Recaps

Lin Yu reunited with Ming Yu and Jiang Zao at her shop, where Chen Lüli arrived later with Jiang Yingshan. As the group made plans to celebrate Lunar New Year's Eve together, Chen Lüli texted Lin Yu to meet him outside.

• Jiang Zao and Ming Yu comforted Lin Yu over Li Yin's betrayal while sharing coffee and snacks.
• Lin Yu returned to her shop, checked its New Year plans, and later welcomed Ming Yu and Jiang Zao for dinner.
• Chen Lüli and Jiang Yingshan arrived, and the group chatted and ordered food together.
• Ming Yu arranged for everyone to gather at Lin Yu's shop on Lunar New Year's Eve, and Jiang Yan'an joined their discussion by video call.
• Chen Lüli texted Lin Yu to come outside and warned that he would take her hand and lead her out if she did not.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli discussed the kiss at Threshold, his growing feelings, and the rumors about Ming Yu, leaving Lin Yu asking for time to think about him. Ming Yu and Jiang Zao found them together, and Lin Yu explained that they had been talking about Li Yin.

• Lin Yu met Chen Lüli in the alley, where he confronted her about the note and asked whether she blamed him for taking advantage of her at Threshold.
• Chen Lüli said Li Yin’s arrival had stirred an impulse to take Lin Yu away, and he suggested he might like someone but needed to confirm his feelings.
• Lin Yu asked about Chen Lüli and Ming Yu’s rumored relationship, and he explained that their apparent closeness came from favors and mutual convenience.
• Chen Lüli asked Lin Yu to consider him instead of Li Yin, and Lin Yu asked if she could think about it; he agreed.
• Ming Yu and Jiang Zao found Chen Lüli and Lin Yu by the flower wall, and Lin Yu said they had been talking about Li Yin.

After dinner, Chen Lüli kept Ming Yu from visiting his company, while Jiang Zao began to suspect that he and Lin Yu might have feelings for each other. Lin Yu finished work and went home, where Chen Lüli called her on video and looked at her quietly.

• Lin Yu told Ming Yu and Jiang Zao that Li Yin’s mother had apologized, and explained that Chen Lüli had accompanied her to discover Li Yin’s infidelity.
• Chen Lüli and Jiang Yingshan left for work, and Chen Lüli declined Ming Yu’s offer to visit the company, suggesting she come another time with Lin Yu.
• After Ming Yu left, Jiang Zao asked Lin Yu whether she and Chen Lüli had talked about more than Li Yin, then assured Lin Yu that she would support her.
• Lin Yu finished closing the bakery and went home, where she noted that she owed Ming Yu a return gift.
• Chen Lüli called Lin Yu on video; after she answered, he turned the phone toward himself, and they met each other’s gaze.

Lin Yu reflected on Chen Lüli’s hint that he wanted an answer about their relationship, then revisited old college and high school photos that reminded her of their history. The next evening, she visited Chen Lüli’s apartment, dressed Xiao Diu in a new outfit, and took the cat downstairs for a walk.

• Chen Lüli asked Lin Yu when she would give him an answer, and Lin Yu blushed before ending their call when Jiang Yingshan arrived to discuss Dream Fiend’s New Year plaza plans.
• Jiang Zao sent Lin Yu a college photo of Chen Lüli carrying her to the infirmary after she twisted her ankle in the snow, prompting Lin Yu to revisit old photos of Chen Lüli and their friends.
• Lin Yu went to Chen Lüli’s apartment with new clothes for Xiao Diu, who greeted her eagerly and chose a beige outfit.
• Lin Yu put Xiao Diu in the new sweater and hat, attached a leash, and took the excited cat downstairs for a walk.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli took Xiao Diu home after the cat darted into a bush, and Chen Lüli treated the mark the leash had left on Lin Yu’s wrist. Their conversation turned to Lin Yu’s relationship with Li Yin, and the chapter ended with Lin Yu asking Chen Lüli whether there was anyone he liked.

• Xiao Diu ran into a bush, and Lin Yu crashed into Chen Lüli as she chased after him.
• Chen Lüli caught Xiao Diu and walked back to the apartment with Lin Yu.
• Chen Lüli noticed the red mark on Lin Yu’s wrist, brought her home, and applied medicine to it.
• Chen Lüli asked whether Lin Yu was thinking about Li Yin, and Lin Yu denied it.
• Chen Lüli asked whether Lin Yu had kissed Li Yin; she said yes, and challenged Chen Lüli about whether he had anyone he liked.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli shared a charged evening before he walked her home, leaving her wondering whether his feelings for her were real. As New Year’s Eve plans shifted, Chen Lüli canceled the group’s gathering at his villa, and Lin Yu accepted that she might stay home with her father.

• Chen Lüli and Lin Yu admitted that neither had been in a relationship, and Chen Lüli walked her home with Xiao Diu.
• At Lin Yu’s building, Chen Lüli nearly kissed her but instead told her to get to bed early, and Lin Yu watched him leave while wondering if he liked her.
• Chen Lüli asked to see Lin Yu’s photos, and she sent him pictures of Xiao Diu while saving a photo of the two of them together.
• Ming Yu asked Lin Yu to help choose motorcycle gloves for Chen Lüli and announced that the group planned to celebrate New Year’s Eve at his villa.
• Chen Lüli said his family was using the villa and canceled the gathering, while Lin Yu decided she could stay home with her father.

Lin Yu went home for the New Year after the annual gathering was canceled, and Chen Lüli sent a gift box for her to take. At home, her parents discussed Li Yin and Lin Yu discovered that Chen Lüli had given her a custom butterfly dance necklace and a red envelope.

• Jiang Zao planned to spend the holiday with her parents, while Jiang Yan'an tried and failed to arrange another gathering with Lin Yu and the others.
• Lin Yu dressed Xiao Diu for the New Year, left a red envelope for it, and took the gift box Chen Lüli had left for her.
• Lin Yu returned to her parents' home, where Zhong Lixin reassured her that Lin Zhenghe had gotten over the matter with Li Yin.
• Lin Zhenghe questioned Lin Yu about keeping quiet about Li Yin, while Zhong Lixin argued that retaliating against him could harm Lin Yu's business.
• Lin Yu opened Chen Lüli's gift and found a custom butterfly dance necklace and a red envelope inside.

On New Year’s Eve, Lin Yu watched fireworks with Chen Lüli after he came to pick her up, and her feelings for him grew harder to hide. When motorcycle riders surrounded his car, Chen Lüli shielded her and waited until they left, leaving the two of them alone together.

• Lin Yu put away the necklace and red envelope, then spent the days before New Year’s Eve at home while Jiang Zao and Jiang Yan'an returned to their respective cities.
• Lin Yu prepared auspicious pastries for her parents and noticed Ming Yu’s photos from the Chen family home, where Chen Lüli was absent.
• Lin Yu drank wine with her parents, then accepted Chen Lüli’s invitation to watch fireworks from a mountaintop park.
• Chen Lüli ordered Lin Yu her favorite original milk tea while they watched the fireworks beside his car.
• When several motorcycles circled the car and shone their headlights inside, Chen Lüli pulled Lin Yu onto his lap and covered her eyes until the riders left.

On New Year's Eve, Chen Lüli and Lin Yu kissed and became intimate in his car before he drove her home. Lin Yu returned to her room, where she received the replacement milk tea he ordered, and the chapter ended with them exchanging New Year's greetings by message.

• Chen Lüli pulled Lin Yu onto his lap and kissed her after telling her he would not regret what he did that night.
• When Lin Yu's mother called, Chen Lüli helped her get dressed and drove her home, where she hurried inside without him.
• Zhong Lixin gave Lin Yu the hot milk tea delivered for her, and Chen Lüli messaged to explain that he had replaced the cup that went cold.
• Lin Yu ignored Chen Lüli's messages while thinking about their intimacy, then received New Year's greetings from Jiang Zao and Jiang Yan'an.
• Lin Yu replied to Chen Lüli's New Year's greeting, admitted she had received the milk tea, and sent him a photo of it.

Lin Yu spent New Year’s Eve exchanging red envelopes with Chen Lüli and her friends, then joined her family for several days of holiday visits. At the Spring Flower Festival, she ran into Chen Lüli and met his mother, Tan You, as their families prepared to look around together.

• Chen Lüli texted Lin Yu after getting home, while Lin Yu showered and remembered their intimate moments.
• Lin Yu and Chen Lüli exchanged large red envelopes with Jiang Yan'an, Jiang Zao, and Ming Yu in their group chat.
• Zhong Lixin checked on Lin Yu, who hid her lit balcony and told her mother she was playing a game before going to bed.
• Lin Yu’s aunt suggested finding her a local match from a prominent family, but Lin Zhenghe shut down the matchmaking talk.
• After several days of visiting relatives, Lin Yu went with her parents to the Spring Flower Festival and encountered Chen Lüli and his mother, Tan You.
• Chen Lüli introduced Lin Yu and her parents to Tan You as his longtime classmate and good friend, and the two families began chatting about the festival.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli grew closer during a visit to the Spring Flower Festival, while their mothers noticed his attentiveness. After dinner with her parents, Lin Yu arranged to meet Ming Yu at nine thirty.

• Zhong Lixin invited Tan You and Chen Lüli to walk with her family through the flower festival, where Chen Lüli helped Lin Yu down a step and held her hand.
• Chen Lüli asked Lin Yu if she was already looking at him after New Year's Eve, and she admitted she had not forgotten what happened.
• Chen Lüli protected Lin Yu from bubbles, caught her fingertips, and told her to keep looking at him; Tan You watched their closeness thoughtfully.
• Chen Lüli took Lin Yu's unfinished ice cream and reminded her to say when she could not finish something before the families parted.
• Lin Yu chatted with Jiang Zao and Jiang Yan'an about the festival, then agreed to meet Ming Yu at nine thirty.

Lin Yu met Ming Yu at Wenxing Tower, where Ming Yu talked about Chen Lüli’s abusive childhood and her uncertainty about love and possession. After exchanging New Year’s gifts, Lin Yu returned home and learned that Star Rise’s new game had topped download charts, prompting a gathering at Nine Harmony Residence the next night.

• Lin Yu drove to Wenxing Tower and joined Ming Yu on the top-floor platform, where they discussed their high-school friendship and Ming Yu’s childhood memories of Chen Lüli being abused by his father.
• Ming Yu told Lin Yu that she had not decided whether her feelings were affection or possessiveness, and Lin Yu gave her a New Year’s gift before they parted warmly.
• At home, Lin Yu spoke briefly with Zhong Lixin, then messaged Chen Lüli, who invited her to a gathering at Nine Harmony Residence the next night and warned her to drive carefully.
• Jiang Zao sent Lin Yu news that Star Rise’s new game had reached number one in downloads and was trending, revealing why Jiang Yan'an and Jiang Yingshan were arranging the gathering.

Lin Yu joined Chen Lüli and their friends at Nine Harmony Residence for a New Year gathering, where Chen Lüli suggested they play Coward. The first round’s cards were revealed, but Lin Yu’s and Chen Lüli’s friends had not yet finished showing theirs.

• Lin Yu congratulated Chen Lüli on his trending searches, game, and Star Rise, then agreed to attend a gathering at Nine Harmony Residence.
• After a day of visiting relatives, Lin Yu left her parents’ home and drove to Chen Lüli’s villa, where Jiang Zao, Jiang Yan’an, Ming Yu, and Jiang Yingshan had gathered.
• Chen Lüli sat beside Lin Yu, and the group chose to play Coward after discussing games for the evening.
• Jiang Yan’an dealt the cards, and Chen Lüli poured wine as the players tried to decide whether to call stop.
• Chen Lüli revealed a ten, Jiang Zao a six, Ming Yu a five, and Jiang Yan’an a three as Jiang Yingshan began to reveal his card.

Lin Yu joined Chen Lüli and their friends for a drinking game, where Chen Lüli quietly protected her and she eventually grew drowsy. After carrying Lin Yu to a guest room for the night, Chen Lüli returned to her bedside and kissed her.

• Chen Lüli gave Lin Yu his partly finished glass, but Lin Yu refilled her own glass and drank it after drawing a low card.
• Lin Yu played several rounds with Jiang Zao and the others, then leaned sleepily against Jiang Zao while Chen Lüli had his jacket draped over her.
• Ming Yu left for home after watching Chen Lüli, who continued playing games with Jiang Yan'an and Jiang Yingshan.
• Jiang Yingshan, Jiang Yan'an, and Jiang Zao decided to stay the night, and Chen Lüli carried the drowsy Lin Yu to a guest room despite her saying she wanted to stay with Jiang Zao.
• Chen Lüli returned to Lin Yu's room, realized she was awake, and kissed her.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli spent the night together, and Chen Lüli told her he was certain he wanted to be with her. Lin Yu remained overwhelmed by her long-held feelings and uncertain whether he understood how much it had cost her to keep loving him.

• Lin Yu and Chen Lüli became intimate, and she asked whether they could call it an accident; he agreed in the moment but later challenged her to explain herself when she woke.
• Jiang Zao considered messaging Lin Yu about Ming Yu, while Jiang Yan'an grew suspicious that Chen Lüli and Lin Yu had become unusually close.
• After waking, Lin Yu tried to get out of bed, but Chen Lüli stopped her and told her not to run away or dismiss the night as an accident.
• Chen Lüli helped Lin Yu bathe and dress, then told her he was certain he wanted to be with her.
• Lin Yu thought about Ming Yu, her doubts about Chen Lüli's feelings, and the moment she first fell in love with him on a bus years earlier.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli agreed to date privately for three months, with the possibility of making their relationship public afterward. Lin Yu joined Jiang Zao and the others for breakfast, where Chen Lüli concealed that he had spent the night with her.

• Lin Yu kissed Chen Lüli and proposed that they date privately for three months while she adjusted to becoming his lover.
• Chen Lüli accepted her terms and said they would make the relationship public if they were still together after three months.
• When Jiang Zao called for Lin Yu, Lin Yu dressed and left Chen Lüli's room without revealing he was inside.
• Lin Yu joined Jiang Zao for breakfast and tried to act as though nothing unusual had happened.
• Chen Lüli told Jiang Yan'an that he had gone to bed early, and Jiang Yan'an clarified that he had only meant chatting by phone.

Lin Yu left Chen Lüli’s villa after their intimate night and returned home, where her mother noticed Chen Lüli’s message but did not press her for details. As Lin Yu savored her happiness, she remembered an embarrassing dream about him from her first year at university.

• Lin Yu and Jiang Zao said goodbye to their hosts, and Jiang Zao covered the hickeys on Lin Yu’s neck while Lin Yu claimed mosquitoes had bitten her.
• Jiang Yingshan pulled Jiang Yan'an away before he could inspect Lin Yu’s neck, then promised to help him transfer back from Jing City to Li City.
• Lin Yu drove home and replied to Chen Lüli that she had arrived; Jiang Zao and Jiang Yingshan followed after taking photos by the coast.
• Lin Yu greeted her father’s visiting colleagues, and Zhong Lixin noticed Chen Lüli had messaged to check whether Lin Yu was home.
• Lin Yu returned to her room, delighted by her feelings for Chen Lüli, and recalled avoiding him after an erotic dream about him during her first year at university.

Lin Yu spent New Year’s Day thinking about Chen Lüli and agreed to go out with him. He picked her up, kissed her in the car, and brought her to Genesis Tower, where they held hands as they entered the elevator.

• Lin Yu sent Jiang Zao a photo of the High-Hanging Moon plants and agreed to keep them until Jiang Zao finished redecorating.
• Lin Yu revisited keepsakes from her student days, then spent the afternoon building Lego with Zhong Lixin, who advised her not to rush into expanding her shop.
• Chen Lüli messaged Lin Yu to ask her out, and she eagerly agreed to meet him the next day.
• Chen Lüli picked Lin Yu up, kissed her in the car, and teased her about how she had responded to the kiss.
• Chen Lüli drove Lin Yu to Genesis Tower, took her hand, and asked if they could hold hands while the office was quiet.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli tested Star Rise’s unfinished holographic survival game, where they linked as a couple and fought a black bear together. After their session, Jiang Yingshan found them, and Lin Yu explained that Chen Lüli had brought her to try the technology.

• Chen Lüli took Lin Yu to Star Rise’s holographic testing room and helped her put on the VR equipment.
• Chen Lüli launched a snowy wilderness scenario, and Lin Yu accepted his in-game invitation to become his lover, receiving a matching bracelet.
• Chen Lüli protected Lin Yu from a charging black bear, and Lin Yu killed it with three shots after he encouraged her to aim carefully.
• Lin Yu and Chen Lüli continued through the survival game until night, then removed their headsets when someone knocked at the door.
• Jiang Yingshan found them in the locked room, and Lin Yu told him Chen Lüli had brought her to try the company’s holographic technology.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli left the holographic space and had lunch together, narrowly avoiding revealing their relationship when they ran into Tan You. Afterward, they went to the pet shop to pick up Xiao Diu, where the exhausted cat was being groomed.

• Chen Lüli ended Jiang Yingshan's invitation to play together and took Lin Yu to lunch at a private kitchen.
• Lin Yu and Chen Lüli ran into Tan You and her two companions; Tan You warmly greeted Lin Yu and invited her to walk with them.
• Tan You's friends wondered whether Chen Lüli had feelings for Lin Yu after seeing how gently he treated her.
• Lin Yu and Chen Lüli ate together, and Chen Lüli recalled bringing her seafood noodles from the restaurant the previous summer.
• Chen Lüli and Lin Yu went to the pet shop to pick up Xiao Diu, who had worn himself out during his bath and grooming.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli brought Xiao Diu home after a bath, then kissed and became intimate in the bedroom. Xiao Diu later woke and tried to get their attention, but they remained together in the bathroom.

• Lin Yu reunited with Xiao Diu at the pet store, and Chen Lüli dried the cat’s fur while she held it.
• Chen Lüli drove Lin Yu and Xiao Diu home, where Tray greeted them and showed off its new sweeping brushes.
• After asking whether Lin Yu had to go home that night, Chen Lüli kissed her, and they went into the bedroom together.
• Chen Lüli and Lin Yu continued their intimacy for much of the afternoon while Jiang Yan'an messaged Chen Lüli about the two of them being too close.
• Xiao Diu woke and meowed outside the master bedroom, but Chen Lüli carried Lin Yu into the bathroom, where she kissed him.

After spending the afternoon together, Chen Lüli and Lin Yu ate congee before leaving his apartment. They shared a kiss while waiting for the elevator, and Chen Lüli glared at a man who stared at Lin Yu.

• Lin Yu fell asleep in Chen Lüli's arms, and he got up to feed Xiao Diu and give water to Tray.
• Lin Yu asked for congee from Huangsheng Congee Shop, and Chen Lüli ordered it while asking why she wasn't wearing the necklace he had given her.
• Lin Yu got dressed, used the toiletries Chen Lüli had set aside for her, and ate congee with him while Xiao Diu rested on her lap.
• After the meal, Chen Lüli took Xiao Diu away from Lin Yu and led her out of the apartment, where she said goodbye to Xiao Diu and Tray.
• Chen Lüli kissed Lin Yu while they waited for the elevator, and they continued kissing briefly inside until a man and woman arrived at the first floor.
• As the man looked back at Lin Yu, Chen Lüli gave him a cold glare, and the man's girlfriend told him to stop pushing her.

Lin Yu and Chen Lüli shared an affectionate evening before returning to their family homes, where their relationships drew attention from their parents. The chapter ended with Xiao Xi asking Chen Lüli about the woman he had met for lunch.

• Chen Lüli teased Lin Yu about the marks he left on her neck, and she kissed him before leaving the car near her family's compound.
• Lin Yu returned home, where Zhong Lixin defended her against Lin Zhenghe's insistence that she stay home and rest.
• Chen Lüli changed course to return home after Tan You told him Tan Hui wanted to see him.
• Chen Songlin offered to arrange a match between Chen Lüli and Ming Yu, but Ming Yu refused, and Ming Huaixian said the families should not interfere.
• Chen Lüli joined Tan You, Xiao Xi, and Tan Hui upstairs, where Xiao Xi asked about his history with Lin Yu.

Chen Lüli spoke with Tan Hui about his game and family while the New Year gathering wound down, and Lin Yu prepared for her shop to reopen. Their late-night video call turned intimate before Tan You interrupted with gifts for Chen Lüli.

• Chen Lüli told Tan Hui that his game’s hologram technology was still in the trial stage, and Xiao Xi compared his relationship with Lin Yu to Tan Yucheng and Ji Ting’s friendship-turned-romance.
• Ming Huai prepared to send Ming Yu back to school, and Chen Songlin saw the visitors out as the gathering ended.
• Lin Yu checked that her shop employees would return on time, then went to bed thinking about her afternoon with Chen Lüli.
• Chen Lüli called Lin Yu, chatted about her shop and his family, and asked whether she liked him or his body more; Lin Yu admitted she liked both quite a lot.
• Tan You knocked to give Chen Lüli two pairs of motorcycle gloves from Ming Yu and Li Wenqing, and Chen Lüli told her to return them.
• After Tan You left, Chen Lüli returned to the video call and found Lin Yu lying face-down with her face covered.

Lin Yu spent the day shopping with Jiang Zao while Chen Lüli arranged dinner and a movie for them. Chen Lüli bought bags for both women, and the chapter ended as Lin Yu and Jiang Zao arrived at the restaurant and spotted him waiting.

• Lin Yu fell asleep during a video call with Chen Lüli, who stayed on the call until his phone nearly ran out of battery.
• Lin Yu brought her High-Hanging Moon plants to Jiang Zao's newly decorated apartment, and the two went shopping at MixC Bay.
• Chen Lüli called Lin Yu and invited her to dinner and a movie, and Jiang Zao told him to pick up the bill while he was there.
• Chen Lüli arranged for the store to charge him for Jiang Zao's purchases and sent Lin Yu a handbag as well.
• Lin Yu and Jiang Zao finished shopping and went to the restaurant on the top floor, where they saw Chen Lüli waiting in a corner.