Chapter Summaries

Su Yi began a trial as a bar host, where Zhang Ting tested his drinking ability and promised him the chance to choose customers if he could get her friends drunk. After hearing him claim he could roll any dice result, Zhang Ting challenged him to roll five ones and offered to double his salary if he succeeded.

• Zhang Ting told Su Yi he would have a three-day trial before she decided whether to make him business manager.
• Zhang Ting assured Lin Yiyun that she would only serve drinks or greet customers and would not be expected to drink with them.
• Su Yi agreed to entertain Zhang Ting's friends that night and asked to choose his own customers; Zhang Ting made that a reward for getting the whole table happily drunk.
• Zhang Ting gave Lin Yiyun a staff qipao and Su Yi a suit, then admired Su Yi's striking appearance.
• Zhang Ting asked Su Yi about bar games, and he claimed he could roll whatever number he wanted with dice.
• Zhang Ting challenged Su Yi to roll five ones and promised to double his salary if he did.

Su Yi amazed Zhang Ting and He Liao with his impossible dice tricks and flawless drinking-game play, securing a better-paying job at the bar. Zhang Ting warned him to lose occasionally when entertaining customers so they would still enjoy playing with him.

• Su Yi stacked five dice into a column showing either all ones or all sixes, astonishing Zhang Ting and He Liao.
• He Liao offered Su Yi a cigarette and asked to become his student, and Su Yi agreed to teach him.
• Zhang Ting raised Su Yi's base pay to six thousand yuan plus drink commissions and assigned He Liao to show him the bar games.
• Su Yi beat He Liao twenty times in a row at fifteen-twenty, then defeated him and Zhang Ting repeatedly at finger-guessing and won three straight rounds of bull-bull.
• Zhang Ting told Su Yi to let customers win sometimes and to drink with them after they lost three rounds in a row.

Su Yi began working at the bar and prepared to entertain customers with his drinking skills. When Bai Miaomiao asked him to marry her for convenience, he refused, leaving her proposal unanswered.

• Su Yi learned about the bar's punishing six-glass drinking game and agreed with He Liao on a signal for him to leave before it began.
• Yu Huiyin, Bai Qingyan, and Bai Miaomiao arrived at the bar, and Bai Miaomiao asked Zhang Ting to send Su Yi to their booth.
• Bai Miaomiao offered Su Yi thirty thousand a month, a car, and another job if he married her while they lived separate lives.
• Su Yi refused Bai Miaomiao's marriage proposal outright.

At the bar, Bai Miaomiao proposed marriage to Su Yi and was rejected twice, then challenged him to drink in a bid to embarrass him. Su Yi drained bottle after bottle without showing any effects, and by the ninth bottle Bai Miaomiao suspected the wine had been replaced.

• Bai Miaomiao proposed marriage to Su Yi, but he turned her down twice.
• Bai Miaomiao challenged Su Yi to drink ten bottles and offered him ten thousand for each bottle.
• Su Yi drank the first bottle in under a minute without changing expression, then continued through the wine.
• Yu Huiyin and Zhang Ting watched in amazement as Su Yi reached his fifth bottle, while He Liao dubbed him the new God of Wine.
• When Su Yi reached his ninth bottle without appearing drunk, Bai Miaomiao wondered whether the wine was really wine.

Su Yi impressed the Sober Bar on his first day by drinking ten bottles of wine and earning a record-breaking commission, though his bluntness angered Bai Miaomiao. Zhang Ting sent him to entertain another group of wealthy female customers, who immediately invited him and Little He to a private room.

• Bai Miaomiao suspected the wine was fake, tried it herself, and watched Su Yi finish the bottle she had drunk from.
• Zhang Ting stopped Bai Miaomiao from paying Su Yi the bet and led him away after Bai Miaomiao demanded not to see him.
• Zhang Ting praised Su Yi for selling ten bottles worth 160,000 and promised him a 16,000 commission.
• Zhang Ting warned Su Yi not to offend customers and sent him to keep Little He's table company.
• The wealthy women at Little He's table eagerly invited Su Yi and Little He to sing in a private room.

Su Yi worked as a companion at a nightclub and charmed Gao Yun while drinking with her and her friends. After Gao Yun tried to kiss him, he refused, and she offered him money for a kiss.

• Su Yi accompanied Gao Yun into a private room and flirted with her as he played his role as a drinking companion.
• Gao Yun took a strong liking to Su Yi and asked Zhang Ting to bring in three more young men for her friends.
• Su Yi drank and played games with the women, keeping the room lively while pretending to grow drunk.
• Gao Yun drank mixed drinks until she grew bold and tried to kiss Su Yi.
• Su Yi covered Gao Yun's mouth and told her to behave, so Gao Yun slapped money on the table and offered him a thousand for a kiss.

Su Yi refused Gao Yun’s offer of money for a kiss, then continued drinking with her and her friends. After Zhang Ting brought him to K8, Bai Miaomiao offered him a job at Fengye Group and pressed him about marrying her, but he declined and questioned whether the group had ordered enough alcohol.

• Su Yi rejected Gao Yun’s attempt to pay him for a kiss, saying money would not make him willing.
• Gao Yun apologized and continued drinking with Su Yi, growing more interested in him.
• Zhang Ting told Su Yi that Bai Miaomiao wanted to see him and led him to K8, where Yu Huiyin and the others were still waiting.
• Bai Miaomiao introduced herself as a vice president at Fengye Group and offered Su Yi a better job, but he turned her down.
• Bai Miaomiao asked Su Yi to marry her again, while he insisted he liked his current work and did not distinguish between his customers and the women at K8.
• Su Yi looked at the small amount of alcohol at K8 and asked whether it was enough.

Su Yi kept working as a drinking companion despite Bai Miaomiao’s attempts to lure him away from the job, and she challenged him to drink and play dice. By two in the morning, Bai Miaomiao had passed out, Yu Huiyin and Bai Qingyan prepared to leave, and Bai Qingyan promised to bring more customers to Su Yi.

• Su Yi accepted Bai Miaomiao’s order for ten cases of Corona, earning praise from Zhang Ting for his sales.
• Su Yi and Bai Miaomiao played dice and drank together, with Su Yi pretending to lose and grow drunk as Bai Miaomiao became increasingly intoxicated.
• Yu Huiyin downed one glass and pretended to pass out, while Bai Miaomiao forced Bai Qingyan to drink too.
• Gao Yun left the bar without finding Su Yi, and Zhang Ting told her Su Yi’s friends had called him away.
• At two in the morning, Yu Huiyin helped the snoring Bai Miaomiao leave, while Bai Qingyan admitted defeat and promised to bring more customers to Su Yi.

Yu Huiyin defended Bai Miaomiao from a drunk patron at the bar, and Xu Chuan discovered the women’s powerful family backgrounds. After Su Yi returned inside, Zhang Ting offered him better pay and a yearlong contract, which he accepted.

• Yu Huiyin punched Liang Hu when he blocked her and Bai Miaomiao from leaving the bar.
• Zhang Ting and Xu Chuan intervened, and Liang Hu apologized to Yu Huiyin.
• Xu Chuan recognized Yu Huiyin as the Yu family’s eldest young lady and learned that the other two women were from the Bai family.
• Xu Chuan asked Su Yi about the women, but Su Yi said he barely knew them and had only recently come out of the mountains.
• Zhang Ting offered Su Yi a six-thousand base salary plus commission and asked him to sign a yearlong contract, and Su Yi agreed.
• Zhang Ting asked to add Su Yi on WeChat, and Su Yi wondered how the app had been set up on his phone.

Su Yi learned to use WeChat, worked his first night at the Sober Bar, and returned to school, where his roommates welcomed him warmly. On the way to class, he and Lin Yiyun spotted each other.

• Zhang Ting showed Su Yi how to use WeChat and transferred him a two-thousand-yuan advance on his wages.
• Su Yi kept watch over Lin Yiyun during the busy night at the Sober Bar and noticed customers treated her respectfully with a woman smoothing things over.
• After the shift, Zhang Ting advised Su Yi to keep a lower profile, and he left the bar without catching up to Lin Yiyun.
• Su Yi walked around Qingzhou City, learned to pay for a taxi with his phone, and returned to school after breakfast.
• Wang Junlin, Jiang Biao, and Yang Hui welcomed Su Yi to Room 306 and invited him to drink with them at noon.
• Su Yi followed his roommates toward class and saw Lin Yiyun, who saw him too.

Su Yi attended an open lecture on the founding of the Tang Dynasty, where lecturer Chen Yao recognized him from the previous day. As the lecture stirred memories, Su Yi recalled refusing Emperor Yang of Sui’s repeated requests to learn immortality.

• Su Yi greeted Lin Yiyun, but she kept her distance because she had judged his nightclub work disreputable.
• Lin Yiyun told her friend that Yu Huiyin seemed interested in Su Yi, while Su Yi told Wang Junlin and the others that he was not interested in Yu Huiyin.
• Wang Junlin, Yang Hui, and Jiang Biao hoped that staying close to Su Yi would help them meet beautiful women and enjoy university life.
• Su Yi attended Chen Yao’s open lecture on the founding of the Tang Dynasty and listened as Chen Yao glanced at him.
• Su Yi remembered Emperor Yang of Sui visiting Baozhen Temple and asking to be taught immortality, which Su Yi refused before sending him away again.

After Chen Yao urged Su Yi to translate an ancient stele for the sake of history and humanity, Su Yi rejected his demands and left. On his way to meet Wang Junlin at the Bamboo Grove Bistro, Su Yi stopped Zhao Yin from grabbing Lin Yiyun and warned him to stay away.

• Chen Yao asked Su Yi about his family and pressed him to translate the ancient stele, but Su Yi said he did not care about its meaning or being remembered in history.
• Su Yi challenged Chen Yao for trying to tell him what to do, then left the professor speechless and walked out of Qingzhou University.
• Su Yi followed Lin Yiyun from a distance, convinced that she was the reincarnation of someone he had known.
• Zhao Yin approached Lin Yiyun and invited her to a meal, but she rejected him after mentioning his recent pursuit of Yu Huiyin.
• Zhao Yin tried to grab Lin Yiyun, so Su Yi caught his wrist and warned him that he would regret bothering her.
• Zhao Yin threatened Su Yi but walked away rather than risk a fight before learning more about him.

Su Yi introduced himself to Lin Yiyun and Ding Miaomiao and invited them to eat with him. At the Bamboo Grove Bistro, Yu Xinghe and Ye Hu's group attacked Su Yi's roommates, and Su Yi arrived as they confronted him.

• Su Yi introduced himself to Lin Yiyun and Ding Miaomiao, and they accepted his invitation to eat at the Bamboo Grove Bistro.
• Yu Xinghe and the sports students spotted Wang Junlin and his roommates at the restaurant and decided to take their anger at Su Yi out on them.
• Ye Hu confronted Wang Junlin, and Jiang Biao stood up to him before Ye Hu punched him and pinned him against a table.
• Yu Xinghe's group restrained Wang Junlin and Yang Hui while the restaurant owner tried to stop the fight.
• Su Yi arrived with Lin Yiyun and Ding Miaomiao, and Yu Xinghe told him they would not let him walk away.

Su Yi stopped Yu Xinghe's group from attacking him at the Bamboo Grove Bistro, where Yu Huiyin arrived and put an end to the confrontation. She asked to become Su Yi's disciple, but he refused and agreed to be her friend instead.

• Yu Xinghe accused Su Yi of being involved with other women and ordered his companions to attack him.
• Su Yi flipped a table to block a student's beer-bottle swing, and Yu Huiyin entered the restaurant.
• Yu Huiyin rebuked Yu Xinghe, who called off the fight and ordered his group to leave.
• Yu Huiyin told Su Yi she wanted to become his disciple, but he said he did not take disciples.
• Yu Huiyin asked to be Su Yi's friend, and he reluctantly agreed.

Su Yi ate with Yu Huiyin, Lin Yiyun, and their companions, repaid Yu Huiyin, and added several women to his WeChat contacts. The group left the meal with Su Yi’s boldness—and his growing connections—on everyone’s mind.

• Yu Huiyin recalled that Yu Guoan had urged her to get close to Su Yi, while Su Yi recognized her grandfather’s plan.
• Su Yi invited Yu Huiyin, Lin Yiyun, and the others to eat, then repaid Yu Huiyin 1,500 yuan through WeChat.
• Su Yi limited the meal’s expensive dishes because he had little money, but ordered one jin of crayfish to try.
• Su Yi asked Lin Yiyun to add him on WeChat, and she agreed despite remaining unsure what kind of person he was.
• Ding Miaomiao also added Su Yi, leaving his dorm companions shocked by the women showing interest in him.

Su Yi skipped his advanced mathematics class and took the subway to Wutong Street, where he exposed a pickpocket by making him confess and return the stolen belongings. He reached his courtyard and discovered the young woman from the subway lived next door.

• Su Yi told Yu Huiyin he planned to keep his job, then decided to skip his afternoon class in advanced mathematics.
• Su Yi bought a transit card and rode the subway toward Wutong Street.
• When a tattooed pickpocket tried to steal Su Yi's phone, Su Yi numbed his hand and made him confess and return the stolen items.
• A young woman who had stood beside Su Yi on the subway followed him to Wutong Street, then said she lived nearby.
• Su Yi entered his courtyard and found the handicrafts he had bought arranged on the stone table.

Su Yi settled into his new neighborhood, played mahjong with several old men, and discovered that Old Lin was Lin Yiyun’s grandfather. The day ended with Ye Xiaxuan arriving to seek Su Yi as a medical master, only to leave after learning he was twenty.

• Su Yi watched Old Chen and the other old men play mahjong, then took Old Chen’s seat and lost the fifty yuan he had exchanged for cash.
• Su Yi told Old Lin that he rented the neighboring courtyard and learned that Old Lin’s granddaughter was Lin Yiyun, whom Su Yi had met the day before.
• Old Lin explained that Lin Yiyun was an orphan who supported herself through college, and Su Yi invited the old men to play mahjong in his courtyard in the future.
• Su Yi bought vegetables, cooked dinner, and considered finding a new pursuit beyond studying and working.
• Ye Xiaxuan arrived at Su Yi’s home to become his disciple, but left after learning he was only twenty years old.

Ye Xiaxuan agreed to become Su Yi’s disciple after he demanded she kneel and serve him tea, then asked him to teach her medicine. Su Yi frightened Jiang Chao so badly that he collapsed and crawled away, leaving Ye Xiaxuan astonished by his power.

• Su Yi offered to accept Ye Xiaxuan as his disciple if she knelt and served him tea, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Jiang Chao arrived and confronted Su Yi, while Ye Xiaxuan went inside to prepare tea and tidy the house.
• Ye Xiaxuan asked Su Yi to teach her medicine, and he told her to clean his house first.
• Su Yi shouted at Jiang Chao to get lost, and his pressure made Jiang Chao collapse to his knees, unable to stand.
• Jiang Chao crawled out of the courtyard, and Ye Xiaxuan came outside and questioned Su Yi about what he had done.

Su Yi used a slap to restore Jiang Chao after frightening him, but Ye Xiaxuan suspected the incident was staged and challenged Su Yi to prove his abilities. She left the courtyard and called her grandfather, accusing him of trying to set her up with Su Yi.

• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan that Jiang Chao could recover with a slap, and Jiang Chao begged her to hit him so he would not have to face Su Yi.
• Ye Xiaxuan slapped Jiang Chao hard, and he immediately regained his strength and ran away.
• Ye Xiaxuan suspected Jiang Chao had acted to help Su Yi put on an air of mystery and demanded that Su Yi show her genuine ability.
• Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan she could leave if she did not want to become his disciple, so she walked out of the courtyard.
• Ye Xiaxuan called her grandfather and asked who Su Yi was, accusing him of wanting her to date Su Yi.

Ye Xiaxuan learned from her grandfather, Ye Lin, that Su Yi was so renowned and powerful that he urged her to return and become his disciple. She went back out of curiosity and agreed, and Su Yi accepted her without requiring her to kneel or serve tea.

• Ye Lin revealed that he regarded Su Yi as a master beyond his own reach and urged Ye Xiaxuan to return and become his disciple.
• Ye Lin warned Ye Xiaxuan not to expect Su Yi to be interested in her romantically, while insisting that her apprenticeship could secure the Ye Family’s future.
• Ye Xiaxuan decided to return mainly because she wanted to learn who Su Yi was, despite resolving to leave if he made unreasonable demands.
• Ye Xiaxuan arrived at Su Yi’s courtyard and told him she was willing to become his disciple.
• Su Yi accepted Ye Xiaxuan and said she did not need to kneel or serve tea, only to listen to him from then on.