Chapter Summaries

Shen Ru confronted the Puppeteer in A Zone after Qi Ning’s betrayal was exposed, and used the encounter to probe the Puppeteer’s weaknesses. As the Puppeteer choked him, Shen Ru demanded that he let go and kneel.

• The Puppeteer’s control over Qi Ning was revealed: he had made Qi Ning lure Shen Ru to A Zone in exchange for safety.
• The Puppeteer appeared and focused on Shen Ru, but Shen Ru approached Qi Ning and taunted him instead.
• The Puppeteer severed Qi Ning’s arm and withdrew his life-sustaining power, and Shen Ru killed the dying traitor with a dagger.
• Shen Ru told the Puppeteer that his hostility came from the man’s disregard for boundaries and his relationship with Mo Yu.
• The Puppeteer grabbed Shen Ru by the throat and ordered him to exclude Mo Yu from their dynamic.
• Shen Ru concealed his anger, invoked their arrangement, and demanded that the Puppeteer release him and kneel.

Shen Ru and Mo Yu fought the Puppeteer and discovered that the enormous tree was tied to his life and escape. They destroyed the tree and killed the Puppeteer as the Instance collapsed, then embraced before leaving.

• Shen Ru questioned the Puppeteer about his substitution ability and learned the tree showed the Players’ life statuses.
• The Puppeteer attacked Shen Ru, but Shen Ru fought back with his hidden abilities and suspected the tree was the Puppeteer’s true body.
• Mo Yu arrived, giving Shen Ru an opening to stab the Puppeteer and order Mo Yu to destroy the tree.
• Mo Yu cleaved the tree apart while Shen Ru stabbed the Puppeteer through the heart and eyes, killing him.
• As the Instance collapsed, Shen Ru and Mo Yu embraced and prepared to leave.

After Qi Ning’s death, Shen Ru refused to become acting guild leader until Mo Yu persuaded him with a year’s supply of Hot Pot Base and asked to make their relationship official. That night, Shen Ru woke to a frozen, deserted world, found a warning letter, and heard someone call his name.

• Meng Yizhi visited the fire-damaged Dark Night Guild, where Sheng Ziyao teased him about the arson attack and Gu Changming ordered Sheng Ziyao to help with repairs.
• Mo Yu and Shen Ru concealed Qi Ning’s betrayal, reporting that he had died while searching A Zone for a way to slow the mutation.
• The other guild leaders asked Shen Ru to serve as acting guild leader, but he refused because of the uncertainty surrounding the Puppeteer.
• Mo Yu offered Shen Ru a year’s supply of Hot Pot Base and asked to make their relationship official, and Shen Ru agreed to let Mo Yu arrange it.
• Shen Ru woke at night to find the Villa and streets unnaturally frozen, then discovered a letter warning him to run.
• Shen Ru received contradictory messages on his Light Brain, switched it off, and heard someone call his name from behind.

Shen Ru escaped the Puppeteer’s illusion in Mo Yu’s consciousness and reunited with Mo Yu, who asked him to use Mrs. Leon’s Tears Card to enter his mind and save him. The chapter ended with Shen Ru preparing to cross into Mo Yu’s consciousness.

• Qi Ning revealed himself as the Puppeteer inside Mo Yu’s consciousness and warned Shen Ru that Mo Yu would die if Shen Ru did not survive.
• Shen Ru concluded that the Puppeteer had targeted him and searched the Living Area for clues to escape the illusion.
• Shen Ru noticed the Villa’s mailbox was out of place and smashed it, breaking the illusion.
• Mo Yu embraced and kissed Shen Ru as the Living Area transformed into a spectacle celebrating their relationship.
• Mo Yu told Shen Ru to use Mrs. Leon’s Tears Card to enter his consciousness and save him, and Shen Ru promised he would.

Shen Ru entered Mo Yu’s consciousness and found himself at a wedding where everyone expected him to marry Mo Yu after the Puppeteer’s death. After discovering that the wedding was a trap and time was running short, Shen Ru attacked the impostor posing as Mo Yu, but the man warned that Shen Ru could not kill him.

• Shen Ru woke in the Church where Meng Yizhi and Sheng Ziyao told him the wedding was soon and that he had killed the Puppeteer.
• Shen Ru entered the dressing room and found a man posing as Mo Yu, who admitted the wedding and everyone in the consciousness were fake.
• The impostor told Shen Ru to leave after the wedding, but Shen Ru suspected the ceremony’s end would trap him and Mo Yu together.
• Shen Ru stabbed the impostor in the eye with an eyebrow pencil, but the man turned transparent and declared that Shen Ru could not kill him.
• The impostor threatened to make Shen Ru his bride if he did not escape, while Sheng Ziyao knocked and Shen Ru realized the wedding was much closer than he had thought.

Shen Ru dressed for the wedding in Mo Yu’s consciousness while searching for a way to kill the Puppeteer. He rejected an apparent chance to escape, then reached the altar and proposed kissing Mo Yu before exchanging rings.

• Meng Yizhi and Sheng Ziyao urged Shen Ru to get dressed and join the wedding, and Shen Ru put on the dark wedding gown.
• Shen Ru encountered a rift offering him a chance to leave, but rejected the voice claiming to be Mo Yu and headed to the church entrance.
• Shen Ru realized the Puppeteer’s presence in Mo Yu’s consciousness and his inability to hurt it pointed to a missing clue.
• Shen Ru entered the church and agreed to take Mo Yu as his partner, while Mo Yu hesitated before saying, “I do.”
• Shen Ru interrupted the ceremony and leaned toward Mo Yu, saying he wanted to kiss his partner before exchanging rings.

Shen Ru forced Mo Yu to awaken and kill the Puppeteer, ending the threat inside Mo Yu’s consciousness. Alone in the church, Shen Ru and Mo Yu shared their own wedding vows and confessed their love, leaving them united after the battle.

• Shen Ru threatened to kiss the Puppeteer’s manifestation to provoke Mo Yu into waking up.
• Mo Yu regained control, and Shen Ru pulled the Puppeteer from his consciousness.
• Mo Yu stabbed the Puppeteer to death with the dagger Shen Ru had prepared.
• Mo Yu pulled Shen Ru into his arms and teased him about saying “I do” to the Puppeteer.
• Shen Ru and Mo Yu danced in the church, exchanged wedding vows, and told each other they loved one another.

After the Puppeteer’s death threw the channels into chaos, Shen Ru took charge of the Water Mirror Guild and helped eliminate monsters while Mo Yu worked to restore order. When Shen Ru’s monster-fighting photos made him an online sensation, Mo Yu’s jealousy led to the posts disappearing and the network going down for maintenance until the two reunited.

• The Puppeteer’s death caused rifts, monsters, and connection failures across the channels, so Shen Ru became Acting Guild Leader and prepared the Water Mirror Guild for an operation.
• At the operations meeting, Shen Ru gave the team strict orders and appointed Gu Changming to answer any further questions.
• Shen Ru led the team to the Entertainment Channel to kill monsters while Mo Yu and the other guild leaders restored daily life and Gu Changming linked the channels’ networks.
• A post featuring secret photos of Shen Ru spread widely, and Mo Yu saved the images while reading comments from admirers.
• Posts and information about Shen Ru vanished, and an official announcement blamed a week of network maintenance; Shen Ru finished his work early, and the network returned to normal after he and Mo Yu reunited.

After returning from an instance, Shen Ru reunited with Mo Yu, who restrained him and used material he had found online to provoke him. By dawn, Mo Yu had posted a photo of Shen Ru with the caption “Mine,” setting off a flurry of online attention.

• Shen Ru terrorized the Water Mirror Guild team by chaining up a defeated monster and dragging it along until the Infinite Channel ordered them back.
• Mo Yu returned to find Shen Ru asleep in his bed, then waited nearby as Shen Ru woke in a bed surrounded by a glittering cage.
• Shen Ru challenged Mo Yu, but Mo Yu bound him with shadows and chains and teased him with content from his Light Brain.
• After their struggle, Mo Yu tucked Shen Ru under the quilt, posted a close-up photo captioned “Mine,” and drew a flood of comments and trending topics.

Shen Ru stayed at Meng Yizhi’s home while Meng and Sheng Ziyao tried to figure out what had happened between him and Mo Yu. Shen Ru discovered Mo Yu had hidden cameras throughout their home, including the bathroom, and confronted him, ending the chapter with Mo Yu offering to show him all the footage.

• After Shen Ru had stayed at Meng Yizhi’s place for a week, Meng asked Sheng Ziyao to get Mo Yu to come collect him, but Sheng arrived alone, eager to try the hot pot.
• Sheng Ziyao and Meng competed to serve Shen Ru food until Shen told them to be quiet.
• While Shen Ru was in the bathroom, Meng asked Sheng what had happened between Shen Ru and Mo Yu, and Sheng said the pair had disappeared after Shen Ru’s last mission before Mo Yu became a workaholic.
• Meng inferred that Shen Ru had fled after Mo Yu exhausted him and treated Sheng warmly, believing he was helping Mo Yu sound Shen Ru out.
• Shen read Mo Yu’s messages apologizing and proposing more frequent encounters, then recalled discovering a newly recorded video of them in the bedroom.
• Shen found footage from the bathroom as well, confronted Mo Yu about the cameras, and Mo Yu said they were everywhere and asked if Shen wanted to see them.

Shen Ru secretly searched for a glowing gemstone so he could propose to Mo Yu and make up for their botched wedding. After Mo Yu followed him into an instance, Shen Ru confessed his plan and Mo Yu accepted his proposal.

• Mo Yu found a strange black bug in the fridge, then learned from Gu Changming that Shen Ru had been bringing monsters home from instances.
• Shen Ru led the Water Mirror Guild into a dark forest to capture a monster alive and used the black bug to locate it.
• Shen Ru discovered that the terrified teammate guiding him was a monster in disguise and killed him.
• Shen Ru asked the captured monster where to find a gemstone that glowed at night, then spotted Mo Yu approaching.
• Shen Ru told Mo Yu he was searching for the stone to propose, and Mo Yu accepted and asked Teacher Shen to marry him.

Shen Ru entered the Cycle of Fate instance with the little black bug and discovered that it was set in the Infinite Channel's Leisure Area. He recognized a younger Mo Yu appearing in a broadcast and then saw Mo Yu emerge from the instance.

• Shen Ru invited Mo Yu to join him in the Cycle of Fate instance, but Mo Yu said he might not be able to enter and warned Shen Ru to stay safe.
• The little black bug woke Shen Ru and accompanied him into the instance.
• Shen Ru found himself in the Infinite Channel's Leisure Area and confirmed that the little black bug believed the glowing stone was there.
• Shen Ru watched a broadcast showing a younger Mo Yu fighting with a blade amid flames.
• The instance ended, and Mo Yu appeared in the plaza surrounded by lingering malice and killing intent as the crowd moved away from him.

Shen Ru found the glowing stone on a younger Mo Yu and helped him survive the guild leaders’ plot in exchange for it. After returning to his own world, Shen Ru gave the stone to Mo Yu, who realized their meeting had shaped his past, and the two reaffirmed their love.

• Shen Ru followed Little Black Bug’s directions and discovered that the glowing stone hung from Mo Yu’s waist.
• Mo Yu mistook Shen Ru for an assassin and attacked him, but Shen Ru offered to help him face the hostile guild leaders.
• At the hotel, Shen Ru agreed to explain Mo Yu’s future in exchange for the stone and told him about his eventual dealings with the system.
• Before leaving with the stone, Shen Ru teased Mo Yu about giving it to his lover and congratulated him on becoming a legend.
• Back in his own world, Shen Ru returned the stone to Mo Yu, who said he preferred to call their meeting fate and wished Shen Ru peace forever.