Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen agreed to become Liang Xiaobei’s older brother and promised a treatment plan for his hemophilia before returning to work and visiting Nanzhou Entertainment City. He urged An Qi to consider Cheng Feng’s feelings and tasked her with planning a major expansion.

• Lin Chen accepted Liang Aimin’s request to act as Liang Xiaobei’s older brother, and Liang Xiaobei joyfully welcomed him as family.
• Lin Chen examined Liang Xiaobei’s wound and promised Liang Aimin a herbal prescription that could improve his hemophilia.
• Lin Chen memorized Hailan Group’s product information, had lunch with Mo Xue, and then went to Nanzhou Entertainment City.
• Lin Chen told An Qi that Cheng Feng liked her, and An Qi blushed as she admitted she found him attentive and reassuring.
• Lin Chen instructed An Qi to negotiate acquisitions around Nanzhou Entertainment City and plan to expand it to twice its current size.

Lin Chen agreed to help Captain Wang investigate Han Qiang’s murder after suspecting Zhou Bin was involved. Meanwhile, Zhou Bin and his accomplices hid in an abandoned village, where Hu Chongsheng laid out rules for their escape and the secrecy of Zhou Bin’s system.

• Lin Chen explained his plan to connect East City Commercial Street with Nanzhou Entertainment City, then instructed An Qi to carry it out.
• Wang Bei told Lin Chen the suspects had vanished and asked him to help solve Han Qiang’s murder; Lin Chen agreed and suspected the masked man was Zhou Bin.
• Zhou Bin, Hu Chongsheng, and Zhou Nan arrived at a deserted village in Hengyuan City with supplies and cash.
• Hu Chongsheng warned Zhou Bin not to use his bank card, SIM card, or ID, and said no one else could learn that he had a system.
• Hu Chongsheng told Zhou Bin to obtain a new bank card within three days, and Zhou Bin agreed to have Hu Chongsheng apply for one.

Lin Chen used his political influence and control over antique supply channels to force the Zhang Family to sell Antique Villa. After the deal closed for sixty billion, he planned to expand his business operations in Nanzhou City and build a dedicated antique team.

• Zhou Nan agreed to pursue removal and cosmetic surgery with Hu Chongsheng’s help, using money earned from missions with Zhou Bin.
• After Liang Aimin reported that Zhao Chen had stopped interfering, Lin Chen went to the Zhang Family and offered to buy Antique Villa for 120 percent of its value.
• Lin Chen warned Zhang Ji that Old Fifth Jin could cut off the Zhang Family’s antique supplies, and Zhang Ji eventually agreed to sell despite Zhang Wu’s protests.
• Cheng Feng completed the Antique Villa transaction for sixty billion and confirmed that its legal procedures had been checked.
• Lin Chen planned to establish the headquarters of Aimei Group and Mingyang Tianxia Group in Nanzhou City and move the Treasure Hunting Department to Jingwu Hall under Liu Yan.

Lin Chen spent his Quest Points on a Perfect Physique Enhancement Potion, then met with Lu Hao, who warned him that a masked man stronger than Lin Chen had appeared. Lu Hao revealed that Lin Chen’s system might be part of Terra civilization’s God-Making Plan, leaving Lin Chen with the prospect of three powerful factions researching systems.

• Lin Chen recruited Zhegu Yang and arranged for him to bring Guan Xiao and Zhang Xiaofei to Jingwu Hall’s Treasure Hunting Department.
• The system rewarded Lin Chen for completing his missions, and he exchanged 500 Quest Points for a Perfect Physique Enhancement Potion to protect Qin Xueqing.
• Lin Chen teleported to Mingjiang Hotel to meet Lu Hao, who had undergone facial surgery and said a masked man stronger than Lin Chen had appeared.
• Lin Chen told Lu Hao that he had a mission system, and Lu Hao explained that Terra civilization’s systems were part of a possible God-Making Plan.
• Lu Hao said Terra’s three factions—Light, Darkness, and Parallel—had continued developing their forces and were likely researching systems.

Lin Chen learned from Lu Hao about another system user, the Masked Man, and the threat he might pose to Lin Chen’s family. Lu Hao also told him about an antique bearing Terran Script, and Lin Chen agreed to investigate it the next day.

• Lu Hao said Lin Chen’s sense of justice made it likely that his system belonged to the Light or Neutral Faction, and warned him that the Masked Man seemed evil and might have a Dark Faction system.
• Lin Chen connected the Masked Man to the mysterious visitor who had hypnotized his father at the hospital.
• Lu Hao identified Zhou Nan as a powerful All-around Mutant and suspected the Masked Man had rescued Zhou Bin and could target Lin Chen’s loved ones.
• Lu Hao asked Lin Chen to investigate an antique in the capital that bore Terran Script, and Lin Chen agreed to go the next day.
• Lin Chen asked if he could trust Lu Hao, who said they were the same kind of people, and Lin Chen returned to his room for the night.

Lin Chen visited his father and promised Liu Mei he would attend her performance, while Lin Huai and Liu Mei discussed his possible marriage to Zhou Mei. He then went to Aimei Group, where Qin Xueqing worried about the upcoming presale of their first product, the Detoxifying Beauty Cream.

• The system assigned Lin Chen the mission to find the Monster Man and issued no three-day mission.
• Lin Chen found Liu Mei visiting Lin Huai and promised to attend her performance on Friday after missing her parents' meeting.
• Lin Chen assessed Lin Huai's recovery and realized it had stalled unless they found Ancient Black Jade Bone-Setting Paste.
• Liu Mei approved of Lin Huai pursuing Zhou Mei, and Lin Huai explained that they would wait until he recovered before deciding whether to marry.
• Lin Huai asked about Lin Chen and Qin Xueqing's relationship, and Lin Chen said they planned to decide about marriage after a three-month adjustment period.
• Lin Chen went to Aimei Group, where Qin Xueqing expressed anxiety about the Detoxifying Beauty Cream presale, and he reassured her about the product's prospects.

Lin Chen joined Wang Bei’s investigation into Zhou Bin and offered a reward to find witnesses who had seen the suspects’ car. After several people gathered to share what they knew, Lin Chen called on three blondies to speak.

• Lin Chen visited the central police station and reasoned that Zhou Bin may have switched vehicles after the car vanished from surveillance.
• Lin Chen urged Wang Bei to post notices offering thirty thousand yuan for useful information and warning that false reports could lead to punishment for harboring criminals.
• Wang Bei and Lin Chen met people who responded to the notices, and Lin Chen gave a white-collar worker five hundred yuan for her account of seeing the car stop.
• Lin Chen invited three blondies to give their information, and Wang Bei warned them not to lie.

Lin Chen and Wang Bei questioned three street thugs, whose account and review of surveillance footage revealed how the suspects escaped in a gray van with fake plates. The van was traced to the western suburbs of Hengyuan City, where Lin Chen sent Xiao Hu and thirty men to investigate.

• Lin Chen questioned Blondie and his two companions, who described the suspects waiting in a luxury car before fleeing in a fake-plated van.
• Blondie identified a scrape on the van in the surveillance footage, giving the police a distinctive clue to track it.
• Wang Bei and Director Xu traced the van to the western suburbs of Hengyuan City, Province B.
• Lin Chen called Cheng Feng, who ordered Xiao Hu to take thirty men and search the villages near Hengyuan City.
• Xiao Hu's men split into six teams to investigate thirteen villages, and they received a response about an hour later.

Lin Chen and Wang Bei searched the western outskirts of Hengyuan City for the van carrying suspected murderers. Lin Chen spotted signs that the van had been driven into a sugarcane field, narrowing the search to a concealed opening.

• Lin Chen called Xiao Hu, who reported that nearby villages had seen neither the van nor any strangers, and Lin Chen ordered him to withdraw his people.
• Lin Chen and Wang Bei met local police, arranged for a special police deployment, and asked investigators to check Zhou Nan's records and appearance.
• Lin Chen used surveillance footage and his zoom ability to narrow the van's disappearance point to an area beside a large sugarcane field.
• Lin Chen found a gap in the field where stalks had been struck down and weeds deliberately spread over vehicle damage, and Wang Bei's group confirmed the signs.

Lin Chen and Wang Bei followed clues from a hidden van and footprints across the fields to an abandoned village, where Lin Chen concluded the three fugitives were hiding. He called for the Hengyuan police to surround the village and sent the other men away to avoid alerting them while the police approached.

• Lin Chen found a hidden van in the sugarcane field and reasoned that the fugitives had crossed the fields without being seen by villagers.
• Lin Chen and Wang Bei searched the left side of the sugarcane field, crossed a river, and found chaotic footprints in farmland.
• Lin Chen and Wang Bei entered a small forest and learned from a colleague that the buildings ahead belonged to an abandoned village.
• Lin Chen identified the abandoned village as the fugitives’ hiding place, and Wang Bei notified the Hengyuan police.
• Lin Chen estimated that the police would arrive in about half an hour and had Wang Bei send his men away to avoid alerting the fugitives.

Lin Chen and Wang Bei entered the abandoned village while Zhou Nan, Zhou Bin, and Hu Chongsheng prepared for the possibility that police had found them. Zhou Nan planned to draw the newcomers away so the others could hide in a coffin cave, and the chapter ended as Lin Chen and Wang Bei cautiously searched the village.

• Zhou Bin woke from a nightmare about killing a local tyrant, and Hu Chongsheng encouraged him to keep completing tasks for the system.
• Zhou Bin reviewed his improved attributes and exchanged killing intent for Kagura's inheritance, then agreed to stay in the village for another week before fleeing abroad with Hu Chongsheng and Zhou Nan.
• Zhou Nan reported seeing two people near the village, and Hu Chongsheng urged them to prepare for a possible police search.
• Zhou Nan proposed luring the visitors away while Zhou Bin and Hu Chongsheng hid in a nearby coffin cave.
• Lin Chen and Wang Bei entered the abandoned village and began searching cautiously for the three men.

Lin Chen and Wang Bei tracked the fugitives to a house, where Lin Chen defeated and captured Zhou Nan with his Sunflower Acupuncture Hand. Wang Bei questioned Zhou Nan about his two accomplices, but Zhou Nan refused to reveal anything.

• Lin Chen offered Wang Bei a place in his group, and the two affirmed their friendship despite Wang Bei's uncertainty about accepting.
• Lin Chen detected signs of people living in an abandoned house and entered while Wang Bei waited outside.
• Zhou Nan ambushed Lin Chen, but Lin Chen overwhelmed him with his fighting skills and sent him fleeing through a window.
• Lin Chen caught up to Zhou Nan and immobilized him with the Sunflower Acupuncture Hand as Wang Bei arrived to arrest him.
• Wang Bei questioned Zhou Nan about his two accomplices, but Zhou Nan denied needing help and refused to give them up.

Lin Chen tortured Zhou Nan to learn where Zhou Bin and the others were hiding, but Zhou Nan endured the pain without revealing anything. After police searches failed to find the fugitives, Lin Chen insisted they were still concealed in the village and helped secure Zhou Nan in a reinforced cell overnight.

• Lin Chen increased Zhou Nan's pain to the tenth level, but Zhou Nan refused to reveal the others' location and went into shock.
• Lin Chen revived Zhou Nan with silver needles, and Wang Bei learned that Hengyuan City police had surrounded the village.
• After the police found no trace of Zhou Bin or the other fugitive, Lin Chen ordered four officers to keep watch in every direction until nightfall.
• Lin Chen agreed to stay in Hengyuan City and transport Zhou Nan to Nanzhou City the next morning.
• Lin Chen and Wang Bei locked Zhou Nan in a sealed, steel-plated cell at the central police station.

After completing his mission, Lin Chen learned that his system had upgraded several attributes and returned to Donghai City. He gave Qin Xueqing a Perfect Physique Potion, which transformed her figure and appearance, and she asked him whether she had become prettier.

• The system rewarded Lin Chen with 100 million RMB and 100 Quest Points, upgraded his teleportation gate, and unlocked powerful effects for Dodge Value and Health Value.
• Lin Chen decided to save his points for Perfect Body Potions for Cheng Yun and Lightning, then teleported back to Donghai City.
• Wang Bei reported that the four officers had returned without finding any movement, and Lin Chen later met Qin Xueqing at Aimei Group.
• Qin Xueqing told Lin Chen she was uneasy about the next day's Detoxifying Beauty Cream presale, and he reassured her before offering her a Perfect Physique Potion.
• Qin Xueqing drank the potion and endured its brief painful effects as her body and features transformed.
• Qin Xueqing asked Lin Chen whether she had become prettier, and he praised her new appearance.

After Qin Xueqing’s body transformation, Lin Chen tested her enhanced abilities and stayed with her as she prepared for the Detoxifying Beauty Cream presale. The chapter ended with Lin Chen learning that a rival company had launched a cheaper product with more advertised benefits, threatening the presale.

• Qin Xueqing admired her transformed figure, and Lin Chen tested her strength, movement speed, attack speed, and reaction speed.
• Lin Chen accompanied Qin Xueqing to the company on the morning of the presale and teleported to Hengyuan City to hand Zhou Nan over to Wang Bei.
• Lin Chen immobilized Zhou Nan with an acupoint strike and told Wang Bei to get him to Nanzhou City within three hours and secure him.
• At Aimei Group, Lin Chen learned from Manager Huang that Meiji Group had launched a cheaper beauty paste that included the Detoxifying Beauty Cream’s functions and claimed to enhance breasts.

Lin Chen responded to Meiji Group’s launch of a product resembling Aimei Group’s new paste by postponing Aimei’s presale and investigating a suspected leak. He found no suspicious behavior in Liu Qingyin’s company surveillance and teleported to Meiji Group’s event to examine its product presentation.

• Lin Chen advised Qin Xueqing to postpone the presale until noon the next day and said he would investigate Meiji Group’s launch in Nanzhou.
• Lin Chen suspected Liu Qingyin might have leaked product information but asked Liu Yang to keep the suspicion private and review her surveillance footage.
• Lin Chen watched the footage and found no unusual behavior from Liu Qingyin.
• Lin Chen teleported into Meiji Group’s launch event at the Rongdeng Hotel and observed its product manager, Huang Can, presenting the paste.
• Lin Chen watched as Xu Kan, Meiji Group’s R&D department manager, took the stage to discuss the product.

Lin Chen challenged Meiji Group’s launch after spotting the ingredient list copied from Aimei Group’s planned product, and the system assigned him a mission to resolve Aimei Group’s presale crisis and acquire Meiji Group. He accused the company of stealing Aimei’s achievement, while Xu Kan threatened to sue him for slander.

• Lin Chen recognized Aimei Group’s preliminary ingredient list on Meiji Group’s presentation, including the unexplained designation M.
• The system assigned Lin Chen a mission to resolve Aimei Group’s presale crisis and acquire Meiji Group within three days.
• Lin Chen told Cheng Yun to negotiate with Jiangnan Town for control of the wild Nurturing Greens supply, offering an investment and payments to local households.
• Lin Chen asked Xu Kan what M meant, and Xu Kan claimed it was a special substance whose composition had not yet been determined.
• Lin Chen revealed himself as Hailan Group’s chairman and accused Meiji Group of stealing Aimei Group’s next-generation product.
• Xu Kan threatened to sue Lin Chen for slander and demanded that he apologize.

Lin Chen confronted Meiji Group at its press conference, accusing it of stealing Aimei Group’s product formula and challenging its executives to prove they knew the ingredients. He left after Lü Zhitao claimed Lin Chen had hacked and stolen the formula, leaving the media uncertain about the accusation.

• Lin Chen challenged Xu Kan’s knowledge of the product formula and explained that M referred to a collagen ingredient with breast-enhancement effects.
• Lü Wenyuan threatened to have Lin Chen removed, then apologized after Lin Chen objected to his description of Jingwu Hall as an underground organization.
• Lin Chen questioned Xu Kan, Lü Wenyuan, and Lü Zhitao about the ingredients, and each claimed not to remember or know them.
• Lin Chen accused Meiji Group of stealing Aimei Group’s formula, named astragalus root, corn silk, and codonopsis root, and demanded an apology or verification by law enforcement officers from the notary office.
• Lü Zhitao accused Lin Chen of hacking and stealing Meiji Group’s formula, while paid shills echoed him and confused the media.
• Lin Chen said he would see Meiji Group in court and left the press conference.

Lin Chen helped Aimei Group turn public opinion against Meiji Group after it admitted its new product overlapped with Aimei’s, while revealing his plan to acquire Meiji Group. The chapter ended with Lin Chen approaching Liu Qingyin, who was preparing to accept punishment for her role in the stolen formula list.

• After Lin Chen left, Lü Wenyuan suspended Meiji Group’s press conference and called its leaders to a meeting.
• Lü Wenyuan told the media that a new R&D employee had caused the overlap by exchanging ideas with an Aimei Group employee, and he promised to revise the product.
• Netizens criticized Meiji Group, while Wang Yang warned that changing the formula’s ingredients would undermine its effectiveness; public support swung back to Aimei Group.
• Lin Chen told Qin Xueqing that he planned to acquire Meiji Group, and they discussed building Aimei Group into a global cosmetics company.
• Lin Chen went to the R&D department and approached Liu Qingyin, who was writing a self-criticism and preparing to accept the company’s punishment.

Lin Chen reassured Liu Qingyin after her former best friend Zhang Lanfang stole Aimei Group’s research files, then arranged to confront Zhang in Nanzhou City. He warned her that Meiji Group would not protect her if Liu Qingyin accused her, leaving Zhang panicked.

• Lin Chen took Liu Qingyin to the rooftop and asked how Zhang Lanfang had obtained Aimei Group’s files.
• Liu Qingyin explained that Zhang had secretly copied the research files from her laptop and agreed to arrange a meeting with her.
• Liu Qingyin called Zhang and set a meeting at Ueshima Coffee in Nanzhou City, then asked Lin Chen to spare Zhang if the matter was resolved.
• Lin Chen used his teleportation ability to reach the coffee shop and approached Zhang without Liu Qingyin.
• Lin Chen identified himself as Aimei Group’s vice president and warned Zhang that Meiji Group would fire her if Liu Qingyin accused her.