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This episode opens with a tense "chance encounter." To regain her dignity in front of her crush, Lu Linzhou, and his "white moonlight," Jiang Jingxue, Shen Nianchu hires a low-level worker to impersonate her boyfriend. Facing Lu Linzhou's angry questioning, Shen Nianchu responds coldly. Subsequently, the fireworks filling the sky trigger painful memories for Shen Nianchu: years ago, her gambling-addicted father almost sold her for 300,000 yuan to a disabled widower. It was the young Lu Linzhou who generously paid 500,000 yuan to sever her paternal ties and promised to protect her. Reality and memory intertwine, revealing Shen Nianchu's humble secret love and their complex relationship of salvation and substitution.