Chapter Summaries

Ye Mo and Ye Chu met fellow players Pei Yanchuan and Su Fengzi, exchanged memory fragments, and tested them for clues. Ye Mo reacted to the fragment [I Want to Find a Person-Eater] and recovered a memory of encountering a predatory man named Qi Yu.

• Ye Mo coaxed Ye Chu with candy, and they encountered Pei Yanchuan and Su Fengzi, who wore player badges.
• Su Fengzi offered a stack of Memory Fragments in exchange for Ye Mo and Ye Chu’s two fragments, and the group discussed how the fragments worked.
• Ye Chu tried the five fragments without recovering a memory, while Ye Mo hesitated over [I Want to Find a Person-Eater].
• Ye Mo touched the fragment and remembered being trapped in a dark room with a tall man who introduced himself as Qi Yu.

Ye Mo relived his memories with Qi Yu, from their teasing first encounters to the mission that forced them to fight on opposing sides. He woke in Ye Chu’s arms, crying and saying Qi Yu had bullied him.

• Ye Mo escaped Qi Yu during their first meeting, stealing the remote and leaving Qi Yu amused by his defiance.
• Qi Yu later caught Ye Mo, brought him to his villa, and cooked him fish, while Ye Mo repeatedly tried to escape.
• Ye Mo remembered returning to Qi Yu’s villa for fish and growing accustomed to their closeness.
• During a rebellion, Ye Mo and Qi Yu confronted each other as enemies, accused one another of using their relationship for intelligence, and fired at the same time.
• Ye Mo realized Qi Yu had shot his shoulder rather than his heart, while his own shot had struck Qi Yu’s arm, and later grieved that they could never be together.
• Ye Mo woke beside Ye Chu, embraced him, and tearfully said Qi Yu had bullied him.

Ye Chu and the others split up at a maze junction to search for memory fragments and an exit. Pei Yanchuan encountered the injured Qi Yu, a figure from another game instance, leaving his identity and survival unexplained.

• Ye Mo insisted on traveling with Ye Chu, but Ye Chu persuaded the group to split up and search separate paths.
• Ye Mo packed Ye Chu’s backpack with compressed biscuits before they each chose an entrance.
• Ye Chu took a mushroom-lined path and avoided touching the colorful mushrooms, while Pei Yanchuan picked one from his own path.
• After hearing heavy footsteps, Pei Yanchuan ran from the Silver-Horned King and found an injured man in a burgundy suit instead.
• Pei Yanchuan saw that the man had no player badge and recognized him as Qi Yu, who had been thought dead.

Pei Yanchuan found the badly wounded Qi Yu, treated him, and told him about Ye Mo, the person Qi Yu loved. Qi Yu learned Ye Mo remembered being hurt by a Person-Eater and realized Ye Mo might hate him.

• Pei Yanchuan approached the injured Qi Yu after Qi Yu called for help, and Qi Yu recognized him as someone connected to Ye Chu.
• Pei Yanchuan bandaged Qi Yu’s wounds and shared a biscuit while explaining that he had lost his memory.
• Qi Yu described the person he loved, and Pei Yanchuan suspected he meant Number Five, Ye Mo, who resembled that description.
• Pei Yanchuan told Qi Yu that Number Five had recovered memories, cried about a Person-Eater who had treated him badly, and seemed to want revenge.
• Qi Yu grew pale and fell silent as he realized Ye Mo’s painful memories might be about him, while Pei Yanchuan encouraged him to help Ye Mo get revenge.

Qi Yu agreed to search for Number Five with Pei Yanchuan, while Ye Chu found a fragment that briefly filled him with anger and learned about the maze from Shi Miao. After sharing what they had remembered, Shi Miao invited Ye Chu to look for happier memories.

• Qi Yu asked where Number Five had gone, and Pei Yanchuan offered to help him search while he recovered.
• Ye Chu found a fragment on a mushroom that made him angry until he threw it away, then stored the shrinking mushroom in his backpack.
• Ye Chu met Shi Miao, who explained that players had to recover all their memories to clear the game and warned him about the silver-horned guard.
• Shi Miao showed Ye Chu three fragments that did not belong to him and said she had recovered memories of her close friends.
• Ye Chu told Shi Miao he had remembered painful things about his parents, and she invited him to search for memories that would make him happy.

Ye Chu learned more about Ye Mo’s strange behavior after the Person-Eater and Ordinary Person Instance and found a memory fragment belonging to his brother. Elsewhere in the maze, Wu You met player Number Four, who had been stealing fragments from a guard.

• Shi Miao told Ye Chu that Ye Mo had acted differently after the Person-Eater and Ordinary Person Instance, including crying over fish while drunk.
• Shi Miao and Ye Chu found a fragment reading, “I want to find my little brother,” and concluded that other people’s stories could help recover memories.
• Shi Miao wondered where Ru Xue was as she and Ye Chu continued through the maze.
• Number Four followed a guard and collected the Memory Fragments it hid, despite the risk of being caught and sent back to the entrance.
• Number Four met Wu You, who offered her a handful of fragments in the hope that some belonged to her.

Wu You and Number Four combined their Memory Fragments, and the [I Like Her] fragment restored Gao Ruxue’s memories of loving her childhood friend Shi Miao. Gao Ruxue remembered suppressing her feelings to stay close to Shi Miao, and the memory ended with Shi Miao saying she would pursue Gao Ruxue if she were a boy.

• Wu You gave Number Four her Memory Fragments, and Number Four combined them with her own, finding three duplicates among the twelve.
• The [I Like Her] fragment dissolved and showed Number Four a memory of Gao Ruxue waking beside her childhood friend Shi Miao.
• Gao Ruxue remembered falling in love with Shi Miao while helping her pursue a boy, then hiding her feelings when they became a couple.
• After Shi Miao asked whether they would be friends in their next life, Gao Ruxue said she did not want to be her friend, but later gave in when Shi Miao confronted her.
• When Shi Miao got drunk after breaking up with her boyfriend, she told Gao Ruxue that she would pursue her if Gao Ruxue were a boy, and Gao Ruxue answered, "Okay."

Gao Ruxue and Wu You left the guards to search for other players, while Ye Chu and Shi Miao reunited with Su Fengzi and exchanged memory fragments. Su Fengzi relived a childhood memory of being abandoned in a locked bathroom stall.

• Gao Ruxue introduced herself to Wu You after recovering a painful memory, and Wu You explained that she had already recovered the fragment [I Hate Water].
• Gao Ruxue and Wu You decided to search for the other players instead of following the guards for more fragments.
• Ye Chu and Shi Miao met Su Fengzi, who tried to remind Ye Chu of their past and traded memory fragments with them.
• Shi Miao gave Su Fengzi fragments about fearing ghosts, hating bugs, and hating guns, and he chose to touch the fragments that brought back memories of bugs.
• Su Fengzi relived a memory of being a child locked in a bathroom stall while people outside ignored his calls for help.

Su Fengzi revisited the childhood memories that had made him afraid of bugs, darkness, and ghosts, then met Jiang Lan, who said they were lovers. Jiang Lan began recounting how they had met on a winter night, leaving their story just as he agreed to take the lost Su Fengzi to university.

• Su Fengzi remembered being bullied and locked overnight in the orphanage bathroom, and how a bug prank began his fears.
• Su Fengzi returned to the maze, where Ye Chu and Shi Miao avoided reopening his painful memories.
• Jiang Lan woke, grabbed Su Fengzi's wrist, apologized for hurting him, and said they were lovers when Su Fengzi asked about their relationship.
• Jiang Lan recounted meeting Su Fengzi on a winter night after Su Fengzi had turned eighteen and gotten lost in Beijing.
• Jiang Lan offered to take Su Fengzi to XX University, telling him it was on his way.

Jiang Lan took Su Fengzi in after finding him out late at night, and the two gradually grew close as Jiang Lan helped him with work and brought him into his social circle. After Su Fengzi drank on Jiang Lan’s behalf at a business dinner, he offered to repay him, and Jiang Lan said he wanted Su Fengzi to genuinely like him.

• Jiang Lan offered Su Fengzi a place to stay for the night, and Su Fengzi accepted after seeing proof that Jiang Lan was an Outstanding Citizen.
• Jiang Lan and Su Fengzi spent the night at the hotel, then parted the next morning, believing their meeting was a one-time coincidence.
• Jiang Lan encountered Su Fengzi working at a milk tea shop, invited him to eat, and exchanged contact information with him.
• Jiang Lan helped Su Fengzi with work and money, and Su Fengzi began spending much of his free time at Jiang Lan’s home.
• At a business dinner, Su Fengzi drank on Jiang Lan’s behalf, then offered to repay him with his body while they walked home together.
• Jiang Lan told Su Fengzi he wanted him to genuinely like him, and Su Fengzi kissed the corner of his mouth and agreed.

Su Fengzi and Jiang Lan became a couple and grew close, but Jiang Lan's father intervened when he learned about their relationship. Su Fengzi agreed to leave Jiang Lan rather than let his father sabotage Jiang Lan's project, while the assistant revealed that Jiang Lan had also been pressured into agreeing to the breakup.

• Jiang Lan carried the intoxicated Su Fengzi to bed, and they became lovers; the next morning, Jiang Lan reassured Su Fengzi that he would stay by his side.
• Su Fengzi became Jiang Lan's assistant, and the two spent most of their time together, though they later reconciled after a fight in which Su Fengzi threatened to break up.
• Jiang Lan's father summoned Su Fengzi and offered him five million to leave Jiang Lan, then threatened to withdraw investment from Jiang Lan's project.
• Su Fengzi agreed to leave Jiang Lan but refused the money, worried that Jiang Lan would think he had left for financial reasons.
• Jiang Lan's father asked his assistant about Jiang Lan, and the assistant said Jiang Lan had agreed to break up after they threatened Su Fengzi's education and future employment.

Su Fengzi recovered his memories of how he and Jiang Lan had broken up after misunderstanding the threats Jiang Lan’s father had made, and the former couple reconciled in the maze. Ye Chu also reunited with Ye Mo and told him he had killed Qi Yu, leaving Ye Mo hiding his reaction.

• Jiang Lan agreed to break up with Su Fengzi, and neither explained that they were both trying to protect the other’s future.
• Su Fengzi later broke down over a photo and became a Bilibili horror-game streamer, where Ye Chu became his first fan.
• With Jiang Lan’s help, Su Fengzi recovered the missing memories and asked Jiang Lan why they had broken up.
• Jiang Lan explained the misunderstanding and asked Su Fengzi to give him another chance, and Su Fengzi agreed to start over.
• Ye Chu and Shi Miao celebrated the reconciliation before Ye Chu reunited with Ye Mo.
• Ye Chu told Ye Mo that he had killed Qi Yu, and Ye Mo concealed his reaction.

Ye Mo reunited with Ye Chu and the others, while Pei Yanchuan and Qi Yu searched for the group and met Lu Rui. Qi Yu revealed that he had escaped from another instance to find Ye Mo, leaving Pei Yanchuan to reckon with Qi Yu’s past treatment of Ye Chu.

• Ye Mo learned that Jiang Lan had reunited with his ex-boyfriend, and he and Ye Chu realized they were each talking about the other’s love interest.
• Ye Mo said they needed to find the other four, while Ye Chu explained who was with his group.
• Pei Yanchuan recovered his memories and realized Ye Mo was Ye Chu’s brother, then worried about what he had said to him.
• Pei Yanchuan and Qi Yu encountered Lu Rui, and Pei Yanchuan recognized Qi Yu as an NPC from Run for Time.
• Qi Yu explained how he escaped his instance and admitted he had locked Ye Chu up while trying to find Ye Mo.

Pei Yanchuan recovered memories of his brutal childhood in the Pei Family and the boy Ye Chu who rescued and cared for him after he escaped. The chapter ended with Ye Chu bringing him breakfast the next day and telling him he was too young to talk about dying.

• Pei Yanchuan touched a memory fragment and recalled growing up in the violent Pei Family, where his father had killed his mother and useless children were threatened with death.
• At ten, Pei Yanchuan escaped after being beaten, collapsed from his wounds, and saw Ye Chu before fainting.
• Ye Chu took Pei Yanchuan to a deserted hut, treated his wounds, and gave him money before leaving for home.
• Pei Yanchuan asked Ye Chu to hide him, and Ye Chu told him to stay in the hut until he returned the next day.
• Ye Chu brought Pei Yanchuan breakfast, gave him an extra bun, and objected when Pei Yanchuan said starving to death would not be so bad.

Ye Chu cared for the wounded Pei Yanchuan for three days, offering him comfort before Pei Yanchuan returned to the Pei Family. Years later, Pei Yanchuan remained driven by memories of Ye Chu and eventually threatened his father to secure his freedom.

• Ye Chu tended Pei Yanchuan's wounds, shared food and candy with him, and told him that hatred did not have to define a person's whole life.
• After three days, Pei Yanchuan told Ye Chu he was leaving and accepted a lollipop as a parting gift without learning Ye Chu's name.
• A burly man arrived to escort Pei Yanchuan back to the Pei Family and promised that Ye Chu would only receive an injection to make him forget the past three days.
• Pei Yanchuan returned to the Pei Family, trained obsessively, and continued thinking about the boy who had helped him; he later rejected prayer as a source of salvation.
• At fifteen, Pei Yanchuan defeated a larger man in a fighting ring, and at seventeen he held a knife to his father's throat and demanded to leave.

Pei Yanchuan remembered how he had escaped the Pei family and spent years longing to find the boy who had saved him, only to reunite with him in the maze. After Pei Yanchuan and Qi Yu joined Ye Chu’s group, Pei Yanchuan rushed to Ye Chu while Ye Mo reacted with suspicion.

• Pei Yanchuan had threatened his father into letting him go, but his father warned that finding the boy who had saved him would be difficult.
• Pei Yanchuan woke in the maze as Wu You, Lu Rui, and Ru Xue added personality fragments to the Silver-Horned King.
• Pei Yanchuan pulled Qi Yu along to find Ye Chu and encouraged him to clear up his misunderstanding with Ye Mo.
• Su Fengzi sensed that five people were approaching, and Ye Chu’s group waited for them to arrive.
• Pei Yanchuan rushed into Ye Chu’s arms, greeted Su Fengzi, and called Ye Mo his big brother, prompting Ye Mo to challenge him.

The group reunited, and Ye Mo was overjoyed to find Qi Yu alive, though they remained uncertain whether they could stay together after leaving the Instance. Pei Yanchuan also told Ye Chu about their childhood connection and painful past, ending with a whispered request Ye Chu agreed to.

• Jiang Lan met Pei Yanchuan, who cheerfully called him sister-in-law, and the group introduced themselves and reunited.
• Pei Yanchuan brought Ye Mo to Qi Yu, and Ye Mo embraced him, scolded him, and asked how he had escaped the Instance.
• Qi Yu explained his escape, but Ye Mo worried that they would eventually have to return to separate worlds; they agreed to take things one step at a time.
• Pei Yanchuan told Ye Chu that he had once been the heir to a crime family and that they had met as children before Ye Chu lost his memories.
• Pei Yanchuan recounted his unhappy childhood, and Ye Chu comforted him; Pei Yanchuan then whispered a request, and Ye Chu agreed.

After clearing the Amnesia Maze, Ye Chu bargained with the system for Qi Yu to join them in the Rest House, agreeing that everyone would enter one more instance. Ye Mo woke from a dream of losing Qi Yu and later saw him in the kitchen at the shared gathering.

• Ye Mo stayed behind at the maze’s exit while the others cleared the instance, unable to choose between leaving Qi Yu and staying with him.
• Ye Chu asked the system whether Qi Yu could enter the Rest House, and it offered to let him come if the group cleared one more instance.
• Ye Chu and the others accepted the system’s terms, which promised they could return to reality after the next instance.
• Ye Mo dreamed that Qi Yu dissolved before he could leave the maze, then woke in the Rest House and learned that the two groups could visit each other’s homes.
• At the gathering, Ye Mo saw Qi Yu in the kitchen, dressed in casual clothes, and Qi Yu asked whether he wanted some fish.

Ye Mo reunited with Qi Yu and joined the lively group for a hot pot meal, sharing teasing moments with him as everyone prepared food and drinks. The gathering ended with a toast, and Su Fengzi drank both his baijiu and Jiang Lan’s red wine.

• Ye Mo saw Qi Yu again and became so overwhelmed that Ye Chu had to keep him from fainting.
• Gao Ruxue ordered baijiu, red wine, and soft drinks while the group chose hot pot ingredients and prepared extra dishes.
• Wu You asked the men to introduce her to a handsome boyfriend, and Su Fengzi promised to help her find someone.
• Kitty and Wu Lü chased each other around the table, prompting the group to protect the prepared food and put both pets upstairs.
• Ye Mo stole a taste of Qi Yu’s fish, and Qi Yu teased him before Ye Mo returned to the living room.
• The group toasted together, and Su Fengzi drained his own baijiu and Jiang Lan’s red wine.

Pei Yanchuan toasted the group as they shared a lively hot pot meal, and several of them got drunk. Jiang Lan carried Su Fengzi back to his place, while Pei Yanchuan brought Ye Chu to their room, where Ye Chu initiated an intimate night together.

• Pei Yanchuan gave a toast about the friends and family they had found in the Instance, then joked when the others only sipped their drinks.
• Ye Chu and several others became tipsy as the group ate and laughed together.
• Jiang Lan carried the drunk Su Fengzi away, and Su Fengzi said he had thought about Jiang Lan every day and wanted to be with him.
• Pei Yanchuan brought the drunk Ye Chu back to their room and gave him sobering soup.
• Ye Chu pounced on Pei Yanchuan and told him he wanted to be on top, and neither of them slept that night.