Chapter Summaries

Long Xiruo investigated the human’s death at the sports complex while Cheese and the others failed to find Zhui Feng. Their search ended in a violent confrontation, and Long Xiruo discovered that the headless corpse carried the same ominous aura as several dead demons.

• Long Xiruo questioned Cheese, then searched the crime scene and sent a strand of her hair to track Zhui Feng.
• Cheese, Nini, and Xiao Jiang searched Zhui Feng’s rooftop home but could not find him, and Nini discovered Cheese’s wound was worse than he had claimed.
• Xiao Jiang condemned Zhui Feng, who appeared and attacked him; when Zhui Feng lunged at Cheese, Iron Whistle pierced his shoulder with its tail.
• Zhui Feng jumped from the twenty-third floor and disappeared, leaving Cheese troubled by the conflict among his friends.
• Long Xiruo examined the human corpse and found that the headless corpse nearby carried the same ominous residual aura as demon corpses found in the suburbs.

Zhui Feng lay dying from a poisoned shoulder wound and remembered his lonely childhood, his arrival in the city, and the friends he had made. Two figures found him and decided to take him back.

• Long Xiruo examined the corpses, suspected a connection to the force behind Xiangliu, and went to look for Zhui Feng.
• Ma Houde challenged Director Old Liu’s order to withdraw most officers from the stadium crime scene, but left after learning the decision came from higher-ups.
• Six months earlier, Zhui Feng waited for Cheese to duel him at Lotus Arena, and Cheese arrived late but agreed to compete.
• Wounded and bleeding in an alley, Zhui Feng recalled being abandoned, surviving alone, and settling in the city after meeting Long Xiruo.
• A man and a woman found Zhui Feng, and the man told her to take him back.

Long Xiruo tracked Zhui Feng to an alley but found only a foul puddle of black liquid. Boss Luo and You Ye healed Zhui Feng in Zhongshan Memorial Park, gave him termites and a Black Card, and disappeared, leaving him with a way to reach their club.

• Long Xiruo found Zhui Feng’s trail ending in a puddle of poisoned black liquid and recalled tracking the fox demon Yu Caiji a thousand years earlier.
• Zhui Feng woke in a grove in Zhongshan Memorial Park beside Boss Luo and You Ye, with his injuries healed.
• Boss Luo offered Zhui Feng termites, which he eagerly ate, then said Zhui Feng was not meant to die before turning sixty.
• Zhui Feng challenged Boss Luo’s claim that he had saved him without wanting anything, but Boss Luo refused to reveal the real reason.
• You Ye gave Zhui Feng a Black Card that would guide him to the club when he needed something, and Boss Luo and You Ye vanished.

Zhui Feng fled Long Xiruo after she tried to take the ominous Black Card, which protected him and triggered a memory of the scarlet earth. Long Xiruo let him escape and went to Luo Qiu’s shop, where the chapter ended with her confronting him at the doorway.

• Zhui Feng met Long Xiruo outside the park, and she asked why he had run when he had done nothing wrong.
• Zhui Feng challenged Long Xiruo’s authority and refused to give up the Black Card, whose power eased the pressure of her aura.
• Long Xiruo seized the Black Card, but it struck her with a vision of a scarlet earth and a collapsing heaven and earth, allowing Zhui Feng to escape.
• Luo Qiu reviewed an old transaction that required Zhui Feng to live at least until sixty and explained that the Black Card had been delivered to him as an advance payment.
• Long Xiruo arrived at Luo Qiu’s shop, refused his invitation to enter, and faced him at the doorway.

Long Xiruo confronted Luo Qiu over the black card he gave Zhui Feng and attacked the club, but the shop’s power overwhelmed her. She woke up as a powerless, exhausted child and demanded to know what Luo Qiu had done to her.

• Long Xiruo accused Luo Qiu of exploiting Zhui Feng, while Luo Qiu defended the shop’s dealings with its customers.
• Enraged, Long Xiruo transformed and charged at Luo Qiu, but he stopped Maid Miss from intervening and told Long Xiruo to step back.
• A massive door appeared behind Luo Qiu and released a burst of multicolored light that swallowed Long Xiruo.
• Long Xiruo recovered outside the shop, exhausted and unable to summon her True Dragon power.
• Long Xiruo realized she had become a tiny child and demanded to know what Luo Qiu had done to her.

After Luo Qiu shrank Long Xiruo and dressed her in a Lolita outfit, she left the club and struggled to navigate the city without her usual powers. The chapter ends with Long Xiruo feeling lost and unsure where to go.

• Luo Qiu gave Long Xiruo clothes and let her leave, explaining that he would leave any further trouble to the club's defenses.
• Long Xiruo accused Luo Qiu of being a pervert because the Lolita outfit fit her perfectly, then departed.
• Luo Qiu wondered whether losing extraordinary abilities could make someone feel helpless and lost like an ordinary person.
• Long Xiruo sat in a flowerbed, drew strange looks in her outfit, and angrily damaged the plants.
• A man tried to lure Long Xiruo away by pretending to offer help, but she kicked him and ran off.
• Long Xiruo decided not to return to the pet hospital and felt overwhelmed by the vast city around her.

Ren Ziling remained puzzled by the singer’s program and decided to wait for the sports hall performance, while Ma Houde asked her about the headless corpse case. Elsewhere, Cheese continued searching for Zhui Feng with Iron Whistle protecting him, unaware that Iron Whistle secretly ate his bloodstained bandages.

• Ren Ziling rewatched Sunday's program without finding an explanation, then told Lizi they would wait for the sports hall performance and went to plan a visit to a bridal shop.
• Ma Houde called Ren Ziling to ask whether she had found clues about the headless corpse, and she admitted she had forgotten to investigate.
• Luo Qiu sensed that some mischief might be coming near the sports hall and noticed Cheese, Iron Whistle, Xiao Jiang, and Nini hiding in concrete pipes.
• Cheese told Xiao Jiang and Nini that he had caught Zhui Feng's scent but still could not find him, and he sent them home while he stayed with Iron Whistle.
• After Cheese left to find food, Iron Whistle swallowed the bloodied gauze and bandages he had discarded.

Luo Qiu spoke with Iron Whistle about its urge to eat Cheese and taught it the word “hesitation.” Later, Xiao Jiang defied his mother’s orders, found Iron Whistle in the vacant lot, and was impaled when he struck it.

• Luo Qiu secretly communicated with Iron Whistle, explaining pain and suffering as he asked why it wanted to stay near Cheese.
• Iron Whistle admitted that it still intended to eat Cheese because its body needed him, and Luo Qiu named its doubts “hesitation” before leaving.
• Zhui Feng watched Xiao Jiang return home and saw Jiang’s mother scold him for associating with Cheese and Zhui Feng.
• Xiao Jiang told his mother he would stop playing with Zhui Feng, then left to retrieve homework he had misplaced at the vacant lot.
• Xiao Jiang found Iron Whistle and tried to make it play by climbing onto it and striking its head.
• Iron Whistle’s tail pierced Xiao Jiang’s abdomen, spraying blood.

Iron Whistle attacked Xiao Jiang, and Zhui Feng rescued him before Cheese carried him to Long Xiruo for emergency treatment. Long Xiruo struggled to treat him after losing her demonic power, and the chapter ended with her hand trembling as she prepared an injection.

• Iron Whistle wounded Xiao Jiang, but Zhui Feng pulled him away from its bite and tried to carry him to the pet hospital.
• Iron Whistle dragged Zhui Feng back, but he injured its tail and escaped its grasp while trying to protect Xiao Jiang.
• Cheese arrived, misunderstood Zhui Feng’s bloody appearance, and took Xiao Jiang through the Underground Sewer to Long Xiruo’s pet hospital.
• Long Xiruo let Cheese bring Xiao Jiang inside but ordered him to keep the lights off as she prepared to operate.
• Long Xiruo found that her lost demonic power left her unable to use her usual treatments, and her hand trembled as she prepared an adrenaline injection.

Long Xiruo barely kept Xiao Jiang alive after operating on him and learned that Zhui Feng was suspected of attacking him. She ordered Gui Qianyi to secretly capture Zhui Feng, while Iron Whistle continued to contemplate its fear and hunger in the Underground Sewer.

• Long Xiruo finished treating Xiao Jiang and told Cheese that he remained in critical condition.
• Cheese told Long Xiruo that he had found Xiao Jiang injured with Zhui Feng nearby, and admitted Zhui Feng had attacked Xiao Jiang before.
• Long Xiruo sent Cheese with a message to Gui Qianyi, who ordered Ghost Infant to secretly capture Zhui Feng without killing him or informing Sun Xiaosheng.
• Iron Whistle discussed fear and relief with the mysterious voice, denied regretting its attack on Xiao Jiang, and said it still planned to eat Cheese.

Zhui Feng was captured by Gui Qianyi’s monsters and, driven by distrust and a full moon’s power, fell into demonic possession before escaping Ghost Infant. At the club, he asked Boss Luo to sell him Siren’s Bell so he could force others to obey him.

• Several monsters cornered Zhui Feng, subdued him, and took him to Gui Qianyi.
• Gui Qianyi revealed that Long Xiruo had ordered Zhui Feng’s capture and warned him against wasting his life, but Zhui Feng’s anger and heart demon intensified.
• Ghost Infant carried Zhui Feng away, but Zhui Feng awakened, transformed with a blood-wolf phantom, and vanished while absorbing the full moon’s power.
• Zhui Feng appeared at the club and told Luo Qiu that he wanted everyone to obey him and never betray him.
• Luo Qiu offered Zhui Feng Siren’s Bell, which could control up to eighty-one people weaker than its user, and Zhui Feng accepted the offer.

Gui Qianyi and Ghost Infant connected Zhui Feng’s violent demonization to a powerful Demon Wolf once rumored to be descended from Xianji, while Long Xiruo remained unable to identify what had weakened her. Long Xiruo ordered Gui Qianyi to investigate Zhui Feng, treat a patient, and buy her clothes, leaving him and Ghost Infant to carry out her requests.

• Ghost Infant described Zhui Feng’s demonization, and Gui Qianyi recalled a Demon Wolf believed to be descended from Xianji that had vanished after a devastating battle on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
• Gui Qianyi went to see Long Xiruo and examined her pulse, but found no seal, poison, or abnormal power despite her weakened condition.
• Long Xiruo suspected Zhui Feng might have gained Xianji’s power through the mysterious Place and its boss, but kept her condition secret from other demons.
• Long Xiruo ordered Gui Qianyi to investigate and capture Zhui Feng if he had gone mad, examine the patient in the operating room, and bring her clothes.
• Gui Qianyi asked Ghost Infant to buy Lolita clothes for Long Xiruo, and Ghost Infant agreed.

Cheese accepted Nini’s invitation to a concert, but Zhui Feng confronted her afterward and used a Rattle Bell to control her. The chapter ended with Zhui Feng tearing up her ticket and planning something sinister.

• Nini told Cheese that Lord Dragon was caring for Xiao Jiang, and Cheese urged her to stay cautious.
• Nini invited Cheese to a concert and kissed his cheek; Cheese agreed to meet her at the stadium on Sunday evening.
• Zhui Feng confronted Nini after watching her with Cheese and accused her of betraying their friendship.
• Zhui Feng used a Rattle Bell to make Nini obey him and declare her loyalty.
• Zhui Feng tore up Nini’s ticket and announced that he had thought of a wonderful idea.

Long Xiruo and Gui Qianyi investigated the toxin that left Xiao Jiang unconscious, but a mysterious force blocked Gui Qianyi from tracing the attack on him. Meanwhile, Cheng Yiran drove Zhong Luochen’s supercar back to his old neighborhood, where a fish-ball vendor’s story about a discarded bass led him to pursue a clue about its buyer.

• Long Xiruo and Gui Qianyi found that Xiao Jiang’s strange toxin was unlike anything they knew, and Gui Qianyi borrowed her True Dragon blood to use Heavenly Sight Earthly Hearing.
• Gui Qianyi located Zhui Feng but could not trace the past attack on Xiao Jiang because a mysterious force blocked his technique, so he sent Zhui Feng’s location to Ghost Infant and collapsed from the strain.
• Zhong Luochen gave Cheng Yiran the key to a supercar, and Cheng Yiran drove it to the street where he had once spent time with Hong Guan.
• Cheng Yiran heard Fish Ball Qiang describe how someone had sold him a bass and another stranger had bought it, then left his number and asked the vendor to contact him if the buyer returned.

Xiao Meng’s reckless prank ended in a crash that left Cheng Yiran unconscious with minor injuries, while Zhui Feng gathered monsters into a loyal group and escaped Ghost Infant. The chapter left Cheng Yiran hospitalized, with his family worried because the Sunday competition was only days away.

• Xiao Meng climbed through the sunroof, confessed that she liked Cheng Yiran, then faked being unconscious after they narrowly avoided a truck and kissed him.
• Cheng Yiran’s car swerved into a fire hydrant, leaving him unconscious and bloodied.
• Zhui Feng rallied a group of monsters in an underground parking garage and claimed they were his loyal companions.
• Ghost Infant confronted Zhui Feng and cut his cheek, but Zhui Feng sent the monsters to attack and escaped through a window with Nini.
• Ghost Infant subdued the monsters without killing them and found a promotional flyer beneath the cabinet.
• Li Zifeng and Cheng Yun learned that Cheng Yiran had a mild concussion and a minor finger fracture, and the doctor said he might wake within a day or two.

Zhong Luochen investigated Cheng Yiran’s mysterious guitar while Cheng Yiran remained unconscious in the hospital. When Hong Guan visited and played the guitar, the bodyguards outside reacted to its music, confirming that someone besides Cheng Yiran could be affected by it.

• Zhong Luochen arrived at the hospital, instructed Cheng Yun to manage the media and notify Miss Zhang, then examined Cheng Yiran’s guitar.
• Zhong Luochen played the guitar, but the nurse showed no reaction to its sound, leaving him to wonder whether the instrument’s effect depended on Cheng Yiran.
• Hong Guan arrived to ask about Cheng Yiran, revealed that he was a former friend, and sat beside the bed with the guitar.
• Zhong Luochen waited outside the partly open room while Hong Guan plucked the strings, and the bodyguards became entranced by the music and recognized Cheng Yiran’s song “Again.”

Zhong Luochen ordered Cheng Yun to investigate Hong Guan further and made plans for Cheng Yiran’s Sunday program while Cheng Yiran remained unconscious. At the pet hospital, Xiao Jiang woke and identified Cheese’s pet Iron Whistle as his attacker, while Luo Qiu watched events through Light Screens and spoke to the increasingly ravenous creature.

• Cheng Yun told Zhong Luochen that Hong Guan had once been close to Cheng Yiran and that Li Zifeng had registered Hong Guan’s wife’s ward under his own name.
• Zhong Luochen told Cheng Yun to investigate Hong Guan again, keep Cheng Yiran’s program scheduled, and notify him when Cheng Yiran woke; he then asked Grandpa Luo to send him trusted people.
• Long Xiruo and Gui Qianyi discussed Zhui Feng’s possible method of controlling monsters and worried over the flyer for Sunday’s program at Lotus Arena.
• Xiao Jiang woke in the pet hospital and told Gui Qianyi that Iron Whistle, Cheese’s pet, had attacked him, then offered to draw the creature.
• Luo Qiu watched Cheng Yiran, Zhong Luochen, Cheng Yun, the monsters, and Ren Ziling through Light Screens before speaking to Iron Whistle, which was eating a stray dog and felt hungry for more.

After Cheng Yiran’s car accident, Li Zifeng visited him in the hospital and urged him to rest, while Cheng Yiran discovered that his guitar no longer had any effect on Cheng Yun. Cheng Yun then learned that Li Zifeng was arguing with Hong Guan’s wife and went upstairs to investigate.

• Li Zifeng visited Cheng Yiran, urged him to rest his injured finger, and told him the company had learned about his criminal record.
• Cheng Yiran checked his guitar and tried to play it, but Cheng Yun called the sound noise, revealing that the guitar’s magic no longer affected him.
• Cheng Yiran became frightened and pretended he felt unwell, while Cheng Yun left to return to the company.
• A bodyguard told Cheng Yun that Li Zifeng had gone to Hong Guan’s wife’s room and was arguing about transferring her.
• Cheng Yun ordered the bodyguard to guard Cheng Yiran and went upstairs to see what was happening.

Li Zifeng threatened Hong Guan over their secret agreement, but Cheng Yun overheard and confronted him. Meanwhile, Long Xiruo used Gui Qianyi’s illusion to appear as an adult, and Cheese watched Ghost Infant’s team capture Iron Whistle on Long Xiruo’s orders.

• Li Zifeng threatened to stop paying Hong Guan’s wife’s hospital bills unless Hong Guan transferred her to another hospital.
• Cheng Yun overheard Li Zifeng mention their secret agreement and demanded to know what it was.
• Gui Qianyi used his demonic power to make Long Xiruo appear in her adult form.
• Cheese brought live fish to Iron Whistle, but a giant black-suited demon seized him while Ghost Infant’s team attacked Iron Whistle.
• Ghost Infant’s team trapped Iron Whistle in nets, and Long Xiruo arrived and told Cheese she had ordered the capture.

Cheese learned that Iron Whistle had attacked Xiao Jiang, but the creature escaped after killing a monster with a poisoned needle. Long Xiruo took Cheese and his family away, while Zhong Luochen visited Cheng Yiran in the hospital and found him sitting alone in the courtyard.

• Xiao Jiang told Cheese that Iron Whistle had tried to kill him and that Zhui Feng had saved him.
• Iron Whistle escaped Ghost Infant’s net, killed a monster with a poisoned needle, and fled into the Underground Sewer.
• Ghost Infant reported finding scattered human and monster bones underground, and Cheese fainted from the shock.
• Long Xiruo ordered Cheese and his family taken to her place and sensed that something was watching the empty lot.
• Zhong Luochen visited Cheng Yiran, who had gone downstairs to sit with his guitar, and Cheng Yiran seemed afraid to see him.