Recaps

Shen Yangge spent the night with the Crown Prince during one of his episodes of madness, trying to keep him calm and escape his attempts to play. The Crown Prince refused to let Shen Yangge die, and the chapter ended with Shen Yangge reassuring him about the lamps as a flicker of awareness appeared in the Crown Prince’s eyes.

• The Crown Prince dragged Shen Yangge to his bedchamber, where Shen Yangge fell asleep on the low couch.
• When Shen Yangge woke in the dark, the Crown Prince stood beside his bed, bit his ear, and chased him around the bedchamber.
• Shen Yangge got the Crown Prince to light the candles and tried to distract him with games, but the Crown Prince insisted on keeping him in sight.
• Shen Yangge told the Crown Prince to execute him, but the Crown Prince refused and said Shen Yangge could not die because he would kill people if he could not see him.
• Shen Yangge asked why the Crown Prince kept his bedchamber dark, and reassured him that the lamps would not bring harm as a flicker of awareness crossed the Crown Prince’s eyes.

The Crown Prince regained his lucidity but pretended he had not, then shared a bed with Shen Yangge until morning. After Green Willow found them together and tried to cling to Shen Yangge, the Crown Prince dismissed her and had hidden guards drag her away, leaving him to handle official documents.

• Shen Yangge reassured the Crown Prince that he was there for him, then went to sleep as dawn approached.
• The Crown Prince bound Shen Yangge's hands, lay beside him, and rested an arm across his throat, waking him the next morning.
• Green Willow entered and saw the Crown Prince and Shen Yangge sharing a bed, then begged the Crown Prince not to dismiss her.
• Green Willow grabbed Shen Yangge's thigh and pleaded with him to persuade the Crown Prince, but he pulled her off.
• The Crown Prince ordered hidden guards to drag Green Willow away, then dressed and began handling official documents.

Shen Yangge was abducted and taken to a traffickers’ hideout, where he was locked up with several children before the kidnappers fled into an underground tunnel. The Crown Prince learned where Shen Yangge was and ordered his shadow guards to pursue him through the tunnel.

• Shen Yangge was abducted on his way home from the palace and overheard the kidnappers discussing their payment and the Crown Prince.
• The kidnappers took Shen Yangge to a damp hideout filled with captured children, and the children pulled the cloth from his mouth.
• The children told Shen Yangge they had been abducted to be sold, just as men outside realized the hideout had been found.
• The traffickers dragged Shen Yangge and the children into an underground tunnel to escape, while black-clad men searched the hideout for clues.
• The Crown Prince ordered his shadow guards into the tunnel to find Shen Yangge, despite the traps and danger.

Shen Yangge escaped the traffickers and returned home injured, where the Crown Prince sent an imperial physician to treat him. That night, the Crown Prince visited him while he slept and picked him up, startling him awake.

• Shen Yangge was thrown from the cave in a burlap sack and rescued by the shadow guards, then asked them to protect the abducted children inside.
• Shen Yangge returned home, and Shen Mother arranged for an imperial physician to examine his injuries.
• Physician Liu treated Shen Yangge and left his young apprentice, Little Bamboo Shoot, to prepare his medicine.
• The Crown Prince entered Shen Yangge's room at night, inspected his wounds, and gently smelled his injured wrist.
• System 615 woke Shen Yangge, and the Crown Prince lifted him into his arms, making him clutch the man's lapels in shock.

The Crown Prince carried Shen Yangge out of the palace and took him to the hut where his kidnappers were being held. Shen Yangge got his revenge by ordering the Crown Prince to roll the two men down a hillside, and they began their journey back.

• The Crown Prince carried Shen Yangge from his room and claimed he was out of his mind when Shen asked.
• The Crown Prince took Shen Yangge by carriage outside the city to the hut where the two kidnappers were bound.
• Shen Yangge put burlap sacks over the kidnappers and asked the Crown Prince to help him punish them.
• The Crown Prince carried the kidnappers to the top of a hill, and Shen Yangge sent them tumbling down.
• Shen Yangge thanked the Crown Prince for avenging him, unaware that the Crown Prince was choosing not to reveal his true state of mind.

Shen Yangge took the Crown Prince back to his residence after refusing to return to the palace with him. When a white snake appeared in their darkened carriage, Shen Yangge clung to the Crown Prince, then feared the Crown Prince would punish him for it.

• Shen Yangge refused to enter the palace with the Crown Prince but agreed to take him to his residence.
• As they crossed a dark alley, the carriage lantern went out and the carriage stopped while a baby cried nearby.
• Shen Yangge felt something cold in the dark and threw himself into the Crown Prince's arms.
• The Crown Prince lit the lantern, revealing a white snake, and killed it with his sword.
• Shen Yangge asked whether the Crown Prince was lucid, then offered his life for the offense of clinging to him.
• The Crown Prince said he was not lucid and asked why Shen Yangge wanted to die.

Shen Yangge woke up in the Crown Prince's arms after sleepwalking into his bed and singing, but the Crown Prince forgave him and then insisted he accompany him to an entertaining place in the capital. Shen Yangge tried to avoid the outing by pretending to feel ill.

• The Crown Prince spared Shen Yangge and agreed to stay at his residence after Su Shang reported that he had dealt with an assassin following their carriage.
• Shen Yangge gave the Crown Prince his bed and slept on a bamboo chair, but he woke the next morning nestled in the Crown Prince's arms.
• System 615 told Shen Yangge that he had climbed into the Crown Prince's bed, clung to him, and sung about being a lonely lady.
• The Crown Prince forgave Shen Yangge and asked whether he always behaved strangely when frightened, while Shen Yangge denied sleepwalking or talking in his sleep.
• The Crown Prince invited Shen Yangge to accompany him to an entertaining place in the capital, and Shen Yangge pretended to feel dizzy and unwell.

After Xue Qian visited Shen Yangge to celebrate his move from the Shen Residence, Shen Residence servants arrived and accused him of stealing land deeds. Shen Yangge defended his mother and was seized, while System 615 urged him to ask Shen Zhi for help and he refused.

• The Crown Prince left after Shen Yangge said he felt unwell.
• Xue Qian visited Shen Yangge with wine, and they talked about how people were asking whether Shen Yangge had a wife or was attracted to men.
• After Xue Qian left, Shen Residence people barged into Shen Yangge's home, trampled the courtyard, and accused him of stealing land deeds.
• Shen Yangge shielded Shen Mother and slapped the woman who insulted her, but the guards restrained him.
• The woman slapped Shen Yangge and threatened him with death over the alleged theft, while Shen Mother protested that they were being framed.
• System 615 urged Shen Yangge to ask Shen Zhi for help, but Shen Yangge refused.

After refusing to seek Shen Zhi’s help, Shen Yangge was punished for breaking character and transformed into a kitten for fifteen days. He escaped the jail through a rat tunnel, but emerged into the streets and was kicked by a beggar, leaving him injured and hiding nearby.

• Shen Yangge refused to ask Shen Zhi for help, and System 615’s punishment caused him to bleed from his face before he was jailed.
• As the punishment began, Shen Yangge transformed into a kitten and hid from approaching guards in the rat’s tunnel.
• System 615 told Shen Yangge that the male lead had proved his innocence and that officials had come to release him, so Shen Yangge escaped through the tunnel instead.
• After emerging outside, Shen Yangge was mistaken for a palace kitten, kicked by a beggar, and fled to a secluded place to hide.

Shen Yangge, trapped in a cat’s body for fifteen days, sought shelter at the Xue Residence but was taken in by Xue Pingyuan instead. Xue Pingyuan went to the palace as Shen Yangge’s disappearance remained unsolved, while the Crown Prince heard that the search had found no clues.

• Shen Yangge decided to find a wealthy benefactor and slipped into the Xue Residence through a hole near the back entrance.
• Xue Pingyuan caught Shen Yangge, claimed him as his pet, and learned that the kitten would only eat cooked food.
• Shen Yangge grew comfortable with Xue Pingyuan’s care, though he worried that being carried everywhere would make it hard to leave when his punishment ended.
• Xue Qian arrived and asked Xue Pingyuan whether he had found Shen Yangge; Xue Pingyuan said there were no clues and warned Xue Qian against getting involved because Shen Yangge was close to the Crown Prince.
• Xue Pingyuan left for the imperial palace with Shen Yangge, and the Crown Prince was told that searches across the capital had uncovered no clues about Lord Shen.

The Crown Prince ordered his shadow guard to keep searching for Shen Yangge, while Shen Yangge accompanied Xue Pingyuan into the palace and became lost after escaping the eleventh prince. Wounded by a dog and unconscious from blood loss, Shen Yangge was picked up by the shadow guard, who carried him toward the Eastern Palace.

• The Crown Prince, exhausted from searching for two nights, ordered his shadow guard to continue looking for Shen Yangge.
• Xue Pingyuan brought Shen Yangge, hidden in his sleeve, to meet the emperor, who stroked the kitten and heard Xue Pingyuan call him Yangyang.
• Consort Xue discovered Shen Yangge and had a maid hold him while she spoke privately with Xue Pingyuan.
• Chu Hengchuan demanded to hold Shen Yangge, but Shen Yangge escaped and ran into a hole to get away from the prince and his attendants.
• A dog chased Shen Yangge and clawed his back, leaving him lost, badly wounded, and unconscious.
• A shadow guard picked up Shen Yangge and carried him toward the Eastern Palace after deciding to report news about Lord Shen to His Highness.

Shen Yangge woke after being badly injured and transformed into a kitten, while the Crown Prince took him in and personally arranged his treatment. Shen Yangge discovered he was alive in the male lead’s bedchamber.

• The Crown Prince learned that Shen Yangge had vanished after a prisoner reported seeing white light, then punished a shadow guard for executing the prisoner without questioning him.
• The Crown Prince recognized the injured kitten the shadow guard had found near Wanci Palace and ordered an imperial physician to treat him.
• After learning Consort Ru owned the dog suspected of attacking the kitten, the Crown Prince ordered it chopped into pieces and sent to her.
• The Crown Prince gently helped Physician Liu treat and bandage the kitten, then cleaned him and placed him in a cat bed.
• Shen Yangge woke in pain, and System 615 told him he was alive in the male lead’s bedchamber.

Shen Yangge remained trapped as a kitten in the Crown Prince’s care, despite longing to return to Xue Pingyuan. After Xue Pingyuan learned the Crown Prince had found the kitten and came to retrieve him, Shen Yangge tried to call out to him, but the Crown Prince stopped him.

• The Crown Prince fed Shen Yangge braised pork and dried fish, then watched over him as he slept.
• Xue Pingyuan searched for Shen Yangge while Consort Xue’s palace staff looked for the missing kitten.
• On the fifth day, Xue Pingyuan learned that the Crown Prince had found and taken in the kitten.
• Xue Pingyuan entered the Eastern Palace to ask for Shen Yangge, while the Crown Prince fed and played with him.
• Shen Yangge cried out to Xue Pingyuan, but the Crown Prince pinched his mouth shut.

The Crown Prince kept Shen Yangge as a kitten despite Xue Pingyuan recognizing him, while Shen Yangge struggled to contact his family. Shen Mother began preparing to reclaim her dowry from the Shen Residence, and Shen Yangge ended the chapter forced to sleep in the Crown Prince’s bedchamber.

• The Crown Prince claimed he had kept the kitten for half a year, so Xue Pingyuan left without taking Shen Yangge back, though the kitten’s distress made him suspect something was wrong.
• Shen Mother recovered from her illness, gathered her servants, and sent a trusted maid to investigate her businesses as she prepared to break with Shen Zhi and reclaim her dowry.
• Shen Yangge found that the Crown Prince kept him close even while bathing and changing, leaving him unable to send word to the Shen Residence.
• The Crown Prince served Shen Yangge a dinner of green vegetables, while Shen Yangge imagined that the Crown Prince’s palace maid had betrayed him.
• The Crown Prince named the kitten Yangyang, declared him his cat, and took him to sleep in his bedchamber despite his protests.

The Crown Prince brought Shen Yangge to court, where the emperor ordered him to travel to plague-stricken Lingnan and handle the famine. The Crown Prince insisted on taking Yangyang with him, while Shen Yangge privately hoped to turn human again before the journey.

• The Crown Prince woke Shen Yangge and carried him to court as a cat.
• Officials admired Yangyang and whispered about the Crown Prince bringing him to court.
• An official reported plague and famine in Lingnan, and the emperor ordered the Crown Prince to go there.
• Shen Yangge worried that the emperor was sending his son to his death and curled his tail around the Crown Prince's arm.
• Xue Pingyuan warned that Lingnan was a harsh place and offered to care for Yangyang, but the Crown Prince refused and said he would bring his cat along.

Shen Yangge, trapped in a kitten’s body, endured the Crown Prince’s teasing and tried to steal his dinner, leaving himself scalded and the Crown Prince worried enough to summon a physician.

• Xue Pingyuan offered the Crown Prince help on his trip to Lingnan, asked about the scratches on his arm, and watched him leave with Yangyang.
• Back at the Eastern Palace, the Crown Prince teased Shen Yangge with an expensive cat wand, then threatened to tether him when he refused to keep playing.
• Shen Yangge expected a fish-and-meat dinner, but the Crown Prince gave him no food, so he tried to knock over the prince’s fish-head soup.
• The soup scalded Shen Yangge’s back and the Crown Prince’s hand; the Crown Prince tended the kitten and ordered the soup taken away.
• When Shen Yangge closed his eyes and did not respond, the Crown Prince summoned Physician Liu, who arrived with his case and prepared to shave the kitten’s fur.

Shen Yangge avoided having his fur shaved while the Crown Prince treated his burns, then watched the Crown Prince defeat three assassins. As Shen Yangge escaped the Eastern Palace to avoid transforming back into a human in front of the Crown Prince, someone caught him.

• The Crown Prince persuaded Physician Liu to teach him how to change Shen Yangge’s dressings instead of shaving off his fur.
• The Crown Prince treated Shen Yangge’s wounds, then fought off three assassins who attacked his bedchamber, killing them with help from his shadow guards.
• Shen Yangge realized the Crown Prince had faked the severity of his arm injury and struggled as the Crown Prince resumed treating him.
• As his transformation back into a human drew near, Shen Yangge slipped free of his tether and escaped the Eastern Palace through a rat hole.
• An angry man grabbed Shen Yangge and threatened to skin him.

The Eleventh Prince tortured Shen Yangge after taking him from the Eastern Palace, while the Crown Prince ordered the deaths of the palace servants who had failed to protect the kitten. The Crown Prince confronted Consort Xue, and the chapter ended as she questioned the Eleventh Prince about taking his cat.

• The Eleventh Prince carried Shen Yangge away and threatened to hurt him.
• Green Willow blamed another maid for Shen Yangge's disappearance, but the Crown Prince ordered the servants beaten to death despite her attempt to plead for their lives.
• The Eleventh Prince repeatedly stabbed Shen Yangge with silver needles until the Crown Prince arrived at Consort Xue's residence.
• Consort Xue summoned the Eleventh Prince and asked whether he had taken the Crown Prince's cat.

The Crown Prince exposed the Eleventh Prince’s role in stealing and injuring his kitten, then rescued the badly weakened animal. The emperor ordered the Eleventh Prince to apologize and the maid to be executed, while Shen Yangge remained unconscious and close to death.

• The Eleventh Prince denied taking the Crown Prince’s cat, but the Crown Prince found cat fur in his quarters and detected the scent of blood on the maid behind him.
• The Crown Prince cut off the maid’s ear, and she revealed the kitten hidden in her sleeve and blamed the Eleventh Prince for ordering the theft.
• When the Eleventh Prince tried to kick the maid, the Crown Prince knocked him down, took the kitten, and severed the maid’s hand.
• The emperor arrived, ordered the Eleventh Prince to apologize, and commanded that the maid be beheaded.
• The Crown Prince ignored the apology and the emperor, summoned Physician Liu to treat the kitten, and Shen Yangge continued to suffer while unconscious.

Physician Liu discovered that the kitten’s hidden needle wounds had left him gravely injured, and the emperor handed the Eleventh Prince over to the Crown Prince for discipline. After Shen Yangge woke from a fever, he watched the Crown Prince have silver needles driven into Chu Hengchuan’s limbs.

• Physician Liu found tiny needle marks on Shen Yangge and warned that his internal injuries left little hope of recovery.
• The emperor’s anger faded when Consort Xue pleaded for Chu Hengchuan, but the Crown Prince took the Eleventh Prince and accepted the emperor’s permission to discipline him.
• Shen Yangge developed a high fever, then woke to find the Crown Prince beside him and realized he had been rescued from Chu Hengchuan.
• The Crown Prince ordered palace maids to stab Chu Hengchuan’s hands and legs with silver needles while avoiding his vital points.
• Shen Yangge felt both satisfaction and fear as he watched the Crown Prince inflict the same kind of torture on Chu Hengchuan.

After escaping the Crown Prince’s cage as a kitten, Shen Yangge turned human and fled into the palace, then got lost while trying to return. Xue Pingyuan spotted him and suspected he was connected to the kitten he had once picked up.

• The Crown Prince kept Shen Yangge caged for several days, then let him out after Physician Liu warned that confinement could make him seriously ill.
• Shen Yangge used a tight chain to make the Crown Prince unfasten him, escaped the bedchamber, and turned human as his punishment ended.
• Shen Yangge climbed over the Eastern Palace wall and ran through the palace, but feared being caught by the guards and became lost.
• Xue Pingyuan saw Shen Yangge jump down from a wall, noticed his furry ears, and secretly followed him, wondering if he was the kitten he had once picked up.

Shen Yangge fled the Imperial Guards and ended up outside Guangming Palace, where the Crown Prince rescued him and claimed he was a minor official who attended him. The Crown Prince took Shen Yangge away, leaving Xue Pingyuan captivated by the boy and suspicious of their relationship.

• Xue Pingyuan saw Shen Yangge in prison clothes and was struck by his beauty and catlike ears.
• Shen Yangge accidentally reached Guangming Palace and was spotted by patrolling Imperial Guards, who chased him and split up to surround him.
• The Crown Prince pulled Shen Yangge into his arms as the guards caught up, and Commander Yong Guanghui saluted him.
• The Crown Prince told Yong Guanghui that Shen Yangge was a minor official who attended him, then refused Xue Pingyuan's offer of help.
• Xue Pingyuan asked Shen Yangge whether he was called Shen Zhuanxie, but the Crown Prince grabbed his wrist and took him back to retire.

The Crown Prince brought Shen Yangge back to the Eastern Palace, ordered him to undress and bathe, then approached him with an unsettling gaze. The chapter ended with the Crown Prince raising a hand toward Shen Yangge, who expected him to strangle him.

• Shen Yangge warned Xue Pingyuan to leave the palace, and the Crown Prince carried Shen Yangge back to the Eastern Palace.
• The Crown Prince ordered Shen Yangge to strip, then told him to bathe and change after inspecting him.
• Shen Yangge nearly drowned after becoming dizzy in the bath, and the Crown Prince watched him from nearby.
• After Shen Yangge dressed, the Crown Prince moved close and stared at his neck before raising a hand.

After Shen Yangge returned from fifteen days missing, the Crown Prince questioned him about his healed neck wound and brought him to bed. Shen Yangge tried to keep his distance, but the Crown Prince pressed close, and Shen Yangge began climbing over him when something mortifying happened.

• The Crown Prince touched Shen Yangge’s hair and neck, while Shen Yangge claimed he had escaped from a villain who held him captive for fifteen days.
• Shen Yangge tripped on his long robe and accidentally exposed himself, then hurried out when the Crown Prince told him to leave.
• The Crown Prince bathed in the used water and rested his head where Shen Yangge had leaned.
• The Crown Prince caught Shen Yangge and asked when the wound on his neck had healed; Shen Yangge said he was healthy and did not know why the scar had vanished.
• The Crown Prince pulled Shen Yangge onto the bed and told him to move inside, then pressed close as Shen Yangge tried to climb over him.

Shen Yangge accidentally loosened the Crown Prince’s underrobe and feared he would be punished, but the Crown Prince seized his foot and threatened to cut off his leg to keep him by his side. Shen Yangge tried to save his leg by pleading that he was useful as a chronicler, while the Crown Prince continued holding him.

• Shen Yangge’s toes caught on the Crown Prince’s underrobe ties, and he accidentally loosened them while trying to step away.
• Shen Yangge pulled his foot back, opening the underrobe, then hurriedly pulled it closed again.
• The Crown Prince took Shen Yangge’s foot and rubbed the mole on his ankle, making Shen Yangge shudder.
• The Crown Prince asked whether Shen Yangge would behave and stay by his side if he lost a leg.
• Shen Yangge caught the Crown Prince’s reaching hand and argued that he needed his leg to serve as the Crown Prince’s chronicler.
• The Crown Prince kept kneading Shen Yangge’s foot as Shen Yangge begged him to execute him quickly instead.