Chapter Summaries

During PE, Jiang Ning intervened when an older student harassed Geng Lu, and the senior fled after Jiang Ning’s classmates rushed over. The group was left wondering what had happened, while Geng Lu laughed in relief.

• Shen Xinli challenged Cui Yu to compete on the Cloud Ladder Parallel Bars, while Jiang Ning played badminton with Xue Yuantong and Chen Siqing.
• A second-year student asked Geng Lu for her QQ and WeChat, and Jiang Ning stepped in when she refused.
• Jiang Ning told the senior to get lost, prompting the boy to angrily threaten him.
• Wang Longlong, Ma Shicheng, Shan Kaiquan, Meng Gui, and Cui Yu ran toward Jiang Ning, and the senior mistook them for an attacking group and fled.
• Jiang Ning told the confused boys that they had scared the senior off, and Geng Lu laughed.

Cui Yu’s parallel-bars contest with Class Nine escalated after Shen Xu made an impressive jump and Shen Xinli mocked Class 8. Class 8 turned to Jiang Ning for help, while Shen Xinli remained unaware of his reputation for fighting.

• Cui Yu invited Ma Shicheng, Wang Longlong, and the others to watch his contest with Class Nine at the Cloud Ladder Parallel Bars.
• Geng Lu and Chen Siqing agreed that the senior who had asked Geng Lu for her contact information seemed unreliable, and Geng Lu decided to warn Jiang Ning about a possible retaliation.
• Shen Xu leaped across much of the Cloud Ladder, then promoted his honey to the students watching.
• Shen Xinli taunted Class 8 and challenged one of its students to jump farther than Shen Xu, angering Cui Yu and the others.
• Wang Longlong suggested that Jiang Ning could take the challenge, and Cui Yu went to find him as Shen Xinli continued to underestimate him.

Jiang Ning joined Class 8’s bar-jumping contest against Class 9 and made an extraordinary jump that silenced his opponents. Class 8 left the field celebrating while Shen Xinli and the other Class 9 students were left embarrassed.

• Cui Yu asked Jiang Ning to help Class 8 answer Class 9’s challenge to a bar-jumping contest, and Jiang Ning agreed.
• Jiang Ning ignored Shen Xinli’s taunts and leaped to the second-to-last bar using only his physical strength.
• Class 8 students praised Jiang Ning, while Class 9 students failed to find anyone willing to beat his jump.
• Shan Kaiquan and Cui Yu mocked Shen Xinli and Class 9, then Wang Longlong suggested that they leave and play games.

Shen Xinli challenged the Class Eight boys to prove himself on the Cloud Ladder Parallel Bars, but missed the last bar and knocked himself unconscious. As the physical education teacher tried to revive him, Pang Jiao volunteered to give him artificial respiration.

• Chen Siqing invited Jiang Ning to play badminton as Shan Kaiquan and the others started to leave.
• Shen Xinli challenged Shan Kaiquan and Cui Yu to the Cloud Ladder Parallel Bars, then jumped for the last bar and crashed onto a crossbar.
• Shi Qianjin ran to fetch the physical education teacher while Jiang Ning reassured Xue Yuantong that Shen Xinli was not seriously injured.
• The physical education teacher arrived, laid Shen Xinli flat, and asked for a student who knew artificial respiration to help.
• Pang Jiao volunteered and began giving Shen Xinli artificial respiration while the onlookers reacted awkwardly.

During Physical Education Class, Shen Xinli fainted and Pang Jiao revived him with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, leaving him horrified and fleeing the field. Later, Lu Qiqi warned Geng Lu about a predatory senior, while Jiang Ning and his classmates spent the afternoon playing Gomoku and discussing Sports Day.

• Pang Jiao and the physical education teacher revived Shen Xinli, and Shen Xinli ran away in despair after realizing Pang Jiao had given him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
• Shan Kaiquan told Class 8 about the incident, while Jiang Ning played Gomoku with Xue Yuantong and tricked her into putting away the black pieces.
• Lu Qiqi warned Geng Lu that a senior who had asked for her contact information had harassed a girl in middle school, and Geng Lu thanked her.
• Lu Qiqi suggested Geng Lu ask Jiang Ning for help if the senior approached her again, then revealed that she had been the girl he had harassed.
• During chemistry class, Guo Ran wrote a difficult problem on the blackboard, teased the students by saying she would call someone up, and then solved it herself.

Jiang Ning helped Guo Ran test a classroom microphone amplifier and listened as she discussed another blind date arranged by her relative. He agreed to wait outside the restaurant with her on Saturday and left with snacks for Xue Yuantong, promising Guo Ran a gift the next day.

• Guo Ran called Jiang Ning to the office and asked him to test her microphone amplifier; after he said it sounded harsh, she decided not to use it.
• Guo Ran told Jiang Ning that her relative had arranged another blind date for Saturday, and Jiang Ning advised her to be careful.
• Guo Ran asked Jiang Ning to wait outside the restaurant during her blind date, and he agreed.
• Guo Ran gave Jiang Ning a large bag of snacks to share with Xue Yuantong, and Jiang Ning promised to bring Guo Ran a gift the next day.

Jiang Ning planned to develop Tiger Perch Mountain and Qingyu Lake into a cultivation base while Class 8 dealt with the fallout from Zhang Chi’s fight with Qi Tianheng. The chapter ended with Gao Heshaui advancing on Zhang Chi after the student insulted him, as Huang Zhongfei tried to intervene.

• Jiang Ning offered Xue Yuantong snacks, and she eagerly accepted despite being angry with him.
• Qi Tianheng learned that Yang Sheng had not been ordering or eating the breakfasts he brought, discovered Zhang Chi had used his number to request food, and went to confront him.
• Jiang Ning surveyed Tiger Perch Mountain and Qingyu Lake by Spirit Boat and planned to grow herbs and crops, raise Spirit Beasts, and establish formations there.
• Shan Kaiquan told Class 8 that Zhang Chi and Qi Tianheng had fought in the dormitory, leaving both injured.
• Gao Heshaui mocked Zhang Chi’s bruises in class, Zhang Chi insulted him back, and Huang Zhongfei stepped between them as Gao Heshaui moved toward Zhang Chi.

Gao Heshaui and Zhang Chi traded insults in class but were prevented from fighting, and Shan Qingrong took Zhang Chi to the infirmary. Jiang Ning left to deliver a gift to Guo Ran, while Li Shi asked him about Qi Tianheng’s fight with a Class 8 student.

• Huang Zhongfei and Chen Qian stopped Gao Heshaui and Zhang Chi from coming to blows as the class watched them argue.
• Gao Heshaui won the verbal exchange and mocked Zhang Chi for wasting the class’s time.
• Shan Qingrong saw Zhang Chi’s bruised face, scolded him for fighting and talking back to Gao Heshaui, then took him to the infirmary.
• Jiang Ning slipped out through the classroom window and headed toward Experimental Class 1 with a porcelain bottle for Guo Ran.
• Li Shi asked Jiang Ning whether Qi Tianheng had fought someone from Class 8, and Jiang Ning directed her to ask Shan Kaiquan.

Jiang Ning gave Guo Ran homemade throat-soothing candy, while Geng Lu dealt with an unwanted senior and Xue Yuantong asked Jiang Ning for help retrieving her eraser. The chapter left Jiang Ning teasing Xue Yuantong after secretly moving the eraser farther away.

• Jiang Ning delivered a bottle of homemade throat-soothing candy to Guo Ran, whose throat discomfort disappeared after she tried one.
• Geng Lu accepted a friend request from a senior who concealed his identity, then deleted him and ignored his calls after he admitted he had asked for her QQ at school.
• Jiang Ning offered to help Geng Lu if she faced trouble and secretly cast a magic art on her.
• Xue Yuantong dropped her eraser beneath her desk and asked Jiang Ning to pick it up, but he kicked it farther away and told her she could reach it herself.
• Xue Yuantong retrieved the eraser herself and thought Jiang Ning was awful.

At school, Shan Kaiquan rallied classmates to play Chinese Chess while Yan Tianpeng’s attempt to treat Lu Qiqi to lunch went nowhere. Later, Jiang Ning teased Xue Yuantong by withholding Milk Jujubes, but she used a game to talk him into giving her several.

• Yang Sheng went to the bike shed with Jiang Ning and felt relieved that Qi Tianheng was recuperating at home after fighting Zhang Chi.
• Shan Kaiquan, Ma Shicheng, and their classmates planned to eat braised chicken and play Chinese Chess, while Hu Jun changed his mind after Shan Kaiquan mentioned its appeal to older women.
• Yan Tianpeng offered to take Lu Qiqi for braised chicken, but she declined and headed to ES Restaurant after he suggested she borrow money.
• Jiang Ning shared Milk Jujubes from Tiger Perch Mountain Villa with no one, leaving Xue Yuantong eager for one.
• Xue Yuantong proposed a contest to spit jujube pits the farthest and used repeated rounds to get three Milk Jujubes from Jiang Ning.

Geng Lu asked Jiang Ning to deal with Li San after the senior harassed her and falsely claimed they were close. Jiang Ning used his Spiritual Sense to make Li San suffer whenever he touched his phone, while Xue Yuantong asked him to clean her eraser with magic.

• Li San joined Geng Lu and the Chen Siyu sisters at lunch, ignored their requests to leave, and tried to persuade the girls to let him tutor them.
• After Geng Lu rejected Li San's repeated QQ requests and blocked his alternate accounts, he planned to investigate her friends and Jiang Ning.
• Geng Lu told Jiang Ning about Li San's harassment, and Jiang Ning calmly promised to handle it.
• Jiang Ning used the Soul Shocking Spike from across campus to inflict pain on Li San whenever he touched his phone, until Li San begged others to take it away.
• Xue Yuantong asked Jiang Ning to clean her dirty eraser, and he restored it with a twist of his hand.

Shan Kaiquan tried to impress Bai Yuxia with school gossip, while Wu Xiaoqi’s nightmare about Pang Jiao disrupted class and left him afraid to sleep. When Gao Heshaui’s lessons were replaced by self-study, Wu Xiaoqi dozed off again, and Pang Jiao slapped him awake as he had asked.

• Shan Kaiquan told Chen Siyu and Bai Yuxia about students caught at an internet cafe and Yan Tianpeng fainting after his hamster died.
• Wu Xiaoqi startled the class by leaping onto his desk and shouting, “Don’t kiss me!” during Dai Yongquan’s recitation, then Shan Qingrong scolded him.
• Huang Zhongfei announced that Gao Heshaui was ill, giving Class 8 self-study for two periods.
• Wu Xiaoqi feared falling asleep because of a nightmare about Pang Jiao giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and asked her to wake him if he dozed off.
• Wu Xiaoqi fell asleep at his desk, and Pang Jiao grabbed his hair and slapped his face repeatedly.

Pang Jiao and Wu Xiaoqi nearly fought after she slapped him awake, but their classmates and an interrupting teacher stopped the confrontation. Xue Yuantong slept through the classroom uproar, then woke as Gao Heshaui arrived to teach solid geometry despite being sick.

• Pang Jiao slapped Wu Xiaoqi awake, and the two traded insults before pressing their foreheads together and threatening to fight.
• Wu Xiaoqi prepared to attack, but Zhang Yifei, Wang Yanyan, and other classmates stood up around him, so he pretended he had only scratched his neck.
• A teacher scolded Class 8, and an unidentified student called them hardworking Little Bees; the interruption ended the argument between Pang Jiao and Wu Xiaoqi.
• During the break, Shan Kaiquan, Cui Yu, and Meng Gui discussed the classroom uproar while Xue Yuantong woke and asked Jiang Ning what had happened.
• Huang Zhongfei announced that Gao Heshaui would teach despite being sick, ending Shan Kaiquan and Cui Yu’s plans to play Chinese Chess.
• Gao Heshaui began a solid geometry lesson and asked why he had set up the problem a particular way, making the students laugh.

Xue Yuantong went out to eat noodles with Jiang Ning, while privately planning to start having dinner at home with her mother after school. Their familiar closeness caught Bai Yuxia’s attention, and Xue Yuantong’s plan to stop relying on Jiang Ning for food remained unknown to him.

• After class, Xue Yuantong asked Jiang Ning to take her out to eat, and he chose a noodle shop near the school.
• Geng Lu waited for her longtime friend, wary that Li San might approach her again after bothering her at noon.
• At the noodle shop, Xue Yuantong ordered two bowls of chicken noodles and had Jiang Ning pay with her money.
• Xue Yuantong thought about saving for a tablet and planned to have her mother pick her up so they could eat dinner together at home.
• Bai Yuxia and her friends arrived and sat nearby, where Bai Yuxia noticed how naturally Xue Yuantong prepared Jiang Ning’s noodles and urged him to stop using his phone and eat.

Jiang Ning used repeated mental attacks to stop Li San from harassing Geng Lu, then returned to Class 8 as his classmates discussed old encounters and an upcoming basketball game. The chapter ended with Xue Yuantong protesting Jiang Ning’s requests for help, only to waver when he threatened to keep the grapes from her.

• Jiang Ning repeatedly struck Li San with Mental Spikes, causing him to scream and throw his phone, and told Geng Lu that Li San would not bother her again.
• Ma Shicheng gave Xue Yuantong two sticks of Green Arrow gum for Jiang Ning, while Shan Kaiquan set up a chess endgame to attract Bai Yuxia’s attention.
• Bai Yuxia recounted being pressured by older men to eat their rice, and Shan Kaiquan angrily imagined protecting her.
• Chen Siyu brought up the basketball game between Class 1 and Class 7, prompting Wu Xiaoqi and Shan Kaiquan to boast about challenging Class 1 and Zhuang Jianhui.
• Jiang Ning asked Xue Yuantong to fill his cup and wash his grapes, and she accused him of treating her like a maid before hesitating when he said she would get no grapes if she refused.

Guo Kunnan discovered that Manman had exposed and insulted him in a widely shared post on the No. 4 High School Tieba. Ma Shicheng organized an investigation while Guo Kunnan failed to contact Manman, and the chapter ended with Chen Siyu and Bai Yuxia discussing exams and university costs.

• Xue Yuantong reached for the grapes Jiang Ning had washed and began eating them.
• Guo Kunnan reflected on his past relationship with Manman and tried to remain calm until Cui Yu showed him a Tieba post accusing him of impersonating Huang Zhongfei and scamming Manman.
• Guo Kunnan recognized Manman as the likely poster, and Ma Shicheng told him to ask her to delete the post while Wang Longlong investigated the poster and commenters.
• Guo Kunnan sent Manman a friend request, but she ignored it, while Ma Shicheng warned that someone might be stirring up trouble.
• Chen Siyu and Bai Yuxia discussed the upcoming exams, university rankings, and tuition costs.

After Manman’s Tieba post smeared Guo Kunnan, Ma Shicheng and his friends tried to stop the attacks and restore Guo Kunnan’s reputation. The post returned, and Guo Kunnan finally agreed to join their retaliatory campaign as they launched spam texts and calls at the attackers’ phone numbers.

• Guo Kunnan found that students were piling on to a Tieba post mocking his character and appearance, while Ma Shicheng noticed the harshest commenters appeared to be acting together.
• Ma Shicheng sent Wang Longlong to pose as a security official and pressure Manman to delete the post, while Guo Kunnan bought milk tea for Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong.
• Wang Longlong reported that the post had been deleted, but it soon reappeared, and Ma Shicheng began planning a counterattack to clear Guo Kunnan’s name.
• Ma Shicheng gathered Shan Kaiquan, Hu Jun, Cui Yu, Meng Gui, and Wang Longlong, then prepared SMS and phone-bombing apps using the commenters’ phone numbers.
• After seeing that the renewed post was still attracting abuse, Guo Kunnan overcame his hesitation about attacking Manman and gave the group his approval.
• Ma Shicheng led the boys in a countdown, and they launched the SMS Bomber and Phone Bomber at the listed numbers.

Ma Shicheng’s group countered the attacks on Guo Kunnan by disrupting their opponents’ phones, planting flattering stories about Guo, and shifting attention to more sensational Tieba posts. Chen Siyu browsed the new threads and ended by looking toward Jiang Ning.

• Ma Shicheng’s group used a phone-bombing program to silence the accounts attacking Guo Kunnan, and Wang Longlong reported that their posts had stopped.
• Ma Shicheng directed Wang Longlong and the others to publish fabricated stories praising Guo Kunnan for returning money and helping people.
• The group posted threads about handsome No. 4 High School boys and Pang Jiao’s supposed confession to Zhuang Jianhui, pushing the attacks on Guo Kunnan down the Tieba feed.
• Ma Shicheng decided to wait rather than pursue harsher tactics against Manman, while Wang Longlong agreed that online users would not care about the truth.
• Chen Siyu browsed the new Tieba posts, bookmarked the thread ranking the school’s most handsome boys, and looked toward Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning ate the Small Cake Xue Yuantong had been saving, prompting her to call him to account on their ride home. Geng Lu learned that Li San had been taken to the hospital and suspected Jiang Ning was involved, while He Qingtang joined her for a sleepover.

• Xue Yuantong pretended the Small Cake was escaping, but Jiang Ning took it from her and ate it in two bites.
• Geng Lu finished and checked a physics paper, then saw an ambulance leaving school after Li San from Senior Two Class 3 fainted.
• He Qingtang told Geng Lu about Li San and planned to stand up for her, then accompanied her home with gifts for Geng Lu's family.
• Geng Lu suspected Jiang Ning had dealt with Li San but decided she would support him regardless.
• On the way home, Xue Yuantong confronted Jiang Ning for eating her cake, and he prepared to ride away on his bike.

Xue Yuantong tried to settle her grudge with Jiang Ning by making him guess how many candies she held, but he saw through her trick and took one. After they returned home, Jiang Ning dried her hair, and Xue Yuantong settled in for the night, planning breakfast and relying on him to wake her for school.

• Xue Yuantong stopped Jiang Ning from leaving by proposing a candy-counting game, but Jiang Ning used his Spiritual Sense to reveal that she had two candies and took one.
• Jiang Ning rode the Mountain Bike home with Xue Yuantong, who held his clothes and asked whether he could see the moon from up front.
• Jiang Ning recalled that Li San had collapsed in class after another Soul Shocking Spike and expected him to remain unconscious for days.
• Xue Yuantong bathed in her warmed bathroom, then asked Jiang Ning to dry her hair and suggested putting a ladder between their courtyards.
• Xue Yuantong returned to her room, set matching anime wallpapers on her and Jiang Ning's phones, planned breakfast, and went to sleep without setting an alarm.