Recaps

Nalu and Walrein were drawn to the hidden Temple of the Sea after a mysterious song put them to sleep. As the temple’s entrance called to Nalu, she stood on the verge of entering.

• Nalu rode Walrein through the deep Pacific, protected by his barrier, and promised him a seaside home someday.
• A man riding Kingdra sped past and knocked Walrein off balance, so Nalu decided to follow him.
• A strange song put Nalu and Walrein to sleep as they approached their destination.
• Nalu woke and saw the Temple of the Sea, whose history and protections had kept it hidden from humanity.
• A voice called to Nalu, inviting her inside.

Chinese leaders tried to track Elite Four Nalu to the Sea Temple, but the signal vanished after an ethereal song was recorded. In Bingzhou, Cheng Tian and Su Han planted a ginkgo tree with their grandmothers, who urged the two to stay together.

• China's senior leaders tracked Elite Four Nalu toward the suspected Sea Temple while Li Xun ordered the TianF Satellite to lock onto her location.
• The tracking signal vanished, and technicians recovered a short audio clip containing an ethereal singing voice for analysis.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han planted a ginkgo sapling in Cheng Tian's grandmother's courtyard after their college entrance exams.
• Granny Zhang told Cheng Tian and Su Han that the ginkgo symbolized lasting marriage and clasped their hands together.
• Grandpa Cheng arrived with a watermelon and invited Cheng Tian and Su Han to eat.

Cheng Tian and Su Han traveled by high-speed train to Magic City after Cheng Tian topped the provincial entrance exam and all four friends were accepted to Magic City University. As the train neared the station, Su Han clung to Cheng Tian and asked him for more kisses.

• Cheng Tian's mother called to check on him and Su Han, reminding them to keep their belongings safe and find affordable lodging in Magic City.
• Cheng Tian recalled earning 661 points and first place in the province, prompting his parents, teachers, and school to celebrate his achievement and their strong exam results.
• Cheng Tian, Bai Yun, Su Han, and Lin Lin all received acceptance letters from Magic City University, and Cheng Tian and Su Han traveled ahead of the others.
• As the train neared Magic City, Cheng Tian woke Su Han, and she asked to keep hugging and kissing him.

Cheng Tian and Su Han arrived in Magic City, where Su Han’s family sent a lavish escort to take them to her grandfather’s home. Cheng Tian worried about meeting him unprepared, while Su Han reassured him that her grandfather was kind.

• Cheng Tian searched for a hotel but balked at the high prices until Su Han said her grandfather would host them.
• A group of suited men surrounded Cheng Tian and Su Han outside the subway station, then bowed and welcomed Su Han home.
• Su Han introduced Cheng Tian to Xiao Ye, her family’s head bodyguard, and they rode away in a Hongqi L5 with a luxury-car escort.
• Su Han offered to buy Cheng Tian a better car, and he imagined what life as the Su Family’s live-in son-in-law might be like.
• Cheng Tian worried that Su Han’s grandfather would be upset because he had not prepared for their meeting, but Su Han told him not to worry.

Cheng Tian met Su Han’s grandfather, Su Youquan, at the Su company’s headquarters and won his approval by completing a poem. Su Youquan warmed to Cheng Tian, leaving him on good terms with Su Han’s family.

• Cheng Tian worried about meeting Su Han’s grandfather as Xiao Ye drove him and Su Han to the Su company headquarters.
• Su Han happily reunited with Su Youquan, then introduced Cheng Tian as her boyfriend.
• Su Youquan initially acted stern toward Cheng Tian, but Su Han teased him until he dropped the act and invited Cheng Tian to sit.
• Su Youquan asked Cheng Tian about his studies and hobbies, then challenged him to complete an unfinished poem.
• Cheng Tian supplied two lines that delighted Su Youquan, who praised his insight and encouraged him to read more poetry and prose.

Cheng Tian convinced Old Mr. Su that he loved Su Han and could protect her, and he agreed to become an Elite Four member before graduating from university. Old Mr. Su accepted him and arranged for Cheng Tian and Su Han to stay at a villa owned by Su Enterprises near Magic University.

• Old Mr. Su challenged Cheng Tian to prove that he truly loved Su Han and could give her a secure future.
• Cheng Tian summoned his level 38 Gengar and level 39 Greninja to demonstrate his Pokémon-raising ability, impressing Old Mr. Su.
• Old Mr. Su asked Cheng Tian to become an Elite Four member before graduating from university, and Cheng Tian firmly agreed.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han rode with Xiao Ye to a villa district where Xiao Ye revealed that Su Enterprises owned all the villas there.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han arrived at their new villa near Magic University, and Cheng Tian marveled at Su family's wealth.

Su Han and Cheng Tian settled into Su Han’s new villa, where they let their Pokémon explore and chose matching Pokémon pajamas. Cheng Tian’s mother questioned him about staying in Su Han’s home, while Su Han invited Lin Lin and Bai Yun to move into a nearby villa.

• Su Han dismissed the maids’ offer to stay and told Xiao Ye to arrange daily cleaning after they left for school.
• Su Han showed Cheng Tian the villa and revealed that another nearby villa was available for Lin Lin and Bai Yun.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han released their Pokémon, then explored the upstairs rooms and changed into matching Gengar and Togekiss pajamas.
• Cheng Tian told his mother he was staying at Su Han’s house, and she scolded him for letting a girl support him.
• Su Han sent Lin Lin a selfie of herself and Cheng Tian and invited Lin Lin and Bai Yun to live nearby; Lin Lin then asked Bai Yun to go shopping for couple’s pajamas.

Cheng Tian and Su Han registered at Magic University’s battle department after Gengar scared off a student who had tried to flirt with Su Han. They reunited with Bai Yun, who was delighted with the villa Su Han had arranged, and discussed settling into their new university life.

• Cheng Tian and Su Han searched for Bai Yun and Lin Lin while a student offered to help Su Han, then fled when Cheng Tian summoned Gengar to carry their luggage.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han registered at the battle department, where two upperclasswomen admired Cheng Tian and Su Han hurried him away jealously.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han found Bai Yun inside the crowded building and learned that Lin Lin was registering at another department.
• Bai Yun praised the large villa and its garden that Su Han had arranged, then teased Cheng Tian about the villa’s soundproofing.

Cheng Tian began classes at Magic University and learned that Elite Four Nalu had arranged for him to study under her. Advisor Liang told him Nalu wanted him to compete for the first-year varsity team captain position and challenge upperclassmen, with a rare Pokémon from the university’s Breeding Specialization as a possible reward.

• A teacher told Cheng Tian that he had been assigned to study under Professor Nalu, who was away on a mission.
• Cheng Tian attended class, declined to run for class president, and watched Gao Duanwu win the position.
• Advisor Liang kept Cheng Tian behind and told him Nalu wanted him to enter the varsity team selections in two months and battle second-year students.
• Advisor Liang offered a chance to visit the Breeding Specialization’s Pokémon Day Care and choose a Pokémon if Cheng Tian defeated two second-year students in a row.
• Cheng Tian revealed that he already had six Pokémon, and Advisor Liang explained that the Day Care also had hatched Pokémon he could choose instead.

Cheng Tian discovered that his purple student identity card granted him unrestricted access to Magic University's Pokémon Training Room and other valuable benefits. He entered an Electric Training Room and found it powered by rows of Thunder Stones.

• Counselor Liang told Cheng Tian that Nalu had left him a surprise and gave him a purple student identity card.
• Cheng Tian learned that Magic University's Training Room offered numerous specialized spaces, but rentals normally cost credits.
• The student attendants scanned Cheng Tian's card and explained that purple-card holders could use the facilities without limits, receive monthly top-quality Pokéblocks, and get one-on-one tutoring from a Gold Medal Instructor.
• Cheng Tian entered room 1412 and saw that its electric terrain was powered by densely packed Thunder Stones.

Cheng Tian took Noibat to Magic University's Electric Training Room, where intense training maxed out Noibat's Wild Charge. After earning a record-breaking prize, Cheng Tian was invited to join the Battle Club's Fifth Branch but chose to consider it.

• Cheng Tian tested the Electric Training Room's power settings with Noibat, raising the intensity until the Pokémon endured level-eight lightning attacks.
• Noibat trained through the electric currents for twenty minutes and raised Wild Charge to its maximum proficiency.
• Cheng Tian and Noibat tested level nine, where the training room revealed a cannon-like device, then left after an hour-long session.
• The front-desk staff awarded Cheng Tian a prize for setting a training record and told him about the room's usage rankings.
• A member of the Battle Club's Fifth Branch invited Cheng Tian to join, and Cheng Tian said he would think about it.

Cheng Tian, Su Han, Lin Lin, and Bai Yun decided to skip university military training after Su Han offered to ask her grandfather to arrange it. Later, Cheng Tian studied the university team’s battle tactics, and Su Han encouraged him to believe he could challenge the older students.

• Cheng Tian struggled to teach Greninja how to use a game controller while Su Han video-called Lin Lin and Bai Yun, who complained about military training.
• Cheng Tian explained the activities and Pokémon battle competition planned for training, but he also admitted he wanted to skip it while hoping to gain experience against second-years.
• Lin Lin and Bai Yun voted to avoid training, and Su Han offered to call her grandfather to arrange their absence; Cheng Tian agreed to stay home for two weeks.
• That night, Cheng Tian described how Magic University’s second-years had beaten Jiaotong University with a hazard-focused Skarmory strategy.
• Su Han reassured Cheng Tian that he could compete with the older students, and Gengar switched off the light after Cheng Tian called for help.

Cheng Tian spent the day at Disney with Su Han, Lin Lin, and Bai Yun before visiting the Magic City Water-type Gym, hoping to challenge it. The Gym was temporarily closed because its leader was away, but Na Youyou, Cheng Tian’s master’s younger sister and the deputy Gym Leader, recognized him and invited the group inside.

• Cheng Tian agreed to visit Disney with Su Han, Lin Lin, and Bai Yun, where they spent the day enjoying attractions and expensive souvenirs.
• Gengar secretly kept the group cool as they explored Disney in the summer heat.
• Cheng Tian and his friends arrived at the Magic City Gym and learned that Elite Four Nalu was away and the Gym was closed.
• A staff member offered the group soda, but Na Youyou came out of the Gym and recognized Cheng Tian as Lu’s apprentice.
• Na Youyou introduced herself as Lu’s younger sister and invited Cheng Tian and his friends inside to challenge the Gym.

Bai Yun, Su Han, and Cheng Tian challenged the Water-type Gym while Nalu was away, battling its apprentices and instructors under Na Youyou’s supervision. Cheng Tian’s Greninja defeated Instructor Li’s Empoleon, and after recovering his Pokémon, Cheng Tian prepared to test himself against Na Youyou.

• Na Youyou explained the Gym’s challenge rules and allowed the group to compete despite its temporary closure.
• Bai Yun’s Breloom defeated two apprentices and one instructor before losing to Instructor Li Xinjia’s Empoleon.
• Su Han’s Tinkatuff also reached Instructor Li but lost to Empoleon.
• Cheng Tian’s Greninja defeated the earlier opponents and overcame Empoleon after a difficult battle.
• Na Youyou offered Cheng Tian time to let Greninja recover before their challenge, and Cheng Tian agreed.

Cheng Tian battled Na Youyou’s level 50 Clawitzer with Greninja, struggling against its powerful Aura Sphere and relentless pulse attacks. Cheng Tian and Greninja synchronized into a stronger state and charged back at Clawitzer, leaving both Pokémon’s attacks about to collide.

• Na Youyou sent out Clawitzer, and Cheng Tian opened the battle with Greninja’s Double Team and Water Shuriken.
• Clawitzer used Mega Launcher-boosted Aura Sphere to find and counter Greninja, then drove it back with volleys of Water Pulse and Dragon Pulse.
• Greninja used Substitute to evade Dragon Pulse, but Clawitzer struck it with Hydro Pump before it could attack.
• Cheng Tian and Greninja synchronized as Greninja kept charging through Clawitzer’s attacks, producing a towering Whirlpool and greatly increasing Greninja’s speed.
• Na Youyou ordered Clawitzer to fire Dragon Pulse and Water Pulse together as Greninja attacked with Waterfall, and both attacks were about to land.

Cheng Tian received Na Youyou’s Gym Badge despite losing, and he and Greninja’s painful power-up state was named Bond State. That evening, Su Han hosted a poolside barbecue where Gengar learned to grill, and the four teenagers ended the night playing in the pool.

• Cheng Tian and Greninja lost to Na Youyou, but she awarded Cheng Tian a Gym Badge for earning her recognition.
• Cheng Tian explained that sharing Greninja’s power-up state made him feel its pain, and Su Han named it Bond State.
• Su Han invited Cheng Tian, Bai Yun, and Lin Lin to a poolside barbecue, and Xiao Ye arranged the food and drinks.
• Bai Yun taught Gengar to barbecue, and Gengar impressed everyone with its cooking.
• Cheng Tian, Su Han, Bai Yun, and Lin Lin went swimming together after the barbecue.

After military training ended, Bai Momo announced that the returning university team members would battle the first-year students, with rewards for successful challengers. Cheng Tian and his companions watched from a nearby rooftop, while Meng Ha was punished for showing off.

• Cheng Tian, Lin Lin, Bai Yun, and Su Han watched the military training from a rooftop instead of joining the first-years on the field.
• Bai Momo discovered that Meng Ha had been made to hold a military squat after he flaunted his watermelon to the chief instructor.
• The military training demonstration concluded with speeches, drills, and an awards ceremony.
• Bai Momo introduced the battles between returning students and newcomers and invited confident first-years to challenge the university team members for rewards.

Cheng Tian found himself in a world where humans and Pokémon had swapped places, and he had been turned into a child. Su Han, now resembling a Gardevoir, took him home as a wild human and prepared to bathe him, leaving Cheng Tian desperate to figure out what to do.

• Cheng Tian stepped out of a subway station into a rainy world where Pokémon-like people attacked and shunned him.
• Cheng Tian realized he had become his nine-year-old self and wandered the streets until Su Han found him.
• Su Han mistook Cheng Tian for a wild human and took him home despite his attempts to explain who he was.
• Cheng Tian searched Su Han's phone and found her browsing questions about caring for wild humans.
• Su Han picked Cheng Tian up and carried him toward the bathroom to bathe him, while Cheng Tian realized he had transmigrated again.

Cheng Tian arrived late for the Freshman-Senior Battle and challenged junior Meng Ha, whose Crobat faced off against Cheng Tian’s Noibat. After Noibat stole Crobat’s boosted power and unleashed Hurricane, Meng Ha struggled to respond as Bai Momo called out his mistake.

• Liang Ranran welcomed Cheng Tian after he arrived late, and he agreed to join the Freshman-Senior Battle.
• Bai Momo punished Meng Ha for showing off and ordered him to win ten battles against the freshmen.
• Cheng Tian bumped into Meng Ha, introduced himself, and accepted the junior’s challenge.
• Cheng Tian’s Noibat fought Meng Ha’s level-40 Crobat, using Razor Wind and Wild Charge while Crobat boosted its Special Attack.
• Cheng Tian had Noibat use Snatch to take Crobat’s boosted power, then ordered Hurricane, prompting Bai Momo to yell that Crobat’s Supersonic would not work on a Noibat.

Cheng Tian’s Noibat battled Meng Ha’s Crobat to a draw, impressing the school team captain and vice-captain. As they invited Cheng Tian to discuss joining the team, Su Han appeared behind him, leaving him in danger.

• Cheng Tian’s Noibat countered Crobat’s attacks and fought it to a draw, though spectators thought it had collapsed from exhaustion.
• Bai Momo decided Cheng Tian was strong enough for the school team and approached him with He Bi to invite him to join.
• Cheng Tian said he planned to compete in the school team tryouts, and He Bi noticed the Purple Identity Card pinned to his clothes.
• Su Han appeared behind Cheng Tian, rested her face on his shoulder, and asked if he was making new friends.

Su Han suspected Cheng Tian was attracted to women wearing black-framed glasses, so she asked Xiao Ye for advice and prepared an office-wear look to surprise him. When Cheng Tian returned home, Su Han was waiting upstairs in a tight skirt, anticipating an interesting night.

• Su Han met He Bi and, after he invited her to try out for the university team, decided Cheng Tian might have a preference for girls with glasses.
• Su Han called Xiao Ye to order black-framed glasses, and Xiao Ye advised her to pair them with office wear.
• Cheng Tian went home with Bai Yun and Lin Lin, who teased him about being passive in his relationship with Su Han.
• At the villa, Cheng Tian went to bathe while Florges secretly sniffed his jacket.
• Su Han dressed in a tight office skirt and high heels, applied lipstick, and looked forward to seeing Cheng Tian.

Cheng Tian met Yu Pangrui, the older brother of his friend Yu Fei, and learned that Pangrui’s Electronics Club had developed a Rotom Pokédex. Cheng Tian went to visit the club, where a runaway Rotom fainted after Gengar caught it.

• Cheng Tian encountered Yu Pangrui in the restroom and learned that Yu Fei had enrolled at Southwest Associated University.
• Yu Pangrui introduced himself as the Electronics Club president and said the club had developed the Rotom Pokédex, offering Cheng Tian a Rotom.
• Cheng Tian agreed to visit the Electronics Club and followed Yu Pangrui’s directions to its campus building at lunchtime.
• A lab-coated girl fell into Cheng Tian as a Rotom fled the club room, and Yu Pangrui urged them to catch it.
• Cheng Tian summoned Gengar, which frightened the Rotom into fainting.

Cheng Tian joined the Electronics Club to gather battle data for its planned battle assistance program, then chose a Rotom to activate as his Rotom Pokédex. He spotted that the Rotom that had escaped earlier was only level 3 and selected it, surprising Yu Pangrui.

• Yu Pangrui explained that the club needed battle data from Cheng Tian to develop its battle assistance program.
• Cheng Tian signed the Electronics Club application form and agreed to collect data from his battles.
• Yu Pangrui showed Cheng Tian the club's forty-one Rotom and explained that lower-level Rotom were less likely to reject electronic components.
• Cheng Tian identified a level 6 Rotom as the lowest-level one, but the previously captured Rotom woke and caused a commotion.
• Cheng Tian saw that the escaped Rotom was level 3 and declared that he wanted it.

Su Han surprised Cheng Tian with a forceful office-boss roleplay and made him complete a boyfriend-material questionnaire at the computer. The chapter ended with Cheng Tian slumped in his chair as Su Han said there were still documents to handle.

• Cheng Tian finished showering, drank hot milk, and noticed Su Han had not come downstairs.
• Cheng Tian entered Su Han’s room and found that she had locked the door and dressed as a commanding career woman.
• Su Han pushed Cheng Tian onto the bed and began roleplaying as his boss.
• Su Han made Cheng Tian sit at the computer and answer a popular boyfriend-material questionnaire.
• Cheng Tian struggled through the final question and ended up slumped in his chair while Su Han mentioned more documents.

Cheng Tian watched Yu Pangrui and his assistants install a Rotom into a Pokédex, then registered himself as its owner. The new Rotom Pokédex greeted Cheng Tian and offered to import his phone data.

• Gengar frightened Rotom into fainting again, and Yu Pangrui began preparing a Rotom Pokédex for Cheng Tian.
• Yu Pangrui and his assistants downloaded data into Rotom’s Poké Ball and used an electrical overload to transfer Rotom into the Pokédex, blowing three laboratory bulbs.
• Rotom adapted to its new body, and Cheng Tian entered his identification information and activated the Rotom Pokédex.
• Rotom greeted Cheng Tian, who named it Rotom and scanned a QR code to import his phone data.
• Yu Pangrui told Cheng Tian that Rotom had 500 TB of storage and access to the Cloud Data Backend.