Chapter Summaries

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.