Recaps

Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and the girls explored a church open day, learned about its Christmas gift exchange, and joked around as they considered joining. The group left the courtyard to browse charity-sale stalls, where Lin Li ended the chapter with a sarcastic story about a supposed act of kindness in Shanghai.

• Lin Li tried to charge a passerby admission to the church, and Bai Bufan dragged him inside while apologizing for him.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan joked about confessing their misdeeds, then the group visited the church courtyard and learned how its Christmas gift exchange worked.
• Ding Sihan registered a Squeeze toy, while Lin Li wished for a Porsche 911 and Bai Bufan wished for an Iron Man suit before Ding Sihan teased him.
• Lin Li played a prank on Ding Sihan, and his mistranslation of Bai Bufan's joke sparked confusion before the chase ended with Lin Li getting stepped on.
• Chen Yuying told the volunteers the group would look for gifts, and they browsed the courtyard stalls before an Aunt gave them cupcakes.
• Lin Li told the group a sarcastic tale about a Shanghainese man who supposedly helped him identify a lemon as “Xiang Wu Ning.”

Lin Li, Bai Bufan, Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, and Qu Wanqiu visited a church charity garden party, joked with one another, and made Christmas-themed wool crafts. After Ding Sihan’s aunt asked them to sort documents, Bai Bufan’s explanation of a crucifix as a “Crucifixion Machine” made her flee the office laughing.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan traded outrageous Shanghai stories and jokes while the group browsed the garden-party stalls and discussed Class 4’s plan to sell shaved ice, oden, and street games.
• Ding Sihan introduced the group to her aunt Ding Yu and Father Qiu, and the five entered the activity room to make wool-felt crafts.
• Chen Yuying taught Lin Li how to felt wool, and Lin Li later taught Bai Bufan, while the group made and mocked their finished crafts.
• Ding Yu asked the five to sort church documents in exchange for milk tea, and Lin Li joked with Ding Sihan as they worked.
• When Qu Wanqiu asked for a stapler, Lin Li handed her a crucifix, and Bai Bufan called it a “Crucifixion Machine,” prompting Ding Yu to leave the office while struggling to hold back laughter.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan confused Father Qiu with a comic song after Lin Li pretended to pray, leaving the priest convinced the church was besieged by demons. Later, Lin Li recovered Chen Yuying’s lipstick and used it to arrange a kiss at the cinema, where he kept asking her to repeat what she had said.

• Lin Li solemnly prayed for Bai Bufan, prompting Father Qiu to praise his apparent faith until Lin Li and Bai Bufan launched into a song and left the priest bewildered.
• Father Qiu scrubbed his hands in the holy water, muttered about demons and terrifying little boys, and fled toward the church entrance when he saw Lin Li and the girls.
• Lin Li revealed that he had Chen Yuying’s missing lip glaze and persuaded her to borrow it, insisting that she promise to return it before giving it to her.
• The five friends exchanged Christmas gifts and went to a cinema, where Lin Li repeatedly leaned close to Chen Yuying while pretending he had not heard her.
• Chen Yuying kissed Lin Li on the cheek in the dark and held his hand, but Lin Li soon asked her again what she had said.

Lin Li went to Xi Ren Driving School for his Subject Three test after watching a movie with his friends the previous night. He handled a sudden dog crossing flawlessly and passed, though he accidentally called the examiner a “dog official,” leaving the examiner furious at Yu Jian'an.

• After the movie, Lin Li and Bai Bufan joked about Chen Tianming lending his phone to Yao Qiaoqiao and teased Qu Wanqiu about forgetting to return a classmate’s meal card.
• Lin Li arrived at Xi Ren Driving School, where Yu Jian'an described the disastrous test performances of his other students and asked Lin Li to restore his faith.
• An examinee failed after forgetting the pre-drive car inspection and calling the examiner a “Dog Official” while asking how to handle a dog in the road.
• Lin Li began his test and drove without making a mistake until a yellow dog suddenly ran across the road.
• Lin Li stopped safely, yielded to the dog, and resumed the test after reporting the situation to the examiner as the dog official.
• Lin Li passed the test, but the examiner realized Lin Li had also called him a dog official and resolved to make Yu Jian'an pay for the insult over lunch.

Lin Li passed Subject Three and Subject Four, earning his driver's license after jokingly advising the nervous Xiao Cheng to drink before his test. Xiao Cheng passed Subject Three and invited Lin Li to celebrate at lunch, but Lin Li declined and headed home.

• Lin Li passed Subject Three, and Yu Jian'an sent him to take Subject Four while encouraging Xiao Cheng before his own exam.
• Lin Li jokingly told Xiao Cheng that alcohol could calm his nerves, alarming Yu Jian'an, who stopped them before Xiao Cheng clarified he had bought lychee juice.
• Xiao Cheng passed Subject Three and became less nervous after the farce, while Yu Jian'an wondered whether Lin Li had deliberately helped him relax.
• Lin Li joked with the Subject Four invigilator about painting computers black and using microphones as monitors, then passed the exam in under five minutes.
• Xiao Cheng thanked Lin Li for helping him pass Subject Three and invited him, Yu Jian'an, and the examiner to lunch, but Lin Li declined and went home.

After Xiao Cheng escaped an extravagant lunch bill, Lin Li visited Chen Tianming and his dormmates before the competition exam. Lin Li and Chen Tianming left Bai Bufan alone in the dorm, where Bai Bufan discovered they had planted a surveillance camera.

• Xiao Cheng passed his driving test, then slipped away from lunch after Dog Official Lu began ordering expensive dishes and deleted Yu Jian'an from WeChat.
• Lin Li visited Chen Tianming's dorm, where Bai Bufan interpreted a crude poem as social commentary and joked that his brain worked like a piracy website.
• Lin Li told Bai Bufan and Wang Ze that he had obtained a digital driver's license, then discussed minimum wages and parking fees with the group.
• Lin Li and Chen Tianming left for the competition, while Wang Ze went to meet Qian Ying and Bai Bufan stayed behind.
• Bai Bufan found a surveillance camera in the dorm and realized Lin Li, Chen Tianming, and Wang Ze were singing outside the door.

Lin Li triggered a system task to welcome visiting students with extraordinary enthusiasm and escorted Zhang Jing to the restroom, where his increasingly alarming offers of assistance terrified the guest. The task progress advanced as Zhang Jing begged Lin Li to stop, and Lin Li assured him that he would not force any service on him.

• Bai Bufan caught Lin Li, Wang Ze, and Chen Tianming trying to film him, then joked with them before they left him with the camera.
• Lin Li parted ways with Wang Ze and Chen Tianming and waited near the school gate for Chen Yuying.
• A visiting student named Zhang Jing asked Lin Li where the restroom was, triggering a system task to treat guests from other schools with extraordinary enthusiasm.
• Lin Li introduced himself to Zhang Jing as Bai Bufan and guided him to the restroom while offering advice, tissues, and a promise to wait outside.
• Lin Li described increasingly strange restroom services, including holding assistance, songs, alerts about other restroom users, and several disinfection methods.
• Zhang Jing panicked and begged Lin Li to stop, and Lin Li said he would not force services on him.

Lin Li tested how to satisfy the system’s enthusiasm task and discovered that tormenting visiting boys with urgent bathroom needs advanced it fastest. He continued targeting out-of-town students, and Zhang Jing brought him another unsuspecting classmate just as the chapter ended.

• Zhang Jing persuaded Lin Li to leave the restroom, and Lin Li confirmed that unusually intrusive service made the task progress much faster.
• Lin Li asked Bai Bufan for a hat to disguise himself, then returned to guiding visiting students and secretly gave one boy an urgent need to pee.
• Lin Li found that recreating Zhang Jing’s restroom ordeal advanced the task far more than ordinary help, so he began targeting lone boys from outlying towns.
• Lin Li fled when a student from Xi Ling Number One Middle School eagerly accepted his offer of personal service.
• Zhang Jing led his classmate Lizi to Lin Li and persuaded him to try Lin Li’s restroom tour; two and a half minutes later, Lizi cursed Zhang Jing.

Lin Li helped the desperate Bi Feixiang reach a restroom, completing a system task and gaining the passive ability Skill Self-Adaptation. After Lin Li left, Bi Feixiang struggled without toilet paper, improvised with his admission ticket, and arrived late and exhausted at the exam room.

• Lin Li guided rushed examinees at the school gate and mistook the hooded Bi Feixiang's slow walk for confidence before learning he urgently needed a restroom.
• Lin Li used the Duck Blood Bottle and a Hold-in-Poop Talisman to help Bi Feixiang reach the restroom, completing Task Two and gaining Skill Self-Adaptation.
• Lin Li removed the talisman and returned Bi Feixiang's absorbed urges, then left while Bi Feixiang was still in the stall.
• Bi Feixiang discovered he had no toilet paper and faced the choice of using his admission ticket before finally making his way to the exam room.
• Lin Li arrived just before the exam began, skimmed the paper, and felt confident he could earn full marks.

Lin Li finished the Xue Zhi Cup preliminaries early, helped an examinee with a math problem using his Invisible Sword, and faced Bai Bufan over rumors spread under Bai’s name. After Chen Tianming finished the exam, he revealed that Lin Li had taught him at noon and gotten him to drink, leaving Bai Bufan furious and Chen Tianming confused.

• While waiting to hand in his paper, Lin Li overheard a girl from Xiling No. 9 Middle School asking the Pen Spirit for help and used his Invisible Sword to write answers on her scratch paper.
• Lin Li handed in his exam as soon as early submissions were allowed and went to Bai Bufan’s dorm, where Bai confronted him about using Bai’s name to escort an examinee to the restroom.
• Lin Li pointed out that Bai Bufan had tried to cover up his messages by blaming Baowei, then admitted he had used Bai’s name while helping students from other schools.
• Lin Li placated Bai Bufan by letting him keep a compact camera, and they went to the teaching building to meet Chen Tianming after the exam.
• Chen Tianming said he had solved a question Lin Li taught him at noon and revealed that Lin Li had gotten him to drink, startling Bai Bufan and confusing Chen Tianming.

After the exam, Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and Chen Tianming joked around while escorting Chen Yuying to the school gate, where they outmaneuvered Chen Zhongping and left with a parent who drove them around the school. Back in class for evening self-study, Bai Bufan asked Lin Li how to nap without being caught, and Lin Li gave him a devious eye-drop strategy.

• Chen Tianming realized Lin Li had made him take the long way to wait for Chen Yuying and complained while Bai Bufan laughed.
• Lin Li and the others compared answers with Chen Yuying, then met Chen Zhongping at the school gate.
• Lin Li pretended the group needed a ride, prompting Chen Zhongping to question their excuses, before the three left in a parent's car and circled the school.
• Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and Chen Tianming ate at a noodle shop, returned to class, and tidied the exam room.
• When Bai Bufan worried about falling asleep during evening self-study, Lin Li advised him to sleep with eye drops in hand so he could claim he was resting his eyes.

Lin Li spent evening tutoring joking with Chen Yuying and Chen Tianming before helping Bai Bufan lie to Xue Jian about sleeping in class. After saving his system currency and entering the All Women World, Lin Li investigated a newly fallen mech and discovered a huge translucent slime inside.

• Lin Li teased Chen Yuying about Zhong Deng's opinion of him, then joined her at tutoring, where Hua Ming reviewed the preliminary exam and Chen Tianming worried about his mistakes.
• Lin Li and Chen Tianming joked about the exam and Louis XVI's severed head while Chen Yuying tried to avoid their conversation.
• Lin Li returned to Class 4 and found Xue Jian beside Bai Bufan, who had fallen asleep; Lin Li falsely claimed Bai Bufan had slept for three hours to cover for him.
• Lin Li declined to buy the AS Interference Attachment Bullet and entered the All Women World, where he continued scavenging mech parts.
• Lin Li heard a mech crash, followed the sound, and found a damaged mech whose cockpit hatch opened to reveal a huge, semi-transparent gelatinous slime.

Lin Li rescued the native slime Zhu Ning with a Fuyu Pill and told her about Earth, his world-traveling ability, and the mech he had obtained. After seeing his Mecha Synchronization Index, Zhu Ning urgently asked him for a Promotion Device, leaving Lin Li confused.

• Lin Li discovered that the injured slime was a native woman named Zhu Ning and received a mission to save her.
• Lin Li gave Zhu Ning a Fuyu Pill, which began healing her damaged consciousness core and body.
• Lin Li introduced himself, explained his origins and world-traveling ability, and showed Zhu Ning evidence of Earth and his A+ Combat Armor.
• Lin Li demonstrated that he could pilot the mech despite the Silent Field's restrictions and told Zhu Ning his Mecha Synchronization Index was 80.
• Zhu Ning pleaded with Lin Li to give her a Promotion Device, saying it might be important to her and her country.

Lin Li refused Zhu Ning’s request for his Promotion Device, then learned that the Crystal Cluster Continent’s human population was declining in strength as Black Worm invaded. After explaining the difference between a Promotion Device and sperm, he agreed to provide a sample for research, though Zhu Ning asked for an entire ton.

• The system gave Lin Li a task to fulfill Zhu Ning’s request, but he refused to give up his Promotion Device.
• Zhu Ning explained that the Crystal Cluster Continent was at war with Black Worm and that her damaged mecha had crashed into Silent Canyon.
• Zhu Ning revealed that men had been exterminated and that declining Mecha Synchronization Indices were weakening her people’s defenses.
• Lin Li realized Zhu Ning wanted sperm rather than his Promotion Device and offered a sample, warning that it might not carry his system-granted index of 80.
• Zhu Ning accepted the offer and asked Lin Li whether one ton of his sample would be enough.

Lin Li and Zhu Ning planned to build a flying machine from technology and components brought from Lin Li’s world so she could escape Silent Canyon. After returning home, Lin Li ordered supplies and attempted Task Five, while a new task required him to send Zhu Ning home.

• Lin Li explained that producing a ton of young man juice was impossible and urged Zhu Ning to focus on escaping Silent Canyon, where rescue was unlikely.
• Lin Li demonstrated his drone, and Zhu Ning examined it and proposed using technology from his world to assemble a flying machine that could work in the Silent Field.
• Lin Li agreed to bring Zhu Ning components, manuals, and technical knowledge, and the two spent several hours discussing what she needed.
• Lin Li completed Task Two, received rewards including Shop Slot 0, and triggered a new task to send Zhu Ning home for the Flower Guardian title.
• As his visit ended, Lin Li promised to bring supplies and returned to his world, where he placed orders and attempted Task Five.
• At three o’clock, Lin Li stood on his balcony contemplating the meaning of life.

Lin Li’s classmates joked about Christmas, and he revealed that his exhausting night had involved watching Christmas-themed videos before helping Bai Bufan reconsider becoming a doctor. The class planned its New Year’s Day Garden Party, and the boys’ apple-buying banter ended with Bai Bufan deciding he would rather become a “dick” than study medicine.

• Bai Bufan shared a bogus history of Christmas, and his classmates riffed on the Three Kingdoms before Lin Li handed out breakfast.
• Lin Li told Bai Bufan he was still recovering from the previous night, then described his long search for suitable material and a Christmas video about a boy wishing for a little sister.
• Lin Li asked whether Zhang Haoyang had wished for a little sister, explained his concern, and agreed to send Bai Bufan the video link.
• Xue Jian sent Lin Li back to revise his Garden Party duty roster, asking him to distribute the boys more evenly among the groups.
• At the convenience store, Qin Zeyu made Wang Ze worry that Zhou Baowei might eat the apple he had bought for Qian Ying, prompting Wang Ze to race back to the dorm.
• Lin Li compared working as a chicken with studying medicine, and Bai Bufan decided to buy apples instead of pursuing a medical career.

On Christmas Eve, Lin Li gave Chen Yuying and her friends apple cake, then teased Chen Yuying until she let him kiss her apple muscles. The chapter left Lin Li and Chen Yuying sharing an affectionate moment while their friends received real apples and prepared for evening self-study.

• Lin Li gave Chen Yuying a custom apple cake and shared spoons with Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu, who grew angry at the unequal gifts.
• After Lin Li was kicked and had his hair pulled, he handed Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu real apples.
• Bai Bufan told Lin Li that Yao Qiaoqiao had given an apple to Tian Ming, and the two looked forward to Ze Yu's jealousy.
• Lin Li followed Chen Yuying out during evening self-study and asked to eat her apple, hinting at her apple muscles.
• Chen Yuying let Lin Li kiss her apple muscles, and she eventually kissed his in return.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan tried to trick Xue Jian into giving Class 1-4 Apples for Christmas Eve, but Xue Jian turned their scheme around by handing out a math exam as “Peace Scrolls.” The class was ordered to finish the test before leaving, while Lin Li and Bai Bufan were stuck eating the two Apples Xue Jian gave them.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan persuaded Wang Ze to help them buy Apples and place them on the students’ desks as a kind lie for Xue Jian.
• Xue Jian left the classroom after joking that he had forgotten to prepare Christmas Eve wishes for the class, and Bai Bufan celebrated the operation with the students.
• Lin Li returned with Chen Tianming and learned that Xue Jian had not yet come back with Apples.
• Xue Jian returned carrying test papers and called them Peace Scrolls, ordering everyone to finish them before leaving school.
• Xue Jian gave Lin Li and Bai Bufan the only two Peace Apples he had and told them they could not leave until they had eaten them.

Xue Jian’s Christmas Eve assignment turned Lin Li and Bai Bufan into targets of their classmates’ resentment, but Lin Li tried to unite the class and finish the paper together. Xue Jian stopped him, assigned the paper as weekend homework, and gave the class apples, leaving Lin and Bai with older, smaller ones.

• After Xue Jian left, Zhou Baowei and the class turned against Lin Li and Bai Bufan for receiving Peace Apples instead of the Peace Scroll, and Shi Siyuan marked them for talking during evening study.
• Lin Li defended himself and Bai Bufan by calling Xue Jian’s plan a stratagem to sow discord, but the classmates mocked them and Shi Siyuan gave them more marks.
• Bai Bufan apologized and tried to trade his apple for Zhou Baowei’s scroll, while Lin Li took Zhou’s test paper and urged the class to divide up the questions and complete it together.
• Xue Jian revealed he had been listening outside, stopped Lin Li from sharing answers, and assigned the Peace District paper as weekend homework, warning Wang Ze to work independently.
• Xue Jian brought real apples for the class, then explained that Lin Li and Bai Bufan’s apples were smaller because they had been sitting in the office for a week.

At school on Christmas, Lin Li gave Bai Bufan a church gift and entertained him with increasingly crude, twisted retellings of fairy tales. The story ended with Lin Li beginning another tale while Huang Yi and Zhou Jiana could only hear fragments.

• Lin Li gave Bai Bufan a child-written note and a hot-water bottle from the church gift exchange.
• Bai Bufan asked what happened to The Little Match Girl, and Lin Li told him versions ending in a nuclear blast and a colorful mushroom cloud.
• Lin Li told Bai Bufan a risqué Cinderella parody about the Girl of the Grey Industry, then crossed it over with The Little Match Girl.
• Lin Li retold Snow White as a crude story involving an electric baton and a white horse, making Bai Bufan laugh.
• Lin Li began telling Bai Bufan the story of The Three Little Pigs while Huang Yi and Zhou Jiana tried unsuccessfully to overhear them.

After advancing to the Xue Zhi Cup semifinals, Lin Li received a hardening ability and planned for his upcoming competition, blind date, and cigarette-crime task. At home, he helped Wu Min turn down Aunt Xu’s banquet invitation, then tried to avoid going out with his mother by claiming he had plans with Yu Ying, only to be assigned to clean his room.

• Lin Li joked with Qin Zeyu about Su Shi’s poem and teased him about spending Sunday at competition tutoring.
• Lin Li reviewed his new Hardening ability and the Xue Zhi Cup semifinal task after advancing past the preliminary round.
• Lin Li read Deng Zi’s update that Li Sheng was recruiting street associates into smuggled and counterfeit cigarette dealing, and told Deng Zi to wait before making arrests.
• Lin Li found Wu Min talking with Aunt Xu and backed up his mother’s excuse that they had already planned an outing, helping her avoid Aunt Xu’s banquet invitation.
• Lin Li told Wu Min he could not go out with her because he had plans with Yu Ying, then asked whom she would save if he and Yu Ying fell into the water.
• Wu Min sent Lin Li to fetch her feather duster and clean his messy room.

Lin Li prepared for another matchmaking event, where he reunited with Wang Baiyu and joked about his deliberately misleading profile picture. He learned that Lu Meng had found a girlfriend, while Shao Hengkai confessed how he had spent money after mistaking a contact for a blind date.

• Wu Min cleaned Lin Li’s room, agreed to give him the spare car key, and chased him with a feather duster after discovering his sticker said “Strength” instead of “Probationary Driver.”
• Zeng Zi'ang drove Lin Li to the matchmaking event, where Lin Li explained that his “Shang Yang” profile meant he was no longer single and that he had agreed to attend with XIXI as a fellow reluctant participant.
• Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang reunited with Wang Baiyu, and Lin Li asked him whether a wanted poster falsely depicting him as a death-row fugitive could affect his career prospects.
• Shao Hengkai told Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang that Lu Meng had found a girlfriend and recounted how he had mistaken a woman’s message about a fee for a blind-date arrangement.
• Shao Hengkai admitted that he had chosen the six-hundred-yuan option and ordered it three times, prompting Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang to stare at him in disbelief.

At a matchmaking event, Lin Li helped Tang Feng try to flirt with Fang Lan, but Fang Lan blocked him after his repeated messages. Lin Li then paired with Liu Xi, who asked him to introduce her to a foreign man, prompting him to joke about a European whose legs had been lost in an accident.

• Shao Hengkai enthusiastically recommended his supposed blind date to Zeng Zi'ang and Wang Baiyu, while Lin Li and Wang Baiyu teased him about her being a White Tiger.
• Tang Feng asked Lin Li for flirting advice, followed Lin Li's suggested messages to Fang Lan, and was blocked after she called herself a Fake Person.
• Fu Miao began the event's planned activities, and Lin Li was paired with Liu Xi after the participants introduced themselves.
• Liu Xi told Lin Li she found him attractive and asked him to introduce her to a man who met her preferences, including a foreigner.
• Lin Li said he knew half a European, then explained that the man had lost both legs and was mixed with 95-octane gasoline.

Lin Li finished another Yi Zhen Marriage Agency event and advanced his mission, then returned to the All Women World to help Zhu Ning develop an escape aircraft. Zhu Ning judged that they might be able to build it within twenty hours, leaving Lin Li to gather the remaining materials before his next visit.

• Lin Li teased Liu Xi about matchmaking with his disabled friend, then gave her serious advice on recovering deleted phone photos.
• Lin Li completed his second Marriage Pavilion visit, joked with Zeng Zi'ang, and drove him back at reckless speed.
• Lin Li returned to the All Women World and found Zhu Ning studying modern technology with her Core Structure Armor removed.
• Zhu Ning explained that her exposed glowing core was no longer covered by the armor, which she had expelled to improve her precision inside the Silent Field.
• Zhu Ning sorted Lin Li's supplies, drafted preliminary aircraft blueprints, and estimated that construction might be completed within twenty hours.

Lin Li and Chen Yuying shared a playful afternoon at school, where they traded jokes, attended tutoring, and walked around the Sports Field. Back in the classroom, Qin Zeyu confronted Bai Bufan over a misleading chess video, only to learn its sequel ended in another defeat.

• Lin Li offered Chen Yuying a soda can tab as a makeshift ring, and she accepted it as a prize to redeem later.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying attended tutoring, where Xiao Tingbai explained the teachers’ nicknames and Lin Li made Chen Yuying laugh with a pun.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying toured the Sports Field, saw preparations for the New Year's Eve Gala, and Lin Li picked sour tangerines to leave in his desk.
• Lin Li returned to the classroom and joined Qin Zeyu in attacking Bai Bufan after Qin Zeyu complained that a recommended chess video had been a tutorial in which the female player won.
• Bai Bufan told Qin Zeyu that the sequel also ended with the male player losing, prompting Qin Zeyu to rage at him again.