Recaps

Bai Chen gave Gu Yun and Li Xingzhu the chance to eat together, then spent the evening reflecting on his life in this world and his longing to return home. Back in the dorm, he shared the local specialties he had brought from S City, and Gu Yun asked to take the Almond Candy Lin Jingchen had left him.

• Bai Chen pretended to receive an urgent call and left Gu Yun and Li Xingzhu to go to the dining hall together.
• Bai Chen sat alone by the sports field and thought about his deceased parents, his life after transmigrating, and whether he could return to his original world.
• Bai Chen went to dinner after waiting for Gu Yun and Li Xingzhu to finish eating.
• Lin Sen returned to the dorm, noticed Bai Chen's bag of local specialties, and took some chilies to try.
• Bai Chen remembered Lin Jingchen's note with the Almond Candy and set the candy apart from the other snacks.
• Gu Yun came out of the bathroom and asked Bai Chen if he could take the Almond Candy.

Bai Chen protected the candy Lin Jingchen had given him, while Gu Yun’s childhood friend Li Xingzhu arrived at the dorm and asked to share his bed because of a supposed medical condition. Gu Yun let Li Xingzhu stay for the night after checking with Lin Sen, and they agreed to keep quiet while Bai Chen slept.

• Bai Chen refused to give Gu Yun the bag of Almond Candy Lin Jingchen had bought for him, but offered him other sweets and dried nuts.
• Bai Chen finished editing his report on Shuiji Village, sent it to his teacher, and fell asleep while Gu Yun studied and Lin Sen gamed.
• Li Xingzhu arrived at the dorm with a pillow and told Gu Yun that memories of their childhood made him afraid to sleep alone.
• Gu Yun questioned whether Li Xingzhu’s condition had returned, then agreed to let him share his bed for the night.
• Gu Yun quietly asked Lin Sen for permission, and Lin Sen agreed as long as they did not disturb Bai Chen.

Bai Chen discovered Li Xingzhu had spent the night in Gu Yun’s bed and was thrilled by how quickly their closeness had progressed. Gu Yun woke to Li Xingzhu hugging him, then let him come along to the library because he was ill.

• Bai Chen woke first, noticed Li Xingzhu and Gu Yun sharing a bed, and quietly left the dorm.
• Bai Chen ate soup dumplings at the Second-Floor Dining Hall and brought some to the classroom.
• Gu Yun woke and tried to remove Li Xingzhu’s arms from around his waist.
• Li Xingzhu let go when Gu Yun threatened to send him back to his dorm, then insisted on going to the library with him.
• Gu Yun decided to tolerate Li Xingzhu a little longer because he was ill and his personal doctor was abroad.

Bai Chen was followed and chased by a group of men after leaving G University, but he escaped to the police station and reported them. The police arrested the pursuers, while Bai Chen waited at the station for the officers to make sure it was safe to return.

• Gu Cheng angrily rejected his food in the hospital and vowed to take revenge on Lin Jingchen and Bai Chen.
• Bai Chen sensed several men following him in the alleys, called the police, and ran toward the police station instead of returning to G University.
• Bai Chen told a middle-aged police officer that the men might have been sent by Shi Long's group, Gu Cheng, or someone connected to the original owner.
• The officer assured Bai Chen that the police would act even if Gu Cheng was involved and sent plainclothes officers to investigate.
• The plainclothes officers arrested the bald man and several other pursuers, and Bai Chen watched them being taken away for questioning.

Bai Chen left the police station with Qin Yong and returned to G University, where he told Lin Sen that someone had followed him to take revenge. Unsure whether Gu Cheng was involved, Bai Chen planned to contact the original owner's father and brother and wait for the police investigation.

• Qin Yong realized Bai Chen was still waiting and offered to take him back to G University on his electric scooter.
• Bai Chen accepted Qin Yong's ride and was reminded of his firefighter father by the officer's sense of justice.
• Qin Yong dropped Bai Chen at the university gate and warned him to stay on campus until the case was resolved.
• Bai Chen returned to his dorm and told Lin Sen that someone had followed him, possibly on behalf of Shi Long and the others or Gu Cheng.
• Bai Chen decided to ask the original owner's father and brother for advice and wait for the police to identify who was behind the attack.

Bai Chen worried that Gu Cheng might target his family and considered asking his parents, the police, or Lin Sen for help. Lin Jingchen arrived at Bai Chen’s dorm after learning about the danger, apologized, and held him tightly.

• Bai Chen considered ways to protect his family if Gu Cheng came after them and decided he might ask Lin Sen for help as a last resort.
• Lin Sen urged Bai Chen to go home, but Bai Chen said he needed to face the threat and was not afraid of Gu Cheng in a fight.
• Lin Jingchen called Bai Chen urgently and said he would come to the dorm to discuss something with him.
• Lin Jingchen reprimanded the bodyguard for failing to protect Bai Chen, removed him from the assignment, and cut his pay in half for six months.
• Lin Jingchen met Bai Chen outside the dorm, pulled him into a tight embrace, and apologized for not taking care of everything properly.

Bai Chen learned that Lin Jingchen had secretly kept watch over him and accepted his help against Gu Cheng, though he worried the evidence might put Lin Jingchen at risk. Lin Jingchen reassured him and took him to dinner, where Bai Chen realized how well Lin Jingchen knew his tastes.

• Bai Chen asked how Lin Jingchen had learned about his situation, and Lin Jingchen admitted that he had people following him secretly.
• Bai Chen assured Lin Jingchen that he did not blame him for Gu Cheng’s actions, while Lin Jingchen said Bai Chen seemed exhausted and promised to give the police solid evidence against Gu Cheng.
• Bai Chen worried that the evidence might hurt Lin Jingchen, but Lin Jingchen assured him he would handle the matter legally.
• Lin Jingchen insisted on taking Bai Chen out to eat and drove him to a luxurious Chinese restaurant.
• Bai Chen saw that every dish in the private room was something he liked, and he praised the fish Lin Jingchen served him as the best he had ever eaten.

Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen ate together before going to the police station, where Bai Chen learned that officers had evidence linking the Gu Family to the attempted kidnapping. After giving his statement, Bai Chen left to await the investigation’s results while Lin Jingchen apologized for involving him.

• Bai Chen praised the Suan Cai Yu, and Lin Jingchen tried some despite disliking spicy food.
• Bai Chen started to tell Lin Jingchen he was not worth his affection, but Lin Jingchen’s phone rang and interrupted him.
• Lin Jingchen told Bai Chen his problem had been resolved and took him to the police station after they finished eating.
• Qin Yong told Bai Chen that the people who tried to kidnap him had been sent by the Gu Family and that an anonymous source had provided information about the case.
• Bai Chen gave his statement and completed the paperwork, and Qin Yong told him to wait for the evidence to be verified.
• Lin Jingchen told Bai Chen the information he provided would help the police and apologized for involving him.

After Bai Chen assured Gu Yun and Lin Sen that the police were handling the kidnapping attempt, he agreed to see a traditional Chinese medicine doctor about his persistent insomnia. Lin Sen promised to find the doctor's location and asked Bai Chen to share it when he went, in case Gu Cheng's people targeted him again.

• Bai Chen returned to the dorm and told Gu Yun and Lin Sen that he had gone to the police station and believed the case would be resolved.
• Gu Yun checked that Bai Chen was unharmed and angrily condemned Gu Cheng for targeting him.
• Bai Chen reassured Gu Yun and Lin Sen that the police were handling the matter, but kept the documents he had given them secret.
• The next morning, Lin Sen noticed Bai Chen's dark circles and recommended an old traditional Chinese medicine doctor for his insomnia.
• Bai Chen agreed to visit the doctor once the matter settled, and Lin Sen offered to find the pharmacy's location.
• Lin Sen warned Bai Chen to share his location with him and Gu Yun when he went, and Bai Chen agreed.

Bai Chen and Lin Sen adjusted to Li Xingzhu’s frequent visits and his growing place in their dorm, while Gu Yun questioned Li Xingzhu about a gap in their high-school friendship. The chapter ended with Lin Sen discovering that Bai Chen liked someone and demanding to know who it was.

• Bai Chen and Lin Sen welcomed Li Xingzhu into their dorm after he brought them food, cleaned, and helped with computers.
• Li Xingzhu fed Gu Yun a skewer, and Gu Yun asked why Li Xingzhu had disappeared from his life for a stretch in high school.
• Li Xingzhu dodged the question, promised to explain everything someday, and continued feeding Gu Yun.
• Lin Sen asked Bai Chen whether anyone made his heart flutter, and Bai Chen admitted that he liked someone.
• Lin Sen excitedly pressed Bai Chen to reveal who the person was and whether they were good-looking.

Bai Chen admitted that he loved someone he could not be with, while Gu Yun held back from comforting him. Meanwhile, the Gu Group faced a police investigation, and Gu Cheng was arrested and confronted with evidence linking him to a kidnapping plot.

• Bai Chen told Lin Sen and Gu Yun that he loved someone wonderful but felt unworthy of him, then tried to reassure them that he was fine.
• Li Xingzhu stopped Gu Yun from approaching Bai Chen, and the three of them slept poorly that night.
• Police investigated the Gu Group amid mounting troubles and took Gu Zhengde away at midnight.
• Police arrested Gu Cheng in his hospital room on suspicion of kidnapping and brought him to the station.
• Qin Yong questioned Gu Cheng, who denied the accusation until he read a statement revealing that the people he had hired had been caught.

After Gu Cheng and his associates were punished, Bai Chen visited a traditional medicine shop to seek help for his troubled sleep. The elderly physician traced his insomnia to worries about Bai Xi and Bai Chen’s uncertain place in the world, then offered acupuncture and herbal pills.

• Qin Yong investigated the Gu Group, and Gu Zhengde was questioned by a special investigation team after evidence of the group’s wrongdoing emerged.
• Lin Jingchen told Bai Chen that Gu Cheng, Shi Long, and the others had received punishment, and Bai Chen thanked him and urged him to rest.
• Bai Chen followed Lin Sen’s rough map to a traditional medicine shop and found an elderly physician asleep behind the counter.
• Bai Chen described his interrupted sleep, and the physician checked his pulse and asked about his recent habits and worries.
• Bai Chen thought about his concern for Bai Xi and his uncertainty about occupying the body of its original owner, and the physician offered acupuncture and herbal pills.

Bai Chen recognized his younger sister Bai Xi in a photograph at the elderly doctor's pharmacy and learned she might be in Mu Village in Miaojiang. He planned to go there and left with the doctor's warning and antidote pills.

• Bai Chen bought two boxes of medicine from the elderly doctor and read the instructions.
• A picture frame fell, and Bai Chen recognized Bai Xi in a photograph of villagers dressed in Miaojiang clothing.
• The elderly doctor said the photograph was taken in Mu Village near Y City and warned Bai Chen that outsiders faced danger there.
• Bai Chen decided to go to Miaojiang to find out whether the girl was Bai Xi.
• The elderly doctor warned Bai Chen to avoid the village's food and water, recommended staying with the village chief, and gave him antidote pills.

Bai Chen hurried to G University, secured three days of leave, and flew toward Miao territory after seeing a photograph of a woman who might be Bai Xi. During the flight, a passenger suffered a medical emergency, leaving the cabin crew calling for help.

• Bai Chen photographed the image of a young woman from Miao territory and rushed back to G University to request leave.
• Bai Chen packed clothes and told Gu Yun and Li Xingzhu he had to catch a flight; Gu Yun wondered at Bai Chen’s sudden brightness.
• Bai Chen read about Miao customs at the airport and encountered a masked young man with deep blue eyes.
• Bai Chen discovered that the young man was seated beside him on the plane and settled in for a nap.
• A passenger began clutching his chest and struggling to breathe, and a flight attendant radioed for medical assistance.

Bai Chen traveled toward Miaojiang to find Mu Village, while a young doctor saved a passenger suffering a pneumothorax on his flight. After a rough bus ride through the mountain roads, Bai Chen reached a small town and noticed a nearby food stall.

• A young man identified a middle-aged passenger's condition as a pneumothorax and used a pen to help him breathe until the plane landed.
• Bai Chen spoke with the young doctor after medical personnel carried the passenger off the plane, then parted ways with him.
• Bai Chen took a bus toward Miaojiang, keeping the traditional Chinese medicine doctor's pills close as the road grew rough.
• A young woman complained about the winding, bumpy road while her companion encouraged her to continue the trip to see whether gu worms existed.
• The bus reached a small Miaojiang town, and Bai Chen got off near a stall selling fried food.

Bai Chen learned that Mu Village was difficult for outsiders to enter and that it had recently been sealed off. After the vendor recognized a shrine maiden in his photo, she explained how he might gain entry and warned him about Gu Poison and other dangers.

• Bai Chen bought three Fried Spicy Baba from a vendor and asked how to reach Mu Village.
• The vendor explained that outsiders had trouble entering Mu Village, which had recently been sealed off.
• Bai Chen showed the vendor a photo of the girl he sought, and she recognized her as a shrine maiden from Mu Village.
• The vendor told Bai Chen to show the photo to the guards and explained the shrine maidens' standing and duties.
• The vendor warned Bai Chen about accepting a scarf, going without supplies, and symptoms of Gu Poison, which only a Shaman Doctor could cure.

Lin Jingchen learned that Bai Chen had gone to Miaojiang, received a mysterious email directing him to Mu Village, and rushed to Y City. On the way to the village, Bai Chen and his motorcycle guide crashed into a muddy pool.

• Lin Jingchen learned Bai Chen had taken leave and gone toward Miaojiang, then tried calling him but could not reach him.
• Lin Jingchen received a disappearing email saying Bai Chen was in Mu Village and that he must go alone, so he ordered Assistant Wang to investigate and headed for Y City.
• Bai Chen paid a Miao girl to take him by motorcycle toward the village entrance.
• When another motorcycle charged toward them on a narrow road, Bai Chen and the girl toppled into a muddy pool.
• Bai Chen laughed off the accident, gave the girl tissues, and said he would still pay her the agreed three hundred yuan.

After a motorcycle accident left them stranded, Bai Chen learned to ride well enough to take the injured young woman to Mu Village. A village guard initially barred outsiders, but let Bai Chen enter after examining the girl in his photo.

• Bai Chen and the young woman cleaned the mud off themselves, and he wrapped her bleeding palm in one of his shirts.
• After they waited an hour without seeing anyone, Bai Chen tried riding the motorcycle and found that the original owner's instincts let him handle it easily.
• The young woman warned Bai Chen not to take a dangerous road linked to Mu Village's recent troubles, and he followed her directions to the village.
• The young woman learned that Bai Chen could not enter without identifying the person he sought, so he showed a middle-aged guard a photo of a girl who might be Bai Xi.
• After studying the photo, the guard allowed Bai Chen into Mu Village.

Bai Chen was escorted farther into the Miao village after Ajike made the middle-aged man swear not to hurt him. He followed the man toward his lodging at night, still cautious around him.

• Bai Chen asked the middle-aged man about the girl who resembled Bai Xi, but the man said he did not know her.
• Ajike made the middle-aged man swear that Blue-Red Gu Poison would infest him if he harmed Bai Chen.
• Ajike introduced herself as Ajike and told Bai Chen to find her in Southeast Village if he ran into trouble.
• Bai Chen followed the middle-aged man, keeping his distance and taking the antidote pill he had received from the traditional Chinese doctor.
• The middle-aged man said he hated outsiders but would not hurt Bai Chen as they walked along a dark, quiet road at seven in the evening.

Bai Chen stayed in a secluded house in the Miao village while following a middle-aged man's warnings about strange nighttime visitors. After an unknown presence knocked on the doors and windows and began battering the door, Bai Chen shook the bell for help.

• Bai Chen noticed that the Miao village was deserted, and the middle-aged man led him to an isolated bamboo house.
• The middle-aged man rang a bell, called into the house, lit incense, and told Bai Chen to stay in one room and never open the doors or windows that night.
• Bai Chen bathed, smelled a strange fragrance, and drank water until the dizziness and buzzing in his ears faded.
• Bai Chen fell asleep, but woke when something knocked on the door and window, then pounded against the door.
• Bai Chen grabbed the bell and shook it repeatedly as the thing outside continued slamming against the door.

Bai Chen survived a nighttime disturbance, then followed the middle-aged man to meet Mu Village’s High Priest. He entered her chamber and was stunned by the person behind the curtain.

• Bai Chen shook the bell for an hour to drive away the thing knocking at his door, then went back to sleep after it fell silent.
• The middle-aged man refused to explain the disturbance and took the medicine from Bai Chen’s backpack, saying he would return it later.
• Bai Chen changed into Miao clothing and followed the middle-aged man along a narrow path to a large courtyard.
• The middle-aged man told Bai Chen to enter alone and show respect to the High Priest.
• Bai Chen entered the dim chamber, greeted the woman behind the curtain, and widened his eyes when he saw her.

Bai Chen learned from A Lingyi that he had died in his original world, could never return, and that Bai Xi was safe and happy. After collapsing on his way back, he woke at home in Miaojiang with Lin Jingchen, but seemed to have forgotten why he had gone there.

• A Lingyi told Bai Chen that he and the Bai Chen of this world were the same person, that his original body had burned to death, and that Bai Xi was alive and happy.
• Bai Chen accepted that he could not return and promised to live for himself; A Lingyi told a dark brown butterfly that its time was up, and it flew into the fire.
• Bai Chen collapsed while returning with the middle-aged man and briefly glimpsed Lin Jingchen before losing consciousness.
• Bai Chen dreamed of memories involving his family, Fang Ye, and Lin Jingchen, then woke in bed with Lin Jingchen beside him.
• Bai Chen asked Lin Jingchen where they were and why his head hurt, but did not remember traveling to Miaojiang.

Lin Jingchen learned from A Lingyi that Bai Chen had come from another world and that she had erased his memories because he was unhappy and depressed. He challenged her right to make that choice as Bai Chen remained unaware of his past.

• Lin Jingchen left Bai Chen resting and went to the High Priest's divination room to ask about his lost memories.
• A Lingyi revealed that she looked like Bai Xi and offered to show Lin Jingchen the truth using her Golden Cicada Gu Poison.
• Lin Jingchen let the Golden Cicada Gu Poison bite him and saw Bai Chen's life, including his death in a fire in another world.
• Lin Jingchen confronted A Lingyi about erasing Bai Chen's memories, and she said Bai Chen had been unable to fit into this world and suffered from severe depression.

Lin Jingchen learned why A Lingyi had erased Bai Chen’s memories and chose to keep the truth from him. In a parallel world, Bai Xi’s choices to save her brother and A Lingyi’s villagers ended with the siblings dying together in a fire.

• A Lingyi told Lin Jingchen that Bai Chen had suffered from depression and that Bai Xi had requested the memory erasure, and Lin Jingchen decided to keep it secret.
• Lin Jingchen returned to Bai Chen, promised to take him for a walk the next day, and brought him inside to make soup.
• A Lingyi learned that her medicine had helped the villagers, then explained that every new life came at a price.
• Bai Xi recalled how her teacher taught her divination, how she foresaw her brother’s death, and how she changed fate by sending him to the parallel world and bargaining with A Lingyi to erase his memories.
• After the dream bridge broke, Bai Xi apologized to Bai Chen as the fire spread, and the siblings died in the blaze.

A Lingyi warned the Miao girl that using divination to change events would demand a terrible price, then wondered whether her own ability could help anyone. Meanwhile, Bai Chen and Lin Jingchen prepared a chicken and medicinal herbs, and Bai Chen’s unexplained knowledge of the herbs unsettled Lin Jingchen.

• A Lingyi told the Miao girl not to expect to change anything through divination and sent her away.
• A Lingyi wondered whether the price of her ability would be injury or death and questioned its purpose.
• Lin Jingchen put the herbs he had bought into a pot to boil and struggled to figure out how to kill the chicken he had brought home.
• Bai Chen took the knife, killed the chicken, and collected its blood while Lin Jingchen washed and trimmed vegetables.
• Bai Chen recognized the herbs in the medicinal dregs despite never studying traditional medicine, and Lin Jingchen suggested he might simply have a good memory.