Chapter Summaries

Dou Qing refused Xiao Yu’s offer to fund Fang Ling’s treatment after learning what the sacrifice would require, ending their relationship. Xiao Yu prepared to alter Fang Ling’s memories so she could begin a new life, while he told Liu Shan he would give up everything for her.

• Dou Qing agreed to a two-year deal only if Xiao Yu guaranteed compensation, but hesitated over long separation and Fang Ling’s aversion to sex.
• Dou Qing ended the call and refused to make the sacrifices Xiao Yu described.
• Xiao Yu concluded that Dou Qing and Fang Ling were over and decided to replace Fang Ling’s memories to give her a fresh start.
• Fang Ling thanked Xiao Yu, believing she could then be with her boyfriend like a normal couple.
• Liu Shan asked whether Xiao Yu would give up everything for uncertain love, and Xiao Yu said he would, even at the cost of his life.

Xiao Yu reunited with livestreaming, spent time with Liu Shan and Zhao Yan, and changed Fang Ling’s painful memories, then took his wives to the Night Theme Park. The chapter left them entering the horror-themed park as Zhao Yan pointed out the attraction she most wanted to see.

• Liu Shan embraced Xiao Yu after he told her they were already family, and Xiao Yu finished his livestream.
• Xiao Yu spent the next day with Liu Shan and Zhao Yan, then met Fang Ling and changed her painful memories.
• Xiao Yu worried that changing Fang Ling’s memories had erased part of who she was and reflected on his lost friendship with Xia Mo.
• Liu Shan suggested seeing a movie, but Xiao Yu chose to take Zhao Yan to the Night Theme Park instead.
• Xiao Yu flew with Liu Shan and Zhao Yan on the True Shadow Sword to the horror-themed park, where Zhao Yan pointed out the attraction she wanted to visit.

Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan joined a couples-only horror escape room while Liu Shan waited outside. The game staff explained the rules, and the couples prepared to enter one of five deadly puzzle routes.

• Liu Shan stepped aside so Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan could play as a couple, promising to wait for them with drinks and snacks.
• Xiao Yu noticed a high school boy borrowing money to buy milk tea for his demanding girlfriend and reflected on Zhao Yan's past vulnerability and his responsibility toward her.
• Liu Shan brought Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan milk tea, and Xiao Yu kissed her before he and Zhao Yan entered the game with the other couples.
• Two costumed staff members explained that couples had to stay together, solve puzzles, avoid traps and time limits, and return to the hall before the battle royale began.

Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan joined a notoriously difficult escape-room game, where players faced five increasingly challenging doors and a million-yuan prize for clearing them all on the first try. After Xiao Yu entered the red door, two staff members recognized him and worried he might win the prize.

• The hospital-gown girl explained the game’s shrinking time limits, one-use passwords, and first-try million-yuan prize.
• A young man bragged that he might clear all five doors, but Jiajia and other experienced players mocked his confidence.
• Xiao Yu learned that the black and white doors were popular with visitors seeking food and drink, while the red door drew fewer couples.
• Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan entered the red door after every other couple had chosen a room.
• Two staff members discovered that the masked visitor was Xiao Yu and panicked, fearing he would solve the puzzles and cost them their jobs.

Xiao Yu solved the first code puzzle quickly and led Zhao Yan through the red door, while the other couples copied his reasoning. The high school senior couple was eliminated and began arguing.

• Xiao Yu identified the room’s animal, clock, and length clues and explained how they could form a three-digit code.
• Zhao Yan questioned how the clues determined the answer, and Xiao Yu pointed to the clock showing twelve hours, seven minutes, and nine seconds.
• Xiao Yu entered 779, and the code-locked door opened for him and Zhao Yan.
• The other couples hurried to use Xiao Yu’s explanation, but the high school senior couple ran out of time and was eliminated.
• The eliminated couple began arguing.

Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan cleared the Red Door in record time, leaving the spectators amazed as the other couples struggled through the puzzles. After the doors reset for the second round, Xiao Yu entered the LV2 Red Door while a competitive couple prepared to challenge it themselves.

• The eliminated man accused Xiao Yu of cheating and demanded a refund, while Jiajia left the game in embarrassment.
• The spectators returned to the Central Hall and watched Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan reach the fourth door in under five minutes.
• Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan returned after clearing the Red Door in nine minutes, setting a new single-door record.
• A couple that had cleared the Blue Door arrived, and the man bragged about their puzzle-solving while his girlfriend said she had solved everything.
• The Blue Door reset to LV2, and Xiao Yu took Zhao Yan into the second round.
• After the Red Door reset to LV2, the competitive man urged Xiaobai to solve it with him so they could clear all five doors and find the final secret.

Xiao Yu cleared the LV3 escape-room puzzles while noticing clues that suggested all five rooms formed part of a hidden mystery. After using the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to investigate, he kept his discovery from Zhao Yan and headed toward LV4, leaving the other couples still competing.

• Xiao Yu let Zhao Yan attempt the LV3 puzzle, but stepped in when she could not solve it before time ran out and cleared the door himself.
• Xiao Yu noticed strange evidence linking the rooms into what might be a locked-room murder, used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon, then told Zhao Yan the mystery had nothing to do with them.
• Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan cleared LV3, becoming only the second couple to do so, and entered the black door for LV4.
• Xiao Yu finished LV4 in ten minutes but had to wait because another group was using the final white door.
• The effeminate man and Xiaobai emerged after clearing LV2, misunderstood Xiao Yu's comment about how long he had been gone, and went on to try LV3.
• Xiao Yu asked the staff whether the million-dollar prize was guaranteed, and they admitted they were unsure whether their boss would pay.

Xiao Yu cleared all five doors using fortune-telling and met with Boss Zhang to claim the million-yuan prize. After the effeminate man and Xiaobai learned who had won, they asked to meet the boss about a secret, while Xiao Yu revealed his identity to Boss Zhang.

• Xiao Yu admitted that he used fortune-telling to clear the LV5 puzzle, and Boss Zhang took him and Zhao Yan to his office to discuss the prize.
• The effeminate man and Xiaobai failed LV3, then learned that Xiao Yu had cleared all five doors and that spectators believed he was Master Xiao.
• The effeminate man told the two staff members that he and Xiaobai were private detectives and insisted that the boss meet them about a life-or-death secret.
• Boss Zhang agreed to transfer Xiao Yu and Zhao Yan the million-yuan reward and asked them to promote the game.
• Xiao Yu took off his mask and introduced himself to Boss Zhang as Xiao Yu, a fortune-telling livestreamer, before raising concerns about dirty money.

Xiao Yu exposed Boss Zhang’s unlawful confinement of a puzzle designer, secured the captive’s release, and spent the rest of the evening with Zhao Yan and Liu Shan. Later, he went to Fog City to trade with Feng Xue, hunt Fierce Demons, and pursue his other goals before returning to Magic City and playing an online battle royale game.

• Xiao Yu confronted Boss Zhang, made him pay a million and either compensate the captive or turn himself in, then left with Zhao Yan.
• Liu Shan and Zhao Yan joined Xiao Yu for more attractions, but his explanations of the horror park’s tricks spoiled their attempts at a romantic atmosphere.
• After returning to Magic City, Xiao Yu went to Fog City to exchange Storage Rings and magic treasures with Feng Xue for Resurrection Pills, contract Spirit Stone mines, and hunt Fierce Demons.
• Xiao Yu gained enough merit from the hunt to advance his merit cultivation to the first layer of Nascent Soul, and he killed Tang Zhen after learning nothing about the Reincarnation Pill.
• Xiao Yu returned to his villa and played a newly released global online battle royale game on his Gaming Helmet.

Xiao Yu, Liu Shan, and Zhao Yan entered a virtual-reality battle royale with S-rank skills and spawned in the central villa. After Xiao Yu used Premonition to foil an ambush and kill an opponent, another warning stopped him from going downstairs, where he faced a deadly threat.

• Xiao Yu, Liu Shan, and Zhao Yan entered the game together and discovered their S-rank skills: Premonition, Curse, and Protective Field.
• Xiao Yu’s Premonition warned him that someone would attack if they left the room, so he found a screwdriver and prepared an ambush.
• Xiao Yu killed the player who opened the door, reducing the number of players remaining to 99, and the group took the opponent’s supplies.
• The group searched the second floor, but Xiao Yu’s Premonition warned that going downstairs would mean death, so he stopped at the stairs.

Xiao Yu, Liu Shan, and Zhao Yan overheard two teams arguing downstairs and joined forces with an invisible solo player to fight them. They headed downstairs as bait, while the new ally prepared to ambush their enemies.

• Xiao Yu and Liu Shan overheard two teams of armed players arguing about an ambush downstairs.
• An invisible solo player privately told Xiao Yu that nine enemies had blocked the villa’s exit and asked to cooperate.
• Liu Shan questioned the stranger, learned that she had an S-rank invisibility skill with a one-minute limit and a thirty-second cooldown, and agreed to work together.
• The group planned to lure the enemies downstairs while the invisible player ambushed them and Zhao Yan defended the stairway.
• Xiao Yu went downstairs with Liu Shan and Zhao Yan, and the players below mistook them for couriers carrying loot.

Xiao Yu and his teammates defeated two teams that tried to overwhelm them, while Shui Rong joined their side after revealing she was a fan of Xiao Yu. They agreed to team up with Shui Rong in the next match and coordinated as one group.

• Shui Rong ambushed an opponent, then Zhao Yan raised a Defensive Barrier to protect Xiao Yu's group from the remaining players.
• Liu Shan and Zhao Yan cuddled and kissed Xiao Yu, distracting the enemy teams while Shui Rong eliminated another player.
• A big man charged through the barrier's narrow gap, and Xiao Yu killed him with a thrown dagger.
• The remaining six opponents fled, and Shui Rong asked to team up with Xiao Yu's group in the next match.
• Shui Rong introduced herself as a university lecturer, and Zhao Yan recognized her as an administrator in Xiao Yu's fan group.
• Liu Shan welcomed Shui Rong, and the two teams began coordinating as one.

Xiao Yu and his teammates angered the players in their second game, so all fifty-six opponents teamed up to hunt them down. Cornered at last, Xiao Yu offered to fight alone while the three girls disconnected.

• Xiao Yu and his teammates used their abilities to reach the final circle, where Shui Rong and Liu Shan killed a surviving couple before Shui Rong ended the game.
• The group started a second team game, but players from the first round gathered spectators and organized all fifty-six players to eliminate Xiao Yu's team.
• Xiao Yu used the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to find hiding places and led his team on a chase that lasted more than two hours.
• The players surrounded the group and angrily recounted how Xiao Yu and his teammates had ambushed, trapped, and killed them in the previous round.
• Xiao Yu stepped forward and offered to be the opponents' sole target while Shui Rong, Liu Shan, and Zhao Yan disconnected.

After enjoying a leisurely day with Liu Shan and Zhao Yan, Xiao Yu began questioning his past, his mysterious treasures, and the connection between Liu Shan and Feng Xue. Uneasy about unseen conspiracies and his slow cultivation, he decided to use the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to divine the past and future of those close to him.

• Xiao Yu, Liu Shan, and Zhao Yan celebrated their thrilling game, and Liu Shan and Zhao Yan reaffirmed their support for him.
• While bathing, Xiao Yu wondered how the Reincarnation Pill, his background, and the disappearance of ancient cultivators fit together.
• Xiao Yu examined Soul-Separation Pills and suspected Liu Shan and Feng Xue might be two people formed from one soul.
• Xiao Yu connected the Heavenly Mandate Stone and Feng Xue's hidden past to a possible conspiracy, and considered seeking faster cultivation.
• Xiao Yu chose to use the Heavenly Mechanism Canon to divine the past and future of people close to him.

After divining that a home-invasion robbery and arson would occur in a nearby residential complex, Xiao Yu took Liu Shan to investigate the family involved. They overheard a young man demanding money from his grandmother to buy an expensive gift for the woman he called his goddess.

• Xiao Yu discovered through divination that Qi Hui had been bullied and comforted herself by reading supernatural stories, inspiring him to search the world for possible Secret Realms.
• Xiao Yu told Liu Shan that a robbery and arson would happen that night, and she immediately agreed to stop it.
• Xiao Yu and Liu Shan went invisible and entered the home across the complex to observe what was happening.
• They overheard Fengfeng demanding twenty thousand yuan from his grandmother for a gift, and he insisted he needed the money that day.

Liu Shan and Xiao Yu watched Han Feng’s abuse of his grandmother escalate until he set fires around the house. Trapped by a door that would not open, Han Feng broke down and regretted what he had done, while the flames proved unreal and he was left thinking only of saving himself and his grandmother.

• Han Feng stormed around the house, smashing things and demanding money from his grandmother to buy a gift for the woman he wanted to date.
• After his grandmother refused to open her locked door, Han Feng threatened to burn her and collect the insurance.
• Han Feng turned on the gas, set clothes alight, and spread them around the house while Xiao Yu watched and Liu Shan tried to intervene.
• Han Feng found the front door would not open and became trapped as the apparent fire spread.
• Han Feng begged his grandmother for help, then sat outside her door, weeping and apologizing as he faced death.
• Han Feng failed to notice that the fire produced no real heat or smoke and changed none of the furniture, and he thought only about keeping himself and his grandmother alive.

Han Feng survived the fire that appeared to be an illusion, repented, and found Xiao Yu’s warning that the flames would return if he mistreated his grandmother again. Xiao Yu and Liu Shan went home, where they joined Zhao Yan as she played a betrayal-based online game.

• Han Feng saw the fire vanish, realized he had passed through the flames unharmed, and tearfully apologized to his grandmother.
• Han Feng found a note warning that the fire could return if he mistreated his grandmother again.
• Xiao Yu told Liu Shan he had frightened Han Feng into changing and would send him to the police if he repeated his actions.
• Xiao Yu and Liu Shan returned home and found Zhao Yan engrossed in a game on her phone.
• Zhao Yan explained that Betrayal Kill rewarded players for trust or betrayal, and Xiao Yu recognized its psychological stakes.

Xiao Yu played a paid trust game with a high-ranked woman who tried to trick him with a sweet voice, but he predicted her betrayals and called out why she played. The woman became interested in him and asked to play another game.

• Xiao Yu matched with a high-ranked woman and listened as she urged him to trust her.
• Xiao Yu chose betrayal, correctly predicting that the woman would betray him too.
• The woman added Xiao Yu as a friend and promised they would trust each other in the next round.
• Xiao Yu chose betrayal again and explained that the woman was lying because she enjoyed deceiving other players.
• The woman cursed in surprise, admitted Xiao Yu had read her accurately, and asked to play another game with him.

Xiao Yu and his companions met Jiang Xuan and a group of players for an in-person Lie Game, where the Police could only be eliminated by a vote. Xiao Yu drew the Police card, survived the killers’ first-night attack, and heard Jiang Xuan falsely claim to be the Police as the opening discussion began.

• Xiao Yu agreed to meet the online player who ranked fourth on the Lie Game leaderboard, and he and his companions drove to the gaming venue the next day.
• Jiang Xuan welcomed Xiao Yu, Zhao Yan, and Liu Shan into a room with five other players and explained the game’s rules and stakes.
• Xiao Yu drew the Police card, while the players introduced themselves without revealing much about their roles.
• The killers targeted Xiao Yu on the first night, but the special rule prevented the Police from being eliminated at night.
• Jiang Xuan claimed to be the Police and accused Xiao Yu of targeting her, prompting him to roll his eyes.

Xiao Yu exposed Jiang Xuan’s rigged game of “Close Your Eyes When Night Falls,” revealing that the players had coordinated their votes regardless of their roles. Jiang Xuan admitted she was a civilian, and Xiao Yu stopped Zhao Yan as she tried to leave.

• Jiang Xuan claimed to be the police and persuaded several players to vote for Xiao Yu, while Zhao Yan and Liu Shan challenged her accusations.
• Liu Shan claimed to be the police, but Jiang Xuan accused her of lying and urged everyone to vote her and Xiao Yu out.
• The other players kept their votes on Xiao Yu despite Zhao Yan and Liu Shan’s arguments, while Xiao Yu said he had stayed quiet because the outcome was already decided.
• Xiao Yu explained that the game itself was a lie and that the players had agreed to vote together regardless of their roles.
• Xiao Yu said Jiang Xuan was neither the killer nor the police, and Jiang Xuan admitted she was a civilian.
• Zhao Yan turned to leave, but Xiao Yu stopped her.