Chapter Summaries

Ye Yuan returned home after surviving the plane crash, reassured his family, and gave Air China a cover story about being rescued by a cruise ship. After spending several days at home, he asked his mother how her two classmates had come to the memorial service.

• Li Hui hugged Ye Yuan and told him how worried his family had been, while Ye Yuan's parents prepared to take him home.
• Ye Yuan told his family a fabricated account of his survival, then visited his recovered grandmother and brought her home from the hospital.
• Air China questioned Ye Yuan about the crash, and Xu Hang helped him maintain the story that a cruise ship had rescued him.
• Ye Yuan returned home in Zhang Wujin's G-Wagon and suggested a family trip, but his mother angrily forbade him from traveling.
• Ye Yuan stayed home with his family for several days, then asked his mother how her two classmates had gotten to the memorial service.

Ye Yuan reunited with Zhang Xin at their old college restaurant after she returned from abroad. Zhang Xin asked why Song Ran had given Ye Yuan's family a villa, and Ye Yuan wanted to know why she had been investigating Song Ran.

• Mother Ye gave Ye Yuan the phone number of two former classmates who had come looking for him, and Ye Yuan called Zhang Xin.
• Zhang Xin arranged to meet Ye Yuan at Hao Zai Lai, where they had often eaten together during college.
• Ye Yuan arrived early, ordered their familiar dishes, and reunited with Zhang Xin when she entered the restaurant.
• Zhang Xin asked why Song Ran had given Ye Yuan's family a villa, explaining that she had been investigating Song Ran.
• Ye Yuan asked Zhang Xin why she had been investigating Song Ran.

Zhang Xin told Ye Yuan that she had investigated Song Ran because both their mothers had cancer, and asked him to connect her with the doctor who treated Song Ran’s mother. Ye Yuan agreed to help for a high fee, then left to meet Xu Hang at a mysterious, heavily guarded facility.

• Zhang Xin explained that her mother had cancer and that she investigated Song Ran after hearing Song Ran’s mother had recovered.
• Ye Yuan told Zhang Xin that his master had treated Song Ran’s mother, and agreed to arrange a consultation if Zhang Xin brought her mother to Blue Island and paid the fee.
• Xu Hang called Ye Yuan and asked him to come to 13 Changjiang Street, so Ye Yuan ended his meal with Zhang Xin and left.
• Ye Yuan arrived at a guarded courtyard, where armed police registered him before Xu Hang escorted him inside.
• Xu Hang described the facility as a secretive department with stricter confidentiality and more dangerous missions than National Security.

Xu Hang and a group of officials asked Ye Yuan to recover the stolen Mother and Child Tiger Painting from Wa Nation after it was donated to the Shangjing City Museum. They revealed that their agents could not bring it back safely, and Ye Yuan was left deciding whether to help.

• Xu Hang brought Ye Yuan to a meeting room, where officials showed him documents and photographs of Mother and Child Tiger Painting.
• Ye Yuan learned that the Song Dynasty painting had sold for 362 million RMB before a patriot donated it to the nation.
• Xu Hang explained that the painting had been stolen the day before its museum donation and transported to Wa Nation within twenty-seven hours.
• The officials said Wa Nation refused to return the painting through official channels, claiming one of its citizens had bought it abroad.
• Xu Hang asked Ye Yuan to retrieve the painting, citing his unexplained return from the Pacific Ocean, and Ye Yuan hesitated over whether to agree.

Ye Yuan traveled to Japan under a secret arrangement, disguised himself, and carried out an operation before returning to Fishing Bay Island. Xu Hang arrived to hear what had happened, while Ye Yuan’s troublesome young mastiffs greeted the visitors at his villa.

• Xu Hang told Ye Yuan to travel to Japan as a tourist and contact him if he needed help or wanted to withdraw.
• After Ye Yuan left, Old Yu defended him against criticism over the animals he kept on his island.
• Ye Yuan flew to Tokyo, rested overnight, then used the Ruyi Mask to disguise himself as an elderly Chinese man and went to the National Power Museum.
• Three days later, Ye Yuan met Xu Hang and several unfamiliar people at Fishing Bay Island’s dock.
• At the villa, Ye Yuan shooed Tank and Duke away and recalled how the two mastiffs caused trouble whenever he was absent.

Ye Yuan returned the Mother and Child Tiger Painting to Xu Hang, then drove away Professor Yang after he tried to appraise Ye Yuan’s collection. Xu Hang rebuked Professor Yang at the dock and reported to the higher-ups.

• Ye Yuan scolded Big Yellow for leading Tank and Duke outside, then gave Xu Hang the Mother and Child Tiger Painting.
• Professor Yang examined the painting, confirmed it was genuine, and asked to appraise Ye Yuan’s other antiques.
• Ye Yuan refused Professor Yang’s request and asked Xu Hang’s group to leave.
• Professor Yang complained to Xu Hang that Ye Yuan had been rude and should have shared his collection.
• Xu Hang challenged Professor Yang over his calls for others to donate antiques and told him not to judge others without understanding their circumstances.
• Xu Hang left Professor Yang behind and reported to the higher-ups from the boat.

Ye Yuan settled into the completed courtyard house on his island and spent the week arranging it and making furniture. Zhang Wujin visited and tried to recruit him for a Gambling Ship outing next week, but Ye Yuan refused for now.

• Ye Yuan decided that Professor Yang and the others had treated him as someone easy to bully, and resolved to keep his distance from Xu Hang and them.
• Ye Yuan inspected the finished courtyard house, including its fish pond, two-story residence, wine cellar, and hidden basement for collectibles.
• Ye Yuan sat with Zhang Wujin beneath the grape arbor, shared cigars he had bought near Newcastle Island, and discussed the courtyard house.
• Zhang Wujin invited Ye Yuan to join his buddies on a Gambling Ship, but Ye Yuan said he would rather make furniture.
• Zhang Wujin continued persuading Ye Yuan to go the following week during the fishing moratorium.

Ye Yuan attended Gong Hongzhuang’s wedding, finished furnishing his courtyard house, and took his pets to the beach. There, he spotted two Red-footed Boobies diving for fish near Fishing Bay Island.

• Ye Yuan refused to accompany Zhang Wujin, and Tank and Duke guarded the courtyard until Ye Yuan told them to stand down.
• Ye Yuan drove to Zheng City and attended Gong Hongzhuang’s wedding, where he met Zhang Liyuan and offered to help her find work at the Pinghai tourist district.
• Ye Yuan declined Gong Hongzhuang’s offer to stay overnight and returned to Pinghai County that evening.
• Ye Yuan finished making the courtyard house’s furniture and took his pets out for a walk on the beach.
• Ye Yuan watched two Red-footed Boobies dive for fish and recognized them as a protected seabird rarely seen on Fishing Bay Island.

Ye Yuan learned that people were asking around for Apple Snails and warned Ye Hui not to buy any, recalling a seafood scam that had once hit Blue Island. Great White and Little Shark called to him from the sea, drawing his attention away from his thoughts.

• Ye Hui sent Ye Yuan a picture of a large snail and called to ask what it was.
• Ye Yuan identified it as an Apple Snail and warned Ye Hui not to accept any if someone tried to sell them to her.
• Ye Yuan recalled how seafood merchants on Blue Island had been tricked into buying over a hundred tons of unwanted fish after people falsely created demand for it.
• Great White and Little Shark leapt from the water and called for Ye Yuan to join them.

Ye Yuan reunited with Big White, Little Shark, and Tiger, then followed Big White to a coral reef where he found unusual fish and strange seagrass. He brought some seagrass back to his space and returned toward Fishing Bay Island, where Li Hui was waiting on the shore.

• Ye Yuan released Tiger from his space and introduced him to Big White and Little Shark, who soon became friends.
• Ye Yuan followed Big White to a coral reef and noticed that the fish there were unusually large.
• Ye Yuan discovered unfamiliar seagrass growing around the reef and transplanted a small patch into his space.
• Ye Yuan rode Tiger back toward Fishing Bay Island with Big White and Little Shark.
• Ye Yuan swam ashore and found Li Hui searching for him.

Li Hui asked Ye Yuan to buy an agricultural plane to distribute feed across the fisheries’ expanded sea areas, and Ye Yuan approved after learning about the plane’s requirements. A manufacturer’s sales manager called Ye Yuan, but the chapter ended before he spoke with her.

• Li Hui found Ye Yuan swimming and complained that he had been neglecting his businesses.
• Li Hui proposed buying an agricultural plane because workers struggled to distribute feed across the newly acquired sea areas.
• Ye Yuan questioned the costs and regulations, and Li Hui explained the plane’s flight limits and that some models could take off from roads.
• Ye Yuan approved the purchase, and Li Hui sent him the manufacturer’s contact information before returning to the factory.
• A woman called Ye Yuan from the other end of the line.

Ye Yuan visited Huafly Aviation with Zhang Wujin to find an aircraft for spreading feed around his fish farm. Yang Ling recommended the domestically produced Y-5, and Ye Yuan remained skeptical of the older model as she explained its advantages.

• Ye Yuan arranged an appointment with Yang Ling and invited Zhang Wujin to accompany him to Blue Island to buy an aircraft.
• Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin met Yang Ling at Huafly Aviation, where she asked about Ye Yuan’s needs and budget.
• Ye Yuan said he wanted an aircraft to spread feed around his fish farm and already owned a helicopter.
• Yang Ling advised against helicopters because small models lacked cargo capacity and larger ones cost tens of millions, recommending a seaplane or fixed-wing aircraft instead.
• Yang Ling recommended the domestically produced Y-5, and Ye Yuan questioned whether the decades-old model was still being manufactured.
• Yang Ling praised the Y-5’s safety, easy maintenance, ability to take off from grass, low operating costs, and continued use.

Ye Yuan bought an amphibious aircraft and, with Zhang Wujin, became interested in a flynano displayed at Huafei. After Zhang bought the prototype, Su Mei called to ask about Nian Xin’s kindergarten spring outing to Ye Yuan’s island.

• Ye Yuan ordered an amphibious aircraft from Yang Ling for 2.6 million Huaxia dollars, with delivery expected in two weeks.
• Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin examined a flynano, and Zhang bought the sole display model after learning a second unit would take months to arrive.
• Yang Ling gave Zhang Wujin a helmet, and he arranged for a truck to transport the flynano to the Pinghai County pier.
• Su Mei called Ye Yuan and explained that Nian Xin’s kindergarten planned to hold a spring outing on his island.

Ye Yuan agreed to let Su Mei’s kindergarten group spend a day on the beach at his private island, with the distillery off-limits. He also learned Zhang Xin would return with her mother in two days, then brought the flynano back to Pinghai and offered Zhang Wujin a chance to try it.

• Su Mei asked Ye Yuan to let the kindergarten children and their parents visit his island, and he agreed to let them use the beach while keeping the processing area closed to visitors.
• Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin discussed Zhang Xin, and Ye Yuan said they were only friends now.
• Zhang Xin called Ye Yuan to say she was bringing her mother back to Blue Island in two days, and Ye Yuan agreed to receive them.
• Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin followed the truck carrying the flynano back to Pinghai County, where dockside onlookers mistook it for a boat or airplane.
• Ye Yuan, Zhang Wujin, Ding Yi, and the driver carried the flynano to the Yushui Hao, and Ye Yuan offered to let Zhang Wujin try it at his place.

Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin brought a FlyNano to Fishing Bay Island, where they tested its ability to fly over the sea. That night, Ye Yuan continued cultivating and discovered why only some animals could absorb energy from the black stones, while his Water Control Art remained just short of a breakthrough.

• Ye Yuan explained that he had bought a plane for spreading feed, while Zhang Wujin had brought back the FlyNano.
• Ye Yuan studied the FlyNano's controls, took off from the water, and flew low over the sea as Li Hui, Zhang Wujin, and nearby fishermen watched.
• Zhang Wujin piloted the FlyNano himself, then landed after its power ran out before Li Hui could try it.
• Ye Yuan recalled spending 200 points to learn that fewer than one percent of animals could absorb black-stone energy, explaining why Big Yellow could but Tank, Duke, and the other animals could not.
• Ye Yuan cultivated beside Big Yellow that night but failed to break through the Water Control Art, then put away the black stone and headed home.

Ye Yuan hosted Su Mei, Su Nianxin, and a kindergarten group on Fishing Bay Island, where he met Zhang Qiang, a divorced father who had left the used-car trade to raise his son. Zhang began recounting how he entered the business in Xiao City and how its used-car market first developed.

• Ye Yuan came to Fishing Bay Island to look after his niece Niuniu and brought Big Yellow, Tank, and Duke.
• Su Mei brought more than eighty kindergarten visitors to the island, and Niuniu went to play in the sea with little Nian Xin.
• Zhang Qiang mistook Niuniu for Ye Yuan’s daughter, then introduced himself and explained that he was raising his five-year-old son alone.
• Zhang told Ye Yuan that he had left the used-car trade in Xiao City because its chaotic environment was unsuitable for his young son.
• Zhang recounted returning to Xiao City with one million yuan to join a classmate in the used-car business and traced the Yangzhuang market back to recovered bicycles sold as scrap.

Ye Yuan and Zhang Qiang discussed Yangzhuang’s notorious used-car market before Ye Yuan arranged fresh seafood for the parents at the beach. The group recognized Ye Yuan’s Yuwan Seafood business, and the chapter ended with him preparing scallops while Su Mei grilled.

• Zhang Qiang described Yangzhuang’s used-car market and said it had finally been replaced the previous year.
• Ye Yuan called Li Hui and had workers deliver seafood to the parents gathered on the beach.
• Li Hui explained that the seafood was farm-raised in extensive waters, and Ye Yuan confirmed that Yuwan Seafood belonged to him.
• Ye Yuan collected scallops with the two girls while the parents cooked the delivered seafood.
• Ye Yuan returned with half a bucket of scallops and discussed grilling them as Su Mei cooked nearby.

Ye Yuan saw Zhang Xin and her nominal master off Fishing Bay Island, then reviewed the financial reports for his businesses. He remained troubled by his feelings for Zhang Xin as he learned Aftertaste Wine was his most profitable venture, while its output was limited by production methods and scarce grain.

• Ye Yuan cleaned and grilled scallops while the parents praised his skill, then watched the barbecue group leave the beach and sat alone with Big Yellow and Duke Tank.
• Zhang Xin arrived by yacht to take Ye Yuan's nominal master away, and Ye Yuan arranged for the robot to provide Chinese medicine using Spatial Lake Water.
• After the yacht departed, Ye Yuan reflected on his lingering feelings for Zhang Xin and his resentment toward her mother.
• Li Hui gave Ye Yuan financial statements for their businesses, and Ye Yuan reviewed them beneath the grapevine.
• Ye Yuan saw that the feed workshop mainly supplied the aquaculture base and that Aftertaste Wine produced thirty thousand cases monthly, earning 5.2 million in after-tax profit.

Ye Yuan reviewed his Pinghai County businesses and reflected on the poor returns from the garbage treatment plant before visiting the northern fishing grounds. After months of deploying artificial reefs, he found the area flourishing with marine life, including rare Humphead Wrasse.

• Ye Yuan reviewed the ornamental fish breeding base's reports and saw that it had earned 1.25 million yuan in profit over nearly six months.
• Ye Yuan examined the garbage treatment plant's results and recalled that each ton of garbage yielded an energy block worth only 800 points.
• Ye Yuan went to the rocky beach late at night with Big Yellow.
• Ye Yuan swam through the northern fishing grounds, where artificial reefs deployed three months earlier had become covered in shellfish and seaweed and attracted many fish.
• Ye Yuan spotted three rare Humphead Wrasse and recognized them as an unexpected find.

Ye Yuan found several rare fish and fast-growing aquatic grass in his farm, then hurried to Blue Island after Ye Hui called about a seafood authenticity dispute. He confirmed that an abalone sold through another channel came from his farm, but the chapter ended before Ma Mingyuan revealed what the store manager had discovered.

• Ye Yuan found three female Humphead Wrasse, considered seeking permits to breed protected species, and planned to cultivate special aquatic grass that accelerated fish growth.
• Ye Hui urgently called Ye Yuan to Blue Island, where Ma Mingyuan and Wang Yueshan were waiting at Yuwan Seafood.
• Ye Hui showed Ye Yuan a three-head dried abalone, and he confirmed that it came from his fish farm.
• Ma Mingyuan explained that he had bought an abalone in Hong Kong Island through another channel after hearing claims that Yuwan Seafood was secretly selling outside their exclusive arrangement.
• Ma Mingyuan said a store manager had brought him information about the supposedly counterfeit seafood, but the chapter ended before he disclosed what the manager found.