and urgently tried to take him somewhere.

• Yan Heqing recalled surviving childhood hunger on instant noodles and remembered how Yan Shengbing's violence had made him afraid to fight back.
• Yan Heqing asked Lu Lin about his fight with Mr. Xie, then invited him to share instant noodles when he got his license; Lu Lin agreed.
• Yan Heqing passed the second-test driving maneuvers, and Lu Lin took a candid photo of him and set it as his lock screen.
• Yan Heqing went to the supermarket for noodles and ingredients, then ignored a call from Lin Fengzhi as he returned home.
• Lin Fengzhi hurried downstairs, grabbed Yan Heqing's arm, and urged him to come with him; Yan Heqing said he had not eaten, and Lin Fengzhi asked where he had been.

Lin Fengzhi asked Yan Heqing to visit the Lu residence and deliver a message to Lu Muchi, and Yan Heqing saw the request as an opportunity to get inside. Yan Heqing left his agreement uncertain, while Lin Fengzhi also questioned him about the wealthy friend who had given him a crystal ornament.

• Yan Heqing returned from driving practice, and Lin Fengzhi noticed the crystal ornament before Yan Heqing put it away and said it was a gift from a friend.
• Lin Fengzhi asked whether the gift came from Lu Muchi, and Yan Heqing said he would not accept anything from him.
• Lin Fengzhi explained that Lu Changcheng had learned Lu Muchi liked him and asked Yan Heqing to deliver a message to Lu Muchi at the Lu residence.
• Yan Heqing recognized that Lin Fengzhi's request gave him a legitimate reason to visit the Lu residence, but he made Lin Fengzhi wait for an answer.
• Lin Fengzhi asked about the friend pursuing Yan Heqing, and Yan Heqing replied that the friend was not pursuing him.

Lin Fengzhi learned that Yan Heqing had deliberately let him be adopted, while Yan Heqing prepared to enter Lu Muchi’s villa and began his new semester at Beijing University. The chapter ended with students whispering about Yan Heqing as he previewed his botany textbook.

• Lin Fengzhi asked Yan Heqing whether he had hidden himself so Lin Fengzhi could be adopted, and Yan Heqing admitted that he had.
• Lin Fengzhi fled the apartment building, shaken by the truth that Yan Heqing had given him the chance to join his family.
• Yan Heqing reconstructed Lu Muchi’s hillside villa from his memories and marked most of its surveillance camera locations on a model.
• Yan Heqing cleaned the Cube of Light and returned it to its velvet box in the drawer.
• On the first day of classes, Yan Heqing arrived at his botany classroom early, and students whispered about his appearance.

Yan Heqing spent his first day at Beijing University, where Gu Xingye recognized him and Lin Fengyi ran into him in the cafeteria. A relative of Yan Heqing’s mother contacted him, and Yan Heqing met the man at the university gates that evening.

• Gu Xingye saw Yan Heqing enter class and recognized him as the student who resembled Lin Fengzhi.
• Yan Heqing left the crowded cafeteria after nearly colliding with Lin Fengyi, who grew angry but could not bring himself to chase him.
• Yan Heqing received a call from his mother’s cousin’s husband and arranged to meet him at the university gates.
• Gu Xingye found Yan Heqing crouched by the road and offered to help, but Yan Heqing declined and left.
• Yan Heqing met the middle-aged man at the university gates, took his travel bag, and offered to find them somewhere to eat.

Yan Heqing met Lin Manfeng, who brought him a tin of his mother’s belongings, then returned to campus without opening it. Lin Manfeng later met a mysterious boss and reported that Yan Heqing had suspected nothing.

• Yan Heqing took Lin Manfeng to a restaurant, where Lin Manfeng praised him and spoke about their family and Twenty Bridges.
• Lin Manfeng gave Yan Heqing an old tin containing belongings Yan Qiushuang’s aunt had kept, and Yan Heqing decided to open it after class.
• Lin Manfeng declined Yan Heqing’s offer to show him around, and Yan Heqing returned to campus for his evening classes.
• After Yan Heqing left, Lin Manfeng met a young man who escorted him to a café to see his boss.
• Lin Manfeng told the boss he had followed the instructions exactly and that Yan Heqing had not suspected anything.

Yan Heqing received photographs of his mother, Yan Qiushuang, and dreamed of her with him and Yan Mingsong. Though grateful to Lin Manfeng for bringing the photos, he remained wary of the distant relatives he was about to visit.

• Lu Lin paid Lin Manfeng for Yan Qiushuang’s photographs and warned him not to contact Yan Heqing again.
• Yan Heqing opened the envelope and saw three photographs of his mother at different ages, including one in a pale purple qipao.
• Yan Heqing dreamed of Yan Qiushuang sharing pomegranates with him and Yan Mingsong.
• Yan Heqing bought gifts for his mother’s cousin and her son, reflecting that no relatives had come to his parents’ funeral or taken him and Yan Mingsong in.
• Yan Heqing called Lin Manfeng, who said his flight had been moved up and that he was already at the airport.

Yan Heqing kept to his studies, agreed to meet Lin Fengzhi on Tuesday, and received the Lu Family’s address. On Saturday, he found Lu Lin waiting with food at the driving practice grounds, where they ate together.

• Yan Heqing declined a classmates’ invitation and later welcomed Lin Fengzhi, who brought him palmiers and asked him to visit on Tuesday.
• Yan Heqing agreed to meet Lin Fengzhi on Tuesday after Lin mistook his reluctance for lingering feelings for Lu Muchi.
• A tabby cat chose Yan Heqing over Lin Fengzhi, and Lin Fengzhi sent Yan Heqing the Lu Family’s address before leaving.
• Yan Heqing arrived at the driving practice grounds Saturday morning and found his car missing from its parking spot.
• Lu Lin arrived in Yan Heqing’s car with breakfast, and Yan Heqing joined him to eat and asked if he had worked all night.

Yan Heqing and Lu Lin agreed to try being friends, then Yan Heqing spent the night completing his driving practice hours. At university, he turned down Zhou Wuyou’s invitation to join her experiment and prepared to compete with Gu Xingye for a place in an international exchange program.

• Lu Lin invited Yan Heqing to join him and his friends on a boat trip, and they agreed to try being friends despite both admitting they were good at lying.
• Yan Heqing practiced driving through the night, completed the required hours for tests two and three, and went home to sleep.
• Yan Heqing found Lu Lin’s messages the next day and told him he had finished practicing; Lu Lin said he could leave the car at Chu Ziyu’s training ground.
• Zhou Wuyou invited Yan Heqing to join her experiment, but he declined and left the classroom.
• Yan Heqing ran into Gu Xingye and continued preparing to compete with him for the single spot in an exchange program between Beijing University and an overseas university.

Yan Heqing visited the Lu family residence and finally reached Lu Muchi, who had been confined after throwing tantrums. He passed on Lin Fengzhi’s message, and Lu Muchi realized Lin Fengzhi liked his uncle, Lu Lin.

• Yan Heqing asked Lu Lin about retrieving his fishing bag, then went to the Lu family residence instead.
• Cheng Xinying recognized Yan Heqing at the gate and brought him to the villa, where Lu Han asked him to talk sense into Lu Muchi.
• Lu Muchi opened the door when Yan Heqing called his name and stopped himself from striking a bodyguard when Yan Heqing warned he would leave.
• Lu Muchi calmed down and arranged for Yan Heqing to meet him in the sitting room.
• Yan Heqing relayed Lin Fengzhi’s message that he only liked one person, and Lu Muchi identified that person as Lu Lin.

Lu Changcheng asked Yan Heqing to discourage Lu Muchi from pursuing Lin Fengzhi, but Yan Heqing refused to promise he could do so and argued that confining Lu Muchi would only intensify his feelings. Lu Changcheng lifted Lu Muchi’s confinement and sent him out to dinner with Yan Heqing.

• Lu Changcheng asked Yan Heqing to speak with him alone, but chose to talk in the living room and sent Lu Muchi to clean up his wrecked room.
• Lu Changcheng told Yan Heqing he knew Yan Heqing and Lin Fengzhi were twins, then asked him to talk Lu Muchi out of his feelings for Lin Fengzhi.
• Yan Heqing said he could not promise to change Lu Muchi’s mind, and argued that keeping Lu Muchi confined would make his feelings stronger.
• Lu Changcheng lifted Lu Muchi’s confinement and told Yan Heqing to take him out for dinner.
• Lu Muchi eavesdropped outside the door, toppled into the room when it opened, and heard Lu Changcheng tell him to change and take Yan Heqing to dinner.

Lu Muchi took Yan Heqing to the mountain villa where he had confined Xu Qiaoyin, and Yan Heqing reunited with her. As Lu Muchi went to make her congee, Yan Heqing secretly asked Xu Qiaoyin whether she wanted to leave forever.

• Lu Muchi drove Yan Heqing to find Xu Qiaoyin after Yan Heqing demanded to see her.
• The butler told Lu Muchi that Xu Qiaoyin had tried to jump from the building, and Lu Muchi rushed to her room.
• Yan Heqing called Xu Qiaoyin's confinement imprisonment and told Lu Muchi to make her sweet congee.
• Xu Qiaoyin recognized Yan Heqing, worried that Lu Muchi had hurt him, and learned that the children at the orphanage missed her.
• Yan Heqing secretly wrote on Xu Qiaoyin's palm, asking whether she wanted to leave forever.

Xu Qiaoyin decided to leave the capital and pursue her work with children in the southwest, asking Yan Heqing to visit again with a drawing. Lu Muchi tried to show Yan Heqing he would respect him, but overheard Lin Fengzhi urging Yan Heqing to give up on Lu Muchi.

• Yan Heqing told Xu Qiaoyin to consider leaving, and she asked whether she was still beautiful enough to pursue her dreams.
• Lu Muchi brought Xu Qiaoyin porridge, and she nodded to Yan Heqing, asking him to visit next week with the drawing.
• Lu Muchi offered to drive Yan Heqing, then backed away and called the butler when Yan Heqing said he did not trust him.
• Yan Heqing answered Lin Fengzhi's call in front of Lu Muchi, and Lin Fengzhi told him that Lu Muchi would never return his feelings.
• Lu Muchi held back from confronting Lin Fengzhi, and ordered the butler to take Yan Heqing home safely.

Yan Heqing passed his driving tests and accepted Lu Lin’s invitation to go out to sea, while keeping his distance from Gu Xingye at school. On the drive to the port, Lu Lin told him that Chu Ziyu and Xie Yunjie would join them.

• Yan Heqing sent Lu Lin the second installment and a medical bill payment, then told him he had passed both remaining parts of his driving test; Lu Lin praised him and said he would pick him up Friday.
• Yan Heqing worked on his lab application in class, where Gu Xingye sat beside him and tried to start a conversation.
• Yan Heqing left campus at three on Friday with clothes and bait packed, and Lu Lin picked him up for the four-hour drive to the port.
• Yan Heqing asked whether only he and Lu Lin were going out to sea, and Lu Lin told him Chu Ziyu and Xie Yunjie were coming too.

Yan Heqing joined Lu Lin, Chu Ziyu, and Xie Yunjie on Lu Lin’s yacht for a sea-fishing trip, while Lu Lin’s friends noticed how differently he treated Yan Heqing. Yan Heqing became seasick during the voyage, and the group went to rest before their early fishing start.

• Yan Heqing learned that Chu Ziyu and Xie Yunjie planned to dive, while Lu Lin offered to teach him to swim.
• The group arrived at Golden Bay Port and boarded Lu Lin’s yacht, where he described the tuna fishing grounds he planned to visit.
• Chu Ziyu asked Xie Yunjie whether Lu Lin was serious about Yan Heqing, and Xie Yunjie said Yan Heqing was the only person Lu Lin treated differently.
• Yan Heqing felt seasick as the yacht traveled farther out to sea, while Chu Ziyu told stories about Lu Lin and his own heartbreaks over dinner.
• Lu Lin suggested that everyone get some rest before they got up early to fish.

Yan Heqing recovered from seasickness aboard Lu Lin’s boat and spent the day enjoying its abundant seafood and fishing. That night, Lu Lin sat with him on deck and offered to play the harmonica.

• Yan Heqing became seasick, and Lu Lin took him to the bathroom, gave him candy, and showed him to a private room.
• Lu Lin returned to the dining room, drank beer while thinking about Yan Heqing, then went diving.
• Yan Heqing woke to find the boat stopped in a beautiful stretch of sea and joined the others on deck, where Lu Lin had caught a huge tuna and other seafood.
• Lu Lin cooked shrimp dumplings for lunch, and Yan Heqing went fishing and caught several large Boston lobsters.
• After dinner, Yan Heqing continued fishing at night, and Lu Lin joined him and asked what else he liked.
• Lu Lin took out a harmonica and asked Yan Heqing if he wanted to listen.

Yan Heqing and Lu Lin watched a beluga swim beside their boat, and Lu Lin caught Yan Heqing when the boat rocked, briefly holding him close. The next day, they returned from sea, and Yan Heqing told Chu Ziyu that he had passed his driving tests and would get his license the following week.

• Lu Lin played the harmonica as Yan Heqing spotted a beluga beside the boat.
• When the boat rocked, Lu Lin caught Yan Heqing around the waist, and Yan Heqing caught the coin that flew from Lu Lin's pocket.
• Yan Heqing returned Lu Lin's coin and harmonica, and Lu Lin lent him a padded coat before going to his room and making a night dive.
• The group spent the following morning at sea, and Chu Ziyu complained that he had missed seeing the beluga.
• Yan Heqing confirmed that Lu Lin had taken him to practice driving and said he had completed his tests and would get his license the next week.

Yan Heqing and Lu Lin made plans to meet the following Friday after Yan Heqing’s driving test, while Lu Lin quietly worried about the attention Yan Heqing received at university. Later, Lu Muchi tried to thank Yan Heqing with a surprise and bought him palmiers, which Yan Heqing saved for next weekend.

• Chu Ziyu revealed that he had been taking the second driving test for three years, then nearly exposed Lu Lin and Yan Heqing’s plans before arranging to ride back with Lu Lin.
• Lu Lin agreed to meet Yan Heqing around eight the following Friday, and Chu Ziyu teased him about Yan Heqing’s admirers as Lu Lin recalled seeing students confess to him.
• Xie Yunjie drove Yan Heqing to the subway station and messaged Lu Lin that Yan Heqing had politely declined a ride home.
• Lu Muchi arranged for a little girl to offer Yan Heqing a flower, but Yan Heqing saw through the surprise and asked what Lu Muchi wanted.
• Lu Muchi ran across the city to buy Yan Heqing a box of palmiers, and Yan Heqing ate one despite disliking them, saving the rest for next weekend.