Recaps

Lin Li and Bai Bufan rode along the coast to scout a place for the group to watch the sunset. They found an excellent spot, and Lin Li left Bai Bufan there while he went back to the girls.

• Chen Yuying suggested that the group watch the sunset by the sea, and everyone agreed to find a good viewing spot.
• Lin Li rode his electric scooter with Bai Bufan along the coastal road, and the two joked as they sped along.
• Lin Li noticed Bai Bufan had placed both hands on his shoulders and had poked him with the Corn Sausage he had stolen from Lin Li’s pocket.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan found an excellent spot, and Lin Li asked Bai Bufan to claim it while he returned to find the girls.
• Before leaving, Lin Li gave Bai Bufan exaggerated safety instructions, leaving Bai Bufan laughing in exasperation.

Lin Li reunited with Ding Sihan, Qu Wanqiu, and Chen Yuying and took each of them for rides on his electric scooter while they headed to the sunset viewing spot. After the group laughed at his teasing and crude jokes, Lin Li left them wondering why they had all turned to look at Qu Wanqiu.

• Lin Li met the three girls and joked with them about his hairstyle and Bai Bufan, who was waiting at their destination.
• Lin Li took Ding Sihan to the destination on his scooter, then made another trip with her so she could enjoy the ride and film the sea.
• Qu Wanqiu asked to ride after teasing Lin Li about charging for the trip, and he took her to see Bai Bufan before returning.
• Chen Yuying agreed to ride with Lin Li, while Qu Wanqiu teased her about where to put her feet.
• Lin Li exaggeratedly opened his mouth at Qu Wanqiu's joke, making Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu laugh, then asked why all three girls were looking at Qu Wanqiu.

Lin Li encouraged Chen Yuying to try driving the electric scooter, then rode behind her and helped steady the handlebars as she gained confidence. They sped along the coastal road together, and the chapter ended with Task Two and Task Six marked complete.

• Lin Li showed Chen Yuying the scooter’s footrests and took her for her first ride along the coast.
• Chen Yuying asked to go faster, and Lin Li told her the scooter had reached its limit before encouraging her to try driving.
• Chen Yuying hesitated at first, then agreed to drive with Lin Li riding behind her to help keep the scooter steady.
• Chen Yuying drove the scooter smoothly, gradually accelerated, and exchanged jokes with Lin Li as they rode together.
• Task Two and Task Six were marked complete.

Lin Li and Chen Yuying returned from their scooter ride, and Lin Li collected rewards from two completed missions before joining Bai Bufan at the seaside. Their stone-skipping contest ended with Ding Sihan joining in and considering Bai Bufan’s suggestion to throw stones at Lin Li.

• Lin Li stopped the scooter when Chen Yuying panicked at an approaching vehicle, and Chen Yuying handed him the driving after enjoying her first ride.
• Lin Li passed Bai Bufan without stopping to tease him, then joined Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu by the shore.
• Lin Li completed two missions, doubled one reward, unlocked a product slot, and received the Cooking talent and Wind Control ability.
• Lin Li teased Bai Bufan, who threw a heavy stone into the sea before challenging Lin Li to a stone-skipping contest.
• Ding Sihan joined the contest, then began searching for a stone after Bai Bufan suggested throwing one at Lin Li.

Lin Li and his friends watched the sunset, joked about cheating, and decided to find dinner together. Lin Li and Bai Bufan’s electric scooter ran out of power, leaving them to push it toward a battery swap station while laughing about their afternoon ride.

• Lin Li answered Qu Wanqiu’s spam call and pretended he was searching for a building to jump from, making everyone laugh.
• The group teased Lin Li about cheating, and Chen Yuying joked that she would keep one eye open so a bullet would not miss.
• Everyone watched the sunset without taking out their phones, and Chen Yuying suggested watching a sunrise together another time.
• The group set off for dinner, with Lin Li and Bai Bufan riding the electric scooter while the girls went to hail a taxi.
• The scooter ran out of power, so Lin Li and Bai Bufan decided to push it to a nearby battery swap station.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan joked about their ride and pushed the scooter together beneath the streetlights.

Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and the girls spent the evening at their guesthouse after deciding to visit Mountain Pavilion Zoo the next day. The night ended with the group watching a horror movie, where Bai Bufan’s Hello Kitty phone filter failed to soften the scares.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan reached a battery swap station, traded insults, and continued on to meet Ding Sihan, Chen Yuying, and Qu Wanqiu for dinner.
• Qu Wanqiu asked about using their Mountain Pavilion Zoo tickets, and the group agreed to visit in the afternoon the next day.
• The group played Hangzhou Mahjong, where Bai Bufan bragged about money in the Rural Credit Cooperative and Lin Li lost his pretend 1.5 billion US dollars.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan exchanged jokes and insults before joining the others in the guesthouse home theater.
• Lin Li and the girls chose a horror movie, while Bai Bufan filmed it with a Hello Kitty filter; when a scare appeared, Bai Bufan hid against Lin Li and Chen Yuying hid against Ding Sihan.

Lin Li cooked a late-night snack for hungry Ding Sihan, hoping to earn her sincere praise. Ding Sihan enjoyed the meal and praised him extravagantly, bringing his team-training task to 3/4.

• Lin Li woke during a romance movie and found Ding Sihan ordering snacks in the living room.
• Lin Li persuaded Ding Sihan to let him cook, despite her fear after his disastrous cooking the day before.
• Lin Li prepared several dishes with impressive knife skills, then secretly tasted and adjusted the food while cooking.
• Ding Sihan enjoyed the late-night snack, but jokingly returned a one-yuan bill and told Lin Li to clean up.
• Ding Sihan sincerely praised Lin Li's cooking, and his task progress increased to 3/4.

Lin Li cooked for Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying, then spent the night testing a high-grade Spirit Stone and practicing Wind Control. The next day, he practiced riding with Chen Yuying while Chen Zhongping grew more suspicious of him and asked a friend about a dangerous factory accident.

• Lin Li cooked a late-night snack for Chen Yuying, who praised it, and jokingly made her pay one yuan to clean her plate.
• After the movie ended, Lin Li checked the Spirit Spring, used a Luck Talisman with a Random Quality Spirit Stone, and obtained a High-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Lin Li used the new stone to refine the Duck Blood Bottle, then went to sleep before the final day of his month-long Body Tempering Eight Section Exercise task.
• Lin Li tested Wind Control, learning to redirect existing currents and create a strong but tiring gust, then memorized recipes, driving material, and ballet pieces.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying practiced riding an electric scooter, while Chen Zhongping watched a video and messaged a friend about whether a visitor could fall into one of his factory machines.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan traded jokes and insults during lunch and a visit to the zoo, where Lin Li used his spiritual beast affinity to outshine Bai Bufan with the dogs. The group left the dog enclosure laughing after a child called Lin Li’s dog dumb, and Lin Li pretended he was going to beat the child up.

• Lin Li teased Bai Bufan about the restaurant’s candles, and Bai Bufan fired back with a zoo riddle while they waited in line.
• Lin Li told the ticket seller Bai Bufan was a monkey they had brought along and asked for proof to avoid being accused of stealing him from the zoo.
• Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu admired the dogs, while Bai Bufan joked that Lin Li was the most dog-like name.
• Lin Li used his spiritual beast affinity and a hidden ham sausage to make the dogs approach, spin, and shake paws, while Bai Bufan’s calls got no response.
• A child praised the dog called Bufan as smart and called the dog called Lin Li dumb, prompting the group to laugh and Lin Li to pretend he would beat the child up.

Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and their friends toured a zoo, trading jokes as they visited the animals and took photos with a tiger. They left the tiger area and reached the souvenir shop, where they were shocked by the price of a transforming animal figure.

• A child mistook Lin Li and Bai Bufan for dogs, and Lin Li joked with Ding Sihan about dogs barking and texting their owners.
• At the deer enclosure, Chen Yuying talked about visiting Nara, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan joked about money and marriage.
• The group queued to take photos with tigers; Lin Li learned that a separated tiger was being isolated because it was in heat and tried to touch the tiger during the photo session.
• After Lin Li complained about the zoo, Chen Yuying pointed out that he had actually been asking cattle for concert tickets.
• The group entered the souvenir shop, where Lin Li and Bai Bufan asked about the transforming animal figures and were stunned by their prices.

Lin Li returned to the peacock enclosure with Chen Yuying and used the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle to make a peacock fan its tail when they ordered it to. Chen Yuying celebrated the miracle, and Lin Li completed Task Five by earning sincere recognition and praise from all four teammates.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan joked while the group visited the peacock area, but none of the peacocks fanned their tails.
• Lin Li left the group and later found Chen Yuying alone by the foxes; he asked whether she believed he could create miracles.
• Lin Li led Chen Yuying back to the peacock enclosure and persuaded her to join him in ordering a peacock to fan its tail.
• Lin Li used the Emotion-Hiding Desire-Collecting Bottle as they called to the peacock, which spread its colorful tail before the watching visitors.
• Chen Yuying excitedly praised Lin Li, and Task Five was marked complete after he received sincere recognition and praise from all four teammates.

At the zoo, Lin Li used the lust in his Duck Blood Bottle to make a peacock fan its tail, delighting Chen Yuying and completing Task Five. After Chen Yuying went back to meet Sihan and Wanqiu, a staff member unsuccessfully tried to make the peacock fan its tail himself.

• A crowd gathered when a peacock fanned its tail, and Lin Li steadied Chen Yuying as people pressed around them.
• Chen Yuying asked Lin Li how he had made the peacock fan its tail, and he joked before admitting he had used a staff member’s method.
• Lin Li explained that he had used the Duck Blood Bottle to transfer a tiger’s lust to the peacock, completing Task Five and earning rewards.
• The peacock, driven by lust, rushed toward the peahens, and Lin Li poured the remaining lust onto them before Chen Yuying thanked him and headed back to the foxes.
• After Lin Li and Chen Yuying left, a staff member tried several ways to make the peacock fan its tail, but the bird ignored him.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan caused trouble at Mountain Pavilion Zoo, then spent their last evening in Mountain Pavilion with their friends before returning to the guesthouse. The chapter ended with Bai Bufan realizing Lin Li had deliberately turned his old joke into a public insult.

• Lin Li learned that Bai Bufan was waiting at the zoo broadcasting office after Lin Li ignored his messages, and Lin Li went there with the others to retrieve him.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan were scolded by the broadcasting office staff for causing a disturbance, then rejoined the group to finish visiting the zoo.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan gave the zoo staff absurd suggestions and complaints before the five ate dinner and shopped for local specialties.
• Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu lamented that the holiday was ending, and Lin Li promised to drive everyone together during winter vacation if he got his license.
• After Bai Bufan used the restroom at the guesthouse, Lin Li and the girls praised him as a good baby, prompting Bai Bufan to realize Lin Li had twisted his earlier joke into an insult.

Lin Li and his friends joked around at the guesthouse, then Ding Sihan ordered ingredients that Lin Li cooked into a late-night meal. Afterward, Lin Li refused Bai Bufan’s invitation to play games and retaliated with a foul-smelling fart.

• Bai Bufan chased Lin Li with a fire extinguisher, and Lin Li later joked with Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu about bathing and Tang Sanzang.
• Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu ordered takeout ingredients, and Lin Li cooked a late-night meal for everyone.
• Lin Li refused Bai Bufan’s invitation to play games and teased him with a speech about playing in moderation.
• Lin Li claimed he had farted after Bai Bufan sniffed for a burning smell, then watched Bai Bufan flee while cursing.

Lin Li completed a month of Body Tempering Eight Section Exercise practice and received new missions to perfect the technique and spar with accomplished body cultivators. He tested the sparring mission on Bai Bufan, then spent the rest of the day with his friends before leaving their relationship in mock turmoil over morning reading.

• Lin Li completed his month-long training task, gained improved recovery, Qi and Blood, spirit stones, and System Currency, and received missions to perfect the Body Tempering Eight Section Exercise and win recognition from ten accomplished body cultivators.
• Lin Li wondered how the Fruit of Perseverance title might affect different activities, then decided to test the sparring mission on Bai Bufan by waking him at six thirty and overpowering him.
• Lin Li continued studying for his driving test, practiced riding an electric scooter with Chen Yuying, and returned the rented scooter after losing five yuan from his deposit.
• Lin Li lost the cleanup draw after lunch and cleaned the table while his friends watched, then joined them in the guesthouse KTV and mocked their singing.
• Bai Bufan confronted Lin Li over supposedly attending another morning reading class, and Lin Li answered by explaining the meaning and source of an idiom about lovers' vows.

Lin Li and his friends spent the afternoon singing at a KTV, where he learned and performed a duet with Chen Yuying before they wrapped up and left. Lin Li secretly used Wind Control to blow at Bai Bufan’s butt, leaving Bai worried he was developing hemorrhoids.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan traded idioms and joked about business KTVs, earning a scolding from Ding Sihan.
• The five friends sang and danced for hours until Chen Yuying learned her father was coming to pick her up.
• Chen Yuying asked Lin Li to sing “The Summer the Wind Blew Through,” and he learned it after listening once before performing a duet with her.
• Lin Li and the others toasted National Day, sang “Unforgettable Tonight,” cleaned up, and left the KTV.
• Bai Bufan complained of a strange wind blowing at his butt, while Lin Li secretly used Wind Control on him.

After returning home, Lin Li prepared equipment and planned another trip to the other world, then sparred with Zhou Youwei after morning practice. Zhou Youwei eagerly accepted, leaving Lin Li surprised by how long the old man had been waiting for the match.

• Lin Li joked with Bai Bufan and the others on the ride home, and Chen Zhongping invited him to visit a cement factory.
• Wu Min teased Lin Li about dinner and his deliveries, while Lin Li boasted about his exam result and put away a crumpled one-yuan bill.
• Lin Li opened his protective gear deliveries, exchanged jokes with Bai Bufan, and saw the system’s Depart option return at midnight.
• Lin Li decided to postpone traveling to the other world until he was better prepared, bought a Recharge Crystal, and replaced a shop item with A+ Combat Armor.
• Lin Li practiced in the park, then asked Zhou Youwei to spar; Zhou Youwei eagerly accepted and said he had waited a long time for it.

Lin Li began pursuing the system’s mission to spar with accomplished body cultivators, first beating Zhou Youwei in a friendly match and then testing his strength at a gym. He left with the mission at 2/10 after pinning Zhai Kai’s hand during an arm wrestle.

• Lin Li arranged a spar with Zhou Youwei, who set up cameras to record what he thought would expose Lin Li.
• Lin Li struck Zhou Youwei while holding back, and Zhou Youwei fell, advancing Lin Li’s mission to 1/10.
• Lin Li left after Zhou Youwei asked for another round, while Zhou Youwei discovered his cameras had recorded his own apparent injury fraud.
• Lin Li bought a trial entry at a nearby gym and met Zhai Kai, who showed him how to use the equipment.
• Lin Li challenged Zhai Kai to arm wrestling and pinned his hand to the table with Power Charge, advancing the mission to 2/10.

Lin Li drew gym-goers into arm-wrestling matches to complete a system task, hiding his strength by letting some opponents win. After reaching the task’s final count against Zhu Ge, he celebrated with Zhai Kai while the onlookers realized Lin Li was a cultivator from Sword Mound.

• Lin Li beat Zhai Kai in a rematch, then pretended to lose a later round so others would be willing to challenge him.
• Lin Li defeated a series of gym-goers, advancing the system task to 3/10.
• Zhu Ge arrived, heard about Lin Li’s strength, and agreed to arm-wrestle him.
• Lin Li used his special move to beat Zhu Ge, completing Task Two at 10/10.
• Lin Li hugged Zhai Kai in celebration and scratched the itchy welts on his back while Zhu Ge stared at his defeated hand.

Lin Li gained and amplified Soul of Melee, tested his new weapon skills, and prepared for a trip to meet Beautiful Lady. After finishing school and gearing up at home, he activated the system’s hidden interface and entered a deathly white space.

• Lin Li received Soul of Melee and its passive derivative, tested the ability on a chopstick and a rock, and used his Ability Amplifier to double the active duration and gain one weapon switch.
• Lin Li cultivated his Pure Upright Thunder Control Body, joked with Wu Min and his classmates, and made the Honor Roll alongside Bai Bufan.
• Lin Li changed his Honor Roll message after deciding he did not want to praise Bai Bufan, then opened packages containing melee weapons and tested his new combat skills on a paper dummy.
• Lin Li put on protective gear, prepared his charged body and Duck Blood Bottle, and activated the hidden interface to meet Beautiful Lady.

Lin Li returned to the ruined world a week later and found Beautiful Lady still nearby. He killed her with his Steel Rod, but his victory ended with a badly injured big toe.

• Lin Li checked his gear and phone after returning, then planned to search for Beautiful Lady by luring nearby creatures from a ruined building.
• Lin Li heard footsteps and discovered Beautiful Lady wandering alone, then waited in hiding to surprise her.
• Beautiful Lady spotted Lin Li and charged, so Lin Li activated Soul of Melee and Power Charge and struck her neck with the Steel Rod.
• Lin Li kicked Beautiful Lady's severed head and hurt his big toe, then smashed her chest until her body stopped moving.
• Lin Li checked that Beautiful Lady remained still, then clutched his injured toe and groaned.

Lin Li explored a ruined city while holding Beautiful Lady’s hand, searched an abandoned office building for valuables, and waited with her for sunrise. Completing the task earned him rewards and triggered a new set of intimate tasks with Beautiful Lady.

• Lin Li removed Beautiful Lady’s arm and held her hand, then climbed to a rooftop to wait for sunrise.
• Lin Li surveyed the zombie-filled streets and searched the abandoned Xing Sheng Trading Company building, finding no valuables.
• Lin Li considered searching jewelry stores for gold and returned to the rooftop as dawn approached.
• Zombies gathered below the rooftop, but Lin Li held Beautiful Lady’s hand and watched the sunrise with her.
• Lin Li completed Task Four and received a random ability, a random system item, and 100 System Currency.
• The system triggered a new task requiring Lin Li to kiss Beautiful Lady’s forehead, shop and dine with her, and engage in bed sport.

Lin Li tried to recover Beautiful Lady’s head and body while zombies surrounded them, but his combat boost had expired. He used emotions stored in the Duck Blood Bottle to scatter the zombies, then discovered that lust made them take off their pants and masturbate.

• Lin Li found Beautiful Lady’s head beneath a zombie’s foot and realized he needed both her head and body to complete his missions.
• Lin Li checked his rewards, gained Bloodlust and a Historical Item Purchase Opportunity, and bought a Repair Crystal from the shop.
• Lin Li rejected fighting or rushing the zombies and tested whether the Duck Blood Bottle could affect them.
• Lin Li used fear to make several zombies flee, though the effect ran out before they had all left Beautiful Lady’s vicinity.
• Lin Li infused the remaining zombies with lust, causing them to take off their pants and masturbate.

Lin Li used the Aura of Demons title to approach zombies, redirect one with fear, and retrieve a golden bracelet from Dottie Lord while trying to satisfy a system mission by courting Beautiful Lady's severed head. After kissing her forehead, he was surprised by a masked humanoid figure that had approached without triggering the title.

• Lin Li equipped Aura of Demons and discovered he could sense nearby zombies and make one regard him as a companion.
• Lin Li led a zombie into the building, then frightened a farther zombie into fleeing by guiding fear into it.
• Lin Li approached Dottie Lord and cut the golden bracelet from her wrist without provoking her.
• Lin Li collected Beautiful Lady's head and delivered memorized sweet talk before kissing her forehead to advance the system mission.
• A masked humanoid figure appeared behind Lin Li, and he hurriedly insisted that he was not a pervert.

Lin Li returned from the Apocalypse World and discovered that time and objects behaved differently across worlds, then spent Tuesday trading jokes and backstabs with Bai Bufan over their school’s Honor Roll. The chapter ended with the two friends celebrating their lifelong brotherhood.

• Lin Li escaped the woman aiming a gun-like object at him by returning to the modern world, where only about a minute had passed despite his hours in the Apocalypse World.
• Lin Li found that zombie-related residue and the Steel Rod had not returned with him, while the gold bracelet and his recorded footage had; he planned to leave a timing device in the other world next time.
• Bai Bufan explained that he was grinning to confuse his classmates and make them think his life had improved, prompting Lin Li and Zhou Baowei to tease him.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan saw their Honor Roll messages and poems, each realizing the other had arranged a backstab with Xue Jian.
• Bai Bufan revealed that he had spoken to Xue Jian shortly after Lin Li left, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan declared themselves brothers for life.