Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er went to repair her car, where their close encounter drew a crowd and sparked rumors that they were dating. After learning they had both grown up at Fenghai Orphanage, Ling Yi recognized Jiang Qing'er from eight years earlier but changed the subject and asked her to help him choose a sports car.

• Jiang Qing'er told Ling Yi about her lucrative surgical work and pressed him to teach her internal cultivation or his needle technique.
• Ling Yi drove Jiang Qing'er to a dealership to repair her car, then caught her when she stumbled and stopped her from touching his abdomen in front of onlookers.
• People filmed the pair and recognized Jiang Qing'er, prompting Ling Yi to joke about headlines suggesting she was dating a sixty-year-old man.
• Jiang Qing'er said she had grown up at Fenghai Orphanage, and Ling Yi realized he had known her there eight years earlier but kept the memory to himself.
• Ling Yi asked Jiang Qing'er to help him choose a car and wanted to know the price of the most expensive sports car in Dafeng City.

Ling Yi drove Jiang Qing'er to a tea house to treat Old Li's cancer, where he met the severely poisoned owner, Zheng Huihui. After binding Zheng Huihui through his system, he began treating Old Li with silver needles.

• Ling Yi bought a red Big Shot sports car and took Jiang Qing'er to the tea house to save Old Li.
• Zheng Huihui recognized Ling Yi and revealed that Old Li had cancer; Ling Yi noticed that Zheng Huihui was severely poisoned and nearing death.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er entered tea room No. 8, where Old Li mistook the rejuvenated Ling Yi for his son.
• Ling Yi immobilized Old Li and inserted nine silver needles to treat him while Jiang Qing'er and Zheng Huihui watched.
• Ling Yi bound Zheng Huihui through the system, gaining wealth as Jiang Qing'er's affection also increased.

Ling Yi treated Old Li’s cancer and discovered that Zheng Huihui had been poisoned, then bought ingredients for his prescriptions. He learned that Jiang Qing'er had lost all memories from the year she was sixteen, taught her an internal cultivation method, and ended the chapter checking his suddenly popular Slow Foot account.

• Ling Yi told Old Li to keep his treatment secret and discovered that Zheng Huihui had been poisoned with Qituo, arranging nine acupuncture sessions to detoxify her.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er bought medicinal ingredients on Bronze Road, spending several hundred thousand before returning home.
• Ling Yi learned that Jiang Qing'er remembered nothing from the year she was sixteen, when she had awoken injured at an abandoned construction site near her orphanage.
• Ling Yi sent Jiang Qing'er an internal cultivation method and promised to guide her for half a month, while wondering whether her lost memories and injury had been deliberate.
• Ling Yi saw missed calls from Zheng Huihui and Old Li, then opened Slow Foot and found his follower count had risen above ten thousand after his gift-giving attracted attention.

Ling Yi protected Lin Hao from abusive viewers by flooding her livestream with gifts until the Slow Foot Platform banned the offenders and promised her better terms. The confrontation earned him two new bound targets and his first system reward, a personal storage space, leaving him considering how to earn Heartthrob Points more effectively.

• Ling Yi entered Lin Hao's livestream and sent millions of yuan in Super Battleships to drown out abusive comments and support her.
• Ling Yi pressured the Slow Foot Platform for action, and a moderator banned the offending accounts and offered Lin Hao a month of improved gift revenue terms.
• Ling Yi stopped sending gifts after the platform apologized and promised to address the harassment.
• Ling Yi discovered that Zhang Weiwei and Lin Wan met the binding requirements, then bound both streamers.
• Ling Yi reached 10 total Heartthrob Points and received a personal storage space, which he sensed was about the size of a basketball gym.

Ling Yi taught Jiang Qing'er to cultivate and began refining Qi-Replenishing Pills to support their training. Jiang Qing'er suspected their past was connected to her lost memories and decided to revisit the orphanage; the chapter ended when she received an offer to assist with a heart transplant and invited Ling Yi along.

• After Lin Hao ended her stream, Ling Yi saved contact information for Lin Hao, Zhang Weiwei, and Lin Wan, then continued cultivating.
• Jiang Qing'er joined Ling Yi for dinner, and he explained that she needed high-energy food and planned to make Qi-Replenishing Pills.
• Jiang Qing'er questioned why Ling Yi had taught her such a powerful technique and asked whether he knew about the year of memories she had lost, but Ling Yi avoided answering.
• Jiang Qing'er recalled a hazy image of being held by a man and decided to visit the orphanage to investigate her past.
• Ling Yi used a pressure cooker to begin refining pills and taught Jiang Qing'er how to extract medicinal essences; together they prepared several pots.
• Jiang Qing'er received a call about a heart transplant job and invited Ling Yi to come along.

Jiang Qing'er and Ling Yi were ambushed on their way to treat Lin Wuchen, but Ling Yi incapacitated the attackers and brought her safely to the Lin Clan's villa. There, he noticed a status display identifying Lin Wuchen's daughter, Lin Wan, as a gaming streamer.

• Jiang Qing'er told Ling Yi about her paid job treating Lin Wuchen, the head of Linquan Entertainment, and worried that the Lin Clan's inheritance dispute might be dangerous.
• Ling Yi noticed a gray car following them and drove into an underground parking garage to avoid it.
• Seventeen masked attackers with machetes blocked the garage exit, but Ling Yi struck their acupoints and left them immobilized.
• Ling Yi photographed the attackers, then took Jiang Qing'er to the Lin Clan's villa; the gray car drove away as they emerged.
• Lin Wuchen and his four children welcomed Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er, and Ling Yi saw a status display above Lin Wuchen's daughter identifying her as Lin Wan, a gaming streamer.

Ling Yi discovered that Lin Wan had used her unusual eyes to control seventeen people and suspected she wanted Lin Wuchen dead. Lin Wan revealed that she sought revenge for her mother's death and mentioned another person with a special ability, leaving Ling Yi eager to learn more.

• Ling Yi used Probe and saw that Lin Wuchen had heart failure while Lin Wan was nervous, then watched Jiang Qing'er enter the operating room to perform the surgery.
• Ling Yi recognized Lin Wan as a masked gaming streamer and confronted her with a photo of the seventeen people who had attacked him and Jiang Qing'er.
• Lin Wan tried to influence Ling Yi with her eyes, but his Internal Energy cleared the resulting dizziness; she then admitted she had wanted to stop them from treating Lin Wuchen, not kill them.
• Lin Wan told Ling Yi that she was Lin Wuchen's illegitimate daughter and wanted revenge because he had caused her mother's death, and she offered him ten million to stay silent for a month.
• Lin Wan explained that her eyes could hypnotize and eventually control a target, and that she had spent nearly half a year controlling the seventeen people.
• Lin Wan said she had met someone eight years earlier who could control other people's emotions, and Ling Yi eagerly asked her to describe that person.

Lin Wan told Ling Yi about the scar-chinned man whose strange power had caused a deadly incident years ago, while Ling Yi resolved to build strength before seeking him out. After Jiang Qing'er finished Lin Wuchen’s surgery, Ling Yi decided to become a star, and Lin Wan used her mind-controlling ability to seize control of the Lin Clan and confront Lin Wuchen.

• Lin Wan described seeing the scar-chinned man three times and warned Ling Yi that he was dangerous; Ling Yi recognized him as the man who had attacked him years earlier.
• Ling Yi promised not to reveal the Lin Clan’s affairs and asked Lin Wan not to target Jiang Qing'er again; she agreed and changed the subject.
• Jiang Qing'er completed Lin Wuchen’s operation, and Ling Yi supported her as they left the villa.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Qing'er he planned to start a film and television investment company and become a star, and she asked to be his assistant and bodyguard.
• Lin Wan forced her two older brothers to sign over their shares and leave the country, giving her control of fifty-eight percent of the Lin Clan.
• Lin Wan entered Lin Wuchen’s care room, dismissed the nurses with her ability, and told him she would make him endure the suffering he had inflicted on her mother.

Lin Wan told Lin Wuchen that Qi Haicheng would care for him, then gave Ling Yi control of Linquan Entertainment so he could start a film and television company. Ling Yi collected seven Heartthrob Points from his gifts, cultivated, and returned to the city with Jiang Qing'er to treat Zheng Huihui and seek a medicinal herb merchant.

• Lin Wan visited Lin Wuchen, told him Qi Haicheng would look after him, and ordered nurses to keep him alive.
• Ling Yi asked Lin Wan for help starting a film and television investment company, and she offered him Linquan Entertainment.
• Ling Yi sent gifts to Lin Hao and Zhang Weiwei, earning seven Heartthrob Points in total, then took a Qi-Replenishing Pill and cultivated.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er returned to the city so Ling Yi could give Zheng Huihui another acupuncture treatment and meet a medicinal herb merchant.
• Zheng Huihui told Ling Yi that her husband had been imprisoned for attempted murder and that the child she had raised was not hers, before Ling Yi started the acupuncture.

Ling Yi asked Jiang Qing'er to write a script based on his retelling of Chinese Paladin 1, then immobilized President Li after he insulted her. With hotels full for Dafeng City's trade fair, Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er took the last available room, while receptionists discovered Ling Yi was sixty years old.

• Ling Yi turned down Zheng Huihui's offer of her teahouse and discussed his acting ambitions with Jiang Qing'er.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Qing'er the story of Chinese Paladin 1, and she agreed to write a script from it.
• President Li insulted Jiang Qing'er, so Ling Yi immobilized him and left him frozen for half a month.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er found only one hotel room available because of Dafeng City's annual trade fair, and Jiang Qing'er eagerly booked it.
• Hotel receptionists recognized Jiang Qing'er from a viral video and discovered Ling Yi's identity listed him as sixty years old.

Ling Yi took over Linquan Entertainment from Lin Wan and learned that Ge Hong was hiding there as the operations department head. After his attempt to discuss Jiang Qing'er’s feelings failed, she revealed that some of her lost memories had returned.

• Jiang Qing'er teased Ling Yi after he avoided reacting to her advances, and he decided they needed to talk.
• Ling Yi agreed to take over Linquan Entertainment, and Lin Wan gave him an eighty-five-percent share transfer contract.
• Lin Wan told Ling Yi that Ge Hong had been working at Linquan Entertainment for three years, and they planned to test him at a senior executives' banquet.
• Ling Yi tried to find out whether Jiang Qing'er loved him or merely desired him, but she said she was serious about wanting his body.
• Ling Yi asked Jiang Qing'er to stop flirting until her memories returned, and she revealed that she had recovered some memories of being in his arms.

Ling Yi explained to Jiang Qing'er what happened eight years earlier, including the violent attack, her missing memories, and the suspicious man Ge Hong. Jiang Qing'er insisted on joining Ling Yi in three days to investigate, and they spent the following days cultivating and preparing.

• Ling Yi told Jiang Qing'er that Director Mom had died eight years earlier and that he had met Jiang Qing'er while both were drinking.
• Ling Yi recounted how Ge Hong's red light seemed to provoke a knife fight, Jiang Qing'er protected him from several blows, and Ling Yi later woke with no memory of what had happened after a red light appeared.
• Ling Yi explained that Jiang Qing'er had left for an exchange program and lost a year of memories, while he suspected an unknown organization might have sealed them.
• Jiang Qing'er insisted on accompanying Ling Yi to meet Ge Hong in three days, and Ling Yi agreed to train her and teach her protective techniques.
• Ling Yi cultivated Internal Energy, treated Zheng Huihui with acupuncture, and saw only small increases in Heartthrob Points over the next three days.

At Linquan Entertainment’s banquet, Ling Yi confronted Jiang Qing’er’s ex-boyfriend Bai Jiang and spotted Ge Hong, a person with the special ability Emotion Control. Lin Wan arrived, and Ling Yi confirmed Ge Hong as their target before the planned blackout.

• Ling Yi worried that his newfound fame and wealth would draw the attention of people with special abilities, so he urged Jiang Qing’er to hurry up production of The Legend of Sword and Fairy.
• Bai Jiang insulted Jiang Qing’er at the banquet entrance, and Ling Yi slapped him, threatened him, and said he would put out a bounty against him.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing’er entered the banquet, where Ling Yi used Probe and identified Ge Hong as a person with the special ability Emotion Control.
• Ling Yi noticed actress Liu Qianqian, whose looks score was 95, and Jiang Qing’er said she suited the role of Zhao Ling’er.
• Lin Wan asked whether Ling Yi had found the target, and Ling Yi confirmed Ge Hong before she warned that the power would go out in ten minutes.

Ling Yi and Lin Wan captured Ge Hong at the banquet, then completed the Linquan Entertainment handover and announced major investments and a newcomer support plan. Ling Yi gained Heartthrob Points from Liu Qianqian, Liu Xiao, Diza, and Jin Li, and considered binding them.

• Lin Wan asked Ling Yi to confirm Ge Hong’s identity, and Ling Yi assured her that he had found the right target.
• Ge Hong recognized Jiang Qing’er and suspected Ling Yi was the man he had encountered eight years earlier, then tried to flee when the lights went out.
• Ling Yi’s team immobilized Ge Hong, stuffed him into a trash bin, and removed him from the venue in a van.
• Lin Wan and Ling Yi held the Linquan Entertainment handover ceremony, and Ling Yi announced monthly investments of at least five billion, a Newcomer Support Plan, and funding for The Legend of Sword and Fairy.
• Liu Qianqian, Liu Xiao, Diza, and Jin Li generated Heartthrob Points, and Ling Yi identified them as potential binding targets.

Ling Yi expanded his Heartthrob Points by binding new targets and prepared to publicize The Legend of Sword and Fairy, then questioned Ge Hong about the attack eight years earlier. Ge Hong revealed that Jiang Qing'er had awakened her ability that night and that an unknown third party had taken her away, leaving Ling Yi searching for the person behind her lost memories.

• Ling Yi bound Diza, Jin Li, and other eligible targets, then left the banquet with Jiang Qing'er and Lin Wan to continue their plans.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Qing'er to post The Legend of Sword and Fairy's script on Yanbo and announce a 500-million investment as system notifications pushed his Heartthrob Points toward the next reward.
• Ling Yi, Jiang Qing'er, and Lin Wan questioned the blindfolded Ge Hong in the villa basement about what had happened eight years earlier.
• Ge Hong admitted he had provoked the gang fight and said Jiang Qing'er awakened her ability while protecting Ling Yi, then nearly killed him.
• Ge Hong said an unknown third party knocked Ling Yi unconscious and took Jiang Qing'er away, while he ruled out the Special Ability Bureau as the likely culprit.

Ling Yi learned more about special ability users and decided Ge Hong was too dangerous to keep alive. After earning the Money Power skill, he used Jiang Qing'er to post photos of his abs, sending himself trending again and rapidly increasing his Heartthrob Points.

• Ling Yi questioned Ge Hong about the Special Ability Bureau and learned that supernatural ability users developed powers later, while special ability users were born with them.
• Ling Yi, Lin Wan, and Jiang Qing'er agreed to kill Ge Hong because he could bring danger to them, then Lin Wan arranged rooms for Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er.
• Ling Yi reached 100 Total Heart Flutter Points and gained Money Power, which let him temporarily buy abilities with cash.
• Ling Yi tested Money Power, spending ten million yuan, and decided to attract more Heartthrob Points by showing off his abs.
• Jiang Qing'er posted Ling Yi's abs photos with a caption explaining his youthful appearance, and the post drove him up the trending searches as Heartthrob Points poured in.

Ling Yi used mind-reading to learn that Lin Wan had avenged her mother, killed Lin Wuchen, and greatly strengthened her ability, while Jiang Qing'er’s Internal Energy awakened a silver-light effect. Ling Yi brought Ge Hong back with a new face and said he was one of them, but privately decided to bind him with a Soul Contract.

• Ling Yi used Money Power to read Jiang Qing'er’s and Lin Wan’s thoughts, learning that his youth and physique had made Jiang Qing'er suspect he was an immortal cultivator.
• Ling Yi told Lin Wan not to kill Ge Hong because he wanted to control him and use him; Lin Wan’s thoughts revealed that she could now control at least a hundred thousand ordinary people indefinitely after killing Lin Wuchen.
• After Ling Yi left, Lin Wan warned Jiang Qing'er to control her ability’s effects, and Jiang Qing'er’s Internal Energy circulated as a silver light appeared around her and dispelled her fear.
• Ling Yi returned with Ge Hong, whose appearance he had changed, and said Ge Hong was now one of them.
• Ling Yi silently decided to use a Soul Contract to ensure Ge Hong could be trusted.

Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er began The Legend of Sword and Fairy project and set up a secret test to help choose Zhao Ling'er. Jin Li discovered their plan and passed the test, leaving her excited about her chance at the role.

• Ling Yi handed Linquan Entertainment's management to Ge Hong, who reported that The Legend of Sword and Fairy was underway but the team had not chosen its female lead.
• Ling Yi agreed to attend the final audition and ordered Ge Hong to stop working with special-effects companies that had demanded more than ten times the market rate.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er disguised themselves as elderly cleaners and blocked the elevator to test how the actresses would respond to someone pretending to be sick.
• Jin Li avoided the blocked elevator by taking the stairs, then figured out Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er were conducting a test and asked to join in.
• Jiang Qing'er revealed the test plan, and Ling Yi told Jin Li that she had passed and could still win the role of Zhao Ling'er.

Ling Yi tested actresses for Chinese Paladin roles, cast Jin Li, Liu Qianqian, and Diza in three planned series, and then took Jiang Qing'er back to Fenghai Orphanage to investigate her memory loss. The chapter left Jiang Qing'er rejecting the idea of searching for the birth parents who abandoned her.

• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er tested Liu Gangan, who was eliminated after she complained about the audition, while Jiang Qing'er's awkward performance also failed to impress Diza and Liu Qianqian.
• Ling Yi invited Diza and Liu Qianqian into the conference room and revealed his and Jiang Qing'er's youthful faces, astonishing the women.
• Ling Yi cast Jin Li in Chinese Paladin 1, Liu Qianqian in The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2, and Diza in The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3, and told Jiang Qing'er to have the scripts prepared.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er returned to Fenghai Orphanage to look into the changes that followed Mother Director's death and the possible cause of Jiang Qing'er's memory loss.
• Ling Yi asked Jiang Qing'er whether she had searched for her birth parents, and she said she had no wish to find the people who abandoned her.

Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er explored the abandoned Fenghai Orphanage, where Ling Yi discovered a dangerous iron box in the basement. The box’s seal was loosening, and a Soul Stone inside was close to breaking free.

• Ling Yi comforted Jiang Qing'er, then avoided her confession and took her to Fenghai Orphanage to look for clues.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er vaulted the locked gate and entered the deserted orphanage.
• Ling Yi used Super Perception and X-Ray Vision to detect a chilling energy signature coming from the warehouse basement.
• Ling Yi broke into the basement alone and found a rusty iron box on a table.
• Ling Yi used Money Power to obtain Invincible Golden Body and used the Probe skill to identify the box as a Soul Stone Sealing Box whose seal was loosening.