Recaps

Lan Su tested Yu Tu’s blood and discovered that it contained a lethal amount of Desire Compound, which might explain his emotional instability. The revelation left Lu Mi facing the possibility that Yu Tu had survived only through luck.

• Lu Mi distracted Yu Tu from the blood draw by kissing him while Lan Su collected a sample.
• After Lan Su teased Lu Mi about treating Yu Tu like a prisoner, Yu Tu attacked Lu Mi, then apologized and massaged his waist.
• Lan Su finished the tests and told Lu Mi that Yu Tu’s blood contained more than a hundred kinds of drug residues.
• Lan Su explained that Desire Compound could not be metabolized by Diamond-grade Energy Masters and that intercourse was the only way to reduce it.
• Lan Su revealed that Yu Tu’s Desire Compound level had reached a lethal dose and might be causing his emotional breakdowns.

Lan Su revealed that Yu Tu had been captured for a breeding experiment, while Lu Mi learned the compound in Yu Tu’s body could be removed. After Lu Mi carried Yu Tu away, Lan Su confessed his feelings to Cang Qi and promised to cherish him.

• Lan Su showed Lu Mi a confidential report describing experiments intended to pass on vine power and a list of missing women who were likely used in the scheme.
• Lan Su suggested Yu Tu had killed the missing women and explained that the compound in his body had reached a lethal dose without the researchers obtaining offspring.
• Yu Tu got angry over Lan Su’s insult, and Lu Mi carried him away after Lan Su said the compound could be eliminated through more exercise.
• Cang Qi arrived with new mechanical toys and checked on White Star, his rebuilt pet mech that served as Lan Su’s wheelchair.
• Lan Su told Cang Qi that White Star liked him as its owner did, then kissed Cang Qi and promised to cherish him for the rest of his life.

Lu Mi resisted Yu Tu’s attempts to persuade him to exercise together, then received orders requiring Yu Tu to complete daily prison check-ins. Lu Mi created a tightly controlled schedule centered on his own special interrogations, while the reason for the higher-ups’ interest in Yu Tu remained unclear.

• Lu Mi brought Yu Tu into Cell 05, kissed him after Yu Tu asked for a reward, and refused to exercise with him again that day.
• Lu Mi received orders requiring Yu Tu to attend recreation, eat in the cafeteria, and earn compensation, and learned that Yu Tu could be transferred if he failed to check in.
• Lu Mi decided to obey the orders and drafted a strict daily schedule that included repeated special interrogations of Yu Tu.
• Zhang Jiao worried that the interrogation schedule was too intense, but Lu Mi insisted he attend each check-in and then leave.
• Lu Mi took Zhang Jiao on patrol and hoped no one would provoke him.

Lu Mi set strict rules for Yu Tu at First Prison, while Yu Tu’s first group breakfast frightened the inmates and staff despite his polite behavior. After Yu Tu petted Black Shadow in the exercise yard, Lu Mi took him to the special interrogation room and insisted that the panther mech was nothing like him.

• Lu Mi gave Yu Tu a schedule and ordered him to avoid using his Diamond-Grade Vine, speaking with serious criminals, or trusting anyone but Lu Mi.
• Yu Tu followed the prison officer to breakfast, where the inmates let him skip the line and gave up their seats; his faint smile terrified everyone.
• A prison officer complained that Yu Tu had intimidated the cafeteria, but Lu Mi watched the footage and defended Yu Tu’s behavior.
• Lu Mi summoned Yu Tu to the special interrogation room after breakfast, and Yu Tu stopped to pet Black Shadow on the way.
• Lu Mi introduced Black Shadow as his mutated pet mech and claimed it was unlike him, while Black Shadow joyfully celebrated being petted.

After four grueling interrogation sessions with Yu Tu, Lu Mi was left exhausted and sought medicine to endure Yu Tu’s intense needs. Lan Su gave him a purple potion and said he would tell Cang Qi about Lu Mi’s predicament.

• After Lu Mi sent Yu Tu to the cafeteria, prison officers mistakenly concluded that Yu Tu had become Lu Mi’s owner and that Lu Mi was lovesick.
• Lu Mi returned to his resting pod with a sore waist, used three One-Patch Spirit patches, and went to visit Lan Su.
• Lan Su revealed that Cang Qi’s red face came from a kiss, and Cang Qi shyly fled to the bedroom after Lan Su pulled him onto his lap.
• Lan Su teased Lu Mi about being unable to handle Yu Tu, then agreed to make him medicine when Lu Mi admitted his waist hurt.
• Lan Su gave Lu Mi a bottle of purple medicine with strict dosage instructions and told him he would share the matter with Cang Qi.

Lu Mi used Lan Su’s purple potion to endure four interrogations with Yu Tu, then tried to hide his reliance on it. The chapter ended with Rete mistaking Lu Mi’s potion and supplies for remedies for overexertion, while Lu Mi planned to use Rete’s prescription after his supply ran out.

• Lu Mi returned to the Warden's Rest Cabin, teased Black Shadow about Yu Tu’s kisses, and secretly took out Lan Su’s purple potion.
• Lu Mi took ten milliliters of the potion before each of the next day’s four interrogations, impressing Yu Tu while insisting that he was strong to begin with.
• After the final interrogation, Lu Mi followed Rete to the infirmary and received a box of supplies, including a waist brace, energy boosters, and injury medicine.
• Lu Mi told Rete that he was not the one on the bottom, but Rete continued to assume he was exhausted from overexertion with Yu Tu.
• Lu Mi admitted he had obtained a week’s worth of potion from Lan Su and said he would use Rete’s prescription once his ordered ingredients arrived.

Yu Tu was assigned to the Seventh Operations Room, where Ai Mu and the other serious offenders tried to assault him. Yu Tu attacked Ai Mu with his White Vines, and a report that he had killed number 0763 reached Lu Mi.

• Five days later, Yu Tu arrived at the Seventh Operations Room and began assembly work.
• Ai Mu arranged for a fight to distract the prison officers, then had the offenders barricade the room and destroy its surveillance camera.
• Ai Mu confronted Yu Tu and demanded that he submit to him, but Yu Tu told him to fuck off.
• Yu Tu stabbed Ai Mu with a screwdriver and strangled him with White Vines as the other offenders watched in terror.
• A prison officer reported that number 0456 had killed number 0763, and Lu Mi opened his eyes in response.

After Yu Tu killed Ai Mu, Lu Mi punished him by sending him to Ghoststone Forest for half a month and arranged an escort from the First Prison. Before the escort left, Lu Mi secretly suffocated the surviving Ai Mu and had Rete record his death as the result of his injuries.

• Lu Mi arrived at the Seventh Operations Room, where he found Yu Tu holding Ai Mu with his vines while assembling mechanical parts.
• Yu Tu told Lu Mi that Ai Mu had wanted to have sex with him, so Yu Tu had killed him; Lu Mi handcuffed Yu Tu and took him to the Special Interrogation Room.
• Lu Mi sentenced Yu Tu to spend half a month in Ghoststone Forest, comforted him, and told him to keep his white vines hidden when angry.
• Lu Mi sent Yu Tu to Ghoststone Forest with Cang Qi, Zhang Jiao, prison officers, and Black Shadow escorting him.
• Lu Mi went to the infirmary, suffocated the still-living Ai Mu, and told Rete to report that Ai Mu had died from his injuries.

Lu Mi discovered that Lin Luo, Mo Ke, and Luo Wei had gone unreachable after Ship 03 was destroyed, with its last known location at Z60 Abandoned Planet. Before leaving to investigate, he checked on Yu Tu in Ghoststone Forest and asked Cang Qi to watch over him.

• Lu Mi tried to contact Lin Luo, Mo Ke, and Luo Wei, but all communications failed.
• Lu Mi learned from Ship 03's damaged black box that it had been destroyed at Z60 Abandoned Planet and heard a message challenging him to go there on January 27th of the 2046 Era.
• Cang Qi told Lu Mi that Yu Tu was doing well in Ghoststone Forest and showed him a video of Yu Tu happily describing an illusion of Lu Mi.
• Lu Mi asked Cang Qi to keep watching Yu Tu and tell him, "Lu Xiaojiu, forever loving his commander," if Lu Mi did not return.
• Lu Mi ordered Ship 01 prepared for departure and left First Prison's order in others' hands while he went out.

Lu Mi traveled toward Z60 Abandoned Planet while Yu Tu endured a blizzard and missed him in Ghoststone Forest. Ming Qiuxue arrived with an official order to interrogate prisoner 0456, and Cang Qi agreed to let him take Yu Tu away.

• Lu Mi piloted Ship 01 toward Z60 Abandoned Planet, thinking of Yu Tu's Partner Mark.
• Yu Tu shivered beneath ten quilts as his illusion of Lu Mi turned their exercise into winter swimming, and he told Cang Qi he missed the real Lu Mi.
• Cang Qi relayed Lu Mi's message, "Lu Xiaojiu will always love his commander," but neither he nor Yu Tu knew who Lu Xiaojiu was.
• Zhang Jiao challenged Ming Qiuxue's authority to interrogate prisoner 0456, but Ming Qiuxue showed them a genuine Interrogation Order signed by Deputy Director Tian.
• Cang Qi remembered Lu Mi's instructions and allowed Ming Qiuxue to take Yu Tu for interrogation.

Yu Tu was taken back to Second Prison for emergency interrogation and asked Cang Qi to tell Lu Mi where he had gone. Meanwhile, Lu Mi tracked down the ship that had destroyed Ship 03 and was accused of tampering with Yu Tu’s transfer and detention.

• Yu Tu asked why Lu Mi had not come to collect him, then agreed to go with Ming Qiuxue and the Second Prison officers.
• Yu Tu told Cang Qi to inform Lu Mi that he had been moved, and Cang Qi gave him his coat before he was led into the snow.
• Cang Qi tried to message Lu Mi, but every message failed to send, leaving him to wonder where Lu Mi had gone.
• Lu Mi landed on the garbage-covered planet, found wreckage from Ship 03’s black box, and confronted a hidden spaceship emerging from the trash.
• A voice from the spaceship accused Lu Mi of tampering with Yu Tu’s transfer and detention.

Lu Mi confronted Yi Que and his Energy Master ambush after Yi Que revealed his role in diverting Yu Tu’s transfer. At the Second Prison, Ming Qiuxue refused Qi An’s attempt to take charge of Yu Tu’s interrogation and postponed it until morning.

• Yi Que admitted that he had lured Lu Mi to the ship and said he had killed Lu Mi’s men, then ordered twenty-eight Energy Masters to capture him.
• Lu Mi evaded their attacks, mocked Yi Que, and fought back with his Dark Whip as Yi Que summoned his Spotted Hyena source-energy weapon.
• At the Second Prison, Qi An presented an observer’s warrant and offered to conduct Yu Tu’s interrogation himself.
• Ming Qiuxue ordered Yu Tu placed in solitary cell 09 and scheduled an emergency interrogation for the following morning, then challenged Qi An to object.

Lu Mi defeated Yi Que’s forces on Z60 Abandoned Planet, but a spacecraft explosion left his fate uncertain. On Calamity Planet, Yu Tu confessed to killing a prisoner but refused to demonstrate his power or leave, because Lu Mi was there.

• Lu Mi revealed that he had been teasing Yi Que while testing whether Yi Que had backup plans, then killed him and five Energy Masters.
• Lin Luo, Mo Ke, and Luo Wei revealed that Lin Luo’s illusions had kept them safe, and Lu Mi found a Royal Imperial Guard token on a dead subordinate.
• The spacecraft’s self-destruct system activated, so Lu Mi damaged the console to stop its surveillance backup from uploading before the ship exploded.
• Ming Qiuxue questioned Yu Tu about killing 0763, and Yu Tu admitted he was wrong.
• Qi An pressed Yu Tu to demonstrate the white vines that had killed 0763 and offered him a chance to leave Calamity Planet, but Yu Tu said he did not want to leave while Lu Mi was there.

Lu Mi returned to Second Prison and found Yu Tu brutally tortured after Tian Chi ordered an extreme interrogation to force him to reveal his vine power. The chapter ended with Lu Mi attacking Qi An in a furious rage.

• Qi An pressured Yu Tu to display his Diamond-Grade Vine, but Yu Tu refused and Ming Qiuxue ended the emergency interrogation.
• Tian Chi took over the interrogation by video call and ordered Ming Qiuxue to electrocute Yu Tu, escalating the voltage when Yu Tu showed no Source Power.
• Ming Qiuxue tried to stop the torture, but Tian Chi invoked Ming Qiuxue's parents and ordered him to wait outside.
• Lu Mi arrived at Second Prison with Lin Luo, Mo Ke, and Luo Wei, then found Yu Tu hanging in the Special Interrogation Room, badly wounded.
• Lu Mi lunged at Qi An, seized him by the throat, and threatened to kill him.

Lu Mi rescued Yu Tu from Second Prison and brought him to Ship 01, where Yu Tu began healing while Lu Mi succumbed to a fatal chest wound. Yu Tu’s hidden Black Panther Brand remained intact, and he awakened with white eyes and longer hair to save Lu Mi.

• Lu Mi held back from attacking Qi An, then confirmed Yu Tu was still breathing after Qi An left the interrogation room.
• Lu Mi and the doctors removed the hooks from Yu Tu, and Lu Mi carried him to Ship 01 while the doctors treated his wounds.
• Lu Mi removed Yu Tu’s five Energy Lock Rings and urged him to heal; White Vine emerged and began closing Yu Tu’s wounds.
• Lu Mi treated his own chest injury but collapsed as the ship reached First Prison, while Yu Tu’s Black Panther Brand glowed beneath his regrown flesh.
• Yu Tu woke with completely white eyes, carried Lu Mi to the bed, and called him “My Lu Xiaojiu.”

After Yu Tu used his origin power to heal Lu Mi, he fell into a dormant state, and Lu Mi took him back to his cabin to recover. Lu Mi investigated the attack on Yu Tu, killed the prison officer who lied, and exposed the people who had incited the assault.

• Yu Tu woke from his aberrant state, healed Lu Mi’s chest wound, and collapsed into dormancy; Lu Mi woke and apologized to him before taking him to his cabin.
• Lu Mi ordered Black Shadow to guard Yu Tu and keep everyone, including Ming Qiuxue, away from him.
• Lu Mi questioned those present during the attack and killed Zhang Qing after determining he had arranged the schedule that put Yu Tu and Ai Mu together.
• Lu Mi learned that 0765, 0767, and 0768 had encouraged Ai Mu to attack Yu Tu, while prison officers had assigned them to the same operations room.
• Peter tried to draw his energy gun and then bite his tongue, but Lu Mi disarmed and injured him, ordered the three serious criminals whipped, and took Peter away for further questioning.

Lu Mi examined Peter’s memories and uncovered his secret communications with an unknown master about Yu Tu. The scan led Lu Mi to find a Slave-Taming Eye hidden in Peter’s left eye, though its purpose and the master’s identity remained unknown.

• Cang Qi agreed to scan Peter’s memories, and Lu Mi knocked Peter unconscious so the scan could proceed.
• The memories showed Peter reporting to an unseen master and plotting to make Yu Tu incur Lu Mi’s punishments.
• The recordings revealed that Peter had warned his master after Lu Mi took the badly injured Yu Tu from the Second Prison.
• Cang Qi detected a device in Peter’s left eye, and Lu Mi dug it out and strangled Peter.
• Cang Qi identified the recovered object as the Slave-Taming Eye.

Lu Mi and Cang Qi uncovered the origins of the Slave-Taming Eye and suspected the Emperor of Blue River had targeted Ming Qiuxue and Yu Tu. When the higher-ups suspended Ming Qiuxue and ordered Yu Tu transferred to the Third Prison, Lu Mi openly defied the order and confronted Qi An.

• Cang Qi explained that Master Moore's Slave-Taming Eye blueprint enabled a primary controller to control and kill its implanted secondary controller, and that building it would require a breakthrough in space folding.
• Lu Mi inferred that Ming Qiuxue was the next target and suspected the Emperor of Blue River had arranged to use Yu Tu's interrogation to undermine Ming Qiuxue.
• Zhang Jiao told Lu Mi that Ming Qiuxue had been suspended and that the higher-ups ordered Yu Tu transferred to Qi An's Third Prison.
• Lu Mi ordered the First Prison officers to fight the Third Prison officers guarding the Second Prison gates, then entered the prison and confronted Qi An.
• Lu Mi told Qi An that he had openly defied the transfer order and asked what Qi An would do about it.

Lu Mi learned that Ming Qiuxue had been suspended and confined to a cell in Third Prison, then received Ming’s message about the coming F Plan. Through Golden Eye, Ming witnessed Lu Mi’s jealous antics over Yu Tu, while Golden Eye insisted it liked handsome men.

• Ming Qiuxue accepted the suspension order and followed Qi An to a single-occupancy cell in Third Prison, with Jinshan and Yinshan accompanying him.
• Lu Mi realized Ming’s suspension was effectively imprisonment and returned to his quarters, where Black Shadow’s jealous thoughts about Golden Eye and Yu Tu overwhelmed him.
• Lu Mi asked Golden Eye for Ming’s message and agreed to wait for the order to begin the F Plan, warning that a fierce battle would soon take place on Calamity Planet.
• Golden Eye slipped into Yu Tu’s blanket, prompting Lu Mi to throw it against the wall and declare that Yu Tu belonged to him.
• Ming Qiuxue witnessed Lu Mi cuddling Yu Tu through Golden Eye and heard Golden Eye claim that fragrant handsome men were hard to resist.

Yu Tu and Lu Mi spent the night together, and Lu Mi woke sore after inviting Yu Tu to punish him. As Lu Mi resumed cooking at the cabin, Black Shadow and Golden Eye competed for Yu Tu’s affection, leaving Black Shadow’s tail shaped like a heart and Ming Qiuxue relieved that Black Shadow had gone a little crazy too.

• Yu Tu told Lu Mi he wanted him, and Lu Mi shackled himself to the bed so Yu Tu could punish him.
• The next morning, Lu Mi struggled to stand while Yu Tu massaged his sore waist and teased him about his stamina.
• Lu Mi cooked for Yu Tu, while Black Shadow and Golden Eye tried to win Yu Tu’s attention with affectionate displays.
• Black Shadow stormed into the yellow sand after Golden Eye earned Yu Tu’s praise, then returned with a heart-shaped tail tip.
• Ming Qiuxue smiled in Third Prison, glad that Black Shadow had also become a little crazy.

Lu Mi learned that the higher-ups had warned him for refusing to send Yu Tu away, while an Imperial force arrived at the Second Prison to take Ming Qiuxue back to Blue Star. After Ming Qiuxue learned that his parents had killed themselves, he declared that he would rebel.

• Lu Mi scolded Black Shadow for turning its hidden weapon into a heart, and Black Shadow later knocked Golden Eye off Yu Tu and sat on it.
• Yu Tu accidentally answered Lin Luo’s call, and Lu Mi told Lin Luo to ignore the higher-ups’ warning because he would not send Yu Tu away.
• Lin Luo was stunned by Lu Mi’s intimate exchange with Yu Tu, while an Imperial warship brought Zeng Yun, Chang Feng, and soldiers to the Second Prison for Ming Qiuxue.
• Ming Qiuxue asked Zeng Yun and Chang Feng about his parents, and Chang Feng revealed a projection of them before they took their own lives.
• Ming Qiuxue laughed and declared that he would rebel against the ruler.

Ming Qiuxue broke free and launched the revised F Annihilation Plan against those who had imprisoned him. Lu Mi and his allies chose to join the fight, and Lu Mi called on First Prison’s officers to battle for their future.

• Ming Qiuxue transformed, shattered his restraints, and ordered the Second Prison and Ming Family Army to kill Qi An and Zeng Yun.
• Lu Mi told the others that the F Plan had become the F Annihilation Plan and asked whether they would join Ming Qiuxue.
• Lu Mi and the group chose to fight, and he took Yu Tu’s hand as they set out to break through the prison.
• Yu Tu asked Lu Mi if he liked him, but Lu Mi called him a little cowlick; Lin Luo watched them and thought Lu Mi was deeply in love.
• Lu Mi opened communications to all First Prison officers and urged them to fight for their future.

Lu Mi led First Prison’s officers to join the battle at Second Prison, revealing his connection to Yu Tu as he confronted Qi An. The fighting escalated, and Yu Tu asked to try Cang Qi’s newly developed Energy Sprayer.

• Lu Mi led nearly 70 percent of First Prison’s officers out through the gates to fight for their future.
• At Second Prison, Ming Qiuxue and Chang Feng fought Qi An and Zeng Yun until Lu Mi and First Prison’s officers arrived.
• Lu Mi threw Golden Eye at Qi An’s Vulture Mecha, then placed Yu Tu on Black Shadow and challenged Qi An.
• Lu Mi revealed that he was also Lu Xiaojiu and declared that Commander Yu Tu had his back.
• Qi An accused Yu Tu of treason and threatened him, but Lu Mi launched an attack while the prison officers charged into battle.
• Cang Qi demonstrated his Energy Sprayer, and Yu Tu asked if he could try it.

Yu Tu used Cang Qi’s Energy Sprayer to attack Qi An while Lu Mi and Ming Qiuxue gained the upper hand against their opponents. The Prison Directorate arrived with Deputy Director Tian Chi, who ordered the rebels killed and claimed Yu Tu, prompting Yu Tu to declare he belonged to Lu Mi.

• Cang Qi gave Yu Tu the Energy Sprayer, and Yu Tu fired a weak shot before unleashing its full power at Qi An.
• Lu Mi repeatedly drove Qi An into the sand, while Yu Tu fired at him and struck his left eye.
• More than a hundred Prison Directorate spacecraft arrived above Second Prison, carrying Imperial Army soldiers and Deputy Director Tian Chi.
• Tian Chi ordered the Imperial Army to kill the rebels, including Yu Tu, and Yu Tu angrily insisted that he belonged to Lu Mi.

Lu Mi openly confessed his love for Yu Tu during the battle, while Tian Chi used Lan Xiao’s edict to rally Calamity Planet’s violent offenders against them. As the battlefield turned against the prison officers, Yu Tu rode Black Shadow to Lu Mi, who kissed him before ordering him to leave.

• Lu Mi told Tian Chi that Yu Tu was the person he loved, leaving Yu Tu flustered and making the onlookers gossip.
• Tian Chi announced Lan Xiao’s Thousand Pardons Edict, ordered the prison gates opened, and called the violent offenders to help exterminate the rebels.
• Ming Qiuxue and Lu Mi attacked Tian Chi, but Imperial Army soldiers shielded him as violent offenders joined the fight and shifted the battle’s advantage.
• Yu Tu decided to capture the enemy leader first and rode Black Shadow with Cang Qi toward Lu Mi, leaving the attackers to find Zhang Jiao instead.
• Lu Mi scolded Yu Tu for coming into danger, kissed him, and ordered him to get out of the fight.