Chapter Summaries

Lu Xiaoxiao and Meng Yuan went to the theater to meet He Xi, but Shao Enci and Qiu Boye startled them in the dark after the boys ended up in the wrong theater. As Meng Yuan went ahead with He Xi and Qiu Boye, Shao Enci stopped Lu Xiaoxiao alone at a corridor corner, where 037 assigned her a mission to forcibly kiss her archenemy for five minutes.

• Lu Xiaoxiao met Meng Yuan at the theater and asked if she would consider Qiu Boye, but Meng Yuan said she only liked He Xi.
• Lu Xiaoxiao and Meng Yuan entered a dark theater and were startled by Shao Enci and Qiu Boye making ghost faces; Shao Enci caught Lu Xiaoxiao as Qiu Boye apologized to Meng Yuan.
• Meng Yuan received He Xi's call and discovered he was waiting at a different Theater Nine, while Shao Enci noticed that the theater sign had been freshly moved.
• Shao Enci caught up with Lu Xiaoxiao and asked to speak with her privately as Meng Yuan and Qiu Boye went ahead.
• 037 gave Lu Xiaoxiao a mission to forcibly kiss her archenemy in a movie theater corner for five minutes, with 9 minutes and 59 seconds remaining.

Lu Xiaoxiao kissed Shao Enci in a dark screening room to complete a system task, but cinema staff switched on the lights and caught them. After Shao Enci revealed that Happy Valley and the cinema belonged to his family, they returned to find He Xi’s confession to Meng Yuan had succeeded.

• Lu Xiaoxiao pulled Shao Enci into screening room nine and kissed him after 037 instructed her to make it a French kiss.
• Shao Enci took control of the kiss, and the two continued kissing for more than ten minutes.
• A cinema executive and employees entered, caught the couple, and recognized Shao Enci as the Guanghuan Group heir.
• Lu Xiaoxiao fled in embarrassment, and Shao Enci caught up with her and teased her about kissing him.
• Shao Enci told Lu Xiaoxiao that his family owned both the cinema and Happy Valley.
• Lu Xiaoxiao and Shao Enci returned to find He Xi holding Meng Yuan’s hand after his successful confession, while Qiu Boye urged them to kiss.

At dinner, Qiu Boye revealed that his arranged fiancée had the same name as He Xi’s girlfriend, Meng Yuan, and she reacted by spilling her wine and leaving with Lu Xiaoxiao. In the restroom, Lu Xiaoxiao told Meng Yuan that she had been reborn and warned her that He Xinyi had slept with He Xi before their planned engagement.

• He Xinyi toasted He Xi and Meng Yuan, while Lu Xiaoxiao warned Meng Yuan that He Xinyi’s feelings for her brother seemed improper.
• Qiu Boye mentioned his childhood betrothal to a woman named Meng Yuan, causing Meng Yuan to spill her wine and leave with Lu Xiaoxiao.
• He Xi went to buy Meng Yuan a replacement dress with He Xinyi, leaving Shao Enci and Qiu Boye alone.
• Shao Enci told Qiu Boye that Meng Yuan was the woman his grandfather wanted him to marry, and Qiu Boye said he had never intended to marry her.
• Lu Xiaoxiao told Meng Yuan that she had been reborn and that He Xinyi had slept with He Xi before He Xi and Meng Yuan’s planned engagement.

Lu Xiaoxiao learned that her killer was male but could not identify him, then discovered her brother would return the next morning just as 037 assigned her a mission to deep-kiss her archrival in front of him. She asked Shao Enci to take her to the airport, and he agreed after she pleaded.

• Lu Xiaoxiao used her last verification attempt on Sheng Yao, but 037 confirmed he was not the killer and revealed that the killer was male.
• Lu Xiaoxiao worried that He Jiran or Han Siyu might have killed her, then warned Meng Yuan to be careful around He Xinyi if she pursued He Xi.
• Lu Xiaoxiao recalled that she had ordered milk tea on the day she was poisoned in her previous life and wondered whether it had been involved.
• Ms. Wen told Lu Xiaoxiao that her brother would arrive at the airport around seven the next morning, and 037 assigned her a mission to deep-kiss her archrival for three minutes in front of him.
• Lu Xiaoxiao asked Shao Enci to take her to the airport; after initially refusing, he agreed when she pleaded.

Lu Xiaoxiao and Shao Enci went to the airport to pick up her brother, Lu Jiayan, while Lu Xiaoxiao faced a system task to deep-kiss Shao Enci in front of him. The chapter ended with Lu Jiayan spotting them kissing and angrily rushing over as onlookers began filming.

• Shao Enci brought Lu Xiaoxiao breakfast and drove her to the airport, where she fell asleep on the way.
• At the airport, Lu Xiaoxiao learned that her task required her to kiss Shao Enci for three minutes in front of her brother, and told Shao Enci they were picking up Lu Jiayan.
• Lu Jiayan arrived and politely turned down a woman who asked for his WeChat, saying he was taken.
• Lu Xiaoxiao began deep-kissing Shao Enci in the crowd, and Lu Jiayan saw them and shouted her name in anger.
• Shao Enci tried to turn toward Lu Jiayan, but Lu Xiaoxiao kept kissing him as passersby stopped to watch and film.

Lu Xiaoxiao completed a system task by kissing Shao Enci, prompting Lu Jiayan to beat him before taking her home. The system then ordered her to invite her archrival over for a meal, and Shao Enci agreed to come; on the way, Lu Xiaoxiao accidentally revealed that she knew about Lu Jiayan’s feelings for Su Yin.

• Lu Xiaoxiao kept kissing Shao Enci until 037 announced that she had completed task 14, then Lu Jiayan punched and kicked Shao Enci while he refused to fight back.
• Lu Xiaoxiao tried to stop Lu Jiayan and comforted Shao Enci, who explained that he had endured the blows because Lu Jiayan was her brother.
• 037 assigned Lu Xiaoxiao task 15: invite her archrival home for a meal, with a five-hour countdown.
• Lu Jiayan dragged Lu Xiaoxiao toward a taxi, and she messaged Shao Enci to come to her house; he agreed and promised to take care of everything.
• In the taxi, Lu Xiaoxiao teased Lu Jiayan about loving Su Yin, then claimed she had guessed when he asked how she knew about her.

Shao Enci went to Lu Xiaoxiao’s home to explain their relationship to her family, then confessed that he had loved her throughout their years as archenemies. Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned by his revelation.

• Shao Enci arrived at the Lu family home with injuries from Lu Jiayan and overheard the family questioning Lu Xiaoxiao about their relationship.
• Lu Xiaoxiao opened the door and was surprised when Shao Enci offered to help explain things to her family.
• Shao Enci apologized for arriving without gifts, while Ms. Wen and Professor Lu welcomed him and urged Lu Jiayan to apologize for hitting him.
• Shao Enci told the family that he and Lu Xiaoxiao had been archenemies in high school, but that he had always treasured their time together.
• Shao Enci confessed that he knew Lu Xiaoxiao’s likes and habits and had hidden his feelings behind pride and cruel words.
• Lu Xiaoxiao froze in shock when she realized Shao Enci said he liked her.

Lu Xiaoxiao rejected Shao Enci in front of her family, then regretted hurting him and chased after him as he left. Shao Enci resisted her embrace and asked how much longer she planned to take advantage of him.

• Lu Jiayan asked whether Lu Xiaoxiao and Shao Enci were together, and Shao Enci admitted they were not before asking her to date him.
• Lu Xiaoxiao cut Shao Enci off and said she had never liked him, then explained that she had pursued him because she wanted to claim him before she fell for him.
• Lu Yifei, Ms. Wen, and Lu Jiayan scolded Lu Xiaoxiao for taking advantage of Shao Enci, while Shao Enci defended her and blamed himself.
• Shao Enci apologized to Lu Xiaoxiao's family and left, refusing their offers to stay and asking them not to blame her.
• Lu Xiaoxiao chased Shao Enci and wrapped her arms around his waist, but he tried to remove her hands and asked how much longer she planned to take advantage of him.

Lu Xiaoxiao persuaded Shao Enci to stay for dinner at her family’s home, where he and Lu Jiayan shared stories and grew more comfortable with each other. As the family welcomed Shao Enci, 037 revealed five increasingly intimate tasks for Lu Xiaoxiao to complete with her archrival.

• Lu Xiaoxiao clung to Shao Enci, told him she wanted him to stay, and bit his neck while insisting he have dinner with her family.
• Shao Enci carried Lu Xiaoxiao home, where Lu Jiayan gave him an ice pack and asked when he had started liking her.
• Shao Enci told Lu Jiayan about meeting Lu Xiaoxiao when he was twelve, and Lu Jiayan shared that he was pursuing someone he had met in the United States.
• Ms. Wen, Lu Yifei, and Lu Jiayan welcomed Shao Enci at dinner, while Lu Xiaoxiao wondered why her family’s favorability toward him was increasing.
• 037 announced tasks 16 through 20, including having Shao Enci stay overnight and planting a strawberry mark on his abs, leaving Lu Xiaoxiao shocked by their escalating intimacy.

Lu Xiaoxiao tried to keep Shao Enci overnight after realizing he had drunk wine despite his alcohol allergy. She finally persuaded him to stay, though he warned her that he would lock his bedroom door.

• Lu Xiaoxiao remembered that Shao Enci was allergic to alcohol and urged him to stay after noticing his face had turned red.
• Lu Xiaoxiao’s family invited Shao Enci to spend the night, but he initially insisted he needed to go home.
• Lu Xiaoxiao messaged Shao Enci that she had a gift for him if he stayed, and he teased her by saying he did not want it.
• After lunch, Lu Xiaoxiao pulled Shao Enci into her room and told him she was worried about his alcohol allergy.
• Shao Enci agreed to stay overnight and told Lu Xiaoxiao he would lock his door and she should message him if she needed anything.

Lu Xiaoxiao and Shao Enci went out to dinner with her brother, Lu Jiayan, and Shao Enci tried to please her by taking her photos. He took a series of terrible pictures while distracted by a message from He Jiran, leaving Lu Xiaoxiao furious with his photography skills.

• Lu Jiayan changed the guest room sheets and teased Shao Enci about doing housework once he and Lu Xiaoxiao were together.
• Lu Xiaoxiao struggled to start an assignment while Shao Enci worked on code in the guest room.
• Lu Xiaoxiao invited Shao Enci to dinner, and he asked her to bring Lu Jiayan along.
• At the yakitori restaurant, Lu Jiayan teased Lu Xiaoxiao, while Shao Enci peeled shrimp for her.
• After Lu Jiayan left for the restroom, Shao Enci asked Lu Xiaoxiao to rate his efforts to please her and took her photos.
• Shao Enci noticed He Jiran's movie invitation while taking the pictures, and Lu Xiaoxiao angrily criticized the unflattering results.

Lu Xiaoxiao completed 037’s task by pinning Shao Enci against the bathroom wall, then received a new task to tease him and hook a finger into his waistband. She stayed in his guest room to ask permission, leaving Shao Enci to wonder whether she had arranged for him to stay over so she could make a move on him.

• Lu Xiaoxiao asked 037 who had caused her death, but 037 changed the subject and assigned her a task to pin Shao Enci against the bathroom wall for five minutes.
• Lu Jiayan caught Lu Xiaoxiao outside Shao Enci’s room and warned her to go back, so she waited until he left before sneaking inside.
• Lu Xiaoxiao entered the bathroom and pinned Shao Enci against the wall, completing the task despite their charged encounter.
• 037 assigned Lu Xiaoxiao a new task to tease Shao Enci and hook a finger into his waistband.
• After Shao Enci calmed down and came out of the bathroom, Lu Xiaoxiao asked if she could hook a finger into his waistband.
• Shao Enci asked Lu Xiaoxiao whether she had forced him to stay the night so she could make a move on him.

Lu Xiaoxiao completed tasks that made her expose Shao Enci’s abs and leave a hickey on them, but he turned the encounter into a kiss and warned her not to be intimate with him unless she agreed to date him. She fled to her room, while Shao Enci stayed behind, pleased by the mark she had left.

• 037 assigned Lu Xiaoxiao the task of lying on Shao Enci’s bed and lifting his shirt to look at his abs, and he caught her finger in his waistband.
• Lu Xiaoxiao lifted Shao Enci’s shirt, counted his eight abdominal muscles, and completed the task.
• 037 assigned Lu Xiaoxiao the task of leaving a hickey on Shao Enci’s abs, and she sucked a red mark into his skin.
• Shao Enci flipped Lu Xiaoxiao beneath him and kissed her until she pushed him away.
• Shao Enci told Lu Xiaoxiao that she could not be intimate with him unless she agreed to be his girlfriend, then teased her as she fled to her room.
• Shao Enci touched the hickey on his abs and smiled after Lu Xiaoxiao’s door closed.

After being reborn at nineteen, Qiu Boye rushed to keep his childhood engagement to Meng Yuan and decided to stay in Hong Kong City instead of returning to the United States. He remembered his previous life and became uncertain whether this was a parallel world or his memories were changing.

• Qiu Boye warned Shao Enci that Lu Xiaoxiao would be killed in their senior year, then told Butler Li to retrieve the marriage agreement and inform his grandfather that he would marry Meng Yuan.
• Qiu Boye recalled how he had dismissed Meng Yuan, later married her, and eventually fell to his death before hearing her say she loved him.
• At a farewell gathering, Qiu Boye smashed a wineglass and declared that He Xi would not steal his wife again.
• Qiu Boye called his eldest brother to ask to study at a local university rather than return to the United States.
• Qiu Boye remembered an event involving Shao Enci and Meng Yuan that had not happened in his previous life, and wondered if he was in a parallel world or if his memories were wrong.

Lu Xiaoxiao completed 037’s task by sharing an umbrella with Shao Enci on the way to school, and he carried her when she got cold. As they continued toward school, 037 gave her a new task: ask Shao Enci to kiss her in the school’s little grove.

• 037 assigned Lu Xiaoxiao the task of sharing an umbrella with Shao Enci on the way to school.
• Lu Xiaoxiao went to Shao Enci’s home, and he joined her for the walk instead of driving her.
• Shao Enci held the umbrella over Lu Xiaoxiao as they walked, letting his own shoulder get wet.
• When Lu Xiaoxiao grew cold, Shao Enci carried her on his back and told her he had been good at taking care of her since they met.
• 037 announced task 22: Lu Xiaoxiao had to ask Shao Enci to kiss her in the school’s little grove during a break between classes.

Lu Xiaoxiao invited Shao Enci to meet her in the school grove for task 22, and he teased her about their secret tryst. She kissed him, and he drew her closer and returned the kiss.

• Shao Enci carried Lu Xiaoxiao toward school while they teased each other and discussed their classes.
• Lu Xiaoxiao asked Shao Enci to meet her in the school grove after first period, then ran into school.
• Girls in Lu Xiaoxiao’s calculus class wondered whether she was the girl Shao Enci had carried to school.
• After class, Lu Xiaoxiao messaged Shao Enci that she was waiting in the grove, and he appeared nearby.
• Shao Enci teased Lu Xiaoxiao about how to have their secret tryst, and she kissed him.
• Shao Enci cupped the back of Lu Xiaoxiao’s head and kissed her back.

Lu Xiaoxiao completed a task by kissing Shao Enci, then received a new task requiring her to tease him and leave a hickey in the Gymnasium. She learned that Qiu Boye was also reborn and arranged to contact him, then lured Shao Enci to meet her after class by threatening to call He Jiran.

• After the task ended, Shao Enci continued kissing Lu Xiaoxiao and suggested meeting in the Gymnasium next time.
• 037 assigned Lu Xiaoxiao a task to tease Shao Enci in the Gymnasium and plant a hickey on his neck.
• Meng Yuan told Lu Xiaoxiao that Qiu Boye had disrupted her date with He Xi, claimed they were engaged, and said he had been reborn.
• 037 told Lu Xiaoxiao that Qiu Boye was an ordinary reborn person who could assist with her tasks, and Lu Xiaoxiao asked Meng Yuan for his contact information.
• Lu Xiaoxiao messaged Shao Enci to meet at the Gymnasium and threatened to call He Jiran if he refused; Shao Enci warned her not to take advantage of him again.

At the Gymnasium, Lu Xiaoxiao used Shao Enci’s identity to fend off classmates and then completed a system task by leaving a hickey on his neck. Shao Enci locked them inside the changing room and confronted her about treating him like a fool while refusing to define their relationship.

• Lu Xiaoxiao rejected several boys who invited her out, then claimed Shao Enci was her boyfriend to stop them from bothering her.
• After class, the system gave Lu Xiaoxiao twelve minutes to tease her archrival at the Gymnasium and leave a hickey on his neck.
• Lu Xiaoxiao called Shao Enci, hurried to kiss his neck when he arrived, and completed Task 23.
• Shao Enci grabbed Lu Xiaoxiao as she tried to leave, locked the changing room door, and accused her of taking advantage of him without giving him a proper place in her life.

Lu Xiaoxiao learned that the system would punish her for confessing love to Shao Enci before completing 50 designated tasks, so she hid the truth about calling him her boyfriend. She also spoke with Qiu Boye about their past lives, learned how much her death had hurt her family and Shao Enci, and ended the chapter crying as Qiu Boye called Shao Enci for help.

• Lu Xiaoxiao triggered the Punishment System by telling Shao Enci she had called him her boyfriend, and the system warned her not to confirm her love before completing 50 designated tasks.
• Lu Xiaoxiao returned to the moment before her confession and told Shao Enci she had claimed he was her big brother instead.
• Lu Xiaoxiao accepted Qiu Boye's friend request and learned that he had been reborn, too, though from a different point in his life.
• Qiu Boye claimed that He Xi had murdered him and said he remembered Lu Xiaoxiao being poisoned to death, after which Shao Enci became devastated.
• Qiu Boye told Lu Xiaoxiao that her parents and Meng Yuan had suffered after her death, and she cried before he called Shao Enci to comfort her.

After Qiu Boye told Shao Enci that Lu Xiaoxiao was crying, Shao Enci brought her gifts to cheer her up and apologized for speaking harshly. Their teasing turned to jealousy before 037 assigned Lu Xiaoxiao a public swimming-pool kiss mission for the next afternoon.

• Lu Xiaoxiao grieved over her death in her previous life and resolved to catch the person who poisoned her.
• Shao Enci arrived at Lu Xiaoxiao's apartment building with gifts and invited her into his van to open them.
• Lu Xiaoxiao teased Shao Enci about being a gift she wanted to unwrap, and he stopped her.
• Shao Enci apologized, and Lu Xiaoxiao explained that she had cried while imagining her parents grieving if she died.
• Shao Enci asked whether Lu Xiaoxiao liked Qiu Boye, and she denied it by pointing out that she kissed and hugged Shao Enci.
• 037 assigned Lu Xiaoxiao a mission to forcibly kiss Shao Enci for three minutes in the swimming pool, and she warned him to be ready for swimming class tomorrow.