Chapter Summaries

Tong Yao realized she had transmigrated into Dongfang Minghui, a doomed supporting character, and stopped Dongfang Lizhu’s men from attacking Dongfang Wanyu. As Tong Yao tried to follow Dongfang Wanyu, five more hired men appeared, leaving her to face the danger she had forgotten about.

• Tong Yao woke in a sedan chair and learned from Cui'er that she and Dongfang Lizhu had planned to ruin Dongfang Wanyu with hired men.
• Tong Yao realized she was Dongfang Minghui, a doomed character from the unfinished novel she had read.
• Tong Yao intervened when four disguised servants surrounded Dongfang Wanyu, and they fled when she ordered them away.
• Dongfang Wanyu questioned Tong Yao, then left, while Tong Yao asked to go back with her.
• Five furtive men emerged from the woods, and Tong Yao remembered that Cui'er had said she hired them to attack Dongfang Wanyu.

Dongfang Minghui was injured after a confrontation with bandits in the woods, where Dongfang Wanyu fought to protect them and then left her behind. Back at home, Dongfang Minghui recovered and learned that Dongfang Lizhu had come to speak with her.

• Dongfang Wanyu used Earth Thorn to trap five bandits and ordered Dongfang Minghui to flee, but Dongfang Minghui's insults provoked the scar-faced leader, whose wind attack knocked her unconscious.
• Cui'er arrived with helpers, but the woods were devastated and Dongfang Wanyu and the bandits were gone.
• Dongfang Minghui woke in her room with a head dressing and a swollen face; she hid what had happened from Qin Qin and learned a servant had found her outside the gates.
• Dongfang Minghui asked Cui'er to quietly watch for news about Dongfang Wanyu, then fell asleep while wondering how to improve the heroine's opinion of her.
• Dongfang Lizhu visited Dongfang Minghui and asked to speak privately, and Dongfang Minghui asked whether she had come to call her to account.

Dongfang Minghui pretended to follow Dongfang Lizhu’s plan to use Qin Mu against Dongfang Wanyu, but instead drugged and exposed Dongfang Lizhu’s scheme. Dongfang Wanyu left in disgust, then heard Minghui admit she had acted for herself rather than for her sake.

• Dongfang Lizhu suggested that Dongfang Minghui help Qin Mu pursue Dongfang Wanyu, and Minghui agreed to win her trust.
• Dongfang Minghui met Qin Mu, then invited him and Dongfang Wanyu to sit beside her at the birthday banquet.
• Dongfang Minghui lured Dongfang Wanyu to the West Wing Courtyard and sent Cui'er to bring Dongfang Lizhu there with a note.
• Dongfang Minghui and Cui'er drugged Dongfang Lizhu, carried her to another room, and left her naked in bed before sending Qin Mu to the room.
• Dongfang Wanyu saw a drunken man enter the room and walked away, believing Minghui had arranged the scene as a cruel trick.
• Dongfang Minghui explained that she had acted to stop Dongfang Lizhu from ordering her around, and Dongfang Wanyu called her foolish.

Dongfang Minghui’s scheme against Dongfang Lizhu ended with Lizhu being forced to marry Young Master Lai as his concubine, while Minghui began developing her plant-based spiritual power and advanced to level two. Hoping to grow closer to Dongfang Wanyu, Minghui bought the fragrant-ear herb Wanyu needed, but a rival’s whip lashed toward her as they left the shop.

• Dongfang Lizhu confronted Dongfang Minghui over the note, but Minghui feigned innocence and blamed the failed plan on a misunderstanding.
• Dongfang Minghui’s father arranged for Dongfang Lizhu to marry Young Master Lai as his concubine within a month.
• Dongfang Minghui gathered peony essence and a Foundation-Stabilizing Pill, then advanced from level one to level two as a Spirit Practitioner.
• Dongfang Minghui learned Dongfang Wanyu had left the estate and followed her to a workshop, where Wanyu competed with another young woman for fragrant-ear herb.
• Dongfang Minghui paid for the herb and handed it to Dongfang Wanyu, but the rival attacked them with a whip as they left.

Dongfang Minghui tried to avoid the danger she expected from Dongfang Wanyu’s story while secretly planning to follow her when she left the residence. She helped Dongfang Wanyu gain permission to travel to the Royal Academy, leaving her own plan poised to begin.

• Dongfang Minghui realized the man in blue was Li Yunan, a male lead, and worried that she had disrupted his destined meeting with Dongfang Wanyu.
• Dongfang Wanyu gave Dongfang Minghui three Marrow-Cleansing Pills, then an assassin entered the residence that night and confronted her in her courtyard.
• Dongfang Minghui interrupted the standoff and offered to let Dongfang Wanyu stay with her, but Dongfang Wanyu sent her away.
• Dongfang Minghui recalled that the assassin would reveal Dongfang Wanyu’s origins and decided to follow her when she left, preparing money, bottles, and jewelry for the journey.
• Dongfang Minghui overheard Dongfang Wanyu ask to go to the Royal Academy and persuaded Father Dongfang to approve the trip despite Qian Beiying’s objections.

Dongfang Minghui secretly followed Dongfang Wanyu on her journey and struggled with hunger and exhaustion along the way. After feeding a Poison Blossom Lightning Mouse, she persuaded Dongfang Wanyu to let her travel with her toward the Purple Demon Mountains, where a disturbance led Dongfang Wanyu to investigate a fight with demon insects.

• Dongfang Minghui disguised herself as a maid, escaped the estate, and followed Dongfang Wanyu in disguise.
• After three days of following Dongfang Wanyu, Dongfang Minghui ran out of food and woke late, but caught up with her near the Purple Demon Mountains.
• Dongfang Minghui roasted a rabbit and shared most of it with a hungry Poison Blossom Lightning Mouse before Dongfang Wanyu warned her that the creature was poisonous and dangerous.
• Dongfang Wanyu explained that they had to cross the Purple Demon Mountains to reach the Royal Academy, and Dongfang Minghui admitted how she had escaped and begged to come along.
• When a commotion came from the woods, Dongfang Wanyu went to investigate, and Dongfang Minghui learned from a blade of grass that humans were fighting demon insects.

Dongfang Minghui drove off the Ironclad Beetles with corpse-scent grass and reunited with Dongfang Wanyu, then helped the survivors recover by roasting the insects. As Zhao Sanqi explained the mercenaries had been trying to steal the Ironclad Beetle King's eggs, their wounded companion suddenly woke in a violent, blood-eyed state.

• Dongfang Minghui learned Ironclad Beetles feared corpse-scent grass, covered herself with its sap, and rushed into the swarm to find Dongfang Wanyu.
• The stench sent the Ironclad Beetles fleeing, freeing Dongfang Wanyu and the six people trapped with her; Dongfang Wanyu introduced Dongfang Minghui as her ninth brother.
• Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu discovered their bundle had been stolen, then returned to the group and helped themselves to roasted Ironclad Beetles.
• Dongfang Wanyu asked Zhao Sanqi why the insects had attacked, and he revealed the mercenaries had come to retrieve the Ironclad Beetle King's eggs.
• The wounded man abruptly woke with scarlet eyes, threw off the woman watching over him, and prompted the group to call for someone to stop him.

Dongfang Wanyu explained that Wang Fei needed a female Ironclad Beetle to draw the larvae from his body, while Dongfang Minghui worried about the dangers awaiting the group at the beetles’ cave. The next morning, a Lightning Mouse led Dongfang Minghui away from camp, leaving her unsure where it was taking her.

• Dongfang Wanyu gave Wang Fei a Life-Protecting Pill and told the group to capture a female Ironclad Beetle before the medicine wore off.
• Dongfang Minghui refused to feed the Lightning Mouse until it returned her stolen bundle, then shared her food with it after it brought the bundle back.
• Dongfang Minghui treated Dongfang Wanyu’s wound and volunteered to keep watch while the others rested.
• Dongfang Minghui worried that the mercenaries would steal the Ironclad Beetle King’s eggs and provoke the whole colony, then asked a blade of grass about the beetles’ natural enemies.
• The Lightning Mouse woke Dongfang Minghui and tugged her away from camp, and she followed it without knowing where it was leading her.

Dongfang Minghui followed a Lightning Mouse to its den, where the mice made her roast meat for them, while Dongfang Wanyu searched for her and fled an Ironclad Beetle swarm with Mu Qing and Zhao Sanqi. Their paths collided when Dongfang Minghui, chased by Golden Crow Birds, ran into Dongfang Wanyu, who helped her escape after she discarded the egg that had attracted the birds.

• Dongfang Wanyu returned to find Dongfang Minghui missing and searched for her with Mu Qing.
• Dongfang Minghui followed a Lightning Mouse to its den and roasted meat for the gathered mice.
• Dongfang Wanyu warned Mu Qing that an Ironclad Beetle swarm was approaching, and Zhao Sanqi returned with a live female beetle and news that the others had died after Third stole the Ironclad King Bug's eggs.
• Dongfang Wanyu gave Mu Qing and Zhao Sanqi time to escape, then used Dongfang Minghui's clothes to repel some of the pursuing beetles.
• Dongfang Minghui rushed toward Dongfang Wanyu while fleeing Golden Crow Birds, and the Ironclad Beetles scattered as she approached.
• Dongfang Wanyu carried Dongfang Minghui away and told her to throw aside the Golden Crow Bird's egg; Dongfang Minghui hurled the egg, stopping the birds, and asked how Dongfang Wanyu had recognized it.

After the hordes passed, Dongfang Minghui tried to bathe in a lake but startled a young master who had jumped in to swim. Dongfang Wanyu intervened, considered forcing him to marry Dongfang Minghui, then let him go when Dongfang Minghui refused; the chapter left Dongfang Minghui preparing to cook for Dongfang Wanyu again.

• Dongfang Wanyu questioned Dongfang Minghui about provoking the Golden Crow Birds, then told her to find water and clean herself up.
• Dongfang Minghui bathed in a lake, where a young master jumped in and accidentally startled her into calling for help.
• Dongfang Wanyu rushed to the lake and threatened the young master and his servant, then proposed that he marry Dongfang Minghui to take responsibility.
• Dongfang Minghui refused the proposed marriage, and Dongfang Wanyu confirmed she was unharmed before letting the young master and his servant leave.
• Dongfang Wanyu promised not to tell anyone about the incident, then asked Dongfang Minghui to make something to eat.

Dongfang Minghui searched with Dongfang Wanyu for Zhao Sanqi and his companions, then watched over the group as Wang Fei recovered. After defending the Lightning Mouse and encouraging Zhao Sanqi to help Mu Qing and Wang Fei seize their happiness, she was left with Dongfang Wanyu, who questioned her matchmaking plan.

• Dongfang Wanyu found Zhao Sanqi, who begged her to save his injured fifth brother, Wang Fei.
• While waiting for Wang Fei to wake, Dongfang Minghui reflected on Zhao Sanqi's future and realized she might still change the story's tragic events.
• The Lightning Mouse brought Dongfang Minghui a small animal to roast, and Dongfang Minghui defended it when Dongfang Wanyu threatened it with her whip.
• After Wang Fei woke, Zhao Sanqi joked with Dongfang Minghui, who asked whether Mu Qing and Wang Fei loved each other.
• Dongfang Minghui urged Zhao Sanqi to help Mu Qing and Wang Fei seize their happiness, and he went into the cave to act on her advice.
• Dongfang Wanyu came out and asked Dongfang Minghui what scheme she had devised, and Dongfang Minghui said she had tried to play matchmaker.

Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu left Zhao Sanqi’s camp and settled in a cave deeper in the Purple Demon Mountains, where Dongfang Wanyu trained by hunting powerful magic beasts. Dongfang Minghui tended a growing patch of medicinal herbs and used living stargrass to treat Dongfang Wanyu’s wounds, then recorded the plant’s properties.

• Dongfang Minghui gave Mu Qing a red dress, and she officiated Mu Qing and Wang Fei’s wedding before the group shared a meal by the fire.
• Dongfang Wanyu said she would take Dongfang Minghui deeper into the mountains to train, while Zhao Sanqi planned to return to the Moonwhite Empire with his brothers after Wang Fei recovered.
• Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui found and cleaned a cave, where Dongfang Wanyu hunted magic beasts and Dongfang Minghui cooked their meat.
• Dongfang Minghui used her spiritual power to communicate with medicinal herbs, transplanted them outside the cave, and tended them each day.
• Dongfang Minghui crushed living stargrass and applied its juice to Dongfang Wanyu’s wounds, then carved notes about its medicinal properties into the cave wall.

Dongfang Minghui searched the magic beast forest for a red peony heart, but a sudden storm drove her into a cave where a giant vine dragged her into the depths. After fifteen days of lightning cultivation, Dongfang Wanyu returned to find Minghui missing and searched the forest without discovering what had happened to her.

• Dongfang Minghui noticed her wounds healing and sheltered her herbs before setting out to find a red peony heart.
• Guided by plants, Dongfang Minghui found a red peony and received its seeds and flower heart after promising to plant it later.
• A violent storm battered the forest, and a lightning-struck tree nearly crushed Dongfang Minghui as she fled toward a cave.
• A thick vine seized Dongfang Minghui near the cave entrance and dragged her inside, causing her to faint.
• Dongfang Wanyu endured lightning strikes for fifteen days and advanced from a fifth-level Thunder Element Spirit Practitioner to a Spirit Master.
• Dongfang Wanyu returned to the cave, killed the snake beasts occupying it, and searched for Dongfang Minghui for two days without finding her.

Dongfang Minghui survived the magical plant’s torture and formed a blood contract with it, which helped her advance to Spirit Master. She left the cave with Dongfang Wanyu, but the plant immediately began plotting to make Dongfang Wanyu its cultivation vessel.

• The magical plant tortured Dongfang Minghui until it yielded, then vanished after a heavenly lightning strike injured its main body.
• Dongfang Minghui woke unharmed as a level-one Spirit Master and learned she had formed a blood contract with the plant.
• Dongfang Wanyu returned with a Magic Beast, and Dongfang Minghui explained what had happened; Qing Mo warned Dongfang Wanyu that the plant might be dangerous.
• Dongfang Wanyu decided to leave the Purple Demon Mountains and travel toward the Royal Academy, while Dongfang Minghui eagerly prepared to go with her.
• Dongfang Minghui asked the plant to suppress its aura, but it demanded that she let it try to make Dongfang Wanyu its cultivation vessel.

Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui watched Mu Qing and two Azure Mist Sect disciples battle a level-five Winged Elephant, while a group of seven ambushers waited to steal it. Dongfang Wanyu secretly struck the defeated beast with lightning, prompting it to flee as the fighting escalated.

• Dongfang Wanyu gave Dongfang Minghui a water energy core after killing a level-three magic beast, and they discovered Mu Qing trying to capture a Winged Elephant.
• The Winged Elephant broke free, attacked Mu Qing’s companions with fireballs, and nearly burned Dongfang Minghui before Dongfang Wanyu pulled her away.
• Dongfang Minghui spotted seven people lying in ambush, and Dongfang Wanyu considered attacking Mu Qing but Qing Mo warned her of the risks.
• Mu Qing subdued the Winged Elephant, but the seven ambushers emerged and demanded that the Azure Mist Sect disciples hand it over.
• Dongfang Wanyu secretly struck the exhausted Winged Elephant with lightning, and it escaped while Mu Qing and the others fought the ambushers.

Dongfang Wanyu brought Dongfang Minghui to the Black Pool to obtain a Purple Cloud Fruit, which could help her capture a newborn Winged Elephant. While Dongfang Minghui watched a group provoke the Three-Headed Snake, the swamp erupted with a swarm of poisonous spiders.

• Dongfang Wanyu left the fighting groups behind and returned to the injured Winged Elephant’s lair with Dongfang Minghui.
• Qing Mo revealed that a female Winged Elephant inside the cave was giving birth, and Dongfang Wanyu decided to take advantage of the newborn.
• Dongfang Wanyu asked Dongfang Minghui to retrieve a Purple Cloud Fruit from the Black Pool, despite Qing Mo’s doubts and the danger of the Three-Headed Snake.
• Dongfang Minghui agreed with her contracted magic plant to share any extra Purple Cloud Fruit, then hid near a group planning to lure out the Three-Headed Snake.
• The group bombarded the swamp until the Three-Headed Snake roared, and a swarm of poisonous spiders surged out and attacked them.

Dongfang Minghui stole the Blood Baleful Alliance’s Purple Cloud Fruits and diverted the pursuing beasts and assassins toward the winged elephant’s lair, where Dongfang Wanyu went to retrieve the calf. After Little Lecher devoured one fruit and gave Minghui a cultivation method, it discovered that Dongfang Wanyu had been spotted and urged them to run.

• Dongfang Minghui learned that the Blood Baleful Alliance sought the Purple Cloud Fruit to revive its young master’s dead brother, then planned a theft with the Damn-Reliable Little Partner.
• Dongfang Minghui used the magic plant’s tendrils to steal both Purple Cloud Fruits from the young master and grand elder, then fled without a spatial ring as the fruit’s scent drew beasts and pursuers.
• Dongfang Minghui directed the magic plant to throw one fruit into the winged elephant’s lair, diverting the pursuing horde while Dongfang Wanyu and Qing Mo watched.
• Dongfang Wanyu entered the lair to rescue the calf, while the Damn-Reliable Little Partner consumed the other fruit and gave Dongfang Minghui a cultivation method.
• Dongfang Minghui named the magic plant Little Lecher, and it discovered that Dongfang Wanyu had been spotted and told them to run.

Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher escaped Wei Junlan’s pursuit by luring fire into the Purple Demon Mountains and summoning Lightning Mice to attack the Blood Baleful Alliance. After fleeing from a powerful presence in the mountains, they encountered Mu Qing and his companions, leaving Dongfang Minghui unsure how to face them.

• Wei Junlan sent the First Elder after Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher, and Dongfang Minghui urged Little Lecher to spread fires through the forest.
• Dongfang Minghui called the Lightning Mouse, which summoned its kind and led them in a venomous assault on the Blood Baleful Alliance.
• Wei Junlan ordered a retreat as the ground shook and a terrifying presence approached, while Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher fled in the opposite direction.
• Dongfang Minghui scolded Little Lecher for taking a Purple Cloud Fruit, then laughed as it transformed into a chubby child and threatened to use her as a cultivation vessel.
• Mu Qing arrived with his junior brother and injured junior sister, and Dongfang Minghui worried about how to face them.

Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu escaped Mu Qing and his companions after Dongfang Minghui concealed their role in the Winged Elephant incident. Mu Qing recognized their scent and pursued them, confronting the two as they neared the edge of the Magic Beast Forest.

• Dongfang Minghui pretended that she and Little Lust were waiting for companions while Qing Yan tended to the injured Qing Miao and Mu Qing rested.
• Dongfang Wanyu arrived with the Winged Elephant calf, and she and Dongfang Minghui left before Mu Qing could identify them.
• Dongfang Minghui admitted that Little Lust had stolen the Purple Cloud Fruit and lured the crowd to the Winged Elephants' lair, easing Dongfang Wanyu's suspicions.
• Mu Qing detected the Winged Elephant scent on Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu, realized they had set up his group, and chased after them.
• Mu Qing descended in front of Dongfang Minghui and Dongfang Wanyu with a bloodthirsty smile.

Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui confronted Mu Qing in the Magic Beast Forest, where he tried to seize their rings and expose their role in the Winged Elephant incident. Dongfang Wanyu killed him with Little Lecher’s help and fled with the unconscious Dongfang Minghui, while the Azure Mist Sect discovered Mu Qing’s death and began an investigation.

• Mu Qing accused Dongfang Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui of releasing the Winged Elephant and attacked Dongfang Wanyu to search her spatial rings.
• Dongfang Wanyu tried to draw Mu Qing away and escape, but Dongfang Minghui stayed and asked Little Lecher to help her.
• Little Lecher restrained Mu Qing with vines while Dongfang Wanyu fought him with her earth skill and lightning-charged whip.
• Dongfang Wanyu used the Thunderclap Spell to strike Mu Qing repeatedly until his soul was destroyed, leaving no trace.
• Dongfang Minghui collapsed from exhausting her spiritual power, and Dongfang Wanyu carried her away as Qing Mo warned that someone was approaching.
• Mu Qing’s soul tablet shattered in the Azure Mist Sect’s Soul Cloud Pavilion, and Jin Xieyun ordered an investigation and told his disciples to bring back Qingyan and Qing Miao if they found them.