Love's Encore

Episode 1

Nancy Beck's world collapses when her father, Zhuang Zhirong, dies in a car accident three days before the story opens. As the family fortune passes according to the will and the company prepares to be renamed, Nancy confronts Luke Clark with a raw accusation: was her father's crash really an accident, or did Luke arrange it? Luke reveals he watched her father die, and that he entered the family to make them pay for his parents.

Then he slides a divorce agreement across the table — sign it, and he'll let her go. Nancy is shattered. She once loved him, believed she couldn't turn back. Now she's lost everything.

Episode 2

Nancy opens her eyes in 2008 — her eighteenth birthday, years before the ruin. She's been reborn, and this time she refuses to repeat the past. She tells Zhan Yu she won't threaten him with self-harm anymore; if he wants to date someone, he should. She calls him her brother and says she's finally thought things through.

Meanwhile, Luke's revenge machine keeps running. Zhan Yu pushes him to marry into the family and use Nancy to bring down Zhuang Zhirong — to avenge his parents. When Luke seems reluctant, Zhan Yu warns him coldly: don't get soft, and don't ever fall for her.

Episode 3

Nancy wakes to a household that fusses over her health. Bai Shuya, who grew up with her in the orphanage, is drawn back into her orbit — and this time Nancy doesn't want a war. She remembers the last life, when she misunderstood Bai Shuya as a rival for Zhan Yu's affection and tormented her mercilessly.

Now Nancy steps back. She tells herself she won't compete for Zhan Yu, and she won't treat Bai Shuya as an enemy. But old wounds don't close overnight. Bai Shuya still carries the memory of being hurt — and somewhere in the quiet, a question lingers: why did things have to end the way they did?

Episode 4

Nancy keeps her distance, and it throws everyone off. When Zhan Yu offers her a gift, she accepts it calmly — no clinging, no scene. She tells him she's done fighting Bai Shuya; this life, she won't repeat the mistakes of the last one.

She even steps aside so Zhan Yu can take Bai Shuya shopping, claiming she's tired and heading upstairs. Luke watches her go, unsettled. He expected the old Nancy — the one who schemed to bind Zhan Yu to her with marriage. Instead she wishes him a peaceful, happy future.

Her sudden calm is a weapon of its own, and Luke can't tell if it's real or a new game.

Episode 5

In the quiet of the house, a darker thread surfaces. Someone asks whether the medicine for the young lady should continue. The reply is chilling: keep giving it. A few more months and Nancy will never be able to conceive.

Nancy, unaware, is busy tidying Zhan Yu's room and telling Bai Shuya she has no intention of competing for him — Zhan Yu loves Bai Shuya, and she's happy for them. She insists Zhan Yu is only her brother now. But the poison is already in motion.

Later, a birthday gift arrives: a teddy bear, meant to stand in for her presence whenever she can't be there.

Episode 6

The teddy bear gets ruined — and Bai Shuya says it was thrown out by mistake, mistaken for something useless. Nancy recognizes the pattern instantly. Every time, Bai Shuya cries, and somehow Nancy is cast as the unreasonable one if she doesn't forgive.

Nancy refuses to play along. She says it's a small thing, and besides, the bear isn't hers anymore — no apology needed. She walks off to dinner, leaving everyone staring.

But the moment lands harder than she lets on. Bai Shuya's tears, the household's sympathy, the way Nancy is always the villain — it's the same script as her past life. Only this time, she's not breaking.

Episode 7

Nancy shares a quiet meal with the housekeeper, who treats her like a daughter. The housekeeper notices the sadness Nancy hides and urges her to make friends when she returns to school — she shouldn't be alone.

Nancy says the housekeeper is enough, that she's like a mother to her. Yet the tenderness can't cover the danger lurking in the house. The medicine keeps coming, dose after dose. Three more months, and it will be too late.

Meanwhile, Nancy wrestles with a painful contradiction: Luke doesn't love her, yet he keeps remembering her favorite desserts, offering small kindnesses that feel like hope. She tells herself she doesn't care who he loves. But the question won't leave her alone.

Episode 8

At school, the social battlefield shifts. Zhan Yu drops Nancy off but can't stay, and she tells him she's fine on her own. She also warns him not to cause trouble.

Nancy notices a classmate she clashed with in her past life and deliberately avoids provoking him. But when she sits in a seat that isn't hers, the room turns. The classmate explodes, ordering her to get lost, and the class watches Nancy humiliated, whispering that she looks like a clown.

It's a setup, and Nancy knows it. Someone wanted her to look arrogant and entitled. The question is who — and why.

Episode 9

The fallout from the classroom drama spreads through the school forums. Nancy stays composed, refusing to give anyone the reaction they want. A classmate needles her, suggesting she should tell the teacher what happened — but Nancy keeps quiet.

Whispers circulate that someone deliberately made her look bad, that a certain person knew the classmate hated her and still pushed her into the trap. The cruelty is calculated, not accidental.

Nancy absorbs it all without crumbling. She's learned that in this life, reacting is losing. But the people around her are starting to notice something strange: the girl who used to explode at every slight has gone eerily calm.

Episode 10

The episode turns intimate and tense. Nancy tells Zhan Yu he doesn't have to look after her — she can manage alone. There's a softness between them, a warmth that wasn't there before.

Then Luke's voice cuts through, cold and accusing: this is what the family owes him. He hasn't forgotten. He never will. Nancy is caught between the man who destroyed her and the brother she's trying to protect.

And somewhere in the wreckage, a promise surfaces — this time, she won't miss her chance. She won't let the past repeat itself. But Luke's revenge is still unfolding, and Nancy has no idea how close the danger really is.

Watch Love's Encore and see whether a second chance can truly rewrite a doomed fate — or whether the past always finds its way back.