Chapter Summaries

Su Bai enjoyed beauty treatments and massages at the lakeside villa before inviting the Wan sisters to try an essential-oil encounter with him. Jiang Qiuran secretly watched from a second-floor guest room as they began.

• Wan Xinyan told Su Bai she had expected him to spend the night with Chen Yusheng, and he said Chen had already passed out.
• Su Bai joined Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue for a beauty treatment, then asked the maids about their work and received a massage.
• The maids offered Su Bai a full-body essential-oil service, but he declined and asked them to leave the tools behind.
• Su Bai invited the Wan sisters to explore the essential-oil treatment with him, and they agreed.
• Jiang Qiuran opened her guest-room door and secretly watched the scene.

Su Bai and Chen Yusheng brought food to visit Mother Chen at the hospital, where her improved condition and private room hinted at Su Bai's support. Mother Chen met Chen Yusheng's boyfriend for the first time and greeted the pair with a heartfelt smile.

• Jiang Qiuran watched Wan Xinyan give Su Bai a spa treatment, and her favorability toward him rose to 91.
• Su Bai and Chen Yusheng chose food from the Cantonese Tea House to bring to Mother Chen at the hospital.
• Mother Chen's fellow patient hinted that Chen Yusheng's wealthy boyfriend might take advantage of her, but Mother Chen calmly defended her daughter's right to choose.
• Su Bai and Chen Yusheng arrived at the hospital, and Mother Chen recognized her daughter beside the young man and smiled warmly.

Chen Yusheng introduced Su Bai to her mother, who warmly approved of him and learned he had paid for her treatment and made money through investments. Su Bai’s boosted attractiveness and generous gestures impressed Mother Chen, while Chen Yusheng accepted her mother’s speculation about his background.

• Chen Yusheng introduced Su Bai as her boyfriend, and Mother Chen greeted him with delight before inviting him to live near her daughter someday.
• A fellow patient was surprised that Su Bai was young and exceptionally handsome, unlike the older, unattractive man she had imagined.
• Su Bai recalled using lottery draws to raise his Attractiveness score from 78 to 86.
• Su Bai brought Mother Chen Cantonese dim sum in an ornate wooden box, and she wondered about the cost.
• Chen Yusheng told Mother Chen that Su Bai made investments himself and had lost his parents early, leading her mother to speculate that he had overseas relatives.

Su Bai and Chen Yusheng visited her mother before he drove her back to campus. While browsing a newly opened coffee shop, Su Bai unexpectedly ran into Liu Yuanyuan, who was struck by how much more handsome he looked.

• Su Bai and Chen Yusheng thanked each other after visiting Mother Chen, and Chen Yusheng said she no longer felt lonely with him.
• Su Bai drove Chen Yusheng back to school so she could return to her lab project.
• At a newly opened campus coffee shop, Liu Yuanyuan ordered an expensive osmanthus cappuccino after feeling judged by other customers.
• Su Bai arrived and ordered a washed Castillo iced Americano, surprising Liu Yuanyuan with his changed appearance.
• The clerk praised Su Bai's choice and said he was the first customer in three days to order the washed Castillo.

Su Bai brushed off Liu Yuanyuan’s advances and researched a tech company to support Shengsheng’s development. He settled on the startup Shengxi Technology, leaving Liu Yuanyuan watching him work and comparing him unfavorably with Xue Tao.

• Su Bai met Liu Yuanyuan at a café, where she asked about his hiking trip and the lakeside villa gathering.
• Liu Yuanyuan hinted at her interest in Su Bai, but he praised her and Xue Tao as a fated couple to discourage her.
• Su Bai drank coffee while researching tech companies on his MacBook to find one suitable for using his Select-a-Controlling-Stake Card.
• Su Bai chose the startup Shengxi Technology because it fit his requirements and its name reminded him of Shengsheng.
• Liu Yuanyuan watched Su Bai work and thought he looked more serious and attractive than Xue Tao.

Su Bai left Liu Yuanyuan after rejecting her hints, while Zhou Jialu returned to River City from her butler training. At the airport, she turned away Liu Chen'ang's approach by claiming her husband had bought her a custom Burberry trench coat.

• Liu Yuanyuan's friend admired Su Bai and learned that he was dating Chen Yusheng, leaving Liu Yuanyuan gloomy as she compared him with Xue Tao.
• Su Bai used a system card to begin acquiring a controlling stake in Shengxi Technology, then left the café after finishing his coffee.
• Zhou Jialu chatted with Su Bai at River City Airport about how her expensive clothes kept men from approaching her.
• Liu Chen'ang approached Zhou Jialu, but she preemptively claimed she had a handsome husband and showed him the order for her custom Burberry coat.
• Liu Chen'ang saw that the Burberry trench coat was a custom Prorsum runway piece costing over two hundred thousand and retreated awkwardly.

Zhou Jialu returned from butler training and reunited with Su Bai, where she showed him the techniques she had learned. The next morning, Su Bai attended class with Chen Yusheng, who declared that she believed in lifelong relationships with no breakups.

• Liu Chen'ang backed off after Zhou Jialu made it clear she did not want his attention, and she told Su Bai about the encounter.
• Zhou Jialu collected her suitcase, drove to Ascott, and eagerly returned to Su Bai after several days apart.
• Zhou Jialu kissed Su Bai and demonstrated techniques from her butler training, and they spent the night together.
• Su Bai went to class the next morning to see Chen Yusheng, and she teased him about breaking up before insisting they would never separate.
• Chen Yusheng told Su Bai that dating meant staying together forever, with widowhood as the only alternative, and they listened to class while secretly holding hands.

Su Bai became the freshmen’s latest topic after students learned that he drove a Mercedes-Benz GLE, while a wealthy exchange student named Liu Chen'ang became fascinated with him. Liu Chen'ang secretly revealed that she was a woman disguised as a man, and she left the chapter hoping to get closer to Su Bai.

• Students learned that Su Bai was the mysterious Mercedes-Benz driver and that his car had replaced Xue Tao’s Magotan as the latest campus topic.
• A wealthy exchange student named Liu Chen'ang arrived in class and asked the students about Su Bai.
• After seeing Su Bai, Liu Chen'ang praised his supposed business background and forceful bearing, leaving the students to suspect he was attracted to men.
• Liu Chen'ang rushed to the men’s restroom after class and used a stall while disguised as a boy.
• Liu Chen'ang reflected that her real name was Liu Chenyang and that she was living as a man because her family believed it would improve her weak constitution.
• Liu Chen'ang decided Su Bai’s vigorous vitality and wealth made him the kind of boy she truly longed for.

Su Bai met the new exchange student, Liu Chen'ang, and discovered through his skill that she was actually a woman. Liu Chen'ang reacted strongly to their handshake, then returned to her suite for an unusually peaceful nap.

• Su Bai and Wang Haoran ate lunch and discussed the wealthy exchange student Liu Chen'ang, who was rumored to come from a family as rich as a hundred Chu Mingzhes.
• Liu Chen'ang approached Su Bai and introduced herself, and Su Bai shook her hand.
• Su Bai used Grandmaster of Technique and realized Liu Chen'ang was a woman, but kept his discovery to himself as her favorability toward him rose to 75.
• Liu Chen'ang hurried to the bathroom after the handshake left her feeling an intense sensation, and she concluded Su Bai had unusual masculine charm.
• Liu Chen'ang returned to her rented suite and slept peacefully until two-thirty, then wondered whether the handshake had caused it.

Su Bai and Chen Yusheng planned to play games together while she recuperated, then Su Bai learned that Xue Tao had been caught cheating by Liu Yuanyuan. Curious about the fallout, Su Bai asked Jiang Qiuran to investigate, and she eagerly went to talk to Liu Yuanyuan.

• Su Bai and Chen Yusheng agreed to play games together that night while Chen Yusheng rested and recuperated.
• Su Bai and Wang Haoran returned to their dorm and learned from Chu Mingzhe that Liu Yuanyuan had found out Xue Tao was flirting with another girl.
• Chu Mingzhe explained that a classmate of Liu Yuanyuan's had photographed Xue Tao at Haidilao and sent the pictures to her.
• Su Bai shared the story with Chen Yusheng, who joked that the men in his dorm were all scumbags.
• Su Bai asked Jiang Qiuran, using her Asuka account, to find out how badly Liu Yuanyuan and Xue Tao were fighting, and Jiang Qiuran went to speak with Liu Yuanyuan.

Jiang Qiuran befriended Liu Yuanyuan to gather details about her fight with Xue Tao and reported them to Su Bai. After practicing basketball with his classmates, Su Bai saw the Wan sisters arrive with drinks.

• Jiang Qiuran invited an angry Liu Yuanyuan to shop and listened as she complained about Xue Tao.
• Jiang Qiuran secretly sent Su Bai details of Xue Tao and Liu Yuanyuan's argument, and Su Bai pieced together their dispute.
• Su Bai dismissed the drama, took a nap, and went to basketball practice with his classmates.
• Su Bai and the sports commissioner emerged as the class team's two cores, with Su Bai chosen to play center.
• The Wan sisters arrived at the court carrying drinks, and Su Bai greeted the now-familiar Wan Xinyan.

Su Bai took Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue out after basketball practice, enjoying their attention and discussing music with Wan Xinyue during the drive to dinner. After eating at IKC Plaza, he decided to take the sisters to meet his housekeeper, leaving them pleased about their place in his life.

• Wan Xinyan brought drinks to Su Bai's basketball practice and asked to be his team manager, while Wan Xinyue watched beside her.
• After practice, Su Bai teased and touched the sisters before Wan Xinyan drove him and Wan Xinyue to IKC Plaza.
• Su Bai and Wan Xinyue discussed music in the back seat, and the system rewarded him with a lottery chance.
• The three ate at a new Middle Eastern restaurant, and the system gave Su Bai 4,460 yuan in cashback.
• Wan Xinyan invited Su Bai not to return to the dorm, and he chose to take the sisters to meet his housekeeper.

Su Bai took Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue shopping, buying them a restaurant membership, designer bags, and dresses. The sisters left with new outfits that matched their tastes, and Wan Xinyan felt a growing sense of chemistry with Su Bai.

• Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue kissed Su Bai after he took them to Shanshui Diepin.
• Su Bai bought the restaurant's highest-tier membership card and gave it to Wan Xinyan.
• Su Bai took the Wan sisters to LV and bought them bags and several casual tops.
• Wan Xinyan explained that she and her sister had chosen affordable bags because they did not want to attract gossip or offend Su Bai's housekeeper sister.
• Su Bai told the sisters to choose what they liked and picked out three short dresses for each of them.
• Wan Xinyan admired how well the dresses suited her and thought that she and Su Bai had chemistry.

Su Bai took the Wan sisters shopping, then brought them to Shanshui Diepin to meet his housekeeper, Zhou Jialu. The three women got along warmly and discussed sharing household responsibilities as the sisters settled into Su Bai’s circle.

• Su Bai spent over two hundred thousand on clothes for the Wan sisters, while saleswomen recalled his earlier lavish shopping trip with another woman.
• Wan Xinyue drove Su Bai and Wan Xinyan to Shanshui Diepin, where Wan Xinyan nervously asked about meeting his housekeeper.
• Zhou Jialu welcomed the sisters, and Wan Xinyan recognized her as the famous senior from the Goddess Dormitory.
• The Wan sisters and Zhou Jialu chatted over tea, with Zhou Jialu learning that the twins hoped to stay by Su Bai’s side and help with the household.

Su Bai decided that the growing group around him should live together at Shanshui Diepin while he planned a villa. The room assignments revealed the Wan sisters’ eagerness to be close to him, as they chose the small maid’s room.

• Su Bai announced that he planned to buy and renovate a villa, and asked everyone to choose rooms at Shanshui Diepin in the meantime.
• Zhou Jialu accepted her role as housekeeper and showed the Wan sisters around, while she and Su Bai joked that he would share the master bedroom with Shengsheng.
• Wan Xinyan considered how to secure a special place in Su Bai’s heart, then announced that she and Wan Xinyue would sleep in the maid’s room.
• Su Bai offered to turn a guest room into a twin room, but Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue insisted they preferred the maid’s room and its playful maid-cosplay atmosphere.

Wan Xinyan and Wan Xinyue chose to settle into the maid's room, and Wan Xinyan bonded with Su Bai over their shared childhood joke about working in a luxury home's maid quarters. Su Bai played games with Chen Yusheng while Zhou Jialu watched, and Chen Yusheng learned who was staying at Su Bai's home.

• Wan Xinyan explained that the maid's room was comfortable enough and that accepting it would let her and Wan Xinyue show gratitude to Su Bai.
• Su Bai recalled joking in high school about working as a maid, and Wan Xinyan showed him her collection of luxury home tour videos.
• Zhou Jialu helped the sisters gather supplies for the maid's room while Su Bai went to the study to game with Chen Yusheng.
• Chen Yusheng teased Su Bai over voice chat, then learned that Zhou Jialu and the two Wans were at his home and felt relieved that Zhou Jialu was staying there.
• Zhou Jialu sneaked into the study to surprise Su Bai, then sat beside him to watch him keep playing with Chen Yusheng.

Su Bai and Zhou Jialu flirted while he gamed with Chen Yusheng, then Zhou gave him a massage before a Porsche manager called with news that his custom Panamera had arrived. Su Bai agreed to display the car at a closed auto show and invited Zhou to accompany him when he collected it.

• While gaming with Chen Yusheng, Su Bai let Zhou Jialu distract him, and she counterattacked when he teased her.
• After Chen Yusheng logged off to write code, Su Bai and Zhou Jialu stopped their play, and she offered to massage his shoulders.
• A Porsche River City manager told Su Bai that his custom Panamera had arrived and asked to display it at an upcoming auto show.
• Su Bai agreed to lend the car for the closed exhibition and arranged to collect it before driving it there himself.
• Su Bai invited Zhou Jialu to join him at the auto show, and she happily accepted the chance to go alone with him.

Su Bai spent time with Zhou Jialu and agreed to meet Liu Chen'ang at the auto show the next day. Liu Chen'ang looked forward to seeing him and shaking hands again.

• Zhou Jialu massaged Su Bai, and they flirted before she used rose essential oil to satisfy his request.
• Su Bai went to school, attended class, played basketball, and held hands with Chen Yusheng before returning to Shanshui Diepin.
• Su Bai received a message from Liu Chen'ang asking whether he was going to the auto show.
• Su Bai told Liu Chen'ang he was going with a senior and agreed to meet her there and have lunch if she was free.
• Liu Chen'ang felt excited that Su Bai was easy to get along with and looked forward to shaking hands with him again.

Zhou Jialu dressed up to accompany Su Bai to River City's autumn auto show, where she planned to ward off women flirting with him. At the Mercedes-Benz booth, former dealership employee Tao Mengfei heard that a Jiangcheng University student had quit before starting work because her junior boyfriend had made her financially free, and she reacted with interest.

• Zhou Jialu carefully did her makeup and drove with Su Bai to the auto show, teasing him about scaring off women who might flirt with him.
• Su Bai received word that 71% of Shengxi Technology's shares had been transferred into his name and planned to show the company to Shengsheng after the auto show.
• At the Mercedes-Benz booth, Tao Mengfei arrived with her wealthy husband and caught up with her former colleagues at the University District dealership.
• Tao Mengfei heard that a Jiangcheng University student had become financially free through her rich junior boyfriend and smiled meaningfully.

At an auto show, Zhou Jialu’s luxury lifestyle made her former coworker Tao Mengfei jealous and embarrassed. Su Bai planned to buy two sports cars, while Zhou Jialu worried that she would look old as she got older.

• Tao Mengfei warned her coworkers not to quit working before marriage, then learned Zhou Jialu’s boyfriend had bought her an expensive car and luxury bag.
• Zhou Jialu arrived at the auto show, and Tao Mengfei recognized the limited-edition bag she had once wanted before leaving in embarrassment.
• Tao Mengfei’s wealthy husband stopped beside a modified manual sports car and chatted with Su Bai.
• Su Bai explained he wanted to buy two sports cars for Shanshui Diepin and hoped to earn cashback.
• Zhou Jialu linked arms with Su Bai and fretted that she would look old compared with younger women.