Chapter Summaries

Wang Ze’s failed seat-change request led the students to joke about unfairness and Qin Zeyu’s disastrous romantic past, while Lin Li helped Chen Yuying plan the class mural. After completing the Fire task at lunch, Lin Li went with Chen Yuying to look for mural inspiration, leaving Wang Yuezhi to lament that unlike Lin Li and even a piece of shit, nobody pulled him along.

• Wang Ze complained that Old Jian had refused to move his seat, and Lin Li and the others mocked his reasons and Bai Bufan’s claims about unfair MOBA matches.
• Qin Zeyu described how teachers repeatedly seated pretty girls beside him to prevent them from dating, then insisted his romance had been smooth because nobody had ever been on it.
• Lin Li helped Chen Yuying measure the mural wall, joked with her about the triangle ruler, and agreed to buy materials for the class’s mural plans.
• At lunch, Lin Li completed the Fire part of his Five Elements task, gave Chen Yuying the supplies he had bought, and agreed to visit other classrooms for mural ideas.
• Chen Yuying checked on Wang Yuezhi’s injured leg before leaving with Lin Li, and Wang Yuezhi grew dejected watching them go.
• Zhuo Yongfei warned Wang Yuezhi that the second-floor restroom smelled, prompting Wang Yuezhi to wonder why Lin Li and shit had someone to pull them along but he did not.

Lin Li negotiated with Li Sheng to buy information about a planned robbery and learned when and where the thieves would strike. After the deal, Li Sheng agreed that violence could not solve every problem.

• Wang Yuezhi emerged from the bathroom complaining about the smell, and Zhuo Yongfei suggested he use the Administration Building's bathrooms.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying returned to class, where Chen Yuying explained that she had considered changing seats but decided against it.
• Lin Li noticed Qin Zeyu looking downcast after evening self-study but left without asking what was wrong.
• Lin Li met Deng Zi and Li Sheng on Laoyou Road and negotiated the price and payment terms for information about a planned robbery.
• Li Sheng told Lin Li that thieves planned to rob Zhang Wenbing's home in Building Four of Fengsheng Neighborhood early Wednesday morning, and Lin Li paid 4,500 yuan to Deng Zi to hold until the information proved useful.
• When Li Sheng argued that violence could solve every problem, Lin Li asked what he would do if a mosquito landed on his balls, prompting Li Sheng to concede that violence could not solve everything.

Lin Li and Chen Yuying borrowed supplies for Class 4’s cleanup, but their studying was interrupted when Bai Bufan hid from Qin Zeyu. Qin Zeyu revealed that Bai Bufan had stolen and spent the entire balance on his meal card after persuading him to use it as bait to meet a girl, and the confrontation continued as Bai Bufan admitted he would have waited for Qin Zeyu to top it up if he had known the card’s limit.

• Lin Li praised Chen Yuying for borrowing cleanup supplies early, and the two returned to Class 4 to study.
• Bai Bufan rushed into the classroom to hide from Qin Zeyu, but Lin Li failed to conceal him and Bai Bufan betrayed Lin Li by standing up.
• Qin Zeyu explained that Bai Bufan had persuaded him to drop his meal card near the girls’ dormitory in hopes that a girl would return it and meet him.
• Qin Zeyu discovered that his card had been used at the supermarket and recognized Bai Bufan on the surveillance footage.
• Qin Zeyu confronted Bai Bufan over spending the card’s entire twelve-yuan balance, while Bai Bufan admitted he would have waited for Qin Zeyu to top it up if he had known the card’s limit.

Qin Zeyu and Bai Bufan turned a dispute over a stolen meal card into a plan to scatter fake cards outside girls’ dormitories, while Lin Li and Chen Yuying grew closer during lunch. Lin Li treated Wang Yuezhi’s injured leg, then told him why he owed him thanks, leaving Wang Yuezhi horrified and fleeing for the bathroom.

• Lin Li helped Qin Zeyu catch Bai Bufan, who agreed to compensate him with three meals before spinning his theft as a plan to protect Qin Zeyu from a bad woman.
• Bai Bufan proposed photocopying meal cards and slipping them under girls’ dormitory doors, and Qin Zeyu enthusiastically went with him to throw away cards.
• Lin Li told Chen Yuying about Qin Zeyu and Bai Bufan’s scheme, and Chen Yuying laughed before asking Lin Li to touch her leg instead of Wang Yuezhi’s.
• Lin Li touched Chen Yuying’s legs during lunch, then approached Wang Yuezhi to massage his injured leg and successfully eased the pain.
• When Wang Yuezhi insisted on knowing why Lin Li thanked him, Lin Li explained that Chen Yuying had let him touch her legs to keep him from touching Wang Yuezhi, and Wang Yuezhi ran from the classroom in dismay.

Lin Li and his classmates joked around while preparing for the classroom cleanup, and Bai Bufan discovered a bizarre equation before he and Lin Li painted the corridor mural. The chapter ended with Lin Li and Bai Bufan pranking Wang Ze by covering both his hands in white paint.

• Lin Li told Qin Zeyu that Yao Qiaoqiao had found and returned his meal card, prompting Qin Zeyu, Bai Bufan, and Chen Tianming to discuss joining the Meal Card Loss Squad.
• Bai Bufan wrote down the Stinky Equation, and Lin Li joked that he would cast Bai Bufan in Genius J8.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan moved their desks into the corridor and began painting the mural, while Zhou Baowei slapped Bai Bufan for teasing him about his nostrils and formaldehyde.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan played a rigged game of Gomoku with paint, then painted Wang Ze's hands after pretending he had agreed to be painted.
• After Wang Ze complained and insulted them, Lin Li and Bai Bufan painted his other hand as well.

Lin Li and his classmates painted the classroom while mocking a boy from Class 5 for doing extra work for two girls, until Xiang Tian finally stood up for himself. Their antics drew Xue Jian upstairs, where the girls accused several boys of being Lin Li, and Lin Li confirmed that he was another one.

• Wang Ze threatened Bai Bufan after they avoided the paint splatter, and Chen Yuying showed concern for Lin Li while teasing Bai Bufan about protecting the desk.
• Lin Li and his classmates watched Jiang Xiaoxin and Zhou Wenwen persuade Xiang Tian to fetch water and do their cleaning, then Lin Li and Bai Bufan recited a poem mocking his behavior.
• After Class 4 teased him, Xiang Tian returned the rags to the girls and said they had a point, prompting the students to chant that he was not a turtle guy.
• Xue Jian rushed upstairs after hearing the commotion, and Jiang Xiaoxin and Zhou Wenwen accused several boys of being Lin Li before Lin Li introduced himself as another Lin Li.

During Class 4’s cleanup, Lin Li and Bai Bufan clashed with students from Class 5, got soaked by water from an upstairs drain, and joked around while finishing their tasks. The cleanup ended with Lin Li earning a system reward, and he arranged to eat with Chen Yuying and wash his hair in Wang Ze’s dorm.

• Xue Jian investigated the hallway dispute, sent Jiang Xiaoxin and Zhou Wenwen back to cleaning, and left Lin Li and the others to repaint the wall.
• Lin Li and Bai Bufan finished painting, then Qin Zeyu showed them the puddle below; an upstairs drain soaked them, and they chased Qin Zeyu in retaliation.
• Lin Li joked with Bai Bufan and performed a silly glass-cleaning dance for Chen Yuying while the class worked through the cleanup.
• Ding Sihan found a smelly quail-egg snack under the multimedia desk, and Lin Li drove away bugs until he completed Task Six and gained faster spiritual-energy absorption and system currency.
• Ding Sihan asked Lin Li to eat with Chen Yuying and bring her back a duck-leg rice meal, while Lin Li borrowed Wang Ze’s dorm key and planned to use his shampoo.

Lin Li and Chen Yuying shared lunch and teased each other, while Wang Yuezhi watched them enviously. Back at school, Lin Li reunited with his roommates and classmates, then left the classroom carrying a bucket after joking with them.

• Lin Li and Chen Yuying ate together, traded food, and joked about tomatoes and the cafeteria aunt’s portions.
• Wang Yuezhi watched Lin Li and Chen Yuying from across the cafeteria and asked Zhuo Yongfei and Zou Weilun for ways to relieve stress, but they misunderstood him.
• Lin Li borrowed shampoo from Zhang Haoyang and washed his hair before returning to the classroom.
• Zhou Baowei told Lin Li that a student council hygiene inspector had checked the classroom and likely deducted points.
• Bai Bufan entered the classroom and called Lin Li and Zhou Baowei trash, while Qin Zeyu joined their absurd conversation about trash sorting.
• Lin Li picked up a bucket, joked that Lao She was the loneliest person in the world, and prepared to leave the classroom.

Lin Li recruited Yang Liang and Yan Aosong to help him catch a gang of thieves using information he had purchased. The three waited outside Fengsheng Neighborhood for the predicted crime, while Lin Li insisted on staying despite the uncles’ warnings; the thieves had not yet appeared by the chapter’s end.

• Lin Li learned that the theft was expected around one o’clock and asked Yang Liang and Yan Aosong to join him in stopping it.
• Yan Aosong picked Lin Li up, then collected Yang Liang, who searched Lin Li and confiscated his black stockings before they set out.
• Yan Aosong warned Lin Li not to endanger himself or get involved in crimes to obtain information, but Lin Li refused to reveal his informant.
• The three parked away from Building Four at Fengsheng Neighborhood and watched Lin Li’s camera feed while waiting for the thieves.
• Yang Liang and Yan Aosong urged Lin Li to go home before school, but he insisted on staying and joked with them as they kept watch.

Lin Li and the Demon Suppression Envoys ambushed a group of thieves, using a fake ghost scare to capture Huang Wei. After Yan Aosong arrested one of the others, Lin Li chased Wan Xinpeng on his own, leaving Yang Liang and Yan Aosong to hope the fleeing thief would be all right.

• Lin Li spotted three suspicious people entering Building Four, and Yang Liang and Yan Aosong agreed to move in while protecting his informant's identity.
• Lin Li and the two envoys found the thieves' van, then hid inside it so Lin Li could scare Huang Wei into surrendering.
• Lin Li revealed the scare was a ruse and handcuffed Huang Wei, while Yang Liang warned him not to frighten suspects again.
• Yang Liang stayed with Huang Wei as Yan Aosong and Lin Li approached the building, where they encountered two thieves carrying bags of stolen goods.
• Wan Xinpeng recognized Yan Aosong and ran, so Yan Aosong arrested his companion while Lin Li chased Wan Xinpeng alone.

Lin Li chased down Wan Xinpeng and tried to use him to find more criminals while his bizarre appeals to conscience advanced his Gold progress. Wan Xinpeng finally reached Yang Liang and Yan Aosong and eagerly asked them to arrest him, while Huang Wei realized Lin Li might be coming for him next.

• Wan Xinpeng fled through the neighborhood, but Lin Li caught up and took him down.
• Lin Li asked Wan Xinpeng to introduce him to other prospective criminals, but Wan Xinpeng had no useful contacts.
• Wan Xinpeng offered Lin Li increasingly large bribes to let him escape, and Lin Li's refusals advanced his Gold progress.
• Lin Li's progress reached its target as he escorted Wan Xinpeng back, despite Wan Xinpeng believing Lin Li was negotiating a price.
• Wan Xinpeng ran to Yang Liang and Yan Aosong and begged them to arrest him, while Huang Wei panicked as Lin Li approached.

Lin Li finished helping the Demon Suppression Envoys arrest the thieves, then returned home and went to school exhausted. He woke after sleeping through English class and learned that Kou Kou had deliberately let him sleep, leaving Bai Bufan alone to attend class.

• Lin Li retrieved his coat, declined to help with police procedures, and rode home with Yan Aosong after the officers arrived to take over the scene.
• A mission notification raised Lin Li’s count for stopping evil cultivators from three to five, and he messaged Deng Zi to pass money to Li Sheng before going to sleep.
• The next morning, Lin Li heard Bai Bufan tell a chaotic unofficial history about Guan Yu killing Hua Tuo, then joked with Bai Bufan before falling asleep in class.
• Lin Li woke after first-period English had ended and learned that Kou Kou had woken Bai Bufan but deliberately left him asleep.
• Bai Bufan told Lin Li that Kou Kou had taught the class happily and forgotten to assign homework.

Lin Li met Deng Wen, the Cloudborne Sword Immortal, and learned about the Creation Pill before enduring its painful refinement. While Lin Li continued his task of roasting Shān Qīng Daoist, Deng Wen and Shān Qīng Daoist fought over the phone, with Shān Qīng Daoist keeping control through a secret password.

• Lin Li arrived at Inverted Mountain and met Deng Wen, whom Shān Qīng Daoist introduced as the Cloudborne Sword Immortal.
• Deng Wen answered Lin Li’s cultivation questions and helped him absorb the Great Creation Pill, causing Lin Li intense pain but transforming his body.
• After Lin Li explained his world to Deng Wen, he resumed roasting Shān Qīng Daoist with a flamethrower, while Deng Wen learned that he could not join the task.
• Deng Wen and Shān Qīng Daoist argued over the phone, and Deng Wen managed to turn it on with sword energy after Shān Qīng Daoist shut it down through Bu Fan.
• Deng Wen failed to unlock the phone with his fingerprint, and Shān Qīng Daoist revealed that he had withheld the password and declared victory.

Lin Li received Azure Sky Flowers and an expanded swordplay manual from Deng Wen while the Great Creation Pill dramatically increased his spiritual qi absorption. Before leaving the forbidden ground with the warmth mission two-thirds complete, Lin Li recommended games for Deng Wen and Shān Qīng Daoist, who decided to try Human: Fall Flat together.

• Deng Wen gave Lin Li Azure Sky Flowers and offered to expand his Basic Swordplay Tactic, then wrote a towering stack of advanced sword techniques for him.
• Lin Li absorbed spiritual qi at a rate dozens of times faster than before, reached the peak of Qi Refinement, and continued cultivating without sensing a limit.
• Deng Wen teased Shān Qīng Daoist over Dark Souls, then outlasted him by keeping his character alive through an incense stick without moving until Shān Qīng drew the monsters' attention.
• Shān Qīng Daoist and Deng Wen resumed their duel, while Lin Li finished preparing to leave with the warmth mission two-thirds complete.
• Lin Li left game recommendations for Deng Wen and Shān Qīng Daoist, who chose Human: Fall Flat and agreed that Lin Li could never be fully trusted.

Lin Li prepared equipment and copied Deng Wen’s sword formula, then brought Ding Sihan replacement paints at school and traded jokes with her and Chen Yuying while they worked on the classroom bulletin board. He left the chapter still teasing his friends as the painting continued.

• Lin Li confirmed that time flowed at 1:130, ordered matching equipment for Deng Wen, siphoned off gold, photographed Deng Wen’s sword formula, and began translating Shān Qīng Daoist’s Foundation Establishment method.
• Lin Li gave Ding Sihan a paint box and paints as a joking bride price, and Ding Sihan teased him about saving the world from AI.
• Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying continued painting the classroom bulletin board while Lin Li helped arrange the paints and provoked them with jokes.
• Chen Yuying laughed at Lin Li’s jokes, and Wang Yuezhi silently envied people from Shanxi.
• Ding Sihan kicked Lin Li after he mocked her with poetry and a mantra, then returned with him to Chen Yuying.
• Chen Yuying used a yellow paintbrush to tap Lin Li’s head and collect paint before continuing her work.

Lin Li began the earth-element task by preparing to repair the neighborhood’s potholes, and his dirt-covered appearance prompted Zhang Fang to rally residents to help. As the neighbors worked together, Lin Li caught up with Zeng Zi'ang, who had secured a local job with a two-day weekend.

• Lin Li smeared dirt over himself to advance the earth task, then told Zhang Fang he planned to patch the neighborhood’s uneven roads.
• Zhang Fang gathered residents to help, and Fu Wenda arrived to assist; after taking photos of Lin Li posing with the supplies, he realized Lin Li had barely started the work.
• Lin Li messaged Chen Yuying, then worked with Fu Wenda to mix cement mortar and fill road cracks as neighbors cleaned and repaired other parts of the complex.
• Zeng Zi'ang joined Lin Li and explained that he had abandoned plans to take the civil service exam after securing an internship and a job with a proper two-day weekend.
• Lin Li joked that workers with only one day off might live fewer years than those with two days off, and Zeng Zi'ang conceded that the comparison was biased.

Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang volunteered to repair their neighborhood, where Zhou Youwei and Zeng Zi'ang each sat on a freshly painted bench and got paint on their clothes. After finishing the road repairs, Lin Li completed the fourth stage of his Five Elements task and planned to go swimming with Zeng Zi'ang.

• Lin Li joked with Zeng Zi'ang about how workers with fewer days off might live longer, then they returned to their volunteer work.
• Zhou Youwei apologized to Lin Li, mistakenly believing Lin Li had painted the bench, but learned the bench was still wet and hurried away with paint on his clothes.
• Zeng Zi'ang loudly criticized whoever sat on the wet bench before realizing Zhou Youwei was still nearby; Lin Li teased him, and Zeng Zi'ang suspected Lin Li had let him blunder on purpose.
• Lin Li kept repairing the neighborhood road while Zeng Zi'ang rested, then invited Zeng Zi'ang to join him at Nan Sang Swimming Pool that afternoon.
• Lin Li finished the road repairs, completed the task progress to 4/5, and met Zeng Zi'ang for lunch before their planned swim.

Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang went to Nan Sang Swimming Pool, where their joking turned into chaos after Zeng Zi'ang's swim trunks came off during a dive. The chapter ended with Lin Li chasing after him and desperately warning him that he was swimming toward a crowd.

• Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang joked about their mothers over lunch before driving to Nan Sang Swimming Pool.
• On the way, Lin Li teased Chen Yuying by promising to take swimming-pool photos for her.
• In the locker room, Zeng Zi'ang watched a suggestive video before changing, and he and Lin Li joked about its effects.
• At the pool entrance, Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang first defended a child they thought had peed in the pool, then encouraged the mother to punish him after learning he had deliberately sprayed another child from the deck.
• Zeng Zi'ang warmed up, showed off with a dive, and began swimming toward the other end of the pool.
• Lin Li spotted Zeng Zi'ang's swim trunks floating behind him and sprinted after him, shouting warnings as Zeng Zi'ang swam toward other guests.

At the swimming pool, Lin Li tried to stop Zeng Zi'ang from swimming after his trunks came off, but Zeng Zi'ang misread his warnings as a challenge and swam on. Zeng Zi'ang eventually discovered he had been swimming nude, retrieved his trunks, and tried to recover his dignity while Lin Li kept teasing him.

• Lin Li shouted and ran after Zeng Zi'ang to warn him that his swim trunks had fallen off, but Zeng Zi'ang mistook his gestures for a race challenge and sped up.
• Other swimmers heard Lin Li's warning, cleared a path for Zeng Zi'ang, and dove underwater to look as he swam past without his trunks.
• Lin Li used the Duck Blood Bottle on Zeng Zi'ang, who reached the pool wall and only then spotted his trunks floating far away.
• Zeng Zi'ang realized he was naked, asked Lin Li to retrieve his trunks, and was scolded by the lifeguard for swimming without them.
• Zeng Zi'ang blamed his loose trunks and praised his awakened 'lion,' while Lin Li comforted him with jokes before they returned to swimming.

After swimming, Lin Li invited Zeng Zi'ang to a blind-date social event and arranged to attend the next day, then went with him to the driving test site. On the drive, Lin Li explained that he had lost his father in a childhood accident, leaving Zeng Zi'ang horrified by his earlier careless remarks and speeding up in a fit of guilt.

• Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang finished swimming, and Zeng Zi'ang sent Lin Li the photos he had taken.
• Lin Li invited Zeng Zi'ang to Yi Zhen's free social mixer the next afternoon, and Zeng Zi'ang agreed to go with him.
• Lin Li shared photos and his plans with Chen Yuying, who teased him and asked him to report back about the event.
• Zeng Zi'ang offered to drive Lin Li to the driving test site, where Lin Li was taking Subject Two.
• When Zeng Zi'ang asked why Lin Li was an adult in his first year of high school, Lin Li said he had missed school after a childhood accident and that his father had died.
• Zeng Zi'ang felt guilty over his earlier comments and pressed the accelerator, while Lin Li begged him to slow down and insisted neither of them should die.