Chapter Summaries

Xu Zhiqiu learned that the demon in the Baboon Garb was Naraku, then Naraku abducted her during his fight with Inuyasha. She regained consciousness in an unfamiliar room after someone had changed her clothes, and an aged voice announced that it was time for the young lord’s medicine.

• Miroku introduced himself to Xu Zhiqiu and asked her to bear his child, but she refused.
• Miroku told Inuyasha that Naraku had trapped his grandfather and had caused the conflict between Inuyasha and Kikyo fifty years earlier.
• Xu Zhiqiu discovered that Kagome and the others had left the well, then followed Inuyasha’s voice and realized the demon in the Baboon Garb was Naraku.
• Naraku fought Inuyasha, struck Xu Zhiqiu with a threadlike attack, and escaped with her using miasma.
• Xu Zhiqiu woke in an unfamiliar room after someone had touched and changed her clothes, then heard an aged voice say that it was time for the young lord’s medicine.

Xu Zhiqiu woke in Inuyama Castle after Naraku brought her there and tried to leave when she recognized him. Naraku stopped her and insisted she could not leave, while Xu Zhiqiu realized she was afraid of him.

• Xu Zhiqiu woke in the Lord of the Castle's Residence and met Naraku pretending to be Inuyasha.
• Naraku brought Xu Zhiqiu a meal, and she confronted him about his motives before calling him greedy.
• Xu Zhiqiu prepared to leave but retreated when she saw armed soldiers guarding the residence.
• Naraku stopped Xu Zhiqiu from leaving and questioned why she had gone to Kaede's Village.
• Xu Zhiqiu said she wanted to return home, but Naraku declared he would not allow it and told her she could not leave him.
• Naraku grabbed Xu Zhiqiu's arms and asked whether she was afraid of him, and she realized that she was.

Xu Zhiqiu confronted Naraku about his fixation on her, then tried to escape but was knocked unconscious and brought back. After discovering the belongings that linked her to her own world, Naraku kept her confined, while she began planning to flee during the coming demon hunt.

• Xu Zhiqiu removed Naraku’s mask and questioned why he treated her this way, but Naraku left without answering.
• Xu Zhiqiu tried to slip out at night, but Naraku struck her unconscious with spider silk and carried her back to her room.
• Naraku searched Xu Zhiqiu’s backpack and found her exam notes, identity card, phone, and other belongings from her world.
• After waking, Xu Zhiqiu realized she could escape when the servants gathered for the arrival of the Yōkai Exorcists and resolved to wait for her chance.
• Naraku visited Xu Zhiqiu in the Baboon Garb, and she teased him by saying his handsome human appearance would have made her approach him first.

Xu Zhiqiu escaped from Naraku’s residence, reunited with Kagome’s group, and recovered her Jade. She returned to the modern era just in time to take her preliminary exam.

• Xu Zhiqiu escaped Naraku’s residence during a monster attack by cutting a hole through the wall with her sword.
• Xu Zhiqiu met Kagome, Inuyasha, and Miroku in the woods and explained that she had escaped from Naraku.
• Kagome returned Xu Zhiqiu’s Jade, and Xu Zhiqiu left for Kaede’s Village after receiving directions.
• Xu Zhiqiu used the Jade to travel through the Bone-Eater’s Well and return to the modern era.
• Xu Zhiqiu checked the time, rushed to the exam site, passed security, and reached her seat ten minutes before the written exam began.

Xu Zhiqiu passed her graduate-school interview and found her name on the provisional admissions list, then caught up with her family and prepared for the next stage of study. After a dinner with her new seniors, she politely rejected Senior Brother Wang’s romantic interest and returned to her rental.

• Xu Zhiqiu prepared for her interview, passed the oral and subject-specific questions, and met her prospective advisor and fellow candidates to discuss research.
• The university published the provisional admissions list, and Xu Zhiqiu confirmed that she had been admitted before sharing the news with her family.
• Xu Zhiqiu spoke with her mother and younger brother, remembered the spider she had taken home, and heard that her family had adopted an orange cat.
• Xu Zhiqiu joined her seniors for dinner, where they tried to pair her with Senior Brother Wang.
• Xu Zhiqiu told Senior Brother Wang she wanted their relationship to remain purely senior and junior, then returned to her rental after he accompanied her by subway.

Xu Zhiqiu returned to the Bone-Eater's Well and went searching for Kagome, but she found Kikyo at Naraku's castle instead. After overhearing Kikyo confront Naraku, Xu Zhiqiu tried to leave with Kikyo and was knocked unconscious.

• Xu Zhiqiu fell through the Bone-Eater's Well, found the Hengdao, and spent the night near the well before visiting Granny Kaede the next morning.
• Granny Kaede told Xu Zhiqiu that Kagome and the others had left to search for Shikon Jewel Shards, so Xu Zhiqiu set out to find them.
• Xu Zhiqiu followed Kikyo to Naraku's castle and overheard Kikyo call Naraku a half-demon whose heart still contained Onigumo.
• Kikyo noticed Xu Zhiqiu hiding, warned her that the castle was dangerous, and left after confronting Naraku.
• Xu Zhiqiu hurried after Kikyo, but someone struck the back of her neck and she lost consciousness.

Naraku held Xu Zhiqiu captive and demanded the Jade she carried, while she tried to understand how he knew about it. Trapped by his Giant Bees, Xu Zhiqiu remained in the room and studied her advisor’s research topic as she planned what to do.

• Naraku questioned the unconscious Xu Zhiqiu about where she had been, and she said she had gone home through the same way she had arrived.
• Naraku grabbed Xu Zhiqiu’s hand when she reached for Hengdao, then told her to stay in the room.
• Naraku offered to let Xu Zhiqiu leave if she handed over her Jade, and she realized he meant the Jade she carried rather than Shikon Jewel Shards.
• Xu Zhiqiu tried to leave, but Naraku’s Giant Bees blocked the doorway and forced her back inside.
• Xu Zhiqiu took a selfie, then studied her advisor’s research topic while cursing Naraku and considering his use of the bees to spy on Inuyasha and the others.

Xu Zhiqiu remained trapped in Naraku’s castle, where she insulted him in writing and narrowly avoided his advances before he left. Days later, Naraku sent Kanna to watch her, and Xu Zhiqiu passed the time playing games and folding paper stars until Naraku returned to find her asleep.

• Xu Zhiqiu wrote insults about Naraku, and he pinned her down, bit her shoulders, then left when she pretended to pass out.
• Xu Zhiqiu discovered that Naraku had taken her insult-covered paper and wrote the insults again.
• Xu Zhiqiu tried to leave the castle, but a swarm of bees blocked her way, and Kanna told her Naraku would not let her leave.
• Xu Zhiqiu introduced herself to Kanna, learned she was Naraku’s incarnation sent to watch her, and taught her a pebble game and how to fold five-pointed stars.
• Naraku returned at night and found Xu Zhiqiu asleep at the table while Kanna left the room.

Xu Zhiqiu befriended Kagura after Naraku used her to test Inuyasha’s sword and then threatened her by squeezing her heart. Xu Zhiqiu taught Kagura to curse Naraku in Chinese, and the chapter ended with Kagura calling him “shabi” to his face.

• Xu Zhiqiu followed Kanna to Naraku’s room and witnessed Kagura accuse Naraku of using her to test Inuyasha’s Wind Scar.
• Naraku subdued Kagura by reminding her that he controlled her heart, and Xu Zhiqiu and Kanna helped the injured Kagura back to her room.
• Xu Zhiqiu treated Kagura’s wounds, and the two bonded over their dislike of Naraku and their desire to escape him.
• Xu Zhiqiu taught Kagura to call Naraku “shabi” in Chinese, which Kagura practiced and agreed to use.
• Kagura learned that Kanna had been sent to obstruct Inuyasha and his companions, then called Naraku “shabi” when he asked whether she had anything else to say.

Xu Zhiqiu escaped Inuyama Castle after Naraku knocked her unconscious, while Naraku and his incarnations confronted Inuyasha and his companions. The battle ended with Kagome freeing the souls trapped in Kanna’s mirror as Naraku and Kagura retreated.

• Naraku knocked Xu Zhiqiu unconscious, but she later woke, destroyed most of the Mōmō Bees guarding the castle, and fled toward Kaede's Village.
• Kanna used her Death Mirror to reflect Inuyasha’s Wind Scar back at him, leaving him badly injured before Naraku arrived.
• Naraku taunted Miroku and Inuyasha, revealed that Kikyo had helped him collect Shikon Jewel Shards, and claimed Kikyo had asked him to kill Inuyasha.
• Kagome woke and stopped Kagura’s wind blades with a sacred arrow, while the surviving Mōmō Bees revealed that Xu Zhiqiu had escaped.
• Kanna’s overloaded mirror cracked and released the trapped souls, allowing Miroku to use his Wind Tunnel as Naraku and Kagura withdrew.

Xu Zhiqiu retrieved her Jade and returned from the feudal era to her modern room, where she resumed her studies and learned she had passed the graduate admissions exam. Meanwhile, Inuyasha and his companions continued their adventures, and Kagome later returned to the Modern Era without telling Inuyasha.

• Xu Zhiqiu collected her Jade from Granny Kaede, dropped the Hengdao by the Bone-Eater's Well, and returned to the Modern Era.
• Xu Zhiqiu paid her rent, cleaned her room, and saw that Naraku's bite marks remained on her shoulder.
• Xu Zhiqiu learned she had passed the graduate admissions exam, organized her project notes, and sent them to her advisor.
• Inuyasha and his companions defeated Jūrōmaru and Kagerōmaru, though Inuyasha's injuries remained serious.
• Kagome told Shippo not to tell Inuyasha she was going home, then jumped into the Bone-Eater's Well as a strand of spider silk hung nearby.

Xu Zhiqiu returned to the Otherworld to give Kagome’s Schoolbag and its contents back, despite fearing Naraku might be waiting for her. After escaping a strand of spider silk at the well, she picked up a Hengdao and prepared to enter the Village.

• Naraku watched Kikyo treat wounded soldiers, and the bandit's heart within him began beating again as he resolved that Kikyo had to die.
• Xu Zhiqiu rejected Senior Brother Wang’s offer to find her a room and returned to her apartment, where she found Kagome’s Schoolbag.
• Xu Zhiqiu decided to make one last trip to return the schoolbag and brought supplies as thanks.
• Xu Zhiqiu traveled through the sewer opening to the Otherworld and climbed out of the well.
• A strand of spider silk caught Xu Zhiqiu’s foot, but she burned it with a lighter and picked up a Hengdao beside the well.

Xu Zhiqiu saved Kikyo from a giant snake monster, treated her injuries, and told her what she knew about her resurrection. After Kikyo left Inuyasha behind, Xu Zhiqiu shared local snacks with Miroku and the others, and Inuyasha sensed Naraku nearby.

• Xu Zhiqiu rushed to help Kikyo when she collapsed, severed the giant snake monster's tail, and killed it by stabbing its head.
• Xu Zhiqiu carried Kikyo to a tree, offered her ointment, and explained that Kikyo had been forcibly summoned back after her death.
• Kikyo asked Xu Zhiqiu's name, recovered as the Dead Soul Insects brought her more souls, and flew away after telling Inuyasha to stay with his companions.
• Xu Zhiqiu returned to Miroku and shared local specialties while Kagome was away fetching medicine.
• Inuyasha recognized Naraku's scent and warned the others.

Naraku appeared at Kaede's house and demanded that Xu Zhiqiu come with him. To stop him from hurting the others, Xu Zhiqiu agreed to leave and gave Miroku a map to Naraku's Castle before Naraku carried her away.

• Naraku arrived at Kaede's house and taunted Inuyasha, then demanded that Xu Zhiqiu come outside.
• Xu Zhiqiu packed food and prepared to flee, but Miroku warned her that Naraku would catch her more easily if she ran.
• Inuyasha attacked Naraku with the Wind Scar, but Naraku blocked it with a Barrier and wounded Inuyasha and Sango with his tentacles.
• Xu Zhiqiu stopped Granny Kaede from helping, asked her to pass a message to Kagome, and gave Miroku a map to Naraku's Castle.
• Xu Zhiqiu went outside to surrender, and Naraku obscured the others' vision with miasma before taking her away.

Xu Zhiqiu returned to Naraku’s Castle, where his attempt to force intimacy ended when she called him disgusting and left. She then learned from Kagura that Naraku understood Chinese, leaving her wondering how he had learned it.

• Xu Zhiqiu returned to Naraku’s Castle and offered Hengdao back, but Naraku refused to take it.
• Naraku pulled Xu Zhiqiu close and tried to force himself on her, but she resisted and called him disgusting.
• Naraku ordered Xu Zhiqiu to leave, then brooded over her rejection and thought about destroying her.
• Kagura told Xu Zhiqiu that Naraku had understood the Chinese insult “shabi” and nearly killed her for saying it.
• Xu Zhiqiu remembered writing insults about Naraku in Chinese and wondered how he could understand the language.

Naraku wrestled with his feelings for Xu Zhiqiu, while she confronted him about his motives and decided to leave. He revealed that he had taken her Jade and trapped the city behind a Barrier, leaving her unable to return to her world or call for help.

• Naraku entered Xu Zhiqiu's room intending to strangle her, but withdrew his hand and left.
• Unable to sleep, Xu Zhiqiu caught Naraku touching her face and questioned why he had appeared when she first came to this world.
• Naraku claimed he had merely been passing by, and Xu Zhiqiu prepared to leave with her bag and Hengdao.
• Naraku warned Xu Zhiqiu that leaving would not return her to her world and showed her the Jade he had taken.
• Naraku explained that Kagura had stolen the Jade from Kagome and that his Barrier kept Inuyasha and the others from finding the city unless he opened it.

Naraku trapped Xu Zhiqiu in miasma when she tried to leave, but the Jade sent her back to the Modern Era. After recovering and finishing her research project, Xu Zhiqiu traveled home and called to her mother from outside the family’s door.

• Xu Zhiqiu pried the Jade from Naraku’s hand, but he bound her with spider silk and engulfed her in miasma when she tried to leave.
• The Jade emitted blue-green light that purified the miasma and transported Xu Zhiqiu away with it.
• Kagura found Naraku in the damaged room and left after he rebuked her, wondering if she and Kanna were only tools to him.
• Xu Zhiqiu awoke in a drainage channel in the Modern Era, where a construction worker found her and called an ambulance.
• After recovering in the hospital, Xu Zhiqiu returned to her lodgings, finished her research project, and traveled by train to her family’s home.
• Xu Zhiqiu reached her family’s apartment and called out to her mother from the doorway.

Xu Zhiqiu returned to her family and planned a trip to Dark Domain Forest after a place she saw online stirred a strange reaction in her. A note in her brother’s old textbook led her to suspect that a spider connected to Naraku had crossed back from the Otherworld, and a local later contacted her about the trip.

• Xu Zhiqiu told Ms. Liu she had left the Ancestral Jade at the Rented Apartment and concealed the details of her near-death experience in the Otherworld.
• Xu Zhiqiu found Dark Domain Forest in an online travel post, felt an inexplicable emotional pull toward it, and saved its location in Linwu County, Hunan Province.
• Xu Zhiqiu found a Japanese note in Xu Zhidong’s old textbook and learned that he had left it in her room because a spider liked reading it.
• Xu Zhiqiu recognized the bedroom spider’s web as similar to Naraku’s silk and reasoned that the spider might have crossed back using the Ancestral Jade.
• Xu Zhiqiu wondered whether Naraku’s spider had liked her, but reminded herself that he had killed her and continued cleaning.
• A local living near Dark Domain Forest contacted Xu Zhiqiu.

Xu Zhiqiu learned the truth about her origins and began a new life in graduate school, while events in Naraku’s world ended in Kagura’s and Kanna’s deaths and Naraku’s defeat. After finding Naraku as a spider in the snow, she returned to the Dark Domain Forest with him, helped him cultivate a human form, and married him.

• Xu Zhiqiu visited the Dark Domain Forest ruins, where Xu Nianwen explained that their ancestors had reunited Su Wenya and Xu Fuyuan in a shared grave.
• After Xu Zhiqiu returned to the Rented Apartment, the jade spirit revealed that she had brought Xu Zhiqiu from the Song Dynasty and explained her connection to Xu Zhiqiu’s family and the Otherworld.
• Kagura died after regaining her heart, Kanna died after refusing Naraku’s final command, and Naraku was defeated after Kagome challenged him to face his true wish.
• Xu Zhiqiu found a frozen black spider and took him home, where the jade spirit identified him as the spider she had kept before; he later revealed his identity as Naraku and objected when Xu Zhiqiu planned to meet Senior Brother Wang.
• Xu Zhiqiu took Naraku to the Dark Domain Forest to battle its lesser monsters and cultivate, then brought him home to meet her parents after completing two years of graduate study.
• Naraku secretly obtained identification documents, married Xu Zhiqiu at the Civil Affairs Bureau, and went home with her.

During Xu Zhiqiu’s second year of graduate school, Naraku took human form and moved into the apartment she had rented. After Xu Zhiqiu gradually adjusted to living with him, they became lovers and built a life together.

• Xu Zhiqiu woke to Naraku in human form, kicked him off the bed, and told him to turn back into a spider until they could talk the next day.
• Naraku moved into the apartment, took over the Jade Spirit’s former room, and learned to cook while Xu Zhiqiu attended classes.
• As Xu Zhiqiu grew accustomed to Naraku, she moved him back into her bedroom, and they shared a bed and kissed.
• Naraku used his knowledge of the internet to earn money writing code and began picking Xu Zhiqiu up from university.