Chapter Summaries

Wen Zhixin agreed to leave the show and meet Meng Fuyu’s parents, while Chu Yu dreamed that Wen Zhixin’s fortunes would soon turn and concluded that the world was correcting its story around its protagonists. Chu Yu decided to fight the force behind their protagonist halos, just as a sudden storm stranded the production staff at the hotel.

• Wen Zhixin agreed to stop filming and go with Meng Fuyu to meet his parents and prepare to marry into the Meng Family.
• Chu Yu dreamed that Wen Zhixin would leave filming early and soon win over Meng Fuyu’s family and high society.
• Wen Zhixin woke and sent Meng Fuyu away before the production staff could discover their relationship.
• Chu Yu recorded her dream and concluded that Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu were the novel’s leads, while she and the others were supporting characters.
• Chu Yu wrote that every world had its own order and that she had to reverse its corrections.
• A sudden downpour and thunderstorm trapped the production staff in the hotel lobby.

A torrential downpour forced the production team to suspend the livestream, while Wen Zhixin announced she was leaving filming early because of her health. Chu Yu noticed a mysterious man in black and, after everyone dispersed, stayed behind to wait for Lin Qian.

• The director suspended the livestream because of the heavy rain, and Chu Yu and An Ya discussed the sudden storm.
• Wen Zhixin told the director that she wanted to end her participation in filming early, offering to pay the contractual penalty, and the director reacted angrily.
• Chu Yu recognized that events were beginning to follow the new dream's plot, then noticed a man in black who left the hotel in the rain.
• Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi returned to their rooms to pack, and the director sent the remaining staff to rest.
• Chu Yu told Chu Chen she was waiting for Lin Qian, not Gu Jinhuai.

Chu Yu learned that Meng Fuyu had abruptly canceled collaborations with the Lin Family, then urged Lin Qian to release footage of him meeting Wen Zhixin. The video went viral as a rainstorm disaster struck a Chu Group factory.

• Chu Yu failed to reach Lin Qian, called Gu Jinhuai, and asked Zhang Yue to have the company contact Lin Qian's studio.
• A severe rainstorm flooded and collapsed a Chu Group processing factory, prompting rescue operations.
• Lin Qian told Chu Yu that Meng Fuyu had canceled several collaborations with her family and that she had missed Chu Yu's message while being scolded by her father.
• Chu Yu told Lin Qian to publish the surveillance footage of Wen Zhixin meeting Meng Fuyu, and Lin Qian agreed.
• An entertainment gossip blogger posted the video on Weibo, where viewers began discussing whether Wen Zhixin had met Meng Fuyu before his breakup with Lin Qian.

After Meng Fuyu had the video of his relationship with Wen Zhixin taken down, Chu Yu persuaded Weibo’s president not to keep intervening on his behalf. Copies of the video spread again, fueling public anger toward Meng Fuyu and Wen Zhixin.

• Lin Qian's fans flooded Wen Zhixin's and Meng Fuyu's Weibo accounts with curses after the video spread.
• Meng Fuyu had Weibo block the video and mute the gossip blogger who posted it.
• Wen Zhixin asked whether Chu Yu or Lin Qian had leaked the video, and Meng Fuyu accused Lin Qian of retaliating over his canceled collaborations with the Lin Family.
• Chu Yu told President Qi he need not restore the blocked video but should stop helping Meng Fuyu, and President Qi ordered moderators to handle future copies normally.
• Netizens reposted backup copies of the video, and fan groups condemned Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu.

The video exposing Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu’s affair spread widely despite efforts to suppress it, bringing intense public backlash and advancing Lin Qian’s revenge plan. As torrential rain continued, Chu Yu heard from Gu Jinhuai that he was returning to the hotel and waited for him to get back.

• Fans shared saved copies of the video after Weibo blocked the original, and President Qi refused Meng Fuyu’s demand to suppress every repost.
• Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu faced widespread online condemnation, while Wen Zhixin lost over a hundred thousand followers and Meng Fuyu disabled his private messages.
• Lin Qian thanked Chu Yu for helping prevent the later videos from being blocked, and Chu Yu replied that they shared a goal of dealing with scumbags.
• Chu Yu watched the news report on the heavy rain and hoped it would soon stop.
• Gu Jinhuai called Chu Yu after work and told her he was heading back to the hotel; she settled on the sofa to wait for him.

Chu Yu investigated the Chu Group’s collapsed processing plant and learned that Huang Yinian had overseen its arrangements, while Gu Jinhuai was seriously injured in a car crash. As both companies faced crises ahead of Monday’s market reopening, Chu Chen urged Chu Yu to go to the hospital while he watched over the Chu Group.

• Song Yuan told Chu Yu that the rain had collapsed the processing plant, regulators had found substandard construction materials, and the plant had been shut down.
• Chu Yu learned that Huang Yinian had managed the plant’s arrangements and that the quality inspection department had not dared question him.
• Gu Jinhuai’s car swerved into a utility pole, leaving him and the driver unconscious before an ambulance took them to the hospital.
• Chu Yu saw a news alert about Gu Jinhuai’s crash and realized that several people opposed to Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu had suffered misfortunes that day.
• Chu Chen offered to watch over the Chu Group so Chu Yu could go see Gu Jinhuai.

Chu Yu arranged for Chu Chen to stall Huang Yinian while she went to the hospital to visit the unconscious Gu Jinhuai. When Gu Jinhuai’s relatives tried to bar her from his room, she revealed that she was his fiancée.

• Chu Yu told Chu Chen that Huang Yinian might destroy evidence of his tampering at Chu Group’s processing plant, and Chu Chen agreed to keep him occupied.
• After Chu Yu supplied Huang Yinian’s address, Chu Chen left to stall him while Chu Yu headed discreetly to the hospital.
• At Gu Jinhuai’s ward, Chu Yu overheard his aunt, uncle, and younger cousin discussing what to do with his assets if he did not wake up.
• Gu Jinhuai’s aunt tried to drive Chu Yu away, but his uncle recognized her as Chu Group’s daughter and let her approach the room.
• When Gu Jinhuai’s uncle asked about her relationship with Gu Jinhuai, Chu Yu calmly said she was his fiancée.

Chu Yu pretended to be Gu Jinhuai’s fiancée to blunt the damage to both groups’ stock prices, then discovered that Gu Jinhuai had awakened. While they shared a private moment in the hospital, Chu Chen struggled to explain his late-night visit to Huang Yinian.

• Chu Yu told Gu Jinhuai’s uncle and aunt that she was Gu Jinhuai’s fiancée, then entered his hospital room and considered how their engagement could offset the companies’ bad news.
• Chu Yu learned from Gu Jinhuai’s assistant that Gu Jinhuai remained unconscious despite doctors finding no serious injury, and she prepared to leave after asking the assistant to care for him.
• Gu Jinhuai woke up, held Chu Yu’s wrist, and asked her to stay with him; his assistant told the relatives outside that he was awake, interrupting their discussion of dividing his assets.
• Gu Jinhuai persuaded Chu Yu to stay for ten minutes, while his uncle welcomed the news and his aunt and cousin regretted that he had awakened.
• At a villa, Chu Chen sat in silence with Huang Yinian before claiming he had come to learn chess from him.

Chu Chen stalled Huang Yinian while Chu Yu investigated the incident at the Chu Group's processing plant. After Chu Chen left, Huang Yinian revealed his anger and called to check whether the evidence had been destroyed.

• Chu Chen repeatedly delayed Huang Yinian and questioned him about the processing plant incident, refusing to let him make a call.
• Huang Yinian denied that his personal business involved the company and challenged Chu Chen's right to suspect him.
• Chu Yu called Chu Chen and told him she was nearly at the group's offices and he could stop watching Huang Yinian.
• Chu Chen left, and Huang Yinian smashed his teacup in anger after Chu Chen was gone.
• Huang Yinian called someone and asked whether all the evidence had been disposed of.

Chu Yu arrived at Chu Group headquarters and convened an emergency meeting to address the processing plant scandal. Meanwhile, Gu Jinhuai concealed that he had awakened and had his uncle and family placed under surveillance, while Huang Yinian remained confident that Chu Tingnian was still hospitalized.

• Huang Yinian discussed the scheme over the phone and reassured himself that Chu Tingnian was recovering overseas.
• Chu Yu arrived at Chu Group headquarters and ordered Song Yuan to summon the senior executives for an immediate meeting.
• Gu Jinhuai told his assistant to hide that he had awakened and to claim he might never wake up.
• Gu Jinhuai's assistant and bodyguards took his uncle, aunt, and another family member away to keep them under watch.
• Chu Yu opened an emergency meeting about the processing plant scandal, and Song Yuan told her that the employees responsible for coordinating construction materials were waiting outside.

Chu Yu took control of the Chu Group’s response to the processing plant scandal and ordered implicated personnel suspended while the group investigated. More than twenty executives were suspended, leaving employees uncertain about who would lead their departments.

• Song Yuan brought in the employee who had coordinated construction materials, and the employee denied knowing the batch was defective.
• Chu Yu reviewed Song Yuan’s list of people implicated in the scandal and said the group would investigate everyone responsible.
• When executives tried to blame Director Huang and resist the investigation, Chu Yu ordered all implicated personnel suspended pending investigation and discipline.
• Chu Yu threatened to refer objecting executives to the board for dismissal and warned that anyone defending implicated personnel would also be treated as an accomplice.
• More than twenty executives were suspended, and employees began asking whose orders they should follow.

Chu Yu suspended more than twenty executives tied to the processing plant scandal and opened interviews to promote middle managers, striking at Huang Yinian’s faction. As Huang Yinian headed to the Chu Group, Chu Yu began interviewing the final applicant, Yang Dongqing, whose ties to Huang Yinian’s people made her curious.

• Chu Yu suspended the executives implicated in the processing plant scandal and invited headquarters middle managers to interview for temporary senior positions.
• Song Yuan realized Chu Yu was using the scandal response to remove Huang Yinian’s allies and replace them with her own people.
• Huang Yinian learned that his faction’s executives had been suspended and ordered his people to wait while he went to the Chu Group.
• Chu Yu interviewed more than thirty middle managers, then reviewed Yang Dongqing’s file and learned that he had been hired by President Chu but was close to Huang Yinian’s people.
• Yang Dongqing entered Chu Yu’s office for his interview.

Yang Dongqing told Chu Yu that he had spent two years undercover in Huang Yinian’s faction on her father’s orders and gave her evidence of the faction’s corruption. After Chu Yu sent Song Yuan to verify the files, Yang Dongqing confronted Huang Yinian and revealed that he had been temporarily promoted to a senior executive.

• Yang Dongqing recounted how he had infiltrated Huang Yinian’s faction and pretended to be incompetent to earn its trust.
• Yang Dongqing gave Chu Yu a USB drive containing evidence that Huang Yinian’s associates had embezzled company funds and accepted bribes.
• Chu Yu wondered whether her father had anticipated the current crisis, and Yang Dongqing assured her that the Chu Group would be fine.
• Huang Yinian arrived at headquarters and headed to Chu Yu’s office to confront her.
• Yang Dongqing told Huang Yinian that he had been temporarily promoted to a senior executive, ignored his threat, and advised him to consider his own situation.

Chu Yu confronted Huang Yinian over his opposition to suspending executives, while Chu Tingnian revealed he was well and would return the next day. Huang Yinian’s ambitions collapsed, and Chu Yu learned that her father’s apparent illness had been part of a two-year plan.

• Huang Yinian entered Chu Yu’s office and objected to suspending multiple executives, warning that the Chu Group would fall into chaos.
• Chu Tingnian spoke through Chu Yu’s phone and said he would take responsibility for the decision, then announced that he and Fang Lanzhi would return the next day.
• Chu Tingnian told Huang Yinian it was time for him to rest, leaving Huang Yinian terrified about losing his position.
• Chu Yu ended her call with Chu Tingnian and dismissed Huang Yinian, who left the office bewildered by the news.
• Chu Yu learned that Chu Tingnian had concealed his health problems as part of a plan begun two years earlier to protect the Chu Group.

Chu Yu learned that Chu Tingnian had secretly recovered and orchestrated the crises at the Chu Group to test his children and expose problems in the company. At the Gu Group, Gu Jinhuai returned unharmed and confronted the directors who had tried to replace him as chairman.

• Chu Yu pieced together that Chu Tingnian had recovered more than a year earlier and had planned the apparent crises to test her and Chu Chen and root out problems in the Chu Group.
• At a Gu Group board meeting, Lu Feiyu defended Gu Jinhuai while directors argued over the chairman’s position and the company’s future.
• Gu Jinhuai entered the meeting room unharmed, revealing that his supposed serious injuries had been a minor car accident.
• Gu Jinhuai presented a list of directors who had opposed him and began confronting them, as another wave of layoffs loomed over the Gu Group.
• Netizens stayed awake seeking concrete news about the upheaval at both the Chu Group and the Gu Group.

Wen Zhixin gained Meng Fuyu’s parents’ acceptance, while Meng Fuyu’s father suspected the Chu Group scandal was a deliberate move by Chu Tingnian and Chu Yu. Chu Tingnian and Fang Lanzhi returned from abroad and took charge of the Chu Group as news of their arrival spread.

• Wen Zhixin continued caring for Meng Fuyu’s parents until they agreed to accept her into the Meng Family.
• Meng Fuyu’s father said he believed Chu Tingnian and Chu Yu had deliberately staged the Chu Group scandal, leaving Meng Fuyu uncertain.
• Chu Chen met his parents, Chu Tingnian and Fang Lanzhi, at the airport and learned they had returned from their honeymoon.
• Fang Lanzhi told Chu Chen that she and Chu Tingnian would take over everything at the Chu Group.
• Chu Tingnian arranged for media outlets to report the couple’s return, and the news became a trending headline.

Chu Tingnian returned to the country with Fang Lanzhi, alarming Huang Yinian and the shareholders who had backed him as they feared their misconduct would be exposed. At the Chu Family villa, Gu Jinhuai proposed making Chu Yu’s impulsive marriage-alliance excuse official, and announced he would arrange it when she did not reply.

• News and photos confirmed that Chu Tingnian and his wife had returned to the country.
• Huang Yinian panicked and told his butler to book him the earliest flight abroad; shareholders who had supported him also scrambled to flee.
• Chu Tingnian and Fang Lanzhi arrived at the Chu Group headquarters, where employees welcomed their return and hoped it would end the infighting.
• Chu Yu received Gu Jinhuai’s message asking about their supposed marriage alliance and admitted she had invented it to get past his relatives.
• Gu Jinhuai suggested officially announcing the alliance to lift both families’ share prices and said he would arrange it when Chu Yu did not respond.

Chu Tingnian quelled the Chu Group executives’ resistance to Chu Yu’s decisions, while Huang Yinian and his allies fled abroad. When Fang Lanzhi discovered the trending news that Chu Yu and Gu Jinhuai were engaged, she was delighted, but Chu Tingnian bristled at the idea of anyone being a match for his daughter.

• Chu Tingnian reassured the Chu Group executives and confirmed that Chu Yu had acted properly in suspending more than twenty executives.
• Chu Tingnian ended the meeting and said he would investigate the processing plant scandal.
• Song Yuan reported that Huang Yinian and the shareholders who supported him had announced they were going abroad to recuperate.
• Fang Lanzhi saw the trending topic announcing Chu Yu and Gu Jinhuai’s engagement and asked when their daughter had gotten engaged.
• Chu Chen guessed that Gu Jinhuai was Chu Yu’s fiancé, and Fang Lanzhi remembered the earlier matchmaking efforts.
• Fang Lanzhi celebrated the news and wanted to ask Chu Yu about it, while Chu Tingnian insisted Gu Jinhuai was the one getting a bargain.

Chu Tingnian and Chu Chen demanded that Gu Jinhuai meet Chu Yu’s father before marrying her, while the official engagement announcement set Weibo alight. Lu Haoming and Xu Mengying reacted with shock, and Xu Mengying decided to investigate Gu Jinhuai’s ex-girlfriend as Lu Haoming confronted Chu Chen.

• Chu Chen backed Chu Tingnian’s demand that Gu Jinhuai come meet him before marrying Chu Yu, while Fang Lanzhi did not object.
• The Gu Group reposted the engagement announcement, sending the hashtag about Chu Yu and Gu Jinhuai to the top of Weibo’s trending searches.
• Whale fans celebrated the official news by posting ship videos across Weibo.
• Lu Haoming and Xu Mengying learned of the engagement at a private club and hurried away to respond.
• Xu Mengying confirmed the announcement with a media contact and went home to investigate Gu Jinhuai’s ex-girlfriend.
• Lu Haoming called Chu Chen and demanded to know why Chu Yu had gotten engaged so quickly.

Gu Jinhuai learned that Chu Yu’s parents and brothers planned to test him and set out to visit the Chu Family. Meanwhile, Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu reacted angrily to the Gu and Chu families’ marriage alliance, with Meng Fuyu assuring her he would handle any consequences.

• Chu Tingnian and Fang Lanzhi discussed investigating Gu Jinhuai’s character and romantic history before accepting him as a match for Chu Yu.
• Chu Chen warned Gu Jinhuai that winning over the Chu Family would be difficult, and Lu Haoming told him to come in person if he wanted to marry Chu Yu.
• Gu Jinhuai prepared gifts and left to meet Chu Yu’s parents and younger brothers while Chu Yu slept, unaware of the developments.
• Wen Zhixin saw the marriage alliance announcement and wondered how Chu Yu could be connected to Gu Jinhuai despite his past feelings for his ex-girlfriend.
• Meng Fuyu smashed things in his study over the alliance, then reassured Wen Zhixin that it would not affect her and left for the company.