Chapter Summaries

Mu You discovered a text game called Fool and received a hidden Time Pocket Watch that appeared in his hand. After using it to rewind time and prevent a glass from shattering, he realized the game’s relic worked in reality.

• Mu You sold the pet store’s cats and dogs and reassured Shen Ya that he would not close the store.
• Mu You found a USB drive with the Fool game and an invitation code, then installed and started the game.
• The game revealed the history of the Fools and the Wizards’ Association, then awarded Mu You a hidden Time Pocket Watch.
• Mu You saw the pocket watch appear in his hand, though Shen Ya could not see it.
• When Shen Ya knocked a glass off the counter, Mu You pressed the watch and rewound time, then caught the glass during the repeated moment.
• Mu You read the game notification explaining that the watch could reverse time by five seconds and had a five-second cooldown.

Mu You investigated the mysterious USB drive and began playing the supernatural game The Fool, discovering that its choices could kill him and cost him lifespan. After rewinding several deadly outcomes with his pocket watch, he survived the opening encounter and continued at the forest crossroads.

• Mu You checked the security footage and saw a USB drive appear on the front desk out of thin air, then found no online records of The Fool.
• Mu You considered the game's possible future open beta and chose to explore its first scenario while testing his time-reversing pocket watch.
• Mu You took the left path, was killed by an illusion-making nightmare bat, and noticed the game said he had 57 years of lifespan remaining.
• Mu You rewound time and tried the right path, where a black-spotted spider killed him, then rewound again.
• Mu You approached the escaped convict on the middle path, and the frightened man fled instead of attacking him.

Mu You survived repeated deaths in the Star Spirit World, losing years of lifespan to a venomous snake and a rabbit before finding the Owl Shop. He discovered that its magical wares cost more lifespan than he could safely spare, leaving him to decide whether to risk a purchase.

• Mu You picked up an Old Wand but learned that he needed an incantation to cast magic.
• Mu You walked into a venomous snake and died, losing one year of lifespan; the game explained that death cost a year before reviving him at a spawn point.
• Mu You died again when a white rabbit charged him, leaving him with fifty-six years of lifespan.
• Mu You avoided the rabbit on his next attempt and entered the Owl Shop, whose owl-faced owner offered him goods.
• Mu You saw a Burn-Burn Scroll, an Invisibility Cloak, and a Charged Wand, but could not afford any without risking his remaining lifespan.

Mu You reached the village after receiving free healing bandages from the Owl Shop and used them to save a wounded hunter. He learned all three spell rewards by retaining their memories through time reversal, but the game then forced him to stop for the day.

• The cat shopkeeper gave Mu You free healing bandages and told him the Owl Shop stocked three random items each day at midnight.
• Mu You reached the outskirts of a village and found a wounded hunter near its entrance.
• Mu You tried to rob the hunter, but the hunter killed him, so Mu You rewound time and chose to heal him instead.
• The grateful hunter offered Mu You one of three spells, and Mu You learned Animal Speech before rewinding time.
• Mu You used time reversal to retain Animal Speech and learn Sure Shot and Beast Trap as well.
• The game warned Mu You that he had used up his action points and needed to rest until the next day.

After using his wand to teach his hamster Seventeen to understand commands and testing a trap spell, Mu You posted an edited training video online. He left the magical footage out, hoping the hamster’s dramatic improvement would attract viewers.

• Mu You learned that action points were limited and could be restored with a year of lifespan each, so he declined to exchange lifespan and stopped playing for the day.
• Mu You cast the animal communication spell on Seventeen, enabling the hamster to understand his speech and follow commands.
• Mu You tested the trap spell on a wooden board, which became a concealed cage that caught Seventeen until Mu You freed it and soothed it with nuts.
• Mu You reviewed the camera footage, edited together Seventeen’s before-and-after behavior, and posted the video on his Bilibili account.

Mu You’s training with the Beast-Taming Spell left him mentally exhausted, but the video he had posted went viral while he slept. After discovering its success, he opened Wonder Pet Store to a crowd of eager visitors, ready to show off the eleven trained animals.

• Mu You trained ten more pets, realized repeated spellcasting drained him, and fell asleep to recover.
• Mu You’s video passed review, rapidly gained views, and reached Bilibili’s trending list overnight.
• Mu You woke to find the video had surpassed five hundred thousand views, his followers had nearly reached one hundred thousand, and commenters were discussing Wonder Pet Store.
• Xiao Ya and a crowd of visitors arrived before opening, and Xiao Ya excitedly told Mu You he had gone viral.
• Mu You and Xiao Ya cleaned the store, then Mu You brought eleven magically trained animals to the display area and instructed them to behave.
• Mu You opened Wonder Pet Store and welcomed the waiting crowd.

Mu You persuaded hesitant customers to visit his pet shop by explaining the practical benefits and responsibilities of keeping small pets. After veterinarian Zhao Qian challenged his offer to let customers handle the animals, Mu You promised to take responsibility for any bites, and Zhao Qian entered the shop, leading the crowd inside.

• Mu You explained that the shop was temporarily out of cats and dogs and encouraged customers to consider small pets suited to their lifestyles.
• Mu You offered visitors free pet food and the chance to handle animals in the display area before deciding whether to buy.
• Zhao Qian, a veterinarian, warned Mu You that hamsters could bite customers if handled carelessly.
• Mu You assured Zhao Qian that the display animals were gentle and trained, and promised to cover medical costs and pay ten thousand yuan if one bit a customer during normal interaction.
• Zhao Qian entered the shop, and the crowd followed her inside.

Mu You drew a crowd to his pet shop by showcasing Seventeen and selling trained hamsters and other trained pets. The trained animals quickly sold out, customers placed reservations for more, and Mu You returned upstairs to start Fool.

• Customers crowded around Seventeen and watched it perform commands for food.
• Mu You explained that the trained hamsters cost more because they understood commands, and the first customer bought one with a bundle of supplies.
• The customers quickly bought all four hamsters and then sold out the shop’s ten trained pets.
• Customers left their phone numbers and reserved more trained pets as the shop grew busy.
• After the crowd thinned, Mu You returned to his room and initiated Fool.

Mu You entered Peaceful Village and paid the greedy Scarecrow for information about a missing night watchman and his magically sealed home. After learning that the Scarecrow would reveal the unlocking method for fifty years of lifespan, Mu You agreed to pay, and the Scarecrow began explaining how to open the door.

• Mu You resumed his journey and entered Peaceful Village.
• Mu You discovered that the Scarecrow sold information in exchange for lifespan and that he could ask it specific questions through a text box.
• Mu You paid the Scarecrow one year of lifespan for a random clue about the missing night watchman and his estate.
• The Scarecrow offered to reveal how to open the night watchman's magically sealed home for fifty years of lifespan.
• Mu You accepted the price, and the Scarecrow began telling him how to unlock the door.

Mu You explored Peaceful Village and found a way into the Night Watchman's Cabin without buying the scarecrow's password. He left the cabin with three items, while his search for a way to gain lifespan remained unresolved.

• Mu You refused the scarecrow's increasingly cheaper offers to reveal the cabin's password and explored the village's western and southern roads, discovering a dining hall and a smithy.
• Mu You noted the village's lifespan-based services and worried that he had found no way to replenish his lifespan.
• Mu You followed the eastern road to the Night Watchman's Cabin and entered during its morning unlocking window using the password he had learned.
• Mu You searched the cabin and obtained a Night Watchman's Pumpkin Lantern, a Night Watchman's Backpack, and a Night Watchman's Skin.

Mu You examined the Night Watchman's lantern, spatial backpack, and skin, discovering the backpack opened into a small pocket world and the night watchman earned lifespan by patrolling. He ended with a way to gain lifespan, though the patrol had to be completed between midnight and four a.m.

• Mu You inspected the Night Watchman's Pumpkin Lantern and learned it could reveal things invisible to the naked eye at night.
• Mu You transformed the Night Watchman's Backpack into a suitcase, explored its enclosed pocket world, and found a wooden hut and grassy field inside.
• Mu You tested whether objects could pass between reality and the game, but the game refused to open the backpack while it contained a drinking glass from Earth.
• Mu You read the Night Watchman's Skin description and learned that the night watchman received one year of lifespan for patrolling outside for at least an hour between midnight and four a.m.

Mu You equipped the night watchman skin, gained the name Lamp Lighter, and inherited the night watchman’s house in the Star Spirit World. After securing the house and preparing to explore, he heard someone knock at the door.

• Mu You equipped the night watchman skin, which transformed his appearance and concealed his identity.
• Mu You chose the name Lamp Lighter and unlocked his character panel as an Apprentice Wizard.
• Mu You inherited the night watchman’s wooden house, which could serve as shelter, a respawn point, and a place to recover mental power.
• Mu You disabled the house’s password entry so only he could enter through facial recognition.
• Just as Mu You prepared to spend his last action point exploring, someone called out to him from outside the door.

Mu You’s pet shop sold out most of its trained animals, and Zhao Qian offered him a connection to her family’s breeding center. Before leaving, she compared Mu You to a brilliant friend who had gone abroad four years earlier, leaving him curious about who she was.

• Xiao Ya told Mu You that customers had reserved all the hamsters and many other pets, and Mu You decided not to order more animals yet.
• Mu You noticed that Xiao Ya was struggling to manage the crowded shop and considered hiring additional staff.
• Zhao Qian gave Mu You a card for Era's Adorable Pets Breeding Center and revealed that her family owned it.
• Zhao Qian asked how Mu You trained the pets, but he refused to disclose his methods and said that unexplained things could still have explanations.
• Zhao Qian said Mu You reminded her of an exceptional veterinary scholar who had gone abroad four years earlier.

Mu You counted the pet shop’s unexpectedly high first-day earnings and resolved to keep growing quietly rather than risk exposing his powers. In Fool, his character died to a Werewolf, discovered a Night Watchman’s journal that required learning Star Spirit Language, and Mu You later prepared to begin his first midnight patrol.

• Mu You and Xiao Ya tallied more than fifteen thousand yuan in sales, and Mu You gave her a five-hundred-yuan reward.
• Mu You decided to rely on the pet shop instead of making money through casinos, which could reveal his identity to other players.
• Mu You explored the village in Fool, where a Werewolf killed his character and cost him a year of lifespan.
• After reviving in the cottage basement, Mu You found a patrol journal and learned he needed a Star Spirit Dictionary to read it.
• Mu You slept until late evening, then slipped out through the pet shop’s rear window, changed into his Night Watchman form, and set off with his pumpkin lantern.

While patrolling the village in the game, Mu You found the Owl Shop had moved to the village entrance and bought a Poison Apple to defend himself against the werewolf. He ordered a Star Spirit Dictionary for six years of lifespan, and an owl set off to deliver it within 24 hours.

• Mu You went out to patrol after midnight, then played the game from a bench in the park.
• Mu You guided his character to the village entrance and found the Owl Shop alongside Scarecrow.
• Mu You bought the shop's Poison Apple for one year of lifespan as a weapon against the werewolf.
• Mu You ordered a Star Spirit Dictionary for six years of lifespan, and the shopkeeper sent an owl to deliver it within 24 hours.
• Mu You left the Owl Shop and headed over to Scarecrow.

Mu You learned that the Werewolf hid among the villagers and could be countered by Witch’s poison, then followed blood revealed by his Pumpkin Lantern to the wounded Long-Bearded Hunter. After reviving the hunter, he learned the Werewolf was injured and received a badge that could compel a villager to perform a task.

• Mu You paid the Scarecrow forty years of lifespan to learn that a Werewolf disguised itself as a villager by day, hunted at night, and feared the Witch’s poison.
• Mu You used his Pocket Watch to rewind time, refused to pay the Scarecrow, and realized that traveling along explored routes cost no action points.
• Mu You searched the explored locations for the Werewolf but instead triggered the Pumpkin Lantern’s effect, which revealed bloodstains leading to the Abandoned Stone House.
• Mu You found the gravely wounded Long-Bearded Hunter and revived him with water from his gourd.
• The hunter explained that he and the Werewolf had fought, that the Werewolf had fled with serious injuries, and gave Mu You the Bloodstained Police Badge.

Mu You tracked the wounded werewolf and died repeatedly trying to defeat it, then used the poisoned apple to kill himself so the werewolf would poison itself by eating him. He completed Peaceful Village’s bounty and ended with 57 years of lifespan.

• The dying hunter gave Mu You a sheriff’s badge and left behind a piece of mithril, then respawned without his memories.
• Mu You tracked the wounded werewolf to a well and found it pretending to be unconscious.
• The werewolf killed Mu You after he tried to attack it with a rock, feed it the poisoned apple, flee, and play dead.
• Mu You ate the poisoned apple and died, causing the werewolf to eat his poisoned body and die as well.
• Mu You killed the level 7 werewolf, gained a skin fragment, experience, reputation, and lifespan, and completed Peaceful Village’s bounty.

Mu You killed the Werewolf in Fool by using the Witch’s poison, gained rewards, and leveled up. After hearing a wolf-like howl in the real world, he received a notification that his patrol mission was complete.

• Mu You discovered that killing the Werewolf earned him lifespan, a Werewolf Skin Fragment, Justice Faction reputation, and experience.
• Mu You leveled up to level 2, gained five unallocated attribute points, and saw his action point cap increase to six.
• Mu You decided to save his remaining action point and wait until daytime to visit the smithy.
• Mu You heard a mournful howl outside and wondered if it came from a wolf connected to the Werewolf he had killed in the game.
• Mu You received one year of lifespan when his Patrol Mission completed at one in the morning.

After discovering a dog killed near his pet shop, Mu You suspected the attack was connected to the Werewolf player Deer Eater and realized game spawn locations might correspond to real-world homes. A police officer questioned him about the scene and showed him a photograph of a dark red figure.

• Mu You returned to his pet shop, trained three hamsters with Animal Speech, and raised Beast Trap and Sure Shot to LV2 before going to sleep.
• Mu You woke after three hours, went out for breakfast, and found a disemboweled dog near a residential complex.
• Mu You connected the dog’s wounds to the Werewolf’s howl and Meat Hook from the previous night, and suspected Deer Eater lived nearby.
• Police arrived to investigate the dog’s death, and Mu You quietly returned to his pet shop without getting breakfast.
• A police officer questioned Mu You about whether he had heard anything overnight, then showed him a photograph of a dark red figure and asked if he had seen the person.

Mu You learned that the wolf attack was linked to a player who had killed two people before, and he suspected the Werewolf was hunting him next. Determined to grow stronger and find the Werewolf first, he entered the game and chose to forge a weapon from mithril.

• Mu You recognized the surveillance photograph as his Night Watchman form, then overheard officers connect the dog’s death to earlier wolf attacks and two murders.
• Mu You found reports of the earlier killings and suspected the Werewolf had targeted two other players before turning its attention to him.
• Mu You warned Xiao Ya to stay indoors at night and asked her to watch the pet shop while he went upstairs to play Fool.
• Mu You visited Ironforge, showed the blacksmith his mithril, and chose to craft a weapon so he could level up more quickly.