Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingyue discovered she could hear Lin Chen’s thoughts, learned that he was her online girlfriend Little Moon, and arranged to video chat with him that night. Lin Chen left work early to prepare, unaware that Yan Qingyue was the person he planned to meet online.

• Yan Qingyue heard Lin Chen’s thoughts about his girlfriend and his nickname for her, then ordered him to correct the report within fifteen minutes.
• Lin Chen accidentally sent Yan Qingyue a line of sweet talk meant for Little Moon, and she assigned him to attend a mathematics forum after he claimed it was for a journal.
• Yan Qingyue recognized Lin Chen as the man she had met on a literature forum and replied to his message as Little Moon, agreeing to a video chat at nine.
• When Zhang Weiming invited Yan Qingyue to an industry party, she declined and arranged for Lin Chen to deliver documents so he could leave work early.
• Lin Chen hurried off to prepare for the video chat while Yan Qingyue watched him go, planning a call without showing their faces.

Lin Chen prepared for a video call with Little Moon while Yan Qingyue secretly followed his plans and encountered him at the supermarket. Just before the call, Lin Chen received a God-Level Investment Decision System and learned of a promising stock tip, while Yan Qingyue heard his excited thoughts and anticipated their meeting.

• Lin Chen left work early, got his hair done, and bought supplies and flowers to prepare for his video call with Little Moon.
• Yan Qingyue checked that Lin Chen had not gone to the branch office, then encountered him shopping and let his lie about the errand pass.
• Lin Chen cleaned and decorated his apartment, then activated the God-Level Investment Decision System and received a recommendation to buy Kexiang Technology shares.
• The system deposited 50,000 yuan into Lin Chen's account and granted him a Basic Insight Aura, convincing him the opportunity was real.
• Yan Qingyue heard Lin Chen boast inwardly about becoming rich and supporting Little Moon, then waited eagerly for their video call.

Lin Chen video-called Little Moon, unaware that she was Yan Qingyue, who teased him while listening to his thoughts and hid her face from the camera. After the call, Yan investigated Kexiang Technology, while Lin Chen prepared to invest his savings and the system’s money the next morning.

• Lin Chen answered Little Moon’s video call and saw only her ceiling before she adjusted the camera to show her neck, collarbones, and legs.
• Yan Qingyue disguised her voice and appearance, listened to Lin Chen’s thoughts, and questioned him about his excited talk of striking it rich; he blamed a lottery ticket.
• Yan Qingyue teased Lin Chen during their call, then ended it without revealing her face after he called her “my moon.”
• After the call, Yan Qingyue asked Secretary Li to investigate Kexiang Technology and its recent developments before the next morning.
• Lin Chen transferred the system’s fifty thousand yuan and his savings into his Hong Kong stock trading account, eager to invest when the market opened.

Lin Chen invested all his funds in Kexiang Technology, convinced by the system that its stock would rise, while Yan Qingyue investigated his money and doubted his source of information. When the company announced a strategic partnership at exactly eleven and its share price surged, Yan Qingyue realized Lin Chen's prediction was no coincidence and wondered who he really was.

• Lin Chen arrived early, eagerly awaited the market opening, and prepared Yan Qingyue's coffee while she watched him and considered her investigation of Kexiang Technology.
• Yan Qingyue checked Kexiang Technology's stagnant stock and called Finance to investigate a deposit in Lin Chen's account.
• Lin Chen bought 85,000 shares of Kexiang Technology at HK$0.84 with all his available funds.
• Finance told Yan Qingyue that Lin Chen had received fifty thousand yuan from an overseas investment foundation and transferred a large sum to a securities account.
• At eleven, Kexiang Technology announced a strategic partnership with Xinghai Technology, its stock surged, and Lin Chen celebrated.
• Yan Qingyue concluded that Lin Chen's precise prediction was real and wondered who he was and what the overseas foundation's connection to him was.

Yan Qingyue probed Lin Chen about his rising investment in Kexiang Technology and his online girlfriend, but he hid his knowledge of the stock’s surge. After Lin Chen returned to his desk to watch his profits grow, Yan Qingyue ordered Secretary Li to investigate him and his investments.

• Yan Qingyue summoned Lin Chen and questioned his good mood, his lottery win, and his video call with Little Moon.
• Yan Qingyue brought up Kexiang Technology’s sudden stock rise and suggested Lin Chen might have had insider information, while Lin Chen pretended his investment was luck.
• Yan Qingyue ended the questioning and told Lin Chen to review the afternoon meeting materials.
• Yan Qingyue told Secretary Li to investigate the overseas investment fund and monitor Lin Chen’s activities and cash flow.
• Lin Chen checked the system notification showing a 38.7% profit and remained unaware that Yan Qingyue was watching him.

Yan Qingyue investigated Lin Chen’s suspicious investment and invited him to a private auction, hoping his uncanny intuition could help with a risky painting appraisal. She also messaged him as “Little Moon” to probe his good news, unaware that Lin Chen remained oblivious to her double approach.

• During the meeting, Lin Chen fixated on Kexiang Technology’s rising stock price while Yan Qingyue listened to his thoughts and grew more suspicious of his supposed luck.
• After Grandpa called with news of a time-sensitive, risky painting appraisal, Yan Qingyue asked Lin Chen to accompany her to a private auction and provide his intuitive judgment.
• Yan Qingyue reviewed a report showing Lin Chen’s investment funds came through a difficult-to-trace Cayman Islands entity and that he had traded using the company network.
• Yan Qingyue messaged Lin Chen as “Little Moon,” asking about his day and inviting him to share his happy news.
• Lin Chen replied with sympathy while privately celebrating his investment gains, and Yan Qingyue recognized the contrast between his inner thoughts and considerate message.

After completing his first investment task, Lin Chen gained Golden Eye and was tasked with helping Yan Qingyue win an undervalued item at an auction. At the auction, Golden Eye finally triggered on the painting they were targeting, but its uncertain reading suggested later additions and a low value.

• Lin Chen completed the beginner investment task and received the passive skill Golden Eye and the Auction Trial task.
• Lin Chen studied antiques and artworks while spending more time talking with Yan Qingyue as Little Moon.
• Yan Qingyue gave Lin Chen a suit and brought him to a private auction, where she asked him to assess lot number three, a Ming-dynasty landscape painting.
• Golden Eye triggered when Lin Chen examined the painting and gave him vague information suggesting later additions and a low value.

Lin Chen used Golden Eye’s warning to persuade Yan Qingyue not to bid on a questionable landscape painting, then urged her to buy an ordinary zitan box that concealed a valuable jeweled ornament. After Yan Qingyue uncovered the treasure, she began to wonder how Lin Chen had repeatedly known what to do.

• Lin Chen noticed Golden Eye’s warning about the anonymous Ming dynasty landscape painting and quietly told Yan Qingyue that it seemed like a later imitation.
• Yan Qingyue reconsidered the painting and lowered her paddle, letting another collector buy it for 1.5 million.
• When Golden Eye revealed that a zitan jewelry box had a hidden compartment and was severely undervalued, Lin Chen urged Yan Qingyue to bid on it.
• Yan Qingyue won the box for four hundred thousand, found its hidden compartment, and uncovered a gold filigree jeweled floral ornament.
• After a collector identified the ornament as a valuable piece from the Ming imperial workshops, Yan Qingyue looked at Lin Chen with shock and wondered what secrets he was hiding.

After Yan Qingyue and Lin Chen won the auction, she treated him to dinner and questioned his uncanny intuition, while Lin Chen celebrated his system rewards and upgraded Golden Eye. Zhang Weiming’s hostile interruption prompted Yan Qingyue to defend Lin Chen, and she ended the night ordering an investigation into both men as Lin Chen went home to explore his rewards.

• Yan Qingyue left the auction with Lin Chen and thanked him for helping her acquire the jeweled flower ornament, but he claimed his repeated successes came from intuition.
• The system declared the Auction Trial complete and awarded Lin Chen a skill point, 100 system points, and a mysterious gift pack; Lin Chen used the skill point to raise Golden Eye to intermediate level.
• Yan Qingyue took Lin Chen to Cloud Summit Restaurant for a celebratory dinner, where Zhang Weiming arrived and disparaged Lin Chen.
• Yan Qingyue introduced Lin Chen as her capable special assistant and said they were celebrating a successful project, shutting down Zhang Weiming’s insinuations.
• After dinner, Yan Qingyue told Lin Chen to keep his intuition and privately asked Secretary Li to investigate Lin Chen’s background and monitor Zhang Weiming’s actions toward him.

Lin Chen’s accidental collision with Yan Qingyue left him anxious about his job, while their ride in the elevator exposed his suggestive thoughts to her. Yan Qingyue was amused by his behavior and messaged “Little Moon” to ask for an opinion about people who hid improper thoughts behind an honest appearance.

• Lin Chen accidentally knocked foreheads with Yan Qingyue while picking up perfume cards and clothing flyers that fell from a notebook.
• Lin Chen spent the afternoon worrying that Yan Qingyue resented him for the collision.
• Lin Chen and Yan Qingyue rode the executive elevator together, where she overheard his thoughts admiring her figure.
• Yan Qingyue asked Lin Chen about Kexiang Technology, and he claimed he had only made a little pocket money before selling his shares.
• After Lin Chen hurried away at the first floor, Yan Qingyue messaged “Little Moon” to ask what he thought of people with improper thoughts.

Lin Chen panicked after Yan Qingyue’s elevator encounter and tried to avoid her, while she privately enjoyed his flustered messages as Little Moon. When the system flagged a risk involving Xinghai Technology’s CFO, Lin Chen cautiously warned Yan Qingyue, prompting her to launch an investigation.

• Lin Chen suspected Yan Qingyue had recognized his interest in her, but he reassured himself that she could not be Little Moon and replied to her complaint about a clumsy man.
• Yan Qingyue laughed at Lin Chen’s messages and praised him as gentle and steady, while Lin Chen resolved to avoid President Yan.
• During a tense meeting about acquiring Xinghai Technology, the system gave Lin Chen a mission to investigate CFO Wang Kun’s finances and possible effects on the company’s accounts.
• After the meeting, Lin Chen told Yan Qingyue he had heard rumors that Wang Kun had gambling and financial problems.
• Yan Qingyue ordered Secretary Li and the head of the risk control department to come to her office immediately.

Lin Chen learned that his tip had helped uncover suspicious dealings involving Wang Kun and Xinghai Technology, while Yan Qingyue secretly planned to punish him for his wandering thoughts. She invited him to a private video call, where her deliberate choice of attire left him distracted as she discussed the case.

• Lin Chen attended an emergency meeting where the risk control director reported suspicious transfers through Wang Kun’s accounts and irregularities at Xinghai Technology, prompting Yan Qingyue to halt the acquisition and order further investigation.
• Yan Qingyue warned Lin Chen to keep the meeting’s findings secret and told him his information had earned him credit.
• Yan Qingyue invited Lin Chen to discuss the case over a private video call at nine that evening, and he eagerly agreed.
• Yan Qingyue appeared on the call in a silk nightdress and calmly reviewed the case while Lin Chen struggled to concentrate on her analysis.

After a late-night work call with Yan Qingyue leaves Lin Chen unable to sleep, he turns to Little Moon for comfort, unaware that she is Yan Qingyue herself. Their teasing chat comforts him while Yan Qingyue enjoys their secret dual-identity game and looks forward to their next encounter.

• Yan Qingyue ended the video conference after watching Lin Chen struggle to focus, and Lin Chen took a cold shower but still could not fall asleep.
• Lin Chen messaged Little Moon about his boss's provocative pajamas and accused her of deliberately distracting him during their work call.
• Yan Qingyue teased Lin Chen by asking him to compare her figure with his boss's, and he declared that he preferred gentle, thoughtful Little Moon.
• Little Moon encouraged Lin Chen to sleep, and her messages helped him calm down and drift off.
• Yan Qingyue reflected on her growing enjoyment of their dual identities and considered adding something extra to her sugar-coated-cannonball act.

Yan Qingyue sent Lin Chen suggestive photos to torment him, leaving him sleepless and longing for her. Overwhelmed by his feelings, Lin Chen decided to ask her to meet in person.

• Lin Chen avoided Yan Qingyue at work while she quietly enjoyed his exhaustion and planned another tease.
• Yan Qingyue dressed in a black lace nightdress and sent Lin Chen three carefully framed photos, asking whether the outfit suited her.
• Lin Chen flusteredly praised her appearance and admitted that seeing her made his heart race and kept him from sleeping.
• Yan Qingyue teased him with a good-night message telling him to dream of her, and Lin Chen spent the night replaying her photos and messages.
• Lin Chen decided he wanted to meet Little Moon in person and sent her, “Little Moon! Let’s meet!”

Lin Chen asked Little Moon to meet, but Yan Qingyue refused while pretending to be busy and then sent him a revealing photo as a “goodnight treat.” Lin Chen stayed awake until dawn, overwhelmed by the photo and vowing to get even when they finally met.

• Lin Chen anxiously waited for Little Moon to answer his request to meet.
• Little Moon said she was too busy with work and suggested they meet after her busy stretch, and Lin Chen replied that he understood.
• Yan Qingyue enjoyed keeping Lin Chen waiting and sent him a revealing photo with a warning not to do anything naughty.
• Lin Chen reacted in panic and sent Little Moon messages complaining that he would not be able to sleep.
• Lin Chen spent the night awake, unable to forget the photo, and finally fell asleep at dawn after vowing to get even when they met.

Lin Chen struggled through work after Little Moon’s teasing photo kept him awake, while Yan Qingyue disguised her amusement as concern and probed him about his late-night chatting. Their lunchtime messages left him dreading another surprise from Little Moon that night.

• Lin Chen arrived at the office exhausted after staying awake over Little Moon’s photo and message.
• Yan Qingyue gave Lin Chen an energy drink and asked whether he had stayed up chatting with a girlfriend, while privately enjoying his discomfort.
• Lin Chen spent the morning distracted by Yan Qingyue’s knowing questions and thoughts of Little Moon’s photo.
• At lunch, Lin Chen told Little Moon that her photo had kept him awake and that his boss had asked about his girlfriend.
• Yan Qingyue replied as Little Moon, teased Lin Chen about his self-control, and promised another surprise that night, leaving him alarmed.

Yan Qingyue sent Lin Chen ten suggestive photos as her promised “ultimate surprise,” leaving him overwhelmed and bleeding from the nose. The next day, she saw how badly he had slept and decided to let him recover before teasing him again.

• Lin Chen spent the workday anxiously wondering what surprise Yan Qingyue had planned, then rushed home after work to wait for her message.
• Yan Qingyue sent Lin Chen ten carefully posed, suggestive photos, and he reacted so strongly that his nose began to bleed.
• Yan Qingyue checked on Lin Chen, learned he was overwhelmed, and ended the exchange with a teasing good-night message.
• Lin Chen stayed awake most of the night replaying the photos in his mind and arrived at work exhausted the next day.
• Yan Qingyue saw Lin Chen’s wretched condition and decided to let him recover before another round of teasing.

After a brief peaceful stretch, Yan Qingyue took Lin Chen to a business dinner with Hongyuan Group, ostensibly to teach him about such occasions and have him drink on her behalf. Lin Chen drank himself nearly unconscious protecting her from the toasts, and Yan Qingyue carried him out, leaving their business talks—and the gathering undercurrents—unresolved.

• Yan Qingyue summoned Lin Chen to prepare materials for an initial partnership dinner with President Zhao of Hongyuan Group and told him to help her handle the drinking.
• Lin Chen met Yan Qingyue in the underground garage and was struck by her evening gown before they drove to the private club.
• President Zhao and his subordinates repeatedly toasted Yan Qingyue, so Lin Chen began drinking in her place.
• Lin Chen grew increasingly drunk as he took the toasts, while Yan Qingyue watched and tried unsuccessfully to interrupt.
• Yan Qingyue took a large glass from Lin Chen, drank it herself, and ended the dinner by saying she would take him home.
• Yan Qingyue supported the barely walking Lin Chen out of the private room as he drunkenly insisted he had been protecting her.

On the ride home, Lin Chen drunkenly confessed that he wanted to marry and protect Yan Qingyue, while also professing his devotion to his online girlfriend, Little Moon. His words unsettled Yan Qingyue, who took him upstairs herself and realized her own feelings were slipping beyond her control.

• Lin Chen drunkenly leaned against Yan Qingyue in the car and praised her beauty and figure.
• Lin Chen said he wanted to marry Yan Qingyue, then confessed that he missed Little Moon and could not betray her.
• Lin Chen told Yan Qingyue that he wanted to protect her because he felt for how hard she worked and how much she had to endure.
• Yan Qingyue realized Lin Chen's words had stirred unexpected warmth and turmoil in her, and wondered if she had become too invested in their game.
• When they arrived at Lin Chen's apartment building, Yan Qingyue told the driver to wait and took Lin Chen upstairs herself.

Yan Qingyue brought the drunken Lin Chen home, cared for him, and left him water and hangover medicine. The next morning, Lin Chen feared he had behaved outrageously, but Yan Qingyue let the incident pass, leaving both of them with unspoken feelings.

• Yan Qingyue struggled to get Lin Chen into his apartment, where he clung to her hand and pleaded for her to stay and let him protect her.
• Yan Qingyue stayed beside Lin Chen until he fell asleep, then covered him, wiped his face and hands, and left water and a note for him.
• Lin Chen woke with a hangover, found Yan Qingyue’s note, and anxiously pieced together fragments of what he had said and done while drunk.
• Lin Chen went to work and apologized to Yan Qingyue, who told him not to push himself and sent him back to work without mentioning the night before.
• After Lin Chen left, Yan Qingyue recalled his words and smiled faintly, while Lin Chen wondered whether she had seemed gentler than usual.