Chapter Summaries

Li Rui’s bodyguards overwhelmed Gu Tianlong’s fighters after Gu Tianlong tried to ambush them, and Li Rui ordered his men to beat the gang. Students and residents watched as Gu Tianlong’s attempt to threaten Li Rui’s family backfired.

• Li Yi fought Iron Fist evenly, while Li Er, Li San, and Li Si noticed Savage Bear moving in to ambush him.
• Li Rui sent Li Er, Li San, and Li Si to stop Savage Bear, and the three quickly knocked him down together.
• Gu Tianlong called for his men to attack, but Li Rui revealed nearly two hundred bodyguards and frightened the gang into stopping.
• Gu Tianlong tried to placate Li Rui by calling the fight a misunderstanding and offering a banquet, but Li Rui ordered his bodyguards to beat the gang.
• Residents and students gathered to watch, and some students recognized Gu Tianlong as Gu Mengqi’s older brother.

Li Rui defeated Gu Tianlong’s gang, crippled Gu Tianlong through a bodyguard, and reassured his family that he could handle any consequences. He founded the Umbrella Security Company through Lu Yan and arranged protection for No. 1 Middle School before taking his family shopping.

• Li Rui’s two hundred bodyguards overwhelmed Gu Tianlong and more than a hundred thugs, and one bodyguard broke all four of Gu Tianlong’s limbs at Li Rui’s signal.
• Li Rui told Eighth Uncle that he could handle any trouble and corrected Li Tai’s assumption that the bodyguards were underworld thugs.
• The system rewarded Li Rui with 20 billion in Dragon Country Currency after detecting increased family cohesion.
• Li Rui hired Lu Yan and ordered her to establish a family corporate group, fund, security company, and headquarters using the new funds.
• Li Rui had Li Wu announce that Umbrella Security Company would provide No. 1 Middle School with ten free bodyguards each day for a year.
• Li Rui took his family to Qianda Plaza, bought Li Ru a pair of glasses, and headed to the third floor to shop for clothes.

Li Rui took Li Ru shopping and spent over a million yuan on clothes, helping his withdrawn younger cousin regain her cheerful spirit. After buying gifts and giving Li Ru and Li Tai spending money, he returned them to school and went back to the village with the elders.

• Li Rui brought Li Ru into a high-end boutique after she admired a dress, and revealed his enormous bank balance when the saleswoman required a gold membership to let her try it on.
• Li Rui told the saleswoman to help Li Ru choose a million yuan's worth of clothes, and reassured his uneasy cousin that he could easily afford them.
• Li Ru tried on clothes for an hour, grew cheerful again, and showed her mother the outfits Li Rui had bought her.
• Li Rui bought several outfits for Li Tai and himself after the others declined to shop.
• Li Rui bought Li Ru and Li Tai new Weihua Mate 60 RS phones, transferred each of them a hundred thousand yuan, and took them back to school before returning to the village with the elders.

Li Rui hired ten intelligence agents to investigate the forces behind Gu Tianlong and ordered Li Wu to warn Ximen Jin away from Li Ru. At school, Li Ru’s classmates learned about her cousin’s wealth and influence, and the chapter ended with students no longer daring to bully her or Li Tai.

• Li Rui spent 20 million yuan to hire ten intelligence agents, named them Zhao Yi through Zhao Shi, and sent them to investigate Gu Tianlong’s backers.
• Li Rui told Li Wu to warn Ximen Jin that he would break his legs if he harassed Li Ru again.
• Gu Yuanshan ordered people in his villa to investigate Li Rui and vowed to kill him and his family for crippling his son.
• Li Ru told Chen Qianxue that Li Rui had rescued her and revealed his security company, family scholarships, and expensive gifts.
• After seeing Li Ru’s designer dress and hearing about her purchases, her roommates began to believe her family was wealthy and powerful.
• Word spread through Li Ru’s class about her family’s wealth and Li Rui’s influence, and students stopped bullying Li Ru and Li Tai and began trying to curry favor with them.

Li Rui spent heavily on supercars, security vehicles, and family cars while preparations continued for the family ancestral hall and his new house. News of the 50-million-yuan ancestral hall reached Su Yinshan, who contacted his estranged daughter hoping to win the construction project.

• Li Rui ordered four limited-edition supercars, fifty Range Rovers for Umbrella Security Company, and seven Lincoln Navigators for the family.
• The old ancestral hall and the site for Li Rui's new house were cleared, and Li Yongjin arranged a bidding meeting for construction companies.
• Su Yinshan heard about the 50-million-yuan ancestral hall project while playing mahjong and left to call Su Xueting.
• Su Yinshan told Su Xueting he would visit her home after she confirmed the project, and she went to find her father-in-law, Li Yongjin.
• Li Yongjin continued refusing gifts from construction companies as more than ten firms prepared to compete for the ancestral hall and house projects.

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.