Chapter Summaries

After swimming, Lin Li invited Zeng Zi'ang to a blind-date social event and arranged to attend the next day, then went with him to the driving test site. On the drive, Lin Li explained that he had lost his father in a childhood accident, leaving Zeng Zi'ang horrified by his earlier careless remarks and speeding up in a fit of guilt.

• Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang finished swimming, and Zeng Zi'ang sent Lin Li the photos he had taken.
• Lin Li invited Zeng Zi'ang to Yi Zhen's free social mixer the next afternoon, and Zeng Zi'ang agreed to go with him.
• Lin Li shared photos and his plans with Chen Yuying, who teased him and asked him to report back about the event.
• Zeng Zi'ang offered to drive Lin Li to the driving test site, where Lin Li was taking Subject Two.
• When Zeng Zi'ang asked why Lin Li was an adult in his first year of high school, Lin Li said he had missed school after a childhood accident and that his father had died.
• Zeng Zi'ang felt guilty over his earlier comments and pressed the accelerator, while Lin Li begged him to slow down and insisted neither of them should die.

After passing Subject Two, Lin Li finished his swimming mission and went to Chen Yuying’s building to surprise her. Chen Yuying came downstairs to meet him while her parents unknowingly joined in the evening’s cement-and-sand jokes.

• Lin Li passed Subject Two, told Yu Jian'an, and continued swimming while waiting out the required cooldown before registering for Subject Three.
• Lin Li’s attempt to advance his mission by writing a padded webnovel failed, so he continued grinding progress by swimming.
• After seeing Chen Yuying’s message, Lin Li went to her building, called her from the street, and caught the ribbon that blew from her hair.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying teased each other over the phone until Chen Yuying said she would come downstairs to meet him.
• Chen Yuying told her father she was going to pick up a package, then repeated Lin Li’s cement-mixing advice to make him wonder why she had learned it.
• After Chen Yuying left, Chen Zhongping wrote down the cement ratio while his wife rested on the sofa, and all three thought about Lin Li.

After completing Task Two, Lin Li learned the Five Elements Essentials, tested his stronger spells, and received the Li Fire Sword Raising Gourd. He went with Zeng Zi'ang to a social gathering under the fake identity Bai Bufan, but the event staff recognized him as “Meng Ji De Lei Ba,” leaving him wondering how his information had leaked.

• Chen Yuying briefly met Lin Li outside her building, gave him a new elastic band, and agreed to call him “young master” for a while.
• Lin Li completed Task Two after swimming and received a spell-effect boost, the Five Elements Essentials, a random magic treasure, and system currency.
• Lin Li practiced lightning and water spells, then asked Chen Yuying to send him a recording of her Olympiad math lesson.
• Lin Li arranged to attend a social gathering with Zeng Zi'ang, dressed down, and claimed his event profile used the fake name Bai Bufan.
• Zeng Zi'ang surprised Lin Li with black stockings, and Lin Li explained how Uncle Yan had obtained the pair he had previously seen.
• At the gathering, a staff member recognized Lin Li as “Meng Ji De Lei Ba,” startling him with another apparent leak of his personal information.

Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang attended a matchmaking event, where Lin Li bonded with Wang Baiyu over their cynical jokes about dating and marriage. Wang Baiyu asked Lin Li to live with him, but Lin Li revealed he had a girlfriend, leaving Wang Baiyu heartbroken.

• Fu Miao recognized Lin Li as the person behind the Group Chat ID “Meng Ji De Lei Ba.”
• Zeng Zi'ang and Lin Li met Shao Hengkai, who introduced them to Lu Meng, Tang Feng, and Wang Baiyu.
• Wang Baiyu explained that he attended matchmaking events only because his family pressured him to marry, and Lin Li joined him on the sofa.
• After Tang Feng described his fear of being falsely accused, Lin Li proposed a retaliatory scheme, but Wang Baiyu rejected it and suggested men live together instead.
• Lin Li and Wang Baiyu realized they shared the same absurd outlook and hugged, but Lin Li refused Wang Baiyu's offer to live together because he had a girlfriend.
• Wang Baiyu sank into despair over his unrequited feelings for Lin Li and regretted meeting him too late.

Lin Li attended a matchmaking mixer with Wang Baiyu, Zeng Zi'ang, and the others, where Wang Baiyu coached Zeng Zi'ang on presenting himself. Lin Li concealed his newly learned magic by claiming he had studied modern magic design, and the chapter ended with him misunderstanding what a “Plant-type boy” meant.

• Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang grew more comfortable with the group, while Wang Baiyu reacted to Lin Li's girlfriend photo and worried about his own chances.
• A late-arriving cleaner introduced himself, and Wang Baiyu awkwardly tried to make up for mistaking him for a wealthy rival.
• Wang Baiyu taught Zeng Zi'ang how to embellish his dating introduction and identify supposed red flags in women.
• Lin Li claimed to have studied law and worked at Hogwarts, then revealed a flame before explaining it was a magic trick and that he had attended vocational school for modern magic design and performance.
• Lin Li posed bizarre legal questions to Wang Baiyu, who pretended he had the same vocational-school background to escape the conversation.
• Zhang Chen introduced himself as a Plant-type boy, and Lin Li joked that the term meant plants could have sex with flowers if they had enough water.

At a matchmaking event, Lin Li and several men jokingly declared themselves plant-type boys, then Lin Li warned Zeng Zi'ang that his preferred match, Zhu Jingyi, had worked as a prostitute. Lin Li was matched with Fang Yu, but Zhu Jingyi mistook him for an ex-gigolo and rejected him, leaving him stunned.

• Lin Li and Wang Baiyu introduced themselves as plant-type boys unlike Zhang Chen, and Shao Hengkai joined in, confusing Fu Miao and the other guests.
• During matching, Wang Baiyu recognized Zhu Jingyi from a case file and recalled that she had been arrested for prostitution at Golden Courtyard.
• Lin Li checked his Xi Ling Chicken Farm Map and showed Zeng Zi'ang evidence that Zhu Jingyi had sold sex, so Zeng Zi'ang removed her from his choices.
• Wang Baiyu praised the unknown person who had reported multiple sex-work establishments, and Lin Li privately revealed that he had been the informant.
• Fu Miao announced the matches, pairing Lin Li with Fang Yu instead of Zhu Jingyi after Lin Li and the others blacklisted Zhu Jingyi.
• Lin Li asked Zhu Jingyi why she had not chosen him, but she accused him of being a former gigolo and rejected him, leaving him bewildered.

Lin Li attended a matchmaking event as Bai Bufan, rejected Zhu Jingyi and Fang Yu, and endured Fang Yu’s outburst before she stormed out. The event still counted toward his system task, and on the ride home he learned that Zeng Zi'ang had caught the interest of a woman named Sister Yan.

• Zhu Jingyi rejected Lin Li and left, so he sat across from Fang Yu and declined her offer to get to know him.
• Fang Yu demanded that Bai Bufan add her name to his house deed and hand over his salary, but Lin Li mocked her and asked her to stay at his house to help hide a missing pig.
• Fang Yu threw objects and shouted at Lin Li until Fu Miao intervened; no one agreed to switch partners with Fang Yu, and she left after knocking Fu Miao down.
• Lin Li continued the event without a partner, and the system credited him with the first of three required visits to the Marriage Pavilion.
• Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang left the event, and Zeng Zi'ang said he would not pursue Sister Yan despite her interest in him.
• Lin Li realized that Zeng Zi'ang had misunderstood Sister Yan’s five requirements as more than the two qualities she had stated.

Lin Li returned to the Cultivation World, delivered electronics and takeout, and learned how to use his Li Fire Sword Raising Gourd from Deng Wen. After completing a task, he received a quest to arrange Shān Qīng Daoist’s funeral, but Shān Qīng Daoist had no ideas, so Lin Li offered his own eccentric funeral wish.

• Zeng Zi'ang explained that he had rejected Yan Sansui’s advances and asked Lin Li to return her transfer, while Lin Li begged him to stop speeding.
• Lin Li used 20 System Currency to travel to the Cultivation World, where he found Shān Qīng Daoist and Deng Wen arguing after a cooperative game.
• Lin Li gave Deng Wen the promised phones and computers, and Deng Wen offered him Azure Sky Flowers and explained the functions of the Li Fire Sword Raising Gourd.
• Lin Li stored the Azure Sky Flowers in the gourd, completed Task Four, and received rewards that included a new shop mechanism and a quest to arrange Shān Qīng Daoist’s funeral.
• Lin Li asked Shān Qīng Daoist about his funeral preferences, then described his own imagined funeral as people celebrating his return from the dead and throwing glutinous rice.

Lin Li held a simple funeral for Shān Qīng Daoist, continued cultivating, and found a valuable new magic treasure in the system shop. At school, he agreed to help Zhou Baowei buy lunch, but an overlong biology lesson threatened to keep him from the cafeteria.

• Lin Li held a simple funeral for Shān Qīng Daoist, but the system rejected it as insufficiently serious, while Shān Qīng Daoist warned that a moving corpse could signal the Demon Race Remnant Soul was acting.
• Lin Li continued cultivating, tried to establish his foundation without a Foundation Establishment Pill, and used the weekly refresh to find the Universal Magic Treasure in the system shop.
• Lin Li arrived at school and joked with Bai Bufan, Wang Ze, and the others before agreeing to buy Zhou Baowei the cafeteria’s stone-pot bibimbap.
• The biology teacher ran overtime, putting Zhou Baowei’s chance of getting bibimbap in jeopardy.
• Lin Li argued that the teacher’s two-minute delay cost the class eighty minutes in total, prompting the teacher to realize how late the lesson had run.

Lin Li used a disguise and a series of fake calls to distract students so he could buy Zhou Baowei a limited serving of bibimbap. He, Zhou Baowei, and Bai Bufan traded increasingly disgusting jokes over lunch, leaving Zhou Baowei frustrated but determined to finish his meal.

• After Zhou Baowei despaired of getting the limited bibimbap, Lin Li borrowed a mask and hat and rushed out to help him.
• Lin Li disguised himself and distracted students by shouting about a lost meal card, a teacher, money, and mating squirrels, then slipped away as they realized they had been tricked.
• Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, and Qu Wanqiu saw the disguised figure, and Bai Bufan advised Chen Yuying to pretend Lin Li was dead for the noon break.
• Lin Li met Bai Bufan and Zhou Baowei in the cafeteria with three portions of food, including Zhou Baowei's limited bibimbap.
• Bai Bufan tricked Lin Li into believing Zhou Baowei had insulted him, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan then mocked Zhou Baowei's food with jokes about medicinal liquor and chicken shit.
• Zhou Baowei fought Bai Bufan, but they stopped when Lin Li began stealing their food; Zhou Baowei then proposed making braised chicken rice by cooking rice in his trousers, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan seriously discussed the idea.

After lunch, Lin Li made Bai Bufan the scapegoat for the cafeteria tricks and helped turn the crowd against him, then returned to class, where he joked with Chen Tianming and confronted misunderstandings involving Ding Sihan. Bai Bufan left after backing down from Lin Li, and Lin Li discovered that Ding Sihan’s supposed study notes were just drawings of snarling dogs.

• Lin Li noticed that cafeteria patrons recognized his voice, so he disguised Bai Bufan and blamed him for the earlier food-related pranks; Bai Bufan escaped the angry crowd by claiming the sports field was on fire.
• Lin Li returned to class and teased Chen Tianming while he studied for the evening test, then resumed working on the classroom blackboard display.
• Ding Sihan told Lin Li that Xiang Tian had followed her and Chen Yuying, but it turned out Xiang Tian had merely joined the shorter lunch line; Lin Li chased Ding Sihan with a broom for exaggerating.
• Bai Bufan arrived looking for Lin Li, but fled after seeing Lin Li lift a desk and chair; he returned Lin Li’s mask and secretly vowed revenge over the weekend.
• Lin Li checked Ding Sihan’s notes and found that she had drawn two snarling dogs instead of writing down their conversation, while Chen Yuying agreed that the drawing suited them.

After finishing the school selection exam, Lin Li collected an urn for Grandpa Shan Qing and went to stop a school fight after Deng Zi sent him the location. He left the fighters screaming after scattering ashes from the urn, while Zhao Nan recognized him as the Black Silk Hero.

• Lin Li finished the school selection exam with Chen Yuying and went to a funeral supplies shop to collect the urn bearing Shān Qīng Daoist’s photo.
• Deng Zi told Lin Li that students from his school had gone to fight another school near the Back Mountain, so Lin Li headed there.
• Lin Li found Qin Jun and his group beating several students, including Zhao Nan, and introduced himself as the Black Silk Hero.
• Lin Li dodged Wu Dong’s attacks, then threw powder from his backpack at the group, who mistook it for quicklime.
• Lin Li revealed that the powder was ashes from the urn, causing Qin Jun, Wu Dong, and the others to panic and try to clean themselves off.

Lin Li used Shān Qīng Daoist’s ashes and the Duck Blood Bottle to rout Qin Jun’s gang, turning their helmets into a vomiting trap. After Qin Jun urged his men to attack from a distance, Lin Li began the next phase of his act and summoned a bone as a weapon, leaving the gang stunned.

• Lin Li scattered Shān Qīng Daoist’s ashes to frighten Qin Jun’s gang, but Qin Jun rallied them by eating a pale fragment and ordering them to attack.
• Wu Dong and several helmet-wearing men began vomiting uncontrollably after Lin Li used the Duck Blood Bottle on them with Sister Yu jokes, while Jin Di was caught in the mess.
• Qin Jun told his remaining men to remove their helmets and expose Lin Li’s supposed interest in Sister Yu, but Lin Li’s joke only left Qin Jun embarrassed.
• Qin Jun ordered his men to throw weapons at Lin Li, who dodged the barrage and announced that the second phase of his act was beginning.
• Zhao Nan supplied the Guilty Crown song as Lin Li invoked Grandpa Shan Qing and pulled a long white bone from his collar, calling it Shuriken Excalibur.

Lin Li used Grandpa Shan Qing’s hand bone to defeat Qin Jun’s lackeys, but the bone broke when he faced Qin Jun. Lin Li then made it seem as though Grandpa Shan Qing’s spirit had returned, leaving Qin Jun terrified and pleading for mercy.

• Lin Li charged Qin Jun’s lackeys while naming his attacks after Grandpa Shan Qing, and quickly knocked them down.
• Qin Jun chose to fight instead of run, and his Steel Rod broke Lin Li’s hand bone during their clash.
• Lin Li pretended to grieve over the broken bone, then scattered paper offerings as the wind and sparks made Qin Jun believe Grandpa Shan Qing’s spirit was present.
• Qin Jun dropped his rod, tried to ward Lin Li off with a cross, then tripped over Zhao Nan and begged for mercy.
• Zhao Nan realized Qin Jun had urinated on him and shouted at him to stop.

Lin Li exposed his ghostly attack on Zhao Nan, Qin Jun, and their companions as a staged trick, then subdued the fleeing fighters and brought everyone to the authorities. His actions advanced his mission to seven of eight incidents, while the police began verifying the strange reports and contacted Yan Aosong about him.

• Qin Jun and Zhao Nan argued while trapped beneath Lin Li’s staged ghost effects, and Lin Li revealed that the ashes, bone, wind, and ghost flames had all been tricks.
• Lin Li stopped a man from kicking the humiliated Qin Jun, subdued fleeing companions with concealed thunder spheres, and pursued one runner to increase his mission progress.
• Lin Li returned with Qiu Jie to find Zhao Nan guarding the group with Shān Qīng Daoist’s ashes box, then led everyone down the mountain and left after the Demon Suppression Envoys arrived.
• Lin Li’s mission notification showed progress at seven of eight, and he messaged AAAA Coffin Wholesale Boss Wang to praise the supplies he had used.
• Zhao Nan told Sheng Zhanpeng that Lin Li had staged the supernatural attack, and Yan Aosong confirmed that the story sounded like Lin Li’s work before explaining his reputation to Sheng Zhanpeng.

Lin Li used the newly acquired Proof of Heaven and Man to improve his cultivation while enjoying PE class and teasing Bai Bufan and his classmates. The chapter ended with Lin Li joking about Bai Bufan’s painful basketball injury as Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, and Qu Wanqiu reacted.

• Lin Li repeatedly blocked Bai Bufan’s shots during basketball, leaving Bai Bufan frustrated and ready to quit until Lin Li mentioned the basketball babe.
• Lin Li reflected on completing Shān Qīng Daoist’s funeral, receiving the Old Friend title and a Shop Refresh Opportunity, and buying the Proof of Heaven and Man with his accumulated System Currency.
• Chen Yuying brought Lin Li water and tissues, while Ding Sihan brought water for Bai Bufan; Lin Li teased them and called Bai Bufan over.
• Bai Bufan reacted sourly when Lin Li said Ding Sihan had brought him water, then apologized and accepted the bottle when she threatened to give it to a dog.
• Qu Wanqiu asked why Bai Bufan was lying in pain, and Lin Li explained that Bai Bufan had been hit in the crotch before joking that the pain was worse than childbirth.

During a schoolwide power outage, Lin Li vanished from his classroom while his classmates joked and panicked in the dark. In another part of the classroom, Lin Li secretly sat beside Chen Yuying, and Ding Sihan discovered their hands clasped beneath a desk.

• Lin Li joked with Bai Bufan and Zhang Haoyang during evening self-study, then the school lost power and plunged the classrooms into darkness.
• Bai Bufan guarded himself from imaginary attacks, while Lin Li noticed Wang Ze using his phone and the classmates teased Wang Ze.
• Bai Bufan realized Lin Li had disappeared, and the class searched the darkened room without finding him.
• Ding Sihan chatted with Chen Yuying, then heard Lin Li nearby and noticed their secretive reactions.
• Lin Li showed Ding Sihan the faint glow of his smartwatch, revealing his and Chen Yuying's fingers interlocked beneath the desk.

During a classroom blackout, Lin Li secretly held hands with Chen Yuying and recruited Wang Ze to help conceal it. When Bai Bufan nearly exposed them, Lin Li and Wang Ze staged a waltz to cover their escape, then took Bai Bufan into the hallway to punish him for interrupting.

• Lin Li held hands with Chen Yuying in the darkness while Ding Sihan noticed and teased them.
• Lin Li called Wang Ze over to crouch beside him and disguise the hand-holding, and Wang Ze agreed in exchange for Lin Li's help visiting Qian Ying.
• Bai Bufan spotted Lin Li and Wang Ze crouching near Chen Yuying and joked that Lin Li was holding the class monitor's hand.
• Wang Yuezhi turned on a desk lamp, and Lin Li and Wang Ze pretended they were holding hands with each other as they sang and danced a waltz.
• Lin Li and Wang Ze dragged Bai Bufan into the hallway, where Wang Ze restrained him and explained that Bai Bufan had interrupted Lin Li's moment with Chen Yuying.

A campus blackout left Lin Li and his classmates joking and shouting confessions across the darkened school before the power returned and evening study resumed. Lin Li received system rewards and then tricked Bai Bufan into confronting Xue Jian, leaving Bai furious at him.

• During the blackout, Lin Li joked with the boys about its cause while Wang Ze confessed his feelings for Qian Ying across the courtyard.
• The power returned, and the school broadcast instructed students to return to their classrooms; Lin Li received a Suona talent and rewards for completing a system task.
• Lin Li examined a new task about repairing the school’s electrical arrays and planned to address it the following week.
• After leaving with Chen Yuying, Lin Li returned and told Zhou Baowei and Qin Zeyu to laugh at Wang Ze, then sent Bai Bufan to search Wang Ze’s desk for supposed entertainment.
• Bai Bufan was caught rummaging through Wang Ze’s desk by Xue Jian, and Zhou Baowei revealed that Lin Li had set him up.

Lin Li passed the Xue Zhi Cup internal selection, completed a system task, and received the Mark ability. After tutoring, he teased Chen Tianming and Bai Bufan, then returned home to find Wu Min waiting with joss paper and asking whether he had stolen grave offerings.

• Chen Yuying asked Lin Li why he had gone back, and he admitted he had touched Bai Bufan's hands before telling her his plan; she agreed not to call herself his girlfriend at school.
• Hua Ming announced the internal selection results, and Lin Li passed with a perfect score while Chen Tianming barely passed and Zhang Haoyang left after scoring 12.
• The system marked Task Five complete, rewarded Lin Li with improved comprehension, an ability, and currency, and assigned him a new task to qualify for the Xue Zhi Secret Realm final.
• Lin Li tried to help Chen Tianming understand a problem, mocked him, and then staged a joke that made Chen Yuying call his pose carefree and suave.
• Lin Li noticed Chen Tianming and Bai Bufan plotting against him as he left school, then went home and found Wu Min questioning his money and accusing him of stealing joss paper from graves.
• Lin Li denied stealing joss paper but admitted that he had stolen the offerings.