Recaps

Lin Chen helped Song Wan, rejected the Wu Family’s attempts to buy peace, and earned the Song Family’s trust while attending Old Man Song’s eightieth birthday. At the banquet, he learned of a plot against Song Qingquan and privately told Old Man Song that his life would end within a month.

• Lin Chen refused Wu Yangcheng’s requests for help and later rejected his offers of money as the Song Family moved against the Wu Family.
• Lin Chen’s cooking helped Song Wan eat again, and Song Qingquan began seeking a closer relationship with him and investigating the Wu Family.
• Lin Chen built a fairy-tale cottage for Lin Xiaoqian, strengthened his home’s security, and expanded his work with the Qian Qian Charity Foundation.
• Lin Chen guided a crew through an aircraft emergency, after which Sirius confirmed that investigators had found a spy and warned that an overseas organization was watching Lin Chen.
• At Old Man Song’s birthday banquet, Lin Chen met influential elders and asked them to keep his identity as calligrapher Lin Yu secret.
• Lin Chen overheard Song Shikang and his wife plotting to sideline Song Qingquan and Song Shize after Old Man Song’s death.
• Lin Chen privately told Old Man Song that his life force would be exhausted within a month and warned him of Second Master Song’s plan to force out Third Master Song.

Lin Chen defended Xu Group, helped investigate Old Man Song’s suspicious death, and received a share of the Song Family inheritance while leaving the rest undistributed. He prepared drones and survival supplies for his family before an East Sakura agent approached him at the pool.

• Lin Chen sold airline vulnerability information for two billion, reached Grandmaster hacking and shooting levels, and used his hacking skills to stop Mitchell’s attack on Xu Group.
• Lin Chen developed a network defense system and drone designs for Xu Group, while Song Wan’s improved health followed meals he prepared for her.
• After Old Man Song died soon after eating food Song Wan had sent, Lin Chen examined the body and traced a possible murder to perfume secretly altered to trigger an allergic reaction.
• Lin Chen opened Old Man Song’s will, which left him five percent of the Song Family’s assets and entrusted him with distributing the rest according to the family’s conduct.
• Lin Chen stayed for the funeral, showed the will to Song Shize, and left the remaining shares undistributed until investigators determined the cause of death.
• Lin Chen tested a thousand drones, equipped them with tracking and defensive functions, and prepared anesthetic and poison for some of them.
• Lin Chen stocked survival supplies in a rented apartment and planned to travel to Yili with Xu Mengyao and Lin Xiaoqian for wedding photos.
• At the pool, Koizumi Junko asked Lin Chen to help her have a child, and he refused before Liu Feng identified her as Liu Yinyin and warned she might be targeting him for East Sakura Country.

Lin Chen protected his family from an assassin, helped Xu Mengyao secure control of Star Dream Technology, and prepared for their wedding while resolving the threat from the Sakura Assassin Organization. After returning to his hometown, Lin Chen’s identity as Lin Yu was exposed online, drawing new attention to his mathematical achievements.

• Lin Chen saved Prince Hayel from a sniper and used his drones to capture the attacker, then arranged a large drone sale that eased Xu Group’s production crisis.
• Lin Chen and Xu Mengyao traveled to Yili with Lin Xiaoqian, where Xu Mengyao’s family bought additional Star Dream Technology shares and drones helped capture Fujiwara Ye, an assassin targeting Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen infiltrated the Sakura Organization’s network and copied its records, then ordered Sirius and Lei Wendong to keep up the cyberattack until the organization withdrew its bounty on him.
• Lin Chen treated Lin Xiaoqian’s ankle, improved her painting, and discovered that Xu Mengyao’s congenital deficiency reduced her chances of pregnancy as he continued clearing her meridians.
• Lin Chen corrected two mathematical problems that had stalled major research projects, while Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue joined his family on a trip to his hometown.
• Lin Chen welcomed Xu Mengyao’s family to his new village villa, and the families agreed to hold a Chinese-style wedding in the Provincial Capital.
• Shen Qing told Xu Mengyao that Lin Chen’s identity as Lin Yu was spreading online, and Lin Chen suspected the Wu Family, the Zhao Family, or Song Shikang had exposed him.
• Mathematicians verified Lin Chen’s formula, and Xu Xiangyang ordered Sirius to intensify the search for whoever had revealed Lin Chen’s identity.

Lin Chen’s identity as Lin Yu became public, while his inventions, fairy tales, and medical skills drew attention from officials and foreign powers. In the Imperial Capital, he prepared to give a mathematics lecture, investigate the Song Family, and confront the forces aligned with them.

• Lin Chen confirmed during Yang Ping’s livestream that he was Lin Yu, announced his marriage to Xu Mengyao, and asked the public to leave his family in peace.
• Lin Chen accepted Ye Hong’s manor as a wedding venue and treated Ye Hong’s Wife, then reviewed difficult mathematical problems for Sirius.
• Lin Chen supplied Hayel with drone technology and later agreed to develop an improved swarm system for Yang Jianghong, while his drones proved effective against insurgents.
• After sanctions blocked his overseas publishing, Lin Chen posted Nüwa Mends the Sky and Hou Yi Shoots the Sun, whose unfinished English versions drew overseas readers and brought a textbook proposal from Education System officials.
• Lin Chen secretly collected and leaked sensitive information about the Vite Family, then continued gathering intelligence while traveling to the Imperial Capital with Lin Xiaoqian.
• Lin Chen agreed to join a drinking contest intended to help break the deadlock in negotiations with Bear Country and delivered wedding invitations to the Yang and Song families.
• Lin Chen withheld an invitation from Song Shikang and asked Sirius to investigate Old Man Song’s death after Song Qingquan described the brothers’ inheritance plan.
• At Imperial Capital University, Lin Chen accepted an honorary professorship, challenged a draft textbook article by Yan Zongxiang, and agreed to give a mathematics lecture the next morning as Xu Mengyao joined him in the capital.