Episode Summary
Laila and Caina’s bond deepens as they plan a snowy future, while Song En’s vendetta against Liao Siyuan escalates through a deadly kidnapping scheme. A masked vigilante brutally implants a tracking device in Song En, driving him to madness. Flashbacks reveal Caina’s tragic link to Song En’s surrogacy ring, culminating in Laila’s sacrificial suicide. Liao Siyuan uncovers clues pointing to a larger conspiracy, but the mastermind remains hidden.
Spoiler Alert
Laila and Caina’s heartwarming friendship takes center stage as the girls lean on each other to pursue their dreams. Caina confesses her lifelong wish to see snow, and Laila vows to save money to make it happen. Their bond offers a rare moment of hope amid the encroaching darkness.
Meanwhile, chaos erupts at a slaughterhouse where Song En berates his henchmen for kidnapping the wrong target: Ma Luo, who’d borrowed Liao Siyuan’s motorcycle to visit Laila’s grave. Beaten and disoriented, Ma Luo becomes Song En’s bargaining chip. In a tense video call, Song En forces Liao Siyuan to race to Jianan Tower, threatening to feed Ma Luo into an industrial saw. Police tracker Shu He pinpoints Song En’s location, but the villain outsmarts them, demanding Liao Siyuan jump from the building’s unguarded side. The harrowing fall is later revealed as a ruse—Liao Siyuan survives using a hidden airbag, but Ma Luo, believing him dead, spirals into guilt.
Song En’s vendetta traces back to a decade-old arson case involving Liao Siyuan’s brother, Liao Sibai. Fleeing Buhe after the failed assassination, Song En is ambushed by a truck and wakes to a nightmare: a masked figure implants a phone in his body. The assailant’s identity triggers Song En’s mental collapse, leaving him babbling about surrendering to police.
Flashbacks expose Song En’s depravity. Obsessed with Laila, he targeted her friend Caina instead, luring her into a surrogacy scam that left her infertile. Caina’s suicide and Laila’s subsequent guilt-driven death now haunt the investigation. Forensic expert Qi Xia discovers drug-injection evidence on Laila’s body, but a replaced carpet in her apartment hints at a staged suicide. Liao Siyuan pieces together the truth: Caina jumped after learning her boyfriend Mai Ke colluded with Song En, while Laila sacrificed herself to expose the surrogacy ring—a plan covertly aided by the enigmatic masked vigilante.
The episode closes with Liao Siyuan confronting smirking lawyer Mai Ke, whose legal immunity crumbles under a furious beating. But questions linger: Who is the shadowy figure manipulating events? And will Laila and Caina’s unfinished dream of snowbound freedom ever be honored?
