Recaps

Su Jin auditioned actors for She Comes from the East, pitched Sony producer Takeshi Yamamoto a Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio game, and selected outfits for Berlin. In Los Angeles, she rejected a Disney board seat but agreed to develop an animated film based on Chinese mythology, leaving to pursue her next projects.

• Su Jin auditioned three Huace Starlight actresses for She Comes from the East and circled Zhou Di’s name after her interpretation of the character’s anger impressed her.
• Su Jin pitched Takeshi Yamamoto a three-protagonist AAA game inspired by Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, and he agreed to prepare a proposal.
• Geneviève showed Su Jin three outfits for Berlin’s red carpet, premiere, and awards ceremony, and Su Jin approved their intended order.
• Su Jin declined Bob Iger’s invitation to join Disney’s board but proposed an animated film about Nüwa, Chang’e, and Yu the Great, and Iger agreed to make it.
• Su Jin told Iger she would play the animated film’s heroine herself, then left Disney headquarters reflecting on her drive to keep creating.

Su Jin dazzled audiences at the Berlin Film Festival with her red-carpet appearance and acclaimed performance in Winter Harbor, then defended her achievements after a former roommate accused her of being kept. Her colleagues, MIT, and professional partners publicly supported her, and she watched the allegations turn in her favor as her following grew.

• Su Jin walked the Berlinale red carpet in a Chanel gown, drawing intense attention from photographers and reporters.
• At the Winter Harbor premiere, Su Jin’s portrayal of Lin earned a standing ovation and the festival’s highest score so far.
• At the press conference, Su Jin said she had earned her success, explained that being alive meant pursuing meaningful work, and affirmed she would remain in academia.
• After returning to her hotel, Su Jin saw that Wang Siyu had accused her online of being kept by a sugar daddy and questioned how she had gained her wealth.
• Su Jin asked Zhao Mingyuan to publish evidence and sue Wang Siyu, and contacted Anderson and Professor Harris for support.
• Huace Starlight, MIT, Netflix, Dior, and Shen Nian publicly backed Su Jin, while online opinion shifted in her favor and her Instagram following passed forty million.

Su Jin attended the Berlin Film Festival awards, where “Winter Harbor” won Best Film and several other awards, though Isabelle Huppert won Best Actress. After urging audiences to see Lin’s story and declining to act in another film, Su Jin traveled to Paris for a Harper’s Bazaar shoot and planned ME’s first furniture collection with Shen Nian.

• Su Jin walked the Berlin red carpet in a white Saint Laurent suit as “Winter Harbor” won awards for sound, score, editing, art direction, cinematography, and director.
• Isabelle Huppert won Best Actress over Su Jin, who applauded her sincerely; “Winter Harbor” then won Best Film, and Anderson brought Su Jin onstage to share the Silver Bear.
• Su Jin told the audience to go see Lin and later told Anderson she would not make another film, encouraging him to take “Winter Harbor” to Cannes.
• Su Jin flew to Paris, where Little Golden Egg told her that her Instagram following and the video of her applauding Huppert had surged in popularity.
• Su Jin modeled ten different looks for the French edition of Harper’s Bazaar, then visited Shen Nian’s studio to review ME’s first collection and name its reading chair “Nian.”
• Su Jin planned ME stores in Paris, New York, and her Beijing courtyard house, and told Shen Nian that production would begin in Milan the following month.

A man learned that Su Jin was almost certainly his long-lost sister and decided to meet her at Cannes in front of the cameras. In Paris, Su Jin collected a bespoke Bentley, bought Qing antiques at auction, and resolved to use modern technology to revive lost craft traditions.

• A man received DNA results showing a 99.97 percent probability that Su Jin was his sister, learned she was in Paris, and planned to approach her at Cannes.
• Su Jin completed her 137th daily check-in, chose the Yunnan Camellia Bentley, and drove it to Shen Nian's studio.
• Su Jin and Shen Nian attended an auction, where Su Jin bought a set of Qing kingfisher-feather phoenix hair ornaments.
• Su Jin bought a peachbloom-glazed scholar's set and told Shen Nian she would use technology to restore lost crafts and make their techniques reproducible.

Su Jin watched Cheng Yan buy Shen Nian’s painting for thirty-two million, then returned to Beijing and set out SJ Group’s three-year plans. After recruiting three specialists and purchasing top-level negotiation skills, she received an invitation to become Roger Vivier’s first global brand ambassador and chose to leave the offer unanswered for now.

• Cheng Yan won Shen Nian’s Place of Return at auction for thirty-two million, and Su Jin messaged Shen Nian the final price.
• Shen Nian unpacked her walnut sideboard, Hill, and Su Jin admired its carved, wave-like surface and hidden brass handle.
• Su Jin convened SJ Group’s first strategic meeting and announced plans for ME stores, global distribution of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, and recreating peachbloom glaze in Jingdezhen.
• Su Jin spent her remaining system points to recruit a PR professional, a luxury operations director, and a Jingdezhen glaze expert, then exchanged her allowance for top-level negotiation skills.
• Su Jin received Roger Vivier’s invitation to become its global brand ambassador and told Little Golden Egg she would let the brand wait before replying.

Su Jin used her daily check-in reward to become a major Aman Group stakeholder, then interviewed candidates for SJ Group’s game team and the suspense drama She Comes from the East. She hired a physics simulation specialist and brought Shen Du directly onto the drama, while Gu Yan was sent to meet Sony’s technical team.

• Su Jin bought two fragrances and received a 4.7 percent stake in the Aman Group, along with a board seat and lifelong stays at its hotels.
• Su Jin hired the first game-team candidate, a physics simulation specialist who had worked at Pixar, and dismissed the second candidate after he disparaged the project.
• Su Jin interviewed Gu Yan, a Harvard-trained procedural-generation researcher, and arranged for him to meet Sony’s technical team in Boston.
• Su Jin interviewed Shen Du, a London-trained stage actor, canceled his audition, and offered him a role in She Comes from the East.

Su Jin reflected on ME’s sold-out launch, refused to increase production, and chose a Cannes gown called “Spring in Maine.” News that the Lausanne Foundation was sponsoring Cannes stirred an old, uncertain memory of a promise about Lausanne and the brother she had forgotten.

• Shen Nian told Su Jin that ME’s reading chairs had sold out across its stores and that resellers were charging three times the price, so Su Jin decided to raise prices without making more chairs.
• Su Jin saw that Shen Nian had placed wordless billboards featuring the Hill sideboard in Paris, New York, and Beijing.
• At Chanel’s atelier, Su Jin rejected the Iceberg gown and named the beaded pink gown Spring in Maine.
• Geneviève told Su Jin that the Lausanne Foundation had become a major Cannes sponsor and that people speculated it was searching for someone.
• As Fang Ying drove through Paris, Su Jin recalled a childhood promise to take her to Lausanne and remembered that she had an older brother.

At the Cannes Film Festival, Su Jin walked the red carpet in a gown and one-of-a-kind jewelry before meeting Su Heng, the older brother she had not seen since childhood. She declined to return with him immediately, asking for time, and left with his contact card.

• Su Jin wore the jewelry arranged by Zhao Mingyuan and walked the Cannes red carpet in her blush-pink Chanel gown.
• A man invited Su Jin to a private lounge on the third floor, where she met Su Heng.
• Su Heng told Su Jin that he was her older brother, described how he had searched for her, and said their family lived in Lausanne.
• Su Jin thanked Su Heng but said she could not go with him because she did not know him and needed time.
• Su Heng left his phone number for Su Jin and departed, and she put his card in her clutch.

At Cannes, Su Jin unexpectedly won Best Actress for "Winter Harbor," and Su Heng revealed he was her older brother, who had searched for her for twenty years. Su Jin accepted his place in her life cautiously, agreeing to take things slowly as the ceremony continued.

• Su Jin accepted Shen Nian's Best Art Direction trophy and told the audience that Shen Nian said spring had arrived.
• Su Heng presented Su Jin with the Best Actress award for "Winter Harbor."
• Su Heng revealed that he was Su Jin's older brother and had searched for her for twenty years.
• Su Jin said she had an older brother who had found her and declared that the trophy belonged to Lin while the moment belonged to her.
• Su Heng invited Su Jin to come home, and she answered that they should take things slowly.
• Su Jin returned to her seat with the Silver Palm and watched the awards ceremony continue.

Su Jin arrived at her family’s centuries-old castle in Italy and met her ninety-three-year-old grandfather. After seeing portraits that resembled her and her mother, she recognized her mother in an old photograph as her grandfather welcomed her home.

• Su Heng brought Su Jin from Milan to the family estate, where he showed her the castle, its grounds, and its history.
• Su Heng led Su Jin along a corridor of family portraits, and Su Jin saw that a portrait of her great-grandmother looked exactly like her.
• Su Jin entered her grandfather’s study and met him for the first time.
• Her grandfather recalled how Su Jin had been taken away as a child and how he had searched for her for years.
• Su Jin recognized her mother in a photograph, and her grandfather told her that she had finally come home.

Su Jin returned to her family in Italy, accepted her inheritance as the family’s heir, and signed the documents before leaving for Beijing. Back at Huace Starlight, she reviewed the game team’s Liaozhai story selections and their plan to make combat depend on emotion and fear.

• Su Jin rode a horse with Su Heng’s help, and Grandpa welcomed her back and gave her an envelope containing twenty percent of the family’s shares.
• Su Jin initially refused the shares, then agreed to keep them for the future, and Grandpa told her she was already the family’s heir.
• Su Jin signed the inheritance documents in the study and promised Grandpa she would return whenever he missed her.
• Su Jin returned to Beijing, where Zhao Mingyuan brought her to meet the game team at Huace Starlight.
• Zhou Di presented twelve selected Liaozhai stories, and Gu Yan explained how the game would make fleeing, seeing, and overcoming fear its forms of combat.

Su Jin attended the Chanel, Dior, Paris Aristocratic Family, and Roger Vivier shows during Paris Fashion Week, commanding attention in each front row. After the Roger Vivier show, she left wearing the brand’s newest sandals, as Paris shone around her.

• Su Jin arrived in Paris and chose to go to her hotel before attending Chanel’s show at the Grand Palais.
• Su Jin watched Chanel’s show from the front row, greeted Virginie Viard, and signed autographs for fans outside.
• Su Jin attended Dior’s show at the Rodin Museum, where the CEO embraced her and praised her as the day’s standout.
• Su Jin wore a black leather trench coat to Paris Aristocratic Family’s show, and a photograph of her in the darkness spread rapidly online.
• Su Jin attended Roger Vivier’s show alone in the front row, and the brand director replaced her sneakers with smoky pink Très Vivier sandals.

Su Jin received a 5.2 percent stake in Wanda Film and traveled to Tetiaroa, where she spent the day by the sea. After reviewing the island’s facilities the next morning, she decided it would become a resort rather than a hotel.

• Su Jin checked in from Boston and received a 5.2 percent stake in Wanda Film, a board seat, and access to cinema-line distribution privileges.
• Su Jin messaged Zhao Mingyuan to arrange for someone to join Wanda Film’s board.
• Su Jin flew from Los Angeles to Tetiaroa with Fang Ying and Zhou Ye and settled into the villa.
• Su Jin spent the day on the island, then returned to dinner on the terrace and watched the Southern Hemisphere stars.
• The butler showed Su Jin a map and inventory of the island’s facilities, and she declared that it would be a resort, not a hotel.

Su Jin’s game trailer went viral worldwide while she traveled to Boston and attended the opening ceremony for She Comes from the East. She pressed Disney to give its Nüwa film a stronger Chinese mythological story, then received news that the trailer had passed three hundred million views.

• Su Jin’s one-minute game trailer was released without advance publicity and surpassed two hundred million views within three days.
• Su Jin arrived in Boston and attended the opening ceremony for She Comes from the East, where Zhao Mingyuan introduced her to the crew and Lin Xiaozhou, Zhou Di, and Shen Du stood with the cast.
• Su Jin went to Disney’s Burbank headquarters, reviewed concept art for Nüwa, and told Bob Iger and the team that the story needed a stronger core rooted in Chinese mythology.
• Su Jin posted a mirror photo captioned “Boston rain” and received Gu Yan’s message that the trailer had passed three hundred million views.

Su Jin received a 1.7 percent stake in Tencent, then shot a Paris Aristocratic Family advertisement in the desert. Back at the Su estate, she chose to take charge of the family businesses and asked for a ship of her own, to be named Jin.

• Su Jin received a Tencent stake worth approximately 7.3 billion US dollars as her 205th daily check-in reward.
• Su Jin chose a dark green leather jacket and a raw-edged black skirt for the Paris Aristocratic Family shoot.
• Demna photographed Su Jin beside her car in the desert and selected an unretouched image for the advertisement.
• Su Heng showed Su Jin the family’s shipping, banking, and real estate businesses and invited her to visit the family’s Tuscan estate.
• Su Jin said she wanted the next ship in her name, and Su Heng agreed to name it Jin.

Su Jin finalized a Tencent Video partnership with Ma Huateng, then traveled to Jingdezhen to meet the Cheng Family, whose generations-old kiln had been preserved for peachbloom porcelain. After seeing their heirloom brush washer and dormant kiln, she agreed to fire peachbloom pieces and accepted their centuries-kneaded clay.

• Su Jin negotiated Tencent Video's movie, series, and variety-show deals with Ma Huateng, who accepted her terms.
• Su Heng told Su Jin that the Cheng Family wanted to meet her, and she changed her itinerary to Jingdezhen.
• Su Jin arrived at Cheng Kiln and met the elderly Cheng Family master, who showed her a peachbloom brush washer fired by his ancestor.
• The old master explained that the kiln had been idle since 1937 and showed Su Jin the old mantou kiln.
• Su Jin declared that she would fire peachbloom porcelain, and the old master gave her clay passed down and kneaded across generations.

Su Jin persuaded Elder Cheng to let her bring skilled artisans into the Cheng Family kiln and hired four top-tier porcelain specialists through the System Store. After arranging a new Poly Auction sale for her peachbloom porcelain, she returned to Beijing for the Nüwa film fitting and offered to fire a real five-colored brick for the movie.

• Su Jin asked Elder Cheng to let her bring workers into the Cheng Family kiln, and she promised to light the kiln fires.
• Su Jin spent all her system points hiring a clay kneader, a greenware trimmer, a glaze mixer and a kiln firer.
• Su Jin arranged with Zhao Mingyuan for Poly Auction to hold one annual contemporary porcelain sale called “Rekindling.”
• Su Jin returned to Beijing and chose the black ceremonial dress for the Nüwa film costume fitting.
• The director explained that the film’s Nüwa made stars from a five-colored brick rather than mending the heavens.
• Su Jin told the director she would fire a real brick for the film, and he repeatedly nodded in astonishment.

Su Jin gave nine beta codes for Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio to Jiang Che, whose livestream drew millions of viewers as he played its three levels in unexpected ways. The game’s preorders surged, and Su Jin decided to build an IP empire of her own.

• Su Jin received the SJ Esports Club, including its LPL slot and Shanghai base, as her daily check-in reward, then gave nine game beta codes to captain Jiang Che.
• Jiang Che livestreamed the game and waited quietly with Nie Xiaoqian until Ning Caichen arrived, choosing silence between them.
• In The Painted Skin, Jiang Che showed the ghost its true face in a mirror, and the ghost thanked him before leaving its empty skin behind.
• Jiang Che passed through the wall in The Taoist Priest of Mount Lao, and the stream’s audience grew to twelve million before he announced the game’s May 1 release.
• Su Jin learned that preorders had reached five million copies in eight hours as publishers and platforms arranged to support the game, then resolved to build her own IP empire.

Su Jin attended Wimbledon and spoke at the launch of a Chinese-story game in Berlin before Su Heng took her to a luxury ship named Jin in Hamburg. She asked Su Heng to teach her how to steer the ship the next day.

• Su Jin attended Wimbledon in London, where Getty Images published eighteen unretouched photographs of her.
• At a game launch event in Berlin, Su Jin said she had waited three years for the game and had opened the door for Chinese stories to reach the world on their own terms.
• Su Heng met Su Jin after her speech and drove her from Berlin to the Hamburg dock.
• Su Jin boarded the ship Jin, and Su Heng described its facilities and experienced Norwegian captain.
• Su Jin asked Su Heng to teach her how to steer the ship the next day, and he agreed.

Su Jin learned to steer the Jin from Su Heng, rode the white horse at the estate, and asked Zhao Mingyuan to build a riding stable in Beijing. After delivering a striking performance as Nüwa in Xinjiang, she accepted an invitation to appear on Zhejiang Television’s “Poetry Across China” in Dunhuang.

• Su Heng taught Su Jin about steering the Jin, and she took the helm as the ship sailed from Hamburg toward the North Sea.
• Su Jin rode the white horse at the estate and told Zhao Mingyuan to arrange a riding stable outside Beijing with five horses.
• Su Jin arrived at the Xinjiang filming location and performed the scene of Nüwa repairing the heavens, leaving the director convinced no retake was needed.
• Zhao Mingyuan told Su Jin that “Poetry Across China” had invited her to read Wang Wei’s “On a Diplomatic Mission to the Frontier” in Dunhuang.
• Su Jin accepted the invitation and went to sleep as rain fell outside her hotel window.

Su Jin filmed “Poetry Across China” in Dunhuang, where her unscripted recitation at the Mogao Caves moved the crew and drew the attention of fellow guest Lu Shihan. After the shoot, Lu Shihan watched her leave without speaking.

• Su Jin traveled to Dunhuang with Fang Ying and Zhou Ye and was styled in a cinnabar-red robe for filming.
• Su Jin met Lu Shihan on the bus, and he watched her as the guests traveled to the Mogao Caves.
• At the Nine-Story Building, Su Jin recited ancient verses without a script, moving Lu Shihan and bringing the cameraman to tears.
• Su Jin refused to enter the Library Cave, explaining that people had taken its sutras, paintings, and wrapping cloth, and the director accepted her decision.
• Su Jin and Lu Shihan stood together in silence on Mingsha Mountain as the sun set, then shared tea beside the campfire.
• On the bus back to the hotel, Su Jin fell asleep and left without speaking to Lu Shihan, who watched her go before getting off.

Su Jin arrived in Dali for the poetry show, where Lu Shihan grew more openly drawn to her and newcomer Shen Rang revealed his admiration. After Su Jin performed a poem in Erhai Lake, the two men vied for her attention, and she left them together beneath the osmanthus tree.

• Su Jin changed the production team's hotel to her own Aman property and arrived in Dali, where Lu Shihan watched her shyly.
• At Erhai Lake, Su Jin proposed reciting the poem while standing in the water and performed as the moonlight reflected around her.
• Shen Rang arrived late to dinner, introduced himself to Su Jin, and told her he had watched her film three times.
• Lu Shihan toasted Su Jin and later asked what color she would wear, then decided to wear black when she said white.
• At the courtyard tea gathering, Shen Rang teased Lu Shihan about winning Su Jin's attention, and Su Jin said good night and left.

At the Poetry Across China press conference, Su Jin drew attention with her reflections on being remembered while Lu Shihan and Shen Rang revealed their feelings for her. Later, she reunited with Chen Shen at Ruisi Racing Circuit, drove several fast laps, and proposed starting a Chinese racing team, which Chen Shen agreed to join.

• Su Jin told reporters that she had asked the Great Maitreya Buddha to remember her, and explained that she wanted to know whether he would remember the way she had stood, dressed, and spoken.
• Lu Shihan said the moon he had wanted to scoop from Erhai Lake was not the one in the sky, while Shen Rang said he wanted to stop acting and be himself.
• Lu Shihan asked Su Jin to add him on WeChat, and she scanned his code and told him to call her Su Jin; Shen Rang said he would wait for her to add him and then come find her if she did not.
• Su Jin went to Ruisi Racing Circuit, where Chen Shen had prepared a green GT3 RS and a new white helmet for her, and she drove several increasingly fast laps with him beside her.
• Su Jin told Chen Shen she wanted to start a Chinese racing team with Chinese cars, engines, and drivers, and Chen Shen said he would race with her.

Su Jin received a hereditary Italian countess title and attended her private investiture ceremony in Rome with Su Heng and Grandpa. At the evening banquet, she noticed a portrait resembling her and then left the hall alone, walking down the illuminated corridor.

• Su Jin learned that her daily check-in reward included a Tuscan estate and a hereditary countess title, and she reflected on Grandpa’s words about dreams.
• Su Jin attended her investiture ceremony, accepted the title scroll, and shared the moment with Su Heng and Grandpa.
• Su Jin went to a banquet in Rome, where she paused before a portrait of an amber-eyed woman who resembled her.
• The owner of the palace welcomed Su Jin, and she later crossed the silent crowd and left the hall through a corridor.

Su Jin completed her first successful porcelain firing with Elder Cheng and planned the Cheng Kiln brand, then recruited Gu Xiu to create Chinese haute couture under a second brand, Chinese Embroidery. The chapter ended with Su Jin setting its prices above Chanel haute couture and insisting Chinese craftsmanship could command more.

• Su Jin received a Bell 429 helicopter as her daily check-in reward and admired the peachbloom brush washer she had fired at the Cheng Family kiln.
• Su Jin and Elder Cheng agreed to sell their porcelain as Cheng Kiln, with twelve pieces released once a year through a dedicated Poly auction called Rekindling.
• Su Jin and Elder Cheng chose a Ming-dynasty brush washer design and used clay prepared by Elder Cheng's ancestor for the first firing.
• Elder Cheng introduced Su Jin to Gu Xiu, who agreed to make Chinese haute couture under Su Jin's conditions of three months per garment and no alterations after the third fitting.
• Su Jin named the clothing brand Chinese Embroidery and quoted Zhao Mingyuan a price higher than Chanel haute couture, arguing that Chinese work could cost more than French work.