Chapter Summaries

Lu Muchi declared that he wanted to marry Yan Heqing, but Lu Changcheng violently opposed the match and beat him. Lu Muchi was taken for treatment after a blow left him in genuine pain, while Lu Changcheng remained unsettled by Lu Lin’s cold reaction.

• Lu Lin brought Yan Heqing to the hospital, then left him waiting in the car while he went inside.
• Yan Heqing planned to let Lin Fengzhi see a Moments post showing that he and Lu Lin had gone to pick out appliances.
• Lu Muchi told Lu Changcheng that he wanted to marry Yan Heqing, and Lu Changcheng struck him with his cane.
• Lu Muchi insisted that he would marry Yan Heqing, while Lu Lin stood by without intervening.
• Lu Changcheng’s blow left Lu Muchi in real pain, so Lu Han called for a doctor; the doctor confirmed that Lu Muchi’s spine was not injured.

After seeing Lu Muchi, Lu Lin returned to Yan Heqing’s apartment and stayed the night, driven by jealousy over Lu Muchi’s wish to marry Yan Heqing. The next day, Yan Heqing went to university, where Lin Fengyi stopped him with an offer of part-time work.

• Lu Lin searched for Lu Lin at the gathering but could not find him; meanwhile, Lu Lin took Yan Heqing home and later returned to say he wanted to stay the night.
• Lu Lin and Yan Heqing became intimate, and Lu Lin’s jealousy over Lu Muchi’s proposal shaped their encounter.
• Yan Heqing woke thirsty during the night, and Lu Lin pulled him back into bed and checked that he had no fever.
• Lu Lin repaired the showerhead and faucet in Yan Heqing’s apartment before leaving in the morning.
• Lin Fengyi stopped Yan Heqing outside the cafeteria and asked if he wanted a part-time job.

Lin Fengyi challenged Yan Heqing to a game and apologized after realizing how badly he had misjudged Lin Fengzhi. Yan Heqing returned to the laboratory, where a late-night encounter with Gu Xingye brought Lin Fengzhi’s urgent request to mind.

• Lin Fengyi paid Yan Heqing with a bottle of soda water to play Death Forest, and he won after they battled until sunset.
• Lin Fengyi recalled Lin Fengzhi’s cruel words and apologized to Yan Heqing, who accepted without turning around.
• Yan Heqing posted a photo of himself holding hands with Lu Lin for Lin Fengzhi to see, then ate dinner and visited their renovated apartment.
• Yan Heqing told Lu Lin he would stay overnight in the laboratory and worked until three in the morning.
• Gu Xingye offered Yan Heqing a tangerine and remembered Lin Fengzhi calling to beg him to help get out of his house.

Lin Fengzhi tried to stop Yan Heqing from marrying Lu Lin, then secretly followed them as they shopped for their new home. The chapter left Lin Fengzhi watching them choose bedding while Lu Lin knew he was outside.

• Lin Fengzhi told Gu Xingye that Yan Heqing planned to propose to Lu Lin, but Gu Xingye refused to help him.
• Lin Fengzhi told Mother Lin he would stop loving Lu Lin, then used a trip to buy tiramisu to slip away from her.
• Lin Fengzhi hurried to Yan Heqing's apartment, where he heard Yan Heqing and Lu Lin discussing buying bedding and followed them to a mall.
• Yan Heqing and Lu Lin bought appliances and furnishings, while Lin Fengzhi tailed them and watched from outside a bedding store.
• Lu Lin spotted Lin Fengzhi through the store's glass as Yan Heqing asked him what he thought of a bedding pattern.

Lu Lin and Yan Heqing agreed to marry, shopped for wedding bedding, and chose a watch together. Lin Fengzhi threatened to jump unless Yan Heqing came to his childhood home, the site of the fire.

• Lu Lin and Yan Heqing agreed to marry and decided to wait until the end of the month to tell anyone.
• Lu Lin and Yan Heqing chose six bedding sets, then ate lunch together.
• Lu Lin took Yan Heqing to a watch store, where Yan Heqing chose a watch and gave Lu Lin a one-yuan coin as yearly interest.
• Lin Fengzhi called Yan Heqing and threatened to jump if he did not come within an hour.
• Lu Lin drove Yan Heqing toward the address Lin Fengzhi gave: Yan Heqing's childhood home, where the fire had happened.

Yan Heqing confronted Lin Fengzhi on the rooftop where they had lived as children, after Lin Fengzhi threatened to jump to force him to give up Lu Lin. Mother Lin rushed to the building after Lu Lin warned her, while Yan Heqing recorded the confrontation.

• Mother Lin searched the city for Lin Fengzhi and finally told the driver to take her to the childhood home he had shared with Yan Heqing.
• Lu Lin stopped outside the apartment building and told Yan Heqing he would wait while Yan Heqing went up alone.
• Lu Lin informed Mother Lin that Lin Fengzhi was on the rooftop threatening to jump, and she hurried into the building as the driver notified Father Lin.
• Yan Heqing reached the rooftop, started an audio recording, and found Lin Fengzhi standing inside the railing.
• Lin Fengzhi accused Yan Heqing of taking the affection of his family and Lu Lin, then threatened to die if Yan Heqing married Lu Lin.
• Yan Heqing urged Lin Fengzhi to consider his family, but Lin Fengzhi insisted Yan Heqing had willingly given up his old life and demanded that he give Lu Lin back.

Mother Lin collapsed after overhearing Lin Fengzhi, and Yan Heqing rushed her to the hospital, where she survived surgery. After rejecting Lin Fengzhi and asking Yan Heqing to stay with her, she wondered why he was so considerate.

• Mother Lin overheard Lin Fengzhi, collapsed, and Yan Heqing carried her to the ambulance while calling for help.
• At the hospital, Father Lin signed the surgical consent form as the family waited anxiously for Mother Lin’s operation.
• Lin Fengyi punched Lin Fengzhi and told him to stay away from Mother Lin, while Lu Lin stopped Lin Fengzhi from attacking Yan Heqing.
• Father Lin rebuked Lin Fengzhi for upsetting Mother Lin, and the doctor announced that her surgery had succeeded.
• Mother Lin rejected Lin Fengzhi’s hand and said she was not his mother, then asked Yan Heqing to accompany her to her room.
• Mother Lin asked Yan Heqing why he was so considerate.

Yan Heqing explained why he had given Lin Fengzhi his chance to be adopted, and Mother Lin, overwhelmed by the belief that Lin Fengzhi’s affection had been false, asked not to see him. Lu Lin took Yan Heqing to the home where he had grown up, where Yan Heqing met their puppy and Lu Lin’s elderly butler.

• Yan Heqing told Mother Lin that he had chosen to stay behind at the orphanage because he wanted Lin Fengzhi to be adopted by a loving family.
• Mother Lin became distressed, received a sedative, and asked not to see Lin Fengzhi; Lu Lin then took Yan Heqing home.
• Yan Heqing remembered his childhood home and the pomegranate tree and fried cakes he had shared with his parents.
• Lu Lin brought Yan Heqing to his family home and introduced him to their German shepherd puppy, 51 Hertz.
• Lu Lin’s ninety-year-old former butler came outside and welcomed Yan Heqing as Lu Lin’s partner.

Yan Heqing returned to school after spending the night at Lu Lin’s home, where Lu Lin secretly ordered matching wedding rings. At the lab, Yan Heqing ended Lin Fengzhi’s calls for help and submitted his experiment report before checking the university website.

• Lu Lin learned that Lin Fengzhi was being kept from Mother Lin at the hospital and ordered matching wedding rings for himself and Yan Heqing.
• Yan Heqing blocked Lin Fengzhi’s number, saved a copy of the recording of Mother Lin, and returned to school with Lu Lin.
• Gu Xingye asked Yan Heqing to answer Lin Fengzhi’s call, and Yan Heqing told Lin Fengzhi he would not help him before hanging up.
• Yan Heqing submitted his experiment report to Professor Yang Rucheng at 23:30 and logged into the university’s official website.

Yan Heqing finished his experiment and spent the night with Lu Lin, who had prepared food and clothes for him. The next day, Yan Heqing went to the Lin residence after Lin Fengxian said Mother Lin wanted to see him, intending to deepen her disappointment in Lin Fengzhi.

• Yan Heqing read that Zhao Weifang had declined a postgraduate recommendation to take a high-paying internship, then cleaned the laboratory after finishing his experiment.
• Yan Heqing found Lu Lin waiting at the apartment; Lu Lin fed him and held him while he slept.
• Yan Heqing noticed Lu Lin had prepared clothes, including underwear, and wondered whether Lu Lin had gone to his home and encountered Lu Muchi.
• Lin Fengxian told Yan Heqing that Mother Lin had left the hospital and wanted him to come to the Lin residence, where Lin Fengzhi had also been called.
• Yan Heqing agreed to go, told Lu Lin he would miss dinner, and headed to the Lin residence intending to keep Mother Lin disappointed in Lin Fengzhi.

Mother Lin cut Lin Fengzhi off after he blamed Yan Heqing and revealed that Lin Fengzhi had said he would abandon his family for Lu Lin. Yan Heqing comforted her by moving the dying hydrangeas into the garden pool, leaving Mother Lin in tears and with hope that she could endure the separation.

• Mother Lin told Lin Fengzhi to go abroad and said she would support him through university, while Lin Fengzhi insisted he would not go.
• Lin Fengzhi grabbed Yan Heqing and accused him of turning Mother Lin against him, but Mother Lin rebuked Lin Fengzhi and explained that he had chosen Lu Lin over his family.
• Lin Fengzhi ran out, and Mother Lin told the others not to look for him or give in again.
• Mother Lin took Yan Heqing to the garden and apologized, saying she could not face Lin Fengzhi.
• Yan Heqing cut the hydrangeas and placed them in the garden pool, explaining that they could keep blooming in water.
• Yan Heqing recalled his mother's strength during a fire and told Mother Lin she would be stronger than she imagined, bringing her to tears.

After helping Mother Lin recognize that she needed to leave and recover, Yan Heqing found Lin Fengzhi hiding in the brothers’ childhood treehouse. Lin Fengzhi’s failing eyesight and Yan Heqing’s flashlight triggered forgotten memories that left him terrified and apologizing for a childhood fire.

• Mother Lin asked Yan Heqing what she could do, and he advised her to leave and recuperate somewhere else.
• Mother Lin decided to travel abroad, and Lin Fengyi told Yan Heqing that Lin Fengzhi was safe and that he would accompany their mother.
• Yan Heqing went to the brothers’ secret treehouse and found Lin Fengzhi hiding there with his eyesight badly blurred.
• When Yan Heqing turned on his flashlight, Lin Fengzhi recalled fragments of childhood memories involving a lighter, sandalwood incense, and his parents.
• Lin Fengzhi begged Yan Heqing to leave and then apologized, saying he had only wanted to help his mother light the incense.

After visiting the Lin Family, Yan Heqing fell into despair, and Lu Lin brought him home and comforted him. The next morning, Lu Lin began investigating the Yan Family fire from thirteen years earlier while Yan Heqing focused on his exams.

• Yan Heqing left Lin Fengzhi in the treehouse and wandered until Lu Lin found him beside a supermarket.
• Lu Lin took Yan Heqing home, helped him bathe, and stayed with him until he fell asleep.
• Lu Lin suspected Yan Heqing's parents were connected to his distress and requested an investigation into the Yan Family fire from thirteen years earlier.
• The next morning, Lu Lin learned no investigation records could be found and arranged to speak with a firefighter who had been there.
• Yan Heqing chose pineapple steamed buns for breakfast and returned to reviewing for his exams, then asked whether Lu Lin was going to the office.

Lu Lin learned that the Yan family fire may have been deliberately started and tried to comfort Yan Heqing without revealing his suspicions. Yan Heqing spent a warm day cooking and studying with Lu Lin, then received a call from 3.3 as Lu Muchi revealed that Cheng Jian had lost his lawsuit.

• A firefighter told Lu Lin that the Yan family fire began near the sofa and recalled Yan Heqing clinging to his mother after she died, leading Lu Lin to suspect Lin Fengzhi had caused the fire.
• Lu Lin arranged for the firefighter to be thanked, then went to a food market and bought groceries so Yan Heqing could focus on cooking rather than his distress.
• Yan Heqing deleted a message from Lin Fengzhi and carved a radish rose for Lu Lin while they prepared hot pot together.
• Yan Heqing talked about people he had met at work, ate well, and studied alongside Lu Lin as rain fell outside.
• Yan Heqing answered a call from 3.3 on the terrace while Lu Lin called Lu Muchi, who told Yan Heqing that Cheng Jian had lost his lawsuit against him.

Yan Heqing learned that Cheng Jian had been sentenced to twelve years and confronted Lu Muchi about his past treatment of him as Lin Fengzhi’s substitute. Lu Muchi rushed to question Lu Changcheng, then prepared to propose to Yan Heqing after Saturday’s wine tasting, while Lu Changcheng secretly planned to control him.

• Lu Muchi told Yan Heqing that Cheng Jian had received a twelve-year sentence, and Yan Heqing realized Lu Changcheng had been visiting him.
• Yan Heqing told Lu Muchi he had cut ties with Lin Fengzhi and reminded him that he had once wanted Yan Heqing as a substitute.
• Lu Muchi went to the old residence and asked Lu Changcheng what he had said to Yan Heqing; Lu Changcheng concealed his plan to deal with Yan Heqing when the opportunity arose.
• Lu Changcheng warned Lu Muchi to take bodyguards because of the Cheng Family, but Lu Muchi remained focused on marrying Yan Heqing.
• Lu Muchi retrieved the wedding ring Lu Han had given Xu Qiaoyin and asked his secretary to arrange a romantic mountaintop proposal for Saturday night.

Lu Lin took time off to stay close to Yan Heqing through his final exams, then took him fishing to celebrate. After Mother Lin left for Switzerland, Yan Heqing prepared to attend a wine tasting the next day while Lu Lin said he would visit Chu Ziyu.

• Lu Lin told Yan Heqing he would fulfill his duties as a boyfriend by sticking to him like a shadow, including while he took his final exams.
• Lu Lin drove Yan Heqing to his exams and waited outside until Yan Heqing finished them.
• Mother Lin called Yan Heqing from the airport and said she was leaving for Switzerland with Fengyi, apologizing and thanking him before saying goodbye.
• Lu Lin and Yan Heqing went fishing and ate fish soup, beef skewers, and fruit at their campsite.
• Yan Heqing asked Lu Lin if he liked wine so he could bring some back from the tasting, after Lu Lin said he would visit Chu Ziyu the next day.

Lu Lin arranged to take Chu Ziyu to Luopu Winery while Lu Muchi brought Yan Heqing to its wine tasting. At the winery, Lu Muchi confronted a guard who tried to search Yan Heqing, and the chapter ended as a hostile young man approached them.

• Lu Lin asked Chu Ziyu to get him two invitations to Luopu Winery for the next day.
• Lu Muchi picked up Yan Heqing, while Lu Lin watched them leave and then called Chu Ziyu to join him.
• Lu Muchi and Yan Heqing reached Luopu Winery, where Lu Muchi stopped a guard from searching Yan Heqing and promised not to punish him.
• The wealthy guests turned their attention to Yan Heqing when he entered the winery with Lu Muchi.
• A young man with features resembling Lin Fengzhi's pinched Lu Muchi's waist, insulted him about finding a beauty, and eyed Yan Heqing with hostility.

Yan Heqing attended a winery reception and confronted Zhao Weifang with pointed hospitality while Lu Muchi dealt with Xia Yang. Lu Lin learned that Lu Muchi had arranged a marriage proposal for Yan Heqing that night and suspected Yan had another purpose at the reception.

• Lu Muchi dragged Xia Yang into the garden, rejected his jealousy over Yan Heqing, and ordered him to leave.
• After Xia Yang left, Lu Muchi gave someone Yan Heqing's license plate number and ordered them to make an attack look clean.
• Lu Lin overheard Lu Muchi's instructions and recalled that a marriage proposal had been prepared at Heavenly Bay Mountain for that night.
• Zhao Weifang approached Yan Heqing at the reception and claimed he had introduced him to Lu Muchi.
• Lu Muchi returned with a drink made by Luo Song for Yan Heqing, who passed it to Zhao Weifang and toasted him until he drank two glasses.

Yan Heqing got Zhao Weifang drunk, then recorded him and Boss Liu discussing how to procure college girls. Lu Muchi took Yan Heqing to the wine cellar, but Lu Lin intercepted Lu Muchi outside the winery, leaving Yan Heqing on the terrace.

• Yan Heqing suggested Lu Muchi toast Zhao Weifang, and Lu Muchi and his friends kept plying Zhao with drinks.
• Lu Lin learned Zhao Weifang had introduced Lu Muchi to Yan Heqing and followed the drunken student.
• Lu Muchi led Yan Heqing to the wine cellar, but Yan Heqing left to find a bathroom on the first floor.
• Yan Heqing recorded Zhao Weifang showing Boss Liu photos of girls and offering to introduce them, despite their unwillingness.
• Lu Lin stopped Lu Muchi on his way to the terrace and took him outside to wait for the car.

Lu Muchi proposed to Yan Heqing with his parents’ wedding ring, but Yan Heqing rejected him and revealed he had a fiancé. Lu Muchi became enraged and possessive as Yan Heqing left, while Lu Muchi resolved to stop him that night.

• Yan Heqing told Lu Muchi he felt unwell and left the winery, and Lu Muchi arranged to drive him home after his car failed to start.
• Lu Muchi took Yan Heqing to the summit of Heavenly Bay Mountain, where he proposed with Xu Qiaoyin’s wedding ring.
• Yan Heqing rejected the proposal, saying he had a fiancé, and Lu Muchi refused to believe him at first.
• Lu Muchi grabbed Yan Heqing by the neck, then threatened his fiancé, but Yan Heqing said he would stand by him and ordered Lu Muchi not to contact him again.
• Yan Heqing walked away, and Lu Muchi decided he would not let him leave and would possess him that night.