Chapter Summaries

After the police left with the arrested criminals, Little Tongtong stayed with Song Shiwei and became the darling of the Gossip Courtyard. As everyone crowded around to hold Tongtong, Song Shiwei complained that they were trying to steal her baby.

• The police officer told Tongtong to take care of Song Shiwei, and Tongtong promised to do so with kisses and a piece of candy.
• Song Shiwei remembered that the original owner of her body had also been caught up in human trafficking and felt that helping Tongtong might redeem her.
• The police officer left with the criminals to pursue more arrests prompted by Song Shiwei's information.
• The production director bathed Little Tongtong and dressed her in a new outfit, and everyone at the Gossip Courtyard doted on her.
• Yu Xue, Yu Chen, and Jiang Zhuxin eagerly tried to hold Little Tongtong, while Song Shiwei grew jealous and called her own baby.

Jiang Xun tried to comfort Song Shiwei with candied hawthorns, but Tongtong called him old and left him worrying that Song Shiwei would reject him. Song Shiwei publicly acknowledged him as her husband, and Jiang Xun gave Tongtong a red envelope before refusing the others’ requests for one.

• Jiang Xun gave Song Shiwei candied hawthorns and gave Tongtong a doll and another skewer.
• Tongtong called Jiang Xun old, making him fear that Song Shiwei disliked their age difference and planned to leave him.
• Song Shiwei told Tongtong that Jiang Xun was her husband and took his hand, then hesitated over what Tongtong should call him.
• Jiang Xun suggested “Brother-in-law,” and Tongtong reluctantly called him “Uncle Brother-in-law.”
• Jiang Xun gave Tongtong a large red envelope, but told Jiang Zhuxin, Yu Xue, and the production crew that he had no more because Song Shiwei managed the household money.

Song Shiwei and Jiang Xun’s affectionate reunion amused the others, and Jiang Xun introduced himself as her husband before she went to play with Little Tongtong. Yu Chen then confronted Jiang Xun about his role in the previous day’s business deals.

• Netizens and the others teased Song Shiwei and Jiang Xun over their relationship, while Yu Xue observed that Jiang Xun had fallen in love.
• Jiang Xun came back to his senses, introduced himself to everyone as Song Shiwei’s husband, and kept holding her hand.
• Song Shiwei took Little Tongtong from Yu Chen and went off to play, leaving Jiang Xun to accept that their relationship was progressing slowly.
• Yu Chen asked Jiang Xun whether he had helped orchestrate the acquisition of the Yu Family company and the purchase of shares in Weiyang Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

Jiang Xun admitted Yu Lihuai owed her a favor, and Song Shiwei revealed a future in which Yu Lihuai sacrificed everything to save Yu Chen, only for them both to die. Yu Chen realized Yu Lihuai had secretly loved and protected her for years, while she had mistaken his feelings and blamed him for Yu Yu’s death.

• Jiang Xun told Yu Chen that Yu Lihuai owed her a favor.
• Song Shiwei’s inner thoughts described how Hua Tianyu would ruin Yu Chen, take Yu Lihuai’s shares, and kill Yu Chen despite Yu Lihuai’s sacrifices.
• Song Shiwei revealed that Yu Lihuai would shoot Hua Tianyu and then take his own life beside Yu Chen’s body.
• Yu Chen remembered how Yu Lihuai cared for her during a childhood trip and understood that she had once loved him too.
• Yu Chen realized Yu Lihuai had secretly protected her career and regretted wrongly suspecting him of causing Yu Yu’s death.

After Jiang Xun urged Yu Chen to look at the people around her, Yu Chen called Yu Lihuai and promised to marry him after the variety show. Song Shiwei then revealed that Yu Xue’s best friend had cheated her out of millions, leaving Yu Xue uncertain whom to trust as Song Shiwei nodded off.

• Jiang Xun told Yu Chen that Yu Lihuai had loved her for about ten years and might be the person who truly loved her.
• Yu Chen called Yu Lihuai and asked whether he dared to marry her; he immediately told her to meet him at the Civil Affairs Bureau.
• Yu Chen said she would marry Yu Lihuai after the variety show, and he asked her not to toy with him after waiting so many years.
• Yu Xue saw the livestream audience support Yu Chen’s plan to marry a male wife.
• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Yu Xue’s best friend had swindled her out of ten or twenty million, and Yu Xue wondered whether to believe Song Shiwei or her friend.
• Song Shiwei grew sleepy and nodded off with Little Tongtong while Yu Xue waited for more information.

After the livestream ended, Song Shiwei realized she had forgotten that Jiang Xun was there and was reminded that they had never shared a room. The production crew pushed them together, and Song Shiwei invited Jiang Xun to stay in her room, where he eagerly accepted.

• The director shut down the livestream after the exhausted production team and viewers had spent the evening watching Song Shiwei and Little Tongtong.
• Jiang Xun told Song Shiwei that she had forgotten him, and the bystanders realized the married couple had never shared a room.
• The director tried to persuade Song Shiwei to let Jiang Xun stay with her, while Jiang Xun offered to sleep on the living room couch instead.
• Jiang Xun said he had only come to take his wife and Tongtong home, and Song Shiwei invited him to stay in her room.
• Jiang Xun eagerly accepted and promised to take up only a tiny bit of space.

Song Shiwei and Jiang Xun were left alone in her room for the night, but her nervousness led her to prepare a bed on the floor. Jiang Xun asked whether she found him repulsive, and the chapter ended as Song Shiwei froze at his bitter expression.

• Yu Chen, Yu Xue, and Jiang Zhuxin hurried away and pushed Song Shiwei and Jiang Xun into Song Shiwei's room together.
• Jiang Xun called Song Shiwei “Weiwei” and told her to go to bed while he showered.
• Song Shiwei realized they were sharing a room and worried about what might happen after Jiang Xun's shower.
• Song Shiwei got out of bed and laid out a rug and quilt on the floor for herself.
• Jiang Xun emerged from the shower and found Song Shiwei making a separate bed.
• Song Shiwei said she slept poorly and wanted them to sleep separately, and Jiang Xun asked whether she found him repulsive.

Song Shiwei began considering whether to give her feelings for Jiang Xun a chance, while his attentions left her flustered. After Jiang Xun dried her hair, she woke just as he was carrying her to bed.

• Song Shiwei weighed her fear of trusting Jiang Xun against how kindly he treated her and decided she might try dating her husband.
• Jiang Xun heard Song Shiwei admiring his body in her thoughts and lowered his bathrobe, causing her to get a nosebleed.
• Song Shiwei hurried to the bathroom, embarrassed by her reaction and worried about sharing a bed with Jiang Xun.
• Jiang Xun offered to dry Song Shiwei's hair, and she fell asleep against him as he carefully dried it.
• After finishing, Jiang Xun picked up the sleeping Song Shiwei, who suddenly woke as he was about to lay her on the bed.

Song Shiwei and Jiang Xun spent the night in the same bed, separated by pillows, until Jiang Xun secretly used the cold air conditioner to draw her into his arms. In the morning, he asked her to take responsibility for their embrace and pressed her for an answer, leaving Song Shiwei apprehensive about what he wanted.

• Song Shiwei arranged pillows between herself and Jiang Xun to keep them apart, then quickly fell asleep.
• Jiang Xun removed the pillows, lowered the air conditioner temperature, and waited for Song Shiwei to seek warmth.
• Song Shiwei nestled into Jiang Xun’s arms, and he turned the air conditioner back to warm before falling asleep with her.
• Song Shiwei woke up hugging Jiang Xun and wondered whether she had done anything more while asleep.
• Jiang Xun asked Song Shiwei to take responsibility, then said he would take responsibility for her too if she gave him an answer.
• Song Shiwei asked Jiang Xun what kind of answer he wanted.

Song Shiwei and Jiang Xun grew closer as their friends teased them like a couple, while Song Shiwei realized Yu Xue had been cheated out of her savings. Yu Xue invited Song Shiwei to her home after hearing there was a way to recover the money.

• Song Shiwei asked Jiang Xun to hold her while they slept as compensation, and Jiang Xun happily agreed to hold her the next day.
• Song Shiwei and Jiang Xun went downstairs together, where their companions watched them with knowing smiles.
• On the way to the airport, Jiang Xun carried Song Shiwei’s suitcase and Little Tongtong while their friends teased them about looking like a family.
• After the plane landed in Yanjing, Song Shiwei realized Yu Xue had forgotten to check her finances and revealed that Yu Xue’s best friend had scammed her out of her savings.
• Yu Xue heard that she might be able to recover her losses and invited Song Shiwei to her home.

Yu Xue brought Song Shiwei and her companions to her apartment, where she discovered Xu Yan was trying to draw her into a Ponzi scheme. The chapter ended with Xu Yan eyeing Song Shiwei as a wealthy target while Yu Xue realized her best friend had been scamming her.

• Yu Xue returned to her Yanjiao apartment with Song Shiwei and the others and found Xu Yan searching the rooms with a greedy look.
• Yu Xue recalled how she had helped Xu Yan leave their village and supported her for years, then felt betrayed by Xu Yan's behavior.
• Xu Yan questioned why Yu Xue had brought so many people, while Song Shiwei silently recognized that their presence hindered Xu Yan's scheme.
• Yu Xue asked Song Shiwei to invest in Xu Yan's opportunity, and Song Shiwei privately protested that she had come only to watch the gossip.
• Xu Yan praised the investment's high returns and looked at Song Shiwei as a prospective source of money, while Yu Xue understood that Xu Yan had been taking advantage of her.

Yu Xue tried to recover her investment from Xu Yan, who instead pressured her to invest more in Xinyang Insurance Company. After Song Shiwei learned the company planned to flee with investors’ money that night, she pretended to be interested in investing.

• Xu Yan claimed Yu Xue’s investment was earning money and tried to recruit her friends, but Yu Xue demanded her profits and principal so she could pay her mortgage.
• Xu Yan insisted that Yu Xue should keep investing, then claimed the company could not release her money because of cash-flow problems.
• Song Shiwei challenged Xu Yan’s claims, then asked about investing in Xinyang Insurance Company to draw her into talking.
• Xu Yan promised a twenty-five-percent rebate and asked how much Song Shiwei would invest.
• Song Shiwei discovered through the Gossip Compendium that Xinyang Insurance Company planned to abscond with investors’ money that night.

Song Shiwei, Yu Xue, and Yu Chen pretended to invest in Xu Yan’s scam to keep her from fleeing with the victims’ money. Xu Yan eagerly pursued their offers, while Jiang Xun joined in, and Song Shiwei raised her supposed investment to five hundred million.

• Song Shiwei realized Xu Yan’s group planned to flee with the elderly victims’ savings, and Yu Xue and Yu Chen agreed to help keep Xu Yan there.
• Yu Chen offered a card with over sixty million, and Yu Xue claimed she would invest her remaining money as well.
• Xu Yan greedily welcomed their offers and eyed Jiang Xun as a possible lover she could keep after getting rich.
• Song Shiwei claimed she would invest a hundred million, and Jiang Xun said he would put in twenty million.
• Xu Yan urged Song Shiwei to invest more, so Song Shiwei jokingly offered five hundred million, delighting Xu Yan.

Song Shiwei tried to meet Xu Yan’s boss and learned that Xu Yan’s boyfriend and his sweetheart planned to flee abroad with the company’s money. Yu Xue realized Xu Yan was committing a crime, while Song Shiwei had only an hour or two to stop the pair before their flight.

• Song Shiwei offered to invest five hundred million and demanded to meet Xu Yan’s boss.
• Xu Yan insisted her boss was charming, while Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Xu Yan’s boyfriend was secretly planning to run away with his sweetheart and the money.
• Yu Xue remembered bringing Xu Yan out of their village and recognized that Xu Yan was repeating the same harmful attitudes; she decided Xu Yan had to face the law.
• Song Shiwei learned the couple planned to fly to Beautiful Country that night, where they hoped to evade arrest by obtaining legal residency.
• Song Shiwei realized she had little time to act and no evidence yet to stop the couple from leaving the country.

Song Shiwei escaped Xu Yan’s sales pitch by pretending to prefer Jiang Xun, then used the promised five-hundred-million investment to demand proof that Xu Yan’s company was legitimate. Xu Yan failed to reach Guo Tianyou, and Song Shiwei threatened to cancel the deal.

• Xu Yan trapped Song Shiwei in a long pitch about her boss, and Jiang Xun rescued her by acting jealous of the attention she gave other puppy boys.
• Song Shiwei clung to Jiang Xun and told Xu Yan to call her boss, while Yu Chen, Yu Xue, and Jiang Zhuxin watched their playful act.
• Xu Yan claimed her company was legitimate and promised original shares, and Yu Chen sarcastically said he wanted to invest too.
• Song Shiwei demanded to meet Guo Tianyou and inspect the company’s credentials before investing, while Yu Chen said he also needed reassurance.
• Xu Yan repeatedly called Guo Tianyou but got no answer, and Song Shiwei said she would cancel the deal if he remained unavailable.

Song Shiwei and her friends staged a furious confrontation to pressure Xu Yan into summoning her boss, Guo Tianyou, before he could flee with the investors’ money. When Xu Yan could not reach him, she began to suspect he had already escaped with another woman.

• Song Shiwei pretended to berate Yu Xue and Jiang Xun, while privately apologizing to them for her performance.
• Yu Chen and Yu Xue taunted Xu Yan and pressed her to contact her boss, Guo Tianyou.
• Xu Yan repeatedly called Guo Tianyou but could not reach him, despite promising Song Shiwei she would find him.
• An inner voice warned Xu Yan that Guo Tianyou was about to board a plane and flee with his sweetheart, prompting her to wonder whether he had abandoned her.

Xu Yan recalled how she had built a life and a scam business with Guo Tianyou, while blaming Yu Xue for her past. When she learned Guo Tianyou might have fled with Xiao Chen, she called him using his other phone and baited him with a promised investment.

• Xu Yan remembered forcing Xiao Liu away from Guo Tianyou and believing their relationship was true love.
• Xu Yan recalled how Yu Xue had taken her to Yanjing after exposing her fiancé's infidelity, and how she had later started scamming people with Guo Tianyou.
• Song Shiwei mocked Xu Yan's fate, revealing that Guo Tianyou and Xiao Chen had secretly been together and were heading abroad together.
• Xu Yan panicked when she could not reach Guo Tianyou and began suspecting that he had run off with another woman.
• Xu Yan called Guo Tianyou on his other phone and claimed that Yu Xue's friend had brought a five-hundred-million investment but needed to meet him first.

Xu Yan learned that Guo Tianyou planned to flee abroad with their stolen money and leave her to take the blame, so she tried to lure him back with a fake investment. When he chose to leave anyway, she reported him to airport police and confessed that she had swindled the money.

• A voice in Xu Yan's head revealed that Guo Tianyou intended to flee to Beautiful Country with Chen Nannan and report Xu Yan for fraud.
• Xu Yan called Guo Tianyou, claiming Yu Xue’s friends were offering a five-hundred-and-eighty-million investment to get him to return.
• Chen Nannan warned Guo Tianyou that the offer was likely a trap and urged him to leave before Xu Yan could stop them.
• Guo Tianyou decided to board his flight with Chen Nannan, promised they would stay together, and destroyed his SIM card.
• Xu Yan called the Yanjing International Airport Police Sub-bureau and reported Guo Tianyou, admitting that the hundreds of millions were money she had swindled.

After Xu Yan admitted that another scammer had taken her money, she agreed to go to the airport with Yu Xue and the others to submit evidence. On the way, they encountered Zhou Baobao and his men, who had come to collect a loan that Xu Yan had taken out using Yu Xue’s apartment; Zhou Baobao learned that Yu Xue was being blamed for Xu Yan’s debt.

• The police confirmed Xu Yan’s report and prepared to arrest the scammer waiting to flee from Yanjing International Airport.
• Xu Yan threatened Yu Xue into taking her to the airport, and Jiang Zhuxin and Yu Chen dragged her downstairs.
• Zhou Baobao arrived with his underlings to collect money from Yu Xue’s apartment, explaining that he needed the loan payment to support his men.
• Song Shiwei’s inner thoughts revealed to Zhou Baobao that Xu Yan had borrowed the money using Yu Xue’s apartment as collateral.
• Zhou Baobao realized Yu Xue had been betrayed by her close friend and was being made to bear Xu Yan’s debt.

Zhou Baobao confronted Xu Yan over the money she had borrowed using Yu Xue’s house as collateral, exposing her with surveillance footage. Xu Yan claimed Guo Tianyou had taken the money and led Zhou Baobao toward the airport, where he agreed to pursue the stolen funds and return them to the victims.

• Zhou Baobao arrived with his lackeys and demanded to know where Xu Yan was, clarifying that Yu Xue had not taken his money.
• Jiang Zhuxin and Yu Chen pushed Xu Yan forward, and she challenged Zhou Baobao to check whose name was on the loan contract.
• Zhou Baobao showed Xu Yan surveillance footage of her using someone else’s house as collateral and threatened to make her repay him.
• Xu Yan said Guo Tianyou had run off with the money and claimed he was at the airport, urging Zhou Baobao to come with her.
• Zhou Baobao agreed to go after Guo Tianyou but vowed to return the recovered money to the people Xu Yan had swindled.