Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian fought William, who wielded the Goddess of Sin’s Sin Thorns, and discovered the thorns affected William as well. Fu Qian activated Mythical Form and attacked, but the chapter ended as he burst through the blood and slammed into William’s chest.

• William surrounded Fu Qian with Sin Thorns and attacked with his Blood Thorn Longsword.
• Fu Qian dodged William’s strikes, but the thorns pierced his arm and caused his flesh to break apart.
• Fu Qian realized William’s Sin Thorns harmed him too, though their effect was slight.
• Fu Qian activated Mythical Form and struck William with the Biochemical Demon Arm, which the Sin Thorns shredded.
• Fu Qian charged through the rain of blood and slammed into William’s chest.

Fu Qian defeated William, completing the mission and earning a Thorn Sapling that he used to upgrade Tyrant's Fist. Back in the Warehouse, he tested the transformed weapon and considered trying it in a real fight.

• Fu Qian battered William's armor until it shattered, then killed him and completed the containment mission.
• Fu Qian saw Elina and another battered survivor near the path as the scene twisted away.
• The mission evaluation awarded Fu Qian sanity, inspiration, and a Thorn Sapling, while revealing that becoming a god's tool ended a transcendent's hope of becoming a god.
• Fu Qian put the Thorn Sapling in Tyrant's Fist, causing the branch to corrode into the ring and leave it darker.
• Fu Qian tested the upgraded Tyrant's Fist and saw its whip form covered in spikes with dark bloodlight beneath the surface.

Fu Qian reflected on the dangers of pact-based advancement, then returned home after several days away and found Young Master Qin and Wu Qingyu trying to pick his lock. Their visit turned out to involve an investigation into traces of a murder.

• Fu Qian concluded that pact rituals could grant easy advancement but sacrificed the participant’s chance of becoming a god, and he resolved to watch for similar traps.
• Fu Qian returned to his living room, charged his dead phone, and found many missed calls and messages from Young Master Qin, Wu Qingyu, Tan Ying, and Pei Yanqing.
• Young Master Qin and Wu Qingyu picked Fu Qian’s lock because they were worried after he had been unreachable for days.
• Fu Qian explained that he had been away and left his phone at home, then asked why Qin Mingze had brought Wu Qingyu to help pick the lock.
• Wu Qingyu revealed that Qin Mingze had wanted to borrow his professional expertise, and Fu Qian guessed it was to investigate traces of a murder.

Fu Qian returned after two days away, reassuring Qin Mingze, Wu Qingyu, Tan Ying, and Pei Yanqing, who had been searching for him. Qin Mingze explained that he had asked Tan Ying to watch Xu Meng, and the group planned to celebrate Fu Qian’s return with a meal.

• Fu Qian told Qin Mingze and Wu Qingyu that he had stayed at a wealthy woman surnamed Wen’s home, and they reacted to his explanation and his 180,000 purchase of Tan Ying’s bracelet.
• Qin Mingze called Tan Ying to say Fu Qian had returned and that the search was over, explaining that he had worried Xu Meng might be behind Fu Qian’s disappearance.
• Tan Ying and Pei Yanqing arrived, and Tan Ying said she had helped organize the search while Fu Qian agreed to treat everyone to a meal.
• Fu Qian noticed Tan Ying seemed tired after taking off the bracelet, which had kept her body feeling energetic.
• Pei Yanqing told Fu Qian she had worried after learning he had gotten into trouble because of He Xian and her.

Fu Qian reunited with his friends and told them he had been providing security support for Wen Li, then cooked lunch for everyone. After they spent the day eating and playing games, the friends left, and Fu Qian sat alone in the dark, feeling the silence as his connection to them faded.

• Tan Ying and the others questioned Fu Qian about his absence, and he said he had been working as a personal security consultant for a wealthy woman.
• Fu Qian began cooking lunch while Pei Yanqing helped prepare the ingredients and the others played games.
• Tan Ying remarked that Fu Qian's employer seemed generous, reminding him that Wen Li still had not paid him.
• Fu Qian and Pei Yanqing finished lunch, and the group praised the meal before spending the afternoon playing games and board games at his home.
• After everyone left, Fu Qian sat in the dark and listened as the voices in his mind went quiet.

Fu Qian entered the containment scene for Fool's Cage and, stripped of his usual abilities, set out to help Violetta reach Mom's room. After accepting a ride from a couple who had found a girl on the road, he learned that the girl called herself Snow White and then gave her name as Violetta.

• Fu Qian entered the scene for Fool's Cage and found himself alone in a broken-down car on a remote road during a storm.
• Fu Qian pushed the car off the road and discovered that his skills and weapons were unavailable.
• Fu Qian received the task to help Violetta reach Mom's room and waited for a passing car rather than explore in the rain.
• A middle-aged driver and a woman picked Fu Qian up, explaining that they had found a little girl walking alone and planned to take her to the police.
• The girl told Fu Qian that her name was Snow White, then said her mother called her Violetta.

Fu Qian rode through a strange, rain-soaked road with Violetta and the Torrance couple, repeatedly seeing a sinister scarecrow that redirected their car. The group decided to stop at a hotel in the woods, while Violetta silently warned Fu Qian not to mention the scarecrow.

• Fu Qian learned that the girl traveling with him was named Violetta and introduced himself as Doctor to gain her trust.
• Fu Qian learned that the couple driving the car were Torrance and Mrs. Torrance, who were traveling to try to save their marriage.
• During the storm, Torrance repeatedly turned the car in the direction indicated by a strange red-cloaked scarecrow that only Fu Qian and Violetta seemed to notice.
• Violetta silently signaled Fu Qian to keep quiet about the scarecrow, and he chose not to warn the couple.
• After hours on the seemingly endless road, Torrance suggested stopping to rest, and a hotel appeared in the woods.

Fu Qian checked into an extravagant hotel with the Torrance couple and Violetta, then discovered that opening his room door revealed a decayed hallway filled with strange figures. Suspecting the hotel’s missing mirrors were connected to the change, he tried to provoke whatever was behind it, but only received a greeting.

• Fu Qian insisted that the group book three separate rooms at the hotel.
• After dinner, Fu Qian opened his door and saw a ruined hallway where skeletal and inhuman figures wandered.
• Fu Qian noticed that his room had no mirrors and wondered whether a Magic Mirror was behind the strange change.
• Fu Qian stared at his reflection in the window and threatened to smear whatever emerged from the bathroom across the room.
• Someone or something answered Fu Qian with a greeting.

Fu Qian confronted the Magic Mirror, questioned its motives, and deduced that its formal question-and-answer rules were a trap. The Magic Mirror revealed its grotesque true form, but Fu Qian appeared unimpressed.

• The Magic Mirror admitted it had caused the earlier incident and warned Fu Qian that the place was dangerous.
• Fu Qian learned that the Magic Mirror could appear in reflective surfaces and answer questions only under special conditions.
• The Magic Mirror refused to say whether Violetta was special, and Fu Qian suspected she was its real target.
• Fu Qian deduced that asking a formal question would bind him to the Magic Mirror's rules and threatened it instead.
• The Magic Mirror transformed into a mass of grotesque flesh, but Fu Qian questioned whether it was meant to frighten him.

Fu Qian escaped the Magic Mirror’s trap and drove away a suspicious cleaner who had tried to reach Violetta. He entered Violetta’s room and found her safe, with a table piled high with pastries.

• Fu Qian mocked the Magic Mirror until it abandoned its reflection, then left the room and hurried down the corridor.
• Fu Qian confronted a cleaner outside Violetta’s room and refused to leave; after a tense standoff, she fled.
• Fu Qian knocked and called himself the doctor, and Violetta opened the door after confirming the cleaner had gone.
• Violetta told Fu Qian the cleaner had wanted to take her away, and Fu Qian noticed the table covered with cakes and pastries.

Fu Qian learned that Violetta was Snow White, searching for her mother with a key and a photograph, and agreed to help her. As someone knocked at the door, Violetta had warned him that the people from the wooden castle would kill her if they caught her.

• Fu Qian found Violetta enjoying a lavish dinner and learned that her mother had given her a key to find her room and a photograph of them together.
• Violetta said her mother’s room lay along the road and explained that people from a wooden castle were trying to stop her from finding her mother.
• Violetta warned Fu Qian that the Magic Mirror was dangerous, and Fu Qian noticed that her room had no windows or reflective surfaces.
• Violetta said the castle’s people would kill her, describing her mother’s grim version of what would happen to Snow White.
• Violetta asked Fu Qian to help her because he was Doctor, and Fu Qian agreed just as someone knocked at the door.

Fu Qian and Violetta faced a scarecrow at their door and a Witch attacking their room with explosive apples. They escaped through a gingerbread wall into the hallway, where Fu Qian discovered the scarecrow had vanished.

• Fu Qian found a soaked scarecrow outside the door, and Violetta said her mother had never told her about it.
• The Witch broke through the wall and attacked Fu Qian and Violetta with explosive green apples.
• Fu Qian realized the wall was dissolving in the rain and used an apple to blast through another wall.
• Fu Qian led Violetta through the hole into a dark room and found their way back to the hallway.
• Violetta excitedly recognized the walls as gingerbread, and Fu Qian saw that the scarecrow had disappeared.

Fu Qian and Violetta followed the hotel’s warped, seemingly endless corridor until they found a Mouth of Truth. Violetta freed her trapped arm by honestly denying that she was the most beautiful person in the world.

• Fu Qian noticed that the hotel corridor had become a descending passage covered in strange patterns, and followed Violetta as she ran ahead.
• Fu Qian and Violetta walked through the silent, seemingly endless hotel until Violetta stopped at a marble relief resembling the Mouth of Truth.
• Fu Qian stopped Violetta from putting her hand into the relief, but let her proceed after she insisted it would give her a reward.
• The Mouth of Truth trapped Violetta’s arm and asked whether she was the most beautiful person in the world.
• Violetta answered no, and the relief released her arm.

Fu Qian and Violetta continued through the strange corridor after he received a foul-smelling candy made by Violetta’s mother. When Violetta vanished at a bend, Fu Qian found a hidden passage by lowering his viewpoint and caught up with her, where Torrance and his wife were waiting.

• Violetta answered no to the Mouth of Truth and received a sugar cube, which she offered to Fu Qian because her mother had made it.
• Fu Qian pocketed the candy and declined to test the Mouth of Truth again before continuing down the corridor with Violetta.
• Violetta explained that she recognized her mother’s candy by its distinctive smell and said her mother climbed a tree to gather ingredients.
• Fu Qian spotted the red scarecrow, then turned to find Violetta gone and the scarecrow vanished as well.
• Fu Qian realized the corridor’s patterns concealed a second passage visible from Violetta’s height and followed it until he found her standing with Torrance and his wife.

Fu Qian found the Greedy family occupying the Torrances’ room and used a green apple to drive them out. The Torrances entered their room, while Fu Qian left the rabbit family’s fate unresolved.

• Fu Qian found the Torrances blocking the hallway because they believed the Greedy family was staying in their room.
• Fu Qian entered the room and encountered Mr. Greedy and his rabbit family, who had appeared from a painting.
• Fu Qian threatened the rabbits with a green apple, and Mr. Greedy fled with his family.
• Fu Qian told the Torrances the room was free, and Mrs. Torrance pulled her hesitant husband inside.

Fu Qian and Violetta followed a corridor through the strange building, and Fu Qian guessed that the scarecrow was guiding them toward Violetta’s mother. They opened a black door with Violetta’s golden key, but found a room full of people who looked like Su Gao instead of her mother.

• Fu Qian noticed that the corridor had become level and split in two, while Violetta hesitated over which way to go.
• Fu Qian spotted the scarecrow, learned from Violetta that it had been following her for a long time, and guessed that it was showing them the way.
• Fu Qian led Violetta past the motionless scarecrow and reassured her when she admitted she was scared.
• Fu Qian used Violetta’s golden key to unlock a black wooden door at the end of the corridor.
• Fu Qian and Violetta entered a bright room and found a group of people who looked like Su Gao instead of Violetta’s mother.

Fu Qian possessed Violetta as she awoke in a room with four older girls who looked almost exactly like Su Gao. Her sisters helped her remember that their mother was dead and warned that Violetta was spending increasingly long periods trapped in her fairy-tale dreams.

• Fu Qian shifted from observing the room to possessing Violetta and realized she was dazed as her four sisters gathered around her.
• Soufflé comforted Violetta, while Honey asked where she had gone and Violetta recalled following scarecrows through a fairy-tale world in search of her mother.
• Violetta's sisters told her that their mother had been gone for a long time, and the revelation nearly pulled Fu Qian back into the surreal world.
• Violetta remembered that her mother was dead, and Soufflé and Honey warned that she might become trapped in her dreams and never wake.
• Soufflé told the sisters to avoid falling asleep and to follow the Scarecrow if they dreamed.

Fu Qian took control of Violetta’s body and went outside with Honey to investigate the cage-like town. Honey warned him to stay away from animals, especially talking rabbits.

• Fu Qian received a mission to find a way to escape the cage and realized he needed to explore outside.
• Fu Qian took control of Violetta’s body and persuaded Soufflé to let him leave with Honey.
• Honey led Fu Qian out of the red house and toward Mrs. Torrance’s shop while explaining that Bella had already gone off alone.
• Honey warned Fu Qian to avoid all animals, especially talking rabbits.

Fu Qian explored the island with Honey, who warned him that talking rabbits could trap people in fairy tales and make them forget their way home. They found Bella sleeping by the sea, and their conversation about the fairy-tale world ended when an eight-legged, alligator-like creature appeared behind her.

• Fu Qian told Honey that he had met talking rabbits in a dream and given them apples, and she warned him not to speak to them.
• Honey took Fu Qian to Mrs. Torrance’s shop, where they learned that Bella had bought a cake.
• Honey led Fu Qian away from the Red House to find Bella, and they discovered the town stood on an island surrounded by sea.
• Honey scolded Bella for sleeping, but Bella questioned whether the fairy-tale world might be real and said she was not afraid of getting trapped there.
• Honey revealed that Fu Qian had spoken to the rabbits, and an eight-legged, alligator-like creature emerged behind Bella.

Fu Qian attacked the strange crocodile with cake and an explosive apple, breaking it apart and easing its hold over Bella. As its severed pieces scattered, one leg wrapped around Honey, who responded by biting it.

• Bella met the crocodile’s gaze and became trapped in a fairy tale, while Honey warned Fu Qian that Bella could lose her memories if she stayed too long.
• Fu Qian drew the crocodile’s attention and tested whether it could eat by throwing cake at it.
• Fu Qian lured the crocodile with cake and a green apple, then held its mouth shut as the apple exploded inside it.
• The crocodile cracked apart and its pieces crawled in different directions, while Fu Qian’s dizziness began to fade.
• A severed leg wrapped around Honey’s leg, and Honey bit down on it with sharp teeth.