Chapter Summaries

Cheng Lang urged Shen Huaiyu to make Lu Chengxuan sign a contract sending him to teach in Cloud Province for three years. Shen Huaiyu secured Lu Chengxuan’s signature, though he remained unsure why Cheng Lang had insisted on the arrangement.

• Shen Huaiyu’s younger brother, Shen Wojin, woke from his coma and grew closer to Shen Huaiyu after learning about his success.
• On the eve of the original novel’s ending, Cheng Lang told Shen Huaiyu to find Lu Chengxuan and offer him a contract, without explaining why.
• Shen Huaiyu offered Lu Chengxuan ten million to teach in Cloud Province for three years and barred him from returning to X City during that time.
• Lu Chengxuan hesitated, but Shen Huaiyu’s taunt angered him into accepting and signing the contract.
• Shen Huaiyu told Lu Chengxuan to report to Cloud Province by eight the next evening and explained how the ten million would be paid.

Cheng Lang and Qin Mu left their world together on a honeymoon, but Qin Mu awoke in the System Space, where Cheng Lang explained his work and revealed that Qin Mu’s former world had been a book. Qin Mu watched Cheng Lang’s materials to learn about the space and their situation.

• Shen Huaiyu delivered the completed contract to Cheng Lang, who learned that his mission was accomplished and announced plans to take an extended honeymoon with Qin Mu.
• Cheng Lang and Qin Mu boarded a cruise ship together and set out on a new journey.
• Qin Mu awoke in a home-like bedroom and discovered a futuristic city outside the window, while Cheng Lang spoke on the phone about system matters.
• Cheng Lang told Qin Mu that they were in the System Space and explained that he worked as mission executor 008, entering unstable fictional worlds to reconstruct their plotlines.
• Cheng Lang showed Qin Mu prepared materials, which explained the System Space’s origins and its powerful but unusable source mental energy.

Cheng Lang explained how the System Space was created and how he, as a being born from it, could carry out missions without being bound by Original-World plotlines. Qin Mu accepted that his former world was a book and learned they could return to it, then Cheng Lang took him to meet his friends and show him around.

• Cheng Lang explained that the System Space gathered wronged souls to complete missions and purify its negative energy.
• Cheng Lang told Qin Mu that he was born from the purified energy of the System Space and could act freely in Original Worlds without provoking their World Consciousness.
• Cheng Lang showed Qin Mu his System Shop and offered to buy him anything he wanted.
• Qin Mu asked whether they could return to their former world, and Cheng Lang said they could reappear where they had vanished.
• Cheng Lang invited Qin Mu to meet his friends, then took him to the garage to show him his hovercar.

Cheng Lang showed Qin Mu his customizable home in the System Space and explained how he had collected buildings and scenery from past mission worlds. He reassured Qin Mu that he had only ever brought him back as a partner, then took him to explore the System Space’s vast districts.

• Cheng Lang explained that residents could customize their private spaces and showed Qin Mu how he had copied their former home to help him adjust.
• Cheng Lang revealed his original home, filled with architecture and vehicles collected from mission worlds, and told Qin Mu how he had begun preserving places he liked.
• Qin Mu wondered whether Cheng Lang had brought other people back, and Cheng Lang said Qin Mu was the only person he had brought back as a partner.
• Cheng Lang kissed Qin Mu and promised that there could only be him, easing Qin Mu’s doubts.
• Cheng Lang drove Qin Mu through the Sci-Fi District and other districts, explaining that the System Space catered to residents from different kinds of worlds.

Cheng Lang introduced Qin Mu to his friends in the Original World and explained how rare Qin Mu’s self-awareness was. Their friend Ryan began telling the group about gaining unusual powers in his primitive world, where the Lion King was forced to marry him.

• Cheng Lang took Qin Mu to a restaurant to meet his friends and introduced him to Al, an elf he had once freed from captivity in a mission world.
• Cheng Lang explained that Qin Mu’s self-awareness was exceptionally rare, and introduced him to Al as his partner.
• Cheng Lang brought Qin Mu to a private room, where seven friends asked about his latest mission and how he had found a partner.
• Ryan introduced himself as a female beastfolk from a primitive world and described gaining the ability to accelerate plant growth when he came of age.
• Ryan said that grain he accelerated purified the magic of the Lion Tribe’s adult beastfolk, prompting the Elder Council to demand that the young Lion King marry him.

Ryan recounted how Cheng Lang helped him take revenge on the Lion King and his lover, and Cheng Lang introduced Qin Mu to his friends in the System Space. Qin Mu resolved to train as a mission executor, while Cheng Lang admitted he could not remember his own age.

• Ryan explained that the Beast God had arranged Cheng Lang’s mission so he could help Ryan defeat the Lion King and the Lion Tribe’s greatest beauty.
• A military officer and other mission executors shared stories about Cheng Lang’s past missions, including how he helped a hostage prince overthrow a powerful nation.
• Cheng Lang’s friends teased him for being reckless, and he introduced them to Qin Mu as his best friends in the System Space.
• Qin Mu felt eager to learn more about Cheng Lang and decided to become stronger so he would not remain someone Cheng Lang had to protect.
• Cheng Lang suggested Qin Mu begin training at the Newcomer Training Department, and Qin Mu agreed to master the newcomer lessons quickly.
• Qin Mu asked Cheng Lang how old he was, but Cheng Lang said he could not remember.

Shen Huaiyu and Jin Huaiyuan worried over Cheng Lang and Qin Mu’s disappearance and discussed how they had prepared their assets and family affairs beforehand. As Forest Style Milk Tea faced unrest after Cheng Lang vanished, the story left Shen Huaiyu heading into a meeting to address the company’s instability.

• Shen Huaiyu told Jin Huaiyuan that Cheng Lang had entrusted him with his assets and that Qin Mu had arranged for agents to distribute some of his own, suggesting they had anticipated disappearing.
• Jin Huaiyuan comforted Shen Huaiyu and speculated that Cheng Lang and Qin Mu might be stranded at sea.
• Shen Huaiyu and Jin Huaiyuan discussed the success of the Forest Style Tea-ware Factory and the delayed collaboration with Ruyi House.
• Shen Huaiyu wondered whether Cheng Lang had kept his biological parents at a distance because he had foreseen their impending separation.
• A secretary summoned Shen Huaiyu and Jin Huaiyuan to a meeting as shareholders and executives began scheming amid turmoil at Forest Style Milk Tea.

Shen Huaiyu managed Forest Style Milk Tea effectively while Cheng Lang and Qin Mu were away. After Qin Mu completed three months of training, Cheng Lang learned that Qin Mu was struggling with pressure in the System Space and decided to help him adjust.

• Shen Huaiyu suppressed attempts by others to seize control of Forest Style Milk Tea and focused on managing the company and promoting Archaeological Notes.
• Qin Mu completed three months of training, and the Training System praised his talent and mental strength.
• Cheng Lang declined the suggestion to train newcomers and planned to take Qin Mu on two-person missions.
• The Training System told Cheng Lang that Qin Mu was under pressure from the unfamiliar System Space and from being partnered with a legendary task executor.
• The Training System warned Cheng Lang that Qin Mu's unease could develop into a Heart Demon and suggested returning to Qin Mu's original world if their identities there remained alive.
• Cheng Lang thanked the Training System and decided what to do.

Cheng Lang and Qin Mu returned to their Original World after deciding to spend time with their families and friends there. Their reappearance drew public attention, and they attended the premiere of Archaeological Notes.

• Cheng Lang told Qin Mu they could return to his world, and explained that spending a lifetime there together would not be a waste of time.
• Cheng Lang and Qin Mu returned to the Original World aboard their cruise ship and told Shen Huaiyu they had drifted at sea after losing their bearings and navigation signal.
• Shen Huaiyu, the Qin Family patriarch, and the Zhao Family couple contacted them, and Cheng Lang and Qin Mu turned the ship back toward home.
• Cheng Lang and Qin Mu went to the premiere of Archaeological Notes, where their arrival caused a commotion among the guests and media.
• After the film, reporters surrounded Cheng Lang and Qin Mu to ask about their disappearance and return.

After returning from the System Space, Cheng Lang and Qin Mu reunited with their families and stayed in this world for a hundred years. Once their loved ones had passed away, they left for a brand-new world together.

• Cheng Lang and Qin Mu reassured the Zhao couple, whose worry over their disappearance had lasted three months.
• Qin Mu and Cheng Lang visited the Qin Family Ancestral Residence, where they learned how the family had struggled to manage the Qin Group during Qin Mu's absence.
• Qin Mu stayed with Old Master Qin for several days, then trained younger relatives and promising peers to prepare the companies for his next departure.
• Cheng Lang and Qin Mu lived together for a hundred years and left after their relatives and friends had died.
• Cheng Lang awoke beside Qin Mu, and they prepared to face a brand-new world.