Chapter Summaries

Ye Mo secretly watched Mr. He rebuff Qiao Jiaojiao, then got caught and gave him a false name before returning to the set. She learned she had earned 185 Gossip Points, while Zhu Hong remained troubled by Ye Mo’s earlier remarks about Jiang Yiben.

• Mr. He refused to catch Qiao Jiaojiao when she fell, and she angrily walked away.
• Mr. He discovered Ye Mo hiding nearby and questioned her, but she claimed her name was Zhou Xiaoyu and fled.
• Ye Mo learned she had earned 185 Gossip Points from gossip involving Jiang Yiben, Zhu Hong, Qiao Jiaojiao, and Mr. He.
• Ye Mo returned to the set, where Zhou Xiaoyu brushed leaves from her costume and Zhu Hong watched Jiang Yiben while considering whether to investigate him.

Jiang Yiben struggled through filming after Zhu Hong questioned his relationship with Mei Xia, while Ye Mo learned that Director Liu’s wife was coming to confront him over his affair with Qiao Jiaojiao. Ye Mo hurried toward the eighth floor to catch the confrontation and earn Gossip Points.

• Zhu Hong asked Jiang Yiben whether he and Mei Xia had been close in high school, and Jiang Yiben hid his guilt over lying to her.
• Jiang Yiben’s distraction caused him to fumble a take and get scolded by Director He, but he refocused and passed the next take.
• Ye Mo’s crew encountered Director Liu’s Schemes of Intrigue crew at the hotel, where Director Liu and Director He traded barbs.
• 888 woke Ye Mo at 3:30 a.m. and told her that Pan Yufang had tipped off Director Liu’s wife about his affair with Qiao Jiaojiao.
• Ye Mo disguised herself and rushed toward Liu Yeqiu’s room on the eighth floor, taking the stairs when the elevator was too slow.

Ye Mo followed Pang Xiuying to Liu Yeqiu’s hotel room and discovered that she had caught him in bed with Qiao Jiaojiao. A livestreamer and the production crew witnessed the confrontation as a crowd gathered, while Pan Yufang appeared to be an uninvolved bystander.

• Ye Mo watched Pang Xiuying use a key card she had obtained by bribing a hotel employee to enter Liu Yeqiu’s room.
• After hearing screams, Ye Mo rushed inside and found Pang Xiuying confronting Liu Yeqiu and Qiao Jiaojiao in bed together.
• Sun Qian followed Ye Mo while livestreaming and began filming the confrontation, drawing viewers’ attention to the scene.
• Pang Xiuying attacked the naked pair, and Liu Yeqiu slapped her before the two continued fighting.
• Hotel guests and members of the Tale of Scheming production crew crowded into the room, where Ye Mo spotted Pan Yufang among the spectators.

Ye Mo tried to deflect Sun Qian’s suspicion by pretending to be a divine fortune-teller and used 888 to reveal secrets about him. Their exchange ended with Sun Qian pressing her about what happened when he was eleven, while Pang Xiuying attacked Liu Yeqiu.

• Sun Qian accused Ye Mo of following Pang Xiuying because she knew about the affair, while viewers in his livestream speculated about the people involved.
• Ye Mo denied helping Pang Xiuying and claimed she was a divine fortune-teller.
• With 888’s help, Ye Mo revealed details about Sun Qian’s childhood and high-school crush, startling him and the livestream viewers.
• Ye Mo claimed she could not divine what happened when Sun Qian was eleven, but he pressed her about that year.
• Pang Xiuying raked Liu Yeqiu’s face with her nails, and he grabbed her hands as he struggled to restrain her.

Pang Xiuying, Pan Yufang, and Qiao Jiaojiao turned the bedroom fight into a chaotic brawl, while Ye Mo used a fake labor scare to escape the crowd. As she headed for the elevator, 888 warned her that someone was following her, and Ye Mo asked it to call the police.

• Pan Yufang and the Tale of Scheming crew tried to intervene, but Pang Xiuying attacked them, and Qiao Jiaojiao then confronted Pan Yufang for setting her up.
• Pang Xiuying attacked Liu Yeqiu for cheating, while Pan Yufang and Qiao Jiaojiao fought and onlookers gathered to watch.
• Ye Mo overheard her comments about Qiao Jiaojiao and Pan Yufang's possible plastic surgery reach Sun Qian's livestream.
• Unable to get through the crowd, Ye Mo pretended to be pregnant and in labor, prompting people to move aside so she could escape.
• 888 warned Ye Mo that someone was following her, and she asked 888 to call the police.

Ye Mo learned that her confrontation with Director Liu Yeqiu had been livestreamed and become a trending topic alongside the scandal involving Liu and Qiao Jiaojiao. She was relieved that few people recognized her, then realized the livestream might also have captured the cheating couple.

• Ye Mo noticed someone following her in the hotel stairwell, asked 888 to watch the person, and went back to sleep.
• Ye Mo woke at noon, saw the trending searches about Qiao Jiaojiao and Director Liu Yeqiu, and called Shen Yan back.
• Shen Yan told Ye Mo that two other trending searches were about her and sent her a livestream video of her disguised confrontation with Liu Yeqiu.
• Ye Mo panicked about being filmed, but Shen Yan said only a few commenters suspected it was her and most people did not believe them.
• Ye Mo realized the livestream might also have recorded Qiao Jiaojiao and Director Liu Yeqiu getting caught cheating.

Ye Mo learned why Shen Yan and Qiao Jiaojiao had fallen out, then heard that Qiao Jiaojiao was pleading with Shen Yan for help after her company abandoned her over her affair. Shen Yan felt sympathy but doubted he had the influence to help her.

• Ye Mo asked Shen Yan about Qiao Jiaojiao, and he explained that she had once been his artist before leaving Brilliant Star after their conflict over her career choices.
• Shen Yan recalled that Qiao Jiaojiao had risen to fame through Road to Immortality, then blamed him for turning down roles and endorsements and left on bad terms.
• Ye Mo agreed to Shen Yan's warning to be more careful about protecting her public image after her remarks about being a Divine Calculator drew attention.
• 888 told Ye Mo that Qiao Jiaojiao had called Shen Yan to ask for help, despite their past falling-out.
• Qiao Jiaojiao told Shen Yan that Changxing and her agent had abandoned her after her affair with Liu Yeqiu and the indecent photos were exposed.
• Shen Yan sympathized with Qiao Jiaojiao but told her he was only a minor agent with few connections and did not know how he could help.

Qiao Jiaojiao demanded that Shen Yan persuade Ye Mo to use the Ye Corporation’s influence to save her career, but he refused and blocked her. Ye Mo learned about the call and, while working on set, enjoyed the gossip surrounding the neighboring production and discovered her excursion had earned her 350 Gossip Points.

• Qiao Jiaojiao asked Shen Yan to get Ye Mo to plead with the Ye Corporation’s general manager, but Shen Yan refused to involve Ye Mo.
• Qiao Jiaojiao insulted Shen Yan’s management and accused him of refusing to help because she had left for Changxing; Shen Yan ended the call and blocked her.
• Qiao Jiaojiao threatened revenge, while Ye Mo learned the details through 888 and dismissed the idea of helping her.
• Ye Mo and Zhou Xiaoyu passed the scandal-struck neighboring production before Ye Mo went to her lively set and heard the stylist recount the previous night’s fight and cheating scandal.
• Ye Mo learned she had earned 350 Gossip Points, then joked with 888 about its language skills after it pointed out a vegetable leaf stuck to the stylist’s teeth.

Ye Mo impressed the crew with her performance as Consort Chen, then spent the night practicing in the Script World before returning to the set for her next scenes. Shen Yan arrived with a group of Ye Mo’s fans for a planned set visit.

• Ye Mo discreetly messaged Sister Lin to tell her that a vegetable leaf was stuck to her teeth, mortifying the stylist.
• Ye Mo filmed a scene as Consort Chen, and crew members praised her acting and transformation.
• Ye Mo returned to the hotel and repeatedly practiced in the Script World, barely sleeping before the next day’s shoot.
• Zhou Xiaoyu woke Ye Mo and gave her black coffee to help her stay alert as they headed to the set.
• Jiang Yiben muttered that Ye Mo was putting on an act, but she ignored him and focused on her script.
• Shen Yan arrived with a dozen of Ye Mo’s fans for the arranged set visit and brought ice cream and fruit for the crew.

Julie Te Lawrence joined Ye Mo's fans for her first set visit and watched Ye Mo film a major confrontation scene as Consort Chen. Ye Mo's performance impressed the crew and fans, while Julie remained confident that her acting was excellent.

• Julie Te Lawrence joined Ye Mo's fans at the set and followed their instructions to keep quiet during filming.
• Ye Mo greeted the fans in her palace styling before filming a scene in which Consort Chen's crimes were exposed by the emperor.
• Consort Chen admitted her crimes, revealed that she had poisoned the emperor, and explained her resentment over her parents' deaths and her fiancé's disappearance.
• Ye Mo delivered the confrontation scene with such force that the crew praised her acting, dialogue, and emotional intensity.
• Julie praised Ye Mo's acting, and the other fans recalled how her self-proclaimed acting-fan status had once made them suspect she was an anti-fan.

Ye Mo delivered an emotionally powerful take as [Consort Chen], then struggled to recover before finishing pickup shots. After meeting fans at the set, including Julie Te Lawrence, she left in better spirits, and fans shared praise for her acting and kindness online.

• Ye Mo's performance moved the cast and fans, but she remained immersed in [Consort Chen]'s grief and fury after the director called cut.
• Ye Mo agreed to film the pickup shots despite Shen Yan's concern, then completed them and rested.
• Shen Yan brought Ye Mo to meet the visiting fans, where she signed autographs, took photos, and thanked them; she recognized Julie Te Lawrence but neither revealed their identities to the other.
• Fans posted about their visit online, praising Ye Mo's sincerity and her moving performance in "Tale of Intrigue."

Ye Mo’s bouquet photo went viral, boosting interest in Tale of Intrigue while Tale of Scheming was engulfed in scandals. The chapter left Liu Yeqiu blind in one eye and determined to delay his divorce from Pang Xiuying.

• The Ye Mo Fan Club posted a photo of Ye Mo with a bouquet, and Shen Yan helped push it onto trending searches.
• The viral photo brought Ye Mo and Tale of Intrigue widespread attention before the drama had finished filming.
• Netizens searched for the “divine fortune-teller” from the livestream that exposed the Tale of Scheming director’s affair and the actresses’ plastic surgery.
• Ye Mo learned that Liu Yeqiu was negotiating a divorce with Pang Xiuying, who was determined to leave him and could keep his wealth under their prenuptial agreement.
• Tale of Intrigue gained attention as Tale of Scheming faced backlash, and Liu Yeqiu smashed his phone over a trending topic.
• A phone shard blinded Liu Yeqiu in his right eye, and he resolved not to divorce Pang Xiuying.

Ye Mo prepared to film Consort Chen’s final scene in Tale of Intrigue, a burning-palace sequence in which the character died dancing in the flames. Wu Fang secretly planted a package intended to make the fire burn bigger, after a fellow fan of another actress persuaded her to scare Ye Mo.

• Ye Mo prepared for her final scene in Tale of Intrigue, where Consort Chen burned to death inside Chen Star Palace.
• The female lead and the emperor watched as Consort Chen danced and sang amid the fire, and the palace burned down.
• Sister Lin styled Ye Mo in a plain white dress and left her makeup minimal for the scene.
• Wu Jianrong ordered the props crew to inspect the palace set, and Wu Fang stayed behind after the others left.
• Wu Fang recalled how the person who gave her the package wanted to scare Ye Mo because of Ye Mo’s fans, then secretly took the package out to plant it where the fire would start.

Wu Fang secretly placed a light-sensitive packet among the props to make the fire grow and frighten Ye Mo, while Ye Mo impressed Director He with a song during filming. Wu Fang watched anxiously as the flames neared the packet, and the chapter left its effect on Ye Mo imminent.

• Wu Fang accepted a packet from someone who wanted to scare Ye Mo, then hid it among the props and left.
• Wu Fang ran into Wu Jianrong, who questioned her nervous behavior, but she denied doing anything wrong.
• Ye Mo performed her scene in the burning palace while singing a tune that Director He praised and wanted to use in the drama.
• Wu Fang watched the flames during repeated takes and grew increasingly anxious that they had not reached the packet.
• Wu Jianrong confronted Wu Fang again, but she insisted she was innocent and he eventually stopped pressing her.
• Wu Fang saw the fire blaze where she had placed the packet and eagerly anticipated Ye Mo being frightened.

Wu Fang learned that the paper packet she had placed on the set contained a bomb and was arrested for attempted murder, while the man who supplied it escaped and headed toward Ye Mo's set. Ye Mo had just finished a difficult night scene, unaware that danger was approaching.

• Wu Fang confronted the man who gave her the paper packet after the supposed fire caused no accident, and police officers seized him and identified themselves.
• An officer told Wu Fang she was suspected of attempted murder because she had placed a bomb on the production crew's prop shelf; Wu Fang admitted she had wanted to scare Ye Mo but claimed she did not know it was a bomb.
• Wu Jianrong confronted Wu Fang over her actions as police prepared to take her into custody.
• The captured man pulled a knife, fought off the officers, and fled toward the Tale of Intrigue set after an officer realized Ye Mo was in danger.
• Ye Mo's crew praised her after she helped finish a difficult night scene, but Zhou Xiaoyu noticed that Ye Mo seemed distracted.

Ye Mo had alerted the police that someone planned to kill her with a bomb, and three officers had secretly replaced the bomb before it could go off. As she waited to learn whether they had caught the culprit, a knife-wielding man attacked her on set, and Ye Mo knocked him down with a spinning kick.

• 888 told Ye Mo that a man and Wu Fang had planned to use a bomb against her, so Ye Mo reported the threat to the police.
• The police sent three officers to the set, watched Wu Fang place the packet, and switched its contents after she left.
• A knife-wielding man rushed onto the set and charged toward Ye Mo, threatening the crew members who tried to stop him.
• Zhou Xiaoyu stepped in front of Ye Mo and urged her to run, but Ye Mo shoved her aside as the attacker raised his knife.
• Ye Mo struck the attacker in the face with a spinning kick, sending him flying to the ground.

Ye Mo had Sun Qian arrested after he tried to kill her, and she revealed that she knew about his past crime. At the police station, Shen Yan learned Ye Mo had faced an attacker with a knife, while the chapter began recounting the crime Sun Qian committed as a teenager.

• Ye Mo kicked Sun Qian down, told the police about his past, and taunted him until he passed out.
• Ye Mo told 888 she would have reported Sun Qian’s crime regardless of his attempt to kill her.
• Shen Yan rushed to the police station, checked Ye Mo for injuries, and asked what had happened.
• Ye Mo told Shen Yan that Sun Qian had tried to kill her because he feared she would expose a previous murder, then claimed she had divined it.
• The narration revealed that Sun Qian had killed a six-year-old village girl when he was fifteen after molesting her, and began describing how he had lured her into a cornfield.

Ye Mo explained how Sun Qian had murdered a girl as a child and hidden her body, while Shen Yan questioned why she had not sought help sooner. Ye Lin arrived at the police station after seeing news of Ye Mo, removed the online reports, and demanded to know why she had not asked him for help.

• Ye Mo recounted how Sun Qian strangled a girl to death, and Grandma Sun hid the body in a mountain cave while the girl's disappearance went unsolved.
• Shen Yan recognized Sun Qian as the livestreamer and asked why Ye Mo had not exposed or reported him earlier; she explained she feared provoking him and had no evidence to give the police.
• Shen Yan suggested Ye Mo could have asked the Ye Family for help, and Ye Lin appeared with Secretary Huang and a bespectacled man.
• Secretary Huang explained that paparazzi had photographed Ye Mo entering the police station and that Ye Lin had removed the images and suppressed the online speculation.
• Ye Lin pressed Ye Mo to explain why she had not asked him for help, then threatened to withhold her next month's allowance if she did not tell the truth.

Ye Mo admitted to Ye Lin that she had handled Sun Qian’s threat alone instead of asking the Ye Family for help, and he sent her home to rest. On the ride, Secretary Huang told Ye Mo how she had used Ye Mo’s advice and a friend’s help to stop her family’s tormentors, though Ye Mo worried they might retaliate.

• Ye Mo told Ye Lin she was used to dealing with trouble alone, and Ye Lin forgave her while warning her to ask the Ye Family for help next time.
• Ye Lin arranged for Secretary Huang to take Ye Mo home and keep watch over her, then went to the company.
• Secretary Huang explained that Ye Lin had called Lawyer Li after seeing online news about Ye Mo’s arrest.
• Secretary Huang said she followed Ye Mo’s advice and asked Ye Mo’s friend to expose the family that had been harassing her own family.
• Secretary Huang described how the family stopped coming after she splashed them with water and her friend publicized their behavior, while Ye Mo warned they might seek revenge.

Ye Mo returned to the Ye Family home after visiting the police station and tried to reassure her family, but Ruan Xianyue discovered burns on her neck from filming. Doctor Xu examined and treated the burns, confirming they would not leave scars.

• Ye Mo and the others returned to the Ye Family home, where Ruan Xianyue anxiously asked why Ye Mo had gone to the police station.
• Ye Mo said she was fine and explained that she had gone to the police station after an accident during filming, but Ruan Xianyue noticed her blistered neck.
• Ye Mo showered and applied aloe vera gel to her burns before worrying that they might scar.
• Ruan Xianyue brought Doctor Xu to examine Ye Mo, and he said the burns were not severe and would not leave scars.
• Doctor Xu treated the blisters on Ye Mo's neck and covered the wounds with gauze while Ruan Xianyue stayed beside her.