Recaps

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.

Lin Li used the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle outside Pin'ai Theme Hotel to absorb people’s desire and credibility, making several couples lose interest in their plans. After testing the bottle’s effects on himself and draining its contents into a woman, he went home baffled by her complicated arrangement.

• Lin Li waited outside Pin'ai Theme Hotel and absorbed a couple’s credibility, making them decide to go home instead of booking a room.
• Lin Li continued collecting desire and credibility from people passing the hotel, then tested the bottle’s contents on himself and struggled to control the resulting lust.
• After an hour, Lin Li absorbed the rich man’s desire, causing him to lose interest in the woman and leave.
• Lin Li poured the bottle’s remaining credibility into the woman, who ignored the rich man’s departure and called her sister to meet at the hotel.
• The woman entered Pin'ai and demanded room 4013, large toys, low-temperature candles, and steel wool, leaving the receptionist confused.

Lin Li completed Mission Four by preventing dangerous incidents around a vocational school and received a physique boost, Sacred Dragon Essence Blood, and System Currency. He planned to study with Bai Bufan and their friends the next day, then returned home and stored the powerful essence blood while deciding to use up the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle before it broke.

• Lin Li agreed to invite Bai Bufan to join his Saturday library study session with Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, and Qu Wanqiu.
• During math class, Lin Li answered Xue Jian’s question incorrectly and learned that the Monthly Exam might include a similar tricky problem.
• Lin Li staked out hotels near a vocational school, completed Mission Four, and received a 10% increase to his appearance and charisma, Sacred Dragon Essence Blood, and 100 System Currency.
• A vocational school girl propositioned Lin Li with a bank-card role-playing game, and he fled the area on his bicycle.
• At home, Lin Li found that the Sacred Dragon Essence Blood was too powerful to use safely and returned it to his inventory.
• Lin Li inspected the nearly shattered Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle and decided to use it until it broke so it could restore itself.

Lin Li studied at Nansang Library with Chen Yuying, Bai Bufan, Ding Sihan, and Qu Wanqiu, teasing his friends while struggling with difficult problems. The group decided to go out for lunch, and Lin Li arranged for Bai Bufan to ride his bicycle while the others took a car.

• Lin Li arrived early at Nansang Library, reserved a study room, and began working through challenging problems.
• Chen Yuying arrived and correctly answered every problem Lin Li had marked as difficult, leaving him discouraged.
• Lin Li tricked Bai Bufan into looking for him on the street, then shared Bai Bufan's profanity-filled voice message with Chen Yuying.
• Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu arrived, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan exchanged jokes while the group studied.
• The group chose a crab-and-meat casserole restaurant for lunch, and Lin Li handed Bai Bufan his bicycle key so the others could take a car.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan rode to a restaurant, traded jokes with their driver, and met Chen Yuying, Qu Wanqiu, and Ding Sihan for a seafood meal. As they began eating, Lin Li asked a riddle about saving room for food, and Bai Bufan correctly guessed his meaning.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan took a ride-hailing car while the girls traveled separately, and they joked with their talkative driver about aliens and music.
• Lin Li teased Bai Bufan about his yellow school-uniform collar and explained that his own stayed white because his mother had bought him extra uniforms.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan reached the restaurant first, got a table for five, and gathered side dishes from the self-service area.
• Chen Yuying, Qu Wanqiu, and Ding Sihan arrived, and Lin Li went to fetch mangoes after learning Ding Sihan liked them.
• Lin Li asked what a bottle filled with stones could hold that one filled with water could not, and Bai Bufan answered that they should avoid filling up on drinks before the meal.

Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and the three girls studied together at the library before taking an evening walk to South Heart Lake Park. Lin Li discovered that teaching Chen Yuying about traffic signs advanced Mission Two, then chased Bai Bufan after he exposed Lin Li’s online searches.

• Ding Sihan decided to order a passion fruit drink with both coconut jelly and milk foam, and the group returned to the library to study.
• Lin Li gave Bai Bufan hot water when he complained about the cold, and the two eventually took turns wearing Lin Li’s jacket while studying.
• After dinner, Ding Sihan suggested that the group walk to South Heart Lake Park to see its musical fountain.
• Lin Li explained traffic signs to Chen Yuying and learned that teaching her theoretical car knowledge advanced Mission Two faster than driving a cyber car.
• Bai Bufan revealed Lin Li’s search history to Chen Yuying, then tried to distract Lin Li with a joke about the figures on traffic signs and was chased by Lin Li.

Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and the girls walked through South Heart Lake Park, where Lin Li derailed conversations with his absurd jokes and stories. They continued toward the musical fountain, stopping at stalls along the way.

• Bai Bufan pointed out a basketball game, and the group watched the players while Ding Sihan described a romantic fantasy about being hit by a basketball.
• Lin Li told the group a cruel love story about Bai Bufan and a tree, then a fairy tale in which a princess and prince were given the old couple’s boat after they drowned.
• The group left the court after Lin Li declined an invitation to join a game, then crossed the lively park toward South Heart Lake.
• Ding Sihan led the group to a colored contacts stall, where Lin Li named Luosifen as a color and drew everyone’s attention.
• Bai Bufan showed Lin Li a clothing-repair stall’s notice asking customers to wash their crotches before bringing in pants, and Lin Li laughed at the implied story behind it.

Lin Li, Bai Bufan, Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, and Qu Wanqiu watched the musical fountain and joked together. After Lin Li caught a stray shuttlecock headed for Chen Yuying and returned it, the show continued, leaving Chen Yuying quietly wondering whether she could shamelessly ask Lin Li to pay for getting hit with his youth.

• Lin Li took Bai Bufan’s seat on the steps, and the group teased each other while waiting for the fountain to start.
• Lin Li joked with Bai Bufan and Ding Sihan about who he would save if friends and family fell into the water.
• The musical fountain began, and Chen Yuying watched as its lights and water formed colorful displays.
• Lin Li caught a shuttlecock flying toward Chen Yuying without looking back, then loudly praised his own reflexes.
• The child who kicked the shuttlecock and his parent apologized, and Chen Yuying said nobody was hurt as Lin Li returned it.
• Chen Yuying watched the fountain’s towering water columns and wondered whether she could ask Lin Li to pay with his youth.

After a long day studying at the library, Lin Li agreed to walk back with Bai Bufan and Qu Wanqiu, hoping to help Bai Bufan practice talking to girls. He ended the chapter by asking Qu Wanqiu the same awkward movie question Bai Bufan had tried, leaving both of them bewildered.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan studied at the library until closing, then filmed a video to provoke Zhou Baowei about studying for the exam.
• Lin Li arranged to study with Qu Wanqiu the next day, then traded insults with Ding Sihan and Bai Bufan before they left the library.
• Lin Li's ghost story frightened Bai Bufan, while Ding Sihan remained unfazed; Chen Yuying left with her father, and Bai Bufan asked Lin Li to walk back with him and Qu Wanqiu.
• Lin Li encouraged Bai Bufan to start a conversation with Qu Wanqiu, but stopped him after he awkwardly asked what movies she watched.
• Lin Li agreed to walk with Bai Bufan and Qu Wanqiu and demonstrate how to make conversation, then asked Qu Wanqiu what movies she usually watched, confusing both of them.

Lin Li joked with Bai Bufan after helping him and Qu Wanqiu return to their dorms, then spent Monday morning discussing his new system ability and teasing Bai about his exhaustion. Bai was trying to sleep through morning self-study when Doctor Xue arrived.

• Lin Li accompanied Qu Wanqiu and Bai Bufan to the dormitories, then warned Bai that a woman in white had followed them and entered the boys' dormitory.
• Lin Li described his weekend studying and used the system to replace Slot 2 with Pocket Retrieval, an ability that let his hands reach through space for an hour.
• Lin Li joked that Bai Bufan's armpit pain meant he would smell good after being cremated, and Bai threw the written formula at him.
• Bai Bufan finished breakfast and lay down to sleep before morning self-study, asking Lin Li to wake him if Kou Kou came.
• Doctor Xue arrived, and Bai Bufan immediately woke up.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan went to the principal’s office to receive rewards from the Demon Suppression Division for their work. Bai Bufan left with an embarrassing joke banner and study guides, while Xue Jian received an official Merit Banner, and Bai chose Lin Li’s name as his alias.

• Xue Jian took Lin Li and Bai Bufan to the principal’s office, where Sun Ying and Officer Fang began the reward process.
• Bai Bufan received a banner reading “Anti-Vice Vanguard Dog” on one side and “Woof Woof Woof Woof Woof” on the other, and blamed Lin Li for the prank.
• Xue Jian accepted an official Merit Banner after Officer Fang explained that Lin Li had asked for it to go to his teacher.
• Officer Fang gave Lin Li four thousand yuan and supermarket cards, while Bai Bufan received eight hundred yuan and study guides arranged by Yang Liang.
• Sun Ying confirmed that the boys’ photos and personal information would be anonymous, and Bai Bufan asked to use “Student Lin Li of Senior High, Class 1-4, Nansang Middle School” as his alias.

After Bai Bufan used Xiao Zhou as his alias for the anti-vice interview, Lin Li joked with him about hiding the reward money and promised Chen Yuying he would invite her on a future undercover outing. The chapter ended as Lin Li helped Yu Yu move her desk and asked about a brooch she said had grown by itself.

• Bai Bufan rejected using Lin Li's school affiliation and chose Xiao Zhou as his alias, then let Xue Jian keep the Merit Banner.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan agreed to tell others they had received only exercise books and joked about keeping the money hidden.
• Chen Yuying asked Lin Li to take her on an undercover outing, and he promised to invite her if another chance arose.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan lost their pencil case and eraser, then split an eraser taken from Zhou Baowei's desk.
• Lin Li moved Yu Yu's desk for the Monthly Exam and asked where she had bought her brooch; Yu Yu said it had grown by itself.

Lin Li triggered a System task to prevent cheating during the Chinese exam and provoked invigilator Wang Ziyan into watching him closely. Wang Ziyan sat beside Lin Li, unintentionally making it difficult for Feng Kai to use the cheat sheet he had hidden in his drawer.

• Lin Li cleared up Yu Yu’s misunderstanding about her brooch and left after helping move her desk.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan joked while cramming poetry before the Chinese exam.
• Lin Li noticed Feng Kai hide a cheat sheet in his drawer, triggering a System task to stop cheating he saw or heard about.
• Lin Li told Wang Ziyan he planned to cheat, then taunted him into closely supervising the exam.
• Wang Ziyan sat beside Lin Li, leaving Feng Kai frustrated that he could no longer cheat easily.

During the exam, Wang Ziyan watched Lin Li closely, convinced he was planning to cheat, while Lin Li waited until the last moments to fill in his blank answers. Lin Li handed in his paper and left Wang Ziyan unsure whether he had cheated at all.

• Wang Ziyan noticed that Lin Li had left the ancient poetry and classical Chinese answers blank and kept watch as he wrote his essay.
• When Wang Ziyan got up, Lin Li made a show of hiding his test paper, convincing Wang Ziyan that he was waiting for a chance to cheat.
• Feng Kai tried to use a stomachache to get to the restroom, but Wang Ziyan told him to hand in his paper if he wanted to leave, so Feng Kai submitted it.
• After most students had left, Lin Li filled in his blank answers in the final minutes and handed in his paper, claiming he had cheated.
• Wang Ziyan suspected Lin Li had not cheated, but Lin Li insisted he had until Wang Ziyan threatened to report him; Lin Li then admitted he had memorized the answers and offered to be tested.

After being scolded for accusing a classmate of cheating, Lin Li tried to avoid noticing cheating during exams, but Feng Kai’s boast forced him to intervene. Lin Li used fear to stop Feng Kai from cheating, and the chapter ended with Feng Kai realizing he had swallowed his cheat sheet.

• Wang Ziyan smacked Lin Li with a paper baton and warned him not to make baseless accusations again.
• Lin Li planned to focus only on his exams, but he overheard Feng Kai say he planned to cheat and decided to stop him.
• During the geography exam, Lin Li confidently answered the questions and watched Feng Kai take out a cheat sheet.
• Lin Li released fear from the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle, and Feng Kai panicked and swallowed the cheat sheet.
• After recovering, Feng Kai discovered the cheat sheet was gone and told the invigilator he might need the counseling office.

During the biology exam, Lin Li used the Pocket Retrieval ability to reach for a cheating student’s phone but accidentally grabbed her hand, causing a commotion and getting her phone confiscated. The next morning, he warned the exam room that he would report anyone who cheated, then admitted to Bai Bufan that he had made up his bad mood as an excuse to do so.

• Lin Li used his stored fear to make Feng Kai swallow his biology cheat sheet, then noticed Wei Jing checking her phone during the exam.
• Lin Li tested Pocket Retrieval and accidentally interlocked hands with Wei Jing, who screamed and drew the proctor’s attention.
• The proctor found Wei Jing’s phone and confiscated it, while Lin Li handed in his paper and left the exam room.
• Lin Li tested Pocket Retrieval outside and learned its range, size, and targeting limits before restoring one use in his inventory.
• The next morning, Lin Li warned the exam room that he would report anyone caught cheating.
• Lin Li told Bai Bufan that his story about being upset over a game was false and that he simply wanted to report cheaters.