Chapter Summaries

Ye Mo attended a dinner for Flowers Fall Throughout the City, where investor Mr. Wu made unwanted advances and then tried to force her to drink. The chapter ended with Shen Yan offering to take the drink for her as the room watched.

• Ning Aiqi styled Ye Mo and shared gossip with her while they worked on Flowers Fall Throughout the City.
• Shen Yan warned Ye Mo to stay close to him at the dinner, and Hu Pingping promised to keep watch over her.
• Mr. Wu tried to put his arm around Ye Mo, but she dodged him and insulted his appearance.
• Mr. Wu challenged Ye Mo to drink three penalty glasses and threatened to reconsider his investment when she did not comply.
• Shen Yan stood up and offered to drink the glass for Ye Mo, saying she could not hold her liquor.

At a crew dinner, Mr. Wu tried to force Ye Mo to drink and kneel in exchange for his investment, but she humiliated him instead. Ye Mo then revealed that investor He Mingzhang was her uncle, leaving Mr. Wu shaken.

• Mr. Wu demanded that Ye Mo drink three glasses and kneel to apologize, threatening to withdraw his investment from the production.
• Ye Mo poured a glass of liquor over Mr. Wu's head and shoved his face into a steamed fish platter when he cursed at her.
• After Mr. Wu struggled free and continued insulting her, Ye Mo called out to her uncle for help.
• Ye Mo identified her uncle as investor He Mingzhang, and Mr. Wu realized the He Group's investment might have been made because of her.

Ye Mo confronted Mr. Wu at a production dinner, with He Mingzhang publicly backing her as his niece. Mr. Wu left after learning that his child had been injured, and Ye Mo ended the chapter asking He Mingzhang for a New Year’s red envelope.

• Ye Mo called He Mingzhang her uncle and challenged Mr. Wu to repeat his demand for an apology in front of him.
• Mr. Wu tried to explain himself, but Ye Mo exposed that his biological father was his uncle and hinted he had known since childhood.
• Mr. Wu angrily accused Ye Mo of being fed the information, then received a call that Lele had fallen down the stairs and split their head open.
• Mr. Wu hurried away, and Producer Luo restored the dinner as the other investors treated Ye Mo with greater courtesy.
• Ye Mo thanked He Mingzhang for supporting her, then asked whether she could still receive a New Year’s red envelope from the He Family.

After Ye Mo exposed Mr. Wu’s misconduct, the production crew gathered around her, curious about her fortune-telling claims. Earlier, He Mingzhang offered her lucky money and invited her to meet his cat Mimi, leaving his shocked niece wondering why he had changed his mind about cats.

• Ye Mo remembered missing out on lucky money and eagerly added He Mingzhang on WeChat so he could send her a red packet.
• Ye Mo admired He Mingzhang’s cat Mimi, and he invited her to visit and pet it while he was there.
• He Mingzhang’s niece reacted in shock to his invitation, since he had previously refused to keep a cat.
• After Mr. Wu left, the crew discussed his history of pressuring actresses, and Ye Mo comforted a crew member whose favorite actress had been targeted by him.
• Ye Mo told the crew she could divine the present and past but not the future, then joked that she would buy lottery tickets herself if she could predict winning numbers.
• The crew members crowded around Ye Mo and turned the gathering into an informal fortune-telling session.

Ye Mo divined that Li Kui's online girlfriend was actually a man, and Li Kui was devastated when the person hung up on him. After the crew gathering, a tipsy Ye Mo bumped into a familiar man she recognized as the uncle she had gotten for nothing.

• A crew member asked Ye Mo to explain his cheek dimple, and she correctly guessed it came from hitting his cheek on a sickle.
• Li Kui asked Ye Mo why his online girlfriend, Tiantian, refused to meet him, and 888 revealed that Tiantian was a man.
• Ye Mo told Li Kui that his online partner was male, and the crew explained what she meant when he failed to understand.
• Li Kui called Tiantian to confirm, and Tiantian hung up after he asked if she was a man, leaving him sobbing.
• Ye Mo ate at the crew gathering, then, slightly tipsy, bumped into a familiar man and recognized him as the uncle she had gotten for nothing.

Ye Mo accepted a ride back to the hotel with He Mingzhang after he offered to show her photos of his cat, Mimi, and fell asleep in the car. He gave her flowers to congratulate her on her first leading role, but Ye Mo hurried away after learning he had watched everything she had acted in.

• Hu Pingping drew Zhou Xiaoyu aside so Ye Mo and He Mingzhang could talk, believing He Mingzhang would keep Ye Mo safe.
• He Mingzhang offered Ye Mo a ride and photos and videos of Mimi, and Ye Mo agreed before texting Shen Yan that she was leaving with him.
• Ye Mo browsed He Mingzhang's cat photos in the car and fell asleep, while Zhou Xiaoyu and Hu Pingping rode quietly in the back.
• He Mingzhang woke Ye Mo when they reached the hotel and gave her white camellias to celebrate her first leading role.
• He Mingzhang told Ye Mo he had watched all her performances, and she hurried toward the elevator in embarrassment as Zhou Xiaoyu wondered about his behavior toward her.

Ye Mo felt awkward around He Mingzhang after learning he had watched her old dramas, but his praise reassured her about how far her acting had improved. Meanwhile, the crew planned to confront Li Kui’s online lover and reclaim the gifts, and Ye Mo asked to join them.

• Hu Pingping dismissed Zhou Xiaoyu’s suspicion that He Mingzhang was pursuing Ye Mo, saying his gifts were normal for an elder.
• Ye Mo found He Mingzhang still on set the next day, where he treated the crew to afternoon tea.
• Ning Aiqi told Ye Mo that the crew planned to find Li Kui’s online lover in City B and recover his gifts, including three pieces of gold jewelry.
• Ye Mo asked Ning Aiqi to tell her when the crew went to confront the online lover.
• He Mingzhang asked Ye Mo why she was avoiding him, and she admitted she felt embarrassed because he had seen her earlier, poor acting.
• He Mingzhang praised Ye Mo’s effort and improvement, leaving her happy and reassured.

Ye Mo reflected on improving her acting without relying on the Role Immersion Room, then joined the crew as they set out to confront Li Kui’s deceptive online partner. Along the way, the group learned that Niu Guangping also had an online girlfriend, and the growing party headed off with He Mingzhang driving Ye Mo.

• Ye Mo learned that 888 needed one billion Gossip Points to leave, while they had only thirteen thousand, and resolved to keep developing her acting skills herself.
• After wrapping early, Ye Mo agreed to join the crew in helping Li Kui confront his online partner.
• Niu Guangping insisted his online girlfriend Xiaomei was a woman because he had video-called her and heard her daughter call her Mom.
• Shen Yan worried that Ye Mo’s outing could expose her as a public figure, so he and her assistants joined the group to keep an eye on her.
• He Mingzhang joined the growing party, and Ye Mo chose to ride in his car.

Ye Mo and the production crew tracked Li Kui’s online girlfriend to the address where he had sent gifts and discovered that “Hong Tiantian” was a man. Ye Mo exposed the fraud to the man’s neighbors and demanded that he return the engagement jewelry, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ye Mo told He Mingzhang that Li Kui had the supposed girlfriend’s address because he had sent her many things.
• Ye Mo, Li Kui, and the production crew reached Building B, apartment 603, and confirmed the address before knocking.
• The man who answered denied knowing Hong Tiantian and tried to shut the door, but Ye Mo suggested that he was Hong Tiantian himself.
• A crew member pushed the door open, and the group entered as the man continued to deny the fraud and threatened to call the police.
• Ye Mo told a neighbor that the man had impersonated a woman to date Li Kui and trick him into buying a necklace, bracelet, and ring, then demanded their return.

Ye Mo and the neighbors exposed Hong Youtian for posing as Hong Tiantian to scam Li Kui, while Wu Youyou livestreamed the confrontation. When Hong Youtian knelt and pleaded for forgiveness, the crowd urged Li Kui to let the scam go, and Ye Mo spoke up against them.

• The neighbors realized Hong Youtian had been posing as a woman online, and Li Kui proved his identity by showing that Hong Youtian had rejected his video call.
• Hong Youtian admitted he had deceived Li Kui, while Wu Youyou secretly livestreamed the scene and gained a surge of viewers.
• Hong Youtian knelt before Li Kui and claimed he had scammed people to support his gravely ill mother and hungry daughter.
• Some neighbors urged Li Kui and Niu Guangping's group to forgive Hong Youtian, but they insisted he repay the money.
• Ye Mo rebuked the neighbors for pressuring the victims to forgive the scammer, and one of them challenged her harsh tone.

Ye Mo confronted Hong Youtian over the money he had swindled from Li Kui and refused to be swayed by his excuses or the bystanders’ pleas. Hong Youtian’s wife and sick daughter then begged Li Kui to forgive him, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Ye Mo challenged the bystanders who had urged Li Kui to forgive Hong Youtian, and told Li Kui not to let people morally blackmail him.
• Ye Mo demanded that Hong Youtian repay Li Kui and threatened to call the police when he claimed the money had gone toward hospital bills.
• Ye Mo pointed out Hong Youtian’s expensive watch, and Hong Youtian claimed it was a cheap fake.
• Hong Youtian’s wife and five-year-old daughter Cancan rushed in, knelt, and pleaded with Li Kui to forgive him.

Ye Mo refused to excuse Hong Youtian’s fraud because his family was pitiful, and Li Kui insisted that being scammed had made him a victim too. After scanning the family, 888 revealed a startling piece of gossip, and Ye Mo asked Niu Guangping why Hong Youtian’s wife seemed familiar to him.

• Hong Youtian, his wife, and their daughter wept together, prompting some bystanders and livestream viewers to call Ye Mo cold-hearted for insisting on recovering Li Kui’s money.
• Ye Mo asked Li Kui whether he also thought the family’s plight excused them, and Li Kui said he had been scammed out of eighty thousand yuan and was pitiful too.
• Hong Youtian claimed he had no money to repay Li Kui because he had sold everything to pay for his daughter Cancan’s surgery, then dramatically told his wife to care for her if he was arrested.
• Ye Mo asked 888 to scan the family, and the system discovered gossip that shocked it.
• Ye Mo asked Niu Guangping whether Hong Youtian’s wife looked familiar, and Niu Guangping admitted he had been trying to remember where he had seen her.

Niu Guangping recognized Hong Youtian’s wife, Mei Yi, as Xiaomei, the online girlfriend who had claimed to be divorced and single. Her lies unraveled in front of the crowd, and viewers revealed she had used several names and deceived multiple men.

• Niu Guangping recognized Mei Yi as Xiaomei and confronted her, identifying the mole by her eyebrow and the bracelet he had bought her.
• Mei Yi’s reaction confirmed that Niu Guangping had found the online girlfriend who had scammed him.
• Niu Guangping accused Mei Yi of lying about being divorced and single while she was still married to Hong Youtian.
• Li Kui tried to comfort Niu Guangping, and the two men compared how they had been deceived by online partners.
• Viewers in Wu Youyou’s livestream claimed Mei Yi had used other names, including Xiaoli and Xiaohe, and had deceived multiple men.

Ye Mo exposed Mei Yi and Hong Youtian as serial scammers and insisted on calling the police. Mei Yi pinched Cancan to trigger a frightening scene, leaving everyone afraid that the child was in danger.

• Online viewers identified Mei Yi as a woman who had scammed many people under different names, while Mei Yi struggled to explain herself.
• Mei Yi claimed she and Hong Youtian had deceived people to pay for Cancan’s heart surgery, but Ye Mo called her a liar and suspected they had scammed others.
• Ye Mo urged the group to call the police, and Li Kui and Niu Guangping agreed to follow her lead.
• Mei Yi secretly pinched Cancan, who began sobbing and appeared unable to breathe, while Hong Youtian blamed Ye Mo and the others.
• The bystanders backed away, Hu Pingping stepped in front of Ye Mo, and everyone grew nervous as Cancan’s lips turned bluish.

Ye Mo discovered that Hong Youtian and Mei Yi had pinched the crying child and suspected they had bought her, so she took the girl from them and called the police. Hong Youtian admitted to online fraud and offered to repay the money, but insisted the child was his daughter as he tried to get her back.

• 888 told Ye Mo that the girl's heart condition was treatable, that she was crying from Mei Yi pinching her, and that the couple had bought her.
• Ye Mo took the child from Mei Yi, revealed bruises around the girl's waist, and calmed her while Hu Pingping restrained Mei Yi.
• Ye Mo told Shen Yan to call the police over the couple's online fraud and suspected child trafficking, and Hong Youtian lunged to stop him.
• Mei Yi coaxed the girl to come to her, but Ye Mo held the child close and said a paternity test could establish whether the couple were her parents.
• Hong Youtian admitted that his family's hardship stories were lies and offered to repay the stolen money, while pleading for Ye Mo to return the child.

Ye Mo’s accusation of human trafficking unsettled Hong Youtian and Mei Yi, and she refused to return Cancan until a paternity test could be done. Before the police arrived, Ye Mo stopped two spectators from leaving and accused them of helping the couple.

• Hong Youtian and Mei Yi panicked when Ye Mo mentioned human trafficking, prompting livestream viewers to suspect Cancan had been abducted.
• Mei Yi claimed Cancan was her child and demanded that Ye Mo return the child, but Ye Mo said they should wait for the police and a paternity test.
• As neighbors gathered and discussed the couple’s online scams, Ye Mo ordered two spectators, a man in a black jacket and an elderly man in a gray sweater, to stay.
• Ye Mo accused the two men of being in cahoots with Hong Youtian and Mei Yi because they had defended the couple earlier, and said the police would soon arrive.
• The man in the black jacket denied the accusation and claimed he had something urgent to do.

Ye Mo kept the suspected accomplices at the Hong Family home until police arrived, then exposed their group chat as evidence that they were working with Hong Youtian and Mei Yi. The four suspects were caught, and Ye Mo left them wondering how she had known about their chat.

• Ye Mo refused to let the man in the black jacket and the old man in the gray sweater leave, while the crowd blocked their escape.
• Five police officers arrived, and Shen Yan explained how the group had uncovered the scams and suspected human trafficking.
• Ye Mo told the officers to check the suspects’ phones for a group chat linking all four suspects.
• The old man in the gray sweater tried to flee but repeatedly crashed into the crowd, confirming the suspicions.
• The man in the black jacket asked how Ye Mo knew about the group chat, and she joked that she had divined it.

Ye Mo exposed Hong Youtian and his companions’ fraud, raised suspicions that Hong Cancan was not their biological daughter, and urged police to investigate the child’s injuries and arrange a DNA test. After Ye Mo left, Wu Youyou’s livestream viewers recognized her, and Shen Yan worried that her alternate identity had been exposed.

• Ye Mo accused the man in the black jacket of seducing a girl, getting her pregnant, and driving her to suicide, and police took Hong Youtian and the other three away for fraud.
• Mei Yi and Hong Youtian insisted Hong Cancan was their daughter, but Ye Mo pointed out the child’s accumulated injuries and requested a DNA test.
• A policewoman took Hong Cancan into her care, and Ye Mo and her companions gave the officers their contact information before leaving.
• 888 alerted Ye Mo that Wu Youyou was livestreaming her, but Ye Mo simply glanced at Wu Youyou and continued on her way.
• Wu Youyou’s viewers identified Ye Mo, sending her livestream’s popularity soaring while Wu Youyou regretted not asking for an autograph.
• Ye Mo told Shen Yan someone had livestreamed the incident, and he worried that viewers had recognized her.

After Ye Mo and her companions returned from the Hong Family's home, He Mingzhang sent her an expensive dinner and camellias, and she learned he had been visiting the set during his vacation. Li Kui thanked Ye Mo for helping them the previous day.

• Shen Yan searched online for news about Ye Mo and told the company to monitor public opinion.
• A courier brought Ye Mo camellias and a lavish meal from Supreme Flavor Pavilion, which He Mingzhang had arranged for her.
• Ye Mo told Shen Yan that He Mingzhang had sent the food, and she suggested her eldest brother had asked him to look after her.
• The next day, Ye Mo asked He Mingzhang why he kept visiting the set, and he said he was on vacation and enjoyed watching her film.
• Li Kui thanked Ye Mo for helping them deal with the swindling couple.

After Ye Mo helped expose the Hong Family’s scam, the incident brought attention to Flowers Fall Throughout the City and earned Ye Mo new fans, while online debate about her fortune-telling faded. The production continued filming, and newly arrived second female lead Yao Yuwei set her sights on Mr. He, hoping to win his favor.

• Li Kui and Niu Guangping bought milk tea for the cast and crew to thank them for helping at the Hong Family’s home.
• The Hong Family incident and Ye Mo trended online, and viewers debated whether she could really tell fortunes.
• Director Zheng kept filming despite the production’s sudden online attention, and the trending topic brought Yao Yuwei onto the set.
• Yao Yuwei apologized to Director Zheng, then told her assistant to find out Mr. He’s preferences and what kind of woman he liked.
• Yao Yuwei recalled learning that Mr. He led the He Family and decided she wanted to attach herself to him to gain power in the entertainment industry.