Recaps

Yan Xuelan let Yan Yulan return to the guesthouse alone after hearing Ye Jin suspect that Yan Yulan planned to video chat with Chu Xiao. Yan Xuelan later invented a stomachache to return to the guesthouse, while Ye Jin and producer Xu Yan separately decided to turn public opinion against Yan Yulan.

• Yan Xuelan held back from scolding Yan Yulan and let her call a car back to the guesthouse.
• Ye Jin suspected Yan Yulan was rushing back to video chat with Chu Xiao, and Yan Xuelan decided to investigate.
• Ye Jin found that online commenters mostly defended Yan Yulan, while Xu Yan told the publicity team to circulate footage that could make Yan Yulan look lazy.
• Yan Xuelan claimed her old stomach condition had returned and took a production team car back to the guesthouse.
• The production team postponed the afternoon visit by two hours, giving everyone the option to return to the guesthouse for a nap.

Ye Jin returned to the guesthouse hoping to witness Yan Xuelan catch her sister and boyfriend cheating, but Yan Xuelan secretly confirmed the betrayal and planned to expose them. Yan Xuelan then arranged for friends and relatives to join the next trip, including Chu Xiao, leaving Ye Jin convinced the cheating pair had escaped discovery.

• Ye Jin returned to the guesthouse and listened at the wall, while Yan Xuelan heard her thoughts and confirmed that Ye Jin’s voice revealed the affair.
• Yan Xuelan recalled hearing Yan Yulan flirt with Chu Xiao and decided to expose them instead of following the tragic future Ye Jin had described.
• Ye Jin saw Yan Xuelan acting normal during the afternoon outing and thought she had failed to discover the cheating.
• Yan Xuelan proposed inviting friends or relatives on the next trip, and the group enthusiastically agreed.
• Yan Yulan suggested inviting Chu Xiao, and Yan Xuelan agreed, with Xu Yan supporting the plan.

The guests invited family members to join the variety show, then traveled to an ancient city in Central Europe, where Ye Jin’s inner thoughts exposed Chu Xiao’s affair with both Yan sisters and his role in Yan Xuelan’s death. Su Chenglan heard the warning as the guests split up to explore the city.

• Ye Jin invited Lin Xiwen to the show, but Lin Xiwen declined and sent Su Chenglan in her place.
• Yan Yulan stopped Yan Xuelan from calling Chu Xiao and eagerly volunteered to invite him herself.
• At the ancient-city hotel, Yan Yulan rushed to embrace Chu Xiao, while Yan Xuelan greeted him from behind and he awkwardly claimed to treat her sister like family.
• Ye Jin privately condemned Chu Xiao and Yan Yulan, and viewers online criticized Yan Yulan’s closeness with her sister’s boyfriend.
• Su Chenglan joined Ye Jin and heard her reveal that Chu Xiao had pursued both Yan sisters and caused Yan Xuelan’s fatal car accident.
• The guests began sightseeing and split into groups according to their interests.

Yan Xuelan let Yan Yulan leave with Chu Xiao, then joined Ye Jin and the others and led them toward a quiet old castle. She had arranged to track the pair after receiving a photo of them acting intimately, and the chapter left her approaching the place where she expected to confront the truth.

• Yan Yulan rejected Yan Xuelan’s suggestions and asked to explore alone, while Chu Xiao offered to accompany her instead of staying with Yan Xuelan.
• Yan Yulan took Chu Xiao’s arm and left, and Yan Xuelan concealed her hurt before approaching Ye Jin and the others.
• Yan Xuelan invited Ye Jin, Su Chenglan, and Huo Yun to look around with her, and they agreed for their own reasons.
• Yan Xuelan suggested visiting an old castle after explaining that she had arranged for someone to track Yan Yulan and Chu Xiao.
• Yan Xuelan led the group to the quiet castle, where few tourists were present.

Yan Xuelan led the livestream to a bastion, where she exposed Yan Yulan and Chu Xiao kissing and learned they had been seeing each other behind her back. Yan Yulan admitted the affair and blamed Yan Xuelan’s absence, leaving the livestream in an uproar.

• Yan Xuelan guided her livestream viewers around the ancient city and headed toward a bastion while Ye Jin followed.
• Yan Xuelan and Ye Jin found Yan Yulan and Chu Xiao embracing and kissing in the shadows, and the cameras captured them.
• Chu Xiao asked Yan Xuelan to send the camera crew away so he could explain, but she demanded to know their relationship.
• Chu Xiao tried to claim Yan Yulan had sand in her eye, but Yan Xuelan rejected his excuse.
• Yan Yulan admitted she and Chu Xiao had gotten carried away and blamed Yan Xuelan for being too busy to spend time with them, sparking outrage among viewers.

Yan Xuelan confronted Yan Yulan and Chu Xiao during a livestream after they blamed her for their affair. Chu Xiao tried to shift responsibility onto Yan Yulan, leaving Yan Xuelan to question how their relationship differed from the novel.

• Yan Yulan accused Yan Xuelan of being controlling and neglectful, while Yan Xuelan asked whether she was being blamed for their betrayal.
• Ye Jin's inner voice revealed that Yan Yulan had long been jealous of Yan Xuelan and had tried to take things that belonged to her.
• Yan Xuelan reminded Yan Yulan that her hard work had supported the family and enabled Yan Yulan's comfortable life.
• Chu Xiao claimed he had only cared for Yan Yulan because Yan Xuelan asked him to, and Yan Yulan challenged his explanation.
• Yan Xuelan asked Chu Xiao whether she should thank him for looking after her sister.

Yan Xuelan ended the livestream after Chu Xiao and Yan Yulan were exposed, and the scandal spread rapidly online. As both families confronted the fallout, Yan Xuelan’s father angrily rejected Chu Xiao’s father’s request for help, while worrying about Yan Yulan’s reputation.

• Chu Xiao tried to stop the cameraman from filming, but Yan Xuelan redirected the camera and ended the livestream.
• A viewer uploaded the caught-cheating scene, and Chu Xiao and Yan Yulan became targets of widespread online criticism.
• Chu Xiao’s parents went to the Yan family’s home to apologize, but no one answered the door.
• Chu Xiao’s father called Yan Ming and suggested waiting to hear the children’s explanations and using Yan Xuelan’s PR team to reduce the damage.
• Yan Ming rebuked Chu Xiuguo for asking Yan Xuelan to help and worried that the scandal would ruin Yan Yulan’s reputation.

Yan Xuelan decided to stay on "Let's Travel Together," and the show finished filming amid huge success. Ye Jin declined lucrative endorsements as she prepared to leave entertainment, while "Kunlun Duel" premiered to skepticism and weak support.

• Father Yan ended his friendship with Father Chu, resolved to hold Chu Xiao accountable, and planned to send Yan Yulan abroad to study independently.
• Ye Jin and producer Xu Yan discussed Yan Xuelan possibly leaving the show, but Yan Xuelan chose to stay and brought another junior from her company to film with her.
• "Let's Travel Together" remained popular through the end of filming, boosting the guests' popularity and drawing calls for a second season.
• Ye Jin received high-paying endorsement offers, including offers from major international brands, but turned them down because she wanted to leave entertainment.
• "Kunlun Duel" began airing after rapid editing, but it faced public skepticism, online attacks from some of He Cheng's fans, no advertising sponsors, and demands from Fruit Video executives to cut its promotion budget.

After Fu Ruiming cut Kunlun Duel’s publicity budget, Ye Jin persuaded Xu Yan to focus on the premiere and trust the drama’s quality. The show debuted to mockery but won viewers over with its addictive plot, and its buzz and view count surged as fans began promoting it themselves.

• Fu Ruiming used his position to blame Xu Yan for the drama’s problems and push for cuts to its publicity budget.
• Ye Jin comforted Xu Yan and suggested concentrating the remaining publicity funds on the premiere.
• Kunlun Duel premiered to pessimistic comments from viewers who mocked its production and acting.
• After watching, anti-fans and other viewers praised the plot, the cast’s fit for their roles, and Ye Jin’s performance.
• Viewers recommended Kunlun Duel online, and its view count rose rapidly as fans devised ways to promote it.

Ye Jin’s brief role in Kunlun Duel became more popular than the leads, bringing her fan support and lucrative endorsement offers. She rejected the offers and reaffirmed her plan to leave acting, while proposing that she and Huo Yun produce a drama they could control.

• Xu Yan declined to increase Kunlun Duel’s promotional budget, while the cast promoted the drama and Ye Jin’s eldest senior sister became its most popular character.
• Fans of the leads attacked Ye Jin, but other netizens defended her for avoiding self-promotion.
• Huo Yun tried to persuade Ye Jin to accept lucrative endorsements, but Ye Jin refused because she wanted to leave the industry.
• Ye Jin suggested using their earnings and connections to produce their own drama, and said they could discuss a project with Fruit Video at its annual gala.
• Ye Jin finished checking her retirement announcement as her fans complained online that Huo Yun was not finding her work.

After Ye Jin announced that she was leaving acting to work behind the scenes, she reassured fans that the decision was her own and planned to invest in productions. At Fruit Video’s annual party, she turned down acting offers and then spotted Fu Ruiming talking with Xie Haoyu.

• Ye Jin posted that she was leaving acting for personal reasons and returning to behind-the-scenes work.
• When netizens speculated that her wealthy in-laws were forcing her out, Ye Jin clarified that retiring was her own choice and said she hoped to invest in good productions.
• Fans expressed sadness and support, while rival actresses and paid trolls stopped treating Ye Jin as a target.
• At Fruit Video’s annual party, industry figures offered Ye Jin roles, but she declined and said she might invest alongside them in future projects.
• Ye Jin noticed Fu Ruiming and Xie Haoyu talking together just before the annual party began.

At Fruit Video’s annual review, Fu Ruiming tried to humiliate Xu Yan and publicly announced that he would divorce her and marry Ling Xiao Rui. Xu Yan countered by revealing an investigation video that showed Fu Ruiming assaulting Ling Xiao Rui, leaving the audience staring at him in shock.

• Fruit Video recognized “Kunlun Duel” and “Let’s Travel Together” as smash hits, while Xu Yan stood out for leading many of the year’s successful productions.
• Fu Ruiming praised Fruit Video’s departments but singled out Xu Yan for criticism and told her to keep costs down.
• Xu Yan stayed calm as Fu Ruiming announced that he would soon divorce her and marry Ling Xiao Rui.
• Xu Yan told the audience she had investigated Fu Ruiming and played a video showing him violently assaulting Ling Xiao Rui.
• The audience turned toward Fu Ruiming after seeing the footage.

Xu Yan exposed Fu Ruiming’s videos of crimes against women at Fruit Video’s annual party, and the police arrested him. She assured employees and business partners that Fruit Video would continue operating, leaving her poised to take full control of the company.

• Xu Yan revealed evidence that Fu Ruiming had committed crimes against multiple women and said she had reported him to the police.
• Police arrived with an arrest warrant, handcuffed Fu Ruiming, and escorted him away after he threatened Xu Yan.
• Xu Yan reassured Fruit Video’s employees and business partners that projects would continue and there would be no layoffs.
• Xu Yan warned against attempts to take advantage of the company’s troubles, and business partners publicly backed her leadership.
• Xu Yan ended the annual party after making her position clear.

Ye Jin and Xu Yan finalized their collaboration on Fruit Video’s adaptation of the female-led drama The Phoenix First Rises, which Ye Jin decided to produce faithfully. As they prepared to meet the novel’s wary author for approval, Xie Haoyu resolved to find a way to get rid of Ye Jin.

• Xu Yan invited Ye Jin and the others to celebrate her rise to power, while Xie Haoyu watched Ye Jin leave and blamed her for thwarting his plans for Fruit Video and targeting his company.
• Ye Jin and Xu Yan finalized their collaboration, and Ye Jin agreed to pursue The Phoenix First Rises, a drama about Xie Chuhuang’s rise from slave-born soldier to empress.
• Ye Jin read the novel overnight and decided to produce it, respecting its strong female lead and avoiding the romance-heavy changes that had stalled the project.
• Ye Jin and Xu Yan planned to meet the original author, who had reluctantly agreed to see them after repeated delays.
• Ye Jin returned to the Su residence, where she continued living with Lin Xiwen and Su Chenglan despite having her own place.

Ye Jin welcomed Su Chengjing home but worried that his return would force her to divorce him for the sake of his destined soulmate. Su Chengjing revealed he had returned with knowledge of the Su Group’s enemies, only to learn that Ye Jin and his family had already stabilized the situation; he was secretly reborn and had escaped captivity with memories of his past life.

• Ye Jin returned to the Su Family residence and found Su Chengjing back from his kidnapping, then worried that his true love would make her leave the marriage.
• Lin Xiwen welcomed Ye Jin and urged Su Chengjing to appreciate his wife’s support while he was away.
• Su Chengjing thanked Ye Jin and promised to deal with the people targeting the Su Group and the kidnappers.
• Lin Xiwen told Su Chengjing that the family had already found the mastermind and prepared to stop him, and advised her son to rest.
• Su Chengjing realized the Su Family was far calmer than it had been in his previous life, and the narration revealed he had been reborn after dying with resentment.
• Su Chengjing recalled that he had awakened on the kidnappers’ island, escaped using his past-life experience, and hidden his identity until he could return home.

Su Chengjing returned home after nearly six months away and found the Su Family thriving, while his mother, wife, and sister were all doing far better than in his previous life. As he learned how the family had weathered the crisis, he realized they seemed able to prosper even without him.

• Su Chengjing returned to the Su residence and found the household intact, then saw that Lin Xiwen was energetic and the Su Family appeared stable.
• Ye Jin came home, and Lin Xiwen revealed that Ye Jin had helped her stabilize the family’s situation; Su Chengjing also discovered he could hear Ye Jin’s inner thoughts.
• Su Chenglan welcomed Su Chengjing, and he learned she had broken up with Hou Yuanwu and wanted to focus on her career.
• Ye Jin’s thoughts revealed that Hou Yuanwu had a white moonlight, a child bride, and two children, leaving Su Chengjing startled by his wife’s sharp commentary.
• At dinner, Lin Xiwen described the past six months, and Su Chengjing concluded that the Su Family was thriving even better than before his kidnapping.

After returning home, Su Chengjing shared a bed with Ye Jin, who assumed he had another woman and planned to demand a large breakup payment. Lin Xiwen overheard Ye Jin’s thoughts and arranged to investigate Su Chengjing, while he remained unable to correct Ye Jin’s mistaken suspicions.

• Ye Jin followed Su Chengjing to their courtyard after dinner, and they went to bed on opposite sides of their large bed.
• Ye Jin fell asleep quickly, while Su Chengjing stayed awake thinking about her belief that he had a true love before eventually falling asleep.
• Lin Xiwen overheard Ye Jin’s thoughts, worried that Su Chengjing might be injured or seeing someone else, and arranged a medical examination and an investigation.
• Ye Jin went to work feeling confident that Su Chengjing’s return would stabilize the Su Group, and planned to seek a large breakup payment if he had another woman.
• Su Chengjing heard Ye Jin’s plan and inwardly denied having another woman.

Su Chengjing caught a private investigator hired by Lin Xiwen to check whether he was cheating on Ye Jin. He confirmed that Lin Xiwen could hear Ye Jin’s inner voice too, and learned that it had helped her avoid danger.

• Su Chengjing grew suspicious of someone following him, set a trap, and caught a private investigator with a camera.
• The investigator told Su Chengjing that Lin Xiwen had hired him to find out whether Su Chengjing was keeping another woman.
• Su Chengjing called Lin Xiwen, denied cheating, and asked her to meet him at the Su Group after her spa treatment.
• Su Chengjing led Lin Xiwen to a private conference room and tried to ask whether she could hear Ye Jin’s inner voice.
• Lin Xiwen confirmed that she could hear Ye Jin’s thoughts and said they had helped her avoid pitfalls.
• Su Chengjing realized that Lin Xiwen’s gratitude toward Ye Jin and her investigation of him both stemmed from what she had heard.

Su Chengjing learned that his family’s suffering in their previous life had followed a novel’s plot and resolved to take revenge on Xie Haoyu with his mother. Three days later, Ye Jin and Huo Yun met author Song Miao to discuss adapting her novel, and Ye Jin rejected Huo Yun’s suggestion that she return to acting.

• Lin Xiwen reassured Su Chengjing that the plot had changed and urged him to focus on taking revenge on Xie Haoyu.
• Su Chengjing realized that his family had been cast as villains in a novel and felt grateful to Ye Jin for helping change their fate.
• Ye Jin and Huo Yun flew to City B to meet Song Miao, the author of “The Phoenix First Rises.”
• Song Miao approved Ye Jin’s script outline and said she cared more about actors suiting their roles than their fame.
• Song Miao praised Ye Jin’s acting and said she would support Ye Jin playing a role in the adaptation.
• Huo Yun encouraged Ye Jin to return to acting, but Ye Jin refused and promised Song Miao they would cast carefully.

Ye Jin recognized Wan Shiliu as the fake heiress from a novel whose true heiress was Song Miao. After Wan Shiliu taunted Song Miao about her place in the Wan Family, Ye Jin recalled the cruel fate awaiting Song Miao and urged her in thought to stop hoping for the family's affection.

• Ye Jin, Song Miao, and their companion finished discussing the drama and left the restaurant.
• Wan Shiliu approached Song Miao and mocked her for dining at an expensive restaurant.
• Song Miao rejected Wan Shiliu's claim that she was part of the Wan Family and said she did not want to be its eldest daughter.
• Ye Jin recognized Wan Shiliu and Song Miao as the fake and true heiresses from The Fake Heiress Is a Group-Pet Koi.
• Ye Jin recalled that the Wan Family favored Wan Shiliu, who later caused Song Miao's death and took over her author identity.

Ye Jin defended Song Miao against Wan Shiliu, then encouraged her to make their drama adaptation a success. Song Miao accepted the invitation to join the screenwriting team, hoping to learn more about Ye Jin’s strange inner voice.

• Ye Jin confronted Wan Shiliu and criticized her and the Wan Family while defending Song Miao’s talent and identity as the Wan Family’s real daughter.
• Wan Shiliu insulted Ye Jin, threatened that she would regret her words, and stormed off.
• Song Miao wondered whether she could hear Ye Jin’s inner thoughts and whether her novels had come true.
• Ye Jin promised Song Miao they would work hard to make the drama adaptation a hit and help her prove herself.
• Song Miao thanked Ye Jin and offered to join the screenwriting team despite her lack of experience.

After returning from City B, Ye Jin mistook Su Chengjing’s gifts and attempts to explain his escape for signs that he planned to divorce her or keep a mistress. Su Chengjing failed to convince her and asked Lin Xiwen for help, but she refused and left him to prove his loyalty himself.

• Song Miao joined the drama’s screenwriting team, and the group set a deadline for the first draft.
• Ye Jin and Huo Yun spent two more days in City B before returning to City A.
• Su Chengjing showered Ye Jin with expensive gifts, but she suspected he was preparing to divorce her.
• Su Chengjing explained that an older man from Hua Country had helped him escape, but Ye Jin imagined that the man’s female relative was his confidante.
• Ye Jin accused Su Chengjing inwardly of wanting to keep a wife at home while having other women, then covered herself and turned away from him.
• Su Chengjing asked Lin Xiwen to help convince Ye Jin he had no female confidante, but she refused and told him to prove his loyalty himself.

Ye Jin and Huo Yun made progress on casting and talent recruitment for The Phoenix First Rises, but they still needed to choose the lead actress. Ye Jin arrived at the final auditions, where Lu Shilan seemed like the strongest candidate based on her profile and growing popularity.

• Su Chengjing realized Ye Jin was avoiding him and held back from confronting her at work, hoping to clear up her misunderstanding without making it worse.
• Ye Jin and Huo Yun invited film academy students to audition for supporting roles and signed several promising newcomers.
• Huo Yun focused on managing the new recruits, while Ye Jin considered expanding the company’s talent-management business.
• Ye Jin and the production team struggled to find a suitable lead actress within their budget, then shortlisted Lu Shilan, Jiang Ye, and Xin Yue for final auditions.
• Ye Jin researched Lu Shilan and found online fans praising her acting, career progress, and rising popularity.

Ye Jin researched Lu Shilan, Xin Yue, and Jiang Ye before their auditions for “The Phoenix First Rises,” forming impressions of their careers and public images. When the actresses arrived, Jiang Ye was late, and director Sang Yang rebuked her for wasting everyone’s time.

• Ye Jin found that Lu Shilan had an organized fanbase and dismissed rumors that she had been reborn.
• Ye Jin read that Xin Yue was praised for her acting despite having few followers, while Jiang Ye’s fans resented her retreat from acting to focus on her family.
• Lu Shilan arrived first, greeted the staff, and handed out coffee and snacks, prompting Huo Yun to ask Ye Jin whether their agency could recruit her.
• Xin Yue arrived and quietly read the script after greeting everyone.
• Jiang Ye arrived five minutes late in a creased suit, apologized, and offered to treat everyone to milk tea.
• Director Sang Yang told Jiang Ye that a treat would not erase the time she had wasted.

Ye Jin discovered that Lu Shilan was the reborn protagonist of an entertainment-industry novel and had deliberately steered Jiang Ye away from acting by arranging a romance meant to draw her back into family life. The chapter left Ye Jin recognizing that Lu Shilan’s explanation for Jiang Ye’s lateness echoed the scheme that had previously sabotaged Jiang Ye’s career.

• Lu Shilan defended Jiang Ye’s lateness by pointing out that Jiang Ye was married and had a young child, and Sang Yang let the matter go so filming could begin.
• Ye Jin suspected that Lu Shilan and Jiang Ye were connected to a novel and searched for their names in the system.
• Ye Jin found the novel about Lu Shilan’s rebirth and learned that Lu Shilan had once failed to enter the entertainment industry while Jiang Ye became a successful actress.
• After rebirth, Lu Shilan pursued fame, intercepted Jiang Ye’s opportunities, and arranged for a man to romance Jiang Ye and draw her away from her career.
• In the novel’s plot, Lu Shilan used family matters and her husband’s interference to keep Jiang Ye from auditioning for The Phoenix First Rises, then won the role and rose toward movie-star fame.