Li Yansong's former lover, whom he had kept hidden for three years, returns with a child. He rents out an entire cruise ship to throw a lavish birthday party for his mistress's illegitimate child.
He plays the perfect father and devoted lover.
The glaring sight of the loving family of three with her own eyes makes every past act of patience and every grievance come crashing down.
Her tenderness is spent, her love gone. Ji Ningshuang puts on a mask, conceals her identity, and boards the ship that night to enter the game.
In public, she keeps him on the back foot and pressures him in front of everyone, forcing her cheating husband to spend a fortune on a face-slapping display to save face.
Her husband stays away for half a month, meeting his new lover night after night, while her mother-in-law sees everything clearly and offers not a word of admonishment.
Instead, she urges Ji Ningshuang to find someone else and have a child, saying that's the only way to counter outsiders and protect her marriage.
With her heart reduced to ashes, Ji Ningshuang goes along with this absurd scheme.
When Li Yansong learns that his wife is "looking for pleasure" elsewhere, he is instantly enraged and humiliated.
He forcefully returns home and brandishes divorce as a threat, trying to make her come back.
Ji Ningshuang not only refuses to return, she decisively agrees to the divorce.
After an unexpected passionate encounter, she reunites with her former lover, Murong Yanci.
When the divorce papers appear in the office, he refuses to sign: "I won't get divorced."
