Chapter Summaries

After Lan Luo recovered from the park incident, Qi Chao encouraged him to find a friend and worked on a new doll design with him watching. Qi Chao then sold his old designs for Star Coins, and the chapter ended with Doctor asking whether something had happened after Qi Chao left a message unfinished.

• Lan Luo accepted the apology, and Qi Chao decided to work hard on a new doll after remembering the children who had mocked him.
• Qi Chao explained friendship to Lan Luo, who eagerly decided he wanted a friend of his own.
• Lan Luo watched Qi Chao draw a chibi sketch while Qi Chao worked on proportions for a new doll.
• The system told Qi Chao that his fifty-six unpublished clothing designs qualified for exchange, and Qi Chao confirmed the sale for 798,000 Star Coins.
• Doctor messaged Qi Chao to ask why he had only sent half a message and whether something had happened.

Qi Chao reassured Doctor that Lan Luo was unharmed and learned that Doctor would visit next month to assess Lan Luo’s injuries. After completing a design blueprint for Little One, Qi Chao unlocked achievements and a side quest, then bought dollmaking tools.

• Qi Chao told Doctor that Little Fatty had apologized to Little One and that Lan Luo was unharmed and in good spirits.
• Doctor thanked Qi Chao and said he would visit next month, sending his assistant ahead to examine Lan Luo.
• Qi Chao stayed up all night refining Little One’s design to suit Lan Luo’s height and completed the blueprint.
• The system awarded Qi Chao 200 account points and unlocked a weekly side quest to collect 30 essential dollmaking tools.
• Qi Chao ordered more than 30 specialized tools, spending 10,000 Star Coins.

Qi Chao taught Lan Luo to read and went out to buy special resin for the doll he planned to make. In Linshui District, he spotted his underage brothers entering a hotel with a girl and stayed behind to investigate two suspicious men who followed them.

• Qi Chao taught Lan Luo to write Blue Star characters, and Lan Luo learned them after one lesson.
• Qi Chao invited Lan Luo to come along while he went shopping, but Lan Luo stayed home after Qi Chao promised to take him out later.
• Qi Chao traveled to Linshui District to buy special resin and spotted his younger brothers entering a hotel with a girl.
• Qi Chao noticed two suspicious men watching his brothers and following them into the hotel, so he called the Vice Squad's reporting hotline.
• Qi Chao followed the men to the third floor and watched them enter room 306.

Qi Chao learned that Qi Feng and Qi Ye had been caught in another honey trap and went to the station to bring them home. Afterward, he took his embarrassed younger brothers shopping for supplies for their future nephews, leaving them puzzled but comforted by his kindness.

• Vice Squad officers raided Room 306 and discovered that Qi Feng and Qi Ye had been lured to a hotel and blackmailed with nude photos.
• The officers took Qi Feng and Qi Ye to the station, where the brothers sat in embarrassment and hesitated to call their family.
• Qi Chao arrived as their guardian and took the brothers away without criticizing them.
• Qi Chao shopped for supplies for his future nephews while Qi Feng and Qi Ye carried the bags behind him.
• On the aircraft, Qi Chao gave each brother a lollipop, and Qi Feng asked how he had learned they were at the station.

Qi Chao reprimanded Qi Feng and Qi Ye for being deceived by their girlfriend, then told them he had resigned to pursue puppet making. After returning home, he comforted sleepy Lan Luo and prepared to shop for the materials needed to make a Puppet Heart.

• Qi Chao told Qi Feng and Qi Ye that he had reported them and scolded them for believing their girlfriend wanted to be with both of them.
• Qi Chao revealed that he had resigned and planned to become a puppet maker, leaving his younger brothers stunned.
• Qi Chao dropped Qi Feng and Qi Ye at the old residence, and the brothers promised to keep his resignation and their own trouble secret from their father.
• Qi Chao returned home and found Lan Luo waiting to say good night, then carried him to bed and tucked him in.
• The next morning, Qi Chao prepared to shop for Mother Stone while Lan Luo stayed home to watch cartoons.

Qi Chao visited a mine to buy a mother stone for making a doll and chose one that resembled a heart. An Association dollmaker offered to assess it, but Bei Ge mocked the stone and insisted it would awaken as the lowest grade.

• Qi Chao learned how mother stones were awakened and chose to search for one at the Iron Mountain Mining Area rather than buy from the black market.
• A mine worker led Qi Chao underground and warned him not to spend too much on a mother stone.
• Qi Chao selected a heart-shaped gray stone and prepared to leave the mine.
• Bei Ge mocked Qi Chao for choosing a stone so quickly, while Aisli apologized and offered to help him.
• Aisli examined Qi Chao's stone and thought it looked low-grade, but Bei Ge declared it would be the worst kind of white and made a boast about what he would do if it turned blue.

Qi Chao bought a heart-shaped Mother Stone despite Dollmakers judging it a low-grade product, then began awakening it with Soothing Fluid and Mental Power. As he unknowingly displayed extraordinary power, Lan Luo absorbed some of it and felt pleasure, while Qi Chao finished his first hour of meditation without realizing how strong he was.

• Qi Chao thanked the Dollmakers for their advice but chose to buy the heart-shaped Mother Stone because he liked it, and he added Bei Ge and Aisli as friends.
• Qi Chao paid fifty thousand Star Coins for the stone and carried it home, unknowingly feeding it Mental Power whenever he praised it.
• Qi Chao placed the Mother Stone in Soothing Fluid and meditated, struggling to guide his scattered green Mental Power into it.
• Lan Luo watched the Mental Power fill the study and saw some of Qi Chao’s power enter his Puppet Heart, where it gave him a feeling of pleasure.
• Qi Chao learned to control the Mental Power with a white chain-like track and guided it into the fish tank for an hour, unaware of his extraordinary strength.

Qi Chao stayed home with Lan Luo and continued incubating a Mother Stone in the fish tank, unaware that his unusual Mental Power was feeding it. Lan Luo watched the stone consume the energy and realized it would not go hungry while Qi Chao was nearby.

• Qi Chao apologized to Lan Luo for leaving him alone and promised to stay home for the next few days.
• Lan Luo saw Mental Power gathering in the fish tank and watched the Mother Stone absorb it more quickly when he tapped the glass.
• Qi Chao's Mental Power floated from his body into the Mother Stone, leaving Lan Luo puzzled by the human's strange ability.
• Lan Luo recognized that the Mother Stone needed abundant Mental Power and believed Qi Chao could keep it well fed.
• After dinner, Lan Luo returned to watch the Mother Stone while Qi Chao went to the basement to work on his designs.

Qi Chao worked on a new doll while Lan Luo received a warning from his older brother Moss to avoid killing anyone before Father arrived. Moss planned to meet Qi Chao as Father’s assistant, while Lan Luo kept his encounter secret and Qi Chao continued making the doll.

• Qi Chao went to the basement and began shaping a doll from clay using his Mental Power.
• Lan Luo sensed a spatial vortex, and Moss emerged from it.
• Moss told Lan Luo that Father ordered him not to kill anyone before Father arrived, and Lan Luo agreed.
• Moss warned Lan Luo again not to cause trouble and said he would meet Qi Chao as Father's assistant.
• Moss departed through the vortex, while Qi Chao worked on the doll and returned to the basement the next morning.

Qi Chao worried that Lan Luo’s sudden loss of appetite meant the puppet was sick, so he sought advice and followed Doctor’s suggestion to soak crushed Energy Stone in water. Lan Luo ate it all, but privately understood the meal as a warning from his father not to cause trouble.

• Qi Chao noticed Lan Luo was eating very little and wondered whether he was ill.
• Qi Chao searched the forum and asked Bei Ge, Aisli, and Doctor about Lan Luo’s loss of appetite.
• Doctor advised Qi Chao to crush Energy Stone into rice-sized grains and soak it in water.
• Qi Chao gave Lan Luo the soaked Energy Stone, and Lan Luo ate every grain.
• Lan Luo recognized the food as a punishment and thought Qi Chao was warning him not to cause trouble.
• Qi Chao thanked Doctor, then comforted Lan Luo and said the day must have been hard for him.

Qi Chao realized Lan Luo was struggling to digest energy, reassured him, and grew closer to Doctor through daily messages. He encouraged Lan Luo to contact his biological father, but Lan Luo preferred to keep their exchanges sparse.

• Qi Chao comforted Lan Luo about feeling unwell, and Lan Luo eagerly accepted his praise as the best child in the world.
• After putting Lan Luo to sleep, Qi Chao saw Doctor's messages and admired his knowledge and gentleness.
• Qi Chao began messaging Doctor every day about puppets and small matters, and chatting with him became a habit.
• Qi Chao told Lan Luo that Doctor was gentle, and Lan Luo happily praised his father.
• Lan Luo refused to message Doctor at first, saying he did not want to trouble him, so Qi Chao showed him Doctor's promise that he would always look forward to hearing from him.
• Qi Chao bought Lan Luo a Light Brain, but Lan Luo and Doctor exchanged few messages, and Qi Chao chose not to interfere.

Qi Chao spent time with Lan Luo while refining the new puppet and learned that Doctor’s assistant would visit to examine Lan Luo’s injuries. Doctor agreed to stay at Qi Chao’s home, and Qi Chao prepared to welcome him and Lan Luo’s older brother, Moss, the next day.

• Qi Chao taught Lan Luo to make clay animals, praised his frog, and sent Doctor a photo of it.
• Qi Chao continued refining the new puppet while Lan Luo watched the Mother Stone, which seemed close to awakening.
• Doctor messaged Qi Chao to arrange for his assistant to examine Lan Luo’s injuries the next day.
• Qi Chao invited Doctor and his assistant to stay at his home and learned that the assistant was Lan Luo’s older brother, Moss.
• Qi Chao learned Moss would arrive by spaceship at nine the next morning, then prepared rooms and asked Lan Luo if he was happy to see his brother.

Lan Luo sought Qi Chao’s reassurance and asked him to tell his brothers that he was a good boy. Meanwhile, Moss arrived in Linjing District after secretly spreading white powder among wealthy passengers, and he struggled to find Lan Luo’s master.

• Lan Luo asked Qi Chao if he was a good boy, and Qi Chao reassured him and agreed to tell his brothers.
• On a spacecraft, Mrs. Gray used her chained C-Rank Doll to mock Bailey, who kicked the doll away.
• Moss watched the wealthy women at their tea party and released white powder that seeped into their skin.
• Moss left the spacecraft carrying a briefcase and set out to find Lan Luo’s master.
• Moss waited at a public aircraft stop in Linjing District, where his bandaged appearance drew stares and frightened a child.

Qi Chao stood up for Moss when Zhao Qi and several men demanded an apology over Moss's bandaged appearance scaring a child. After settling the dispute and securing apologies from the men, Qi Chao returned to Moss, who thanked him.

• Zhao Qi and several bystanders berated Moss for frightening a child, but Moss remained silent and indifferent.
• Qi Chao arrived, shielded Moss, and refused to let the men demand an apology without apologizing first themselves.
• As rain began, Qi Chao gave Moss the flying vehicle key and told him to wait inside while he stayed to handle the dispute.
• Qi Chao returned with a video of Zhao Qi and the others apologizing, having fought them in an alley before persuading them to make peace.
• Moss thanked Qi Chao, following the lesson his father had taught him about expressing gratitude for help.

Qi Chao brought Moss home and tried to make him feel welcome before Moss examined Lan Luo’s cracks. Moss found that Lan Luo could be repaired, and Qi Chao went to make lunch, leaving the brothers together.

• Qi Chao gave Moss prepared Energy Stones and played Lan Luo’s favorite cartoon during their trip home.
• Qi Chao left Moss and Lan Luo alone, but the brothers barely spoke until he returned.
• Qi Chao offered to change Moss’s damp bandages, but Moss refused, and Lan Luo explained that only their father could change them.
• Moss examined Lan Luo’s cracks with diagnostic equipment and told Qi Chao that their father could repair him.
• After Qi Chao went to make lunch, Lan Luo asked Moss if his master was wonderful, and Moss agreed.

Qi Chao brought Moss home and took him and Lan Luo shopping for ingredients to prepare a meal for Doctor's visit the next day. The chapter ended with Qi Chao heading to the basement to work, leaving the two dolls upstairs together.

• Qi Chao welcomed Moss to his home and showed him the room beside Lan Luo's, noticing the brothers seemed to have a strained relationship.
• Qi Chao told Lan Luo and Moss that Doctor would visit the next day, and both dolls eagerly agreed to help choose food their father liked.
• Qi Chao took the dolls to a supermarket, taught them how to pick fresh fish, and helped them buy seafood and other ingredients.
• Qi Chao returned home with Lan Luo and Moss, then went to the basement to work and left the two dolls together upstairs.

Lan Luo brought Moss to the basement to show him the frog he had made, where Moss noticed the Mother Stone seemed to have plenty of Mental Power already. Qi Chao received a message from Doctor confirming their meeting the next morning, while Zhao Qin nervously went to pick Doctor up and brought him aboard an aircraft.

• Lan Luo asked Moss to come see his frog, and Moss followed him to the basement.
• Lan Luo showed Moss the frog while Qi Chao made room for them at his worktable.
• Moss saw the Mother Stone slowly consume Qi Chao's Mental Power and realized it did not seem to lack it; Lan Luo showed no surprise.
• Qi Chao read Doctor's message confirming their meeting the next morning and looked forward to seeing him.
• Zhao Qin warned Xiao Wang to remain quiet, then returned to the aircraft with Doctor, whose beauty surprised Xiao Wang.

Shen Yuxi returned to Zhao Qin’s aircraft after getting lost, and Zhao Qin nervously helped him find his way. Qi Chao arrived to pick Shen Yuxi up, and the two introduced themselves before Qi Chao awkwardly called him Brother Shen.

• Xiao Wang heard Zhao Qin nervously discuss work with Shen Yuxi, then found Zhao Qin crying and muttering about writing a will after Shen Yuxi left.
• Shen Yuxi returned to ask Zhao Qin for the aircraft’s location, and Zhao Qin told him he was at Building 603, West Gate of the villa district.
• Qi Chao arrived and confirmed that Shen Yuxi was the Doctor he had come to meet; Zhao Qin quickly left them alone.
• Qi Chao introduced himself and learned that Shen Yuxi was three years older than him.
• Qi Chao blurted out that he could call Shen Yuxi Brother Shen, then blushed.

Qi Chao welcomed Shen Yuxi to his home and assumed the Doctor was a gentle father visiting to treat Lan Luo and Moss. As Qi Chao cooked, Shen Yuxi and the dolls fell into an eerie silence, while the System recognized Shen Yuxi as a dangerous villain and feared for Qi Chao.

• Qi Chao brought Shen Yuxi home, where Lan Luo and Moss greeted him as their father with little warmth.
• After Qi Chao left them alone, Shen Yuxi and the dolls became silent, revealing that his gentle manner had been a disguise.
• The System warned itself that Qi Chao was cooking for demons and decided to stay with him for the day.
• Shen Yuxi offered to help in the kitchen, and Qi Chao let him wash carrots before sending him back to the living room.
• Qi Chao returned after lunch and found Shen Yuxi, Lan Luo, and Moss watching Lan Luo's favorite educational cartoon.

Qi Chao watched Shen Yuxi repair Lan Luo’s cracks and waited anxiously outside the operating room. Afterward, Shen Yuxi warned Moss that he would have no value if he could not stay calm, while Qi Chao found Lan Luo safe and asleep.

• Qi Chao told Shen Yuxi that he had carved the bear-shaped Energy Stones for the puppets, and Shen Yuxi praised his thoughtfulness.
• Shen Yuxi examined Lan Luo and said repairing his cracks would take three days, then began the procedure in the room Qi Chao had prepared.
• Moss questioned why Qi Chao was anxious, and Qi Chao said he now treated Lan Luo as his own child.
• Qi Chao waited outside for nearly three hours while Shen Yuxi repaired Lan Luo, and Moss stood guard beside him.
• Shen Yuxi warned Moss that he had no value if he could not remain calm, and Moss insisted he had done nothing.
• Qi Chao checked on the sleeping Lan Luo and solemnly thanked Shen Yuxi.