
She was a celebrated dancer with a promising future—until she chose to disappear from his life. Seven years later, she returns with their dying son and a secret she carried alone. He believes she betrayed him and makes her pay for a truth he never knew. But some regrets come only after everything has changed.

Covered in blood, Wen Yining crashes the Han family's luxurious banquet, kneeling publicly to beg her ex-lover, Han Junyan, for a blood transfusion to save their leukemic son, Tuanzi. However, consumed by resentment from a "betrayal" seven years ago, Han Junyan is convinced Yining is lying to extort the Hans. He coldly refuses to help and forcibly imprisons the despairing Yining at Fragrant Hill Villa. Taunted by guests and ruthlessly blocked by Han's mother, Yining is driven to desperation. As she is dragged away, she curses him in grief and anger, while beneath his cold exterior, Han secretly instructs his subordinates to confirm the critical condition of the dying child.

In this episode, Han Junyan, head of the Han family, saves a severely injured boy named Tuantuan from a car accident at the hospital. His assistant discovers that Tuantuan looks remarkably like Han Junyan did in his childhood. Learning that Tuantuan's life hangs in the balance due to a shortage of his rare blood type in the blood bank, Han Junyan returns to the villa where Wen Yining is imprisoned. Facing Wen Yining's desperate pleas and questions, Han Junyan, still consumed by the misunderstanding of her betrayal seven years ago, deliberately lies and coldly declares that Tuantuan has died because he was brought to the hospital too late. Hearing this, Wen Yining suffers a mental breakdown, hurls abuses at Han Junyan, and faints, further escalating the conflict between them.

This episode highlights the deeply conflicted relationship between Han Junyan and Wen Yining. In public, Han acts as the overbearing CEO, declaring that Yining is the one he vows to protect and offering her the biggest stage. Yet, in a sudden turn of events, Yining lies weak and gravely ill in a hospital bed. Beside her, Han reveals his deeply hidden pain and frustration, demanding to know why she left. When Yining wakes up, she unleashes intense hatred toward Han, accusing him of standing by while she died and even refusing to save their own flesh and blood, cursing him as a beast. Amidst their intertwined love and hate, a fierce physical struggle breaks out between them, ending with Han forcibly kissing the desperately weeping Yining.

This episode features a high-tension conflict that exposes the deep misunderstandings between the leads. Convinced by a seemingly forged paternity test that Wen Yining deceived him, Han Junyan hurls insults at her and insists that Tuanlian is not his biological child. Pushed to despair by her terminal illness and complete heartbreak, a hopeless Yining pulls out her IV and tries to self-harm with a piece of broken glass to find ultimate release. Just as tragedy is about to strike, Tuanlian appears in the nick of time, stopping her extreme behavior.

Tuantuan finally escapes danger and wakes up with the help of Han Junyan. Wen Yining tightly hugs her recovered child, filled with gratitude. However, Han Junyan shows no warmth for saving them; instead, using the child as leverage, he orders her to stay by his side to "repay the debt," his words full of coldness and the thrill of revenge. Meanwhile, the jealous Su Weiwei fans the flames from the sidelines, trying to stir up Han Junyan's old resentment by bringing up Wen Yining's "abandonment" back then and disparaging Tuantuan's lineage. Caught in pain and contradiction, Han Junyan declares that he has no lingering affection for Wen Yining, only hatred, and vows to make up for the past wounds by torturing her.

Han Junyan forcibly drags Wen Yining back to the private dance studio he once built exclusively for her. Facing walls of paintings that capture her glory days, he vents seven years of hatred and obsession over feeling betrayed. Traumatized by the shadow of her torn Achilles tendon, Wen Yining desperately resists dancing and begs him to let her go. However, determined to reclaim his past, Han Junyan uses her precious child, Tuantuan, as leverage, forcing her to perform her peak masterpiece, the Phoenix Dance, plunging the two into an intense and heartbreaking standoff.

In the dim light, Wen Yining gazes at her disheveled self, lamenting how a once-top dancer has been reduced to such a pathetic state. Through shifting visuals of reality and memory, the scene flashes back to the despairing moment when a doctor informed her that her worsening condition meant she could never dance again. Back in reality, Wen Yining collapses from exhaustion and is found by the rushing Han Junyan. Facing the man she once deeply loved yet mutually tormented, Wen Yining tearfully demands to know if he is satisfied seeing her in such a miserable state. Looking at her frail form, a panicked Han Junyan anxiously calls for a doctor, dragging their entanglements back into the present reality.

Han Junyan learns from a doctor that Wen Yining suffered a torn Achilles tendon years ago and, without proper treatment, can never dance again. He begins to question the real reason behind her departure, suspecting she left due to insecurity from her injury or hidden motives. To hide the truth, Wen Yining stubbornly insists she merely "used" him back then, flashing back to a time when she was heartless toward the disabled Han Junyan. Filled with a mix of pity and hatred, Han Junyan believes her current downfall is just retribution and uses this to force her to stay by his side. In order to save her son Tuantuan, who is suffering from leukemia, Wen Yining completely abandons her dignity, kneels and begs Han Junyan, and finally reveals the heartbreaking truth about Tuantuan's terminal illness, leaving Han Junyan in profound shock.

She was a celebrated dancer with a promising future—until she chose to disappear from his life. Seven years later, she returns with their dying son and a secret she carried alone. He believes she betrayed him and makes her pay for a truth he never knew. But some regrets come only after everything has changed.

She was a celebrated dancer with a promising future—until she chose to disappear from his life. Seven years later, she returns with their dying son and a secret she carried alone. He believes she betrayed him and makes her pay for a truth he never knew. But some regrets come only after everything has changed.