Chapter Summaries

Wang Yi decided to acquire lens manufacturers to draw attention away from more sensitive plans, then returned to the company and pushed forward its expansion. With Little Broken Station joining World as a subsidiary, he saw it as a stronghold for entering video and livestreaming.

• Wang Yi told Lin Shiqin to continue acquiring lens manufacturers, starting with eyeglasses and camera lenses, as a way to disperse scrutiny.
• Wang Yi changed taxis after a driver panicked at seeing him again, and Lin Shiqin stopped frightening the driver at Wang Yi's request.
• Wang Yi arranged to hire a driver and buy vehicles, then heard that Yuzhong Media had become a subsidiary and domestic phone companies had renewed their contracts for the beauty filter software.
• Wang Yi ordered staff to integrate Little Broken Station as a wholly owned subsidiary while keeping its existing management in place.
• Wang Yi planned to use Little Broken Station as a stronghold for video and livestreaming, with the company's algorithmic advantage supporting its move into short videos.

After World Company acquired Little Broken Station, Wang Yi laid out a three-step plan for the subsidiary, beginning with improved danmu management and livestreaming. Chen Jie and Xu Mao were impressed by the parent company’s technology and accepted their new direction.

• Chen Jie and Xu Mao agreed to Little Broken Station’s acquisition after Lin Shiqin and Zhang Xiang’s legal team exposed the site’s extensive copyright liabilities.
• Chen Qian welcomed Chen Jie and Xu Mao to World Company and brought them to meet Wang Yi.
• Wang Yi assigned them to strengthen danmu management using the parent company’s recommendation software.
• Wang Yi told them to prepare livestreaming services, with World Company providing technical support and Little Broken Station handling operations and promotion.
• Chen Jie recognized the advantages of World Company’s video compression technology and became convinced the acquisition was worthwhile.

Wang Yi helped Little Broken Station introduce new compression technology, drawing attention from competitors and government officials. He then gave sensitive applications of the technology to security officials for free, while insisting it was merely data he had accidentally lost.

• Chen Jie proposed a music short-video platform, and Wang Yi offered his technical team’s support.
• Little Broken Station upgraded bullet comments and video compression, prompting enthusiastic user reactions and pressure on Youku’s stock.
• Wang Yi accepted an invitation from his alma mater and met with officials concerned about the technology’s broader applications.
• Wang Yi offered the officials additional technical applications without asking for compensation or public acknowledgment.
• Wang Yi declined security assistance so he could continue traveling and claimed the data was lost by accident.

Wang Yi decided to use an alternate identity for travel and took over Lu Cheng, a broker who recruited desperate people for illegal overseas work. After returning home, he chatted with Liu Xiaoke and learned her film was nearing its premiere.

• Lin Shiqin warned Wang Yi not to visit Beautiful Country under his real identity, and Wang Yi agreed to use another identity if he traveled abroad.
• Lin Shiqin said Third Brother would visit Siam next month, so Wang Yi arranged a company outing there to meet him and discuss protecting pharmaceutical factories.
• Wang Yi chose Lu Cheng as his alternate identity after learning that Lu Cheng often traveled to Southeast Asia and entered illegally.
• Wang Yi abducted Lu Cheng, used Distortion to assume his identity, and left the people Lu Cheng had been recruiting to discover they had to pay the restaurant bill.
• Wang Yi returned home, where Liu Xiaoke gave him citron tea and offered to take him to the premiere of her film.

Wang Yi began exploring magically enhanced resin lenses as a shortcut toward advanced lithography, while inviting Ma Dong and Liu Xiaoke to join Little Broken Station’s new livestreaming project. The chapter ended with Little Broken Station launching game streams to attract users and establish livestreaming as a new track.

• Wang Yi studied optical materials and decided to test magically cultivated resin for eyeglass lenses and possible future EUV lithography.
• Wang Yi told Li Yao to contract more economical forestland, while Lin Shiqin reported that the lens laboratory equipment was on its way.
• Wang Yi invited Ma Dong and Liu Xiaoke to try livestreaming through Little Broken Station, suggesting cooking streams and interviews with film extras.
• Little Broken Station launched its livestreaming module and began recruiting professional players to stream LOL and PUBG.

Little Broken Station’s livestreaming launch drew gamers, streamers, and advertisers, turning the platform into a new commercial outlet for esports and entertainment. As pro players and creators gained attention, the age of livestreaming took off, with future esports contracts likely to account for streaming.

• Little Broken Station signed professional players to stream LOL and promoted PUBG streams, drawing attention from gamers and competing livestream companies.
• Jiang Bo left a dull PUBG stream, then followed Miyuki-chan and sent her gifts after she greeted him and blew him a kiss.
• Miyuki-chan thanked viewers, danced, and sang, while advertisers and small studios began exploring livestreaming as a way to reach audiences.
• Little Broken Station divided livestreaming into several categories and built traffic without yet introducing livestream selling.
• Pro players began using livestreams to increase their commercial value, and skilled or charismatic players gained fame beyond their tournament results.

Wang Yi met with representatives from Shark Baby and Ali to discuss cooperation in livestreaming, while Lin Shiqin arranged a driver and warned him that some job applicants had suspicious connections. The meeting ended with Ali proposing a joint venture that seemed to exclude Xu Wen and Shark Baby.

• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi she had hired Xu Feng as his driver and mentioned that some other applicants appeared to have been sent to protect him or had overseas connections.
• Chen Qian told Wang Yi that Xu Wen of Shark Baby was waiting downstairs, and Lin Shiqin advised him to meet Ali's representatives as well.
• Wang Yi agreed to receive three visitors in the conference room, where Xu Wen and two Ali representatives saw World Company's modest office.
• Xu Wen introduced himself and explained that he had come with Ali to seek cooperation in livestreaming.
• Wang Yi noted that livestreaming belonged to his subsidiary and asked whether they had spoken with Chen Jie.
• Xie Lou proposed that Ali form a new joint venture with World Company, leaving Xu Wen wondering why Shark Baby seemed to be excluded.

Wang Yi rejected Ali’s demand for a controlling stake and instead arranged livestream shopping cooperation with Penguin and Jingdong. After the feature launched on Little Broken Station, fisherman Hai Zai discovered he could use it to sell his family’s certified dried seafood.

• Wang Yi refused Xie Lou’s offer of Ali taking 51% of the shares, though he offered to link livestream shopping to Ali’s stores.
• Xie Lou rejected the proposal, and Wang Yi ended the meeting, deciding to pursue cooperation with Jingdong through Penguin instead.
• Zhang Xiang brought Wang Yi’s proposal to Penguin, which welcomed the chance to pair its Tencent Pay service with livestream shopping and Jingdong.
• Hai Zai began livestreaming his seaside foraging on Little Broken Station and built a steady audience through his fishing skills and commentary.
• Hai Zai saw the new livestream shopping feature and realized he could promote his family’s dried seafood with pinned purchase links, provided the goods met certification requirements.

Shark Baby and Ali launched a costly push to catch up with Little Broken Station, but Wang Yi ignored the challenge and announced a team-building trip and his work on an experiment. Xu Wen’s hopes of drawing Wang Yi into a public feud faded as online commenters continued to favor Little Broken Station.

• Ali partnered with Shark Baby to launch livestreaming early, poached streamers, and bought LOL streaming rights, while Shark Baby also bought the rights to PUBG and Minecraft.
• Xu Wen brought in Qin Xiang for funding, channels, and online influence, then watched Shark Baby’s traffic catch up to Little Broken Station’s.
• Xu Wen waited for Wang Yi to respond to the competition, but Wang Yi announced plans to take employees to Siam for team-building next month.
• When Fang Chuan asked Wang Yi about Shark Baby’s traffic, Wang Yi congratulated the platform and said he had been helping with an experiment.
• Xu Wen deleted his drafted response and reposted Wang Yi’s message with a thumbs-up, while Qin Xiang joked that he might have invested in a pirate ship.
• Wang Yi tested materials at the lens factory laboratory and chose pine resin as the first subject for developing protective contact lenses.

Wang Yi assessed the promising new contact lenses, arranged production preparations, and set off on a company trip to Siam. There, he learned that Lin Shiqin had targeted the influential businessman Kata Adani, leaving Wang Yi ready to pursue a potentially valuable partnership.

• Wang Yi examined the corrective contact lenses and decided to prepare for mass production while pursuing regulatory approval and acquiring silver for a magic array.
• Wang Yi activated the pharmaceutical factory's breeding room and left its operation to his subordinates.
• Wang Yi organized a company trip that allowed employees to bring immediate family members, while the nervous new driver Xu Feng struggled to adjust to his job.
• Wang Yi and the employees boarded a chartered plane for Siam as the Little Broken Station staff continued working overtime.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that their target was Kata Adani, a wealthy port owner with close ties to the popular Old Immortal.

Wang Yi arrived in Bangkok with his company’s team and learned that two groups were watching him, one seeking money and another pursuing a different goal. The local guide Liu Hua was revealed to be part of a kidnapping gang planning to target Wang Yi.

• Lin Shiqin arranged visas, SIM cards, hotels, and buses for Wang Yi’s group in Siam.
• Wang Yi told the group to stay together during activities and assigned Wen Yu and Chen Qian to oversee their free time.
• Lin Shiqin warned Wang Yi that two groups were watching him, and he decided not to worry about them.
• Liu Hua joined a gang in a village-like compound and identified Wang Yi as a wealthy kidnapping target.
• The gang discussed its past kidnappings and revealed that it already had people imprisoned.

Wang Yi stormed a human-trafficking compound, killed its guards, and freed the captives before taking Liu Hua toward a river where he sensed a Resentful Spirit. He questioned Liu Hua about the people the gang had disposed of, hoping to draw the spirit out.

• The gang’s enforcers decided to sell their captives to the mines and ordered that their high-profile target be kept alive.
• Wang Yi shut the compound gate, then killed eight men outside and incapacitated four more after catching a bullet.
• Wang Yi entered the room, told the captives in Thai that they were free, and knocked Liu Hua unconscious before carrying him out.
• At the riverbank, Wang Yi sensed a Resentful Spirit and woke Liu Hua to ask whether he had sunk people there.
• Liu Hua confessed that the gang disposed of disobedient people in the fast-moving river, and Wang Yi asked about their recent victims.

Wang Yi captured the Resentful Spirit of Tang Zhuo after exposing Liu Hua’s criminal group, then recruited Tang Zhuo to work with Lin Shiqin and Li Yao. He left the other group of mercenaries undiscovered for now and prepared to use his identities to deal with them.

• Wang Yi questioned Liu Hua about the victims, drew out Tang Zhuo’s Resentful Spirit, sealed it in a silver bracelet, and escaped when police sirens approached.
• Wang Yi asked Lin Shiqin to locate the other group, and she explained that they were cautious mercenaries who had uncovered his training history in Beautiful Country.
• Wang Yi decided to use his identity as a skilled operative against the mercenaries, who wanted to capture him alive.
• Wang Yi released Tang Zhuo, learned that he remembered little about his death, and ordered him to work with Lin Shiqin and Li Yao.
• Wang Yi had Tang Zhuo possess Liu Hua’s body, modified it to suit the spirit, and transferred Lu Cheng’s identity and shell to Tang Zhuo.

Wang Yi learned that his room had been bugged while Hyena and Scorpion monitored him and discussed his abilities. At the pool, he rejected Chen Jie's requests to lock streamers into stronger contracts or fund a spending war against Ali.

• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that Tang Zhuo had taken money and stopped at a snack stall, then reported that surveillance equipment had been installed in Wang Yi's room.
• Wang Yi warned the models who repeatedly knocked on his door to stop bothering him or be fired.
• Hyena operatives watched footage of Wang Yi and discussed his combat potential and the job their team had taken with Scorpion.
• Chen Qian told Wang Yi that Shark Baby and Ali were poaching streamers and that Chen Jie wanted stronger contracts and financial support.
• Wang Yi said the company should let streamers leave if they wanted, rejected Chen Jie's request for funding, and told Chen Qian to replace him if he could not do the job.

Chen Jie realized Little Broken Station could benefit from Shark Baby’s spending without matching it, while Wang Yi was lured toward an ambush at the hotel. The attackers’ plan failed when Wang Yi ambushed them first, killing one and leaving another injured as he faced the bearded leader.

• Chen Jie reconsidered his worries after Xu Mao pointed out that Little Broken Station could gain traffic and users from Shark Baby’s spending.
• Wang Yi went swimming and met a beautiful woman wearing perfume with a hallucinogenic effect, then let her lead him toward the hotel exit.
• Little Black and two companions monitored Wang Yi with a drone and hacked the hotel cameras as they prepared to abduct him.
• The bearded man led the team down the hotel’s exterior and into a room, where they expected to catch Wang Yi off guard.
• Wang Yi attacked as the intruders entered, killing one man and injuring Little Black before confronting the bearded man.

After Wang Yi foiled an attempt to kidnap him in Bangkok, he learned that the Sackler family might have ordered the attack and chose to watch them without acting openly. Jena was bailed out, but her strange rage at Wang Yi began to fade as a faint blue glow disappeared from her eyes.

• Wang Yi reassured the Siamese inspector and his employees, and the authorities agreed to keep the details of the attack discreet while increasing police protection.
• Wang Yi learned from Lin Shiqin that the attackers belonged to Scorpion and the Hyena mercenaries, and that the Sackler family likely hired them.
• Wang Yi suspected the Sackler family wanted his mathematical abilities for secretive pharmaceutical research and decided to monitor them without taking direct action.
• Jena was released from the Bangkok detention center, then angrily described her encounter with Wang Yi to the red-haired Scorpion driver.
• Jena's anger subsided as she slumped in the car, while a blue glow faded from her eyes and her phone's notification light flickered.

Wang Yi met Kata Adani, who asked him to recommend reliable bodyguards after repeated kidnappings and failed security hires. Wang Yi arranged for Tang Zhuo to pose as a contact, seeing a chance to build business connections in Hengguo while continuing plans for drug trials and a vaccine factory.

• Wang Yi learned that Kata Adani had asked Siam's authorities to arrange an introduction and agreed to meet him.
• Kata told Wang Yi about his repeated kidnappings and his frustration with ineffective bodyguards.
• Kata asked Wang Yi to recommend security personnel, and Wang Yi pretended to search for contacts before giving him a way to reach Tang Zhuo.
• Wang Yi planned to use Tang Zhuo as Kata's bodyguard and a link to Li Yao's side, while considering Hengguo mainly as a site for drug trials.

After returning from Siam, Wang Yi’s team-building trip drew attention for his role in stopping a criminal act, while Shark Baby’s Xu Wen felt overshadowed despite his platform’s rapid growth. Wang Yi then boosted a controversial contact lens advertisement by vouching for the company’s research capabilities, prompting unboxing creators to take notice.

• Wang Yi took a final group photo with the team at the airport before they returned home.
• Xu Wen struggled to enjoy Shark Baby’s success as Wang Yi’s vacation and Siam case attracted attention online.
• Reports that Wang Yi had stopped a criminal act in Siam and received official honors sparked a wave of online discussion.
• A trending advertisement claimed Umbrella Corporation’s contact lenses could adjust prescription strength and be worn for more than seventy-two hours, prompting widespread skepticism.
• Wang Yi said Umbrella Corporation had previously hired him to calculate data for a medicine and that its research work seemed sophisticated.
• The advertisement gained wider attention after Wang Yi’s post, drawing interest from unboxing uploaders and livestreamers.

Wang Yi reunited with Ma Dong and Liu Xiaoke, discussed Little Broken Station’s competition with Shark Baby, and suggested livestream selling contact lenses. A creator’s unboxing of Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company’s Model A1 lenses revealed that they were nearly invisible on camera, exciting viewers and challenging claims that they were an overpriced gimmick.

• Liu Xiaoke complained to Wang Yi about Shark Baby’s paid trolls attacking Little Broken Station, and Wang Yi reassured her that the platform was a small but important part of his company.
• Ma Dong told Wang Yi that his cooking livestreams had become popular and that Shark Baby had offered him a 200,000-yuan signing bonus.
• Wang Yi suggested that Ma Dong and Liu Xiaoke try livestream selling contact lenses before their next film began.
• Yao Zai unboxed Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company’s Model A1 annual replacement contact lenses during a livestream and found that a lens was almost impossible to see on camera.
• Viewers who had expected to mock the 1,088-yuan lenses praised their apparent invisibility, and some said they wanted to try them.

Unboxing streamers and reviewers were amazed by Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company's nearly invisible contact lenses and their other advertised features, but sales remained modest until Ma Dong and Liu Xiaoke launched a product-focused livestream. Ma Dong's dramatic tests sparked a viral wave of interest, and the second batch of lenses began shipping as buyers spread the word.

• Streamers and reviewers tested Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company's lenses and were shocked by their invisible appearance and advertised comfort, durability, and vision-correcting effects.
• Users who tried the lenses praised their comfort, clarity, and automatically adjusted prescription, though sales stayed limited because many potential customers already had glasses or contact lenses.
• Ma Dong and Liu Xiaoke began a livestream selling the lenses, and Ma Dong demonstrated their flexibility and resistance to dust, grease, and water.
• Ma Dong rinsed a lens after coating it in Laoganma chili oil and put it in his eye, prompting viewers to share clips of the stunt and place orders.
• Other streamers began staging their own tests, and the second batch of lenses shipped amid the growing hype.