Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiang watched Lu Qingchen order Bai Yueguang to delete most of his popular fanfiction, then exploited the story’s success to make money for herself. She later accepted an Azure Lotus Jade Pendant from Su Lang after the system assigned her a quest involving Jiang Miaomiao.

• Lu Qingchen told Bai Yueguang to delete every fanfiction pairing except Xiang Ning and Ye Fan, but Ning Xiang persuaded him to let Bai Yueguang keep the stories.
• Ning Xiang dragged Bai Yueguang behind Chengfeng Courtyard and took his spirit stones, then asked her brother to transfer the Heaven-Question earnings from Divorced 10,001 Times to her.
• Ning Xiang saw that Xiang-Ye Romance had become a popular ship on Heaven-Question and decided to leave Bai Yueguang’s post up so she could keep profiting from it.
• Su Lang told Ning Xiang he would soon travel to the Purple Tenuity Domain with Master and gave her his Azure Lotus Jade Pendant.
• The system assigned Ning Xiang a quest to accept Su Lang’s pendant, give him a gift in return, and wear the pendant to provoke Jiang Miaomiao after she emerged from seclusion.

Ning Xiang prepared to travel to the Purple Tenuity Domain with Su Lang and dealt with Pin Jiji’s request to join them. After Lu Qingchen took a share of her book earnings, she fell asleep at her desk, and he carried her away.

• Ning Xiang gave Su Lang a jade flute and told him she was also going to the Purple Tenuity Domain.
• Ning Xiang kept busy with training and chores while teaching Su Lang to draw talismans.
• Pin Jiji asked Ning Xiang to have Lu Qingchen take him to the Demon Domain, but Wen Maimai interrupted their conversation and Ning Xiang sent them both away.
• Ning Xiang learned that her eldest brother had given her the proceeds from Bai Yueguang’s post and that her second brother would accompany her to the Demon Domain.
• Lu Qingchen demanded a share of Ning Xiang’s earnings, took her spirit stones, and later shifted her head onto his chest when she fell asleep at her desk.
• Ning Xiang mumbled that Lu Qingchen was mean, and he picked her up.

Ning Xiang woke in Lu Qingchen’s room and teased him with an absurd claim that she had laid hands on him, but Lu invited her to Redleaf Valley to admire the autumn leaves. As they traveled together on Canglang, Bai Yueguang complained about Ning Xiang and hoped to meet his idol, unaware that Ning Xiang was already walking through the maple woods with Lu Qingchen.

• Ning Xiang woke to find Xiangxiang had pecked her hair and punished the bird by making it watch the others eat fruit.
• Ning Xiang realized Lu Qingchen had carried her to his austere room, then claimed she belonged to him because she had laid hands on him.
• Lu Qingchen caught Ning Xiang’s hand, invited her to see the red maples in Redleaf Valley, and took her there on Canglang after her birds refused to carry her.
• Ning Xiang nearly fell from Canglang while imagining herself dominating Lu Qingchen, but Lu caught her and warned the sword to fly properly.
• Bai Yueguang complained that Ning Xiang had robbed him and refused Zhou Ruoxue’s offer of a million spirit stones to change his story’s ending.
• Bai Yueguang wistfully said he hoped to meet his idol, Iceberg Lu, while Ning Xiang was strolling through the maple woods with Lu Qingchen.

Lu Qingchen and Ning Xiang walked through a maple forest, where Ning Xiang’s irreverent thoughts about their shared past angered her master. Their stroll ended when a pack of controlled Four-Eared Demon Tamarisk Monkeys attacked, leaving them to fight while Lu Qingchen alerted the sect.

• Lu Qingchen waited for Ning Xiang on the mountain path, and he stopped her from suggesting that Junior Sister Zhou of the Luo River Sect could provide him with medicine.
• Lu Qingchen remembered Ning Xiang as a child and recalled her gifts, while Ning Xiang’s thoughts revealed that the embroidered garment and White Jade Hairpin had not been romantic gestures.
• Ning Xiang’s memories revealed that Eldest Senior Brother, not she, had cared for Lu Qingchen after he was injured, making Lu Qingchen’s mood turn icy.
• Lu Qingchen sensed danger, shielded Ning Xiang with the Canglang Sword, and identified the attacking creatures as tamed Four-Eared Demon Tamarisk Monkeys.
• Ning Xiang suspected the Beast Taming Sect, while Lu Qingchen sent a message to the sect and told her to escape with an Earth-Digging Talisman.
• Ning Xiang refused to leave before helping, and the Four-Eared Demon Tamarisk Monkeys lunged at them.

Ning Xiang and Lu Qingchen fought a horde of demon monkeys before confronting a powerful Six-Eared Demon Monkey. A system quest forced Ning Xiang to pretend to protect Lu Qingchen, ending with her acting out a dramatic sacrifice after he had already killed their enemy.

• Ning Xiang and Lu Qingchen fought off Four-Eared Demon Monkeys, and Lu Qingchen used Nine Shao Music to protect Ning Xiang from their cries.
• A late-stage Nascent Soul Six-Eared Demon Monkey appeared and devoured demon cores, so Ning Xiang burned the fallen monkeys’ bodies to stop it from growing stronger.
• The system ordered Ning Xiang to block the Six-Eared Demon Monkey’s attack and deliver a line about dying without regrets, so she declared she would stand by Lu Qingchen.
• Ning Xiang cheered and taunted the demon monkey while Lu Qingchen attacked it with ice, and the demon monkey’s fighting spirit rose as Lu Qingchen secretly cut out its demon core.
• Ning Xiang’s body rushed in front of Lu Qingchen and she delivered her assigned line, then grabbed his hand to make him support her waist.
• Lu Qingchen told Ning Xiang that the Six-Eared Demon Monkey was already dead.

Ning Xiang faced a system quest ordering her to drug Lu Qingchen, even as she questioned whether she should obey or risk being erased. While she waited for Lu Qingchen at Chengfeng Courtyard, Xie Feihong drank the tea she had prepared, and Ning Xiang realized she had forgotten the quest and its spiked teapot.

• Ning Hui reunited with Ning Xiang, recognized her as the Overbearing War God on Heaven-Question, and left when his master summoned him.
• The system rewarded Ning Xiang for a completed side quest and assigned her an unavoidable two-hour quest to drug Lu Qingchen, threatening to erase her if she refused.
• Ning Xiang took the potent aphrodisiac from her reward, added it to tea at Chengfeng Courtyard, and waited for Lu Qingchen while doubting the system’s demands.
• Xie Feihong visited Ning Xiang to ask for the rest of her story, The Overbearing War God and Her Runaway Little Husband, and listened as she explained the plot.
• After talking for an hour, Ning Xiang asked where Xie Feihong had gotten the tea, and he revealed he had poured it from her teapot.

After Xie Feihong left Ning Xiang alone, the drug she had taken overwhelmed her, and she tried to flee Chengfeng Courtyard. Lu Qingchen caught her and realized she had been drugged, then told her to entrust her soul to him.

• Xie Feihong hurried away, leaving Ning Xiang to struggle with the effects of the drug while the system stayed disconnected.
• Ning Xiang tried to escape by using the Wind-Riding Art but stumbled blindly into the wall.
• Lu Qingchen caught Ning Xiang and attempted to help her with his spiritual energy, but it did not ease her condition.
• Ning Xiang failed to recognize Lu Qingchen, called him Iceberg Lu and Master, and cursed him while sobbing.
• Lu Qingchen cupped the back of Ning Xiang's head and told her to entrust her soul to him.

After Ning Xiang and Lu Qingchen awkwardly dealt with the previous night, Ning Xiang discovered that her system had counted its quest as complete and rewarded her with Mingyuan’s Soul-Devouring Whip. She avoided Lu Qingchen by entering seclusion, while he learned from Xie Feihong that Xie Feihong had visited Ning Xiang the night before and served her tea.

• Jiang Miaomiao left seclusion early and was rebuked by Lu Qingchen for coming to Chengfeng Courtyard.
• Ning Xiang woke with memories of the previous night, pretended she had lost her memory, and fled Chengfeng Courtyard after Lu Qingchen teased her.
• Ning Xiang encountered Jiang Miaomiao and blamed her for arriving too late before returning to Lingling Cottage.
• The system declared Ning Xiang’s main quest complete, gave her the Soul-Devouring Whip, and awarded her the Evasion attribute.
• Ning Xiang activated Lingling Cottage’s Protective Array and claimed she was entering seclusion to avoid seeing Lu Qingchen.
• At Legacy Wind Hall, Lu Qingchen questioned Xie Feihong about seeing Ning Xiang the previous night and seized on Xie Feihong’s mention of tea.

Lu Qingchen suspected that a male cultivator had drugged Ning Xiang, but she avoided discussing it when Wen Maimai arrived. As the group departed for the Purple Tenuity Domain on Ning Xiang's borrowed ship, Wen Maimai, Zhou Ruoxue, and Bai Yueguang secretly came aboard, and Ning Xiang allowed the latter two to stay after they offered payment but ordered Wen Maimai off.

• Lu Qingchen visited Ning Xiang, suspected someone had drugged her, and promised to find the culprit, but Wen Maimai arrived before he could finish.
• Ning Xiang prepared for the urgent mission to the Purple Tenuity Domain and requisitioned Yu Tingchao's Seven-Treasure Ship Pavilion for the journey.
• Ning Xiang nearly crashed the ship while piloting it, then secretly burned off Shaowei's beard after he mocked her.
• Ning Xiang discovered Wen Maimai, Zhou Ruoxue, and Bai Yueguang hiding aboard the ship to join the mission.
• Zhou Ruoxue offered five million spirit stones and Bai Yueguang offered her earnings to stay, but Ning Xiang ordered Wen Maimai off the ship.

After joining Wen Maimai, Bai Yueguang, and Zhou Ruoxue in debating fictional romances, Jiang Miaomiao became convinced Ning Xiang and Su Lang were a real couple. Ning Xiang’s attempt to provoke jealousy instead left Jiang Miaomiao celebrating their relationship.

• Zhou Ruoxue paid another million spirit stones so Wen Maimai could stay aboard, and Wen invited Jiang Miaomiao to play cards.
• Jiang Miaomiao overheard Lu Qingchen practicing a marriage proposal and ran off in heartbreak, but Ning Xiang pulled her back from the railing when the wind blew away her handkerchief.
• Wen Maimai, Bai Yueguang, and Zhou Ruoxue introduced Jiang Miaomiao to romance novels, and she suggested the War God marry all her suitors.
• Jiang Miaomiao spent two days reading romance stories and fanfiction before turning her attention to Ning Xiang, her master, and Su Lang.
• Ning Xiang showed Jiang Miaomiao the jade pendant and jade flute Su Lang had given her, but Jiang Miaomiao joined their hands and ran off shouting that her ship was real.

Ning Xiang tried to chase after Lu Qingchen, but her father Ning Pingzhang arrived and attacked him after seeing them together. After their fight damaged the Seven-Treasure Ship Pavilion and it crashed, Ning Pingzhang presented Ning Xiang with a man he called an exceptional beauty, but she declined him.

• Ning Xiang heard the disciples speculate about her relationships with Su Lang, Lu Qingchen, and Yu, then followed Lu Qingchen after he walked away angrily.
• Lu Qingchen pulled Ning Xiang close and asked whether she would take responsibility for her master, but Ning Pingzhang arrived and accused him of pursuing his daughter.
• Ning Pingzhang and Lu Qingchen fought across the sky and ground, damaging half of Pagoda Mountain before Ning Xiang and Ning Hui separated them.
• The Seven-Treasure Ship Pavilion crashed after Senior Uncle Shaowei lost control of it, and Su Lang found no damage to the flying boat.
• Ning Pingzhang revealed that his present for Ning Xiang was a man, but Ning Xiang refused him and suggested her junior sisters could enjoy him instead.

Ning Xiang recognized the disguised Demon King but kept his identity secret while her father brought him aboard the Seven-Treasure Ship Pavilion. After Ning Xiang tried to complete a system quest by hiding the Heaven-Splitting Python's remains in the Demon King's robes, he caught her, and the system punished her by making her his beloved pet.

• Ning Pingzhang brought the disguised Demon King aboard and insisted Ning Xiang keep him, while Ning Xiang refused and hid that she recognized him.
• Ning Pingzhang recounted his travels, gave spirit pets to the young women and Ning Hui, and explained that he had spent time searching for the Demon Venerable.
• Ning Xiang remembered the system quest and secretly tucked the shrunken Heaven-Splitting Python's remains inside the sleeping Demon King's robes.
• The Demon King woke, confronted Ning Xiang, and crushed the remains to dust as she tried to excuse herself and flee with an Invisibility Talisman.
• The system declared the quest failed and immediately made Ning Xiang unable to speak human language and the Demon King's beloved pet for half a month.

Ning Xiang turned into a Pallas's cat, and Zhu Yu captured her and forced a master-servant contract on her. As Zhu Yu fought the cultivators who had come to rescue her, Ning Xiang realized what animal she had become.

• Ning Xiang shrank into a fluffy little animal and failed to restore her human form.
• Zhu Yu found Ning Xiang, picked her up, and forced a master-servant contract on her.
• Ning Pingzhang, Lu Qingchen, Ning Hui, and the other cultivators confronted Zhu Yu, believing he had captured Ning Xiang.
• Ning Xiang tried to warn her father, but Ning Pingzhang mistook her for an unusual pet and set her aside before attacking Zhu Yu.
• Lu Qingchen and Ning Hui joined the battle, filling the cabin with ice that left Ning Xiang shivering on a plant stand.
• Ning Xiang saw her reflection in the ice and realized she had turned into a Pallas's cat.

Zhu Yu abducted Ning Xiang in her beast form and demanded the Soul-Calming Pearl as ransom, while Ning Pingzhang and the others discussed a wider plot involving controlled minds and souls. At the Lotus Palace, Zhu Yu kept Ning Xiang as his pet, frightening her with threats and a joke about having bear cubs.

• Zhu Yu took Ning Xiang and demanded that Ning Pingzhang bring the Soul-Calming Pearl to Danyang City to ransom her.
• Ning Pingzhang, Shaowei, and Lu Qingchen connected the pearl's disappearance to reports of demonic cultivators whose minds and souls had been controlled, and Shaowei warned the sect.
• Ning Pingzhang vowed to rescue Ning Xiang with or without the pearl, and Shaowei proposed a plan to deceive Zhu Yu.
• At the Lotus Palace, Zhu Yu told Hanying that he had captured Shangyang's daughter to make Shangyang and the others search for the Soul-Calming Pearl.
• Zhu Yu named Ning Xiang Little Cat, refused to let Hanying care for her, and threatened to skin her if she tried to leave.
• Zhu Yu told Ning Xiang to bear cubs, then clarified that he would find a male of her kind to mate with instead.

Ning Xiang stayed in Zhu Yu’s chambers, distracting him with her antics and thoughts until he fed her and made her sleep on the floor. After she finally fell asleep, Zhu Yu remained irritated and disturbed her, frightening her in a dream.

• Ning Xiang’s noise and thoughts repeatedly interrupted Zhu Yu as he tried to cultivate, so he took her out to find food.
• Zhu Yu offered Ning Xiang a live rabbit, but she refused to eat it, and he ordered Hanying to bring dried meat instead.
• Zhu Yu fed Ning Xiang dried meat, then refused Hanying’s offer to prepare a nest and assigned Ning Xiang to sleep on the floor beside him.
• Ning Xiang’s thoughts about her boredom and novel kept Zhu Yu awake for two hours before she finally fell asleep.
• Zhu Yu rubbed Ning Xiang’s face and whispered to her, frightening her into tears in a dream where she was riding a tiger.

Ning Xiang spent the night as Zhu Yu’s pet and met Caiwei and Hanying at the Lotus Palace the next morning. Hanying was left wondering whether Caiwei’s suspicion about her husband was true.

• Zhu Yu brought Ning Xiang to bed, threatened her after hearing her thoughts, and transformed into a tiger to frighten her before ordering her to sleep.
• Ning Xiang woke to Caiwei, who accused her of trying to become Zhu Yu’s queen and claimed she would marry him herself when she grew up.
• Hanying warned Caiwei not to mistreat Ning Xiang, then sent her daughter away after Caiwei suggested that her father might have a mistress.
• Hanying fed Ning Xiang dried meat and quietly wondered whether Caiwei’s suspicion was true.

Ning Xiang wrecked Zhu Yu’s chambers, so he kept her on his person while she entertained herself by pestering him. When Zhu Yu offered to find her a playmate, someone announced they had taken his Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, Miaomiao, to cheer up a little lady.

• Ning Xiang destroyed the wooden furniture in Zhu Yu’s chambers, and Zhu Yu decided she had to stay on his person.
• Ning Xiang fidgeted on Zhu Yu’s shoulder and climbed onto his head before he caught her and held her until she fell asleep.
• Zhu Yu teased Ning Xiang about her thoughts and offered to make her his granddaughter or find her a playmate.
• Caiwei announced that Miaomiao was missing, and a clear voice revealed that someone had taken the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox to cheer up a little lady.

Zhu Yu confronted Mingyuan after the Demon Venerable took the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, while Ning Xiang rode on Zhu Yu’s shoulder in her Pallas’s cat form. Mingyuan realized Ning Xiang was the girl he had been trying to rescue, and the two men prepared to fight over her.

• Ning Xiang urged Zhu Yu to chase Mingyuan, who had taken the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox outside Danyang City.
• Zhu Yu and Mingyuan fought in midair until Ning Xiang’s tugging on Zhu Yu’s hair made him retreat.
• Mingyuan recognized Ning Xiang after recalling that he had gone to rescue the young woman he believed Zhu Yu had abducted.
• Mingyuan demanded that Zhu Yu hand Ning Xiang over, but Zhu Yu refused and claimed she belonged to him.
• Mingyuan challenged Zhu Yu to another fight, declaring that the winner would take Ning Xiang.

Ning Xiang’s hunger interrupted Zhu Yu and Mingyuan’s fierce duel, and the two Demon Lords returned to the Lotus Palace together. When Ning Pingzhang and Lu Qingchen arrived to take her, Zhu Yu refused to give Ning Xiang up and enlisted Mingyuan to drive them away.

• Mingyuan and Zhu Yu fought while Ning Xiang watched from Zhu Yu’s arms, until her hunger made them pause and accept Zhu Yu’s invitation to the Lotus Palace.
• Mingyuan asked to hold Ning Xiang, but Zhu Yu refused, and they resumed fighting until Hanying announced visitors from the Profound Heaven Sect.
• Ning Pingzhang demanded that Zhu Yu return Ning Xiang in exchange for the Soul-Calming Pearl, but Zhu Yu said he would keep her and began to leave with her.
• Lu Qingchen objected that Ning Xiang’s father and master should be consulted before anyone took her away.
• Zhu Yu agreed with Lu Qingchen, then lent Ning Xiang to Mingyuan for three hours so he could drive the visitors out.

Ning Xiang watched Mingyuan and Ning Pingzhang clash while she remained disguised as a cat, and the fight stirred up misunderstandings among the men around her. Zhu Yu took Ning Xiang away, leaving Ning Pingzhang to reassure Lu Qingchen that he had lost half his charm in the Demon Domain.

• Ning Xiang received literary works in her Spirit Bracelet as a mission reward and watched Mingyuan fight Ning Pingzhang while Lu Qingchen tried to look immaculate.
• Mingyuan realized Ning Pingzhang was Ning Xiang’s father, while Ning Xiang hid her identity and Zhu Yu casually played with her tail.
• Ning Pingzhang attacked Mingyuan with lightning, got burned when Mingyuan deflected it, and threatened Lu Qingchen with a cut to his bonus.
• Ning Pingzhang urged Zhu Yu to become his daughter’s husband and told Ning Xiang to lose weight, then mistakenly assumed Lu Qingchen’s feelings for Zhu Yu were unrequited.
• Zhu Yu left with Ning Xiang after demanding the real Soul-Calming Pearl, and Ning Pingzhang told Lu Qingchen that the Demon King’s affection for the cat had cut his charm in half.