Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao fought through the Cockroach Men to reach the contamination source, where Xu Shuo’s team uncovered a human-faced Cockroach King. After it killed Tang Fengyan and God of Gluttony warned that it could regenerate as long as one egg survived, Lin Baici tried to attack it with Samadhi Golden Crow Fire, but a wall of cockroaches blocked the flame.

• Lin Baici used Great Impression Hand to flatten one Cockroach Man, while Gu Qingqiu baited another into range of Red Oni Maru and beheaded it.
• Xu Shuo chose to join the fight, and he and his squad followed Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao through swarms of cockroaches toward the contamination source.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao killed their opponents and moved to help Gu Qingqiu as Xu Shuo’s team used smoke flares to expose a car-sized, human-faced Cockroach King beneath the insect mound.
• The Cockroach King burrowed behind Tang Fengyan, split him in half, and ate his brain, prompting Fang Tianhua and Yang Rui to call for help.
• God of Gluttony warned that the Cockroach King could regrow its head if even one egg survived, and Lin Baici’s Samadhi Golden Crow Fire burned thousands of cockroaches before their swarm shielded the King.

Lin Baici defeated the human-faced Cockroach King with a pest-killing flip-flop, and the Haijing team contained the pollution source after suffering heavy losses. Back on campus, Fang Mingyuan visited Xu Daguan’s room and was startled by what he found inside.

• Lin Baici used the flip-flop to scatter the cockroaches and beat the Cockroach King to death, then preserved some of its eggs with the Black Coffin Seal.
• Yang Rui told Zhao Zongshao that Lin Baici had dealt with the pollution source, and Zhao Zongshao learned that Yuan Jifeng and most of the Haijing team had died.
• Xia Hongyao reported that her team had cleared the Luoyang Seven Towns and that Lin Baici had defeated the Seventh Star, while the Dark Mist dissipated and the bureau began cleanup.
• Xia Hongmian gave the team a month off and promised bonuses, and Xia Hongyao celebrated with Lin Baici before he returned to campus.
• Fang Mingyuan thanked Lin Baici for saving him, then went to find Xu Daguan after learning he had been gaming upstairs for days.
• Fang Mingyuan entered Xu Daguan’s room and nearly ran away after seeing what was inside.

Fang Mingyuan suspected a gaming binge in his dorm was caused by Rule Pollution, while Gu Qingxiang realized how much she missed Lin Baici and welcomed him home. After they shared a quiet dinner, Lin Baici received a call from Li Wei, who noticed something about his surroundings.

• Fang Mingyuan found his dormmates obsessively playing a Soulslike game and wondered whether the PS5 was causing Rule Pollution before joining them.
• Gu Qingxiang rejected a neighbor’s matchmaking attempts and agreed to film Li Luyou’s gaming competition after finding Lin Baici had returned home.
• Li Luyou celebrated Gu Qingxiang’s agreement and returned to practicing for the championship in his gaming room.
• Lin Baici and Gu Qingxiang shared dinner, fruit, and a kiss before settling in at home.
• Li Wei called Lin Baici, complained that he had been unreachable, and asked where he was after examining the background on the video call.

Lin Baici spent a domestic evening with Gu Qingxiang, while she secretly fed a calico cat that was targeted by a strange young man. The next morning, Lin Baici went to class and reunited with his classmates, where Pei Fei asked him for breakfast.

• Li Wei misunderstood Lin Baici’s relationship with Gu Qingxiang and urged him to bring his counselor a gift, while Lin Baici promised to invite Li Wei and Cai Wenqi to a meal sometime.
• Lin Baici teased and flirted with Gu Qingxiang as she cleaned, then they sat together quietly until Jin Yingzhen called and discussed visiting Haijing.
• Gu Qingxiang fed the calico cat and several strays, and the calico cat followed her toward Haijing University of Technology.
• A young man tried to shoot the calico cat with a slingshot, but he began acting like a cat after meeting its golden eyes, and both the cat and a passerby vanished.
• Lin Baici stayed overnight at Gu Qingxiang’s home, then went to campus the next morning with breakfast for his classmates.
• Pei Fei was surprised to see Lin Baici in class and asked him for a roujiamo.

Lin Baici returned to class and tried to stop his classmates from thinking he was pursuing Bai Jiao, while Ji Xinyan openly flirted with him. He arranged to view houses with an agent the next day, and Ji Xinyan insisted on joining him to help negotiate.

• Lin Baici offered his classmates breakfast, then invited Pei Fei to a movie and sent her 200 yuan so she would not feel pressured.
• Ji Xinyan sat beside Lin Baici, teased him in class, and proposed sneaking back to the classroom that night to discuss religion.
• The English teacher mistook Lin Baici for a student from another class, but Pei Fei and other classmates explained that he was their monitor and vouched for him.
• Lin Baici attended class with Ji Xinyan and Qian Jiahui, who invited him to lunch at Koufu Zhai.
• Lin Baici told Ji Xinyan he planned to view houses with an agent the next day, and she insisted on coming as his assistant to help him haggle.

Qian Jiahui met Lin Baici for lunch with Su Manni and He Yunjia, then asked his friend for advice about starting a streaming company. Lin Baici urged him to limit his losses and hire professionals, while Qian Jiahui remained set on supporting Hua Yueyu.

• Qian Jiahui waited for Lin Baici while watching Hua Yueyu's livestream and sending her large gifts, and Su Manni and He Yunjia chatted with him.
• Lin Baici arrived, met Su Manni and He Yunjia, and joined Qian Jiahui for lunch and wine.
• Qian Jiahui teased Lin Baici about his studies and revealed that the top female student in their year was pursuing him.
• Qian Jiahui told Lin Baici he was considering starting a streaming company, and Su Manni asked to be his first signed streamer.
• Lin Baici advised Qian Jiahui to cap his potential losses and involve professionals, while Qian Jiahui said he wanted Hua Yueyu to join.

Lin Baici met Qian Jiahui, Su Manni, and He Yunjia for dinner, where his fame and athleticism drew the women’s attention. After he revealed that He Yunjia was two weeks pregnant and warned that she was at risk of miscarriage, Qian Jiahui took her to the hospital, leaving Lin Baici to settle the bill and walk away from Su Manni’s advances.

• God of Gluttony’s remark made Lin Baici scrutinize the diners, while He Yunjia reacted to his intimidating gaze by becoming even more interested in him.
• Qian Jiahui revealed that Lin Baici was the viral Bilibili creator Lin the Hungry One, and showed Su Manni and He Yunjia a video of Lin Baici’s powerful basketball dunks.
• He Yunjia flirted with Lin Baici by peeling mantis shrimp for him, while Su Manni began considering how she could use his fame to boost her own career.
• Lin Baici stopped He Yunjia from drinking and announced that she was two weeks pregnant, then warned that she was prone to miscarriage and needed to avoid exertion.
• Qian Jiahui took He Yunjia to the hospital, and Lin Baici paid the 4,860-yuan dinner bill before leaving Su Manni behind with the food and drinks.

Lin Baici spent the day teasing Ji Xinyan over messages, sharing a warm evening with Gu Qingxiang, and meeting Ji Xinyan the next morning before heading to a real estate agency. When Feng Ting asked whether Ji Xinyan was his girlfriend, Lin Baici said she was, leaving Ji Xinyan delighted and surprised.

• Lin Baici skipped his computer science lecture to read at the library, where a girl with earbuds admired him but he left without approaching her.
• Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan exchanged flirtatious messages, and Ji Xinyan invited him to dinner, but he declined.
• Lin Baici hugged Gu Qingxiang while she cooked, shared dinner with her, and deleted a photo of her reading after she asked him to.
• Ji Xinyan dressed up, bought Lin Baici breakfast, and picked him up before driving him to meet real estate agent Feng Ting.
• Feng Ting greeted Lin Baici at the agency, and Lin Baici introduced Ji Xinyan as his girlfriend, making her secretly happy.

Lin Baici toured luxury villas with Ji Xinyan and real estate agent Feng Ting, but abandoned his first choice after Xia Hongmian and Nangong Shu uncovered trouble surrounding its owner. After rejecting three more properties, he invited Feng Ting to join them for an expensive meal.

• Ji Xinyan and Lin Baici met Feng Ting and reviewed listings while driving to Jinxi Fragrant Shores, where Lin Baici chose a villa priced at seventy million yuan.
• Lin Baici offered sixty million yuan for Fang Qiong's villa, but Ji Xinyan urged him to check for problems before buying.
• Lin Baici asked Nangong Shu and Xia Hongmian to investigate, and Xia Hongmian warned him that the villa might be seized by a court because its owner had serious problems overseas.
• Lin Baici canceled the purchase and left with Ji Xinyan and Feng Ting after Fang Qiong tried to lower the price again.
• Lin Baici rejected three more villas for their drawbacks and invited Feng Ting to eat with him and Ji Xinyan at Guangde Lou.

Lin Baici, Ji Xinyan, and Feng Ting shared an extravagant meal at Guangde Lou while discussing a villa purchase and growing closer. Ji Xinyan secretly paid the bill, and the chapter ended with Lin Baici smiling at a text message.

• Lin Baici secured a private room at Guangde Lou and ordered a lavish meal with Ji Xinyan and Feng Ting.
• Ji Xinyan pointed out that the villa seller seemed eager to sell, and God of Gluttony warned Lin Baici that the woman would die after leaving for Europe.
• Ji Xinyan kissed Lin Baici and helped Feng Ting take photos of the meal, while Feng Ting argued with her suspicious boyfriend over WeChat.
• Ji Xinyan secretly paid the bill, then joked with Lin Baici about his growing affection for her.
• Lin Baici received a text message and smiled broadly.

After receiving a 100-million-yuan reward from the Nine Provinces Security Agency, Lin Baici toured villas with Ji Xinyan and Feng Ting. He rejected the crowded development’s ordinary homes, then agreed to buy Lu Changming’s secluded king villa, leaving the stunned owner without a chance to negotiate.

• Lin Baici saw that the Nine Provinces Security Agency had transferred him 100 million yuan, and Ji Xinyan glimpsed his balance of more than 162 million yuan.
• Lin Baici joked about being a billionaire and teased Ji Xinyan, then the group drove to Vanke Emerald Heaven to look at houses.
• Ms. Liu refused to show Lin Baici a townhouse because she doubted he could decide on a 20-million-yuan purchase, so Lin Baici asked Feng Ting to take them to the king villa.
• Lu Changming showed Lin Baici, Ji Xinyan, and Feng Ting his spacious, high-tech villa and explained that he needed to sell it to save his struggling company.
• After learning the villa’s feng shui was excellent, Lin Baici agreed to buy it, stunning Lu Changming.

Lin Baici bought Lu Changming’s villa for thirty-three million yuan after negotiating the price, and Ji Xinyan hinted at moving in with him. After Feng Ting returned home and argued with her boyfriend, Ji Xinyan took Lin Baici to a popular club in Haijing.

• Ji Xinyan pressed Lu Changming to lower the villa’s price, and Lin Baici offered thirty-three million yuan, which Lu accepted so he could raise funds for his company.
• Lin Baici asked Feng Ting to handle the contract and other arrangements, while Lu Changming promised to empty the villa within three days.
• Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan toured the villa, discussed her staying there, and shared a kiss and an intimate touch before leaving.
• Feng Ting returned to her rental with leftover food, argued with Zhou Zhen, and felt discouraged as she compared their finances with Lin Baici’s new villa.
• Ji Xinyan brought Lin Baici to a popular club in Haijing, where she planned to show him how many men would approach her.

Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan celebrated at ONE, where Qi Heng used a God's Taboo Object called the Luck-Turning Prayer Beads to try to control Ji Xinyan and then humiliate Lin Baici. The beads had no effect on Lin Baici, leaving Qi Heng baffled.

• Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan went to ONE, where they joked about the patrons and Ji Xinyan fended off men who tried to hit on her.
• Qi Heng arrived, drove off Blade, and pressed Ji Xinyan to drink Abbey Ale while handling his Bodhi prayer beads.
• Lin Baici recognized the beads as a God's Taboo Object, stopped Ji Xinyan from drinking, and followed Qi Heng to the restroom to ask about the seller.
• Qi Heng ordered Lin Baici to lick the restroom toilets, but the Luck-Turning Prayer Beads failed to make him obey.
• Qi Heng concentrated harder and repeated the command, but Lin Baici remained still, leaving Qi Heng stunned.

Lin Baici seized Qi Heng’s Luck-Turning Prayer Beads and learned they were a God’s Creation linked to a living god, then extracted information about the Broker who sold them. After rescuing Ji Xinyan from a drunk driver’s crash, he took her to the Hilton Hotel, where Zhang Ye asked if he wanted company for the night.

• Lin Baici slapped Qi Heng, took the Luck-Turning Prayer Beads, and made him lick a urinal with the bracelet’s power.
• The God of Gluttony explained that the bracelet granted wishes by consuming its user’s fortune and revealed that a god had deliberately created it.
• Lin Baici questioned Qi Heng about Master Zhang and the Broker, returned the bracelet with a warning, and frightened Qi Heng with the Buddha Talisman Ghost Infant.
• Lin Baici reunited with Ji Xinyan outside the bar, and a speeding drunk driver crashed into their Mercedes, so Lin Baici shielded her and rescued the unconscious designated driver.
• Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan went to the hospital, then stayed overnight at the Hilton Hotel because they could not return to school.
• Zhang Ye helped Lin Baici settle into his suite and asked whether he wanted someone to keep him company.

Lin Baici turned down Zhang Ye’s advances but sent her 10,000 yuan and promised to treat her to a meal, while Ji Xinyan spent a sleepless night waiting for him to visit. The next morning, Lin Baici took Ji Xinyan car shopping, and after a Mercedes salesperson dismissed them, he decided to buy her a BMW X5.

• Lin Baici sent Zhang Ye 10,000 yuan and told her he thought of her as a friend, leaving her delighted and more attracted to him.
• Ji Xinyan waited for Lin Baici to visit her room, then spent the night frustrated when he never came.
• Lin Baici invited Ji Xinyan to help him buy a car, and she teased him during their ride to the automotive park.
• At Shengshi Zhixing, Deng Ziyu treated Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan dismissively and tried to steer them toward a cheaper car, so they left without buying one.
• At the BMW dealership, Lin Baici noticed Ji Xinyan liked the X5 and offered to buy it for her.
• Ji Xinyan agreed to choose the BMW X5 and asked Tang Rui for a price quote.

Lin Baici bought Ji Xinyan a black BMW X5 for 811,000 yuan, then purchased a Porsche Panamera for 1.63 million yuan after letting her choose its configuration. After collecting Ji Xinyan’s car, they visited the Mercedes dealership, where she pointed out the consultant who had treated them poorly earlier.

• Ji Xinyan chose a 3.0T BMW X5, and Lin Baici paid 811,000 yuan while Tang Rui prepared the paperwork in Ji Xinyan’s name.
• At the Porsche dealership, Lin Baici let Ji Xinyan choose a Panamera configuration and paid 1.63 million yuan for the car.
• Su Manni and Zhu Momo’s classmates saw Lin Baici buy the Porsche and reacted with surprise and envy.
• Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan collected the BMW X5, and Ji Xinyan drove it out of the dealership.
• Ji Xinyan brought Lin Baici to the Mercedes dealership and identified Deng Ziyu as the consultant who had served them earlier.

Lin Baici bought Ji Xinyan a BMW X5 and a Panamera, then asked Gu Qingqiu to help explain his sudden wealth to his mother. After returning to campus, Lin Baici’s stomach growled as he entered the dormitory building, and he suspected a God’s Taboo Object was inside.

• Deng Ziyu avoided helping Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan at the Mercedes dealership, while a livestreaming consultant exposed the couple’s purchases of a fully loaded Panamera and BMW X5.
• The sales director apologized to Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan after learning they had come to consider replacing Ji Xinyan’s wrecked AMG, but Ji Xinyan left without buying a Mercedes.
• Ji Xinyan registered the BMW as a gift from Lin Baici, then shared pictures of it with her close friends and returned to her dorm.
• Lin Baici asked Gu Qingqiu to help him account for his money to his mother, and Gu Qingqiu arranged a million-yuan bonus with half transferred to Mom Lin.
• Gu Qingqiu and Lin Baici ate together, and Gu Qingqiu asked him to spend more time with her; Lin Baici refused and later visited Gu Qingxiang.
• Lin Baici returned to campus and declined Zhu Qiunan’s invitation to sit with her; when he entered the dormitory building, his stomach growled and he suspected a God’s Taboo Object.

Lin Baici and Dai Jiexiang were caught up in a vicious fight in the tenth-floor dormitory, while Zhang Zhixu rushed to intervene after learning a God's Taboo Object might be affecting students. Zhang Zhixu confronted Liu Zilu as the brawl escalated, and the chapter left Lin Baici and the others still in danger.

• Lin Baici sensed a God's Taboo Object in the dormitory and sent Hu Wenwu away on an errand.
• Dai Jiexiang and Liu Zilu fought over a PS5 controller, and the dormitory crowd joined the chaotic brawl.
• Zhang Zhixu received messages and a video about the fight, then hurried to the tenth floor as Ji Xinyan contacted the Special Security Bureau.
• Zhang Zhixu shoved through the crowd, threw Liu Zilu to the floor, and fought him as Liu continued attacking.
• Lin Baici was knocked down while trying to reach the PS5, and a student struck Dai Jiexiang with a cup as the dormitory fell into strange silence.

Lin Baici stopped Zheng Chuyang’s contaminated rampage, then contained a dangerous game console that triggered another mass attack in the dormitory. After the incident raised his profile on campus and he reconnected with Hua Yueyu, he smelled a powerful scent of blood in a dark alley.

• Lin Baici used Drunken Immortal Fist in Wine to knock Zheng Chuyang unconscious and checked on Fang Mingyuan.
• Lin Baici approached the contaminated PS5 in Dormitory Room 1012, where its battle cry drove students and security guards into a frenzy; he destroyed the console and subdued the attackers.
• Gu Qingqiu, Xia Hongyao, Yi Jisheng, Long Miaomiao, Ai Xuyue, and Luo Wen arrived, and the Fifth Department contained the remaining pollution while campus rumors about Lin Baici spread.
• Lin Baici had dinner with Xia Hongyao and the others, learned that he was set to receive Dragon Rank, and arranged a dinner with Hua Yueyu.
• Hua Yueyu streamed in a Keqing cosplay while Lin Baici headed home through a dark alley and smelled a strong scent of blood.

Lin Baici discovered a mutilated stray cat, then spent time with Gu Qingxiang and met Ji Xinyan before signing the contract for a Villa in Haijing. He paid Lu Changming thirty-three million yuan and left the chapter as the Villa’s new owner.

• Lin Baici followed the smell of blood and found a stray cat that someone had cut open and crudely sewn back together, then warned Gu Qingxiang to be careful at night.
• Gu Qingxiang told a meddlesome older woman that Lin Baici was family, and later accepted his concern after he urged her to tell him about any trouble.
• Ji Xinyan cared for her sick friend Pei Fei, then met Lin Baici and drove with him to the Villa signing.
• Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan picked up Feng Ting and drove to Vanke Emerald Heaven, where Ji Xinyan teased Lin Baici about pursuing Feng Ting.
• Lin Baici signed the contract with Lu Changming and transferred thirty-three million yuan, officially becoming the owner of the Villa in Haijing.