Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen invited Chen Mei and Chen Fei to dinner and recruited them to help manage his company. Chen Mei pressed him about helping cure her illness, but he declined because he already had a girlfriend and began considering Cheng Yun as a possible match for her.

• Chen Mei brought Chen Fei to dinner with Lin Chen, and Chen Fei revealed that his sister liked Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen asked the Chen siblings to join his team and manage part of the company's commercial streets, and Chen Mei agreed.
• After Chen Fei left the room, Chen Mei asked Lin Chen to help her recover by becoming intimate with her, but Lin Chen refused and considered introducing her to Cheng Yun.
• Lin Chen told the Chen siblings to report to the City Center Street Management Office next Monday so he could introduce them to Yu Keyan.

Lin Chen arranged for Cheng Yun to meet Chen Mei as a possible partner and treatment for her condition, then returned home and learned Liu Mei was preparing for a music academy study-abroad selection. He planned a trip to Nanzhou with Qin Xueqing, Jue Wei, and Li Chunyi, and left the story considering more cars for the growing household.

• Lin Chen visited Cheng Yun at Mingyang Tianxia Group headquarters and proposed that he meet Chen Mei, whose condition might be treated by Cheng Yun’s strong masculine energy.
• Cheng Yun agreed to cooperate with Lin Chen’s plan to introduce him to Chen Mei.
• Lin Chen returned to the villa and found Liu Mei visiting; she explained that she was practicing for the music academy’s selection competition and had a parents’ meeting on Monday.
• Lin Chen promised to attend Liu Mei’s parents’ meeting and invited Qin Xueqing to join him in Nanzhou for an antique auction and business expansion.
• Jue Wei and Li Chunyi asked to come along, and Lin Chen agreed, then began discussing buying more cars for the household.

Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing traveled to Antique Villa in Nanzhou City for an auction, where Zhang Jiali confronted them after stealing their parking space. Zhang Wu demanded that Lin Chen get out of his car so he could repay the injury Lin Chen had caused his sister.

• Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing woke late, learned Li Chunyi and Jue Wei had already left for Nanzhou City, and teleported to Antique Villa after breakfast.
• Lin Chen drove his Viper GT into Antique Villa and learned from Qin Xueqing that the venue belonged to the Zhang Family of West City.
• Zhang Jiali cut in front of Lin Chen to take an open parking space, then blamed him and threatened to keep him from leaving.
• Lin Chen recognized Zhang Jiali from their earlier encounter at Nanzhou Entertainment City and called her a lingering ghost.
• Zhang Wu emerged from the Lamborghini, heard Zhang Jiali's complaint, and demanded that Lin Chen get out so he could return the injury twofold.

Lin Chen fought Zhang Wu after Zhang Wu and Zhang Jiali took the parking space he had found, then learned Zhang Wu’s strength came from the War God Project No. 1. Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing entered Antique Villa’s crowded auction venue, where Lin Chen began eyeing the profitable business.

• Zhang Wu challenged Lin Chen over the parking space, and Lin Chen told Qin Xueqing to wait in the car before confronting him.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Wu exchanged blows until Lin Chen used internal force to shatter Zhang Wu’s arm.
• Zhang Jiali identified herself and Zhang Wu as members of the Zhang Family, while Zhang Wu recognized Lin Chen’s internal force and withdrew with her.
• Lin Chen warned the siblings to move their car or face criticism of Antique Villa’s management, then stored his own car in the Mobile Garage.
• Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing entered the crowded auction building, and Lin Chen showed interest in Antique Villa’s profitability.

Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing attended an antique auction, where his system tasked him with bidding for Ice Fire Grass and acquiring Antique Villa. At the auction, Lin Chen reunited with Liu Xianglan and Zhegu Yang and considered recruiting Zhegu Yang for his Treasure Hunting Department.

• The system assigned Lin Chen tasks to bid for Ice Fire Grass and acquire Antique Villa, and he decided to think of a way to obtain the villa within three days.
• Qin Xueqing learned that Li Chunyi and Jue Wei were delayed by a traffic accident, and Lin Chen planned to spend more time with her while they waited for the auction.
• Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing entered the auction venue, received adjacent seats numbered 13 and 14, and joked about staying together for life.
• Lin Chen spotted Liu Xianglan and Zhegu Yang at the auction and considered recruiting Zhegu Yang to strengthen his Treasure Hunting Department.
• Lin Chen told Liu Xianglan that he had come to the antique market to look for suppliers for Haoyuan.

Lin Chen attended Antique Villa’s super auction with Liu Xianglan and Qin Xueqing, hoping to find Ice Fire Grass for his mission and help Haoyuan find antique suppliers. The auction began with a Qianlong blue-and-white vase, and Lin Chen confidently said it was worth its rising price.

• Liu Xianglan explained that Antique Villa’s influence and government connections had restricted Haoyuan’s access to antiques, and she told Lin Chen about Old Fifth Jin’s Tianxia Antique Group.
• Zhang Ji opened Antique Villa’s twentieth super auction and announced the on-site and off-site sessions.
• Lin Chen told Qin Xueqing that his mission was to find Ice Fire Grass at the auction, and she promised they would buy it if it appeared.
• Liu Can began the auction with a Qianlong blue-and-white floral-and-bird vase, and the bids rose from two million to three million as Liu Xianglan bid.
• Lin Chen affirmed that the vase was worth its price, prompting Liu Xianglan to ask what he thought it would ultimately sell for.

Lin Chen and Lü Zhitao drove the bidding for a gilded bronze incense burner far beyond its value as they competed to outspend each other. The auction ended with Lü Zhitao’s bid at 8 million and Lin Chen’s next move still unknown.

• Lin Chen accurately estimated the value of a Qianlong blue-and-white vase, which sold for 3.5 million.
• Lin Chen bid on a gilded bronze incense burner, and Lü Zhitao raised the price to 3 million to challenge him.
• Lin Chen raised the bid to 4 million, and Lü Zhitao pushed it to 5 million.
• Lin Chen raised the price to 6 million, and Lü Zhitao bid 8 million while boasting that his family had more money.
• Liu Xianglan and Qin Xueqing noted that the burner was worth far less, while Zhegu Yang recognized that Lin Chen and Lü Zhitao were competing with each other.

Lin Chen provoked Lü Zhitao into buying a bronze incense burner for seventy-three million, then spotted a hidden compartment and unusual grass inside a Qing-dynasty cedar box. The box drew little interest from the auction crowd, while Lin Chen recognized the grass as potentially valuable Ice Fire Grass.

• Lin Chen raised the bronze incense burner’s bid, and Lü Zhitao was provoked into bidding fifty million, bringing the total to seventy-three million.
• Liu Can sold the incense burner to Lü Zhitao, who realized Lin Chen had tricked him and glared at him in anger.
• Lin Chen told Liu Xianglan and Qin Xueqing that he had been sure Lü Zhitao would keep bidding, and explained that psychology had been his elective.
• Liu Can presented a Qing-dynasty red cedar box, and Lin Chen used his enhanced vision to discover a hidden compartment containing fresh green grass he suspected was Ice Fire Grass.
• The audience criticized the box’s high starting price and urged Liu Can to move on to the next item.

Lin Chen competed with Old Fifth Jin for a red cedar wood box at an auction, driving its price into the millions. He wanted the Ice Fire Grass inside to complete his mission and make medicine for his father, while Old Fifth Jin turned the bidding into a matter of pride.

• Lin Chen bid three hundred thousand for the red cedar wood box, and Lü Zhitao decided not to compete.
• Old Fifth Jin entered the bidding at four hundred thousand, and Lin Chen raised the price again.
• Old Fifth Jin ordered Wang Yun to investigate Lin Chen and repeatedly raised his bids to challenge him.
• Lin Chen matched Old Fifth Jin's escalating bids, bringing the price to twenty-four million for the Ice Fire Grass inside the box.

Lin Chen outbid Old Fifth Jin for the Red Cedar Wood Box, then met with him and paid 200 million for the Ice Fire Grass hidden inside. The two made peace and became friends, and Old Fifth Jin learned that Lin Chen owned Haoyuan in Donghai City.

• Lin Chen stopped bidding after Old Fifth Jin offered 192 million for the Red Cedar Wood Box, leaving Old Fifth Jin to win it.
• Old Fifth Jin's men escorted Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing to meet him after they left the auction hall.
• Lin Chen offered Old Fifth Jin 200 million for an item hidden inside the box and proposed they become friends.
• Lin Chen opened the box's hidden compartment, retrieved the Ice Fire Grass, and arranged the 200-million transfer.
• Old Fifth Jin accepted Lin Chen's apology and friendship, then was surprised to learn Lin Chen owned Haoyuan in Donghai City.

Lin Chen persuaded Old Fifth Jin to cut off Antique Villa’s supply channel and support his plan to consolidate Province A’s antiques market. After Qin Xueqing and Lin Chen discovered their friends’ phones were off, they traced a traffic accident to Nandao Bridge and found Lin Chen’s stolen Bentley being towed, leaving the friends’ whereabouts unknown.

• Lin Chen offered Old Fifth Jin a ten-billion reward and better supply terms in exchange for shutting down his channel to Antique Villa.
• After Wang Yun explained Lin Chen’s influence in Donghai City, Old Fifth Jin agreed to cooperate and said the ban would begin that day.
• Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing left the auction and found that Li Chunyi and Jue Wei’s phones were switched off.
• Qin Xueqing found a report about an accident on Nandao Bridge, and Lin Chen used the Teleportation Gate to take her there.
• Lin Chen recognized his Bentley Azure being towed and asked a traffic officer where the people inside had gone.

After Li Chunyi and Jue Wei were kidnapped in Nanzhou City, Lin Chen sought police help to track the white BMW that took them. Director Xu Ke, Tang Xiao’s uncle, took charge and agreed to use the department’s authority to search the city’s traffic footage, while Lin Chen suspected his deadly enemy was behind the abduction.

• Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing learned from traffic-camera footage that two skilled kidnappers had taken Li Chunyi and Jue Wei away in a white BMW.
• Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing teleported to the central police station in Nanzhou City and asked to track the kidnappers through surveillance footage.
• Director Xu Ke arrived, recognized Lin Chen, and took charge after explaining that he was Tang Xiao’s maternal uncle.
• Lin Chen told Xu Ke how the kidnapping happened and reasoned that the kidnappers had followed the women from Donghai City to lure him out.
• Xu Ke agreed to order a search of major traffic routes and led Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing to the technical department.

Lin Chen and Xu Ke traced the white BMW that had been used in the kidnapping to Sihai Gate, though Lin Chen doubted the organization was responsible. Lin Chen set out with Captain Wang Bei to investigate Sihai Gate while also asking Cheng Feng to search for the missing girls elsewhere.

• Xu Ke asked Lin Chen to consider which of his enemies might have kidnapped his friends, and Lin Chen suspected Sihai Gate more than the Cao Family, Lü Family, Zhang Family, or the assassin group.
• Technicians identified the white BMW's route and confirmed that it had entered Sihai Gate, but Lin Chen warned that this did not prove Cheng Sihai was involved.
• Xu Ke arranged for Wang Bei to accompany Lin Chen to Sihai Gate with an approved search warrant.
• Lin Chen collected his system reward of 100 million RMB and 100 points, bringing his cumulative mission points to 200.
• Wang Bei and Lin Chen drove toward Sihai Gate, while Lin Chen asked Cheng Feng to mobilize Jingwu Hall to search for the girls in case Nanzhou City thugs had taken them.

Lin Chen and Wang Bei traced the kidnappers’ white BMW to Sihai Gate, where Cheng Sihai denied involvement and claimed the surveillance server had failed. Lin Chen suspected the car had left through another exit and began checking Sihai Gate’s gates.

• Lin Chen, Wang Bei, and Qin Xueqing discussed the kidnapping before arriving at Sihai Gate.
• Cheng Sihai denied seeing the white BMW after Wang Bei said police footage showed it entering the compound.
• Lin Chen noticed Cheng Sihai seemed to be acting, while the surveillance operators said their server’s motherboard had burned out.
• Wang Bei ordered a search of Sihai Gate, and Lin Chen told Qin Xueqing the car must have left through another exit.
• Chen Ke told Lin Chen about the East and abandoned North Gates, and Lin Chen asked to inspect the East Gate first.

Lin Chen found evidence that a car had left Sihai Gate through its supposedly closed North Gate, narrowing his search for the kidnapped women. He confronted Cheng Sihai and questioned vehicle manager Zhang Cheng, who recognized Lin Chen and hesitated to answer.

• Lin Chen spotted crushed grass and fresh marks on the North Gate’s lock, proving a car had passed through that morning.
• Chen Ke told Lin Chen that the road beyond the gate led toward Leopard’s territory and the Lü Family’s area.
• Lin Chen returned to the reception hall and asked Cheng Sihai who had driven a car out through the North Gate.
• Cheng Sihai called Zhang Cheng, who managed Sihai Gate’s vehicles and had received the white BMW carrying the kidnapped women.
• Lin Chen questioned Zhang Cheng about the car that had left, and Zhang Cheng glanced at Cheng Sihai, unsure how to respond.

Lin Chen traced the white BMW from Sihai Gate to a construction site outside the North Gate while searching for his kidnapped friends. A vehicle log showed a BMW entered the site at the suspicious time, giving him and Wang Bei a new lead.

• Zhang Cheng claimed a Sihai Gate truck carried smuggled goods, and Cheng Sihai used the confession to block Lin Chen's questions about the BMW.
• Lin Chen left Sihai Gate with Wang Bei and Qin Xueqing, deciding to focus on finding his friends rather than confronting Cheng Sihai.
• Lin Chen asked Wang Bei to check cameras near the North Gate, then followed tire tracks beyond their coverage to a nearby construction site.
• Wang Bei asked the site guard whether a white BMW had entered, and the guard handed over the vehicle log.
• Lin Chen, Wang Bei, and Qin Xueqing found a BMW listed at 10:30, around the time the white BMW had entered Sihai Gate.

Lin Chen and the police found the kidnappers’ abandoned BMW and deduced that they had switched vehicles to delay the investigation. A guard’s records led Lin Chen to suspect contractor Wang Wu, and he headed to Wang Wu’s villa to question him.

• Lin Chen, Wang Bei, and Qin Xueqing found the white BMW in the construction site’s underground parking lot, but Lin Chen found no one inside or beneath it.
• Lin Chen concluded that the kidnappers had transferred their captives to another vehicle, and he reasoned that their reinforcements had not yet arrived and they were stalling for time.
• Lin Chen and Wang Bei checked the guard’s records and learned that one sedan belonged to contractor Wang Wu, whom Lin Chen suspected of helping the kidnappers.
• Lin Chen called Cheng Feng and learned that Wang Wu was at his villa in Fugui Haoting.
• Lin Chen told Wang Bei and Qin Xueqing to stay outside while he confronted Wang Wu, warning that he intended to use force to get the truth.

Lin Chen found Wang Wu at his villa and interrogated him about the kidnapped women. Wang Wu revealed that one of the kidnappers spoke in a Donghai City dialect and described the man, giving Lin Chen a lead as the search continued.

• Lin Chen slipped into Wang Wu's villa and immobilized him after he woke from a kick.
• Lin Chen threatened Wang Wu and asked whether two women had arrived at the construction site in a white BMW.
• Wang Wu admitted that the women had been kidnapped and said three men had put them in a trunk before switching cars.
• Wang Wu recalled that one kidnapper made phone calls in a Donghai City dialect, leading Lin Chen to suspect someone from Donghai City was behind the scheme.
• Lin Chen stopped Wang Wu's bleeding and learned that the caller was about twenty-four, handsome, around one meter eighty tall, and wore heavy leather boots.

Lin Chen identified Zhou Bin as the likely kidnapper of Li Chunyi and Jue Wei, while Zhou Bin plotted with Leopard to lure Lin Chen into a deadly ambush. The hostages remained captive as Zhou Bin waited for reinforcements to arrive that night.

• Lin Chen threatened Wang Wu not to call the police, freed him, and learned that Zhou Bin had kidnapped the women.
• Lin Chen returned to the police station with Wang Bei and Qin Xueqing, and Wang Bei began using police systems to track Zhou Bin.
• At the Leopard Killer Group, Zhou Bin and Leopard planned to use Li Chunyi and Jue Wei to draw Lin Chen into an ambush.
• Leopard revealed that Li Kui had sent Cao Fei and ten other Black Alliance elites, along with the Black Hawk Squadron, to kill Lin Chen.
• Zhou Bin worried that Lin Chen might trace the kidnapping back to him, but Leopard reassured him, and Zhou Bin returned to his hotel to wait for the reinforcements.

Lin Chen searched the Leopard Killer Group for Li Chunyi and Jue Wei but could not find them, while the two women concluded they were imprisoned in a basement there. Jue Wei released a strong fragrance through an air vent in hopes of helping Lin Chen locate them.

• Zhou Bin answered a wrong-number call, confirmed the caller had his number, and went back to sleep.
• Lin Chen learned Zhou Bin was staying at the Huashang Grand Hotel, but refused to arrest him without evidence because the hostages could be at risk.
• Wang Bei sent officers to watch Zhou Bin while Lin Chen secretly searched the Leopard Killer Group for Li Chunyi and Jue Wei.
• Lin Chen found no sign of the women and learned from Wang Bei that Zhou Bin was alone in one hotel room.
• Jue Wei deduced that she and Li Chunyi were held in a basement at the Leopard Killer Group and mixed her fragrance powder with water to send its scent through an air vent.