Quincy opens the episode as the wife of Luke Group CEO Calvin, rushing to pick up their daughter Jessica from the hospital in the rain. Family members press her to be careful while reminding her of a deeper bargain: she once vowed to break 100 dragon bones to repay Calvin, and only three breaks remain. At a market she spares a sentient Gold-Scaled Fish—buying it to save it—and vows to keep sacrificing despite warnings that breaking her bones could ruin her roots or kill her. Her family then vows to ruin Calvin after the final break, leaving Quincy with three chances and a looming return to the sea.
Ms. Muller, weak in a human body, is brought to Calvin's house and reveals she once defied heaven to give birth to Dora, who needs a drop of her blood daily. Jessica, pregnant via IVF, is staying while unwell. Quincy confronts Calvin, accusing him of hiding a child; Calvin insists he only helped with IVF and denies intimacy. The argument escalates until Calvin orders Jessica into the guest room and tells Quincy to sleep on the couch. Dora gleefully claims Ms. Muller, leaving Quincy's marriage unsettled and her immediate response unresolved.
Tonight the household is tense: Jessica is pregnant and too weak to sleep on the couch, so someone offers to sleep there with her. Mr. Lewis from Lewis Group arrives tomorrow; this project will decide the company’s future. Late, Ms. Muller’s belly pains and children shout for Dad to check. Dora is scolded for not making breakfast, insists she’s unwell, then tells Calvin, “It’s time for me to leave,” after eight years of feeling tossed aside. With the pregnancy emergency and Dora’s sudden exit, tomorrow’s crucial meeting is now at risk.
Quincy borrows Dora's jade token and, when confronted, brusquely returns it after being scolded. The token’s maker insists it was crafted from their hardest scale and can protect Dora, but Quincy shrugs it off. Later Quincy collapses with fever and severe abdominal pain; Calvin and Jessica rush her to the hospital. Doctors alarm the group by saying the situation may be a threatened miscarriage rather than a simple fever. The episode ends with Quincy critically ill, the jade’s protective claim newly urgent, and loved ones scrambling as her outcome remains uncertain.
An unconscious woman is rushed into the ER with a near-40°C fever and no family; staff discover unusually colored blood and send samples to a special lab. The episode cuts to Quincy at work, hurried to greet Mr. Lewis for a high-stakes project. Colleagues remind her Jessica, the former lead, drank until she vomited blood to placate Lewis Group, so the project was reassigned. One colleague—revealing Mr. Lewis is her second brother—pressures Quincy to make Lewis satisfied and asks her to sign a document first. Quincy must decide under pressure as the lab report remains pending.
Quincy is hurried to the conference room after being told the project with Mr. Lewis takes priority. At the office, Jessica — claiming she's pregnant — brings coffee to Ms. Lewis, spills it, and says Quincy slapped her when she refused to clean. Quincy insists she was attacked first and denies slapping anyone. Calvin and coworkers accept Jessica’s story and press Quincy, praising Jessica's kindness. The situation turns sharper when a colleague taunts, 'Do you think you can be so arrogant just because you are my wife?' The episode ends with Quincy isolated, her denial unanswered as someone calls, 'Quincy.'
At a high-stakes client meeting, Quincy’s company apologizes after an employee, Jessica, drunkenly crossed professional lines while trying to win the account. Mr. Lewis withdraws the contract, calling the firm unqualified. Back at the office, colleagues blame Quincy for making a scene; Calvin admits failing to stop the incident and is suspended pending investigation. The episode’s key turn comes when an executive points out a signed document that took effect the moment it was signed, legally distancing leadership: whatever happens to Luke Group 'has nothing to do with me.' The company is left reeling, contracts lost and leadership fractured.
Calvin is told to check on Quincy after bosses insist her punishment for a company loss is justified; they say she has no right to be upset. The episode shifts to a tense household: a man returns early to pack while his father is away. At a birthday, Dora’s mother gives her a brooch, saying it will let Dora "survive even without my blood every day" and orders her to keep it until eighteen. When relatives notice the mother seems off, Yale shows up saying, "I want to come home," leaving the household tense and Quincy's punishment unresolved.
Quincy finally comes to and tries to leave with a suitcase, but coworkers grab her and insist she stay. At the office Calvin blames her for losing a major Lewis Group contract and says she must compensate for the loss. Quincy insists his bullying ruined the deal and that Jessica’s efforts were wasted. Management points out she signed a document and orders her to attend a crucial business dinner tonight—Mr. Warren of Greenhill Group specifically asked to see her. Quincy refuses and struggles, yet is forced into the obligation, leaving the outcome of the meeting hanging.
At a company dinner Quincy is pressured to drink and seduce Mr. Warren so Calvin can recover a lost client. Colleagues openly accuse her of costing the Lewis Group deal and insist Calvin earned his status alone. Calvin humiliates Quincy in front of peers; she rejects being their "sacrifice," vows to live for herself, and refuses alcohol. Mr. Warren arrives and flatters her, insisting she drink to seal favors. When someone grabs her at the table, a voice erupts, "Who dares to touch my sister?"—leaving the dinner on the edge of a public confrontation.