Chapter Summaries

Qin Chuxia argued with her mother, Xia Yuwei, about Chen Lin and learned that he had been fired from Changfeng Securities for allegedly leaking client information. The next day, Su Mei impressed Chen Lin and project manager Chang Chenghu with her construction-planning expertise, before village Party secretary Chen Guoguang approached them with three villagers.

• Qin Chuxia left Chen Lin after securing his WeChat contact and rode away in a Rolls-Royce with her mother, Xia Yuwei.
• Qin Chuxia scolded Xia Yuwei for offering Chen Lin money, then insisted she still wanted to marry him despite his girlfriend, Song Qiuya.
• Xia Yuwei showed Qin Chuxia a photo of Chen Lin and Song Qiuya kissing and told her Chen Lin had been fired from Changfeng Securities for leaking client information.
• Qin Chuxia insisted Chen Lin had been framed, and Xia Yuwei said she had asked Qin Chuxia's father to investigate.
• The next day, Chen Lin introduced Su Mei as the resort project's general manager to Chang Chenghu, who showed them around the construction site.
• Su Mei pointed out design flaws and proposed improvements, impressing Chang Chenghu, before Chen Guoguang arrived with three villagers.

Chen Lin encouraged three village elders to start businesses serving the growing number of tourists in Chen Family Village. Later, he discovered that the male Scaly-sided Merganser had brought him a live fish, suggesting the bird might be unusually intelligent.

• Three village elders asked Chen Lin whether they could open a convenience store and a guesthouse.
• Chen Lin approved their plans and suggested other businesses, saying he wanted every household in Chen Family Village to prosper.
• Chen Guoguang and the elders praised Chen Lin, and Chen Lin returned to the farmhouse restaurant grounds.
• Chen Lin inspected the vegetable plot and orchard, then noticed the Scaly-sided Mergansers swimming close to shore.
• The largest male merganser caught a crucian carp and placed it in Chen Lin's palm, leaving Chen Lin wondering whether it had developed intelligence.

Chen Lin considered adding a wildlife park to his resort and, after Su Mei streamlined the farmhouse restaurant, asked Li Xiaoyue to oversee the finances for his company. Li Xiaoyue panicked at the responsibility, but Chen Lin reassured her that he trusted her completely.

• Chen Lin accepted the merganser's fish, met its ducklings, and considered creating a wildlife park for the resort.
• Su Mei introduced QR-code ordering and payment at the farmhouse restaurant, reducing Li Xiaoyue's workload.
• Chen Lin took Li Xiaoyue to see the construction site and described plans for the floating restaurant, parking lot, and campground.
• Chen Lin asked Li Xiaoyue to oversee the company's finances, and she protested that she was not capable of managing such an important role.
• Chen Lin reminded Li Xiaoyue that he trusted only her and explained that her kindness had helped him through his grief years earlier.

After putting Yicheng's operations in order, Chen Lin drove to Shanghai to settle old scores with Wang Lei and Li Wei, bringing Qingfeng and Mingyue along. In Shanghai, Qin Chuxia learned that the investigation into Changfeng Securities had found no proof against Chen Lin, just as Xia Yuwei announced that he had arrived.

• Chen Lin reassured Li Xiaoyue that he trusted her with the company's finances, then decided to go to Shanghai to deal with Wang Lei and Li Wei.
• Chen Lin drove to Shanghai, checked into the Grand Hyatt Hotel, and used Qingfeng and Mingyue's abilities to hide them from the staff.
• Qin Chuxia welcomed Qin Changjiang home and asked about the investigation into Changfeng Securities.
• Qin Changjiang told Qin Chuxia that the investigation had uncovered suspicious points but no concrete evidence against Chen Lin.
• Xia Yuwei came downstairs and told Qin Chuxia that her sweetheart had arrived in Shanghai.

Qin Chuxia confessed that she liked Chen Lin and offered to help with Wang Lei, but Chen Lin insisted on handling the matter himself. At Lujiazui Financial Center, Chen Lin used Clear Wind and Bright Moon’s illusion to make Wang Lei reveal how he had framed him, including the people and foreign recipient involved.

• Qin Chuxia told Chen Lin that her family controlled Changfeng Securities and confessed that she liked him.
• Qin Chuxia revealed that Wang Lei was getting engaged to Li Wei at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, but Chen Lin refused her offer to have Wang Lei fired.
• Chen Lin went to Lujiazui Financial Center and used Clear Wind to take control of Wang Lei.
• Chen Lin recorded Wang Lei confessing that he had planted Liu Xinjian’s stock holdings and trading records on Chen Lin’s computer.
• Wang Lei said Li Yang had cracked Chen Lin’s passwords and replaced the office surveillance footage with a recording of an empty room.
• Wang Lei confessed that he gave the data to Low Market Wanmiao at Ruanyin Trust, received four million, paid Li Yang one million, and that Deputy General Manager Cai received five million.

Chen Lin exposed Wang Lei’s dealings with foreign capital and gathered evidence before interrupting Wang Lei’s engagement banquet with a recording of his confession. The video began to reveal that Wang Lei had framed Chen Lin, leaving the banquet guests in an uproar.

• Chen Lin questioned Wang Lei and recovered a recording, chat logs, and transfer receipts documenting Wang Lei’s dealings with Li Yang, Vice President Cai, and Low Market Wanmiao.
• Wang Lei woke in a restroom without remembering how he got there and went to his engagement banquet with Li Wei.
• Chen Lin attended the banquet with Qin Chuxia, who had the hotel’s equipment placed under her control.
• As Wang Lei and Li Wei celebrated onstage, a video of Wang Lei in the hotel restroom appeared on the big screen.
• The recording showed Wang Lei admitting that he had sent Liu Xinjian’s stock holdings and trading records from Chen Lin’s computer, and the guests began accusing him of framing Chen Lin.

Wang Lei’s recorded confession exposed his role in selling client information to foreign interests, triggering outrage at the banquet and leaving his father stricken and Cai Chenggong unconscious. Chen Lin confronted Wang Lei after he accused him of fabricating the video, then displayed chat logs on the screen.

• Wang Lei’s recorded account named Li Yang as the person who tampered with the surveillance footage and revealed that Cai Chenggong had received five million for the data sale.
• The banquet guests condemned Wang Lei as a traitor, his father collapsed, and Cai Chenggong fainted while trying to leave.
• Wang Lei shouted that the video was AI-generated and accused Chen Lin of setting him up.
• Chen Lin entered with Qin Chuxia, stopped Wang Lei from grabbing him, and sent him staggering to the floor.
• Chen Lin took the microphone and asked whether Wang Lei would also claim that the chat logs he was about to show had been fabricated.
• Qin Chuxia tapped her tablet, and screenshots of Green Bubble chat logs appeared on the screen.

Chen Lin exposed Wang Lei, Cai Chenggong, and Li Yang’s crimes at the engagement banquet, leading to their arrest. After Li Wei tried to win Chen Lin back, Qin Chuxia claimed his side and scornfully rejected her.

• Chen Lin displayed chat logs and a bank transfer showing Wang Lei had accepted money tied to the scheme against Liu Xinjian.
• Qin Chuxia played a recording of Low Market Wanmiao thanking Wang Lei for helping Ruanyin Trust fund her sister’s political campaign in Little Japan.
• Police arrested Wang Lei on suspicion of leaking trade secrets, embezzlement, and endangering national economic security, and ordered Cai Chenggong and Li Yang taken as well.
• Li Wei apologized to Chen Lin and asked him to forgive her, while eyeing his expensive suit and watch.
• Qin Chuxia wrapped her arm around Chen Lin and told Li Wei she was blind before and was not worthy of him now.

At the banquet, Chen Lin left Li Wei behind after she made a humiliating scene, while Qin Churan investigated the inexplicable way Wang Lei had confessed. Back at the hotel, Chen Lin agreed to take Qin Chuxia out for dinner, though her question about his remark embarrassed her.

• Qin Chuxia interrupted Li Wei by saying Wang Lei had checked her educational background, and Li Wei reacted with an outburst that baffled the guests.
• Chen Lin silently ordered Clear Wind to trip Li Wei as she chased him, then left the banquet hall with Qin Chuxia while Li Wei fell and sobbed.
• Qin Churan watched Wang Lei's strange confession video and asked Li Xin whether drugs or hypnosis could make someone reveal everything, but Li Xin said neither could.
• At the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Chen Lin urged Qin Chuxia to go home, but she asked him to take her out because she was hungry.
• Chen Lin agreed to treat Qin Chuxia to dinner, and she blushed when she asked what he had meant by saying Wang Lei checked Li Wei's educational background.

Chen Lin drove Qin Chuxia’s Ferrari LaFerrari to his favorite barbecue restaurant near Modu Jiaotong University, where the owner barely recognized his transformed appearance. The two shared a meal in a private room, with Qin Chuxia eagerly enjoying barbecue after skipping food all day.

• Qin Chuxia handed Chen Lin the Ferrari key, and he drove her LaFerrari out of the hotel garage despite his limited experience with powerful cars.
• Chen Lin drove Qin Chuxia through Magic City to a barbecue restaurant near his former university.
• The Ferrari and the couple drew attention at the night market, and restaurant owner Wang was shocked by Chen Lin’s changed appearance.
• Wang led Chen Lin and Qin Chuxia to an upstairs private room, where they waited for their barbecue order.
• Chen Lin offered Qin Chuxia a pork belly skewer, and she eagerly began eating.

After Qin Chuxia and Chen Lin left a barbecue restaurant, Qin Feng tried to borrow his sister’s Ferrari LaFerrari for a race. When Qin Chuxia refused, Chen Lin offered to race in Qin Feng’s place despite having no racing experience, and Qin Feng agreed.

• Qin Feng pretended his sister’s Ferrari LaFerrari was his while posing for photos, then admitted he did not have its keys.
• Qin Feng asked Qin Chuxia to lend him the car for an important race, but she refused.
• Qin Feng called Chen Lin “brother-in-law” and praised Qin Chuxia until she stomped on his foot and threatened him.
• Qin Chuxia offered to race for Qin Feng, but he objected that their father would punish him if she raced.
• Chen Lin volunteered to race, and Qin Feng agreed despite learning that Chen Lin had never raced before.

Chen Lin raced at Magic City International Racetrack and stunned the crowd with an impossibly fast start and a daring, controlled turn. Qin Chuxia watched in terror and disbelief as he continued to dominate the track.

• Qin Feng brought Qin Chuxia and Chen Lin to Magic City International Racetrack, where Bai Xiaojun prepared to race against Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin launched his Ferrari LaFerrari almost instantly after the starting pistol and left the other four cars far behind.
• Spectators marveled at Chen Lin's reaction time while Qin Feng cheered him on.
• Chen Lin entered the track's difficult hairpin without slowing, then guided the LaFerrari through a perfect arc.
• Qin Chuxia screamed through the turn, then stared at Chen Lin in disbelief at his calm, precise driving.

Chen Lin shattered the Magic City F1 Circuit record during a race, then rejected a lucrative offer to join the Silver Bridge Racing Team. As he left the stunned crowd behind, a system prompt asked whether he wanted to enter the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station.

• Chen Lin drove his LaFerrari through the race and set a track record of 1 minute, 27.523 seconds, beating the previous record by more than three seconds.
• Qin Chuxia recovered from the ride while Qin Feng and the other racers stared in disbelief and crowded around Chen Lin.
• Li Jianjun invited Chen Lin to join the Silver Bridge Racing Team, raising the offer from fifty million to seventy million a year.
• Chen Lin declined because he was not interested in racing professionally, but accepted Li Jianjun's business card as a courtesy.
• A notification appeared in Chen Lin's mind asking whether he wanted to enter the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station.

Chen Lin entered the expanded Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and found a magical bracelet that let him change his appearance. While searching the sorted scrap, he uncovered a bronze box containing the Imperial Seal of China.

• Chen Lin said goodbye to Qin Chuxia at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, and she asked to see him again before he returned to Yicheng.
• Chen Lin secured his hotel suite and entered the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station through a new spatial portal.
• Chen Lin searched the corpse pile and found the Shape-Shifting Vajra Bracelet, which he bound and tested by transforming into a tabby cat.
• Chen Lin searched the scrap-metal pile and found a bronze box identified as containing the Imperial Seal of China.

After Chen Lin’s record-breaking drive made him famous, Qin Chuxia invited him to lunch with her family. The visit ended when Qin Churan confronted him and demanded to know how he had driven so impossibly fast.

• Chen Lin finished sorting the transfer station’s garbage and returned to his suite at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
• Qin Chuxia called Chen Lin to tell him that his racing record and rejection of Li Jianjun’s offer had made him a trending sensation.
• Chen Lin accepted Qin Chuxia’s invitation to lunch with her parents and arrived at the Qin Family estate in Huazhou Junting.
• Qin Changjiang and Xia Yuwei welcomed Chen Lin, while Qin Feng called him “Brother-in-law” and praised his driving.
• Qin Churan arrived in her police uniform, confronted Chen Lin, and asked how he had achieved his extraordinary driving.

Chen Lin visited the Qin family, where Qin Churan tried to question him about Wang Lei but Qin Changjiang insisted everyone treat him as an honored guest. After Chen Lin declined Qin Changjiang’s offer of funding for his village plans, he left with Qin Chuxia without answering Qin Churan’s question.

• Qin Chuxia defended Chen Lin when Qin Churan demanded answers, and Qin Changjiang ordered Qin Churan to stop questioning him.
• Chen Lin impressed Qin Changjiang during lunch as Qin Chuxia fussed over him and Qin Feng praised him.
• Chen Lin described his plans for Chen Family Village, and Qin Changjiang offered to fund them, but Chen Lin declined.
• As Chen Lin prepared to leave, Qin Churan asked how he had made Wang Lei end up as he did, and Chen Lin teased her by refusing to tell.
• Qin Chuxia drove Chen Lin away in the Ferrari LaFerrari, leaving Qin Churan furious.

Chen Lin returned from Magic City to Chen Family Village, where his practice of the Taiyin Breathing Technique revealed greatly increased strength. As visitors overwhelmed his farmhouse courtyard, he prepared a restorative chicken soup for his exhausted family and staff, claiming it contained half a century-old wild ginseng.

• Chen Lin said goodbye to Qin Chuxia and drove back to Chen Family Village with Clear Wind and Bright Moon.
• Chen Lin practiced in the courtyard and lifted a water-filled stone vat weighing about a ton with one hand.
• Chen Lin's farmhouse courtyard drew over a thousand visitors in a day, forcing him to hire ten more women to help serve customers.
• Chen Lin made chicken soup for the exhausted workers and secretly added a drop of spirit spring water.
• Chen Lin claimed the soup contained half a century-old wild ginseng, and Chen Guofu reacted with astonishment.

Chen Lin shared ginseng chicken soup with his family, whose health and appearance improved dramatically by morning, then learned that Li Youtian and Li Hongwei were disrupting construction on the reservoir restaurant. He went to confront them and found Gao Qisheng trying to explain the lease contract before a hostile young man insulted him.

• Chen Lin served the costly chicken soup to Chen Guofu, Liu Shuqin, and Li Xiaoyue, and they eagerly finished it.
• The next morning, Chen Guofu, Liu Shuqin, and Li Xiaoyue discovered that their fatigue and aches had faded and their appearances had improved.
• Su Mei told Chen Lin that the company was registered and the parking lot and campground had opened, but villagers were blocking construction of the restaurant over the water.
• Chen Lin identified Li Youtian and Li Hongwei among the obstructionists and headed to the platform with Su Mei.
• Gao Qisheng cited the lease contract to the villagers, but a yellow-haired young man cut him off and insulted him.

Chen Lin confronted Li Youtian and Li Hongwei over their attempt to extort half the resort for three million, then sent Clear Wind and Bright Moon to frighten them. He entered the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and found an enormous mountain of corpses.

• Li Hongwei insulted Gao Qiqiang, prompting the Construction Group workers to surround the Mang Village men before Chen Lin and Su Mei arrived.
• Li Youtian claimed Chen Lin had concealed the resort plans and demanded half the resort shares in exchange for three million.
• Chen Lin ordered the workers to suspend construction and left, while Gao Qiqiang warned Li Youtian before departing with his men.
• Li Youtian and Li Hongwei decided to return to Mang Village and resume blocking construction if work started again.
• At midnight, Chen Lin sent Clear Wind and Bright Moon to scare Li Youtian and Li Hongwei, then entered the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station.
• Chen Lin discovered a vast mound of human and monstrous remains covering nearly half the station.

Chen Lin searched a load of battlefield garbage for valuables, then discovered and killed a newborn Red Moon Direwolf hiding inside a corpse. The station confirmed the beast’s death but gave him no reward.

• Chen Lin searched the garbage and looted corpses but found no valuable artifacts or storage items.
• Chen Lin heard a heartbeat coming from a mangled one-eyed giant wolf corpse and saw a smaller Red Moon Direwolf emerge from its abdomen.
• The transfer station ordered Chen Lin to eliminate the Red Moon Direwolf, and the beast lunged at him.
• Chen Lin wounded the Red Moon Direwolf with a broken sword, chased it down, and killed it with several blows.
• The station announced the Red Moon Direwolf’s elimination, but Chen Lin received no reward.