Recaps

Zhang Chi and his friends punished the Black and White Duo, while Gu Tai and Luo Jun plotted revenge. At school, Xin Youling tried to regain Xue Yuantong's favor, Shan Xiao befriended Xiao Shaoxiong, and Xiao Shaoxiong decided to reunite Zhang Zhaodi with Wu Tie to avoid paying her medical expenses.

• Zhang Chi forced Gu Tai, Luo Jun, and Shi Qianjin to pay Jiang Ning one hundred yuan, then considered spending the money with Duan Shigang and Liu Chuandao.
• Gu Tai and Luo Jun analyzed Zhang Chi, Liu Chuandao, and Duan Shigang's weaknesses and planned to take revenge on them.
• An Chan lost a badminton match to Principal Yu, and Yun Tingting took her place as students gathered to watch.
• Xin Youling comforted Xue Yuantong about her height, then admitted she could say more just to please her, leaving Xue Yuantong stunned.
• Shan Xiao gave Xiao Shaoxiong water and thirty-seven yuan and fifty cents, earning his trust and helping him plan to get a replacement phone.
• Xiao Shaoxiong rented a phone and decided to set Zhang Zhaodi up with Wu Tie again so he could avoid paying her medical expenses.

Xiao Shaoxiong’s lies about Zhang Zhaodi and Jiang Ning triggered Wu Tie’s rage, while Xiao Shaoxiong’s call demanding money from his sister drew criticism from Hu Jun, Huang Yuzhu, and Tang Jing. At school, Yin Yu continued concealing her intentions as she approached Jiang Ning and Yang Sheng at the ping-pong tables.

• Xiao Shaoxiong sent Wu Tie a photo of Zhang Zhaodi and Jiang Ning together, and Wu Tie erupted in anger during evening study.
• Xiao Shaoxiong demanded seven thousand from Sister Xiao, and Hu Jun, Huang Yuzhu, and Tang Jing overheard him and confronted him afterward.
• Xiao Shaoxiong gave Hu Jun his sister’s WeChat number, and Hu Jun sent her a friend request; Lu Qiqi then asked Xiao Shaoxiong when he would pay Zhang Zhang’s medical expenses.
• Yin Yu let Liu Chuandao believe she wanted to meet his mother, and Wang Longlong explained that she had meant for him to visit his mom.
• Tang Fu impressed the class with a powerful football shot, while Xue Yuantong tried kicking a ball and was stopped by Gu Wei.
• Jiang Ning declined Yin Yu’s invitation to play ping-pong with him, then used his Spiritual Sense to reveal a message on her phone telling someone to put on an act when Yu arrived.

Yang Sheng challenged Yin Yu to a table-tennis wager and beat her thirteen points to zero, leaving Yin Yu with thirteen cleaning duties. The chapter then followed Tang Fu’s encounter with a student and ended with Jiang Ning helping Chen Siyu with a math problem.

• Yang Sheng offered to cover Yu Wen’s cleaning duty if Yu Wen played her, but Yu Wen refused, so Yin Yu took the challenge instead.
• Yin Yu wagered one cleaning duty per game against Yang Sheng, and the Class 8 students gathered to watch.
• Yang Sheng won thirteen consecutive points, leaving Yin Yu stunned by the thirteen cleaning duties she owed.
• Liu Chuandao defended Yin Yu, but Yang Sheng asked whether he wanted to take over her debt, and he refused.
• Tang Fu ran away from Liang Jingxing after he asked whether she had a boyfriend, then joined Chen Siyu and Jiang Ning in joking about robbing a bank.
• Chen Siyu asked Jiang Ning for help with a math problem, and he told her to sit properly so he could teach her.

The students negotiated compensation after Xiao Shaoxiong’s phone exploded and Ma Shicheng helped expose reports of Samsung S6 edge explosions online. Samsung’s crisis team approached Ma Shicheng at school, offering to test his phone and make him a youth experience officer, but he remained unconcerned about a possible data leak.

• Lu Qiqi pressed Xiao Shaoxiong to compensate Zhang Zhaodi and apologize to Jiang Ning, but Xiao Shaoxiong only thanked Jiang Ning for saving her.
• Yin Yu learned she had to take out the trash to repay one of her cleaning duties and messaged Gong Jin to make him help.
• Wang Longlong and Ma Shicheng discussed the growing online backlash against Samsung, then saw Samsung issue a statement denying problems with the S6 edge.
• Lin Jingwen and Samsung staff summoned Ma Shicheng, asked to test his phone, and offered him a new phone and a Samsung Youth Experience Officer position.
• Lin Jingwen warned Ma Shicheng that his saved photos, messages, and browser history might leak, but Ma Shicheng said he was not afraid.

Ma Shicheng negotiated 200,000 yuan from Samsung for the damaged phone, while Lin Jingwen planned to use the media and the phone’s records against him. Back at school, he revealed Xiao Shaoxiong’s phone had been returned, and later Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong home, where she traded teasing insults with Uncle Tang and Jiang Ning.

• Lin Jingwen offered Ma Shicheng 30,000 yuan and demanded he sign a strict confidentiality agreement, but Ma Shicheng raised the settlement to 200,000 yuan after Shan Xiao dodged her specialist’s attempt to seize the phone remains.
• Ma Shicheng signed the agreement after Chen Qian reviewed it, received the money, and had Shan Xiao hand over the remains; Lin Jingwen left planning to blame him publicly for the damage.
• Ma Shicheng gave Shan Xiao and Chen Qian commissions and invited them to dinner, while Wang Longlong announced the settlement to Class 8 and Xiao Shaoxiong angrily demanded his phone and a share of the money.
• Ma Shicheng ended Xiao Shaoxiong’s protests by revealing that his Samsung phone had been returned, then Chen Siyu arranged to visit Jiang Ning with Tang Fu on Saturday.
• Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong home on his electric bike, where she teased Uncle Tang about his wilted vegetables before trading jokes with Jiang Ning about their respective ideal qualities.

Jiang Ning examined a rare Star-Containing Stone while spending the evening with Xue Chuchu, Xue Yuantong, and the Chen twins. After Chen Siyu asked him to teach them how to make money, the group shared dinner and drifted into a joking discussion about Jia Baoyu and Cao Pi.

• Jiang Ning discovered that the Evergreen Liquid team had found Star-Containing Stone, which could help him cultivate toward Foundation Establishment once the Xuehua Lake formation was complete.
• Jiang Ning watched Xue Chuchu cook, and Hua Fengmei praised him after he complimented how her hands had held up the family.
• Xue Yuantong found Jiang Ning eating with Xue Chuchu and joined them, then offered to help Chen Siyu reclaim the eighty yuan she had been scammed out of.
• Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing arrived and asked Jiang Ning to teach them money-making skills after dinner, while Xue Chuchu worried about the danger of his previous earnings.
• Xue Yuantong protested Jiang Ning's jokes about her height, and Xue Chuchu tried to comfort her before the group debated whether hardship could change Jia Baoyu.

Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong, Xue Chuchu, and the Chen twins to the River Dam so the twins could learn how to run a stall, but Chen Siyu’s attempts at serving customers failed disastrously. The next morning, Tang Fu arrived at the Chen home to take the twins out, while Mother Chen warned her daughters not to lead their friend astray.

• Xue Yuantong persuaded Xue Chuchu to join the group for an evening walk, and Jiang Ning borrowed Zhang Butcher’s dog Xiao Ben to escort them to the River Dam.
• Jiang Ning brought the Chen twins to Teacher Nini’s sushi stall to learn customer service, but Chen Siyu drove away customers with awkward greetings and blunt answers.
• Chen Siyu felt discouraged after the failed lesson, and Jiang Ning reassured her that she could succeed in the future.
• On Saturday morning, Tang Fu came to the Chen home to take Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing out, and Chen Siyu scared Tang Fu into putting away her cola with a misleading story about a man who died after drinking it.
• Mother Chen met Tang Fu and told her daughters not to lead their friend astray.

Tang Fu took Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing to do good deeds at a nursing home before joining Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning’s plan to charge tourists for litter cleanup at the River Dam. The outing turned urgent when Jiang Ning pulled a sharp glass shard from Tang Fu’s mouth after she drank cola.

• Tang Fu led Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing to a nursing home, where she stopped an elderly man from beating a caregiver and visited Grandma Liu.
• Grandma Liu tried to match Tang Fu with her grandson, then gave Tang Fu a bottle of cola and the twins cans of Six Walnuts; Chen Siyu noticed a beer bottle nearby.
• Tongtong told the twins that Jiang Ning had found a new way to make money, and they brought Tang Fu to join the group at the River Dam.
• Xue Yuantong explained that the group would collect fees from tourists who left trash on land owned by Evergreen Liquid, though the team questioned how they would carry out the plan.
• Jiang Ning saw Tang Fu drinking cola and quickly pulled a sharp glass shard from her mouth, preventing her from swallowing it.

Jiang Ning, Xue Yuantong, and their companions went to Evergreen Liquid Company’s grassland to stop tourists from littering, polluting the stream, and damaging the grass. After Xiao Ben used force to subdue several rule-breakers, they collected fines and left tourists too frightened to object, then encountered a family mocking a girl in Hanfu who was trying to protect the environment.

• Chen Siyu, Xue Yuantong, Tang Fu, and the others agreed to protect the environment and marched toward the River Dam with Jiang Ning and Xiao Ben.
• Jiang Ning showed tourists Evergreen Liquid Company’s credentials and announced fines for littering, unauthorized fires, and water pollution.
• Xiao Ben knocked down a shirtless tourist who challenged Jiang Ning, and Xue Yuantong collected fines from him and other drivers who had crushed the grass.
• Xiao Ben dragged a young man into the stream after his group ignored warnings to pick up their trash, and Jiang Ning made the frightened couples give the environmental enforcement team perfect ratings.
• Jiang Ning and the others found a family barbecuing beside the stream and mocking a girl in Hanfu who had asked them not to litter.

Xue Yuantong, Chen Siyu, and Jiang Ning used Xiao Ben to punish a family for damaging the grassland, then returned home with the money they collected. Jiang Ning later saw Shen Qing'e’s happy photos online and felt uncomfortable about them.

• Xue Yuantong and Chen Siyu confronted a family for littering and making a fire, and Jiang Ning ordered Xiao Ben to attack when the family threatened them.
• Xiao Ben knocked down the adults, dragged the nasty old woman into the creek, and took the wife’s phone; Chen Siyu then listed offenses that raised the family’s tax to eight hundred yuan.
• Song Qiulin introduced herself to the group and criticized their rough methods, but Xue Yuantong challenged her to offer a better solution.
• Xue Yuantong reported that the group had collected four thousand eight hundred yuan, and Shang Chenxi asked to spar with Xiao Ben.
• Xue Yuantong brought the money home and told Zhang Butcher that Xiao Ben had helped collect taxes, while Jiang Ning and the others prepared a feast.
• Jiang Ning checked QQ Space and saw Shen Qing'e’s cheerful photos, which left him feeling uncomfortable.

Shen Qing'e mistook a spam text for a message from someone she missed, while Tang Fu spent the day meeting Jiang Ning’s neighbors and helping at Xue Yuantong’s home. The chapter ended with the family sharing a lavish meal and joking about the holes in lotus root.

• Shen Qing'e celebrated Yin Yu’s victory in the class joke contest before a game advertisement fooled her into thinking a former lover had returned.
• Tang Fu met Teacher Qian and encouraged him to keep his struggling son in school, then misunderstood his sarcasm about her pursuing sports as praise.
• Lin Zida teased Teacher Qian about Xue Yuantong controlling his air conditioner and confused him with talk of a smart home system.
• Tang Fu watched the air conditioner being installed, then helped carry food and furniture at Xue Yuantong’s home.
• Jiang Ning called Xue Yuantong pretty, making her happy before he teased her and she chased him with a spatula.
• The family gathered over dinner, where Tang Fu joked that lotus root was a bad deal because of its holes and Chen Siyu tried to correct her.

Cui Yu, Zhang Chi, and their friends left campus with Xue Yuantong’s permission, while Chai Wei began using his new Student Union position to build influence. He left Class 16 with a favorable reputation after rigging a card draw to protect Shang Wanqing, and privately turned his thoughts toward his enemies in Class 8.

• Ma Shicheng took Cui Yu, Zhang Chi, and the others out for food, and Zhang Chi asked him how to turn two hundred yuan into two hundred thousand.
• Chai Wei joined the Discipline Department and accompanied Vice Minister Jing and Secretary Yi on class inspections.
• During roll call in Class 16, Secretary Yi confronted Long Xiaotian for answering for someone else, and Long Xiaotian confessed he had answered for Shang Wanqing.
• Chai Wei offered to spare Shang Wanqing if Long Xiaotian drew the Little Joker, then used a deck of identical Little Jokers to make him draw it.
• Chai Wei left Class 16 with the students impressed by Secretary Wei and thought about Cui Yu, Liu Chuandao, Duan Shigang, Dong Qingfeng, Ma Shicheng, and Jiang Ning.

Ma Shicheng and his friends skipped class to buy late-night snacks, while Chai Wei returned to evening study and Jiang Ning listened to music with his expensive audio equipment. The chapter left Jiang Ning fending off Xue Yuantong after she claimed his earphones, while Xiao Shaoxiong silently resented his wealth.

• Ma Shicheng, Zhang Chi, Cui Yu, and Wang Longlong bought skewers and cola after Wang Longlong claimed his family worked for the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau.
• Chai Wei returned to class and planned to introduce roll calls for second-year students after becoming department head.
• Chen Siyu struggled with a math problem, and Liu Chuandao lost card tricks to Xin Youling and Yin Yu.
• Xin Youling wrote that she owed Jiang Ning another favor, and Jiang Ning let Chen Siyu try his Sony audio equipment.
• Chen Siyu praised the sound, while Xiao Shaoxiong discovered the equipment cost over ten thousand yuan and grew resentful.
• Xue Yuantong took Jiang Ning's earphones, argued with him, and attacked him after he called her a child.

Class 8 shared a late-night feast before Shan Qingrong announced performance auditions for the Three Cities Sports Meet. Han Wennuan impressed the class with a duet with Huang Zhongfei, while Yu Wen’s attempt to dance ended in a painful collision with Yang Sheng’s desk.

• Ma Shicheng treated Class 8 to fried skewers and drinks, and Chai Wei gave Xiao Shaoxiong an iced cola.
• Shan Qingrong warned Class 8 to avoid Purified Water after students in Class 11 developed stomachaches, and Hu Jun assigned Liu Chuandao to take out the trash instead of carrying water.
• Shan Qingrong invited students to audition for the Sports Meet opening ceremony, and Zhong Huai encouraged Han Wennuan to sign up for a paid performance.
• Han Wennuan sang a duet with Huang Zhongfei, impressing Shan Qingrong and leaving Yu Wen jealous.
• Yu Wen volunteered to dance, but she struck the corner of Yang Sheng’s desk during her performance and crouched down in pain.

A sudden rainstorm kept the students at No.4 Middle School inside, where Jiang Ning calmly drank tea and later rode Xue Yuantong home through the rain. The chapter ended with Xue Yuantong happily agreeing that Chu Chu could wait on both of them.

• Jiang Ning noticed dark clouds gathering, and a severe rainstorm began shortly after Shan Qingrong left the classroom.
• Bai Yuxia and Yang Sheng left in Bai Wenhan's BMW while the other students watched the downpour and joked about getting home.
• Meng Gui tried to tell Tan Meiling's fortune, then attempted to justify touching her waist before Niu Ying interrupted him.
• Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong home on his Electric Bike, keeping the rain off them with his control of Spiritual Energy.
• Xue Yuantong offered to serve Jiang Ning, then agreed that Chu Chu could do the work for both of them.

Jiang Ning shared a late-night snack with Xue Yuantong, Xue Chuchu, and Aunt Gu, then watched Tongtong conquer Bloodborne before resuming his cultivation. The next morning, he brought a fish and bamboo shoot to Chuchu’s home, where her reading aloud led him to praise her memory.

• Aunt Gu invited Jiang Ning, Xue Yuantong, and Xue Chuchu inside for a late-night snack, and Chuchu peeled shrimp for Jiang Ning and Tongtong.
• Xue Chuchu tried Bloodborne and died twice, while Xue Yuantong took the controller and defeated Father Gascoigne without dying.
• Aunt Gu dragged Tongtong home when she kept playing past eleven thirty, and Tongtong later messaged Jiang Ning before wishing him good night.
• Jiang Ning cultivated through the night, then flew to Tiger Perch Mountain, gathered a spiritual bamboo shoot, and caught a fish at Qingyu Lake.
• Jiang Ning brought the fish and bamboo shoot to Xue Chuchu and told her to keep studying before he prepared the fish for porridge.
• Xue Chuchu asked whether Tongtong did morning reading, and Jiang Ning said she learned everything after one look, prompting Chuchu to resent her books.

Ting Yuan reflected on the exhaustion of his work and remembered imperfect moments from his student days. He ended by hoping readers would give him Monthly Tickets during his day off.

• Ting Yuan welcomed a rare day off after twenty days without one.
• Ting Yuan remembered the confidence and excitement he had felt at school.
• Ting Yuan recalled falling short of the top students and failing to catch up with upperclassmen in a race.
• Ting Yuan remembered avoiding a classmate who had shown him kindness, and watching her leave disappointed.
• Ting Yuan compared his unmet hopes at school with his difficulty receiving Monthly Tickets.

The author reflected on the novel’s shifts between cultivation, business, and campus slice-of-life, and on the reader criticism those choices drew. The author said the other-world plot would be glossed over and thanked readers for their support.

• The author explained that the novel began as a conventional urban cultivation story before shifting toward campus life after editor Lu Ming helped sign it.
• The author described controversies over the opening chapters, the Ding Shuyan arc, cultivation’s effect on intelligence, and the balance between protagonist-focused plots and ensemble slice-of-life.
• The author recalled a reader’s advice to write simpler plots and admitted that the advice had a point.
• The author reported around 2,000 24-hour follow-up subscriptions and said the novel would continue despite criticism.
• The author said the other-world plot would be glossed over and thanked readers who supported the story.

Ting Yuan recalled leaving his hometown for the county town and arriving at a new school, where he met a girl who reminded him of the childhood friend he had lost. After telling her that the friend had died, he revealed that he could speak but would not do so until the following year.

• Ting Yuan’s parents decided to move to the county town to sell flatbread, and he tried to persuade them to let him stay by promising to improve his grades.
• Ting Yuan said goodbye to Little A'Ling, who admitted she had spread rumors about him so he would defend her from other children.
• After moving, Ting Yuan pretended to be deaf and mute when the Director of Academic Affairs mistook his bloody ear for an injury and escorted him to class.
• Ting Yuan recognized his new deskmate, Big A'Ling, as Little A'Ling’s older sister, and asked her about his childhood friend.
• Big A'Ling admitted she had only learned his name from the dean, and Ting Yuan told her his friend had died the year before last.
• Ting Yuan told Big A'Ling that he could speak, but would not until the following year.

Tang Fu, Xue Yuantong, and Jiang Ning spent the day around No. 4 Middle School as students and teachers traded jokes and argued. During evening self-study, Yin Yu won the Comedy King title, while Jiang Ning thwarted Zhang Chi’s attempt to overcharge him for snacks.

• Tang Fu chased Xue Yuantong’s electric bike after challenging her to a race, easing the tension around Principal Yu’s speech.
• Jiang Ning brought Xue Yuantong and Tang Fu to Teacher Guo’s office, where Chen Shuaishuai fled after recognizing Xue Yuantong.
• Jiang Ning sensed that An Chan was angry after reporting a buyer who harassed her while she tried to sell clothes online.
• Gao Heshaui celebrated buying an apartment, and Man Yin argued with him about relationships and home ownership before Tang Fu changed the subject with a joke.
• Wang Longlong named Yin Yu the Comedy King, and Yin Yu received two duty-privilege cards.
• Jiang Ning asked Zhang Chi to show him all his snacks, then refused to buy any after comparing the prices.

Yang Sheng challenged Yin Yu to a table tennis match for cleaning duties and defeated her 13–0, while the school day continued with Tang Fu brushing off a boy trying to flirt with her. As the weekend approached, Jiang Ning helped Chen Siyu with an arithmetic progression problem, leaving Xin Youling suspicious that something felt off.

• Yang Sheng invited Yu Wen to play table tennis, but Yu Wen refused, and Yin Yu accepted instead.
• Yin Yu proposed wagering one cleaning duty per game; Yang Sheng agreed, then won 13–0 as their classmates watched.
• Liu Chuandao defended Yin Yu, but Yang Sheng suggested he take on Yin Yu's cleaning duties, and he refused.
• Liang Jingxing approached Tang Fu to ask if she had a boyfriend, but she misunderstood him and ran off to join Chen Siyu and Jiang Ning.
• Gao Heshaui left the class to look at apartments, and Gong Jin cheered Pang Jiao by telling her she had lost weight.
• Chen Siyu asked Jiang Ning for help finding the common difference of an arithmetic progression, while Xin Youling wondered what seemed strange about their exchange.

Ting Yuan recounted his lonely childhood in a rural school, where his imaginative pencil battles helped him survive changing schools and awkward classmates. After exposing Little Fatty and the Math Teacher as monstrous fighters, he gave Xue Sheng his last pencil and decided not to do his homework.

• Ting Yuan remembered his village classmates colluding to claim they had completed their homework, only for their Math Teacher to leave for work and their physics teacher to lead them toward Town Elementary School.
• Ting Yuan imagined Xiao Fei swallowing the teacher and students in the forest, then rescued them with a pencil and reached Town Elementary School, where he was separated from his village friends.
• After the physics teacher made Ting Yuan stand for failing to answer a question, Ting Yuan used a pencil to reveal the teacher's true form, and the teacher thereafter rarely called on him.
• Ting Yuan tried to help Little Fatty by using his pencil, causing Little Fatty to transform into a giant bear and the Math Teacher to transform into a donkey that fought him.
• Ting Yuan gave Xue Sheng his last pencil when she worried about doing her homework, and he said he would not do his own homework that day.

In their previous life, Xue Chuchu struggled with her mother's grave illness and rejected Boss Li's offer to pay for treatment in exchange for her companionship. At home, Xue Yuantong comforted Chuchu with snacks and helped her find meaning in living despite the possibility of loss.

• In the hospital, Boss Li offered to fund Xue Chuchu's mother's surgery and expenses if Chuchu kept him company for two years, but she refused and told him to leave.
• Boss Li approached Director Feng after Chuchu walked away, mentioning that his son was classmates with Director Feng's daughter, Bai Yuxia.
• After school, Xue Yuantong met Xue Chuchu, bought snacks, and rode home with her while Chuchu hid her worry about her mother.
• At lunch, Xue Chuchu broke down crying over her mother's illness, and Xue Yuantong accidentally got chili oil in her eyes while trying to comfort her.
• Xue Chuchu asked whether life had meaning if everyone was destined to die, and Xue Yuantong compared life to enjoying snacks before they ran out, then shared her snacks with Chuchu.

Ting Yuan announced a plan to keep updating twice a day and try to get the story onto the Monthly Ticket rankings. Ting Yuan asked readers to send their tickets on March 1st and focus their support on that day.

• Ting Yuan said they were still recovering from a long-term condition and taking medicine while continuing to update twice daily.
• Ting Yuan explained that stopping updates had hurt the story's exposure, leaving the Monthly Ticket rankings as its main remaining source of new readers.
• Ting Yuan decided to try for the Monthly Ticket rankings this month without setting a ticket goal.
• Ting Yuan asked readers to give their Monthly Tickets on March 1st and concentrate their support on that day.

The author explained that dizziness and a hospital examination revealed cerebral arteriosclerosis, insufficient blood supply, and cerebral hypoxia, prompting a long leave from Rebirth: Daily Cultivation. The author expected to resume updates around February 16, 2025, if recovery went well.

• Ting Yuan went to the hospital after experiencing dizziness, and the doctor diagnosed cerebral arteriosclerosis, insufficient blood supply to the brain, and cerebral hypoxia.
• The doctor said medication, a regular schedule, dietary control, and exercise could help reverse Ting Yuan's condition.
• The author announced a leave of around a month and a half and said Rebirth: Daily Cultivation would not be updated during that time.
• The author said updates might resume on February 16, 2025, and that Jiang Ning would not be written during the break.
• The author thanked readers for accompanying Ting Yuan for over two years and wished them good health and success.