Chapter Summaries

Lin Li and Bai Bufan explored Class Twenty’s luck-based Garden Party games, where Bai won a crystal ball and Lin Li won a yuan on scratch slips. After Fang Tianyou lost four yuan gambling on the scratch game, Lin Li chose to redeem his own winnings and stop playing.

• A Class Twenty student gave Lin Li three scratch slips for his misprinted coin after Lin Li challenged the claim that it was special.
• Bai Bufan won a crystal ball from the gift blind box and learned to cover it when it was in sunlight to prevent fires.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan played the scratch game; Lin Li won one yuan while Bai Bufan lost.
• Lin Li and the students encouraged Fang Tianyou to keep gambling, then warned him to stop, and Fang Tianyou spent another yuan and left having lost four yuan.
• Lin Li decided to redeem his one-yuan prize instead of continuing to play.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan wandered through Nansang Middle School’s Garden Party, joked with classmates, and later helped run Class 4’s food stall. The chapter ended when Zhou Baowei made Lin Li realize the innuendo behind the Crab Sticks in the oden machine.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan visited a flea market, where Pan Yuwen offered Lin Li live and dead fleas in exchange for a coin.
• Ding Sihan bought a character badge for thirty after learning it had once cost eight hundred, and Lin Li drew absolute-value bars around its packaging.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying returned to Class 4 and organized the stall, while Lin Li sent Zhou Baowei and Qin Zeyu out to attract customers.
• Class 4 sold oden and fruit-flavored shaved ice, but Xue Jian repeatedly wandered into the classroom and disrupted Lin Li and Chen Yuying.
• Zhou Baowei pointed out the Crab Sticks in the oden machine and asked whether anyone present was a Cancer, leaving Lin Li horrified by the innuendo.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan explored a second-year class offering an overblown rest-space service that turned out to be an ordinary classroom with snacks, shared equipment, and errand runners. The boys discovered that its promised Wi-Fi coverage meant only that nearby networks had strong signals, not that the class knew their passwords.

• Lin Li joked with Chen Yuying about cannibal chefs and history books while their classmates teased them about their easygoing banter.
• Old Jian watched over Class 4 during its Garden Party shift, and Lin Li and the others explored the second-year area after their replacements arrived.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan found a second-year class advertising an exclusive pleasure plan and learned it offered a classroom seat, snacks, power banks, an errand service, a massager, and a Nintendo Switch.
• The boy claimed the classroom had comprehensive Wi-Fi coverage, but admitted that the class did not know the passwords to the nearby networks.
• Bai Bufan realized the boy meant the networks' signals reached every corner of the classroom, and he complained that the promise had been misleading.

Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and Ding Sihan explored the New Year's Day Garden Party, where Lin Li and Bai Bufan won a brain-teaser discount and ran into Wang Ze at a barbecue stall. After the party ended, Bai Bufan revealed that he had ordered beef for the class, prompting Lin Li to remind Zhou Baowei of the text “Eating Beef.”

• Ding Sihan brought Lin Li and Bai Bufan to a classroom brain-teaser booth, where they answered the riddles and earned the biggest discount.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan answered a series of crude riddles from a boy in the booth, while Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, and Qu Wanqiu watched in confusion.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan found Wang Ze running a barbecue stall and ordered lamb skewers with absurdly precise cooking instructions.
• The school announced the garden party's end, and the Class 1-4 students cleaned up and returned their classroom to its original state.
• Bai Bufan told Zhou Baowei that he had ordered beef, and Lin Li reminded him of the class text “Eating Beef” by reciting its opening.

Lin Li and his Class 4 friends joked and competed over who would collect their food deliveries, while Bai Bufan dealt with a delivery rider who had pretended to be injured. After a grade assembly and a reduced self-criticism penalty, Lin Li returned home, where he prepared to pursue his plans for the All Women World that night.

• Lin Li and his classmates played a backward-phrase game to decide who would collect their deliveries, and Chen Tianming and Zhou Baowei ended up going together.
• Bai Bufan discovered that rider Wang Yuan had faked an accident story to delay the delivery, then threatened him with a bad review until he hurried over.
• At the grade assembly, Lin Li watched Student Zhou receive the on-campus recognition in his place while keeping an eye on Xue Jian.
• Xue Jian told Lin Li and Bai Bufan that their self-criticisms could be one thousand words instead of four thousand, but warned them not to copy or pad them.
• Lin Li went home, declined Wu Min's invitation to visit her aunt, and thought about completing two panel tasks in the All Women World that night.

Lin Li and Zhu Ning attempted to escape the canyon in a hastily built aircraft, but its damaged frame began to fail before they reached a safe altitude. Lin Li reinforced it with a formation, then transformed into his mecha and rescued Zhu Ning as the aircraft broke apart, leaving them above the canyon near the sunlight.

• Lin Li returned to the canyon and confirmed that Zhu Ning’s Clear Wisdom Bright Heart Pill was still working while she finished assembling the aircraft.
• Zhu Ning piloted the aircraft upward through the Silent Field, but a rear vector nozzle tore loose and the damaged craft began to spiral downward.
• Lin Li used the Green Vine Solidification Array to bind and stabilize the aircraft, allowing Zhu Ning to keep climbing toward a safer altitude.
• Once they reached sufficient height, Lin Li launched Zhu Ning clear of the aircraft and transformed into his A+ Combat Armor mecha.
• Lin Li caught Zhu Ning in the mecha’s hand as the aircraft disintegrated, then held position above the canyon near the emerging sunlight.

Lin Li rescued Zhu Ning from Silent Canyon and escorted her to the Azure Alliance outpost, where he handed over the preserved little fellows and secured supplies and diplomatic ties before returning home. Back in reality, he invited his friends to meet, and Chen Yuying decided to skip a family visit and go out with them.

• Lin Li scouted the canyon exit, placed Zhu Ning in the mecha’s repair compartment, and flew with her toward the Azure Alliance while evading the world’s altitude restriction.
• Three Stealth Piercers attacked near the Crystal Cluster Forest, and Lin Li killed them with his Death Sigh sniper rifle before continuing toward the outpost.
• Zhu Ning contacted the alliance, led Lin Li to the arriving mechas, and transferred the preserved little fellows to her people.
• Lin Li received ammunition, weapon modules, a charging base, and other supplies, established relations with the alliance leadership, and returned to reality.
• Lin Li messaged his friends to arrange a game, persuaded Chen Yuying not to visit relatives, and she told Song Shen she would go out with her friends instead.

After completing two tasks, Lin Li used his rewards and drove to Bai Bufan’s home to surprise him. He left with Bai Bufan after the two joked around, while Bai’s Mother warmly encouraged them to go out and return after midnight.

• Lin Li received task rewards, equipped the Proof of Mind Reading, and drove away from Xiling.
• Lin Li messaged Bai Bufan and told him to come downstairs, prompting Bai Bufan to leave his game and rush out despite his parents’ confusion.
• Bai Bufan found Lin Li in a parked car, then pretended to be hit and rolled on the ground.
• Lin Li started the car and chased Bai Bufan, who ran away while Lin Li insisted he would take full responsibility.
• Bai’s Mother saw Lin Li and Bai Bufan from the balcony and encouraged them to go have fun, suggesting Lin Li bring Bai Bufan home after midnight.
• Bai Bufan asked Lin Li to hit him in despair, then panicked when Lin Li started driving toward him again.

Lin Li picked up Bai Bufan and headed to collect Qu Wanqiu for an outing, but their joking drive was interrupted by a reckless driver. After the driver parked and left, Lin Li and Bai Bufan plotted a prank that left him searching for an invisible scratch and missing compensation.

• Lin Li picked up Bai Bufan, teased him on the drive, and called Qu Wanqiu to tell her they were coming to get her.
• Bai Bufan connected the car to Bluetooth and played a humorous song, and he and Lin Li sang along as they drove.
• A black sedan cut in front of Lin Li and repeatedly brake-checked him, but the driver eventually parked and walked into a residential complex.
• Lin Li parked beside the sedan and left a note claiming he had scratched it and placed 200 in an empty red packet.
• The driver returned, searched his car for the nonexistent scratch, and discovered the red packet contained no money.

Lin Li drove Bai Bufan and Qu Wanqiu to pick up Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying for an unplanned New Year’s outing, while a new system task prompted him to consider helping strangers. The chapter ended with Lin Li greeting Chen Yuying with an outrageous pickup line.

• Lin Li received a system task to pilot a mecha while completing ten requests for unfamiliar Imperial Citizens, but decided to leave it for later.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan picked up Qu Wanqiu, then Lin Li teased Ding Sihan over the phone until she agreed to come out.
• Ding Sihan joined them and confronted Lin Li over his insults about her appearance and weight before they continued toward Chen Yuying’s home.
• Lin Li called Chen Yuying, who had already prepared to meet them, and drove the group to her apartment building.
• Lin Li greeted Chen Yuying with a joke about body odor and compared her charm to a fox, leaving Bai Bufan questioning his decision to treat Lin Li as his dating coach.

Lin Li drove Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, Qu Wanqiu, and Bai Bufan to Yuetian Plaza for a New Year’s Eve outing, joking with them along the way. As they neared the plaza, Bai Bufan suggested Chen Yuying might be Lin Li’s substitute for his returned childhood sweetheart, Wei Ziting, leaving Lin Li stunned.

• Chen Yuying joined Lin Li’s group after confirming her parents were already out, and they decided to spend New Year’s Eve at a rooftop hotpot restaurant in Yuetian Plaza.
• Lin Li drove the group toward the plaza, where he joked with Bai Bufan and safely stopped for a dog crossing the road.
• Lin Li parked outside the plaza and asked the others to go in while he looked for a parking spot.
• Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu teased Lin Li for seeming to abandon them, and Bai Bufan explained that Wei Ziting was Lin Li’s childhood sweetheart who resembled Chen Yuying.
• Bai Bufan speculated that Chen Yuying might be Wei Ziting’s substitute, leaving Lin Li stunned.

Lin Li and his friends spent New Year’s Eve eating hotpot, joking, and waiting together for the countdown at Yuetian Plaza. As the new year began, Lin Li kissed Chen Yuying in front of their friends.

• Lin Li reassured Chen Yuying that he had never treated her as anyone’s substitute, and their friends laughed at the teasing.
• Lin Li and his friends explored Yuetian Plaza, traded jokes, and looked at stars through a rooftop telescope before eating hotpot.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan bickered over food while the group waited for midnight and watched the plaza fill with celebrants.
• At the countdown, Bai Bufan bumped Lin Li’s shoulder while Chen Yuying held his hand, and the group welcomed the new year together.
• After Lin Li told everyone to look at him, he cupped Chen Yuying’s cheek and kissed her.

After kissing Chen Yuying at the New Year celebration, Lin Li drove his friends home and shared a shy farewell kiss with her. He then headed back out to test a newly appeared mecha commission by offering rides toward Xiling, picking up three men who had just finished working overtime.

• Lin Li kissed Chen Yuying on the rooftop, and her smartwatch alarmed that her heart rate had reached 131 as their friends teased them.
• The group decided to leave, and Lin Li drove everyone home while joking with them about their friendship and the slow trip back.
• At Chen Yuying's home, Lin Li locked the car doors until she kissed him goodbye, then unlocked them and let her leave.
• Lin Li dropped off Bai Bufan, who joked that he had bought Lin Li a red-light VIP membership, then drove elsewhere to pursue the mecha commission.
• Lin Li offered rides toward Xiling and picked up three men who had just finished working overtime; he played them a song mocking their low pay and long hours.

Lin Li tested his return system and returned to the Apocalypse World, where he found the shelter intact and reunited with Hu Fei. Hu Fei greeted him with the alarming news that Shi Dongchen had taken over Sister-in-law.

• Lin Li drove three tired workers home, then realized his passengers had not counted toward the system mission because they were men.
• Lin Li explored the updated return interface, added random nodes, and used the Return opportunity after preparing carefully.
• Lin Li arrived at the same ruined location in the Apocalypse World and confirmed the Aura of Demons still kept zombies from targeting him.
• Lin Li piloted his combat mech to the shelter, where Hu Fei opened the entrance and recognized him.
• Hu Fei tearfully told Lin Li that Shi Dongchen had taken over Sister-in-law.

Lin Li returned to the apocalypse shelter after two months away, brought supplies, and helped Shi Dongchen and Ye Jing prepare for the shelter’s needs. He slaughtered nearby zombies in his mech, found another mutant core, and returned to reality, where Bai Bufan worried that he had injured himself while masturbating.

• Lin Li learned from Hu Fei that two months had passed and discovered that the shelter’s survivors had preserved Beautiful Lady’s skeleton, though he dismissed Hu Fei’s accusations against Shi Dongchen.
• Lin Li gave Hu Fei food and supplies, then gave Shi Dongchen a large stock of provisions and accepted gold and a mutant zombie core in return.
• Shi Dongchen and Ye Jing listed supplies the shelter needed, and Lin Li led them outside to show them his mech and warn them to hide.
• Lin Li spent nearly three hours using his mech to kill zombies, found a fourth mutant core, and returned to reality.
• Lin Li exchanged messages with Bai Bufan, who first claimed he was quitting porn and then asked whether he had injured himself and lost his virginity.

Lin Li attended his cousin Fang Qihe’s engagement banquet with Wu Min, joking with the couple and giving Fang Qihe a red envelope designed to leave him one cent short of withdrawing the full amount. After escaping a round of confusing introductions to relatives, Lin Li told Wu Lifeng a bizarre story about a friend who gained an honorary father through a bone marrow donation.

• Lin Li removed Bai Bufan from his blacklist, exercised, and spent the day at home before leaving with Wu Min for Fang Qihe’s engagement banquet.
• Lin Li greeted Fang Qihe and Yu Liu, teased them about their relationship, and offered Fang Qihe a 500-yuan gift envelope that required one more cent to withdraw the full sum.
• Yu Liu found two extra 100-yuan bills taped to the envelope, and Fang Qihe told her to keep them as compensation for emotional damages.
• Lin Li escaped the relatives’ greetings and asked Wu Lifeng who several unfamiliar guests were, but Wu Lifeng could not identify them all.
• Lin Li agreed with Wu Lifeng that close neighbors could be more useful than distant relatives and told him a story about a friend whose neighbor donated bone marrow and wanted to become his honorary father.

Lin Li and Wu Lifeng attended Fang Qihe and Yu Liu’s engagement banquet, where Qin Xuan faced teasing from relatives about being single. As the banquet began, Qin Xuan and Lin Li tricked Wu Lifeng into taking a huge mouthful of food just as they stood to toast the elders.

• Qin Xuan arrived with her little brother Miaomiao, who repeatedly asked Lin Li for more candy instead of simply thanking him.
• Lin Li and Wu Lifeng joked about their bizarre annual app reports and talked about games while waiting for the banquet to begin.
• Qin Xuan’s relatives teased her about being single, and Lin Li claimed a company welfare officer was messaging her, disappointing her father’s hopes of a match.
• After Fang Qihe and Yu Liu exchanged rings, the banquet opened and the guests began eating.
• Qin Xuan whispered a plan to Lin Li, who persuaded Wu Lifeng to take a huge bite of food before they stood to toast the elders.

At a wedding banquet, Lin Li and Qin Xuan’s toast left Wu Lifeng struggling to finish the food in his mouth, then Lin Li cheered him up with a humiliating video. After the banquet, Lin Li rebuffed a relative who tried to take his family’s snack gift bag, and he drove Wu Min home as her holiday ended.

• Lin Li and Qin Xuan led the banquet guests in standing to toast Fang Qihe and Yu Liu, while Wu Lifeng struggled to chew his mouthful and finally stood up at his father’s urging.
• Wu Lifeng grabbed Lin Li when he tried to leave, and Lin Li gave him Digestive Tablets before teasing him about his food and money habits.
• Lin Li showed Wu Lifeng Nai An’s absurd rap video, making Wu Lifeng laugh despite his earlier vow never to laugh again.
• After the banquet, Lin Li stopped his young relative from taking his family’s snack gift bag and answered the cousin aunt’s attempt to claim it with pointed sarcasm.
• Wu Min scolded Lin Li for his bluntness, then told him she was leaving the next day and might not be able to get up in the morning.
• Lin Li joked that the end of Wu Min’s holiday could be compensated for by delaying her retirement, and Wu Min threatened to smack him.

Lin Li joked with his mother and classmates before reviewing his mission tasks and arranging a new investigation into Carefree Powder crimes. He then began testing a plan for the mecha task by driving a rented car to Donghu District late at night, where he watched women leaving bars and clubs.

• Lin Li and Wu Min traded jokes about money, cars, and how their lives had disappointed them.
• Lin Li returned to Nansang Middle School, teased his classmates, and learned that Qin Zeyu had been rejected by a Bodhisattva in a dream.
• Lin Li discussed schoolwork and the Wednesday break with Bai Bufan, then went home and found Wu Min's prepared late-night snack in the fridge.
• Lin Li reviewed his missions and told Deng Zi to have Li Sheng gather evidence against the people involved in Carefree Powder crimes.
• Lin Li rented a car, woke at two thirty in the morning, and drove to Donghu District to test whether he could use other drivers' cars and plates for his mecha task.

Lin Li tested how the system defined qualifying driving commissions and discovered that a woman had to personally request the ride. After reaching one of ten required commissions, he stopped searching Bar Street and went to Nansang Station to find drivers with cars and accounts.

• Lin Li picked up a drunk woman and a man on Bar Street, but the system did not count the ride because the man had arranged it.
• Lin Li drove a group of three, and the system recorded progress after one of the women requested the ride to her apartment complex.
• Lin Li decided to recruit drivers through direct contact rather than keep searching for scarce late-night passengers.
• Xue Jian collected Lin Li and Bai Bufan's self-criticisms, and Lin Li briefly tricked him with a photocopy before handing over his own.
• Lin Li rode to Nansang Station and watched the waiting taxi drivers while looking for someone suitable to approach.