Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo’s intelligence enabled the police to raid Brother Niu’s farmhouse and seize the gang, their weapons, and hundreds of kilograms of drugs. The operation ended with the suspects arrested and Guan Wei realizing he was finished.

• Chen Mo’s warning about Brother Niu’s lookout network helped the police approach the farmhouse in ordinary vehicles without being detected.
• The police scanned the courtyard, took positions, and began the raid by targeting the Guards and the room where the drugs were stored.
• A criminal triggered the alarm, waking the gang; several members opened fire and injured two SWAT officers, so the police used smoke and stun grenades to storm the rooms.
• Guan Wei hid without a weapon, was knocked unconscious by a stun grenade, and was arrested.
• Brother Niu and the one surnamed Qi fired at police, but officers subdued them and arrested the gang without letting anyone escape.
• The police seized several hundred kilograms of drugs and more than a dozen guns, while Chen Mo watched the successful operation and left.

After a night of sleep, Chen Mo heard from Shen Tingting that the police had raided the farmhouse and captured the trafficking gang. She thanked him for his tip, discussed Guan Wei’s likely sentence, and told him she would leave for training in the capital in a week.

• Chen Mo returned to the hotel, took a hot shower, and slept until morning.
• Shen Tingting called Chen Mo and thanked him for helping the police locate the farmhouse, where they had arrested the gang and seized contraband.
• Shen Tingting told Chen Mo that the successful operation had earned her a likely first-class merit award and training in the capital.
• Shen Tingting explained that Guan Wei had confessed to several crimes and faced a long sentence for joining the trafficking gang.
• Chen Mo said he would see Shen Tingting off when she left in a week, and she hurriedly ended the call while blushing.

Chen Mo urged Chen Ping to reconsider her marriage to Guan Ming, arguing that Guan Ming failed to defend or love her and that she deserved a better life. Chen Ping acknowledged her own doubts and listened as Chen Mo offered her family’s support and a future working with him.

• Chen Mo woke Chen Ping and took her to breakfast, reassuring her that she had him to rely on.
• Back in their room, Chen Mo asked whether Chen Ping still meant to divorce Guan Ming, and she admitted she needed time to think.
• Chen Mo told Chen Ping that Guan Ming had shown no responsibility or love by allowing his mother to insult her.
• Chen Mo provoked Chen Ping into recognizing how her silence, circumstances, and kindness had helped her endure years of mistreatment.
• Chen Mo urged Chen Ping to divorce Guan Ming and promised that their family would support her and that she could earn a living helping with his future businesses.

After deciding to end her marriage, Chen Ping went with Chen Mo to confront Guan Ming and his mother. Chen Ping announced she wanted a divorce that day, but Guan Ming refused.

• Chen Ping accepted Chen Mo's advice and decided to divorce Guan Ming immediately without asking for anything.
• Chen Ping and Chen Mo drove back to Guan Ming's house, where Guan Ming and his mother waited for her.
• Chen Mo recorded Guan Ming's mother's insults as she berated Chen Ping and demanded that she kneel.
• Chen Ping told Guan Ming and his mother that she wanted a divorce and would leave with nothing.
• Guan Ming refused to agree to the divorce.

Chen Ping tried to divorce Guan Ming, but his mother demanded 90,000 yuan and refused to let them separate. After Chen Mo threatened to expose Guan Ming’s infertility, he used the Soul Bewitching Technique on him to force a resolution.

• Chen Ping gathered her documents and insisted that she and Guan Ming go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to divorce.
• Guan Ming’s mother demanded 90,000 yuan for wedding expenses and alleged money Chen Ping had given her parents, refusing Chen Mo’s offer of 20,000 yuan.
• Chen Mo warned that Chen Ping would sue and presented Guan Ming’s medical report showing that he could not have children.
• Chen Mo took Chen Ping away, then lured Guan Ming into an alley and used the Soul Bewitching Technique on him.

Guan Wei regretted divorcing Chen Ping and failed to undo the divorce, then returned home with no money and a crumpled certificate. His mother became furious and demanded that he go with her to reclaim money from Chen Ping.

• Guan Wei chased after Chen Ping, but Chen Mo blocked him, and Guan Wei somehow completed the divorce before realizing what had happened.
• Guan Wei rushed back into the Civil Affairs Bureau and asked whether the divorce could be canceled, but the staff member said it was final and had security drag him outside.
• Guan Wei sat outside for over an hour, regretted not cherishing Chen Ping, then walked home through a thunderstorm with the divorce certificate.
• Guan Wei showed his mother the divorce certificate and admitted that he had received none of the money she had expected.
• Guan Wei's mother stomped on the certificate and ordered him to go with her to demand money from Chen Ping, but Guan Wei remained seated.

After a painful confrontation with his mother, Guan Wei left home to make his own way. Chen Mo used the Soul Bewitching Technique to get him to the Civil Affairs Bureau, where Chen Ping and Guan Wei completed their divorce; Chen Mo left Guan Wei behind as he drove his tearful sister home.

• Guan Wei argued with his mother, then shut himself in his room while his father and younger sister decided to leave him alone.
• Guan Wei packed his luggage and quietly left home, determined to live independently.
• Chen Mo used the Soul Bewitching Technique on Guan Wei and drove him with Chen Ping toward the County Town.
• Chen Ping hesitated at the Civil Affairs Bureau, but Chen Mo urged her to settle the divorce that day, and she agreed.
• Chen Ping and Guan Wei obtained their divorce certificates without discussing property.
• Chen Ping came out crying, and Chen Mo drove her home while leaving Guan Wei at the Civil Affairs Bureau.

After Chen Ping finalized her divorce, she joined Chen Mo on the drive home and asked how he had persuaded Guan Wei to agree. A torrential downpour interrupted their conversation, and Chen Mo recognized a former middle school classmate walking through the rain with an expression that suggested she had given up on living.

• Chen Ping told Chen Mo she would rely on him from then on, and he offered her work at his distillery.
• Chen Ping asked why Guan Wei had agreed to the divorce so easily, but Chen Mo brushed off her questions by saying he had threatened him.
• A sudden storm grew into a torrential downpour as Chen Mo drove Chen Ping home.
• Chen Ping spotted a woman walking in the rain and asked Chen Mo to stop so she could identify her.
• Chen Mo got out with an umbrella and recognized the soaked, despairing woman as one of his former middle school classmates.

Chen Mo and Chen Ping encountered Shang Yiman wandering through the rain in a daze, and helped her recover enough to cry and recognize Chen Ping. They took her into the car and headed for Chen Mo’s villa to get warm and find out what had happened.

• Chen Mo recognized Shang Yiman, his former middle school classmate, as she walked toward them in the rain.
• Chen Mo stopped Shang Yiman and used True Essence to bring her out of her daze, after which she broke down crying.
• Chen Ping came over, recognized Shang Yiman, and comforted her as she clung to her and sobbed.
• Chen Ping and Chen Mo helped Shang Yiman into the pickup truck and turned on the heater, but the engine was still cold.
• Chen Mo drove toward his villa with Chen Ping and Shang Yiman so they could get warm and talk privately.

Chen Mo brought Chen Ping and Shang Yiman to his villa after they were caught in the rain, then cared for them and the animals at home. Chen Ping began making dinner and told Chen Mo to check on Shang Yiman, who was feeling better but still had not explained what was troubling her.

• Chen Mo showed Chen Ping his newly built villa and explained that their parents had refused to move in because they wanted it to be his future marital home.
• Chen Mo gave Chen Ping and Shang Yiman dry clothes and hot water, then made ginger soup, millet porridge, and hot dishes while they bathed.
• Chen Ping carried ginger soup to Shang Yiman, who remained emotionally withdrawn in the guest room.
• Da Hai arrived to check on the animals, and Chen Mo cleaned and fed Big Yellow, Big Gray, Little Red, and the two fox cubs.
• Chen Ping took over cooking and told Chen Mo that Shang Yiman was feeling better but had not opened up, then urged him to talk to her.

Chen Mo reunited with Shang Yiman, brought her home, and shared a meal with her and Chen Ping. Chen Ping and Shang Yiman drank baijiu and began venting their sorrow, leaving Chen Mo to watch over them.

• Shang Yiman apologized to Chen Mo for slapping him and thanked him for rescuing her from the rain.
• Chen Mo and Shang Yiman joined Chen Ping for dinner, though they both felt awkward around each other.
• Chen Ping asked for baijiu, and Chen Mo brought out bottles of the liquor he planned to produce.
• Chen Ping drank and urged Shang Yiman to drink away her sadness, and Shang Yiman choked before joining her in condemning men and crying.
• Chen Mo gave up on dinner and decided to let the two women drink and vent before helping them rest.

While Chen Mo listened, Shang Yiman drunkenly recounted how her youthful feelings for him went unanswered and how her later relationship with Liang Qibing collapsed when she told him she was pregnant. The chapter ended with Liang Qibing telling her to get rid of the child.

• Shang Yiman told Chen Ping and Chen Mo that she had fallen for Chen Mo in middle school, but he had been too focused on studying to notice her hints.
• After graduating from vocational school, Shang Yiman began working at a company and started dating deputy general manager Liang Qibing.
• Shang Yiman became pregnant and prepared a special dinner to tell Liang Qibing and ask him to meet her parents.
• When Shang Yiman shared the news and asked Liang Qibing to discuss marriage, he told her to get rid of the child.

Shang Yiman endured Liang Qibing’s abandonment and chose to give birth after learning an abortion would leave her unable to have children again. Near her due date, Father Liang’s secretary demanded that she leave town to protect Liang Qibing’s arranged marriage, but she agreed to go and refused the compensation money.

• After Liang Qibing left a note urging her to abort the child, Shang Yiman waited for him, but he vanished and stopped answering her calls.
• A colleague gave Shang Yiman Liang Qibing’s address, and she found him with another woman; he cursed her, pushed her down, and told her to abort the child.
• Shang Yiman decided to have the baby after the hospital warned that an abortion could leave her permanently unable to become pregnant.
• When Shang Yiman was preparing to take leave before delivery, Father Liang’s secretary offered her 100,000 yuan and ordered her to leave the County Town and never contact Liang Qibing again.
• Shang Yiman agreed to leave for the sake of her child but stubbornly refused the money.

Shang Yiman raised her son after returning to the countryside, but Liang Qibing and his father later sought custody through the courts. She lost the case and watched Liang Qibing carry her crying child away, leaving her devastated as Chen Mo encountered her.

• Shang Yiman returned to her village pregnant, gave birth to a boy, and began raising pigs to support her family.
• Over the next two years, Shang Yiman's pig business grew, her son learned to call her Mom, and her family gradually recovered.
• After Liang Qibing was injured in a drunk-driving crash and could no longer have children, Mayor Liang learned that Shang Yiman had his son.
• Liang Qibing and Mayor Liang asked Shang Yiman to give them the child, but she refused.
• After Mayor Liang regained a mayoral post, he told Liang Qibing to seek custody through the courts.
• Shang Yiman lost custody, and Liang Qibing carried away her crying son as Chen Mo found her leaving the courthouse in a daze.

After Shang Yiman revealed her painful past and drank herself to sleep with Chen Ping, Chen Mo reflected on her troubles on the balcony. Ouyang Ruo Xi appeared and asked him to treat her critically ill father, but Chen Mo refused to make a house call, leaving her confident she could still persuade him.

• Shang Yiman and Chen Ping drank two bottles of baijiu, cried and laughed, then passed out, and Chen Mo carried them to the guest room.
• Chen Mo sat on the balcony drinking and thinking about Shang Yiman's misfortunes until Ouyang Ruo Xi emerged from hiding.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi asked whether Chen Mo would help her father, but he refused and told her to bring him to the villa for an examination instead.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi said she had found records of Chen Mo treating injured people at the Special Affairs Administration and believed he would make a house call.
• Chen Mo asked how she planned to convince him, and Ouyang Ruo Xi said she would not force him but remained sure she could get him to agree.

Ouyang Ruo Xi persuaded Chen Mo to treat her father by offering rare Sea Orchid Heart, money, and access to a martial arts auction. Chen Mo agreed to make one confidential house call under several payment and treatment conditions.

• Ouyang Ruo Xi gave Chen Mo a dried Sea Orchid Heart, which he recognized as a key ingredient for pills that could help him advance his cultivation.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi offered Chen Mo her family’s live Sea Orchid Heart, two hundred million Hua currency, and a Gold Card membership in the High-end Martial Arts Auction if he treated her father.
• Chen Mo accepted the house call after learning about the rewards and asked Ouyang Ruo Xi to keep his visit confidential.
• Chen Mo required the Sea Orchid Heart as payment regardless of the treatment’s outcome and asked that he not be detained if others could continue the treatment using his instructions.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi agreed to Chen Mo’s conditions, then interrupted him as he began to list a fourth one.

Chen Mo agreed to treat Ouyang Ruo Xi’s critically ill father after she accepted his conditions, but he delayed the trip for a week so he could handle other matters. After she left, he went to the basement Practice Room to prepare to refine a Spirit Recovery Pill.

• Chen Mo set conditions for treating Ouyang Ruo Xi’s father, including keeping the matter confidential and treating him outside her family’s base.
• Chen Mo said he could not leave immediately and arranged to go with Ouyang Ruo Xi in one week, offering to contact her if he needed help.
• Ouyang Ruo Xi gave Chen Mo her phone number and left by jumping down from the second floor.
• Chen Mo went to the basement Practice Room, gathered his medicinal ingredients and Medicine Cauldron, and prepared to refine a Spirit Recovery Pill.
• Chen Mo calmed his mind and began refining pills, excited that the pills could help him advance through the Qi Refining Realm more quickly.

Chen Mo refined four Spirit Recovery Pills and arranged to help Shang Yiman while she struggled over the possible loss of her child. He prepared to leave for West City after arranging care for his patients and asking the Special Affairs Administration to investigate Mayor Liang.

• Chen Mo spent the night refining pills and produced four Spirit Recovery Pills before practicing his fist technique at dawn.
• Chen Ping and Shang Yiman told Chen Mo about their plans, and he agreed to seek connections to help Shang Yiman.
• Chen Mo asked Chen Ping to keep an eye on Shang Yiman while he arranged work and prepared to take Chen Ping to their parents' home.
• Chen Mo told Li Puhe that his recovering patients could return home and asked him to investigate Mayor Liang and his family by noon.
• Chen Mo examined Hu Guo Zhong and the other elderly patients, whose health was gradually improving.

Chen Mo arranged to investigate Shang Yiman’s background, then proposed opening a distillery with Fourth Uncle and village support to create jobs and income for Chen Family Village. He and Uncle Delin agreed on the village’s share and contract terms, leaving Chen Mo to confirm the site before signing.

• Chen Mo arranged for the Special Affairs Administration’s Investigation Department to look into Shang Yiman’s background, then took Chen Ping and Shang Yiman to his parents’ place.
• Chen Mo revisited his plan to open a distillery with Fourth Uncle, who immediately agreed to the favorable terms.
• Chen Mo told Uncle Delin that Chen Ping would manage the distillery and proposed that the village contribute land and workers in exchange for a 25 percent share.
• Uncle Delin agreed to the partnership, with Chen Mo’s side taking 55 percent and Fourth Uncle’s side taking 20 percent.
• Chen Mo set out contract safeguards, including limits on the village’s management role and restrictions on reclaiming the leased land or selling shares.
• Chen Mo and Uncle Delin agreed to confirm the site before signing the partnership agreement.

Chen Mo reviewed the Special Affairs Administration’s evidence against Mayor Liang and arranged to have Liang arrested when he chose the time, seeking justice for Shang Yiman. He returned to the villa after Li Puhe agreed to handle the case.

• Chen Mo left discussions about the distillery’s village shares and land to Uncle Delin, then returned to his parents’ home.
• Chen Mo had lunch with his family, and Chen Ping chose to stay with their parents while Shang Yiman waited for news.
• Chen Mo asked Li Puhe for the investigation files on Mayor Liang and read evidence of Liang’s corruption and other crimes.
• Li Puhe explained the Special Affairs Administration’s limits on domestic cases and agreed it could act because Liang had provoked Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo explained Shang Yiman’s situation and asked Li Puhe to arrange Liang’s arrest at a time Chen Mo would specify.
• Chen Mo returned to the villa after Li Puhe promised to handle the case.