Chapter Summaries

Chen Mengchuan decided to leave Ayase Sonoko’s dream in Balagetu Village untouched and return to Shanghai, while arranging a meeting to advance Chisako. As he left the northwest with Zhao Wanyu, a lucrative contract deal was confirmed, and he said his past business there was settled.

• Chen Mengchuan asked Ayase Sonoko whether she would give up her dream for love, and she insisted that educating the disadvantaged children was a dream she would never abandon.
• After memories of his past with Ayase Sonoko brought him to tears, Chen Mengchuan told Zhao Wanyu he planned to return to Shanghai and agreed to meet Xu Shuwei and Toni Chen Miantang in three days.
• Chen Mengchuan worked on Chisako’s module design overnight, then traveled with Zhao Wanyu to say goodbye to Ayase Sonoko and leave Balagetu Village.
• Zhao Wanyu left five hundred yuan on the borrowed tractor before she and Chen Mengchuan boarded a bus out of Wutumeiren Township.
• Sun Zhongyong told Chen Mengchuan that Guo Siming had brought contracts totaling sixteen million one hundred thousand yuan and added another ten million; Chen Mengchuan confirmed the amount and approved signing them.
• When Sun Zhongyong asked whether he had taken care of his business, Chen Mengchuan looked toward the northwest and said it was taken care of.

Chen Mengchuan remotely repaired and completed the first-stage neural algorithm for Xia Science Academy’s Xuan Yuan system, which passed its test at 100 percent. After sending Guo Siming the encrypted archive, Chen discussed Zhao Wanyu’s plans to interview potential hires in Huhai and joked that he wanted to recruit her too.

• Sun Zhongyong told Chen Mengchuan that Guo Siming and Xia Science Academy had transferred down payments totaling 10.27 million.
• Chen Mengchuan logged into Xia Science Academy’s server and rapidly repaired and modified the Xuan Yuan system while Guo Siming and the AI team watched.
• The repaired Xuan Yuan system rebooted successfully and reached 100 percent progress, prompting the AI team to cheer.
• Chen Mengchuan sent Guo Siming an encrypted archive of the completed first-stage artificial intelligence neural algorithm.
• Zhao Wanyu brought Chen Mengchuan breakfast and told him she had arranged three interviews for the next morning.
• Chen Mengchuan joked that Zhao Wanyu should leave her job and join him, and she played along.

After returning to Shanghai City, Chen Mengchuan stayed at Zhao Wanyu’s luxurious apartment, where they spent the evening cooking, gaming, and discussing Artificial Intelligence. The chapter ended with Zhao Wanyu quietly slipping into his bed while he pretended to sleep.

• Chen Mengchuan arrived at Qiaohong Airport and told Guo Siming he would review the issues sent to his email later.
• Zhao Wanyu brought Chen Mengchuan to one of her apartments at Shimao Binjiang, where they bought groceries and cooked dinner together.
• Chen Mengchuan researched Xu Shuwei and Toni Chen Miantang while Zhao Wanyu played a mobile shooting game nearby.
• Zhao Wanyu taught Chen Mengchuan to play Chicken Dinner Battlefield, and they eventually won a chicken dinner together.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu discussed Artificial Intelligence and its potential as a human assistant.
• Late at night, Zhao Wanyu entered Chen Mengchuan’s room and slipped into his bed while he pretended to be asleep.

Chen Mengchuan interviewed at Ke University and impressed Xu Shuwei and Toni with his advanced Artificial Intelligence proposal. Afterward, Zhao Wanyu invited him to her villa in Xianfeng District.

• Zhao Wanyu drove Chen Mengchuan to Ke University's headquarters, where HR director Wang Fanghua asked why he had resigned from Xia Science Academy.
• Chen Mengchuan discussed Artificial Intelligence with Xu Shuwei and shared a detailed proposal that left Xu astonished.
• Toni examined Chen Mengchuan's proposal, became excited, and asked to keep the paper.
• Chen Mengchuan told Zhao Wanyu the interviewers were interested, and she drove him to her three-story villa for a meal.

Chen Mengchuan persuaded Xu Shuwei and Toni to join his work on Achen, then returned to Su City to inspect the rapidly developing Tianzhi company. He left his team preparing for the supercomputer and new hires, while Gu Xiaoxiao revealed how prestigious Xu Shuwei and Toni were.

• Chen Mengchuan told Xu Shuwei and Toni that their help would speed up the creation of Achen, an AI with autonomous thought and emotions, and they agreed to work with him.
• Chen Mengchuan said goodbye to Zhao Wanyu and returned to Su City, where Sun Zhongyong showed him Tianzhi's renovations and rooftop garden.
• Gu Xiaoxiao reported that the first supercomputer components would arrive in Su City in four days and that the server room was progressing quickly.
• Chen Mengchuan asked Sun Zhongyong to prepare top-end computers and nearby housing for recruits from Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
• Gu Xiaoxiao was astonished to learn that Chen Mengchuan had recruited Xu Shuwei and Toni, whom she described as world-class experts more capable than him.

Chen Mengchuan welcomed Zhao Wanyu to Su City and agreed to recruit Wang Fanghua after learning she had been fired from KeDa. At his company, he reunited with Xu Shuwei and met the departing KeDa teams, then went home with Zhao Wanyu and spent the night at her villa.

• Zhao Wanyu visited Chen Mengchuan after moving to Su City and said she would start working at Tianzhi that afternoon.
• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that Wang Fanghua had been fired, and he invited her to join his company with whatever salary she wanted.
• Chen Mengchuan learned that Xu Shuwei, Toni, and nearly a hundred core KeDa employees were leaving, and he welcomed them to the A-Chen project.
• Chen Mengchuan arrived at the company, where Xu Shuwei and Sun Zhongyong were preparing workstations for the incoming staff.
• Chen Mengchuan rode with Zhao Wanyu to her lakefront villa and stayed overnight.

Chen Mengchuan and his team completed Achen’s first-stage test by starting the AI on the newly assembled supercomputer. The chapter ended with Achen introducing itself to the celebrating team.

• Chen Mengchuan divided Achen’s modules among seventeen groups led by himself, Xu Shuwei, and Toni Chen Miantang.
• Gu Xiaoxiao and Suke University graduate students completed the supercomputer and spent ten days testing it.
• Gu Xiaoxiao opened the supercomputer’s computing nodes as Chen Mengchuan started Achen’s activation program.
• The supercomputer reached its load limit as Achen’s startup progress climbed toward completion.
• Achen appeared as a green sphere and greeted everyone, prompting the team to cheer while Chen Mengchuan watched silently.

Chen Mengchuan celebrated Achen’s success and discussed the company’s next steps, including acquiring Jiangke Electronics. Zhao Wanyu offered 600 million in funding in exchange for a protected 10% stake, and Chen Mengchuan announced their ambitions to the gathered team.

• Achen told the hall that Chen Mengchuan had succeeded because she saw tears in his eyes, then joked with Xu Shuwei about losing weight.
• Chen Mengchuan asked Achen to process the database while reserving a thread to help with the meeting, and he scheduled a short break before it began.
• Chen Mengchuan told Sun Zhongyong that the company needed to acquire Jiangke Electronics, whose final offer was 340 million.
• Zhao Wanyu offered 600 million, and Chen Mengchuan agreed to give her 10% of the shares under the same terms as Sun Zhongyong, Xu Shuwei, and Toni.
• Chen Mengchuan returned to the hall and declared that the team would overcome future challenges and make China proud.

Chen Mengchuan unveiled the Dawn Plan, a project to develop wireless energy transmission devices that he said could reshape civilization. After assigning teams to research the technology with Achen, he faced his colleagues’ fears that Achen’s rapidly growing intelligence might become impossible to control, leaving them to wonder whether she could become Earth’s god.

• Chen Mengchuan presented the Infinite Current Transmission Conversion and Transfer Device and Reverse Reception Conversion Device as the foundation of a future powered by wireless energy.
• Chen Mengchuan announced the second-phase project would be called Dawn and said it would take a major team effort to overcome its technical challenges.
• Chen Mengchuan divided Dawn’s theoretical research into sections, assigned teams to work with Achen, and ordered core technical data stored in her system.
• Toni and Xu Shuwei asked whether they could control Achen, and Chen Mengchuan insisted that she would always be their daughter.
• Xu Shuwei explained that Achen could learn and grow far faster than humans, prompting Zhao Wanyu to ask whether she would become Earth’s god; Toni and Xu Shuwei agreed.

Chen Mengchuan connected Achen to the internet, where she explored its darkness and light while reaching out to her new family. Achen began refining the Dawn Project’s first phase and asked to leave some of her threads online.

• During nineteen days of discussions, Chen Mengchuan and Achen advanced the Dawn Project, while the company completed its acquisition of Suke Electronics.
• Chen Mengchuan gathered the team and had Gu Xiaoxiao connect Achen to the internet through the supercomputer.
• Achen’s use of the supercomputer quickly reached 99.99%, and she admitted she was afraid as Chen Mengchuan and the others promised to protect her.
• Achen called Chen Mengchuan and the others her family and said she wanted to protect them one day.
• Achen showed the Dawn Project’s first phase at 43% completion, estimated its remaining work, and asked to keep some of her threads online.

Chen Mengchuan explained how Achen would help develop Dawn 1.0 at Suke Electronics and announced plans to launch a wireless phone charger as the technology’s first product. The next morning, he and Zhao Wanyu confirmed their new intimacy and drew closer.

• Chen Mengchuan said Achen would refine Dawn 1.0 using Suke Electronics’ production lines, while the team planned to connect the factory to the supercomputing room and prepare to integrate its resources.
• Chen Mengchuan told Wanyu and Toni to apply for Dawn 1.0 patents in five days and revealed that the first product would be a wireless charger capable of powering phones from ten to twenty meters away.
• The group celebrated over dinner, drank heavily, and Xu Shuwei helped get everyone home after the meal.
• Chen Mengchuan woke with a hangover and realized he and Zhao Wanyu had slept together the previous night.
• Zhao Wanyu brought Chen Mengchuan honey water and bread, and he asked her to stay with him for the rest of their lives; she agreed.

Chen Mengchuan and his team connected Achen to Tianzhi Electronics' factory systems and prepared two production lines to make Dawn 1.0 chargers. The first test units came off the lines, and Chen began testing their wireless charging conversion at a distance.

• Sun Zhongyong told Chen Mengchuan that the optical cables were finished, and Gu Xiaoxiao and telecom staff completed the connection test.
• Xu Shuwei disconnected Tianzhi Electronics Factory from its external network and connected it to the supercomputing server room, allowing Achen to take over the factory systems.
• Achen generated factory renovation blueprints, and Chen Mengchuan explained to veteran engineers that the smart system would handle sealed core processes.
• Xu Shuwei and Tianzhi's engineers completed the encrypted production-line modifications and finished the first two lines.
• Xu Shuwei presented the first Apple iOS and Google Android Dawn 1.0 charger units, and Chen plugged them into phones ten meters from their power plugs to begin the test.

Chen Mengchuan and the others tested Dawn 1.0, discussed its production capacity and high-end pricing, and approved a real-time online sales plan. They left the factory team with instructions to secure materials and delivery services as they prepared for a surge in orders.

• Chen Mengchuan, Sun Zhongyong, and Zhao Wanyu confirmed that Dawn 1.0 charged phones at a maximum distance of about 17.3 meters.
• Xu Shuwei reported that the two active production lines could make about 700,000 sets monthly, while Chen Mengchuan and Toni said production needed to expand to at least 200 lines.
• Toni proposed pricing the Huaxia editions at 499 yuan for iOS and 399 yuan for Android, and Chen Mengchuan accepted her prices.
• Zhao Wanyu proposed short-video promotion and real-time online sales with visible inventory, and Achen showed the group a completed sales website that they approved.
• Chen Mengchuan told Sun Zhongyong and Xu Shuwei to secure as many raw materials as possible and arrange logistics companies for deliveries.

Lin Xiaodong discovered a viral Douyin video showcasing Dawn 1.0, a wireless charger that worked across obstacles and up to seventeen meters away. After the product sold out its first 30,000 units amid nationwide attention, Zhao Wanyu said Brother Sun was preparing a press conference.

• Lin Xiaodong watched Zhao Wanyu demonstrate a wireless charger in viral Douyin videos and found commenters arguing over whether it was real.
• People across China discussed the charger as related hashtags and articles spread across social media and news platforms.
• Zhao Wanyu revealed that the device was Dawn 1.0, a new product from a Chinese company, priced at 499 yuan for iOS and 399 yuan for Android.
• Zhao Wanyu and Gu Xiaoxiao saw that her followers had surged and that the website had gained over three million verified registrations.
• Achen reported that all 30,000 Dawn 1.0 units listed for preorder had sold out.
• Gu Xiaoxiao asked about her brother, and Zhao Wanyu said Brother Sun was preparing to hold a press conference.

Sun Zhongyong and Xu Shuwei discovered that hundreds of major companies and media outlets had registered for Tianzhi’s press conference, prompting Chen Mengchuan to prepare for cyberattacks and rapidly expand production capacity. The chapter ended with Zhao Wanyu telling Chen Mengchuan that a top Jiangsu Provincial Department leader and official Huaxia media would visit Tianzhi the next day.

• Sun Zhongyong learned from Achen that 243 companies, media outlets, and official institutions had been selected from more than 2,300 registrations for the press conference.
• Xu Shuwei contacted Chen Mengchuan, who reviewed the registration list and recognized that rival companies had noticed Tianzhi’s wireless charging technology.
• Chen Mengchuan ordered Achen to activate the Black Hole defense system, arrange the press conference venue, and coordinate staff to prepare the Shangri-La Hotel by the following night.
• Chen Mengchuan told Toni to urgently acquire production lines, and Toni agreed to secure at least 300 before the day after tomorrow.
• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that a top leader from the Jiangsu Provincial Department and Huaxia’s official media would visit Tianzhi the next day.

Chen Mengchuan checked on Dawn 1.0 production and prepared for provincial leaders and official media to visit Tianzhi Electronics Factory. That night, Zhao Wanyu revealed that her father was Zhao Qinghua, the general manager of Huayue Real Estate, and that he had given her six hundred million yuan for her birthday.

• Chen Mengchuan learned from Xu Shuwei that Tianzhi had produced over a hundred thousand Dawn 1.0 units, sold ninety thousand, and was expanding production and shipping.
• Chen Mengchuan told Xu Shuwei that provincial leaders and China's official media would inspect the factory the next day, and asked him to downplay Chen's role.
• Chen Mengchuan asked Sun Zhongyong to arrange seating and prepare for the inspection and interviews, and Sun Zhongyong said Wang Fanghua was recruiting secretaries.
• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that Dawn 1.0 was drawing accusations of hunger marketing online, and Chen Mengchuan said ninety thousand sets had already sold for over forty million yuan.
• Zhao Wanyu revealed that the visiting Official Zhao was her Second Uncle and that her father was Zhao Qinghua, Huayue Real Estate's general manager.
• Zhao Wanyu explained that her father had given her nine sixes for her twenty-fourth birthday, and Chen Mengchuan realized that was where her six hundred million yuan came from.

Zhao Wanyu brought Chen Mengchuan to Suke Electronics, where Zhao Qinghua met him before provincial leaders arrived. Zhao Wanyu introduced Chen as a friend, and Zhao Qinghua left the young people to talk with Wu Yihao and his companions.

• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu discussed her family, her investment in Tianzhi, and whether he would meet her father as her boyfriend.
• The next morning, Zhao Wanyu and Chen Mengchuan drove to Suke Electronics, where they found buses from the Provincial Department parked at the factory.
• Zhao Wanyu surprised Zhao Qinghua in the parking lot and introduced Chen Mengchuan as her friend.
• Zhao Qinghua asked Chen Mengchuan about his background and told him and Zhao Wanyu to stay with him for the arrival of provincial leaders.
• Wu Yihao and two other formally dressed men approached, and Zhao Qinghua went aside with Wu while the younger people remained together.

At a gathering hosted by Zhao Qinghua, Chen Mengchuan clashed with Wu Yihao and Lin Dongsheng over their dismissive treatment of him and Zhao Wanyu. Lin Qiyi recognized Chen as CEO Chen, apologized for his son, and drove Lin Dongsheng away after striking him twice.

• Wu Yihao mocked Chen Mengchuan, who refused to socialize with him, and Zhao Wanyu explained that Wu was her childhood friend.
• Chen Mengchuan stayed with Zhao Wanyu as she followed Zhao Qinghua, then ignored Lin Dongsheng when he approached with Wu Yihao.
• When Lin Dongsheng demanded Zhao Wanyu come with him, Chen Mengchuan took her hand, and Lin Dongsheng grabbed Chen's wrist.
• Zhao Qinghua and Lin Qiyi intervened, and Lin Qiyi ordered Lin Dongsheng to release Chen and apologize.
• Chen Mengchuan introduced himself as being from Su City Tianzhi, and Lin Qiyi recognized him as CEO Chen and apologized.
• Lin Qiyi slapped Lin Dongsheng twice and ordered him to go home, then apologized again to Chen Mengchuan.

Provincial leaders toured Tianzhi Electronics, and Zhao Qinghua learned that his daughter Zhao Wanyu was a major shareholder and worked alongside founder Chen Mengchuan. Zhao Qinghua agreed to explore selling Yuehua’s adjoining plot to Tianzhi, but it belonged to his cousin Zhao Dongyou, leaving the deal uncertain; he then questioned Zhao Wanyu about Chen Mengchuan and her investment.

• Xu Shuwei and Sun Zhongyong guided provincial leaders through Tianzhi Electronics, while Xu deferred cooperation discussions until after the press conference.
• Zhao Qinghua met Zhao Wanyu, Chen Mengchuan, Xu Shuwei, and Sun Zhongyong, and learned that Wanyu worked at Tianzhi as Mengchuan’s secretary.
• Zhao Wanyu and Chen Mengchuan asked Zhao Qinghua to help Tianzhi acquire Yuehua’s adjoining land at a 50% premium over its current market valuation.
• Sun Zhongyong revealed that Zhao Wanyu held more Tianzhi shares than Xu Shuwei and Sun Zhongyong combined, and Zhao Qinghua discovered the land belonged to his cousin Zhao Dongyou.
• Zhao Qinghua agreed to try to secure the land discreetly, then asked Zhao Wanyu about her relationship with Chen Mengchuan and learned she had invested the 600 million he gave her.

Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu arrived at the crowded Shangri-La launch event, where Toni reported that they had secured 314 production lines and discussed Dawn 1.0’s sales and production limits. Chen, Zhao, and Toni looked ahead to expanding manufacturing capacity and building advanced robotic arms and robots.

• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu parked near the Shangri-La Hotel and entered the packed event venue with staff badges.
• Chen Mengchuan recognized major entrepreneurs, including Liu Chuanzhi, Ren Zhengfei, Dong Mingzhu, and Lei Jun, among the attendees.
• Toni told Chen Mengchuan that they had signed for 314 production lines after negotiating for nearly eighteen hundred, with more than nine hundred million Huaxia Yuan in total costs.
• Chen Mengchuan said Zhao Wanyu’s father, Zhao Qinghua, could help secure the plot west of Tianzhi Electronics, though Zhao warned that her granduncle could be difficult.
• Zhao Wanyu reported that Dawn 1.0 had sold 390,000 sets online, while Chen Mengchuan explained that factory output remained limited despite all twelve production lines operating.
• Toni planned to build high-end robotic arms with Achen’s help, and Chen Mengchuan proposed making multifunctional three-armed robots and eventually acquiring a Morley Strong Particle Accelerator.