Chapter Summaries

Umbrella A1 contact lenses disrupted the eyewear market as satisfied customers spread recommendations and rival manufacturers tested the product. The chapter ended with companies recognizing that the lenses’ unusual resin material could have applications far beyond eyewear.

• Eyewear merchants noticed that many enthusiastic posts about Umbrella A1 came from genuine customers rather than paid promoters.
• The owner of Jingmu Eyewear Store refused to stock the lenses after learning their wholesale price was 1,000 yuan per pair.
• Old Wu’s cousin and other acquaintances called to buy Umbrella A1 lenses at full price, while customers spread recommendations by word of mouth.
• Bausch + Lomb, Amei, and other manufacturers tested Umbrella A1 and found its performance difficult to explain.
• Rival manufacturers sent the lenses to their headquarters, suspecting the material could represent a major breakthrough with uses beyond contact lenses.

Competing eyewear companies smeared Umbrella’s A1 Glasses after they could not match its lens technology. Wang Yi brought the lenses to Professor Chen for testing, but the professor suffered a medical emergency when he saw the results, leaving Wang Yi to secretly stabilize him while awaiting the infirmary staff.

• Vision-Care, Bausch + Lomb, Johnson & Johnson, and other threatened interests spread claims that Umbrella’s contact lenses were unsafe and promoted existing products instead.
• Qian Yayan asked Wang Yi about interning at his company, and he agreed to let her try out for a position.
• Wang Yi took Qian Yayan to meet Professor Chen and asked him to test Umbrella’s contact lenses.
• Professor Chen agreed to run the tests despite doubting that resin lenses could deliver the advertised features.
• Professor Chen became overexcited during the test and suffered a ruptured blood vessel, so Wang Yi used magic to stabilize him while pretending to perform chest compressions.

Wang Yi released test data confirming Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company's A1 contact lenses, ending the smear campaign and driving a surge in sales. The success of the livestream promotions led Ali and Shark Baby to expand into product-link commerce, while Little Broken Station took a less centralized approach.

• Professor Chen tested the lenses, confirmed their remarkable properties, and asked Wang Yi for another pair.
• Wang Yi posted experimental data and footage of Professor Chen's tests, silencing the critics and resolving the controversy over the A1 lenses.
• Umbrella Pharmaceutical Company said the lenses could be worn continuously and had improvement effects, prompting orders to skyrocket in Ma Dong and Liu Xiaoke's livestreams.
• Shark Baby and Ali copied the livestream-sales model and launched a major product-promotion category, while Little Broken Station let more streamers share the opportunity.
• Shark Baby and Ali promoted top streamers and promised the internet's lowest prices, helping several product-promotion stars emerge.

Chen Jie and Xu Mao discussed Little Broken Station’s deliberate refusal to cultivate superstar streamers, while Wang Yi planned the launch of short videos and prepared for the impact of his new lens material. He also arranged to ship silver for the first Mage Tower and left Li Yao with several demanding tasks.

• Chen Jie realized Wang Yi did not care about maximizing Little Broken Station’s profits, and Xu Mao said the company’s approach still benefited mid-tier and lower-tier streamers.
• Lin Shiqin reminded Wang Yi that the short-video platform and its mini-program were ready, and he delayed the launch until 4G Licenses began issuing next month.
• Wang Yi told Lin Shiqin to watch Li Yao and anticipate a response from optical giants such as Carl Zeiss to the new lens material.
• Wang Yi said he would keep working on the Riemann Hypothesis and confirmed that they had accumulated over forty tons of silver.
• Wang Yi ordered the silver shipped in batches and directed Lin Shiqin to promote the short-video launch with reputable celebrities and prepare a film project.
• Wang Yi planned to find a location for the first Mage Tower, while Li Yao faced coordinating silver shipments, handling attention on the lens material, and preparing a vaccine factory in Third Brother.

Tourist Jay discovered that Umbrella’s A1 contact lenses felt extraordinarily comfortable and brought several pairs home to Maple Leaf Country. After posting dramatic demonstrations and having three friends try them, he helped turn the lenses into an overseas online sensation.

• Jay visited Jingmu Eyewear Store and bought A1 contact lenses after the manager showed him review videos and agreed to help him get a taxi.
• Jay tried the lenses, was amazed by how comfortable they felt, and bought three more pairs to take home.
• After returning to Maple Leaf Country, Jay uploaded excited videos about the lenses and demonstrated them by spraying them with pepper spray before wearing them.
• Jay persuaded three skeptical friends to try the lenses, and they praised them after experiencing the effect themselves.
• Viewers began taking Jay’s A1 videos seriously after his friends confirmed their experiences.

Li Yao’s new lenses won international attention, and he announced that production depended on Natural Resin found only in the East. Wang Yi secured a villa site in Shudian for an underground Mage Tower after a shipment of silver arrived at Umbrella’s lens factory.

• Foreign netizens tested the lenses and confirmed their quality, while Li Yao announced that Umbrella was trying to transplant the East’s Natural Resin.
• Carl Zeiss publicly proposed cooperation, but Li Yao politely declined and assured customers that new trees were being cultivated to increase production.
• Li Yao escorted forty tons of silver to Umbrella’s lens factory in Shudian.
• Wang Yi inspected a villa community chosen by Lin Shiqin for its suitable geology and decided to buy a villa for the underground Mage Tower.

Wang Yi advanced work on his underground Mage Tower before joining Liu Xiaoke at the premiere of Zhang Ming’s film, “Qin Palace.” The premiere drew industry attention, while reporters who recognized Wang Yi’s unusual influence avoided photographing him.

• Wang Yi had Lin Shiqin direct four skeletons digging the basement and used silver to begin outlining the Mana Pool’s core structure.
• Wang Yi agreed to attend Liu Xiaoke’s premiere invitation and considered investing in Zhang Ming’s future films.
• Wang Yi and Liu Xiaoke rode with Xu Feng to Hengwan Plaza, where reporters noticed them arriving together.
• Brother Lin stopped a junior reporter from photographing Wang Yi, recalling how he had been questioned after taking pictures of him at the “PUBG” launch.
• Wang Yi and Liu Xiaoke entered the orderly premiere venue, where Zhang Ming’s “Qin Palace” gathered cast members, critics, celebrities, and investors.

Wang Yi attended Zhang Ming’s movie premiere, where Lu Zhen and Xuan Yangzi treated him with deference. After the screening, Wang Yi hinted at future cooperation with Lu Zhen and asked Xuan Yangzi to speak with him later, while Xuan Yangzi confirmed Wang Yi’s reputation as a gifted Master to influential men.

• Lu Zhen welcomed Wang Yi, Liu Xiaoke, and Ma Dong, and Xuan Yangzi greeted Wang Yi with respect.
• Wang Yi asked Lu Zhen to take another seat, and Zhang Ming let Liu Xiaoke and Ma Dong stay with him instead of going onstage.
• The premiere proceeded smoothly, and Lu Zhen offered to appear in a livestream for Wang Yi.
• Wang Yi said he might invite Lu Zhen to join a future feature and directed him to contact Wen Yu about investment projects.
• Wang Yi asked Xuan Yangzi to speak with him later, and Xuan Yangzi told two influential men that Wang Yi was a gifted Master they should not offend.

Wang Yi asked Zhang Ming to recommend a director for a realistic medicine-themed film, then sought Xuan Yangzi’s help finding supernatural beings he could recruit. The chapter ended with Xuan Yangzi agreeing to watch for leads, especially in Hong Kong.

• Wang Yi asked Zhang Ming to recommend a reliable director for a medicine-themed film, and Zhang Ming suggested a talented young filmmaker.
• Wang Yi agreed that Wen Yu could sign the director if their collaboration went well, while Zhang Ming mentioned his upcoming film’s post-production work with Wang Yi’s company.
• Wang Yi, Liu Xiaoke, and Ma Dong met Xuan Yangzi at a café, where Wang Yi asked him to look for difficult supernatural beings.
• Xuan Yangzi suggested that people involved in shady trades might encounter such beings and said he would keep an eye out, possibly in Hong Kong.
• Wang Yi gave Xuan Yangzi a shopping card as compensation and promised an additional reward if he found a lead.

Wang Yi’s employees pursued their projects while Li Yao juggled corporate work, criminal operations, and overseas business. As foreign demand for A1 Glasses drove up resale prices, Chinese buyers began looking for ways to take or send the lenses abroad, and supplies started selling out.

• Liu Xiaoke and Ma Dong offered to ask around about paranormal matters, while Xu Feng misread their vague conversation and worried about the company’s unusual activities.
• Little Broken Station expanded its video business and fought Shark Baby for streamers, while Yuzhong Media reviewed film projects and World Company prepared a Minecraft creation contest.
• Li Yao managed Wang Yi’s companies by day and consolidated his position in Mexico at night, while also arranging a vaccine factory deal in Hengguo and collecting silver.
• A Weibo user called Big Shipper explained that A1 Glasses’ overseas price was reasonable compared with local medical costs, prompting readers to discuss the lenses’ value.
• Chinese buyers asked about taking or mailing A1 Glasses overseas, and the lenses began selling out.

Wang Yi completed and activated the first floor of his underground Mage Tower, establishing a Mana Pool and defenses before preparing to move in. He also reviewed Umbrella’s growing overseas lens demand and several business developments, including new drug approvals.

• Overseas demand for A1 contact lenses surged as travelers and students brought them abroad, while limited production forced Umbrella to restrict orders and cut off offline stores.
• Wang Yi activated the Mage Tower’s silver patterns and Demonized Mithril core, creating a Mana Pool that could store far more magic power than his Personal Space but would take nearly a month to fill.
• Wang Yi ordered Chen Qian to buy furniture and appliances, and Lin Shiqin reported that Scorpion’s mission against him remained ineffective, Shark Baby was pushing into the app market, and the Minecraft stunt contest was being judged and imitated overseas.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that Umbrella’s Gallbladder-clearing and Liver-soothing Tablets and Heat-clearing and Diuretic Capsules had passed review, and that officials wanted to inspect the lens manufacturing process.
• Wang Yi agreed to let them observe and suggested that Umbrella emphasize the process’s high precision.

Jiang Bo built an iron-farming machine in Minecraft and uploaded his first trick video as the game’s contest boosted sales, though it still lagged behind PUBG. Wang Yi arranged A1 Glasses for Little Broken Station employees and streamers, giving the platform a recruiting advantage over Shark Baby and leaving Xu Wen struggling to keep streamers satisfied.

• Jiang Bo copied a Minecraft farming trick, built a machine that produced iron golems for lava processing, and uploaded his video.
• Wang Yi reviewed the contest finalists and told Chen Qian to invite uploaders into the support program, offering recommendation slots to those willing to stream.
• Wang Yi agreed to arrange A1 Glasses for Yuzhong and Little Broken Station staff, then extended purchase slots or glasses to Little Broken Station streamers.
• The Minecraft contest attracted new players and increased sales, but Minecraft still sold less than PUBG.
• Little Broken Station streamers showed off their A1 Glasses, drawing attention and arguments that Chen Jie used to promote the platform’s streaming advantages.
• Xu Wen responded by reimbursing Shark Baby streamers for the glasses, but the payments barely settled their dissatisfaction and left him recognizing that Shark Baby’s reliance on high salaries had made streamers arrogant.

Wang Yi tried to secure hospital distribution for Umbrella’s two stone-dissolving drugs after learning that prescription rules and weak sales channels had stalled them. He won support from the Science Institute’s affiliated hospital, but specialists raised safety concerns about the gallstone medicine, so he called Qian Yayan to bring students with gallstones for a demonstration.

• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that Umbrella’s two approved drugs had run into sales and distribution problems because they were prescription medicines with no effective sales team.
• Wang Yi decided to build the drugs’ reputation by introducing them to a small number of hospitals and letting hospitals compete over their results.
• Wang Yi brought the drugs to Academician Li, who agreed to help place them in the Science Institute’s affiliated hospital and summoned its president and relevant specialists.
• Director Hu warned that the gallstone tablets might dissolve stones too slowly and cause dangerous blockages, while the urology director considered the kidney-stone capsules suitable for some patients.
• Wang Yi called Qian Yayan and asked her to bring students with gallstones to the hospital.

Wang Yi arranged for eight students with gallstones to try Umbrella Gallbladder-clearing and Liver-soothing Tablets, and Director Hu discovered that the medicine rapidly cleared or fragmented their stones. Impressed by the results, the doctors turned their attention to testing it on kidney stones, and Qian Yayan recruited volunteers.

• Qian Yayan brought eight students with gallstones to Director Hu, who examined them and confirmed they were suitable for medication.
• Director Hu prescribed the tablets, and the students took their first dose while Wang Yi watched.
• Director Hu repeated the ultrasounds and found that one student's stones had disappeared and the others' had broken into sandy particles.
• Director Hu realized the medicine might also treat large stones, while Wang Yi explained that its carefully calculated formulation produced the results.
• Director Huang from Urology agreed to test the treatment on kidney stones, and Qian Yayan invited eligible volunteers to claim eight spots.

Wang Yi helped introduce the stone-treatment medicine at the affiliated hospital, then left with Qian Yayan, who was set to intern as his secretary. As salesman Ma Shang struggled to place the company’s medicines, Wang Yi arrived at Guangzhou Medical University to seek help from the Old Doctor he knew.

• Director Hu and Director Huang marveled at the medicine’s effects, while Wang Yi believed he could use his influence at the affiliated hospital to get it adopted.
• Qian Yayan eagerly accepted Wang Yi’s offer to begin interning as his secretary.
• Ma Shang failed to secure shelf space at Changhua Pharmacy because its purchasing department demanded a large rebate and placement fee.
• Ma Shang went to Guangzhou Medical University to seek approval for the medicines from the Hepatobiliary Surgery and Urology departments.
• Wang Yi arrived at the hospital with Qian Yayan, intending to meet the Old Doctor, who directed Hepatobiliary Surgery.

Wang Yi presented Umbrella’s Gallbladder-clearing and Liver-soothing Tablets to Song Tianming, whose doubts vanished after a hospital director confirmed the medicine’s remarkable results. Meanwhile, Ma Shang failed to persuade Guangzhou Medical University to stock the medicine until Song Tianming arrived and proposed a trip to inspect it.

• Wang Yi met Song Tianming and offered to teach emergency staff the traditional martial-arts techniques behind his chest compressions.
• Song Tianming examined Wang Yi’s medicine and called Director Hu, who confirmed its dramatic results on gallstones and pseudopolyps.
• Wang Yi explained that he was nearly twenty-two, held an Honorary Professor title, and had founded a company that collaborated with Umbrella.
• Song Tianming recognized Wang Yi as Master Yi and enthusiastically shook his hand.
• Ma Shang failed to convince Director Xu to submit a request for the medicine, and Xu refused to stock it.
• Song Tianming arrived with Wang Yi and his companion, then invited Xu to inspect the medicines at the First Affiliated Hospital and consider a joint procurement request.

Wang Yi secured Guangzhou Medical University's likely adoption of Umbrella's medicines and returned to Shudian to prepare his company for expansion. He introduced Qian Yayan as his secretary and spokesperson and announced plans for a short-video business.

• Wang Yi reassured Song Tianming that Ma Shang was promoting Umbrella's medicines independently, and Director Xu recognized Wang Yi as Master Yi.
• Wang Yi's visit and the First Affiliated Hospital's confirmation helped make Guangzhou Medical University's adoption of the medicines practically certain.
• Wang Yi and Qian Yayan returned to Shudian, where he arranged renovations and plans to buy two floors of office space.
• Wang Yi introduced Qian Yayan to the employees as his secretary and spokesperson, and she agreed to learn the company before taking on internal controls.
• Wang Yi announced that Little Broken Station would hold a New Year's Festival and that the parent company would prepare to launch a short-video platform.

Wang Yi welcomed Liu Xiaoke and Ma Dong to his new home, where Qian Yayan’s jealousy surfaced as she and Liu Xiaoke sized each other up. He also advanced Umbrella’s vaccine plans and watched the New Year arrive, leaving the story at the start of a new year.

• Wang Yi invited Liu Xiaoke and Ma Dong to Yuefu Meishu, where Qian Yayan greeted them in a maid outfit and Wang Yi introduced her as his ex-girlfriend and current secretary.
• Wang Yi cooked a lavish meal with Ma Dong’s help while Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke talked and assessed each other.
• Wang Yi asked Lin Shiqin why Liu Xiaoke had seemed uneasy, and Lin Shiqin explained that Liu Xiaoke’s family lived in the area.
• Wang Yi learned that the Hengsan vaccine factory had begun testing HPV vaccine production and instructed his team to finish trials there before seeking approval and building a domestic factory.
• As New Year’s Day arrived, Wang Yi watched fireworks through the windows beside the unconscious Qian Yayan.

Little Broken Station launched TT, a music short-video app backed by World Company, and its precise recommendations, user-made clips, and Wang Yi’s music quickly drew massive attention at home and overseas. The launch left rival platforms alarmed and foreshadowed pressure on World Company as TT expanded abroad.

• Little Broken Station announced its music short-video business during its New Year’s Eve broadcast, opening with Elf Race music that stunned viewers.
• The host introduced TT’s features, including precise recommendations, low data usage, Wang Yi’s BGM library, and simple editing tools, while celebrities and internet personalities promoted sample clips.
• TT opened for downloads, and advertising across online platforms and public spaces fueled a major surge of interest.
• Users began sharing game highlights set to Orc Race and Elf Race music, and Wang Yi’s tracks dominated headlines and spread overseas.
• Lin Shiqin prepared TT’s overseas expansion through World Company’s subsidiaries, while the chapter suggested those assets could face pressure and later be sold to the friendly Umbrella Corporation.

Ali formed a strategic alliance with Shark Baby, Kuaishou, and Youku to challenge World’s entertainment platforms, while Wang Yi defended competition and cooperation. At a travel agency, Bai Bing and her coworkers tried TT and became absorbed in its music and personalized short videos.

• Ali announced that it had acquired stakes in Kuaishou and Youku, joining them with Shark Baby in a strategic alliance.
• Xu Wen said he had visited Master Yi to seek cooperation, prompting criticism that World had been too greedy.
• Wang Yi posted that unchecked capital expansion and a monopoly were undesirable, causing Ali to worry and Penguin to drop plans to enter short videos.
• Penguin agreed to enable direct reposting through Shake Message as its cooperation with World continued.
• Bai Bing watched TT videos at work, while Gang Zi and Old Liu tried the app and found its recommendations entertaining.