Chapter Summaries

During exam day, Chai Wei grew jealous of Jiang Ning’s closeness with Guo Ran and confronted him in his thoughts, while the exam-room antics continued around them. After the exams, Jiang Ning returned to River Dam as workers finished building a shed, then played games with Xue Yuantong, who finally beat him by unplugging his controller.

• Xu Chun Deng tried to invite Shang Caiwei to play ranked games, but learned she was already King rank.
• Guo Ran proctored the exam, drew an impressive display on the blackboard, and later left with Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong to eat.
• Chai Wei watched Guo Ran favor Jiang Ning, became furious, and punched a wall before Song Sheng and the others mocked and challenged him.
• Yang Fei’s crew finished building the shed at River Dam, and Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong watched them leave.
• Jiang Ning used Spiritual Sense and Spiritual Energy to cheat at a game against Xue Yuantong, but she unplugged his controller and won.

During PE, Chai Wei grew jealous of Jiang Ning playing badminton with Bai Yuxia and challenged him to a match, only to be outplayed. After Chai Wei cramped and fell, Cui Yu called for Pang Jiao to help him.

• Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning talked about their plans for the weekend while Chai Wei complained to Qiang Li about Class 8 and his stalled pursuit of Bai Yuxia.
• Pang Jiao mistook Chai Wei's remark about the sunlight as praise, but Chai Wei and Qiang Li embarrassed her by clarifying he had not meant her.
• Liu Chuandao asked Duan Shigang, Huang Yuzhu, and Shan Xiao to answer for him at PE, but all three answered when Gu Wei called his name, exposing his absence.
• Jiang Ning and Bai Yuxia played badminton together, making Chai Wei jealous enough to challenge Jiang Ning to a match.
• Jiang Ning made Chai Wei run across the court to return each shot, and Chai Wei cramped and fell after Cui Yu taunted him to jump.
• Cui Yu borrowed Huang Yuzhu's megaphone and called for Pang Jiao to come help Chai Wei.

Hu Jun drove off a stray dog and joined students rushing to the badminton courts, where Pang Jiao and her friends took over Chai Wei’s treatment after he cramped up. Later, Jiang Ning enjoyed a quiet evening at home before Geng Lu called him while washing clothes and invited him to guess where she had put her phone.

• Gu Wei went to fetch tools to handle a vicious stray dog, but Hu Jun scared it away with a casual gesture.
• Hu Jun named several physically strong students in their class, then rushed with Song Sheng and Duan Shigang toward the badminton courts after hearing that Chai Wei needed help.
• Pang Jiao, Zhang Yifei, Li Shengnan, and Wang Yanyan pushed through the crowd and took charge of treating Chai Wei’s cramp while onlookers filmed.
• Jiang Ning used his spiritual power to peel pomegranates and ate them while watching a variety show.
• Geng Lu called Jiang Ning while washing clothes, and he noticed that her voice sounded different.
• Geng Lu hinted that she had put her phone somewhere unusual and asked Jiang Ning to guess where.

Jiang Ning split his attention between a flirtatious phone call with Geng Lu and a visit from Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu, then prepared spiritual rice for Xue Yuantong to cook. Meanwhile, Chai Wei struggled with classmates teasing him about his humiliating ordeal, and Yang Fei invited Brother Yao and Yao Yao to River Dam Agritainment.

• Geng Lu tried to hint at where she had tucked her phone, while Jiang Ning took her clues literally before finally understanding her teasing.
• Jiang Ning used Spells to keep talking with Geng Lu while Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu visited, then shared pomegranate seeds with them.
• Class 8 students teased Chai Wei about Pang Jiao treating his injured ankle, and Chai Wei left the Class Group before Qiang Li privately reassured him that others had endured similar ordeals.
• Jiang Ning brought overnight spiritual rice to Xue Yuantong and told her to make something tasty with it, so she fetched eggs from the kitchen.
• Yang Fei visited Brother Yao to invite him to inspect River Dam Agritainment, and Brother Yao agreed to go with Yang Fei and Yao Yao for a meal.

Jiang Ning, Xue Yuantong, and Xue Chuchu shared a breakfast of specially cultivated spiritual rice, whose effects delighted Chuchu. The aroma drew Yang Fei and Yao Yiyao to the Xue family’s courtyard, where Yao Yiyao recognized Jiang Ning and discovered that the fried rice was his.

• Yao Yiyao joined her father and Yang Fei on a drive to Yang Fei’s agritainment business.
• Xue Yuantong cooked Jiang Ning’s improved spiritual rice, and Xue Chuchu joined them for breakfast after smelling it.
• Xue Chuchu ate the fried rice and felt her fatigue and restlessness ease, while Jiang Ning assessed its effects.
• Yang Fei brought the Xue family mutton soup and received a tiny serving of fried rice, which he took back to Yao Yiyao and her father.
• Yao Yiyao tasted the rice, was amazed by its flavor, and persuaded her father and Yang Fei to visit the Xue family’s courtyard for more.
• Yao Yiyao recognized Jiang Ning in the courtyard, and Xue Yuantong insisted that it was her home.

Yao's Father recognized Jiang Ning and warmly thanked him for his parents' help, while Xue Chuchu wondered about Jiang Ning's wealth. Later, Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong played League of Legends together, and Tongtong said she wanted to walk him home too.

• Yao's Father recognized Jiang Ning as the son of the people who had helped him secure construction work and thanked him warmly.
• Xue Chuchu noticed Jiang Ning's expensive belongings and wondered why he had once rented a place by the River Dam.
• Cao Kun, Meng Ziyun, and Tang Jing ran into Huang Yuzhu on Shuangsheng Street, where Tang Jing warned him against the cheap fish he had bought for his sister's birthday.
• At school, Zhang Chi realized Yan Tianpeng might have taken half his instant noodles, while Liu Chuandao's attempt to help Duan Shigang flirt caused a girl to delete him.
• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong played League of Legends together, and Tongtong said she wanted to walk Jiang Ning home too.

Shen Xu publicly humiliated Chai Wei to settle an old grudge, prompting Chai Wei to plot revenge. Later, Shen Xu's phone-rental business was exposed and he received a major demerit, but Chai Wei still intended to target him and Yan Tianpeng.

• Shen Xu came to Class 8 and had Yan Tianpeng recount how Chai Wei had been humiliated during gym class, then declared their grudge settled.
• Gao Heshaui threw chalk toward Chai Wei, but Jiang Ning caught it before it hit the sleeping Xue Yuantong; Chai Wei later left school to buy locking pliers and scout locations.
• Director Yan and Director Wang confiscated Shen Xu's phones after a first-year student's mother revealed that her son had rented one from him.
• The school announced that Shen Xu would receive a major demerit for selling secondhand phones on campus.
• Chai Wei's mood improved after hearing the announcement, but he continued plotting revenge against Shen Xu and Yan Tianpeng.

Chai Wei sabotaged Yan Tianpeng’s bicycle brakes, while Jiang Ning’s ordinary interactions with Ding Shuyan amazed Dong Qingfeng. The chapter ended with Zhang Chi arriving at school injured after riding a bicycle whose brakes failed.

• Chai Wei cut the brake cable on Yan Tianpeng’s bicycle, intending to make him pay for offending him.
• Shen Xu mourned the collapse of his secondhand-phone business and planned to go out drinking with Ge Hao and Deng Xiang.
• Jiang Ning bought food for Xue Yuantong and ran into Dong Qingfeng, who praised Ding Shuyan’s grades and beauty.
• Jiang Ning accepted Hami Melon from Ding Shuyan, leaving Dong Qingfeng stunned; Xue Yuantong later enjoyed the fruit.
• Cui Yu announced that Zhang Chi had been in a traffic accident, and Zhang Chi arrived limping and said his bicycle’s brakes had failed.

Zhang Chi's reckless bicycle ride led to an accident and a costly dispute, while Jiang Ning returned Shang Caiwei's lost meal card and brought dessert back to class. Chai Wei mistakenly believed he had identified Yan Tianpeng's bicycle and planned to sabotage it again that night, while his resentment toward Jiang Ning and the others grew.

• Zhang Chi rode Yan Tianpeng's bicycle with a cut brake cable, crashed into a girl, and blamed the bike when he returned to class.
• Chai Wei realized Zhang Chi had ridden the bicycle he sabotaged, then resolved to try again after seeing Yan Tianpeng take out a similar bike.
• Guo Kunnan and Zhang Chi went to the School Hospital after the injured girl called, and Zhang Chi paid her one hundred yuan after she demanded compensation.
• Jiang Ning found Shang Caiwei's lost meal card and returned it, and Shang Caiwei bought him cola after admitting she wanted to check the card's balance.
• Chai Wei showed off his walnuts to Shan Xiao, but Jiang Ning and the others ignored him as they ate Mung Bean Paste.
• Chai Wei took a photo of Yan Tianpeng's bicycle and decided to remove its brake cable that night, while glaring at Jiang Ning.

Chai Wei sneaked into No.4 Middle School to sabotage Yan Tianpeng’s bicycle, but Jiang Ning’s spell made its brake cable impossible to cut. After giving up and leaving, Chai Wei encountered a stray dog, while Xue Yuantong tried to convince Jiang Ning to let her stay overnight because she was frightened of going home in the dark.

• Chai Wei returned to school at night to cut Yan Tianpeng’s bicycle brake cable, but discovered that his tool bag had been stolen and went out to buy replacement pliers.
• Chai Wei tried repeatedly to cut Yan Tianpeng’s reinforced brake cable, but could not damage it even after testing his pliers on another bicycle.
• Jiang Ning sensed that Chai Wei had touched the bicycle and explained that he had used a spell to reinforce its brake cable.
• After leaving school, Chai Wei encountered a snarling stray dog at the east gate and swung his pliers at it.
• At Jiang Ning’s house, Xue Yuantong ate his grapes and tried to persuade him to go outside with her, then claimed she wanted to sleep there so she could wake him for breakfast.

Chai Wei endured a miserable day at school, from his leg injury and Pang Jiao’s unwanted attention to humiliation over a strength challenge. When Jiang Ning nearly fulfilled Chai Wei’s bet to squeeze the 100-kilogram Grip Strengthener ten times, he stopped at nine, leaving the class stunned and Bai Yuxia newly impressed.

• Chai Wei arrived at school limping after a stray dog bit him while he tried to cut brake cables, and he vowed to poison the neighborhood strays.
• Pang Jiao and her friends confronted Chai Wei about his leg, but Cui Yu helped him escape by claiming he had recovered.
• Chai Wei got a former Class 6 classmate to bring him dinner and refused to introduce her to Liu Chuandao.
• Students tried and failed to squeeze Yan Tianpeng’s 100-kilogram Grip Strengthener until Shan Xiao managed to compress it slightly.
• Chai Wei failed to squeeze the Grip Strengthener and challenged Jiang Ning, betting that he would jump off the building if Jiang Ning squeezed it ten times.
• Jiang Ning squeezed the Grip Strengthener nine times before stopping, leaving the watching students stunned and Bai Yuxia impressed.

Jiang Ning earned the students’ respect by stopping short of humiliating Chai Wei, while Jiang Yanan’s admiration for him grew. The next day, Chai Wei’s classmates forced him to eat Pang Jiao’s dumplings and Wang Yanyan drove away a girl who had brought him breakfast, leaving him to seek another lunch companion.

• Jiang Ning stopped after squeezing nine objects, and Guo Kunnan and Shan Kaiquan recognized that he had spared Chai Wei’s dignity.
• Jiang Yanan praised Jiang Ning’s strength and restraint to Dong Qingfeng, while Shen Qing'e revealed that she already knew he was like that.
• Shan Qingrong announced the school’s Small Dining Table Plan and said students might receive tickets to Evergreen Liquid Company’s new product launch.
• Pang Jiao made Chai Wei eat her homemade dumplings after Wang Yanyan took away the breakfast another girl had brought him.
• Wang Yanyan called Chen Meng’s mother while pretending to be Chai Wei’s mother, and Chen Meng later told Chai Wei they should stop contacting each other.
• Chai Wei messaged his former classmate Li Yi and invited her to lunch at ES Restaurant.

Jiang Ning and his classmates passed through school and home routines before Chai Wei joined Class 8 students for breakfast at a newly opened Chicken-Shred Soup shop. The other diners suffered severe stomach pain after eating, while Chai Wei remained unharmed and wondered what had happened.

• Teacher Ouyang bragged about his son and insulted his students until Cui Yu and Meng Gui mocked the height difference between him and his son, then he took them to the office.
• Chai Wei returned to class after recovering from Pang Jiao's breakfasts, and Xue Yuantong invited Xue Chuchu to eat at her home with Jiang Ning.
• Xue Yuantong praised the school cafeteria and promised to take Xue Chuchu to try its Small Dining Table dishes.
• On September 30, Chai Wei went to a new Chicken-Shred Soup shop after deciding he could finally eat a normal breakfast, while Jiang Ning warned Geng Lu not to eat there.
• Cui Yu, Shan Kaiquan, and the other students developed severe stomach pain after eating at the shop, but Chai Wei felt no symptoms.

After students were poisoned by soup at the Chicken Soup Restaurant, Chai Wei remained unharmed while Shan Qingrong checked on Class 8 and urged students to join the school meal plan. During the National Day holiday, Jiang Ning rode home with Xue Yuantong, and later Xue Chuchu arrived just as he accidentally opened an adult website.

• Students at the Chicken Soup Restaurant suffered food poisoning, and Shan Kaiquan called emergency services while Chai Wei helped the doctors despite having eaten the soup himself.
• Shan Qingrong found that many students from Class 8 had been taken to the hospital, while Chai Wei proudly revealed that he had also drunk the soup but was fine.
• Shan Qingrong taught Class 8 about food safety, and Shan Kaiquan said he would join the Small Dining Table Plan before the holiday began.
• Jiang Ning rode home with Xue Yuantong, who chattered about clouds and other trivial things along the way.
• Aunt Gu kept Xue Yuantong home to study, so she persuaded Xue Chuchu to visit Jiang Ning and bring back her share of fruit.
• Jiang Ning accidentally opened an adult website while searching for spiritual materials, and Xue Chuchu entered just as he muted it.

Jiang Ning awkwardly misunderstood Xue Chuchu’s reaction, then spent the day celebrating Boss Yang’s Agritainment opening with Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu. That evening, he gathered ingredients on Tiger Perch Mountain while a group of young guests visited the Agritainment, ending with Xue Yuantong correcting Zhuang Jianhui’s boast that he had found a chicken egg.

• Jiang Ning tried to explain his computer use to Xue Chuchu, but she left him feeling misunderstood.
• Xue Yuantong won a bet with Jiang Ning by lighting a firecracker with a tissue fuse, and Yang Fei joined them in blasting a dog bowl with stronger firecrackers.
• Jiang Ning rested in the hammock while Xue Yuantong tried unsuccessfully to shake him awake, then he went up Tiger Perch Mountain to collect mushrooms, eggs, and a rabbit for food.
• Li Shi, Wang Yong, Lin Zida, and Zhuang Jianhui visited Yang Fei’s newly opened Agritainment and discussed its food and activities.
• Zhuang Jianhui found a large egg and proudly planned to roast it, but Xue Yuantong told him it was a duck egg, not a chicken egg.

Jiang Ning brought home a huge wild rabbit and wild mushrooms, and he and the Xue girls grilled them for dinner. The aroma and food drew the attention of Li Shi and her companions at the neighboring Agritainment, where Li Shi discovered their mushrooms had come from Jiang Ning.

• Li Shi asked Xue Yuantong where Jiang Ning was, and Xue Yuantong said he had gone out to take care of something.
• Jiang Ning returned with a sixteen-pound wild rabbit and wild mushrooms, then borrowed charcoal from Yang Fei to prepare a barbecue.
• Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning grilled the rabbit while Xue Chuchu prepared soup and other dishes; Jiang Ning took the rabbit foreleg after Xue Yuantong repeatedly offered it to Chuchu.
• The smell of the grilled rabbit distracted Li Shi and her companions, while Li Shi and Lin Zida eagerly ate grilled mushrooms Wang Yong had taken from Yang Fei.
• Li Shi asked Yang Fei for more mushrooms, and Yang Fei explained that Jiang Ning had given him the mushroom they had eaten.

Yang Fei tried to borrow Jiang Ning’s mushrooms for his Agritainment customers, leading Lin Zida and Li Shi to visit Jiang Ning’s dinner and enjoy his soup and rabbit meat. Meanwhile, Class 8 students competed over photos of their dinners in the class group, where Pang Jiao’s claims about dieting on corn drew mockery.

• Yang Fei asked Jiang Ning for mushrooms, and Jiang Ning offered him mushroom soup for the customers instead.
• Lin Zida accepted Jiang Ning’s invitation to eat soup, while Li Shi came up with an excuse to taste the mushrooms again.
• Jiang Ning teased Li Shi about her excuse, and she left with soup and grilled rabbit meat after losing her composure.
• Class 8 students posted and compared dinner photos in their group chat, while Pang Jiao claimed she had eaten fifteen ears of corn to lose weight.
• Duan Shigang and Zhang Chi mocked Pang Jiao’s corn diet, and Chen Qian silently calculated how much corn a mother pig would eat.

After dinner, Lin Zida visited Jiang Ning to see his gaming setup and learned that Jiang Ning claimed to use a smart assistant called Tongtong. Later, Xue Yuantong joined Jiang Ning to watch anime and let him comb her hair, ending the night in comfort.

• Jiang Ning welcomed Lin Zida, Zhuang Jianhui, and Li Shi into his room to look at his gaming setup.
• Lin Zida described smart-home technology, and Jiang Ning demonstrated his Tongtong Brand assistant by asking Xue Yuantong to open a window.
• Xue Yuantong told Aunt Gu she had saved half a grilled rabbit for her, then headed to Jiang Ning's room after her bath.
• Xue Yuantong accused Jiang Ning of keeping the rabbit foreleg for himself and claiming Chuchu was upset, but Jiang Ning showed her Chuchu's grateful message.
• Jiang Ning combed Xue Yuantong's hair, and she asked him to leave the comb in place a little longer.

As No.4 Middle School reopened after the break, Liu Chuandao tried to impress Yang Sheng with his new Electric Bike but was rejected. He then went to the library with Duan Shigang and devised a scheme to get Lan Zichen's contact information by hiding her phone.

• Jiang Ning rode to school with Xue Yuantong, who learned she was too young to enter Yuzhou's upcoming Half Marathon.
• Liu Chuandao offered Yang Sheng a ride home, but she asked why he did not go home himself.
• Huang Yuzhu volunteered to carry water for Wang Yanyan after Tang Jing mocked her for not doing it.
• Liu Chuandao and Duan Shigang went to the library to look for girls, where Liu Chuandao spotted Lan Zichen.
• Liu Chuandao planned to hide Lan Zichen's phone while she returned a book, then use the opportunity to call her and get her contact information.

Liu Chuandao tried to steal Lan Zichen’s phone so he could pose as her rescuer, but the plan failed and he had to promise to pay for it. Later, Jiang Ning shared a quiet moment with Bai Yuxia, whose teasing question left their conversation on a playful note.

• Liu Chuandao and Duan Shigang planned to hide Lan Zichen’s phone and return it to win her favor, despite spotting a security camera.
• Liu Chuandao took Lan Zichen’s phone and hid it on a bookshelf, but it disappeared before he could call it.
• Lan Zichen checked the security footage, confronted Liu Chuandao, and demanded that he pay for her phone; Liu Chuandao suspected the thief who had stolen from him before.
• Shan Kaiquan and Guo Kunnan headed to the school field to train for the Yuzhou Marathon, while their classmates discussed the race and its potential prize money.
• Bai Yuxia brought Jiang Ning two cups of Double Skin Milk, and he told her he liked anything she bought before she teased him about Tongtong.