Chapter Summaries

Wang Yi returned to his original world after spending three years stranded in a low-magic realm, where he defeated a Necromancer and reached Legendary status. His travel device was locked again, and someone emerged from the bathroom as he assessed his return.

• Wang Yi returned to a cramped rental room through a portal and realized he was back in his original world.
• Wang Yi recalled building his knowledge and preparing to launch a short-video platform before his Light Orb activated.
• Wang Yi used the Light Orb’s Overclocking ability to prepare for planar travel, but the device malfunctioned and trapped him in another world for three years.
• Wang Yi killed the Necromancer who had captured him, inherited his knowledge, and eventually reached Legendary status in the low-magic world.
• Wang Yi repaired the travel function with a magic array and returned home, but found that the travel function was locked again.
• A pale hand reached from the bathroom toward the phone on the table as Wang Yi sat in the room.

Wang Yi subdued Liu Xiaoke after breaking into her room, then used Charm Person and a fabricated story to gain her trust. He left with cash she gave him, while the spell began to fade.

• Liu Xiaoke heard a crash while showering, and Wang Yi seized and restrained her when she came out to investigate.
• Wang Yi cast Charm Person on Liu Xiaoke, making her trust him and forget the break-in.
• Wang Yi claimed he had escaped from a scam operation in Southeast Asia, and Liu Xiaoke sympathized and offered to help him retrieve his belongings.
• Liu Xiaoke gave Wang Yi over three hundred yuan, and he thanked her before preparing to leave.
• As the spell faded, Liu Xiaoke asked whether Wang Yi worked as an extra, and he said he had to return to the Film Crew.

After returning to his former world, Wang Yi found Uncle Li’s son as a Resentful Spirit in the warehouse and bound him to a silver vessel so he could recover. Wang Yi then abandoned his modest business plans and set his sights on pursuing eternal immortality.

• Uncle Li gave Wang Yi the warehouse key and offered him a place to stay if he needed one.
• Wang Yi sensed a Resentful Spirit in the warehouse and recognized it as Uncle Li’s Eldest Son.
• Wang Yi bound the Resentful Spirit to a silver ring, intending to stabilize it and learn its lingering obsession once it recovered.
• Wang Yi reconsidered his plans to build a short-video business and decided to pursue eternal immortality.

After returning from the magical world, Wang Yi decided to build an Artificial Intelligence using a Resentful Spirit and began arranging the money, equipment, and space he would need. He also registered two songs to earn income and ended the chapter preparing to publish an academic paper about problems he had encountered in his magical research.

• Wang Yi chose to create an Artificial Intelligence, using a Resentful Spirit as its core and planning to treat it as his butler.
• Wang Yi collected the key to Room 301 from Uncle Li, checked that he had 120,000 left, and decided to sell more songs to raise money.
• Wang Yi bought a Hanwei P1 phone and a laptop, then registered two songs on the music copyright platform.
• Wang Yi moved into Room 301 and considered installing internet and renting a larger space for servers.
• Wang Yi began drafting an academic paper to present difficult problems from his research into magic to other scholars.

Wang Yi settled into his new apartment, used Liu Xiaoke’s Wi-Fi to study quantum mechanics, and submitted a paper claiming to prove the Goldbach Conjecture. Reading about Bell’s Inequality gave him an experimental approach to investigate a problem from the magic world, and he began considering how to test it.

• Wang Yi met his neighbor Liu Xiaoke, exchanged contact information with her, and got her Wi-Fi password.
• Wang Yi downloaded quantum mechanics papers through his alma mater’s database and submitted his Goldbach Conjecture paper to Science.
• Wang Yi recalled how mathematical tools from another world had helped him improve his Summon Skeleton spell model.
• Wang Yi studied Bell’s Inequality and learned how experiments with entangled photons could test for hidden variables.
• Wang Yi realized he could adapt the experimental approach to investigate a question troubling him about the magic world.

After spending the night studying papers, Wang Yi met his new neighbor Ma Dong, who asked him for Liu Xiaoke’s contact information. Wang Yi declined, and the two introduced themselves before Ma Dong headed to work at a set.

• Wang Yi spent the night reading research papers and reflecting on the spread of knowledge and technological progress.
• After Liu Xiaoke left in the morning, Wang Yi bought baozi and learned that the telecom company was adjusting his internet connection.
• Ma Dong came out of Room 303 and asked Wang Yi whether he had added Liu Xiaoke on Shake Message.
• Ma Dong asked Wang Yi to share Liu Xiaoke’s contact, but Wang Yi refused without her permission.
• Wang Yi and Ma Dong introduced themselves as neighbors, and Ma Dong later rode his Pink Scooter toward a set.

Wang Yi negotiated with Vida Music’s Li Vida to sell the copyrights to two songs and rented rooms from Uncle Li to set up servers. After preparing for the deal, Wang Yi checked a submission and found it had been rejected.

• Li Vida offered Wang Yi 50,000 yuan per song for the copyrights, and Wang Yi countered with 200,000 yuan each.
• Li Vida agreed to meet Wang Yi in Shudian, and Wang Yi said he was there doing research rather than working on a film crew.
• Wang Yi asked Uncle Li to rent him three more rooms, explained that he had earned the money by selling songs, and put Uncle Li at ease.
• Wang Yi rented the rooms, arranged fiber internet, and selected Hanwei BH640 V2 servers.
• Wang Yi checked the status of his submission and found it had been rejected in less than twelve hours.

After Science rejected Wang Yi’s Goldbach Conjecture proof almost immediately, he publicized the rejection on Mote to attract attention from experts. He then focused on acquiring silver for a future Mage Tower and considered traveling to Mexico.

• Hoff rejected Wang Yi’s Goldbach Conjecture submission during preliminary review, citing its improperly completed affiliation.
• Wang Yi concluded that his paper had been rejected before reaching mathematicians and chose not to seek help from his alma mater or a prominent scholar.
• Wang Yi posted on Mote, framing the instant rejection as possible racial discrimination and attaching his proof and a screenshot of the rejection time.
• Wang Yi researched silver prices and considered how to obtain enough silver to build and enchant a Mage Tower.
• Wang Yi noted that Mexico might be a place to acquire silver and considered visiting when he had time.

Wang Yi replenished his supplies and agreed to help Liu Xiaoke move a broken bed, bringing along a large sack of cow bones. Ma Dong offered to store the bones and cook with them, then watched Wang Yi and Liu Xiaoke go into her room together.

• Wang Yi bought silver bracelets and several dozen jin of cow bones, then received a call from Liu Xiaoke asking for help clearing space after her bed broke.
• Wang Yi met Ma Dong at the stairwell, where Ma Dong eagerly offered to store the bones in his freezer and help carry them.
• Wang Yi and Ma Dong carried the bones up to Liu Xiaoke's room, where Liu Xiaoke was waiting.
• Ma Dong took the extra bones to his room to prepare them, while Wang Yi went inside with Liu Xiaoke to deal with the bed.

Wang Yi helped Liu Xiaoke move her damaged bed, then joined her and Ma Dong for a meal of beef bones that brought the neighbors closer. After Ma Dong passed out and they cleaned up, Liu Xiaoke apologized for venting and returned to her room with Wang Yi.

• Wang Yi dismantled Liu Xiaoke's damaged bed and helped her carry it out.
• Wang Yi joined Ma Dong in cooking beef bones, and the three neighbors shared a meal and drinks.
• Ma Dong hinted at his interest in Liu Xiaoke, but she turned him down kindly.
• Ma Dong warned Liu Xiaoke that her bluntness could make it difficult to succeed in the entertainment industry, and she explained that she had come to make her own choices.
• Ma Dong passed out, and Wang Yi carried him to bed while Liu Xiaoke helped clean up.
• Liu Xiaoke apologized to Wang Yi for venting, and they returned to their rooms.

Wang Yi stoked arguments on Mote over his rejected mathematics paper, then met Li Vida, who had arrived in Shudian to discuss buying the rights. The chapter ended as Wang Yi invited Li Vida inside to assess the work.

• Wang Yi checked the growing response to his Mote post and saw supporters, critics, and commenters debating the paper’s rejection.
• Wang Yi provoked several hostile commenters with fabricated accusations, prompting them to post photos and angry replies.
• Wang Yi left the online argument to build while he returned to studying through the night.
• Wang Yi met Li Vida outside the Film Studio after Li arrived in Shudian, and invited him inside to discuss the rights.

Wang Yi brought two songs to Li Vida’s recording studio, where a professional singer recorded demos that impressed Li Vida and Sayre. Wang Yi’s own singing stunned everyone, but he refused Li Vida’s offer to join a management company and stayed focused on scientific research.

• Li Vida took Wang Yi to a recording studio and introduced him to Sayre and the singer Jiang Xin.
• Wang Yi gave Jiang Xin the songs “Wheat Wave” and “Night of the Port,” and she recorded both demos with strong technique.
• Sayre and Li Vida were impressed by the songs, especially “Night of the Port,” which Sayre thought could praise the navy.
• Li Vida offered Wang Yi extra money to sing, and Wang Yi’s ethereal voice astonished everyone in the studio.
• Li Vida urged Wang Yi to join his management company, but Wang Yi refused and said he wanted to focus on scientific research and the truth of magic and technology.

Wang Yi discovered that his overseas post had been distorted and spread on Weibo, drawing widespread criticism, but he remained focused on his research plans. As the controversy grew, a famous Anti-Fraud Influencer seized on the post and began attacking him.

• Serai and Li Vida recognized Wang Yi's scientific post as the one gaining attention online, and Wang Yi admitted that he had written it.
• Li Vida and Serai finished transferring the song's copyright and payment, then discussed Wang Yi's determination after he left.
• Li Vida liked the post criticizing Wang Yi and reposted it with a sarcastic comment about his paper.
• Wang Yi searched Weibo for discussion of himself while eating fried skewers and saw the controversy climbing the hot rankings.
• A famous Anti-Fraud Influencer reposted the controversy and launched an attack on Wang Yi.

Xue Chuan publicly attacked Wang Yi’s Goldbach Conjecture proof, drawing widespread attention and criticism online. Wang Yi left the escalating debate to prepare beef bones, while some users began to question Xue Chuan’s claims and examine Wang Yi’s post.

• Xue Chuan posted a lengthy critique accusing Wang Yi of embarrassing the country and claiming his work was fraudulent.
• Wang Yi tagged Xue Chuan and asked whether he had read and understood the full proof.
• Xue Chuan read Wang Yi’s post, failed to find an obvious flaw, and replied that the derivation was made-up theory while invoking the Fields Medal.
• Wang Yi replied, “I’ll take that as your blessing,” then turned off his phone to prepare beef bones.
• Studying Abroad in the Beautiful Country promoted Xue Chuan’s criticism, while some netizens defended Wang Yi and questioned the way his post had been presented.

Wang Yi summoned a silver-patterned beef-bone skeleton and ordered the equipment for his artificial-intelligence project. At Xi’an Jiaotong University, Associate Professor Zhu Biao began checking Wang Yi’s Goldbach Conjecture paper and found its formulas correct, prompting him to call colleagues over.

• Wang Yi used melted silver to inscribe Magic Patterns on beef bones and summoned a sturdy skeleton with the potential to assist with combat, housework, and research.
• Wang Yi disguised the skeleton in a cosplay outfit, carried it back to the Rental Room, and ordered server equipment and another fiber-optic line.
• Wang Yi checked Mote and Weibo and saw that people had forwarded his paper to professionals.
• Zhu Biao received the paper from a student and began checking its derivations, verifying four useful formulas.
• Zhu Biao told his colleague Xinguang that the paper might be significant and asked him to gather others to study it.

Wang Yi learned that a crew at the Film Studio had recently suffered a suspicious death and asked Ma Dong and Liu Xiaoke to investigate similar incidents. He then publicized his ghost-catching services on Weibo, frustrating Fang Chuan with the post.

• Ma Dong served bone soup to Wang Yi and Liu Xiaoke, who said a Director had fired her but paid her half her fee.
• Wang Yi asked his neighbors about recent deaths and supernatural rumors at the Film Studio, explaining that he wanted to find cases to investigate.
• Liu Xiaoke and Ma Dong told Wang Yi about a suspicious death during a Period Drama shoot seven days earlier and offered to ask around for more details.
• Wang Yi posted on Weibo that he accepted exorcism and ghost-catching work in Shudian, drawing attention amid Fang Chuan's attacks.
• Fang Chuan mocked Wang Yi's post, and Wang Yi tagged him while adding the supernatural Master tag.

Wang Yi’s proof drew serious attention from mathematicians at Xi'an Jiaotong University and Professor Walker at the University of Pennsylvania, who judged it to be a major breakthrough. As Wall Street prepared to exploit the controversy around it, Xue Chuan learned that Xi'an Jiaotong University had publicly backed Wang Yi.

• Wang Yi posted that professionals were reviewing the proof and invited people with similar problems to contact him through messages.
• Mathematicians at Xi'an Jiaotong University worked through the night and completed a preliminary verification, though they continued checking before making a public claim.
• Professor Walker reviewed the proof after Noxi, his Wall Street student, sent it to him, and called Noxi to say it could be worthy of the Annals of Mathematics and a Fields Medal.
• Noxi reported the paper's potential to his Boss, planning to use media coverage and the academic discrimination controversy to influence markets.
• Xue Chuan struggled to regain the initiative, then saw a message in his fan group saying Xi'an Jiaotong University's Official Weibo had backed Wang Yi.

After Xi'an Jiaotong University and its mathematics faculty endorsed Wang Yi’s proof of the Goldbach Conjecture, Xue Chuan challenged their claims until the University of Pennsylvania confirmed the proof had passed preliminary verification and Science apologized to Wang Yi. Wang Yi posted the apology and challenged Xue Chuan again before returning to his work.

• Xue Chuan found Xi'an Jiaotong University's official announcement praising Master Yi and began questioning its claims.
• Xue Chuan attacked the university online, prompting six professors, ten associate professors, and the university account to defend their verification of Wang Yi’s proof.
• Xue Chuan continued to argue that the proof lacked international recognition and mocked Wang Yi’s claim that he caught ghosts.
• Professors from the University of Pennsylvania announced that their preliminary calculations confirmed the Goldbach Conjecture proof on Mote, and Science apologized to Wang Yi for rejecting his paper.
• Wang Yi shared Science’s apology with Xue Chuan and invited questions about his ghost-catching abilities before returning to work.

Wang Yi agreed to let Li Vida promote his song after negotiating an additional payment, then used the resulting attention to promote his independent musician label. As his identities as a mathematician and songwriter spread online, Wang Yi considered how public recognition could help his future work while he sought to protect his privacy.

• Li Vida saw Wang Yi’s research achievement confirmed and called to congratulate him and ask permission to release Wang Yi’s song.
• Wang Yi agreed to the promotion after asking Li Vida to pay more, and received an additional five hundred thousand.
• After Vida Music announced the song, Wang Yi posted about his independent musician label and tagged Li Vida.
• Netizens connected Wang Yi’s credited music, including “Lone Brave,” to his real identity as a scientific researcher.
• Wang Yi considered the attention a potential safeguard and support for future ventures, while reminding Li Vida not to reveal his private information.

Wang Yi’s Goldbach Conjecture proof sparked an international movement against academic discrimination, while his former school discovered that he had graduated from its neighboring computer science school. The School of Mathematical Sciences considered recruiting him but decided to contact him first and ask what he wanted.

• Xue Chuan defended his earlier criticism of Wang Yi, disabled comments, and stopped responding as an anti-discrimination movement spread through Beautiful Country.
• Researchers and major journals publicized unequal representation in academia, and Wang Yi’s Mote post was widely shared as the controversy grew.
• The School of Mathematical Sciences learned that Wang Yi had proven the Goldbach Conjecture and ordered an investigation into his background.
• Academician Li discovered that Wang Yi had graduated from the neighboring School of Computer Science and Technology, not the School of Mathematical Sciences.
• The professors discussed inviting Wang Yi through a special channel, but Academician Li suggested contacting him first to learn whether he was interested.