Recaps

Qiu Wuji trained Chu Ge with a deliberately unpleasant durian-balancing exercise while cleaning and redecorating his apartment. Their domestic banter was interrupted when Zhang Qiren let himself in and mistook the scene for evidence that Chu Ge was betraying their class.

• Qiu Wuji made Chu Ge practice his Golden Bell Shield by enduring rolling durians and balancing them on his head and shoulders.
• Qiu Wuji explained how balancing the durians could improve Chu Ge's footing, then secretly admitted she had chosen the method partly to torment him.
• Qiu Wuji cleaned the apartment and discussed buying plants and calligraphy supplies to make it feel more like home.
• Zhang Qiren entered with his spare key, saw Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge covered in durians, and accused Chu Ge of betraying the revolution.

Zhang Qiren explained his family background, his decision to leave the family business, and how his Esper Ability and later circumstances led him into the nightclub world. He revealed that he had seen Chu Ge at the Underground Boxing elevator and deliberately let him leave, leaving Chu Ge to consider what that meant.

• Qiu Wuji hid in her room while Zhang Qiren visited Chu Ge and teased him about Qiu Wuji being his sis-in-law.
• Zhang Qiren told Chu Ge he was an illegitimate son who had refused his father's offer to manage the family nightclub because he feared being made a scapegoat.
• Zhang Qiren recalled that his mother had been the only reader supporting his early writing, and said his Esper Ability awakened after his brother sent people to bully him.
• Zhang Qiren explained that he had moved out after a fight with his father and later accepted work he considered unclean because he realized others would harm him if he stayed naive.
• Zhang Qiren told Chu Ge he had seen him at the Underground Boxing elevator and had chosen not to chase him.

Chu Ge learned that Zhang Qiren had arranged to have Moon Shadow killed, believing her to be an obstacle to his rise in the Underground Boxing operation. He revealed that Moon Shadow was actually Qiu Wuji, leaving Zhang Qiren devastated as he realized he had nearly killed the woman he loved.

• Zhang Qiren explained that his brother had planned to sabotage Moon Shadow after she refused to throw a fight, and that he had followed Wall-Passer to keep track of the scheme.
• Zhang Qiren admitted that after taking over the Underground Boxing operation, he had arranged to make Moon Shadow lose, while Chu Ge accused him of trying to kill her.
• Zhang Qiren defended his actions as necessary to avoid being crushed by an unfair world, and Chu Ge warned him that wrongdoing brought retribution.
• Chu Ge told Zhang Qiren that Moon Shadow was the girl he had a crush on, who lived across the hall and drank to dull her pain.
• Zhang Qiren went silent, then crouched down and curled into a ball as he struggled to accept what he had done.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji watched Zhang Qiren leave after an assassination attempt, unable to pull him away from the dangerous path he had chosen. Qiu Wuji reflected on whether her feelings and choices were truly her own, while urging Chu Ge to remember what he wanted.

• Zhang Qiren told Chu Ge that pride, comfort, and the danger surrounding him kept him from turning back, and he warned that Chu Ge would eventually be drawn into the changing world of Espers.
• Chu Ge shielded Zhang Qiren from an incoming attack with his Golden Bell Shield, and Zhang Qiren said losing his power would likely cost him his life.
• Qiu Wuji arrived with the would-be assassin, and Zhang Qiren said he would use the man as a bargaining chip before leaving with his subordinates.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that she could not tell how much her feelings toward him came from his writing, but said her spontaneous choice to pose as a fan showed progress toward becoming herself.
• Qiu Wuji asked Chu Ge whether he still remembered what he wanted as he faced the troubles of the world.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji took a nighttime stroll and discussed his writing, his original aspirations, and the kind of world he wanted to create. Qiu Wuji argued that he needed to build a world that could endure beyond its protagonists, and Chu Ge realized she might be considering how to leave her original body and stay with him.

• Chu Ge invited Qiu Wuji on a nighttime stroll and openly said he wanted to court her, while she called him a sick freak and denied giving him a chance.
• Chu Ge reflected on Zhang Qiren’s troubles and said people should express their feelings instead of missing their chances.
• Qiu Wuji asked what kind of world Chu Ge wanted to create, and he explained that he had once written to share the stories in his heart but now focused on what readers enjoyed.
• Qiu Wuji urged Chu Ge to create a world that could continue even if Chu Tiange and she died, which could help her exist independently.
• Chu Ge realized Qiu Wuji might be thinking about bringing her original body out and staying with him, so she chased him down the street and beat him.

Chu Ge trained under Qiu Wuji and learned how to split his attention so he could cultivate while writing. Qiu Wuji became the novel’s operations manager, eager to oversee her character portrait and future birthday celebrations.

• Chu Ge woke after dreaming of kissing Qiu Wuji, then endured another morning of treadmill training and durian balancing.
• Qiu Wuji explained that Chu Ge could try splitting his attention to circulate qi while he wrote, using a method she transmitted to him.
• Chu Ge suggested Qiu Wuji become an admin and operations manager for his novel, explaining her duties and the platform’s character promotions.
• Qiu Wuji eagerly accepted the role after learning she could oversee her portrait and work toward a character birthday celebration.
• Qiu Wuji joined the “Friendly Fire” group as an admin and took the username Qiu Wuji.

Chu Ge’s writing and cultivation gave the world inside his novel greater vividness, while Chu Tiange and Yan Qianlie began sensing the Heavenly Dao and their growing freedom from its influence. After finishing a chapter, Chu Ge discovered that Qiu Wuji had been enthusiastically muting members of his chat group after joining in their lewd exchanges.

• Chu Ge found that cultivation sharpened his memory and prose, and that writing made the world in his book blur into vivid images.
• Chu Tiange noticed the scenery becoming more lifelike and felt the destiny hanging over him shifting away, while Yan Qianlie sensed the Heavenly Dao and declared himself equal to Qiu Wuji.
• Chu Ge wrote Chu Tiange confronting the Poison-Hand Demon Lord, briefly feeling detached as he dictated the characters’ fates.
• Chu Ge rejected the idea of writing Qiu Wuji into falling in love with the Creator God because he wanted her to remain real.
• Chu Ge checked the Friendly Fire group and learned that Qiu Wuji had searched for members’ porn links, then muted several people after scolding them.

Chu Ge tried to defend himself after Qiu Wuji discovered his porn-sharing groups, but his explanations only embarrassed them both further. Qiu Wuji left to run errands, while Chu Ge doubled down in the group chat, and she angrily discovered she could not mute or remove him.

• Qiu Wuji teased Chu Ge about his porn-sharing group and questioned how many people had joined it.
• Chu Ge showed Qiu Wuji his author chat groups, whose members were sharing jokes about an upcoming gathering and porn links.
• Qiu Wuji left to buy xuan paper and look for flowers and plants, saying she would take the bus or fly.
• Chu Ge returned to the Friendly Fire group and asked members how convincing the moderator's Qiu Wuji cosplay was.
• After members complained that the female moderator might make porn-sharing awkward, Chu Ge urged them to keep sharing and promised extra chapters.
• Qiu Wuji read Chu Ge's messages on the bus and angrily found she could neither remove nor mute him.

Qiu Wuji explored the countryside and encountered a man whose esper ability let him write words on his face, while Chu Ge discovered that someone else’s esper could strike him through his screen. The chapter ended with both men learning that their seemingly useless abilities could have unexpected effects.

• Qiu Wuji got off the bus at its last stop and walked through the countryside, reflecting on how Chu Ge’s fictional world drew from reality.
• Qiu Wuji noticed a young man working in a rice field and realized he possessed an unfamiliar kind of power.
• The young man used his ability to write “Handsome” and then “You like me” on his face, but Qiu Wuji kicked him for trying to influence her mind.
• Qiu Wuji left after the man explained that his ability was not a mind-confounding art, while she wondered how espers differed from cultivators.
• A phantom fist struck Chu Ge through his screen, and he suspected an esper ability had reached him.
• The fat man who had punched Chu Ge through his ability hurt his own hand and complained that his power was useless.

Qiu Wuji decorated the apartment, wrote protective calligraphy, and reflected on whether Chu Ge had created her or whether she had imagined her creator. As they prepared dinner together, Chu Ge asked her to go out with him that night.

• Qiu Wuji planted foxtail grass on the windowsill and wrote Zhuangzi’s butterfly-dream passage on Xuan paper.
• Qiu Wuji wondered whether Chu Ge had created her or whether she had imagined a creator god, then said she had already confirmed the answer.
• Qiu Wuji explained that her calligraphy could create a hallucinatory defense and said she had seen an Esper Ability that could affect her.
• Chu Ge told Qiu Wuji that people thought she was a reader imitating the book’s Qiu Wuji, and she quietly welcomed being seen as different from that label.
• Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge prepared dinner together, and Chu Ge invited her to go out and experience modern life that night.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji spent Qixi evening exploring a crowded shopping street, where Qiu Wuji tried snacks and Chu Ge belatedly realized it was a romantic holiday. The chapter ended with them watching fireworks together, sharing a quiet, intimate moment.

• Qiu Wuji researched dating customs and chatted in the Friendly Fire group, where she muted Lulu twice after he flirted with her and insulted Chu Ge.
• A longtime administrator invited Qiu Wuji to help arrange a chibi avatar, so she painted a portrait of herself and sent it to Character Meow.
• Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji to a busy pedestrian street, where she enjoyed an ice cream cone and cotton candy for the first time.
• A girl selling roses told Chu Ge it was Qixi, and he realized he had unknowingly brought Qiu Wuji out on the romantic holiday.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji watched fireworks together as the crowds faded from their attention.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji spent Qixi together at an amusement park, where Qiu Wuji accidentally struck a haunted-house actor. When Chu Ge shielded her from another actor, Qiu Wuji felt moved, but his concern about medical bills spoiled the moment and she stomped on his foot.

• Qiu Wuji insisted that she had not come out with Chu Ge because it was Qixi, and they decided to skip a crowded restaurant and visit an amusement park before their movie.
• Chu Ge suggested amusement-park games, but Qiu Wuji showed little interest and chose to try the haunted house after reading how couples behaved there.
• Qiu Wuji slapped a ghost actor who startled her, and Chu Ge apologized before leading her farther into the haunted house.
• When another ghost actor lunged at them, Chu Ge pulled Qiu Wuji into his arms and shielded her with his back.
• Qiu Wuji felt stirred by Chu Ge protecting her, but he let her go and mentioned avoiding medical bills, so she stomped on his foot and ran ahead.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji went to a movie for Qixi, where they held hands and Chu Ge’s attempt to flirt ended with his hand getting hurt. Afterward, Qiu Wuji asked to ride a bicycle, and they traveled together along Riverside as she enjoyed the night.

• Chu Ge bought snacks for Qiu Wuji, and he sheltered her from the crowd as they entered the cinema and held hands.
• During the movie, Qiu Wuji ate and drank while Chu Ge nervously tickled her palm; she hurt his hand in response.
• After the movie, Qiu Wuji asked whether Chu Ge could ride a bicycle, and he rented one for the night.
• Chu Ge rode with Qiu Wuji seated behind him along Riverside as she smelled her rose and enjoyed the evening breeze.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed the Qixi legend while riding along the river, and Chu Ge revealed his fear that they might someday be unable to meet. They stopped for a late-night snack, where Qiu Wuji recognized an Esper Ability user and overheard him and his friends discussing Chu Ge’s writing.

• Chu Ge told Qiu Wuji the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and she criticized the cowherd for stealing the weaver girl's clothes.
• Qiu Wuji wondered whether the lovers could truly meet across two worlds, and Chu Ge angrily insisted that real life should not leave them separated.
• Qiu Wuji reassured Chu Ge that he was their Heavenly Emperor and could decide whether they met, calming his fear about her possibly being unable to cross over.
• Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji to a nearby restaurant for a late-night snack, where she recognized the Esper Ability user from that morning.
• A fat man claimed he had beaten up Chu Da to make him finish a plot section, while the Esper Ability user said he wanted to read more about Qiu Wuji.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji monitored the espers at a nightclub and watched the police raid it. The raid uncovered drugs and implicated Wang Zhenkun, while Chu Ge suspected the case might connect to a larger investigation.

• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed the espers’ abilities after the group left the restaurant, and Qiu Wuji followed them with her divine sense.
• Qiu Wuji showed Chu Ge how the young man’s writing could influence people, and they watched him use the ability to enter a nightclub.
• The fat man sent footage of the nightclub’s midnight show to the police, prompting Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji to head there.
• Lin Wuyang arrived with the police and led a raid that uncovered customers using hallucinogenic drugs.
• Lin Wuyang confronted Wang Zhenkun, declaring that he would go to jail despite any pressure brought against him.

Lin Wuyang exposed Wang Zhenkun’s operation, while Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji helped stop the suspects from escaping with drugs and evidence. The police arrived after Qiu Wuji defeated the armed men, and Lin Wuyang was left wondering why Zhang Xiaoren had intervened.

• Lin Wuyang used his ability to make Wang Zhenkun confess to coveting his assistant’s wife, and the assistant revealed the nightclub’s gambling operation.
• Qiu Wuji spotted men escaping through a secret exit with illegal drugs and documents, so she and Chu Ge decided to help Lin Wuyang.
• Zhang Qiren sent the scrawny would-be assassin to intercept the escaping men, but Chu Ge blocked the alley and fought them.
• A thug stabbed Chu Ge, but his Golden Bell Shield stopped the dagger from penetrating deeply.
• Qiu Wuji disarmed the men, crushed their daggers, and sent them flying just as Lin Wuyang’s police officers arrived.
• The scrawny man announced that Young Master Zhang sent his regards to Young Master Wang, leaving Lin Wuyang puzzled about Zhang Xiaoren’s actions.

After Chu Ge was wounded in a fight, Qiu Wuji treated him and explained how Zhang Qiren had engineered the night’s events. Zhang Qiren reimbursed Chu Ge by tipping his novel, and Qiu Wuji left the roses in his care before returning to her world.

• Qiu Wuji dressed Chu Ge’s wound and scolded him for fighting poorly, while Chu Ge admired her concern.
• Qiu Wuji explained that Zhang Qiren had arranged the crackdown on underworld rivals and shifted blame toward his older brother.
• Chu Ge asked Zhang Qiren to pay for two ruined outfits, and Zhang Qiren tipped his novel ten million points instead.
• Zhang Qiren told Chu Ge he would never allow drugs on his turf and advised him to call rather than leave written records.
• Qiu Wuji placed the roses in a vase, asked Chu Ge to change their water daily, and said she had enjoyed the evening before returning to her world.

After Qiu Wuji left, Chu Ge spent Qixi alone at home and spoke with his mother about the woman he liked and the dangers surrounding him. He went to sleep dreaming of his date with Qiu Wuji and confessed in his sleep that he loved her.

• Chu Ge sat beneath a durian, admired the roses Qiu Wuji had left behind, and answered a late-night call from his mother.
• Chu Ge told his mother that he liked a woman but that she was not yet his girlfriend, and showed her his tidy home during a video call.
• Chu Ge's mother warned him not to get involved in dangerous matters and sent him the contact card for Zhong Buli.
• Chu Ge went to sleep early and dreamed again of his Qixi date with Qiu Wuji.
• Chu Ge murmured in his sleep that he was in love with the woman he had written into being.

Chu Ge trained, wrote a scene in which Qiu Wuji confronted a mole at an alliance meeting, and sensed her defying the rules of his world. The chapter ended with him recognizing that it was Qiu Wuji.

• Chu Ge realized his durian-balancing and indoor footwork routines had become too easy, ate the durian, and considered finding a better place to train.
• Chu Ge wrote Qiu Wuji developing a long-range divine ability and finding Shadow Mystic Arts in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Qiu Wuji learned that City Lord Xie and other leaders had arrived to discuss an alliance against the Flame Prison Sect, and ordered them invited to the main hall.
• Chu Ge finished the scene by writing Qiu Wuji confronting a mole who accused her of seeking control over the alliance.
• Qiu Wuji seized the provocateur with a jade hand, and Chu Ge sensed her challenging the rules of the Heavenly Dao before realizing it was her.

Qiu Wuji defied the Heavenly Dao without being suppressed, while Chu Ge dealt with the aftermath of the nightclub raid and considered the authorities’ shortage of people with special abilities. At a restaurant, he met Zhong, the auxiliary member his mother had mentioned, and offered to treat him to a meal.

• Qiu Wuji sensed the Heavenly Dao trying to suppress her, but it withdrew after she glared at the clouds.
• Chu Ge returned the rented bicycle, visited the raided nightclub, and heard passersby discuss the police operation.
• Lin Wuyang called Chu Ge, confirmed he had helped block the alley, and said he had covered for him while facing pressure over the case.
• Chu Ge considered why the authorities recruited auxiliary members and reflected on how difficult it was to find people with special abilities.
• At the restaurant, Chu Ge found the proprietress arguing with Zhong over thirty cents and offered to pay for Zhong’s meal.

Chu Ge met Zhong Yi of Black Room, who explained the rise of esper abilities and how his group operated outside official government roles. The meeting ended with Zhong Yi offering Black Room’s help to Lin Wuyang through Chu Ge.

• Zhong Yi introduced himself to Chu Ge and explained that he had waited at the restaurant, though Chu Ge had come there only to eat.
• Zhong Yi told Chu Ge that esper abilities had grown more common as spiritual qi increased, while remaining rare overall.
• Zhong Yi explained that Black Room was a self-organized group of ability users who took small jobs and sometimes helped the police.
• Zhong Yi said Black Room had contacted the police during the recent incident and offered to help Lin Wuyang if Chu Ge passed the message along.
• Zhong Yi remarked that Black Room’s members had abilities too useless to make much difference.

Chu Ge learned about Zhong Yi’s pain-insensitive Esper Ability and was invited to seek training at the Black Room under a masked identity. He also asked Zhong Yi to help Qiu Wuji obtain an official identity, and Zhong Yi agreed while privately deciding to pass the request to Chu Ge’s mother.

• Zhong Yi explained that Esper Abilities could become more useful with training and revealed that he could not feel pain.
• Zhong Yi offered Chu Ge access to the Black Room’s training space, and Chu Ge agreed to join anonymously after the others approved.
• Chu Ge learned that the restaurant’s owners had abilities that made food taste terrible or look sparkly.
• Zhong Yi told Chu Ge to prepare a code name and mask, prompting Chu Ge to ask for help registering someone with no identity.
• Zhong Yi agreed to help Chu Ge obtain an identity for Qiu Wuji and privately planned to forward her information to Chu Ge’s mother.

Chu Ge rushed to publish extra chapters so Qiu Wuji could reach him sooner, while Qiu Wuji sought a way to shorten her recovery and waited through the alliance meeting’s plot. She eventually appeared in Chu Ge’s apartment, where he abandoned his writing to focus on her.

• Chu Ge posted a third chapter early, checked his rising subscription numbers, and continued writing to advance Qiu Wuji’s story.
• Qiu Wuji followed the alliance meeting’s prescribed dialogue with Lu Yuanzhang while worrying that changing the plot could harm Chu Ge.
• Qiu Wuji traded a Netherwater Azure Lotus petal for three bottles of Origin Returning Liquid, intending to recover her divine soul and travel between worlds again.
• Chu Ge posted a fourth chapter and planned to write a fifth so Qiu Wuji could reach him sooner.
• Qiu Wuji appeared behind Chu Ge and scolded him for eating durian and practicing without her permission.
• Chu Ge declared that he would stop updating for the night and attend to Qiu Wuji instead.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji walked together, arranged for her ID photo, and took a picture as a couple while discussing how she could get a legal identity. The chapter ended with Chu Ge reflecting on the real Cloudreach Sect and saying he would enter Qiu Wuji’s world one day.

• Chu Ge told Qiu Wuji he would write Elder Yang developing a medicine to nourish the Divine Soul, and warned her to avoid openly disrupting the story’s setting.
• Chu Ge took Qiu Wuji’s hand as they walked and told her that his mother had found someone who could help her get an identity.
• Chu Ge brought Qiu Wuji to a photo studio, where she had ID pictures taken and posed with him against a backdrop of mountains and mist.
• Qiu Wuji criticized the photos after they left, while Chu Ge treasured their picture together and persuaded her to go eat.
• Chu Ge reflected on Qiu Wuji’s real Cloudreach Sect and told her he would enter her world one day.

Chu Ge sent Zhong Yi Qiu Wuji’s details and discussed his growing ability to influence the world through authorial intent. He and Qiu Wuji decided to get an electric scooter, with Chu Ge driving her.

• Chu Ge told Zhong Yi that Qiu Wuji was twenty-five and sent her photo, while Qiu Wuji objected to the false name and backstory he had invented for her.
• Qiu Wuji asked Chu Ge about his Divine Sense Descent, and he explained that it felt like an author revising his work and that he might eventually learn to control it.
• Qiu Wuji urged Chu Ge to direct his attention toward other people instead of watching her so closely, and he agreed to try observing Chu Tiange or Yan Qianlie.
• Chu Ge suggested buying a vehicle, and after comparing costly cars to magical treasures, he and Qiu Wuji settled on an electric scooter.
• Qiu Wuji said she wanted Chu Ge to drive her, and he happily agreed.