Wanxing wins the bet by curing Wang Fa’s insomnia, and he officially becomes coach, though early training tests the team’s patience.

Wang Fa reluctantly proves his coaching credentials during a match, while his agent stumbles onto his secret wall of research tying Wanxing to the mystery he’s chasing.

Lin Wanxing starts fresh as a school’s sports equipment custodian after a scandal ends her PhD. Her first day tangles her up with Chen Jianghe

Director Ding’s full confession ends decades of obsession, manipulation, and one impossible cure, and Wu Nongyu’s mother wakes up after all this time.

Wu Nongyu sets real boundaries with both men in her life, and Lin Juan finally, quietly, let’s go. A shocking assassination flips the whole power structure of the Bureau overnight.

A ghost hunt turns out to be nothing more than a bird in a red cloth, but it gets the third fragment recovered anyway. Xie Xinxu’s kindness starts genuinely shifting how Wu Nongyu sees him

Xie Xinxu dives back into Wu Nongyu’s dream world one more time, finally showing her the truth of his self-destructive cycle of revenge. She wakes up, they finally sleep together, and then she vanishes

Wu Nongyu finds herself living an entirely different life in a snowy homestay, with no memory of Xie Xinxu, yet somehow drawn to him anyway.

This stretch delivers the darkest reveal yet, that Xie Xinxu orchestrated the whole rift with her brother on purpose, before a near fatal medical crisis forces them back together anyway.

This stretch delivers the show’s most devastating material yet, a shocking family secret, and a fracture between the leads that might not heal easily.