Chapter Summaries

Lin Li and Bai Bufan helped Zhou Baowei recover after the Limit Breaking Talisman let him reach a restroom in time, and the group left Yunliu Mountain after their autumn trip. On the bus, Lin Li encouraged Chen Yuying to look forward to planning another outing, and she secured his promise to join.

• Zhou Baowei sprinted from the cable car to the restroom, then collapsed from exhaustion after using the Limit Breaking Talisman.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan took Zhou Baowei to Yunliu Medical Station, where a doctor said he had eaten bad food and needed rest and medicine.
• Xue Jian accepted that Zhou Baowei had become exhausted from using the restroom and warned him not to eat raw food meant to be cooked.
• Zhou Baowei thanked Lin Li and Bai Bufan while they packed, and Chen Tianming complained that they had left him out of their brotherly bond.
• On the bus, Chen Yuying lamented that the autumn trip was over, and Lin Li suggested that their friends plan another outing together.
• Chen Yuying asked whether Lin Li would come next time, and he changed his hesitant answer to a definite promise after she stared at him.

Lin Li returned to Xiling with Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan, then walked with them to a nearby snack street while they waited for their parents. He joked his way through the outing and left the chapter sharing a meal order with the girls, whose patience with him was wearing thin.

• Lin Li napped on the bus and traded jokes with Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, and Bai Bufan during the ride back to Nansang Middle School.
• After arriving, Lin Li walked with Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan toward a snack street while they waited for their parents.
• Lin Li distracted a little girl on her way to a pharmacy by getting her to ask for chewing gum, prompting Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying to scold him.
• At the snack street, Ding Sihan ordered braised snacks and offered to treat Lin Li and Chen Yuying, while Lin Li calculated an order worth exactly twenty yuan.
• When the stall owner asked whether he wanted more chicken thigh or breast, Lin Li joked about his preferences, then chose more breast meat and provoked Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying.

Lin Li used a sped-up study video to frighten Bai Bufan and Zhou Baowei into studying. The prank left Xue Jian fielding worried messages from both boys’ fathers and hoping Lin Li’s mother would not contact him.

• After studying for an hour with Enhanced Memory, Lin Li edited a video of himself studying and sent it to Bai Bufan.
• Bai Bufan watched Lin Li’s eerie video, panicked, and told his father he needed to study before dinner.
• Lin Li shared the video in the group chat, then declined to send one to Zhou Baowei himself.
• Bai Bufan sent Zhou Baowei two videos, and the second one showed Bai studying before delivering Lin Li’s frightening message; Zhou Baowei became too unsettled to sleep and got up to study.
• Zhou Baowei’s father found him studying late at night and asked Xue Jian whether something had happened during the autumn outing.
• Xue Jian reassured Zhou Baowei’s father, recalled Bai Bufan’s father asking similar questions, and bowed to Lin Li’s mother’s contact in hope she would not message him.

Lin Li tried to complete his escort mission by persuading delivery rider Shen Kai to let him use his account and scooter for a morning. After Shen Kai agreed and Lin Li proved he had never ridden an electric scooter, their first delivery attempt ended in alarm.

• Lin Li used electricity from his portable power supply to wake himself and exchanged for a low-grade Spirit Stone and a Limit Breaking Talisman.
• Lin Li practiced the Spiritual Energy Chapter, then went to a newer residential complex to find a delivery rider for his escort mission.
• Lin Li persuaded Shen Kai to let him deliver food using Shen Kai's account and scooter while Shen Kai rode along for a fee.
• Lin Li nearly gave Shen Kai a false name before correcting himself and accepting his work phone, helmet, and scooter key.
• Lin Li asked whether pulling the scooter backward would make it go forward, and Shen Kai urgently told him to get off.

Lin Li accompanied Shen Kai on delivery shifts to complete Meituan Escort Agency missions and successfully recorded five perfect completions. When Wu Min called and asked whether he was hanging out with shady people, Lin Li’s joking answer made her demand that he come home.

• Shen Kai let Lin Li ride the electric scooter while he sat behind him, and Lin Li gradually became confident with it.
• Lin Li delivered a birthday order, bought the customer an extra Tea Egg, and received his first perfect mission completion.
• Lin Li handled more deliveries and an exhausting sixth-floor errand, while the system recorded five perfect completions out of seven orders.
• Wu Min called Lin Li at work, and Lin Li lied that he was out with friends.
• Wu Min asked whether Lin Li was with shady people, and Lin Li said there were none left in his group, leaving her confused.

Lin Li returned home after arranging to try food delivery again with Shen Kai, then registered Wu Min as a rider so he could use her account. Wu Min worried about his sudden changes and his reasons for delivering, while Xue Jian woke to a message from her asking whether Lin Li had gotten into trouble.

• Wu Min asked Lin Li to come home for lunch, and he ended his morning with Shen Kai and headed back.
• Lin Li told Shen Kai he might deliver again, and Shen Kai decided to skip his planned fifty orders and go sleep.
• Wu Min was startled by how much Lin Li had changed since she last saw him and noticed a strange smell when he came home.
• Lin Li used Wu Min's face to complete rider registration, then explained that he planned to deliver food using her account.
• Lin Li showed Wu Min a study video to head off her advice, and Xue Jian woke to Wu Min asking whether Lin Li had gotten into trouble.

Lin Li spent the day delivering takeout to complete Meituan Escort Agency missions, then stole food and drinks from Zhou Baowei while demanding a good review. After his mother helped him pass a facial check, she discovered that his seven-plus hours of work had earned only five yuan, and she urged him to study hard.

• Lin Li rented an electric scooter and delivered takeout, raising his Meituan Escort Agency mission count to eleven.
• Lin Li discovered Zhou Baowei was a customer, ate his chicken cutlet and snacks, and pressured him into giving a five-star review, completing another mission.
• Lin Li left Zhou Baowei's home to deliver his final order and reached twelve completed missions.
• Lin Li got home several minutes late and asked Wu Min to complete a facial scan for his delivery app.
• Wu Min saw Lin Li's withdrawable balance of five yuan and told him that he needed to study hard to avoid starving in society.
• Wu Min told her siblings that Lin Li had made a little over fifty yuan, and they praised him.

Lin Li studied, delivered food, and checked the system’s weekly update, upgrading Enhanced Memory with a new item. The chapter ended with Bai Bufan sending him a crude joke disguised as a question, prompting Lin Li to go to sleep without replying.

• Lin Li studied in the living room while Wu Min cleaned his room, then studied on a video call until Bai Bufan angrily vowed to study too.
• Lin Li studied for two hours, delivered food for two hours, and kept studying until midnight, when the system updated.
• Lin Li discovered a blank, newly selectable system feature and used his free store refresh to buy an Ability Amplifier.
• Lin Li used the amplifier on Enhanced Memory, increasing its active duration from twenty to thirty minutes.
• Bai Bufan asked Lin Li a fake study question about a fisherman and a mermaid, and Lin Li insulted him and went to sleep.

Lin Li practiced the Body Tempering Eight Section Exercise, delivered takeout, and upgraded Power Charge while waiting for midnight. After exchanging Mid-Autumn Festival greetings, he discovered Wang Ze had accidentally mass-sent a greeting containing a hidden profanity to family groups, and the chapter ended with Wang Ze facing his angry mother while their friends laughed at the mishap.

• Lin Li practiced the Spiritual Energy Chapter and delivered takeout, bringing Mission Four to 26/30 and his account balance to 10.0.
• At midnight, Lin Li exchanged for an Ability Amplifier and upgraded Power Charge, increasing its output while requiring two hours of paralysis to store a use.
• Lin Li exchanged Mid-Autumn Festival greetings with Yao Qiaoqiao and noticed the hidden profanity in Wang Ze’s mass message.
• Wang Ze admitted he had forwarded Zhang Haoyang’s profane greeting to family groups, and Lin Li teased him before offering advice and a porn link.
• Wang Ze’s mother confronted him about the message, and Lin Li shared the story with their friends as Zhang Haoyang asked for revival armor after receiving a death threat.

Lin Li went to the residential complex activity room to make mooncakes with the neighbors and planned to hide a Health Strengthening Pill inside one for Wu Min. While preparing the cakes, he met university student Zeng Zi'ang and heard about his studies, job prospects, and college life.

• Lin Li greeted Zhou Youwei before practicing, and Zhou declared that he would keep watching Lin Li and would not give up either.
• Zhang Fang invited Lin Li and Zhou Youwei to make mooncakes, and Lin Li agreed so he could try to give Wu Min the Health Strengthening Pill.
• Lin Li brought the pill to the activity room and met Zeng Zi'ang, another young person there, who showed him how to make mooncakes.
• Lin Li chose jujube paste and lotus seed paste with egg yolk fillings and prepared pastry skins large enough to hold the pill.
• Zeng Zi'ang told Lin Li about his thesis, abandoning graduate school, preparing for the civil service exam, and the pleasures and pressures of university life.

Lin Li made mooncakes for his mother, Wu Min, and secretly filled one with a health-strengthening pill disguised as Chinese medicine. After Wu Min ate it and scolded him, the two joked and bickered affectionately, ending with Lin Li promising to replace her broken feather duster.

• Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang baked their mooncakes at the activity room, where elders questioned them about their studies and relationships.
• Lin Li gave Wu Min a mooncake filled with Chinese medicine, and she ate it despite its bitter taste.
• Wu Min discovered Lin Li was eating a different flavor and chastised him for misleading her.
• Wu Min's old feather duster snapped while she playfully hit Lin Li, and they laughed together.
• Lin Li and Wu Min joked about replacing the duster and continued their playful banter.

Lin Li continued his food-delivery task, meeting Yang Liang and later running into Chen Yuying while trying to finish the required missions. He ended the chapter still working toward Task Four, with two missions and two good reviews left.

• Lin Li encountered Yang Liang working traffic duty, gave him a customer's milk tea, and reassured him that he was delivering food for fun.
• Lin Li tried to claim two watermelons from a vendor who did not remember him, then bought half a watermelon instead.
• Lin Li met Chen Yuying at the watermelon truck and explained that he was delivering food for the experience.
• Lin Li gave Chen Yuying the milk tea that a customer had ordered for someone who would not answer the phone, and she accepted it.
• Lin Li moved aside for a honking car and joked with Chen Yuying about installing a louder horn on his scooter.

Lin Li arranged to teach Chen Yuying to ride a bicycle and discovered that sharing perverted online advice also advanced the system mission. After completing his delivery mission, he gained increased qi and blood, Ear Divine Power, and an Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle.

• Lin Li offered to teach Chen Yuying to ride a bicycle, then returned to share a tip about evading QQ bans and saw the mission progress increase.
• Chen Zhongping picked up Chen Yuying, learned that Lin Li was her classmate, and asked her to introduce them sometime.
• Lin Li completed his thirtieth positive review and finished Mission Four, receiving a 50% qi-and-blood increase, a random active ability, and a random magic treasure.
• Lin Li absorbed the qi-and-blood increase, suffered a nosebleed, and tested Ear Divine Power, which doubled his hearing but quickly drained his stamina.
• Lin Li received the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle, which could absorb or release nearby intelligent beings’ intense emotions and desires.

Lin Li tested the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle and began refining it with spiritual energy, but ran out before he could use it. Wu Min drove him to school before leaving on a business trip, and Lin Li spent the evening teasing Bai Bufan about studying.

• Lin Li examined the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle, discovered it absorbed blood and spiritual energy, and used two spirit stones to begin refining it.
• Wu Min drove Lin Li to school and told him she would be away on a business trip until National Day.
• Lin Li realized Wu Min had left his bicycle at home and complained after she drove away, leaving him to walk back later.
• Lin Li joked with Zhang Haoyang and Zhou Baowei in the corridor before finding Bai Bufan studying in the classroom.
• Lin Li teased Bai Bufan until he admitted he could not keep studying, then grumbled to himself about Wu Min leaving him to walk home.

Lin Li learned that the first Monthly Exam would begin the following Wednesday and threw himself into studying, bringing his classmates along with him. After testing the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle with duck blood, he completed its initial refinement and triggered a new mission to absorb other cultivators’ negative emotions and desires.

• Xue Jian announced that the first Monthly Exam would run from the 25th through the 27th, and Lin Li, Bai Bufan, Zhou Baowei, and Chen Tianming all started studying.
• Lin Li bought duck blood from a snack-street vendor and discovered that the bottle absorbed it, though slowly.
• Lin Li exchanged for an Ability Amplifier, saved it, and used a Low-Grade Spirit Stone to finish the bottle’s initial refinement.
• The system triggered Mission 4, which tasked Lin Li with absorbing other cultivators’ negative emotions and desires using the bottle.

Lin Li tested the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle and discovered it could secretly absorb and output desires, though its capacity and range were limited. At school, he used it on his classmates’ sleepiness to advance his mission, then filled the bottle and left Bai Bufan asleep during morning reading.

• Lin Li refined the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle, learned its limits, and tested it by absorbing his own desire while using his computer.
• Lin Li brought the bottle to school and output the stored desire onto Bai Bufan, who became awkward and restless.
• Lin Li absorbed Zhou Baowei’s sleepiness and saw Mission Four’s progress increase, then collected sleepiness from classmates until the bottle was full.
• Lin Li failed to output the stored sleepiness onto animals and put it onto himself, nearly falling asleep from exhaustion.
• Lin Li decided not to keep targeting Bai Bufan, who slept behind his textbook while Lin Li sang during morning reading.

Lin Li used the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle to transfer sleepiness to Wang Yuezhi, then absorbed and returned the chemistry teacher’s anger to spare Wang Yuezhi from being scolded—only for Wang Yuezhi to demand the scolding. After learning that anger advanced his mission progress faster than sleepiness, Lin Li secretly tried to absorb Wang Yuezhi’s emotions when he offered him mint candy, but the absorption kept going.

• Lin Li rolled a six with his die and sent the bottle’s sleepiness to Wang Yuezhi, who repeatedly fell asleep during class.
• Lin Li stood beside Wang Yuezhi in chemistry class, absorbed the teacher’s anger, and stopped the teacher from scolding him.
• Wang Yuezhi accused the teacher of giving up on him, so Lin Li returned the anger and the teacher scolded him as Wang Yuezhi looked satisfied.
• Lin Li noticed that absorbing anger increased his mission progress faster than absorbing sleepiness and told Wang Yuezhi he probably would not feel sleepy again.
• Chen Yuying gave Lin Li mint candy, and after he offered a piece to Wang Yuezhi, Lin Li secretly tried to absorb Wang Yuezhi’s emotions but could not stop the process.

Lin Li tested the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle on Zhou Baowei while sharing an explicit 3D animation, accidentally suppressing Baowei’s desire and making him panic. The bottle absorbed Baowei’s anxiety, and Baowei’s reaction returned as Lin Li watched.

• Lin Li stopped using the bottle after absorbing more of Wang Yuezhi’s emotions than he could handle, then realized the bottle had developed white wear lines.
• Lin Li visited the dorm and watched a 3D animation with Zhou Baowei while Chen Tianming declined to join them.
• Lin Li released Wang Yuezhi’s stored emotions into himself, became angry, and insulted Zhou Baowei before resuming the video.
• Lin Li used the bottle to absorb Zhou Baowei’s desire, and Baowei noticed he no longer reacted to the animation and grew anxious.
• Lin Li absorbed Zhou Baowei’s anxiety, calming him until his reaction returned.

Lin Li tried to clear the classroom so he could spend the noon break with Chen Yuying, but Bai Bufan refused to leave and humiliated him until Lin Li promised to stop tormenting him with horror movies. After Bai Bufan departed, Lin Li decided to use the emotions and desires in his bottle to get revenge, while Xiao Bai’s unexplained behavior left Bai Bufan alarmed.

• Lin Li found Bai Bufan studying in the classroom and dragged him into the hallway to ask why he had come in at noon.
• Lin Li told Bai Bufan to return to the dorm or sit elsewhere, but Bai Bufan threatened to come to the classroom every noon before, during, and after the Monthly Exam.
• Lin Li apologized and flattered Bai Bufan, who agreed to leave after Lin Li promised not to send him horror movies or rub his studying in his face.
• Bai Bufan mocked Lin Li on his way out, caught Lin Li changing expressions, and left satisfied.
• Lin Li resolved to use the emotions and desires in his bottle against Bai Bufan, while Bai Bufan stopped at the stairwell and anxiously questioned Xiao Bai, who remained silent.

Lin Li teased Chen Yuying about learning to ride a bike, then invited her to study at Nansang Library with Ding Sihan and Wanqiu. After Lin Li fell asleep at lunch with leaves placed on him as a prank, Wang Yuezhi rushed back to the classroom and mistook the scene for proof that Lin Li and Chen Yuying had fallen out.

• Lin Li jokingly announced Bai Bufan had died, and Chen Yuying realized Bai Bufan had left the classroom.
• Lin Li invited Chen Yuying to learn to ride a bike, but she said she was busy that weekend and agreed to discuss another time.
• Chen Yuying invited Lin Li to study at Nansang Library with Ding Sihan and Wanqiu on Saturday, and Lin Li agreed to go early.
• Lin Li returned with leaves to tease Chen Yuying, then fell asleep at his desk with the leaves spread over him.
• Wang Yuezhi worried that Lin Li and Chen Yuying were alone together, hurried back after lunch, and grinned when he saw them apart and Lin Li covered in leaves.