Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiao discovered that his family belonged to a prominent supernatural clan and learned why his father had concealed their background. The revelation left him realizing that his father had avoided discussing the supernatural and had readily accepted his refusal to attend Shenzhou Nova Academy.

• Tsugumi interrupted a romantic moment with Chen Xiao when Nymph connected to the computer system and objected.
• Tsugumi showed Chen Xiao his population record, which identified him as a member of the Tianyun Chuanfang Chen Family and noted his refusal to attend Shenzhou Nova Academy.
• Nymph broke through the security on Chen Shifeng's classified record, revealing that Chen Xiao's grandfather was a high-level supernatural and that the Chen Family had returned to Shenzhou's supernatural community.
• Chen Xiao explained that his previous life had left him unaware of his grandfather and his family's history, and he complained that his father had hidden their supernatural background.
• Chen Xiao realized his father had agreed to his refusal to attend Shenzhou Nova Academy to avoid revealing the secret he had kept for more than twenty years.

Chen Xiao remembered to pay Miko Yotsuya for borrowing her Spirit Seeing Eyes, then Tsugumi kissed him after seeing Miko do the same. As he prepared to take Jack the Ripper downstairs, she asked to kiss him too, and he told her to wait until she was grown up.

• Chen Xiao remembered that he had not yet paid Miko Yotsuya for borrowing her Spirit Seeing Eyes and reassured her before kissing her.
• Miko thanked Chen Xiao and hurried away, while Tsugumi became jealous and decided to act while Nymph could not interfere.
• Tsugumi surprised Chen Xiao with a kiss, then celebrated her victory as pixel Nymph watched helplessly from the computer screen.
• Tsugumi returned to figurine form, and Chen Xiao prepared to take Jack the Ripper downstairs.
• Jack the Ripper asked Chen Xiao for a kiss, and he told her that they could talk about grown-up things when she was older.

Kessoku Band’s official video made the group an online sensation, while Nina Isari pressed Chen Xiao to arrange an account and rehearsal space for her band. At Shenzhou Online Literature, editor Camellia reviewed Elf Yamada’s illustrated novel Supreme Throne and decided to sign it.

• Nijika Ijichi and her Kessoku Bandmates uploaded the Comic Exhibition performance video to their new accounts and gained hundreds of thousands of followers.
• Nina Isari clung to Chen Xiao until he promised to create an account for her band, buy instruments, and turn a third-floor room into a rehearsal space.
• Nina Isari kissed Chen Xiao on the cheek and ran off, while he reflected on the increasingly bold behavior of the materialized figurine girls.
• Elf Yamada and the others completed account verification and submitted their manuscript and illustrations to Shenzhou Online Literature.
• Camellia reviewed Supreme Throne during a livestream, enjoyed its story and illustrations, and decided to sign it.

The Gao family representative and Qing Xuanzi searched for Chen Xiao’s attacker but found no trace, then shifted their hunt toward suspicious foreigners and accidentally helped the Anomalous Incident Management Bureau expose infiltrators. A mysterious figurine revealed she had guided events to protect A-Xiao and planned to gather strength for the dangers ahead.

• The Gao family representative paid Qing Xuanzi extra to investigate the Comic Exhibition, and Huang Qingque accompanied them under Liu Yaowen’s orders.
• Huang Qingque found no traces of the powerful attacker, and the group’s search of the exhibition center turned up nothing.
• A Countermeasures Team member suggested a foreigner might have attacked Gao Chen, so the group redirected its investigation toward suspicious foreigners.
• Huang Qingque identified an Evil Spirit Worship follower, and Qing Xuanzi helped capture him and other infiltrators, including members of the “Playing Cards” organization.
• Liu Yaowen honored the Gao family representative and Qing Xuanzi at the Bureau, while the representative remained confused about how the investigation had ended.
• A figurine told her silver-haired attendant that she had manipulated events to resolve A-Xiao’s nuisance and that they needed to gather strength for the future.

Tsugumi used Nymph to find and counterattack hackers who targeted an internet company after she had patched its servers. Her retaliation crippled the Gao family's technology and businesses, making her account, [Funeral Parlor], infamous.

• Tsugumi registered [Funeral Parlor] and submitted patches for vulnerabilities she found through Shenzhou's Bug Bounty Program.
• When hackers attacked a company's servers, Tsugumi drove them out and traced them to the Cyber Flying Dragon team, connected to the Gao family in Guangdong Province.
• Tsugumi investigated the Gao family's troubles and read gossip about their alleged hereditary madness before deciding to teach them a lesson.
• Tsugumi pressed the confirm key, overloading the Cyber Flying Dragon team's computers and crashing the Gao family's internet servers.
• The Gao family's stock plunged, Old Master Gao coughed up blood and was hospitalized, and the family recalled its representative from Magic City.

After Tsugumi earned over a hundred thousand from the internet company for finding server vulnerabilities, she celebrated by teasing Chen Xiao until they nearly became intimate. Asuna interrupted them, misunderstood what she saw, and then fled in embarrassment after realizing Chen Xiao had noticed her measuring her abdomen.

• Tsugumi showed Chen Xiao the internet company's transfer record and celebrated earning over a hundred thousand.
• Tsugumi sat in Chen Xiao's lap and teased him as a reward for helping him earn money.
• Chen Xiao kissed Tsugumi's neck and began embracing her before Asuna opened the door and interrupted them.
• Tsugumi hurried away while Asuna questioned Chen Xiao about what they had been doing.
• Asuna blushed and fled after Chen Xiao noticed her measuring her abdomen.

Chen Xiao sensed unseen eyes watching him as he showered, while the figurines around him showed increasingly suggestive interest. Meanwhile, Mr. K canceled a mission in Magic City after learning that the Gao family and the Countermeasures Team had eliminated his informant, and he began suspecting Chen Xiao.

• Asuna panicked after facing Chen Xiao, and Chen Xiao showered while worrying that he was becoming more depraved.
• Chen Xiao felt someone watching him in the bathroom, but a spatial rift full of eyes opened only after he had left.
• Mahiru Shiina took over cooking and eyed Chen Xiao suggestively at dinner, while he pretended not to notice.
• Mr. K learned that Three of Spades had gone missing in a crackdown led by the Gao family and Magic City's Countermeasures Team, so he canceled the mission and arranged compensation.
• Mr. K connected the crackdown and the Gao family's downfall to the Comic Exhibition incident and grew suspicious of Chen Xiao, though he found no evidence linking him to the events.

K agreed to a commission that might let him kill the Chen family’s older daughter, while Remilia foresaw a threat to Chen Xiao’s family. The display-cabinet figures learned that a renegade vampire planned to use Shenzhou’s ley lines and a blood sacrifice to regain an ancestral form, then argued over who would confront him.

• K told Black Queen about his suspicions regarding Chen Xiao, and she dismissed them as unfounded.
• Black Queen offered K a Dolan Blood Clan commission whose reward might let him kill the Chen family young master’s older sister, and K accepted.
• Remilia saw that someone connected to Chen Xiao by blood was in danger and warned the figures in the display cabinet.
• Remilia revealed that a renegade vampire intended to use Shenzhou’s ley lines and a blood sacrifice to revert to an ancestral form.
• Arcuid and Ciel fought over the chance to take on the vampire as the other figures argued about who should handle the mission.

Chen Xiao woke after unknowingly performing the infamous “Rito Trip” on Rias, while the figurine girls discussed his sleep antics. He then took Seika Ijichi and Kessoku Band out to obtain household registration documents and ID cards, leaving Uncle Liu surprised to see Seika in the car.

• Chen Xiao woke beside the lingering warmth of Rias, unaware that he had repeatedly performed the “Rito Trip” on her during the night.
• Akeno Himejima, Koneko Toujou, Shizuka Marikawa, Nanami Aoyama, and the other figurines discussed Nemesis’s role in Chen Xiao’s sleep antics.
• Chen Xiao materialized Seika Ijichi, Nijika Ijichi, and the rest of Kessoku Band to explain that they needed household registration documents and ID cards.
• Chen Xiao took Seika and the band members to arrange their documents, with Seika acting as their guardian for the ID applications.
• Uncle Liu spotted Seika in the passenger seat and was left enviously speechless.

Chen Xiao helped Seika Ijichi and Kessoku Band transfer their household registrations to mainland Shenzhou, then took Seika to shop for instruments. A classmate spotted them holding hands and exposed Chen Xiao’s relationship in a group chat, which Ding Jiafang quickly disbanded to keep Lin Qi from learning more.

• Chen Xiao and Seika Ijichi completed her household registration transfer, then brought Nijika Ijichi and the other Kessoku Band members in to apply for theirs.
• The clerk recognized Kessoku Band, asked for autographs and a photo, and welcomed them to mainland Shenzhou.
• Chen Xiao and Seika went to a downtown mall to choose instruments, and he took her hand when she hinted that the crowd made her uncomfortable.
• A classmate saw Chen Xiao holding hands with Seika and told their group chat that Chen Xiao was dating someone.
• When Lin Qi asked who Chen Xiao was dating, Ding Jiafang disbanded the group chat before Lin Qi could learn more.