Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi stalled the Guardian while learning about the multiverse and the Guardian’s plan to escape by destroying the world. The Guardian’s attempt to reconstruct the rules failed when Blue Star vanished, and he realized Ling Yi had deceived his perceptions.

• The Guardian explained that he sought the X Element to destroy the world and escape, then described the Greater Omniverse, the Supreme God’s creations, and Barbatos consuming defective multiverses.
• Ling Yi questioned the Guardian about outsiders, and the Guardian grew suspicious when Ling Yi asked whether other outsiders existed.
• The Guardian secretly used his Origin Armor to reconstruct local rules, hoping to neutralize Ling Yi’s control of the rules and kill him.
• The Guardian told Ling Yi that the Greater Omniverse was real while other multiverses were virtual worlds that could become real when their beings were summoned.
• The Guardian’s illusion collapsed, revealing that Blue Star had disappeared, and Ling Yi suggested the Guardian’s perceptions had been false from the start.

Ling Yi restored Blue Star and took control of the universe’s Guardian, then returned to the Sphere of the Gods and reunited with a long-separated clone. After unsealing his memories, he set off on another transmigration.

• Ling Yi revealed his manifested Guardian copy, forced the Guardian to submit, and took possession of the universe’s rules core.
• Ling Yi released Blue Star into the Apocalypse Star System, recreated the Solar System around it, and brought everyone back to Gotham City.
• Ling Yi announced that he would reclaim nearly everyone’s powers, while the Guardian agreed to seal away Apocalypse Star.
• Ling Yi and his allies divided up their next tasks, and Ling Yi restored ordinary lives and altered memories for most of his former subordinates.
• Ling Yi’s main body arrived on the Sphere of the Gods’ ninth level and reunited with the clone who had traveled from a Marvel Universe.
• Ling Yi exchanged farewells with his clone, adjusted his transmigration aura, and began another transmigration.

Ling Yi questioned his new transmigration system, then discovered it could only send him to random worlds without letting him bring back anything but his memories. As he attended a physics test at school, he reflected on his life in the parallel world and the fever caused by his soul merging with the original Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi learned that transmigration attempts refreshed daily, that he could leave a world after one month, and that the System Guild would arrange an identity for him.
• After the beginner guide left, Ling Yi found the system interface bare-bones and realized he could not carry items, skills, or abilities between worlds.
• Ling Yi recalled replacing a middle-school student three months earlier after the original owner died from being struck by lightning, and noted that his first transmigration was less than ten hours away.
• Ling Yi greeted his physics teacher Luo Hong before taking a short test, despite struggling with the subject and seeing his grades fall since transmigrating.
• Ling Yi remembered that his three-day fever had resulted from his soul merging with the original owner, though his parents and teachers believed the illness had damaged his brain.

Ling Yi struggled with school after his fever, considered using transmigration to gain knowledge, and earned money through programming jobs while waiting for his system’s countdown. When he finally transmigrated, he realized he had entered the world of Love Apartment.

• Wang Quan gave Ling Yi walnut drinks, and Ling Yi endured his classmates’ concern about his supposed brain damage.
• Ling Yi struggled through physics, English, and math tests and considered how he might improve himself in other worlds.
• Ling Zhan and Cong Lanzhi gave Ling Yi a variety of brain supplements, which he took to reassure them.
• Ling Yi registered on an outsourcing website, completed three small jobs, and earned twelve hundred before the countdown ended.
• Ling Yi transmigrated to a university infirmary, where the system identified him as a student and Taekwondo Club member who had been knocked unconscious by Hu Yifei.
• A striking woman entered the infirmary, confirming Ling Yi’s suspicion that he had arrived in the world of Love Apartment.

After Hu Yifei accidentally knocked Ling Yi unconscious during taekwondo practice, Ling Yi used her guilt and his financial hardship to secure a place to stay at Love Apartment. He moved into Zhang Wei’s room for two months and met Tang Youyou and Lü Ziqiao, whose objection to the arrangement left the apartment’s rules in question.

• Hu Yifei apologized to Ling Yi for knocking him down, and Ling Yi claimed he had lost a security guard job and had nowhere to stay during the break.
• Hu Yifei offered Ling Yi her friend’s vacant room and brought him to Love Apartment.
• Hu Yifei introduced Ling Yi to Tang Youyou, who welcomed him while wondering about his relationship with Hu Yifei.
• Ling Yi entered the apartment and met Lü Ziqiao, who questioned whether Hu Yifei could move a guest into Zhang Wei’s room without consulting everyone.

Ling Yi settled into Love Apartment and began looking for ways to support himself, first exploring programming jobs and then considering writing a webnovel based on a future hit. He decided to earn money through small jobs for now while preparing to write Thirty Years East of the River.

• Hu Yifei dragged Lü Ziqiao onto the balcony and confronted him for planning to bring another girl to the apartment.
• Hu Yifei showed Ling Yi Zhang Wei’s cleaned room and let him use Zhang Wei’s computer to look for part-time work.
• Hu Yifei and Tang Youyou left to buy groceries, while Hu Yifei forced Lü Ziqiao to come along as their pack mule.
• Ling Yi checked his belongings, registered on an outsourcing website, and found many programming jobs available in 2008.
• Ling Yi browsed webnovel sites, recognized that Thirty Years East of the River had not yet been published, and decided to write his own version while earning money through jobs.

Ling Yi earned money quickly by completing outsourced programming jobs, then joined the Love Apartment residents for a welcome dinner that went wrong when their hot pot burned. After Zeng Xiaoxian’s jealousy caused an awkward evening, Hu Yifei apologized to Ling Yi, who remained ready to leave if things worsened.

• Ling Yi completed numerous programming jobs in under an hour, earning about 12,000 and astonishing Hu Yifei, Tang Youyou, Lü Ziqiao, Lu Zhanbo, and the others.
• Tang Youyou noticed the hot pot burning, so the residents abandoned dinner at home and went out to eat instead.
• Ling Yi paid the bill and inferred that Zeng Xiaoxian had deliberately let the hot pot burn because he was jealous of Ling Yi and Hu Yifei.
• Tang Youyou and Chen Meijia’s jokes about Hu Yifei and Ling Yi had reached Zeng Xiaoxian and prompted his foolish behavior.
• Ling Yi considered leaving Love Apartment if the awkwardness continued, but Hu Yifei came to apologize for the evening and said she would confront Zeng Xiaoxian.

Ling Yi settled into Love Apartment and reconciled with Zeng Xiaoxian, then joked about pursuing a romance and confused Sekiya Kamiki by saying he liked Tang Youyou. Sekiya finally understood that Ling Yi meant he admired Youyou as a fan and apologized, leaving Ling Yi speechless.

• Hu Yifei let Ling Yi stay in Zhang Wei's empty room, and Ling Yi insisted on paying a thousand in monthly rent.
• Ling Yi told Zeng Xiaoxian he had worked until three in the morning, and Zeng Xiaoxian apologized for his behavior the night before.
• Ling Yi teased Zeng Xiaoxian by suggesting he might pursue Hu Yifei, then said he liked women like Youyou.
• Sekiya Kamiki misunderstood Ling Yi's remarks as a threat to pursue his fiancée Tang Youyou and demanded an apology.
• Zeng Xiaoxian explained that Youyou was a celebrity, and Sekiya realized Ling Yi meant he liked her as a fan before bowing to apologize.

Ling Yi learned about Love Apartment’s couple-rent rules, bought supplies, and decided to rent Apartment 3702 so he could live independently. After he moved in, Hu Yifei followed him there and questioned why he had spent money on a place of his own.

• Zeng Xiaoxian explained that Love Apartment offered discounted rent and free utilities to couples who passed a resident assessment, and Ling Yi questioned how the rule was verified.
• Ling Yi and Zeng Xiaoxian went shopping, where Ling Yi bought junior-high textbooks, study materials, and a laptop.
• Back at Love Apartment, Lu Zhanbo explained that he had been using Zhang Wei’s computer to finish a dating-match program with Lü Ziqiao.
• Ling Yi asked about vacant apartments and, after Lü Ziqiao contacted the landlord, rented the furnished Apartment 3702 upstairs.
• Ling Yi moved into 3702 and invited the residents to dinner; afterward, Hu Yifei followed him home and challenged his decision, while he said he preferred living quietly alone.

Ling Yi discovered that traveling to the Love Apartment world had greatly improved his memory and began studying from seventh-grade textbooks. After lending Lü Ziqiao twenty thousand yuan, he helped Hu Yifei consider opening an online store, leaving her awaiting his advice.

• Hu Yifei brought Ling Yi new bedding, and he resolved to repay her kindness before leaving the world.
• Ling Yi found that his memory and comprehension had improved, finished studying seventh-grade material, and slept until hunger woke him the next morning.
• Ling Yi went to Shirenfu for a meal with Lü Ziqiao, who asked to borrow money after they returned to the apartment.
• Ling Yi lent Lü Ziqiao twenty thousand yuan and kept the IOU, intending to give it to Hu Yifei when he left.
• Hu Yifei asked Ling Yi whether opening an online store during the break would work.

Ling Yi advised Hu Yifei to sell cat litter online and planned to study beyond middle school, eventually focusing on programming to earn money. After Lü Xiaobu borrowed twenty thousand from Ling Yi and spent it all in half a month, the Love Apartment residents scolded him while Ling Yi remained unfazed.

• Ling Yi suggested that Hu Yifei specialize in selling cat litter on Taotao, and she agreed to look into suppliers and the market.
• Ling Yi decided to study high-school material and then focus on programming so he could take on larger outsourcing projects.
• Hu Yifei invited Ling Yi to dinner and warned him not to lend Lü Xiaobu money, but Lü Xiaobu became unusually friendly with Ling Yi.
• Over the next half month, Lü Xiaobu spent the twenty thousand he had borrowed from Ling Yi on eating, drinking, and entertainment.
• Hu Yifei and the others learned how much Lü Xiaobu had borrowed, scolded him at dinner, and heard Ling Yi say that he still believed Lü Xiaobu could make money.

Ling Yi encouraged Tang Youyou to abandon the idea of opening an online shop and promised to think of ways to help her acting career. After Tang Youyou argued with Sekiya over his insistence on calling her his fiancée, she came to Ling Yi the next morning and told him about their falling-out.

• Hu Yifei's cat litter shop earned over fifty thousand in its first week after Ling Yi advised her on outsourcing, pricing, and marketing.
• Tang Youyou asked Ling Yi to help her open an online shop, but he discouraged her and offered to lend her money instead.
• Ling Yi told Tang Youyou he would think of ways to help her become a star and asked her to visit him the next morning.
• Tang Youyou argued with Sekiya after he accused her of failing to uphold a woman's virtue and insisted she was his fiancée.
• Tang Youyou arrived at Ling Yi's door the next morning with swollen eyes and a hoarse voice, then told him about her fight with Sekiya.

Ling Yi comforted Tang Youyou after her breakup with Sekiya, and she and their friends agreed that Sekiya should leave Love Apartment. Sekiya apologized and challenged Ling Yi to a duel, but backed down and agreed to move out, while Ling Yi sensed that something was still wrong.

• Ling Yi took Tang Youyou to Shirenfu, where she told Hu Yifei and the others that Sekiya had crossed her bottom line and needed to leave.
• When the group returned, Sekiya knelt at the apartment door and apologized, claiming his poor Mandarin had caused a misunderstanding.
• Tang Youyou rejected Sekiya’s excuses and demanded that he leave Love Apartment, while Zeng Xiaoxian told him the others wanted him gone too.
• Sekiya blamed Ling Yi and challenged him to a duel, but Ling Yi proposed settling it on the rooftop, and Sekiya agreed to move out instead.
• Tang Youyou found Ling Yi waiting on the rooftop and brought him away from the edge; she told him Sekiya would leave the next day, but Ling Yi still felt that something was off.

Ling Yi gave Tang Youyou scripts and songs that helped her recruit Lan Lingxi and advance her acting career, while he studied and later tried to research intelligence enhancement. After his memory and comprehension boosts disappeared, his research stalled, and he reunited with Tang Youyou, who invited him on a trip.

• Ling Yi gave Tang Youyou movie and television scripts and thirty songs, and told her to trade them for industry connections and acting roles.
• Tang Youyou brought Lan Lingxi on board, signed a contract to split the proceeds with Ling Yi, and helped spread word of his writing around Love Apartment.
• After one month, Ling Yi received the option to leave the world, but his memory and comprehension boosts vanished, so he established a laboratory and spent months researching intelligence enhancement.
• Ling Yi made no progress and shut down the laboratory half a year later before returning to Love Apartment.
• Ling Yi ran into Tang Youyou at the residential complex, and she invited him to travel with her.

Ling Yi and Tang Youyou joined the Love Apartment residents for lunch, where Tang Youyou played along with the idea that they were together. Afterward, she confronted Ling Yi about his feelings, and he admitted he liked her but might vanish if his research failed, leaving her demanding the truth.

• Ling Yi agreed to travel with Tang Youyou, and they went to apartment 3601 to mooch a meal from the residents.
• Tang Youyou hugged Ling Yi's arm and joked to Lü Ziqiao that they had gotten together, while Lü Ziqiao explained that his project with Lu Zhanbo was succeeding.
• Zeng Xiaoxian, Hu Yifei, Lu Zhanbo, Zhang Wei, Chen Meijia, and Lin Wanyu welcomed Ling Yi and teased him and Tang Youyou about their mutual interest.
• After lunch, Tang Youyou followed Ling Yi home and asked why he seemed unhappy; Ling Yi admitted he liked her but said he might have to leave the world.
• Tang Youyou suspected Ling Yi was hiding something, guessed at several explanations, and insisted she would believe him if he told her the truth.

Ling Yi confessed to Tang Youyou and realized that his purpose in this world was to be with her. They married and built a life together, while Ling Yi pursued scientific research; the chapter ends as his intelligence-enhancing drug draws the authorities’ attention.

• Ling Yi told Tang Youyou that he was a transmigrator, and she worked out that his accumulated time in other worlds made him far older than he claimed.
• Ling Yi told Tang Youyou that she was his purpose in this world, but Hu Yifei and Zeng Xiaoxian interrupted them with an invitation to travel to Sanya.
• Ling Yi and Tang Youyou traveled with Hu Yifei and Zeng Xiaoxian, then continued exploring together and married after returning to Baihai City.
• Tang Youyou rose to A-list stardom using scripts Ling Yi provided, while Ling Yi became famous after she revealed his work as an author, screenwriter, and songwriter.
• Twenty years later, Ling Yi developed Intelligence Enhancement No. 1 and No. 2 after testing the dangerous Intelligence Enhancement No. 0 on himself.
• The authorities took an interest in Intelligence Enhancement No. 1 and arranged for it to have separate government and civilian versions.

Ling Yi spent fifty years with Tang Youyou in the Love Apartment world, gaining extensive knowledge before she died and he returned to the real world. He struggled to adjust to the time gap, then went back to school and questioned whether he still needed to attend.

• Ling Yi developed Intelligence-Opening No. 3 and No. 4, learned across many academic fields, and eventually stopped using the potions.
• Ling Yi and Tang Youyou built a family and grew old together, until Tang Youyou died in 2058 with Ling Yi beside her.
• Ling Yi arranged Tang Youyou's funeral, settled his affairs, and returned to apartment 3702 to grieve before preparing to leave the world.
• Ling Yi reviewed textbooks, returned to the real world, and began adjusting to the contrast between fifty years abroad and one second at home.
• Cong Lanzhi sent Ling Yi off to school, where Luo Hong announced a weekly test and Ling Yi considered whether he still needed to attend school.

Ling Yi recalled the advanced technologies he had gained in the Love Apartment world while enduring weekly exams as a ninth-grade student. After the exams, he decided that he might eventually develop intelligence-enhancing potion technology, but planned to secretly give miniature nuclear fusion technology to the country, while lunar water extraction technology had to wait.

• Ling Yi breezed through the difficult weekly exams and told Wang Quan and Lin Ruoxi he planned to take first place in the school.
• Ling Yi and Lin Ruoxi went home together after the final exam, and Lin Ruoxi worried about her performance while asking about his health.
• Ling Yi returned home to find his parents out and reviewed the three most valuable technologies he had mastered in the Love Apartment world.
• Ling Yi decided to postpone using intelligence-enhancing potion technology until high school and to pass miniature nuclear fusion technology to the country without revealing himself.
• Ling Yi concluded that lunar water extraction technology could not be used yet.

Ling Yi recreated his cybersecurity software and intelligent program, then anonymously sent controlled miniature nuclear fusion formulas to the Ancient Science Academy, whose experts verified the breakthrough and ordered a covert investigation in Dafeng City. Meanwhile, Luo Hong was stunned by Ling Yi’s near-perfect exam score as he finished compiling his intelligent program.

• Ling Yi reproduced his firewall and intelligent program, then anonymously emailed controlled miniature nuclear fusion technology to the Ancient Science Academy.
• Elder Feng brought the formulas to Elder Tian and the other experts, who verified that the calculations were sound and confirmed the breakthrough was real.
• The Academy traced the anonymous email to Dafeng City, imposed its highest confidentiality level, and ordered the Dragon Guard to investigate discreetly.
• Luo Hong saw Ling Yi’s score of 925 on the citywide exam and realized he had ranked ahead of the school’s other students.
• Ling Yi finished compiling his intelligent program and planned to nurture it by letting it access the internet and learn.

Unable to resist his curiosity, Ling Yi transmigrated into the body of a crime boss’s personal bodyguard and shot Jang Jin-suk. After dying and resurrecting repeatedly, he killed Jang Jin-suk and his men, then retched from the experience.

• Ling Yi ignored his plan to wait and used the transmigration button, arriving at a hotel as Jang Jin-suk’s personal bodyguard.
• He recognized that Jang Jin-suk’s gang was preparing a blue-ice deal and torturing men while waiting for a woman named Lucy to bring the merchandise.
• Ling Yi stayed behind when Chen went downstairs, drew his pistol, and shot Jang Jin-suk.
• The gang shot Ling Yi dead, but he resurrected and opened fire again, killing several bodyguards.
• Ling Yi resurrected once more, killed Jang Jin-suk with several shots, and retched beside the table.