Chapter Summaries

Lin Miaomiao and Wang Yue launched Miaomiao Media, whose delivery-driver campaign went viral after Lin promised to turn fans’ stories into comics. As the company gained momentum and Jiang Tianhao sought help reviving his script-murder shop, Wang Yue suggested holding a university screenplay-writing contest.

• Lin Miaomiao recruited Xiao Yao as Miaomiao Media’s vice president, and they hired Ding Jiani as their first employee.
• Lin Miaomiao, Wang Yue, Xiao Yao, and Ding Jiani planned a delivery-driver career-experience campaign, and Wang Yue offered to fund it.
• Lin Miaomiao’s comic fans flooded the campaign page demanding new comics, so Wang Yue suggested that she adapt selected submissions into comics.
• Fans sent in tens of thousands of stories, and Wang Yue proposed letting the internet vote on entries while the team processed submissions in batches.
• Lin Miaomiao’s campaign spread widely online, while Jiang Tianhao struggled to find new scripts for his murder-mystery shop.
• Wang Yue advised Jiang Tianhao to hold a university screenplay-writing contest and buy promising scripts.

Jiang Tianhao found ways to expand his murder mystery shop by recruiting screenwriting students and theater actors, while Lin Miaomiao’s team chose childcare and volunteer work as future career-experience events. Wang Yue then learned his institute needed him immediately for a major project, and he prepared to leave Lin Miaomiao with a driver and assistant for protection.

• Jiang Tianhao took Xiao Zhao to meet Deng Xiaoqi, who agreed to ask theater performers and Film Academy classmates about writing scripts and hosting murder mystery sessions.
• Lin Miaomiao ordered Xiao Yao and Ding Jiani to propose new career-experience events, and the group settled on parenting and volunteer activities.
• Lin's Dad asked Lin Miaomiao and Wang Yue to care for Lin Gou Gou, prompting them to film a trial childcare event with Wang Yue’s custom drone.
• The project team told Wang Yue that the parts for his device were ready and that academicians would observe its installation and calibration, so the institute arranged to bring him back at once.
• Wang Yue told Lin Miaomiao he had to leave, and Engineer Xu arrived with Xiao Wang and Xiao Liu, who would drive and assist Lin Miaomiao while he was away.

Wang Yue returned in time for Lin Miaomiao’s graduation, proposed with a record of their relationship, and married her soon afterward. As they prepared for their honeymoon, Lin Miaomiao worried about protecting Yu Jia’s care project from intrusive media, while Wang Yue asked Little Fish Assistant to remove unfavorable information about her online.

• Wang Yue assembled and tested the controlled nuclear fusion device, then agreed to design a fusion system for the No. 03 aircraft carrier and requested components for a small unmanned aircraft.
• Wang Yue arrived at Lin Miaomiao’s graduation ceremony, where he presented her with flowers and discussed arranging their wedding with both families.
• At a family dinner, Lin Miaomiao revealed that she had already renovated their duplex, and Wang Yue proposed to her with a video recounting their seven years together.
• Lin Miaomiao accepted Wang Yue’s proposal, and their families arranged an engagement and wedding close to her graduation; Wang Yue and Lin Miaomiao married soon afterward.
• After the wedding, Lin Miaomiao worried that media attention could disrupt Yu Jia’s care, and Wang Yue suggested using signal jammers to deter livestreamers.
• Wang Yue told Little Fish Assistant to remove unfavorable information about Lin Miaomiao online, and it began sweeping through the internet.

Wang Yue secretly gave Yu Jia a life-extending medicine before Lin Miaomiao and Wang Yue went on their honeymoon, while the newlyweds shared their happiness with Yu Jia and their friends. After a month together, the group reunited in Jiangzhou and prepared for another separation as Deng Xiaoqi and Qian Sanyi planned to move north.

• Wang Yue explained that Yu Jia could not be cured, but brainwave technology or cryonics might someday offer ways to preserve her, and he secretly dissolved an emergency pill into her porridge at the nursing home.
• Lin Miaomiao fed Yu Jia while showing her the couple's proposal video, and Yu Jia wished them lasting happiness before they left for their honeymoon.
• Lin Miaomiao livestreamed the honeymoon for Yu Jia and their friends; Yu Jia's complexion improved slightly, and the newlyweds returned with the little rabbit they had taken on their travels.
• Deng Xiaoqi chose to enter the Central Academy of Drama's graduate program and planned to move north with Qian Sanyi, while Jiang Tianhao brought Xiao Zhao to a reunion to show he had stopped pursuing Deng Xiaoqi.
• Jiang Tianhao gathered the friends for a joyful but bittersweet farewell, as Wang Yue and Lin Miaomiao were married, Deng Xiaoqi and Qian Sanyi prepared to leave, and Jiang Tianhao seemed likely to remain in Jiangzhou.

Wang Yue completed and tested a powerful controlled nuclear fusion core for the 03 Aircraft Carrier, then turned to assembling a small aircraft while delegating brainwave research. Meanwhile, Lin Miaomiao confronted a rival company’s misuse of her name, and Xiao Yao discovered Wang Yue had funded a cybersecurity team to protect her company from trolls.

• Wang Yue assembled and tested the carrier’s fusion core, which exceeded its specifications and impressed chief engineer Wang Suo.
• Wang Suo stayed at the institute to revise the 03 Aircraft Carrier’s power plans around Wang Yue’s compact core.
• The director persuaded Wang Yue to assemble his aircraft, and Wang Yue assigned the brainwave research materials to a new team before heading to the workshop.
• Ding Jiani told Lin Miaomiao that Wanxiang Company was promoting a competing program using Lin Miaomiao’s name and photographs.
• Xiao Yao explained that Wang Yue had hired a cybersecurity company to handle online attacks, while Zhiyi Technology trained new hires through its cybersecurity work.

Lin Miaomiao and her colleagues watched Wanxiang take the backlash for Shuai Shuai’s project, while Cao Shuangyin’s attempt to follow Lin Miaomiao ended with his capture by the Special Department. After helping Tian Tian protect Tian Xin from the Cao Family Old Couple, Lin Miaomiao met Tian Tian, who said she planned to leave Jiangzhou.

• Xiao Yao explained that Wanxiang’s claim linking its project to Miaomiao Media could redirect haters and competitors toward Wanxiang, and Ding Jiani argued that Wanxiang should bear the consequences of using Lin Miaomiao’s influence.
• Online backlash exposed Shuai Shuai’s conduct and Cao Shuangyin’s abuse of Tian Tian, and Cao Shuangyin’s new company went bankrupt.
• Cao Shuangyin followed Lin Miaomiao, but Xiao Wang noticed him and Xiao Liu alerted the Special Department, whose Action Team captured him.
• The Cao Family Old Couple tried to take Tian Xin from kindergarten without informing Tian Tian, but Lin Miaomiao intervened and helped Tian Tian take her daughter home.
• Tian Tian met Lin Miaomiao at a children’s restaurant and said she planned to leave Jiangzhou because she feared the Cao Family Old Couple would continue harassing them.

Tian Tian asked Lin Miaomiao to buy her Wanxiang shares before leaving Jiangzhou, and Director Xiao acquired the company’s shares and transferred them to Lin Miaomiao, who reorganized her media businesses. As Wanxiang’s new structure drew industry attention, Lin Miaomiao discovered that a woman seeking help with a workplace injustice was part of a scheme to use Miaomiao Media against Lan Hai Company.

• Tian Tian told Lin Miaomiao she planned to leave Jiangzhou and asked whether she would buy her Wanxiang shares.
• When Lin Miaomiao could not reach Wang Yue, she contacted Director Xiao, who bought Tian Tian’s shares, acquired the remaining shares, and transferred Wanxiang to Lin Miaomiao.
• Lin Miaomiao made Xiao Yao the head of Wanxiang Media and appointed Ding Jiani as her president’s assistant, while Miaomiao Media’s expansion unsettled rival media companies.
• Shu Xian asked Miaomiao Media to expose alleged mistreatment at Lan Hai Company, and Lin Miaomiao insisted on verifying her identity and evidence before acting.
• Xiao Liu sent Lin Miaomiao information showing that Shu Xian was connected to Ding Yingying, a Hu Yu Company employee, and Lin Miaomiao realized the complaint was a setup targeting Lan Hai Company.

Ding Jiani teamed up with Lan Hai Company to expose Hu Yu Company’s scheme and help bring Ding Yingying to justice. Meanwhile, the Special Department traced a suspicious ID to a foreign plot targeting Wang Yue, and the captain learned he would have to remain in Jiangzhou because Wang Yue still lived there.

• Ding Jiani contacted Lan Hai Company and arranged a joint counterattack against Hu Yu Company while Lin Miaomiao left with Wang Yue.
• Ding Jiani lured Ding Yingying into agreeing to an interview, but Ding Yingying vanished afterward, so Ding Jiani and Lan Hai carried out their plan and filed suit against Hu Yu Company.
• Lan Hai’s evidence and Miaomiao Media’s reporting led to punishment for Hu Yu Company and exposed Ding Yingying, who faced prison time.
• The Special Department investigated Shu Xian’s genuine ID card and uncovered Hu Yu Company’s collusion with a foreign businessman and the businessman’s plan to get close to Wang Yue.
• The Special Operations Captain captured the foreign businessman, but his superiors told him he had to stay in Jiangzhou because Wang Yue still lived there.

Lin Miaomiao helped Miaomiao Media break the news of the 003 aircraft carrier launch, while Xiao Yao turned the resulting attention into publicity and business opportunities. After returning to Jiangzhou, Lin Miaomiao saw a CCTV recruitment notice and decided to pursue a reporting career that could bring her closer to Wang Yue.

• Lin Miaomiao sent Xiao Yao and Ding Jiani a photo and advance news about the 003, and Miaomiao Media published that the carrier would launch soon and was nuclear-powered.
• Miaomiao Media's report sparked online debate, and Xiao Yao arranged for the What to Eat Streamer to eat a chocolate replica after the carrier's nuclear power was confirmed.
• Lin Miaomiao boarded the launched 003 with Wang Yue and watched it reach thirty knots at sea, impressing observers around the world.
• After returning to Jiangzhou with Wang Yue, Lin Miaomiao gave Xiao Yao and Ding Jiani carrier models and shared approved photos that strengthened Miaomiao Media's negotiating position.
• Lin Miaomiao saw a CCTV recruitment notice and decided to become a reporter so she could enter the research institute and be closer to Wang Yue.

Wang Yue built a personal plane so he could stay close to Lin Miaomiao, and the two pursued careers that kept them together as their lives and China’s space program advanced. After fulfilling his promise to take Lin Miaomiao into space, Wang Yue met the return conditions of his system and was sent back to his original world.

• Wang Yue finished his little plane, and the director stopped him from piloting it until experts had tested and approved it.
• Lin Miaomiao joined CCTV, and Wang Yue flew to meet her before later joining the large-aircraft project.
• Wang Yue transferred to the space-station project, while Lin Miaomiao became a full-time reporter and was assigned to cover the project.
• Wang Yue and Lin Miaomiao married and had twins, while Wang Yue helped advance the space program and eventually built a spaceplane.
• Nearly twenty years into their marriage, Wang Yue flew Lin Miaomiao to Guanghan Palace and fulfilled his promise to take her into space.
• At a reunion of the Five Little Ones, Wang Yue learned the skill “A Man of His Word,” met the Salted Fish Film and Television System’s return conditions, and returned to his original world.

After returning from Youngster's School Life 2, Wang Yue secretly obtained aerospace-material research files and passed them to Lin Youyou for Old Master Luo to review. Old Master Luo arranged for Wang Yue to consider buying a research company, but worried that Wang Yue's private effort would fall behind and draw suspicion, while Lin Youyou wondered why her grandfather still held back from approving their relationship.

• Wang Yue decided to slack off in an ancient world but returned to watch Qian Sanyi's story on television, prompting Lin Youyou to ask if he was still unwell.
• Wang Yue tried to convince Lin Youyou to stay by saying she could unplug the internet if he got caught hacking labs, but she said Luo Peng might stay behind to do it himself.
• Wang Yue used password keys from Youngster's School Life 2 to access lab files about an experimental aerospace material, then gave the files to Lin Youyou on a USB drive.
• Luo Peng left to pick up Liu Yan, whose mother and Lin Youyou's mother had tried to match her and Luo Peng, while Lin Youyou and Wang Yue discussed the matchmaking plan.
• Lin Youyou brought the USB drive to Old Master Luo, who agreed to have the files examined and suggested Wang Yue acquire a materials research company.
• Old Master Luo's friend offered several struggling materials-research companies for Wang Yue to buy, but Old Master Luo worried that a private company would struggle to develop the material and that Wang Yue's results would raise questions.

Wang Yue acquired a research company to develop advanced materials while continuing work on Little Assistant, then traveled into the world of Dream of Splendor. There, he discovered he was a newly appointed county magistrate who had become captivated by Liu Tianxian.

• Luo Peng returned from his blind date with Liu Yan, while Luo Youyou concluded he had failed to recognize her interest in him.
• Luo Youyou gave Wang Yue a folder of companies with materials labs, and he bought one with a bank loan, renamed the project Star Technology, and handed over his materials for development.
• Wang Yue and Luo Youyou argued over his apparent interest in female celebrities before Little Assistant began playing Dream of Splendor and triggered his travel.
• Wang Yue arrived in the new world, absorbed the memories of his identity as the Qiantang Wang family's son and newly appointed Wenzhou county magistrate, and realized he had been entranced by Liu Tianxian on a bamboo raft.

Wang Yue met Zhao Pan'er and, after learning she had pledged herself to Scholar Ouyang, made a three-year pact to wait for her. Back home, his father began to reveal the Wang family's remaining resources, leaving Wang Yue wondering whether his family planned to restore a kingdom.

• Wang Yue followed Zhao Pan'er’s raft and asked her to marry him, but she said she had pledged herself to Scholar Ouyang.
• Wang Yue proposed that Zhao Pan'er give Ouyang three years to return and marry her, promising to give her a dowry if he did and asking for a chance if he did not; Zhao Pan'er agreed.
• Wang Yue gave Sun Sanniang his jade pendant so her son Zifang could study at the academy by West Lake.
• Wang Yue told Wang Cai he suspected Ouyang might abandon Zhao Pan'er for a better match, and Wang Cai agreed that scholars were often unfaithful in storybooks.
• Wang Yue’s father asked about the family’s ancestry and said he would tell Wang Yue about the family’s remaining resources.
• Wang Yue asked his father whether the Wang family planned to restore the kingdom.

Wang Yue gathered a force in Wenzhou, built a powerful maritime operation, and earned a promotion to the capital. After three years apart, he returned to Qiantang and met Zhao Pan'er again, reaffirming their agreement as she overheard his conversation about her feelings.

• Old Father Wang told Wang Yue about the fighters supported by the Wang family, and Wang Yue agreed to recruit them in Wenzhou.
• Wang Yue left for Wenzhou after seeing Zhao Pan'er with Ouyang Xu, then consolidated the shipyards and trained sailors to build his own force.
• Wang Yue suspected that Old Master Wang's death had involved foul play and expanded his maritime operation against pirates and sea bandits, but found no clues to the killer.
• After three years of successful governance, Wang Yue earned an Excellent review and was promoted to Minister of the Court of Judicial Review; Wang Cai followed him to the capital.
• Wang Yue returned to Qiantang, visited Zhao's Tea Shop, and reminded Zhao Pan'er of their three-year agreement while she overheard his conversation with Wang Cai.

Wang Yue returned to Qiantang, saved Zhao Pan'er from bandits, and revealed his new post as Minister of the Court of Judicial Review. He then searched for Bao Zheng in Luzhou, but learned that Bao Zheng was still a Juren and away traveling, leaving Wang Yue disappointed before a cry about stolen money interrupted him.

• Zhao Pan'er confronted Wang Yue for gossiping about her, and Wang Yue apologized while Sun Sanniang teased him about proposing to her.
• Bandits stormed Zhao's Tea Shop, and Wang Yue and Wang Cai protected Zhao Pan'er and Sun Sanniang before the constables subdued the gang.
• Wang Cai identified himself as Bailiff Wang and revealed that he was accompanying Lord Wang to the Capital for Wang Yue's new post.
• Old Madam Wang learned that Zhao Pan'er had pledged herself to Ouyang Xu and invited Song Yinzhuan to the Wang home to learn more about her.
• Wang Yue and Wang Cai traveled to Luzhou to look for Bao Zheng, but Bao Zheng's family said he was away studying and was still only a Juren.
• As Wang Yue stood outside the Bao home, someone cried out that a thief had stolen his money.

Wang Yue exposed a flatbread seller’s thief with a simple coin test, then left Luzhou and was attacked by masked men on his way to his estate. He and Wang Cai escaped the pursuers by rallying villagers to a burning compound, where Wang Yue found the Yang family dead and summoned the village head.

• Wang Yue identified a cloth merchant as the flatbread seller’s thief after grease from the stolen coins floated to the surface of a basin of water.
• Wang Cai took the merchant to the county office, and Wang Yue returned to Qiantang to visit his mother.
• Masked riders attacked Wang Yue and Wang Cai, but Wang Yue killed several of them before the pair fled from a larger pursuing force.
• Wang Yue recognized the attackers as government soldiers and suspected they had set fire to the residence of transport commissioner Yang Yunpan.
• Wang Yue and Wang Cai gathered villagers by shouting about the fire, causing the pursuers to abandon their chase.
• The villagers helped extinguish the blaze and discovered charred bodies in the ruins, after which Wang Yue identified himself and asked to speak with the village head.

After the Yang Family Villa massacre, Wang Yue arranged for Gu Qianfan to carry a memorial to the Eastern Capital and treated Zhao Pan'er's wound. The chapter ended with Wang Yue offering to escort Zhao Pan'er back to the city as she hurried to leave.

• Wang Yue asked the village head to guard the Yang Family Villa ruins until the county office could identify the victim and investigate.
• Wang Cai confronted Zhao Pan'er and Gu Qianfan, and Zhao Pan'er asked Wang Yue to help pursue justice for Yang Yunpan.
• Wang Yue wrote a memorial and sent Gu Qianfan to the Eastern Capital with Wang Cai as his escort.
• Wang Yue removed the barbed hidden weapon from Zhao Pan'er's shoulder and gave her wound medicine.
• Wang Yue warned Zhao Pan'er that the murderers might target witnesses and offered to escort her back to the city.

Wang Yue escorted Zhao Pan'er back to her tea shop, where Uncle De told her Ouyang Xu had accepted a marriage arranged with Gao Hu's daughter. After Zhao Pan'er learned Ouyang would pay eighty gold pieces to end their engagement, Wang Yue agreed with her demand for three hundred and offered to pay for the token, while Zhao Pan'er still hoped to hear Ouyang's explanation.

• Wang Yue rode in the carriage with Zhao Pan'er as they entered the city, where officials searched for Gu Qianfan.
• At Zhao's Tea Shop, Uncle De told Zhao Pan'er that Ouyang Xu had passed the imperial exam and would marry Gao Hu's daughter under a decree from Virtuous Consort.
• Zhao Pan'er fainted, and Wang Yue caught her before Sun Sanniang arrived and confronted Uncle De.
• Uncle De invoked Zhao Pan'er's former status and offered eighty gold pieces to end her engagement to Ouyang Xu.
• Zhao Pan'er demanded three hundred gold pieces for the token of their love, and Wang Yue supported her demand and stopped Uncle De from leaving.
• Wang Yue offered to pay the three hundred gold pieces, but Zhao Pan'er said she still wanted to go to Shangjing and ask Ouyang Xu what had happened.

After Ouyang Xu rejected Zhao Pan'er, Wang Yue comforted her, secured her agreement to marry him, and arranged a swift wedding. As Wang Yue and Zhao Pan'er traveled north amid danger, they spotted Sun Sanniang drifting in the river.

• Wang Yue persuaded Zhao Pan'er to seek revenge by marrying him, and she handed him the concentric-heart jade pendant as a sign of trust.
• Wang Yue made Uncle De sign an agreement and held the pendant as collateral until Ouyang Xu paid three hundred gold pieces.
• Wang Yue's parents approved the match, and Wang Yue and Zhao Pan'er married in a grand ceremony before leaving Qiantang by ship.
• Wang Yue's parents went into hiding in Ryukyu while Wang Yue continued north, wary of assassins and surveillance.
• A sailor called out that someone was in the water, and Zhao Pan'er recognized the person clinging to a log as Sun Sanniang and urged Wang Yue to save her.

Wang Yue rescued Sun Sanniang, then used the Wang Wang Team to ambush the ships sent after him and retaliate against the Liangzhe naval bases. He revealed to Zhao Pan'er that he commanded Ryukyu's pirates and intended to establish his own power there rather than submit to Great Song.

• Wang Yue ordered Zhao Pan'er to perform CPR on Sun Sanniang and revived her with his internal energy when she could not save her.
• Wang Yue lured the pursuing fleet into an ambush, where the Wang Wang Team destroyed most of the ships and captured witnesses who implicated Zheng Qingtian and other officials.
• Wang Yue ordered Wang Luffy to disguise pirates in captured uniforms and use Great Song warships to destroy the naval bases in Hangzhou, Jia Prefecture, Mingzhou, and Suzhou.
• Liangzhe officials panicked after the attack and chose Zheng Qingtian as a scapegoat, while Wang Yue's role as the Pirate King remained unspoken.
• Wang Yue admitted to Zhao Pan'er that the Ryukyu pirates followed his orders and said he would build his own territory there instead of submitting to Great Song.