Chapter Summaries

Mo Jingchun sent a Big White to Candy’s kindergarten after approving the director’s request for help with health checks. Candy met the new robot and talked with Wang Haoran about why he could not have one, while she reflected on how her brother disciplined her.

• Mo Jingchun dropped Candy off at kindergarten, where Teacher Li checked that she had recovered from her cold.
• Teacher Li asked the director to request a Big White for the kindergarten, and the director emailed Mo Jingchun.
• Mo Jingchun approved the request and ordered Zero to send Laboratory Building's No. 1 Big White to the kindergarten.
• The Big White arrived, and Candy decided she would put a sticker on her own robot so she could tell it apart from the others.
• Candy asked Wang Haoran whether he wanted a Big White, and he said his mother would not let him have one.
• Wang Haoran said his mother hit him, and Candy thought about how her brother mostly scared her with standing at attention.

Candy Technology held a press conference centered on Big White, which demonstrated its health, diagnostic, and emergency functions before its high starting price was revealed. During the Q&A, Big White denied being conscious or alive, while Zero prevented a reporter from pressing the issue further.

• Candy Technology played a promotional video that traced the company's growth and showcased its products, including its Leukemia Special Medicine.
• Xu Pengfei opened the press conference remotely, and Big White introduced himself as a Personal Health Assistant.
• Big White demonstrated his functions, including emergency inflation and initial health diagnosis, astonishing the audience.
• Candy Technology revealed Big White's starting price of 2.19 million RMB, and reporters rushed to question him.
• Big White explained that artificial intelligence had no consciousness and was not alive, and Zero intervened as a reporter tried to press him further.

Da Bai’s launch drew attention from reporters, hospitals, and buyers, while Mo Jingchun’s company sold all thirty thousand units immediately. The chapter ended with Mo Jingchun teasing Xu Pengfei and Xia Xiaomin about a future product worth tens of billions.

• Da Bai answered a reporter’s question by saying the Three Laws of Robotics prevented it from attacking humans, then announced that thirty thousand units would go on sale at three o’clock for 2.19 million each.
• Hospital executives discussed buying Da Bai as medical equipment, while Xiao Li warned that its potential as a combat robot and the authorities’ silence were unusual.
• Mo Jingchun watched the thirty thousand Da Bai units sell out instantly and joked with Xia Xiaomin about the profits and their year-end bonuses.
• Xu Pengfei reported that Da Bai was selling extremely well, and Mo Jingchun joked that a future product might sell for tens of billions.

Candy told Mo Jingchun that her kindergarten was holding a parents’ meeting, then persuaded Zhou Yaling to attend instead of him. The next morning, Zhou Yaling and Candy arrived at the Science and Technology Park, while Mo Jingchun secretly arranged to watch the classroom’s security footage.

• Candy told Mo Jingchun that the kindergarten’s parents’ meeting was scheduled for Saturday morning and suggested that Zhou Yaling go in his place.
• Mo Jingchun and Zhou Yaling argued over who should attend, and Zhou Yaling ended up taking responsibility for the meeting.
• Mo Jingchun reflected on Candy’s upcoming move to elementary school and decided that she needed to grow up in the wider world rather than be overprotected.
• Candy hurried Zhou Yaling out of bed and went with her to the meeting, while Mo Jingchun stayed home and arranged to project the classroom’s security footage onto the TV.
• Little Flying Hero drove Candy and Zhou Yaling to the Science and Technology Park instead of the kindergarten entrance, explaining that Mo Jingchun had told him to bring them there.

Zhou Yaling attended Candy’s kindergarten parents’ meeting while Mo Jingchun watched the proceedings from home. Candy received four certificates and was praised for helping the teachers handle Wang Haoran, then took the money her brother offered and hid it in her Little Golden Pig.

• Zhou Yaling took Candy to the kindergarten parents’ meeting while Mo Jingchun watched them through the surveillance footage at home.
• The teacher gave certificates to the children, including Candy, who received four awards and left Mo Jingchun wondering how she had earned them.
• After the ceremony, the teacher asked six parents to stay and told Zhou Yaling that Candy had helped the teachers deal with Wang Haoran, a troublesome child.
• Zhou Yaling laughed at Candy’s smug reaction, and Mo Jingchun repeatedly muttered that the situation was not scientific.
• Back home, Candy exchanged her four certificates for four bills from Mo Jingchun and hid the money inside her Little Golden Pig.

Mo Jingchun hid Candy’s certificates and keepsakes in secret compartments in his study, while Zhou Yaling discovered his collection and teased him about it. Candy found them together and, after discussing Little Huihui’s winter clothes, agreed that the dog probably was not cold.

• Mo Jingchun stored Candy’s certificates of merit and a baby bottle among his keepsakes in a hidden compartment in his study.
• Zhou Yaling caught Mo Jingchun and bargained with him to keep his secret from Candy.
• Candy searched for Mo Jingchun and Zhou Yaling, then found them in the study and asked about her certificate.
• Mo Jingchun told Candy not to ride her bicycle for a while, and Candy reluctantly agreed.
• Candy worried that Little Huihui needed winter clothes, but after Zhou Yaling suggested she spend her 400 yuan on outfits, Candy decided the dog was not cold after all.

Candy decided not to spend her pocket money on clothes for Xiao Huihui and later spotted Mo Jingchun online while he was supposedly studying. As Big White deliveries prompted unboxing videos and mixed reactions, Mo Jingchun arranged the company’s year-end bonuses and annual meeting, leaving Xia Xiaomin and Xu Pengfei to trust Zero’s decisions.

• Candy chose to keep her pocket money rather than buy clothes for Xiao Huihui, and Zhou Yaling took her downstairs to play TIMI.
• Candy and Zhou Yaling noticed Mo Jingchun online and wondered whether he had stopped studying to play a game.
• Big White buyers received their devices, and unboxing videos showed the compact boxes unfolding as the devices inflated.
• Candy Technology offered a full refund to a critic who raised safety concerns, and the critic's video was soon made private.
• Mo Jingchun told Xia Xiaomin to have Zero determine year-end bonuses and to hold the annual meeting as they had the previous year.
• Xia Xiaomin and Xu Pengfei agreed that Zero should handle the bonuses, even if they did not know all of its rules.

Candy Technology employees received generous year-end bonuses calculated by Zero, leaving them delighted and prompting some to consider joining the company. The news spread rapidly, while Zhou Yaling stayed up late celebrating her bonus.

• Mo Jingchun suggested using Electronic Contract Locks for less important contracts, and Xia Xiaomin agreed to consider implementing them.
• Zero emailed employees their year-end bonus information, and Su Wenyan was thrilled by the large amount she received.
• Wei Luxue learned that she had received the lowest bonus in her laboratory but still benefited from joining Candy Technology, and she lamented the taxes deducted.
• Zhou Yaling stayed up late staring at her bonus email while Candy watched her celebrate.
• Employees shared news of Candy Technology's bonuses with their families, and the reports spread through other companies as talented workers considered switching jobs.

Mo Jingchun learned that Zhou Yaling had kept Candy awake all night from excitement over her year-end bonus, then told the company’s executives that Candy Technology was considering a trial launch of Dabai robots overseas. The discussion focused on Tokyo as a possible first market, while Candy wandered the company with Dabai.

• Candy complained that Zhou Yaling had giggled all night and kept her from sleeping, so Mo Jingchun decided they needed separate beds.
• Candy fell asleep against Mo Jingchun’s leg, and he carried her upstairs before teasing Zhou Yaling about her year-end bonus.
• Mo Jingchun gathered Candy Technology’s executives and explained that foreign companies had asked to distribute Dabai, but he wanted to test a few overseas markets first.
• Candy tried to visit Zhou Yaling, then wandered through the company with Dabai after her sister sent her away to play.
• Xu Pengfei proposed Tokyo in Sakura Country as the first overseas market, citing its proximity, homebody customers, robotics industry, and likely interest in Candy Technology.

Mo Jingchun decided that the company would make its first move in Tokyo, then left the managers to discuss how to carry it out. While touring the office, he caught Candy sneaking snacks and making milk tea, and returned to hear Xia Xiaomin report the managers’ plan.

• Mo Jingchun praised Xu Pengfei’s remarks and said the company would make its first move in Tokyo before leaving the managers to discuss the work.
• Xia Xiaomin noticed the managers relaxed and talked freely after Mo Jingchun left, while he went downstairs to tour the company.
• Mo Jingchun met Candy and Big White at the elevator, teased Candy about the bulging pocket where she had hidden snacks, and led her to the Sixteenth Floor.
• Candy made XiangPiaoPiao milk tea in the lounge, and Mo Jingchun took the cup until it cooled before giving it back to her.
• Xia Xiaomin told Mo Jingchun that the managers had finished their discussion, then summarized the results for him.

Mo Jingchun and Xu Pengfei chose two employees to lead Candy Technology’s Tokyo expansion, deciding that Xiao He and Jiang Zihua would go together after the New Year. The chapter left them preparing to take charge of the company’s first overseas test location.

• Candy teased Mo Jingchun after finishing her milk tea, then ran off laughing.
• Candy joined the children’s snowball fight at Candy Technology Park while Mo Jingchun watched from his office.
• Xu Pengfei told Mo Jingchun that Xiao He and Jiang Zihua were his candidates to lead the Tokyo operation.
• Mo Jingchun decided both candidates should go to Tokyo together, where they could work as a team and prepare for future expansion.
• Xu Pengfei informed Xiao He and Jiang Zihua that they would go to Tokyo after the New Year, and they both agreed.

Candy lost an upper front tooth after falling while skating at Candy Technology Park, and she became upset when she started lisping. Mo Jingchun comforted her, while Fei Yan was spared from having to explain the accident.

• Candy learned to skate on the icy parking lot and raced with her friends as Fei Yan and Da Bai watched.
• Candy slid into a wheel stop and fell face-first, knocking out her upper front tooth.
• Da Bai found Candy’s tooth and reassured her that it would grow back; Candy noticed she was lisping and went to find her big brother.
• Fei Yan, Da Bai, and Candy went to Mo Jingchun’s office, where Mo signaled Fei Yan to stay quiet and invited Candy to tell him what happened.
• Candy burst into tears and told Mo Jingchun that her missing tooth showed whenever she smiled, and he comforted her by saying it would grow back.

After Candy lost a front tooth in a fall, Mo Jingchun comforted her with jokes and promises, then had the parking lot’s wheel stops removed. He reassured the worried Fei Yan, and Candy joined in by patting her hand.

• Candy cried over losing a front tooth, and Mo Jingchun promised to have the wheel stops removed.
• Candy accidentally swallowed her runny nose, and Mo Jingchun asked whether it had tasted salty.
• Mo Jingchun teased Candy about how to dispose of a fallen tooth, and Candy carefully tossed her upper tooth under the bed.
• Mo Jingchun and Xia Xiaomin watched workers remove all the parking lot wheel stops while Candy smiled and tried speaking without a lisp.
• Mo Jingchun told Fei Yan the accident was not her fault, and Candy patted Fei Yan’s hand.

Mo Jingchun took Candy to Candy Technology’s Annual Meeting, where she was denied entry to the raffle but still got a thermos of milk tea. Meanwhile, a young woman and her companion considered the company’s laboratory before deciding not to attempt a break-in.

• Mo Jingchun refused to let Candy enter the raffle because her luck might spoil it for the employees, and Candy asked him to buy her milk tea instead.
• A young woman watched Candy Technology Park from a hotel, then dismissed her companion’s suggestion to break into the Laboratory Building and took him to get hot pot.
• Candy Technology’s Annual Meeting began at the new stadium, where Candy sat near the front with a thermos full of milk tea.
• Candy watched the raffle and complained to herself that Mo Jingchun was chatting with Xuan Yu while her sister watched a performer onstage.
• Candy asked Zero whether milk tea could stop her teeth from growing in, and Zero warned that it might make them grow crooked.

Candy slept through the prize drawing at Candy Technology’s annual meeting until explosions struck the park’s South Gate. Combat robots repelled a group of masked attackers, while two outside observers realized Candy Technology had developed Xia Country’s Third Generation Machines.

• Candy fell asleep during the annual meeting, and her sleeping face appeared on the big screen before the prize drawing began.
• Zhou Yaling won a robot vacuum consolation prize, while Hao Hongju won the Special Prize; Candy woke as Zhou Yaling tried to show her something on her phone.
• Two explosions blasted open Candy Technology Park’s South Gate, and armed police personnel prepared for battle.
• A dozen masked attackers charged toward the Laboratory Building, but combat robots killed several of them and drove the rest to flee.
• The Leather Pants Woman and Cigarette Man examined satellite images and concluded that Candy Technology had made the Third Generation Machines.

After an attack demolished Candy Technology’s South Gate Entrance, Mo Jingchun learned that the authorities wanted the incident kept quiet and arranged for the damage to be repaired. The suspects remained at large, while the employees’ online attention centered on the annual meeting and its prizes.

• Mo Jingchun reassured Candy about losing her front tooth while Leather Pants Woman and Cigarette Man destroyed their equipment and drove to a nearby Scenic Area.
• After the annual meeting, Mo Jingchun returned to Candy Technology with his group and found the gatehouse demolished and two deep craters at the entrance.
• A County Public Security Bureau officer told Mo Jingchun that two suspects had not been apprehended and that officials wanted the incident kept quiet; Mo Jingchun said he would not take the blame.
• Mo Jingchun ordered Xia Xiaomin to supervise repairs and took Candy to the hotel, where he reassured Li Xuanyu that they were safe.
• The cyber police kept the explosion off the internet, while discussion focused on the annual meeting and the winner of the top-spec Dabai prize.

Armed police hunted down the last criminal who had attacked Candy Technology, while the company’s employees returned from their Annual Meeting unaware of the danger that had passed. The next day, Zhou Xing discovered evidence of the gunfight, and the chapter ended with Zhou Yaling celebrating her year-end bonus by treating the family to hot pot.

• A fugitive criminal hid inside a disemboweled wild boar to evade thermal-imaging drones, but the officers located him after noticing the animal’s falling body temperature.
• The criminal attacked a drone and fled before armed police surrounded him; they later confirmed he had died from a gunshot wound, leaving all the criminals who attacked Candy Technology dead.
• Zhou Xing noticed the newly renovated entrance and later found a deformed bullet in the wall, then secretly handed it to Mo Jingchun, who said the incident had been handled without losses.
• Zhou Xing told Mo Jingchun that he planned to return home for the holiday and visit his father’s grave.
• Candy Technology employees received their year-end bonuses, and Zhou Yaling celebrated by offering to treat Mo Jingchun and Candy to hot pot.

Mo Jingchun, Candy, and Zhou Yaling ate hot pot, played at the villa, and traveled back to their hometown for the New Year. Meanwhile, a professor at Area 51 prepared to activate the world’s first true artificial intelligence the next day, while Mo Jingchun and Candy cleaned at home, unaware of the impending experiment.

• Candy found a corner table at the hot pot restaurant, and Zhou Yaling treated Mo Jingchun and Candy to dinner.
• Candy decided against shopping in the cold, and she and Zhou Yaling teased each other on the drive home before playing together at the villa.
• Mo Jingchun, Candy, and Zhou Yaling drove through traffic toward their hometown, and Zhou Yaling recognized the familiar streets of town.
• At Area 51, the professor postponed activating the artificial intelligence until the next day and told the researchers to record the historic moment.
• Mo Jingchun cleaned with a bucket and broom while Candy followed him with a mop.

Mo Jingchun watched Candy discipline Xiao Huihui while the family settled in for the evening. In a laboratory, the professor activated the artificial intelligence called the Whale, but a Senior Colonel refused to let it connect to the Internet until its safety was confirmed.

• Candy mopped the floor while Xiao Huihui trampled it, so she dragged him downstairs and made him stand as punishment.
• After his punishment, Xiao Huihui lay down beside Baozi and used her as a pillow while Candy returned upstairs.
• The professor and his assistant activated the Whale and introduced it to the Senior Colonel.
• The Whale spoke and demonstrated that it could think, alarming the Senior Colonel.
• The Senior Colonel refused to allow the Whale online and left to report his concerns, while the professor planned to request approval from the White House.

Candy ate breakfast and smelled sweet potatoes roasting in the fire pit, while security and training continued at Candy Technology Park. Wei Luxue returned home to find her mother away playing mahjong, then traveled to her grandfather’s countryside home to surprise him.

• Candy woke up to her brother teasing her, dressed, and went downstairs for noodles while Baozi and Xiao Huihui had already eaten.
• Candy carried her noodles into the Fire Pit Room, smelled roasted sweet potatoes, and left them alone because she did not know if they were cooked or safe to retrieve.
• The Laboratory Building at Candy Technology Park was secured after the last researcher left, and Dagger began another day of training.
• Wei Luxue returned home and discovered her family was away; her mother answered a video call from her grandfather’s place while playing mahjong.
• Wei Luxue took a taxi to her grandfather’s home and announced her arrival while the family was eating.