Recaps

A hooded man infiltrated the Terrorists' base, but was swept into a gathering where Gary forced hostages into a deadly game. Ye Xunzhi translated their pleas in the opposite way, leaving Gary furious at the gray-haired man and believing her fabricated praise of Lu Hua.

• A hooded man knocked out a patrol guard, took his clothes and flashlight, and tried to use a map to reach the hostages, but a squad ordered him to join the assembly.
• Gary selected Lu Hua and a gray-haired hostage for a game in which only one would be allowed to live, but neither understood his language.
• Ye Xunzhi volunteered to interpret when Gary reached for his gun, and Gary threatened to kill Old Master Xi if she failed to translate correctly.
• Lu Hua insulted Gary, but Ye Xunzhi translated his words as lavish praise, persuading Gary to spare him for the moment.
• The gray-haired man praised his own country and threatened Gary, but Ye Xunzhi translated his words as an insult and a threat of invasion, so Gary ordered him dragged away.

After Lu Hua survived his confrontation with the Gray-Haired Man, Ye Xunzhi contacted Feilanz and arranged for the governments of Country X and Country Z to be alerted to the hostage situation. She ordered Lu Hua and Old Master Xi to follow her escape plan, while Ye Chuyan secretly listened from outside the holding area.

• The Gray-Haired Man was dragged away to be executed, and Lu Hua learned that his words had saved him.
• Ye Xunzhi used a hidden earphone to tell Feilanz to send the terrorist base's location to Country X and report the hostages to Country Z.
• Ye Xunzhi decided to escalate the situation so the authorities would arrive, then asked Lu Hua to follow her dangerous escape plan.
• Ye Xunzhi held a dagger to Lu Hua's neck and ordered him to obey; Old Master Xi readily agreed to follow her orders too.
• Ye Chuyan listened through the factory wall and decided to keep listening so he could coordinate with Ye Xunzhi.

Shi Che received orders to rescue the hostages while Ye Xunzhi set a plan in motion to move captives to safety and reach the factory alarm. At Gary’s room, she overheard Eileen offering him weapons research data in exchange for killing someone, and the story left their deal under consideration.

• Commander Peng ordered Shi Che to follow the coordinates and rescue the hostages, while Shi Che chose to obey despite having lost contact with Ye Chuyan.
• Ye Xunzhi, Lu Hua, and Old Master Xi staged a medical emergency so the guards would take them toward the Medical Office, and Ye Chuyan secretly followed to help.
• Ye Xunzhi slipped out of the hostage area, knocked out a guard, took his weapon, and reached the corridor outside Gary’s room to wait for Kafka’s signal before triggering the factory alarm.
• Ye Xunzhi overheard Gary ask Eileen why she had approached him after agreeing to trade weapons research data to the Country X Government Rebels.
• Eileen offered Gary the data in exchange for killing someone and said she had sent support; Gary asked to see the target’s picture.

Ye Xunzhi helped Flying Pigeon and Huzi find the hostages and reach the medical room, then stayed behind as mercenaries closed in. A jeep seized her and sped away under fire, leaving Flying Pigeon and Huzi confused by Old Master Xi and Lu Hua’s suspiciously calm reactions.

• Gary saw the photo Eileen sent and recognized Ye Xunzhi, while Ye Xunzhi shot the alarm and triggered a base-wide attack.
• Huzi was wounded by a grenade, and Flying Pigeon found Ye Xunzhi hiding beneath a table; Ye Xunzhi told them where the hostages and medical room were.
• Ye Chuyan reunited with Shi Che and Cheetah but concealed that Ye Xunzhi was in the base, sending them toward the hostages while he headed for the medical room.
• Ye Xunzhi warned Flying Pigeon and Huzi about a rocket and guided them safely to the medical room, where they found Old Master Xi and Lu Hua.
• Ye Xunzhi said her teammates still needed her and stayed behind as mercenaries approached; a jeep grabbed her and fled while another vehicle fired at it.
• Flying Pigeon and Huzi questioned Old Master Xi and Lu Hua, who claimed they knew nothing and remembered nothing.

Ye Xunzhi and her companions escaped a mercenary attack, but Hu Feiwei spotted Kaijie, the man who killed his younger brother. Ye Xunzhi sent Hu Feiwei after him as Feilanz turned the jeep around to ram their pursuers, while Bowen cowered in the back.

• Feilanz drove Ye Xunzhi and the others away as mercenaries chased them, and a blonde woman drove alongside their jeep.
• The blonde woman climbed through a shattered window and attacked Ye Xunzhi, who fought her off and kicked her back into the other vehicle.
• Hu Feiwei saw Kaijie in the approaching jeep and recognized him as his younger brother's killer.
• Ye Xunzhi gave Hu Feiwei a gun and a dagger and told him to finish Kaijie, while Feilanz turned the jeep around to ram their pursuers.
• Hu Feiwei prepared to fight as Bowen cowered in the back and wondered why no one had asked for his opinion.

Ye Xunzhi and her companions fought their way out of the base, where Hu Feiwei killed Kaijie for his brother’s death and Ye Chuyan arrived to rescue them. They found shelter at Bowen’s family property, where Ye Chuyan asked Ye Xunzhi why she was there, and she challenged him about abandoning his organization.

• Ye Xunzhi’s group rammed Kaijie’s car, and Hu Feiwei dragged Kaijie out to fight him over Hu Shiwei’s death.
• Ye Xunzhi fired a rocket at the pursuing cars, and Hu Feiwei killed Kaijie amid the explosion.
• A Black man’s off-road vehicle charged the group, but Ye Chuyan rammed it and brought Ye Xunzhi and the others to safety.
• Kaidi confronted Eileen over his son’s death, but Eileen persuaded him to hear her offer instead of killing her.
• The group followed Bowen to his family’s property to rest, where Ye Chuyan questioned Ye Xunzhi and she asked why he was away from his organization.

Ye Xunzhi and Ye Chuyan shared late-night wontons with Feilanz, Hu Feiwei, and Bowen, who revealed his family were wealthy arms dealers and that his father had abandoned him. The group exchanged contact details, and Ye Xunzhi privately recalled how Hu Feiwei had ended up using his real name as a mercenary.

• Ye Chuyan offered Ye Xunzhi candy, and the siblings teased each other on the steps outside their lodgings.
• Feilanz and Hu Feiwei brought out wontons, while Bowen explained that they had been frozen since his father bought them in Country Z.
• Bowen said his arms-dealer father had left him behind and described how he had been raised to survive on his own.
• Ye Xunzhi and Feilanz showed Bowen extra kindness after learning his family had business holdings around the world, and Bowen offered to supply Ye Xunzhi with weapons for free.
• Feilanz and Ye Xunzhi added Hu Feiwei on WeChat and learned that Hu Feiwei was his real name.
• Ye Xunzhi recalled that Hu Feiwei had used his real name because he mistakenly thought a mercenary account required real-name verification.

Ye Xunzhi learned that Eileen planned to use data about the Amari biological weapon to manipulate governments and force a choice that could endanger her family and Shi Che. She recruited Bowen to accompany her to Xuedinglai Warehouse, where the two faced a heavily guarded site.

• Ye Xunzhi and Ye Chuyan discussed his missing protective helmet, then agreed with the others to take shifts while waiting for the Country Z Navy fleet.
• Ye Xunzhi called Eileen, who revealed that she had the only copy of the Amari weapon data and its antidote and had alerted the Country Z government to a planned deal.
• Eileen said Country Z would likely send Ye Chuyan's elite squad to stop the deal at Xuedinglai Warehouse at 4:03 a.m., putting Shi Che at risk and forcing Ye Xunzhi to choose.
• Ye Xunzhi entered Bowen's room through the window and persuaded him to join her on a mission, promising to protect him.
• Ye Xunzhi and Bowen reached the heavily guarded Xuedinglai Warehouse, where Bowen realized she had led him into danger.

Kaidi accepted Eileen’s offer of information about the Amari biological weapon in exchange for letting her escape, while Country Z’s navy prepared to stop her deal at the Xuedinglai warehouse. Ye Xunzhi and Bowen launched an attack on the warehouse, with Ye leaving Bowen to draw the guards’ attention as she slipped toward cover.

• Kaidi recalled accepting Eileen’s USB drive and viral sample, then promised to arrange her escape by helicopter at seven in the morning.
• Commander-in-Chief Peng received confirmation that the Amari weapon was real and ordered Teams B and C to intercept the transaction at the Xuedinglai warehouse.
• Ye Xunzhi told Bowen that Feilanz and Hu Feiwei were on their way but would not arrive for about half an hour.
• When a vehicle carrying the information arrived, Ye ordered Bowen to drive into the warehouse grounds and drew the guards’ attention.
• Ye jumped out and rolled behind cover, telling Bowen to hold out for twenty minutes while he shouted that she had no heart.

Ye Xunzhi and Ye Chuyan spied on a meeting between Michar and Kaidi, where Kaidi’s deputy Herbert betrayed him and a warehouse fight broke out. Kaidi died after telling Ye Xunzhi that Eileen was at Anfiele Lookout, with a final deadline of seven.

• Ye Chuyan led Ye Xunzhi through a hidden window to watch Michar and Kaidi meet in the warehouse.
• Michar received a sample of the Amari Weapon Virus from Herbert as the two sides discussed expanding their partnership.
• Ye Chuyan and Ye Xunzhi attacked with grenades as Herbert stabbed Kaidi and revealed that Eileen had ordered his retirement.
• Ye Xunzhi shot at Herbert, dragged Kaidi to cover, and stopped Herbert from finishing him off with a grenade.
• Ye Xunzhi learned that Eileen was at Anfiele Lookout before seven, then closed Kaidi’s eyes after he died.

Ye Xunzhi and Ye Chuyan survived Eileen’s bomb, but Ye Chuyan revealed that he was her deceased Fourth Brother before vanishing after saving her. Ye Xunzhi rejoined her companions and arranged for the biological weapon data to reach the captains, then set off for Anfiele Lookout.

• Ye Xunzhi discovered bombs in the warehouse and warned Ye Chuyan, while Eileen detonated them to avenge Herbert.
• Ye Chuyan shielded Ye Xunzhi from the blast and was mortally wounded; he confessed that he was her former Fourth Brother before disappearing.
• Ye Xunzhi killed a guard, took the briefcase, and later learned from Feilanz that even her vanished brother’s traces had been erased.
• Ye Xunzhi met Feilanz, Bowen, and Hu Feiwei, wiped away her tears, and learned that only four people had returned to the house.
• Shi Che and the current Ye Chuyan searched the blast site, where Bowen delivered the briefcase containing the [Amari] biological weapon data and virus samples.
• Ye Xunzhi studied Bowen’s map and ordered the group to head at full speed for the Anfiele Lookout.

Eileen fled by helicopter after believing her bomb had killed Ye Xunzhi, but Ye Xunzhi spotted her before collapsing as long-lost memories returned. Ye Xunzhi later woke in a garden pavilion, where she immediately flirted with a strikingly handsome man.

• Eileen hurried the pilot to take off, then saw Ye Xunzhi below and realized Ye Xunzhi had spotted her.
• After Eileen escaped, Ye Xunzhi collapsed, and Hu Feiwei and Feilanz rushed her toward the Country Z Navy for medical help.
• Ye Xunzhi lost consciousness as a barrier in her mind shattered and forgotten memories flooded back.
• Ye Xunzhi awoke in a garden pavilion and mistook her surroundings for heaven or hell.
• A handsome man approached Ye Xunzhi, and she teased him by asking for an ab pic.

Ye Xunzhi learned from Ren Chen, the Heavenly Dao, that Eileen was another world consciousness who had killed people in her world and was trying to devour his world. After discovering that Ye Xunzhi had refused to help Eileen and that Eileen had targeted her family, Ye Xunzhi concluded she had been protecting Ren Chen and demanded payment.

• Ren Chen revealed his identity as the Heavenly Dao and explained that Eileen was a world consciousness trying to steal energy from his world.
• Ren Chen told Ye Xunzhi that Eileen had asked her to help kill him and create a new world, but Ye Xunzhi had refused because everyone in the original world would die.
• Ren Chen explained that Eileen erased Ye Xunzhi's memories and later targeted her family to weaken her fortune and prepare to possess her.
• Ye Xunzhi compared the conflict to critically ill patients competing for life support and realized she had been fighting an entire world to protect Ren Chen.
• Ye Xunzhi demanded that Ren Chen pay her a protection fee for protecting him.

Ren Chen explained that fate was fixed, but Ye Xunzhi had already escaped her destined death by killing Eileen and awakening him. As her memories resumed, Ye Xunzhi recalled how she first met Eileen at fourteen and recognized her years later in the photograph Shi Che sent before dying.

• Ren Chen showed Ye Xunzhi the threads of fate and said a person's destiny could not truly be changed.
• Ye Xunzhi insisted she would tear apart any fate that meant Eileen killed her and her family.
• Ren Chen revealed that Ye Xunzhi had already left fate's chessboard, killed Eileen, and awakened him, then restored the flow of her time and memories.
• Ye Xunzhi remembered that at twenty, after Shi Che died pursuing the truth about Fourth Brother's death, she received his photograph of Eileen holding a gun.
• Ye Xunzhi recalled meeting Eileen at her grandfather's funeral when she was fourteen, and Eileen told her they would meet again.

After discovering that Eileen was connected to the disasters that killed her brothers, Ye Xunzhi resolved to seek revenge and began searching for allies. She uncovered Shi Yao’s identity as a famous hacker and gained her cooperation by sharing evidence about Eileen.

• Ye Xunzhi recalled seeing Eileen at the scenes of disasters involving her brothers and chose to pursue revenge rather than accept their deaths.
• While searching a Dark Web site for information, Ye Xunzhi recognized Shi Yao’s handmade bear avatar and realized Shi Yao was the hacker she had encountered before.
• Ye Xunzhi visited Shi Yao and revealed that Eileen was the suspected mastermind behind the events targeting their families.
• Shi Yao initially rejected working with Ye Xunzhi, but reconsidered after seeing a photo of Eileen sent by her brother.
• Ye Xunzhi stayed with Shi Yao through the night, supported her with breakfast and a quiet embrace, and Shi Yao eventually brought her laptop over as a sign of cooperation.

Ye Xunzhi and Shi Yao planned to use a virus project to lure Kaijie and his mercenaries into the open, recruiting Hu Feiwei to help. They reached the isolated island research base where Dr. A Jianmo was located, with Shi Yao fiercely defending Ye Xunzhi along the way.

• Shi Yao showed Ye Xunzhi evidence that Eileen had grown close to Kaijie and could influence his decisions.
• Ye Xunzhi revealed that she planned to fund Dr. A Jianmo’s nearly completed Amari virus research to attract Kaijie’s mercenary group.
• Shi Yao identified Hu Feiwei, who sought revenge on Kaijie for killing his younger brother, and Ye Xunzhi recruited him.
• Ye Xunzhi, Shi Yao, and Hu Feiwei traveled to an isolated island where Dr. A Jianmo’s research base stood.
• Hu Feiwei recalled Shi Yao’s furious defense of Ye Xunzhi after he commented on her height.

Ye Xunzhi joined Dr. A Jianmo’s research on a deadly virus, then killed him after they completed it and escaped with the virus and antidote formulas. She left the island with Shi Yao and Hu Feiwei, detonating it as they sped away.

• Ye Xunzhi met Dr. A Jianmo and began working with him on his virus experiment while Shi Yao and Hu Feiwei waited at the base.
• Ye Xunzhi told Shi Yao and Hu Feiwei to help obtain bombs and said she planned to destroy the island.
• After half a month of work, Ye Xunzhi and Dr. A Jianmo completed the virus and stored it and the formulas for the virus and its antidote in a briefcase.
• When Dr. A Jianmo proposed spreading the virus through attacks or war, Ye Xunzhi shot and killed him.
• Ye Xunzhi left the base with Shi Yao and Hu Feiwei, boarded a speedboat, and detonated the island.

Ye Xunzhi prepared a trap for Eileen and Kaijie’s meeting at an abandoned warehouse, secretly drugging Shi Yao and positioning Hu Feiwei as a sniper. As the groups gathered, Ye Xunzhi signaled that she was about to create chaos, leaving Hu Feiwei waiting to see how she would do it.

• Eileen learned that Ye Xunzhi planned to meet Kaijie’s Mercenary Corps to discuss a biochemical weapon and plotted to use the deal to kill her.
• Ye Xunzhi’s team planted bombs in the Moshali warehouse, and Ye Xunzhi arranged a three-party partnership with Chet and Kaijie’s Mercenary Corps.
• Ye Xunzhi took Shi Yao and Hu Feiwei to an amusement park, then drugged them with milk so Shi Yao would not have to join the dangerous operation.
• Ye Xunzhi and Hu Feiwei went to the warehouse, where she sent him to a sniper position and ordered him to shoot anyone who escaped.
• Chet’s group and Kaijie’s convoy arrived at the warehouse while Eileen watched from a nearby hill, and Ye Xunzhi signaled Hu Feiwei to prepare for chaos.

Ye Xunzhi turned a meeting between Kaijie and Chet into a battle, then lured Eileen into the warehouse and detonated the bombs inside. Hu Feiwei realized Ye Xunzhi had sacrificed herself to kill Eileen and the others.

• Ye Xunzhi took Chet hostage and ordered his men to attack Kaijie's organization, triggering a gunfight.
• Kaijie tried to shoot Chet, but Ye Xunzhi pushed him aside; Chet escaped and ordered his men to kill everyone.
• Eileen seized the chaos as a chance to kill Ye Xunzhi and headed into the warehouse, where Ye Xunzhi was waiting for her.
• Ye Xunzhi revealed that Eileen had stepped on a bomb and that the warehouse was rigged, then detonated the explosives as Eileen fled.
• Hu Feiwei watched the warehouse explode and realized Ye Xunzhi had been the person who planned to sacrifice herself.

After dying, Ye Xunzhi met Ren Chen, the Heavenly Dao, and learned that Eileen could return to past anchor points whenever she died. Ren Chen asked Ye Xunzhi for help, and she agreed after learning time reversal could bring her family back.

• Ye Xunzhi died after arranging her will and having her private browsing history and photos erased, then awoke before a handsome man who transformed into a little boy.
• The boy introduced himself as the Heavenly Dao, and Ye Xunzhi named him Ren Chen while he explained Eileen’s identity and how her consciousness had escaped into the past.
• Ren Chen explained that Eileen could set up to six anchor points and return to an earlier choice by dying, with each used anchor point becoming invalid.
• Ren Chen revealed that Eileen’s attempt at Time Reversal and Ye Xunzhi’s death had awakened him, and he had preserved Ye Xunzhi’s memories before the reversal was complete.
• After Ren Chen confirmed time reversal could bring her family back, Ye Xunzhi asked whether he would send her memories or soul into the past so she could kill Eileen.

Ren Chen explained that Ye Xunzhi could send only short notes to her younger selves, who would need to kill Eileen and then die to return the information. Ye Xunzhi prepared the notes, and at fourteen she received one and immediately set out to kill Eileen; meanwhile, Eileen awoke at another Anchor Point and was poisoned after realizing Ye Xunzhi had killed her repeatedly.

• Ren Chen explained the limits and conditions for sending messages to Ye Xunzhi at earlier Anchor Points.
• Ye Xunzhi wrote notes for her younger selves, including instructions to kill Eileen and commit suicide, then entrusted them to Ren Chen.
• At fourteen, Ye Xunzhi found a note bearing her secret symbol, recognized it as a message from her future self, and decided to act without hesitation.
• Ye Xunzhi resolved to find and kill Eileen because she believed Eileen threatened her family.
• Eileen awoke in 2024, realized Ye Xunzhi had killed her four times, and went to a bar to rest.
• Eileen was poisoned at the bar and died without seeing her killer.

After Eileen returned to an earlier Anchor Point, she tried to kill members of the Ye Family again, but Ye Xunzhi repeatedly thwarted her plans. The chapter ended with Eileen dying beneath a falling flowerpot and recognizing Ye Xunzhi as the masked person standing over her.

• Eileen restarted at the second Anchor Point, hired the truck driver to ram the Ye Family's car, and was strangled by a disguised figure in her apartment building.
• At the third Anchor Point, Eileen lured Ye Qi'an to the Medicine Warehouse and detonated bombs, then Ye Xunzhi stabbed her while pretending to be injured.
• Eileen learned the next day that Ye Qi'an had survived the explosion and went to the hospital to investigate.
• Ye Xunzhi directed Eileen to a quiet corner of the hospital, where a falling flowerpot struck her and broke her neck.
• As Eileen struggled for help, a masked person appeared, and she recognized Ye Xunzhi.

Eileen repeatedly tried to kill Ye Xunzhi, but Ye Xunzhi thwarted her and left her alive after each attempt. When Eileen tried to flee after confronting Ye Xunzhi at Ye Lan’s home, Ye Xunzhi captured her and took her to a mountaintop, where she kicked her off.

• Eileen followed Ye Xunzhi abroad and tried to use drugged water and a rampaging herd of elephants to kill her, but Ye Xunzhi shot Eileen and left her at a hospital.
• Eileen kept pursuing Ye Xunzhi on a ship and in the mountains, but Ye Xunzhi injured her and sent her to hospitals after each failed attack.
• Eileen decided to target Ye Lan, disguised herself as a delivery rider, and fled when she heard Ye Xunzhi was at home with him.
• Ye Xunzhi inspected the suspicious takeaway and checked the door camera footage while Eileen packed to leave the country.
• Ye Xunzhi chased Eileen into a construction site, stuffed her into a sack, and took her to a mountaintop, where she kicked her off.

After receiving a warning that Eileen would target her family, Ye Xunzhi focused on protecting Ye Xiao and went to the hospital to check on him. Eileen disguised herself as a nurse and tried to poison Ye Xiao, but Ye Xunzhi arrived before he drank the medicine and recognized her as familiar.

• Ye Xunzhi reasoned that Ye Xiao might be the next target and persuaded him to get examined with Lu Nan.
• Ye Xunzhi armed herself with an electrified Metal Baton and headed to the hospital to visit Ye Xiao.
• Eileen decided to abandon her plan against Ye Lan and chose to attack Ye Xiao instead.
• Eileen knocked out a nurse, disguised herself, and brought Ye Xiao a bowl of drugged medicine.
• Ye Xunzhi arrived as Ye Xiao lifted the bowl, made him move it away, and told Eileen that she looked familiar.

Ye Xunzhi confronted Eileen at the hospital while Eileen was trying to get close to Ye Xiao, but Eileen escaped by exploiting Ye Xunzhi’s habit of ignoring winding routes. After learning that Eileen had fled her residence, Ye Xunzhi worked out that she was likely still on the hospital grounds and predicted her escape route.

• Ye Xunzhi questioned Eileen about bringing Ye Xiao his medicine, and Ye Xiao explained that the head nurse had sent her in the usual attendant’s place.
• Eileen left to brew more medicine, then sprinted away when she realized Ye Xunzhi was following her.
• Eileen took a long, winding route and managed to shake Ye Xunzhi off.
• Ye Xunzhi recognized that Eileen had exploited her weakness in memorizing routes and concluded that Eileen knew her well.
• An information broker reported that Eileen had left her residence in disguise and had not returned, prompting Ye Xunzhi to calculate that she was still near the hospital and would take the shortest route to escape.