Chapter Summaries

Xu Guoyuan explained to Ye Yuan that the Deep Sea Dragonfish was a mutated beast and that the search operation had uncovered two such creatures in the same sea area. He left Ye Yuan with the startling revelation that Xu Hang could no longer command the operation.

• Xu Guoyuan tried to tell Ye Yuan a secret, but Ye Yuan refused to hear it and pointed to his injury.
• Xu Guoyuan explained that mutated beasts were rare and that meat from a mutated crocodile had contained substances that greatly benefited ordinary people.
• Xu Guoyuan said the discovery of mutated beasts meant Xu Hang was no longer suited to command the search, and a professional team would take over.
• Xu Guoyuan revealed that the search had uncovered two mutated beasts in the same sea area.

Xu Guoyuan tried to persuade Ye Yuan to bring the Xu Family mutant beast meat, but Ye Yuan refused to reveal what he knew. Xu Guoyuan accepted the refusal and rewarded Ye Yuan with a rare alloy dagger, which Ye Yuan recognized could help him face mutant beasts.

• Xu Guoyuan asked Ye Yuan to bring him mutant beast meat, and Ye Yuan denied being able to fight the creatures.
• Xu Guoyuan stopped pressing Ye Yuan and hinted that Ye Yuan should remember the Xu Family if he ever found a mutant beast.
• Ye Yuan promised to bring Xu Guoyuan the best cut if he obtained mutant beast meat, preserving their understanding with the Xu Family.
• Xu Guoyuan thanked Ye Yuan for helping Xu Hang find the meteorite fragment and gave him a rare alloy dagger.
• Ye Yuan examined the dagger and valued it as a weapon that might pierce a mutant beast's tough hide.

Ye Yuan and Xu Guoyuan reached a tacit understanding about the meteorite fragments and the possibility of sharing mutated beast meat later. After returning to his hotel, Ye Yuan called Li Shiyun and then welcomed Xu Hang for drinks, leaving the two men drinking and joking together.

• Ye Yuan understood that Xu Guoyuan would not pressure him for mutated beast meat and said meteorite fragments would be extremely difficult for others to find.
• Ye Yuan left the Xu Family residence with cigarettes, liquor, and tea, then stored them in his space at the hotel.
• Ye Yuan called Li Shiyun and learned she had returned to Blue Island, so they agreed she would pick him up when he went back.
• Xu Hang arrived with duck snacks and red wine, and he and Ye Yuan drank and joked without discussing recent events.
• After finishing two bottles of red wine, Ye Yuan ordered two cases of beer.

After drinking with Xu Hang, Ye Yuan remembered promising him mutant beast meat and returned to Blue Island, where Li Shiyun picked him up and showed him her newly renovated shop. The chapter leaves Ye Yuan exploring the shop’s indoor botanical garden with Li Shiyun.

• Xu Hang confided that he resented being controlled by the Xu Family, and he and Ye Yuan drank together without discussing mutant beasts or meteorites.
• Ye Yuan woke up remembering that he had promised Xu Hang mutant beast meat, though he planned to delay delivering it.
• Ye Yuan booked a flight back to Blue Island and messaged Li Shiyun his arrival details.
• Li Shiyun picked Ye Yuan up at the airport, and he asked about her grandfather’s health and her shop’s business.
• Li Shiyun showed Ye Yuan the antique-style Kangshu storefront, its vegetable displays, and the indoor botanical garden upstairs.

Ye Yuan visited Li Shiyun’s botanical garden, returned home to see his family, and then went back to Fishing Bay Island. He noticed security guards patrolling the island’s waters and wondered why patrols had begun.

• Li Shiyun showed Ye Yuan her plant-filled guest area, and he suggested replacing its artificial stump chairs with real wood.
• Ye Yuan left Li Shiyun and returned to his parents’ home, where his family welcomed him and Mother Ye made him dinner.
• Ye Yuan told his family he had spent extra time with classmates in Shangjing, concealing his recent voyage.
• The next morning, Ye Yuan returned to Fishing Bay Island with Ding Yi and saw security guards patrolling the surrounding waters.
• Ye Yuan wondered why the island now needed patrols as their speedboat docked.

After returning to Fishing Bay Island, Ye Yuan learned that people had repeatedly stolen fish and used fish repellers to drive fish from his waters, with Wang Family Village behind the attacks. Angry that Pinghai officials had fined and released the culprits, he called county head Zhang Jingkuan and threatened to withdraw his investment.

• Li Hui showed Ye Yuan the diving gear and fish repellers seized from people targeting the fishery.
• Li Hui said more than twenty fish thieves had been caught and released after being fined, and that the equipment had been kept on the island.
• Li Hui told Ye Yuan that You Zhiyong and the others had traced the thieves' connections to Wang Family Village.
• Ye Yuan decided to retaliate against Wang Family Village and called Zhang Jingkuan instead of Xu Hang.
• Ye Yuan told Zhang Jingkuan he wanted to withdraw his investment in Pinghai's tourism district because officials had failed to stop the thefts.

Zhang Jingkuan began investigating the thefts on Ye Yuan’s island after Ye Yuan complained, while Li Shiyun advised pursuing civil compensation. Ye Yuan then escalated the matter by telling Su Weiguo that the suspects had targeted protected marine animals, and Su Weiguo reacted with alarm.

• Zhang Jingkuan avoided calling Li Chengxiong and asked Old Wang to investigate the Fishing Bay Island theft case within an hour.
• Ye Yuan consulted Li Shiyun, who recommended filing a civil lawsuit and seeking compensation.
• Li Shiyun said she would send someone to see Li Hui and planned to visit Ye Yuan’s island for a vacation.
• Ye Yuan told Li Hui that compensation was not the end of the matter, then called Su Weiguo.
• Ye Yuan claimed the suspects had tried to hunt protected white orcas, white dolphins, and Spotted Seals, prompting Su Weiguo to demand to know whether the animals were safe.

Ye Yuan used the poaching of protected dolphins and orcas to spur Professor Su Weiguo and the research institute into pressuring Pinghai County. He then headed out with Ding Yi to search his fish farm for hidden fish repellers while planning a harsher response to Wang Family Village.

• Ye Yuan told Su Weiguo that protected animals might abandon the area, prompting Su to rally researchers against Pinghai County.
• The researchers condemned Pinghai for releasing the poachers and proposed making the county cover the Protected Area’s maintenance costs.
• Li Hui praised Ye Yuan’s tactic, while Ye Yuan resolved to punish Wang Family Village and deter others from poaching his fish.
• Ye Yuan took Ding Yi’s speedboat out to sea and searched the waters for the fish repellers hidden in his fish farm.

Ye Yuan recovered fish repellers from his fishing grounds, then opened the burial coffin Cold Blood had given him and discovered a skeleton with horns. He planned to ask Cold Blood where the coffin came from, but first noticed that Cold Blood had killed many rare fish in his space.

• Ye Yuan and Ding Yi found eight fish repellers around Fishing Bay Island, bringing the total recovered from the fishing grounds to more than twenty.
• Ye Yuan visited Qiuqiu and Xinxin, rested, and then entered his space to inspect the burial coffin.
• Ye Yuan opened the coffin and found a humanlike skeleton with two horns protruding from its skull, leading him to suspect it might be alien.
• Ye Yuan decided to ask Cold Blood where the coffin had been found and saw that Cold Blood had killed dozens of fish near the unknown sapling, including a large Bluefin Tuna.

Ye Yuan contained Cold Blood after it killed thousands of jin of fish, then returned to the island while officials investigated the people behind the fish-farm sabotage. Zhang Jingkuan identified Qu Bo as Li Chengxiong’s backer, and officers arrested diver Zhao Dahu.

• Ye Yuan sealed Cold Blood and the unknown sapling inside a restricted zone, then learned from Cold Blood where it had found the tomb coffin.
• Zhang Jingkuan confronted Li Chengxiong for releasing the fish thieves, suspended him, and learned that Qu Bo was behind him after Li called Qu Bo and Secretary Zhao contacted Zhang.
• Zhang Jingkuan decided to act against Qu Bo and made several calls before considering how to get benefits from Ye Yuan.
• Zhao Dahu recalled accepting money to place fish-repelling devices at Ye Yuan’s fish farm, and officers arrived at his home and took him away.

After Wang Yuzhuang was arrested again, Wang Aiguo and the elders of Wang Family Village argued over the failed plot against Fishing Bay Island and the missing Boss Li. Hidden beneath the eaves, Ye Yuan overheard their conversation and realized someone else might be behind the scheme.

• Wang Guizhi celebrated Wang Yuzhuang's release, but uniformed officers arrived and arrested him again as villagers gathered outside.
• People involved in the plot were rearrested across Pinghai County.
• Wang Aiguo's wife confronted village elders who questioned him about the arrests and the absent boss.
• Wang Aiguo explained that an unknown man who called himself Boss Li had funded the plot, while the elders had agreed to it for money.
• Ye Yuan secretly listened beneath the eaves and wondered who Boss Li was.

Ye Yuan retaliated against Wang Family Village by taking its speedboats and having Cold Blood dismantle the Big Dragon Head, then used dirt and gravel to block the homes of those behind the attack on his fish farm. After rumors blamed the mountain god and Dragon King, Zhang Jingkuan called Ye Yuan and hinted that powerful people were behind the trouble.

• Ye Yuan stole Wang Family Village's speedboats and ordered Cold Blood to tear the Big Dragon Head apart.
• Ye Yuan gathered dirt and gravel from an abandoned quarry and used it to block the homes of the people who targeted his fish farm.
• Li Hui told Ye Yuan that Wang Family Village's homes and boats had been struck by the mountain god and Dragon King, and Ye Yuan pretended he knew nothing about it.
• Zhang Jingkuan called Ye Yuan and said the incident involved people behind the scenes, then asked who had pleaded for suspended official Li Chengxiong.

Ye Yuan learned that Qu Bo had orchestrated the trouble against him and decided to wait for a safer chance to retaliate. Meanwhile, rumors spread through Pinghai County about the strange events in Wang Family Village, and Lan Xianghui reviewed the incident and recognized that it would be difficult to resolve.

• Zhang Jingkuan told Ye Yuan that Secretary Zhao answered to someone surnamed Qu, leading Ye Yuan to realize Qu Bo had impersonated Boss Li and targeted him.
• Ye Yuan thanked Zhang Jingkuan, then decided he needed a foolproof plan before retaliating against Qu Bo.
• Rumors about Wang Family Village grew as residents discovered homes buried in mud and rocks and the Big Dragon Head missing; Wang Aiguo was approached by a uniformed officer.
• Lan Xianghui read the materials about the incident, including Secretary Zhao's plea for leniency, and said the matter would not be easy to handle.

Ye Yuan learned that the meat from mutated beasts could improve physical fitness, tested the sharpness of Old Master Xu’s alloy dagger, and saw the fish-stealing case conclude with severe penalties. He realized Qu Bo had escaped punishment through his father’s early retirement and decided to deal with him later, when suspicion would not fall on Ye Yuan.

• A middle-aged official and Li Chengxiong applied for early medical retirement after the fish-stealing case drew scrutiny.
• Leonard told Ye Yuan that tests confirmed mutated-beast meat could improve the human muscular system, and said Ye Yuan’s sharkskin swimsuit and gloves would arrive on Blue Island the next day.
• Ye Yuan tested Old Master Xu’s alloy dagger by cutting through a thick piece of wood and a stone table, and marveled at its sharpness.
• Pinghai County punished those involved in the Wang Family Village incident, and Zhang Jingkuan asked Ye Yuan to let the matter proceed through normal channels.
• Zhang Jingkuan told Ye Yuan that Qu Bo’s father and Li Chengxiong had retired early, and Ye Yuan concluded that Qu Bo had avoided punishment through his father’s sacrifice.
• Ye Yuan decided not to act against Qu Bo yet because the case had become a wildlife-hunting investigation and any harm to Qu Bo would be blamed on him.

Ye Yuan welcomed Deng Kai and Yu Li to his island for a visit and arranged for Zhao Chuan to be picked up by helicopter. The brothers reunited at a beachside barbecue, while Yu Li experienced the island and helicopter ride with amazement.

• Ye Yuan received Deng Kai's call and invited him and Yu Li to stay on his island.
• Ye Yuan took a boat to pick up Deng Kai and Yu Li from Taiping Sea Bathing Beach, and Deng Kai told Yu Li that the island belonged to Ye Yuan.
• Ye Yuan invited Zhao Chuan and Zhang Wujin to join the reunion, then arranged for Wang Husheng to fly the helicopter to pick up Zhao Chuan.
• Deng Kai and Yu Li joined Wang Husheng on the helicopter, and the aircraft brought Zhao Chuan back to the island.
• Ye Yuan prepared a beachside bonfire and barbecue, and Zhao Chuan and Deng Kai praised the helicopter ride when they arrived.

Ye Yuan reunited with his three roommates on Fishing Bay Island, where the brothers shared drinks and reminisced. Zhao Chuan explained that the rough-stone supply line he had handed to his family was now producing poor-quality stones, and the Zhao Family suspected he had a hand in the problem.

• Zhang Wujin bragged that Ye Yuan owned a rare sightseeing submarine, and Zhao Chuan rebuked him for showing off on Ye Yuan’s behalf.
• Zhao Chuan, Ye Yuan, Zhang Wujin, and Deng Kai raised beers together as Yu Li photographed them.
• Deng Kai admired Fishing Bay Island’s sunset, and Ye Yuan said he had grown used to the scenery.
• Ye Yuan asked why Zhao Chuan’s jewelry shop had been so busy, and Zhao Chuan said his relatives had questioned him over the rough-stone supply line’s poor quality.
• Zhao Chuan explained that his family had assumed the channel’s owner would prefer doing business with the Zhao Family, while one faction led by his father believed the bad stones were only a coincidence.

Zhao Chuan kept his family’s troubles to himself and chose to enjoy a day at sea with his brothers. The men went diving together, where Ye Yuan watched over them as they explored the seabed.

• Zhao Chuan’s second uncle’s group suspected that the rough-stone supply had worsened and become more expensive after Zhao Chuan stopped managing it, and they came to test his role and ask for help.
• Zhao Chuan declined to discuss the family business, and his brothers respected his wishes while Zhang Wujin changed the subject to their plans.
• Zhao Chuan decided to stay on Fishing Bay Island for a day off, and the brothers spent the evening reminiscing, drinking, and singing.
• The next morning, Zhang Wujin, Zhao Chuan, and Deng Kai took Ye Yuan out on a yacht to go diving.
• Ye Yuan guided the three men underwater and kept watch as Zhao Chuan tried to catch sea crabs and Deng Kai dug at a large sea snail in a coral crevice.

Ye Yuan rescued Zhang Wujin from a Box Jellyfish while Zhao Chuan discovered a valuable Chambered Nautilus fossil. After his friends tossed him into the sea for boasting, Zhao Chuan reveled in the return of his youthful days.

• Ye Yuan spotted Zhang Wujin approaching a Box Jellyfish and pulled him away from danger.
• Zhang Wujin and Ye Yuan retreated with Deng Kai and Zhao Chuan, then returned to the yacht once the jellyfish drifted off.
• Zhao Chuan showed the others a beautifully patterned Chambered Nautilus fossil he had found, astonishing and envying the marine enthusiasts.
• Zhao Chuan bragged about his good fortune, so Ye Yuan, Zhang Wujin, and Deng Kai lifted him and threw him into the sea.
• Zhao Chuan floated on the surface with the fossil still in hand and felt that his youth had returned.

Deng Kai and Yu Li enjoyed a lively vacation on Fishing Bay Island with Ye Yuan and their friends, and Deng Kai later asked whether she would move with him to Blue Island to take over Ye Yuan’s aquaculture base. Yu Li agreed to follow him wherever he went, while Ye Yuan stayed behind to receive an unexpected guest.

• Ye Yuan kicked Zhang Wujin into the sea, and Deng Kai pulled Ye Yuan in so the four brothers could splash around together.
• Yu Li watched Deng Kai laugh happily with his brothers and felt relieved to see him enjoying himself.
• Deng Kai and Yu Li tried Ye Yuan’s island activities and spent four days enjoying the beach and Panda Garden.
• Zhao Chuan left for Pinghai County to collect a new Grand Cherokee, and Zhang Wujin departed soon afterward.
• As Deng Kai and Yu Li headed to Blue Island, Deng Kai explained that Ye Yuan had offered to transfer his aquaculture base to him and asked whether she would move there.
• Yu Li said she would go wherever Deng Kai went, and he embraced her gratefully.

Deng Kai agreed to move to Blue Island with Yu Li and take over Ye Yuan’s ornamental fish breeding base, while keeping Ye Yuan involved in supplying fish and koi. The chapter ended with Ye Yuan questioning why Xu Hang wanted to go offshore fishing with him.

• Ye Yuan explained that he wanted Deng Kai to take over the breeding base so he could withdraw Jia Yi, and Deng Kai agreed to the plan while retaining Ye Yuan as a half-share partner.
• Deng Kai and Ye Yuan agreed that Ye Yuan’s boats would keep supplying ornamental fish and that Ye Yuan would regularly acquire inexpensive koi broodstock for the farm.
• Deng Kai worried about telling Yu Li that he planned to leave Shangjing, but Yu Li agreed to move with him to Blue Island.
• Ye Yuan stared at Xu Hang and asked if he was sick for wanting to go offshore fishing with him.