Ch. 1624IF Line: What If Shen Tang Had Never Existed (Part One)
After Shen Tang recovered from the Supreme Ascension ceremony, she reassured her companions that she remembered them and confirmed that the life she had experienced in Quan E was real. The celebration for Shao Mei's ascension ended with the guests drinking wine made from Gongxi Chou's Gu, leaving everyone asleep and destined for nightmares.
- Shen Tang told the others to stop making Liao Jia pay for their nerves and asked Luan Xin to copy Shao Mei's Supreme, while Lin Feng brought Lin Su to her.
- Shen Tang reassured everyone that she had not forgotten them and told Wei Lou that Quan E's world and its people had truly existed among countless worlds.
- Shen Tang invited everyone to celebrate Shao Mei's ascension and Luan Xin's progress, while she considered Lin Su's failed ceremony another chance to copy the Way of the Scholar.
- The officials and generals drank and bickered at the victory banquet, while Liao Jia paid the enormous bill.
- Gongxi Chou revealed that he had made the wine Gu from Jimò Qiu's notes, and Jimò Qiu went to prepare an antidote after learning it would give everyone nightmares.