Recaps

Lin Li and Class 4 attended Nansang Middle School’s New Year’s Eve Gala after arranging the school’s New Year activities and joking through the evening. As the performances continued, Lin Li spotted two people leaving the neighboring class and realized his next task had arrived.

• Lin Li bought and tested a Water Repelling Bead, then learned that he would help Xue Jian bring supplies for the Garden Party.
• Xue Jian warned the class about phone rules, and Lin Li joked his way into standing on his head until the class was dismissed to the Sports Field.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying agreed they would see each other during the gala, while he teased Zhou Baowei with raisins and joked about where they came from.
• Class 4 settled into the Sports Field, where Bai Bufan failed to crack the school Wi-Fi password before the New Year's Eve Gala began.
• During a break between performances, Lin Li noticed two people from the neighboring class leaving and saw an illusory screen indicating that work had arrived.

After a mission tasked Lin Li with catching rule-breaking disciples, he and Bai Bufan disguised themselves as middle-aged teachers to confiscate students’ phones. Their plan worked at first, and they found three students gaming in a classroom, where Bai Bufan posed as Xue Jian.

• Lin Li received a timed mission to catch and lightly punish ten students who had left the New Year’s Eve gala to have fun.
• Lin Li recruited Bai Bufan to help and brought disguises from his Li Fire Sword Raising Gourd.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan changed into deliberately middle-aged outfits and planned to impersonate teachers confiscating phones.
• The disguised pair patrolled the second-year building, and two girls mistook them for teachers and greeted them respectfully.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan found three students gaming in Class 9 and approached them without being noticed.
• When a student asked who he was, Bai Bufan claimed that he was Xue Jian.

Disguised as teachers, Lin Li and Bai Bufan punished students caught playing on their phones with frog jumps, steadily advancing their mission. Just as they were about to finish, Xue Jian returned and asked whether they had seen two tall, skinny boys from Senior High, Class 1-4.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan caught three Class 9 students playing on their phones, scolded them, and made them do frog jumps before returning their phones.
• The system counted the students toward Lin Li's mission, and the pair continued catching students from other classes until the mission reached 8/10.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan supervised four more students doing frog jumps and explained their punishment to Xue Jian when he passed by.
• After Xue Jian walked away, Lin Li refused to end the punishment early, and Bai Bufan agreed to see the mission through.
• Xue Jian returned and asked Lin Li and Bai Bufan whether they had seen two tall, skinny boys from Senior High, Class 1-4.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan were caught disguising themselves as teachers while disciplining students, after Xue Jian traced Bai Bufan’s ringing phone. The four students left, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan began frog-jumping up the stairs themselves as Xue Jian watched.

• Xue Jian searched for Lin Li and Bai Bufan, then called them when they failed to answer his messages.
• Bai Bufan’s ringtone revealed his location, and Xue Jian realized that he and Lin Li were disguised as teachers.
• Lin Li quietly kicked Bai Bufan and tried to persuade Xue Jian to let them finish disciplining the four students.
• Lin Li returned the four students’ phones and sent them back to the evening party.
• Lin Li began frog-jumping up the stairs, and Bai Bufan joined him while Xue Jian watched.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan returned to Xue Jian after their prank, received escalating self-criticism assignments, and rejoined their classmates at the New Year's Eve Gala. The chapter ended with Lin Li bewildering the group with a crude theory about musical instruments.

• Xue Jian realized Lin Li and Bai Bufan were hopping upstairs to escape, called them back, and questioned them about their disguises and prank.
• Lin Li explained that they had scared students who were using phones in class, and Xue Jian assigned both boys self-criticisms.
• Lin Li baited Bai Bufan into admitting he would repeat the prank, prompting Xue Jian to raise Bai Bufan's assignment to two thousand words.
• Xue Jian caught Lin Li admitting he had enjoyed the prank and raised both boys' assignments to three thousand words before escorting them back to the Sports Field.
• The boys shared their story with their classmates, and Wang Ze explained that Qin Zeyu was gloomy because a senior girl had admired a guitar-playing student.
• Asked what he could do, Lin Li wondered whether instruments were objects people used to pleasure themselves and listen to moaning.

At the New Year’s Eve gala, Lin Li joked with his classmates before being sent to the front row, where he spent time with Chen Yuying and watched the finale. After the gala, he visited the All Women World and gave Zhu Ning a pill that helped her build an aircraft faster, then returned home as the calendar turned to December 31st.

• Lin Li’s classmates searched erotic stores together, and Lin Li teased Zhang Haoyang with a story about a watermelon-flavored lollipop.
• Xue Jian ordered Lin Li to sit in the front row, where Chen Yuying joined him and they chatted through the gala.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying watched a mime performance called “Main Event,” and the gala ended with school preparations for the Garden Party.
• Lin Li entered the All Women World and gave Zhu Ning a Clear Wisdom Bright Heart Pill to improve her focus while she worked on the aircraft.
• Zhu Ning said the aircraft was progressing faster but warned that the unprecedented design might not work as expected; Lin Li returned home after his allotted time ran out.
• Bai Bufan messaged Lin Li about resolving to avoid shameful habits for the new year, and Lin Li replied that his own plan was twelve times a year.

Lin Li and Class 4 prepared their Garden Party stall, and Xue Jian assigned Lin Li responsibility for tracking its payments after Bai Bufan’s prank exposed Lin Li’s payment code. Once the Garden Party began, Lin Li and Bai Bufan went to Class 14’s café, where Lin Li teased Du Hansi in a maid outfit.

• Lin Li arrived at school and found Class 4 preparing oden and other Garden Party food with Xue Jian’s help.
• Xue Jian discovered that Lin Li’s payment code had been placed over the class’s code and made Lin Li responsible for balancing the stall’s money.
• Bai Bufan admitted he had planned to frame Lin Li with his payment code as revenge for Lin Li’s bathroom prank.
• The Garden Party began, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan visited Class 14’s café during their free time.
• Lin Li greeted Du Hansi, who was wearing a maid outfit, and joked with him about playing a rape game.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan visited Du Hansi’s class for coffee and discovered its supposed discount was a scheme that charged 300 yuan per cup unless customers shouted “Whoa—delicious” to earn a price reduction. Lin Li refused to join the event and agreed to pay full price, leaving Bai Bufan furious when he realized he would still have to pay for both drinks.

• Du Hansi welcomed Lin Li and Bai Bufan to Class 1-14’s coffee stall and claimed its hand-poured coffee was exceptionally good.
• Du Hansi gave Lin Li a hot latte and Bai Bufan a hot Americano, then revealed that the two cups cost 600 yuan.
• The nearby customer confirmed the price and explained that each loud, enthusiastic “Whoa—delicious” earned a ten-yuan discount, down to three yuan per cup.
• Lin Li refused to participate and declared he would pay full price, while Du Hansi admired his resolve.
• Bai Bufan realized Lin Li’s choice left him responsible for paying the full bill and angrily tried to make Lin Li shout along with him.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan visited Class 14’s coffee stall, where they completed a shouting challenge for a discount, then explored Class Twenty’s luck-based games. Lin Li won a Punch-Hole Game prize that turned out to be a one-yuan coin, which the hosts claimed was a valuable misprint.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan finished the coffee stall’s thirty-line challenge and received the maximum discount, while Du Hansi explained the shop’s referral deal.
• Lin Li suggested an elaborate discount system to Du Hansi and asked him to help with a survey about men’s partner-gender preferences, prompting Du Hansi to retreat to serving customers.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan found Class Twenty’s prize wheel, which offered chances to win gold flakes and other prizes, and each decided to play.
• Lin Li spun the wheel and won a Punch-Hole Game chance, then chose a large compartment and pulled out a plastic case containing a one-yuan coin.
• A Class Twenty host called the coin a precious misprint, explaining that its front and back had been printed on the opposite sides, leaving Lin Li and Bai Bufan puzzled.

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.