Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuang received a tarot deck and a Mystic Seal of True Sight, then spoke with Acheron about the danger gathering on the Luofu and her plans to visit Azur Star. Acheron showed her a captured Heliobus and offered it as a potentially safer source of power than Lin Shuang’s Stellaron.

• Lin Shuang drew The Lovers card and received the Mystic Seal of True Sight, which fused into her eyes.
• Lin Shuang told Acheron that Abundant Doses and the Divination Department were watching her, and Acheron urged her to keep the sword she had given her close.
• Lin Shuang told Acheron she planned to visit Azur Star in a month to meet her online friend and see Herta Space Station.
• Acheron showed Lin Shuang a harmless-seeming Heliobus that had tried and failed to possess her.
• Lin Shuang realized the Heliobus had likely been frightened by Acheron, who had captured it because its stable fire energy might suit Lin Shuang better than her Stellaron’s power.

Lin Shuang arranged to meet Acheron and wondered whether she could use Acheron’s Heliobus, then received a real offer from Firefly to cover her songs. The chapter ended with Lin Shuang suspecting Firefly’s voice might already be strained despite her studio’s explanation that she was preparing for Penacony’s Charmony Festival.

• Acheron immediately agreed to return to the Xianzhou after Lin Shuang suggested testing whether she could use a Heliobus.
• Lin Shuang offered to meet Acheron on a nearby planet using her new spatial teleportation ability, and Acheron accepted.
• After ending the call, Acheron tucked the Heliobus into her arm and left the Starport while Lin Shuang hoped she could make use of its abilities.
• Lin Shuang verified that Firefly Studio’s email was genuine and learned that Firefly wanted to cover several of her songs and meet her privately.
• Lin Shuang checked Firefly’s recent activity and questioned whether her voice was already strained, despite the studio saying she had paused live performances to prepare for the Charmony Festival.

Lin Shuang used Firefly’s secret about discordant noise in Penacony’s Harmony to make herself important to the singer and improve her chances of getting a Charmony Festival ticket. The next day, she reunited with Acheron at an abandoned Starport, where Acheron said her memories and sense of taste had improved thanks to Lin Shuang.

• Lin Shuang agreed to make a cover for Firefly, then contacted Firefly’s work account and questioned whether Firefly’s singing voice was affected by discordant noise in Penacony’s Harmony.
• Firefly panicked at Lin Shuang’s knowledge of her secret but denied that anything was wrong with the Family.
• Lin Shuang apologized while intending to let Firefly investigate her, hoping the secret would make Firefly negotiate with her over a Penacony ticket.
• Acheron messaged Lin Shuang that she had reached the abandoned Starport, and Lin Shuang crossed through her pixel-style portal to meet her.
• Acheron told Lin Shuang she had been looking forward to their reunion and said her sense of taste had returned and her recent memories had stopped fading as much, thanks to Lin Shuang.

Lin Shuang discovered that the ring she gave Acheron was restoring Acheron’s lost memories and preventing further memory loss. She captured Acheron’s Heliobus in a Full Load Bottle, which upgraded into a usable power source for Lin Shuang’s greatsword.

• Lin Shuang used the Mystic Seal of True Sight to learn that her ring preserved memories and had restored Acheron’s lost memories.
• Acheron moved close to Lin Shuang as they held hands, then pulled away and asked why Lin Shuang had examined the ring.
• Acheron showed Lin Shuang the Heliobus she had caught, and Lin Shuang warned her not to seek out dangerous Heliobus.
• Lin Shuang used a Full Load Bottle to absorb the Heliobus, causing the bottle to upgrade into a green-quality Heliobus Full Load Bottle.
• Lin Shuang tried drawing power directly from the bottle, then inserted it into her greatsword, changing its flames from red to blue-green.

Lin Shuang tested the Heliobus's energy-manipulating power with Acheron, and the two grew closer as Acheron's memories and emotions began returning. Back on the Xianzhou, Lin Shuang encountered Guinaifen and Li Sushang, who were curious about her card tricks.

• Lin Shuang demonstrated how she could use the Heliobus to change energy properties, while Acheron encouraged her to trust her more.
• Acheron explained that her memories and emotions had begun returning, and Lin Shuang held her hand as they explored the planet together.
• Lin Shuang and Acheron shared a meal and slept beside each other in the ruins; Lin Shuang woke in Acheron's embrace and noticed her affection had increased.
• After waking, Lin Shuang hugged Acheron and returned to the Xianzhou, where she considered how to gain more freedom on Penacony and planned to visit Qingque.
• Guinaifen rushed up to Lin Shuang with Li Sushang and asked where she had learned her card-handling skills.

Lin Shuang met Guinaifen and Sushang, impressed them with her sleight of hand, and agreed to teach Guinaifen while exchanging contact information with both women. She later visited Ruomu Pavilion to thank Danshu for a prescription, leaving Bailu as someone she still hoped to meet.

• Lin Shuang showed Guinaifen and Sushang her sleight of hand, and Guinaifen eagerly asked to learn from her.
• Lin Shuang exchanged contact information with Guinaifen, and Sushang insisted on joining them before Lin Shuang left.
• Lin Shuang stopped by the card parlor, teased Qingque, and said she was going to Ruomu Pavilion to thank Danshu.
• Lin Shuang thought about meeting Bailu and asking Tingyun about her before arriving at Ruomu Pavilion.
• Danshu asked Lin Shuang whether her prescription had helped, and Lin Shuang thanked her for easing the pain in her hands.

Lin Shuang visited Danshu at Ruomu Pavilion, where Danshu examined her recovering hands and invited her to deliver medicine to Leisurely Court. There, Lin Shuang found children bullying a blind girl and used her powers to punish their ringleader and terrify the rest.

• Lin Shuang met Danshu at Ruomu Pavilion, and Danshu found that Lin Shuang's hands were recovering quickly.
• Danshu invited Lin Shuang to accompany her to Leisurely Court to deliver medicine to her comrades.
• At Leisurely Court, Lin Shuang and Danshu found children mocking a blind girl who was stranded on steps beside a pond.
• When the children's ringleader insulted Lin Shuang and the other children threatened her, Lin Shuang knocked the ringleader down, froze him kneeling, and struck two others to the ground.
• Lin Shuang surrounded the children with dark green flames and threatened them, frightening the ringleader into wetting himself.

Lin Shuang used illusions to stop a group of children from bullying a blind girl, then unsettled Danshu with a tarot reading that hinted she might be misled and abandoned. After parting with Danshu, Lin Shuang planned to weaken Phantylia before letting Acheron fight her, hoping to keep Acheron safe while drawing her into the conflict.

• Lin Shuang frightened the bullies with an illusion, and the children blamed one another before choosing two sacrifices and fleeing.
• Danshu escorted the blind girl home and acknowledged that she had sensed Lin Shuang's intervention.
• Lin Shuang urged Danshu to address discrimination against people with Heavenly Defects through the Department of Civil Affairs, disrupting Danshu's attempt to persuade her about Abundant Doses.
• Danshu drew the reversed Hierophant, and Lin Shuang interpreted it as a warning of false information, manipulation, and abandonment.
• Lin Shuang considered using Jing Yuan and Acheron to weaken Phantylia before Acheron confronted her, and decided to first undermine Danshu's position.

Lin Shuang confronted a Xianzhou official and Cloud Knights who accused her of attacking children, then used her power to overpower them. Fu Xuan and Yanqing promised an investigation and an answer within a day, while Firefly contacted Lin Shuang to arrange a meeting on the Xianzhou.

• A Xianzhou official arrived with Cloud Knights and children who accused Lin Shuang of attacking them and being an Abundant Doses spy.
• Lin Shuang summoned ghostly green flames, knocked the official down, and frightened the children into begging for mercy.
• Fu Xuan and Yanqing arrived, condemned the Cloud Knights' conduct, and promised to investigate and give Lin Shuang an answer within one day.
• Yanqing asked Lin Shuang to spare the offenders for a fair Xianzhou judgment, and Lin Shuang withdrew her flames as he began handling the incident.
• Fu Xuan invited Lin Shuang to visit the Divination Department, but Lin Shuang said they could discuss it after the matter was settled.
• Firefly messaged Lin Shuang and asked to meet on the Xianzhou to discuss the song.

Lin Shuang met Tingyun at the Sky-Faring Commission, reassured her about the recent incident, and warned her that a Great Annihilation Lord might be behind the Abundance faction targeting the Luofu. Tingyun agreed to be careful and offered to take Lin Shuang to meet Bailu, while Lin Shuang planned to share the intelligence with Jing Yuan.

• Lin Shuang agreed to meet Firefly on the Xianzhou Luofu when Firefly arrived in a week.
• Lin Shuang brought Tingyun tea and snacks, and Tingyun checked that she had not been mistreated before inviting her to the Sky-Faring Commission.
• Lin Shuang explained her conflict with the Cloud Knights, and Tingyun remarked that Fu Xuan's intervention showed the Xianzhou valued Lin Shuang or Acheron.
• Lin Shuang warned Tingyun that the Abundance faction's actions might involve a Great Annihilation Lord and described a Lord Ravager resembling a Heliobus.
• Tingyun thanked Lin Shuang for the intelligence and agreed to be careful, while Lin Shuang planned to tell Jing Yuan.
• Lin Shuang asked about Bailu's massages, and Tingyun offered to take her to meet the Dragon Daughter.

Lin Shuang learned that the Stellaron Hunters could arrange a nominal marriage contract to help her, then teased Silver Wolf until Silver Wolf attacked her. The chapter ended with Lin Shuang blasted out of her room by Silver Wolf’s barrage of warheads.

• Lin Shuang messaged Qingque that she had beaten up Cloud Knights, leaving Qingque worried about her assignment to escort Lin Shuang to meet Jing Yuan.
• Lin Shuang asked Silver Wolf whether the Stellaron Hunters could help her find out what Phantylia was doing, but Silver Wolf said Elio would not reveal destiny.
• Silver Wolf offered to find a civilization where Lin Shuang could enter a nominal marriage contract with a Stellaron Hunter, and sent her Kafka’s and Sam’s contact details.
• Lin Shuang told Silver Wolf that she might be attracted to women, then called Silver Wolf her father, prompting Silver Wolf to bombard Lin Shuang’s room and send her flying outside.

After Silver Wolf attacked Lin Shuang, she accidentally blurted out that she intended to marry her, then fled. Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan discussed their concerns about Lin Shuang’s powers, Acheron turned back toward the Luofu after a sudden premonition, and Lin Shuang and Qingque arrived at the Divination Department to meet the general.

• Silver Wolf pinned Lin Shuang down, demanded she behave, and declared that Lin Shuang would marry her before vanishing in embarrassment.
• Lin Shuang messaged Silver Wolf about setting a wedding date, while Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan discussed whether Lin Shuang’s strange powers and uncertain fate posed a danger.
• Acheron felt an unexplained concern about Lin Shuang on the Luofu and immediately turned back to ask her about it.
• Qingque met Lin Shuang at the Starskiff dock, and they traveled together to the Divination Department.
• Lin Shuang and Qingque entered the Divination Department, where Jing Yuan stood with Yanqing and Qingzu.

Lin Shuang met with Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan to hear the Cloud Knights’ punishments for the previous day’s incident and offered intelligence about the Abundant Doses and the Lord Ravager Phantylia. The meeting ended with Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan considering the danger to the Luofu, while Fu Xuan began investigating and Jing Yuan returned to his duties.

• Jing Yuan welcomed Lin Shuang and Qingque, and Yanqing explained that Song Li would be sentenced under military law while his accomplices would lose their military status and be imprisoned.
• Lin Shuang declined personal compensation and asked Jing Yuan to focus on helping people with Heavenly Defects, then accepted his offer of a greatsword.
• Jing Yuan asked Lin Shuang about the heliobus inside her, and she revealed that the Abundant Doses had contacted Phantylia, a Lord Ravager whose true form was also a heliobus.
• Fu Xuan asked whether Phantylia might have possessed the Sky-Faring Commission liaison officer, and she and Jing Yuan considered the threat to the Luofu.
• The meeting ended, with Jing Yuan assigning tasks to Yanqing and Qingzu and Fu Xuan preparing to investigate with the Grand Void Astral Compass.
• Fu Xuan stopped Jing Yuan from accompanying Lin Shuang to the Crafting Division and left the Divination Department with Lin Shuang.

Lin Shuang agreed to help Fu Xuan investigate Phantylia and exchanged messages with Silver Wolf and Sam about gaming together that night. Acheron secretly returned to the Luofu and watched Lin Shuang from outside her Starskiff as Lin Shuang began messaging Kafka.

• Fu Xuan paid Lin Shuang and asked her to help with a divination about Phantylia, and Lin Shuang agreed.
• Acheron secretly entered the Luofu and followed her intuition to Lin Shuang's Starskiff.
• Qingque accompanied Lin Shuang toward the Crafting Division while Fu Xuan got off at the Divination Department.
• Silver Wolf invited Lin Shuang to a new game and said Sam would join them that night.
• Lin Shuang messaged Sam, exchanged stickers with her, and then opened a chat with Kafka.

Acheron secretly followed Lin Shuang and grew uneasy about Lin Shuang’s connection to the Stellaron Hunters and her closeness with Fu Xuan. At the Divination Department, Fu Xuan used the Grand Void Astral Compass to investigate Phantylia, while Lin Shuang’s thoughts embarrassed her and left her debating whether to accept another massage.

• Acheron overheard Lin Shuang’s conversation with Silver Wolf and wondered why the Stellaron Hunters had approached her.
• Acheron followed Lin Shuang to the Crafting Division, where Lin Shuang received promises of a custom longsword and official Xianzhou benefits.
• Fu Xuan summoned Lin Shuang to the Divination Department and reported that Phantylia had visited the Luofu, though her dealings with the Abundant Doses remained unclear.
• Fu Xuan activated the Grand Void Astral Compass and asked Lin Shuang to help investigate Phantylia.
• Fu Xuan read Lin Shuang’s thoughts about massaging her feet, blushed, and called Lin Shuang an idiot.

Lin Shuang massaged Fu Xuan at her residence, and Fu Xuan gradually relaxed despite her embarrassment. Outside, Acheron watched with unfamiliar jealousy and possessiveness, while Fu Xuan ended the evening exhausted and ready to sleep.

• Fu Xuan took Lin Shuang to her home and explained that she sometimes brought unfinished work there.
• Lin Shuang massaged Fu Xuan's temples and shoulders, and Fu Xuan relaxed enough to lie facedown and loosen her clothes.
• Acheron watched from outside and felt possessive of Lin Shuang, but held back and decided to see what happened.
• Lin Shuang massaged Fu Xuan's back and legs, then patted her bottom when Fu Xuan's legs remained tense.
• After roughly half a system hour, Fu Xuan lay sweaty and trembling, told Lin Shuang the massage had been pleasant, and said she was sleepy.

Acheron wrestled with her growing jealousy and affection for Lin Shuang, then watched over her as she entered the virtual game. There, Lin Shuang met Firefly and Silver Wolf, and Firefly offered to show her around and shop for clothes.

• Acheron recognized that her feelings for Lin Shuang might be possessiveness and jealousy, but she chose to savor them as proof she could still feel.
• Acheron bathed, changed into a nightdress, wondered whether Lin Shuang preferred her legs and feet, then climbed into bed beside her and held her hand.
• Lin Shuang met Firefly and Silver Wolf in the virtual game, and Silver Wolf criticized Lin Shuang for wearing the default outfit.
• Firefly offered to take Lin Shuang shopping, while Silver Wolf left for the Adventure Zone and reminded Lin Shuang to pay.
• Firefly explained that people usually called her Sam, and Lin Shuang promised to call her Firefly.

Lin Shuang and Firefly grew closer while exploring the virtual game's shopping district, and Lin Shuang suggested they enter their relationship contract in Penacony. In reality, Acheron changed Lin Shuang into a nightdress while she remained immersed in the game, and her affection for Lin Shuang rose.

• Firefly accepted Lin Shuang's hand and teased that their future contract would make Lin Shuang one of the Stellaron Hunters.
• Acheron undressed Lin Shuang, changed her into a black nightdress, and was astonished that Lin Shuang did not wake.
• While Lin Shuang held Firefly's hand in the game, a system notice showed Acheron's affection had increased to 86.
• Firefly said she looked forward to the contract because Elio had told her meeting Lin Shuang might help her find life's meaning.
• Firefly took Lin Shuang into a shop in Little Penacony and said she wanted to visit the real Penacony.
• Lin Shuang proposed holding their contract ceremony in Penacony during the Charmony Festival, then worried about the dangers awaiting them there.

Lin Shuang and Firefly shopped together in the game, where they teased each other about looking like sisters, before joining Silver Wolf for a dungeon. While Lin Shuang remained immersed in the game, Acheron dressed her sleeping body in revealing outfits, leaving Lin Shuang with an unexplained, chilly sensation in the game.

• Firefly accepted Lin Shuang's invitation to form a contract in Penacony and appreciated her consideration of Firefly's wishes.
• Lin Shuang and Firefly tried on similar outfits and joked about which of them was the older sister.
• Silver Wolf messaged Lin Shuang and Firefly to join her for a multiplayer dungeon, and they teleported to the Underground City.
• Acheron posed the unresponsive Lin Shuang, took photos, and decided to dress her in outfits Lin Shuang had bought.
• Lin Shuang sensed something strange around her lower body in the game, but her monitoring system and instincts detected no danger.

Lin Shuang logged out of the game and discovered Acheron had secretly returned to the Xianzhou and was dressing her while she slept. Acheron said a premonition about Lin Shuang facing trouble had brought her back, and Lin Shuang worried that Acheron’s presence and powers could cause problems aboard the Xianzhou.

• Lin Shuang used the Mystic Seal of True Sight, then decided to log out and check her home while Firefly and Silver Wolf waited for her to return.
• Lin Shuang woke on her bed to find Acheron holding her leg and pulling underwear onto her while she wore a nightdress and stockings.
• Lin Shuang tried to free herself and asked why Acheron had returned to the Xianzhou without notifying anyone.
• Acheron admitted she had snuck in after a premonition that Lin Shuang would become involved in trouble.
• Acheron asked whether Lin Shuang did not want her there, and Lin Shuang said she was concerned about Acheron’s long detour and the risks of revealing her power.