Chapter Summaries

Xu Qi reassured Delta about his feelings, but their renewed intimacy was interrupted by news that Lilia’s condition had suddenly worsened and she needed emergency surgery. As Su prepared to operate under Mobius’s plan, Xu Qi learned the operation had been moved up and left Mobius to do everything she could to save Lilia.

• Delta questioned why Xu Qi liked her, and he kissed her before reassuring her that she was outstanding and that he wanted her as his girlfriend.
• Delta asked Xu Qi to keep kissing her, and they continued until she left his office with rosy cheeks.
• Su called Xu Qi and said Mobius had reported that Lilia’s condition was rapidly deteriorating and she might need surgery immediately.
• Su prepared to operate on Lilia with robotic assistants, while Mobius explained that the surgery had been moved up ten days before Lilia completed her preoperative conditioning.
• Mobius admitted to Xu Qi that she had made a mistake and would take responsibility if the surgery failed; Xu Qi comforted her and urged her to do everything she could.

Lilia remained in danger after an accident, and Mobius performed an emergency operation while Delta waited anxiously with Xu Qi and the others. Mobius used Xu Qi’s blood to prepare treatment, and Xu Qi was left weak but reassuring everyone as they awaited Lilia’s recovery.

• Mobius operated on Lilia while Delta waited outside with Xu Qi, and Su and Kiana helped in the sterile room.
• Mei and the others arrived to support Delta, and Xu Qi told her he liked her and wanted her to understand that some things were done without expecting anything in return.
• Mobius said the operation’s most dangerous stage had passed but requested Delta’s DNA data and four hundred cc of Xu Qi’s blood.
• Mobius privately told Xu Qi that Lilia remained in danger and promised to save her using his blood and Delta’s DNA sample.
• Aponia helped carry the weakened Xu Qi to a room, where he insisted that he was fine.

Xu Qi recovered after donating blood during Lilia’s successful surgery, while Delta grappled with guilt and Yae confronted her. Lilia woke the next morning cured, and Xu Qi reassured her that he was recovering too.

• Aponia ordered Kalpas to make nourishing porridge and told Mei to stay with Xu Qi while everyone else left the room.
• Yae warned Delta that she would not forgive her if anything happened to Xu Qi, and Delta accepted that she had to bear responsibility.
• Xu Qi revealed that he had donated 600 cc of blood after Su reported a problem with Lilia’s condition, and Aponia urged him to rest.
• Xu Qi left the room with Mei and Aponia, then pulled Delta into his arms without saying anything.
• Su announced that Lilia’s surgery had succeeded, and Delta broke down in tears of relief as Lilia was taken to a ward.
• Lilia woke the next morning cured, learned that Xu Qi had donated blood for her, and thanked him.

Lilia woke after surgery, and Xu Qi recovered enough to leave the ward in a wheelchair. Mobius later revealed that Lilia’s ALS had been caused by human intervention, not by a congenital or acquired illness.

• Fu Xian'er brought Xu Qi a Blood Activating Pill and explained that she had also prepared bitter medicine for Lilia.
• Rosalia woke and carefully greeted Lilia after Xu Qi warned her not to disturb Lilia’s stitches.
• Fu Xian'er pushed Xu Qi outside, where they discussed his girlfriends and she urged him to come to her weekly for treatment to preserve his health.
• Mobius took over pushing Xu Qi and apologized for misjudging Lilia’s condition and the onset of her ALS.
• Xu Qi asked how Lilia had developed ALS, and Mobius said it had been caused by human intervention.

Mobius revealed that Lilia’s terminal illness stemmed from crude human experiments based on her stolen research, while Xu Qi recovered at home surrounded by friends. During a cherry-blossom outing, Xu Qi tried to reconcile Yae and Delta, but Yae’s anger over Delta’s past treatment of him resurfaced.

• Mobius told Xu Qi that Lilia’s illness was caused by DNA experiments using research plagiarized from her thesis, and asked what Delta and her family were.
• Xu Qi rested under a week-long leave, grew closer to Lilia and Rosalia, and received visits from Mei and the others as Rita temporarily took over his supervisor duties.
• On Qingming Festival, Xu Qi joined the courtyard residents in sweeping graves and later went with them to admire cherry blossoms in Eden’s private garden.
• Xu Qi spoke privately with Yae, reassured her that he did not blame her over Delta, and asked her to stop targeting Delta.
• Yae protested that Delta had cursed Xu Qi and made him weak while trying to save her sister, and Xu Qi held her close as he thanked her for remembering.

Xu Qi and Yae made up after their argument and became intimate beneath the cherry blossoms at Eden's estate. Afterward, Yae urged Xu Qi to pursue Delta and stop hesitating about his other relationships, leaving him troubled by the mess of his romantic life.

• Xu Qi kissed Yae until she admitted she understood that he cared about her.
• Xu Qi and Yae became intimate beneath a cherry tree while the others admired blossoms elsewhere.
• Afterward, Xu Qi helped Yae straighten her clothes, and they shared a tender embrace.
• Xu Qi asked Yae to talk more with Delta, and Yae questioned whether he had slept with her.
• Yae told Xu Qi to pursue the women he had feelings for, while Xu Qi complained that his relationships were a mess.

Xu Qi tried to help Yae accept Delta while Mei and Alysia discussed his plans. Back in the sickroom, Xu Qi comforted Lilia and teased Delta, ending by telling her that she lived more tenaciously than anyone else.

• Yae urged Xu Qi to pursue Delta and promised to talk things out with her if he did.
• Mei told Alysia that she had encouraged Xu Qi to help Yae and Delta reconcile, and Yae overheard their conversation.
• Xu Qi returned to the sickroom and helped Lilia approach a difficult geometry problem without relying on Delta's explanation.
• Delta admitted that she felt less capable than the other girls, and Xu Qi asked her to name her own strengths.
• Delta guessed that she was persistent, and Xu Qi told her she lived in the world more tenaciously than anyone else.

Xu Qi reassured Delta that their relationship was not a burden and teased her after she accepted his punishment for losing. He left Lilia with Rosalia, then had Bronya and Rita help him dress Delta in a sailor uniform and white stockings.

• Xu Qi told Delta that she did not need to worry about their values or feel indebted to him, and Delta reconsidered breaking up with him.
• Delta asked Xu Qi what punishment he had planned, and he told her to wait in his room after tutoring Lilia.
• Rosalia arrived to visit Lilia, and Xu Qi left the sisters together before going to his room, where Delta was reviewing his progress on Kira and Aslan's story.
• Xu Qi summoned Bronya and Rita, and Delta mistakenly feared they had brought lewd props before discovering they had brought a wardrobe of outfits.
• Xu Qi ordered Delta to change into a sailor uniform and white stockings, and Rita took her away to change.

Xu Qi, Bronya, and Rita helped Delta try on a series of outfits, and Xu Qi worried that he had not been attentive enough as her boyfriend. Delta reassured him that his presence made her feel secure, and he kissed her as the two of them were left alone.

• Bronya proposed recruiting Delta to her faction and asked Xu Qi to spend the following day with her.
• Rita brought Delta out in a sailor uniform, and Xu Qi praised her appearance.
• Xu Qi and Rita had Delta model several outfits while Bronya watched, until Delta grew tired and stopped changing.
• Bronya and Rita left Xu Qi and Delta alone after teasing them about spending the evening together.
• Xu Qi asked Delta whether she had enjoyed herself and worried that he had been an inattentive boyfriend.
• Delta said that being with Xu Qi made her feel secure, and Xu Qi kissed her.

Delta and Xu Qi became more intimate, but Xu Qi stopped when he realized Delta might feel pressured to go further. Delta then decided that being his girlfriend meant she should help him, and Xu Qi laughed at her reasoning. The chapter ended with Delta revealing that Mei had told her this.

• Xu Qi kissed Delta and teased her by stroking and tickling her foot.
• Delta challenged Xu Qi by pinning him down and kissing him, then realized his arousal was pressing against her.
• Xu Qi stopped their intimacy and assured Delta he would not force her to do anything.
• Delta decided she should take responsibility for Xu Qi's desire because she was his girlfriend.
• Xu Qi burst out laughing and asked where Delta had learned that idea, and Delta said Mei had told her.

Xu Qi tried to explain romance to Delta, then used kissing and intimate touching to show her what being with a lover could feel like. The chapter ended with him asking whether she was willing to give him everything and truly be together with him.

• Xu Qi told Delta that being with a lover meant doing what felt natural and satisfying each other, though Delta said she preferred clear instructions.
• Xu Qi suggested that they kiss, then pulled Delta close and kissed and touched her until she felt confused and aroused.
• Delta admitted that she liked Xu Qi and did not want to resist him as he continued to undress and stimulate her.
• After Delta called him a pervert, Xu Qi asked whether she wanted to truly be with him and give him everything she had.

Delta and Xu Qi confessed their love and spent the night together, accepting that neither could give the other all of their love. The next morning, Delta left for work after Xu Qi drew her into another intimate encounter, and Lilia grew suspicious of why her sister had gotten up so late.

• Delta told Xu Qi she could not give him all her love but wanted to be with him, and he admitted he felt the same.
• Delta and Xu Qi became intimate, and he comforted her through the pain of her first time.
• The next morning, Delta recalled the night and worried that they had not used protection.
• Xu Qi teased Delta about becoming his woman and pulled her into another intimate encounter.
• Lilia asked Xu Qi why Delta had gotten up so late, then looked at him suspiciously as Delta hurried off to work.

After recovering, Xu Qi was approached by Vil-V’s Expert personality, who asked to measure his data using Hai Wei. Mobius teased Vil-V about her insistence that she had no feelings for Xu Qi, and Vil-V vowed to end any such emotion; the chapter left off as Kiana appeared beside Xu Qi inside the armor.

• After resting at home for several days, Xu Qi spoke with Bronya about returning to work and Seed’s animation production.
• Vil-V’s Expert personality asked Xu Qi to help measure his data, explaining that her personalities were like separate people.
• Xu Qi led Vil-V to Mobius’s laboratory, where Klein checked the connections as Xu Qi entered Hai Wei’s cockpit.
• Mobius teased Vil-V about her earlier claim that she would never fall for Xu Qi, and Vil-V insisted she had no special feelings for him.
• Mobius argued that Vil-V’s personalities were still parts of one collective, and Vil-V vowed to end the emotion.
• Kiana appeared beside Xu Qi inside the armor and complained that he had woken her.

Xu Qi completed tests of Hi-V with Vil-V, while Vil-V’s personalities argued over whether to suppress their feelings for him. Mobius then took Xu Qi for herself, and Durandal followed suspicious sounds to Mobius’s laboratory, where she began to realize what was happening.

• Mobius had Vil-V test Hi-V by ordering Xu Qi to attack with his floating cannons at full strength.
• Vil-V returned to her room and was drawn into a meeting where her personalities debated whether to sever their love for Xu Qi; The Wicked challenged them for judging him without understanding him.
• Mobius pulled Xu Qi into her laboratory and confronted him about his recent intimacy with Yae and Delta before taking him for herself.
• After sparring with Fu Hua, Durandal heard a strange sound in the corridor and followed it to Mobius’s laboratory.
• Durandal expanded her senses and finally heard what was happening inside the laboratory.

Durandal dreamed about Xu Qi after witnessing him and Mobius together, then woke embarrassed and kept the dream secret from Rita. Xu Qi returned to work after recovering from donating blood, and Delta sent him and Rita to a meeting.

• Durandal secretly watched Xu Qi and Mobius in the laboratory, then fled before they noticed her.
• Durandal dreamed that she wore a black gown and became intimate with Xu Qi, but woke to find only Rita beside her.
• Durandal concealed her dream and the wet bedsheets from Rita, then received a concerned message from Xu Qi.
• Xu Qi returned to the company, where employees surrounded him with exaggerated rumors about his blood donation.
• Rita told Xu Qi she had handled trouble at Seed Studio while he was recovering.
• Delta arrived with Elysia and ordered Xu Qi to prepare for a meeting with Rita.

Xu Qi attended E.T.'s quarterly meeting as Manager Ye challenged Seed Studio and Rita over the irregular contract and payments used to keep Delta from being poached. Rita argued that Human Resources had failed to protect Delta, then appealed to Welt to judge the dispute.

• Xu Qi learned from Bronya and Rita that Manager Ye was using the Delta arrangements to target him and Seed Studio.
• Manager Ye raised the disputed contract and emergency payments at the quarterly meeting, while Xu Qi cut her off and told her to let Rita address the matter.
• Rita accused Human Resources of failing to prevent The Hounds from poaching Delta and leaving Seed Studio to handle the fallout.
• Rita defended the measures as necessary cleanup and asked Welt to judge whether Seed Studio had acted wrongly.

Rita and Xu Qi maneuvered E.T.'s factions into accepting an oversight office trial at Seed Studio, leaving Manager Ye politically isolated. After the meeting, Xu Qi reassured Bronya of his love and responsibility, and the two became affectionate.

• Minister Li criticized the handling of the Delta matter and proposed trialing the oversight office's measures at Seed Studio with a candidate he recommended.
• Rita accepted Minister Li's proposal, and Welt approved it, leaving Manager Ye abandoned by the old faction and her position as Human Resources manager effectively finished.
• Xu Qi explained to Bronya that Rita had recognized the split between Manager Ye and the old faction and had prepared their strategy for the meeting.
• Bronya questioned Xu Qi about his relationship with her, and he admitted responsibility for their unequal relationship and told her he loved her.
• Xu Qi teased Bronya about claiming the meeting's outcome resulted from her negligence, then kissed her and called her his Duckie wife.

Delta discovered Xu Qi and Bronya in a compromising situation, and Xu Qi pulled Delta and then Rita into Bronya’s office. The animation-director meeting was repeatedly postponed, and Alysia went to check on Bronya but got no answer at the door.

• Delta found Xu Qi leaving Bronya’s office with his shirt torn and saw Bronya sitting on the sofa.
• Xu Qi pulled Delta into the office, where Bronya joined him in keeping Delta from leaving.
• Liu Qi learned that the animation-director meeting had been postponed, and Rita went to Bronya’s office to ask about it.
• Rita found Xu Qi covered in marks and was pulled into the office with him.
• Elysia told Liu Qi the meeting had been delayed again, then went upstairs to check on Bronya.
• Alysia knocked on Bronya’s office door, but no one answered.

Xu Qi resumed his womanizing after recovering, pulled Alysia into Bronya’s office, and was later confronted by Mei. Their talk turned to Mei’s birthday and the romantic future Xu Qi had once promised her, leaving him overwhelmed with guilt as she recalled his old dreams.

• Alysia visited Bronya’s office, but Xu Qi caught her and pulled her inside.
• Rita used Alysia’s phone to tell Liu Qi that the production supervisors’ meeting had been postponed until the next morning.
• Bronya and the others teased Xu Qi about his behavior and reminded him that Mei might question him that night.
• Mei confronted Xu Qi at home, but let him off after he admitted he had given in to temptation.
• Mei asked about her birthday present, and Xu Qi admitted he had not prepared it yet.
• Mei recalled Xu Qi’s promise from two years earlier and his dream of building a peaceful life with her, leaving him stricken with guilt.

Mei reassured Xu Qi that his love for her was not rooted in guilt, then teased him with a promise of a birthday surprise. On April 13, Elysia took Xu Qi to the old house where he had celebrated Mei’s birthday two years earlier, leaving him to follow the familiar path inside.

• Mei moved Xu Qi’s hand to her chest and told him she believed his affection for her went beyond guilt.
• Xu Qi told Mei she was the person he had always loved most, and Mei refused to reveal her birthday gift.
• Mei and Xu Qi role-played together before sharing a passionate night.
• Xu Qi remained distracted at work on Mei’s birthday while Mei prepared a surprise.
• Elysia drove Xu Qi to the old house where he had once taken Mei to watch the sunset, and he headed toward the stairwell.