Qianfan’s boy band who have been super worried about him are now overjoyed. Their boss is safe and has been promoted. Chen Lian takes this opportunity to ask if they can have a different chef. Lunches have been really crappy, you see.
Ouyang has to sell his poetry for a living, which is not working out so well. Even his mentor disowns him because he is too embarrassing to associate with lately.
Du Changfeng can see a lot better now due to the whatever liver recipe San-niang gave him a while ago. People… you cannot cure short-sightedness or “make it better”, you can only slow its progression. Lately, Changfeng has been helping Pan’er with her new business contracts; he proves to be quite a reliable hand.
One day, Changfeng asks if San-niang can do him a favor: Going shopping with him and helping him pick out some new outfits because he can’t see well enough not to humiliate himself by choosing a clown’s clothes. Good try, Changfeng, but San-niang sees right through it. She helps him anyway, though.
They hang out and have some honest conversations. They are both in their thirties and have no care for the kind of passionate romance that young people die for anymore, what they both want is stability.
Zhaodi has a mother, and er… she’s pretty despicable.
She comes looking for Zhaodi at the teahouse and tries to make Zhaodi comes back home to get married because she gets money out of it. Zhaodi is no soft bunny, she fights back with a temper. And because Chen Lian kind of suggests she should make up with her mother, Zhaodi rages at him too. She breaks the gift he just gave her and hurts his poor feelings.
Luckily, Pan’er and San-niang are there. They trick Zhaodi’s mom into signing a contract and selling Zhaodi to them so she can have no claim on Zhaodi anymore. They even lead the mother to Chi Pan’s door with the promise of money, which earns this woman a good beating from an annoyed Chi Pan. And I have to say that there’s no one else I would want to send to Chi Pan’s jaws more than this “mother”.