Chapter Summaries

Yu Chen faced Hua Tianyu and Yu Xuexi over their bullying of Yu Yu, while public support for her surged and she announced she was leaving the entertainment industry to inherit her family’s fortune. Meanwhile, Yu Chengguo’s company was hit by a product scandal and a workplace-bullying exposé.

• Netizens rallied behind Yu Chen as the hashtag demanding bullies apologize surged in the trending searches, prompting victims of bullying to share their stories.
• Hua Tianyu tried to pressure Yu Chen by warning that her condition would ruin his entertainment career, but Yu Chen said she was leaving the industry to inherit her family fortune.
• Yu Xuexi and Hua Tianyu realized Yu Chen was willing to give up her career, while viewers reacted with dismay to her departure.
• Ingredient bloggers released test results and skin-examination reports accusing Weiyang Biotechnology Company’s new retinol product of causing facial irritation, leaving Yu Chengguo fearing the company would collapse.
• A video exposing workplace bullying also surged onto the trending searches.

The exposure of Yu Xuexi’s workplace bullying brought down Weiyang Biotechnology and prompted Yu Chen to confront her over her sister’s death. As Yu Xuexi tried to flee, the employee she had framed appeared with a dagger and threatened her.

• A bullied researcher’s videos exposed Yu Xuexi and Weiyang Biotechnology, prompting public outrage and claims from consumers whose skin had been harmed by the company’s products.
• Authorities shut down Weiyang Biotechnology and promised compensation to affected consumers, collapsing the Yu Family’s business empire.
• Yu Chen read Yu Xuexi the news, then attacked her and Hua Tianyu while accusing them of tormenting her sister to death.
• Song Shiwei and the others pulled Yu Chen away, and Yu Xue warned Yu Xuexi to repent as Yu Xuexi threatened to sue.
• At the exit, a disheveled former employee confronted Yu Xuexi with a dagger, saying Yu Xuexi had framed her and destroyed her life.

A former employee whom Yu Xuexi had bullied stabbed her during the livestream, then explained that years of torment and debt had left her homeless and diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yu Xuexi was still breathing as the crew called for medical help and police arrived.

• The girl ignored Song Shiwei and the others’ attempts to stop her and stabbed Yu Xuexi in the lower abdomen, knocking her to the ground.
• Jiang Zhuxin cried in fright while Yu Xue and Yu Chen called 120, and the production crew tried to give Yu Xuexi first aid.
• The girl said she had already called the police and revealed that Yu Xuexi’s bullying had left her with enormous debt, homeless, and diagnosed with schizophrenia.
• The girl said she had used the same knife Yu Xuexi had once stabbed her with and had come to take revenge, while livestream viewers reacted in shock.

Online revelations exposed that Yu Hui had stolen Yu Xuexi’s identity, bullied her, and left her to die while living abroad under her name. When police arrived after Yu Xuexi was stabbed, Song Shiwei stopped the attacker from panicking and helped her calm down.

• A netizen posted Yu Xuexi’s diary entries and revealed that Yu Hui had taken her identity, framed her, and driven her out, where she died at seventeen.
• Yu Xuexi’s former foreign roommate admitted she had beaten Yu Xuexi for years and bought a ticket to visit her in China.
• Netizens condemned Yu Xuexi and reported her and Hua Tianyu to the police as the livestream descended into chaos.
• Police arrived to find Yu Xuexi bleeding and the girl who had attacked her preparing to flee.
• Song Shiwei embraced the frightened girl, reassured her that she would help with a lawyer and medical parole, and urged her to take responsibility for her life.
• The girl calmed down in Song Shiwei’s arms, feeling understood as a victim of bullying.

After Yu Xuexi was injured, Song Shiwei revealed that she was actually Yu Hui, who had killed the real Yu Xuexi and concealed evidence in the Yu Family attic. Yu Chen sought a psychiatric evaluation and legal help for the young woman who had pushed Yu Xuexi, then reported Hua Tianyu and Mrs. Hua for bullying Yu Yu; the police took them away.

• Jiang Zhuxin, Yu Xue, and Yu Chen explained that the young woman had been bullied by Yu Xuexi and had suffered a mental breakdown before injuring her.
• Song Shiwei told the police that Yu Xuexi was Yu Hui, who had killed the real Yu Xuexi and hidden the body and surveillance evidence in the Yu Family attic.
• Yu Chen requested a psychiatric evaluation for the young woman and promised compensation and a lawyer.
• A doctor said Yu Xuexi might be bedridden for life after injuring the back of her head in the fall.
• Hua Tianyu and Mrs. Hua begged Yu Yu for forgiveness, but Yu Chen reported them for bullying her sister and refused to accept their apologies or compensation.
• The police ordered Hua Tianyu and Mrs. Hua to be taken away.

After the police questioned the variety show guests and crew, Yu Chen helped the young girl who had stabbed Yu Xuexi arrange medical parole and treatment. With the bullies brought to justice, Yu Chen announced that she was leaving the entertainment industry, though she promised to support people who were bullied.

• The police took Hua Tianyu and the old toad into custody and brought Song Shiwei, Jiang Zhuxin, Yu Xue, Yu Chen, and the production crew in for questioning.
• After the questioning, the police released the four guests, and the young girl's assessment found severe mental illnesses that left her without criminal responsibility.
• Yu Chen contacted a lawyer and doctor to help the girl apply for medical parole and receive treatment.
• Yu Chen posted her retirement announcement, telling fans she was leaving the industry but would always be there for anyone being bullied.
• Viewers reacted with sadness to Yu Chen's departure and recalled that she had entered the industry for her little sister.

Yu Chen’s online statement sparked an anti-bullying movement, and she thanked Song Shiwei for helping inspire it. After the production crew returned to the Gossip Courtyard, they discovered a little girl had been there all day, but no one knew who she was or how she had arrived.

• Yu Chen’s post led to an anti-bullying group forming and victims coming forward to defend their rights.
• Yu Chen thanked Song Shiwei and privately wrote that she hoped girls like Yu Yu could live happily.
• The production crew realized they had left the livestream running, and viewers asked to see the little darling they had watched all day.
• Song Shiwei and the director found a little girl on the floor of the Gossip Courtyard, and the director denied bringing her there.
• Yu Chen asked the girl where her mother was and how she had gotten there, but the girl said she did not know.

Song Shiwei and the others discovered that the little girl who had wandered into the Gossip Courtyard had been abandoned in the mountains by her adoptive grandmother. Song Shiwei learned the grandmother had planned to use the girl in a superstitious ritual to ensure her pregnant daughter-in-law gave birth to a boy.

• The little girl said she had come for candy, then showed fear when asked about her grandmother and fell asleep in Song Shiwei's arms.
• Song Shiwei soothed the girl for forty minutes and carried her to sleep in Yu Chen's room.
• Song Shiwei read the Gossip Compendium and learned the grandmother had lured the girl to the mountain and abandoned her there days earlier.
• Song Shiwei learned the grandmother had intended to throw the girl down a vertical shaft as part of a ritual to secure the birth of a boy.
• Yu Chen and the others reacted with anger when they learned the grandmother had tried to kill the girl for the ritual.

Song Shiwei revealed that the old woman had stolen the little girl and would return to Fengquan Mountain the next day with accomplices, so the director planned to take the production team there. Meanwhile, netizens discovered an account searching for the missing girl and recognized her from the show.

• Song Shiwei warned everyone not to call the police yet because the old woman and her accomplices would come looking for the girl the next day.
• The director announced that the production team would go to Fengquan Mountain, where Song Shiwei expected the old woman to search for her granddaughter's body.
• The director sent everyone to bed before Song Shiwei could reveal more gossip.
• Netizens found an account titled #Searching for my beloved daughter# and recognized the missing girl in its photos from the livestream.

After Zou Liang’s video about his missing daughter went viral, viewers from Let’s Gossip Together suspected he had deliberately abandoned her, while he saw the attention as a chance to make money. He and Li Shulan planned to search the mountains for the child’s body the next day, and Li Shulan remained focused on having a grandson.

• Netizens read Zou Liang’s account of his daughter’s behavior and questioned it after recognizing the well-behaved child from Let’s Gossip Together.
• Viewers from the show suspected Zou Liang was trying to make people believe his daughter was troublesome so he could abandon her, and they quietly boosted his video’s popularity.
• The video reached millions of views and trended, with commenters offering search advice or telling Zou Liang not to bring his daughter home.
• Zou Liang added a shopping link and considered livestreaming the search in the mountains to earn money from gifts.
• Zou Liang told Li Shulan they were going to get rich, and she said she had wanted the child gone and expected a grandson this time.

Li Shulan and Zou Liang planned to find Tongtong’s corpse, livestream the search for gifts, and bury her beneath a peach tree to ensure the birth of a grandson. Liu Xueqin agreed to join them the next day, unaware that Li Shulan needed her to complete the scheme.

• Li Shulan and Zou Liang celebrated their plan to bury Tongtong beneath a peach tree, and Zou Liang proposed livestreaming the search for money.
• Li Shulan and Zou Liang discussed how they would mistreat Liu Xueqin after she gave birth to their hoped-for grandson.
• Liu Xueqin entered and asked whether they had found Tongtong, and Li Shulan slapped her for crying.
• Zou Liang stopped Li Shulan from attacking Liu Xueqin further, reminding her they needed to search for Tongtong the next morning.
• Li Shulan pretended to be hurt by Liu Xueqin’s accusations and persuaded her to come along; Liu Xueqin promised not to return until Tongtong was found.

Liu Xueqin endured Zou Liang and Li Shulan's abuse and feared losing her place in the family if her unborn child was not a son. Meanwhile, the wealthy women from the livestream drove huge traffic to Zou Liang's sales video, and the next morning he prepared to leave with Li Shulan and several Daoist-robed masters.

• Zou Liang slapped Liu Xueqin and, with Li Shulan, ordered her to stop asking about Tongtong and focus on her pregnancy.
• Liu Xueqin recalled how Zou Liang's violence and Li Shulan's cruelty had worsened, and she felt trapped without her family or anywhere else to go.
• Li Shulan ordered Liu Xueqin to make breakfast for seven relatives and told her not to make any for herself.
• The wealthy women from the "Let's Gossip Together" livestream bought Zou Liang's products to drive traffic to his video, which surpassed a hundred million views overnight.
• Zou Liang awoke to more than two hundred thousand yuan in orders, then joined Li Shulan and the Daoist-robed masters as they finished breakfast and set out.

Li Shulan, Zou Liang, and Liu Xueqin followed a Taoist master to a vehicle for a ritual meant to ensure Liu Xueqin gave birth to a son, while Li Shulan continued to mistreat her. At the gossip courtyard, Song Shiwei’s companions learned that people setting out at dawn might be human traffickers and rushed to bring her along to investigate, leaving the director to watch Xiaobao.

• Li Shulan slapped Liu Xueqin and hurried her and Zou Liang after the Taoist master, whom Uncle Li promised could help them have a grandson.
• Li Shulan threatened Liu Xueqin and pinched her thigh as she climbed into the vehicle, while Zou Liang ignored her and Liu Xueqin hoped her unborn baby would be a boy.
• The gossip spectators heard Song Shiwei think that the people setting out at five in the morning might be human traffickers and decided to investigate for gossip and possible merit.
• Jiang Zhuxin, Yu Xue, and Yu Chen dragged the reluctant Song Shiwei out of bed, hurried her into the vehicle, and told the director to stay behind and watch Xiaobao.

Song Shiwei’s group avoided the vertical shafts and discovered that Li Shulan had led the others into them by mistake. When they arrived to help, Zou Liang stepped forward and disappeared into a shaft too.

• Zou Liang secretly livestreamed the search for his daughter and claimed he had hired a powerful master to find her.
• Song Shiwei’s group headed away from the shafts after hearing her warning that the southern route was dangerous.
• As the group approached, several people screamed after falling into the vertical shafts.
• Song Shiwei learned that Li Shulan had misremembered the route and led the child east the previous day, but had walked north into the shafts today.
• Li Shulan and the others vanished into the shafts, and Zou Liang fell into one after asking Song Shiwei’s group for help.
• A local explained that the area was full of vertical shafts and wondered why the group had walked in so boldly.

The group searching Fengquan Mountain fell into concealed shafts, and Song Shiwei’s revelations exposed their plan to traffic Tongtong’s organs. The crowd believed the accusations, while Liu Xueqin begged for help for her husband from beside a shaft.

• A local explained that the missing people had fallen into old, leaf-covered shafts, and livestream viewers mocked their misfortune.
• Viewers connected the family’s livestreams and shopping cart to a scheme to abandon Tongtong and solicit sympathy and gifts.
• Song Shiwei’s plot summary revealed that Uncle Li had selected Tongtong for organ trafficking and manipulated Li Shulan into taking her to Fengquan Mountain.
• Enraged, Song Shiwei threw a stone into a shaft and struck someone inside, prompting a scream.
• The spectators accepted Song Shiwei’s revelations, and Liu Xueqin pleaded for someone to save her husband while saying she was afraid to move.

Song Shiwei and the production crew exposed the criminals’ organ trafficking and called the police after they fell into the shafts. The chapter ended with the crew opening one of the black cases.

• Song Shiwei called the police and urged the production crew to hide the black cases as evidence.
• Liu Xueqin demanded that Song Shiwei and the others rescue her husband, but Song Shiwei told her to leave the shafts herself and refused to help.
• Jiang Zhuxin and Yu Chen confronted Li Shulan about abandoning Tongtong, and Li Shulan accused Uncle Li of deceiving her.
• Song Shiwei told Li Shulan that the supposed masters she hired trafficked in human organs and that she would face prison.
• The production crew opened one of the black cases and fell silent, anger in their eyes.

Police discovered a bloodied kidney and heard Li Shulan and Li Youhua accuse each other of plotting to kill Tongtong and traffic in organs. After Tongtong identified Li Shulan as the one who abandoned her, Li Shulan was exposed as the culprit.

• The police found a bloodied kidney in the shaft, and Li Shulan accused Li Youhua of persuading her to sacrifice Tongtong and sell her organs.
• Li Youhua claimed Li Shulan had planned to let Tongtong fall to her death, while Song Shiwei revealed that Li Shulan had stolen the child.
• Li Shulan broke free as the police prepared to arrest her and shoved six people back into the shafts, including her son Zou Liang.
• The director brought Tongtong to the police, and Tongtong firmly said that her grandmother had abandoned her on the mountain.
• Li Shulan tried to blame someone else, but Tongtong's testimony confirmed her role and outraged the livestream viewers.

Li Shulan and Li Youhua exposed each other during a police raid, and Song Shiwei’s inner thoughts revealed an organ-trafficking hideout and Li Youhua’s crimes. The police arrested the group and recognized Li Youhua as the wanted trafficker Granny Li, while he begged to confess.

• Li Shulan accused Li Youhua of abducting children and trafficking them, and he admitted that the supposed masters were involved in the underworld.
• Song Shiwei thought about an organ-trafficking manor southeast of town, and Li Shulan and Li Youhua both reported its location to the police.
• The police handcuffed the suspects and sent officers to search the manor.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Li Youhua was the wanted Granny Li and operated a hospital that made fake birth certificates for trafficked children.
• Li Youhua fell to his knees and begged to confess, but the officer told him it was too late.

Police arrested Li Shulan, Zou Liang, and Liu Xueqin after Li Shulan confessed to stealing Tongtong from Ren'ai Hospital and trying to kill her to hide the crime. As officers prepared to take Tongtong to find her parents, she reached for Song Shiwei instead.

• Liu Xueqin tried to take the blame for Zou Liang, but the officer warned her that the evidence was conclusive and said all three would be arrested.
• Li Shulan confessed that she had stolen Tongtong from Ren'ai Hospital in Yanjing while working there as a cleaner, then planned to kill her to conceal the kidnapping.
• Song Shiwei angrily slapped Li Shulan twice, while the spectators and netizens praised her.
• The officers took the suspects away, and Tongtong began crying when another officer tried to take her to find her parents.
• Tongtong spotted Song Shiwei, reached for her, and asked her to hold her.

Song Shiwei agreed to take Tongtong back to Yanjing temporarily after the police decided not to force the distressed child away from her. Jiang Xun said he was flying over to help care for Tongtong and pick Song Shiwei up, while Song Shiwei mistook his tenderness for ordinary concern.

• Song Shiwei held Tongtong as the police captain returned and asked her to care for the child until her family was found.
• The captain explained that Tongtong reacted badly to reminders of her parents, and Song Shiwei agreed to take her to Yanjing while the police investigated her background.
• Jiang Xun called Song Shiwei from the airport and offered to help look after Tongtong and take Song Shiwei home.
• Song Shiwei called Jiang Xun her bro, leaving Yu Chen, Yu Xue, and the livestream viewers convinced she had missed his feelings.