Chapter Summaries

After waking from a fifty-year sleep, Su Yi visited his old residence on Sword-Washing Mountain and learned that his former steward, Jiang Changfeng, had become a renowned diviner. Jiang Changfeng recognized Su Yi and hurried to meet him, leaving the watching visitors stunned by Su Yi’s sudden appearance.

• Su Yi walked through the busy ravine on Sword-Washing Mountain and recalled his long life, his past influence on history, and his decision not to alter the world again.
• Su Yi heard that Jiang Changfeng was famous for fortune-telling and sensed that his former steward might face trouble.
• Su Yi reached his former residence, where guards and visitors mocked or challenged him as he approached.
• Su Yi silenced two wealthy young men with a glance and ignored the guard who ordered him to leave.
• Jiang Changfeng came out of the residence, recognized Su Yi, and wept as he hurried toward him.
• Su Yi appeared beside Jiang Changfeng in an instant, leaving the gathered onlookers unable to understand how he had crossed the distance.

Su Yi reunited with his longtime servant Jiang Changfeng after fifty years and asked him about the modern world. Su Yi decided to pursue university under a new identity, but their conversation was interrupted by a young man who kicked open the residence’s gate.

• Jiang Changfeng ordered the guards to stand down and welcomed Su Yi into the old residence, leaving onlookers stunned by his deference.
• Su Yi reflected on the unchanged residence and heard Jiang Changfeng describe the country’s prosperity and rapid technological progress.
• Su Yi told Jiang Changfeng not to summon his former servants and refused to let the elderly man keep following him.
• Su Yi chose to live as a twenty-year-old and attend university, and Jiang Changfeng offered to arrange a new identity for him.
• A young man entered with suited subordinates after kicking open the gate, and Jiang Changfeng looked at him with killing intent.

Tang Jingchen tried to seize control of Jiang Changfeng and challenged Su Yi, but Su Yi effortlessly killed Tang Jingchen and his men. Su Yi left word that he would meet the powerful figures on Wutong Street the next day, while some of his former servants questioned whether they would still serve him.

• Tang Jingchen threatened Jiang Changfeng and ordered his men to attack after learning Jiang Changfeng treated Su Yi as his Master.
• Su Yi asked whether the Tang Family had other descendants, then turned Tang Jingchen's attackers into black smoke with a glance.
• Tang Jingchen shot at Su Yi, but the bullet passed through Tang Jingchen's forehead and killed him.
• News of Tang Jingchen's attack spread, prompting powerful figures to react and Su Yi's former servants to debate whether they would remain loyal.
• Su Yi told Jiang Changfeng to summon the others to Wutong Street the next day, then vanished from the residence.

Su Yi returned to the courtyard on Wutong Street and decided to buy it from its drunken owner, Chen Qifeng’s son. When Yu Guoan and four other former followers arrived, they recognized Su Yi and began fulfilling his request to pay the owner fifty million in cash.

• Su Yi visited the courtyard where he had planted a five-hundred-year-old plane tree and learned that Chen Qifeng was dead.
• The drunk owner demanded fifty million for the property, and Su Yi agreed to buy it despite having no money on him.
• Yu Guoan and four other old men arrived, wary of Su Yi after discovering historical records suggesting he had lived for thousands of years.
• Su Yi identified the drunk as the current owner and asked the old men to pay him fifty million.
• Yu Guoan offered a check, but the owner rejected it and demanded cash, so Su Yi ordered Yu Guoan to provide it.

Su Yi ended his old ties with Yu Guoan and the other former servants, asking only for an ID card and the chance to attend school. He began exploring his new life and applied for a night job at a bar, but realized he still had much to learn about the modern world.

• Yu Guoan brought the drunk fifty million in cash, bought his property, and gave him a luxury car.
• Yu Guoan and four other former servants knelt before Su Yi, who told them they owed him nothing and asked them to leave him alone after arranging an ID card and school.
• Ye Lin and Yu Guoan offered to send a young family member to accompany Su Yi, but Su Yi refused and sent them away.
• Su Yi cleaned the courtyard, explored the city, and decided to find nighttime work so he could attend school during the day.
• Su Yi applied to work as a server at a bar, learned the job required an ID photocopy, and said he would return the next day.

Su Yi received identification, money, and an admission letter from Yu Guoan, but refused the financial help and asked Yu Huiyin to assist him with basic errands. He chose to live in a shared dorm at Qingzhou University and prepared to go enroll.

• Yu Huiyin visited Su Yi with an envelope from her grandfather, Yu Guoan, containing an ID card, a bank card, a letter, and an admission letter to Qingzhou University.
• Su Yi returned the bank card, saying he did not need financial assistance, and asked Yu Huiyin to photocopy his ID because he had no money on him.
• Yu Huiyin returned with the photocopies, and Su Yi asked her to take him to Qingzhou University because he did not know how to enroll or find his way.
• Yu Huiyin agreed to take Su Yi to school and explained that the dormitories housed four students per room.
• Su Yi chose to live in the dorm so he could meet more people and better adapt to the present society.

Yu Huiyin drove Su Yi to Qingzhou University, where Zhao Yin staged a public proposal and became hostile after Su Yi arrived with her. After Su Yi began his enrollment, he left Yu Huiyin stunned by asking her to buy his daily necessities for him.

• Yu Huiyin drove Su Yi to Qingzhou University, where Zhao Yin knelt with a ring and a crowd of supporters to ask her to be his girlfriend.
• Yu Huiyin rejected Zhao Yin and opened the car door for Su Yi, who said he had not been watching how she opened it.
• When Zhao Yin challenged Su Yi, Su Yi looked up and caused the balloons and banners overhead to burst and tear apart.
• Su Yi and Yu Huiyin left, while Zhao Yin and the Young Masters Alliance planned to target Su Yi for interfering with their pursuit of Yu Huiyin.
• Su Yi completed his enrollment and went to the men's dormitory, telling Yu Huiyin to buy his daily necessities and keep track of the cost for repayment next month.

Yu Huiyin sent for her younger brother, Yu Xinghe, while Su Yi headed to Room 306, unaware that Xinghe had already taken offense at him. Su Yi told his new roommate that he knew Yu Huiyin and was staying in the room, leaving the roommate convinced he was insane.

• Yu Huiyin called Yu Xinghe to the men's dorm and ordered him downstairs.
• Yu Xinghe rushed downstairs, insulted students who teased him, and tried to shove Su Yi on the stairs; Su Yi dodged, and Xinghe marked him as a target.
• A student warned Su Yi that Yu Xinghe held grudges, but Su Yi said Yu Huiyin was buying things for him.
• Su Yi followed the student to Room 306 and said it was his new dorm room.
• The roommate begged Su Yi to switch rooms, then shouted to wake the other residents and announced that a lunatic had joined them.

Yu Xinghe mobilized students to surround Room 306 after Yu Huiyin ordered him to bring Su Yi supplies, while Su Yi’s roommates tried to avoid getting caught up in the confrontation. The chapter ended with Ye Hu blocking the roommates from leaving, following Yu Xinghe’s order that no one from 306 could get out.

• Yu Huiyin ordered Yu Xinghe to buy Su Yi the best daily necessities and deliver them to Room 306, warning him not to cause trouble.
• Yu Xinghe secretly called students to gather supplies, crowd Room 306, and livestream the commotion.
• Zhao Yin and his companions watched from a distance, expecting Yu Xinghe to make trouble for Su Yi.
• Su Yi greeted his roommates and stayed in the room, while the others decided to move their computers next door and avoid a fight.
• Ye Hu stopped Su Yi’s roommates at the door and ordered them back inside, saying no one from Room 306 was allowed to leave.

Su Yi stayed calm as Yu Xinghe brought a crowd to confront him in the boys' dormitory over his supposed connection to Yu Huiyin. Yu Xinghe learned that Su Yi was not from the Jinmen Su Family, but remained confused about his background.

• Su Yi dismissed Wang Junlin's fears about Ye Hu and said he could handle the Taekwondo Club president without wanting to fight him.
• Yu Huiyin confronted Yu Xinghe for stirring up trouble and warned him not to provoke Su Yi, but Yu Xinghe insisted on delivering the supplies himself.
• Yu Xinghe led a crowd into Su Yi's dorm room and locked the door behind them.
• Yu Xinghe warned Su Yi to stay away from Yu Huiyin and asked whether he belonged to the Jinmen Su Family.
• Su Yi denied having a wealthy background or knowing Yu Huiyin well, and Yu Xinghe struggled to place Wutong Street.

Su Yi defeated Yu Xinghe’s group in the dorm room, then walked around campus with Yu Huiyin and learned how to use a mobile phone. He remained curious about modern life as Yu Huiyin wondered whether his claim of coming out of the mountains was genuine.

• Yu Xinghe discovered Su Yi was not from the Jinmen Su Family and ordered Ye Hu to attack him over the unpaid purchases.
• Su Yi broke Ye Hu’s nose with one punch, then broke the noses of the other students who charged him.
• Su Yi warned Yu Xinghe to clean the blood from the dorm room before leaving unharmed.
• Yu Huiyin met Su Yi outside the dorm building and walked around campus with him.
• Su Yi asked Yu Huiyin what the glowing devices people were using were, and she explained how mobile phones worked.

Yu Huiyin took Su Yi to buy a phone before their planned visit to the museum, but he refused her offer of an expensive iPhone and chose the cheapest smartphone instead. Their awkward shopping trip sparked rumors across the university that Yu Huiyin was dating a poor student, though neither of them knew about the gossip.

• Yu Huiyin doubted Su Yi’s claims about coming from the mountains, but his clueless questions and new ID card made her partly believe him.
• At a phone shop, Yu Huiyin offered to lend Su Yi money and invited him to join her museum visit.
• Yu Huiyin told the sales assistant to get Su Yi a 256 GB iPhone 11 Pro Max, but Su Yi asked for a phone under five hundred yuan and refused to accept her gift.
• Su Yi bought the cheapest option, a Redmi 8A for 699 yuan, and explained that his expected monthly salary was only eighteen hundred yuan.
• Students spread stories about Yu Huiyin and Su Yi on Moments and the university forum, while the two remained unaware.

Su Yi learned to use a smartphone and went with Yu Huiyin to the Qingzhou City Museum, where he recalled his past and identified the origin of Bai Qingyan’s name. There, Yu Huiyin rejected Qin Lin’s assumptions about her relationship with Su Yi, leaving Qin Lin increasingly hostile toward him.

• Su Yi quickly learned pinyin and how to search for answers on his phone, then thanked Yu Huiyin for bringing him to the museum.
• At the Qingzhou City Museum, Su Yi recognized Bai Qingyan’s name from a poem by Han Yu and recalled knowing the poet.
• Qin Lin greeted Yu Huiyin and assumed Su Yi was her boyfriend, prompting Yu Huiyin to tell him they were only ordinary friends.
• Qin Lin offered Su Yi his hand, but Su Yi did not shake it, and Yu Huiyin told Qin Lin to leave them alone.
• Qin Lin agreed to look around separately but glared at Su Yi with growing hostility.

Su Yi visited the Qingzhou City Museum with Yu Huiyin and dismissed Qin Lin’s disbelief as he recognized artifacts he had owned centuries ago. The experts’ translation of his stone stele suggested that its author had witnessed Huaxia’s history and might still be alive.

• Yu Huiyin explained the rarity of a Song dynasty Jun porcelain cup, but Su Yi said it was merely pretty and that he had owned a crystal cup over two thousand years earlier.
• Qin Lin mocked Su Yi’s claims, while Yu Huiyin ignored him and led Su Yi to the Sword-Washing Mountain artifacts.
• Su Yi recognized the displayed artifacts as items he had collected and the stone stele as something he had kept with him through periods of slumber.
• Two elderly scholars translated passages describing events across Huaxia’s history, including Su Yi teaching Xiang Yu a spear technique and warning Japan.
• The scholars noticed the stele included modern traditional characters and wondered whether its author had lived from ancient times to the present without aging or dying.

Su Yi visited the museum and told Yang Zhengcheng what the ancient stele said, including its account of an era ending, but his dismissive manner left the others doubting and offended. He moved on to view his former jade bed, while Yu Huiyin struggled to understand his arrogance.

• Su Yi ignored Yang Zhengcheng's question, then explained that the stele described meeting Daoist Hongjun and later bringing an era to an end.
• Qin Lin mocked Su Yi, but Yang Zhengcheng said he was inclined to believe him, silencing Qin Lin.
• Yang Zhengcheng introduced himself and offered to take Su Yi as his master, but Su Yi refused to speak with him and continued exploring.
• Yu Huiyin learned Yang Zhengcheng was Qingzhou University's former president and apologized to him for Su Yi's behavior.
• Su Yi recognized the jade bed from his past and told Yu Huiyin that Yang Zhengcheng would be lucky to become his disciple, leaving her exasperated.

Su Yi visited the museum displaying artifacts from his tomb and told Yu Huiyin and Bai Qingyan that he had carved the stone tablet, though they treated his claims as jokes. After Bai Qingyan teased Yu Huiyin about Su Yi, the group decided to visit a nearby antiques street.

• Su Yi confirmed that most of the artifacts discovered on Sword-Washing Mountain had once belonged to him.
• Yu Huiyin asked whether Su Yi could read the stone tablet and whether its inscriptions meant someone had lived for thousands of years.
• Su Yi claimed that he had carved the tablet and told Bai Qingyan he had taught Daoist Hongjun and Qin Shihuang, but Bai Qingyan took his stories as tall tales.
• Bai Qingyan asked whether Su Yi liked Yu Huiyin, and Su Yi called her too small, embarrassing Yu Huiyin.
• Bai Qingyan suggested visiting an antiques street so Su Yi could identify valuable objects, and Su Yi agreed.

Su Yi browsed Qingzhou City's antiques market with Yu Huiyin while Yang Zhengcheng and his group followed, hoping he could decipher the stone tablet's writing. After Su Yi offered to teach Yang one character in exchange for buying him something, Yang agreed to pay for whatever he wanted.

• Yu Huiyin warned Su Yi that most antiques on the street were fake, while Su Yi said the goods looked well made.
• Su Yi asked the vendor to sell him a jade bowl for three hundred, and the vendor accepted the offer.
• Su Yi beckoned Yang Zhengcheng over and offered to teach him one stone-tablet character if Yang bought him something.
• Yang Zhengcheng agreed to buy whatever Su Yi wanted if Su Yi could teach him the characters on the tablet.

Su Yi bought nine trinkets from a street vendor and proved to Yang Zhengcheng that he could accurately read the mysterious characters. He dismissed Yang Zhengcheng and left with Yu Huiyin to go to his new workplace.

• Su Yi told Yang Zhengcheng to buy all nine items at the stall, and Yang Zhengcheng paid two thousand for them.
• Su Yi translated nine characters, whose combined meaning described Daoist Hongjun splitting his divine soul into three parts.
• Yang Zhengcheng excitedly offered to buy Su Yi anything he wanted, but Su Yi told him to leave and refused his business card.
• Yang Zhengcheng ordered his people to deliver the items to Su Yi's courtyard and left with his group.
• Yu Huiyin questioned Su Yi's rudeness, and Su Yi said he had been polite to him before heading to the place where he would work.

Su Yi told Yu Huiyin and Bai Qingyan that he worked as a waiter at Sober Bar, and the group headed there together. Bai Qingyan discovered her sister Bai Miaomiao was also looking for Su Yi, but he said he did not want to meet her.

• Su Yi said he worked evenings as a waiter at Sober Bar and refused Bai Qingyan's offer to find him another job.
• Bai Qingyan teased Yu Huiyin about Su Yi, and the group decided to go to Sober Bar together.
• Yu Huiyin drove away from Qin Lin, while Bai Qingyan transferred him the museum-ticket money and called her sister, Bai Miaomiao.
• Bai Miaomiao told Bai Qingyan she was on Wutong Street looking for Su Yi at her grandfather's request and had encountered Ye Xiaxuan there.
• Bai Qingyan realized Su Yi was beside her and told Bai Miaomiao where they were going.
• Su Yi told Bai Qingyan to tell Bai Miaomiao not to come because he had no intention of paying attention to her.

Su Yi arrived at the Sober Bar to start work and met Lin Yiyun, who had applied to be a server. After refusing a job that might require him to sleep with customers, he agreed to consider drinking and chatting with them instead.

• Su Yi told Yu Huiyin to stop visiting him and asked her to tell her grandfather not to send anyone else.
• Yu Huiyin dropped Su Yi at the Sober Bar, where he met Lin Yiyun outside.
• Zhang Ting brought Su Yi and Lin Yiyun inside to register for work and assured Lin Yiyun that she could work safely as a server.
• Zhang Ting offered Su Yi a job drinking and chatting with female customers, but Su Yi refused when she said it could involve sleeping with them.
• Zhang Ting said Su Yi could avoid sex as long as he kept customers happy enough to return, and Su Yi agreed that chatting sounded acceptable.