Recaps

Shen Yangge and Chu Xuanzhen led the fight against Ruthis and the City Lord, saving the island before returning to the capital. There Chu Xuanzhen kept Shen Yangge confined, and their reunion ended with Chu Xuanzhen questioning him about his delay in ascending the throne.

• Shen Yangge and Chu Xuanzhen cared for a poisoned infant, exposed the City Lord’s role in the disaster, and rallied the islanders to oppose him.
• Shen Yangge and Chu Xuanzhen fought Ruthis’s forces, and Shen Yangge transformed into a golden dragon to defeat the Five-Poison Gu Worms and save Chu Xuanzhen.
• Ruthis escaped with Nan Jiaxi after Shen Yangge put out the fires, while Great Chu’s forces captured the City Lord and the rebels.
• Chu Xuanzhen condemned the City Lord and his household, and the City Lord and Wang Chunfang were executed.
• Shen Yangge and Chu Xuanzhen returned to the capital, where Chu Xuanzhen confined Shen Yangge while ministers urged him to ascend the throne.
• Shen Yangge’s mother visited and asked him to judge his younger sister’s prospective husband, but Chu Xuanzhen restricted his movements and delayed his leave.
• Chu Xuanzhen confronted Shen Yangge about the Northern States and his farewell letter, then tied him up, gave him an ear stud, and questioned him about delaying his ascension.

Shen Yangge endured a punishment that aged him, then was drawn into a plot against Chu Xuanzhen as the Prayer Sacrifice became a coup. After the ritual unleashed attacks on the terrace, Shen Yangge recovered memories of his work as a programmer and woke in danger of having his eyes removed.

• Shen Yangge and Chu Xuanzhen played a fifteen-round guessing game that ended with Chu Xuanzhen making Shen pleasure himself, and Shen later discovered he had worn Chu Xuanzhen’s underpants outside.
• The Virus System’s punishment made Shen Yangge elderly and threatened his soul, while Chu Xuanzhen discovered bloodstained clothes and bedding and worried over him.
• Consort Xue revealed she knew Shen Yangge was not the Divine Dragon and offered to help him escape if he killed Chu Xuanzhen and backed another prince, while Chu Xuanzhen urged Shen to accept.
• Shen Yangge prepared for the Prayer Sacrifice as strange voices, plants, and visions surrounded him, then returned to his normal appearance and joined the procession through the Capital City.
• At the Sacrificial Terrace, a Daoist seized control of Shen Yangge’s sword hand and made him stab Chu Xuanzhen, allowing Chu Tianyin and Chu Xuanzhi to seize power and threaten Shen.
• Shen Yangge revealed that Chu Tianyin had no royal blood and challenged Chu Xuanzhi, but animals and insects attacked those gathered at the terrace before Chu Xuanzhi knocked him unconscious.
• The Little Dragon Baby restored Shen Yangge’s memories of being a programmer sent to patch a loophole, and Shen watched shackled Chu Xuanzhen before waking as Chu Xuanzhi demanded that physicians remove his eyes intact.

Chu Xuanzhen seized the throne as Shen Yangge recovered his memories as a god, died, and returned to the Small World six months later. After their reunion and marriage, the story followed Chu Xuanzhi and Chu Tianyin’s tragic end and Ruthis and Nan Jiaxi’s reunion and marriage.

• Chu Xuanzhi captured Capital City, but Chu Xuanzhen escaped the Dungeon, returned with Xue Pingyuan’s army, and defeated Chu Xuanzhi and Chu Tianyin.
• Chu Xuanzhen took power and agreed to ascend the throne after Shen Yangge helped him resist the ministers’ pressure to decide his future rule.
• As Chu Xuanzhen’s ascension began, System 615 sacrificed itself to destroy the Virus System, and Shen Yangge recovered his memories as a god who had entered the worlds to repair Bugs.
• Shen Yangge could not return to his body while Chu Xuanzhen grieved over his corpse, so he rebuilt System 615’s data and returned six months later.
• Shen Yangge reunited with Chu Xuanzhen, completed the Empress-investiture ceremony, and later joined him as a Dao Companion in the Divine Temple.
• Chu Xuanzhi learned that Chu Tianyin had died, regretted his pursuit of the throne, and died in the Heavenly Prison, while Chu Tianyin’s memories revealed his love for Chu Xuanzhi.
• Ruthis protected Nan Jiaxi during a bandit attack, and after Nan Jiaxi lost his memory, Ruthis told him he was his Queen Consort and married him.
• At the welcoming banquet, Nan Jiaxi challenged a pregnant woman who claimed Ruthis had abandoned her, and Ruthis reassured him that he would always be his consort.