Chapter Summaries

After Ning Xiang explained that the Nether-Communing Beast had infected Zhu Yu with a gu that required intercourse to cure, Zhu Yu tried to suppress his desire rather than use her. Ning Xiang eventually agreed to try, but began to regret it as Zhu Yu bound her wrists and carried her off.

• Ning Xiang tried to flee after Jiang Miaomiao left, but Zhu Yu brought her to his bedchamber and demanded an explanation of his condition.
• Ning Xiang told Zhu Yu that the Nether-Communing Beast had planted a nether-communing gu that could leave him disabled unless he had intercourse.
• Zhu Yu poured ice water over himself and refused Ning Xiang's suggestion to have someone freeze him or to use her as a cure.
• When Ning Xiang tried to leave the restricted bedchamber, Zhu Yu caught her and kissed her, then told her to go without forcing her to stay.
• Ning Xiang agreed to try with Zhu Yu, but when she thought of turning into a Pallas's cat and escaping, he bound her wrists with the Immortal-Binding Rope and carried her away.

After spending the night with Zhu Yu, Ning Xiang woke embarrassed and sore, then learned Jiang Miaomiao was safe with Xia Buyan. She took Xia Buyan away and used a dream to interrogate him about his origins.

• Ning Xiang woke in Zhu Yu's arms and accused him of taking advantage of her, while Zhu Yu removed the Immortal-Binding Rope and checked her wrists.
• Ning Xiang read messages from Mu Fang'ai, Ning Pingzhang, Wen Maimai, Bai Yueguang, Xia Buyan, and Jiang Miaomiao, then learned the system's mission panel was still normal.
• The system assigned Ning Xiang a side mission to rescue Jiang Miaomiao from Xia Buyan and question him about his origins.
• Ning Xiang found Jiang Miaomiao enjoying Xia Buyan's shadow-puppet show, then carried Xia Buyan to another courtyard.
• Ning Xiang made the Dream-Eating Tapir create a dream, where Xia Buyan revealed his identity and complained that he had been bound to a Villainess system.

Ning Xiang learned that Xia Buyan had a Villainess System and that Jiang Miaomiao had been tasked with tormenting him, then reunited with Hanying and Caiwei and returned Little Flower. Zhu Yu teased Ning Xiang about having his children before someone interrupted them with a cough.

• Ning Xiang questioned Xia Buyan about his Villainess System, then kicked him out of her dream.
• Jiang Miaomiao told Ning Xiang that the Demon Venerable had made Xia Buyan her slave, and she revealed that Lu Qingchen was returning to discipline her.
• Ning Xiang hurried away after hearing Lu Qingchen's warning, then met Hanying and Caiwei, who had come to return Little Flower.
• Hanying explained that Caiwei was a half-demon whose human cultivator father had disappeared, prompting Ning Xiang to imagine having children with Zhu Yu.
• Zhu Yu teased Ning Xiang about having his children and pretended his heart hurt so she would kiss him; Ning Xiang tugged his ear until a cough sounded behind them.

Ning Xiang learned that a hidden mastermind had supplied the mind-controlling gu and that the Great Demons had sought the Nine-Shao Melody and part of her soul. After Lu Qingchen kissed her, she won the Spirit Fighting Tournament and received a map that could teleport her anywhere in the Three Domains.

• Ning Xiang tried to escape a gathering of powerful figures but was called back to hear their findings about the mastermind, the Great Demons, her missing soul strand, and the Beast Taming Sect.
• The group decided to use Su Lang's Nine-Shao performance to calm the afflicted cultivators while they searched for the Soul-Calming Pearl and gathered evidence against the Beast Taming Sect.
• Mingyuan caught Ning Xiang when she tried to leave, and Zhu Yu challenged him before Ning Xiang slipped away and Lu Qingchen carried her to a secluded garden.
• Lu Qingchen added his divine sense to Ning Xiang's Communication Talisman and kissed her after she complained that he had deleted her contact first.
• Ning Xiang won the Spirit Fighting Tournament and received the Illusory Spirit Mountains and Seas Map along with many other prizes.
• Ning Xiang planned to use the map to visit handsome men in the Ten Directions Creation Realm, then felt a chill on her back.

Ning Xiang stayed in the Demon Domain with Zhu Yu while Lu Qingchen tried to take her back to the Profound Heaven Sect. After moving in with her mother, Ning Xiang had nightmares about a disaster at sea and learned that something had happened in the Eastern Sea.

• After the banquet, Ning Xiang went shopping with Zhu Yu, then stayed in his room at the Lotus Palace.
• Lu Qingchen gave Caiwei her father's Communication Talisman and asked Ning Xiang when she would return to the Profound Heaven Sect, but her parents kept her in the Demon Palace.
• Zhu Yu asked Ning Xiang when they would marry, and she told him to win her father over first.
• Ning Xiang moved in with her mother, where she dreamed of islands collapsing and bodies floating in a blood-red sea.
• The next morning, Ning Xiang's mother told her that her Uncle Yu had sent word of trouble in the Eastern Sea.

Ning Xiang joined Ning Pingzhang and the others on their journey to the Eastern Sea, where she hoped to help her junior brother. Zhu Yu gave her a treasure-filled storage necklace and promised to meet her there, while the voyage began with lessons, music, and Little Flower’s interruptions.

• Ning Xiang persuaded Ning Pingzhang to take her along to the Eastern Sea, and Wen Maimai, Jiang Miaomiao, Bai Yueguang, and Zhou Ruoxue joined the group.
• Zhu Yu gave Ning Xiang a storage necklace filled with treasures, repaired her Five-Colored Stone, and promised to find her after settling affairs in the Demon Domain.
• Ning Pingzhang and the others boarded the Seven-Treasure Spirit Vessel, where Xia Buyan distracted Mingyuan while Lu Qingchen made Ning Xiang write a paper.
• Su Lang helped Ning Xiang finish the paper, then played music for her during the voyage as Little Flower repeatedly drowned him out with instruments.
• Su Lang stopped Little Flower from interrupting his konghou performance by placing an Immobilization Talisman on it.

Ning Xiang and her companions arrived in the troubled Eastern Sea and learned that demon beasts had been attacking its islands and abducting residents. After Ning Xiang met Yu Tingchao’s mother, they received word that Tingchao had been swept into an underwater current and gone missing.

• Su Lang’s music stopped when a crash and a surge of demonic energy appeared over the Eastern Sea, and Ning Xiang saw the darkened waters and dead fish demon beasts.
• Ning Pingzhang’s group met Yu Yuechi, Uncle Qin, and Yu Zhengrong’s aide, while Ning Xiang learned about her childhood connection to Qin Ge.
• Ning Xiang’s group reached Penglai Island, where Gu Jinyi explained that Bai Xi had abducted residents and that demon beasts had repeatedly attacked the islands.
• Gu Jinyi offered Ning Xiang a room near Tingchao’s, but a messenger reported that Tingchao had been swept into an undercurrent and could not be found.
• Lu Qingchen said he would search for Tingchao, and Ning Xiang insisted on going with him.

Ning Xiang and Mingyuan searched the raging sea for Yu Tingchao and found him battling a Deep-Sea Snakefish. After Mingyuan rescued him, Yu Tingchao challenged Ning Xiang about whether he was still her sweetheart, leaving her to reassure him while tending to his wounds as Mingyuan looked on jealously.

• Ning Xiang and Mingyuan searched for Yu Tingchao after the Tracking Talismans and Soul-Rending's beasts failed to locate him.
• Ning Xiang activated the Water-Avoidance Pearl and dove with Mingyuan into the sea, where Yu Tingchao's Communication Talisman transmitted the sounds of a fight.
• Ning Xiang and Mingyuan found Yu Tingchao battling a Deep-Sea Snakefish, and Ning Xiang pulled him into the pearl's protective barrier.
• Mingyuan killed the snakefish and offered Yu Tingchao its Demon Core, then called himself Yu Tingchao's brother-in-law.
• Yu Tingchao asked Ning Xiang if he was still her sweetheart, and she affirmed that he came first before offering to tend his wounds.

Ning Xiang reunited with Yu Tingchao and cared for his wounds, while Mingyuan grew jealous of her tenderness toward him. After returning to Penglai, Yu Tingchao rushed to see Ning Xiang, where he spotted a Heaven-Question post celebrating her romance with the Demon King.

• Ning Xiang treated Yu Tingchao's injured arm while Mingyuan watched jealously.
• Su Lang took Ning Xiang back to Penglai and left Yu Tingchao with Mingyuan before arranging for Zhou Ruoxue to heal him.
• Xia Buyan told Yu Tingchao exaggerated stories about how much Ning Xiang had missed him, but the others warned him she had been enjoying herself in the Demon Domain.
• Yu Tingchao went to Jade Branch Courtyard to visit Ning Xiang and saw a Heaven-Question post urging readers to enjoy PDA between the Demon King and Miss Ning.

Ning Xiang cared for Yu Tingchao after his wound reopened, while his jealousy over Big Cat Zhu and attempts to draw her attention were interrupted by Su Lang. Su Lang sent Yu Tingchao away and tended to Ning Xiang’s scraped hand, reminding her of how he had cared for her when she was young.

• Yu Tingchao grew jealous as Ning Xiang praised Big Cat Zhu, then became furious when her thoughts revealed the demon king had been intimate with her.
• Yu Tingchao claimed his wound had reopened, and Ning Xiang began changing his dressing while he flirted with her.
• Su Lang arrived after overhearing their suggestive exchange and took over bandaging Yu Tingchao’s wound.
• Su Lang sent Yu Tingchao back to his courtyard on the Langhua Sword, cutting short his plan to charm Ning Xiang.
• Su Lang noticed Ning Xiang’s scraped hand and applied ointment as she recalled how he had cared for her childhood injuries.

After Su Lang tended Ning Xiang's hand and played her to sleep, she dreamed of their childhood and remembered that the Main System had punished her for developing feelings for him, then erased her memories twice. The system could explain neither her transmigration nor the broken plot, and Ning Xiang's night stroll ended with Lu Qingchen appearing before her as her jealousy mission advanced.

• Su Lang treated Ning Xiang's scraped hand, played the Nine Splendors Phoenix-Felling Flute until she fell asleep, and left after lowering her bed curtains.
• Ning Xiang dreamed of childhood moments when Su Lang protected and comforted her on Solitary Light Peak.
• Ning Xiang remembered that the Main System had punished her at twelve for falling for Su Lang, causing six months of pain before her memories were erased.
• Ning Xiang questioned the system about her transmigration and the fractured plot, but it had no answers and gave her a mission to create misunderstandings and make the male leads jealous.
• Ning Xiang went outside for a stroll, encountered Lu Qingchen in the courtyard, and received one point of progress on the jealousy mission.

Ning Xiang soothed Yu Tingchao after he saw her with Lu Qingchen, then learned more about the Recording Pearl he had kept. She used a dream to question Xia Buyan about the novel’s later plot and uncovered a rumor that Jiang Miaomiao had altered the original story to make herself its heroine.

• Lu Qingchen told Ning Xiang he wanted her as his cultivation partner, and the system announced her mission progress had reached 2/4.
• Yu Tingchao flew away after seeing Ning Xiang with Lu Qingchen, so Ning Xiang followed him to the Three-Life Stone by the sea.
• Yu Tingchao and Ning Xiang talked beneath the stone, and he revealed that he had several copies of a Recording Pearl documenting an incident from fifteen years earlier.
• Yu Tingchao caught Ning Xiang when she nearly fell and suggested they return to Solitary Light Peak to live peacefully together once the Eastern Sea turmoil ended.
• The next morning, Yu Tingchao bragged to Su Lang about his conversation with Ning Xiang, and Su Lang challenged him to spar.
• Ning Xiang pulled Xia Buyan into a dream, where he said the Ning Household would be wiped out and revealed a rumor that Jiang Miaomiao had rewritten the novel to cast herself as the heroine and Ning Xiang as the villainess.

Ning Xiang watched Su Lang treat Yu Tingchao’s injured arm, then left with Su Lang after learning the wound was not serious. As Mu Fang'ai summoned her to see Uncle Yu, Su Lang realized Ning Xiang might have lost her memories again and recalled how she had begun trembling around him after her twelfth birthday.

• Yu Tingchao complained that Su Lang had injured him during their sparring, but Ning Xiang decided Su Lang had gone easy on him and praised her own skill.
• Ning Xiang asked Su Lang to examine Yu Tingchao, and Su Lang painfully treated his arm before telling him to recover and stop pestering Ning Xiang.
• Ning Xiang left with Su Lang, believing Yu Tingchao would recover in a few days and that Su Lang would not lie to her.
• Ning Xiang wondered why Su Lang had tolerated her bad temper and coldness, while Su Lang realized she might have lost her memories and recalled her sudden fear of him after her twelfth birthday.
• Mu Fang'ai messaged Ning Xiang that Uncle Yu had returned and told her to hurry over.

Ning Xiang received two pieces of Soul-Washing Jade and discovered that each contained thirty-seven identical memory fragments. As Su Lang played the Nine Splendors Phoenix-Felling Flute, she dreamed of reliving the book’s plot and watched herself die thirty-six times before the dream world collapsed.

• Yu Zhengrong gave Ning Xiang two pieces of Soul-Washing Jade that had been used to erase her memories when she was seven and twelve.
• Ning Xiang found thirty-seven identical memory fragments inside each piece, and Yu Zhengrong explained that he had only placed one fragment in each jade originally.
• Ning Xiang asked Su Lang to play the Nine Splendors Phoenix-Felling Flute, then fell asleep and dreamed of the book’s events repeating.
• Ning Xiang watched herself follow the plot, suffer betrayal, and die thirty-six times, hearing her last self vow not to submit to that fate.
• The dream world collapsed around Ning Xiang.

Su Lang entered Ning Xiang’s spiritual terrace to wake her and found her reliving the repeated cycles and punishments she had endured. Ning Xiang mistook the dream for a chance to command Su Lang and demanded that he choose whether she would force a kiss on him or he would kiss her willingly.

• Su Lang pieced together how Ning Xiang’s time-traveling soul, the Soul-Summoning Formation, and the Heavenly Dao had led her through repeated cycles.
• Unable to wake Ning Xiang, Su Lang entered her spiritual terrace and saw her facing Lu Qingchen at a cliff’s edge.
• Ning Xiang snapped the Canglang Sword, beat Lu Qingchen, whipped him, and ordered him to write her biography.
• Ning Xiang noticed Su Lang and decided she could do whatever she wanted because she believed she was dreaming.
• Ning Xiang ordered Su Lang to stand still, pulled him close, and demanded that he choose whether she would force a kiss on him or he would kiss her willingly.

Ning Xiang woke from a dream in which she kissed Su Lang, then spent time with her family before returning to Mingyuan. The system revealed that Ning Xiang and Xia Buyan had swapped scripts, leaving her with his scumbag role.

• In Ning Xiang’s dream, Su Lang kissed her, and she kissed him back before emerging from her spiritual terrace; he stayed beside her until she woke.
• Ning Xiang nearly kissed Su Lang while he slept, but he woke and caught her, then fled after accidentally running into a pillar.
• Ning Xiang visited Mu Fang'ai and found the Cultivation Realm Handsome Men Illustrated Guide her mother had hidden under a pillow.
• Ning Xiang found Mingyuan waiting with seafood and suggested inviting Su Lang to join them, provoking Mingyuan’s murderous glare.
• The system announced that Ning Xiang had completed her side mission and revealed that she and Xia Buyan had swapped scripts, giving Ning Xiang his scumbag script.

Ning Xiang learned that Xia Buyan had been mistakenly bound to a scumbag system that made beautiful women fall for him, while she and Mingyuan prepared a seafood barbecue. The gathering grew crowded with Ning Xiang’s companions, and the chapter ended with Mingyuan, Su Lang, and Yu Tingchao hoping she would feed them the next skewer.

• The Dog System told Ning Xiang that Xia Buyan’s system had been switched with a villainess system and that their world combined two novels, then shut itself down.
• Ning Xiang asked Mingyuan how he had caught so much seafood, and he explained that he had used the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox’s tails as bait.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox attacked Ning Xiang, but Mingyuan restrained it; Ning Xiang joked about roasting and eating it, and the fox fled.
• Ning Xiang and Mingyuan prepared a barbecue beneath her Starcloud Umbrella as her brothers, friends, Su Lang, and Yu Tingchao arrived.
• A sudden downpour caught Jiang Miaomiao and Xia Buyan fishing, while Ning Xiang’s soundproofing talisman kept the rain out of the gathering.
• Ning Xiang ate the first grilled shrimp herself, leaving Mingyuan, Su Lang, and Yu Tingchao eagerly waiting for the next skewer.

Ning Xiang drank with her companions and became drunk, so Su Lang carried her back to her room. There, she accused him of breaking his promise, pulled him onto the bed with the Shattered Moon Whip, and kissed him.

• Ning Xiang offered to drink with the others, toasted her senior brothers, and passed over Bai Yueguang before pretending she was drunk and collapsing into Su Lang's arms.
• Su Lang carried Ning Xiang back to her room while the others ended the gathering and left.
• Ning Xiang clung to Su Lang, called him a good person, and accused him of breaking his promise to let her do whatever she wanted.
• Ning Xiang touched Su Lang's face and hand, asked if he wanted to kiss her, and declared that next time she would kiss him.
• Ning Xiang summoned the Shattered Moon Whip, pulled Su Lang onto the bed, and pressed her lips against his.

Ning Xiang spent the morning with Lu Qingchen and Yu Tingchao, while Lu Qingchen struggled to win her attention. After Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao returned to her courtyard, they found an elaborate romantic surprise celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the day they met.

• Su Lang settled the drunken guests into their rooms, prepared a defensive formation around the Jade Branch Courtyard, and left.
• Ning Xiang woke with hangover soup, checked on the sleeping Yu Tingchao, and encountered Lu Qingchen, who came to see how she was doing.
• Ning Xiang invited Lu Qingchen to breakfast, but Yu Tingchao joined them, and Lu Qingchen grew jealous when she fussed over the injured younger disciple.
• Lu Qingchen left after Ning Xiang told him to go rest, then regretted leaving Yu Tingchao alone with her.
• Xia Buyan offered Lu Qingchen advice on competing for Ning Xiang's affection, and Lu Qingchen asked him to explain it at his courtyard.
• Ning Xiang toured Penglai Island with Yu Tingchao and suggested developing tourism; when they returned, they found a rose heart and a banner celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the day they met.

Ning Xiang rejected Lu Qingchen’s romantic feelings and spent the next two days patrolling Penglai Island with her companions. While she and Yu Tingchao talked aboard her cruise ship, a sudden surge of demonic energy stirred the sea.

• Ning Xiang confronted Xia Buyan for helping Lu Qingchen stage a romantic gesture, then told Lu Qingchen she felt only a master-disciple bond with him.
• Lu Qingchen asked whether Ning Xiang meant what she had said, and she confirmed it before leaving him heartbroken.
• Ning Xiang joined her companions in patrolling Penglai Island while Lu Qingchen went to Tianxuan Island to fight invading Demon Beasts.
• Ning Xiang sparred with Yu Tingchao over the sea, then refused to stay in the Eastern Sea because she wanted a place where women could have multiple husbands.
• Ning Xiang and Yu Tingchao felt fierce winds and monstrous waves rise as dense demonic aura spread across the sea, so Ning Xiang flew up on the Chongming Bird.