Chapter Summaries

Hana Ye resisted the Red Moon’s attempt to overwrite her with its ancient memories, insisting she was not its master. After seeing how generations of her family, including her mother, had carried fragments of the Red Moon’s soul, she learned that she had never been a vessel but was the King of the Red Moon.

• As Lin En was torn away by the world’s rejection, Hana Ye recalled his care for her and chose to believe that her feelings as Hana Ye were real.
• Hana Ye rejected the ancient corpse’s memories, saying they did not belong to her and that she had to keep living.
• She refused to let the mournful red light merge with her, despite its attempts to influence her through dreams and memories.
• The red light showed Hana Ye how generations of the Red Moon Family had carried fragments of the corpse’s soul, including her mother, who had taken fragments and the ancient Soul Body.
• As the red light drew close, Hana Ye saw its true form and realized she had always been the King of the Red Moon.

Hana Ye rejected the Red Moon’s attempt to awaken its memories, but the authority took control of the twisted corpse and attacked Lin En. Hana Ye stopped the strike and turned the scarlet spike toward herself, confronting the Red Moon.

• Hana Ye realized the Red Moon’s offer would make her kill Lin En and violently rejected the red light.
• The Red Moon’s authority formed the twisted female corpse, shattered the Spirit Realm’s nine layers, and drew the attention of Shinsen Saya, Firstborn, and the Great Demons.
• Firstborn recognized the Red Moon’s authority and spotted the bloodied Lin Yin in the distance.
• The twisted corpse attacked Lin En with a scarlet spike that targeted his soul.
• Hana Ye stopped the spike from piercing Lin En and forced the corpse to turn its weapon toward itself.

Hana Ye revealed the Red Moon's Authority to save Lin En, forcing them to flee as ancient gods and demons converged on the Spirit Realm breach. After the battle, Jiu and Ophiel returned to Clockwork City alive, while the awakening of ancient gods threatened to reshape the world.

• Hana Ye restrained the Red Moon's Authority, then impaled it through its skull and collapsed as Lin En caught her.
• As gods and demons converged on the Spirit Realm breach, Lin En told Hana Ye they would have to flee together, and she agreed to follow him.
• Lin En took the Red Moon's Eye and left, while Firstborn and Shinsen Saya joined forces to face the entities emerging from the Spirit Realm.
• The Red Moon and Great Sun appeared together over the continent, and Jiu suppressed the chaos in Clockwork City caused by the Lord of Crimson's vessel invasion.
• At dawn, Jiu and the wounded Ophiel returned to Clockwork City's gates, where Jiu wondered about the ancient gods awakening beyond the battlefield.

After Red Moon Night, the Firstborn crushed the rebellion in the Imperial City, while Clockwork City counted its dead and rumors spread that the former King of the Red Moon had returned. In the ruins of the Youzhi Family estate, a grieving girl discovered a damaged box whose contents were not revealed.

• The Firstborn returned to the Imperial City, crushed the rebellion, and later faced unknown projections from the Spirit Realm.
• Ophiel restored order in Clockwork City as survivors mourned the dead, Nero recovered, and Lin En remained missing.
• Salgon returned to Mesijie Street with a great quantity of emotional fragments, and Mirror learned her master had descended through her vessel.
• A girl searched the Youzhi Family estate after learning that her father had died defending Clockwork City and that her younger sister was missing.
• The girl found a badly damaged box beneath the rubble and opened it.

Hana Ye and Lin En separated from her sister to keep her safe, and Lin En explained the Red Moon Authority and its danger. Afraid that Lin En might lose himself to another identity, Hana Ye made him promise to remember her before declaring her love for him.

• Hana Ye watched her grieving sister from afar as Lin En said they could not reunite yet and resolved to let her sister live as an ordinary person.
• Lin En explained that Ophiel would take Hana Ye’s sister for training and that the Church would keep her safe.
• Lin En described the Red Moon Authority’s powers and warned Hana Ye that it could awaken the King of the Red Moon’s memories.
• Hana Ye feared Lin En might one day become as distant as the figure in her dreams, then bit and kissed him.
• Hana Ye insisted that she was Lin En’s Hana Ye and promised to try to wake him if he ever lost himself, then told him she loved him most.