Chapter Summaries

As Clear Breeze Temple prepared for the New Year, Wen Xu visited under the pretext of inspecting co-branded products, though he mainly wanted to eat Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking. Before returning home, he showed Yun Zhaozhao his family’s new factory, and she left him at the airport before heading to the wholesale market.

• The Qing generation’s young Daoists performed at the annual party, and Yun Zhaozhao gave the temple staff time off ahead of the New Year.
• Wen Xu learned that Clear Breeze Temple’s new snacks were circulating internally and called Yun Zhaozhao after landing in City A, claiming he had come to inspect them for work.
• Yun Zhaozhao welcomed Wen Xu with Daoist Chang Kong, then left them together when Wen Xu said she did not need to stay.
• Wen Xu ate Daoist Chang Kong’s food with gusto, while Yun Zhaozhao later cautioned Daoist Chang Kong not to rely too heavily on Wen Xu’s influence at the company.
• After two days at Clear Breeze Temple, Wen Xu returned home for the New Year, and Yun Zhaozhao visited his family’s new factory with him.
• Yun Zhaozhao drove Wen Xu to the airport and then detoured to the wholesale market.

Yun Zhaozhao prepared New Year gifts and festivities for the Daoists at Clear Breeze Temple, while Martial Uncle Chuli chose to remain there and received generous gifts from True Yang Temple. On New Year’s Day, the temple welcomed worshippers, Daoist Chang Kong cooked a feast with half a pig Zhao An brought, and Yun Zhaozhao launched plans for a dedicated vegetarian dining hall.

• Yun Zhaozhao gave Daoist Qiuting and Daoist Yiyezi New Year gifts, including loungewear and peace buckle pendants, and prepared gifts and red envelopes for the other Daoists.
• Daoist Yiyezi showed Lin Banxia her pendant, and Lin Banxia invited her to spend New Year at the farm; Daoist Yiyezi declined because she wanted to stay with her master.
• Yun Zhaozhao confirmed Martial Uncle Chuli did not want to return to True Yang Temple, and Daoist Jingyang sent him New Year gifts and red envelopes, which Martial Uncle Chuli insisted Yun Zhaozhao keep.
• Yun Zhaozhao decorated the Qing cohort’s rooms with lanterns, then joined the busy New Year’s Day work of receiving worshippers as the Daoists returned from their holidays.
• Zhao An and Wang Dafu delivered half a pig to Daoist Chang Kong, who prepared a New Year feast, while Yun Zhaozhao planned a separate vegetarian dining hall at the new temple.

On New Year's Day, Yun Zhaozhao promoted Clear Breeze Temple's guesthouse and paid visits to people who had helped her. Her visit to Daoist Jingyang ended with a plan to hold a Taoist cultural exchange conference at the guesthouse after it opened.

• Clear Breeze Temple's vegetarian dining hall drew more business than Daoist Chang Kong's dining hall, while Yun Zhaozhao's New Year's prize draw publicized the temple guesthouse.
• Yun Zhaozhao visited Lawyer Wang and brought treats for Wang Ziyu, who eagerly wanted to return to Clear Breeze Temple.
• Yun Zhaozhao visited Chairman Jiang, invited him to the guesthouse opening, and agreed to put Daoist Chuli to work there after Jiang mentioned his friends wanted to meet the centenarian.
• Yun Zhaozhao visited Daoist Jingyang and Daoist Jiaye at True Yang Temple, thanked them for their support, and reassured them that Martial Uncle Chuli caused no trouble.
• Daoist Jingyang offered to hold a Taoist cultural exchange conference at Clear Breeze Temple's guesthouse once it opened, and Yun Zhaozhao gladly accepted.

Yun Zhaozhao rewarded Clear Breeze Temple’s staff and interns, whose mascot design became a popular souvenir, while preparing for the guesthouse’s eventual opening. Later, she welcomed Wen Xu and Huang Xi to City A to manage their new factory and joked with Tang Li about her own wealthy future children.

• Yun Zhaozhao paid Lantern Festival bonuses to the temple staff and interns, while Jingting returned his wages for her to save.
• The interns presented Clear Breeze Temple with a fortune-cat mascot, and Yun Zhaozhao planned to enlarge it for the guesthouse entrance and dress the temple’s stray cats in branded outfits.
• Yun Zhaozhao suggested that the interns wear the branded outfits back to school as advertising, leaving them speechless.
• Clear Breeze Temple’s fortune-cat design later became a range of zodiac souvenirs, seals, and keychains that sold especially well.
• Wen Xu and Manager Huang Xi arrived in City A to oversee the branch factory, and Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li toured its facilities.
• Tang Li suggested Yun Zhaozhao win Wen Xu over so her future children could be rich heirs, and Yun Zhaozhao replied that they would be wealthy regardless.

Yun Zhaozhao accompanied Wen Xu shopping in City A, where he offered to buy her clothes and she chose jackets for Clear Breeze Temple’s night-duty staff. After lunch came up, Wen Xu again tried to persuade her to let Daoist Chang Kong work part-time at his factory.

• Wen Xu asked Yun Zhaozhao to accompany him shopping, and she sent Tang Li back to Clear Breeze Temple before taking him downtown.
• Yun Zhaozhao called Xu Ping for mall recommendations and caught up briefly with her college classmate.
• At a clothing store, Yun Zhaozhao browsed Clear Breeze Temple’s social media while Wen Xu tried on clothes, then took him up on his offer to buy her outfits.
• Yun Zhaozhao chose two outdoor jackets for the temple’s night-duty staff, and Wen Xu paid for them along with several outfits for himself.
• Wen Xu insisted on eating at Clear Breeze Temple’s cafeteria and asked Yun Zhaozhao again to let Daoist Chang Kong work part-time at his factory.

Yun Zhaozhao and Wen Xu discussed co-branded products and the agricultural base’s growing role in supplying his factory, while Yun Zhaozhao weighed the strain expansion would place on Grandpa Lin. The chapter left the farm’s delivery arrangements unresolved, with Tang Li asking Yun Zhaozhao to see if Wen Xu’s trucks could collect the goods.

• Yun Zhaozhao refused Wen Xu’s request to have Daoist Chang Kong work extra shifts, and the group ate at Clear Breeze Temple while discussing co-branded products.
• Yun Zhaozhao decided against expanding the agricultural base for now and planned to ask Grandpa Lin to train successors.
• Wen Xu invited Yun Zhaozhao to visit City A’s attractions, and she suggested making it a group outing instead.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Grandpa Lin struggled to find a successor for the farm, so she arranged a physical examination that showed Grandpa Lin was in excellent health.
• Tang Li asked Yun Zhaozhao to discuss having Wen Xu’s trucks and drivers collect farm deliveries, and she told him to speak to Wen Xu or Manager Huang directly.

Yun Zhaozhao and Wen Xu arranged for the factory to collect goods from Clear Breeze Temple, while the temple expanded its tea business with new foods, products, and sales. The chapter ended with Wen Xu asking the temple’s designers to create packaging for their collaboration products, and Yun Zhaozhao agreeing while advising him to prepare backup designs.

• Wen Xu agreed to have the factory truck collect Clear Breeze Temple’s goods, and Wen Zhengrong told Huang Xi to deduct the transport expenses from Wen Xu’s salary.
• As Wen Xu grew busy running the factory, Yun Zhaozhao promoted the tea harvest and Daoist Chang Kong developed tea eggs, tea-scented pork, and tea-pairing pastries.
• Jingting delivered Clear Breeze Tea to Daoist Qingxin, who offered to buy tea from Clear Breeze Temple, and Jingting joked that he would raise the price.
• Clear Breeze Tea sold well to Daoist temples and businesspeople, and Yun Zhaozhao used the temple’s beckoning cat logo on the tea packaging after buying the design rights.
• Wen Xu asked Yun Zhaozhao to have Clear Breeze Temple’s designers create packaging for the collaboration products, and she agreed while recommending that his company prepare backup designs.

Yun Zhaozhao and Clear Breeze Temple’s Daoists developed packaging for the temple’s co-branded food products with Wen Xu, whose company quickly launched and successfully promoted them. As Wen Xu prepared to sell the products through livestreams, Jingting learned he would be selling alongside Wen Xu himself.

• Yun Zhaozhao assigned Clear Breeze Temple’s Daoist designers to create packaging, and their first draft featured a rooster in black stockings that Wen Zhengrong said made him want to call the police.
• The Daoists submitted a friendlier cartoon design, and Tang Li suggested one illustration of Daoist Chang Kong plucking a chicken as a promotional image.
• Wen Xu launched three co-branded products with Clear Breeze Temple, promoted them widely, and their online store’s sales soon ranked among the top three for comparable products.
• Yun Zhaozhao offered Jingting to Wen Xu as a livestream seller, and Wen Xu discovered that Jingting was popular online despite never selling products.
• Jingting agreed to switch from streaming curses to selling products, then found out that Wen Xu would be selling alongside him.

Yun Zhaozhao secured government support for Clear Breeze Temple’s agricultural projects and began applying for subsidies while inviting Martial Uncle Chuli to stay at the temple guesthouse. Meanwhile, Jingting and Wen Xu’s livestream sales prospered, though Yun Zhaozhao kept urging Wen Xu to focus on selling products.

• Jingting and Wen Xu sold Clear Breeze Temple’s co-branded chicken products on livestream, drawing orders from Jingting’s fans.
• Chairman Jiang told Yun Zhaozhao that the government planned to provide startup funding for her business, and she agreed to complete the application procedures.
• Yun Zhaozhao invited Martial Uncle Chuli to stay at the temple guesthouse once it opened, and he agreed.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li completed paperwork for agricultural subsidies that could total around two hundred thousand yuan if approved.
• Jingting and Wen Xu continued their weekly livestreams, rejected offers to sell other businesses’ products, and Wen Xu spent his earnings on a supercar and a factory gym.
• Wen Xu complained that Yun Zhaozhao had told him to keep selling products instead of joining her at a water park.

Yun Zhaozhao developed Clear Breeze Tea's packaging and arranged for Jingting and Wen Xu to promote it during a livestream. After Wen Xu learned how much work Yun Zhaozhao handled, he drove Jingting back to Clear Breeze Temple, where Yun Zhaozhao mistook his visit for a request to borrow money and offended him.

• Yun Zhaozhao thanked Chairman Jiang for telling her about a government subsidy and gave him Clear Breeze Temple tea.
• Yun Zhaozhao had Daoist Chang Kong help design elegant Clear Breeze Tea packaging and custom teaware.
• Jingting and Wen Xu promoted Clear Breeze Tea during a livestream after viewers asked about their flasks.
• Wen Xu heard Jingting describe Yun Zhaozhao's workload and offered to drive him back to Clear Breeze Temple.
• Yun Zhaozhao told Wen Xu not to ask her for a loan, and Wen Xu angrily said he would never see Jingting again.

Yun Zhaozhao expanded Clear Breeze Temple’s business by preparing an online store, hiring staff, and linking the guesthouse with the temple dining hall. As Clear Breeze Temple took on a major role in an upcoming Taoist medicine conference, university students helped test the guesthouse and promoted it afterward.

• Wen Xu calmed himself after thinking that Yun Zhaozhao’s mistaken belief that he loved money was easier to accept than her thinking he loved her.
• Yun Zhaozhao arranged mass production of Clear Breeze Tea and put plans for an online store on the agenda to sell tea and other temple products.
• Yun Zhaozhao recruited staff for online sales, operations, customer service, the guesthouse, and other roles, and the guesthouse launched online room and dining reservations.
• True Yang Temple scheduled the Taoist medicine academic conference at Clear Breeze Guesthouse, where Clear Breeze Temple would host attendees and Daoist Qiuting would offer consultations and speak for City A.
• Yun Zhaozhao invited former Agricultural College interns to test the guesthouse system and clean the newly renovated guesthouse, rewarding them with food and zodiac keychains.
• The students promoted Clear Breeze Temple online and encouraged people to visit and stay at its guesthouse.

Yun Zhaozhao used the government subsidy to expand Clear Breeze Temple’s agricultural base and opened its guesthouse in June. At the opening, Wen Xu visited and headed to the kitchen to see Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking, while Yun Zhaozhao planned for local cooks to run the guesthouse kitchen in the future.

• Wen Xu rode a viral video of college students fighting over Daoist Chicken Feet to promote his company’s products, then sent cases to two commenters he selected.
• Yun Zhaozhao put nearly all of the agricultural subsidy into equipment and a larger, organized livestock farm, while Daoist Qiuting supplied herbs to help protect the poultry from disease.
• Clear Breeze Temple opened its guesthouse, drawing its Daoists, visitors from True Yang Temple, and Chairman Jiang’s group; Martial Uncle Chuli met Daoist Jingyang again.
• Chairman Jiang and Wen Xu quickly struck up a warm conversation, while Jingting wondered whether Wen Xu had fallen for Yun Zhaozhao or Daoist Chang Kong.
• Wen Xu went to the kitchen to see Daoist Chang Kong cooking, then found Yun Zhaozhao reviewing the menu and considering how local cooks could run the guesthouse kitchen.

Yun Zhaozhao’s Clear Breeze Temple Guesthouse opened to a stream of guests and began earning money immediately. A week later, Daoist Qingxin visited to check its feng shui, gave Yun Zhaozhao a gold pixiu, and reunited with Jingting, whom he also gifted a gold qilin.

• Wen Xu gave Yun Zhaozhao a red envelope for the guesthouse opening after seeing Martial Uncle Chuli working at Clear Breeze Temple.
• Clear Breeze Temple Guesthouse quickly attracted guests, giving visiting Daoists a place to stay as Clear Breeze Temple’s reputation grew.
• Daoist Qingxin arrived a week after the opening, checked the guesthouse for feng shui problems, and found it clean.
• Daoist Qingxin gave Yun Zhaozhao a gold pixiu as an auspicious business gift, then accepted her invitation to eat at Clear Breeze Temple.
• Jingting greeted Daoist Qingxin with a hug, and Daoist Qingxin gave him a gold qilin; Jingting joked that he hoped his master would become a dragon and Yun Zhaozhao a phoenix.

Clear Breeze Temple hosted a three-day academic conference on Daoist medicine, culminating in a popular livestreamed free clinic that drew residents and media attention. The event showcased Daoist physicians’ treatments and boosted the guesthouse’s popularity as a place to stay.

• Jingting said he wanted to earn money so he could support Daoist Qingxin in old age, and Yun Zhaozhao felt conflicted about how much he had matured.
• Daoists and medical scholars arrived in City A for the conference, and Clear Breeze Temple and True Yang Temple announced the event and its free clinic.
• Yun Zhaozhao assigned Lin Banxia to reception so she could meet the Daoist physicians she admired.
• On the clinic’s third day, Daoist Qiuting, Lin Banxia, and Daoist Yiyezi assisted patients as Daoist physicians performed bone-setting, acupuncture, and thread pulse diagnosis.
• The livestream attracted a large audience, and the clinic helped make Clear Breeze Temple’s guesthouse a popular destination for visitors and locals.

Clear Breeze Temple's guesthouse attracted guests with its sleep-friendly rooms, food, and tea events, while Martial Uncle Chuli became an online favorite. As the guesthouse and agricultural base began earning money, Wen Xu made steady business decisions with Yun Zhaozhao's advice, and Yun Zhaozhao began looking for a home for herself and the Lin family.

• Yun Zhaozhao's guesthouse used Daoist Qiuting's calming herbal blends and thoughtfully prepared dinners, earning enthusiastic reviews from guests.
• Yun Zhaozhao expanded the guesthouse's tea events and tea-making activities, where Martial Uncle Chuli charmed visitors and became popular online.
• Wen Xu's livestream sales of Daoist Chang Kong's food succeeded, but Yun Zhaozhao advised him to avoid rushing into more products and to keep production steady.
• Wen Zhengrong learned from Huang Xi that Yun Zhaozhao had guided Wen Xu, and he approved of her influence.
• With the guesthouse and agricultural base turning profitable, Yun Zhaozhao began visiting sales offices to find a home for herself and considered finding one for Lin Banxia and Grandpa Lin.

Yun Zhaozhao agreed to enter Clear Breeze Temple in City A's five-good temple selection and worked with its Daoists to improve service. When Zhang Ru visited with her best friend, two Daoists greeted them with forced smiles that frightened them.

• Grandpa Lin agreed to return to his hometown and build a house after Yun Zhaozhao offered him money.
• Yun Zhaozhao agreed to enter Clear Breeze Temple in the five-good temple selection and the city's vegetarian cooking competition.
• Yun Zhaozhao decided service was Clear Breeze Temple's weakest area and called Tang Li, Daoist Mao, Daoist Cen, and others to discuss improvements.
• Daoist Cen proposed warmer greetings and friendly reception staff, while Daoist Mao suggested offering free Clear Breeze Tea around the temple.
• Zhang Ru visited Clear Breeze Temple with her best friend, where two Daoists stopped them and gave them unsettling forced smiles.

Zhang Ru took her best friend to Clear Breeze Temple, where its old complex won her over with Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking. Meanwhile, Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao introduced practical visitor services and proposed electronic audio guides, which Yun Zhaozhao approved with conditions; worshippers soon noticed the new guides.

• Zhang Ru’s best friend found the Daoists at the new complex unusually welcoming, then joined Zhang Ru for a meal at the old complex after touring the temple.
• Zhang Ru’s best friend tried the old complex’s lotus fish, multigrain congee, and vegetables, then declared Clear Breeze Temple had won her over with its food and friendly Daoists.
• Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao ended the smiling greetings after a child was frightened, then added mosquito-repellent aromatherapy products and free Clear Breeze Tea dispensers around the new complex.
• Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao proposed electronic audio guides paired with quizzes and souvenir-shop vouchers, and Yun Zhaozhao approved the plan while requiring reasonable costs and proper preparation and maintenance.
• Worshippers noticed Clear Breeze Temple’s new audio guides, and one visitor posted a photo of them online.

Zhang Ru's best friend tried Clear Breeze Temple's electronic audio guide, while Daoist Jingyang visited the temple and helped Yun Zhaozhao see its spiritual purpose beyond making money. Over a vegetarian meal, he discovered how enjoyable the temple's food could be and asked whether its head chef had received advanced training.

• Zhang Ru's best friend rented an audio guide, followed its instructions to kneel before the deities, and won a 100-yuan voucher in the quiz prize draw.
• After other temples debated Clear Breeze Temple's audio guides, Daoist Jingyang publicly supported Yun Zhaozhao and accepted her invitation to try one.
• Daoist Jingyang visited Clear Breeze Temple with a young disciple and worshipped devoutly as Yun Zhaozhao accompanied him.
• Watching Daoist Jingyang pray reminded Yun Zhaozhao of Granny and helped her understand why Granny had entrusted Clear Breeze Temple to her.
• Daoist Jingyang suggested changing the audio guide's blunt instruction to kneel into a more polite request.
• At lunch, Daoist Jingyang enjoyed Clear Breeze Temple's vegetarian dishes and asked Yun Zhaozhao whether the head chef had received advanced culinary training.

Daoist Zhu and Daoist Chang Kong competed in City A’s vegetarian cooking competition, impressing the judges with a lotus-shaped cold platter. After advancing, Daoist Zhu chose solar term cuisine for the next round.

• Yun Zhaozhao brought Daoist Zhu and Daoist Chang Kong to the competition, along with Jingting, Tang Li, Wen Xu, and Lin Banxia.
• Daoist Zhu and Daoist Chang Kong drew cold platter arrangement and food carving for the first round.
• Daoist Zhu and Daoist Chang Kong made a lifelike double-petaled lotus platter and received high marks from the judges.
• Jingting joked that the two cooks had conquered Wen Xu, embarrassing him.
• Daoist Zhu chose solar term cuisine for the second round after Daoist Chang Kong let him select a dish he favored.
• Daoist Zhu recalled learning about Clear Breeze Temple’s earlier food festival from a news report.

Yun Zhaozhao and the Clear Breeze Temple group won the vegetarian cooking competition, then enjoyed a zoo outing where Wen Xu quietly helped Yun Zhaozhao after her shoes hurt her feet. Later, Yun arranged an exchange of trainees and thoughtful gifts between Clear Breeze Temple and True Yang Temple, and Daoist Jingyang happily posed with their beckoning-cat mascot.

• Daoist Zhu and Daoist Chang Kong won first place in the vegetarian cooking competition with colorful stuffed cat-shaped rice balls arranged as a landscape.
• Yun Zhaozhao took the group to City A Zoo, where Wen Xu bought her slippers after noticing she was walking slowly in uncomfortable shoes.
• True Yang Temple sent Clear Breeze Temple an embroidered banner, and Yun Zhaozhao displayed it at the temple entrance.
• Yun Zhaozhao arranged for Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao to take turns visiting True Yang Temple for etiquette training while True Yang Temple's Daoists trained at Clear Breeze Temple's dining hall.
• Yun Zhaozhao sent Daoist Jingyang Clear Breeze Tea and a customized beckoning-cat mascot, and he sent her a photo with it.