Chapter Summaries

Lin Shanshan apologized to Ling Yi and decided to change her approach, while Ling Yi prepared for a dorm social he suspected Jiang Luoyu had arranged. At Red Maple Century Park, Ling Yi revealed that he had organized the outing and introduced Yun Feng as his personal representative.

• Lin Shanshan apologized to Ling Yi, left, and resolved to win him over by changing her tactics.
• Ling Yi learned that Meng Miaomiao had arranged a weekend dorm social at Red Maple Century Park for Zhou Peng, Li Boran, Liu Xinhai, and the School Belle dorm.
• Ling Yi messaged Shen Xinran, who said Jiang Luoyu had proposed the social to apologize to him, then sent him a teasing photo.
• Ling Yi and Shen Xinran joined the others at the university gate the next morning, where Jiang Luoyu's attempts to speak were interrupted by Ling Yi's arrival plan.
• A dark-gold RV arrived, and Yun Feng introduced himself as Ling Yi's personal representative before Ling Yi handed him a black-and-gold card.

Ling Yi explained that his Supreme Black Card had arranged the extravagant RV, then used a short drama to help Jiang Luoyu understand why people disliked her aloof manner. Shen Xinran claimed Ling Yi as hers, completed a stage mission through his increased favorability, and Ling Yi discovered that Meng Miaomiao was a transmigrator with a mission in progress.

• Ling Yi told the group that his Supreme Black Card had secured the RV and that its services came with the card.
• Jiang Luoyu pressed Ling Yi about his dislike of her, and he showed her a short drama with a similarly haughty second female lead.
• Jiang Luoyu accepted that her own aloof attitude could put people off after Tan Wanqing confirmed she sometimes acted that way.
• Tan Wanqing asked about Ling Yi's identity and urged Shen Xinran to get his black card, while Shen Xinran declared that Ling Yi was hers.
• Ling Yi's favorability toward Shen Xinran rose to 60, completing her stage mission and granting her physique, cash, and Crisis Perception.
• Ling Yi spotted a new label above Meng Miaomiao identifying her as a transmigrator with a mission in progress.

Ling Yi discovered that Tan Wanqing was a male transmigrator pursuing Shen Xinran, and his systems intervened when Shen Xinran’s joking affection briefly lowered her Affection Value. The group arrived at Red Maple Century Park, which Yun Feng had booked exclusively for them, and Jiang Luoyu sat beside Ling Yi to speak privately.

• Ling Yi learned from his system that Tan Wanqing was a male transmigrator whose conquest target was Shen Xinran, and he asked Little Guang to monitor them.
• Shen Xinran jokingly embraced Tan Wanqing, causing Ling Yi’s Affection Value toward her to fall and her rewards to be withdrawn; Shen Xinran pushed Tan Wanqing away and reassured Ling Yi, restoring the value and rewards.
• Yun Feng announced that he had booked Red Maple Century Park, and Ling Yi confirmed the arrangement after the group arrived.
• Wang Hai welcomed Ling Yi and the others, gave Ling Yi a written visit plan, and arranged for them to tour the park in reserved vehicles.
• Jiang Luoyu sat beside Ling Yi and told Shen Xinran she had something to discuss with him, asking her not to misunderstand.

Ling Yi explained the ambiguity of his bond with Shen Xinran while Shen publicly claimed him as her boyfriend, and Jiang Luoyu reconsidered her view of him. After the group’s two-day trip, they returned to school, where Yun Feng warned Ling Yi that the Supreme Black Card had attracted dangerous attention.

• Ling Yi explained that repeated facial expressions could become habits, and Jiang Luoyu reflected on his advice.
• Shen Xinran described how the Son of Light System Mission bound her to Ling Yi, then declared their relationship on the campus forum.
• Shen Xinran explained the Supreme Black Card’s rarity and power, while Ling Yi realized it was a reward from the Son of Light System.
• Ling Yi and the other seven spent two days being waited on before their luxury RV returned to the school gates on Sunday evening.
• Yun Feng warned Ling Yi that news of the Supreme Black Card had leaked and offered to arrange security, so Ling Yi requested protection from the shadows.

Ling Yi restored automatic Son of Light Missions and assigned advancement missions to Zhou Yunqing and Zhou Zhixia, prompting them to seek him out. After Jiang Luoyu and Shen Xinran revealed their systems to each other, Ling Yi encountered a classroom crowded with system holders and transmigrators and immediately left.

• Ling Yi allowed Zhou Peng to post their trip photos and videos while keeping his secrets, then ordered Little Guang to restore automatic Son of Light Missions.
• Zhou Yunqing and Zhou Zhixia received missions to raise Ling Yi's favorability to 60 within one month and decided to meet him at school.
• Jiang Luoyu considered revealing her Rebate System to Ling Yi, then exchanged system disclosures with Shen Xinran and went outside with her for a private conversation.
• The transmigrator occupying Tan Wanqing decided to leave that night after failing to win Shen Xinran's favor.
• Ling Yi entered multimedia classroom 203 the next morning, saw numerous system holders and transmigrators among the students, and left when nearly all the women turned toward him.

Ling Yi faced a crowd of beauties whose advancement missions required his praise, so he let them complete the missions by complimenting him. Afterward, he left with Shen Xinran, Jiang Luoyu, and Zhou Yunqing to eat at the Surrounding Fish Restaurant, where they found the streets full of men in black.

• More than fifty beauties cornered Ling Yi and demanded he help them complete their system advancement missions.
• Ling Yi told the beauties to praise him, allowing many of them to complete their missions and receive system upgrades and rewards.
• Ling Yi told the women who had failed their missions to leave and asked the others to post praise about him on the forum.
• Shen Xinran picked up Ling Yi, and he rode with her, Jiang Luoyu, and Zhou Yunqing to the Surrounding Fish Restaurant.
• After they finished eating, Ling Yi and the others came outside to find the streets full of men in black, and Ling Yi swore never to return.

Ling Yi learned that Zhang Huai’s God of War System had made the War God Hall a tool for the authorities to train warriors and purge criminals. He agreed to join as vice hall master on the conditions that the hall obey the law and leave him out of its management, then sent Zhang Huai to his butler for money.

• Zhang Huai surrounded the Surrounding Fish Restaurant with hundreds of men and invited Ling Yi to join the War God Hall as vice hall master.
• Ling Yi inspected the God of War System and realized the authorities were using Zhang Huai and his subordinates to eliminate underground forces and develop warriors.
• Ling Yi agreed to join if the War God Hall stopped illegal activity and he only lent his name without managing it.
• Zhang Huai sent Ling Yi an invitation through the system, and Ling Yi accepted while declining to visit the headquarters or meet its leaders.
• Zhang Huai asked Ling Yi to lend him money, explaining that the War God Hall had nearly a hundred thousand people to support and he earned only twenty thousand yuan a month.
• Ling Yi told Zhang Huai to contact his butler, Yun Feng, for whatever money he needed.

Ling Yi discovered that Bai Ruobing, the university’s number one School Belle, was the Awakened whose ability made everyone overlook her. Bai Ruobing revealed that the previous protagonist named Ling Yi had been a devoted simp for Lin Shanshan, and she questioned whether their world was real.

• After graduating, Ling Yi stayed at the university to prepare for postgraduate entrance exams with Zhou Peng and his roommates, while Shen Xinran, Jiang Luoyu, Zhou Yuqing, and Zhou Zhixia started a company.
• Ling Yi entered the library and noticed the familiar feeling that he was overlooking something when he saw a black-framed-glasses girl reading alone.
• Ling Yi discovered the girl had a Sign-In System, and his systems explained that her Awakened bug ability had made them and the World Consciousness overlook her.
• The girl revealed herself as Bai Ruobing, the number one School Belle, and Ling Yi learned she was the world’s only Awakened and the final obstacle to completing the plot.
• Bai Ruobing told Ling Yi that the previous protagonist had also been named Ling Yi and had remained Lin Shanshan’s simp because of the Son of Light System.
• Bai Ruobing asked Ling Yi whether their world was real.

Ling Yi explained the world's Reincarnation and impending ascension to Bai Ruobing, who revealed that she had awakened after killing the protagonist through a transmigrator and had spent over a thousand years signing in. After they completed her system's advancement mission, Bai Ruobing's plotline ended, leaving Ling Yi to wait three years for the world's story timeline to run its course.

• Ling Yi told Bai Ruobing that the Thousand Mountains Company's transmigrators disrupted plots and that he had come to help the world ascend.
• Bai Ruobing revealed that she had awakened after a transmigrator used her body to kill the protagonist and that she had signed in through countless Reincarnations for over a thousand years.
• Ling Yi promised to let Bai Ruobing decide in a year whether she wanted to travel to other Illusory Realms and invited her to join his company if it still existed.
• Bai Ruobing disabled her bug ability, allowing Ling Yi's system to lock onto her Sign-In System and trigger an advancement mission.
• Ling Yi skipped through the motions, completing Bai Ruobing's mission and earning her a portable spirit spring space and ten skill advancement talismans.
• Ling Yi left the library as Bai Ruobing's plotline ended, and he waited through the next three years while occasionally dealing with transmigrators.

In the real world, Ling Yi gave Yu Fang more resources after learning how efficiently she had helped worlds ascend, then empowered the system to take over the Thousand Mountains Company's Anchor Device. In the Ling Realm, Yin Wanqing grew worried after Uncle revealed he was dating a much younger woman.

• Yu Fang told Ling Yi she had worked with World Consciousnesses to drive out transmigrators while keeping plots on track, and Ling Yi gave her a hundred-million-point credit limit.
• Ling Yi learned the system could devour the Thousand Mountains Company's Anchor Device and told it to proceed.
• Ling Yi used the Power of Laws to seal part of the system's power, turned it into a boy, and sent it to take the Anchor Device and find a host.
• Ling Yi decided to stir up trouble of his own before meeting his original body again.
• Uncle told Yin Wanqing he was dating a pretty, poised twenty-six-year-old and planned to marry her before the end of the year.
• Yin Wanqing wondered whether Uncle had been scammed by a woman seventeen years younger than him.

Ling Yi sold Lü Yuan a poem and musical score to help her compete for the Bureau of Entertainment’s courtesan queen title before she turned sixteen and was forced to receive clients. After paying him, Lü Yuan learned his name and workplace, while Ling Yi left with their transaction kept secret.

• Ling Yi approached Lü Yuan’s room and offered to guarantee she would become courtesan queen.
• Lü Yuan doubted that a storeroom servant could help her, but let him inside after he pointed out the selection was only two shichen away.
• Ling Yi showed Lü Yuan a poem and asked three hundred taels for it and five hundred for the musical score.
• Lü Yuan recognized the poem’s quality, paid Ling Yi eight hundred taels, and praised the score as a peerless masterpiece.
• Lü Yuan asked Ling Yi’s name and workplace, and he left after asking her to keep their transaction secret.

Ling Yi reflected on the Wu Kingdom’s political instability and his Copy function, which could copy innate talents but could not provide cultivation techniques. As he weighed his need for strength against the Bureau of Entertainment’s relative safety, Qin Changming arrived to summon him to the front hall.

• Ling Yi considered whether to rent a residence outside the Bureau of Entertainment or improve the hut beside the vegetable storeroom.
• Ling Yi recalled that he had copied Lü Yuan’s photographic memory and an old beggar’s channel-opening divine body, which gave him the potential to cultivate the Martial Dao and Immortal Dao.
• Ling Yi reviewed the Wu Kingdom’s political turmoil, the emperor’s suppression of Martial Practitioners, and the difficulty of obtaining an internal cultivation manual.
• Qin Changming entered Ling Yi’s hut and ordered him to go to the front hall to help.

Qin Changming arranged for Ling Yi to collect tips at the courtesan queen competition and secretly put a mysterious powder on Qianxue’s tips after her first poetry round. Ling Yi accepted the task while suspecting Qin Changming had a larger scheme, and learned that avoiding alcohol for three days would keep him safe.

• Ling Yi reflected on Qin Changming’s concealed Third Pin strength and his Hawkeye and Perception talents, which made him a dangerous hidden weapons expert.
• Qin Changming offered Ling Yi a chance to collect and keep part of the tips during the twelve rounds of poetry and music at the courtesan queen competition.
• Ling Yi agreed to help Qin Changming, hoping to learn his real purpose.
• Qin Changming gave Ling Yi a porcelain bottle of medicinal powder and ordered him to sprinkle it on Qianxue’s tips after her first poetry round.
• Qin Changming warned Ling Yi not to drink alcohol for three days, and Ling Yi inferred that the powder’s effects depended on alcohol.
• Ling Yi suspected Qin Changming planned to kill Qianxue to influence the contest, but remained unsure what larger complication was involved.

At Green Lin Yuan’s flower queen contest, Ling Yi tried to avoid becoming entangled in Qin Changming’s secret scheme while using his ability to inspect and copy talents. He discovered that Qin had poisoned him and spotted the second prince, the deposed crown prince, and Qin gathered in disguise, leaving him aware that the contest concealed a dangerous political plot.

• Qin Changming instructed Ling Yi to secretly spread medicinal powder during the contest and promised to teach him an internal cultivation method if he succeeded.
• Ling Yi realized Qin’s scheme could implicate him and that guards were watching, so he stayed hidden instead of seeking out Lü Yuan.
• Ling Yi copied Ning Changyun’s Immunity to All Poisons talent and felt it purge the poison Qin had already planted in him.
• Ling Yi spotted Wu Chengtian’s Dragon Vein Divine Body and Wu Chengyun’s Dream System talents, and recognized them as the second prince and the deposed crown prince.
• Ling Yi saw Qin Changming, disguised and standing upright, report to Wu Chengtian, revealing that Qin was involved with the prince’s group.

Ling Yi copied Bai Xiaolin’s sealed Hidden Asgard talent, gaining a small Void Space but no cultivation inheritance. As the courtesan queen contest began, Lü Yuan stood among the six contestants, confident in the poems and songs Ling Yi had sold her.

• Ling Yi decided against copying Wu Chengtian’s Dragon Vein Divine Body and planned to find enough silver to copy Wu Chengyun’s Dream System.
• Ling Yi spotted Bai Xiaolin at the Bureau of Entertainment and copied his Hidden Asgard talent for two hundred taels of silver.
• Ling Yi discovered that Hidden Asgard currently contained only a basketball-court-sized Void Space, with no techniques or inheritance.
• Madam Yun announced the start of the courtesan queen contest and introduced its six contestants.
• The contestants’ order was announced, with Wenruo going first and Qianxue last, and Lü Yuan appeared especially confident.

Ling Yi copied Qianxue’s Power of Shadow during the Courtesan Queen contest and discovered it could create shadow puppets and let him travel through shadows. As the performances continued and Lü Yuan’s turn approached, Ling Yi wondered whether he should stop her from taking the stage.

• Yunshang performed her butterfly dance and recited a poem, using a martial technique to project her voice across the hall.
• Ling Yi inspected the contestants, found that Qianxue had the Power of Shadow talent, and copied it for two hundred taels of silver.
• Ling Yi learned that Power of Shadow could control shadows, create shadow puppets, and carry him through shadows.
• The audience showered Yunshang with tips, and Ling Yi took one small silver ingot while helping collect the gifts.
• After Wenruo and Changnü performed, Ling Yi considered how to prevent Lü Yuan from going onstage and possibly winning the contest.

Ling Yi watched Lü Yuan win the flower queen contest, then returned to his hut and successfully copied Wu Chengyun’s Dream System. He tested his Power of Shadow by sending two Shadow Puppets to steal everything from the storeroom, but the ability left him weak.

• Fangfei’s performance drew enormous tips, and Ling Yi suspected she had been promoted to replace Qianxue with the second prince’s backing.
• Lü Yuan’s poem and performances won enthusiastic support, while both Wu Chengyun and the second prince tipped her heavily.
• Lü Yuan won the second round and became the new flower queen, while Qianxue’s performance drew less attention.
• Ling Yi returned to his hut and copied Wu Chengyun’s Dream System, which appeared as an enhanced version with added talent functions.
• Ling Yi summoned two Shadow Puppets and ordered them to steal every tael of silver from the storeroom, then felt weak from using his power.

Ling Yi prepared to flee if the Bureau of Entertainment became unsafe and used his Shadow Puppets to steal silver from its storeroom, where they encountered Zhao Dongxue, also known as Qianxue. After warning her about a deadly danger, Ling Yi’s Shadow Puppet followed her escape; the chapter ended when nine drumbeats alarmed Qin Changming.

• Ling Yi stored his supplies in the Hidden Asgard and considered using a Shadow Puppet to gather information outside the Bureau of Entertainment.
• Ling Yi’s Shadow Puppets entered the Bureau’s storeroom and found Zhao Dongxue’s Shadow Puppet, recognizing her secret Power of Shadow.
• Ling Yi’s Shadow Puppet warned Zhao Dongxue not to drink alcohol for three days, and his puppets carried away nearly all the chests of gold and silver.
• Zhao Dongxue deduced that the warning concerned Soul-Burying Powder and Wu Chengtian, then fled the imperial capital with her gold and silver while Ling Yi’s Shadow Puppet tracked her.
• Qin Changming gave Ling Yi an internal cultivation manual and two thousand taels in silver notes as a reward for his work.
• Nine drumbeats sounded, and Qin Changming reacted with alarm, saying something had happened.

Ling Yi anticipated that Zhao Dongxue would be blamed for the missing reward silver, while Lü Yuan learned that courtesan queens rarely survived three years. Lin Qingyuan, a woman serving Wu Yunxiao, offered to restore Lü Yuan’s strength and teach her techniques in exchange for investigating the silver’s disappearance.

• Ling Yi said the Bureau of Entertainment had discovered that the two million taels of reward silver were missing and predicted Zhao Dongxue would become the scapegoat, implicating Wu Yunxiao.
• Lü Yuan worried that courtesan queens never survived beyond their third year and considered relying on Ling Yi to win the title again.
• A veiled woman appeared in Lü Yuan’s room, introduced herself as Lin Qingyuan, and warned that becoming courtesan queen would not bring freedom.
• Lin Qingyuan offered to remove Lü Yuan’s seal, restore her strength, and teach her the Nine Revolutions Yin and Yang Art and the Hidden Dragon Art.
• Lin Qingyuan revealed that she served Wu Yunxiao and asked Lü Yuan to discover where the previous night’s reward silver had gone.

Wu Yunxiao restored Lü Yuan’s cultivation and tasked her with finding the missing silver tips, while Ling Yi used his Shadow Puppet to copy Wu Yunxiao’s Devour Heaven and Earth talent. Ling Yi advanced several talents and concluded that copying ten talents had upgraded his Copy Talent ability.

• Wu Yunxiao removed the seal on Lü Yuan’s Martial Dao and ordered her to find the missing silver tips in the Bureau of Entertainment in exchange for freedom.
• After Wu Yunxiao vanished, Ling Yi’s Shadow Puppet examined the two cultivation manuals she had left behind.
• Ling Yi identified the woman as Wu Yunxiao and copied her Devour Heaven and Earth talent, which let him absorb cultivation from the recently dead.
• Ling Yi advanced Lü Yuan’s Photographic Memory talent and sent Shadow Puppets around the Bureau of Entertainment to investigate and copy more talents.
• Ling Yi advanced several talents belonging to people in the Bureau of Entertainment, then inferred that copying ten talents had upgraded his Copy Talent ability.