Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating as the Lu family's real young master, Lu Chi feared returning home because the fake young master, Lu Jiyang, would frame and eventually kill him. His biological parents found him in the slums and insisted he come home, while they began hearing his unspoken thoughts.

• Lu Chi learned from Guagua that he had transmigrated into the real young master's role in a novel where Lu Jiyang would target him.
• Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng found Lu Chi in a slum alley and showed him paternity reports proving he was their biological son.
• Lu Chi recognized the dangers awaiting him at home and tried to persuade his parents to give him money so he could live independently.
• Lu Chi's inner thoughts revealed his fear of Lu Jiyang and his five older sisters, and Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng realized they could hear those thoughts.
• A clatter of footsteps and a thunderous roar suddenly sounded in the alley, leaving everyone dumbfounded.

A scar-faced man and four punks tried to frame Lu Chi as a gambling addict to turn his biological parents against him, but Lu Chi exposed a hole in their story. As he threatened to call the police, someone appeared at the entrance to his home.

• Scarface grabbed Lu Chi and accused him of owing three million yuan from a gambling debt, while Guagua revealed that Lu Jiyang had arranged the setup.
• Lu Yuanqing pulled Scarface away and demanded proof, while he and his wife privately resolved to help Lu Chi and Lu Jiyang become brothers.
• Scarface and the four punks backed up their accusation, claiming Lu Chi had gambled with them at an internet café near his school.
• Lu Chi questioned Scarface about where they had played and exposed the lie by pointing out that the National Indoor Stadium stood across from Guoqing Middle School.
• Lu Chi threatened to call the police unless Scarface admitted why he had come to slander him, and a figure appeared at the entrance.

Lu Jiyang greeted Lu Chi with a show of affection, but Lu Chi exposed his hostility by pretending he had been pushed and revealing his thoughts about the attempted slander. Lu Chi agreed to return to the Lu family, while his parents promised to protect him and Old Master Lu pursued Scarface and his men.

• Lu Jiyang embraced Lu Chi and claimed he was thrilled to have his brother back, while secretly wishing him harm.
• Lu Chi retched at Lu Jiyang’s scent, then fell and accused him of pushing him.
• Lu Chi asked for money to stay away from the Lu family, but after deciding their wealth might make life easier, he agreed to return.
• Lu Jiyang apologized by suggesting he might have tripped Lu Chi, and Lu Chi accepted while privately vowing to pursue the matter later.
• Pan Feng and Lu Yuanqing promised to protect Lu Chi after hearing his thoughts about fearing life with the family.
• Guagua revealed that Scarface and his men had escaped during Lu Jiyang’s distraction, while Old Master Lu had sent someone after them.

Lu Chi returned to the Lu family villa, where his parents welcomed him but his three sisters and the fake young master, Lu Jiyang, treated him with contempt. Lu Yanxin began hearing Lu Chi’s unspoken thoughts and tried to tell her sisters, but an unknown interference stopped her from speaking about them.

• Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng brought Lu Chi home and promised to care for him, while Lu Jiyang pretended to welcome him and secretly looked down on him.
• Lu Yuanqing discovered his three daughters had stayed upstairs, then summoned Lu Yanxin, Lu Xiaoyue, and Lu Yunke to meet their younger brother.
• The three sisters complained about being made to welcome Lu Chi and believed Lu Jiyang’s claims that he was a gambling addict.
• Lu Yanxin heard Lu Chi’s thoughts criticizing the sisters and warning that the family would meet a bad end, though Lu Chi had not spoken aloud.
• Lu Yanxin tried to ask Xiaoyue and Yunke whether they had heard Lu Chi’s thoughts, but her words turned into buzzing interference whenever she mentioned them.

Lu Chi joined the Lu family for dinner and used his supposed juice allergy to avoid Lu Jiyang’s attempt to frame him. Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng reprimanded Lu Jiyang, but Lu Sangning defended him, leaving the family divided.

• Lu Yanxin tried to tell her sisters about hearing Lu Chi’s inner voice, but she could not type or say it directly; Lu Xiaoyue and Lu Yunke eventually heard the voice themselves.
• Lu Chi learned from Guagua that Lu Jiyang planned to spill juice on himself and accuse him, so Pan Feng invited Lu Chi to sit beside her.
• Lu Sangning arrived for dinner, and Lu Chi heard that she was engaged to Zhang Yong, though Guagua hinted at trouble in their relationship.
• Lu Jiyang pressed Lu Chi to drink juice, but Lu Chi claimed he was allergic and could die from it, making Lu Jiyang retreat with a wounded expression.
• Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng scolded Lu Jiyang, while Lu Sangning criticized Lu Chi for making an issue of a glass of juice.

At dinner, Lu Chi learned that Lu Sangning’s fiancé, Zhang Yong, was secretly involved with a mistress and planned to take over the Lu family’s businesses. Lu Sangning and her family heard Lu Chi’s thoughts, and the chapter left them beginning to investigate Zhang Yong as Lu Sangning’s trust in him faltered.

• Lu Jiyang played the victim, making Lu Sangning and her sisters blame Lu Chi for the earlier conflict.
• Lu Chi asked Guagua about Lu Sangning’s gossip and learned that Zhang Yong had kept a mistress, Zou Nana, for three years.
• Guagua revealed that Zhang Yong planned to marry Lu Sangning to gain control of the Lu family’s companies and would eventually poison her.
• Lu Sangning left the table to call Zhang Yong, but he did not answer, and her trust in him began to crack.
• A bodyguard told Lu Yuanqing that Lu Jiyang had hired Scarface to slander Lu Chi, while Lu Yuanqing ordered Zhou Fu to secretly find Zhang Yong.

Lu Chi settled into his luxurious room at the Lu mansion, then got five million from Lu Jiyang while realizing Jiyang planned to frame him. Lu Sangning’s doubts about Zhang Yong faded after he called with an explanation, just before Lu Yuanqing phoned her with serious news.

• Lu Sangning worried when Zhang Yong ignored her calls, but Lu Yanxin told her to wait for an explanation.
• Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng showed Lu Chi his bedroom and the mansion, while his thoughts about the Lu family’s coming downfall made them resolve to protect it.
• After the family left, Lu Jiyang visited Lu Chi and offered help, so Lu Chi asked him for five million and received it.
• Lu Jiyang cursed Lu Chi and vowed to drive him from the Lu family, while Lu Chi planned to beat him at school the next day.
• Zhang Yong called Lu Sangning and explained that he had been busy inspecting a base, easing her suspicion.
• Lu Yuanqing called Lu Sangning and warned that he had something serious to tell her.

Lu Sangning learned that her fiancé Zhang Yong was vacationing with Zou Nana and decided to go to Shanghai after he rejected her video call. At the Lu home, Lu Chi clashed with Lu Yanxin while Lu Jiyang won her sympathy, and Lu Yuanqing returned that night to accuse Lu Jiyang of being an unfilial son.

• Lu Yuanqing told Lu Sangning that Zhang Yong was in Kunming with Zou Nana and planned to catch him in the act before canceling the engagement.
• Lu Sangning cried, called Zhang Yong, and then ordered Secretary Qin to bring Tian Jun so they could leave for Shanghai.
• Lu Yanxin scolded Lu Chi for lounging instead of studying, but he retorted that he would leave if she gave him money.
• Lu Jiyang comforted Lu Yanxin and assured her he only wanted to stay with the Lu family, deepening her distrust of Lu Chi.
• Lu Chi thought that Lu Jiyang had begun plotting against the Lu family, and Guagua confirmed it as Lu Yanxin, Lu Xiaoyue, and Lu Yunke overheard.
• Lu Yuanqing came home and angrily shouted at Lu Jiyang, calling him an unfilial son.

Lu Yuanqing confronted Lu Jiyang over arranging for Scarface to falsely accuse Lu Chi of gambling and owing money. Lu Jiyang denied it until Lu Yuanqing played a recording of their deal, then beat him with a rod.

• Lu Yuanqing ordered Lu Jiyang to kneel and slapped him, while Lu Yunke confirmed he had stayed home all day.
• Lu Yuanqing showed Lu Jiyang photographs of Scarface and accused him of arranging the false gambling allegations against Lu Chi.
• Lu Jiyang denied knowing Scarface and claimed he had given Lu Chi five million as spending money.
• Lu Chi said the money was hush money and explained that Lu Jiyang had planned to frame him within the Lu family.
• Lu Yuanqing played a recording of Lu Jiyang offering Scarface 500,000 to slander Lu Chi, then beat Lu Jiyang with a rod.

After Lu Jiyang apologized for framing Lu Chi, Lu Yuanqing forgave him but warned him not to cause trouble at school. Hearing Lu Chi worry about money and school, Lu Yuanqing gave him a hundred million, arranged a transfer to the family’s elite school, and ordered that he get a Rolls-Royce, leaving Lu Jiyang consumed by jealousy and determined to keep the Lu Family for himself.

• Lu Yuanqing beat Lu Jiyang, then softened when Lu Jiyang admitted he had framed Lu Chi because he feared losing his parents’ love.
• Lu Jiyang apologized to Lu Chi, who forgave him, while Guagua warned that Lu Jiyang would try to bully him at school.
• Lu Yuanqing heard Lu Chi’s thoughts about needing money and gave him a black card containing a hundred million.
• Lu Yuanqing ordered Lu Yanxin to transfer Lu Chi to the family’s elite school and told Lu Xiaoyue to buy him a Rolls-Royce and arrange a driver.
• Lu Yunke and Lu Jiyang protested Lu Chi’s generous gifts, while Lu Jiyang secretly vowed that the Lu Family and its wealth would be his alone.

Lu Sangning traveled to Shanghai to verify her suspicions about Zhang Yong, and his lie about staying at the Xigelila Grand Hotel confirmed that he had betrayed her. She decided to gather proof before leaving, while her family’s plan to confront Zhang Yong remained underway.

• Lu Sangning struggled with doubts about Zhang Yong during the drive to Shanghai, while Lu Yuanqing told Pan Feng that he had sent Zhou Fu and bodyguards to Kunming to deal with Zhang Yong.
• Lu Chi refused Pan Feng’s offer of fifty million yuan in pocket money after Lu Yuanqing had already given him money.
• After arriving in Shanghai, Lu Sangning repeatedly called Zhang Yong, then checked into the Xigelila Grand Hotel with Qin Yi.
• Zhang Yong claimed he was in room 666, but Lu Sangning and Qin Yi found an unfamiliar man there, confirming that Zhang Yong had lied.
• Qin Yi warned Lu Sangning not to leave without evidence, so Lu Sangning started a video call to Zhang Yong.

Lu Sangning exposed Zhang Yong’s affair with his secretary Zou Nana and returned to Jing City. Meanwhile, Lu Chi transferred into Class 2, Grade 12, where a student immediately insulted him as a country bumpkin.

• Lu Sangning challenged Zhang Yong’s claim that he was at the Xigelila Grand Hotel and showed him the door to room 666.
• People confronted Zhang Yong and Zou Nana in the room, exposing their affair and beating them while Lu Sangning watched by video call.
• Lu Sangning ended the call, thanked her father for arranging a backup plan, and told Qin Yi to return to Jing City.
• Lu Yanxin completed Lu Chi’s transfer to an elite school’s Class 2, Grade 12, after he refused to join Lu Jiyang’s Class 1.
• Gao Qiliang introduced Lu Chi to the class, and a student insulted him as a country bumpkin.

Lu Chi started his first day at school, where classmates ostracized him and Su Yunian discovered she could hear his thoughts. After Guagua helped him answer a question correctly, Lu Chi raised his hand to report something about the students mocking him.

• Gao Qiliang assigned Lu Chi a seat beside the cold and beautiful Su Yunian, while classmates whispered that they had been told by Lu Jiyang to make his life difficult.
• Lu Chi ignored the math lesson and chatted with Guagua in his thoughts, complaining about school and learning that Lu Jiyang was pursuing Su Yunian.
• Su Yunian realized she could hear Lu Chi's thoughts, became disgusted by his comments, and pulled the shared test paper back to her side.
• Su Yunian volunteered Lu Chi to answer Gao Qiliang's question about vectors, and Guagua supplied the answer that Lu Chi repeated correctly.
• Classmates mocked Lu Chi, but after Guagua told him gossip about them, he raised his hand and said he had something to report.

Lu Chi reported that Qiu Yugang, He Xing, and Zhang Da had brought prohibited items to class, despite their attempts to deny it. Gao Qiliang found Qiu Yugang’s cigarettes and He Xing’s smartphone, while Zhang Da’s desk had not yet been searched.

• Lu Chi told Gao Qiliang that Qiu Yugang had cigarettes, He Xing had a smartphone, and Zhang Da had condoms in his desk.
• Lu Chi insisted that his accusations were true and claimed he had seen the boys hide the items outside school.
• Qiu Yugang threw his cigarettes under a desk, and He Xing hid his smartphone in his crotch as Gao Qiliang ordered them to stand.
• Gao Qiliang found the cigarettes near Wang Chenggui’s feet, and Qiu Yugang tried to blame Wang for them.
• Gao Qiliang ordered Qiu Yugang and Wang Chenggui to come to his office, then He Xing’s smartphone fell out of his crotch.

Gao Qiliang confiscated contraband from Qiu Yugang, He Xing, and Zhang Da, then summoned their parents. When the three confronted Lu Chi, he staged a scene that made it look as if they were beating him, just as the principal and education officials passed by.

• Gao Qiliang confiscated Qiu Yugang's cigarettes, He Xing's phone, and Zhang Da's condoms, then called their parents to school.
• Qiu Yugang, He Xing, and Zhang Da confronted Lu Chi and accused him of reporting them, while Su Yunian told them to leave her alone.
• Lu Jiyang arrived and reproached Lu Chi, but Lu Chi asked Su Yunian to let him out and pretended to beg the three boys for mercy.
• Lu Chi fell to the floor and shouted that his classmates were beating him as the principal and education officials passed the classroom window.
• The education bureau director demanded that the incident be dealt with seriously.

After Qiu Yugang and his friends bullied Lu Chi, Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng came to the school and made their families plead for mercy. Lu Chi forced the students to name who had put them up to it, and Lu Jiyang denied involvement until Lu Chi suggested checking his phone for WeChat messages.

• Principal Huang Ke reprimanded Qiu Yugang and the others, and summoned their parents and Lu Chi's parents to school.
• Qiu Mingjun threatened Principal Huang, but the three families backed down when Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng arrived and demanded apologies to Lu Chi.
• Lu Chi demanded that Qiu Yugang and the others reveal who had instructed them to bully him, while Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng threatened consequences for their families.
• Qiu Yugang named Lu Jiyang as the instigator, and He Xing and Zhang Da confirmed that Lu Jiyang had told them to target Lu Chi.
• Lu Jiyang denied the accusation and blamed the students, so Lu Chi suggested checking the WeChat messages on the phone hidden in Lu Jiyang's underwear.

Lu Yuanqing caught Lu Jiyang with a phone and discovered that he had arranged for classmates to bully Lu Chi, while Lu Jiyang claimed he had acted out of fear of losing his parents’ love. Back at school, Lu Chi settled into his new reputation and wanted to nap, drawing Su Yunian’s scorn.

• Pan Feng defended Lu Jiyang, but Lu Yuanqing found the phone hidden in his crotch and told the principal to discipline the students who had bullied Lu Chi.
• Lu Jiyang tried to reach the restroom to delete his messages, but Lu Yuanqing ordered him to the car and slapped him after seeing him grit his teeth behind his back.
• Lu Yuanqing demanded to see Lu Jiyang’s WeChat, which showed that he had urged Qiu Yugang and others to target Lu Chi and had insulted him.
• Lu Jiyang cried and said he had feared Lu Chi would replace him in his parents’ affections, while Lu Yuanqing and Pan Feng promised to love them equally.
• Lu Chi sat bored in class and asked Guagua to wake him if he fell asleep, prompting Su Yunian to call him a slacker.

Lu Chi spent the day taunting Lu Jiyang and avoiding his studies, while Su Yunian kept hearing his thoughts and found herself unable to answer them. The chapter ended with Han Xiaoran noticing Su Yunian staring at Lu Chi in the cafeteria.

• Su Yunian realized she could hear Lu Chi’s thoughts but could not use them to reply to him.
• Lu Chi saw Lu Jiyang’s swollen face at the school gates and teased him before they headed home in separate cars.
• At lunch, Lu Chi mocked Lu Jiyang, then went to sleep instead of studying while Lu Jiyang resolved to outperform him.
• After school, Lu Chi followed Guagua’s directions to the cafeteria and ignored classmates who tried to greet him.
• Su Yunian sat within range of Lu Chi’s thoughts, heard him praise her looks, and then heard him call her a lunatic.
• Han Xiaoran asked Su Yunian why she kept staring at her deskmate.

Lu Chi and Lu Jiyang returned home and were told by Lu Yuanqing to stop targeting each other, but Lu Sangning arrived drunk and confronted Lu Chi about how he knew her secrets. She knocked him down before he could answer and began sobbing.

• At the cafeteria, Lu Jiyang offered Su Yunian two chicken drumsticks, which Han Xiaoran accepted when Su Yunian refused.
• At home, Lu Yuanqing told Lu Chi and Lu Jiyang to get along, and Lu Jiyang apologized while secretly vowing to kill Lu Chi.
• Lu Chi warned Lu Jiyang that he would fight back if Jiyang targeted him again, and Pan Feng urged both brothers to reconcile.
• Lu Sangning came home drunk with Xiao Wen and Auntie Wang, then called out to Lu Chi as he tried to go upstairs.
• Lu Sangning demanded to know whether Lu Chi was human and how he knew about her affairs, then knocked him to the floor and began sobbing.

Lu Sangning learned of Zhang Yong’s hotel affair and ended the Lu Group’s business ties with the Zhang Clan. After rejecting his pleas for forgiveness, she had her bodyguards take him to an abandoned pond, where she asked whether his explanation lacked sincerity.

• Lu Chi left for school while Lu Sangning, unable to remember her drunken behavior toward him, focused on confronting Zhang Yong and Zou Nana.
• Lu Sangning ordered the Lu Group to terminate its partnerships with the Zhang Clan and warned other businesses against working with them.
• Zhang Yong called Lu Sangning to blame Zou Nana, but she rejected his excuses and blocked unknown callers.
• Zhang Yong waited outside Lu Sangning’s office with roses and begged her to forgive him, but she refused and kicked the flowers away.
• Lu Sangning had her bodyguards put Zhang Yong in her Bugatti and take him to an abandoned pond, where she invited him to explain his affair.
• Zhang Yong claimed he had been drunk and seduced by Zou Nana, and Lu Sangning asked whether his explanation lacked sincerity.