Chapter Summaries

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji were caught in an awkward encounter with Gu Ruoyan, who had come looking for Moon Shadow. Gu Ruoyan identified herself as a government official with mind-reading abilities and met Moon Shadow, while Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji were left to reckon with their own strange exchange.

• Qiu Wuji found and berated Chu Ge over an old story of his, then Gu Ruoyan arrived at their apartment.
• Gu Ruoyan explained she was looking for Moon Shadow, and Chu Ge realized she had been directed to the apartment building by someone who knew Moon Shadow.
• Chu Ge called Qiu Wuji his girlfriend, and Qiu Wuji played along before Gu Ruoyan went to Moon Shadow's door.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that Gu Ruoyan had probed their minds but could not uncover their identities.
• Gu Ruoyan showed Moon Shadow her identification, reassured her that she had not come to arrest her, and revealed her own mind-reading ability and official position.

After Moon Shadow left with Gu Ruoyan, Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge realized he could write a manual for Shadow Mystic Arts into existence, then settled back into their domestic routine. Chu Ge agreed to attend his college reunion, while Qiu Wuji’s warm praise of his books left him feeling that their relationship had grown closer.

• Moon Shadow left with Gu Ruoyan, and Qiu Wuji asked Chu Ge to write a cultivation manual for Shadow Mystic Arts.
• Chu Ge teased Qiu Wuji about being his heroine and girlfriend, and she kicked him onto the sofa before refusing to make breakfast.
• Chu Ge agreed in the College Classmates Group to attend the upcoming fifth-anniversary reunion, hoping to reconnect with Lin Wuyang.
• Chu Ge returned with soy milk and steamed buns and saw Qiu Wuji using the washing machine to learn about life in this world.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge that his books were wonderfully written, and he was deeply moved by her praise.

Chu Ge’s novel gained a surprising surge in subscriptions, but he grew concerned that Qiu Wuji was neglecting her cultivation while visiting his world. Qiu Wuji reassured him that experiencing the mortal world was itself cultivation, leaving Chu Ge to reconsider whether his worry had clouded his judgment.

• Chu Ge finished and uploaded a chapter, then discovered that his average subscriptions had surged past 4,600 and his novel was nearing the bestseller rankings’ top ten.
• While writing Qiu Wuji’s cultivation into the story, Chu Ge worried that her time away from her world might weaken her before her battle with Yan Qianlie.
• Qiu Wuji noticed her divine soul growing more solid and suspected Chu Ge had granted her another benefit through his writing.
• Chu Ge asked Qiu Wuji to return from the market because he feared she was cultivating too little, and she teased him about his concern.
• Qiu Wuji explained that perceiving and savoring the world around her was also cultivation, then suggested Chu Ge was too worried about her to understand.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji bantered over his handling of her laundry, then discussed her possible return and his rapid cultivation progress. When Qiu Wuji offered to teach him a mystic art, Chu Ge chose invisibility and X-ray vision, and she stormed away after dumping rice on his head.

• Chu Ge found Qiu Wuji's lampshade in the laundry and was caught holding it, prompting her to tease him and threaten him over her belongings.
• Qiu Wuji told Chu Ge she could stay until his class reunion in three days, but might return to handle affairs of her own.
• Qiu Wuji realized Chu Ge had reached a stable first level of Qi Refining after only three days of practice, much faster than she expected.
• Qiu Wuji offered to teach Chu Ge a simple mystic art, and he asked to learn invisibility and X-ray vision.
• Qiu Wuji dumped a bowl of rice on Chu Ge's head and stormed off.

Qiu Wuji rejected Chu Ge’s attempt to become her disciple but taught him techniques to help him survive the dangers surrounding his new life. She left him with the promise of learning the Golden Bell Shield through her hands-on instruction.

• Chu Ge brought Qiu Wuji tea and jokingly asked her to accept him as her disciple, but she refused despite accepting the tea.
• Qiu Wuji explained that Chu Ge should focus on survival rather than advanced techniques such as invisibility or seeing through objects.
• Qiu Wuji taught Chu Ge the basics of Cloudwater Without a Trace, the Cloudreach Sect’s movement technique.
• Qiu Wuji examined Chu Ge’s unusual mental sea and taught him the Soul Tempering Art to resist abilities that affected his mind or soul.
• Qiu Wuji said Chu Ge also needed combat skills and decided to teach him the Golden Bell Shield by beating him until he could take a blow.

Chu Ge learned the basics of the Golden Bell Shield from Qiu Wuji, then edited his story’s settings to make the technique protect a sensitive weak point after minor mastery. Qiu Wuji returned to her world to study the technique further, only to have her divided soul crash into her seclusion door.

• Qiu Wuji knocked Chu Ge around while teaching him the Golden Bell Shield, leaving him with faintly golden skin and increased toughness.
• Chu Ge asked whether the technique would protect his groin, and Qiu Wuji said she needed to study it further.
• Chu Ge added to his technique settings that minor mastery protected the groin, causing monks in his world to feel the change.
• Qiu Wuji said she would return to consult texts and left Chu Ge a stocking to keep safe while she was gone.
• Qiu Wuji returned to her body and, distracted, struck the stone door of her seclusion formation and slid down it.

Chu Ge learned that his novel was gaining strong readership and support, while Zhang Qiren pursued a mysterious woman and explored ties with the “Black Room.” The chapter left Chu Ge reconnecting with his readers and Zhang Qiren waiting for the Black Room to make progress.

• Qiu Wuji stormed off to consult the ancient texts and plan her revenge on Chu Ge.
• Chu Ge joined a chat group of bestselling authors, received praise for his ensemble cast, and realized his novel’s subscriptions had risen to 5,500.
• Chu Ge returned to the Friendly Fire group, learned its members had thanked tip-givers and managed the community in his absence, and appointed new admins.
• Chu Ge tried messaging Zhang Qiren but received no reply.
• At the Divine Miracle Nightclub, Zhang Qiren dismissed a lineup of women because none were the person he wanted and asked about the Black Room.
• Zhang Qiren learned the Black Room was interested but staying hidden because the police were searching for them, and he noted that Gu Ruoyan had returned to the capital.

Chu Ge continued cultivating while writing and went to his class reunion, where he unexpectedly saw his old friend Zhang Qiren arrive in expensive clothes after meeting Lin Wuyang. The chapter left Chu Ge messaging Zhang Qiren in disbelief over his apparent wealth.

• Chu Ge trained in the Golden Bell Shield, soul cultivation, and movement techniques while keeping up his writing.
• Chu Ge went to his class reunion, where his classmates teased him about being a loner and a writer, but he no longer took their remarks to heart.
• Chu Ge learned that Lin Wuyang was a municipal bureau section chief and considered asking civil servant Zhang Manli for help with Qiu Wuji’s identity.
• Lin Wuyang met Zhang Qiren at the hotel entrance and warned him about knowing when he had made enough money.
• Zhang Qiren saw Chu Ge at the reunion, felt embarrassed by his own appearance, and told an underling to discreetly listen to the table’s conversation.
• Chu Ge messaged Zhang Qiren in shock, asking if his claim of being a failure had meant returning home to inherit a billion-dollar fortune.

At a class reunion, Chu Ge fielded questions about his writing while his classmates underestimated his success. Qiu Wuji appeared as his fan, and Zhang Qiren arranged to pay for the tables in Chu Ge’s honor.

• Chu Ge questioned whether to approach Zhang Qiren, while Lin Wuyang told him Zhang had once rented a place with Chu Ge’s name listed as his roommate.
• Chu Ge’s classmates asked about his writing and assumed he made money from suggestive stories, prompting him to joke that Lin Wuyang might arrest him.
• The classmates discussed Chu Ge’s prospects for finding a girlfriend and teased him about writers marrying fans.
• Qiu Wuji arrived at the reunion and asked Chu Ge for his autograph, stunning him and his classmates.
• Zhang Qiren told a subordinate to pay for Lin Wuyang’s two tables and say he admired Chu Ge’s work.

After a class reunion, Chu Ge learned that Lin Wuyang was still investigating Zhang Qiren despite the case being called off, while Qiu Wuji revealed she had disguised herself as a fan to support him. The evening ended with Qiu Wuji threatening Chu Ge over the wall he had made her walk into.

• A fake female fan asked Chu Ge for an autograph, and Old Hong reported that another fan had paid the reunion bill; Chu Ge suspected the first was Qiu Wuji and the second was Zhang Qiren.
• Lin Wuyang told Chu Ge that Zhang Qiren was listed as the legal representative of the Divine Miracle Nightclub and asked him to share anything he learned about his roommate.
• After Lin Wuyang left, Qiu Wuji appeared and said she had acted like a fan because she knew Chu Ge cared about impressing his classmates and wanted to support him.
• Chu Ge thanked Qiu Wuji, saying he had not felt embarrassed because she liked his writing.
• Qiu Wuji changed the subject and threatened Chu Ge over making her walk into a wall, leaving him terrified.

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.