Chapter Summaries

Wang Xiaoliang searched for a suitable supermarket storefront near his home, then asked an Anyang Real Estate salesperson for help locating available shops. After learning the best-located shop would become an Anyang Snacks outlet, he went to Old Sichuan, where someone familiar arrived as he began eating.

• Wang Xiaoliang spent two days surveying shopping districts and residential areas, concluding that a larger supermarket in a residential community offered better value.
• Wang Xiaoliang walked around Ruijing Residential Community, then called an Anyang Real Estate salesperson for information about storefronts.
• The salesperson offered to send Wang Xiaoliang a list of sold storefronts and their owners' phone numbers, but told him the best-located shop would become an Anyang Snacks outlet.
• Wang Xiaoliang passed Li Laifu's former shop, saw that it was being renovated, and chose not to disturb Luo Bisheng at Bugbug Internet Cafe.
• Wang Xiaoliang ordered fried rice at Old Sichuan, where a familiar voice greeted him as someone entered.

Wang Xiaoliang reunited with Luo Bisheng, who worried that they had grown distant and urged him to seek help after learning the campus supermarket had been taken back. Luo Bisheng revealed that Hu Yang often asked about Wang Xiaoliang and told him to learn from him, leaving Wang Xiaoliang wondering why Hu Yang thought so highly of him.

• Luo Bisheng joined Wang Xiaoliang for a meal, shared his food, and offered him money when he mistook the egg fried rice for a sign that Wang was struggling.
• Luo Bisheng complained that Wang Xiaoliang had been avoiding him, and Wang explained he was giving him room to work, study for the graduate school entrance exam, and pursue Huanhuan.
• Wang Xiaoliang encouraged Luo Bisheng to make a move on Huanhuan, while Luo admitted that his planned bungee-jumping trip with Huanhuan and Jiajia had been postponed.
• Luo Bisheng confronted Wang Xiaoliang for hiding that the school had taken back his supermarket and urged him to ask Hu Yang for help.
• Luo Bisheng said Hu Yang often asked about Wang Xiaoliang and had praised his resilience, telling Luo to learn from him.

After Wang Xiaoliang and Wei Zijin visited Xiao Mo’s company, Wang reviewed and approved the contract for Zijin’s interview video, with a separate contract for each session. Xiao Mo then asked Wang to help manage the rapidly growing company, leaving him unsure how to respond.

• Xiao Mo invited Wang Xiaoliang and Wei Zijin to celebrate the interview and had them come to his company.
• Wang and Wei arrived to find a crowded, chaotic office where Nuomi handled much of the company’s day-to-day work.
• Xiao Mo said the celebration was for Wei Zijin’s interview video, which he expected to become popular.
• Nuomi brought Wang the contract, and Wang carefully reviewed it before agreeing to its terms on the condition that each session have a separate contract.
• Xiao Mo asked Wang to take on management duties and pointed out that Nuomi had graduated from Tsinghua and Peking.

Wang Xiaoliang and Wei Zijin visited Xiao Mo’s company, where they learned more about Nuomi’s education and saw the streamers at work. On the drive home, Wei Zijin received a rough cut from Old Ma and learned that Xiao Mo had given him a cash gift, then decided to transfer Old Ma a smaller amount.

• Nuomi explained that she had graduated from Tsinghua or Peking and declined Wei Zijin’s offer of an interview because she had camera fright.
• Nuomi insisted Wei Zijin name what she wanted to eat, and she and Wang Xiaoliang chose spicy hot pot.
• Wang Xiaoliang peered into the streaming rooms and saw a streamer presenting lipstick and another dancing in silence.
• Wei Zijin drove Wang Xiaoliang home and agreed with him that Xiao Mo’s hands-off management was unsettling and Nuomi seemed to be in charge.
• Wei Zijin received a rough cut from Old Ma, called him, and learned that Xiao Mo had given him a 2,000-yuan cash gift.
• Wei Zijin decided to transfer Old Ma 1,000 yuan and asked him to keep it private.

Wei Zijin explained why she shared red-envelope money with the crew, then agreed that Wang Xiaoliang could help Xiao Mo’s company for free while keeping his main focus on her. The next day, Xiao Mo accepted Wang Xiaoliang’s offer to learn from Nuomi and help with odd jobs.

• Wei Zijin told Wang Xiaoliang that she split private payments with the crew to maintain good working relationships and said Nuomi had secretly placed ten thousand yuan in her bag.
• Wang Xiaoliang asked whether he should help Xiao Mo manage the company, and Wei Zijin initially refused because it could complicate their work and business ties.
• Wang Xiaoliang proposed helping Xiao Mo for free to learn how the company operated, and Wei Zijin agreed on the condition that she remained his main job.
• The next day, Wang Xiaoliang went to Xiao Mo’s company, where he saw Nuomi preparing to interview assistants and noticed the office had been cleaned.
• Wang Xiaoliang told Xiao Mo he wanted to learn from Nuomi and help with odd jobs without taking a salary, and Xiao Mo agreed.

Wang Xiaoliang helped Nuomi clear and organize her crowded office, then delivered her script to Xiao Mo. After reading it, Xiao Mo asked Wang Xiaoliang whether Nuomi was talented.

• Wang Xiaoliang visited Nuomi's office and offered to help her, then moved boxes and cleaned with two cleaning ladies.
• Nuomi agreed to turn an adjoining dusty room into a sample storeroom and gave each cleaning lady a bonus.
• Wang Xiaoliang noticed top-tier brand logos on the boxes and wondered whether Xiao Mo had given Nuomi broad authority and trust.
• Nuomi handed Wang Xiaoliang her script to deliver to Xiao Mo when her period unexpectedly began.
• Wang Xiaoliang read Nuomi's script about young people paying into social insurance and brought it to Xiao Mo.
• Xiao Mo read the script and asked Wang Xiaoliang whether Nuomi was talented.

Wang Xiaoliang watched Nuomi interview applicants and realized that her quiet, helpful appearance had concealed her central role and exceptional ability at the company. Nuomi prepared to confront the impatient applicants waiting next door and decide whom to keep.

• Wang Xiaoliang asked Xiao Mo and Wang Xiaoliang to help find Nuomi a suitable match, and Wang Xiaoliang considered Huang Xueli.
• Nuomi ignored applicants who messaged her for directions, then gave three candidates forms and travel-expense envelopes after interviewing them.
• Nuomi explained that she judged candidates by whether they could find the interview room on their own, and Wang Xiaoliang recognized how badly he had misjudged her position and abilities.
• When applicants complained about waiting, Nuomi asked Wang Xiaoliang which candidate to reject and headed next door to consider the remaining applicants.

Nuomi screened assistant candidates by observing how they behaved, then sent four composed applicants to meet the company’s top influencers. Wang Xiaoliang discovered that Nuomi’s screensaver showed Shangguan Rui, Hu Yang’s woman.

• Nuomi selected applicants based on how they handled waiting, complaints, and speaking up, then gave six of them travel and lunch money after the initial screening.
• Nuomi told the four remaining candidates to approach the company’s top influencers and try to persuade them to hire them as assistants.
• Nuomi messaged Tongtong, Nana, and Xiao Yue'er to expect the candidates and choose assistants as they wished.
• Wang Xiaoliang discussed Nuomi’s careful approach to product trials and company reputation while sitting in her office.
• Wang Xiaoliang accidentally lit Nuomi’s computer screen and recognized Shangguan Rui in her screensaver photograph.

Wang Xiaoliang learned that Hu Yang had divorced Shangguan Rui and married Zhang Yujing, but his memories suggested the three had a more complicated history than Nuomi’s account implied. After connecting Zhang Yujing to a woman he had seen with Hu Yang before, he watched Nuomi hire Zhang Fei as her assistant on less generous terms than the other applicants.

• Nuomi told Wang Xiaoliang that Shangguan Rui had been her university idol and that Shangguan Rui and Hu Yang had divorced about two years earlier.
• Nuomi said Hu Yang had remarried Zhang Yujing, the wealthy chairman of Longing for Each Other Jewelry.
• Wang Xiaoliang recognized Zhang Yujing as the beautiful woman who had accompanied Hu Yang the first time they met, leaving him puzzled about the trio’s timeline.
• A returning applicant, Zhang Fei, told Nuomi that Xu Jiaojiao and Tongtong had stayed to talk with potential employers.
• Nuomi hired Zhang Fei as her assistant on a three-month probationary salary of five thousand, while the other applicants had been promised at least ten thousand.

Wang Xiaoliang and Wei Zijin watched Wei Zijin’s interview with Xiao Mo and considered how his story and sharp self-presentation could affect the show’s success. The episode ended with Xiao Mo inviting Wei Zijin to join his livestream and offering three pieces of advice for online creators.

• Wang Xiaoliang and Wei Zijin watched Xiao Mo describe how a local thug crippled him after a childhood friend sold his whereabouts, while another friend died protecting him.
• Wei Zijin explained that Xiao Mo’s account of organized crime could not be aired in full, and Xiao Mo recalled returning home to find that the men who attacked him had been punished but he still had nothing.
• Xiao Mo described visiting the paralyzed friend who betrayed him and said he had long feared only death or returning to begging.
• Xiao Mo compared his online followers to travelers who had supported him while he begged, presenting his influencer career as another way of asking people to keep him fed and clothed.
• Xiao Mo pressed Wei Zijin to join his livestream, and she agreed.
• Xiao Mo advised aspiring creators to choose a direction they enjoyed, swallow their pride, and persist to the end.

Wang Xiaoliang and Wei Zijin watched Xiao Mo’s video go viral and discussed their plans for his upcoming livestream, while Wang Xiaoliang worried about Zhou Qiang’s disappearance and considered how to work with Xiao Mo and Nuomi. After consulting his Book of Fate, he concluded that Nuomi might also be using money to gather other people’s fortune, so partnering with them would not leave him at a disadvantage.

• Wang Xiaoliang and Wei Zijin praised Xiao Mo’s video for turning his true story into compelling content and predicted it would attract huge traffic.
• Wang Xiaoliang told Wei Zijin how Nuomi had recruited a risky employee, and Wei Zijin warned him to keep his distance from her.
• Wang Xiaoliang urged Wei Zijin to ask Lanxiang indirect questions about Zhou Qiang’s disappearance because Lanxiang and her daughter seemed focused on the company shares rather than his return.
• Wang Xiaoliang refreshed the video statistics and saw its views, likes, comments, and shares soaring past a million views.
• Wang Xiaoliang read the Book of Fate’s advice about financial gain and decided he could accept a smaller profit share from Xiao Mo as long as Xiao Mo could not control him.
• Wang Xiaoliang recalled Nuomi paying rejected applicants and a cleaning lady generously, and suspected she had a Book of Fate and was buying other people’s fortune.

Wang Xiaoliang saw Xiao Mo’s viral videos and visited his company, where Nuomi had spent the night sorting product samples. Wei Zijin called with three lucrative offers from the television station, leaving Wang Xiaoliang stunned by her sudden success.

• Wang Xiaoliang watched Xiao Mo’s videos and recognized that Nuomi had written the script about social security.
• Wang Xiaoliang went to Xiao Mo’s company and found Nuomi working after an all-nighter to sort and return unsuitable samples.
• Nuomi told Wang Xiaoliang not to help the new assistant, Zhang Fei, and said they would finalize Wei Zijin’s product livestream details later.
• Wei Zijin told Wang Xiaoliang that she had received offers for a two-year eyewear endorsement, an opening ceremony appearance, and an exclusive author interview.
• Wang Xiaoliang calculated that Wei Zijin would earn 560,000 yuan from the three offers and congratulated her on her success.

Wang Xiaoliang and Nuomi coordinated Wei Zijin’s guest appearance on Xiao Mo’s livestream, which drew a large audience and generated twelve million in sales. After the team celebrated, Nuomi paid Wei Zijin her appearance fee and made Wang Xiaoliang accept his share.

• Wang Xiaoliang monitored Xiao Mo’s livestream while Nuomi and Zhang Fei managed the rundown and operations.
• Wei Zijin joined Xiao Mo on camera, and their scripted conversation warmed up the audience before they began selling products.
• Viewership reached around a hundred thousand as the livestream sold out products, ultimately bringing in twelve million in sales.
• Nuomi calculated that Wei Zijin earned a little over five hundred thousand after expenses, and the team celebrated with a late-night meal.
• Nuomi gave Wei Zijin a twenty-thousand appearance fee and stuffed a separate payment into Wang Xiaoliang’s pocket after he refused it.

After Wei Zijin’s successful appearance on Xiao Mo’s livestream, Xiao Mo and Nuomi proposed giving her an independent interview-style livestream. Nuomi also tested Wei Zijin’s loyalty while quietly monitoring Zhang Fei, whom Wang Xiaoliang suspected of trying to poach influencers.

• Xiao Mo praised Wei Zijin’s livestreaming ability and explained that he and Nuomi wanted her and Wang Xiaoliang to take over his company.
• Xiao Mo proposed an independent livestream for Wei Zijin built around conversations with celebrities and ordinary people, with products promoted naturally.
• Wang Xiaoliang agreed to follow Xiao Mo and Nuomi’s arrangements, and Wei Zijin answered that she would not move to another platform behind their backs.
• Nuomi asked how Zhang Fei had added Wei Zijin on WeChat, then remarked that Zhang was proactive at work.
• Wang Xiaoliang concluded that Zhang Fei was likely trying to learn from Nuomi and poach influencers, while Nuomi watched surveillance footage of her and told Wei Zijin they would make good friends.

After Wang Xiaoliang witnessed Nuomi secretly kiss the sleeping Xiao Mo, he told Wei Zijin, who questioned why Nuomi would hide her feelings. They left the matter aside and discussed how to spend their expected earnings, with Wang agreeing to buy Wei Zijin a thirty-thousand-yuan bag.

• Wei Zijin ignored the Female Writer’s repeated messages while Nuomi advised her to indulge the writer only if she had a budget.
• After five drinks, Xiao Mo fell asleep, and Wei Zijin and Wang Xiaoliang left Nuomi’s office.
• Wang Xiaoliang returned for Wei Zijin’s phone and saw Nuomi cover Xiao Mo with a blanket and kiss his cheek.
• Nuomi threatened to tell Wei Zijin that Xiao Yue'er liked Wang Xiaoliang if he told Xiao Mo what he had seen.
• Wang Xiaoliang told Wei Zijin about the kiss, and they wondered why Nuomi would keep her feelings secret.
• Wei Zijin said she wanted a thirty-thousand-yuan bag, and Wang Xiaoliang agreed to buy it.

Wang Xiaoliang learned more about Mimo Media’s livestream plans and helped Nuomi create a calligraphy sign. When Nuomi proposed making him a calligraphy influencer, he asked why she was so good to him, and her explanation about Xiao Mo left him shocked.

• Wei Zijin told Wang Xiaoliang that the station had given her a private office and assigned Lin Xiaohe as her assistant, and they agreed to keep Lin Xiaohe away from outside work for now.
• Nuomi explained the livestream strategy for Wei Zijin and Xiao Mo, including guest categories and how they would use the company’s main and alternate accounts.
• Wang Xiaoliang wrote “Mimo Media” in clerical script, and Nuomi chose the characters for the company’s elevator sign.
• Nuomi proposed turning Wang Xiaoliang into a calligraphy influencer and explained that she and Xiao Mo valued Wei Zijin as a star suited to their plans.
• Wang Xiaoliang asked why Nuomi was so good to him, and she said Xiao Mo had raised her from childhood before warning him not to call Xiao Mo her adoptive father.

Nuomi explained how Xiao Mo had raised her after her parents were gone, and how she built their successful company so he would never have to struggle again. She asked Wang Xiaoliang to keep their history secret because she was afraid of losing Xiao Mo, then guessed that Zijin feared losing Wang Xiaoliang for the same reason.

• Nuomi admitted she had handled nearly every job at the company so Xiao Mo would always need her, and Wang Xiaoliang realized why she feared being sent away.
• Nuomi told Wang Xiaoliang that her father died protecting Xiao Mo, her mother left, and Xiao Mo brought her to Jiangcheng and raised her while begging.
• Nuomi described leaving begging behind, excelling in school, getting into Tsinghua and Peking, and later building Xiao Mo's online-content business with him.
• Nuomi asked Wang Xiaoliang to keep her past secret and explained that she avoided confessing her feelings because she could not risk losing her only family.
• Nuomi inferred that Zijin had no parents and feared losing Wang Xiaoliang, leaving him silent as he considered her guess.

Nuomi agreed to a matchmaking introduction despite her feelings for Xiao Mo, while Wang Xiaoliang arranged for Zeng Haiyan to meet with him about a collaboration. Haiyan arrived at Mimo Media and impressed Xiao Mo with her social skills, leaving Wang Xiaoliang to return to his work as Xiao Mo invited him to celebratory drinks that night.

• Nuomi told Wang Xiaoliang to arrange a matchmaking introduction for her, saying she only wanted to make a friend and would be honest about the situation.
• Wang Xiaoliang asked Wei Zijin to contact Zeng Haiyan and invite her to Mimo Media to discuss a collaboration with Xiao Mo.
• Zeng Haiyan called Wang Xiaoliang and arranged to visit that afternoon, and he warned her to consider the collaboration carefully.
• Nuomi showed Wang Xiaoliang the Mimo Media sign mock-up, approved it, and asked Zhang Fei to have it made and installed.
• Zeng Haiyan arrived at Wang Xiaoliang's office with milk tea and tea for Xiao Mo, then met with Xiao Mo about the collaboration.
• Wang Xiaoliang left Xiao Mo and Zeng Haiyan to talk, and Xiao Mo said he would call him for celebratory drinks that night.

Wei Zijin’s livestreams and hosting career continued to grow, prompting Wang Xiaoliang to hire her an assistant and limit her workload. The chapter ended with Wei Zijin preparing to host the station’s New Year’s Eve gala.

• Zeng Haiyan signed a three-year livestream deal and gave Wang Xiaoliang and Wei Zijin two new iPhones to thank them.
• Wei Zijin hosted a successful livestream with Xu Ruyu, using the actress’s career struggles and skincare routine to build engaging product discussions.
• Nuomi proposed livestreaming every day, but Wang Xiaoliang insisted Wei Zijin host only twice a week to protect her health.
• As Wei Zijin’s work and invitations increased, Wang Xiaoliang hired Jin Huaqi as her personal assistant.
• The TV station chose Wei Zijin to host its New Year’s Eve gala for an appearance fee of two hundred thousand, and Wang Xiaoliang encouraged her before she went onstage.

Wang Xiaoliang and Nuomi arranged a blind date between Nuomi and Huang Xueli, but Xiao Mo and Huang Xueli dominated the conversation while Zeng Haiyan’s arrival redirected the gathering. After Huang Xueli left with Wang Xiaoliang, Nuomi gave him liquor to pass along, and he called Huang Xueli to ask when he had gotten together with Zeng Haiyan.

• Wang Xiaoliang and Nuomi hosted Huang Xueli at Xiao Mo’s office for a planned blind date, but Xiao Mo and Huang Xueli talked at length while Nuomi quietly approved of Huang Xueli.
• Zeng Haiyan arrived and invited everyone to dinner before her livestream, and Xiao Mo arranged for her and Wang Xiaoliang to bring back food while Huang Xueli stayed behind to drink with him.
• Zeng Haiyan drove recklessly to the restaurant, and Wang Xiaoliang took the wheel on the return trip after telling her he was scared of her driving.
• Nuomi stopped Xiao Mo from drinking too much because he had a livestream that night, while Huang Xueli and Xiao Mo agreed to meet again.
• After Huang Xueli left with Wang Xiaoliang, Nuomi gave Wang Xiaoliang a case of baijiu for Huang Xueli, and Wang Xiaoliang called him to ask when he had gotten together with Zeng Haiyan.