Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen used his newly strengthened spiritual energy to trigger a landslide near Lower Horse New Village before a future storm could cause a deadly flood. Back at school, he met with Xie Yunyao, who asked where he had gotten the delicious tomatoes he gave her.

• Wang Chen caused a landslide that flooded the unoccupied resettlement homes, preventing a future disaster from claiming lives.
• Wang Chen returned to school after the holiday and encountered Xie Yunyao in the cafeteria.
• Xie Yunyao told Wang Chen that Teacher Chen wanted them to discuss a Grade 11 competition event.
• Wang Chen and Xie Yunyao added each other on WeChat on the terrace.
• Xie Yunyao asked Wang Chen where he had bought the tomatoes he had given her.

Wang Chen helped Xie Yunyao overcome her fear of him and gave her homemade tomato sauce. He intended to use their connection to help protect his father from a calamity next summer.

• Wang Chen saw through Xie Yunyao's fear and told her she did not need to be afraid of him; she explained why she had sought him out and apologized.
• Wang Chen and Xie Yunyao formally introduced themselves, and he later offered her homemade tomato sauce over WeChat.
• Wang Chen denied rumors that he was dating Xie Yunyao and joked with his deskmate about studying hard.
• Xie Yunyao came to Wang Chen's home after school, and he gave her the last large bottle of his homemade tomato sauce.
• Wang Chen planned to use his connection with Xie Yunyao to help his father avoid a calamity the following summer.

Wang Chen tested whether white jade could hold psionic energy by carving a jade pendant, then gave the imperfect piece to Huahua as a necklace. Meanwhile, Xie Yunyao confessed to her cousin that she could not stop thinking about Wang Chen, who advised her to leave Yicheng and study abroad.

• Wang Chen carved True Script Runes into white jade, infusing it with psionic energy and Cosmic Energy.
• Wang Chen made the finished jade into a necklace for Huahua, though the piece had no practical effect.
• Wang Chen considered prospecting for jade in the Kunlun Mountains, then decided it would be easier to earn money and buy it.
• Xie Yunyao told her cousin that Wang Chen's smile kept appearing in her thoughts whenever she tried to sleep.
• Xie Yunyao's cousin compared her feelings to Stockholm Syndrome and advised her to leave Yicheng to study abroad, but Xie Yunyao remained unable to sleep.

Chang Qian arrived in Yicheng after hearing that Xie Yunyao was troubled, and her daughter explained her frightening encounter with Wang Chen. Chang Qian decided to meet him immediately, leaving Xie Yunyao to message him.

• Xie Yunyao found her mother, Chang Qian, preparing breakfast at home and learned she had flown in because someone told her about her troubles.
• Chang Qian tasted ketchup made from the tomatoes Xie Yunyao had sent and praised its flavor.
• Xie Yunyao told Chang Qian about Wang Chen and said his presence had once made her fear he could kill her with a gesture.
• Chang Qian realized the matter was serious and told Xie Yunyao to contact Wang Chen so they could meet him right away.

Wang Chen invited Xie Yunyao and her mother, Chang Qian, to his home and asked Chang Qian to help his father, Wang Zhenghai, leave Guangyuan Group and start a business with Haicheng Group. He demonstrated his extraordinary ability by slicing a cucumber into identical pieces, leaving Chang Qian impressed and reminded of his unusual ketchup.

• Wang Chen welcomed Xie Yunyao and Chang Qian to his home after Xie Yunyao messaged him.
• Chang Qian sent Xie Yunyao outside and questioned Wang Chen about who he was and what he wanted.
• Wang Chen told Chang Qian he had no romantic intentions toward Xie Yunyao.
• Wang Chen asked Chang Qian to help Wang Zhenghai leave Guangyuan Group and establish a business in Wen County with Haicheng Group.
• Wang Chen sliced a cucumber into dozens of identical pieces, astonishing Chang Qian.

Chang Qian and Wang Chen reached a preliminary agreement after she saw the effects of his cucumber slices, and she later sent him valuable Hetian Jade. Wang Chen used the jade to make a Buddhist amulet infused with psionic energy and gave it to Xie Yunyao for her mother, but Chang Qian placed it around her daughter’s neck instead.

• Chang Qian left Wang Chen’s home with Xie Yunyao after noticing that the cucumber slices had made her look younger, and she told her daughter she would not object to her dating Wang Chen if she protected herself.
• Three days later, Chang Qian sent Wang Chen more than two kilograms of high-grade Mutton Fat White Jade, and he used most of it to learn how to make Psionic Energy Equipment.
• Wang Chen carved the remaining jade into a Buddhist amulet containing ten units of psionic energy and gave it to Xie Yunyao to take to her mother.
• Chang Qian met Xie Yunyao after school and opened the box, and both of them felt refreshed by the amulet’s spiritual aura.
• Chang Qian hung the amulet around Xie Yunyao’s neck and embraced her as her daughter grew emotional.

Wang Chen returned to Wen County for the New Year after placing first in his exams, and encouraged his father to accept a major business opportunity. Wang Zhenghai decided to resign from Guangyuan Group and start a business in Wen County with Uncle Lu, revealing that Haicheng Group was backing him.

• Wang Chen scored full marks in all five subjects and returned home to Wen County with gifts and Huahua.
• Wang Chen learned that a major conglomerate wanted to invest in Wen County and make Wang Zhenghai its general manager.
• Wang Chen urged Wang Zhenghai to leave Guangyuan Group and invite Uncle Lu to join him.
• Wang Zhenghai decided to resign after the New Year, and Uncle Lu agreed to come help him start the business.
• Wang Zhenghai revealed that Haicheng Group, one of the nation's top five hundred enterprises, had approached him.

Wang Chen spent the New Year with his family and visited his ancestral village, where he resolved to protect Stone Peak Mountain and Wangjia Village from destructive development. Haicheng Group then announced a billion-yuan tourism project with Wang Zhenghai as its partner, and Wang Chen met Chang Qian in Huhai to discuss the gift to his family.

• Wang Chen gave his family jade accessories containing psionic energy, and they celebrated New Year's Eve together.
• Wang Chen took Wang Hao and Wang Yu to set off fireworks and hoped his new life would let him stay with his family.
• Wang Chen's family visited his grandparents in Wangjia Village, and his grandfather celebrated Wang Chen's academic success with a pig-slaughter feast.
• Wang Chen resolved to protect Stone Peak Mountain and Wangjia Village from the harmful development he remembered from his previous life.
• Haicheng Group announced a one-billion investment in Stone Peak Mountain and chose Wang Zhenghai as its project partner, bringing a crowd of local leaders to the Wang family home.
• Wang Chen traveled to Huhai and met Chang Qian, who asked whether he was satisfied with Haicheng Group's New Year's gift to his family.

Wang Chen secured Chang Qian’s commitment to invest in Stone Peak Mountain and accepted her gifts, then agreed to attend Xie Yunyao’s birthday party. He went to meet Xie Yunyao and her two best friends at a restaurant in Huhai.

• Wang Chen convinced Chang Qian that Stone Peak Mountain could become a world-class leisure destination through ecological development and extraordinary crops, and they finalized their cooperation.
• Chang Qian gave Wang Chen Mutton Fat White Jade rough stones and a black credit card, then invited him to Xie Yunyao’s birthday party and arranged an outfit for him.
• Wang Chen messaged Xie Yunyao, confirmed he was in Huhai, and agreed to join her and her friends for a meal.
• Wang Chen took a taxi to the restaurant and met Xie Yunyao and her two best friends.

Wang Chen met Xie Yunyao, her cousin An Ruyi, and her friend Zhang Wen for dinner, where Zhang Wen teased Xie Yunyao about dating him. After dinner, Wang Chen explained his business cooperation with Chang Qian to Xie Yunyao, and she seemed to be reconsidering her plan to study in the United Kingdom next year.

• Wang Chen joined Xie Yunyao, An Ruyi, and Zhang Wen for dinner at an upscale restaurant, where An Ruyi probed him and Zhang Wen joked that he and Xie Yunyao were dating.
• Zhang Wen asked Wang Chen to attend Xie Yunyao's birthday celebration, and he agreed.
• Wang Chen paid for dinner with the black card Chang Qian had given him, then told Xie Yunyao they could discuss her questions downstairs.
• Wang Chen explained his cooperation plan with Chang Qian to Xie Yunyao as they walked by the river, while her driver followed them.
• Wang Chen and Xie Yunyao discussed university, and she appeared to be reconsidering her plan to study in the United Kingdom next year.

Xie Yunyao’s brother, Xie Haichao, interrupted her walk with Wang Chen and then invited Wang Chen out, hoping to discourage him from pursuing her. Wang Chen accepted the invitation and rode with Xie Haichao and Gu Zhiyong toward Salon.

• Xie Haichao and Gu Zhiyong arrived as Xie Yunyao was walking with Wang Chen, and Xie Yunyao ignored Gu Zhiyong while introducing Wang Chen as her high school classmate.
• Xie Yunyao left with her family in a Rolls-Royce, and Xie Haichao stopped Wang Chen and invited him to hang out.
• Xie Haichao privately judged Wang Chen’s appearance and clothes, intending to show him that he was unfit to be with Xie Yunyao.
• Wang Chen accepted Xie Haichao’s invitation and got into the Panamera with him and Gu Zhiyong.
• Xie Haichao bragged about his modified car and ordered Gu Zhiyong to invite Old Five and Wang Kaichen to Salon, where he planned to pay for the night.

Xie Haichao brought Wang Chen to Salon and introduced him to his wealthy friends as Xie Yunyao’s future partner, drawing skepticism and hostility. Wang Chen calmly defended his relationship with Yaoyao, while Gu Zhiyong’s resentment remained unresolved as the nightclub staff arrived with drinks.

• Xie Haichao gathered his friends at Salon, reserved a large booth, and ordered expensive champagne.
• Xie Haichao introduced Wang Chen as his future brother-in-law, shocking the group.
• Wang Chen greeted everyone briefly, and Gu Zhiyong mocked him for being an ordinary person who needed Xie Haichao to enter Salon.
• Wang Chen agreed that Xie Haichao had brought him in but said that Yaoyao’s feelings mattered more than Salon’s status.
• Gu Zhiyong grew furious, but Xie Haichao restrained him as the sales representative brought girls carrying trays to the booth.

Wang Chen joined Xie Haichao and his friends at a nightclub, where he drank through their attempts to get him drunk and calmly handled Xie Haichao’s schemes. The night ended after Xie Haichao lost interest, while Wang Chen continued chatting with the girl in the white dress he had chosen.

• Xie Haichao poured Wang Chen champagne and encouraged his friends to toast him, but Wang Chen drank several bottles without getting drunk.
• Xie Haichao invited Amy and the other girls to the booth and told Wang Chen to choose a companion; Wang Chen picked a girl in a white dress.
• Xie Haichao secretly photographed Wang Chen with the girl and sent the picture to Xie Yunyao, but she replied with a photo of Amy sitting on Xie Haichao’s lap and a dog-head-smacking GIF.
• Wang Chen told the girl that he and Xie Haichao had only met that day, then asked whether she studied dance and said he could read faces.
• Xie Haichao ordered more drinks to ease his gloom, then called the night over after eleven.

Wang Chen paid Xie Haichao’s nightclub bill after Xie’s cards were declined and Gu Zhiyong avoided helping him. Outside Salon, Wang Chen declined the girl in white’s request to add him on WeChat, gave her a white jade rabbit, and left.

• Xie Haichao ended the gathering after his friends failed to provoke Wang Chen.
• Xie Haichao’s credit cards were declined when he tried to pay the large bill, and Gu Zhiyong avoided his gaze.
• Wang Chen paid the bill with his black card, surprising Xie Haichao and the others, then left Salon.
• The girl in white followed Wang Chen and asked to add him on WeChat, but he politely declined.
• Wang Chen gave the girl in white a small white jade rabbit and walked away.

After Xie Haichao returned home, Chang Qian froze his cards and gave him an ultimatum about marriage or working in the family group. Wang Chen enjoyed sightseeing in Magic City before attending Xie Yunyao’s seventeenth birthday banquet, where she happily received his hand-carved jade pendant.

• Xie Haichao learned that Chang Qian had frozen his credit cards and faced her demand to marry through a family arrangement or start working in the group.
• Chang Qian told Xie Haichao not to provoke Wang Chen and said she approved if he wanted to become the Xie family's son-in-law, leaving Xie Yunyao blushing.
• Wang Chen spent the next day visiting Magic City attractions and enjoying food he had never experienced in his previous life.
• Wang Chen attended Xie Yunyao's birthday banquet at the Xie family's villa and complimented her appearance.
• Wang Chen gave Xie Yunyao a jade pendant he had carved himself, and she delightedly admired it before putting it away.

At Xie Yunyao’s birthday banquet, Wang Chen drew attention after she showed how much she liked his gift, and he met An Ruyi and her admirer Han Chengyu. The arrival of Han Haoxuan, whose expensive gift Xie Yunyao refused, unsettled the banquet, and An Ruyi returned to Wang Chen with a warning about him.

• Xie Yunyao apologized to Wang Chen for drawing attention to him, then left to greet other guests while he sat down to eat.
• An Ruyi sat across from Wang Chen, but she could not endure his gaze; Han Chengyu introduced himself and treated Wang Chen as a romantic rival.
• An Ruyi left after Han Chengyu sat down, and Han Chengyu soon departed as well.
• Han Haoxuan arrived with roses and a diamond necklace, shoved Han Chengyu aside, and offered the gift to Xie Yunyao.
• Xie Yunyao refused the necklace, and Chang Qian intervened by taking the roses and returning the necklace to Han Haoxuan.
• An Ruyi returned to Wang Chen and quietly asked whether he knew who Han Haoxuan was.

Wang Chen learned that Han Haoxuan had been harassing Xie Yunyao and threatening anyone close to her, then secretly caused Han’s Lamborghini to crash after Han threatened Wang Chen’s family. The next morning, police officers questioned Wang Chen at his hotel about the crash and his encounter with Han.

• An Ruyi told Wang Chen that Han Haoxuan was the Han family heir, had pursued Xie Yunyao, and was dangerous; Wang Chen agreed to return to Yicheng the next day.
• Wang Chen left Xie Yunyao’s birthday banquet, and Han Haoxuan stopped him in a Lamborghini and threatened his family.
• After Han spat at Wang Chen and drove away, Wang Chen’s supernatural power sent the phlegm after the car, causing it to crash and catch fire beneath an overpass.
• Wang Chen returned to his hotel and received a brief call from Xie Yunyao.
• The next morning, two police officers questioned Wang Chen about the birthday banquet and his conversation with the Lamborghini driver.

After Han Haoxuan died in a car accident Wang Chen had caused, police questioned Wang Chen, but he arranged to return to Yicheng while Chang Qian sent Xie Yunyao to Britain for safety. In the months that followed, Wang Chen stayed in contact with them and repeatedly ranked first in the senior students’ mock exams, as the school prepared for him to take the college entrance examination early.

• Two police officers questioned Wang Chen about his encounter with Han Haoxuan, and Wang Chen mentioned that Han had smelled strongly of alcohol.
• Wang Chen overheard the officers say the investigation was largely for the higher-ups’ benefit, then called Chang Qian and told her about the questioning.
• Chang Qian told Wang Chen to return to Yicheng and said she would send Xie Yunyao to Britain to avoid trouble with the Han family.
• Wang Chen reassured Xie Yunyao by message during his train ride and reminded her to keep his jade pendant with her; two days later, she flew to Britain.
• Wang Chen remained in contact with Xie Yunyao and Chang Qian as the conflict faded from his daily life.
• Wang Chen took first place in all three mock examinations for the third-year students, and No. 5 High School supported his taking the college entrance examination early.

After finishing the college entrance examination, Wang Chen relaxed at home until his results came out: he scored 739 points and ranked first in the province. He chose Capital University and returned to No. 5 High School, where teachers and classmates celebrated his record-setting achievement.

• Wang Chen finished the examination and reassured Wang Zhenghai that he had performed well before celebrating with his family at a hotel.
• Wang Zhenghai returned to Wen County for work, while Wang Chen spent the following days relaxing at Shangma Old Village.
• Wang Chen checked his results with his family and scored 739 points, ranking first in the province.
• Wang Chen shared his results with his class and chose Capital University after receiving offers from two top universities.
• Wang Chen returned to No. 5 High School, where the school celebrated him with a banner, interviews, and a generous bonus.

Chang Qian defended Haicheng Group’s investment in Wen County and her leadership at an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, offering to buy shares at 110% of the current price. After the meeting, she ate a tomato and called Wang Chen.

• A Tianhai Investment representative challenged Chang Qian over Wang Zhenghai’s 10% stake in Stone Peak Mountain Integrated Development Group and questioned the Wen County project.
• Chang Qian defended Wang Zhenghai’s ecological planting technology and offered to buy shareholders’ stakes at 110% of the current stock price.
• A director asked how Haicheng Group would respond to the Han family blocking its land bids, and Chang Qian proposed expanding into second- and third-tier cities.
• The shareholders ended the meeting without further challenges, while a middle-aged director voiced support for Chang Qian and offered to buy shares at the same premium.
• After the shareholders left, Chang Qian ate a tomato and called Wang Chen.