Chapter Summaries

Qin Mo tortured Gu Qianxia in the Gu Family villa’s training room until she confessed to abusing him and begged him to stop, then ordered a lavish, spicy seafood dinner and gave Aunt Wang and Steward Zhao bonuses. He recruited Gu Qiannuo’s rival Su Wanqing with unreleased hit songs and persuaded her to help destroy Gu Qiannuo’s music career, leaving the two to pursue a mutually beneficial arrangement.

• Qin Mo beat Gu Qianxia without leaving marks, forced her to admit she had deliberately mistreated him, and demanded she kneel and kowtow before scheduling another sparring session for the next day.
• Qin Mo asked Aunt Wang to prepare spicy Sichuan food and fresh seafood, dismissed Steward Zhao’s concern about the family’s food restrictions, and increased both servants’ bonuses.
• Qin Mo met Su Wanqing, Gu Qiannuo’s rival, and sent her demos of hit songs that did not exist in this world.
• Qin Mo offered Su Wanqing songs in exchange for her suppressing Gu Qiannuo’s music career, and Su Wanqing eagerly agreed.
• Su Wanqing took Qin Mo’s arm and led him toward her home, offering to use their arrangement to secure the songs and advance her singing career.

Qin Mo returned to the Gu Family villa after subduing Su Wanqing and forced Gu Qianqiu to relive the punishment she had once helped inflict on him. The chapter ended with him whipping Gu Qianqiu in the courtyard while Yan Huili heard her screams from the basement.

• Qin Mo left Su Wanqing after making her promise to obey him and returned to the Gu Family villa for dinner.
• Gu Qianxia and Gu Qianqiu objected to the spicy seafood meal, but Qin Mo silenced them and confronted Gu Qianqiu about her past treatment of him.
• Qin Mo reminded Gu Qianqiu that she had suggested making him kneel outside overnight, and she went into the courtyard to kneel in his place.
• Gu Boda and Gu Qianjun returned and found Gu Qianqiu kneeling, while Qin Mo came outside holding the Gu Family disciplinary whip.
• Qin Mo whipped Gu Qianqiu and made her count the lashes as Yan Huili listened helplessly from the basement.

Qin Mo continued taking revenge on the Gu Family, forcing Gu Qianqiu to endure the punishment he had once suffered and ordering her to reveal his and Gu Boda’s identities. Half a month later, Gu Qiannuo confronted him over the songs he had given Su Wanqing, but Qin Mo rejected her apology and sent her away.

• Qin Mo whipped Gu Qianqiu, made her kneel outside until morning, and left Yan Huili locked in the basement without food or water.
• Qin Mo ordered Gu Qianqiu to announce that he was the Gu Family’s biological son and Gu Boda was the switched child, and to pursue Lin Yao’s legal liability.
• A thunderstorm drenched Gu Qianqiu as she knelt, while Yan Huili and Gu Boda shivered in the basement and Qin Mo slept comfortably.
• Over the next half month, Qin Mo continued tormenting the Gu Family, and Gu Qianqiu’s announcement exposed Gu Boda’s identity and left him withdrawn.
• Gu Qiannuo confronted Qin Mo for giving The Wind Rises and other songs to Su Wanqing instead of her, but he reminded her of how she had treated him and told her to leave.

Qin Mo used his new song and Gu Qiannuo’s musical ambitions to pressure her into tormenting their mother, Yan Huili. After he played Gu Qiannuo a call with her rival Su Wanqing, Gu Qiannuo chose to go to the basement, leaving Qin Mo smiling coldly.

• Gu Qiannuo knelt and begged Qin Mo to write her a song, but he struck and kicked her while reminding her how she and the Gu Family had treated him.
• Qin Mo sang part of his new opera-infused song, “Black Silk,” and Gu Qiannuo became desperate to obtain it.
• Qin Mo demanded that Gu Qiannuo take the Gu Family’s disciplinary whip and give Yan Huili twenty lashes; Gu Qiannuo recoiled at the thought of hurting her mother.
• Qin Mo explained that Gu Qiannuo’s betrayal would devastate Yan Huili and threatened to give his songs to Su Wanqing instead.
• Qin Mo called Su Wanqing, who praised his new musical style and offered herself in exchange for future songs.
• After Qin Mo warned that Su Wanqing would surpass her, Gu Qiannuo decided to go to the basement, and Qin Mo watched her leave with a faint smile.

Gu Qiannuo whipped Yan Huili at Qin Mo’s demand, believing he would reward her with songs, but Qin Mo revealed he had lied to her as revenge for her past cruelty. The chapter left Gu Qiannuo devastated and Yan Huili regretting that she had brought Qin Mo back into the Gu Family.

• Gu Qiannuo entered the basement carrying the Gu Family’s disciplinary whip and found Yan Huili chained and starving.
• Yan Huili hoped Gu Qiannuo had come to rescue her, but Gu Qiannuo admitted she had come willingly to earn Qin Mo’s songs and began whipping her.
• Gu Boda heard the beating next door, feared Qin Mo would eventually punish him, and secretly messaged someone to arrange a plan.
• Qin Mo arrived and ordered Gu Qiannuo to finish the agreed lashes, while denouncing Yan Huili for her past abuse of him.
• Gu Qiannuo resumed whipping Yan Huili, but Qin Mo then refused to give her songs and admitted he had deceived her to avenge the mango-juice incident from two years earlier.
• Gu Qiannuo collapsed in despair, and Yan Huili felt regret for bringing Qin Mo back into the Gu Family.

Qin Mo told Gu Boda that he had sent Lin Yao away, then beat down the gangsters Gu Boda had hired to kill him. The chapter left Qin Mo in control of the underground casino after defeating hundreds of men and taunting their boss.

• Qin Mo mocked Gu Boda for asking about Lin Yao, then lifted him by the throat and released him before he suffocated.
• Gu Boda hid the truth from Gu Qianyun about Qin Mo strangling him, while she vowed to make Qin Mo pay.
• Qin Mo met Su Wanqing, then left after she fell asleep and went to a roadside stall for a late-night meal.
• A gang of thugs took Qin Mo to an underground casino, where their boss revealed someone had paid for Qin Mo's life.
• Qin Mo defeated the gang's hundreds of fighters and sat with his foot on the boss's split-open head.

Qin Mo forced the gang boss to reveal that Gu Boda had paid him to kill Qin Mo, then ordered the boss to reclaim the money and punish Gu Boda. He later agreed to go fishing with Gu Qianyun, who secretly planned to poison him, but Qin Mo avoided the drink and approached her from behind with a boulder.

• Qin Mo made the gang boss confess that Gu Boda had offered fifty million to have him beaten and killed, then ordered the boss to recover the money and arrange an attack on Gu Boda.
• The gang boss agreed to donate twenty million, cover his men’s medical expenses, and have Gu Boda captured and injured.
• At breakfast, Gu Qianyun invited Qin Mo to spend time with her, and he suggested they go fishing in the suburbs.
• Gu Qianyun brought food and drinks she had tampered with, but Qin Mo pretended to feel ill and left before drinking the beverage she offered.
• Qin Mo returned from the woods, crushed the tissues Gu Qianyun had given him, picked up a boulder, and quietly approached her from behind.

Qing Mo revealed to Gu Qianyun that the real Qin Mo had died after years of abuse, then captured her in Sea of People Pavilion after beating her unconscious. Meanwhile, Gu Boda was abducted, and Qin Mo arrived at a luxurious bar with Jin Meiting.

• Qing Mo ambushed Gu Qianyun by the river and beat her until she realized the person wearing Qin Mo's face was not her brother.
• Qing Mo told Gu Qianyun that the real Qin Mo had died alone in the basement and used Sea of People Pavilion to show her Qin Mo's memories and suffering.
• Qing Mo returned Qin Mo's soul to Sea of People Pavilion, beat Gu Qianyun unconscious, and captured her there for Red Clad.
• Gu Boda blamed Qin Mo for his troubles as he walked home, but a group of men abducted him and took him to an underground casino.
• Qin Mo had dinner with Jin Meiting and arrived with her at M City's most luxurious bar, attracting attention from the crowd.

Qin Mo had Gu Boda kidnapped and brutally beaten by the mafia boss, who took all of Gu Boda’s money and ordered his limbs broken. After Jin Meiting killed a group of drunken men who harassed her, Gu Boda blamed Qin Mo for his injuries at the hospital, leaving the Gu sisters too afraid of Qin Mo to answer.

• The mafia boss’s men beat Gu Boda, forced him to transfer his savings, broke one arm and one leg, and dumped him beneath a bridge.
• Qin Mo and Jin Meiting relaxed at a bar until drunken men harassed Jin Meiting, so Qin Mo transported them to an abandoned factory.
• Jin Meiting killed the drunken men in the factory, and Qin Mo returned with her to the bar.
• The Gu sisters visited the hospitalized Gu Boda and asked who had hurt him.
• Gu Boda accused Qin Mo of beating him, and the Gu sisters fell silent in fear.

Gu Qianqiu and the other Gu sisters returned from Gu Boda’s hospital room and tried to persuade Qin Mo to visit him and apologize, but Qin Mo rejected their appeal and attacked them for siding with the fake heir. The chapter ended with Qin Mo smashing a glass against Gu Qianqiu’s head as he rose in anger.

• Gu Qianqiu and the other sisters reassured Gu Boda that he would always belong to the Gu Family, then fled when he tried to get them to confront Qin Mo.
• The sisters returned home and found Qin Mo eating noodles; when Gu Qianxia slammed the table, Qin Mo ordered the sisters to kneel, and Gu Qiannuo obeyed after he threatened to invoke the family rules.
• Gu Qianxia asked Qin Mo to visit Gu Boda and gently apologize, but Qin Mo mocked Boda’s injuries and rejected the idea that they were family.
• Qin Mo accused the sisters of abusing him while favoring Gu Boda, and Gu Qianqiu pleaded that Boda had been an innocent child.
• Qin Mo smashed a glass against Gu Qianqiu’s head and rose from his chair in fury.

Qin Mo punished the Gu sisters for trying to pressure him on Gu Boda’s behalf, then went to the hospital and forced his seafood-allergic brother to eat soup. Gu Boda began convulsing after only a few spoonfuls, and Butler Zhao continued feeding him as Qin Mo watched.

• Qin Mo struck Gu Qianqiu with a glass and threatened the sisters before agreeing to visit Gu Boda.
• Qin Mo ordered Nanny Wang to prepare seafood soup and Butler Zhao to move Gu Boda to a cheaper ward while hiring the best medical staff.
• Qin Mo slapped Gu Qiannuo, Gu Qianjun, and Gu Qianxia, then ordered leftover noodles sent to Yan Huili in the basement.
• Qin Mo and Butler Zhao went to the hospital, where Gu Boda woke and became frightened when he saw them.
• Qin Mo brought out seafood soup despite Gu Boda’s allergy and forced him to eat it until he convulsed.
• Qin Mo handed the thermos to Butler Zhao, who continued feeding Gu Boda the hot soup.

Qin Mo tormented Gu Boda during his hospital stay, gave Su Wanqing five new songs, then left to witness Kudo Shinichi’s transformation into Conan. Qing Mo recorded Gin striking Kudo Shinichi and giving him the A-drug before returning to Su Wanqing, while a rose born in darkness searched desperately for him.

• Qin Mo intensified Gu Boda’s seafood allergy and arranged for him to move to an ordinary ward, pay most of his hospital expenses, and eat seafood at every meal.
• Qin Mo tortured Yan Huili and later gave Su Wanqing five new songs for her upcoming concert.
• Qin Mo learned from the system that Kudo Shinichi and Mori Ran were at Tropical Land, put Su Wanqing to sleep, and traveled there as Qing Mo.
• Qing Mo watched and recorded Gin knock out Kudo Shinichi and administer the improved A-drug, turning him into Edogawa Conan as the River of Time fell into chaos.
• Qing Mo returned to Su Wanqing’s home, while a rose born in darkness searched for him.

Qin Mo forced Gu Qianjun to feed Gu Boda seafood soup before sending her into Sea of People Pavilion to reunite with the missing Gu Qianyun. The chapter ended with Red Clad dragging a terrified Gu Qianjun toward the pavilion’s hostile spirits.

• Gu Qianqiu was removed as Gu Group president after Qin Mo secretly pressured the shareholders, and the company’s troubles were blamed on her family’s scandal.
• Gu Qianjun suspected Qin Mo knew where Gu Qianyun was and begged him to let her see her missing sister.
• Qin Mo agreed to take Gu Qianjun to Gu Qianyun if she delivered seafood soup to Gu Boda, despite knowing he was allergic.
• Gu Qianjun fed Gu Boda the soup, triggering a severe allergic reaction, then returned to Qin Mo to claim his promise.
• Qin Mo opened Sea of People Pavilion and pulled Gu Qianjun inside, ordering Red Clad to take her to Gu Qianyun and take good care of them.
• Red Clad dragged Gu Qianjun through the pavilion as resentful spirits gathered around her.

Qing Mo revealed his true identity to Gu Boda and Yan Huili, showed Yan Huili proof of Gu Boda’s betrayal and Qin Mo’s death, then trapped them in a crystal coffin with man-eating scarabs and sent them to the Sea of People Pavilion. After giving the Gu shares to Su Wanqing, he flew to Sakura to enter the Detective Conan storyline.

• Qin Mo whipped Yan Huili in the Gu Family villa until Gu Boda returned from the hospital and found them.
• Qin Mo told Gu Boda that the rest of the Gu Family were dead, then revealed himself as Qing Mo after Qin Mo’s body turned to dust.
• Qing Mo told Yan Huili that she had tortured her biological son Qin Mo to death and showed her videos of Gu Boda framing him and her punishing him.
• Qing Mo sealed Yan Huili and Gu Boda inside a transparent crystal coffin with awakened man-eating sacred scarabs, then sent it to the Sea of People Pavilion.
• Qing Mo gave his Gu shares to Su Wanqing, enjoyed her intimate service, and boarded a plane for Sakura.

Qing Mo arrived in Beika City and fell asleep on a bus that Conan, Vermouth, and several others had boarded. When armed robbers hijacked the bus, Qing Mo used an unknown power to make them kill themselves, leaving Conan confronting him over the executions.

• Qing Mo arrived in Beika City and rode a bus with Little Tail, Da Bai, and Yinzi hidden in his clothes.
• Conan, Professor Agasa, Ai Haibara, the Detective Boys, Shuichi Akai, Jodie Starling, and Vermouth boarded the bus, with Vermouth disguised as Shinichi Araide.
• Two armed robbers hijacked the bus and demanded the passengers' phones while threatening to kill them unless the police freed their captured boss.
• Vermouth recognized Qing Mo after his phone rang and Little Tail emerged from his clothes.
• Qing Mo took a call from Jin Meiting while the robber stood beside him, then used an unknown power to make the robbers shoot each other and themselves.
• Conan confronted Qing Mo after the last robber died, demanding to know why he had acted that way.

Qing Mo exposed a bomb aboard a hijacked bus and helped ensure the passengers escaped safely, while Conan and Ai Haibara suspected he had secretly controlled the robbers. After giving a statement at the Metropolitan Police Department, Qing Mo was greeted by his lackeys and bodyguards.

• Qing Mo removed the female robber’s frozen watch, identified it as a bomb timer, and revealed that the ski bags contained a bomb.
• Conan alerted the driver and police, and Qing Mo calmed the passengers as the bus traveled to an evacuated area for bomb disposal.
• Qing Mo spoke with Conan and Vermouth, hinted that he had seen events like this before, and unnerved Conan by suggesting he had controlled the robber.
• Ai Haibara told Conan that Qing Mo seemed to control the situation, and Conan agreed that the robbers had likely been killed by him despite finding no evidence.
• Qing Mo gave a statement at the Metropolitan Police Department, where Tianbian Yuanye, Du Bian Yunye, and a group of bodyguards greeted him as their boss.

Qing Mo met Vermouth outside the Metropolitan Police Department, then moved into his luxurious Beika apartment and secretly murdered Sakai Gentaro, a former World War II brigade leader. After police discovered the gruesome scene, Qing Mo went to his corporation, where he learned of serious misconduct at a subsidiary and set out to deal with it.

• Qing Mo let Vermouth approach him, gave her his phone number, and invited her to dinner while confirming that her plan to kill Sherry had failed.
• Qing Mo moved into his top-floor apartment and decided to punish people who had escaped judgment for wartime crimes.
• Qing Mo abducted Sakai Gentaro from a sanatorium and killed him in a Beika park, leaving his body and organs arranged on trees.
• Inspector Megure called Kogoro Mouri and Conan to help investigate the gruesome murder.
• Du Bian Yunye told Qing Mo that a subsidiary vice president had embezzled nearly one billion and an employee had lost a major order; Qing Mo ordered a car to take him there.

Qing Mo confronted subsidiary vice president Gui Zang Xiangsan over embezzled funds and questioned employee Dong Jiren about a costly mistake. After agreeing to have Dong Jiren’s wife Yangli work as his secretary, Qing Mo offered Dong Jiren a dangerous assignment in the Black Continent, then challenged Yangli about her agreement with Gui Zang Xiangsan and tore it up.

• Qing Mo exposed Gui Zang Xiangsan’s embezzlement, and Du Bian Yunye’s bodyguards dragged the vice president away.
• Qing Mo pressured Dong Jiren over the losses caused by his mistake, then agreed to have Yangli work as his secretary instead of honoring Gui Zang Xiangsan’s promise.
• Qing Mo offered Dong Jiren a fivefold salary and a possible promotion if he took charge of the company’s operations in the war-torn Black Continent.
• Dong Yangli arrived at the subsidiary, and Qing Mo asked her to explain her agreement with Gui Zang Xiangsan.
• Dong Yangli presented the stamped agreement, but Qing Mo tore it up, leaving her panicked.

Qing Mo forced Dong Yangli to reveal the real terms of her agreement with Gui Zang Xiangsan, then arranged for her to work as his secretary while Dong Jiren took on a new assignment. After an all-nighter, Qing Mo returned to his penthouse and met two maids and their daughters, whose tragic circumstances suggested their arrival was no coincidence.

• Qing Mo threatened Dong Yangli with the group's legal department until she admitted Gui Zang Xiangsan had wanted her as a zero-distance secretary, then began assessing her fitness and appearance.
• Dong Jiren visited Qing Mo to check on Yangli and accepted a document assignment after Qing Mo encouraged him to take it to Vice President Du Bian Yunye.
• Qing Mo kept Yangli working overtime and instructed Tianbian Yuanye to hire household maids and prepare a box of cash.
• Qing Mo returned to his penthouse the next morning and met Chengjiang and Mizi, who had brought their daughters Kaoruko and Xunzi.
• Tianbian Yuanye explained that Chengjiang and Mizi were mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, had lost their family members in a fire, and needed work to handle their debts.

Qing Mo hired Chengjiang and Mizi as maids, arranged schooling and housing for their daughters, and gave them money for household expenses. Meanwhile, Akari learned that Dong Jiren was leaving for a two-to-three-year assignment in Africa, and she was left heartbroken as he boarded his flight.

• Qing Mo hired Chengjiang and Mizi, set strict household rules, and promised them generous pay and benefits.
• Qing Mo arranged better schools and a separate apartment for Kaoruko and Xunzi, then gave Chengjiang and Mizi several million yen for household needs.
• Chengjiang tried to visit Qing Mo while he slept but found his door locked, while a White Tiger, a squirrel, and a silver dragon slept inside his room.
• Akari woke in a hotel after working overtime and told Dong Jiren that she had spent the night there, then learned he planned to work in Africa for two or three years.
• Akari hung up on Dong Jiren, and Du Bian Yunye escorted him to his flight as he left for the assignment.