Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu taught Su Muyue to swim, but she nearly drowned when her leg cramped in the deep end. After he rescued her, she kissed him and admitted that her brush with death made her want to stop holding back and do what she wanted.

• Tang Yu taught Su Muyue the breaststroke, and she quickly learned to swim across the pool.
• Tang Yu went to get drinks while Su Muyue swam, and she began drowning after her left leg cramped.
• Tang Yu rushed into the pool, pulled Su Muyue ashore, and stopped her cramp by pressing a spot on her thigh.
• Su Muyue clung to Tang Yu in fear, then kissed him and said she regretted holding back from things she wanted to do.

Ye Feilong sent his grandson Ye Qingshan into Huaxia as part of a plan to weaken the nation’s fortune from within. After Ye Qingshan crossed the Nine-Dash Line, his National Fortune System activated and gave him a demanding first task.

• Ye Feilong killed a band of pirates who boarded his yacht, while Ye Qizi and Ye Qingshan praised his strength.
• Ye Feilong explained that Ye Qingshan had to enter Huaxia because he lacked the Qiu Family bloodline, and Ye Qingshan crossed the Nine-Dash Line without being suppressed for long.
• Ye Feilong ordered Ye Qingshan to become a core member of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences so he could misdirect the country’s research and weaken its national fortune.
• Ye Qingshan agreed to the mission, and Ye Feilong told him to return to Japan before traveling through the United States to Huaxia.
• Ye Qingshan’s National Fortune System activated and tasked him with officially becoming a member of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences within one week of returning to Huaxia.

Ye Qingshan struggled to figure out how to enter the Huaxia Academy of Sciences within seven days, while the Academy and national leaders learned that his system mission could reward them with a controlled nuclear fusion artificial sun blueprint. The chapter left Director Gu tasked with helping Ye Qingshan enter the Academy, while Tang Keke continued her mischievous dinner antics at the Tang Family home.

• Ye Qingshan worried that seven days was not enough time to enter the Huaxia Academy of Sciences and kept the system secret from Ye Feilong.
• A glowing sheet appeared in the Academy president's office, instructing the Academy to help Ye Qingshan complete his first system mission in exchange for part of a controlled nuclear fusion artificial sun blueprint.
• President Gu and the academicians investigated the sheet and decided to handle the matter under the highest secrecy.
• National leaders reviewed Ye Qingshan's background, agreed to let him try entering the Academy, and barred him from core projects for twenty years.
• Director Gu accepted responsibility for helping Ye Qingshan enter the Huaxia Academy of Sciences.
• At dinner, Tang Keke gave the mushrooms from her bowl to Tang Yu, who stuffed them back into her mouth and was scolded by the Tang parents.

Tang Yu learned that Ye Qingshan had become the host of a National Fortune System and planned to make him fail his first mission at the Huaxia Academy of Sciences. The chapter ended with Tang Yu plotting to sabotage Ye Qingshan’s interview.

• Mother Tang arranged for seven-year-old Tang Keke to start first grade, while Tang Yu joked about her intelligence.
• Tang Yu visited the Divine Tree Space, where the Divine Tree little loli told him that Tang Keke had changed after acknowledging him as her master.
• The Divine Tree little loli revealed that Ye Qingshan had bound himself to a National Fortune System and needed to enter the Huaxia Academy of Sciences for his first mission.
• The Divine Tree little loli explained that Tang Yu had to make Ye Qingshan repeatedly fail missions, since killing him would only cause the system to find another host.
• After the Divine Tree little loli’s attempt to spy on Ye Qingshan was noticed and disrupted, Tang Yu decided to make him sing, dance, and rap during his academy interview.

Tang Yu decided to take Tang Keke to Mingzhu instead of enrolling her in school, then arrived at the Yang Family and reunited with Yang Zhilan. His shameless thoughts about her softened her cold welcome as the family dinner continued.

• Tang Yu told Father Tang and Mother Tang that he would take Tang Keke to Mingzhu, and Tang Keke eagerly agreed to go with him.
• At the Yang Family dinner, Yang Guofeng treated Yang Zhilan warmly while the relatives gathered for the ancestor worship ceremony.
• Tang Yu arrived at the Yang Family home and greeted Yang Guofeng, who happily seated him beside Yang Zhilan.
• Yang Zhilan acted coldly toward Tang Yu, but she gave him the duck leg she had bitten into.
• Tang Yu ate the duck leg while thinking shamelessly about Yang Zhilan, and she blushed as she heard his thoughts.

Tang Yu visited the Yang Family with his adopted daughter, Tang Keke, and Yang Guofeng welcomed the sleeping child. After Yang Zhilan led Tang Yu to a guest room, he entered her room while she showered, and the two later reconciled through an intimate encounter.

• Tang Yu told the Yang Family butler to prepare light dishes for Tang Keke, who had fallen asleep after the flight.
• Tang Yu explained to Yang Guofeng that he had adopted seven-year-old Tang Keke, and Yang Guofeng went with Tang Yu and Yang Zhilan to see her.
• Yang Guofeng left Yang Zhilan to find Tang Yu a room, and she coldly showed him a guest room.
• Tang Yu went to Yang Zhilan's room while she showered and claimed he was checking whether anyone was spying on her.
• After Yang Zhilan told Tang Yu to leave, the two later had an intimate encounter that settled their tension.

Tang Yu spent time with Yang Zhilan and her family while arranging to disrupt Ye Qingshan’s plans. Ye Qingshan returned to Huaxia and prepared to interview at the Huaxia Academy of Sciences, unaware Tang Yu intended to take another applicant’s place and cause trouble.

• Tang Yu replenished his true qi after being intimate with Yang Zhilan, while Yang Guofeng learned they had spent hours together and hoped they would have a child.
• Tang Yu and the Yang family took Tang Keke on outings, and Yang Guofeng argued that she should attend school.
• Tang Yu received confirmation that his false identity was ready and planned to use it to interfere with Ye Qingshan’s interview at the Huaxia Academy of Sciences Mingzhu Branch.
• Ye Qingshan flew back from Ugly Country, telling Li Feng he would succeed at the interview or change his nationality back.
• Li Feng encouraged Ye Qingshan to serve his country, following a superior’s instruction to contact him without revealing the reason.

Ye Qingshan attended an interview at the Huaxia Academy of Sciences, hoping to join and complete his system mission. Tang Yu secretly used his abilities to control Ye Qingshan during the interview, leaving him dancing and singing in front of the interviewers.

• After returning to Huaxia, Ye Qingshan learned that he had seven days to join the Huaxia Academy of Sciences and resolved to complete the mission so he could send its reward to his father.
• Dean Gu personally oversaw the interviews at the Mingzhu branch, waiting to assess Ye Qingshan.
• Tang Yu infiltrated the interview under Jiang Shuitian's identity and deliberately gave a disastrous introduction while planning to sabotage Ye Qingshan.
• Ye Qingshan impressed the interviewers and other applicants with his résumé and prestigious research papers.
• Tang Yu used his bracelet and Invisible Energy Whips to control Ye Qingshan, making him boast about his talent before performing a robot dance and singing.

Ye Qingshan’s inexplicable performance during his interview was followed by an urgent trip to the women’s restroom, where he was accused of peeping. Dean Gu and the security guards arrived to remove him, but Ye Qingshan kept the stall door shut.

• Ye Qingshan rushed into the women’s restroom after Tang Yu’s manipulation made him urgently need the toilet, and a woman in the neighboring stall accused him of peeping.
• Ye Qingshan pleaded that he had entered by mistake, but his stomach pain kept him from leaving as the woman called security.
• Tang Yu explained to himself that he had stimulated Ye Qingshan’s acupoint, leaving him unable to leave the restroom for half an hour.
• Dean Gu dismissed the interviewees and criticized Ye Qingshan’s behavior before learning that a man was hiding in the women’s restroom.
• Dean Gu and the security guards went to the restroom, unlocked Ye Qingshan’s stall, and found that he pulled the door shut as they tried to open it.

Ye Qingshan’s stomach trouble turned a mistaken visit to the women’s restroom into a chaotic incident at the Huaxia Academy of Sciences. Dean Gu overlooked the embarrassing scene and hired him as an intern at the Mingzhu Branch.

• A security guard failed to pull open the restroom door, but the security captain dragged Ye Qingshan out by the lock.
• Ye Qingshan spun through the air and accidentally hit nearly everyone in the restroom with his diarrhea, while Dean Gu escaped behind a security guard.
• Ye Qingshan explained that he had mistaken the women’s restroom for the men’s, and Dean Gu told the others to disperse before summoning him to his office.
• Dean Gu decided to give Ye Qingshan a chance and told him he had passed the interview as an intern at the Mingzhu Branch.
• Ye Qingshan gratefully accepted the position and thanked Dean Gu.

Ye Qingshan completed his mission by obtaining blueprints for an artificial sun, then destroyed the originals and planned to pass the information to his father. Tang Yu learned that Ye Qingshan’s success had weakened Tang Keke and set out to monitor him and uncover the rival Heavenly Dao’s interference.

• Ye Qingshan received more than forty pages of artificial-sun blueprints from the system and decided not to give them to the Huaxia Academy of Sciences.
• Ye Qingshan suspected the academy had accepted him as part of a trap, photographed the blueprints with a spy pen, and destroyed the originals.
• Tang Yu returned to the Yang Family residence and found Tang Keke feverish; he reassured Yang Zhilan that she would recover after resting.
• The Divine Tree loli told Tang Yu that Ye Qingshan’s successful mission had weakened Tang Keke because another Heavenly Dao had interfered.
• Tang Yu agreed to monitor Ye Qingshan and investigate how he entered the academy, but the Divine Tree loli’s projection of him vanished quickly.

Tang Yu accepted a request from Sister Zhang to infiltrate a research institute in Mingzhu and investigate its owner, who was suspected of leading a spy network. He agreed to the mission and awaited preparations while intending to keep dealing with Ye Qingshan.

• Tang Yu wondered whether Ye Qingshan's system had helped him complete a mission, then Yang Guofeng summoned him to meet important guests.
• Sister Zhang told Tang Yu that his report about the Nine Dragons Array had earned him recognition and asked him to serve the country as a spy.
• Tang Yu initially objected, but Sister Zhang revealed how much the authorities knew about his past and showed him files on stolen intelligence.
• Sister Zhang assigned Tang Yu to adopt a new identity and enter a Mingzhu research institute to investigate its owner and the suspected spy network.
• Tang Yu accepted the mission and jokingly asked Sister Zhang whether he could have multiple wives without going to prison.

Tang Yu told Yang Guofeng that officials had asked him for help and that he would have to move out temporarily. Meanwhile, Ye Qingshan’s completed mission produced designs for controllable nuclear fusion, prompting leaders to establish a special operations department dedicated to protecting and assisting him.

• Tang Yu reassured Yang Guofeng that he was not in trouble and explained that he would likely move out for a while.
• The golden sheet announced that Ye Qingshan’s mission was complete and materialized a stack of design documents.
• Old He examined the designs, confirmed they were genuine, and said they could advance the artificial sun project by at least five years.
• The leaders ordered a special operations department to protect Ye Qingshan and help him complete system missions.
• The leaders established the Qingshan department solely to serve Ye Qingshan.

Ye Qingshan received a system mission to begin a relationship with Jiang Caixia, while Dean Gu enlisted the Special Operations Department to help him complete it. Tang Yu learned of the plan and headed to the bar to disrupt their meeting, where Ye Qingshan approached Jiang Caixia and her friend Lotus.

• Ye Qingshan went to work at the Huaxia Academy of Sciences for a week and felt frustrated by his colleagues' suspicions about how he had gotten the position.
• The system ordered Ye Qingshan to begin a relationship with Jiang Caixia within a month in exchange for two-fifths of the artificial sun design blueprints, and directed him to Clear Joy Bar.
• Dean Gu saw the new mission and asked the Special Operations Department to provide Ye Qingshan with every possible form of assistance.
• Tang Yu, using a new identity to infiltrate the Nine Star Research Institute, learned from Divine Tree that Ye Qingshan would meet Jiang Caixia at Qingyue and drove there to cause trouble.
• Ye Qingshan found Jiang Caixia at the bar with her friend Lotus and introduced himself as a former schoolmate from her exchange year.

Tang Yu watched Ye Qingshan speak with Jiang Caixia and tried to turn an approaching confrontation to his advantage. Li Dafu arrived, challenged Ye Qingshan over Jiang Caixia, and the chapter ended with Ye Qingshan calmly mocking Li Dafu’s showy drink offer.

• Lotus joined Jiang Caixia and teased Ye Qingshan, who chatted with Jiang Caixia without pressing her.
• Tang Yu noticed Li Dafu and his companions enter, then secretly sent a text while hoping to use them as scapegoats.
• Li Dafu greeted Jiang Caixia and Lotus, then criticized Lotus for bringing Jiang Caixia to the bar.
• Li Dafu ordered expensive Ace of Spades Platinum and told Ye Qingshan to move, offering him a bottle while insulting his Martell.
• Ye Qingshan asked Li Dafu why he did not simply eat money if he cared only about price, making Li Dafu and his companions laugh.

Ye Qingshan impressed Jiang Caixia by mixing her a cocktail, while Li Dafu’s attempt to retaliate ended with him and his companions arrested by the Special Operations Department. Ye Qingshan’s evening then fell apart when a woman mistook him for a client seeking group sex, driving Jiang Caixia and Lotus to leave.

• Ye Qingshan mixed a pale blue cocktail for Jiang Caixia, who preferred it to Li Dafu’s Ace of Spades.
• Li Dafu left the bar furious and planned to have Ye Qingshan’s hands broken, but Qingshan-codenamed Special Operations Department agents arrested him and his companions for investigation.
• Ye Qingshan waited for Li Dafu to return, hoping to use a fight to impress Jiang Caixia.
• A woman in a black dress approached Ye Qingshan, called him her boss, and demanded extra payment for group play.
• Ye Qingshan angrily denied knowing the woman, but Jiang Caixia left and Lotus followed with her friend.

Tang Yu sabotaged Ye Qingshan’s attempted contact with Jiang Caixia, then returned home and indulged Tang Keke’s demands for takeout. After Ye Qingshan’s failed mission was reported, Dean Gu recognized Jiang Caixia as his former student’s daughter and agreed to help arrange an introduction.

• Ye Qingshan blamed Li Dafu for the escort who disrupted his plan, then asked the woman which app she used to find work.
• Lotus comforted Jiang Caixia after they left the bar, while Tang Yu secretly followed them and celebrated the mission’s failure.
• Tang Yu bought milk tea for Jiang Caixia and Lotus, then returned to his apartment at the Nine Star Research Institute and ordered Tang Keke fried chicken and barbecue.
• The special operations department reported Ye Qingshan’s failed contact to Dean Gu and the other leaders, who reviewed Jiang Caixia’s file.
• Dean Gu recognized Jiang Caixia as his former student’s daughter and agreed to contact him about introducing her to Ye Qingshan.

Tang Yu began his first day at the Nine Star Research Institute and met Xie Jiujiu, the petite, timid leader of the photovoltaic group. As Xie Jiujiu tried to act like a capable supervisor, she heard Tang Yu’s unspoken thoughts and ended the chapter after her bra pads fell out while she cleaned a window.

• Tang Yu completed onboarding and met Xie Jiujiu, who introduced herself as the photovoltaic group’s leader.
• Xie Jiujiu reviewed leadership advice and tried to maintain a tough image while Tang Yu settled in.
• Xie Jiujiu heard Tang Yu’s thoughts about her lollipop, became flustered, and briefly wondered if she was hallucinating.
• Xie Jiujiu asked Tang Yu to fetch a ladder, then climbed it to clean the windows while he held it steady.
• Xie Jiujiu heard Tang Yu’s thoughts about her strawberry-print underwear, and her bra pads fell to the floor.

After Xie Jiujiu accidentally dropped her bra pads, she realized she could hear Tang Yu’s unspoken thoughts and told her grandmother she had gained a superpower. She later tried to test the ability at work and asked Tang Yu to add the contact of a new colleague who was starting that day.

• Xie Jiujiu dropped her bra pads while Tang Yu was nearby, but Tang Yu pretended dust had gotten in his eyes as she hurried to hide them.
• Xie Jiujiu heard Tang Yu’s thoughts and realized he had seen the bra pads, then fled to the restroom.
• Xie Jiujiu messaged her grandmother that she had a superpower, and her grandmother responded indulgently.
• Xie Jiujiu returned to the office and tried to hear Tang Yu’s thoughts again, but the ability did not seem to work.
• Xie Jiujiu asked Tang Yu to add the contact of a new colleague who was starting work that day.

Tang Yu discovered that his new colleague was Jiang Caixia, Ye Qingshan’s mission target, and helped the socially anxious girl through her arrival and onboarding. Xie Jiujiu assigned Tang Yu to mentor Jiang Caixia, telling him to be a “beastly senior.”

• Tang Yu accepted Jiang Caixia’s friend request and arranged to meet her at the research institute entrance.
• Tang Yu recognized Jiang Caixia when she arrived with her mother, who enthusiastically befriended him and invited him over for dinner.
• Tang Yu reassured Jiang Caixia that he did not mind her mother’s chattiness and helped her communicate during her onboarding paperwork.
• Tang Yu introduced Jiang Caixia to Xie Jiujiu, who welcomed her to the photovoltaic team.
• Xie Jiujiu assigned Tang Yu to teach Jiang Caixia and told him to be a beastly senior.