Chapter Summaries

Ling Yu woke after the orange cat knocked him unconscious and learned that the God of Wine had saved him by drinking every bottle in his treasured wine cabinet. As Ling Yu struggled to believe what had happened, Wuma Xiu insisted it was the God of Wine, leaving Ling Yu to suspect a wine thief instead.

• Ling Yu woke up and remembered that the orange cat had struck him, but found himself uninjured.
• Wuma Xiu told Ling Yu that the God of Wine had saved him and drunk all the wine in his cabinet.
• Ling Yu discovered his collection was gone and was devastated by the loss.
• Wuma Xiu admitted he had drunk the wine while waiting, but claimed he had not done it on purpose.
• Ling Yu questioned whether the God of Wine had really appeared and suspected a wine thief had taken his collection.

Wuma Xiu tricked Ling Yu into believing he was the God of Wine and described a fabricated appearance, then left with Fat Orange. Back where they first met, Wuma Xiu warned Fat Orange not to hit people, while she offered to give him her handsome owner.

• Wuma Xiu claimed he was a believer of the God of Wine, and Ling Yu concluded that the god had visited him after finding no usable security footage.
• Ling Yu asked Wuma Xiu what the God of Wine looked like, and Wuma Xiu invented a description of a huge, bearded man with a booming voice.
• Ling Yu recorded Wuma Xiu's account as first-hand information and planned to preserve it as a family heirloom.
• Fat Orange approached Ling Yu, and Wuma Xiu translated her apology while calling Ling Yu fragile, prompting him to try to stop them from leaving.
• Wuma Xiu returned Fat Orange to the windowsill where they had first met and told her not to swat people, while Fat Orange offered him her handsome owner.

Wuma Xiu settled down for a nap in a grove, using a plump cloud as a pillow. Nearby, Space Pirates searching for beautiful captives spotted him and prepared to seize him.

• Wuma Xiu left Fat Orange and went into a grove to sleep.
• Wuma Xiu beckoned down a cloud shaped like Fat Orange, poured wine into it, and used it as a pillow on a vine net.
• Old Li and Old Chen complained that their Space Pirate crew had captured only one person and needed more beautiful captives for their boss.
• Old Li and Old Chen spotted Wuma Xiu asleep in the grove and signaled their companions to surround him.

Space pirates kidnapped Wuma Xiu and another young man from Wine Star, believing they had found valuable captives. After their ship left the planet, the other young man woke and reassured Wuma Xiu, who pretended to be frightened.

• Wuma Xiu woke when he heard the pirates, but used his divine power to stop the sentient Fat Orange cloud from attacking and let the pirates carry him away.
• Old Li suspected the convenient discovery might be a trap, but Old Chen scanned the area and found no sign of an ambush.
• Old Chen sprayed Wuma Xiu with sleep spray, and the pirates carried him and the other unconscious youth to their spaceship.
• The pirates placed both captives in a comfortable cabin and took off from Wine Star while Wuma Xiu kept pretending to sleep.
• An hour later, the other young man woke coughing, and Wuma Xiu acted confused and frightened when he opened his eyes.
• The young man told Wuma Xiu that they were safe for now.

Wuma Xiu pretended to be a frightened captive aboard a space pirate ship while Qin Jiu tried to protect him. After the pirates revealed they planned to sell them, Wuma Xiu invoked the God of Wine and calmly accepted their challenge to call for divine punishment.

• Wuma Xiu introduced himself as Xiaojiu, and Qin Jiu reassured him that they should wait for the pirates to arrive.
• Old Chen and Old Li entered the cabin and told the captives they would not be released.
• Wuma Xiu pretended to plead for freedom, while the pirates decided he would make valuable merchandise because he had no family.
• Qin Jiu stood between the pirates and Wuma Xiu and offered to cooperate if they let the younger captive go.
• Old Chen and Old Li said their boss would inspect the captives before they were sold.
• Wuma Xiu warned the pirates that the God of Wine would punish them, then calmly told them to bring the god when they challenged him.

The system revealed its secret encrypted space and secretly photographed Wuma Xiu while he pretended to cry. Back in the cabin, Wuma Xiu offered Qin Jiu his miraculous wine to cure his worsening illness.

• The system admitted it had hidden an encrypted Private System Space filled with secret writings and treasures.
• The system left its private space and took a close-up photo of Wuma Xiu clutching a pillow with red-rimmed eyes.
• Wuma Xiu sneezed, and Qin Jiu checked his forehead before worrying that he had caught a chill.
• Wuma Xiu stopped Qin Jiu from contacting Old Chen and Old Li and asked whether he wanted a healthy body.
• Wuma Xiu offered Qin Jiu wine from his gourd, promising that it would cure him.

Wuma Xiu gave Qin Jiu a few swallows from the Wine Gourd, curing his long-term illness and leaving him astonishingly strong. Qin Jiu agreed to become Wuma Xiu’s friend, and their conversation about Fat Orange ended with Qin Jiu planning to punish his cat for offering him as a bed warmer.

• Wuma Xiu stopped Qin Jiu from lifting the Wine Gourd and fed him wine until he passed out after two swallows.
• Qin Jiu woke feeling completely healthy and discovered he could jump three meters into the air.
• Wuma Xiu said he had cured Qin Jiu to repay him for his care, and Qin Jiu agreed to be his friend.
• Qin Jiu offered Wuma Xiu his cat, Fat Orange, after noticing that Fat Orange Cloud looked just like him.
• Wuma Xiu revealed that Fat Orange had met him before and offered Qin Jiu to warm his bed, prompting Qin Jiu to search his memory for the washboard.

Wuma Xiu and Qin Jiu arrived at the space pirates’ hideout, where Qin Jiu planned to escape with Xiao Jiu while Wuma Xiu secretly mocked their claim that the boss was a demigod’s son. They met Lin Yan, who praised them as merchandise, but Old Chen and Old Li found themselves trapped in the room with them.

• Old Chen and Old Li escorted Wuma Xiu and Qin Jiu off the spaceship and warned them that their boss was the son of a demigod.
• Qin Jiu resolved to cripple the boss and flee with Xiao Jiu, while Wuma Xiu hid his laughter at the pirates’ claims of divine ancestry.
• Old Chen and Old Li led Wuma Xiu and Qin Jiu through guarded doors into a lavish, gaudy room.
• Lin Yan reclined with a young beauty, saw Wuma Xiu and Qin Jiu, and called them a good batch of merchandise.
• Old Chen and Old Li tried to leave after Lin Yan promised them rewards, but the door would not open.

Wuma Xiu revealed himself as the God of Wine and killed the Space Pirates Old Chen and Old Li, who had kidnapped him. Lin Yan recognized Wuma Xiu’s power and submitted, while Qin Jiu struggled to accept that Xiaojiu was a god.

• Old Li reported that the door would not open, and Lin Yan cleared the furniture away before respectfully greeting Wuma Xiu.
• Wuma Xiu reminded Old Chen and Old Li of their old agreement, and the two pirates knelt and begged him to spare them.
• Wuma Xiu invoked the God of Wine and killed Old Chen and Old Li, revealing that he was the God of Wine himself.
• Qin Jiu realized that Xiaojiu was Lord God of Wine and wondered whether he could still travel with him to Landon Star.
• Wuma Xiu dismissed Lin Yan as an unimpressive Demigod’s Son, and Lin Yan bowed and declared himself mere dust before him.

Wuma Xiu’s boredom and longing for his sleeping divine friends led him to arrange a dangerous surprise for the God of Fire by making Lin Yan send a threatening letter. While they waited, Wuma Xiu comforted Qin Jiu by bringing Fat Orange back to him, and the cat accidentally revealed how much he had been eating.

• Wuma Xiu remembered the Dream God, Spring God, and Music God, then quietly wished for his friends to wake up.
• Wuma Xiu ordered Lin Yan to write to his demigod father and claim he had been kidnapped, hoping to lure the God of Fire into a reunion.
• Lin Yan sent the letter with a Firebird, fearing the God of Fire would beat him to death.
• Wuma Xiu offered Qin Jiu a place on the Fat Orange cloud, but Qin Jiu declined.
• Wuma Xiu summoned Fat Orange and placed him in Qin Jiu’s arms.
• Fat Orange complained about Qin Jiu’s disappearance, then accidentally admitted he had eaten far more than usual.

Qin Jiu learned that Wuma Xiu had enabled him to understand Fat Orange, and Wuma Xiu welcomed Qin Jiu’s affection despite his identity as the God of Wine. Meanwhile, the God of Fire received a plea from Lin Yan and set out to confront the divine descendant who had attacked Yan’er, planning to visit his old friend afterward.

• Qin Jiu realized he could understand Fat Orange after Wuma Xiu said the God of Wine had made it possible.
• Wuma Xiu let Qin Jiu pet his head and explained that he treated friends with genuine care, regardless of who they were.
• The God of Fire received a letter from Lin Yan asking him to save his great-great-great-grandson Yan’er from an unknown divine descendant.
• The God of Fire burned the letter, ordered Yan’er’s Firebird to lead him to the attacker, and set out as nearby volcanoes erupted.
• The God of Fire remembered his friendship with the God of Wine and resolved to visit him after dealing with Yan’er’s trouble.

Lin Yan prepared to confront the person who had kidnapped his descendant, hoping to prove himself to the God of Fire, but discovered the culprit was Wuma Xiu, the God of Wine. Lin Yan realized his descendant had concealed Wuma Xiu’s identity and feared he had ruined his standing with his Father God.

• Lin Yan learned that his descendant had sent a letter asking for help and prepared to investigate the kidnapper with his Demigod Artifact and weapons.
• Lin Yan left the Lin Family residence, determined to discover what the kidnapper could do before the God of Fire arrived.
• Lin Yan saw Wuma Xiu lounging on Fat Orange Cloud and recognized the God of Wine, realizing his descendant had withheld the crucial clue of the Wine Gourd.
• Wuma Xiu admitted he could not remember Lin Yan, who introduced himself as a Demigod under the God of Fire and bowed to him.

Wuma Xiu reunited with the God of Fire, who mistook Lin Yan for someone who had bullied and tried to sell him and burned him away. The God of Fire then asked Lin Yan where the arrogant fellow from his letter was, leaving Lin Yan terrified that his deception would be exposed.

• Wuma Xiu denied that he had come to challenge the God of Wine and threw his spear aside to prove it.
• The God of Fire arrived in a blaze of heat and divine pressure, which Wuma Xiu shielded Qin Jiu from.
• Wuma Xiu embraced the God of Fire, who picked him up and refused to put him down.
• Wuma Xiu claimed Lin Yan had tied him up and planned to sell him, so the God of Fire burned Lin Yan away.
• The God of Fire sensed his own divine blood in the remains, then asked Lin Yan where the arrogant fellow was, while Lin Yan feared his lie would be revealed.

Lin Yan confessed that his descendant had kidnapped Wuma Xiu, and the God of Fire punished him with a beating. As the God of Wine watched, he noticed Qin Jiu and Fat Orange were bored and suggested it was time for an upgrade.

• Lin Yan confessed to the God of Fire that his descendant had kidnapped Wuma Xiu and explained how the Firebird had delivered his letter.
• The God of Fire set Wuma Xiu down on Fat Orange Cloud and began beating Lin Yan for his deception.
• Wuma Xiu watched the God of Fire repeat the same moves while Lin Yan howled through the beating.
• Wuma Xiu turned to Qin Jiu and Fat Orange, asked whether they were bored, and concluded that they were.
• Qin Jiu recognized Wuma Xiu's appearance as matching the God of Wine statue he had seen since childhood.

Wuma Xiu played the seven-stringed zither for Qin Jiu, who praised the music for bringing him joy, making the God of Fire jealous as he beat Lin Yan. Wuma Xiu then accompanied the God of Fire’s punches with a marimba, and the God of Fire paused to remark that his friend’s temperament had not changed.

• Wuma Xiu displayed his instruments and invited Qin Jiu to choose one for him to play.
• Qin Jiu chose a seven-stringed zither, and Wuma Xiu played an improvised tune that pleased him.
• Qin Jiu told Wuma Xiu that the music sounded wonderful and brought him joy, prompting Wuma Xiu to say it was his honor to make Qin Jiu happy.
• The God of Fire grew jealous while beating Lin Yan, who mistakenly thought the zither music had eased his father god’s anger.
• Wuma Xiu picked up a marimba and matched its notes to the God of Fire’s punches and throws.
• The God of Fire stopped and told Wuma Xiu that his temperament was the same as ever.

After Lin Yan recovered from the God of Fire's beating, Wuma Xiu put off visiting the Goddess of Beauty to appease his old friend. The God of Fire then confronted Wuma Xiu over the prank and grew furious when Wuma Xiu called his music an apology.

• Lin Yan restored his injuries and clothes, then resolved to hide away until Qin Jiu was no longer alive to remember the beating.
• Wuma Xiu put away the instruments after playing music that soothed the God of Fire.
• Wuma Xiu remembered he had not visited the Goddess of Beauty, but Lin Yan urged him to wait because the Goddess was busy.
• Wuma Xiu agreed to postpone his visit, easing the God of Fire's tension.
• The God of Fire demanded that Wuma Xiu settle accounts over the letter prank, and Wuma Xiu tried to appease him by citing the music.
• The God of Fire became angrier when Wuma Xiu mentioned the music and glared at Qin Jiu, suspecting Wuma Xiu cared more for him.

Qin Jiu stood up to the God of Fire, while Fat Orange bravely tried to defend him and earned the god’s admiration. The chapter ended with Fat Orange loudly exposing his plan to find Qin Jiu a bed partner, leaving Qin Jiu mortified.

• Qin Jiu introduced himself to the God of Fire as the God of Wine’s wine and stood his ground despite his fear.
• Fat Orange jumped from Qin Jiu’s arms and charged at the God of Fire to protect his owner.
• Wuma Xiu caught Fat Orange and soothed him by stroking his back, leaving the cat limp and relaxed.
• The God of Fire admired Fat Orange’s courage, and Wuma Xiu proudly recounted how the cat had once defended Qin Jiu.
• Fat Orange called Qin Jiu over and announced that the grown-up Wuma Xiu was the bed partner he had found for him, making Qin Jiu blush with embarrassment.

Wuma Xiu stopped the God of Fire from punishing Fat Orange and Qin Jiu after the cat called Qin Jiu Wuma Xiu’s bed partner. Wuma Xiu then sent Qin Jiu and Fat Orange away, promising Qin Jiu they could meet again, and turned back to face the God of Fire.

• The God of Fire prepared to punish Fat Orange and Qin Jiu for their remarks, but Wuma Xiu stopped him and explained that Fat Orange had meant no offense.
• Wuma Xiu persuaded the God of Fire to stand down by defending Fat Orange’s intentions and praising the cat’s taste.
• Wuma Xiu returned Fat Orange to Qin Jiu and said their journey together had reached its end.
• Wuma Xiu told Qin Jiu how to call for him when he wanted to meet again, then used his divine power to send Qin Jiu and Fat Orange away.
• Wuma Xiu faced the God of Fire and agreed to settle accounts with him.

The God of Fire followed Wuma Xiu to the God of Wine’s palace and insisted on drinking his stored wine. As they shared a treasured jar, Wuma Xiu asked him to name it, and the God of Fire carved “Reunion” into its side.

• The God of Fire decided to visit Wuma Xiu’s palace and threatened to drink most of his wine, while Lin Yan escaped toward Fireglow Star.
• The God of Fire entered Wuma Xiu’s palace and drank ice wine with him beside the stream.
• The God of Fire and Wuma Xiu talked about Wuma Xiu’s friendship with a mortal and his time spent with a cat.
• Wuma Xiu dug up his unnamed treasured wine and asked the God of Fire to name it.
• The God of Fire carved “Reunion” into the jar.

Wuma Xiu reunited with the God of Fire and opened a prized jar of wine called Reunion, which they shared as they reminisced. As Wuma Xiu began telling a story, the God of Fire grew jealous of his many friends and secretly drank the remaining wine.

• Wuma Xiu inscribed a teasing message on the Reunion jar and opened it with the God of Fire.
• Wuma Xiu tasted the wine and passed it to the God of Fire, who gulped down several large mouthfuls before Wuma Xiu reclaimed the jar.
• Wuma Xiu scolded the God of Fire for wasting the carefully brewed wine, then agreed they would take turns drinking.
• After drinking together, Wuma Xiu leaned against the God of Fire and told him about a prayer asking the God of Wine for a large family.
• The God of Fire thought about Wuma Xiu's many friends, felt jealous, and secretly drank all the remaining Reunion.