Chapter Summaries

Mo Jingchun let Wild Wolf’s team draw lots to decide who would go home for the New Year and who would stay on duty, then traveled with Candy and others to visit his parents’ graves. The chapter ended with Mo Jingchun reflecting on how people died physically, socially, and finally when no one remembered them.

• Mo Jingchun announced that seven of Wild Wolf’s fifteen team members would accompany him to his hometown for the New Year, while the rest could go home after drawing lots.
• Wild Wolf drew a slip marked “return,” and the team members drew lots to determine who would go home and who would stay; Mo Jingchun promised to cook New Year’s Eve dinner for those staying.
• Mo Jingchun took over driving from Fei Yan, picked up Zhou Xing, and arranged for Zhou Yaling and Zhou Xing to travel in another car.
• Mo Jingchun and Candy knelt at his parents’ graves and burned paper offerings.
• Mo Jingchun reflected that a person died first when their body stopped, again when society recorded their death, and finally when the last person who remembered them died.

Mo Jingchun discussed putting up headstones for his parents with his eldest uncle and invited his uncles and cousins to lunch to talk about sharing his success with the family. After the family agreed on a date and his second uncle took charge of the headstone, Mo Jingchun began the discussion everyone had been waiting for.

• Mo Jingchun decided to consult his uncles about repairing his parents’ grave and putting up headstones, then asked Mo Changyou to invite the family to lunch.
• Mo Jingchun told Mo Changyou he wanted to help his relatives make money, moving Mo Changyou and Mo Xiaofeng with his offer.
• Mo Changyou warned Mo Xiaofeng and his wife to listen to Mo Jingchun’s plans and not assume they were entitled to anything.
• Mo Changyou told Mo Jingchun that the thirteenth day of the first lunar month was an auspicious date, and Mo Jingchun entrusted his second uncle with choosing the headstone.
• Mo Jingchun told his uncles that he had invited them to discuss more than his parents’ headstones, and the family waited for him to explain.

Mo Jingchun offered his relatives two million yuan per family to start companies or the chance to work at Candy Technology, with promotions based on ability. As snow fell, he called his aunts to discuss his offer and hoped his help would benefit the family.

• Mo Jingchun offered each family two million yuan in startup capital and promised help starting a company, or a job at Candy Technology with no special treatment for relatives.
• After the meal, the relatives left quietly to consider the offer, while Fei Yan explained to Candy how much two million yuan meant to ordinary people.
• Mo Yunpeng argued that starting a company could be worthwhile because Candy Technology had many orders, including the huge demand from its cafeteria.
• As heavier snow fell, Mo Jingchun warmed himself by the Fire Bucket and played cards with Fei Yan and the others.
• Mo Jingchun called several aunts to discuss his offer and hoped his good intentions would make his deceased parents happy rather than cause trouble.
• Guo-er asked Big Brother for a roasted sweet potato, and he offered to ask Great-Uncle's family for one.

Mo Jingchun and his companions spent the final days before Lunar New Year snowed in, then celebrated New Year’s Eve together with a feast and fireworks. As midnight approached, Mo Jingchun woke Guo-er to watch the fireworks, but she mistook the moment for morning.

• Eagle Eye asked for sweet potato noodles again, but Mo Jingchun warned everyone not to eat too many sweet potatoes.
• Fei Yan and the others shoveled the heavy snow and built a snowman while Candy played a frustrating game indoors.
• Mo Changyou visited to ask about New Year plans, and Mo Jingchun decided to celebrate with his companions rather than join the family gathering.
• On Lunar New Year’s Eve, Mo Jingchun and the others prepared six meat-filled hotpots, set off firecrackers, and shared dinner.
• Mo Jingchun saw New Year greetings from the mountain children in Xia Xiaomin’s screenshots and felt glad he had bought them phones.
• As midnight approached, Mo Jingchun woke the sleeping Guo-er for fireworks, and she asked if morning had already come.

Mo Jingchun celebrated the New Year with Candy and his family, then helped his relatives put up a gravestone for his parents. The chapter ended with Candy escaping the heat of the graveside ceremony to join her eldest aunt.

• Mo Jingchun and Candy watched New Year fireworks, and Zero sent red envelopes to the family groups at his request.
• Mo Jingchun took Candy around the neighborhood to give New Year's greetings, and she collected bags of snacks and treats.
• Wild Wolf and the others arrived by bus to take over the shifts, while Fei Yan and the others left for their break.
• Mo Changyou told Mo Jingchun that he and his eldest brother planned to start a small company and asked him to watch out for his eldest brother.
• Mo Jingchun, Candy, and their relatives gathered at Back Mountain to burn offerings and put up his parents' gravestone.
• Candy complained that the ceremony was too hot, so Mo Jingchun sent her to join her eldest aunt.

Mo Jingchun hosted relatives who gathered for the gravestone ceremony for his parents, then learned that several of them wanted his help starting a company. He began recording their plans as his granduncle went first.

• Mo Jingchun fed the many relatives who came for his parents’ gravestone ceremony while Candy clung shyly to him and Baozi hid from the crowd.
• Mo Jingchun told his relatives he planned to return to work in town the next day, and Candy brightened at the prospect of going back with him.
• After most visitors left, Mo Jingchun brought out paper and a pen to discuss business plans with the relatives who had stayed.
• Mo Changyou said that he, his wife, and their son had decided to start a company, and Mo Jingchun prepared to write down their decision.

Mo Jingchun got Candy ready for her first day of kindergarten, then returned to Candy Technology and assigned new work to his staff. He left Li Xuanyu’s project in Zero’s hands for testing, prompting Zero to cackle and unsettle her.

• Mo Jingchun woke Candy and drove her to kindergarten, where the employees dropping off their children scattered when they saw him.
• Baozi ran to the Laboratory Building and ate the food in Dagger’s bowl while Wang Bing watched.
• Xia Xiaomin told Mo Jingchun that Finance had transferred money to the listed accounts and recommended opening a corporate bank account.
• Mo Jingchun told Xia Xiaomin to assign employees work based on Zero’s evaluations, fire anyone who used his name as leverage, and prepare Chen Boyang’s team for a Personal Terminal Artificial Intelligence project.
• Mo Jingchun reviewed Li Xuanyu’s work and told her to revise it and deploy it on the shared server for Zero to test.
• Li Xuanyu questioned whether Zero could be trusted, and Zero startled her with a menacing cackle.

Li Xuanyu finished modifying and deploying her system, but Zero tested it and found a thousand and one bugs. She began fixing them after reading Zero’s detailed email.

• Mo Jingchun told Li Xuanyu to follow the thesis template and warned Zero to stop its creepy laugh.
• Li Xuanyu learned that the team’s next project was artificial intelligence and received AI study materials from Nan Jie.
• Li Xuanyu finished modifying her system and deployed it while the others were at lunch.
• Zero detected Li Xuanyu’s system and tested it without waiting for her to notify Mo Jingchun.
• Li Xuanyu read Zero’s email listing a thousand and one bugs and began fixing them one by one.

Mo Jingchun attended a handover meeting for the completed operating system, where an elderly official thanked the team for finishing six months ahead of schedule. Afterward, a call from Old Yu left Mo Jingchun wondering what the system was intended for, though he decided not to speculate and turned his thoughts to finding a wife.

• Nan Jie saw Li Xuanyu looking grim as she worked and assumed she was struggling with revisions.
• Mo Jingchun joined the system handover video conference and heard the elderly official praise the team for delivering the operating system six months early.
• The elderly official stood with a staff member’s help and thanked Mo Jingchun and the other project leads on behalf of the country.
• After the meeting, Mo Jingchun received a call from Old Yu, who questioned why no company had been ordered to buy domestically made computers for the new operating system.
• Mo Jingchun told Old Yu not to speculate about matters their superiors had kept quiet, then ended the call and decided to leave finding a partner to fate.

Mo Jingchun learned that the Intelligent Bionic Limb press conference was scheduled for three days later, then picked up Candy and promised her barbecue when she complained he had brought no snacks. After a barbecue with Wild Wolf and the others, Candy washed plates under Mo Jingchun’s supervision.

• Zero told Mo Jingchun that testing Li Xuanyu’s graduation project had uncovered 1,001 bugs, and Mo Jingchun told her to stop.
• Xia Xiaomin informed Mo Jingchun that the Intelligent Bionic Limb press conference would be held at the New Gymnasium in three days, and he agreed to attend.
• Mo Jingchun picked up Candy from kindergarten, and she complained that he had not brought her a snack.
• Mo Jingchun promised Candy barbecue for dinner, and she happily forgave him and hurried home with him.
• Candy ate grilled food with Mo Jingchun, Wild Wolf, and the others, then agreed to wash three plates.
• Mo Jingchun supervised Candy washing dishes and remembered his own childhood attempts to help his mother.

Mo Jingchun and Guo-er shared a silly night after she spent ages washing dishes, then Mo Jingchun attended Candy Technology’s Intelligent Bionic Limb press conference. Xu Pengfei announced Neural Link Technology-powered prosthetics, while organizations worldwide saw the technology’s potential for the metaverse.

• Mo Jingchun watched Guo-er happily play with the water while washing dishes, then tried to get her to sleep as they kept laughing together.
• Mo Jingchun and Guo-er wondered aloud why they had been laughing before falling asleep.
• Two days later, Mo Jingchun watched Xu Pengfei take the stage at the Intelligent Bionic Limb press conference in Huo County.
• Xu Pengfei announced that Candy Technology’s bionic limbs used Neural Link Technology and would come in affordable movement-only and premium touch-enabled versions.
• Xu Pengfei said people could begin free data collection in Huo County, that collection sites were being arranged elsewhere, and that Candy Technology was seeking medical insurance coverage.
• Organizations around the world saw the announcement that Neural Link Technology had unlimited potential and thought of the metaverse.

After Candy Technology announced its Intelligent Bionic Limb and Neural Link Technology, online users raised privacy and security concerns while intelligence agencies speculated about Xia's capabilities. A leaked video of an agile black robot appeared, and Mo Jingchun recognized it from the research base before its original account vanished.

• Intelligence agencies reported Candy Technology's announcement to their superiors, while people rushed to Huo County to seek help for their families.
• Online users criticized Neural Link Technology and Virtual Pods, but Mo Jingchun told Xia Xiaomin not to involve Public Relations.
• Qin Yuzhu saw the public reaction and recalled that she had expected concern after receiving the technical documents.
• A short video of an agile black robot spread online, and Mo Jingchun recognized it as the robot he had seen at an unknown research base.
• Mo Jingchun replayed the video in his bedroom, then discovered that the account that posted it had disappeared.

Mo Jingchun watched the debate over a blurry video of a robot, while Xia Kingdom tacitly confirmed its authenticity and people worried about robots replacing workers. Candy went to class and later visited a small zoo with Mo Jingchun and Fei Yan, where she fed carrots to white rabbits.

• Mo Jingchun concluded that the authorities had probably leaked the robot video and went back to sleep while officials in other countries reacted to it.
• Di Deng called the video an obvious fake, but his technical department found no signs of editing, and Wang Xingming told callers it was special effects.
• Mo Jingchun read online discussions about robots replacing workers and believed the country would make policies to address the issue.
• Candy grew bored during math class, then went outside to play with Xiang-er after the bell rang.
• Ma Xiuqin and her colleagues collected arm data from a crowd at the Data Collection Store and worked overtime until half past eight.
• Mo Jingchun took Candy to the zoo, where Fei Yan gave her carrots to feed the white rabbits; Candy felt disappointed when they ran to another visitor after she ran out.

Mo Jingchun told President Ma that Neural Link Technology was still far from enabling virtual reality, easing concerns across the tech industry while raising its respect for Candy Technology. The next morning, Candy woke hungry and went downstairs for milk before thunder startled her.

• Mo Jingchun told President Ma that Virtual Pods would not be possible for at least ten years without a major breakthrough in Neural Link Technology.
• The tech industry learned that Candy Technology's Neural Link Technology could not yet create virtual reality, and companies felt relieved while gaining respect for its research.
• Mo Jingchun and Candy soaked their feet, and Zero played Candy's game and finished a match in record time.
• Mo Jingchun told Candy that heavy rain was expected the next day, so she asked him not to wake Guo-er.
• Candy woke after ten, went downstairs to ask Fei Yan for milk, and was startled by a loud boom of thunder.

A little girl successfully used her Bionic Limb to write her name and move her hand, while Mo Jingchun dealt with a system glitch and a disappointing draw. The chapter ended with him saving his last draw, convinced the system had cheated him.

• A sudden heavy rain drove Candy, Baozi, Fei Yan, and the others indoors, and Mo Jingchun told Fei Yan to let Wild Wolf skip the cafeteria and eat at home.
• A little girl moved the fingers of her Bionic Limb, wrote her name, and happily showed her mother she could clench and open her hand.
• Mo Jingchun reviewed the Bionic Limb report and noted that growing children might need more frequent maintenance, then told Zero to remind Li Xuanyu to write her thesis draft.
• Zero repeatedly called Li Xuanyu from an unknown number to deliver the reminder, and Li Xuanyu recognized its voice and grew furious.
• Mo Jingchun tried a system draw, received a Smart Assistant, and decided to save his last draw because he believed the system had rigged the result.

Mo Jingchun worked on adapting Smart Assistant functions while foreign agents arrived to persuade him to build an overseas factory. He delayed negotiations until the remaining agents arrived, while Alberto Weilxiao hoped the others would meet Mo first.

• Mo Jingchun went with Xia Xiaomin to the Tenth Floor, then later worked in his study on usable Smart Assistant code.
• Alberto Weilxiao read about Candy Technology's Neural Link announcement and decided he would not press Mo Jingchun to build a factory overseas.
• Alberto Weilxiao arrived in Xia Country and chose to rest at a hotel before traveling to Huo County the next day.
• Fernando Caceres urged Mo Jingchun to build a factory in South Africa, but Mo postponed the discussion until the other agents arrived.
• Mo Jingchun asked Xia Xiaomin whether he looked like a fool and said the agents could not restrict him.
• Alberto Weilxiao heard that another agent had returned empty-handed and toasted their failure.

Mo Jingchun received international agents and laid out terms for distributing the Intelligent Bionic Limb, refusing to build a factory overseas. He left the meeting with regional agencies ruled out and purchasing volume set to determine who received the most product.

• Alberto Weilxiao offered Xia Xiaomin a jade gift, which she accepted after noticing the cameras and her earpiece.
• Mo Jingchun told Xia Xiaomin to keep the jade, then asked her to arrange a meeting with the agents for the next day.
• Mo Jingchun decided the Intelligent Bionic Limb could only be custom-made and said he would not build a factory overseas.
• Mo Jingchun met with the agents and explained that production capacity would improve within six months and that he would charge only the ex-factory price.
• Mo Jingchun said there would be no regional agencies and that agents who bought the most would receive the most product.

Mo Jingchun’s company began construction on a school in the Yi People area while Candy forgot her balance bike and went back to retrieve it. At the construction site, Amu watched the work progress and looked forward to the new classrooms and earning money from growing vegetables.

• Alberto Weilxiao and the other agents agreed to meet and cooperate after signing their contracts.
• Candy scolded Mo Jingchun for not picking her up, then realized she had left her balance bike at kindergarten and went back to get it.
• Mo Jingchun told Xia Xiaomin to keep a close eye on the project as construction in the Yi People area began.
• Amu attended class amid the construction noise and imagined using money from selling vegetables to buy food for her little sister.
• The principal watched workers toil late into the night as the new school took shape and the village’s teacher shortage was resolved.

Mo Jingchun approved Su Wenyan’s recommendation to build an Intelligent Factory and claimed most of the cured meat she had brought back. Candy enjoyed the meat for dinner, then showed her affection for Mo Jingchun before falling asleep; the next morning, she woke to find him gone and assumed he was making Guo-er breakfast.

• Su Wenyan reported that the location she visited was suitable for an Intelligent Factory, and Mo Jingchun told her to arrange construction.
• Mo Jingchun asked Su Wenyan to bring him seven pieces of cured meat, so she secretly kept the four heaviest pieces and delivered the rest.
• Mo Jingchun thanked Su Wenyan and sent her home for the day, while she wondered whether he had discovered her trick.
• Candy followed the smell of Mo Jingchun’s cooking and happily ate cured meat with dinner.
• Candy got a drink during the night, covered Mo Jingchun’s feet, and cuddled up beside him.
• Candy woke the next morning to find Mo Jingchun gone and decided he must have gone to make Guo-er breakfast.

Candy struggled with a kindergarten assignment to draw her family, then solved the problem by cutting Mo Jingchun’s photo from his ID card and pasting it onto her picture. Mo Jingchun replaced the damaged ID while Candy’s teacher waited nervously for a complaint that never came.

• Candy chose soy milk for breakfast, then struggled to draw Mo Jingchun for her kindergarten assignment.
• Candy spent the afternoon drawing, but could not make the head look like her brother.
• Mo Jingchun learned from Zero that Candy was upset because she could not draw well.
• The next morning, Mo Jingchun found that Candy had cut his ID photo out and glued it onto her drawing.
• Candy explained that she had used a chisel and hammer, and Mo Jingchun warned her not to damage his ID again.
• Mo Jingchun got a replacement ID at the Police Station, while Candy’s teacher worried all day that he might complain.