Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao confronted Gu Lanting over her place in Qi Jundong’s life, and police arrested Gu Lanting on suspicion of accepting money to throw matches and illegal gambling. As Gu Lanting was taken away, she begged Qi Jundong to save her.

• Su Qiao told Gu Lanting that she had no chance to beat her now.
• Police officers identified Gu Lanting and arrested her for suspected match-fixing and illegal gambling.
• Gu Lanting accused Su Qiao of framing her, but Su Qiao pointed out that no one had forced her to take money, bet against her team, or smear other streamers.
• The crowd condemned Gu Lanting, while Qi Jundong worried that her arrest would bring trouble for VG.
• Gu Lanting broke free and begged Qi Jundong to save her, and he told her to go with the police while he looked for a way to help.

Gu Lanting was taken into police custody as Qi Jundong was struck by a truck and left badly injured. Qi Jingmo persuaded Su Qiao to move closer to her parents, revealing that he had already bought and furnished a home for them.

• Qi Jundong pried Gu Lanting away and promised to find a way to help her before a blue truck hit him and fled.
• Police and the VG team rushed Qi Jundong to the hospital, where doctors saved his life but found that his arm and leg were badly broken.
• Qi Jingmo suspected Su Qiao was behind the incident but kept quiet and decided to ask her to live with him.
• Qi Jingmo suggested buying a larger home near Su Qiao's parents, and Su Qiao agreed because her father needed care.
• Qi Jingmo began packing Su Qiao's things and admitted he had already bought and furnished a four-bedroom home near her parents.

Qi Jingmo revealed that he had secretly bought a house near Su Qiao's and told her he had been preparing for their future together. When his parents summoned him home, he announced that he and Su Qiao were already married, and his furious father demanded an immediate divorce.

• Qi Jingmo recalled how losing Su Qiao had driven him to secretly buy a house near hers.
• Qi Jingmo was called home by his family before he could finish packing.
• Father Qi scolded Qi Jingmo over his injured hand and relationship with an older woman, while Qi Jingmo defended Su Qiao.
• Qi Jingmo placed his Marriage Certificate on the table and told his parents that he and Su Qiao were married.
• Father Qi tried to hit Qi Jingmo, but Madam Qi held him back and urged Qi Jingmo to apologize.
• Father Qi ordered Qi Jingmo to divorce Su Qiao or lose his place in the family.

Qi Jingmo defended his marriage to Su Qiao against his father and Madam Qi, insisting that he would take responsibility for his choice. He left after telling them not to interfere, intending to return and help Su Qiao pack.

• Madam Qi warned Qi Jingmo that Su Qiao was too old for him and accused her of being calculating and unsuitable.
• Qi Jingmo showed his Marriage Certificate and warned his father and Madam Qi not to insult or slander his wife.
• Qi Jingmo explained that his marriage came first and compared his father’s marriage to his aunt with his own relationship.
• Qi Jingmo rejected their pressure to have children and told them not to meddle in his marriage.
• Qi Jingmo left to help Su Qiao pack because she was not good at cleaning or packing luggage.

Qi Jingmo rejected his father's hopes that he would take over the family company, while Su Qiao went to Jingrun Group's board meeting. She claimed a seat at the head of the table and announced she was there to attend, despite Qi Nancheng's attempts to drive her away.

• Qi Jingmo told Father Qi he had no interest in business or who inherited the company, then left.
• Madam Qi tried to calm Father Qi, while privately resenting the sacrifices she had made to have no other children.
• Su Qiao entered Jingrun Group's urgent board meeting with a man in a dark blue suit, despite the secretary's inability to stop them.
• Qi Nancheng recognized Su Qiao and ordered her to leave, but she sat at the head of the table.
• Su Qiao said she had come for the meeting, and Qi Nancheng warned her about the consequences of causing trouble.

Su Qiao confronted Qi Nancheng over his refusal to accept her relationship with Qi Jingmo, then revealed that she had acquired enough shares to become Jingrun Group’s largest shareholder. The chapter ended with the Qi brothers stunned by her thirty-five percent stake.

• Qi Nancheng told Su Qiao he would never approve of her marrying Qi Jingmo or acknowledge her identity.
• Su Qiao argued that Qi Jingmo was an adult who could make his own decisions and said she did not need Qi Nancheng’s permission.
• Qi Nancheng questioned why Su Qiao had come to Jingrun Group’s shareholders’ meeting, dismissing her as a teacher.
• Su Qiao had Zhang Yuan present the share-transfer agreements to the Qi brothers.
• Su Qiao revealed that she held thirty-five percent of Jingrun Group’s shares, compared with the brothers’ thirty-four and thirty-one percent.

Su Qiao revealed evidence that Qi Jundong had bribed a driver to hurt Xiao Mo, turning the fight over Jingrun’s shares into a family confrontation. Qi Nancheng decided to wait for the police investigation before deciding how to deal with his brother and nephew, while Su Qiao urged them to discuss it later.

• Qi Nancheng urged Qi Beicheng to transfer shares to him so Jingrun would not fall under an outsider’s control.
• Su Qiao showed Qi Nancheng records linking Qi Jundong to the driver who had tried to injure Xiao Mo.
• Qi Beicheng denied the accusation and threatened to sue Su Qiao for defamation, but she said the driver had been caught and the police would arrive at the hospital soon.
• Qi Nancheng confronted Qi Beicheng and said he would not let the matter go if Qi Jundong had tried to kill Xiao Mo.
• Su Qiao grew impatient and told them to discuss their family matters another time.

Su Qiao informed Qi Nancheng that the company’s security was weak, installed a stronger defense system, and showed him her holographic game project. The next day, Qi Nancheng told Qi Jingmo he accepted Su Qiao as his daughter-in-law and wanted her to come home so they could discuss the wedding.

• Su Qiao showed Qi Nancheng and the company’s staff how easily she had cracked their security, then said she had installed a new defense system.
• Su Qiao gave Qi Nancheng her Holographic Online Game project and left Zhang Yuan to handle future matters for her.
• Qi Jingmo met Qi Nancheng after his father repeatedly called him away from plans to shop for wedding dresses with Su Qiao.
• Qi Nancheng asked Qi Jingmo to bring Su Qiao home for a meal so they could discuss the wedding.

Qi Nancheng learned that Su Qiao had become Jingrun’s biggest shareholder and gave up urging Qi Jingmo to take over the company. Months later, Su Qiao and Qi Jingmo held their wedding, and the chapter recounted how their lives and the fates of the Qi family and their enemies unfolded over the following years.

• Qi Jingmo told Qi Nancheng that Su Qiao had earned over a billion in two months, so Qi Nancheng stopped offering him company shares.
• Qi Jingmo graduated, and he and Su Qiao held a grand wedding attended by family, friends, classmates, teammates, and fans.
• Su Qiao and Qi Jingmo remained happily married for more than ten years despite people predicting their marriage would fail.
• Qi Jundong lived recklessly after losing a leg and an arm, while Qi Nancheng bought Qi Beicheng’s shares and Gu Lanting remained imprisoned until she was thirty-eight.
• Gu Lanting left Weicheng with her parents and gave up seeking revenge on Su Qiao.
• Two years after the wedding, Father Qi died in a car accident after leaving his shares to Qi Jingmo, while Madam Qi received only a villa and a car.

A mountain landslide exposed three ancient coffins, and lightning opened the two black ones before a mysterious struggle buried everything again. Much later, someone told Qiao'er that she still had to choose one this year.

• Villagers discovered two black coffins and a white jade coffin exposed by a landslide.
• The villagers recognized dragon and phoenix carvings and speculated that the coffins held an emperor and empress.
• Lightning struck the black coffins, their lids flew open, and the villagers fled in terror.
• A strange black fog swallowed the villagers and battled an invisible force, leaving the forest ruined and the coffins buried.
• After an unknown passage of time, someone told Qiao'er she still had to choose one that year.

Su Qiao emerged from secluded cultivation and learned that her father, Su Decheng, wanted her to choose disciples at Qingtian Sect’s recruitment assembly. When 444 warned that Gu Nanyi was about to take the Great Demon King, Su Qiao claimed the boy in black as her disciple instead.

• Su Decheng urged Su Qiao to choose one or two disciples rather than continue cultivating alone.
• 444 explained Su Qiao’s status as Su Decheng’s daughter and warned that Gu Nanyi would take the Great Demon King if Su Qiao waited.
• Su Qiao spotted Gu Nanyi approaching the boy in black and hurried down to intervene.
• Su Qiao pulled the boy behind her and declared that she was accepting him as her disciple.

Su Qiao refused Gu Nanyi and Xi Muyun’s objections and chose to take the Lightning Spirit Root boy as her disciple. Her cultivation suddenly surged to Great Perfection, shocking the sect elders and leaving her just one step from the Soul Division Stage.

• Su Qiao told Gu Nanyi that choosing and teaching the boy was her own business.
• Xi Muyun sided with Gu Nanyi and questioned whether Su Qiao could teach a Lightning Spirit Root disciple with her Water Spirit Root.
• Su Qiao challenged Xi Muyun by asking whether Gu Nanyi could teach the boy instead.
• Su Chengde asked Su Qiao to reconsider, but she insisted she had chosen the boy at first sight.
• Su Qiao’s cultivation rose from mid-Nascent Soul Stage to Great Perfection, startling the peak masters and elders.

After Su Qiao advanced two minor realms and took the black-clad boy away, Su Decheng defended her decision to accept him as a disciple. The elders accepted his choice, though Xi Muyun remained opposed.

• 444 explained that Su Qiao had advanced from the middle Nascent Soul Stage to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Su Qiao told Su Decheng she needed to stabilize her cultivation and took the black-clad boy back with her.
• The Grand Elder and other elders objected to Su Qiao accepting the boy as her disciple, citing her Water Spirit Root and his rare talent.
• Su Decheng defended his daughter's decision and suggested the boy might be her lucky star.
• The elders accepted Su Decheng's decision, but Xi Muyun continued to object, and Su Decheng rebuked him.

Su Qiao took Zhong Lihan back to Clear Lotus Peak after he lost his disciple, then repeatedly tossed him around as he protested. The chapter ended with Zhong Lihan glaring at her from a lotus pond, revealing a bloodlust and murderous intent that made her wary.

• Su Decheng warned Xi Muyun not to let the dispute over Gu Nanyi damage his relationship with Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao carried Zhong Lihan back to Clear Lotus Peak on her Flying Sword.
• Su Qiao threw Zhong Lihan onto the ground, and he angrily objected.
• Su Qiao tossed Zhong Lihan into a lotus pond, where he swallowed pond water before surfacing.
• Su Qiao sensed murderous bloodlust in Zhong Lihan’s glare and questioned how a child could harbor such intent toward her.

Su Qiao subdued Zhong Lihan and assigned him a bamboo house and a Storage Bag before entering seclusion. She suspected he was no ordinary child and wondered why he had come to the Qingtian Sect.

• Su Qiao swept Zhong Lihan back into the pool when he tried to escape, then chased him as he fled across the bank.
• Zhong Lihan refused to acknowledge Su Qiao as his master and realized that he could not bring himself to attack her without suffering sharp pain in his chest.
• Su Qiao stopped pursuing Zhong Lihan, gave him a bamboo house and a Storage Bag, and told him to clean himself up and find his own food while she went into seclusion.
• After entering her cave, Su Qiao told 444 that Zhong Lihan's dark aura and killing intent made her suspect he was not a child and had an unknown purpose at the Qingtian Sect.

Su Qiao emerged from a year of seclusion and learned that her disciple and Gu Nanyi planned to use the Sect Competition to corrupt cultivators from the other Six Great Sects with Demonic Qi. As she reviewed the original Su Qiao’s memories, she recalled her love for Xi Muyun and the jealousy that had led to her death.

• Su Qiao told 444 to wait until she came out of seclusion, then spent a year stabilizing her cultivation.
• 444 told Su Qiao that her disciple and Gu Nanyi planned to lure cultivators from the other Six Great Sects to the Sect Competition and turn them into demons.
• Su Qiao decided to sort through her memories before asking how her disciple had become involved with Gu Nanyi again.
• Su Qiao recalled that the original Su Qiao was Su Decheng’s gifted daughter and a peak master who loved Xi Muyun.
• Su Qiao remembered that Xi Muyun loved Gu Nanyi and had killed Su Qiao after Su Qiao fought with her in a secret realm.

Su Qiao learned that Zhong Lihan was Baili Jing’s forcibly separated Inner Demon, making him both the Great Demon King and her man. She also learned why he had appeared as a child and that he had come to Qingtian Sect to investigate Baili Jing and cause trouble.

• Su Qiao reviewed the memories of her original life and learned that Su Chengde had died after seeking revenge for his daughter.
• Su Qiao asked 444 what had happened to Zhong Lihan, and 444 explained that Baili Jing was the powerful figure behind him.
• 444 revealed that Baili Jing had separated his Inner Demon to create Zhong Lihan while advancing to the Soul Division Stage.
• Su Qiao learned that Zhong Lihan had become child-sized after a battle with Baili Jing four hundred years earlier.
• 444 explained that Zhong Lihan had recovered and was disguised as a child at Qingtian Sect to investigate Baili Jing and prepare for another fight.

Su Qiao learned that Zhong Lihan and Baili Jing had brought ruin to the Cultivation World in her previous life, and realized that Gu Nanyi’s changed behavior had another cause. She discovered that Gu Nanyi now hosted the system that had attacked her and 444, leaving Su Qiao demanding an explanation.

• Su Qiao asked how soon Zhong Lihan’s plan would begin and learned that it would start around the Sect Competition in three months.
• Su Qiao recalled how Zhong Lihan and Baili Jing had been killed after their infighting and the Demon Race’s invasion devastated the human realm.
• Su Qiao questioned why Gu Nanyi had allied with Zhong Lihan when she had opposed him in the previous life.
• 444 admitted that the current Gu Nanyi was a different person and hosted the system that had attacked them twice before.
• Su Qiao angrily challenged 444 because it had told her that two task-takers could not exist in one plane.

Su Qiao learned that Gu Nanyi had come after her and was interested in her man, but 444 could not monitor Gu Nanyi because her system blocked him. Su Qiao decided to spend most of their Points on an item to block the other system, leaving her with fewer Points for the next plane.

• Su Qiao questioned 444 about Gu Nanyi, but he admitted he knew little beyond her hostile intentions and interest in Su Qiao's man.
• Su Qiao decided she had to capture Gu Nanyi and set the Great Demon King, who had gone astray, straight again.
• 444 told Su Qiao he could not monitor Gu Nanyi because her system blocked him.
• Su Qiao ordered 444 to find a way to block Gu Nanyi's system, and he found an item that cost fifteen hundred Points.
• After 444 warned that buying the item would leave them with only a little over two thousand Points and limit their time together in the plane, Su Qiao told him to buy it.

Su Qiao considered using the Wish Package and settled on wishing for Gu Nanyi to become attached to Zhong Lihan. She left the wish undecided as she asked 444 whether Gu Nanyi had really taken a liking to him.

• 444 bought a Shielding Device for 1,500 Points and told Su Qiao they had received a Wish Package when the system upgraded.
• Su Qiao confronted 444 about the missing newbie gift pack, and 444 claimed the 1,000 starting Points had been spent on monitoring and recording tasks.
• Su Qiao warned 444 not to hide things from her again, then agreed to use the Wish Package.
• Su Qiao first considered wishing for the Male Lead and Female Lead to die, but 444 cautioned her against making an impossible wish.
• Su Qiao asked whether Gu Nanyi had taken a liking to Zhong Lihan, and 444 pointed out that Gu Nanyi kept following him and had tried to take Su Qiao’s disciple.