Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu learned that Ye Qiu was preparing to make a move in Mingzhu and set out with Lu Junzhuo and the others to disrupt the Dragon Soul Organization. In Mingzhu, Yang Zhilan faced relatives trying to seize control of the Yang Family while her father lay unconscious.

• Tang Yu decided to head to Mingzhu and told Lu Junzhuo that his poison had been completely neutralized.
• Tang Yu, Lu Junzhuo, Ling Han, and another woman traveled to Mingzhu.
• Yang Zhilan learned from Doctor Ge that the specialists could not identify why Yang Guofeng had suddenly fallen ill, and she could not reach Tang Yu by phone.
• Yang Zhongshan and more than twenty Yang Family relatives confronted Yang Zhilan and proposed temporarily replacing her father as head of the family.

Yang Zhilan lost the vote for leadership of the Yang Family to Yang Zhongshan, who tried to put her under house arrest. Tang Yu arrived with his companions, intervened violently, and declared he would claim the family inheritance by marrying Yang Zhilan.

• Yang Zhongshan won the family vote, and Yang Zhilan insulted him and his son when they tried to stop her from leaving.
• Yang Zhongshan ordered bodyguards to seize Yang Zhilan, but Tang Yu appeared and incapacitated them with Rigid Finger.
• Tang Yu stood beside Yang Zhilan and announced he would fight for the inheritance, claiming it would become his through marriage.
• Yang Zhongshan's son charged Tang Yu with a fruit knife, and Tang Yu disarmed and stabbed him in self-defense.
• Yang Zhongshan ordered the bodyguards to attack Tang Yu, but Lu Junzhuo rushed forward and used Rigid Finger against them.

Tang Yu stopped Yang Zhongshan’s coup against Yang Zhilan, controlled him, and discovered a dormant poison threatening Yang Guofeng’s life. After starting Yang Guofeng’s treatment, Tang Yu listened as Ye Qiu revealed more of his plans and learned about the Yang Family’s treasured tribute wine.

• Tang Yu beat the Yang Family members who supported Yang Zhongshan’s coup, then used the Soul-Capturing Eye to control Yang Zhongshan and have the others taken away.
• Yang Zhongshan confessed that he and his son had joined forces with Ye Qiu, and Yang Zhilan asked Tang Yu to examine her gravely ill father.
• Tang Yu discovered a poison that had been planted in Yang Guofeng years earlier and began drawing it out with a four-hour medicated-water treatment.
• Tang Yu told Ling Han and Chi Yin to guard the Yang Family while he and Lu Junzhuo prepared to handle other matters.
• Tang Yu had Yang Zhongshan call Ye Qiu, who confirmed the coup’s supposed success, ordered Yang Zhilan kept unharmed, and requested a bottle of the Yang Family’s century-old tribute wine.
• Yang Zhongshan explained the wine’s history, and Tang Yu hinted at a plan involving it.

Tang Yu and Lu Junzhuo planned to sabotage Ye Qiu’s campaign in Mingzhu by targeting the Dragon Soul Organization’s Heaven Realm experts and undermining its influence over the great families. Meanwhile, Ye Qiu prepared to seize control of the chamber of commerce, and the Heavenly Stems Squad questioned its orders as its mind-reading leader Ji sensed their dissatisfaction.

• Tang Yu tried to prepare spiked yellow wine, but after he and Lu Junzhuo had both used the bathroom, they enlisted Yang Zhongshan’s aunt to supply what they needed.
• Tang Yu and Lu Junzhuo set out to kill the five Dragon Soul Organization Heaven Realm experts in Mingzhu and disrupt Ye Qiu’s arrangements within the nine great families.
• Ye Qiu discussed the suspiciously smooth plan and the Heavenly Stems Squad with Steward Ye, then focused on taking over the chamber of commerce and swallowing the Yang Family.
• Five Heavenly Stems Squad members gathered in a Mingzhu villa, where Xin questioned why they had been sent to serve Ye Qiu.
• Ji warned Xin not to challenge the Old Dragon King and revealed that his ability let him sense other people’s thoughts.

Tang Yu and Lu Junzhuo disguised themselves as Ye Qiu to ambush the Heavenly Stems Squad, turning the squad’s meeting into a bloody fight. Lu Junzhuo held off two opponents while Tang Yu quickly incapacitated Geng and left the remaining squad members panicked.

• Ye Qiu arrived at the villa, but the apparent Ye Qiu attacked Xin before the real Ye Qiu rushed in and exposed the impostor.
• Tang Yu and Lu Junzhuo removed their Human Skin Masks and revealed that they had disguised themselves to ambush the Heavenly Stems Squad.
• Lu Junzhuo fought two squad members at once while Tang Yu used Rigid Finger to incapacitate another.
• Tang Yu caught Geng’s punch, ignored Ji’s counterattack, and struck Geng three times, leaving him badly injured.
• The remaining Heavenly Stems Squad members panicked as Lu Junzhuo continued fighting and Tang Yu’s attacks devastated their formation.

Tang Yu hunted down Ji and defeated him after Ji's ambush failed, then returned to Lu Junzhuo with mystic iron taken from him. With Ye Qiu's allies eliminated, Tang Yu turned to his next plan: disrupting the Nine Great Families before the Mingzhu Chamber of Commerce meeting.

• Ji fled from Tang Yu and hid in a bathroom, preparing a black iron trap and a dagger for an ambush.
• Tang Yu pursued Ji, used an electric drill to break through the bathroom door, and beat him down after Ji charged with a knife.
• Tang Yu discovered the black iron hidden in Ji's underwear and threatened him with the drill while Ji begged to join him.
• Tang Yu returned downstairs and gave the bloodstained mystic iron to Lu Junzhuo as a trophy.
• Tang Yu and Lu Junzhuo disposed of the five dead men, and Tang Yu planned to stir up trouble among the Nine Great Families before the chamber's meeting.

After Tang Yu treated Yang Guofeng and learned he was improving, Yang Zhilan prepared to represent the Yang Family at the Mingzhu Chamber of Commerce meeting. At the meeting, Ye Qiu drew the attention of the assembled leaders, and Yang Zhongshan arrived claiming he would represent his gravely ill brother as the chamber began discussing its presidency.

• Tang Yu returned to the Yang Family with Lu Junzhuo and reassured Chi Yin and Ling Han that nothing had gone wrong.
• Yang Zhilan told Tang Yu that Yang Guofeng had improved enough to drink porridge, and Tang Yu visited him and prescribed a recovery diet.
• Tang Yu explained that Yang Zhilan would attend the next day's Mingzhu Chamber of Commerce meeting in her father's place.
• The chamber members arrived and found Ye Qiu seated among the ten great families' new leaders, who treated him with respect.
• Ye Qiu overheard the members discuss Mingzhu's hidden families and resolved to seek them out after taking down the Yang Family.
• Yang Zhongshan arrived injured and announced that he would represent Yang Guofeng at the meeting, after which a vice president opened discussion of the presidency.

Ye Qiu was unanimously elected chairman of the Mingzhu Chamber of Commerce, but Yang Zhilan arrived to challenge the election as the Yang Family came under a major financial attack. As Ye Qiu celebrated his victory with the chamber members, he drank the Yang Family’s treasured wine, unaware that it had been poisoned.

• The vice chairman announced Ye Qiu as a new core member, and the chamber members unanimously voted him chairman.
• Yang Zhilan entered and declared that she would invalidate the election on her father’s behalf; Yang Zhongshan revealed that someone had helped her escape confinement.
• Yang Zhilan received word that a massive influx of capital was driving down her family company’s stock, and Ye Qiu taunted her with plans to acquire it cheaply.
• Yang Zhongshan rebuked Yang Zhilan and offered the chamber members treasured Yang Family wine to celebrate Ye Qiu’s election.
• Ye Qiu and the others drank the aged yellow wine, and Ye Qiu poured himself another cup to savor it.

Ye Qiu and the Mingzhu Chamber of Commerce leaders discovered that their tribute wine had been mixed with urine, and Tang Yu mocked Ye Qiu as the former heads of the Ten Great Families arrived. Ye Qiu learned that the families had withdrawn their funds from his campaign against the Yang Family.

• Ye Qiu drank several cups of the wine before Old He recognized its taste as urine and warned the others.
• Yang Zhongshan poured the remaining wine over Ye Qiu and revealed that his seventy-two-year-old Third Aunt had made it, prompting Ye Qiu to knock him unconscious.
• Yang Zhilan laughed at Ye Qiu, who threatened that the Yang Family would be destroyed within a week.
• Tang Yu arrived and taunted Ye Qiu, who sent an emergency alert to Steward Ye and the Heavenly Stems Squad.
• The former heads of the Ten Great Families entered after Tang Yu and Lu Junzhuo had rescued them from house arrest.
• Ye Qiu received word that the families had withdrawn their funds from his plan to crush the Yang Family.

Tang Yu and his allies overwhelmed Ye Qiu after the Dragon Soul Organization’s attack on the Yang Family faltered, while Ye Qiu’s reinforcements failed to arrive as planned. Ye Qiu escaped in Steward Ye’s car, leaving Steward Ye to face Tang Yu and the three fighters.

• Wang Yixue used Suhang’s funds to help the Yang Family resist the Dragon Soul Organization and strike at its other industries.
• Ye Qiu fled through a third-floor window, but Ling Han and Chi Yin attacked him in midair, and they joined Lu Junzhuo in beating him.
• Tang Yu left Yang Zhilan to handle the rescued victims and arrived as Lu Junzhuo, Ling Han, and Chi Yin continued to batter Ye Qiu.
• Steward Ye arrived alone, helped the injured Ye Qiu escape by car, and stayed behind to fight Lu Junzhuo, Ling Han, and Chi Yin.
• Tang Yu confronted Steward Ye with a portable electric drill, frightening him because he had seen footage of Tang Yu’s earlier actions.

Tang Yu’s group killed Steward Ye and restored order in the Mingzhu Chamber of Commerce, while Ye Qiu escaped to Yanjing and enlisted Wei Yangcheng to target Dayue Real Estate. Ye Qiu arrived safely in Yanjing, and Wei Yangcheng was about to act when his wife brought him the herbal tea.

• Tang Yu ordered Steward Ye’s body cremated and the ashes mailed to Ye Qiu with cash on delivery.
• Yang Zhilan and the family heads agreed that she would temporarily lead the Mingzhu Chamber of Commerce.
• Ye Qiu mourned Steward Ye, then decided to return to Yanjing for his fifth anniversary with Lin Wanxi.
• Ye Qiu asked Wei Yangcheng to arrange a private jet and bankrupt Dayue Real Estate, while insisting his tea would eventually affect Liu Ruyan.
• Ye Qiu boarded the Wei Family’s plane and reached safety, while Wei Yangcheng prepared to target Dayue Real Estate.
• Wei Yangcheng’s wife brought him a cup of herbal tea.

After Wei Yangcheng overdrew himself using Ye Qiu’s herbal tea, he ordered his bodyguards to punish Ye Qiu. Ye Qiu arrived in Yanjing believing the men waiting for him were there to protect him, but they attacked him instead.

• Li Youlan doubled the amount of herbal tea she gave Wei Yangcheng, and he collapsed in agony after drinking it.
• The Wei Family doctor blamed the tea and Wei Yangcheng’s excessive sexual activity, then said his condition could not be treated.
• Wei Yangcheng ordered Xiao Zhang to take men to the airport and beat Ye Qiu.
• A flight attendant woke Ye Qiu before landing and told him he had repeatedly called out Steward Ye and Yang Zhilan in his sleep.
• Ye Qiu mistook the bodyguards waiting at the airport for Wei Family protection, but they scattered lime powder, covered his head with a bucket, and beat him.

Ye Qiu broke through to the mid-stage Heaven Realm and went to the Wei Family to treat Wei Yangcheng, who blamed him for his condition. Meanwhile, Liu Ruyan celebrated Tang Yu’s scheme and became infatuated with a body pillow of him, while Yang Guofeng privately spoke with Tang Yu about his closeness to Yang Zhilan.

• Ye Qiu recovered during a beating, broke through to the mid-stage Heaven Realm, defeated the bodyguards, and learned that Wei Yangcheng had ordered the attack because his condition had worsened.
• Ye Qiu arrived at the Wei Family and told Wei Yangcheng he could treat him, then asked to speak with him privately.
• Liu Ruyan watched Ye Qiu take the blame, returned to her room, and cuddled a custom body pillow of Tang Yu.
• Yang Guofeng’s health improved after Tang Yu treated him, and he invited Tang Yu to his study for a private conversation.
• Yang Guofeng thanked Tang Yu for helping Yang Zhilan and recognized that their relationship was more than ordinary friendship.

Yang Guofeng asked Tang Yu to have children with Yang Zhilan and continue the Yang Family line, and Yang Zhilan later went to Tang Yu’s room and initiated an intimate encounter. The chapter ended with Yang Guofeng assuming Tang Yu was now his son-in-law and arranging for the household staff to sabotage condoms.

• Yang Guofeng asked Tang Yu to have several children with Yang Zhilan and suggested marriage, but Tang Yu said they were still young.
• Yang Zhilan overheard their conversation, then later admitted to Tang Yu that she thought her father’s proposal made sense.
• Tang Yu demonstrated his Invisible Energy Whip technique and reflected on its impractical, inappropriate uses.
• Yang Zhilan visited Tang Yu in a bathrobe, kissed him, and asked him to treat her completely.
• Yang Guofeng learned Yang Zhilan had gone to Tang Yu’s room and told Sixth Aunt to prepare virility-boosting food and secretly poke holes in condoms.

After treating Wei Yangcheng, Ye Qiu blamed Tang Yu for the trouble and urged the Dark Night Organization to kill him. Ge Ji then went to speak with Huang Xiaoyun about the mission, leaving their conversation unresolved.

• Chi Yin and Ling Han heard sounds from Tang Yu's room and discussed returning to Yanjing to live together again.
• Ye Qiu stabilized Wei Yangcheng’s condition and promised he could recover after an operation in three days.
• Ye Qiu blamed Tang Yu for sabotaging Wei Yangcheng and urged the Wei Family to take revenge.
• Ye Qiu called Ge Ji to demand progress on the assassination, and Ge Ji promised an answer within a week.
• Ge Ji went to Huang Xiaoyun’s room to discuss killing Tang Yu, and she opened the door displeased at the interruption.

Ge Ji decided to help Huang Xiaoyun assassinate Tang Yu, while Ye Qiu recovered from his injuries and prepared an elaborate fifth-anniversary surprise for Lin Wanxi. Lin Wanxi secured approval for her company’s proposal and began asking Zhou Ganghao about something personal.

• Huang Xiaoyun agreed to assassinate Tang Yu within a week, and Ge Ji resolved to help her carry out the killing.
• Ye Qiu recovered to the mid-stage Heaven Realm and planned to reveal his secrets to Lin Wanxi on their fifth wedding anniversary.
• Ye Qiu and Han Mingyuan prepared Cloud Mist Mountain Villa with a wedding theme and arranged luxury cars and helicopters for Lin Wanxi’s arrival.
• Zhou Ganghao approved Lin Wanxi’s proposal, and she asked to speak with him about a matter unrelated to work.

Lin Wanxi asked Zhou Ganghao to help her see Tang Yu, whom she believed had secretly cared for and supported her. Tang Yu agreed to visit Zhou Ganghao’s VR project, leaving Lin Wanxi waiting for a chance to glimpse him.

• Lin Wanxi asked Zhou Ganghao whether Tang Yu had been helping her, and Zhou Ganghao indirectly confirmed it.
• Lin Wanxi asked to meet Tang Yu and explained that she had no real relationship with her husband, Ye Qiu; Zhou Ganghao agreed to arrange for her to see Tang Yu without revealing herself.
• Zhou Ganghao called Tang Yu and invited him to inspect a VR technology project with high expected profits, and Tang Yu agreed.
• Tang Yu told Chi Yin and Ling Han he was heading out, then drove to the VR experience center to meet Zhou Ganghao.
• Zhou Ganghao introduced the project’s realistic VR experience as Tang Yu arrived, and Tang Yu showed interest in its potential.

Zhou Ganghao arranged for Lin Wanxi to meet Tang Yu at the VR experience center and secretly synchronized her kiss with an in-game character. Meanwhile, Ye Qiu waited for Lin Wanxi at Cloud Mist Mountain Villa, and Han Mingyuan discovered she was missing.

• Zhou Ganghao seated Tang Yu in a VR gaming chair and sent Lin Wanxi to approach him while he watched through surveillance.
• Zhou Ganghao had a staff member control the dating game's heroine to flirt with Tang Yu, while Lin Wanxi kissed Tang Yu in person.
• Zhou Ganghao ordered the staff member to synchronize the game's kiss with Lin Wanxi's and promised a bonus for keeping them aligned.
• At Cloud Mist Mountain Villa, Ye Qiu demanded to know why Lin Wanxi had not arrived, and Han Mingyuan learned she was not at the company and ordered people to find her.

Ye Qiu saw Lin Wanxi kiss Tang Yu at a VR arcade, but convinced himself she had been forced to do it and resolved to treat her better. He ordered Ge Ji to kill Tang Yu while turning his attention to rebuilding the Ye Family’s support in Yanjing.

• Han Mingyuan reported that Lin Wanxi had gone from Dayue Real Estate to a VR arcade with its general manager, and Ye Qiu rushed there by helicopter.
• Ye Qiu entered the arcade and saw Lin Wanxi take the initiative to kiss Tang Yu, then watched from behind a curtain as she continued kissing him.
• Ye Qiu left without confronting them, and Han Mingyuan mistook his hunched posture for a sign that he had been intimate with Lin Wanxi.
• Ye Qiu decided Lin Wanxi had been pressured into kissing Tang Yu because she needed business orders, though he remained intent on killing Tang Yu.
• Ye Qiu messaged Ge Ji and promised the Dragon Soul Organization’s overseas support for the Dark Night Organization if Ge Ji killed Tang Yu.
• Ye Qiu headed off to seek support from the Wei Family, the Liu Family, and other major families to revive the Ye Family.

Ge Ji learned that Tang Yu had been located and arranged to act against him with Huang Xiaoyun, who insisted on joining the mission. Meanwhile, Lin Wanxi kissed Tang Yu at the VR experience hall and left, while Zhou Ganghao covered for her.

• Ge Ji received Ye Qiu's reminder that their agreed deadline was near and ordered a subordinate to track down Tang Yu.
• Ge Ji offered Huang Xiaoyun a cocktail, and she imagined being captured and humiliated by Tang Yu.
• A subordinate reported Tang Yu's location, prompting Huang Xiaoyun to insist that he was her prey and agree to join Ge Ji's mission.
• Huang Xiaoyun went to shower and change before the mission, while Ge Ji mistook her decision for concern about his safety.
• Lin Wanxi kissed Tang Yu at the VR experience hall, then left and messaged Zhou Ganghao to thank him for arranging their privacy.