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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIt\u2019s been seven months since Bai Hao Yu left for the US. With the huge time zone differences, the online meets has them catch up when the other\u2019s getting ready for work or about to turn in for the night.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu catches a cold during this time, which has Li Hui Zhen nagging and scolding him over the phone about not taking better care of himself. This cold of Bai Hao Yu\u2019s sets up a surprise return to China.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nFollowing Li Hui Zhen\u2019s last call to Bai Hao Yu, she is met with unanswered calls, which has her thinking the worst. Sitting with her co-writers, she stares at her phone wondering why she\u2019s not being able to get through to Bai Hao Yu. With the last call giving her the impression he\u2019s not looking after himself, her mind can only think that something\u2019s happened to him.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn’t be able to do anything else if I didn’t come back to see you. Whatever I looked at, all the thoughts in my mind were of you. So, I finished things up ahead of time and returned.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Nothing\u2019s happened to him. Seven months away from her is his limit apparently. He decided he could no longer be apart from her and needed to return to her. He ended his classes early and was on the plane back to China. This was why she hadn\u2019t been able to contact him.<\/p>\n
When they meet face to face, Bai Hao Yu tells Li Hui Zhen that not only did he end his classes early to return to her, he had sold his house in the US and left his job, too. He had given up everything to return to her side permanently.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cHello, everyone. From now on, I will be assuming the role of Editor in Chief.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bai Hao Yu becomes the new Editor in Chief. He takes over the role after the Editor in Chief (Vivian) announces her engagement to an Italian model 15 years her junior.<\/p>\n
In the position of Bai Hao Yu\u2019s old position, Zhu Ying takes over as Deputy Editor in Chief.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHan Xue:<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m so envious. Even Editor in Chief is getting married. When will I get married.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lin Hu Sheng:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Han Xue\u2019s feeling jealous and wondering when she will get married following an introduction of the former Editor in Chief\u2019s fianc\u00e9. Good thing she doesn\u2019t need to wonder much as Lin Hu Sheng tells her it\u2019s up to her when she wants to get married because he\u2019s ready to marry her any time she\u2019s ready.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBai Hao Yu returns to Li Hui Zhen\u2019s family home at the end of the work day. This is his new home, and it was meant to be kept a secret from Li Hui Zhen. The family thinks that had they let Li Hui Zhen know about this fact, they wouldn\u2019t hear the end of it. Being the nag Li Hui Zhen is, she wouldn\u2019t agree to it and she\u2019d go on and on about it. (She does come off as quite a nag: she does it to Bai Hao Yu and Xia Qiao.) So, they asked Bai Hao Yu to keep it a secret from Li Hui Zhen. However, it gets revealed when Li Hui Zhen drops by and see Bai Hao Yu walk through the door with her father.<\/p>\n
After the little secret is out, they all enjoy a family dinner together where Li Hui Zhen tries to help her parents buy a new printer to replace their broken one which was seen to have caused them to lose some business earlier in the drama. Li Hui Zhen\u2019s parents are reluctant to accept it: they think she should save it towards things like their marriage, children, house and car.<\/p>\n
They forget who Li Hui Zhen is marrying, though. Bai Hao Yu earns a high salary being an Editor in Chief of top performing magazine, so the money isn\u2019t needed to go towards things like that. Bai Hao Yu tells his soon-to-be in-laws that he only needs Li Hui Zhen to bring herself as he\u2019s prepared all of that.<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen persuades her mum to accept it again. It\u2019s accepted, but it gets cancelled out when her parents sneak into Li Hui Zhen\u2019s bag her dowry: money they saved over many years. Tears flow as Li Hui Zhen thinks about how this amount of money could have helped them buy that printer, food or some nice things for themselves.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu tries to calm her, telling her he\u2019d not only make sure her parents get their printer, he\u2019d have the whole house renovated.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Hao:<\/p>\n
\u201cThese two people were actually dating right under our noses.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Wedding invitations are hand-delivered to the Immortal Team. Up till now, Bai Hao Yu and Li Hui Zhen\u2019s relationship has been kept a secret from the whole team. So, it comes as quite a surprise to learn that the two had been dating, let alone get married. But, they all wish them well and hope they start a family soon. This has Bai Hao Yu quicken his steps towards the end of his ascent to his office on the second floor after holding his composure for most of the way.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOver on Xia Qiao\u2019s side, life is great. Xia Qiao\u2019s an Internet celebrity, she\u2019s a top student and she\u2019s finally got herself a job through her own efforts. Honesty and genuine desire to get through the interviewing process using only her efforts seemed to impress the interview panel. Probably with a little luck, too, Xia Qiao successfully passed the interview and got hired.<\/p>\n
With little work experience on her resume, the interview panel wondered why that was. She wasn\u2019t given the opportunity to answer this question as one of the interviewers suddenly recalls seeing her on a poster publicising her Best Employee award at the hotel she was a former employee. The omission of this noteworthy achievement and her reason for omitting this achievement (she didn\u2019t get her previous job through her own efforts) allowed her to prove her seriousness about wanting to rely on her own efforts. This display of honesty and the want to progress through using her own efforts looked to have helped her secure the job.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nXia Qiao\u2019s got herself an admirer, too: a student who\u2019s a lot younger than her. She\u2019s not interested, but he\u2019s persistent. There\u2019s no indication of this crush will be accepted anytime in the future, but it does show that no matter where Xia Qiao goes, men of all ages find her beautiful and it looks like there will always be love confessions and admirers for Xia Qiao.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nMeili:<\/p>\n
\u201cHao-ge, can you help me take a look at my chair for a bit? This chair of mine isn’t going up. Hurry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lin Hao\u2019s new position as Immortal\u2019s direct superior hasn\u2019t changed the way the team treat him. They go as far as getting him to look at their broken chairs. Now that they know he can actually afford shouting them, he gets teased about agreeing to shout them meals when he hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBai Hao Yu and Li Hui Zhen get married. It\u2019s a curious scene as it doesn\u2019t show any guests in their seats when Bai Hao Yu and Li Hui Zhen walk down the aisle. (Maybe this is a wedding rehearsal? Or maybe it\u2019s an artistic way to focus in on the two and the momentous day.)<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe couple move into their spacious, modern, expensive-looking apartment where Li Hui Zhen is seen with a copy of Lin Yi Mu\u2019s\/Diviner\u2019s latest book which has a small dedication to Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cFor my best friend, Charlie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lin Yi Mu\u2019s living in his usual carefree way. He looks to have left Shanghai for a short time before returning. It\u2019s unclear if he came back to promote his book or maybe he came back for Bai Hao Yu and Li Hui Zhen\u2019s wedding, but he seems to be able to roam the streets and bookstores with his identity in full view of the public without any trouble. It\u2019s great to see his sacrifice for Immortal\u2019s success hasn\u2019t caused issues to his daily life.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe episode draws to a close with a short montage of the time Bai Hao Yu returned to China and walked right past her as he\u2019d mistaken someone else for her, of the time she made errors at an Immortal photoshoot, of the time she was given a chance to write for Immortal by Zhu Ying. Then, returning back to the present, her spending the day enjoying a picnic and a children\u2019s book with Bai Hao Yu.<\/p>\n
As these scenes play, Li Hui Zhen tells her thoughts about lead characters and supporting characters and whether some are destined to be one or the other. (And thus leading us into the drama\u2019s theme and message.) Li Hui Zhen once believed it was predestined, but her thoughts have since changed. It\u2019s people who make themselves supporting characters because of a lack of confidence and a fear of failure. She talks about how people often say that life won\u2019t be as happy as those in children\u2019s stories when one grows up. Her response to such words is to stay forever a child and not grow up, to maintain one\u2019s original aspirations and chase that dream because one may find that something even better than what\u2019s in children\u2019s stories might happen. She refers to her childhood friend returning to her side again and realising her childhood dream as examples of such things.<\/p>\n