Chapter Summaries

Ye Li learned that Tony had publicly challenged the Mandarin, then saw news that the Dark Elves had returned and considered joining the coming conflict. At Kamar-Taj, Wanda showed how much her Chaos Magic had improved, but Ye Li still caught her with his webbing.

• Ancient One explained to Tony that magic drew energy from other spaces in the multiverse, and Tony left after receiving a call from Happy.
• Two days later, Ye Li read news about Black Cat Felicia defeating Hammerhead and Tony publicly declaring war on the Mandarin; he texted Tony to prepare more Iron Man armors.
• Ye Li saw a report that Malekith and the Dark Elves had returned to Greenwich, and considered going to face them for a reward.
• During a training session at Kamar-Taj, Wanda used Chaos Magic to dissolve Ye Li's webbing, demonstrating her improved control.
• Ye Li launched more webbing from spatial nodes, bound Wanda, and hoisted her into the air.

Ye Li and Wanda shared an affectionate moment at Kamar-Taj before he asked whether she would return to New York with him; Wanda chose to stay and improve her magic. In New York, Ye Li inspected his new cloning research while Tony Stark survived an attack despite the Mark 42's malfunctions.

• Ye Li teased Wanda, then erased the Silk binding her and caught her in his arms.
• Wanda said she wanted to stay at Kamar-Taj to improve her magic so she could protect Ye Li, and he promised to visit when she missed him.
• Coldblood's armed helicopters attacked Tony Stark at his seaside villa, and the malfunctioning Mark 42 struggled to fight back.
• Savin's missile sent Tony and the villa into the sea, where Tony calmed his panic and escaped after the armor's flight system activated.
• Ye Li inspected mindless clones controlled by Chitauri-tech chips at the Ghost-Spider Club's Research Institute and considered using them as security guards and making cannon fodder in Nick Fury's image.

Tony Stark called Ye Li for help after his damaged armor stranded him near Rose Hill, Tennessee, and Ye Li arranged to send experimental Clone Soldiers as mercenaries. While preparing their transport, Ye Li used the Rat Talisman to control Natasha, who was at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.

• Tony Stark called Ye Li after his armor’s autopilot stranded him near Rose Hill and warned that dangerous people were watching him.
• Ye Li recommended the Fearless Mercenary Corps, then ordered the research institute to equip Clone Soldiers for a field test.
• Ye Li met Louise at the Sunnyville Hotel, where she had brought unfamiliar items for their encounter.
• The Clone Soldier team reported that they needed specialized air transport to reach Tony quickly.
• Ye Li used the Rat Talisman to control Natasha at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.

Ye Li used his control system to send a Clone Soldier to a bar where Tony Stark was meeting Mrs. Davis, and the soldier attacked Ellen Brandt after she exposed herself as the one who had lured Stark there. Brandt’s Extremis Virus glowed as it struggled to repair her wounds, while the bar patrons fled.

• The Helicarrier sent fighter transports into the sky without authorization because it had come alive and was relaying its research to Ye Li.
• Ye Li used holographic glasses to control a Clone Soldier and sent it to the bar where Stark was speaking with Mrs. Davis.
• Ellen Brandt revealed that she had called Mrs. Davis and slammed Stark onto the table.
• The Clone Soldier shot Brandt repeatedly, leaving the bar patrons terrified as her Extremis Virus glowed and tried to heal her.
• The sheriff realized Brandt was not an ordinary person when her body heated up and began glowing orange.

Tony escaped the bar, but Savin and Brandt attacked him outside, where Ye Li controlled a Clone Soldier to fight them. The soldier subdued Brandt but was stabbed through the abdomen by Savin, then grabbed Savin by the throat as Ye Li remained amused.

• The sheriff freed Tony, who fled the bar and ran into Savin waiting outside.
• Ye Li shot Savin in the head through the Clone Soldier, and Tony recognized the soldier as help.
• Savin and the wounded Brandt rose again, and Ye Li gave Tony a machine pistol before the firefight began.
• The Clone Soldier charged Brandt and riddled her with bullets until she collapsed, barely breathing.
• Savin sneaked behind the Clone Soldier and pierced its abdomen, but Ye Li turned the soldier around and grabbed Savin by the throat.

Ye Li controlled Clone Soldiers to fight Savin, then met Louise for dinner and considered turning the soldiers into a game. He revealed to Tony that he had survived the explosion and handed him the Daredevils mercenaries for three days.

• Ye Li's Clone Soldier used gem energy to detonate grenades, apparently destroying itself and leaving Tony unsure whether Ye Li had died.
• Ye Li dined with Louise at the Sunnyville Hotel and considered having game players control Clone Soldiers on secret missions.
• Louise left after hinting that she had modified an item to give it a wide signal range, and Ye Li decided to see her again later.
• Tony inspected the scorched ground outside the bar and told the arriving Daredevils mercenaries that their boss had blown himself up.
• Ye Li appeared in another Clone Soldier, told Tony he had survived, and handed him the mercenaries to command for three days.

Ye Li returned to New York and comforted Jessica Jones, who was worried she would fail to solve the Chinatown murder case. He brought her and Cindy to Midtown Manhattan Hospital, where opening a hidden passage revealed that The Hand was involved.

• Ye Li returned home and reassured Jessica Jones that he already knew the solution to Mr. Wu’s case.
• Ye Li and Jessica Jones arrived at Midtown Manhattan Hospital with Cindy and found the hidden passage behind a wall of cabinets.
• Jessica Jones pulled the cabinets apart and revealed a secret chamber containing several red-clad ninjas.
• Ye Li recognized the ninjas as members of The Hand, and Jessica Jones wondered why they were involved after Matilda dealt with Madame Gao.

Ye Li and the heroes fought The Hand in its hidden chamber as Silk tried to rescue Chen Ying and Knightress protected her brother. Lady Bullseye appeared to aid Doctor James, revealing that she had temporarily taken Madame Gao’s place among The Hand’s Five Fingers.

• Ye Li explained that Madame Gao was one of The Hand’s Five Fingers, not its leader, while Cindy put on her Silk suit and Jessica transformed into Knightress.
• Silk leaped toward Chen Ying on the altar as Knightress defeated the red-clad ninjas and protected Ye Li.
• Qin Feng, Tang Ren, and Song Yi entered the chamber and recognized Doctor James after Cindy pulled him into the candlelight.
• Ye Li warned Tang Ren that someone else was hiding in the dark, and a dagger forced Cindy and Chen Ying to dodge.
• Maki Matsumoto emerged from the shadows as Lady Bullseye, having temporarily taken Madame Gao’s place among The Hand’s Five Fingers.

Maki Matsumoto tried to escape after giving Doctor James an injection that she claimed carried the Beast’s power, but the substance transformed him into a gigantic, unstable monster. Ye Li’s group escaped the collapsing hospital, while James remained trapped in the ruins and continued to glow and roar.

• Maki Matsumoto gave James a syringe, and he injected himself, transforming as Ye Li recognized the substance as the Extremis Virus.
• Cindy captured Lady Bullseye with her silk, while Jessica approached the changing James and Ye Li warned her to evacuate the people around the hospital.
• James grew into a towering mass of glowing flesh, and Ye Li sent Jessica to warn the police as Qin Feng, Tang Ren, and Song Yi fled.
• The hospital collapsed, and Ye Li used golden threads to pull Qin Feng, Tang Ren, and Song Yi clear of the falling rubble.
• James remained trapped in the hospital ruins as a building-sized monster, and Ye Li and Jessica prepared to flee.

Ye Li left to respond to Louise’s report that Jane was missing, while S.H.I.E.L.D. assessed the dangerous creature at Midtown Manhattan Hospital and planned its destruction. After watching a report about Dr. Erik Selvig’s arrest, Ye Li took Matilda to see her cousin.

• Louise told Ye Li that Jane had disappeared inside an abandoned building, and Ye Li said he would come hear the details.
• Police confronted Qin Feng, Song Yi, and Tang Ren, but Ye Li contacted George and secured their release.
• Qin Feng, Song Yi, and Tang Ren left, with Tang Ren praising Ye Li and Qin Feng asking Song Yi about his sister.
• Hill showed Nick Fury footage of James in the hospital ruins, and Fury ordered civilians evacuated and the creature destroyed while assigning support for Stark’s investigation.
• Ye Li watched a news report about Dr. Erik Selvig running naked at Stonehenge, then picked up Matilda and took her to see her cousin.

Ye Li and Louise went to the abandoned building to search for Jane, while Ghost-Spider arrived at the hospital ruins as an unstable target threatened to explode. The chapter left Gwen trying to rescue six civilians at once.

• Ye Li arrived at the abandoned building with Matilda and met Louise, her intern Ian, and three children.
• Louise told Ye Li that Jane was missing and that they had detected a possible wormhole.
• Ye Li led Louise upstairs to search for Jane, while Ian doubted Ye Li's claims about his intuition.
• Melinda ordered an immediate evacuation after staff warned that the target at Midtown Manhattan Hospital could explode in about a minute and a half.
• Ghost-Spider arrived, used Shadow Travel to move through the shadows, and attached webs to six civilians with her suit and mechanical claws.

Ghost-Spider rescued civilians by sending them through shadows to the Ghost-Spider Club, where Peter and Ned caught them. Ye Li found the place where Jane had vanished, but a violent wind suddenly blasted the children in the corridor forward.

• Gwen tossed six civilians into a shadow-covered wall, and they passed through it instead of falling.
• Melinda realized Ghost-Spider could teleport other people through shadows and said she could save many people.
• Peter and Ned caught civilians arriving through the club's shadows, and several survivors thanked Ghost-Spider and joined the club.
• Ye Li used the gem's resonance with the bracelet to locate where Jane had vanished, then arrived at an empty corridor with Ian and Matilda.
• Matilda offered a cigarette to a girl, but Ye Li stopped her and gave the girl a lollipop instead.
• A fierce wind blasted from a vent and pushed the girl forward.

Ye Li entered Aether's burial site and rescued Jane and the little girl from a cliff. After discovering that Aether was inside Jane, he kissed her to trigger the system's extraction of the Reality Stone.

• Ye Li entered the ripple after Louise said Jane had disappeared, promising to bring her back.
• Ye Li found Jane holding the little girl over a cliff and pulled them both to safety.
• Ye Li sensed that Aether had left the black pillar and entered Jane's body.
• Jane mistook Ye Li's questions about unusual sensations for a confession and admitted that his actions had moved her.
• Ye Li kissed Jane, and the system began extracting the Reality Stone from her.

Ye Li rescued Jane and a little girl, while Gwen tried to protect people from the Light Giant’s explosion. She sheltered Dr. Selvig and a group of elderly men inside a building and struggled to hold a large shadow open as the flames approached.

• Ye Li finished extracting the Aether from Jane, then led her and the little girl out of the ruins.
• The little girl thanked Ye Li with a kiss, making Matilda feel jealous.
• Gwen used the Golden Light Charm to bind and teleport supporters away before the Light Giant exploded, but people were still caught in the flames.
• Gwen entered a building with the girl and found Dr. Selvig explaining his plan to stabilize the converging worlds to a group of elderly men.
• Gwen learned the room faced south and tried to expand the shadows on its outer wall to shield everyone from the approaching fire.

Ye Li used the Goat Talisman to calm Jane after she questioned his intentions, and Jane experienced an illusion of being gravely ill. The chapter ended with her in a hospital after unsuccessful chemotherapy, still hoping to continue her astronomy work.

• Gwen opened a Mystic Shadow Gate that swallowed the firelight, and the Inhumans on the far side of the moon witnessed the flames.
• Ye Li stopped Louise and the others from kissing him and reflected on his relationships with the women around him.
• Jane pulled Ye Li aside and asked what he intended to do about their relationship.
• Ye Li used the Goat Talisman to create an illusion for Jane rather than directly using the Mind Stone.
• Jane found herself in a hospital after her fifth unsuccessful round of chemotherapy and feared she would die before finishing her astronomy work.

Jane dreamed of recovering in the hospital while Ye Li, Louise, and Matilda cared for her, then awoke in a car after fainting from passing through a wormhole. She recognized Ye Li and reluctantly accepted his suggestion to go to the hospital for a checkup.

• Louise told Jane that Ye Li had gone to buy her lunch, and Matilda brought a lavish meal he had prepared with Jessica and Cindy.
• Ye Li gave Jane a celestial model, then teased Matilda and Louise as they shared Jane's lunch.
• Jane thanked Louise for caring for her and mentioned that she knew Louise liked Ye Li before a flash of white light swallowed everything.
• Jane awoke in a car with Louise and learned that she had fainted after passing through the wormhole.
• Jane asked for her research materials, then recognized Ye Li and agreed to go to the hospital for a checkup.

Ye Li used a hospital test to reassure Jane that she was healthy, then picked up Matilda and confronted Heimdall after sensing him watching from Asgard. Heimdall alerted Thor, who decided to investigate with Sif and the others.

• A doctor told Jane that her test showed no cancer or related health risk, and she embraced Ye Li in relief.
• Ye Li collected Matilda after she played hockey with three children and warned them to stay away from the dangerous wormhole.
• Ye Li used the Quantum Spyglass with his Super Spider-Sense to trace a watcher to Heimdall in Asgard.
• Heimdall was startled when Ye Li saw him, and Thor decided to investigate with Sif and the others.
• Ye Li blocked Heimdall's gaze with the power of three gems and told Matilda he was looking at Asgard.

Ye Li reunited with Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three after they arrived through the Bifrost, but Thor mistook Ye Li’s embrace with Matilda for an attack and rushed him. After Ye Li knocked Thor back with Mjolnir, they cleared up the misunderstanding and greeted each other.

• Ye Li teased Matilda about Thor and pulled her close while three children watched.
• Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three descended through the Bifrost, and Thor charged at Ye Li after mistaking the scene for an assault.
• Ye Li summoned Mjolnir from Thor’s hand and struck him in the chest, sending him tumbling backward.
• Sif attacked Ye Li, but Matilda recognized her and asked why she was fighting her brother.
• Thor stopped Sif and explained that he knew Ye Li, and Ye Li awkwardly excused his and Matilda’s embrace before greeting Thor.

Ye Li controlled a Clone Soldier to help Tony infiltrate the Mandarin’s manor, where they discovered that Trevor Slattery was only an actor and Killian was the real mastermind. When an Extremis soldier attacked Tony, Ye Li logged off because something had happened on his end, leaving the Clone Soldiers to protect him.

• Ye Li greeted Duroc Piggy instead of Thor, then later took control of a Clone Soldier in Miami and told Tony to attack the Mandarin’s manor directly.
• Tony and the Clone Soldiers fought through the manor’s guards and found Trevor Slattery trying to escape.
• Slattery explained that he was only an actor playing the Mandarin and identified Killian as the real mastermind.
• An Extremis soldier burst out of a wardrobe and attacked Tony.
• Ye Li logged off, telling Tony to rely on the Clone Soldiers protecting him.

Ye Li hosted Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three after their earlier clash, but their meal was interrupted when Algrim attacked the house. Thor struck Algrim with Mjolnir and offered to help Ye Li settle their misunderstanding.

• Ye Li watched Matilda from a temporary home as Algrim approached through the rain.
• Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three drank and ate at Ye Li's house, and Ye Li rebuked them for attacking him earlier.
• Ye Li teased Thor by touching Sif's chin, but Thor denied that Sif was his girl, leaving her upset.
• Sif noticed something outside, and Algrim smashed through the door and charged at Ye Li.
• Thor struck Algrim's helmet with Mjolnir and offered to help Ye Li deal with it.