Chapter Summaries

The excerpt is too brief to establish a full chapter summary. Its key moment is the protagonist’s fear that the female lead may kill her if she learns the protagonist has uncovered her secret. This suggests a dangerous power imbalance and sets up suspense around whether the secret will be exposed. No further character development, events, or interactions are shown.

Plot points and events

• Dongfang Minghui follows Dongfang Wanyu into Death Valley but reaches a hidden abyss. In the cave, a skull-shaped Bone Soldier attacks with death aura, which rapidly corrodes Little Lecher’s vines. The vines snap, and Minghui releases her spiritual power to protect Little Lecher from the gray mist in her soul sea. She falls into the darkness and loses consciousness.
• Wanyu returns to find Minghui missing. Guided by a severed vine and other clues, she realizes Minghui entered the cave and discovers the illusion concealing the abyss. She descends in search of her.
• Minghui survives the fall but is gravely injured, unable to speak or move, and nearly out of spiritual power. She uses pills and spirit liquid from her storage to replenish herself and weaken the mist in her soul sea. Wanyu finds her; Situ Hao later treats her broken limbs and internal injuries.
• Minghui recovers in the inn. Little Lecher survives but regresses to a tiny seedling, then grows into a tree after consuming five bottles of spirit liquid. Wanyu stays close to Minghui, and the two share a tender moment when Wanyu buys her lip rouge and wipes it from the corner of her mouth.
• After five days, Situ Hao proposes taking Minghui to investigate a possible Love Flower Seed location. Wanyu initially refuses but agrees after Minghui says she feels safe with her. The three set out for a narrow opening high on a mountainside. Wanyu helps Minghui inside, followed by Situ Hao. As Minghui warns that the cramped passage could be dangerous, Wanyu realizes they may have made a mistake and suggests retreating—just as a scream rings out.

Character developments and interactions

• Minghui remains frightened and self-deprecating, but shows resourcefulness and determination when she uses her stored medicines to survive. She is grateful for Wanyu’s care and increasingly seeks reassurance in her presence.
• Wanyu is shaken by Minghui’s near-death and feels responsible for leaving her behind. She becomes openly protective, promises not to leave Minghui alone, and shows growing tenderness through her care and the lip-rouge moment. Qing Mo notices how much attention she gives Minghui, but Wanyu refuses to discuss it.
• Little Lecher sacrifices its vines to hold Minghui above the abyss and is badly damaged by the death aura. Its recovery depends on Minghui’s spiritual resources.
• Situ Hao assists with Minghui’s treatment and shares responsibility for the danger. He presses to investigate the Love Flower Seed, creating tension with Wanyu over Minghui’s safety, though they ultimately travel together.
• Wanyu and Minghui grow closer through Wanyu’s guilt and protection; Minghui and Situ Hao retain a teasing, friendly rapport.

Significant themes

• Consequences and survival: curiosity and danger nearly cost Minghui her life, while quick thinking and help from others keep her alive.
• Protection, guilt, and responsibility: Wanyu’s regret drives her promise to stay beside Minghui.
• Growing intimacy: caring gestures and Minghui’s trust hint at an increasingly close bond between the sisters.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: Little Lecher endures severe damage to protect Minghui.
• Foreshadowing and suspense: the unexplained death aura, possible Bone Soldier control, and the abrupt scream in the narrow passage suggest further danger.

Plot and events

• Dongfang Minghui, Dongfang Wanyu, and Situ Hao are dragged through a cave by an icy creature and dumped into a frigid underground pool. Minghui loses her shoes and belt and is scraped up; Wanyu covers her with her own clothes, tends her wounds, and gives her shoes.
• The apparent stone platform in the pool turns out to be the back of a two-headed, two-tailed water monster. Wanyu and Situ Hao fight it with difficulty, using lightning to drive it away from Minghui.
• Minghui wanders into a passage under the influence of a strange medicinal fragrance and falls into a deadly illusion. She relives a horrific version of her death: Wanyu tortures and humiliates her. The illusion causes real injuries, and Wanyu and Situ Hao later find her unconscious and bleeding.
• A talking egg in Minghui’s storage space calls her “Mother” and reminds her of the Love Flower seed. This restores her memories and breaks the illusion.
• Minghui finds the intelligent Love Flower and asks for a seed to help cure Situ Hao’s brother. The flower distrusts humans and demands a contract, but Minghui refuses to abandon her existing companion, the demonic plant Little Lecher. The Love Flower ultimately agrees to accompany her, provided Minghui does not give it to anyone else.
• The Love Flower leads Minghui to caves containing preserved medicinal pills and valuable skill scrolls. She takes some of each, but avoids a sealed area filled with Death Aura.
• Wanyu and Situ Hao remain trapped in their own illusions. Situ Hao wakes first; his vision showed a feared future defeat by the Undead Legion. Wanyu’s illusion continues as the chapter ends.

Character developments

• Minghui shows compassion, honesty, and loyalty. She negotiates respectfully with the Love Flower, refuses to discard Little Lecher, and declines to enter the Death Aura-filled cave despite the possible treasure. She also confronts the terror of her supposed fate and escapes through her memories and the egg’s help.
• Wanyu is protective of Minghui during the monster attack and her later illusion. Her own illusion exposes her fear of persecution for her dark power and the temptation to answer injustice with overwhelming revenge. After breaking free, she embraces life and warmth—but then becomes physically intimate with Minghui while Minghui is still caught in the illusion, blurring care and desire.
• Situ Hao helps fight the monster and later wakes from an illusion that reveals his fear of a future disaster involving the Undead Legion.
• The Love Flower shifts from hostile suspicion to trust and chooses to follow Minghui. Little Lecher is jealous and proud, while the egg displays a new ability to speak and helps rescue Minghui.

Themes and character interactions

• Fear and self-knowledge: The Love Flower’s illusions reflect each person’s deepest fears; surviving them requires confronting those fears.
• Loyalty and trust: Minghui’s refusal to abandon Little Lecher earns the Love Flower’s respect, while her sincere offer of friendship helps overcome its distrust of humans.
• Greed and restraint: Minghui takes useful treasures but leaves some behind, both out of caution and a sense that others should have a chance.
• Protection and intimacy: Wanyu repeatedly cares for Minghui, from covering her and treating her wounds to fighting to save her. Their relationship takes a more intimate turn in Wanyu’s illusion, though Minghui is not fully conscious of the interaction.
• Companionship and comic relief: The Love Flower and egg immediately compete for space in Minghui’s storage realm, while the contrast between their squabble and the chapter’s dangers lightens the mood.

Plot and key events

• While the group waits in Death Valley, Dongfang Wanyu remains trapped in an illusion even though its source has broken. Dongfang Minghui keeps talking to her, reminding her of her origins and unfinished business. Wanyu eventually wakes after hearing Minghui urge her to investigate why the Qian Family abandoned her.
• The group explores the valley’s treasure caves. They gather pills but avoid a cave filled with death aura. Situ Hao and Wanyu try to destroy what is inside, but its power overwhelms them, so they decide the Royal Academy must deal with it.
• Back at the academy, Wanyu treats Minghui’s injuries and insists she train harder to protect herself. Wanyu describes her illusion as a “sweet dream,” suggesting it involved an idealized life with Minghui.
• Minghui brings the Love Flower Seed back safely and promises it one seed will be used to treat Nan Fei’s legs. The dean tries to persuade her to obtain another seed, but the Love Flower refuses: it produces seeds only once every hundred years and has already promised one. The dean reveals that he had his own reasons for sending Minghui after it, since it is uniquely able to resist death aura.
• Minghui prepares for Nan Fei’s treatment. After she gives him concentrated Spirit Liquid, his dormant spiritual power surges painfully. The dean begins treatment using a poison-containing pill made from the Love Flower Seed, then breaks Nan Fei’s damaged legs and painstakingly reconnects the bones. The procedure lasts three days and nights; the chapter ends as the dean explains why the legs had to be broken and regrown.

Character developments and interactions

• Dongfang Minghui is resourceful and protective, but remains anxious about her precarious place in the story and frequently hides what she knows. She grows closer to Wanyu, worries about Nan Fei, and becomes wary of the dean’s self-interest.
• Dongfang Wanyu wakes with a new tenderness toward Minghui. The illusion seems to have deepened her attachment and sharpened her resolve to become strong enough to protect—and keep—her sister close. She also begins questioning Minghui after hearing her voice in the illusion.
• Situ Hao is sensible and well-intentioned, but his attempt to destroy the death-aura treasure fails. He agrees to report the danger to the Academy.
• The Love Flower proves powerful, independent, and protective of its scarce seeds; it settles in Minghui’s courtyard but will not grant the dean’s request.
• The dean is dedicated to treating Nan Fei, yet his desire for another Love Flower Seed exposes a selfish motive behind the original expedition.
• Nan Fei endures severe pain without complaint and accepts treatment for the sake of improving life for himself and Nan Nan. Minghui and Nan Nan support him.

Significant themes

• Illusion, desire, and resolve: A pleasant fantasy can be as dangerous as a nightmare; Wanyu escapes by confronting painful truths and unfinished responsibilities.
• Protection and attachment: Wanyu’s response to the illusion strengthens her determination to protect Minghui, while Minghui repeatedly risks herself for those around her.
• Scarcity, power, and competing motives: The Love Flower’s rare seed is both a possible cure and a coveted resource, prompting secrecy, bargaining, and self-interest.
• Pain as the price of recovery: Nan Fei’s treatment demands extreme suffering, while the characters’ care for him gives that suffering purpose.

• Key events: Dongfang Minghui visits an injured person and is told, “I put myself on death’s doorstep to find a way to live,” before being dismissed to rest. Nan Nan anxiously asks how her eldest brother is doing. Minghui reassures her that the Dean intervened and he is now safe, then encourages Nan Nan to check on him. Back at her lodgings, Minghui immediately falls asleep.
• Character developments: Minghui shows concern for the injured person and tries to comfort Nan Nan, though she only partly understands what she has heard. Nan Nan is deeply worried about her brother.
• Interactions: Minghui relays the reassuring news to Nan Nan and directs her to her brother’s bedside. The injured person speaks sharply to Minghui, emphasizing their hard-won struggle to survive.
• Themes and tone: The scene contrasts the seriousness of survival and injury with Minghui’s youthful innocence and exhaustion. Her dream of a sweet, fragrant sensation adds a playful, mysterious note.

Plot and key events

• Exhausted after three sleepless days helping the Dean treat Nan Fei, Dongfang Minghui finally sleeps—but wakes to find the giant egg she had been raising has hatched. The hatchling is an awkward, toothless creature that calls her “Mommy,” so she names it Toothless.
• Dongfang Wanyu returns from seclusion, discovers Toothless, and learns Nan Fei’s legs have been healed. He will need at least three months of rest, so Nan Nan and her brother remain near the courtyard.
• Wanyu helps Minghui choose a place to sell her medicinal pills. At the Lovers’ Garden, an injured student provides an opportunity for Minghui to demonstrate their effectiveness. Wanyu’s reputation draws a crowd, and the stall sells out, earning Minghui more than five hundred spirit stones.
• Minghui continues caring for the courtyard’s spirit medicines and shares a meal Nan Nan prepares. She makes medicinal porridge for Nan Fei and sends Wanyu to deliver it, hoping the two will grow close.
• The next day, Minghui takes Nan Fei out in a wheelchair for fresh air, despite his concern that he should stay in bed. They talk as she shows him the Pharmacy Institute’s gardens and tells him about the spirit medicines. Wanyu and Nan Nan later come to retrieve them. Wanyu appears displeased to see Nan Fei spending time with Minghui and tells him to recover and leave soon.

Character developments

• Dongfang Minghui is caring and energetic despite her exhaustion. She names and adopts the newly hatched Toothless, proves capable as a potionist and businesswoman, and remains devoted to the spirit medicines. She also continues scheming to match Wanyu with Nan Fei, unaware that Wanyu’s attention seems focused on her.
• Dongfang Wanyu shows practical intelligence by planning the stall and using her reputation to attract customers. Her protectiveness—and possible jealousy—surfaces when Minghui gives Nan Fei attention and he speaks of her warmly.
• Nan Fei is recovering and grows comfortable with Minghui, appreciating her kindness and enthusiasm. His gentle attention to her appears to unsettle Wanyu.
• Nan Nan remains grateful to Minghui and eager to help, but firmly rejects the idea of her brother marrying Wanyu.
• Toothless bonds immediately with Minghui and reacts defensively to Wanyu, though its toothless bite is harmless.

Themes and character interactions

• Care and reciprocity: Minghui’s medical work, Nan Nan’s cooking, and the group’s help with Nan Fei show kindness being returned in different forms.
• Misread romantic intentions: Minghui tries to engineer a romance between Wanyu and Nan Fei, while Wanyu appears jealous of their closeness; Nan Fei, meanwhile, explicitly enjoys spending time with Minghui.
• Nature and compassion: Minghui treats the spirit medicines as living beings worthy of care, contrasting their selflessness with human greed.
• Ambition and practical ingenuity: Wanyu’s marketing strategy turns Minghui’s medicinal skill into a successful business, while the chapter also reveals rivalry between the Pharmacy and Alchemy Institutes.

• Plot: Dongfang Wanyu’s ninth sister repeatedly forces her way into the group’s company. Dongfang Wanyu closes the door and leaves without looking back.
• Character development: Dongfang Wanyu’s resentment toward the group deepens because of her sister’s persistence.
• Themes: The excerpt suggests strained family or social relationships, unwanted intrusion, and growing resentment.
• Interactions: The ninth sister pushes herself into the group’s company; Dongfang Wanyu responds by withdrawing and shutting the door.

Chapter Summary

Plot points and events

• Dongfang Minghui realizes Dongfang Wanyu may suspect her of competing for Nan Fei’s attention. She hastily apologizes and promises not to meddle in Nan Fei’s affairs. Wanyu accepts, though she warns her not to repeat it.
• Minghui discovers two bumps on Toothless’s back that may be undeveloped wings. Toothless can now call her “Mommy,” but remains sleepy and mysterious.
• Three days later, Minghui sells pills in the Lovers’ Garden. A customer returns after confirming that her Hemostatic Pills are better than ordinary ones, giving her confidence in her work.
• Mu Sheng arrives looking for Wanyu. Minghui teases him by pretending not to know her, but sends him to fetch Wanyu when five men come to intimidate Minghui and smash her stall.
• Bai Rou offers support, and Li Yunan rescues Minghui from a sudden attack. The men turn out to be acting for Xu Jin, Xu Lian’s brother, and flee when they learn Minghui is an apothecary connected to the Pharmacy Institute.
• Wanyu arrives, checks that Minghui is unharmed, and decides she will accompany her at future stalls. She also insists Minghui train rather than neglect her cultivation.
• Wanyu begins supervising Minghui’s practice of Heavenly Maiden Scatters Flowers. Minghui learns that she can control leaves more effectively by concentrating her spiritual power on only one or two at a time. Wanyu sets her the difficult goal of cutting down a tree with a single leaf.
• Minghui’s remark about wanting someone to fall in love quickly keeps Wanyu awake all night, wondering whom she means.
• Minghui avoids interfering when Nan Nan asks her to help Nan Fei. Later, Mu Sheng asks Wanyu to team up with him for future outings; she refuses, saying she already has Minghui as her partner.
• Li Yunan brings a crowd of buyers to Minghui’s next stall, and all twenty bottles sell quickly. He also tells Wanyu that the Thunder Hall elder wants to see her. Wanyu questions his interest in Minghui; he says her pills are excellent and admits that one has eased an old injury.

Character developments and interactions

• Minghui is resourceful and entrepreneurial, but still anxious about danger and about being misunderstood by Wanyu. She shows more backbone when confronting the bullies, while her growing sales confirm her skill as an apothecary. She remains reluctant to train, but begins making progress under Wanyu’s guidance.
• Wanyu becomes increasingly protective and attentive. She monitors Minghui’s safety, cultivates only after listening to her settle for the night, and takes charge of her training. Her jealousy and uncertainty persist, especially when she sees Minghui with Li Yunan or hears her talk about making someone fall in love.
• Toothless grows more affectionate and vocal, but its possible wings and unusual behavior remain unexplained.
• Li Yunan shifts from playful rescuer to a genuine supporter of Minghui’s work. Her pills appear to help his long-standing injury, leaving him indebted to her despite her attempts to keep their relationship strictly even.
• Mu Sheng admires Wanyu and seeks to join her on future expeditions, but she turns him down in favor of Minghui.
• Bai Rou repays Minghui’s earlier kindness by standing beside her during the confrontation.

Significant themes

• Protection versus independence: Wanyu wants to keep Minghui safe, while Minghui wants room to act on her own.
• Trust and misunderstanding: Minghui constantly worries that Wanyu will misread her interactions with men, while Wanyu quietly tries to interpret Minghui’s intentions.
• Skill and perseverance: Minghui’s training shows that precision and control matter more than sheer force.
• Reciprocity and obligation: Minghui tries to settle debts with pills, but Li Yunan insists on owing her a favor; their relationship remains unresolved.
• Found family and attachment: Toothless’s trust and Minghui’s affection for it contrast with the wary, complicated relationships around her.
  Ending point: Li Yunan asks Minghui to hear him out after her stall sells out, but she refuses, leaving their conversation—and Wanyu’s suspicions—unresolved.

Chapter Summary

• Key events: Li Yunan pleads with Dongfang Minghui to give him one chance to explain, invoking the value of saving a life. Though frustrated by his persistence, Minghui glances at the heroine, sees little reaction, and agrees to hear him out—on the condition that he stay where he is. Li Yunan takes this as a promising start and begins to gather his thoughts.
• Character developments: Minghui’s irritation gives way to reluctant patience. Li Yunan remains persistent and hopeful, interpreting her willingness to listen as progress.
• Character interactions: Li Yunan appeals directly to Minghui, while Minghui checks the heroine’s response before deciding whether to engage.
• Significant themes: Persistence, persuasion, and the difficulty of judging sincerity. The excerpt ends before Li Yunan explains himself.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yunan asks Dongfang Minghui to treat his uncle, whose thunder-related hidden injuries have kept him from advancing for decades. Minghui resists getting involved but sells Li her remaining Marrow-Cleansing Pills; Dongfang Wanyu tells Li to stop pressuring her.
• While practicing Leaf Shot, Minghui accidentally hurts an apparently sentient tree. It heals with her spirit liquid and explains that Dongfang Wanyu carries a death aura feared by plants. The tree also directs Minghui toward the forbidden grounds, where Toothless has wandered.
• Dongfang Wanyu and Minghui enter the forbidden grounds with Qing Mo’s help. Wanyu discovers records of a past death-aura incident caused by an academy teacher, but finds no solution to concealing her dark spiritual power. She burns a manual on dual cultivation rather than use it.
• Toothless returns with an unidentified cold object, which Minghui puts away without examining. Minghui later searches the Library Pavilion for information about Toothless but finds no clear match.
• Wanyu finds an untitled book describing a woman’s love for another woman. It offers her a way to understand feelings stirred by an earlier illusion, and she imagines Minghui in the story. She continues seeking a dual-cultivation method that might mask her dark energy.
• Minghui meets Lü Xing, a Wood Hall student and Elf Clan prince, while practicing. Recognizing him as one of the important men connected to the heroine’s future, she becomes distressed and leaves.
• That night, Minghui is trapped in a nightmare and develops a fever. Wanyu tends to her and calms her with spiritual energy. After waking, Minghui withdraws from Wanyu. Wanyu later approaches her while she sleeps, drawn to her scent and the intimacy of the illusion; the chapter ends with Wanyu touching her face.

Character developments

• Dongfang Minghui: Continues to avoid Li Yunan and the heroine’s male associates, while showing compassion toward the tree and strong attachment to Toothless. Her fear for Toothless leads her to enter the forbidden grounds despite her usual reluctance. She grows increasingly anxious about events aligning with the plot and distances herself from Wanyu after the nightmare.
• Dongfang Wanyu: Learns more about the academy’s history and her dark spiritual power but remains without a way to conceal it. Her search for a solution increasingly intersects with romantic feelings for Minghui, which she recognizes through the book and her memories of the illusion.
• Toothless: Shows growing intelligence and attachment to Minghui, guiding her toward books and learning to snarl, but remains mischievous and prone to wandering.
• Li Yunan: Reveals his concern for his uncle and offers Minghui anything within his power in exchange for help.
• Qing Mo: Warns Wanyu about the risks of entering the forbidden grounds but ultimately helps her breach the barrier.

Significant themes

• Fate and plot entanglement: Minghui’s knowledge of the story makes her fear being caught up in the heroine’s future relationships and conflicts.
• Concealment and danger: Wanyu’s dark spiritual power is a threat to her safety, and the academy’s buried history suggests why it is taboo.
• Affection and emotional dependence: Minghui’s care for Toothless and Wanyu’s growing attraction to Minghui contrast with Minghui’s attempts to keep her distance.
• Responsibility and protection: Minghui’s panic over Toothless and Wanyu’s care for the feverish Minghui show their protective instincts, even as they struggle to understand one another.

Character interactions

• Minghui refuses Li Yunan’s request for treatment but accepts payment for pills; Wanyu steps in to shield her from his persistence.
• Minghui befriends the old tree by healing it, while the tree fears Wanyu’s death aura and helps locate Toothless.
• Wanyu and Minghui cooperate to rescue Toothless, with Qing Mo holding the barrier open.
• Minghui disciplines Toothless after the dangerous escapade, but quickly returns to caring for the creature.
• Wanyu comforts Minghui during her fever, while Minghui’s subsequent avoidance leaves Wanyu confused and unsettled.

• Key event: A woman parts her shapely lips, leans closer, and gently licks them.
• Character development: No clear change or motivation is revealed in this brief passage.
• Themes: Sensuality and physical intimacy.
• Character interactions: The woman makes a suggestive gesture toward someone nearby, though the other person and their response are not shown.

Dongfang Minghui prepared for the New Student Selection Tournament, discovered a Spirit-Gathering Treasure beneath her courtyard, and joined Dongfang Wanyu’s team traveling to the Moonwhite Empire. The journey began peacefully, but at their first waystation Li Qin disappeared from her room.

• Dongfang Minghui practiced her skill, gathered rubber-tree sap with Lü Xing’s help, and built Toothless a wooden nest, while Love Flower revealed a Spirit-Gathering Treasure beneath the courtyard.
• The Dean selected Dongfang Minghui to lead three Pharmacy Institute students in the New Student Selection Tournament and refused her request to take the Intermediate Apothecary assessment.
• Dongfang Minghui checked on Nan Fei, and Nan Nan agreed to join the trip after placing second in the Alchemy Institute’s preliminary test.
• Dongfang Wanyu returned from the Inner Court with a five-person team, and Dongfang Minghui joined them with Liu Qi and Bai Lu; Nan Nan later joined as well.
• The nine travelers flew toward the Moonwhite Empire on a Winged Tiger, camped overnight, and continued to their first waystation.
• When Nan Nan reported that her roommate had vanished, Dongfang Wanyu counted the team and discovered that Li Qin was missing.

The group split up to search for Li Qin, who had disappeared on her way to the latrine. Dongfang Minghui followed Liu Qi’s suggestion to check the latrine with the heroine.

• The six divided into two groups and agreed to meet back in the room in two hours.
• Dongfang Minghui searched the surrounding grass and suggested looking nearby.
• Liu Qi pointed out that Li Qin had disappeared on her way to the latrine.
• The heroine agreed to check the latrine.

Dongfang Wanyu sought a way into the Nangong Household’s auction to find a means of concealing her Dark-Type Spiritual Power, while Dongfang Minghui faced conflict after Bai Lu’s spatial ring was stolen. The chapter ended with the auction beginning at Skycloud Pavilion and a Dragon Clan egg appearing as its first item.

• Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui overheard Li Qin with a woman from Purple Wolf Academy, and Dongfang Wanyu accidentally brushed lips with Dongfang Minghui while they hid.
• The group reached Cloud Capital City, struggled to find lodging because of the Nangong Household’s auction, and learned that Bai Lu’s spatial ring had been stolen.
• Dongfang Wanyu arranged to enter the auction with Zhao Sanqi and the Rose Mercenary Corps, while Dongfang Minghui took Dongfang Wanyu’s whip meant for Bai Lu and suffered a serious wound.
• Dongfang Wanyu joined the Rose Mercenary Corps for their trip to Skycloud Pavilion and learned about the auction’s powerful guards and attendants.
• Xuexin opened the auction by presenting a glowing Dragon Clan egg as the first item.

The auction house presented a living dragon egg that was close to hatching, stirring excitement among the guests. Dongfang Wanyu doubted that a dragon would submit to humans without someone having the ability to tame it.

• Xuexin asked the guests to be patient, explaining that more precious items would appear later in the auction.
• Xuexin revealed that the first item was a living dragon egg confirmed to be near hatching.
• Xuexin imagined how dazzling it would be to own the dragon as a Spirit Pet.
• Dongfang Wanyu remarked that dragons were proud and would not easily bow to humans.

Dongfang Wanyu bought Love Entwined for her ninth sister and watched Mu Ying gain the Blood Soul Blade, then chased down a pickpocket who stole her auction purchases. The pickpocket revealed that he recognized her ability to absorb dark-type spiritual power, leaving Dongfang Wanyu’s own hidden element at risk of exposure.

• Dongfang Wanyu bid one million spirit stones for Love Entwined, then privately gave Aunt Mo pills from Death Valley to have appraised.
• Dongfang Wanyu recognized the auctioned Love Flower as similar to the one her ninth sister possessed and worried that its origins could put her sister in danger.
• The auction sold an elf to Lu Peng’s family for ten million spirit stones, then let attendees compete to lift the Blood Soul Blade; Mu Ying lifted it after her blood touched the blade.
• A pickpocket stole Dongfang Wanyu’s ring, but she caught him with her elemental powers and recovered the Jade Belt.
• Dongfang Wanyu discovered that the pickpocket was a Dark-Type Spirit Master and demanded to know how he concealed his identity; he realized she could absorb dark-type spiritual power and guessed she had awakened a third element.

Summary

The passage opens with a demand for someone’s identity, followed by laughter. Dongfang Wanyu responds by sharply tightening the Water-Thunder Whip around the person’s neck, cutting off his breath and leaving him unable to speak or breathe.

Character developments and interactions

• Dongfang Wanyu acts decisively and aggressively, using the whip to restrain and silence the other person.
• The captive laughs, but is quickly rendered helpless by Dongfang Wanyu’s attack.

Themes

The excerpt establishes a tense confrontation centered on identity, intimidation, and control.

Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu rescued an elf from Lu Peng, but their intervention kept Lü Xing and Dongfang Wanyu from meeting as the story’s expected romance required. After they returned to the inn, Dongfang Minghui became feverish in the bath, leaving Dongfang Wanyu to answer her call.

• Dongfang Minghui learned that the Blood Baleful Alliance had bought a Love Flower Seed and that a wealthy man from Snow Capital had bought an elf, while Lü Xing reacted with fury.
• Dongfang Wanyu captured Xuanzhu, learned that a Chaos-Heaven Pill concealed her dark-type spiritual power, and kept the princess’s jade token while agreeing to seek her again in three months.
• Dongfang Wanyu gave Dongfang Minghui the costly Love Entwined jade belt and entrusted her with the Chaos-Heaven Pill to identify.
• Dongfang Wanyu took Dongfang Minghui to the Lucky Inn, where they found Lu Peng assaulting an elf, and they helped Lü Xing and the other elves free him.
• The elves gave Dongfang Minghui a Green Forest jade token, and she realized the rescue had not brought Lü Xing and Dongfang Wanyu together as expected.
• Dongfang Minghui became feverish in the bath after returning to the inn and softly called for Dongfang Wanyu.

Dongfang Minghui struggled to climb out of the bathtub after washing, but her legs kept giving out. Dongfang Wanyu noticed her worsening panting and found her burning with heat as she sought relief.

• Dongfang Wanyu waited by the window for Dongfang Minghui to finish washing so she could bathe.
• Dongfang Minghui repeatedly tried to stand but collapsed back into the bathtub.
• Dongfang Minghui gasped that she was going to die and continued panting heavily.
• Dongfang Wanyu asked what was wrong when she heard the worsening panting.
• Dongfang Minghui pressed Dongfang Wanyu's hand against her scorching skin to try to ease the heat inside her.

Dongfang Minghui recovered from being drugged, faced Lu Peng and Bai Lu’s harassment, and helped her Pharmacy Institute team tie its match against Purple Wolf Academy. Afterward, Li Yunan arrived with the delayed group and explained that a mobile spirit medicine had led them into a formation.

• Dongfang Wanyu restrained the drugged Dongfang Minghui with ice until the effects passed, then told her she had fainted in the bath.
• Dongfang Wanyu immobilized Lu Peng when he tried to harass Dongfang Minghui, and later rescued Minghui from silver snakes Bai Lu had placed in her bed.
• Dongfang Minghui accepted essence-replenishing pills from Lü Xing, then shared a room with Dongfang Wanyu after the snake prank.
• Bai Lu brought only common plants to the Pharmacy Institute’s first round against Purple Wolf Academy, so Dongfang Minghui conceded; Liu Qi won the potion-brewing round, and Dongfang Minghui used a Swallowing Silkworm to wake a patient and secure a tie.
• Dongfang Minghui asked the team teacher to exclude Bai Lu from future matches, but Li Yunan arrived with the delayed group and said a spirit medicine had lured them into a formation for three days.