Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen treats Zhou Rou’er by giving her Soul-Calming and Soul-Cleansing Pills, then carefully extracting A Ke’s Seven Souls from the blackened half of her soul.
• The procedure is intensely painful and dangerous: Jun must separate the foreign souls without damaging Rou’er’s own soul, while Rou’er fights to stay conscious.
• Zhou Fangzun nearly rushes into the room when he hears his daughter cry out, but Zhou De and the others persuade him not to interrupt.
• Jun completes the treatment. Rou’er’s soul is repaired, most of the Soul-Destroying Powder is removed, and she is expected to recover fully after two weeks of continued treatment.
• Overwhelmed with gratitude, Zhou Fangzun promises Jun the Zhou Family’s support and offers him lavish hospitality. Jun declines, explaining he must return to Jinling City; Zhou arranges a private plane.
• After Jun leaves, Rou’er reveals she was awake, though pretending to sleep. She says she wants to recuperate in Jinling City, and her father teases her about asking Jun to marry her.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen proves skilled, disciplined, and compassionate, risking serious backlash to cure Rou’er. Despite his attraction to her, he keeps his focus on the treatment and refuses to exploit the family’s gratitude.
• Zhou Rou’er demonstrates remarkable endurance and courage, bearing extreme soul-pain without giving up. Her embarrassment around Jun gradually gives way to a shy affection.
• Zhou Fangzun shifts from anxious helplessness to overwhelming relief and gratitude. His devotion to his daughter—and his hope that Jun might become part of her future—becomes clear.
• Zhou De and the others act as a steadying presence, preventing Zhou Fangzun from disrupting the procedure.

Significant themes

• Endurance and recovery: Rou’er’s long suffering culminates in a difficult but successful cure.
• Trust and restraint: Rou’er must trust Jun during a vulnerable, painful treatment, while Jun must exercise control and respect her.
• Parental love and guilt: Zhou Fangzun’s anguish reflects years of feeling unable to fulfill his late wife’s wish to protect their daughter.
• Gratitude and loyalty: Jun values genuine care over reward, while the Zhou Family vows to repay his kindness.
• Emerging romance: The treatment brings Jun and Rou’er closer, and the ending hints that Rou’er’s feelings may deepen.

Character interactions

• Jun reassures Rou’er before treatment, apologizes when he touches her without warning, and encourages her through the painful procedure.
• Zhou Fangzun is restrained by his household when he wants to intervene, then thanks Jun on his knees after the cure.
• Jun politely declines the family’s hospitality but accepts their help returning to Jinling City.
• Rou’er and her father share a teasing exchange: he hints at marriage, while she blushes and protests, revealing her growing interest in Jun.

Plot points and events

• After reaching Jinling, Jun Wangchen sends Gao Jianli the hairband containing A Ke’s seven souls, fulfilling Gao’s thousand-year wish. He also uploads a recording of his performance at the Blue Night Charm Bar.
• Reflecting on a highly successful day—including passing the Martial Artists’ Association assessment, advancing in cultivation and alchemy, and gaining the Zhou Family’s favor—Jun heads back toward campus.
• The Mother-and-Child Heartbond Jade suddenly turns red and trembles, warning Jun that Zi Hanyan is in danger. He rushes by taxi to Jinxiu Weiyang Villa.
• At the villa, Zifeng Town and Shen Yu are already alarmed: they have failed to locate their enemy Tian Ba, and their daughter Zi Hanyan has suddenly collapsed in unbearable pain.
• Jun examines Zi Hanyan but finds nothing physically wrong. After using divination, he identifies the cause as the Curse-Suppression Art, a form of witchcraft that uses a victim’s hair and a straw doll to inflict torment.
• Jun prepares a spell to break the curse. As he chants, a terrifying black entity—the Curse-Suppression Ghost—emerges from Zi Hanyan.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen remains composed and resourceful under pressure. He uses the jade’s warning, divination, medical skill, and supernatural arts to respond quickly to Zi Hanyan’s crisis.
• Zifeng Town is consumed by worry for his daughter and regrets not killing Tian Ba when he had the chance, recognizing that his earlier mercy left a dangerous threat unresolved.
• Shen Yu is overwhelmed by fear and grief as she watches her daughter suffer, but follows Jun’s instructions without hesitation.
• Gao Jianli is overjoyed that Jun has returned A Ke’s seven souls, bringing a long-awaited wish to fulfillment.

Significant themes

• Duty and connection: Jun’s relationship with the Zhou family and the warning jade draw him into another family’s emergency.
• The cost of mercy: Zifeng Town’s past decision to spare Tian Ba has left him anxious about the danger that remains.
• Hidden threats and supernatural forces: An apparently healthy victim can be suffering from an unseen curse, requiring knowledge beyond ordinary medicine.
• Accumulated rewards and responsibility: Jun’s gains and growing abilities are paired with increasingly urgent demands on him.

Character interactions

• Jun and Gao Jianli share a brief, emotional exchange after the return of A Ke’s souls.
• Jun uses divination to persuade a reluctant taxi driver to hurry to the villa.
• Zifeng Town and Shen Yu seek Jun’s help, entrusting him with their daughter’s care.
• Jun diagnoses the curse, explains its mechanism, and begins the exorcism while the family watches anxiously. The chapter ends as the Curse-Suppression Ghost appears.

Plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen destroys the curse attacking Zi Hanyan: he traps the fleeing black spirit with the Human Trust Seal and burns it away with a peachwood sword and mysterious flame.
• Zi Hanyan’s pain stops. Though exhausted and frightened, she recovers, while her parents realize how close she was to serious harm.
• Using the Heavenly Eye Mirror, Jun sees the curse’s operators: a scar-faced man stabbing a straw doll and a shadowy sorcerer maintaining the spell.
• Zifeng Town identifies the scar-faced man as Tian Ba, an old enemy. Jun warns that searching the East District’s basements would likely alert the pair, so he instead casts a backlash spell against the sorcerer.
• In their basement, the curse abruptly fails. The sorcerer suffers the spell’s backlash and dies, turning into bones; Tian Ba narrowly avoids being caught in it.
• Tian Ba abandons his plan to infiltrate Zifeng Town’s family by posing as a healer. He flees and considers targeting Zifeng Town during an upcoming contest for supremacy.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen displays powerful supernatural skills and quick judgment: he saves Zi Hanyan, identifies her attackers, and strikes back without exposing his allies to a premature search.
• Zi Hanyan is left shaken by the experience but is relieved when the pain ends. Jun’s protective intervention is crucial to her survival.
• Zifeng Town and Shen Yu respond with fear and anger for their daughter. Zifeng Town’s hatred of Tian Ba resurfaces, while both parents worry that the threat may return.
• Tian Ba is revealed as the mastermind, driven by vengeance over the destruction of his family and home. He deliberately wants Zi Hanyan to suffer rather than die, so her pain will torment her father.
• The sorcerer shows some unease at Tian Ba’s cruelty, but remains focused on the curse until Jun’s counterspell kills him. Tian Ba’s instinctive retreat from the sorcerer’s body helps him escape the backlash.

Significant themes

• Protection versus vengeance: Jun uses supernatural power to defend Zi Hanyan, while Tian Ba turns his own past suffering into a campaign of deliberate cruelty.
• The costs of retaliation: Jun’s backlash spell turns the curse against its caster, demonstrating that hostile magic can rebound on its practitioner.
• Family vulnerability and loyalty: The curse threatens Zi Hanyan to wound Zifeng Town, emphasizing how enemies exploit loved ones to exact revenge.
• Conflict left unresolved: The sorcerer’s death disrupts Tian Ba’s immediate scheme, but he escapes, leaving the feud—and the threat to Zifeng Town—ongoing.

Plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen explains that the Witch died from the backlash of her own spell, while Tian Ba survived because he stopped before touching her. Zifeng Town vows to deal with Tian Ba later.
• Zifeng Town apologizes to Zi Hanyan for past choices that helped lead to the danger. She reassures him and credits Jun with changing the outcome.
• Zifeng Town asks how Jun knew Zi was in trouble. Jun reveals that a paired mother-and-child jade pendant lets him sense danger to its wearer, explaining how he arrived in time.
• Zi Hanyan realizes the pendant was given to protect her and feels both grateful and newly affectionate toward Jun. Her parents warmly encourage him to stay the night, partly hoping to bring the two closer.
• Jun accepts when Zi asks him to stay. They go to a guest room and play a virtual shooting game together. Jun struggles to hit the targets while Zi coaches him, and their teasing dialogue sounds suggestive to her eavesdropping parents—though they are only playing the game.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen is shown as watchful and protective, having prepared for Zi’s safety in advance. He remains modest about helping her, while his comic inner monologue reveals his discomfort with her parents’ matchmaking hints.
• Zi Hanyan moves from shock and vulnerability to warmth and gratitude. Learning what the pendant means deepens her feelings for Jun, and she openly asks him to stay.
• Zifeng Town and Shen Yu feel relieved and indebted to Jun. Their admiration shifts into active encouragement of a possible romance, as they see him as an ideal partner for their daughter.
• Tian Ba escapes the Witch’s fate, leaving him as an unresolved threat.

Significant themes

• Protection and care: Jun’s pendant symbolizes his foresight and concern for Zi.
• Family, gratitude, and romance: Zi’s parents’ relief and matchmaking, alongside Zi’s growing affection, bring the relationship closer.
• Comic misunderstanding: The parents misread the couple’s game-related conversation, creating risqué humor from an innocent situation.
• Unresolved danger: Though the immediate threat is over, Tian Ba remains a potential source of trouble.

Character interactions

• Jun reassures Zifeng Town and Zi, while Zi’s parents praise him and gently push the two together.
• Zi responds to Jun’s care with heartfelt thanks and invites him to stay; he agrees largely because she wants him there.
• During the game, Zi confidently coaches Jun, who repeatedly misses and responds with embarrassed apologies. Outside the room, her parents interpret their banter as intimate and leave them alone.

Key plot points and events

• After a late-night gaming session, Zi Hanyan goes to bed, while Jun Wangchen reflects on how the Groundhog Phone transformed his life and resolves to keep improving in case the River God takes it back.
• Hearing footsteps at midnight, Jun assumes an intruder has entered the villa and stealthily investigates to protect Zi Hanyan’s family.
• He discovers that the “intruder” is Zi Hanyan, who is sleepwalking in revealing clothes. He suspects the day’s frightening events may have triggered it.
• Worried she might wander or hurt herself, Jun considers using acupuncture to stop the sleepwalking. Zi Hanyan unexpectedly grabs and pinches his face, then grabs him again as he carries her to bed, causing him to fall into her cleavage.
• Jun restrains her movements, uses acupuncture to put her into a deep sleep, tucks her in, and leaves without telling her what happened. After he is gone, Zi Hanyan appears to wake slightly and smile shyly.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen shows gratitude for his newfound success but remains cautious and determined to secure a stable future for himself and his mother. During the nighttime incident, he tries to act responsibly despite being flustered by Zi Hanyan’s appearance and accidental advances.
• Zi Hanyan is revealed to sleepwalk after the day’s events. Though she seems entirely unconscious, her final smile suggests she may have been more aware than Jun realized.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and temptation: Jun tries to protect Zi Hanyan without taking advantage of her, even as the situation repeatedly becomes embarrassing.
• Insecurity beneath success: Jun’s wealth and abilities have changed his circumstances, but he fears losing them and stays vigilant.
• Romantic comedy and dramatic irony: Jun misunderstands the footsteps, panics over the sleepwalking, and believes Zi Hanyan is unaware—while her closing smile hints otherwise.

Character interactions

• Jun and Zi share a friendly evening of gaming before the chapter shifts to a private, awkward nighttime encounter.
• Jun’s protective instincts lead him to carry Zi back to bed and treat her sleepwalking, while her unconscious grabbing and face-pinching leave him bewildered.
• Jun departs convinced the incident must remain secret; Zi’s apparent smile leaves open the possibility that she knows more than he thinks.

Plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen wakes early and checks Mushroom TV. His masked guitar performance has gone viral, earning him five million followers and more than a hundred contract offers. He declines to pursue a contract for now, preferring to build his popularity first.
• In the immortals’ chat group, he finds that he missed a red packet from the Kitchen God by one minute. The Kitchen God had sent it while seeking ideas for new dishes for the Jade Emperor’s upcoming birthday feast; the other immortals claimed the packet but offered no help.
• Jun privately contacts the Kitchen God and learns that he has exhausted his familiar recipes and flavors. Jun offers to obtain two unusual Mortal Realm seasonings—chicken seasoning and Lao Gan Ma—in exchange for the Kitchen God’s cooking knowledge.
• The Kitchen God eagerly sends Jun the immortal technique “Cooking Above All.” Jun buys the seasonings, delivers them with instructions, and warns the Kitchen God to keep their source secret.
• Grateful and newly hopeful, the Kitchen God vows to make the birthday feast a success. Jun then prepares to learn the cooking technique.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen continues to build his public profile while turning an ordinary request into a useful exchange. He wants cooking skills to support his family’s planned restaurant and improve his milk-tea business. He also maintains a grand, intimidating persona with the immortals, privately admitting that sustaining it takes effort.
• The Kitchen God shifts from panic and discouragement to excitement and gratitude. He misunderstands Jun’s references to Mortal Realm products, but eagerly accepts the seasonings and feels inspired to meet the Jade Emperor’s challenge.
• Their exchange is warm but comically uneven: Jun is practical and worldly, while the Kitchen God is naïve about mortal goods and deeply impressed by Jun’s status.

Significant themes

• Cross-realm exchange: Mortal products and knowledge can solve problems even in the Immortal Realm.
• Practical generosity and mutual benefit: Jun helps the Kitchen God while seeking skills that may benefit his family and business.
• Reputation and performance: Jun cultivates an image of immense power, even as he privately jokes about how difficult it is to maintain.
• Comedy through misunderstanding: The Kitchen God’s literal interpretations of “chicken seasoning” and “Lao Gan Ma” create much of the chapter’s humor.

Key plot points

• Jun Wangchen learns Cooking Above All, a supernatural culinary skill that promises food capable of satisfying not just the body but the soul. Excited to test it, he decides to make breakfast.
• Zi Hanyan, hungry and skeptical of Jun’s cooking ability, asks for noodles. A string of suggestive misunderstandings leads to teasing, embarrassment, and a cushion accidentally hitting her father, Zifeng Town.
• Zifeng makes a joking remark about Jun and Zi needing to “use protection,” then heads upstairs. Zi quickly hustles Jun into the kitchen to escape the awkwardness.
• Jun chooses knife-shaved noodles and explains how to prepare them. When he asks Zi to measure water, her complete inexperience with cooking turns the task into a comic search for the right utensil.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen is newly confident in his cooking and eager to show off. His playful, flirtatious teasing clashes with his insistence that he is an “upright man.”
• Zi Hanyan is comfortable enough with Jun to banter with him, but she blushes when the jokes turn suggestive. Her attempts to help reveal that she has almost no kitchen skills.
• Zifeng Town adds to the embarrassment with a knowingly teasing comment, apparently reading more into the pair’s exchange than they intended.

Significant themes

• New abilities and self-expression: Jun’s culinary skill gives him a fresh way to impress and care for others.
• Flirtation and embarrassment: Double entendres and mistaken interpretations drive the chapter’s humor and show growing familiarity between Jun and Zi.
• Domestic comedy: Jun’s competence contrasts with Zi’s confusion, turning an ordinary breakfast preparation into a playful scene.

Plot points and events

• Zi Hanyan struggles to find a water dipper while helping Jun Wangchen prepare food. He guides her through the task, then expertly kneads dough, using internal strength to make it form playful shapes before smoothing it into a mirror-like ball.
• Jun Wangchen prepares a spicy, savory broth and demonstrates extraordinary cooking skill. He keeps the ginger, scallions, and garlic in separate clusters with spiritual power, then shaves noodles directly into the boiling broth with remarkable speed and precision.
• Zi Hanyan tastes the noodles and is astonished by their flavor, declaring them better than even the expensive dishes she has tried. She finishes the bowl and praises him.
• Jun Wangchen says he would make noodles for her every day if he could. The warm morning light prompts Zi Hanyan to reflect on how much she cherishes this tender moment.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen is shown as confident, playful, and exceptionally skilled. His cooking is presented almost as an art, and his offer to cook for Zi Hanyan reveals affection and care.
• Zi Hanyan begins the scene inexperienced and curious, then becomes captivated by Jun’s skill and delighted by the meal. Her emotional reaction reveals how deeply she longs for a shared life with him—and how afraid she is of losing him.

Character interactions

• Jun patiently directs Zi Hanyan as she helps with the water and flour.
• Zi watches his cooking with growing amazement, then enthusiastically compliments the noodles.
• His gentle promise to cook for her, and her remark that his smile is warmer than the sunlight, create a quietly intimate exchange. Zi briefly loses herself in the moment before Jun brings her attention back.

Significant themes

• Love expressed through everyday care: Preparing and sharing breakfast becomes an intimate gesture.
• Artistry and mastery: Jun transforms cooking into a dazzling performance, blending practical skill with supernatural power.
• Tenderness shadowed by fear: Zi’s happiness is mixed with anxiety that the moment—and Jun himself—could disappear.

Key events

• After breakfast, Jun Wangchen leaves Zi Hanyan’s home to livestream at the One Meter of Sunshine buffet. He disguises himself with a Disguise Pill before setting out.
• A signing manager from Heavenly King Film Company offers him a contract, a substantial signing fee, and promises of promotion. Jun refuses, judging the company unreliable and unwilling to surrender control of his career. The manager ends the call with a warning.
• Jun starts his stream, drawing a huge audience and a flood of crude, joking comments. He announces his goal: finish all the buffet’s food within an hour.
• The restaurant owner recognizes him as the streamer who ate a rival buffet into trouble. Rather than turn him away, the owner plans to serve larger portions and charge him if he cannot finish them.
• Jun begins eating at remarkable speed, attracting the attention and scorn of nearby diners. He remains unfazed, joking with his viewers as he devours dish after dish—including a bowl of very hot broth in one gulp.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen shows confidence and independence by rejecting the contract without hesitation. He trusts his unusual abilities more than industry backing and stays calm despite the manager’s threat.
• Song Rentou begins with a polished pitch but reveals his arrogance and hostility when Jun refuses.
• The restaurant owner and waiter discuss how to handle Jun: the owner chooses to keep him as a customer while trying to turn his appetite into a source of profit.
• Jun and his viewers share a playful, irreverent rapport. The fans’ absurd banter—and Jun’s improvised food jokes—becomes a major part of the stream.
• The diners react with disbelief and contempt, contrasting their ordinary expectations with Jun’s extraordinary eating.

Significant themes

• Independence versus control: Jun rejects fame and money when they come with dependence on an untrustworthy company.
• Appearance versus ability: Others underestimate or mock Jun, but his extraordinary appetite—and confidence in his own capabilities—defies their assumptions.
• Spectacle and audience culture: The livestream turns an ordinary buffet visit into public entertainment, fueled by viewers’ jokes and reactions.
• Comedic excess: The chapter’s humor comes from escalating eating feats, irreverent commentary, and the gap between Jun’s casual manner and everyone else’s astonishment.

Plot points and events

Jun Wangchen continues his livestream while eating through nearly all the premium food at One Meter of Sunshine. The restaurant owner, worried about the cost and reputation of ejecting a customer in front of a crowd, keeps ordering more food—until the kitchen runs out of ingredients and the chefs cannot keep up.
Jun’s viewers turn his appetite and suggestive food commentary into a viral spectacle. His audience nearly triples to three million, his followers reach seven million, and the surge draws viewers away from Mushroom TV’s major streamers, who become resentful.
When the owner brings Jun winter melon soup and pleads with him to stop, Jun agrees—but criticizes the soup as poorly made. The owner defends his chefs and accuses Jun of being sent by a rival restaurant. Jun denies it, claims he can make a far better soup, and accepts the owner’s challenge to prove it. The chapter ends as the ingredients and cookware are brought out and Jun prepares to cook.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen is shown as an extraordinarily voracious eater, an entertaining and provocative streamer, and a confident critic of food. He remains composed when challenged and backs his claims by agreeing to cook.
• The restaurant owner shifts from anxious damage control to anger and defensiveness as Jun empties the restaurant and criticizes its chefs. Concerned with how customers perceive the dispute, he ultimately challenges Jun rather than let the criticism stand.
• The server and chefs are overwhelmed by Jun’s pace; the server reports the depleted supplies and the chefs’ frustration.
• The viewers amplify Jun’s popularity with jokes, shares, and platform-wide attention. Other prominent streamers react with hostility as their audiences fall.

Significant themes

• Online fame and competition: A viral livestream can transform a local incident into a platform-wide sensation and threaten established creators.
• Reputation and public perception: The owner tolerates mounting losses partly because he fears damaging the restaurant’s image in front of customers.
• Skill versus appearance: Jun challenges the owner’s assumption that a young man cannot be an expert cook, setting up a test of ability.
• Comedic exaggeration: Jun’s impossible appetite and the viewers’ bawdy banter drive the chapter’s humor, while the restaurant’s escalating desperation raises the stakes.

• Jun Wangchen’s cooking spectacle: After being insulted by the buffet restaurant’s owner, Jun prepares winter melon soup with extraordinary precision. He peels and carves the melon while simultaneously handling seasonings, using advanced techniques—including carving with a knife held in his mouth. The chefs, customers, and more than three million livestream viewers watch in astonishment.
• The soup wins everyone over: Jun’s carved melon evokes the Four Symbols, and the finished soup proves as remarkable as its preparation. Diners are overwhelmed by its flavor and texture. The owner apologizes and offers Jun a chef’s job, but Jun declines, pointedly repeating the owner’s earlier contemptuous words.
• Jun’s popularity surges: Jun ends the stream with a playful sign-off, invites fans to visit him in Jinling, and leaves the restaurant. His follower count rises dramatically, while viewers across Mushroom TV flood other streams to praise him. Other broadcasters unsuccessfully imitate his buffet performances.
• Rival streamers plot against him: Mushroom TV’s leading streamers, alarmed that Jun’s rapid growth is drawing away their viewers and threatening their earnings, meet to discuss how to stop him. Yuting proposes a plan, and Xia Liu and the others agree to carry it out that night.
  Character developments and interactions: Jun demonstrates calm concentration, exceptional skill, and confidence under pressure. He turns the owner’s condescension into a public lesson, then leaves rather than accept a belated offer. The owner moves from disbelief to remorse, while the crowd shifts from spectators to eager admirers. By contrast, Xia Liu, Yuting, and the other top streamers respond to Jun’s success with envy and coordinated hostility.
  Themes: The chapter celebrates mastery earned through focus and skill, contrasts genuine talent with status and reputation, and shows how public recognition can overturn social judgments. It also highlights the competitive, fickle nature of online fame—and the resentment that success can provoke.

Plot points and events

• After returning from livestreaming, Jun Wangchen resumes studying, using his Soul Power to memorize a semester’s worth of material rapidly. His roommate Ke JiusI teases him for studying and argues that Jun’s talents and connections make school unnecessary.
• Jun counters that education gives most people a better chance, even if a few uneducated people become successful. Ke is persuaded, but soon goes back to sleep.
• Jun checks the immortals’ chat group and learns that members must pay 2,000 Merit Points each month or lose their membership and the abilities and items gained through the group. He has no points and only a week to earn them.
• Learning that good deeds and commissions can earn Merit Points, Jun gives money to a beggar. His first donation earns one point, but a second similar donation wipes out his balance because repeating the same kind of good deed in one day counts as deliberate farming.
• Jun then encounters two women soliciting him and realizes they may be part of a brothel. Hoping to earn Merit Points by helping the police shut it down, he follows them to their premises and secretly reports the location.
• While waiting for the police, Jun plays cards with the women and pays them by the round. When officers finally raid the courtyard, the women are caught—but Jun is handcuffed too, ending the chapter in confusion.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen remains disciplined and pragmatic: he values education despite possessing exceptional abilities, and he acts quickly when faced with the Merit Point deadline. His attempt to turn a suspicious encounter into a public-service opportunity shows both ingenuity and comic overconfidence.
• Ke JiusI is carefree and skeptical of formal education, but Jun’s argument briefly makes him reconsider. Their exchange is teasing and familiar, with Ke’s crude excuses met by Jun’s dry sarcasm.
• Jun and the soliciting women interact through comic misunderstandings: Jun resists their advances at first, then follows them for his own plan, while they assume he is there for their services.
• Jun and the police have an ironic reversal: he expects to be praised as the informant, but the officers arrest him alongside the suspects.

Significant themes

• Education and opportunity: Studying may not guarantee success, but it can improve the prospects of people without other advantages.
• Merit, motives, and rules: Good deeds are subject to limits; trying to game the system can erase the reward.
• Ambition and resourcefulness: Jun scrambles to protect the abilities he has gained, using whatever opportunities he can find.
• Comic irony: Jun’s plans repeatedly go awry, culminating in his being cuffed just as he expects recognition.

Key plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen reports suspected prostitution to the police but is mistakenly arrested along with the people at the scene. The suspects all claim to be the caller, leaving officers skeptical of everyone.
• At the station, Jun gives an elaborate, self-mocking account of buying and drinking an expensive bottle of mineral water. The story is comic exaggeration, but he insists that his original explanation—and his phone’s call history—proves he made the report.
• The clerk refuses to believe him, comparing him to the other suspects. A nearby interrogation-room feed shows a half-dressed, enormous man making increasingly absurd excuses for being caught with a woman and condoms.
• Jun is both horrified by the man’s antics and impressed by his shamelessness.
• The interrogation is interrupted when Mo Li, the beautiful police officer Jun previously met near a bridge, enters.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen is bewildered and frustrated by being treated as a suspect, but copes through theatrical storytelling and humor. His repeated attempts to clarify the misunderstanding show his growing exasperation.
• The female clerk remains stern and distrustful, treating Jun’s explanations as evasions.
• The fat suspect is brazen and inventive, inventing ridiculous stories rather than admitting wrongdoing.
• Mo Li’s arrival surprises Jun and signals a possible change in how his case will be handled.

Significant themes

• Mistaken identity and institutional skepticism: Jun’s truthful claim is dismissed because it resembles the excuses offered by actual suspects.
• Comedy through absurdity: The mineral-water monologue and the neighboring suspect’s outlandish defenses turn the police interrogation into farce.
• Appearance versus truth: Everyone’s innocence claims sound alike, making it difficult for the officers to distinguish the genuine caller from the offenders.

Character interactions

• Jun argues with the arresting officer and later the clerk, repeatedly insisting that he made the report.
• The clerk dismisses Jun’s story while interrogating the fat suspect next door, whose absurd claims leave her speechless.
• Jun watches that exchange with astonishment, then reacts with visible alarm when Mo Li enters.

Plot points and events

• Mo Li takes over Jun Wangchen’s interrogation, still furious about his earlier trick at the bridge. She accuses him of visiting a brothel for prostitution; Jun insists he was there to report it, but his absurd excuses only make her angrier.
• Jun mocks and flirts with Mo Li until she threatens him with a whip and swings at him. Despite being handcuffed, he catches her punch and then her whip with ease, revealing impressive martial skill.
• Mo Li finds Jun’s Martial Artists’ Association membership card. Recognizing him as a full member, she releases him, though she warns that his status will not protect him from future punishment.
• Chief Zheng Zhi arrives and assigns Mo Li to investigate a new homicide on Third Street. Jun asks to join, claiming he is good at solving cases and hoping to earn merit. After Jun whispers something to the chief, Zheng orders Mo Li to take him along.
• Mo Li leaves for the scene, reluctantly accompanied by Jun, who continues teasing her as they go.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen remains irreverent, boastful, and shamelessly flirtatious, using jokes and evasions to frustrate Mo Li. His effortless defense against her attacks, however, shows that his comic persona conceals real ability.
• Mo Li is openly hostile toward Jun because of their past encounter and his provocative behavior. She is forceful and quick-tempered, but becomes professional and focused when assigned the homicide.
• Chief Zheng Zhi acts as the authority who interrupts Mo Li’s overreach and directs the investigation. His immediate decision to involve Jun—after hearing a private whisper—suggests Jun has a persuasive reason or useful information.

Significant themes

• Comedy through antagonism: Jun’s outrageous self-praise clashes with Mo Li’s anger, turning the interrogation into a battle of taunts.
• Status and justice: Jun’s association membership earns him a release, raising questions about privilege, even as Mo Li insists it does not grant unlimited immunity.
• Hidden competence and redemption: Jun’s martial skill and eagerness to help solve a murder suggest he may be more capable—and more motivated to do good—than his behavior initially implies.

Plot and key events

• Police captain Mo Li and Jun Wangchen arrive at a bathhouse where its married owners have been murdered. Both were stabbed, then brutally mutilated. Their three-year-old child, last seen entering with them, has vanished.
• Security footage shows no one else entering the bathhouse during the previous week, and investigators find no hidden passages. The killer left no fingerprints and reported the crime using an untraceable, altered voice.
• The couple apparently had no known enemies, though the woman had an ex-boyfriend whose current whereabouts are unknown. Their families have not yet been notified.
• Reviewing the footage, Jun spots three clues: the couple brought in a large trunk; a portly officer quickly wheeled it outside after police arrived, though it appeared empty; and that officer moved the trunk and bodies without sweating in the summer heat.
• Jun connects these details to the locked-room mystery, the missing child, and the officer’s unnatural chill. He concludes that the portly officer is the murderer. The chapter ends before he confronts him.

Character developments and interactions

• Mo Li is methodical and compassionate: she examines the evidence, pursues the footage, and agrees that withholding news from the victims’ elderly families is prudent. She is skeptical of Jun because she sees him as a “vice offender,” but still gives him the footage.
• Jun Wangchen is observant and analytical. Rather than accepting the case as inexplicable, he notices inconsistencies others overlook and pieces them together into a suspect.
• The portly officer initially appears helpful, answering questions and presenting evidence, but Jun’s attention to his movements and physical oddity casts him as deeply suspicious.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: The officer’s helpful role conceals his apparent guilt.
• Observation and deduction: Small inconsistencies—the trunk, the lack of sweat, and the missing child—unlock the case.
• Violence and cruelty: The victims’ mutilation suggests intense hatred, while the child’s disappearance heightens the horror and mystery.

Key plot points and events

• Outside the No. 3 Street Bathhouse, Jun Wangchen insists he knows where the missing child is. Mo Li initially assumes he is causing trouble, but Jun points to a police car’s apparently empty box.
• An officer discovers the box has two compartments. Police open it and find the unconscious child hidden in the lower section.
• The chubby clerk immediately accuses Jun of being the murderer, arguing that only the killer could know where the child was. Jun explains that surveillance showed the child’s box enter the Bathhouse and later leave with the police.
• Jun lays out a theory: the killer hid inside the box to enter the Bathhouse, murdered the couple the previous afternoon, and disguised himself as the male victim to leave. He then used heat and a drug called Spe to preserve the bodies’ appearance, making the deaths seem recent.
• Jun suggests the killer was the woman’s ex-boyfriend. He spared the child but knocked them unconscious, then returned the next day to hide them in the box and transport them out while disguised as a police clerk.
• The clerk challenges Jun to produce evidence. Jun claims the clerk still has leftover Spe in his coat pocket.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen moves from being treated as a nuisance to demonstrating sharp observational and deductive skill. He stays composed while explaining his theory and confronting the clerk.
• Mo Li shifts from irritation and distrust to taking Jun’s deductions seriously, though she still considers the need for proof.
• The chubby clerk first appears helpful and concerned, but his repeated attempts to discredit Jun and his visible flashes of panic make him increasingly suspicious.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: the “empty” box contains a hidden compartment, and the bodies’ warmth disguises the true time of death.
• Suspicion and evidence: Jun’s reasoning persuades the group, but he must still substantiate his accusation.
• Clever deception: the killer exploits assumptions about the box, the bodies, and his police identity to evade detection.

Character interactions

• Jun and Mo clash over his credibility, with Mo repeatedly warning him not to interfere.
• The clerk openly challenges Jun’s reasoning and tries to turn the officers against him.
• Once the child is found and Jun explains the scheme, the officers’ attention shifts from Jun to the clerk—ending with Jun’s pointed accusation about the Spe in his pocket.

Key plot points and events

• Jun Wangchen identifies the plump clerk as the murderer because he wore a jacket and worked in extreme heat without sweating. Since the poison-like substance sep insulates against temperature, its presence on him explains the lack of sweat.
• The clerk admits defeat, removes his disguise, and is revealed as Gao Dongqi, whom Jun had previously encountered.
• Jun realizes Gao’s victims were likely his unfaithful former girlfriend and her lover. Gao confirms that his girlfriend stole the money intended for his mother’s life-saving operation; his mother died, leaving him feeling he had nothing left.
• Gao confesses to planning and carrying out the murders, while sparing the young child. Mo Li orders his arrest, but Gao stabs himself before the officers can take him away.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen solves the case through careful observation and recognizes Gao from their past meeting. He recalls Gao as someone who had cared for his mother and hoped to marry, and is shaken by the transformation and the tragedy behind his crimes.
• Gao Dongqi shifts from a disguised suspect to a remorseful, grieving man consumed by rage and despair. His confession reveals both his cruelty and the devastating losses that drove him; he ultimately chooses suicide over arrest.
• Mo Li feels sympathy for Gao but remains committed to justice, ordering the police to arrest him.
• The officers move to detain Gao, but his sudden suicide leaves the group stunned and sorrowful.

Significant themes

• The chapter explores how betrayal, grief, and desperation can push a person toward violence, without excusing the harm they cause.
• It emphasizes the tension between pity and accountability: Gao is both a murderer and a deeply wronged person.
• The ending reflects on the cruelty and ambiguity of life, the collapse of hope, and the struggle to keep going amid suffering and loss.

Key plot points and events

• After exposing police officer Gao Dongqi as the murderer, Jun Wangchen explains how he located the missing child: he followed the child’s lingering scent on the female victim.
• To prove his unusual sense of smell, Jun correctly identifies that officer Li Niu spent the night with a woman, then reconstructs the scents on Mo Li—disinfectant, two shower gels, and perfume—and how they got there.
• Mo Li is impressed but embarrassed when Jun sniffs her. She asks for his number, claiming it will help her arrest him during a prostitution crackdown; Jun gives it to her.
• After Jun leaves, Chief Zheng tells Mo Li that Jun also identified the suspect in a five-year-old billion-yuan theft case, enabling an arrest.
• Zheng clarifies that Jun was not caught soliciting sex: he had called the police to report a brothel. Mo Li realizes she wrongly accused him and, after Zheng blackmails her with knowledge of his hidden money, decides to invite Jun to dinner to apologize and thank him.
• Zheng privately wonders whether Jun is connected to the powerful Capital Jun Family.

Character developments and interactions

• Jun Wangchen demonstrates that his investigative talent extends beyond deduction to extraordinary scent recognition. He remains playful and vain, teasing Mo Li while insisting he is not a sex offender.
• Mo Li shifts from suspicion and mockery to amazement, embarrassment, and guilt as Jun repeatedly proves her wrong. She plans to make amends, though their banter remains combative and flirtatious.
• Li Niu confirms Jun’s seemingly impossible observation, reinforcing Mo’s growing belief in his ability.
• Chief Zheng praises Jun’s skills and reveals that his trust in him came from Jun’s success in solving the theft case. His final thoughts hint at a possible link between Jun and an influential family.

Significant themes

• Observation and unconventional expertise: Jun solves cases by noticing clues others overlook, including scent.
• Misjudgment and mistaken assumptions: Mo’s repeated accusations about Jun are overturned by evidence.
• Humor and flirtatious rivalry: Jun and Mo’s teasing provides a light contrast to the serious crimes.
• Power and hidden identity: Zheng’s speculation about Jun’s family suggests a larger mystery behind his abilities and background.

Key plot points and events

• After earning 400 merit points for helping solve a case, Jun Wangchen returns to his dorm to find it ransacked. A bloodstained note says his three roommates have been taken and warns him not to call the police.
• Jun traces the kidnapping to Qin Shou and rushes to the Bamboo Grove, where Zhang Zhengxiao and the other two roommates are bound and badly beaten. Qin Shou and a group of armed men are waiting.
• Qin Shou humiliates the captives and gropes Qiu Ya to provoke Jun. He offers to release the roommates only if Jun kneels and calls him “Grandpa.” Jun refuses to abandon his friends.
• When Qin Shou’s men attack with axes, Jun defeats them in seconds by turning leaves into razor-sharp projectiles, wounding their wrists.
• Qin Shou takes Zhang hostage and threatens to cut his throat. Jun uses Shifting Form, Changing Shadow to appear beside Qin and seize him by the throat.
• As Jun begins choking Qin, Qiu Ya strikes Jun from behind with an iron rod. Jun survives, releases Qin, then knocks Qiu Ya down with a slap. The chapter ends with him confronting her.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen shows fierce loyalty and resolve, refusing to sacrifice his roommates or submit to Qin’s humiliation. His extraordinary combat abilities are revealed, and his anger becomes increasingly dangerous.
• Qin Shou is exposed as cruel and vindictive, using the roommates and Qiu Ya to torment Jun. His confidence collapses when Jun overwhelms his men and captures him.
• Qiu Ya appears injured and intimidated by Qin, but ultimately attacks Jun to help him. Her motives remain unresolved at the chapter’s end.
• Zhang Zhengxiao and the other roommates are powerless captives, yet try to urge Jun to save himself rather than risk his life for them.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and sacrifice: Jun faces danger rather than abandon his friends.
• Abuse of power and cruelty: Qin uses threats, violence, and humiliation to assert control.
• Revenge and consequences: Jun’s restraint gives way when Qin endangers those close to him.
• Hidden strength: Jun’s cultivation and unusual techniques overturn the attackers’ assumptions about him.

Character interactions

• Qin repeatedly taunts Jun through the captive roommates and Qiu Ya, demanding that Jun kneel.
• The roommates silently encourage Jun to escape, but he stands his ground.
• Jun dispatches Qin’s men, then turns Qin’s hostage threat against him by appearing at his side.
• Qiu Ya interrupts Jun’s attack on Qin with a blow from behind, prompting Jun to knock her down and demand to know whether she was trying to save Qin.

Plot points

• Jun Wangchen confronts Qiu Ya after she attacks him to defend Qin Shou. He mocks her for choosing Qin Shou over him and questions whether Qin truly loves her.
• Jun beats Qin with an iron rod. Terrified, Qin disowns Qiu Ya, calling her a disposable plaything, then reveals that he and his friends assaulted her while she was drunk—contrary to her belief that he was her first partner.
• Devastated, Qiu Ya runs from the bamboo grove. Jun frees his kidnapped friends and secretly uses his soul power to make Qin an imbecile, reasoning that this will prevent him from threatening anyone again. He tells his friends Qin has merely fainted.
• Jun declines to take Qin to the police, then briefly approaches Qiu Ya outside the grove. He assures her Qin will not retaliate but rejects her tentative hope of reconciliation and tells her to stay out of his life.
• Jun rejoins his friends, jokes that he is rid of “two flies,” and treats them to lunch. Their teasing conversation turns to his unusual fighting abilities.

Character developments

• Jun Wangchen remains controlled and decisive. His concern for his friends and desire to prevent future harm lead him to ruthless, extralegal action against Qin. Though he shows Qiu Ya a measure of concern, he is firmly done with her.
• Qiu Ya is forced to confront both Qin’s contempt and the truth about her past. Her confidence collapses into grief and disbelief, though she later lashes out at Jun to hide her humiliation.
• Qin Shou is exposed as cowardly, exploitative, and cruel: he abandons Qiu Ya under pressure and boasts about abusing her. Jun’s secret attack leaves him mentally incapacitated.
• Zhang Zhengxiao, Wang Nuli, and Ke JiusI remain loyal to Jun, express disgust toward Qiu Ya and Qin, and share their relief through jokes and banter.

Themes and interactions

• The chapter contrasts loyalty and exploitation: Qiu Ya sacrifices for Qin, who treats her as disposable, while Jun acts to protect his friends.
• It explores betrayal, painful disillusionment, and consequences, with Qiu Ya’s choices meeting a devastating reckoning.
• Jun’s revenge raises the tension between justice and cruelty: he sees harsh action as necessary protection, but bypasses the law.
• Jun and Qiu Ya’s final exchange closes their relationship decisively; the camaraderie and humor among Jun and his friends provide a lighter counterpoint to the violence and emotional fallout.