Chapter Summaries

On the day Jiang City's eighteen-year-olds began their one-shot Life Simulations, Wang Pan waited outside the plaza with his mother while his sister underwent the test. As the school celebrated its strong results, Wang Pan reflected on his disability, the adoptive parents who had cared for him, and the mother who abandoned him at birth.

• The students entered the plaza, and powerful Simulators activated its Runes to send them into Life Simulation.
• Wu Chuan and the school staff celebrated Jiang City First High School's thirty-seven successful students from the first two batches.
• Wang Pan's mother, Zhang Yao, worried that his sister might fail her Life Simulation and become heartbroken.
• Zhang Yao fretted over Wang Pan's health, while he reassured her and thanked her for raising him.
• Wang Pan recalled that his biological mother had abandoned him in the winter as a newborn, leaving him with severe injuries.

Wang Xiangxiang passed her Life Simulation with an A+ evaluation and became an Eighth-Rank Simulator, then celebrated with her family before preparing to leave for Chuzhou Simulator University. After teasing Xiangxiang about becoming a Human King, Wang Pan privately reaffirmed his determination to live and find a way to heal his injuries.

• Wang Xiangxiang emerged from the square with an A+ evaluation and proudly told Wang Pan and Zhang Yao that she had become an Eighth-Rank Simulator.
• Wang Pan, Zhang Yao, and Wang Xiangxiang went home, where Wang Jun prepared a feast to celebrate her success.
• The family shared dinner, and Wang Pan teased Xiangxiang as she fed him and boasted about her cooking.
• Wang Xiangxiang admitted she felt uneasy about leaving for Chuzhou Simulator University the next day, and Wang Pan encouraged her by calling her a future Human King.
• After Xiangxiang went to wash the dishes, Wang Pan reflected on her wish to heal him and resolved to live and overcome his injuries himself.

Wang Pan began his first Life Simulation with the talent Extensive Knowledge, Rote Memorization and previewed a grim life that ended at eighty-seven. In the actual simulation, he was born into a poor family and reached age five safely, but he worried about the upcoming event that would leave him a left-behind child.

• Wang Pan started a Life Simulation and received the talent Extensive Knowledge, Rote Memorization, which gave him knowledge without understanding.
• The simulation preview showed a life marked by hardship, dementia, and death at eighty-seven, prompting Wang Pan to begin the experience despite his misgivings.
• Wang Pan was born healthy but could not drink breast milk, so his impoverished parents relied on formula with help from his maternal grandparents.
• At age three, Wang Pan returned with his mother to his paternal grandparents' poor home, where Zhong Guifang welcomed him warmly.
• Wang Pan reached age five without starting a fire and earned twenty Simulation Points, then worried about how to keep his mother from leaving for work when he turned eight.

As Wang Pan neared the age when his mother was expected to leave for work, he started catching crayfish to earn money and began planning how to sell them for a better profit. After earning more than three hundred yuan, he asked Cao Ju how much money the family had and proposed buying crayfish himself to transport to the city.

• Wang Pan finished learning the elementary-school curriculum and began looking for ways to earn money before Cao Ju left home when he turned eight.
• Wang Pan made simple crayfish-catching tools and gathered crayfish from the flooded rice fields, while Cao Ju agreed to sell his catch and urged him to keep studying.
• Wang Pan earned three hundred and twenty-six yuan over half a month, then cooked a later catch for himself and Cao Ju.
• Wang Pan showed Cao Ju the money he had saved and explained that city buyers could resell crayfish for more than the price paid to local catchers.
• Wang Pan proposed that the family buy crayfish and transport them to the city to earn a larger profit.

Wang Pan convinced his grandparents to buy crayfish and resell them in the city, earning a substantial profit as the season ended. After they made sixteen thousand yuan in a month, he warned them that entering the trade earlier might have drawn trouble from established buyers.

• After Cao Ju rejected his business idea, Wang Pan persuaded Zhong Guifang and Wang Qing to try buying a small amount of crayfish.
• Zhong Guifang and Wang Qing bought fifty or sixty jin at the market and sold it in the city for a net profit of fifty or sixty yuan.
• Encouraged by their first success, the old couple withdrew most of their savings and spent a month buying crayfish across several towns.
• Zhong Guifang and Wang Qing told Wang Pan they had earned sixteen thousand yuan in net profit and regretted starting late.
• Wang Pan reminded his grandparents that joining the trade earlier could have provoked the other crayfish buyers.

Wang Pan persuaded his family to collect eels and frogs for the provincial capital market, helping the Wang family earn nearly fifty thousand yuan and improve their lives. At twelve, he deliberately broke his promise to his parents by handing in blank exam papers after they failed to earn the one hundred thousand yuan he had set as a condition.

• Wang Pan convinced his grandparents to bring Wang Hong home and shift from collecting crayfish to selling eels and frogs.
• Wang Hong returned, and Cao Ju stopped objecting after Zhong Guifang showed her the sixteen thousand yuan earned from crayfish.
• The Wang family collected eels and frogs, and Wang Hong tested the provincial capital market by hauling more than a thousand pounds of eels there.
• Over the year, the Wang family earned nearly fifty thousand yuan, and Wang Pan received fifty Simulation Points for changing his family’s fate and avoiding life as a left-behind child.
• At twelve, Wang Pan took his final exams and handed in blank papers because his parents had not earned one hundred thousand yuan as agreed.

Wang Pan grew from a rebellious schoolboy into the head of a trillion-yuan conglomerate while planning how to avoid the dangers awaiting him later in life. At forty, he stood atop Panwang Building and prepared to take the Pan Wang Group public.

• Wang Pan handed in a blank exam paper, endured his parents' scolding, and earned 780 Simulation Points.
• Wang Pan enjoyed his childhood, then excelled in middle school and received Simulation Points for his achievements.
• At fifteen, Wang Pan identified his future marriage, dismissal, Alzheimer's, and fatal rockfall as upcoming Life Simulation Events he might need to change.
• Wang Pan attended the city's best high school and later an unremarkable university, where he studied extensively before taking over the family business.
• Wang Pan built the family business into a trillion-yuan conglomerate and told his secretary that the Pan Wang Group would go public to raise money.

Wang Pan visited his secret laboratory in a war-torn country, where he used both sides of the civil war to secure volunteers for dangerous research. He learned that the brain transplant project had no surviving cases and that researchers could not yet determine whether it might treat Alzheimer's Disease.

• Wang Pan planned to take Pan Wang Group public and manipulate its stock to raise money for his stalled Alzheimer's Disease research.
• Wang Pan traveled to the laboratory overseas, where representatives from both warring factions promised to provide more volunteers within three days.
• Wang Pan praised the locals' dedication, while the representatives privately recognized that more than ten thousand volunteers had entered the laboratory and never returned.
• Wang Pan questioned the laboratory director about research progress and warned him not to let the projects stall.
• The director explained that brain transplants had produced no survivors because memories in the body's cells could conflict with those in the transplanted brain, and the researchers could not confirm whether the procedure could treat Alzheimer's Disease.

Wang Pan inspected the stalled robot research before pushing Pan Wang Group to go public and using its fundraising to buy licenses for drugs the company had developed. On listing day, coordinated institutional buying sent the stock soaring, and Wang Pan recognized that its price had become overvalued as investors rushed to buy.

• Wang Pan ordered the First Group and Ninth Group to merge, then learned that the First Group's robot miniaturization and brain-transplant research remained limited by technical bottlenecks, though one test subject survived six days.
• Wang Pan reminded the researchers that the project’s main purpose was to find a treatment for Alzheimer's Disease, and the group explained how a central processor and mechanical body might bypass damaged nerve cells and preserve memories.
• After inspecting the laboratory for three days, Wang Pan returned home and began arranging Pan Wang Group's backdoor listing.
• Pan Wang Group raised 430 billion by issuing shares to institutions, and Wang Pan planned to use company funds to purchase production licenses for drugs developed during its unsuccessful Alzheimer's research.
• Six months later, Pan Wang Group officially went public; institutional buying drove its share price up 268% in three minutes and pushed its market capitalization to 11.524 trillion.
• Wang Pan judged the valuation excessive and suspected institutions intended to fleece investors as shareholders argued over whether to buy.

After Pan Wang Group’s stock collapsed, Wang Pan withdrew from public life and poured his fortune into a world-leading research facility. When he discovered his Alzheimer’s was advancing and gave the researchers one year to finish their work, he mobilized Panwang Security to seal off the laboratory as an unspecified threat approached.

• Pan Wang Group’s stock plunged from its peak, and retail investors sold at a loss as the market moved on to other stories.
• Wang Pan expanded his research facility while growing older and continuing his relationship with Liu Yun.
• Wang Pan realized his Alzheimer’s had caused him to forget repeatedly calling Liu Yun to his office, ordered his security personnel replaced, and flew overseas.
• Wang Pan told the research managers that his memory and brain were deteriorating and gave them at most one year to succeed, promising them generous rewards.
• Wang Pan ordered Panwang Security to recall its top twenty combat teams, activate air defenses, impose martial law within fifty li, and prevent anyone from leaving the laboratory.
• Wang Pan reflected that powerful figures had tolerated his research and shared its information, but he warned that he would not let just anyone claim a share of it.

Wang Pan ordered a Space-based Weapon strike against a small country, then underwent a successful brain transplant into a robotic body and completed his Life Simulation with a high evaluation. He chose to remain in the world, supported the laboratory’s legitimate research for years, and died at 140, leaving the world divided over his legacy.

• Wang Pan ordered Panwang Security to fire its Space-based Weapon, devastating the small country where the laboratory was located.
• Half a month later, Wang Pan awoke after an operation that transplanted his brain into a robotic body.
• Wang Pan completed the Life Simulation, earned 30,000 Simulation Points, and chose not to return to the simulator yet.
• Wang Pan memorized vast amounts of knowledge and moved the laboratory back into the country, where it produced many achievements.
• Wang Pan died at 140, and the world mourned or celebrated his death while acknowledging his contributions to human civilization.

After earning an S+ evaluation and becoming a Sixth-Rank Simulator, Wang Pan discovered the Main World faced a colossal beast dragging an entire Supercluster toward it. He spent most of his rewards on tools for his next simulation, absorbed his Memory Crystal, and stood from his wheelchair for the first time.

• Wang Pan received 37,608 Simulation Points, the Capitalist title, and promotion to Sixth Rank, while his body began to recover.
• Wang Pan learned that his father, Wang Jun, had also reached Sixth Rank after more than twenty years as a Simulator.
• Wang Pan saw black chains piercing the Main World and learned they bound a Supercluster to a three-headed beast that threatened to swallow it.
• Wang Pan bought an Identity Card and a Basic Swordsmanship Legacy for 31,000 Simulation Points.
• Wang Pan absorbed the Memory Crystal, stood from his wheelchair, and took a step forward.

Wang Pan regained the ability to walk and prepared a gift for Wang Xiangxiang, who was leaving for Chu Prefecture. He revealed to his parents that he had passed the assessment as an S+ Sixth-Rank Official Simulator, though his body had not fully recovered.

• Wang Pan regained enough mobility to walk and decided to rest before beginning another Life Simulation.
• Wang Xiangxiang prepared to leave for Chu Prefecture, and Wang Pan told her that he had placed a gift in his bedside table.
• Wang Xiangxiang accidentally tore apart the bedside table while searching for the gift, but Wang Pan retrieved a glowing card from it.
• Wang Pan stood up and walked to his room, prompting Wang Xiangxiang to alert their parents.
• Wang Pan told Wang Jun and Zhang Yao that he had become an S+ Sixth-Rank Official Simulator and could walk normally despite lingering injuries.

Wang Pan revealed that his body had recovered, filling his family with joy as Wang Xiangxiang prepared to leave for Chu Prefecture. When she asked him to go with her, he teased her by demanding a kiss before he would consider it.

• Wang Jun and Zhang Yao embraced Wang Pan and cried with joy over his recovery, while Wang Xiangxiang demanded a hug too.
• Wang Xiangxiang tried to return an Identity Card, but Wang Pan gave her another one and told her to keep it.
• Wang Pan urged Wang Xiangxiang to be careful in Chu Prefecture and explained why Wang Jun would remain in Jiang City.
• Wang Xiangxiang asked Wang Pan to accompany her and acted cute, but he joked that she had to kiss his cheek first.

Wang Xiangxiang left for Chu State University on a dedicated train, leaving her family to miss her. Back home, Wang Pan began another Life Simulation.

• Wang Xiangxiang playfully accused Wang Pan of lying about visiting Chu Prefecture, and he tickled her until she fled behind Zhang Yao.
• The next morning, Wang Jun and Zhang Yao took Wang Xiangxiang to the station, where teachers gathered the new students for their trip to Chu State University.
• Wang Jun warned Wang Xiangxiang about the dangers posed by the World Destruction Society and the Savior Organization, while Wang Pan promised to visit her soon.
• Wang Xiangxiang boarded the university train and departed, leaving Wang Jun and Zhang Yao saddened by the suddenly quiet house.
• After comforting his parents, Wang Pan returned to his room, missed Xiangxiang, and connected to Life Simulation.

Wang Pan used an Identity Card to begin a new life as the son of a wealthy frontier merchant, despite a simulation that predicted he would waste his youth and die in an invasion. At age five, after seeing his mother punish a maid for stealing his medicinal meal, he asked to learn martial arts so he could protect her.

• Wang Pan spent six thousand Simulation Points on two Identity Cards, and the simulator granted him the Intermediate Talent Robust Physique.
• Wang Pan’s simulation showed him abandoning martial arts for pleasure, then failing to improve and dying during an enemy invasion at age twenty-seven.
• Wang Pan was born into Wang Ji’s wealthy family in You Province, and his Robust Physique gave him an enormous appetite and rapid growth.
• Mu Rong ordered a maid beaten for stealing Wang Pan’s medicinal meal, then welcomed Wang Pan warmly when he entered the courtyard.
• Wang Pan ate with Mu Rong and the Concubines, then asked Mu Rong to let him learn martial arts so he could protect her.

Wang Pan began martial arts training under Qin Yan, who explained the realms and gave him a sect cultivation technique. After Wang Pan memorized it remarkably quickly, Qin Yan prepared an expensive medicinal bath for his training.

• Mu Rong agreed to let Wang Pan practice martial arts after he said he wanted to protect her.
• Qin Yan explained the martial arts realms and demonstrated his Blood Changing Great Completion strength to Wang Pan.
• Wang Pan vowed to surpass Qin Yan and accepted Qin Yan's sect cultivation technique after confirming he could pass it on.
• Wang Pan memorized the cultivation technique quickly and answered Qin Yan's questions about it.
• Qin Yan arranged for servants to prepare a medicinal bath costing several hundred taels of silver.

Qin Yan trained Wang Pan with a medicinal bath and painful skin-tempering, then realized the boy’s talent was exceptional. Wang Pan was sent to rest, while Qin Yan decided not to inform the sect until Wang Pan was older and went to Hundred Fragrances Pavilion to seek reimbursement.

• Wang Pan entered the scalding medicinal bath, and Qin Yan wrapped him in blood and vitality to protect and temper his body.
• Qin Yan struck Wang Pan with a cloth rod to refine his skin, and Wang Pan endured the pain without asking him to stop.
• Qin Yan returned Wang Pan to the medicinal bath, where he slept as his body absorbed the medicine and his bruises disappeared.
• Qin Yan concluded that Wang Pan could reach Minor Accomplishment in Skin Refining within half a month and decided to wait before telling the sect.
• Qin Yan left for Hundred Fragrances Pavilion, intending to have the manor reimburse the cost of nourishing Wang Pan.

At twelve, Wang Pan continued his martial arts training while his mother Mu Rong brought him a 380-year-old Tendon and Bone Strengthening Root to speed his progress. He learned that his father had traded for it at a cost of 300,000 taels of silver, and Wang Pan believed it could help him reach the Blood Exchange Realm within half a month.

• Wang Pan trained on the Training Ground, lifting and hurling a massive boulder as the maidservants cheered him on.
• The maidservants flirted with Wang Pan, but Mu Rong warned them against trying to enter his bed and reminded them of Shuang'er’s fate.
• Mu Rong gave Wang Pan a 380-year-old Tendon and Bone Strengthening Root, which could strengthen his foundation and speed his cultivation.
• Wang Pan realized the root could help him reach Major Accomplishment in the Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage and enter the Blood Exchange Realm within half a month.
• Mu Rong told Wang Pan that his father had traded for the root and lost 300,000 taels of silver on the trip.

After using a rare Tendon and Bone Strengthening Root, Wang Pan advanced to major completion in the Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage and agreed to join his friends on a hunt. Meanwhile, Zhou Hui and the Black Tiger Gang began wrecking a Wang family restaurant, leaving the diners injured and the crowd outside wondering who had sent them.

• Mu Rong explained that Wang Ji had traded more than three million taels for a three-hundred-and-eighty-year-old Tendon and Bone Strengthening Root, and Wang Pan hurried off with it.
• Wang Pan swallowed the root, absorbed its medicinal power, and reached major completion in the Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage, with a breakthrough to the Blood Exchange Realm expected after another half month.
• Wang Pan met Xun Youcai at a family restaurant and agreed to join a group hunt outside the city the day after tomorrow.
• Zhou Hui struck a waiter, accused the restaurant of serving hard Wealth and Status Cake, and ordered his Black Tiger Gang subordinates to smash the restaurant.
• Flying furniture injured several diners, while spectators gathered outside and speculated that someone powerful had sent the Black Tiger Gang after the Wang family's business.