Chapter Summaries

After exploring the world's secrets, Wenren Sheng left Wang Bao and Lin Xiaofan with Primordial Violet Qi and returned home. He reunited with his family, who decided to visit a Storyless Kingdom together.

• Wenren Sheng split the Primordial Violet Qi between Wang Bao and Lin Xiaofan, then left the world.
• The city lord tried to extort Wang Bao and Lin Xiaofan for their Golden Fingers, but they sensed the Heavenly Dao would protect them and prepared to ascend.
• Wenren Sheng returned to his family in the Fragment World and reflected on how the Eastwater Small World could grow through Otherworldly Users.
• Wenren Sheng and his family shared a charcoal-grilled dinner prepared by Little Illusion.
• Little Illusion suggested visiting a happy world, and Wenren Sheng proposed a Storyless Kingdom, which the family agreed to explore.

Wenren Sheng settled into the Storyless Kingdom, a carefree island where residents could change their age and bodies, but grew wary when they repeatedly urged him to stay. In the Three-Body world, Zhao Pingping read a version of Yun Tianming’s stories whose text suddenly began describing Wenren Sheng’s arrival on the island.

• Wenren Sheng arrived in the Storyless Kingdom and was welcomed by fishermen who grilled fish and built him a house with help from Little Elves.
• Wenren Sheng questioned the Little Elves about their work, then spent years enjoying the island while sensing an unidentifiable strangeness around him.
• An islander repeatedly urged Wenren Sheng to live there forever, and the residents’ insistence convinced him that something was wrong with the kingdom.
• In Year 8 of the Broadcast Era, Zhao Pingping read Yun Tianming’s Three Stories as humanity debated the Bunker and Black Domain projects and secretly continued Light-Speed Spaceship research.
• Zhao Pingping saw the storybook’s contents change to describe Wenren Sheng arriving on the Storyless Kingdom island.

Zhao Pingping read a storybook that revealed a coming two-dimensional strike and urged humanity to build Light-Speed Spaceships, but after she reported its warning, Earth imposed a brutal wartime system. The book ended up with the Holy Mother, who read its account of her decisions and reflected on the consequences of her actions.

• Zhao Pingping read that a two-dimensionalization strike was already on its way and that Light-Speed Spaceships could protect or evacuate humanity.
• Zhao Pingping took the book to the Space City Management Office, where a madman stole it and escaped in a spacecar.
• Zhao Pingping reported the book's warning online, and scientists confirmed her interpretation and began planning to build one thousand Light-Speed Spaceships.
• Humanity entered wartime allocation, imposing long workdays, banning most entertainment, and killing people deemed unable to work.
• Zhao Pingping worked in a robot manufacturing plant and wondered where the stolen book had gone, unaware that a sophon had arranged the theft.
• The Holy Mother read the book, felt ashamed of her past decisions, and recognized that her choices had determined the fate of many people and civilizations.

Wenren Sheng used the Storyless Kingdom storybook to help the Three-Body World build one thousand light-speed spaceships, but as a Two-Phase Foil arrived, AA sent the book to confront it. The book absorbed the foil, leaving the crisis unresolved but showing that a Two-Dimensional World could deal with a Two-Dimensional weapon.

• Wenren Sheng discovered he could reshape his Two-Dimensional World by telling stories, and he showed its islanders the Three-Body World's destruction.
• The Dark Holy Mother asked Wenren Sheng how to overcome the shortage of time and resources for building light-speed spaceships, and he proposed building one ship first to fetch resources from the Three-Body Star System.
• Wenren Sheng worked out how to build a light-speed spaceship, and the Three-Body people eventually completed one thousand ships and prepared to choose who would leave.
• Most people chose to stay, but after life-extension technology improved and a Two-Phase Foil arrived, many panicked and fought to board the ships.
• AA realized the storybook could handle a Two-Dimensional weapon, and a spacecraft carried it near the foil, where the Storyless Kingdom storybook absorbed it.

Humanity was drawn into the Storyless Kingdom’s one-dimensional attack, where Wenren Sheng left them to adapt to their simulated world and returned home. There he reunited with President Zhao, who had returned after losing his family in the Detective Conan world.

• The Space Defense Council assigned most people to remain in the Solar System while a thousand Light-Speed Spaceships departed, and the Light-Speed Great Wall blocked incoming Photoids and Two-Phase Foils.
• A century later, the storybook absorbed everyone in the Solar System into the Storyless Kingdom, where island residents revealed that humanity had become part of a one-dimensional world.
• Wenren Sheng explained that the captured humans could create land and experiences by writing new stories, then left them and returned home alone.
• Wenren Sheng noticed a new villa beside his home and recognized the returning President Zhao, who said he had spent years in the Detective Conan world.
• President Zhao told Wenren Sheng that his wife and son had died as the world’s changes outlasted them, and he moved back to live near Zhao Han.
• Wenren Sheng and President Zhao shared tea and recounted their experiences, while President Zhao remarked that Wenren Sheng had kept his family and life under control.

Wenren Sheng declined to reverse Old Zhao’s past but sent him into the Storyless Kingdom to write his own story, then answered a distant plea for help by sending a reality-powered crab to a horror world. The crab destroyed the world instead, and Wenren Sheng decided to rest before checking on his family.

• Wenren Sheng offered to return Old Zhao to the past, but Old Zhao refused and spoke with him about their lives and the Eastern Continent.
• Old Zhao advised Wenren Sheng to answer the people calling for help, so Wenren Sheng sent a crab carrying the power of reality to their world and offered Old Zhao a way to change his story through a Storyless Kingdom storybook.
• Researchers in a world resembling Cabin in the Woods summoned the crab to suppress an awakening Evil God, but their complicated sacrifices confused and angered it.
• The crab ate some of the sacrificed people, choked on bones, and destroyed the world as the researchers’ intended victims rebelled.
• Wenren Sheng considered combining the worlds he had encountered into a unified world, decided to rest, and saw Old Wu farming with his wife inside a historical story.

As northern forces threatened Jiangnan, Old Wu and Wenren De organized local residents to defend their city, with Old Wu using immense strength and iron armor to earn a following. The County Magistrate appointed Old Wu acting County Commandant, and the city began preparing its troops and supplies for the coming invasion.

• Wenren Sheng saw that northern invaders were approaching Jiangnan, and refugees' warnings disrupted Old Wu's peaceful life.
• Old Wu and Wenren De planned a defense, raised money, and had a blacksmith make Old Wu a thousand-jin Iron Bull Armor.
• Wenren De gathered 120 household servants, and Old Wu persuaded them to stay and unite rather than flee.
• Old Wu and Wenren De led patrols that killed thugs and bandits, spreading the reputation of the divine bull and restoring residents' confidence.
• The County Magistrate appointed Old Wu acting County Commandant, and Old Wu began organizing the Yamen Runners and residents to train and prepare supplies.

Old Wu and Wenren De helped the County Magistrate prepare the city for a Tartar invasion, then Old Wu drove off a cavalry raid and exposed infiltrators. After learning the neighboring city had been devastated, Old Wu refused to leave until they had settled the danger.

• Old Wu organized and trained about fifteen hundred men, while the city gathered supplies and prepared its defenses.
• A small Tartar force demanded that the city open its gates in the name of Prince of North Pacification, but the County Magistrate refused and the cavalry rode away.
• Wenren De warned against opening the gates to refugees, and Old Wu shot a suspected infiltrator who was revealed as a Tartar spy.
• Old Wu descended from the walls in heavy armor and defeated the cavalrymen attacking the refugees, killing seven before the survivors retreated.
• News arrived that Tartars had massacred hundreds and robbed a neighboring city after its gates were compromised.
• Wenren De suggested they return home, but Old Wu insisted they settle matters before leaving.

Wenren Sheng helped Wenren De and Old Wu summon a giant crab that routed the Tartars, but the fame forced the two men to flee into the mountains, where they took control of a bandit stronghold and began building a settlement. Wenren Sheng learned that the crab had become the Nation Protecting Divine Beast in the Imperial Palace, where it was lavishly fed but faced repeated poisoning attempts.

• Wenren Sheng sent a giant crab to Wenren De’s ceremony, and it charged into the wilderness and slaughtered or scattered the Tartar cavalry.
• Wenren De and Old Wu fled their homeland as officials and the emperor sought to meet them, then settled in a mountain village.
• Mountain People attacked the pair, but Old Wu fought them off, and the villagers hailed him as their Chieftain.
• Wenren De and Old Wu organized the stronghold, building defenses and teaching its people farming, medicine, and other practical skills.
• Wenren De sensed that the crab had entered the Imperial Palace and become the Nation Protecting Divine Beast, where factions repeatedly tried to poison it.
• Wenren De reassured Old Wu that the crab was immune to poison and decided to let it remain in the palace rather than summon it to their stronghold.

Little Stone discovered a trapped world where demons and monsters preyed on anyone who learned the Truth, and she sent it to Wenren Sheng, who entered as a PE teacher. There he found Zhao Han hiding among students and mistaking him for a demon, while she continued surviving by staying ignorant and attending school.

• Little Stone heard a plea from someone who hated gentle people and learned that an Evil Object’s world devoured people and their memories when they discovered the Truth.
• Little Stone marked the world as potentially containing hidden existences and forwarded it to Wenren Sheng, who entered after the Seed of Mystery reacted.
• Wenren Sheng observed that humans and demons alike acted politely to avoid exposing themselves, then took a PE teaching job at a school.
• Wenren Sheng recognized that some evil fiends believed they were human, while awakened fiends knew the Truth and faced death if they exposed themselves without quickly eating witnesses.
• Wenren Sheng spotted Zhao Han, who had spent about twenty years in the city while remaining a second-year high school student because school was the safest place to hide.
• Zhao Han mistook Wenren Sheng for a powerful demon impersonating her teacher after her Seed of Narration warned that the returning “Big Air Conditioner” might be fake.

Wenren Sheng planned to change the demon world's rules by gathering kind demons and organizing them into camps, and he assigned Zhao Han a survey to find them. Zhao Han returned to her family villa and prepared to rely on the Awakened Ones in her online Watermelon Group, unaware that the powerful demon she had identified was not bound by the usual rules.

• Zhao Han explained that demons she identified faced deadlines to find her, and she feared the awakened demon hiding near her, which she believed had taken the form of Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng decided to divide demons into four camps and build a community of kind demons, starting by seeking awakened demons who refused to prey on humans.
• Wenren Sheng recognized a powerful student demon as a truly kind demon who was not bound by the world's ordinary rules, though Zhao Han had already been exposed to its gaze.
• Wenren Sheng asked Zhao Han to investigate the proportion of kind people in society, and she accepted because she could not safely refuse him.
• Zhao Han returned to her villa, where her unawakened demon parents treated her well, and recalled how discovering her father's true nature had revealed the world's danger.
• Zhao Han had formed the online Watermelon Group of Awakened Ones, whose members communicated remotely because online identification did not trigger the demons' rules.

Zhao Han organized a secret investigation to find evil demons who did not prey on humans and explored how humans might encourage them to resist their instincts. The group identified twenty-five kind evil demons and brought them together under a volunteer organizer, whose operation Zhao Han predicted would go smoothly.

• Zhao Han told the Watermelon Group to identify kind people, and members shared stories about evil demons who treated humans kindly.
• Zhao Han created a private group for confirmed humans, where members defined kind evil demons as those who did not consciously hunt or eat humans.
• Strategist proposed using human art and entertainment to build goodwill, and members discussed whether evil demons could be persuaded to stop eating people.
• Strategist argued that evil demons needed plentiful substitute food, and Zhao Han redirected the discussion toward identifying and gathering kind evil demons.
• The group counted twenty-five kind evil demons and chose a fame-seeking volunteer to organize them, while Zhao Han used the Seed of Narration to predict that the operation would succeed.

The organizer persuaded twenty-five demonic heretics to support a Human License System that protected licensed people from being eaten, and the idea spread through the evil demon community. Wenren Sheng saw the debate turning in his favor, while Zhao Han remained on vacation and struggled to learn piano and guzheng.

• The organizer argued that eating people should be restricted to protect families and secured the twenty-five demonic heretics’ agreement to promote human licenses.
• The organizer reported the consensus to Zhao Han, who decided to seek a human license by taking lessons but fell asleep on her new piano.
• Wenren Sheng saw evil demons debate whether they could eat people freely, and participants rejected unrestricted eating in favor of licenses and collective punishment for violations.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that humans could use the evil demons’ own rules and interests to protect licensed people from being eaten.

Wenren Sheng reflected on how humans and Devils had reached a peaceful, pet-like coexistence, but warned that human ambition and renewed conflict threatened it. After humans began seeking power through Devil organ transplants, a human serial killer who treated them as food was caught, and Devils and their human masters reacted with outrage.

• Wenren Sheng recalled that a powerful descendant of the Creator had removed the rule forcing Devils to eat humans who discovered their identities, allowing humans and Devils to live peacefully as pets and masters.
• Wenren Sheng observed that humans later pursued dominance, and the Azure Organization rose by using transplanted Devil cells and organs to gain power and call for the Devils’ extermination.
• A serial killer who had murdered and consumed humans was caught after waiting at home for investigators, and his horrifying collection of evidence enraged the public.
• A human complained to their Devil master about the killer, and the Devil promised to have him eliminated.
• Devils online condemned the human-eating murderer, praising humans as adorable companions and questioning how anyone could harm them.

As humans and Deities descended into slaughter, Zhao Han learned that the Creator would destroy humanity unless someone found a way to restrain its greed. Wenren Sheng gave her books that ultimately turned the demon world into a stable Storyless Kingdom, where humans survived as servants of the demons.

• Human factions stirred up hatred against Deities, while Zhao Han gathered rational humans and Deities and warned them about the coming catastrophe.
• Deities who feared humanity began purging humans, but pro-human Deities fought back until both sides agreed to a truce; humans then attacked and slaughtered the weakened Deities.
• The Seed of Narration showed Zhao Han that the Creator would kill humanity and flood the world, so she pleaded with Wenren Sheng to let her leave.
• Wenren Sheng gave Zhao Han The Analects, The Book of Lord Shang, and Palace Maid Memoirs as a means to bind people into obedient service.
• One hundred years later, Zhao Han saw that Wenren Sheng’s method had made the demon world a Storyless Kingdom where humanity survived in a settled master-and-servant order.

Zhao Han was sent by Wenren Sheng to an ordinary courtyard world, where she discovered that strict rules and low wages made it difficult to get enough food. After learning she could not sell her inherited copperware or start a side business, she began considering how Wang Weiguo managed to eat so well.

• Zhao Han accepted Wenren Sheng's promise of a safe world and arrived in a shabby room in a Siheyuan, where she learned she had become a boy named Zhao.
• Zhao Han saw Jia Zhangshi suffer a series of inexplicable mishaps around the Transmigrator Wang Weiguo and realized the Seed of Narration was suppressed in this world.
• Zhao Han found only one hard corn bun at home, then learned from First Madam that selling her ancestral copperware was forbidden and received two steamed buns instead.
• Zhao Han went to work at the Steel Rolling Mill and calculated that her wages and ration system left little money for filling meals.
• Zhao Han concluded that private business was not an option and wondered how Wang Weiguo could afford to eat meat regularly.
• Zhao Han bought three extra cornmeal buns, prompting neighbors to tease her that she would never save enough to marry.

Zhao Han investigated how Wang Weiguo earned money, then began preparing to treat illnesses and sell medicine to address her food shortage. After learning that rural villagers lacked access to doctors, she set out to practice in the countryside, renting Yan Bugui’s bicycle to make the difficult journey.

• Zhao Han watched Qin Huairu ask Wang Weiguo for food, then gave Qin Huairu a steamed bun in exchange for help washing her clothes.
• Qin Huairu told Zhao Han that Wang Weiguo earned money by making furniture, and Zhao Han later saw him selling expensive carpentry goods outside his home.
• After her master praised her work, Zhao Han decided to use her knowledge of medicine to earn food and gathered herbs to prepare remedies for common illnesses.
• Zhao Han learned from Qin Huairu that rural villagers had to travel far to see a doctor, so she resolved to visit nearby villages and treat people on her weekly day off.
• Zhao Han rented a bicycle from Yan Bugui for five yuan and fifty cents and set off toward the countryside.

Zhao Han borrowed Yan Bugui’s bicycle, prepared medical supplies, and began treating villagers in Daqing Village. After using the Seed of Narration to cure serious illnesses, she left with food and an old hen, unaware that her conspicuous miracles could attract scrutiny.

• Yan Bugui warned Zhao Han at length about protecting his bicycle before she borrowed it, and Wang Weiguo charged her extra to make a medicine box.
• Zhao Han rode to Daqing Village with a clinic letter of introduction and was welcomed as a city health worker.
• Zhao Han treated a child’s high fever with sugar water, pills, and the Seed of Narration, quickly improving his condition.
• Zhao Han used the Seed of Narration to treat villagers’ ailments, including a young man’s severe pulmonary tuberculosis.
• The villagers gave Zhao Han dried sweet potatoes, pickled eggs, cured meat, and an old laying hen, and she declined to stay overnight.

Zhao Han returned to the Siheyuan with food and an old hen, finally securing enough provisions to eat her fill. Wang Weiguo noticed her haul and began planning how to approach the suspected fellow transmigrator, Zhao San.

• Zhao Han returned late at night with supplies, and Third Great Uncle Yan Bugui inspected the bicycle and asked for half a bag of dried sweet potatoes.
• Zhao Han gave Yan Bugui the sweet potatoes, returned his bicycle, and received her deposit back.
• Zhao Han stored the food, hid the old hen in a cage by the window, and went to sleep after feeding it.
• Wang Weiguo watched Zhao Han's home through his magpie informant and realized she had obtained valuable supplies too quickly to have merely sold herbs.
• Wang Weiguo concluded that Zhao San likely had a system of his own and considered how to gain his trust, regretting that he had accepted five yuan from him earlier.

Wang Weiguo tried to build trust with Zhao Han, who wanted to learn how to take medical leave without losing her factory job. He explained how a substitute could preserve her worker status, leaving Zhao Han to consider the importance of keeping her position.

• Wang Weiguo decided to approach Zhao Han cautiously and went to work so she would overhear that he had taken medical leave while keeping his job.
• Zhao Han returned to the courtyard at noon and saw Wang Weiguo spanking Bang Geng for stealing his hen, then asked him to spare the boy.
• After Zhao Han intervened, Wang Weiguo released Bang Geng and asked Zhao Han why she had come to see him.
• Zhao Han asked how Wang Weiguo had arranged medical leave, and he explained that she would need a hospital certificate and a substitute to keep her position from being filled permanently.
• Wang Weiguo described how his village relative worked in his place while he retained his factory status, and Zhao Han realized that preserving her worker status mattered most.