Chapter Summaries

Ye Nanxun spent a rainy day at home dwelling on his attraction to Yan Beiyou and trying to erase the evidence of an intimate dream. After an unsettling delivery encounter, a sudden power outage prompted him to message Yan Beiyou, who immediately called.

• Professor Li told Ye Nanxun that the alpha had returned, and Ye Nanxun stayed in bed with the comforting Mushroom Egg.
• After waking from an intimate dream about Yan Beiyou, Ye Nanxun cleaned his room and discarded his bedding and underwear.
• Ye Nanxun admitted to himself that he knew which alpha had stirred his feelings and wondered whether the Y he wrote on the window stood for Ye or Yan.
• A delivery driver asked Ye Nanxun whether he was an actor and whether he was home alone, so Ye Nanxun took the food and shut the door.
• Ye Nanxun ignored Zhu Shixin's messages, enjoyed his parents' vacation photos, and read Yan Beiyou's question about when he would be home the next day.
• The power went out as Ye Nanxun considered his reply to Yan Beiyou, and Yan Beiyou called as soon as Ye Nanxun messaged him about the outage.

Ye Nanxun faced intruders who had surrounded his villa and cut off communications, while Yan Beiyou guided him over the phone. Yan Beiyou appeared in the darkness and reached Ye Nanxun, ending the immediate threat as he asked why Ye Nanxun had not opened the bottle of alpha pheromones.

• Yan Beiyou called Ye Nanxun and told him to stay in his bedroom, lock the door, and check the windows.
• Ye Nanxun used a Mushroom Spore to discover that intruders had entered the villa and set up signal jammers.
• Ye Nanxun found that he could not call the police and saw that people were guarding both his door and the outside of the villa.
• A darkness overwhelmed the room, and the Mushroom Egg began glowing as the intruders opened Ye Nanxun's door.
• Yan Beiyou appeared alone in the doorway, and Ye Nanxun held the Mushroom Egg and reached for his bottle of alpha pheromones.
• Yan Beiyou crouched beside Ye Nanxun and said that he had plenty of pheromones.

After an attempted break-in, Ye Nanxun spoke with Yan Beiyou, who explained that the intruders had learned he was alone from a deliveryman. As Ye Nanxun noticed Yan Beiyou’s rose-scented pheromones, he asked whether the alpha could smell his own.

• Chen Mingzhu ended the video call after urging Ye Nanxun to dry his wet hair.
• Ye Nanxun came downstairs and asked Yan Beiyou who had broken into the estate.
• Yan Beiyou said the intruders were desperate men, including a deliveryman who had noticed Ye Nanxun was alone.
• Yan Beiyou took Ye Nanxun’s ice water and gave him the warm water instead.
• Ye Nanxun asked whether Yan Beiyou’s pheromones smelled like roses and whether he could smell Ye Nanxun’s pheromones.

Ye Nanxun worried that his pheromones smelled poisonous and unpleasant, but Yan Beiyou reassured him that they smelled like a fresh forest after rain. After learning Ye Nanxun had no trusted friends or doctor nearby, Yan Beiyou told him he was in heat.

• Ye Nanxun told Yan Beiyou he had released his pheromones when people were coming upstairs and asked whether they smelled bad.
• Yan Beiyou said Ye Nanxun's pheromones smelled pleasant, like a cool forest after heavy rain.
• Ye Nanxun was delighted by Yan Beiyou's reassurance, then worried he had asked whether Yan Beiyou was only trying to make him happy.
• Yan Beiyou asked whether Ye Nanxun had any trusted omega friends or doctors in Dream City, and Ye Nanxun said he had none.
• Yan Beiyou realized Ye Nanxun was isolated and gently told him he was in heat.

At a banquet, Ji Yunqi and Song Ren discussed the mysterious omega who had danced with Yan Beiyou, and Song Ren admitted he would consider dating. At the manor, Yan Beiyou told Ye Nanxun that his heat cycle had begun and asked how he had handled previous cycles, while struggling to restrain his own response to Ye Nanxun’s pheromones.

• Ji Yunqi told Song Ren that Su Lan Star’s Third Prince Yi Xing was not the omega who had danced with Yan Beiyou.
• Ji Yunqi pointed out that Yan Beiyou had left the banquet unusually early, deepening his curiosity about the omega.
• Song Ren said he would consider finding someone to date and went to greet the ruler of Su Lan Star.
• Ye Nanxun searched for his phone to check the date but found only the overheated Mushroom Egg in his pocket.
• Yan Beiyou explained that Ye Nanxun’s pheromones had temporarily overheated the Mushroom Egg and asked how he had managed previous heat cycles.
• Yan Beiyou kept his distance from Ye Nanxun while fighting the hunger his pheromones stirred in him.

Ye Nanxun’s heat began unexpectedly, and Yan Beiyou carried him to his secluded lakeside house. Refusing to leave the vulnerable omega alone, Yan Beiyou brought him back to bed and returned with warm milk, where he found Ye Nanxun asleep while clutching a scarf.

• Ye Nanxun tried to leave the house during his heat, but his legs gave way and Yan Beiyou caught him.
• Ye Nanxun directed Yan Beiyou to his windowless lakeside house and took a pill he had developed for his heat cycles.
• Yan Beiyou refused to leave Ye Nanxun alone in the sealed house and carried him back to his bedroom.
• Ye Nanxun worried that his poisonous pheromones could harm animals outside, but Yan Beiyou promised his Psychic Barrier would protect them.
• Ye Nanxun asked Yan Beiyou for warm milk, and Yan Beiyou found him asleep, clutching a black-and-gray scarf.

Ye Nanxun’s heat ended after Yan Beiyou cared for him from outside his bedroom, and the two reunited downstairs. Yan Beiyou left, but his message about trying Ye Nanxun’s mushroom hot pot next week left their plans open.

• Yan Beiyou brought Ye Nanxun hot milk, covered him with a blanket, and pulled his hand away when Ye Nanxun cuddled against it in his sleep.
• Yan Beiyou kept his distance during Ye Nanxun’s heat, checking on him and arranging meals through the bedroom door and a robot.
• After his fever and pheromone readings returned to normal, Ye Nanxun thanked Yan Beiyou and offered to make him wild mushroom hot pot.
• Yan Beiyou declined Ye Nanxun’s offer to see him off and drove away from the villa.
• Ye Nanxun found a short black hair on the living room sofa, then received Yan Beiyou’s message asking whether he could try the hot pot next week.

After his heat ended, Ye Nanxun received meals from Yan Beiyou and exchanged flowers for the food, then met with officers investigating the break-in at his estate. The officers revealed that the case led to an interstellar human trafficking ring and gave Ye Nanxun a safety wristband, while he asked whether he could report someone powerful.

• Yan Beiyou arranged for his black hovercar to deliver meals to Ye Nanxun, who left freshly picked white hyacinths in the car in return.
• Ye Nanxun told Yan Beiyou he planned to go to the lab after the police visit and would no longer need takeout brought to him.
• Zhuang Liening and Tang Tian visited Ye Nanxun to explain the investigation and increased patrols, while Zhuang inspected the intruders' boat.
• Zhuang Liening told Ye Nanxun the investigation had led to an interstellar human trafficking ring and gave him a wristband to summon police in an emergency.
• Ye Nanxun asked Zhuang Liening about reporting someone with a powerful background, and she urged him to trust the law and government if he had conclusive evidence.

Mo Ning brought white hyacinths to Yan Beiyou, and Song Ren revealed that they symbolized love that dared not be revealed. Ye Nanxun returned to the institute, where Li Suihuan told him that Cao Xi had been hospitalized after a bacterial infection in Professor Jiang Ying's laboratory.

• Mo Ning brought white hyacinths to Yan Beiyou's study, and Song Ren told him the flowers symbolized love that dared not be revealed.
• Ye Nanxun received Yan Beiyou's message and arranged to meet him for wild mushroom hotpot the following week, but kept his deeper question to himself.
• Ye Nanxun returned to the laboratory without his usual hat or mask and greeted the researchers who welcomed him back.
• Li Suihuan invited Ye Nanxun to lunch and told him that a reagent leak in Professor Jiang Ying's laboratory had infected Cao Xi, who was hospitalized for isolation treatment.

Half a month earlier, Ye Nanxun helped Cao Xi prepare to escape Jiang Ying’s control by arranging for him to become ill and stay in the hospital. After visiting Cao Xi, Ye Nanxun reflected on the people who had supported him and on his encounters with Yan Beiyou, leaving him more hopeful about the society and government.

• Cao Xi secretly gave Ye Nanxun a list of Jiang Ying’s lab members and confessed that he feared Jiang Ying’s return.
• Ye Nanxun reassured Cao Xi and told him to follow a plan that would make him ill but keep his life out of danger.
• Ye Nanxun and Li Suihuan visited Cao Xi in a special hospital ward, where they spoke to him through the glass.
• Ye Nanxun heard his colleagues promise to visit Cao Xi and then sat alone in the garden, recalling the people who had treated him with care.
• Ye Nanxun thought about Yan Beiyou and took a photograph of the sunset, feeling that the world might not be so terrible.

Yan Beiyou preserved Ye Nanxun’s hyacinths in ice and framed them while displaying his half-beast form. Ye Nanxun received a photo of the flowers and spotted Yan Beiyou’s dragon horns and scales in its reflection.

• Yan Beiyou arrived home with white hyacinths while the Little Yellow Dog chased the Mushroom Egg around the house.
• Yan Beiyou froze the hyacinths with an energy gun, shattered the excess ice, and transformed into his half-beast form with a dragon tail.
• Yan Beiyou framed the frozen flowers, hung them in his study, and sent Ye Nanxun a photo.
• Ye Nanxun bought fast food alone and opened Yan Beiyou’s photo while eating fries.
• Ye Nanxun zoomed in on the photo and noticed scales near Yan Beiyou’s temples and a dragon horn on each side of his forehead.

Zhu Shixin waited at school to see Ye Nanxun, but his frustration over being ignored led him to attack a student and half-shift in front of the crowd. Ye Nanxun had called Officer Zhuang Liening, who tranquilized Zhu Shixin; the chapter ended with Ye Nanxun revealing he had been walking toward her, not him.

• Zhu Shixin dressed up and waited for Ye Nanxun, brooding over his unanswered messages and calls.
• Zhu Shixin attacked a student who warned him not to smoke on school grounds, and nearby students joined the chaos.
• Zhu Shixin released his pheromones and half-shifted into a towering wolf-like form, frightening the students and drawing Ye Nanxun's attention.
• Zhu Shixin moved toward Ye Nanxun, but Officer Zhuang Liening tranquilized him before he could reach him.
• Officer Zhuang Liening arrived on her police flying motorcycle and kicked the unconscious Zhu Shixin as Ye Nanxun thanked her for coming.
• Ye Nanxun explained that he had called Officer Zhuang Liening, revealing that he had been walking toward her rather than toward Zhu Shixin.

Ye Nanxun helped an injured student after Zhu Shixin caused trouble at the Scientific Research Institute, then Yan Beiyou called to check on him. Yan persuaded Ye Nanxun to rest at his apartment, where Mushroom Egg and Little Dragon were staying.

• Zhuang Liening arrested Zhu Shixin for half-beastifying on campus while Ye Nanxun took the injured student to the hospital.
• Ye Nanxun paid for the student's treatment, exchanged contact information with him, and promised to help if Zhu Shixin retaliated.
• Yan Beiyou messaged Ye Nanxun to ask if he was safe, then called him after learning about the incident from Star Network videos.
• Ye Nanxun admitted he was tired, and Yan Beiyou persuaded him to rest at the apartment and check on Mushroom Egg and Little Dragon.

Yan Beiyou assigned Zhu Yucheng to oversee an interstellar human trafficking case and asked his generals to prepare soldiers for a wormhole expedition. Meanwhile, Ye Nanxun visited Yan Beiyou’s apartment to care for Mushroom Egg and Little Dragon, then learned about a security guard who had been kidnapped and beaten.

• Yan Beiyou sent Mushroom Egg and Little Dragon to his apartment and asked Ye Nanxun to watch them.
• Yan Beiyou assigned Zhu Yucheng to handle an interstellar human trafficking case and ordered the generals to select promising soldiers for a wormhole expedition.
• Ji Yunqi messaged Song Ren after realizing they had not spoken for nearly a week.
• Yan Beiyou asked Secretary Mo to send a refined meal to the apartment, while Ye Nanxun arrived there and found Mushroom Egg and Little Dragon safe.
• Ye Nanxun went to Muli Restaurant for takeaway and heard servers discuss a security guard who had been kidnapped and beaten.
• Ye Nanxun asked a server for the injured security guard’s contact information, saying a friend at the police station might help.

Ye Nanxun returned to Yan Beiyou’s penthouse, where he comforted the growing Mushroom Egg and received a meal Yan Beiyou had sent him. He found the painting of six white hyacinths in Yan Beiyou’s study, then wondered what the Mushroom Egg would look like and whether to name it before the television suddenly turned on.

• Ye Nanxun returned to the penthouse and soothed the Mushroom Egg, which had grown to the size of an ostrich egg and expressed its feelings through pheromones.
• Ye Nanxun found Yan Beiyou’s message saying the Imperial Palace’s chef had prepared new spring dishes, and he collected the food box left in the garage.
• Ye Nanxun entered Yan Beiyou’s study and saw six white hyacinths displayed in a painting behind glass.
• Ye Nanxun ate the meal Yan Beiyou had sent while talking to the Mushroom Egg about its growth, hatching, appearance, and possible name.
• The television suddenly switched on and played a cartoon child singing, “Mom! Mom! I love you!”

Ye Nanxun bonded with the sentient Mushroom Egg and Little Dragon while Yan Beiyou watched through the puppy’s eyes. After Yan Beiyou asked him to take them home, Ye Nanxun headed to the hospital to visit the injured security guard and investigate whether Ye Zhineng had been involved in his abduction.

• The Mushroom Egg controlled the television to tell Ye Nanxun it loved him, and Ye Nanxun affectionately called it cute and sent a recording to Yan Beiyou.
• Yan Beiyou used Little Dragon’s senses to watch Ye Nanxun, then had Little Dragon smack the Mushroom Egg unconscious when it rolled beside him.
• Ye Nanxun napped with Little Dragon and the Mushroom Egg, then woke and noticed Yan Beiyou’s pheromone scent on Little Dragon.
• After Yan Beiyou asked him to bring Little Dragon and the Mushroom Egg home, Ye Nanxun packed them up and set off for the hospital where the injured security guard was staying.
• Cao Xi told Ye Nanxun that Zhang Ming and the others would hold a welcome banquet for Jiang Ying the next day, and Ye Nanxun thought tomorrow would be a good day.

Ye Nanxun woke from a strange dream about Yan Beiyou, then prepared slippers and toiletries for Yan Beiyou’s expected visit and gathered wild mushrooms from the laboratory. Meanwhile, Xu Wenyan failed to approach Yan Beiyou and decided to pursue the more accessible general Ji Yunqi.

• Ye Nanxun woke from a nightmare in which Yan Beiyou became a dragon and called him a mushroom.
• Ye Nanxun found Little Yellow Dog and regretted that it and Mushroom Egg would likely leave with Yan Beiyou that night.
• Ye Nanxun prepared slippers and toiletries for Yan Beiyou, then collected wild mushrooms from the laboratory with Little Yellow Dog waiting outside.
• Xu Wenyan continued staking out the Imperial Palace library but failed to see Yan Beiyou or the blue-eyed omega.
• After accepting Jiang Ying’s dinner invitation, Xu Wenyan decided to target Ji Yunqi as a path toward meeting Yan Beiyou.

Zhang Ming was humiliated and dragged from Jiang Ying’s welcome banquet after his negligence in the laboratory harmed Cao Xi. Later, Yan Beiyou visited Ye Nanxun’s villa with food and milk tea, and the two shared a warm first taste of the drink.

• Jiang Ying’s banquet was interrupted when Xu Wenyan complained that Zhang Ming smelled bad and splashed wine on him.
• Jiang Ying ordered a student to take Zhang Ming away, and Zhang Ming hallucinated that the student had become a snake and insulted him.
• Yan Beiyou arrived at Ye Nanxun’s villa in casual clothes, and Ye Nanxun gave him a pair of clean slippers he had washed himself.
• Yan Beiyou brought food and milk tea, explaining that he had bought out the shop’s supply for the day.
• Ye Nanxun and Yan Beiyou tasted milk tea for the first time and enjoyed its Phoenix Dancong flavor.

Zhang Ming hallucinated that the man who brought him upstairs was a snake demon and attacked him with a table lamp. At home, Ye Nanxun and Yan Beiyou prepared mushroom hotpot, and Ye Nanxun poured them wine as he worked up the courage to drink more than usual.

• The man dragged Zhang Ming to a room upstairs, accused him of smelling bad, and told him to rest while he entertained the guests.
• Zhang Ming saw the man as a snake-headed monster and struck him with a table lamp as the little people around him cheered.
• Yan Beiyou took over preparing chicken soup and vegetables while Ye Nanxun watched from the kitchen and asked about Yan Beiyou's experience with milk tea and dating.
• Yan Beiyou asked Ye Nanxun if the milk tea had been good, and Ye Nanxun answered that it had been very good.
• Ye Nanxun warned Yan Beiyou about the dangers of eating wild mushrooms before they were cooked and said alcohol could increase the risk of poisoning.
• Ye Nanxun poured nearly full glasses of wine for himself and Yan Beiyou, intending to drink more than usual to steel his nerves.

Zhang Ming returned to the banquet hall and attacked Jiang Ying with a wine bottle, while the chapter shifted to Ye Nanxun and Yan Beiyou sharing mushroom hot pot and grape wine at home. As their quiet meal deepened Ye Nanxun’s feelings, he asked Yan Beiyou if he could pursue him.

• Zhang Ming imagined the banquet guests as monsters and returned to attack Jiang Ying with a wine bottle.
• Ye Nanxun and Yan Beiyou drank sweet grape wine together, and Ye Nanxun recalled how Yan Beiyou had safely stayed with him through his heat.
• Ye Nanxun and Yan Beiyou shared mushroom hot pot, and Ye Nanxun asked whether he could pursue Yan Beiyou.