Chapter Summaries

After the Divorce Comeback System appeared before him at age eighteen, Jiang Nian accepted its first task: reconnect with his childhood friend Xu Qianqian for a reward of 300 RMB. He went straight to her door, where she angrily confronted him.

• Jiang Nian refused Le Zhi’s invitation to Zhou Yuting’s gathering, still angry about hearing classmates mock him at her birthday dinner.
• A system showed Jiang Nian a bleak future involving a failed marriage, and he chose to activate it despite being only eighteen.
• The system assigned Jiang Nian the task of reestablishing contact with Xu Qianqian and offered him 300 RMB.
• Jiang Nian knocked loudly on Xu Qianqian’s door and shouted for her, prompting her to open it and tell him to get lost.

Jiang Nian received money from a mysterious quest system and prepared an elaborate dinner for his parents, Xu Qianqian, and her father. His mother, Li Hongmei, questioned how he had paid for the expensive meal, and Jiang Nian blamed his earnings on a game.

• Jiang Nian saw a quest reward for reconnecting with Xu Qianqian and confirmed that 300 RMB had appeared in his account.
• The system rewarded Jiang Nian with 500 RMB after he paid his household utility bills, then tasked him with making his parents a sumptuous dinner.
• Jiang Nian bought ingredients at the wet market and cooked several dishes, planning portions for Xu Qianqian and her father, Director Xu.
• Li Hongmei returned home, found Jiang Nian's elaborate meal, and asked where he had gotten the money for it.
• Jiang Nian told Li Hongmei that he had earned the money by playing a game.

Jiang Nian cooked a lavish dinner for his family and Xu Qianqian, completing a task and earning 800 RMB. After dinner, his system assigned him running tasks to improve his health, leaving him with a new way to earn money.

• Li Hongmei questioned Jiang Nian about making money from games, then praised him for cooking and sent him to invite Xu Qianqian to dinner.
• Jiang Nian barged into Xu Qianqian's apartment, where she had been trying on a school uniform skirt, and invited her to eat her favorite lotus leaf-steamed chicken.
• Jiang Weizheng and Xu Qianqian were surprised to hear Jiang Nian could earn money from games, while Jiang Weizheng remembered his father's cooking as better than Jiang Nian's.
• Jiang Nian received an 800 RMB reward for making a lavish dinner, and Jiang Weizheng realized he had also paid the utility bills.
• After Xu Qianqian went home, Jiang Nian saw new system tasks offering rewards for running two, three, and five kilometers without stopping.

Jiang Nian completed a ten-kilometer morning run for the system’s rewards, spent much of his earnings on shoes for his family, and brought home breakfast for his mother. He left her surprised by his effort to take care of the family.

• Jiang Nian spent 1,300 yuan buying leather shoes for his father, sneakers for his mother, and two pairs for himself.
• Jiang Weizheng and Li Hongmei worried that Jiang Nian’s new income might come from an improper source, though they knew the gaming company was legitimate.
• Jiang Nian ran five kilometers, received 1,000 yuan, then finished another five kilometers and received 2,000 yuan.
• Jiang Nian bought breakfast for the family and returned home as Li Hongmei was getting up.
• Jiang Nian told Li Hongmei that he would take care of breakfast from then on.

Li Hongmei delightedly told her coworkers that Jiang Nian had earned money and bought her breakfast, while Jiang Nian brought breakfast to Xu Qianqian and asked her to teach him English vocabulary. After completing a system quest, he received Memory Bread and began planning how to use its five-hour memorization effect, starting with a vocabulary list.

• Li Hongmei told her coworkers that Jiang Nian had earned money over summer break and refused to let her make breakfast.
• Jiang Nian brought Xu Qianqian breakfast and asked to copy her homework, then discussed his poor grades and the college entrance exam with her.
• Jiang Nian asked Xu Qianqian to teach him how to memorize vocabulary, completing a system quest for five hours of enhanced memory.
• Jiang Nian received Memory Bread and decided to use its effect to improve his exam preparation.
• Jiang Nian opened his vocabulary list and began with the word “abandon.”

Jiang Nian used his photographic memory to study and began evening self-study with his English vocabulary already memorized. Xu Qianqian was stunned when he agreed to avoid Zhou Yuting’s crowd, and he ended the evening working through English practice questions.

• Jiang Nian used his photographic memory to memorize school material and tried on the new sneakers delivered to his home.
• Xu Qianqian waited for Jiang Nian, questioned him about abandoning his vocabulary book, and watched him set aside his other study booklets.
• Jiang Nian agreed with Xu Qianqian that he should stop hanging around Zhou Yuting and her crowd.
• Xu Qianqian spent evening self-study wondering why Jiang Nian had suddenly wised up.
• Jiang Nian worked through English practice questions after memorizing all 3,500 college entrance exam vocabulary words.

Jiang Nian studied hard, showed Xu Qianqian that he had memorized the college entrance exam vocabulary, and agreed to let her tutor him in math. The system then revealed Zhou Haifei as a potential romantic rival for Xu Qianqian and assigned Jiang Nian a mission to make him give up on her.

• Jiang Nian decided to focus on his studies and ignored Zhou Yuting's clique during evening self-study.
• Jiang Nian walked past Zhou Yuting without stopping, and she later saw him walking closely with Xu Qianqian.
• Xu Qianqian tested Jiang Nian on vocabulary, and he answered the words effortlessly.
• Jiang Nian told Xu Qianqian he had pretended to be less capable to fit in, and she agreed to tutor him in math.
• Jiang Nian told Xu Qianqian he no longer liked Zhou Yuting, and the system revealed a mission to defeat Zhou Haifei for a reward of 5,000 RMB.

Jiang Nian examined a system mission about a romantic rival while growing closer to Xu Qianqian and learning his parents were worried about his studies. The chapter ended when Xu Qianqian revealed that Zhou Haifei, whom Jiang Nian had assumed was a boy, was a girl in her class.

• Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian discussed a poem about changing the future, and Xu Qianqian offered him English practice papers.
• Jiang Nian's parents appreciated the shoes he bought them, then decided to wait for his monthly exam results before discussing his gaming and studies.
• Jiang Nian brought Xu Qianqian breakfast, and they walked to school together while teasing each other.
• Jiang Nian asked Xu Qianqian about Zhou Haifei, and she told him Zhou Haifei was a girl in her class.

Jiang Nian tried to figure out how to approach the system mission involving Zhou Haifei while preparing for the placement exam so he could leave his current class. The exam began, and he noticed the pretty girl sitting in front of him.

• Jiang Nian visited Xu Qianqian's classroom, asked her about a math problem, and learned which student was Zhou Haifei.
• Xu Qianqian pointed out Zhou Haifei, a bespectacled girl who briefly met Jiang Nian's gaze before looking back at her homework.
• Jiang Nian spent three days studying math for the placement exam and rejected Le Zhi's invitation to barbecue with their former group.
• Jiang Nian arrived at the exam room for the placement exam, where a pretty girl sitting in front of him handed back his answer sheet.

Jiang Nian finished the placement exams feeling confident that he had performed well, then ignored Zhou Yuting’s request for help and carried Xu Qianqian’s books instead. As he and Xu Qianqian headed home, she warned that he might need at least 550 points to move up a class, and he asked to compare their English answers.

• Jiang Nian completed the exams and estimated that he had scored at least 540 points, enough to give him a chance of entering the science Olympiad Class.
• Jiang Nian thanked Zhang Ningzhi for lending him an eraser and gave her a carton of milk with fruit bits.
• Zhou Yuting asked Jiang Nian to carry her books and Sun Yingying’s, but he refused and went to help Xu Qianqian instead.
• Jiang Nian carried Xu Qianqian’s books, and she told him that moving up from a lower class usually required 550 points because some students stayed in the Olympiad Class through connections.
• Jiang Nian asked Xu Qianqian how she had done in English and whether she had earned full marks again.

Le Zhi defended Jiang Nian after classmates insulted him and his family, while Liu Feipeng used Zhou Yuting’s hopes of moving up to the Olympiad Class to ingratiate himself with her. Later, Jiang Nian helped Xu Qianqian treat her sprained ankle.

• At a barbecue, the students mocked Jiang Nian for staying away, and their insults escalated to disparaging his mother.
• Le Zhi stood up for Jiang Nian, left three hundred yuan on the table, and walked away; Zhou Yuting stopped another student from confronting him.
• Liu Feipeng reassured Zhou Yuting that a score of 530 might let her move up and offered to speak to the head of year through his father.
• At the Xu family home, Jiang Nian teased Xu Qianqian about twisting her ankle and insisted on applying liniment to it.
• Xu Qianqian reluctantly extended her foot, and Jiang Nian began rubbing the liniment into her swollen ankle.

Jiang Nian cared for Xu Qianqian’s sprained ankle while puzzling over a task that unexpectedly awarded him 5,000 RMB. At school, his returned exam scores showed a sharp improvement, leaving Zhou Yuting uneasy.

• Jiang Nian massaged Xu Qianqian’s sprained ankle, and Xu Zewen later came home and checked on her.
• The next morning, Jiang Nian brought Xu Qianqian breakfast and medicine, then drove her to school on his scooter.
• Jiang Nian discovered that his task to defeat Zhou Haifei had been marked complete, and his bank balance rose by 5,000 RMB.
• Jiang Nian received 110 in Chinese and 112 in math, surprising nearby classmates and worrying Zhou Yuting.
• Jiang Nian treated Xu Qianqian’s ankle at noon, then received a combined science score of 210.

Jiang Nian’s strong science scores put him second in the incomplete class ranking, while classmates speculated about his sudden improvement. After receiving a new task that required buying gym sessions, he got permission to leave school, and Song Xiyun learned her mother planned to quit her gym job.

• Jiang Nian placed second in the incomplete ranking with 432 points, behind Wang Jie’s 437.
• While Jiang Nian treated Xu Qianqian’s ankle, Song Xiyun teased them about being a couple and called Jiang Nian “Daddy.”
• Classmates discussed Jiang Nian’s improvement, while Zhou Yuting calculated that English scores could determine who earned the class’s promotion spot.
• Jiang Nian received a task to obtain a gym membership and buy at least thirty training sessions for a reward of twenty thousand yuan.
• Jiang Nian persuaded his homeroom teacher to let him leave school, and the teacher approved after seeing his scores.
• Song Xiyun told Xu Qianqian that her mother planned to quit her job at the gym.

Jiang Nian went looking for a gym to buy a membership, but the receptionist at Visno Fitness refused to let him in and provoked an argument. After instructor Zhao Qiuxue led him outside and apologized, Jiang Nian brought the conversation back to buying a membership.

• Jiang Nian rode a shared bicycle to Visno Fitness, where he arrived muddy and with a scraped elbow.
• The receptionist, Wenwen, told Jiang Nian he could not enter without a membership, even though he said he wanted to buy one.
• Jiang Nian argued with Wenwen, cursed at her, and invoked his uncle’s connection to the public security bureau.
• Zhao Qiuxue told Wenwen she had completed her departure paperwork, then led Jiang Nian outside and explained that she had started at a new gym.
• Zhao Qiuxue apologized to Jiang Nian, but he asked whether they were still going to discuss buying a membership.

Jiang Nian’s unexpected gym purchase left him with twenty thousand yuan, while Song Xiyun learned that he had bought sessions from her mother, Zhao Qiuxue. The next morning, Jiang Nian helped Xu Qianqian with her ankle before the English teacher announced the class’s poor exam results.

• Jiang Nian celebrated the money he had gained, while Xu Qianqian cried alone as she applied medicine to her ankle.
• Zhao Qiuxue told Song Xiyun that Jiang Nian had bought a gym membership and thirty training sessions, and Song Xiyun resolved to ask him about it.
• Jiang Nian discovered his parents discussing their household accounts late at night, but Li Hongmei sent him back to bed.
• Jiang Nian brought Xu Qianqian breakfast and helped treat her ankle before they were separated by the rush of students arriving at school.
• The English teacher arrived with exam papers and announced that only three students had scored above 130.

Jiang Nian expected to be one of his class’s top English scorers, but he stunned everyone by earning 141 and pushing his total above 570. Zhou Yuting’s hopes of ranking first were shaken as the class celebrated Jiang Nian’s result.

• The English teacher announced scores, including Chen Niannian’s 131, Zhao Fangfei’s 137, and Zhou Yuting’s 127.
• Zhou Yuting assumed she would still rank first and wondered whether Jiang Nian’s score had been called.
• The English teacher revealed that Jiang Nian had earned the class’s highest English score, 141, and called him to collect his paper.
• The class erupted in cheers as students realized Jiang Nian’s total exceeded 570.
• The English teacher praised Jiang Nian and urged the class to follow his advice to memorize the college entrance exam vocabulary.
• Jiang Nian became embarrassed when the teacher revealed that he had often done math during English class.

After Jiang Nian scored 573 and impressed his classmates, Song Xiyun confronted him about signing up for gym training through her mother. A system task then urged him to buy sixty more training sessions for a reward of 30,000 RMB.

• Jiang Nian scored 140 in English, and classmates admired his result while Zhou Yuting worried that he had ruined her chance to move up to the Olympiad Class.
• Song Xiyun took Jiang Nian aside and asked what he had done the previous night, then learned he had scored 573.
• Song Xiyun revealed that her mother had told her Jiang Nian bought gym sessions, and Jiang Nian denied being interested in her mother.
• Song Xiyun accepted Jiang Nian's explanation and left to tell Qianqian about his score.
• A system task told Jiang Nian to purchase another sixty training sessions for a reward of 30,000 RMB.

Jiang Nian confirmed that he wanted to move up after scoring 573, despite his homeroom teacher’s effort to persuade him to stay. Zhou Yuting learned that she was unlikely to get the only available spot and decided to find a way to make Jiang Nian give it up.

• Jiang Nian waited to hear about moving up while his classmates praised his memorization and assumed he would advance.
• Jiang Nian’s homeroom teacher asked whether he wanted to move up, and Jiang Nian confirmed that he did and asked whether he could choose his new class.
• Jiang Nian told Xu Qianqian that he wanted to join her class so he could be closer to her, and she blushed before telling him not to come.
• The homeroom teacher told Zhou Yuting that Jiang Nian had scored forty points more than her and had already claimed the class’s sole available spot.
• Zhou Yuting asked what would happen if Jiang Nian gave up his spot, then left the office saying she would figure something out herself.

Zhou Yuting begged Jiang Nian to give up his chance to move up a class, offering to date him after the college entrance exam, but he rejected her and said he had stopped liking her. Jiang Nian walked away with Xu Qianqian, who asked what they had discussed.

• Jiang Nian left evening study and tried to avoid Zhou Yuting, who stopped him to talk about moving up a class.
• Zhou Yuting followed Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian outside and begged Jiang Nian to give her his place so she could pursue her dream of attending Luda University.
• Zhou Yuting offered to date Jiang Nian after the college entrance exam, but he refused and told her he had stopped liking her two months earlier.
• Jiang Nian left with Xu Qianqian, who asked what Zhou Yuting had said, and he told her that Zhou Yuting had asked to date him in secret.

Jiang Nian teased Xu Qianqian and Zhou Yuting, learned his parents were discussing a clan renovation, and secured a place in Science Olympiad Class 3. He left school in the evening for a lesson, and Zhao Qiuxue arrived to pick him up.

• Jiang Nian joked with Xu Qianqian about her cousin finding love, then heard his parents sighing at home but was told to go to bed.
• Jiang Nian learned from Old Jiang that the family clan was collecting money to renovate the ancestral hall and offered to contribute.
• Jiang Nian brushed off Zhou Yuting when she said she knew he was still mad, telling her he was moving up instead.
• Jiang Nian found out he was the only student from his class on the preliminary transfer list and had been assigned to Science Olympiad Class 3, A403.
• Jiang Nian got leave from his homeroom teacher, called Zhao Qiuxue for a ride, and waited outside the county high school for his lesson.
• Zhao Qiuxue arrived on her motorcycle and invited Jiang Nian to hop on.