Chapter Summaries

Lu Chiyan wandered through Green Forest Technology’s exhibition area while Qin Sili met with Jin Yunsen upstairs. Jin Yunsen noticed Lu Chiyan on the security feed and invited him up, leaving Qin Sili visibly displeased as Lu Chiyan greeted him.

• Qin Sili left Lu Chiyan in the car, so Lu Chiyan got out and explored Green Forest Technology’s AI exhibition area.
• Lu Chiyan played rock-paper-scissors with a robot while Qin Sili met Jin Yunsen in the VIP reception room.
• Jin Yunsen spotted Lu Chiyan on the surveillance feed and told his assistant to invite him upstairs.
• Lu Chiyan followed the assistant to the top floor and told Qin Sili that Jin Yunsen had invited him.
• Lu Chiyan greeted Jin Yunsen with a smile.

Lu Chiyan met Jin Yunsen, whose open interest in him angered Qin Sili. Qin Sili pushed to finish their partnership agreement, but Jin Yunsen objected to the revised contract favoring his own company.

• Jin Yunsen greeted Lu Chiyan warmly and said he had long been curious about Qin Sili’s younger brother.
• Jin Yunsen openly fixed his attention on Lu Chiyan, who wondered if the president was interested in him, while Qin Sili glared at him in anger.
• Qin Sili impatiently told Jin Yunsen they could cancel the partnership if he did not want to sign.
• Jin Yunsen had his assistant bring the contract, but Qin Sili gave him the revised version from the Qin Group.
• Jin Yunsen protested that he was Party A after seeing the revisions, and Qin Sili told him he could choose not to sign.

Jin Yunsen signed Qin Sili’s contract, then invited Lu Chiyan to dinner to get back at Qin Sili. Lu Chiyan accepted to provoke Qin Sili, who refused the invitation but was left trapped when Lu Chiyan urged him to stay.

• Jin Yunsen signed Qin Sili’s contract and complained that Qin Sili had taught him how businessmen were crooks.
• Jin Yunsen invited Lu Chiyan and Qin Sili to a meal, making it sound as though Qin Sili was only tagging along.
• Lu Chiyan accepted Jin Yunsen’s invitation because he saw it as a chance to provoke Qin Sili.
• Qin Sili said he had no time, and Jin Yunsen arranged to dine with Lu Chiyan without him.
• Lu Chiyan urged Qin Sili to stay and join them, arguing that he could spare time for a meal.

Qin Sili joined Lu Chiyan and Jin Yunsen for lunch, then grew furious as Jin Yunsen focused his attention on Lu Chiyan. The meal ended with Qin Sili claiming authority over Lu Chiyan, while Lu Chiyan silently rejected his guardianship claim.

• Qin Sili accepted Lu Chiyan’s way out, and Jin Yunsen joked that he had hoped to lunch alone with Little Lu.
• Jin Yunsen catered to Lu Chiyan and kept the conversation focused on him, leaving Qin Sili out and increasingly angry.
• Jin Yunsen offered Lu Chiyan a toast, but Qin Sili said Lu Chiyan did not drink.
• Jin Yunsen questioned Qin Sili’s authority over Lu Chiyan, and Qin Sili warned him not to discuss guardianship in public.
• Lu Chiyan pulled his hand away from the wineglass and thought that Qin Sili had no legal right to be his guardian.

Lu Chiyan maneuvered Qin Sili into a drinking contest with Jin Yunsen, and the two men battled through four bottles of Moutai. Qin Sili outlasted Jin Yunsen, who passed out at the table, and then proudly asked Lu Chiyan for praise.

• Lu Chiyan suggested that Qin Sili drink with Jin Yunsen in his place.
• Jin Yunsen had a case of Moutai brought over, and he and Qin Sili began drinking.
• Lu Chiyan gave up trying to stop them and waited as they emptied four bottles over the course of two hours.
• Qin Sili opened a fifth bottle just as Jin Yunsen fell forward onto the table and passed out.
• Qin Sili declared himself the winner, sat back down, and asked Lu Chiyan if he was better than Jin Yunsen.

After drinking, Qin Sili insisted he was sober and could walk, while Lu Chiyan watched his stubborn attempts to leave the private room. Qin Sili finally toppled backward before he could make it to Lu Chiyan.

• Lu Chiyan praised Qin Sili for drinking well and asked whether he was all right.
• Qin Sili denied being drunk, and Lu Chiyan had Jin Yunsen's assistant carry Jin Yunsen back before telling Qin Sili they should leave.
• Lu Chiyan walked ahead and discovered Qin Sili was still standing rigidly by the private-room door.
• Qin Sili insisted he could walk and slowly edged forward while bracing himself against the wall.
• Qin Sili repeated that he could walk, then toppled backward with a thud.

Lu Chiyan carried the drunk Qin Sili out of a restaurant after Qin Sili drank two bottles of Moutai, then learned that Qin Sili usually avoided alcohol because Lu Chiyan disliked him drinking. Lu Chiyan remembered a night before his college entrance exams when he went looking for Qin Sili at a private club and was refused entry.

• Lu Chiyan carried Qin Sili out of the restaurant and told Fang Zhi that Qin Sili had downed two bottles of Moutai.
• Fang Zhi said Qin Sili never drank, even at business dinners, because Young Master Lu disliked him drinking.
• Lu Chiyan searched his memories and recalled that, before his college entrance exams, Qin Sili had missed his usual evening pickup because of a dinner engagement.
• Lu Chiyan ordered the driver to take him to the club where Qin Sili was dining.
• A staff member stopped Lu Chiyan at the entrance because he had no VIP card.

Lu Chiyan waited outside a club for Qin Sili, then took him home after finding him drunk and supported by two young women. The next morning, Lu Chiyan scolded Qin Sili for drinking too much and failing to pick him up before his exams.

• Lu Chiyan was refused entry to the club and waited outside after Qin Sili did not answer his calls.
• Qin Sili emerged drunk with two young women supporting him, and Lu Chiyan took him from them and brought him home.
• Qin Sili fell asleep on the sofa, where he woke the next morning to find a blanket and warm sobering tea.
• Lu Chiyan told Qin Sili he was angry that he had drunk so much and failed to pick him up, then complained about the two young women supporting him.

Lu Chiyan remembered Qin Sili’s promise not to date anyone before he started university and realized Qin Sili had honored it by picking him up every day. As Qin Sili drunkenly reassured him that he would stop drinking, Lu Chiyan affirmed his love and hoped Qin Sili would come back soon.

• Lu Chiyan recalled that he had once made Qin Sili promise not to date anyone before Lu Chiyan started university.
• Lu Chiyan remembered that Qin Sili picked him up from school every day after that and avoided dinner gatherings where he might drink.
• Qin Sili drunkenly murmured that he had not been drinking and promised Lu Chiyan he would stop.
• Lu Chiyan felt moved by Qin Sili’s words, told him he was not angry, and wished for him to come back soon.

Qin Sili dreamed about raising Lu Chiyan and teaching him a lasting lesson after he skipped school to play games. He also dreamed of falling ill just after turning eighteen and taking over the company.

• Qin Sili brought ten-year-old Lu Chiyan home and promised to be his family.
• Lu Chiyan skipped school to play games overnight, and Qin Sili took him home.
• Qin Sili made Lu Chiyan play games for two days without sleep until he begged to stop.
• Lu Chiyan recovered after sleeping for a day and night, then avoided games from then on.
• Qin Sili dreamed of falling ill after turning eighteen and beginning to take over the company.

Qin Sili’s punishing schedule while balancing school and running the company led to pneumonia and an ICU stay. After he recovered, Lu Chiyan declared himself Qin Sili’s lifesaver and laid down rules to protect his health.

• Qin Sili worked and studied on just four hours of sleep a day, until his untreated cold worsened into pneumonia and he was admitted to the ICU.
• Lu Chiyan rushed to the hospital after learning Qin Sili was undergoing emergency treatment and sobbed outside the ICU, afraid of losing the only family he had left.
• After Qin Sili woke, Lu Chiyan claimed he had cried him back to life and called himself Qin Sili’s lifesaver.
• Lu Chiyan told Qin Sili to obey him and set rules for eight hours of sleep, regular breaks, and meals on time.
• Qin Sili smiled and agreed to follow Lu Chiyan’s rules.

Qin Sili remained unconscious after drinking, and Lu Chiyan called Wen Shubai to investigate. Wen Shubai’s examinations found nothing abnormal, leaving him unsure why Qin Sili would not wake up.

• Qin Sili struggled to wake from a vivid dream as Lu Chiyan called his name.
• Lu Chiyan found Qin Sili unresponsive despite normal vital signs and summoned Wen Shubai.
• Wen Shubai left the airport and examined Qin Sili, but found no obvious problem.
• Wen Shubai admitted Qin Sili to the hospital and ran a thorough set of tests overnight.
• Wen Shubai said Qin Sili’s condition resembled Lu Chiyan’s past illness, though he could not identify the cause.

Lu Chiyan and Wen Shubai tried electrotherapy to bring Qin Sili out of his unresponsive state, hoping it would work as it had for Lu Chiyan before. The level-three shock seemed to have no effect, so Wen Shubai raised the machine to level four.

• Wen Shubai suggested electrotherapy because electric shocks had helped Lu Chiyan escape a dark room before.
• Lu Chiyan agreed to shock Qin Sili and said he would not live if Qin Sili died.
• Wen Shubai started the machine at level three, but Qin Sili remained calm and unresponsive.
• Lu Chiyan tested the machine himself and got zapped, confirming it worked.
• Wen Shubai judged that Qin Sili could take a stronger shock and raised the machine to level four.

Lu Chiyan watched Wen Shubai try electrotherapy on the unconscious Qin Sili, but stopped him before he could raise the current further. Alone with Qin Sili, Lu Chiyan confessed his fear that Qin Sili would never return and demanded that he wake by morning.

• Wen Shubai raised the electrotherapy current to the fifth setting, but Lu Chiyan stopped him before he continued.
• Wen Shubai switched off the device and said he would look into other methods.
• Lu Chiyan sat by Qin Sili's bedside, held his hand, and asked whether he was trapped somewhere as Lu Chiyan had been.
• Lu Chiyan admitted he was afraid Qin Sili had disappeared, forgotten their past, or no longer wanted him.
• Lu Chiyan told Qin Sili to wake by the next morning or he would run away from home and stop wanting him.

Qin Sili struggled to wake as Lu Chiyan grieved beside him, then heard Little I panic about the world collapsing and the villain awakening. After receiving a novel’s contents in his mind, Qin Sili rejected the idea that he was merely a character and affirmed his love for Lu Chiyan and his own identity.

• Qin Sili heard Lu Chiyan’s distressed words but could not open his eyes, though he desperately wanted to comfort him.
• Little I sounded an alarm and worried that the villain’s consciousness would awaken and the world would collapse.
• Little I resolved to reshape the villain’s memories, while Qin Sili listened in confusion.
• A flood of information entered Qin Sili’s mind and caused him intense pain before revealing the novel titled “After I Died, the Scumbag Knelt Before My Grave and Never Rose.”
• Qin Sili recalled Lu Chiyan saying they lived in a novel and insisted that he was a real person who loved Lu Chiyan, not a puppet controlled by the plot.

Lu Chiyan woke to find Qin Sili had awakened and remembered the story and system. They decided to cherish their time together, and Qin Sili agreed to accompany Lu Chiyan back to Qing City for filming.

• Lu Chiyan awoke to Qin Sili gently stroking his face and cried with relief when Qin Sili said he was back.
• Qin Sili told Lu Chiyan that he had seen a book resembling the plot and heard the system’s voice.
• Lu Chiyan worried that the system might destroy the world, but he and Qin Sili agreed they would face it together.
• Lu Chiyan said he needed to return to Qing City for filming, and Qin Sili agreed to go with him.
• Wen Shubai rushed in with acupuncture needles and announced he had researched a new treatment.

After Strange Tales of Luo City finished filming, Lu Chiyan chose a new mystery film, Red Spider, and met with its director. He then made Qin Sili a candlelit dinner, leaving Qin Sili suspicious about what he wanted.

• Wen Shubai found Lu Chiyan awake beside A-Li and left, hoping to study electroshock therapy.
• The director brought a mystic master to the set, and Lu Chiyan wore the protection talisman he received.
• Filming Strange Tales of Luo City went smoothly for two months, and the production wrapped.
• Lu Chiyan chose the mystery crime film Red Spider and met its director after filming ended.
• Lu Chiyan prepared a candlelit steak dinner for Qin Sili, who asked him to say what he wanted.

Lu Chiyan asked Qin Sili to fund a film by rookie director Ying Feng, and Qin Sili agreed to provide two hundred million. Qin Sili questioned how Ying Feng’s script had reached Lu Chiyan, prompting Lu Chiyan to go ask Qian Le.

• Lu Chiyan served Qin Sili two badly cooked steaks, and Qin Sili told him to spare the kitchen and explain what he needed.
• Lu Chiyan said he wanted two hundred million to help rookie director Ying Feng produce his original script.
• Qin Sili agreed to give Lu Chiyan the money and asked how Ying Feng’s script had reached him.
• Lu Chiyan recalled that Qian Le gave him all his scripts and went to ask Qian Le about it.

Qian Le told Lu Chiyan that Ying Feng was her boyfriend and had written the script, while insisting Lu Chiyan judge it strictly on its merits. Lu Chiyan agreed to invest two hundred million in Ying Feng’s film and then considered starting a company to find and produce promising scripts.

• Qian Le explained that she had secretly included Ying Feng’s script because she did not want Lu Chiyan to feel pressured to accept it.
• Qian Le told Lu Chiyan to treat Ying Feng’s script as a business matter and joked that her career came before her boyfriend.
• Lu Chiyan offered to invest two hundred million in Ying Feng’s film and asked whether he would work with them.
• Lu Chiyan came up with the idea of starting a company to find and produce promising scripts.

Lu Chiyan founded Liyan Galaxy Culture Media Co., Ltd. with Qin Sili as its major shareholder and launched its first film project, “Red Spider.” The chapter ended with Qin Sili pulling Lu Chiyan away to celebrate, while revealing that both men had named their companies to put the other first.

• Qian Le approved Lu Chiyan’s idea for a content company, and Qin Sili agreed to provide the funding.
• Two months later, Lu Chiyan invited Qin Sili to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Liyan Galaxy Culture Media Co., Ltd., whose name and space-themed decor surprised him.
• Lu Chiyan announced that “Red Spider” would officially begin production the next day as the company’s first project.
• Qin Sili suggested celebrating by taking Lu Chiyan home, and held him back when Lu Chiyan said he was busy.
• The chapter revealed that Qin Sili’s company name put Yan first for Lu Chiyan, while Lu Chiyan’s company name put Li first for Qin Sili.