Chapter Summaries

After Cangmu Star’s unrest was quelled, Lu Mi returned to Ripple Planet and reunited with Yu Tu, who explained that he wanted Lu Mi to succeed through his own strength. Yu Tu then revealed he had made Lu Mi chief director of the Meow-Meow Brand Toy Headquarters Factory, leaving Lu Mi eager to reproduce every limited-edition cat teaser wand.

• Lan Xiao withdrew from Cangmu Star, and Lu Mi and Ming Qiuxue finished quelling the unrest before Cangmu Star joined Freedom Star’s domain under Star Lord Lan Su.
• Yu Tu consolidated Ripple Planet’s three districts, reclaimed Seelie’s authority, and heard Yun Yuan’s report on Tamu Planet’s housing construction and recruitment plans.
• Yu Tu admitted to Yun Yuan that he missed Lu Mi, and Lu Mi arrived at the royal palace with Black Shadow.
• Lu Mi caught Yu Tu as he rushed down the steps, and Yu Tu told him he wanted to support him without making him dependent on Yu Tu.
• Yu Tu took Lu Mi to the Meow-Meow Brand Toy Headquarters Factory and revealed that he had bought back seventy percent of its shares and made Lu Mi its chief director.
• Lu Mi rejoiced at his new position and resolved to reproduce every limited-edition cat teaser wand the brand had ever released.

Yu Tu and Lan Su established the Black Cat Sector and the Freedom Sector, then spent six months stabilizing their territories. When Lu Mi brought the children of Black Cat Planet to Tamu Planet, they gave Yu Tu candy, and he reunited with Lu Mi and kissed him.

• Yu Tu and Lan Su submitted independence applications, and the Interstellar Alliance approved them, forming the Black Cat Sector and the Freedom Sector.
• Six months later, Yu Tu toured Tamu Planet's new district with Yun Yuan while they discussed his limited time with Lu Mi.
• Lu Mi arrived with Black Shadow and brought the children of Black Cat Planet to Tamu Planet.
• The children gave Yu Tu pieces of candy, and Lu Mi encouraged him to smile as Bean Sprout flew off his head.
• Lin Luo, Mo Ke, and Luo Wei joined Lu Mi in moving to the Black Cat Sector, and Yu Tu welcomed Lu Mi before kissing him.

Yu Tu and Lu Mi traveled to Black Cat Planet, where Yu Tu had built a lavish new home, while Yan Mei set off to join them and Ming Qiuxue pursued him. The chapter ended with Lu Mi and Yu Tu kissing inside the Black Cat House.

• Yu Tu assigned Lu Mi, Yun Yuan, and Xu Kuang deployment authority over the Ninth Army, while Lin Luo became the Central Prison warden and Mo Ke and Luo Wei became deputy wardens.
• Yan Mei called Q16 from Freedom Star and persuaded Yu Tu to send him the coordinates to join them on Black Cat Planet.
• Lu Mi contacted Ming Qiuxue and asked him to retrieve Yan Mei, but Ming Qiuxue discovered Yan Mei had already left aboard a spacecraft.
• Ming Qiuxue ordered an emergency inspection of the Q19 spacecraft so he could chase after Yan Mei, whom he called his runaway little fox.
• Yu Tu and Lu Mi arrived on Black Cat Planet and found the new Black Cat House, where Lu Mi kissed Yu Tu at the entrance.

Lu Mi and Yu Tu spent a passionate day and night together in Black Cat House, while Lu Mi realized how much Yu Tu remembered about him. After Lu Mi checked on Yan Mei, Ming Qiuxue reassured him that Yan Mei was with him, though Yan Mei was exhausted from Ming Qiuxue’s attention.

• Lu Mi and Yu Tu spent the day together in Black Cat House, where Yu Tu showed that he remembered Lu Mi’s fondness for the round lights.
• Lu Mi listed the things he knew Yu Tu liked, and Yu Tu told him that he liked Little Black Panther most of all.
• The next morning, Lu Mi called Ming Qiuxue when Yan Mei had not arrived on Black Cat Planet.
• Ming Qiuxue told Lu Mi that Yan Mei was with him, so Lu Mi returned to bed beside Yu Tu.
• On Q19, Ming Qiuxue comforted the exhausted Yan Mei and promised not to bully him for now.

Yu Tu received an invitation from Skycloud Star’s Yun Baihe, who proposed an alliance against the Blue River Empire. After learning that Blue Star Palace had contacted Skycloud Star, Yu Tu concluded that Lan Xiao was provoking him and accepted the coming war.

• Yun Baihe invited Yu Tu to Skycloud Star’s tenth wedding anniversary and suggested they discuss forming an alliance to divide the Blue River Empire.
• Yu Tu rejected the alliance and destroyed the mechanical invitation, while Yun Yuan and Otto warned that Yun Baihe was difficult to read.
• Yu Tu contacted Lan Su and learned that Cang Qi had intercepted a communication route between Blue Star Palace and Skycloud Star a day earlier.
• Yu Tu decided to go to Skycloud Star, declaring that Lan Xiao was challenging him to war and that he would not lose.

Yu Tu and the Ninth Army arrived on Skycloud Star alongside the Freedom Army, where residents greeted them with fan merchandise instead of fear. As Yun Baihe led the visitors to the royal palace, Lu Mi noticed that its regular troops were unusually sparse.

• Yun Baihe welcomed Yu Tu and the Ninth Army to Skycloud Star, and a battleship carrying Lan Su, Cang Qi, Ming Qiuxue, Yan Mei, and the Freedom Army docked beside them.
• Yan Mei greeted Yu Tu warmly, while Golden Eye and Black Shadow were thrown together by Yan Mei and began struggling with each other.
• Yun Baihe told Lan Su that White Wolf Star and Fallen Feather Star would arrive the next day, then arranged Floating Cloud Ships to take the visitors to their accommodations.
• Skycloud Star residents flew alongside the ship, cheered for Yu Tu and the others, and showed off fan merchandise made by Yun Baihe's brother Tian Ge.
• Lu Mi noticed the royal palace had very few guards and asked Yun Baihe whether Skycloud Star usually had so few regular troops.

Yun Baihe explained Skycloud Star’s armed citizenry and how his adoptive father, Prince Chloe, secretly secured its independence from Lan Xiao. The visitors arrived at the royal palace, where Yun Baihe’s excitable younger brother Tian Ge greeted them and begged for their autographs.

• Yun Baihe told Yu Tu and the others that Skycloud Star had only five hundred active-duty troops, but armed and trained its citizens to defend their freedom and peace.
• Yun Baihe said Prince Chloe had led survivors of an Imperial Army massacre to Skycloud Star, where they built their strength and obtained independence while Lan Xiao’s regime was unstable.
• Yu Tu and Lan Su questioned Yun Baihe about Chloe’s arrangement with Lan Xiao, and Yun Baihe said they would learn more in time.
• Yun Baihe and the guests arrived at the royal palace, where Tian Ge rushed over, greeted them, and repeatedly asked for their autographs.
• Yu Tu admired Skycloud Star’s humid, green landscape as the group followed Yun Baihe toward their rooms.

Yan Mei, Yu Tu, and Yun Tiange planned an interstellar merchandise company while Yu Tu and Lu Mi embraced their matching merchandise. At Skycloud Star’s celebration, Yun Tiange revealed that he was Yun Baihe’s lover, and Yun Baihe asked the gathered Star Lords to ally with Skycloud Star before his health failed.

• Yan Mei proposed a merchandise company with Yu Tu and gave Yun Tiange a ten-percent share in exchange for ideas and finding celebrity CPs.
• Yun Tiange brought Yu Tu and the others his merchandise, and Yu Tu and Lu Mi wore matching keychains while Black Shadow received a collar identifying him as Yu Tu’s Black Panther Mecha.
• Cen Meng asked Yu Tu to let Yun Yuan join Fallen Feather Star, but Yun Yuan rejected her recruitment attempt.
• Yun Baihe welcomed Cen Meng and Hua Qing to the palace celebration, where the guests watched the Skycloud War Drums performance.
• Yun Tiange arrived dressed like Yun Baihe and declared that they were lovers, angering Yun Baihe and revealing their relationship to the guests.
• Yun Baihe explained that his health was failing and asked the Star Lords to form an alliance to protect Skycloud Star from Lan Xiao after his death.

Yun Baihe invited Yu Tu and the other leaders to form an alliance, but Cang Qi revealed that someone in Skycloud Star’s royal palace had been communicating with Blue Star. As Yun Baihe followed Cang Qi’s signal-tracking device to find the culprit, Hua Qing accused Yun Tiange of betraying Skycloud Star.

• Yun Baihe admitted he had less than half a year to live, and Yu Tu examined him, discovering that his damaged Origin Essence could not be restored.
• Yu Tu and Lan Su said they needed more time before agreeing to Yun Baihe’s proposed alliance.
• Cang Qi showed evidence of recent communications between Skycloud Star and Blue Star and said the source was within the royal palace.
• Yun Baihe ordered an investigation, and Cang Qi launched his mechanical dragonfly, Tuntun, to trace the signal.
• Yun Baihe followed Tuntun while Lu Mi, Lan Su, and Hua Qing turned their suspicions toward Yun Tiange.
• Hua Qing asked Yun Tiange why he had betrayed Skycloud Star.

Yun Tiange trapped Yu Tu and the gathered leaders in an Energy Lock Cage and tried to kill them, but Yu Tu summoned vines that disabled the laser cannons. Yun Baihe intervened, sacrificed himself to stop his brother, and left Yun Tiange to lead Skycloud Star as Yu Tu grappled with the revelation that Yun Baihe had helped seal five years of his memories.

• Yun Tiange sealed the hall, released the drug and used a bell to try to make Yu Tu kill himself, but Yu Tu resisted and challenged him.
• Yun Tiange activated laser cannons and escaped through a hidden passage as Yu Tu summoned vines that covered Skycloud Royal Palace.
• Yun Baihe arrived, fought his way through the Skycloud Army, and broke open the hall doors despite his failing health.
• Yu Tu's vines blocked and extinguished the cannons, and Yun Baihe took Yun Tiange's arrow before driving him outside.
• Yun Baihe offered to trade five years of Yu Tu's memories for a delay in Yun Tiange's punishment, then killed himself and urged Yun Tiange to lead wisely.
• Yu Tu learned Yun Baihe had been a key to sealing his memories and pressed a hand to his aching brow.

Yu Tu led the Imperial Army through the bloody purge of the Clear River Palace, then secretly treated the pain caused by cracks in his Diamond-Grade Energy Crystal. After leaving for his next target, his spacecraft was pursued by an unidentified vessel and he ordered an emergency landing.

• A woman accused Yu Tu of slaughtering the Clear River Palace, and he explained that its rulers had starved thousands before ordering her taken away.
• Yu Tu collapsed in a side hall from the pain of the cracked Energy Crystal in his neck, and Zero stayed beside him.
• Yu Tu injected medicine from Yun Baihe that eased the Crystal's effects and then left the palace to inspect another target.
• Zero drained its power to prevent Lan Xiao from spying as Yu Tu's spacecraft departed Triunion Star.
• An unidentified spacecraft pursued Yu Tu and fired an energy cannon, so he ordered his crew to find an abandoned star for an emergency landing.

On abandoned planet Z095, scavenger Lu Xiaojiu found the injured Yu Tu after his spacecraft crashed and took him back to his makeshift shed. Yu Tu woke, shared porridge with Lu Xiaojiu, and, unable to leave without his communicator, asked to stay until the Imperial Army found him.

• Lu Xiaojiu scavenged a fresh garbage dump and saw a streak of light crash into a distant heap.
• Lu Xiaojiu found the unconscious Yu Tu in the garbage and brought him to his shed.
• Yu Tu woke and discovered that Lu Xiaojiu had bandaged his wounds and written a message on the bandage.
• Lu Xiaojiu offered Yu Tu meat porridge, and they shared the meal despite Lu Xiaojiu’s hunger.
• Yu Tu tried to leave but could not find his communicator, so he asked Lu Xiaojiu to let him stay until the Imperial Army found him.

Lu Xiaojiu spent his savings to make his garbage nest more comfortable for Yu Tu, then worked even harder to provide for him. As Yu Tu recovered, the two grew closer, and Lu Xiaojiu remained determined to save enough to leave the garbage planet.

• Lu Xiaojiu bought food, purified water, and perfume with all the credits in his pockets so he could host Yu Tu properly.
• Lu Xiaojiu sprayed the expired perfume throughout the shed, and Yu Tu reassured him that it smelled fine.
• Yu Tu told Lu Xiaojiu that he had no family or savings, and Lu Xiaojiu comforted him by saying he had raised himself too.
• Yu Tu praised Lu Xiaojiu for saving money, and Lu Xiaojiu declared that he would keep saving until he could leave the planet and buy a home.
• Over the next few days, Lu Xiaojiu worked hard scavenging while returning regularly to cook meals for Yu Tu, and the shed gained food, flowers, and other small comforts.

Lu Xiaojiu found a rare crystal while scavenging, but adults attacked him and left him badly wounded. Yu Tu rescued and healed him, then told him he had to leave because his use of power would let Lan Xiao locate him, promising to return.

• Yu Tu took his third injection, and Lu Xiaojiu arranged a bath for him before secretly wishing he could afford a new uniform for him.
• Lu Xiaojiu found a fist-sized glowing rare crystal in a garbage mound, but several men demanded he hand it over, so he fled with it.
• When Lu Xiaojiu failed to return, Yu Tu learned he had been pursued over the crystal and used his blood to track him through the rain.
• Yu Tu found Lu Xiaojiu beaten and stabbed in a garbage pit, healed his wound, and discovered the dagger had damaged his rare Diamond-Grade Black Panther Origin Essence.
• Lu Xiaojiu woke and showed Yu Tu the small piece of crystal he had hidden, but Yu Tu said he had to leave because Lan Xiao would soon locate him and promised to return.

Yu Tu rescued Lu Xiaojiu from the abandoned planet, punished the men who had bullied him, and deceived Lan Xiao while arranging a new life for them. The chapter ended with Lu Xiaojiu arriving on Polaris Star and finding a home with Yu Tu.

• Yu Tu promised the sleeping Lu Xiaojiu that he would give him a home, then tracked down and killed the men who had bullied him.
• Yu Tu returned to the Imperial Army, reassured Lan Xiao of his loyalty, and endured months of surveillance while secretly preparing for Lu Xiaojiu’s relocation.
• Yu Tu intimidated the soldiers monitoring him, secretly saved money for Lu Xiaojiu, and chose Polaris Star as their new home.
• Yu Tu completed Lu Xiaojiu’s immigration arrangements, and a month later Lu Xiaojiu arrived on Polaris Star.
• Yu Tu welcomed Lu Xiaojiu into their modest new home and promised to protect him, while Lu Xiaojiu celebrated finally having a family.

Yu Tu sent Lu Xiaojiu to school on Polaris Star while working as an interstellar courier, and Lu Xiaojiu gradually made friends despite sleeping through lessons and refusing to take exams. After discovering Yu Tu was the famous commander of the Blue River Empire, Lu Xiaojiu later found a novel about men and men, and Yu Tu discovered it too, opening a new world to them both.

• Yu Tu showed Lu Xiaojiu his student ID and insisted he attend school while Yu Tu worked as an interstellar courier.
• Yu Tu defended Lu Xiaojiu's habit of sleeping in class and asked his teacher not to be too strict with him.
• Lu Xiaojiu learned in history class that Yu Tu was the Blue River Empire's renowned commander and announced that the commander was his.
• Yu Tu defended Lu Xiaojiu after he earned zeroes on every midterm exam and left his test paper blank.
• Lu Xiaojiu made friends at school and became a popular fighter, but rejected love letters because his heart belonged to someone.
• Lu Xiaojiu secretly read a novel about men and men, and Yu Tu later found it in Lu Xiaojiu's room and became engrossed in it.

Yu Tu returned to Polaris Star for Lu Xiaojiu’s birthday, and the two became lovers. After leaving, Yu Tu asked Yun Baihe for the banned Origin-Suspension Drug so he could become an ordinary person and keep Lan Xiao from finding him.

• Yu Tu asked Lu Xiaojiu what he wanted for his birthday and promised to make it happen.
• Lu Xiaojiu rushed home to celebrate with Yu Tu, who brought hotel food and a cake.
• Yu Tu confronted Lu Xiaojiu about what he wanted, and they kissed and spent the night together.
• After three days with Lu Xiaojiu, Yu Tu left Polaris Star and contacted Yun Baihe about the drug.
• Yu Tu told Yun Baihe he wanted to put his Origin Essence to sleep because the Blocking Drug was losing its effect and he wanted Lan Xiao never to find him.
• Yun Baihe agreed to provide twelve scheduled doses and warned Yu Tu not to overuse his powers during treatment.

Lu Xiaojiu awakened with a damaged origin, and Yu Tu began repairing it before Lan Xiao discovered his attempt to escape control and threatened Lu Xiaojiu. Yu Tu agreed to have his memories overwritten after five days, while imprisoned with Yun Baihe, who asked Yu Tu to scatter his ashes if he died.

• Lu Xiaojiu awakened as an Energy Master with a damaged origin, and Yu Tu used his own origin to begin repairing it.
• Lan Xiao sent gifts to Yu Tu on Polaris Star, and Lu Xiaojiu revealed he had long known Yu Tu's identity and asked for a Partner Mark.
• Lan Xiao confronted Yu Tu with zero's destroyed remains and ordered him to kill Lu Xiaojiu.
• Yun Baihe offered himself to Lan Xiao in exchange for Yun Tiange's release, but Lan Xiao revealed he had captured Yun Tiange to use him against Yu Tu.
• Yu Tu agreed to have his memories overwritten after five days and was imprisoned with Yun Baihe.
• Yun Baihe asked Yu Tu to scatter his ashes in space if he died, while Yu Tu urged him to live using Yu Tu's origin.

Yu Tu completed the Memory Overwrite agreement with Yun Baihe, making Yun Baihe the key to his sealed memories and protecting Skycloud Star from Lan Xiao. The overwrite was set to activate in five days, and Yun Baihe left after bidding farewell to Yu Tu.

• Yu Tu asked Gao Quan to delay the Memory Overwrite activation for five days, then inserted the painful Memory Needles into his own temples.
• Yu Tu used his blood to make vines grow through the dungeon cracks, and they freed Yun Baihe from his cell and carried him to the main hall.
• As the machine reached 100%, Yu Tu connected its port to Yun Baihe's Origin Essence, and both signed the Memory Overwrite agreement.
• Lan Xiao tried to stop the process, but Gao Quan warned that interrupting it would prevent another overwrite of the selected memories.
• Yu Tu told Yun Baihe that he would be the key to Yu Tu's memories and urged him to leave, while Yun Baihe vowed to remain his lifelong dearest friend.
• Yun Baihe condemned Lan Xiao's conduct and departed, while Lan Xiao declared that Yu Tu would become his loyal servant again after five days.

Yu Tu reunited with Lu Xiaojiu, marked him as his partner, then seemingly killed him to restore his Origin Essence and hide him from Lan Xiao. After confronting Lan Xiao and being forced into a deadly wager, Yu Tu left Lu Xiaojiu alive on Planet Z7839, where he took the name Lu Mi and resolved to keep loving Yu Tu from afar.

• Yu Tu enlisted Yan Mei to go to Polaris Star in five days and take Lu Xiaojiu away.
• Yu Tu celebrated Valentine’s Day with Lu Xiaojiu, marked him as his partner, then wounded him and used the ancient tree to restore his Black Panther Origin Essence.
• Yu Tu burned their courtyard, carried Lu Xiaojiu away, and removed the Black Panther Mark from his own body before returning to Lan Xiao.
• Yu Tu attacked Lan Xiao and the imperial residence, but his vines could not harm Lan Xiao because Lan Xiao’s Energy Crystal was embedded in Yu Tu’s neck.
• Lan Xiao tied Yu Tu to a cross and challenged him to survive eighteen arrows in exchange for continuing to serve him.
• Lu Xiaojiu woke on Planet Z7839, registered himself as Lu Mi, and decided he could not hate Yu Tu and would love him from afar.