Chapter Summaries

Su Bai teased Jiang Qiuran over chat, received her selfies, and sent her money, while she grew frustrated that their relationship was not progressing. At dinner, Jiang Qiuran’s Anime Club friends assumed she was already close to the wealthy Su Bai, leaving her envious and upset.

• Jiang Qiuran sent Su Bai selfies, and he tipped her 5,000 yuan, receiving 15,000 yuan in cashback.
• Su Bai mocked Jiang Qiuran for claiming she was pure, and she regretted that their childhood-friend relationship was going nowhere.
• Jiang Qiuran’s Anime Club friends discussed Su Bai’s luxury apartment and expensive Koenigsegg.
• The girls assumed Jiang Qiuran had Su Bai’s support and was already his partner, while she privately lamented that she had gained no benefits from him.

Su Bai and Liu Chenyang enjoyed a steakhouse meal, and he reassured her that he would find a way for her to live openly as a daughter. Afterward, Su Bai told Yangyang he planned to buy a tennis court.

• Jiang Qiuran worried that other girls had taken the sweet-girl role in Su Bai's life, but stopped messaging him when he did not reply.
• Su Bai and Liu Chenyang discussed steak aging, and he invited her to visit his home to experiment with aging cabinets.
• Su Bai considered finding a way to persuade Liu Chenhu to let Yangyang live as a daughter, possibly by approaching the old Taoist priest first.
• Su Bai and Liu Chenyang tried several dishes at the steakhouse, paid more than thirteen hundred, and received a twofold cashback reward.
• In Baidah Plaza's underground parking lot, Su Bai announced that he planned to buy a tennis court, surprising Yangyang.

Su Bai decided to buy an indoor tennis center and asked Liu Chenyang to help assess the practicalities, teasing her as they discussed it. At the sale meeting, Su Bai discovered that the seller’s representative was Wu Hanyu, the man who had once competed with him for a Koenigsegg.

• Su Bai told Liu Chenyang she planned to buy an indoor tennis center and said she could hire professionals to manage it.
• Su Bai teased Liu Chenyang about the activities they might do in the indoor center, and they left the steakhouse arm in arm.
• Wu Hanyu recalled that his family’s tennis center had lost money and that his father had sent him to negotiate its sale.
• Su Bai arrived for the meeting, recognized Wu Hanyu, and asked why he was selling the center despite being able to afford an expensive car.

Su Bai negotiated to buy Wu Hanyu’s unprofitable tennis facility, while Yangyang accompanied him in disguise and quietly helped with the business discussion. After they signed the contract, Su Bai took Yangyang to a secluded spot, where she changed back into her Liu Chen'ang identity before they parted.

• Su Bai used his financial knowledge to negotiate the tennis facility purchase with Wu Hanyu, while Yangyang listened and advised him in disguise.
• Wu Hanyu agreed to the deal, exchanged WeChat details with Su Bai, and offered to provide contacts for the facility’s management team.
• Wu Hanyu wondered who Su Bai’s masked companion was, unaware that she was the local acquaintance Yangyang.
• Su Bai drove Yangyang to a secluded spot, and they stayed together until evening before she changed back into her Liu Chen'ang form and left.
• Su Bai rested in the car, and a notification suddenly appeared in his mind.

Su Bai returned to his dorm after learning that Xue Tao was complaining about his Thailand trip, hoping to find out what had happened and check on Hu Ye and Tearful. He found Chu Mingzhe making a handmade Kuromi doll for Leilei and teasingly questioned its appearance.

• Su Bai decided to spend the night in the dorm after seeing Xue Tao's gloomy Moments post and suspecting that Liu Yuanyuan had kicked him out of their hotel room again.
• Su Bai ran from the parking lot to his dorm and found Chu Mingzhe working on a handmade doll.
• Hu Ye complained that his History of Arts and Crafts class had been moved into the holiday and held early in the morning.
• Su Bai guessed that Chu Mingzhe's crooked doll was the Powerpuff Girls or Twilight Sparkle before Chu Mingzhe identified it as Kuromi.
• Chu Mingzhe said the doll was his first handmade stuffed toy and hoped Leilei would cherish it.

Su Bai heard how Xue Tao and Liu Yuanyuan's trip to Thailand went wrong after they bought a fake jade bracelet. He learned that the dispute had become a breaking point in their already strained relationship, while Hu Ye continued to mistake his own feelings for Leilei as mutual.

• Su Bai told Chu Mingzhe to include another gift with his handmade present for Leilei, and Chu resumed crafting.
• Su Bai discovered Wang Haoran was playing O God and X Tide at the same time, then asked him to tell the Anime Club cosplayers he only wanted to be ordinary friends.
• Su Bai arranged the basketball team's next game and asked Hu Ye what had happened to Xue Tao.
• Chu Mingzhe said Xue Tao had privately complained that he and Liu Yuanyuan bought a fake jade bracelet at a Thai night market.
• Wang Haoran said Liu Yuanyuan had posted a photo wearing the bracelet, and Chu Mingzhe explained that the fake purchase had sparked a fight between the couple.

Su Bai and his roommates worried when Xue Tao stopped replying after heading out in Thailand, but Xue Tao later claimed he had reconciled with Liu Yuanyuan. The next morning, Su Bai wondered how they had made up before running into Xia Lin on campus.

• Su Bai argued that Liu Yuanyuan deserved much of the blame for Xue Tao buying fake jade, and Chu Mingzhe went on a date with Leilei.
• Chu Mingzhe messaged Xue Tao, who said he was going to check out a bar before stopping responding sometime after midnight.
• Su Bai and his roommates worried that Xue Tao might be in danger and agreed to check on him the next morning.
• Su Bai saw Xue Tao’s early-morning workout post and learned that Xue Tao had apparently made up with Liu Yuanyuan.
• Su Bai met Xia Lin on the athletic field, where she noticed his improved appearance and teased him about it.

Xia Lin invited Su Bai to jog and have breakfast with her, hoping to grow closer while Su Bai enjoyed teasing her. At the cafeteria, a jealous man confronted Su Bai about his relationship with Xia Lin, and Su Bai provoked him by claiming to be her important, special godbrother.

• Xia Lin noticed that Su Bai looked more handsome and invited him to jog with her.
• Xia Lin asked Su Bai to work out with her, and he teased her until she blushed.
• Xia Lin took Su Bai's meal card and went to get spicy hot pot for breakfast.
• A man in a Chelsea jersey questioned Su Bai about his relationship with Xia Lin.
• Su Bai called the man uncle and then grandpa before claiming that he was important and special to Xia Lin.

Xia Lin joined Su Bai and Bai Feili at the breakfast table, where her intimate treatment of Su Bai drove the unwanted blind date away. She told Su Bai she planned to avoid romance for four years to take care of him, then warned him not to think about escaping her.

• Bai Feili introduced himself to Su Bai as Xia Lin's family-arranged blind date and university research assistant.
• Xia Lin returned with the spicy dry pot, rejected Bai Feili's invitation, and said she had arranged to exercise with Su Bai.
• Xia Lin served Su Bai food from their shared spicy dry pot, making Bai Feili jealous and prompting him to leave.
• Su Bai teased Xia Lin after Bai Feili left, and Xia Lin said she would avoid romance for four years to take care of him.
• Xia Lin told Su Bai that she had set her sights on him and would not let him escape.

After Bai Feili fled, Su Bai learned he was related to Chu Mingzhe, then accompanied Xia Lin to her upscale gym. Xia Lin arranged a private workout area and prepared to wear a bolder outfit, leaving her plans for their time together just beginning.

• Su Bai told Chu Mingzhe that his uncle had left through the cafeteria's side entrance, and Chu Mingzhe went after him.
• Xia Lin discussed maturity and social expectations with Su Bai, then revealed that Chu Mingzhe's family had connections.
• Su Bai and Xia Lin went to her high-end gym, where she offered to introduce him to friends in her social circle.
• Xia Lin asked the gym manager to screen off a private workout area for her and Su Bai.
• Xia Lin showered, planned to apply light makeup, and prepared to wear an outfit she had never tried before.

Xia Lin wore a revealing workout outfit to attract Su Bai’s attention, then began a bench-press session with him as her spotter. The chapter left her embarrassed by the view he would have from beside her head.

• Xia Lin debated wearing her new workout clothes for Su Bai and decided to use them to seduce him.
• Xia Lin arrived at the gym in a light blue cropped camisole and short workout shorts, and Su Bai praised her figure.
• Xia Lin squeezed Su Bai’s muscles while they talked, then warmed up before starting her workout.
• Xia Lin chose the bench press and joked with Su Bai about her figure and his girlfriend, Zhou.
• Xia Lin lay down on the bench and realized Su Bai would have a clear view of her chest while spotting her.

Su Bai and Xia Lin worked out together, but their mutual attraction kept distracting them from proper training. Xia Lin left with an even stronger affection for Su Bai and a new appreciation for his strength.

• Su Bai openly admired Xia Lin as she struggled through bench presses with him spotting her.
• Su Bai suggested squats, and Xia Lin pressed close against his back while spotting him.
• Su Bai encouraged Xia Lin to squat and secretly lifted most of the barbell himself.
• Xia Lin teased Su Bai about his strength and wondered whether he wanted to build a closer bond with her.
• Xia Lin finished the workout with a deeper understanding of Su Bai's physical fitness and stronger feelings for him.

Xia Lin and Su Bai grew closer at the gym, and Xia Lin’s favorability exceeded 90, binding her to Su Bai. After arranging dinner together, Su Bai told her about Xue Tao and Liu Yuanyuan, leaving Xia Lin to reflect on the risks of treating relationships like a game.

• Xia Lin and Su Bai paused their workout when her hourly timer rang, and she asked Su Bai if he was uncomfortable before helping him.
• Xia Lin’s favorability surpassed 90, granting Su Bai the Master Level skill Causality Therapy and activating her bound spending cashback function.
• Xia Lin resumed her training while Su Bai worked out, then agreed to reserve a private kitchen restaurant for dinner with him.
• Su Bai told Xia Lin he planned to return to the dorm to see how things had developed after Xue Tao returned from traveling abroad.
• Xia Lin discussed Liu Yuanyuan’s approach to relationships and warned that treating love as a strategy game could lead to exhaustion and loss.

After Xia Lin’s affection breakthrough gave Su Bai a causality-reversal healing skill, he wondered what cashback she might bring him and asked about Xue Tao’s strange mood. Xue Tao bragged about his trip with Liu Yuanyuan, but his confidence and the dormmates’ reactions left him feeling less pleased than he expected.

• Xia Lin helped Su Bai relieve stress, and their affection breakthrough bound her spending cashback to him and granted him Causality Therapy.
• Su Bai asked Wang Haoran whether Xue Tao had returned to the dorm, and Wang Haoran said Xue Tao seemed both excited and disappointed.
• Xue Tao told a neighboring student about traveling abroad with Liu Yuanyuan, prompting envy and assumptions that they were an intimate couple.
• Chu Mingzhe returned to Dorm 510 and heard Xue Tao boast that he was kidney-deficient after a night of wonderful experiences.
• Xue Tao compared himself to Su Bai as a strong man girls wanted, but he felt lost when the dormmates reacted with jealousy and displeasure.

After Xue Tao and Liu Yuanyuan separately headed to a popular bar, they ran into each other and argued before reconciling. Back at the hotel, Liu Yuanyuan offered to sleep with him, but Xue Tao failed to perform.

• Xue Tao went to a popular bar to clear his head and look for a romantic encounter, while Liu Yuanyuan independently went there to dance.
• Xue Tao spotted Liu Yuanyuan dressed in stockings and confronted her, and they argued over the fake jade, their relationship, and her refusal to wear stockings for him before he broke up with her.
• Liu Yuanyuan chased Xue Tao outside, kissed him, and tearfully begged for forgiveness, so he softened and returned to the hotel with her.
• Liu Yuanyuan offered to sleep with Xue Tao to reassure him and keep him from leaving, but he failed to perform.

After an embarrassing failure with Liu Yuanyuan, Xue Tao asked Su Bai for advice about his supposed friend’s bedroom difficulties, but Su Bai recommended seeing a doctor. At school the next day, Su Bai flirted with Chen Yusheng and urged her not to overwork herself, while making clear that he cared more about enjoying college life than rapidly growing his wealth.

• After his encounter with Liu Yuanyuan went badly, Xue Tao decided he needed to work out.
• Xue Tao privately asked Su Bai how a man could deal with being too weak to perform, claiming the problem belonged to a friend.
• Su Bai advised Xue Tao to see a doctor or ask an experienced family elder, and their conversation ended without a solution.
• The next day, Su Bai told Chen Yusheng he had learned an improved massage technique and promised to try it that evening.
• Seeing Chen Yusheng was tired from her studies, Su Bai encouraged her to take things slowly and said he valued enjoying college life over making money quickly.

Su Bai brought Chen Yusheng to the Anime Club room to help improve her health and turned their private lunch break into an intimate encounter. Afterward, he prepared to demonstrate his massage technique, leaving Chen Yusheng curious about whether he truly knew what he was doing.

• Su Bai told Chen Yusheng that improving her health might increase her thinking speed, and he took her to a vacant Anime Club room he had secured with his sponsorship.
• Su Bai joked about the room and anime before Chen Yusheng asked him to massage her feet.
• Chen Yusheng playfully praised Su Bai’s looks, and the two teased each other before she helped him prove that she loved him.
• Su Bai stopped before overexerting Chen Yusheng, helped her change into fresh stockings, and announced that he would demonstrate his massage technique.

Su Bai used Causality Therapy on Chen Yusheng, improving her physical condition and bringing them closer. Afterward, Chen Yusheng wondered whether she could make her afternoon class, and Su Bai offered to ask for leave.

• Su Bai wondered whether he could use Causality Therapy to persuade Yangyang's father to change how he raised his children.
• Su Bai massaged Chen Yusheng's foot and activated his therapy skill.
• A system notification confirmed that Su Bai had improved Chen Yusheng's local physical constitution.
• Chen Yusheng praised Su Bai, then moved closer to him and kissed him.
• Afterward, Chen Yusheng worried about attending her afternoon class, and Su Bai offered to ask for leave.

Su Bai sent Chen Yusheng back to Ascott and returned to campus, where Jiang Qiuran learned that the Anime Club had set aside a room for him and tried to get his attention with photos. He then went to basketball practice with the Wan sisters watching, ahead of the freshman tournament’s opening game.

• Su Bai summoned Wan Xinyan to pick up the exhausted Chen Yusheng and take her back to Ascott.
• Jiang Qiuran asked Senior Sister Xiao Xiong about the Anime Club room and learned that Su Bai planned to turn it into an Otaku Haven.
• Jiang Qiuran sent Su Bai photos, but he called them average and ignored her.
• Su Bai drifted through class, then headed to basketball practice before Computer Science Class 3’s first tournament game against a Law department class.
• Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue came to watch Su Bai play, and he admired Wan Xinyan’s jeans.

Su Bai practiced basketball with Class Three and brushed off a taunting player from the Law School who planned to guard him in their game the next day. After the rival left, Su Bai decided to take the matchup seriously and planned to use his saved lottery chances to strengthen himself.

• Su Bai practiced rebounding with Class Three and offered to buy the team drinks.
• A Nike-clad Law School student mocked Class Three’s tactics and challenged Su Bai ahead of their game.
• Su Bai answered the student’s taunts and pretended to have a thigh cramp so the Wan sisters could massage him at the sidelines.
• The Law School student left after watching Su Bai with the Wan sisters, while Su Bai suspected he wanted to use the game to show off.
• Su Bai learned the rival made short videos on Douyin and was jealous of Su Bai’s popularity, but still believed he could beat him at basketball.
• Su Bai decided to use his saved lottery chances that night to gain attribute points and strengthen himself.