Chapter Summaries

Candy and Wang Haoran discussed whether children should run from bullies or fight back, while Su Wenyan and Xu Pengfei talked about Dabai and Holographic Projection. Mo Jingchun opened the Second Laboratory Building and confronted the research team over slow progress and unresolved disagreements about rocket engines.

• Candy told Wang Haoran that running away was acceptable when someone bullied him, then took him to get food from Qi Shuying.
• Thunder sent the children back to their classrooms, where Candy and Xiang-er paired up for a craft activity.
• Su Wenyan and Xu Pengfei discussed Dabai's price increase in Tokyo and the limited impact of open-sourced Holographic Projection technology.
• Mo Jingchun dropped Candy off at kindergarten and went to lead the team into the Second Laboratory Building.
• After the team gathered in the conference center, Mo Jingchun criticized their slow research progress and failure to agree on a rocket engine design.

Mo Jingchun organized Candy Technology’s Space Rocket project into four research groups and set a deadline to launch a satellite into Low Earth Orbit within a year. He offered a ten-billion-yuan bonus for meeting the goal before the Spring Festival, and the team ended its first brainstorming session optimistic about its progress.

• Mo Jingchun criticized the researchers for internal friction and had Zero distribute assignments based on their résumés.
• Mo Jingchun divided the project into Rocket Body, Guidance System, Propulsion System, and Payload groups, with labs on the third through sixth floors.
• Mo Jingchun told each group to elect a leader by the next morning and announced weekly brainstorming sessions that he would lead.
• Mo Jingchun offered a ten-billion-yuan bonus pool if the team launched a Candy Technology satellite before the Spring Festival.
• The researchers brainstormed together, solved several early problems, and grew confident they could meet the deadline.

Xu Pengfei and Su Wenyan discussed Candy Technology’s plans for the Space Rocket launch center and airport before their contract meeting. At school, Candy and Xiang-er’s handmade lantern earned praise from their teacher, and Candy left with a Small Red Flower and renewed confidence.

• Xu Pengfei and Su Wenyan arrived in the Provincial Capital, where officials welcomed them and avoided discussing the Space Rocket launch center before the formal meeting.
• Su Wenyan and Xu Pengfei discussed Candy Technology’s construction deadline and speculated that Mo Jingchun might be developing Space Shuttle technology with Zero’s help.
• Candy and Xiang-er felt embarrassed when classmates called their handmade Red Lantern ugly, but their teacher praised it for being made by the children themselves.
• The teacher assigned the class another lantern project, promised a trip to watch One Piece for excellent work, and awarded Small Red Flowers to children who had made their crafts themselves.
• Candy proudly showed Mo Jingchun her Small Red Flower after school and vowed to make a more beautiful lantern next time.

Candy woke to find her brother gone and learned from Zhou Yaling that he had gone on a date without her. Unable to reach him, she came up with another plan and searched her contacts for Li Xuanyu’s number.

• Candy woke after Baozi sat on her chest and got dressed for the day.
• Candy found Zhou Yaling in the kitchen struggling with undercooked rice, so they decided to make noodles.
• Candy asked Zhou Yaling where her brother was, and Zhou Yaling told her he had gone on a date.
• Candy called her brother on her Smart Watch, but he did not answer.
• Candy searched her contacts for Li Xuanyu’s number while Zero watched her.

Mo Jingchun and Li Xuanyu went shopping while Candy called to demand milk tea, and Li Xuanyu promised to make some at home. When they returned, Candy revealed that Zhou Yaling had served undercooked rice to Xiao Huihui, and Mo Jingchun confronted her in the kitchen.

• Li Xuanyu haggled over clothes while Candy called and asked Mo Jingchun for milk tea.
• Zhou Yaling called to invite Mo Jingchun and Li Xuanyu home for lunch, calling Li Xuanyu “Sister-in-law.”
• Mo Jingchun paid for two jackets and a pair of pants, and he and Li Xuanyu returned home without buying milk.
• Candy told Mo Jingchun that Zhou Yaling's rice was still raw, so Xiao Huihui would not eat it even with meat broth.
• Mo Jingchun and Li Xuanyu went into the kitchen, where Mo Jingchun teased Zhou Yaling about lifting the lid too early while cooking rice.

Zhou Yaling welcomed Li Xuanyu to lunch, where Candy tried to win her attention and learned how she made milk tea. Later, Mo Jingchun teased Candy about her unfinished lantern and recalled his school days before telling Zhou Yaling about an upcoming work trip.

• Zhou Yaling greeted Li Xuanyu, and Candy brought her a banana before joining her at lunch.
• Li Xuanyu made milk tea, and Candy eagerly watched and urged her to visit on weekends.
• After her nap, Candy learned Li Xuanyu had left and argued with Mo Jingchun when he joked about feeding their fat carp.
• Mo Jingchun reminded Candy that she had to make her lantern herself, then zoned out while recalling his school days.
• Candy ran upstairs to fetch Zhou Yaling, who reassured her that Mo Jingchun was fine and praised his intelligence.
• Mo Jingchun told Zhou Yaling that the An Yang County project would break ground next Tuesday and asked her to pick up Candy while he was away.

Mo Jingchun checked on Candy before attending a research meeting where he helped the researchers resolve difficult problems. After the meeting, he waited outside the kindergarten for Candy, while a gathering of mobile phone industry leaders discussed Candy Technology’s expansion and plans.

• Mo Jingchun told Candy to stay home and attend class while he went to the construction site, and he joked with her about the saying “the early bird catches the worm.”
• Mobile phone industry leaders gathered in Peng City and discussed Candy Technology’s finances, the Space Rocket Launch Center, and the airport being built alongside it.
• Mo Jingchun led a brainstorming meeting where more than two hundred researchers presented their problems, and he offered pointers across several fields.
• Mo Jingchun left the Second Laboratory Building after five in the afternoon and waited outside the kindergarten for Candy, explaining to Fei Yan that sitting all day had made him uncomfortable.

Mo Jingchun attended the groundbreaking ceremony for Candy Technology’s Space Launch Center in An Yang County, then returned home that evening to find Candy and Zhou Yaling eating tomato hot pot. The chapter ended with him setting down a cake and asking why they had chosen a meal they usually disliked.

• Mo Jingchun told Candy he would be away the next day and asked her to listen to Zhou Yaling.
• Mo Jingchun traveled with Xu Pengfei and Xia Xiaomin to the Space Launch Center site, where he asked Su Wenyan to protect the surrounding environment during construction.
• Mo Jingchun and other representatives took part in the groundbreaking ceremony, and construction machinery moved in afterward.
• Zhou Yaling left work with Candy, Baozi, and Xiao Huihui after Mo Jingchun failed to return to his office.
• Candy and Zhou Yaling made tomato hot pot for dinner, and Mo Jingchun came home with a cake and questioned their choice.

Mo Jingchun confronted a woman whose request to recover her daughter’s encrypted photos had drawn Candy Technology into a public controversy, then retaliated against Sakura Country by suspending business and relocating staff. After pressure forced the other side to hand over the thieves who had stolen Candy’s technology, Candy resumed most operations, though its new Da Bai store remained closed.

• Mo Jingchun learned that a woman wanted Candy Technology to decrypt the photos and videos on her daughter’s phone, and he had Zero brute-force the Candy Encryption Algorithm after confirming the woman’s identity with the police.
• Mo Jingchun ordered Candy Technology to suspend business and sales in Sakura Country, including the Leukemia Special Medicine, and sent the Tokyo employees to Beautiful Country.
• Candy Technology’s announcement sparked online attention while the story about the mother and daughter faded, and the National Cyber Security Center staff reacted excitedly.
• Qin Yuzhu called Mo Jingchun to say the other side had handed over the thieves who stole Candy’s technology, and Mo Jingchun said outsiders could not crack the encryption within thirty years.
• Candy Technology disappeared from trending lists and resumed business dealings with Sakura Country, but its newly opened Da Bai specialty store stayed closed.

Mo Jingchun heard Candy’s secret about her PE teacher pursuing the Senior Class One Teacher, then took Candy to kindergarten before returning to the First Laboratory to approve production of Second Generation Ternary Computers. The computers were set to be built for testing in the Second Laboratory Building while Mo Jingchun prepared to handle paperwork for the Anyang project.

• Candy told Mo Jingchun and Zhou Yaling that the PE teacher had brought roses to pursue the Senior Class One Teacher, who said she already had a boyfriend.
• Zhou Yaling escorted Candy to kindergarten, where Candy guiltily passed the PE teacher without incident.
• Mo Jingchun returned to the First Laboratory and asked Yang Chengsheng to send him the server cluster data for verification.
• Mo Jingchun asked Wei Luxue to write a paper on the feasibility of ternary computers using the lab’s data.
• After Zero confirmed the data was theoretically sound, Mo Jingchun ordered the Dabai robots to modify the Assembly Line and build Second Generation Ternary Computers.

Mo Jingchun put the newly networked ternary computers through testing and reviewed construction plans, then discovered Candy had damaged her schoolbag. Zhou Yaling patched it, and the evening ended with Candy and Zhou Yaling losing several games together.

• Mo Jingchun told Zero to keep running pi on the ternary computers and put them into service if they remained error-free by Monday.
• Mo Jingchun noticed a hole in Candy’s schoolbag, and Candy admitted she had accidentally torn it while picking at its rubber emblem.
• Zhou Yaling sewed a Small Red Flower patch over the hole, satisfying Candy with the repair.
• Candy and Zhou Yaling played games together, won one comeback after Little Lu Ban stole the Overlord, then lost five games in a row.

Mo Jingchun watched a horror movie alone until Zhou Yaling startled him as a prank. Candy came downstairs afterward, and Zhou Yaling agreed to make her tomato egg noodles.

• Candy slept while cuddling Baozi, and Mo Jingchun let her rest instead of waking her for breakfast.
• Mo Jingchun ate noodles and eggs, then threatened to get Xiao Huihui spayed when the dog whined for food.
• Mo Jingchun darkened the first floor to watch a horror movie, and Zhou Yaling crept up and screamed at him.
• Zhou Yaling laughed at Mo Jingchun for jumping and teased him about being afraid of people rather than ghosts.
• Candy came downstairs hungry, and Zhou Yaling offered to make sauerkraut noodles with two fried eggs after Candy asked for tomato egg noodles.

Candy enjoyed breakfast with Zhou Yaling, then got into trouble by using a mirror to blind Mo Jingchun and later burning Xiao Huihui with a magnifying glass. After Mo Jingchun yelled for her, Candy ran out of the courtyard to delay being caught.

• Zhou Yaling made breakfast for Candy, who happily ate two fried eggs with her noodles.
• Candy asked Mo Jingchun to go out, but she went upstairs when he said he would not go shopping.
• Candy reflected sunlight with Zhou Yaling's mirror, blinding Eagle Eye and Mo Jingchun before Mo Jingchun brought her inside and tickled her.
• Candy admitted she had learned the trick from a classmate, and Mo Jingchun confiscated the mirror.
• Candy used a magnifying glass to focus sunlight on Xiao Huihui, making him yelp and run indoors.
• Mo Jingchun shouted for Candy, and she bolted out of the courtyard to keep out of reach.

Candy secretly used a magnifying glass to torment Xiao Huihui, then accidentally started a fire in the garden that Da Bai quickly extinguished. After Mo Jingchun punished her and canceled their shopping trip, Candy behaved for the rest of the day but wet the bed that night and begged him to keep it secret.

• Candy claimed she had accidentally stepped on Xiao Huihui's tail, while secretly asking Little Flying Hero and Fei Yan to keep her magnifying-glass prank quiet.
• Candy used the magnifying glass to set Zhou Yaling's foam vegetable boxes on fire, and Da Bai put out the flames with a bucket of water.
• Mo Jingchun discovered Candy had caused the fire, punished her, canceled their shopping trip, and had Zero show her a video about fire safety.
• Candy stayed quiet at lunch but later played games with Zhou Yaling, then went to bed early.
• Candy woke after wetting the bed, and Zhou Yaling and Mo Jingchun rushed in; Candy cried and begged Mo Jingchun not to tell anyone.

Candy wet the bed after playing with fire and tried to secretly wash away the evidence, but Mo Jingchun caught on and quietly hung her quilt out to dry. After Candy filled up on buns and soy milk, she returned home and was tempted by Mo Jingchun’s dough-drop soup.

• Mo Jingchun reassured Candy about wetting the bed and told her to wash up and sleep with Zhou Yaling.
• Candy secretly asked Dabai to help remove her bedding and put it in the washing machine, but Mo Jingchun caught her trying to hide what had happened.
• Mo Jingchun hung Candy’s wet quilt out to dry, and Candy realized he had known about her accident all along.
• Candy went outside for vegetable buns and soy milk, then returned home too full to eat breakfast.
• Mo Jingchun ate dough-drop soup, and Candy tasted a spoonful after insisting it smelled delicious.

Candy tried to get dough-drop soup for breakfast by asking Zhou Yaling to make it, then discovered she liked the soup but not the tasteless dough drops. After Mo Jingchun walked her to kindergarten, he warned her not to pick up strange habits from her classmates.

• Candy hinted that she wanted money for her birthday present, while Mo Jingchun teased her about the hint.
• Zhou Yaling found Candy's laundry in the washing machine and learned that Candy had done it herself.
• Candy asked Zhou Yaling to make dough-drop soup, and Zhou Yaling agreed despite thinking the dough drops tasted bland.
• Candy woke early for dough-drop soup, enjoyed the broth but disliked the dough drops, and ate her breakfast rather than waste it.
• Mo Jingchun walked Candy to kindergarten and told her not to get into mischief or imitate strange habits from her classmates.

Candy celebrated her fifth birthday with a surprise party arranged by Mo Jingchun and his coworkers at the office. After making a wish to save money and take her brother on a trip, she enjoyed cake, presents, and a special dinner.

• Candy left school in the rain and hurried home, eager to see what birthday present Mo Jingchun had prepared.
• Mo Jingchun and the company staff decorated his office with a cake, fruit, and presents, then turned off the lights to surprise Candy.
• Candy asked Zero to turn on the lights, startled at the surprise, and then happily admired the cake and birthday decorations.
• Mo Jingchun held Candy as everyone sang, and she made a wish to save money for a future trip with her brother before blowing out the candles.
• Candy received presents and money from Mo Jingchun, then enjoyed dinner at a hotel and fruit prepared by Xuan Yu.

Candy stayed up late counting her birthday money and nearly missed kindergarten the next morning, while Baozi got its mouth stuck to Zhou Yaling’s vacuum cleaner. Later, Mo Jingchun oversaw the first test of Candy Technology’s rocket engine, which produced more than 400 tons of thrust, though its ability to run steadily remained unproven.

• Candy stayed up late after opening her birthday presents, then woke after eight and rushed to kindergarten with milk, bread, and cherries.
• Baozi leaned toward Zhou Yaling’s vacuum cleaner and got its mouth stuck to the intake until Zhou Yaling switched it off.
• After hearing the experimental rocket engine was complete, Mo Jingchun returned from Anyang and arranged an engine test.
• Word spread that Candy Technology was testing a space rocket engine, and Mo Jingchun did not try to stop it.
• Mo Jingchun ignited the engine at the Wading Vehicle Platform, and the display showed a thrust of 407 tons.

Candy Technology’s first Space Rocket Engine test ran for 56 seconds before sputtering out, but the engine’s reported 407 tons of thrust drew attention to the company’s rapid progress. Mo Jingchun’s team took the engine back to the lab to investigate, while Mo reassured Zhou Yaling that he expected another test soon.

• The Space Rocket Engine sputtered, spewed smoke and fuel, and Mo Jingchun stopped the test with the Red Emergency Button.
• Mo Jingchun had Zero publish the engine’s thrust figures as online videos of the failed test spread.
• Candy Technology’s announcement that the engine had reached 407 tons of thrust astonished rival research groups and Qin Yuzhu.
• Mo Jingchun’s team suspected a fuel-line or pressure problem and brought the engine back to the lab for dismantling and analysis.
• Mo Jingchun returned to his office, reassured Zhou Yaling about the failure, and predicted that the team would soon test the engine again.

Mo Jingchun approved a new space rocket engine after the laboratory identified the cause of its failed test, while Candy Technology’s rocket program unsettled rival companies. He then joined Candy’s kindergarten graduation ceremony, where Candy eagerly led him to their seats.

• At dinner, Candy shared cured meat with Mo Jingchun, then realized Zhou Yaling was jealous and put a piece in her bowl.
• After studying Candy Technology’s engine test footage, rival companies concluded the rocket engine was close to success, and fears of its upcoming launch kept their researchers awake.
• Mo Jingchun noticed that rocket-engine topics had disappeared from Short Video’s trending charts and dismissed the change.
• The laboratory told Mo Jingchun that a ruptured high-pressure combustion-improver delivery pipe had caused the failed test, and he approved building a new engine for another test in a month.
• Mo Jingchun attended Candy’s June 23 kindergarten graduation ceremony after joining the parents’ rehearsals, and Candy led him to the seats she had located the day before.