Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hao settled back into life in Hangzhou Underground City, balancing security work with studying animation and game development. A week later, the city had stabilized and Earth had moved beyond Jupiter toward the outer planets.

• Jiang Hao woke after six hours of deep sleep, ate earthworm porridge with Jiang Yan and the little girl, and warned them to stay home while order remained unsettled.
• Jiang Hao went to the Sheriff's Office, heard that Meng Yong and Yang Jinzhu had handled five reports, and assigned Liu Yuan and Lu Tao's teams to patrol while the other teams rested.
• Jiang Hao studied animation and game development using his software, psyche, and found that circulating spiritual energy helped him learn for longer.
• Jiang Hao maintained security in District 9 while spending his free time reviewing animation and game development knowledge.
• A week passed as Underground Cities across Earth regained stability, Hangzhou Underground City cleared its rubble, and Earth traveled beyond Jupiter toward Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Jiang Hao was honored as Hangzhou’s hero and appointed to the Management Committee, which tasked him with recovering scattered Cryo-pods carrying scientists, human embryos, seeds, and species DNA. After preparing a convoy with Xing Bing, he left Hangzhou to join the Greater China Region recovery operation.

• Director Ding announced Jiang Hao’s role in saving Hangzhou, and Jiang Hao accepted the City Medal while crediting the wider rescue force.
• Director Ding appointed Jiang Hao to the Hangzhou Underground City Management Committee and assigned him to lead Hangzhou’s effort to recover Cryo-pods, warning him that the Rebel Army posed a danger.
• Jiang Hao brought apples and salted fish home for Jiang Yan and Cheng Cheng, then told Jiang Yan he would be away for about ten days.
• Jiang Hao ordered Meng Yong and Yang Jinzhu to accompany him and left Liu Yuan and Lu Tao in charge of District 9’s security.
• Jiang Hao and Xing Bing assembled their forces and supplies, led a forty-vehicle convoy out of Hangzhou No. 1 Base, and reported their readiness to Space Command.

Jiang Hao’s Hangzhou Rescue Team recovered fifteen astronauts and a Gene Bank escape pod, then fought Rebel Army raiders while transporting the pods to Beijing. There, he learned the Federal Government planned to restart the “Tinder” plan and build a new Navigator Spaceship.

• Moss redirected Jiang Hao’s convoy to an escape pod, where his team awakened and rescued fifteen astronauts who had been away from Earth for sixteen years.
• After the Federal Government reported attacks on escape-pod recovery teams, Jiang Hao received approval from Xing Bing to assist nearby teams and encountered a Rebel Army convoy.
• Jiang Hao’s forces fought the rebels for about twenty minutes, suffering more than two hundred casualties before recovering a Gene Bank containing plant seeds.
• Jiang Hao led the battered convoy carrying two escape pods to the Beijing Base, where a general thanked him and revealed plans to restart the “Tinder” plan and build a new Navigator Spaceship.
• As the convoy entered Beijing, Jiang Hao heard a familiar road-safety announcement and laughed at its catchy line.

After completing his mission in the world of To Live, Jiang Hao returned to his own world and claimed his reward: the intelligent AI Xiao Xin. Before leaving, he reunited with his family and witnessed Earth launch the new Navigator space station and approve research into supermassive spacecraft.

• Jiang Hao returned to Hangzhou with his surviving team, attended a welcome banquet, and gave his niece Cheng Cheng a box of rock sugar and other supplies.
• Jiang Hao spent four months working as a security captain and studying, while Earth prepared to launch the new Navigator space station.
• Liu Qi left to serve aboard the space station, promising Han Duoduo he would return in three years, as a thousand spacecraft launched into orbit.
• The Earth Federation announced a research group for supermassive spacecraft, and Jiang Hao learned that he had completed his world mission and could return.
• Jiang Hao said goodbye to Xiao Xin, returned to his own world, and claimed his reward: information that would let him rewrite an intelligent AI like Xiao Xin.

Jiang Hao considered how to use his mature Artificial Intelligence program, Xiao Xin, despite the immense cost of the computing power she needed, and began planning ways to make money. He reunited with Zhou Xinyan for hotpot, indulged his hunger, and left the restaurant with her promising to celebrate their 520th day together that night.

• Jiang Hao realized that restoring Xiao Xin to her former level would require a supercomputer costing billions of US dollars, then thought through profitable industries and began forming a plan.
• Zhou Xinyan called Jiang Hao and invited him to dinner, and he suggested hotpot before meeting her downstairs.
• Jiang Hao kissed Zhou Xinyan in her car and told her he had missed her.
• At the restaurant, Jiang Hao ordered a feast and ate watermelon and hotpot enthusiastically, explaining to Zhou Xinyan that he felt grateful for having meat and watermelon.
• Jiang Hao toasted Zhou Xinyan to celebrate the 520th day since they met, and she told him she loved him and promised to celebrate with him that night.

Jiang Hao began developing the technology and data needed to recreate the pet game from The Wandering Earth, building an AI core and 3D software before completing his first game, Pet Battle. He finished the app and prepared to move on to the next step.

• Jiang Hao bought fruit with Zhou Xinyan and reflected on how precious ordinary foods had been in The Wandering Earth.
• Jiang Hao ordered a server and graphics workstation, then began writing Xiao Xin's intelligent core program.
• Jiang Hao completed the basic Xiao Xin core and instructed it to gather information about cats and dogs.
• Jiang Hao created the basic version of the 3D software Soul and added plug-ins for animal fur, expressions, movements, and sounds.
• Jiang Hao had Xiao Xin and the graphics workstation build an app game, and he named the finished game Pet Battle.

Jiang Hao showed Zhou Xinyan Mimi, an interactive virtual pet and phone assistant he had developed, and invited her to help launch a business around it. Zhou Xinyan quit her job, built a team, and helped establish Haoran Technology Co., Ltd., which launched Pet Battle.

• Jiang Hao demonstrated Mimi's lifelike interactions, pet-raising features, and phone-assistant functions to Zhou Xinyan.
• Jiang Hao proposed that Zhou Xinyan quit her job and join him in a company, offering her 25 percent of the shares and the CEO role.
• Zhou Xinyan agreed to join Jiang Hao and resigned from Langchao Technology after speaking with Manager Tao.
• Zhou Xinyan assembled a team of more than twenty people while she and Jiang Hao registered Haoran Technology Co., Ltd.
• Haoran Technology Co., Ltd. rented an office and servers, then launched Pet Battle in the app stores.

Pet Battle gained millions of users worldwide after Jiang Hao promoted its realistic virtual pets, and Haoran Technology began earning revenue. As rival companies tried to steal the game’s 3D engine, Jiang Hao planned to expand into animation before the system issued him a new mission.

• Players in China and overseas adopted Pet Battle’s virtual pets, and Jiang Hao’s video promotion drove registrations to 1.6 million in China and 4 million abroad.
• Zhou Xinyan told Jiang Hao that Pet Battle had earned 3.68 million yuan and that someone was attacking the company’s servers to crack its 3D engine.
• Jiang Hao said he had protected the engine with an encrypted lock and a counterattack program, while companies in several countries began trying to uncover its technology.
• Jiang Hao planned to develop more 3D software and plugins, produce animated shows, and expand Haoran Technology as Pet Battle grew.
• The system announced a new mission to Jiang Hao.

Jiang Hao entered the world of Great Teacher Onizuka as Jiang Chuanhao, a Yokohama gang boss, and crushed a rival gang in a street fight. After forcing Tsuruta Yano to join his group, Jiang Hao celebrated with his men at a hot spring, where he reflected on earning respect.

• Jiang Hao accepted the mission to experience setting an example and arrived in Japan as Jiang Chuanhao, boss of the Jiang Chuan Group.
• While waiting to confront Tsuruta Yano's gang, Jiang Hao met Natsuki Yuujin's new underling, Hirakawa Koji.
• Tsuruta Yano challenged Jiang Hao to surrender his territory, but Jiang Hao's group fought his larger gang instead.
• Jiang Hao defeated many of Tsuruta's men and intimidated Tsuruta into joining the Jiang Chuan Group.
• Jiang Hao took his men to a hot spring and told them that sincere respect mattered more than tattoos meant to look intimidating.

After a hot-spring outing with his gang, Jiang Hao decided to pursue a teaching job despite being a gang leader and arranged for Natsuki to get him a fake teaching certificate. He left Natsuki in charge of the Jiang Chuan Group and planned to focus on applying for jobs.

• Jiang Hao treated his lackeys to food, drinks, and a hostess, then listened as they bragged about their recent fight.
• Jiang Hao spoke with the seventeen-year-old hostess, who said she worked to support herself and her mother.
• Jiang Hao found his university diploma at home and realized he needed a teaching certificate to become a teacher.
• Jiang Hao called Natsume Yujin and ordered him to obtain a teaching certificate within two days.
• Natsuki delivered a fake teaching certificate, and Jiang Hao promoted him to deputy leader and assigned him to handle the Jiang Chuan Group and take over the Tsuruta Group.
• Jiang Hao announced that he would send out resumes and apply for teaching jobs.

Jiang Hao sought a teaching job while putting Natsuki in charge of the Jiang Chuan Group, and he visited Suzuran and Chiba High Schools for interviews. After rejecting Suzuran because it had no female students, he learned about Chiba’s school life and its risks from trainee teacher Osawa Hidero.

• Jiang Hao welcomed Tsuruta Yano into the Jiang Chuan Group and named Natsuki deputy leader while he focused on self-cultivation through teaching.
• Jiang Hao sent résumés to schools in Yokohama and received interview invitations from Suzuran Private Boys High School and Chiba Private High School.
• Hirakawa Koji escorted Jiang Hao to Suzuran’s principal, who offered him a teaching job without an interview, but Jiang Hao declined because the school had no female students.
• Jiang Hao visited Chiba High School and met trainee teacher Osawa Hidero, who warned him about the school’s delinquents and gave him advice about working there.

Jiang Hao attended a job interview at Chiba School, where Uchiyamada challenged his claim that he could teach eight languages. After he impressed the English and German teachers, Niigaki Yui introduced herself to begin the next test.

• Jiang Hao met the Chairperson and Uchiyamada for his teaching interview at Chiba School.
• Uchiyamada doubted Jiang Hao's résumé and arranged for three teachers to test his language skills.
• Sakai Mina conversed with Jiang Hao in English and said his command and accent surpassed hers.
• Aoki Juren tested Jiang Hao in German and praised his fluent, accent-free speech.
• Niigaki Yui introduced herself and prepared to test Jiang Hao next.

Jiang Hao impressed the school’s hiring committee with his language skills and opera singing, earning a position as a third-year English and music teacher. After completing his hiring paperwork, he joined the faculty office and met his new colleagues, including Niigaki Yui.

• Jiang Hao assessed Niigaki Yui’s French and revealed that he knew many languages, while the Chairperson and Director Uchiyamada observed their exchange.
• When Director Uchiyamada questioned his vocational-college background and musical abilities, Jiang Hao gave a dramatic answer about a past heartbreak and sang an aria from Madame Butterfly.
• The Chairperson hired Jiang Hao to teach English and music for 230,000 yen per month, and he signed a temporary contract with a three-month probation period.
• Director Uchiyamada introduced Jiang Hao to the third-year faculty, where he greeted Niigaki Yui and met teachers including Leshihe Yuan, Asahara, Muku, Sato, and Hatano.
• Jiang Hao learned that he was replacing the former English teacher, Teacher Aoi, who had resigned after marrying and becoming pregnant, and Niigaki Yui welcomed him to the faculty.

Jiang Hao became the homeroom teacher of Class 3-4 and began his first English lesson, despite warnings that the students drove teachers away. After he left, the students celebrated and one girl volunteered to report him.

• Director Uchiyama assigned Jiang Hao to teach English and music and become Class 3-4's homeroom teacher.
• Niigaki Yui warned Jiang Hao that the class's delinquent students had humiliated teachers until they resigned, but he said he believed they could be reformed.
• Jiang Hao entered Class 3-4, recognized Hanazawa Kana as the student he had met at a hot spring, and gave the class an English dictation exercise.
• Ohashi asked Jiang Hao to write a difficult phrase on the blackboard while another girl slipped a piece of silk cloth into his teaching bag.
• After Jiang Hao left, the students cheered, and the girl who planted the cloth volunteered to report him.

Wano Reiko accused Jiang Hao of stealing her underwear, but Jiang Hao exposed the setup and turned the accusation back on her. After Director Uchiyama collapsed from a suspected stroke, Jiang Hao focused again on Class 3-4 and declared that his fight with the students had begun.

• Wano Reiko told Director Uchiyama that Jiang Chuanhao had stolen her spare underwear, and Uchiyama confronted Jiang Hao in the teachers' office.
• Wano Reiko repeated her accusation, but a search of Jiang Hao's briefcase found nothing, and Jiang Hao pointed out underwear caught in her clothes.
• Niigaki Yui pulled the underwear from Wano Reiko's skirt, and Wano Reiko apologized before fleeing.
• Jiang Hao warned Director Uchiyama about his health, and Uchiyama collapsed at the office door and was taken away by ambulance.
• Jiang Hao privately offered Niigaki Yui help with her menstrual pain, then decided that his conflict with Class 3-4 had officially begun.

After students’ attempt to frame Jiang Hao failed, he joined his colleagues for drinks and saw through Teacher Leshi’s effort to get him drunk. Jiang Hao turned the tables, leaving Teacher Leshi passed out while Niigaki Yui admired his wit.

• Wano Reiko told Ohashi Kumi that their plan to frame Teacher Jiang Chuan had failed because the panties had somehow ended up inside her clothes.
• Asakawa Rina scolded Ohashi Kumi and Wano Reiko, then vowed to devise another plan against Teacher Jiang Chuan.
• Jiang Hao joined five colleagues for drinks on Pear Blossom Street, where Niigaki Yui thanked him for taking Class 3-4.
• Teacher Leshi tried to get Jiang Hao drunk, but Jiang Hao repeatedly toasted him until he collapsed onto the table.
• Niigaki Yui asked Jiang Hao what his final verse meant, and he explained that drunkenness let people forget the world's schemes.

At a welcome dinner, Jiang Hao paid for the meal and intervened when two gang members confronted his drunken colleagues. The others left with Teacher Leshi in Sato and Teacher Muku’s care, while Niigaki Yui asked Jiang Hao to practice conversational French with her.

• Jiang Hao offered to pay for the welcome dinner after Teacher Hatano suggested splitting the bill.
• Teacher Leshi vomited on two gang members, then fell and rolled into a ditch while Teacher Sato tried to help him.
• Teacher Muku confronted the gang members, who bowed to Jiang Hao and explained that they had not touched Teacher Leshi.
• Teacher Muku mistakenly thought the gang members had obeyed him, while Jiang Hao and the others checked on the injured Teacher Leshi.
• Jiang Hao said Teacher Leshi did not need a hospital, then took Teacher Hatano and Niigaki Yui home by taxi.
• Niigaki Yui asked Jiang Hao to help her practice conversational French, and he agreed before returning home to meditate.

Jiang Hao made a secret-keeping agreement with Hanazawa Kana, then began teaching Class 3-4 and confronted its students over their disruptive behavior. The chapter ended as Akechi Shuu challenged Jiang Hao to hit him, and Jiang Hao reached out toward him.

• Leshi Heyuan woke up bruised and disheveled, blamed Jiang Chuanhao for getting him drunk, and decided to take three days off.
• Jiang Hao agreed with Hanazawa Kana that they would keep each other's secrets, then learned Leshi Heyuan had taken leave and Maeda Tsuyoshi would oversee the grade-level group.
• Jiang Hao returned the class notes and told the students that the numbers on them meant how many times they had to copy their mistakes.
• Asakawa Rina cited school rules against copying punishments, while Akechi Shuu and the class challenged Jiang Hao over the assignment.
• Akechi Shuu taunted Jiang Hao to hit him, and Jiang Hao slowly extended his hand.

Jiang Hao used his power to immobilize Akechi Shuu for two hours, terrifying Class 3-4 into behaving and completing their punishments. After inviting Niigaki Yui to dinner, he saw Teacher Muku arrive bruised and disheveled, saying his students had beaten him up.

• Jiang Hao deprived Akechi Shuu of his physical freedom for two hours and ordered Class 3-4 to copy their punishment notes.
• Akechi Shuu remained conscious but unable to move or speak, frightening his classmates until he regained control after two hours.
• Akechi Shuu described his terrifying experience, and Class 3-4 stayed quiet for the rest of the day and decided to complete their punishments.
• Jiang Hao invited Niigaki Yui to a French restaurant to practice speaking French, and she accepted.
• Teacher Muku stumbled into the office bruised and disheveled and told Jiang Hao that students in his class had beaten him up.

Teacher Muku tried to assert authority over Takashi Mitsuhashi and was beaten after hitting him, while Jiang Hao took Niigaki Yui to an expensive dinner and hinted that he was interested in her. Back at his apartment, Jiang Hao played video games with Natsume Yujin, discussed the completed merger, and reaffirmed that he would keep teaching for cultivation.

• Teacher Muku roared at Takashi Mitsuhashi for sleeping and eating in class, then hit him on the head and was beaten out of the classroom.
• Jiang Hao toured Chiba Middle School and later took Niigaki Yui to dinner, where they talked in French about travel and other interests.
• Jiang Hao asked Niigaki Yui whether she had a boyfriend and told her he did not have a girlfriend; Yui watched him leave, wondering what he meant.
• Natsume Yujin visited Jiang Hao and reported that the merger with the Tsuruta Group was complete and both sides were satisfied.
• Jiang Hao told Natsume Yujin not to punish the Tsuruta Group over the previous night's misunderstanding and said he planned to continue teaching for another year or two while pursuing cultivation.