Chapter Summaries

Qiu Qianwei learned from the Piano God’s fingering and resolved to visit Tianqi Piano Shop in Qingling to find him. At Wang Family Villa, Wang Haoran composed a piano piece, recorded it with Yang Jingwan, and the two headed toward the bedroom.

• Qiu Qianwei used the Piano God’s fingering to perform the Third Piano Concerto and began admiring him.
• Qiu Qianwei learned that the viral piano video had been filmed at Tianqi Piano Shop and planned to investigate there.
• Wang Haoran refined and finalized a piece he had composed while waiting for Yang Jingwan to arrive.
• Yang Jingwan showed Wang Haoran the viral video, and he recognized himself in the footage.
• Wang Haoran wore a Paper Mask and played his new composition while Yang Jingwan recorded it for Douyin.
• Wang Haoran suggested that Yang Jingwan take her turn performing, and they went toward the bedroom.

Qiu Qianwei went to Tianqi Piano Shop hoping to contact the Piano God, but the owner refused to share his information. After finding his new video online and hearing his composition, Qiu Qianwei messaged him to offer to buy the copyright and invite him to her recital.

• Qiu Qianwei visited Tianqi Piano Shop and learned that Internet Celebrities had gathered there hoping to meet the Piano God.
• Qiu Qianwei asked the shop owner for the Piano God's contact information, but the owner refused to violate customer confidentiality.
• Qiu Qianwei heard that the Piano God had posted a video and watched his new piano performance.
• Qiu Qianwei listened to the composition repeatedly and was stunned to discover that the Piano God described himself as an 18-year-old piano enthusiast.
• Qiu Qianwei messaged the Piano God to offer to purchase the composition's copyright and invite him to her recital as a special guest.

Qiu Qianwei waited in vain for a reply from the Piano God and invited him to her recital, while Wang Haoran attended with Xu Muyan, Qin Yunhan, Mu Zhaozhao, and Wen Jing. At the gymnasium, Lin Chen announced he would perform a four-handed piano piece with Qiu Qianwei, unaware that Wang Haoran planned to upstage him.

• Qiu Qianwei waited for the Piano God to answer her message and sent Wang Haoran five tickets to her recital.
• Wang Haoran drove Xu Muyan, Qin Yunhan, Mu Zhaozhao, and Wen Jing to Qingling Gymnasium, where they saw Qiu Qianwei's invitation for the Piano God.
• Mu Zhaozhao, Qin Yunhan, Xu Muyan, and Wen Jing discussed fans wearing paper masks and guessed that the Piano God was ugly, while Wang Haoran kept his identity secret.
• Wang Haoran and the others took their seats near the front, with Xu Muyan and Qin Yunhan sitting on either side of him.
• Lin Chen told the women he would perform a four-handed piano piece with Qiu Qianwei and hoped they would applaud him.
• Lin Chen secretly anticipated impressing the audience, while Wang Haoran watched him with amusement.

Qiu Qianwei’s concert reached its lucky audience segment, where Wang Haoran joined her onstage for a four-hand piano performance. Though he claimed to know none of the beginner pieces she asked about, he named several difficult works he could play, leaving Qiu Qianwei surprised and unsure what to make of him.

• Qiu Qianwei performed classical pieces and her own compositions, then told the audience she wished she could perform a piece by the Piano God.
• Male fans in Paper Masks jokingly claimed to be the Piano God, while Qiu Qianwei worried that the real one had refused to attend her concert.
• Qiu Qianwei drew Row 1, Seat 8 for the lucky audience segment, and Wang Haoran went onstage wearing a Paper Mask.
• Qiu Qianwei recognized Wang Haoran and asked whether he could play piano, but he said he did not know several beginner pieces.
• Wang Haoran claimed he could play “Third Piano Concerto” and “Flight of the Bumblebee,” surprising Qiu Qianwei with his unusual choice of repertoire.

Wang Haoran amazed the audience by performing piano duets with Qiu Qianwei, then played the difficult Third Piano Concerto alone. Watching him, Qiu Qianwei recognized that he was Piano God, leaving her affection for him increased.

• Wang Haoran and Qiu Qianwei performed Flight of the Bumblebee together, earning loud applause and increasing several women's affection for Wang Haoran.
• At the audience's urging, Qiu Qianwei began Third Piano Concerto with Wang Haoran, who initially played his part with one hand.
• Wang Haoran flawlessly played a difficult passage using the same fingering as Piano God, shocking Qiu Qianwei and causing her to miss her part.
• Wang Haoran rescued the performance, then continued alone as Qiu Qianwei watched his skill and recognized his hands and appearance from Piano God's video.
• Qiu Qianwei concluded that Wang Haoran was Piano God, and her affection for him rose as he gained Villain Points and Lin Chen's Protagonist Halo weakened.

Wang Haoran revealed himself as the Piano God at Qiu Qianwei’s concert and performed his new piece, “Wound.” Qiu Qianwei’s affection for him rose to 70 after she mistook the music’s inspiration for heartbreak and he used his Charm Halo.

• After Wang Haoran finished the “Third Piano Concerto,” Qiu Qianwei recognized him as the Piano God and quietly complained that he had made her search for him.
• Qiu Qianwei told the cheering audience that Wang Haoran was her special guest, then pressured him to perform for them.
• Wang Haoran played his new composition, “Wound,” leaving Qiu Qianwei and the audience deeply moved.
• Qiu Qianwei interpreted the piece as a story of betrayal and heartbreak, and her affection for Wang Haoran rose to 60.
• Wang Haoran used his Charm Halo on Qiu Qianwei, raising her affection to 70.

Wang Haoran’s piano performance won over the recital audience and kept Lin Chen from taking the stage, earning him Villain Points. He arranged to travel with Qiu Qianwei to the Global Glory Art Festival abroad, while Mu Zhaozhao asked to stay at Qin Yunhan’s home for the night.

• Qiu Qianwei’s applause sparked a standing wave of enthusiasm, and Wang Haoran played several more classical pieces as the audience’s affection for him increased.
• The recital ended without Lin Chen’s planned four-hand performance with Qiu Qianwei, and Wang Haoran earned Villain Points for preventing Lin Chen from showing off.
• Qiu Qianwei told Wang Haoran she was leaving for the Global Glory Art Festival abroad and promised to have dinner with him when she returned.
• Wang Haoran asked to travel with Qiu Qianwei, who agreed and invited him to call her Weiwei before they arranged to meet at Blue Sky Private Airport at eight the next morning.
• After Wang Haoran drove Xu Muyan and Wen Jing home, Mu Zhaozhao asked to sleep at Qin Yunhan’s place, and Qin Yunhan refused.

Wang Haoran stayed overnight at the Qin Family Villa, where Mu Zhaozhao realized he was dating Qin Yunhan but promised to keep it secret. He then traveled with Qiu Qianwei’s group to Chopin’s homeland for the Global Glory Art Festival, where Qiu immediately began practicing.

• Qin Yunhan invited Wang Haoran to stay at the Qin Family Villa, and Mu Zhaozhao accidentally discovered his relationship with Qin Yunhan when he mistook her for Qin Yunhan in the dark.
• Mu Zhaozhao promised not to reveal what she had learned, but kept Qin Yunhan from visiting Wang Haoran that night.
• Wang Haoran packed for the trip and flew with Qiu Qianwei, Lin Chen, Cui Xiao, and Qiu Qianwei’s two assistants to Chopin’s homeland.
• Cui Xiao fell for Wang Haoran at first sight and invited him out after they reached the hotel, but he pretended to feel unwell and declined.
• Wang Haoran watched the foreign scenery from his hotel window and monitored Qiu Qianwei practicing piano after the flight.

Qiu Qianwei struggled to bring emotion into her piano piece for the Global Glory Art Festival, and Lin Chen suggested she experience a romance to understand its tragic-love theme. Wang Haoran acted on the idea by taking Cui Xiao shopping, then returned holding her hand and made Qiu Qianwei jealous.

• Qiu Qianwei practiced her nearly finished piano piece, and Lin Chen warned her against cheating to win the festival.
• Lin Chen and Wang Haoran realized Qiu Qianwei's performance lacked emotion because she had never experienced love.
• Lin Chen suggested that Qiu Qianwei fall in love with him and then be dumped, but she rejected the plan because he was only eight years old.
• Wang Haoran used Lin Chen's suggestion as inspiration and invited Cui Xiao out shopping.
• Wang Haoran and Cui Xiao returned holding hands, and Qiu Qianwei became jealous, earning Wang Haoran 500 Villain Points.

Wang Haoran deliberately made Qiu Qianwei jealous by showing affection toward Cui Xiao, then ignored Lin Chen’s scheme to sabotage Qiu Qianwei’s competitors. He went to find Qiu Qianwei in the Piano Room and held her hand, leaving her startled and flustered.

• Qiu Qianwei grew jealous as Wang Haoran flirted with Cui Xiao during dinner and left the table early.
• Lin Chen privately asked Wang Haoran whether he was dating Cui Xiao, and Wang Haoran claimed he liked Qiu Qianwei.
• Lin Chen urged Wang Haoran to keep Qiu Qianwei’s competitors from attending the Global Glory Art Festival, but Wang Haoran pretended to agree and did not follow the plan.
• Wang Haoran gained Villain Points and weakened Lin Chen’s Protagonist Halo by refusing to follow Lin Chen’s scheme.
• Wang Haoran found Qiu Qianwei practicing poorly in the hotel Piano Room and held her hand, leaving her startled and embarrassed.

Wang Haoran won Qiu Qianwei’s trust and affection, then deliberately made her believe he had betrayed her with Cui Xiao. Qiu Qianwei left heartbroken on the eve of the Glory Art Festival, while Wang Haoran and Cui Xiao revealed the scene had been staged.

• Wang Haoran persuaded Qiu Qianwei that he liked her, kissed her in the Piano Room, and increased her affection for him.
• Qiu Qianwei tried to persuade Cui Xiao that Wang Haoran did not return her feelings, but Cui Xiao insisted she liked him.
• In the days before the Glory Art Festival, Qiu Qianwei practiced piano and spent time with Wang Haoran while Lin Chen remained shut in his room.
• The night before the festival, Qiu Qianwei brought cold medicine to Wang Haoran and found him in bed with Cui Xiao.
• Wang Haoran demanded that Qiu Qianwei accept their breakup, and she left in tears after declaring that she hated him.
• Cui Xiao emerged with her clothes intact and asked whether her acting had been convincing; Wang Haoran said they would find out the next day.

Qiu Qianwei won the Supreme Gold Award at the Global Glory Art Festival, then sparked a public scandal by thanking the scumbag who hurt her. Her fans blamed the Piano God, Wang Haoran’s online persona, and got his account permanently banned before raising a bounty against him.

• Qiu Qianwei rejected Lin Chen’s offer to perform his composition, choosing to compete with her own piece, “Mourning the Past.”
• Qiu Qianwei won the music category’s Supreme Gold Award and thanked the scumbag who hurt her in her acceptance speech.
• Wang Haoran admitted to Lin Chen that he was the scumbag, but Lin Chen did not believe him.
• Qiu Qianwei left for home without seeing Wang Haoran, who later flew home with Lin Chen, Cui Xiao, and the Female Assistant.
• After media coverage spread Qiu Qianwei’s speech, her fans accused the Piano God of hurting her, flooded his account, and pressured Douyin to ban it permanently.
• Qiu Qianwei’s more extreme fans raised five million online as a bounty for the Piano God’s third leg.

After Cui Xiao revealed that her relationship with Wang Haoran had been staged, Qiu Qianwei learned about the five-million reward and rushed back to the city with Cui Xiao. Meanwhile, Wang Haoran erased online traces of his Piano God identity and strengthened his cultivation, but the threat of someone exposing him offline remained.

• Wang Haoran returned and learned that a five-million reward had been offered for his third leg, while Cui Xiao searched for the missing Qiu Qianwei.
• Cui Xiao found Qiu Qianwei at a school in the Qingling Mountain Area and showed her the video proving that she and Wang Haoran had only pretended to be together.
• Qiu Qianwei learned that Cui Xiao genuinely liked Wang Haoran, then discovered the reward and hurried to return to the city with Cui Xiao.
• Wang Haoran spent twenty-four hours creating a super virus that erased online information about the Piano God.
• Wang Haoran exchanged 12,000 Villain Points for twenty-four years of Internal Energy, raising his cultivation to fifty years and his Combat Power to 2,449.

After confirming the bounty threat had been settled, Wang Haoran traveled to meet Qiu Qianwei and encountered Lady Judge, a female assassin pursuing two criminals. He secretly saved her from a gunshot, then reunited with Qiu Qianwei at her villa.

• Wang Haoran charged his phone, called Qiu Qianwei, and told her and several other Female Leads that he was safe.
• While crossing a dark alley, Wang Haoran heard three fast-moving martial artists and climbed onto a rooftop to watch them.
• Lady Judge caught the two men she was pursuing and struck them down, but one survived because his heart was on the right side.
• Wang Haoran knocked a gun away with a roof tile, allowing Lady Judge to kill the surviving man; she recognized the weapon had been struck by someone with formidable Internal Energy.
• Wang Haoran left the alley and arrived at the villa, where Qiu Qianwei embraced him as Cui Xiao departed.
• Wang Haoran and Qiu Qianwei entered the villa together and went to the living room sofa.

Qiu Qianwei hid Wang Haoran from her protective Fourth Sister, Bu Feiyan, an assassin who came to investigate rumors about Qiu Qianwei’s boyfriend. Wang Haoran recognized Bu Feiyan as the masked assassin he had met in an alley, and he emerged from the attic after she left the next morning.

• Qiu Qianwei rushed Wang Haoran into the attic when Bu Feiyan arrived at her villa.
• Bu Feiyan asked Qiu Qianwei about her boyfriend and vowed to find the man who had hurt her, but Qiu Qianwei refused to name him.
• Bu Feiyan stayed the night, while Wang Haoran recognized her as the female assassin from the alley and fell asleep in the attic.
• Bu Feiyan declined Qiu Qianwei’s invitation to dinner with their Sixth Sister unless Qiu Qianwei revealed her boyfriend.
• Wang Haoran came out of the attic after Bu Feiyan left the next morning.

Wang Haoran stayed with Qiu Qianwei after Bu Feiyan went abroad, then accompanied her to meet her Sixth Sister, Ji Shuiyao, at an Ocean Biological Museum. He learned that Ji Shuiyao was a young marine biologist with an unusually strict concern about germs.

• Qiu Qianwei worried that Bu Feiyan might trace Wang Haoran, and Wang Haoran agreed to stay by her side.
• Wang Haoran cooked a poor bowl of noodles for Qiu Qianwei, whose affection for him increased.
• Qiu Qianwei took Wang Haoran to meet Ji Shuiyao at an Ocean Biological Museum.
• Ji Shuiyao refused to shake Wang Haoran's hand and explained that she avoided contact to prevent germs.
• After Wang Haoran sneezed, Ji Shuiyao told him to wear a mask or stay ten meters away, and Qiu Qianwei revealed that her sister was a twenty-one-year-old marine biologist.

Wang Haoran joined Ji Shuiyao’s research voyage by pretending to share her fascination with the ocean, while Lin Chen secretly brought a Super Diving Suit aboard. After researchers complained that Wang Haoran had his own cabin without contributing, Ji Shuiyao asked him to help, and he offered to dive.

• Wang Haoran feigned enthusiasm for marine exploration, raising Ji Shuiyao’s affection and persuading her to let him join the expedition; Qiu Qianwei decided to go too.
• Several days later, Lin Chen revealed that he had secretly stowed away aboard the research vessel, and Wang Haoran agreed to share his cabin with him.
• Lin Chen hid his Super Diving Suit in the storage room, planning to give it to Ji Shuiyao in hopes of winning her favor.
• Ji Shuiyao overheard researchers complain that Wang Haoran had a private cabin without helping the team.
• Ji Shuiyao asked Wang Haoran to contribute to the expedition, and he offered to dive whenever she needed him.

Wang Haoran explored the deep sea in Lin Chen’s Super Diving Suit and followed a gigantic shark toward the searchlights. After Ji Shuiyao called the divers back, he left the shark and rejoined the others.

• Lin Chen gave Ji Shuiyao a specially modified Super Diving Suit, and Wang Haoran joined the diving team despite Qiu Qianwei’s concern.
• The seventeen divers descended in a submarine, then exited to explore the underwater world.
• Wang Haoran tested the suit, mastered its functions, and swam to a depth of 12,301 meters.
• Ji Shuiyao contacted Wang Haoran and told him to return to his assigned exploration area, but his sensor detected a massive shark nearby.
• Wang Haoran followed the shark as it swam toward searchlights at 6,000 to 7,000 meters deep, then returned to the others when Ji Shuiyao called the team back.

Wang Haoran warned Ji Shuiyao that a twenty-meter shark was in P Zone, but she dismissed his claim and sent collectors there the next day. When Ji Shuiyao recognized the area’s abnormal lack of fish and ordered everyone to retreat, a colossal creature appeared behind her team.

• Lin Chen learned that his swapped diving suit had failed to impress Ji Shuiyao, while Wang Haoran gained Villain Points and weakened Lin Chen’s Protagonist Halo.
• Wang Haoran reported a twenty-meter shark in P Zone and advised Ji Shuiyao to choose another collection site, but she decided to follow the original plan.
• The next day, Ji Shuiyao rejected Wang Haoran as her partner and led a three-person team to collect specimens in P Zone.
• Ji Shuiyao noticed the unusually few fish, warned the collectors to return to the submarine, and spotted a colossal creature behind her team.
• The two collectors turned around and recognized the creature as a Megalodon.

Wang Haoran rescued Ji Shuiyao from a Megalodon, and she canceled the expedition after everyone returned safely but empty-handed. When Wang Haoran revealed that his collected sample was Megalodon blood, Ji Shuiyao eagerly stopped him from throwing it away.

• Two team members fled when they recognized a Megalodon, while Ji Shuiyao warned them not to panic.
• The Megalodon charged toward the divers, and Wang Haoran pulled Ji Shuiyao out of its path.
• Wang Haoran helped Ji Shuiyao return to the research vessel, where the two chased divers also made it back alive.
• Ji Shuiyao ordered the expedition to return without collecting specimens, worrying about the dangers and the trouble awaiting her at the research institute.
• Wang Haoran showed Ji Shuiyao a collector of blood, and she stopped him from discarding it when he said it came from a Megalodon.