Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi confronted Liu Yunfeng after he tried to bully him, then joined Liu Manyun and Gao Xiaolan as they discussed her plan to sell her 42 percent stake in Heavenly Fortune Media. After realizing Liu Yunfeng might try to kill Liu Manyun, Ling Yi offered to protect her until the danger passed.

• Liu Yunfeng tried to take out his bad mood on Ling Yi, but Ling Yi kicked him down and made him flee before a crowd.
• Ling Yi entered Liu Manyun’s private elevator and found her arguing with Gao Xiaolan about a dangerous plan.
• Liu Manyun explained that she needed to sell her 42 percent stake, worth over seventy billion, within six days without arousing suspicion.
• Liu Manyun revealed that she had baited Liu Yunfeng with ambiguous evidence, and Ling Yi recognized that Liu Yunfeng might try to silence her permanently.
• Ling Yi told Liu Manyun he would keep her safe until everything settled.

Ling Yi agreed to prove he could protect Liu Manyun, and Fanbao implanted combat techniques and fighting memories into him while he was in her bathroom. He woke with new physical instincts and recognized the fighters in his memories as AI face models he had used in his past life.

• Gao Xiaolan and Liu Manyun doubted Ling Yi could protect Liu Manyun, so Liu Manyun challenged him to prove his strength and offered him a chance to pursue her if he succeeded.
• Liu Manyun took Ling Yi to the Heavenly Fortune Group security department, and Ling Yi asked Fanbao for help preparing to fight.
• Fanbao offered to implant combat techniques into Ling Yi by stimulating his brain and nervous system, and Ling Yi agreed.
• Ling Yi entered the bathroom, became unconscious, and woke after one minute and forty-three seconds with new combat instincts.
• Ling Yi recalled many fighting memories and recognized the opponents as AI face models he had used in his previous life.

Ling Yi learned Fanbao had used basic AI to create combat memories, then suffered an intense hunger as a side effect. He ate 25.6 jin of steak at Liu Manyun’s home and tried to explain his appetite to her and Gao Xiaolan.

• Ling Yi asked Fanbao whether it could alter other people’s memories, and Fanbao said it needed to contact their bioelectricity.
• Fanbao warned Ling Yi that the side effects were about to begin, and his stomach began rumbling with fierce hunger.
• Ling Yi rushed into Liu Manyun’s kitchen, cooked the steaks haphazardly, and ate all thirty-two of them.
• Liu Manyun calculated that Ling Yi had eaten 25.6 jin of steak, and Ling Yi was shocked by the amount.
• Ling Yi told Liu Manyun and Gao Xiaolan that he was human, practiced martial arts, and had a good stomach.

Ling Yi accompanied Liu Manyun to meet Bai Jiang, while Fanbao explained his limited physical enhancement and activated a new safety mode. As Ling Yi drove Liu Manyun’s Prado with surprising skill, he learned that Bai Jiang was the heir to Manhai Logistics.

• Liu Manyun estimated that Ling Yi’s ability to absorb energy suggested strength far beyond an ordinary person, though Fanbao clarified that his current physical condition was only 1.2 times normal.
• Liu Manyun decided to take Ling Yi to meet Bai Jiang and told Gao Xiaolan to keep up their act at the company while secretly provoking its executives.
• Fanbao completed a self-check and activated safety mode, which prioritized Ling Yi’s safety by analyzing surrounding data.
• Liu Manyun handed Ling Yi the keys to her Prado, and he drove it smoothly despite having gone years without driving.
• Ling Yi looked up Bai Jiang through Fanbao and learned that he was the young master of the powerful Manhai Logistics company.

Ling Yi followed Fanbao’s navigation toward Bai Jiang, but Liu Manyun’s pursuers attacked before they reached him. Using Fanbao’s Combat Mode and driving guidance, Ling Yi evaded the SUVs and left the remaining pursuers behind the trucks.

• Fanbao told Ling Yi that Bai Jiang was the Bai Clan’s incompetent heir and guided him toward Bai Jiang’s location.
• Fanbao detected three hostile vehicles pursuing Ling Yi and Liu Manyun, and Ling Yi activated Combat Mode.
• Fanbao identified the pursuers’ weapons and guided Ling Yi as the first SUV tried to ram them.
• Ling Yi swerved, causing the first SUV to crash into the guardrail, while Liu Manyun praised his driving.
• Ling Yi followed Fanbao’s guidance through traffic and drifted between two heavy trucks, evading the other pursuing SUVs.

Ling Yi and Liu Manyun survived an attack arranged by Liu Yunfeng and went to the racetrack to meet Bai Jiang. They arrived as Bai Jiang and the other racers mocked their Prado, then fell silent when Liu Manyun stepped out.

• Ling Yi used the Prado to make the three vehicles pursuing Liu Manyun crash into the median barrier.
• Liu Manyun said Liu Yunfeng was panicking because she was investigating him, and she directed Ling Yi to take her to Bai Jiang at the racetrack.
• Liu Manyun showed her business card to the guards at Extreme Speed Storm Racetrack, and they let her and Ling Yi enter.
• Bai Jiang bragged about his racing skills while the young racers around him praised him.
• The racers mocked Ling Yi's Prado when it entered the track, but fell silent when Liu Manyun stepped out.

Liu Manyun sought an advertising deal with Bai Jiang, who mocked her and propositioned her, so Ling Yi challenged him to a race with the contract at stake. The race was about to begin, and Fanbao had calculated a route that could let Ling Yi overcome Bai Jiang’s more powerful Ferrari.

• Bai Jiang mocked Liu Manyun’s failing company and offered Manhai’s advertising business in exchange for her company and his company.
• Ling Yi insulted Bai Jiang’s driving and challenged him to a race, wagering that Bai Jiang would sign Liu Manyun’s contract if Ling Yi won.
• Bai Jiang agreed to race and demanded that Ling Yi kneel and kowtow if he lost, while Liu Manyun accepted that she would have dinner with Bai Jiang.
• Liu Manyun got into the Prado with Ling Yi, trusting him to win.
• Fanbao scanned the track and told Ling Yi that taking each of its seventeen turns faster could make up for the Ferrari’s greater power.

Ling Yi used Fanbao’s precise driving instructions to beat Bai Jiang in a race and secure the contract for Liu Manyun’s company. After Liu Manyun kissed him, Fanbao assigned Ling Yi a new task to collect 10,000 Emotion Points from her within a month.

• Ling Yi followed Fanbao’s instructions through the turns, overtook Bai Jiang’s modified Alpha, and won the race in his commercial Daba.
• Bai Jiang signed the contract despite his humiliation, and Ling Yi left the track with Liu Manyun.
• Fanbao awarded Ling Yi 5 Fanbao Points and explained that tasks enabled it to collect energy from Liu Manyun’s emotional changes.
• Liu Manyun thanked Ling Yi with a kiss, and Ling Yi teased her as she tried to hide her embarrassment.
• Fanbao assigned Ling Yi a task to collect at least 10,000 Emotion Points from Liu Manyun within one month.

Ling Yi reviewed Fanbao’s paid features and learned that Emotion Points from Liu Manyun’s new month-long task could be converted into Fanbao Points. He left the chapter eager to earn more points, while still too poor to buy the special effects he wanted.

• Fanbao assigned Ling Yi a task to gain at least ten thousand Emotion Points from Liu Manyun within a month, with every thousand points convertible into one Fanbao Point.
• Ling Yi chose Infinite Technology as the company name, created a work group with Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao, and planned to inspect their chosen apartment and office the next day.
• Ling Yi examined the Live-Action Special Effects catalog and found that even the cheapest effect cost ten Fanbao Points, twice what he had.
• Ling Yi tested an AI Video prompt but declined to spend a Fanbao Point on generating it.
• Ling Yi read that paid Combat Mode could maximize his physical abilities and combat instincts for one hour per Fanbao Point, but he could not afford to try it.

Ling Yi began his plan to farm Emotion Points by preparing an elaborate but deliberately awful breakfast for Liu Manyun. Liu Manyun reacted strongly to the dishes, and Ling Yi earned his first five Emotion Points before she tried the congee.

• Ling Yi reviewed Fanbao’s summon, enhancement, and lottery functions and decided to prioritize farming Emotion Points and completing his mission.
• Ling Yi woke early and spent two hours making a lavish-looking breakfast with bizarre ingredient combinations to provoke Liu Manyun.
• Liu Manyun entered the dining room, admired the breakfast’s appearance, and cautiously tried Ling Yi’s fried egg.
• Liu Manyun’s disgust and surprise earned Ling Yi five Emotion Points, and he pretended to be concerned about the taste.
• Liu Manyun tried the century egg and pork congee and struggled to hide her reaction to its overwhelming saltiness and sweetness.

Ling Yi tried to provoke Liu Manyun to earn Emotion Points, then learned that Liu Yunfeng had placed a huge bounty on her and a smaller one on him. Liu Manyun continued her apparent investigation of Heavenly Fortune Media’s executives while secretly preparing to sell her shares and leave.

• Ling Yi served Liu Manyun awful food and tried several other stunts, but earned fewer than 50 Emotion Points over the morning.
• Ling Yi realized that a greater contrast between appearances and reality could provoke Liu Manyun more effectively, and asked Fanbao to improve his acting.
• Liu Manyun publicly questioned company executives about suspicious expenses, while Ling Yi understood that she was trying to make Liu Yunfeng believe she was about to expose him.
• Ling Yi recognized that Liu Manyun planned to sell her shares and leave before Heavenly Fortune Media’s value collapsed after Doushou’s financing news.
• Fanbao warned Ling Yi that Liu Yunfeng had offered a 100-million bounty on Liu Manyun and a 100,000 bounty on Ling Yi through an assassin platform.
• Ling Yi learned that the assassins were generally average, but Fanbao warned him that Transcendent powers existed in the world.

Ling Yi used Paid Version Combat Mode to defeat three killers who came to the villa for him. Fanbao recorded his fighting data, and Ling Yi learned he could pause the mode’s remaining time as he faced the injured killers.

• Ling Yi decided to let the killers come so he could test Paid Version Combat Mode, and kept Liu Manyun unaware of the bounty.
• Fanbao warned Ling Yi that three armed men were approaching the villa, so he activated Paid Version Combat Mode and went outside to meet them.
• The three killers attacked Ling Yi, who used his enhanced senses and predictions to disarm and incapacitate all of them in under ten seconds.
• Fanbao explained that the killers were lower-middle-ranked professionals, had recorded Ling Yi’s combat data, and that he could pause the mode’s remaining time.

Ling Yi defeated the killers targeting him and helped Liu Manyun stage injuries so she could plausibly sell her shares while appearing frightened and exhausted. Liu Yunfeng sent a lawyer to the hospital the following evening, where Liu Manyun's next move remained pending.

• Ling Yi questioned the short killer about the bounty, then had Fanbao call the police after learning the killers had targeted him rather than Liu Manyun.
• Liu Manyun asked Ling Yi to help her appear injured, and Fanbao used retinal virtual imaging to make her wounds look real to everyone nearby.
• Ling Yi had Fanbao fabricate surveillance footage and ensure the defeated killers could not reveal the killer network's secrets.
• At the hospital, Ling Yi gave Liu Manyun water, and Fanbao detected a surge of emotion points from her reaction.
• Liu Manyun told Gao Xiaolan to leak news of the attack to Liu Yunfeng and post messages suggesting she was too tired and frightened to continue working.
• By the following evening, Liu Yunfeng sent a lawyer to the hospital on his behalf.

Liu Manyun pretended to be badly injured to sell her Heavenly Fortune Media shares to Liu Yunfeng, while Ling Yi discovered that flirting with her earned him far more Emotion Points than his earlier schemes. He left her office delighted by his discovery, while Liu Manyun continued planning Heavenly Fortune Video’s move into short-form video.

• Liu Manyun acted injured during negotiations and sold her shares to Liu Yunfeng for 80% of their market value, receiving 7.5 billion.
• Liu Yunfeng took control of most of Liu Manyun’s shares, unaware that Heavenly Fortune Media was on the verge of collapse.
• Ling Yi visited Liu Manyun in the hospital and earned 400 Emotion Points when she thanked him for helping her.
• Liu Manyun moved her office to the Jin Yun Building and began planning to invest heavily in short-form video.
• Ling Yi complimented Liu Manyun’s necklace and gained 22 Emotion Points, realizing that flirting was an effective way to earn her emotional responses.

Ling Yi used flirtation to farm Emotion Points from Liu Manyun, then focused on business as Doushou’s financing disrupted the media industry. He partnered with Heavenly Fortune Video to release Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and launched Infinite Technology’s viral Super Beautification app, while preparing to settle accounts with Liu Yunfeng and the others.

• Ling Yi’s repeated flirtation earned Emotion Points from Liu Manyun, but her growing reactions made him worry that he had farmed too hard.
• Doushou’s financing news shook the internet industry, drove down Heavenly Fortune Media’s stock, and kept Liu Manyun busy with Heavenly Fortune Video’s transformation.
• Ling Yi agreed to provide Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin to Heavenly Fortune Video in exchange for a 35 percent stake in the platform.
• Infinite Technology launched Super Beautification, which rapidly surpassed ten million downloads as users shared its dramatic photo effects.
• Ling Yi decided it was time to settle accounts with Liu Yunfeng, Zhou Dahai, Wen Xue, and the others.

Infinite Beauty Filter became a hit online while Ling Yi completed his Emotion Point mission and learned that he could keep earning points from Liu Manyun. After Fanbao revealed several people were nearing turning points, Ling Yi began preparing to expose Wen Xue and pursue her legally.

• Infinite Beauty Filter went viral on Doushou, attracting livestreamers and boosting the platform as Li Shuang worked to manage its growth and business deals.
• Ling Yi completed the 10,000-point Emotion Point mission through interactions with Liu Manyun, whose feelings for him seemed to be growing, and learned the mission had become a daily quest.
• Fanbao alerted Ling Yi that Liu Yunfeng, Zhou Dahai, and Wen Xue were approaching turning points in their fates.
• Ling Yi ordered Fanbao to gradually release information about Wen Xue online so she would be publicly disgraced.
• Ling Yi told Fanbao to send Li Shuang Wen Xue's information and have her find a lawyer to pursue the case after Wen Xue's reputation was ruined.

Ling Yi spent 20 Fanbao Points to permanently acquire Qinggong and Golden Bell Shield special effects, then exposed Wen Xue’s years of fraud and arranged to sue her. As Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin premiered on Heavenly Fortune Video, a surge of viewers nearly overwhelmed the platform’s servers.

• Ling Yi rejected the Lottery Function and spent 20 Fanbao Points on the Qinggong and Golden Bell Shield special effects, keeping two points in reserve.
• Ling Yi had Fanbao publish verified evidence of Wen Xue’s scams anonymously online and send a second set to Li Shuang for a lawsuit.
• Li Shuang said Wen Xue had swindled 17 people out of over 13 million and that three had died indirectly because of her.
• Ling Yi told Li Shuang to pursue every applicable charge, then refused to sell Doushou the beauty filter’s core code and offered licensing instead.
• The first three episodes of Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin premiered on Heavenly Fortune Video, and a massive influx of viewers nearly crashed its servers.

Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin became a national hit, driving Heavenly Fortune Video’s user numbers and paid subscriptions sharply upward. After Liu Manyun rejected several platforms’ buyout offers, Ling Yi discovered that Star Radiance Group Video, Dingshi Media, and Blue Whale Video had coordinated attacks against the platform, but Fanbao was already defending against the DDoS.

• Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin went viral, and Heavenly Fortune Video’s daily active users rose to eighty million.
• Ling Yi set a schedule of three episodes per week and a low-priced paid-viewing model, which earned more than thirty million yuan on its first day.
• Chen Haoran, Fang Zhiyuan, and other platform executives offered increasingly valuable deals for the series’ rights, but Liu Manyun refused to sell.
• Fanbao warned Ling Yi of a DDoS attack, a paid-troll campaign, and a fabricated copyright complaint targeting Heavenly Fortune Video and Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin.
• Fanbao traced the coordinated operation to Chen Haoran, Fang Zhiyuan, and Zhao Donglai, and said its security system could withstand the ongoing DDoS attack.

Ling Yi exposed evidence of corruption by Chen Haoran, Fang Zhiyuan, and Zhao Dong, bringing their companies into crisis while Heavenly Fortune Video thrived. Meanwhile, Wen Xue enjoyed Liu Yunfeng’s gifts and remained unaware that trouble was approaching.

• Ling Yi ordered Fanbao to send evidence of Chen Haoran’s script theft, Fang Zhiyuan’s hostile takeover, and Zhao Dong’s embezzlement to the relevant media, regulators, and organizations.
• Over three days, authorities investigated Chen Haoran, Fang Zhiyuan’s assets were frozen, and Zhao Dong was dismissed and detained, while their platforms faltered.
• Liu Manyun asked Ling Yi how he obtained the evidence, and he declined to explain as she grew more curious and attracted to him.
• Wen Xue showed off a new Porsche and other gifts from Liu Yunfeng while dismissing Ling Yi as an insignificant former boyfriend.
• Wen Xue continued enjoying her comfortable life, unaware that a storm was coming.

Wen Xue’s years of cheating men out of money were exposed online, and she was arrested after Li Shuang’s legal team reported her for fraud and extortion. Liu Yunfeng realized the investigation could uncover the illicit origins of some of the money he had given her.

• Wen Xue discovered viral posts showing her messages, transfers, and advice to other gold diggers, and she faced public ridicule and condemnation.
• Wen Xue received messages from friends and family, including news that her father had been hospitalized in anger.
• Police officers arrested Wen Xue after Li Shuang’s legal team submitted evidence of fraud, extortion, and the sale of business secrets.
• Liu Yunfeng learned of Wen Xue’s arrest and feared police would trace money from her to his own illicit dealings.
• Liu Yunfeng swept the documents off his desk in alarm.