Chapter Summaries

After waking in a luxury hotel suite, Ji Hanxing mistook Yan Jinyue for the rich driver who had hit him and fled after their drug-induced encounter. Ji Hanxing escaped the room, only to be greeted as “President Ji” by a stranger in gold-rimmed glasses.

• Ji Hanxing woke in a presidential suite, found a chain, and assumed the rich driver who hit him planned to hide his body.
• Ji Hanxing ran into Yan Jinyue, and the two, both drugged and overwhelmed by heat, clung to each other.
• Ji Hanxing woke beside Yan Jinyue, saw his bruises, and fled while calling the man a sick pervert.
• Yan Jinyue woke alone and noticed Ji Hanxing had just left.
• A man in gold-rimmed glasses found Ji Hanxing in the hotel and called him “President Ji.”

After transmigrating into a domineering CEO romance novel, Ji Hanxing learned that refusing the system’s mission would destroy his soul, while his younger siblings would be cared for if he accepted. With only three days to live, he began a strange CEO training course and faced its first assessment just as Mr. Yan entered his hospital room.

• Ji Hanxing learned that the system had bound him to play the male lead and that he could not return to his old world alive.
• The system promised to cure Ji Hanxing’s younger siblings and find them loving families, so he accepted the mission.
• Ji Hanxing learned he had three days to live and was assigned to study domineering CEO expression and physique management for a life-point reward.
• After recovering enough to leave bed, Ji Hanxing made paper eyes and practiced a CEO expression in the mirror.
• The system ordered Ji Hanxing to show his practiced expression to the first person he saw, and he met Mr. Yan’s gaze as Mr. Yan entered the room.

After discovering that the man he slept with was Ji Hanxing, Yan Jinyue visited him in the hospital and learned he could hear Ji Hanxing’s thoughts. Ji Hanxing worried that their encounter had derailed the novel’s plot and asked the system whether the world was in danger.

• Yan Jinyue investigated the hotel footage, learned that Ji Hanxing was the president of the Ji Group, and visited him in the hospital.
• Ji Hanxing performed a domineering CEO routine for Yan Jinyue and passed the system’s assessment, earning seven days of life.
• Yan Jinyue removed the paper coverings from Ji Hanxing’s eyes, and Ji Hanxing recognized him as the man he had slept with after transmigrating.
• The system identified Yan Jinyue as the novel’s greatest villain and warned Ji Hanxing to eliminate him if necessary.
• Yan Jinyue realized he could hear Ji Hanxing’s thoughts and left after Ji Hanxing claimed he was only dizzy and tired.
• Ji Hanxing asked the system what would happen if the plot collapsed, then asked whether the current plot had already gone off course.

Ji Hanxing learned that Yan Jinyue was the powerful main villain of the romance novel and resolved to avoid him, while Yan Jinyue grew intrigued by Ji Hanxing and his thoughts, which only he could hear. Yan Jinyue then headed to Grand Prosperity with Fu Fangxi to investigate the strange object that had struck Ji Hanxing.

• Ji Hanxing asked the system about the plot and learned that Yan Jinyue was wealthy, powerful, and destined to compete with him for the female lead.
• Yan Jinyue warned Director Xu to arrange better care for Ji Hanxing and discreetly checked whether anyone else had heard Ji Hanxing's thoughts.
• Yan Jinyue recalled Ji Hanxing's remarks and realized he found him interesting despite suspecting that Ji Hanxing had schemed to bring them together.
• Yan Jinyue asked Fu Fangxi about the object that had hit Ji Hanxing, but Fu Fangxi said the investigation had found no explanation.
• Yan Jinyue went to Grand Prosperity to see Jiang Yuzhuo and asked whether anyone from the Ji Family had visited him.

Yan Jinyue confronted Jiang Yuzhuo over the hotel’s failures during the business networking conference, including the drugging and the attack on Ji Hanxing. Jiang Yuzhuo promised to investigate and compensate Ji Hanxing, but Yan Jinyue insisted that he had suffered losses too, leaving Jiang Yuzhuo speechless.

• Yan Jinyue called Jiang Yuzhuo and told him to meet at Grand Prosperity Hotel within ten minutes.
• Yan Jinyue reached Jiang Yuzhuo’s office and reprimanded him for arriving eight minutes late after getting drunk.
• Yan Jinyue warned Jiang Yuzhuo that his carelessness gave Jiang Yujing an opportunity to use the conference’s problems against him.
• Yan Jinyue confronted Jiang Yuzhuo about Ji Hanxing being drugged and struck by an unidentified object at the hotel.
• Jiang Yuzhuo promised to investigate the incidents and compensate Ji Hanxing, but Yan Jinyue said he had suffered losses as well.

Yan Jinyue agreed to investigate the drugging at the banquet while Ji Hanxing recovered and was discharged from the hospital. As Ji Hanxing reviewed the case materials and his inherited memories, he learned more about the Ji Family’s decline and his parents’ bitter history.

• Yan Jinyue agreed to handle the banquet drugging investigation but told Jiang Yuzhuo to deal with any fallout from Ji Hanxing being struck, and he asked Jiang to keep the surveillance footage unless Ji Hanxing requested it.
• Yan Jinyue ordered Jiang Yuzhuo to remove the chains from the presidential suite, and Jiang agreed after Yan warned him with a hard stare.
• Director Xu arranged Ji Hanxing’s examinations, which showed he had recovered, and Xue Hui completed his discharge paperwork.
• After Ji Hanxing left the hospital, Xue Hui gave him the legal materials about his accident at the Grand Prosperity Hotel, and Ji Hanxing realized the report’s missing object was inside his own head.
• Ji Hanxing recalled how his mother, Luo Feiluo, divorced Ji Changhe and left him with Old Mr. Ji, while Ji Changhe’s mistress helped ruin the Ji Group and eventually took him abroad.

Ji Hanxing learned more about the Ji Family’s rise and the powerful figures connected to the hotel where he had met Yan Jinyue. After realizing how hard Xue Hui worked, he raised his assistant’s salary, though the system reminded him he had only five days left to live.

• Ji Hanxing confirmed that Old Master Ji had not been told about his hospitalization and reflected on the original owner’s success in business.
• Ji Hanxing learned that the suite where he had slept with Yan Jinyue was in Grand Prosperity Hotel, which belonged to the Jiang Family, and recalled that Jiang Yuzhuo managed it.
• Xue Hui explained that Yan Jinyue had recently taken over the Yan Group and was close to Jiang Yuzhuo, prompting Ji Hanxing to admire Yan’s abilities.
• The system described Xue Hui’s demanding duties, and Ji Hanxing asked about his pay after learning he earned eight hundred thousand a year.
• Ji Hanxing told Xue Hui to ask HR to raise his annual salary to one million, while the system warned Ji Hanxing that he had only five days left to live.

Ji Hanxing accepted Grand Prosperity’s invitation to discuss compensation for the incident that injured him, then went to visit Old Master Ji at the family residence. He tried to maintain his unsmiling CEO image as he reunited with his grandfather.

• Ji Hanxing learned that maintaining his aloof characterization for seven-day cycles would earn him extra life, so he resolved not to smile in public.
• Xue Hui spoke with Assistant Li, who accepted Grand Prosperity’s responsibility and invited Ji Hanxing to dinner with Jiang Yuzhuo to discuss compensation.
• Jiang Yuzhuo confirmed that the surveillance footage outside room 5108 had been extracted and encrypted, then told Yan Jinyue about the dinner invitation.
• Ji Hanxing went to the Ji Family’s old residence and greeted Butler Wang, who noticed that he seemed to have lost weight.
• Ji Hanxing met Old Master Ji, who acted indifferent at first but told him to sit down.

Ji Hanxing tried to find out how much Old Master Ji knew about the incident at Grand Prosperity, while his grandfather analyzed Jiang Yuzhuo’s rise and the Jiang family’s distrust. The conversation left Ji Hanxing unsure what to do at dinner, just as the King of Sleaze System appeared.

• Old Master Ji tricked Ji Hanxing into admitting he had hidden his head injury, then revealed that Director Xu had told him about the hospitalization.
• Ji Hanxing cautiously mentioned Grand Prosperity and his dinner with Jiang Yuzhuo, avoiding details about what else had happened at the hotel.
• Old Master Ji blamed Grand Prosperity for Ji Hanxing getting hit and asked whether the hotel had contacted him.
• Ji Hanxing told Old Master Ji that Jiang Yuzhuo had taken control of Grand Prosperity and was close to Yan Jinyue.
• Old Master Ji argued that Jiang Huai’s distrust of both his sons, rather than Yan Jinyue’s influence, had enabled Jiang Yuzhuo to get Grand Prosperity.
• Old Master Ji told Ji Hanxing to handle his meeting with Jiang Yuzhuo appropriately, and the King of Sleaze System suddenly announced its arrival.

Ji Hanxing went to the Grand Prosperity Hotel to negotiate with Jiang Yuzhuo, where he encountered Yan Jinyue and tried to maintain his domineering CEO persona. Yan discovered that physical contact let him hear Ji Hanxing's thoughts and decided to stay out of the negotiation while continuing his investigation.

• Ji Hanxing received a mission to improve his negotiation skills with Jiang Yuzhuo and headed to the Grand Prosperity Hotel.
• Ji Hanxing spotted Yan Jinyue and hid in his car, but Yan knocked on the window and opened the unlocked door.
• Yan Jinyue touched Ji Hanxing's head as he got out, and Ji Hanxing silently protested that he was 184 cm tall and as tall as Yan.
• After Ji Hanxing left, Yan worked out that he could hear Ji Hanxing's thoughts through physical contact and for three minutes afterward.
• Yan told Fu Fangxi he would wait in the next room instead of joining Jiang Yuzhuo's meal with Ji Hanxing, then asked about the investigation.

Ji Hanxing met Jiang Yuzhuo at Grand Prosperity Hotel to discuss an apology for the incident that left Ji injured. As Jiang waited nervously for Ji to demand compensation, Ji struggled to make sense of what he had learned about the Jiang family.

• Ji Hanxing arrived at the hotel with Xue Hui, and Assistant Li confirmed that Jiang Yuzhuo had invited only him.
• Jiang Yuzhuo greeted Ji Hanxing in Vermilion Bird Hall and was struck by Ji’s appearance and business reputation.
• Ji called Jiang “Young Master Jiang,” but Jiang brushed off the formality and asked him to use their given names.
• Jiang apologized for Grand Prosperity Hotel’s failure and asked Ji how he wanted to resolve the matter.
• Ji stayed silent while wrestling with what he knew about Jiang Huai’s plans, and Jiang feared Ji was calculating a costly settlement.

Ji Hanxing pressured Jiang Yuzhuo into investigating Grand Prosperity Hotel’s safety hazards and securing him Suite 5108, then used dinner and conversation to get Jiang Yuzhuo talking about the surveillance footage. As Jiang Yuzhuo began to reveal what he had seen, he started to mention Yan Jinyue.

• Jiang Yuzhuo admitted that Grand Prosperity Hotel could not determine what had struck Ji Hanxing, and offered to cover his medical expenses and emotional-distress compensation.
• Ji Hanxing warned that the hotel’s safety hazards could cause serious trouble, prompting Jiang Yuzhuo to promise a thorough inspection.
• Jiang Yuzhuo offered Ji Hanxing free stays at Grand Prosperity hotels, and Ji Hanxing insisted on taking Suite 5108, which had been reserved for Yan Jinyue.
• Jiang Yuzhuo agreed to give Ji Hanxing the suite, and the two shared a meal while Jiang Yuzhuo drank and grew increasingly friendly.
• Ji Hanxing asked what Jiang Yuzhuo had seen in the surveillance footage, and Jiang Yuzhuo began to answer that he had seen Ji Hanxing coming from Yan...

Jiang Yuzhuo realized Ji Hanxing had deliberately coaxed him into revealing that he had seen the surveillance footage, which Ji Hanxing wanted to retrieve. He tried to use the footage as leverage by claiming it had been lost, but Ji Hanxing's questions exposed the risks of maintaining that lie, leaving Jiang Yuzhuo defeated.

• Jiang Yuzhuo let slip that he had seen the surveillance footage, and Ji Hanxing asked where it was.
• Jiang Yuzhuo realized Ji Hanxing had been trying to obtain the footage from the start and decided to use it as leverage.
• Jiang Yuzhuo claimed the Grand Prosperity Hotel's surveillance system had failed and the footage was lost.
• Ji Hanxing asked whether Jiang Yuzhuo had reported the malfunction to the authorities and suggested displaying the required documents.
• Jiang Yuzhuo recognized that proving the malfunction would damage the hotel and give Jiang Yujing ammunition, so he could not follow through on his threat.

Ji Hanxing negotiated with Jiang Yuzhuo and obtained the master surveillance recording from suite 5108. After Ji Hanxing left, Yan Jinyue learned what had happened and became increasingly interested in him as a worthy opponent.

• Ji Hanxing prompted Jiang Yuzhuo to admit that a backup existed, then took the master copy of the surveillance footage in exchange for letting him save face.
• Ji Hanxing completed his negotiation mission and received two days of life, then thanked Jiang Yuzhuo and complained about the chains in suite 5108.
• Yan Jinyue met Ji Hanxing outside the dining room and brushed a speck from his shoulder as Ji Hanxing thanked him for the suite.
• Yan Jinyue questioned Jiang Yuzhuo about giving suite 5108 to Ji Hanxing, and Jiang Yuzhuo accused them of teaming up against him.
• Jiang Yuzhuo recounted how Ji Hanxing had secured the recording, while Yan Jinyue wondered what Ji Hanxing planned to do with it and felt excited by the challenge he presented.

Ji Hanxing questioned the system’s reliability, destroyed the surveillance USB, and tested what would happen if he ignored his missions. After the system’s punishment nearly left him unable to breathe, he accepted a career mission and asked Xue Hui for help with the company’s hidden problems.

• Ji Hanxing learned that the system had not viewed the surveillance footage and reasoned that it would not discover what had happened that night.
• Ji Hanxing celebrated being rich in his villa, then took the USB into the bathroom and smashed it.
• After two days of avoiding missions, Ji Hanxing suffered a painful deterioration in his bodily functions as the system warned that his life points were running out.
• Ji Hanxing agreed to complete a mission after the system restored his health temporarily, then began reviewing his work emails.
• The system triggered a career side mission to resolve hidden company problems, and Ji Hanxing messaged Xue Hui for help.

Ji Hanxing went to the Ji Group after staying up all night and prepared to demonstrate a domineering CEO’s intimidating aura at a meeting. He entered the ice-cold conference room and waited to learn whether he had passed the system’s assessment.

• Xue Hui picked up Ji Hanxing, who looked pale after spending two days reading romance novels and working through the night.
• Ji Hanxing had Xue Hui prepare ice and summon the group’s senior executives for a meeting, while Xue Hui worried about his health and his own future at the company.
• Ji Hanxing arrived at the Ji Group and tried to act like a domineering CEO, letting Xue Hui press the elevator button for him.
• The system assigned Ji Hanxing an assessment to create an intimidating aura that caused a sudden drop in temperature, with the meeting attendees as test subjects.
• Ji Hanxing used a remote to turn on the fans in the ice-filled conference room, entered as the attendees shivered, and asked the system whether he had passed.

Ji Hanxing used an icy conference room to expose problems with the group’s expensive imported ice supply and question procurement chief Minister Huang. He left Minister Huang facing scrutiny over the purchase and the risk it posed to the group’s medical devices.

• System 004 confirmed Ji Hanxing passed his test and rewarded him with seven days of life, despite his unconventional approach to creating a chilling presence.
• Ji Hanxing presented executives with crystal-clear ice and asked them to assess its quality, while drawing attention to Minister Huang’s silence.
• At Ji Hanxing’s prompting, Xue Hui introduced the domestic Ice and Snow Ice Factory and described his research into the company.
• Ji Hanxing questioned the executives about the factory, then explained that the group relied on ice for medical-device cooling and laboratory research.
• Ji Hanxing revealed that the group had paid three times the market price for ice from Tasdon in Country M, whose defective product nearly damaged medical devices awaiting shipment.
• Ji Hanxing confronted Minister Huang about overseeing the purchase and its acceptance inspection, asking him to explain himself.

Ji Hanxing exposed Minister Huang for colluding with Tasdon and announced that the Ji Group would end its partnership with the company. After assigning Director Zhang to negotiate with the Ice and Snow Ice Factory, Ji Hanxing explained to Xue Hui that he had kept the plan from him so he could enjoy his promised days off.

• Ji Hanxing accused Minister Huang of dereliction of duty and taking kickbacks from Tasdon, citing signed delivery slips and evidence from Tasdon’s production department.
• Ji Hanxing announced that the Ji Group would end its partnership with Tasdon and later release information about the ice-related medical equipment incident and Minister Huang’s punishment.
• Ji Hanxing assigned Director Zhang to negotiate a partnership with the Ice and Snow Ice Factory, then adjourned the meeting.
• Xue Hui admired Ji Hanxing’s decisive move and worried that Ji Hanxing had not trusted him with the plan.
• Ji Hanxing told Xue Hui he had kept him out of the work because he had promised him two days off, and Xue Hui vowed to work for the Ji Group.

Ji Hanxing collapsed after completing his mission, and Yan Jinyue rushed him to the hospital and stayed beside him. When Ji Hanxing woke, he found Yan Jinyue still there and wondered why he kept appearing everywhere.

• Ji Hanxing completed his mission, then collapsed from a fever as he left the elevator.
• Yan Jinyue caught Ji Hanxing, carried him to the hospital, and Xue Hui followed after warning the receptionist not to circulate her photos.
• Director Xu admitted Ji Hanxing for emergency treatment while Yan Jinyue waited with Xue Hui.
• When Ji Hanxing woke feverish and thirsty, Yan Jinyue moistened his lips, and Ji Hanxing held on to his wrist.
• Ji Hanxing woke in his hospital room and saw Yan Jinyue emerge from the bathroom.

Ji Hanxing woke in the hospital and learned Yan Jinyue had brought him there and stayed by his bedside. As Xue Hui arrived with breakfast, Ji Hanxing wondered about Yan Jinyue’s intentions, while Yan Jinyue grew curious about a thought he had not managed to hear.

• Yan Jinyue told Ji Hanxing that he had caught him when he collapsed and brought him to the hospital because he had a fever.
• Yan Jinyue said Ji Hanxing had held his hand and that he had changed Ji Hanxing’s soaked clothes, prompting Ji Hanxing to cover his mouth and tell him to stop.
• Yan Jinyue reassured Ji Hanxing that the earlier incident between them had been an accident and that he had destroyed the security footage Ji Hanxing took from Jiang Yuzhuo.
• Yan Jinyue asked whether Ji Group planned to enter the hotel industry, and Ji Hanxing said his knowledge of hotel management came from personal interest.
• Xue Hui arrived with breakfast, including Ji Hanxing’s favorite nourishing congee from Xue’s, which he had fetched from across the city.