Chapter Summaries

Yun Zhaozhao and the Daoists prepared for Lunar New Year at Clear Breeze Temple as the temple grew busy with holiday visitors and Wen Xu held his company’s annual party there. On New Year’s Eve, Jingting and the little Daoists waited eagerly for Wen Xu to arrive with his custom fireworks.

• Yun Zhaozhao thanked Mother Wen for her handmade gifts and later sent Wen Xu homemade cured foods, learning that he planned to stay at Clear Breeze Temple for the New Year.
• Clear Breeze Temple grew busy with educational tours, while its Daoists prepared festive decorations and performances for the children staying there.
• Wen Xu held his company’s annual party in the temple cafeteria, where employees focused on the many cash prizes he had prepared.
• Yun Zhaozhao suggested hosting more banquets, but Daoist Chang Kong steered their conversation toward New Year’s Eve celebrations.
• Jingting told Yun Zhaozhao that Wen Xu would take him to see custom-made fireworks, prompting the little Daoists to wait together at the temple entrance.

Wen Xu brought handmade gifts, red envelopes, and fireworks to Clear Breeze Temple for New Year’s Eve, where Yun Zhaozhao and the Daoists welcomed him into their celebrations. He joined in their lively preparations and learned they had organized a courtyard gala, though their temple band reminded him of its disastrous performance for him before.

• Wen Xu made an ugly cloisonné vase as a gift for Yun Zhaozhao and brought it, fireworks, and red envelopes to Clear Breeze Temple.
• Yun Zhaozhao happily accepted the vase, especially after noticing the red envelope inside, while the little Daoists and Martial Uncle Chuli received envelopes too.
• The little Daoists ran outside to set off the hand-held fireworks as Wen Xu watched beside Yun Zhaozhao.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked whether Wen Xu’s parents minded him spending New Year away from home, and he joked that they would not mind if he married into her family.
• Wen Xu admired the temple’s lavish reunion dinner, festive clothes, and courtyard stage before Yun Zhaozhao reminded him of the temple band’s earlier performance.

Wen Xu celebrated New Year's Eve at Clear Breeze Temple with Yun Zhaozhao, sharing food, performances, and an extravagant fireworks display. After the celebration, Yun Zhaozhao began her traditional New Year accounting, which would lead to the Daoists receiving their year-end bonuses.

• Wen Xu enjoyed the relaxed New Year gathering, ate with the Daoists, and watched their performances alongside Yun Zhaozhao.
• Wen Xu took the young Daoists outside and set off a large collection of fireworks, including custom fireworks shaped like gold ingots for Yun Zhaozhao.
• Daoist Mao and Daoist Zhu took the ten young Daoists to wash up and go to bed while the others ate, drank, and cleaned up.
• Yun Zhaozhao sat down to review Clear Breeze Temple's accounts, beginning the annual accounting session before distributing year-end bonuses.

Yun Zhaozhao and Wen Xu spent New Year’s Eve checking accounts together, then helped Clear Breeze Temple manage the huge New Year’s Day crowds and strawberry sales. After the exhausting day, Wen Xu offered Yun Zhaozhao a heart-shaped strawberry, and their companions caught them sharing the moment.

• Yun Zhaozhao let Wen Xu check the guesthouse ledger, and they worked together until nearly midnight while the other Daoists left.
• Wen Xu hung up on his mother Song Qinglan’s video call and told Yun Zhaozhao it was a scam call from overseas.
• Wen Xu helped the little Daoists pick strawberries as Yun Zhaozhao and Xiaojiu sold them to the packed New Year’s Day crowd.
• Yun Zhaozhao had Xiaojiu play an announcement warning visitors not to damage the strawberry plants, and the crowd behaved more carefully.
• Wen Xu brought Yun Zhaozhao a washed, heart-shaped strawberry, and Martial Uncle Chuli mimicked the gesture with Jingting as Daoist Chang Kong laughed.

After the New Year, Yun Zhaozhao returned to running Clear Breeze Temple and planned a premium cultural tour to improve the guesthouse’s business. She secured a trial partnership with a small travel company and began working out how to promote and operate the tours.

• Grandpa Lin and Lin Banxia returned to Clear Breeze Temple, where Grandpa Lin went straight back to work and Lin Banxia caught up on gossip with Xiaojiu.
• Lin Banxia teased Yun Zhaozhao about Wen Xu and ate the ripe strawberries Yun Zhaozhao had saved for her, then received her New Year red envelope.
• Yun Zhaozhao visited the Taoist Association and True Yang Temple before turning her attention to the guesthouse’s weak everyday business.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Tang Li to approach travel agencies about a premium cultural tour featuring university visits, Taoist temples, and stays at the guesthouse.
• After most agencies rejected the plan or demanded too large a cut, a newly established company run by Brother Xiao Ma agreed to try it.
• Yun Zhaozhao, Tang Li, Brother Xiao Ma, and Brother Li discussed promotion and tour options, with Yun Zhaozhao offering Clear Breeze Temple’s food, products, and sightseeing as attractions.

Yun Zhaozhao helped Brother Xiao Ma develop a cultural tourism plan for Clear Breeze Temple and prepared Daoists to guide visitors. Brother Xiao Ma brought the first small tour group to the temple, where Little Qingya charmed the guests while Dazhuang’s parents began considering an idea about their unemployed son.

• Brother Xiao Ma submitted a tourism proposal, and Yun Zhaozhao suggested he run two small weekend tours before the larger Qingming Festival event.
• Yun Zhaozhao selected Daoists from three generations, including Little Qingya and Daoist Chuli, to guide visitors around Clear Breeze Temple.
• Brother Xiao Ma brought ten local tourists to Clear Breeze Temple, and he stayed behind with the complaining Dazhuang and his parents while the others went ahead.
• Little Qingya answered Dazhuang’s complaints about the koi and told his parents that sincere prayers were effective, improving their impression of the temple.
• Little Qingya led the group through the Daoists’ living quarters, and Dazhuang’s parents began considering plans for their son’s employment.

Brother Xiao Ma’s tours brought visitors to Clear Breeze Temple, where the food, souvenirs, fruit, and Prosperity Spring kept them spending. When he began offering overnight trips, Yun Zhaozhao and the others considered how to make the guesthouse more appealing, but moving Daoist Chang Kong there to improve the food would leave the temple cafeteria without him.

• Dazhuang and the other tourists enjoyed a meal at Clear Breeze Temple’s old cafeteria, and Brother Xiao Ma promoted the temple guesthouse with brochures.
• Little Qingya repeated the temple master’s claim that Clear Breeze Temple could take the whole pie, prompting the tourists to imagine the temple’s huge appetite.
• Brother Xiao Ma brought short-trip groups to Clear Breeze Temple nearly every week, where visitors bought temple-made souvenirs and fruit and tossed coins into Prosperity Spring.
• In April, Brother Xiao Ma began offering two-day, one-night trips, but advance cancellations and a lack of evening activities made the overnight tours harder to organize.
• Jingting suggested entertainment at the guesthouse, while Yun Zhaozhao proposed tea and stories; Brother Li explained that successful nearby guesthouses offered food or entertainment.
• Yun Zhaozhao considered moving Daoist Chang Kong to Clear Breeze Guesthouse to attract guests with his cooking, but worried that the temple cafeteria would lose its cook.

Yun Zhaozhao borrowed two peacocks from True Yang Temple and brought them to Clear Breeze Temple’s guesthouse, where they delighted guests and became a publicity opportunity. While inspecting the busy guesthouse, she watched Wen Xu help at the front desk and considered adding fortune-telling as a guesthouse attraction.

• Daoist Chuli suggested that Yun Zhaozhao use True Yang Temple’s two young peacocks at the guesthouse, and Daoist Jingyang agreed to lend them to her.
• Yun Zhaozhao had the peacocks settled at the guesthouse, where Brother Xiao Ma’s tour group admired them and heard his flattering explanation of their significance.
• Wen Xu visited the guesthouse with Yun Zhaozhao, helped answer calls at the front desk, and joked with Brother Xiao Ma about peacocks spreading their tails.
• Yun Zhaozhao arranged for guests to photograph the peacocks for Weibo publicity and named them Little Green and Little White after rejecting Wen Xu’s suggestion of Zhaozhao and Mumu.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Wen Xu ate dinner at the guesthouse and watched guests socialize, while Yun Zhaozhao considered whether to offer fortune-telling there.

Clear Breeze Temple’s guesthouse grew popular through its wishing tree, peacocks, and Martial Uncle Chuli’s fortune-telling, helping Brother Xiao Ma’s travel studio thrive. After Clear Breeze Temple received a city award, Yun Zhaozhao learned that its supposed debts had been a lie and decided to invest in storefront properties so she could become a landlady.

• Martial Uncle Chuli entertained guesthouse visitors with improvised fortune-telling, while Yun Zhaozhao and Xiao Li set up a wishing tree that attracted guests and online attention.
• A photo of Little Green and Little White spreading their tails beneath the wishing tree made the guesthouse a popular destination, benefiting Brother Xiao Ma’s travel studio.
• Brother Xiao Ma asked Xiao Li how he could thank Yun Zhaozhao, and Xiao Li suggested getting her onto trending searches.
• Clear Breeze Temple received a City A government award as the most influential Taoist temple, and Jingting hung its plaque by the main entrance.
• Yun Zhaozhao called Lawyer Wang to settle the temple’s old debts, but he revealed that Grandma had invented them to persuade Yun Zhaozhao to take over the temple.
• Yun Zhaozhao decided that she wanted to buy storefront properties and become a landlady.

Yun Zhaozhao bought four storefronts and opened a Taoist culture museum at Clear Breeze Temple, which gained a full collection after a wealthy collector donated his artifacts. The museum drew more visitors, and tour guide Brother Xiao Ma began considering a long-term job at the temple.

• Yun Zhaozhao bought two storefronts in her residential complex and two more in a busy area after consulting the Taoist Association president’s acquaintances.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li discussed the risks of her investment, and Tang Li suggested the storefronts could serve as her dowry.
• Yun Zhaozhao opened a Taoist exhibition hall at Clear Breeze Temple and arranged its donated artifacts with help from Martial Uncle Chuli.
• Yun Zhaozhao declined Martial Uncle Chuli’s offer to seek more exhibits from True Yang Temple, leaving some displays empty and planning to publicize the museum.
• Mr. Qian donated his Taoist collection to Clear Breeze Temple, and Yun Zhaozhao offered him a silk banner in recognition.
• Visitors enjoyed the museum, and Brother Xiao Ma began wanting to work at Clear Breeze Temple long-term.

Wen Xu brought Yun Zhaozhao gifts from his parents and arranged for his father’s friends to donate collectibles to Clear Breeze Temple. As the temple expanded its educational and livestreaming work, visiting Daoists arrived to learn from it, leaving Yun Zhaozhao planning to hire professional video creators to train them.

• Wen Xu brought Yun Zhaozhao a suitcase of souvenirs from his parents, and she struggled to refuse the gifts.
• Wen Xu told his mother he had accepted the souvenirs on Yun Zhaozhao’s behalf and asked his father to find collectibles for Clear Breeze Temple’s exhibition hall.
• Wen Xu’s father later gave Yun Zhaozhao a seal called the Heaven-Overturning Seal, which she displayed with the temple’s other collectibles.
• Yun Zhaozhao had Daoists and new-media college students manage Clear Breeze Temple’s educational accounts, which gained a growing following.
• Other temples sent young, handsome Daoists to Clear Breeze Temple to study its livestreaming success, attracting excited female worshippers.
• Yun Zhaozhao decided to hire professional video creators to teach the visiting Daoists how to livestream rather than leave their training to Jingting.

Yun Zhaozhao expanded Clear Breeze Temple’s activities by arranging livestream training for visiting Daoists and organizing a plan to lease nearby mountain woodland for afforestation. The Daoists began planting trees with local villagers, while the project aimed to turn the surrounding bare slopes into forests.

• Yun Zhaozhao persuaded Jingting to help hire internet streamers to teach the visiting Daoists how to livestream, and Wen Xu rushed to the temple after misunderstanding Jingting’s explanation.
• Wen Xu helped hire two streamers, and Yun Zhaozhao set up rear-courtyard rooms for training the twenty Daoists in two groups.
• Daoist Chang Kong made Jingting study in the evenings by threatening to stop cooking for him, while Wen Xu began calling Yun Zhaozhao each night to ask if she was coming to her new house.
• Yun Zhaozhao decided to lease nearby mountain woodland and offered the Daoists larger bonuses for taking responsibility for parts of the tree-planting plan.
• Yun Zhaozhao signed the woodland leases with the village chief’s support, had Lin Banxia buy saplings, and sent the Daoists and villagers to plant trees across the surrounding mountains.

Yun Zhaozhao organized a successful tree-planting effort at Clear Breeze Temple by recruiting tourists, worshippers, students, and Wen Xu’s company employees. As Wen Xu livestreamed the work, his obvious admiration for Yun Zhaozhao became clear to viewers and fellow Daoist priests.

• Yun Zhaozhao persuaded Brother Xiao Ma to bring tourists to a tree-planting camp, where visitors dug holes while Daoist priests and villagers handled the saplings.
• Yun Zhaozhao had Tang Li post a notice offering visitors a free sapling and a blessing, drawing eager volunteers, and the village primary school also joined the planting effort.
• Wen Xu brought his employees to plant trees and livestreamed, while viewers speculated about his connection to Clear Breeze Temple.
• Wen Xu briefly showed Yun Zhaozhao on camera, and viewers praised her beauty as he called it one of her least significant strengths.
• Yun Zhaozhao served free pastries, tea, and fruit at the planting site and promoted Clear Breeze Temple’s food, while Wen Xu watched admiringly.

Yun Zhaozhao led Clear Breeze Temple and nearby villagers in planting trees, while Chairman Jiang tried and failed to persuade her to become his successor. After a report featuring the temple’s handsome Daoists drew attention and donations, Yun used the money to buy more saplings, and Wen Xu brought his company’s snacks to the planting effort.

• Wen Xu suggested selling his company’s chicken snacks at the tree-planting event, and Yun Zhaozhao approved the idea.
• Chairman Jiang invited a reporter to cover the planting and asked Yun Zhaozhao to succeed him as chairman of the Taoist Association, but she refused because she planned to retire at twenty-eight.
• Chairman Jiang joined the planting effort, and Reporter Cui photographed the handsome Daoists for his report.
• After Reporter Cui’s story attracted attention, Yun refused a donation explicitly labeled for reforestation until Martial Uncle Chuli advised the donor to call it incense money instead.
• Yun recorded the donation and used it to buy more saplings, while Wen Xu personally brought free snacks from his factory for the tree planters.

Clear Breeze Temple helped Officer Xiao Deng film an anti-fraud video, with Jingting and Daoist Chang Kong taking the lead while Yun Zhaozhao appeared in the final shot. After the video went online, Wen Xu watched it to see Yun Zhaozhao and sent it to President Wen, who joked that only Wen Xu could scam him.

• At the tree-planting site, Jingting asked Wen Xu why a rich man like him stayed faithful, and Wen Xu credited his father and family upbringing.
• Officer Xiao Deng asked Yun Zhaozhao and Clear Breeze Temple to make an anti-fraud video, and she assigned Jingting and Daoist Chang Kong to film it.
• Jingting brought professional filming equipment and crew, impressing Officer Xiao Deng with the temple’s media experience.
• After filming, Yun Zhaozhao invited Officer Xiao Deng and his colleagues to dinner, where Daoist Chang Kong cooked and Officer Xiao Deng praised the meal.
• Jingting sent the finished video to Wen Xu, who watched Yun Zhaozhao’s closing appearance repeatedly and forwarded the video to President Wen.

Yun Zhaozhao’s free public-service work brought Clear Breeze Temple widespread recognition and honors, while she settled into an easygoing life and hoped to retire early. As visiting Daoists returned home with livestreaming skills, Daoist livestreams spread across the region, and Yun Zhaozhao happily supported them online.

• Wen Xu and Old President Wen promoted Clear Breeze Temple’s anti-fraud video, helping it gain views and leading other government departments to invite Yun Zhaozhao to make public-service videos.
• Yun Zhaozhao’s collaborations and charitable work won Clear Breeze Temple new honors and earned it respect from other Daoist temples.
• Tang Li encouraged Yun Zhaozhao to enter a young talent selection, but she preferred relaxing and dreamed of handing the temple over to someone trustworthy so she could retire.
• Wen Xu worked overtime to earn money while Old President Wen complained that his son had delayed helping expand the family company.
• Yun Zhaozhao sent visiting Daoists home with gifts and tree-planting rewards, and they returned to their temples to launch livestreaming projects.
• Yun Zhaozhao watched the Daoists’ livestreams and sent them gifts, while Jingting told Wen Xu that she spent her time watching handsome Daoists online.

Yun Zhaozhao’s temple gained attention and visitors after Daoists unearthed an ancient tomb, and the resulting opportunities brought more volunteers and interest from investors. The authorities later placed a Han-dynasty Taiji Bagua Diagram stone carving in Clear Breeze Temple’s museum for safekeeping, and Yun invited Daoist Jingyang to see it.

• Yun Zhaozhao went to the mountain behind Clear Breeze Temple after Daoists reported finding what appeared to be an ancient tomb, and Officer Xiao Deng secured the site and alerted the cultural relics authorities.
• Officer Xiao Deng told Yun Zhaozhao that the tomb contained immovable stone carvings and murals that would need protection at the site, potentially creating a new heritage attraction near the temple.
• Rumors about an imperial mausoleum drew visitors and filled the temple guesthouse, while the increased interest brought many more volunteers to Yun Zhaozhao’s tree-planting activities.
• Yun Zhaozhao welcomed investors who wanted to build a safari park near Clear Breeze Temple and offered support for the project.
• Yun Zhaozhao repeatedly asked officials about a temple treasure, and the authorities eventually assigned a Han-dynasty Taiji Bagua Diagram stone carving from the tomb to the temple museum for temporary safekeeping.
• Yun Zhaozhao called Daoist Jingyang and invited him to visit Clear Breeze Temple to see the stone carving.

After Clear Breeze Temple received the Taiji Bagua Diagram as its guardian treasure, Yun Zhaozhao downplayed comparisons with True Yang Temple while nearby temples tried and failed to learn from its success. Wen Xu then pitched investment near the temple to his father, and Old President Wen’s friend President Liu became interested in visiting its Daoist medical clinic for his chronic back pain.

• Yun Zhaozhao rejected fans’ claims that Clear Breeze Temple could rival True Yang Temple, while visiting small temples left disappointed because they could not reproduce its success.
• Wen Xu celebrated Clear Breeze Temple’s guardian treasure with Yun Zhaozhao, and she explained how an investor’s interest had helped bring the temple recognition and benefits.
• Wen Xu urged Old President Wen to consider villas near Clear Breeze Temple, arguing that its location, feng shui, and medical clinic would attract wealthy buyers.
• Old President Wen declined to commit and said he would investigate, while Wen Xu’s mother imagined buying nearby villas for the couple and their future family.
• Old President Wen mentioned the temple’s Daoist medical clinic to business friends, prompting President Liu to consider visiting in hopes of curing his chronic back pain.

President Liu visited Clear Breeze Temple’s Daoist clinic, hoping to find help for his chronic back pain. After eating at the temple’s vegetarian restaurant and returning to the queue, he followed Daoist Qiuting into a treatment room filled with patients covered in needles.

• President Liu arrived at Clear Breeze Temple and joined the long queue at its Daoist clinic.
• An old man in line told President Liu about his wife’s recovery and offered to show him the temple dining hall; Lin Banxia gave them queue passes so they could eat and return to their places.
• President Liu treated the old man to a vegetarian meal and wondered whether the rich young master who had wanted to open a factory near the temple was Wen Xu.
• After returning to the queue and waiting, President Liu entered the clinic, where Daoist Qiuting recognized his back pain from the way he walked.
• Daoist Qiuting led President Liu behind a curtain into a room where patients lay covered in needles, then guided him to an empty bed.

President Liu’s treatment at Clear Breeze Temple greatly improved his back and convinced him to consider investing nearby with Old President Wen. Yun Zhaozhao considered joining the investment before deciding to wait, while Tang Li set up a free summer childcare program for temple employees’ children.

• Daoist Qiuting treated President Liu’s lower back and prescribed medicinal plasters and herbal medicine, then told him to return for more sessions.
• President Liu stayed at the Clear Breeze Temple Guesthouse for a month, and a hospital scan showed his lumbar spine had recovered by seventy to eighty percent.
• After returning home, President Liu told Mrs. Liu about his recovery and hurried to Wen Xu’s house to discuss investing near Clear Breeze Temple with Old President Wen.
• Yun Zhaozhao told Wen Xu she was interested in investing near Clear Breeze Temple, but accepted his suggestion to wait and buy houses after the villas were built.
• Tang Li organized a free summer childcare program at Clear Breeze Temple for employees’ children, with two half-month sessions and activities that included storytelling.