Chapter Summaries

Ji Ting reassured Ji Yanzhi after an explosion at the laboratory brought back the fear of Ji Ting’s previous death, then revealed the completed laboratory he had built for a project connected to them. Ji Ting activated its equipment to recreate a physical phenomenon found inside a planet, leaving the gathered witnesses stunned as the experiment began.

• Ji Yanzhi rushed to check Ji Ting after hearing about the explosion, and Ji Ting promised to stay safe.
• Ji Ting asked Ji Yanzhi to wear the suit from their first date, and they dressed formally before heading out together.
• Ji Ting revealed the domed laboratory and explained that he had built it to recreate a planetary physical phenomenon connected to them.
• Ji Ting led Ji Yanzhi to the control console, where Ji Yanzhi placed his palm on the activation disc.
• Ji Ting ordered the modified Tokamak and gravitational-wave confinement field activated, while the Jiang family and Shen Mu Lan watched in shock.

Ji Ting created a spectacular diamond rain to propose marriage to Ji Yanzhi, who accepted. The chapter ended with the two of them agreeing to marry beneath the simulated cosmic display.

• Ji Ting activated the Stellarator, pressure field, and Anti-Gravity Device to create a rain of diamonds over the Manor.
• Director Chang explained to the guests that Ji Ting had prepared the spectacle as a marriage proposal for Ji Yanzhi.
• Ji Ting shaped the diamond rain and simulated aurora into a dazzling display before presenting Ji Yanzhi with a fist-sized diamond ring.
• Ji Ting asked Ji Yanzhi to marry him, but Ji Yanzhi pointed out that he had intended to propose first.
• Ji Yanzhi took Ji Ting's hand and accepted, saying, "Ji Ear, I do."

Ji Ting proposed to Ji Yanzhi and received his family’s blessings, but then revealed that he would leave the next day to research controlled nuclear fusion for up to three years with no contact. Ji Yanzhi refused to accept the separation and ended by taking off his ring, saying they would not marry if Ji Ting insisted on going.

• Ji Yanzhi accepted Ji Ting’s proposal, and their friends and family came upstairs to celebrate and offer their blessings.
• Jiang Mingde entrusted Ji Yanzhi to Ji Ting and warned Ji Yanzhi to treat him well.
• After everyone left, Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi that he planned to leave the next day to research controlled nuclear fusion, possibly for two or three years without contact.
• Ji Yanzhi angrily challenged Ji Ting’s decision and demanded to know whether he could guarantee his safety.
• Ji Yanzhi removed his ring and told Ji Ting that they would not marry if he insisted on leaving.

Ji Ting prepared to leave for two or three years to continue dangerous nuclear fusion research, while Ji Yanzhi begged him to stay and feared for his safety. Ji Ting left without seeing Ji Yanzhi again, and Ji Yanzhi watched from hiding, hoping the separation would leave Ji Ting with a reason to return.

• Ji Ting and Ji Yanzhi argued about whether they would remain together, and Ji Ting said he would leave despite Ji Yanzhi's anger.
• Ji Yanzhi broke down and begged Ji Ting not to go, but Ji Ting reaffirmed his decision to leave for the research.
• Director Chang offered to arrange occasional contact, but Ji Ting refused to make an exception to the rules.
• Ji Ting gave Pork Knuckle to Ji Yanzhi, packed his luggage, and left the Manor without contacting him.
• Ji Yanzhi watched Ji Ting depart from hiding and told Pork Knuckle he hoped Ji Ting would have regrets that brought him back.

Ji Yanzhi struggled with Ji Ting’s departure while accepting State Security Bureau protection and hearing about Qin Zaiye’s return. Far away in the Qinling Mountains, Ji Ting began briefing seventy-two academicians on a high-stakes superconductivity project, leaving them to face the possibility of failure.

• Ji Yanzhi signed the document authorizing round-the-clock protection after Sun Ye explained that Ji Ting had requested it.
• Ji Yanzhi refused Sun Ye’s invitations and privately remembered searching for Ji Ting’s clothes, resolving to stay angry when Ji Ting returned.
• Ji Ting arrived at the underground Qinling base and ordered the assembled academicians to begin without waiting for the remaining six.
• Ji Ting presented his superconductivity approach and experimental results, then announced Muon Beam Modulation at the Synchrotron Radiation Source for seven the next morning.
• Ji Ting warned the academicians that failure would leave another empty tomb in the Qinling Mountains.

Five days after Ji Ting left, Ji Yanzhi struggled with his absence and found a brief news report on Ji Ting’s fusion breakthrough to be his only connection to him. Unable to sleep, he called Lu Yanchu with an invitation to watch Ling Xi’s interrogation and sent him a novel, prompting Lu Yanchu to respond with voice messages before dawn.

• Director Chang visited Ji Yanzhi to move the laboratory equipment and refused to reveal Ji Ting’s whereabouts or deliver the nutritional solution, insisting Ji Ting had made his own choice.
• After leaving, Director Chang secretly tasked Zhang Jian with retrieving Ji Ting’s prepared nutritional solution without Ji Yanzhi finding out.
• Ji Yanzhi watched a news report announcing Ji Ting’s nuclear-fusion breakthrough, saved it in a folder named “Ji Ear,” and replayed it eighty-seven times.
• Ji Yanzhi called Lu Yanchu and invited him to the State Security Bureau to watch Qin Zaiye interrogate Ling Xi the next morning.
• Ji Yanzhi sent Lu Yanchu the novel Out of Control, Lost in Love, and Lu Yanchu sent him two voice messages at 5:46 a.m.

Lu Yanchu visited Ji Yanzhi after reading a novel that made him question how Ling Xi had influenced their perceptions, and the two went to the State Security Bureau with Qin Zaiye. Ji Yanzhi ended their rivalry over Ling Xi by revealing that Ji Ting had proposed to him.

• Lu Yanchu arrived at Ji Yanzhi’s home early, and they discussed how neither had seen through Ling Xi before Ji Ting changed their lives.
• Ji Yanzhi and Lu Yanchu traded barbs over who was closest to Ji Ting, and Ji Yanzhi said Ji Ting would not accompany them.
• Ji Yanzhi and Lu Yanchu met Sun Ye at the State Security Bureau, where Qin Zaiye questioned why Ji Ting had not come.
• Lu Yanchu and Qin Zaiye taunted each other about the novel’s relationships with Ling Xi, while Ji Yanzhi joined in.
• Ji Yanzhi produced a large diamond ring and announced that Ji Ting had proposed to him, promising to send Qin Zaiye and Lu Yanchu wedding invitations.

Qin Zaiye and Lu Yanchu confronted Ling Xi with evidence that he had helped drug Ji Ting, while Ling Xi blamed others and claimed he had acted for Qin Zaiye. Qin Zaiye rejected his excuses and threatened to send him to join his accomplices, leaving Ling Xi facing severe punishment.

• Sun Ye told Qin Zaiye and the others that Ling Xi was waiting in the interrogation room.
• Ling Xi saw Qin Zaiye, Lu Yanchu, and Ji Yanzhi, then called Lu Yanchu his brother and glared at Ji Yanzhi.
• Qin Zaiye laid out the evidence linking Ling Xi to Zong Ling and the plan to drug Ji Ting.
• Ling Xi claimed he had been framed and blamed Lu Yanchu for refusing to lend him money.
• Lu Yanchu challenged Ling Xi for not calling the police and accused him of wanting Ji Ting ruined.
• Qin Zaiye said Zong Ling and Assistant Chen had been sentenced to death and threatened Ling Xi with the same fate.

Ling Xi accused Qin Zaiye of masterminding their crimes, while Ji Yanzhi left the interrogation and rejected Lu Yanchu’s demand to find Ji Ting. Back at the Ji Family Old Residence, Ji Yanzhi gave Director Chang a flower-pendant necklace to pass on to Ji Ting.

• Ling Xi reported Qin Zaiye as the mastermind behind his and Zong Ling’s actions, and Ji Yanzhi left the interrogation room.
• Lu Yanchu told Ji Yanzhi that Source Light Culture had taken over the visual effects work and said he only wanted Ji Ting, but Ji Yanzhi refused to help him.
• Director Chang and Zhang Jian searched Ji Yanzhi’s closet for a keepsake for Ji Ting, then were caught by Ji Yanzhi with a photograph from a financial magazine.
• Director Chang admitted he had come hoping to find something to remind Ji Ting of Ji Yanzhi.
• Ji Yanzhi gave Director Chang a flower-shaped pendant necklace and told him to let Ji Ting take it or throw it away.

Director Chang reached the Qinling base and found Ji Ting overworking his team, then delivered Ji Yanzhi’s food, nutrient solution, and a silver iris. Ji Ting recognized the flower’s scorch mark and saw the evidence of Ji Yanzhi’s inexperience.

• Ji Yanzhi thanked Director Chang for agreeing to deliver something to Ji Ting, then memorized translated text while worrying whether Pork Knuckle’s plan would work.
• The head of the Qinling base told Director Chang he would stay to help Ji Ting’s team and persuade Ji Ting to rest more.
• Director Chang found Ji Ting eating a meager lunch and gave him Dongpo pork knuckle while Ji Ting admitted Ji Yanzhi had not spoken to him before leaving.
• Director Chang brought Ji Ting to his room and gave him the nutrient solution and a box from Ji Yanzhi.
• Ji Ting opened the box, saw the silver iris, and recognized a crescent-shaped scorch mark on its third petal.

Ji Ting kept Ji Yanzhi’s necklace close while pushing ahead with his laboratory work, and Ji Yanzhi repeatedly tried to reach him through the pendant. At last, Ji Ting felt its vibrations and received Ji Yanzhi’s message: “Ji Ting. I hate you.”

• Ji Ting regretted how he had treated Ji Yanzhi, kept the necklace close, and agreed that the laboratory team would rest the next day.
• Ji Yanzhi realized Ji Ting had not responded to the necklace and kept trying to send him a message in Morse code.
• Ji Yanzhi pressed the pendant again, changing the message after repeatedly sending that he missed Ji Ting.
• Ji Ting put the necklace on after leaving the washroom, felt it vibrate, and deciphered Ji Yanzhi’s message: “Ji Ting. I hate you.”

Ji Ting and Ji Yanzhi reestablished contact through a modified necklace and exchanged teasing, affectionate messages. Ji Ting arranged further modifications, and the chapter ended with Ji Yanzhi hearing Ji Ting’s voice clearly for the first time.

• After finding quantum-entangled particles in the necklace, Ji Ting used it to send Ji Yanzhi his name.
• Ji Yanzhi decoded Ji Ting’s teasing nickname, and the two exchanged messages about missing each other and being angry.
• Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi to put the necklace in the electronic container and asked Pork Knuckle to contact Wang Bin about materials.
• Ji Ting asked the senior official for permission to keep the necklace, explaining that it was a private link to his partner.
• Wang Bin brought the modified necklace and a blue patch to Ji Yanzhi, who heard Ji Ting’s voice after attaching it.

Ji Yanzhi and Ji Ting reconciled over a call, and Ji Yanzhi agreed to keep the Ring after setting conditions for Ji Ting’s safety and health. At Group Headquarters, Wang Mian accepted three months of access to Ji Ting’s Supercomputer, before Ji Yanzhi learned that Lin Qing had returned.

• Ji Yanzhi softened toward Ji Ting, kept the Ring, and asked him to prioritize his health and get enough rest.
• Ji Ting returned to his room and fell asleep while Ji Yanzhi told him about Qin Zaiye and Ling Xi.
• Wang Bin asked Ji Yanzhi to arrange Supercomputer access for Wang Mian, and Ji Yanzhi agreed to let him use it.
• Ji Yanzhi told Wang Mian that Wang Bin had given him three months of Supercomputer access, and Wang Mian accepted it despite his protest.
• Ji Yanzhi received a call from Uncle Yang, who told him Lin Qing, the Second Young Master's mother, had returned.

Lin Qing returned and demanded to take Ji Ting away, but Ji Yanzhi refused and pressed her about her past. She revealed that Cheng Yingyu and Ji Shize were responsible for Ji Yanzhi’s mother’s death, then confessed she had also wanted Ling Xi’s mother dead.

• Ji Yanzhi ordered Liao Kai to bring Lin Qing from the Old Residence and told Wang Mian he would lead the automotive technology team in exchange for development rights to Pork Knuckle.
• Lin Qing arrived and asked where Ji Ting was, then insisted he was her son and had nothing to do with the Ji Family.
• Ji Yanzhi accused Lin Qing of using Ji Ting and refused to let her take him away, saying Ji Ting would stay with him for life.
• Lin Qing admitted she returned because Ji Shize had been sentenced and confirmed she had placed Cheng Yingyu’s and her child’s belongings in the East Building dressing room.
• Lin Qing revealed that Cheng Yingyu and Ji Shize were responsible for Ji Yanzhi’s mother’s death, and said Ling Xi’s mother was lucky to have died in a hospital rather than by her hand.

Lin Qing revealed how she had shaped Ji Yanzhi’s hatred of Ji Shize and explained her obsessive guilt over failing to protect Wen Yin. Ji Yanzhi told her to leave and reflected that he would never let himself regret failing to hold on to someone he loved.

• Ji Yanzhi questioned Lin Qing about Xu Jiezhen and his mother’s death, and Lin Qing said Wen Yin had died by suicide because Ji Shize did not love her.
• Lin Qing recalled that after marrying Ji Shize, she told the young Ji Yanzhi that Wen Yin had died and showed him a photograph from the morgue, while claiming Ji Shize had driven Wen Yin to suicide.
• Lin Qing admitted she had stayed with the Ji Family to keep Ji Yanzhi’s hatred alive and had wanted to see him avenge Wen Yin by ruining Ji Shize.
• Ji Yanzhi told Lin Qing to take money and disappear, while she insisted he should hate her for failing to protect Wen Yin.
• Lin Qing said she had watched someone she loved walk into hell and never dared to reach out, and Ji Yanzhi replied that he would hold on to the person he loved.

Ji Yanzhi put Lin Qing’s case aside and attended a management meeting while Ji Ting spent his day off reviewing failed superconductivity experiments. Their conversation ended with Ji Ting revealing that Ji Yanzhi had tried to seduce him several times.

• Lin Qing left Ji Yanzhi’s office, and he ordered Liao Kai to take her to the hospital’s psychiatric department for testing.
• At the Automotive Department meeting, Yu Lin presented the North American compliance problems and proposed cutting vehicle BOM costs by fifteen percent.
• Ji Ting went to the cafeteria, added spinach to his beef noodles, then analyzed failures in room-temperature superconductivity experiments and began assigning work.
• Ji Yanzhi reminded Ji Ting that it was his day off, and Ji Ting asked what had happened after Ji Yanzhi visited the State Security Bureau.
• Ji Yanzhi told Ji Ting that Zong Ling’s group had planned to seduce him, and Ji Ting replied that Ji Yanzhi had tried to seduce him several times.

Ji Yanzhi and Ji Ting teased each other about their love and discussed Ji Ting’s experiments, before Ji Yanzhi told him about meeting Lin Qing. Ji Ting noticed that Lin Qing had ignored how different he was from the original Ji Ting and suggested she might like Ji Yanzhi’s mother.

• Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi that he would fall in love with him even in another dimension because Ji Yanzhi could alter his core parameters.
• Ji Ting said he hoped to synthesize a room-temperature superconductor early next year if the next three experimental stages went smoothly.
• Ji Ting offered to give Ji Yanzhi his salary and government allowance as compensation for his work, and Ji Yanzhi joked that he could pluck down the moon for him.
• Ji Yanzhi told Ji Ting about his meeting with Lin Qing and repeated what she had said about helplessly watching someone she valued walk into hell.
• Ji Ting said Lin Qing had acted as though he were still the original Ji Ting and suggested that she liked Ji Yanzhi’s mother.

Ji Yanzhi and Ji Ting struggled to make time for each other as Ji Yanzhi confronted the fallout from US sanctions against Shili. The state launched a task force to support the company, and the chapter ended with a call from Ji Ting at Qinling Primordial Base for Minister Jiang.

• Ji Yanzhi asked Ji Ting to coordinate their days off, but Ji Ting could not promise to do so because of his experimental work.
• After Shili delivered its first batch of Miniature Lithography Machines, the United States sanctioned the company and accused it of stealing technology from AL Company.
• Ji Ting asked Director Chang to do something for him after Director Chang reassured him that the state would support Shili.
• At a crisis meeting, Shili executives reported that a German supplier had canceled equipment deliveries and Switzerland had frozen the group's liquid assets.
• Minister Jiang announced that the state had created the Wallbreaker task force and would send strategic reserves and experts to support Shili.
• Ji Yanzhi directed Xu Ruiwen to retrieve restricted equipment disguised as kitchenware, then Minister Jiang received a call from Chief Engineer Ji at Qinling Primordial Base.

Ji Ting’s proposal to counter the pressure on Shili was initially rejected, but he and Ji Yanzhi devised a revised plan that won official approval. The State Security Bureau was already prepared to act through Ji Yanzhi’s contact.

• Minister Jiang told Ji Ting that supplies and experts would be sent to Shili, while a senior official said the higher-ups wanted to discuss Ji Ting’s proposal further.
• Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi that his proposal had been rejected, and Ji Yanzhi offered to help refine it.
• Ji Ting and Ji Yanzhi worked out a new proposal, which Ji Ting presented to Director Chang and the senior official.
• The senior official said the higher-ups had approved the proposal and prepared to contact the State Security Bureau.
• Ji Ting revealed that Ji Yanzhi had already contacted the bureau and identified him as the Shili Group chairman, leaving the senior official stunned.

Deng Luqing confronted Ji Yanzhi over a promotion he felt he deserved, while the United States used leaked false research data to claim Huaguo had failed at room-temperature superconductivity. Ji Ting revealed that Huaguo had already achieved a breakthrough with CLS-5 and agreed to announce it immediately, leaving Ji Yanzhi teasing him for indulging everyone around him.

• Deng Luqing barged into Ji Yanzhi's office and challenged Wang Mian's promotion, but Ji Yanzhi rejected his demand for fairness.
• Deng Luqing later argued with Ji Yanzhi again after receiving a raise, and he left the Ji Family Old Residence in a storm.
• The United States used information leaked from Shili to claim Huaguo's superconductivity research had failed and accelerated sanctions as its own stocks soared.
• Academician Wei asked Ji Ting when Huaguo would announce CLS-5, and Ji Ting agreed to announce it immediately.
• Ji Ting admitted that Huaguo had deliberately leaked false data to mislead the United States, and Academician Wei Ruoheng was chosen to announce CLS-5 on camera.
• Ji Yanzhi told Ji Ting that he seemed to indulge everyone around him, not just Ji Yanzhi.