Recaps

Su Wanqiao accepted Fu Siyao’s invitation to dinner after Fu Siyao thanked her for helping avert a crisis. At Pine and Crane Manor, Su Wanqiao’s thoughts revealed that Fu Yunqi was about to lose the lead role in a project, and he reacted to learning how badly he would be treated.

• Su Wanqiao realized that Gu Minghan had become the victim of the assault that had originally been meant for Fu Siyao, and she was pleased that the plot had changed.
• Fu Siyao invited Su Wanqiao to dinner at Pine and Crane Manor to thank her for helping protect her, and she offered her a pink Ferrari.
• Su Wanqiao and Fu Siyao spotted Fu Yunqi’s Lamborghini at the restaurant and went to their private dining room.
• Fu Siyao texted Fu Yunqi, who left a meeting with investors and directors to greet them before returning to his room.
• Su Wanqiao’s thoughts revealed that Fu Yunqi would lose the lead role in The Legend of Yuzhou to Ji Xingyue and accept a supporting role after Jiang Ruoning persuaded him; Fu Yunqi overheard her.

Fu Yunqi learned that The Legend of Yuzhou would use him to boost Jiang Ruoning and asked Su Wanqiao for career advice. Su Wanqiao recommended Water Village Love, leaving Fu Yunqi with a promising alternative to the drama he had planned to join.

• Fu Siyao resolved to warn Fu Yunqi to stay away from Jiang Ruoning, while Fu Yunqi realized he would refuse to be manipulated by the drama's plot.
• Su Wanqiao cautiously warned Fu Yunqi about the risks of The Legend of Yuzhou, and her inner voice revealed that Jiang Ruoning would benefit while the other actors faced backlash.
• Fu Yunqi decided not to join The Legend of Yuzhou or get close to Jiang Ruoning, then asked Su Wanqiao what kinds of projects she recommended.
• Su Wanqiao suggested that Fu Yunqi audition for the serious rural drama Water Village Love, which she believed would strengthen his career.

After Su Wanqiao warned Fu Yunqi and Fu Siyao about their doomed roles in the plot, Fu Yunqi rejected The Legend of Yuzhou and investigated the people behind it. He evaded Jiang Ruoning’s attempts to persuade him to return, prepared for another audition, and arranged to expose Ji Xingyue after filming; meanwhile, Fu Siyao stayed close to Su Wanqiao as Chen Muyu planned to find her a new marriage prospect.

• Fu Yunqi and Fu Siyao thanked Su Wanqiao for warning them and resolved to change their fates.
• After leaving the meal with Su Wanqiao, Fu Yunqi investigated Ji Xingyue and the investor behind The Legend of Yuzhou.
• Over a month later, Jiang Ruoning called Fu Yunqi and tried to persuade him to accept the second male lead, but he stalled her and stopped answering her calls.
• Fu Yunqi prepared to audition for Water Village Love while The Legend of Yuzhou began filming without him.
• Fu Yunqi sent paparazzi evidence of Ji Xingyue’s casting-couch dealings and planned to release it after filming.
• Fu Siyao stayed close to Su Wanqiao as Chen Muyu prepared to take her to a matchmaking banquet.

Fu Siyao learned from Su Wanqiao that Xie Muling and Han Yichen were tied to dangerous plotlines, and she planned to prevent Jiang Ruoning from taking Xie Muling away as a Fu Family business partner. At the reception, Su Wanqiao unexpectedly reunited with her husband, Fu Huaiyan, who came to discuss business with Xie Muling.

• Fu Siyao asked Su Wanqiao to assess Xie Muling and Han Yichen as possible matches, and Su Wanqiao recognized them from the novel’s plot.
• Su Wanqiao recalled that Xie Muling would fall for Jiang Ruoning and withdraw from the Fu Family’s project, while Han Yichen would help Jiang Ruoning before dying in a laboratory explosion.
• Su Wanqiao advised Fu Siyao against dating either man and urged her to strengthen the Fu Family’s partnership with Xie Muling.
• Fu Siyao decided to save Xie Muling from the drugged alcohol before Jiang Ruoning could, and arranged for someone to watch him at the ball.
• Su Wanqiao encountered Fu Huaiyan at the reception, where he had come with Xie Muling to discuss business, and the two stood unusually close together.

Fu Huaiyan learned that Jiang Ruoning’s plot would target his business partner Xie Muling, so he tried to prevent Xie from being drugged and drawn into the scheme. Fu Siyao interrupted Xie before he drank, leaving Jiang Ruoning’s plan unsettled.

• Fu Huaiyan asked Su Wanqiao to dance and learned from her thoughts that Jiang Ruoning would use a drugging incident to approach Xie Muling.
• Fu Huaiyan spotted Xie Muling dancing with an unfamiliar woman and arranged for a subordinate to intervene before Xie drank the wine.
• Fu Siyao told Xie Muling that Fu Huaiyan had been looking for him, and Xie left the woman before drinking.
• Jiang Ruoning watched Xie Muling from across the ballroom, still hoping to discuss a partnership with him.

At the reception, Fu Siyao knocked a possibly drugged wineglass from Xie Muling’s hand just as police arrived to investigate poisoned drinks. Fu Huaiyan revealed he had called them, preventing Jiang Ruoning from getting Xie Muling alone, and the guests were questioned.

• Jiang Ruoning approached Xie Muling and asked to speak with him privately, while Fu Siyao suspected his wine might be drugged.
• Fu Siyao knocked Xie Muling’s wineglass to the floor, startling him and the guests.
• Police officers entered the reception and announced they were investigating a report of poison in the drinks.
• Fu Huaiyan told the officers that he had called the police, and Su Wanqiao reacted with surprise and admiration.
• During questioning, Fu Huaiyan explained that a subordinate had seen someone bribe a server to drug the guests’ drinks.

Fu Siyao and Fu Huaiyan stopped Jiang Ruoning from getting close to Xie Muling by exposing a drugged drink, and the incident strengthened the Fu Family’s business partnership. After receiving Su Wanqiao’s anonymous warning about the Chen Family, Fu Huaiyan set his plan in motion and told Fu Yichu to rely on his eldest sister-in-law’s plot knowledge.

• Police found a neurological drug in Xie Muling’s spilled drink and identified his former dance partner as the culprit, preventing Jiang Ruoning from approaching him.
• Fu Huaiyan and Fu Siyao gained Xie Muling’s gratitude, and he invested several hundred million more in their partnership.
• Fu Siyao decided to pursue Han Yichen after helping secure Xie Muling as a business partner.
• Fu Huaiyan recognized Su Wanqiao as the sender of an anonymous email about the Chen Family and planned to use photos of Chen Zheyuan with his lover to distract him.
• Fu Huaiyan told Fu Yichu that Su Wanqiao had revealed crucial plot points and urged him to follow her advice, prompting Fu Yichu to plan to seek her guidance.

Fu Yichu brought Su Wanqiao boxes filled with cash and asked her to vouch for his loyalty after Fu Huaiyan suspected him of leaking a bid. Su Wanqiao realized he might have avoided becoming entangled with Jiang Ruoning, but warned him that the Fu Family’s board was complicated and some executives served other interests.

• Fu Huaiyan told Fu Yichu that Su Wanqiao liked money, preferably more than she could count.
• A tabloid reported that Liu Yue had caught Chen Zheyuan cheating, and their marriage collapsed amid her attacks on his mistresses and his demand for divorce.
• Fu Yichu brought Su Wanqiao an early New Year’s gift: more than twenty boxes filled with cash worth at least ten million.
• Su Wanqiao praised Fu Yichu and promised to tell him everything she knew after he asked her to put in a good word with Fu Huaiyan over suspicions that he had leaked the Yannan District bid.
• Su Wanqiao realized Fu Yichu had not told Jiang Ruoning the bid price and warned him that Fu Huaiyan’s board of directors included executives loyal to others.

Su Wanqiao warned Fu Yichu about Vice Chairman Bai, Director Gao, and the Fu Group’s loss of talent, prompting him to investigate and protect the company. At Fu Yuze’s hospital, she learned that a late-stage cancer patient would die after surgery and that the family would blame him, leaving Chen Muyu alarmed about the coming trouble.

• Su Wanqiao told Fu Yichu to watch Vice Chairman Bai and Director Gao, protect the Fu Family’s technology, and retain talented employees.
• Fu Yichu thanked Su Wanqiao, resolved to investigate the two men and prevent further losses, then left.
• Su Wanqiao began counting the cash Fu Yichu had given her, but Chen Muyu called and asked her to accompany her to Fu Yuze’s hospital for a checkup.
• At the hospital, Chen Muyu and Su Wanqiao heard a late-stage stomach cancer patient’s family plead for Fu Yuze to operate, and Chen Muyu decided to ask him about it.
• Su Wanqiao thought that the patient would die three days after surgery and that the family would sue Fu Yuze for thirty million, while Chen Muyu remembered hearing that he might face trouble from a patient’s family.

Fu Yuze faced pressure from Zhao Xu and his family to perform a risky operation, while Jiang Ruoning arrived at the hospital with Jiang Cixue. Su Wanqiao’s thoughts revealed that a former plot involving Xie Muling had changed, but Jiang Ruoning’s visit still threatened to spark another tangled encounter.

• Chen Muyu worried that a medical dispute could damage Fu Yuze’s reputation as he left the operating room.
• Zhao Xu begged Fu Yuze to operate, but Fu Yuze refused because Zhao Xu was not healthy enough for surgery.
• Zhao Xu and his family blocked Fu Yuze in the corridor, drawing a crowd as Chen Muyu and Su Wanqiao struggled to reach him.
• Jiang Ruoning and Jiang Cixue arrived, and Su Wanqiao realized Jiang Ruoning’s hospital visit echoed a plot event despite Xie Muling’s absence.
• Fu Yuze heard Su Wanqiao’s thoughts as Zhao Xu’s family refused to leave, and Jiang Ruoning recognized that she had arrived during a dispute.

Fu Yuze refused Jiang Ruoning’s plea to operate on Zhao Xu, explaining that Zhao Xu’s condition made surgery too dangerous. After Zhao Xu and his family left, Chen Muyu confronted Jiang Ruoning and Jiang Cixue for interfering with her son’s work.

• Jiang Ruoning urged Fu Yuze to operate on Zhao Xu because she could not bear to see him suffer.
• Fu Yuze learned that Zhao Xu would die three days after the operation in the original plot and resolved not to operate while Zhao Xu was unfit for surgery.
• Fu Yuze warned Zhao Xu and his family that surgery could make him die sooner, and they left in alarm.
• Jiang Cixue criticized Fu Yuze for upsetting Zhao Xu and lacking sympathy.
• Chen Muyu berated Jiang Ruoning and Jiang Cixue and threatened them if they interfered with Fu Yuze’s work again.
• Su Wanqiao watched Chen Muyu’s outburst in astonishment and wondered why she disliked Jiang Ruoning and her sister so intensely.

Chen Muyu helped Su Wanqiao and Fu Yuze avoid the hospital crisis involving Zhao Xu, who later died after transferring hospitals. Fu Huaiyan then asked Su Wanqiao to assess an antique painting intended as a gift for Master Wu Songshan, and she recognized a detail in its inscription.

• Chen Muyu scolded Jiang Ruoning and her sister until they left in tears, while Fu Yuze refused to defend them.
• Chen Muyu warned Fu Yuze not to operate on Zhao Xu, and he promised not to proceed with the surgery.
• Su Wanqiao learned that Chen Muyu was recovering and later heard that Zhao Xu had died after transferring hospitals without undergoing surgery.
• Chen Muyu invited Su Wanqiao to afternoon tea and said she had something to give her.
• Fu Huaiyan showed Su Wanqiao an antique landscape painting he planned to give Master Wu Songshan, and Su Wanqiao asked about the poetry written on it.

Fu Huaiyan learned from Su Wanqiao that Wu Songshan’s image as a devoted husband was false, and that the wrong gift could cost the Fu Family his investment. He decided to pursue a Zhang Daqian painting instead, and he and Su Wanqiao began searching for a way to obtain it before Gu Yubai could.

• Su Wanqiao’s inner voice revealed that Wu Songshan had exploited his late wife’s estate and that Gu Yubai had won his favor with a painting rather than verses about marital devotion.
• Fu Huaiyan realized his original gift idea could cost him Wu Songshan’s investment and resolved to take the opportunity from Gu Yubai.
• Su Wanqiao advised Fu Huaiyan to give Wu Songshan a Zhang Daqian painting and identified Spring Dawn at Danshan as his favorite.
• Fu Huaiyan agreed to watch the auction listings, while Su Wanqiao offered to send his assistant detailed information about the painting.
• Fu Huaiyan and Su Wanqiao searched Sotheby’s listings and looked for the painting’s collector so they could buy it before the auction.

Fu Huaiyan secured Spring Dawn at Danshan for Wu Songshan while Gu Yubai settled for another gift and secretly planned to use the Gu Family before abandoning it. At Wu Songshan’s birthday banquet, Su Wanqiao overheard secrets about his sons and learned through her thoughts that President Fei was hiding three children and plotting to replace his wife with his first love.

• Fu Huaiyan bought Spring Dawn at Danshan before the auction, while Gu Yubai chose a less satisfying painting for Wu Songshan’s birthday.
• Gu Yubai decided to build a studio with Jiang Ruoning and gain enough power to take revenge on the Gu Family for how it had treated him and his mother.
• At Wu Songshan’s birthday banquet, Fu Huaiyan heard Su Wanqiao think that Wu’s sons had secretly had their surnames changed from Song to Wu.
• Mrs. Yu brushed past Su Wanqiao, and Fu Huaiyan explained that she and President Fei were seeking investment from Wu Songshan.
• Su Wanqiao thought that President Fei had secretly fathered three children with his first love and planned to remove Mrs. Yu from his life once the children were older.

Fu Huaiyan won Wu Songshan’s favor and secured a major investment, while moving to alter the plot around Mrs. Yu and the Yu Family. The chapter ended with Su Wanqiao rushing to wake Fu Huaiyan after Fu Siyao reported that Fu Qingshu was surrounded at a bar.

• Fu Huaiyan decided to warn Mrs. Yu about President Fei’s betrayal and plans to kill her, hoping she could protect herself and he could gain from the Yu Family’s assets.
• At Wu Songshan’s birthday banquet, Fu Huaiyan presented Zhang Daqian’s Spring Dawn at Danshan and became the leading candidate for Wu Songshan’s investment, leaving Gu Yubai disappointed.
• Wu Songshan met with Fu Huaiyan after the banquet and agreed to work with him, delaying Gu Yubai and Jiang Ruoning’s progress.
• The Chen Corporation’s stock plunged as the Fu Family bought its shares, while the Fu Family’s business and share price surged.
• Fu Huaiyan had Fu Yichu pass the warning about President Fei to Mrs. Yu.
• Fu Siyao called Su Wanqiao in the middle of the night to report that Fu Qingshu was surrounded at a bar, and Su Wanqiao went to wake Fu Huaiyan.

After learning that Fu Qingshu was in danger at a bar and destined to be sold into the mountains by Gu Yubai, Fu Huaiyan rushed to rescue her and vowed to overturn the Fu Family’s tragic fates. He and Su Wanqiao reached the bar, where Fu Siyao had already arrived with bodyguards, but Qingshu’s whereabouts remained unresolved.

• Su Wanqiao told Fu Huaiyan that Fu Qingshu and her friends were surrounded by thugs at a bar, and warned that Gu Yubai would exploit the situation to make Qingshu fall for him.
• Fu Huaiyan learned that Gu Yubai would eventually sell Qingshu into the mountains and resolved to protect his family and take the opportunities meant for the leads.
• Su Wanqiao thought the plot had forced Qingshu into a late-night bar outing so Gu Yubai could play the hero, and Fu Huaiyan worried that his siblings were being controlled by the story.
• Fu Huaiyan and Su Wanqiao changed clothes, held hands on the way, and hurried to the bar address Fu Siyao had sent.
• Fu Huaiyan and Su Wanqiao arrived to find Fu Siyao already there with bodyguards, while Qingshu had strangely come without her own protection.

Fu Siyao arrived at the bar and rescued Fu Qingshu and her friends from the thugs, then ordered her bodyguards to punish them. Fu Huaiyan and Su Wanqiao arrived as the bodyguards were still beating the restrained men.

• Gu Yubai stood between the thugs and the frightened women, promising to protect them.
• Fu Siyao arrived with trained bodyguards, who quickly subdued the thugs and forced them to their knees.
• Fu Siyao called Fu Qingshu over and scolded her for going out drinking without a bodyguard.
• Fu Siyao ordered her bodyguards to slap the thugs, and they beat them while Fu Qingshu watched in shock.
• Fu Huaiyan and Su Wanqiao hurried over and saw the bodyguards slapping one of the restrained thugs.

Fu Huaiyan and Fu Siyao rescued Fu Qingshu from thugs and reprimanded her for going out without bodyguards. After hearing Su Wanqiao’s inner thoughts about the plot and Gu Yubai, Fu Qingshu grew afraid and wary of him, while Fu Siyao resolved to protect her sister.

• Fu Huaiyan learned Fu Siyao had handled the thugs and scolded Fu Qingshu for going out drinking without bodyguards.
• Su Wanqiao urged Fu Huaiyan to stop scolding Fu Qingshu, while her inner thoughts warned that the plot might be controlling Fu Qingshu and that Gu Yubai could cause her death.
• Fu Qingshu recalled that Gu Yubai had seemed to save her, but became frightened and suspicious after hearing Su Wanqiao’s thoughts.
• Fu Siyao realized Gu Yubai was the male lead and resolved to prevent him from harming Fu Qingshu.
• Gu Yubai recognized Fu Qingshu as part of the Fu Family and privately grew disgusted with her and her relatives.

Fu Qingshu realized that the plot could push her into betraying her family for Gu Yubai, and she feared she might repeat the actions that led to Fu Huaiyan’s death. After Gu Yubai rejected her friends’ thanks, she confronted them for overlooking Fu Siyao, who had arranged their rescue.

• Fu Qingshu’s wealthy friends asked Gu Yubai for his number, but he refused and said Fu Siyao deserved their thanks.
• Su Wanqiao’s thoughts revealed that Fu Qingshu had betrayed her friends’ business secrets in the plot and later helped frame Fu Huaiyan, contributing to his death.
• Fu Huaiyan and his siblings feared the car-borrowing incident would still happen, while Fu Qingshu realized she might have fallen for Gu Yubai if he had rescued her.
• Fu Qingshu rebuked her friends for thanking Gu Yubai more warmly than Fu Siyao, who had sent bodyguards to save them.
• Fu Qingshu told the young women they owed her a favor because Fu Siyao had come to save her.

After Fu Qingshu rejected Gu Yubai and decided to take control of the plot, the rescued young ladies and their parents visited the Fu Family to offer thanks and discuss cooperation. When marriage alliances came up, Fu Huaiyan proposed that the Fu Family would only consider a man marrying into the family, leaving the guests uncertain and Su Wanqiao wondering how he had echoed her thoughts.

• Fu Qingshu warned her wealthy young lady friends to remember their debt to the Fu Family, and Gu Yubai left in anger.
• On the way home, Fu Qingshu decided to control the plot and use it to eliminate dangers to herself and her family.
• The next day, the young ladies and their parents visited the Fu Family with gifts to express thanks and seek business ties.
• Fu Qingshu invited the young ladies upstairs while their parents discussed cooperation and marriage alliances with Fu Huaiyan, Su Wanqiao, and Fu Siyao.
• After Su Wanqiao wondered whether Siyao could have a man marry into her family, Fu Huaiyan proposed that the Fu Family would only consider a son-in-law who married into it.
• The visiting parents hesitated over Fu Huaiyan's proposal, while Su Wanqiao wondered whether he could read her thoughts.

Su Wanqiao uncovered secrets about the wealthy families, including that Madam Wang’s three sons were fathered by President Sun, and Fu Huaiyan used the revelation to unsettle President Wang. The chapter ended with President Wang privately questioning his sons’ parentage while hiding his suspicions from the guests.

• Su Wanqiao studied the guests and recalled that Gu Yubai would exploit feuds between the Wang and Sun Families, while the Li Family would help him destroy the Liu Family.
• Su Wanqiao thought the Liu Family could become an ally and weapon for the Fu Family by having their son marry into the family.
• As the guests were leaving, Fu Huaiyan remarked that President Wang’s sons looked more like President Sun than their supposed father.
• Madam Wang called Fu Huaiyan’s remark an inappropriate joke, while President Sun stayed silent and President Wang grew cold and suspicious.
• President Wang compared the men’s features and realized his three sons resembled President Sun, but he kept his doubts to himself.

Fu Qingshu recruited the Wang, Li, Sun, and Liu heiresses to spy on Gu Yubai, while Su Wanqiao confronted Fu Huaiyan about his uncanny guesses. Fu Huaiyan admitted he had been reading her thoughts for about a month, leaving her mortified over everything she had thought about him and the Fu Family.

• Fu Qingshu persuaded the four heiresses to secretly report Gu Yubai’s work and daily activities to her.
• After the guests left, Su Wanqiao dragged Fu Huaiyan to their bedroom to ask whether he could read her thoughts.
• Fu Huaiyan admitted that her thoughts appeared above her head as text and that he had been seeing them for about a month.
• Su Wanqiao realized the Fu Family had learned plot details from her thoughts and became embarrassed over her private judgments and plans.

Su Wanqiao told Fu Huaiyan that the Fu Family could read her thoughts and revealed that his original fate was to die in a deliberate plane crash. Fu Huaiyan resolved to change the plot and considered arranging a marriage alliance for Fu Yichu, but learning that Fu Yichu would eventually be killed left him distressed; Su Wanqiao reassured him that they could still change what happened.

• Fu Huaiyan explained that everyone in the Fu Family could see Su Wanqiao’s thoughts, while outsiders could not, and told her she could leave to keep her thoughts private.
• Su Wanqiao demanded twenty million yuan to reveal Fu Huaiyan’s fate, and Fu Huaiyan immediately gave her a check.
• Su Wanqiao told Fu Huaiyan that he would die in a man-made plane crash that killed more than two hundred people.
• Fu Huaiyan decided he should arrange a marriage alliance for Fu Yichu to keep him occupied and away from the male lead’s storyline.
• Su Wanqiao’s thoughts revealed that Fu Yichu would later turn against Gu Yubai and be killed, leaving Fu Huaiyan heartbroken.
• Su Wanqiao reassured Fu Huaiyan that they could change the original plot and prevent those events from happening.

Su Wanqiao warned Fu Huaiyan about future dangers and helped him turn the Wang and Sun families against each other, allowing him to acquire their businesses. As Fu Qingshu struggled with her new job, Fu Siyao invited Su Wanqiao to invest in Han Yichen’s biotech company, and she agreed.

• Su Wanqiao reassured Fu Huaiyan that she could warn the Fu Family about coming tragedies, while Fu Huaiyan planned to arrange marriages for Fu Yichu and send Fu Qingshu to work undercover at a cutthroat company.
• Su Wanqiao suggested Fu Huaiyan pit the Wang and Sun families against each other, and he arranged for paparazzi to watch them.
• President Wang tested his children’s parentage, and news of Madam Wang’s affair with President Sun and the three sons’ paternity spread across the internet.
• President Wang expelled Madam Wang and the three sons, then fought the Sun Family; Fu Huaiyan bought shares in both companies as their businesses and stock prices suffered.
• President Wang asked Fu Huaiyan to acquire his company, and Fu Huaiyan took it over while leaving President Wang in charge; Fu Qingshu enjoyed the daughters’ newfound deference but struggled with her job.
• Fu Siyao invited Su Wanqiao to invest with her in a biotech company for Han Yichen, and Su Wanqiao agreed.

Su Wanqiao and Fu Siyao founded Jiuyi Biotech with Han Yichen, then crossed paths with Xie Muling, who was unsure whether Fu Siyao liked him. At home, Su Wanqiao identified Sang Yu as a devoted figure in Fu Yichu’s future, and Fu Huaiyan decided to arrange their blind date before she warned him about Sang Yu’s family.

• Su Wanqiao and Fu Siyao invested a combined nine hundred million in Han Yichen’s company, Jiuyi Biotech, and celebrated with his technical staff.
• Xie Muling saw Fu Siyao chatting with Han Yichen at a restaurant, then greeted her when she came over before leaving; Su Wanqiao’s thoughts about the pair made Fu Siyao blush.
• Fu Huaiyan showed Su Wanqiao profiles of potential marriage matches for Fu Yichu, and she recognized Sang Yu as the girl who would support the Fu Family and care for Fu Yichu after his death.
• Fu Huaiyan decided to arrange a blind date between Fu Yichu and Sang Yu, but Su Wanqiao warned that Sang Yu’s family was complicated.