Recaps

Chi Li concealed his alpha identity while becoming Si Jinyan’s source of stability, and their growing attachment drew them into political conflict and repeated danger. After Chi Li survived an abduction and Si Jinyan permanently marked him during a susceptible period, Si Jinyan wondered whether the bond could be undone.

• Chi Li entered Si Jinyan’s room disguised as an omega, calmed his rut with his pheromones, and was sent to live at Si Jinyan’s residence as his compatible omega.
• As Chi Li and Si Jinyan grew closer, Si Jinyan investigated Chi Li’s suspicious background while Chi Li secretly sought ways to help and comfort him.
• Chi Li was caught in a hostage crisis, and Si Jinyan took bullets meant for him before recovering in the hospital and revealing his strange healing abilities.
• Si Jinyan rejected the political marriage arranged by the Emperor, defended Chi Li from Yao Di, and continued relying on Chi Li’s pheromones as Chi Li’s heats grew severe.
• Mercenaries abducted Chi Li and extracted his pheromones, but he escaped, reached the coast, and was rescued by Bai Qi before Si Jinyan found him.
• Si Jinyan brought Chi Li to the research institute, where investigators suspected Yao Di had hired the attackers, while Geng Ji grew suspicious about Chi Li’s return.
• During Si Jinyan’s susceptible period, he bit Chi Li’s nape and permanently marked him, then concealed the mark as Lu Jiu warned that the bond could expose them to their enemies.
• Si Jinyan told Lu Jiu that keeping Chi Li by his side might be reasonable, then asked whether a permanent mark could disappear like a temporary one.

Chi Li’s espionage is exposed, and Si Jinyan’s transformation leads to a violent separation before Chi Li escapes back to Loran. A year and a half later, Si Jinyan finds Chi Li again, marks him, and confines him as his condition worsens.

• Si Jinyan learned that Chi Li was an alpha spy from Loran, while Chi Li discovered footage of Si Jinyan as a mermaid and copied the recording and his medical reports.
• Si Jinyan confronted Chi Li during his susceptible period, and after Chi Li’s alpha pheromones returned, Si Jinyan nearly lost control and confined him at the Marshal’s Residence.
• Chi Li escaped with help from Bai Qi’s guard, who shot him with a tracking pistol, while researchers trapped Si Jinyan and extracted his blood until he transformed.
• Si Jinyan found Chi Li in a cave and, driven by his transformed instincts, repeatedly marked and restrained him before Chi Li later escaped and returned to Loran.
• Chi Li resumed his military work, suffered unexplained abdominal pain, and received a hospital report suggesting he might be in the early stages of pregnancy.
• During a mercenary mission at Shi Jiahua’s banquet, Si Jinyan broke into Chi Li’s room, restrained him, and forced his companions to stay away.
• Si Jinyan admitted that he had marked Chi Li, triggered his heat, and took him away, then chained him in a room at a secret base.
• Geng Ji warned Si Jinyan that his unstable condition and dependence on Chi Li’s pheromones could create a dangerous cycle, while Chi Li failed to escape his restraints.

Si Jinyan hid Chi Li’s pregnancy while struggling to control his mermaid nature, until Chi Li discovered the truth and demanded that the egg be removed. As Si Jinyan’s condition worsened, Chi Li agreed to Bai Qi’s help recovering his memories and began recalling his childhood bond with Jin.

• Si Jinyan kept Chi Li confined and struggled to control his possessiveness and mermaid transformation, while Chi Li searched for a way to escape.
• After a malformed creature attacked Chi Li, Lu Jiu tested him and discovered he was pregnant, but Si Jinyan concealed the result and secretly changed his meals.
• Chi Li noticed his abdomen moving and later confronted Si Jinyan about his bodily changes, but Si Jinyan pretended not to know about the pregnancy.
• When scales appeared on Chi Li’s neck, Lu Jiu and Si Jinyan realized Eggy was causing the changes, and Chi Li demanded that the egg be removed.
• Chi Li threatened himself with a knife until Si Jinyan promised to stop lying and help him, then Lu Jiu agreed to find a way to remove Eggy.
• Bai Qi told Chi Li that the Emperor had obscured his past and offered to restore his memories, while Si Jinyan admitted his substitute inhibitor was failing.
• Chi Li dreamed that a young Si Jinyan had implanted a black Scale in his chest, then agreed to let Bai Qi recover his memories.
• Chi Li remembered his fathers’ home burning and recalled meeting the quiet child Jin at the Luolan Direct Research Institute, where he offered Jin his friendship.

Chi Li recovered his memories of Jin and discovered that Si Jinyan’s mermaid instincts and their unborn child were bound up with his recovery. After Chi Li chose to let the child live, Si Jinyan secretly preserved their egg, while evidence of Emperor Yao Di’s experiments set the stage for a prolonged conflict.

• Chi Li recovered memories of Jin’s childhood experiments and confronted Si Jinyan in a laboratory, where Si Jinyan’s mermaid form had emerged after his pheromone substitute failed.
• Chi Li entered Si Jinyan’s chamber and calmed him with his pheromones, but Si Jinyan’s possessive instincts overwhelmed him until Lu Jiu intervened and took Chi Li for treatment.
• Si Jinyan broke free and wept pearls when he saw Chi Li, then clung to him as Chi Li reassured him and learned the growth inside him might be a mature mermaid fetus.
• Chi Li decided to let the child live, but Si Jinyan secretly stayed conscious when Chi Li sedated him for the procedure, and Eggy reached out to Chi Li during the operation, and Chi Li stopped to comfort Si Jinyan.
• Si Jinyan took Chi Li to a hidden room and soothed him, while Eggy communicated that he feared Chi Li no longer wanted him, and afterward, Lu Jiu found Chi Li’s readings stable and the shadow on his scan gone.
• Si Jinyan and Lu Jiu watched Eggy roll into Si Jinyan’s hand, and Si Jinyan later returned home to cling to Chi Li as he continued recovering.
• Geng Ji showed Chi Li and Si Jinyan evidence that Emperor Yao Di was using people and the Marshal’s blood in experiments to create another Si Jinyan, and Si Jinyan urged preparations for a prolonged battle.
• Chi Li struggled with accepting Eggy and told Si Jinyan to leave with the egg, but later found himself sleeping comfortably in Si Jinyan’s nest and told him so.