Chapter Summaries

Su Chen took Yan Bingxue, Tuantuan, and Lele to a pet store so the children could choose a puppy to grow up with. Tuantuan and Lele chose a white-and-brown Alaskan Malamute, and Su Chen agreed to bring it into their family.

• Su Chen took his wife and children to Zhonghai's largest pet store to buy a puppy.
• The female owner led the family to the puppy room and explained that the puppies were clean, dewormed, and had received their first vaccination.
• Tuantuan and Lele looked at the puppies but struggled to choose because they found them all cute.
• The owner let the puppies out to eat, and Tuantuan and Lele took a liking to a round white-and-brown Alaskan Malamute.
• Su Chen chose the Alaskan Malamute for the family, and Yan Bingxue asked the children if they were happy to welcome it.

Su Chen and his family chose a female Alaskan Malamute puppy but decided to leave her at the pet shop for three days before bringing her home. They prepared a sunroom and began making her a doghouse and bed, excited to welcome her into the family.

• Tuantuan and Lele bonded with a female Alaskan Malamute puppy, and Yan Bingxue agreed that the family should get her.
• Su Chen bought the puppy for 7,800 yuan and arranged to pick her up in three days so she could be bathed and settle safely into a new environment.
• Tuantuan and Lele said goodbye to the puppy and promised to prepare her a home and food before returning.
• On the drive home, Su Chen's family searched for puppy supplies and chose the villa's sunroom as her room.
• Su Chen and the children built a doghouse while Yan Bingxue began sewing a bed with Su Chen's help.
• Tuantuan and Lele made a welcome card, and the family stayed up preparing the puppy's room and supplies.

Su Chen and his family brought home their new puppy and prepared a sunroom full of supplies for her. After naming her Qiuqiu, the family waited as she adjusted to her new home, and she eventually approached the children before tumbling over and retreating to her puppy villa.

• Su Chen and the children unpacked the puppy supplies Yan Bingxue had ordered and assembled a wardrobe for the puppy.
• The family welcomed the frightened puppy into her specially prepared sunroom, where she hid inside her villa.
• Su Chen explained that the puppy needed time to adjust, and Yan Bingxue named her Qiuqiu.
• After half an hour, Qiuqiu cautiously came out and approached Tuantuan and Lele as they played with Lego.
• Qiuqiu tripped over Lele's leg and fell, then ran back to her villa when the family laughed.

Qiuqiu grew comfortable in Su Chen’s home and quickly became attached to Tuantuan and Lele. When the children sneaked downstairs to keep her company, they told her a bedtime story before their parents sent them all back to sleep.

• Su Chen prepared dinner for Qiuqiu, and Tuantuan and Lele coaxed her out of her doghouse to eat.
• Qiuqiu cautiously approached the family during dinner, then followed Tuantuan and Lele around the house as she grew more comfortable with them.
• Tuantuan and Lele asked to let Qiuqiu sleep with them, but Su Chen told them she needed to sleep in her own doghouse.
• After hearing a noise downstairs, Su Chen and Yan Bingxue found Tuantuan and Lele in the sunroom reading Qiuqiu a bedtime story.
• Yan Bingxue carried Qiuqiu back to her doghouse, and Tuantuan and Lele said goodnight before going upstairs to sleep.

Tuantuan and Lele missed their classmates and asked Su Chen and Yan Bingxue to arrange a get-together. The parents planned a riverside barbecue for Saturday, and Su Chen agreed to bring Qiuqiu along if the children promised to protect her.

• Tuantuan invited Lily to visit and told her about the family’s trip to the Imperial Capital.
• Tuantuan and Lele asked Su Chen if they could meet up with their classmates, and he discussed arranging an event with Yan Bingxue.
• Yan Bingxue proposed a gathering in the parents’ group chat, and the parents chose a riverside barbecue for Saturday.
• Tuantuan and Lele celebrated the plan and asked to bring Qiuqiu with them.
• Su Chen agreed to bring Qiuqiu and told Tuantuan and Lele to protect her during the outing.

Su Chen took Tuantuan and Lele with Qiuqiu to the pet clinic for her second vaccination, where the children comforted her through the injection. Afterward, Qiuqiu accepted a treat from Lele and eagerly asked for more.

• Su Chen drove Tuantuan, Lele, and Qiuqiu to the pet store, where Qiuqiu played with the other pets before recognizing the clinic and becoming frightened.
• Tuantuan and Lele soothed Qiuqiu and held her steady while the doctor gave her the vaccine, with Su Chen protecting the children’s hands.
• Tuantuan and Lele comforted the listless Qiuqiu after the shot, and Su Chen bought puppy treats to reward her.
• Lele offered Qiuqiu a freeze-dried egg yolk, and Qiuqiu perked up and barked for more.

Tuantuan and Lele joined their classmates and parents for a riverside barbecue, bringing Qiuqiu along and gifts for their friends. The children took turns petting Qiuqiu beneath the shade while the adults waited for everyone to arrive and prepared to get barbecue supplies.

• Tuantuan and Lele packed gifts for their classmates and got Qiuqiu ready for the family’s riverside barbecue.
• Su Chen and Yan Bingxue arrived with the children, and Tuantuan and Lele reunited with their classmates while the parents greeted their parents.
• Qiuqiu howled from the car until the children noticed her, then Tuantuan and Lele carried her beneath the shade.
• Tuantuan asked the children to pet Qiuqiu one at a time, and Qiuqiu gradually relaxed and wagged her tail as they took turns.
• The classmates and parents arrived by ten-thirty and planned to rent barbecue grills and buy ingredients at the supermarket across the road.

Tuantuan organized the children at the supermarket into teams to help their mothers shop, then won their ingredient-counting competition with quick mental arithmetic. The group returned to the riverside barbecue area, where the fathers confirmed her count and everyone praised her.

• The mothers struggled to keep the children together at the supermarket until Tuantuan gathered them and divided them into boys’ and girls’ shopping teams.
• Tuantuan assigned the boys to help buy meat and the girls to help buy vegetables, and Yan Bingxue organized the parents around the plan.
• At checkout, Tuantuan counted the receipts and announced that the girls had bought fifty-five portions of vegetables while the boys had bought fifty-two portions of meat.
• Dahu doubted Tuantuan’s count, so the children brought the receipts back to the riverside barbecue area for the fathers to check.
• Su Chen and Dahu’s father confirmed Tuantuan’s totals, and the parents praised her organizing skills and mental arithmetic.

At a family barbecue, the children flocked to Su Chen’s grill, and the other fathers asked him for cooking advice. When Dahu accidentally broke Xiao Yu’s favorite robot, Lele offered to repair it, leaving the children hopeful that he could help.

• The parents grilled while praising Tuantuan and Lele, and the children gathered around Su Chen’s barbecue.
• Su Chen shared his barbecue with the children, who preferred it to their fathers’ cooking; Tuantuan and Lele then fed sausage to Qiuqiu.
• Xiao Yu cried because Dahu had accidentally broken his favorite robot, and Dahu’s father offered to replace it.
• Xiao Yu refused a replacement, explaining that the robot his father bought was special to him.
• Lele offered to examine Xiao Yu’s robot and promised he could repair it using what he had learned at Little Robot Class.

Lele repaired Xiao Yu’s broken robot during a family barbecue, impressing the children and their parents. The families enjoyed the rest of the outing, and Tuantuan and Lele fell asleep on the ride home.

• Yan Bingxue worried that Lele might not be able to fix Xiao Yu’s robot, but Su Chen assured her that Lele could handle it.
• Lele inspected the robot, found its missing clasp and loose battery, and asked everyone to stay still while he searched for the part.
• Lele found the tiny clasp between paving stones, reattached the robot’s arm, and secured its loose battery so it worked again.
• Xiao Yu thanked Lele and forgave Dahu, while Dahu also thanked Lele for fixing the robot.
• The parents praised Lele’s skills as Su Chen explained that Lele attended a robot class and visited his office.
• The families ate and chatted by the river, then Tuantuan and Lele fell asleep on the way home.

With Future Stars suspending classes during a heat wave, Su Chen and Yan Bingxue took Lele and Tuantuan to work. Tuantuan chose to accompany Yan Bingxue so she could learn how to become a CEO, and she left for her mother's office eager to learn.

• Future Stars suspended classes for two weeks, so Su Chen and Yan Bingxue decided to take the children to work.
• Su Chen brought Lele to the Dragon Science Institute, where familiar colleagues greeted the boy and Lin Feifan offered him milk.
• Yan Bingxue took Tuantuan to Chaofan Group, where Assistant Zhang and the secretaries welcomed her warmly.
• Tuantuan told Assistant Zhang that she wanted to become a CEO like her mother and urged Assistant Zhang to find a boyfriend and have a daughter who could help her someday.
• Assistant Zhang promised she would do her best to assist Tuantuan, who then headed into Yan Bingxue's office to learn from her.

Tuantuan asked to attend Yan Bingxue’s senior management meeting so she could learn about her mother’s work. After listening and taking notes through the lengthy meeting, she asked Yan Bingxue to explain what she had not understood.

• Yan Bingxue agreed to bring Tuantuan to the meeting after Tuantuan promised to sit quietly and said she wanted to learn.
• Assistant Zhang gave Tuantuan a notebook and pen and set up a small chair beside Yan Bingxue.
• The senior executives noticed Tuantuan, and Yan Bingxue told them to focus on the meeting and let her observe.
• Tuantuan listened attentively and took notes as the executives discussed business and Yan Bingxue spoke.
• After the meeting ran for two hours, Tuantuan showed Yan Bingxue her notes and asked her to explain the unfamiliar points.

While Yan Bingxue took an important call, Tuantuan impressed the Chaofan Group executives with her confidence and extraordinary mental arithmetic. Yan Bingxue returned to find everyone praising Tuantuan as a future successor and sent them back to work.

• Yan Bingxue left Tuantuan in the conference room while she answered an important call.
• Tuantuan told the executives she dreamed of becoming like her mother and said she and her brother had earned perfect scores in their final exams.
• Tuantuan quickly solved increasingly difficult arithmetic problems, including two-digit multiplication and division, astonishing the executives.
• The executives praised Tuantuan as a genius and imagined her taking over Chaofan Group in the future.
• Yan Bingxue returned, found the executives gathered around Tuantuan, and ordered them back to work.

At the Dragon Science Institute, Lele said he wanted to grow up to build giant mechs like Su Chen, and Elder Yuan promised the institute would welcome him. Su Chen decided to teach Lele the basics of intelligent AI systems so he could begin making robots.

• At lunch, Lele told Su Chen and the institute staff that he wanted to work at the Dragon Science Institute and build giant mechs like his father.
• Elder Yuan praised Lele's interest in mech research and promised to personally welcome him to the institute when he was ready.
• Su Chen asked Lele why he wanted to build mechs, and Lele explained that he liked them and wanted to do what his father could do.
• Su Chen agreed to teach Lele and explained the differences between robots and mechs, choosing to start with intelligent AI systems.
• Lele asked whether he could build a giant mech, and Su Chen encouraged him before beginning the AI lesson.

Tuantuan spent the week learning at Chaofan Group alongside Yan Bingxue, while Lele secretly built a robot at the Dragon Science Institute. Lele revealed his creation to Su Chen and prepared to demonstrate its transformation and combat forms in the hall.

• Tuantuan accompanied Yan Bingxue to Chaofan Group, where employees heard about her talent and began treating her as a future successor.
• Lele followed Su Chen at the Dragon Science Institute and independently worked on a Little Robot while keeping its design secret.
• Lele showed Su Chen the finished robot, explaining its AI system, remote-controlled transformations and combat movements, and fingerprint-locked remote.
• Su Chen examined the robot and praised Lele's craftsmanship.
• Lele took the robot with Su Chen to the hall to demonstrate it, where Lin Feifan asked what they were doing.

Lele showed Su Chen and his family the robot he had built independently, impressing everyone with its AI features and transformation system. The demonstration revealed a miniature mecha with a shield and a machine gun loaded with steel balls.

• Su Chen told Lin Feifan that Lele had built the robot by himself in the workshop over the past few days.
• Lele introduced Little Le and demonstrated its voice responses, songs, answers, and robot dance for the gathered crowd.
• Lele asked Su Chen to use the remote to activate the transformation system, and Little Le expanded from a small toy into a larger robot with a shield and machine gun.
• Lele explained that the machine gun held about 150 steel balls, astonishing Su Chen and his colleagues from the Dragon Science Institute.

Lin Feifan told Su Chen about the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, and Lele eagerly agreed to enter with his Little Robot. After Su Chen registered him, Lele showed the robot to his family, who praised his work and encouraged him.

• Lin Feifan told Su Chen that Lele's Little Robot could compete in the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition in Zhonghai.
• Su Chen explained the competition to Lele, who chose to enter and said he hoped to learn even if he did not win first place.
• Su Chen registered Lele, while Lin Feifan showed them previous award-winning projects and offered access to the Dragon Science Institute's equipment for upgrades.
• Su Chen and Lele discussed checking the Little Robot and improving its weapons before the competition.
• Su Chen told Yan Bingxue about Lele entering the competition, and she promised to cheer him on.
• Lele demonstrated the Little Robot to his grandparents over a video call, and they praised his creation and predicted he would win first prize.

Lele prepared for a youth science and technology competition with his Little Robot while his family celebrated his and Tuantuan’s ambitions. The chapter ended with Lele finishing rigorous tests and repairs before the competition.

• Lele promised the elders he would keep improving his Little Robot and try to win first place at the competition in Zhonghai.
• Tuantuan played with Little Le, and Qiuqiu overcame her fear enough to chase the robot around the room.
• Old Mrs. Su hinted that Su Chen and Yan Bingxue should have another child, so Su Chen and Yan Bingxue changed the subject by praising Tuantuan’s interest in helping manage the company.
• Over the next two days, Lele tested Little Le more than a dozen times, fixed two system bugs, and made sure its systems worked smoothly.
• Lin Feifan and the other colleagues admired Lele’s diligence and said he had a bright future.

Lele received praise from Elder Yuan and Old Zhang for his Little Robot, then improved its ammunition capacity before bringing it to the Youth Science Competition. At the venue, he encountered Xu Yuncong, who boasted that his own robot would win.

• Elder Yuan and Old Zhang watched Lele demonstrate his Little Robot and praised his design.
• Lele pointed out that the robot’s combat system needed improvement and received permission to use the Dragon Science Institute’s equipment.
• Lele upgraded the robot to carry three hundred steel-ball rounds without reducing their power.
• Su Chen’s family arrived backstage at the competition and saw Xu Yuncong berating his butler.
• Xu Yuncong found Lele, escaped his butler’s attempt to take him away, and bragged that his larger transforming robot would defeat Lele’s.

At the youth science competition, Xu Yuncong mocked Lele and boasted about his remote-controlled robot, but Su Chen dismissed the backstage argument and Xu Yongsheng took the boy away. Lele met Zheng Yufeng, a former champion and Su Chen fan, and looked forward to facing him in the competition.

• Tuantuan called Xu Yuncong's robot a toy, and Xu Yuncong angrily challenged Lele to a match.
• Xu Yongsheng covered Xu Yuncong's mouth and apologized to Su Chen, who said the children should settle things with their abilities in the arena.
• Zheng Yufeng approached Su Chen, introduced himself as a fan, and asked for a photo with him.
• Zheng Yufeng admired Lele's robot and said he expected them to meet in the finals, and Lele agreed to see him in the arena.
• Lele called Xu Yuncong's robot a big toy, and Su Chen told him Zheng Yufeng had won the previous competition and would be a worthy opponent.