Chapter Summaries

Little Lunatic tried to sell Heaven Origin Miscellany at Confucian Grove and recruited underpaid contract workers by giving them generous wages. After learning the magazine was popular and difficult to find, he realized a port service station could help Young Master Chen make money.

• Little Lunatic brought copies of Heaven Origin Miscellany to the docks and paid a security guard and his sister to join his sales effort.
• Seven contract guards rallied behind Little Lunatic after he offered them large bonuses and ongoing wages.
• A guard proposed collecting five-yuan landing fees and giving passengers magazines, and Little Lunatic agreed to try the scheme.
• A burly sailor asked to buy the magazine because he wanted every issue, revealing how much demand it had.
• Little Bean warned that newsstands required expensive permits, and the sailor suggested opening a service station instead.
• Little Lunatic realized that a port service station could become a way to make money for Young Master Chen.

Little Lunatic organized a dockside service station to draw customers to Heaven Origin Miscellany, and Chen Yu turned the idea into a large expansion project. Chen Yu left Little Lunatic in charge as he ordered twenty stations opened across Confucian Grove.

• Little Lunatic rallied the workers to open a service station and appointed an experienced former station worker as its manager.
• The manager proposed selling noodles and hot water to sailors, and Little Lunatic brought her supply list to Chen Yu.
• Chen Yu called Xu Youran, who arrived with ghost cultivators and reported that Heaven Origin Tea could not spend its allocation or expand further in Longevity Prefecture.
• Chen Yu inspected the dock with Xu Youran and ordered equipment, shipping, and local hiring for the service station project.
• Chen Yu raised the budget to five million and ordered twenty stations opened in Confucian Grove before expanding inland, then encouraged Little Lunatic to work hard.

After Chen Yu approved a five-million investment and plans for twenty service stations, a Ghost Cultivator helped Little Lunatic and the outsourced workers plan a larger port service hub. Her ideas for better benefits, ship repairs, and shared profits energized the workers, while Little Lunatic resolved to join Morning Light and study the Employee Handbook.

• Little Lunatic told the station manager that Chen Yu had approved five million for the station and wanted to build twenty of them.
• The Ghost Cultivator introduced herself as an accomplished Heaven Origin Tea store manager and promised to help develop the service station.
• She gave the children milk tea, explained Heaven Origin Tea's employee benefits, and promised outsourced workers equal benefits and help becoming permanent employees.
• The Ghost Cultivator identified poor ship maintenance as a reason sailors and ships did not stay, then proposed combining rest facilities with repair services.
• She promised monthly dividends, appointed a skilled outsourced worker to lead repairs, and recruited workers with useful talents for the station.
• Inspired by the Ghost Cultivator, Little Lunatic resolved to join Morning Light and read the Employee Handbook.

The Ghost Cultivator opened a crude Service Station and drew in its first customers by welcoming a group of sailors with free food and lodging. She secured their ship’s maintenance job, then empowered the mechanics with the Heaven Origin Heart Method and a communications network before sending them to work.

• The Ghost Cultivator ordered lanterns along the road, and Little Lunatic cried after she comforted him about their expenses.
• A group of sailors arrived, and the Ghost Cultivator gave them free noodles and hot water.
• The Ghost Cultivator offered to maintain the sailors’ freighter for fifty thousand, and their captain agreed to send the ship over.
• The Ghost Cultivator registered the mechanics’ certificates and taught them the Heaven Origin Heart Method.
• The Ghost Cultivator boosted the mechanics’ cultivation and linked their primordial spirits so they could coordinate while repairing the ship.

A Level-One Repairman and his fellow outsourced workers received abundant supplies and Repair Puppets, allowing them to restore a cargo ship far beyond the captain’s expectations. The captain paid the agreed low price, pledged to return, and left three hundred bottles of fine wine at the Service Station.

• A Puppet Pilot delivered supplies and several retired Repair Puppets, treating the repairmen as fellow company employees.
• The Level-One Repairman and his companions used their equipment and skills to repair the cargo ship, then chose to fix additional damage and hazards.
• The captain inspected the restored ship and was astonished by its condition and the repairmen’s price of fifty thousand.
• The Level-One Repairman explained the Service Station’s low prices, and the captain decided to make it his regular stop.
• The captain left three hundred bottles of fine sweet wine with the repairmen before sailing away.

The Ghost Cultivator Girl’s service station prospered, and she prepared to leave Little Lunatic and the Station Manager in charge while opening new stations inland. Little Lunatic returned to his former home, where his restored sight revealed his parents’ skeletons, and told them he was back.

• The Ghost Cultivator Girl let the Level-One Repairman and the other workers sell the gifted wine, sharing the proceeds between bonuses and team activities.
• As sailors spread word of the Heaven Origin Service Station, customers and staff increased, and "Wang Jingting" rescued children from corrupt welfare homes and brought them to work and study at the station.
• By the third issue of Heaven Origin Miscellany, the station had expanded and turned a profit, while selling three hundred thousand magazines.
• The Ghost Cultivator Girl told Little Lunatic and the Station Manager she was leaving to open stations inland, then comforted the Station Manager when he called her Mom.
• Little Lunatic went back to his old home and saw his parents’ skeletons with his restored sight, then quietly said, “Dad, Mom, I'm back.”

Little Lunatic settled into his new life at the Heaven Origin Service Station and took his family’s bones to their renovated ancestral grave. As the station’s southeastern branch prospered, Station Manager Zheng Hanyue abandoned her failing post and applied to join it.

• Little Lunatic told his companion about his well-paid work, arranged to renovate his family’s ancestral grave, and carried his relatives’ bones and souls toward his new home.
• Seven days later, the Heaven Origin Service Station’s southeastern branch expanded its port and freight operations, drawing sailors and business away from the official station.
• Station Manager Zheng Hanyue’s employees rejected her offers of permanent posts and chose the rival station’s higher pay and better benefits instead.
• After her last remaining employee quit, Zheng Hanyue disguised herself and applied at the Heaven Origin Service Station for the trainee store manager position.

Zheng Hanyue joined the Heaven Origin Service Station as a trainee store manager, intending to learn its methods and build a rival business. After seeing its generous pay and efficient, script-powered kitchen, she concluded that the station’s weakness was its high consumption of magical power.

• Little Lunatic hired Zheng Hanyue as a trainee store manager without investigating her suspicious résumé in depth.
• Zheng Hanyue entered the employee group and read a handbook that urged staff to rest, avoid overtime, and stop giving money back to the station.
• After seeing the Station Manager’s salary and receiving her own allowances and advance pay, Zheng Hanyue struggled to maintain her resolve to expose the station.
• Little Kitchen Granny showed Zheng Hanyue how the kitchen’s machines prepared dishes and scripts delivered food and cleaned furniture.
• Zheng Hanyue realized that the station relied on scripts that consumed large amounts of magical power and identified that expense as its weakness.