Recaps

Chi Li remained captive under Si Jinyan’s control, refusing his attention until he ate in hopes of saving his strength to escape. When Si Jinyan restrained him again that night and crossed another boundary, Chi Li struck him, while Si Jinyan’s possessiveness and loss of control became clear.

• Si Jinyan brought Chi Li food and ointment, but Chi Li rejected his care and demanded to be untied.
• Si Jinyan released Chi Li’s wrist restraints, and Chi Li ate while planning to conserve his strength for another escape attempt.
• During the night, Chi Li found himself chained again and asked Si Jinyan to untie him so he could use the bathroom.
• Si Jinyan refused and told Chi Li to relieve himself where he was, prompting Chi Li to seize him by the throat.
• Si Jinyan pulled Chi Li close with the chain and wrapped him in his arms, revealing his fish tail and golden vertical pupils.
• Chi Li punched Si Jinyan and told him to stop, while Si Jinyan’s growing possessiveness and loss of control came to light.

Si Jinyan apologized to Chi Li for his behavior but refused to release him, admitting that he was losing control. He kept Chi Li captive through the night, his possessiveness growing as he watched him.

• Si Jinyan released Chi Li and kissed his injured hand in a gesture of submission, then apologized but insisted that he would not let Chi Li go.
• Si Jinyan briefly changed his eyes back to human black before they reverted to gold, and he admitted that he could no longer control himself.
• Si Jinyan undid Chi Li’s wrist restraints and carried him to the bathroom, then watched him despite Chi Li’s protests.
• Si Jinyan told Chi Li that he needed him and would let him go when the time came, while Chi Li resolved to rely on himself.
• Si Jinyan stayed in his fish-tailed form all night and wrapped his tail around Chi Li’s waist as his thoughts insisted that Chi Li was his.

Chi Li realized Si Jinyan’s physical condition was deteriorating and feared that an examination might expose his secret, while Si Jinyan became possessive and volatile. After Chi Li asked about Yuan Ru, Si Jinyan revealed that Yuan Ru had helped him escape and asked why Chi Li cared more about Yuan Ru than him; Lu Jiu’s plan to use Chi Li to stabilize Si Jinyan’s condition remained unresolved.

• Chi Li noticed the secluded villa and wondered why Geng Ji and Lu Jiu had come to see Si Jinyan.
• Lu Jiu agreed to examine Chi Li later, making Chi Li anxious that the test report might be real and discovered.
• Si Jinyan threatened to keep marking Chi Li, restrained him, and reacted with unstable pheromones.
• Chi Li asked what had happened to Yuan Ru, and Si Jinyan said Yuan Ru had helped Chi Li escape and had paid for it.
• Si Jinyan demanded to know why Chi Li worried about Yuan Ru rather than him, while scales and golden vertical pupils appeared.
• Lu Jiu had advised Si Jinyan to use Chi Li to stabilize his worsening condition, though the proposed sacrifices to Chi Li remained unspecified.

Si Jinyan confessed that he wanted Chi Li himself, not the soothing effect of his pheromones. Chi Li rejected his advances and condemned the mark and confinement, and Si Jinyan left him alone in the hall.

• Si Jinyan held Chi Li and told him his desire was not just because of pheromones.
• Chi Li remained wary, recalling Si Jinyan's dependence on his pheromones.
• Chi Li told Si Jinyan he was an alpha and could not accept being marked and locked up.
• Si Jinyan released Chi Li, said he understood, and left the hall.

Chi Li remained trapped in Si Jinyan’s villa while Si Jinyan avoided him, and he searched for a way to escape. A strange knocking led Chi Li to a locked storeroom, where he opened the door without noticing a pair of glowing eyes watching him from outside.

• After Si Jinyan left, Chi Li stayed in the villa and noticed Si Jinyan avoiding him.
• Over the next two days, Chi Li searched for a way out while an unfamiliar butler brought him meals and clothes.
• During a rainy night, Chi Li woke to urgent knocking and realized it seemed intended to draw his attention.
• Chi Li followed the sound to a tightly shut storeroom door at the easternmost corner of the villa.
• Chi Li opened the storeroom door as lightning flashed, unaware that sinister pale-yellow eyes were watching him from the mud outside.

Chi Li escaped through a broken window and was attacked by a monstrous Aberrant Form, but Si Jinyan arrived and killed it. After Lu Jiu treated Chi Li, he tried to test his blood for infection, and Chi Li resisted because he feared the results would reveal something he was hiding.

• Chi Li crawled through the broken window and encountered a malformed creature resembling Si Jinyan's Mermaid form.
• The creature chased Chi Li toward the forest and attacked him with a corrosive tongue, until Si Jinyan arrived and crushed its heart with his tail.
• Si Jinyan carried Chi Li back to bed and used an ancient language to cloud his consciousness; Chi Li later awoke and saw Si Jinyan still partly transformed.
• Lu Jiu treated Chi Li's corroded wounds and said the Aberrant Form may have developed self-awareness and wanted to devour him.
• Lu Jiu prepared to draw Chi Li's blood for an emergency test, but Chi Li refused, and Si Jinyan held his arm and urged him to cooperate.

After Si Jinyan rescued Chi Li from a Mutant Form, he tried to persuade him to undergo tests for infection. Chi Li eventually allowed Lu Jiu to collect samples, leaving Si Jinyan alone with him while the results were tested.

• Si Jinyan regretted leaving Chi Li alone after a Mutant Form attacked and corroded his skin.
• Si Jinyan explained that Lu Jiu needed to check Chi Li for infection, but Chi Li refused to be examined.
• Chi Li worried that the test results might reveal something he wanted to resolve on his own, and pretended to ignore Si Jinyan.
• Chi Li finally held out his arm, and Lu Jiu collected skin tissue and blood for testing.
• Lu Jiu left to run the tests, leaving Chi Li and Si Jinyan alone in the room.

Si Jinyan explained that the Aberrant Forms had been modified with his genes and suspected Yao Di was behind their creation, while he and Chi Li grew closer. After Lu Jiu confirmed Chi Li had no infection, he ran another test at the base and was baffled by the result.

• Si Jinyan told Chi Li that the Aberrant Forms were humans injected with a modified agent containing his genes, and that the attackers were failed specimens.
• Si Jinyan said they suspected Yao Di had orchestrated the experiments, then revealed that he was investigating his own identity and believed others had hidden things from him.
• Lu Jiu interrupted them with test results showing Chi Li had no infection, and Si Jinyan left to discuss the Mutant Forms at the base.
• Lu Jiu repeated the test using Chi Li's remaining blood, got the same result, and wondered aloud how an alpha could possibly produce it.

Lu Jiu told Si Jinyan that repeated tests indicated Chi Li was carrying Si Jinyan’s child, likely conceived during the month Si Jinyan lost control and completely marked him. Si Jinyan decided not to tell Chi Li yet and waited for Lu Jiu to investigate the risks to him.

• Lu Jiu showed Si Jinyan test results indicating Chi Li had been pregnant for about two months.
• Si Jinyan struggled to accept the result because Chi Li was an alpha, and Lu Jiu explained that Si Jinyan’s status as an Enigma might make it possible.
• Si Jinyan connected the likely conception to the month he disappeared and completely marked Chi Li.
• Si Jinyan told Lu Jiu not to tell Chi Li yet and asked whether carrying the child would endanger him.
• Lu Jiu said there was almost no data on the risks and promised to study the matter further.

Chi Li tried to understand Si Jinyan’s condition and the Empire’s experiments while adapting to their uneasy life together. Si Jinyan gradually gave Chi Li more freedom, but continued testing his boundaries as Chi Li grew reliant on his pheromones.

• Si Jinyan returned and told Chi Li he would respect his wishes, then shared his suspicions that the Emperor used the Humanoid Weapon Project to conceal the truth about Aberrant Forms.
• Si Jinyan’s pheromones helped Chi Li sleep, but Chi Li’s anxiety about the test report and his mark made him withdraw from Si Jinyan.
• At the base, Lu Jiu warned Si Jinyan that Chi Li was originally an alpha and might not accept the situation, while Si Jinyan remained silent.
• Si Jinyan gave Chi Li a Neural Computer that could not send messages outside, and Chi Li began releasing pheromones to soothe him.
• Si Jinyan kissed Chi Li until he struggled to breathe, then apologized; Chi Li warned him not to push his luck.

Si Jinyan took Chi Li to Lu Jiu for a follow-up examination, while Chi Li feared the test would confirm the pregnancy report. The results showed no pregnancy, and Chi Li concluded that his previous diagnosis had been mistaken.

• Si Jinyan secretly changed Chi Li’s meals to a pregnancy diet and asked the butler not to tell him.
• Si Jinyan took Chi Li to a hidden base and warned him to keep his distance from Bai Qi because he could not see through him.
• Lu Jiu examined Chi Li and reported that he had no infection and his wound had healed well.
• Chi Li checked the report, found no sign of pregnancy, and concluded that the earlier diagnosis was wrong.

After Chi Li’s examination, Lu Jiu told Si Jinyan that the healthy child might be egg-shaped because of Si Jinyan’s unusual genes, and warned that Chi Li would eventually need to know. At home, Si Jinyan’s condition worsened and he used pheromones and his tail to draw Chi Li closer, leaving Chi Li flustered by his intimate behavior.

• Lu Jiu showed Si Jinyan the examination report and said the child might be egg-shaped or retain a mermaid form, though its health indicators were normal.
• Lu Jiu advised Si Jinyan to bring Chi Li back for another examination and warned that Chi Li would find out sooner or later.
• Chi Li felt reassured after the examination and noticed that Si Jinyan respected his refusals, though Si Jinyan increasingly struggled to suppress his mermaid form and pheromones.
• Si Jinyan released pheromones during breakfast, and Chi Li briefly felt nauseated before the discomfort passed.
• That evening, Si Jinyan pulled Chi Li close and used his tail to pleasure him while Chi Li was affected by the pheromones.
• Chi Li came to his senses and protested when Si Jinyan brought his tail to his mouth and called it tasty.

Si Jinyan secretly soothed Chi Li and their unborn child with his tail and pheromones, then left to suppress a violent internal rage. Nearly half a month later, Chi Li had pieced together the villa’s location and was looking in the mirror after a shower when he noticed something wrong with his body.

• Si Jinyan carefully curled his fish tail around Chi Li’s stomach, and the unborn child gently nudged his tail before settling again.
• After soothing Chi Li and the child, Si Jinyan went to a separate room and endured a painful struggle to suppress his rage.
• Over the next half month, Chi Li followed Si Jinyan to the base and on outings, gradually figuring out the villa’s location.
• Chi Li realized he needed an opportunity to send the location to Qi Yan or someone from the mercenary corps, since he could not escape alone.
• After showering, Chi Li looked in the mirror and noticed something wrong with his body.

Chi Li noticed a strange bulge moving in his abdomen while bathing, unaware that Eggy, his developing child, had broken through Si Jinyan’s concealment and nudged him. Eggy sensed Chi Li’s overwhelming killing intent and froze in fear.

• With Si Jinyan away, Chi Li showered alone and noticed he had gained weight, deciding to exercise more.
• Chi Li saw a bulge move in his abdomen through the mirror and confirmed it moved again.
• Eggy, who had gradually developed consciousness, broke through Si Jinyan’s bewitching power because Si Jinyan was gone.
• Eggy cautiously nudged Chi Li’s belly twice, and Chi Li stared at the movement.
• Eggy sensed Chi Li’s killing intent and was too frightened to move.

Chi Li suspected that his body had undergone an unexplained change and grew uneasy about what Si Jinyan might do if he discovered it. The chapter ended with Chi Li suddenly straddling and kissing Si Jinyan, releasing his alpha pheromones.

• Chi Li remembered omega physiological changes after noticing an abnormality in the mirror, then wondered what Si Jinyan would do if he learned the truth.
• Si Jinyan embraced Chi Li and told him about an Aberrant Form he had dealt with, but Chi Li brushed off his touch and remained silent.
• Si Jinyan went to shower, while Chi Li continued trying to explain the unexplained abnormality he had seen.
• Si Jinyan lay beside Chi Li, wrapped his fish tail around Chi Li's ankle, and asked to smell his pheromones.
• Chi Li suddenly straddled Si Jinyan, kissed him, and unleashed his alpha pheromones, shocking Si Jinyan.

Chi Li tested Si Jinyan by pretending to enter a rut, but Si Jinyan restrained himself despite his desire. Chi Li realized Si Jinyan was hiding something and confronted him.

• Chi Li initiated a kiss and teased Si Jinyan by licking his fish tail, provoking his pheromones and desire.
• Si Jinyan reversed their positions and restrained Chi Li, but refused to take things further even when Chi Li urged him on.
• Chi Li recognized Si Jinyan’s restraint as evidence that he had regained control and was concealing something.
• Si Jinyan claimed he was afraid of hurting Chi Li after encountering an Aberrant Form, but Chi Li doubted his explanation.
• Si Jinyan offered to help Chi Li, but Chi Li grabbed his chin and sharply confronted him.

Chi Li confronted Si Jinyan about hiding the truth about his body, convinced that Si Jinyan had knotted him and made him pregnant. Si Jinyan denied knowing anything and proposed a medical check, leaving Chi Li uncertain but still distrustful.

• Chi Li stopped Si Jinyan and demanded to know what he was hiding, but Si Jinyan continued touching him until Chi Li ordered him to let go.
• Si Jinyan released Chi Li and promised to answer his questions, and Chi Li asked what was happening to his body.
• Chi Li accused Si Jinyan of knotting him and making him pregnant, but Si Jinyan reacted with apparent surprise and denied that it was possible because Chi Li was an Alpha.
• Si Jinyan suggested that Chi Li get checked the next day and wondered whether Chi Li had been testing him by pretending to be in a susceptible period.
• Si Jinyan said his condition was unstable after dealing with an Aberrant Form and suggested waiting a few days, while Chi Li remained suspicious and unsure whether to believe him.

Si Jinyan told Lu Jiu that the developing child could communicate with him, called him Father, and wanted to live, even as Chi Li continued to resent Si Jinyan for keeping him there. The chapter ended with Chi Li waking to feel a semi-hard layer beneath the skin near his ear, bringing him close to discovering the truth.

• Chi Li remained cold toward Si Jinyan and again asked when Si Jinyan would let him leave.
• Si Jinyan visited Lu Jiu and explained that Chi Li might have noticed the changes.
• Si Jinyan told Lu Jiu that the child called him Father, liked Chi Li, and was waiting to live.
• Chi Li felt a persistent itch near his ear and woke after touching a semi-hard layer beneath his skin.

Chi Li discovered translucent scales growing on his neck and learned that his body was changing because of Eggy. After a secret examination revealed Eggy might be born very soon, Chi Li confronted Si Jinyan and vowed to kill it himself.

• Chi Li noticed two scale-like patches on his neck, and Si Jinyan realized that Mermaid scales had appeared on a human.
• Chi Li demanded to know what Si Jinyan was hiding, and Lu Jiu examined Chi Li before taking him to the base for tests.
• Lu Jiu and Si Jinyan concluded that Eggy was causing Chi Li’s changes and might be born very soon.
• Chi Li confronted Si Jinyan about the secret and declared that he would kill Eggy himself.

Chi Li confronted Si Jinyan after realizing Si Jinyan had deceived him about the test result and declared that he would not keep the child. When Si Jinyan tried to stop him from leaving, Chi Li threatened himself with a knife, leaving Si Jinyan kneeling and pleading.

• Chi Li connected the clues and concluded that Si Jinyan had fabricated his test report and hidden the truth from him.
• Chi Li told Si Jinyan, "I won't keep it," and said he would go back and handle the matter himself.
• Si Jinyan said Chi Li could not go back, and Chi Li punched him when he refused to let him leave.
• Chi Li backed toward the window with a knife and pressed the blade against himself when Si Jinyan approached.
• Si Jinyan knelt in panic and begged Chi Li to stop, promising that he no longer wanted the child.

Chi Li forced Si Jinyan to agree to help remove the egg, and Lu Jiu confirmed it was a small, silver-white egg influenced by Mermaid genes. As Si Jinyan prepared to part from it, Eggy spoke to him in Mermaid Language and told him not to cry.

• Chi Li lowered the knife after Si Jinyan promised not to lie again and to help him.
• Si Jinyan wiped the blood from the knife, broke it in half, and followed Chi Li out of the office.
• Chi Li told Lu Jiu to get rid of the egg, and Lu Jiu treated his wound and showed him the test reports.
• Lu Jiu said he would find a way to remove the egg as soon as possible, and Chi Li returned to the bedroom without speaking to Si Jinyan.
• Si Jinyan quietly spoke to Eggy as Chi Li slept, and Eggy told him, in halting Mermaid Language, not to cry.

After Lu Jiu explained that Si Jinyan was an enigma, Chi Li began looking at him with new questions, while Si Jinyan grew uneasy about having his true nature exposed. The next day, Bai Qi arrived to see Chi Li.

• Si Jinyan comforted Eggy while Chi Li slept, then watched Chi Li from beside the bed.
• Lu Jiu explained to Chi Li that Si Jinyan was an enigma, describing the traits and drawbacks of the rare identity.
• Si Jinyan felt awkward as Lu Jiu revealed his nature to Chi Li, and Chi Li studied him with complicated emotions.
• After returning, Chi Li kept glancing at Si Jinyan, who asked whether Chi Li wanted to know something.
• Bai Qi visited the next day and greeted Chi Li with, "Long time no see."

Bai Qi told Chi Li that he had foreseen a future of war and monsters, and revealed that someone had obscured Chi Li’s childhood memories. He offered to help restore them, leaving Chi Li to decide while Si Jinyan’s worsening loss of control weighed on them both.

• Bai Qi visited Si Jinyan’s residence and asked to speak privately with Chi Li.
• Bai Qi explained that the Emperor kept him as a diviner and described visions of war, scaled monsters, collapse, and a new god.
• Bai Qi told Chi Li that his past had been deliberately obscured and offered to lift the fog, but Chi Li said he needed time to think.
• After Bai Qi left, Si Jinyan admitted that the substitute inhibitor was becoming less effective.
• Chi Li realized he might be the only person who could help Si Jinyan and felt distressed at the thought of Si Jinyan becoming an Aberrant Form, then left the room.

Bai Qi hinted that he was helping fate move forward, while Si Jinyan offered Chi Li help and received a guarded refusal. That night, Chi Li dreamed of his fathers dying in a fire and witnessed a young Si Jinyan implanting a black Scale into his heart before waking at dawn.

• Bai Qi told his attendant that those swept into fate had no choice and that he was only helping fate along.
• At dinner, Si Jinyan apologized to Chi Li and promised to help him, but Chi Li said he needed nothing from him.
• Chi Li dreamed of his fathers trapped in a fire and realized they had died in circumstances unlike the accounts he had been told.
• In the dream, Chi Li watched a young Si Jinyan remove a black Scale from his own chest and implant it into Chi Li, saying their hearts were pressed together.
• Chi Li woke at dawn, shaken by a dream that felt both unreal and true.

Chi Li let Bai Qi guide him through his recovered memories, reliving his loving childhood and the trauma of his fathers’ deaths. He discovered that Jin was the young Si Jinyan and saw how their friendship began, leaving his past tied to the child his fathers had tried to protect.

• Chi Li agreed to let Bai Qi help recover his memories, trusting that Bai Qi could not harm a descendant of the Mermaid Royal Family.
• Chi Li remembered the warmth of life with his fathers and the pain of being held back as he watched their home burn.
• Chi Li recalled that his fathers had worked at the Luolan Direct Research Institute, where he met the quiet child Jin in a wheelchair.
• Chi Li learned that Jin was the child entrusted to his fathers by the emperor, and that his alpha father feared Jin’s dangerous nature while his omega father wanted him to have a childhood.
• Chi Li pitied Jin and offered him eager friendship, while Jin began drawing him closer by saying he envied Chi Li’s many friends.