Chapter Summaries

After a faulty transmigration left five-year-old Lin Zhengran in modern society, he discovered that his cultivation system treated ordinary kindergarten events as opportunities and rewarded him for taking He Qing’s snacks. He reached level four, improved his aptitude, and learned that studying could help him cultivate, leaving him to face a much harder path ahead.

• Lin Zhengran listened to the system describe a cultivation-world opportunity while sitting in kindergarten beside He Qing.
• When He Qing offered him milk candy, Lin Zhengran ate it and the system raised his cultivation to level three.
• Lin Zhengran persuaded He Qing to give him a jujube in exchange for calling the teacher so she could use the restroom.
• After Lin Zhengran ate the jujube, the system raised his aptitude to Moderately Talented and his level to four, while mistaking the teacher’s scolding for a distant threat.
• Lin Zhengran opened a children’s book and learned from the system that memorizing it could break him through to level five.

Lin Zhengran protected He Qing from a boy who mocked her, and she promised him snacks and a treasured piece of chocolate as thanks. At dismissal, Lin Zhengran reflected on his new life and felt relieved to have a healthy, loving family.

• He Qing was teased by a boy after he saw her washing her wet sleeve, and Lin Zhengran stepped in to confront him.
• Lin Zhengran made the boy apologize to He Qing, then told her to sit beside him during recreation time.
• He Qing thanked Lin Zhengran and offered him a box of candy and a large piece of chocolate from home.
• Lin Zhengran learned more about his parents, Lin Kai and Lin Xiaoli, as he waited to leave kindergarten.

Lin Zhengran accepted He Qing’s saved candy and discovered that it contained cultivation pills, while her father’s chocolate had become useless. He Qing agreed to share her candy and listen to him, and the system described her as a naive companion he planned to guide.

• Lin Xiaoli took Lin Zhengran and He Qing home together and offered them chocolate, which Lin Zhengran gave to He Qing.
• He Qing returned to her apartment to retrieve saved candy and the chocolate her father had once given her, then brought both to Lin Zhengran.
• Lin Zhengran found that the candy contained Nourishing Pills, while the spoiled chocolate had lost its effects.
• He Qing asked Lin Zhengran to leave her a piece of the chocolate because it was the only thing her father had given her.
• Lin Zhengran returned the chocolate, accepted the candy as payment for saving her, and told He Qing to share future candy with him and listen to him.
• He Qing agreed, and the system described Lin Zhengran and the inexperienced Fairy traveling together while he intended to teach her about the dangers of the world.

Lin Zhengran spent January using system rewards from He Qing’s snacks while pushing her to speak up and stand up for herself. At the mall, he found her watching a Taekwondo video and learned she wanted to train so she could protect him.

• At dinner, He Qing gave Lin Zhengran the shrimp meat, and he returned it, recognizing her quiet attempt to repay his kindness.
• Lin Zhengran ate the entire box of He Qing’s candies and gained increases to his strength, energy, and Physical Strength.
• Throughout the next month, Lin Zhengran asked He Qing for snacks and coached her to throw paper balls, ask for more food, and speak up when she needed help.
• At the mall, Lin Zhengran found He Qing away from her mother’s argument with her father and urged her to say what she thought instead of staying silent.
• He Qing admitted that she was interested in Taekwondo because she wanted to protect Lin Zhengran if anyone bullied him.

Lin Zhengran encouraged He Qing to stand up for herself, helping her find the courage to tell her mother to divorce her father. Two months later, he reached level ten and unlocked Aura Link, then refused He Qing’s candy, leaving her distressed and wondering what she had done wrong.

• Lin Zhengran thanked He Qing for wanting to protect him and encouraged her to learn Taekwondo if she wished.
• He Qing urged her mother to divorce her father, and Aunt He agreed to seek happiness after their divorce.
• After two months of cultivation, Lin Zhengran reached level ten and unlocked the Aura Link skill, which let him gain double the improvement from a contracted fairy’s cultivation.
• Lin Zhengran met He Qing at the school gate and learned that her parents’ divorce had made both of them happier.
• He Qing offered Lin Zhengran candy, but he said he no longer wanted it, leaving her panicked and nearly in tears.

Lin Zhengran formed a bond with He Qing, who agreed to stay by his side, and helped her begin taekwondo after she asked her mother to sign her up. As He Qing trained, her cultivation progress rose and Lin Zhengran gained strength; by winter break, she had become a formidable young taekwondo fighter.

• Lin Zhengran asked He Qing if she wanted to keep following him forever, and she agreed to their pinky swear without understanding his intended meaning.
• He Qing asked her mother, Aunt He, to enroll her in taekwondo, and Aunt He took her to the mall hall and signed her up.
• He Qing began taekwondo and reached Beginner Martial Artist, causing Lin Zhengran to advance to Low-Level Martial Artist and gain strength and spiritual energy.
• By winter break, He Qing had become a recognized taekwondo expert, and Lin Zhengran had secretly helped her train.

At the town’s beer festival, Lin Zhengran’s system warned him that a Magical Beast had appeared, though it gave no location. After his father took him back to the car, Lin Zhengran spotted a little girl confronting a golden retriever.

• Lin Zhengran continued teaching Little He Qing taekwondo, and she invited him to join her classes, but he refused.
• Lin Zhengran and Little He Qing entered second grade and were placed in different classes, though they still saw each other on weekends.
• Two years after his system activated, Lin Zhengran reached Spiritual Energy Level eighteen while Little He Qing became the strongest girl at their Taekwondo Hall.
• Lin Zhengran went to the town’s beer festival with his parents, where his system warned that a Magical Beast had entered the human realm.
• Lin Zhengran’s father took him to the car to rest, and Lin Zhengran saw a little girl holding Puppy and waving a branch at a golden retriever.

Lin Zhengran rescued Jiang Xueli from her mistaken belief that a golden retriever was attacking its puppy, and she thanked him despite her embarrassment. A week later, Jiang Xueli’s classmates noticed that she was reluctant to discipline Lin Zhengran and asked if she liked him.

• Lin Zhengran realized the puppy’s red stains were dragon fruit and returned it to its mother, earning the golden retriever’s blessing.
• Jiang Xueli thanked Lin Zhengran for helping her, then repeatedly ran away when she saw him during the following week.
• During a noisy self-study period, Jiang Xueli began writing disruptive classmates’ names on the blackboard but hesitated to write Lin Zhengran’s name.
• Jiang Xueli erased the names and warned the class again, prompting a boy to ask whether she liked Lin Zhengran.

Class Two students’ teasing turned Jiang Xueli and Lin Zhengran’s awkward exchange into a rumor that lasted into second grade. After Lin Zhengran won the school sports competition and reached Level Twenty, He Qing heard the rumor and decided to ask him about it.

• Class Two students teased Jiang Xueli that she liked Lin Zhengran, and Lin Zhengran stopped their shouting by throwing paper at the instigator.
• Jiang Xueli privately told Lin Zhengran she had avoided writing his name to keep him from revealing what happened with Big Yellow Dog, and Lin Zhengran agreed to keep quiet.
• Students continued teasing Jiang Xueli about Lin Zhengran through second grade, while she insisted they had nothing to do with each other.
• Lin Zhengran won first place in the school sports competition, gained system stats, and advanced to Level Twenty.
• Jiang Xueli watched Lin Zhengran’s victory as other students teased her about girls from other classes noticing him.
• He Qing heard students claim Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli were boyfriend and girlfriend, felt upset, and decided to ask Lin Zhengran whether it was true.

Little He Qing learned that her maternal grandmother had fallen ill, and her mother decided to move them back south to care for her. With a month left before they left town, Little He Qing faced being separated from Lin Zhengran, while Lin Zhengran gained a new training ability and received an unexpected visitor.

• Aunt He took Little He Qing to the hospital after her maternal grandmother fell, and the nurse said the elderly woman had several minor health issues but nothing serious.
• Aunt He decided to resign and move back south with Little He Qing to care for her mother, planning to transfer Little He Qing to a school there.
• Little He Qing cried at the thought of leaving Lin Zhengran, and Aunt He promised they could return for middle school and stay in touch by video chat.
• Lin Zhengran reached Level Twenty and gained the Doubled Training ability, which increased the learning speed and training progress of fairies he personally taught.
• A knock sounded at Lin Zhengran's door as Fairy He arrived looking travel-worn and apparently needing his help.

He Qing visited Lin Zhengran and learned that his rumored relationship with a classmate was false before telling him she would transfer schools to care for her sick maternal grandmother. Lin Zhengran promised to train her for a taekwondo championship before she left, and spent the next month teaching her intensively.

• He Qing asked Lin Zhengran whether he had a girlfriend, and he told her the rumor was false.
• He Qing told Lin Zhengran that she would transfer schools next month because her mother had to care for her sick maternal grandmother.
• He Qing said she wanted to win a taekwondo championship before leaving, and Lin Zhengran agreed to train her.
• Lin Zhengran spent his remaining month with He Qing teaching taekwondo and analyzing the fighters who could defeat her.

Lin Zhengran trained Little He Qing to overcome her fear of the much larger Xiao Long, while she set her sights on winning a Taekwondo competition to earn a chocolate swan for Lin Zhengran. At the end of the month, she entered the competition determined to win with Lin Zhengran watching.

• Lin Zhengran learned that Xiao Long was the only opponent Little He Qing could not defeat and began training her to look fierce and build her confidence.
• Little He Qing told a dessert-shop clerk to save a costly white swan-shaped chocolate dessert, which she planned to buy with her competition prize for Lin Zhengran.
• Little He Qing refused to ask her mother to buy the dessert, believing it would only be meaningful if she earned it by winning.
• A week and a half later, Little He Qing changed into her Taekwondo Uniform for the in-house competition, and Lin Zhengran gave her a thumbs-up from the audience.
• Little He Qing blushed, nodded, and resolved to win the competition in front of Lin Zhengran.

Little He Qing won the Taekwondo tournament after Lin Zhengran encouraged her, then used her prize money to buy him a chocolate cake and shared it with him. She asked whether she could call him after returning to her hometown, and Lin Zhengran said she could, though he might not answer.

• Little He Qing advanced to the final despite being distracted by a childhood pinky promise she had made with Lin Zhengran.
• Lin Zhengran encouraged Little He Qing and reminded her to focus on the final against Xiao Long.
• Little He Qing defeated Xiao Long after her stern, cute expression flustered him and weakened his attack.
• Little He Qing spent her prize money on a chocolate cake she had chosen for Lin Zhengran, and they shared it on the steps by her residential building.
• Little He Qing asked if she could call Lin Zhengran after returning to her hometown, and he said she could try.

Little He Qing moved away from Lin Zhengran but kept in touch with him as the years passed. In fourth grade, she defended Han Wenwen from a group of girls and revealed her skill at throwing people.

• Little He Qing left with her mother and asked Lin Zhengran not to spend too much time with other girls before she returned; Lin Zhengran's father promised to keep an eye on him.
• Little He Qing and Lin Zhengran kept calling each other after she moved, though their calls became less frequent over the following years.
• In fourth grade, Little He Qing heard girls confronting Han Wenwen behind the Teaching Building and stepped in to stop the fight.
• Little He Qing vouched for Han Wenwen, then threw down a girl who grabbed her clothes, sending the other girls fleeing.

Little He Qing helped Han Wenwen after several girls beat her, then accompanied her to the garden, where Han Wenwen revealed that boys regularly brought her food in exchange for small gifts. Han Wenwen thanked He Qing for saving her and promised to repay her, while clarifying that she disliked the boys who pursued her even though they kept bothering her.

• Little He Qing worried that the girls would report her, then checked on Han Wenwen and offered to accompany her to the infirmary.
• Han Wenwen led He Qing to the school garden, retrieved a hidden box of small items, and waited for someone to bring them lunch.
• Several boys delivered food for Han Wenwen, and she chose two portions of chicken cutlet rice and gave hair clips to the boys who brought them.
• Han Wenwen explained that the boys pursued her despite her rejection, and that she accepted their food while giving them small gifts in return.
• He Qing asked whether Han Wenwen had been wrongly accused of pursuing the girls' Childhood Sweethearts and older brothers, and Han Wenwen said she disliked those boys but admitted they kept pestering her.
• Han Wenwen told He Qing she would remember her help and repay her, insisting that she never took advantage of the boys who brought her things.

Little He Qing chatted with Lin Zhengran about her day and asked whether girls had confessed to him, while Lin Zhengran kept a strange classroom incident from her. At school, Jiang Xueli faced her classmates’ disgust after stolen money and a phone were found in her desk and bag.

• Little He Qing told Lin Zhengran about helping Han Wenwen and felt relieved when the female companion he mentioned turned out to be Puppy.
• Little He Qing asked Lin Zhengran whether girls had confessed to him, and he admitted they had but said he disliked chatting with girls.
• Lin Zhengran checked his cultivation panel, which showed his Spiritual Energy Level at 28, before his father drove him to school.
• Lin Zhengran saw that Jiang Xueli had arrived at class looking dejected after losing her Disciplinary Committee Member position.
• The class found the class monitor’s missing phone in Jiang Xueli’s desk and the fundraiser money in her schoolbag, and Jiang Xiao accused her of taking the money.

After classmates ostracized Jiang Xueli over the theft accusation, Lin Zhengran partnered with her in PE and reassured her that he believed she was innocent. Sharing his umbrella at lunch, Jiang Xueli regained her spirits and resolved to find who had framed her, while Jiang Xiao watched them leave together.

• During PE, classmates refused to partner with Jiang Xueli and called her a thief, so Lin Zhengran volunteered to work with her.
• Jiang Xueli asked whether Lin Zhengran believed her, and he said he did not think she had stolen anything.
• When heavy rain fell at lunch, Jiang Xueli offered to share her umbrella with Lin Zhengran, and they walked together beneath it.
• Jiang Xueli told Lin Zhengran she planned to discover who had framed her and investigate why Jiang Xiao had accused her.
• Jiang Xiao watched Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli leave together while holding two pink umbrellas.

Jiang Xueli asked Lin Zhengran to help investigate the accusation against her, and the two formed an investigation squad. Lin Zhengran suspected the class monitor felt guilty and sent Jiang Xueli to test her by pretending to cry.

• Jiang Xueli searched up the meaning of “tsundere” and wondered whether Lin Zhengran liked that personality.
• Jiang Xueli asked Lin Zhengran for help clearing her name, admitted she trusted only him, and promised him a personal treasure in return.
• Lin Zhengran asked Jiang Xueli whether she had recently offended anyone, and she mentioned reporting a classmate for bringing a phone to school.
• Lin Zhengran reasoned that the class monitor’s guilty behavior might reveal the truth and told Jiang Xueli to cry in front of her.
• Lin Zhengran put eye drops in Jiang Xueli’s eyes, then sent her to approach the class monitor while she was alone cleaning the classroom.

Jiang Xueli and Lin Zhengran uncovered clues that Jiang Lin had framed Jiang Xueli for stealing the class monitor’s phone. After secretly following Jiang Lin’s group, they obtained crucial evidence and prepared to reveal the truth.

• Jiang Xueli pretended to break down until the class monitor comforted her and admitted Jiang Lin had borrowed the phone before it went missing.
• The class monitor told Jiang Xueli that Jiang Lin had borrowed her phone at lunch, while Jiang Xueli had stayed in the classroom, leading her to suspect someone had framed her.
• Jiang Xueli and Lin Zhengran suspected Jiang Lin’s group had retaliated because Jiang Xueli had reported them for using phones.
• Jiang Xueli suggested her deskmate might have accused her because she liked Lin Zhengran, but Lin Zhengran did not understand her hints.
• Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli secretly followed Jiang Lin’s group with a recorder and, a week later, captured crucial evidence that could clear Jiang Xueli’s name.

Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli uncovered the students who framed her, and Jiang Xueli cleared her name and regained her Disciplinary Committee position. After the theft incident faded, teasing from classmates led Jiang Xueli to openly admit she liked Lin Zhengran.

• Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli recorded Jiang Lin and the other girls admitting they had planted the phone and money, while Jiang Xiao had seen them and stayed silent.
• Jiang Xueli confronted the girls, then told Jiang Xiao she would ask to change seats; Jiang Xiao apologized and admitted she disliked seeing Jiang Xueli with Lin Zhengran.
• Jiang Xueli brought the girls, Jiang Xiao, and the class monitor to the homeroom teacher, who scolded the guilty students, called their parents, and apologized to Jiang Xueli.
• The next morning, the homeroom teacher announced that Jiang Xueli had been falsely accused and restored her position as Disciplinary Committee Member.
• When classmates teased Jiang Xueli about liking Lin Zhengran, she blushed and finally admitted that she did, leaving the class stunned.