Chapter Summaries

After being reborn just before Zhou Xuanze tricked him into signing a company contract, Li Yi rejected him and resolved to take control of his life. He met Shi Yan, the Shi family’s eldest young master, and suggested that Shi Yan keep him now to embarrass the Zhou and Lu families.

• Li Yi refused to sign Zhou Xuanze’s contract, mocked him, and accepted their breakup.
• Li Yi recalled how Zhou Xuanze and Lu Junjia had deceived him in his previous life to seize his inheritance and leave him disgraced.
• Li Yi kicked Shi Yan’s new Pagani, then claimed he was the Lu family’s biological son and told Shi Yan to seek compensation from the Lu Group.
• Zhou Xuanze accused Li Yi of hooking up with Shi Yan, and Li Yi proposed that Shi Yan keep him to save time and humiliate the Zhou and Lu families.

Li Yi rejected Zhou Xuanze’s attempt to resume their engagement and celebrated his rebirth by treating himself to hot pot. As he ate, he recalled how the Lu family had favored Lu Junjia and resolved to live for his own happiness.

• Li Yi exchanged contact information with Shi Yan, who agreed to dinner and drove away after giving someone brief instructions.
• Li Yi charged Zhou Xuanze for a consultation, accepted a total of 15,200 yuan, and refused to sign their contract.
• Zhou Xuanze insisted their breakup was temporary and blamed rumors about Lu Junjia, but Li Yi rejected him and left.
• Li Yi celebrated his rebirth with an expensive hot pot meal and remembered how the Lu family had treated him worse than Lu Junjia.
• Li Yi decided he would stop considering other people and live however made him happy.

Li Yi returned to the Lu family villa and openly defied Qiao Xinyue and Lu Junjia, even slapping Junjia and threatening to expose the family online. He went upstairs to shower, where his cat Sheriff filled the room with the stench of his litter box.

• Qiao Xinyue scolded Li Yi for failing to call her Mom, but he challenged her for treating him as a poor relative and guest despite his three years with the Lu family.
• Li Yi criticized Qiao Xinyue and Mr. Lu for failing to raise him properly, then slapped Lu Junjia when Junjia threatened him with a beating.
• Li Yi warned the family he would call the police and post about abuse on Weibo, while Qiao Xinyue ordered the butler to call her husband.
• Li Yi went upstairs and complained when Sheriff scratched his pants and left an unpleasant smell in the litter box.

Li Yi remembered the cruelty and betrayal he had endured in his previous life at the Lu family and at the hands of Zhou Xuanze and Lu Junjia. Now reunited with Sheriff, he vowed to make the two men pay, and a WeChat notification interrupted his thoughts.

• Li Yi found that Sheriff had failed to bury his poop, cleaned the litter box, and recalled how the Lu family had killed the cat in his previous life.
• Li Yi remembered how the Lu family had punished and abused him after bringing him home, while Grandpa Butler was the only one who showed him care.
• Li Yi recalled Zhou Xuanze sabotaging his university plans and exploiting the contract tied to Li Yi's inheritance of 25% of Lu Group.
• Li Yi remembered Zhou Xuanze and Lu Junjia's betrayal, his own arrest and illness, and his death after being sent to the Shi family.
• Li Yi cursed Zhou Xuanze and Lu Junjia and vowed to shove something into their mouths the next day, just as a WeChat notification sounded.

On his eighteenth birthday, Li Yi reconnected with the nursing-home elders he considered his real family and resolved not to abandon them again. After kicking Aunt Liu when she tried to strike him, he faced an angry Lu Hongshen and Qiao Xinyue downstairs, where Lu Junjia brought out the disciplinary ruler.

• Li Yi read birthday messages and red packets from the South Mountain Nursing Home elders and promised to visit them soon.
• Li Yi kicked Aunt Liu into a wall when she swung at him, then defended himself and dismissed her demands for respect.
• Lu Junjia helped Aunt Liu downstairs and coached her to exaggerate the incident to Lu Hongshen.
• Aunt Liu accused Li Yi of kicking and insulting her, prompting Lu Hongshen and Qiao Xinyue to demand that he come downstairs.
• Lu Hongshen ordered Lu Junjia to fetch the disciplinary ruler, and Li Yi came downstairs as Lu Junjia handed it over.

Li Yi confronted the Lu family over his mistreatment and used his knowledge of his grandfather’s coming-of-age gift to gain leverage. Lu Hongshen granted him a larger allowance and forced Lu Junjia and Aunt Liu to apologize, while Li Yi demanded Junjia’s room and left the gift undecided.

• Li Yi told Lu Hongshen that the household had mistreated him and revealed that he knew about his grandfather’s coming-of-age gift.
• Li Yi demanded apologies from Lu Junjia and Aunt Liu, and Lu Hongshen ordered them to comply.
• Li Yi accused Qiao Xinyue of neglecting him and demanded a monthly allowance of 300,000 yuan; Lu Hongshen agreed.
• Lu Junjia and Aunt Liu apologized to Li Yi.
• Li Yi said he would consider the gift and demanded that he be moved into Lu Junjia’s room the next morning.

Li Yi planned his revenge and demanded Lu Junjia’s room, but Qiao Xinyue refused to make the family switch rooms. He left the breakfast table after realizing they would not yield, and a sudden crash upstairs interrupted Qiao Xinyue’s smug celebration.

• Li Yi recorded June 18, two years later, as the date he intended to change his fate and listed his revenge plans, including protecting the nursing-home residents and defeating the Lu family and Zhou Xuanze.
• Li Yi decided to study artificial intelligence at Beiqing University and planned to surpass Lu Shixuan in the field.
• Li Yi helped himself to breakfast and told Aunt Liu to wake Lu Junjia and clear out his room.
• Qiao Xinyue said Lu Junjia was unwell and accused Li Yi of lacking guilt; Li Yi reminded her of her past abuse and said he did not care about Lu Junjia’s health.
• Qiao Xinyue refused to have Lu Junjia’s room cleared, and Li Yi left the table after realizing the family would not switch rooms.
• Qiao Xinyue mocked Li Yi for backing down, but a crash upstairs startled her and made her drop a shrimp dumpling.

Li Yi forced Lu Junjia out of his room and reclaimed it, warning the Lu family not to bully him while Butler Liu helped arrange a new lock and agreed to look after Sheriff. That evening, Li Yi provoked his family at dinner, while Lu Junjia looked forward to Zhou Xuanze visiting the next day.

• Li Yi smashed Lu Junjia's door with a hammer and scared him into moving out, then warned Qiao Xinyue and Aunt Liu to prepare his room.
• Li Yi asked Butler Liu to replace the lock and help watch Sheriff, and Butler Liu worried that the Lu family would retaliate against him.
• Li Yi took Sheriff into the garden, where Lu Junjia backed down from complaining about the cat and messaged Zhou Xuanze.
• Zhou Xuanze replied that he would visit Lu Junjia the next day, and Lu Junjia smugly anticipated Li Yi's reaction.
• At dinner, Li Yi claimed dishes for himself and insulted Qiao Xinyue's weight, angering her and leaving Aunt Liu speechless.

Li Yi rejected Zhou Xuanze’s apology and demanded a million as proof of sincerity, which Zhou Xuanze transferred while mistaking Li Yi’s changed behavior for an attempt to win him back. As Li Yi enjoyed breakfast and dismissed him, Zhou Xuanze began to worry that he was losing him.

• Li Yi came downstairs and rebuffed Zhou Xuanze’s cheerful greeting, then scolded Qiao Xinyue for defending him.
• Zhou Xuanze apologized and tried to embrace Li Yi, but Li Yi slapped his hand away and demanded a million through the QR code on his chest.
• Zhou Xuanze transferred the money, while Lu Junjia objected and Li Yi mocked him for interfering.
• Li Yi took the soup dumplings and soy milk for himself, telling Zhou Xuanze he no longer gave him the best food.
• Lu Junjia brought Zhou Xuanze soup dumplings, and Zhou Xuanze decided to stop coaxing Li Yi, though he glanced at Li Yi when he burned his tongue.

Li Yi rejected Zhou Xuanze and Lu Junjia’s attempts to draw him back in, then realized his inheritance would make him a target for the Lu family and outsiders. He decided to seek Shi Yan’s protection as a powerful partner before the inheritance became public.

• Li Yi left the dining room after Zhou Xuanze burned his tongue and criticized him for showing no sympathy.
• Zhou Xuanze and Lu Junjia privately revealed their relationship and planned to tame Li Yi so they could get his inheritance and shares.
• Zhou Xuanze reminded Lu Junjia to obtain Li Yi’s Gaokao admission ticket number and said he would accelerate his plan.
• Li Yi considered how the Lu family’s secrecy about his identity would leave him vulnerable once his inheritance became known.
• Li Yi reviewed his WeChat contacts and chose Shi Yan, despite the rumors about his ruthless and sinister nature, as his best potential partner.

Li Yi tried to meet Shi Yan at Huanxing Group but learned an appointment would take a month, so he went to Shi Yan’s villa to apply for the gardener position. He passed the first interview, which was administered by an interactive robot named Yingjun, and awaited the next round.

• Li Yi’s message to Shi Yan was rejected, and he left the villa after trading insults with Lu Junjia.
• Li Yi visited Huanxing Group to meet Shi Yan, but the receptionist said an appointment would take a month.
• Li Yi remembered Shi Yan was hiring a gardener for his villa and traveled to Wisteria Garden to apply.
• Li Yi entered the villa and discovered that Yingjun, an interactive robot, would conduct his interview.
• Li Yi answered Yingjun’s botanical knowledge test and scored 90, passing the first round.

Li Yi passed Shi Yan’s unusual gardener interview and was hired to work at his villa. After touring the garden, he learned that his main task would be caring for Shi Yan’s favorite Chinese lantern lilies, while Shi Yan secretly listened to their conversation.

• Li Yi answered Shi Yan’s personal-habits survey perfectly and advanced to a video interview with Shi Yan.
• Shi Yan questioned Li Yi about his background and motives, and Li Yi said he needed money for university tuition.
• Shi Yan agreed to hire Li Yi starting the next day, while keeping him close despite suspecting he had another purpose.
• Yingjun showed Li Yi the villa’s large garden and said his main job would be tending Shi Yan’s favorite Chinese lantern lilies.
• Li Yi and Yingjun discussed Shi Yan’s tastes, unaware that Shi Yan was listening through the garden surveillance feed and dismissing black roses and midnight tulips as ugly.

Li Yi returned home and slapped Lu Xingluo twice after she demanded he apologize to Lu Junjia. Lu Xingluo planned to use photos of her injuries to rally her fans against Li Yi.

• Li Yi overheard Qiao Xinyue, Lu Junjia, and Lu Xingluo discussing how they would punish him for hitting Lu Junjia.
• Lu Xingluo confronted Li Yi and demanded an apology, but he insulted her and slapped her twice when she tried to hit him.
• Li Yi warned them not to bother him and went upstairs while Lu Xingluo cried over her swollen face.
• Lu Junjia reminded Lu Xingluo that their father could not act against Li Yi because of the coming-of-age gift from their grandfather.
• Lu Xingluo decided her injury could attract sympathy and posted a photo that made it look especially severe, worrying that she might miss a variety show.

Lu Xingluo used her injuries to steer her fans toward blaming Li Yi, expecting her top fan to retaliate against him. Instead, Li Yi revealed that he was finished supporting her, leaving the fandom and prompting longtime fans to demand an explanation.

• Lu Xingluo deliberately liked and unliked a comment suggesting her relative had injured her, hoping her protective fans would target Li Yi.
• Li Yi refused to give Sheriff more canned food, then went online to research care for Chinese lantern lilies.
• Fans summoned Li Yi, who recognized his old identity as Lu Xingluo's top fan and replied that her affairs were none of his business.
• Li Yi told the group he was leaving Lu Xingluo's fandom and said she deserved the two slaps, admitting he had been blind to her true nature.
• Li Yi deleted his Lu Xingluo posts and left her fan communities, while longtime fans and newer fans reacted with confusion and accusations.

Li Yi, using the account None of Your Peace, quit Lu Xingluo’s fandom and refused her team’s attempts to buy his accounts or pressure him. As rivals exposed Lu Xingluo’s past scandals and her team struggled without his help, Fangfang decided to ask the fans to fight back.

• Lu Xingluo learned that her top fan, None of Your Peace, had deleted his posts and left most of her fan groups, and she ordered Fangfang to prepare ways to discredit him if he would not sell his account.
• Li Yi warned longtime fan Light of Xingluo to be cautious, while Light of Xingluo recalled secretly compensating fans for losses from Lu Xingluo’s counterfeit food promotion.
• Lu Xingluo’s manager asked Li Yi to sell his Weibo and QQ accounts, threatened him when he refused, and ordered a hacker to access his Weibo account.
• Lu Xingluo’s rivals publicized her old scandals and framed None of Your Peace’s departure as a falling-out, leaving her team scrambling to respond.
• Fangfang proposed asking Lu Xingluo’s fans to help counter the attacks.

After Lu Xingluo’s team smeared None of Your Peace online, Li Yi released evidence of her misconduct, turning her top fans against her and leaving her team unable to contain the scandal.

• Lu Xingluo’s PR team accused None of Your Peace of pressuring her for a private meeting and cyberbullying her after he left the fandom.
• Light of Xingluo and other top fans asked None of Your Peace why he had left, and he shared evidence of Lu Xingluo bullying others and stealing a variety-show opportunity.
• The top fans turned against Lu Xingluo and helped spread the evidence, prompting many fans to leave her group.
• Lu Xingluo demanded that her team remove the videos, but her assistant explained that they kept multiplying and that None of Your Peace had previously been the one deleting them.

Lu Xingluo tried to redirect online outrage by posting a tearful apology and framing a minor actress, but Li Yi released surveillance footage exposing her scheme. The variety show dropped Lu Xingluo and rehired the original actress, leaving Lu Xingluo overwhelmed by abuse while Li Yi watched from downstairs.

• Lu Xingluo blamed Lu Junjia for the scandal, then made him record a tearful apology video that denied wrongdoing and accused a minor actress of taking the variety-show slot improperly.
• Lu Xingluo's public relations team spread claims that the minor actress had slept with the assistant director, and online users turned their attacks toward her.
• Li Yi posted surveillance footage of Lu Xingluo staging her apology and a phone call in which she ordered the false rumors about the minor actress.
• Reports revealed that Lu Xingluo had previously sabotaged the minor actress over a restaurant private room and taken her variety-show opportunity, prompting viewers to demand the role be returned.
• The director terminated Lu Xingluo's contract and rehired the original actress, while Lu Xingluo lost followers and broke down over the online abuse.
• Lu Junjia tried to comfort Lu Xingluo as their father arranged a security check of the home surveillance system, and Li Yi sneered at them from downstairs.

Li Yi let Lu Xingluo and Lu Junjia turn against each other over her online scandal, then took revenge on his family for ordering him to make coffee by serving them coffee mixed with Sheriff's cat feces. Lu Hongshen and Lu Xingluo recognized the drink as Jamaica Blue Mountain with a strange flavor, but had not yet discovered what Li Yi had added.

• Li Yi mocked Lu Xingluo and suggested Lu Junjia had benefited from the advice that led to her online backlash, prompting her to accuse Junjia of setting her up.
• Lu Junjia denied intending to harm Lu Xingluo, then left while she agreed to stay out of the public eye for a month.
• The next morning, Lu Xingluo, Lu Hongshen, and Lu Junjia ordered Li Yi to make them coffee, and he agreed before secretly preparing Sheriff's cat feces for the coffee machine.
• Li Yi served the coffee as authentic Kopi Luwak, and Lu Hongshen and Lu Xingluo identified its strange flavor as Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee.

Li Yi tricked the Lu family into drinking cat-waste coffee and used Development Treasure to make them vomit, then left with Sheriff. He brought Sheriff to the Wisteria Garden villa, where Yingjun offered the cat a newly built doghouse.

• Lu Junjia and Qiao Xinyue mocked Li Yi for serving Blue Mountain coffee, and Lu Junjia declared it fake after tasting it.
• Li Yi revealed that the coffee was freshly produced Kopi Luwak from Sheriff, then confessed he had put Development Treasure in the bathrooms.
• Lu Xingluo, Qiao Xinyue, Lu Hongshen, and Lu Junjia vomited as the Development Treasure bubbled up through the sinks and toilets.
• Qiao Xinyue and Lu Xingluo decided to make Sheriff disappear, while Lu Hongshen warned them not to provoke Li Yi.
• Li Yi left with Sheriff and brought him to the Wisteria Garden villa, where Yingjun showed him an unused doghouse in the back garden.

Li Yi started work in Shi Yan’s garden while Yingjun photographed him and sent the pictures to Shi Yan. As Shi Yan investigated Li Yi’s past, he learned that Li Yi’s missing years remained unexplained and ordered his assistant to look into Miao’an Town.

• Li Yi put Sheriff in a wooden pet house and coaxed him to stay there while he worked.
• Yingjun showed Li Yi the tool shed, where Shi Yan had prepared work clothes, and took photos and videos of him in the garden.
• Shi Yan told Yingjun to scram after receiving a message offering photos and videos for money, then learned Li Yi had gone missing at five and spent three years somewhere before arriving at Nanshan Orphanage.
• Shi Yan’s assistant explained that the orphanage and a nearby nursing home belonged to the Pei family’s Thirteenth Young Master, and Shi Yan ordered him to investigate whether Li Yi had stayed in Miao’an Town.
• Shi Yan opened Yingjun’s photos of Li Yi, complained about them, and saved them.