Chapter Summaries

Lu Mi and Yu Tu returned to Little Seven Castle, where Lan Su’s plan to seek planetary independence had drawn many Drifting Refugees. After Lu Mi delivered Yu Tu’s candy to the children, Zhang Jiao gave Lu Mi a homemade diary titled “Thirty-Six Strategies for Taming a Pretty Husband.”

• Lin Luo told Lu Mi and Yu Tu that Cang Qi had submitted the independence application and that the Interstellar Alliance would announce its decision the next day.
• Lu Mi pushed through the crowd with Yu Tu, startling the children, and then announced that they would return to Sinwheel City to lure the Imperial Army toward Little Seven Castle.
• Ming Qiuxue and the assembled Freedom Squad members thanked Yu Tu and Lu Mi as the two headed upstairs.
• Yu Tu asked Lu Mi to give the children a box of candy, and Lu Mi distributed it while scolding the crying refugees.
• Zhang Jiao handed Lu Mi a diary he had written himself, titled “Thirty-Six Strategies for Taming a Pretty Husband.”

Lu Mi entertained the children at Little Seven Amusement Park and used the chance to help them see Yu Tu as more than a feared demon king. Yu Tu joined Lu Mi and a little girl for a family check-in, then promised the children they would have a home on an independent Freedom Star.

• Lu Mi frightened the children at first, then performed acrobatics with his beast form and whip until they cheered for him.
• Lu Mi told the children that Yu Tu was the strongest person in his heart and persuaded them not to fear Yu Tu anymore.
• Yu Tu arrived at the amusement park, where Ming Qiuxue and the others watched Lu Mi entertain the children.
• A little girl named Xiaomi asked Lu Mi and Yu Tu to check in as her dads, and they agreed.
• Yu Tu promised Xiaomi and the other children that Freedom Star would become independent and give them a home, while Lu Mi affirmed that they would have a home too.

As Freedom Star prepared for independence and war with the Empire, Lu Mi and Yu Tu departed for Sinwheel City, where they planned to fight a prolonged campaign. On Blue Star, Lan Xiao recognized Lu Mi from his records and realized he had mistaken him for Lu Xiaojiu, whom he had believed dead.

• Cang Qi reported that Lan Xiao had sent at least five thousand Imperial Army soldiers to subjugate Yu Tu, and Lan Su assigned preparations to Ming Qiuxue.
• Lu Mi and Yu Tu left Freedom Star aboard the Q16, after the children and Vicks saw them off.
• During the journey, Lu Mi and Yu Tu teased each other about their relationship, and Yu Tu promised to reveal a secret later.
• Lan Xiao summoned Qi An and asked him to recount what he knew about Yu Tu on Calamity Planet.
• After examining Lu Mi's holographic profile, Lan Xiao laughed and called him Lu Xiaojiu, saying he really was not dead.

Lan Xiao ordered Qi An to lead a larger force against Yu Tu, then secretly ordered Lu Mi’s transfer record destroyed after seeing Yan Mei’s signature. As the fleet headed for Sinwheel City, Yu Tu used Lu Mi’s handwritten novel to prepare an intimate roleplay, leaving Lu Mi tied up and facing a demand to demonstrate the Thirty-Six Stratagems for Pleasing Yu Tu.

• Lan Xiao saw Ming Qiuxue and Lan Su’s signatures on Freedom Star’s independence application, concluded Yu Tu was using Lu Mi as a target to protect the independence effort, and sent Qi An to lead five thousand additional Imperial Army soldiers against Yu Tu.
• Lan Xiao examined Lu Mi’s transfer order from an obscure planet to Calamity Planet, saw Yan Mei’s seal and signature, and ordered the record permanently destroyed.
• Aboard the Q16, Cang Qi warned Lu Mi and Yu Tu that Lan Xiao had reinforced the Imperial Army, while Lu Mi took medicine from Vicks and headed out to check on the captives.
• Yu Tu read Lu Mi’s handwritten novel and used its scenes for inspiration, then summoned Lu Mi back to the Q16 and tied him to the bed.
• Yu Tu told Lu Mi to demonstrate the Thirty-Six Stratagems for Pleasing Yu Tu after consulting the novel.

Yu Tu learned that Lan Xiao had redirected the Imperial Army toward Freedom Star and raced back with Lu Mi to defend it. They found the Drifting Refugees refusing to evacuate and prepared to face the attack together, while Yan Mei reflected on his longing for Ming Qiuxue.

• Cang Qi told Yu Tu that Lan Xiao's forces had stopped near the route between Sinwheel City and Freedom Star, and Lan Xiao confirmed he was targeting Freedom Star.
• Lan Xiao told Yan Mei that Yu Tu would return to protect Freedom Star and revealed his plan to kill him; Yan Mei said Lu Xiaojiu was Yu Tu's armor and confessed that he missed Ming Qiuxue.
• Yu Tu and Lu Mi arrived at Little Seven Castle and found the Drifting Refugees still there because they refused to abandon their home.
• Yu Tu ordered everyone to prepare for battle, while Lan Su and the Freedom Squad left to fight and Cang Qi, Zhang Jiao, and Vicks stayed behind to operate the castle's defenses.
• The women comforted the children and urged them to watch the battle, survive, and grow strong enough to protect Freedom Star.

Yu Tu led Freedom Star's forces against the Imperial Army while Little Seven Castle activated its defenses. He discovered that Zhao Jie, Dibu, and other criminals had betrayed him, then killed them with vines he had secretly seeded in their bodies.

• Cang Qi activated Little Seven Castle's defenses and self-destruct system as the Imperial Army approached, while the children vowed they were not afraid.
• Yu Tu met Lu Mi aboard the Invincible Battleship, promised Little Black Panther a home on Freedom Star, and ordered the battle to begin.
• Yu Tu and Lu Mi attacked an Imperial spaceship, captured its soldiers, and destroyed it by sending it crashing into another ship.
• Several criminals from Sinwheel City attacked Yu Tu aboard the Invincible Battleship, but he killed them and returned to the ship.
• Zhao Jie and Dibu revealed they had switched sides for Qi An's offer, and Yu Tu used the seeds in their bodies to strangle them and the other traitors.
• Yu Tu, Lu Mi, and Black Shadow boarded Q16 and ordered it to take off.

Yu Tu infiltrated Qi An’s warship, only to discover that Lan Xiao had turned it into an Energy Lock Cage and ordered it burned with Yu Tu trapped inside. As Lu Mi tried to reach him, Ming Qiuxue pulled him back from the flames, leaving Lu Mi begging to be released.

• Yu Tu’s wound healed quickly, and he promised Lu Mi that he would stop transferring injuries to himself through vines transformed from his body.
• The Imperial Army broke Little Seven Castle’s protective barrier, and Yu Tu left Lu Mi with Black Shadow while he headed for Qi An’s command warship.
• Yu Tu broke through the warship’s canopy, but its Energy Lock Cage-like construction sealed him inside as Lan Xiao revealed the trap and ordered Rong Meng to kill him.
• Lan Xiao abandoned everyone aboard the warship, and a male commander ordered the Imperial ships to attack it with fire, trapping Yu Tu in a blazing inferno.
• Lu Mi rode Black Shadow toward the flames, but Ming Qiuxue used the Longevity Lock to pull him back, and Lu Mi pleaded to be released so he could reach Yu Tu.

Yu Tu escaped the burning battleship after Qi An sacrificed himself to cut open its hatch, but he chose to draw the enemy’s fire and attack their command ship with vines grown from his own blood. He left Lu Mi and the others with a final goodbye as his assault surged toward Lei Meng’s battleship.

• Ming Qiuxue transformed Golden Eye and the Longevity Lock into a golden python stairway and led Lu Mi and Black Shadow toward Yu Tu’s battleship.
• Lan Su summoned a White Whale phantom to raise a seawater barrier and help extinguish the flames, while Rong Meng ordered the fire attack to continue targeting Yu Tu.
• Qi An tore out his Diamond-grade Energy Crystal and used it to cut open the battleship’s hatch, then died after urging Yu Tu to survive.
• Yu Tu escaped through the hatch and climbed onto another spacecraft, where he saw Lan Su and the other members of Freedom Squad fighting.
• Yu Tu used Violet Slaughter Vine to send Lu Mi, Ming Qiuxue, and Black Shadow to safety, then cut himself so his blood could grow into vines and attack Lei Meng’s battleship.
• Yu Tu told Lu Mi that Freedom Star would gain independence and said, “Little Black Panther, goodbye.”

Yu Tu awakened his sealed memories and mutated while enduring the Imperial Army’s flames, then fled Freedom Star and was listed as missing. Lu Mi spent twenty days waiting for news, while Yu Tu drifted through space alone, believing he would never kiss Lu Mi again.

• Yu Tu’s vines burned and regrew as he awakened his memories and mutated, while Lu Mi realized their white-vine mark connected them and tried to reach him.
• Yu Tu asked Lan Su to become a good Star Lord, then used Rong Meng’s warship loudspeaker to order the Imperial forces to kill him.
• Yu Tu’s burning warship fled Freedom Star as Imperial spacecraft pursued it, and Lu Mi fell into the sea after the vines released him.
• Ming Qiuxue rescued Lu Mi, who waited in Little Seven Castle for twenty days while Cang Qi monitored reports that Yu Tu was missing.
• Yu Tu drifted through space aboard a disc-shaped spacecraft, badly burned and alone, and lamented that he would never kiss Lu Mi again.

Yu Tu secretly contacted Q16 to reassure Lu Mi that he was alive, then sent him a housewarming gift after Freedom Star became an independent planet. Lu Mi broke down in tears over the gift and the memory of Yu Tu giving him a home.

• Yu Tu used a hidden communicator to contact Q16, sending a coded message that Bean Sprout was well and he was safe.
• Ming Qiuxue decoded Yu Tu's message, and Lu Mi realized Yu Tu was asking him not to search; Lu Mi was relieved that Yu Tu was alive.
• Freedom Star gained the Interstellar Alliance's recognition as the Blue River System's fourth independent planet, and Little Seven Castle rose from the sea during the celebrations.
• Lu Mi received an untracked package marked with a skull symbol and found homemade cat teaser wands and a housewarming card from Yu Tu.
• Lu Mi cried alone as he remembered Yu Tu telling him that he finally had a home.

Yu Tu returned to the hidden refuge on barren Planet z9560, where the families of the Drifting Refugees welcomed him and learned that the men who died in the palace riot had left them letters. He brought the survivors to choose whether to leave, then transformed the planet into a protected home and vowed to find the little black cat he had lost as he prepared to fight Lan Xiao.

• Yu Tu opened the concealed entrance to the refuge and was swarmed by children who had been waiting for him.
• Yu Tu recalled how Lan Xiao discovered his efforts to shelter Drifting Refugees, forced out his Energy Crystal, and killed the seventy-three men who came to his aid in a palace riot.
• The families showed Yu Tu all seventy-three letters, each of which spoke of his kindness and urged them to trust him.
• Yu Tu offered to take the families to Freedom Star, but they refused to leave if he would not go with them, so he accepted that the refuge was their home.
• Yu Tu awakened the seeds he had buried in the planet, covered its surface with protective vines, and named it Black Cat Planet.
• Yu Tu said he would find the little black cat he had lost and prepared to turn against Lan Xiao.

Three years later, Bai Jiu led the Ninth Army aboard the Black Shark Battleship through the Galactic Boundary Belt and into Freedom Star’s territory. After agreeing to surrender most of their spoils to prison warden-general Lu Mi, Bai Jiu slipped into the lounge just as Lu Mi boarded and teased him about wanting to sleep with him.

• Black Shark calculated the shortest route, and Bai Jiu chose to pass through Freedom Star’s territory despite the extra inspections there.
• A Freedom Army battleship intercepted Black Shark, and Chen Jun reported that Lu Mi demanded seventy percent of the crew’s Galactic Boundary Belt gains.
• Bai Jiu ordered Chen Jun to pay Lu Mi from his personal account and warned him not to slander Lu Mi.
• Bai Jiu went into the lounge when Lu Mi’s footsteps approached, and Lu Mi boarded Black Shark and joked that Bai Jiu wanted to sleep with him.

Lu Mi confronted the Ninth Army and arrested its commander, Yu Tu, under Freedom Star’s laws. As they left together, Lu Mi accused Yu Tu of avoiding him, and Yu Tu said he had wanted to love him in the sunlight.

• The Ninth Army drew its weapons on Lu Mi after he insulted their commander, but a note from the commander ordered them to put their weapons away and escort the guests out politely.
• Lu Mi demanded that the lounge door open, and when Yu Tu emerged, Lu Mi handcuffed him and declared him under arrest for bullying an officer.
• Yu Tu accepted the arrest and told Liu Jun and Wang Mo to return without revealing what had happened to the vice commander or the children.
• After the battleship departed, Lu Mi confronted Yu Tu about staying away and sending him cat teasers, while Yu Tu said he had wanted to love him under the sunlight.

Lu Mi reunited with Yu Tu, confronted him over leaving, and made him confess his love before taking him home under the pretense of keeping him under surveillance. Ming Qiuxue recognized that Lu Mi’s detention of Commander Bai Jiu concealed a deeper reason and told Luo Wei not to interfere.

• Lu Mi told Yu Tu that his disappearance had left him afraid, and Yu Tu comforted him with a kiss.
• Lu Mi kissed Yu Tu, then asked him to repeat what he had said; Yu Tu told him, “I love you very much.”
• Yu Tu asked how Lu Mi had recognized him, and Lu Mi cited the Ninth Army’s unknown-powered commander and its pink cat-paw flag.
• Lu Mi handcuffed Yu Tu and took him to his residence, claiming he would monitor the unusual prisoner around the clock.
• Luo Wei contacted Ming Qiuxue, who told him not to interfere and suspected Lu Mi had discovered something about the Ninth Army.

Yu Tu visited Lu Mi’s residence in Freedom City and tried to hide the severe scars covering his body. Lu Mi discovered him cutting open one of his wounds and confronted him in anger.

• Lu Mi brought Yu Tu to his residence, where Yu Tu admired the Sky Garden and explored the nearly empty home.
• Yu Tu suggested buying furniture for Lu Mi’s residence, and Lu Mi agreed, saying the place had become a home now that Yu Tu was there.
• Lu Mi pressed Yu Tu about whether he had used suppressants, and Yu Tu admitted he had not before going to shower alone.
• Yu Tu removed his bandages and clothes in the bathroom, revealing scars across his arms and body, then cut open a major wound and began healing it with White Vine.
• Lu Mi kicked open the bathroom door, saw Yu Tu’s injuries, and angrily demanded to know why he had hidden them.

Lu Mi confronted Yu Tu about hiding his suffering and refusing to let him share the danger, then made him promise to be honest and tell him everything. Yu Tu revealed the secrets behind his years away and the money he had secretly sent Lu Mi, leaving Lu Mi stunned by the amount.

• Lu Mi restrained Yu Tu and made him endure a day of torment before telling him that he was hurting too and demanding to know why Yu Tu kept shutting him out.
• Yu Tu apologized and promised not to hide things, disappear, or lie to Lu Mi again.
• After Lu Mi kissed him, Yu Tu recounted his missing years, including the removed Diamond-grade Energy Crystal, the Drifting Refugees, the treason accusation, and his decision to have his memories overwritten before going to Calamity Planet.
• Yu Tu explained his conflict with Lan Xiao, his efforts to build the Ninth Army and stir turmoil in the Blue River System, and his plans to return to Lu Mi.
• Yu Tu revealed that he had secretly sent Lu Mi money through an Interstellar Alliance Bank account, with the balance now exceeding a hundred million Blue Star Credits.

Lu Mi returned to work after spending three days with Yu Tu and told Ming Qiuxue that Yan Mei might be a way to challenge Lan Xiao. Ming Qiuxue agreed to discuss the idea with Lan Su, then smoked a cigar and wondered why someone had come back to get involved.

• Lu Mi left Yu Tu resting in the sunroom, woke Black Shadow, and ordered it to guard him.
• Lu Mi teased Ming Qiuxue about being single and learned that archived surveillance showed him thanking Vicks for brewing medicine.
• Lu Mi told Ming Qiuxue that Yu Tu had revealed Yan Mei arranged his transfer to Calamity Planet Prison and knew about Lu Mi.
• Lu Mi proposed contacting Yan Mei as a possible way to undermine Lan Xiao, and Ming Qiuxue said he would discuss it with Lan Su.
• After Lu Mi left to check on his subordinates and buy supplies for Yu Tu, Ming Qiuxue smoked a cigar and wondered why someone had returned to join the conflict.

Lu Mi visited Central Prison, shopped for his new home with Yu Tu, and discovered that Yu Tu had ordered a large amount of furniture. When the bill exceeded his savings, Lu Mi borrowed money from Ming Qiuxue to pay it.

• Lu Mi showed off his strength at Central Prison, leaving Lin Luo and the other officers wondering about his strange new aura.
• Lu Mi scared two children he recognized from Little Seven Castle into returning to school, then refused to let Black Shadow into his home.
• Lu Mi carried Yu Tu to the bedroom, dressed him, and learned that he had ordered furniture while waiting for Lu Mi to pay.
• Lu Mi welcomed the furniture workers and discovered the bill totaled 436,800 Blue Star Credits.
• Lu Mi borrowed 200,000 Blue Star Credits from Ming Qiuxue, who regretted knowing him while holding an unlit cigar.

Lan Xiao returned to Cloud Palace and caught Yan Mei staging a scene that made him kill a drunken nobleman, while Yan Mei admitted he had set it up. On Freedom Star, Lu Mi struggled to pay for Yu Tu’s new television, and the chapter ended with Yu Tu spotting something alarming in the news.

• Lan Xiao left Queen Mother Elisa’s birthday celebration to return to Cloud Palace, where Yan Mei was supposedly being held.
• Yan Mei beat a drunken young nobleman, staged an intimate scene with him, and provoked Lan Xiao into killing the man; Yan Mei then confessed to arranging it.
• Lu Mi borrowed money from Lan Su to cover the cost of Yu Tu’s television after Ming Qiuxue refused to lend him more.
• Vicks told Lin Luo that Lu Mi had requested two years’ salary in advance, prompting Lin Luo to worry about him.
• Yu Tu tested the television’s childlike AI, OO, and Lu Mi discovered it would not search for adult content.
• Yu Tu watched the real-time news, then suddenly sharpened his expression at what he saw on the screen.

After Simutan's reported death threatened to provoke Duke Otto's rebellion, Yu Tu asked Lu Mi and Ming Qiuxue to verify the news. At Cloud Palace, Elisa demanded Yan Mei's execution, while Yan Mei anticipated her return after Lan Xiao escorted her away.

• Yu Tu explained that Simutan's death could drive Duke Otto to rebel because Lan Xiao had kept him on Blue Star as a hostage, and he asked Lu Mi to have Ming Qiuxue trace the news source.
• Lu Mi contacted Ming Qiuxue, who activated 005 to investigate the report; the reply identified Yan Mei as the source.
• Ming Qiuxue hurried out of his office after learning that Yan Mei had released the news.
• Elisa entered Cloud Palace and demanded Yan Mei's execution, but Yan Mei claimed Simutan had tried to molest him and that Lan Xiao had killed Simutan justly.
• Lan Xiao escorted Elisa away and ordered the guards at Cloud Palace replaced and doubled, while Yan Mei wiped his tears and said he would wait for Elisa.