Chapter Summaries

Lin Li’s classmates joked about Christmas, and he revealed that his exhausting night had involved watching Christmas-themed videos before helping Bai Bufan reconsider becoming a doctor. The class planned its New Year’s Day Garden Party, and the boys’ apple-buying banter ended with Bai Bufan deciding he would rather become a “dick” than study medicine.

• Bai Bufan shared a bogus history of Christmas, and his classmates riffed on the Three Kingdoms before Lin Li handed out breakfast.
• Lin Li told Bai Bufan he was still recovering from the previous night, then described his long search for suitable material and a Christmas video about a boy wishing for a little sister.
• Lin Li asked whether Zhang Haoyang had wished for a little sister, explained his concern, and agreed to send Bai Bufan the video link.
• Xue Jian sent Lin Li back to revise his Garden Party duty roster, asking him to distribute the boys more evenly among the groups.
• At the convenience store, Qin Zeyu made Wang Ze worry that Zhou Baowei might eat the apple he had bought for Qian Ying, prompting Wang Ze to race back to the dorm.
• Lin Li compared working as a chicken with studying medicine, and Bai Bufan decided to buy apples instead of pursuing a medical career.

On Christmas Eve, Lin Li gave Chen Yuying and her friends apple cake, then teased Chen Yuying until she let him kiss her apple muscles. The chapter left Lin Li and Chen Yuying sharing an affectionate moment while their friends received real apples and prepared for evening self-study.

• Lin Li gave Chen Yuying a custom apple cake and shared spoons with Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu, who grew angry at the unequal gifts.
• After Lin Li was kicked and had his hair pulled, he handed Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu real apples.
• Bai Bufan told Lin Li that Yao Qiaoqiao had given an apple to Tian Ming, and the two looked forward to Ze Yu's jealousy.
• Lin Li followed Chen Yuying out during evening self-study and asked to eat her apple, hinting at her apple muscles.
• Chen Yuying let Lin Li kiss her apple muscles, and she eventually kissed his in return.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan tried to trick Xue Jian into giving Class 1-4 Apples for Christmas Eve, but Xue Jian turned their scheme around by handing out a math exam as “Peace Scrolls.” The class was ordered to finish the test before leaving, while Lin Li and Bai Bufan were stuck eating the two Apples Xue Jian gave them.

• Lin Li and Bai Bufan persuaded Wang Ze to help them buy Apples and place them on the students’ desks as a kind lie for Xue Jian.
• Xue Jian left the classroom after joking that he had forgotten to prepare Christmas Eve wishes for the class, and Bai Bufan celebrated the operation with the students.
• Lin Li returned with Chen Tianming and learned that Xue Jian had not yet come back with Apples.
• Xue Jian returned carrying test papers and called them Peace Scrolls, ordering everyone to finish them before leaving school.
• Xue Jian gave Lin Li and Bai Bufan the only two Peace Apples he had and told them they could not leave until they had eaten them.

Xue Jian’s Christmas Eve assignment turned Lin Li and Bai Bufan into targets of their classmates’ resentment, but Lin Li tried to unite the class and finish the paper together. Xue Jian stopped him, assigned the paper as weekend homework, and gave the class apples, leaving Lin and Bai with older, smaller ones.

• After Xue Jian left, Zhou Baowei and the class turned against Lin Li and Bai Bufan for receiving Peace Apples instead of the Peace Scroll, and Shi Siyuan marked them for talking during evening study.
• Lin Li defended himself and Bai Bufan by calling Xue Jian’s plan a stratagem to sow discord, but the classmates mocked them and Shi Siyuan gave them more marks.
• Bai Bufan apologized and tried to trade his apple for Zhou Baowei’s scroll, while Lin Li took Zhou’s test paper and urged the class to divide up the questions and complete it together.
• Xue Jian revealed he had been listening outside, stopped Lin Li from sharing answers, and assigned the Peace District paper as weekend homework, warning Wang Ze to work independently.
• Xue Jian brought real apples for the class, then explained that Lin Li and Bai Bufan’s apples were smaller because they had been sitting in the office for a week.

At school on Christmas, Lin Li gave Bai Bufan a church gift and entertained him with increasingly crude, twisted retellings of fairy tales. The story ended with Lin Li beginning another tale while Huang Yi and Zhou Jiana could only hear fragments.

• Lin Li gave Bai Bufan a child-written note and a hot-water bottle from the church gift exchange.
• Bai Bufan asked what happened to The Little Match Girl, and Lin Li told him versions ending in a nuclear blast and a colorful mushroom cloud.
• Lin Li told Bai Bufan a risqué Cinderella parody about the Girl of the Grey Industry, then crossed it over with The Little Match Girl.
• Lin Li retold Snow White as a crude story involving an electric baton and a white horse, making Bai Bufan laugh.
• Lin Li began telling Bai Bufan the story of The Three Little Pigs while Huang Yi and Zhou Jiana tried unsuccessfully to overhear them.

After advancing to the Xue Zhi Cup semifinals, Lin Li received a hardening ability and planned for his upcoming competition, blind date, and cigarette-crime task. At home, he helped Wu Min turn down Aunt Xu’s banquet invitation, then tried to avoid going out with his mother by claiming he had plans with Yu Ying, only to be assigned to clean his room.

• Lin Li joked with Qin Zeyu about Su Shi’s poem and teased him about spending Sunday at competition tutoring.
• Lin Li reviewed his new Hardening ability and the Xue Zhi Cup semifinal task after advancing past the preliminary round.
• Lin Li read Deng Zi’s update that Li Sheng was recruiting street associates into smuggled and counterfeit cigarette dealing, and told Deng Zi to wait before making arrests.
• Lin Li found Wu Min talking with Aunt Xu and backed up his mother’s excuse that they had already planned an outing, helping her avoid Aunt Xu’s banquet invitation.
• Lin Li told Wu Min he could not go out with her because he had plans with Yu Ying, then asked whom she would save if he and Yu Ying fell into the water.
• Wu Min sent Lin Li to fetch her feather duster and clean his messy room.

Lin Li prepared for another matchmaking event, where he reunited with Wang Baiyu and joked about his deliberately misleading profile picture. He learned that Lu Meng had found a girlfriend, while Shao Hengkai confessed how he had spent money after mistaking a contact for a blind date.

• Wu Min cleaned Lin Li’s room, agreed to give him the spare car key, and chased him with a feather duster after discovering his sticker said “Strength” instead of “Probationary Driver.”
• Zeng Zi'ang drove Lin Li to the matchmaking event, where Lin Li explained that his “Shang Yang” profile meant he was no longer single and that he had agreed to attend with XIXI as a fellow reluctant participant.
• Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang reunited with Wang Baiyu, and Lin Li asked him whether a wanted poster falsely depicting him as a death-row fugitive could affect his career prospects.
• Shao Hengkai told Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang that Lu Meng had found a girlfriend and recounted how he had mistaken a woman’s message about a fee for a blind-date arrangement.
• Shao Hengkai admitted that he had chosen the six-hundred-yuan option and ordered it three times, prompting Lin Li and Zeng Zi'ang to stare at him in disbelief.

At a matchmaking event, Lin Li helped Tang Feng try to flirt with Fang Lan, but Fang Lan blocked him after his repeated messages. Lin Li then paired with Liu Xi, who asked him to introduce her to a foreign man, prompting him to joke about a European whose legs had been lost in an accident.

• Shao Hengkai enthusiastically recommended his supposed blind date to Zeng Zi'ang and Wang Baiyu, while Lin Li and Wang Baiyu teased him about her being a White Tiger.
• Tang Feng asked Lin Li for flirting advice, followed Lin Li's suggested messages to Fang Lan, and was blocked after she called herself a Fake Person.
• Fu Miao began the event's planned activities, and Lin Li was paired with Liu Xi after the participants introduced themselves.
• Liu Xi told Lin Li she found him attractive and asked him to introduce her to a man who met her preferences, including a foreigner.
• Lin Li said he knew half a European, then explained that the man had lost both legs and was mixed with 95-octane gasoline.

Lin Li finished another Yi Zhen Marriage Agency event and advanced his mission, then returned to the All Women World to help Zhu Ning develop an escape aircraft. Zhu Ning judged that they might be able to build it within twenty hours, leaving Lin Li to gather the remaining materials before his next visit.

• Lin Li teased Liu Xi about matchmaking with his disabled friend, then gave her serious advice on recovering deleted phone photos.
• Lin Li completed his second Marriage Pavilion visit, joked with Zeng Zi'ang, and drove him back at reckless speed.
• Lin Li returned to the All Women World and found Zhu Ning studying modern technology with her Core Structure Armor removed.
• Zhu Ning explained that her exposed glowing core was no longer covered by the armor, which she had expelled to improve her precision inside the Silent Field.
• Zhu Ning sorted Lin Li's supplies, drafted preliminary aircraft blueprints, and estimated that construction might be completed within twenty hours.

Lin Li and Chen Yuying shared a playful afternoon at school, where they traded jokes, attended tutoring, and walked around the Sports Field. Back in the classroom, Qin Zeyu confronted Bai Bufan over a misleading chess video, only to learn its sequel ended in another defeat.

• Lin Li offered Chen Yuying a soda can tab as a makeshift ring, and she accepted it as a prize to redeem later.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying attended tutoring, where Xiao Tingbai explained the teachers’ nicknames and Lin Li made Chen Yuying laugh with a pun.
• Lin Li and Chen Yuying toured the Sports Field, saw preparations for the New Year's Eve Gala, and Lin Li picked sour tangerines to leave in his desk.
• Lin Li returned to the classroom and joined Qin Zeyu in attacking Bai Bufan after Qin Zeyu complained that a recommended chess video had been a tutorial in which the female player won.
• Bai Bufan told Qin Zeyu that the sequel also ended with the male player losing, prompting Qin Zeyu to rage at him again.

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.