Chapter Summaries

Li Yichen brought Su Shengnan and Duan Zhiyuan to the Bridge of Helplessness, where Duan Zhiyuan reunited with his daughter Xia. After Meng Po gave Su Shengnan a Spatial Bottle, Duan Zhiyuan chose to remain in the Underworld with Xia, and Meng Po promised to arrange a reunion with Xia’s mother if possible.

• Li Yichen introduced Su Shengnan to Meng Po, and Xia spilled a bucket of Waters of the River of Forgetfulness as she rushed to greet him.
• Duan Zhiyuan spoke to Xia, who gradually remembered him as her father, and the two embraced and wept.
• Meng Po welcomed Su Shengnan and gave her a Spatial Bottle containing a bucket of Waters of the River of Forgetfulness.
• Duan Zhiyuan decided to stay in the Underworld with Xia, and Li Yichen gave him a house, a car, and household goods.
• Li Yichen asked Meng Po to find out whether Xia’s mother had reincarnated, and Meng Po promised to arrange a family reunion if possible.

After returning to Jinling University, Li Yichen was confronted by Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi, who demanded to know why he had neglected them. He claimed he had been preparing gifts and took them to Hidden Dragon Manor to show them.

• Li Yichen and Su Shengnan returned to Jinling University at dawn, and Su Shengnan drove away delighted with the Waters of the River of Forgetfulness and her spatial bottle.
• Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi arrived at Li Yichen's classroom and revealed that Mo Yurou had arranged to enroll at the university.
• The three women surrounded Li Yichen in a secluded corner and demanded an explanation for his failure to visit them.
• Li Yichen claimed he had been preparing gifts for them, persuading the women to follow him to Hidden Dragon Manor.

Li Yichen brought Ouyang Xuanxuan, Jiang Ruoyi, and Mo Yurou to the Su Family’s Hidden Dragon Manor, which the Su Family had given him, and they chose their rooms while assigning him the one beside the kitchen so he would cook for them. He challenged them to find his hidden security measures, but after an exhaustive search they found no surveillance devices and returned to demand an explanation.

• Li Yichen showed the women the deed proving that the Su Family had given him Hidden Dragon Manor.
• Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi chose rooms, then assigned Li Yichen a room beside the kitchen so he would cook for them.
• Jiang Ruoyi noticed the manor seemed empty, and Li Yichen challenged the women to find his security measures in exchange for a request.
• The women agreed that if they found nothing, Li Yichen would run naked around the manor once, and they began searching with detection equipment.
• After more than an hour, the women found no cameras and returned to the living room, where Mo Yurou and Jiang Ruoyi demanded that Li Yichen tell them the truth.

Li Yichen revealed that Stone Demons would serve Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi, then presented them with Ability Pearls. The women doubted that the pearls could grant supernatural abilities, and Mo Yurou said her grandparents had never told her about them.

• Mo Yurou, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Jiang Ruoyi wrestled Li Yichen until he agreed to show them his surprise.
• Li Yichen summoned the Stone Demons in the plaza and ordered them to obey and protect the three women.
• Li Yichen gave each woman an Ability Pearl and explained that it could grant ordinary people a supernatural ability.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan and Mo Yurou questioned whether Ability Pearls were real, and Mo Yurou said her grandparents had never mentioned them.

Li Yichen gave Jiang Ruoyi, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Mo Yurou Ability Pearls suited to them and guided them through the fusion process. Jiang Ruoyi and Mo Yurou trembled in pain as their abilities fused, while Ouyang Xuanxuan felt comfortable as green energy spread through her body.

• Jiang Ruoyi chose an ice ability, and Li Yichen gave her the Ability Pearl he had prepared for her.
• Li Yichen gave Ouyang Xuanxuan a Plant Control pearl and chose the rare Spatial Blade ability for Mo Yurou to complement her Spatial Traversal.
• Li Yichen warned the women that fusing with the pearls would be painful, and they each dripped blood onto their pearl.
• Jiang Ruoyi and Mo Yurou began trembling as blood-colored mist entered their bodies, while Ouyang Xuanxuan's pearl released green mist.
• Li Yichen used his Heavenly Eye and saw that Ouyang Xuanxuan's green energy filled her cells with vitality, explaining why her fusion felt comfortable rather than painful.

Ouyang Xuanxuan and Jiang Ruoyi showed Li Yichen the new abilities they gained, while Mo Yurou accidentally cut down nearby treetops. When the three women challenged Li Yichen to help them practice, he summoned Dazhuang as their opponent, but Dazhuang refused.

• Ouyang Xuanxuan demonstrated her ability to rapidly grow sunflowers and summon tough, thorny vines.
• Jiang Ruoyi approached with an ice ability, and Mo Yurou accidentally sliced the tops off nearby trees.
• Jiang Ruoyi proposed that she, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Mo Yurou fight Li Yichen to practice their new abilities.
• Li Yichen summoned Dazhuang to fight the three women, and Dazhuang shook his head in refusal.

Li Yichen arranged a battle between Jiang Ruoyi, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and Mo Yurou and Dazhuang’s Little Stone Demons. After Jiang Ruoyi’s ice and Ouyang Xuanxuan’s vines failed to hold the demons for long, Mo Yurou destroyed several with Spatial Rifts, and Dazhuang surrendered.

• Li Yichen urged Dazhuang to use his stone underlings and told the three women to fight seriously.
• Dazhuang summoned the Little Stone Demons, and Jiang Ruoyi attacked them with Ice Arrows and froze the front ranks.
• The larger Stone Demons shattered their frozen companions’ ice, and Jiang Ruoyi handed the fight to Ouyang Xuanxuan.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan bound the demons with vines but began to tire as they broke free.
• Mo Yurou used Spatial Rifts to slice Stone Demons into rubble, prompting Dazhuang to surrender and hide in Li Yichen’s arms.

After a barbecue at the Mountain Villa, Li Yichen discovered that Mo Yurou and Ouyang Xuanxuan had magical companions, while Jiang Ruoyi had none. Dazhuang helped him summon the Nine-Tailed Fox, which chose Jiang Ruoyi as its master, leaving each woman with a pet.

• Li Yichen prepared a barbecue after Ouyang Xuanxuan withdrew the vines and the Stone Demons resumed their disguises.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan summoned the Little Fairy, and Mo Yurou revealed Mo Ying, who transformed into a miniature dragon to please the women.
• Li Yichen noticed Jiang Ruoyi's envy and wondered how he could find her a pet.
• Dazhuang told Li Yichen that a friend had kept him company in the Space Ring, so Li Yichen summoned a pure-white Little Fox.
• The Little Fox recognized Jiang Ruoyi as its master, leaped into her arms, and Li Yichen realized it had absorbed her blood.

Jiang Ruoyi welcomed the starving Little Fox and fed it grilled meat, while it chose the name Little Nine. After Little Fairy attacked it over the food, Little Nine effortlessly shattered his ice spikes and faced his more powerful Thousand-Ice Dance spell.

• Jiang Ruoyi struggled to name Little Fox until it asked to be called Little Nine, the name its parents had given it.
• Little Nine eagerly ate more than a dozen skewers and competed with Little Fairy for the remaining food.
• Little Fairy attacked Little Nine with ice spikes after it ate the last chicken wing, but Little Nine froze and shattered them with its tail.
• Little Fairy cast Thousand-Ice Dance, summoning a Magic Array and a storm of ice spikes as Little Nine stood its ground and looked up at the attack.

Little Fairy launched his Icefall attack at Little Fox, which revealed its enormous nine-tailed form and hurled the ice ball back. Li Yichen redirected the attack through a Spatial Rift, and both creatures returned to their small forms, exhausted.

• Little Fairy broke the Magic Array with a roar, then challenged Little Fox to withstand one final move.
• Little Fairy formed a huge blue ice ball and hurled it at Little Fox, nearly exhausting himself.
• Little Fox transformed into a five-meter-tall beast with nine tails and caught the ice ball, but the impact drove it backward across the bluestone paving.
• Little Fox flung the ice ball back at Little Fairy, and Li Yichen opened a Spatial Rift to make it disappear.
• A green vine carried the exhausted Little Fairy to Ouyang Xuanxuan, while Little Fox shrank back to its palm-sized form.

Jiang Ruoyi went to Li Yichen’s room to repay his kindness, and the two spent the night together. Ouyang Xuanxuan then slipped into bed with them, unaware of Jiang Ruoyi hiding under the covers.

• Jiang Ruoyi and Ouyang Xuanxuan left Li Yichen to clean up while Mo Yurou went to her room, leaving him alone with the mess.
• Jiang Ruoyi came to Li Yichen’s room and told him she wanted to repay him for giving her an Ability Pearl and Little Nine.
• Li Yichen and Jiang Ruoyi became intimate, and she told him Ouyang Xuanxuan had praised him to her.
• Li Yichen teased Jiang Ruoyi about being intimate with Ouyang Xuanxuan, and she tried to tickle him.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan entered the room, so Jiang Ruoyi hid beneath the covers as Xuanxuan climbed into bed and asked Li Yichen why he was naked.

Li Yichen spent an intimate night with Ouyang Xuanxuan and Jiang Ruoyi, while Mo Yurou lost sleep from the noise. In the Kunlun Secret Realm, Qin Ming took over Junior Brother Yang’s body and vowed revenge on Li Yichen and Bai Binger, who sensed that something was wrong.

• Ouyang Xuanxuan walked in on Li Yichen and Jiang Ruoyi, and Li Yichen pulled her into their embrace.
• The next morning, Mo Yurou complained that Li Yichen had kept her awake all night, embarrassing Ouyang Xuanxuan and Jiang Ruoyi.
• Qin Ming released red mist from his eyes into Junior Brother Yang, taking control of his body as Qin Ming’s original body died.
• Qin Ming devoured his corpse, transformed to look like himself, and gained strength reaching the peak of the Golden Core stage.
• Qin Ming vowed to kill Li Yichen and Bai Binger after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, while Bai Binger wondered why she felt unsettled.

Li Yichen was mistaken for having a relationship with two women who came looking for him at evening study. Liu Yuanyuan and Bian Rourou asked him where their boyfriends, Yang Weifeng and Sun Kai, had gone, and he was left unsure how to answer.

• Li Yichen accompanied Ouyang Xuanxuan, Jiang Ruoyi, and Mo Yurou to evening study, where he realized many of the boys had come to ogle the girls.
• Liu Yuanyuan and Bian Rourou arrived and called Li Yichen outside, prompting students to speculate that he was involved with both women.
• Li Yichen led the women to a quiet corner while Mo Yurou and the others followed to watch.
• Liu Yuanyuan asked whether Yang Weifeng had found another woman because he had been away and barely spoke to her on the phone.
• Bian Rourou demanded to know where Sun Kai was so she could confront the woman she believed had seduced him.

Li Yichen went to the grove after receiving a message claiming Yang Weifeng and two others had been captured, only to be ambushed by Sun Kai, who blamed him for their brutal training. Their fight ended with an unseen attacker striking at Li Yichen from behind.

• Liu Yuanyuan and another woman asked Li Yichen when Yang Weifeng and the others would return, and he promised to ask about them at the training grounds.
• Li Yichen received a text claiming Yang Weifeng and two others had been taken, then hurried alone to the grove behind the school.
• Sun Kai attacked Li Yichen with his armored fist and spiked leg, then complained that Li Yichen had sent them into a punishing training camp.
• Sun Kai charged with an Iron Mountain Lean, and Li Yichen vaulted over his shoulder to evade the move.
• As Li Yichen was about to land, someone shouted "Sneak attack!" and struck toward his shoulder.

Li Yichen reunited with Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong, then learned Elder Mo wanted him to prepare some items and visit the Training Base. As the others rushed off to see their girlfriends, Granny Wang told Li Yichen that Xiao Meng might be in trouble.

• Li Yichen used his abilities to knock Yang Weifeng down and defeat Zhang Yong in a sparring match.
• Li Yichen treated Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong to noodles, and Yang Weifeng told him that Elder Mo had sent them to ask about the requested items and invite him to the Training Base.
• Li Yichen told Sun Kai and Yang Weifeng that their girlfriends had come to ask about them, and both men hurried off to see them.
• Zhang Yong left to watch his brothers reunite with their girlfriends, while Li Yichen paid for the noodles and prepared to leave.
• Granny Wang stopped Li Yichen and urged him to visit Xiao Meng, saying she thought Xiao Meng was in trouble.

Li Yichen found Fang Enmeng weakened from hunger and offered her food, only for her second uncle and aunt to confront her over her late father's debt. Her aunt proposed that Fang Enmeng marry a man back home in exchange for a fifty-thousand-yuan bride price to repay the loan.

• Granny Wang told Li Yichen that Fang Enmeng had stopped coming to eat at her noodle shop, so he went to check on her at the Courier Post.
• Li Yichen found Fang Enmeng pale and working late, caught her as she nearly fainted, and gave her a warm chicken drumstick.
• Fang Enmeng's second uncle and second aunt arrived and demanded repayment of the thirty-thousand-yuan loan her father had borrowed.
• Fang Enmeng offered them the eight hundred and twenty-five yuan and thirty cents she had, but her second aunt rejected it.
• Fang Enmeng's second aunt proposed that she marry a man back home whose family would pay a fifty-thousand-yuan bride price.

Fang Enmeng’s aunt pressured her to marry Wu the Second to settle a debt, but Li Yichen intervened, drove off her relatives, and paid the thirty thousand yuan they were demanding. The aunt accepted the money, leaving Fang Enmeng safe from the forced marriage for now.

• Fang Enmeng’s aunt and uncle pressured her to abandon college and marry Wu the Second so his family would pay off her thirty-thousand-yuan debt.
• Fang Enmeng refused the marriage, and her aunt tried to drag her away.
• Li Yichen struck Fang Enmeng’s aunt and uncle when they threatened her, then stopped the aunt from shouting for help.
• Li Yichen claimed he was Fang Enmeng’s boyfriend and warned her relatives not to harass her again.
• Li Yichen transferred thirty thousand yuan to Fang Enmeng’s aunt, who accepted it and praised Fang Enmeng for having a rich boyfriend.

After Fang Enmeng paid back her relatives, Li Yichen reassured her by taking her as his little sister. They spent the night together in the shop’s storeroom, where Fang Enmeng fell asleep feeling safe beside him while Li Yichen struggled to ignore her closeness.

• Fang Enmeng gave her second aunt the money she had saved, and the debt collectors left.
• Fang Enmeng offered to become Li Yichen’s mistress because she could not repay the money he had lent her.
• Li Yichen refused and asked Fang Enmeng to call him her big brother, promising to look after her.
• Li Yichen and Fang Enmeng found the shop’s cleaned storeroom and realized they had missed the time to return to their dorms.
• Fang Enmeng invited Li Yichen to share the small bed, and they lay down together in the storeroom.
• Fang Enmeng fell asleep feeling secure beside Li Yichen, who stayed awake, flustered by their closeness.

Jiang Tianhao forced Steward Zhao to claim Fatty Zhou had stolen five hundred million M dollars and disappeared, giving the Jiang Family a scapegoat for the missing money. At the Su Family’s laboratory, the formula seemed to have failed because it lacked fresh heavenly star grass, leaving Su Shengnan needing to find the rare herb.

• Jiang Tianhao told Steward Zhao to report that Fatty Zhou had stolen five hundred million M dollars from the Jiang Family and vanished.
• Steward Zhao agreed to Jiang Tianhao’s account, then left and realized Jiang Tianhao was blaming a dead man.
• Su Shengnan and Ouyang Hai learned that the formula’s effect was negligible without heavenly star grass.
• The doctor explained that heavenly star grass only grew on perpetually frozen mountaintops and had to be freshly picked, but said adding it gave the formula a ninety percent chance of success.
• Su Shengnan decided to find the herb and sent the exhausted Ouyang Hai home to rest.

Fang Enmeng woke from a dream about Li Yichen, then joined him for noodles and met his three roommates. Li Yichen promised to take her shopping before leaving with his roommates the next day.

• Fang Enmeng woke after dreaming that she confessed her feelings to Li Yichen and found him outside the shop.
• Li Yichen took Fang Enmeng to Granny Wang's Noodle Shop for breakfast, where they encountered Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong.
• Li Yichen introduced Fang Enmeng as his little sister and asked his roommates to look out for her.
• The roommates teased one another about their romantic lives while Fang Enmeng listened and blushed.
• Li Yichen said he would take Fang Enmeng shopping that day and return with his roommates the following day.