Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qiang told the reunion about a farmer whose poisoned wheat killed a cow, which led to the discovery that meat dealers were selling poisoned livestock in nearby counties. After the reunion, Ye Yuan paid the bill, took the drunk Li Hui to a hotel near the hospital, and planned to visit Qiu Minghui’s son with him the next day.

• Zhang Qiang recounted how Liu Lao Er poisoned the edges of his wheat field, killing Li Gāzi’s cow after warning villagers to keep their livestock away.
• Liu Lao Er discovered Li Gāzi had sold the dead cow to Ma Lao Da, and the ensuing investigation uncovered meat dealers selling poisoned meat across three counties.
• Shānmāo blamed poverty for the dangerous meat trade as the class reunion ended after more than seven hours.
• Ye Yuan paid for the reunion and messaged Li Hui that he would wait for him at the Second Hospital.
• Ye Yuan took the drunk Li Hui to a hotel, postponed visiting Qiu Minghui’s son until the next day, and used the Water Control Art to clear the alcohol from his body before driving home.

Ye Yuan and Li Hui visited their former classmate Qiu Minghui in the hospital and gave him extra financial help as his family struggled with his grandson’s illness. Over lunch, Qiu explained his plan to work in fast-moving consumer goods and asked whether Li Hui’s fish farm could use supplies such as instant noodles and bottled water.

• Ye Yuan left his grandmother’s home after Li Hui called and drove to the hospital to meet him.
• Li Hui and Ye Yuan visited Qiu Minghui’s hospitalized grandson, met Qiu’s mother, and gave Qiu two envelopes containing two thousand yuan each.
• Qiu told Ye Yuan and Li Hui that he planned to handle secondary wholesale for his cousin’s fast-moving consumer goods company.
• At lunch, Qiu asked whether Li Hui’s fish farm needed instant noodles or bottled water, and explained the slim margins on instant noodles.

Ye Yuan offered Qiu Minghui a chance to distribute Aftertaste Wine despite Qiu’s lack of capital. The chapter ended with Ye Yuan outlining a limited payment arrangement and Li Hui set to determine Qiu’s supply.

• Qiu Minghui explained how distributors earned money through promotions and tiered rebates, and offered to sell goods at factory price.
• Li Hui asked whether Qiu wanted to distribute baijiu, but Qiu said he lacked the channels and capital to do so independently.
• Ye Yuan offered Qiu distribution rights for Aftertaste Wine outside Blue Island and suggested supplying bottled water to Yuwan Seafood.
• Li Hui revealed that Ye Yuan owned both Yuwan Seafood and Aftertaste Wine, leaving Qiu stunned.
• Ye Yuan offered to let Qiu take his first shipment without paying upfront, with payment due on the second shipment and the arrangement limited to five rounds.

Ye Yuan finalized an Aftertaste Wine agency deal with Qiu Minghui, giving him hope for his family’s future. Back on Fishing Bay Island, Ye Yuan reunited with his parents and Niuniu, showed them his courtyard house, and received a call from Zhang Wujin about an interview with Zhang Wenna.

• Qiu Minghui accepted the agency terms for Aftertaste Wine and cried with relief as he saw hope for his family.
• Ye Yuan returned to Fishing Bay Island, where his parents and Niuniu had come to stay, and watched his father chase Tank and Duke downstairs.
• Ye Yuan’s family ate breakfast together, and his parents asked him to show them his courtyard house.
• Ye Yuan showed his parents the courtyard house, and they discussed Niuniu starting elementary school the following month.
• Zhang Wujin called Ye Yuan and complained that he had sent Zhang Wenna for an interview without telling him.

Ye Yuan dealt with Zhang Xin’s mother trying to turn his healing into a business opportunity, while Zhang Xin defended his privacy and left with her. At the dock, Ye Yuan met Jimmy Videmore, Amir Videmore’s stepdaughter, who had come to see him but had not yet revealed why.

• Ye Yuan told Ye Yuan’s associate to consider hiring Zhang Wenna if her qualifications were acceptable, since they had been classmates.
• Zhang Xin told Ye Yuan that her mother had nearly recovered and wanted to thank him, but Ye Yuan declined and urged her mother to watch what she said.
• Zhang Xin’s mother proposed introducing wealthy patients to Ye Yuan, and Zhang Xin accused her of seeking business connections and warned her not to reveal that he was a doctor.
• Zhang Xin left with her luggage, while her mother followed her toward the dock on Nanlin Island.
• Ye Yuan met Jimmy Videmore at the dock and learned that Amir Videmore was her mother’s husband.
• Ye Yuan asked Jimmy why she had come to see him, and she had not yet answered.

Jimmy visited Ye Yuan to ask permission to visit Newcastle Island, which held memories of her mother, and then stayed on Fishing Bay Island for a few days. After Ye Yuan confirmed her identity with Amir, Jimmy befriended Niuniu and traded teasing remarks with Ye Yuan.

• Jimmy explained that she wanted to visit Newcastle Island because of her memories with her mother, and Ye Yuan gave her permission to go there anytime.
• Jimmy asked to stay on Fishing Bay Island for a few days, and Ye Yuan had Li Hui arrange her accommodation.
• Ye Yuan called Amir to verify Jimmy's identity, and Amir confirmed she was his daughter and asked Ye Yuan to look after her until someone could collect her.
• Ye Yuan told Father Ye that Jimmy was a friend's child who would stay for a few days.
• Niuniu brought Jimmy to the courtyard, where Jimmy declared that they were friends and used a Chinese phrase to tease Ye Yuan.
• Jimmy questioned Ye Yuan's fondness for tea, and Ye Yuan explained the importance of tea culture in Huaxia Nation.

Ye Yuan took Jimmy diving, where she filmed a rare purple siphonophore despite his warnings. After they returned to the speedboat, he scolded her for ignoring him underwater, then praised her diving skills when she asked.

• Jimmy asked Ye Yuan to take her to meet his sea pets, and she excitedly photographed Little Gold after seeing the Golden Eagle.
• Ye Yuan and Jimmy sailed to an unfamiliar spot and went diving with a white dolphin circling them.
• Jimmy photographed a purple siphonophore while Ye Yuan watched it and sensed its tiny jellyfish recovering their vital energy.
• Jimmy tugged Ye Yuan toward the surface, and he helped her climb aboard the speedboat.
• Ye Yuan reprimanded Jimmy for disobeying him underwater, and she accepted his scolding without arguing.
• Jimmy asked Ye Yuan to judge her diving skills, and he told her she was almost as good as a sea diver.

Ye Yuan returned to Fishing Bay Island with Jimmy, who livestreamed the trip, and found Zhang Wujin flying a personal aircraft while Niuniu watched. Zhang Wujin invited Ye Yuan to go offshore fishing, despite Ye Yuan having guests, and Jimmy asked what they were discussing.

• Ye Yuan explained that sea divers were traditional divers who earned a living by diving for seafood, then piloted the boat back toward Fishing Bay Island.
• Jimmy livestreamed Da Bai swimming alongside the boat and told Ye Yuan that streaming was her job.
• Near the island, Jimmy filmed Zhang Wujin flying a personal aircraft, while Niuniu asked Ye Yuan when their own aircraft would arrive.
• Ye Yuan called out to Zhang Wujin, who landed the aircraft, and Zhang teased Ye Yuan about bringing home a foreign girl.
• Zhang Wujin invited Ye Yuan to go offshore fishing, and Jimmy asked what they were talking about.

Ye Yuan, Zhang Wujin, Jimmy, and Niuniu went sea fishing at Baili Rock, where the friends caught several fish and Jimmy landed a large wild grouper while livestreaming. The chapter left Jimmy celebrating her catch as her viewers showered her with gifts.

• Ye Yuan agreed to go sea fishing with Zhang Wujin, and Jimmy eagerly joined them.
• Ye Yuan took the group to Baili Rock, where they prepared their Fishing Rods and began fishing.
• Zhang Wujin caught a Rock Grouper, and Ye Yuan warned him to wear gloves because its spines were venomous.
• Ye Yuan caught a small Rock Grouper, and Zhang Wujin teased him about his luck.
• Jimmy played a strong fish for thirty minutes before landing a wild grouper weighing at least three jin, while her livestream viewers sent her gifts.

Ye Yuan took Niuniu and Jimmy fishing, then prepared a beach cookout while Jimmy filmed him. Over beers, Zhang Wujin explained that he was still pushing for a police station because a small security post would not adequately protect the tourist area and its future wildlife reserve.

• Niuniu celebrated as Jimmy caught a three-pound grouper, and Ye Yuan later dove for a lobster and swimming crabs to cook for her.
• Jimmy recorded Ye Yuan diving and agreed to blur his face before posting the video online.
• Ye Yuan prepared seafood at a beach cookout while Jimmy filmed, and she praised his fish soup.
• Zhang Wujin told Ye Yuan that he wanted a police station for the tourist area because a security post could not protect the future wildlife reserve from animal poachers.

Ye Yuan coordinated with the research institute, Zhang Wujin, and Lan Xianghui to seek approval for a police substation in his protected area. That night, he broke through the fourth level of the Water Control Art and discovered new powers.

• Ye Yuan asked Professor Su, Zhang Wujin, and Lan Xianghui to help establish a police substation, and Lan Xianghui said he would support the proposal at a meeting.
• Zhang Wujin again invited Ye Yuan to visit the Gambling Ship, but Ye Yuan refused.
• Ye Yuan practiced on a reef and broke through the fourth level of the Water Control Art.
• Ye Yuan checked his updated attributes and saw that his diving depth had exceeded ten thousand meters, while Speed and Endurance were nearing 50.
• Ye Yuan found that he could create multiple, thicker Water Needles and use his perception to control nearby objects with great precision.

Ye Yuan took Jimmy and Niuniu tidepooling at Fishing Bay Island, where they checked his fish trap and searched among the reefs for seafood. After finding only three crabs and marine garbage in the trap, Ye Yuan caught an octopus and spread out his perception to locate more hidden seafood.

• Jimmy spent three days on Fishing Bay Island and delighted Niuniu by playing games with her.
• Ye Yuan took Jimmy and Niuniu to check a fish trap in a sheltered bay at low tide.
• Ye Yuan pulled in the trap and found three crabs among marine garbage, which he collected and removed.
• Ye Yuan overturned a rock, caught an octopus after it slipped from his grasp, and put it in his bucket.
• Ye Yuan spread out his perception to detect seafood hidden beneath the rocks and sand.

Ye Yuan returned from gathering seafood with Jimmy and Niuniu, then joined his family for breakfast. County Mayor Zhang Jingkuan called to report that Erbao had been abducted in Lin Yun Town, and Ye Yuan became tense as he heard the details.

• Ye Yuan gathered crabs, octopuses, and shellfish with Jimmy and Niuniu, then returned home when the tide began to rise.
• Mother Ye cooked crab porridge and fried crab while Niuniu complained that Grandma would let her eat only one crab.
• Ye Yuan answered a call from County Mayor Zhang Jingkuan as his family sat down to eat.
• Zhang Jingkuan told Ye Yuan that two first-grade students had skipped school and one, Erbao, had been abducted by a man and a woman in a van.
• The other student reported the abduction to Doctor Wang, who took her to the Lin Yun Town police station; officers contacted the county bureau after the van had already left town.

After a child was abducted and the kidnappers escaped toward the sea, Zhang Jingkuan mobilized Pinghai County and asked Ye Yuan to help search with his helicopter. Ye Yuan and Fishing Bay Island’s workers joined the search, and the chapter left them combing the county’s waters for the child.

• Pinghai County traced the kidnappers’ van with surveillance footage, but they changed course, seized a speedboat, and escaped out to sea.
• Zhang Jingkuan asked Ye Yuan to use his helicopter to search, and Ye Yuan requested official permission to fly throughout Pinghai County.
• Ye Yuan, Li Hui, and Ding Yi organized a search while keeping younger workers on the island to protect his family and property.
• Zhang Jingkuan approved the expanded flight range, and Ye Yuan and Ding Yi took off to search the waters.
• Ye Yuan directed Tiger and the other sea creatures to look for a speedboat carrying a child as fishermen across Pinghai County joined the search.

Ye Yuan joined the response after the abducted child was found held hostage in a van at a village checkpoint. County officials waited for sniper support, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Pinghai County police and villagers searched the area, and the police chief announced that the suspects had come ashore.
• Ye Yuan learned from County Mayor Zhang Jingkuan that the child had been found but was being held hostage after villagers blocked the suspects' van.
• Ye Yuan flew to the county pier, drove to the three-way intersection, and saw the child held at knifepoint inside the van.
• Director Li told Zhang Jingkuan that the tinted van windows made a sniper shot too risky and that support from Blue Island would take half an hour to arrive.
• Zhang Jingkuan said they might have to act when the suspects changed vehicles, while Director Li went to make arrangements.

During a police operation to rescue a kidnapped child in Pinghai County, a sniper shot the kidnapper, but the child was fatally injured when he fell onto rebar. The doctors said the damaged road could prevent the child from surviving the trip to the county hospital.

• Zhang Jingkuan ordered the kidnappers to be given an urban management van to protect the child.
• The kidnappers brought the bound child out of their van, holding a knife to his neck as special police moved into position.
• A sniper shot the kidnapper as special police rushed the van, but the falling kidnapper knocked the child toward a rock, where rebar pierced him.
• Doctors rushed to treat the child while his mother struggled to reach him, and the doctors said he needed immediate surgery.
• A doctor warned Zhang Jingkuan that the rough road could make the ambulance journey fatal for the child.

Ye Yuan drove his George Patton through rough roads to get an injured child to Pinghai County Hospital, where the surgical chief was away and the available doctors might not be able to save him. The chapter ended with Ye Yuan carrying the child toward the operating room and demanding that the nurses lead the way.

• Zhang Jingkuan asked Ye Yuan to bring his car to transport the child, and Ye Yuan immediately agreed.
• The doctors approved Ye Yuan's George Patton and warned that its costly interior might be damaged, but Ye Yuan refused to delay for protection.
• As Ye Yuan drove toward the hospital, Old Li learned that the surgical chief, Dr. Zhang, was away and feared the remaining doctors could not handle the child's injuries.
• Ye Yuan called Zhang Jingkuan about the hospital situation while continuing to drive.
• At Pinghai County Hospital, Ye Yuan shouted at the nurses to lead him to the operating room and said they would pay the surgery fee.

Ye Yuan stayed beside the critically injured boy in the operating room, while the doctors said they could not safely operate. The boy’s parents were allowed to see him, and Ye Yuan remained with him as his condition worsened.

• Ye Yuan secretly gave the boy Spatial Lake Water and followed him into the operating room when the child refused to release his arm.
• Ye Yuan told Zhang Jingkuan to cover the medical expenses and promised to repay him.
• The doctors tried emergency treatment as the boy’s blood pressure and heart rate continued to fall.
• The hospital director and a doctor told Zhang Jingkuan that surgery was effectively impossible because the rebar would have to be removed and the artery sutured within twenty seconds.
• The boy’s mother fainted when she heard there was no hope, and the hospital director later allowed both parents into the operating room to see their son.

Ye Yuan used Spatial Lake Water to keep the injured child alive, but the doctors said only a surgeon with exceptional speed could repair the child’s damaged aorta. Ye Yuan asked Dr. Zhang to teach him how to suture and called Zhang Jingkuan into the operating room, leaving his plan unresolved.

• The child’s parents arrived in the operating room and heard their son plead for help as doctors said they could not save him.
• Ye Yuan gave the child Spatial Lake Water, which stabilized his blood pressure and heart rate but did not improve his condition.
• Director Zhang returned and explained that removing the steel bar and suturing the damaged aorta within seconds was beyond the doctors’ abilities.
• Ye Yuan asked Dr. Zhang to teach him suturing, comparing it to sewing on buttons, but Dr. Zhang refused to engage with him.
• Ye Yuan called Zhang Jingkuan into the operating room to support his request.

Ye Yuan demanded that Dr. Zhang teach him vascular suturing so he could operate on an injured child. After the child’s father agreed to trust him, Ye Yuan took over the surgery and used his perception to guide the suture needle as the child’s condition worsened.

• Ye Yuan asked Zhang Jingkuan to make Dr. Zhang teach him vascular suturing, and Dr. Zhang demonstrated several techniques on teaching models.
• Ye Yuan offered to save the child if the parents trusted him, and the father agreed as the child’s vital signs deteriorated.
• Dr. Zhang prepared the wound, warned Ye Yuan to begin suturing as soon as the steel rod was removed, and then pulled it out.
• Ye Yuan took the lead surgeon’s position and used his perception to guide the needle while pretending to control it with his hands.