Chapter Summaries

After Zhou Yaling injured her hand, Mo Jingchun took her to the hospital, where she received a tetanus skin test and shots while Candy fretted and teased her. The station offered compensation for Zhou Yaling’s damaged suitcase, but her lost phone and its irreplaceable data still troubled her.

• The doctor confirmed Zhou Yaling was otherwise healthy and recommended a tetanus shot for her cut, so she went to the nurses’ station for a skin test.
• Candy watched the nurse perform the test, panicked, and pinched Mo Jingchun’s thigh before explaining she was scared.
• Fei Yan brought Candy an egg pancake, and Candy ate it while waiting for the test results.
• Zhou Yaling received two tetanus shots in her buttocks and learned from Xia Xiaomin’s message that the station was offering compensation and had found her damaged suitcase.
• Mo Jingchun told Zhou Yaling that her phone could not be found and offered her a replacement, but she worried about the lost data.
• Zhou Yaling returned for another shot, and Candy teased her for crying as she came out sore and limping.

After Zhou Yaling returned from the hospital, Mo Jingchun cooked dinner and learned she planned to stay near school rather than with her roommates. The next afternoon, he found Candy playing on her phone inside Xiao Huihui's doghouse.

• Mo Jingchun bought an old hen and cooked chicken soup while Zhou Yaling moved her belongings into a new suitcase.
• Mo Jingchun teased Candy by feeding Xiao Huihui the chicken head she had mistaken for a treat.
• Zhou Yaling agreed to leave for school the next day, and Mo Jingchun offered to have Little Flying Hero drive her to the High-Speed Rail Station.
• At dinner, Zhou Yaling admitted she planned to stay in a hotel near school because she no longer got along with her roommates.
• Mo Jingchun found Candy occupying Xiao Huihui's doghouse and playing on her phone, while Xiao Huihui ran around whining.

Mo Jingchun’s household saw Xiao Huihui lose Baozi’s cat nest after trying to claim Candy’s doghouse, while Zhou Yaling left for school. At work, Mo Jingchun learned that the Second Laboratory Building was ready and planned to personally lead rocket research toward launching Candy Technology’s first satellite.

• Xiao Huihui took Candy’s doghouse, then brought Baozi’s cat nest downstairs, prompting Baozi to attack and reclaim it.
• Zhou Yaling left for school by car and later told Candy she was traveling by high-speed train, promising to bring her a treat.
• Candy woke and messaged Zhou Yaling, then found Mo Jingchun standing quietly behind her.
• Xia Xiaomin reported that the truck collision involving Mo Jingchun’s relatives had been officially classified as an accident, and Mo Jingchun discarded the report.
• Xia Xiaomin told Mo Jingchun that the Second Laboratory Building had passed inspection and the Wind Tunnel Laboratory’s main structure was complete.
• Mo Jingchun planned to lead rocket research and asked Zero to have the Aerospace Laboratory’s research and development director send him an update on current progress.

Zhou Yaling returned to campus for a class meeting after learning that Mao Xinyi had died, and reunited with her roommates in grief and regret. Meanwhile, Mo Jingchun inspected Candy Technology’s new laboratory building and announced plans to restructure the company, leaving Su Wenyan anticipating a major assignment.

• Zhou Yaling recalled the news of Mao Xinyi’s death and met her two roommates before they went to the classroom together.
• Mo Jingchun, Xia Xiaomin, and Su Wenyan inspected the completed Second Laboratory Building, and Mo approved the work while withholding the standard five percent maintenance fund.
• Mo Jingchun said Candy Technology’s current organizational structure no longer suited the company’s size and asked Xia Xiaomin to remind him to discuss a restructure at the next regular meeting.
• Su Wenyan grew excited at Mo Jingchun’s promise, then realized that the coming task would likely be demanding.

Mo Jingchun told Su Wenyan to secure land for a vast project combining a space launch center with a private airport, hinting that it would support plans reaching beyond the rockets he intended to develop. Later, he promised Candy first-grade textbooks, then found her counting money upstairs.

• Mo Jingchun asked the executives to guess the company’s goal, then revealed he planned to lead the Aerospace Department in developing a space rocket.
• Su Wenyan guessed Mo Jingchun wanted a space launch center, and he expanded the plan to include a huge airport separated from it by a mountain and tunnel.
• Mo Jingchun told Su Wenyan to secure land after Zero found a suitable location, and Su Wenyan realized he might be planning for a space shuttle.
• Candy complained that kindergarten lessons were boring because Zero had already taught her the material, so Mo Jingchun promised to get her first-grade textbooks.
• Mo Jingchun went upstairs to check on Candy and found her sitting on the floor counting money.

Candy counted the money in her broken Little Golden Pig vault while Mo Jingchun teased her with the promise of a new piggy bank. The Money Counter confirmed her count of the 100-yuan bills but detected a counterfeit 50-yuan bill, leaving Candy’s total in doubt.

• Candy froze when Mo Jingchun found her counting the cash she had kept under her bed.
• Mo Jingchun offered Candy a new piggy bank if she counted her money correctly, and Candy agreed.
• Candy resisted Mo Jingchun’s attempts to distract her and counted the bills and coins, totaling 12,852 yuan and 10 cents.
• Candy and Mo Jingchun ran the money through the Money Counter, which confirmed the 100-yuan bills but beeped at a counterfeit 50-yuan bill.

Mo Jingchun discovered that Candy had received a counterfeit fifty-yuan bill and encouraged her to test the Finance Department by exchanging it for change. Candy succeeded in getting the money exchanged, leaving Xiao Ya to discover the counterfeit after Cao Mingxin had been called away.

• Mo Jingchun asked Zero to inspect Candy's fifty-yuan bill, and Zero identified it as counterfeit.
• Mo Jingchun told Candy to exchange the bill with Cao Mingxin the next day, and Candy chose a pink safe as her reward.
• Candy hid her money in several places, while Mo Jingchun learned about her schemes from Zero.
• Candy hurried from kindergarten to the Finance Department and asked Cao Mingxin to exchange the bill for two twenties and a ten.
• Cao Mingxin had Xiao Ya record the exchange as a loan, then left with Xia Xiaomin to see the boss.
• Xiao Ya put the fifty-yuan bill into the money counter, discovered it was counterfeit, and resigned herself to Cao Mingxin's fate.

Mo Jingchun told Cao Mingxin he would fund a year of finance classes at Magic City Finance University, while Candy tried to bribe him for milk tea. At home, Candy explored her new textbooks and shared dinner with Xiao Huihui, but Mo Jingchun refused to give Baozi any braised pork.

• Mo Jingchun asked Cao Mingxin about the counterfeit fifty yuan and told him he would study at Magic City Finance University for a year while his deputy filled in.
• Candy offered Mo Jingchun ten yuan for milk tea, but he refused, and she snatched the money back before heading home with him.
• Cao Mingxin found the empty Finance Department and a note confirming the bill was fake, then tested it and verified the counterfeit.
• Candy opened the box of first-grade textbooks at home, found the math lessons familiar, and became absorbed in the Chinese stories.
• Mo Jingchun served braised pork for dinner, and Candy praised it while he told her Baozi could not have any.

Zhou Yaling video-chatted with Candy, who revealed she had broken her Little Golden Pig and received a safe from Brother. Meanwhile, Candy read at school and Whiteys renovated the Second Laboratory Building as Mo Jingchun reviewed the slow progress of the aerospace research.

• Zhou Yaling ran away when a junior student asked to add her on WeChat, then returned to her hotel and called Candy.
• Candy showed Zhou Yaling the safe Brother had given her and said she had saved twelve thousand eight hundred fifty-two yuan and ten jiao.
• Zhou Yaling told Candy that Brother had forbidden her from buying milk tea, and Candy ended the call to study the safe.
• Candy read a first-grade Chinese textbook in class while a teacher watched in surprise.
• Whiteys carried construction supplies into the evacuated Second Laboratory Building as it was remodeled.
• Mo Jingchun read the Aerospace Research and Development Center's progress report and decided it needed many more researchers.

Mo Jingchun ordered Candy Technology to expand its aerospace and mechanical engineering research recruitment and build partnerships with universities to secure new graduates. The chapter ended with Candy turning down another chicken drumstick at kindergarten while eyeing Little Fatty.

• Mo Jingchun told Xia Xiaomin to ask Human Resources to recruit more aerospace and mechanical engineering researchers, and Yang Wencai directed his department to spread recruitment notices widely.
• Mo Jingchun assigned Xia Xiaomin to arrange university partnerships, and she contacted every school on his list, all of which agreed to cooperate.
• Xia Xiaomin told Mo Jingchun that some companies had halted aviation and rocket research and laid off their researchers, but Mo Jingchun said qualified candidates could apply through the usual process.
• Yang Wencai received approval to promote recruitment videos on Short Video, and Mo Jingchun praised his idea when they met in the cafeteria.
• Xu Pengfei told Mo Jingchun that Su Wenyan had taken the large sum she requested and driven away, while Candy refused a second chicken drumstick at kindergarten.

Su Wenyan inspected a possible rocket launch center site and accidentally climbed onto a disguised military radar, where Special Forces detained her and confiscated her phone. After Mo Jingchun and Qin Yuzhu settled the matter, she signed a confidentiality agreement, left, and called her boss to vent before heading to a hotel.

• Su Wenyan visited a mountain site shortlisted by Zero and climbed to its summit without realizing a military base lay beneath it.
• After she took several photos, Special Forces soldiers detained Su Wenyan and seized her phone.
• Su Wenyan explained that she was scouting locations for a rocket launch center, and Mo Jingchun and Qin Yuzhu arranged her release.
• A military representative had Su Wenyan sign a confidentiality agreement, returned her phone, and let her leave.
• Su Wenyan called Mo Jingchun to complain, promised to visit the next site the following day, and drove to a hotel.
• Candy asked whether Su Wenyan was usually so bold, and Mo Jingchun said she had probably been shaken and needed to vent.

Su Wenyan continued scouting sites for Candy Technology’s airport while rumors exaggerated the project into an international airport. Zhou Yaling returned home and helped Candy decide to move her heavy safe to her brother’s study, where Da Bai was summoned to carry it.

• Su Wenyan corrected a county leader’s claim that Candy Technology was planning an international airport, saying it was just an ordinary airport.
• Su Wenyan and Zhou Yaling spotted each other on the highway and exchanged greetings before driving on.
• Zhou Yaling returned to the villa and found Candy wearing her slippers while her brother was away.
• Zhou Yaling discovered that Candy had put her safe in her room, and they agreed to move it to her brother’s study.
• Candy called for Da Bai to pick up the safe, and Zhou Yaling noticed Candy had backed away before giving the order.

Candy brought Da Bai and the safe to Mo Jingchun after Zhou Yaling urged her to move it, but she forgot the combination and needed Zero to remind her. The siblings later suspected Candy had not actually reset the lock, and Mo Jingchun learned that Su Wenyan had returned.

• Candy led Da Bai upstairs with the safe, but the study door was locked until Mo Jingchun opened it for her.
• Candy forgot the safe's combination and cried until Zero supplied the full code, 963852.
• Mo Jingchun realized Zhou Yaling had encouraged Candy to move the safe from her room, then asked Zhou about her graduation thesis.
• Mo Jingchun and Zhou Yaling suspected Candy did not know how to reset the lock, but Candy emerged confidently and claimed she was done.
• Candy told Mo Jingchun she had run into Su Wenyan on her way back, and he was surprised Su Wenyan had returned.

Zhou Yaling returned to work after a week of leave while Mo Jingchun heard Su Wenyan's account of being detained by armed guards during the laboratory renovation. Su Wenyan learned that Mo Jingchun had received a video of her singing on the mountain and asked whether it was too late to delete it, then turned to collect the promised 120% reward.

• Mo Jingchun cooked chicken soup for Zhou Yaling and Candy, who ate the whole pot before Zhou Yaling left him to wash the dishes.
• Zhou Yaling returned to work on Monday and found more than a hundred approval requests waiting after her week of leave.
• Mo Jingchun invited Su Wenyan to report on the renovation, and she said Dabai had completed the Second Laboratory Building after five days of nonstop work.
• After Xia Xiaomin left the office, Su Wenyan told Mo Jingchun that armed guards had confronted her while she admired the scenery on a mountain.
• Mo Jingchun showed Su Wenyan the video of her singing, and she asked if it was still too late to delete it before asking for the promised 120% reward.

Mo Jingchun discussed launch site safety and development plans with Su Wenyan, then asked her to publicize the scenery near two potential sites. While Candy danced at kindergarten, Zero alerted Mo Jingchun that intruders had broken into his villa and used hydrofluoric acid to enter the study; the first intruder was struck by an unseen defense.

• Su Wenyan warned Mo Jingchun about the risks of sites two and five and the transportation challenges at sites three and four.
• Mo Jingchun told Su Wenyan to gauge local reactions to plans for sites three and four and post scenic photos to Short Video.
• Su Wenyan posted the video and paid the finance department to boost its reach.
• Candy danced with the kindergarten children while Fei Yan listened to their music and Mo Jingchun enjoyed it from his office.
• Zero alerted Mo Jingchun that intruders had targeted the villa's second-floor study and were using hydrofluoric acid to corrode the window.
• The first intruder entered the study, screamed, and collapsed convulsing.

Mo Jingchun’s Big Whites stopped a group of intruders at his villa, though one escaped with a safe. After police and armed police arrived, Mo Jingchun discovered the safe Candy had left beneath the study window was missing.

• Zero sent Big Whites to electrocute the intruders, capturing two while a third escaped on a motorcycle with the safe.
• Mo Jingchun questioned Zero’s report about the intruders and went to the villa after learning the police had arrived.
• Yang Hongan and the armed police found two intruders bound by the Big Whites and waited for Mo Jingchun.
• Mo Jingchun questioned one intruder, then inspected the study and initially found nothing missing.
• Yang Hongan told Mo Jingchun that an intruder had fled with a silver safe, and Mo Jingchun realized it was Candy’s safe.

After burglars stole Candy’s safe, Mo Jingchun tried to track down the escaped thief and prepared cash to comfort her. Candy learned what had happened and, after receiving twenty thousand yuan, stopped crying and denied wanting the thief to return.

• Mo Jingchun learned that the burglars had stolen Candy’s safe, and Yang Hongan confirmed that one intruder had escaped.
• Zero reported that the escaped thief had left the county, while Candy played with other children, unaware of the burglary.
• Mo Jingchun asked Xia Xiaomin to withdraw twenty thousand in cash to console Candy.
• Candy returned home, discovered her safe was missing, and cried when Mo Jingchun told her it had been stolen.
• Mo Jingchun gave Candy the cash, and she calmed down before denying that she wanted the thief to come back.

Mo Jingchun dealt with Candy’s money schemes while Su Wenyan reported growing speculation around the Second Laboratory’s possible sites. Meanwhile, a stolen safe’s contents provoked a diplomatic confrontation, and rival countries announced breakthroughs in holographic projection, leaving Mo Jingchun puzzled.

• Candy persuaded Zhou Yaling to buy her a stainless-steel piggy bank, while Mo Jingchun realized she considered the stolen cash a clever way to make money.
• Su Wenyan told Mo Jingchun that residents near sites Three and Four were expanding their homes despite no final decision, and he chose to wait and retain the initiative.
• Specialists opened the safe transported to the Country Across the Pacific Ocean and found money instead of technical documents, prompting the chairman to order Yui to retrieve the Number One documents.
• The Major confronted the meeting and demanded the material that had actually been inside the safe, causing the chairman to faint again before issuing his order.
• Mo Jingchun learned that Sakura Country and Beautiful Country had announced successful holographic projection breakthroughs within minutes of each other.

Mo Jingchun learned that holographic projection technology had spread among world powers and received incomplete technical materials traced to Beautiful Country, not realizing he was behind the leak. After discovering that people from Sakura Country had stolen Candy’s allowance, he ordered Tokyo stores to raise Dabai’s price, then began studying the complete technology before Su Wenyan arrived to ask about developments.

• Mo Jingchun learned that four other major powers had announced holographic projection technology, and Zero told him that an anonymous email traced to Beautiful Country contained genuine but incomplete technical materials.
• Mo Jingchun decided to include holographic projection in the next generation of Dabai and watched the international dispute over the technology unfold.
• Mo Jingchun learned that people from Sakura Country had stolen Candy’s allowance and ordered Xu Pengfei to raise Dabai’s price in Tokyo by 10%.
• Candy inspected her oversized stainless steel piggy bank, while Zhou Yaling admitted she had chosen its size so Candy could save more allowance.
• Two days later, Mo Jingchun studied the complete holographic projection materials to prepare an upgrade to the Private Laboratory, and Su Wenyan arrived asking about new developments.

Mo Jingchun chose An Yang County for Candy Technology’s rocket launch center and airport, then sent Su Wenyan and Xu Pengfei to sign the agreement. At the kindergarten, Candy advised Wang Haoran to run away and tell his parents if someone bullied him.

• Mo Jingchun chose An Yang County after Su Wenyan advised him to consider the airport’s distance from Candy Technology and the road conditions.
• Mo Jingchun told Su Wenyan and Xu Pengfei to go to the provincial capital to sign the agreement while he stayed to move the research staff into the Second Laboratory Building.
• Su Wenyan told Xu Pengfei that Mo Jingchun had given her a car and that she had already received 120% of her year-end bonus.
• Su Wenyan left after Xu Pengfei asked about her blind dates, recalling that Old Master had invited more than a dozen young men to meet her at once.
• Candy reassured Wang Haoran about starting school and told him to run away and tell his parents if anyone bullied him.