Chapter Summaries

The survivors explored Little Seven Castle’s Food Production Hut and learned it could rapidly grow food, while Lu Mi and Yu Tu shared a kiss beneath its mist sprinklers. At Ming Qiuxue’s meeting, the group agreed to restore Lan Su to the throne, but Lu Mi questioned why Lan Su had once sent Vicks to find Yu Tu.

• Cang Qi discovered that Little Seven Castle’s Food Production Hut used machinery to accelerate time and grow food, including crops and chicks.
• Yu Tu enjoyed the sprinklers like a sunshower, and Lu Mi kissed him before Ming Qiuxue cleared the way for them.
• Ming Qiuxue told the wardens that Calamity Planet was covered by the ocean, the Imperial Army had withdrawn, and Little Seven Castle could feed everyone.
• Ming Qiuxue urged the group to create their own heaven by restoring Lan Su to the throne, and Lan Su agreed after Cang Qi supported him.
• Lu Mi accepted Ming Qiuxue’s proposal but asked Lan Su why he had sent Vicks to find Yu Tu.

Lan Su revealed that his five-year-old order to check Yu Tu’s memories had been prompted by Lan Xiao’s secret command for Yu Tu to kill Lu Xiaojiu. Lu Mi confronted the painful truth, then comforted Yu Tu as he realized he had once stabbed Lu Mi, and the story ended with Yu Tu making Lu Mi honor his private request.

• Lan Su explained that he had sent Vicks to verify whether Yu Tu’s memories were damaged because Yu Tu had once been Lan Xiao’s fiercely loyal First Commander.
• Vicks disclosed that Lan Xiao had ordered Yu Tu to kill Lu Xiaojiu five years earlier and that Lu Xiaojiu’s death had allowed Lu Mi to exist.
• Lu Mi ended the discussion, assigned Ming Qiuxue to coordinate with Lan Su, and hurried back to Yu Tu after spotting a vine withdrawing from the skybridge.
• Yu Tu admitted he was punishing himself because he remembered stabbing Lu Mi, and Lu Mi comforted him and kissed away his tears.
• Yu Tu restrained Lu Mi and demanded to be called the name Lu Mi had used for Warden Ming; after a prolonged encounter, Lu Mi gave in while Yu Tu promised to keep repaying him.

Ming Qiuxue organized the prisoners into squads to prepare Little Seven Castle to become the independent Freedom Star, while Lu Mi and Ming Qiuxue cooked the group’s first hot meal. Later, Ming Qiuxue confronted Lu Mi with his belief that Yu Tu had been clear-headed when he tried to kill him, and Lu Mi insisted he would not let anyone retaliate against Yu Tu if he killed him again.

• Ming Qiuxue assigned Lu Mi and himself to lead First Squad and Second Squad as they trained and prepared to seek independence, but Little Seven Castle still needed more residents to meet the application requirement.
• When no one else could cook, Lu Mi and Ming Qiuxue prepared a hot meal for everyone, and Lu Mi later collected medicinal herbs from Rete without Yu Tu finding out.
• Ming Qiuxue told Lu Mi he did not believe Yu Tu had been controlled when he tried to kill him and said Yu Tu had been clear-headed.
• Lu Mi warned Ming Qiuxue not to use that revelation against Yu Tu and said that, if Yu Tu killed him, no one was allowed to avenge him.

Lu Mi reluctantly shared a cat teaser with Black Shadow, then indulged Yu Tu’s desire to see his panther form before secretly brewing medicine at dawn. He left the story relieved when Vicks offered to brew his medicine and deliver it discreetly.

• Lu Mi teased Black Shadow with his cat teaser but allowed him only three seconds to play with it.
• Lu Mi changed into his panther form for Yu Tu, who used paper balls held by his White Vines as cat teasers before asking for his turn.
• After spending the night with Yu Tu, Lu Mi woke early and went downstairs to brew medicine to restore his stamina.
• Vicks walked in on Lu Mi brewing medicine, and Rete later revealed to Vicks that the medicine had aphrodisiac effects.
• The next morning, Vicks offered to brew Lu Mi’s medicine and secretly leave it outside his room, and Lu Mi gratefully agreed.

Lan Xiao confronted Potter, while Yan Mei attempted to kill the recovering Tian Chi and taunted Lan Xiao about Yu Tu and Ming Qiuxue surviving. On Little Seven Castle, Yu Tu suddenly regained his adult memories, leaving Lu Mi to greet him as Commander Yu Tu.

• Lan Xiao rejected Potter's request to lead soldiers to Calamity Planet, struck him with a chess piece, and went to find Yan Mei.
• Yan Mei ordered a military doctor to inject Tian Chi with an ability suppressant, then confronted him in his hospital room.
• Yan Mei shot at Tian Chi, but Lan Xiao burst in; Yan Mei declared that Yu Tu and Ming Qiuxue would survive Calamity Planet's destruction.
• In Little Seven Castle, Yu Tu abruptly regained his memories from the past two months, and Lu Mi welcomed the adult Commander Yu Tu back.

After Tian Chi’s death restored part of Yu Tu’s overwritten memories, Lu Mi confronted him about Lu Xiaojiu and the reason he had consented to the overwrite. Yu Tu left after their encounter, still unable or unwilling to tell Lu Mi everything, while Lu Mi reflected on Yu Tu’s deception of Lu Xiaojiu.

• Lu Mi confronted Yu Tu over the Partner Mark and learned that Tian Chi’s death had restored Yu Tu’s memories up to five years earlier, including memories from the day after Lu Xiaojiu’s death.
• Lu Mi asked why Yu Tu had consented to the memory overwrite, but Yu Tu refused to tell him.
• Lu Mi restrained Yu Tu and pleaded with him not to kill him again; Yu Tu’s killing vines eventually withdrew.
• Afterward, Yu Tu dressed and prepared to leave, while the Bean Sprout on his head secretly reacted to their exchange.
• Lu Mi told Yu Tu to take back the Bean Sprout, and after Yu Tu left, Lu Mi thought that Yu Tu had most deceived Lu Xiaojiu.

Yu Tu remembered that he had accepted the Memory Overwrite to reach Lu Mi, whose Black Panther mark had given him a reason to survive. After Lu Mi came to demand aftercare, Yu Tu treated and massaged him, then wondered whether he really looked old.

• Yu Tu recalled how Lan Xiao had imprisoned him, and how Yan Mei offered him a chance to go to Calamity Planet in exchange for losing his memories.
• Yu Tu remembered accepting the Memory Overwrite because Yan Mei told him his Little Black Panther was on Calamity Planet.
• Lu Mi entered Yu Tu’s room and complained that Yu Tu had left without giving him aftercare.
• Lu Mi used Black Shadow to argue his case, then threatened to ask Ming Qiuxue for help until Yu Tu pulled him inside.
• Yu Tu treated and massaged Lu Mi, who teased and kissed him before slipping out of the room.
• Yu Tu looked at his white hair and face in the mirror and questioned whether he seemed old.

Lu Mi teased Yu Tu over their apparent relationship troubles, while Yu Tu struggled to resist his desire for him. When Yu Tu went to Lan Su to test the Desire Compound in his blood, Lu Mi interrupted the blood draw with a kiss, stirring feelings Yu Tu could not hide.

• Lu Mi dismissed the rumors that Yu Tu had dumped him and teased Yu Tu at lunch until Yu Tu fled in embarrassment.
• Yu Tu cooled himself under a shower, then rejected Lu Mi's offer to dry his hair while secretly wanting him.
• Yu Tu asked Lan Su to test how much Desire Compound remained in his body and said he would not be Freedom Squad's enemy because they shared an enemy.
• Lu Mi entered during the blood draw, kissed Yu Tu, and told him that his nose would grow longer if he kept lying about his feelings.

Yu Tu obtained a Desire Compound Inhibitor despite Lan Su's warning that suppressing the drug could endanger him, and Lu Mi discovered it. When Yu Tu tried to take the inhibitor in his room, Lu Mi stopped him and restrained him, declaring that he would punish Yu Tu for self-harm.

• Yu Tu told Cang Qi that he had not dumped Lu Mi, then asked Lu Mi and Ming Qiuxue to leave while Lan Su reviewed his blood test.
• Lan Su found a high concentration of Desire Compound in Yu Tu's body and warned that an inhibitor could cause dangerous effects if the compound erupted later.
• Yu Tu insisted on receiving an inhibitor, and Lan Su told him to collect it that night despite warning that Lu Mi would be angry.
• Lu Mi later entered Yu Tu's room, took the inhibitor, and demanded to know what it was.
• Yu Tu admitted it was a Desire Compound Inhibitor and tried to drink it, but Lu Mi knocked it away, shackled Yu Tu, and said he would punish him.

After three days of punishing Yu Tu, Lu Mi learned that Yu Tu’s five-year-old memories had returned. As the team prepared for its first battle against the garrison Lan Xiao would send to Calamity Planet, Yu Tu volunteered to recruit Drifting Desperadoes, and Lu Mi objected to letting him leave.

• Lu Mi forced Yu Tu to beg him to take care of him, and Yu Tu finally did so.
• Lu Mi’s Home Team worried about the three days he had spent behind closed doors with Yu Tu.
• Lu Mi told Lan Su, Cang Qi, Ming Qiuxue, Chang Feng, and Lin Luo that Yu Tu’s memories from five years ago had returned.
• Lan Su said the teams would recruit people and prepare for their first battle against the garrison expected at Calamity Planet.
• Yu Tu proposed gathering Drifting Desperadoes for the fight and volunteered to recruit them himself.
• Lu Mi stood up and objected, saying he would not know where to find Yu Tu if he left.

Yu Tu agreed to draw Lan Xiao's attention by joining the Drifting Refugees again, with Lu Mi insisting on going with him. After Cang Qi showed them their Q16 spacecraft, Yu Tu wandered off alone and wondered whether anyone could accept him now that his memories of hell had returned.

• Yu Tu explained that Lan Xiao wanted him dead more than Ming Qiuxue, and Lan Su agreed that Yu Tu was the best person to distract Lan Xiao while Freedom Star pursued independence.
• Lu Mi insisted on accompanying Yu Tu, and Yu Tu accepted; Lan Su said they would leave as soon as there was news of the Imperial Army's deployment.
• Cang Qi led Lu Mi and Yu Tu to the spacecraft area, where Lu Mi chose the Q16 for their mission.
• Cang Qi struggled to connect with the quiet Yu Tu, who apologized before leaving him and wandering through Little Seven Castle.
• Yu Tu visited the amusement park, where his presence disrupted the Baby check-in, then went to the Food Production Hut and lamented that everyone liked the Yu Tu from two months earlier.
• Yu Tu said he had returned and was sorry, but that he had opened his eyes in hell.

Lu Mi looked for books to improve his romantic skills, then found Yu Tu hiding in the Food Production Hut and misunderstood his anger as a need for punishment. Yu Tu accused Lu Mi of treating him differently from the Yu Tu he remembered and tried to leave, but Lu Mi realized the source of the misunderstanding and lunged after him.

• Lu Mi asked Zhang Jiao to find books in six colors so he could expand his repertoire of ways to please Yu Tu.
• Cang Qi told Lu Mi that Yu Tu might be upset after their conversation and had gone to the amusement park, so Lu Mi ordered him to check the surveillance footage.
• Lu Mi found Yu Tu asleep in the Food Production Hut and pulled him outside after Yu Tu apologized to Cang Qi.
• When Lu Mi said Yu Tu still had not learned to behave, Yu Tu began undressing and offered to satisfy him before being punished.
• Yu Tu said Lu Mi only punished him while the Yu Tu in his memories rewarded him, then used White Vine to throw Lu Mi onto the bed and warned him to stay away.
• Lu Mi realized where the misunderstanding lay and lunged at Yu Tu before he could leave.

Lu Mi reconciled with Yu Tu by apologizing and rewarding him, then publicly praised him at dinner. They left Calamity Planet with Black Shadow to find the wandering desperados and intercept the Imperial Army, heading for planet P999.

• Lu Mi resisted White Vine, apologized to Yu Tu, and won back his affection by promising to stop controlling him.
• Yu Tu asked for a reward, and afterward Lu Mi coaxed him until he praised the Little Black Panther.
• At dinner, Cang Qi apologized to Yu Tu, while Lu Mi loudly declared that his boyfriend was the cutest and embarrassed him.
• Lan Su arranged gold to pay the wandering desperados, and Yu Tu took a bar as payment for helping.
• Lu Mi, Yu Tu, and Black Shadow departed Calamity Planet aboard Q16, and Yu Tu ordered the spacecraft to head for P999.

Yu Tu and Lu Mi prepared to land on the heavily polluted, dangerous planet P999 after their intimate moments aboard Q16 were interrupted by Cang Qi's frequent safety calls. They approached Sinwheel City, where the next stage of their mission would begin.

• Cang Qi called Q16 repeatedly to check on Yu Tu and Lu Mi, interrupting them while they discussed tactics in private.
• Yu Tu assured Cang Qi that they were safe and warned that they might lose contact before reaching P999, then ended the call in embarrassment.
• With thirty minutes until landing, Lu Mi slowed Q16 while Yu Tu cleaned up and wrapped himself against P999's polluted air.
• Yu Tu told Lu Mi to stop complimenting him as Q16 accelerated toward P999 and prepared to land.
• The chapter established that P999 was a five-star-danger gray planet, severely polluted by cosmic radiation and home to the infamous Sinwheel City.

Yu Tu and Lu Mi entered Sinwheel City, the living planet’s underground gathering place for criminals, to summon fugitives and make a deal. After Yu Tu killed a man who threatened Lu Mi, the criminals recognized him, and Lu Mi proudly declared that Yu Tu had his back.

• Lu Mi woke Black Shadow and descended with Yu Tu onto the red-misted planet where Sinwheel City sprawled beneath them.
• Yu Tu used his Violet Slaughter Vine to threaten Sinwheel City into summoning the fugitives on his list to its underground center.
• Sinwheel City guided Yu Tu, Lu Mi, and Black Shadow through its living passages to a gathering of criminals.
• A bearded man propositioned Lu Mi, and Yu Tu killed him with a Violet Slaughter Vine.
• The criminals recognized Yu Tu, and Lu Mi swaggered beside him, warning them not to set their sights on him.

Yu Tu entered Sinwheel City with Lu Mi and demanded that its leaders help destroy the Imperial Army unit sent by Lan Xiao. After rejecting Zhao Jie and Dibu’s demands, Yu Tu trapped the city’s inhabitants with Violet Slaughter Vines and ordered them to serve him.

• Yu Tu killed a man who interrupted him, then entered Sinwheel City with Lu Mi and warned the criminals not to target his companion.
• Yu Tu attacked the group guarding a corner of the city and killed several people until Zhao Jie and Dibu emerged from a hidden passage.
• Lu Mi crushed a source-energy weapon launched from the passage, and Yu Tu offered Zhao Jie and Dibu a deal to destroy Lan Xiao’s two hundred Imperial Army soldiers in exchange for the spoils.
• Zhao Jie and Dibu demanded one billion Blue Star Credits and the Imperial Army’s weapons and assets, but Yu Tu refused their terms.
• Yu Tu filled Sinwheel City with Violet Slaughter Vines that formed a cage around its inhabitants, then ordered them to become his dogs and wipe out the Imperial Army.

Lu Mi and Yu Tu continued their journey aboard the Invincible Battleship, where they prepared to intercept Imperial Army soldiers bound for Calamity Planet. After Lu Mi teased Yu Tu and declared their relationship in front of their captives, he privately asked Yu Tu about the memories he had recovered, including why he killed Lan Xiao.

• Lu Mi stopped Zhao Jie and Dibu from persuading him to release the Q16 spacecraft and claimed he had won Yu Tu over with his personal charm.
• Yu Tu told the captives to fight the Imperial Army properly and promised them whatever they seized after the mission.
• Lu Mi coaxed Yu Tu into confirming their relationship in front of everyone, then left with him and ordered Black Shadow to guard the prisoners.
• Inside the Q16, Lu Mi asked Yu Tu about his recovered memories and questioned him about killing Lan Xiao, but Yu Tu remained silent.

Yu Tu recalled the atrocities he had committed under Lan Xiao’s control and the innocent lives he had failed to save as he prepared to face the Imperial Army with Lu Mi. When Gan Zhun recognized him, Yu Tu ordered the villains to attack and went forward to fight, leaving Black Shadow to protect Lu Mi.

• In memories, Yu Tu obeyed Lan Xiao’s command to kill civilians, then secretly tried to save a little girl, but found her drowned and buried her beneath protective vines.
• Yu Tu remembered offering a frightened child gold for candy and asking the child to believe that he would not kill them.
• The Q16 spacecraft detected the Imperial Army, and Yu Tu woke, joined Lu Mi aboard the Invincible Battleship, and ordered the villains to prepare for battle.
• Five spacecraft forced the Imperial Army fleet to land on an abandoned planet, where Gan Zhun recognized Yu Tu and Yu Tu ordered his forces to kill the soldiers.
• Yu Tu stopped Lu Mi from joining the charge, transformed his arm into a Violet Slaughter Vine, and told Black Shadow to protect Lu Mi.

Lu Mi was pulled out of the fighting by Yu Tu while Yu Tu’s forces defeated Gan Zhun’s Imperial Army. Yu Tu declared war on Lan Xiao, and the chapter ended with news that Cang Qi was gathering the heads for a Planetary Independence Application.

• Lu Mi and Black Shadow joined the battle, but Yu Tu used a Violet Slaughter Vine to pull Lu Mi to safety and ordered him to stay put.
• Yu Tu’s forces overwhelmed the Imperial Army, while Gan Zhun fled to his warship and tried to contact Lan Xiao.
• Yu Tu killed Gan Zhun, took over the communication, and formally declared war on Lan Xiao.
• Yu Tu’s side won the battle, and the surviving villains celebrated while teasing Lu Mi about his relationship with Yu Tu.
• Yu Tu told Lu Mi that Cang Qi would have all the heads gathered by their return so they could submit the Planetary Independence Application.

Yu Tu took Lu Mi to the black-market dwarf planet FQ39 to shop while the Invincible Battleship waited in space. Lu Mi secretly bought items from a shop called “No Tomatoes Allowed,” but his Blue Star card was disabled, leaving him unable to pay.

• Zhao Jie and the other villains asked Yu Tu to take them to his planned independent planet, and Yu Tu agreed after telling them to keep quiet.
• Yu Tu and Lu Mi headed for FQ39, where Yu Tu explained he had planned the detour and asked Lu Mi to praise him.
• Yu Tu and Lu Mi landed on FQ39, exchanged gold for Blue Star Credits, and learned there were no shops selling cat teasers.
• Lu Mi praised Yu Tu and then slipped into the “No Tomatoes Allowed” shop to buy several items.
• Lu Mi tried to pay with his Blue Star card, but the shop’s terminal reported that Blue Star Imperial Bank had disabled it.