Recaps

Su Yan found himself back at fifteen, when his divorcing parents left him alone with money and promises. He entered the mysterious space tied to the copper-coin mark on his chest, where a voice in the red mist asked how rebirth felt.

• Su Yan silently ate at home while his parents avoided speaking to him after his heatstroke.
• Su Yan's father gave him a bank card with three hundred thousand yuan and said he was moving to City A.
• Su Yan's mother left a savings passbook, said she was leaving the next day, and walked out with her suitcase.
• Su Yan's father packed and left, telling him to study hard and promising to visit when he had time.
• Su Yan touched the copper-coin-shaped mark on his chest and entered the magical space.
• A voice from the red mist laughed and asked Su Yan how rebirth felt.

After agreeing to help the Red Mist restore the cave abode’s spiritual energy, Su Yan gathered jade and living things to bring inside. He woke to find the cave abode greatly changed and asked whether the work was already finished.

• Su Yan listened as the Red Mist explained that he needed to increase the spiritual energy until it destroyed the Red Mist consuming the cave abode.
• Su Yan bought a cellphone and went to the jade market, where he followed the Red Mist’s directions and purchased a small fish carving for two thousand yuan.
• Su Yan visited the flower and bird, agricultural, and pet markets, buying seeds and living creatures to bring into the cave abode.
• Su Yan returned home, slept in the cave abode, and woke to find it vastly changed.

Su Yan followed the voice’s instructions to cultivate and expand his cave abode, then traveled to Shennongjia to gather plants and animals for it. He remained there to collect more resources, enjoying the cave’s abundant produce and planning future trips.

• Su Yan cultivated for three days, expelled filth from his body, and found that his heightened senses made the dirt in the outside world hard to ignore.
• Su Yan bought glasses, had his home thoroughly cleaned, and searched online for information and ways to earn money.
• Su Yan traveled to Shennongjia and followed the voice’s directions to bring trees, flowers, and grasses into the cave abode.
• Su Yan and the voice discussed gathering wild animals and planning trips to other natural areas during future vacations.
• Su Yan rested in the cave abode, where he cooked with its plentiful produce and enjoyed rice grown from the seeds he had brought inside.

After spending half a month collecting plants in Shennongjia, Su Yan arrived late to register at Lihua District No. 1 High School and began his first year in Class Seven. He settled into school easily, where his looks immediately drew the attention of his classmates.

• Su Yan noticed that he had grown taller and that the plants he had moved into his space had formed a primitive forest, increasing its spiritual energy and thinning the Red Mist.
• Su Yan spent the rest of August in Shennongjia collecting plants and insects, but managed to bring only a rabbit, a deer, and a snake into the space.
• Su Yan left Shennongjia on September 1st and registered at school the following day, where Ma En took him to collect his books and showed him to Class Seven.
• Su Yan took the empty seat beside Chen Yan and quietly followed the math lesson, finding the familiar material easy to understand.
• During a break, the math teacher checked whether Su Yan had missed anything, while several girls approached and tried to get acquainted with him.

Su Yan began his new school life, ignored his classmates, and used his free time to record game programming code. When he returned after lunch, he found Wang Hu humiliating Chen Yan, leaving Su Yan to witness her distress.

• Su Yan ignored girls asking about him and chatted with people in his space while eating a tomato.
• Su Yan noticed Chen Yan had been moved to another seat and remembered how isolated she had been in his previous life.
• Su Yan solved a math problem at the board, and the teacher appointed him math class representative.
• Su Yan wrote game programming code through the end of class, then ate and napped in his space during lunch.
• Su Yan returned to find Wang Hu scattering Chen Yan's books and insulting her while Lin Qiang tried to intervene.

Su Yan stood up for Chen Yan and chose to sit beside her, then began adjusting to school and pursuing his plans to create games and build websites. The chapter left him using his programming skills to explore the early internet and prepare for future opportunities.

• Su Yan moved Chen Yan's desk beside his and defended her from the class's mockery.
• The homeroom teacher named Su Yan the math representative and agreed to let him sit with Chen Yan.
• After school, Su Yan spoke with Aunt Xu, who asked to collect his trash, and told her his parents had divorced and remarried separately.
• Su Yan bathed and ate in his space, then went online to make gaming friends, register a forum, and work on a separate website.
• Su Yan adapted to the older internet and resolved to use his programming skills to create games.

Su Yan began selling vegetables from his space at a city market to earn capital for his business plans. After selling most of two baskets, he gave the leftovers to Aunt Xu, the street sweeper.

• Su Yan decided to sell his surplus produce and observed how vendors operated at the agricultural wholesale market.
• Su Yan set up with two baskets of vegetables at a market but struggled to attract customers until he began shouting about his produce.
• Customers gathered to inspect Su Yan’s unusually plump, fresh-looking vegetables, and he sold most of them by the end of the morning.
• Su Yan carried the remaining vegetables home and gave them to Aunt Xu.

Su Yan sold homegrown vegetables at the market and learned how the elderly vendor beside him made a living by salvaging discarded produce. He attracted repeat customers with the quality of his vegetables and watched the market vendors closely.

• Su Yan gave Aunt Xu vegetables he could not use, then returned to the market the next morning with two sacks to sell.
• Su Yan told an old woman that his divorced parents had left him on his own, earning her sympathy.
• The old woman explained that she gathered discarded vegetables at the wholesale market and sold them for income.
• Su Yan noticed that market sellers cheated customers by using inaccurate scales.
• Su Yan called back a returning customer, who praised his vegetables and said they had persuaded her picky son to eat more.

Su Yan sold out his vegetables and considered asking Aunt Xu to help run the stall, while balancing his business with school. At school, Wan Fang offered to bring him breakfast, and Su Yan gave her a tomato before the class bell rang.

• Su Yan sold his vegetables to returning and new customers, then thanked Aunt Xu, who praised the vegetables he had given her.
• Su Yan considered paying Aunt Xu to run his stall but worried about explaining where the vegetables came from.
• Wan Fang approached Su Yan and offered to bring him breakfast from a soup dumpling shop.
• Su Yan asked Wan Fang for the shop's address, gave her a tomato, and said he would try the dumplings the next day.
• When class began, Su Yan gave an apple to his deskmate, Chen Yan.

Su Yan tried to help his impoverished desk mate Chen Yan by giving her fruit and secretly adding spiritual spring water to her cup. After seeing how her family struggled, he visited Aunt Xu and offered her a job selling vegetables.

• Su Yan gave Chen Yan an apple and insisted that she eat it, but she stayed silent and refused.
• Chen Yan brought the apple home, where her younger siblings divided it among themselves, and Su Yan watched before returning to school.
• Su Yan secretly poured spiritual spring water into Chen Yan's cup, and she drank it without noticing.
• Su Yan visited Aunt Xu and offered to pay her eighteen hundred a month to run a vegetable stall while he supplied the produce.

Su Yan hired Aunt Xu to run a vegetable stall so he could keep attending school, and their business quickly grew as customers returned for the fresh produce. While sharing lunch at the market, Su Yan remembered a familiar face connected to October and then asked Aunt Xu to make several dishes for dinner.

• Su Yan offered Aunt Xu a job at his planned vegetable stall and persuaded her to accept a monthly wage of eighteen hundred yuan.
• Su Yan secured a stall, and he and Aunt Xu opened it together before he left for school.
• Aunt Xu sold Su Yan's vegetables each day, gaining repeat customers until two sacks sold out by ten in the morning.
• Su Yan brought four sacks of vegetables to the market on Sunday, and Aunt Xu asked him to find a way to increase their stock.
• As Aunt Xu mentioned that October would bring cooler weather, Su Yan recalled a strange but familiar face.
• Su Yan ate the lunch Aunt Xu had prepared and requested braised pork ribs, garlic mushrooms, fish-fragrant eggplant, and tomato and egg soup for dinner.

During the National Day holiday, Su Yan traveled through Fujian and Jiangxi to collect Spirit Woods and cultivate them in his space, then returned home and rewarded Aunt Xu for running the vegetable stall. After the holiday, he went back to school, where a transfer student joined his class.

• Su Yan secretly took a branch from the Big Red Robe tea trees at Wuyi Mountains and watered them with Spiritual Spring.
• He collected Spirit Woods and wild fruit trees in Jiangxi, bought two live muntjacs, and took a branch from a thousand-year-old tree.
• Su Yan learned that ancient trees increased the space’s spiritual energy, while Spirit Stones could endure alongside heaven and earth.
• He traveled to Guilin, then returned home on October 7 and gave Aunt Xu gifts and a red envelope for her work at the stall.
• Su Yan returned to school the next morning, and Ma En introduced Liang Kui, a transfer student from City A.

Su Yan relived the day Liang Kui transferred into his class, while keeping his distance from the popular new student and the classmates gathered around him. He earned a perfect score on the math exam and ended the chapter trying to sleep amid the noise.

• Liang Kui introduced himself as a transfer student and warned the class not to call him Lin Changkong.
• Teacher Ma seated Liang Kui beside Su Yan, who continued writing programming notes and acted as if the new arrival did not affect him.
• Liang Kui quickly charmed his classmates, while Su Yan deliberately maintained his withdrawn manner.
• The math teacher announced that Su Yan had scored a perfect 120 and ranked first in the class; Chen Wanwan and Lin Qiang each scored 119.
• After the math lesson, Su Yan tried to sleep, but Liang Kui’s classmates kept making noise and disturbing his desk.

Liang Kui tried to befriend Su Yan, then joined the class in mocking Chen Yan before becoming attracted to Chen Wanwan. As class resumed, Su Yan noticed Liang Kui pretending to listen while secretly writing programming code.

• Liang Kui tried to introduce himself to Su Yan, but Su Yan ignored him and left the classroom.
• After learning Chen Yan was Su Yan's desk mate, Liang Kui joined the classmates in scrutinizing her, then remarked that her skin looked nice.
• Chen Wanwan grew irritated by the girls crowding around Liang Kui and used her role as vice class monitor to quiet them.
• Liang Kui learned Chen Wanwan had no boyfriend and became captivated by her.
• During class, Liang Kui thought about Chen Wanwan while secretly writing programming code, and Su Yan noticed.

Su Yan received an address for a seller of Tibetan Mastiff puppies and planned to visit, while Liang Kui’s attempts to get his attention led to trouble during chemistry class. The chapter ended with Su Yan denying he had eaten a tomato after hiding the evidence in his space.

• Su Yan received a message from an online pet lover who had found a seller of Tibetan Mastiff puppies, and he replied that he would go see them.
• Liang Kui asked to borrow Su Yan’s phone, then played Tetris on his own expensive phone to show off.
• Teacher Wang confiscated Liang Kui’s phone for using it in class, but returned it after hearing how expensive it was.
• Liang Kui asked Su Yan for a tomato, then told Teacher Wang that Su Yan was eating one in class when Su Yan refused.
• Su Yan hid the unfinished tomato in his space and insisted to Teacher Wang that he had not been eating.

Su Yan traveled to B City to meet Zhang Fei and inspect a litter of Tibetan Mastiff puppies. At the villa, he was captivated by the majestic mother dog.

• Liang Kui failed to prove that Su Yan had eaten a tomato, and the teacher made both boys stand through class.
• Su Yan ate lunch at school and called Zhang Fei to arrange a visit to see Tibetan Mastiff puppies.
• Su Yan got his homeroom teacher’s reluctant permission to miss school on Saturday by saying his father was coming to see him.
• Su Yan took a train to B City, where Zhang Fei met him at the station and drove him to the owner’s suburban villa.
• Su Yan saw the mother Tibetan Mastiff in the backyard and excitedly praised her appearance.

Su Yan bought the frailest Tibetan Mastiff pup from Uncle Wei after consulting the voice in his head, then brought it home in his space and named it Little War God. He left the pup thriving in the space and began considering finding it a female companion.

• Su Yan assured Uncle Wei that his family could afford to raise a Tibetan Mastiff and inspected the five available pups with Zhang Fei.
• The voice in Su Yan's head said the weakest pup had the best bone structure and could recover in the space, so Su Yan chose it despite Zhang Fei's concerns.
• Su Yan paid Uncle Wei thirty thousand yuan for the pup, received a care booklet, and took it home hidden in his space.
• Su Yan and the online-game War God discussed names, and Su Yan settled on Little War God.
• Su Yan photographed the lively Little War God in the space and planned to buy it a female Tibetan Mastiff as a companion.

Su Yan enjoyed caring for Little War God while keeping to himself at school, where his excellent memory let him finish memorizing history early. After he exposed Liang Kui for cursing the history teacher, Liang Kui returned from punishment and threatened him.

• Su Yan uploaded photos of Little War God and chatted with him daily as the Tibetan Mastiff grew in a snowy habitat.
• As the weather turned colder, Su Yan kept up with schoolwork and quickly memorized his lessons thanks to his improved memory.
• During evening history study, Su Yan told the teacher that Liang Kui was cursing him, and the teacher sent Liang Kui into the corridor to recite.
• Liang Kui returned to class after memorizing the assigned material and glared at Su Yan.
• After the bell, Liang Kui grabbed Su Yan and warned him not to tattle again.

Su Yan left Liang Kui to walk Chen Wanwan home, then learned that Wisteria Flower Restaurant’s chairman wanted to discuss buying vegetables from his family’s stall. Su Yan visited the unopened restaurant and discovered it was the rich son’s first business venture.

• Su Yan knocked Liang Kui’s hand away and left, while Liang Kui offered to escort Chen Wanwan home.
• Liang Kui bought Chen Wanwan cakes and green tea, and she offered to speak to the history teacher about his punishment before he walked her home.
• Aunt Xu gave Su Yan the business card of Zhang Wei, chairman of Wisteria Flower Restaurant, who wanted to discuss ordering vegetables.
• Su Yan visited Wisteria Flower Restaurant and learned from its security guard that it would open on the twenty-eighth day of the tenth lunar month and was the chairman’s first restaurant.

Su Yan arranged to meet restaurant owner Zhang Wei to discuss supplying produce, then pretended to be ill during evening study so he could leave school. When classmates escorted him toward the clinic, Zhang Wei called to confirm their dinner appointment, and Su Yan used the call to pretend his father was coming to take him to the hospital.

• Su Yan called Zhang Wei, explained that he kept his vegetable source secret, and agreed to meet him at First-Class Residence at eight.
• Su Yan pretended to collapse during evening study, prompting the chemistry teacher to send Liang Kui and Lin Qiang to take him to the clinic.
• Wan Fang offered to accompany Su Yan, but the teacher sent vice class monitor Chen Wanwan instead.
• Liang Kui carried Su Yan out of school, and Chen Wanwan and Lin Qiang joined them on the way to the clinic.
• Zhang Wei called to confirm their dinner, and Su Yan pretended to tell his father that he had stomach pain and would wait at the school entrance.

Su Yan faked an illness to leave school and met Zhang Wei at First-Class Residence to discuss supplying his restaurant with vegetables. Zhang Wei praised the exceptional produce and asked Su Yan about his secret formula.

• Su Yan pretended to have enteritis so Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan would leave, then admitted the ruse to Lin Qiang and asked him to keep it secret.
• Su Yan changed into a suit, brought fruit, and went to First-Class Residence to meet Zhang Wei.
• Zhang Wei recalled buying Su Yan's vegetables and discovering their flavor and health benefits after eating them for a week.
• Su Yan impressed Zhang Wei by identifying the Wuyi Mountains rock tea, and Zhang Wei asked about the secret behind his vegetables.

Su Yan finalized a vegetable-supply deal with Zhang Wei and later signed the contract, while preparing to expand his crops and tending to Little War God. He skipped Zhang Wei’s invitation to celebrate a restaurant opening and left school with Lin Qiang for KFC.

• Su Yan agreed to supply Zhang Wei’s hotel with vegetables at seasonal wholesale prices and arranged to deliver them daily.
• Su Yan declined Zhang Wei’s offer of a ride after they drank, gave him a basket of fruit, and went home by taxi.
• Su Yan ordered seeds online, then entered his space, where Little War God guarded him while he slept.
• Su Yan and Zhang Wei signed their contract, and Su Yan sent a flower basket to celebrate the opening of Wisteria Flower Restaurant.
• Su Yan declined Zhang Wei’s invitation to drink and treated Lin Qiang to KFC after school.

Su Yan and Lin Qiang ate at KFC, where they ran into Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan. Su Yan’s advice made Liang Kui realize that he needed to confess if he wanted Chen Wanwan to acknowledge their relationship.

• Lin Qiang asked Su Yan about his parents, and Su Yan said they had remarried and no longer kept in touch with him.
• Lin Qiang ordered plenty of food at KFC, then choked when he saw Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan arrive together.
• Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan joined Su Yan and Lin Qiang at their table, and Chen Wanwan denied that she was dating Liang Kui.
• Su Yan told Lin Qiang that a boy should confess before expecting a girl to acknowledge a relationship, prompting Lin Qiang to mention Wan Fang’s confession to Su Yan.
• Liang Kui realized that he needed to confess to Chen Wanwan instead of assuming their outings had confirmed their relationship.

As Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan began dating, Su Yan prepared for winter exams and a New Year's Day performance while arranging to open a shop. The chapter ended with Aunt Xu uncertain whether to accept Su Yan’s offer of five percent of the shop’s profits in exchange for using her identity to register it.

• Liang Kui invited Chen Wanwan to a movie, and they began dating soon afterward, becoming a well-known couple at school.
• Su Yan met Zhang Wei at First-Class Residence, explained his circumstances and why he had disguised himself, and discussed his independent future with him.
• Su Yan left Zhang Wei and planned to review for final exams and prepare a performance for the New Year's Day gala.
• Su Yan visited Aunt Xu and asked her to negotiate a one-year lease for a shop near the vegetable market so he could open a business during winter break.
• Su Yan asked Aunt Xu to use her identity to register the shop and offered her five percent of its profits, leaving her uneasy about accepting.

Su Yan considered expanding his fruit business while preparing for Pear Blossom High School’s New Year’s Day party. When Lin Qiang went to pay for tangerines, he discovered that the class funds and his own money were missing.

• Su Yan urged a vegetable-stall owner to consider running his fruit stall and explained that he might need help with the vegetable stall after New Year.
• Su Yan trained War God in the space and joked with the Red Mist about the dog’s growth and the cultivation incantation.
• The arts committee member asked Su Yan to choose a performance for the class party, and he considered performing after seeing Liang Kui’s song on the list.
• Lin Qiang took Su Yan and two classmates to buy party snacks, searching many stalls for cheap tangerines.
• At the chosen stall, Lin Qiang found that the class funds and his personal spending money had disappeared, leaving them unable to buy the tangerines.