Chapter Summaries

Xia Yao mistook Su Jiu’s interest in his offer for attraction and promised to help her find a way back, while Su Jiu wondered whether he had knowledge or abilities that could help. He explained that he had approached her because of his rivalry with fellow star Chu Zhe.

• Xia Yao dismissed his manager’s request to meet a masked beauty, then froze when he saw Su Jiu’s clear eyes.
• Su Jiu mistook Xia Yao for Senior Brother from a distance, but realized they looked different up close and tried to leave.
• Xia Yao followed Su Jiu, introduced himself, and offered to help her become a star, but she remained uninterested.
• Su Jiu asked whether Xia Yao could help her find her way back, and he reflexively said he could.
• Xia Yao explained that he had approached Su Jiu because of his bitter rivalry with Chu Zhe, whose album had outsold his and who repeatedly competed with him for roles and attention.

Su Jiu agreed to accompany Xia Yao on a variety show where Chu Zhe would appear with his beautiful sister, and she wondered whether Xia Yao could help her return to her original world. After Xia Yao saw Su Jiu's face and his manager recognized her as the person he had mentioned, Xia Yao hurried to arrange a short-term contract.

• Su Jiu read Xia Yao and Chu Zhe's old Weibo posts and watched their fans argue over their breakfasts.
• Su Jiu recalled agreeing to join Xia Yao on a variety show, where Chu Zhe planned to bring his sister, Chu Ting'er.
• Xia Yao asked Su Jiu to remove her mask, then stared in astonishment at her beauty.
• Xia Yao's manager and staff entered, froze at the sight of Su Jiu, and the manager told Xia Yao she was the person he had mentioned earlier.
• Xia Yao told his manager to prepare a short-term contract quickly so Su Jiu would not leave.

Su Jiu learned how contracts worked in this world, while Bai Su worried that she might take drastic action if Xia Yao failed to help her return. On the way to the livestreamed variety show, Bai Su tried to teach Su Jiu about the entertainment industry as comments praised Chu Ting and mocked Xia Yao before his arrival.

• Bai Su explained that agreements in this world were enforced by law rather than the Heavenly Dao, and asked why Su Jiu had signed one with Xia Yao.
• Su Jiu said Xia Yao might help her find a way back, and Bai Su warned her against hurting anyone if he deceived her.
• Bai Su failed to reach Xia Yao over the next few days and finally saw him again when she brought Su Jiu to the variety show's production team.
• Bai Su coached Su Jiu on how to behave for an audience, but Su Jiu questioned why she should smile.
• Chu Ting arrived early with Chu Zhe and charmed the other guests while livestream comments praised her and mocked Xia Yao for being late with his younger sister.

Su Jiu arrived at a lifestyle variety show with Xia Yao, where her stunning appearance silenced the online mockery and stunned the guests. Chu Ting then quietly told Chu Zhe that Su Jiu’s gaze frightened her, leaving the audience to hear his response.

• Xia Yao suspected someone other than Chu Zhe had orchestrated the online attacks and waited for Su Jiu to arrive.
• Xia Yao brought Su Jiu onto the set with her hat and mask still on, drawing ridicule from viewers.
• Su Jiu removed her disguise, and her beauty silenced the trolls and stunned the guests.
• Xia Yao introduced Su Jiu to Li Cheng, Chu Zhe, Hong Hao, and Chu Ting.
• Chu Ting told Chu Zhe that Su Jiu’s gaze frightened her, and Chu Zhe patted her shoulder and told her not to overthink it.

Chu Ting’s pointed remark left Su Jiu and the other guests in an awkward silence until Du Hongfang arrived and eased the tension. The director then explained the seven-day challenge, while Su Jiu sensed something unusual about the town and decided to explore it that night.

• Chu Ting’s comment about Su Jiu divided the livestream viewers, while Su Jiu ignored the slight and Xia Yao and Li Cheng stayed out of the dispute.
• Du Hongfang arrived, greeted Li Cheng and the guests, and helped restore a lively mood despite noticing the tension around Su Jiu and Chu Ting.
• The director announced that the guests would spend seven days in a small town with their phones and wallets confiscated and only a hundred yuan each, requiring them to earn money for food and lodging.
• Su Jiu let most of her consciousness explore the town and sensed its aura was unusual, so she planned to investigate further that night.
• Chu Zhe asked the director to explain the accommodations in advance.

Su Jiu and the other guests learned that they had to earn money to pay for their lodging on the variety show Ordinary Life. After splitting up, Su Jiu and Xia Yao looked for a way to earn money, and Xia Yao found a guitar shop.

• The director led the seven guests from the villa to two lodging options: a costly apartment and a cheap earthen house with no shower or kitchen counter.
• The guests accepted that they would have to choose between the two accommodations and were told to earn money for food and lodging before nightfall.
• The seven guests split up, with Chu Zhe leaving alongside Chu Ting and Xia Yao accompanying Su Jiu.
• Xia Yao warned Su Jiu that Chu Zhe was a hypocrite, then asked how they could earn money before dark.
• Su Jiu stopped at a shop selling traditional instruments, but Xia Yao said he could not play them.
• Xia Yao spotted a guitar shop next door, picked up a display guitar, and plucked its strings.

Xia Yao earned money by playing guitar on the street while Su Jiu concealed her presence, and they left with enough cash for lodging and food. After Su Jiu accurately described what the other guests were doing across town, the livestream viewers debated whether the show was scripted or she had extraordinary abilities.

• Xia Yao performed for passersby and collected money while Su Jiu used her arts to keep people from noticing her.
• An elderly man noticed Su Jiu despite her efforts to diminish her presence, and the cameraman realized he had forgotten to film her.
• Xia Yao counted 439 yuan and left with Su Jiu, saying it would cover their lodging and a simple meal.
• Xia Yao recognized Hong Hao passing by on a motorcycle, and Su Jiu described what the other guests were doing around town.
• Livestream viewers argued over whether Su Jiu's knowledge was scripted, while a comment suggesting she could see everything went unanswered.

Su Jiu noticed a mysterious book, The Biography of Qin Ming, vanish from an old bookstore and suspected something was wrong with the town’s Heavenly Dao. After sunset, she sensed the town’s aura change, and when Hong Hao returned, she guessed he had earned thirty-four yuan.

• The director and his staff struggled to respond to viewers who accused the production of scripting Su Jiu and Xia Yao’s apparent talents.
• Xia Yao and Su Jiu met Li Cheng, then Su Jiu sensed a familiar aura coming from The Biography of Qin Ming in a nearby bookstore.
• Su Jiu watched the book disappear and considered whether another cultivator had crossed into this world or the world’s Heavenly Dao was malfunctioning.
• Su Jiu asked Xia Yao about the town’s strange tales, dismissed his offer of ghost stories, and returned to their lodgings.
• At sunset, Su Jiu sensed the town’s aura change as the guests returned, and she guessed Hong Hao had earned thirty-four yuan.

Su Jiu stunned Hong Hao and the livestream viewers by correctly guessing that he had earned thirty-four yuan, prompting the director to consider a guessing segment. Chu Ting’s jealousy of Su Jiu’s beauty and attention grew as the group split up to earn money, with Xia Yao taking Su Jiu in the opposite direction from Chu Ting and her brother.

• Su Jiu told Hong Hao that he had earned thirty-four yuan, and she insisted she had guessed when he asked how she knew.
• Livestream viewers debated whether Su Jiu had guessed correctly and urged the production team to have her predict everyone’s earnings; the director approved the idea.
• Chu Ting recalled joining the show to build popularity and make her debut, then felt threatened and jealous when she saw Su Jiu.
• Chu Ting kept her distance from Su Jiu and excluded her from the group’s conversation, while Su Jiu stood apart and looked out the window.
• The group split up to earn money for accommodation, and Chu Ting left with her brother while Xia Yao took Su Jiu in the opposite direction.

Chu Ting and Chu Zhe returned to the villa after earning enough for two nights, where they learned that Su Jiu had correctly guessed how much they had made. Chu Ting insinuated that Su Jiu had cheated, but Su Jiu ignored her and claimed the accommodation benefit she had earned.

• Chu Ting and Chu Zhe returned to the villa after earning enough money to cover two nights of accommodation.
• The staff member asked Chu Zhe to guess how much he and Chu Ting had earned, and he answered 873 yuan.
• Su Jiu explained that she had guessed the amount, while Du Hongfang praised her and Chu Ting made a sarcastic comment.
• Chu Ting hinted that Su Jiu might have secretly read the livestream comments, making the atmosphere tense.
• Su Jiu asked whether her accommodation fee would be waived for guessing correctly, and the staff member confirmed it would.
• The livestream comments argued over whether Chu Ting was acting innocent and whether Su Jiu had cheated.

Su Jiu asked Bai Su to investigate a bookstore after sensing an Azure Realm book called The Biography of Qin Ming there, but the book was absent from recordings and the bookstore had no name. At dinner, Chu Ting tried to improve her reputation by offering to lend money to Hong Hao.

• Chu Zhe's fans argued with Xia Yao's fans and other viewers over Chu Ting's behavior, and the spectators increasingly blamed Chu Ting.
• Su Jiu contacted Bai Su through Divine Sense Voice Transmission and asked her to research the bookstore and find a livestream recording showing The Biography of Qin Ming.
• Bai Su found that the book did not appear in the recording and that the bookstore had no name; Su Jiu ended their conversation after hearing this.
• The guests saw that dinner prices left most of them with few affordable options, and Hong Hao complained that he could only afford egg fried rice.
• Chu Ting asked whether guests could lend money to one another, and the staff member agreed; Hong Hao understood her attempt to win back goodwill and accepted the chance to help her.

Su Jiu enjoyed cream cakes despite Xia Yao's warnings, then brushed off Chu Ting's veiled jabs with a cutting retort. Chu Ting was left humiliated as the other guests and staff dispersed, and the hall fell silent.

• Hong Hao borrowed money from Chu Ting for food and lodging, while Su Jiu borrowed money from Xia Yao to buy four cream cakes.
• Su Jiu ate all four cakes and told Du Hongfang that she would not gain weight; Du Hongfang advised her to limit sugar.
• Chu Ting criticized Su Jiu indirectly, and Xia Yao answered with a pointed remark about Su Jiu's good manners.
• As Su Jiu returned to her room, Chu Ting apologized for speaking bluntly, and Su Jiu told her to bring her brain when she went out tomorrow.
• Chu Ting lost her composure while Xia Yao and the others left, and the staff did not intervene as silence settled over the hall.

Chu Zhe warned Chu Ting that her behavior could damage the Chu Family’s reputation, and she took his threat seriously. That night, Su Jiu discovered that gray energy formed from people’s departing fortune was gathering above the town, then went to the bookstore to investigate The Biography of Qin Ming.

• After the livestream ended, Chu Zhe took Chu Ting aside and reprimanded her for her conduct, warning that the Chu Family would cast her aside if she harmed its reputation.
• Chu Ting realized Chu Zhe was serious and resolved to be more careful during the rest of the show.
• Su Jiu overheard the siblings’ conversation, then vanished from the apartment, causing Xia Yao to feel dizzy as she was about to sleep.
• Su Jiu used her Pupil Art to see gray threads of fortune rising from across town and collecting into a mass above it; she traced some threads to the apartment and concluded that something was wrong with the world.
• Su Jiu went to the bookstore and found The Biography of Qin Ming glowing in its display window, but her divine sense disappeared when she tried to scan it.
• Su Jiu decided to enter the bookstore.

Su Jiu entered the bookshop’s hidden starry space and discovered that Raising Handsome Men in the Azure Realm was an artificially created law tied to The Biography of Qin Ming. She learned that a rival Heavenly Dao had used the Azure Realm’s fortune to seize control, and suspected the True Heavenly Dao had given her a second life to stop history from repeating.

• Su Jiu entered the starry space, touched The Biography of Qin Ming, and endured a painful force pulling from her body.
• After Little Gift urged her to touch the book, Su Jiu’s pain drew Raising Handsome Men in the Azure Realm out of her sea of consciousness.
• Raising Handsome Men in the Azure Realm merged into The Biography of Qin Ming, which transformed into a ball of light.
• The ball of light told Su Jiu that both books were artificially created laws made by the weaker of two Azure Realm Heavenly Dao consciousnesses to seize control of the realm.
• Su Jiu deduced that the rival Heavenly Dao had used the world’s fortune as ink and suspected the True Heavenly Dao had given her a second life to prevent history from repeating.

Su Jiu learned that the false Heavenly Dao had chosen Zheng Qilong to destroy the Azure Realm and planned to use fortune from this world to achieve it. The light orb revealed that Su Jiu had been brought to this world to restore its fortune, and she left to act despite having no choice.

• Su Jiu questioned the light orb about The Biography of Qin Ming, and it explained that the false Heavenly Dao had created the book after she broke its first laws and abandoned Qin Ming for Zheng Qilong.
• The light orb told Su Jiu that Zheng Qilong was meant to destroy the Azure Realm so the false Heavenly Dao could replace the true Heavenly Dao.
• Su Jiu realized Zheng Qilong's Fortune-Transferring Pearl and Demonic Sword made him dangerous, and worried that Xia Jue would be unable to overcome his stolen fortune.
• The light orb suggested that Su Jiu could change the false Heavenly Dao's plans because she was an anomaly, then asked her about the gray vapor connecting the two worlds.
• Su Jiu understood that the light orb had brought her here to restore this world's fortune, challenged its demand, and left when it made clear it would not send her back otherwise.

Su Jiu questioned the light orb’s identity but decided to follow its suggestion and sever the False Heavenly Dao’s connection to the world’s fortune. The next morning, the guests returned to filming, where Hong Hao complained about his miserable night and Chu Ting resolved to keep pursuing her plans more carefully.

• A woman resembling the goddess statue questioned the light orb’s harsh treatment of Su Jiu and warned that Su Jiu would likely grow suspicious.
• Su Jiu reflected on the light orb’s explanation, remained uncertain about its identity, and chose to help sever the False Heavenly Dao’s connection to the world’s fortune.
• Su Jiu returned to her lodging and spent the night considering what to do next.
• The guests gathered at the villa for filming, and the director laughed at Hong Hao’s disheveled appearance.
• Hong Hao explained that he had spent the night in a primitive earthen house after running short of money, while Chu Ting worried about facing the same hardship.
• Chu Zhe reminded Chu Ting to be careful, but she still believed she could pursue her plans without being noticed.

The guests drew lots for the day’s work, and Su Jiu was assigned to catch and sell fish with Li Cheng and Chu Zhe. As the group headed to the river, Chu Zhe and Li Cheng realized Su Jiu seemed uninterested in entering the entertainment industry, and she looked confused when they called her an entertainer.

• The director assigned the guests to draw lots for fishing, harvesting vegetables, or collecting eggs, and Su Jiu drew the fishing task last.
• Chu Ting drew the egg-collecting task and was paired with Hong Hao, while Du Hongfang and Xia Yao were assigned to harvest vegetables.
• Su Jiu, Li Cheng, and Chu Zhe formed the fishing team, though all three admitted they had little or no fishing experience.
• Xia Yao offered to sell extra vegetables to cover Su Jiu’s share, assuming she might struggle to complete the task.
• On the way to the river, Chu Zhe and Li Cheng remarked that Su Jiu had a distinctive personality and was unlike most entertainers, leaving Su Jiu bewildered.

Su Jiu told Chu Zhe and Li Cheng that she had no plans to become an entertainer, leaving Chu Zhe wondering why Xia Yao seemed intent on promoting her. At the river, their fishing instructor predicted they would catch nothing, and Su Jiu suggested going into the water instead.

• Su Jiu clarified that she was only participating in the episode and would not become an entertainer, confusing Chu Zhe and Li Cheng.
• Chu Zhe wondered whether Xia Yao knew Su Jiu had no intention of entering the entertainment industry.
• Su Jiu, Chu Zhe, and Li Cheng reached the riverbank and met an elderly fishing instructor, who caught a fish and accidentally splashed everyone except Su Jiu.
• The Fishing Old Man taught them to fish and predicted that none of them would catch anything because they were too restless.
• After Chu Zhe and Li Cheng spent half an hour without a bite, Su Jiu proposed going into the river to catch fish, despite the crew member's warning about the danger.

Su Jiu stunned the fishing group by spearing fish with a bamboo pole, filling three buckets in half an hour and completing the team’s task early. The crew moved them on to selling the fish, while Chu Zhe and Li Cheng offered to handle it and let Su Jiu rest.

• Su Jiu returned with a bamboo pole and ignored the Fishing Old Man’s warnings that spearing fish in the river would not work.
• Su Jiu thrust the pole into the water and brought up two fish, astonishing the guests, staff, and viewers.
• Li Cheng asked whether Su Jiu had studied martial arts, and she agreed to spar with him later.
• Su Jiu speared fish repeatedly, filled three buckets in half an hour, and finished the task while Chu Zhe and Li Cheng caught none.
• The Fishing Old Man praised Su Jiu’s strength, speed, and eyesight before leaving, and the staff confirmed the team had caught enough fish.
• Chu Zhe and Li Cheng offered to sell the fish while Su Jiu rested.

During a countryside variety show, Su Jiu sensed the power of the laws near a mountain and rescued a child when a brief earthquake struck. As the crew continued filming, she realized the gray vapor overhead had faded and people’s fortune was no longer being drained, leaving her determined to investigate the mountain that night.

• Su Jiu sensed the power of the laws near the mountain but could not locate it again with her weakened divine sense.
• When an earthquake shook the riverbank, Su Jiu pulled a child out of the river with a burst of speed and returned the child safely to their friends.
• The earthquake startled the crew, while viewers argued over whether Su Jiu had appeared to fly; Bai Su felt relieved when the comments moved on.
• The Director told the crew to follow the schedule unless another earthquake occurred, so Su Jiu postponed investigating the mountain until night.
• Su Jiu noticed the gray vapor had faded and that gray threads were no longer being drawn from people, and she wondered what had happened to the Heavenly Daos.