Recaps

Si Jinyan learned that his permanent mark on Chi Li was fading, and Lu Jiu’s examination confirmed that the genetic material was decreasing. The chapter also revealed Bai Qi’s grief over Yao He and ended with Si Jinyan questioning whether Chi Li was really an Omega.

• Lu Jiu told Si Jinyan that a permanent mark should not disappear, so Si Jinyan arranged for Chi Li to be examined.
• Chi Li visited Bai Qi, who claimed his people could summon nearby clan members in danger and asked whether Chi Li had a connection to them.
• After Chi Li fell asleep and left the manor, Bai Qi used his tail to play chess with a device imitating Yao He, then suffered backlash from exploring Chi Li’s memories.
• Si Jinyan took Chi Li to Lu Jiu, whose examination confirmed that Si Jinyan’s genetic material in Chi Li’s body was decreasing.
• Si Jinyan asked Lu Jiu whether Chi Li might not be an Omega.

Si Jinyan questioned whether Chi Li was truly an omega, and Lu Jiu explained that an enigma might be able to mark an alpha. Si Jinyan continued marking Chi Li, who felt pain for the first time and was left confused by Si Jinyan’s unsettling question.

• Si Jinyan challenged Lu Jiu’s diagnosis of Chi Li as an omega, and Lu Jiu promised to examine Chi Li again.
• Si Jinyan asked whether an enigma could mark an alpha, and Lu Jiu explained that it was theoretically possible but difficult.
• Chi Li asked Si Jinyan if his pheromone instability had flared up, and Si Jinyan agreed before carrying him to the desk.
• Si Jinyan carried Chi Li into the bathroom and marked the gland at the back of his neck while watching him with unusual clarity.
• Chi Li shuddered and said the mark hurt, and Si Jinyan asked if he knew why as Chi Li looked back at his black eyes.

Chi Li discovered that Si Jinyan had been investigating the Humanoid Weapon Project and mermaids, then reported his findings during a forging-agent injection. His superiors raised the mission to S-class and told him Si Jinyan might be a modified human connected to the project, while someone reopened the building after Chi Li left.

• Si Jinyan asked Lu Jiu whether an alpha could experience pleasure from being marked, and learned the process was likely painful for an alpha.
• Chi Li searched Si Jinyan's study and found books about the battle between the Empire and Loran, conflicting accounts of the Humanoid Weapon Project, and repeated references to mermaids.
• Chi Li met his contact in a hidden room, injected the forging agent, and reported what he had found in the study.
• Chi Li's superiors classified the discovery as Level Two information, raised the next operation to S-class, and ordered him to investigate Si Jinyan's identity.
• Chi Li agreed to continue the mission after learning Si Jinyan might be a modified human created by the Humanoid Weapon Project.
• After Chi Li boarded the departing airship, someone opened the residential building door he had just left.

Chi Li returned home to find Si Jinyan waiting and was drawn into an intense encounter after they discussed visiting Chi Li’s grandmother. Later, while secretly searching the Federation Government database, Chi Li uncovered footage revealing Si Jinyan’s hidden mermaid identity.

• Si Jinyan suggested visiting Chi Li’s grandmother together and offered to bring her to his home.
• Si Jinyan kissed Chi Li and carried him upstairs, leaving marks that Chi Li’s forged Omega pheromones soon erased.
• Chi Li planned to search Si Jinyan’s office Neural Computer during a group meeting and used his wrist chip to disguise his movements on surveillance footage.
• Chi Li hacked into the Research Institute’s system and found a video file connected to Si Jinyan’s identity.
• Chi Li watched the recording and saw a powerful, silver-black mermaid tail inside a glass isolation chamber.

Chi Li discovered footage revealing Si Jinyan’s monstrous form and secretly copied the evidence before hiding his reaction from him. The next day, Qiu Rui presented proof that Chi Li had deceived Si Jinyan and was an alpha spy, leaving Si Jinyan’s eyes transformed into golden slits.

• Chi Li watched footage of a scaled, fish-like creature with Si Jinyan’s face and copied it, along with Si Jinyan’s examination reports, before erasing his tracks.
• Chi Li recoiled when Si Jinyan held his wrist aboard the spaceship, then concealed his fear and composed himself on the journey back.
• Qiu Rui presented evidence of a falsifying agent, altered records, and a decline in Chi Li’s sex-targeting genes after Si Jinyan’s mark.
• Qiu Rui revealed that Chi Li was an alpha from Loran’s military intelligence service who had disguised himself as an omega and conducted espionage.
• Si Jinyan read the files and raised his eyes, which had turned into golden vertical slits.

Chi Li was locked in his bedroom during a dangerously intensified susceptible period and was denied an inhibitor while Si Jinyan was away. When Si Jinyan returned, Chi Li discovered him in the bathroom with the enormous fish tail from the video.

• Chi Li woke with a worsening susceptible period, found the bedroom locked, and realized his Neural Computer had been taken.
• Chi Li endured hours of fever and pain, but Yuan Ru refused to give him an inhibitor without Si Jinyan's orders.
• Chi Li forced himself to eat lunch, vomited it up, and tried to cool his body in a cold bath.
• Si Jinyan returned and asked Yuan Ru whether Chi Li had eaten; Yuan Ru reported that Chi Li had finished lunch and later fallen asleep.
• Chi Li heard water in the bathroom, went to investigate, and found Si Jinyan sitting in the tub with a huge silver-black fish tail.

Si Jinyan overwhelmed Chi Li with his Alpha pressure and fish tail, then confronted him over trying to run and accused him of lying. As Chi Li’s susceptible phase returned and left him unable to resist, Si Jinyan told him to be as honest as his body.

• Si Jinyan pinned Chi Li down with overwhelming pressure and coiled his fish tail around Chi Li’s neck until he nearly lost consciousness.
• Si Jinyan dragged Chi Li close, asked whether he had been satisfied with the recording, and called him a liar when he denied it.
• Si Jinyan restrained Chi Li and demanded to know why he had run and whether he had considered the consequences of failure.
• Si Jinyan stripped Chi Li’s torn clothes away as his susceptible-phase pheromones intensified and Chi Li’s symptoms returned.
• Si Jinyan pulled Chi Li away from the bathtub, bit his knuckle, and told him to be as honest as his body.

At the Federal Central Government, Geng Ji warned Si Jinyan that keeping Chi Li close would eventually expose them, while Si Jinyan returned home to find Chi Li suffering through a prolonged susceptible period. After easing Chi Li with his pheromones, Si Jinyan injected him with an unknown medicine, leaving Chi Li frightened and asking what it was.

• Qiu Rui and Geng Ji discussed whether Si Jinyan had ordered action against Chi Li, and Geng Ji said he had not.
• Si Jinyan arrived at work, handled several matters, and left early while Geng Ji followed him to warn that Chi Li's identity and the Emperor's scrutiny made their situation increasingly dangerous.
• Si Jinyan returned home and learned from Yuan Ru that Chi Li had not eaten lunch and was unlikely to endure his condition much longer.
• Si Jinyan found Chi Li feverish and disoriented, released his pheromones, and held him as Chi Li instinctively grabbed his throat.
• After Chi Li resisted him, Si Jinyan overpowered him and eased his symptoms, then injected medicine into the gland at the back of his neck.
• Chi Li regained some awareness, saw the empty syringe in Si Jinyan's hand, and asked what he had injected.

Si Jinyan tried to accelerate the disappearance of Chi Li’s suppressant by forcing him through his susceptible period, despite Chi Li’s fear and resistance. As Chi Li’s alpha pheromones emerged, they began repelling Si Jinyan’s, and Si Jinyan continued until Chi Li screamed for him to stop.

• Si Jinyan injected Chi Li with medicine to neutralize his suppressant and said he wanted to experience him in his alpha state.
• Si Jinyan used his pheromones and mermaid form to keep Chi Li in the bathtub and force him through his susceptible period.
• After Chi Li received another injection, he realized that enduring Si Jinyan’s actions could help his susceptible period end sooner and stopped resisting.
• The next day, Chi Li’s alpha pheromones began emerging, and Si Jinyan’s pheromones caused him pain and repulsion.
• Si Jinyan held Chi Li through breakfast and continued their daily encounter despite Chi Li’s pain and pleas to stop.
• When Chi Li realized what Si Jinyan intended to do, he screamed for him to stop.

As Chi Li's counterfeit omega cells died and his alpha x-gland awakened, Si Jinyan tried to mark him as an alpha, but stopped after Chi Li begged him not to. Days later, Si Jinyan's Scales surfaced and his eyes became beastlike as he faced Chi Li.

• Chi Li struggled while Si Jinyan attempted to mark him, but Si Jinyan paused when Chi Li began crying and pleaded with him to stop.
• Si Jinyan promised not to mark Chi Li that day and kept his distance over the next few days, though he confined Chi Li to the bedroom and had the butler deliver an inhibitor.
• Chi Li used the inhibitor and resolved that he had to escape rather than remain imprisoned by Si Jinyan.
• When Si Jinyan entered the bedroom, Chi Li saw dark patterns rise beneath his neck and Scales emerge as his sensitive-period pheromones no longer soothed Si Jinyan's condition.
• Si Jinyan looked at Chi Li with fully emerged golden vertical pupils and an empty, dangerous stare.

After Si Jinyan lost control and nearly attacked Chi Li, he recovered and explained that Chi Li’s return to being an Alpha had triggered a severe rebound in his condition. Chi Li dreamed of Si Jinyan imprisoning him, and at dawn Qin Meng arrived with an imperial arrest warrant to seize him on espionage charges.

• Si Jinyan nearly bit Chi Li while out of control, but Chi Li called to him and helped him regain consciousness.
• Chi Li told Si Jinyan that the blood on him came from Si Jinyan’s bitten tongue, and Si Jinyan explained that his symptoms had worsened since Chi Li became an Alpha again.
• Chi Li warned that Si Jinyan might one day lose control completely; Si Jinyan quietly replied that it was possible, then left to answer an urgent call.
• Chi Li dreamed that Si Jinyan would imprison him and woke before dawn with a sense of unease.
• Qin Meng presented an arrest warrant signed by the Emperor and demanded Chi Li’s arrest, while Yuan Ru refused to grant access to the Marshal’s Residence.
• As Chi Li lay awake in his bedroom, tapping sounded against the window.

Chi Li escaped the estate with Bai Qi’s guard but was shot through the heart by the guard’s hidden weapon. At the research institute, Si Jinyan was trapped and restrained in Mermaid form, then felt a violent pain in his atrium as he sensed Chi Li’s apparent death and began fighting his bonds.

• Bai Qi’s guard helped Chi Li escape the estate, warning him that the emperor’s men were coming and directing him southeast.
• As Chi Li ran toward the forest, the guard shot him in the heart with a tracking sniper pistol.
• Si Jinyan went to the research institute after Qiu Rui summoned him to test a drug that replicated Chi Li’s pheromones.
• The researchers trapped Si Jinyan, forced him into Mermaid form, chained him to an iron frame, and extracted his blood.
• Si Jinyan felt a severe pain in his atrium, his eyes turned gold, and he began straining against his chains as his wounds regenerated.

Si Jinyan broke free during his transformation at the research institute, then found the wounded Chi Li and brought him to a cave pool. As Si Jinyan’s beast instincts took control, he removed the bullet from Chi Li’s wound and overwhelmed him, leaving their encounter unresolved.

• Si Jinyan transformed further inside the extraction chamber, grew enormous translucent wings, and killed an elderly researcher with his tail.
• After being shot, Chi Li hid by a tree and lost consciousness as he sensed a familiar warmth and saw someone approaching through mist.
• Chi Li woke in a cave pool and found Si Jinyan in a monstrous transformed state, with silver-black scales, long hair, and a tail restraining him.
• Si Jinyan bound Chi Li with his hair and used a tentacle-like mouthpart to remove and crush the bullet lodged in Chi Li’s back.
• Driven by the instincts unleashed by his transformation, Si Jinyan continued to overwhelm Chi Li as Chi Li struggled helplessly in the darkness.

Bai Qi manipulated Yao Di with a false prophecy about Si Jinyan losing control, while piecing together a connection between Chi Li and Merfolk royalty. In the cave, Si Jinyan repeatedly marked Chi Li and forced him to drink blood, leaving Chi Li gravely weakened and unresponsive.

• Bai Qi told Yao Di that Si Jinyan would lose control and appear covered in scales, presenting it as an opportunity for Yao Di.
• Bai Qi privately reasoned that Chi Li, though human, carried a Merfolk Core, while Si Jinyan seemed to have royal blood but lacked a Core Scale.
• Bai Qi remembered Yao He and reflected that he had only improved at chess after Yao He left.
• Chi Li awoke bound in the cave as Si Jinyan continued marking him, and Si Jinyan explained that Chi Li had swallowed his blood to survive.
• Chi Li begged Si Jinyan to release him, but Si Jinyan continued marking him and told him to remember him.
• Si Jinyan held Chi Li in the pool as Chi Li's body went rigid and his gaze lost its light.

Chi Li woke in a hidden cave after Si Jinyan had kept him captive for over a week, and he questioned whether he could trust him. Meanwhile, Bai Qi revealed that the Merfolk Core had merged with Chi Li and protected him from the bullet; Chi Li ended the chapter exploring a strangely silent forest.

• Chi Li woke in pain as Si Jinyan pressed close to him, then lost consciousness again.
• Bai Qi learned that his servant and Yuan Ru had helped Chi Li escape, and explained that the scale protecting Chi Li's heart had made him stronger and more resilient.
• Chi Li woke alone in a hidden cave with a communicator that could contact only one number, which he chose not to call.
• Chi Li went to scout the area and discovered that the mountain forest was unnaturally silent.

After being stranded in the wilderness, Chi Li was secretly escorted out and smuggled back to Loran, where he reunited with Qi Yan. He returned home exhausted and found that his injuries had healed, except for the redness and swelling on the back of his neck.

• Two days after returning to the cave, Chi Li used his communicator and heard a message telling him to wait at the entrance after sunset.
• A nearby villager led Chi Li out of the forest, explaining that a tall, masked man had paid him to guide Chi Li to safety.
• Two men escorted Chi Li through a smuggling route by spaceship and brought him safely back to Loran.
• Chi Li contacted his superior, Qi Yan, who came to collect him and urged him to get medical treatment.
• Chi Li refused an examination, went home after a year and a half away, and saw that only the redness and swelling on the back of his neck remained.

Chi Li resumed military work and missions but continued tracking Si Jinyan, while Qi Yan warned that Si Jinyan might come after him again. That night, Chi Li dreamed of Si Jinyan in a vivid nightmare that continued further than before, leaving him frightened when he woke.

• Chi Li returned to training recruits and accepting missions while deliberately following news about Si Jinyan.
• Qi Yan warned Chi Li that Si Jinyan was dangerous and might come looking for him again, and urged him to be careful.
• Chi Li told Qi Yan he accepted missions because he was bored, while Qi Yan encouraged him to talk if he was under pressure.
• Chi Li dreamed that Si Jinyan held him and spoke of how to keep him completely, while Chi Li struggled to escape.
• Chi Li woke from the dream drenched in cold sweat.

Chi Li connected Si Jinyan’s strange behavior to his absence from an Imperial election conference and arranged to meet Qi Yan. Meanwhile, Xu Zhong suspected Si Jinyan was tied to a long-buried humanoid weapon project, leaving Emperor Luo Yu shaken by the possibility that he was the presumed-dead son of Luo Jing.

• Chi Li woke from a recurring dream, read news about Si Jinyan’s absence from an election conference, and grew uneasy as he recalled what had happened between them.
• Chi Li arranged another meeting with Qi Yan.
• Xu Zhong told Qi Yan that he suspected the events surrounding the humanoid weapon project had not truly ended, then went with him to report to the Emperor.
• Xu Zhong reported that Si Jinyan might be Luo Jing’s only child, but Luo Yu insisted the child had been found dead.
• After Xu Zhong left, Luo Yu wondered whether he had failed to protect Luo Jing’s child as well.

Chi Li recalled his bond with Emperor Luo Yu before helping train elite soldiers, but his recurring fatigue and poor appetite culminated in a sharp stomach pain during practice. He dismissed the incident as stomach trouble and remained at the training ground.

• Chi Li visited Luo Yu, who asked him to recount his undercover mission, and Chi Li remembered how Luo Yu had become like family to him.
• Chi Li helped train five elite recruits in hand-to-hand combat, though he repeatedly lost focus.
• Ruan Ying became distracted while sparring with Chi Li and was quickly knocked down, then improved under Chi Li's instruction.
• When Ruan Ying's punch struck Chi Li's abdomen, Chi Li doubled over with a sharp, twisting pain.
• Chi Li reassured the frightened soldier and told an officer he was fine, calling it stomach trouble.

Chi Li agreed to impersonate a wealthy young man at an adulthood banquet so the mercenary corps could protect him from a threatened assassination. The next morning, he discovered his medical report said he was in the early stages of pregnancy, just as the mission was about to begin.

• Qi Yan took Chi Li to the hospital for examinations, but Chi Li left before the results were ready after Lang Bo called with a mission.
• Lang Bo explained that Chi Li would pose as an employer's younger son at an adulthood banquet while mercenaries guarded him against a possible assassin.
• Chi Li agreed to use a wheelchair and stay in a screened booth, then spent the evening drinking with the mercenary corps at their base.
• The next morning, Chi Li read his report, which indicated he might be in the early stages of pregnancy.
• Du Wei came to Chi Li's room and called him to breakfast before the team set out.

Chi Li guarded Shi Jiahua’s banquet while worrying over a test report and the possibility that Si Jinyan might appear. After returning to the bedroom to wait for an attack, Chi Li was seized by Si Jinyan, whose pheromones and scales revealed his identity.

• Bo Lang told Chi Li he had found encrypted files among Sheng Rui’s belongings and promised to give them to Chi Li after the mission.
• Chi Li recalled the troubling test report and decided to get retested after the mission.
• Chi Li and the mercenary corps guarded Shi Jiahua’s banquet while Chi Li searched the guests for a familiar figure.
• Du Wei escorted Chi Li back to the master bedroom, where Chi Li pretended to sleep as his teammates monitored the room.
• A faint sound came from the balcony, and Si Jinyan seized Chi Li before he could react.

Si Jinyan overpowered Chi Li in the dark while losing control, and threatened Chi Li’s companions to stop him from calling them in. Chi Li asked what Si Jinyan wanted as Du Wei continued checking on him from outside the door.

• Chi Li recognized Si Jinyan by his sandalwood pheromones as Si Jinyan restrained him on the bed.
• Chi Li tried to shoot Si Jinyan, but Si Jinyan seized his wrist and threw the gun away.
• Chi Li fought back and made enough noise to alert Du Wei and the others outside.
• When Du Wei knocked, Si Jinyan threatened to kill Chi Li’s companions if they entered.
• Chi Li held back their agreed signal and asked Si Jinyan what he wanted as Du Wei called to him again.

Si Jinyan held Chi Li captive and demanded that he return with him, while Chi Li realized Si Jinyan’s pheromones no longer caused rejection and suspected he had been marked. The chapter ended with Si Jinyan threatening to keep Chi Li from ever seeing Du Wei and the others again as his dangerous instincts stirred.

• Chi Li sent Du Wei away without using their prearranged code word, and Si Jinyan held him while suppressing his dangerous instincts.
• Chi Li realized he no longer felt pain from Si Jinyan’s pheromones, shoved him away, and punched him while demanding to know what he had done.
• Si Jinyan avoided answering and told Chi Li to come back with him if he wanted the truth, but Chi Li refused.
• Chi Li warned that Du Wei and the others would search for him, and Si Jinyan questioned how much Chi Li cared about them.
• Si Jinyan restrained Chi Li and vowed that Du Wei and the others would never find him and that Chi Li would not see them again.

Si Jinyan forced Chi Li into heat by releasing pheromones and revealed that he had already marked him. Chi Li struggled against Si Jinyan’s advances but felt his body and pheromones drawn into Si Jinyan’s.

• Si Jinyan loosened his hold on Chi Li and asked him to return, promising not to hurt anyone.
• Chi Li refused and tried to seize a nearby gun, but Si Jinyan caught his wrist and turned the muzzle toward Chi Li’s chest.
• Si Jinyan released heat pheromones, and Chi Li realized that his body was being forced into heat through a mark.
• Si Jinyan admitted that he had marked Chi Li and cornered him against the wall.
• Si Jinyan undid Chi Li’s clothes and intensified his desire with pheromones as Chi Li struggled and told him to stop.
• Si Jinyan seized Chi Li’s jaw and kissed him, while their pheromones became entangled.

Chi Li woke in Si Jinyan’s hidden room, chained to the bed and unable to escape. As Si Jinyan watched him and returned to the room, Geng Ji warned that keeping Chi Li close could worsen Si Jinyan’s unstable condition and lead to disastrous consequences.

• Chi Li woke in an unfamiliar room and discovered that Si Jinyan had chained his wrist and ankle to the wall, restricting him to the area around the bed.
• Si Jinyan watched Chi Li struggle against his chains through a hidden camera at a secret base.
• Geng Ji confronted Si Jinyan about locking Chi Li up and warned that his unstable condition could worsen through blood loss and dependence on Chi Li’s pheromones.
• Geng Ji recalled Lu Jiu’s warning that no omega could replace Chi Li as an inhibitor and that the two could become trapped in an increasingly dangerous cycle.
• Si Jinyan left the office, and after Chi Li failed to find a way to escape, Si Jinyan entered his room.