Recaps

After Zhang Yang spent the night with Tian Chuxi, a paparazzo photographed them and threatened to expose their relationship unless paid. The paparazzo demanded fifty million, and Zhang Yang realized Tian Chuxi could not simply ignore the threat because her public image mattered to her career.

• Zhang Yang accompanied Tian Chuxi to her apartment at Banyue 108, where they spent the night together.
• The next morning, Tian Chuxi learned that a paparazzo had posted an unnamed rumor about a young starlet spending the night with a male friend.
• Tian Chuxi told Zhang Yang that her team was handling the paparazzo, who demanded fifty million to suppress the story.
• Zhang Yang asked Li Xingyu to investigate, and Li Xingyu reported that the paparazzo worked alone, had little to lose, and might expose everything if pressured.
• Zhang Yang understood that Tian Chuxi faced greater consequences than he or Li Xingyu would if the rumor became public.

Zhang Yang negotiated with Xiong Cai to secure Tian Chuxi’s photos for five million, completing the system’s third option and earning fifty million. He then spent the limited-time item shop’s opening buying a range of system items and skills.

• Zhang Yang chose to handle Xiong Cai’s blackmail himself, and Tian Chuxi trusted him to negotiate.
• Zhang Yang met Xiong Cai at Orchid Pavilion Water Club and bargained him down from fifty million to five million for the photos.
• Xiong Cai signed Zhang Yang’s confidentiality agreement and received the five million, triggering Zhang Yang’s fifty-million system reward.
• Zhang Yang told Tian Chuxi the matter was resolved, and she agreed to visit him and wear outfits from her drama.
• Zhang Yang entered the item shop when it opened and spent his reward on restoration pills, No-Injury Cards, a Life Shield, language and racing mastery, and other items.

Zhang Yang mastered thousands of languages, driving, and cooking skills, then used a Truth Card on livestreaming gossip reporter Xiong Cai. Xiong Cai revealed explosive celebrity scandals to tens of thousands of viewers, leaving himself exposed to severe consequences as he continued spilling secrets.

• Zhang Yang used system items to master every language in the world, driving, and several cooking skills.
• Zhang Yang returned to Beijing Manor, cooked himself hot pot and fried rice, and found Xiong Cai livestreaming.
• After recalling that Xiong Cai had extorted five million from him, Zhang Yang used a Truth Card on him through the livestream.
• Under the card's influence, Xiong Cai named a famous male celebrity and detailed alleged affairs and misconduct, shocking his viewers.
• Xiong Cai then exposed another celebrity's alleged relationship with a powerful man and displayed evidence as the scandal spread online.
• Xiong Cai dismissed warnings, said he planned to immigrate and had more dirt to reveal, and continued his livestream while Zhang Yang recognized the danger he faced.

Zhang Yang used a Truth Card on Xiong Cai, who exposed a wave of entertainment-industry scandals before fleeing and crashing his car. As Xiong Cai lay unconscious in the hospital, Zhang Yang’s counterfeit cultivation pill left him bursting with vitality, and Tian Chuxi came to visit him.

• Xiong Cai’s Truth Card-induced livestream ended when the effect wore off and he realized he had revealed numerous celebrities’ secrets.
• Zhang Yang tested a tiny amount of an inferior Lesser Origin Cultivation Pill and spent the night unable to sleep, overwhelmed by energy.
• Fearing retaliation, Xiong Cai tried to flee to his hometown, lost control of his car, and crashed into a ditch, leaving him unconscious with a serious brain injury.
• Li Xingyu told Zhang Yang about Xiong Cai’s crash, and Zhang Yang showed no guilt over the scandals or Xiong Cai’s condition.
• Zhang Yang spoke with Tian Chuxi, who agreed to visit him, and she arrived wearing a sun hat, sunglasses, and a mask.

Zhang Yang spent two days with Tian Chuxi at his Beijing mansion before she slipped away, then traveled to Tianjin for Soup King Hotpot’s first local opening. There, he accompanied Li Xingyu to surprise the woman he loved, whose resemblance to Li Xingyu’s deceased first love unsettled him when they spotted her through a shop window.

• Zhang Yang showed Tian Chuxi his mansion, offered to invest in her future project, and spent two pleasant days with her while entertainment-industry turmoil continued outside.
• Tian Chuxi discussed her fans’ praise, clarified that she and Zhang Yang were friends without dating, and quietly left Beijing.
• Zhang Yang visited Soup King Hotpot’s crowded Tianjin Joy City opening and met up with Li Xingyu, who was visiting a woman studying at Tianjin University.
• Li Xingyu told Zhang Yang that he genuinely loved the woman, showed him her photo, and explained that she reminded him of his first love, who had died from a rare illness.
• Zhang Yang walked with Li Xingyu to the dessert shop where the woman was sitting, and Li Xingyu’s expression changed when they saw her through the window.

Li Xingyu caught his girlfriend cheating, beat her classmate, and ended their relationship before Chen Zhang revealed Li’s family background to her. Chen Zhang then introduced Zhang Yang to Ye Yunkai, who brought him to Tianjin Martial Arts Hall and hinted at why they wanted his help.

• Li Xingyu watched his girlfriend feed dessert to another young man, then confronted them and beat the man with his belt.
• Li Xingyu ended the relationship, reclaimed the jewelry and watch he had given the girl, and threw them into a lake.
• Chen Zhang arrived and revealed that Li Xingyu was the young master of the Li family in Beijing, prompting the girl to beg him to take her back; Li Xingyu rejected her.
• Chen Zhang introduced Zhang Yang to Ye Yunkai, the director of Tianjin Martial Arts Hall, and invited Zhang Yang to hear their request for help.
• Ye Yunkai brought Zhang Yang to the martial arts hall and pointed out that Zhang Yang had defeated Chen Zhang, a former champion of a military-wide martial arts competition, in one move.

Zhang Yang accepted Ye Yunkai’s international martial arts tournament invitation after the system offered him a mission and a Martial Arts Replication buff. He defeated Lu Yao and Ye Yunkai in quick succession, copying Wing Chun and leaving the martial arts school stunned.

• Chen Zhang and Ye Yunkai invited Zhang Yang to compete in a gauntlet tournament, and the system offered him rewards for fighting to the end.
• Zhang Yang agreed to participate and waived his appearance fee and any tournament prize money for donation to Hope Primary Schools.
• Lu Yao arrived angrily, challenged Zhang Yang, and was defeated in one exchange as he copied her Wing Chun at proficient level.
• Lu Yao insisted on another match using Wing Chun, but Zhang Yang overwhelmed her again, and she ran off in embarrassment.
• Ye Yunkai eagerly challenged Zhang Yang after seeing his Wing Chun, but Zhang Yang knocked him down in one move before the watching students.

Zhang Yang arranged to challenge Tianjin’s martial arts halls while using the [Copy Martial Arts] buff to learn their techniques, and wore a dragon mask to conceal his identity. At Ever-Victorious Martial Arts Hall, he defeated Wu Chengsheng’s disciple Little Wang with one punch, leaving the crowd and Lu Yao stunned.

• Zhang Yang asked Ye Yunkai and Chen Zhang to help arrange exchanges with Tianjin’s martial arts halls, and they agreed to promote his masked challenges.
• Lu Yao learned that Ye Yunkai had also lost to Zhang Yang in one move, then heard that Zhang Yang planned to visit every martial arts hall in Tianjin.
• Zhang Yang bought a dragon mask and went to Ever-Victorious Martial Arts Hall, where Wu Chengsheng told him to face his disciple Little Wang first.
• Little Wang demonstrated Tongbei Boxing’s Nine Echo Force as spectators filmed the encounter and Lu Yao watched from the crowd.
• Zhang Yang struck Little Wang with one punch, sending him into the railing and prompting the crowd to celebrate his strength.

Zhang Yang swept through Tianjin’s martial arts halls, defeating their masters in single exchanges while mastering their fighting styles and gaining fame as Mr. Long. After mastering more than ten martial skills, he received a mask-triggered Master Aura with several unusual effects.

• Zhang Yang defeated Hall Master Wu of Ever-Victorious Martial Arts Hall with Tongbei Fist’s Tenth Sound, then left without revealing his identity.
• Zhang Yang defeated Hall Master Qian of Qian Family Xingyi and mastered Xingyi Quan, integrating its techniques with his other fighting styles.
• Lin Lei and other viewers praised Zhang Yang’s strength, while Chen Zhang and Ye Yunkai discussed his growing reputation as Mr. Long.
• Zhang Yang swept through Tianjin’s martial arts halls, mastering numerous styles and earning Lu Yao’s admiration as he defeated the hall masters.
• Zhang Yang mastered Eight Trigram Palm, bringing his known martial skills to more than ten, and received the Master Aura, which activated whenever he wore a mask.

Zhang Yang returned to Tianjin Martial Arts Hall after dazzling the martial arts world, where he advised the apprentices and demonstrated power beyond their expectations. He destroyed a wooden dummy with his full strength and realized it showed his current limit.

• Zhang Yang left a martial arts hall after his dramatic display of lightness skill sparked excitement, then returned to Tianjin Martial Arts Hall and discussed the upcoming international tournament with Hall Master Ye and Chen Zhang.
• Zhang Yang corrected the apprentices’ Wing Chun techniques, and Lu Yao improved after receiving his guidance.
• Lu Yao asked Zhang Yang to demonstrate Wing Chun’s highest realm, so he invited everyone to attack him together.
• Zhang Yang sent three attackers flying with inch power, astonishing Lu Yao and Head Instructor Ye.
• Zhang Yang struck Ye Yunkai’s wooden dummy with all his strength and shattered it, concluding that he had reached his current limit.

Zhang Yang stunned Tianjin's martial arts community by smashing a refined hardwood dummy with one punch, then agreed to travel to Beijing with Chen Zhang. After Zhang Yang practiced Taiji the next morning, Chen Zhang told him that his grandfather wanted to meet him, and they set off for Beijing.

• Zhang Yang shattered a wooden dummy with one punch, leaving Chen Zhang, Ye Yunkai, and the martial arts students awestruck.
• Zhang Yang agreed to compete in the mixed martial arts tournament and to travel to Beijing with Chen Zhang the next day.
• After Zhang Yang left, Chen Zhang told his grandfather about Zhang Yang's martial skills, and his grandfather asked to meet him.
• Zhang Yang practiced Taiji at the Ritz-Carlton Tianjin and reflected that its cultivation could help him live past a hundred in good health.
• Chen Zhang told Zhang Yang that his grandfather wanted to meet him, and Zhang Yang agreed before they drove back to Beijing.

Zhang Yang impressed Chen Zhang’s grandfather with his Tai Chi and insight, then accompanied the family to a children’s welfare home, where he met Chen Wu and learned about her facial scars. As a startled bull charged into the grounds, Chen Wu froze in its path and the chapter ended with her in imminent danger.

• Zhang Yang performed Tai Chi for Chen Zhang’s grandfather, who praised his skill and offered support for his martial arts competition.
• The grandfather invited Zhang Yang and Chen Zhang to visit the children’s welfare home, where Zhang Yang met Chen Wu and saw the scars on her face.
• Chen Zhang suggested Zhang Yang get to know Chen Wu, but Zhang Yang said he already had a girlfriend.
• A bull escaped from a nearby cattle farm, charged through the welfare home’s gate, and rushed toward Chen Wu as she stood frozen in the square.

Zhang Yang saved Chen Wu from a charging bull with a single palm strike, earning the old man's respect and becoming close with Chen Zhang's family. At dinner, he offered to bring Chen Wu scar-removing ointment, and she stood to toast him.

• Zhang Yang killed the charging bull with one palm, saving Chen Wu and astonishing the guards and the old man.
• The old man invited Zhang Yang to ride with him and later asked Chen Wu to thank him for saving her life.
• Chen Zhang proposed that he and Zhang Yang become sworn brothers, and the three went to a private club in Beijing.
• Zhang Yang noticed Chen Wu's facial scar and offered to bring her scar-removing ointment; she eagerly agreed to try it.
• During dinner, Chen Zhang spoke with Zhang Yang about Li Xingyu and his friends, then Chen Wu stood and offered Zhang Yang a toast.

Zhang Yang applied the system’s Ice Skin Ointment to Chen Wu’s facial scars, and the scars visibly faded, giving her hope they could disappear completely. He left the siblings together after promising the treatment would restore her face.

• Zhang Yang prepared a small dose of Ice Skin Ointment and discovered that videos of him fighting in Tianjin had gone viral as publicity for the upcoming tournament.
• Chen Zhang brought Zhang Yang to his family’s villa, where Chen Wu greeted him and agreed to try the ointment.
• Zhang Yang spread the ointment on sterile gauze and wrapped it against Chen Wu’s cheek; she felt heat, numbness, and itching.
• Chen Wu removed the gauze and revealed that her scars had visibly faded, while Chen Zhang celebrated the treatment’s effect.
• Zhang Yang assured Chen Wu that further applications should clear the scars completely, then left the siblings alone.

Zhang Yang helped Chen Wu recover from her facial scar while growing closer to her and preparing for the mixed martial arts competition as Mr. Long. After her final treatment, Chen Wu’s scar disappeared completely, and she set off for Tianjin to see Zhang Yang.

• Chen Wu cooked lunch for Zhang Yang and Chen Zhang, and Zhang Yang impressed her with his knife skills as he helped prepare the ingredients.
• Zhang Yang visited Chen Wu daily to treat her fading scar while publicity and debate over the mixed martial arts competition intensified.
• Chen Zhang told Zhang Yang that Kim Woong-ho had beaten a Sanda fighter, and Zhang Yang decided to use the competition to establish Mr. Long as an undefeated symbol.
• Zhang Yang gave Chen Wu her final treatment and left with Chen Zhang for Tianjin, while Chen Wu cheered him on and asked her brother not to post her healed face online.
• Chen Wu removed her gauze and found that her scar had vanished, sent Zhang Yang a selfie, and asked Uncle Song to arrange a car to Tianjin.

At the Tianjin mixed martial arts tournament, Zhang Yang dominated the international fighters while using the matches to replicate their martial arts. After defeating Kim Woong-ho and mastering Taekwondo, he remained in the ring to the crowd’s acclaim.

• Before the tournament, Zhang Yang reassured Hall Master Ye that he could control his strength and avoid killing or crippling his opponents.
• At the packed Tianjin Sports Arena, Zhang Yang wore his mask and entered the ring as Mr. Long, drawing cheers from the crowd.
• Zhang Yang defeated Yodsanklai with one kick and replicated Siamese Boxing.
• Zhang Yang swiftly beat the Brazilian jiu-jitsu expert and other opponents, replicating Jiu-jitsu, Kyokushin Karate, and Jeet Kune Do.
• Zhang Yang broke three of Kim Woong-ho’s ribs with a punch, replicated Taekwondo, and accepted the crowd’s applause as medical staff carried Kim away.

Zhang Yang completed his martial arts mission, earned major rewards, and ended his run as Mr. Long after winning the competition. He reunited with the now-scarless Chen Wu, then returned to Beijing with the Chen siblings, where Chen Zhang introduced him to his influential friends and Li Xingyu encountered Chen Wu again.

• Zhang Yang swept the competition, completed his mission, received 100 million in cash and 50 experience points, and gained a 30-millisecond neural reflex speed.
• Zhang Yang gave his Mr. Long mask to Chen Zhang and refused to claim the title of Grandmaster of a Generation for himself.
• Chen Wu greeted Zhang Yang outside the arena with her facial scars completely healed, and Chen Zhang celebrated her recovery with their parents over a video call.
• Zhang Yang traveled back to Beijing with Chen Zhang and Chen Wu, then met Chen Zhang's wealthy and influential friends at the Chang'an Club.
• Li Xingyu recognized Zhang Yang at the gathering and asked who Chen Wu was, so Chen Zhang challenged him to think carefully about whether he had seen her before.

Chen Wu reunited with Chen Zhang’s wealthy friends, who were stunned by her transformation and newly respectful toward Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang impressed the group with his knowledge and skills, then accepted Li Xingyu’s invitation to watch a basketball game at Capital Indoor Stadium.

• Li Xingyu realized Chen Zhang’s beautiful companion was Chen Wu, and she sought Zhang Yang’s support when the group crowded around her.
• Chen Wu told Zhang Yang she planned to work at her parents’ charity foundation and that she had no interest in the men who had ignored her before.
• Zhang Yang impressed Chen Zhang’s friends by cleanly splitting a wine bottle, spotting a dangerous contract clause, and translating a Spanish phone conversation that exposed Young Master Sun’s girlfriend.
• Chen Zhang stopped Young Master Sun and another young man from fighting, then introduced Zhang Yang as his brother to the group.
• Li Xingyu invited Zhang Yang to watch a basketball game because one of Zhang Yang’s acquaintances would perform with the cheerleaders, and Zhang Yang agreed.

Zhang Yang watched Shi Xuan cheer at a basketball game, reunited with her afterward, and took her and her classmates to Beijing Manor. The evening ended with the girls celebrating there and dancing for him.

• Zhang Yang and Li Xingyu watched Shi Xuan lead the cheerleading squad at the game, then went backstage to meet her after it ended.
• Shi Xuan embraced Zhang Yang and introduced him to her cheerleading friends, while Li Xingyu tactfully left them alone.
• Zhou Weilong approached Zhang Yang and tried to provoke him, but Zhang Yang burst Zhou Weilong’s basketball and sent him away embarrassed.
• Zhang Yang invited Shi Xuan and her eight classmates to Beijing Manor, where they explored the estate and prepared a lavish dinner.
• Zhang Yang offered the girls luxury skincare products as rewards for dancing and swimming, and Shi Xuan led them in a cheerleading performance after dinner.

Zhang Yang spent a lavish night at Beijing Manor with Shi Xuan and her classmates, then met Chen Zhang’s parents after they returned to China. The chapter ended with Zhang Yang and Chen Zhang sharing a walk before Chen Wu called to them.

• Zhang Yang played a poolside game with the girls, received nine kisses including Shi Xuan’s, and earned a million yuan from a system task.
• Zhang Yang gave Shi Xuan the million yuan in cash to take as much as she could carry, then shared a night at the manor with her and the other girls.
• Zhang Yang woke beside Shi Xuan, wondered whether his late-night encounter with someone else had been real, and watched the girls leave after breakfast.
• Zhang Yang managed his businesses in Beijing, then welcomed Chen Zhang’s parents and accepted Chairman Chen’s offer of future help.
• Zhang Yang and Chen Zhang walked near Fragrant Hills Park and joked together until Chen Wu called them.

Zhang Yang spent his time drinking with influential young men in the capital while a nightclub game exposed the cruelty of Luo Zhenyu. When Liao Kexin’s senior schoolmate tried to quit after vomiting, Luo grabbed her and demanded she finish drinking or bark like a dog.

• Zhang Yang drank with Li Xingyu and other young masters, where he met Liao Kexin.
• Liao Kexin worried that her senior schoolmate, who needed money, might get into trouble with Luo Zhenyu at the neighboring booth.
• Luo Zhenyu offered women money for each drink and required them to drink ten glasses or bark like a dog if they quit early.
• Liao Kexin’s senior schoolmate drank six glasses before vomiting and said she wanted to stop.
• Luo poured liquor over her, demanded that she bark or keep drinking, and grabbed her when she tried to leave.

Zhang Yang intervened when Luo Zhenyu threatened Liao Kexin’s senior, then sent the two women home and left the nightclub. Soup King Hotpot reached one hundred locations, raising Zhang Yang to Level 9 and awarding him the Huaying Film and Television Base, whose outdated state left him considering how to handle it.

• Zhang Yang told Li Xingyu to warn Luo Zhenyu, and later stopped Luo Zhenyu’s thrown glass from hitting Liao Kexin’s senior by striking it with an orange.
• After Zhang Yang confronted him, Luo Zhenyu apologized and offered the senior one hundred thousand yuan in compensation; Zhang Yang sent her home with Liao Kexin and exchanged phone numbers with Liao Kexin.
• Zhang Yang left the nightclub with Li Xingyu and learned that Soup King Hotpot was nearing one hundred locations.
• Soup King Hotpot opened stores across several regions, and Zhang Yang received the Hundred Store Plan rewards, reached Level 9, and raised his daily cashback to 300,000.
• Zhang Yang claimed a property reward and received the Huaying Film and Television Base in Beijing, then considered the challenges posed by its aging facilities.

Zhang Yang received a system gift that would reimburse the unlimited cost of rebuilding Huaying Film and Television Base into Oriental Hollywood, then visited the struggling base and began assessing its managers and facilities. As he watched a web drama being filmed, he overheard Liao Kexin discussing Young Master Zhang with her senior, and a nearby young man mocked their use of such titles.

• Zhang Yang opened a Wish Gift Pack and received blueprints and unlimited system reimbursement for rebuilding Huaying Film and Television Base into Oriental Hollywood.
• Zhang Yang visited Huaying Film and Television Base, learned that it had made only eighty-three million in profit the previous year, and ordered managers to stop accepting new partnerships.
• Zhang Yang kept general manager Chu Qiang in place for now and toured the base’s offices, soundstages, and prop warehouses.
• Zhang Yang visited the set of I Have a Hundred Quintillion Simp Coins, where the crew filmed a scene in which the male lead claimed to have bought the base.
• Liao Kexin asked her senior whether Young Master Zhang had contacted her, and a nearby young man laughed at their use of titles like Young Master Zhang and Young Master Li.

Zhang Yang visited the Huaying Film and Television Production Base, where Liao Kexin and Lin Hui were appearing in a web drama, and joined them for skewers and hot pot. Over dinner, he learned about Lin Hui’s father’s urgent surgery and saw Liao Kexin grow more comfortable taking the initiative with him.

• Liao Kexin recognized Zhang Yang at the film studio and greeted him, while Director Little Wang learned Zhang owned the complex and restarted filming for him.
• The male lead stammered through a scene about owning a film studio, amusing Zhang Yang and revealing that he was facing the real owner.
• Liao Kexin invited Zhang Yang to eat with her and Lin Hui, and Lin Hui explained that her father needed surgery for a dangerous aortic dilation.
• Liao Kexin led Zhang Yang and Lin Hui to a small restaurant, where they shared lamb skewers and copper-pot hot pot.
• Liao Kexin fed Zhang Yang a piece of lamb as nearby customers watched and envied him.

Zhang Yang spent the night with Liao Kexin, then bought her an expensive Hermes bag after she ran into classmates who suspected she was deceiving a lovesick student. Liao Kexin asked to publicly call Zhang Yang her boyfriend, and the chapter ended with her declaring he was her first and would be her last, leaving him unable to laugh off her devotion.

• Zhang Yang drove Liao Kexin away from Beijing Dance Academy, took her to a hotel, and spent the night with her.
• The next morning, Liao Kexin ran into Du Jia and Zhu Jianchao, who questioned her claim that she had a boyfriend and suspected she had misled Zhu Jianchao's lovesick roommate.
• Zhang Yang arrived, took Liao Kexin away in his Rolls-Royce Ghost, and brought her to a Hermes store to cheer her up with a bag worth just under two hundred thousand.
• Liao Kexin asked Zhang Yang for permission to post that he was her boyfriend, explaining that she wanted others to know she was taken.
• Zhang Yang warned Liao Kexin that their encounter might end there and that he would not take responsibility, but she told him he was her first and would be her last.