Chapter Summaries

Ye Yun became a new renter at the 822 Rental House, while Liu Lili and Song Hao redeemed beginner gift packs and learned more about how Ling Yi chose renters. Ling Yi explained that he rented systems mainly to people with prolonged bad luck who had reached a dead end, and the chapter ended with him closing up for the night.

• Ye Yun appeared as a new renter with the Eye of Investigation ability, then hurried away when she saw Song Hao and Liu Lili.
• Song Hao and Liu Lili each spent a year of lifespan on a beginner gift pack; Liu Lili received the Scumbag Appraisal Technique, and Song Hao received Master-level Tai Chi Fist.
• Ling Yi told them that beginner skills only worked while their system rentals were active and that system upgrades became available at renter privilege tier two.
• Song Hao asked whether his unlucky coworker Chen Qi could rent a system, but Ling Yi said Chen Qi was not suitable because his future would be extraordinary.
• Ling Yi explained that Ye Yun was gravely ill after saving someone and that he mainly rented systems to people who had reached the end of the road.
• Ling Yi reflected on the uproar caused by Song Hao and Tang Xiao Qing, then told Liu Lili and Song Hao that they could decide how to use their systems before he closed up.

Liu Lili and Song Hao discussed Boss Ling before Song Hao left, while Tang Xiao Qing dealt with her roommates and won a Basic Gene Potion in the system lottery. After using it, she learned it was gradually increasing her lifespan and suspected the system’s arrival signaled a coming change in the world.

• Liu Lili thanked Boss Ling and the Rental System, deleted difficult tasks, and returned to her bedroom after Song Hao left.
• Tang Xiao Qing beat up her five roommates and took intimate photos of them to use as blackmail if they bullied her again.
• Tang Xiao Qing made more than thirty unsuccessful lottery pulls before winning a Basic Gene Potion.
• Tang Xiao Qing injected the potion, which repaired her genes and reduced her unusually large breasts to a healthier size.
• Tang Xiao Qing noticed her lifespan increasing by a few days at a time and concluded that the potion benefited her despite the system’s rental cost.

Song Hao and Tang Xiao Qing agreed to pursue separate livestreaming fields, with Song Hao focusing on entertainment scandals and Tang Xiao Qing investigating criminals. After Song Hao introduced his system-protected AI Xiao Di, Tang Xiao Qing decided to build an AI of her own to help them earn rewards while idle, but their discussion was interrupted by a visitor at Song Hao’s villa.

• Tang Xiao Qing and Song Hao discussed their rented systems and agreed they could stream separately instead of competing for viewers.
• Song Hao revealed that he had found and deployed the AI Xiao Di, which Tang Xiao Qing could not hack into.
• Tang Xiao Qing assigned herself criminal investigations and told Song Hao to target the celebrity San Bai on his entertainment livestream.
• Song Hao asked Xiao Di to prepare material about San Bai and set up his daytime stream, while Tang Xiao Qing planned to stream at night.
• Tang Xiao Qing realized she could use Electron Manipulation to build an AI after learning programming and studying other companies’ technology.
• A doorbell rang at Song Hao’s villa, leaving him wondering who had come to visit.

Zhao Yue visited Song Hao to apologize and explain Black Wind Security’s internal corruption, while probing whether Song Hao had been involved in the previous night’s violence. Song Hao remained wary of the company but gave Zhao Yue a task after Tang Xiao Qing sent him a message.

• Zhao Yue told Song Hao that his father had used the fallout from the previous night to remove corrupt figures from Black Wind Security.
• Zhao Yue questioned Song Hao about the attackers’ claims, but Song Hao denied being involved and Tang Xiao Qing cited footage showing he had gone home.
• Zhao Yue explained that his father had not approved dirty jobs, though people inside Black Wind Security had taken them on privately.
• Zhao Yue clarified that the men had been sent to the Inspection Bureau or expelled and blacklisted, rather than literally killed or buried.
• Song Hao said he no longer trusted Black Wind Security to protect him and threatened to return his shares unless the company became clean.
• After receiving a message from Tang Xiao Qing, Song Hao told Zhao Yue he had a task for him.

Liu Lili ran into Ye Yun while heading to punish a company supervisor, and discovered that Ye Yun also had a system. They found that Liu’s mission target, Chen Yuntian, was the man Ye Yun was delivering food to, and the chapter ended with Ye Yun kicking him into the company and calling the inspectors.

• Liu Lili went to Wujiu Mall to punish a supervisor who bullied employees and harassed female subordinates.
• Liu Lili met Ye Yun in the elevator and showed her the Scumbag Punishment System; Ye Yun revealed that she had a Case-Solving System.
• Liu Lili and Ye Yun learned that Ye Yun’s delivery recipient, Chen Yuntian, was Liu Lili’s mission target, and Liu agreed to wait until he accepted his food.
• Chen Yuntian leered at the women and asked Ye Yun to add him on Bubble Chat in exchange for a five-star review.
• Ye Yun kicked Chen Yuntian into the company, followed him inside, and called the inspectors to report a crime.

After Liu Lili helped expose Chen Yuntian, she introduced Ye Yun to the 822 Group and its new member, Xiao Di. Xiao Di generated a convincing fake video implicating the murderer Ye Yun had encountered, and Ye Yun prepared to send it to the uncles while leaving them to verify it.

• Liu Lili and Ye Yun received two case-solving points after Chen Yuntian was arrested for fraud and harassment.
• Ye Yun told Liu Lili that she had found a murderer who had destroyed all the evidence, and Liu Lili suggested asking someone to fabricate evidence.
• Liu Lili added Ye Yun to the 822 Group, where Song Hao announced that his AI, Xiao Di, had joined as the fifth member.
• Ye Yun sent Xiao Di information about the suspected murderer, and Xiao Di privately sent her an AI-generated video showing the man at a murder scene.
• Xiao Di gave Ye Yun a link to the video’s source, and Ye Yun planned to forward both to the uncles and let them investigate.

Ye Yun and Liu Lili left the Inspection Bureau after verifying that a video was an AI fabrication, then went their separate ways. At the 822 Rental House, Zhao Yue learned that Ling Yi’s background was protected by a top-secret file and that she no longer qualified to rent a system because Song Hao had changed her fate.

• Ye Yun and Liu Lili discussed the embarrassing video investigation, and Ye Yun said she would keep delivering food to spot criminals and earn case-solving points.
• Liu Lili decided to buy a car with money she had earned from system tasks.
• Shops in the alley behind Wujiu Mall opened after rapid renovations, drawing customers and increasing business at 822.
• Zhao Yue rented a Leopard GU22 from Ling Yi for ten years and asked about renting other items.
• Ling Yi told Zhao Yue she had once qualified to rent a system but no longer did, as Song Hao had saved her and her father and changed their fate.

Zhao Yue recognized the middle-aged car handover man as a character from a short drama and suspected that 822 Rental House dealt in supernatural powers. Qin Hai rented the Owe Money and Get Stronger System to try to survive his brain tumor, then asked Ling Yi whether raising his physique would keep him alive.

• Zhao Yue recognized the man who delivered her sports car as a butler from a short drama and decided to visit Song Hao's villa to investigate.
• Ling Yi sent the vanished middle-aged man away as Qin Hai entered 822 Rental House seeking help after receiving an anonymous text.
• Ling Yi showed Qin Hai his diagnosis, lifespan, and recommendation for the Owe Money and Get Stronger System.
• Qin Hai read the rental rules, rented the system for five days at the cost of fifty days of lifespan, and received a dark-gold 822 card.
• Qin Hai saw that he had five days left and asked Ling Yi whether improving his physique could save his life.

Qin Hao joined the 822 Group after renting the Owe Money and Get Stronger System, but spending money Azure Sky sent him did not activate it. Meanwhile, Call Me Auntie’s report led to Lin Fangfang’s arrest, and Qin Hao was left searching for a way to borrow money before his health failed.

• Ling Yi told Qin Hao that reaching 2 constitution points would restore his health, and Qin Hao left 822 to study his new system.
• Qin Hao joined the 822 Group, learned its members had rented systems, and revealed that he had a brain tumor and only five days left.
• Call Me Auntie suggested Qin Hao borrow money, while Azure Sky transferred him one million yuan to test whether the system would reward debt.
• Qin Hao spent 30,000 yuan booking a month at a hotel, but the system did not react.
• Xiao Di reported that Lin Fangfang had been arrested after Call Me Auntie reported her, and videos showed Lin Fangfang confessing to selling the house, cheating, and transferring assets.

Qin Hai discovered that Xiao Di was an artificial intelligence and learned about a hidden camera in his hotel room. Meanwhile, Ye Yun used her lottery system to stop a wanted fugitive from harming a hostage, then left to deliver takeout, where she saw Qin Hai complain that his system had become useless.

• Qin Hai thanked Xiao Di, then learned from Xiao Di that it was an artificial intelligence and that a hidden camera was installed in his hotel room by a previous guest.
• Xiao Di sent Ye Yun information about the camera, while Ye Yun was helping officers handle a ten-year fugitive who had taken a hostage.
• After Azure Sky told Ye Yun to use her lottery system, Ye Yun drew expert-level Hidden Weapons with her Case-Solving Points.
• Ye Yun hurled a lollipop stick into the fugitive's wrist, making him drop his knife so the officers could arrest him.
• Ye Yun delivered another takeout order, then saw Qin Hai ask whether his system had become useless in less than a day.

Tang Xiao Qing gathered the group at Red Maple Cloud Summit Villa No. 4 to compare what they knew about Boss Ling and the mysterious shop at 822. Zhao Yue reported that 822 had closed after Qin Hai left, while the group prepared to investigate whether Zhao Yue could become unlucky enough to rent from Boss Ling again.

• Qin Hai decided to attend Tang Xiao Qing’s offline meeting after Azure Sky had helped restore his health and sent him eleven million.
• Liu Lili arrived at Villa No. 4 and told Tang Xiao Qing that 822 had been closed and dark that morning.
• Zhao Yue arrived and revealed that Tang Xiao Qing’s Electron Manipulation let her see his movements and conversations; he also said his people had found Boss Ling missing from the shop.
• Zhao Yue reported that Boss Ling had said he once qualified to rent but lost that eligibility after Song Hao cured him and his father.
• Zhao Yue passed on Boss Ling’s warning that Tang Xiao Qing should stop probing him or he would raise her rent.
• Tang Xiao Qing asked what Zhao Yue had found, and the group considered testing whether they could make him an unlucky bastard again so he might qualify to rent.

Tang Xiao Qing revealed evidence that Boss Ling had secretly redirected the Venomous Dragon Hurricane, convincing the group he was a powerful Big Shot. She then asked them to imagine their world as a webnovel and consider who its protagonist might be.

• Tang Xiao Qing told Song Hao and Liu Lili she would keep investigating Boss Ling, despite their concerns.
• Tang Xiao Qing explained that Boss Ling's official history was fabricated and described how difficult it had been to crack his top-secret file.
• Tang Xiao Qing showed the group satellite footage of a golden giant resembling Boss Ling redirecting the Venomous Dragon Hurricane toward the Radiant Water Country.
• Qin Hai arrived, met the group, and apologized for being delayed by a case.
• Tang Xiao Qing argued that the world had to have a balance of power and asked who would be the protagonist if their world were a webnovel.

Tang Xiao Qing proposed that their world might be a webnovel and that they needed to prepare for a powerful villain by strengthening themselves and raising their renter permission levels. The group ended the discussion with plans to test ways to improve, while several of them stayed at Song Hao’s villa for the night.

• Qin Hai argued that Boss Ling was likely a behind-the-scenes protagonist, and Tang Xiao Qing warned that the group might have to face his villain.
• Tang Xiao Qing suggested that Boss Ling might gain strength through rentals and urged everyone to grow stronger; she told Qin Hai to seek a different system and Zhao Yue to follow her plan to qualify for a rental.
• Tang Xiao Qing proposed that renters could raise their permission levels by using rentals more frequently or consuming more rent, and Song Hao realized he had misunderstood how renewals worked.
• Tang Xiao Qing went upstairs, and Liu Lili, Ye Yun, and Zhao Yue decided to stay at Song Hao’s villa while Qin Hai chose to keep his hotel booking.

Zhao Yue became a renter after Tang Xiao Qing used a Basic Gene Potion to help him overcome the system’s steep lifespan cost, and he gained a Loyalty Probe Technique. Ling Yi explained how lifespan deductions worked and announced that renters could now switch systems once for ten years of lifespan, while urging them to raise their authority for lifespan-extending rewards.

• Tang Xiao Qing and Liu Lili brought the snake-poisoned Zhao Yue to 822, where Ling Yi showed him a system that rewarded recruiting genuinely loyal underlings.
• Tang Xiao Qing injected Zhao Yue with a Basic Gene Potion, raising his lifespan enough for him to rent the system for a year, and Ling Yi warned her not to exploit another loophole.
• Zhao Yue spent a year of lifespan on a newbie gift pack and received the Loyalty Probe Technique.
• Ling Yi told Tang Xiao Qing that lifespan was deducted only after a renter ended a rental and stopped using the system, but he refused to explain how to raise authority.
• Liu Lili chose to renew the Scumbag Punishment System, and Ling Yi changed the rules to allow one system switch for ten years of lifespan, with a free switch for Qin Hai because Ling Yi had recommended his faulty system.

Zhao Yue used his Xiao Di System to recruit loyal bodyguards and successfully bound Qin Ke as his first Xiao Di. He wondered why the Song brothers were so loyal and asked whether they had met him before.

• Liu Lili, Tang Xiao Qing, and Zhao Yue left 822 after learning they had only a little over ten years to live unless they upgraded their permissions and systems.
• The chapter described the 822 Group’s members and systems, including Xiao Qing’s potential and the renters’ reward limits and routines.
• Zhao Yue inspected the loyalty scores of Black Wind Security Company’s employees and selected Qin Ke and the four Song brothers as his personal team.
• Zhao Yue ordered the five men to stay by his side, doubled their salaries and bonuses, and put Qin Ke in charge of the Song brothers.
• Qin Ke’s loyalty rose to 100, and Zhao Yue bound him as a Xiao Di, earning cash, a fighting technique, and physique points.
• Zhao Yue asked the four Song brothers whether they had met him before.

Zhao Yue took Qin Ke, Song Hai, and his brothers for a month-long protection job guarding celebrity Liu Shuang, then searched for advice on increasing his underlings’ Loyalty. After comparing his rented system to one in a novel, he decided to earn Song Hai and his brothers’ recognition and help with their money troubles.

• Zhao Yue learned that Song Hai and his three brothers had joined Black Wind after he saved their parents from debt collectors.
• Zhao Wanjin told Zhao Yue to send Qin Ke and the others on an important personal protection job, but Zhao Yue took the job for herself.
• Zhao Yue learned that A-list star Liu Shuang needed protection in Dafeng City for a month amid a dispute with her former company.
• Zhao Yue gave Qin Ke a bank card to buy professional-looking outfits and told the team to meet her the next morning.
• Zhao Yue asked the 822 Group how to raise Loyalty and learned that an underling could be bound once Loyalty reached 100.
• After reading Become Stronger by Recruiting Underlings, Zhao Yue resolved to earn her subordinates’ recognition and help Song Hai and his brothers with their financial difficulties.

Zhao Yue investigated Song Hai and his brothers’ debt to a loan shark and called the lender, while Ling Yi turned away a crowd of terminally ill unlucky souls seeking systems. Ling Yi punished Tang Xiao Qing for testing his shop by taking a year from her lifespan and deleting Electromagnetic Control, but she resolved to test him again more subtly.

• Zhao Yue learned that Song Tian’s family had borrowed from a loan shark to meet his former girlfriend’s wedding demands, then called the lender as a representative of Black Wind Security.
• More than thirty terminally ill people gathered at 822 Rental House hoping Ling Yi would rent them systems, but he sent them away and locked the door.
• Ling Yi punished Tang Xiao Qing for maliciously testing the shop by deducting a year from her lifespan and permanently deleting Electromagnetic Control.
• Xiao Di explained in the 822 Group that Tang Xiao Qing had brought the unlucky souls to Ling Yi as potential customers, prompting the renters to question her.
• During math class, Tang Xiao Qing accepted the punishment and concluded that Ling Yi himself—not any stated rental rules—set the real limits, then planned to test him more subtly.

Song Hao upgraded his Emotion Lottery System to level 2, unlocked new functions, and drew rewards that transformed his body and granted him powerful martial arts. He tested his new strength and speed, then announced his level-up in the 822 Group.

• Song Hao cooked dinner, checked the 822 Group, and watched Xiao Qing and Xiao Di discuss humanity, war, and controlling people's hearts.
• Song Hao spent his Emotion Points on a thousand draws and received Soul-Returning Pills, Constitution Pills, and ordinary supplies.
• The system upgraded Song Hao's permissions to tier 2, added a recycling function, raised his physique limit, and updated the lottery and store.
• Song Hao recycled his stored rewards for 123,500 Emotion Points, then spent 100,000 on a hundred draws and won three master-level martial arts and Body Tempering Pills.
• Song Hao extracted the rewards, grew taller and stronger, pierced a solid-wood table with one finger, and used Wandering Dragon Steps to cross the room in a blur.
• Song Hao opened the 822 Group and announced that he had leveled up.

Tang Xiao Qing advanced her renter permission to tier 2 by spending her Hatred Value on draws, and her system upgraded with new functions. After gaining powerful abilities and using an Intermediate Gene Potion, she decided to visit Boss Ling at 822 to see what had changed.

• Tang Xiao Qing explained that renters earned permission points through different system-specific methods, then spent all her remaining Hatred Value on 100,000 draws.
• Tang Xiao Qing's permission advanced to tier 2, upgrading her system and adding a recycling function, raising her constitution limit, and updating the exchange module into a mall.
• Zhao Yue and the others compared their system interfaces and remarked that they looked as if they came from the same manufacturer.
• Tang Xiao Qing drew Micro Bioelectricity Manipulation lv2 and demonstrated that she could use it to control Song Hao's arm, though doing so consumed a great deal of her own bioelectricity.
• Tang Xiao Qing drew and injected an Intermediate Gene Potion, which made her taller and changed her appearance.
• Tang Xiao Qing announced that she would go to 822 to see Boss Ling and find out whether her tier 2 permission had changed anything.

Tang Xiao Qing and the others discovered that the 822 Rental House had vanished, then learned from Xiao Di that Ling Yi was in space destroying a meteorite. They found a new address on their renter cards and prepared to seek him out at No. 22, Bai Hai Alley.

• Tang Xiao Qing and the others found the 822 Rental House empty, and Xiao Di and Xiao Qing began searching for Ling Yi.
• Tang Xiao Qing asked Xiao Di to access the space station's data while the group speculated that Ling Yi had left to upgrade 822 and their systems.
• Xiao Di found Ling Yi in videos from the Heavenly Palace, where he floated above Blue Star and destroyed an approaching meteorite.
• Tang Xiao Qing and Song Hao suspected the meteorite posed a hidden danger, though the group could only ask Ling Yi what it was.
• Song Hao found a new address on his renter card, and Ye Yun explained that No. 22, Bai Hai Alley was a cramped, remote courtyard.