Chapter Summaries

After Fu Zhenzhen killed Jiang Nian just after the Stable Period ended, Song Jici believed she was gone for good and sought help at Bodhi Island. At the Tree of Longevity, an electronic voice offered him a deal.

• Song Jici and the others hypnotized Fu Zhenzhen and learned that the Stable Period would end when the college entrance exams finished.
• Song Jici secretly moved Jiang Nian to safety, then lured Fu Zhenzhen to a villa and waited until midnight after the final exam to attack her.
• Fu Zhenzhen revealed that she had recovered her memories and used a Glass Marble to cause Jiang Nian's heart to stop after the Stable Period ended.
• Wen Jincheng, Shen Hui, Tan Xuguang, and Feng Xing tortured Fu Zhenzhen for a way to bring Jiang Nian back while Song Jici left in shock.
• Song Jici went to Bodhi Island, wrote a wish for Jiang Nian to live to a hundred on a Prayer Ribbon, and heard an electronic voice offer him a deal.

Song Jici learned that Fu Zhenzhen and her system had caused the repeated cycles, then agreed to sacrifice his soul to reset the world and search for a timeline where Jiang Nian could survive. After countless tragedies, he found Jiang Nian alive and happy on a snowy night at Pluto and embraced her.

• The Bureau Administrator explained that Fu Zhenzhen and the escaped system Despair had caused Jiang Nian’s death and the repeated cycles.
• The Bureau Administrator offered Song Jici a chance to reset the world at the cost of his soul and warned that everyone would lose their memories.
• Song Jici accepted the sacrifice and entered the river of time to search countless future timelines for a world where Jiang Nian could live.
• Song Jici witnessed timeline after timeline in which Jiang Nian died, until he found her alive and happy at Pluto.
• Song Jici embraced Jiang Nian and whispered that he had finally seen her.

Song Jici used his life to rewind time to when he was ten and sent Jiang Nian to another world to search for Vitality, hoping she could survive Fu Zhenzhen’s Despair system. As Jiang Nian vanished and Song Jici’s memories were erased, he died believing they could fall in love again in a future life.

• Song Jici asked the Bureau Administrator to return him to the time before Fu Zhenzhen planned to send Jiang Nian abroad, so Jiang Nian could seek Vitality during the six-year gap.
• The Bureau Administrator warned that Jiang Nian might lose her memories and that everyone in Song Jici’s world would forget her, but Song Jici insisted.
• Song Jici made a soul-bound sacrifice beneath the Tree of Longevity and rewound time to when he was ten.
• Before Jiang Nian was sent away, Song Jici kissed her cheek and said goodbye, then dissolved into dust as she vanished.
• In another world, Jiang Wang found a little girl collapsed at his doorstep, while ten-year-old Song Jici forgot why he had made a red flower for Jiang Nian.

Grandma revealed how Jiang Nian’s brother, Jiang Wang, became her system and explained that his soul could live again in the Jasmine Bracelet. She took the bracelet to help him recover and told everyone they still had one final task to complete.

• Jiang Nian embraced Song Jici and scolded him for sacrificing himself, and Grandma returned the Hand Warmer he had left behind.
• Grandma explained that Jiang Wang had made a deal with Vitality, becoming Jiang Nian’s system so she could survive the reset and retain her memories.
• Grandma revealed that Jiang Wang’s soul still remained and could live in a new body, and Jiang Nian realized that the Jasmine Bracelet was that body.
• Grandma showed everyone the bracelet, said she was helping Jiang Wang recover, and announced that they had one final thing to do.

Jiang Nian confronted Fu Zhenzhen at the cliff where Fu had killed her in her previous life, but Shen Yang surfaced from inside Fu Zhenzhen and tried to sacrifice herself to stop the demon. Jiang Nian knocked Shen Yang unconscious with a stick to prevent her from jumping.

• Jiang Nian left her recovering brother in Granny’s care and led the others to find Fu Zhenzhen.
• The group found Fu Zhenzhen waiting at the cliff where she had pushed Jiang Nian into the sea.
• Fu Zhenzhen guessed that Jiang Nian and the others had been reborn and challenged Jiang Nian to take revenge.
• Fu Zhenzhen grabbed Jiang Nian’s hand, but a sudden pain struck her and she blacked out as Shen Yang took control.
• Shen Yang told Jiang Nian that Fu Zhenzhen still had three years of lifespan and tried to jump off the cliff with her.
• Jiang Nian struck Shen Yang with a wooden stick, knocking her unconscious before she could jump.

After Shen Yang remained unconscious following the kidnapping, Jiang Nian gave her a Protective Talisman and urged her to fight Fu Zhenzhen when she recovered. Two years later, Jiang Nian and her friends waited beside Shen Yang as the Stable Period ended at midnight.

• Jiang Nian placed the Protective Talisman bracelet on Shen Yang and told her to recover and defeat Fu Zhenzhen.
• Jiang Nian realized everyone could hear her thoughts, and the others blamed Song Jici before fleeing; Song Jici asked Jiang Nian to go easy on him.
• Two years later, Jiang Nian finished her college entrance exams and met her friends, who planned to spend the night at Shen Yang's hospital room.
• Jiang Nian told Shen Yang about her day while her friends waited with her for midnight.
• The clock reached twelve, and the Stable Period ended.

The Management Bureau extracted Fu Zhenzhen, compensated Jiang Nian and her companions, and took Fu Zhenzhen away to face punishment in the Eighteen Hells. Shen Yang woke safely and was discharged the next day, when a young man wearing a Jasmine Bracelet appeared outside the hospital and told Jiang Nian, "I'm back."

• The Bureau Administrator offered to improve Jiang Nian, Song Jici, and Tan Zhuishi's physical constitutions as compensation, and Jiang Nian accepted.
• The Bureau Administrator extracted Fu Zhenzhen from Shen Yang, who woke and told Jiang Nian she had beaten Fu Zhenzhen.
• Jiang Nian learned that the girl swapped into Fu Zhenzhen's world was living happily, then stabbed Fu Zhenzhen in retribution for the deaths and suffering she had caused.
• The Bureau Administrator took Fu Zhenzhen to the Eighteen Hells and announced that no more illegal world-crossers would appear in their small world.
• Shen Yang recovered fully, joked about avoiding school, and insisted on being discharged the next day.
• Outside the hospital, a young man wearing a baseball cap and the Jasmine Bracelet appeared and told Jiang Nian, "I'm back."

Jiang Nian discovered Jiang Wang's diary and read how he had taken her in, raised her, and gradually fallen in love with her. After sacrificing his life to save her, Jiang Wang survived and chose to remain by her side without confessing, leaving Jiang Nian free to live as herself.

• Jiang Nian found Jiang Wang's diary while helping him pack and read his entries about adopting her and their childhood together.
• Jiang Wang remembered defending Jiang Nian from bullies, caring for her as they grew up, and realizing he loved her.
• Jiang Wang learned from Vitality that Jiang Nian came from another world and would soon face danger, so he traded his life for a skill that could save her.
• Jiang Wang spent his final day with Jiang Nian at the amusement park and said goodbye, expecting to die.
• Jiang Wang awoke at the Greater Worlds Administration Bureau, refused its offer to return to life, and chose to continue loving and accompanying Jiang Nian without telling her.

After reading Jiang Wang’s diary and discovering how long he had hidden his love for her, Jiang Nian confessed her feelings during a Ferris wheel ride. Jiang Wang accepted, and they began their relationship as they left the ride together.

• Jiang Nian finished reading Jiang Wang’s diary and realized he had secretly recorded his feelings for her for years.
• Jiang Nian and Jiang Wang prepared to return to City A so he could attend his final year at Pluto.
• At the amusement park, Jiang Nian kissed Jiang Wang on the Ferris wheel, and he kissed her back before apologizing.
• Jiang Wang tried to dismiss her feelings as confusion, but Jiang Nian told him she loved him and asked him to choose whether they would be together.
• Jiang Wang embraced Jiang Nian and accepted her confession, telling her he loved her.

During the New Year gathering, Jiang Nian and Song Jici dug up the time capsule they had buried as children and uncovered a ring and a note. The ring prompted Song Jici to remember choosing it for Jiang Nian ten years earlier, while the note’s contents remained unrevealed.

• Jiang Nian reminded Song Jici about the time capsule they buried ten years earlier and suggested digging it up to help recover her lost childhood memories.
• Jiang Nian and Song Jici dug beneath the garden flag, retrieved the rusted metal box, and opened the sealed blue and pink boxes inside.
• Jiang Nian examined the items in the blue box while Song Jici secretly opened the pink one and tried to pocket a small box.
• Jiang Nian caught Song Jici, and their struggle opened the small box, spilling a ring and a handwritten note.
• Song Jici remembered accompanying Song Ling to choose a star-design ring for Jiang Nian when he was ten.

Song Jici prepared a childhood time capsule with a ring and a marriage proposal for Jiang Nian, then waited ten years to reclaim it. When Jiang Nian found the note, Song Jici confessed his love and proposed, but she pointed out that he was not yet old enough to marry.

• Song Jici put a ring and a note asking Jiang Nian to marry him into his time capsule, then buried it with Jiang Nian at the Jiang Family home and agreed they would open it in ten years.
• Ten years later, Jiang Nian found the note, and Song Jici asked whether she wanted him to keep his childhood promise and whether she loved him as he was now.
• Jiang Nian returned the ring and note to Song Jici, who vowed to wait for her and then proposed with the wedding vows he had heard as a child.
• Jiang Nian happily accepted the sentiment but reminded Song Jici that he had proposed on both knees and was not yet old enough to marry.
• Song Zhiyao looked pleased, Song Ling covered her face, Jiang Xiyuan silently encouraged the romance, and Jiang Baisong yelled in dismay.

Jiang Nian recalled how Wen Jincheng helped her fend off Qiao Fei’s staged attempt to approach her at a business dinner. Qiao Fei kept pursuing her despite repeated rejections, and the chapter ended with Jiang Nian leaving him behind outside the Jiang Group building.

• Jiang Nian met Wen Jincheng at a business dinner and entered the restaurant with him.
• A server spilled a drink on Jiang Nian’s dress, and Qiao Fei offered his jacket as an excuse to approach her.
• Wen Jincheng covered Jiang Nian with his own jacket and took her home, while Qiao Fei’s scheme was exposed.
• Qiao Fei repeatedly confessed his feelings and asked Jiang Nian to date him despite her rejections.
• Jiang Nian rejected Qiao Fei again outside the Jiang Group building, rolled up her car window, and drove away.

Jiang Nian discovered that Qiao Fei had fueled rumors about them, then went to retrieve a drunken Wen Jincheng, who confessed that he wanted to be her partner. She reassured him by posting photos of them together, while Wen Jincheng privately admitted he had orchestrated the events to keep other men away from her.

• Jiang Nian learned that the Qiao family had spread misleading rumors portraying her and Qiao Fei as a couple.
• Fang Qiu called Jiang Nian to retrieve a drunk Wen Jincheng from his bar.
• Wen Jincheng showed Jiang Nian the old protective talisman she had given him and asked why she had chosen Qiao Fei instead of him.
• Jiang Nian told Wen Jincheng she was not dating Qiao Fei and took photos of them together to reassure him.
• Jiang Nian saw that Qiao Fei's stunt and the Qiao family's shady dealings had been exposed, then posted the photos with Wen Jincheng.
• Wen Jincheng embraced Jiang Nian and privately confessed that he had been behind the events to keep rivals away from her.

On their first day off as a couple, Tan Xuguang and Jiang Nian spent the morning sharing breakfast and headed out to find Jiang Nian a pet. The chapter left them at a pet shop, where Tan Xuguang excitedly showed Jiang Nian a corn snake and she backed away from it.

• Tan Xuguang flooded Jiang Nian with messages before bringing her breakfast and proposing they look for a pet together.
• Jiang Nian and Tan Xuguang ate breakfast and joked about Tan Xuguang abandoning his brother Tan Zhuishi to work overtime.
• Tan Xuguang brought Jiang Nian tulips, helped her into the car, and drove them to a large pet shop.
• Tan Xuguang picked up a corn snake to show Jiang Nian, who stepped back and asked him to keep it farther away.

Tan Xuguang and Jiang Nian chose a silver shaded cat, named it Tangyuan, and shared their first kiss at home. Tangyuan interrupted them and won Jiang Nian’s promise to sleep with it, leaving Tan Xuguang wishing she would treat him like a cat too.

• Tan Xuguang met Tan Group colleagues while accompanying Jiang Nian to look at pets, then went with her to the cat section.
• Tan Xuguang noticed a silver shaded cat that acted hostile toward him but flirted with Jiang Nian, who chose it despite his complaints.
• Jiang Nian and Tan Xuguang named the cat Tangyuan after bringing it home.
• Jiang Nian offered Tan Xuguang a kiss, but Tangyuan blocked him before he put the cat in the bedroom and kissed her.
• Tan Xuguang accidentally scraped Jiang Nian’s tongue with his canine, but she reassured him and asked him not to file it down.
• Jiang Nian soothed Tangyuan and promised to sleep with it, prompting Tan Xuguang to say she could treat him like a cat too.

At a charity event beside a City A orphanage, Shen Hui and Jiang Nian sneak away to play with the children. After a mishap during hide-and-seek, Shen Hui admits to Xiao Xi that he has kept his romantic feelings for Jiang Nian secret for years.

• Shen Hui finishes his speech at the charity event, and he and Jiang Nian sneak into the orphanage to play with the children.
• Jiang Nian takes over as the eagle in eagle and chicks, while Shen Hui goes easy on the children.
• Shen Hui leads Jiang Nian to hide on the storeroom roof, but a branch breaks as they climb down, and a child mistakes their fall for a kiss.
• Shen Hui watches Jiang Nian play marbles, and Xiao Xi asks whether he likes her.
• Shen Hui tells Xiao Xi that Jiang Nian does not know his feelings and that he will keep them hidden.

Xiao Xi and the children arranged a surprise to push Shen Hui and Jiang Nian together, but Shen Hui confessed his insecurities instead of making a simple declaration. Jiang Nian accepted his flowers and reassured him, and Shen Hui embraced her in tears.

• Shen Hui followed Xiao Xi to the backyard, where the children had arranged flowers and candles and brought Jiang Nian to meet him.
• Shen Hui hesitated to approach Jiang Nian, afraid he would disappoint her and repeat his father Shen Qifei's mistakes.
• Jiang Nian prompted Shen Hui to say what he had forgotten, and he confessed his flaws and asked whether she would still accept his flowers.
• Jiang Nian told Shen Hui she accepted him as he was and would not judge him for Shen Qifei's actions.
• Shen Hui gave Jiang Nian the flowers, pulled her into an embrace, and thanked her through tears.

Feng Xing took Jiang Nian to the villa where Fu Zhenzhen had forced him to stab her, and tried to make Jiang Nian stab him in return. He revealed that memories of a past life had returned, including his repeated failures to reach her in time.

• Feng Xing invited Jiang Nian to Shen Hui's secluded villa, where he showed her the place she had died in the fourth life.
• Feng Xing pulled out a knife and tried to make Jiang Nian drive it into his chest, but she wrested the weapon away.
• Jiang Nian asked Feng Xing why he wanted her to take revenge, and he admitted he could not get past having killed her while controlled by Fu Zhenzhen.
• Feng Xing told Jiang Nian that memories of a past life had returned to him after they came back from Bodhi Island.
• Feng Xing recalled meeting Jiang Nian after returning to City A, losing her when Fu Zhenzhen pushed her off a cliff, and repeatedly arriving too late to find her again.

Feng Xing recalled how he had watched over Jiang Nian from afar in a previous life and struggled with guilt over having killed her while controlled. Jiang Nian comforted him and urged him to cherish his life and embrace the present, and their heartbeats fell into rhythm together.

• Feng Xing remembered choosing to stay near Jiang Nian without approaching her in the previous life, then transferring to her school to keep Fu Zhenzhen away from her.
• Feng Xing told Jiang Nian about his guilt over killing her and questioned whether he could stand beside her after recovering his memories.
• Jiang Nian explained that she was living in the present while he was tormenting himself with the past.
• Jiang Nian asked Feng Xing whether he would blame her if she harmed him while controlled, and challenged him for judging himself more harshly.
• Jiang Nian embraced Feng Xing and told him that his life mattered to her, and they listened to their heartbeats together.

Tong Chuhe and Tan Zhuishi celebrated their wedding, with the groom and his groomsmen enduring a series of playful challenges before the ceremony. Tan Zhuishi married the girl he had loved since his youth and vowed through tears never to let her go.

• Jiang Nian fed Tong Chuhe pastries while the bride and bridesmaids prepared for the wedding.
• Tan Zhuishi and his groomsmen struggled to pass red envelopes through the bedroom door until the bridesmaids let them in.
• Tan Xuguang carried Tan Zhuishi through the obstacle course, but they stumbled and fell headfirst outside the bedroom door.
• Tan Zhuishi endured the bridesmaids' games, found Tong Chuhe's bridal shoes, and carried her to the wedding car.
• At the Tan Family estate, Tan Zhuishi exchanged vows and rings with Tong Chuhe, then cried as he embraced her and promised not to let her go.