Chapter Summaries

Jiang Junyi carried Wan Qingyun across the scorching desert toward the wind-eroded pillar forest, where her True Qi drained unusually fast. They escaped the dangerous forest as night approached and found the natural cave Uncle Wu and Mo Jie had described, giving them shelter for the night.

• Wan Qingyun formed a black True Qi umbrella to shield Jiang Junyi from the sun, and he accepted her unusual ability without asking questions.
• Wan Qingyun realized her True Qi was draining rapidly, so Jiang Junyi hurried toward the wind-eroded pillar forest with her on his back.
• At the forest’s edge, Jiang Junyi gave Wan Qingyun water and let her rest before they continued onward.
• Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun found animal bones and old human remains among the pillars and decided they could not spend the night there.
• As night approached, Jiang Junyi carried Wan Qingyun out of the forest and found the small natural cave described by Uncle Wu and Mo Jie.

Jiang Junyi revealed to Wan Qingyun that he was Shadow, confessed to secretly protecting her, and admitted he had agents inside Star Luo Orphanage. The two reconciled and settled down together in the cave for the night.

• Wan Qingyun sealed the cave entrance against the cold, and Jiang Junyi lit the cave with his electric lamp.
• Jiang Junyi revealed that he was Shadow, shocking Wan Qingyun and prompting her to confront him about his secrets and past missions.
• Jiang Junyi kissed Wan Qingyun to calm her, and the two admitted they had both kept things from each other for their own reasons.
• Jiang Junyi told Wan Qingyun that Wang Hao, Liu Liu, and Qiqi were his people inside Star Luo Orphanage and had joined Black Palace.
• Jiang Junyi wrapped Wan Qingyun in Shadow to keep her warm, and they rested together in the cave.

Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun escaped a swarm of Ironjaw Sandworms by leaping across a pale-green pool that dissolved the creatures on contact. They discovered pools scattered throughout the canyon, but remained trapped in the dangerous terrain.

• Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun woke in their cave, then broke through the entrance and continued through the canyon.
• Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun entered a bone-strewn clearing and were attacked by four Ironjaw Sandworms that survived being cut in half.
• Jiang Junyi carried Wan Qingyun as they fled a vast swarm of Ironjaw Sandworms, and she directed him down the right fork.
• Jiang Junyi leaped across a pale-green pool, where the pursuing sandworms stopped; one fell in and dissolved.
• Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun noticed that pale-green pools were scattered throughout the canyon.

Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun crossed a corrosive pool filled with deadly fish by using Wan Qingyun’s True Qi platforms to redirect Jiang Junyi in midair. After emerging from the canyon, they found another desert ahead and continued onward beneath the blazing sun.

• Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun tested the corrosive pool with a chicken drumstick and discovered enormous, sharp-toothed fish living in it.
• Wan Qingyun condensed her True Qi into a platform, and Jiang Junyi tested how long it could support him.
• Jiang Junyi leaped across the pool while Wan Qingyun created platforms and called out directions to steer him around the attacking fish.
• Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun landed safely on the far side, then walked for two or three hours and emerged from the canyon.
• Wan Qingyun worried that her True Qi had not recovered, and she and Jiang Junyi teased each other as they walked into the desert.

Uncle Wu tried to stop Mo Jie after strange cries for help drove her into a mental frenzy, and he snapped her out of it with a kiss. Mo Jie then kissed him back to settle the score before heading deeper into the mountains.

• Uncle Wu and Mo Jie heard cries for help while traveling through Kuoik, but each heard a different person calling to them.
• Mo Jie became confused by the voices and rushed deeper into the mountains, forcing Uncle Wu to fight her and try to stop her.
• Uncle Wu kissed Mo Jie to break her out of the trance, and she regained her senses.
• Mo Jie declared them even by forcefully kissing Uncle Wu, then continued into the mountains while he called after her.

Mo Jie and Uncle Wu fought a pack of Mutated Sand Foxes, then discussed what they knew about the Black Palace and the identities of Shadow and the Fate Lord. They took shelter in a cave, where Mo Jie got Uncle Wu drunk and overwhelmed him, leaving him relieved they had not gone further.

• Uncle Wu spotted quicksand and exposed the Mutated Sand Foxes, which Mo Jie and Uncle Wu defeated.
• Mo Jie confronted Uncle Wu about calling her by name, and he admitted that his Young Master knew she was a Fate Lord.
• Mo Jie realized that Lord of Destiny and Shadow might have been exposed, and Uncle Wu confirmed that his Young Master was probably Shadow.
• Mo Jie and Uncle Wu found a cave and set up camp with supplies from Uncle Wu's BTD Heavy Tactical Backpack.
• Mo Jie revealed that she had put alcohol in Uncle Wu's bag, then pounced on him after he said he would take responsibility.
• Two hours later, Uncle Wu lay covered in kiss marks and sighed over their encounter, relieved they had not gone further.

Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun struggled across the scorching desert, rationing their dwindling water as exhaustion and a sandstorm slowed them down. They reached the Shelter Corner before nightfall, but found nothing to block its entrance and prepared to spend the night cautiously.

• Jiang Junyi insisted Wan Qingyun drink water after noticing her cracked lips, while she secretly collected pillar-shaped stones and carried them in her bag.
• When Jiang Junyi stumbled from exhaustion, Wan Qingyun gave him water and claimed they still had plenty, though their supply was nearly gone.
• A fierce sandstorm forced Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun to take shelter by an ancient dead tree, where Jiang Junyi used the Heart of Shadow to protect them.
• After the storm subsided, Jiang Junyi followed the compass and carried Wan Qingyun to the Shelter Corner before nightfall.
• Jiang Junyi found nothing to block the Shelter Corner's entrance and held Wan Qingyun as they prepared to keep watch through the night.

Jiang Junyi carried the unconscious Wan Qingyun through the desert and gave her his blood to keep her alive. Though weakened and close to collapse, he continued onward and thought he spotted an oasis.

• Jiang Junyi discovered that Wan Qingyun had given him nearly all their water and carried her into the desert.
• Wan Qingyun told Jiang Junyi to drink her blood if he became thirsty and said he should leave her behind if she died.
• Wan Qingyun lost consciousness, so Jiang Junyi cut his arm and fed her blood by mouth until he sensed her breathing.
• Jiang Junyi bound his wound and kept carrying Wan Qingyun, resisting collapse as vultures circled overhead.
• Jiang Junyi spotted what he believed was an oasis and told Wan Qingyun they were saved.

Jiang Junyi used the Magical Tube to turn his blood into water for Wan Qingyun, then collapsed in the desert. Uncle Wu and Mo Jie followed the compass toward them and found Jiang Junyi apparently lifeless as vultures descended.

• Jiang Junyi realized the oasis was a mirage and, with no water left, asked the system how to save Wan Qingyun.
• Jiang Junyi exchanged Pure Love Points for a Magical Tube and converted his blood into fresh water for Wan Qingyun.
• Jiang Junyi collapsed unconscious after a metal sheet fell from his clothes, and he urged Uncle Wu to find Wan Qingyun.
• Uncle Wu woke from a dream of Jiang Junyi calling for help and set out with Mo Jie, guided by a compass tracking Jiang Junyi.
• Uncle Wu and Mo Jie found signs that Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun had run out of supplies and rushed toward them as vultures circled overhead.
• Mo Jie killed a diving vulture, and Uncle Wu reached Jiang Junyi's lifeless figure and cried out for him.

Uncle Wu and Mo Jie carried the gravely wounded Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun to an oasis, where Dilinar saved them with pomegranate juice. She said Wan Qingyun’s Spirit Sealing Lock could be treated with the Ku Xuan Flower and gave Uncle Wu a Jade Pendant to deliver to Jiang Wudao before going to check on the flower.

• Uncle Wu and Mo Jie stabilized Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun, then followed the compass toward an oasis.
• Uncle Wu and Mo Jie found Dilinar in a cabin, and she told them she could save the wounded pair.
• Dilinar prepared pomegranate juice that restored color to Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun, though she said she could only preserve Jiang Junyi’s life.
• Dilinar identified the Spirit Sealing Lock on Wan Qingyun’s legs and said the Ku Xuan Flower could help cure it.
• Dilinar gave Uncle Wu a Jade Pendant marked Shangguan to deliver to Jiang Wudao, then left to check on the Ku Xuan Flower.

Wan Qingyun woke to find Jiang Junyi unconscious after he had saved her at the cost of severe blood loss, and she grieved over his uncertain recovery. She brought him to the Jiang Family’s Longevity Tower, where she learned he could only wake through his own will and her help, then spoke to him alone as black energy briefly enveloped her.

• Wan Qingyun woke beside Jiang Junyi and learned that he had lost too much blood and might not wake; overwhelmed by grief, she fainted.
• Dilinar gave Uncle Wu the Ku Xuan Flower and directed the group toward Jiang City and the Longevity Tower as a possible way to help Jiang Junyi.
• Wan Qingyun returned with the others and brought Jiang Junyi to the Longevity Tower, where Aunt Zhao said it could keep his body healthy but could not make him wake.
• Wan Qingyun asked Uncle Wu, Mo Jie, and Aunt Zhao to leave so she could speak to Jiang Junyi alone, then wondered how she could live without him.
• Black energy surged over Wan Qingyun and vanished.

Wan Qingyun remained at Jiang Junyi’s bedside as his friends tried to wake him, then learned how to use the Spirit Shocking Flower. She fed its petals to Jiang Junyi and prayed for him to awaken, leaving his condition unknown.

• The Trio visited Jiang Junyi and dramatically offered their lifespans to help him wake, until Aunt Zhao chased them from the room.
• Wan Qingyun told the Black Palace members to find something that could awaken consciousness, and Leo recalled that Shadow had once acquired a suitable item.
• Wan Qingyun remembered the Spirit Shocking Flower bracelet and asked her pendant how to use it; it told her to transfer the intact petals with her special True Qi.
• Wan Qingyun broke apart Jun Xin Ying and transferred its petals into Jiang Junyi’s mouth while praying for him to wake.

Jiang Junyi woke from his coma but did not remember Wan Qingyun, even after she explained that she was his wife. Though his memories were missing, he accepted his feelings for her and instinctively pushed her wheelchair as they left to see their home.

• Wan Qingyun fed Jiang Junyi the Spirit Shocking Flower and waited beside him, hoping he would wake.
• The next morning, Jiang Junyi stood by the window, but when Wan Qingyun embraced him, he asked whether he knew her.
• Aunt Zhao and The Trio confirmed that Jiang Junyi remembered them but had forgotten Wan Qingyun.
• Wan Qingyun introduced herself as Jiang Junyi's wife, and The Trio confirmed that they had married.
• Jiang Junyi said his heart responded to Wan Qingyun and asked to get to know her again.
• Jiang Junyi instinctively took hold of Wan Qingyun's wheelchair and pushed her toward their home.

Jiang Junyi discovered that his memories had reverted to when he was eighteen, while Wan Qingyun teased him about their marriage and coaxed him into treating her as his big sister. As he carried her toward the swing, Jiang Junyi had a fleeting sense that he had done this before.

• Jiang Junyi looked at photographs of himself and Wan Qingyun and learned from her that she had once been blind.
• Jiang Junyi said he was eighteen, and Wan Qingyun realized his memories had gone back two years.
• Wan Qingyun showed Jiang Junyi their marriage certificates and teased him by saying they had experienced everything together.
• Wan Qingyun persuaded Jiang Junyi to call her Sister Qingyun and asked him to carry her to the swing.
• Jiang Junyi carried Wan Qingyun and felt that the scene had happened before.

Jiang Junyi spent time with Wan Qingyun and resolved to recover his memories, while Wan Qingyun promised they could make new ones if he could not. Meanwhile, Uncle Wu demanded that Ye Tian find a treatment for Jiang Junyi’s amnesia and gave him one day to prepare.

• Wan Qingyun suggested taking Jiang Junyi to familiar places to help awaken his memories, and the two shared a tender moment on a swing.
• Jiang Junyi said he wanted his memories back because he could feel how deeply he had loved Wan Qingyun, and she agreed to take him to places they had visited together.
• Jiang Junyi learned that he had already completed the overseas training his family had supposedly arranged, strengthening his resolve to recover his lost memories.
• Wan Qingyun told Jiang Junyi that they would make new memories if he never recovered the old ones, and they set off for a stroll by the Qing River.
• At Medicine King Valley, Uncle Wu asked Ye Tian whether he could treat amnesia caused by massive blood loss and ordered him to prepare within one day.
• After Uncle Wu left, Ye Tian hurried to the library to search for the treatment methods he had once seen.

Ye Tian tested the Profound Soul Suppressing Palm on Medicine King Valley disciples until he finally mastered it, then used it on Jiang Junyi at Longevity Tower. Inside Jiang Junyi’s Heart Lake, a shadow offered to restore his memories at the cost of all his Pure Love Points and great pain, and Jiang Junyi plunged into the lake to face what lay beneath.

• Ye Tian struck Medicine King Valley disciples with the palm, repeatedly leaving them dazed and babbling about cartoons before finally performing it without side effects.
• Uncle Wu took Ye Tian to Jiang Junyi’s private room at Longevity Tower, where White Court and Black Palace watched as Ye Tian struck Jiang Junyi.
• Jiang Junyi found himself in the Heart Lake, where a shadow explained that he had lost his memories after surviving severe blood loss.
• The shadow offered to restore Jiang Junyi’s memories at the cost of all his Pure Love Points and warned him he would have to endure pain.
• Jiang Junyi saw memories of his and Wan Qingyun’s shared love beneath the lake, declared he could not bear to see sadness in her eyes, and plunged into the Heart Lake.

Jiang Junyi fought through the Heart Lake’s pain as memories of his love for Wan Qingyun returned, and her voice gave him the strength to reach her. He woke, embraced and kissed her, and apologized; Wan Qingyun forgave him.

• Jiang Junyi endured the Heart Lake’s agony and swam deeper as memories of his relationship with Wan Qingyun resurfaced.
• Jiang Junyi remembered Wan Qingyun’s sacrifice in the desert and desperately called for her as the light below him faded.
• Wan Qingyun heard Jiang Junyi calling, touched his face, and kissed him, reigniting the light within the Heart Lake.
• Jiang Junyi reached the lake’s surface, touched Wan Qingyun’s reflection, and woke as he pulled her into his arms.
• Jiang Junyi kissed Wan Qingyun, then apologized, and Wan Qingyun replied that it was okay.

Jiang Junyi recovered his memories and reconciled with Wan Qingyun, then learned the White Court and Black Palace members knew one another’s identities. Back at Star Luo Orphanage, Virgo confronted Wang Hao over his lies while Liang Qiqi and Feng Liuliu quickly earned forgiveness from the others.

• Jiang Junyi comforted Wan Qingyun after recovering his memories and teased her about the things she had claimed they would do.
• Jiang Junyi scolded Wan Qingyun for offering her blood and urging him to leave her behind, and they agreed to live or die together.
• Jiang Junyi carried Wan Qingyun from the hospital room and kissed her in front of the White Court and Black Palace members.
• Jiang Junyi realized the group knew the others’ identities, and Virgo dragged Wang Hao away to discuss the matter.
• At Star Luo Orphanage, Virgo questioned Wang Hao about which things he had told her were lies, and he insisted his feelings for her had been true.
• Liang Qiqi won Leo’s forgiveness with snacks, while Feng Liuliu won the others over by demonstrating her cocktail-shaking skills.

Virgo stopped Wang Hao from revealing more secrets, while Wan Qingyun asked Jiang Junyi to abandon the search for the remaining materials because she feared losing him. The next morning, the couple joked and flirted before noticing that Uncle Wu was missing.

• Su Shuangshuang knocked Wan Xiaoxiao unconscious as Virgo questioned Wang Hao about what he had hidden.
• Virgo silenced Wang Hao before he could disclose something explosive, threatened him, and ordered Feng Liuliu to make her a drink.
• Wan Qingyun told Jiang Junyi she feared another dangerous search after what happened in Kuoik, but he reassured her that they could avoid danger while privately intending to continue if they found a clue.
• The next morning, Jiang Junyi woke Wan Qingyun with kisses, and the two teased each other before getting out of bed.
• Wan Xiaoxiao mentioned her recurring neck pain and sleepiness, and Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun hid their amusement before Jiang Junyi realized Uncle Wu was missing.

After breakfast, Jiang Junyi discovered that Uncle Wu was troubled because he and Mo Jie had been together in Kuoik. Jiang Junyi arranged for Uncle Wu to go to Xingluo and secretly prepared a drunken reunion with Mo Jie.

• Jiang Junyi and Wan Qingyun shared beef noodles for breakfast and teased each other affectionately.
• Jiang Junyi found Uncle Wu watering the pond absentmindedly, and Uncle Wu revealed that he and Mo Jie had been together after the group split up in Kuoik.
• Jiang Junyi urged Uncle Wu to be honest with Mo Jie and promised to help him, then gave him two days off to go to Xingluo.
• Jiang Junyi called Liu Liu and asked him to prepare strong drinks for Mo Jie, hoping to bring her and Uncle Wu together.
• Jiang Junyi told Wan Qingyun what had happened, and she sent Mo Jie to Xingluo for two days.