Chapter Summaries

After hiring five village aunties, Lin Zhe received the 200,000-yuan mission reward and felt relieved that he could cover his parents’ medical bills. He served his guests and hurried to the kitchen to prepare food for Dan Teng before noon.

• Lin Zhe hired five aunties at the Fortunate Inn, assigning three to help Lin Xiaomeng and two to housekeeping with Hu Ting.
• Lin Zhe first mistook a parcel notification and a higher Jiebei credit limit for his reward, then received 200,000 yuan in his bank account.
• Lin Zhe felt reassured that the money would cover his parents’ medical bills and planned to earn the inn’s rent for the following year.
• Du Huan and Li Li paid 120 yuan for four portions of egg fried rice before heading out for milk tea.
• Lin Zhe remembered that Dan Teng wanted his food before noon and hurried to the kitchen, where the aroma of egg fried rice drew the chickens’ attention.

Lin Zhe settled into managing the Fortunate Inn as Lin Xiaomeng and the new kitchen workers prepared egg fried rice for customers. The inn sold 31 portions before serving lunch to its staff, and the team began the afternoon work smoothly.

• Lin Zhe welcomed the two new kitchen workers, who praised their jobs and the inn’s relaxed workplace.
• Lin Xiaomeng prepared egg fried rice while Lin Zhe learned that Aunt Wang had already delivered Brother Dan’s order.
• Lin Zhe told Hu Ting the kitchen was ready, and customers quickly bought more than a dozen portions.
• The inn sold 31 portions between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., earning about 930 yuan, and Lin Zhe saved the remaining rice for the staff.
• The workers praised Lin Xiaomeng’s fried rice and remarked on the unusual eggs from Lin Zhe’s bamboo grove.
• After eating and resting, Lin Xiaomeng, Hu Ting, and the new workers resumed their afternoon jobs in an orderly fashion.

Lin Zhe set out with Dan Teng, Li Li, and Huanhuan for downtown Rao City, carrying eggs and egg fried rice to visit his parents in the hospital. After becoming friends during the drive, Li Li and Huanhuan postponed their plans to go shopping and watch a movie so they could visit his parents too.

• Lin Zhe selected the best eggs to take to his parents, and Lin Xiaomeng reminded him to bring the egg fried rice she had prepared.
• Lin Zhe met Dan Teng, Li Li, and Huanhuan outside the inn and learned the two women planned to go shopping and watch a movie in the city.
• Lin Zhe, Dan Teng, Li Li, and Huanhuan drove toward Rao City and talked about their work and lifestyles along the way.
• Li Li and Huanhuan heard Lin Zhe was visiting his parents in the hospital and decided to join him, postponing their plans.

Lin Zhe, Li Li, Huanhuan, and Dan Teng visited Lin Guodong and Han Li in the hospital, bringing a cartful of supplies. There, they encountered the hostile Hong Jinhua and her daughter Hong Jingjing, who recognized Dan Teng from her former workplace.

• Dan Teng drove Lin Zhe, Li Li, and Huanhuan to Rao City People's No. 1 Hospital, where they bought nearly three thousand yuan of supplies and wheeled them to the ward.
• Hong Jinhua and Hong Jingjing mocked Lin Guodong and Han Li for being poor while boasting about their own food and income.
• Han Li restrained Lin Guodong as Hong Jinhua provoked him, and the couple's spirits lifted when they heard Lin Zhe arrive.
• Lin Zhe and his companions entered Room 822 with their loaded shopping cart, surprising Hong Jinhua and Hong Jingjing.
• Hong Jingjing recognized Dan Teng as the former Feiteng coworker she had once pursued, but Dan Teng did not remember her.

Lin Zhe visited his recovering parents with Dan Teng, Du Huan, and Li Li, while Hong Jinhua insulted the visitors and her daughter hurriedly took her away. After the guests left, Lin Zhe reassured his parents and prepared to tell them how the Fortunate Inn was doing.

• Lin Zhe arrived at the hospital with Dan Teng, Du Huan, and Li Li to visit Lin Guodong and Han Li.
• Hong Jinhua mocked the visitors for bringing a shopping cart, and Hong Jingjing apologized before dragging her mother out of the ward.
• Lin Guodong invited the guests to sit, and Han Li warmly welcomed Du Huan and Li Li and accepted their gifts.
• Du Huan and Li Li spent over two hours chatting with Han Li before Dan Teng drove them to Rao City's shopping street.
• Lin Zhe stayed with his parents, recognized their unspoken concern about the Fortunate Inn, and offered to tell them how business was going.

Lin Zhe told his parents that the Fortunate Inn was earning more as tourism recovered, lifting their spirits during their hospital stay. He transferred them 200,000 yuan and claimed it was an interest-free loan arranged by the scenic area’s management committee, easing their worries about their bills and loan payment.

• Lin Zhe told Lin Guodong and Han Li that the inn and canteen were earning about 8,000 yuan a day, and his parents celebrated the turnaround.
• Lin Zhuoya checked Lin Guodong and Han Li’s recovery and warned that their unpaid medical balance exceeded 3,000 yuan.
• Lin Zhe offered to cover his parents’ upcoming bank loan payment and transferred 200,000 yuan to Lin Guodong.
• When his parents asked where the money came from, Lin Zhe said Zhang Min and the management committee had arranged a two-year interest-free loan with no fees.
• Lin Guodong and Han Li accepted the explanation, and Lin Zhe assured them he could earn the money back within a year.

Lin Zhe found his parents watching videos to earn a few yuan and promised to take care of their finances while they recovered in the hospital. After heating the Fortunate Inn’s egg fried rice, its aroma drew the attention of nurses and patients’ families, and Lin Zhe gave the nurses a portion to sample.

• Lin Zhe discovered his parents’ phones were clogged with video apps they used to earn a little money, then deleted the junk apps and told them to focus on recovering.
• Han Li invited Lin Zhe to share dinner, and he brought out egg fried rice from the Fortunate Inn to heat in the hospital microwave.
• The egg fried rice’s aroma spread through the floor, drawing nurses and patients’ family members to the nurses’ station.
• A nurse asked where she could buy the rice, and Lin Zhe told her it was served at the Fortunate Inn in the Mount Sanqing scenic area.
• Lin Zhe offered the nurses a portion to taste, and the first nurse eagerly accepted it.

Lin Zhe brought egg fried rice to the hospital, winning over the nurses and impressing his parents with its taste. After he explained that his chickens supplied the eggs, Hong Jinhua and Hong Jingjing returned with gifts and sincerely apologized to Lin Guodong and Han Li, who forgave them.

• Lin Zhe shared his egg fried rice with the nurses, who praised it and asked Li Lili to bring more servings when she visited his inn.
• Lin Guodong and Han Li finished their portions and praised the egg fried rice, and Lin Zhe claimed its flavor came from eggs laid by chickens he was raising.
• Lin Zhe told his parents that a friend with an animal-husbandry doctorate had given him the chickens, and they accepted his explanation.
• Hong Jinhua and Hong Jingjing returned to the ward with gifts and apologized to Lin Guodong and Han Li for their earlier behavior.
• Han Li and Lin Guodong declined to hold a grudge and told Hong Jinhua and Hong Jingjing that the matter was settled.

Lin Zhe returned to the inn after visiting his hospitalized parents and noticed that its courtyard lacked appealing places for guests to take photos. He learned that the inn was fully booked for meals, but had run out of eggs.

• Hong Jinhua insisted that Lin Guodong and his wife accept her apology gifts, then warmly praised Lin Zhe and tried to befriend the family.
• Lin Zhe paid 20,000 yuan toward his parents' medical bills and took the last bus to the Mount Sanqing scenic area.
• After overhearing tourists complain that the inn had too few photo spots, Lin Zhe decided to consider improving the courtyard once he had earned next year's rent and paid the family's debts.
• Lin Zhe returned to the inn and asked Hu Ting how her first day had gone and why the reception desk was quiet.
• Hu Ting told Lin Zhe that the inn had sold out of meals and had no eggs left.

Lin Zhe celebrated the Good Fortune Canteen’s strong sales by letting the kitchen staff leave early and take home leftover ingredients. He then went to pick up a reserved guest, Jiang Yining, and found her waiting with an enormous pink suitcase.

• Lin Xiaomeng told Lin Zhe that the Good Fortune Canteen had earned more than 2,580 yuan that afternoon, bringing the day’s revenue above 4,000 yuan.
• Lin Zhe praised the kitchen staff, let them clock out early, and told them to divide up the unused rice and side ingredients rather than save them for the next day.
• Lin Xiaomeng finished her shift and went home, while Hu Ting stayed at the front desk until her shift ended.
• Hu Ting told Lin Zhe that the arriving guest, Jiang Yining, had called from the bus station and needed help with her heavy suitcase.
• Lin Zhe rode his electric scooter to the parking plaza and found Jiang Yining beside a huge pink suitcase decorated with a Peppa Pig sticker.

Lin Zhe picked up Jiang Yining’s suitcase on his electric scooter and brought it to the Fortunate Inn while she explored the food street. After Hu Ting and the cleaning ladies went home, Jiang Yining returned with milk tea and barbecue.

• Lin Zhe met Jiang Yining and explained that he could transport her luggage on his scooter, so she left it with him and went to find food.
• Lin Zhe carried Jiang Yining’s oversized suitcase to the inn and thought about buying a guest shuttle vehicle once he could afford one.
• Hu Ting offered to help with the suitcase, but a cleaning lady carried it upstairs one-handed and said she worked the fields and did odd jobs.
• Hu Ting and the two cleaning ladies gathered their belongings and left together for home.
• After waiting behind reception for over an hour, Lin Zhe saw Jiang Yining return carrying two milk teas and a bag of barbecue.

Jiang Yining checked into Lin Zhe’s inn, and the next morning Lin Xiaomeng launched breakfast service at the Good Fortune Canteen. The Soul-Stirring Egg Fried Rice continued to win praise and sell out, leaving Lin Zhe wishing he had more chickens to supply eggs.

• Jiang Yining gave Lin Zhe milk tea and skewers after he carried her luggage to room 214.
• Lin Zhe ate the food, video-called his parents, and slept at the inn.
• Lin Xiaomeng and the kitchen workers arrived early to prepare breakfast, and Lin Zhe told her to make menu decisions herself.
• The Good Fortune Canteen earned over eight hundred yuan on its first breakfast service.
• Lin Zhe sold fifty-eight portions of egg fried rice at lunch and thirty-four more by evening before running out of eggs.
• Lin Zhe realized his ninety-nine hens limited sales to roughly eighty or ninety portions a day and wished he could obtain more chickens.

Lin Zhe and Lin Xiaomeng celebrated the Good Fortune Canteen’s strong second-day revenue and planned to add stir-fried rice noodles and egg-fried noodles while preserving their signature egg fried rice. After they talked late into the night, Lin Zhe offered to escort Lin Xiaomeng and her grandmother home.

• Lin Xiaomeng reported that the Good Fortune Canteen had earned 4,008 yuan, and Lin Zhe praised the staff and joked about their bonuses.
• Lin Xiaomeng shared customer feedback that the menu was too limited and proposed adding stir-fried rice noodles and egg-fried noodles, which she could cook.
• Lin Zhe agreed to try the new dishes the next day, using a quarter of the eggs while keeping Soul-Stirring Egg Fried Rice as the main offering.
• Lin Xiaomeng and Lin Zhe talked until after ten, when Grandma Wu arrived to find her granddaughter.
• Lin Zhe offered to escort Lin Xiaomeng and Grandma Wu home, and Lin Xiaomeng felt stirred by his words about taking responsibility for her.

After Lin Zhe brought Lin Xiaomeng home, she struggled for over an hour to write him a message before finally sending a simple good night. The next morning, she prepared breakfast at the inn, where Li Li and Du Huan discovered that its new stir-fried rice noodles were as delicious as its famous egg fried rice.

• Lin Zhe dropped Lin Xiaomeng and her grandmother at their home, and her grandmother teased her about marrying him.
• Lin Xiaomeng received Lin Zhe’s message that he had reached the inn safely, but after repeatedly drafting and deleting replies, she sent him “Good night.”
• Lin Xiaomeng woke early, ate breakfast with her grandmother, then rode to the inn and prepared egg fried rice, stir-fried rice noodles, and seaweed and egg soup.
• Li Li and Du Huan ordered the new stir-fried rice noodles and soup for breakfast.
• Li Li and Du Huan praised the noodles, and Du Huan joked that she would eat herself to death at the Fortunate Inn.

Travel creator Jiang Yining arrived at Mount Sanqing to film promotional content and stayed at the Fortunate Inn. Intrigued by the inn’s popular Soul-Stirring Egg Fried Rice, she ordered a portion and began filming after getting Hu Ting’s permission.

• Jiang Yining’s promotional video about her trip to Mount Sanqing reached over fifty thousand views, and she checked its comments after waking up.
• Jiang Yining got ready and went downstairs for lunch, where she saw customers crowding the reception desk to order egg fried rice and fried rice noodles.
• Jiang Yining smelled the Soul-Stirring Egg Fried Rice and heard a young couple praise it as she watched them eat.
• Jiang Yining ordered a portion from Hu Ting and learned that thirty-two orders were ahead of hers.
• Jiang Yining asked Hu Ting for permission to film at the Fortunate Inn, received approval, and began recording with her Insta360 X4.

Jiang Yining filmed the Fortunate Inn and praised its Soul-Stirring Egg Fried Rice in a video after eating two servings. After lunch, Lin Xiaomeng counted the canteen’s earnings and resolved to help Good Fortune Canteen grow.

• Jiang Yining filmed the Fortunate Inn and the nearby Heaven's Gate Peaks before returning to collect her egg fried rice from Hu Ting.
• Jiang Yining tasted the Soul-Stirring Egg Fried Rice, filmed an enthusiastic review, and praised the inn’s food and service.
• Jiang Yining ordered and ate a second serving, deciding the dish’s thirty-yuan price was fair for its quality.
• Lin Zhe shared stat-boosting egg dishes with his staff, earning their respect.
• Lin Xiaomeng reported lunchtime takings of 1,888 yuan and remained determined to make Good Fortune Canteen bigger and better.

The Good Fortune Canteen’s dinner rush brought in customers from across the scenic area, and Lin Zhe decided to hire three more people to ease the staff’s workload. He put Lin Xiaomeng in charge of choosing the new employees.

• Hu Ting served Zhang Min, who collected eight portions of egg fried rice for a family gathering.
• A Taoist priest ordered six portions of Soul-Stirring Egg Fried Rice and four portions of Soul-Seducing Fried Rice Noodles, while Li Li and Du Huan placed their own orders.
• Customers from around the scenic area kept ordering until the Good Fortune Canteen sold out before eight o’clock.
• Lin Zhe sent the kitchen aunties home after their long shift and told Lin Xiaomeng he planned to hire three more staff members.
• Lin Zhe asked Lin Xiaomeng to handle the hiring, and she agreed to choose the new employees.

Lin Zhe enjoyed the canteen’s growing profits, used another Cleansing Talisman to restore the kitchen to spotless condition, and agreed to let Hu Ting’s cousin apply for a job. The night ended with Lin Zhe and Li Li suspecting that Du Huan and the plump Taoist priest were dating.

• Lin Zhe praised Lin Xiaomeng’s thoughtful management plans and calculated that the inn and canteen earned around five thousand yuan in daily profit.
• Lin Zhe used a Cleansing Talisman, which removed dust, cobwebs, stains, and grease from the kitchen.
• Hu Ting asked Lin Zhe if her older cousin could apply for a canteen job, and Lin Zhe told her to check with Lin Xiaomeng about the vacancies.
• After the staff left, Lin Zhe stayed on duty until late and spotted Du Huan chatting with a plump Taoist priest in the courtyard.
• Li Li appeared beside Lin Zhe and said she thought the two were dating.

Lin Zhe discussed love at first sight with Li Li, then teased Dan Teng about his romance with Du Huan. Dan Teng declared that he and Du Huan were destined lovers and stayed overnight at Lin Zhe's inn without paying.

• Li Li asked Lin Zhe whether he believed in love at first sight, and he said it depended on the people involved.
• Lin Zhe bought Li Li a peach-flavored Maidong, and she went upstairs after thanking him.
• Dan Teng and Du Huan returned to the inn after talking, and Dan Teng watched Du Huan go upstairs.
• Lin Zhe teased Dan Teng about his feelings for Du Huan, while Dan Teng cited Taoist teachings and their thousand-kilometer distance as proof of their destiny.
• Dan Teng said he would do everything he could to make the relationship work, then took a room at Lin Zhe's inn without paying.
• Lin Zhe wondered why Auntie Li liked him so much and concluded that it might be because he was handsome.

Lin Xiaomeng practiced making three-delicacy dumplings at home, succeeded, and brought them to Lin Zhe at the inn. Lin Zhe agreed to take her home after worrying about her traveling alone at night, and she asked him to taste the dumplings for Good Fortune’s menu.

• Lin Zhe encouraged Lin Xiaomeng to try making three-delicacy dumplings after she sent him a cooking tutorial.
• Lin Xiaomeng secretly practiced in her family’s kitchen, made a tray of dumplings, and tasted them successfully.
• Lin Xiaomeng left a serving for her grandmother, packed the rest, and rode her electric scooter to the inn.
• Lin Zhe came out of his room and warned Lin Xiaomeng not to travel alone at night, promising to take her home later.
• Lin Xiaomeng offered Lin Zhe the dumplings and asked whether they were good enough for the canteen menu.