Recaps

Li Zhikong persuaded his grandparents to let him try finding a proper job, then messaged Lu Yuan about tutoring and left him baffled. Lu Yuan’s cold worsened after he took a cold shower, while Ms. Wang misread his condition and tried to nurse him back to health with her cooking.

• Li Zhikong convinced Grandma and Grandpa to give him provisional permission to try tutoring for work.
• Li Zhikong messaged Lu Yuan asking whether he needed a tutor and what he thought of Li Zhikong, then fell asleep without replying further.
• Lu Yuan searched online for the meaning of Li Zhikong’s messages, became frustrated, and took a cold shower.
• Ms. Wang visited Lu Yuan, noticed his poor appearance, and blamed it on him overexerting himself with a woman.
• Ms. Wang cooked nourishing soup for Lu Yuan for two days, but his cold grew worse, so she stopped and came up with another plan.

Li Zhikong set out to visit Lu Yuan, eager to resume their cultivation and play teacher and student. He tracked Lu Yuan to an expensive residential complex, while the taxi driver mistakenly thought Li Zhikong was going to catch a cheating lover.

• Mrs. Wang began arranging interviews for a young personal assistant for her son.
• Li Zhikong realized he needed to find someone for dual cultivation and decided to visit Lu Yuan without calling ahead.
• Li Zhikong told his grandmother he was going out to teach a grown-up child and do some sketching.
• Li Zhikong used his Rabbit Spirit sense of smell to track Lu Yuan and took a taxi toward the target.
• The taxi driver mistook Li Zhikong for a man trying to catch a cheating lover and waited outside the luxury complex, hoping to introduce him to his daughter.

Li Zhikong arrived at Lu Yuan’s home to meet him and stumbled into Ms. Wang’s interviews for a caretaker. Ms. Wang reacted strangely when she learned Li Zhikong was eighteen, leaving him to wonder about Lu Yuan’s age.

• After a wealthy homeowner offered Li Zhikong a backup art-tutor position, he insisted he had already agreed to meet another family and went to Scum Lu’s home.
• Li Zhikong found Ms. Wang interviewing a row of candidates to care for Lu Yuan, who had been hiding upstairs.
• Ms. Wang became agitated when she saw Li Zhikong and asked his name and age through the housekeeper.
• Li Zhikong said he was eighteen, watched Ms. Wang count on her fingers, and messaged Lu Yuan to ask how old he was.
• Lu Yuan replied with an angry emoji, and Li Zhikong demanded that he answer seriously.

Li Zhikong visited Lu Yuan under the pretense of tutoring and teased him about his exhaustion and their suggestive past. After pulling Li Zhikong upstairs, Lu Yuan reacted strongly to his teasing and alluring fragrance, leaving the two alone in a charged encounter.

• Li Zhikong told Lu Yuan to come downstairs, then pretended they had arranged a tutoring session when he arrived at Lu Yuan’s home.
• Ms. Wang recognized Li Zhikong as Li Minglan’s son and worried about him being alone with Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan insisted he was healthy, grabbed Li Zhikong by the wrist, and took him upstairs.
• Li Zhikong teased Lu Yuan about his strength, his red ears, and imagined roleplay scenarios.
• Li Zhikong’s alluring fragrance stirred Lu Yuan’s desire as his expression turned dangerous.

Li Zhikong gave Lu Yuan a Rabbit Spirit massage that left him restored, flushed, and unexpectedly ravenous. As Ms. Wang worried about what she had overheard, Lu Yuan discovered that his senses and appetite had become unusually acute.

• Li Zhikong pinned Lu Yuan down and insisted that his suggestive family massage technique was good for the body.
• Li Zhikong massaged Lu Yuan until his aches faded, his qi stirred, and his body and mind felt clear, while Lu Yuan moaned without realizing it.
• Ms. Wang knocked at the door with fruit and checked that Lu Yuan and Li Zhikong were dressed and the room seemed normal.
• Lu Yuan took the fruit back inside and found its scent irresistible, then ate several pieces as his appetite surged and his senses sharpened.

After Li Zhikong left Lu Yuan’s house, Ms. Wang worried that Bai Jinxiao’s son might become entangled with her own son, while Lu Yuan rested and recovered. The next day, Li Zhikong arranged for Lu Yuan to teach him to drive, and packed snacks before setting out.

• Li Zhikong postponed his painting lesson with Lu Yuan and promised to return, while Ms. Wang recalled how she and Lu Mingyu had both been drawn to Bai Jinxiao.
• Ms. Wang worried that Li Zhikong might distract Lu Yuan and create an opening for Lu Mingyu’s other sons to threaten them.
• Lu Yuan ate, bathed, and slept after Li Zhikong left, then woke the next day feeling confident and restless.
• Li Zhikong called Lu Yuan and said his brother had arranged driving practice, so he persuaded Lu Yuan to teach him instead.
• After agreeing on a meeting place, Li Zhikong packed a large supply of snacks before heading out.

Li Zhikong met Lu Yuan dressed as a girl and explained that the disguise let him have fun while keeping their meeting secret. Lu Yuan drove him out of the city to a quiet road so he could practice driving.

• Li Zhikong surprised Lu Yuan by appearing at their meeting place in a dress.
• Li Zhikong said he had practiced a coquettish voice and planned to use it around other people to preserve his disguise.
• Li Zhikong admitted he chose the dress for fun and to conceal his identity during the meeting.
• Lu Yuan drove Li Zhikong out of the city to a secluded road with varied terrain for driving practice.

Li Zhikong and Lu Yuan spent the afternoon at a racetrack, where their driving lesson turned into an intimate interlude. When reckless rich kids harassed Li Zhikong on the track, Lu Yuan took the wheel and prepared to confront them.

• Li Zhikong climbed onto Lu Yuan's lap and proposed paying for driving lessons with his body, and the two spent the afternoon together before he began driving.
• Young Master Feng and his friends arrived at the track and mocked Lu Rudi while bragging about their cars and their admiration for Lu Yuan.
• Several sports cars circled Li Zhikong's Maybach, and one yellow car forced him toward a roadside tree.
• Li Zhikong stopped the car, and Lu Yuan ordered him into the passenger seat before taking the wheel.
• Li Zhikong told Lu Yuan to take the reckless drivers out.

Lu Rudi arrived at the street race and realized the Maybach that had defeated the other heirs belonged to Lu Yuan. Hoping to learn whether Lu Yuan had come alone, he approached the car and was stunned by the beauty in the passenger seat.

• Lu Rudi arrived with his convoy and saw Young Master Feng and the other heirs being outclassed by a black Maybach.
• Young Master Feng insulted Lu Rudi and claimed the group had lost to Brother Yuan rather than calling in family elders.
• Lu Rudi recognized the Maybach as Lu Yuan's and wondered whether his rumored lack of romantic relationships hid a physical problem.
• Lu Rudi decided to approach Lu Yuan, hoping to confirm whether he had come alone.
• Lu Yuan lowered the window, and Lu Rudi lost his train of thought when he saw the long-haired beauty beside him.

Lu Yuan raced Lu Rudi after Li Zhikong urged him to accept the challenge, with the cars as stakes instead of their companions. Lu Yuan won decisively, but Li Zhikong rushed out to confront the girls greeting the victor, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Lu Rudi challenged Lu Yuan to a race and proposed betting their female companions, but Lu Yuan rejected that stake and agreed to race for their cars instead.
• Li Zhikong eagerly encouraged Lu Yuan and celebrated the race from the passenger seat.
• Lu Rudi and Lu Yuan lined up before a crowd of spectators, and their race was followed by drones and a livestream.
• Lu Yuan sped far ahead of Lu Rudi, returned to the starting line first, and smashed through the finish ribbon to win.
• Li Zhikong got out of the car and strode toward the girls who had come to congratulate the winner, glaring at them as if they were rivals.

Li Zhikong claimed the sports car Lu Yuan had won, kissed him publicly, and left with him, while Lu Rudi plotted to seduce her. Li Zhikong later discovered Lu Yuan had let him believe the car was a gift, and he headed off to earn money rather than be kept by him.

• Li Zhikong stopped Lu Rudi from driving away, kissed Lu Yuan, and took the keys to the sports car he had lost.
• Lu Rudi imagined Li Zhikong was interested in money and planned to recruit her against Lu Yuan.
• Li Zhikong tried out the sports car, then rode away with Lu Yuan as the crowd envied them.
• At home, Li Zhikong realized Lu Yuan had followed him with the car and learned that Lu Yuan had claimed to give it to him.
• Li Zhikong rejected the idea of being kept and gave the driver an address so he could go make money.

Li Zhikong returned from another scheme in disguise and traded banter with Sun Zhenglong. Meanwhile, Lu Lu showed Lu Rudi photos suggesting that Lu Yuan had slept with a man, and she began connecting the masked man to Lu Yuan’s female companion.

• Li Zhikong brought roast chicken to Sun Zhenglong, changed out of his disguise, and promised to be more careful about dressing as a woman at Sun Zhenglong’s home.
• Lu Lu visited Lu Rudi and mocked his failed attempt to challenge Lu Yuan.
• Lu Lu showed Lu Rudi photos of a masked, rabbit-eared man, and Lu Rudi recognized a resemblance to someone he had seen.
• Lu Lu revealed that Lu Yuan had slept with the man at the hot spring resort and had been on the bottom.
• Lu Lu recalled seeing Lu Yuan’s female companion during Lu Rudi’s race livestream and began linking her to the masked man.

Lu Mingyu’s mistress convinced him that Lu Yuan’s long-standing reputation for sleeping around might conceal a problem or a preference for men, prompting him to investigate. The dossier revealed that Lu Yuan’s boyfriend, Li Zhikong, was Bai Jinxiao’s posthumous son, and Lu Mingyu turned his attention to confirming whether anything was physically wrong with Lu Yuan.

• Lu Rudi’s mother argued to Lu Mingyu that Lu Yuan’s lack of relationships with women suggested the rumors about him might be true.
• Lu Mingyu reconsidered the false rumors he had once encouraged and became concerned that Lu Yuan might have a physical or psychological problem.
• Lu Mingyu ordered his trusted subordinates to compile records, photographs, and surveillance footage of Lu Yuan and Li Zhikong.
• Lu Mingyu and Ms. Wang discovered that Li Zhikong was Bai Jinxiao’s posthumous son.
• Lu Mingyu decided that confirming whether Lu Yuan had a bodily problem was the most urgent matter.

Li Zhikong prepared for another secret date with Lu Yuan, looking forward to continuing their tutor-and-school-tyrant roleplay and bringing him homemade treats. Lu Yuan canceled at the last moment, leaving Li Zhikong waiting without knowing that Lu Mingyu had gathered evidence and was preparing to act.

• Lu Mingyu endured his anger while his men gathered evidence and discovered that Li Zhikong had secretly met his son five times and given him a hidden oil painting.
• Li Zhikong and Lu Yuan continued their passionate relationship, and Li Zhikong reassured his grandparents that he would not hurt innocent women.
• Li Zhikong planned another tutor-and-school-tyrant roleplay and hoped to paint Lu Yuan seducing him.
• Li Zhikong prepared cheese-filled beef strips and Malt Honey Immortal Drink for their meeting, after his grandparents praised the drink.
• Lu Yuan messaged Li Zhikong that an unexpected matter had come up and postponed their date.

Lu Mingyu secretly drugged Lu Yuan’s liquor to test whether his son could perform, but the drug failed to stir Lu Yuan. The chapter ended with Lu Mingyu realizing Lu Yuan had noticed his own arousal and turning green with disgust.

• Lu Mingyu arrived at Lu Yuan’s home with prized liquor and insisted they drink together, while Lu Yuan reassured Li Zhikong that he would join him afterward.
• Lu Yuan watched Lu Mingyu open and taste the liquor before drinking it himself, unaware that his father had replaced the original with a drugged counterfeit.
• Lu Mingyu explained that the drug heightened sensation rather than physical performance and planned to use it to test Lu Yuan and redirect his interest toward women.
• After they finished the bottle, Lu Mingyu signaled for the women waiting outside, but Lu Yuan showed almost no reaction to the drug.
• Lu Yuan noticed Lu Mingyu’s arousal, and his expression turned green while Lu Mingyu stared at him in despair.

Lu Mingyu argued with Lu Yuan about his sexual health and brought women to the house, prompting Lu Yuan to leave. Earlier, Li Zhikong overheard the women discussing Lu Mingyu and Lu Yuan while painting near the residential complex.

• Lu Mingyu accused Lu Yuan of having a sexual problem after revealing he had drugged the wine, and challenged him to prove otherwise.
• Lu Yuan and Lu Mingyu argued until the doorbell rang, and Lu Yuan realized his father had arranged for women to visit.
• Assistant Sun let the women into the house, and Lu Yuan stormed out while insulting Lu Mingyu.
• Li Zhikong painted beside the complex's artificial lake and overheard the women talking about President Lu and Young Master Lu.

Li Zhikong overheard women gossiping about Lu Yuan and grew furious, then confronted him as he left the building. The two argued over Lu Yuan’s apparent infidelity and headed downstairs so he could explain, but Li Zhikong’s suggestion of a hotel made Lu Yuan realize his clothes were visibly inappropriate for a café.

• Li Zhikong overheard women call Young Master Lu scummy and decided to confront Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan left angrily and ran into Li Zhikong at the elevator while calling someone.
• Li Zhikong accused Lu Yuan of being busy with affairs and taunted him about condoms.
• Lu Yuan wondered whether Li Zhikong had been using him for sex and grabbed his wrist to take him somewhere private.
• Li Zhikong suggested the nearest hotel, and Lu Yuan objected before noticing what he was wearing.

Lu Yuan struggled to resist the delayed effects of the drug his father had given him while Li Zhikong teased him. Lu Yuan began explaining that the women at the gathering had nothing to do with him, but the deeper conversation remained unfinished.

• Lu Yuan realized the drug had taken effect and hurried with Li Zhikong to a private property to avoid being seen.
• Lu Yuan drank chilled water and poured it over himself, then tried to explain what had happened.
• Li Zhikong interrupted Lu Yuan’s explanation and flirted with him, while Lu Yuan insisted they keep their distance.
• Lu Yuan ordered Li Zhikong to face away and sit on the sofa, but Li Zhikong laughed at his predicament.
• Lu Yuan told Li Zhikong that the women had nothing to do with him and that he would not follow his father’s example.

Lu Yuan asked Li Zhikong to define their relationship, then confessed that he liked him very much. Li Zhikong claimed he felt the same, but Lu Yuan suspected he was only attracted to his body, and the drugged Lu Yuan began losing control of his emotions.

• Lu Yuan told Li Zhikong to answer his questions honestly and asked what he took him for.
• Li Zhikong weighed the dangers of calling himself a casual companion or becoming Lu Yuan’s official boyfriend, then asked Lu Yuan the same question.
• Lu Yuan admitted that he did not know what true love felt like but liked Li Zhikong very much.
• Li Zhikong said he liked Lu Yuan too and pointed to his birthday-party request as proof.
• Lu Yuan took Li Zhikong’s words as evidence that he had only lusted after his body, and the drug’s effects overwhelmed him.

Li Zhikong and Lu Mingyu slept together, but Lu Mingyu disappeared afterward. A call from the United States then brought Li Zhikong a surprising claim from Bai Jinxiao, who said he had not died and had been abroad for years.

• Li Zhikong comforted Lu Mingyu, and the two slept together on the living room carpet.
• Li Zhikong realized their encounter would sustain him for ten days to half a month, but Lu Mingyu vanished afterward.
• Li Zhikong stayed in bed while his grandmother went to the market without him.
• Li Zhikong answered a call from the United States, expecting it might be Lu Mingyu.
• Bai Jinxiao introduced himself and told Li Zhikong that the person who had died was not him and that he had been abroad.

Li Zhikong verified that the man on a video call was his father, Bai Jinxiao, and prepared to hear what had happened years ago. Meanwhile, Lu Yuan decided to stop waiting passively and considered using rumors about his supposed romantic pursuits in the United States to provoke Li Zhikong.

• Li Zhikong demanded proof of the caller’s identity and added him on WeChat for a video call.
• Bai Jinxiao answered Li Zhikong’s questions about his mother’s heart-shaped mole and the first words he had spoken to her, convincing Li Zhikong that he was genuine.
• Li Zhikong invited Bai Jinxiao to explain what had happened, and the father and son began talking.
• Lu Yuan decided he could no longer remain passive in his pursuit of Li Zhikong.
• Ms. Wang urged Lu Yuan to have lawyers challenge tabloids claiming he was pursuing foreign women, but Lu Yuan dismissed her suggestion and considered using the rumors to make Li Zhikong jealous.

Lu Yuan’s friends gave him drunken romantic advice, and he left for the United States to investigate his condition and begin his plan to pursue the Rabbit Spirit. Meanwhile, Li Zhikong listened as Bai Jinxiao recounted how he had survived and described the foreign returnee who had abducted him.

• Lu Yuan’s three friends urged him to make his romantic interest jealous, use danger to heighten attraction, and keep the relationship uncertain.
• Lu Yuan recalled that Lu Mingyu arranged treatment in the United States after learning about his hidden ailment, and Lu Yuan agreed to go.
• Lu Yuan flew to the United States, determined to learn why he could perform with the lecherous rabbit and to find a way to help his romantic target.
• Bai Jinxiao told Li Zhikong that a friendly, influential returnee from abroad had abducted him after they became friends.

Bai Jinxiao recounted how his brutal life abroad had turned him into a powerful Rabbit Spirit and urged Li Zhikong to come to the United States for help with his awakening. He revealed that Rabbit Spirits could experience false pregnancy, leaving Li Zhikong stunned as the chapter ended.

• Bai Jinxiao described being smuggled to the United States, kept captive, and eventually rising to power after killing his owner and the owner's heirs.
• Li Zhikong refused Bai Jinxiao's invitation to come to the United States, saying he could manage his awakening without repeating his father's mistakes.
• Bai Jinxiao asked whether Li Zhikong was on top or bottom with his Dual Cultivation partner, then warned him about Rabbit Spirits' false pregnancy response.
• Bai Jinxiao recalled experiencing false pregnancy symptoms, including maternal instincts, a swollen abdomen, nausea, and milk-like discharge.
• Bai Jinxiao urged Li Zhikong to come to the United States because inherited memories and knowledge alone might not help him handle his awakening.

Bai Jinxiao arranged for Li Zhikong to visit his mother in the United States, intending to find him a suitable Dual Cultivation partner. Li Zhikong left for the United States, while Qin Mobei remained unaware of Bai Jinxiao’s plans for him.

• Bai Jinxiao told Li Zhikong that frequent, carefully chosen Dual Cultivation partners and a strong Spirit-Gathering Array could help a Rabbit Spirit transform safely, and resolved to find his son a good Furnace Cauldron.
• Bai Jinxiao said he had found Li Zhikong’s mother and arranged for her to invite him to the United States, explaining that she had remarried and might be reluctant to reveal her children from China.
• Li Zhikong questioned why his brother Qin Mobei was not invited at the same time, and Bai Jinxiao said Qin Mobei would be busy and could come later.
• Qin Mobei sneezed after dealing with troublesome business partners and felt that someone might be plotting against him.
• Ms. Li called the Li Family, and Li Zhikong boarded a flight to the United States the next day.

Lu Yuan arranged a false school tour as an excuse to bring Li Zhikong to the United States, then learned Li was already there. After discovering that Li had gone with Rongsheng’s people, Lu Yuan began to suspect that Rongsheng’s male-loving leader might be interested in him.

• Lu Yuan bribed a teacher to put Li Zhikong on the Ivy League Tour Group roster, but learned from his insider that Li was already in the United States.
• Dr. Townsend told Lu Yuan that his rare condition had no proven treatment, though his sperm remained healthy and assisted reproduction was possible.
• Lu Yuan waited for Li Zhikong to contact him, then panicked when Li did not appear and personally investigated his whereabouts.
• Lu Yuan discovered that Rongsheng’s people had picked Li up from the airport and questioned his business contact about their connection.
• The contact told Lu Yuan that Rongsheng’s new leader was Chinese American and was rumored to like men, prompting Lu Yuan to react with alarm.