Now, two questions I've been asking myself and been waiting for the answer.

The first one - the reasoning behind Ruiqi not recognizing Xiao Duo. Also I must say, its only in romantic novels this is possible, but in reality she was blinded and had a relationship with someone she's supposed to know, but still it's risque.

At that time Ruiqi saw everything in blur. Xiao Duo was actually sick and had fever, so his voice was raspy and "unrecognizable" though I think it's bs and thankfully Ruiqi caught on to it. Although it took her time. Logically people speak differently and she should have noticed it almost right away.

But why she thought it was Liang Qinyue, she called grandpa Qiu and Xiao Duo's visit should have been a secret, so he only mentioned Liang Qinyue.

Then Liang Qinyue showed that he wasn't interested and Ruiqi thought fantasy and reality are two different things, since the man made her feel warm and good, but Ling Qinyue she saw was far from that.

Very weak reasoning to me, but let's make it work.

But Xiao Duo did not claim the man as himself because after they parted the news of the marriage came out and he thought Ruiqi did not think much of their relationship, but he still tried his own means to disrupt it (yeah even sent that celeb).

Now the mystery part, which is way sillier.

It is indeed connected to Ruiqi and her painting 'Spring Love'. As we find out the one who was after her was a man who killed the woman in her paiting and she was the last to see her.

Although Chestnut tried to make it feel like the killer was slowly dancing around and infiltrating Ruiqi's circle, but due to length of the novel it actually felt rushed as if the person was getting impatient. His idea behind the first attempt was more reasonable unlike the second one when he was caught.

The first time he wanted to pretend to me a maintanace guy and stun Ruiqi and create an accident. The case might be more complicated to solve. But now he decided to stun her face to face and get into a car accident and make her lose her life, but he will survive, which is questionable. Because now she has Xiao Duo to think about her and he would dig 6 feet to dig out the truth.

This is where I think reasoning of Ruiqi being targetted kinda weak. Ruiqi's style is not distinct in her painting to make the face of the woman stand out. It was so loud when her painting was on a hot search and the woman's parents did not come forward after all. This guy might have as well stayed put and not make any weird moves, the more he did the s*upider it looked and the more suspicious everyone around became. Because unless the parents claim the missing person the case would not be opened. It is very unlikely for Ruiqi herself to be ineterested in that woman. After all this guy came across Ruiqi not once and asked her pointed questions about the woman and those answers gave a general idea that she is clueless af. For readers it was evident that he is shady, but it might not be the case for her. So it was kinda silly.