Recaps

Lin Xi clashed with Director Zhang Tao on set while Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Lin Xi and the assistant director planned to drug the production team and take control of the drama. Zhang Tao secretly poured the spiked water into the assistant director’s personal cup, turning their scheme back on them.

• Lin Xi behaved arrogantly during a confrontation with Zhang Tao, while Song Shiwei suspected that Yu Xiuhua, chairwoman of Tianhua Entertainment, was backing him.
• Song Shiwei realized that Lin Xi and the assistant director were plotting to drug the production’s core members and push them out.
• The assistant director handed opened bottles of water to Zhang Tao and other production staff, who heard Song Shiwei’s warning and grew suspicious.
• Zhang Tao saw Lin Xi and the assistant director acting intimately and decided to retaliate.
• While the assistant director focused on Lin Xi, Zhang Tao poured the water from his bottle into the assistant director’s insulated cup.

Song Shiwei watched the assistant director and Lin Xi set their scheme in motion, while the director secretly switched room keys and left with the creative team. After Lin Xi taunted Jiang Ye and headed off with the assistant director, the audition group rushed to the fifteenth floor to catch the unfolding drama.

• The director praised the water, and the assistant director distributed room keys while suggesting everyone take a break.
• The director secretly swapped room cards with the assistant director and left with the core creative team.
• Lin Xi and the assistant director acted on their plan, and the assistant director gave Lin Xi a room key after he drank from his cup.
• Lin Xi taunted Jiang Ye about winning the role, and Jiang Ye warned him that his tricks would bring trouble.
• Song Shiwei thought the rooms were on the fifteenth floor, prompting the audition actors to rush there while Jiang Ye and Jiang Zhuxin stayed with her.

Jiang Ye, Jiang Zhuxin, and Song Shiwei followed a trail of gossip to Suite 2023, where reporters found Lin Xi and the assistant director together instead of the director and production team. Yu Xiuhua arrived looking for Lin Xi, while Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed the ruinous future awaiting her if she stayed with him.

• Song Shiwei’s comments sent Jiang Ye and Jiang Zhuxin running to the twentieth floor, where reporters rushed into Suite 2023 and photographed Lin Xi with the assistant director.
• Song Shiwei realized the people in the suite were not the director and production staff, and Jiang Zhuxin speculated that someone had taken the wrong key card.
• Jiang Ye pulled Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin away from the doorway as Song Shiwei warned that Yu Xiuhua was coming.
• Yu Xiuhua arrived with Director Zhang, and Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Lin Xi would later take Yu Xiuhua’s fortune and leave her and her daughter in debt and with AIDS.
• Director Zhang told Yu Xiuhua that the production team was working through the night on the fifteenth floor, and Yu Xiuhua asked how Lin Xi’s audition had gone.

Yu Xiuhua confronted Lin Xi after learning about his behavior at an audition, only to find him with the assistant director and hear Song Shiwei’s revelations about his schemes. The chapter left Yu Xiuhua panicking over the possibility that Lin Xi was secretly dating both her and her daughter, Yu Yining.

• The director showed Yu Xiuhua Lin Xi’s disastrous audition and said he would never cast him, prompting her to go question Lin Xi.
• Yu Xiuhua rushed to the twentieth floor and overheard Lin Xi and the assistant director discussing her resources and Lin Xi’s plans to keep using her.
• Yu Xiuhua caught Lin Xi in bed with the assistant director, while the director told Lin Xi to cover himself and Jiang Zhuxin and Jiang Ye reacted in shock.
• Song Shiwei’s inner thoughts revealed that Lin Xi had been secretly dating Yu Yining while also exploiting Yu Xiuhua for money and resources.
• Yu Xiuhua realized that Lin Xi might be the boyfriend Yu Yining had never named, and she grew anxious despite having no proof.

Yu Yining arrived expecting to watch a scandal but discovered that her boyfriend, Lin Xi, was also her mother Yu Xiuhua’s boyfriend. As the room watched, Song Shiwei’s inner thoughts revealed how Lin Xi had used both women for resources, leaving Yu Yining stunned and the confrontation unresolved.

• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Lin Xi had secretly agreed to the encounter and was involved with another person in the hotel.
• Yu Yining arrived after hearing there was gossip nearby and found her mother at the scene.
• Yu Yining saw Lin Xi in a bathrobe beside the bed and learned from Song Shiwei’s thoughts that he was involved with both her and Yu Xiuhua.
• Yu Yining recalled how she had supported Lin Xi’s career and asked her mother what relationship she had with him.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts exposed Lin Xi’s pursuit of Yu Xiuhua’s resources and his scheme to gain influence through the assistant director.
• The onlookers watched Yu Xiuhua and Yu Yining, waiting to see how they would respond to Lin Xi.

Yu Xiuhua and Yu Yining discovered Lin Xi’s betrayal, and Yu Yining chose her mother’s wealth over him, breaking up with him and insulting him. Lin Xi’s attempt to win her back failed, and he resorted to threatening her with her sexual history.

• Yu Xiuhua revealed that she knew Lin Xi was involved with her daughter, and Yu Yining confronted her mother in shock.
• Lin Xi knelt and proposed that he live happily with both Yu Xiuhua and Yu Yining, while Song Shiwei’s commentary stopped Yu Yining from defending him.
• Yu Yining rejected Lin Xi, broke up with him, and unleashed a barrage of insults before Yu Xiuhua dismissed him as worthless.
• Lin Xi crawled toward Yu Yining and claimed he would only be with her, but she told him to fuck off.
• Lin Xi called Yu Yining a worn-out shoe and threatened that nobody else would want her if she refused to marry him.

Yu Xiuhua turned Lin Xi’s attempt at blackmail into a public-relations offensive, exposing his misconduct while keeping the video out of the news. She invited Song Shiwei to invest in a spy drama, then Lin Xi’s scandal exploded across Weibo that night.

• Lin Xi admitted that he had evidence and tried to use it to demand resources from Yu Xiuhua, who ordered her bodyguards to take him away and make him reveal the video.
• Yu Xiuhua told the reporters to expose Lin Xi’s actions but omit the video, then planned an interview and a coordinated campaign to turn the scandal to her family’s advantage.
• Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin praised Yu Xiuhua’s tactics, and Yu Xiuhua asked Song Shiwei to discuss investing in a spy drama.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that the drama could succeed and launch Huo Xiuzhu’s career, so Yu Xiuhua decided to bring her into the investment.
• At ten thirty that night, Yu Xiuhua’s campaign pushed Lin Xi’s cheating scandal onto Weibo’s trending list, where videos of him with the assistant director spread rapidly.

Yu Xiuhua’s video and the director’s statement exposed Lin Xi’s schemes, causing his career and fandom to collapse online. As fans and celebrities reacted, Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin laughed over Jiang Ye’s sudden burst of attention.

• Yu Xiuhua released a video showing that she and her daughter had discovered they shared Lin Xi as a boyfriend.
• The director explained that Lin Xi and the assistant director had accidentally taken the drugged drinks and wrong room key intended for a setup targeting him and the core creative team.
• Netizens condemned Lin Xi as more evidence of his schemes and misconduct surfaced, while Weibo crashed under the wave of reactions.
• Lin Xi’s fans failed to control the online backlash, and his studio staff refused to claim that Jiang Ye had been in the hotel room.
• Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin laughed in the hotel suite about Jiang Ye gaining attention as an undercover agent.

Jiang Ye rejected Wen Chuxue’s demand that he take the blame for Lin Xi, while online sympathy boosted his followers. Yu Xiuhua offered Song Shiwei a major stake in the film in exchange for Jiang Ye playing the lead and Song supervising production.

• Jiang Ye posted a clarification himself as netizens revisited his history with Lin Xi and his follower count surged.
• Wen Chuxue asked Jiang Ye to claim responsibility for Lin Xi’s scandal so Lin Xi could protect his reputation and continue a major project.
• Jiang Ye refused Wen Chuxue’s request, told her to take the blame herself, and hung up.
• Yu Xiuhua arrived with Yu Yining and offered Song Shiwei an investment deal: eighty million for a sixty-percent stake from Yu Xiuhua and twenty million for a forty-percent stake from Song Shiwei.
• Yu Xiuhua made Jiang Ye’s unpaid role as male lead a condition of the deal and asked Song Shiwei to supervise the set for a daily fee.

Song Shiwei signed a lucrative partnership with Yu Xiuhua, then learned Jiang Xun’s family had won the bid and uncovered a mole. The chapter ended as the family prepared to sign a contract giving Song Shiwei fifty percent of the shares.

• Yu Xiuhua gave Song Shiwei money and shares in return for saving her and her daughter, and Song Shiwei signed their partnership contract.
• Song Shiwei slipped on her way home, and Jiang Xun caught her before she fell.
• Jiang Chao announced that the Jiang Family had won the bid by five hundred thousand over the Gu Family and had uncovered the mole.
• Jiang Xun confirmed the victory and invited Song Shiwei inside to sign a contract for fifty percent of the shares.
• Song Shiwei reassured Father Jiang and Mother Jiang that the bidding had gone smoothly and explained that she and Jiang Xun were going to sign the contract.

Song Shiwei’s family celebrated Jiang Ye and Jiang Chao’s successful bids and Jiang Ye’s cleared name, while her scolding unexpectedly prompted the brothers to agree to reconcile. The family ended on a hopeful note, though Jiang Zhuxin complicated things by declaring herself Song Shiwei’s marital property if she and Jiang Ye divorced.

• Mother Jiang was astonished when Song Shiwei announced that the family had won the bid, and Jiang Ye revealed that he had passed his audition and cleared his name.
• Jiang Chao and Jiang Ye competed to boast about their victories, then refused to work together despite Father Jiang and Mother Jiang urging them to support each other.
• Song Shiwei called the brothers childish, and Jiang Chao and Jiang Ye exchanged a look before laughing and deciding to forgive each other.
• Jiang Chao and Jiang Ye promised their parents they would get along, while Father Jiang and Mother Jiang expressed remorse for the brothers’ past suffering.
• Jiang Zhuxin told Song Shiwei that she would listen to her from then on and pleaded to stay with her if Song Shiwei and Jiang Ye divorced.

Jiang Xun agreed to give Song Shiwei half his shares, and she proposed jointly exercising their rights so he would manage them. The Jiang family settled into a warmer mood, and that night Jiang Xun began reviewing the signed contract.

• Jiang Zhuxin urged Jiang Xun to treat Song Shiwei well and insisted he hold her hand, so he clasped Song Shiwei’s hand and reassured her he had no plans to divorce.
• The Jiang family urged Jiang Xun to give Song Shiwei the promised shares, and he presented her with a contract for fifty percent.
• Song Shiwei proposed an acting-in-concert agreement so she and Jiang Xun could jointly exercise the shares’ rights, and the family considered asking Jiang Xun to manage their own shares too.
• Jiang Xun refused to manage his siblings’ shares, saying he would manage only Song Shiwei’s, while the family’s mood grew warmer.
• That night, Song Shiwei asked Jiang Xun to review the contract, and he carefully read it.

Song Shiwei accepted a contract and a card from Jiang Xun, then spent several quiet days at home after Lin Xi’s reputation collapsed. When she learned her in-laws were meeting her mother-in-law’s first love, she took Jiang Zhuxin to the restaurant to witness the gossip.

• Jiang Xun checked Song Shiwei’s contract, gave her a card as a betrothal gift and thank-you, then tucked her in with a hand warmer.
• Lin Xi’s public image collapsed, and his fans were shunned by the Chinese entertainment scene.
• Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin grew bored at home while the rest of the Jiang family was out.
• Song Shiwei realized the old friend her in-laws were meeting was her mother-in-law’s first love.
• Jiang Zhuxin suggested they go out to eat, and Song Shiwei took her to the restaurant where her parents were meeting their old friend.

Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin joined Mother Jiang, Father Jiang, and Gao Changyi for dinner, where the two men competed for Mother Jiang’s attention. The meal ended with Gao Changyi coughing blood and Mother Jiang asking if he was all right.

• Jiang Zhuxin invited Song Shiwei to eat with her parents, and Mother Jiang came out to meet them.
• Mother Jiang recalled that Father Jiang had insisted on joining her dinner with Gao Changyi, despite her fear that the two men would fight.
• Gao Changyi hugged Mother Jiang and teased Father Jiang about being jealous and failing to make her happy.
• Father Jiang held Mother Jiang’s hand and urged her to return with him, while Gao Changyi coughed blood and insisted he was fine.
• Mother Jiang lowered her voice to ask Gao Changyi if he was all right and offered to get him water.

Gao Nianjun returned and provoked Father Jiang by renewing his old pursuit of Lanjun, then used suggestive remarks and gifts to sow suspicion in the Jiang family. Song Shiwei recognized his manipulations, but the family was left stunned by her thoughts about their future.

• Father Jiang challenged Gao Changyi for asking Lanjun for water, and Gao Changyi revealed that he had changed his name to Gao Nianjun and still regretted losing her.
• Mother Jiang left to welcome Jiang Zhuxin and Song Shiwei, while Gao Nianjun hinted that his death might make Lanjun remember him for life.
• Song Shiwei silently identified Gao Nianjun as a scheming older male green tea, and Father Jiang and Mother Jiang heard her thoughts.
• Gao Nianjun greeted Jiang Zhuxin, claimed he had held her as a child, and gave her a red envelope, prompting Song Shiwei to suspect he was implying she was his daughter.
• Gao Nianjun complimented Song Shiwei and offered her a red envelope, and Song Shiwei thought his insinuations had contributed to the Jiang couple's later estrangement.

Song Shiwei uncovered Gao Nianjun’s revenge scheme during a dinner with the Jiang family, while Father Jiang and Mother Jiang learned that his fake illness and planned death were meant to drive them apart. The chapter ended with the family alarmed that Jiang Minru would return to worsen the conflict.

• Gao Nianjun welcomed Lanjun and the children, ordered their favorite dishes, and implied that Hongzhe had not been taking good care of his wife.
• Song Shiwei recalled that Gao Nianjun’s family had once been enemies of the Jiang Family and that he had pursued Mother Jiang to get revenge on Father Jiang.
• Song Shiwei realized Gao Nianjun planned to fake his death at dinner, after locking the doors and arranging to leave his ashes to Mother Jiang.
• Song Shiwei learned that Gao Nianjun would later bring Jiang Minru back to exploit the couple’s tensions and help complete his revenge.
• Father Jiang and Mother Jiang panicked when they learned Jiang Minru was returning after they had sent her abroad.

Gao Changyi staged a dramatic death in front of Mother Jiang, hoping to make her remember him and worry that Jiang Hongzhe would mistreat her. Mother Jiang rejected his pleas, and he appeared to die before the Jiang family, who were left stunned.

• Gao Nianjun offered Mother Jiang food while Father Jiang prepared to take her away, but Song Shiwei warned that Gao Changyi was about to stage his death.
• Gao Changyi coughed up blood and claimed he had come to see Mother Jiang one last time, while she stood back and called an ambulance.
• Gao Changyi said he was faking a crisis to keep Jiang Hongzhe from bullying Mother Jiang, and Jiang Zhuxin mocked his plan.
• Gao Changyi asked for his ashes to remain beside Mother Jiang and protect her, but she rejected his declaration and reminded him she had a husband.
• Gao Changyi declared that he wanted to be unforgettable, then appeared to die in front of the Jiang family as Song Shiwei wondered if they should take him to the crematorium.

Mother Jiang and Father Jiang bluffed that they would cremate Gao Changyi, forcing him to reveal that he was alive. After he was taken away, Mother Jiang thanked Song Shiwei for warning her and resolved to take revenge on him.

• Mother Jiang and Jiang Zhuxin suggested cremating Gao Changyi and scattering his ashes in the sea, while Song Shiwei noticed the corpse move.
• Doctors declared Gao Changyi dead, but Mother Jiang and Father Jiang insisted on sending him to the crematorium instead of resuscitating him.
• Crematorium employees arrived and asked for proof of Gao Changyi's identity, prompting him to cough and get up.
• The doctors called Gao Changyi's survival a medical miracle and rushed him to an ambulance as Song Shiwei laughed at his failed plan.
• Mother Jiang recovered from the shock, told Jiang Zhuxin she no longer liked Gao Changyi, and thanked Song Shiwei by warmly asking whether she liked the food.

Song Shiwei received a restaurant from Mother Jiang and a bank card from Father Jiang, then learned that Jiang Minru had returned to China and was trying to reach him. Jiang Zhuxin confronted Jiang Minru over the phone, refusing to let her claim a place in the Jiang Family.

• Mother Jiang gave Song Shiwei ownership of a restaurant, and Song Shiwei eagerly accepted.
• Father Jiang gave Song Shiwei a bank card, prompting her to suspect that he was trying to buy her silence about his returning stepsister.
• Jiang Zhuxin answered Father Jiang's call and heard Jiang Minru ask him to pick her up at Yanjing International Airport.
• Jiang Zhuxin rebuked Jiang Minru for calling Father Jiang her brother and insisted he had no biological younger sister.
• Jiang Minru asked Jiang Zhuxin to pass the phone to her brother, but Jiang Zhuxin refused and called her Ms. Li.

As Jiang Minru tried to explain why she had asked Jiang Hongzhe for a ride, Jiang Hongzhe recalled her abuse disguised as redemption and the trauma of his mother’s death. He remembered how Fu Lanjun had protected him and helped him speak again, leaving his gratitude and attachment to her clear.

• Jiang Minru gently told Zhuxin that she had asked her brother for help because she had just returned to the country and had no one to pick her up.
• After hearing Song Shiwei’s thoughts, Father Jiang remembered his affair with Li Minru’s mother, his pregnant wife’s death, and how he had abandoned Jiang Hongzhe during the funeral.
• Jiang Hongzhe recalled how Jiang Minru’s so-called redemption subjected him and the rest of the Jiang Family to repeated abuse.
• Fu Lanjun stood up for Jiang Hongzhe when classmates bullied him, and she promised to protect him despite both of them being targeted.
• Fu Lanjun caught a hundred fireflies for Jiang Hongzhe, and he spoke his first words to thank her.
• Jiang Hongzhe gradually began talking more, eventually becoming a chatterbox while Fu Lanjun listened.

Jiang Hongzhe recalled how he built his power after Jiang Minru sabotaged his friendship with Fu Lanjun, and how he refused Gao Changyi’s attempt to use Fu Lanjun as a bargaining chip. When Jiang Minru pushed Old Master Jiang to acquire the struggling Fu Group, Jiang Hongzhe openly joined Fu Lanjun to fight for its survival.

• Jiang Minru sabotaged the Fu Family’s business, driving Fu Lanjun away and making Jiang Hongzhe realize she was his enemy.
• Jiang Hongzhe studied relentlessly, rose through □□, and took control of the company after stripping Old Master Jiang of power.
• Jiang Hongzhe returned subsidiaries to the Fu Family and rejected Gao Changyi’s offer to hand Fu Lanjun over in exchange for funding.
• After Gao Changyi and his family fled with the Fu Group’s liquid funds, Jiang Minru urged Old Master Jiang to acquire the Fu Group and demanded that Jiang Hongzhe marry her.
• Jiang Hongzhe openly joined Fu Lanjun in opposing Old Master Jiang and fighting to save the Fu Group.

Jiang Hongzhe recalled how Li Minru had once caused chaos for his family before being sent abroad, and the Jiang family learned that she had returned. They decided to bring her home and reunite her with her husband, but Father Jiang hesitated when she called again.

• Jiang Hongzhe remembered Li Minru's past schemes and the turmoil they had caused his family.
• Li Minru called Father Jiang and pleaded with him to pick her up, while Song Shiwei realized Li Minru's husband was Gao Changyi.
• Jiang Zhuxin told Li Minru she was not welcome at home and ended the call.
• Song Shiwei suggested letting Li Minru into the house and bringing her husband to confront her, and the Jiang family warmed to the plan.
• Li Minru called Father Jiang again, and Mother Jiang urged him to answer while he nervously hesitated.

Jiang Zhuxin and her family went to pick up Li Minru, whose attempt to act close to Father Jiang was repeatedly thwarted. The family drove away with Li Minru, while Mother Jiang kept her from talking to Father Jiang.

• Father Jiang handed his phone to Jiang Zhuxin after Song Shiwei’s thoughts warned him not to answer Mother Jiang carelessly, then silently held Mother Jiang’s hand.
• Jiang Zhuxin answered Li Minru’s call and arranged to pick her up after Li Minru claimed she was lost.
• Father Jiang gave Song Shiwei the keys to a Maserati when she recognized Li Minru’s white-dressed appearance as a threat.
• Li Minru tried to hug Father Jiang when they met, but he dodged her and Mother Jiang and Jiang Zhuxin took hold of her.
• Song Shiwei claimed the front passenger seat, and the family drove off with Li Minru as Mother Jiang repeatedly stopped her from speaking to Father Jiang.

Li Minru moved into the Jiang Family estate, where the family planned to keep her and Gao Changyi from escaping after uncovering their telecom fraud. The next morning, Li Minru caused chaos by catching Father Jiang’s prized red arowana and picking the butler’s daughter’s graduation project to cook.

• The butler directed Li Minru to a separate villa, and Jiang Chao warned her to leave if she refused to stay there.
• The Jiang Family discovered that Li Minru and Gao Changyi were telecom fraud ringleaders and planned to watch Li Minru closely.
• Jiang Ye asked Jiang Zhuxin to keep an eye on Li Minru, while Song Shiwei joined in and playfully patted Jiang Zhuxin’s head.
• Li Minru woke the household early by banging around in the kitchen, where Father Jiang found her preparing his red arowana for soup.
• The butler’s daughter rushed in crying after discovering that Li Minru had picked and eaten her graduation project.

After Li Minru ate what she thought was the butler’s daughter’s graduation project, a chaotic confrontation sent the Jiang Family to the hospital, where they found Gao Changyi healthy and forced him to explain himself. The chapter left Gao Changyi caught between his devoted-lover act and Li Minru’s demand to know what she meant to him.

• The butler’s daughter attacked Li Minru for eating her reishi mushroom graduation project, while Jiang Ye rushed in to defend his turtle.
• Father Jiang scolded Li Minru, and Song Shiwei revealed in her thoughts that the mushroom she ate was only an offspring and the original still existed.
• The Jiang Family took Li Minru to the hospital, where they found Gao Changyi speaking energetically in his ward.
• Gao Changyi claimed he had awakened because he loved Lanjun and feared she would be bullied, prompting Li Minru to demand to know what she meant to him.
• Mother Jiang asked whether Gao Changyi and Li Minru knew each other, leaving him unable to answer.