Chapter Summaries

Lin Li learned that his first-place Monthly Exam score came from a teacher correcting his multiple-choice sheet, then tried to catch Xue Jian smoking by keeping him under watch. Xue Jian outmaneuvered him and appeared at the classroom’s back door, leaving Lin Li to wonder how he had gotten there.

• Zhou Baowei lamented losing a history point after writing that Germany blitzed Berlin, and Lin Li and Bai Bufan teased him.
• Xue Jian posted the Monthly Exam rankings, where Lin Li saw he had placed first with a perfect math score, and explained that another teacher had corrected his answer sheet.
• Lin Li confronted Xue Jian in the hallway about smoking, then watched him during evening study in hopes of triggering a system task.
• Lin Li looked for Xue Jian after he left the classroom, but Xue Jian appeared behind him at the back door and dismissed his questions as grown-up business.

Lin Li impersonated attendants at several internet cafes to persuade smokers and advance his task, while dodging suspicion by inventing a family of lookalike cafe managers. The chapter left him face-to-face with Wang Lei again at a third cafe, explaining that his apparent doubles were relatives.

• Lin Li went to Cloud Net Cafe and posed as an attendant, persuading smokers to stop and raising his task progress to 9/100.
• Lin Li visited Immortal Gathering Net Cafe, persuaded more customers, and threatened an attendant who challenged his fake identity into cooperating.
• Lin Li tried to recruit the attendant to help persuade smokers, but the system only counted Lin Li's own efforts.
• At Easy Net Cafe, Lin Li encountered Wang Lei, who had left the previous cafe, and claimed his brother worked there too.
• Lin Li met Wang Lei again at Harmony Leisure Net Cafe and explained that his lookalikes belonged to a family of internet cafe managers.

Lin Li completed his hundredth face-to-face dissuasion and received a new mission to stop and punish tobacco-related criminals. After dealing with Wang Lei at an internet cafe and spending lunch with Zheng Hong and Liu Feng, he contacted Deng Zi and Rose to help investigate.

• Lin Li exposed Wang Lei's smoking at an internet cafe and drove him away by threatening to report him, while Wang Lei left vowing revenge.
• Lin Li returned to school, where Zheng Hong's heavy smoking made him cough, and Lin Li and Liu Feng discovered he had accidentally taken a security guard's lighter.
• Lin Li completed the dissuasion task, received a Turtle Breath God Guard Pill and other rewards, and triggered a new mission to stop and punish tobacco-related criminals twice within two months.
• Lin Li contacted Deng Zi to gather information on tobacco-related crimes, then messaged Rose for help.

Lin Li completed his school electrical-room task, earned a new array, and discussed his plans to visit Xi Ling Catholic Church with Bu Fan and the class monitor. He ended the chapter plotting how to protect himself and Bai Bufan from divine retaliation by pretending to be gay men.

• Lin Li asked Yang Liang about tobacco-related cases, and Yang Liang told him to contact him or Uncle Yan if he found a lead.
• Lin Li finished the electrical-room work with Zheng Hong and Liu Feng, completed Task Two, and received the Soul Binding Sky Array and system rewards.
• Lin Li returned to class, helped Chen Tianming with a practice problem, and explained that he planned to visit a church charity sale with Bu Fan and the class monitor.
• Chen Tianming considered inviting Yao Qiaoqiao to study with them, while Lin Li offered to tutor him the next morning if she agreed to come.
• Lin Li decided that he and Bai Bufan should pose as gay men at the church to deter Jesus from retaliating, and resolved to make sure he took the top role.

Lin Li left Chen Tianming and Yao Qiaoqiao to study together, then met Bai Bufan and Qu Wanqiu before taking them to Xi Ling Catholic Church to meet Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan. The group entered the church joking about couple outfits and the meaning of “the first seventh day,” while Lin Li and Bai Bufan’s banter left the girls questioning their idea of normal.

• Lin Li secretly solved questions for Chen Tianming, then left him and Yao Qiaoqiao alone to study and have lunch together.
• Lin Li met Bai Bufan and Qu Wanqiu at the school gate, and the three joked about cars while waiting for a taxi.
• Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and Qu Wanqiu arrived at Xi Ling Catholic Church and met Chen Yuying outside.
• Lin Li teased Ding Sihan in the group chat, and she arrived soon after to join them.
• The five entered the church while Lin Li explained why Chen Yuying had not worn their matching outfits, then Lin Li and Bai Bufan argued over what “the first seventh day” meant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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