Chapter Summaries

Li Chuan and Grindelwald submitted to Revealing Charms, exposing Grindelwald’s identity and restoring Li Chuan’s original appearance. Grindelwald tried to recruit Li Chuan, who refused publicly while keeping his plans to play both sides; Picquery then ordered the Aurors to disarm Grindelwald.

• Picquery ordered Li Chuan and Grindelwald to undergo Revealing Charm inspections, and both complied.
• The charms exposed Grindelwald’s true appearance, while Li Chuan voluntarily dispelled his Transformation Technique.
• Picquery accused Grindelwald of impersonating Percival, and Grindelwald said Percival had died long ago.
• Grindelwald recognized Li Chuan as Tom Frie and invited him to join his cause, but Li Chuan refused.
• Picquery ordered the Aurors to disarm Grindelwald as his words stirred discontent over the Secrecy Law among the wizards.

Grindelwald overpowered Picquery’s Aurors and declared that he would expose wizards to Muggles, then headed for the Ministry lobby. Li Chuan raced ahead and called Newt and Tina to help stop him before he escaped.

• Grindelwald blocked the Aurors’ spells, caught Li Chuan’s thrown iron bench, and subdued more than twenty Aurors with restraining magic.
• Grindelwald said he would expose wizards to Muggles, then took the magic elevator toward the lobby.
• Li Chuan warned Picquery that Grindelwald might attack Muggles and followed him down, hoping to stall him inside the Ministry.
• Grindelwald fought through Ministry employees in the lobby while Li Chuan circled ahead to the entrance.
• Li Chuan summoned Newt and Tina from his case and explained that they needed to stop Grindelwald from leaving.

Li Chuan, Newt, and Tina fought Grindelwald in the American Ministry of Magic, with Li Chuan’s spears and extraordinary evasiveness helping hold him back. They stalled until Picquery returned with reinforcements, preventing Grindelwald from reaching the Muggles outside.

• Grindelwald defeated the American Ministry of Magic wizards without killing them, then confronted Tina and Newt.
• Grindelwald attacked Newt with the Killing Curse, but Newt dodged while Tina tried to disarm him.
• Li Chuan joined the fight with a spear and spells, forcing Grindelwald to deflect his attacks while Tina and Newt struck from different directions.
• Grindelwald lifted Li Chuan and bound his arms, but Li Chuan broke free through brute strength and resumed attacking.
• Li Chuan, Tina, and Newt kept Grindelwald occupied until Picquery returned with more Aurors and capable wizards.

Li Chuan, Newt, and Tina captured Grindelwald at the American Ministry of Magic, earning rewards and clearing Newt and Tina’s charges. After leaving the Ministry, Li Chuan went to a church disguised as Percival Graves to take Credence away and teach him magic.

• Li Chuan used smoke and Newt’s Swooping Evil to help bind Grindelwald, while Tina summoned his wand.
• Picquery thanked Li Chuan, Newt, and Tina, and Aurors escorted Grindelwald to solitary confinement as he warned Picquery that she could not hold him.
• Picquery cleared Newt and Tina’s charges, authorized Newt to return the Thunderbird, promoted Tina to Director of the Auror Office, and awarded Li Chuan the Medal of Valor.
• Li Chuan returned the Niffler to Newt and left, while Newt and Tina set out to recover the escaped Occamy and Demiguise.
• Li Chuan Apparated to a church and transformed into Percival Graves so he could take Credence away and teach him magic.

Li Chuan rescued Credence from Mary, made him his disciple, and took him into the Wizarding World. After arranging a cover story and a new life in London, Li Chuan showed Credence around American Magic Street and bought him his first wizarding essentials.

• Li Chuan stopped Mary from beating Credence, healed his hands, and controlled Mary with the Imperius Curse.
• Li Chuan took Mary away and arranged her death in a streetcar accident, then returned to bring Credence into the Wizarding World.
• Li Chuan revealed that he was Tom Frie, not Percival Graves, and took Credence as his disciple.
• Li Chuan told Credence to conceal their past and Mary's death, and said he would take him to live in London.
• Li Chuan brought Credence to American Magic Street, bought him a robe, a wand, and magical food, and checked into the Leaky Cauldron with him.

After defeating Grindelwald, Li Chuan took Credence under his care and brought him from America to London. He settled Credence at the Frie Family estate before disguising himself to seek an illegal Portkey to New York.

• Li Chuan met Newt and Tina at the American Ministry of Magic and explained that he planned to adopt Credence and teach him magic.
• Tina said Credence would need proof of his Wizard Bloodline, and Li Chuan completed the adoption paperwork with her help.
• Li Chuan and Newt returned to London by Portkey, where the Ministry of Magic welcomed them as heroes.
• Li Chuan introduced Credence to the house-elf Barty at the Frie Family estate and asked her to look after him.
• Li Chuan disguised himself with the Transformation Technique and went to Knockturn Alley to search for merchants selling illegal Portkeys to New York.

Li Chuan left Credence at the manor and traveled to New York to break Grindelwald out of prison. He reached Grindelwald's cell and offered to rescue him, leaving their first meeting underway.

• Li Chuan told Credence to study the first-year textbooks and ask Barty for anything he needed while Li Chuan was away.
• Li Chuan paid a black-market Portkey merchant thirty gold Kanons to travel from England to New York.
• Li Chuan disguised himself and entered the American Ministry of Magic, immobilizing two Aurors with an illusion technique before knocking them unconscious.
• Li Chuan used lightning ninjutsu against ten Aurors guarding Grindelwald's cell, then defeated them and kicked open the cell door.
• Li Chuan told the astonished Grindelwald that he had come to rescue him.

Li Chuan freed Grindelwald from the American Ministry of Magic and helped him escape. They left the Ministry after Li Chuan flooded the wizards guarding the prison entrance, then Apparated away.

• Li Chuan disabled the cell’s protective runes by transforming the floor into mud, and Grindelwald burned through his restraints with the Fiendfyre Curse.
• Grindelwald invited Li Chuan to join him, and they left the cell as the Ministry raised the alarm.
• Seraphina Picquery gathered more than two hundred Ministry wizards at the prison entrance and ordered them to stop Grindelwald and Li Chuan.
• Li Chuan cast the Great Waterfall Jutsu, sweeping away many of the wizards and giving him and Grindelwald a chance to escape on a flying carpet.
• Li Chuan and Grindelwald burst out of the Ministry building and escaped through Apparition.

Li Chuan agreed to assist Grindelwald under conditions that preserved his independence and gave him access to magical instruction, then became the subject of a worldwide search after rescuing Grindelwald. He returned to London and went to Wool's Orphanage to find the young Tom Riddle.

• Li Chuan accepted Grindelwald's invitation after setting conditions, including refusing to kill innocents and seeking magical exchanges.
• Grindelwald agreed to the conditions, gave Li Chuan an address in France, and taught him Occlumency.
• Li Chuan left Grindelwald, changed his appearance, and spent the night at the Leaky Cauldron.
• The American Ministry of Magic named Li Chuan the Mysterious Man, issued a worldwide warrant and bounty, and failed to uncover his identity.
• Li Chuan returned to London under a new appearance and went to Wool's Orphanage to find Tom Riddle.

Li Chuan found Wool's Orphanage and discovered that Merope was still pregnant with Voldemort, so he supported the orphanage while waiting for the birth. After Merope died delivering Tom Riddle, Li Chuan adopted the newborn and left with him.

• Li Chuan found Wool's Orphanage and learned that Merope had been taken in shortly before giving birth.
• Li Chuan donated money to the orphanage and decided to wait until Voldemort was born before seeking to adopt him.
• Li Chuan continued teaching Credence magic, learning from Newt, and visiting Merope at the orphanage.
• On December 31st, Merope gave birth to Tom Riddle and died soon afterward.
• Li Chuan persuaded Mrs. Cole to let him adopt the newborn, then left flowers at Merope's grave and carried Tom away.

After returning to the main world, Li Chuan prepared to teach Wanda magic so she could protect herself, then revealed that he could use magic and already knew about her abilities. Wanda panicked at the thought of someone threatening Li Chuan, and he tried to calm her down.

• Li Chuan returned to his company office after six months in the Minor World and asked Xiao Liu to buy him a typewriter.
• Li Chuan typed out more than thirty magical books from memory and had them printed and bound for Wanda to study.
• Wanda mistook the books for fairy tales, and Li Chuan told her after dinner that they were real magic books.
• Li Chuan demonstrated the Levitation Charm and told Wanda that he knew she could move things with her mind.
• Wanda admitted she had hidden her abilities because she feared Li Chuan would see her as a monster, and Li Chuan said he wanted her to learn magic for protection.
• Wanda grew alarmed when Li Chuan mentioned possible danger, causing the furniture to tremble, and he tried to reassure her.

Li Chuan reflected on Wanda’s Chaos Magic and agreed to teach her magic so she could protect him. After a night together, he began teaching her, but her difficulty with Magical Theory led him to decide to try teaching spells directly.

• Li Chuan reasoned that Wanda’s Chaos Magic had caused her earlier power eruptions and might even have given Quicksilver his speed.
• Wanda asked Li Chuan to teach her magic, and he agreed to teach her at home.
• Li Chuan postponed the first lesson until morning and spent the night with Wanda.
• Li Chuan began teaching Wanda Magical Theory, but she became confused and drowsy during the lesson.
• Li Chuan decided to change his approach and teach Wanda the effects of spells directly.

Li Chuan taught Wanda magic, only to discover that she could master spells almost instantly and soon cast them silently and without a wand. Wanda’s extraordinary talent left Li Chuan stunned as she began learning magic on her own.

• Li Chuan gave Wanda the Elder Wand and taught her the Levitation Charm, which she cast successfully despite using incorrect wand movements and incantation rhythm.
• Wanda learned more than a dozen spells that afternoon, prompting Li Chuan to realize she could master magic far faster than he had expected.
• The next morning, Wanda taught herself Cooking Magic from a book and used it to prepare breakfast.
• Li Chuan noticed Wanda was casting without a wand, and she explained that she had also stopped speaking the incantations aloud.
• Li Chuan reflected that Wanda’s talent could help her protect herself, while Wanda continued cooking and complained that her toothbrush had broken.

Wanda used a Transfiguration spell to change into a flight attendant uniform, but Li Chuan was called to investigate intruders targeting doctors at his company’s laboratory. After Apparating to the surveillance room, he learned the intruders had entered the building five minutes earlier and were heading for the laboratory dormitory.

• Wanda transformed her pajamas into a flight attendant uniform, and Li Chuan explained the spell’s limits and Wanda’s unusual ability to use Chaos Magic.
• Li Chuan received a report that skilled intruders had entered the company building and were targeting doctors in the laboratory dormitory.
• Li Chuan took his wand and Apparated from the bedroom to the Li Building surveillance room.
• Xiao Liu reported that the intruders had moved swiftly toward the laboratory dormitory, and that Stark’s advanced surveillance equipment had revealed them.

Li Chuan confronted Blonsky’s squad after they raided the laboratory dormitory to capture Bruce Banner. He defeated them with chakra and magic, then turned Blonsky into a toad to test how the Super Soldier Serum affected transformation duration.

• Li Chuan learned that Blonsky had led an armed raid on the laboratory dormitory, while Xiao Liu confirmed that the doctors had been moved to safety.
• Li Chuan Apparated to the dormitory entrance and confronted Blonsky, who demanded that he hand over Bruce Banner.
• Blonsky attacked Li Chuan, but Li Chuan caught his punch and kicked him away before knocking out Blonsky’s five team members with Lightning Style: Earth Running.
• Blonsky charged again with a tactical dagger, and Li Chuan used Vera Verto to transform him into a toad.
• Li Chuan followed the toad Blonsky and timed the transformation as an experiment on the effects of the Super Soldier Serum.

Li Chuan tested how his magic affected Colonel Blonsky and his enhanced soldiers, then erased their memories and sent them to Times Square as a band. General Ross learned that the squad had been taken to a mental hospital and ordered them retrieved so he could discover what happened.

• Li Chuan tested transformation, mental, physical, and healing spells on Colonel Blonsky, finding that mental magic worked well while physical effects were less effective against his enhanced body.
• Li Chuan erased the memories of Blonsky and the five soldiers, then ordered Xiao Liu to send them to Times Square with instruments and a sign promoting their song, “Don't Mess with Me!”
• Li Chuan returned to Wanda, who had changed into a white naval uniform.
• General Ross's adjutant showed him a viral video of Blonsky and his squad performing in Times Square and fighting off hospital staff before police subdued them.
• General Ross ordered his people to retrieve the six soldiers from New York State Mental Hospital and investigate what had happened.

Li Chuan watched news of Ivan Vanko’s attack on Tony Stark and reassured Wanda that he would intervene if the government or Hydra tried to seize Tony’s technology. After a week of training, Li Chuan received a flood of side quests offering Minor World time and realized he could not complete them all.

• Li Chuan and Wanda watched news of Blonsky’s arrest, while Li Chuan noted that his implanted false memories and Imperius Curse had worked.
• Li Chuan explained to Wanda that Ivan Vanko’s attack had shown the public that Tony was vulnerable, and Wanda worried that the government might get his technology.
• Li Chuan promised Wanda he would help Tony if the government or Hydra sought his suit technology, then took her to practice magic in the expanded wardrobe space.
• Li Chuan trained Wanda in defense and escape, then continued practicing magic and ninjutsu after she returned to rest.
• A week later, Li Chuan received numerous side quests that rewarded Minor World time and exclaimed that he could not finish them all.

Li Chuan discovered that a flood of side quests offered Minor World time and prepared to complete them while keeping his identity hidden. He invited Wanda to join him for practical combat training, and she changed into a matching red outfit.

• Li Chuan reviewed over a hundred new side quests that rewarded Minor World time and planned to prioritize the most valuable quests when he could not complete them all.
• Li Chuan decided to conceal his appearance, used magic to transform his clothes into a black trench coat, and put on a half-face mask.
• Wanda entered carrying snacks and asked Li Chuan if he was going to a masquerade ball.
• Li Chuan told Wanda they would go out for practical magic training and complete quests along the way.
• Wanda agreed enthusiastically and transformed her clothes into a red leather suit with a cape.

Li Chuan took Wanda to stop crimes so she could practice using magic in battle, and she successfully protected a bullied schoolboy from two muggers. He then brought her to a home-invasion murder in Hell’s Kitchen, where she shielded herself from gunfire and stunned the killer.

• Li Chuan took Wanda to an alley near Midtown Elementary School, where two young men were robbing a chubby boy.
• Wanda cast a Shield Charm and bound both muggers with Petrificus Totalus.
• Wanda introduced herself as the Scarlet Witch and Li Chuan as the Dark Male Wizard before he Apparated them away.
• Li Chuan brought Wanda to a home-invasion murder in Hell’s Kitchen, where she blocked several bullets with her Shield Charm and knocked the killer unconscious with Stupefy.

Li Chuan rescued a baby trapped in a burning Bronx building, extinguished the fire with magic and ninjutsu, and Apparated away to another emergency. The public continued to celebrate him and the Scarlet Witch as a popular superhero couple.

• Li Chuan Apparated to a burning Bronx apartment building and asked the desperate parents where their baby was trapped.
• Li Chuan rescued the unconscious baby from the fifth floor and used the Palm Sage Technique to treat the child.
• Li Chuan summoned rain and used Water Style: Evil Mouth to extinguish the building fire.
• Li Chuan Apparated away as firefighters arrived, while the rescued parents and onlookers thanked and applauded him.
• New Yorkers came to regard Li Chuan and the Scarlet Witch as a low-key superhero couple who helped ordinary people.