Chapter Summaries

Fu Hua trained Kiana in mixing drinks and stealth, demonstrating how to conceal her presence. Kiana resumed practicing after learning the technique would not be on an exam.

• Xuanyuan Sword asked Zhao Bai not to let HUA be alone, and Zhao Bai reassured her.
• Fu Hua trained Kiana to mix drinks while practicing the Stealth Technique.
• Fu Hua demonstrated how to conceal her presence so thoroughly that Kiana could no longer see her.
• Kiana asked whether the technique would be on an exam, and Fu Hua told her to keep practicing.

Zhao Bai and Bronya shared a bed for the night, and he asked for something to conceal his face on his trip to Singapore. Bronya offered her stockings, then put him in a chokehold when he tried to stop her from handing them over.

• Zhao Bai struggled to sleep beside Bronya as they faced each other in bed.
• Bronya asked whether Zhao Bai was going to Singapore, showing she knew about his plans.
• Zhao Bai said he wanted something to cover his face and hide his identity.
• Bronya offered him her stockings, and Zhao Bai agreed before realizing what she meant.
• Zhao Bai grabbed Bronya's shoulders to stop her, and she flipped him under the blankets and locked him in a chokehold.

Zhao Bai and Bronya grew close in bed, but Heavy Cannon Rabbit interrupted them and separated them. The night ended with the mech guarding Bronya and Zhao Bai kept at a distance.

• Bronya loosened her hold on Zhao Bai and settled against his chest.
• Zhao Bai touched Bronya, but alarm bells rang outside the window.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit broke through the wall and dragged Zhao Bai from the blankets.
• Bronya told Heavy Cannon Rabbit that Zhao Bai and the mech were both her wings and asked it to put him down.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit tossed Zhao Bai onto the mattress and wedged itself between him and Bronya.

Zhao Bai tried to accept Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C’s interference in his marriage to Bronya and left to oversee work, while Bronya went to test Fu Hua’s attitude. At the bar, he found an exhausted Kiana, who hoped he would help her escape Fu Hua, but he refused.

• Zhao Bai resolved to plan carefully before dealing with Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C.
• Zhao Bai woke beside Bronya, accepted that Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C had slept between them, and told Bronya her pantyhose would not be needed.
• Zhao Bai left Bronya to test Fu Hua’s attitude and went to the bar to supervise work.
• Zhao Bai found Kiana asleep at a table and startled her awake by claiming Mei had become someone else’s mother.
• Kiana asked Zhao Bai to take her away from Fu Hua, but he refused, saying his motorcycle had no room for her.

Fu Hua arranged for Kiana to take a test while Zhao Bai helped her keep up the pretense. Fu Hua then asked Zhao Bai to assist with a mission at the Queen Hotel in Singapore, and he prepared to leave by flying motorcycle.

• Kiana told Zhao Bai she had spent the night practicing bartending and asked him to pretend not to see her until Fu Hua left.
• Fu Hua entered and confronted Kiana about repaying the laziness she had stolen.
• Fu Hua told Zhao Bai that a flight would land at Singapore Changi International Airport and that the mission was at the Queen Hotel.
• Fu Hua removed her communicator glasses and asked Zhao Bai for a favor.
• At ten in the morning, the passenger plane took off, and Zhao Bai took Harvest Day's clown mask and mounted his flying motorcycle.

Zhao Bai followed Fu Hua and Kiana to the Queen Hotel in Singapore but arrived after they had gone inside. Unable to enter with a communication permit, he asked Bronya to help him get access, and she decided to buy shares in the hotel.

• Zhao Bai rode to the Queen Hotel after Fu Hua and Kiana landed at the airport.
• Zhao Bai disguised himself as a father carrying the Xuanyuan Sword and called Bronya for help booking a room.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai that the Queen Hotel was closed for the day.
• Bronya offered to buy shares in the hotel and told Zhao Bai to wait twenty minutes.
• Zhao Bai cautiously asked how much it would cost, and Bronya said it would only earn a little less.

Zhao Bai entered the Queen Hotel as the family member of a major shareholder, only to be attacked by a disguised gunman in the elevator. The attacker threatened his daughter with a silenced pistol, and Zhao Bai urged her to fight back quietly.

• Bronya explained that Zhao Bai could enter the Queen Hotel as a major shareholder and still make money.
• Zhao Bai used his new status to enter the hotel with his daughter and was escorted toward the top floor.
• Zhao Bai noticed his attendant had gun calluses and dodged the man's sudden attacks.
• The attacker took the Xuanyuan Sword and held a silenced pistol to the child's brow, threatening Zhao Bai.
• Zhao Bai obeyed the attacker's order to stand against the wall, then snapped his fingers at the eager Xuanyuan Sword and told her to act quietly.

Zhao Bai and Xuanyuan Sword incapacitated an assassin in the elevator, then hid above it as it reached the top floor. The assassin’s teammates realized an enemy had infiltrated the building and began searching, leaving the elevator entrance unguarded.

• Zhao Bai and his family chatter distracted the assassin while Xuanyuan Sword sliced his pistol apart and made him believe he was dead.
• Zhao Bai and Xuanyuan Sword high-fived as the elevator continued upward.
• Zhao Bai kicked open the elevator ceiling and hid on top of it with Xuanyuan Sword.
• The elevator doors opened, and the assassin collapsed in front of his teammates without answering them.
• The teammates suspected an enemy had infiltrated the floor and split up to search, leaving the elevator entrance unwatched.

Fu Hua left Kiana downstairs eating and approached the elevator, where she found only one guard. She pretended to be a timid, weak girl and staggered toward him, setting up her move against the guard.

• Zhao Bai arranged the enemies' corpses in the elevator lobby while Fu Hua was occupied eating.
• Fu Hua left Kiana downstairs and headed alone toward the elevator.
• Fu Hua found just one guard at the elevator entrance.
• Fu Hua feigned a timid young girl, clutched her stomach, and fell toward the bald guard.

Fu Hua infiltrated the building while the guards staged a fire evacuation and armed themselves against an intruder. As Kiana hid and worried about Fu Hua, the guards spotted someone ascending in an empty elevator shaft and were ordered to kill them.

• Fu Hua disguised herself in a bodyguard's suit after binding and hiding him in a dumpster.
• The guards triggered a fire alarm and evacuated the guests while filling the hall with smoke.
• Kiana hid under a table and discovered an armory where the guards equipped themselves with armor and automatic rifles.
• The guards reported that an unresponsive passenger was coming up in the elevator.
• A hooded man ordered the guards to kill the passenger as the empty elevator shaft carried someone upward.

Welt sabotaged an elevator and ordered his subordinates to search for the Doctor before Schicksal could capture him. Zhao Bai found Fu Hua’s target, introduced himself awkwardly, and sat down with Crimson Cherry Blossom across his knees.

• Welt shot the elevator’s rollers, sending it crashing below.
• Welt told his subordinates to search the area and prevent Schicksal from capturing the Doctor.
• Zhao Bai put on a resin mask and slipped past two Venom Spider Mechs.
• Zhao Bai found Fu Hua’s target and introduced himself with an elaborate boast.
• Zhao Bai sat cross-legged on the bed with Crimson Cherry Blossom across his knees.

Zhao Bai warned the professor that Anti-Entropy planned to use the gem to trigger a massive Honkai eruption and create a Herrscher in a city. He left the professor to consider how much of his warning was true.

• Zhao Bai questioned the professor about Anti-Entropy's intentions for the stolen gem.
• The professor admitted that he had received no concrete intelligence about what would happen next.
• Zhao Bai told the professor that the gem would trigger a massive Honkai eruption and give birth to a Herrscher.
• The professor realized that the eruption would kill everyone in the city and struggled to process the warning.
• Zhao Bai ate his fries, then asked the professor how much of his account he believed.

Walter brought the professor to Anti-Entropy’s final destination, but the professor’s careless question about the next stop ruined Walter’s attempt to keep the plan mysterious. Walter dragged him away from the open window without explaining what would happen next.

• Walter warned the professor about the Venom Spider Mechs outside as the professor left to confirm something.
• Walter’s companion complained that Walter had smashed the elevator and explained that Anti-Entropy’s funds came from Einstein and Tesla’s concerts and Animation Inc.
• Walter doubted the funding explanation and saw the professor return looking grim.
• Walter threatened to jump from the window unless the professor revealed the next stop.
• The professor said there was no next stop and that this was Walter’s final destination, so Walter pulled him down from the windowsill.

Zhao Bai attacked Walter while disguising himself as the ninth disciple of the Shenzhou Guardian, leaving Walter bewildered. Fu Hua survived a fall down the elevator shaft, though her waist hurt.

• Zhao Bai sent a black-and-yellow sword through the door, cutting off Walter’s right hand.
• Zhao Bai introduced himself as the ninth disciple of the Shenzhou Guardian, then realized he had forgotten Cheng Lixue when naming the disciples.
• Walter questioned Zhao Bai’s Stars and Stripes mask and ancient Shenzhou manner of speaking.
• Fu Hua pressed the elevator buttons as the cables were shot apart and the elevator began to fall.
• Fu Hua timed a jump and roll to survive the fall, then rubbed her sore waist at the bottom of the shaft.

Fu Hua climbed out of the elevator shaft and reached the thirty-sixth floor, where she interrupted Zhao Bai’s confrontation by kicking the kneeling gunman. She realized the man had already been badly injured and had apparently given up all the information.

• Fu Hua climbed the slippery elevator cables toward the thirty-sixth floor.
• Fu Hua heard Zhao Bai speaking in an unusually arrogant, chuuni manner.
• Fu Hua kicked open the elevator doors and drove her foot into the gunman who had shot through the cables.
• The gunman rolled into the glass, and Fu Hua saw that one of his arms had already been severed.
• Walter said the information had been extracted and there was no need to keep the gunman alive.
• Fu Hua and Walter were left puzzled when the groaning gunman clutched his severed arm stump.

Zhao Bai and Fu Hua subdued Welt and the guards while Zhao Bai tried to reassure the professor that his feared disaster had not happened. They remained trapped in the building, and Zhao Bai proposed using the Venom Spider Mechs’ explosions to escape.

• Zhao Bai signaled Fu Hua, who knocked out Welt with a controlled chokehold while the Xuanyuan Sword kept the guards at bay.
• Zhao Bai pulled the professor to his feet and told him he could still make amends because the disaster he feared had not happened.
• Zhao Bai and Fu Hua moved into an adjoining bedroom with the professor, and the guards followed to avoid harming the hostages.
• Zhao Bai pointed out that the passageways were sealed and proposed detonating two Venom Spider Mechs to propel them toward a neighboring building.
• Fu Hua disapproved of the explosive escape plan but agreed to go along with it.

Kiana tried to escape the armed enemies with only her high heels, while Fu Hua and Zhao Bai rescued the professor during an explosion. The professor survived their dramatic escape, and Zhao Bai’s mask stayed on.

• Kiana realized the enemies’ actions were connected to her separation from Fu Hua and crept out from beneath the table.
• Kiana hid behind a marble pillar, took off her heels, and prepared to face the armed group.
• An explosion blasted through the building as the Xuanyuan Sword blocked the flying fragments.
• Fu Hua leaped through the glass into the opposite building while Zhao Bai dragged the professor and crashed through a lower-floor window.
• Zhao Bai checked that his mask remained on, and the professor complained about the reckless rescue.

Zhao Bai and Fu Hua left the storage room and discussed the mission, but Fu Hua realized his information only placed the gem somewhere in Singapore. As the Xuanyuan Sword circled nearby, the Professor remained tense about searching a city of millions.

• Zhao Bai arranged the storage room before taking the Professor to meet Fu Hua in the stairwell.
• Fu Hua criticized Zhao Bai for causing chaos, and he said he had smashed six computers during the mission.
• Zhao Bai told Fu Hua that the gem was hidden in Singapore, leaving her unsure how they could find it.
• Fu Hua called Zhao Bai her disciple, and he teased her about older-partner romance novels.
• The Professor watched Zhao Bai and Fu Hua talk casually while worrying about the search across Singapore.

Zhao Bai explained that he had spared the enemy so they would return to check for a supposed tracking device, allowing the group to follow them. Fu Hua and the others found Kiana unharmed after she had defeated a group of attackers, and Fu Hua took her out of the hotel.

• Zhao Bai told Fu Hua that he had claimed they had planted a tracking device, expecting the enemy to return and check.
• Zhao Bai said Bronya would provide remote technical support, and Fu Hua remembered that Kiana was still inside.
• Fu Hua and the others went downstairs and found the hotel entrance deserted behind its closed doors.
• Fu Hua broke through the glass and saw Kiana eating lobster noodles beside a heap of unconscious men, with bullet holes covering the walls.
• Fu Hua dragged Kiana out of the hotel, but Kiana hugged her before pushing her away in disgust.

Fu Hua and Zhao Bai encountered Kiana after climbing the elevator cables, and Kiana failed to recognize Zhao Bai beneath his mask. The group’s conversation ended with Kiana keeping her distance from the old professor, who said she reminded him of his granddaughter.

• Kiana noticed that Fu Hua’s hands were covered in engine oil, and Zhao Bai teased his master about washing them.
• Kiana did not recognize Zhao Bai, who introduced himself as Fu Hua’s disciple.
• The Xuanyuan Sword returned to sword form and circled Zhao Bai, catching Kiana’s interest.
• Fu Hua identified the old professor as the carrier of the mission’s target.
• The old professor told Kiana she reminded him of his granddaughter, but Kiana stayed wary of him.