Chapter Summaries

Mo Jingchun took Candy to her kindergarten graduation ceremony, where she performed with her classmates and played piano before they shared a farewell banquet. The family returned home after Candy noted that many classmates would stay nearby for elementary school.

• Mo Jingchun greeted Xiang-er and her grandmother at the kindergarten, then offered parents help arranging a dedicated bus to South of the City Primary School for their children.
• Candy and fourteen classmates performed a synchronized square dance, and Candy later played an unfamiliar tune on the piano.
• The kindergarten held a Flowing Banquet after the ceremony, where Candy urged Mo Jingchun to eat and he reminded her to be ladylike.
• Candy said she was not sad to part from her classmates because they would meet again after summer vacation, and she had heard that more than twenty classmates would stay nearby for elementary school.
• Candy returned home, where Xiao Huihui nearly knocked her over, and Zhou Yaling apologized for forgetting to feed him and Baozi.

After returning from Candy’s graduation ceremony, Mo Jingchun rested while Candy hid her Graduation Certificate and later set up a pretend classroom in the study. She made Xiao Huihui and Baozi her students and scolded Baozi for sleeping in class.

• Mo Jingchun told Zhou Yaling about the kindergarten’s Flowing Banquet and discussed Candy’s possible summer art class.
• Candy hid her Graduation Certificate in the Piggy Bank, then told Zhou Yaling where she had put it.
• Candy gave up trying to take over the television and went to her room with Baozi.
• Candy brought Xiao Huihui and Baozi to the study, taped paper to the desk as a blackboard, and wrote the numbers one through ten.
• Candy used a wooden stick to hit Baozi’s chair and scolded him for sleeping in class.

Candy taught Xiao Huihui and Baozi to count by barking and meowing, while Mo Jingchun and Zhou Yaling secretly watched. Mo Jingchun eventually entered the study and teased Candy about her little classroom.

• Candy made Xiao Huihui and Baozi sit still and taught them that the number 1 meant one bark or meow.
• Baozi learned to meow the numbers, while Xiao Huihui copied him until Candy tested him and caught on.
• Mo Jingchun heard the barking and meowing from the study and realized Candy was teaching the pets to count.
• Mo Jingchun brought Zhou Yaling upstairs, and she secretly filmed Candy's lesson.
• Mo Jingchun entered the study and teased Candy, who tried to hide her lesson papers and lowered her head when Zhou Yaling raised her phone.

Candy taught Xiao Huihui and Baozi to recognize numbers, while Mo Jingchun and Zhou Yaling watched and shared a video of the lesson online. After the video attracted many new followers, Candy decided to seek advice from Big Hei’s instructor on how to teach animals.

• Candy made Xiao Huihui and Baozi practice numbers, and Mo Jingchun confiscated her teaching stick before letting the lesson continue.
• Zhou Yaling watched the recorded lesson with Mo Jingchun, gave the animals treats, and posted the video after checking that the study revealed nothing private.
• Netizens joked about the animals having to study, while some viewers noticed the Aircraft Carrier Model and Zhou Yaling gained more than ten thousand followers in just over an hour.
• Candy let Xiao Huihui and Baozi take a break and asked Zhou Yaling to give them chicken and dried fish as rewards.
• Candy concluded that counting was unsuitable for the animals and planned to learn how to teach them from Big Hei’s instructor.

After Xiao Huihui faked being asleep to avoid the consequences of his late-night barking, Candy took him to the Armed Police Hall for training with Dagger. Candy left Xiao Huihui with He Qiming and returned to find Mo Jingchun missing from his office.

• Mo Jingchun discovered that Xiao Huihui was faking sleep, and Baozi chased and clawed him for barking through the night.
• Candy made Xiao Huihui sleep in the Storage Room under Da Bai's watch after he tried to sneak into her bedroom.
• Candy brought Xiao Huihui to the Armed Police Hall and asked He Qiming to train him like Dagger.
• He Qiming got the captain's approval to train Xiao Huihui, and Xiao Huihui reacted aggressively when Candy left.
• Candy returned to Mo Jingchun's office and learned from Xia Xiaomin that he was probably in the laboratory.

Candy wandered around Candy Technology Park looking for someone to play with, then tried to catch fish at the fountain with Baozi. Mo Jingchun caught a fish for Baozi and suggested Candy visit the kindergarten, where employees’ children were spending the day.

• Candy left Xia Xiaomin’s office and searched the President’s Office and finance department, finding few people around.
• Xu Pengfei found Candy trying to catch goldfish and called Zhou Yaling, who changed Candy’s wet clothes and sent her to play by herself.
• Candy took her net and led Baozi to the fountain to catch fish, while Fei Yan followed to keep watch.
• Baozi caught a fish, and Candy kept trying to catch one until Mo Jingchun arrived after a brainstorming session.
• Mo Jingchun caught a crucian carp and tossed it to Baozi, then told Candy that the kindergarten was looking after employees’ children.

Candy admitted she had wet her clothes while catching Xu Pengfei’s goldfish, and Mo Jingchun made her apologize with a tin of tea. After Candy forgot Xiao Huihui at the park, she and Mo Jingchun found the exhausted dog collapsed beside the smug Dagger.

• Mo Jingchun teased Candy about her missing front tooth and asked why she had changed clothes.
• Candy confessed she had gotten wet catching Lao Xu’s goldfish, so Mo Jingchun gave her tea and sent her to apologize to Xu Pengfei.
• Candy apologized to Xu Pengfei and gave him the tea, insisting she had not taken it without permission.
• Candy behaved herself for the rest of the afternoon, while Dagger kept training and Xiao Huihui grew exhausted.
• Mo Jingchun realized Xiao Huihui was missing after work, and Candy admitted she had forgotten the dog.
• Mo Jingchun and Candy found Xiao Huihui collapsed in the Armed Police Hall, and Mo Jingchun offered to carry it.

After a week of Hell Training, Xiao Huihui continued serving Zhou Yaling while she wondered about her love life and Mo Jingchun prepared the rocket engine for testing. The chapter ended with the engine running normally during its first major test.

• Xiao Huihui endured a week of training nightmares and fetched Zhou Yaling’s delivery package, earning a pat on the head.
• Candy teased Zhou Yaling about dressing up and asked whether she was dating someone, prompting Zhou Yaling to worry about family pressure to marry.
• Mo Jingchun visited the rocket engine teams, ordered repeated checks, and told Xia Xiaomin to ensure workers’ heatstroke prevention funds were properly used.
• The next day, Candy watched from the Observation Room as the engine roared to life, reached 410 tons of thrust, and continued operating normally for 300 seconds.

After Candy Technology’s rocket engine completed a successful test, Mo Jingchun ordered a month of reliability checks and learned of another person jumping from a bridge. When Zhou Yaling mentioned pressure from her family to marry, Mo Jingchun decided to organize a company-wide blind date event, and its announcement threw the park’s employees into an uproar.

• Mo Jingchun stopped the rocket engine after it ran for 600 seconds and ordered repeated tests and construction of a backup engine.
• Mo Jingchun and Candy saw police and doctors responding to someone at a river, and Zhou Yaling later told him another person had jumped from a bridge.
• Zhou Yaling said her family was pressuring her to marry, and Mo Jingchun proposed a Ten Thousand People Blind Date Event.
• Xu Pengfei prepared the event proposal, and Mo Jingchun approved it for Saturday evening with a raffle and rules barring married employees from signing up.
• Xia Xiaomin sent the announcement during work hours, exciting employees and disrupting their concentration.

Mo Jingchun hosted a matchmaking event at Candy Technology, where Candy and the others spent the evening among the crowds. After taking Candy on a trip, Mo Jingchun returned to his hometown, where she enjoyed playing with Xiang-er before he planned to take her back to the county town.

• Mo Jingchun revealed that the raffle’s mysterious prize was a duplex apartment worth around 700,000 to 750,000 yuan and warned Candy not to pick up a ticket for Zhou Yaling.
• On Saturday night, Mo Jingchun, Li Xuanyu, and Candy attended the crowded matchmaking event, where Candy sampled snacks and searched for her brother with Xiao Huihui.
• Mo Jingchun brought Candy home after the event, and she fell asleep in the car while Zhou Yaling returned without success.
• In mid-July, Mo Jingchun took Candy on a trip and then returned with her to his hometown, while Xiang-er also went home for a few days.
• Candy played with Xiang-er and caught fireflies in the cool mountain evenings, while Mo Jingchun planned to take her back to the county town after his mother's death anniversary.

Candy grew bored with her routine, raided the office for snacks, and decided to join Mo Jingchun on a trip to An Yang County. The chapter left them at the construction site, where Candy wondered how she could enter without a safety helmet.

• Mo Jingchun and Xia Xiaomin arranged with the County Education Bureau to prepare empty classrooms for employees’ children.
• Candy filled Zhou Yaling’s bag with snacks, and Zhou let her keep them in her desk drawer.
• Mo Jingchun teased Candy about her full belly, then invited her to visit the An Yang County construction site the next day, and she agreed.
• Mo Jingchun and Candy traveled with the others to the construction site, where Su Wenyan handed out safety helmets.
• Candy asked Su Wenyan what she should do since she had no safety helmet.

Mo Jingchun toured the mountain construction site with Su Wenyan and the project managers while Candy waited in the air-conditioned office. Afterward, he offered Su Wenyan a chance to lead the Aerospace Base, and she accepted, sharing her dream of exploring space.

• Su Wenyan found Candy a children's helmet and reflective vest, then led her and Mo Jingchun into the construction site.
• Mo Jingchun asked Su Wenyan to summon the managers of the construction teams and toured the site with them for more than two hours.
• Candy stayed in the office enjoying the air conditioning and fruit while Mo Jingchun and the others inspected the site.
• Mo Jingchun approved reimbursement for Su Wenyan's skincare expenses after hearing about the demanding, round-the-clock work conditions.
• Mo Jingchun asked Su Wenyan to take charge of the future Aerospace Base, and she accepted, saying she hoped to explore space someday.
• After lunch, Su Wenyan cut open a watermelon, and Candy happily ate it.

After the major phone manufacturers announced holographic projection breakthroughs, Mo Jingchun focused on selling Candy Technology’s synthetic material, Dabai’s skin, in limited quantities. Demand surged immediately, and Qin Yuzhu’s request for a thousand tons left Mo Jingchun in a difficult position.

• Zhou Yaling returned home after eating at the cafeteria and chatted with Mo Jingchun about the Anyang project while he and Candy ate dinner.
• Phone manufacturers announced holographic projection breakthroughs and new product press conferences, prompting Mo Jingchun to decide not to pursue the technology himself.
• Mo Jingchun told Zero to announce bulk sales of the new Rubber Material and instructed Xia Xiaomin to limit the first thousand tons to twenty tons per buyer at three yuan per gram.
• As buyers flooded Xia Xiaomin with calls, Mo Jingchun took Candy to his lab to play with the mecha.
• Qin Yuzhu called Mo Jingchun and requested a thousand tons of material, putting him in a difficult position.

Mo Jingchun agreed to increase production of the New Material after Qin Yuzhu asked for more, while a secret Moon Base excavation reached its bottom and revealed something significant. Meanwhile, Li Yuanfang and Xiao Xue discussed Candy Technology’s L4 autonomous-driving cars and the growing tension surrounding the space race, with the chapter leaving the discovery and its implications unexplained.

• Mo Jingchun told Qin Yuzhu he could spare 500 tons of New Material and agreed to try to increase production.
• The Moon Base team completed a year-long excavation, and the people involved saw what lay at the bottom of the shaft.
• Mo Jingchun, Li Xuanyu, and Candy visited a Night Market, where Candy watched a Clown perform magic before Mo Jingchun took her away from a later stage show.
• Li Yuanfang told Xiao Xue that Candy Technology’s electric cars had achieved L4 autonomous driving and praised Mo Jingchun and his engineers.
• Xiao Xue and Li Yuanfang discussed the tense international space race and the unexplained payments the Li Family and others had been making.

Li Yuanfang planned to invite Mo Jingchun to the Tai Chi In-Vehicle System press conference and explore a partnership, suspecting Mo knew about an approaching disaster. Mo accepted the invitation, then agreed to take Candy to a water park in Capital City after the event.

• Li Yuanfang told Xiao Xue he wanted to ally with Mo Jingchun, and speculated that Candy Technology's government deals and construction projects were connected to a coming disaster.
• Mo Jingchun received Li Yuanfang's voice messages after his morning run and decided to attend the press conference out of gratitude and interest in a possible partnership.
• Mo Jingchun found the press conference invitation on his desk and told Candy he would go to Capital City in a week.
• Candy asked whether they could visit a water park, and Mo Jingchun agreed to take her after the press conference.

Mo Jingchun reviewed Wei Luxue’s thesis and agreed to be listed as a coauthor, while Candy Technology finished shipping a thousand tons of New Type Rubber Synthetic Material. The chapter ended with Candy reluctantly giving Mo Jingchun one of her lollipops.

• Candy told Mo Jingchun she knew he treated her best, then Xia Xiaomin arrived and interrupted his teasing.
• Xia Xiaomin reported that Candy Technology had shipped all one thousand tons of New Type Rubber Synthetic Material, which Mo Jingchun expected might be resold to the authorities.
• Mo Jingchun approved Wei Luxue’s elevator access and invited her into his office to review her thesis.
• Mo Jingchun found no major problems in Wei Luxue’s eighth revision and told her to list him as an author, but not first author.
• Wei Luxue gave Candy two lollipops as she left, and Mo Jingchun made Candy hand one over.

Candy fell asleep after spending the day watching cartoons, then woke groggy and enjoyed Zhou Yaling’s dinner. The evening ended with Candy telling Mo Jingchun that Li Wanning was pregnant, prompting him to plan to speak with Xu Pengfei about keeping her away from risky work.

• Candy secretly left her lollipop in Mo Jingchun’s drawer, deciding she could eat it later.
• Candy fell asleep in the car, and Mo Jingchun told Zhou Yaling she had watched cartoons all day and refused summer kindergarten because she called the children little turnips.
• Candy woke after dark, washed up, and praised Zhou Yaling’s braised pork during dinner.
• Candy and Mo Jingchun joked that Zhou Yaling’s happy mood came from Candy’s compliments.
• Candy told Mo Jingchun that Li Wanning was pregnant, and he decided to talk to Xu Pengfei about her risky work.

Mo Jingchun handled a torrential downpour by checking on the company’s flood precautions and the construction site in An Yang County. After confirming the site was mostly safe, he spoke with Xu Pengfei about supporting pregnant employees and arranging Li Wanning’s work.

• Mo Jingchun stayed home from his morning run because of the heavy rain and made breakfast while Candy woke Zhou Yaling.
• Mo Jingchun brought Candy to the Office Building and instructed every department to prepare for flooding.
• Mo Jingchun called Su Wenyan, who had stopped construction and opened the sluice gates to release floodwater; later updates showed limited damage at the An Yang County site.
• Mo Jingchun asked Xia Xiaomin to bring Xu Pengfei in and confirmed that Li Wanning was pregnant.
• Mo Jingchun told Xu Pengfei to arrange for Li Wanning to work from the office and began outlining rules for pregnant employees, including guaranteed leave and a ban on overtime.

Mo Jingchun and Xu Pengfei discussed employee benefits, while Candy joined Mo Jingchun for lunch and ended up with a painfully full belly after sharing Li Wanning’s chicken soup. Mo Jingchun told the executives he and Xia Xiaomin would travel to Capital City the day after tomorrow, and the chapter ended with Candy unable to nap beside the sleeping Baozi.

• Mo Jingchun and Xu Pengfei spent over an hour discussing employee benefits, which Xia Xiaomin recorded as a list of requests.
• After Xu Pengfei left, Mo Jingchun took Candy to the cafeteria, where she drank orange juice and Xiao Huihui hid from people petting it.
• Xu Pengfei told Li Wanning about the proposed benefits, and she praised Mo Jingchun’s generosity.
• Mo Jingchun and Candy left the chicken soup Xu Pengfei had ordered for Li Wanning, but Li Wanning later shared half of it with Candy.
• Mo Jingchun told the company executives that he and Xia Xiaomin would travel to Capital City for several days starting the day after tomorrow.
• Candy felt embarrassed by her full belly and could not sleep during Mo Jingchun’s nap, while Baozi fell asleep beside her.

Mo Jingchun learned that Huo County wanted to work with Candy Technology to make the county the world’s first fully intelligent city with holographic projection. He agreed to discuss the plan with county leaders, while Candy stayed behind and plotted a snack raid.

• Candy woke up on the office sofa, thanked Xia Xiaomin for covering her with a jacket, and declined to visit the Second Laboratory Building.
• Xia Xiaomin told Mo Jingchun that the county office had proposed partnering with Candy Technology to make Huo County a fully intelligent city with holographic projection.
• Mo Jingchun decided the proposal was worth pursuing and arranged to meet the county leaders the next day, while also considering proposing a university for Huo County.
• Candy asked to join the meeting, but Mo Jingchun told her to stay behind and keep Xia Xiaomin company.
• After Mo Jingchun and the others left, Candy took Xiao Huihui to raid the snacks and agreed to bring Zhou Yaling an Oolong Tea π.