Chapter Summaries

Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen helped Zhu Zhe settle her family in a nearby hotel, then introduced her to their friends from 2202. Zhu Zhe bonded with Fan Shengmei over their difficult families and learned that Wang Yue’s company offered generous salaries and housing advances.

• Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen took Zhu Zhe and her family to a budget hotel near a major hospital, while Zhu Zhe’s siblings speculated about Wang Yue’s relationship with her.
• Ye Zhenzhen invited Zhu Zhe to dinner with Qiu Yingying, Fan Shengmei, and their husbands, and Wang Yue discussed a brainwave-headset game project with Liu Hui.
• Qiu Yingying and Ye Zhenzhen talked about pregnancy while Fan Shengmei and Zhu Zhe compared their family troubles.
• Fan Shengmei told Zhu Zhe that her brother and sister-in-law had become responsible after her sister-in-law’s brother repeatedly beat her brother.
• Fan Shengmei explained that she and Qiu Yingying had bought homes using salary advances, and Zhu Zhe realized Wang Yue had been helping her out of kindness.

Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen picked up David, an old acquaintance of Ye Zhenzhen’s who had designs on her, and Wang Yue began plotting to deal with him. When David later went looking for the couple in their building, Fang Zhiheng mistook him for a threat and pinned him down, while He Minhong called for the police.

• Fan Shengmei advised Zhu Zhe to focus on her own life and seek Ye Zhenzhen’s help if needed.
• Ye Zhenzhen told Wang Yue that David was returning to the country and that his mother wanted Wang Yue to meet him.
• Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen picked up David at the airport, where he acted scruffily and questioned Wang Yue about his work.
• David came to the twenty-first floor early one morning and waited outside while Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen stayed in bed.
• David chased He Minhong to her apartment door, and Fang Zhiheng threw him down and restrained him.
• David said he knew Ye Zhenzhen, but Fang Zhiheng doubted his explanation and told He Minhong to call the police.

Fang Zhiheng mistook David for a threat and pinned him down before Ye Zhenzhen recognized him as a friend. David then asked Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen to sign a web-fiction contract for him, but they sent him to ask He Minhong instead, and the two left together to handle the deal.

• Fang Zhiheng pinned David down after he startled He Minhong, then eased up when He Minhong suggested he might be Ye Zhenzhen's friend.
• Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen recognized David, and the neighbors gathered to share the breakfast he had brought.
• David told Ye Zhenzhen and Wang Yue that he wrote a hit harem novel under the pen name Yan Zhengyi and needed someone to sign a contract for him that afternoon.
• Wang Yue suggested that David ask He Minhong, a web-fiction editor, to sign, and David agreed.
• He Minhong accepted David's request despite her doubts, then left with him to discuss the book and contract.

Zhu Zhe learned that her ex-boyfriend, Chen Zufai, might be trying to flirt with women around her rather than genuinely reconnecting, while He Minhong and Yu Chuhui made peace and Zhu Zhe shared breakfast with Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen. The chapter ended when Zhu Zhe’s younger sister called to complain that her brother had refused to cover her expenses.

• Ye Zhenzhen answered Chen Zufai’s call and, after Wang Yue explained his suspicious approach, told Zhu Zhe about it.
• Zhu Zhe explained that Chen Zufai was her ex-boyfriend, who had once looked down on her, and Wang Yue warned that he might be targeting her coworkers instead of seeking reconciliation.
• He Minhong returned from signing with the website’s editor, and Yu Chuhui came back with a raise and cake for the residents.
• He Minhong and Yu Chuhui exchanged gestures of goodwill and reconciled, bringing temporary peace to apartment 2202.
• Zhu Zhe brought Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen breakfast, and they praised her hotel-management skills as she explained how shared drinking helped ease workplace conflicts.
• Zhu Zhe’s younger sister, Tingting, called and complained that her brother had refused to pay for her rented storage room and train ticket.

Zhu Zhe struggled to mediate a bitter dispute between her younger siblings over money, then confided her frustration to Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen. Wang Yue warned that her parents might blame her for her younger brother’s relationship problems and come after her for money, leaving Zhu Zhe anxious about what might happen next.

• Zhu Zhe’s younger sister and younger brother accused each other of scheming to borrow money, and Zhu Zhe tried to make them settle their dispute.
• Zhu Zhe’s younger sister complained that Zhu Zhe favored her younger brother, then abruptly ended the call when Zhu Zhe challenged her.
• Ye Zhenzhen comforted the upset Zhu Zhe, while Wang Yue joked that Zhu Zhe’s generosity had spoiled her siblings.
• Wang Yue told Zhu Zhe that her siblings had become selfish because she and their parents had made their lives too easy.
• Wang Yue warned Zhu Zhe that her parents might blame her if her younger brother’s girlfriend broke up with him and might come looking for money.
• Zhu Zhe worried that someone from her hometown could reveal how well she was doing in Magic City, and she lost her appetite for breakfast.

Wang Yue advised Fang Zhiheng on pursuing revenge and worked to acquire factories for mass-producing brainwave game helmets, while events in 2202 and He Minhong’s meeting with Song Li unfolded. The proposed comic partnership stalled after David and Song Li each waited for the other to raise the contract terms.

• He Minhong criticized Zhu Zhe for not intervening in her siblings’ breakup, and Zhu Zhe defended herself by saying they relied on her for money.
• Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen met Fang Zhiheng, and Wang Yue recognized that she was pretending to have a cold to conceal her condition.
• Wang Yue suggested Fang Zhiheng hire a private investigator to gather evidence against Li Xun, and she decided to ask her cousin for help.
• Wang Yue acquired factories and began planning production of brainwave game helmets, while Yu Chuhui, Zhu Zhe, and He Minhong dealt with developments in their lives.
• He Minhong met Song Li, who wanted to adapt Yan Zhengyi’s Oceanic Chronicle into a comic, and later introduced her to David for a possible partnership.
• David and Song Li both waited for the other to bring up contract terms, so their proposed partnership stalled; Wang Yue criticized David’s handling of the situation.

Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen learned that Zhu Zhe had handled Chen Zufai’s marriage proposal on her own, while Wang Yue delayed stepping in as he finished work on his factories. After several exhausting days of work and sleep, Wang Yue accepted David’s challenge to join a cycling trip to Chongming Island that weekend.

• Fang Zhiheng warned Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen that Chen Zufai had been looking for Zhu Zhe and might have bad intentions.
• Zhu Zhe tested Chen Zufai by asking about his finances and career, then recognized he had no sincere plans to marry her and brought the meal’s hairy crabs home.
• Ye Zhenzhen worried Chen Zufai might target someone else, but Wang Yue said he would deal with him later if needed and explained his factory work was keeping him busy.
• Wang Yue finished writing a testing program and rested while Ye Zhenzhen worked overnight in Professor Tao’s lab.
• David called Ye Zhenzhen’s phone and invited Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen on a cycling trip to Chongming Island; Wang Yue accepted after David taunted him about his stamina.

Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen decided to extend their island trip, and Wang Yue offered to help her establish a lab at Zhenzhen Pharmaceuticals. On Chongming Island, Wang Yue repeatedly defeated David in sports and games, leaving David determined to challenge him at shooting next.

• Wang Yue persuaded Ye Zhenzhen to delay returning and offered to fund a lab at Zhenzhen Pharmaceuticals.
• David, He Minhong, Fang Zhiheng, and Li Qixing joined Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen for a trip to Chongming Island.
• Wang Yue beat David in a cycling race, while Li Qixing cramped up and Fang Zhiheng helped him.
• David challenged Wang Yue to climbing and archery, then lost repeatedly in activities at the entertainment center.
• David swallowed his embarrassment and challenged Wang Yue to compete at shooting another time.

Wang Yue and David competed throughout the day, and Wang Yue secretly drugged David before their drinking contest. Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen also uncovered Fang Zhiheng’s connection to Li Qixing’s father, and the chapter ended with Ye Zhenzhen rushing out to stop Fang Zhiheng from pursuing revenge through Li Qixing.

• David challenged Wang Yue to a shooting contest, while Wang Yue teased him and privately suspected David was targeting him.
• Wang Yue told Ye Zhenzhen that Fang Zhiheng was connected to Yue Xi and other women harmed by Li Xun, Li Qixing’s father.
• David challenged Wang Yue to drink, and Wang Yue secretly slipped him hallucinogenic powder before they both passed out.
• He Minhong took David to his room and stayed with him, while Ye Zhenzhen brought Fang Zhiheng back to her own room and locked the door.
• Wang Yue warned Ye Zhenzhen that Fang Zhiheng might target Li Qixing to avenge his father’s past, and Ye Zhenzhen hurried out to intervene.

Fang Zhiheng exposed Li Xun’s history of sexually harassing women, and Wang Yue helped Li Qixing confront the truth about his father. The chapter ended with Wang Yue and David arguing over whether Li Qixing should support his mother if she chose to divorce Li Xun.

• Ye Zhenzhen and Wang Yue discovered that Fang Zhiheng had checked out, while David and He Minhong became a couple and Li Qixing left the hotel.
• Fang Zhiheng told Ye Zhenzhen about her history with Li Xun, and Ye Zhenzhen revealed that Wang Yue had previously driven Li Xun out of Magic City.
• Fang Zhiheng confronted Li Qixing about his father’s misconduct, and Wang Yue showed him a video that supported her claims.
• Li Qixing called his mother, learned more about why his father had left Magic City, and returned shaken.
• David advised Li Qixing to consider his mother’s finances before provoking a divorce, but Wang Yue argued that Li Qixing should support her if she wanted to leave Li Xun.

Wang Yue warned Li Qixing that he could not pursue Fang Zhiheng while remaining loyal to his father, and later helped Yu Chuhui think through her mother’s difficult housekeeping job. Ye Zhenzhen offered Yu Chuhui’s mother a possible new position, leaving the couple joking that a fairy and a devil were a match made in heaven.

• Wang Yue told Li Qixing to stop bothering Fang Zhiheng, and Li Qixing admitted he could not turn against his father.
• Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen discussed David’s advice to Li Qixing and speculated about David’s family.
• Yu Chuhui visited Ye Zhenzhen and complained that her mother’s employers had broken their agreement and treated her poorly.
• Wang Yue advised Yu Chuhui to give the employers notice before her mother quit, and Ye Zhenzhen offered to ask about another housekeeping job.
• Yu Chuhui praised Ye Zhenzhen and teased Wang Yue, and Ye Zhenzhen called them a match made in heaven.

Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen prepared her laboratory while Yu Chuhui arranged work for her mother and reconciled with her employer. The chapter ended with Fang Zhiheng revealing that Chen Zufai had approached Zhu Zhe for a loan guarantee before disappearing with Yu Feixue’s money.

• Wang Yue advised Yu Chuhui to control her temper, and she apologized before leaving.
• Ye Zhenzhen agreed to research Wang Yue’s cryogenic revival formulas and looked forward to pursuing science; they intensified their efforts to have a child.
• Yu Chuhui brought her mother to work for Professor Tao’s family after settling matters with her previous employer.
• Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen unpacked laboratory equipment at Zhenzhen Pharmaceuticals and discussed Fan Shengmei’s jealousy over Wang Bo Chuan’s success.
• Cousin Yu visited Wang Yue seeking Zhu Zhe after Chen Zufai fled with Yu Feixue’s money and wedding gifts.
• Fang Zhiheng told Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen that Chen Zufai had asked Zhu Zhe to guarantee a loan, but Zhu Zhe had refused and suggested having the contract reviewed.

Ye Zhenzhen and Wang Bo Chuan helped Yu Feixue expose Chen Zufai’s marriage-and-loan fraud, and the police arrested his syndicate. Afterward, Fang Zhiheng asked Wang Bo Chuan for help with her own problem, but he objected to how she had approached him.

• Ye Zhenzhen used a honey trap to persuade Wang Bo Chuan to track Chen Zufai’s contacts and protect the victims’ money.
• Ye Zhenzhen, Fang Zhiheng, Zhu Zhe, and Yu Feixue gathered evidence and followed Wang Bo Chuan’s advice to report Chen Zufai missing separately from the guarantors’ fraud complaint.
• The police investigated the lending company, and Wang Bo Chuan supplied Chen Zufai’s address while he and Little Assistant froze the suspects’ bank cards.
• The police arrested Chen Zufai and uncovered a syndicate that targeted women pressured to marry, along with a lending company and gambling establishment involved in the scheme.
• Fang Zhiheng asked Wang Bo Chuan for help after seeing how he and Ye Zhenzhen had helped Yu Feixue, but Wang Bo Chuan complained that she had previously refused his assistance.

Fang Zhiheng joined Zhiyi Technology in exchange for Wang Yue’s help exposing Li Xun, while Wang Yue advanced brain-controlled Glory testing and discussed plans for a child with Ye Zhenzhen. Meanwhile, Li Qixing’s father was imprisoned for misconduct, and Li Qixing finally revealed his father’s affairs to his mother.

• Fang Zhiheng agreed to work for Wang Yue for ten years, and Wang Yue exposed Li Xun’s sexual assaults and embezzlement, leading to Li Xun’s investigation.
• Wang Yue and Director Xiao tested brain-controlled Glory headsets, and Wang Yue agreed to explore glasses-free 3D projection technology.
• Fang Zhiheng, Qiu Yingying, and Yue Xi questioned Wang Yue about having a child with Ye Zhenzhen, prompting him to discuss their difficulty conceiving.
• Wang Yue and Ye Zhenzhen discussed Qiu Yingying, He Minhong, Guan Ju'er, and David while talking at home.
• Li Qixing learned that his father had been imprisoned and that his family faced financial trouble, then confronted his mother about his father’s affairs.
• Li Mom demanded to know who had told Li Qixing about the affairs, and Li Qixing finally explained what had happened.

Wang Yue attended Zhiyi Technology’s gaming helmet press conference with Ye Zhenzhen and others, while the publicity exposed Zhu Zhe’s connection to him and provoked her younger sister. After comforting Zhu Zhe about her family’s demands, Wang Yue suggested a risky way to keep her parents from supporting her brother.

• Ye Zhenzhen asked Wang Yue about Zhiyi Technology’s press conference, and he agreed to attend after learning she and her friends planned to go.
• Zhiyi Technology’s gaming helmet launch drew widespread attention, and a close-up photo of Wang Yue with Zhu Zhe appeared in the news.
• Zhu Zhe’s younger sister accused her of hiding her wealth, and Wang Yue took the phone and told the sister that Zhu Zhe no longer had a sister.
• Wang Yue discussed Zhu Zhe’s family obligations with her and warned that her parents might come after her money and apartment.
• Wang Yue suggested that Zhu Zhe offer her parents money on the condition that they stop contacting her brother, and she listened skeptically.

Zhu Zhe considered how to set boundaries with her family after discussing Wang Yue’s advice with Yu Chuhui. Wang Yue then handled a state lab’s interest in Zhiyi Technology and helped Fang Zhiheng confront Li Mom, who had been photographing her; the chapter ended with Fang Zhiheng accepting his offer to leave with Ye Zhenzhen for safety.

• Yu Chuhui suggested that Zhu Zhe pretend to be pregnant to make her parents come to Magic City, and Zhu Zhe briefly considered having a child on her own before deciding the plan was impractical.
• Fang Zhiheng told Wang Yue that a state-owned lab wanted to buy headsets and collaborate, and Wang Yue said they could study the technology if they agreed not to use it for foreign exchanges or civilian purposes.
• Fang Zhiheng asked whether Zhiyi Technology would go public, and Wang Yue refused, saying he did not need the money and wanted to keep investors away from the technology.
• Wang Yue pulled Fang Zhiheng aside after spotting a flash, and they found Li Mom photographing them; Li Mom threatened to expose Fang Zhiheng and accused her of having an affair with Wang Yue.
• Fang Zhiheng deleted Li Mom’s photos, and Wang Yue warned that Li Qixing might also be nearby before suggesting she leave with Ye Zhenzhen; Fang Zhiheng accepted his help.

Yu Chuhui struggled with her mother’s attachment to an abusive husband, and Wang Yue warned that her mother might flee Professor Tao’s home. The group waited nearby overnight, where Wang Yue took control of the neighborhood cameras to track her.

• Wang Yue told Ye Zhenzhen about the trouble involving Li Qixing’s mother, while Ye Zhenzhen later became occupied with difficulties in her experiments.
• Yu Chuhui learned that her mother wanted to bring her husband and in-laws to Magic City, and warned her mother to choose between her husband and her daughter.
• Ye Zhenzhen and Wang Yue met Yu Chuhui in a park, listened to her explain her mother’s history of returning to her abusive husband, and warned her that her mother might run away from Professor Tao’s home.
• Yu Chuhui, Ye Zhenzhen, Wang Yue, and Zhu Zhe went to wait near Professor Tao’s residence, and Wang Yue accessed the neighborhood cameras to watch for Yu Chuhui’s mother.
• As the four waited in Wang Yue’s car, Ye Zhenzhen’s comment about Wang Yue’s stamina left Zhu Zhe and Yu Chuhui speechless.

Ye Zhenzhen, Zhu Zhe, and Wang Yue helped Yu Chuhui reunite with her mother after she slipped away from Professor Tao’s complex. Later, Wang Yue mistakenly slept with a drunk Zhu Zhe before carrying Ye Zhenzhen to the guest room, where she woke unable to get out of bed.

• Wang Yue fetched coffee while Ye Zhenzhen, Zhu Zhe, and Yu Chuhui talked about relationships, money, and family burdens.
• Wang Yue advised Yu Chuhui on protecting her mother with hired housekeepers, but a computer alert showed Yu’s mother leaving Professor Tao’s complex with luggage.
• Yu Chuhui found her mother at a bus stop, and Ye Zhenzhen and Zhu Zhe brought them back to 2202 to talk privately.
• Ye Zhenzhen and Zhu Zhe stayed up waiting for Yu Chuhui, then drank and went to bed in Wang Yue’s room.
• Wang Yue mistook drunk Zhu Zhe for Ye Zhenzhen and slept with her before realizing his mistake.
• Wang Yue carried Ye Zhenzhen to the guest room, and she woke afterward unable to get out of bed.

After a drunken night led Wang Yue to sleep with Zhu Zhe by mistake, he offered to compensate her, but she asked him to keep it from Ye Zhenzhen. Yu Chuhui discussed how to protect her mother from her abusive father, and Wang Yue revealed he had a medicine that could weaken someone for years.

• Zhu Zhe recalled getting drunk with Ye Zhenzhen and Yu Chuhui, then returning to Wang Yue's apartment and mistakenly ending up in his bed.
• Wang Yue admitted he had mistaken Zhu Zhe for Ye Zhenzhen and offered to compensate her, but Zhu Zhe called it a misunderstanding and said she did not want to lose Ye Zhenzhen's friendship.
• Yu Chuhui told Wang Yue that she and her friends had found work and that she planned to earn enough to hire caregivers for her mother.
• Wang Yue suggested breaking Yu Chuhui's father's legs to stop him from chasing and beating her mother, while Zhu Zhe shared a story about a woman who had her boyfriend's leg broken.
• Yu Chuhui wished for medicine that could weaken her father, and Wang Yue said he had a colorless, odorless medicine that could leave someone weak for two or three years.

Yu Chuhui and Ye Zhenzhen tested Wang Yue’s weakness-inducing medicine, while Zhu Zhe decided she wanted Wang Yue’s child. The chapter ended with Ye Zhenzhen seeking an antidote for the rabbit and Wang Yue retreating to his lab.

• Wang Yue explained that he had obtained a weakness-inducing formula from Japanese laboratories, and Yu Chuhui decided to use it to protect her mother from her father.
• Ye Zhenzhen learned the formula from Wang Yue and left with Yu Chuhui to make and test the pills.
• Yu Chuhui locked her mother in the apartment, then left with Ye Zhenzhen; Zhu Zhe decided to ask Wang Yue for a child.
• Wang Yue agreed to Zhu Zhe’s request, and he carried her to the bedroom after she mistook his attempt to dry her wet pajamas for an invitation.
• Ye Zhenzhen and Yu Chuhui tested a pill on a rabbit, and Yu Chuhui took the medicine to use on her father before returning to her hometown with her mother.
• Ye Zhenzhen asked Wang Yue for an antidote for the rabbit, then drove back to her company while Wang Yue went to his lab.