Chapter Summaries

Ji Yanzhi tried to cheer Ji Ting up by pretending to enjoy his jokes, and Ji Ting used the moment to ask to sleep in his room. After Ji Yanzhi sent him to shower, Ji Ting returned and began making a bed on the floor, leaving Ji Yanzhi to ask where he thought he should sleep.

• Ji Ting reminded Ji Yanzhi of an old insult and then told him two corny jokes, which Ji Yanzhi forced himself to laugh at.
• Ji Ting asked Ji Yanzhi if he could sleep with him, claiming ghosts feared Ji Yanzhi's fiery yang energy.
• Ji Yanzhi scolded Ji Ting for the excuse and left the study, then told him to go shower.
• Ji Ting wondered whether Ji Yanzhi had agreed and followed him before returning to shower.
• After they came back to Ji Yanzhi's room, Ji Ting started making a bed on the floor, and Ji Yanzhi asked where he was supposed to sleep.

Ji Ting left the sitting room sofa and asked to sleep beside Ji Yanzhi after frightening visions kept him awake. Ji Yanzhi let him share the bed after Ji Ting promised in writing never to forgive Qin Zaiye, then asked him to make breakfast despite the chef’s return.

• Ji Ting moved his bedding to the sitting room sofa, but a suffocating vision jolted him awake.
• Ji Yanzhi returned from the balcony and pretended to be asleep when Ji Ting entered the bedroom.
• Ji Ting asked to share Ji Yanzhi’s bed, and Ji Yanzhi agreed on the condition that he never forgive Qin Zaiye.
• Ji Ting wrote and signed a promise, then brought his bedding back and settled into bed beside Ji Yanzhi.
• Ji Yanzhi laid down rules for sleeping and requested almond waffles and baked eggs for breakfast before telling Ji Ting to go to sleep.

Ji Ting made breakfast for Ji Yanzhi, worked with Xu Ren on a supercomputer, and gave him new technology to pass along to Shili. The chapter ended with Ji Yanzhi seeing Xu Ren leave with a flushed face after Ji Ting asked him to deny having romantic feelings for him.

• Ji Ting got up early to learn how to make waffles and baked eggs for Ji Yanzhi, who found the meal barely edible but told the butler not to disturb him while he played games.
• Xu Ren told Ji Ting that Wang Jianming had been formally charged with infringing trade secrets, and Ji Ting reassured him that Shili's legal team was excellent.
• While assembling the supercomputer, Ji Ting showed Xu Ren missile schematics and discussed Huaguo's technological capabilities and Shili's lithography machines.
• Ji Ting showed Xu Ren an AI video anti-fraud detection program and asked him to offer it to Ji Yanzhi in exchange for one condition he would not reveal.
• Ji Ting told Xu Ren to say he did not like him romantically if Ji Yanzhi asked, and Ji Yanzhi saw Xu Ren leave with a bright red face.

Ji Yanzhi read Lu Yanchu’s letter and checked Ji Ting’s medical records, discovering a discrepancy between his blood types. Meanwhile, Ji Ting worked on his Medusa animation and followed his new bedtime schedule.

• Ji Yanzhi told the Legal Director to prepare a customized nondisclosure agreement for Xu Ren and teased Ji Ting about bad-mouthing him.
• Ji Ting worked on his Medusa scene for the World Rendering Competition, then stopped at midnight and went to bed according to Ji Yanzhi’s schedule.
• Ji Yanzhi read Lu Yanchu’s letter and found a business card for Prof. Bensen Kent of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Neurology Department.
• Ji Yanzhi asked Fu Cheng to retrieve Ji Ting’s complete medical reports and compared them with Doctor Zheng’s results.
• Ji Yanzhi noticed Ruihe’s report listed Ji Ting’s blood type as AB while Doctor Zheng’s listed it as A.

Ji Yanzhi confirmed that Ji Ting’s blood type was AB and spent a tense night sharing a bed with him. When Ji Ting learned Ji Yanzhi was traveling to Hai City, he asked to go along, and Ji Yanzhi agreed with one condition still to be revealed.

• Ji Yanzhi checked the Ji Family household register and saw that Ji Ting’s blood type was AB, contradicting Doctor Zheng’s information.
• Ji Yanzhi returned to the bedroom, where Ji Ting had waited up for him, and they argued after Ji Ting accidentally touched his chin in the dark.
• Ji Yanzhi and Ji Ting finished assembling the computer towers while Xu Ren learned from Uncle Yang that Ji Yanzhi was traveling to Hai City.
• At dinner, Ji Ting asked to accompany Ji Yanzhi on his business trip, and Ji Yanzhi agreed on the condition that he would explain.

Ji Yanzhi took Ji Ting to Hai City for WAIC and arranged for him to attend the exhibition while Ji Yanzhi went to a summit. The chapter ended with Ji Yanzhi assigning Chief Scientist Wang Bin to show Ji Ting around and urging him to take the initiative.

• Ji Yanzhi insisted that Ji Ting get a full physical after they returned from Hai City, and Ji Ting agreed.
• Ji Yanzhi, Ji Ting, Secretary Ren, Liao Kai, and the bodyguards traveled to Hai City for WAIC, where Ji Yanzhi reviewed company reports and an Inherent AI Architecture document.
• On the flight, Ji Yanzhi pretended he could not see the document clearly to get Ji Ting's opinion, then messaged Wang Mian a sarcastic claim about an awards ceremony.
• At the hotel, Secretary Ren told Ji Ting he would share the Presidential Suite with Ji Yanzhi.
• Before leaving for the summit, Ji Yanzhi ordered Liao Kai to accompany Ji Ting to WAIC and arrange for Wang Bin to show him around.

Ji Ting went to the WAIC exhibition at Liao Kai’s urging and was shown Shili’s latest technology by Sun Zhixing, while Wang Bin refused to greet him because he resented Ji Yanzhi’s perceived favoritism toward Wang Mian. Ji Ting remained occupied with the car’s features as Wang Bin left the lounge, unaware that Ji Yanzhi had arranged the meeting.

• Ji Yanzhi teased Ji Ting about his clothing taste, then left with his entourage for a summit.
• Liao Kai persuaded Ji Ting to visit the WAIC exhibition, where Shili was presenting its new technology.
• Sun Zhixing greeted Ji Ting at the venue and showed him Shili’s booth and second-generation intelligent driving system.
• Liao Kai found Wang Bin in the lounge and asked him to come meet Ji Ting.
• Wang Bin refused to act as Ji Ting’s guide, citing resentment over Ji Yanzhi’s treatment of Wang Mian, and walked out.
• Sun demonstrated the car’s interactive features while Ji Ting tried them without showing much enthusiasm.

Ji Yanzhi confronted Wang Bin for failing to personally show Ji Ting around the technology exhibition, then revealed Ji Ting’s extraordinary technical achievements to him. Wang Bin’s resignation was left in doubt as Ji Yanzhi asked whether he still wanted to leave.

• Ji Yanzhi learned that Wang Bin had not accompanied Ji Ting at the exhibition and summoned Wang Bin to the hotel.
• Ji Yanzhi questioned Ji Ting about the exhibits, then sent him to the hotel’s Thailand Pavilion for a full-body massage.
• Wang Bin admitted that he had not shown Ji Ting around and offered to resign, so Ji Yanzhi accepted his verbal resignation and told him to hand his projects to Wang Mian.
• Ji Yanzhi called Wang Mian and told him that Ji Ting had said his Inherent AI Drive was all right, while Wang Mian protested that Ji Yanzhi was playing favorites.
• Ji Yanzhi told Wang Bin that Ji Ting had created the Monitoring Program and assembled the supercomputer that outperformed Deep Blue, then asked if he still wanted to resign.

Ji Yanzhi gave Ji Ting the choice to skip the exhibition, then left early with him for Jing City. After Ji Ting returned to the family residence, Ling Xi appeared and greeted him.

• Wang Bin apologized to Ji Yanzhi for his earlier behavior and asked him to bring Ji Ting to the exhibition the next day, but Ji Yanzhi dismissed him.
• Ji Yanzhi told Ji Ting to visit the exhibition again, but Ji Ting refused because he had other plans.
• Ji Ting asked whether Ji Yanzhi had been sarcastic, and Ji Yanzhi questioned whether he could really read his tone.
• Ji Yanzhi and Ji Ting left for Jing City early, and Ji Yanzhi arranged for a hairstylist to fix Ji Ting's haircut before learning that the Chairman had called a directors' meeting.
• Ji Yanzhi went to the group's headquarters while Liao Kai took Ji Ting home, where Ling Xi greeted Ji Ting after a long absence.

Ji Ting reunited with his parents and Ling Xi, who mistook his lost voice for Ji Yanzhi’s abuse. When Ji Ting suddenly spoke to defend Ji Yanzhi, Liao Kai messaged Ji Yanzhi that his voice had returned.

• Ji Ting saw Ling Xi and remembered the novel’s description of his beauty, while Ji Shize and Lin Qing returned home with Ling Xi.
• Ji Shize silenced Liao Kai and learned that Ji Ting could not speak; Ji Ting used his tablet to explain that his voice would recover with rest.
• Ji Shize and Lin Qing blamed Ji Yanzhi for Ji Ting’s condition, despite Ji Ting’s denial, and Ji Shize ordered Feng Wu to bring Ji Yanzhi home.
• Ji Ting suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice to insist that Ji Yanzhi was not responsible.
• Liao Kai messaged Ji Yanzhi that Ji Shize and Lin Qing had returned with Ling Xi and that Ji Ting could speak again.

Ji Ting rejected Ling Xi’s attempts to reconnect while insisting that Ji Yanzhi had not caused his loss of voice. Ji Shize revealed that both Ji Ting and Ji Yanzhi genuinely had feelings for Ling Xi, who ended the chapter unable to reach Ji Ting.

• Ji Yanzhi dismissed Liao Kai’s offer to take Ji Ting away, and Liao Kai returned to the living room.
• Ji Ting told his family that Ji Yanzhi had not harmed him and had even found him a doctor, then refused Ling Xi’s offer to accompany him to the hospital.
• Lin Qing invited Ling Xi to stay for the New Year, and Ji Ting left for the game room rather than speak with him.
• Ji Shize ordered Lin Qing to ask whether Ji Yanzhi had brought anyone unfamiliar home and told her that Ling Xi’s uncle had demanded 1.2 million from him.
• Ji Shize told Lin Qing that Ji Yanzhi genuinely had feelings for Ling Xi, while Ling Xi’s knocks and message to Ji Ting went unanswered.

Ji Ting went to Shili late at night to find Ji Yanzhi, who had stayed at the office, and learned that Ji Yanzhi wrongly believed Ling Xi had caused his aphasia to improve. Ji Ting explained that he had spoken to defend Ji Yanzhi from Ji Shize, and the two ended the chapter arguing about getting food.

• After finding Ji Yanzhi absent from home and his phone switched off, Ji Ting went to Shili to look for him.
• A security guard first told Ji Ting that Ji Yanzhi had gone to bed, then returned with instructions to take him to the President's Office.
• Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi he had come to sleep with him, and Ji Yanzhi accused him of being happy about Ling Xi's return.
• Ji Ting asked whether Ji Yanzhi was angry with him or Ling Xi, then corrected Ji Yanzhi's belief that Ling Xi had helped his aphasia.
• Ji Ting explained that he had spoken because Ji Shize was trying to falsely accuse Ji Yanzhi, and Ji Yanzhi asked if he had come to thank him.
• Ji Ting offered to treat Ji Yanzhi to food at a convenience store because he was hungry, but Ji Yanzhi refused.

Ji Ting accompanied Ji Yanzhi to a convenience store, where Ji Yanzhi bought him a charm that reminded him of Ling Xi. Ji Yanzhi returned to the office angry, and Ji Ting realized the charm’s glitter resembled Ling Xi’s eyes because of his asteroid hyalosis.

• Ji Ting persuaded Ji Yanzhi to go to the convenience store, and they drove there together.
• Ji Yanzhi encountered intern Xia Yuanyuan and then argued with Ji Ting as they shopped.
• Ji Ting remembered Ling Xi while looking at a promotional charm, so Ji Yanzhi bought extra chocolates and gave him the charm before leaving in his car.
• Ji Ting paid for the groceries and carried them toward campus, where he found Ji Yanzhi waiting inside the gate and rode back with him.
• Ji Yanzhi told Ji Ting to go home if he missed Ling Xi, and Ji Ting connected the charm’s drifting glitter to Ling Xi’s asteroid hyalosis.

Ji Ting learned why Ji Yanzhi had been studying Ling Xi’s eyes, then questioned Ji Yanzhi about Ji Shize’s political maneuvering in the group. After they ate and prepared for bed, Ji Yanzhi and Ji Ting had to share one blanket, but there was not enough room to cover them both.

• Ji Yanzhi threw away the charm after Ji Ting explained that Ling Xi’s eyes had reminded him of asteroid hyalosis.
• Ji Ting mixed Ji Yanzhi’s instant noodles and asked why Ji Shize had staged a public attempt to take him back.
• Ji Yanzhi explained that Ji Shize wanted to rally his supporters, keep neutral members from siding with Ji Yanzhi, and expose fence-sitters.
• Ji Yanzhi and Ji Ting traded their noodles, then Ji Ting washed up while Ji Yanzhi found they had only one blanket.
• Ji Yanzhi agreed to share the blanket with Ji Ting, but their distance on the bed left too little blanket to cover them both.

Ji Yanzhi struggled to sleep beside Ji Ting, who clung to his pajamas and murmured “Aunt” in his sleep. The next morning, Wang Bin waited in Ji Yanzhi’s office, demanding to see Ji Ting, who appeared just as Ji Yanzhi was about to respond.

• Ji Yanzhi moved the sleeping Ji Ting to the middle of the bed, then froze when Ji Ting shifted close and grabbed his pajamas.
• Ji Ting murmured “Aunt” without waking, leaving Ji Yanzhi puzzled about whom he was dreaming of.
• Wang Bin arrived at Shili and used Fang Jie’s access card to reach Ji Yanzhi’s office, insisting on waiting for him.
• Ji Yanzhi woke in the office lounge with a stiff neck and told Wang Bin to wait outside while he changed.
• Wang Bin demanded a promise that he could see Ji Ting, and Ji Ting appeared in the doorway, saying he was there.

Ji Yanzhi kept Ji Ting away from Wang Bin, then arranged for Ji Ting to visit Wang Bin’s R&D Center after New Year. Later, he agreed to meet Ling Xi, who greeted him as his big brother.

• Ji Yanzhi carried Ji Ting back into the office and ordered Fang Jie to remove Wang Bin, who was eager to speak with Ji Ting.
• Ji Yanzhi forbade Ji Ting from leaving the room and promised to arrange a visit to Wang Bin’s R&D Center in a few days.
• Ji Ting wondered whether Ji Yanzhi would return to the old house, while Ji Yanzhi told him to leave for the day.
• Ji Yanzhi told Liao Kai to take Ling Xi to an ophthalmologist and to keep Ji Ting’s presence with him the previous night secret.
• After learning Ling Xi wanted to see him, Ji Yanzhi agreed to receive him, and Ling Xi entered and greeted him as his big brother.

Ji Yanzhi agreed to return to the Old Residence with Ling Xi under a condition, while Ji Ting returned home and was taken to the golf course to begin learning skills for joining Shili. Ji Shize handed Ji Ting a golf club and insisted he prepare for the business world.

• Ling Xi apologized to Ji Yanzhi for leaving without saying goodbye and asked him to return to the Old Residence with him.
• Ji Yanzhi refused Ling Xi’s request at first, then agreed to go back on the condition that Ling Xi accept one condition.
• Ji Ting visited Xinxin Jiayuan, then returned to the Old Residence and told Lin Qing he had his own plans.
• Lin Qing sent Ji Ting to the golf course to see Ji Shize, despite Ji Ting’s reluctance.
• Ji Shize handed Ji Ting a golf club and told him to learn skills he would need after joining Shili.

Ji Shize tried to recruit Ji Ting into Shili Group and questioned him about Ji Yanzhi’s visitors, while Ji Ting avoided giving him useful information. Later, Ji Ting joined dinner after Ji Yanzhi returned home and misunderstood why Ji Yanzhi was angry with him.

• Ji Ting told Ji Shize he had promised Ji Yanzhi not to join Shili Group, but Ji Shize vowed to arrange an important position for him anyway.
• Ji Shize asked whether Ji Yanzhi had brought anyone home, and Ji Ting named Dai Xiangqiang and Wang Mian, prompting Ji Shize to grow angry before offering to buy him a Ferrari.
• Ji Yanzhi returned to the Manor and instructed Liao Kai to invite Ji Ting to dinner without waiting for him to come out.
• Ji Ting overheard Ji Shize confront Ji Yanzhi about staying away from home and thought Ji Yanzhi had returned because of Ling Xi.
• Ji Ting sat beside Lin Qing at dinner, and Ji Yanzhi glared at him while Ji Ting wondered why he was angry.

Ji Ting learned that Ji Yanzhi had returned home in exchange for Ling Xi staying away from him, but he thanked Ji Yanzhi and brought him dinner instead of getting angry. Ji Yanzhi tried to make Ji Ting recognize what Ling Xi’s broken promise meant, but the chapter ended before Ji Ting answered.

• At dinner, Ji Yanzhi left after Lin Qing tried to welcome him, and Ji Ting soon left the table as well.
• Ling Xi told Ji Ting that he had agreed to stay away from him in exchange for Ji Yanzhi coming home, and Ji Ting misunderstood Ji Yanzhi’s motives.
• Ji Ting brought Ji Yanzhi egg fried rice and thanked him, leaving Ji Yanzhi confused by his reaction.
• After eating, Ji Yanzhi pointed out that Ling Xi had broken his promise not to tell Ji Ting and asked what Ji Ting would previously have done about it.

Ji Yanzhi hid Ji Ting under his desk when Ling Xi came to visit, then challenged Ling Xi’s claims of caring about him. After Ling Xi admitted that Ji Ting remained important to him, Ji Yanzhi sent him away and discovered Ji Ting had badly scratched his neck under the desk.

• Ji Yanzhi ordered Ji Ting to hide under the desk when Ling Xi knocked at the study door.
• Ling Xi brought Ji Yanzhi pork stomach congee, and Ji Yanzhi scolded him for troubling Chef Liu late at night.
• Ji Yanzhi challenged Ling Xi’s claim to care about him, pointing out that Ling Xi knew he did not want to return home.
• Ling Xi admitted that Ji Ting had treated him well and remained a part of his heart, and said both Ji Ting and Ji Yanzhi were important to him.
• After Ling Xi left, Ji Yanzhi pulled Ji Ting out from under the desk and discovered the scratches and blood on his neck.
• Ji Yanzhi scolded Ji Ting for enduring the injury, and Ji Ting replied that he had not wanted to interrupt Ji Yanzhi while he was talking with Ling Xi.