Chapter Summaries

Wang Yue tried to convince Shiyi that he had come from their past, and over time his visits to historic places and messages gradually earned her trust. When Shiyi met him in Chang'an with Hong Xiaoyu and Liu Shuai, Wang Yue warned that Zhou Shengchen might appear, then pointed out someone standing behind them.

• Wang Yue explained his journey to the present and gave Shiyi his ID, but she remained suspicious of his story.
• Shiyi told Hong Xiaoyu about Wang Yue, and he later sent her photos from historic places while searching for traces of their past.
• Wang Yue returned to Chang'an and arranged to meet Shiyi, who arrived with Hong Xiaoyu and Liu Shuai.
• Shiyi admitted she had come to Chang'an to gather material, and Wang Yue warned that Zhou Shengchen might appear.
• Hong Xiaoyu agreed to treat Wang Yue as an ordinary friend, and the group waited together while she interviewed a charitable couple.
• At a restaurant, Wang Yue said something seemed to be arranging events behind the scenes and told Hong Xiaoyu and Shiyi to turn around.

Wang Yue left Shiyi and Zhou Shengchen exchanging contact information and returned to the former Carefree Valley, where he found the hidden ice chamber Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan had built to preserve their family. He discovered both children were still alive in a state of suspended animation and realized he could awaken them with qi.

• Zhou Shengchen introduced himself as a Berkeley chemistry associate professor, and Shiyi agreed to exchange phone numbers with him.
• Wang Yue left the restaurant in anger and went to search beneath the former site of Carefree Valley for clues to his children's whereabouts.
• Wang Yue dug into the mountain, found an icy underground chamber, and discovered Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan in ice coffins beside Cui Shiyi.
• Wang Yue read the cave-wall account and learned that Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan had searched for him for centuries before entering suspended animation.
• Wang Yue examined the children and realized that sending qi into their bodies would wake them.

Wang Yue found the treasure Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan had left for him, then built a brainwave-controlled version of Glory and unveiled the technology at a press conference. Shiyi learned that Wang Yue had been behind the breakthrough and began wondering what he wanted and whether he was in danger.

• Wang Yue found Tuan Tuan’s message and Yuan Yuan’s map leading to a vast treasure, but decided to leave it for the children to choose how to use.
• Wang Yue built a company and developed a brainwave-controlled version of Glory, then demonstrated it at a press conference attended by Hong Xiaoyu.
• Shiyi watched Hong Xiaoyu’s video of Wang Yue’s presentation and realized he had been busy with the game company and revolutionary technology.
• Shiyi worried that Wang Yue’s sudden ambition might put him in danger, while Hong Xiaoyu urged her to ask him directly.
• Shiyi protested that Wang Yue did not like her and asked Hong Xiaoyu why she had changed her opinion of him.

Shiyi contacted Wang Yue after he sent her a photo of Cui Shiyi, the woman from her recurring dreams, lying in an ice coffin. Curious about the photo and Wang Yue’s claim that he came from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Shiyi invited him over, and his explanation had yet to begin.

• Hong Xiaoyu encouraged Shiyi to message Wang Yue, so Shiyi congratulated him on his work and asked why he had stopped sending photos.
• Wang Yue sent Shiyi a picture of Cui Shiyi asleep in an ice coffin and wrote, “She's gone, but you're still here.”
• Shiyi showed Hong Xiaoyu the photo, explained Wang Yue’s story about his ancient past and dead wife, and wondered how an ancient woman could appear in a photograph.
• Hong Xiaoyu urged Shiyi to meet Wang Yue, and Shiyi invited him over; he arrived soon afterward with gifts.
• After Wang Yue joined Shiyi and Hong Xiaoyu, Hong Xiaoyu asked whether he pursued Shiyi because she resembled his wife, and Shiyi asked where he had gotten Cui Shiyi’s photo.

Shiyi accepted Wang Yue’s account of their shared past and agreed to be his girlfriend, while Wang Yue arranged to resolve his false identity through the military. The chapter ended with military officers delivering his new identification documents during his meeting with Zhou Shengchen, who apologized for suspecting him.

• Shiyi looked at photos of Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, became emotional, and joked with Hong Xiaoyu about making her Wang Yue’s daughter-in-law.
• Shiyi explained that she had barely seen Zhou Shengchen after meeting him at Qinglong Temple and said Wang Yue felt more real than her dreams.
• Shiyi and Wang Yue discussed visiting temples, getting married, and how to resolve his false identity; Wang Yue received a call from Director Xiao about military cooperation.
• Zhou Shengchen invited Shiyi to afternoon tea, and she told him that Wang Yue was her boyfriend before agreeing to meet him together.
• Wang Yue said Zhou Shengchen might try to expose his identity, but Shiyi trusted Wang Yue and accompanied him to meet Zhou Shengchen.
• Three military officers delivered Wang Yue’s new identification documents at the hotel, and Zhou Shengchen apologized for suspecting him.

Wang Yue confronted Zhou Shengchen about his investigation of Shiyi and warned him that the Zhou family’s tangled affairs could bring trouble into her life. Zhou Shengchen gave up pursuing Shiyi, and after he left, Wang Yue and Shiyi grew closer with a kiss.

• Wang Yue and Zhou Shengchen apologized for investigating each other, then Wang Yue exposed the Zhou family's complicated history and questioned Zhou Shengchen's plans for Shiyi.
• Zhou Shengchen realized the Zhou family's affairs could endanger Shiyi and promised not to bother her again.
• Shiyi offered to help Zhou Shengchen through Wang Yue, and the three set aside their rivalry to talk as friends until late at night.
• As Wang Yue walked Shiyi to his car, he held her hand and admitted he had learned chemistry because he thought she might like it.
• Shiyi told Wang Yue that he was the only person she was interested in, then stumbled into his arms and shared her first kiss with him.

Wang Yue and Shiyi began dating and traveled to Zhenjiang, where she introduced him to her family. After Wang Yue revealed his brainwave research and proposed discussing an engagement, Shiyi’s parents approved of him and began considering their future together.

• Wang Yue declined Hong Xiaoyu’s late-night invitation, then treated her to dinner the next evening.
• Shiyi told Wang Yue she was going to Zhenjiang for ancestral rites, and Hong Xiaoyu’s teasing led Wang Yue to arrange to accompany her and meet her family.
• Second Uncle Shi welcomed Wang Yue and Shiyi, and Shiyi introduced Wang Yue as her boyfriend.
• Wang Yue explained his brainwave research to Shiyi’s family and said he would mainly work in Magic City.
• Wang Yue proposed discussing an engagement, and Shiyi’s father agreed they should choose an auspicious day while her mother asked where they would live.

Wang Yue took Shiyi to meet her family and later brought her to Carefree Valley to visit Cui Shiyi. When Shiyi touched Cui Shiyi’s face, Cui Shiyi’s body vanished into her, and Shiyi awakened with memories from her past life.

• Shi Yuanyuan met Wang Yue, and he gave her a USB drive containing translation software after teasing her with exam materials.
• Wang Yue told Shiyi that he had wondered whether Shi Yuanyuan might suit Tuan Tuan, prompting Shiyi to ask to visit Tuan Tuan, Yuan Yuan, and Cui Shiyi.
• Wang Yue took Shiyi to Cui Shiyi’s ice coffin and protected her from the cold as she touched Cui Shiyi’s face.
• Cui Shiyi’s body transformed into stardust and entered Shiyi, who fainted in Wang Yue’s arms.
• Shiyi woke and told Wang Yue that she remembered Cui Shiyi’s life as well as her own, and that Wang Yue had made her past life happy.

Shiyi adjusted to sharing her life and memories with Cui Shiyi while Wang Yue helped her discover that she had a congenital body and could cultivate true energy. Back in the Magic City, Wang Yue kept her company at work, and after her project ended, the two prepared to marry in a traditional Chinese ceremony.

• Shiyi worried about Cui Shiyi's vanished body and whether she should accept Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan as her children, while Wang Yue promised they would have shared an ice coffin if they had reunited after death.
• Wang Yue discovered that Shiyi could circulate true energy through her meridians, though she had almost none left, and speculated that Cui Shiyi's body had returned to her through some mysterious force.
• Shiyi asked Wang Yue to make amends for disrupting her work on Zhou Sheng's story, and he offered to keep her company at her studio while she recorded.
• Wang Yue spent his days at Shiyi's company, where Shiyi's admirer Wang Yingdong openly disliked him, and the couple shared affectionate moments as she worked.
• After Shiyi's project ended, the couple prepared to marry, and Shiyi chose a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony.

After their wedding, Wang Yue and Cui Shiyi searched temples during their honeymoon for spells that might protect Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, then attended the Huaxing Awards Ceremony. Zhou Shengchen asked Wang Yue for advice on winning Tong Jiaren back, and his proposal left Tong Jiaren ready to break her engagement to Zhou Wenchuan.

• Wang Yue and Cui Shiyi married, kept Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan hidden, and spent their honeymoon visiting temples in search of supernatural teachings.
• Wang Yue and Cui Shiyi found no protective spells and agreed to wake the children when Wang Yue's military project officially began.
• Zhou Shengchen called Wang Yue and explained that he wanted to marry Tong Jiaren after uncovering Zhou Wenchuan's shady dealings and his engagement to her.
• Wang Yue and Mei Xing advised Zhou Shengchen to tell Tong Jiaren he was willing to marry her, and Zhou Shengchen called her.
• Tong Jiaren met Zhou Shengchen, agreed to break her engagement to Zhou Wenchuan, and accepted his proposal despite his blunt explanation that he needed to marry before taking over the family business.

Wang Yue and Shiyi attended Zhou Shengchen and Tong Jiaren’s engagement party, where they learned about the tangled history between Tong Jiaren, Zhou Wenchuan, and Wang Man. Their conversation exposed Tong Jiaren’s eavesdropping, and a confrontation at the party ended with her shoving Tang Xiaofu.

• Wang Yue agreed to attend Zhou Shengchen and Tong Jiaren’s engagement party with Shiyi, who wanted to support her former master.
• Zhou Shengchen welcomed Wang Yue and Shiyi, and Wang Yue confirmed that Mei Xing was Liu Zixing from Shiyi’s memories.
• Wang Yue told Shiyi that the woman eavesdropping on gossip was Tong Jiaren and that the woman in black, Wang Man, was Zhou Wenchuan’s girlfriend.
• Tong Jiaren overheard Wang Yue and Shiyi discussing her and accused Wang Man of being a mistress; Wang Man retorted that Tong Jiaren had broken up her relationship with Zhou Wenchuan.
• Zhou Wenfeng and Tang Xiaofu joined the argument, and Tong Jiaren shoved Tang Xiaofu.

Wang Yue stabilized pregnant Tang Xiaofu after she fell at the Zhou family engagement banquet, then explained the Zhou family’s competing interests to Shiyi. Days later, Zhou Shengchen asked Wang Yue to help his sister, and Wang Yue unexpectedly agreed to exchange a life-saving formula for the family’s businesses around Taihu Lake.

• Shiyi rushed Wang Yue to help Tang Xiaofu, and Wang Yue used gold needles to stabilize her while warning that the baby had only a fifty percent chance of survival.
• The ambulance took Tang Xiaofu to the hospital, where the medical staff left Wang Yue’s needles in place, and Zhou Shengchen thanked him for intervening.
• Wang Yue told Shiyi that the Tong family’s marriage arrangements were tied to Zhou Shengren and the struggle for control of the Zhou family business.
• A few days later, Zhou Shengchen called Wang Yue to report that Tang Xiaofu and her baby were safe and asked him to teach his sister the gold-needle technique.
• Wang Yue refused to take Zhou Shengchen’s sister as an apprentice but offered to teach an experienced Chinese doctor and provide emergency pills for her heart condition.
• When Zhou Shengchen offered to trade his family’s businesses around Taihu Lake for the formula, Wang Yue agreed, then spat out his tea in surprise.

Wang Yue traded medicine for Zhou Shengchen’s businesses, and Zhou Wenxing’s health soon improved enough for Madam Qin to act against Zhou Wenchuan. After Zhou Wenchuan turned himself in, Zhou Shengchen learned the complicated history of his parents and Madam Qin.

• Wang Yue accepted Zhou Shengchen’s businesses near Taihu Lake in exchange for medicine to stabilize Zhou Wenxing’s condition, then gave the contracts to Shiyi.
• Wang Yue and Shiyi visited the Shi family, where they met Shi Yuanyuan and Zhou Shengren, who joked about the business deal and seemed close to one another.
• Zhou Shengren told Wang Yue that Zhou Wenchuan had turned himself in.
• Wang Yue’s medicine stabilized Zhou Wenxing, and her doctor said she could live normally while avoiding strenuous work.
• Madam Qin gave Zhou Shengchen evidence against Zhou Wenchuan and ordered Second Uncle Zhou to bring him in; Zhou Wenchuan admitted his crimes and turned himself in.
• Zhou Shengchen learned that Madam Qin had married Old Father Zhou after Second Uncle Zhou failed to stand by her, and that she had cared for Zhou Shengchen out of love for his father.

Wang Yue used the military’s interest in his technology to request help retrieving a supposed treasure, while Shiyi urged him to stop delaying his children’s awakening. He obtained identification documents for Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan and went with Shiyi to Carefree Valley to bring them back to life.

• Wang Yue’s gaming headset spread widely, and foreign sanctions followed after Director Xiao enforced sales limited to Chinese ID holders.
• A military representative reassured Wang Yue and asked about his needs after the military reviewed his Mechanical Soldier King plan.
• Wang Yue told the representative that someone had left him a treasure and asked the military to help retrieve it.
• Shiyi learned about the sanctions and asked Wang Yue whether the military had arranged anything for Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan.
• Shiyi persuaded Wang Yue that he should stop postponing his children’s awakening and face whatever happened as a family.
• Wang Yue arranged ID cards and household registration for Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, then went with Shiyi to Carefree Valley.

Wang Yue and Shiyi awakened Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, reunited their family, and helped the children settle into modern life. After building a new life together, Wang Yue fulfilled the system’s return conditions and was sent back to his original world.

• Wang Yue awakened Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan from their Turtle Breath Technique, and Shiyi joyfully reunited with Yuan Yuan.
• Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan visited Shiyi at her company, where Shiyi introduced them to Hong Xiaoyu as her godchildren.
• Wang Yue recovered the children’s treasures and invested in spacecraft research, while Tuan Tuan joined the lab and Yuan Yuan pursued entertainment before taking over Second Uncle Shi’s lakeside business.
• Tuan Tuan married a military leader’s daughter and had a daughter, while Wang Yue and Shiyi had another daughter together.
• Wang Yue’s brain-wave technology earned the protagonist’s acknowledgment, and the Transmigration System returned him to his original world.

After returning to the real world, Wang Yue reunited with Luo Youyou, completed an artificial intelligence, and traveled with her to Northern River to meet her parents. He impressed Luo Peng and reassured Mother Luo about their future, then returned home and focused on brainwave research, leaving Luo Youyou to wonder whether he might actually achieve it.

• Wang Yue returned from another world and resumed his teasing relationship with Luo Youyou.
• Wang Yue completed an independent artificial intelligence while preparing to meet Luo Youyou's parents.
• Luo Youyou invited Wang Yue to meet her parents in Northern River, and he brought them gifts.
• Wang Yue discussed his companies, research plans, and future with Luo Peng, who was impressed by his knowledge and confidence.
• Wang Yue reassured Mother Luo that his parents would give the young couple space after marriage.
• Wang Yue studied brainwave research at home, and Luo Youyou wondered whether he could truly make progress on such a difficult project.

Wang Yue transmigrated into the world of Legend of Sword and Fairy 1, trained rapidly, and set out for Nanzhao to meet Zhao Ling'er while she was still a child. He arrived to find a catastrophic flood underway and suspected Baiyue had summoned the Water Demon Beast.

• After transmigrating outside Lin Family Fort, Wang Yue met Liu Jinyuan and denied having designs on Lin Yueru, while Lin Tiannan reconsidered accepting him as a disciple but chose not to approach him.
• Wang Yue returned home, practiced martial arts, and reached the fifth or sixth rank in less than a month.
• Worried his memories of the story were fading and Zhao Ling'er was still young, Wang Yue left home and headed south to Nanzhao.
• Wang Yue's martial arts advanced to the ninth rank, upper level, by the time he neared Miao territory.
• Wang Yue arrived in Nanzhao during a devastating flood and suspected Baiyue had summoned the Water Demon Beast.

Wang Yue joined the Witch Queen and Qing'er in their fight against the Water Demon Beast, but a masked man who looked like Wang Yue appeared and helped drive it to self-destruct. The Water Demon Beast's essence escaped, and Wang Yue learned Ling'er was safe with Li Xiaoyao as they hurried toward Nanzhao City to confront Baiyue.

• Wang Yue reached the Witch Queen's battle with the Water Demon Beast and helped her, dodging its attacks and knocking off one of its scales.
• Wang Yue used Beiming Divine Skill to absorb the beast's demonic power, but the strain left him in danger until a masked man froze the lake and interrupted the technique.
• Wang Yue and the masked man joined Qing'er and the Witch Queen in overpowering the Water Demon Beast, which self-destructed and sent its essence away.
• The Witch Queen realized Ling'er was missing and rushed toward Nanzhao City, while the masked man told Wang Yue that Li Xiaoyao had Ling'er and her grandmother and that they needed to deal with Baiyue.
• Wang Yue suspected the masked man was his future self and teased him about losing a contest for Ling'er's affection before following him toward Nanzhao City.

Wang Yue was caught in another jump through time and arrived in Yuhang Town as the events of the series began. He joined Li Xiaoyao on the journey to Immortal Spirit Island, where the chapter left them both washed ashore and Wang Yue wondering why the plot had not changed.

• The Witch Queen turned herself and Baiyue to stone, but Baiyue broke free and attacked Wang Yue while the man in white struck at them both.
• Wang Yue used Time Reversal repeatedly to escape and was swept forward in time to the beginning of the story, where he realized the man in white was himself.
• Wang Yue learned that Baiyue's cult still had a presence in Nanzhao, then hurried to Yuhang Town and met Li Xiaoyao outside the Cloud-Coming, Cloud-Going Inn.
• Wang Yue paid Li Xiaoyao for news about the Miao visitors and his sick aunt, then offered to accompany him to Immortal Spirit Island.
• After their patched boat was wrecked by the waves, Wang Yue flew to the island, and Li Xiaoyao soon washed ashore behind him.
• Wang Yue waited outside the island's formation and wondered why the Salted Fish System had not changed the story.

Wang Yue and Li Xiaoyao crossed the formation to Immortal Spirit Island, where they met Zhao Ling'er, who remembered meeting older versions of both men. Wang Yue tried to explain the time discrepancy and distinguish himself from his future self, while Zhao Ling'er remained attached to her memories of them.

• Wang Yue and Li Xiaoyao entered the formation, where Li Xiaoyao shattered the stone pillars with the hammer the Miao had given him.
• Wang Yue taught Li Xiaoyao Lingbo Weibu, and Li Xiaoyao quickly mastered walking across the water.
• Zhao Ling'er struck at the pair with lightning until Wang Yue called out, then recognized them as Brother Xiaoyao and Brother A Yue.
• Zhao Ling'er told Wang Yue that he had visited Immortal Spirit Island before Li Xiaoyao, though her Master said Wang Yue had arrived first, before she was there.
• Li Xiaoyao asked Zhao Ling'er for a magic pill for his sick aunt, but she realized he did not recognize her.
• Wang Yue explained that the versions of them Zhao Ling'er remembered might have come from the future, and Zhao Ling'er asked whether Li Xiaoyao had taken good care of the seed he gave her.