Chapter Summaries

Zhao Ritian used the antidote to break up the three men’s alliance and recruit them into his plan to stage a rescue for Xu Xuejiao. After they kidnapped her, Zhang Shen'er warned Lu Chengwen that the abduction might be bait, and Lu Chengwen ordered his people to surround the abandoned factory.

• Zhao Ritian announced his plan to stage a hero-saves-the-beauty rescue and demanded that the three men help him pick up Xu Xuejiao.
• When Chariot Heavenly King and the others tried to take the antidote by force, Zhao Ritian crushed one pill and turned the men against one another over the two remaining doses.
• Dare-to-Die Heavenly King sided with Zhao Ritian, and Chariot Heavenly King and Chu Bai agreed to follow his orders.
• Dare-to-Die Heavenly King kidnapped Xu Xuejiao while Chu Bai and Chariot Heavenly King helped their group escape in separate vehicles.
• After Xu Xuejiao's assistant alerted Lu Chengwen, Zhang Shen'er traced the kidnappers to an abandoned factory and suspected they had taken Xu as bait.
• Lu Chengwen sent the factory's location to his group and ordered them to surround it, stay concealed, and wait for his command.

Lu Chengwen and Zhang Shen'er discovered Xu Xuejiao playing cards with her supposed kidnappers, while Zhao Ritian staged a rescue to win her favor. Long Aotian arrived, exposed Zhao Ritian’s connection to the group, and pursued him, leaving Zhao badly beaten at the bottom of a slope.

• Lu Chengwen and Zhang Shen'er watched Xu Xuejiao play cards with Chu Bai and Dangkour while Zhao Ritian and the Chariot Heavenly King argued about making the kidnapping convincing.
• Zhao Ritian burst in, defeated the Chariot Heavenly King and Dangkour, and rescued Xu Xuejiao, who demanded that he kill the kidnappers in exchange for dating him.
• Long Aotian arrived with Luo Shiyin and Zhuge Xiaohua, confronted Zhao Ritian, and sent him flying through a window before chasing after him.
• Lu Chengwen kissed Xu Xuejiao and asked Zhang Shen'er to take her home while he followed the fight.
• Long Aotian caught Zhao Ritian repeatedly, beat him, and demanded that he defecate in retaliation for Zhao’s earlier humiliation.
• Zhao Ritian lay motionless at the bottom of a slope as Long Aotian refused Zhuge Xiaohua’s offer to kill him, saying he wanted Zhao alive but worse off than dead.

Jiang Xiaohou captured Lu Chengwen, Long Aotian, and Zhao Ritian, then made them tell stories to entertain her. Lu Chengwen escaped his bonds by turning a bizarre joke into a guessing game, leaving Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian to face Jiang Xiaohou’s whip.

• Jiang Xiaohou ordered her subordinates to handle loose ends and decided to intervene personally while Big Brother and Second Brother captured Upper Four Gates fighters.
• Long Aotian, Zhuge Xiaohua, and Luo Shiyin chased and beat Zhao Ritian, but Jiang Xiaohou’s people knocked out and captured Lu Chengwen, Long Aotian, and Zhao Ritian.
• Jiang Xiaohou explained that she had once drowned an unhappy person to stop his unhappiness and demanded that each captive tell her an original, interesting, sensible story.
• Lu Chengwen persuaded Jiang Xiaohou to untie him by promising a joke, then asked her to make Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian guess how a twenty-million big white horse drowned in a teacup.
• Long Aotian failed to answer and was whipped, while Zhao Ritian guessed that the horse was small and the teacup was big, prompting Jiang Xiaohou to order Third Brother to whip him too.

Lu Chengwen entertained Jiang Xiaohou by making Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian solve riddles while San whipped them for wrong answers. Zhao Ritian wagered their lives that Lu Chengwen could not explain how an injured old woman with both thumbs missing wore ten rings, and Lu Chengwen prepared to answer.

• San whipped Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian as they failed to explain how a big white horse drowned in a teacup, until Lu Chengwen revealed he had traded the horse for a cricket that drowned in one.
• Lu Chengwen explained that a strong wind had blown a well outside a courtyard by pushing over its rotten fence, and San resumed whipping the two men.
• Lu Chengwen posed a riddle about an old woman with no thumbs wearing ten rings, and Zhao Ritian insisted it was impossible because she had only eight fingers.
• Zhao Ritian challenged Lu Chengwen to wager their lives on the answer and persuaded Long Aotian to join, but Long Aotian said he would believe anything Lu Chengwen claimed after the earlier riddles.

Lu Chengwen refused to kill Zhao Ritian and Long Aotian, but Jiang Xiaohou tested his willingness to sacrifice others by threatening captives in a warehouse. With the countdown nearly over and Dangkou dead, Lu Chengwen chose Xu Xuejiao to be released first.

• Lu Chengwen used a joke about a six-fingered old woman to win a life-or-death match, then refused Jiang Xiaohou’s demand to kill Zhao Ritian.
• Jiang Xiaohou threatened Lu Chengwen and demanded one trillion, then had Third Brother take him to a room holding his allies and captives.
• Jiang Xiaohou told Third Brother she wanted to force Lu Chengwen to reveal his selfish and greedy side.
• Third Brother said Lu Chengwen could free three people for each joke he had told, but he would have to choose three others to die, and offered Lu Chengwen the option to leave alone.
• When Third Brother’s countdown neared its end, he killed Dangkou as a warning, and Lu Chengwen demanded that Xu Xuejiao be released first.

Jiang Xiaohou forced Lu Chengwen to choose who would be killed or spared, and he used every opportunity to send others away before stabbing himself three times to save Zhuge Xiaohua. After he defied Jiang Xiaohou and demanded to know what she wanted next, she offered him one final choice: live or die.

• Lu Chengwen sent Xu Xuejiao and Zhang Shen'er away, then chose Chu Bai and Cheqi to be killed and Luo Shiyin to be spared.
• Lu Chengwen refused to save himself with his last slot and stabbed himself three times to free Zhuge Xiaohua.
• Jiang Xiaohou let Zhuge Xiaohua go, while Lu Chengwen urged the remaining men to leave and challenged Jiang Xiaohou.
• Jiang Xiaohou offered Lu Chengwen one final choice between living and dying.

Lu Chengwen took Jiang Xiaohou’s poison to save the ten former Great Organization members, and Jiang Xiaohou eventually gave him the antidote and released them. After Lu Chengwen recovered, Little Monkey stayed by his side, while Jiang Xiaohou’s doubts and attraction toward him grew until she secretly kissed him.

• Jiang Xiaohou offered Lu Chengwen a choice between medicine for himself and poison in exchange for freeing the ten former Great Organization members.
• Lu Chengwen took the poison, insisting Jiang Xiaohou release the ten, and they gathered beside him as he weakened.
• Jiang Xiaohou gave the strategist the antidote, admitted Lu Chengwen had won, and left.
• Lu Chengwen woke in Xu Xuejiao’s care, learned that Zhang Shen'er and others had watched over him, and let Little Monkey sleep beside him.
• Little Monkey watched Lu Chengwen sleep and felt safe with him, while Jiang Xiaohou wrestled with her thoughts and secretly kissed him.

Jiang Xiaohou reflected on why Lu Chengwen’s apparent selfishness conflicted with his brave, self-sacrificing actions, and realized she had fallen for him. She kissed him while he slept, but when he woke and found her imitating intimate behavior she had watched, he sent her to stay in bed and left for Xu Xuejiao’s room, leaving Jiang Xiaohou furious and confused.

• Jiang Xiaohou recalled her first execution as a child, the Jiang Family upheaval, and her resolve to kill evil people despite hating it.
• Jiang Xiaohou contrasted Lu Chengwen’s lecherous, greedy reputation with his willingness to risk his life to save others, including Zhuge Xiaohua and the Great Organization’s recruits.
• Jiang Xiaohou realized she had fallen for Lu Chengwen and kissed him while he slept.
• Lu Chengwen woke to find Jiang Xiaohou kissing his tongue and touching him, then scolded her for imitating intimate acts she had seen other women perform.
• Lu Chengwen ordered Jiang Xiaohou to stay in bed and left to stay with Xu Xuejiao, while Jiang Xiaohou angrily vowed he would regret humiliating her.

Jiang Xiaohou forced Zhao Ritian to kill Lu Chengwen, while Long Aotian prepared to confront him with his new power. Meanwhile, Cavalry Heavenly King snapped under Hun Tiangang’s treatment, and the Northern Country branch suspected its leaders were being used as pawns in a larger scheme.

• Jiang Xiaohou watched Lu Chengwen and Xu Xuejiao together, then captured Zhao Ritian and ordered him to kill Lu Chengwen in exchange for his life.
• Zhao Ritian accepted Jiang Xiaohou’s pill, which temporarily gave him the strength of an entry-level Heavenly Four Gates expert, and agreed that Chariot Cavalry and Chu Bai would assist him.
• Long Aotian woke with Luo Shiyin and Zhuge Xiaohua nearby, then planned to confront Lu Chengwen the next day and demand an explanation with his new Heavenly Four Gates strength.
• Cavalry Heavenly King cursed the strategist over the phone and declared that he would kill Lu Chengwen and Long Aotian, saying he wanted bones rather than money or missions.
• The Branch Master and strategist discussed Hun Tiangang’s influence and concluded that Long Aotian and Lu Chengwen might be being used to destroy their organization; when invited to Xue City, the strategist claimed he had diarrhea.

The strategist tried to recall Cavalry General from Xue City, fearing the city’s hidden conflicts and the danger of provoking Lu Chengwen, but Cavalry General refused to return before killing Lu Chengwen and Long Aotian. Jiang Xiaohou captured him outside Lu Chengwen’s villa and, after hearing how Hun Tiangang had treated him, decided to imitate the senior’s methods.

• The strategist learned that Hun Tiangang’s identity was classified as Legendary Tier and warned the Branch Master that Xue City’s conflicts could be part of a larger scheme.
• The strategist called Cavalry General and ordered him to return, but Cavalry General insisted he would kill Lu Chengwen and Long Aotian first.
• The Branch Master sent Wei Heavenly King to retrieve Cavalry General and told him to avoid provoking anyone in Xue City.
• Cavalry General crept onto the wall around Lu Chengwen’s villa, but someone struck him down before he could attack.
• Jiang Xiaohou and her companions captured Cavalry General and dragged him away while Lu Chengwen and Xu Xuejiao remained unaware inside the villa.
• Cavalry General told Jiang Xiaohou that Hun Tiangang had made him fetch balls and threatened to neuter him, and Jiang Xiaohou eagerly asked him to give her a paw.

Jiang Xiaohou ordered Cavalry Heavenly King to secretly protect Lu Chengwen during his inspection of Chengwen District, while Wei Heavenly King and several other factions converged on the district with plans involving Lu Chengwen. The chapter left Lu Chengwen at a pancake stall as an attack seemed imminent and the stall owner insulted him.

• Jiang Xiaohou forced Cavalry Heavenly King to promise to protect Lu Chengwen and attack anyone who targeted him.
• Wei Heavenly King and Little Wei King arrived in Xue City, suspected Cavalry Heavenly King was in danger, and headed for Chengwen District after hearing Lu Chengwen was inspecting it.
• Lu Chengwen toured Chengwen District, spoke with a delivery rider, and learned how local workers and businesses were using the developing commercial street.
• Long Aotian ordered Zhuge Xiaohua to prepare bows and Luo Shiyin to restrain Lu Chengwen, while Zhao Ritian, Che Qi, and Chu Bai planned a separate ambush.
• Cavalry Heavenly King, Wei Heavenly King, and Little Wei King watched the area as Lu Chengwen bought pancakes and chatted with the stall owner.
• The pancake maker praised Lu Chengwen’s development project but then insulted him with rumors about his private life, making Lu Chengwen’s smile disappear.

Lu Chengwen fled the project site after Luo Shiyin warned him that Long Aotian was coming, while his allies prepared an ambush at his villa. Long Aotian arrived to find Zhao Ritian and two Heavenly Kings blocking his way, and both sides prepared to fight over Lu Chengwen.

• Lu Chengwen made a pancake with the vendor, admired the project's progress, and left with Hua Xuening after Luo Shiyin warned that Long Aotian was after him.
• Lu Chengwen told the strategist to gather everyone at his villa and prepare an ambush, while warning the group to flee if the dangerous woman appeared.
• The strategist and his allies prepared to fight Long Aotian, who they believed was at the Heavenly Four Gates.
• Wei Heavenly King caught up with Cavalry Heavenly King and tried to bring him back, but Cavalry insisted he needed to protect Lu Chengwen and warned Wei to flee if a strange, terrifying woman appeared.
• Long Aotian arrived at the villa and found Zhao Ritian and two Heavenly Kings waiting; Zhao revealed he had reached the beginner level of the Heavenly Four Gates, and both sides called their fighters to battle.

Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian’s awakened grudges turned their confrontation at Lu Chengwen’s estate into a destructive three-way brawl after Cavalry Heavenly King joined in. As Lu Chengwen watched with Luo Shiyin, another Heavenly Four Gates expert entered the fight and asked who knew how to make pancakes.

• Luo Shiyin’s taunts and a reminder of past humiliations drove Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian to attack each other, while Chu Bai, Cavalry General, and Zhuge Xiaohua failed to stop them.
• Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian unleashed their powerful techniques, wrecking the lawn and forcing Chu Bai and Cavalry General to take cover.
• Cavalry Heavenly King charged into the battle to protect Lu Chengwen, and Zhao Ritian’s insults provoked him into fighting all three men.
• Lu Chengwen watched the brawl and reunited with Luo Shiyin, who explained the grudges behind Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian’s fight.
• Another Heavenly Four Gates expert leaped into the battle, blocked a fatal strike against Cavalry Heavenly King, and asked who knew how to make pancakes.

Lu Chengwen used a loudspeaker to manipulate a chaotic fight among Long Aotian, Zhao Ritian, Cavalry Heavenly King, and Wei Heavenly King. The battered fighters discovered their conflicting aims, but Wei Heavenly King refused Long Aotian’s offer to capture Lu Chengwen because Lu could make pancakes.

• Wei Heavenly King joined the fight to save Cavalry Heavenly King, and all four men attacked one another amid their confusion over who could make pancakes.
• Lu Chengwen sent Zhao Gang for loudspeakers, then shouted Long Aotian’s weaknesses and movements to the fighters while Hua Xuening and Mei Shao kept Zhuge Xiaohua away from the battle.
• Cavalry Heavenly King struck Zhao Ritian from behind, and Lu Chengwen’s shouting further inflamed the fighters until they were all badly injured.
• Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian realized they had both come to kill Lu Chengwen, while Cavalry Heavenly King vowed to protect him and Wei Heavenly King said he only intended to take Cavalry Heavenly King away.
• Long Aotian offered Wei Heavenly King rewards for capturing Lu Chengwen, but Wei Heavenly King refused because Lu Chengwen could make pancakes.

Lu Chengwen provoked Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian into fighting again, then took his companions to eat hotpot while the battle continued. Afterward, Jiang Xiaohou gave Cavalry General an antidote before forcing him to take another pill and assigning him to kill Lu Chengwen, while she persuaded Zhao Ritian to take a second pill and protect him.

• Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian agreed to stop fighting until Lu Chengwen mocked Long Aotian's humiliating defeat, reigniting their feud.
• Long Aotian attacked Lu Chengwen, Cavalry General intervened, and the four men fought until night while Lu Chengwen ate hotpot nearby.
• Little Wei helped Wei Heavenly King withdraw with the unconscious Cavalry General, while Zhuge Xiaohua and Luo Shiyin escorted Long Aotian away and Chu Bai and Chariot General took Zhao Ritian back.
• Jiang Xiaohou gave Cavalry General an antidote, then San'er forced him to take another pill and Jiang Xiaohou ordered him to kill Lu Chengwen.
• Jiang Xiaohou offered Zhao Ritian pills to stabilize his Heavenly Four Gates strength in exchange for protecting Lu Chengwen, and Zhao Ritian swallowed the second pill.
• After the strategist scolded Wei Heavenly King for attacking Long Aotian, Wei Heavenly King said he would handle the trouble himself.

Wei Heavenly King decided to defy the Strategist’s orders and seek an alliance with Lu Chengwen, believing Lu and Long Aotian were rival young masters. Meanwhile, Lu Chengwen’s group discussed the danger posed by Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian and considered winning Wei Heavenly King over.

• The Strategist ordered Wei Heavenly King to return with Little Wei and leave Cavalry General behind, warning him that Lu Chengwen was untouchable.
• Wei Heavenly King told Little Wei that Lu Chengwen and Long Aotian were both young masters competing for power, and they concluded the organization’s leaders were withholding the truth.
• Wei Heavenly King persuaded Little Wei to pursue Lu Chengwen’s favor instead of remaining pawns of the organization, but decided to first contact Fubo and learn more about the situation.
• Lu Chengwen met with his allies and warned that Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian might recover and join forces against them.
• A Hu suggested recruiting Wei Heavenly King, but Lu Chengwen lamented that Wei had not given him a chance to trick him into joining.

Lu Chengwen agreed to meet Wei Heavenly King, hoping to learn whether the powerful former enemy could become an ally. He sent Fubo’s five brothers to make contact first, while keeping his own plans flexible.

• Wei Heavenly King called Fubo and invited him to meet, sounding unusually warm and familiar.
• The strategist outlined three possible motives for the invitation: an ambush, an attempt to turn Fubo’s group, or a cautious effort to test Lu Chengwen’s situation.
• Lu Chengwen decided to attend the meeting himself, claiming he could negotiate on the spot and had a trump card.
• Lu Chengwen ordered Zhao Gang to take Little Monkey to Jiang Shihan’s place and told the strategist and others to guard the house.
• At the Xiangyun Grand Hotel, Wei Heavenly King greeted Fubo’s five brothers, and Fubo said Lu Chengwen wanted to join them for a meal.
• Wei Heavenly King hesitated at Lu Chengwen’s proposed arrival and glanced at Little Wei, who nodded excitedly.

Fubo’s brothers persuaded Wei Heavenly King and Little Wei to join Lu Chengwen, and Lu gathered his allies to prepare for a fight against Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian. Cavalry Heavenly King arrived intending to kill Lu, while Long Aotian appeared to announce Lu’s death was near.

• Fubo questioned Wei Heavenly King’s knowledge of Lu Chengwen and Long Aotian, while A Hu and Little Wei sang a comic exchange that convinced Wei to meet Lu.
• Lu Chengwen welcomed Wei Heavenly King and Little Wei, and Wei agreed to join his side.
• Back at the villa, Lu introduced the brothers and planned to fight Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian with his allies.
• Cavalry Heavenly King struck Iron Tuo Wang and announced that he had come to kill Lu Chengwen.
• Wei Heavenly King confronted Cavalry, realizing Cavalry had misled him, as Long Aotian arrived and declared that Lu’s death had come.

Lu Chengwen faced Long Aotian and Cavalry with Wei Heavenly King and his fighters, but Zhao Ritian’s sudden arrival gave the enemy three Heavenly Four Gates experts. As Wei Heavenly King urged Lu Chengwen to negotiate, Zhao Ritian approached Lu Chengwen and remarked that the opposing side had a lot of people.

• Lu Chengwen asked Wei Heavenly King to face Cavalry, while the Strategist and Fubo’s brothers prepared to fight Long Aotian.
• Long Aotian ordered Wei Heavenly King and Lu Chengwen’s allies to surrender or die, and Cavalry secretly planned to kill Lu Chengwen despite agreeing to Long Aotian’s orders.
• Lu Chengwen assigned Xue Ning and Mei Shao to stop Zhuge Xiaohua and Luo Shiyin, then prepared to fight Cavalry.
• Zhao Ritian arrived and exchanged a palm strike with Long Aotian, revealing that Lu Chengwen’s opponents now had three Heavenly Four Gates fighters.
• Wei Heavenly King doubted they could win and urged Lu Chengwen to seek peace with Long Aotian, while Zhao Ritian walked over to Lu Chengwen and noted the enemy had many people.

Zhao Ritian unexpectedly sided with Lu Chengwen, turning the confrontation with Long Aotian and Cavalry General into a chaotic battle while Lu Chengwen organized his people. As the fighters clashed, Qi Meishao and Luo Shiyin slipped away from the villa, but Luo Shiyin sensed someone nearby and drew her sword.

• Zhao Ritian declared that he would protect Lu Chengwen and fight Long Aotian, while Lu Chengwen sent his people to prepare hotpot and guard the villa.
• Zhao Ritian provoked Long Aotian by recalling an embarrassing defeat, and the two fought with killing intent.
• Cavalry General tried to rush toward Lu Chengwen, but Wei Heavenly King intercepted him and fought him to prove his loyalty to Lu Chengwen.
• Long Aotian and Cavalry General tried to split up their opponents, but Zhao Ritian blocked Cavalry General while Long Aotian went after Wei Heavenly King.
• Qi Meishao and Luo Shiyin pretended to fight, then stepped away together and talked about Lu Chengwen before Luo Shiyin sensed someone and drew her sword.