Chapter Summaries

Su Bai accompanied Xia Lin to meet Grandma Ouyang, who gave him a painful but effective massage and praised his knowledge and steady manner. Grandma Ouyang called him Xia Lin’s fiancé, and Su Bai agreed that he would marry her, leaving Xia Lin amused and Grandma Ouyang impressed.

• After yoga, Xia Lin and Su Bai showered and set off for the club to meet Grandma Ouyang.
• Grandma Ouyang massaged Su Bai’s neck and shoulders, making him cry out in pain while Xia Lin laughed.
• Su Bai discussed therapy with Grandma Ouyang, who praised his solid knowledge and told Xia Lin he was no ordinary young man.
• When Xia Lin corrected Grandma Ouyang for calling Su Bai her fiancé, Su Bai said he had agreed to marry her and suggested she propose after he graduated.
• Grandma Ouyang admired Su Bai’s confidence and composure, and Xia Lin laughed at his unexpected answer.

Su Bai recovered from Grandma Ouyang’s painful massage while Xia Lin discussed her feelings and future family plans with her. When Xia Lin asked Su Bai about children and marriage, he said he wanted to marry and have children with everyone he loved, leaving their plans open for the future.

• Grandma Ouyang gave Su Bai an intense massage that improved his physical fitness and earned him a small cash reward.
• Xia Lin teased Su Bai with a recording of him crying out during the massage, then went next door for her own session.
• Grandma Ouyang praised Su Bai to Xia Lin and suggested that he and Xia Lin could start preparing for a child.
• Xia Lin considered how Su Bai’s other confidantes might fit into his plans for marriage and children, and wondered if Chen Yusheng should have the first child.
• Xia Lin asked Su Bai what he thought about having children, and he proposed marrying multiple people in a country where it was allowed.
• Su Bai told Xia Lin he was greedy and wanted marriage, children, and everything with the people he loved.

Su Bai and Xia Lin discussed their future together, and Xia Lin felt reassured by his confidence and plans. They spent the night together, and the next morning Su Bai checked the system reward he had gained from their relationship.

• Su Bai told Xia Lin he wanted to support his confidantes and imagined building a wealthy life together, while Xia Lin realized she did not need to worry about marriage formalities.
• Su Bai and Xia Lin went to the courtyard, where he complimented her cheongsam and she agreed to give herself to him.
• Su Bai and Xia Lin spent the night together, crossing the boundary in their relationship.
• The next morning, Xia Lin woke from a dream about having children with Su Bai and grew bashful as she remembered their night.
• Su Bai stayed beside Xia Lin instead of exercising, then checked the system panel and found that her favorability had reached 95, earning him a lottery chance and a special item.

Su Bai received the Natural Leader special item and spent time with Xia Lin before she left for a school meeting. On his drive back, Liu Chenhu repaid Su Bai’s bridge loan and invited him to visit, leaving Su Bai imagining a secret encounter with Yangyang.

• Su Bai obtained the Natural Leader special item, which increased his charisma and ability to lead and persuade others.
• Xia Lin sensed a change in Su Bai and felt more attached to him, but she stayed quiet about her feelings.
• Xia Lin left for a school meeting and warned Su Bai that his roommates might be at risk of failing their exams.
• Liu Chenhu repaid Su Bai’s bridge loan and invited him to visit his home.
• Su Bai imagined a taboo encounter with Yangyang, while Xia Lin also let her mind wander during her meeting.

Xia Lin's coworkers speculated about her love life while Su Bai and his classmates took a programming exam. Afterward, Su Bai praised Lu Yuning's concept sketches and promised to support her work.

• Xia Lin's coworkers noticed her daydreaming about Su Bai during a Youth League Committee meeting and whispered that she might be in love.
• Su Bai and Wang Haoran finished the computer-based programming exam quickly, while Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe struggled with their programs.
• Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe both claimed they had finished the exam, though Xue Tao knew his programs had not passed.
• Lu Yuning sent Su Bai a set of preliminary concept sketches, and he praised her work and told her to develop the detailed designs at a comfortable pace, with expenses covered.

Lu Yuning celebrated that Su Bai had approved her concept design on the first review, then traded teasing messages with Selina Chen about whether Su Bai might desire her. After fantasizing about joining Su Bai and the women around him, Lu Yuning indulged her desires in her apartment, where Zhou Jialu arrived at the door with a blender.

• Lu Yuning rejoiced that Su Bai had approved her concept design draft without revisions.
• Lu Yuning told Selina Chen about the approval, and Selina Chen teased her about Su Bai's intentions and praised her appeal.
• Lu Yuning imagined herself among Su Bai's women and became aroused in her apartment.
• Zhou Jialu rang Lu Yuning's doorbell and said she had brought her a blender.

Zhou Jialu brought Lu Yuning a luxury blender and left her flustered by hinting at her private life. At Shengxi Technology, Su Bai spent time with Chen Yusheng, discussed custom stockings, and tested his new Innate Leadership skill on a childhood friend.

• Zhou Jialu delivered and installed an imported blender for Lu Yuning, then encouraged her to ask for anything else she needed.
• Zhou Jialu noticed clues about Lu Yuning's private life and left after advising her not to skip meals to lose weight.
• Su Bai visited Shengxi Technology and helped Chen Yusheng read papers, then discussed acquiring a clothing factory and making custom stockings for her.
• Su Bai recorded an overbearing command to test his Innate Leadership skill, but Chen Yusheng was unimpressed.
• Su Bai sent the recording to a childhood friend, who replied ten minutes later with excited messages after immersing herself in the role.

Su Bai took Zhou Jialu and the Wan sisters out to look at luxury homes after the midterms, while Chen Yusheng stayed at work and advanced the company's product. Before the outing, Su Bai praised Wan Xinyan's outfit and discovered that his Natural Leader skill had influenced her intimate behavior.

• Su Bai decided to tour River City's high-end residential communities and buy any homes he liked for personal enjoyment.
• Xia Lin warned Su Bai that River City's housing market offered little investment value, and he said he was buying for consumption instead.
• Chen Yusheng stayed at Shengxi Technology to work, where her coding ability earned the respect of employees who had doubted her.
• Wan Xinyue and Wan Xinyan asked Su Bai to judge their outfits, and he approved Wan Xinyue's blue-and-white cropped jacket.
• Su Bai and Wan Xinyan became intimate before the house-hunting trip, and she used a submissive title that made him realize his Natural Leader skill had taken effect.

Zhou Jialu and Su Bai headed to view a riverside property at Linjiang Tianshu, where the sales team prepared to court the wealthy young client. The manager planned to win his business by emphasizing attentive service and privacy protection.

• Zhou Jialu and Su Bai traveled to view a property near Ascott despite River City's heavy traffic.
• The Linjiang Tianshu sales manager rallied her staff before Su Bai's arrival and told them to present themselves well.
• The manager explained that she wanted Su Bai to buy a property and promote the development on Douyin.
• The manager advised the sales team to focus on excellent service and privacy protection, which she believed mattered most to Su Bai.
• The staff agreed that Su Bai's extravagant spending made him an exceptionally valuable client.

Su Bai toured Linjiang Tianshu with Wan Xinyue, Wan Xinyan, and Zhou Jialu, receiving an elaborate welcome from the real estate agents. He admired the development’s landscaping and attentive service but disliked its entrance décor, then began viewing a 270-square-meter model apartment.

• Wan Xinyue drove Su Bai, Zhou Jialu, and Wan Xinyan to Linjiang Tianshu, where the agents greeted Su Bai as President Su.
• Zhou Jialu complained that the welcome made them feel as though they were inspecting the company, and Su Bai attributed their treatment to his connections and status.
• The manager showed Su Bai the landscaped public areas, which he liked, and the entrance roundabout, whose antique-style vats he found ugly.
• The manager led Su Bai and the others through the mansion gate and up to the top floor, where carpets muffled their footsteps.
• The manager introduced the model apartment’s entrance design and explained that the 270-square-meter unit had five bedrooms, four living areas, and four bathrooms.

Su Bai bought a luxury apartment at Linjiang Tianshu and went to test its rooftop tennis court, where he met Bai Feili, who resented Su Bai's closeness with Xia Lin. Su Bai's accidental return stunned Bai Feili, while Su Bai still could not remember who he was.

• Su Bai inspected the apartment, asked about customizing its kitchen, and decided to buy it, leaving Zhou Jialu to handle the paperwork.
• The manager offered installment plans, but Zhou Jialu said Su Bai would pay in full.
• Su Bai went to the rooftop tennis court and encountered Bai Feili, who challenged him to play.
• Bai Feili served confidently, but Su Bai's casual swing sent the ball crashing into the far fence.
• Bai Feili was stunned by Su Bai's powerful shot, while Su Bai wondered again who he was.

Su Bai met Xia Lin and her roommate Li Honghong after Bai Feili cut their tennis game short, then played tennis with Xia Lin and learned why she had come to the housing development. The chapter left Xia Lin explaining that Bai Feili had tagged along while she looked at homes for her family.

• Bai Feili claimed he had twisted his hip and left Su Bai without a tennis partner.
• Xia Lin arrived with Li Honghong and introduced her to Su Bai, explaining that Bai Feili was only an unwanted family-arranged match.
• Xia Lin teased Li Honghong and joined Su Bai for tennis after he asked her to play.
• Xia Lin told Su Bai that she was viewing homes for her father, who wanted a River City foothold while she finished graduate school.
• Xia Lin said Bai Feili could only afford an ordinary development, not Linjiang Tianshu, because he had relied on his parents and connections.

Su Bai and Xia Lin discussed Bai Feili’s academic shortcomings and the struggles of proud first-year students. After Bai Feili saw Zhou Jialu signing a home purchase contract and learned Su Bai had paid in full for the largest unit, he left humiliated; Zhou Jialu then found Su Bai and Xia Lin playing tennis.

• Xia Lin told Su Bai that Bai Feili had used family connections to secure a temporary university position despite his weak academic record.
• Xia Lin and Su Bai discussed Chu Mingzhe, Room 510, and how former top students struggled to ask for help or accept lower grades.
• Bai Feili brooded over Su Bai’s strength and Xia Lin’s interest in him, then went downstairs to calm himself at a café.
• Bai Feili learned that Zhou Jialu and Su Bai had bought the largest unit at Linjiang Tianshu, with Su Bai paying in full, and left in embarrassment.
• Zhou Jialu finished settling the contract, went upstairs, and saw Su Bai and Xia Lin playing tennis.

Su Bai discovered reporter Xu Xinran hiding in the sky garden and helped her eavesdrop on two men discussing a River City land relocation. After the men left, Xu Xinran explained how she had found them and teased Su Bai about his reaction to their close concealment.

• Xia Lin welcomed Zhou Jialu to join their tennis lesson while Su Bai went to look around the sky garden.
• Su Bai spotted Xu Xinran hiding behind a vine-covered trellis and recognized her as a reporter who had investigated dangerous stories.
• When footsteps approached, Xu Xinran pulled Su Bai behind the trellis and clung to him while recording with her phone.
• Su Bai and Xu Xinran overheard two middle-aged men discussing a land relocation in River City.
• After the men left, Xu Xinran said she had tracked their movements and relied on luck, then teased Su Bai about being sensitive.

Xu Xinran explored Su Bai while proposing a business and genetic-cooperation arrangement, and he listened as Zhou Jialu and Xia Lin discussed him nearby. Xu Xinran offered to let Su Bai “develop” her in exchange for his genes, leaving him to consider her unusually generous terms.

• Xu Xinran pressed against Su Bai and examined him, then asked whether men enjoyed such attention and took his advice on how to tease his ear.
• Zhou Jialu and Xia Lin arrived nearby looking for Su Bai and discussed his stamina and their private lives.
• Zhou Jialu teased Xia Lin about her experience with Su Bai, and Xia Lin admitted that she had been with him but felt shy discussing it.
• Xu Xinran told Su Bai she could offer herself to him in exchange for his genes while maintaining their business partnership and providing media and legal support.

Su Bai and Xu Xinran hid behind a flower trellis and flirted while Xia Lin and Zhou Jialu searched for him nearby. After they left, Xu Xinran explained her interest in finding a suitable partner, then departed to handle explosive news she had gathered, while Su Bai went to meet the others for lunch.

• Su Bai and Xu Xinran hid together behind the flower trellis as Xia Lin and Zhou Jialu searched for him, then the two women left when he did not answer their messages.
• Xu Xinran's favorability toward Su Bai increased after their intimate encounter near Xia Lin.
• Xu Xinran told Su Bai she had spent two years looking for a suitable partner and that her younger brother could inherit the family business.
• Su Bai teased Xu Xinran, then left to meet the others for lunch as she hurried off to make a phone call about the news she had captured.

Su Bai bought a home in Linjiang Tianshu and earned 63.95 million through his cashback ability, then joined Zhou Jialu and Xia Lin for a riverside barbecue and camping trip. At the supermarket, Zhou Jialu guessed that Su Bai had met a new woman and suggested a jelly game for the car ride.

• Su Bai purchased a 270-square-meter home in Linjiang Tianshu for 12.79 million and received 63.95 million in cashback.
• Zhou Jialu invited Xia Lin to join Su Bai for a barbecue and camping trip by the river, while Xia Lin's roommate stayed behind.
• Zhou Jialu noticed an unfamiliar scent on Su Bai and teased him about meeting a new woman, but Su Bai refused to tell her about Xu Xinran.
• Zhou Jialu picked out jelly at the supermarket and proposed using it for a game with Su Bai in the car before dinner.

Su Bai caught Xia Lin secretly buying safety supplies and teased her, then spent time with Zhou Jialu in his car. The chapter ended with Zhou Jialu blushing after taking the initiative with Su Bai.

• Su Bai ran into Xia Lin at the supermarket and realized she was buying a six-pack of safety supplies for their camping trip.
• Su Bai laughed at Xia Lin, who blushed, scolded him, and hurried away.
• Zhou Jialu explained that they had already bought safety supplies in bulk, and Su Bai took Xia Lin's purchase as a reason to plan to use the whole box with her.
• Su Bai and Zhou Jialu sampled lychee jelly in his car before he pulled her close and they became intimate.
• Afterward, Su Bai put a can of cola in the car's refrigerator, and Zhou Jialu giggled when he asked how it had felt.

After an intimate moment with Su Bai left Zhou Jialu surprised by her own reaction, the group gathered at a campsite for a barbecue. Su Bai accepted an expensive bottle of wine from the sales manager and considered visiting a bar where he had stored more wine.

• Zhou Jialu recalled trying something new with Su Bai and was surprised that she found it delicious.
• Su Bai returned to the campsite, offered to cover the expenses, and learned that the sales office employees had set up camp.
• Wan Xinyue brought a ten-day-aged beef cut from Su Bai's aging cabinet, which a professional chef prepared for the barbecue.
• Xia Lin thought about her intimate experiences with Su Bai while stealing glances at him during the meal.
• The sales manager offered Su Bai a bottle of red wine worth over twenty thousand yuan, and Su Bai told him to open it.
• Su Bai thought about visiting a bar where he had stored wine and about the opportunities to spend money and buy things he liked.

Su Bai accepted a request to appear in the wine shop’s Douyin videos while Xia Lin prepared for a private moment with him. After they kissed, Xia Lin revealed that her father considered having children essential even if she never married, and she told Su Bai that being with him would be acceptable as long as they had children.

• The sales manager asked Su Bai to appear in everyday promotional videos, and he agreed to review them before publication.
• The sales manager explained to her employees that Su Bai’s prestige and influence made him valuable to the wine business.
• Xia Lin went to the temporary restroom to use mouthwash, and Su Bai followed her there.
• Su Bai and Xia Lin kissed, then joked about her fitness and his imagined trouble with her parents.
• Xia Lin told Su Bai that her father’s bottom line was for her to have children, even if she did not marry.
• Xia Lin said she could be with Su Bai as long as they had children, but refused to have one before graduate school.