Chapter Summaries

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.

Ye Xunzhi deduced that Eileen had traveled back through time and killed her to prevent the future disaster. Believing she also had to die to return to the past, Ye Xunzhi jumped from the Cross-Sea Bridge, determined to save her family.

• Eileen fled through the city, but Ye Xunzhi caught her in an alley and inferred from her reactions that she had died and traveled back repeatedly.
• Ye Xunzhi interpreted her future self’s note as a warning to kill Eileen and then herself, while recognizing that keeping Eileen alive could preserve her current life at the cost of saving her family.
• Ye Xunzhi bound Eileen, took her to an abandoned wooden outhouse, and burned her to death.
• Ye Xunzhi went to the Cross-Sea Bridge, destroyed her phone, and jumped into the sea to return to the past.

Eileen failed to kill newborn Ye Xunzhi because the world’s protection mechanism prevented her from harming the baby, so she switched Ye Xunzhi with Lin Ranran and fled abroad. After learning what happened from Ren Chen, Ye Xunzhi chose to leave the switch in place for now and asked whether her memories could be altered to turn Eileen’s memory seal into a trap.

• Eileen disguised herself as a nurse and tried to stab newborn Ye Xunzhi, but the world’s protection mechanism stopped her and the knife fell.
• Eileen sealed Ye Xunzhi’s memories of her, switched Ye Xunzhi with Lin Ranran, arranged money for Ye Xunzhi’s parents, and fled Country Z.
• Ren Chen told Ye Xunzhi that Eileen had switched her with Lin Ranran, whose original future involved trying to ruin a rich heir’s fiancée and being left with a broken leg.
• Ye Xunzhi decided to maintain the status quo rather than immediately undo the switch.
• Ye Xunzhi asked Ren Chen whether he could alter her memories and said she wanted to use Eileen’s memory seal as the foundation for a trap.

Ye Xunzhi recovered the memories of how she had planned her own return to the past and sealed Eileen’s memories, then learned Ren Chen had brought Ye Chuyan back to protect her and had quietly helped her through Old Man Mi. She and Ren Chen parted as friends, with Ye Xunzhi now remembering him.

• Ye Xunzhi recalled designing a transmigrator-and-rebirth identity for her fourteen-year-old self and asking Ren Chen to seal Eileen’s memories of her.
• Ye Xunzhi used a projection to implant the memory-sealing light in Eileen, warning her not to let them meet again.
• After recovering her memories, Ye Xunzhi realized she had devised the method Eileen later used to kill her.
• Ren Chen admitted he had brought Ye Chuyan from just before his death to protect Ye Xunzhi, and Ye Xunzhi hugged him rather than blaming him.
• Ren Chen explained that he had used Old Man Mi’s dreams to steer him into helping Ye Xunzhi thwart Eileen’s plans.
• Ye Xunzhi thanked Ren Chen and said goodbye as his friend, promising she would not forget him.

After regaining her memories, Eileen panicked and began arranging to flee and change her face. Meanwhile, Ye Xunzhi woke aboard a ship in Country X, where Ye Chuyan confronted her about how she had arrived, leaving her to pretend she was confused.

• Eileen remembered how Ye Xunzhi had repeatedly tortured her to death and decided she had to escape.
• Eileen called a black-market doctor to arrange to change her face after realizing Ye Xunzhi had seen it.
• Ye Chuyan questioned Feilanz and Hu Feiwei about how they had brought Ye Xunzhi aboard, and Feilanz claimed they were mercenaries devoted to world peace.
• Ye Chuyan heard Ye Xunzhi silently invent implausible explanations for her presence and realized she was awake.
• Ye Chuyan pinched Ye Xunzhi's cheeks until she opened her eyes and pretended to be surprised to see him.
• Flying Pigeon rushed to Ye Xunzhi's bedside and celebrated that she had woken up.

Ye Xunzhi reunited with Ye Chuyan and bonded with his teammates during the voyage home, while memories of her Fourth Brother made her emotional. After reaching shore, she called Ye Lan, who confronted her for making him take the blame for her week away, and she clung to Ye Chuyan for help.

• Flying Pigeon and the rescue team welcomed Ye Xunzhi after she woke, then took her for a checkup while Ye Chuyan watched them fuss over his little sister.
• Ye Chuyan offered Ye Xunzhi lemon-flavored Swiss candy, triggering memories of her Fourth Brother and making her cry; he promised to protect her and buy her candy.
• During the four-day voyage, Ye Xunzhi became popular with the navy, and Commander-in-Chief Peng recalled hearing about her from Commander Hu after a pirate incident.
• After the ship docked, Ye Xunzhi turned on her phone and found a flood of messages from Ye Lan, then called him back.
• Ye Lan accused Ye Xunzhi of making him take the blame for her week away, and she pleaded with Ye Chuyan to save her when he returned with the car.