Chapter Summaries

Qin Xiao left a party with two women, but Natasha called and persuaded him to come home with her. He found Nick Fury waiting in his apartment, realizing Natasha had brought him there to meet the director.

• Qin Xiao went to a hotel room with two women from the party, but Natasha called just as they were about to get intimate.
• Natasha invited Qin Xiao home for a drink, and he left the two women behind to meet her outside the hotel.
• Qin Xiao and Natasha drove to his apartment, where Natasha linked arms with him and let him believe they were going home together.
• Qin Xiao found Nick Fury sitting on his couch and realized Natasha had arranged for them to meet.
• Qin Xiao complained about Nick Fury entering his home without permission, then poured himself a full glass of liquor and drank it.

Nick Fury confronted Qin Xiao about his secrecy and questioned the source of his strength, but Qin Xiao dodged the questions with shameless excuses and a failed attempt to catch a bullet. Fury then recruited him to help establish the Avengers, leaving Qin Xiao to approach Tony Stark before their meeting the next day.

• Nick Fury reprimanded Qin Xiao for failing to report the Iron Monger incident, his Middle East trip, and Tony Stark's Iron Man armor, while Qin Xiao blamed Fury for not giving him proper duties or access.
• Nick Fury asked Qin Xiao to explain his superhuman strength, and Qin Xiao claimed it came from Chinese martial arts.
• Qin Xiao asked Natasha for a handgun and tried to catch a bullet, but it struck his temple and knocked him to the floor without injuring him.
• Qin Xiao called his failed demonstration proof of the Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt, while Natasha laughed and Nick Fury responded dryly.
• Nick Fury officially invited Qin Xiao to join the Avengers Initiative and assigned him to persuade Tony Stark and the Hulk to join, with Natasha assisting.
• Nick Fury promised the Avengers a base, funding, equipment, weapons, transportation, and opponents for training, and told Qin Xiao to warn Stark before their meeting the next day.

Nick Fury used Howard Stark’s legacy to win Tony Stark’s trust, while Qin Xiao prepared his new home and discovered the AI housekeeper Nicole. The chapter ended with Qin Xiao opening the reinforced safe room where Nicole’s server was installed, intending to copy her program.

• Nick Fury told Tony that Howard Stark had co-founded S.H.I.E.L.D. and believed Tony would fulfill his vision for the Arc Reactor.
• Tony examined his father’s belongings and went straight to his laboratory, while Qin Xiao learned that Hulk was undergoing training to control his transformations.
• Qin Xiao moved into his finished apartment and met Nicole, the AI housekeeper Tony had made for him.
• Qin Xiao opened the hidden, heavily reinforced room behind his bedroom, where Nicole’s server was housed.

After returning from the Marvel Universe, Qin Xiao learned he had to wait fifteen days before crossing over again and began making plans for his life in his original world. An invitation from the couple who had betrayed his predecessor stirred up lingering hatred, and Qin Xiao headed to Magic City to build his future and face the past.

• Qin Xiao returned to his garage rental after confirming that time stopped in both worlds while he was away, and the system told him he had to remain in his world for fifteen days before crossing again.
• Qin Xiao received a wedding invitation from his predecessor’s former girlfriend and best friend, briefly lost control to a surge of hatred, then promised his predecessor he would avenge him.
• Qin Xiao exchanged 500 points for 500 million in currency, gave up the rental and its belongings, and kept the invitation along with his phone and identification.
• Qin Xiao traveled to Magic City, where the invitation’s wedding would take place in ten days, and resolved to use resources from the Marvel Universe to establish himself and grow stronger.
• Qin Xiao lingered by the station sign to announce his arrival in Magic City, then hurried away after a worker yelled at him for standing inside the yellow line.

Qin Xiao commissioned a large pure-gold coffin from Dragon and Phoenix Auspiciousness and then went to a bathhouse in Magic City to find people for a job. The chapter ended with him telling an attendant he wanted to trash the place and asking whether the attendant could summon the boss.

• Qin Xiao visited Dragon and Phoenix Auspiciousness's flagship store and asked the manager to make a coffin from pure gold.
• Qin Xiao offered a million in fabrication fees, and the manager agreed to deliver the coffin in five days.
• Qin Xiao asked his driver, Uncle Wang, to take him to a large nightlife district and assured him he was only looking for people to help with something.
• Qin Xiao entered a bathhouse and asked to speak with someone who could make decisions.
• Qin Xiao grabbed an ashtray and said he wanted to trash the place, asking whether the attendant could call the boss.

Qin Xiao used two million yuan to secure a meeting with the boss of an entertainment complex, while Guo Xinliang woke on his wedding day and argued with his bride, Qu Fang, about their business and affairs. The chapter left Qin Xiao waiting upstairs for the boss and Guo Xinliang furious after Qu Fang hung up on him.

• Qin Xiao smashed an ashtray, then offered two million yuan to meet the complex's boss about business.
• The security chief accepted Qin Xiao's request and arranged for him to wait upstairs while he checked the bank card.
• On the morning of his wedding, Guo Xinliang woke beside a model and called Qu Fang, whom he had saved as "Wife."
• Guo Xinliang and Qu Fang argued over their wedding, their company shares, and their extramarital partners.
• Qu Fang threatened to transfer her shares and hung up, leaving Guo Xinliang cursing her.

Qin Xiao, betrayed by Qu Fang and Guo Xinliang and driven to suicide in his past life, returned to confront them on their wedding day. He stopped their wedding procession outside the hotel and sent in a grim gift, leaving the ceremony in chaos.

• Qin Xiao recalled how Qu Fang and Guo Xinliang had tricked him into signing away his company, leaving him penniless and in debt.
• Guo Xinliang and Qu Fang prepared for their wedding while privately resenting and plotting against each other over control of the company.
• Guo Xinliang's wedding procession reached the hotel, where a Rolls-Royce and dozens of red Ferraris blocked the entrance.
• Qin Xiao stepped out of the Rolls-Royce and told the hotel staff that he had come to attend the wedding as an old friend of the couple.
• More than a dozen pickup trucks arrived carrying funeral wreaths with the bride and groom's photographs, and men in black suits carried the wreaths toward the hotel.

Qin Xiao disrupted Guo Xinliang and Qu Fang’s wedding with a lavish procession of funeral wreaths and funeral money. As the newlyweds faced the bizarre spectacle, Qin Xiao hinted that he had an even bigger gift prepared for them.

• Qin Xiao blocked the wedding entrance with men in black suits and funeral wreaths, keeping guests and relatives from interfering.
• Qin Xiao confronted Guo Xinliang and Qu Fang, who were shocked by his changed appearance and the scale of his display.
• Qin Xiao let the wedding motorcade enter, then had the newlyweds walk down the red carpet between the wreaths.
• Qin Xiao ordered the men to fire confetti cannons filled with funeral money over Guo Xinliang and Qu Fang.
• Qin Xiao’s dagger-wielding men intimidated the angry guests, and he told the newlyweds he had prepared them a valuable custom-made gift.

Qin Xiao disrupted Guo Xinliang and Qu Fang’s wedding, struck them both, and exposed their scheme to steal his company through videos shown at the hotel. Guo Xinliang later woke in the hospital to learn the gold coffin had been taken away, and he spat out a tooth in rage.

• Qin Xiao had a solid gold coffin delivered to the wedding and confronted Guo Xinliang about stealing his company and driving him to attempt suicide.
• Qin Xiao slapped Guo Xinliang, knocking him unconscious, then slapped the terrified Qu Fang and left after asking the security guard to deliver his final gift.
• After Qin Xiao departed, videos played on the hotel’s LED screen showing Qu Fang and Guo Xinliang cheating and arguing about how they had deceived Qin Xiao into signing away his company.
• Police arrived and the wedding disturbance ended; the men Qin Xiao brought were taken in briefly, while the two slaps and the incriminating video could lead to consequences if the victims pursued them.
• Guo Xinliang woke in the hospital, watched the videos, and learned that Qin Xiao’s men had carried away the gold coffin; he spat out blood and a tooth in fury.

Qin Xiao settled his affairs with Shi Aiguo, profited from selling his former company shares, and began planning a high-tech company in Magic City. After learning that he still had to advance a major Marvel Universe plot before returning, he activated transmigration again.

• Qin Xiao gave Shi Aiguo the gold coffin as payment and asked him to help establish local business connections.
• Shi Aiguo arranged for Guo Xinliang and Qu Fang to return Qin Xiao’s company shares and pay compensation, leaving them disgraced and broke.
• Qin Xiao sold his returned shares to a venture capital firm for over eighty million yuan.
• Qin Xiao asked Shi Aiguo to find a city-center location and help set up a high-tech company using Tony’s artificial intelligence.
• Qin Xiao questioned the system about traveling between worlds, then activated transmigration again.

Qin Xiao prepared a Chinese-style hot pot feast at his new Los Angeles home and invited his acquaintances to celebrate his housewarming. Dr. Banner, Black Widow, Tony, Nick Fury, Hawkeye, and Agent Coulson arrived, but none brought the red packets Qin Xiao had jokingly requested.

• Qin Xiao settled back into his home, declared it his housewarming day, and invited his acquaintances to a feast while asking them to bring gifts and red packets.
• Qin Xiao bought hot pot ingredients in Chinatown and prepared the food and table at home.
• Dr. Banner arrived with red wine after Agent Romanoff invited him to meet Qin Xiao as part of the Avengers Initiative.
• Black Widow arrived and gave Qin Xiao a kiss on the cheek instead of a red packet.
• Tony, Nick Fury, Hawkeye, and Agent Coulson joined the gathering, and Hawkeye gave Qin Xiao an arrow.
• Qin Xiao complained that the guests had brought no red packets and added two packets of spicy soup base to the hot pot.

Qin Xiao hosted the Avengers for spicy hot pot, then learned Nick Fury planned to move the team’s base to New York. After the meal, the guests suffered the consequences of washing down the spicy food with cold beer, while Qin Xiao slept at home.

• Qin Xiao served the group an extravagant hot pot meal and secretly gave Black Widow herbal tea instead of beer.
• Nick Fury announced that the Avengers Initiative had begun and that the team would use a base in New York, prompting Qin Xiao to complain about relocating.
• Nick Fury took Black Widow away for a mission, while Tony stayed behind with Qin Xiao.
• Tony spent the night in Qin Xiao’s bathroom, Hawkeye stayed in an airplane bathroom, and Nick Fury, Coulson, and Dr. Banner were left at the ruined Los Angeles branch after suffering severe stomach trouble.
• Qin Xiao laughed in his sleep, unaware of the chaos caused by the hot pot.

Coulson led Qin Xiao, Tony, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Banner on a covert mission to attack a major Mexican drug trafficking organization and fund the Avengers. As Black Widow outlined their infiltration plan, Tony charged at the drug lord’s mansion and Qin Xiao raced after him.

• Coulson explained that the Avengers needed to seize drug traffickers’ wealth to pay for their secret operations and equipment.
• The team traveled by stealth submarine to Nicaragua to target Celesto, burn his drugs, and recover passwords to his hidden Zurich bank accounts.
• Black Widow and Hawkeye prepared to lead the infiltration while Banner stayed aboard the submarine as backup.
• Black Widow warned that the mansion’s heavy security made a quiet entry difficult and began explaining her plan.
• Tony rushed toward the mansion, and Qin Xiao sprinted after him as Black Widow tried to stop them.

Qin Xiao and Tony Stark stormed a drug lord’s estate, destroying its defenses as they searched for Celesto. Tony and Qin located a heavily reinforced escape tunnel, and Qin charged into it, where a hidden Gatling gun opened fire on him.

• Qin Xiao smashed through the estate’s wall while Tony Stark attacked from the air, destroying the drug dealers’ weapons and drugs.
• Black Widow and Hawkeye arrived and guarded the estate while Tony searched for Celesto and the underground passages.
• JARVIS identified a metal-lined tunnel as the drug lord’s likely escape route, and Tony blasted open its entrance.
• Qin Xiao cut through the steel covering with his Tang saber and ran into the tunnel.
• Qin rounded a bend and was caught in a Gatling-gun barrage, then saw a metal arm swing at him when the firing stopped.

Qin Xiao and the team raided Celesto’s hideout, where the Winter Soldier escaped after blinding Qin Xiao with a flashbang and Celesto was killed by a bomb. The operation uncovered a Zurich bank account holding five hundred million dollars, but the Winter Soldier’s appearance left the team suspecting a larger conspiracy.

• Bucky attacked Qin Xiao, but Qin Xiao blocked his metal-arm strike before Bucky set off a flashbang in front of him.
• Qin Xiao warned Tony and Black Widow about Bucky, and Tony pursued the escaping men while Qin Xiao temporarily lost his sight.
• Tony found that Celesto had exploded from a time bomb, while Hawkeye discovered that Bucky had escaped through one of several branching passages.
• Black Widow identified the attacker as the Winter Soldier and ended the pursuit, then shoved Qin Xiao away when he pretended to faint against her.
• Tony found Celesto’s Zurich bank login details on his computer and recovered access to an account containing five hundred million dollars.

Alexander Pierce learned that Bucky had encountered Tony Stark and Qin Xiao, while Hydra continued advancing Project Insight. Nick Fury grew worried about Hydra and then discovered that files on two Mexican drug dealers were missing and Qin Xiao could not be reached.

• Bucky reported to Alexander Pierce that Qin Xiao had defeated him during the mission to collect payment from Celesto.
• Alexander Pierce learned that Tony Stark and Qin Xiao’s activities suggested Nick Fury’s Avengers Initiative was underway, but ordered Hydra to focus on Project Insight and support another Mexican drug dealer.
• Nick Fury worried that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and might be using kidnapped scientists to build weapons.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that files on two Mexican drug dealers were missing and that he could not contact Qin Xiao.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to contact the Drug Enforcement Administration, investigate the drug lords, and erase any traces if Qin Xiao’s identity had been exposed.

Qin Xiao attacked Carlos’s estate in Reynosa, seized the drug lord’s money, and set off the armory as he made his exit. He tried not to look back at the explosions, but a flying rocket launcher struck him in the face.

• Coulson received a video of Qin Xiao attacking armed men in Mexico while wearing a mask and shouting bizarre slogans.
• The Mexican government mobilized its army after Qin Xiao raided drug lords and transferred their assets to his own account.
• Qin Xiao entered Carlos’s armory, threatened two armed men with a grenade, and sent them fleeing.
• Qin Xiao tossed the grenade into the armory and walked away as its weapons and explosives triggered a chain of blasts.
• Qin Xiao turned to look at the explosion and was hit across the eyes and nose by a rocket launcher thrown by the blast.

Qin Xiao escaped Mexico with Black Widow and handed Nick Fury a billion dollars for their team’s funding. When Qin Xiao swore that heaven could strike him if he acted on his own again, lightning struck him beside a mysterious hammer.

• Black Widow picked Qin Xiao up after the Mexican government sent in troops in response to his attacks on three drug lords and the money he stole.
• Black Widow drove Qin Xiao across the border to New Mexico, where Nick Fury and Coulson waited at a restaurant.
• Qin Xiao ate Nick Fury’s breakfast, gave him an account number containing a billion dollars for the team, and promised not to act on his own again.
• Nick Fury left in a Quinjet after warning Coulson and Black Widow to keep an eye on Qin Xiao.
• Qin Xiao swore that heaven could strike him if he caused trouble again, and a lightning bolt hit him, leaving him beside a lightning-wreathed hammer in a crater.

Qin Xiao recognized the fallen hammer as Mjolnir and told Coulson that Thor had been banished to Earth, wagering against Coulson’s hair when Coulson refused to believe him. S.H.I.E.L.D. secured the crater and monitored the hammer, but the chapter ended when a long-haired man broke into the tent and fought his way toward it.

• After the hammer struck Qin Xiao, he tried to lift it, but it would not budge even when S.H.I.E.L.D. used a Quinjet to pull it.
• Nick Fury left Coulson in charge, and Qin Xiao asked Black Widow to stay while he waited for Thor to appear.
• Qin Xiao told Coulson that the hammer was Mjolnir and that Thor had been stripped of his powers and banished to Earth.
• Coulson bet his hair that Qin Xiao was wrong, while Qin Xiao wagered the money he had brought back from Mexico.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived, fenced off the crater, and began studying Mjolnir under Coulson’s supervision.
• An alarm announced an intruder, and Coulson saw a long-haired man beating guards as he headed for the hammer.

Qin Xiao met Thor at the site of Mjolnir, where Thor failed to lift the hammer and was knocked unconscious after attacking Qin Xiao. Qin Xiao accepted a system mission to help Thor regain Mjolnir’s recognition, leaving Odin’s attention as a possible risk.

• Qin Xiao, Coulson, and Black Widow approached Thor as he found Mjolnir, and Qin Xiao teased him about the hammer being his boyfriend.
• Thor threatened Qin Xiao, then failed to move Mjolnir and broke down in despair.
• Thor charged at Qin Xiao, who dodged and knocked him unconscious.
• Qin Xiao told Coulson that an astrophysicist would come looking for Thor and advised him to follow their research.
• Qin Xiao learned that his Thor mission remained incomplete because Thor did not know his name, then accepted a new mission to help Thor regain Mjolnir’s recognition.