Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into Wen Xiancheng’s body, Wen Xiancheng learned that poison had killed him and his gray mouse, though he could now control either body. He found the cake shopkeeper dead and, suspecting the poisoner had wanted to prevent anyone from investigating, realized Xue Ruigao was the person most likely to care about him.

• Wen Xiancheng accepted that he had transmigrated into a seventeen-year-old boy and discovered he could control his pet gray mouse as a second body.
• He brought the leftover poisoned cake to the shop, where he found the shopkeeper dead and being examined by the Guard Force.
• Wen Xiancheng returned home, took a kitchen knife, and searched his memories for someone who might want him dead.
• He examined a photograph of Xue Ruigao and recalled that his parents had taken her in as a child and promised she would marry him.
• Wen Xiancheng remembered that Xue Ruigao had remained devoted to him despite his poor reputation and weak cultivation talent, while he had given up trying to improve.

Wen Xiancheng discovered that Liu Lanzhi’s illusion research might offer him a path to cultivation and planned to sneak into her classroom with his rat avatar. He began practicing how to control both bodies at once while preparing for Xue Ruigao’s return.

• Wen Xiancheng searched for ways to overcome poor aptitude but found the available methods too expensive or ineffective.
• Wen Xiancheng learned that Liu Lanzhi had developed illusion techniques that could turn illusions into reality and decided to steal her teachings by sneaking into her classroom with his rat avatar.
• Wen Xiancheng planned to tell Xue Ruigao he wanted to leave with her for the Imperial City of Linzi when she returned in seven days.
• Wen Xiancheng discovered that focusing on one body froze the other and practiced switching his awareness between them.
• Wen Xiancheng prepared biscuits for himself and his rat avatar and tried to make both bodies eat at the same time.

Wen Xiancheng trained for seven days until he could control his human body and Mouse Clone independently. He welcomed Xue Ruigao at the flight station and met her flirtatious best friend, Gao Shiqi, leaving him to navigate their closeness and her teasing.

• Wen Xiancheng struggled through a night of controlling both bodies, then improved his coordination by practicing while hungry and performing everyday tasks.
• Over the next seven days, Wen Xiancheng mastered making his human body and Mouse Clone act independently.
• Wen Xiancheng went to the flight station to welcome Xue Ruigao and saw her arrive with Gao Shiqi.
• Gao Shiqi introduced herself as Xue Ruigao's best friend, flirted with Wen Xiancheng, and scratched his palm during their handshake.
• Wen Xiancheng moved beside Xue Ruigao, who linked arms with him and teased him for being shy around her friend.

Wen Xiancheng caught Gao Shiqi trying to frame him by planting a fake breakup note and stealing Xue Ruigao’s panties. He exposed the stolen underwear in front of Xue Ruigao, leaving Gao Shiqi unable to explain herself.

• Gao Shiqi hid Xue Ruigao’s panties in her backpack and planted a fake note calling off Xue Ruigao’s engagement with Wen Xiancheng.
• Wen Xiancheng’s Mouse Clone found the note and destroyed it before Gao Shiqi could use it.
• Wen Xiancheng noticed Xue Ruigao’s panties were missing and lured Gao Shiqi into leaving her backpack unattended.
• Wen Xiancheng found the panties in Gao Shiqi’s backpack and used a bloodstain to prove they belonged to Xue Ruigao.
• Gao Shiqi snatched back the panties and claimed they were hers, while Xue Ruigao and Wen Xiancheng confronted her about stealing them.

Wen Xiancheng told Xue Ruigao he wanted to leave Yecheng with her for Li City, and she happily agreed. Gao Shiqi tried to make Xue Ruigao suspect him, but her planted note disappeared, and Xue Ruigao reaffirmed her trust in Wen Xiancheng and her desire for him to be bolder.

• Gao Shiqi claimed she had hidden Xue Ruigao's pants because she needed them for a shower, and Xue Ruigao forgave her.
• Wen Xiancheng told Xue Ruigao he wanted to go with her to Li City, and she agreed.
• Gao Shiqi expected Xue Ruigao to find the note she had hidden beneath her pillow, but the note was gone.
• Gao Shiqi suggested Wen Xiancheng might sneak through Xue Ruigao's things, and Xue Ruigao warned her not to say that again.
• Xue Ruigao said she knew Wen Xiancheng would never violate her trust and admitted she wished he would be bolder with her.

Gao Shiqi secretly plotted with Xu Junfeng to break up Xue Ruigao and Wen Xiancheng, but the mouse avatar discovered their scheme. The chapter ended with the mouse avatar frightening Gao Shiqi while Xue Ruigao defended it.

• Gao Shiqi tried to persuade Xue Ruigao to visit Xu Junfeng's seaside resort, but Xue Ruigao said she would stay with Wen Xiancheng as he moved to Li City.
• Gao Shiqi secretly texted Xu Junfeng, revealing that her attempts to steal Xue Ruigao's underwear and deliver a breakup letter had failed.
• The mouse avatar watched Gao Shiqi's messages and learned that she planned for Xu Junfeng to confront Wen Xiancheng during cultivation class.
• Gao Shiqi agreed to help Xu Junfeng pursue Xue Ruigao in exchange for a discount at his family's resort.
• The mouse avatar leaped onto Gao Shiqi, startling her, and Xue Ruigao told it not to frighten her friend.

Wen Xiancheng plotted to drive Gao Shiqi away from Xue Ruigao after discovering that Gao Shiqi planned to steal Xue Ruigao’s underwear. His scheme left Gao Shiqi feeding a poisoned cookie to the mouse double when Wen Xiancheng caught her in the living room.

• Gao Shiqi begged Xue Ruigao to remove the mouse double, so Xue Ruigao carried him out of the bedroom.
• Wen Xiancheng saw messages revealing Gao Shiqi’s plan to steal Xue Ruigao’s underwear for Xu Junfeng and decided to separate the two women.
• Wen Xiancheng sent the mouse double into Xue Ruigao’s wardrobe and warned Xue Ruigao and Gao Shiqi that the living-room cookies contained rat poison.
• After Xue Ruigao fell asleep, Gao Shiqi went to the wardrobe to steal her underwear but found the mouse double hiding there.
• Gao Shiqi lured the mouse double out with a poisoned cookie, and Wen Xiancheng opened his door and confronted her.

Wen Xiancheng caught Gao Shiqi feeding rat-poisoned cookies to his pet, Little Gray Mouse, and exposed her earlier theft of Xue Ruigao’s underwear. After the mouse staged its own death, it planted Xue Ruigao’s underwear in Gao Shiqi’s backpack, leaving Xue Ruigao confronting her friend over the apparent third theft.

• Wen Xiancheng caught Gao Shiqi feeding poisoned cookies to Little Gray Mouse, which collapsed after eating one.
• Wen Xiancheng accused Gao Shiqi of deliberately poisoning his pet, and Xue Ruigao grew angry when Gao Shiqi dismissed the mouse as replaceable.
• Wen Xiancheng reminded Xue Ruigao that Gao Shiqi had previously hidden her underwear in a backpack and hinted that Gao Shiqi had sold underwear belonging to her older sister.
• Wen Xiancheng returned to his room, where Little Gray Mouse got up and slipped into Xue Ruigao’s bedroom.
• Little Gray Mouse hid Xue Ruigao’s underwear in Gao Shiqi’s backpack and left a corner showing.
• Xue Ruigao found the underwear in Gao Shiqi’s backpack and demanded an explanation.

Xue Ruigao and Wen Xiancheng arrived in Li City and found an inexpensive house near the Royal Academy, while Gao Shiqi was left behind and plotted against Wen Xiancheng. That night, Wen Xiancheng’s Mouse Clone explored the academy and spotted a chubby girl conjuring a banana-shaped illusion.

• Xue Ruigao ignored Gao Shiqi, traveled with Wen Xiancheng to Li City, and told Gao Shiqi to stay away from her.
• Gao Shiqi watched Xue Ruigao and Wen Xiancheng leave, then met a young man who asked where Xue Ruigao's underwear was.
• Xue Ruigao and Wen Xiancheng rented a dilapidated house near the Royal Academy, and Wen Xiancheng reassured her about their finances.
• After Wen Xiancheng left for dinner with Xue Ruigao, the Mouse Clone explored the neighborhood and scared off several little mice.
• The Mouse Clone climbed the Royal Academy's perimeter wall and saw a chubby girl attempting to form a banana in her palm.

The Mouse Clone discovered that Cui Qianqian, a student of Liu Lanzhi, was practicing Super Illusion Arts and followed her to the Royal Academy dormitory. Meanwhile, Wen Xiancheng escorted Xue Ruigao to the academy and struggled against the original body's lingering emotions.

• The Mouse Clone watched Cui Qianqian create and make a banana vanish, then learned from her classmates that she studied Super Illusion Arts under Liu Lanzhi.
• After Cui Qianqian's classmates left, the Mouse Clone followed her into the girls' dormitory and hid beneath her balcony after startling the residents.
• Cui Qianqian lent her class notes to a roommate, and the Mouse Clone planned to read them after the girls fell asleep.
• Wen Xiancheng escorted Xue Ruigao to the Royal Academy, where she hugged him and promised to visit the next afternoon.
• Wen Xiancheng felt affection for Xue Ruigao, but the original body's lingering emotions caused him anguish until he angrily demanded they stop interfering.

Wen Xiancheng used his rat clone to read Cui Qianqian's notebook and discovered that its pages created immersive illusions explaining Illusion Arts. He practiced the first technique through the night and managed to produce a short length of yarn in the air.

• Wen Xiancheng searched job websites, found few options, and decided to start sending out résumés the next day.
• The rat clone entered Cui Qianqian's dormitory and opened her notebook after the girls went to sleep.
• The rat clone triggered an illusion on the notebook's second page and listened to a girl resembling Cui Qianqian explain her first Illusion Arts class.
• The rat clone read nearly half the notebook while Wen Xiancheng practiced the cultivation method it learned from the illusions.
• At dawn, Wen Xiancheng successfully created a one-inch length of yarn with Illusion Arts.

Wen Xiancheng practiced the Woolen Thread Illusion while his rat clone followed Cui Qianqian to class and secretly ate from her backpack. The clone listened as Liu Lanzhi assigned the class a summer illusion project that required students to make their creations real, then watched Cui Qianqian demonstrate a conjured banana.

• Wen Xiancheng continued practicing the Woolen Thread Illusion through the morning without eating breakfast.
• The rat clone followed Cui Qianqian to the cafeteria, hid in her backpack, and ate some bread before following her to class.
• The rat clone memorized the classroom route and the faces of the twenty students who attended.
• Liu Lanzhi assigned the class to create an illusion of a familiar building and earn extra points for each second it remained physically manifested.
• Cui Qianqian volunteered to demonstrate and conjured a banana that Liu Lanzhi peeled before it vanished.

Wen Xiancheng learned to make floating words from Cui Qianqian's notebook and began preparing a children's book as a possible way to earn money. He went to dinner with Xue Ruigao, who urged him not to exhaust himself, and noticed a potential customer in the restaurant owner's distracted son.

• The mouse clone returned to the rented room while Wen Xiancheng learned to create floating words from Cui Qianqian's notebook.
• Wen Xiancheng discovered that Marrow-Cleansing Liquid cost fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones and realized he needed to earn money.
• After seeing an advertisement for smart learning devices, Wen Xiancheng bought three copies of One Thousand and One Nights and enchanted every character in one copy.
• Xue Ruigao arrived to have dinner with Wen Xiancheng, and he hurried out with the enchanted book.
• Xue Ruigao told Wen Xiancheng to find manageable work and promised to cultivate hard enough to support him.
• At the restaurant, Wen Xiancheng heard the owner's wife scold her son for neglecting his homework and reading.

Wen Xiancheng used an illusion technique to make One Thousand and One Nights entertain a reluctant young boy, then sold the book to the boy’s delighted mother for fifty low-grade spirit stones. Xue Ruigao wondered how Wen Xiancheng had learned the technique as he left the restaurant with a new sale secured.

• Wen Xiancheng approached the restaurant owner's son and used an illusion technique to make his name appear as floating characters.
• Wen Xiancheng opened One Thousand and One Nights and made its characters fly like butterflies, captivating the boy and astonishing Xue Ruigao and the owner's wife.
• The boy begged for the book, and Wen Xiancheng offered to sell it, claiming his friend had specially treated it.
• Wen Xiancheng sold the book to the owner's wife for fifty low-grade spirit stones, and the boy happily took it.

After parting from Xue Ruigao, Wen Xiancheng struggled with the original consciousness in his body and focused on cultivating while preparing children's books enhanced with illusion arts for sale. As he worked through the books, his cultivation broke through, and he began absorbing spiritual energy to stabilize his progress.

• Wen Xiancheng walked Xue Ruigao to the Royal Academy, promised to keep growing so she would not bear their burdens alone, and received a kiss on the cheek before she left.
• Wen Xiancheng cried and argued with the original consciousness in his body, then returned to his rented room to cultivate and plan to buy children's books.
• The Mouse Clone spent the night frightening three mice that kept gnawing on the makeshift wardrobe, while Wen Xiancheng bought fifty children's books the next morning.
• Wen Xiancheng placed three mousetraps around the wardrobe and enhanced ten children's books with illusion arts, exhausting his spiritual power three times.
• Wen Xiancheng experienced a breakthrough that widened and strengthened his meridians, then began absorbing spiritual energy from a low-grade spirit stone.

Wen Xiancheng baited mousetraps with crackers, and the Mouse Clone watched two mice get caught while a third escaped. Wen Xiancheng freed the mouse caught around the waist, and the chapter ended as the three mice returned with wild grass and the Mouse Clone approached them.

• Wen Xiancheng placed cracker pieces on the mousetraps and went to bed while the Mouse Clone hid among the children's books to watch.
• Two mice stepped on a trap and were caught; one escaped with its tail severed, while the other remained trapped.
• The Mouse Clone felt sympathy for the trapped mouse, and Wen Xiancheng turned on the light and released it.
• The Mouse Clone ate crackers, then saw the three mice return carrying blades of wild grass and approached them.

Wen Xiancheng discovered that the wild grass the mice brought him was valuable blood-stanching grass and decided to seek Cui Qianqian as a partner in his illusion-book business. He approached her at the Royal Academy, but she doubted his promise to help her become a second Professor Liu Lanzhi.

• The Mouse Clone realized the three mice were showing that blood-stanching grass had healed the wound on one mouse’s tail.
• Wen Xiancheng identified the grass as a medicinal herb and learned about its value and use in grade-two pills.
• Wen Xiancheng decided to approach Cui Qianqian about partnering with him and sent the Mouse Clone to track her whereabouts.
• Wen Xiancheng bought a suit, got a crew cut, and went to the Royal Academy cafeteria to meet Cui Qianqian.
• Cui Qianqian initially rejected Wen Xiancheng, then challenged his claim that he could help her become a second Professor Liu Lanzhi.

Wen Xiancheng won Cui Qianqian’s trust by showing how closely he had paid attention to her, then promised to help build her reputation as an Illusion Arts talent. He gave her a children’s book to recreate and praised her notes, while Cui Qianqian allowed him to borrow them openly in the future.

• Wen Xiancheng described Cui Qianqian’s morning routine, convincing her that he had been paying attention to her, and treated her to lunch.
• Wen Xiancheng told Cui Qianqian she could become the next Liu Lanzhi and offered to help make her name widely known within two years.
• Wen Xiancheng wrote Cui Qianqian’s name on children’s books and exercise books, then practiced Illusion Arts until evening.
• Cui Qianqian went to a corner of the sports field to test whether Wen Xiancheng could find her, and he soon arrived.
• Wen Xiancheng gave Cui Qianqian a children’s book to recreate with Illusion Arts, and she agreed to lend him her notes rather than have him secretly look through them.
• Wen Xiancheng praised Cui Qianqian’s beautiful notes and said they had convinced him of her potential.

Wen Xiancheng’s Mouse Clone followed three little mice into the Royal Academy’s herb field and gathered medicinal herbs, hoping to find ingredients for cultivation pills and Aptitude-Enhancing Pills. After identifying the herbs, Wen Xiancheng learned that an alchemist named Sun Ying in the Wu Kingdom accepted commissions to refine Aptitude-Enhancing Pills in exchange for most of the results.

• Wen Xiancheng agreed to collect Cui Qianqian’s items the day after tomorrow and returned to practice illusion arts.
• The Mouse Clone stopped three little mice from chewing its wardrobe and gave them a piece of wood to gnaw instead.
• The three little mice led the Mouse Clone through the Royal Academy wall to an herb field, where they gathered blood-stanching grass.
• The Mouse Clone collected small pieces of more than thirty kinds of medicinal herbs, and the three little mice helped carry them back to Wen Xiancheng’s room.
• Wen Xiancheng identified the herbs and found an online list of ingredients for Aptitude-Enhancing Pills, along with Sun Ying’s terms for refining them.

Wen Xiancheng identified spirit-devouring grass and decided to make Spirit-Gathering Powder to improve his cultivation. He sold the idea of his illusion-enhanced children's books to a kindergarten teacher, who agreed to buy ten and consult the parents about a larger order.

• Wen Xiancheng found spirit-devouring grass and learned it was the main ingredient in Spirit-Gathering Powder, then planned to gather the remaining herbs and refine the pill.
• Wen Xiancheng met Cui Qianqian at the Royal Academy, collected the illusion-enhanced books and workbooks she had prepared, and treated her to lunch.
• Wen Xiancheng visited Red Star Kindergarten and demonstrated his illusion-enhanced children's book to a teacher whose pupils were struggling to pay attention.
• The teacher watched a child engage with the animated characters, agreed to buy ten books, and said she would ask the parents about a larger or custom order.