Chapter Summaries

Class 2 opened its gender-swapped maid café for the Snow-Welcoming Festival, with Jiang Nian and Tong Chuhe welcoming customers while the boys endured their maid costumes. Chen Dan arrived looking for Feng Xing and found him dressed as a maid, leaving him stunned.

• Wen Jincheng led the boys out of the changing room in maid outfits, and Jiang Nian photographed their embarrassed reactions.
• Tong Chuhe rallied Class 2 to compete for the Snow-Welcoming Festival’s Most Popular Award, and the students opened their café.
• Jiang Nian and Tong Chuhe lured the first customer inside, where the muscular maids greeted him as their master.
• As the café grew busy, Chen Dan arrived with people from Canghai Academy and asked whether Feng Xing was inside.
• Chen Dan entered, saw Feng Xing in a maid outfit, and demanded to know whether he had transferred schools just to cosplay.

Jiang Nian and her friends joined a battle royale in a hospital-themed haunted house, where players had to evade ghosts for ten minutes. After escaping one ghost, Jiang Nian ran toward a staircase but was suddenly pulled into a room by someone.

• Gao Wen told Jiang Nian and Tong Chuhe about a battle royale haunted house in the North District, and their group went to try it.
• The host explained that players who survived ten minutes could choose a prize, and Jiang Nian spotted a blue star-shaped cushion she wanted.
• Staff blindfolded Jiang Nian and led her to a specimen storage room on the haunted house’s fourth floor.
• Jiang Nian heard a ghost searching nearby, slipped out of the storage room, and ran down the corridor to escape.
• A chainsaw roared behind Jiang Nian, and just as she reached the staircase, someone pulled her into a nearby room.

Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng escaped the ghosts on the fourth floor and headed to the third floor, where they trapped the bucket-wielding ghost in the stairwell. They searched the rooms with water guns and slingshots, but a broom swung at Jiang Nian as she opened the sixth room.

• Wen Jincheng explained how he had lured the bucket ghost away using his hair clip, and Jiang Nian learned that Chen Dan had been eliminated.
• Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng worked out the players’ likely floor assignments and found water guns, slingshots, and marbles in a box of toys.
• Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng went down to the third floor, where Jiang Nian put the bucket over the Iron Bucket Zombie’s head and Wen Jincheng shoved him into the stairwell.
• Jiang Nian wedged a broom across the stairwell door handles, trapping the Iron Bucket Zombie, who ran downstairs to find another way back up.
• Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng searched the third-floor rooms with their water guns, but a broom swung at Jiang Nian when she opened the sixth room.

Jiang Nian reunited with Tan Xuguang and Feng Xing, armed them, and helped the group escape another group of ghosts. An announcement reported five players eliminated, leaving them shocked that everyone on the first and second floors had been wiped out.

• Jiang Nian accidentally soaked Tan Xuguang with her water gun, then reunited with him and Feng Xing in the stairwell.
• Jiang Nian explained the Iron Bucket Zombie’s pursuit and divided the remaining water gun and slingshot between Tan Xuguang and Feng Xing.
• Four ghosts rounded the corner, and Feng Xing struck the Iron Bucket Zombie’s bucket with a slingshot marble.
• Wen Jincheng opened the stairwell door, and Jiang Nian’s group trapped the ghosts outside before heading toward the second floor.
• An announcement said Players 1, 2, 5, 6, and 10 had been eliminated, shocking Jiang Nian, Tan Xuguang, Feng Xing, and Wen Jincheng.

Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng were trapped between pursuing ghosts during the final minutes of the battle royale. Wen Jincheng carried Jiang Nian out of a second-floor window, and both survived to win the game.

• Jiang Nian, Tan Xuguang, Wen Jincheng, and Feng Xing searched the second floor for a place to hide, but Tan Xuguang opened a door and was eliminated by the Broom Ghost.
• Feng Xing, Jiang Nian, and Wen Jincheng fled armed ghosts and the Iron Bucket Zombie’s team, but Feng Xing was eliminated while covering their retreat.
• Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng barricaded themselves inside a room as ghosts tried to force open the door.
• After the announcement that one minute remained, Wen Jincheng carried Jiang Nian out the second-floor window as the ghosts broke in.
• The game ended with Players 4 and 8, Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng, declared the winners.

Wen Jincheng and Jiang Nian won the haunted-house game after escaping from a second-floor window, then explored the Snow-Welcoming Festival with their friends. Their outing ended when Jiang Nian accidentally knocked her clay crocodile onto the Iron Bucket Zombie’s head, prompting him to ask them to apologize.

• Wen Jincheng jumped from the haunted house’s second floor with Jiang Nian in his arms, and they were declared the winners.
• Jiang Nian chose a star-shaped cushion as her prize, while Wen Jincheng picked a miniature globe ornament.
• The group visited the festival’s food street, flower and bird exhibition, and handicrafts area.
• Jiang Nian’s friends mistook her clay crocodile for several other animals before she explained what it was.
• Jiang Nian slipped on a scraper, and her flying sculpture landed on the Iron Bucket Zombie’s head.
• The Iron Bucket Zombie wiped off the clay and asked Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng to apologize.

After the Maid Café and Haunted House tied for the Snow-Welcoming Festival’s Most Popular Award, Class 1-2 and Class 2-3 agreed to choose a shared destination for their prize trip. Their argument ended in an anonymous vote, and Jiang Nian found herself heading to an island seaside in winter.

• Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng apologized to Tie Bi, introduced themselves, and learned that their classes were competing for the festival’s popularity award.
• Class 1-2 and Class 2-3 tied for first place with 2,333 votes each, so both classes won the prize trip.
• Wen Jincheng told Class 1-2 that the director wanted both classes to travel together and choose the same destination.
• The two classes argued over possible destinations before the four class monitors held an anonymous vote.
• Jiang Nian boarded the coach and saw that the classes had chosen an island, despite it being winter.

Jiang Nian and her classmates arrived on Gadi Island, ate seafood, and headed for the beach. In the hotel garden, Tan Xuguang’s remarks seemed to trigger falling palm fronds, sending everyone fleeing toward the beach and yelling at him.

• Jiang Nian and Tong Chuhe arrived on Gadi Island, checked into their ocean-view hotel room, and ate seafood together.
• Jiang Nian and Tong Chuhe changed into light clothes, applied sunscreen, and headed through the hotel garden toward the private beach.
• Jiang Nian joined Feng Xing and the others as they examined a sign warning about falling leaves beneath the coconut palms.
• Tan Xuguang joked that the palm fronds looked firmly attached, and a frond cracked and crashed to the ground as everyone scattered.
• Tan Xuguang repeated his remark, another frond fell, and Jiang Nian and the others ran toward the beach while shouting that he was a jinx.

Jiang Nian and her friends spent the first day of their trip enjoying beach activities, then traveled by yacht to Bodhi Island the next morning. Jiang Nian ended the chapter frustrated by a fish that mocked her and embarrassedly admitting she could only dog paddle.

• Jiang Nian, Feng Xing, and Tong Chuhe tried jet skiing, diving, surfing, and other beach activities before resting beneath umbrellas.
• Tong Chuhe told Jiang Nian and Wen Jincheng that the group would visit Bodhi Island and its wish-granting Tree of Longevity the next day.
• The students boarded yachts for Bodhi Island, where Tan Xuguang persuaded Jiang Nian to try fishing by promising the catch would be cooked.
• After catching no fish, Jiang Nian watched a fish spit water at her and tried to jump in after it before Feng Xing and Tan Xuguang held her back.
• Jiang Nian claimed her swimming was amazing, then revealed that she could only dog paddle.

Jiang Nian and her companions enjoyed a yacht trip and explored Bodhi Island before visiting the Tree of Longevity. Jiang Nian left a secret wish there for Jiang Wang to stay safe and well, year after year.

• Jiang Nian lost her temper at a fish that spat at her, knocked it unconscious, and told Song Jici to have it minced.
• The group arrived at Bodhi Island, where Jiang Nian bought flower bracelets from an old woman despite not understanding her.
• Jiang Nian kept two bracelets for herself and called one a secret when Wen Jincheng asked who the extra one was for.
• At the Tree of Longevity, Jiang Nian wrote a wish on a prayer ribbon and tied her extra bracelet to it.
• Jiang Nian's ribbon read, “May Jiang Wang stay safe and well, year after year.”

Song Jici confronted Fu Zhenzhen about her schemes against Jiang Nian while reflecting on how Fu Zhenzhen had saved him from human traffickers six years earlier and how that rescue had shaped his trauma and guilt. He warned that he would choose Jiang Nian over Fu Zhenzhen and would drag her down with him if she kept targeting her.

• Song Jici recalled that Fu Zhenzhen had shielded him from human traffickers and helped him escape, leaving him burdened by guilt for years.
• Song Jici explained that Jiang Nian's inner voice had revealed Fu Zhenzhen was connected to his past suffering, so he had begun secretly investigating what happened.
• Song Jici told Fu Zhenzhen that saving him did not excuse her malicious actions against Jiang Nian, including spreading rumors and locking Jiang Nian in Shen Lei's room.
• Song Jici said he had offered Fu Zhenzhen material compensation but would always choose Jiang Nian if they were on opposing sides.
• Song Jici warned Fu Zhenzhen that if she continued going after Jiang Nian, he would drag her down with him and give back the life she had saved.

Fu Zhenzhen attacked Jiang Nian at the cliff, and Jiang Nian plunged into the sea after saving Tong Chuhe. As Jiang Nian began to drown, a figure wearing a Jasmine Bracelet swam toward her and kissed her with icy lips.

• Fu Zhenzhen recalled how she had manipulated Song Jici’s kidnapping and reunion, then gripped a Talisman Paper and laughed.
• Song Jici warned Jiang Nian to be careful around Fu Zhenzhen as the students watched the sunset by the cliff.
• Fu Zhenzhen charged at Jiang Nian, struck Tong Chuhe toward the cliff, and Jiang Nian caught Tong Chuhe before falling into the sea in her place.
• Wen Jincheng called the administrator and led the students toward the beach while Song Jici and the others hurried to find Jiang Nian.
• Jiang Nian was injured by the waves and began to drown, then saw a figure wearing a Jasmine Bracelet swim toward her and press icy lips against hers.

After Jiang Nian survived a fall from a cliff and was taken to the hospital, 88 returned with news that Fu Zhenzhen had died. The chapter ended with Jiang Nian stunned by the revelation.

• Song Jici, Tong Chuhe, Wen Jincheng, and the others found Jiang Nian unconscious on the beach and worked to warm and revive her.
• Jiang Nian woke up, joked about being rescued by a Little Mermaid, and wondered why 88 was not responding.
• Doctors found no major injuries but recommended two days of observation, while Jiang Nian insisted she would return to City A with the group the next day.
• Song Jici told Jiang Nian that Fu Zhenzhen had been taken to the police station.
• 88 returned and explained it had stayed longer at the Management Bureau, then told Jiang Nian that Fu Zhenzhen would not go to jail.
• Jiang Nian learned from 88 that Fu Zhenzhen had died.

Jiang Nian learned that Fu Zhenzhen had died in prison but survived by using a Symbiosis Talisman to possess another person, leaving her hidden threat active. After 88 explained he could detect Fu Zhenzhen with a scan, Jiang Nian began plotting ways to kill her while the others reacted to her one-sided conversation.

• Jiang Nian learned from 88 that Fu Zhenzhen had killed herself in prison and worried that her death would destabilize the world.
• Jiang Nian said she would take Tong Chuhe and flee if the world collapsed, prompting Tong Chuhe to kiss her cheek and the others to react jealously.
• 88 explained that Fu Zhenzhen had survived by using her system's Symbiosis Talisman to possess another person's body.
• 88 reassured Jiang Nian that he could detect Fu Zhenzhen if she appeared, and they began discussing ways to kill her.
• Tie Bi watched the group's abrupt shifts between fighting, silence, laughter, and grief, and became horrified.

Jiang Nian and 88 discovered that Fu Zhenzhen had returned to Pluto Academy by possessing a new transfer student. The chapter ended with the transfer student introducing herself with a bizarre, taunting declaration.

• Jiang Nian and 88 failed to find Fu Zhenzhen's system among the students and teachers, then decided to check everyone at the New Year's Eve Gala gathering.
• Wen Jincheng and Tong Chuhe announced that the class would perform a play for the gala, and Tan Zhuishi interrupted to introduce a transfer student.
• Jiang Nian asked 88 to inspect the transfer student, and 88 confirmed that she carried the same faint system as Fu Zhenzhen.
• Song Jici recalled that the reopened investigation had revealed Fu Zhenzhen's role in the kidnapping case, but she had escaped by possessing someone else's body.
• The transfer student stood silently before the class, then declared, "D0n't l0ve m3, it w0n't w0rk 0ut, unless y0u can 0ut-twirl m3."

Fu Zhenzhen returned to her old classroom and joined Jiang Nian's class as they prepared a Snow White play for the evening show. Jiang Nian's script and costumes revealed a bizarre Calabash Brothers-inspired adaptation, leaving the cast horrified.

• Fu Zhenzhen introduced herself as Shen Yang, then sat in her old seat beside Tong Chuhe and Song Jici.
• Jiang Nian proposed adapting Snow White for the class performance, and the students agreed to let her write the script.
• Fu Zhenzhen cheated to draw the Snow White role, while Song Jici drew the Prince role.
• Jiang Nian gave Tong Chuhe costume designs for the princess and seven dwarfs, and Tong Chuhe sent them to a designer.
• After Jiang Nian finished the script, the class saw the plunging, rainbow-colored dwarf costumes and learned the play was inspired by the Calabash Brothers rescuing their grandpa.

Class 2 performed a comedic play in which Snow White rescued Pangolin and became the target of the jealous queen. The queen ordered the hunter to get rid of Grandpa Snow White after the Magic Mirror named her the second-most beautiful woman in the world.

• Class 2 took the stage to perform “Snow White and the Seven Gourd Babies,” with Fu Zhenzhen playing Snow White and Shen Hui playing the queen.
• Snow White freed Liu Chaoshu’s Pangolin, who gave her a Diamond Gourd Seed that grew into a vine bearing seven gourds.
• Wen Jincheng’s Magic Mirror revealed that Grandpa Snow White had released Pangolin and named himself the most beautiful woman in the world.
• The Magic Mirror named Grandpa Snow White the second-most beautiful woman, making Shen Hui furious and jealous.
• Shen Hui summoned Tong Chuhe’s hunter and ordered him to get rid of Grandpa Snow White.

Class 2 performed a chaotic Snow White play in which Shen Hui defeated the Calabash Brothers and poisoned Fu Zhenzhen, but Song Jici revived her. The cast took a curtain call while Pluto’s audience watched in stunned silence.

• Tong Chuhe spared Fu Zhenzhen, gave Shen Hui a wild boar’s heart, and Liu Chaoshu reported that Snow White had supposedly been killed.
• The Calabash Brothers attacked Shen Hui one by one, but he trapped them and captured all seven.
• Shen Hui learned Snow White was alive, poisoned Fu Zhenzhen with an apple, and brought her body back to taunt the brothers.
• The Calabash Brothers merged into the Diamond Gourd Brothers and killed Shen Hui, then mourned Fu Zhenzhen until Song Jici revived her with the Heimlich Maneuver.
• Class 2 took a curtain call, and Pluto’s audience sat in stunned silence.

After the gala, Jiang Nian worried that she and 88 still had no way to free Fu Zhenzhen or speak with Shen Yang. As snow began to fall, Song Jici appeared in the cold and embraced Jiang Nian, saying he had finally seen it.

• Jiang Nian offered the students copies of their performance video, but Feng Xing and Tan Xuguang refused.
• Jiang Nian and 88 discussed Fu Zhenzhen's possession of Shen Yang and whether Shen Yang could be reached.
• After the gala, Jiang Nian waited for Tong Chuhe while the other students went upstairs to change for a snowball fight.
• Jiang Nian spotted Song Jici standing in the snow in his autumn uniform and offered him a hand warmer.
• Song Jici pulled Jiang Nian into his arms, trembling and crying as he said, "I finally... saw it."

Jiang Nian encountered a more mature version of Song Jici who hugged her and vanished, leaving her confused about who he was. After 88 confirmed the stranger was human, Jiang Nian joined the others in a snowball fight, while 88 revealed that the man was his benefactor.

• Song Jici cried while holding Jiang Nian, told her it was good to see her again, and disappeared.
• Jiang Nian found the real Song Jici with the others and realized the stranger had not been him.
• 88 reassured Jiang Nian that the stranger was not a ghost, but said she could not know more yet.
• Jiang Nian joined the group’s snowball fight, and Tan Xuguang and Feng Xing chased each other after snow was shoved down Tan Xuguang’s pants.
• Jiang Nian asked whether the stranger was human, and 88 confirmed he was his benefactor.