Chapter Summaries

Cheng Shaoshang, Wang Yue, and Cheng Zhi organized Hua County’s recovery after the devastation, while Wang Yue helped Ling Buyi pursue the Gu City case. Wang Yue’s efforts won the marriage edict he had been waiting for, and the chapter ended with it finally issued.

• Cheng Shaoshang urged Cheng Zhi to encourage wealthy merchants to fund Hua County’s rebuilding, and Wang Yue proposed recording their names and donations on a stone monument.
• An imperial edict posthumously enfeoffed Old County Magistrate Cheng Shicheng as a second-rank Marquis of the Passes, and Ling Buyi told Wang Yue the marriage edict would likely arrive soon.
• Wang Yue handed Fan Chang over to Ling Buyi, who thanked him for helping with the investigation of the Gu City case.
• Wang Yue built kilns, homes, and shops to restore Hua County and give its county office a lasting source of revenue, impressing Cheng Shaoshang.
• After Ling Buyi spoke in Wang Yue’s favor, Emperor Wen issued the marriage edict for Wang Yue and Cheng Shaoshang.

Cheng Shaoshang and Wang Yue grew closer while learning about weapons together, but Xiao Yuanyi tried to separate them and criticized their conduct. Wang Yue planned to bring Shaoshang to the palace, and the chapter left them joking about reading romantic stories and suggesting they learn together.

• Cheng Shi arrived in Hua County, teased Wang Yue about fattening Cheng Shaoshang, and explored the county's recovery.
• Wang Yue gave Cheng Shaoshang an improved sleeve crossbow and taught her how to assemble it; she quickly understood its mechanism and suggested improvements.
• Cheng Shaoshang accidentally fired the crossbow near Xiao Yuanyi, who criticized her interest in weapons and challenged Wang Yue over marriage formalities.
• Wang Yue left after saying the betrothal gifts had been sent, and Cheng Shaoshang later told him she feared Xiao Yuanyi looked down on her.
• Wang Yue planned to ask the Empress to summon Cheng Shaoshang to the palace, then found her reading romantic stories and joked with her about learning together.

Wang Yue and Cheng Shaoshang agreed they wanted a marriage built on working together, and Wang Yue proposed teaching her papermaking and printing so they could publish books. While they grew closer in Hua County, they encountered Huangpu Yi, whose interest in Sang Shunhua led Wang Yue to suspect he had arranged the meeting to reach Yuan Shen.

• Cheng Shaoshang tested Wang Yue’s views on marriage, and he promised to build Langya with her as an equal partner.
• Wang Yue explained papermaking and printing, prompting Cheng Shaoshang to plan an experiment after their wedding.
• Cheng Shaoshang spent her days exploring Hua County with Wang Yue, and the two grew closer as he learned flute from her.
• Huangpu Yi approached the couple after hearing them play and introduced himself as someone who had sent a carriage to Sang Shunhua.
• Cheng Shaoshang told Huangpu Yi that Sang Shunhua had given the carriage away and that Cheng Zhi personally cared for her injury.
• Wang Yue suspected Huangpu Yi had been waiting for them and asked where Yuan Shen was.

Wang Yue and Cheng Shaoshang joined Huangpu Yi and Yuan Shen, where Huangpu Yi began recounting how his fiancée waited seven years before breaking their engagement. Wang Yue and Cheng Shaoshang challenged Huangpu Yi’s excuses, and Wang Yue ended by saying he would save Shaoshang first if she and an orphaned girl fell into the water.

• Wang Yue accepted Huangpu Yi’s invitation after realizing Cheng Shaoshang wanted to hear about her Third Aunt’s past.
• At the villa, Wang Yue and Yuan Shen traded barbs before Huangpu Yi’s toast brought the group’s attention to his story.
• Huangpu Yi described a talented young master whose fiancée waited seven years while caring for his family, then broke their engagement after he missed a promised meeting.
• Cheng Shaoshang and Wang Yue criticized the young master’s treatment of his fiancée, while Yuan Shen challenged Cheng Shaoshang about whether she would have waited for Wang Yue.
• Cheng Shaoshang asked whom the young master would save if his fiancée and an orphaned girl fell into the water, and Wang Yue said he would save Shaoshang first.

After Wang Yue and Cheng Shaoshang helped Huangpu Yi confront his past, they returned to Kyoto, where Ling Buyi reported that Fan Chang had escaped from the Imperial Prison. Wang Yue then joined Emperor Wen and Ling Buyi in discussing Prince Yong’s suspected involvement in the rebellion, and the emperor asked him what they should do next.

• Wang Yue, Cheng Shaoshang, and Yuan Shen persuaded Huangpu Yi that his failed engagement had ended because he lacked resolve, and Huangpu Yi accepted their comfort.
• Wang Yue and Cheng Shaoshang returned to Cheng Shaoshang’s family, and she tearfully said goodbye to Madam Sang before the journey to Kyoto.
• Wang Yue encountered Ling Buyi outside Kyoto and learned that someone had broken into the Imperial Prison and rescued Fan Chang.
• Ling Buyi told Emperor Wen that Fan Chang’s testimony and evidence linking the assassins to Fengyu County implicated Prince Yong.
• Wang Yue joined Emperor Wen and Ling Buyi as they discussed the Heir Apparent’s journey to Fengyu County with He Zhaojun and Prince Yong’s possible scheme.
• Emperor Wen asked Wang Yue what they should do about the suspected threat.

Wang Yue led a cavalry force toward Fengyu County after Emperor Wen ordered him to confront Prince Yong, bringing Lou Ben and Lou Yao while sending Cheng Shaoshang and Wang Ling to Hangu Pass. He reached the county amid fighting and rescued He troops, then learned that Young Master Xiao had brought He Zhaojun there.

• Wang Yue volunteered to lead troops to Fengyu County, and Ling Buyi arranged for Cheng Shaoshang and Wang Ling to accompany the expedition.
• Wang Yue departed with Cheng Shaoshang and Wang Ling, then met Lou Ben and Lou Yao on the road; Lou Ben warned that Prince Yong was preparing to rebel.
• Wang Yue split his forces, riding ahead with five thousand cavalry while Ji Feng and Ji Yu escorted Cheng Shaoshang and Wang Ling to Hangu Pass.
• Wang Yue and the Lou brothers reached Fengyu County and found He troops being pursued by Prince Yong's forces.
• Wang Yue's cavalry routed the pursuing soldiers and rescued a He captain, who confirmed Lou Ben and Lou Yao's identities.

Wang Yue fought through Fengyu County to rescue General He’s family and capture Young Master Xiao, then returned to the city when he learned many of his soldiers and General He were still trapped inside. He led the charge back into the rebel-held streets with Jishan following and using Prince Yong’s family as human shields.

• Wang Yue ordered reinforcements summoned and charged into Fengyu County with five thousand cavalry, relieving General He’s forces at the eastern gate.
• Wang Yue stormed Prince Yong’s Mansion, captured Prince Yong’s family, and sent Jishan to escort them out with Lou Ben and Lou Yao.
• Wang Yue and Lou Yao fought their way to the He residence, where Wang Yue wounded and captured Young Master Xiao and rescued the He family.
• Lou Yao found He Zhaojun, and Wang Yue led the group out of the city while carrying Young Master Xiao; barricades and rebel attacks caused heavy casualties.
• Wang Yue learned that half his soldiers remained trapped inside and that General He was still missing, so he rode back into Fengyu County to reinforce them.
• Jishan followed Wang Yue back into the city, shouting that Prince Yong’s family was with them and daring the rebels to shoot.

Wang Yue rescued his forces and captured Prince Yong by turning the Wei River flood against the rebels, then remained in Fengyu Commandery under an imperial appointment. Nearly a year later, he and Cheng Shaoshang married there, while Ling Buyi killed Prince Yong and Wang Yue began to suspect the Yue Clan had caused his parents’ deaths.

• Wang Yue used the Xiao Family as hostages to withdraw from Fengyu City, while Prince Yong pursued him toward Tong Pass and tried to flood the Wei River.
• Wang Ling and Cheng Shaoshang’s dikes delayed the flood until Prince Yong’s army was crossing, allowing Wang Yue to capture Prince Yong and Ji Feng and Ji Yu to reinforce him.
• Emperor Wen appointed Wang Yue acting Commandery Governor of Fengyu and gave new posts to He Yong, Lou Ben, Wang Ling, and Cheng Shaoshang.
• Ling Buyi hinted that he planned to kill Prince Yong, and Wang Yue agreed to let the prisoner die before reaching Kyoto; Young Master Xiao later died in the Imperial Prison.
• Wang Yue suspected the Yue Clan had been responsible for his parents’ deaths, then married Cheng Shaoshang in Fengyu Commandery nearly a year later.

Wang Yue agreed to help Ling Buyi treat Huo Junhua and investigate the Lone City Case, offering a marriage alliance with Wang Ling in exchange for cooperation. As they neared the capital, Han Wu brought evidence that soldiers sent into the miasma had actually been killed by blades, but an ambush killed both Han Wu and the captured assassin, leaving the Yue Clan’s involvement under suspicion.

• Ling Buyi asked Wang Yue to treat Huo Junhua, and Wang Yue began treating her on the journey back to the capital.
• Lou Ben gave Wang Yue a regional map as a parting gift when Wang Yue and his party left Fengyu County.
• Wang Yue told Ling Buyi that his parents’ deaths might be connected to the Lone City Case and proposed marrying Wang Ling to him as part of their alliance.
• Wang Yue explained that Huo Junhua’s madness had been cured but that she had lost her memory, and advised Ling Buyi to wait before trying to restore it.
• Han Wu rushed to Ling Buyi for help and revealed that a physician had found the soldiers sent into the miasma had died from blade wounds, despite their horses returning safely.
• Ling Buyi killed the attacking men except their leader, but the leader killed Han Wu with a poisoned needle and then took his own life; Wang Yue and Ling Buyi concluded that the Yue Clan was implicated in the case.

Ling Buyi and Wang Yue arranged to investigate Han Wu's murder discreetly by staging Wang Ling's amnesia and using a man disguised as Han Wu. When Wen Xiujun revealed she intended to marry Wang Ling to the much older General Peng, Wang Ling fainted, and Wang Yue comforted Cheng Shaoshang as they discussed family obligations.

• Ling Buyi and Wang Yue agreed to pursue both leads in Old Prince An's case while keeping their investigation secret.
• Wang Yue and Ling Buyi disguised a soldier as Han Wu and returned to Kyoto with a story that Wang Ling had lost her memory saving Huo Junhua.
• Wang Yue staged a public encounter with Wen Xiujun at his gate, where Wang Ling pretended not to recognize her mother.
• Wen Xiujun confirmed that Wang Ling's marriage to General Peng would proceed, and Wang Ling fainted after hearing her mother agree to it.
• Wang Yue explained Wen Xiujun's devotion to Old Prince An and reassured Cheng Shaoshang that supporting her maternal family would be acceptable if they were capable and grateful.

Wang Yue used pulse-taking to trace the assassins to Peng Kun and suspected that Peng Kun and Little Prince An were involved in the Lone City Case and his family’s massacre. After Wen Xiujun challenged him to prove Shouchun’s poverty, Wang Yue secured the emperor’s approval to go there, leaving with a plan to test whether Little Prince An was preparing to rebel.

• Wang Yue used physicians to detect changes in the assassins’ pulses, identifying Shouchun and Peng Kun as their source and suspected connections.
• Wang Yue told Ling Buyi that Peng Kun might have arranged his family’s massacre and planned to make the emperor summon Peng Kun to Kyoto.
• Wang Yue joined Cheng Shaoshang at Changqiu Palace, where he confronted Wen Xiujun over her request that the empress help Shouchun mint its own coins.
• Wang Yue bet that Shouchun was not poor and offered to travel there; Emperor Wen accepted and authorized the journey.
• Wang Yue explained that he would seize Tongniu County if Little Prince An rebelled, while Emperor Wen offered him a county marquisate and the governorship of Qingzhou.
• Emperor Wen wondered aloud whether he had treated First Prince Yong and Little Prince An badly.

Wang Yue uncovered Prince An’s counterfeit-coin operation, defeated the force sent to seize Tongniu, and joined Ling Buyi and Cui You in besieging Shouchun. When Peng Kun led a breakout, Wang Yue wounded him, while Ji Feng accidentally killed Prince An.

• Wang Yue marched to Tongniu while Cheng Shaoshang stayed home because she was pregnant, and he discovered that copper from the local mine was being used to mint counterfeit coins for Prince An.
• Wang Yue tricked Wen Xiujun into leaving Tongniu, then ambushed Ma Rong’s force and captured its surviving soldiers when they came to seize the county.
• Wang Yue learned that Prince An had been lured into the coin-minting scheme, suspected Young Marquis Yue had arranged the trap, and joined Ling Buyi and Cui You to surround Shouchun.
• Wang Yue proposed building an earthen rampart to threaten Shouchun’s defenses, prompting Peng Kun to lead the garrison out in an attempted breakout.
• Wang Yue charged Peng Kun and pierced his shoulder, while Ji Feng’s uncontrolled sword swing decapitated Prince An.

Wang Yue and Ling Buyi uncovered evidence linking Peng Kun and Young Prince An’s advisor to powerful figures, then survived an ambush by secretly raised troops near Gucheng. Their discoveries about Old Prince An’s death reached Emperor Wen, who grew furious over the conspiracy and its threat to his reputation.

• Wang Yue captured Peng Kun’s forces, seized letters from his residence, and showed the correspondence to Ling Buyi, who agreed to lure their enemies into an ambush.
• After Cheng Shaoshang’s carriage was struck, Wang Yue used the incident as a reason to rush toward the Capital with prisoners and five thousand cavalrymen.
• A descendant of Marquis Pingyang Cao Can warned Wang Yue that enemies planned to ambush him near Gucheng, and Wang Yue accepted the warning in exchange for a future favor.
• Wang Yue and Ling Buyi trapped and defeated tens of thousands of ambushers near the miasma-filled area, discovering that the troops had been secretly raised by the Tian family.
• Ling Buyi told Wen Xiujun that Old Prince An had been deliberately killed rather than dying from poisonous miasma, and she fell silent after seeing the area herself.
• Emperor Wen learned of the ambush and the evidence surrounding Old Prince An’s death, then became enraged that Young Marquis Yue’s actions could make the court appear complicit.

Wang Yue and Ling Buyi uncovered the Emperor Li faction’s conspiracy, avenged the Lone City victims, and later built prosperous domains in Qingzhou. After Ling Buyi joined Wang Yue by the sea, the system activated and returned Wang Yue to his original world.

• Emperor Wen ordered Wang Yue and Ling Buyi to investigate the Lone City Case, and they uncovered Tian Su’s network and evidence implicating powerful families.
• The court executed Marquis Chengyang’s family and the Left family, stripped Young Marquis Yue of his title, and exiled him; Wang Yue’s Secret Guard poisoned him on the way out of the capital.
• Cheng Shaoshang gave birth to twins, Ling Buyi petitioned to marry Wang Ling, and Huo Junhua recovered her memories before accepting Cui You’s proposal.
• Wang Yue took Cheng Shaoshang and their children to Donglai, organized local rule and coastal trade, and gradually gained control over Qingzhou and the Langya Kingdom.
• The former Crown Prince was deposed and married Qu Lingjun, while Ling Buyi settled with Wang Ling in Taishan Commandery and later joined Wang Yue by the sea.
• The system recognized Wang Yue’s laziness and the protagonist’s approval, then returned him to his original world.

Wang Yue returned to the present and improvised a drone-carrier project to reassure Luo Youyou before their engagement. After Star Technology ran into licensing restrictions, Old Master Luo offered a way to build the aircraft through an agreement with an established manufacturer.

• Wang Yue grumbled about Ling Buyi’s early visit, then tried to explain his distracted mood to Luo Youyou by proposing a drone aircraft carrier.
• Luo Youyou questioned Wang Yue’s plan, and he claimed that advanced materials and artificial intelligence could eventually support long-range drones.
• Wang Yue decided to design a small jet and reconnaissance drones, then spent more than ten days completing the plans.
• General Manager Hu told Wang Yue that Star Technology lacked a license to build jet aircraft, but offered to seek connections for one.
• Old Master Luo explained that Wang Yue could share the plans with an aircraft manufacturer, build the aircraft under its name, and apply for Star Technology’s own license while fulfilling the agreement.

Wang Yue became emperor of Northern Chen, unified the country, and later abdicated to travel with Cui Shiyi. Years afterward, the Cui Clan seized the capital, and Zhou Shengchen died protecting the Crown Prince before Wang Yue and Cui Shiyi could reach him.

• Wang Yue agreed to ascend the throne after Li Qilang urged him to accept the succession.
• Wang Yue became emperor, made Tuan Tuan Crown Prince, and introduced reforms that brought prosperity and unified Northern Chen, Southern Xiao, and Shu.
• Wang Yue abdicated in favor of Tuan Tuan and traveled with Cui Shiyi and Yuan Yuan while Tuan Tuan ruled.
• Tuan Tuan favored a woman from the Cui Clan, but she died in childbirth, and he later traveled south searching for his parents and sister.
• The Cui Clan surrounded the capital, and Zhou Shengchen was fatally wounded while helping the Crown Prince escape.
• Wang Yue and Cui Shiyi arrived too late to see Zhou Shengchen alive.

Wang Yue suppressed the Cui Clan rebellion, saved Tuan Tuan and Cui Shiyi from the Crown Prince, and later watched Shiyi die from an unexplained decline in her mental energy. Suspecting a connection between worlds and the Netherworld, he investigated the deaths of others and wondered whether he could reach Shiyi there, but realized his Time Reversal ability meant he could not die.

• Wang Yue returned to Kyoto with Yan Shu's army, and the Cui Clan rebels surrendered without much resistance.
• Wang Yue stopped the Crown Prince from killing Tuan Tuan, treated Tuan Tuan and Cui Shiyi for their wounds and poison, and deposed the Crown Prince.
• Tuan Tuan carried out Cui Shiyi's demand to punish the rebellious Cui Clan, and Shiyi renounced the Cui name as her relatives left for Qinghe.
• Cui Shiyi grew weaker after returning to Carefree Valley, then died; Wang Yue placed her in an ice coffin and suspected an unexplained force had taken her life.
• Wang Yue used Time Reversal to investigate Shiyi's death, found that Zhou Feng, Xiao Yan, and others had also died after their mental states declined, and concluded their souls might be bound for the Netherworld.
• Wang Yue considered going to the Netherworld to find Shiyi, but realized his Time Reversal ability prevented him from dying.

After more than two centuries of research, Wang Yue entered cryogenic sleep hoping to awaken in the future and reunite with Cui Shiyi, but a nuclear war killed him before he could be revived. His repeated time reversals evolved into a power that could leap forward, and he emerged from the ground in a future wasteland, unsure how far time had carried him.

• Wang Yue devoted himself to developing brainwave technology and cryogenic revival so he could reach an era where he might find Cui Shiyi again.
• Tuan Tuan, Yuan Yuan, and Great Chen's Imperial Academy of Sciences helped Wang Yue perfect cryogenic revival, and Wang Yue entered the sleep chamber after discussing his hopes with Tuan Tuan.
• Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan moved the researchers away and sealed Carefree Valley, but a later nuclear war destroyed the underground palace and killed Wang Yue before the emergency device could wake him.
• Wang Yue repeatedly traveled back in time while unconscious, and his superpower eventually evolved to sometimes leap forward through time.
• Wang Yue woke beside Cui Shiyi's ice coffin, fired her sleeve crossbow, and leaped forward until he found himself buried in a barren wasteland beneath a passing plane.

After jumping fifteen hundred years into the future, Wang Yue discovered that Great Chen had fallen and that Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan had never betrayed him. He reunited with Shiyi in the modern era, but their meeting with Zhou Shengchen and Wang Yue’s possessive reaction left their relationship on uncertain ground.

• Wang Yue realized he had jumped forward in time and feared that Carefree Valley and Great Chen had vanished.
• The chapter revealed that Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan had searched for Wang Yue after he disappeared, while the former Crown Prince rewrote history and Great Chen eventually collapsed.
• Wang Yue reached a modern city, found Shiyi’s address online, and met her at the airport in Yuezhou Province.
• Shiyi agreed to travel to Magic City with Wang Yue and discuss her dreams of a war-torn past.
• At airport security, Wang Yue saw a man identified as Zhou Shengchen and recognized him as the Little Nan Chen King.
• When Shiyi asked Wang Yue to get Zhou Shengchen’s contact information, Wang Yue took her hand and refused, then realized she did not remember him.

Wang Yue tried to convince Shiyi that they had been married in a previous life, recounting their past and demonstrating his martial arts. Shiyi remained uncertain but grew curious about his memories and asked how long he had been in this world.

• Wang Yue apologized for grabbing Shiyi and introduced himself after she realized they had never exchanged names.
• Shiyi searched for Puzhao Temple and found that its ancient ginkgo tree still existed, then asked Wang Yue to tell her about the world he remembered.
• Wang Yue recounted his life with Shiyi, and she wondered why her fragmentary memories differed from his complete story.
• Wang Yue took Shiyi's hand and used his martial arts to move them instantly to a hidden corner of the airport.
• Wang Yue proposed that a mysterious force had altered Shiyi's dreams after he changed their past, but Shiyi remained only half-convinced.
• Wang Yue offered to take Shiyi home and look for traces of their past, and Shiyi asked how long he had been in this world.