Mr Jiang has gone to great lengths to have a meeting set up with Mr Yang from Bosi, and like LiangLiang with her real estate acquisitions, he had the green companies lined up on his desk to present to Yang. His tea and cigar were rejected and a call from Beauty Pearl Society interrupted them. It was very refreshing to see Mr Jiang get some of his treatment to others thrown back at him. Mr Yang very aptly got the painting’s ambiance and he put it quite plainly what he thought of it, leaving the question who is acquiring whom up in the air. I am sure Jiang didn’t expect his offering to get tossed to the floor any more than Liang Liang expected her land deeds to be left worthless on the table. We next see YuCi has purchased a three year rental for LiangLiang’s parents. She has even included a rehabilitation area and elevator for Mr Xu. It is very gray turf with her having Ms Bai pretend to be head of Beauty Pearl society. Whatever debt is between them will be paid if she does this for YuCi. She shows her Bai MuRan’s picture and tells her to just say yes to whatever he wants. YuCi has set up an invitational gathering to introduce select people to Beauty Pearl society. She also has set up MuRan to accompany Ms Bai to the meeting. He has no clue it is LiangLiang’s mother because she never disclosed her real family. Ms Bai is absolutely stunning in her disguise. She feels like Cinderella but willing to help YuCi deal with the guy that hurt her. Pengyu keeps telling LiangLiang he knows nothing about Beauty Pearl society and that this Mr Han was a nobody turned super star by his article about them. He offers to take her so that he can prove he has no dealings with them aside from this invitation. Prior to the gathering, YuCi meets with MuRan across from a PengYu building while he grills her on why she wants to work with him. She glances at the building and shows him her pic of LiangLiang with PengYu. At the gathering Liang Liang is stunned to see her mother brought in as the leader of Beauty Pearl society. Before she can say anything of the setup to MuRan he confronts her about her relationship with PengYu. And then she gets the same slam YuCi did about being unfit to marry into his family. So instead of revealing that YuCi had designed all of this, she lets him know he now has two enemies instead of one. She also texts Mr Jiang to let him know that YuCi had lied to him and the woman presented was not from Beauty Pearl Society but a poor street vendor in disguise. In a flashback LiangLiang and MuRan are plotting to get rid of YuCi so they can sell the company. I still do not know how LiangLiang got herself in charge of YuCi’s meds, but YuCi willingly accepted the change in spite of her reaction to them. MuRan further convinced her she’d be better after resting, while hiding a knife in her room. Mr Jiang confronts YuCi and she admits she planned it all. She candidly said they would come to see who dared to pretend to be them just like he did, and at that point, they would all find out who really belonged to the society. What was interesting is that there was a real Beauty Pearl Society member at the gathering. The society decided to play along for reasons unknown. He is the liaison from whoever is really in charge of the society wanting to know what her next move is and how they can assist. It remains to be seen what the fallout will be between PengYu and MuRan and whether LiangLiang will continue any relationship with PengYu after the betrayal reveal at the gathering. This episode is an intricate dance of the three members of ChuXia and YuCi wants to direct their spiraling with her machinations this round.
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