Chapter Summaries

Su Ying made her fourth attempt at the poisoned-wine mission, hoping a Pain-Relief Pill would spare her the agony of dying. Ling Xian unexpectedly turned the plot around and made Su Ying drink the wine herself, leaving Su Ying unconscious.

• Su Ying entered Ling Xian's courtyard with poisoned wine, determined to complete the mission after buying a Pain-Relief Pill from the system.
• Su Ying offered Ling Xian the wine as Jade Dew Nectar, but Ling Xian refused and reminded her that Xiao Muchen had treated her wound.
• Xiao Muchen arrived and questioned the wine, while Ling Xian identified it as Jade Dew Nectar and suggested Su Ying drink it herself.
• Ling Xian took the cup from Su Ying and poured the wine down her throat, and Su Ying passed out.

Su Ying returned to the restarted mission and waited in Feng Moyuan’s cave, unaware that he had awakened and learned he was a supporting character in a book. When Feng Moyuan confronted her, she claimed to be Ling Xian, and he became curious about her.

• The system told Su Ying that her mission had restarted because the female lead had not fed her the poisoned wine, and sent her to help Ling Xian meet Feng Moyuan.
• Su Ying waited in Feng Moyuan’s cave and discussed the plot and her mission with the system.
• Feng Moyuan overheard Su Ying and the system, learned he was a supporting character, and approached her.
• Su Ying noticed the cave had grown cold, turned around, and found Feng Moyuan standing behind her.
• Feng Moyuan asked who she was, and Su Ying claimed her name was Ling Xian.
• Feng Moyuan became intrigued when Su Ying knew he was face-blind and asked her to continue her act.

Su Ying helped Feng Moyuan meet Ling Xian and completed her quest, then accepted punishment for her team’s loss and went to the ancient seal. As she ignored the task of reinforcing it, she heard someone cry for help.

• Su Ying posed as Ling Xian and asked Feng Moyuan whether he had seen his senior sister, and he denied it before hiding when Ping Qingyun and Ling Xian called for her.
• Su Ying met Ping Qingyun and Ling Xian outside the cave, and the system confirmed that her quest to help Ling Xian meet the supporting male character was complete.
• Ping Qingyun blamed Su Ying for her team’s loss and said she would have to reinforce the seal, and Su Ying accepted the punishment and flew back to the Cultivation Sect.
• Feng Moyuan realized he could hear Su Ying’s thoughts and vowed not to accept being reduced to a supporting character.
• Su Ying went to the seal but chose not to reinforce it, and she heard someone crying for help.

Su Ying accepted a new side quest and rescued a violet-eyed young man who introduced himself as Chu Yu. She did not realize that Chu Yu was Feng Moyuan in disguise, and the chapter left her refusing to take him back to his master.

• Su Ying accepted the system’s side quest to save whoever was calling for help in exchange for points and a prize draw.
• Su Ying used a Voice-Transmitting Talisman to locate a young man dangling from a cliff and freed him with Sword Flight.
• The young man introduced himself as Chu Yu of the Spirit Mountain Sect, and Su Ying earned one hundred points for rescuing him.
• Su Ying wondered about Chu Yu’s violet eyes and fantasized about keeping him as a disciple, while Chu Yu recognized her scent and reacted to her thoughts.
• Su Ying told Chu Yu she could not take him back to his master.

Su Ying met the newly awakened Chu Yu and became determined to keep him away from Ling Xian, while Chu Yu secretly planned to absorb Su Ying's spiritual root and learn about his future. They agreed to spend the night together at the barrier, leaving Su Ying enchanted by Chu Yu's scent and Chu Yu concealing his hostility.

• Su Ying admitted she had been sentenced to seal the barrier, while Chu Yu learned she had awakened him from secluded cultivation early.
• Chu Yu decided Su Ying's spiritual root could restore and strengthen his cultivation, though he hid his intentions behind an innocent manner.
• Su Ying warned Chu Yu not to approach Ling Xian, and he agreed to remember her warning.
• Su Ying told Chu Yu someone would come with food the next day and accepted his offer to keep her company overnight.
• Su Ying admired Chu Yu's fragrance while Chu Yu regarded her pastry with disdain and thought a spiritual root tasted better.

Su Ying fed Chu Yu pastries and hot pot, winning over the hungry young man without realizing he was the demon lord Feng Moyuan. She proposed guiding him if her master selected him, while privately deciding she might keep him even if he was not chosen.

• Chu Yu tasted Su Ying's pastries, enjoyed them, and admitted he was hungry.
• Su Ying made hot pot and hawthorn water for Chu Yu, who praised the food despite coughing at its spice.
• Chu Yu considered keeping Su Ying as his personal cook if she had no useful spiritual roots.
• Su Ying proposed that Chu Yu become her disciple if her master chose him at the selection in three days.
• When Chu Yu asked what would happen if he was not chosen, Su Ying resolved to keep him anyway, defying the system.

Su Ying teased Chu Yu and hosted him overnight, while Chu Yu secretly revealed himself as the Demon Lord Feng Moyuan and ordered an investigation into her and Ling Xian. The next morning, Su Ying woke to learn that her system had crashed overnight, unaware that Feng Moyuan had cast a Sleeping Curse on her.

• Su Ying teased Chu Yu, fed him a meal, and told him she believed he would pass the selection to become her junior disciple.
• Su Ying explained that “good night” was a friendly wish, then privately misinterpreted Chu Yu’s reply as a confession of love.
• After casting a Sleeping Curse on Su Ying, Chu Yu transformed into Feng Moyuan and summoned a black-clad subordinate atop Sit-and-Forget Mountain.
• Feng Moyuan ordered his subordinate to investigate Su Ying and Ling Xian, prompting the subordinate to excitedly speculate about future demon consorts.
• The next morning, Su Ying learned that her system had crashed overnight and admitted she had planned to sneak a touch of Chu Yu but had fallen asleep.
• Chu Yu realized his Sleeping Curse had worked on Su Ying and her system, sparing her from acting on her plan.

After rescuing Chu Yu, Su Ying parted from him while insisting she only wanted his looks, then returned to the sect for the elders’ disciple selection. At the central hall, she searched for Chu Yu while trying to follow the plot, unaware that he could hear her thoughts.

• Su Ying woke to find Chu Yu staring at her exposed skin, while he privately wondered how to eat it.
• Ping Qingyun arrived with Su Ying’s meal, heard her explanation of Chu Yu’s rescue, and took him back to his sect.
• After Chu Yu left, Su Ying told the system she desired his body but not his heart.
• Two days later, Su Ying learned her punishment had ended and hurried to the central hall, hoping Xiao Muchen would choose Chu Yu as a disciple.
• Su Ying knelt before Xiao Muchen, then searched the crowd for Chu Yu as Ping Qingyun criticized her; Chu Yu heard her thoughts and smiled.

Su Ying watched the Lower Realm disciples take their spiritual root test and realized Ling Xian had become interested in Chu Yu, the handsome young cultivator she liked. As Chu Yu stepped onto the Spirit Testing Platform, Su Ying feared Ling Xian would draw him into her deadly Gu Curse.

• Su Ying admired the handsome Lower Realm disciples while Chu Yu overheard her conversation and grew jealous.
• Ling Xian spotted Chu Yu and told Ping Qingyun that his eyes were beautiful.
• Su Ying recognized Chu Yu and worried that Ling Xian would steal him, while the system reminded her of Ling Xian's protagonist's halo and Gu Curse.
• Chu Yu stepped onto the Spirit Testing Platform, and Su Ying encouraged him as Ping Qingyun and Ling Xian questioned her about knowing him.
• Ling Xian blamed herself for Su Ying's punishment, Ping Qingyun defended her, and Chu Yu placed his hand on the platform.

Chu Yu shocked the sect with his level-ten Spiritual Root and became one of Xiao Muchen’s disciples. Su Ying tried to provoke jealousy and complete a system quest by declaring her devotion to Xiao Muchen, leaving Chu Yu unsettled by her words.

• Chu Yu revealed a level-ten Spiritual Root, drawing the crowd’s awe and prompting Xiao Muchen to order everyone to silence.
• Su Ying and the system discussed Chu Yu, Feng Moyuan, and Xiao Muchen, while Chu Yu overheard Su Ying say she would choose Feng Moyuan.
• After testing ended, Ling Xian volunteered to guide Chu Yu, and the system assigned Su Ying a quest to express love for Xiao Muchen in front of her.
• Su Ying defended Ling Xian’s choice, then proclaimed that she hoped to stand beside Xiao Muchen and attain immortality with him.
• Chu Yu reacted with jealousy to Su Ying’s declaration, while Su Ying privately worried that she had made herself look foolish.

Su Ying provoked Ling Xian and then turned Ping Qingyun’s accusation into a chance to win Xiao Muchen’s support. After Xiao Muchen left, the system warned Su Ying that failing the mission could make her lose the chance to meet Chu Yu again.

• Ling Xian vowed to focus on cultivation, and Xiao Muchen told her to stop dwelling on other matters.
• Xiao Muchen asked his new disciples to choose senior disciples to guide them, but Ping Qingyun blocked Su Ying and demanded she apologize to Ling Xian.
• Su Ying pleaded her case to Xiao Muchen, who dismissed the dispute, told Ping Qingyun not to make a fuss, and spoke to Su Ying with unusual gentleness before leaving.
• Su Ying revealed she had only pretended to cry, while Chu Yu silently resented that she had knelt before Xiao Muchen.
• The system refused Su Ying a reward for exceeding the mission and warned that another failed run might keep her from meeting Chu Yu again.

Su Ying brought Chu Yu to Firefly Fragrance Court, teased him, and built him a small separate courtyard. When Chu Yu admitted he wanted food, Su Ying offered to make him something, but a visitor called for her from outside.

• Su Ying brought Chu Yu to Firefly Fragrance Court and explained that new disciples had to wait three years before receiving their own courtyards.
• Su Ying teased Chu Yu about sharing her room, while Chu Yu hid his own dangerous appetite and resolved to be wary of her.
• Su Ying conjured and furnished a small courtyard for Chu Yu, then told him she would take him to run a dungeon the next day.
• Chu Yu said he had not eaten all day, and Su Ying asked what he wanted before someone called to her from outside the courtyard.

Su Ying hid Chu Yu from Ling Xian, then cooked him grilled chicken and duck after he rejected the food Ling Xian brought. Xiao Muchen followed the aroma into the courtyard and found Su Ying and Chu Yu eating together.

• Su Ying hid Chu Yu in a side room when Ling Xian arrived and asked for him.
• Ling Xian gave Su Ying food for Chu Yu, then agreed to bring food to the other disciples heading into the Unbounded Forest.
• Su Ying checked Ling Xian's food for poison, but Chu Yu asked her to cook for him instead.
• Su Ying grilled a chicken and a duck, and Chu Yu eagerly asked to try both.
• Xiao Muchen entered the courtyard, drawn by the food's aroma, and asked what Su Ying and Chu Yu were doing.

Su Ying tried to preserve the story by fawning over Xiao Muchen, then planned to sneak into Chu Yu’s room to take advantage of him. She entered under a Sleep Talisman, but Chu Yu knocked her unconscious after a shadow passed the window.

• Xiao Muchen came to see Su Ying, but her offer to cook for him every day frightened him away.
• Su Ying suspected Xiao Muchen was interested in Chu Yu, while Chu Yu grew angry at her thoughts and her advances.
• Su Ying promised to cook only for Chu Yu and decided to visit his room at midnight.
• Su Ying entered Chu Yu’s room under a Sleep Talisman and reached toward his abdomen while he meditated.
• Chu Yu woke, noticed a shadow pass the window, and kicked Su Ying in the head, knocking her to the floor.

Chu Yu learned about Su Ying and Ling Xian, then returned Su Ying to her room after she passed out. The next morning, Su Ying used a system prize to ease her injuries and opened the door to find Chu Yu waiting outside.

• Black Shadow delivered the grand elder’s request for Chu Yu to return to the Demon Realm, but Chu Yu sent him away.
• Chu Yu read the dossier on Su Ying and Ling Xian, then carried the unconscious Su Ying back to her room.
• Su Ying mumbled lewd words about Chu Yu in her sleep, which Chu Yu overheard outside her door.
• Su Ying woke up sore and learned from the system that she had gone to Chu Yu’s room but could not remember what happened afterward.
• Su Ying won a Pain-Relief Pill and a Wish-Granting Talisman in two prize draws, then took the pill.
• Su Ying opened her door, saw Chu Yu standing outside, and blurted out that he was beautiful.

Su Ying joined Ling Xian, Ping Qingyun, and Chu Yu for a spirit-beast trial in the Unbounded Forest, where the system forced her to take a calamity meant for the female lead. After Ling Xian fell from a tree onto Su Ying, Ping Qingyun arrived and pointed his sword at her.

• Su Ying and Chu Yu joined Ling Xian and Ping Qingyun's group for the sect's trial to hunt a high-tier spirit beast.
• The teleportation formation scattered the group across Myriad Beasts Peak, and the system ordered Su Ying to take Ling Xian's calamities for ten points each.
• Ling Xian called for help from a tree, slipped, and fell onto Su Ying, who tripped beneath her and broke her fall.
• Su Ying felt no pain because she had taken a Pain-Relief Pill, while Chu Yu watched from a nearby tree and laughed at her bad luck.
• Ping Qingyun found Ling Xian and pointed his sword at Su Ying.

Su Ying searched the Unbounded Forest with Chu Yu and the others, then learned that a Mist Beast was producing dangerous miasma ahead. She gave Chu Yu a Detoxification Pill and prepared to face the threat, while Chu Yu secretly coveted her system.

• Ping Qingyun accused Su Ying of bullying Ling Xian, but Ling Xian explained that she had fallen from a tree and Su Ying had cushioned her fall.
• Su Ying used a talisman to locate Chu Yu, and he joined her, Ling Xian, and Ping Qingyun as they headed deeper into the Unbounded Forest.
• Su Ying sensed danger in the miasma ahead, while Ping Qingyun hesitated to enter it and Chu Yu secretly wondered whether taking Su Ying's spiritual root could transfer her system to him.
• Su Ying's system identified a high-tier level-three Mist Beast as the source of the poisonous miasma and offered Detoxification Pills.
• Su Ying obtained two pills, took one herself, and put the other in Chu Yu's mouth, prompting Ling Xian to demand to know what she had fed him.

Su Ying entered the miasma with Chu Yu to hunt the Mist Beast, but she was injured and poisoned after shielding Ling Xian. Chu Yu carried the unconscious Su Ying out while Ling Xian followed.

• Su Ying explained that the miasma came from a Mist Beast and entered it with Chu Yu after giving them both Detoxification Pills.
• Su Ying awakened the Mist Beast with a torch, left Chu Yu in a tree, and attacked the beast, but her strike failed to kill it.
• The Mist Beast charged at Ling Xian, and Su Ying gave her the Detoxification Pill and took the beast's blow before killing it with a sword strike.
• Su Ying collapsed from her injuries and the miasma's poison after telling Chu Yu to take the Beast Core, and the system awarded her ten points for taking a calamity in Ling Xian's place.
• Chu Yu extracted the Beast Core and carried Su Ying out of the miasma when Ling Xian could not manage it herself.

Chu Yu carried the unconscious Su Ying back to the Sect after learning she had given Ling Xian her Detoxification Pill, then watched over her as Xiao Muchen treated her. Su Ying woke two hours later and blurted out how handsome Chu Yu was.

• Chu Yu used the Teleportation Mirror to bring himself, Su Ying, Ling Xian, and Ping Qingyun back to the Sect, and explained that Su Ying had fainted after giving Ling Xian her Detoxification Pill.
• The senior brother in charge examined Su Ying, recognized the Mist Beast's golden core, and sent Chu Yu to carry her back while he notified Xiao Muchen.
• At Firefly Fragrance Court, Ling Xian recounted the expedition while concealing that she had rushed into the miasma, but Chu Yu revealed that her actions had endangered Su Ying.
• Xiao Muchen treated Su Ying and said she would wake in two hours, then left Chu Yu to care for her; Chu Yu sent Ling Xian away so Su Ying could rest.
• Su Ying woke two hours later, saw Chu Yu's face, and blurted out that he was handsome.

Su Ying woke after the Mist Beast attack and coaxed Chu Yu into letting her touch his abs, but the pain returned when her Pain-Relief Pill wore off. After she asked him to knock her unconscious, Chu Yu secretly healed her, and she woke believing her healthy constitution had cured her.

• Su Ying pretended she was dying and persuaded Chu Yu to let her touch his abdomen.
• The Pain-Relief Pill wore off, leaving Su Ying in severe pain, and she refused to let Chu Yu fetch Xiao Muchen.
• Su Ying asked Chu Yu to knock her unconscious, and he struck her neck before using the Sleeping Curse to hide his actions from her system.
• Chu Yu used purple energy to heal Su Ying while she was unconscious.
• Su Ying woke without pain and credited her recovery to her healthy constitution, then considered cooking for Chu Yu and thought about recipes.