Chapter Summaries

Chen Xi retained her memories after Lin Yue’s Regression and tried to ensure Lin Yue would remember her as someone worth saving in the future. After staging a suspicious encounter at school, Chen Xi left, while Lin Yue realized something was wrong with her.

• Chen Xi asked whether Lin Yue could be rescued after her attendant said she had been underwater too long, and Lin Yue’s Regression reset the world.
• Chen Xi awoke in the classroom with her memories intact, decided not to flee or kill Lin Yue, and followed her through the school.
• Lin Yue suspected Chen Xi had kept her memories and feared an attack, but Chen Xi grabbed her by the throat before abruptly releasing her and fleeing.
• Chen Xi reflected that she had staged the encounter to make Lin Yue remember her and potentially save her in a future Regression.
• The Exhibition Hall displayed a new CG of Chen Xi holding Lin Yue by the throat and granted her the Berserk bonus.

Chen Xi learned that she had become a Flawless Succubus with an ability to collect CGs, and planned to use Lin Yue’s interest in her to survive. After turning Lin Yue away at the door, she discovered a mysterious white-haired woman holding her diary in her room.

• Chen Xi examined her Ability Panel, learned about her CG-collecting ability, and decided to stay close to Lin Yue.
• Chen Xi wrote a misleading diary intended for Lin Yue to discover after her death, then changed clothes and examined her succubus traits.
• Chen Xi transformed, saw her race description, and learned that choosing a target meant spending the rest of her life with them.
• Lin Yue came to discuss the Dance Activity, but Chen Xi refused to let her inside and shut the door.
• A white-haired woman appeared beside Chen Xi’s desk with the diary and teased her about its contents.

Wu Xin immobilized Chen Xi and revealed her desire to kill and wear her, then left for a week after ordering Chen Xi to kill Lin Yue. Meanwhile, Chen Xi contacted Lin Yue through a Transcendent forum account and sent her a warning about a Shadow Dweller appearing in Classroom 404 that night, but blocked her before she could respond.

• Wu Xin bound Chen Xi with threads, admitted she wanted to wear her, and told her to kill Lin Yue while she was away.
• After Wu Xin left, Chen Xi realized the threads inside her heart could not stop her from killing herself and began searching the original body's fragmented memories.
• Lin Yue reviewed what she knew about Chen Xi and learned that Transcendents could use a forum distributed through the Legend Skynet.
• Chen Xi logged into the forum, found Lin Yue's account, and sent her a friend request.
• Lin Yue accepted the request and received a warning that a Shadow Dweller would be born in Classroom 404 at 11:45 that night, but Chen Xi blocked her before she could reply.

Lin Yue controlled Shadow Dweller while Chen Xi confronted the Stitch Monster, and both were killed before Lin Yue regressed time. Back in class, Lin Yue realized she still controlled Shadow Dweller and watched Chen Xi, who had followed her out.

• Lin Yue went to Classroom 404 to control Shadow Dweller, and Chen Xi appeared, claiming she was there to help.
• Lin Yue mimicked Shadow Dweller’s movements while Chen Xi waited for the Stitch Monster to arrive.
• The Stitch Monster attacked Chen Xi, who fought back but was killed; Lin Yue completed the ritual before the monster twisted her neck.
• Lin Yue activated her time-regression ability and returned to the end of class on Friday, still able to sense Shadow Dweller under her control.
• Lin Yue left the classroom and saw that Chen Xi had caught up with her.

After retaining the Nameless Female Corpse CG through Regression, Chen Xi confronted Lin Yue, then revealed Wu Xin’s threat and her thread-manipulating ability. As Chen Xi discovered that she could not speak about Regression, Wu Xin appeared at the equipment room door, having apparently overheard them.

• Chen Xi confirmed that CGs survived Regression and decided to make herself Lin Yue’s emotional anchor.
• Lin Yue lured Chen Xi into the equipment room, but Chen Xi easily destroyed her Shadow Dweller tentacles and seized her by the throat.
• Lin Yue guessed that Chen Xi was being controlled by the Director, and Chen Xi agreed to cooperate after learning Lin Yue knew little about the situation.
• Chen Xi told Lin Yue that Wu Xin had ordered her to kill her, could control threads planted in Chen Xi’s heart, and used people as [Leather Suit].
• Chen Xi tried to test Lin Yue’s ability but froze when she sensed danger from revealing Regression, and her panel displayed the message [Silence: Some things need not be spoken aloud].
• Wu Xin appeared at the equipment room door and remarked that Chen Xi and Lin Yue had been having an enjoyable chat.

After Wu Xin demonstrated her strength and left, Chen Xi and Lin Yue survived the encounter and went out together in the rain to discuss their abilities. The chapter ended with Chen Xi revealing that she was a Succubus rather than a human.

• Wu Xin shredded Lin Yue's shadowy tentacles and Chen Xi's iron rod, then left after saying she had come to check on her crops.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue left the academy district together, and Lin Yue invited Chen Xi to get food and discuss their abilities.
• Caught in the rain, Chen Xi and Lin Yue shared an umbrella and went to a noodle shop, where Lin Yue offered to pay.
• Chen Xi asked about Lin Yue's abilities, and Lin Yue explained that she had tamed the Shadow Dweller and gained shadowy tentacles and Shadow Form.
• When Lin Yue asked how Chen Xi had tamed the Succubus, Chen Xi revealed that she was a Succubus and not human.

Lin Yue and Chen Xi were trapped in a deadly Inner Domain and decided to hunt down the Legend controlling it. Outside, Countermeasure Bureau agents Qiu Ye and Chen Shuo prepared to attack the Beef Noodle Shop.

• Chen Xi explained that she was a Flawless Succubus Aberrant with Berserk, and Lin Yue reviewed her Regression abilities and Erosion restriction.
• A supernatural hailstorm revealed that a Legend had opened an Inner Domain around the Beef Noodle Shop, trapping everyone inside.
• Qiu Ye and Chen Shuo confirmed that their Countermeasure Bureau team was gathered to handle the Domain, with unranked newcomers waiting outside.
• As the hail began cracking the shop's windows, Lin Yue realized they needed to kill the Legend or wait for help, and she and Chen Xi chose to take the initiative.
• Lin Yue and Chen Xi ran out into the torrential rain to find the Legend.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue helped Luo Li and her teammates defeat Rain Lord, then Chen Xi consumed its eyes to gain the method for controlling it. After the group returned to the real world, Luo Li brought them to the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau for Legend registration.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue followed the torrential rain to a plaza, where Qiu Ye, Chen Shuo, Luo Li, and two injured Transcendents were fighting Rain Lord.
• Chen Shuo told Chen Xi and Lin Yue that Rain Lord could be defeated by destroying its eyes, while Qiu Ye pinned the beast down with psychic force.
• Lin Yue launched Chen Xi toward Rain Lord, and Chen Shuo attacked from its back, drawing the beast's water blasts away from Chen Xi.
• Chen Xi punched through Rain Lord's eyes, killing it, then swallowed them to learn how to control it.
• The rain domain vanished, and Luo Li offered Chen Xi and Lin Yue compensation for Rain Lord's corpse and payment to register their Legends.
• Luo Li brought Chen Xi and Lin Yue to the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau.

After visiting the Countermeasure Bureau, Chen Xi rejected its offer to join and learned that Wu Xin had threatened her for seeking help. Chen Xi invited Lin Yue to stay with her, then urged her to go back and tell others about Wu Xin, leaving Lin Yue to decide whether to trust her.

• Luo Li processed Chen Xi and Lin Yue's registration and offered them a place in the Countermeasure Bureau, but Qiu Ye warned them about the high casualty rate and suggested they return to school.
• Wu Xin spoke to Chen Xi through a mental transmission, threatening to punish her if a third person learned the truth and explaining that trigger words activated her restraints.
• Chen Xi declined to join the Bureau, and Luo Li exchanged forum contacts with her and Lin Yue.
• Qiu Ye explained that a Legend's Cognitive Filter blurred ordinary people's memories of supernatural events unless they had encountered a Legend face-to-face.
• Lin Yue admitted she was afraid to be alone and asked to stay at Chen Xi's home, which Chen Xi agreed to.
• At the bus stop, Chen Xi told Lin Yue that she could reveal Wu Xin's restrictions to others and urged her to go back.

Lin Yue chose to stay with Chen Xi and help her kill Wu Xin, and the two returned to Chen Xi’s apartment to prepare for the coming danger. While Chen Xi reviewed their strength and information about Transcendents, the pair grew more comfortable with each other.

• Lin Yue decided she had to save Chen Xi and boarded the bus with her instead of going back.
• Chen Xi brought Lin Yue to her apartment and said they would return to peaceful lives after killing Wu Xin.
• Chen Xi explained that Wu Xin seemed unable to attack them unless certain conditions were met, then assessed their ranks and considered using the Countermeasure Bureau’s resources.
• Lin Yue came out of the bathroom in a towel, changed into casual clothes, and joked with Chen Xi about being someone necessary to her.

After controlling the Rain Lord sooner than expected, Chen Xi tried to get some sleep while Lin Yue struggled with her fear of Wu Xin. Lin Yue asked to share Chen Xi’s bed, and the two fell asleep together.

• Chen Xi soaked in the bathtub and sensed that she could control the Rain Lord after one day instead of three.
• Chen Xi told Lin Yue to sleep on the sofa, but Lin Yue later came to the bedroom with a pillow because she was uncomfortable there.
• Chen Xi offered to trade places and sleep on the sofa, but Lin Yue admitted she was afraid Wu Xin would attack her.
• Chen Xi invited Lin Yue to sleep beside her, and Lin Yue wrapped her arms around Chen Xi’s neck after they got into bed.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue investigated Wu Xin and prepared to resist her while Chen Xi finished harnessing Rain Lord. After discovering a likely Shadow Dweller sighting at the school that night, they tested Rain Lord’s healing ability and set out for the school.

• Lin Yue woke from a nightmare beside Chen Xi, and the two discussed Wu Xin’s hidden identity and the lack of ways to defeat her.
• Chen Xi identified Wu Xin’s current appearance as Snow Woman, Zhang Ruojun, whose last appearance had been two weeks earlier.
• Lin Yue said the Shadow Dweller might appear at the school at midnight, and Chen Xi agreed they would go after she finished harnessing Rain Lord.
• Chen Xi harnessed Rain Lord’s water abilities and used Pure Water Body to heal a wound Lin Yue inflicted, measuring the magic power it consumed.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue headed toward the school.

Lin Yue and Chen Xi waited for a Shadow Dweller in the teaching building, but Wu Xin ambushed them before they could leave. As Chen Xi’s Rain Calamity began destroying Wu Xin’s threads, the fight escalated into a torrential downpour.

• Lin Yue and Chen Xi entered a classroom at 11:45 to look for a Shadow Dweller, but nothing appeared.
• Wu Xin confronted them in the corridor and shredded Chen Xi’s heart with her threads, though Chen Xi repaired the damage with water.
• Lin Yue and Chen Xi attacked Wu Xin together, but her thread shield blocked their strikes and she countered with threads and ice spikes.
• Lin Yue cleared a path with Chen Xi’s water jets and swung them across to the opposite building, while Chen Xi said she could hold on for fifty seconds.
• Chen Xi unleashed Rain Calamity across the teaching buildings, and the rain devoured Wu Xin’s threads and pierced her fingers.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue defeated Wu Xin, but Wu Xin’s headless body revived and attacked them. As Chen Xi lay dying, she told Lin Yue to live.

• Wu Xin attacked Chen Xi and Lin Yue with threads, but Chen Xi and Lin Yue worked together to launch Chen Xi over the web and strike Wu Xin down.
• Chen Xi battered Wu Xin and severed her head, and Lin Yue celebrated their apparent victory.
• Wu Xin’s severed head blinked, and her body revived under the control of invisible threads before stabbing Chen Xi with a Thread Dagger.
• Wu Xin restrained Lin Yue and taunted the wounded Chen Xi, who struggled to stay conscious.
• Chen Xi looked at Lin Yue and softly told her to live.

After Chen Xi died alongside Lin Yue in a previous loop, she woke in class with an Epic Undying blessing and followed Lin Yue to the equipment room. Lin Yue claimed she could foresee the future and warned Chen Xi that she would die in three days.

• Wu Xin admitted she could activate the threads in Chen Xi and Lin Yue's hearts, then threatened to wear Chen Xi's skin.
• Lin Yue killed herself to keep Wu Xin from taking Chen Xi's body, and Chen Xi woke in class in a new loop.
• Chen Xi discovered she had gained the Epic Undying blessing and followed Lin Yue after class.
• Lin Yue lured Chen Xi into the equipment room, locked the door, and claimed her Legend ability let her foresee the future.
• Lin Yue told Chen Xi that she would die in the most tragic way in three days.

Lin Yue revealed to Chen Xi that Wu Xin would kill her after she reached First Rank, and the two agreed to form an alliance. After Wu Xin interrupted them and left, Lin Yue and Chen Xi sheltered together under an umbrella and discussed what to do next.

• Lin Yue warned Chen Xi that Wu Xin would kill her and take her place, but Chen Xi refused to follow Lin Yue’s instructions and offered only an alliance.
• Chen Xi deduced that Wu Xin had planted threads in Lin Yue too, and Lin Yue confirmed that her prophecies came as visions of the future.
• Wu Xin appeared in the equipment room, and Lin Yue told Chen Xi that Wu Xin would wait until she reached First Rank and would have to fight her in a stage-play-like setting.
• Wu Xin left the equipment room, and Lin Yue and Chen Xi went outside as rain began to fall.
• Lin Yue squeezed under Chen Xi’s umbrella, linked arms with her, and used shadowy tentacles to keep their shoes dry.
• Chen Xi asked Lin Yue what they should do next.

Lin Yue and Chen Xi prepared to ambush the Rain Lord and take its eyes, but the Rain Lord appeared outside their hot pot restaurant before the Countermeasure Bureau could engage it. As the restaurant hid in fear, someone opened the door, leaving the next move uncertain.

• Lin Yue explained that she and Chen Xi would wait for the Countermeasure Bureau to weaken the Rain Lord, then kill it and take its eyes before leaving.
• Lin Yue and Chen Xi were pulled into the Rain Lord’s domain while waiting at the hot pot restaurant.
• The Rain Lord appeared outside the restaurant and slaughtered people in the street as the diners panicked.
• Chen Xi asked why Lin Yue would not intervene, and Lin Yue said the timing was wrong and asked whether Chen Xi would hate her.
• The Rain Lord headed toward the square while Chen Xi estimated the Countermeasure Bureau would arrive in ten minutes, but the restaurant door opened before they could act.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue saw Zhu Li confront Rain Lord and joined the fight, with Lin Yue giving Chen Xi shadow armor. Rain Lord unleashed a flood across the street, and as Zhu Li shielded the survivors, Chen Xi spotted Countermeasure Bureau agents preparing for the real battle.

• A red-haired girl later identified as Zhu Li blocked Rain Lord, using flames to counter its powerful water attacks.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue left the hot pot restaurant to help Zhu Li, and Lin Yue formed shadow armor around Chen Xi.
• Chen Xi charged into close combat while Zhu Li attacked Rain Lord from the other side.
• Rain Lord unleashed a massive flood, and Chen Xi escaped its path by swinging from a streetlight with her shadow.
• Zhu Li stayed to protect the survivors, raising a wall of fire to hold back the flood.
• Chen Xi spotted Countermeasure Bureau agents among the survivors and met Qiu Ye's gaze as the real battle began.

Chen Xi joined Qiu Ye, Zhu Li, and the others to defeat the Second Rank Rain Lord and end its domain. The team saved the survivors, but Chen Xi took the Rain Lord’s eyes before the Countermeasure Bureau could claim them, and Zhu Li did not reveal who the armored fighter was.

• He Guowei guided survivors toward safety while Qiu Ye, Lu Shaoqi, Zhu Li, and Luo Li defended them from the Rain Lord’s water cannon.
• Chen Xi launched herself from above and struck the Rain Lord as Chen Shuo distracted it, forcing it to the ground.
• Qiu Ye restrained the Rain Lord, Lin Yue bound its limbs with shadow tendrils, and Zhu Li and Luo Li destroyed it with a giant fireball.
• The Rain Lord’s death ended its domain, and the survivors returned to the real world as emergency crews arrived.
• Chen Shuo found that the Rain Lord’s eyes had been taken, and Qiu Ye realized the armored Transcendent had stolen them.
• Zhu Li declined to identify the armored fighter, and Qiu Ye invited the group to celebrate.

After defeating Rain Lord, Chen Xi kept Rain Lord's Pupil and took Lin Yue to a hotpot restaurant for their promised victory banquet. They encountered a Countermeasure Bureau team there, whose members grew suspicious of Chen Xi after sensing her bloodlust.

• Chen Xi teased Lin Yue by pretending she might eat Rain Lord's Pupil, then agreed to keep it for the coming super typhoon.
• Chen Xi explained that Rain Lord's Domain had killed many people and that the Countermeasure Bureau was helping survivors forget about Legends.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue chose Summer Blaze Hotpot Restaurant, where Qiu Ye and her Countermeasure Bureau team were also dining.
• Chen Xi withdrew her Succubus Aura after it attracted attention, and she and Lin Yue sat beside the Bureau team.
• Chen Shuo told the others that Kas sensed bloodlust from Chen Xi, and Lu Shaoqi concluded she had killed at least ten people.