Chapter Summaries

Chen Jingxian confronted Song Linhai over his mistresses and revealed that she had begun an affair with Auntie Yu. Song Yurou arrived as the family’s marital confrontation escalated, while Song Shiwei watched and mocked the chaos.

• Song Linhai threatened Chen Jingxian, who challenged him and exposed his supposed lover’s pregnancy as suspicious because he had fertility problems.
• Song Linhai slapped the young woman and rejected her, while Song Ruchu tried to comfort his father.
• After Song Linhai kicked the young woman away, Auntie Yu fell into Chen Jingxian’s arms, and Chen Jingxian kissed her.
• Chen Jingxian admitted to Song Linhai that she had cheated too, then coldly told Song Ruchu that she was not his mother.
• Song Yurou arrived and scolded Song Shiwei for watching the fight, but Song Shiwei told her to join it instead.

Chen Jingxian exposed Song Yurou’s role in the schemes against Song Shiwei and revealed that Song Ruchu was not Song Linhai’s biological son. As the confrontation became a livestreamed spectacle, Song Yurou privately realized she might be the Song Family’s only remaining daughter.

• Song Yurou tried to persuade Chen Jingxian to postpone their argument, but Chen Jingxian rejected her concern and accused her of helping arrange Song Shiwei’s marriage to the Jiang Family and obstructing the divorce.
• Chen Jingxian told Song Linhai that Song Ruchu was not his son and claimed she had picked him up from a trash can; Song Linhai seized her by the throat, while Song Ruchu panicked.
• Song Shiwei checked the Gossip Compendium and learned that Chen Huixian had arranged the apparent cheating bust, including hiring an actress to play the other woman.
• A pinhole camera livestreamed the confrontation, and viewers recognized Song Shiwei as Sister Song Gua and celebrated her reputation for exposing scandals.
• Song Yurou secretly rejoiced over Song Ruchu’s exposed parentage and thought she was now the only daughter left in the Song Family.

Song Shiwei helped expose Song Linhai’s abuse of Chen Jingxian, who revealed her injuries in front of the family and online spectators. Chen Jingxian refused to divorce Song Linhai, deciding to stay and secure money and retribution before leaving.

• Song Shiwei challenged Song Linhai to get a paternity test and said his son did not resemble either parent.
• Chen Jingxian showed her bruises and scars, accused Song Linhai of torturing her, and admitted she had cheated.
• Song Linhai threatened to divorce Chen Jingxian and leave her penniless, but she said she had videos and refused to divorce him.
• After hearing Song Shiwei’s thoughts, Chen Jingxian decided to stay with Song Linhai until she had taken her revenge and gotten enough money.

Chen Jingxian publicly rejected Song Linhai and their son, Song Ruchu, while Song Shiwei sided against her father and exposed his selfishness. Chen Jingxian and Song Linhai’s mistress dragged him away as the Jiang Family defended Song Shiwei.

• The netizens urged Chen Jingxian to divorce Song Linhai as the women restrained him.
• Song Shiwei taunted Song Ruchu, who begged his parents not to abandon him, and Song Linhai kicked him away.
• Chen Jingxian told Song Ruchu she no longer wanted him, and Song Shiwei celebrated his rejection.
• Song Linhai demanded Song Shiwei help him, but she refused and called out his motives for bringing her home.
• The Jiang Family stood up for Song Shiwei as Chen Jingxian and Song Linhai’s mistress dragged him away, pulling out his remaining hair.

Song Shiwei found comfort and a sense of family with the Jiang Family, and decided she wanted to save them from their tragic fates. After the family pressed her to explain her ominous thoughts, the Song couple’s affairs were exposed online that evening.

• Song Shiwei reflected on how Song Linhai and Song Ruchu had contributed to the original host’s misery and felt her resentment had been avenged.
• Jiang Zhuxin and Jiang Ye bickered over who liked Song Shiwei more, while Mother Jiang welcomed her as family.
• Song Shiwei remembered her orphanage family and decided to try to save the Jiang Family, who had treated her warmly.
• After Song Shiwei thought the siblings might suffer later, Jiang Zhuxin and Jiang Ye took her aside to ask what she meant.
• Netizens posted footage of Song Linhai and his wife cheating, and anonymous users shared exposés about Song Linhai.

Chen Jingxian exposed Song Linhai’s abuse and affairs, took control of Song Group, and declared Song Shiwei his sole heir, while Song Shiwei mocked the abandoned Song Ruchu. After catching up on the scandal, Song Shiwei went downstairs and joined Jiang Xun for breakfast, delighted by her handsome husband.

• Online posts and a video of Chen Jingxian’s abuse drove public outrage against Song Linhai and sent Song Group’s stock price plunging.
• Chen Jingxian told Song Linhai she had orchestrated his exposure and planned to take his chairmanship; he fainted in fury.
• Song Group announced Chen Jingxian as its new chairman and named Song Shiwei as the heir to Song Linhai’s assets.
• Song Ruchu pleaded with Song Shiwei after Song Yurou sided with Chen Jingxian, and Song Shiwei mocked him for being unwanted.
• Song Shiwei met Jiang Xun on her way downstairs, privately admired him, and went with him to breakfast.

Song Shiwei warned Jiang Xun to spend more at the bid, while he promised her half the project’s shares if he won. After Jiang Xun and Jiang Chao left, Song Shiwei learned Jiang Ye had a suspicious nighttime audition and eagerly tried to go along.

• Song Shiwei urged Jiang Xun to raise his bid, and he offered her fifty percent of the project’s shares if he secured the contract.
• Jiang Chao reassured Song Shiwei that he would not interfere with the bid, having discovered his online romantic partner’s IP address was in Northern Myanmar.
• Jiang Xun and Jiang Chao left for work, and Father Jiang departed for a board meeting.
• Jiang Ye learned that his audition was scheduled for the evening, prompting Song Shiwei to suspect the production crew was dubious and crave the gossip.
• Jiang Zhuxin asked Jiang Ye to take her and Song Shiwei along to the audition.

Jiang Ye arrived at a hotel audition with Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin, only to run into his longtime rival Lin Xi. As Lin Xi taunted him, Song Shiwei’s inner voice revealed a scandalous secret about Lin Xi, leaving Jiang Ye confused about what she had noticed.

• Jiang Ye told Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin to pose as his assistants and keep his identity secret.
• Song Shiwei recognized the hotel as the Night Light Production Crew’s unusual audition venue and identified Xu Lai at the entrance.
• Lin Xi arrived with bodyguards, and Jiang Ye recalled their bitter rivalry and the damage Lin Xi’s fans had inflicted on Director Zhang Boqiang.
• Lin Xi mocked Jiang Ye and claimed the role was made for him, while Jiang Ye’s agent restrained him from retaliating.
• Song Shiwei’s inner voice claimed Lin Xi had a toy inside him and spotted him holding hands with the assistant director, leaving Jiang Ye wondering who the gossip was about.

Song Shiwei’s thoughts exposed Lin Xi and the assistant director’s scheme to ruin the director and seize control of the production. Jiang Ye and the others entered the audition, where they witnessed Lin Xi and the assistant director behaving suggestively, while Song realized the director was about to be drugged.

• Song Shiwei’s thoughts revealed that Lin Xi and the assistant director had plotted to drug and frame the director, then maneuvered to take over the production and make Lin Xi its male lead.
• Jiang Ye, his manager, and Jiang Zhuxin heard the revelations and decided to enter the audition to put pressure on Lin Xi and watch what happened.
• The group entered the hotel audition, where actors were trying out for a spy drama scene set in a luxurious hotel in Greater Shanghai.
• Jiang Ye, his manager, and Jiang Zhuxin saw the assistant director and Lin Xi secretly touching each other while the assistant director’s manager blocked the view.
• Song Shiwei realized that the assistant director was preparing drugged water for the director and warned in her thoughts that the director was at risk of being framed.

At the audition, Jiang Ye impressed Director Zhang Tao with a promising performance, while Lin Xi disgraced himself by reciting numbers and letters instead of his lines. After Zhang Tao rejected him, Lin Xi threatened to use his financial backer to stop the production from filming.

• Director Zhang Tao called Jiang Ye to audition for the male lead, Xu Jinyan, and Jiang Ye asked whether the character worked for the Military Statistics Bureau or the Party.
• After learning Xu Jinyan was with the Party, Jiang Ye gave a focused performance that earned Zhang Tao’s approval.
• Lin Xi entered the audition, recited numbers and then letters instead of his lines, and claimed he did not need to memorize them because his dialogue would be dubbed.
• Zhang Tao rejected Lin Xi and ordered him to leave, but Lin Xi refused and threatened to use his financial backer to prevent filming.

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.