Chapter Summaries

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.

Chu Ge bought an expensive electric moped and brought Qiu Wuji, disguised as Sixth Baby, to meet the Black Room group. The members voted to let them join, though their enthusiasm about Chu Ge’s devotion to Qiu Wuji left her furious.

• Chu Ge spent sixty-eight hundred on an electric moped so he and Qiu Wuji could travel together.
• Qiu Wuji enchanted two Calabash Brothers masks to conceal their faces and voices, then agreed to accompany Chu Ge as an esper.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji arrived at the restaurant disguised as San Wa and Sixth Baby, and Chef Jin led them to the Black Room’s meeting place.
• Zhong Yi’s group questioned the newcomers, and Chu Ge won votes by declaring that Qiu Wuji was his wife and favorite character.
• The young man and the fat man approved of Chu Ge, while Qiu Wuji pinched him angrily and Zhong Yi remarked on the group’s strange reaction.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji joined the Black Room, a small gathering of masked espers, and met its odd members. Zhong Yi showed them the organization’s training facilities, including equipment for measuring mental strength, and invited Chu Ge to try it.

• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji learned that the Black Room had nine existing members, then introduced themselves alongside Wan Zijun and Pan Da.
• Pan Da joked about Chu Ge’s novel and Qiu Wuji, prompting Qiu Wuji to reveal she was a woman and Chu Ge to refuse an invitation to the group chat because he was masked.
• Chu Ge, Pan Da, and Wan Zijun joked about betting on whether Chu Ge would post five updates that night.
• Zhong Yi explained that the Black Room’s first floor was a gym and led Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji upstairs to see its specialized training equipment.
• Zhong Yi showed Chu Ge a helmet that roughly measured mental strength and asked whether he wanted to try it.

Chu Ge tested his esper ability at the Black Room, where his connection to the world he created overloaded the testing equipment. Qiu Wuji explained that the world had defended itself against what it perceived as an invasion, then ordered Chu Ge to train daily; Pan Da was left waiting for another chapter that never appeared.

• Chu Ge put on the testing helmet and endured mounting mental pressure as the instrument’s star readings flickered unpredictably.
• Chu Ge pictured a scene from his novel and briefly saw Qiu Wuji facing a fire dragon before the testing machine short-circuited.
• Qiu Wuji secured Zhong Yi’s promise not to disclose information about the group, and Chu Ge hurried away with her.
• On their scooter ride home, Qiu Wuji said the machine had overloaded when the world Chu Ge created defended itself against electromagnetic sensing.
• At home, Qiu Wuji accused Chu Ge of dragging her into the group for improper reasons, then ordered him to meditate and train at the Black Room every day.
• As Qiu Wuji took over the bathroom, Pan Da repeatedly refreshed the book page and lamented that there was no fifth chapter.

Chu Ge trained regularly at the Black Room while Qiu Wuji settled into a comfortable routine and considered writing her own novel. The chapter ended with Qiu Wuji asking Chu Ge to teach her to write as they held hands.

• Chu Ge watched San Wa train fiercely at the Black Room and continued his own workouts, including practice on the moving training posts.
• Chu Ge noticed his muscles developing quickly and wondered whether the Golden Bell Shield was enhancing his training.
• Qiu Wuji said she wanted to write a novel, then learned that more than 17.5 million people in the country wrote online.
• Qiu Wuji worried about spending Chu Ge's money and said she wanted to earn her own income once her identity documents were ready.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji teased each other about money and her future book, then held hands while watching television.
• Qiu Wuji asked Chu Ge to teach her how to write novels.

Chu Ge tried to teach Qiu Wuji how to plan and build a story, but she rejected his advice and decided to write on her own. After helping her deal with a delay in her character portrait, Chu Ge discovered that his hidden notes described Qiu Wuji as having “innate allure.”

• Chu Ge explained outlining, characterization, and character relationships to Qiu Wuji, but she struggled to turn his lessons into a story and fought with him.
• Qiu Wuji rejected Chu Ge's teaching and turned to the group chat for writing advice, but muted Little Blue Pill after he called her “My Qiu Qiu.”
• Qiu Wuji learned that the artist for her avatar had only just been found and was asked to fill out a form, so she asked Chu Ge to have Pan Da deal with them.
• Chu Ge promoted Little Blue Pill to administrator and recruited him to hurry the avatar project, while Qiu Wuji invited him into the character-card discussion group.
• Qiu Wuji briefly asked Chu Ge to teach her more, then left after he demanded she balance a pig-head cushion on her head.
• Chu Ge uncovered hidden white text in his character notes that described Qiu Wuji as having “innate allure.”