Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen installed his Swarm Control System on fifty thousand drones in Camel Country, and Hayel tested their coordinated flight and search capabilities. Impressed by the results, Hayel asked Lin Chen to supply another one hundred thousand drones.

• Lin Chen returned to Magic City with Xu Mengyao and their daughter while Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue stayed behind to arrange their house.
• Lin Chen warned Hayel that the drones were civilian models and that he would not be responsible for problems caused by private modifications.
• Lin Chen transmitted the Arabic Swarm Control System to all fifty thousand drones through their shared network.
• Hayel used Smart Glasses to test the drones' coordinated flight, obstacle avoidance, and search for armed targets at an abandoned military camp.
• Hayel planned to send the drones to a Secret Factory for modifications and repainting, then asked Lin Chen to provide another one hundred thousand drones.

Lin Chen accepted Hayel’s expedited order for one hundred thousand drones, then arranged a possible book signing and signed a contract for his fourth book. After checking a set of mathematics questions overnight, he found flaws in fourteen proofs and sent Sirius his corrections and verdicts on the conjectures, leaving Sirius asking how Lin ranked among mathematicians worldwide.

• Hayel offered an extra two hundred million US dollars for Lin Chen to deliver one hundred thousand drones within a month, and Lin agreed after receiving the transfer.
• Lin Chen considered readers’ requests for a book signing, posted that he might hold one annually if fans did not disturb him, and agreed that Childlike Heart Network could organize it.
• Lin Chen signed the contract for his fourth book and received the payment.
• Sirius emailed Lin Chen one hundred mathematics questions, and Lin reviewed the questions with proofs overnight, finding problems in fourteen of them.
• Lin Chen called Sirius, sent him the marked flaws and his judgments on the conjectures, and Sirius asked where Lin ranked globally in mathematics.

Sirius reported Lin Chen’s extraordinary mathematical results to Xu Xiangyang, and officials raised Lin Chen’s identity rank to SSS-rank. Meanwhile, Hayel deployed modified explosive drones against insurgents in a mountainous region, and a drone began pursuing an armed target.

• Lin Chen told Sirius he could rank among the world’s top three mathematicians after answering difficult problems and judging several conjectures.
• Sirius met Xu Xiangyang in person and reported that Lin Chen had found more than a dozen errors among proven problems and judged several conjectures correctly.
• Xu Xiangyang and Sirius presented Lin Chen’s results to senior officials, who raised his identity rank to SSS-rank and decided that Old Man Li and Old Zhang should attend his wedding.
• Hayel led modified explosive drones toward the insurgents’ mountain hideout after learning Camel Country’s forces had suffered heavy losses.
• Hayel ordered three thousand drones to eliminate armed targets in the area, and one drone spotted an armed person and charged toward them.

Prince Hayel used Lin Chen’s drones to devastate rebel forces, then discussed the drones’ performance and possible improvements with Lin Chen. Lin Chen reminded Hayel that Star Dream Technology sold civilian products.

• Prince Hayel’s first three thousand drones bypassed the rebels’ jammer and killed more than six hundred fighters before Hayel ordered his troops to advance ten kilometers.
• Hayel sent another thousand drones to search and attack while his troops established strongholds where drones could recharge; the drones struck rebels whenever they emerged from cover.
• Hayel told the Camel King about the drones’ success, and the Camel King praised their effectiveness and approved buying more.
• Hayel told Lin Chen that charging was troublesome and asked about wireless charging, longer surveillance, and mechanical dogs; Lin Chen explained the drones’ existing surveillance modes and said wireless charging would be slower.
• Lin Chen told Hayel that Star Dream Technology was a private enterprise and that its products were civilian products.

Lin Chen handled a crowd seeking autographs, agreed to open a Douyin account, and spent time teaching Lin Xiaoqian piano. Meanwhile, Hayel tested the drones in Camel Country, and Sirius called to ask about buying some for his side.

• Lin Chen taught Lin Xiaoqian piano and later carried her outside, where a crowd gathered around them.
• Lin Chen asked Liu Feng to investigate several people he suspected of organizing an attempt to obtain signed books, and Liu Feng took them away.
• Lin Chen told his fans he would open a Douyin account, then created one after returning home and cooked lunch for Lin Xiaoqian.
• Hayel tested drones equipped with lightweight landing legs and put them into ground static surveillance mode in Camel Country.
• Sirius called Lin Chen while he was cooking and said they wanted to purchase drones after hearing how well they performed on the battlefield.

Lin Chen learned that the United States had sanctioned him, forcing his overseas publisher to end their contract, but he dismissed the lost royalties and planned to counter by releasing stronger Fairy Tales. Xu Mengyao urged him to respond on Douyin, where his new account had already gained over a million followers.

• Lin Chen told Sirius he would eventually give Camel Country better drone technology, while Sirius reported that security around Lin Chen had been increased.
• Lin Chen took Lin Xiaoqian to an amusement park, where his Roof-Running and Wall-Climbing Skill advanced to Master level.
• Solina told Lin Chen that sanctions meant she could no longer publish his books overseas, and Lin Chen accepted the loss of their contract.
• News of the sanctions spread, and Xu Mengyao discovered that Lin Chen had gained over a million Douyin followers without posting any videos.
• Lin Chen told Xu Mengyao he would use stronger Mythical level Fairy Tales to challenge the sanctions, and she suggested he post a video response.

After the United States sanctioned him, Lin Chen responded by publishing the Chinese fairy tale “Nüwa Mends the Sky” and an English version that stopped at a crucial moment. The story spread overseas despite platform bans, leaving more people curious about Lin Yu and Chinese culture.

• Lin Chen posted a video of Lin Xiaoqian enjoying a peaceful day and ignored comments urging him to respond to the sanctions.
• Lin Chen wrote “Nüwa Mends the Sky” and uploaded the complete Chinese story and a partial English version to Childlike Heart Network.
• Hu Qin read the tale, became immersed in its story of Nüwa repairing the sky, and praised Lin Yu in the comments.
• Overseas readers shared the English version, which cut off during the climactic scene, and platforms banned the tale after many people had already downloaded it.
• Discussion of the story spread overseas, prompting curious readers to seek Chinese classes and follow Lin Yu.
• Xu Mengyao returned home, praised Lin Chen’s fairy tale, and joined him and Lin Xiaoqian for dinner.

After an American businessman tried to recruit Lin Chen by offering him a Green Card and lucrative publishing deals, Lin Chen refused and reassured Xu Mengyao about his safety. The chapter ended when Sirius called to say that Lin Chen’s team had found the mastermind behind the bounty on his life.

• An American businessman offered Lin Chen publishing deals and immigration for him and his family, but Lin Chen rejected the offer and hung up.
• Lin Chen joked with Xu Mengyao and Lin Xiaoqian about the recruiter, and Lin Xiaoqian said bad guys were rats.
• Xu Mengyao worried that the Americans might target Lin Chen, so he told her he could withstand handgun bullets with his internal energy and asked her to keep it secret.
• Xu Mengyao said Star Dream Technology had distributed employee bonuses, and Lin Chen asked her to arrange limited overtime for the second batch of orders.
• Sirius called Lin Chen and said they had found the mastermind behind the bounty to kill him.

Lin Chen learned that the Vite Family was behind the bounty on his life, though the identity of the person who ordered it remained unclear. He gained Humanoid Robot expertise while playing with Lin Xiaoqian, prepared to travel to the Imperial Capital with her, and planned to investigate the Vite Family.

• Lin Chen correctly guessed that the Vite Family had arranged the bounty, and Sirius said the evidence came from an unknown source and the person who placed it was dead.
• Lin Chen played with Lin Xiaoqian and gained Humanoid Robot technology from the system, but she soon lost interest in the toy.
• Lin Chen played doctor with Lin Xiaoqian and learned that his Western Medicine Skill had reached seventy-six hours of experience, four hours short of Legendary level.
• Lin Chen told Xu Mengyao he would travel to the Imperial Capital to deliver wedding invitation letters, and he agreed to take Lin Xiaoqian with him.
• After Lin Xiaoqian went to sleep, Lin Chen finished writing the invitation letters and planned to investigate the Vite Family.

Lin Chen hacked the Vite Family, stole data from Edmund and his relatives, then distributed secrets among family members to sow distrust. Edmund discovered a Golden Treasure Chest containing leaked information on his laptop, while his family realized their private data had been exposed.

• Lin Chen breached Edmund's phone and computer, along with his parents' devices, and collected their private data.
• Lin Chen reviewed the Vite Family's complicated family structure, then sent Edmund's information to two younger brothers, information on two other brothers to Edmund, and Terrence's files to his four wives.
• Mike opened a Golden Treasure Chest on his computer and found real records from his eldest and third brothers, then copied the files and began searching for leverage.
• Edmund's mother called him over after finding Terrence's information in a Golden Treasure Chest on her computer.
• Edmund confirmed the leaked records were real, opened his laptop, and found a Golden Treasure Chest waiting on its desktop.

Edmund discovered that a hacker had exposed private data from his family, then found compromising evidence against Mike and his fourth brother. Meanwhile, Lin Chen secretly accessed the Vite Family’s computers and copied the information they had uncovered.

• Edmund and his mother found leaked chat logs, calls, messages, emails, and files belonging to Mike, his fourth brother, and themselves, then backed up their own data.
• Edmund hired computer experts and a master hacker, but they could not trace the attacker, whom the master hacker identified as a World-Class Hacker.
• Edmund found a video of Mike with his fourth brother’s wife and decided to use it as leverage against Mike.
• On the high-speed train to the Imperial Capital, Lin Chen accessed Edmund’s computer and copied the sensitive information Edmund had gathered.
• Lin Chen continued accessing other Vite Family members’ computers and collected more intelligence.

Lin Chen released a new Fairy Tale, Hou Yi Shoots the Sun, and its popularity overwhelmed the Childlike Heart Network. In the Imperial Capital, Education System officials decided to seek his authorization to include both of his Fairy Tales in the Language Arts Textbook.

• Lin Chen decided that the information he had gathered would keep the Vite Family occupied, though he was still too weak to destroy it.
• Lin Xiaoqian woke on the way to the Imperial Capital, played her typing game, and then drew while Lin Chen wrote a new Fairy Tale.
• Lin Chen published Hou Yi Shoots the Sun, leaving its English version unfinished at the moment Hou Yi prepared to shoot down the suns.
• Readers flocked to the Childlike Heart Network, whose website lagged and crashed under the traffic until Chen Wenhan and Liang Zhirong increased its bandwidth.
• Readers overseas rushed to the new Fairy Tale and complained that its English version stopped at the crucial moment.
• Education System officials agreed to ask Lin Chen for permission to include his two Fairy Tales in the Language Arts Textbook, and the leading official called him.

Lin Chen agreed to revise his Fairy Tales for school textbooks and arranged to meet Education System Minister Dong Chengren at Imperial Capital University. After arriving in the Imperial Capital, he told Yang Jianghong that he could develop a distributed Swarm Control System capable of controlling up to one million drones.

• Dong Chengren asked Lin Chen to revise his Fairy Tales for inclusion in textbooks, and Lin Chen requested a chance to review the revised textbooks before meeting him at Imperial Capital University.
• Lin Chen and Lin Xiaoqian arrived at the station, where Yang Jianghong picked them up with Yang Kexin.
• Yang Jianghong praised Lin Chen's Drone Swarm and asked about purchasing drones for the military.
• Lin Chen said he could create a better system for Yang Jianghong and explained that its distributed design could control up to one million drones while limiting the effects of interference.

Lin Chen agreed to develop improved anti-jamming drones for the army and visited Elder Yang’s family, where he diagnosed Yang Jianghong’s wife with early-to-middle-stage pancreatic cancer and promised he could treat it. After drinking Yang Jianghong under the table, Lin Chen was asked to help the army break a deadlocked negotiation with Bear Country through a drinking contest.

• Lin Chen agreed to develop improved drones for Yang Jianghong and said the technology would be ready next month or the month after, while asking to keep some drones for his own protection.
• Lin Chen visited Elder Yang’s home with Lin Xiaoqian and examined the family members after suspecting Yang Jianghong’s wife was ill.
• Lin Chen diagnosed Yang Jianghong’s wife with pancreatic cancer but reassured the family that he was one hundred percent certain he could treat it.
• Yang Jianghong drank three bottles with Lin Chen but became heavily intoxicated while Lin Chen remained unaffected.
• Yang Jianghong asked Lin Chen to join a drinking contest intended to resolve the army’s deadlocked negotiations with Bear Country.

Lin Chen agreed to compete in a drinking contest with Bear Country representatives to help advance negotiations over access to the sea, despite officials’ concerns for his safety. After delivering Elder Yang a handwritten wedding invitation and agreeing to stay at his home, Lin Chen received a worried call from Sirius.

• Yang Jianghong explained that negotiations with Bear Country over access to the sea had stalled and that a three-person drinking contest could help move them forward.
• After consulting higher-ups, Yang Jianghong told Lin Chen the contest rules, and Lin Chen agreed to participate.
• Lin Chen gave Elder Yang a handwritten invitation to his wedding with Mengyao, and Elder Yang invited Lin Chen and Lin Xiaoqian to stay overnight.
• Sirius called Lin Chen and asked why he was competing in a drinking contest, worried that something might happen to him.

Lin Chen reassured Sirius that his drinking ability would be enough for an upcoming challenge, while officials agreed to monitor his safety. As he delivered wedding invitations, the Song brothers discussed dividing their father’s estate, but Song Shikang opposed associating with him.

• Lin Chen told Sirius that his drinking capacity surpassed his calligraphy, and Sirius reported his confidence to Xu Xiangyang, who warned him not to investigate Lin Chen.
• Xu Xiangyang and Old Xie agreed to hold the drinking session the day after tomorrow and to intervene if Lin Chen faced danger.
• Lin Chen rode with Yang Jianghong to deliver wedding invitations, reassured him that his wife’s early-middle-stage pancreatic cancer could be treated, and continued to the Song residence.
• Song Shize and Song Qingquan agreed to propose dividing their father’s remaining shares evenly between them and excluding Song Shikang.
• Song Shikang warned Song Shize and Song Qingquan to distance the Song Family from Lin Chen and threatened to be impolite if Lin Chen visited.

Song Shikang tried to secure his brothers’ support over the Song family inheritance, but Song Shize and Song Qingquan sided with Lin Chen and refused to rush the division. After learning how strongly the Yang family backed Lin Chen, Song Shikang and his wife chose to avoid confronting him for now, while Lin Chen arranged for National Security to investigate Old Man Song’s death.

• Song Shikang offered Song Shize and Song Qingquan a share of the inheritance in exchange for their support, but both rejected his plan to divide it immediately.
• Song Shize and Song Qingquan welcomed Lin Chen, who gave them handwritten wedding invitations and left Song Shikang without one.
• Song Shikang’s wife warned him that Yang Jianghong’s presence showed the Yang family was close to Lin Chen, and she urged her husband to avoid him for now.
• Song Qingquan told Lin Chen about the brothers’ discussion, and Lin Chen agreed to the proposed inheritance distribution only after Old Man Song’s cause of death was thoroughly investigated.
• Yang Jianghong suggested that National Security investigate, and Lin Chen called Sirius, who agreed to look into Old Man Song’s death.

Lin Chen met Education Minister Dong Chengren and Imperial Capital University principal Gu Changgeng, accepted an honorary professorship, and reviewed a draft textbook containing his fairy tales. He found several issues, including an article Dong said would be difficult to remove because its author was influential.

• Lin Chen asked Sirius to discreetly investigate Old Man Song, then rode with Yang Jianghong to Imperial Capital University for his meeting with Dong Chengren.
• Yang Jianghong warned Lin Chen that some people in the capital clung to outdated views and advised him to be careful.
• Secretary Liu escorted Lin Chen through the campus, where students recognized him and gathered to greet him.
• Dong Chengren and Gu Changgeng offered Lin Chen an honorary professorship, which he accepted.
• Lin Chen used his system to review a draft textbook and identified several problems, including one article he recommended removing.
• Dong Chengren agreed with most of Lin Chen's suggestions but said the article would be difficult to remove because its author was no ordinary person.

Lin Chen learned that Yan Zongxiang, the Yan Family patriarch, had written the textbook fairy tale he objected to, and he planned to confront the family in the future. At Imperial Capital University, he announced he would give a mathematics public lecture the next morning, raising Xu Mengyao’s concerns about attracting attention from foreign forces.

• Lin Chen asked Dong Chengren not to publish his fairy tale yet, then learned that Yan Zongxiang had authored the piece and that the Yan Family was connected to the Song Family through Song Shikang’s wife.
• Lin Chen told Dong Chengren he would speak openly against people he disliked, then left after adding Dong Chengren on WeChat.
• After Yang Jianghong postponed their meeting, Lin Chen went to the Imperial Capital University cafeteria, where students asked him to give a lecture.
• Lin Chen agreed to give a mathematics public lecture at nine the next morning and said he would answer students’ questions.
• News of Lin Chen’s planned lecture spread across campus and online, and Xu Mengyao asked why he was revealing his mathematics skills and whether foreign forces might target him.

Lin Chen explained that he would teach a public mathematics lecture to deter the Yan Family and its allies, while Sirius and Xu Xiangyang arranged to protect him. After reaching Legendary Western Medicine Skill while playing doctor with Lin Xiaoqian and Yang Kexin, Lin Chen reunited with Xu Mengyao, and Lin Xiaoqian asked her parents to buy her a little brother or sister.

• Lin Chen told Sirius that Song Shikang and Pan Jia had targeted him and that he would reveal his strength to discourage the Yan Family's allies from joining them.
• Sirius reported Lin Chen's situation to Xu Xiangyang, who ordered agents to protect Lin Chen at his lecture the next day.
• Lin Chen played doctor with Lin Xiaoqian and Yang Kexin until his Western Medicine Skill reached Legendary level.
• Xu Mengyao arrived in the Imperial Capital to attend Lin Chen's public lecture and joined him and Lin Xiaoqian at the Yang Family home for dinner.
• Lin Chen and Xu Mengyao took Lin Xiaoqian to a hotel, where she asked them to buy her a little brother or sister.