Chapter Summaries

Lou Yu and Lu Yao settled on W Island after the disaster, where Lu Yao promised to live long enough to care for Lou Yu while researching a way to save Ye Ruan. The chapter left Lou Yu bringing Lu Yao hot food at the Research Institute and insisting he eat properly.

• Lou Yu teased Lu Yao aboard the plane, and Lu Yao explained that General Nan and Commander Li had weakened the faction targeting Special Persons.
• Lou Yu and Lu Yao arrived at their W Island dormitory, where Lou Yu challenged Lu Yao's fatalism and Lu Yao carried him inside.
• Afterward, Lou Yu comforted Lu Yao over his health, and Lu Yao promised to live longer and care for him for the rest of his life.
• Lu Yao began working with Xu Chu at the Research Institute on a way to save Ye Ruan while Lou Yu explored the island and bought pastries for him.
• Lou Yu found Lu Yao eating a cold lunch, took away his lunch box, and gave him a hot chicken cutlet sandwich.

Lu Yao and Lou Yu shared a meal and intimate time at Lu Yao’s office before Lou Yu learned that he was being sent to the Arctic on a mission. Lu Yao worried about the danger and tried to persuade him to stay, but they ended the night together at home.

• Lou Yu brought Lu Yao warmed food and stayed to talk with him during his lunch break.
• Lu Yao took Lou Yu to the office lounge for private time while Xu Chu remained nearby.
• Lu Yao told Lou Yu that Commander Li was sending the top ten special persons in the ability rankings to the Arctic to retrieve data.
• Lu Yao admitted he feared for Lou Yu’s safety and asked him not to go, but Lou Yu teased him and insisted on his freedom.
• Lou Yu and Lu Yao went to the bedroom, where Lu Yao carried him and joked that neither of them would sleep that night.

Lu Yao reunited with Lou Yu in the Arctic after a month apart, while Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng also reunited. Lou Yao carried Lou Yu away after catching him and Yu Jingjing eavesdropping on the other couple.

• Lu Yao cuddled and teased Lou Yu in fox form before coaxing him into human form and trying to seduce him.
• After learning Gu Cheng and the others had gone missing, Lu Yao rushed to the Arctic with Ye Ruan, who wanted to find Gu Cheng.
• Lu Yao and Lou Yu reunited at the Arctic accommodations, kissed, and embraced before a knock interrupted their attempt to be intimate.
• At dinner, Lu Yao sulked over the interruption while Lou Yu and Yu Jingjing listened to Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng in their room.
• Lu Yao caught Lou Yu and Yu Jingjing eavesdropping and slung Lou Yu over his shoulder as Yu Jingjing joked about whom to ship.

Lou Yu and Lu Yao made up after Lou Yu locked himself away, then attended Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng’s wedding together. As they watched the couple exchange rings, Lou Yu told Lu Yao he had no regrets and promised to spend the rest of his life with him.

• Lou Yu refused to let Lu Yao into their room until Ye Ruan asked them to help prepare for the wedding, then Lou Yu and Lu Yao apologized and reconciled.
• Lou Yu stayed at Ye Ruan’s home and listened as Yu Jingjing worried about Tang Tang rejecting her; Ye Ruan suggested Tang Tang’s fear stemmed from a childhood trauma.
• Lou Yu reminisced with Ye Ruan and their friends about their younger days and the old conflicts they had overcome together.
• Lou Yu attended Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng’s wedding with Lu Yao and told him he had no regrets about their life together.
• Lou Yu and Lu Yao exchanged declarations of love as they held hands at the wedding.

After a painful morning following his reckless night with Jiang Qing, Si Ning was caught in a zombie attack while still barely able to walk. Jiang Qing carried and dragged him through the evacuation, but the group became trapped by the horde.

• Si Ning ran into teammates after waking, then sought medicine from Lou Yu; Jiang Qing stopped him and gave him painkillers, anti-inflammatory medicine, and an internal ointment.
• Si Ning returned to his room, applied the medicine, and regretted accepting Bai En's proposal, fearing his brothers would never trust him again.
• An explosion signaled a zombie attack, and Jiang Qing told Si Ning that Ye Ruan and the others were covering the retreat while everyone else evacuated to the vehicles.
• Si Ning asked Jiang Qing to carry him because of his injuries, and Jiang Qing hoisted him onto his back before rushing downstairs.
• Jiang Qing dragged Si Ning past Ye Ruan, Gu Cheng, and a small monster, but the group found the exit surrounded by zombies.
• Si Ning sat down and believed they were doomed, while Jiang Qing teased him with a suggestive remark that made Si Ning curse him.

Jiang Qing used Si Ning’s numbered tag to persuade him to help search for a lost protective charm, but their teasing turned into a physical encounter in Si Ning’s apartment. Afterward, Si Ning drowsily reminded Jiang Qing that they still needed to look for the charm.

• Jiang Qing confronted Si Ning at his dorm and used his numbered tag to convince him to help search for a protective charm he had lost on the plane.
• Si Ning agreed to sneak into the military airfield with Jiang Qing that night, then told him not to come looking for him again afterward.
• Jiang Qing and Si Ning traded taunts until Si Ning challenged him, and Jiang Qing pinned him on the sofa.
• After their afternoon together, Jiang Qing retrieved cigarettes from his coat while Si Ning rested beneath it.
• Si Ning asked Jiang Qing for a cigarette and reminded him that they still needed to find the protective charm.

Jiang Qing and Si Ning went to the restricted airport to retrieve a protective charm, sharing a heated kiss before Si Ning slipped inside in caracal form. Jiang Qing waited outside with Si Ning’s clothes, but a strange sound came from the grass before Si Ning returned.

• Si Ning woke from a nightmare, then got dressed and agreed to help Jiang Qing retrieve the protective charm.
• Jiang Qing and Si Ning walked through the airport at night, where Si Ning demanded a cigarette and impulsively kissed Jiang Qing.
• Jiang Qing kissed Si Ning passionately against the fence, then led him to their destination.
• Si Ning asked Jiang Qing to hold his clothes and transformed into a caracal to slip into the restricted airport grounds.
• Jiang Qing waited outside for an hour until a strange sound came from the grass.

Jiang Qing and Si Ning fought a nest of mutated pigeons near the airport, then shared a vulnerable conversation about family and help. Si Ning planned to take Jiang Qing home, but a Zombie alert kept them busy until dawn as teams gathered to inspect the airport.

• Jiang Qing fought a mutated pigeon and a flock of newly hatched pigeons until Si Ning returned in Caracal form and helped kill them.
• Si Ning returned Jiang Qing's protection charm, and they left to report the danger to the Guards.
• Jiang Qing told Si Ning about his younger brothers and offered to help him, prompting Si Ning to invite him home.
• The Guards alerted their superiors, and Cai Hao, Lu Yao, and Fang Ci arrived with teams to inspect the airport and eliminate Zombies.
• At dawn, Si Ning watched the teams approach as Jiang Qing asked whether he still wanted him to go home with him.

Si Ning spent the evening with Jiang Qing after learning he had to leave for an Arctic mission, and tried to use a drugged candy to get revenge on him. Their encounter ended with Jiang Qing asking whether Si Ning had truly considered their relationship and revealing he had hoped to take it further.

• Si Ning handed Jiang Qing his room key, then joined Lu Yao and his teammates in collecting bird eggs and capturing mutated birds while Lou Yu comforted him about the teammates who still resented him.
• Lou Yu told Si Ning that Lu Yao and everyone ranked in the top ten had to depart for an Arctic mission the next day, and Cai Hao announced the emergency assignment.
• Si Ning returned home to find Jiang Qing had cooked dinner, and the two ate together as Jiang Qing teased him about his thoughts and his plan to poison him.
• Si Ning used a drugged candy from Lu Yao to paralyze Jiang Qing and carried him to the bedroom, intending to get revenge, but stopped when he realized something was wrong.
• Jiang Qing asked whether Si Ning had thought through their relationship, and told him he had cooked dinner because he hoped they could take their relationship further.

Si Ning left for a dangerous Arctic mission after realizing he had fallen for Jiang Qing, while Jiang Qing tried to stop him and asked to talk. After a brutal journey through a blizzard, Si Ning reached the camp determined to return and speak with Jiang Qing.

• Si Ning rejected Jiang Qing's offer to talk, kissed him to provoke him, and left after saying he was going on a mission to the Arctic.
• Jiang Qing waited outside the Research Institute, but the Sightseeing Bus carried Si Ning and the team away before they could speak.
• On the bus, Si Ning admitted to Lou Yu that he had fallen for Jiang Qing and feared he was not good enough for him.
• Si Ning, Lou Yu, Gu Cheng, Fang Ci, Yang Xiaomian, and the others struggled through a blizzard and lost their way while searching for camp.
• After nearly five hours in the snow, Si Ning reached camp and resolved to talk properly with Jiang Qing if he made it back alive.

Si Ning regretted his past betrayal and avoided Jiang Qing after returning, afraid Jiang Qing would reject him. Jiang Qing caught up with him and confessed that he liked him, leaving Si Ning crying in his arms.

• Si Ning remembered how his actions had caused Jiang Qing to catch him red-handed and admitted to himself that he liked Jiang Qing.
• After returning, Si Ning avoided Jiang Qing for three days, then left the wedding-planning meeting when Jiang Qing ignored him.
• Jiang Qing chased Si Ning down the night before Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng's wedding and pinned him against a tree.
• Si Ning confessed that he feared betraying Jiang Qing as he had betrayed others, and Jiang Qing admitted that he liked him.
• Jiang Qing pulled the tearful Si Ning into his arms and held him.

Si Ning confessed that he loved Jiang Qing, and Jiang Qing reassured him that he would always have a home with him. After Jiang Qing cooked for him, the two went to the bedroom together, bringing their side story to a close.

• Si Ning stopped crying and told Jiang Qing that he loved him too.
• Jiang Qing took Si Ning home and made him tomato and egg noodles after discovering he had barely eaten while Jiang Qing was away.
• Si Ning worried that Jiang Qing had changed his mind, and Jiang Qing promised to love him for life and give him a home.
• Jiang Qing carried Si Ning to the bedroom, and the two spent the night together.
• The side story ended, with Fang Ci and Yang Xiaomian announced as the next couple.

Fang Ci cared for Yang Xiaomian when he woke with a fever, and the two spent the rainy Lantern Festival at home. After Fang Ci reassured him and brought him gardenias, Yang Xiaomian fell asleep again while Fang Ci canceled their visit with Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan.

• Fang Ci noticed Yang Xiaomian had a fever and stayed beside him until he fell asleep again.
• Fang Ci went out to buy fever medicine, but returned to find Yang Xiaomian waiting for him on the sofa.
• Fang Ci carried Yang Xiaomian back to bed, teased him about wearing his pajamas, and gave him medicine and warm water.
• Fang Ci put gardenia sprigs in a vase and told Yang Xiaomian they reminded him of his Little Sheep.
• Fang Ci held Yang Xiaomian until he fell asleep, then messaged Gu Cheng to cancel their Lantern Festival visit.
• Gu Cheng told Fang Ci that Ye Ruan had made him kneel on a washboard after he drank too much.

Yang Xiaomian recovered from his fever as Fang Ci cared for him and prepared a Lantern Festival meal. After hearing Yu Jingjing and Tang Tang reconcile, the couple made glutinous rice balls to share with them.

• Yang Xiaomian woke after his fever broke, and Fang Ci carried him to wash up and kissed him in the bathroom.
• Fang Ci served Yang Xiaomian the meal he had prepared and helped him put on socks.
• Fang Ci and Yang Xiaomian heard Yu Jingjing and Tang Tang arguing in the hallway and watched as Yu Jingjing confessed her feelings and Tang Tang agreed to try being together.
• Fang Ci and Yang Xiaomian made glutinous rice balls to take to Yu Jingjing and Tang Tang, playfully smearing flour on each other.

Fang Ci and Yang Xiaomian shared a playful evening making and eating glutinous rice balls, then reaffirmed their love as they prepared to leave W Island to help the military fight zombies. The rain stopped at midnight, revealing the moon as they looked forward to spending their lives together.

• Yang Xiaomian smeared strawberry jam on his mouth and kissed Fang Ci, leaving them both covered in flour.
• Fang Ci cooked glutinous rice balls for Yang Xiaomian, who enjoyed the strawberry filling and waited for him by the bedroom window.
• Fang Ci shut the window to keep Yang Xiaomian from catching a chill, then told him they would soon leave W Island to help the military kill zombies.
• Yang Xiaomian said he loved Fang Ci more, and Fang Ci told him he treasured all the love Yang Xiaomian gave him.
• Fang Ci teased Yang Xiaomian about his earlier offer to take advantage of him while he was drunk, and they cuddled beneath the quilt as the rain stopped.
• The clouds parted at midnight to reveal the full moon, and Fang Ci said he looked forward to spending the rest of his life with Yang Xiaomian.

Ye Ting joined Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng’s team after using a notebook of Ye Ruan’s injuries to persuade his brother to take him along. During a Zombie-clearing mission, Ye Ting proved he could fight, while Lu Jiayi learned Gu Cheng was trying to earn him a promotion and eagerly charged back into battle.

• Ye Ting rejected the Research Institute and pressured Ye Ruan into adding him to the Third Team by threatening to show their mother a record of Ye Ruan’s injuries.
• Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan teased and kissed each other after Ye Ting left, and Ye Ruan brought Ye Ting along when the team resumed clearing Zombies.
• Ye Ting took Ye Ruan’s gun and charged into a Zombie horde, then fought with a curved blade Ye Ruan threw him.
• Lu Jiayi complained that Gu Cheng had refused his leave request until Si Ning explained that the mission could help Lu Jiayi earn the island’s Guard Department head position.
• Lu Jiayi eagerly charged off to kill Zombies after hearing about the promotion and its generous pay.

Ye Ting was rescued from a mutated peacock by Seventeen, a winged escapee from the Research Institute, and the team brought them back to W Island. Seventeen was assigned to Ye Ruan’s Third Team, while Ye Ting faced a scolding for straying from the group.

• Ye Ting became trapped in a bird’s nest with Seventeen, who carried him away from a mutated peacock pursuing them.
• Ye Ruan shot the peacock, and Seventeen and Ye Ting fell onto the beach; Seventeen revealed that he could talk and gave his name.
• Gu Cheng identified Seventeen as Xu Chu’s seventeenth Avian Test Subject, and Lu Jiayi netted him to take him back to W Island.
• Ye Ruan scolded Ye Ting for wandering off and putting Yu Jingjing and Tang Tang in danger, while Ye Ting apologized.
• Lu Jiayi became Guard Department Minister, and Xu Chu proposed fitting Seventeen with a Control Anklet and assigning him to Ye Ruan’s team.
• A week later, Commander Li announced that Seventeen would join the Third Team, and Ye Ting was chased around the island by the mutated white peacock.

In Moose Country, Li Rang bid farewell to the little moose cloned from Chi Yuan, believing he had to let him live as an animal. As Li Rang prepared to leave with Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan, Chi Yuan returned to human form and asked Li Rang to take him home.

• In the third year after the apocalypse began, Li Rang carried the little moose into Moose Country and released him near a herd.
• Li Rang told the moose about his regret over never getting close to Chi Yuan or saying goodbye, then watched him join the herd.
• Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan found Li Rang, and Gu Cheng carried Ye Ruan as they prepared to leave.
• A youth emerged from the water holding a white tulip, and Li Rang recognized him as Chi Yuan.
• Chi Yuan gave Li Rang the flower and asked him to take him home.