When she kicks him in the head after coming on too strongly, she shows some regret and compassion, nursing him back to health and they develop a friendship.

He Yanhong arranges for a lawyer to free Yang Rui from prison, and he tracks her down, discovering that her real name is actually An Xin, and that she moved to Beijing to escape a disastrous love triangle that led to her former husband's death and threatens both her life and that of her child, Xiong.

In revealing herself to Yang Rui, he learns the following: An Xin was an up-and-coming police officer in Yunnan Province of southern China, engaged to a journalist named Tiejun who also has a promising career.

Since neither knew the other's true profession, she is forced to testify against Mao Jie and his parents receive the death penalty.

However Mao Jie is able to convince a judge to set him free because of accusations that An Xin may have framed him to exit their now extinguished love affair.