Recaps

Yan Beiyou asked Ye Nanxun to officially become his boyfriend, and Ye Nanxun accepted, admitting that he liked him and wanted to be close to him. The next morning, Yan Beiyou explained that he had taken a cold shower because Ye Nanxun had dreamed all night.

• Yan Beiyou told Ye Nanxun that the kiss had been his first and asked him to become his boyfriend.
• Ye Nanxun accepted Yan Beiyou's confession, said he liked him too, and asked to hold him while they slept.
• Yan Beiyou warned Ye Nanxun not to stoke the fire, then teased him about what might happen if he had not recovered.
• Ye Nanxun dreamed all night that he was crying, though he kept the dreams to himself.
• The next morning, Ye Nanxun woke to find Yan Beiyou had taken a cold shower because Ye Nanxun had dreamed all night.

Song Ren woke after a short sleep in his office and found Mo Ning bringing him breakfast and openly courting him. When Mo Ning asked about Ji Yunqi, Song Ren admitted he had once liked him, leaving Mo Ning jealous but apologetic.

• Song Ren slept in his office and woke as flowers and vines from his partial beast form filled the lounge.
• Mo Ning brought Song Ren breakfast, looked around his study, and began organizing his bookshelves.
• Song Ren asked whether Mo Ning had ever courted anyone before, and Mo Ning said Song Ren was the only person he had ever liked.
• Mo Ning asked whether Song Ren had dated Ji Yunqi, and Song Ren admitted he had liked him but never dated anyone.
• Mo Ning offered to investigate the attack on Professor Jiang Ying in exchange for an answer, then admitted he felt jealous of Ji Yunqi.

Ye Nanxun learned that his Poison Mushroom abilities could create and control dreams, and Yan Beiyou showed him records of a previous Poison Mushroom bearer. The chapter ended with Ye Nanxun holding the notebook and considering the powerful abilities his predecessor had developed.

• Yan Beiyou explained that Ye Nanxun could pull people into dreams he constructed, and that his own greater spiritual power had let him wake from Ye Nanxun’s dream.
• Ye Nanxun became embarrassed and said he wanted to go home, but Yan Beiyou calmed him and asked him to come to the study.
• Yan Beiyou gave Ye Nanxun an old notebook about a former SSS-grade Morning Star alpha whose pheromones and initial Companion Beast were Poison Mushroom and mushroom mycelium.
• Yan Beiyou told Ye Nanxun that the previous Poison Mushroom survived its host’s death, spread through a remote planet’s forest, and was eventually destroyed with Phoenix Fire.
• Yan Beiyou explained that the previous bearer’s abilities included hallucinations, dream control, and vivid memories of past lives, and Ye Nanxun felt moved by the care behind the notebook.

After Yan Beiyou’s rut, he and Ye Nanxun grew openly affectionate and discussed marriage and preparing a home together. Ye Nanxun planned to meet Song Ren at the Imperial Palace to arrange examinations for Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng, while continuing his effort to gather students to report Jiang Ying and ultimately target He Yiming; Yan Beiyou asked when Ye Nanxun would take him to meet his parents.

• Yan Beiyou suggested changing his home to suit Ye Nanxun and said they would prepare a new home when they married.
• Ye Nanxun and Yan Beiyou shared their new closeness as they discussed Ye Nanxun’s meeting with Song Ren about Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng’s pheromone examinations.
• Ye Nanxun revealed that he was gathering evidence against Jiang Ying and needed more harmed students, including Gu Pingsheng, to join Cao Xi in publicly reporting him.
• Yan Beiyou offered to help Ye Nanxun and agreed they could go to the Imperial Palace together the next day.
• Yan Beiyou asked when Ye Nanxun would take him to meet his parents, and Ye Nanxun said he would warn them first.

Yan Beiyou and Ye Nanxun parted ways for work, while Ye Nanxun took Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng to the Imperial Palace to see Song Ren about their pheromone problems. Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng eagerly anticipated visiting the palace and expressed their admiration for His Majesty.

• Yan Beiyou left early with Little Black Mushroom and Little White Dragon, while Ye Nanxun set out separately to pick up Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng.
• Ye Nanxun gave Cao Xi breakfast during the drive and explained that their appointment was at the Imperial Palace, not a hospital.
• Ye Nanxun picked up Gu Pingsheng at the manor, where he explained that a skilled pheromone specialist at the Imperial Palace would help them.
• Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng reacted with excitement at the chance to enter the Imperial Palace and said they admired His Majesty.

Ye Nanxun learned how Yan Beiyou rose to power amid war and internal betrayal, then spoke with Yan as he traveled to the Imperial Palace. Yan played with the Black Mushroom and Little White Dragon and openly called Ye his boyfriend.

• Gu Pingsheng told Ye Nanxun and Cao Xi that traitorous families had helped cause the previous Star Sovereign's death during the alien war.
• Gu Pingsheng explained that Yan Beiyou crushed those families after emerging during the ensuing internal conflict.
• Yan Beiyou messaged Ye Nanxun and watched the Black Mushroom and Little White Dragon share a butter cookie.
• Yan Beiyou spoke with Ye Nanxun, who said he was nearly at the Imperial Palace and asked whether the little creatures were all right.
• When someone nearby reminded Ye that he was on the phone, Ye said it did not matter because Yan was his boyfriend.

Ye Nanxun accompanied Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng to the Imperial Palace for physical examinations while staying in contact with Yan Beiyou. After the examinations, Song Ren invited them to lunch, and a young alpha arrived to say that His Majesty had arranged it.

• Ye Nanxun told Cao Xi that he had just started dating Yan Beiyou, then arrived at the Imperial Palace with Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng.
• Song Ren welcomed the three and guided Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng through their physical examinations, while Ye Nanxun stayed with them whenever he could.
• Ye Nanxun told Yan Beiyou he was thinking about how to explain Little Black Mushroom and Little White Stripe to his parents, and Yan Beiyou suggested calling them their children.
• Yan Beiyou asked when Ye Nanxun planned to take responsibility for him, and Ye Nanxun promised to tell his parents about him that week.
• Song Ren invited Ye Nanxun, Cao Xi, and Gu Pingsheng to stay for lunch, and a young alpha announced that His Majesty had arranged their meal.

Xu Wenyan tried to use a staged dog attack to attract Ji Yunqi, but Ji Yunqi’s protective barrier knocked him unconscious. Ji Yunqi went to find Song Ren, only to have Secretary Mo block his view of him.

• Xu Wenyan prepared to seduce Ji Yunqi and waited in a garden along Ji Yunqi’s route.
• Xu Wenyan threw a stone at Little Yellow Dog, then pretended the dog was attacking him when Ji Yunqi approached.
• Ji Yunqi went to find Song Ren after several days without hearing from him and called out to him outside the office building.
• Xu Wenyan ran toward Ji Yunqi, but his protective barrier knocked Xu Wenyan unconscious.
• Ji Yunqi stepped over Xu Wenyan and approached Song Ren, while Secretary Mo moved between them and Ye Nanxun came over.

Ye Nanxun and Song Ren left after Xu Wenyan was found unconscious near Ji Yunqi, and Ji Yunqi and Mo Ning argued over whether the omega had come for the general. At lunch, Yan Beiyou arrived in disguise and sat beside Ye Nanxun, giving him a chance to eat in peace.

• Ji Yunqi denied knowing Xu Wenyan, but the Little Yellow Dog ran over to Ye Nanxun, and Song Ren stopped Ji Yunqi from revealing the dog's connection to His Majesty.
• Mo Ning accused Ji Yunqi of attracting omegas to the Imperial Palace, while Gu Pingsheng warned Ye Nanxun that Xu Wenyan had ties to Jiang Ying and had harmed omegas.
• Song Ren left Xu Wenyan for the guards to handle and went to lunch with Ye Nanxun, Gu Pingsheng, and Cao Xi; Ji Yunqi and Mo Ning later joined them.
• Ji Yunqi took the empty seat beside Song Ren, but Mo Ning asked for another place setting, prompting Ji Yunqi to complain that he was being treated as extra.
• Yan Beiyou arrived in disguise, guided Ji Yunqi back into his seat, and sat beside Ye Nanxun, who welcomed the chance to eat quietly.

Yan Beiyou and Ye Nanxun openly introduced their relationship to Ye Nanxun’s students, while Ji Yunqi privately reflected on his feelings for Song Ren. After lunch, Yan Beiyou and Ye Nanxun shared a quiet moment in the garden before Ye Nanxun said he needed to return home and tell his parents about them.

• Yan Beiyou asked Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng if they were Ye Nanxun’s students, and Ye Nanxun introduced him as his boyfriend and told them to call him Brother Yan.
• Ji Yunqi teased Yan Beiyou about Ye Nanxun defending him, then thought about Song Ren’s former affection for him and felt hollow.
• Yan Beiyou sent the others away while Ye Nanxun stayed to speak with Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng, then led Ye Nanxun to a nearby garden.
• Yan Beiyou and Ye Nanxun embraced beneath the trees, and Ye Nanxun complained that his lips would swell again.
• Yan Beiyou offered to take Ye Nanxun to buy groceries before work, but Ye Nanxun said he needed to go home and tell his parents about their relationship.

Ye Nanxun visited the unconscious Xu Wenyan and used a Mushroom Spore to influence his dreams before taking Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng to see Yan Beiyou’s statue. The chapter ended with Gu Pingsheng deciding to report Jiang Ying.

• Ye Nanxun asked Mo Ning to take him to see the guarded Xu Wenyan and secretly sent a Mushroom Spore into his ear to affect his dreams.
• Ye Nanxun accompanied Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng to the Imperial Palace’s central square to see Yan Beiyou’s statue.
• Cao Xi urged Gu Pingsheng to join him in reporting Jiang Ying, promising that Professor Ye would support and protect them.
• Gu Pingsheng caught up with Ye Nanxun and told him, “Teacher, I want to report Jiang Ying.”

Ye Nanxun returned to his parents’ home, where Chen Mingzhu discovered he had not used the supplies she packed and questioned him about his relationship with Yan Beiyou. Ye Nanxun revealed that Yan Beiyou was the Star Lord and his boyfriend, leaving Chen Mingzhu stunned and wondering whether the Star Lord had a hidden ailment.

• Ye Nanxun arrived home after arranging accommodations for Cao Xi and Gu Pingsheng, and his parents welcomed him with a feast.
• Chen Mingzhu checked Ye Nanxun’s backpack and found that he had not used any of the three boxes she had packed for him.
• Ye Nanxun told Chen Mingzhu that he and Yan Beiyou had only recently confirmed their relationship and had not been intimate.
• Chen Mingzhu learned Yan Beiyou was the Star Lord and Ye Nanxun’s boyfriend, then wondered if the Star Lord had a hidden ailment.

Ye Nanxun told his parents that his boyfriend, Yan Beiyou, was the Star Lord, leaving them stunned. Unable to sleep at home without him, Ye Nanxun sensed Yan Beiyou outside, and Yan climbed onto his balcony.

• Ye Nanxun told Chen Mingzhu and Ye Xiangsong that he loved Yan Beiyou and hoped to date with marriage in mind.
• Chen Mingzhu accepted the relationship but needed time to process Yan Beiyou's identity as the Star Lord.
• Ye Nanxun returned to his childhood bedroom after dinner but could not sleep without Yan Beiyou and the others he had grown used to.
• Ye Nanxun realized that he saw Yan Beiyou differently from how his parents and Gu Pingsheng and Cao Xi saw him.
• At eleven, Ye Nanxun smelled Yan Beiyou's roses and watched as Yan Beiyou leaped onto his balcony.

Yan Beiyou climbed into Ye Nanxun’s bedroom to see him, bringing Little White Stripe and Little Black Mushroom, who soon fell asleep in their nest. The two men shared a tender moment in bed until Ye Nanxun’s father knocked and asked who he was talking to.

• Yan Beiyou climbed onto Ye Nanxun’s balcony and kissed him, saying Little White Stripe and Little Black Mushroom had missed him.
• Ye Nanxun settled the sleepy little ones into their basket nest while Yan Beiyou washed up and changed into pajamas.
• Yan Beiyou cuddled Ye Nanxun and admitted that he had wanted to see him and needed to recharge.
• Ye Nanxun teased Yan Beiyou about being a puppy, and Yan Beiyou asked whether he wanted to pet a dog.
• Ye Nanxun pushed Yan Beiyou back onto the bed as his father knocked and asked who he was talking to.

Ye Nanxun’s parents questioned him about his relationship with Yan Beiyou while Yan Beiyou hid outside the room. Ye Nanxun reassured his mother that Yan Beiyou respected him, and the chapter ended with her hearing how they had grown close.

• Yan Beiyou escaped through Ye Nanxun’s balcony when Ye Xiangsong and Chen Mingzhu came to the door, leaving his slippers behind.
• Ye Nanxun hid Yan Beiyou’s slippers and told his parents that he had been speaking with His Majesty.
• Ye Xiangsong asked whether Yan Beiyou knew about Ye Nanxun’s Poison Mushroom pheromones, and Ye Nanxun confirmed that he did.
• After Ye Xiangsong left, Chen Mingzhu worried that Yan Beiyou might be unable to perform and asked why he had not touched Ye Nanxun.
• Ye Nanxun explained how he and Yan Beiyou had met and grown close, saying Yan Beiyou had not touched him because he respected him.

Ye Nanxun fell asleep in Yan Beiyou’s arms after telling his parents about their relationship. As Yan Beiyou watched over him, he remembered the losses that had shaped his life and realized he wanted love, family, and Ye Nanxun as much as he wanted power and status.

• Ye Nanxun told his mother how he and Yan Beiyou had met and started dating, easing her worries.
• Ye Nanxun returned to his room, where Yan Beiyou joined him in bed, and quickly fell asleep holding him.
• Yan Beiyou watched Ye Nanxun sleep and admired the warm, welcoming room he had grown up in.
• Yan Beiyou recalled losing his parents, adoptive family, and teacher, and how he had become emperor of the galaxy despite those losses.
• Yan Beiyou remembered Ye Nanxun sharing a meal with him in his apartment and decided he wanted love, family, and Ye Nanxun too.

Xu Wenyan suffered vivid hallucinations after an unknown toxin affected his nervous system, and He Yiming ordered an investigation into who was behind it. Meanwhile, Ye Nanxun prepared for Yan Beiyou to formally meet his family and gave Gu Pingsheng a police emergency wristband, confident he had other protection.

• Xu Wenyan woke screaming that his face had been ruined, but the bodyguards found only scratches he had made himself, and He Yiming struck him to quiet him.
• Three days later, Xu Wenyan suffered another episode, and doctors detected an unknown toxin in his blood that likely caused realistic hallucinations.
• He Yiming connected Xu Wenyan's case to Zhang Ming's hallucinations and ordered his subordinate to investigate who was responsible.
• Ye Nanxun and Yan Beiyou prepared for Yan Beiyou's formal visit to Ye Nanxun's family, while Ye Nanxun trimmed down Yan Beiyou's excessive gift list.
• Ye Nanxun gave Gu Pingsheng the police wristband for emergencies and reassured him that he had other ways to protect himself.

Gu Pingsheng and Cao Xi discussed leaving the Imperial Palace and Gu Pingsheng’s plan to return to a dangerous place, while Song Ren and Ji Yunqi walked through the garden and recalled their past. The chapter left Ji Yunqi realizing that Song Ren remembered a childhood moment that Ji Yunqi himself had forgotten.

• Song Ren checked on Gu Pingsheng and Cao Xi, reminded them to take their medicine and attend checkups, and said they could leave the Imperial Palace or return whenever they wished.
• Cao Xi questioned whether Gu Pingsheng planned to return to the place where Cao Xi had once seen him perform under the effects of drugs, and Gu Pingsheng admitted he had been lying about Professor Ye going with him.
• Gu Pingsheng and Cao Xi teased each other over breakfast, then Gu Pingsheng got up to fetch more rice.
• Ji Yunqi visited Song Ren, and Song Ren asked whether he had come to discuss Song Ren’s confession; Ji Yunqi said the confession had made him wonder if he had imagined it.
• Song Ren and Ji Yunqi walked through the garden, where Song Ren recalled that Ji Yunqi had comforted him after he awakened his plant-type Companion Beast in middle school.
• Song Ren remembered Ji Yunqi telling him that his Companion Beast was amazing, while Ji Yunqi had forgotten the moment.

Song Ren told Ji Yunqi that he had liked him for years but wanted them to remain only friends, leaving Ji Yunqi unsettled by the distance between them. Ye Nanxun accidentally overheard their conversation and gathered Little White Stripe and Little Black Mushroom to take them home to meet his grandparents.

• Song Ren and Ji Yunqi smoked beneath a tree while discussing when Song Ren had begun liking him.
• Song Ren proposed keeping their relationship at the same distance as his other friendships, and Ji Yunqi felt regret and confusion.
• Song Ren declined Ji Yunqi’s invitation to dinner, explaining that he had work matters to discuss with Secretary Mo.
• Song Ren reminded Ji Yunqi that he had once said he could not accept an alpha loving another alpha, then assured him they would still be friends.
• Ye Nanxun emerged from behind the flowerbed after overhearing them, collected Little White Stripe and Little Black Mushroom, and said he would take them to meet his grandparents.

Ye Nanxun caught Black Mushroom and White Stripe trying to grow mushrooms in the Imperial Palace gardens, then accidentally overheard something private between Ji Yunqi and Song Ren. Back at the apartment, Yan Beiyou prepared for his first formal visit to Ye Nanxun’s parents and promised not to sneak onto Ye Nanxun’s balcony that night.

• Black Mushroom dug holes and scattered Mushroom Spores in a flowerbed while White Stripe fanned him from a flower bud, and Ye Nanxun caught them as Ji Yunqi and Song Ren appeared.
• Ye Nanxun accidentally overheard something private between Ji Yunqi and Song Ren and asked Yan Beiyou whether he should apologize to Song Ren.
• Yan Beiyou advised Ye Nanxun to act as though he had heard nothing, since Ji Yunqi and Song Ren had not confronted him.
• Yan Beiyou tried on clothes and asked Ye Nanxun for advice before his formal visit to Chen Mingzhu and Ye Xiangsong, while Black Mushroom and White Stripe slept in Ye Nanxun’s arms.
• Ye Nanxun teased Yan Beiyou about never seeming nervous when he climbed onto his balcony, and Yan Beiyou promised not to climb there that night.

Ye Nanxun brought Yan Beiyou to meet his parents, who struggled to relax around the ruler despite welcoming him warmly. After Ye Nanxun showed them Black Mushroom and Little White Stripe, the little ones called him Daddy and Yan Beiyou Mama.

• Yan Beiyou greeted Ye Xiangsong and Chen Mingzhu at the villa, but they remained nervous around him throughout dinner.
• Ye Nanxun told Yan Beiyou he felt disappointed that his parents could not welcome him as naturally as they had welcomed Gu Pingsheng.
• Yan Beiyou reassured Ye Nanxun that he was special to him, and they returned to the villa with Black Mushroom and Little White Dragon.
• Ye Nanxun introduced the two little ones to his parents, who delighted in holding them and admiring their traits.
• Ye Nanxun asked Black Mushroom and Little White Stripe to call him Daddy, and they then turned to Yan Beiyou and called him Mama.

After their children called Yan Beiyou “Mama” and were punished by their alpha dad, Ye Nanxun slipped into Yan Beiyou’s room at night. Yan Beiyou cared for Ye Nanxun’s bruises, and they ended the night talking about cooking Blue-Staining Bolete.

• Little White Stripe and Little Black Mushroom called Yan Beiyou “Mama,” stunning Ye Nanxun’s parents and delighting Ye Nanxun’s omega dad and grandparents.
• After Ye Nanxun’s parents went to bed, Yan Beiyou punished the two little ones for calling him “Mama.”
• Ye Nanxun left his bedroom and went to Yan Beiyou’s dark guest room, where Yan Beiyou lifted him into his arms.
• Yan Beiyou and Ye Nanxun bathed together, and Yan Beiyou dried Ye Nanxun’s feet and offered to treat his bruises.
• Ye Nanxun compared his easy bruising to a Blue-Staining Bolete and said he would stir-fry one for Yan Beiyou.

Ye Nanxun visited the Imperial Palace to discuss Jiang Ying with Song Ren, then returned to the laboratory, where He Yiming tried to recruit him and behaved disrespectfully. After He Yiming left, Ye Nanxun reassured Black Mushroom and Little White Stripe and began working, but the two little ones disappeared while he was absorbed in his research.

• Yan Beiyou carried the sleeping Ye Nanxun to his bedroom and climbed into bed with him before dawn.
• Yan Beiyou and Ye Nanxun went to the Imperial Palace, where Ye Nanxun spoke with Song Ren about Jiang Ying.
• Ye Nanxun returned to the laboratory and told his colleagues he had been away handling something with two students and introducing his boyfriend to his parents.
• He Yiming proposed that Ye Nanxun take over Jiang Ying's project, made disrespectful remarks, and left after Ye Nanxun and Professor Li Suihuan objected.
• Ye Nanxun let Black Mushroom and Little White Stripe out in the laboratory, then discovered they had disappeared when he returned to the lounge for water.

He Yiming investigated Ye Nanxun and became fascinated by the toxin he suspected Ye had used, then turned his car around to seize him. Two partial beast-form figures blocked He Yiming’s convoy, leaving him alarmed as he ordered his bodyguards to catch them.

• He Yiming questioned a Scientific Research Institute official about Ye Nanxun and ordered him to investigate why Ye had not attended school.
• Black Mushroom and White Stripe attacked the official with mushroom toxin, causing him to hallucinate, dance around the institute in his underwear, and insult his colleagues.
• After hearing of the official’s hallucinations, He Yiming suspected Ye Nanxun and decided to capture him for his toxin.
• He Yiming’s convoy stopped when two partial beast-form figures blocked the road, and He Yiming ordered his bodyguards to catch them.

Ye Nanxun discovered that Black Mushroom and White Stripe had slipped away, then learned they were safe with Yan Beiyou. Yan Beiyou arranged for the exhausted little ones to be cared for and summoned He Yiming to the Imperial Palace.

• Ye Nanxun searched the lounge for Black Mushroom and White Stripe, found footage of them climbing out the window, and learned from Yan Beiyou that they had gone to his place.
• Yan Beiyou learned that Black Mushroom and White Stripe had attacked He Yiming, who escaped with little serious injury while nearly all his bodyguards were killed.
• Secretary Mo reported that He Yiming had visited the Scientific Research Institute before a minor leader there experienced hallucinations and acted improperly.
• Yan Beiyou ordered Secretary Mo to take the sleeping little ones to Song Ren and bring He Yiming to him.
• Mo Ning met He Yiming, who had been intercepted and brought to the Imperial Palace, and told him that His Majesty wanted to see him.