Chapter Summaries

After waking in the body of Ji Ting, a minor love interest in a novel, Ji Ting realized Ji Yanzhi was interrogating him about the protagonist’s whereabouts in Sea City. Ji Yanzhi left after an urgent corporate crisis, while Ji Ting resolved to avoid the novel’s romantic conflicts—then noticed another stalker nearby.

• Ji Ting woke to Ji Yanzhi’s bodyguards dragging him from bed, and recovered memories identifying himself as a character in Out of Control, Lost in Love.
• Ji Yanzhi questioned Ji Ting about whom he had met in Sea City, while Ji Ting calmly washed up and recognized that he had met the protagonist the day before.
• Ji Yanzhi heard Ji Ting’s unspoken thoughts about his appearance and urgency, then received news that authorities had ordered the group to freeze a subsidiary’s finances.
• Ji Yanzhi ordered Ji Ting to return to the family estate by eight, told Fang Jie to keep following him, and asked for an appointment with a neurologist.
• Ji Ting decided to stay out of the novel’s romantic conflicts, went out to buy medicine, and spotted a minivan he remembered belonged to another stalker after Ji Yanzhi.

Ji Ting handed Lu Yanchu’s agent an address, then returned to the Ji family residence and uncovered evidence that his uncle and cousin were behind the smuggling scandal threatening the Ji Corporation. Ji Yanzhi brought Ji Ting downstairs as Ji Liping begged him to save Ji Rui, leaving the scene with Ji Liping on his knees and Ji Ting commenting on his knee pads.

• Ji Ting gave Lu Yanchu’s agent the address of the person Lu Yanchu was seeking and told him to stop following him.
• Ji Ting returned to the family residence, endured Ji Liping’s insults, and compiled evidence that Ji Liping and Ji Rui had masterminded the smuggling operation.
• Ji Yanzhi came home and questioned Ji Liping about whether he had known Ji Rui was smuggling goods.
• Ji Yanzhi burst into the bathroom, snapped Ji Ting’s toothbrush, and dragged him downstairs after hearing Ji Ting privately speculate that he might have schizophrenia.
• After learning Ji Rui faced at least ten years in prison, Ji Liping dropped to his knees and begged Ji Yanzhi to save him.

Ji Yanzhi refused Ji Liping’s plea to save Ji Rui and ordered him sent to the police after Ji Ting revealed that their smuggling operation also involved drug trafficking. Ji Ting went back to his room resolved to leave the Ji family, while Ji Yanzhi arranged to gather evidence and watched his door.

• Ji Liping knelt and demanded that Ji Yanzhi save Ji Rui, but Ji Yanzhi refused to intervene in the case.
• Ji Yanzhi offered to help Ji Rui if Ji Liping took the blame as the smuggling ringleader, then learned from Ji Ting’s thoughts that the pair had also been involved in drug trafficking.
• Ji Liping threatened to accuse Ji Yanzhi of masterminding the smuggling, but Ji Ting pointed out the hall’s M81 surveillance system had recorded their conversation.
• Ji Yanzhi ordered Liao Kai to escort Ji Liping to the police station and said the group would cooperate with the investigation.
• Ji Ting confirmed he had already known about the smuggling, asked whether Ji Yanzhi would have believed him, and went upstairs to sleep.
• Ji Ting decided he should leave the Ji family soon, while Ji Yanzhi ordered someone to obtain evidence against Ji Rui’s accomplices and looked toward Ji Ting’s room.

Ji Yanzhi told Ji Ting that Ji Liping and Ji Rui faced life imprisonment for smuggling and drug trafficking, then tried to persuade him to bring future concerns directly to him. Their tense lunch ended with Ji Yanzhi keeping Ji Ting at the office, where a report about Lu Yanchu's schedule renewed his anger over the address Ji Ting had shared.

• Ji Yanzhi told Ji Ting that new evidence linked Ji Liping and Ji Rui to a Southeast Asian drug trafficking organization and urged him to tell Ji Yanzhi about future problems.
• Ji Ting admitted he had given Lu Yanchu the address, and Ji Yanzhi became angry when Ji Ting said Lu Yanchu was trustworthy and emotionally stable.
• Ji Yanzhi ordered Ji Ting to eat both lunches as punishment, then shared the meal with him after Ji Ting offered him the second lunch box.
• Ji Yanzhi made Ji Ting stay in the office and arranged a laptop for him; Ji Ting browsed an academy of sciences website while worrying that his lack of a university degree would make finding work difficult.
• Ji Yanzhi reviewed Lu Yanchu's packed public schedule and wondered whether Lu Yanchu had gone to Sea City, then confronted Ji Ting about the consequences of sharing the address.

Ji Ting remained under house arrest, where Ji Yanzhi forced him to attend daily lessons. When his new physics tutor discovered Ji Ting’s advanced scientific knowledge, he rushed back to his university, and Ji Yanzhi returned home that evening.

• Ji Yanzhi confiscated Ji Ting’s phone and car keys, confined him to the house, and ordered tutors to teach him on a high-school schedule.
• On the fourth day of his confinement, Ji Ting met his new physics tutor, Xu Ren, and agreed to take a test before they planned lessons.
• While Xu Ren reviewed his thesis, Ji Ting explained flaws in his research and suggested using an embedded SERS probe to measure photothermal temperatures.
• Xu Ren became excited by Ji Ting’s advice and hurried away to return to his university lab.
• Ji Yanzhi’s car arrived at the underground garage as dinner was served.

Ji Yanzhi confronted Ji Ting about his tutors and refused to believe his explanations, then learned that Xu Ren had independently returned to his laboratory. After realizing Ji Ting had told the truth, Ji Yanzhi went to his bedroom door, where Ji Ting detected him through a surveillance program.

• Ji Yanzhi served Ji Ting vegetables he disliked and questioned him about why his tutors had left.
• Ji Ting explained that Xu Ren had rushed back to school for his experiment, but Ji Yanzhi mocked his poor exam score and set a grade cutoff before he could leave the house.
• Ji Ting asked whether Ji Yanzhi had ever believed him, and Ji Yanzhi said he did not deserve trust, so Ji Ting left the dining room.
• Ji Yanzhi's secretary confirmed Xu Ren had returned to the lab on his own, and Ji Yanzhi realized Ji Ting had told the truth but refused to give Xu Ren Ji Ting's number.
• Ji Ting monitored evolving structures on his computer until his surveillance program detected Ji Yanzhi outside his bedroom door.

Ji Ting went to Ruihe for neurological and psychiatric examinations to investigate his changed body and unusual ability to read Ji Yanzhi’s emotions. As Lu Yanchu left the clinic, he heard Ji Ting’s chromosome results and reacted with sudden dread.

• Ji Yanzhi returned Ji Ting’s phone and car keys, gave him a bank card, and allowed him three days off while warning him not to fool around.
• Ji Ting went to Ruihe and requested brain examinations, a chromosome karyotype analysis, and a psychiatric consultation.
• Director Zhao reviewed Ji Ting’s brain scans, which showed his brain was still his own, while Ji Ting noted that his blood type had changed from O to AB.
• Dr. He assessed Ji Ting’s Asperger syndrome and other conditions, and advised him to spend time with the one person whose emotions he could recognize.
• Ji Ting waited for his chromosome results while Lu Yanchu visited dermatology for a minor burn to his ear.
• Lu Yanchu heard that chromosome 22 showed no numerical or structural abnormalities and felt a sudden, bone-deep chill.

Ji Yanzhi learned that Ji Ting had genuinely gone to Ruihe for a medical examination and discovered that his brain scans suggested extraordinary intellectual ability. The chapter ended with Doctor Zhou describing Ji Ting’s intelligence as far beyond even that of a genius.

• Lu Yanchu heard an unexplained voice and decided his ear injury needed another examination.
• Ji Ting retrieved Ji Yanzhi’s bank card and later told Ji Yanzhi he understood the money as awkward compensation for Xu Ren.
• Ji Yanzhi suspected Ji Ting had secretly met Lu Yanchu, but Ji Ting insisted he had gone to Ruihe for a medical examination.
• Ji Yanzhi asked Fu Cheng to investigate Ji Ting’s examination, and Fu Cheng arranged a meeting with Doctor Zhou.
• Doctor Zhou showed Ji Yanzhi and Fu Cheng Ji Ting’s brain scans and said his intellectual capacity surpassed that of an ordinary genius.

Fu Cheng and Ji Yanzhi suspected Ji Ting might have been hiding his abilities, while Lu Yanchu learned that Ji Ting had a problem affecting his intelligence. Lu Yanchu decided to find a chance to meet him.

• Fu Cheng told Doctor Zhou that Ji Ting had scored barely two hundred points on the college entrance exam, leaving Doctor Zhou baffled by the contrast with Ji Ting's test results.
• After Doctor Zhou left, Fu Cheng warned Ji Yanzhi that Ji Ting might be pretending to be foolish, but Ji Yanzhi said he would find out by asking him.
• Lu Yanchu's manager reported that Ji Ting had undergone brain examinations at Ruihe and was believed to have a condition causing his intelligence to deteriorate.
• Lu Yanchu connected Ji Ting's illness to his decision to entrust Ling Xi's care to Liu and resolved to find a chance to meet Ji Ting.

Ji Ting blocked every way to contact Ling Xi and tried to avoid repeating the original owner's love-driven mistakes. After testing Ji Ting's thoughts with a question and a terrible joke, Ji Yanzhi ordered him out of the house, but Ji Ting refused and said he was not afraid of him.

• Ji Ting reviewed the original owner's story and blocked and deleted every way to contact Ling Xi.
• Ji Yanzhi checked the computer-monitoring program and found that Ji Ting had spent hours playing solitaire and Minesweeper, including time searching for how to play.
• At dinner, Ji Yanzhi asked Ji Ting what he was naturally good at, and Ji Ting answered with a joke that infuriated him.
• Ji Yanzhi ordered Ji Ting to leave the house while repeating the joke in his head, but Ji Ting refused and said he was not afraid of him.

Ji Ting kept his distance from Ji Yanzhi and set up a private room for his gaming machine, then joined Ji Yanzhi and Dai Xiangqiang for dinner. When Dai threatened to reveal that another company had obtained the L3 chip algorithm for free, Ji Ting recognized him as the R&D director who had falsified data.

• Ji Ting and Ji Yanzhi argued, and then went several days without speaking or hiring tutors for Ji Ting.
• Ji Ting brought boxes of equipment to the west building and told the butler he would use the room for gaming.
• Ji Ting encountered Dai Xiangqiang and Ji Yanzhi at the garage and joined them for dinner.
• Dai Xiangqiang tried to pressure Ji Ting to drink and join Shili, but Ji Ting refused, and Ji Yanzhi redirected the conversation to business.
• Dai Xiangqiang threatened Ji Yanzhi over the L3 chip algorithm, and Ji Ting recognized Dai as the R&D director who had falsified data.

Ji Ting suspected Dai Xiangqiang had falsified the L3 chip algorithm data, so he questioned Dai until Ji Yanzhi ordered him to prepare patent materials for immediate review. Ji Yanzhi then told Ji Ting to resume remedial lessons starting the next day.

• Ji Ting realized Dai Xiangqiang's L3 chip research data was fabricated, while Ji Yanzhi understood Ji Ting's unspoken warning.
• Ji Ting questioned Dai about the algorithm and its perception-module chip, prompting Dai to explain his claims to the table.
• Ji Ting suggested allocating Dai more funding, and Ji Yanzhi replied that patenting the technology could answer objections from other laboratories.
• Dai grew alarmed when Ji Yanzhi ordered him to prepare patent application materials before Monday for submission to the Intellectual Property Office.
• Ji Yanzhi walked Dai out and told Ji Ting to resume remedial lessons the next day.

Ji Ting refused to continue tutoring under Ji Yanzhi’s conditions, then suspected that events were diverging from the original novel after Dai Xiangqiang’s scheme was exposed early. The next day, Xu Ren returned with a breakthrough in his research, and Ji Ting offered to teach him about an even better material.

• Ji Ting rejected Ji Yanzhi’s tutoring proposal and asked for Xu Ren to return as his physics tutor.
• Ji Ting investigated Dai Xiangqiang’s early exposure and wondered whether an unknown variable had changed Ji Yanzhi’s timeline.
• Ji Yanzhi discovered Dai Xiangqiang had been working for his father and decided Ji Ting might still be changed for the better.
• Xu Ren told Ji Ting he had identified single-walled carbon nanotubes as the right probe material, and Ji Ting confirmed it.
• Xu Ren refused to claim full credit for their research, and Ji Ting asked whether he wanted to learn about a better material.

Ji Ting secretly brought Xu Ren to a basement game room and began teaching him to assemble a supercomputer. After Ji Yanzhi threatened to dismiss Xu Ren as Ji Ting’s tutor, Ji Ting obeyed an absurd order to walk and sing, then confronted his brother about it.

• Ji Ting made Xu Ren sign a confidentiality agreement and showed him the game room, where he explained that they would assemble a supercomputer rack.
• Xu Ren admitted that his graduate degree was in optical engineering and that he knew little about computers, so Ji Ting began teaching him the assembly process.
• Ji Yanzhi met Xu Ren at the gate, questioned him about Ji Ting’s tutoring, and promised to raise his fee if Ji Ting’s grades improved.
• Ji Yanzhi ordered Ji Ting to walk toward the gate while singing “The Internationale,” threatening to end Xu Ren’s tutoring if Ji Ting refused.
• Ji Ting completed the song and returned after Ji Yanzhi called him back, then accused Ji Yanzhi of being an awful person.

After angering Ji Ting, Ji Yanzhi endured a night of bizarre appliance malfunctions and a taunting robot vacuum, which escaped before he could catch it. The next morning, Ji Yanzhi ordered the butler to investigate, while Ji Ting revealed that he had already vented his anger.

• Ji Yanzhi searched for the insult Ji Ting had used against him and learned it referred to a Tasmanian Devil.
• Ji Yanzhi's smart controls triggered lights and entertainment systems, and a robot vacuum knocked at his door and sneered at him before fleeing.
• Ji Yanzhi tried to sleep in a guest room, but the refrigerator rejected his facial verification and the robot vacuum taunted him again.
• Ji Yanzhi chased the robot vacuum around the house and pinned it against the front door, but it escaped into the garden when the door opened.
• Ji Yanzhi told Uncle Yang to find the robot vacuums and retrieve the surveillance footage, while Ji Ting told him he had vented his anger.

Ji Ting trained a computer to identify Ji Yanzhi’s facial expressions and cut ties with his former friends. Xu Tianhao lured him to a club, where he and the others prepared a surprise involving a server who resembled Ling Xi.

• Xu Ren visited Ji Ting, who explained that he had broken Ji Yanzhi’s central control system, and the two went to the game room.
• Ji Ting used photos of Ji Yanzhi to train Tasmanian Devil One to recognize facial expressions, while Xu Ren worked on computer hardware and discussed his thesis.
• Xu Ren received a message from his university lab, and Ji Ting went to see him off at the estate gate.
• Xu Tianhao arrived at the gate, and Ji Ting told him he was quitting their social activities before agreeing to join him and their friends at a club.
• Xu Tianhao revealed that he had arranged a surprise with a server who looked remarkably like Ling Xi.

Ji Ting went to Zhang Xu’s gathering to end his friendship with the group, but challenged Zhang Xu’s reckless demand that he drink a bottle of whisky and instead began teaching them about options trading. Two hours later, Zhang Xu correctly analyzed a stock’s likely movement, and Ji Ting’s lesson was still underway.

• Ji Ting returned to the private room, where Xu Tianhao and the others mocked him for saying he would stay home to study.
• Ji Ting stopped the manager from sending in the prepared entertainment, told the group he was ending their friendship, and tried to leave.
• Zhang Xu demanded that Ji Ting drink a bottle of whisky before they would let him go, but Ji Ting explained the risk of fatal alcohol poisoning and asked Zhang Xu to accept responsibility in writing.
• Ji Ting confronted Zhang Xu about the money he had invested in low-priced stocks, then asked Xu Tianhao to bring him an iPad with a stylus.
• Ji Ting spent two hours teaching Zhang Xu and the others how to price options and assess stock movements.
• Zhang Xu analyzed a stock’s likely direction over the next two days, and Ji Ting confirmed that his answer was correct.

Ji Ting taught Zhang Xu and the others about stocks, then rejected their attempt to surprise him with a server who resembled Ling Xi. Back at the family residence, Ji Yanzhi questioned Ji Ting about a missing robot vacuum and learned that Ji Ting had bought a gaming machine and barred servants from a basement room.

• Ji Ting taught the group how to examine stocks, praised Zhang Xu's aptitude, and left when they asked him to continue teaching.
• Zhang Xu revealed that the group had invited Ji Ting to show him a server who resembled Ling Xi, but Ji Ting said he no longer had feelings for Ling Xi.
• Ji Ting returned home and told Ji Yanzhi that he had gone out to have fun with Xu Tianhao and the others.
• Ji Yanzhi asked Ji Ting whether he had seen a disc-shaped robot vacuum, and Ji Ting denied knowing anything about it.
• Ji Yanzhi asked the butler about Ji Ting's recent activities, and the butler recalled Ji Ting's gaming machine and his request to keep the west building's basement room off-limits.

Ji Yanzhi searched the Ji Family residence for Tasmanian Devil Unit One after learning its chip could recognize human emotions with remarkable speed. Xu Ren took Unit One away for safekeeping, but Ji Yanzhi questioned him before he could leave and recognized his reaction as a clue.

• Ji Yanzhi explained to the butler that Unit One’s emotion-recognition system made its chip exceptionally valuable, and the household searched for it.
• Ji Ting ate a simple dinner with Ji Yanzhi while the staff searched the east building for the robot vacuum.
• Xu Ren visited Ji Ting and agreed to take Unit One back to campus, then gave Ji Ting shrimp buns to thank him for helping with his graduation project.
• Ji Ting and Xu Ren held their usual tutoring session until noon, and Xu Ren left with Unit One hidden in his backpack.
• Ji Yanzhi summoned Xu Ren and asked whether he had seen a robot vacuum; Xu Ren’s startled reaction convinced Ji Yanzhi he had found it.

Ji Yanzhi suspected Xu Ren of planting the spy robot and pressured him to sell Unit One’s technology, while Xu Ren confessed to Ji Ting and agreed to the sale on the condition that Ji Yanzhi treat him better. Ji Yanzhi then asked Ji Ting to find out who had really developed Unit One.

• Ji Yanzhi accused Xu Ren of planting the spy robot and offered to buy Unit One’s chip technology, giving him two days to decide.
• Xu Ren escaped the guest room and told Ji Ting how Ji Yanzhi had confronted him, while promising not to betray him.
• Ji Ting decided to sell Unit One’s technology to Shili outright for three million and sent Xu Ren back to negotiate.
• Xu Ren agreed to sell the technology but demanded that Ji Yanzhi stop yelling at Ji Ting and locking him up.
• Ji Yanzhi summoned Ji Ting and asked him to learn the identity of Unit One’s actual developer through Xu Ren.