Chapter Summaries

Ji Ting dismantled Qin Zaiye’s confidence, military standing, and family protection, leaving him to face a Military Court hearing under Qin Mingzhong’s supervision. Back home, Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi that he thought he could sleep alone starting that day.

• Qin Mingzhong tried to stop Ji Ting, but the Commander and Shen Lin explained that Ji Ting’s meeting with Qin Zaiye was permitted and cited his achievements.
• Ji Ting told Qin Zaiye that his family had helped secure his rank, provoking him to struggle against his restraints before guards locked him into a restrictive chair.
• The Commander told Qin Mingzhong that he could take Qin Zaiye home and had been appointed his supervisor ahead of Qin Zaiye’s Military Court hearing in half a month.
• Ji Yanzhi returned home early and learned that Ji Ting had requested Chef Liu’s Desert Roast Chicken.
• Ji Ting explained that he had wanted the meal because he thought he could sleep alone starting that day.

After Ji Ting decided he had recovered and no longer needed Ji Yanzhi to sleep beside him, Ji Yanzhi struggled with his disappointment. Ji Ting gave him an anti-scam detection program as thanks, but Ji Yanzhi claimed he might develop insomnia and demanded that Ji Ting take responsibility.

• Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi that he believed he had recovered after sleeping through a nap without waking or dreaming, and Ji Yanzhi angrily left the dining room.
• Ji Yanzhi brooded over no longer sharing a bed with Ji Ting, then went to confront him outside his bedroom.
• Ji Ting gave Ji Yanzhi a program that detected AI face swaps, synthesized voices, and digitally altered images, explaining that it was a thank-you gift for sleeping beside him.
• Ji Yanzhi asked if the gift meant they were even, and Ji Ting agreed before Ji Yanzhi claimed he might suffer insomnia without him.
• Ji Ting suggested Ji Yanzhi see a psychiatrist, and Ji Yanzhi accused him of being heartless.

Ji Ting and Ji Yanzhi agreed to share a bed and set rules for treating each other. Ji Ting then told Ji Yanzhi that Qin Zaiye was free, and Ji Yanzhi predicted Qin Mingzhong would abandon his son to protect the Qin Family’s power.

• Ji Ting agreed to keep sleeping beside Ji Yanzhi because Ji Yanzhi had accommodated his fear of ghosts.
• Ji Yanzhi joined Ji Ting in his room, where they established three rules each for their shared space and behavior.
• Ji Yanzhi admitted he had felt a little happy when Ji Ting said he could sleep alone, and Ji Ting said he was happy too.
• Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi that Qin Zaiye was out and explained what had happened, leaving out that he had handed over the technology.
• Ji Ting guessed Qin Mingzhong might help Qin Zaiye escape, but Ji Yanzhi said Qin Mingzhong would likely abandon him to protect the Qin Family’s power.

Ji Yanzhi and Ji Ting made a bet about whether Qin Mingzhong would abandon Qin Zaiye, while Ji Shize manipulated Ling Xi into confronting Ji Yanzhi over Ji Ting’s letter of forgiveness. Ji Yanzhi learned that Ji Ting had submitted the letter and set out to ask him to withdraw it.

• Ji Ting agreed to Ji Yanzhi’s bet, and Ji Yanzhi decided to make him ask for a reward when he won.
• Ji Shize learned that Qin Zaiye had been released and summoned Ling Xi, telling him that Ji Ting had written a letter of forgiveness.
• Ji Shize claimed Ji Yanzhi might persuade Ji Ting to withdraw the letter, provoking Ling Xi to rush to confront him.
• Ling Xi accused Ji Yanzhi of pursuing Qin Zaiye despite Ji Ting’s forgiveness and revealed the letter had been submitted.
• Ji Yanzhi thanked Ling Xi for the warning and said he would find Ji Ting and have him withdraw the letter.

Ji Yanzhi asked Ji Ting to stage an argument to fool Ji Shize, but their confrontation revealed Ji Yanzhi’s genuine feelings for his younger brother. After watching the footage, Ji Shize decided to use Ji Ting to test whether Ji Yanzhi truly cared about him.

• Ji Yanzhi left Ling Xi and returned to find Ji Ting considering how to fake an argument.
• Ji Yanzhi confronted Ji Ting over Ling Xi’s claim that Ji Ting had written a letter of forgiveness for Qin Zaiye, and Ji Ting denied it.
• Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi that he hated him, prompting Ji Yanzhi to ask if he truly meant it and then embrace him.
• Ji Yanzhi stopped their staged argument, took Ji Ting to the company, and let Ji Shize watch them leave together.
• Ji Shize replayed the footage, recognized Ji Yanzhi’s panic, and decided to use Ji Ting to test his feelings.

Ji Yanzhi prepared for a board vote that could hand control of Shili’s R&D Department to Li Tianhua, while Ji Ting worried that his disagreement with Ji Yanzhi might cost him the position. Ji Yanzhi learned from Ji Ting’s thoughts that Ji Ting wanted him to win, and the chapter ended with Ji Yanzhi reacting to Wang Mian’s teasing.

• Fang Jie told Ji Yanzhi that Li Tianhua had called a mandatory meeting for the headquarters’ Chief Scientists and suggested Ji Yanzhi skip it.
• Ji Yanzhi gave Ji Ting Li Tianhua’s résumé, and Ji Ting praised his technical credentials.
• Ji Yanzhi said Ji Ting might no longer be able to enter the R&D Center after the board vote, and Ji Ting wondered whether his earlier argument had caused Ji Yanzhi to lose.
• Wang Mian arrived, and Ji Yanzhi sent Ji Ting to the R&D Center so they could talk privately.
• Ji Yanzhi heard Ji Ting think that he wanted Ji Yanzhi to win because of his foresight and support for research, then shouted at Wang Mian for teasing him.

Ji Ting uncovered signs of possible interference in Shili’s chip research while Ji Yanzhi was away. Wang Mian confronted Vice President Li over suspended projects, and Ji Ting was summoned to stop him as the confrontation escalated.

• Ji Yanzhi warned Wang Mian to control his temper, but Wang Mian questioned whether Ji Ting’s extraordinary ability came from the future or another dimension.
• Ji Ting found more than a hundred problems in Shili’s chips and suspected someone had interfered with the research.
• Ji Ting returned to Ji Yanzhi’s office and learned that Ji Yanzhi was away when Wang Bin arrived seeking urgent help.
• Wang Bin told Ji Ting that Wang Mian had gone to confront Vice President Li, and Ji Ting went with him after stopping the bodyguards from restraining Wang Bin.
• Li Tianhua defended suspending projects C305 and 517 and belittled Huaguo’s technological progress, prompting Wang Mian to threaten him.

Wang Mian assaulted Li Tianhua after Li insulted Huaguo, putting his position as Shili’s Chief Scientist at risk. Ji Ting advised him to wait until the board fired him before using the surveillance footage to demand Li’s public apology and resignation.

• Wang Bin and Ji Ting arrived at the Vice President’s Office and found Wang Mian straddling Li Tianhua and punching him.
• Li Tianhua used racist slurs against people from Huaguo and threatened to call the police, while Wang Bin warned him to watch his words.
• Ji Ting returned to the President’s Office and told Wang Mian that the police would likely detain him and that Ji Shize could use the incident to push Ji Yanzhi to fire him.
• Ji Ting explained that he had obtained the office surveillance footage and urged Wang Mian to send it to the board after his dismissal, demanding that Li apologize publicly and resign.
• Wang Mian realized that waiting until the board removed him from Shili would let him release the footage without violating his employment contract.

Ji Ting encouraged Wang Mian to channel his anger at Li Tianhua into building Huaguo’s own Computational Lithography Platform, while Ji Yanzhi arrived to send Wang Mian to turn himself in. Ji Yanzhi then scolded Ji Ting for getting involved and asked whether he would stay with him if he ended up driving a walking tractor, leaving Ji Ting silently considering helping Wang Mian instead.

• Wang Mian asked Ji Ting whether he would have hit Li Tianhua, and Ji Ting said he would have endured the insult and used the challenge to set a five-month deadline for building Huaguo’s own Computational Lithography Platform.
• Wang Mian wondered whether he could succeed, and Ji Ting reminded him that Huaguo had built an atomic bomb despite President Kennedy’s prediction that it never would.
• Ji Yanzhi called Wang Mian, sarcastically berated him for injuring Li Tianhua, and ordered Ji Ting to step outside before he yelled at Wang Mian more harshly.
• Ji Yanzhi arrived at the President’s Office and sent Liao Kai to take Wang Mian to turn himself in, while arranging for Wang Bin to visit him in detention.
• Ji Yanzhi asked Ji Ting why he had gone to the fight and whether he was hurt, then scolded him for skipping lunch and getting involved.
• Ji Ting asked if Ji Yanzhi might end up driving a walking tractor, and Ji Yanzhi asked whether he would stay with him if that happened; Ji Ting silently thought he could help Wang Mian build the platform instead.

Ji Yanzhi protected Wang Mian from Ji Shize’s pressure while trying to understand what Ji Ting meant when he said Ji Yanzhi was hard to keep. The chapter ended with Ji Yanzhi pressing Ji Ting about whether he would support him, and Ji Ting struggling to explain.

• Ji Ting said he would not necessarily support Ji Yanzhi because he was too hard to keep, prompting Ji Yanzhi to question what their relationship meant.
• Ji Shize arrived and told Ji Yanzhi that Wang Mian would apologize to Li Tianhua, but Ji Yanzhi texted an unknown number that he would protect Wang Mian.
• Ji Yanzhi suggested that the surveillance video could put Li Tianhua in trouble, leaving Ji Shize wary as he departed for the next day’s board meeting.
• Ji Ting said he hoped Wang Mian could remain at the Laboratory, and Ji Yanzhi invited him to eat at the Staff Dining Room.
• At the Thai Restaurant, Ji Yanzhi asked whether being hard to keep meant Ji Ting would not keep him, and Ji Ting said he disliked doing things he was not good at.

Ji Ting wondered whether his harsh judgment of Ji Yanzhi meant he cared about him, while Ji Yanzhi concealed his amusement and reassured him about Wang Mian. At the board meeting, Ji Shize proposed suspending Wang Mian without pay and transferring his projects to Chief Xue, seeking to secure the technology he held.

• Ji Ting blurted out that people were more forgiving toward those they did not care about, then wondered whether his criticism of Ji Yanzhi meant he cared about him.
• Ji Yanzhi denied laughing at Ji Ting and told Liao Kai to feed Wang Mian and send him home if nothing happened by the end of the workday.
• Ji Ting worried that Ji Yanzhi would abandon Wang Mian, and Ji Yanzhi struggled to answer without revealing that he could hear Ji Ting's thoughts.
• At the board meeting, Ji Shize accused Wang Mian of abusing and assaulting Li Tianhua and offered to show surveillance footage.
• Ji Shize proposed suspending Wang Mian without pay while retaining his employment and transferring his projects to Chief Xue.

Ji Yanzhi failed to prevent the board from suspending Wang Mian and transferring his research projects to Xue Litao, leaving him at odds with both Wang Mian and Ji Ting. After Ji Ting invited him to dinner and asked about Chef Sun, Ji Yanzhi denied bringing the chef over especially for him.

• Ji Shize pressed Ji Yanzhi to proceed with the directors’ vote, and the board suspended Wang Mian without pay and assigned his projects to Xue Litao.
• Wang Mian confronted Ji Yanzhi, rejected the transfer, and left after accusing him of being unable to protect his people.
• Ji Ting learned from Wang Bin about Wang Mian’s suspension and his argument with Ji Yanzhi.
• Ji Ting met Ji Yanzhi at the elevator and invited him to eat dinner with him.
• Ji Ting asked whether Ji Yanzhi had brought Chef Sun over especially for him, and Ji Yanzhi flusteredly denied it.

Ji Ting comforted Ji Yanzhi over his conflict with Ji Shize and admitted that he cared about him a little. Ji Yanzhi eagerly accepted the confession and sat beside Ji Ting for dinner.

• Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi that he had overheard Zhao Tian reveal that Ji Yanzhi had secretly been eating vegetables for his sake.
• Ji Ting asked whether Wang Mian's hurtful words had made Ji Yanzhi skip dinner, and Ji Yanzhi admitted he blamed himself for losing to Ji Shize.
• Ji Ting explained that Ji Shize had exploited Ji Yanzhi's concern for Wang Mian to limit his choices, and Ji Yanzhi realized Ji Ting was comforting him.
• Ji Ting confessed that he cared about Ji Yanzhi a little, making Ji Yanzhi jump up and demand to hear the confession again.
• Ji Yanzhi sat beside Ji Ting for dinner, and Ji Ting pointed out that his excuse about the damaged chair was a lie.

Ji Ting contacted Director Chang and made arrangements for a possible visit to the 13th Institute while waiting for news about Wang Mian. Two days later, Ji Shize confronted Ji Yanzhi over Wang Mian’s missing handover, just as Director Chang arrived to see Ji Yanzhi.

• Ji Yanzhi told Ling Xi to stop freeloading at the Ji Family, and Ling Xi replied that Uncle Ji had asked him to stay before slamming his bedroom door.
• Ji Ting asked Wang Bin to monitor Wang Mian, then called Director Chang to discuss a matter and agreed to visit the 13th Institute another day.
• Ji Ting called Xu Ren and confirmed that Xu Ren could come help whenever needed.
• After Wang Mian failed to return for two days, Ji Shize confronted Ji Yanzhi and warned that Human Resources would issue a final notice about Wang Mian’s handover and confidentiality obligations.
• Fang Jie told Ji Yanzhi that Director Chang from the Electronic Science and Technology Research Institute had arrived, and Ji Yanzhi asked Fang Jie to escort him upstairs.

Director Chang arrived at Shili with state-approved documents appointing Wang Mian to lead a technology project, overturning Ji Shize’s attempt to keep him suspended. After Ji Yanzhi showed Director Chang the surveillance video, Chang ordered Shili to reinstate Wang Mian.

• Director Chang arrived at Ji Yanzhi’s office and refused to meet with Ji Shize, asking instead for Wang Mian.
• Ji Yanzhi realized Ji Ting had likely contacted Director Chang, while Ji Shize suspected the visit would undermine his plans.
• Director Chang revealed that Wang Mian had been approved to lead a project, and Ji Yanzhi explained that Wang Mian had been suspended.
• Ji Yanzhi showed Director Chang a video of Wang Mian attacking Li Tianhua after Li Tianhua dismissed Huaguo’s technological ambitions.
• Ji Yanzhi told Director Chang that Ji Shize had made the decision to suspend Wang Mian.
• Director Chang declared that the state had appointed Wang Mian to lead the technology’s research and development and ordered Shili to bring him back.

Ji Yanzhi arranged for Wang Mian to meet Director Chang of the 13th Institute about a technology collaboration, despite Wang Mian being missing and drunk. After finally arriving in a chaotic state, Wang Mian read the proposal and began to cry, while Ji Yanzhi remained troubled by fears that Ji Ting might disappear.

• Director Chang insisted that Wang Mian handle the collaboration, and Ji Yanzhi agreed to contact him.
• Wang Bin found Wang Mian drunk at home and brought him to headquarters, where Xu Ren accidentally forced too much refreshing balm up his nose while trying to wake him.
• While waiting, Ji Yanzhi recalled Wang Mian's suggestion that Ji Ting had come from the future and might one day leave.
• Wang Bin and Xu Ren brought the disheveled Wang Mian to meet Director Chang, who handed him the collaboration document.
• Wang Mian read the document and began sobbing, leaving Ji Yanzhi disgusted and embarrassed.

Ji Yanzhi secured government support for Shili’s smart vehicle division and confronted Wang Mian after he apologized and asked to meet Ji Ting. At the Old Residence, Ji Yanzhi confessed that he had never liked Ling Xi and asked Ji Ting whether he had ever truly loved him.

• Director Chang and Wang Mian discussed government funding and policy support for Shili’s new energy vehicle business with Ji Yanzhi.
• Wang Mian apologized to Ji Yanzhi for his past behavior and asked to see Ji Ting, but Ji Yanzhi assigned Xu Ren to explain the technology instead.
• Director Chang learned from Xu Ren that Ji Ting had built a supercomputer, and Xu Ren asked him to keep the information quiet.
• Ji Yanzhi returned to the Old Residence and reflected on his fear of losing what he cherished before deciding to take a chance.
• Ji Ting came to call Ji Yanzhi to dinner, and Ji Yanzhi pulled him inside, said he had never liked Ling Xi, and asked whether Ji Ting had ever truly loved him.

Ji Yanzhi tried to find out whether Ji Ting was jealous of Ling Xi, but his questions and attention to Wang Mian only made Ji Ting grow angrier. After Ji Ting refused to share a bed, Ji Yanzhi waited up and offered him a bank card to make up for Ling Xi’s gifts, only to hear Ji Ting’s inner voice call him especially hateful.

• Ji Yanzhi questioned Ji Ting about his feelings for Ling Xi, and Ji Ting pointed out that Ji Yanzhi treated Ling Xi well because he felt responsible for him.
• At dinner, Ji Yanzhi asked Ji Ting about Wang Mian and his suspension, but Ji Ting answered coldly and left the table.
• Ji Ting told Ji Yanzhi he did not want to sleep with him that night and went to the Game Room.
• Ji Yanzhi waited up for Ji Ting, then offered him a bank card so he could buy gifts worth more than the ones Ji Yanzhi had bought Ling Xi.
• Ji Ting’s inner voice declared that Ji Yanzhi was especially hateful today.

After Ji Ting rejected Ji Yanzhi’s bank card and sent him away, Ji Yanzhi spent a sleepless night worrying that his younger brother hated him. He sought Shen Mu Lan’s advice, but Shen Mu Lan condemned his attempt to make amends.

• Ji Ting refused Ji Yanzhi’s bank card and told him to leave, and Ji Yanzhi returned to his room feeling abandoned.
• Ji Yanzhi spent the night tossing and turning, then learned that Ji Ting had already eaten and gone to play games.
• Ji Yanzhi drove to Shen Mu Lan’s home early and asked whether he should feel guilty that Ji Ting was angry about a gift.
• Ji Yanzhi reluctantly explained what he had done, and Shen Mu Lan criticized him for giving Ji Ting a bank card without understanding his feelings.

Shen Mu Lan helped Ji Yanzhi realize how his promise to care for Ling Xi looked to Ji Ting, and Ji Yanzhi decided to explain it. Meanwhile, Ji Ting inspected a laboratory for his plan to return to his original world, and Ji Yanzhi tried to reach him about lunch.

• Shen Mu Lan challenged Ji Yanzhi to consider how he would react if Ji Ting still cared for Ling Xi, and Ji Yanzhi explained that his late mother had asked him to protect Ling Xi.
• Ji Yanzhi said he would tell Ji Ting the truth, then left Mulan Cloud Residence after Shen Mu Lan mistakenly advised him to let the conflict cool off.
• Ji Yanzhi pulled over and messaged Ji Ting to ask what he wanted for lunch.
• Ji Ting inspected a laboratory and considered how it could support his work to find a way back to his original world.
• Ji Ting received Ji Yanzhi's message asking whether he would eat if Ji Yanzhi cooked.