Chapter Summaries

Xu Qi wrestled with his growing feelings for Mei while Mobius teased him, then spent the night with her and agreed to go somewhere with her the next day. The following morning, Mei asked Mobius for help finding scientists in the quantum field, leaving Xu Qi concerned about what she was facing.

• Xu Qi returned home distracted by Mei's kiss, and Mobius guessed that he had developed feelings for her during their time together.
• Mobius kept quiet about Mei's disguise and drew Xu Qi's attention back to her, then spent the night with him.
• Mobius explained that Su's traditional medicine helped Xu Qi's enhanced body, and she took him out the next morning.
• Mei asked Mobius whether she knew scientists in the quantum field, and Xu Qi asked what was wrong.
• Mei told Xu Qi she could handle it, but did not explain the situation.

Mobius took Xu Qi to visit Klein’s grave and opened up about her past, explaining Klein’s importance to her and recounting her painful childhood. The chapter left Xu Qi comforting Mobius as she reflected on being misunderstood and on the life she wanted to share with him.

• Mobius recommended Professor Planck to Mei as an expert in quantum research.
• Mobius drove Xu Qi to a cemetery to visit Klein’s grave and promised to tell him about her past.
• Mobius explained that Klein had been her student and that Klein’s death had shaped her feelings and memories.
• Mobius told Xu Qi she wanted to grow old with him, despite her youth-preserving biological experiment.
• Mobius described her mother’s death, her abusive alcoholic father, and how he beat her and cast her out when she was nine.
• Xu Qi told Mobius that others failed to understand her and that she was a treasure to the world.

Mobius opened up to Xu Qi about her past, then secretly visited his parents while posing as Dr. Mei. That evening, Mei acknowledged her feelings for Xu Qi, leaving him unsure whether her earlier kiss had been a confession.

• Mobius told Xu Qi that Klein and he were the two people who had made her feel cared for, and Xu Qi comforted her at Klein's grave.
• Mobius walked with Xu Qi, declined to tell him Klein's story, and sent him to visit Sister Nya while she handled an important matter.
• Mobius visited Lin Lai and Xu Youde as Dr. Mei, hiding her identity as she joined Lin Lai for an outing.
• Mei visited Xu Qi that evening to tutor Griseo, and Xu Qi finally asked what her kiss from the previous night had meant.
• Mei said she had held back because she knew Xu Qi might not accept her feelings immediately, and Xu Qi asked if she had meant to teach him about women's hearts by example.

Mei and Elysia consulted Professor Planck about Mei’s resemblance to Dr. Mei, and Planck introduced the Imaginary Tree as a possible clue to Mei’s existence. Xu Qi reconsidered his worries about Dr. Mei and then tried to clear up Aponia’s jealousy over his relationship with Bronya.

• Mei and Elysia contacted Professor Planck, who said that world-bubble theory ruled out Mei being Dr. Mei from another world and revealed the Imaginary Tree as a new research direction.
• Xu Qi told Aponia that Dr. Mei’s identity mattered less than who she was and whether they could become friends.
• Aponia reproached Xu Qi for not confiding in her and asked what had happened between him and President Bronya.
• Xu Qi insisted that he and Bronya had not had intercourse, though Aponia remained confused about what he meant.
• Xu Qi suggested that he and Aponia recreate what he had done with Bronya, and Aponia listened uncertainly as he proposed they try it.

Aponia and Xu Qi became intimate, and she agreed to try a new experience after learning that Bronya had done it before. The chapter ended with Aponia asking Xu Qi to move faster, leaving him alarmed by her unexpected enthusiasm.

• Aponia worried that Xu Qi might have ideas about Griseo, then apologized by suggesting they spend the night together.
• Xu Qi teased Aponia while showing affection, and she asked him to stop making embarrassing noises.
• Xu Qi asked Aponia to try a new intimate act, and she agreed after asking whether it would feel good.
• After the act began, Aponia said the sensation was strange but not painful.
• Aponia asked Xu Qi to move faster, and his face went pale.

Xu Qi and Aponia spent the night growing closer, with Aponia discovering a new intensity of pleasure and asking him to continue until he was exhausted. The next morning, Xu Qi reassured her that he was happy to please her, but their private night was exposed when Griseo saw them leaving the same room.

• Aponia’s pleas and unusual tolerance led Xu Qi to continue until she collapsed, and she told him the experience had been far more intense than before.
• Xu Qi realized Aponia had previously pretended to enjoy their intimacy to excite him, and he told her she did not need to spoil him that way.
• Aponia asked Xu Qi to continue again, leaving him exhausted by morning after their night together.
• Aponia wondered whether she was asking too much, and Xu Qi reassured her that he was glad to make her happy.
• Xu Qi and Aponia came downstairs together, where Griseo saw them leaving the same room and stood speechless.

Xu Qi’s closeness with Dr. Mei reached its last day as the holiday ended, while he remained committed to his Mei. When his Mei appeared and he recognized her lavender perfume, he realized he had mistaken her for Dr. Mei and confronted her, leaving their argument unresolved.

• Mei tutored Griseo while Xu Qi reflected on the end of their ten days together and told her he already had Mei.
• Xu Qi’s Mei arrived and immediately kissed him, and he began touching her before recognizing the lavender scent.
• Xu Qi stopped, helped Mei dress, and confronted her after realizing she was not Dr. Mei.
• Xu Qi pulled Mei into the corridor and accused her of trying to make him betray Dr. Mei.
• Mei challenged Xu Qi to consider her feelings and his own situation, and he fell silent.

After Xu Qi rejected Dr. Mei, the two Meis took shelter together and discussed their shared origin and different fates. Dr. Mei later learned that Xu Qi had died, and that his supposed marriage to Yae had been a lie intended to help her move on.

• Xu Qi told Dr. Mei that he only loved the other Mei, and she fled into the rain.
• Mei followed Dr. Mei, apologized, and asked to talk; at a hotel, she explained that they were one person from different branches of the Imaginary Tree.
• Aponia reflected that Xu Qi and Mei would fall in love in every fate, while Xu Qi regretted his choice but did not stop Mei from leaving.
• Dr. Mei recounted how she and Xu Qi lived separate lives until Elysia later told her that Xu Qi had died.
• Elysia explained that Xu Qi had suffered from depression and that his wedding to Yae had been staged to make Dr. Mei believe he had moved on.

After reading Xu Qi’s final letter, Mei grieved and urged Dr. Mei to use her new identity to make fresh memories with him. Meanwhile, Eden and Aponia discussed how Dr. Mei’s observation of the Imaginary Tree created a possibility in which Xu Qi survived, and Dr. Mei prepared to meet him.

• Alysia gave Mei Xu Qi’s letter, and Mei broke down in tears as she read his confession of love.
• Mei and Dr. Mei discussed their shared past, and Mei urged Dr. Mei to approach Xu Qi as herself and start a new relationship with him.
• Eden told Xu Qi where Mei and Dr. Mei were, and he set out in the rain to find them.
• Eden and Aponia concluded that Dr. Mei’s observation of the Imaginary Tree helped create a new branch of fate in which Xu Qi could live.
• Mei encouraged the nervous Dr. Mei and tied her hair into a matching ponytail before they went to meet Xu Qi.

Mei and Mei reunited with Xu Qi at the hotel, where he apologized and Mei made space for him to speak privately with Dr. Mei. As Xu Qi took Dr. Mei’s hand, their relationship began to move beyond the pretense that she was Mei.

• Mei and Mei joked about how alike they looked and left the elevator arm in arm.
• Xu Qi arrived at the hotel drenched from the rain, and Mei teased him by asking which of them he had come to see.
• Xu Qi apologized to Mei, and she invited him back to the room while Mei told him to treat her new big sister well.
• Mei told Xu Qi to change into dry clothes, then went to get food so he and Dr. Mei could be alone.
• Xu Qi apologized again, and Dr. Mei said she had not been angry with him.
• Xu Qi moved beside Dr. Mei and took her hand, startling her because he had never initiated such intimacy with her as herself.

Mei and Xu Qi apologized for their assumptions and admitted they liked each other, agreeing to continue seeing one another while she tutored Griseo. After Mei revealed she had been the one intimate with Xu Qi all along, their flirtation deepened, and she explained that she had loved him simply because he was Xu Qi.

• Xu Qi admitted he had wrongly treated Mei as Mei's replacement and confessed that he liked her.
• Mei apologized for pretending to be Mei, and she and Xu Qi agreed she would continue tutoring Griseo while he sat with them.
• Mei revealed that she, not Mei, had been intimate with Xu Qi, leaving him to realize he had already been with her countless times.
• Xu Qi flirted with Mei and asked why she had been fond of him from the start.
• Mei described Xu Qi's faults and good qualities, then said she had fallen for him because he was Xu Qi.

Xu Qi and Mei kissed Dr. Mei before she left, and Mei confronted Xu Qi about her jealousy and fear of losing her place in his heart. Xu Qi reassured her with an intimate night together, leaving them resting afterward as Mei teased him about his stamina.

• Xu Qi and Dr. Mei kissed, but they sprang apart when Mei entered the hotel room.
• Dr. Mei left after Mei stopped her from going immediately and promised they would meet again.
• Mei accused Xu Qi of seeming reluctant to let Dr. Mei go and admitted she feared no longer being his favorite.
• Xu Qi told Mei he loved her and tried to restore her confidence through an intimate night together.
• Afterward, Mei rested beside Xu Qi and asked how he still had energy after so many rounds.

Mei and Xu Qi spent the night together as she worried about whether she could become pregnant. After the National Day holiday, Seed Studio resumed production, and Xu Qi and Delta went to Bronya’s office to ask about the overdue Episode Ten storyboards.

• Mei asked Xu Qi whether their repeated intimacy might have made her pregnant, and he reassured her that they could keep trying.
• Xu Qi arranged for Sirin to work at E.T. Studio as an original artist, and Seele excitedly offered to look after her.
• Rita told Xu Qi that Delta had recalled employees early to make up for lost progress, while Xu Qi admitted he had missed the news during their intimate conversation.
• Delta told Xu Qi that Bronya had been avoiding the Episode Ten storyboards, so they hurried to Bronya’s office.
• Xu Qi began asking Bronya about the Episode Ten storyboards.

Xu Qi and Delta worried that Bronya had stalled on the storyboard for Episode Ten, and Delta proposed locking her in a room until she finished it. Meanwhile, Bronya resolved to take her relationship with Xu Qi further, while Xu Qi remained uncertain about Delta’s plan.

• Bronya admitted she had no inspiration for Episode Ten and had not finished its storyboard, so Xu Qi gave her more time.
• Delta criticized Xu Qi for going easy on Bronya, then praised Bronya’s usual storyboard speed and admitted she had once been wrong to doubt her work.
• Delta told Xu Qi she had forced Welt through a creative block by locking him in a room until he finished his storyboard, and suggested doing the same to Bronya.
• Bronya reflected on her feelings for Xu Qi, decided she could not keep delaying their relationship, and planned to ask a nun for advice.
• At lunch, Delta urged Xu Qi to lock Bronya in a room without distractions, while Xu Qi worried that the plan might be a crime.

Delta persuaded Xu Qi to keep Bronya at home and supervise her work, while Bronya decided she was ready to be with him. Later, Xu Qi went to pick up Rin and found her walking with classmates, setting up a tense reunion.

• Delta proposed that Xu Qi supervise Bronya at home while Rita and Chairman Welt covered their work, and Xu Qi agreed.
• Bronya told Aponia she wanted to give herself to Xu Qi, and Aponia helped her recognize that she loved him beyond his achievements.
• Bronya left the church resolved to accompany Xu Qi without hesitation, while Aponia silently reflected on her own feelings.
• Xu Qi went to pick up Rin after work, noticed her walking apart from a group of classmates, and followed them.
• Rin avoided answering Xu Qi’s calls and struggled to join her classmates’ plans because she felt isolated and uneasy around him.
• Rin refused a classmate’s request to call her by her given name and asked to be addressed as Yae.

Xu Qi rescued Rin from a hostile gathering with her classmates and drove her home, where she admitted she had seen him and Yae doing something private during National Day. Rin reunited with Yae and apologized, while Xu Qi and Yae were left to consider the strain she had been carrying.

• Rin refused to stay at the party, and her classmates surrounded and mocked her until Xu Qi arrived in his GTR and took her away.
• Xu Qi reassured Rin about her university life and encouraged her to pursue what she wanted rather than hesitate.
• Rin apologized for avoiding Xu Qi and confessed she had seen him and Yae doing naughty things, leaving Xu Qi stunned when he stopped the car.
• Xu Qi and Rin agreed to go home, and Rin promised to apologize to Yae and stop avoiding her sister.
• Yae hugged Rin when she and Xu Qi returned, accepted Rin's apology, and thanked Xu Qi for bringing her home.

Xu Qi told Yae why Rin had hidden from them, then played Genshin with Elysia while Yae teased him in increasingly distracting ways. He and Elysia failed to defeat the World Boss, and Yae asked if he could manage to control himself when they tried again.

• Xu Qi explained that Rin had seen what happened between him and Yae, and they agreed to be more careful around her.
• Yae sat beside Xu Qi while he joined Elysia's stream and played Genshin with her.
• While Xu Qi was on voice chat with Elysia, Yae secretly began teasing him, making it difficult for him to focus on the game.
• Xu Qi and Elysia's characters died during the World Boss fight, and Elysia offered to carry him through another attempt.
• Yae continued teasing Xu Qi as Elysia asked whether he could control things when they started over.

After Yae revealed that Rin had developed romantic feelings for Xu Qi, he promised to grow colder toward his sister-in-law so the feelings would fade. Yae then prepared a special qipao for Xu Qi, and the chapter ended with her asking why he was still holding back.

• While Xu Qi played Genshin with Elysia, Yae distracted him until he finished the boss fight and logged off.
• Yae told Xu Qi that Rin seemed to have developed romantic feelings for him, and he realized what she meant.
• Xu Qi promised to become colder toward Rin so her feelings would fade, and Yae offered to show him a new outfit.
• Rin helped Yae prepare the outfit and revealed her jealousy, while Elysia wondered why Xu Qi had acted strangely during their game.
• After showering, Xu Qi saw Yae in a custom black-and-white qipao, and she asked why he was not making a move.

Xu Qi’s plan with Delta to get Bronya drunk and make her finish Episode Ten’s storyboards was exposed, while Rita’s teasing led Delta to chase him through Seed Studio. Bronya then hinted that she had her own plan to complete the storyboards soon.

• Xu Qi arrived late after spending the night with Yae, and Rita questioned him about the storyboard plan he had made with Delta.
• Rita suggested getting Bronya and Delta drunk together, and Xu Qi reacted with interest before declaring his preferences for Theresa and Delta.
• Rita revealed that Delta had overheard Xu Qi, and Delta chased him through the studio until he hid in Liu Qi’s office.
• Liu Qi teased Xu Qi and wondered what charm he had that made Bronya like him, so Xu Qi fled her office too.
• Rita told Bronya about Xu Qi and Delta’s plan, and Bronya said the Episode Ten storyboards would be finished soon.

Yae and Mobius each secretly approached Xu Qi’s parents, while Xu Qi, Delta, and Bronya met for dinner and tried to outdrink one another. The plan collapsed when Delta got drunk and Xu Qi passed out beneath the table, leaving Bronya to call Mei from his phone.

• Yae visited Xu Qi’s parents and introduced herself as his colleague from E.T. Studio.
• Bronya brought vodka to dinner, intending to use the drinking contest to win Xu Qi over.
• Xu Qi and Delta tried to get Bronya drunk, while Delta promised to shield Xu Qi from the drinks.
• Mobius and Yae silently gloated over their separate visits to Xu Qi’s parents as Mei questioned them.
• Delta became drunk, Xu Qi passed out under the table, and Bronya called Mei using Xu Qi’s phone.