Recaps

Lou Yunxiao used an illusion of Demon Clan Envoys being tortured and killed to make Ning Ke believe that his actions had doomed them, and Ning Ke’s mind broke under the guilt. Lou Yunxiao dismissed Hong Yao’s suggestion to kill Ning Ke and took him to the Dungeon, intending to make him suffer the same despair every day.

• Lou Yunxiao restrained Ning Ke and used the Pale Silver Sword to torture the Demon Clan Envoys while blaming Ning Ke for their deaths.
• Ning Ke’s memories twisted together, and he broke down, repeatedly confessing his guilt and begging Lou Yunxiao to spare everyone.
• Lou Yunxiao killed the Envoys, and Ning Ke screamed and begged for mercy after seeing their heads in the snow.
• Hong Yao judged that Ning Ke had gone mad and advised Lou Yunxiao to end his suffering.
• Lou Yunxiao insisted Ning Ke was pretending, took him toward the Dungeon, and asked Hong Yao to help torment him again.

Lou Yunxiao’s torment left Ning Ke blind and convinced he had repaid his debts, while Ning Xiaoxiao freed him from the dungeon. As she brought him toward the battlefield to fulfill his final task, Nan Lou revealed that Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao had once joined forces against him ten thousand years ago.

• Hong Yao dispelled the illusion of Lou Yunxiao killing the Demon Clan, but Lou Yunxiao continued tormenting Ning Ke until Ning Ke blinded himself and declared his hatred.
• After the seal on the Great Demon broke, Lou Yunxiao left to lead the Qianyuan Continent’s forces in the Demon War, while Ning Ke resolved to escape and repair the flaw by detonating his divine soul.
• Ning Xiaoxiao visited Ning Ke, treated his wounds, and freed him from the dungeon to repay his kindness to her family.
• Ning Ke asked Ning Xiaoxiao to take him to the battlefield, and she agreed despite fearing Lou Yunxiao would find him.
• On the battlefield, Nan Lou told Lou Yunxiao that he and Ning Ke had joined forces to seal him ten thousand years earlier, and that Ning Ke had thwarted his plans again a hundred years ago.

Nan Lou revealed that he had caused the Flowing Cloud Sect’s destruction and that Ning Ke had been forced to kill its demonized members, including Bai Wanru, to stop them. Lou Yunxiao realized Ning Ke had never been his enemy and collapsed under the weight of his own cruelty, while Ning Ke remained missing.

• Nan Lou confessed that he had killed Lou Jing, impersonated him, and poisoned the Flowing Cloud Sect, forcing Ning Ke to kill its demonized members and purge Lou Yunxiao’s demon poison.
• Hong Yao and the other sect masters realized they had misunderstood Ning Ke, while Nan Lou suspected Lou Yunxiao had captured and killed him.
• Wugou asked Lou Yunxiao whether he had captured Ning Ke and warned him not to hurt him, explaining that A Ke and Mingxin had both been Ning Ke.
• Lou Yunxiao whispered that it was too late and remembered Ning Ke begging him for mercy and taking blame for the Flowing Cloud Sect’s deaths.
• Lou Yunxiao understood that Ning Ke had believed he had repaid the sect’s sins, remembered Ning Ke saying he hated him, and fell to his knees in tears.

Wugou helped Lou Yunxiao recover his will to fight by reminding him that Ning Ke might still be alive and could forgive him. Meanwhile, Ning Ke prepared to repay his final debt before leaving the world, refusing to forget the Demon Clan dead and sharing a quiet farewell with Ning Xiaoxiao.

• Nan Lou provoked Lou Yunxiao with the truth about Ning Ke, then attacked him while Hong Yao, Wei Qinghai, Wugou, and the Great Demons fought across the battlefield.
• Wugou struck Lou Yunxiao and urged him to survive the Demon War so he could seek Ning Ke’s forgiveness; realizing Ning Ke might still be alive, Lou Yunxiao regained his strength and attacked Nan Lou.
• Ning Ke refused Xiao Yuan’s offer to erase his memories, saying he could not forget the Demon Clan members who had died because of him.
• Ning Ke told Ning Xiaoxiao he had come to repay his final debt before leaving, and she gently held his scarred hand when he asked.

Ning Xiaoxiao saw Ning Ke vanish in a Fox Spirit Detonation, while Jiu Yuan awoke ten thousand years later and learned Ning Ke was missing. After Lou Yunxiao defeated Nan Lou, Nan Lou’s accusations drove Lou Yunxiao toward becoming a Demon God.

• Ning Xiaoxiao rushed back toward the cliff after recalling Ning Ke’s words, but a Fox Spirit Detonation sent his phantom into a rift and left only bloodstained rocks and red cloth behind.
• Jiu Yuan woke on Qingqiu Fox Mountain after sleeping ten thousand years and learned Ning Ke had disappeared, so he decided to seek Lou Yunxiao for answers.
• Lou Yunxiao defeated Nan Lou with the Buddha Lotus Lamp’s support and pinned him down with his Twin Swords.
• Nan Lou taunted Lou Yunxiao for blaming Ning Ke without learning the truth and accused him of acting like a demon.
• Lou Yunxiao crushed Nan Lou and his fleeing soul as demonic aura overtook him, while Nan Lou called him the first immortal, indestructible Demon God.

Lou Yunxiao learned that Ning Ke had sacrificed himself to mend the spatial rift, and realized his own cruelty had driven Ning Ke to die carrying unbearable guilt. Lou Yunxiao tried to kill himself, but his new divine nature made him immortal, leaving him broken and begging to join Ning Ke.

• Lou Yunxiao survived the heavenly tribulation, became a god, and discovered that the Red Cloud Sword had shattered.
• Ning Xiaoxiao told Lou Yunxiao that Ning Ke had detonated himself to mend the spatial rift, leaving only blood behind.
• Lou Yunxiao pieced together how Ning Ke had borne blame and endured torture, including believing Lou Yunxiao had killed the Demon Clan members.
• Overcome with grief and guilt, Lou Yunxiao stabbed himself with the Pale Silver Sword and detonated himself, but his divine power restored his body.
• Lou Yunxiao realized that a god could not truly die, clutched Ning Ke’s scrap of red cloth, and sobbed as he begged to be allowed to join him.

After Ning Ke’s death, Wugou and Hong Yao revealed to Ning Xiaoxiao that the Demon Venerable had been her brother and Ning Ke one of his incarnations. Ning Xiaoxiao realized how she and the others had helped bring about his death, and collapsed in grief.

• As Lou Yunxiao mourned Ning Ke, Ning Xiaoxiao questioned why he called the Demon Venerable by her brother’s name.
• Wugou told Ning Xiaoxiao that the Demon Venerable was her brother and Ning Ke had been one of his incarnations.
• Ning Xiaoxiao rejected the revelation, but Hong Yao explained that Ning Ke had acted to stop demonized Flowing Cloud Sect disciples from harming others.
• Ning Xiaoxiao understood that a misunderstanding had led everyone to blame and torture Ning Ke without learning the truth.
• Ning Xiaoxiao admitted she had brought Ning Ke out of the Dungeon and removed the life-preserving technique Lou Yunxiao had placed on him.

Ning Xiaoxiao and Lou Yunxiao grieved over Ning Ke’s death as Jiu Yuan arrived and learned that Lou Yunxiao had killed his younger brother. Jiu Yuan attacked Lou Yunxiao, who did not defend himself.

• Ning Xiaoxiao blamed herself for failing to recognize Ning Ke and save him, while Zhuang Yusheng tried to comfort her.
• Lou Yunxiao admitted that he had caused Ning Ke’s suffering and said Ning Xiaoxiao had freed him by bringing him out of prison.
• Jiu Yuan arrived at the rocky mountainside, called for Ning Ke, and realized from the blood and red fabric that something was wrong.
• Jiu Yuan found Ning Ke’s damaged demon core in Lou Yunxiao’s Heaven and Earth Bag, and Lou Yunxiao confessed that he had killed Ning Ke and scattered his soul.
• Jiu Yuan punched Lou Yunxiao and attacked him, while Lou Yunxiao let himself be torn apart without defending himself.

Jiu Yuan demanded to know why Lou Yunxiao had killed Ning Ke, but Lou Yunxiao only begged to die. Heaven's Way appeared and began revealing that Ning Ke was a visitor from another world and showing what he had endured.

• Jiu Yuan beat Lou Yunxiao and demanded an explanation for Ning Ke's death while Zhuang Yusheng took the unconscious Ning Xiaoxiao away.
• Lou Yunxiao begged Jiu Yuan to kill him, but Jiu Yuan refused to grant him that escape before learning the truth.
• Jiu Yuan summoned Heaven's Way through the Pale Silver Sword and demanded to know what Ning Ke had suffered during the ten thousand years he slept.
• Heaven's Way revealed that Ning Ke was a visitor from another world and that his plans had begun when Ning Ke was born.
• Heaven's Way drew on Lou Yunxiao's divine power and unfolded a vast screen of light to show everyone what Ning Ke had done over the years.

Heaven's Way revealed Ning Ke’s suffering across ten thousand years, showing the cultivators that he had been forced to bear the burden of saving the Qianyuan Continent. The visions left Lou Yunxiao and Jiu Yuan devastated, and ended with Lou Yunxiao realizing Ning Ke had once chased after him into the Demon Abyss in another form.

• Heaven’s Way showed how Ning Ke’s soul entered Little Fox’s body and how he first risked himself to save a human mother and son.
• Lou Yunxiao watched his past with Ning Ke and Bai Wanru, including Bai Wanru’s death and Ning Ke’s anguish, while Heaven’s Way admitted it had burdened Ning Ke to save the world.
• The visions showed the Demon War, Lou Yunxiao’s self-destruction, and Jiu Yuan using a forbidden art to save his soul before Ning Ke collapsed from exhaustion.
• The cultivators watched Ning Ke spend thousands of years cultivating and saw that he had carried guilt and loneliness into his reunion with Lou Yunxiao a hundred years earlier.
• The visions revealed Ning Ke sealing Nan Lou, killing Bai Wanru and the Flowing Cloud Sect disciples, and taking the blame so Lou Yunxiao would hate him.
• Lou Yunxiao recognized that Ning Ke had chased after him into the Demon Abyss and transformed into a woman in midair.

The light screen revealed how Ning Ke had saved and supported Lou Yunxiao, while Lou Yunxiao later tormented him and drove him toward death. The watching cultivators knelt to apologize to Ning Ke as Jiu Yuan condemned Lou Yunxiao for destroying him.

• Lou Yunxiao watched the memories reveal that Ning Ke had given him foxfire, restored his cultivation, and saved his life in several forms.
• The Sword Sect disciples recognized Ning Ke as their beloved senior disciple, and many cultivators knelt to honor him after seeing him sacrifice himself to seal the Great Demon.
• Lou Yunxiao realized his cruelty toward Ning Ke had earned him Heaven's punishment, while the screen showed him tormenting Ning Ke in the Dungeon.
• Hong Yao knelt before the screen and apologized to Ning Ke, followed by the Music Sect, Buddhist Order, and Pill Sect disciples and other cultivators.
• Jiu Yuan wept and shouted at Lou Yunxiao for threatening Ning Ke with the Demon Clan and destroying his body, sense of self, and soul.

After Ning Ke returned to his original world, Lou Yunxiao learned he was still alive and begged to find him and explain the truth. Jiu Yuan and Heaven's Way refused, determined to protect Ning Ke from being disturbed again.

• Lou Yunxiao returned Ning Ke's incomplete demon core to Jiu Yuan, but it gave no sign that Ning Ke could be restored.
• Heaven's Way revealed that Ning Ke had survived by returning to his original world, where his family was waiting for him.
• Lou Yunxiao begged Heaven's Way to tell him how to reach Ning Ke, but Jiu Yuan repeatedly attacked him and demanded that Heaven's Way keep Ning Ke's location secret.
• Heaven's Way promised not to reveal Ning Ke's whereabouts and urged Lou Yunxiao to stop pursuing him.
• Lou Yunxiao pleaded that he only wanted to ease Ning Ke's guilt, but Jiu Yuan reminded him that Ning Ke had once begged Lou Yunxiao in the same way and walked away without showing mercy.

Jiu Yuan learned that Ning Ke would forget the suffering he endured in this world when he returned home, then withdrew from worldly affairs and fortified the boundary between the Human and Demon Realms. After fifty years of Lou Yunxiao's penance, Jiu Yuan emerged to undergo his tribulation and told him he would never forgive him or grant his request to see Ning Ke.

• Heaven's Way assured Jiu Yuan that Ning Ke was alive and would forget this world's memories when he returned to his original world, easing Jiu Yuan's fears.
• Ning Xiaoxiao remained grief-stricken and entered prolonged seclusion, while Yin Feng and Yueya returned to the Demon Realm rather than confront Lou Yunxiao.
• The Four Great Sects built temples and monuments to Ning Ke, and Jiu Yuan gave Yin Feng the Demon Venerable position before reinforcing the realm barrier with Heaven's Way.
• Lou Yunxiao knelt at the foot of Qingqiu Fox Mountain for fifty years, begging Jiu Yuan for a chance to see Ning Ke and enduring remorse for his actions.
• In the fifty-first year, Jiu Yuan emerged with signs of an imminent ascension, and Lou Yunxiao begged him again to see Ning Ke.
• Jiu Yuan was struck by heavenly lightning as he told Lou Yunxiao that he would never forgive him or grant another request.

Jiu Yuan found Ning Ke alive in the Mortal World, but chose not to disturb his peaceful life and left. Years later, Lou Yunxiao finally learned where Ning Ke was, only to arrive in time for his funeral.

• Jiu Yuan ascended to the Divine Realm and ignored Lou Yunxiao, who had knelt outside for fifty years before pursuing him.
• Jiu Yuan met Yu Tang in the Supreme God Hall, received the location of Ning Ke's world, and learned Ning Ke was still alive.
• Jiu Yuan found the elderly Ning Ke feeding pigeons with his great-nieces or great-nephews, watched him from hiding, and left without making contact.
• Ning Ke sensed something, hid the wounds on his arm, and fell asleep in his wheelchair after telling Pingping and An'an to wake him when their grandma arrived.
• Lou Yunxiao searched for Jiu Yuan for years, then persuaded Yu Tang to reveal Ning Ke's world and followed the mote of light there.
• Lou Yunxiao arrived in time for Ning Ke's funeral.

At Ning Ke’s funeral, Lou Yunxiao learned from Ning Xiao that Ning Ke had suffered severe psychological distress for decades and repeatedly harmed himself. Ning Xiao then described a hypnosis session in which Ning Ke begged Lou Yunxiao to kill him and spare the innocent people who had been hurt.

• Lou Yunxiao broke down beside Ning Ke’s body, and Ning Xiao let him remain at the funeral after her children suggested calling the police.
• Ning Xiao told Lou Yunxiao that Ning Ke’s scars were self-inflicted and that his psychological illness had begun after an explosion and coma fifty-three years earlier.
• Ning Xiao explained that Ning Ke hid his distress behind forced smiles and acting until he attempted suicide by slitting his wrists.
• Ning Xiao recounted how Ning Ke’s therapist hypnotized him and he cried that he had caused everyone’s suffering and deserved to die.
• Under hypnosis, Ning Ke called out to Lou Yunxiao to kill him and let the innocent people go, then tried to claw at his eyes.
• After the doctor ended the hypnosis, Ning Ke asked Ning Xiao whether he had acted strangely or frightened her.

Lou Yunxiao learned that Ning Ke had spent decades believing he caused the Demon Clan’s deaths, but he found Ning Ke had destroyed his soul in the Three Paths River before the truth could reach him. Lou Yunxiao joined him in the river and spent eternity searching for him, becoming known as the “Sorry Immortal.”

• Ning Xiao told Lou Yunxiao that Ning Ke had suffered from guilt and repeatedly harmed himself because he believed he had killed the Demon Clan.
• Lou Yunxiao admitted that the Demon Clan had survived and rushed to the Underworld to tell Ning Ke the truth, but the King of Hell could not find Ning Ke’s name in the Book of Life and Death.
• Meng Po told Lou Yunxiao that Ning Ke had jumped into the Three Paths River to atone and would never be reborn.
• Lou Yunxiao jumped into the river and searched for Ning Ke’s shattered soul while apologizing and explaining that the Demon Clan had not died.
• Lou Yunxiao continued searching and suffering in the river for centuries, and the Underworld’s ghosts came to call him the “Sorry Immortal.”

Lou Yunxiao confronted Ning Ke after discovering his hidden identities and the sacrifices he had made, then demanded the truth rather than letting Ning Ke continue to deceive him. Ning Ke revealed that he had caused the world’s chaos and wanted to die in the Heaven-Sacrificing Ritual to return home, but Lou Yunxiao refused to let him face his guilt alone.

• Lou Yunxiao questioned Ning Ke about the Jade Pendant, foxfire, and his resemblance to A Ke, then revealed that he had uncovered Ning Ke’s identities as Older Sister and A Ke.
• Lou Yunxiao accused Ning Ke of making him hate, love, and grieve for him while concealing the truth, and Ning Ke realized he had never considered how his choices would affect Lou Yunxiao.
• Lou Yunxiao freed Ning Ke, removed his own eyes, and returned the demon core, foxfire, and Silver Silk Ribbon to force Ning Ke to tell him everything.
• Ning Ke explained his actions over the past ten thousand years and confessed that he wanted to die in the Heaven-Sacrificing Ritual so he could return to his own world.
• Lou Yunxiao kissed Ning Ke and told him that his loved ones did not want him to blame himself, promising to help him and never let him go.

Lou Yunxiao comforted Ning Ke until he opened up and agreed to face his worries with him. After their wounds healed, they fought the Demon War, and Lou Yunxiao later found Ning Ke’s world and gave up his cultivation to stay by his side.

• Lou Yunxiao reassured Ning Ke about his guilt and promised to help him work through his worries, while Ning Ke agreed to trust him and stop lying.
• Ning Ke returned Lou Yunxiao’s eyes with demonic power, and Lou Yunxiao took him to the Pill Hall to treat their injuries.
• Several days later, Jiu Yuan woke, and Ning Ke began calmly telling those who loved him the truth.
• Lou Yunxiao, Jiu Yuan, and Ning Ke defeated the great demon, and Ning Ke sacrificed himself to heaven and left the Qianyuan Continent.
• Lou Yunxiao became a god, found Ning Ke’s world, gave up his cultivation to remain with him, and spent more than sixty happy years at his side.
• Lou Yunxiao and Ning Ke chose to reincarnate together, then learned about the Sorry Immortal searching the Three Paths River and felt relieved that their own story was different.

After Yu Tang and Wei Yuan agreed to reincarnate Jiang He, he and Feng Yu were reborn into the Feng Family, where their new lives began under very different circumstances. When two maids mocked mute Jiang He for his birthmark, Feng Yu defended him and led him toward the main house.

• Yu Tang persuaded Wei Yuan to let Jiang He return to life, though Wei Yuan insisted he would have to endure hardship for the destruction he had caused.
• Feng Yu was reborn as a beloved young master, while Jiang He was born mute to a servant family and faced his parents’ rejection.
• While tending the Feng Family’s Flame Trees, Jiang He encountered Feng Yu hiding in the shrubs to avoid his piano lesson.
• Two maids pulled off Jiang He’s head covering and mocked his purple eye-shaped birthmark, leaving him distressed.
• Feng Yu confronted the maids, took Jiang He’s hand, and led him to the main house to report them.
• Jiang He felt comforted by Feng Yu’s kindness and decided that Feng Yu was the best person in the world.

Jiang He grew up alongside Feng Yu, mastering the skills Feng Yu abandoned and becoming his closest companion while concealing his feelings for him. At university, Feng Yu called Jiang He for help after realizing someone had drugged his drink at the Moonlit Night Club.

• Feng Yu's mother dismissed the two maids who mistreated Jiang He and allowed him to study alongside Feng Yu.
• Jiang He excelled at the subjects Feng Yu quit, but refused Feng Yu's mother's offer to become her godson because he did not want to be Feng Yu's brother.
• Feng Yu and Jiang He entered Noble University, where Jiang He ranked first and the two shared a dormitory apartment.
• Jiang He quietly loved Feng Yu, who mistook his refusal to become family as concern about having to call Feng Yu his big brother.
• At university, Feng Yu spent his time partying while Jiang He studied and repeatedly rescued him when he got drunk.
• Feng Yu noticed something was wrong with his drink at the Moonlit Night Club and called Jiang He from the restroom, asking him to come quickly.

Jiang He rescued Feng Yu from a group of rich kids who had drugged him, and Feng Yu asked Jiang He to help him, revealing that he knew of Jiang He's feelings. Years later, the two were happily together and joked about how they had gotten together, though Feng Yu accidentally kissed a poisonous phoenix flower petal.

• Jiang He tracked Feng Yu's phone, found people dragging him upstairs, and beat them until Feng Yu stopped him.
• Feng Yu told a security guard to stay out of Feng Family business, and Jiang He carried him to a room.
• Feng Yu asked Jiang He whether he would hate him for taking him, then kissed him and asked for help; Jiang He gave in to his long-hidden desire.
• Years later, Feng Yu explained that he had noticed Jiang He's feelings and that being set up by the rich kids gave them a chance to be honest.
• Jiang He told Feng Yu that meeting him was his greatest good fortune, and Feng Yu kissed his forehead with a phoenix flower petal before Jiang He warned him that the flowers were poisonous.

After filming the tragic fanfic ending, Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao celebrated their real relationship with their family and friends. As the night ended, Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao he did not have to suppress his feelings to please him or his family, and promised to protect him.

• The cast wrapped filming, and Lou Yunxiao hugged Ning Ke, grateful they had not made the choices their characters did.
• Jiu Yuan praised Lou Yunxiao, then tricked him and Zhuang Yusheng into drinking enormous glasses of liquor at the wrap party.
• Lou Yunxiao got drunk, and Ning Ke supported him home while the others sang, drank, and joked around.
• Walking beneath the blooming osmanthus trees, Ning Ke reflected on how carefully Lou Yunxiao restrained himself for his sake.
• Ning Ke kissed Lou Yunxiao and told him to speak up when he was unhappy, promising to stand by him and protect him.

Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao reaffirm their devotion and agree to marry again in Ning Ke’s world after he becomes Best Actor. The story ends with Ning Ke promising they will announce their marriage that year.

• Lou Yunxiao told Ning Ke he was happy to care for him, though he wished they did not sleep separately and had sex more often.
• Ning Ke teased Lou Yunxiao about once being shy and aloof, and Lou Yunxiao carried him to the bedroom.
• Lou Yunxiao dispelled the alcohol from his system, and the two spent the night together.
• After caring for Ning Ke, Lou Yunxiao proposed holding another wedding in Ning Ke’s world once he achieved his dream of becoming Best Actor.
• Ning Ke agreed and said they would announce their marriage when that year came.