Chapter Summaries

Shi Jihan helped Zhou Jingcheng provoke Harlan at the club, then joined Shi Bochuan and Shen Qinghuai for dinner, where Zhou Zeyang unexpectedly appeared. Shen Qinghuai gave Shi Bochuan a birthday brooch while Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang slipped away to carry out a mission, leaving Zhou Jingcheng alone with the couple.

• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng angered Harlan with taunts and a mahjong game, and Harlan left after Zhou Jingcheng beat him.
• Shi Bochuan agreed to treat Zhou Jingcheng to dinner, and Shen Qinghuai revealed that he had prepared a birthday gift for Shi Bochuan.
• Shi Jihan received a mission to make Shi Bochuan unable to forget Shen Qinghuai during dinner and enlisted Zhou Zeyang to help.
• At the restaurant, Shen Qinghuai introduced Zhou Zeyang to Zhou Jingcheng without realizing they were brothers, and both men were stunned.
• Shen Qinghuai gave Shi Bochuan a sapphire brooch for his birthday while Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang slipped away, leaving Zhou Jingcheng alone with them.

Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang staged an embarrassing birthday celebration for Shi Bochuan, while Zhou Jingcheng unexpectedly joined the dinner and later handled a financial attack on the Zhou Family. Shi Bochuan sought out Zhou Zeyang afterward, and Zhou Zeyang nervously messaged his boss, unaware that Zhou Jingcheng had withheld his salary.

• Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang surprised Shi Bochuan with a loud birthday song, a glowing sign, and a recording of his reluctant speech.
• Zhou Zeyang gave Shi Bochuan a cheap scarf with its price tag attached, and the group shared the cake with Zhou Jingcheng.
• Shi Bochuan asked his secretary to identify employees whose names included Yang, then contacted Zhou Zeyang after receiving the list.
• Secretary Sun told Zhou Jingcheng that Harlan had returned and was attacking the Zhou Family's stock, and Zhou Jingcheng devised a plan to counter him.
• Zhou Jingcheng told Secretary Sun to stop paying Zhou Zeyang's salary, while Zhou Zeyang nervously messaged his boss without knowing about the decision.

Shi Jihan’s attempt to make Shen Qinghuai catch Shi Bochuan meeting Zhou Zeyang in secret instead led to Zhou being hired for his workplace skills and marketing talent. The pair joined forces on Shi Jihan’s new collection, and their bizarre advertising campaign caught Zhou Jingcheng’s attention.

• Shi Jihan brought Shen Qinghuai back to the office, where they found Shi Bochuan and Zhou Zeyang studying workplace software tutorials, completing Shi Jihan’s task despite the misunderstanding.
• Shi Bochuan praised Zhou Zeyang’s marketing potential, and Shen Qinghuai assigned him to work with Shi Jihan on promoting the new clothing line.
• Shi Bochuan promised Zhou fair pay and possible bonuses, while Shi Jihan complained to Zero-Zero-Zero that the plot had gone off course.
• After the weekend, Zhou Zeyang joined Shi Jihan to plan a campaign for the Going to Work Is Like Attending a Funeral collection.
• Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang launched a strange co-branded advertisement featuring a coffee-capsule outfit and a new-energy electric car, and Zhou Jingcheng watched it after hearing about the campaign.

Zhou Jingcheng blamed Shi Jihan’s bizarre advertisements for being mistaken as his work, then attended Shi Corporation’s product launch after paying for the center seat. The launch revealed that the new marketing hire he had hoped to avoid was Zhou Zeyang, leaving Zhou Jingcheng stunned.

• Zhou Jingcheng watched Shi Jihan’s absurd promotional videos, mocked them, and discovered that online commenters credited him with their creation.
• Shi Jihan invited Zhou Jingcheng to Shi Corporation’s product launch, and Zhou Jingcheng paid 6888 yuan for the center C-seat.
• Shi Bochuan was redirected from the center seat to a spot near the emergency exit while Zhou Jingcheng took the seat he had bought.
• Zhou Jingcheng and Shi Jihan bickered at the launch, and Shi Jihan secretly turned the air conditioning toward Zhou Jingcheng.
• Zhou Jingcheng asked about Shi Jihan’s new marketing hire, then saw Zhou Zeyang introduced as the product partner and asked Shi Jihan if he had been poisoned.

Zhou Jingcheng discovered that his younger brother, Zhou Zeyang, had become a Shi Corporation employee and had been testing Shi Bochuan and Shen Qinghuai’s relationship at Shi Jihan’s direction. After Shi Bochuan learned the truth, Shen Qinghuai devised a public payback for Shi Jihan, while Shi Group’s fashion show became an online sensation.

• Zhou Jingcheng and Shi Jihan recognized Zhou Zeyang onstage, where his startled shout of “Brother” exposed his connection to Zhou Jingcheng.
• Zhou Jingcheng dragged Shi Jihan backstage, where he confronted Zhou Zeyang for moonlighting at Shi Corporation.
• Zhou Zeyang revealed that Shi Jihan had hired him to test Shi Bochuan and Shen Qinghuai’s love, and Shi Bochuan realized the tests had tormented him instead.
• Shen Qinghuai proposed that Shi Jihan model the new clothing line for magazine shoots, and Shi Bochuan agreed to connect him with NEXUS magazine.
• Shi Jihan was summoned to explain his design inspiration, and Shi Group’s fashion show made the company an overnight internet sensation.

Shi Jihan endured a humiliating fashion shoot for the money, then received a task to fuel public outrage against Shen Qinghuai. He chose a scrolling-screen outfit for the promotional image and began selecting explicit fanfiction about his older brother and sister-in-law to display on it.

• Shi Jihan reluctantly went to the NEXUS shoot after learning he would earn 120,000 per session, then crashed into a pile of clothes while charging at Zhou Jingcheng.
• Zhou Jingcheng and the editor-in-chief directed Shi Jihan through funeral-themed poses, praising his broken appearance as he wore the outfits.
• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng traded barbs while the shoot continued, and Shi Jihan privately worried that he had hurt Zhou Jingcheng’s hand.
• 000 assigned Shi Jihan a task to stir up nuclear-level public opinion against Shen Qinghuai and promised 18 Malice Points.
• Shi Jihan chose the laser scrolling-screen suit for the main promotional image and searched the CP supertopic for explicit fanfiction about his older brother and sister-in-law.

Shi Jihan completed another humiliation mission by turning Shi Bochuan and Shen Qinghuai into the subject of viral fanfiction, then took a new mission to publicly pour wine on Shen Qinghuai. Before the newcomer welcome party, he sneaked into their bedroom at dawn to stage a bizarre wake-up ritual.

• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng helped produce suggestive promotional clips and photos, while the editor-in-chief made Shi Jihan model more ridiculous outfits.
• Shen Qinghuai and Shi Bochuan saw the photos, celebrated their apparent victory, and found their names trending after a heat-sensitive computer read their fanfiction aloud.
• Shi Jihan earned Malice Points for humiliating Shen Qinghuai and accepted a mission to pour red wine over his head at the newcomer welcome party.
• Shi Jihan learned the mission would occur two days later and decided to take it despite worrying that Shi Bochuan would retaliate.
• At five in the morning, Shi Jihan and 000 sneaked into Shi Bochuan and Shen Qinghuai's bedroom, squeezed between them, and began a shamanic dance while calling their souls home.

Shi Jihan’s elaborate wedding-anniversary prank drenched Shen Qinghuai in red wine and earned him a forced session of laundry before the evening welcome party. At the party, Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang bonded over stories about Zhou Jingcheng, while Shi Jihan learned that a subordinate’s confession to him had been mistaken for a request to avoid work targets.

• Shi Jihan’s bedroom prank soaked Shen Qinghuai with red wine, completed his task, and provoked Shen Qinghuai to chase him through the house.
• Shen Qinghuai made Shi Jihan scrub the wine-stained bedsheets by hand, and Shi Jihan eventually bought the system’s red wine dissolving solution.
• Shi Jihan slept through the afternoon and joked with Zero-Zero-Zero about inheriting his brothers’ assets and spending the money on male models.
• At the welcome party, Zhou Zeyang told Shen Qinghuai that his neck scratches came from a Beagle, and the two discussed how his brother mistreated him.
• Shi Jihan joined Zhou Zeyang in drinking and criticizing Zhou Jingcheng, then heard how Zhou Jingcheng had mistaken a subordinate’s confession for a ploy to avoid quarterly targets.

Zhou Jingcheng drove the drunken Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang home after the welcome party, where Shi Jihan's drunken antics tested Zhou Jingcheng's patience. At Shi Family Villa, Zhou Jingcheng carried Shi Jihan inside, only for Shi Jihan to claim he was a mermaid and refuse to get down.

• Shen Qinghuai called Zhou Jingcheng to pick up the drunk Zhou Zeyang and take Shi Jihan home.
• Zhou Jingcheng tried to give Shi Jihan water, but Shi Jihan attempted to spray it at him and later accused him of plotting rebellion.
• Zhou Jingcheng drove the sleeping Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang to Shi Family Villa and carried Shi Jihan toward the door.
• Shi Jihan opened his eyes as Zhou Jingcheng carried him inside, then clung to him and said he was a mermaid with no feet.
• Zhou Jingcheng asked whether he could pass through the door, while Shi Jihan continued insisting he was a mermaid.

After getting drunk, Shi Jihan woke with no memory of embarrassing Zhou Jingcheng and was mortified by the evidence Zhou sent him. He then heard Shi Bochuan had thrown a tantrum at work and rushed to the company to find out why.

• Zhou Jingcheng helped the drunken Shi Jihan upstairs and got him settled before driving home with Zhou Zeyang.
• Shi Jihan woke with a hangover and learned his Malice Points had risen because of what he had done to Zhou Jingcheng.
• Zhou Jingcheng teased Shi Jihan with a note, messages, and photos from the night before, leaving Shi Jihan furious and embarrassed.
• Shi Jihan tried to take the day off, but Yan Bo told him Shi Bochuan had thrown a huge tantrum at the company.
• Shi Jihan hurried to the company to see what had made Shi Bochuan so angry.

Shi Jihan learned that celebrity Pei Mingxuan had sparked an online attack on Shen Qinghuai’s designs and dragged Shi Corporation and Zhou Jingcheng into the backlash. As Shi Jihan prepared to defend Zhou Jingcheng online, Zhou and Shi Bochuan geared up to respond to the crisis.

• Shi Jihan found Shi Bochuan playing the Great Compassion Mantra and discovered he had mistaken a Sad Frog printout for a Buddha.
• Shen Qinghuai and Shi Bochuan explained that Pei Mingxuan had insulted Shen’s custom formalwear, prompting his fans to attack Shen, Shi Jihan, Shi Bochuan, and Zhou Jingcheng online.
• Shi Jihan learned that Zhou Jingcheng was handling the backlash by drafting a proposal to increase homework for schoolchildren.
• Shi Jihan told Zhou Jingcheng he felt sorry for him, then vowed to defend him and post insults about Pei Mingxuan.
• Zhou Jingcheng joined his PR, operations, and legal teams for a meeting and asked Secretary Sun to finish the homework proposal letter.

Shi Jihan invested in Pei Mingxuan’s rural reality show and arranged a deliberately embarrassing outfit for his performance, while Pei Mingxuan remained confident that his popularity would force Zhou Jingcheng to back down. Shi Jihan confronted him at the filming site, leaving Pei Mingxuan unaware that his custom outfit was part of a setup.

• Zhou Jingcheng told his team to wait for Shi Jihan to handle the backlash, while Shi Jihan learned Pei Mingxuan was filming a rural reality show.
• Shi Jihan designed a set of floral padded jackets from curtain fabric and persuaded the show’s director to accept his investment and stage idea.
• Pei Mingxuan checked his trending topics, assumed Shi Jihan posed no threat, and headed to the fitting room after learning his performance outfit could not be changed.
• Shi Jihan directed the show staff and artists before grabbing Pei Mingxuan’s hand and greeting him as he arrived asking for his outfit.

Shi Jihan forced Pei Mingxuan to wear Shen Qinghuai’s bright red and green haute couture design and perform in it, turning his embarrassment into a windfall of Malice Points. After Pei Mingxuan reluctantly danced and came offstage, the director stopped him from changing so he could take promotional photos.

• Shi Jihan and five stagehands dragged Pei Mingxuan into the changing room and made him put on the floral outfit.
• Pei Mingxuan emerged in the outfit, and viewers mocked his appearance across the livestream and on Weibo.
• Shi Jihan told Pei Mingxuan to promote his new song, then watched him curse and earn Malice Points.
• Pei Mingxuan swore he would not cooperate onstage, but muscle memory made him dance to the music in the floral jacket.
• Shen Qinghuai and Shi Bochuan watched the livestream and enjoyed seeing Shi Jihan torment Pei Mingxuan.
• Pei Mingxuan returned from the stage to find that the local audience loved his performance, but the director stopped him from changing so he could take promotional photos.

Shi Jihan received a final mission to forge a divorce declaration for Shi Bochuan, but he could not bring himself to write it and pressured Zhou Jingcheng to help. Zhou Jingcheng agreed after Shi Jihan threatened to make him trend, then asked Secretary Sun whether he had ever written divorce documents.

• Shi Jihan learned that the Main System was imposing severe penalties but granting one last chance: he had to deliver a forged divorce declaration to Shi Bochuan within three minutes.
• Shi Jihan asked Zhou Jingcheng to write a tragic divorce declaration, but Zhou Jingcheng refused because he was unmarried and called it bad luck.
• Shi Jihan reinterpreted Zhou Jingcheng's joke about dying as a request for a widowhood declaration, then threatened to make him trend until he agreed to help.
• Shi Jihan headed to Zhou Jingcheng's office to supervise the writing, leaving Zhou Jingcheng wondering why he wanted the declaration.
• Zhou Jingcheng asked Secretary Sun whether he had ever been divorced or written divorce documents.

Shi Jihan tried to make Zhou Jingcheng write a divorce declaration, but their joking argument over ice cream and melodramatic prose produced only a furious “Get lost!!!!!” Pei Mingxuan then came to demand Zhou Jingcheng help him deal with the online backlash threatening his endorsements.

• Secretary Sun mistakenly realized Zhou Jingcheng might be getting divorced and decided to keep the supposed secret.
• Shi Jihan brought Zhou Jingcheng ice cream, and they bickered over sharing bites before Shi Jihan asked him to help draft a divorce declaration.
• Shi Jihan dictated melodramatic lines, but Zhou Jingcheng wrote “Get lost!!!!!” instead, enraging Shi Jihan.
• Pei Mingxuan arrived at the office in disguise and demanded to see Zhou Jingcheng for help with the public backlash and his endorsements.

Pei Mingxuan confronted Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng at Universe Culture, but Zhou Jingcheng protected Shi Jihan and forced Pei to leave. Pei uploaded a video hoping to expose them, only for netizens to interpret it as evidence of their romantic chemistry.

• Pei Mingxuan barged into Zhou Jingcheng's office and accused Zhou and Shi Jihan of conspiring to ruin his reputation.
• Pei Mingxuan grabbed Shi Jihan, and Zhou Jingcheng caught him, held him close, and ordered Pei to leave.
• Shi Jihan praised Zhou Jingcheng, accidentally struck his chin, and offered to buy him ice cream as compensation.
• Pei Mingxuan disguised himself to escape reporters, then posted a video accusing Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng of setting him up.
• Netizens reacted to the video by shipping Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng, and Pei Mingxuan realized they had misunderstood his accusation.

Shi Jihan’s attempt to make Shi Bochuan read a divorce declaration instead sparked plans for a wedding, triggering the Main System’s correction mechanism. He learned that Shi Zhongye would return for the wedding and asked Zero-Zero-Zero for information about him.

• Pei Mingxuan deleted a video in anger and decided to hire internet trolls to spread rumors about the couple.
• Shi Jihan handed Shi Bochuan an eight-thousand-word paper titled “Exploring Resource Games in the Dissolution of Marital Relations,” but Shi Bochuan mistook it for bedroom advice and began planning a wedding.
• Shi Jihan’s attempt to make Shi Bochuan recognize the divorce wording failed, and the Main System warned that the original novel had severely deviated from its plot.
• Shi Jihan transferred his Malice Points to Zero-Zero-Zero to reduce the system’s deduction, then asked Shi Bochuan for a subsidy.
• Zero-Zero-Zero told Shi Jihan that the Main System would prevent the wedding by bringing Shi Zhongye home, and Shi Jihan asked what his second brother was like.

Shi Jihan planned a welcome party for Shi Zhongye after learning about his vanity from Zhou Jingcheng, while Zero-Zero-Zero warned him to keep Shi Zhongye’s route on track. Shi Zhongye returned to City A for Shi Bochuan’s wedding, and the Zhou brothers joined Shi Jihan’s preparations for his arrival.

• Shi Jihan asked Zhou Jingcheng what Shi Zhongye liked, and Zhou told him that Shi Zhongye loved his own face and had even insured it.
• Shi Jihan joked about a handsome man being disfigured, then invited Zhou Jingcheng to Shi Zhongye’s welcome party; Zhou agreed to attend.
• Zero-Zero-Zero warned Shi Jihan that Shi Zhongye’s route must stay on track and introduced optional daily tasks, prompting Shi Jihan to plan to gather protagonists at the party.
• Shi Bochuan arranged a belated wedding, and Shi Zhongye received an invitation while filming in the mountains; despite claiming he would not attend, he booked a flight to City A.
• Shi Jihan celebrated Shi Zhongye’s imminent return and enlisted Da Zhou and Xiao Zhou to help decorate, while Shen Qinghuai kept Shi Bochuan from warning Shi Zhongye.
• The Zhou brothers arrived to help with the pile of party supplies, and Zhou Jingcheng immediately searched for a balloon pump.

Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng prepared a welcome party for Shi Zhongye, with Zhou Jingcheng repeatedly ruining Shi Jihan’s custom balloons and becoming flustered when Shi Jihan touched his chest. Shi Zhongye arrived at the Shi Family home expecting a dull, forced gathering, only to be greeted by party poppers filled with strips bearing his face.

• Shi Jihan gave Zhou Jingcheng custom balloons printed with Shi Zhongye’s face, and Zhou Jingcheng gleefully inflated and launched them around the living room.
• Shi Jihan made Zhou Jingcheng hang banners, then teased him about his body and touched his chest; Zhou Jingcheng blushed and insisted he was not embarrassed.
• Zhou Jingcheng kept bursting the balloons, while Shi Jihan secretly checked his task list and brought Zhou Jingcheng water, leaving Zhou Zeyang ignored.
• Shi Zhongye landed in City A and messaged Zhou Jingcheng, who told him that Shi Jihan had prepared a welcome party and that he would be there too.
• Shi Zhongye arrived at the Shi Family home and was startled when party poppers shot strips of paper bearing giant photos of his face at him.

Shi Jihan and the others welcomed Shi Zhongye home with an elaborate shrine of embarrassing photos, balloons, songs, and a cake bearing his face. After a chaotic cake fight, Shi Zhongye stormed upstairs with his luggage, only to realize he had forgotten to ask whether he still lived there.

• Shi Zhongye arrived at the Shi Family Villa and discovered that the living room was covered in posters and balloons featuring his face.
• Shi Jihan, the Shi family, and the Zhou brothers sang to Shi Zhongye and presented him with a cake decorated with his image and a recording of his voice.
• Shi Zhongye repeatedly stabbed the talking cake, and Shi Jihan cut it up until Shi Zhongye's cake portrait became bald and distorted.
• Shi Zhongye tried to attack Shi Jihan, but Zhou Jingcheng splattered cake cream on his face, prompting Shi Zhongye to punch his brother.
• Shi Zhongye hauled his suitcases upstairs, ignored Shi Bochuan's reminder about the elevator, and realized he had not asked whether he still lived there.