Chapter Summaries

Dong Qingfeng and his classmates visited Evergreen Liquid’s underground ancient-style street, where Jiang Ning explored with Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu. After Jiang Ning paid for venison with silver he had won at a bank, Ji Xuan decided to try his luck too and spotted Yang Sheng leaving the bank with money.

• Dong Qingfeng led Meng Ziyun, Yang Sheng, and other classmates to Evergreen Liquid’s gathering at Yi Mountain Scenic Area.
• The group descended into a vast underground street modeled after an ancient town, while Jiang Ning toured its Jiangnan-style section with Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu.
• Jiang Ning and the two girls changed into Hanfu, and Meng Ziyun was struck by Jiang Ning’s appearance when they met the classmates.
• Xue Yuantong wanted roasted venison but could not afford it until Jiang Ning produced silver he said he had won at a nearby bank.
• Ji Xuan decided to visit Evergreen Bank to win money for Dong Xiaozhu and saw Yang Sheng emerge with silver.

Jiang Ning and the girls enjoyed the ancient street, where his Spiritual Sense helped him make an exquisite sugar figurine for Xue Chuchu while Xue Yuantong collected several of her own. Meanwhile, Ji Xuan lost all his silver at Changle Gambling House and reluctantly accepted Dong Xiaozhu’s invitation to dinner with Dong Qingfeng.

• Yang Sheng told Ji Xuan that Jiang Ning had won silver at Changle Gambling House, so Ji Xuan entered with Dong Xiaozhu hoping to win as well.
• At a sugar figurine stall, Jiang Ning used his Spiritual Sense to help make a lifelike sika deer for Xue Chuchu, impressing Yan Chuchen and Meng Ziyun.
• Xue Yuantong left with sugar figurines and tea, while a foreign man accidentally pulled out his dentures after eating a sticky malt sugar figurine.
• Ji Xuan lost both his own silver and Dong Xiaozhu’s at the gambling house, then agreed to join her for dinner with Dong Qingfeng because he had no money.

Dong Xiaozhu and Ji Xuan argued over her plans to eat with Dong Qingfeng, while Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning explored the ancient street with Yan Chuchen and Wu Yunzhi. The chapter ended as Wu Yunzhi prepared to try the pitch-pot game, unaware that Jiang Ning expected to claim the boat spot.

• Dong Xiaozhu praised Dong Qingfeng’s thoughtfulness, and Ji Xuan tried to stop her from eating crab with another boy; she said she would eat the other dishes instead.
• Yan Chuchen asked Xue Yuantong about her Hanfu, and Xue Yuantong guessed it was expensive from Wu Yunzhi’s expression; Yan Chuchen said she would repay him for it.
• At the cafeteria, Tang Fu fooled Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing with a story about clinking cups, then argued with Bai Yuxia about Zhao Gao pointing at a horse.
• Yan Chuchen learned that the pitch-pot game offered a spot on a pleasure boat for landing four arrows in a row, and Wu Yunzhi volunteered to try.
• Jiang Ning told Wu Yunzhi to go first because there was only one spot on the boat, leaving Wu Yunzhi and Yan Chuchen puzzled.

Wu Yunzhi won a Pitch-pot round and challenged Jiang Ning, expecting to outshine him. Jiang Ning landed four consecutive arrows, earning a boat ticket as the crowd watched and Wu Yunzhi’s confidence faltered.

• Wu Yunzhi hit two arrows in a row and won his round, earning Yan Chuchen’s admiration while Tao Nian left the venue.
• Wu Yunzhi invited Jiang Ning to compete, and Yang Sheng joined the same round alongside a middle-aged man.
• Jiang Ning landed his first arrow, and Xue Yuantong celebrated while Wu Yunzhi dismissed it as luck.
• Jiang Ning hit his second and third arrows, and Yang Sheng also landed an arrow after finding her rhythm.
• Jiang Ning landed a fourth consecutive arrow, qualifying for a boat ticket, while Wu Yunzhi disparaged the pleasure boat.

Jiang Ning invited Yan Chuchen and his companions onto the cruise boat, leaving Wu Yunzhi behind, while Wu vowed to win back his dignity and Yan Chuchen's heart. At dinner, Shang Wanqing cheered up Ji Xuan, and Guo Kunnan's attempt to impress everyone by eating a supposedly edible noodle basket ended in embarrassment.

• Yan Chuchen accepted Jiang Ning's invitation to board the cruise boat, while Wu Yunzhi refused and was left behind.
• Wu Yunzhi decided to form a basketball team and regain his dignity and Yan Chuchen's affection.
• At Water Cloud Pavilion, Shang Wanqing comforted Ji Xuan and persuaded him to add her on WeChat.
• Dong Qingfeng served mango sticky rice and explained how coconut milk enhanced its flavor.
• Guo Kunnan claimed the fruit basket was made of edible noodles, and Ji Xuan backed him by eating a piece.
• The waiter told Dong Qingfeng that the basket was an ordinary, inedible basket.

Dong Qingfeng spent the evening trying to impress Meng Ziyun, but seeing Jiang Ning and his companions on a pleasure boat left him heartbroken. Later, Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong home, where she spotted a figure by the river, while Ma Shicheng gathered classmates after school to head to an internet café.

• Dong Qingfeng declined Meng Ziyun's suggestion to perform at the New Year's Gala and entertained her with tea and snacks.
• Dong Qingfeng saw Jiang Ning, Yang Sheng, and Xue Chuchu on a pleasure boat and confessed to Meng Ziyun that he was sad.
• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong left the old street on an Electric Bike, and Xue Yuantong changed out of her Hanfu before they rode home.
• Xue Yuantong spotted a white figure by the river, and Jiang Ning reassured her not to be afraid.
• Ma Shicheng invited classmates to join gaming boosting orders, and the group left No.4 Middle School together.

Ma Shicheng and his friends started carrying clients from their new base at Zhengde Restaurant, while Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong played a match together and overwhelmed several enemy boosters. Back at the restaurant, Cui Yu’s attempt to pamper a client went wrong when Ma Shicheng discovered Cui Yu had spent the match flaming him, leaving Cui Yu scrambling to apologize.

• Ma Shicheng assigned Cui Yu, Meng Gui, and Hu Jun client-carrying jobs, then took a Diamond match himself and invited Jiang Ning to play.
• Jiang Ning gave Xue Yuantong an account to use, and they queued with Ma Shicheng and two client sisters against a team that included boosters.
• Jiang Ning directed Xue Yuantong’s Lee Sin to kill Jax, Fizz, and Shyvana repeatedly, carrying the game while Ma Shicheng’s Yasuo barely needed to act.
• After the game, Xue Yuantong happily accepted two of Jiang Ning’s biscuits, and the client sisters asked Ma Shicheng to reproduce her play in another match.
• Ma Shicheng watched Cui Yu carry a client while insulting the mid-lane Annie, then learned that Annie was Ma Shicheng himself rather than the client Soraka Cui Yu had mistaken her for.
• Cui Yu asked Ma Shicheng how he could make up for flaming him throughout the match.

Jiang Ning reflected on how his cultivation had changed his emotions, then used a casual gun gesture to frighten Li Shi when she returned to school. Li Shi fled, and Lin Zida and Zhuang Jianhui grew more cautious about Jiang Ning.

• Jiang Ning bought cola with money from Ma Shicheng and chilled it with his power while listening to younger students discuss mobile games.
• Wang Yong learned that Li Shi was returning to school and hurried to meet her at the gate.
• Wei Xiuyuan asked Jiang Ning about firing a real gun, and Jiang Ning made a gun gesture as Li Shi arrived.
• Li Shi saw Jiang Ning's gesture, panicked, and ran away before Wang Yong could meet her.
• Wang Yong told Lin Zida and Zhuang Jianhui what happened, and they connected Li Shi's reaction to Jiang Ning.
• Jiang Ning returned to the balcony, and Lin Zida told Zhuang Jianhui to leave the matter alone.

Jiang Ning's jokes disrupted a classroom argument between Zhang Chi and Song Sheng, but a new confrontation between Zhang Chi and Liu Chuandao led Chai Wei to report Liu to Teacher Shan. Liu Chuandao went to the office after his classmates mocked his defiance, where Shan Qingrong prepared to discipline him in front of Chemistry Teacher Guo Ran.

• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong's teasing drew attention away from Song Sheng and Zhang Chi's argument, while Liu Chuandao provoked Zhang Chi into a shoving match.
• Xin Youling tried to defuse the conflict by identifying the two students, but Wang Longlong encouraged them to argue outside, and Chai Wei's intervention ended with Liu Chuandao shoving him.
• Chai Wei reported Liu Chuandao to Shan Qingrong, who asked whether Xue Yuantong was safe before ordering Chai Wei to summon Liu.
• Liu Chuandao initially refused to go, but his classmates' jokes about Teacher Shan beating him down pushed him to leave for the office.
• Shan Qingrong asked Liu Chuandao whether he had hit Chai Wei, but Liu began posturing when Guo Ran appeared, and Shan took out a leather belt.

Yang Sheng stopped Chen Siyu from giving money to a suspected scammer, while Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong spent a lazy afternoon at home with Aunt Gu and their neighbors. Uncle Zhang joked that he had avoided the karmic sin of slaughtering dogs by shortchanging customers, and a mysterious man in a leather jacket appeared at the River Dam houses.

• Yang Sheng tricked a supposed deaf-mute beggar into revealing that he could hear, then took Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing away without giving him money.
• Xue Yuantong lounged in the sun with Jiang Ning, failed to persuade Aunt Gu to give her more fries, and returned outside empty-handed.
• Yang Fei visited Jiang Ning and chatted with Uncle Zhang about his slaughtering work and Agritainment business.
• Uncle Zhang claimed that shortchanging customers on dog meat had turned his dog slaughtering into an act of merit, leaving Yang Fei, Xue Yuantong, and Jiang Ning stunned.
• Uncle Zhang left Jiang Ning to watch his house, and a square-faced man in a black leather jacket arrived at the River Dam houses.

Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong helped expose a suspicious man who tried to enter Zhang Butcher’s home, while the afternoon at school brought classroom banter, a math lesson, and a dispute over cleaning duties. Yang Sheng ended the chapter by trading insults with Zhang Chi after fining him for damaging the class brooms.

• Jiang Ning tripped the fleeing Crew Cut Man with Spiritual Energy after Xiao Ben chased him out of Zhang Butcher’s home, and Yang Fei called for help.
• Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu to school, where Xue Chuchu’s worries about the man’s threat eased after Jiang Ning said Uncle Zhang was furious.
• Bai Yuxia tricked Chen Siyu into losing money through a coin game, while Xue Yuantong gave the answer to Gao Heshaui’s math problem without showing her work.
• Yang Sheng told Class 8 that they had to sweep the main road and clean its trash cans, then got both boys and girls to agree to share the work.
• Yang Sheng told Zhang Chi to pay a two-yuan fine for kicking the class brooms, and they exchanged insults as their classmates laughed.

Bai Yuxia took Chen Siyu and Xue Yuantong out for milk tea, while Jiang Ning watched Zhang Chi lose a ping-pong bet and the Class 8 physical education roll call descend into chaos. On their return, Xue Yuantong calmly charmed Principal Yu and Director Yan with ice cream, leaving Chen Siyu impressed by her fearlessness.

• Bai Yuxia offered to buy Chen Siyu milk tea if she called Xue Yuantong, and Xue Yuantong agreed to help them leave school.
• Jiang Ning saw Yang Sheng auction Zhang Chi after beating him at ping pong, and Jiang Yanan bought Zhang Chi for ten yuan.
• Duan Shigang delayed Class 8's roll call, lost his sports committee position, and Gu Wei made the class run two laps before assigning Lu Qiqi three.
• Bai Yuxia, Chen Siyu, and Xue Yuantong returned to school and encountered Principal Yu and Director Yan at the gate.
• Xue Yuantong gave Principal Yu and Director Yan Little Puddings, and both men accepted them warmly.

Jiang Ning left table tennis to join Bai Yuxia, Chen Siyu, and Xue Yuantong, then stunned the students on the Basketball Court with a spectacular spinning windmill dunk. The chapter ended with Wu Yunzhi humbled and Bai Yuxia wondering what other talents Jiang Ning had kept hidden.

• Chen Siyu called Jiang Ning over from the Speech Platform, and Bai Yuxia gave him iced milk tea while Xue Yuantong took credit for it.
• Jiang Ning joined Chen Siyu and Xue Yuantong at the Basketball Court, where they watched Wu Yunzhi impress his classmates with a near-dunk.
• Jiang Ning showed off a spinning windmill dunk after Chen Siyu asked him to demonstrate his basketball skills.
• Wu Yunzhi fell silent after seeing Jiang Ning's dunk, while Bai Yuxia watched from afar and wondered what else Jiang Ning could do.

Jiang Ning’s dunk drew attention to the basketball-court feud between Wu Yunzhi and Wu Xiaoqi, which escalated when Wu Yunzhi mocked Wu Xiaoqi online and accidentally included Xue Yuantong in the photo. After Jiang Ning alerted Shan Qingrong, Director Yan forced Wu Yunzhi and the girls who joined the online attacks to apologize publicly, leaving them under supervision in the office.

• Jiang Ning taught Xue Yuantong how to dunk while Wu Yunzhi left the court and traded insults with Wu Xiaoqi.
• Wu Yunzhi photographed Wu Xiaoqi, mocked his height in a QQ Space post, and urged classmates to repost it; the post spread across campus.
• Chen Siyu noticed Xue Yuantong in the photo and urged Wu Yunzhi to delete the post, while Lan Zichen criticized the mockery in the comments.
• Wu Xiaoqi demanded that Wu Yunzhi delete the post, but Wu Yunzhi refused and laughed at him.
• Jiang Ning forwarded the post to Shan Qingrong, who alerted Teacher Yan; Director Yan summoned Wu Yunzhi and the girls who had posted hostile comments.
• Director Yan made Wu Yunzhi and the girls choose between expulsion and apology, then required them to publish apologies and collect likes before leaving the office.

Jiang Ning saw Wu Yunzhi apologize after the school intervened, while Qi Tianheng arranged for the apology to flood No.4 Middle School’s QQ Spaces. Class 8 discussed the schoolwide New Year’s Gala, and Shan Qingrong finally recognized Xin Youling as class monitor and put her in charge of the program.

• Jiang Ning told Shan Qingrong that Xue Yuantong was satisfied with Wu Yunzhi’s apology, while Wu Xiaoqi and Wang Longlong wondered why Wu Yunzhi had disappeared from their online argument.
• Qi Tianheng paid Zhao Xiaofeng to spread Wu Yunzhi’s apology across No.4 Middle School, leading students to mistakenly believe Wu Xiaoqi had arranged the public humiliation.
• Jiang Ning covered the sleeping Xue Yuantong with a blanket, scanned the campus with his Spiritual Sense, and exchanged teasing messages with Shang Wanqing.
• Chen Siyu showed Bai Yuxia a free video and joked that Bai Yuxia’s pure soul was the price, while Bai Yuxia listened to Chen Siyu’s explanation.
• Shan Qingrong announced that the school would organize the New Year’s Gala together, and Cui Yu and Liu Chuandao failed to impress the class with their attempted performances.
• After Shan Qingrong repeatedly misnamed class monitor Xin Youling, he corrected himself, and Xin Youling took charge of all matters related to the New Year’s program.

Chen Siyu and her sister tried to donate blood but were turned away for being underage, while Duan Shigang and Liu Chuandao embarrassed themselves trying to get the sisters to accompany them. At school, Xin Youling asked Jiang Ning to perform magic at the New Year's Gala; he eventually agreed as they left together, after the Sports Students had cleared the stairs for her.

• Chen Siyu and her sister went to donate blood, but the nurse turned them away because they were minors, and Duan Shigang and Liu Chuandao failed to persuade them to go to the hospital.
• Jiang Ning practiced calligraphy while Xin Youling sat beside him and asked him to perform magic at the New Year's Gala, but he repeatedly refused.
• Xin Youling persisted in trying to persuade Jiang Ning, and he teased her by offering water before still declining.
• On the stairs, the Sports Students made way for Xin Youling but kept Jiang Ning waiting; Jiang Ning then called after her and said he would consider performing.
• Xin Youling turned back delighted, and she and Jiang Ning walked away together as one Sports Student complained that the others had moved aside too quickly.

Jiang Ning tutored Chen Siyu, while Guo Kunnan lamented his lack of progress and tried to bond with Jiang Ning over their romantic regrets. The evening ended with Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu sharing milk tea at Jiang Ning’s home, where Tongtong teased Chuchu about her red string bracelet.

• Jiang Ning patiently taught Chen Siyu how to solve a vector problem, then turned to Xue Yuantong when she woke from her nap.
• Guo Kunnan worried that Xin Youling had stopped looking at him, and Ma Shicheng and Wang Longlong tried to cheer him up with nonsense advice.
• At the East Corridor, Guo Kunnan told Jiang Ning about a girl who had left him, and Jiang Ning recalled a girl who had once lifted his spirits before revealing that he and Tongtong were together every day now.
• Xue Yuantong brought milk tea home for Aunt Gu and Xue Chuchu, then went to Jiang Ning’s house after her bath to drink it with Chuchu.
• Xue Chuchu noticed Jiang Ning searching for ring designs and showed the red string on her wrist, while Xue Yuantong pretended to warn her that it had a serious meaning.

Jiang Ning tracked down Bai Yuxia’s stolen phone and recovered it from a group of gamblers, relying on his strength and Evergreen Liquid Company’s influence to handle the aftermath. He then gave Bai Yuxia a radiant Cyan Jade Ring, leaving her captivated by the gift.

• Bai Yuxia told Jiang Ning that she had lost her iPhone 5S, and he used Find My to locate it outside the city.
• Jiang Ning and Bai Yuxia rode to the phone’s location, where Jiang Ning found it inside a tobacco and liquor shop behind a hidden partition.
• When the gamblers refused to return the phone and threatened Jiang Ning and Bai Yuxia, Jiang Ning defeated them and retrieved Bai Yuxia’s phone.
• Jiang Ning called in help from a suited Evergreen Liquid Company employee, then left with Bai Yuxia as police arrived.
• After Bai Yuxia said she had been thinking of how to protect him, Jiang Ning gave her a Cyan Jade Ring that shone brightly under the streetlights.

Jiang Ning gave Bai Yuxia the Cyan Jade Ring, then took her out to skip evening self-study and visit a night market. After confronting two rude riders and knocking them off their motorcycle, he left Bai Yuxia feeling carefree; they ended the night browsing stalls together.

• Bai Yuxia accepted Jiang Ning's Cyan Jade Ring and admitted she had been too extreme earlier.
• Jiang Ning persuaded Bai Yuxia to skip evening self-study and took her on his brightly lit Electric Bike.
• Two young men on an Electric Motorcycle harassed them, but Jiang Ning overtook them, dodged a steel pipe, and kicked their vehicle into the roadside greenery.
• Bai Yuxia said the encounter felt great, and Jiang Ning promised they would do it again sometime.
• Jiang Ning and Bai Yuxia visited a Night Market, bought Fruit Salad, and each got a My Neighbor Totoro figurine.
• Jiang Ning teased Bai Yuxia about a supposed taboo involving the figurine, making her turn away with a faint smile.

Jiang Ning took Bai Yuxia around the Night Market, winning her plushies and a model with his skill and Spiritual Energy while she gradually let down her guard. After buying snacks, they lingered at the market, and Bai Yuxia asked to keep looking around rather than head back.

• Jiang Ning brought Bai Yuxia to a claw machine arcade and won her several plushies, including a Hello Kitty toy.
• Bai Yuxia won a Gundam model at a ring toss stall when Jiang Ning secretly used Spiritual Energy to guide her ring onto the prize.
• Jiang Ning gave the nearby child three rings and let him try to win a Gundam of his own.
• Jiang Ning teased Xue Yuantong by quizzing her about the cactus on his windowsill, prompting her to ask Xue Chuchu to count its spines.
• Jiang Ning bought latte almonds, Candied Cherry Tomatoes, and Beef Jerky, then Bai Yuxia asked him to look around the Night Market a little longer.