Recaps

Chu Yu and Chu Chen arrived at the Chu Group for an overnight shareholders' meeting amid speculation that Chu Tingnian's illness could lead to a change in leadership. Inside, Huang Yinian raised Chu Tingnian's absence with another shareholder, hinting that the company needed a new leader.

• The chapter explained that Chu Yu and Chu Chen each held ten percent of the Chu Group's shares, while Chu Tingnian held twenty percent, leaving their family's total stake below a majority even with Chu Yu's secret purchases.
• Shareholders and reporters converged on the Chu Group as rumors spread that its chairmanship might change hands.
• Chu Yu and Chu Chen arrived together, calmly made their way through the reporters, and entered the building.
• Huang Yinian told another shareholder that Chu Tingnian was seriously ill and abroad recuperating, implying that he could no longer manage the company.
• The shareholder played dumb and agreed that no one knew when Chu Tingnian would recover.

Chu Yu and Chu Chen attended Chu Group’s shareholders’ meeting on behalf of Chu Tingnian, and Chu Yu used uncertainty about his health to deter the shareholders from challenging her. As the meeting began, an unfamiliar man in a black suit took a seat in the corner.

• Chu Yu and Chu Chen entered the conference room, and a shareholder questioned whether Chu Yu was qualified to represent Chu Tingnian.
• Chu Yu said Chu Tingnian was not beyond saving and dismissed reports about his condition as media exaggeration, making the minor shareholders hesitate.
• Huang Yinian recognized that he had underestimated Chu Yu but remained determined to pursue the position.
• Chu Yu greeted Huang Yinian, and their friendly exchange left the shareholders uncertain about where he stood.
• An unfamiliar man in a black suit entered, sat in a corner, and the shareholders’ meeting began with Chu Yu seated at the front on Chu Tingnian’s behalf.

At the Chu Group shareholders’ meeting, Chu Yu defended the absent Chu Tingnian and faced Huang Yinian’s challenge to his leadership. Huang called for a vote to remove Chu Tingnian as chairman, and Chu Yu prepared to block the proposal.

• Huang Yinian interrupted Chu Yu and questioned why Chu Tingnian had not attended the meeting, urging shareholders to postpone it until he returned.
• Chu Yu silenced the shareholders, assured them Chu Tingnian was healthy, and warned against disrupting the group or pursuing hidden schemes.
• Huang Yinian argued that the Chu Group needed new leadership and revealed that he had submitted a proposal a month earlier to remove Chu Tingnian.
• Chu Yu agreed to proceed to a vote after spotting a man in a black suit, and calculated that she needed eleven more votes to defeat the proposal.

During the recess before the vote to remove Chu Tingnian, Chu Yu secured two shareholders’ support by confronting them with evidence of their dealings, bringing her expected total to 46 votes. As voting began, an unfamiliar man in a black suit stood up, leaving the meeting’s outcome unresolved.

• Chu Yu confronted two shareholders about profiting from the Chu Group, and they promised to support Chu Tingnian after she said her parents knew about their dealings.
• Chu Yu told Chu Chen that she expected 46 votes and recalled Gu Jinhuai promising to help her reclaim the Chu Group if anyone took it from her.
• The moderator opened the vote on removing Chu Tingnian, and Huang Yinian and the shareholders backing him cast their ballots.
• Chu Yu and Chu Chen cast their ballots, and after most shareholders had voted, an unfamiliar man in a black suit stood up with a briefcase.

Chu Yu and Chu Chen defeated Huang Yinian’s attempt to remove Chu Tingnian as chairman, and Chu Yu left the meeting exhausted but relieved. After the news spread, Fang Lanzhi and the hospitalized Chu Tingnian learned of the siblings’ victory.

• Lawyer Yu announced that he represented Gu Jinhuai and cast Gu Jinhuai’s five votes for the Chu Group shareholders’ meeting.
• The shareholders voted down the motion to remove Chu Tingnian, with forty votes in favor, four abstentions, and fifty-six against.
• Chu Yu suspected that shareholders her father had placed in Huang Yinian’s camp had switched sides, while Huang Yinian realized his plan had failed.
• Chu Yu and Chu Chen left the meeting, and Chu Chen saw that Chu Yu had fallen asleep from exhaustion in the car.
• Media workers reported Chu Yu and Chu Chen’s victory, and Fang Lanzhi and Chu Tingnian received the news overseas.

Chu Yu and her brother defeated the shareholders’ effort to remove her as Chu Group’s chairman, surprising the public and business world. By morning, news of their victory had spread widely, and supporters celebrated as Chu Yu’s reputation began to shift.

• Chu Group’s shareholders voted down the proposal to remove Chu Yu, and reporters spread news of her victory across the media and Weibo.
• Lawyer Yu told Gu Jinhuai that Chu Yu had won, while noting that Chu Tingnian had likely prepared his own countermeasures; Gu Jinhuai knew Chu Yu and her brother could have won without his five votes.
• Jiang Taolin celebrated Chu Yu’s victory at Stockpile Shopping Network and ordered staff to offer extra perks during her livestream.
• Chu Yu’s fans celebrated her victory, while Xu Mengying cheered in the fan group under an alternate account.
• Lu Haoming learned about Chu Yu and her brother’s victory and praised Chu Yu as an amazing older sister.
• Business figures who had looked down on Chu Yu were shocked by her victory after expecting Chu Group to change hands.

Chu Yu woke to find Chu Chen had made her pumpkin porridge, only to discover he had mistaken salt for sugar. After Lin Qian broke up with Meng Fuyu, she asked Chu Yu to team up against him, and Chu Yu said she would think about it.

• Chu Chen told Chu Yu he had made her breakfast and hurried back to his room.
• Chu Yu tasted Chu Chen's pumpkin porridge, found it unbearably salty, and shouted that he had tried to poison her.
• Meng Fuyu and Lin Qian posted statements announcing their breakup, and Lin Qian resolved to focus on her career.
• Lin Qian messaged Chu Yu to propose teaming up against Meng Fuyu, and Chu Yu asked whether Lin Qian's account had been hacked.
• Lin Qian confirmed she was really messaging, and Chu Yu said she would think about the offer.

After seeing that Meng Fuyu and Lin Qian had broken up, Chu Yu suspected Wen Zhixin’s actions had accelerated the plot and agreed to team up with Lin Qian. The two met privately, where Lin Qian explained why she believed Meng Fuyu had cheated, and their alliance began.

• Chu Yu saw the trending news that Meng Fuyu and Lin Qian had broken up and wondered whether Wen Zhixin had changed the plot.
• Chu Yu checked Wen Zhixin’s WeChat Moments and found a post about being both unlucky and lucky, accompanied by photos of her injured knee.
• Chu Yu decided that joining forces with Lin Qian could help her counter Meng Fuyu and Wen Zhixin, and agreed to meet in person.
• Chu Yu and Lin Qian met at a private restaurant, where Lin Qian said Meng Fuyu had cheated.
• Lin Qian explained that Meng Fuyu had abruptly asked to break up, and that a girl at his home had panicked and hung up when Lin Qian called.

Chu Yu secretly allied with Lin Qian to investigate the woman Meng Fuyu was cheating with, then invited Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu to join her livestream. Meng Fuyu hesitated but reconsidered after learning Wen Zhixin’s chance to appear depended on his attendance.

• Chu Yu and Lin Qian agreed to work together and decided to find out who Meng Fuyu was cheating with.
• Chu Yu asked Jiang Taolin to approve inviting Meng Fuyu and Wen Zhixin as guests on the Stockpile Shopping Network livestream.
• Wen Zhixin accepted Chu Yu’s invitation, believing it could help improve Chu Yu’s public image and resolve their past conflicts.
• Chu Yu told Meng Fuyu that Wen Zhixin had also been invited and might lose the opportunity if he declined.
• Meng Fuyu reconsidered joining because he knew Wen Zhixin faced obstacles to marrying into the Meng Family.

Chu Yu arranged for Meng Fuyu and Wen Zhixin to join her livestream, then watched them pretend to be strangers at the venue. As the popular livestream sold out several products, Chu Yu prepared to bring the guests on and begin her plan.

• Meng Fuyu agreed to appear on Chu Yu's livestream so he could help Wen Zhixin build her influence and career.
• Chu Yu told Lin Qian that Meng Fuyu and Wen Zhixin had agreed to join the livestream, and reminded Lin Qian to stop worrying about Meng Fuyu.
• Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu arrived at the venue ten minutes apart and acted as if they barely knew each other.
• Wen Zhixin thanked Chu Yu for inviting her, and Chu Yu told her she might ask questions during the livestream.
• Chu Yu and Chu Chen began the livestream, drew a rapidly growing audience, and sold out several products before Chu Yu prepared to introduce the mystery guests.

Chu Yu used a livestream to make Meng Fuyu and Wen Zhixin publicly deny any romantic relationship, blocking them from announcing it without backlash. After they met secretly, Chu Yu and Lin Qian planned to gather evidence of their affair, determined to make them pay.

• Chu Yu introduced Meng Fuyu and Wen Zhixin as mystery guests, then prompted them to tell viewers they were only business partners and had no plans to date.
• Chu Yu reassured the viewers that Meng Fuyu was still recovering from his breakup, earning their sympathy while making a public relationship announcement risky for at least a year.
• After the livestream, Wen Zhixin secretly met Meng Fuyu in his car, where they embraced and agreed to be more careful about being seen together.
• Chu Yu told Lin Qian that Meng Fuyu had risked appearing on the livestream because of his relationship with Wen Zhixin.
• Chu Yu and Lin Qian agreed to gather evidence of how close Meng Fuyu and Wen Zhixin were so they could expose them.

Chu Yu told Auntie Li that Meng Fuyu had broken up with Lin Qian and asked about rumors that he had fallen for someone else, prompting Auntie Li to alert his parents. Meng Fuyu returned to the old residence, where his angry father and anxious mother confronted him about the breakup.

• Chu Yu called Auntie Li and claimed Meng Fuyu had broken up with Lin Qian, mentioning online rumors that he had fallen for another girl.
• Auntie Li told Meng Fuyu's parents about the breakup and the rumors, and Mr. Meng ordered his son to return to the old residence.
• After taking Wen Zhixin home, Meng Fuyu received Auntie Li's call and said he would go back to his parents.
• Meng Fuyu arrived at the old residence and heard Mr. Meng call him a faithless bastard.
• Mrs. Meng asked Meng Fuyu what had happened between him and Lin Qian and why they had suddenly broken up.

Meng Fuyu defended his decision to break up with Lin Qian, while his father secretly investigated whether another woman had caused the breakup. Chu Yu prepared for the final episode of “Sisters and Brothers Charge Ahead” and continued watching over the Chu Group, as Shen Zhuo’s livestream business faltered under her rising popularity.

• Meng Fuyu told his parents he had never truly liked Lin Qian and did not regret ending their relationship, prompting his father to kick him and order him out.
• After Meng Fuyu left, his father asked the butler to discreetly identify the women Meng Fuyu had recently contacted.
• Chu Yu approved the final episode’s theme of siblings starting a business together and began researching managers in the Chu Group’s departments.
• Three days before the livestream shopping extravaganza’s final showdown, Shen Zhuo learned that two more brands planned to stop working with him and angrily told his assistant to dismiss them.

Shen Zhuo prepared to promote his final livestream despite brands leaving, while Chu Yu and her team readied their major sales event. Zhang Xiaodong learned Secluded Orchid had won the Monde Selection Gold Award, but kept the skincare products at their agreed livestream prices.

• Shen Zhuo dismissed his assistant’s concerns and resolved to attract viewers to the final livestream by emphasizing the remaining products’ low prices.
• Chu Yu prepared for the Stockpile Shopping Network’s livestream and explained that she had tested Secluded Orchid’s soothing skincare products for safety and effectiveness.
• Zhang Xiaodong received a call informing him that Secluded Orchid’s restorative face cream series had won the Monde Selection Gold Award.
• Chu Yu asked Zhang Xiaodong whether he would raise prices after the award, but he chose to honor the prices already agreed for the livestream.
• The Monde Selection Award Organization published the list of products that had won awards in the latest evaluation.

Chu Yu’s livestream competed with Shen Zhuo’s heavily promoted shopping stream, featuring Secluded Orchid and GI Magazine’s long-awaited reprint. Although viewers drifted toward Shen Zhuo’s stream, Chu Yu remained calm as her broadcast continued.

• Shen Zhuo launched his livestream early, drawing shoppers with celebrity-endorsed brands and promised discounts.
• Xu Ruiqiu arrived at Chu Yu’s venue, and GI Magazine announced that its reprint would go on sale during the livestream.
• Jiang Nan canceled his business engagements so he could try to buy the reprint, hoping to repeat the success he had gained from the magazine’s first issue and postcards.
• Chu Yu and Chu Chen began their livestream and introduced the day’s schedule as Jiang Taolin monitored viewership of about five hundred thousand.
• Some shoppers left Chu Yu’s broadcast for Shen Zhuo’s stream, but Chu Yu did not panic as her viewership declined.

Chu Yu introduced Secluded Orchid toner during her livestream as national media publicized the brand’s Monde Selection Gold Award. The resulting patriotic buying surge sold out the livestream’s domestic products, and Chu Yu promised viewers more chances to shop.

• Chu Yu presented Secluded Orchid toner, and viewers learned that the brand’s repair cream had won the Monde Selection Gold Award.
• CCTV People’s Daily Online and other major media accounts publicized Secluded Orchid’s award, and Weibo pushed the news onto trending searches.
• Netizens learned that Secluded Orchid was only being sold through Chu Yu and her younger brother’s livestream, then rushed in to place orders.
• Secluded Orchid’s toner sold out in under two minutes, and viewers also bought other domestic products in the livestream.
• A staff member told Chu Yu that every listed product had sold out, and she reassured viewers while they demanded more shopping links.

Chu Yu’s livestream on Stockpile Shopping Network was overwhelmed by netizens rapidly buying domestic products, prompting Jiang Taolin and Secluded Orchid founder Zhang Xiaodong to urge restraint. Their warnings failed, and orders continued to soar as Chu Yu moved on to Secluded Orchid’s repair cream.

• After a sudden influx of viewers, Chu Yu learned what had drawn them and continued presenting products, which sold out within seconds of their links going live.
• Jiang Taolin paused Chu Yu’s presentation and urged viewers to buy only what they needed, but the commenters ignored his appeal and demanded more links.
• Zhang Xiaodong appeared to thank viewers for supporting Secluded Orchid and described the brand’s difficult path from its founding.
• Zhang Xiaodong asked viewers not to place large impulse orders, but they responded by pledging to buy out Secluded Orchid’s products.
• Chu Yu presented Secluded Orchid’s award-winning repair cream while orders continued to skyrocket.

Shen Zhuo’s livestream faltered as viewers flocked to Chu Yu’s stream to support domestic products, and his attempt to partner with Secluded Orchid failed after Zhang Xiaodong rejected him. Meanwhile, Chu Yu’s livestream broke industry sales records, and she announced the upcoming GI Magazine presale.

• Viewers left Shen Zhuo’s livestream for Chu Yu’s, while overseas skincare brands went unsold and criticism forced Shen Zhuo to suspend his stream.
• Shen Zhuo learned that Secluded Orchid was the domestic brand he had previously rejected and told his assistant to seek a partnership.
• Zhang Xiaodong refused the assistant’s offer, and Shen Zhuo blamed his staff after hearing Secluded Orchid was not interested.
• Chu Yu’s livestream passed two million viewers, sold out every listed product, and set a new industry sales record.
• Chu Yu announced that the GI Magazine presale would be the next offering.

After the livestream festival ended, Chu Yu escaped a flurry of collaboration offers and told Chu Chen to choose his school subjects according to his own interests. Back at the villa, Chu Chen decided to study hard as he prepared to choose between humanities and science.

• The GI Magazine preorder link sold out almost immediately, and Chu Yu ended the livestream festival.
• Jiang Taolin, Zhang Xiaodong, and Xu Ruiqiu each asked Chu Yu to work with them again, but Chu Chen pulled her away.
• Chu Chen asked Chu Yu whether he should choose humanities or science, and she told him to follow his own wishes instead of worrying about the group.
• Chu Chen returned to the villa and began an intensive review of his high school lessons.
• Lu Haoming called Chu Chen and supported his decision to study hard.

Chu Yu and Chu Chen joined the final episode of Sisters and Brothers Charge Ahead, where the sibling teams were tasked with starting businesses and could invite outside helpers. Chu Yu planned to ask Gu Jinhuai about their past breakup, while the episode began with the guests boarding the bus and learning the rules.

• Chu Yu learned that Gu Jinhuai would judge the final entrepreneurship episode and decided to ask him why he had broken up with her.
• Chu Yu and Chu Chen arrived first for the final livestream, and Chu Yu gave Chu Chen the itinerary to study.
• Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi boarded the bus and exchanged greetings with Chu Yu.
• An Ya and her brother joined the other guests, and the director explained that each sibling team would open a shop and could seek outside assistance twice.
• Chu Yu asked whether she could invite her parents to help, and the director cautiously discouraged her from bringing President Chu and Mrs. Chu onto the show.

The director announced a startup challenge in which the three pairs would use 1,000 yuan to make a profit at Guomao Wholesale Market, with the winners choosing their shop type first. Chu Yu took Chu Chen to a sausage-grill stall, beginning her plan to buy something with strong demand.

• The director introduced three possible shops and announced that a market-shopping challenge would determine the order in which the groups chose them.
• Each group received 1,000 yuan, while Wen Zhixin revealed confidence because Meng Fuyu had secretly obtained the challenge details in advance and helped her prepare a plan.
• The three pairs arrived at Guomao Wholesale Market and were given one hour to make purchases.
• Chu Yu led Chu Chen through the market, prioritizing demand over profit margin as she considered what could sell.
• Chu Yu approached a stall and asked the owner how much a sausage grill cost.

Chu Yu, Chu Chen, An Ya, and her brother bought supplies for their sales challenge, while Wen Zhixin followed Meng Fuyu’s plan and invested in jewelry to resell. The teams set up their stalls in Nanluoguxiang, where a film crew was taking a break nearby.

• Chu Yu bargained down the price of a sausage grill to 199 yuan, then had Chu Chen pay and searched for sausages to sell.
• Wen Zhixin went to a jewelry shop and bought bracelets, necklaces, and earrings to resell at a markup.
• An Ya and her brother bought ingredients for milk tea and a vending cart, while the production team recorded each pair’s costs.
• The production team brought the three pairs to Nanluoguxiang, where the crew of “Legend of Ancient Love” was filming.
• Chu Yu and An Ya set up stalls selling grilled sausages and cold drinks, while Wen Zhixin opened her jewelry stall farther along the street.

Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi struggled to sell jewelry after discovering they had paid far too much for their stock, while Chu Yu and An Ya’s stalls began earning money. The chapter ended with two young fans watching Chu Chen with interest.

• Wen Zhixin explained the show to neighboring vendors and tourists, drawing a crowd to her jewelry stall.
• Wen Zhixin priced earrings at twenty-nine yuan a pair or two pairs for fifty, but tourists chose the neighboring vendors’ nine-ninety jewelry instead.
• A neighboring vendor told Wen Zhixin that her jewelry had cost far more than its usual wholesale price, and Wen Tianqi angrily blamed the sellers.
• Chu Yu’s grilled sausages and An Ya’s cold drinks sold steadily, and Chu Chen’s first batch of sausages sold out.
• Two little fangirls watched Chu Chen with interest.

Chu Yu and An Ya made steady profits selling snacks and drinks during the business challenge, while Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi struggled to sell jewelry. Brother Li arrived with the Legend of Ancient Love crew and placed a large order from Chu Yu’s and An Ya’s stalls, leaving Wen Zhixin and her brother with only a small jewelry sale.

• Chu Chen turned down two girls who asked to add him on WeChat, and Chu Yu teased him as he continued grilling sausages.
• Chu Yu and An Ya’s stalls made steady sales, while Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi struggled to sell overpriced jewelry before rallying to pitch it again.
• Brother Li arrived with the Legend of Ancient Love crew, recognized Chu Yu, and learned that she and An Ya were selling food and drinks for a show challenge.
• Brother Li ordered two hundred sausages and two hundred drinks, earning Chu Yu’s and An Ya’s teams eight hundred yuan each.
• Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi managed to sell ten pairs of jewelry after promoting their goods.

Wen Zhixin, Chu Yu, and An Ya counted their morning profits, with Chu Yu and An Ya’s teams earning far more than the Wen siblings. Chu Yu and An Ya took their younger brothers to lunch, while Wen Zhixin stayed to sell, and the chapter ended with Chu Yu putting the meal on Chu Chen’s tab.

• Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi earned over eleven hundred yuan in takings and more than three hundred yuan in net profit from selling accessories.
• Chu Chen and Chu Yu’s team counted over seventeen hundred yuan in takings and at least thirteen hundred yuan in net profit from sausages.
• An Ya and An Yu’s cold-drink stall took in over seventeen hundred yuan and made around nine hundred yuan in net profit.
• Chu Yu and An Ya took their younger brothers to lunch, while Wen Zhixin declined the production crew’s invitation so she could keep selling.
• Chu Yu, An Ya, Chu Chen, and the others sat down at an Old Beijing roast duck restaurant, where Chu Yu announced that Chu Chen would pay for the meal.