Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingshan’s unbearable crotch itch ruined his lead in a snowboarding competition, and he finished last after scratching himself throughout the race. Afterward, he blamed Nini for giving him a disease, while viewers suspected a sexually transmitted infection.

• Ye Qingshan’s crotch began itching during the race, forcing him to scratch through his pants as the other competitors caught up.
• Tang Yu predicted that Ye Qingshan would lose control, and Ye Qingshan’s vigorous scratching made him fall and roll down the slope.
• Ye Qingshan stuffed snow into his pants to soothe the itch, but the cameras showed the embarrassing scene to the crowd.
• Ye Qingshan kept scratching, fell to last place, and finished three minutes after the other competitors.
• Ye Qingshan told a reporter that he might have a skin disease, while netizens speculated that he had a sexually transmitted infection.

Ye Qingshan tried to suppress rumors about his genital warts by posting a medical report and getting a hospital to back his claim, but the system punished him for the deception. After he blamed Nini for infecting him, she retaliated by posting a detailed account of their relationship and photos of him.

• Dean Gu arranged a medical report for Ye Qingshan, who posted it on Weibo to deny the rumors and threaten legal action against his critics.
• The hospital publicly confirmed Ye Qingshan had a skin condition, and his fans pushed back against the accusations.
• The system's punishment left Ye Qingshan writhing in pain for nearly half an hour.
• Ye Qingshan called Nini and accused her of infecting him, while Nini insisted he had infected her.
• Nini posted a long account of how she and Ye Qingshan became lovers, along with secretly taken photos of him sleeping.

Tang Yu received blueprints for an ultra-high-precision machine tool but decided he could not reveal them until Ye Qingshan was dead. After Ye Qingshan’s scandal faded from public attention, he received a new intelligence order to retrieve materials, while Laura prepared the handoff and Tang Yu suddenly began bleeding from the nose.

• Tang Yu mocked Ye Qingshan’s defenders online, then received machine-tool blueprints in the Divine Tree Space and discussed waiting to use them until Ye Qingshan died.
• The hospital blamed a temporary worker for the misleading report, the Qingshan Department suppressed discussion, and Ye Qingshan stayed home until the scandal faded.
• Ye Qingshan decoded a dark-web message ordering him to retrieve materials from Blue Sky Private Hospital’s Private Room Five at 3:05 p.m. the next day.
• Laura prepared the classified materials on a USB drive and changed into casual clothes while her hamster watched her.
• Xie Jiujiu noticed Tang Yu sitting motionless as blood dripped from his nose.

Tang Yu stole and altered the high-precision machine-tool blueprints that Ugly Country had secretly given Ye Qingshan, then passed a copy to Lu Junzhuo for Suhang. He learned that Liu Ruyan was facing a power struggle and assassination attempts in Yanjing, and ordered Lu Junzhuo to deal with the Wei Family once matters in Suhang were settled.

• Tang Yu scouted the private cinema, then secretly retrieved the USB drive Laura had hidden and discovered that Ugly Country had supplied Ye Qingshan with high-precision machine-tool blueprints.
• Tang Yu copied the files, altered several details, and hid behind the sofa until Ye Qingshan collected the USB drive.
• Tang Yu met Lu Junzhuo at home and gave him a copy of the blueprints to take back to Suhang.
• Lu Junzhuo told Tang Yu that Wei Yangcheng had died, the Wei Family was fighting Liu Ruyan for power, and Liu Ruyan had survived three assassination attempts.
• Tang Yu told Lu Junzhuo to return to Yanjing after settling matters in Suhang and kill anyone in the Wei Family who seemed suspicious.

After recovering from cauliflower and facing ridicule at work, Ye Qingshan brought his machine-tool research to Dean Gu. Dean Gu invited him to join a special task force addressing the technology blockade, and Ye Qingshan accepted.

• Ye Qingshan returned to the Huaxia Academy of Sciences and was harassed by reporters about his cauliflower infection.
• Ye Qingshan found his colleagues treating him with mockery and indifference when he returned to his office.
• Ye Qingshan showed Dean Gu the machine-tool materials he had prepared while recovering at home.
• Dean Gu praised Ye Qingshan’s research and invited him to join the Academy’s machine-tool task force.
• Ye Qingshan eagerly accepted Dean Gu’s invitation.

Ye Qingshan presented research materials to Dean Gu and a room of senior experts, but a major error undermined his presentation and he blamed his poor condition. Meanwhile, Laura sent two twin researchers to seduce Tang Yu after deciding he was avoiding her advances because he only liked Huaxia women.

• Dean Gu transferred Ye Qingshan from his original office and brought him to meet senior researchers, who treated him coolly because of the cauliflower scandal and assumed he was an apprentice.
• Dean Gu explained that Ye Qingshan had brought in materials that might advance their project, and Ye began presenting them to the group.
• After Ye spoke for nearly half an hour, the experts pointed out a basic error in his explanation of the machine tool coordinates, and Dean Gu said his reasoning was like using coal-washing water as rocket fuel.
• Ye blamed his mistake on feeling unwell, and Dean Gu and the others accepted the explanation because of his genital warts.
• Laura sent two beautiful twin researchers she had trained to get close to Tang Yu and seduce him.
• Xie Jiujiu noticed Tang Yu drooling and staring vacantly in his office.

Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia tried to get revenge on Tang Yu after he teased them, while Tang Yu went to the cafeteria and charmed the serving auntie. The chapter ended when Chen Bailing and Chen Baiyu approached Tang Yu for lunch and were startled by his shameless invitation to sit beside him.

• Xie Jiujiu learned what Tang Yu meant by an indirect kiss, shoved her hand into his mouth, and then got spanked by him as Jiang Caixia tried to intervene.
• Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia refused to share lunch with Tang Yu, and Xie Jiujiu decided to retaliate by spitting into his tea.
• Jiang Caixia took a small sip from Tang Yu's cup before Xie Jiujiu spat into it several times.
• Tang Yu went to the cafeteria, where the serving auntie gave him an extra duck leg and he flattered her.
• Chen Bailing and Chen Baiyu asked to sit with Tang Yu, who invited them to sit beside him instead of across from him.

Tang Yu flirted shamelessly with the twin spies Chen Bailing and Chen Baiyu during lunch, unsettling their plans to control their relationship with him. The sisters fled the meal and began discussing how to take the initiative.

• Chen Bailing asked Tang Yu about his diet and work habits while Chen Baiyu joined in with admiring questions.
• Tang Yu grabbed Chen Bailing's hand to read her palm, then took Chen Baiyu's hand and claimed their love lines meant they would fall for the same man.
• Tang Yu declared that love had no rules and described embracing both sisters, leaving Chen Bailing speechless and amusing Chen Baiyu.
• Tang Yu took the sisters' chicken legs and gave them vegetables, then Chen Bailing and Chen Baiyu hurried away after lunch.
• The sisters found a place to talk and decided they had to take the initiative in controlling their relationship with Tang Yu.

Chen Bailing and Chen Baiyu tried to draw Tang Yu in while keeping him at a careful distance, believing they were gradually gaining control of him. Tang Yu exploited the twins’ mistaken identities and private messages to tease Chen Bailing, then called Chen Baiyu out as well.

• Chen Bailing and Chen Baiyu agreed to approach Tang Yu gradually, offering him a little closeness while resisting when he became too forward.
• Over the next several days, the sisters greeted Tang Yu and sometimes ate with him, growing more familiar with him.
• Tang Yu mistook Chen Bailing for Chen Baiyu and pulled her into a stairwell, where he claimed he liked her more than her sister and hinted at a private message.
• Chen Bailing left in embarrassment and rinsed her mouth in the restroom, then messaged Chen Baiyu to ask what she and Tang Yu had discussed.
• Tang Yu went to Chen Baiyu’s office and called her out, while Chen Baiyu thought her own plan against him was beginning to work.

Tang Yu tricked Chen Baiyu into revealing herself, then reported that he planned to turn her and Chen Bailing into double agents. The sisters discovered they had both been fooled by him and doubted they could control him.

• Tang Yu pretended to mistake Chen Baiyu for Chen Bailing and lured her to the rooftop with a supposed secret.
• Tang Yu told Chen Baiyu he liked her more than her sister, but she revealed her identity after realizing his intentions.
• Tang Yu apologized and claimed he had mistaken her because her act was convincing, then told her he and Chen Bailing had fallen in love at first sight.
• Tang Yu reported to Sister Zhang that Director Laura and the Chen sisters were confirmed spies and proposed turning the sisters into double agents.
• Chen Bailing and Chen Baiyu compared notes and realized Tang Yu had tricked them both.

Tang Yu continued shamelessly teasing the Chen sisters in the cafeteria, while a male researcher who copied his behavior was punished by Chen Baiyu. Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia confronted Tang Yu, and Xie Jiujiu loudly accused him of stealing her first kiss, drawing the cafeteria’s attention back to him.

• Tang Yu surprised Chen Baiyu into kissing his cheek, then teased the Chen sisters while fetching them pork trotters.
• A male researcher imitated Tang Yu by trying to kiss Chen Baiyu, so she poured hot soup over his head and accused him of molesting her.
• Tang Yu testified against the researcher and offered to escort the sisters home, but they refused.
• Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia watched Tang Yu eating with the Chen sisters and agreed on a plan.
• Xie Jiujiu confronted Tang Yu and loudly claimed that he had stolen her first kiss, attracting the cafeteria’s attention.

Xie Jiujiu confronted Tang Yu about eating with Chen Bailing and Chen Baiyu, then grew jealous when he admitted he had matters to discuss with them. Tang Yu calmed her and Jiang Caixia and invited them over for hotpot that evening.

• Xie Jiujiu accused Tang Yu of kissing her and challenged Chen Baiyu, who mocked her in return.
• Xie Jiujiu claimed Jiang Caixia was pregnant with Tang Yu’s child, so Tang Yu led the two women away from the cafeteria.
• Tang Yu pushed Xie Jiujiu back into the office, where she insisted she and Jiang Caixia had to protect him from bad women.
• Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia clung to Tang Yu, and he explained that he had important, private matters to discuss with the Chen Bailing sisters.
• Tang Yu invited Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia to his home for hotpot, and both eagerly named the foods they wanted.

Tang Yu spent the evening eating hot pot with Xie Jiujiu, Jiang Caixia, and Tang Keke, then reassured Xie Jiujiu that the Chen sisters would not be invited to his home. Meanwhile, Ye Qingshan presented Dean Gu with revised design plans, and Dean Gu agreed to test them despite believing they would fail.

• Tang Yu turned down Chen Baiyu and Chen Bailing’s invitation to join the hot pot dinner, and promised the upset Xie Jiujiu that only she and Jiang Caixia could come to his home.
• Tang Yu, Xie Jiujiu, and Jiang Caixia bought groceries, returned to find Tang Keke pretending to be dead with ketchup, and prepared hot pot together.
• Tang Keke asked when Tang Yu would marry both women, and the group ate hot pot before Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia pretended to fall asleep so they could stay over.
• Xie Jiujiu visited Tang Yu’s room after showering and admitted she worried that she was willful, but Jiang Caixia interrupted before she could finish what she wanted to say.
• Ye Qingshan brought revised design plans to Dean Gu, insisted they should be tested, and Dean Gu agreed to run a test so Ye Qingshan would accept the result.

Ye Qingshan’s proposed machine-tool design failed a laboratory test, and Dean Gu removed him from a project that had already made a breakthrough using research sent by a company in Suhang. Ye Qingshan reported the problem to his father and the organization, which discovered that the drawings differed from the originals and began searching for a mole, while the system assigned Ye Qingshan a new mission.

• Dean Gu showed Ye Qingshan the failed test report, urged him to accept his mistake, and told him to return to his original project.
• Dean Gu explained that the machine-tool project had already made a breakthrough after the Huaxia Academy of Sciences received research results from a major company in Suhang.
• Ye Qingshan checked his home for surveillance and contacted Ye Qizi through the dark web to report that the organization’s information might have been wrong.
• Ugly Country’s intelligence department found that Ye Qingshan’s drawings differed from the originals and ordered agents in Mingzhu to search for a mole.
• The system gave Ye Qingshan a mission to win an underwater freediving competition in one month, with half of the EUV lithography machine design drawings as the reward.

Ye Qingshan accepted a month of rest so he could enter a freediving competition tied to a system mission offering advanced lithography blueprints, while the Qingshan Department made plans to keep him from failing again. Tang Yu learned about the competition and promised to handle it, while Father Tang traveled to Yanjing to sign a machine-tool cooperation contract.

• Ye Qingshan received a system mission involving freediving and a reward of lithography-machine blueprints with technology beyond 1nm.
• Dean Gu and the Qingshan Department resolved to support the mission and discussed monitoring Ye Qingshan’s contacts and using medicine to prevent another failure.
• Ye Qingshan asked Dean Gu for a month off, and Dean Gu approved his seaside trip and freediving competition.
• Tang Yu learned of the competition from the little loli Divine Tree and said he would handle it.
• Father Tang told Tang Yu he was in Yanjing to sign a machine-tool cooperation contract between Tang Group and a major state-owned enterprise.

After signing a contract, Father Tang attended a banquet in Yanjing and learned about Tang Yu’s pregnant friend and other complicated relationships, then reported everything to the Tang Family. The chapter ended with Old Master Tang celebrating the news and messaging Tang Yu, who sprayed soup on Xie Jiujiu after reading it.

• Father Tang met Yanjing’s leading families at a banquet, where Liu Ruyan introduced herself and revealed that she was several months pregnant with Tang Yu’s child.
• Yun Shishi arrived and greeted Father Tang as another of Tang Yu’s friends, while Father Tang checked that she was not pregnant.
• Outside the banquet hall, Lu Junzhuo introduced Huang Xiaoyun and explained that they were protecting Father Tang from people seeking revenge against Tang Yu.
• Father Tang learned more about Liu Ruyan and Yun Shishi in the car, then called Mother Tang to tell her about Tang Yu’s affairs in Yanjing.
• Mother Tang told the Tang Family, and Old Master Tang happily arranged a family banquet and messaged Tang Yu.
• Tang Yu read Old Master Tang’s message while eating and sprayed soup onto Xie Jiujiu.

Laura pressured the Chen Baiyu sisters to continue their mission against Tang Yu, using their critically ill adoptive mother as leverage. Meanwhile, Tang Yu uncovered a list of hidden Mingzhu Intelligence Network agents and passed it to Sister Zhang, who invited him to join the intelligence department.

• Chen Bailing told Laura that Tang Yu visited and harassed the sisters, while Chen Baiyu asked to transfer to the Photovoltaic Group; Laura refused and demanded they prove their worth.
• Laura showed the Chen Baiyu sisters their adoptive mother's medical report and promised to reunite them with her in five years if they completed the mission.
• Laura decoded a coded message listing at least fifteen agents under other Mingzhu Intelligence Network leaders as the network began investigating a suspected mole.
• Tang Yu copied the agents' list and sent it to Sister Zhang, who said the intelligence department would handle the agents and keep their identities confidential.
• Sister Zhang asked Tang Yu to officially join the intelligence department, and Tang Yu asked whether that included bigamy.

Ye Qingshan trained for a deep-sea free-diving competition while avoiding his suspicious coach, and two resentful teammates plotted to make him miss the event. The Qingshan Department intercepted them and intensified its surveillance of Ye Qingshan, with an official even taking over his dating-app chat.

• Ye Qingshan broke his diving record at ninety-three meters, then hurried away when his coach invited him to train at his home and kept touching his muscles.
• Ye Qingshan returned to the hotel, where two competitors ignored him because he had taken a slot from their longtime teammate, Old Chen.
• The two competitors planned to use laxatives to keep Ye Qingshan from competing, but hidden agents subdued them and brought them to a Qingshan Department official.
• The contestants admitted they had brought laxatives to frame Ye Qingshan, and the official ordered them investigated for possible foreign involvement.
• The official learned Ye Qingshan was flirting through the Doorstep app, ordered the app shut down, and took over his chat by replying to his date in a booming voice.

Ye Qingshan’s attempt to find a woman ended with Coach A Jie assaulting him after being sent to provide psychological counseling. The next day, Ye Qingshan encountered Jiang Caixia with a dangerously familiar stranger and felt compelled to stay away from him.

• Ye Qingshan abandoned his dating apps, went to the beach, and began pursuing women while the Qingshan Department monitored him.
• After five days of dates with a woman, Ye Qingshan invited her to his hotel room, but the Qingshan Department persuaded her to cut contact and sent Coach A Jie to counsel him instead.
• Coach A Jie entered Ye Qingshan’s room, assaulted him while he slept, and fled when Ye Qingshan woke and fought back.
• Ye Qingshan confronted Coach A Jie at training the next day, told him to get lost, and headed toward the sea.
• Ye Qingshan saw Jiang Caixia embracing a handsome stranger who was also accompanied by another woman, and he sensed danger when their eyes met.

Tang Yu watched Ye Qingshan train and prepared to disrupt his chances in the freediving competition, while a swimsuit mishap brought Tang Yu, Xie Jiujiu, and Jiang Caixia into an awkward embrace. Ye Qingshan recovered his focus and reached peak condition, but just as the competition was about to begin, male dolphins appeared about two hundred meters below the sea.

• Ye Qingshan suspected that the man he had seen was Tang Yu, while Coach A Jie mistook his phone photo for a romantic interest and sang about heartbreak.
• Tang Yu watched women swimming underwater, then returned to the surface when Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia worried about him.
• Jiang Caixia’s swimsuit clasp came undone when she bumped into Tang Yu, who covered her with his body until Xie Jiujiu brought a jacket.
• Tang Yu watched Ye Qingshan train and planned to create difficulties for him in the freediving competition.
• Ye Qingshan regained his focus, reached peak condition, and joined the other contestants as the competition preparations began.
• As the seventy-two contestants took their positions, several male dolphins swam along the seafloor about two hundred meters below.