Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• During military-training lineup, Su Xiaoxiao offers to help Tang Ling’er with her wooden case. Its extreme weight surprises Su, who manages to lift it, revealing that Tang is unusually strong.
• Su teases Tang about being jealous over a boy, then clarifies that she and Li Yichen have nothing going on. Tang denies caring about him but is visibly embarrassed.
• At the break, students crowd around Su Xiaoxiao and the handsome Li Yichen and Hao Shuai. Girls discover that Li Yichen’s presence feels remarkably cool in the heat and swarm him, asking to touch his arm.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan, left alone while her roommates join the crowd, is persuaded by Xiao Lu to approach Li. She experiences the cooling effect too, though she becomes jealous when Xiao Lu joins the others in touching him.
• Ouyang throws her water bottle into the crowd; it hits someone. The break ends, rescuing Li from the increasingly overwhelming attention.
• Su teases Li about his popularity and warns him privately to watch out for Zheng Liang, who is furious and jealous.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen becomes the center of attention because he is handsome and mysteriously cool to those nearby. He is awkward about the attention but too considerate to push the girls away.
• Su Xiaoxiao is playful and confident, teasing Tang about Li and later teasing Li himself. Her closeness to him provokes Zheng Liang’s jealousy.
• Tang Ling’er displays remarkable strength through her heavy case and is flustered by Su’s teasing about her feelings for Li.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan reveals jealousy and insecurity when her roommates flock to Li, while Xiao Lu enthusiastically joins the crowd and tries to draw Xuanxuan into it.
• Hao Jun/Hao Shuai jokes about losing his status as the girls’ favorite; Su’s mock defense of Li further needles Zheng Liang.
• Zheng Liang grows openly resentful of Li’s popularity.

Significant themes

• Attraction and jealousy: Li’s popularity unsettles both admirers and rivals.
• Mystery and unusual abilities: Tang’s strength and Li’s cooling aura hint at extraordinary qualities.
• Playful social rivalry: Teasing, flirtation, and competition shape the group’s interactions.
• Personal boundaries: The girls’ excitement overwhelms Li, who struggles to object without hurting anyone.

Key plot points and events

• Military training has settled into a routine, but the Journalism Department’s formation feels excluded because no one joins them in singing contests or performances.
• Zheng Bo urges Acting Counselor Li Yichen to organize an act. Li tries to rally the group, but nobody volunteers at first.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan steps forward and sings. Her beautiful performance draws a large crowd and earns loud applause and calls for an encore.
• As she sings, she and Li Yichen exchange meaningful looks, and the narration depicts red “threads” of fate beginning to connect them.
• Tang Ling’er interrupts, declaring it is her turn. She launches her sword from its case, leaps into the air to catch it, and cuts through the red threads. Li and Ouyang both feel a sudden heartache and shed a tear.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen takes initiative to lift his formation’s spirits, then becomes visibly captivated by Ouyang’s singing and appears to feel a romantic connection with her.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan reveals her singing talent and confidence. Her glance toward Li suggests she may share his feelings.
• Zheng Bo pushes Li to arrange a performance, motivated partly by his growing anxiety over the lack of opportunity he and his associates have found.
• Tang Ling’er arrives abruptly and demonstrates striking sword skill. Her sharp interruption and gaze at Li and Ouyang suggest jealousy or displeasure, though her motives are not stated outright.
• The students shift from feeling overlooked to enthusiastic spectators, especially after Ouyang’s performance.

Significant themes

• Talent and recognition: Ouyang’s song transforms the group’s standing and captivates the surrounding students.
• Romance and fate: The red-thread imagery frames Li and Ouyang’s mutual attraction as a possible destined bond.
• Jealousy and rivalry: Tang Ling’er’s dramatic entrance and severing of the threads disrupt the apparent romantic moment.

Key plot points and events

• The crowd cheers for Li Yichen’s earlier performance, then watches Tang Ling’er demonstrate an impressive sword dance.
• Tang Ling’er suddenly challenges Li Yichen. He catches her sword between two fingers, then deflects her attacks and fights her barehanded. Their exchange becomes an astonishing aerial duel that leaves the onlookers convinced they are witnessing superhuman martial artists.
• Senior Brother Huang tries to intervene, but Tang Ling’er drives him back with a wave of sword energy and continues fighting Li Yichen.
• The duel gradually becomes playful and synchronized. Li Yichen catches Tang Ling’er’s sword hand and draws her into his arms; they land together, absorbed in each other, until Su Xiaoxiao interrupts them.
• Tang Ling’er blushes and leaves. Su Xiaoxiao points out that Li Yichen’s uniform has been shredded by the sword, exposing him; he flees to change while the crowd laughs.
• Later, Hao Shuai and Savage Bear acknowledge Li Yichen’s strength. Savage Bear is also humbled by realizing he could not beat Tang Ling’er.
• At the infirmary, Zheng Liang tells Han Wenqi what happened and returns the untouched envelope, admitting he could not carry out Han’s request. Han Wenqi responds coldly, suggesting he intends to retaliate.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen shows extraordinary reflexes and strength, but his serious fight turns into mutual play and attraction with Tang Ling’er. He is also embarrassed by his torn clothes.
• Tang Ling’er reveals both formidable swordsmanship and a teasing, jealous streak: she attacks Li Yichen because he was flirting with Ouyang Xuanxuan, then grows bashful when their duel ends in an intimate embrace.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan watches the fight anxiously and appears hurt when Li Yichen and Tang Ling’er grow close.
• Su Xiaoxiao serves as a teasing observer, breaking up the couple’s moment and joking about Li Yichen’s luck with women and damaged uniform.
• Zheng Liang abandons Han Wenqi’s plan after witnessing Li Yichen’s power. Han Wenqi, however, remains hostile and seems ready to escalate matters.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and spectacle: Li Yichen and Tang Ling’er’s abilities overturn the crowd’s assumptions about what ordinary people can do.
• Rivalry turning into attraction: A jealous challenge develops into a harmonious, intimate exchange.
• Pride and humility: The duel impresses the students and forces Savage Bear to confront his limits.
• Conflict still brewing: Though the day ends with playful romance, Han Wenqi’s final threat keeps the larger antagonism unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• Ouyang Xuanxuan walks alone, troubled by a sense of loss and unable to stop thinking about Li Yichen. She tells herself he already has Tang Ling’er, yet she cries without understanding why.
• At work, Li Yichen suddenly feels a sharp ache and sheds a tear, but quickly returns to helping a customer.
• In the boys’ dorm, Sun Kai, Yang Weifeng, and Zhang Yong are absorbed in a game when several young women arrive looking for Li Yichen. Each leaves him chocolates and a message in a pink envelope.
• The roommates speculate that Li Yichen has been courting and abandoning admirers. Their frustration turns into envy and comic admiration: Yang Weifeng decides to ask Li Yichen to teach him how to attract women.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan eventually comes to the dorm herself. Her sadness makes the roommates momentarily speechless. She asks where Li Yichen is, and the chapter ends before they answer.

Character developments

• Ouyang Xuanxuan appears emotionally unsettled and increasingly drawn to Li Yichen, despite resisting the feeling and believing he belongs with Tang Ling’er.
• Li Yichen remains unaware of the women seeking him and of Xuanxuan’s distress; his unexplained tear hints at a possible emotional connection.
• Sun Kai, Yang Weifeng, and Zhang Yong are presented as playful, envious roommates. Their resentment over Li Yichen’s popularity shifts into admiration and plans to learn from him.

Significant themes

• Unacknowledged longing: Xuanxuan cannot explain her feelings, while Li Yichen’s sudden tear suggests an unseen emotional bond.
• Romance and jealousy: The gifts from multiple women highlight Li Yichen’s appeal and provoke his roommates’ envy.
• Comic contrast: The roommates’ exaggerated matchmaking ambitions offset Xuanxuan’s sincere sadness.

Character interactions

• Xuanxuan struggles inwardly against her thoughts of Li Yichen and later seeks him out.
• The roommates joke and argue over Li Yichen’s apparent success with women, ultimately treating him as a potential teacher.
• When Xuanxuan arrives, her sorrowful presence changes their teasing mood into stunned concern; she asks them directly where Li Yichen is.

Plot points and events

• Ouyang Xuanxuan visits Li Yichen’s dorm to ask about him. His roommates exaggerate how poor and self-sacrificing he is, hoping to bring the two closer. Their story leaves her in tears and determined to find him.
• She tracks Li Yichen to the campus parcel station, where he is working hard. He explains that he used to help there for living expenses but has since bought the business.
• Li reveals that he used the 20,000 yuan Ouyang gave him as compensation for his torn shirt to buy the station. He intends to repay her in full.
• Ouyang proposes treating the money as her investment and sharing ownership equally. Excited at having a business of her own, she jokingly assigns Li the title of “big boss” and herself “boss’s wife.” Their flirtation is interrupted by a woman asking to send a parcel.

Character developments

• Ouyang Xuanxuan moves from curiosity and concern to admiration for Li’s independence. She wants to share his burdens, then takes initiative by proposing a partnership.
• Li Yichen shows pride in building a livelihood through work and a strong sense of responsibility: he plans to repay Ouyang despite her gift being intended as compensation.
• The roommates reveal themselves as meddling matchmakers, deliberately presenting Li’s hardship in a dramatic light to encourage Ouyang’s affection.

Character interactions

• Ouyang gently questions Li’s roommates, who give her a misleadingly bleak account of his life.
• At the station, Li and Ouyang speak openly about money, work, and independence. Their mutual respect grows into playful teasing, with Li calling her the “boss’s wife.”
• Their lighthearted moment is cut short by an unseen woman’s request for service.

Significant themes

• Hard work and self-reliance: Li takes pride in earning and building something himself.
• Generosity and repayment: Ouyang’s money helps Li establish the business, while his wish to repay her reflects his integrity.
• Partnership and independence: Ouyang turns a gift into shared ownership, hoping to create something of her own rather than depend on her parents.
• Romance and matchmaking: The roommates’ meddling accelerates Ouyang’s concern, while the pair’s banter hints at growing affection.

Plot points and events

• Ouyang Xuanxuan takes charge of a customer’s first shipment, proudly calling herself a co-owner of Li Yichen’s courier station.
• The customer, Zhou Tingting, wants to send a box to her late boyfriend, Zhou Yixuan, but cannot provide his address.
• Tingting’s friend Duan Mingyu arrives, throws the package to the ground, and tells her that Yixuan is dead and will not return. Both grieve, and Mingyu takes Tingting home.
• Li Yichen recognizes Tingting as a well-known campus beauty and explains that Yixuan died in a car accident a year earlier. Tingting has rejected other suitors since his death.
• Ouyang is moved to tears by the story, then asks Li Yichen whether he wants to know what is inside the abandoned box.

Character developments and interactions

• Ouyang Xuanxuan is excited to act as Li’s business partner and shows growing concern for him. Her empathy for Tingting’s loss reveals her tender, emotional side; she also playfully demands comfort from Li.
• Li Yichen is observant and knowledgeable about campus gossip, but responds to the tragedy with a mix of sympathy and teasing humor.
• Zhou Tingting is unable to accept her boyfriend’s death and clings to the promise that he would return. Her failed attempt to send him a package makes her grief especially clear.
• Duan Mingyu shares Tingting’s grief as Yixuan’s best friend. He tries to force her to confront the loss and then comforts her, though a brief, unexplained flash of spite complicates his apparent concern.
• Ouyang and Li exchange teasing banter throughout; their ease together contrasts with Tingting and Duan’s painful reunion.

Significant themes

• Grief and denial: Tingting cannot let go of Yixuan, while Duan struggles with the same loss but believes she must face it.
• Memory and attachment: The package represents Tingting’s continuing bond with someone who is gone.
• Compassion and emotional contrast: Ouyang readily shares another person’s sorrow, while Li’s humor offers a lighter counterpoint to the chapter’s tragedy.

Plot points and events

• Li Yichen and Ouyang Xuanxuan open a box belonging to Zhou Tingting. It contains photographs, accessories, trophies, and a letter.
• The photographs show Tingting with her boyfriend, Zhou Yixuan, and also with another boy whom Xuanxuan recognizes from earlier and distrusts on instinct.
• The letter, written to Yixuan a year after his death, expresses Tingting’s grief and enduring love. Xuanxuan is moved to tears and wishes she could deliver it to him in the Underworld. Li Yichen hints that this might not be impossible, but says no more.
• Xuanxuan leaves, teasing Li Yichen for his awkwardness; he follows to make sure she gets back safely.
• Meanwhile, Duan Mingyu drinks with his roommates, upset that Tingting still won’t accept him. His friends suggest arranging karaoke with her and, disturbingly, propose forcing intimacy if she refuses.

Character developments and interactions

• Ouyang Xuanxuan is emotionally perceptive and compassionate, though she teases Li Yichen and confidently trusts her intuition about the unfamiliar boy.
• Li Yichen remains socially clumsy and jealous when Xuanxuan praises another man, but his concern for her safety is clear. His cryptic remark suggests he may know a way to contact the dead.
• Duan Mingyu appears possessive and desperate, treating Tingting’s rejection as something to overcome rather than respect. His roommates enable this attitude with an alarming suggestion.
• Xuanxuan and Li share playful bickering that hints at attraction, while the letter reveals Tingting’s profound bond with Yixuan.

Significant themes

• Grief and enduring love: Tingting’s letter shows that her attachment to Yixuan persists beyond death.
• The supernatural and hope: Xuanxuan’s wish to deliver the letter may connect to Li Yichen’s unexplained knowledge of the Underworld.
• Love, jealousy, and boundaries: Li’s mild jealousy contrasts with Duan Mingyu’s possessiveness; the chapter frames the latter as troubling rather than romantic.

Key plot points

• Ouyang Xuanxuan repeatedly asks Li Yichen whether Senior Huang’s letter will reach her boyfriend. When she asks whether he would grieve if she died, he reassures her that he would never let her die—and would even retrieve her from the Underworld.
• Touched, Xuanxuan makes him seal the promise with a pinky swear. Li Yichen gently wipes away her tears, but she gets embarrassed, calls him an idiot, stomps on his foot, and runs back to her dorm.
• Locked out of his dorm by the caretaker, Li Yichen decides not to return and uses his supernatural speed to travel to the White Temple.
• He contacts Black and White Impermanence through a Communication Talisman. They are busy attending the Underworld’s first sports-car race, which prompts a humorous discussion of how modern technology has reached the Underworld.
• Li Yichen asks them to help bring Zhou Tingting up for a visit so he can show her something. They cannot assist immediately, but offer to open a Spatial Gate the next day so Li Yichen can come to the Underworld himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Ouyang Xuanxuan reveals her insecurity and affection for Li Yichen by asking whether he would miss her if she died. She is delighted by his vow but remains bashful and flustered around him.
• Li Yichen responds with sincere protectiveness, though his straightforward attempt to wipe away her tears triggers her embarrassed, playful anger.
• Black and White Impermanence appear distracted and amused by the Underworld’s new entertainments. They explain that they are too busy to help Li Yichen directly, but offer him another solution.

Significant themes

• Affection and reassurance: Xuanxuan seeks proof that she matters to Li Yichen, and his promise to protect her strengthens their bond.
• Comedy through misunderstanding: Xuanxuan’s romantic expectations clash with Li Yichen’s earnest, oblivious manner.
• A changing supernatural world: The Underworld mirrors the mortal world and adopts its modern technology, creating a comic contrast between new sports cars and the old-fashioned habits of its elder residents.
• Crossing boundaries: Li Yichen’s planned journey to the Underworld turns the supernatural realm from a distant place into a destination he may soon visit himself.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yichen agrees to visit Black and White Impermanence in the Underworld the next day and decides he should bring a gift.
• At Good Karma Hall, the owner, Elder Mo, leads him to a hidden warehouse stocked with elaborate paper offerings, including a remarkably realistic Lamborghini Veneno.
• Elder Mo offers Li the car in exchange for help obtaining Waters of the River of Forgetfulness. Li makes no promise but agrees to try, and arranges for the car to be delivered to the White Temple.
• After Li leaves, Elder Mo tells Su Xiaoxiao and her companions that Li’s background may be powerful and urges them to cultivate their relationship with him. He also instructs them to watch a Japanese group, the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect, which is searching near Stone Mountain.
• At military training, the Journalism Department remains largely unsupervised and excluded from the demonstration. Its students ask Su Xiaoxiao to teach women’s self-defense; she agrees despite a boy’s comic protest.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen is cautious but increasingly willing to use his Underworld connections. He recognizes Elder Mo’s offer as a bargain rather than a gift, yet accepts the task without overcommitting.
• Elder Mo reveals himself as a strategic figure who has been waiting for Li and has deliberately arranged for Su Xiaoxiao and her companions to be near him.
• Su Xiaoxiao is relaxed and popular with the students, who now treat her more like an older sister than an instructor. She responds playfully to their request and overrules the protesting boy.
• The exchange between Li and Elder Mo is polite but wary; Elder Mo offers an incentive, while Li sets limits on what he can promise. Su and the students’ rapport is informal and humorous.

Significant themes

• Connections and influence: Li’s ties to the Underworld make him valuable to Elder Mo.
• Reciprocity and negotiation: The Lamborghini is presented as a gift, but it comes with a request.
• Hidden worlds and concealed agendas: Good Karma Hall hides a vast warehouse, while Elder Mo’s plans and the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect’s search hint at wider conflicts.
• Empowerment and comedy: The self-defense lesson is framed as a way for women to protect themselves, with the boys’ protest providing comic contrast.

Plot and events

Su Xiaoxiao teaches the girls a basic escape from being pinned against a wall. She first demonstrates the move with Instructor Hao Jun: cross the arms, force down the attacker’s elbows, slip past, and escape or strike back. After a comic first demonstration, she performs the technique for real, chops Hao Jun in the neck, and knocks him out.
Su Xiaoxiao then asks Ouyang Xuanxuan to practice. The boys eagerly volunteer to play the attacker, but Su Xiaoxiao chooses Li Yichen instead. Xuanxuan looks relieved—and somewhat pleased—when he is selected. During their practice, however, her first attempt barely touches Li’s arms. He freezes rather than reacting, and even her second effort fails to move him, leaving both of them embarrassed and the onlookers confused.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Xiaoxiao is confident, playful, and commanding. She mixes jokes with a serious self-defense lesson and shows little hesitation in using the technique on Hao Jun.
• Hao Jun reluctantly serves as her demonstration partner, wary of her “Venom-Tailed Scorpion” reputation. His exaggerated fall provides comic relief.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan is shy and flustered when asked to practice. She seems uncomfortable with the boys’ eagerness to play attacker, but relaxes when Su Xiaoxiao picks Li Yichen.
• Li Yichen feels uneasy about the boys’ interest in Xuanxuan. Once paired with her, he is awkward and fails to react as an attacker, making her struggle to perform the move.
• Tang Ling’er remains unimpressed because she is already skilled.
• The students’ laughter and cheering frame the lesson as both entertainment and practical instruction.

Significant themes

The chapter promotes women’s self-protection and the importance of staying calm and taking the chance to escape. Its light, teasing tone also highlights the contrast between confident instruction and awkward real-life practice, while Li Yichen and Xuanxuan’s bashfulness hints at mutual interest.

Key plot points and events

• During a self-defense lesson, Li Yichen and Ouyang Xuanxuan practice a staged move. His gentle strike still throws her off balance, and she accidentally kisses him. Both are embarrassed, while Su Xiaoxiao praises Li Yichen for what she jokes was a “hidden ultimate move.”
• The other students turn the drills into an excuse to get close to Li Yichen. Nearly every girl volunteers to partner with him, leaving his face and neck covered in lipstick by the end of the day. Ouyang Xuanxuan and Tang Ling’er get no further turns and leave annoyed.
• Left alone with the two girls, Li Yichen cannot decide which one to follow. Ghost Emperor Haoran urges him to pursue both and suggests using the Clone Technique.
• Li Yichen sneaks away, studies the technique from the Great Netherworld Scripture, and successfully creates a fully formed clone from a hair. The clone can last only two hours.
• Li Yichen sends the clone after Tang Ling’er while he intends to pursue Ouyang Xuanxuan.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen remains awkward and indecisive around the girls, but discovers he can master the Clone Technique quickly. His embarrassment and inexperience contrast with his unexpected magical ability.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan is flustered by the accidental kiss and later joins Tang Ling’er in feeling overlooked.
• Tang Ling’er reacts sharply to Senior Brother Huang’s warning about Li Yichen, knocking him down and later punching him when he persists. She is also displeased that she and Ouyang Xuanxuan get no more time with Li Yichen.
• Su Xiaoxiao directs the lesson and humorously recognizes Li Yichen’s apparent talent for creating romantic mishaps.
• Ghost Emperor Haoran pushes Li Yichen to pursue both girls, comically fixating on their suitability as mothers. Though he calls Li Yichen slow, he privately acknowledges that Li’s understanding of the spell exceeds his own at the same stage.
• The students’ enthusiasm transforms the self-defense class into a playful scramble for opportunities to kiss Li Yichen.

Significant themes

• Romantic comedy and rivalry: Accidental intimacy, jealousy, and Li Yichen’s inability to choose drive the humor.
• Magic as a practical solution: Li Yichen uses a supernatural technique to resolve an ordinary romantic dilemma.
• Mentorship and inheritance: Haoran’s guidance helps Li Yichen unlock a skill from the scripture, while Li’s talent surpasses his ancestor’s expectations.

Key plot points and events

• Tang Ling’er drinks alone on Fengxiang Peak, feeling lonely and hurt because Li Yichen has not visited. Missing her grandfather, she drinks until she passes out.
• Mantou accidentally tears open a scroll from Tang Ling’er’s pouch, releasing a group of Vengeful Ghosts. The ghosts attack the unconscious girl, but Mantou fights them off, destroying several before transforming into a larger, red-furred beast and swallowing the rest.
• The Dream Demon emerges from the scroll’s remaining darkness and possesses Tang Ling’er, causing her pain and darkening her lips. Unable to help her alone, Mantou runs down the mountain to find Li Yichen.
• Li Yichen has been searching the school for Tang Ling’er. He recognizes the injured, blackened Mantou, understands that Tang Ling’er is in danger, and races northwest toward her.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Ling’er reveals her romantic insecurity and emotional loneliness, grieving both Li Yichen’s absence and her distance from her grandfather.
• Mantou proves fiercely loyal and far more powerful than its small size suggests. Though injured and transformed by its struggle, it prioritizes getting help for Tang Ling’er.
• Li Yichen shifts from anxious, awkward searching to urgent, protective action once Mantou signals the danger. His response shows how deeply he cares for Tang Ling’er.
• Mantou’s devotion is contrasted with the Dream Demon’s cruel taunting, while Tang Ling’er remains unable to respond because she is unconscious and possessed.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and sacrifice: Mantou risks itself repeatedly to protect Tang Ling’er and seek help.
• Loneliness and longing: Tang Ling’er’s drunken reflections expose her fear that she matters little to Li Yichen.
• Hidden power and vulnerability: Mantou’s extraordinary strength appears when Tang Ling’er is most helpless, yet even it cannot stop the Dream Demon’s possession.
• Suspense and peril: The chapter ends with Li Yichen racing to intervene, leaving Tang Ling’er’s fate unresolved.

Plot and key events

• Ouyang Xuanxuan waits at the parcel station for Li Yichen, worrying that he has gone to see Tang Ling’er.
• Wang Bo offers her a steamed bun and pickled mustard greens, explaining that he and Yichen often make do with simple food because their families have little money. Xuanxuan realizes how modest Yichen’s life has been and is moved by the contrast with her own wealthy upbringing.
• Yichen arrives with instant noodles, ham sausages, and braised eggs, claiming he searched the campus for Xuanxuan. She learns he came straight to see her, not Tang Ling’er, and feels reassured.
• Wang Bo enthusiastically devours the food. Xuanxuan tries instant noodles for the first time, burns herself, then enjoys them after Yichen mysteriously cools them using netherworld power.
• As the couple share a tender moment, black energy rises from Tang Ling’er and forms a sinister face, which tells her to stop resisting because her lover will not come.

Character developments and interactions

• Xuanxuan shifts from jealousy and boredom to empathy for Yichen’s circumstances, then to happiness at his attention. Trying ordinary food is a small step beyond her sheltered, wealthy upbringing.
• Yichen shows care through small gestures—bringing food, reassuring Xuanxuan, and cooling her noodles. Privately, he vows to remain faithful to her. His remark about going straight to her is complicated by his thought that a clone, rather than his main body, went to Tang Ling’er.
• Wang Bo acts as an easygoing friend and comic presence. His delight over the meal highlights how much he and Yichen value simple comforts.
• Xuanxuan and Yichen grow closer through teasing, reassurance, and shared food. Meanwhile, Tang Ling’er’s unseen danger creates a sharp contrast with their warmth.

Significant themes

• Love shown through everyday care: food and reassurance become expressions of affection.
• Class and perspective: Xuanxuan’s encounter with modest meals helps her understand Yichen’s life.
• Comfort in simple pleasures: the noodles feel special because of the company and shared moment.
• Warmth versus danger: the affectionate scene is abruptly undercut by the supernatural threat facing Tang Ling’er.

Plot points and events

• A shadowy entity torments Tang Ling’er and tries to lull her into surrendering. Li Yichen arrives and attacks, but his physical blows pass through it.
• Tang Ling’er’s sword, the Yao Light Sword, flies from its case to Li Yichen. The shadow recognizes it as one of the Seven-Star Demon-Subduing Swords and is frightened.
• Li Yichen channels spiritual energy into the sword, whose starlight burns the shadow without harming the red threads binding it to Tang Ling’er. The entity then retreats inside her, threatening to kill her from within.
• Li Yichen enters Tang Ling’er’s dream, with the sword following him. There, he finds her being manipulated into believing he has abandoned her; she is close to hanging herself with a piece of white silk.
• He reaches her just in time, but the shadow takes her hostage with a bone knife and forces Li Yichen to choose which of them will die. The chapter ends as it counts down and Tang Ling’er urges him to leave.

Character development

• Li Yichen shifts from helpless fury to determined action, using the sword and entering Tang Ling’er’s mind despite the danger. His desperation makes clear how much he cares for her.
• Tang Ling’er is emotionally vulnerable under the shadow’s influence, but when she sees Li Yichen, she briefly regains clarity and tries to protect him by telling him to escape.
• The shadow is revealed as sadistic and manipulative: it seeks not only death but also lasting guilt and despair.

Significant themes

• Love and sacrifice: Li Yichen risks himself to save Tang Ling’er, while she is willing to die so he can survive.
• Psychological torment: The entity attacks through lies, despair, and impossible choices rather than physical force alone.
• Power and responsibility: The Yao Light Sword gives Li Yichen a way to fight back, but its power cannot immediately free Tang Ling’er from the entity’s grasp.

Character interactions

• Li Yichen confronts the shadow, then negotiates and threatens it, but it exploits its link to Tang Ling’er to stop him from attacking.
• Inside the dream, the shadow uses false claims about Li Yichen’s abandonment to push Tang Ling’er toward suicide.
• When Li Yichen arrives, Tang Ling’er moves toward him; the shadow seizes her and turns their bond into leverage, forcing a deadly choice between them.

Key plot points and events

• In Tang Ling’er’s dreamscape, a shadow forces Li Yichen to choose between his own life and hers. Li agrees to die if the shadow will release her.
• Li’s sword cannot cut through his throat, giving Tang Ling’er time to break free and destroy the shadow with a powerful golden-light spell.
• Tang Ling’er attacks the shadow viciously—blinding and slapping him—until he crumbles into ash.
• As the dreamscape collapses, Li is expelled into the waking world and lands on Tang Ling’er. She kisses him, then bites his tongue when he tries to deepen the kiss, angry that he kissed Ouyang Xuanxuan first.
• Li notices his hand becoming transparent, realizes his time is nearly up, and invents an excuse to flee. Tang Ling’er sees through it and pursues him on her flying sword.
• Later, outside the women’s dormitory, Li sees Ouyang Xuanxuan off and worries about his missing clone. The clone returns as a white light, and Li learns that Tang Ling’er was rescued. A phone call warns him that she is waiting with a huge sword to ambush him.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen shows willingness to sacrifice himself for Tang Ling’er, though he privately hopes his body is only a disposable clone. Afterward, he is frightened by her ferocity and tries to evade her.
• Tang Ling’er moves from grief and helplessness to decisive action, saving Li and unleashing her anger on the shadow. Her affection for Li is clear, but so is her jealousy over Ouyang Xuanxuan.
• The shadow shifts from triumphant cruelty to panic and humiliation before being destroyed.
• Mantou, left behind as Tang Ling’er chases Li, comically laments being neglected for her romantic interest.
• Li’s encounter with Ouyang Xuanxuan contrasts with his charged, jealous relationship with Tang Ling’er.

Significant themes

• Love and self-sacrifice: Li is willing to die to save Tang Ling’er.
• Courage and agency: Tang Ling’er overcomes her distress and rescues him herself.
• Jealousy and romantic rivalry: Her resentment toward Ouyang Xuanxuan complicates her affection for Li.
• Comic tonal contrast: A life-or-death dream battle gives way to slapstick violence, awkward intimacy, and a frantic chase.

Summary

• Li Yichen heads for the Underworld: After hearing that a fierce woman is blocking the boys’ dormitory, Li Yichen decides to avoid trouble and goes to the White Temple. Meanwhile, at Fengxiang Peak, a damaged scroll mysteriously repairs itself under the moonlight, and a red streak escapes through the gap.
• The car transforms: At the White Temple, Li admires a Lamborghini Veneno and presses a red button on its door. The car bursts into flames, but the fire soon vanishes as its ashes reassemble into a dazzling, seemingly supernatural sports car. A key appears, and the car’s scissor doors open for him.
• Li enters the Underworld: White Impermanence opens a Spatial Gate for Li. Eager to enjoy the new car, Li speeds into it—unaware that White Impermanence has gone ahead to meet him.
• A chaotic race: The Underworld is hosting its first racing season, with ghosts and creatures of all kinds watching. Black Impermanence, Cui Jue, and Meng Po are absorbed in betting and arguing over their chosen racers. Their banter grows heated, but White Impermanence leaves to greet Li.
• A disastrous arrival: As White Impermanence waits in a secluded spot, Li’s car bursts through a Spatial Gate at full speed, strikes him, and runs him over.

Character developments and interactions

Li is impulsive and thrill-seeking: his curiosity causes the car’s apparent destruction, and his excitement makes him rush into the Underworld without checking where he is going. White Impermanence is the responsible mediator, though he grows tired of refereeing his colleagues. Black Impermanence, Cui Jue, and Meng Po reveal a competitive, quarrelsome side as they trade insults over their bets.

Significant themes

The chapter plays on curiosity and consequences, summed up by Li’s regretful “That’s what you get for pressing things,” before he repeats the same impulsiveness behind the wheel. Its supernatural car transformation and collision also create a contrast between spectacle and slapstick, ending the chapter on a comic cliffhanger.

Plot points and events

• Li Yichen accidentally runs over White Impermanence with his sports car, leaving him embedded in the dirt. White Impermanence barely notices: he is immediately captivated by the vehicle.
• Learning that White Impermanence adores the car, Li Yichen gives it to him and Black Impermanence. He hands over the keys and encourages him to drive.
• White Impermanence takes Li Yichen for a ride, circling the racetrack several times. The car’s speed and stylish maneuvers draw the attention of nearly every ghost at the venue.
• White Impermanence reveals himself as the driver and proudly announces that the car belongs to him and Black Impermanence. Li Yichen confirms that he brought it as a gift, delighting both brothers.
• Meng Po approaches Li Yichen to learn who he is, suspecting that he is the source of the car. Black Impermanence warns him not to mistake her for a young woman.
• White Impermanence invites Li Yichen to his residence for drinks, then magically shrinks the car and carries it away.

Character development and interactions

• Li Yichen is generous and playful. He teases White Impermanence by pretending he might smash the car, then gives it to the brothers and reassures them that he can bring them more mortal-world goods.
• White Impermanence reveals an enthusiastic, almost childlike love of modern technology. He goes from admiring the car to showing it off and proudly sharing ownership with his brother.
• Black Impermanence is protective of White Impermanence when Cui Jue implies the car may have been stolen, but quickly becomes warm toward Li Yichen once he realizes the car is a gift.
• Cui Jue and Meng Po are also fascinated by the car; Cui Jue wonders whether he could trade his Judge’s Brush for one, while Meng Po imagines riding in it.
• The ghosts’ admiration turns the car into a spectacle, and Li Yichen’s friendship with the brothers grows through joking, gift-giving, and their shared excitement.

Significant themes

• Modernity meets tradition: The Underworld’s ancient residents are dazzled by a luxury car from the mortal world.
• Generosity and friendship: Li Yichen uses a thoughtful gift to strengthen his bond with the Impermanence brothers.
• Status and spectacle: The car commands attention as a symbol of wealth and prestige, and White Impermanence enjoys the public admiration it brings.

Key plot points and events

• White Impermanence privately proposes turning the customized sports car Li Yichen brought from the mortal world into a business opportunity: Underworld elders can obtain cars by trading valuable goods, magical power, or future favors.
• He explains that Li Yichen is spiritually ready for the Golden Core Stage but lacks magical power. Replacing the Yin Flame that normally forms at that stage with an Otherworldly Flame—such as Netherworld Ghostfire, Yin-Yang Twin Flames, or Void Karma Flame—could greatly aid his cultivation.
• The Ghost King and a group of powerful Underworld figures arrive, eager to learn where the car came from. White Impermanence introduces Li Yichen as a descendant of Imperial Lord Haoran, surprising the visitors.
• Li Yichen says the Lamborghini Veneno was specially made for Black and White Impermanence and that he will not supply another of that model. To appease the Ghost King, he offers to seek a Hummer H1 instead.
• The assembled officials rush to order cars. Black and White Impermanence make clear that no one gets one for free; Li Yichen accepts Underworld specialties, magical treasures, magical power, or credit in exchange.
• The Ghost King becomes the first customer, trading a void stone for a Hummer. White Impermanence tells Li Yichen that the stone can be used to make a Space Ring, exciting him.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen shows quick commercial instincts, negotiating confidently despite his limited power and lack of Underworld wealth. His enthusiasm for valuable cultivation resources—and his knowledge of cars—helps him turn the visitors’ curiosity into a market.
• White Impermanence acts as Li Yichen’s business adviser, steering him toward both profit and cultivation opportunities. He also defends the pair’s claim to payment.
• Black Impermanence supports White Impermanence and rebukes the visitors for expecting gifts.
• The Ghost King initially resents being denied another Lamborghini, but Li Yichen’s alternative offer wins him over. He becomes the first to trade for a vehicle.
• Meng Po helps calm the confrontation and explains that the Underworld visitors lack mortal-world money.
• The officials’ eagerness contrasts with their initial reluctance to pay, creating a lively, comedic negotiation.

Significant themes

• Exchange and scarcity: Exclusive goods gain value through limited supply, and even powerful figures must offer something in return.
• Resourcefulness and opportunity: Li Yichen turns an unusual possession into a business venture and a path toward advancement.
• Power versus status: The elders have immense influence and wealth, but Li Yichen’s mortal-world goods give him leverage in their gathering.
• Cultivation and ambition: The discussion of Otherworldly Flames links commerce to Li Yichen’s longer-term spiritual growth.

Key plot points and events

• Bird Beak joins the trading, offering a feather he has refined that lets an ordinary person fly. Li Yichen recognizes its value and eagerly accepts it.
• The others trade with Li Yichen for two hours, leaving him with a large pile of goods. Black and White Impermanence help assess the offers.
• Meng Po is fascinated by Li Yichen’s cell phone and asks to trade for it. He requests Waters of the River of Forgetfulness, which she supplies in a small jade bottle that magically holds a thousand jin.
• Meng Po flirts with Li Yichen and jokes about making him her lover. He dodges the advances by asking White Impermanence to take him home.
• After the others leave, Cui Jue secretly asks for a hundred beautiful women like those he saw in Li Yichen’s photos. Black Impermanence mocks him, then demands two hundred so he can compete with Cui Jue.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen grows more confident as a trader, accepts a wide range of goods, and uses friendly “Brother” and “Sister” forms of address to charm the others. He is especially eager to obtain the Waters of the River of Forgetfulness for an earlier purpose, despite being told it is not valuable to Meng Po.
• Bird Beak reveals the feather’s unusual power and trades it for something useful to him.
• Meng Po shows childlike curiosity about modern technology and openly flirts with Li Yichen, who remains awkward and evasive.
• Cui Jue reveals a cheeky, lustful side by making an embarrassed request for a hundred women.
• Black Impermanence teases both Meng Po and Cui Jue, then turns the exchange into a boastful contest; White Impermanence advises Li Yichen about the trade and offers him an escape from Meng Po’s teasing.

Significant themes

• Mutual exchange and differing values: A good trade depends on what each person needs; an item ordinary to one person may be precious to another.
• Modernity meeting the supernatural: Li Yichen’s phone fascinates Meng Po, while enchanted objects such as the flying feather and bottle reveal the wonders of the underworld.
• Humor, flirtation, and bravado: Teasing and exaggerated sexual boasting drive the chapter’s comic tone.

Plot points and events

• Cui Jue negotiates with Li Yichen for a hundred beauties, offering treasures in exchange. White and Black Impermanence insist on protecting Li Yichen from being cheated.
• Cui Jue reveals the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, a rare fire he cultivated for a thousand years. He offers them in exchange for the beauties and asks for a piece of Netherworld Soul Jade as well.
• Ghost Emperor Haoran appears despite the Barrier, approves the arrangement, and gives Cui Jue the Soul Jade. Black and White Impermanence leave their residence at his request.
• Haoran privately explains that absorbing the flames is extremely dangerous: Li Yichen must endure the destructive yin flame, then be restored by the life-giving yang flame, balancing both forces to earn the flames’ recognition.
• Li Yichen accepts the risk. Haoran splits the flames and begins by driving the yin half into Li Yichen’s dantian, causing him intense pain.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen remains eager to bargain, but shows determination when faced with the danger of mastering the flames. His irreverent jokes about Haoran’s motives give way to focus.
• Cui Jue is shrewd but anxious about the trade; he parts reluctantly with the flames and is relieved to receive the Soul Jade.
• Black and White Impermanence act as Li Yichen’s outspoken protectors, initially suspecting Cui Jue of treachery, and are pleased when Haoran acknowledges their care.
• Ghost Emperor Haoran shows both affection and authority: he rebukes Li Yichen for not sharing treasures with his elders, then personally oversees the perilous process to protect and guide him.

Significant themes

• Risk and growth: Becoming stronger demands enduring pain and danger.
• Yin and yang: The flames embody opposing forces—death and life—that must be brought into harmony.
• Loyalty and obligation: The characters’ protection, gratitude, and family bonds shape the exchanges and decisions.
• Humor alongside danger: Banter and comic misunderstandings contrast with the grave stakes of Li Yichen’s transformation.