Chapter Summaries

Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang returned home with Small Si Xi and met their new neighbors, the Yu family. Xia Chujian bought Small Si Xi a pink doghouse, and the chapter ended with the Small Dog curled up contentedly on her legs.

• Xia Chujian showed Small Si Xi how to press the elevator button for the eleventh floor.
• Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang met the Yu family, whose daughter had moved from Wind Sea City to attend Mulan City No. 1 High School.
• Xia Chujian recognized the Yu family's maid as the woman who had refused to open the Glass Greenhouse the previous night.
• Xia Chujian bought Small Si Xi a pink doghouse, toys, and a pet toilet through the Star Net.
• Small Si Xi played with the embroidered sprig of grass in its doghouse, then leaped into Xia Chujian's arms and curled up on her legs.

Xia Yuanfang told Xia Chujian she wanted to open a Workshop offering Reproductive Assistance, and explained that her treatments could help people conceive naturally and increase the chance of having Gene Evolver descendants. Xia Chujian agreed to become the major shareholder and transferred Xia Yuanfang two hundred thousand to fund the business.

• Xia Yuanfang asked Xia Chujian to lend her money, and Xia Chujian revealed she had earned one million yuan during her trip to Da Fu Prefecture.
• Xia Yuanfang explained that she planned to open a Workshop providing Reproductive Assistance that could help people conceive naturally and raise the odds of their descendants becoming Gene Evolvers.
• Xia Chujian warned Xia Yuanfang to keep the ability secret because people might try to extort or abduct her.
• Xia Chujian asked about her parents, and Xia Yuanfang said they had been extraordinary before changing the subject to the Workshop's financing.
• Xia Yuanfang offered Xia Chujian a choice between lending money and becoming an owner, and Xia Chujian chose to be the major shareholder.
• Xia Chujian transferred Xia Yuanfang two hundred thousand yuan for the Workshop.

Xia Chujian funded Xia Yuanfang’s Reproductive Assistance Studio in Mulan City, while Meng Guanghui interrogated the Fan father and son about their crimes and their Private Starship. An infiltrator killed Fan Chengqi and Fan Bowei before being cornered and committing suicide, and Meng Guanghui confronted Shang Qizhen about her past.

• Xia Yuanfang told Xia Chujian she planned to open a Reproductive Assistance Studio in Mulan City with Aunt Chen and save money for Xia Chujian’s university plans.
• Xia Chujian gave Xia Yuanfang two hundred thousand in startup funds and eight hundred thousand in living expenses, then learned Xia Yuanfang had prepared test papers for her holiday.
• Meng Guanghui questioned Fan Chengqi, who admitted to the investigation report and said the Fan Clan’s Private Starship had been bought secondhand from the Rong Clan.
• Fan Chengqi began explaining the starship’s third trip, but an attacker killed him with a Mental Strength Attack; the attacker then shot themself when Special Security Bureau officers surrounded them.
• Meng Guanghui returned to the holding cells and found Fan Bowei dead as well, then ordered Shang Qizhen brought to the interrogation room.
• Meng Guanghui accused Shang Qizhen of killing her former fiancé to marry into wealth, and she stopped pretending to be distraught.

After Fan Chengqi and Fan Bowei were killed to conceal the identity of the person behind the abductions, Huo Yushen realized the Dark Night Hunter Team might hold another lead and ordered Meng Guanghui to question them again. Their testimony revealed Xia Chujian had survived an attack on the team’s flying vehicle and destroyed the assassins, leaving Huo Yushen with a way to protect the team and investigate further.

• Shang Qizhen watched footage of Fan Chengqi and Fan Bowei being killed and said she knew nothing about the third trip made by her family’s Private Starship.
• Huo Yushen concluded that the Fan father and son had known the Mastermind and ordered Meng Guanghui to question the Dark Night Hunter Team about what happened after they left the traffickers’ building.
• Meng Guanghui used Mental Strength to question Ye Shijie, who revealed that the team had been attacked with missiles and that Xia Chujian had taken over their flying vehicle and destroyed the attackers with six missiles.
• Ye Shijie said the team had then traveled to the Land of the Far North in the Exotic Beast Forest, and Meng Guanghui stopped questioning him when his condition deteriorated.
• Meng Guanghui questioned Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong, then reported to Huo Yushen that the team had survived and likely had not been pursued into the Exotic Beast Forest.

Meng Guanghui proposed using Special Security Bureau missions to protect Xia Chujian’s team, while Huo Yushen kept his understanding of her immunity to Mental Attacks secret. At the Quan Family’s New Year gathering, Quan Yugui clashed with his mother and Quan Yuxun went to check on Quan Caiwei, while Mei Jiangli waited for him and then went looking for him.

• Meng Guanghui analyzed the threats against Xia Chujian’s team, and Huo Yushen suggested assigning them Special Security Bureau missions to deter another attack.
• Huo Yushen privately recognized that Xia Chujian was not a Gene Evolver and kept his explanation for her immunity to Mental Attacks to himself.
• At Jianmu Manor, Quan Yugui argued with Li Fengci over her interference in the family and his decision to deal with her secretary, then said he would rather return to medicine.
• Quan Yuxun greeted relatives at the New Year gathering before asking Quan Yugui whether Quan Caiwei had come out of her room.
• Mei Jiangli mistook Quan Yuxun’s arrival for a visit to her, waited backstage for him, and eventually went to look for him, where she saw his secretary Yun Nvluo.

Quan Yuxun learned that Quan Caiwei had found no trace of the High Priest’s target in the Fan Clan Territory and promised to delete a video that troubled her. Meanwhile, Xia Chujian enjoyed a break from studying and prepared to go shopping with Ping Qiong.

• Mei Jiangli learned that Quan Yuxun had returned to the main residence, while Yun Nvluo discarded the cup Mei had handed back.
• Quan Caiwei told Quan Yuxun that her sensor had found nothing in the Fan Clan Territory, and he said he would seek another coordinate from the High Priest.
• Quan Caiwei asked Quan Yuxun to delete a video of her on a Quan flying vehicle, and he agreed; she also asked him to speak kindly of her to Yun Nvluo.
• Quan Caiwei told Quan Yuxun that Yun Nvluo had considered using the video as evidence in a lawsuit, and he said he would handle the matter.
• Quan Jiuyi returned from Beichen Star, asked whether Caiwei had found the target, and told Quan Yuxun she believed the Quan Family would be his; Mei Jiangli then joined Quan Yuxun to greet the clansmen.
• After six days of intensive problem-solving, Xia Chujian was allowed out and told Xia Yuanfang she planned to shop with Ping Qiong at City Central District Plaza Garden.

Xia Chujian inspected a storefront with Ping Qiong and bought it for her aunt's Workshop after learning food prices might rise. Ping Qiong also decided to buy a home of her own, and Xia Chujian offered to help her find one.

• Xia Chujian left home to inspect a storefront and kicked Mr. Yu's black dog away when it lunged at her in the elevator.
• Xia Chujian met Ping Qiong at Plaza Garden, and they found the discreet, two-hundred-square-meter storefront suitable for a Workshop.
• Ping Qiong warned Xia Chujian that food prices were rising and explained that she supported her parents and nine younger siblings.
• Xia Chujian negotiated with the landlord and agreed to buy the storefront for seventy thousand yuan.
• Ping Qiong told Xia Chujian she wanted to move out, and Xia Chujian encouraged her to buy a furnished apartment in East District.

Xia Chujian encouraged Ping Qiong to buy an apartment for herself and gave food to a starving child after seeing Disciplinary Officers leave him behind. As Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong headed to view apartments, two Punishment Department Duty Vehicles crashed near the restaurant, with children trapped inside.

• After Ping Qiong's mother refused to give her money for an apartment, Xia Chujian urged her to use her savings and bounty money to buy one in her own name.
• Xia Chujian arranged for an agent to show them apartments in the East District, and she and Ping Qiong stopped at a noodle shop to eat.
• Disciplinary Officers took homeless children away but threw one frail child out of a vehicle, saying the orphanage would not accept him.
• Xia Chujian gave the child Low-Level Nutrient Solution and asked whether he had family, but he left without answering.
• As Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong ran toward the square to escape two smoking Duty Vehicles, Ping Qiong carried Xia Chujian to safety.
• The two Duty Vehicles crashed outside the noodle shop and burst into flames, while people shouted that children were trapped inside.

Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong were trapped in Plaza Garden when black crows and Gray-Robed People attacked the crowd, while the black mist and Street Trees sealed every exit. They joined Quan Yuxun’s security team behind the southwestern branches, where the crows refused to cross an unseen boundary.

• Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong saw the crashed Duty Vehicles release enormous scale-covered crows that filled Plaza Garden with black mist as the Street Trees enclosed it.
• Xia Chujian drew her pistol and night-vision Eyepiece, but found that communications were cut off and the thick mist hindered Ping Qiong’s movement.
• Twenty-five Gray-Robed People appeared above the square and sent the crows to kill people; gunfire from the crowd and security personnel could not stop the attackers.
• Quan Yuxun led his security team toward a gap in the southwest, and Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong watched as the team reached their hiding place with the crows in pursuit.
• The crows stopped at an unseen boundary near the branches, and Xia Chujian handed Ping Qiong her Tactical Dagger to cut a way through.

Xia Chujian tried to save children from the Gray-Robed People’s crow attack, but their overwhelming Mental Strength killed nearly everyone in the square. As the attackers prepared to fire Rocket Launchers, Xia Chujian assembled Quan Yuxun’s Devastator No. 1 Sniper Rifle and aimed at the first Gray-Robed Person preparing to shoot.

• Xia Chujian used her pistol to destroy crows along each bullet’s path, then accepted a submachine gun and ammunition from Quan Yuxun to rescue children.
• Xia Chujian led parents and children toward safety, but the Gray-Robed People’s Mental Strength attack killed the civilians in the square; she rescued one child and retreated with the bodyguards.
• Xia Chujian returned to the hiding place and found Ping Qiong unconscious, while the Gray-Robed People increased their Mental Strength and prepared Rocket Launchers.
• Quan Yuxun recognized Xia Chujian as a sniper and gave her his Devastator No. 1 Sniper Rifle and two magazines.
• Xia Chujian assembled the rifle, aimed at a Gray-Robed Person preparing to fire a Rocket Launcher, and shot.

Xia Chujian killed all twenty-five gray-robed attackers with the Devastator 1 Large Sniper Rifle, and the Mulan City forces destroyed their six Combat Aircraft. After the authorities sealed off the Plaza Garden, Quan Yuxun approached Xia Chujian to ask her name and promised to explain her role in the battle.

• Xia Chujian killed the gray-robed leader, then shot the Rocket Launcher and Sniper Rifle teams while evading their return fire.
• The remaining twelve gray-robed people tried to escape, but Xia Chujian shot them down, and the Punishment Department and Special Security Bureau destroyed their six Combat Aircraft.
• Xia Chujian returned the Devastator No. 1 Sniper Rifle to Quan Yuxun, recognized him as a member of the Quan family, and tried to avoid connecting herself to him.
• The authorities surrounded the Plaza Garden, leaving Xia Chujian unable to leave; she rescheduled her property viewing with the agent for the next day.
• Xia Chujian recognized the child she had given Low-Level Nutrient Solution, checked that he was unhurt, and let him hold her extended smart-gun barrel.
• Quan Yuxun approached Xia Chujian and said he would explain her contribution to the authorities before asking her surname.

After surviving the massacre at Plaza Garden, Xia Chujian tried to keep her role secret while Quan Yuxun and Huo Yushen investigated the attack. The survivors identified the attackers as Niapula and Gray-Robed People, and Huo Yushen took Xia Chujian and Quan Yuxun away for questioning with the sole surviving child following Xia Chujian.

• Xia Chujian asked Quan Yuxun not to reveal her identity, and he agreed to credit an unnamed Passerby A for killing the attackers.
• Kang Shanxing reported that 1,320 people had died, including 342 children, and that Quan Yuxun and a young child were among the survivors; Huo Yushen ordered him to investigate the enemy vehicles and keep the Punishment Department away from the case.
• Huo Yushen arrived at the square, recognized Xia Chujian, and questioned Quan Yuxun and her about the surviving child and the attack.
• Xia Chujian and Quan Yuxun described the scaled, smoke-vanishing crows and the twenty-five Gray-Robed People, and Huo Yushen identified the creatures as Niapula.
• Quan Yuxun claimed Passerby A had killed all twenty-five Gray-Robed People, but refused a Lie Detector test; Huo Yushen ordered him and Xia Chujian to come with him as the child clung to Xia Chujian's pistol.

Xia Chujian and Quan Yuxun recounted the plaza attack to Huo Yushen after rescuing an orphaned child. Huo Yushen confronted Xia Chujian about killing the Gray-Robed People, and she admitted that she had killed all twenty-five.

• Xia Chujian carried the filthy orphan onto Huo Yushen's Bat-style Fighter Jet, where the starving child drank nutrient solution and fell asleep.
• Quan Yuxun told Huo Yushen what had happened at Plaza Garden, and Xia Chujian added the details about the crashed Punishment Department Duty Vehicles and the Niapula Black Crows.
• Quan Yuxun signed his statement and left, while Xia Chujian asked Huo Yushen if she could go home.
• Huo Yushen told Xia Chujian that optical surveillance cameras could reveal what happened despite the Electromagnetic Shielding, and offered to keep her involvement secret if she confessed.
• Xia Chujian admitted that she had killed the twenty-five Gray-Robed People.

After Xia Chujian described how she killed the Niapula and resisted the Gray-Robed People’s Mental Attack, Huo Yushen warned her that her unusual trait could put her at risk. He offered to conceal it by bringing her into the Special Security Bureau, and she accepted a temporary special-operations role with an employment exam scheduled three months later.

• Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen that she had used a submachine gun to save a child and kill the Niapula, whose bodies dissolved into black smoke.
• Huo Yushen concluded that Xia Chujian was immune to Mental Strength and could protect her weapons from its effects, then warned that Quan Yuxun and her Aunt might pose risks if they learned her secret.
• Huo Yushen offered to cover up Xia Chujian’s trait if she joined the Special Security Bureau, and she asked whether the position came with official-employee health insurance for her Aunt.
• Huo Yushen arranged training for Xia Chujian and an employment exam in three months, assigning her meanwhile to special operations under Meng Guanghui.
• Huo Yushen summoned Kang Shanxing to handle Xia Chujian’s paperwork, and Kang Shanxing escorted her to provide photographs and biometric data.

Huo Yushen gave Xia Chujian a program and a protective helmet to help conceal her immunity to Mental Attacks. He admitted he needed her ability for a dangerous Special Security Bureau operation, and Xia Chujian trusted him a little more after he told her plainly that it might cost her life.

• Huo Yushen tested the sleeping child with Mental Strength, making him cry, then put him back to sleep and told Xia Chujian he was not sick.
• Huo Yushen explained that Xia Chujian's immunity could expose her, so he uploaded a warning program to her Quantum Optical Brain and showed her how to use it.
• Huo Yushen demonstrated the program with an A-Rank Peak Mental Attack, and Xia Chujian saw the intensity register as 9999.
• Huo Yushen gave Xia Chujian a Special-Grade Mental Strength Protection Helmet and told her to claim she had worn it during the Gray-Robed People's attack.
• Huo Yushen arranged to backdate Xia Chujian's Special Security Bureau employment and explained that he needed her ability for a dangerous operation that might cost her life.
• Xia Chujian said she trusted Huo Yushen a little more because he had been honest about the danger.

Xia Chujian agreed to train with the Special Security Bureau and negotiated retroactive salary and benefits with Huo Yushen. She took the sleeping child home while the Bureau searched for his family, then used her new position to pressure her landlord into lowering the price of her property.

• Huo Yushen ordered Xia Chujian to attend six months of physical training and discussed how she should conceal her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha and Nano Bulletproof Vest.
• Xia Chujian persuaded Huo Yushen to calculate her salary and benefits from the middle of last year, and asked him to search for the sleeping child's relatives.
• Huo Yushen arranged for Kang Shanxing to collect the child's biological data, and Xia Chujian took the child with her to care for him.
• Meng Guanghui added Xia Chujian to the Action Division's official group as he escorted her from Huo Yushen's fighter jet.
• Xia Chujian confronted her landlord, showed him evidence of her Special Security Bureau connection, and demanded her deposit back or a lower price.
• The landlord offered to cut the price in half, reducing it to thirty-five thousand.

Xia Chujian bought a commercial unit at a bargain price after the deadly incident, then brought the orphaned child home and named him Wufu. She and Xia Yuanfang began caring for him, while Xia Yuanfang questioned whether the unusually cheap property purchase was a scam.

• Xia Chujian voided her rental contract and bought the two-hundred-square-meter commercial unit for thirty-five thousand, with the landlord covering the transfer fees.
• Meng Guanghui showed Huo Yushen and Kang Shanxing footage of Xia Chujian bargaining with the landlord, and Huo Yushen told Meng to guide her as a future asset to the Bureau.
• Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong left the square, and Xia Chujian said she would care for the child, whom she named Wufu, while the Special Security Bureau searched for his family.
• Xia Chujian brought Wufu home, where he eagerly embraced Xia Yuanfang and was bathed and wrapped in a clean blanket.
• Xia Chujian showed Xia Yuanfang the purchase contract, and Xia Yuanfang wondered why the property had been so cheap and asked if Xia Chujian had been scammed.

Xia Chujian reassured Xia Yuanfang after telling her about the Black Crows’ massacre at Plaza Garden and arranged to view apartments with Ping Qiong. At the residential community, she discovered that their real estate agent was a man she had previously crossed paths with.

• Xia Yuanfang scolded Xia Chujian for spending money without asking, then doted on Wufu and fed him alongside Xia Chujian and Sixi.
• After seeing the news, Xia Yuanfang asked Xia Chujian about Plaza Garden, and Xia Chujian explained the massacre and how Wufu had survived.
• Xia Chujian persuaded Xia Yuanfang to let her visit a residential community with Ping Qiong the next day.
• Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong met their agent at the community’s West Gate and rode an express elevator to view an apartment on the 136th floor.
• Inside the apartment, Xia Chujian recognized the agent as the former elevator attendant who had refused to let her use the elevator, and he explained that he had switched jobs after offending her.

Xia Chujian reunited with Guo Sheng while helping Ping Qiong search for an apartment, and learned that Colonel Zong lived in the same building. After Ping Qiong rejected one apartment and agreed to view another, they entered an elevator with a mysterious masked man and woman.

• Xia Chujian frightened Guo Sheng into kneeling, then learned he had changed careers and was now selling houses.
• Ping Qiong inspected the apartment listed for 250,000 but disliked its orientation and layout.
• Guo Sheng told Xia Chujian that Colonel Zong lived in the building and revealed that he was still receiving daily New Year meals; Xia Chujian warned Guo Sheng to keep Special Security Bureau information private.
• Guo Sheng offered to show Ping Qiong another, larger apartment on the 258th Floor, whose price was lower because it had been flooded.
• Xia Chujian, Ping Qiong, and Guo Sheng boarded an elevator and encountered a masked man and woman in distinctive coats.

Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong toured an apartment, negotiated its price, and agreed to buy it. Meanwhile, Quan Yuxun and Yun Nvluo visited Zong Ruoan, and Quan Yuxun announced that he planned to stay at Zong Ruoan’s apartment.

• Xia Chujian and Guo Sheng encountered Quan Yuxun and Yun Nvluo in the elevator, where Guo Sheng nervously offered them his business card.
• Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong inspected a three-bedroom apartment, discussed repairs, and agreed to buy it for Three Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand.
• Quan Yuxun and Yun Nvluo arrived at Zong Ruoan’s penthouse and toured the apartment with him.
• Quan Yuxun told Zong Ruoan he wanted to stay for a few days, leaving Zong Ruoan privately regretting his polite invitation.