Vol. 2Chu Yu’s Rise and Engagement

Chu Yu built her public influence while defending the Chu Group and uncovering corruption within it. She and Gu Jinhuai agreed they might start over, then his public engagement announcement left him preparing to meet her family while Chu Yu remained unaware.

  • Chu Yu’s livestream gained attention after a beauty-filter mishap, and she revealed her Chu Group identity while competing with Shen Zhuo’s network.
  • After Chu Tingnian’s serious illness became public, Chu Yu called a shareholders’ meeting, while Wen Zhixin drew Meng Fuyu’s attention.
  • Chu Yu and Chu Chen defeated Huang Yinian’s effort to remove Chu Tingnian from the Chu Group.
  • Chu Yu’s team sold grilled sausages in the entrepreneurship challenge and finished ahead as Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi also made sales.
  • Chu Yu’s team won the street-selling challenge, then Chu Yu and Lin Qian’s bookstore livestream earned more than 20,000 yuan in profit.
  • Chu Yu and Gu Jinhuai discovered that neither had received the other’s breakup message and agreed they could start over without promising to reunite.
  • Chu Yu exposed Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu’s relationship and suspended executives implicated in the Chu Group factory scandal as evidence against Huang Yinian’s allies emerged.
  • Gu Jinhuai publicly announced his engagement to Chu Yu and prepared to meet her family while she remained unaware.
Chapters 101–200 Read from Ch. 101

Arc 5The Livestream and the Heiress

Chu Yu built her livestream profile, gained attention through a drama cameo, and helped Stockpile Shopping Network compete with Shen Zhuo before rumors forced her to reveal her Chu Group identity. As Chu Yu prepared to challenge the group’s shareholders, Wen Zhixin drew Meng Fuyu’s attention and Chu Tingnian’s serious illness became public.

  • Chu Yu and An Ya profited by investing in national defense stocks before the National Day parade, and Chu Yu and Xu Mengying won the stock game.
  • Chu Yu’s first livestream drew hundreds of thousands of viewers, but her distorted beauty filter shocked them and clips of the incident spread online.
  • Chu Yu agreed to test Zhang Xiaodong’s Secluded Orchid skincare products and met with him through the Stockpile Shopping Network.
  • During her trip with Xu Mengying to Xiangyang Ancient Town, Chu Yu accepted a small role in Legend of Ancient Love and impressed Jiang Luwen with her performance.
  • Chu Yu and Stockpile Shopping Network denied rumors that Jiang Taolin was keeping her, and Chu Yu asked Fang Lanzhi to confirm publicly that she was the Chu Group heiress.
  • Fang Lanzhi confirmed Chu Yu’s identity, and Chu Yu and Chu Chen’s livestream sold products rapidly while competing with Shen Zhuo’s Hundred Treasures Network.
  • Wen Zhixin sought out Meng Fuyu, who treated her injured knee and realized he felt love at first sight despite dating Lin Qian.
  • After learning Chu Tingnian was seriously ill, Chu Yu summoned an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting and told Chu Chen to support her there.
Chapters 101–12525 summaries Read

Arc 6The Livestream Showdown

Chu Yu defeats Huang Yinian’s attempt to remove Chu Tingnian, then uses a livestream and a sibling entrepreneurship challenge to build her influence. The arc leaves Chu Yu and Chu Chen ahead in the market challenge while Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi keep selling.

  • Chu Yu and Chu Chen defeated Huang Yinian’s removal motion at the Chu Group shareholders’ meeting, with Lawyer Yu casting Gu Jinhuai’s five votes in support.
  • After Lin Qian told Chu Yu that Meng Fuyu had cheated on her, Chu Yu agreed to help uncover his relationship with Wen Zhixin.
  • Chu Yu invited Meng Fuyu and Wen Zhixin onto her livestream, where she presented them as business partners and made a public relationship announcement risky.
  • Chu Yu’s livestream sold out its products after Secluded Orchid’s award-winning skincare attracted a flood of viewers, while Shen Zhuo’s rival stream faltered.
  • Chu Yu and Chu Chen joined the final entrepreneurship episode, where sibling teams received money to shop for goods and compete by opening stalls.
  • At Nanluoguxiang, Chu Yu sold grilled sausages with Chu Chen, An Ya sold cold drinks, and Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi struggled to sell jewelry.
  • Brother Li ordered two hundred sausages and two hundred drinks from Chu Yu and An Ya, while Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi also made sales.
  • The teams counted their earnings, and Chu Yu took Chu Chen and the others to lunch at an Old Beijing roast duck restaurant, announcing that Chu Chen would pay.
Chapters 126–15025 summaries Read

Arc 7The Bookstore and the Breakup

Chu Yu led her team to victory by turning their bookstore into a livestream success, while Gu Jinhuai’s return forced them to confront the breakup they had both misunderstood. They agreed they could start over without promising to reunite, as a National Library representative arrived to assess Chu Yu.

  • Chu Yu’s team won the street-selling challenge, and Gu Jinhuai welcomed her with her favorite blue roses before they checked into neighboring hotel rooms.
  • Chu Chen discovered that Chu Yu and Gu Jinhuai had once dated, then guarded his sister as the former couple’s feelings resurfaced during filming.
  • Gu Jinhuai revealed on camera that he still cared deeply for an ex-girlfriend, while Chu Yu and the other guests opened their shops on Nanluoguxiang.
  • Chu Yu and Lin Qian launched a book-selling livestream that drew thousands of orders and earned Chu Yu’s team more than 20,000 yuan in profit.
  • Chu Chen questioned Gu Jinhuai about the breakup, and Chu Yu and Gu Jinhuai realized they had never received each other’s breakup messages and suspected someone had interfered.
  • Chu Yu told Gu Jinhuai they could start over if he accepted who she was now, but clarified that this did not mean they had agreed to reunite.
  • Zhao Yiping disguised himself as a cleaner to assess Chu Yu for the National Library’s reading ambassador search, while Chu Yu opened another sales livestream with Lin Qian.
Chapters 151–17525 summaries Read

Arc 8Scandal and Engagement

Chu Yu exposed Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu’s relationship while confronting a crisis at the Chu Group and helping bring Huang Yinian’s faction down. Gu Jinhuai and Chu Yu’s invented engagement became public, leaving him to face her family while she remained unaware.

  • Chu Yu used surveillance footage to expose Wen Zhixin’s meeting with Meng Fuyu, and the video spread despite Meng Fuyu’s attempts to suppress it.
  • A storm collapsed a Chu Group factory, and Chu Yu learned that Huang Yinian had overseen its defective construction materials.
  • After Gu Jinhuai’s car accident, Chu Yu called herself his fiancée at the hospital, and he woke and asked her to stay.
  • Chu Yu suspended more than twenty executives implicated in the factory scandal, and Yang Dongqing gave her evidence against Huang Yinian’s allies.
  • Chu Tingnian revealed that he had recovered and returned with Fang Lanzhi, while Gu Jinhuai exposed opposition within the Gu Group.
  • Huang Yinian and his supporters tried to flee after Chu Tingnian returned, and Chu Tingnian confirmed Chu Yu had acted properly in handling the scandal.
  • Gu Jinhuai publicly announced his engagement to Chu Yu, and their families reacted as the news surged across Weibo.
  • Gu Jinhuai prepared gifts to meet Chu Yu’s family, while Wen Zhixin questioned the alliance and Meng Fuyu smashed things in anger.
Chapters 176–20025 summaries Read
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