Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After a song ends, Zhou Tingting calls out to Zhou Yixuan. Her frightened companions flee, leaving her alone with Duan Mingyu.
• Zhou Yixuan appears as a ghost. Tingting tries to embrace him but passes through his body. He explains that he has returned only to see her before reincarnation.
• Yixuan confronts Duan Mingyu about killing him. Duan admits he did it because he wanted Tingting for himself and believes Yixuan’s presence ruined his chances.
• Tingting tells Duan she never loved him: she once felt only guilt, and now feels hatred. Enraged, Duan attacks Yixuan. A crash follows, and Duan falls from the building onto a car.
• Li Yichen checks Duan and finds his spine broken, leaving him alive but permanently crippled. Tingting faints from the shock and cannot be roused.
• Police and SWAT officers arrive. Their captain turns out to be Ouyang Xuanxuan’s cousin. Despite Xuanxuan’s protests, the captain orders Li Yichen arrested and held under strict guard. Tang Ling’er confronts the officers with her sword to stop them.

Character developments

• Zhou Tingting openly rejects Duan and remains devoted to Yixuan, but the confrontation overwhelms her and leaves her unconscious.
• Zhou Yixuan faces his killer calmly, revealing both his lingering attachment to Tingting and his acceptance that he is a ghost.
• Duan Mingyu exposes the jealousy and possessiveness behind his murder of Yixuan. His rage ends in a devastating fall and permanent injury.
• Li Yichen takes charge of the aftermath, but becomes the police’s main suspect or target.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan tries to protect Li Yichen through her family connection, while Tang Ling’er takes a more forceful stand.

Significant themes

• Love versus possession: Duan mistakes entitlement and jealousy for love; Tingting insists love cannot be forced.
• Grief and attachment: Tingting’s devotion to Yixuan persists despite his death, while Yixuan’s return brings both comfort and pain.
• Consequences of jealousy: Duan’s fixation leads to murder, violence, and his own ruin.
• Justice and uncertainty: The police arrive with apparent orders to detain Li Yichen, creating a new conflict before the events are fully explained.

Character interactions

• Yixuan confronts Duan while Tingting learns the truth about Yixuan’s murder.
• Tingting’s rejection intensifies Duan’s anger, prompting his attack.
• Li Yichen and his companions respond to the fall, care for Tingting, and assess Duan’s injuries.
• Xuanxuan appeals to her cousin, the police captain, to spare Li Yichen; when that fails, Tang Ling’er intervenes.

Plot and events

• Li Yichen agrees to go with the armed police after they threaten to arrest him. He calms Tang Ling’er, promises she and Ouyang Xuanxuan will be safe, and asks Xuanxuan to take Tang away.
• Zhou Yixuan stays behind to protect Tingting, then follows the police convoy unseen.
• On the drive to the detention center, Li Yichen flirts with Captain Jiang Ruoyi and proposes a fight: if he wins, she must be his girlfriend. Jiang accepts, confident he’ll lose because he has lost to her before. Li Yichen claims he went easy on her.
• At the center, an officer shoves Li Yichen. Li gives him a chilling look that leaves the officer terrified and unconscious. Jiang arranges for the man to be taken to the infirmary and reports to Elder Wang.
• Elder Wang, curious because Li has caught the attention of the powerful “old man Mo,” watches him through surveillance. Impressed by Li’s awareness, he orders him placed in Detention Room Five despite Jiang’s concern, wanting to see what abilities Li is hiding.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen shows confidence and control: he willingly submits to questioning, reassures Tang, and effortlessly intimidates the officer who mistreats him. He remains playful and provocative with Jiang.
• Tang Ling’er fiercely stands up for Li, but accepts his reassurance and leaves with Xuanxuan.
• Jiang Ruoyi is torn between professional duty and concern for her cousin Tang. She trades barbs with Li and accepts his challenge, then shows caution about Elder Wang’s order.
• Elder Wang emerges as a shrewd, curious authority figure, deliberately testing Li.
• Zhou Yixuan quietly follows the police to keep watch, while Ouyang Xuanxuan helps remove Tang from the confrontation.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and scrutiny: Li’s unusual abilities are noticed, prompting the authorities to test him.
• Protection and loyalty: Tang and Zhou act to support and safeguard those close to them.
• Power, respect, and provocation: Li’s charm and humor contrast with his readiness to punish anyone who treats him carelessly.

Key plot points and events

• Jiang Ruoyi sends Li Yichen to Cell Five, where more than a dozen enormous, violent inmates threaten to torture and sexually assault him.
• Li Yichen retaliates when one inmate makes a particularly vile remark, smashing his face into a bed board and then swiftly overpowering the group. He breaks bones, leaves the men badly injured, and chokes their ringleader to death.
• After the man dies, his spirit rises from his body. Li Yichen catches it with his bare hand, proving he can interact with the dead.
• Watching through surveillance, Jiang Ruoyi worries about the consequences. The old man recognizes Li Yichen’s apparent ability to “bridge yin and yang” and suspects he helped obtain Elder Mo’s Waters of the River of Forgetfulness.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen shifts from bored and dismissive to brutally decisive when threatened. His confidence extends beyond physical combat: he can seize a dead man’s spirit and confront it directly.
• Jiang Ruoyi is concerned less for Li Yichen himself than for her cousin’s apparent feelings for him, but becomes alarmed as she watches his violence and supernatural behavior.
• The old man remains composed and observant, interpreting Li Yichen’s actions as evidence of a rare supernatural ability.
• The inmates initially taunt Li Yichen, then attack, and finally fear him as a “demon.” Their leader remains defiant until death, but is terrified once Li Yichen captures his spirit.

Significant themes

• Violence and power: Li Yichen’s overwhelming strength reverses the inmates’ attempt to dominate him.
• Life, death, and the supernatural: The captured spirit reveals that death does not end the confrontation for Li Yichen.
• Fear and control: The inmates’ confidence turns to terror, while the observers struggle to understand what Li Yichen can do.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yichen terrorizes the men in the detention cell by repeatedly killing one and forcing him back to life. The prisoners, and Jiang Ruoyi watching, are shaken; the men all beg him to stop.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan and Tang Ling’er panic over Li’s arrest. Tang calls her grandfather for help and falsely claims she is pregnant with Li’s child to make him act. Her grandfather promises to intervene.
• Elder Mo learns that Elder Wang’s men have taken Li to the detention center. He realizes Wang intends to recruit Li for Bureau Seven and angrily demands his return, insisting Li belongs with Bureau Nine.
• Elder Wang refuses, arguing that Li has not formally joined Bureau Nine. Mo threatens to enlist Yufen and Bureau Four to pressure him.
• Wang then receives a call from his senior brother, who accuses him of arresting his granddaughter’s husband out of spite.

Character developments

• Li shows frightening supernatural power and a cruel, playful streak, using it to break the prisoners’ resistance.
• Tang Ling’er reveals her determination to protect Li, even resorting to a false pregnancy claim; her grandfather’s reaction shows how deeply he cares for her.
• Elder Mo’s usual composure vanishes when Li is threatened, revealing his fierce investment in recruiting him.
• Elder Wang’s confidence falters when confronted by both Mo’s threat and his senior brother’s authority.

Significant themes

• Power and intimidation: Li’s control over life and death turns his captors into helpless supplicants.
• Loyalty and protection: Tang, Mo, and others mobilize to help Li.
• Rivalry and recruitment: Bureau Seven and Bureau Nine compete over Li’s potential.
• Humor amid danger: Exaggerated threats, family misunderstandings, and old grudges provide comic relief.

Character interactions

• Li dominates the prisoners and unnerves Jiang Ruoyi.
• Tang reassures Ouyang by calling her grandfather, then admits the pregnancy claim was a bluff.
• Mo and Wang argue over which bureau should claim Li, with Mo invoking Yufen and Bureau Four as leverage.
• Wang’s senior brother confronts him about Li’s arrest and brings up their shared past.

Plot and key events

• Old Wang receives a call from his senior brother, the leader of Mount Qingcheng, who claims Li Yichen as his “grandson-in-law” and demands that Wang protect him from the Jiang Family. Wang agrees, then realizes Li may be more valuable than he first thought and decides to recruit him for Bureau 7.
• Wang assigns Jiang Ruoyi to protect Li around the clock, sending her to Jinling University as a student so she can stay close to him. He reassures her that she will not really need to study, concealing his hope that she will help bring Li into Bureau 7.
• Ruoyi finds Li playing jump rope with the hardened men in Detention Room Five. Li passes through the steel bars as though they are not there, embraces her, and startles her with his apparent ability to walk through solid barriers.
• Li bids the prisoners goodbye. They initially cry as if they will miss him, but celebrate wildly once he leaves. Li threatens to visit again, frightening them into collapsing.

Character developments and interactions

• Old Wang shifts from treating Li as a minor detainee to recognizing him as someone important and potentially useful. He placates his senior brother while quietly pursuing his own recruitment plan.
• Jiang Ruoyi is reluctant to leave police work and return to university, and feels outmatched by the prisoners. Li’s impossible escape leaves her stunned; his overly familiar embrace embarrasses and angers her.
• Li Yichen remains playful and self-assured, displaying a mysterious ability to pass through barriers. His teasing farewell reveals that he enjoys intimidating the men who had feared him.
• The senior brother asserts his authority and affection by calling Li his grandson-in-law and threatening the Jiang Family on his behalf. The prisoners’ fear of Li contrasts with their exaggerated show of grief at his departure.

Significant themes

• Power and protection: Several influential figures maneuver to keep Li safe, while Ruoyi is assigned a protective role despite doubting that she can protect him.
• Hidden motives and intrigue: Wang’s stated concern for Li masks his ambition to recruit him.
• Comedy through reversal: The supposed captors fear their detainee, and the “protector” is left bewildered by the person she is meant to guard.
• The uncanny: Li’s effortless passage through steel bars hints at extraordinary abilities that set him apart.

Plot points and events

• While having sex with a frightened, unresponsive girl, Han Wenqi gets a call from Song Yi: Zheng Liang has disappeared, and there is no official record of him. Song Yi warns that Li Yichen is dangerous, but Han refuses to abandon his vendetta.
• Han reflects on his repeated, disastrous attempts to challenge Li Yichen and takes his anger out on the girl, revealed to be Xia.
• Meanwhile, Li Yichen leaves the detention center with policewoman Jiang Ruoyi. Zhou Yixuan, a ghost, appears in the SUV and reassures Li that Senior Zhou remains unconscious and has been taken to hospital.
• When Jiang asks who Li is speaking to, Zhou makes himself visible. Terrified, she swerves, sending the SUV off a mountain road.
• As the vehicle falls, Jiang kisses Li and confesses that she has long admired him, believing he deliberately lost to her in their earlier encounter. Li smashes the windshield and escapes with her, but their fate is unresolved at the chapter’s end.

Character developments

• Han Wenqi is increasingly consumed by his hatred of Li Yichen; fear and frustration fuel his cruelty toward Xia.
• Li Yichen remains composed and confident amid danger, quickly shifting from banter to action when the SUV crashes.
• Jiang Ruoyi reveals vulnerability beneath her pride and police-officer composure. Faced with death, she confesses her feelings for Li.
• Zhou Yixuan is concerned for Li but fails to anticipate how frightening his ghostly appearance will be to Jiang.

Significant themes

• Revenge and obsession: Han’s fixation on Li persists despite repeated setbacks.
• Fear and vulnerability: Both Jiang’s panic and Xia’s helplessness show how people react under threat, though in starkly different circumstances.
• Confession in the face of death: The crash prompts Jiang to reveal feelings she had kept hidden.
• Supernatural comedy amid danger: Zhou’s casual appearance as a ghost causes the accident, turning an ordinary conversation into a life-threatening crisis.

Character interactions

• Han and Song Yi discuss Zheng Liang’s disappearance and Li’s apparent ability to evade consequences; Han dismisses Song’s caution.
• Han intimidates Xia, treating her as an outlet for his rage.
• Li and Zhou speak freely in the SUV, while Jiang—unable to see Zhou at first—grows increasingly alarmed.
• After the crash, Jiang clings to Li and confesses her admiration; Li focuses on getting them out of the falling vehicle.

• Plot and events: Li Yichen rescues Jiang Ruoyi from falling off a cliff by flying with her to the hospital, where they are headed to visit the unconscious Zhou Tingting. During the flight, Jiang shifts from fear to excitement, then feels awkward about meeting Ouyang Xuanxuan because she believes Xuanxuan also likes Li Yichen. He teases her about their relationship, and she eventually joins him in the hospital room. There, Jiang explains that Tingting may be suffering from “mind suicide”: after what happened with Duan Mingyu, Tingting has lost the will to live, and her life force is fading. Jiang says that unless the painful memory is erased, there may be no way to save her. Zhou Yixuan blames himself for Tingting’s condition. Black and White Impermanence arrive at the end.
• Character developments: Jiang Ruoyi becomes more comfortable around Li Yichen, moving from panic to playful excitement, but she also reveals insecurity and guilt about her feelings for him. Li Yichen remains teasing and confident, though his concern for Tingting is clear. Zhou Yixuan’s impatience gives way to alarm and self-blame when he sees how weak Tingting has become.
• Interactions: Li and Jiang flirt and banter during the flight and on the way into the hospital. Jiang is welcomed by her cousin, Ouyang Xuanxuan, and claims she has been assigned to protect Li Yichen. Tang Ling’er jokes that Li may have won over another beauty, then warns that Tingting’s life is fading. Jiang offers her diagnosis, while the group struggles to understand how to help.
• Themes: Romantic rivalry and jealousy sit alongside the chapter’s darker focus on emotional trauma, despair, and the possibility that a person’s will to die can endanger their life. It also emphasizes guilt and the helplessness of loved ones confronting someone else’s suffering.

Plot points and events

• Black and White Impermanence arrive at the hospital to collect Zhou Tingting, who has lost the will to live after a severe emotional shock.
• They explain that keeping her in the mortal world against her wishes could leave her as a wandering ghost. Erasing her memories might save her, but they cannot perform the delicate work; Meng Po can.
• Li Yichen travels to the Underworld with the two deities to ask Meng Po for help. Meanwhile, Ouyang Xuanxuan shows Jiang Ruoyi her Space Ring, demonstrating that it can make objects disappear—and claiming it can hold her car.
• In the Underworld, Meng Po is delighted to see Li Yichen and agrees to visit the mortal world. When she worries about leaving her post, Li tricks Black and White Impermanence into taking over her soup-serving duties.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Ruoyi is overwhelmed by meeting the legendary deities and learning that Li Yichen can travel to the Underworld, but her shock turns to envy when Xuanxuan shows off her ring. She privately decides she would accept being Li’s fifth woman if he gave her one.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan is comfortable with the supernatural visitors, whom she knows as Li Yichen’s friends. She takes pride in her Space Ring and enjoys demonstrating it to her cousin.
• Li Yichen shows concern for Zhou Tingting and seeks a way to help her without condemning her to a miserable afterlife. He also has an affectionate, playful relationship with Meng Po.
• Meng Po’s boredom gives way to excitement at seeing Li Yichen, and her longing to revisit the mortal world leads her to accept his request.
• Black and White Impermanence are initially solemn about Zhou Tingting’s fate, then become the targets of Li Yichen’s playful scheme.

Significant themes

• Life, death, and memory: The chapter weighs the consequences of preserving life against the cost of erasing painful memories.
• The supernatural made ordinary: Mythic figures interact casually with Li Yichen and his circle, while Jiang Ruoyi’s reactions highlight how extraordinary their world is.
• Playful self-interest and spectacle: Xuanxuan’s proud display of her ring and Li’s cheeky way of assigning the deities their new duty provide comic relief amid Zhou Tingting’s serious crisis.

Key plot points

• Li Yichen brings Meng Po to Jinling and visits Zhou Tingting in the hospital.
• The women mistake Meng Po—who looks like a young girl in a Lolita outfit—for a child Li Yichen has brought along. Their suspicion turns to embarrassment when Zhou Yixuan recognizes her.
• Meng Po examines Tingting’s soul and memories, removes the memories connecting her to Zhou Yixuan and Duan Mingyu, then uses a drop of the Waters of the River of Forgetfulness to help restore her mind.
• She says Tingting should wake around dawn and live like a normal person, but she will no longer remember Zhou Yixuan.
• Zhou Yixuan asks to be reincarnated near Tingting. Meng Po mischievously offers to make him her son.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen and Meng Po share playful, affectionate banter; he enjoys holding her hand, while she blushes.
• Tang Ling’er and the others are protective and suspicious of Li Yichen, nearly attacking him before Zhou Yixuan clears up the misunderstanding.
• Meng Po jokes with the women, then demonstrates her skill and compassion through the delicate “memory surgery.”
• Zhou Yixuan accepts the loss of his place in Tingting’s memories and seeks a new life near her, though Meng Po’s proposed arrangement is pointedly ironic.

Significant themes

• Memory and healing: Memories can be altered, but the procedure is aimed at freeing Tingting from emotional torment and restoring her mind.
• Love and sacrifice: Zhou Yixuan’s devotion persists even though Tingting will forget him.
• Humor amid grief: Teasing and misunderstandings soften the chapter’s somber hospital setting.

Plot points and events

• After keeping her promise to Li Yichen, Meng Po asks him to take her out. They head to the lively Qinhuai River night market, while Tang Ling’er secretly follows them. Ouyang Xuanxuan joins the pursuit, and Jiang Ruoyi is left stunned to discover that both women can fly.
• Meng Po explores the night market with childlike delight, especially enjoying soup dumplings. When a vendor mistakes her for Li Yichen’s daughter, she plays along, embarrassing Li Yichen before he pulls her away.
• They enter a late-night horror movie screening after Meng Po becomes curious about the venue. She finds the film unfrightening and gradually realizes that some couples are using it as cover for intimate behavior.
• As the theater grows increasingly charged, Li Yichen suggests leaving. Meng Po proposes a supernatural prank instead: making the audience experience a real “hundred ghosts parading through the night.” Li Yichen approves.

Character developments

• Meng Po appears less like a fearsome underworld figure and more like a playful, curious child experiencing ordinary human amusements for the first time. Her teasing closeness with Li Yichen also suggests growing intimacy.
• Li Yichen is attentive and protective, indulging Meng Po’s curiosity while becoming flustered by her affection and the suggestive atmosphere. He joins in her mischievous plan despite initially worrying about its severity.
• Tang Ling’er and Ouyang Xuanxuan show curiosity and jealousy by secretly following the pair.
• Jiang Ruoyi is overwhelmed by the discovery that people around her can fly and briefly wonders whether she is dreaming.

Significant themes

• The contrast between supernatural power and everyday pleasures: Meng Po’s extraordinary identity contrasts with her childlike wonder at food, nightlife, and movies.
• Romantic ambiguity and teasing: Meng Po and Li Yichen act like a couple, though Li Yichen tries to conceal his attraction.
• The uncanny intruding into the ordinary: the chapter ends by turning a mundane movie screening into the setting for a supernatural prank.

Character interactions

• Meng Po repeatedly draws Li Yichen into playful, intimate moments, from asking him to wipe her mouth to inviting him to imitate the couples in the theater.
• Li Yichen responds with embarrassed denial and affectionate patience, while the pair share a mischievous sense of humor over Meng Po’s ghostly plan.
• Tang Ling’er and Ouyang Xuanxuan follow them out of jealousy and curiosity, while Jiang Ruoyi reacts with disbelief to the flying pursuit.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Po opens a passage to the Underworld during a late-night movie. The film changes to an image of her in bridal robes and a phoenix crown, summoning a horde of ghosts.
• The ghosts pour into the auditorium and frighten the audience, though Meng Po tells them not to eat anyone. Most moviegoers flee in panic.
• Meng Po calls the ghosts back, winks at Li Yichen, and disappears after the screen returns to normal. She explains that her bridal appearance recalls a past life, when she was married, but humans and ghosts cannot share a path.
• She thanks Li Yichen for the outing, gives him a hug and a kiss on the cheek, then returns to the Underworld.
• Tang Ling’er and Ouyang Xuanxuan find Li Yichen. The three prepare to leave, but a group of intimidating enforcers arrives, followed by their leader, Deaf Brother, who claims the cinema as his territory.

Character developments

• Meng Po shifts from playful mischief to a brief moment of sadness as her old bridal identity resurfaces. Her affection for Li Yichen becomes more explicit in their farewell.
• Li Yichen is captivated by Meng Po’s true form and is left shaken by her kiss, wondering if he is falling for her.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan is delighted to have found Li Yichen and proud of her cleverness.
• Tang Ling’er remains practical and impatient, eager to continue exploring.

Significant themes

• The boundary between life and death: Meng Po’s memories underline the separation between humans and ghosts.
• Affection and longing: Meng Po’s wistful past and Li Yichen’s emotional response give their playful relationship a bittersweet edge.
• Comedy amid the supernatural: The audience mistakes real ghosts for movie effects before fleeing in terror.

Character interactions

• Meng Po entertains and frightens the cinema audience through her ghostly spectacle, then shares a tender, teasing farewell with Li Yichen.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan takes Li Yichen’s hand and boasts about finding him; Tang Ling’er urges them onward.
• The scene ends with Deaf Brother and his enforcers confronting the group, setting up a new conflict.

Key plot points and events

• Outside a cinema, Tang Ling’er confronts a gang led by a bald thug calling himself “Deaf Brother.” She slaps him twice, then Li Yichen steps in when the gang charges.
• Recognizing Li Yichen from an earlier encounter, the thug panics. Li Yichen beats him with his shoe and makes him claim he was injured because he had “bad eyesight” and walked into the sole.
• Li Yichen and the girls leave. Once they are gone, the thug’s fear turns to resentment, and he threatens revenge through the Jiang Family.
• Back at campus after lights-out, Li Yichen jokes about taking Tang Ling’er and Ouyang Xuanxuan to a hotel. Both see through his excuse and fly into the building through an open window.
• Li Yichen returns to his dorm and finds his roommates inside. Yang Weifeng boasts that he climbed in through the sixth-floor window; Li Yichen pretends he used a second-floor window. He asks why Yang is back so late.

Character developments

• Li Yichen is protective and casually intimidating, stepping in to stop the gang and punishing the leader. He also continues his playful, flirtatious joking, though his hotel plan fails.
• Tang Ling’er remains bold and quick to fight, showing little fear of the gang. She laughs off Li Yichen’s hotel suggestion and demonstrates her ability to fly on the Flowing Light Sword.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan is gentle but perceptive. She worries about consequences after the beating and uses the feather Li Yichen gave her to fly into the building.
• The bald thug shifts from swagger to terror under Li Yichen’s assault, then to vengeful hatred afterward.
• Yang Weifeng appears in his familiar goofy, boastful manner.

Significant themes

• Power and intimidation: The gang’s threats collapse when they encounter someone stronger.
• Loyalty and protection: Li Yichen stands up for the women when the gang attacks.
• Humor and bravado: Exaggerated threats, the thug’s absurd excuse, and the failed hotel plan keep the action comic.
• Consequences and revenge: The thug’s threat to involve the Jiang Family suggests the conflict may continue.

Character interactions

• Tang Ling’er and the bald thug trade insults before she slaps him; Li Yichen then takes over, frightening the gang and beating their leader.
• Li Yichen jokes with Tang Ling’er and Ouyang Xuanxuan about staying in a hotel; they reject his excuse and leave by flying through the window.
• At the dorm, Li Yichen and Yang Weifeng exchange friendly banter about climbing through windows.

Plot points and events

• Yang Weifeng reveals that he has fallen for Yuanyuan, whom he met through the orientation volunteer program Li Yichen arranged. Though she has not agreed to be his girlfriend, they spent the evening together.
• The group teases Yang about what happened after they missed the dorm curfew. He proudly explains that he forced the dorm supervisor to let Yuanyuan back in, completely missing his friends’ concern that his behavior may have upset her.
• Later, the ghost Zhou Yixuan visits Li Yichen to say goodbye. Having accepted that Tingting has forgotten him, he plans to reincarnate as a dog so he can stay near and protect her.
• Zhou identifies a pregnant stray dog near the school’s north gate and says Tingting will recognize him by a heart-shaped mark on his forehead. At dawn, the dog gives birth to five puppies, one bearing that mark.

Character developments

• Yang Weifeng is newly lovestruck and eager to impress, but his romantic confidence is paired with poor judgment and little awareness of how his actions affect Yuanyuan.
• Li Yichen acts as the sensible observer among his friends. Though he no longer needs sleep, he still enjoys ordinary dorm life. He also shows concern for Zhou’s next life and his connection to Tingting.
• Zhou Yixuan accepts that his relationship with Tingting is over, but chooses a new form of devotion: becoming a dog who can protect her. His farewell is softened by his usual humor.

Significant themes

• Love and letting go: Zhou accepts that he cannot resume his former relationship with Tingting, yet finds a way to remain devoted to her.
• Reincarnation and continuity: His chosen rebirth suggests that identity and affection can persist in another form.
• Romantic idealism versus reality: Yang sees his late-night confrontation as heroic, while his friends suspect it was a misguided gesture.
• Everyday life amid the supernatural: Ghosts, rebirth, and ordinary dorm banter coexist as part of Li Yichen’s life.

Character interactions

• Li, Zhang Yong, and Sun Kai tease Yang about Yuanyuan, while Li tries—unsuccessfully—to make him recognize that his behavior may not have been romantic.
• Zhou startles Li by appearing as a ghost, then asks him to look after Tingting and makes clear he means “as a friend.”
• Li jokes about Zhou’s reincarnation choices, but ultimately helps him think through how Tingting might recognize him.

Key plot points and events

• After class, Li Yichen’s friends reveal that Jiang Ruoyi, Tang Ling’er, and Ouyang Xuanxuan have come to collect Zhou Tingting from the hospital. Li Yichen had nearly forgotten the plan.
• The group meets Zhou Tingting, now cheerful and well, and invites her to dinner. Tang Ling’er wants spicy Sichuan-Chongqing food while Ouyang Xuanxuan prefers Huaiyang cuisine; Li Yichen settles the dispute by suggesting the food stalls, where everyone can choose what they like.
• On the way, Zhou Tingting remembers a stray dog she used to feed. The group visits the dog, whose puppies have just been born. The mother initially growls at the strangers but recognizes Zhou Tingting and relaxes.
• Zhou Tingting bonds with one puppy, encouraging it to roll over. When it manages to do so, she adopts it and names it “Yi Xuan,” a name that comes to her unexpectedly.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen is forgetful and shamelessly self-assured, but he smoothly helps the group settle their dinner plans and encourages the visit to the dog.
• Zhou Tingting has recovered her bright, lively manner. Her memory of the dog brings her back to a familiar place, though she is puzzled by gaps in her recollection. She forms an immediate, tender attachment to one puppy.
• Tang Ling’er shows her enthusiasm for animals and admits that her childhood pets died after she fed them meals mixed with powerful medicinal herbs—something Li Yichen understands but tactfully does not tell her.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan and Tang Ling’er bicker playfully over food, then share in the excitement of meeting the puppies. The three girls are affectionate and supportive toward Zhou Tingting.

Significant themes

• Care and belonging: The group’s visit and Zhou Tingting’s bond with the puppy highlight companionship and the comfort of caring for others.
• Memory and recognition: Zhou Tingting cannot recall everything about her past visits, yet the dog recognizes her, suggesting emotional bonds can persist beyond clear memories.
• Comic contrast: Li Yichen’s teasing confidence and Tang Ling’er’s well-meaning but disastrous pet care balance the chapter’s warmer moments.

Key plot points

• Zhou Tingting arrives with a puppy she has named Yi Xuan, alarming Ouyang Xuanxuan, Tang Ling’er, and Jiang Ruoyi. Later, the group goes to a night market, where the girls enthusiastically order spicy and elaborate dishes while Li Yichen grows increasingly displeased.
• Elsewhere, Han Wenqi and Song Yi discuss their problems over drinks. Xia barges in and announces that she is pregnant with Han’s child.
• Han says he intends to give her money for an abortion, but Song Yi proposes a scheme to frame Li Yichen: Xia would be made to seduce him, then claim he fathered the baby, damaging his reputation.
• Xia returns and demands that Han leave her alone, warning that she will reveal their past unless he agrees. Han pretends to accept, on the condition that she drink a full glass of baijiu.
• Song Yi secretly dissolves a pill in the drink. Xia finishes it, becomes dizzy, and collapses into Song Yi’s arms.

Character development

• Xia shifts from her formerly meek manner to confronting Han and demanding freedom, showing determination despite her vulnerability. Her hope that the conflict is over leaves her exposed to their deception.
• Han Wenqi remains manipulative and ruthless, feigning agreement while plotting to silence or exploit Xia.
• Song Yi shows himself to be an active accomplice, helping devise the plan against Li Yichen and secretly drugging Xia.
• Zhou Tingting is cheerful and affectionate toward her puppy, while Li Yichen becomes visibly irritated by the girls’ exuberant ordering.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and manipulation: Han’s apparent compromise is a trap, and Song Yi helps carry it out.
• Power and vulnerability: Xia tries to reclaim control by threatening to expose Han, but the men exploit her trust and physical vulnerability.
• Reputation as a weapon: Song Yi’s proposed scheme relies on public scandal to harm Li Yichen.

Character interactions

• The three girls react awkwardly to Zhou Tingting’s puppy, while Li Yichen and the group share a lively night-market meal.
• Xia directly challenges Han and bargains for separation, with Song Yi acting as mediator before joining Han’s plot.
• Han offers Xia a false oath, and Song Yi’s concealed drug turns her apparent agreement into a setup.

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Key plot points and events

• Xia returns to her dorm and overhears her roommates spreading crude rumors about her, Han Wenqi, and Song Yi. She says nothing, changes into a vivid red outfit, applies blood-red lipstick, and studies herself with a slight smile.
• Li Yichen waits outside the women’s dorm, assuming a woman has summoned him because she wants to spend the night with him.
• Jiang Ruoyi comes out to ask whether the puppy Senior Zhou saw is the reincarnation of Zhou Yixuan. Li confirms it and recounts Zhou Yixuan’s farewell to him.
• Jiang says she envies Zhou Tingting for having such a devoted boyfriend. Li uses the opening to flirt and suggest they imitate the couple, but Jiang blushes and flees.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan then calls Li. He confirms that the puppy is Zhou Yixuan reincarnated before she tells him her parents will visit Jinling during the National Day holiday and that she wants him to meet them.
• Xuanxuan explains that her mother’s approval is key to their being together openly. When she says her mother’s greatest wish is to stay young, Li claims he can give her a gift that will make her look eighteen again.

Character developments

• Xia responds to her roommates’ gossip with silence and a striking change of appearance, suggesting a deliberate shift in mood or intention.
• Li Yichen remains boastful and sexually forward, repeatedly interpreting women’s attention as romantic or sexual interest. Yet Xuanxuan’s invitation to meet her parents prompts him to take their relationship seriously.
• Jiang Ruoyi is curious and emotionally moved by Zhou Yixuan’s devotion, but she resists Li’s teasing despite her visible embarrassment.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan takes a meaningful step toward a public relationship by asking Li to meet her parents, while making clear that her mother’s opinion matters most.

Significant themes

• Rumor and judgment: Xia’s roommates reduce her to gossip and sexual accusations, contrasting with her quiet, unreadable response.
• Love and devotion: Zhou Yixuan’s reincarnation and farewell inspire Jiang and Xuanxuan, and prompt Li to compare himself with a devoted partner.
• Romance versus opportunism: Li often treats encounters as chances for intimacy, but Xuanxuan’s family introduction raises the stakes beyond flirtation.
• Appearance and youth: Xuanxuan’s mother’s wish to remain eighteen introduces beauty and aging as a potential concern—and possibly an opportunity for Li.

Character interactions

• Xia is isolated from her roommates, who gossip about her behind her back and react awkwardly when she emerges.
• Jiang seeks reassurance from Li about Zhou Yixuan; he answers her question, then flirts, and she retreats in embarrassment.
• Li’s conversation with Xuanxuan shifts from his presumptuous banter to a discussion of meeting her parents and winning her mother’s approval.

Key plot points and events

• Ouyang Xuanxuan asks whether Li Yichen can make her mother look eighteen again. He confidently says he can, and jokes that his only price is Xuanxuan herself. She asks if he can do the same for her, but he tells her she is already beautiful.
• Tang Ling’er calls Li Yichen and meets him near her dorm. She is worried because her grandfather is coming soon and may attack him.
• Tang reveals that, when Li was taken away by police, she told her grandfather she was pregnant with Li’s child to persuade him to help. Li is touched and comforts her, though he jokes about making their relationship official and later about giving her grandfather two women. Tang scolds and chases him.
• Hearing commotion near the administration building, Li and Tang head there. They find a crowd gathered beneath a girl in red standing on the roof. A school administrator tries to reassure her, but she dismisses his promise of fairness as hollow.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yichen remains confident, flirtatious, and irreverent, but responds warmly when he learns Tang risked her reputation to help him. He also shows alertness by noticing the disturbance.
• Tang Ling’er reveals her devotion and anxiety about her grandfather’s reaction. Her affection and concern are mixed with playful anger at Li’s crude jokes.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan is flattered by Li’s teasing and reassured by his praise.
• The girl in red is introduced as distressed and deeply distrustful of the school’s authorities.

Significant themes

• Youth and beauty: The promise of restoring youth appeals to both Ouyang Xuanxuan and, indirectly, her mother.
• Love and loyalty: Tang’s claim that she is pregnant demonstrates how far she is willing to go to protect Li.
• Humor amid tension: Li’s teasing punctuates the serious concerns about Tang’s grandfather and the rooftop crisis.
• Distrust of authority and justice: The girl in red’s response suggests she believes the school cannot or will not treat her fairly.

Key plot points and events

• Xia, standing on the school rooftop, demands that Director Wang expel Han Wenqi and Song Yi, whom she blames for her suffering. Wang refuses to act without an investigation and insists the school cannot impose the punishment she wants.
• Xia declares that she will take justice into her own hands and kill the two men.
• Han and Song worry that Xia may expose them. Han denies she has evidence, then secretly instructs Song to spread a fabricated story portraying her as promiscuous and resentful after being rejected.
• The rumor quickly turns the crowd against Xia. Students mock her and urge her to jump, while Han and Song prepare to leave.
• Confronted by the crowd’s hostility, Xia cuts her hand and writes a blood oath declaring that she will become a vengeful ghost. She challenges heaven to keep the silk from falling to the ground and lodge it on the flagpole.
• A gust of wind carries the silk onto a bent wire at the top of the flagpole. The crowd is stunned, and some begin to wonder whether the event was more than coincidence.

Character developments and interactions

• Xia moves from demanding institutional justice to embracing revenge, driven by despair and the crowd’s cruelty. Her bloody oath makes her seem both defiant and potentially supernatural.
• Director Wang outwardly presents himself as reasonable but privately resents Xia and protects the influential student leaders, revealing his self-interest and complicity.
• Han Wenqi and Song Yi respond to the threat by manipulating public opinion rather than addressing Xia’s accusation. Han directs the scheme; Song carries it out.
• The crowd shifts from sympathy to contempt after hearing the planted rumors, then becomes uncertain when the silk lands on the flagpole.
• Xia’s confrontation with Wang exposes the gap between her demand for justice and the school’s evasive procedures; Han and Song’s manipulation turns the students into instruments of that injustice.

Significant themes

• Justice denied and revenge: When authorities refuse meaningful action, Xia concludes she must act herself.
• Power and corruption: Wang’s personal interests and the Student Union leaders’ influence undermine accountability.
• Rumor and mob mentality: A fabricated story erases the crowd’s initial compassion and turns it against Xia.
• Truth, belief, and the supernatural: The blood oath and the silk’s uncanny landing challenge the crowd’s certainty and foreshadow possible supernatural consequences.

Key plot points and events

• A girl in red, overwhelmed by injustice and abuse, vows to become a vengeful ghost and jumps from a school office building.
• Li Yichen recognizes her as Xia and rushes to her, despite Director Wang ordering him away. The school doctor confirms she is dying.
• Tang Ling’er threatens the administrators with her sword and warns that Xia’s violent death may turn her into a vengeful ghost. The crowd is sent away.
• Li Yichen uses a white flame to briefly revive Xia so they can speak. Xia tells him she wishes she had known his name sooner, asks him to leave lilacs at her grave, and doubts that justice exists. She then dies in his arms.
• When Xia begins transforming into a vengeful ghost, Tang Ling’er prepares to destroy her. Li Yichen refuses, insisting that Xia is kind and has harmed no one.

Character developments

• Li Yichen is shaken by Xia’s death and feels guilty that he could not save her. His compassion hardens into defiance when Tang Ling’er threatens to destroy her.
• Xia moves from despair and a wish for revenge to a brief, intimate farewell. Her final words reveal both a longing for connection and deep distrust in justice.
• Tang Ling’er acts decisively to protect the crowd, but her belief in a cultivator’s duty to uphold the natural order puts her at odds with Li Yichen.
• Director Wang responds chiefly with concern for blame and authority, showing little compassion for Xia.

Significant themes

• Justice and injustice: Xia’s death exposes a world where those who harm others appear to escape punishment.
• Compassion versus duty: Li Yichen prioritizes Xia’s innocence and suffering, while Tang Ling’er follows rules meant to protect the living.
• Grief and helplessness: Li Yichen can briefly restore Xia’s awareness but cannot restore her life.
• Revenge and moral responsibility: The chapter asks whether a wronged person’s desire for revenge makes her a threat—or whether the greater injustice is condemning her without addressing the cause.

Character interactions

• Li Yichen comforts and cares for Xia, learning her name and granting her final request.
• Tang Ling’er supports Li Yichen at first by clearing the crowd, but later confronts him over what to do with Xia’s emerging ghost.
• Li Yichen challenges Tang Ling’er’s appeal to the Heavenly Dao, arguing that Xia deserves justice rather than destruction.