Chapter Summaries

After Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu’s public coming-out caused workplace gossip and her mother’s disapproval, Tong Yao’s mother gradually accepted their marriage after hearing Qian Wanyu’s commitment and learning how much she had saved for Tong Yao. Once her mother left, Tong Yao prepared a romantic evening for Qian Wanyu, and they began an uninterrupted intimate moment.

• Tong Yao learned from Li Tiantian that Qian Wanyu had asked for help understanding a marriage proposal verse, then went home to find her mother waiting with Qian Wanyu.
• Tong Yao’s mother challenged their relationship, but Qian Wanyu told her she wanted a life with Tong Yao and would cherish her; the two women later spent the day shopping together.
• Qian Wanyu revealed her growing pregnancy to Tong Yao, who accepted the child, and Tong Yao’s mother learned that Qian Wanyu had placed ten million in a gold-card account for Tong Yao.
• Tong Yao’s mother gave the couple her blessing and left, while Tong Yao promised to keep building a life with Qian Wanyu.
• Tong Yao prepared dinner, candles, and music at home, then invited Qian Wanyu to dance; they kissed and began making love.

Qian Wanyu and Tong Yao were alone together in a dark room, where their playful exchange turned intimate. The scene ended as Tong Yao called out to Seventh Sister.

• Tong Yao fell onto the sofa.
• Qian Wanyu warned Tong Yao to be careful of her belly, and Tong Yao told her to worry about herself.
• In the darkness, Qian Wanyu watched Tong Yao intently.
• Tong Yao felt her clothing tear and called out to Seventh Sister.

Tong Yao left the hospital after Director Wang pressured her to resign over the public revelation of her relationship with Qian Wanyu, then devoted herself to drawing their story while the couple prepared for the baby. After Tong Yao met a man who looked like Situ Hao, she and Qian Wanyu encountered him again at a café, where he introduced himself as Situ Xu.

• Director Wang showed Tong Yao anonymous letters and urged her to resign, but Tong Yao negotiated for extra salary and her quarterly bonus before leaving the hospital.
• Tong Yao rescued a young boy injured by glass during a storm and met his brother, Situ Xu, who looked exactly like Situ Hao.
• Tong Yao became ill after being soaked in the rain, and Qian Wanyu stayed with her at the hospital while Tong Yao accompanied her to a prenatal checkup.
• Qian Wanyu quit her job to rest during her pregnancy, while Tong Yao submitted her comic to publishers and chose Guben after receiving interest.
• Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu booked maternity and wedding portrait sessions and bought baby supplies before meeting Situ Xu again at a café.

Tong Yao learned that Xiaobao had lost a lot of blood and had infected wounds, but he was brought to the hospital in time. Mr. Situ then said he had come on Gu Benlai’s behalf to discuss a contract with Tong Yao.

• Mr. Situ told Tong Yao that Xiaobao had lost too much blood and had wounds slightly infected by rainwater and mud.
• Mr. Situ said Xiaobao had been brought in just in time to avoid worse consequences.
• Tong Yao admitted she had thought the situation was a trap set by child traffickers and said she was glad Xiaobao was all right.
• Tong Yao asked Mr. Situ to discuss the matter they had come for.
• Mr. Situ apologized for forgetting the main business and said he was there on Gu Benlai’s behalf to discuss signing a contract with Tong Yao.

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu prepared for their daughter’s arrival, took maternity and wedding portraits, and waited anxiously past Qian Wanyu’s due date. On Christmas, Qian Wanyu unexpectedly gave birth to a girl, and Tong Yao held the newborn while the couple began discussing her name.

• Tong Yao refused Situ Xu’s offer to buy her comic’s copyright and returned home with Qian Wanyu.
• Tong Yao prepared a nursery, and the two women went shopping, took maternity portraits, and posed together in wedding outfits.
• Tong Yao called the police when two men tried to abduct a child at the shopping district, and officers arrested them.
• After Qian Wanyu’s due date passed, Tong Yao grew anxious while caring for her through the Christmas holiday.
• Qian Wanyu went into labor during a snowy night, and Doctor Chen helped her deliver a girl shortly after Tong Yao stepped out to answer a call.
• Tong Yao held the newborn, and Qian Wanyu asked whether they had chosen a name.

Doctor Chen checked Qian Wanyu and gave her instructions while Tong Yao cared for the newborn, Little Beans. Qian Wanyu finally held the baby, who promptly wet her clothes.

• Doctor Chen checked Qian Wanyu and said a nurse would come to bathe the baby.
• Tong Yao soothed Little Beans and pointed out that the baby had smiled.
• Qian Wanyu watched Little Beans and suspected she would grow into a little menace.
• Tong Yao urged Qian Wanyu to hold the baby, and Qian Wanyu took her into her arms.
• Little Beans wet Qian Wanyu’s clothes, making her scowl.

Tong Yao’s mother learned about Little Bao and came to stay, while Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu settled into life as a family and arranged nearby housing for her. Little Bao repeatedly disrupted danger at the mall and, later, during a walk with Grandma, leaving Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu wondering whether she could sense it in advance.

• Tong Yao’s mother arrived with Charlie, met Little Bao, and angrily confronted Tong Yao for concealing the pregnancy and not knowing who Little Bao’s father was.
• Qian Wanyu decided to buy Tong Yao’s mother an apartment nearby, and Tong Yao’s mother agreed to live close to them.
• Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu began an intimate moment, but Little Bao cried and Tong Yao’s mother interrupted them; she also questioned Tong Yao about not going to work at the hospital.
• Three months later, Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu bought a nearby apartment and went shopping with Little Bao, who cried just before an elevator crashed, keeping them from entering it.
• Mama Tong rushed home after hearing about the elevator accident, and Qian Wanyu wondered whether Little Bao could sense danger in advance.
• A week later, Mama Tong returned frightened after a car drove onto the sidewalk while she was walking with Little Bao, then admitted she had brought a wallet.

A thief snatched the narrator’s wallet, but the narrator stopped to comfort Xiaobao instead of chasing him. The thief was then struck and killed by a truck, which also injured two pedestrians.

• A thief stole the narrator’s wallet and ran toward the sidewalk.
• Xiaobao suddenly began crying, so the narrator worried she had been bumped and did not chase the thief.
• A truck hit the thief, killing him and injuring two pedestrians.

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu rekindled their intimacy while Le Le began calling Tong Yao “Mom” and Qian Wanyu “Seventh.” Qian Wanyu surprised Tong Yao with a café in her name, but Mother Tong became suspicious that Le Le was Tong Yao’s biological child and secretly collected hair and a nail clipping before leaving.

• Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu struggled to balance their attention between each other and Le Le, who cried when they tried to be intimate and later clearly called Tong Yao “Mom.”
• Qian Wanyu took Tong Yao and Le Le to Love Entwined, a café she had bought and decorated in Tong Yao’s name, and Tong Yao agreed to run it with her.
• Tong Yao promoted the café online, and she and Qian Wanyu resumed their lovemaking at home while Le Le called out for them from the next room.
• Qian Wanyu brought home Le Le’s one-month portraits, and Mother Tong noticed the baby resembled Tong Yao as a child.
• Mother Tong questioned whether Tong Yao had given birth to Le Le, then secretly took strands of Tong Yao’s hair and a clipping from Le Le’s nail before leaving.

Qian Wanyu and Tong Yao went to look at the café, where Tong Yao planned to paint while Qian Wanyu kept her company. Mother Tong submitted Tong Yao’s hair and little Lele’s nail clippings for testing and left the hospital unsettled.

• Qian Wanyu brought Tong Yao’s art supplies to the café and told her she could paint there without being disturbed.
• Tong Yao agreed to paint at the café on the condition that Qian Wanyu kept her company.
• Mother Tong went to a well-known hospital and submitted Tong Yao’s hair and little Lele’s nail clippings.
• A hospital staff member told Mother Tong that the results would be ready in a week, and Mother Tong left feeling she might have gone mad.

Mother Tong discovered a DNA report indicating that Qian Le Le was Tong Yao’s child and accepted Qian Wanyu and Tong Yao’s relationship after Qian Wanyu privately explained their history. Tong Yao signed a publishing contract with Situ Xu, while Qian Wanyu left Zhang Yanqing’s entertainment proposal unresolved; the chapter ended with Qian Wanyu pulling Tong Yao into the shower.

• Mother Tong confronted Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu with a DNA report showing a 99.99% probability that Qian Le Le was Tong Yao’s child, and Qian Wanyu privately reassured her about her love for Tong Yao.
• Mother Tong apologized for meddling, accepted their relationship, and invited Qian Wanyu, Tong Yao, and Le Le to stay with her after renovations.
• Photos of Tong Yao, Qian Wanyu, and Le Le went viral and boosted the café’s business, while Zhang Yanqing visited to propose filming there and praised Tong Yao’s drawings.
• Situ Xu arrived to negotiate publication of Tong Yao’s comics, and Tong Yao signed Gu Zheng’s contract after Qian Le Le showed she could remove her socks and stand on the sofa.
• Qian Wanyu suspected Zhang Yanqing’s café proposal was an attempt to recruit her into entertainment, agreed to attend dinner with Situ Xu alongside Tong Yao, and later pulled Tong Yao into the bathroom while showering.

Qian Wanyu invited Ninth Sister to bathe with her and admitted she had a gift for her. She recalled watching Ninth Sister in the mirror, which stirred her desire.

• Qian Wanyu looked at her soaked clothes and thought Seventh Sister had become naughtier.
• Qian Wanyu suggested that she and Ninth Sister bathe together.
• Qian Wanyu remembered watching Ninth Sister in the mirror and told her she had a gift for her.

Dongfang Minghui secretly followed the elusive consciousness Qian Wanyu had been searching for and helped uncover an underground passage beneath the Cass Tribe. She and Qian Wanyu followed a war song through the passage and reached an underground chamber, where the singing grew louder.

• Qian Wanyu searched the Cass Tribe for the hidden consciousness while Dongfang Minghui treated a beastchild and went fishing with her.
• Dongfang Minghui secretly followed Qian Wanyu's search, overheard Karu and Cass discussing someone who would never return, and tracked the elusive consciousness to the mountain boundary.
• Qian Wanyu found a concealed opening beneath the stream, and Dongfang Minghui learned from a tree that an old passage connected the mountains.
• Dongfang Minghui persuaded Qian Wanyu to take her through the underwater passage, with Little Lecher's help getting her through the water.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui passed piles of decomposed bodies and heard a war song whose power stirred their spiritual energy.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui followed the singing into a spacious underground chamber as the song grew louder.

Qian Wanyu broke through the wall blocking the secret chamber after hearing a strange song, and Dongfang Minghui saw a pair of whitish eyes through the hole.

• A demonic-sounding song and the rattle of chains came from behind a wall in the secret chamber.
• Qian Wanyu retreated to a safe distance and drew the Water-Thunder Whip.
• Qian Wanyu summoned Heavenly Thunder and blasted a hole through the stone door with the whip.
• The singing stopped, and Dongfang Minghui crouched to peer through the hole.
• Dongfang Minghui looked up and saw a pair of whitish eyes.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu explored a torture chamber, uncovered clues about a chained beastman and Karu’s family, and traveled with the Cass Tribe to the winter trading market. The chapter ended when Qian Wanyu drove off a beastman who tried to claim Minghui as a slave.

• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui found a chained beastman in a torture chamber, where Minghui discovered poisons resembling the one in Qian Ziyan’s body and Qian Wanyu recognized the restraints as the Nine-Ring Chain.
• Dongfang Minghui suspected Karu or Cass might be connected to Qian Ying’s missing descendant, and Karu later revealed that the frozen beastman in the ice cellar was his father.
• Karu told Dongfang Minghui how he and Cass had overthrown Kata and founded the Cass Tribe, then arranged for Galen to help her find medicinal herbs.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui joined Karu’s group on the journey to the winter trading market, where Qian Wanyu continued studying the Nine-Ring Chain’s formations.
• At the market, a beastman tried to buy Dongfang Minghui as a slave, and Qian Wanyu struck him with her whip before a guard patrol member stopped the fight.

A man who had been stopped by the guards spoke with an accomplice about a plan to target the Cass Tribe and create conflict with the guards. The accomplice blamed Leon for interfering, and the man proposed how to carry out the plan.

• The man checked that no one was following before speaking quietly to someone waiting at a corner.
• He said the guards had arrived too quickly to stop him.
• The other person complained that Leon interfered in too many things.
• The man proposed killing people from the Cass Tribe and stirring up hostility between them and the guards.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu watched the Beast Tribe’s brutal arena fights before Saya was accused of killing guard Leon, whom Dongfang Minghui saved. After Qian Wanyu uncovered evidence that someone had engineered the shooting, Leon woke and was released; the chapter ended with him studying Dongfang Minghui’s drawing of the disguised culprit.

• Karu led Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu to the Combat Arena, where they saw humans forced to fight magic beasts for the Beast Tribe’s amusement.
• Little Lecher stopped a beastfolk from stealing Lü Xing, then the group learned that a scuffle at their tent had left guard Leon with an arrow in his chest and Saya under arrest.
• Dongfang Minghui treated Leon while Qian Wanyu questioned witnesses and learned that a disguised man had shoved Saya, causing the arrow to fire.
• Dongfang Minghui revived Leon, who agreed to hear Karu’s account, and Barry released Saya and took the troublemakers away.
• Dongfang Minghui drew the disguised attacker from Lien’s description, and Leon studied the portrait to see if he recognized the culprit.

Leon recognized the man, though Karu could not remember him, and Karu asked where they might have met.

• Karu asked Leon to think carefully about where he might have seen the man before.
• Leon said he knew who the man was.
• Karu asked Leon who he was.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui rescued Wei Junlan and Xuanzhu from the Combat Arena, whose hidden master belonged to the Azure Mist Sect. They reunited with Karu in a Dwarffolk hut, where Xuanzhu and Wei Junlan remained unwilling to explain what had happened to them.

• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui confirmed that Norbert was staying with the Tuxia Tribe, then Dongfang Minghui enlisted Karu in a plan that sparked a fight between the Tuxia Tribe and the Erjia Tribe.
• Lien found a bloodstained Nine Palace Diagram carrying Wei Junlan's request for help, and Karu revealed the location of the Combat Arena's real base.
• Qian Wanyu entered the base through a well and found Wei Junlan, while Little Minghui and Karu joined the rescue and helped free Xuanzhu and the transformed prisoners.
• Qian Wanyu fought a Spirit King from the Azure Mist Sect as Little Minghui led the others through the well and escaped with Karu's help.
• Karu hid the group in a hut in Dwarffolk territory, where Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui reunited with Xuanzhu and Wei Junlan, who refused to explain what had happened.

Dongfang Minghui found Wei Junlan distressed and asked what had happened to him. The chapter ended before he answered.

• The others said they would go outside and give Dongfang Minghui and Wei Junlan time to talk.
• Dongfang Minghui got off the stool and crouched in front of Wei Junlan.
• Dongfang Minghui cupped Wei Junlan’s face and asked what had happened to him.