Chapter Summaries

After discovering she had been reborn as an eighteen-year-old witch, Jiang Han struggled to adjust to her unfamiliar body and a world where her family were witches. She left with her sister to buy a pet, while listening as her family debated which magical companion would suit her.

• Jiang Han inspected her witch body and room, then learned from Jiang Zhenling that she was supposed to buy a pet.
• Jiang Zhenling noticed Jiang Han seemed unwell and insisted on accompanying her outside.
• Jiang Han met her mother, Ye Keshu, downstairs and discovered that her father, Jiang Xuan, had become a woman in this world.
• Ye Keshu, Jiang Zhenling, and Jiang Xuan suggested different pets for Jiang Han, while she quietly learned about witch customs.

Jiang Han learned how witches shaped the world’s culture, economy, family life, and social hierarchy in 1994. As she heard about her neighbors, the witch version of her familiar life began to feel more real, though still strange.

• Jiang Han pieced together how witches had become dominant and how domestic witches combined admiration for Western culture with a fierce, confrontational spirit.
• Jiang Han learned that witches’ magical strength enabled the country to pursue massive construction and even build crude satellite platforms with Archwitches.
• Jiang Han’s family discussed witches’ egg-laying reproduction and the traits their daughters inherited from their two maternal clans.
• Jiang Zhenling explained that domestic society divided witches into ordinary witches and Archwitches, who held greater power, status, and privileges.
• Jiang Zhenling shared gossip about their mixed Chinese-American neighbors, and Jiang Han recognized the family from her memories of the original timeline.

Jiang Han learned to ride a broom and followed Jiang Zhenling through a prosperous city filled with witches and floating islands. They arrived at All-Things Trade Street, where they stored their brooms and began exploring its shops.

• Jiang Zhenling returned to Jiang Han’s room to fetch her broom, wand, and witch’s hat before they left.
• Jiang Han copied Jiang Zhenling’s broom-riding technique and quickly learned to fly.
• Jiang Han followed Jiang Zhenling over the city, taking in its Sky Gardens, floating islands, and witches traveling by broom.
• Jiang Han and Jiang Zhenling landed at All-Things Trade Street and registered their brooms with a witch who stored them for free.
• Jiang Han followed Jiang Zhenling past shops selling flying chairs and scrolls, along with recruitment posters and development notices.

Jiang Han learned more about magic from Jiang Zhenling and began considering how to increase her magical power and fund research. As they entered the pet-selling street, Jiang Zhenling warned her that pets consumed their owners’ magic, leaving Jiang Han to choose carefully.

• Jiang Han questioned Jiang Zhenling about magic and learned that wands helped witches control spells but were not necessary to cast them.
• Jiang Han dismissed popular theories about how witches increased their total magic power and decided to study magic and seek tools for research.
• Jiang Han realized she needed Jiang Zhenling’s money to buy research supplies, then accepted cotton candy from a vendor witch.
• Jiang Han and Jiang Zhenling arrived at the pet-selling street, where Jiang Zhenling explained that pets needed their owners’ magic to develop powers and warned against choosing one that would drain too much.
• Jiang Han nodded and said she understood Jiang Zhenling’s warning about keeping only small, manageable pets.

Jiang Han visited a pet shop with Jiang Zhenling, learned about its magical animals and mana measurements, and discovered that her mana capacity was extraordinarily high. The chapter ended with Jiang Zhenling questioning how Jiang Han could have nearly 18,400 millicoulombs of mana.

• Jiang Han followed Jiang Zhenling into a Soviet-run pet shop, where a clerk offered to help her find a pet.
• The clerk showed Jiang Han a fierce Caucasian Hunting Falcon and explained its abilities and magical limits.
• Jiang Han asked the clerk questions about magic and agreed to a mana examination after Jiang Zhenling approved.
• The clerk explained Soviet mana measurements and the classifications used in China while the analyzer tested Jiang Han.
• Jiang Zhenling and the clerk reacted with surprise when Jiang Han's mana capacity measured 18,400 millicoulombs, close to the Archwitch threshold.
• Jiang Zhenling wondered whether Mother Ye or Mother Jiang had cheated, and Jiang Han angrily rebuked her.

Jiang Han and Jiang Zhenling visited a smuggling plaza to buy a pet, where Jiang Han got drunk with Russian witch Natalia. After waking, Jiang Han followed a trail of her magical power downstairs and found Jiang Zhenling training a gigantic Ice Bear.

• Jiang Zhenling reassured Jiang Han that her unusually high magical power might have mutated, then proposed they buy a pet.
• A clerk warned that large pets suitable for an Archwitch were illegal, and Jiang Zhenling agreed to sign a secrecy contract.
• The clerk introduced herself as Natalia Sergeevna Ulyankinich, and Jiang Han drank with her while trying to choose a pet and learn more.
• Jiang Han woke up at home without a hangover and sensed that some of her magical power led downstairs.
• Jiang Han went into the garden and found Jiang Zhenling teaching a gigantic Ice Bear to follow commands.

Jiang Han discovered that her sister had bought an intelligent Ukrainian Ice Bear and enjoyed petting it before returning to her room to explore her old magical textbooks. She cast Mage Hand effortlessly, realizing her exceptional magical talent as she lifted books with the spell.

• Jiang Zhenling revealed that Jiang Han had bought the Ice Bear after singing Soviet songs and negotiating with Comrade Natalia, who had included rifles and ammunition in the deal.
• Jiang Han cautiously petted the Ice Bear and then relaxed with her sister on its soft belly while they watched the city at sunset.
• Jiang Han searched her wardrobe and found her old elementary school textbooks, which explained how spells and spell models worked.
• Jiang Han used her wand to cast Mage Hand without the gestures, words, or preparation described in the textbook.
• Jiang Han lifted books with her invisible magical hand and delighted in casting her first spell.

Ye Keshu and Jiang Zhenling helped Jiang Han turn the garden into a habitat for Ice Bear, then Jiang Xuan returned and learned that Jiang Han had bought the bear. The family reconciled after Jiang Xuan was comforted, while Jiang Han retreated to her room.

• Ye Keshu built Ice Bear an ice cave and replaced its toy rifle with jars of honey.
• Jiang Han used her magic to chill the cave and helped her family reshape the garden into a suitable habitat.
• Jiang Xuan returned, saw Ice Bear, and drew her wand before Jiang Zhenling explained what had happened.
• Jiang Xuan reacted sadly to Jiang Han's magical power, and Ye Keshu reassured her before comforting her at the edge of Sky Island.
• Jiang Han left the two women together and returned to her room.

Jiang Han learned about a vast, resource-rich Folded Space near South City while sharing a late-night family dinner. The chapter left her wondering whether South City would become the center of Folded Space development and the world’s largest gathering place for witches.

• Jiang Han ate a lavish dinner with Jiang Xuan, Ye Keshu, and Jiang Zhenling, who discussed Zhenling’s struggles in Necromancy and Prophecy School.
• Jiang Zhenling explained that Folded Spaces were alternate dimensions discovered in places such as the Yellow River.
• Jiang Xuan revealed that an ultra-large shattered Folded Space had appeared near South City and that its discovery could drive up local housing prices.
• Jiang Xuan showed the family a map and described extinct species, abundant resources, and the immense size of the Folded Space explored by Archwitch Chen Weihe.
• Jiang Han wondered whether South City would become a Folded Space development zone like the economic special zone from her previous life.

Jiang Xuan told Jiang Han she would start attending a magic tutoring class with Jiang Zhenling, where she could study higher-level spells and prepare for the family’s plans to explore Folded Space. Jiang Han agreed, and Jiang Xuan explained that the family was already close to qualifying to develop Folded Space.

• Ye Keshu and Jiang Xuan spent the following days flying out to handle business related to Folded Space while Jiang Han and Jiang Zhenling studied at home.
• On the sixteenth day after her rebirth, Jiang Xuan told Jiang Han she wanted to enroll her in a magic tutoring class so she could learn powerful spells and prepare for the family’s future.
• Jiang Xuan said Jiang Han would attend the same Elite Class as Jiang Zhenling, who would help her register and prepare her textbooks.
• Jiang Han worried that Jiang Zhenling might be bullied in the Elite Class, but Jiang Xuan explained that her sister was the attendant of a little witch in her class.
• Jiang Xuan described the family’s hopes of producing an Archwitch and said they were already close to qualifying to develop Folded Space.

Jiang Han and her younger sister Zhen Ling visited a witch training institution, where the staff offered them free personalized lessons because Jiang Han was expected to become an Archwitch. Their discussion was interrupted by a strikingly dressed witch who arrived to offer more professional guidance.

• Emily Joe introduced the training institution’s packages and its accomplished instructors to Jiang Han and Zhen Ling.
• Emily Joe offered Jiang Han and Zhen Ling free training contracts, explaining that the offer was tied to Jiang Han’s potential as a future Archwitch.
• Jiang Han and Zhen Ling reviewed the contracts and asked about the one-to-one lessons.
• Emily Joe explained that Archwitches needed tailored instruction, but an unfamiliar witch entered and interrupted her.

Jiang Han and Zhen Ling signed magically binding contracts with the South City Training Institute and met their assigned instructors. Cheng Yu discovered Jiang Han’s immense magical power and began assessing her studies before preparing lessons.

• Emily Joe introduced special-grade instructor Cheng Yu to Jiang Han and Zhen Ling, and both sisters signed flame-bound contracts with the institute.
• Zhen Ling explained that the contracts used Birch Flame Dragon blood and carried powerful legal protections.
• Emily Joe arranged a separate instructor for Zhen Ling, while Cheng Yu suggested that Jiang Han’s blood sisters might also have a chance of developing unusual magical power.
• Cheng Yu asked how far Jiang Han had studied and whether she knew the Fireball Spell, then decided to begin lessons promptly.

Cheng Yu explained the witch qualification exams and their benefits to Jiang Han, then began preparing her for the practical-focused A2 Exam. The lesson left Jiang Han facing a difficult certification path, with Cheng Yu warning her about the notorious A3 Exam.

• Cheng Yu led Jiang Han to a study room and explained the Witch Qualification Certification, A2, and A3 exams.
• Jiang Han checked her records and discovered she had scored 119 on the A1 Exam.
• Cheng Yu described the A2 Exam’s practical requirements and the qualifications and benefits it provided.
• Cheng Yu recounted the difficulty of the A3 Exam and told Jiang Han about Theresa’s breakdown and honorary certificate.
• Cheng Yu shifted the lesson to preparing Jiang Han for the A2 Exam, emphasizing practical performance over written scores.

Jiang Han watched tactical reviews and learned that witches faced monsters, beasts, otherworldly beings, and other witches. Cheng Yu gave her four combat spells to study and prepared to take her on practical commissions so she could gather potion ingredients and learn to use them.

• Jiang Han watched Cheng Yu's reviews of witches defeating stronger opponents and gained insight into their tactics.
• Cheng Yu arranged for Jiang Han to take on commissions that afternoon with another student while Cheng Yu supervised.
• Cheng Yu explained the threats witches faced and discussed the history of witch warfare with Jiang Han.
• Cheng Yu selected Flash Dust, Dimensional Leap, Dispel Magic, and Fear Spell for Jiang Han to learn, waiving the usual database fee.
• Cheng Yu gave Jiang Han the spell materials and announced that they would set off shortly to practice the spells and memorize their formulas.

Jiang Han and Cheng Yu met Li Li, the fox-eared witch assigned as Jiang Han’s new partner, and Cheng Yu explained the reassignment and their next task. After Cheng Yu revealed that she could transform into a dragon and flew off to collect commissions, Jiang Han and Li Li headed to Wine Immortal Ridge on their brooms.

• Jiang Han saw Li Li waiting in the tutoring center lobby, and Cheng Yu introduced them as instructor and new partners.
• Cheng Yu praised Li Li’s academic record and explained that she had been upgraded to free elite training, while Jiang Han introduced herself.
• Cheng Yu told Jiang Han and Li Li to wait for her at a café aboard an airship near Wine Immortal Ridge while she collected commissions.
• Cheng Yu transformed into a dragon and flew away, and Li Li explained that her transformation was a rare level-eight spell.
• Jiang Han retrieved her broom and flew with Li Li, resolving to learn a transformation spell so she could stop using it.

Jiang Han and Li Li traveled through Wine Immortal Ridge by Griffin Carriage to reach the airship where their tutoring class would meet. After admiring the scenery and waiting at the airship café, they were left awaiting their instructor.

• Jiang Han followed Li Li along the Flower Valley route and greeted a witch who saluted her as a comrade.
• Jiang Han and Li Li discussed Li Li's family's former Griffin Taxi and speculated that news of the Folded Space would raise South City's property prices.
• Jiang Han and Li Li hired a Griffin Carriage to travel to the airship at the Dream Garden South City Witch Training Institute.
• Jiang Han noticed the Communist Manifesto slogan written in spell-runes along Li Li's bodysuit and learned about Wine Immortal Ridge's liquor mist and Wine Stone.
• The driver delivered Jiang Han and Li Li to the airship, where they showed their tutoring-class credentials and waited for the instructor at a café.

Jiang Han and Li Li waited for Cheng Yu, but Cen Jing arrived to explain that Cheng Yu had gone to hunt dragons and would be their substitute mentor for three days. After Cen Jing treated them to a meal, Jiang Han and Li Li headed home by Griffin Taxi.

• Jiang Han waited with Li Li and asked her about black dragons and other dragon species.
• Li Li described the Tianyou Dragon and explained that Ice Bears had giant dragon blood and remarkable intelligence.
• Cen Jing arrived and told Jiang Han and Li Li that Cheng Yu had rushed to hunt dragons after a dragon rampage.
• Cen Jing offered to mentor them for three days and treated them to a big meal.
• Cen Jing called a Griffin Taxi for each of them, and Jiang Han and Li Li went home satisfied.

Jiang Han rode home with Li Li and learned that ordinary people of either sex could train to become witches, leaving her fixated on whether Instructor Cen Jing might once have been a man. Unable to sleep, she went to the garden and lay on Ice Bear.

• Jiang Han and Li Li discovered they lived in the same direction and shared a Griffin Carriage ride.
• Li Li explained that ordinary people could become witches through training, a potion, and guidance, regardless of whether they were men or women.
• Jiang Han wondered whether Instructor Cen Jing might have been a man and could not focus on studying Dispel Magic or fall asleep.
• As dawn came, Jiang Han went to the garden and lay on the sleeping Ice Bear.

Jiang Han joined Cen Jing and Li Li for a practical lesson on identifying intermediate-level materials, traveling to the market in Cen Jing’s unusual carriage. While riding, Jiang Han and Li Li discovered a suggestive book about grinding tofu among the carriage’s spell books.

• Jiang Han woke up, teased with her sister Jiang Zhenling, and went with her to the Dream Garden tutoring center.
• Jiang Han learned that rare spell books were too expensive for her and waited in the lobby until Li Li arrived.
• Cen Jing explained that the day’s lesson would be a field study at the materials market and offered to take Jiang Han and Li Li in her carriage.
• Jiang Han and Li Li climbed into Cen Jing’s birdcage-like carriage and declined its chain-shaped seat belts.
• Jiang Han and Li Li spotted a book about grinding tofu, pulled it from the carriage’s bookcase, and opened it together.

Jiang Han and Li Li visited the Witch Market with Cen Jing, where they learned about witchcraft materials, the cost of pursuing magical power, and hunting dragon species for profit. Jiang Han considered using her large mana pool to hunt dragons as a way to earn money.

• Jiang Han and Li Li read a tofu-making tutorial, and Li Li explained how witches used homemade tofu as food and a way to bond.
• Cen Jing led Jiang Han and Li Li into the Witch Market and explained how witches could fall into debt while pursuing spells and materials.
• Cen Jing showed the students minerals and gemstones, and Jiang Han paid close attention to affordable plant-based materials she might gather to earn money.
• Cen Jing said hunting small or medium dragon species could be profitable but explained that they were agile and resistant to spell tracking.
• Jiang Han considered dragon hunting because her Archwitch's mana pool let her cast Fireballs more freely than ordinary witches.