Chapter Summaries

Gu Qing saw mysterious labels above people’s heads, including the [Corpse] label above his girlfriend Bai Ningyu. As Bai Ningyu broke up with him and warned him away from her recent activities, Gu Qing was left wondering what her label meant and whether she was in danger.

• Gu Qing noticed labels such as [Laborer], [Teacher], [Gay], and [Otaku] floating above people at Haicheng University.
• Bai Ningyu met Gu Qing at a cafe and told him she wanted to break up because their futures belonged to different worlds.
• Gu Qing focused on the [Corpse] label above Bai Ningyu and asked if they would be separated by life and death.
• Bai Ningyu transferred Gu Qing twenty thousand yuan as breakup compensation and said she had earned it through hard work.
• Bai Ningyu insisted she was not in danger, warned Gu Qing that asking about her affairs could put him at risk, and left.

After his breakup, Gu Qing discovered that playing games with his roommate Chen Zijie, labeled a professional gamer, increased his gaming skill and reaction speed. He began to suspect that acting alongside people whose labels he could see would grant him matching abilities, and the chapter ended with him ordering barbecue with his roommates.

• Gu Qing returned to his dorm, noticed strange labels above people, and joined his roommates for League of Legends.
• After playing with Chen Zijie for over an hour, Gu Qing received increases to his gaming skill and reaction speed.
• Gu Qing noticed his improved reflexes during the next game and solo-killed an opposing Platinum player twice.
• Gu Qing wondered whether he could gain other abilities by studying or earning money alongside people with matching labels.
• Gu Qing and his roommates decided to order barbecue and beer, and he placed the delivery order with them.

After discovering that eating with Qian Duole increased his food intake and digestive ability, Gu Qing ate the leftover barbecue and planned how to earn more attribute points. He then went with Gao Fei to the basketball court, still puzzling over the strange labels above people's heads.

• Gu Qing received one point each in food intake and digestive ability after eating with Qian Duole for over an hour, and learned that 100 digestive-ability points would grant the Devouring attribute.
• Gu Qing ate the leftover skewers and sausages, while Chen Zijie wondered how he could still have an appetite.
• Gu Qing played games with Chen Zijie for over an hour, raised his reaction-speed points to three, and planned to play and eat with his roommates to gain attributes.
• Gu Qing joined Gao Fei on the way to the basketball court and wondered why labels like [Live-in son-in-law] and [Male escort] appeared above girls.
• At the court, Gao Fei bought iced tea from the drink seller and offered to treat Gu Qing, who asked for Ice Dew.

Gu Qing played basketball with Gao Fei and the school team, using his quick reactions to steal the ball repeatedly before gaining basketball skills and physical strength from a notification. His new strength transformed his shooting and let him dunk over a defender, leaving everyone on the court stunned.

• Gao Fei brought Gu Qing onto the court to play against school-team players and warned him to avoid forcing physical contests.
• Gu Qing stole the ball from the opposing point guard twice and helped Gao Fei score, then led his team to hold the court for an hour.
• Gu Qing received notifications granting him Basketball skills +1 and Physical strength +1 after playing with Gao Fei for over an hour.
• Gu Qing sank several effortless three-point shots and then drove to the basket for a powerful dunk that knocked down a defender.
• Gao Fei and the other players stared in disbelief as Gu Qing wondered how much stronger he would become after gaining more physical-strength points.

Gu Qing tested how his attribute-grinding ability worked while sharing snacks and gaming with his roommates, then tried to gain attributes by working out beside a stranger. He received no reward, leaving him to suspect that knowing someone was necessary.

• After playing basketball with Gao Fei for over an hour, Gu Qing gained one point each in basketball skill and physical strength and wondered why the other players' labels had not granted him attributes.
• Gu Qing bought snacks for his roommates and joked that Bai Ningyu had given him breakup compensation before explaining that he was saving money now that he was single.
• Gu Qing noticed his newly defined muscles after showering, then shared snacks with Qian Duole and played games with Chen Zijie to grind attributes.
• Gao Fei told his roommates that a handsome junior had vanished from campus without a trace, and Gu Qing privately suspected the student had been murdered.
• The next morning, Gu Qing followed a student with a [Bodybuilding Champion] label around the gym for over an hour, but gained no attributes because the stranger did not know him.

Gu Qing tested his strength and speed, then met Xia Shuran, a martial arts performance student whose label identified her as a Martial Arts Grandmaster, and began learning spear techniques from her. After hearing how traditional martial arts had failed against modern fighters, he left planning to spend more time with Xia Shuran and find out whether her label could grant him attributes.

• Gu Qing tested his lifting and punching strength at the gym, then timed himself running 100, 400, and 800 meters at the sports field.
• Gu Qing approached Xia Shuran, asked her to teach him spear techniques, and added her on WeChat while testing how labels worked.
• Xia Shuran taught Gu Qing to use a red-tasseled spear and told him her family ran a martial arts school and had practiced martial arts for generations.
• Xia Shuran explained that challengers from modern combat sports had beaten everyone at her family's school within a few moves, leaving traditional martial arts mainly for fitness and performance.
• After more than an hour with Xia Shuran produced no visible text or attributes, Gu Qing decided he would need to spend more time with her and promised to take her out to eat.

Gu Qing improved his attributes by spending a day with his roommates and imagined how training with Xia Shuran might make him a martial arts grandmaster. Meanwhile, Bai Ningyu struggled with the breakup before blocking him, and Gu Qing later approached top student Yang Yuntong to test whether studying with her would grant him attributes.

• Gu Qing ate with Qian Duole, played games with Chen Zijie, and played basketball with Gao Fei, gaining digestion, reaction speed, and physical toughness.
• Gu Qing assessed his heightened abilities and wondered whether gaining attributes from Xia Shuran could let him become a martial arts grandmaster.
• Bai Ningyu told a woman in a hotel room that she still missed Gu Qing, then heard the woman warn her that secretly returning to family had ended in their deaths.
• Bai Ningyu's messages said she had blocked Gu Qing to sever old relationships and start a new life, and Gu Qing confirmed the block before wishing her well.
• Gu Qing looked for useful tags in class, spotted Yang Yuntong's [Top student] tag, and asked to sit beside her.

Gu Qing practiced with Xia Shuran, hoping to gain attributes from her martial arts grandmaster tag, but their time together did not trigger any gains. Xia Shuran then demonstrated an impressive muscle-up and asked Gu Qing if she had impressed him.

• Gu Qing chose to practice with Xia Shuran instead of playing basketball with Gao Fei.
• After more than an hour of spear practice, Gu Qing received no attribute gains from Xia Shuran's tag.
• Xia Shuran invited Gu Qing to join her core strength training, and he agreed.
• Xia Shuran asked whether Gu Qing thought she could do a muscle-up, and he correctly predicted that she could.
• Xia Shuran effortlessly performed a muscle-up and asked Gu Qing whether he thought she was impressive.

Gu Qing outperformed Xia Shuran at several difficult calisthenics moves, then attended a talk by an outstanding graduate and gained learning ability while studying. After the talk, the alumnus singled Gu Qing out and brought him backstage, where he began to reveal something startling.

• Gu Qing impressed Xia Shuran by performing an explosive muscle-up, a planche, and several planche push-ups, but declined her request to record him for TikTok.
• The counselor announced that the class had to attend a talk by an outstanding graduate, and Gu Qing and Gao Fei went while Qian Duole and Chen Zijie stayed in the dorm.
• At the talk, Gu Qing studied with Yang Yuntong for over an hour and gained one point each in focus and learning ability.
• After the talk, the alumnus approached Gu Qing and insisted on speaking with him about making money.
• Gu Qing followed the alumnus backstage, where the man changed his demeanor and began with a bombshell.

Gu Qing rejected an alumnus’s offer to recruit him into a deceptive franchise business, then heard that the alumnus had vanished from campus. The next morning, Gu Qing agreed to go home and celebrate his sister’s national essay competition win.

• The alumnus confessed to making money by exploiting stay-at-home mothers and offered Gu Qing a sales job, but Gu Qing refused.
• After Gu Qing left, a cute-looking girl approached the alumnus about working for him, and he offered her a personal assistant position.
• Gu Qing continued raising his attributes by playing basketball with Gao Fei and snacking with Qian Duole, while hoping to reach 100 points of digestive ability.
• Gao Fei told Gu Qing, Qian Duole, and Chen Zijie that the alumnus had disappeared from campus without appearing on surveillance footage, and Gu Qing wondered if he had traveled to another world.
• Wen Wanyi told Gu Qing that his sister had won first prize nationwide in an essay competition, and Gu Qing agreed to come home the next afternoon to celebrate.

Gu Qing acquired the Devouring attribute after eating snacks with Qian Duole, then went home to test his enhanced digestion. He caught his sister Gu Yao in an embarrassing moment and ended the chapter wolfing down dinner while his family watched in shock.

• Gu Qing and Qian Duole ate snacks together until Gu Qing reached 100 cumulative digestion points and acquired Devouring.
• Gu Qing saw security vehicles arrive at school, checked with Gao Fei about them, and then took the bus home.
• Gu Qing arrived home and accidentally caught Gu Yao picking at her feet; she suffered a social death and later stayed quiet through dinner.
• Gu Qing noticed the ordinary labels Designer, Teacher, and Novelist above his family members and decided they were not worth farming.
• Gu Qing rapidly ate bowl after bowl of rice and dishes to test Devouring, leaving his family stunned by his appetite.

Gu Qing discovered that his extraordinary body could absorb nearly all food without producing waste, then used his enhanced reflexes and strength to disarm a knife-wielding murderer outside his residential complex. He returned home safely, unaware that the subdued attacker had suddenly died after Gu Qing left.

• Gu Qing spent the weekend eating enormous amounts and found that he did not gain weight or need to use the toilet.
• Gu Qing accompanied his parents to the mall, then went downstairs to buy soy sauce after Wen Wanyi realized she had forgotten it.
• Gu Qing spotted a drunk labeled [Murderer] attacking people with a kitchen knife outside his residential complex.
• Gu Qing dodged the drunk’s attack and struck his knife-wielding arm, allowing the crowd to subdue him.
• After Gu Qing left, the drunk convulsed and died, while Gu Qing’s worried parents greeted him safely back at home.

After Gu Qing’s knife-hand strike was caught on video, his parents and the police learned that he had subdued the attacker, but he refused publicity or commendation. Meanwhile, two black-coated investigators found evidence of a supernatural influence behind the attack, and Gu Qing returned to school to keep grinding attributes.

• Wen Wanyi recognized Gu Qing in a video of the knife attack and scolded him for risking his safety.
• A public security officer praised Gu Qing and asked him to accept an interview and commendation, but Gu Qing refused.
• Two investigators in black examined the attacker’s body and concluded that a strange presence had triggered his violence, while Gu Qing’s blow had caused his fatal heart rupture.
• Gu Mingbo urged Gu Qing to prioritize his safety, but Gu Qing refused to take time off because he wanted to keep building his reflexes.
• Gu Qing arrived at school just before class, studied with a classmate to gain Focus and Learning Ability, then went to the cafeteria with Chen Zijie.

Gu Qing and Chen Zijie stayed up gaming until they reached Challenger, and Gu Qing gained lightning-fast reflexes after his reaction speed reached 100. After waking from their all-nighter, Gu Qing saw that his character panel listed his attributes as upgradable or fusible, though he did not know how.

• Gu Qing stopped eating snacks once he could no longer gain attributes from them and persuaded Chen Zijie to play games with him through the night.
• After gaming together for eight hours in the dorm, Gu Qing and Chen Zijie went to an internet café and began an all-night ranked session.
• They reached Challenger, and Gu Qing’s reaction speed reached 100, granting him the lightning-fast reflexes attribute.
• Gu Qing experienced the world slowing down, then flicked a fly hard enough to kill it against a wall.
• Gu Qing and Chen Zijie returned to the dorm and slept through their morning class.
• After Qian Duole woke them around noon, Gu Qing read his character panel and discovered that his attributes could be upgraded or fused.

After Gao Fei revealed that remains found at the school had likely been eaten, Gu Qing considered how to prepare for a possible killer and focused on improving his abilities. He left his roommates to meet Xia Shuran at the sports field for spear practice, where she offered him tea.

• Gao Fei told Chen Zijie, Gu Qing, and Qian Duole that investigators had found remains in the school sewers and suspected a cannibal who might target handsome people.
• Gu Qing reasoned that he should seek out chemistry- and biology-related tags to develop resistance to poisons and other threats.
• Gu Qing stopped playing games with Chen Zijie because he had already gained the [Lightning-fast reflexes] attribute, and decided to farm physical strength with Gao Fei instead.
• Gu Qing messaged Xia Shuran and arranged to practice with the red-tasseled spear at the sports field.
• Gu Qing arrived at the field, and Xia Shuran offered him pu'er tea she had brewed.

Gu Qing gained martial arts and physical constitution points by practicing with Xia Shuran, and his spear skills suddenly improved enough to astonish her. After resting, they moved on to strength training, where Gu Qing hoped to keep gaining attributes from her Martial Arts Grandmaster tag.

• Xia Shuran brought Gu Qing warm tea, then practiced the Red-Tassel Spear with him for an hour.
• Gu Qing received martial arts and physical constitution points and discovered his spear technique had improved dramatically.
• Xia Shuran was stunned by Gu Qing’s sudden progress and questioned her own years of training.
• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran practiced for another hour before resting, and Xia Shuran praised his stamina and athletic potential.
• Xia Shuran invited Gu Qing to do strength training at the horizontal and parallel bars, and he joined her to see whether it would earn him more attributes.
• After an hour of strength exercises, notifications appeared before Gu Qing’s eyes.

Gu Qing agreed to a Street Workout contest after Senior Hu challenged him, while Xia Shuran stopped recording at Gu Qing’s request. Senior Hu chose an Archangel Muscle-Up as the first move and began demonstrating it.

• Senior Hu greeted Xia Shuran and assumed Gu Qing was her boyfriend, then grew hostile toward him because he was handsome and close to Xia Shuran.
• Senior Hu challenged Gu Qing to a Street Workout contest, and Gu Qing accepted.
• Xia Shuran tried to record the contest but stopped when Gu Qing said he did not want to appear online.
• Senior Hu offered to let Xia Shuran post his performance, but she pretended her phone had run out of battery.
• Senior Hu chose an Archangel Muscle-Up and began pulling himself above the horizontal bar.

Gu Qing impressed Xia Shuran and a sports student by performing increasingly difficult bar exercises, culminating in a one-finger planche. After drawing a crowd, he left the sports field with Xia Shuran following him.

• Gu Qing effortlessly completed an Archangel Muscle-Up after the dark-skinned sports student challenged him.
• The sports student performed a Two-Finger Bar Planche and challenged Gu Qing to try it.
• Gu Qing announced he would do a One-Finger Bar Planche and supported himself on the bar with only his thumbs.
• Xia Shuran and nearby students watched in amazement as Gu Qing displayed his strength.
• Gu Qing stopped, left the sports field, and told Xia Shuran they could train together again tomorrow; she hurried after him.

Gu Qing agreed to have dinner with Xia Shuran after she reminded him about his promise, then encountered Zhou Yuan, whose [Biochemical Maniac] label matched his dangerous self-experimentation. That evening, Gu Qing went to meet Xia Shuran at the library, while still wondering whether Bai Ningyu’s [Corpse] label was connected to their breakup.

• Gu Qing apologized for forgetting his meal promise to Xia Shuran and agreed to meet her at seven for barbecue using her coupons.
• Gu Qing noticed the [Biochemical Maniac] label above Zhou Yuan, who collapsed near the dining hall and asked for cola because of low blood sugar.
• After Gu Qing bought Zhou Yuan cola and added him on WeChat, Zhou Yuan explained that he was a biochemistry doctoral student who tested reagents and toxins on himself.
• Gu Qing said he wanted to discuss biochemistry research with Zhou Yuan, who was surprised to learn that Gu Qing studied foreign languages.
• Gu Qing thought about his former relationship with Bai Ningyu and her [Corpse] label before arriving at the library to meet Xia Shuran.

Gu Qing took Xia Shuran to an all-you-can-eat barbecue, where his [Devouring] attribute let him out-eat a livestreaming competitive eater, then walked her back to her dorm. On campus, they spotted unusually bold rats, and Chen Zijie and Gao Fei rushed out to deal with one fighting a stray cat.

• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran ate barbecue together, and Gu Qing stunned the diners and streamer by rapidly consuming a mountain of food.
• Gu Qing walked Xia Shuran back to her dorm and arranged to practice with her red-tasseled spear the next afternoon.
• Gu Qing spotted a huge rat fighting a tabby cat and sent a video to Qian Duole, Chen Zijie, and Gao Fei.
• Chen Zijie charged downstairs with a bamboo broom to attack the rat, while Gao Fei urged him to let the fight continue a little longer.