Chapter Summaries

Lu Chengwen returned to a municipal project meeting and fiercely rejected investors’ demands that he take responsibility for delays and losses. He left the room having silenced his critics by exposing their past favors and scandals.

• Hu Shuhui accused Lu Chengwen’s disappearance of disrupting the project, but Lu argued that Great Sage Group and Leng Qingqiu had kept the work moving.
• Lu challenged the investors to name specific losses and reminded Uncle Zhao that Lu had once helped him through a project delay.
• Lu rebuked Sister Liu for demanding accountability after Lu had previously helped her financially.
• Lu told a bald investor that his investment was unqualified and exposed the scandal that had nearly cost him his studies, prompting the man to sit down in tears.
• Lu warned the rest of the room not to challenge him, then jokingly assured Mayor Zhao that he was a proper human being.

Lu Chengwen and Leng Qingqiu negotiated a compensation plan with investors angered by Great Sage Group’s recent disruption, then discussed the risks posed by Long Aotian. The chapter left Lu Chengwen and Leng Qingqiu preparing to address a shell project designed to take Long Aotian’s money.

• Lu Chengwen suppressed the angry investors, and Mayor Zhao urged him to propose a solution instead of letting the dispute escalate.
• Leng Qingqiu offered a plan in which investors would bear sixty-four percent of verified losses and the Four Great Families would cover thirty-six percent, with repayment and dividends tied to project profits.
• Mayor Zhao and Secretary Wu praised the meeting’s outcome and told Lu Chengwen to implement the agreement quickly.
• Leng Qingqiu brought a stern young employee to brief Lu Chengwen on Great Sage Group’s operations, but Lu Chengwen dismissed her after joking with her.
• Leng Qingqiu asked Lu Chengwen about a nearly empty project listing Xu Xuejiao as its manager, and he admitted it was meant to scam Long Aotian.
• Lu Chengwen told Leng Qingqiu that Long Aotian had become a serious threat again, and she guessed that Lu had stolen his woman.

Lu Chengwen and Leng Qingqiu shared a heartfelt conversation before he handled the Great Sage Group leadership changes and visited his family, where Lu Guanghong pressed him to choose among the women in his life. Meanwhile, Zhao Ritian returned to Xue City with renewed cultivation and grand ambitions, only to be struck by a van.

• Leng Qingqiu told Lu Chengwen to formalize her authority at Great Sage Group and explained why she was not jealous about Li Meiqin.
• Leng Qingqiu recognized Lu Chengwen's hidden loneliness, and he became emotional as they comforted each other.
• Lu Chengwen secured Leng Qingqiu's dual presidency and arranged an operational vice president post for Li Meiqin.
• Lu Guanghong confronted Lu Chengwen about Xu Xuejiao, Leng Qingqiu, and Chen Mengyun, urging him to choose one woman to marry.
• Zhao Ritian returned to Xue City boasting of his restored strength and vowing to defeat Lu Chengwen and Long Aotian, but a speeding van hit him.

Zhao Ritian arrived in Xue City, survived being struck by Xu Xuejiao’s van, and immediately recognized her as one of his fiancées. He then appeared at the Xu Family to claim his marriage contract, leaving Xu Zhiyun overwhelmed by the competing claims involving Zhao Ritian, Long Aotian, and Lu Chengwen.

• Xu Xuejiao’s van hit Zhao Ritian, who crashed through a trash can and emerged unharmed.
• Zhao Ritian became infatuated with Xu Xuejiao and declared that their collision was the start of a love story, but she left him with her bodyguards.
• Xu Xuejiao told Lu Chengwen that Zhao Ritian had arrived, and Lu Chengwen urged her to return while she went to check on her father.
• Zhao Ritian visited the Xu Family and asked Xu Zhiyun to honor the marriage contract arranged by their elders.
• Xu Zhiyun struggled to decide which marriage promise to acknowledge, with Xu Xuejiao already entangled with both Long Aotian and Lu Chengwen.

Xu Xuejiao challenged Zhao Ritian to prove his claim to their engagement by recovering the missing Marriage Contract from Long Aotian, while Long Aotian returned to Xue City and planned his next moves. Zhao Ritian confronted Long Aotian at the gate, setting up their meeting.

• Xu Zhiyun told Zhao Ritian that Xu Xuejiao already had boyfriends, and Xu Xuejiao returned home to find him there.
• Xu Xuejiao demanded the Marriage Contract, then said Long Aotian knew about it and was her boyfriend.
• Zhao Ritian vowed to defeat Long Aotian and recover the contract, while Xu Xuejiao encouraged him to go and secretly hoped the two men would perish together.
• Long Aotian returned to Xue City with Zhuge Xiaohua and Luo Shiyin, planning to contact Xu Xuejiao, ask Huo Wendong about the Dragon Spirit Tiger Fierce Pill, and have Luo Shiyin control Lu Chengwen.
• Zhao Ritian appeared at Long Aotian's gate, and Luo Shiyin recognized him.

Long Aotian defeated Zhao Ritian with his newly attained Heavenly Four Gates strength and indulged in beating him repeatedly before leaving to meet Young Master Huo. At Houde Group, Lu Chengwen met the mysterious CEO Yang, whose uncanny business predictions intrigued him, then learned Xu Zhiyun was anxiously waiting for them.

• Zhao Ritian challenged Long Aotian to return the seven Marriage Contracts, but Long Aotian knocked him down with one move.
• Long Aotian celebrated his return to strength and repeatedly beat Zhao Ritian, who had threatened to come back for revenge.
• Luo Shiyin reminded Long Aotian that Young Master Huo had been waiting, so he reluctantly left Zhao Ritian behind.
• Lu Chengwen met CEO Yang, who greeted him warmly but would not explain how they were connected.
• Xu Xuejiao told Lu Chengwen that CEO Yang had made a fortune through remarkably accurate predictions and strategic investments.
• Xu Zhiyun called Xu Xuejiao in a panic, and Lu Chengwen joked that she should call him the “Very Awesome” CEO Lu.

Xu Zhiyun questioned Lu Chengwen and Xu Xuejiao about their relationship and the old marriage agreement, while Lu Chengwen organized his people to track Zhao Ritian. Zhao Ritian followed Xu Xuejiao, misread her work-related preparations as signs of her purity, and resolved to confess to her.

• Xu Zhiyun explained that the four families had signed a Marriage Contract years earlier and warned Lu Chengwen that Zhao Ritian had come to claim it, while Lu Chengwen insisted Xu Xuejiao was his girlfriend.
• Luo Shiyin told Lu Chengwen that Long Aotian had repeatedly beaten Zhao Ritian and worried that a potent pill might make Long Aotian force himself on her, but Lu Chengwen joked that the pill would make him target a toilet instead.
• Lu Chengwen urged his martial artists to adapt to modern life, praised their work, and ordered them to track Zhao Ritian in teams while warning them about his strength.
• After the meeting, Lu Chengwen pulled Qi Meishao onto his lap and flirted with her in private.
• Zhao Ritian watched Xu Xuejiao leave the Houde Group, overheard her assistant discuss charged and sterilized products and lubricant, and followed her, convinced that he would marry her.

Zhao Ritian followed Xu Xuejiao to Lu Chengwen’s villa and fought her guards, Hua Xuening and Qi Meishao, while Lu Chengwen and Xu Xuejiao watched. Long Aotian arrived as the fight continued, and Lu Chengwen and Xu Xuejiao realized Zhao Ritian was about to face his powerful senior brother.

• Zhao Ritian sneaked into Lu Chengwen’s villa after following Xu Xuejiao and was confronted by Hua Xuening.
• Zhao Ritian fought Hua Xuening and Qi Meishao, who worked together and began to overwhelm him.
• Lu Chengwen told Xu Xuejiao that Long Aotian had advanced to Heavenly Four Gates and warned her not to provoke him.
• Lu Chengwen and Xu Xuejiao flirted and discussed trying her new equipment while Zhao Ritian fought outside.
• Long Aotian arrived, and Lu Chengwen and Xu Xuejiao watched him face Zhao Ritian.

Zhao Ritian repeatedly challenged Long Aotian and was beaten, while Lu Chengwen concealed Xu Xuejiao inside his villa. Jiang Xiaohou ordered Zhao Ritian captured, and Lu Chengwen’s strategists prepared to attack him near the villa.

• Zhao Ritian found Long Aotian with Luo Shiyin and Zhuge Xiaohua, while Qi Meishao and Hua Xuening explained their ties to Lu Chengwen and Xu Xuejiao.
• Long Aotian beat Zhao Ritian for repeatedly boasting that he would return and take revenge, eventually sending him flying into Lu Chengwen’s villa.
• Lu Chengwen hid Xu Xuejiao and sent Zhao Ritian back outside, where Long Aotian beat him again after he insulted him.
• Jiang Xiaohou decided Zhao Ritian was entertaining and ordered her subordinate to capture him so she could reverse Long Aotian’s fortunes.
• The strategist’s team debated whether to kill Zhao Ritian, learned he was near Lu Chengwen’s villa, and prepared to move.

Zhao Ritian and Long Aotian dealt with the fallout from their clashes with Lu Chengwen, while Xu Xuejiao confronted Long Aotian over Qi Meishao. The next day, Lu Chengwen and Chen Mengyun took Hua Xuening shopping, and Hua drew attention at a fashionable café when nearby women recognized her expensive shoes.

• Zhao Ritian escaped after his fight with Long Aotian, cursed Long Aotian and Lu Chengwen, and planned to recover before seeking revenge.
• Heavenly King Fubo’s group discussed observing the strategist’s team as they tailed Zhao Ritian so they could gather intelligence and earn merit.
• Long Aotian accepted Lu Chengwen’s money and property documents, then told Xu Xuejiao that Qi Meishao had not revealed her undercover identity to Lu Chengwen.
• Xu Xuejiao worried that Qi Meishao could expose her, and she arranged to visit Long Aotian the following night.
• Lu Chengwen and Chen Mengyun took Hua Xuening shopping, then stopped for afternoon tea at a popular landmark.
• Hua Xuening balked at the café’s prices, while nearby women realized her plain-looking shoes were an expensive limited-edition Hermès pair.

Hua Xuening turned down Ni Hong and her friends’ attempts to recruit her into making money from wealthy men, then recognized Er Long and Jiang Shihan at the café. As Ni Hong led the women over to greet them, Hua Xuening addressed Er Long by name, leaving the others alarmed.

• Ni Hong, Zhaozhao, and Xiao Ai questioned Hua Xuening about her master and urged her to profit from wealthy men, but she refused.
• Er Long arrived at the café, and Ni Hong’s friends discussed his wealth and connections to the Chen Family.
• Jiang Shihan arrived and criticized Er Long’s choices for golf-course hostesses, saying they needed good looks and brains.
• Hua Xuening recognized Jiang Shihan and tried to greet her, but Ni Hong’s group stopped her and brought the women over instead.
• After Ni Hong introduced herself and Zhaozhao and Xiao Ai greeted Jiang Shihan and Er Long, Hua Xuening called Er Long by name.

Hua Xuening’s ties to Jiang Shihan, Er Long, Chen Mengyun, and Lu Chengwen stunned Ni Hong and her companions after they tried to recruit her for their own gain. Jiang Shihan offered the three women interview opportunities, and Lu Chengwen was interrupted by the system while kissing Chen Mengyun in the car.

• Hua Xuening reunited with Jiang Shihan and Er Long, revealing that she was waiting for Lu Chengwen and Chen Mengyun.
• Lu Chengwen and Chen Mengyun returned, and Chen Mengyun warmly greeted Er Long before going to Hua Xuening.
• Ni Hong, Zhaozhao, and Xiao Ai watched the powerful group leave, while Zhao Gang deleted Xiao Ai’s video at Lu Chengwen’s direction.
• Jiang Shihan thanked Ni Hong and her companions for treating Hua Xuening by offering each of them one interview opportunity and advising them to build their own careers.
• Ni Hong exaggerated her connection to Jiang Shihan and Er Long to impress the other girls after Jiang Shihan left.
• Lu Chengwen kissed Chen Mengyun in the car until the system suddenly returned and asked whether he had missed it.

Lu Chengwen received system rewards after conquering Qi Meishao, while Zhao Ritian was beaten by Lu Chengwen’s men and learned who had sent them. The chapter left Zhao Ritian furious and Lu Chengwen preparing to choose an upgrade reward.

• Zhao Ritian recovered, then five experts beat him on the strategist’s orders.
• Lu Chengwen received a Tenfold Conquest Card, three Virginity Pills, Qi Meishao’s Cauldron Cultivation Manual, and Zhuge Xiaohua’s Personality Reversal Manual from the system.
• Lu Chengwen considered the system’s fixed rewards, including an Upper Four Gates Upgrade Card, while Chen Mengyun admired him and Hua Xuening slept in the car.
• Heavenly King Fubo and his group arrived to observe the beating, and the strategist explained that the men took turns beating Zhao Ritian on odd and even days.
• The strategist told Zhao Ritian that they were Lu Chengwen’s men and that Lu Chengwen had sent them to beat him, leaving Zhao Ritian furious.

Zhao Ritian was beaten by ten men and blamed Long Aotian, while Xu Xuejiao persuaded Long Aotian to send Luo Shiyin and Zhuge Xiaohua after Lu Chengwen. Long Aotian instead focused on winning Xu Xuejiao over, and the chapter ended with him taking the Dragon Spirit Tiger Fierce Pill.

• Ten men beat Zhao Ritian on Lu Chengwen's orders, then joked about blaming Long Aotian for the attack.
• Zhao Ritian took a pill from his master and resolved to kill Long Aotian that night.
• Xu Xuejiao convinced Long Aotian to send Luo Shiyin and Zhuge Xiaohua to control Lu Chengwen at his office.
• Zhuge Xiaohua warned Long Aotian against the plan, but Luo Shiyin took her away and promised to explain herself later.
• Zhuge Xiaohua pulled over and cried to Luo Shiyin about everyone leaving Long Aotian for Lu Chengwen.
• Long Aotian sent Luo Shiyin and Zhuge Xiaohua away, then swallowed the Dragon Spirit Tiger Fierce Pill before returning to Xu Xuejiao.

Xu Xuejiao repeatedly stalled Long Aotian as his pill was overwhelmed by severe diarrhea, preventing him from getting close to her. Zhao Ritian arrived to rescue her and found Long Aotian in the restroom.

• Long Aotian took the pill and tried to seduce Xu Xuejiao, but his stomach pain forced him to keep rushing upstairs to the restroom.
• Xu Xuejiao alternated between inviting Long Aotian to begin and delaying him with conversation, making him repeatedly leave for the restroom.
• Zhao Ritian arrived and asked Xu Xuejiao whether Long Aotian had tried to bully her.
• Xu Xuejiao acted as if she were protecting Zhao Ritian from Long Aotian, convincing him to confront Long Aotian.
• Zhao Ritian kicked open the restroom door and found Long Aotian taking a shit.

Zhuge Xiaohua’s newly altered personality drove her to defy Long Aotian and threaten to kill Lu Chengwen over Luo Shiyin’s affair with him. She refused to return to help Long Aotian, leaving Luo Shiyin to face her as she prepared to confront Lu Chengwen.

• Long Aotian repeatedly returned to the bathroom while Zhao Ritian waited, until Zhao Ritian dragged him out by the hair.
• Luo Shiyin and Zhuge Xiaohua arrived at Great Sage Group, where Zhuge Xiaohua insisted that Luo Shiyin either control Lu Chengwen or let her kill him.
• Zhuge Xiaohua crushed Luo Shiyin’s phone and rejected Long Aotian’s order to return, saying she would kill Lu Chengwen herself.
• Luo Shiyin admitted her affair with Lu Chengwen and explained that she felt trapped by her fate, while Zhuge Xiaohua declared that Lu Chengwen would die that day.

Long Aotian tried to convince Zhao Ritian that Lu Chengwen had sent the fighters who attacked him, but Zhao Ritian kept beating him while Long Aotian suffered from severe diarrhea. Meanwhile, Luo Shiyin and Zhuge Xiaohua faced off over their loyalty to Lu Chengwen, and Long Aotian’s call to Lu Chengwen ended with Zhao Ritian still convinced Long Aotian was scum.

• Long Aotian argued that Lu Chengwen had sent the Upper Four Gates experts to attack Zhao Ritian, but Zhao Ritian accused him of scheming and dragged him out of the bathroom to beat him.
• Luo Shiyin told Zhuge Xiaohua that she had become Lu Chengwen’s woman and would protect him, while Zhuge Xiaohua insisted that Lu Chengwen must die.
• Zhuge Xiaohua answered Long Aotian’s call, said she and Luo Shiyin were busy, and hung up as Zhao Ritian continued beating him.
• Jiang Xiaohou laughed while Zhao Ritian chased and beat Long Aotian, who kept insisting that he could not gather qi because he was sick.
• Long Aotian called Lu Chengwen on speaker to prove that the experts belonged to him, but Lu Chengwen distracted him with promises of money and property before hanging up.
• Long Aotian concluded that Lu Chengwen was behind the attacks, while Zhao Ritian called him scum.

Zhuge Xiaohua tried to kill Lu Chengwen but became flustered whenever his words triggered songs in her mind, then left with Luo Shiyin. Elsewhere, Zhao Ritian beat Long Aotian, was knocked unconscious, and woke among former Great Organization members who said their Big Brother had brought him there.

• Zhuge Xiaohua threw a dart at Lu Chengwen, but Hua Xuening blocked it and argued that Lu Chengwen had only fought back when attacked.
• Lu Chengwen complimented Zhuge Xiaohua, causing romantic songs to play in her mind until she gave up and left with Luo Shiyin.
• Zhao Ritian beat Long Aotian and fled when he heard a car arrive; Luo Shiyin and Zhuge Xiaohua found Long Aotian injured and left when he ordered them out.
• Zhao Ritian celebrated his victory in the wilderness, declared himself destined to marry Xu Xuejiao, Leng Qingqiu, and Chen Mengyun, and was knocked unconscious.
• Zhao Ritian woke among Chu Bai, Chariot, and Dare-to-Die, who identified themselves as former Great Organization leaders and said they did not know what had happened to the organization.
• When Zhao Ritian demanded to know who had knocked him out, someone entered and answered that it was them.

Zhao Ritian was beaten into silence by Second Brother and made to attend a meeting, while Lu Chengwen heard that the Chengwen District project was succeeding thanks to Leng Qingqiu, Li Meiqin, and Zhou Zheng. Expecting Lu Chengwen to dismiss him after the project stabilized, Zhou Zheng entered his office with the accounts ready to hand over, but Lu Chengwen welcomed him warmly instead.

• Second Brother repeatedly slapped Zhao Ritian until he sat down and asked Cheqi whether the meeting needed minutes.
• Lu Chengwen's meeting heard that former shantytown residents had moved into new homes, Chengwen District was profitable, and the project's new developments were selling well.
• Lu Chengwen praised the contributions of Leng Qingqiu, Li Meiqin, and Zhou Zheng, then awarded Li Meiqin a house and a fifty-million bonus.
• Lu Guanghong explained to Zhou Zheng that Lu Chengwen had insisted on promoting him because he respected Zhou Zheng's talent and integrity.
• Jiang Shihan invited Zhou Zheng to Lu Chengwen's office, where Zhou Zheng arrived expecting to be dismissed and prepared to hand over the accounts.
• Lu Chengwen greeted Zhou Zheng warmly and called himself Little Lu Zi, leaving Zhou Zheng stunned that he was not being fired.

Lu Chengwen and Leng Qingqiu honored Zhou Zheng for his loyalty with gifts and plans for his son’s education, then Lu Chengwen chose the next person on their list to reward. Meanwhile, Long Aotian vowed revenge on Zhao Ritian, who was forced to lead three imprisoned fighters and secretly planned to make his name in Xue City.

• Lu Chengwen and Leng Qingqiu praised Zhou Zheng’s work, gave him a villa, one hundred million, and a gold gift set, and arranged for his son to study at Guokai under Professor Zou.
• After Zhou Zheng left, Lu Chengwen and Leng Qingqiu reviewed a list of people to discipline and reward, and Lu Chengwen selected one to start with.
• Long Aotian recovered from a night of severe diarrhea and ordered his men to find Zhao Ritian so he could take revenge.
• A big brother gave Zhao Ritian and three imprisoned fighters poison, then made Zhao Ritian responsible for the other three and gave him their antidotes.
• Zhao Ritian planned to use his new subordinates to make a name for himself, while the three fighters considered killing him to take the antidotes and escape.