Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu treated Deng Cuihuai with unexpected kindness, then relaxed at Yunming Villa’s hot springs with the Qin siblings and gave Qin Ming medicine. While Tang Yu was bathing, Deng Cuihuai secretly prepared to set the pavilion on fire and kill him.

• Tang Yu released Deng Cuihuai, who escaped to the washroom, vomited the poisoned tea, and took antidote pills.
• After Deng Cuihuai failed to return, Qin Ming arranged for the manager to give her an easier job and a much higher salary.
• Qin Ming tried to arrange a private hot spring session for Tang Yu and Qin Kexin, but Qin Kexin went alone while the two men soaked together.
• Qin Ming confessed that he kept a diary to criticize himself for giving in to lust, and Tang Yu gave him kidney-tonifying pills.
• Deng Cuihuai knocked out an employee at the hot spring pavilion and sprayed accelerant across the floor, intending to burn Tang Yu to death.

Deng Cuihuai set the hot spring resort on fire to kill Tang Yu, but he escaped the blaze while carrying Qin Kexin. He defeated Deng Cuihuai and left her in the flames as he reached the exit.

• Deng Cuihuai sabotaged the resort's safety systems, set the building ablaze, and tried to kill Tang Yu.
• Tang Yu woke to the fire, found Qin Kexin unconscious in the next room, and carried her into the smoky corridor.
• Deng Cuihuai ambushed Tang Yu with a dagger, but his Immovable Wisdom King Technique stopped the attack.
• Deng Cuihuai attacked again, and Tang Yu used Reversal Incense to incapacitate her before placing her on Qin Kexin's back and protecting them both.
• Tang Yu carried Qin Kexin and Deng Cuihuai through the fire, then dropped Deng Cuihuai into the flames near the exit and escaped with Qin Kexin.

Tang Yu rescued Qin Kexin from a fire and revived her after she passed out from oxygen deprivation, then treated his burns while she tended to him. Qin Kexin learned Tang Yu's thoughts and ended the chapter glaring at him after overhearing his admiring comments about her.

• Tang Yu carried the unconscious Qin Kexin out of the smoke and laid her on an ambulance stretcher, while Qin Ming guarded her from onlookers.
• Tang Yu performed CPR until Qin Kexin woke, then explained that he had been saving her and that the resort had caught fire.
• Qin Kexin covered herself with a short towel and applied burn ointment to Tang Yu while hearing his thoughts about her body.
• Qin Ming brought clothes and privately teased Tang Yu about whether Qin Kexin had shown him gratitude for saving her.
• Tang Yu thought that Qin Kexin was beautiful and a badass, and Qin Kexin choked on her water and glared at him.

After a fire at the hot spring building, Qin Kexin dealt with the aftermath and embarrassed herself while messaging Tang Yu about what he had seen. Tang Yu deflected her teasing, checked his burns, and called Chi Yin to shave his badly scorched hair.

• Qin Kexin apologized to the hot spring building's members, waived their bills, offered compensation, and reported the suspected arson to the police.
• Qin Kexin messaged Tang Yu to ask whether he had seen her in the car, but he pretended not to understand and she accidentally sent him a provocative message.
• Tang Yu claimed Qin Ming had been using Qin Kexin's phone, giving them both a way to end the awkward exchange.
• Tang Yu checked his burns and realized his hair and eyebrows had been badly scorched, so he called Chi Yin to shave his head.
• Chi Yin entered the dressing room, caught Tang Yu undressed, and then heard him ask her to shave his head.

Tang Yu shaved his burned hair and eyebrows, then put on a blond wig that triggered a new system condition. The system previewed the next Son of Luck, Ye Qiu, a live-in son-in-law who had just reached the Heaven Realm and was offered wealth and a position by his family.

• Chi Yin shaved Tang Yu's head and eyebrows, then drew his eyebrows back on and brought him wigs.
• Tang Yu chose a pale-yellow wig, heard that wearing it would make him desire other people's partners, and let Chi Yin add his glasses.
• Tang Yu questioned the system about failing to warn him of an attack, and it said the attacker was no Son of Luck and posed no threat.
• The system showed Tang Yu Ye Qiu expelling the Heaven-Death Poison and reaching the initial stage of the Heaven Realm.
• An old butler offered Ye Qiu a hundred billion and control of the Wuji Group on behalf of the Old Dragon King, but Ye Qiu rejected the Ye Family.
• Tang Yu recognized Ye Qiu's setup as a familiar live-in son-in-law story and cursed at its clichés.

Tang Yu prepared to leave Suhang for Yanjing, strengthening his plans there and arranging affairs at home before setting out. He said goodbye to Wenren Yage, who was beginning a three-year journey to improve her martial arts, and learned she had been invited to visit Nine Springs Mountain.

• Tang Yu called Lu Junzhuo in Yanjing, promised him genuine Nine-Turn Pills to help him reach the Heaven Realm, and ordered him to keep watch on Ye Qiu without killing him.
• Tang Yu dismissed the Death Squad’s offer to serve him and spent three days putting Suhang’s affairs in order before preparing to leave for Yanjing.
• Tang Yu told Chi Yin and Ling Han to manage things at home and train until they could join him in Yanjing.
• Wenren Yage visited Tang Yu to say she planned to travel for three years and improve her martial arts, but refused the three Mystic Qi Fruits he offered her.
• Tang Yu told Wenren Yage he was going to Yanjing, and she relayed the sect leader’s invitation for him to visit Nine Springs Mountain.

Tang Yu left Suhang for Yanjing after Wenren Yage accepted his gift of Mystic Qi Fruits, and the Empress returned to the Tang Family estate looking for him. In Yanjing, Tang Yu met the newly promoted Heaven Realm Lu Junzhuo, learned about Ye Qiu and the Lin Family, and headed to the Lin estate for Old Master Lin’s seventieth birthday.

• Wenren Yage hugged Tang Yu goodbye, then found three Mystic Qi Fruits he had secretly placed in her backpack and decided to accept them.
• The Empress sneaked into the Tang Family estate to find Tang Yu, but Ling Han and Chi Yin confronted her; she escaped when she learned he was away.
• Tang Yu received word of the Empress’s visit while boarding his flight to Yanjing and suspected she had become hooked on him.
• Lu Junzhuo welcomed Tang Yu at the Yanjing airport after breaking through to the Heaven Realm, then told him Ye Qiu appeared to be living as a kept man.
• Lu Junzhuo gave Tang Yu records about the declining Lin Family and Ye Qiu’s wife, Lin Wanxi; Tang Yu later left the hotel for Old Master Lin’s seventieth birthday.

Tang Yu attended Old Master Lin’s birthday banquet undercover and found Ye Qiu enduring the Lin Family’s guests’ ridicule. Tang Yu prepared to interfere as Ye Qiu’s family scolded him, while Lin Wanxi continued to hold to the promise she had made to her late grandmother.

• Tang Yu told Zhou Ganghao to present him as a nephew and conceal his identity at the banquet.
• Zhou Ganghao introduced Tang Yu to Lin Tiancheng, who welcomed them into the Lin Family’s birthday celebration.
• Tang Yu spotted Ye Qiu being mocked by the guests and warned Zhou Ganghao not to provoke him.
• Hou Caichun and Lin Shengxi berated Ye Qiu, while Lin Wanxi tried to stop them from arguing on her grandfather’s birthday.
• Lin Wanxi reflected that she had stayed with Ye Qiu for five years because of her late grandmother’s instruction, though she had grown disappointed in him.

Tang Yu overheard Lin Wanxi’s private thoughts about Ye Qiu and secretly tampered with the family’s birthday gift, a rare purple ginseng. At Elder Lin’s birthday banquet, Li Yunhao presented an expensive painting and Hou Caichun blamed Ye Qiu for the family’s troubles.

• Tang Yu heard Lin Wanxi’s thoughts criticizing Ye Qiu and wondered who had spoken.
• Tang Yu stole the purple ginseng, drank its medicinal juice, then injected it with laxative water to make it appear unchanged.
• Elder Lin began his seventieth birthday banquet, and Lin Shengle’s family presented him with a valuable calligraphy-and-painting piece.
• Li Yunhao presented Elder Lin with a twenty-million-yuan longevity painting, hoping to win favor with Lin Wanxi’s family.
• Hou Caichun urged Lin Wanxi to divorce Ye Qiu and kicked him, while Ye Qiu silently dismissed her anger.

At Elder Lin’s seventieth birthday banquet, Ye Qiu claimed the Purple Ginseng in the gift box was a priceless birthday present, but the Lin family and guests mocked him. Lin Wanxi recovered the Jade Buddha and presented it instead, while Tang Yu’s inner commentary left Lin Wanxi wondering who was revealing the truth about Ye Qiu.

• Lin Shengxi presented Elder Lin with a box that contained Purple Ginseng instead of the Jade Buddha, and Ye Qiu loudly claimed the ginseng was a genuine two-hundred-year-old root worth at least sixty million yuan.
• Elder Lin and the guests mocked Ye Qiu, and Hou Caichun fell when Ye Qiu pushed her hand away as she tried to slap him.
• Lin Wanxi found the Jade Buddha in her handbag, presented it to Elder Lin, and led her family away from the gathering.
• Ye Qiu kept the Purple Ginseng, while Tang Yu privately predicted that he would take it home and eat it himself.
• Lin Wanxi heard Tang Yu’s voice again and wondered whether a Guardian Deity was revealing Ye Qiu’s true nature to her.

Tang Yu attended Elder Lin’s birthday banquet, where Elder Lin tried to match him with Lin Wanxi, but Tang Yu denied any interest because she was married. Ye Qiu grew suspicious of Tang Yu, while Lin Wanxi warmed to him after hearing his private thoughts and believing he understood her.

• Tang Yu and Zhou Ganghao presented Elder Lin with a jade pendant and birthday wishes.
• Elder Lin introduced Tang Yu to Lin Wanxi and urged them to exchange WeChat accounts, provoking jealousy from Ye Qiu and Li Yunhao.
• Lin Wanxi refused the matchmaking because she was married, and Tang Yu insisted he had come only to offer birthday wishes.
• Zhou Ganghao took Tang Yu away, while Ye Qiu watched him with suspicion and threatened him in his thoughts.
• Lin Wanxi heard Tang Yu’s private thoughts criticizing her grandfather’s interference and felt warmly toward the voice she believed was her Guardian Deity.

After Lin Shengxi and Hou Caichun rejected Ye Qiu’s claim that his gift was valuable, Liu Shufen identified the Purple Ginseng he had used in soup as worth tens of millions. The family regretted wasting it, but Ye Qiu’s meal then gave him uncontrollable gas and diarrhea, deepening Lin Wanxi’s contempt for him.

• Lin Shengxi and Hou Caichun berated Ye Qiu for ruining the family’s standing, while Lin Wanxi let him cook dinner.
• Ye Qiu made Purple Ginseng rib soup, but Lin Shengxi and Hou Caichun refused to believe it was valuable, so Ye Qiu drank it himself.
• Liu Shufen recognized the Purple Ginseng and estimated it was worth at least forty million, leaving Lin Shengxi and Hou Caichun devastated.
• Lin Shengxi tried to lick the empty bowl, while Ye Qiu began farting uncontrollably and soiled his pants.
• Lin Wanxi considered ending her marriage to Ye Qiu but held back because of her grandmother’s dying words, and Ye Qiu hurried off to shower.

After Tang Yu’s prank on Ye Qiu became a scandal in Yanjing, he settled into a villa and received a cultivation reward from the System. He then returned to the Divine Tree Space and discovered that the Divine Tree had taken the form of a little girl who called herself his grandmother.

• Lin Wanxi retreated to her bedroom in disgust, while Liu Shufen promised Hou Caichun to keep quiet about Ye Qiu’s mishap.
• Liu Shufen spread the story in a WeChat group, and the gossip soon circulated throughout Yanjing, reportedly infuriating Elder Lin.
• Zhou Ganghao showed Tang Yu a villa, and Tang Yu chose it and asked only for someone to clean it each day.
• Tang Yu received a cultivation increase from the System that stabilized his strength at the early stage of the Heaven Realm.
• Tang Yu returned to the Divine Tree Space, where he met a little girl who revealed herself as the Divine Tree and demanded that he call her Grandma.

Tang Yu met the newly awakened Tree Spirit, who urged him to win over Lin Wanxi for a Divine Tree reward, then encountered Yang Zhilan at the neighboring villa in Yanjing. He prepared to treat her again and followed her to her bedroom.

• The Tree Spirit warned Tang Yu not to kill Ye Qiu and encouraged him to win over Lin Wanxi in exchange for a Divine Tree reward.
• Tang Yu returned to his villa and found Yang Zhilan sitting on the balcony next door.
• Tang Yu greeted Yang Zhilan and asked to treat her, while she initially mistook his suggestive remarks for flirting.
• Yang Zhilan agreed to let Tang Yu treat her again, and he opened wine and waited for cupping jars to arrive.
• Tang Yu followed Yang Zhilan to her bedroom, where she lay face down for treatment.

Tang Yu treated Yang Zhilan before Han Mingxuan unexpectedly arrived at her villa. After using the Soul-Capturing Eye to make Han Mingxuan believe they were sworn brothers, Tang Yu gained an ally in Yanjing.

• Tang Yu massaged Yang Zhilan, applied cupping jars, and let her sleep while he went downstairs.
• Han Mingxuan arrived at the villa and called Yang Zhilan his cousin.
• Tang Yu ambushed Han Mingxuan, threatened him with a knife, and used the Soul-Capturing Eye to brainwash him.
• Han Mingxuan woke believing Tang Yu was his big brother and chatted with him as a friend.
• Tang Yu learned that Han Mingxuan's old bodyguard had been fired and considered the Han Family's influence useful in Yanjing.

Tang Yu received a system plot preview and prepared for the next plot segment while Ye Qiu returned to the Ye Family’s service and planned his rise to power. Ye Qiu ordered the Liu Family crushed, chose Liu Ruyan as a potential ally, and decided to create trouble for his wife’s business so he could later help her.

• Yang Zhilan came downstairs and learned that Tang Yu and Han Mingxuan had become friends after fighting, then went back upstairs to rest.
• Tang Yu received a system plot preview, sent Han Mingxuan home, and prepared to earn rewards in the next plot segment.
• Ye Buyu learned that Ye Qiu had disgraced himself and was shocked when Ye Qiu arrived at the Wuji Group.
• Ye Qiu ordered Ye Buyu to destroy Liu Shufen’s family within three days and claimed that ruining his reputation had been part of a deliberate plan.
• Ye Qiu selected the powerful Liu Family and Liu Ruyan as a potential source of support, then ordered Ye Buyu to make trouble for the Lin Family business his wife managed.

Ye Qiu entered an antique shop to meet Liu Ruyan and win her favor, while Tang Yu secretly followed him to disrupt the expected plot. Liu Ruyan’s treasured jade figure broke when Uncle Liu dropped its box, and the shop called for its master restorer, Gu Yunqing.

• Two security guards mocked Ye Qiu for arriving on an electric scooter, and Tang Yu followed him into the antique shop in disguise.
• Ye Qiu expected to meet Liu Ruyan and use the chance to gain the favor of her and the Liu Family.
• Liu Ruyan arrived with the jade figure her late father had carved for her and handed it to Uncle Liu for restoration.
• Uncle Liu’s hand went numb, and he dropped the box, breaking the jade figure in two.
• Liu Ruyan urged Uncle Liu to find someone who could repair the figure, and he went to get Gu Yunqing.

Ye Qiu sabotaged Gu Yunqing’s attempt to repair Liu Ruyan’s jade figure while pretending to warn him that his method was flawed. Tang Yu recognized Ye Qiu’s familiar scheme and silently exposed the trick, leaving Gu Yunqing about to use the sabotaged solution.

• Ye Qiu used a grain of rice to numb Uncle Liu’s arm, causing him to drop the box containing Liu Ruyan’s damaged jade figure.
• Gu Yunqing examined the figure and agreed to try repairing it with his family’s ancestral solution.
• Tang Yu anticipated Ye Qiu’s warning to Gu Yunqing, and Ye Qiu repeated it as the onlookers insulted him.
• Ye Qiu explained why Gu Yunqing’s solution was unsuitable for Dushan Jade, then secretly flicked vinegar into the bottle.
• Tang Yu realized Ye Qiu had deliberately contaminated the solution and silently mocked his underhanded method.

Liu Ruyan heard Tang Yu’s thoughts predict that Ye Qiu would engineer a jade restoration mishap, then watched Gu Yunqing’s repair fail and Ye Qiu restore the Jade Figure. Ye Qiu won the crowd’s admiration, while Liu Ruyan remained wary of him.

• Liu Ruyan heard Tang Yu’s thoughts about Ye Qiu and watched as Ye Qiu challenged Gu Yunqing’s restoration skills.
• Gu Yunqing repaired the Jade Figure, but it broke apart again when he shook it, and he pleaded with Ye Qiu to help.
• Liu Ruyan asked Ye Qiu to repair the Jade Figure left by her late father, despite Tang Yu’s thoughts accusing Ye Qiu of causing the trouble.
• Ye Qiu repaired the Jade Figure in five minutes, and Gu Yunqing apologized while the onlookers praised Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu failed to repair Liu Ruyan’s Jade Figure, and she suspected he had sabotaged it despite the security footage failing to reveal his actions. After Ye Qiu left, Liu Ruyan discovered that a masked man had secretly restored the Jade Figure.

• Ye Qiu’s repair fluid failed, and the Jade Figure cracked again as Liu Ruyan took it from him.
• Liu Ruyan asked Uncle Liu to check the security footage, then made Ye Qiu stay and watch it with them.
• The footage showed Uncle Liu’s hand move strangely before the box fell, but it did not capture Ye Qiu tampering with it, so Liu Ruyan reluctantly apologized to him.
• After Ye Qiu left, Liu Ruyan concluded that someone had deliberately targeted her and went downstairs to ask Gu Yunqing to repair the Jade Figure.
• Liu Ruyan found the Jade Figure fully restored, and Gu Yunqing said he had not repaired it.
• Liu Ruyan checked another camera and discovered that a masked man had swiftly repaired the Jade Figure.