The Best Friend Recap, Plot, Synopsis

The Best Friend Synopsis

Duan Ruonan and Fan Xiaowei were best friends who talked about everything. After Xiaowei's boyfriend betrayed her, Ruonan took Xiaowei home to live with her and her boyfriend.

However, because the three of them were living together, Xiaowei and Ruonan's boyfriend Li Xiao started a forbidden romance behind Ruonan's back.

On the anniversary of Ruonan and Li Xiao's relationship, the emotional entanglement between the three came to light, and the once best friends became enemies overnight. Ruonan left in sadness.

However, the good times did not last long. As the passion between Li Xiao and Fan Xiaowei faded, Xiaowei, who lacked a sense of security, began to show almost psychotic control over Li Xiao, suffocating him.

By accident, Ruonan and Li Xiao met again, and the three became involved with each other once more. Tired of Xiaowei's controlling behavior, Li Xiao rekindled his old feelings for Ruonan and broke up with Xiaowei.

Xiaowei blamed all the wrongdoing on Ruonan and joined Ruonan's new company to start a revenge plan.

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Duan Ruonan wants to propose to her boyfriend Li Xiao after four years of relationship. However, her best friend Fan Xiaowei was dumped by her boyfriend. Angry Duan Ruonan went to Chen Chen’s engagement ceremony, Fan Xiaowei’s ex-boyfriend. At the wedding, Duan Ruonan listed all the crimes of the unfaithful man Chen Chen and accused him of abandoning Fan Xiaowei who had been with him for many years for money. Now he is engaged to another woman while still hiding it from Fan Xiaowei. He will definitely get his comeuppance. The engagement ceremony of the unfaithful man Chen Chen was ruined and his ugly face was exposed in public. Duan Ruonan finally helped Fan Xiaowei vent her anger. On the other hand, Fan Xiaowei who wanted to commit suicide due to emotional frustration was rescued by Li Xiao who arrived in time. The two best friends promised to protect each other for life. However, Chen Chen did not want to let go of Fan Xiaowei easily and posted her photo online. Fan Xiaowei was humiliated by the messages on the internet and her psychological defense line collapsed again. She went to the rooftop and prepared to end her life. Fortunately, Duan Ruonan and Li Xiao discovered her situation in time and saved her again.

Ruonan and her boyfriend Li Xiao carefully comforted Fan Xiaowei who was emotionally hurt. In order to help her get out of the emotional haze as soon as possible, Ruonan decided to take her and Li Xiao camping together and planned to propose to Li Xiao during the camping trip. The next day, Fan Xiaowei who caught a cold waited for Li Xiao to come back with medicine but ran into Ruonan who came home early. Fan Xiaowei and Li Xiao had to be evasive, but Ruonan who was bold did not realize that there was already an ambiguous affection between them. On the way to camping, Fan Xiaowei told Li Xiao about Ruonan’s proposal surprise in advance. Ruonan and Li Xiao had been in love for years, but Li Xiao who was afraid of marriage had been unwilling to take on the responsibility of starting a family. After learning about Ruonan’s proposal plan, Li Xiao found a way to drop the ring into the water. The two had a fierce argument at the camping base. Li Xiao often compared Fan Xiaowei with Ruonan. He became less tolerant of Ruonan’s irritability and more appreciative and moved by Fan Xiaowei.

Ruonan was in a bad mood because of her failed proposal and got angry with Li Xiao. However, Fan Xiaowei was very gentle in comforting Ruonan and made her reflect on her own temper. Ruonan realized that she felt that her passion had been worn down by getting along with Li Xiao day by day. So she and Fan Xiaowei went to the bar to get drunk. They even played happily with friends they met at the bar. Fan Xiaowei who was worried about Ruonan’s situation sent a message to Li Xiao. Li Xiao rushed to the door of the bar to pick them up and saw Ruonan who was drunk and he was very disgusted. On the way, Fan Xiaowei persuaded them not to be angry. Li Xiao finally expressed his unwillingness to get married…

Fan Xiaowei came up with a clever solution to defuse the crisis. The next day, Li Xiao prepared a gift to thank Fan Xiaowei for her help. Li Xiao appreciated Fan Xiaowei’s gentleness and kindness which was in stark contrast to Ruonan. However, Fan Xiaowei refused Li Xiao’s emotional expression because she did not accept Li Xiao’s treatment of her good sister Ruonan. Especially when Li Xiao bought the swan necklace that Fan Xiaowei wanted but was misunderstood by Ruonan as a proposal gift for herself, Fan Xiaowei became even more guilty. She took the initiative to find Li Xiao and clarify her inner thoughts and hoped that Li Xiao could treat Ruonan well. But this made Li Xiao panic and he realized that Fan Xiaowei was the one he should be with at this moment…

Just when Fan Xiaowei was explaining to Ruonan that nothing had happened between her and Li Xiao, Ruonan got angry and wanted to slap Fan Xiaowei. However, she accidentally hit Li Xiao instead. Li Xiao was completely enraged. He angrily criticized Ruonan for all the things she had done wrong in recent years and said that he was not happy with his relationship with Ruonan at all. He was full of grievances and Ruonan could not understand or accept it. Her true feelings turned out to be a kind of grievance in Li Xiao’s eyes. Li Xiao officially broke up with Ruonan. Ruonan was forced to leave the house she shared with Li Xiao and moved into an old and shabby apartment. The difficulties of her new life made her very sad. On the first day of work at her new company, she couldn’t control her emotions and had a conflict with Wu Ze whom she met by chance. After reporting to her new company, Ruonan was surprised to find that Wu Ze whom she had just argued with was actually her boss…

After Li Xiao and Ruonan broke up, he became Fan Xiaowei’s boyfriend. However, Fan Xiaowei who was extremely insecure began to show a control desire that was almost pathological towards Li Xiao, making him feel suffocated. As a new employee of the company, Ruonan was called out by her boss Gu Hong to socialize with clients and was harassed by a lewd client. She was rescued again by Wu Ze. Ruonan went to the bathroom to fix herself up and happened to run into Li Xiao who was also at the hotel. Their encounter triggered strong dissatisfaction from Fan Xiaowei who had followed Li Xiao. Ruonan wanted to leave but was entangled by Li Xiao. Wu Ze helped Ruonan again and even sent her home, expressing his fondness for her. Ruonan was not used to having a man be so considerate of her and felt scared. Wu Ze expressed his feelings warmly and said he wasn’t in a hurry for an answer. Li Xiao made it clear that he could no longer tolerate Fan Xiaowei’s crazy behavior. Fan Xiaowei apologized and obtained forgiveness, so she blamed Ruonan for everything and became even more controlling towards Li Xiao…

Wu Ze sent Ruonan home and they confided in each other. Meanwhile, Li Xiao was annoyed by Fan Xiaowei’s deliberate attempts to please him. He finally couldn’t sit still and went to find Ruonan. However, he found Wu Ze at Ruonan’s house. Li Xiao argued with Wu Ze but was questioned by Wu Ze about what his identity was and why he was interfering in Ruonan’s private affairs. Li Xiao was speechless. Fan Xiaowei couldn’t stand Li Xiao’s sudden visit to Ruonan even more. In order to bring Li Xiao back, she deliberately cut herself with a knife and went to the hospital. Ruonan felt guilty about this and went to the hospital to explain things to Fan Xiaowei and said that she would not be involved with Li Xiao anymore and would start a new life. The next day, Ruonan was dissatisfied with Sun Beijia’s fault-finding and argued with him. However, Sun Beijia turned around and accused Ruonan of relying on men to get ahead. Angry Ruonan wanted to hit Sun Beijia but was stopped by Gu Hong who deliberately made things difficult for her and privately asked her to be his lover again…

Li Xiao confessed to Ruonan that he still couldn’t let go of her, but Ruonan said she wouldn’t turn back anymore. Li Xiao was not convinced and went home to break up with Fan Xiaowei. However, Fan Xiaowei apologized again and promised to change, so he forgave her. Ruonan planned to pretend to agree to Gu Hong’s invitation and go to the hotel. Gu Hong thought that Ruonan had really agreed to be his mistress and became complacent, revealing many secrets hidden in his heart. All of this was heard by Gu Tai who was brought by Wu Ze. Gu Tai made a scene and Gu Hong was transferred away by the group due to his misconduct. Ruonan finally got rid of Gu Hong’s harassment. After winning, Ruonan forced Sun Beijia to apologize. Sun Beijia apologized under pressure but still harbored hatred towards Ruonan. Li Xiao enjoyed Fan Xiaowei’s care while planning to win back Ruonan. He was wavering between two women and didn’t know what he really wanted. One day, he accidentally discovered a tracker installed in his phone by Fan Xiaowei at home…

Li Xiao was rejected when he proposed to break up with Fan Xiaowei. The two had a fierce argument and Fan Xiaowei fainted due to stress. After waking up, she received a call from home and learned that her father was injured and hospitalized. Li Xiao continued to win back Ruonan. Ruonan couldn’t bear to be too cruel and was misunderstood by Wu Ze as being fickle. Fan Xiaowei asked Li Xiao for help in paying medical expenses. Li Xiao agreed but asked for a breakup with Fan Xiaowei as the only condition. Fan Xiaowei reluctantly agreed. After losing her source of income, Fan Xiaowei began looking for work and eventually joined Sanyuan e-commerce company with Sun Beijia’s help. The gentle and considerate Fan Xiaowei quickly won the trust of her colleagues, but Ruonan believed that Fan Xiaowei was approaching her with bad intentions. The two were always at odds and colleagues were dissatisfied with Ruonan’s behavior…

Xiao Wei pretended to be injured and cried, blaming herself for making a mistake. However, Sun Beijia attributed it to Ruonan’s push and deliberately made things difficult for Ruonan. He demanded that Ruonan come up with a solution to solve the problem, otherwise he would judge Ruonan as an unqualified intern. Ruonan and Wu Ze were at a loss, but Li Xiao relied on his connections to borrow the broken perfume and arrived at the event site in time to help Ruonan save the day. Ruonan was grateful to Li Xiao, which made Wu Ze unhappy. At the celebration party, everyone witnessed the intimacy between Ruonan and Li Xiao. Wu Ze was jealous and misunderstood their relationship. He demanded fairness and deliberately punished Ruonan. Ruonan admitted her mistake and willingly accepted the punishment. Li Xiao stayed behind voluntarily and helped Ruonan clean up the venue but accidentally cut his hand. Ruonan was moved by Li Xiao’s actions. For the new project, Ruonan didn’t want to work with Fan Xiaowei. However, Fan Xiaowei took advantage of this and arranged for colleagues to think that Ruonan was arrogant and difficult to work with…

During a company meeting, Ruonan found that her plan was exactly the same as Fan Xiaowei’s cover. She questioned whether Fan Xiaowei had stolen her plan but was instead accused by Fan Xiaowei of stealing her cover. Although the covers were the same, the contents were different. Ruonan was very aggrieved and all her colleagues stood by Fan Xiaowei. No one believed in her innocence, not even Wu Ze. Wu Ze even asked Ruonan to provide evidence that Fan Xiaowei had stolen her plan. Angry Ruonan confronted Fan Xiaowei on the rooftop and questioned why she had treated her like this. Fan Xiaowei justified herself by saying that she was trying to keep her job and they officially declared war on each other. Ruonan sought justice from Wu Ze but Wu Ze believed that things should not be made bigger and they parted ways. Under Sun Beijia’s persuasion, Fan Xiaowei learned that Wu Ze’s mother was a major shareholder of the company and believed that she could only stand firm in the company if she could win over Wu Ze. So she busily helped Wu Ze’s mother prepare for her birthday party…

Faced with his mother’s matchmaking with Fan Xiaowei and himself, Wu Ze confessed that he had already fallen in love with Ruonan and publicly confessed his love to her, asking her to be his girlfriend. Just then, Ruonan received a phone call and said she had to leave immediately. Wu Ze was very disappointed and learned from Fan Xiaowei that Ruonan had left because of Li Xiao’s text message. Wu Ze was heartbroken and drank heavily. At the suggestion of Wu Ze’s mother, Fan Xiaowei stayed behind to take care of Wu Ze. On Ruonan’s side, she was called away by Li Xiao from the birthday party and went to the hospital only to find out that Li Xiao was fine and that he wanted to destroy her relationship with Wu Ze. Ruonan was angry and blamed Li Xiao before rushing back to Wu’s house to apologize to Wu Ze. When she arrived, she found Fan Xiaowei and Wu Ze together and angrily accused them without distinguishing right from wrong. Afterwards, Wu Ze told Fan Xiaowei that he really liked Ruonan and chased after her…

Fan Xiaowei deliberately spread rumors in the company about how Ruonan was able to immediately become the project leader because she had already hooked up with manager Wu Ze. Just as Ruonan and Wu Ze arrived at the company, Ruonan heard everything and before Wu Ze could explain, she immediately went up to Fan Xiaowei and cried out in grievance, questioning whether Fan Xiaowei was resentful of her ruining her good fortune and spreading rumors about her in the company. Wu Ze also cleared Ruonan’s name and confirmed that Fan Xiaowei was spreading rumors. Ruonan was unhappy that Fan Xiaowei was always gentle and soft-spoken and that she herself was not impulsive and reckless. From then on, Ruonan became more patient in explaining things to her colleagues at work and soon her colleagues’ attitudes towards her changed. Fan Xiaowei, who was ostracized, had to turn to Wu Ze’s mother for help and thus obtained a large business order and became a team leader…

Li Xiao pulled Fan Xiaowei to a street corner and told her that he had already found out how she got the business order. If Fan Xiaowei refused to give up the business order voluntarily, he would tell Wu Ze’s mother that Fan Xiaowei was pretending to be a rich girl. Fan Xiaowei didn’t dare to be exposed and had to reluctantly agree to Li Xiao’s request. She returned to the company and gave up both the business order and her position as team leader to Ruonan. Although Ruonan was surprised by Fan Xiaowei’s actions, she still took on the role of live broadcast director. Unexpectedly, all of this was just a trap set by Fan Xiaowei. She pretended to agree to let Ruonan take charge but secretly teamed up with Sun Beijia to destroy Ruonan’s live broadcast. Fortunately, with Wu Ze’s help, Ruonan was well-prepared and not only completed her work but also captured evidence of Fan Xiaowei and Sun Beijia’s wrongdoing. Ruonan demanded that Fan Xiaowei resign voluntarily or else she would report the matter to the board of directors. Both Fan Xiaowei and Sun Beijia had to leave…

After discussing with Fan Xiaowei, Sun Beijia took the initiative to find Gu Hong and proposed that he return to the company to help them get rid of Ruonan. However, Gu Hong did not easily agree to Sun Beijia’s invitation to cooperate but demanded a price… When Ruonan and Wu Ze thought everything was in the past and they were finally ready to face the right work environment together, they returned to the company with full fighting spirit only to find that not only were Sun Beijia and Fan Xiaowei there but Gu Hong had also returned. Wu Ze questioned him but Gu Hong said that he had come back because of the live broadcast accident which had caused trouble for the company. The group sent him back to take charge of the branch again. He also used the live broadcast accident as an excuse to hold everyone accountable and Ruonan was the first person he targeted. Wu Ze resigned voluntarily to protect Ruonan. Ruonan went to Wu Ze’s house to find him but was humiliated by Wu Ze’s mother. However, Wu Ze came out to protect her and Ruonan was moved. Finally, she established a relationship with Wu Ze.

Li Xiao went to Ruonan’s house to find her but found that Ruonan and Wu Ze were already together. Li Xiao was dissatisfied and spoke without thinking, angering Wu Ze. The two fought and ended up in the hospital with bruises. Fan Xiaowei deliberately brought Wu Ze’s mother to the hospital and blamed everything on Ruonan, cursing her while Fan Xiaowei helped out. Fan Xiaowei’s behavior completely angered Li Xiao who exposed Fan Xiaowei’s true identity in front of Wu Ze’s mother. Wu Ze’s mother was unhappy that Fan Xiaowei had deceived her with her background and vowed never to interfere with Wu Ze’s affairs again. She left the hospital angrily and Fan Xiaowei’s plan failed. Li Xiao also grew up at this moment and finally understood what Ruonan wanted. He decided to protect Ruonan’s happiness to make up for his previous mistakes. In the company, Sun Beijia and Fan Xiaowei teamed up to boycott Ruonan and did not allow her to participate in any projects…

The opportunity to be in charge that Fan Xiaowei had fought so hard for was taken away by Ruonan again. Fan Xiaowei was very upset and went to Gu Hong again. They designed a plan and deliberately caused trouble at the event venue. They tried to sabotage the event so that Ruonan would resign for the failed event. Although Wu Ze was resting at home, he was still worried about Ruonan and came to the event site to visit her. Unexpectedly, he encountered harassment and accidentally got hit on the head and fell unconscious and was hospitalized. After experiencing everything, Ruonan finally realized that she did not want to continue this meaningless struggle with Fan Xiaowei. This kind of struggle not only lost their sisterhood but also made her very unhappy now. Ruonan took the initiative to resign. However, on the day of her resignation, Fan Xiaowei still did not let Ruonan go and made things difficult for her in various ways…

Fan Xiaowei won over Ruonan in her company position and thought she could thrive in the company. However, she did not expect that Beijia would always be above her head and even used the same tactics that she had used against Ruonan on her. Beijia made Fan Xiaowei do everything and Fan Xiaowei was unhappy and came up with a plan. At the conference where she reported departmental performance to Chairman Jin, Fan Xiaowei deliberately wrote the wrong numbers for Beijia’s plan and exposed that Wu Ze’s suspension and Ruonan’s resignation were due to Beijia’s personnel struggles. Beijia was criticized and Fan Xiaowei was promoted to team leader. At this moment, Fan Xiaowei finally felt that she had a foothold in the company and showed off her team leader style. However, things did not go as planned. She did not expect that Gu Hong would find her first and asked her to replace Beijia in entertaining clients. Fan Xiaowei only realized what kind of situation it was when she arrived at the party venue. She was dissatisfied with such an unwritten rule in the workplace and fled from the party in panic…

Fan Xiaowei woke up in the hospital and was told by the doctor that she had a risk of disfigurement. Fan Xiaowei, who was helpless and alone, recalled the time she spent with Ruonan and cried in despair. Ruonan was taking care of Wu Ze in the hospital and accidentally saw Fan Xiaowei. After learning about Fan Xiaowei’s situation, Ruonan promised that if Fan Xiaowei really turned over a new leaf, she would help her out of her predicament. After experiencing all this, Fan Xiaowei finally realized how wrong she was. She had hurt her best sister for her own selfish desires and made herself so miserable now. Fan Xiaowei decided to change herself completely. Under Ruonan’s leadership, Fan Xiaowei took the initiative to admit her mistakes to Li Xiao and Wu Ze. The four of them made peace and decided to bring down Gu Hong, who was a cancer in the workplace. With Li Xiao’s and Wu Ze’s help, Ruonan and Fan Xiaowei learned about Gu Hong’s business conspiracy and planned to let Fan Xiaowei approach clients again to obtain evidence.

Just when Fan Xiaowei and Duan Ruonan thought their plan had succeeded, they discovered that the cunning Gu Hong had already seen through their plan and signed a fake name in the order. Gu Hong was very pleased with himself, thinking that they could no longer do anything to him. However, Li Xiao arrived in time and fortunately, he knew that Gu Hong would have a backup plan. He took Gu Hong's client, Mr. Zhao, to the scene beforehand as authentication. Seeing that the situation was turning against him, Gu Hong's company's chairman asked him to explain and report to the police. Gu Hong was unhappy and wanted to go down fighting with Duan Ruonan. When Fan Xiaowei saw that Duan Ruonan was in danger, she immediately threw herself in front of Duan Ruonan and successfully saved the evidence with her own body. Gu Hong was completely overthrown and received the punishment he deserved. Fan Xiaowei decided to leave the city and start a new life in her hometown. Before Duan Ruonan and Fan Xiaowei parted ways, the two friends revisited the places where they used to spend good times together and found closure with each other. They both rushed towards their new lives.

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