Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi boarded a train to Baihai City, where he helped Zhu Yueting and gained new rewards from his system. He spotted four thieves targeting passengers, and Zhu Yueting caught one trying to steal her phone.

• Ling Yi boarded the green train for Baihai City and resolved to save enough money to buy his parents a villa.
• Ling Yi lifted Zhu Yueting’s heavy suitcase onto the luggage rack, fulfilling her wish and earning Vow Power Points, a Learning Card, cash, and her affection.
• Ling Yi gave Zhu Yueting mineral water when she became thirsty, earning an Investment Card and learning that she was a new computer studies teacher at Baihai City College of Finance and Economics.
• As the train left Dafeng City, Ling Yi recognized four skilled thieves moving through the carriage and watched them steal from passengers.
• The oldest thief slit Zhu Yueting’s pocket to reach her phone, but its cord caught on her belt, alerting her to the theft.

Ling Yi rescued Zhu Yueting from a knife-wielding thief and captured the thief’s three accomplices. He gained system rewards and discovered that Zhu Yueting’s affection for him had reached 80.

• Zhu Yueting exposed the four thieves, and the skinny middle-aged man held her at knifepoint as railway police arrived.
• Ling Yi recognized that Zhu Yueting might be the woman who had died in a similar train standoff in his previous life and decided to save her.
• Ling Yi seized the moment when the skinny man reached for the officers’ pistols, crushed his wrist, and struck him down while protecting Zhu Yueting.
• Ling Yi broke the arms of the other three thieves and identified them as the skinny man’s accomplices, allowing the railway police to arrest all four.
• The system rewarded Ling Yi with Vow Power Points, an Advancement Card, cash, and a lottery draw after Zhu Yueting’s affection reached 80.

Ling Yi and Zhu Yueting traveled toward Baihai City after Ling Yi captured four leaders of the Thief Extreme Organization, earning a reward and attracting possible future danger. On the train, he fulfilled Yin Hailing’s wish and warned fellow passengers that college graduates would face a tougher job market, then began explaining which majors might not be good choices.

• Zheng Qiyun told Ling Yi that the four captured thieves were wanted leaders of the Thief Extreme Organization and that Ling Yi would receive a reward and commendation.
• Zheng Qiyun and Liu Haisheng escorted the four criminals off the train at Red Maple City Station, while Zhu Yueting suggested that she and Ling Yi look for nearby rentals together.
• Ling Yi replied to Yin Hailing’s messages and received Vow Power Points, a Learning Card, and cash from the System for fulfilling her wish.
• Ling Yi told Zhu Yueting that he planned to pursue a bachelor's degree and discussed how the end of guaranteed job placements and expanded college enrollment would affect graduates.
• Ling Yi explained to nearby passengers that computer science could also face an oversupply of graduates by the time they entered the job market.

After arriving in Baihai City, Ling Yi found a villa to rent in Nanhu Residential Complex and reunited with Gao Sheng, whom he had met on the train. Ling Yi warned Gao Sheng about upcoming changes to hospital pharmaceutical kickbacks, and the chapter ended with Ling Yi asking Zhu Yueting if she could cook.

• Ling Yi ended his train lecture and shared a meal with Zhu Yueting and Gao Sheng, who recorded much of his talk and sought to befriend him.
• Ling Yi and Zhu Yueting arrived in Baihai City and headed to Nanhu Residential Complex to find a rental home.
• Ling Yi spoke with the security guard, who contacted the owner, and Gao Sheng arrived to show them Villa No. 7.
• Gao Sheng offered to rent the villa for three thousand yuan a month, but Ling Yi warned him that authorities would soon crack down on hospital kickback accounts.
• Gao Sheng handed Ling Yi the villa keys and hurried away to verify the warning, while Ling Yi asked Zhu Yueting whether she could cook.

Ling Yi reviewed his Vow Power gains, used two lottery draws, and met Yao Hongyuan, whose wish to divorce her cheating husband gave him a chance to help her. He returned to Villa Seven, where Zhu Yueting laid out plans for settling into the house.

• Ling Yi used his two lottery draws and received 100,000 in cash and a Luck Card.
• Ling Yi spotted Yao Hongyuan jogging and learned from her data panel that she wanted to divorce Li Yan and leave him penniless.
• Ling Yi told Yao Hongyuan that Li Yan had been seeing a woman in room 3036 at the Good Home Hotel, and she stopped to question him.
• Ling Yi introduced himself and returned to Villa Seven, leaving Yao Hongyuan determined to deal with Li Yan.
• Zhu Yueting served millet porridge and told Ling Yi she wanted to organize the kitchen, replace the bedding, check the utilities, and clean the courtyard.

Ling Yi accepted Gao Sheng’s gift of a villa after his timely information saved Gao Sheng from a disastrous investment, and he used Learning Cards to master computing books. He ended the chapter with an Advancement Card in hand, which could raise a professional skill beyond the world’s highest level.

• Ling Yi agreed to travel with Zhu Yueting after the eighteenth, fulfilling her wish and receiving a Martial Power Card and cash from the system.
• Ling Yi and Zhu Yueting spent the day buying household necessities and arranging cleaners to prepare the villa.
• Gao Sheng thanked Ling Yi for warning him about the investment risk and gave him the villa, which Ling Yi accepted by signing the transfer agreements.
• Ling Yi explained that the villa’s land would become far more valuable after redevelopment, while Zhu Yueting reacted with disbelief at its price.
• Ling Yi used ten Learning Cards to master the contents of ten computing books and gained enough knowledge to attempt a Level 4 computer certification.
• Ling Yi received an Advancement Card that could raise a professional skill to a super level.

After using an Advancement Card to gain extraordinary programming knowledge, Ling Yi began building a computer project and agreed to travel with Zhu Yueting and Shi Yun. Yao Hongyuan came to see him, and he asked her to help establish a company called Future Technology.

• Ling Yi used an Advancement Card to advance his programming ability and received knowledge of new frameworks, algorithms, and weak artificial intelligence.
• Yin Hailing called Ling Yi, revealed that she wanted to travel with him, and heard him promise to take her on a trip after she reached Baihai City.
• Ling Yi bought a high-spec computer and programming software, then began working on a project he described to Zhu Yueting as creating a world.
• Zhu Yueting told Ling Yi that she and Shi Yun planned to visit the grassland, and Ling Yi recognized Shi Yun as his former class adviser.
• Yao Hongyuan visited Ling Yi at the villa, and he asked her to help set up Future Technology with a registered capital of fifty million.

Ling Yi claimed a 48-million lottery prize, told his family, and arranged to bring them to his villa. Yao Hongyuan gave him the Find Things to Do Network as a company shell and asked to join his upcoming trip.

• Ling Yi bought a lottery ticket whose numbers matched his memories and collected the after-tax prize in his father Ling Zhan's bankbook.
• Ling Yi called Cong Lanzhi and Ling Zhan, told them about the lottery win and villa, and agreed they would visit after handling family plans.
• Ling Yi asked Gao Sheng to support his claim that he had bought the villa, while Zhu Yueting reacted to his lottery win.
• Yao Hongyuan gave Ling Yi the emptied Find Things to Do Network, which she had repurposed as the company he wanted to start.
• Yao Hongyuan asked Ling Yi to take her on his trip, and he welcomed her along.

Ling Yi learned that Yin Hailing had run away from home to find him, while her parents worried over her disappearance and his parents encountered her on the train to Baihai City. After discovering her temporary wish, Ling Yi texted her to travel safely and promised her a feast when she arrived.

• Ling Yi reviewed the wishes of Zhu Yueting, Yao Hongyuan, and Shi Yun, then learned his parents would arrive in Baihai City the following evening.
• Yin Hailing's parents read her letter saying she had gone to find Ling Yi, and worried about her while considering the prospect of her marrying into his newfound wealth.
• Yin Hailing met Ling Zhan and Cong Lanzhi on the train, admitted she had come alone to find Ling Yi, and revealed she had left her parents a letter.
• Ling Yi received a system notification that the girls' temporary wishes had refreshed and saw Yin Hailing's wish expressing worry that he would be angry.
• Ling Yi realized Yin Hailing's wish meant his parents had met her and texted her to stay safe, promising to treat her to a feast in Baihai City.

Ling Yi used the system to track several women’s wishes, then stepped in when he found Li Yan harassing Yao Hongyuan and chased him off. Yao Hongyuan’s interest in Ling Yi deepened, while he retreated from her suggestive attention and prepared to go buy computers with Zhu Yueting and Shi Yun.

• Ling Yi received an Inner Voice Card and continued coding the weak artificial intelligence, which would take about a week to finish starting up.
• The system upgraded to version 2.0 and displayed two temporary wishes each for Yin Hailing, Zhu Yueting, Yao Hongyuan, and Shi Yun.
• Ling Yi saw Li Yan harassing Yao Hongyuan outside Villa No. 8, grabbed him, slapped him, and warned him to leave Baihai City.
• The system rewarded Ling Yi for fulfilling Yao Hongyuan’s wish and raised her favorability by 10 points.
• Yao Hongyuan thanked Ling Yi and showed interest in his muscles, but he made an excuse and returned to his villa.
• Ling Yi invited Zhu Yueting and Shi Yun to go shopping for computers, while Yao Hongyuan’s refreshed wishes revealed that she wanted to know him better and touch his muscles.

Ling Yi hosted his parents and Yin Hailing in Baihai City, then discovered how the system’s affection rewards encouraged him to exploit people’s feelings. After his family left, he planned a grassland trip with Zhu Yueting, Shi Yun, and Yao Hongyuan, and postponed visiting the company until afterward.

• Ling Yi brought Ling Zhan, Cong Lanzhi, and Yin Hailing to his villa, where Zhu Yueting and Shi Yun greeted them and described how Ling Yi had helped Zhu Yueting.
• Ling Zhan resisted moving to Baihai City, while Ling Yi explained his plans to study, upgrade his degree, and try starting a small company.
• Cong Lanzhi and Ling Zhan warned Ling Yi that Zhu Yueting and Yin Hailing seemed to have feelings for him, prompting him to consider the system’s affection mechanic and its rewards.
• While sightseeing with his parents, Ling Yi tested the affection mechanic, learned that high affection became locked and produced better rewards, and resolved not to let the system turn him into a scoundrel.
• Ling Yi saw Ling Zhan, Cong Lanzhi, and Yin Hailing off; Yin Hailing had reached 90 affection, which Ling Yi confirmed was the lover-level threshold.
• Back at the villa, Ling Yi agreed to buy a car for a trip to Dada Grassland, learned Yao Hongyuan could drive, and said he would visit her company after the trip.

Ling Yi brought weak AI Zero online and tasked it with designing Bubble Chat, then traveled with his companions to Dada Grassland. At Dada Eighth Village, he unexpectedly saw his former girlfriend Li Yunyan again but chose to walk away.

• Yao Hongyuan’s favorability toward Ling Yi fell after she concluded that his warning to Gao Sheng had been a coincidence and decided to keep her distance after the trip.
• Ling Yi’s computer completed Zero’s setup, and he instructed the AI to design a chat application called Bubble Chat.
• Ling Yi and his companions drove to Dada Grassland, where Yao Hongyuan guided them toward the crowded reception village.
• Ling Yi recalled his college relationship with Li Yunyan and how she had left him to pursue a life in the imperial capital.
• At Dada Eighth Village, Ling Yi recognized Li Yunyan selling cooked mutton, felt calm about their past, and walked away without approaching her.

After deleting several people from the system list to end their locked favorability, Ling Yi began the school year by picking up Yin Hailing and returning to campus. He claimed his dorm bed from Li Liang, then received a call from Gao Sheng.

• Ling Yi deleted Zhu Yueting, Shi Yun, Yao Hongyuan, and Yin Hailing from the system list, and Zhu Yueting's favorability soon fell below 80 as she returned to normal.
• Ling Yi drove to the train station, picked up Yin Hailing, and fulfilled her wish by taking her for shumai before helping her register at Baihai City University of Finance and Economics.
• Ling Yi returned to Baihai City College of Finance and Economics and found Yao Yunhe, Jin Xin, and Li Liang in dorm room 402.
• When Li Liang tried to take Ling Yi's bottom bunk, Ling Yi lifted him onto the top bunk and threw his bedding after him.
• Ling Yi's phone rang with a call from Gao Sheng.

Ling Yi advised Gao Sheng to acquire land east of Ruyi District, revealing that an airport would be built there, and offered to fund the purchase. He required half the profits and that a new company for the project be placed under Gao Menglan’s name, leaving her and Gao Sheng to misread his motives while Ling Yi planned to use his Investment Card.

• Ling Yi met Gao Sheng and his daughter Gao Menglan, who tried to test his programming knowledge and was stunned when he recited code beyond her experience.
• Gao Sheng asked Ling Yi for advice about entering real estate and described a plot east of Ruyi District that he wanted to develop.
• Ling Yi warned that Gao Sheng’s 120 million yuan was insufficient and said the land would be worth pursuing because an airport would be built there.
• Ling Yi offered to cover the funding gap in exchange for fifty percent of the profits and required Gao Sheng to establish a new company under Gao Menglan’s name.
• Gao Sheng and Gao Menglan mistook Ling Yi’s condition for romantic interest, and Gao Menglan’s favorability toward him rose by sixty points.

Ling Yi returned to school, dealt with Li Liang’s attempt to lock him out, and became the drinking champion of Room 402. On the first day of class, he stopped Cong Fei from becoming class monitor, but Cong Fei challenged Zhu Yueting’s decision and refused to back down.

• Gao Sheng agreed to Ling Yi’s conditions for their new company, while Gao Menglan questioned Ling Yi’s wealth and connections.
• Ling Yi broke into the dorm room after Li Liang locked him out, then told Li Liang to move out or repair the door; Li Liang repaired it and asked to learn martial arts from him.
• Ling Yi ordered Li Liang to remove his earrings and dye his hair black, then outdrank his roommates and claimed the title of Room 402’s boss.
• Zhu Yueting appointed Yao Yunhe class monitor after Ling Yi declined the position.
• Cong Fei objected to Yao Yunhe’s appointment and demanded an exam, but Zhu Yueting said she chose class monitors according to her mood and ordered him to sit down or leave.

Ling Yi challenged Cong Fei to a programming contest over who would become class monitor, then beat him with a polished fighting game that mocked him. After Cong Fei admitted defeat and attacked Ling Yi, Ling Yi lifted him one-handed; afterward, Lü Jing persuaded Ling Yi to develop the game and let him organize a studio.

• Ling Yi offered to compete with Cong Fei in any subject, and Cong Fei chose programming; Zhu Yueting agreed to honor the result.
• At the computer lab, Cong Fei built a simple whack-a-mole game while Ling Yi spent nearly an hour creating a smooth side-scrolling game called Martial Arts Expert, whose enemies were named Cong Fei.
• Cong Fei saw the game’s Dog-Slaying Sword Technique skill, grew furious, and swung at Ling Yi; Ling Yi dodged and lifted him by the collar before Cong Fei admitted defeat.
• Jin Xin tried the game, and Lü Jing argued it could become a hit and make money if expanded and released online.
• Ling Yi agreed to make the game if Lü Jing set up a studio, prompting Li Liang to ask for a chance to earn money too.

Ling Yi set Lü Jing up with an easy-to-use game editor and secured a billion for Gao Sheng’s real-estate venture using an Investment Card. After the project yielded a 2.25-billion return, he left the story with Gao Menglan asking to learn programming and Yao Hongyuan confronting how badly she had misjudged him.

• Lü Jing questioned Li Liang’s place in the game venture, and Ling Yi promised to teach him an unnamed game editor so he could finish the game and manage operations.
• Ling Yi picked up Zhu Yueting and Shi Yun, while Li Yunyan and Wu Di saw him arrive in a BMW and speculated about his relationship with Zhu Yueting.
• Gao Sheng and Gao Menglan brought Ling Yi the agreements for Bai Hai Real Estate and the Ruyi District Section C land project, and Ling Yi signed them.
• Ling Yi used an Investment Card on Gao Menglan’s project and received 2.25 billion in returns, then gave Gao Sheng a bank card containing one billion for the venture.
• Gao Menglan asked Ling Yi to teach her programming, and he agreed; Gao Sheng then verified the billion with Yao Hongyuan, who was shocked by the balance and regretted her judgment of Ling Yi.

Ling Yi used his system’s cards to study and supply companies with advanced technical documentation, then learned that Wu Di’s rumors about him and his class advisors had gotten Zhu Yueting reprimanded. He returned to deal with the situation, while his classmates prepared to retaliate against Wu Di with a rumor of their own.

• Ling Yi used Learning Cards to defeat Gao Menglan in animation, memory, and piano, then gained several cards from her, including an Item Card.
• Ling Yi read fifty books and used three Advancement Cards before directing Zero to place orders with companies, each accompanied by technical documentation beyond current capabilities.
• After military training, Yao Yunhe, Jin Xin, and Li Liang told Ling Yi that Wu Di had spread rumors that he was dating two class advisors.
• Ling Yi gave Li Liang money to spread a false rumor about Wu Di, while Yao Yunhe objected to the plan.
• Shi Yun called Ling Yi and said Zhu Yueting had been scolded by the principal and gone home crying, so Ling Yi headed back.

Ling Yi asked his friends to secretly deal with Wu Di’s rumor-spreading, then returned home and became Zhu Yueting’s boyfriend after comforting her. Zhu Yueting proposed a university recruitment website, and Ling Yi introduced her to Zero and outlined ways to expand and monetize the idea, with Shi Yun joining the venture.

• Li Liang agreed to secretly find someone to deal with Wu Di, while Yao Yunhe and Jin Xin warned him to keep Ling Yi’s involvement hidden.
• Ling Yi encountered Yao Hongyuan, who asked for his advice and resolved to repair their relationship, but he declined and went inside.
• Ling Yi comforted Zhu Yueting, asked her to be his girlfriend, and her affection reached 100 after they kissed.
• Zhu Yueting proposed a recruitment website for university students, and Ling Yi introduced Zero to help design and operate it.
• Shi Yun reported that rumors about Zhu Yueting were worsening and said she had resigned from her job.
• Ling Yi explained ways to monetize and expand Zhu Yueting’s website idea, and Shi Yun asked to join them.

Ling Yi left his old college after using Zero to expose its corrupt principal, then enrolled at the finance university by funding a gymnasium and creating a dormitory system. On his first day there, he fulfilled Yan Xifeng’s wish for money and received Vow Power Points, a Learning Card, and cash from the system.

• Zhu Yueting and Shi Yun resigned from their teaching jobs, and Ling Yi had Zero expose the principal’s embezzlement; investigators arrested him two days later.
• Lü Jing established a gaming studio with investments from most of Ling Yi’s classmates, while rumors about Wu Di spread around campus.
• Ling Yi discussed his plans for a student recruitment website and online banking with Zhu Yueting and Shi Yun at the villa.
• Ling Yi enrolled at the finance university after investing a hundred million yuan in a gymnasium and writing a dormitory management system for its president.
• Ling Yi dropped a stack of cash on Yan Xifeng, fulfilling her wish and earning Vow Power Points, a Learning Card, and ten thousand yuan from the system.