Chapter Summaries

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed how the novel’s plot shaped events in her world, then tried to see whether he could cultivate using her instructions. Their lesson ended in a scuffle and an awkward conversation about her laundry, leaving Chu Ge increasingly aware of how real and close Qiu Wuji felt to him.

• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that the Poison-Hand Demon Lord had poisoned her, and Chu Ge wondered whether important events in her world were bound to follow his writing.
• Chu Ge asked to learn cultivation, and Qiu Wuji taught him a mental method before discovering he did not know where the twelve principal meridians were.
• Qiu Wuji flipped Chu Ge onto the sofa and beat him for writing cultivation methods he could not explain, then went to the balcony to cool off.
• Qiu Wuji saw her washed clothes and stockings hanging outside, blushed, and told Chu Ge he no longer needed to wash her clothes.
• Chu Ge urged Qiu Wuji to keep wearing real clothes as she adapted to his world, while she accused him of wanting them for perverted reasons.

Qiu Wuji examined Chu Ge's poor health and told him to improve his habits before he could cultivate, then took charge of his meals and shopping. The chapter ended with Chu Ge buying matching pajamas for them, while Qiu Wuji vowed to start earning money.

• Qiu Wuji examined Chu Ge's meridians and found his body depleted and unsuitable for cultivation until he regained his health.
• Chu Ge promised to exercise after Qiu Wuji mocked his constitution and rejected his boast about his stamina.
• Qiu Wuji advised Chu Ge to eat and sleep regularly while they shared a meal outside the apartment.
• Chu Ge declared that cooking would count as Qiu Wuji's rent, and she agreed to prepare meals at home.
• Chu Ge bought Qiu Wuji stockings and matching pajamas, prompting her to vow to earn her own money.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji returned from the supermarket, and Qiu Wuji used a minor spell to clean his kitchen before preparing to cook. Chu Ge wondered why his book had suddenly attracted new readers, while Zhang Qiren’s actions revealed that he had helped draw attention to it.

• Chu Ge carried most of the groceries while Qiu Wuji carried a heavy bag of rice, and they discussed how she might earn money through cooking.
• Qiu Wuji cleaned Chu Ge’s filthy kitchen with a Cleansing Technique and organized the seasonings while Chu Ge arranged for cooking gas.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed the fighting in his book’s reviews, and Chu Ge wondered why readers outside his usual audience had suddenly appeared.
• Qiu Wuji picked up a history book and remarked that Chu Ge’s civilization was young, prompting him to explain that cultivation worlds did not need realistic social histories.
• The gas delivery interrupted Chu Ge as he declared it was time to write while Qiu Wuji read, and Zhang Qiren closed a thread on the No-Female-Lead Forum, saying he had done what he could for Chu Ge.

Chu Ge adjusted his novel toward a romance-free cultivation story while Qiu Wuji used immortal arts to cook for them. Over dinner, Qiu Wuji sensed that spiritual energy in Chu Ge’s world might be growing slightly denser, leaving Chu Ge wondering whether its return had brought her out of the book.

• Chu Ge wrote and published a new chapter about Chu Tiange pursuing cultivation without romance, then found that subscriptions had declined less than he expected.
• Qiu Wuji used immortal arts to cook vegetables and prepare a meal while continuing to read.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed how difficult it would be to obtain a legal identity for her, and Qiu Wuji said she might leave once she understood the world better.
• Qiu Wuji said she sensed spiritual energy in Chu Ge’s world and thought it might be slightly denser than during her previous visit.
• Chu Ge wondered whether spiritual energy was returning and whether that might explain why Qiu Wuji had emerged from the book.

Chu Ge decided to change his routine by socializing more and exercising, while Qiu Wuji settled into their shared home. The night ended with them unexpectedly meeting in the living room after Qiu Wuji secretly bathed, and Chu Ge gently wished her good night.

• Chu Ge realized he needed to socialize more to find clues about how Qiu Wuji had escaped from his book.
• After writing a bonus chapter, Chu Ge cleared his treadmill and tried running and doing push-ups, but quickly exhausted himself.
• Chu Ge went to shower, and Qiu Wuji returned to the spare bedroom to find he had prepared bedding and a pig cushion for her.
• After Chu Ge fell asleep, Qiu Wuji secretly used the bathroom to bathe and changed into matching cartoon pajamas.
• Chu Ge woke to use the toilet and encountered Qiu Wuji sneaking out of the bathroom, then wished her good night instead of teasing her.

Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji out to get a phone and a secondhand laptop so she could learn more about the modern world. Her stay in his world lasted longer, and she chose the WeChat ID “Water follows the heavens; autumn stretches without end.”

• Qiu Wuji refused to heal Chu Ge’s post-workout soreness and made him continue running.
• Qiu Wuji secretly changed the doll on Chu Ge’s pajamas into a crying face, then made breakfast.
• Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji to get a phone and explained that he would buy her a secondhand laptop so she could explore the internet and write.
• Qiu Wuji got a phone number and began to feel increasingly connected to Chu Ge and his world.
• After returning home with the laptop, Qiu Wuji found that her stay had lengthened and created a WeChat ID: “Water follows the heavens; autumn stretches without end.”

Chu Ge received a major homepage recommendation while Qiu Wuji settled into cultivation, and the two spent a quiet day together. As Chu Ge drifted off for a nap, a mysterious figure used a wall-piercing technique to emerge through his door.

• Qiu Wuji went grocery shopping with Chu Ge and began learning about modern cooking tools and videos.
• Chu Ge wrote more readily, focusing on Qiu Wuji's own storyline and considering giving the novel an ensemble cast.
• Chu Ge's editor told him that his work had earned a homepage feature and urged him to stockpile chapters.
• Zhang Qiren told Chu Ge that he worked as a security guard and had spotted him shopping with a beautiful woman.
• Qiu Wuji cultivated after lunch while Chu Ge went to nap, and a silhouette emerged through his door using a wall-piercing technique.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji caught a man with the ability to pass through walls, who had broken into their apartment while hunting for Moon Shadow. They decided to hand him over to the police and erase his memories, though Qiu Wuji also took the opportunity to demand his valuables.

• A burglar entered the apartment, but Qiu Wuji immobilized him with a glare and Chu Ge knocked him down with a broom.
• Qiu Wuji questioned the man about his ability to pass through walls, and he claimed supernatural abilities were awakening among a small number of people.
• Chu Ge recognized the man was lying and exposed that he had come to target Moon Shadow, a suspected underground boxer and assassin living across the hall.
• Chu Ge urged Qiu Wuji to avoid getting involved in the supernatural circle and turn the man over to the police, and she agreed to erase his memories.
• Qiu Wuji told the man to hand over his money and valuables before Chu Ge could decide whether to call the police or contact Lin Wuyang.

Qiu Wuji robbed a thief, erased his memory, and left him for the police, while Chu Ge admitted he felt uneasy about the supernatural world disrupting his ordinary life. The police linked the thief to their hunt for the Wall-Passer, and a mysterious girl in black watched the scene before vanishing.

• Qiu Wuji took the thief's cash, erased his memory, and dumped him in a green belt; Chu Ge watched as passersby alerted the police.
• Chu Ge told Qiu Wuji he felt conflicted about supernatural events and asked her not to rob people in their world again.
• Lin Wuyang recognized Chu Ge at the scene, then learned from an officer that the thief had appeared in the green belt without anyone seeing him arrive.
• Lin Wuyang said the captured thief might help close the case involving President Gu and the Wall-Passer, and decided not to investigate whoever had dumped him without cause.
• Chu Ge went looking for Qiu Wuji and saw a girl in black watching the police; she turned away and vanished.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji learned more about the awakened espers and explored the internet, while Qiu Wuji treated Chu Ge to accelerate his cultivation. At the City Bureau, Gu Ruoyan added Lin Wuyang to the esper registry after revealing his ability.

• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that espers could train their abilities, and they discussed whether Chu Ge had awakened a power of his own.
• Chu Ge taught Qiu Wuji to use Thousand Search and a video site, where she searched for the Divine Miracle Nightclub and watched cooking videos.
• Qiu Wuji decided to improve Chu Ge’s circulation and prepare him to cultivate, then treated him with immortal spiritual energy despite his concern that it would shorten her time in his world.
• Gu Ruoyan reviewed the esper registry with Lin Wuyang and added his truth-forcing ability and provisional B potential assessment.

After Qiu Wuji returned to her world, Chu Ge began cultivating and worried that she might eventually stop visiting. Qiu Wuji wrestled with her desire to return to Chu Ge and sought a way to become independent of his writing by changing how she pursued her goals.

• Chu Ge realized Qiu Wuji had left him with a working cultivation method and worried that she might someday leave his world for good.
• Chu Ge gathered Qiu Wuji's clothes and resolved to write her as even more formidable.
• Qiu Wuji questioned whether returning to Chu Ge was wise, but she still worried about his safety and wondered whether she could break free of his writing.
• Qiu Wuji summoned Elder Zhou and said she planned to wager the sect's Great Void Fire against Yan Qianlie's Vermilion Bird Firefeather.
• Qiu Wuji told Elder Zhou to identify and secretly control the Flame Prison Sect's affiliates, and to contact Corpse Yin Mountain about Yan Qianlie's killing of the Boneless Elder's son.
• Chu Ge typed a line in which Qiu Wuji declared that she would command the tide of the world and stand above all beneath heaven.

After cultivating and building a productive routine, Chu Ge tested whether his writing could make the Heavenly Dao pact real inside his novel. His words summoned him into Qiu Wuji’s world, where the pact was sealed and she saw him in her soul sea.

• Chu Ge encountered his black-clad neighbor, who apologized and said she would move out soon.
• Chu Ge cultivated, exercised, and slept deeply before waking refreshed and writing with renewed energy.
• Chu Ge checked his author dashboard and saw that his bookmarks and subscriptions were rising.
• Chu Ge wrote that Qiu Wuji could sense and receive a response from the Heavenly Dao, causing his view to shift into her world.
• Chu Ge’s presence sealed Qiu Wuji and Yan Qianlie’s wager, convincing Yan Qianlie that the pact could truly bind him.
• Qiu Wuji saw Chu Ge smiling in her soul sea and realized she could see him there.

Qiu Wuji accepted Yan Qianlie’s heavenly dao wager and prepared to fight him, while she and Chu Ge explored the limits of their connection and whether her choices were truly her own. The chapter ended with Chu Ge asking how much Qiu Wuji knew about him.

• Yan Qianlie accepted the wager and set the duel for the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which Qiu Wuji recognized as a setting Chu Ge had invented.
• Qiu Wuji returned to her sect to begin preparations, then crossed over to Chu Ge’s world and beat him for mocking her inability to reach him.
• Qiu Wuji explained that more than ten days had passed in her world, allowing her spiritual exhaustion to recover, and she questioned how Chu Ge’s Divine Descent worked.
• Qiu Wuji noticed Chu Ge had written her as planning for supremacy and wondered whether the choice came from his writing or her own thoughts.
• Chu Ge suggested that Qiu Wuji’s actions might reflect how well he understood her, then asked how much she knew about him.

Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge went out for hot pot and discussed her growing independence and the woman across the hall. Moon Shadow entered an underground boxing arena, where a hidden figure watched her from behind glass.

• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge she wanted to buy more clothes, and they went out to shop after dinner plans shifted to hot pot.
• Qiu Wuji accused Chu Ge of using her clothes inappropriately, and Chu Ge denied it.
• Qiu Wuji said she would threaten or erase the memories of the woman across the hall if needed, and Chu Ge noted her tougher attitude.
• Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji's hand as they headed to a hot pot restaurant, and she wondered why she did not pull away.
• Moon Shadow entered the underground boxing arena beneath the Divine Miracle Nightclub, where the crowd cheered for her.
• Moon Shadow looked toward a concealed spectator behind a glass wall, whom she recognized as a slender man with glasses.

Qiu Wuji set out alone to explore the city, but after failing to enter the subway or hail a taxi, she ended up traveling with Chu Ge to the Divine Miracle Nightclub to investigate the man who had gone through the wall. The chapter left them outside the club, with Chu Ge warning Qiu Wuji to follow his lead.

• Qiu Wuji bought a white shirt and jeans, then used mystic arts to stop nearby customers from photographing her.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge to go home so she could explore alone, and he left after warning her not to use violence.
• Qiu Wuji failed to enter the subway because she lacked a health code and struggled to hail a taxi from a no-stopping area.
• Chu Ge found Qiu Wuji and joined her in a taxi after she chose the Divine Miracle Nightclub as her destination.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji arrived at the nightclub, where Chu Ge told her to listen to him and Qiu Wuji questioned whether he had ever visited the place.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji visited a costly dance hall, where Qiu Wuji discovered its lewd atmosphere and struggled with unfamiliar feelings while they investigated. The chapter ended when a bunny-costumed performer appeared onstage and Qiu Wuji regretted coming.

• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji entered an old-fashioned dance hall and saw couples kissing and groping on the dance floor and in the corners.
• Chu Ge ordered beer and peanuts after seeing the steep prices, while Qiu Wuji questioned the venue’s behavior and used her divine sense to investigate.
• Qiu Wuji’s divine sense revealed an intimate couple nearby, and the close, heated atmosphere stirred unfamiliar feelings in both her and Chu Ge.
• A host announced the special performance, and a woman rose from beneath the floor in a bunny-girl outfit.
• Qiu Wuji stared at the performer and said she should never have come.

Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge found a hidden route beneath the venue and entered an underground fighting arena, where Moon Shadow fought a powerful opponent before a bloodthirsty crowd. After Moon Shadow turned the fight around with her shadow ability, Gu Ruoyan decided to find her.

• Qiu Wuji destroyed a garment thrown toward Chu Ge, then punched him after he made a suggestive remark before leading him to a hidden passage.
• Qiu Wuji used an illusion to get past the guards, and she and Chu Ge descended by elevator to a vast underground arena.
• Moon Shadow struggled against a burly fighter who used gravity manipulation and was driven to the edge of the ring.
• Moon Shadow used her shadow ability to trip the fighter and strike his spine, sending him toward the edge of the ring.
• Gu Ruoyan reviewed Moon Shadow's roster entry and ordered a subordinate to find her.

Moon Shadow escaped a rigged Underground Boxing match after an unseen force released the restraint trapping her. The club’s boss realized skilled outsiders had intervened and ordered operations suspended, while vowing to find another way to kill Moon Shadow.

• Moon Shadow struggled against her opponent’s attacks and the crowd’s demands as an outside force kept the man airborne and restrained her with gravity.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that the club likely intended to kill Moon Shadow because she knew they had cheated and might cause trouble later.
• The gravitational restraint vanished, allowing Moon Shadow to dodge a punch and escape the ring before fleeing toward the elevator.
• Moon Shadow entered the elevator, but the people watching the surveillance found it empty and realized the escape was a diversion.
• The boss ordered the club to suspend operations, noted that the authorities might be investigating, and said he would find another way to kill Moon Shadow.

Qiu Wuji teleported Chu Ge and the injured Moon Shadow away from the Divine Miracle Nightclub, then brought Moon Shadow home and questioned her about her shadow ability. Moon Shadow left believing Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge were married, while Qiu Wuji protested, and the police arrived at the nightclub.

• Qiu Wuji teleported herself, Chu Ge, and Moon Shadow out of the nightclub and cleaned the blood from Moon Shadow's face and clothes.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji took Moon Shadow home after hearing police sirens near the nightclub.
• Moon Shadow explained that she traveled through shadows to avoid being followed and had developed her ability by talking to shadows as a lonely child.
• Qiu Wuji asked Moon Shadow about training her ability, and Moon Shadow said fighting made her shadows stronger and that she trusted no one.
• Moon Shadow said she could no longer return to underground boxing and offered to let Qiu Wuji study her ability.
• Moon Shadow called Chu Ge Qiu Wuji's husband and left, prompting Qiu Wuji to deny that they were married.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji considered how readers might affect the reality and presence of his fictional world, while Qiu Wuji began studying his writing. Lin Wuyang’s inspection of the Divine Miracle Nightclub found nothing, and its new owner introduced himself as Zhang Qiren.

• Qiu Wuji learned how expensive housing was and asked Chu Ge whether Moon Shadow could enter their world, but he explained that a character modeled on her would not be the same person.
• Chu Ge theorized that readers strengthened a fictional world’s presence and connection to reality, and Qiu Wuji urged him to keep writing.
• Chu Ge went to write while Qiu Wuji read his earlier books to study his style; across the hall, Moon Shadow spent a sleepless night with a lingering wound.
• Lin Wuyang led a routine inspection of the Divine Miracle Nightclub, but the concealed staff passage had been sealed and the inspection uncovered nothing.
• Lin Wuyang questioned the club’s new owner, who truthfully identified himself as Zhang Qiren and said he had taken over only days earlier.