Chapter Summaries

Ye Yuan welcomed Li Shiyun to his home abroad, where she said she had finally slept comfortably after nearly a year of pain. In Shangjing, Zhang Xueshan demanded to know where her daughter was, but Zhang Wujin only revealed that Li Shiyun and Ye Yuan had left the country.

• Ye Yuan reassured Mother Ye with a lie that he had traveled by ship and then told Li Shiyun to behave normally when she greeted him formally.
• Li Shiyun said she felt well and had slept through the night for the first time in nearly a year.
• Zhang Xueshan confronted Zhang Wujin and demanded to know where Li Shiyun was, but he refused to disclose their location.
• Zhang Xueshan tried to persuade Zhang Wujin by promising not to force Li Shiyun into surgery, but he only admitted that she was outside the country.
• Zhang Decai confronted Zhang Wujin for helping Li Shiyun leave and using Xiao Nan's name to mislead the family.

After Zhang Xueshan learned that Ye Yuan had taken Li Shiyun away and that Wang Xuehong had traced her route to Amir’s plane, she asked Zhang Wujin to tell her about Ye Yuan. Meanwhile, Ye Yuan took Li Shiyun fishing before diving to reunite with Dragon King and Little Dragon, where he discovered Dragon King could communicate with him through sound waves.

• Wang Xuehong told Zhang Xueshan and Zhang Wujin that Ye Yuan had taken Li Shiyun away and that Finland was only a layover before she boarded Amir’s plane.
• Zhang Xueshan realized Ye Yuan had ties to the Videmore Family and asked Zhang Wujin to tell her about him.
• Ye Yuan took Li Shiyun deep-sea fishing and secretly gave her water from his space, hoping to improve her condition and lift her spirits.
• Ye Yuan dove into an underwater trench and reunited with Dragon King and Little Dragon, who had stayed near the trench while he was away.
• Ye Yuan tried communicating with Dragon King through perception and discovered that Dragon King could convey emotions and simple thoughts through sound waves.

Ye Yuan followed the Dragon King to its underwater treasure trove, where he found a mysterious stone the system identified as a Super Energy Source. He returned to the yacht with the Dragon King and Little Dragon, frightening Li Shiyun before explaining that the creatures were his pets.

• The Dragon King showed Ye Yuan its collection, including an abandoned submarine and a smooth, icy stone.
• Ye Yuan touched the stone, stored it, and learned from the system that it was a Super Energy Source.
• Ye Yuan declined to exchange the stone for points and rode the Dragon King back toward the yacht with Little Dragon.
• Li Shiyun feared for Ye Yuan after he stayed underwater for more than thirty minutes.
• The Dragon King burst from the sea, terrifying Li Shiyun until Ye Yuan appeared on its back and introduced the two creatures as Dragon King and Little Dragon.

Ye Yuan took Li Shiyun whale-riding with Dragon King, then returned with her to Newcastle Island, where they met Jimmy. After Jimmy heard about Li Shiyun’s illness and misunderstood Ye Yuan’s intentions, she stormed upstairs, while Ye Yuan insisted he saw her only as a junior.

• Li Shiyun rode on Dragon King’s back and kissed Ye Yuan before returning to the yacht.
• Ye Yuan told Dragon King and Little Dragon to stay near the island and avoid humans other than him, then sailed back to Newcastle Island with Li Shiyun.
• Adela told Ye Yuan that Jimmy had arrived, and Ye Yuan explained Jimmy’s background to Li Shiyun on their way to the castle.
• Jimmy greeted Ye Yuan with an affectionate embrace, then formally met Li Shiyun and chatted with her while Ye Yuan read nearby.
• After Li Shiyun told Jimmy about her terminal illness, Jimmy accused Ye Yuan of neglecting her and ran upstairs.
• Ye Yuan explained that Jimmy was his friend’s daughter and Niuniu’s friend, so he considered her his junior.

Ye Yuan took Li Shiyun and Jimmy hunting on Newcastle Island, where both women outshot him and left him fetching their game. After Jimmy departed, Ye Yuan relaxed at sea with Li Shiyun until the system announced he had completed the Thumb Eel task and assigned him a spatial upgrade, making him question whether he or the system was in control.

• Ye Yuan took Li Shiyun and Jimmy into Newcastle Island’s mountains, where Jimmy and Li Shiyun shot game with impressive accuracy while he retrieved it.
• At a beach barbecue, Ye Yuan agreed to take the women out to sea the next day and vowed to improve his shooting.
• Jimmy left the island after three days, and Ye Yuan and Li Shiyun continued their private-island vacation.
• While Li Shiyun rode the young dragon near the yacht, the system announced that Ye Yuan had completed the Thumb Eel task and earned a roulette draw.
• Ye Yuan checked the system panel, saw a new task to complete one spatial upgrade, and wondered whether he or the system was in charge.

Ye Yuan exchanged the Dragon King's mysterious stone for a million points, triggering a system upgrade and earning a roulette draw and a fixed entrance. He brought Li Shiyun to Miami to meet her family and undergo examinations, while her relatives continued to distrust him; the story left them waiting for her test results.

• Ye Yuan exchanged the Super Energy Source, received 1,000,000 points, a roulette draw, and a fixed entrance, and triggered a system upgrade.
• Ye Yuan reassured Li Shiyun that he would cure her, though she still doubted his herbal medicine.
• After six days on Newcastle Island, Ye Yuan and Li Shiyun flew to Miami to meet her family and have her examined.
• Zhang Xueshan scolded Li Shiyun at the airport, while Li Yaoguang and the others showed their dissatisfaction with Ye Yuan.
• Zhang Wujin led the family to a Miami private hospital for Li Shiyun’s examination, leaving him and Ye Yuan behind.
• Ye Yuan confronted Zhang Wujin at a nearby pub, and Zhang Wujin asked whether Ye Yuan could handle Li Shiyun’s treatment without his master.

Ye Yuan told Zhang Wujin that he would end things with Shi Yun if her parents continued to reject him. After Shi Yun’s condition improved, Zhang Xueshan softened her attitude, and Zhang Wujin kept Ye Yuan and his treatment out of the doctors’ reach.

• Ye Yuan told Zhang Wujin that if Aunt Zhang still treated him badly after seeing Shi Yun’s report, they would only be friends from then on.
• Zhang Wujin received Zhang Xueshan’s call confirming that Shi Yun’s condition had improved.
• Zhang Xueshan admitted that she and Shi Yun’s father had treated Ye Yuan unfairly and asked Zhang Wujin to speak to him for her.
• Zhang Wujin told Zhang Xueshan not to reveal Ye Yuan’s involvement to the doctors and said they would meet at the hotel.

After Li Shiyun’s tumor shrank, Ye Yuan reassured her parents with an explanation, and Zhang Wujin pulled him away to avoid Zhao Mingyue recruiting him. Li Shiyun joined the two men in Miami and took them to bid on a storage unit, leaving them ready to see what it contained.

• Zhang Xueshan and Li Yaoguang thanked Ye Yuan, and he told them that herbal remedies and Li Shiyun’s improved mood had helped her condition.
• Zhang Wujin warned Ye Yuan that Zhao Mingyue, a renowned brain surgeon and Zhang Xueshan’s friend, seemed interested in recruiting him, then took him out of the hotel.
• Zhang Wujin and Ye Yuan struggled to choose where to go in Miami until Li Shiyun offered to guide them treasure hunting.
• Li Shiyun rented a Raptor and drove Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin to a mini storage facility, where she collected the key to a unit she had won at auction.
• Li Shiyun explained that the online auction winner had to pay a cleaning deposit and clear the storage unit within twenty-four hours.

Li Shiyun took Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin to sort through a storage unit she had won at auction, but it contained little of value. Ye Yuan spotted an antique musket in another unit and decided to bid on it, while Zhang Wujin also wanted a turn.

• Li Shiyun explained how storage unit auctions worked and opened the mini unit she had won.
• Li Shiyun, Zhang Wujin, and Ye Yuan sorted the unit’s dusty contents, finding mostly electronic components and signed basketballs.
• Ye Yuan used his perception to inspect nearby units and noticed an antique musket engraved with “1762.”
• Ye Yuan asked Li Shiyun to find the musket’s unit on the auction platform and decided to bid no more than 500 Mi Jin.
• Zhang Wujin excitedly asked to bid on a unit too, and Li Shiyun suggested they take turns to avoid hauling too much trash.

Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin wagered over their storage units, with Ye Yuan betting five world-class watch movements against training Zhang an obedient dog. Ye Yuan found valuable collectibles and an antique musket, then took it to Uncle Tom’s antique firearms shop, where Tom recognized it with astonishment but had not yet explained its history.

• Zhang Wujin challenged Ye Yuan to a storage-unit wager, and they agreed that the loser would provide the prize while Li Shiyun acted as referee.
• Ye Yuan opened his neatly organized unit and, with Li Shiyun’s help, found collectibles and a football passing machine worth far more than his $350 bid.
• Ye Yuan uncovered an antique musket, and Li Shiyun estimated his finds were worth at least $5,000; Zhang Wujin dismissed the gun and continued searching his own unit.
• Li Shiyun and Ye Yuan sold their items, earning $1,580 for Ye Yuan’s goods apart from the musket, then visited Uncle Tom’s antique firearms shop.
• Uncle Tom reacted in shock to the musket, and Ye Yuan asked him to explain its history.

Ye Yuan sold an antique musket for $15,000 after Li Shiyun bargained with Old Tom. Back at the warehouse, Zhang Wujin showed off his signed sports memorabilia but refused to sell his prized items, including a Number 23 jersey.

• Old Tom identified Ye Yuan's musket as an original 1762 firearm marked to the Western Volunteer Army Fourth Battalion and offered $14,000.
• Li Shiyun haggled with Old Tom and secured $15,000 for the musket, and Ye Yuan cashed the check at a nearby bank.
• Ye Yuan returned to the warehouse and told Zhang Wujin he had received $16,580 in total.
• Zhang Wujin showed Ye Yuan and Li Shiyun signed sports memorabilia, including a ball signed by Argentina's 1986 World Cup team and a basketball signed by Magic Johnson.
• Zhang Wujin refused to sell the soccer ball, the basketball, or the Number 23 jersey and celebrated his haul.

After selling Zhang Wujin’s sporting goods, Ye Yuan entered his upgraded space and discovered its expanded terrain, a new One-Star mall, and a Space Gate that could connect him to the island and let a designated person retrieve goods. The upgrade also clarified the space’s growth rates, and Ye Yuan used a lottery reward to expand the purchase limit for Worker Robots.

• Zhang Wujin sold most of his sporting goods for 12,300 Mi Jin and argued with Ye Yuan about who had won their bet.
• Ye Yuan returned to his room and received notice that the system upgrade was complete.
• Ye Yuan entered the space and found that the ocean, lake, island, and system features had expanded or changed.
• Ye Yuan examined the Space Gate and learned that it could let him return to the island from within 20,000 kilometers and allow one designated person to enter.
• Ye Yuan confirmed that aquatic creatures grew 50 times faster, crops 30 times faster, plants 100 times faster, and other living creatures at normal speed.
• Ye Yuan used his lottery reward to expand the purchase limit for Worker Robots.

Ye Yuan gained ten additional robot purchases and a pair of Tina Bulls, then agreed to join Li Shiyun at a storage auction. At breakfast, he explained why he avoided treating patients, and Li Yaoguang challenged his reasoning.

• Ye Yuan used an expansion to gain ten robot purchases, drew a pair of Tina Bulls, and assigned them to Ding Er.
• Li Shiyun invited Ye Yuan to a storage auction in Miami the next day, and he agreed to let her arrange it.
• At breakfast, Zhang Wujin told Ye Yuan that Zhao Mingyue had returned to China, and Zhang Xueshan asked why the younger generation avoided her.
• Ye Yuan explained that he feared being overwhelmed by requests to treat patients, citing Zhang Xin's mother as an example.
• Li Yaoguang argued that people with great abilities had a responsibility to help others, and Ye Yuan stopped Zhang Wujin from interrupting.

Ye Yuan used his lack of a medical license to refuse pressure to treat patients, while Zhang Wujin revealed the enormous fees Ye Yuan had received for past treatments. Li Shiyun’s parents worried about how to pay for their daughter’s medicine, unaware that Ye Yuan and his companions were heading to a Miami storage center.

• Ye Yuan told Li Yaoguang that treating people without a medical practitioner's license would be illegal, and he refused to obtain one even if someone arranged it for him.
• Zhang Wujin explained that Ye Yuan’s medicine had earned him a Blue Island villa for three days of treatment and a downtown storefront for six days.
• Zhang Wujin said a foreign patient had offered Ye Yuan ten percent of Airbus shares, and Ye Yuan clarified that he had refused the shares and received Newcastle Island instead.
• Li Shiyun recognized Newcastle Island as the place where Amir’s daughter, little Jimmy, had been born, and Ye Yuan considered returning the island to her someday.
• Zhang Xueshan and Li Yaoguang discussed paying for their daughter’s medicine and worried they might need to sell businesses to cover the cost.
• Ye Yuan, Li Shiyun, and Zhang Wujin drove toward Miami’s largest storage center.

Li Shiyun drove Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin to a Miami storage-unit auction, where Ye Yuan used his perception to judge the units. After passing on the first unit, he bid on the second because it contained a safe, and another bidder immediately challenged him.

• Li Shiyun drove Ye Yuan and Zhang Wujin to a storage center near the Port of Miami, while Zhang Wujin teased Ye Yuan about their past casino winnings.
• The auctioneer opened Storage Unit No. 1, and Ye Yuan spotted mostly old furniture, gaming equipment, and an unidentified coin, so he chose not to bid.
• A curly-haired woman won Storage Unit No. 1 for 1,350 dollars.
• The auctioneer opened Storage Unit No. 2, which held a safe and a few pieces of furniture, and the bidding climbed to 800 dollars.
• Ye Yuan bid 900 dollars on Storage Unit No. 2, and a burly Black man countered with 1,000 dollars.

Ye Yuan bought Warehouses No. 2 and No. 20 despite other treasure hunters dismissing them, and he focused especially on an oil painting in No. 20. After Li Shiyun chose that warehouse’s contents as her share, Ye Yuan carefully loaded the painting into a truck and drove with her to Warehouse No. 2.

• Ye Yuan outbid a burly Black man for Warehouse No. 2 at 3,000 dollars, then gave the key to Li Shiyun.
• Zhang Wujin won Warehouse No. 7, while Li Shiyun followed Ye Yuan to see why he was confident about Warehouse No. 2.
• Ye Yuan bid 2,000 dollars for Warehouse No. 20 after inspecting its oil painting, and no one challenged his bid.
• Ye Yuan told Li Shiyun to choose one warehouse’s contents, and she chose Warehouse No. 20.
• Ye Yuan rented a box truck, loaded the furniture from Warehouse No. 20, carefully secured the oil painting, and drove with Li Shiyun to Warehouse No. 2.

Ye Yuan cut open a safe in Warehouse No. 2 and found $550,000 inside, then packed the cash into suitcases taken from Zhang Wujin's auction lot. After finishing work at Warehouse No. 7 and collecting their deposits, Ye Yuan, Li Shiyun, and Zhang Wujin drove away.

• Li Shiyun warned Ye Yuan that he was ruining furniture and urged him to have professionals open the safe, but Ye Yuan cut it open with an angle grinder.
• Ye Yuan revealed that the safe was packed with US dollars, which Li Shiyun estimated to total at least $500,000.
• Ye Yuan lifted the heavy safe into the truck and told Li Shiyun he would use two suitcases from Zhang Wujin's warehouse.
• Ye Yuan filled the suitcases with $550,000, leaving Zhang Wujin astonished by the cash haul.
• Ye Yuan, Li Shiyun, and Zhang Wujin finished sorting Warehouse No. 7 at 1:40 p.m., returned the keys, collected their deposits, and drove away.

Ye Yuan uncovered a painting signed by Tang Yin from the oil painting and gave it to Li Shiyun, while Li Yaoguang confirmed it was an original. After a week of treatment on Newcastle Island, Li Shiyun’s tumor had nearly disappeared, and Ye Yuan brought her and her family back to Huaxia Nation for continued care.

• Ye Yuan deposited the cash from the car into his Citibank account, then removed the frame from the oil painting and found a traditional Chinese lady painting inside.
• Ye Yuan gave the painting to Li Shiyun, and Li Yaoguang examined it and declared it an original by Tang Yin.
• Li Yaoguang flew home to arrange for the painting to be mounted, while Ye Yuan took Li Shiyun, Zhang Wujin, and Zhang Xueshan back to Newcastle Island.
• After a week of treatment, Li Shiyun’s tumor had shrunk to the size of a fingernail, and Zhang Wujin saw the Dragon King Whale and its son.
• Ye Yuan flew with Li Shiyun, Zhang Wujin, and Zhang Xueshan to Blue Island so Li Shiyun could continue treatment and Zhang Xueshan could meet his parents.
• Ye Hui and Wang Husheng met them at the airport with Ye Yuan’s tracked off-road vehicle and prepared to take them to the island.

Ye Yuan brought Li Shiyun and Zhang Xueshan to Fishing Bay Island to meet his family, where both families warmly welcomed them. After a family meal, Mother Ye sent Ye Yuan and Li Shiyun out to tour the island while she stayed with Zhang Xueshan.

• Ye Yuan learned that Ye Hui's husband had missed the meeting because his mother was bedridden with a slipped disc, and he said he would visit her.
• Ye Yuan introduced Li Shiyun and Zhang Xueshan to his parents and Niuniu, who shyly greeted Li Shiyun.
• Beast King reunited with Ye Yuan, objected to being called a cat, and fled after Niuniu tugged his tail.
• Mother Ye hosted both families for an elaborate seafood meal, which pleased Zhang Xueshan.
• Mother Ye asked Ye Yuan to take Li Shiyun around the island while she chatted with Zhang Xueshan.

Ye Yuan showed Li Shiyun the animals and craftsmanship on his island, and she decided she wanted to build a career there after recovering. He proposed that she handle sales for his exceptional organic produce, and she agreed to visit its secret source with him soon.

• Ye Yuan took Li Shiyun to see Qiuqiu and Xinxin, then told her about the pandas and the Beast King, a Bali Tiger.
• Ye Yuan showed Li Shiyun his courtyard and a finely crafted folding chair, impressing her with his woodworking skills.
• Li Shiyun said she wanted to leave law and develop her career on Blue Island, and Ye Yuan welcomed the idea.
• Ye Yuan asked Li Shiyun to consider selling his natural, organic vegetables and fruit, and she eagerly agreed.
• Li Shiyun accepted Ye Yuan's condition that she be blindfolded on the trip to the secret growing base, and he promised to arrange a visit within days.