Episode 18 recap: Jiang Xiaoyuan was suspicious because of the same habit.
Chen Fangzhou gave everyone a big red envelope and announced a half-month vacation, allowing everyone to have a prosperous New Year. Everyone was extremely happy, except for Jiang Xiaoyuan, who was alone. Little K suddenly told Jiang Xiaoyuan that she wouldn't be coming to the store after the New Year. She was going to stay in her hometown to get married. It turned out that Little K's parents were in poor health, which added to the difficulties of their already impoverished family. Little K had to go back and get married in order to have the money and time to accompany her parents. Although she loved hairdressing, it was no longer possible for her to continue with Jiang Xiaoyuan. She knew that Jiang Xiaoyuan was a determined girl and encouraged her to pursue her dreams.
Jiang Xiaoyuan unintentionally walked to the entrance of the hair salon and sat down there. Chen Fangzhou locked the store and came out, seeing that Jiang Xiaoyuan hadn't gone home yet. He advised her to buy a ticket and go home to celebrate the Lunar New Year with her grandmother. Jiang Xiaoyuan felt that the grandmother was not her own, so she was unwilling to go back and planned to stay in Luoshan City.
Chen Fangzhou knew that Jiang Xiaoyuan had recently had unpleasant experiences with Qi Lian and reminded her that if she didn't go back, she would inevitably have to rely on Qi Lian's care. Jiang Xiaoyuan said she planned to spend a week at the seaside before returning. However, she had already spent her year-end bonus and couldn't afford a plane ticket. Chen Fangzhou, as the store manager, invited Jiang Xiaoyuan to have a good meal and comforted her wounded heart.
Officer Chen, accompanied by Xiao Zhang, interrogated Huo Baiyu, who was handcuffed to the hospital bed, asking him who he had given the stolen data from Beichen to. Unfortunately, Huo Baiyu stared blankly with his eyes and refused to say anything. Officer Chen had no choice but to let Xiao Zhang keep a close watch on Huo Baiyu tonight and wait for the police from Chongqing to take over tomorrow, so the matter would be resolved.
Just as Officer Chen left, someone called Xiao Zhang to the front desk on the first floor to answer a phone call. Qi Lian took this opportunity to enter Huo Baiyu's ward. Huo Baiyu became extremely nervous as soon as he saw Qi Lian, firmly believing that Qi Lian was the virus sent to kill him. He voluntarily requested to relinquish control and asked Qi Lian not to kill him.
Qi Lian questioned whether Huo Baiyu was in the real world but mistakenly believed he was in the virtual world. This was because Huo Baiyu claimed to have arrived here through a game pod experience. However, Jiang Xiaoyuan was very certain that she came here after a car accident on a bridge. Moreover, given Jiang Xiaoyuan's personality, she would never have joined Huo Baiyu in experiencing the game pod, knowing that he was cheating on her. These words seemed to make Huo Baiyu start to doubt, and in an emotionally agitated state, he began twitching uncontrollably. Qi Lian quickly called a doctor, averting a major incident, but he himself was taken back to the police station for investigation by Officer Chen.
Officer Chen never understood why Qi Lian had to get involved in all these matters. Qi Lian handed the recording of tonight's conversation to Officer Chen and fell into contemplation. He thought about the laboratory's main research on brainwaves and suspected that the memories of Jiang Xiaoyuan and Huo Baiyu had been tampered with. But if that were the case, it didn't explain where Xu Jingyang, who had disappeared, had gone. He became increasingly confused.
Jiang Xiaoyuan was awakened by the voices of her roommates. Seeing that everyone had gone home, she felt a sense of loss. She opened the box on the table and discovered heartwarming messages and blessings from everyone, along with a red envelope. Moved, her eyes welled up. At that moment, her grandmother called Jiang Xiaoyuan, hoping that she would come home for the New Year. In the end, Jiang Xiaoyuan decided to go back. She and Chen Fangzhou took the same train. On the train, they discussed science fiction films. Chen Fangzhou mentioned that when he was young, he had fantasized about entering a sleep pod and living according to his own imagination. But after being beaten down by society, he realized that meeting different people every day and experiencing the ups and downs of life was what truly living meant.
Jiang Xiaoyuan seemed to have an epiphany. Just then, Jiang Bo called her, inviting her to be his assistant. Not only could she continue pursuing her passion for beauty and cosmetics, but she could also go further on this path and succeed on her own. Jiang Xiaoyuan found it difficult to make a decision, so Jiang Bo told her to give him an answer tomorrow.
As soon as Jiang Xiaoyuan got off the train, she saw her grandmother waiting for her in the snow. Worried that she might be hungry, her grandmother had made dumplings and held them in her arms. When Jiang Xiaoyuan ate them, they were still warm, which touched her deeply. Her grandmother was concerned that Jiang Xiaoyuan might not find transportation in the snowy weather, so she had arranged for Uncle Qi to pick her up. Jiang Xiaoyuan was pulled back home on a tricycle by Uncle Qi. She felt something strange about this place. When she entered Jiang Xiaoyuan's room, she found that the position of the cups on the table was exactly the same as when she was the young miss of the Jiang family. Even the way things were arranged in the drawers was identical. Jiang Xiaoyuan couldn't believe it. She remembered that she had a secret she didn't want anyone to know, and she would hide it under the bed. So she tentatively looked under the bed and found an iron box inside, containing two books.
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