Chapter Summaries

Ye Mo used 888’s gossip to uncover Qi Yuwen’s long-running schemes against his trusting older brother, Qi Yuheng, and learned that Qi Yuwen was having an affair with Qi Yuheng’s fiancée. She left Qi Yuheng with a cryptic warning to visit Helang Maijing on Sunday, then explained to Ye Lin and Shen Yan that he could catch the pair there.

• Ye Lin asked Ye Mo to handle negotiations for investing in Director Ji’s film, but teased that the amount would depend on her behavior.
• After dinner, Qi Yuheng apologized for Qi Yuwen and insisted that the brothers had been close since childhood.
• 888 revealed that Qi Yuwen had repeatedly framed Qi Yuheng as a child and was now having an affair with Qi Yuheng’s fiancée.
• Ye Mo told Qi Yuheng to visit the thirteenth floor of Building C at Helang Maijing on Sunday and warned him not to tell Qi Yuwen.
• Ye Mo told Ye Lin and Shen Yan about the brothers’ history and revealed that Qi Yuheng could catch Qi Yuwen and his fiancée together at Helang Maijing.

Ye Mo joked with Ye Lin about helping Qi Yuheng, while Qi Yuheng confronted Qi Yuwen about trying to take Ye Mo’s role in Chase. Qi Yuwen learned Ye Mo was the newly found daughter of the Ye Family and was told to give up the role and let Ye Lin invest in the film.

• Ye Mo claimed she had helped Qi Yuheng by exposing Qi Yuwen, and Ye Lin teased her for disguising troublemaking as a good deed.
• Qi Yuheng waited for Qi Yuwen to come home and asked why he had invested in Chase and tried to take Ye Mo’s desired role.
• Qi Yuwen learned that Ye Mo was Ye Lin’s newly found sister and realized she now had the Ye Family’s backing.
• Qi Yuheng told Qi Yuwen to return the role to Ye Mo and pass the opportunity to invest in Chase to Ye Lin.
• Qi Yuwen complained about Ye Lin’s involvement, while Qi Yuheng explained that Ye Lin wanted to protect his sister.

Qi Yuwen ordered Star Chasing Entertainment to withdraw its investment from Chase, hoping to appease President Ye, while the film’s producer and Director Ji Minghe clashed over the loss of funding. The chapter left Chase facing a major financial shortfall as Ji refused to give in over the casting of Xia Mei.

• Qi Yuheng held back Ye Mo’s comments about Helang Maijing from Qi Yuwen, who spent the night sleeping poorly.
• Qi Yuwen told Secretary He to give up the role of Xia Mei and withdraw Star Chasing Entertainment’s investment in Chase.
• Secretary He tried to dissuade Qi Yuwen, but Qi insisted he was withdrawing because President Ye had set her sights on the film.
• Secretary He informed producer Yu Luwei of the decision, and Director Ji Minghe angrily refused to bargain over Xia Mei’s role.
• Yu Luwei warned Ji Minghe that Chase would struggle to proceed without Star Chasing Entertainment’s five-hundred-million investment.

After Star Chasing’s demands angered Director Ji Minghe, Ye Mo brought Tianheng Industries in as a potential investor for his film, Chase. She discussed her preparation for the role of [Xia Mei] with Ji Minghe, who came to respect her serious attitude toward acting.

• Ji Minghe refused to give Star Chasing more influence over his film, despite Yu Luwei’s concerns about financing and Fengxing’s control of cinemas.
• Ye Mo called Ji Minghe and said Tianheng Industries was interested in investing in the film.
• Ye Mo met Ji Minghe and Yu Luwei with Tianheng Industries manager Ye Yongming, and they verified his identity on the company’s official website.
• Ye Yongming explained that Tianheng Industries planned to enter the entertainment industry and make Chase its first investment.
• Ye Mo discussed the script with Ji Minghe and admitted she had memorized it and practiced extensively because she lacked acting talent.
• Ji Minghe said Ye Mo’s audition performance had impressed him, while Ye Mo explained that her Script World score for [Xia Mei] had reached only seventy-eight after repeated practice.

Ye Yongming secured Tianheng’s proposed five-hundred-million investment in Yu Luwei’s film, with the condition that Ye Mo be protected from unfair treatment while Director Ji retained control of filming. Afterward, Ye Mo spotted someone near Helang Maijing Residential Complex and hid with Ye Yongming, leaving him wondering who she had seen.

• Ye Mo and Director Ji talked during the meal, and he found her sincere and unlike the rumors about her.
• Ye Yongming offered Tianheng’s five-hundred-million investment on the condition that Ye Mo not face unfair treatment, and Yu Luwei agreed while Director Ji insisted on retaining authority over the production.
• Ye Yongming explained that he was Ye Mo’s paternal cousin and exchanged contact information with Yu Luwei.
• After the group parted, Ye Mo chose to go home, then pulled Ye Yongming behind a willow tree after spotting someone across the street.
• Ye Mo asked whether Helang Maijing Residential Complex was nearby, and Ye Yongming confirmed she was looking right at it before asking who she had seen.

Ye Mo followed Qi Yuheng into Helang Maijing Residential Complex with Ye Yongming and his friends, hoping to witness the excitement she expected at Building C. The group reached the thirteenth floor, where they saw Qi Yuheng waiting outside apartment 1303.

• Ye Mo persuaded Ye Yongming to follow Qi Yuheng after spotting him entering Helang Maijing Residential Complex.
• Ye Yongming called his friend Hu Hejia, who escorted Ye Mo and the others into the complex.
• Ye Mo learned from 888 that Qi Yuheng was downstairs at Building C and asked Hu Hejia to take them there.
• A friend of Hu Hejia let the group into Building C and took them up to the thirteenth floor.
• Ye Mo peeked around the corridor and saw Qi Yuheng standing outside apartment 1303, then told the others to stay quiet and watch.

Qi Yuheng went to apartment 1303 expecting an unexpected surprise and found his younger brother Qi Yuwen answering the door in a revealing state. Qi Yuwen convinced him that he was secretly seeing a married woman, and Ye Mo arrived with four others just as Qi Yuheng was about to leave.

• Qi Yuwen left Zhang Hanyue in bed to answer the persistent doorbell.
• Qi Yuheng found Qi Yuwen at apartment 1303 and noticed a fresh scratch on his neck.
• Qi Yuheng suspected Qi Yuwen was secretly involved with a married woman, and Qi Yuwen confirmed the story and begged him not to tell their father.
• Zhang Hanyue called to Qi Yuwen from inside, but Qi Yuwen pushed Qi Yuheng out and shut the door before he could identify her.
• Ye Mo, who had been watching the apartment, appeared with four others and greeted Qi Yuheng.

Ye Mo confronted Qi Yuwen at his home and exposed his deception to Qi Yuheng. After discovering Zhang Hanyue inside, Qi Yuheng went to investigate, leaving Qi Yuwen facing Ye Mo’s threats and retaliation.

• Ye Mo arrived with three companions and persuaded them to enter Qi Yuwen’s home despite his objections.
• When Qi Yuwen tried to shove Ye Mo aside, Ye Yongming stopped him, and Ye Mo said Qi Yuheng deserved to learn the truth.
• Hu Hejia shouted upon finding Zhang Hanyue inside, prompting Qi Yuheng to realize Qi Yuwen had deceived him and stride into the house.
• Qi Yuwen tried to stop Qi Yuheng, then cursed Ye Mo and was kicked in the shin by her.
• Ye Mo warned Qi Yuwen that his elder brother, the Ye Family, and rivals in the Qi Family could all turn against him, and slapped him when he insulted her again.

Ye Mo and the others watched Qi Yuheng confront his fiancée, Zhang Hanyue, and his younger brother, Qi Yuwen, after catching them together. Qi Yuheng rejected their excuses and announced that he would inform both families and let the pair marry, then left Zhang Hanyue to tidy herself up.

• Ye Mo entered the bedroom and heard Zhang Hanyue plead with Qi Yuheng to believe that what he had seen was a misunderstanding.
• At Hu Hejia's friend's prompting, Qi Yuheng gave Zhang Hanyue a chance to explain, and she blamed Qi Yuwen for seducing her while she was drunk.
• Qi Yuwen arrived, and he and Zhang Hanyue argued and accused each other of causing the affair.
• Qi Yuheng stopped their argument and said neither was innocent, then claimed he was at fault for not noticing their feelings sooner.
• Qi Yuheng said he would tell both families and that Zhang Hanyue and Qi Yuwen would have to be together; Zhang Hanyue refused, but he dismissed her objection and left.

Ye Mo helped Qi Yuheng expose Qi Yuwen and Zhang Hanyue’s affair, and Qi Yuheng thanked her and promised to repay the favor. After parting with her companions, Ye Mo hinted that her supposed fortune-telling might have revealed Yuan Youzhi’s private tastes.

• Qi Yuheng ordered Qi Yuwen to marry Zhang Hanyue, and Qi Yuwen watched Ye Mo and the others leave with resentment.
• Yuan Youzhi and Hu Hejia warned Ye Mo that Qi Yuwen might seek revenge, but Ye Mo said she could handle him and send him to prison if he tried anything.
• Yuan Youzhi and Hu Hejia called Ye Mo their little sister, while Ye Yongming objected to them claiming older-brother status.
• Qi Yuheng waited outside Building C, thanked Ye Mo for revealing the affair, and promised to help her if she needed it.
• Yuan Youzhi asked how Ye Mo had learned about the affair, and she joked that she was a fortune-teller before hinting that she knew his tastes.

Ye Mo convinced Yuan Youzhi that she knew his secret and said she was a genuine fortune-teller, giving herself a cover for knowledge from her Gossip System. Ye Yongming reported the events involving Qi Yuwen to Ye Lin, who revealed plans to acquire Brilliant Star and place Ye Yongming in charge, while both cousins wondered whether Ye Mo could truly tell fortunes.

• Yuan Youzhi stopped Ye Mo from revealing his secret, then privately confirmed she had guessed it and praised her for being incredible.
• Ye Mo told Yuan Youzhi she would keep his secret and claimed to be a genuine divine fortune-teller, deciding the label could conceal 888's existence.
• Ye Yongming returned to Ye Corporation and agreed to manage Brilliant Star after Ye Lin explained he planned to acquire the company rather than establish a new entertainment division.
• Ye Yongming told Ye Lin that Ye Mo had helped expose Qi Yuwen's affair with Zhang Hanyue and had directed Qi Yuheng to the apartment where they were together.
• Ye Yongming asked whether Ye Mo could really tell fortunes, and Ye Lin asked him to explain what had happened that day.

Ye Mo began filming Tale of Intrigue while learning that rival director Liu Yeqiu planned to undermine the production with a competing palace drama. After earning Gossip Points by approaching his second female lead, Qiao Jiaojiao, Ye Mo discovered Qiao’s hostility toward her and Shen Yan.

• Ye Lin and Ye Yongming concluded that Ye Mo might truly be able to tell fortunes after recalling how she had exposed Sister Wu and revealed other people’s secrets.
• Ye Mo left the Chase production to Ye Yongming’s team and began filming Tale of Intrigue, where she played a favored consort with a small role.
• Ye Mo learned from 888 that Liu Yeqiu was He Jianping’s jealous rival, intended to compete with Tale of Intrigue, and was secretly cheating on his wealthy wife with actresses, including Qiao Jiaojiao.
• Ye Mo approached Qiao Jiaojiao, the second female lead of Schemes of Intrigue, and earned ten Gossip Points after seeing her.
• Qiao Jiaojiao stopped Ye Mo and made hostile remarks about Shen Yan, prompting Ye Mo to call her blind for speaking nonsense.

Ye Mo warned Qiao Jiaojiao off, returned to the set, and prepared for her first scene in Tale of Intrigue. Her elaborate costume stunned the crew, though Wu Fang doubted her acting and another crew member defended her by citing Ji Minghe's praise.

• Ye Mo caught Qiao Jiaojiao's hand, warned her that a paparazzo was watching, and told her not to take her anger at Ye Mo's manager out on her.
• Ye Mo returned to the Tale of Intrigue set, reposted the crew's filming announcement, and reflected on why she had chosen supporting roles over poor lead scripts.
• The next morning, Ye Mo spent over two hours getting styled as a favored consort, and Director He Jianping had photos of her posted online.
• Crew members praised Ye Mo's beauty and bearing, while Wu Fang scoffed that her looks could not make up for her poor acting.
• A crew member countered Wu Fang by saying Ji Minghe praised Ye Mo's improved acting and planned to cast her in his new movie.

Ye Mo prepared for her role as Consort Chen by repeatedly immersing herself in the script, then arrived on set still embodying the character’s captivating beauty. As filming was about to begin, Zhou Xiaoyu grew alarmed by Ye Mo’s sudden change in manner and called Shen Yan for help.

• Wu Fang accused a crew member of defending Ye Mo because she was a fan, and the two agreed to wait and judge Ye Mo’s acting.
• Ye Mo rehearsed Consort Chen’s story in the role immersion room until she could perform the full script and reached over fifty percent completion.
• Zhou Xiaoyu woke Ye Mo before filming and was stunned when Ye Mo’s gestures and appearance seemed to embody Consort Chen.
• Ye Mo captivated the crew and spoke with male lead Jiang Yiben, prompting Zhou Xiaoyu to pull her aside.
• Zhou Xiaoyu worried that Ye Mo was acting strangely, then called Shen Yan and told him something was wrong with Sister Momo.

Shen Yan rushed to the Tale of Intrigue set after Zhou Xiaoyu said Ye Mo was acting strangely, only to find Ye Mo immersed in her role as [Consort Chen]. Her unexpectedly captivating performance stunned the crew and delighted Director He Jianping.

• Shen Yan arrived at the set and found Zhou Xiaoyu worried that Ye Mo seemed possessed, while the crew members were captivated by her.
• Shen Yan recognized that Ye Mo was immersed in her role and explained this to Zhou Xiaoyu.
• Ye Mo let Shen Yan fan her and said that acting as [Consort Chen] felt unusually easy, while Shen Yan worried about her strange state.
• Ye Mo's scenes left the crew astonished by her beauty and improved acting.
• Director He Jianping was delighted by Ye Mo's performance, which exceeded his expectations.

Ye Mo’s performance in Tale of Intrigue impressed the crew as filming moved ahead quickly, despite her exhaustion from the heat. When Jiang Yiben tried to flirt with her and then accused her of grabbing his hand, Ye Mo called him out in front of everyone and pointed to a camera that could prove what happened.

• Director He praised Ye Mo’s consistently excellent acting and predicted she would become a major star.
• Ye Mo continued practicing as Consort Chen each night, and her scenes were progressing fast enough to finish in about half the expected time.
• Jiang Yiben brought Ye Mo iced milk tea, praised her acting, and suggested rehearsing together in her room before touching her hand.
• Ye Mo loudly asked why Jiang Yiben had grabbed her hand, drawing the crew’s attention.
• Jiang Yiben claimed Ye Mo had grabbed him, but Ye Mo denied being interested in him and asked the crew whether they made a good match.
• Ye Mo pointed out that a nearby camera could settle who touched whom, and Zhu Hong intervened before Jiang Yiben reluctantly apologized.

After Jiang Yiben smeared Ye Mo online for rejecting his advances, Ye Mo enlisted her brother Ye Lin to use Tianheng Industries’ influence to show that she had powerful backing. Tianheng’s official Weibo account followed her, setting off an uproar among netizens.

• Zhu Hong apologized to Ye Mo for Jiang Yiben’s behavior, and Ye Mo rebuked Jiang for touching her hand and joked that her ideal partner was like Ye Corporation’s general manager.
• Jiang Yiben’s smear campaign pushed a mocking topic about Ye Mo onto trending searches, and Ye Mo told Shen Yan what had happened.
• Ye Mo called Ye Lin and asked him to have Tianheng Industries’ official Weibo account follow her so the public would know she had connections.
• Ye Lin agreed, and netizens soon noticed Tianheng Industries’ official account following Ye Mo, causing an uproar.

After Ye Mo’s connection to the Ye Corporation became public, Jiang Yiben regretted mistreating her and struggled through filming. While hiding in a cool spot on the studio grounds, Ye Mo overheard Jiang Yiben blaming her for his behavior and discovered that he and his manager, Zhu Hong, had secretly been a couple for three years.

• Netizens concluded that Ye Mo was backed by the Ye Corporation, and the next day the cast and crew treated her with new respect.
• Jiang Yiben snapped at his assistant, failed several takes, and stormed off after Director He Jianping berated him.
• Ye Mo went outside to escape the heat and settled in a secluded bamboo grove, where 888 shared gossip about the neighboring production.
• Ye Mo overheard Jiang Yiben tell Zhu Hong that she had seduced him and that he had only grabbed her hand because he could not resist her.
• Jiang Yiben embraced Zhu Hong and professed his love, revealing to Ye Mo that they had been secretly dating for three years.

Ye Mo overheard the truth about Jiang Yiben’s deception and discovered that he was still dating Mei Xia while using Zhu Hong. After Zhu Hong caught Ye Mo near the rockery, she asked her to keep their relationship secret to protect Jiang Yiben’s career.

• 888 told Ye Mo that Jiang Yiben had lied about being single, pursued Zhu Hong, and continued dating Mei Xia while exploiting Zhu Hong’s support.
• Ye Mo listened as Jiang Yiben tried to placate Zhu Hong by claiming Ye Mo had seduced him, but Zhu Hong challenged his excuse.
• Jiang Yiben coaxed Zhu Hong into forgiving him, and Ye Mo overheard them kissing from behind the rockery.
• Zhu Hong returned and found Ye Mo, who awkwardly admitted that she knew Zhu Hong was dating Jiang Yiben.
• Zhu Hong asked Ye Mo not to tell anyone about their relationship because she did not want it to affect Jiang Yiben’s career.

Ye Mo told Zhu Hong that Jiang Yiben and Mei Xia were secretly involved and had used Zhu Hong to advance their careers, then left her to verify the claims for herself. At a neighboring set, Ye Mo overheard Qiao Jiaojiao approaching He Mingzhang, an old family friend tied to Ye Mo’s arranged engagement.

• Ye Mo asked Zhu Hong if she trusted Jiang Yiben and revealed that he had invited Ye Mo to his room under the pretense of rehearsing lines.
• Ye Mo told Zhu Hong that Mei Xia was Jiang Yiben’s former girlfriend and that they were still secretly involved.
• Ye Mo accused Jiang Yiben and Mei Xia of pursuing Zhu Hong’s support to build their careers, then left Zhu Hong to investigate the truth herself.
• Ye Mo asked 888 about Qiao Jiaojiao’s companion and learned that he was He Mingzhang, whose family had long been close to the Ye Family and had arranged an engagement between their younger generation.
• Qiao Jiaojiao tried to charm He Mingzhang, but he asked whether they knew each other.