Chapter Summaries

Xia Lin organized a Mid-Autumn travel-vlogging event for students from the Computer Science Department and the Academy of Arts, and the class eagerly joined the mixer group. Su Bai invited Chen Yusheng to travel with him and persuaded her to accept 15,000 yuan as a companion fee.

• Xia Lin announced that students could form teams of up to eight, make travel vlogs, and earn money and credits during the holiday.
• Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe discussed the Academy of Arts students in the mixer group, including Jiang Qiuran, while Su Bai kept quiet about knowing her.
• Chen Yusheng privately asked Su Bai whether he would join the trip, and he told her he wanted to go with her.
• Su Bai transferred Chen Yusheng 15,000 yuan as a travel companion fee and convinced her to accept it.

Chen Yusheng decided to leave Professor Luo's lab and looked forward to traveling with Su Bai, while Xia Lin struggled with jealousy over their apparent closeness. Su Bai's roommates planned to join their travel group, and Chu Mingzhe asked Su Bai to help invite Jiang Qiuran.

• Chen Yusheng decided to stop working at Professor Luo's lab next month and privately resolved to show Su Bai her interest during their trip.
• Xia Lin noticed Chen Yusheng's lovestruck expression, felt jealous, and left the classroom after telling the students to discuss freely.
• Chen Yusheng asked Su Bai to register them as travel companions, then shyly told him she was looking forward to the trip and ran off.
• Chu Mingzhe proposed that Room 510 travel together with Chen Yusheng and other students from the Academy of Arts, and said he wanted to pursue Jiang Qiuran.
• Su Bai said he would leave inviting Jiang Qiuran to Chen Yusheng, while Xue Tao and Wang Haoran decided to join the group.

Su Bai’s group recruited Wan Xinyan and her twin sister for a self-driving Mid-Autumn Festival trip, while Chu Mingzhe and Xue Tao competed over who should lead. The group gained an unexpected addition when Jiang Qiuran asked to join, and Su Bai accepted on everyone’s behalf.

• Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe argued over who should captain the travel group, then tried recruiting girls in the social mixer group.
• After Chu Mingzhe’s travel stories failed to recruit anyone, Xue Tao advertised his Magotan 330 and persuaded Wan Xinyan and her twin sister Wan Xinyue to join.
• Xue Tao planned to rent a second car so the seven travelers could ride together comfortably.
• Chu Mingzhe resolved to invite Jiang Qiuran, but Su Bai revealed that Jiang Qiuran had already asked Chen Yusheng about joining the trip.
• Su Bai agreed to Jiang Qiuran joining, and Xue Tao welcomed her enthusiastically.

Su Bai agreed to drive the group on their upcoming trip in his newly purchased SUV, surprising Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe. After a night of gaming and a talk with Wang Haoran about Jiang Qiuran, Su Bai messaged Counselor Xia Lin to ask why luxury hotels made him uncomfortable, and she responded with a question mark.

• Su Bai told Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe that he had bought an SUV and would drive everyone on the trip.
• Xue Tao wondered how Su Bai had afforded the car, then reassured himself that it was probably a cheap domestic model unlike his Magotan.
• Su Bai and Wang Haoran played ranked games, lost rank, and Su Bai decided Chen Yusheng could carry him back up.
• Wang Haoran asked why Jiang Qiuran was joining the trip, and Su Bai said he did not know her relationship with Chen Yusheng.
• Su Bai reflected on his discomfort with luxury hotels and asked Counselor Xia Lin about it by message.
• Xia Lin replied to Su Bai's question with a question mark.

Su Bai asked Xia Lin for help finding a luxury serviced apartment and settled on visiting an Ascott near campus. Xia Lin agreed to join him the next morning, privately growing more attracted to him as she considered their similarities.

• Su Bai told Xia Lin he was considering moving off campus and asked about rentals that offered hotel services.
• Xia Lin explained serviced apartments and sent Su Bai links to reputable options in River City.
• Su Bai said his budget was no more than one million yuan a month and chose a nearby riverside Ascott.
• Su Bai invited Xia Lin to view the apartment with him, and she accepted for the next morning.
• Xia Lin revisited Su Bai's photos and privately decided they could start as friends despite her being his counselor.

Su Bai met Xia Lin for breakfast before she accompanied him to view a high-end apartment. At Ascott, Su Bai asked for the most luxurious unit available and said he would pay up to one million a month.

• Su Bai praised Xia Lin’s appearance, and she fed him a taro-flavored sesame ball as they ate breakfast together.
• Xia Lin rode with Su Bai in his Mercedes-Benz GLE to Ascott Apartments near River City University.
• Xia Lin introduced Su Bai to the apartment’s manager and explained that Su Bai was the prospective tenant.
• Su Bai requested the largest, most luxurious unit and the best services, saying he would accept any price under one million a month.

Su Bai chose Ascott’s most luxurious duplex suite and negotiated an annual rental with a discount and a dedicated butler. While he and Xia Lin flirted during the arrangements, her favorability toward him rose, and Su Bai paid for the apartment.

• The manager recommended the 302-square-meter Supreme Landscape Duplex Suite, and Su Bai decided it suited his needs.
• Xia Lin asked whether Su Bai would feel lonely living alone, and he invited her to visit and work out with him.
• Xia Lin accepted the invitation, praised the apartment’s gym, and her favorability toward Su Bai increased to 65.
• The manager secured a thirty-percent annual discount and a dedicated butler for Su Bai.
• Su Bai toured the duplex with the manager and paid for the rental.

Su Bai moved into a luxurious Ascott apartment, received a huge cashback, and used his lottery rewards to gain special attribute points and an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watch. The chapter ended with him being added to a Mid-Autumn Festival group chat.

• Su Bai paid 1.33 million yuan for a year-long lease on the Ascott Supreme Shanshui Diepin apartment and received 13.3 million yuan in cashback.
• Su Bai inspected the apartment’s kitchen and bathroom, then saw Xia Lin off as she hinted she would return for lunch with him.
• Su Bai used three accumulated lottery draws and won one million yuan, three Special Attribute Points, and an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore watch.
• A sales manager and technician delivered Su Bai’s watch and adjusted its bracelet to fit his wrist.
• Su Bai admired the watch in the mirror, then received an invitation to the Room 510 and the Beauties' Mid-Autumn Festival Eating, Drinking, and Fun Group.

Su Bai watched Xue Tao try to impress the women in their travel group, then answered Xue Tao’s request for help with photos showing off his own luxurious surroundings. The twins recognized Su Bai as the genuinely wealthy one, leaving Xue Tao’s status as the group’s rich guy in doubt.

• Xue Tao offered to buy supplies for the trip and posted a selfie with his Magotan, prompting Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue to ask him for snacks.
• Wang Haoran accidentally posted a Yuanshen link, while Hu Ye tagged Jiang Qiuran and then claimed nothing was wrong.
• Xue Tao asked Su Bai to join him on a supermarket shopping trip, but Su Bai sent two photos of himself at Ascott and refused.
• Xue Tao suspected Su Bai was showing off to the girls, but he could not identify the upscale setting in Su Bai’s photos.
• Wan Xinyan identified Su Bai’s location as Ascott Academy Branch and pointed out his expensive watch, while Wan Xinyue concluded that Xue Tao was merely a tool.

Wan Xinyan targeted Su Bai after suspecting he was wealthy, and he agreed to help her and her sister shop for hiking gear. Su Bai returned to Zhou Jialu at the hotel, where the two began an intimate reunion.

• Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue used an app to estimate that Su Bai's watch was worth at least five hundred thousand and considered him a potential rich student.
• Wan Xinyan ignored Xue Tao's friend request and added Su Bai, inviting him to help the twins choose hiking gear.
• Su Bai accepted Wan Xinyan's invitation and arranged to shop with them the next afternoon.
• Su Bai returned to the JW Marriott Hotel, where Zhou Jialu eagerly greeted him and flirted with him.
• Su Bai carried Zhou Jialu to the bed, and she laughed delightedly.

Su Bai moved into a luxurious serviced apartment with Zhou Jialu, who accepted his plans to have lunch with another woman without protest. After telling her that Xia Lin was the one meeting him, Su Bai had another intimate encounter with Zhou Jialu before leaving.

• Su Bai and Zhou Jialu discussed lunch and decided to move his belongings from the hotel to a nearby serviced apartment.
• Su Bai told Zhou Jialu he had rented the apartment for 1.33 million yuan for the year, and they settled into the two-floor home.
• Xia Lin messaged Su Bai that she had finished work and was heading to Ascott to meet him for lunch.
• Zhou Jialu said she would wait for Su Bai and would not interfere with his relationships, then teased him about Xia Lin's interest in him.
• Su Bai revealed that Xia Lin was his lunch companion, then pinned Zhou Jialu down for another intimate encounter before leaving.

Su Bai interrupted Xia Lin’s unwanted blind date with Xiao Yanchen and claimed that he and Xia Lin already had plans together. After Xiao Yanchen left, Xia Lin pointed out that she had never agreed to his plans for the afternoon.

• Xia Lin told Su Bai to wait outside while she dealt with someone she knew, but Su Bai entered the restaurant and found her speaking with her blind date, Xiao Yanchen.
• Su Bai sat down beside Xia Lin, called Xiao Yanchen an uncle, and learned that he was the blind date arranged by Xia Lin’s family.
• Su Bai told Xiao Yanchen that he and Xia Lin had plans to drink wine and watch a movie, and Xia Lin backed him up by saying she needed to keep her promise to a student.
• Xiao Yanchen left, then noticed Su Bai’s expensive watch and decided to ask around about his background rather than investigate him directly.
• As Xia Lin ordered wine for Su Bai, she teased him for arranging her afternoon schedule and said she had never agreed to watch a movie with him.

Su Bai and Xia Lin shared an expensive lunch after he helped her send away an unwanted blind date, and their mutual interest grew. They headed to Ascott’s private cinema for a movie, where Xia Lin continued probing Su Bai’s mysterious wealth.

• Su Bai explained that he had pretended to invite Xia Lin to a movie to drive away her blind date, and Xia Lin invited him to see an arthouse film with her.
• Xia Lin ordered Su Bai several meat dishes and shared an expensive bottle of wine with him during lunch.
• Su Bai agreed to watch the movie in Ascott’s private screening room, hoping to raise Xia Lin’s favorability enough to bind her as a cashback target.
• Su Bai paid a bill of over forty thousand and received an eighty-thousand cashback bonus.
• Xia Lin wondered about Su Bai’s wealthy background, probed him about his status, and accompanied him to Ascott’s private cinema.

Su Bai watched a movie with Xia Lin, who treated him like a younger brother and gave him a lap pillow and head massage before he fell asleep. As Xia Lin moved to lift his shirt, a bank notification about Su Bai’s investment earnings appeared on his phone and caught her attention.

• Su Bai and Xia Lin watched a movie together in a private screening room and talked about his childhood friend.
• Xia Lin asked Su Bai to acknowledge her as his big sister, and he agreed to call her Sister Lin.
• Xia Lin gave Su Bai a lap pillow and massaged his temples, explaining that she had learned to care for her future husband from her mother.
• Su Bai fell asleep on Xia Lin’s thighs, and the system awarded him one million yuan and master-level Finance and Financial Management.
• Xia Lin moved to lift Su Bai’s shirt, but a bank notification about his investment portfolio earnings appeared on his phone and widened her eyes.

Xia Lin imagined a future with Su Bai while he slept on her lap, then Su Bai received a Master Level finance skill from the system. Back at home, Zhou Jialu smelled Xia Lin on him, and Su Bai persuaded her to restore his senior's scent in exchange for a necklace.

• Xia Lin saw Su Bai's investment settlement and imagined he was a wealthy family's financial prodigy, then planned to remain close to him as his adoptive older sister until he was ready to marry.
• Su Bai woke after the movie ended, and Xia Lin helped him straighten his collar before they parted.
• Su Bai discovered that sleeping on Xia Lin's lap had earned him a special indulgence reward, including a Master Level finance and financial management skill.
• Su Bai messaged Xia Lin, then returned to Shanshui Diepin, where Zhou Jialu rushed to greet him.
• Zhou Jialu smelled Xia Lin on Su Bai and became jealous, so he offered to let her restore his senior's scent in exchange for a necklace.

Su Bai and Zhou Jialu became intimate after she decided to seize the chance to be his first woman, and the system rewarded him with a powerful new skill. They went shopping afterward, where Zhou Jialu helped Su Bai begin a high-end makeover, leaving him with a new haircut and outfit.

• Zhou Jialu confessed that she wanted to give herself to Su Bai, and they became intimate; her favorability rose to 95, and Su Bai obtained the Grandmaster of Technique skill.
• Su Bai comforted Zhou Jialu when she worried that she seemed vulgar for loving money, telling her he liked that about her.
• Su Bai and Zhou Jialu went shopping, and he bought her two necklaces and a brooch worth more than two hundred thousand yuan.
• Zhou Jialu offered to makeover Su Bai, and a stylist gave him an American textured crop and refined his eyebrows for more than thirteen hundred yuan.
• Su Bai completed an American collegiate-style outfit at a fashion store with Zhou Jialu's guidance.

Su Bai enjoyed the rewards from shopping and prepared for a required PE class, while Xue Tao’s attempts to contact the Wan sisters ended in rejection and a blocked account. The chapter left Su Bai heading back to campus with new headphones, focused on his day’s plans.

• Su Bai spent over fifty thousand on fall clothes and received a high cashback multiplier.
• Xue Tao complained that Wan Xinyan had not accepted his friend request, and Chu Mingzhe mocked his excuses for wanting to contact her privately.
• Xue Tao tried to add Wan Xinyue, but she rejected him, told him to use the group chat, and then blocked him.
• Xue Tao threatened to remove the Wan sisters from the outing group, but Wang Haoran and Chu Mingzhe talked him out of it.
• Su Bai left Zhou Jialu sleeping, bought two pairs of headphones, and headed back to Jiangcheng University for PE class.

Su Bai attended basketball PE, where his stylish outfit impressed Chu Mingzhe, and learned that the Wan sisters had gone to watch the boys play. The chapter left Zhang Zhixuan disappointed after he went looking for the aerobics class and missed them.

• Su Bai chose basketball for PE and told Zhang Zhixuan he would not go watch the girls' aerobics class.
• The PE teacher led the students through five laps, leaving Wang Haoran exhausted while Chu Mingzhe and Su Bai recovered comfortably.
• Chu Mingzhe admired Su Bai's expensive streetwear and new hairstyle, then learned a senior school sister had helped him with his look.
• After the run, the teacher split the class into basketball activities, and Zhang Zhixuan went to look for the aerobics girls.
• Zhang Zhixuan learned that Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue had gone to watch the boys play basketball.

Su Bai joined a half-court basketball game with Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe, while Wan Xinyan flirted with him and offered to hold his belongings. After their team lost 5–0, Xue Tao struggled to understand why Wan Xinyan treated Su Bai warmly when she had ignored his friend request.

• Su Bai teamed up with Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe for a half-court game while Wang Haoran practiced layups with the PE teacher.
• Wan Xinyan approached Su Bai, offered to hold his phone and watch, and raised her favorability with him to 65.
• The Dorm 510 Team lost 5–0 as Su Bai's teammates repeatedly failed to defend the opposing players.
• Su Bai teased Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe for playing nervously in front of the girls watching.
• Xue Tao watched Su Bai flirt with Wan Xinyan and wondered how Su Bai had won her attention despite Xue Tao's wealth and basketball gear.

Su Bai played basketball with Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe, discovered that exhausting himself could restore his stamina and earn him money, and accepted drinks from Wan Xinyan. The chapter ended with Chen Yusheng wiping his sweat and inviting him to play together that night.

• Xue Tao questioned Su Bai about chatting with Wan Xinyan, but Su Bai teased him into focusing on basketball.
• Su Bai helped his team win one game by screening for Xue Tao, and the group split the next two games.
• After Su Bai rapidly expended his energy on the court, the system awarded him 1,000 yuan and restored his stamina.
• Wan Xinyan brought Su Bai, Xue Tao, and Chu Mingzhe cold drinks and offered to treat them to lunch.
• Chen Yusheng approached Su Bai, wiped the sweat from his face, and invited him to play together that night.