Recaps

Li Ziyi recalled how she survived years of cyberbullying and debt by passing the civil service exam, only to meet Li Ziyan while handling her first case at the tax bureau. As Li Ziyan and Wang Yang faced public scorn and police scrutiny, Li Ziyi finally saw those who had harmed her confronted with consequences.

• After losing her endorsements and facing a billion yuan in contract penalties, Li Ziyi and her manager endured harassment and debt while she studied for the civil service exam.
• In her second year of preparation, Li Ziyi ranked first in both the written exam and interview and joined the tax bureau without paying the penalties.
• Li Ziyi encountered Li Ziyan during her first case and felt her past grievances surge as she revealed her identity.
• Jiang Zhuxin shared the encounter in the group chat, while Song Shiwei and the others delighted in Li Ziyan facing retribution.
• Yang Jiayu mocked Li Ziyan and warned Wang Yang that she might become a police superintendent; Wang Yang knelt and blamed Yang Le for his false accusation.
• A police officer rebuked Wang Yang, struck him on the head, and warned that he and his manager would face the law.

Police arrested Wang Yang, Li Ziyan, their managers, and numerous other entertainment-industry figures after Song Shiwei's revelations exposed their crimes. Yang Jiayu and He Qinfeng celebrated their freedom from cyberbullying and decided to prepare for the civil service exam together.

• A police officer dismissed Wang Yang's threats and attempts to play dead, then prepared to take him in for questioning.
• Captain Liu showed the officers that police had arrested Wang Yang and Li Ziyan's managers, fifteen or twenty tax evaders, and other suspects, while Jiang Cheng led a team to make more arrests.
• Wang Yang lost his last hope and collapsed as Yang Jiayu and He Qinfeng celebrated the arrests.
• Yang Jiayu asked Li Ziyi about the civil service exam, then bought study materials and vowed to prepare for it.
• He Qinfeng joined Yang Jiayu's plan, offered her money, and the two joked about becoming civil servants and escaping their contract penalties.

Li Ziyi gave He Qinfeng and Yang Jiayu civil service exam guides, and Song Shiwei’s thoughts prompted them to plan to study together. After a day of celebrity scandals and arrests, the police announcement implicated even more people and marked a wave of collapses across the entertainment industry.

• Li Ziyi offered He Qinfeng and Yang Jiayu her civil service exam guides, and Yang Jiayu enthusiastically thanked her and tried to soak up her luck.
• Yang Jiayu offered to share the guides with He Qinfeng, and Song Shiwei’s thoughts led them to agree to study together and take the exam.
• Jiang Zhuxin opened the civil service registration page and decided to sign up for the exam.
• The police announced that more celebrities had been implicated alongside those already arrested, as scandals continued to topple reputations across the entertainment industry.

Song Shiwei celebrated Chen Jingxian and Tongtong’s improving relationship, then shared a shy, affectionate call with Jiang Xun as he secretly continued negotiating a lucrative partnership for her. That night, Song Shiwei dreamed of the original story’s tragic endings and watched the people around her die or suffer despite her efforts to save them.

• Song Shiwei spoke with Tongtong and Chen Jingxian, who told her about their happy day together and showed signs of recovery.
• Jiang Xun called Song Shiwei, called her “baby,” and felt reassured by her delighted inner thoughts.
• Jiang Xun returned to negotiating a partnership, intending to add more money to Song Shiwei’s bank account.
• Song Shiwei dreamed that Jiang Xun rejected her and the people around her met the original story’s tragic fates.

After a vivid dream showed Song Shiwei the novel’s characters dying as destined, she resolved to change their fates and give them lives of their own. She reassured Jiang Zhuxin that she was only tired, then strengthened her resolve to fight fate.

• Song Shiwei woke from a realistic dream in which she watched the characters die, and decided she would not let them remain disposable NPCs.
• Jiang Zhuxin invited Song Shiwei to breakfast and asked whether she had fought with Jiang Zhuxin's brother.
• Song Shiwei said she had not slept well, while Jiang Zhuxin wondered if gossip had kept her awake.
• Jiang Zhuxin offered to ask the director to let Song Shiwei rest, but Song Shiwei worried netizens would criticize her for skipping work.
• Jiang Zhuxin promised to help Song Shiwei rest if she felt unwell, and Song Shiwei vowed to fight against their fates.

Song Shiwei rallied the group for the melon-harvesting competition and turned the director into their unwilling teammate. The guests stole melons from his basket until he finished last, while the viewers laughed at his plight.

• Song Shiwei cheered up and asked Jiang Zhuxin to handle her sister-in-law's work later.
• The production team announced a melon-harvesting contest, and Yang Jiayu and He Qinfeng eagerly competed to take first place.
• Song Shiwei invited the director to join the group, and the guests dragged him toward the fields.
• Song Shiwei and the others repeatedly took melons from the director's basket, leaving him furious and in last place.
• The livestream viewers laughed as the director kept working while the guests shared his harvest.

Song Shiwei recognized Yang Zhenye’s fertilizer giveaway as a scheme to gather information about Fengquan Village’s land and buy it cheaply, so she and the others decided to turn the offer against him. Yang Zhenye’s assistant brought a truckload of fertilizer and urged the villagers to go to the village committee office to claim it.

• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Yang Zhenye planned to use free fertilizer to map villagers’ land before acquiring it for development.
• Jiang Zhuxin, Yang Jiayu, and He Qinfeng resolved to expose Yang Zhenye’s scheme, then followed Song Shiwei’s suggestion to let the villagers claim the fertilizer.
• Yang Zhenye arrived with several men in black and asked for the village committee office.
• Yang Zhenye’s assistant claimed the company was giving away fertilizer, and He Qinfeng and Jiang Zhuxin pretended to be wary of the offer.
• A vehicle carrying fertilizer arrived, and the assistant told the group to take Yang Zhenye to the village committee office.

Song Shiwei and the Fengquan Village villagers realized Yang Zhenye was offering fertilizer to gather information about their land, so they decided to exploit his ignorance and claim as much as they could. Yang Zhenye promised more trucks were coming, and the villagers eagerly led him to the village committee office.

• He Qinfeng and the village director welcomed Yang Zhenye and his assistant, pretending to be grateful for the fertilizer.
• Yang Zhenye offered one bag of fertilizer per mu of land to anyone who filled out a form.
• Song Shiwei and the villagers resolved to fleece Yang Zhenye and planned to fill the forms with false information.
• Song Shiwei's Gossip Compendium revealed that Yang Zhenye's company had failed to enter Fengquan Village on earlier visits and that he knew little about the village.
• Yang Zhenye said three more trucks of fertilizer would arrive within half an hour, and the villagers escorted him to the village committee office.

Song Shiwei, He Qinfeng, the director, and the other villagers talked Yang Zhenye into promising fertilizer in exchange for their help, then took over his Audi and made him walk to Fengquan Village. The chapter left Yang Zhenye humiliated and injured after the group accidentally kicked him into a ditch.

• He Qinfeng and the director negotiated fertilizer from Yang Zhenye, and Song Shiwei and the other villagers joined in to demand the same deal.
• Yang Zhenye agreed to give three bags of fertilizer per mu, then raised the offer to five bags per mu after He Qinfeng and the director pressed him.
• Song Shiwei and the others climbed into Yang Zhenye's Audi and insisted that he walk the ten kilometers to the village committee office.
• Yang Zhenye agreed to walk after He Qinfeng and the director accused him of being unwilling to understand the villagers' hardships.
• He Qinfeng and the director pulled Yang Zhenye forward, causing him to fall into a ditch, then reluctantly went to help him up.

Yang Zhenye returned to Fengquan Village with fertilizer, hoping to win the villagers over while secretly planning to buy their land cheaply. Song Shiwei’s inner thoughts exposed his intentions, leaving the villagers furious and ready to drive him out.

• He Qinfeng and the director led Yang Zhenye on a long walk around the village while Song Shiwei and the others gathered the villagers.
• The village chief rallied the villagers against selling their ancestral land, but Song Shiwei’s inner voice suggested taking Yang Zhenye’s free fertilizer before sending him away.
• He Qinfeng announced that Yang Zhenye would give five bags of fertilizer for every form, and the villagers questioned whether the offer was genuine.
• Song Shiwei’s inner voice revealed that Yang Zhenye actually wanted to acquire the villagers’ land cheaply, so the villagers refused his offer and demanded that he leave.
• Yang Zhenye privately judged the villagers as stubborn and hoped Song Shiwei and the other young people would help his plan succeed.

Song Shiwei’s thoughts led the villagers to turn Yang Zhenye’s fertilizer offer into a bargaining opportunity, while He Qinfeng helped raise their demands. Yang Zhenye agreed to provide five bags per mu, but the villagers decided to summon more relatives and keep fleecing him.

• Song Shiwei reasoned that the villagers should take Yang Zhenye’s fertilizer and make him pay enough to deter him from targeting their land again.
• He Qinfeng urged the villagers to fill out forms, and the village chief and villagers raised their demands from six to ten bags of fertilizer per mu.
• Yang Zhenye denied promising ten bags and claimed he had offered only one bag per mu, prompting the villagers to accuse him of deceit and demand five.
• Yang Zhenye agreed to give five bags per mu, and Song Shiwei urged the villagers to bring their relatives over and fleece him further.

Villagers from Fengquan Village and nearby areas rushed to claim Yang Zhenye’s supposedly charitable fertilizer, leaving him facing enormous costs. When he tried to stop the distribution, the villagers and He Qinfeng challenged his motives, and Yang Zhenye lost his temper.

• Villagers spread news of the free fertilizer through family chats, bringing crowds from Fengquan Village and surrounding villages to claim it.
• Yang Zhenye saw that three truckloads were nearly gone and asked He Qinfeng how many more people were coming.
• He Qinfeng said another one or two thousand villagers could arrive and urged Yang Zhenye to bring more fertilizer.
• Song Shiwei and the villagers offered to summon even more relatives, while Yang Zhenye’s assistant warned that replenishing supplies could cost another ten or twenty million.
• Yang Zhenye shouted that the distribution was over, prompting villagers to accuse him of imposing conditions and question his motives.
• He Qinfeng and the director pressed Yang Zhenye to bring more fertilizer, and Yang Zhenye angrily refused, changing He Qinfeng’s view of him.

Yang Zhenye realized Fengquan Village’s residents had outmaneuvered him and tried to stop them from taking his fertilizer by threatening to report them for extortion. The village chief welcomed the threat and called the police, leaving Yang’s scheme in jeopardy.

• Yang Zhenye accused He Qinfeng and the others of setting him up to waste fertilizer and expose his attempt to learn about Fengquan Village’s land.
• He Qinfeng and the others pretended not to know his intentions and continued treating him as a philanthropist.
• Yang Zhenye decided to protect his money, refused to give away any more fertilizer, and threatened to report the villagers for extortion unless they returned it.
• The villagers welcomed his threat and said they had been waiting for him to call the police.
• The village chief dialed 110 and told the officer that Yang Zhenye wanted the police to witness his fertilizer donation.

Yang Zhenye tried to flee after villagers called the police, but Fengquan Village’s leaders held him at the village committee office. When the police arrived, he was caught trying to escape through a dog hole, with Song Shiwei revealing the crimes he feared they would uncover.

• The village chief reported Yang Zhenye to the police, and Song Shiwei’s inner voice revealed that his company had illegally occupied farmland elsewhere too.
• Yang Zhenye panicked and tried to leave, knowing his company was a sham and that he feared investigation over his land dealings and debts.
• He Qinfeng and the village director restrained Yang Zhenye and had villagers carry him into the village committee office to wait for the police.
• Yang Zhenye searched for a way out and tried to crawl through a dog hole when the police arrived.
• Song Shiwei’s inner voice listed Yang Zhenye’s alleged crimes, including occupying farmland, withholding farmers’ money, and hiring thugs to assault them.

Yang Zhenye tried to escape Fengquan Village through a dog hole, but the police arrived and confronted him with livestream evidence of his schemes. His assistant then confessed that Yang had illegally seized farmland, borrowed from loan sharks, and planned to acquire the entire village for ten million.

• The village chief praised Yang Zhenye for supposedly clearing the dog hole, forcing him to crawl out in front of the police and villagers.
• Yang Zhenye accused the villagers of extortion and claimed they had taken three truckloads of fertilizer.
• The police showed Yang video evidence of his actions in the village, including persuading villagers to fill out forms.
• He Qinfeng confronted Yang about illegally seizing farmers' land and warned that more of his wrongdoing could be exposed.
• Yang's assistant confessed that Yang had seized farmland, borrowed from loan sharks, and planned to acquire all of Fengquan Village for ten million.

Yang Zhenye’s assistant turned on him, exposed his financial misconduct, and implicated the Mainland Group in a scheme involving farmers’ land. Song Shiwei’s inner thoughts revealed further crimes, while Yang Zhenye continued to deny his connections as the assistant hinted he had evidence.

• Yang Zhenye’s assistant punched him, complained about unpaid wages and expenses, and urged the police to investigate the company’s accounts and associates.
• Yang Zhenye realized the investigation could expose his land occupation and the powerful people behind him, then denied having any backers.
• The assistant accused Yang Zhenye of working with the Mainland Group to force purchases and sales before splitting development profits.
• Yang Zhenye denied dealing with the Mainland Group, while Song Shiwei’s inner thoughts revealed alleged crimes by the group and its secret arrangement through the boss’s wife.
• The assistant challenged Yang Zhenye to deny his ties to the Mainland Group, and Song Shiwei suspected he had evidence to back up his claims.

Yang Zhenye’s assistant exposed his illegal land seizures and handed the police a contract linking him to the Mainland Group. The officers saw footage of Lixi Village’s brutal living conditions, while Fengquan Village’s residents realized how narrowly they had escaped the same fate.

• Yang Zhenye’s assistant revealed that he had kept the contract linking Yang Zhenye to the Mainland Group and accused him of illegally demolishing homes and withholding compensation.
• The assistant gave the contract to the police, who learned that Yang Zhenye and the Mainland Group planned to seize Fengquan Village’s land and turn its melon fields into villa developments.
• Fengquan villagers showed the police a video of Lixi Village residents crowded into freezing, dilapidated workers’ sheds.
• Song Shiwei recognized that the Mainland Group had used the same methods against Lixi Village and thought that a reporter’s footage had exposed the residents’ plight.
• The Fengquan villagers thanked Song Shiwei and realized that their unity had helped them avoid suffering the same treatment.

Police exposed Yang Zhenye’s crimes and confirmed that the Mainland Group’s chairman had been arrested, while SWAT officers rescued villagers held captive by the group. The villagers and viewers celebrated as the criminals were rounded up, and the chapter left the scandal’s full criminal network exposed.

• Villagers urged the police to arrest Yang Zhenye, while livestream viewers reacted angrily to the conditions in which the villagers had been kept.
• An officer accused Yang Zhenye of illegally seizing land, and Yang tried to blame the Mainland Group for his crimes.
• The officer confirmed that police had already arrested the Mainland Group’s chairman, and Yang realized his attempt to shift blame would fail.
• SWAT officers raided the work shed and freed the captive villagers, who fought back against their captors.
• An undercover reporter posted footage of the rescue, and police rounded up the criminals connected to Yang Zhenye within a day.

After Yang Zhenye was arrested, Song Shiwei warned Fengquan Village that other powerful interests still coveted its land. She suggested protecting it through an ecological reserve and agriculture development, but the villagers were left wondering how to fund the project.

• The police arrested Yang Zhenye and thanked Song Shiwei for helping expose criminals, while Song Shiwei nervously assured them she obeyed the law.
• The village chief and villagers thanked Song Shiwei and He Qinfeng for helping Fengquan Village, then Song Shiwei’s thoughts warned that more people wanted its valuable land.
• Song Shiwei suggested establishing an ecological nature reserve and developing ecological agriculture with government support to protect the village.
• The villagers welcomed the plan and considered seeking an ecological agriculture demonstration park designation, but worried they could not find investors for the costly project.

Jiang Chao called Song Shiwei and declared that he wanted to invest in Fengquan Village’s ecological agriculture project, urging her to stop the villagers from selling their land. Song Shiwei accepted that he was making the choice through his own judgment rather than following a doomed plot, and the village gained a potential investor.

• After realizing she was broke, Jiang Zhuxin thought of introducing Jiang Chao to Fengquan Village’s project, and he called her moments later.
• Jiang Chao asked to speak with Song Shiwei and announced that he would invest in the village’s ecological agriculture project.
• Jiang Chao urged Song Shiwei to tell the villagers not to sell their land and explained that sustainable agriculture could benefit future generations.
• When Song Shiwei questioned whether he was acting on a whim, Jiang Chao insisted he was serious and offered to put his personal assets in her hands.
• Song Shiwei recalled Jiang Chao’s tragic fate in the original novel, then decided that his ambition came from his own intelligence and concern for others, not a predetermined plot.

Song Shiwei agreed to help Jiang Chao with a survey of Fengquan Village, hoping to profit from the project and eventually run away, but discovered the work involved gathering data from thousands of villagers. She decided to recruit Jiang Zhuxin, He Qinfeng, and the others to help her.

• Song Shiwei privately planned to take the project’s profits and run away, then agreed to Jiang Chao’s request to survey Fengquan Village and prepare a report.
• Song Shiwei realized she had become Jiang Chao’s wage slave and began collecting household information on the forms he had given her.
• The villagers eagerly followed Song Shiwei, grateful for her help and determined to ensure their information was recorded correctly.
• Song Shiwei saw the long queue and the one or two thousand forms still left to complete, and suspected Jiang Chao was trying to work her to death.
• Song Shiwei decided to make Jiang Zhuxin, He Qinfeng, and the others help collect data, then gave them a smile that made the nearby villagers uneasy.

Song Shiwei assigned Jiang Zhuxin and the others to collect evidence and data for Jiang Chao, and they finished organizing Fengquan Village’s information after two days of overtime. When Jiang Chao called the task a joke, Song Shiwei angrily confronted him, and he hastily praised her meticulous work.

• Song Shiwei divided five thousand people among Jiang Zhuxin and the others to gather and sort information, while privately rejoicing that she could avoid doing the work herself.
• Jiang Zhuxin and the others worked overtime for two days and completed the data collection for Fengquan Village.
• Song Shiwei compiled the data and sent it to Jiang Chao, who was astonished by how quickly and thoroughly it had been organized.
• Jiang Chao said he had only been joking about needing the data, and Song Shiwei angrily demanded that he repeat himself.
• Jiang Chao nervously praised Song Shiwei’s work and acknowledged that her detailed village and household analysis would help him plan his next steps.

Jiang Chao vowed to establish Fengquan Village’s ecological agriculture demonstration park within a year after Song Shiwei urged him to lead the villagers and supported his plans. After their call, Song Shiwei fell into a disturbing dream in which the Jiang Family and others suffered tragic fates as the world’s plot returned to its original course.

• Song Shiwei told Jiang Chao that her team had worked tirelessly to compile the data and urged him to make Fengquan Village a model for ecological agriculture.
• Jiang Chao promised Song Shiwei he would return home, work with the local government to establish the demonstration park, and overcome the difficulties ahead.
• Song Shiwei encouraged Jiang Chao to achieve results within a year, then ended the call and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Song Shiwei dreamed that the people who had changed their fates returned to paths of ruin, while the Jiang Family, Zhang Leyao, Zhang Lexuan, Yu Chen, and He Qinfeng met tragic ends.
• Song Shiwei dreamed that Jiang Xun died in a plane crash and that the male and female leads retained their protagonist halos as everything returned to its original course.

Song Shiwei woke from a vivid dream that showed her and the Jiang Family returning to their doomed storylines, including Jiang Xun dying in a plane crash. Convinced the dream matched recent events, she feared she could not change their fate and considered telling Jiang Xun and the others what awaited them.

• Song Shiwei fought against a voice urging her to die and woke in the little wooden cabin in the Gossip Courtyard.
• Song Shiwei remembered her dream of Jiang Xun and the others meeting tragic ends and recognized that parts of it matched recent events.
• Song Shiwei read Jiang Xun's good-night message and felt helpless about the possibility that their destinies could not be changed.
• Song Shiwei lay awake, questioning whether she could alter the story and considering telling Jiang Xun and the others about their fates.

Song Yurou used her system to implant a false portion of the plot in Song Shiwei’s mind, hoping to make Song Shiwei act against her and appear abusive. Song Shiwei lay awake in confusion, while Song Yurou prepared to exploit the situation for a public comeback.

• Song Shiwei worried that no one would believe her if she revealed what she thought she knew about the plot.
• Song Yurou asked her Female Lead System whether it had implanted a dream in Song Shiwei’s mind, and it confirmed that Song Shiwei had resisted the implanted plot.
• Song Yurou blamed Song Shiwei for her own downfall and resolved to use the false plot to make Song Shiwei target her.
• Song Yurou planned to portray herself as a victim of Song Shiwei’s abuse, redirect online criticism, and reclaim attention by returning to “Let's Gossip Together.”
• Song Yurou said she would not fight back if Song Shiwei hit or insulted her, so she could appear blameless.