Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu helped Su Lin escape Sun Cheng’s threat, then returned home to stream and gave viewer Bu Yun an ominous suggestion about meeting his girlfriend’s parents. The chapter left Bu Yun alarmed and asking what Xiao Yu meant by bringing spirit money.

• Xiao Yu introduced Su Lin and Hu Feifei as lifelong friends and took them to a seafood hot pot feast.
• Hu Feifei asked why Xiao Yu had not simply had Sun Cheng arrested, and Xiao Yu claimed he had wanted Zheng Xing to reform.
• Police arrested Sun Cheng and uncovered evidence of his crimes, while Zheng Xing felt grateful to Xiao Yu for ensuring his safety.
• Xiao Yu returned home and resumed streaming for his eager viewers.
• Bu Yun asked whether meeting his girlfriend’s parents would go smoothly, and Xiao Yu told him to bring extra spirit money.

Xiao Yu told Bu Yun about the regrets of his late girlfriend Yang Liu’s father, Yang Dong, whose lifelong donations began as a way to feel the gratitude of people he helped. Before he died, Yang Dong regretted never seeing the students he supported thank him, leaving Bu Yun to fulfill that unspoken wish.

• Bu Yun asked Xiao Yu whether his girlfriend was a ghost, and Xiao Yu clarified that her parents had died and advised him to show proper respect when visiting them.
• Xiao Yu stopped Bu Yun before he disconnected and explained that Yang Liu’s father had an unfinished regret he could help address.
• Xiao Yu recounted how Yang Dong began giving rice to starving people during a famine as a teenager and found joy in their gratitude.
• Yang Dong continued donating to people in need and supported more than four hundred impoverished students, until his spending and his failing factory drained his family’s assets.
• After Yang Dong developed cancer, he stopped donating and declined treatment so he could leave something for Yang Liu, then died; his grieving wife died soon after.
• Xiao Yu revealed that Yang Dong’s secret wish was for the people he had helped to gather, kneel before him, and thank him as they had during the famine.

Xiao Yu promised to gather the children helped by Yang Dong so they could thank him at his memorial, then received a foreign viewer who wanted to become his disciple and learn fortune-telling to save the world and attract beautiful women. The chapter ended with Xiao Yu hearing Li An’s request to become his disciple.

• Bu Yun agreed to find the notebook listing the 412 children Yang Dong helped and bring it to Xiao Yu’s shop.
• Xiao Yu vowed to find the people Yang Dong had helped and bring them or their families to thank him at Yang Dong’s memorial.
• Xia Mo reflected on the importance of sharing uplifting stories before she welcomed the final livestream viewer.
• A young foreign man introduced himself as Alders, then chose the Huaxia name Li An and said he planned to stay in Huaxia.
• Li An told Xiao Yu he had come to study martial arts but now wanted to learn fortune-telling so he could become a superhero and attract beautiful women.
• Li An asked Xiao Yu to take him as a disciple.

Xiao Yu told Li An that he was fated to drown and warned him not to risk his life saving anyone, advising him to call the police instead. After a canceled food delivery forced Li An out late at night, he heard a splash while crossing the bridge on his way home.

• Xiao Yu refused to take Li An as a disciple but offered to recommend martial arts masters and warned that Li An was in danger of dying soon.
• Xiao Yu said Li An would drown and told him to stand by and call the police if saving someone would put his own life at risk.
• Li An accepted Xiao Yu’s advice, though he doubted he could drown and felt uneasy about the possibility of refusing to help someone.
• Hungry after midnight, Li An ordered food, but the delivery was canceled, so he went out to buy something to eat.
• Li An crossed the nearby bridge without incident on his way to a roadside stall, then heard a splash as he crossed it again on his way home.

Li An struggled with Master Xiao’s warning and his conscience before jumping into the river to rescue a woman and the person who had jumped in first. The pair’s heavy restraints and desperate grip trapped him underwater, leaving him sinking with no clear way to survive.

• Li An tried to leave after realizing someone had jumped into the river, but a woman called for help and jumped in herself.
• Li An hesitated, then saw both people disappear beneath the water and decided he could not leave them to die.
• Li An leaped into the river and grabbed the woman, but a heavy weight dragged them underwater again.
• Li An realized the first person was clinging to the woman and weighed down by something, while the panicking woman also grabbed him.
• Li An became entangled with both people, ran out of strength, and sank as he feared he was going to die.

After Xiao Yu’s warning and advance calls saved Li An and two others from drowning, Li An traveled to Magic City to thank him. Xiao Yu explained that Li An faced repeated possible deaths while rescuing people, and Li An asked to learn wall-running so he could become a superhero.

• Li An was pulled from the river along with the young woman and the suicidal man after police and doctors arrived in response to Master Xiao’s calls.
• Li An learned that Master Xiao had warned both the police and hospital, and he decided to travel to Magic City to thank him.
• Li An found Xiao Yu at the Fortune-Telling Shop and thanked him for saving his life.
• Xiao Yu told Li An that many possible futures ended with him dying while bravely saving someone.
• Li An asked Xiao Yu to teach him wall-running so he could become a superhero.

Xiao Yu accepted Li An as a nominal disciple and began teaching him martial arts, while also agreeing to teach Hu Feifei and Zhong Qi. Later, Bu Yun and Yang Liu brought him Yang Dong’s charity ledger, and they began contacting the people he had helped to invite them to his grave, only to find that many were reluctant to come.

• Xiao Yu accepted Li An as his nominal disciple and introduced him to Zhong Qi, You Xia, and Liu Wei.
• Xiao Yu explained his rules, gave Li An cultivation formulas to memorize, and agreed to teach Hu Feifei and Zhong Qi as well.
• Bu Yun and Yang Liu brought Xiao Yu a ledger recording Yang Dong’s donations to impoverished students.
• Xiao Yu proposed contacting everyone in the ledger and arranging for them to visit Yang Dong’s grave a week later.
• Bu Yun and Yang Liu began calling the people Yang Dong had helped, but many made excuses or refused to travel, and only a few readily agreed.

Xiao Yu and his companions contacted people Yang Dong had supported and found that twelve refused to come thank him, including several who insulted them. Xiao Yu began a livestream to confront the first, Zhou Yu, and lured her into an interview by promising publicity for her story.

• Yang Liu, Bu Yun, and the others contacted 412 people, but seventeen refused to come, and five others could not attend because of mishaps, hospitalization, detention, or death.
• Xiao Yu decided to publicly call the twelve who refused and expose their behavior through his livestream.
• Xiao Yu told his viewers about the ungrateful people and chose Zhou Yu, who had called their efforts meddling, as the first person to contact.
• Xiao Yu introduced himself to Zhou Yu as a streamer offering an interview about her inspiring story, and she agreed, hoping it would help her postgraduate admission.
• Xiao Yu asked Zhou Yu to describe the difficulties she had faced getting an education, and she began telling her story.

Xiao Yu confronted Zhou Yu during a livestream over her exaggerated claims of childhood poverty and her denial of the support Yang Dong had given her. Zhou Yu continued to insist that Yang Dong had only sent two hundred yuan as Xiao Yu began exposing her history to the enraged audience.

• Zhou Yu embellished her childhood hardships, claiming she had searched through trash to afford textbooks and walked more than ten kilometers to school.
• Xiao Yu challenged Zhou Yu about the monthly support she had received from Yang Dong, and Zhou Yu claimed it had amounted to only two hundred yuan.
• When Xiao Yu offered to bring in the person involved, Zhou Yu agreed, believing Yang Dong was dead and unable to contradict her.
• Xiao Yu revealed he was a fortune-telling streamer, while Zhou Yu dismissed him as a scammer and prepared to end the call.
• The livestream chat condemned Zhou Yu, and Xiao Yu recounted how Yang Dong had provided one thousand yuan a month and helped her family; Zhou Yu continued denying it.

Xiao Yu exposed Zhou Yu’s lies about her poverty and her benefactor’s support during a livestream. After she hung up, the university blocked her graduate-school prospects and her employer fired her, while Xiao Yu decided not to give her another chance to visit the benefactor’s grave.

• Xiao Yu revealed that Zhou Yu had lied about collecting scrap to pay for books and cited her stolen money for a Barbie doll and the motorcycle her family received.
• Zhou Yu changed her story again and abruptly ended the call, prompting viewers to mock her and demand consequences.
• The university president told Zhou Yu that recordings of her refusing to thank her benefactor and denying his support would be added to her record, and that she would not pass the graduate-school assessment.
• Zhou Yu’s employer called and fired her after hearing the livestream recording.
• Zhou Yu broke down but still did not believe refusing to visit the grave was wrong, and Xiao Yu decided he would no longer ask her to go.

Xiao Yu became furious when Ma Tao denied that Yang Dong’s support had helped him and blamed the dead benefactor for his struggles. After the livestream backlash against Ma Tao and Zhou Yu, Bu Yun and Yang Liu found the other former recipients more willing to honor Yang Dong.

• Ma Tao told Xiao Yu that Yang Dong’s support had harmed him and refused to pay his respects.
• Livestream viewers spread the story, and Ma Tao and Zhou Yu were vilified online; Ma Tao lost his job and eventually moved away under a fake identity.
• Xiao Yu calmed down and ended the discussion of Yang Dong’s last wish before starting the fortune-telling segment.
• The next day, Bu Yun and Yang Liu contacted the remaining recipients, who ultimately agreed to visit Yang Dong’s grave and thank him.

A week after Yang Dong’s funeral drew a huge crowd, Xiao Yu joined He Ya’s team to investigate a famous charity video group. On the drive, he discovered a rare Heavenly Mandate Stone had changed Xie Qiuhui and Luo Liang’s future, and resolved to find a way to obtain it.

• More than two thousand people gathered at Yang Dong’s grave, including many who had never received his help.
• He Ya and Tao Hongzhen asked Xiao Yu to help investigate a popular charity creator accused of staging its good deeds, and Xiao Yu agreed.
• During the drive, Xiao Yu noticed that Xie Qiuhui and Luo Liang’s future had changed from a happy marriage to divorce.
• Xiao Yu traced the change to a blessing the couple bought from a local matchmaker, whose Heavenly Mandate Stone could alter people’s fortunes.
• Xiao Yu learned the stone could prevent tribulations and aid cultivation, and decided he needed to find a way to obtain it without stealing it.

Xiao Yu and He Ya arrived at a village and discovered that Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms had turned its charitable videos into scripted performances for profit. Xiao Yu began a livestream to confront the popular creators, leaving with his fans ready to back him as he stepped out of the car.

• Xiao Yu and He Ya arrived at a village where elderly residents and children were working and playing.
• Xiao Yu explained that Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms paid villagers to perform scripted scenes and had shifted from doing charity to making money through staged videos.
• Xiao Yu told He Ya to start a livestream so they could expose the group, despite the risk of being overwhelmed by its huge following.
• He Ya notified the livestream groups, and Xiao Yu's fans gathered to support the confrontation and condemn Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms.
• Xiao Yu told He Ya and the others to get out of the car.

Xiao Yu and He Ya confronted Liu Jun’s team over accusations that Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms staged interviews and exploited viewers’ sympathy. Liu Jun tried to keep the encounter cordial, but He Ya directly asked whether the allegations were true.

• Liu Jun’s crew stopped filming when Xiao Yu and He Ya arrived, and Liu Jun warned his team to be cautious around the influential visitors.
• Liu Jun ended the staged interview with Mr. Wang and asked him to keep the villagers from saying anything out of turn.
• Liu Jun greeted Xiao Yu and He Ya warmly while privately hoping to pay them off and avoid a public confrontation.
• Xiao Yu silently assessed the people present, while He Ya asked Liu Jun whether his Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms staged interviews, ran scams, and deceived the public.

He Ya struggled to challenge Liu Jun’s denials without evidence until Xiao Yu exposed detailed information about the village and questioned the huge donations Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms had made. Liu Jun and his companions broke into cold sweats, leaving He Ya convinced the confrontation had turned in her favor.

• Liu Jun insisted that Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms had always done good and denounced the report as a malicious attack.
• He Ya pressed Liu Jun about a credible report from a villager, but he denied wrongdoing and dared her to question every household.
• Xiao Yu described the village’s residents and children, then challenged Liu Jun to explain how poor villagers could afford to adopt children and appear so cheerful.
• Liu Jun claimed his team had donated enough money and supplies to meet the villagers’ basic needs.
• Xiao Yu revealed that the donations exceeded 1.5 million two months earlier and tripled the following month, suggesting the money paid villagers to cooperate or keep quiet.
• Liu Jun and the others broke into a cold sweat as He Ya and her team recorded their reactions.

Xiao Yu confronted Liu Jun and his team over suspicious donations, then challenged Tang Jianing to abandon the corrupt group and remember the ideals she once proclaimed. Liu Jun was left near collapse as Xiao Yu turned the confrontation toward Tang Jianing.

• Xiao Yu asked how much it would take to buy them off, and Liu Jun and his team reacted with panic on the livestream.
• Liu Jun claimed they had given villagers extra money so they could live well after the team left, but Xiao Yu mocked the explanation and proposed interviewing villagers and donating more to expose the truth.
• Liu Jun nearly collapsed as he realized Xiao Yu had beaten him in their face-to-face confrontation.
• Xiao Yu addressed Tang Jianing, recalled the team's old slogan and her role in founding it, and asked how much money it would take to buy back her kindness.
• Xiao Yu reminded Tang Jianing of her youthful promise to end poverty and asked where the girl with those dreams had gone.

After exposing Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, Xiao Yu persuaded Tang Jianing and several other members to leave, then set out to gather more evidence for the online fight. Liu Jun and the group’s supporters flooded the internet with attacks, but Xiao Yu’s following grew, and after a week he began his counterattack.

• Tang Jianing admitted she was wrong, announced she was leaving Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, and accepted Xiao Yu’s offer to help her start over.
• Several other members also left, reducing Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms from ten members to four.
• Xiao Yu asked He Ya to continue interviewing villagers and invited Tang Jianing to help find more evidence and witnesses.
• Liu Jun hired reporters and ghostwriters, bought trending topics, and used the group’s supporters to attack Xiao Yu and He Ya online.
• Xiao Yu’s following grew during the week of online abuse, while He Ya lost nearly five million followers.
• After the first week of attacks subsided, Xiao Yu began his counterattack.

Xiao Yu’s campaign against Liu Jun ended with Liu Jun arrested and exposed, while He Ya and Tang Jianing’s new account gained huge support. Xiao Yu then tracked down a fortune-telling stall owner whose honest relationship blessings were tied to the Heavenly Mandate Stone, and sat down to approach her.

• Xiao Yu used Tang Jianing, the villagers’ testimony, and money to turn Liu Jun’s former allies against him and expose Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms’ fabrications.
• Cyber Police officer Jiang Qihao led a raid that arrested Liu Jun, and authorities banned his account and penalized people who had helped spread his attacks.
• He Ya gained more than thirty million followers, while Tang Jianing and the others relaunched as Fragrance of Flowers for Ten Thousand Miles and committed to charitable work.
• Liu Jun confessed in a police interrogation video to fabricating videos, paying people to support him, and attacking Xiao Yu and other livestreamers.
• After questioning the villagers and collecting evidence, Xiao Yu traveled into town and separated from He Ya to seek the Heavenly Mandate Stone.
• Xiao Yu found a young woman whose stall offered relationship blessings and refunds; after confirming her records were genuine and her blessings worked, he sat down to find a way to obtain the stone.

Xiao Yu tried the Marriage Fate Stone and discovered that Fan Xue had mistaken his imagined image of her for a sign they might become a couple. After Fan Xue recognized him and learned he wanted her stone, they began negotiating an exchange, with Xiao Yu offering her a job, money, and a Fortune-Telling Stone.

• Xiao Yu asked Fan Xue to bless his love life and imagined her while touching the Marriage Fate Stone, causing her to sense that he might find a girlfriend within a year.
• Fan Xue recognized Xiao Yu as Celestial Master Xiao and accused him of making fun of her before he admitted he wanted to buy or trade for her Marriage Fate Stone.
• Fan Xue proposed trading her Marriage Fate Stone for Xiao Yu's Fortune-Telling Stone, and Xiao Yu agreed while warning her that revealing fortunes could bring heavenly punishment.
• Fan Xue objected that the Fortune-Telling Stone would be useless if she could not earn a living with it, so Xiao Yu offered to fund a career or business and provide money as part of the deal.
• Fan Xue questioned why Xiao Yu was being so generous and wondered whether the Marriage Fate Stone had another special ability.

Xiao Yu proved his knowledge to Fan Xue and revealed that the Marriage Fate Stone was actually the Heavenly Mandate Stone, which could avert cultivators’ tribulations. Fan Xue accepted his explanation and agreed to trade it to him.

• Xiao Yu described Fan Xue’s past and the Marriage Fate Stone’s history, convincing her that he knew far more than she could verify.
• Xiao Yu invited Fan Xue to test him, and he correctly answered her questions about perpetual motion and the Pisces Jade Pendant.
• Fan Xue demanded to know the Marriage Fate Stone’s true nature and why Xiao Yu needed it, and she swore to keep his answer secret.
• Xiao Yu told Fan Xue that the stone was the Heavenly Mandate Stone and warned her that her oath would punish her if she revealed the secret.
• Fan Xue accepted that the stone’s hidden ability was useless to her and agreed to trade it to Xiao Yu.