Chapter Summaries

Mo Jingchun met with executives from major phone companies and announced that Huawei would receive the first mass-produced Graphene Batteries. He gave every company a sample to test, while a Samsung executive learned of the meeting and mistook the red bags for wedding favors.

• Candy ran to kindergarten on her own while Baozi and Xiao Huihui headed to their respective spots.
• Mo Jingchun showed the visiting executives test data demonstrating that Graphene Batteries charged fully in ten seconds.
• Mo Jingchun said Huawei would receive the first batch of mass-produced Graphene Batteries, though every company present would get batteries.
• Xia Xiaomin handed out red bags containing fresh Graphene Battery samples, and the executives hurried to test them.
• A middle-aged man told the Samsung Crown Prince that the major phone companies had visited Candy Technology and left smiling with red bags, which the Crown Prince identified as wedding candy.

Li Yuzhi resolved to obtain Candy Technology’s Graphene Battery technology while Apple and Samsung arranged meetings with Mo Jingchun. As security tightened around Candy Technology, Mo Jingchun stayed at the office with Candy, where Baozi ended the night annoyed after Xiao Huihui took the only bed.

• Li Yuzhi examined a photo of the supposed wedding-candy bags, concluded they contained Graphene Batteries, and ordered his men to watch Candy Technology before arranging a trip to Xia.
• Apple’s CEO arrived in Shanghai, and Xia Xiaomin told Mo Jingchun that Apple and Samsung had both booked meetings for the next afternoon.
• Mo Jingchun asked Xia Xiaomin to alert Team Leader Wang and ordered Zero to keep watching the many unidentified foreigners in the county while he and Candy stayed away from their villa.
• Mo Jingchun took Candy to the cafeteria for dinner and told her they would stay at the office for several days.
• Baozi found the cafeteria food upsetting, then jumped onto the sofa after Xiao Huihui took the only bed.

Mo Jingchun warned Wang Bing that foreign visitors and unidentified people had gathered in town, while three infiltrators watched the laboratory and planned to enter through the roof during a disturbance. The night passed peacefully, and Candy stayed at the park with Mo Jingchun as Xia Xiaomin realized he was protecting them from a possible attack.

• Candy decided she wanted to take her brother’s office chair to kindergarten, but remembered he was out and planned to ask him later.
• Mo Jingchun told Wang Bing and the armed police that many foreign visitors and people with unknown identities had arrived in town, and asked them to stay alert.
• Wang Bing showed enthusiasm for using the armory’s Big Treasure against anyone who attacked the laboratory.
• Three people in Room 703 watched the laboratory and agreed to wait for chaos before entering through the roof and copying its data.
• Candy slept beside Mo Jingchun, and Xia Xiaomin found her at the park the next morning; Candy said they would stay there for a few days.

Xia Xiaomin styled Mo Xiaoxue’s hair, while Mo Jingchun approved Li Xuanyu’s thesis and showed Samsung’s Li Yuzhi and Apple’s CEO the Graphene Battery data and a sample. After testing and dismantling the battery, the visitors recognized its significance, while an unseen group prepared to strike that night.

• Xia Xiaomin styled Mo Xiaoxue’s hair, and Mo Xiaoxue proudly showed it to her kindergarten teacher.
• Mo Jingchun approved the seventh revision of Li Xuanyu’s thesis and warned her that her graduation defense would be difficult.
• Xia Xiaomin brought Li Yuzhi and Apple’s CEO to meet Mo Jingchun, who showed them Graphene Battery test data and a finished sample.
• Li Yuzhi and Apple’s CEO took the battery for testing, and Li Yuzhi ordered a technician to dismantle it after its performance was confirmed.
• A voice in the darkness told an unidentified group to wait for the best opportunity that night before striking.

Mo Jingchun and the armed police defended Candy Technology Park against a nighttime assault targeting the Graphene Battery laboratory. After the intruders were stopped, Qin Yuzhu arrived with soldiers, and Mo Jingchun admitted he was unsure how to handle the aftermath.

• Two men in black prepared gliding umbrellas on a mountaintop while an accomplice watched the Laboratory Building from a hotel room.
• Intruders entered Candy Technology Park, triggering alarms, and Zero sealed the buildings as armed police and snipers fought the attackers.
• Mo Jingchun spotted two intruders gliding toward the Laboratory Building and warned Wild Wolf to watch the sky.
• The two rooftop intruders entered a vent, where a trap released gas and knocked them unconscious.
• The attackers fell silent, and Qin Yuzhu arrived with soldiers by helicopter after the armed police had held the site.

After an armed raid on Candy Technology Park, Mo Jingchun arranged a lockdown and a three-day break while Qin Yuzhu took two surviving intruders away for questioning. The next morning, Candy fretted about missing kindergarten, unaware of the battle, as the park tried to return to normal and Liu Hailong worried about the laboratory equipment.

• After the cleanup, Mo Jingchun told Qin Yuzhu that two intruders had survived in an emergency escape route disguised as a ventilation duct, and they were carried away suffering from carbon dioxide poisoning.
• Qin Yuzhu warned Mo Jingchun that more intruders might remain, then left to deal with them.
• Mo Jingchun had Zero close the kindergarten for the day, approve time off, tell park employees to stay inside, and unlock the secured doors later.
• Candy woke at nine thirty and panicked that she was late for kindergarten until Mo Jingchun told her it was closed, then she fed Xiao Huihui and Dahei.
• Zhou Xing found that Zero had hidden the previous night's security footage, while Liu Hailong was turned away from the laboratory and returned to the dormitory worried about its equipment.

Mo Jingchun woke late after a night of unrest, then arranged an afternoon meeting with Apple and Samsung representatives. Meanwhile, police questioned Li Yuzhi’s group and exposed Li Mingsheng’s crimes, while Zhou Xing asked Xia Xiaomin about the previous night’s violence.

• Liu Hailong returned to his dorm and went to sleep, while Xia Xiaomin delayed Samsung’s Li Yuzhi until Mo Jingchun woke up.
• Li Yuzhi considered bribing Candy Technology’s researchers to obtain Graphene Battery technology, then cooperated when police began checking hotel rooms.
• At the Huo County police station, Qin Yuzhu had Yao Yuanyuan read Li Mingsheng’s criminal history aloud, silencing his complaints that he had been wronged.
• Mo Jingchun woke at two in the afternoon, learned Apple and Samsung had called, and told Xia Xiaomin to arrange a meeting for three thirty.
• Xia Xiaomin prepared the meeting room and went to the park’s south gate to await the representatives.
• Zhou Xing asked Xia Xiaomin whether many people had died the previous night, and she said she did not know what had happened.

Mo Jingchun met with representatives from Samsung and Apple and signed preliminary Graphene Battery sales agreements with both companies. He later arranged for Candy Technology to collect the villagers’ ripe vegetables and transport them to the company cafeteria.

• Mo Jingchun checked online and found no videos of the previous night’s incident, then received Xia Xiaomin’s message that the company’s visitors were waiting.
• Mo Jingchun met Li Yuzhi and an Apple executive, reassured them about overseas battery pricing, and signed preliminary sales agreements with both sides.
• Mo Jingchun sent the visitors away without dinner, prompting Xia Xiaomin to joke that the industry might call him stingy.
• Mo Jingchun ate dinner with the little one, while villagers worried that Candy Technology might stop buying their vegetables.
• The next day, Mo Jingchun told Xia Xiaomin to arrange vegetable collection and trucks to bring the village’s produce to the company cafeteria.

Wang Fengmei and the Candy Technology team drove into the mountains to begin buying produce, but Liu Zhongquan crashed their sedan into a ditch on the way. They reached the village safely, and the next morning Xia Xiaomin watched Mo Jingchun with a strange expression.

• Wang Fengmei and her coworkers traveled with four refrigerated trucks toward the village where Candy Technology planned to buy produce.
• Liu Zhongquan drove the sedan into a ditch after Wang Fengmei warned him, and the group pulled the damaged car out with help from the truck drivers.
• Wang Fengmei scolded Liu Zhongquan and her colleagues, then refused to sit in the passenger seat for the rest of the trip.
• Wang Fengmei told the village chief that Candy Technology would begin buying produce the next day, and reassured him that nobody had been hurt.
• Mo Jingchun arrived at the office after dropping off the little one at kindergarten and asked Xia Xiaomin why she was staring at him strangely.

Mo Jingchun learned that the vegetable convoy had suffered an accident after its drivers became distracted by an unexpected spectacle, then laughed so hard that Candy mistook his swollen face for something amazing. The convoy’s crew were unharmed, and the chapter ended with Candy marveling at Mo Jingchun and Xia Xiaomin’s matching swollen cheeks.

• Xia Xiaomin told Mo Jingchun that the convoy had encountered a problem, and he watched the dashcam footage of the drivers reacting excitedly to what they saw.
• Mo Jingchun laughed at the footage and told Xia Xiaomin to remind the drivers to stay focused and rested while driving.
• Xia Xiaomin called Wang Fengmei to pass on Mo Jingchun’s instructions, and Wang arranged for two trucks to rest at a service area before continuing.
• Candy returned from kindergarten, saw Mo Jingchun’s swollen face, and then pointed out that Xia Xiaomin’s face was swollen too.

Amu and Sha Hong harvested and sold baskets of greens, earning more money than they had ever seen and planning to grow cucumbers next. That evening, Mo Jingchun and Candy tasted the mountain-grown vegetables and discussed how the village’s new produce might affect what people raised and ate.

• Candy sent Zhou Yaling a voice message inviting her to play a game, then rescued her in a match as Sima Yi.
• Amu and Sha Hong harvested leafy greens before dawn and carried their heavy baskets toward the plaza to sell.
• Liu Zhongquan helped Amu when he saw her carrying the basket, and Wang Fengmei paid her 225.5 yuan for the first load.
• Amu sold Sha Hong’s basket as well, kept their earnings secret, and decided they should grow cucumbers using seeds saved at home.
• At dinner, Candy and Mo Jingchun praised the mountain-grown greens, and Mo Jingchun noted that villagers might prefer selling vegetables to feeding them to pigs.

The county approved daily bus service between the village and the county seat and arranged repairs to the mountain road. Mo Jingchun learned that Liu Hailong had completed a simulated mass-production line for the Graphene Battery, then arranged with Qin Yuzhu to inspect an OEM factory.

• The County Chief approved one daily bus round trip and ordered repairs to the road leading to the village.
• The village chief announced that the bus would begin running the next day, leaving the Village Headquarters at eight in the morning and the county bus station at two in the afternoon.
• Liu Hailong showed Mo Jingchun the designed Graphene Battery mass-production line and reported that supercomputer simulations found no problems.
• Mo Jingchun called Qin Yuzhu and told her the Graphene Battery was ready for mass production.
• Mo Jingchun told Qin Yuzhu he planned to inspect her recommended OEM factory that weekend with Xia Xiaomin, Xu Pengfei, Candy, and the bodyguards.

Mo Jingchun arranged a business trip to inspect a graphene battery OEM factory and assured Liu Zhongquan that the company would not interfere with his village shop. After Fei Yan collected Candy from kindergarten beneath an enormous sun umbrella, Mo Jingchun learned what kind of umbrella she had used.

• Mo Jingchun told Xu Pengfei and Xia Xiaomin that they would leave the next day to inspect a graphene battery OEM factory, though he did not know its location.
• Xia Xiaomin told Mo Jingchun that a convoy driver, Liu Zhongquan, wanted to open a convenience store in the mountain Yi village, and Mo Jingchun said the company would not interfere.
• Liu Zhongquan happily told his wife the company would stay out of the shop and asked her to apply for a business license.
• Fei Yan picked up Candy and Xiang-er from kindergarten in the pouring rain beneath an oversized sun umbrella, carrying Candy's balance bike with her other hand.
• Candy returned home and told Mo Jingchun that Fei Yan had used a huge sun umbrella, and he realized it was the kind normally used to shelter guards.

After a day of torrential rain, Mo Jingchun took Candy and his coworkers on a trip arranged by Qin Yuzhu. He discovered the so-called OEM Factory was a military factory hidden beneath a university’s Back Mountain.

• Mo Jingchun watched Fei Yan carry a huge umbrella through the rain, then worried about flooding as he and Candy drove home.
• After the rain stopped, Mo Jingchun prepared to take Candy somewhere the next morning and met up with Xu Pengfei and Xia Xiaomin at the company.
• Mo Jingchun rode with the group for hours, following a route that seemed to lead toward a remote area.
• Mo Jingchun met Qin Yuzhu at a university and learned they would take a special vehicle to the OEM Factory.
• Mo Jingchun saw the factory hollowed out beneath the school’s Back Mountain and recognized a bullet component on the assembly line.
• Mo Jingchun asked Qin Yuzhu in shock whether the OEM Factory was actually a Military Factory.

Mo Jingchun toured a highly automated military factory that Qin Yuzhu had recommended as an OEM partner, then brought out the graphene battery production data to begin negotiating cooperation. He proposed giving the military batteries at no charge while reserving commercial supply rights for his side for at least five years, but the terms remained unsettled.

• Qin Yuzhu led Mo Jingchun, Xia Xiaomin, Xu Pengfei, and Candy through part of a military factory, impressing Mo with its automated assembly line.
• After leaving the factory, Mo Jingchun and the others went with Qin Yuzhu to a city office building, where Candy became distracted by a model aircraft.
• Xia Xiaomin placed a locked briefcase on the meeting table, and Mo Jingchun opened it and offered Qin Yuzhu a USB drive containing the graphene battery production process.
• Mo Jingchun said he would take no payment for batteries made for military use, but wanted his side to be the sole supplier for commercial use for at least five years.
• Mo Jingchun offered to let Qin Yuzhu cover material costs and said he would make a further concession on profits, leaving the cooperation terms under discussion.

Mo Jingchun negotiated a 45% share of Graphene Battery proceeds after the higher-ups approved his proposal. Before leaving, he received a specially made aircraft carrier model for Candy, who brought it home and discovered its fighter jets could be detached.

• Mo Jingchun offered 40% of the Graphene Battery proceeds to the higher-ups and proposed financial oversight, while Xu Pengfei and Xia Xiaomin discussed his future dealings with the military.
• Mo Jingchun found Candy inspecting the aircraft carrier model in the corridor and brought her back to the Meeting Room.
• Qin Yuzhu returned and told Mo Jingchun that the higher-ups had approved his proposal and raised his share to 45%.
• The next morning, Qin Yanran delivered a specially made aircraft carrier model as a gift for Candy on Qin Yuzhu's behalf.
• Candy watched the gift during the drive home, and Mo Jingchun reminded her to take care of it.
• At home, Mo Jingchun and the others unpacked the model, and he discovered that its fighter jets could be detached.

Mo Jingchun reassured Old Yu that the Graphene Battery production line would be ready soon, then spent a relaxed Friday night gaming with Candy. A call from Qin Yuzhu left Mo in trouble after Candy exposed that he had called her “Auntie Qin.”

• Mo Jingchun sent Candy to bed, then dropped her off at kindergarten, where Fei Yan waited under her umbrella.
• Old Yu called Mo Jingchun about the redesigned Mate 90 and pressed him for the Graphene Batteries; Mo promised the first batch would be ready in a few days.
• After Candy lost interest in the aircraft carrier model, she and Mo played Honor of Kings together on Friday night.
• Qin Yuzhu called, and Mo tried to explain away calling her “Auntie Qin” by blaming Candy.
• Candy greeted Qin Yuzhu as “Sister Qin,” confirming Mo’s mistake and prompting Qin to threaten him.

Mo Jingchun learned that the first batch of Graphene Batteries would arrive at Candy Technology's Science and Technology Park the next morning and arranged for Xu Pengfei and Old Yu to handle the shipments. The next morning, he hurried to the park after learning Huawei's transport trucks had arrived to collect the batteries.

• Qin Yuzhu told Mo Jingchun that the first batch of Graphene Batteries would arrive the next morning, and he asked Xu Pengfei to arrange workers to receive them.
• Mo Jingchun caught Candy trying to sneak away, but sent her to bathe after she and Zero warned him that anger was bad for his health.
• Xu Pengfei and Li Wanning realized Mo Jingchun had mistaken their breathless phone call for something other than their exercise.
• Mo Jingchun told Old Yu that ten truckloads of Graphene Batteries were ready and advised him to build anticipation for the mate90 Launch Event until phone testing was complete.
• The next morning, Mo Jingchun learned Huawei's trucks and staff had arrived to load the batteries, so he told Xu Pengfei to have his workers help transfer the cargo.

Mo Jingchun received a shipment of Graphene Batteries from Old Yu and signed a contract with him, then celebrated with the company staff and Candy. Old Yu later messaged that the Mate 90 would launch on June 5, just ahead of the Gaokao buying rush and 618.

• Mo Jingchun met Old Yu, Xu Pengfei, and Xia Xiaomin at the Science and Technology Park as workers unloaded the Graphene Batteries, then invited Old Yu to breakfast.
• Mo Jingchun asked Old Yu about the Mate 90 launch and joked about making his own phone, while Old Yu promised to send him ten Mate 90s.
• Old Yu asked about the industrial software project, and Mo Jingchun estimated that its first version would be ready around the beginning of next year.
• Xia Xiaomin stamped the battery contract, and Mo Jingchun asked Old Yu to promote the Graphene Batteries; they agreed that Old Yu's drivers should rest before setting off that afternoon.
• Mo Jingchun brought Candy to the company, shared a celebratory meal with everyone, and later saw Old Yu's message announcing the Mate 90 launch for June 5.

Old Yu used the Graphene Battery shipment and its price to keep phone manufacturers waiting, while public excitement over Huawei’s mate90 grew. Mo Jingchun arranged for 55% of the Graphene Battery’s post-tax profits to be transferred to a separate account, and Cao Mingxin confirmed the first transfer.

• Old Yu woke after a night on the road, posted a sunrise photo on Weibo, and received a flood of calls about the Graphene Battery shipment.
• Old Yu told Lei Zong that he had received ten trucks’ worth of Graphene Batteries and revealed that they cost three times as much as lithium batteries.
• Mo Jingchun cooked for Candy, who wore his slippers and eagerly ate the expensive steamed egg.
• Xia Xiaomin told Mo Jingchun that Huawei’s payment had arrived, and he instructed her to arrange an invoice and have 55% of Graphene Battery post-tax profits transferred to a separate account.
• Xia Xiaomin warned Cao Mingxin to track the funds carefully, and Cao Mingxin confirmed that he had transferred the 55% to Mo Jingchun’s account.