Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into Bai Yao’s body in 1973 Beijing, Bai Yao used his customization system to begin taking revenge on the family that had abused the original owner. With half a month left before he was sent to the countryside, he planned to gather more money and continue dismantling the family’s life.

• Bai Yao secretly added super pig feed to his family’s breakfast porridge, causing them to keep eating despite the scalding heat.
• After his family left for work and school, Bai Yao ate eggs from his system space and reviewed the original owner’s memories and his impending trip to the countryside.
• Bai Yao learned that his biological mother’s hidden dowry had been retrieved into his system space, giving him a vast fortune.
• Bai Yao decided to punish his abusive family by targeting what they valued and making them suffer.
• Bai Yao set out to use his spiritual power and system to collect ownerless treasures around Beijing.

Bai Yao used his spiritual power to steal hidden household savings, then raided a treasure vault at Prince Gong's Mansion to fund himself. After department-store coupon rules frustrated his shopping plans, he drugged his stepsister Li Meimei with a hallucinogen, leaving her publicly behaving indecently, and headed home planning further revenge.

• Bai Yao collected 415.2 yuan from his family's hidden stashes and took a bus to Prince Gong's Mansion.
• Bai Yao used his spiritual power and system space to collect the treasure hidden in two rooms at Prince Gong's Mansion.
• Bai Yao went to a department store but left disappointed because most goods required coupons he did not have.
• Bai Yao spotted Li Meimei with a well-off young man and ordered a hallucinogen from the system.
• Bai Yao secretly sprinkled the medicine onto an ice pop that the young man bought for Li Meimei.
• Li Meimei began pulling at a middle-aged man's clothes in public, and Bai Yao left, intending to continue his revenge.

Bai Yao accelerated his revenge against the Li family by mixing super pig feed into their food, then watched as Li Meimei’s arrest for hooliganism became the neighborhood’s latest scandal. At the police station, he discovered Li Qiang was involved with one of the victims’ wives and followed them until he caught them kissing.

• Bai Yao mixed super pig feed into the corn buns before serving them to Li Dongxu, Li Bailian, and Li Dabao.
• Police officers arrived and told the family that Li Meimei had been detained for committing hooliganism against several men.
• Bai Yao let the neighbors overhear the news, and gossip about Li Meimei spread as the family hurried to the police station.
• At the police station, Bai Yao noticed Li Qiang exchanging significant looks with one of the victims’ wives.
• Bai Yao secretly followed Li Qiang and the young wife, then heard her accuse him of getting involved with her while Li Meimei had pursued her husband.
• Bai Yao heard Li Qiang and the young wife kissing and left them alone.

Bai Yao began his revenge against the Li family after Li Meimei’s affair cost her and the family two jobs. He secretly injured Li Qiang and, after the family rushed to the hospital, prepared to ransack their home.

• Bai Yao learned the Li family had given up Li Meimei’s job and a toilet-cleaning job to settle the affair privately, and his anger toward them grew.
• Bai Yao decided to make the five members of the Li family fall apart and served them dinner while anticipating Li Meimei’s troubles.
• At midnight, Bai Yao used sleep-inducing incense on Li Qiang, took him into the system space, and inflicted severe injuries on him before leaving him outside.
• The Li family discovered Li Qiang was missing and rushed to the hospital after a neighbor reported he was gravely injured.
• Bai Yao used the system space to return home unseen and set out to ransack the Li family’s house.

Bai Yao looted the Li family home, then watched Li Dongxu and Li Bailian learn that Li Qiang could no longer work or have children. After the family returned home, they found the house stripped bare, and the chapter ended with Li Dongxu shouting that they had been robbed while the neighbors gathered to watch.

• Bai Yao cleared nearly everything from the Li family home and stored it in the System Space.
• At the hospital, Bai Yao heard that Li Qiang's arms were ruined and he could no longer have children, while Li Dongxu and Li Bailian shifted their attention to Li Dabao.
• Bai Yao offered to stay with Li Qiang, gave him medicine to keep him asleep, and sorted the valuables and goods he had taken from the house.
• Bai Yao returned home with the Li family and watched Li Dongxu open the door to find the house empty.
• Li Dongxu cried that they had been robbed, Li Bailian fainted, Li Meimei collapsed, and Li Dabao screamed as neighbors gathered outside.

Bai Yao pretended to faint from hunger, turning the neighbors against Li Dongxu before police arrived to investigate the theft. When Li Dabao accused Bai Yao, he defended himself with hospital witnesses and pointed suspicion toward Li Meimei and Li Dabao, leaving Li Meimei to explain that she and Dabao had gone to see her boyfriend.

• Bai Yao pretended to faint, and the neighbors blamed Li Dongxu for leaving him hungry while he cared for someone at the hospital.
• Li Dongxu asked the neighbors for food and went to call the police, while Bai Yao accepted cornbread and listened to the aunties compete over their cooking.
• The police questioned the neighbors about the theft, and Li Bailian’s plea prompted them to complain about her family.
• Li Dabao accused Bai Yao of being a suspect, but Bai Yao argued that Li Meimei and Dabao also had keys and had left the house last.
• Bai Yao told the officers that hospital staff and patients could confirm he had been there all day, while Li Meimei said she and Dabao had gone to see her boyfriend.

Bai Yao secretly caused Li Meimei to be badly scalded and made Li Dabao mute, while the Li family rushed to the hospital and blamed one another. The chapter ended with Li Dongxu and Li Bailian trying to summon Bai Yao to care for their injured children, while Bai Yao slept peacefully at home.

• Li Dongxu sent Li Meimei to borrow grain and cook, while Bai Yao secretly used super pig feed to make her thin porridge thick and tempting.
• Li Dabao and Li Meimei fought over the porridge, and Bai Yao caused Li Meimei to stumble and knock the boiling pot over herself.
• Li Dabao secretly ate a bowl of the spilled porridge, and Bai Yao had the system put a muting drug in it.
• At the hospital, Li Meimei accused Li Dabao of causing her injuries, but he could not speak and then attacked her face.
• Li Dabao’s family concluded that Li Meimei had poisoned the porridge, while a nurse reminded them that Li Qiang was also hospitalized with severe injuries.
• Li Dongxu went to find Bai Yao to bring him to the hospital, but Bai Yao slept at home and murmured happily about hurting the Li family in his dream.

Bai Yao went to the hospital to watch the Li family suffer and secretly fed Li Dabao Super Pig Feed while arranging to keep Li Qiang and Li Meimei asleep. He then headed to the bank, where Li Dongxu and Li Bailian were trying to recover money Bai Yao had already withdrawn.

• Bai Yao overheard neighbors discussing the Li family and learned that Li Dabao had disfigured Li Meimei while Li Meimei had poisoned the family.
• Bai Yao sent Li Dongxu and Li Bailian to replace a passbook, then pressured Li Dongxu into giving him five mao for food.
• Bai Yao fed Li Dabao three lunch boxes of Super Pig Feed, which Li Dabao eagerly ate.
• Bai Yao ordered the system to give Li Qiang and Li Meimei medicine that would make them sleep for a day.
• Bai Yao left for the bank, where he planned to watch the next scene unfold, though he had already withdrawn the money from the passbooks.

Bai Yao sabotaged Li Dongxu and Li Bailian at the bank, then followed Li Bailian to a courtyard and uncovered a wealthy man’s hidden weapons and valuables. He exposed Li Bailian and the man to a crowd, then left to return to the hospital and prepare to sever ties with the Li Family.

• Bai Yao poisoned Li Dongxu and Li Bailian’s ice pops with mildly toxic mushrooms, hoping they would cause trouble at the bank.
• Li Dongxu was taken away from the bank, while Li Bailian left with a middle-aged man and went with him to a guarded courtyard.
• Bai Yao searched the courtyard with his mental power, found gold, jewelry, cash, coupons, handguns, and ammunition, and took everything.
• Bai Yao learned that Li Bailian had agreed to become the middle-aged man’s mistress and used water-activated glue to trap her with him.
• Bai Yao removed the courtyard guard, gathered a crowd, and led them to catch Li Bailian and the middle-aged man naked; the crowd hauled them away.
• Bai Yao slipped away and hurried back to the hospital to prepare to sever ties with the Li Family.

Bai Yao confronted Li Dongxu, cut ties with the Li family, and finished his revenge. He arranged to leave the family behind and began preparing for his own life before going to the countryside.

• Bai Yao learned that Li Dongxu had been sentenced to death and Li Bailian had been sent away for reform through labor.
• Bai Yao told Li Dongxu he would sever their relationship, said Li Dabao was infertile, and revealed that Li Bailian had been caught having an affair again.
• Bai Yao rejected Li Dongxu's claim that he was still his son and left as Li Dongxu raged about the Li family name ending.
• Bai Yao arranged for a notice severing ties to be published and told the hospital about the Li family's situation, after which nurses sent Li Qiang, Li Meimei, and Li Dabao away.
• Bai Yao obtained a letter of introduction to find somewhere to live until he went to the countryside.

Bai Yao left the guesthouse, cleaned an abandoned house to use as temporary lodging, and found two small gold bars beneath a floor tile. He then found a black market to sell his ration coupons, only to discover that its boss was the man he had stripped and thrown into a latrine pit the day before.

• Bai Yao left the shared guesthouse dormitory and found a dilapidated, unoccupied house to stay in.
• Bai Yao used his mental power to clean the house and discovered two small gold bars under a floor tile.
• After waking in the evening, Bai Yao used his mental power to locate a black market in a nearby alley.
• Bai Yao disguised himself and showed a burly man his stack of coupons, prompting the man to take him to the boss.
• Bai Yao recognized the boss as the man he had stripped and thrown into a latrine pit the previous day.

Bai Yao robbed a black market, traded vouchers at two others, and prepared to leave the capital for the countryside. At the train station, he recognized the handsome newcomer Gu Yang as the reborn protagonist of a book he had transmigrated into and hoped they would not be sent to the same place.

• Bai Yao used knockout smoke to incapacitate a black market's occupants and stripped the room of valuables and supplies.
• He found two more black markets and exchanged vouchers for cash and three small gold bars before moving to a quieter temporary residence.
• Bai Yao spent the following days sightseeing and buying textbooks and exam papers, then heard that a black market manager had been exposed after an assailant reported him to the police.
• On the day before his departure, Bai Yao reduced his luggage and prepared for a nearly thirty-six-hour hard-seat train journey to the countryside.
• At the train station, Bai Yao recognized Gu Yang as the reborn protagonist of a book and silently hoped they would not be assigned to the same place.
• Another late arrival announced that he had not missed the group heading to the countryside.

At the station, Bai Yao tried to avoid the striking Gu Yang and Hu Yang, but learned that all three were headed to Hei Province. After he helped drive off two girls who had crowded him, Bai Yao decided to steer clear of Gu Yang as the train arrived.

• Bai Yao learned the newcomer was Hu Yang and received his train ticket alongside Gu Yang and Hu Yang.
• When Gu Yang asked whether Bai Yao was also going to Hei Province, two girls interrupted and crowded Bai Yao aside.
• Bai Yao called Gu Yang and Hu Yang over and gave them milk candy, then told the girls he had no candy for them.
• Hu Yang joined Bai Yao in eating the candy, and the embarrassed girls hurried away.
• Bai Yao resolved to avoid Gu Yang, who wondered why Bai Yao disliked him, until the approaching train drew everyone's attention.

Bai Yao met Hu Yang, Dongfang Dazhuang, and Kong Wu aboard the train, and they agreed to settle in Unity Village together. When an argument broke out elsewhere in the carriage, Bai Yao used his mental power to watch and noticed Kong Wu staring at him excitedly.

• Bai Yao boarded the train and chose a seat beside the tall, quiet Kong Wu.
• Bai Yao recognized Hu Yang and Dongfang Dazhuang as protagonists from another story and introduced himself to Kong Wu.
• Bai Yao, Hu Yang, and Kong Wu learned they were all headed to the Red Flag Commune, and Dongfang Dazhuang invited them to Unity Village.
• Dongfang Dazhuang described Unity Village's fair leaders and work arrangements, and Bai Yao agreed to go there with Hu Yang and Kong Wu.
• Bai Yao used his mental power to watch Gu Yang argue with several young people at the back of the carriage, then noticed Kong Wu looking at him excitedly.

Bai Yao watched a girl slap people who insulted Gu Yang, then shared his lavish vegetable dumplings with Hu Yang, Dongfang Dazhuang, and Kong Wu on the train. After a two-hour nap, he woke to find himself lying on Kong Wu's lap.

• Bai Yao watched a girl strike several people who had insulted Gu Yang, then noticed Kong Wu had somehow moved right beside him.
• Hu Yang, Dongfang Dazhuang, Bai Yao, and Kong Wu brought out their lunches, and Bai Yao offered Dongfang Dazhuang one of his vegetable dumplings.
• Dongfang Dazhuang and Hu Yang admired the dumplings' rich filling, and Hu Yang traded Bai Yao a pork-and-cabbage dumpling for one.
• Kong Wu offered Bai Yao a lunchbox of braised meat in exchange for a vegetable dumpling, and the four of them ate until they were full.
• Kong Wu and Dongfang Dazhuang fetched hot water while Hu Yang and Bai Yao fell asleep, and Bai Yao woke two hours later lying on Kong Wu's lap.

Bai Yao was pulled into Gu Yang and Jiang Rou’s effort to deal with enemy agents aboard the train, and used his spiritual power to discover and disarm two armed suspects. He led the group toward an empty sleeper carriage, where he shouted for everyone to act as the agents reached for their daggers.

• Bai Yao woke on Kong Wu’s thigh, then Gu Yang dragged him to the toilet and explained that he and Jiang Rou had found enemy agents and needed help contacting railway police.
• Bai Yao used his spiritual power to spot two armed lookouts and decided not to approach railway police while they were watching him.
• Bai Yao warned Kong Wu by writing “enemy agents” on his palm, then used Hu Yang’s sore neck as a pretext to get their group moving toward sleeper berths.
• Bai Yao sat beside the middle-aged couple he suspected were agents and secretly took their money, ration coupons, letters, daggers, and pistol with his spiritual power.
• Jiang Rou showed Bai Yao her strength by crushing roasted soybeans between her fingers, while Bai Yao kept watch on the suspects’ two accomplices.
• Bai Yao led the group into an empty sleeper carriage and shouted “Make your move!” as the enemy agents reached for their daggers.

Bai Yao and the others subdued four enemy agents aboard the train and helped the train police arrest them. In return, the group received sleeper accommodations, meal vouchers, commendations, and an equal share of the recovered money and ration tickets.

• Kong Wu knocked out a middle-aged man, while Jiang Rou slapped a woman unconscious after the woman failed to find her gun.
• Bai Yao blinded two attackers with quicklime, kicked one down, and let Hu Yang take down the other; Dongfang Dazhuang and Gu Yang picked up the daggers for credit.
• Gu Yang reported the enemy agents to the train police, and Bai Yao produced the agents’ weapons and a letter as evidence.
• The train conductor upgraded the six travelers to hard sleepers, gave each three meal vouchers, promised commendations, and let them divide the recovered money and tickets.
• Bai Yao split the proceeds equally, giving each person ten yuan and grain tickets for two jin, and the group prepared to move their luggage and eat dinner.

Bai Yao shared a sleeper car with Gu Yang, Jiang Rou, Hu Yang, Kong Wu, and Dongfang Dazhuang, while he worried that the gathering of protagonists would attract trouble. The next day, Jiang Rou rescued a choking child on the train, leaving Bai Yao wondering whether another female protagonist had joined their group.

• Hu Yang praised the group's abilities and asked Bai Yao why he carried quicklime, and Bai Yao said it was for self-protection.
• The group ate dinner and passed the evening playing Chinese chess and five-in-a-row with Jiang Rou's suspiciously prepared game pieces.
• Kong Wu, Dongfang Dazhuang, and Jiang Rou bought breakfast for the others, and Bai Yao gave Kong Wu the food he did not want.
• Jiang Rou rushed to help a choking child and used the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge a piece of candy.
• Bai Yao wondered if Jiang Rou's rescue meant a female protagonist had appeared, then suspected Kong Wu might also be one.

Bai Yao stopped three apparent human traffickers from framing Hu Yang on the train and uncovered a knife-wielding girl among them. The railway police officer who arrived turned out to be Hu Yang’s brother, leaving Bai Yao ready to watch what happened next.

• Dongfang Dazhuang told Bai Yao and the others they would stay overnight before taking a bus to the county seat and advised them to fill their water bottles.
• An old woman, a young man, and a girl accused Hu Yang of stealing family money and trying to elope, drowning out his explanations.
• Bai Yao kicked the young man, struck the old woman and girl, and called the trio human traffickers while warning the crowd not to believe their accusations.
• The girl pulled a knife, but Bai Yao scattered quicklime on the traffickers before the railway police officer arrived.
• Hu Yang recognized the railway police officer as his brother, and the officer called him Little Fox.

After helping Hu Yang expose three human traffickers, Bai Yao and his companions left the train and prepared to travel to their assigned county. The chapter ended with Bai Yao getting off a painfully bumpy bus and savoring the feeling of standing on solid ground.

• Bai Yao and Hu Yang gave statements to a railway police officer, and the three traffickers confessed to their crimes.
• Hu Yang explained that the railway police officer was his older male cousin's close comrade-in-arms.
• Bai Yao and his companions packed their luggage, left the train, and met the educated youth office staff member, while Dongfang Dazhuang went ahead to arrange lodging.
• Bai Yao and his companions shared a dormitory room at the guesthouse, then ate breakfast at a state-run restaurant the next morning.
• Dongfang Dazhuang saved seats on the bus, and Bai Yao and his companions rode toward the county town over rough roads.
• Bai Yao got off the bus exhausted from the jolting and was relieved to stand on solid ground.