Recaps

Su Yinshan visited Li Yongjin to seek the Li clan’s ancestral hall construction contract, but learned it would be awarded through bidding. After hearing about Li Cong’s wealth and influence from Su Xueting, he tried to use her to connect him to her powerful younger cousin.

• Su Xueting told Li Yongjin that her father, Su Yinshan, was coming to visit, and Li Yongjin agreed to receive him despite suspecting he wanted the construction contract.
• Su Yinshan greeted Li Yongjin warmly and asked him to help secure the ancestral hall project, but Li Yongjin said the clan would choose a contractor through bidding.
• Su Yinshan learned from Su Xueting about the Li family’s sudden wealth, Li Cong’s supercar and bodyguards, and the fifty-million-yuan ancestral hall project.
• Su Yinshan urged Su Xueting to bring her family to visit and showed a brief flicker of guilt when she embraced him.
• Su Yinshan told Su Xueting to help him connect with her influential younger cousin so he could obtain more construction work.

Su Xueting proposed starting a construction company with Li Cong and planned to subcontract some work to her father, Su Yinshan. At the bidding, a Star City company won the ancestral hall project and a Chuning County company won Li Rui’s home project, while Li Rui also funded a wider village road to speed construction.

• Su Xueting told Su Yinshan she and Li Cong would start a construction company using the family fund, but explained that he could not buy shares; Su Yinshan decided to bid on the ancestral hall anyway.
• Dozens of construction companies submitted bids for the ancestral hall, and the Li family chose a Star City company’s design and quotation.
• Li Rui approved the 46-million-yuan ancestral hall plan, offered a four-million-yuan bonus for finishing within two months, and paid another four million yuan to widen the village road for heavy trucks.
• Li Rui chose a local Chuning County company to build his modern, luxurious home for a quoted 22 million yuan.
• The bidding companies departed amicably, with the winners pleased and the unsuccessful bidders expressing interest in future work with the Li family.

Li Rui agreed to let Li Cong start a construction company and directed him to Lu Yan to discuss financing and future projects, while insisting that quality standards would apply. He then organized the delivery of cars for his relatives, drawing excitement from his family and admiration from nearby villagers.

• Li Cong told Li Rui that he and Su Xueting planned to start a construction company, and Li Rui encouraged them to apply through Lu Yan while warning that the company would have to meet the group's standards.
• Su Xueting asked whether the company could subcontract work to her father, and Li Rui said she could choose subcontractors as long as their work met quality requirements.
• Wang Zhongtian informed Li Rui that fifty Land Rover Range Rovers and seven Lincoln Navigators had been delivered, and Li Rui arranged for relatives to collect them.
• Li Weiguang marveled at the seven new SUVs as the family and nearby villagers gathered to watch them arrive.
• Li Yongjin teased an elderly neighbor about a Huaqing University graduate's success, privately relishing how much more prosperous Li Rui had become.

After showing off the cars he bought for his clan, Li Rui received disruptive fast-charging and battery technology from the system and put ten specialists to work under his company. With construction underway and his niece Yiyi recovering from surgery, Li Rui left for Gaoyang City to visit his university friend.

• Li Yongde showed Luo Dahong the cars Li Rui had bought and boasted about the clan's new ancestral hall, prompting Luo Dahong to leave in annoyance.
• The system rewarded Li Rui with fast-charging and high-density battery technology, which he claimed and assigned to ten newly deployed technical specialists.
• Lu Yan told Li Rui that Soaring Group had been registered and that plans for its science park and headquarters were progressing; Li Rui gave her full authority over business matters.
• Li Rui's parents chose to stay in the village and witness the clan's rise, while Wang Sumei told him that his niece Yiyi's surgery had succeeded.
• Li Rui called his sister Li Xiaoshuang, learned Yiyi would soon be discharged, and then drove toward Gaoyang City with four bodyguards.

Shen Yong struggled to meet He Xiaozhu’s mother’s demand for a wedding car worth over ten million, while his parents grew frustrated with the wedding complications. His university friend Li Rui promised to solve the problem, and He Xiaozhu said she would come over to persuade her mother.

• Shen Yong told his parents that He Xiaozhu’s mother demanded a wedding car worth at least ten million, and his father angrily objected to the demand.
• Li Rui called Shen Yong to invite him for a meal, then promised he could arrange the expensive wedding car and said he was on his way to Gaoyang City.
• Shen Yong’s father doubted Li Rui could help because Li Rui came from an ordinary rural family, but Shen Yong defended his friend.
• He Xiaozhu called Shen Yong, told him to ignore her mother’s demand, and said she was coming over to convince her mother.

Li Rui reunited with Shen Yong and He Xiaozhu, then revealed that his McLaren P1 could serve as their wedding car. Shen Yong accepted his help but was left wondering how Li Rui had become so wealthy.

• He Xiaozhu reassured Shen Yong that she would persuade her mother, and Shen Yong said his roommate Li Rui might provide a wedding car.
• Li Rui arrived at Shen Yong's residential complex in a McLaren P1, drawing a crowd and the attention of a flirtatious woman.
• Li Rui and Shen Yong happily reunited after three years apart and exchanged jokes before Li Rui greeted He Xiaozhu.
• Shen Yong and He Xiaozhu were stunned when Li Rui confirmed the McLaren P1 was his and offered it as their wedding car.
• Li Rui said he had become rich through legitimate means, and Shen Yong let him and his bodyguards drive into the complex.

Li Rui visited Shen Yong’s family and impressed them with his bodyguard and promise of a wedding car worth over ten million yuan. During their meal at the Splendid Grand Hotel, Li Rui and Shen Yong reminisced about university until He Xiaozhu’s cousin interrupted them with a snide remark.

• Li Rui introduced Li Yi as his bodyguard, surprising Shen Yong and his parents.
• Li Rui revealed that his sports car was worth over thirteen million yuan, prompting Shen Yong’s father to take everyone to the Splendid Grand Hotel.
• Li Rui and Shen Yong shared university stories over dinner while their families and bodyguards ate with them.
• A young woman in an evening gown mocked Shen Yong’s wedding plans and the food, and He Xiaozhu recognized her as her cousin.

Li Rui defended Shen Yong and He Xiaozhu from He Xiaozhu’s condescending cousin by booking their wedding banquet and paying 600,000 yuan. After the group parted ways, Li Rui checked into a hotel, where Zhao Yi called with news about the person behind Gu Tianlong.

• He Xiaozhu’s cousin mocked her for choosing Shen Yong and claimed she could have married a wealthier man.
• Li Rui confronted the cousin, showed her his McLaren P1 keys, and arranged forty banquet tables with lobster and king crab.
• Li Rui paid 600,000 yuan for the wedding banquet and drinks, leaving the cousin and Shen Yong’s family stunned.
• The cousin fled in shame, and He Xiaozhu thanked Li Rui for standing up for her.
• Li Rui checked into a hotel and received a call from Zhao Yi, who said they had identified the person behind Gu Tianlong.

Li Rui arranged extra protection for his family and traveled to Shen Yong’s wedding, where his McLaren P1 became the lead wedding car. The convoy reached He Xiaozhu’s home, leaving Mother He stunned by the luxury car she had demanded.

• Zhao Yi told Li Rui that Gu Yuanshan and Lord Black Tiger controlled major underworld forces in Star City, and that Gu Yuanshan was investigating him.
• Li Rui ordered fifty advanced bodyguards, assigning twenty to Star City and thirty to protect his family and clansmen in Li Family Village.
• Three days later, Li Rui brought his McLaren P1 to Shen Yong’s wedding and let the wedding company decorate it as the wedding car.
• Shen Yong and Li Rui discussed their absent dormitory friends and joked together before the wedding procession set off.
• The convoy arrived at He Xiaozhu’s residential complex, where Mother He had insisted on a wedding car worth over ten million yuan.
• He Xiaozhu and Mother He heard the crowd react to the arriving procession, and Mother He saw the McLaren P1 leading it.

Shen Yong picked up He Xiaozhu in a thirteen-million-yuan McLaren P1 borrowed from Li Rui, impressing her relatives. At the wedding banquet, Li Rui gave Shen Yong a million-yuan gift to help the newlyweds buy a home, and the guests treated him with great respect.

• He Xiaozhu told her mother the McLaren P1 cost over thirteen million yuan, and her mother proudly claimed it belonged to Shen Yong’s close friend.
• Shen Yong picked up He Xiaozhu in the McLaren, and her mother boasted about the car to relatives.
• Li Rui skipped the bride-pickup games and went with the wedding party to the Splendid Grand Hotel.
• Li Rui opened a case at the gift table and gave Shen Yong a million yuan, stunning the guests.
• Shen Yong tried to refuse the gift, but Li Rui told him to use it to buy a home and insisted he did not need repayment.
• The guests left Li Rui’s table empty, and he was eventually seated with both sets of parents; afterward, the hotel fed its servers the remaining banquet food at Li Rui’s request.

Li Rui ordered forty more Land Rover Range Rovers from Wang Zhongtian and agreed to meet Lü Yifan, the son of Speeding Group’s chairman. Their first meeting at a seafood restaurant turned friendly as they shared a meal and drinks.

• Li Rui woke in the Sun Grand Hotel and decided to order more cars for his bodyguards before picking up Yiyi and handling unfinished business.
• Li Rui called Wang Zhongtian and ordered forty Land Rover Range Rovers, with thirty to be delivered to Li Family Village and ten to the Sun Grand Hotel.
• Wang Zhongtian told Li Rui that Lü Yifan, the son of Speeding Group’s chairman, wanted to meet him, and Li Rui agreed.
• Wang Zhongtian brought Li Rui and his four bodyguards to a seafood hotel, where Li Rui met Lü Yifan and two attendants.
• Li Rui and Lü Yifan shared a meal and drinks, quickly becoming comfortable with each other.

Li Rui learned about Lü Yifan’s family ambitions and the rules of Star City’s underground fighting arena, then followed him to the arena hidden beneath a shopping mall. He watched a brutal bout begin as spectators shouted and wagered on the fighters.

• Li Rui and Lü Yifan bonded over drinks as Lü Yifan explained his struggle to win his father’s recognition and inherit the family business.
• Li Rui asked Lü Yifan about Star City’s underground fighting arena, and Lü Yifan explained its betting, no-rules fights, challenge matches, and minimum hundred-million-yuan fee to challenge the arena.
• Li Rui and Lü Yifan drove to a shopping mall and entered the concealed arena through winding basement corridors.
• Li Rui and Lü Yifan crossed a lavish lounge and entered a packed fight hall, where spectators cheered and bet on two fighters battling in the ring.

Li Rui brought twenty advanced bodyguards to Gu Yuanshan’s underground boxing arena to challenge the house, confronting Gu over his son’s injuries. Li Rui accepted a series of fights under the arena’s rules, while Gu trusted his own fighters to win.

• Lü Yifan led Li Rui toward the betting area, but Li Rui asked where fighters could register and sent Li Yi to gather his men.
• Li Yi returned with twenty burly bodyguards, and Lü Yifan led the group to sign up for a house challenge.
• Gu Yuanshan arrived with more than ten men and confronted Lü Yifan, then recognized Li Rui as the man who had crippled his son.
• Li Rui taunted Gu and agreed to send fighters into the ring in turn until one side ran out of fighters.
• Gu accepted the challenge, confident that his ten top-tier fighters would defeat Li Rui’s men.

Li Rui and Gu Yuanshan each staked ten billion on a fight between Li Rui’s bodyguards and the arena’s undefeated fighters. The first bout began with Black Bear facing Li Rui’s bodyguard, but Black Bear hesitated until a voice interrupted him.

• Li Rui rejected Gu Yuanshan’s threat to cripple his limbs and proposed a ten-billion bet instead.
• Li Rui and Gu Yuanshan showed their bank cards, and their men confirmed that each account held ten billion.
• Gu Yuanshan brought Li Rui and his group to the ring, where spectators learned that the arena’s ten top fighters had gathered to defend the house.
• Gu Yuanshan sent Black Bear to fight one of Li Rui’s advanced bodyguards and mocked Li Rui about needing a wheelchair for his fighter.
• Black Bear studied his opponent while two foreign men jeered at him, then prepared to attack before a voice called out from outside the ring.

Li Rui used successive bodyguards to defeat Gu Yuanshan’s fighters, but Gu’s final three secretly injected a highly concentrated stimulant. One drugged fighter overwhelmed ten bodyguards before collapsing and bleeding from every orifice.

• Li Rui withdrew an exhausted bodyguard and sent in a fresh one, who knocked out Black Bear and then crippled another fighter.
• Li Rui rotated bodyguards and used two at a time, defeating six of Gu Yuanshan’s fighters with ten bodyguards.
• Gu Yuanshan signaled his remaining three fighters, who injected a highly concentrated stimulant despite knowing it would end their fighting careers.
• Li Rui’s bodyguards defeated Gu Yuanshan’s seventh fighter, and Li Rui taunted Gu about losing the ten billion.
• A drugged fighter grew stronger and less responsive to pain, forcing Li Rui to rotate ten bodyguards against him before he collapsed, bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

Li Rui defeated Gu Yuanshan’s underground fighting arena challenge by calling in a hundred-plus bodyguards and took control of Gu’s ten billion yuan. After learning Gu planned to have him assassinated, Li Rui bought an advanced assassin and left the threat unresolved.

• Li Rui summoned more than a hundred bodyguards, forcing Gu Yuanshan to abandon the fight and leave the arena.
• Li Rui transferred Gu Yuanshan’s ten billion yuan into his own account and left with Lü Yifan for an upscale club.
• The next morning, Li Rui enjoyed an expensive breakfast at the Sun Grand Hotel.
• Zhao Yi warned Li Rui that Gu Yuanshan was preparing to send a death warrior to assassinate him.
• Li Rui ordered the system to deploy an advanced assassin for fifty million yuan.

Li Rui named the advanced assassin An Yi and ordered him to eliminate anyone who threatened him, then learned that Lü Yifan had arranged for his four supercars to arrive early. After taking his purple Hennessey Venom GT for a drive, Li Rui encountered Yunrong at a traffic light, where she recognized him.

• Li Rui accepted the system's explanation for the assassin's high price, named him An Yi, and ordered him to eliminate threats.
• Lü Yifan told Li Rui that his four supercars had arrived early through his father's connections and delivered them to the Sun Grand Hotel.
• Li Rui admired the Apollo Sun God, Bugatti Veyron, Hennessey Venom GT, and Lamborghini Veneno, then drove off in the purple Hennessey.
• Yunrong and her friend Liu Yan spotted Li Rui's supercar at a traffic light, and Yunrong recognized him.

Yunrong spotted her younger sister Yun Lingxuan’s former boyfriend, Li Rui, driving an eighty-million sports car and called to tell her. Lingxuan insisted their relationship was over, then broke down crying alone in her cramped room.

• Yunrong recognized a supercar driver as someone who resembled Li Rui, Lingxuan’s ex-boyfriend, and Liu Yan discovered the car cost over eighty million.
• Yunrong called Yun Lingxuan and asked whether Li Rui had contacted her since their breakup nearly three years earlier.
• Yunrong told Lingxuan she had seen Li Rui driving the expensive car, and Lingxuan struggled to believe he could have become so wealthy.
• Yunrong urged Lingxuan to reconnect with Li Rui, but Lingxuan said they were now familiar strangers and hung up.
• Lingxuan tried to return to her instant noodles, then began sobbing in her cramped rented room.

Li Rui learned that Gu Yuanshan had been killed after trying to arrange his assassination, while Lü Huairen and Master Tiger separately suspected Li Rui was involved. The next morning, Li Rui set out with an imposing convoy to collect his niece Yiyi after her hospital discharge.

• Li Rui paid An Yi five million after An Yi reported that the threat had been eliminated.
• Lü Huairen learned Gu Yuanshan had died by electrocution and suspected Li Rui was responsible after hearing Gu had planned to assassinate him.
• Master Tiger learned Gu Yuanshan was dead, connected the killing to Li Rui through Lü Yifan, and told his man to invite Lü Yifan to the bar.
• Li Rui prepared to visit his sister and niece Yiyi after learning Yiyi would be discharged from the hospital.
• Li Rui drove toward Star City First People's Hospital with his bodyguards as Yiyi celebrated her discharge and learned her uncle was coming to take her home.

After Yiyi left the hospital following her successful surgery, Li Rui reunited with his sister Li Xiaoshuang and brother-in-law Zhang Huaiyuan and took them home. He was shocked by their cramped rental and planned to find them a better place, while the family began preparing a lavish meal for Yiyi.

• Li Rui greeted Li Xiaoshuang, Zhang Huaiyuan, and Yiyi outside the hospital, then carried Yiyi out despite her mother reminding him she still needed rest and checkups.
• Li Xiaoshuang and Zhang Huaiyuan learned that Li Rui's cars cost thirteen million and eighty million yuan, and that he had spent fifty million renovating the ancestral hall and over twenty million building a house.
• Li Rui rode with his sister's family to their cramped rental and agreed to find a better place for Yiyi to recover.
• Yiyi asked for lobster and crab, so Li Rui called Li Yi to buy them instead of letting Li Xiaoshuang and Zhang Huaiyuan go shopping.
• Li Yi arrived with two large lobsters and two enormous crabs, delighting Yiyi and startling her parents.

Li Rui took Li Xiaoshuang and her family to look at homes in Star City, revealing that he had made tens of billions through investments. They visited the Xiang River Loulan sales office to meet Li Xiaoshuang’s friend Gu Manxiang, where sales director Liu Wenbin greeted them as potential buyers.

• Li Rui told Li Xiaoshuang that he planned to buy a home in Star City and revealed he had earned tens of billions through financial investments.
• Li Xiaoshuang called her friend Gu Manxiang, who had lent her money, and arranged to visit her at the Xiang River Loulan sales hall.
• Gu Manxiang and a coworker discussed their poor sales and doubted Li Xiaoshuang’s claim that her brother could afford a home in the expensive development.
• Li Rui arrived with Li Xiaoshuang and her family, and the sales office guards escorted them inside with umbrellas.
• Sales director Liu Wenbin hurried to greet the group, and Gu Manxiang stepped forward to speak before Li Rui could answer him.

Li Rui visited a property sales office with Li Xiaoshuang’s family, where her friend Gu Manxiang worked, and revealed his wealth by repaying Gu Manxiang and buying apartments. The chapter ended with Gu Manxiang stunned as Li Rui prepared to purchase two river-view units for twenty million yuan.

• Director Liu reprimanded Gu Manxiang for using company resources to welcome Li Xiaoshuang’s group, then changed his attitude after learning they had luxury cars and wanted to buy a home.
• Li Xiaoshuang repaid Gu Manxiang the fifty thousand yuan she had borrowed and explained that Li Rui had given her five million yuan for Yiyi.
• Li Rui confirmed his wealth and thanked Gu Manxiang for helping his sister, while Yiyi proudly talked about her uncle’s money and gifts.
• Li Rui asked Gu Manxiang to show them the river-view apartments at Xiang River Loulan and chose two 240-square-meter units on the twenty-fifth floor.
• Li Rui told Li Xiaoshuang that one apartment would be his gift to her, and Gu Manxiang quietly expressed disbelief at the twenty-million-yuan purchase.

Li Rui bought two finished 240-square-meter apartments in Star City for 20 million yuan so his sister Li Xiaoshuang and her family could live comfortably. After they toured the new home, he transferred her another five million yuan to furnish both apartments.

• Li Xiaoshuang agreed to buy two apartments after explaining that her wealthy younger brother had spent hundreds of millions on cars.
• Li Rui paid 20 million yuan for the two apartments, and Gu Manxiang celebrated the sale and earned a 60,000-yuan commission.
• Li Xiaoshuang and Zhang Huaiyuan completed the contracts, then followed Gu Manxiang to view the apartments on the 25th floor.
• Li Xiaoshuang opened one apartment and told Yiyi it was their new home, while Yiyi thanked Li Rui for buying it.
• Li Rui transferred five million yuan to Li Xiaoshuang so she could buy appliances for both apartments.

Li Rui bought Villa No. 1 at Xiang River Loulan for 215 million yuan after deciding its space suited his cars, bodyguards, and hobbies. Gu Manxiang earned more than 900,000 yuan in commission and celebrated the sale with the group, while Li Rui returned to the Sun Grand Hotel and Li Xiaoshuang's family went back to arrange furnishings and appliances.

• Li Rui arranged for Zhang Huaiyuan to start a construction materials company in Star City and gave him Lu Yan's phone number.
• Li Rui toured the development, saw Villa No. 1, and learned about its enormous grounds and lavish interior.
• After hearing the villa's asking price of 220 million yuan, Li Rui decided to buy it, with Li Xiaoshuang agreeing.
• Gu Manxiang prepared the contract and offered available discounts and gifts, and Li Rui paid the discounted price of 215 million yuan.
• Gu Manxiang's work group celebrated her 235-million-yuan total in sales, and Liu Wenbin gave her half a day off.
• Gu Manxiang treated the group to a meal, then Li Rui returned to the Sun Grand Hotel while Li Xiaoshuang's family went back to shop for furnishings and appliances.

Li Rui stayed at the hotel while Li Family Village rapidly expanded its road and construction projects and attracted matchmakers seeking to connect with the newly wealthy clan. Li Yongde urged Li Weiguang to pursue Zhang Wenxiu, transferring him two hundred thousand yuan after securing his promise to marry this year.

• Li Rui agreed to go to bars and nightclubs with Lü Yifan after several days of staying in the hotel.
• Workers widened Li Family Village's road, laid foundations for the ancestral hall and Li Rui's new house, and began building the main structures.
• Matchmakers flocked to Li Family Village to introduce women to the unmarried Li men, while Li Yongde welcomed the attention his son received.
• Li Yongde caught Li Weiguang returning from taking Zhang Wenxiu to the county town and learned that their outing was a date.
• Li Yongde transferred two hundred thousand yuan to Li Weiguang after demanding that he win Zhang Wenxiu over and get married that year.
• Li Weiguang happily accepted the money and promised to complete the mission.