Chapter Summaries

Huo Xingye enjoyed Nan Zhou’s sharp defense of him online, while Nan Zhou told Gu Zheng he would visit for a meal but refused to accept his black card. Nan Zhou then headed to a neighboring city to appear on the troubled music show Limited-Time Melody, prompting fans to worry he might clash with Cui Heng.

• Luo Nan showed Huo Xingye the online accusations that Nan Zhou was keeping him, and Huo Xingye called Nan Zhou cute after seeing his biting reply.
• Huo Xingye chose to ignore the smear campaign, saying he wanted to enjoy being kept by Nan Zhou.
• Gu Zheng dropped Nan Zhou off before returning to work, and Nan Zhou promised to come home for a meal while asking when his wallet would improve.
• Gu Zheng refused to give Nan Zhou his black card, and Nan Zhou told Hao Jia to remove Gu Zheng’s eyeliner and said Gu Zheng deserved a better life of his own.
• The chapter described how Cui Heng’s clashes with songwriters and disruptive performance turned Limited-Time Melody into an unexpected hit.
• Fans worried after the show announced Nan Zhou as a guest, hoping he would not encounter Cui Heng.

Nan Zhou faced online criticism after being announced as a songwriter on Limited-Time Melody, while Hao Jia worried about the competition and the show’s difficult singers. At the recording venue, Xiang Yang tried to approach Nan Zhou and hinted at their shared connection, but Nan Zhou responded with mockery.

• Limited-Time Melody promoted Nan Zhou’s appearance, prompting fans of the show to criticize his songwriting credentials and accuse the program of chasing traffic.
• Hao Jia worried that Nan Zhou had little songwriting experience and might be stuck with a poor teammate, while Nan Zhou complained that the pay was too low to justify bringing in a famous singer.
• Nan Zhou arrived late at the recording venue after Hao Jia struggled to get him out of bed, then ate his prescribed brunch while getting styled.
• Xiang Yang introduced himself and said he might have become Nan Zhou’s on-screen partner on You Make My Heart Flutter, but Nan Zhou called him “Three Million” and dismissed his flirtatious remarks.
• Xiang Yang told Nan Zhou he wanted to share inside information because they had a connection.

Nan Zhou joined the songwriters on Limited-Time Melody while Xiang Yang tried to influence his theme choice, and Nan Zhou focused instead on flirting with Huo Xingye. When the theme selection began, Cui Heng chose War and Peace, leaving the livestream viewers worried for whoever would be paired with him.

• Xiang Yang explained the singers’ styles and hinted that he would choose a youth-related theme, hoping Nan Zhou would follow suit, but Nan Zhou made him promise to choose one.
• Nan Zhou exchanged affectionate messages with Huo Xingye, who sent a voice message saying the wind had carried Nan Zhou’s hug to him.
• The Limited-Time Melody livestream began, and viewers argued about Nan Zhou’s pairing and the singers’ likely theme choices.
• The singers drew their selection order, and Xiang Yang drew fourth place.
• Cui Heng chose War and Peace, prompting viewers to worry about the songwriter who would be matched with him.

The singers met with songwriters whose themes matched their choices, but Nan Zhou had written “anything works” on his card, prompting the production team to send every singer to his room. Cui Heng requested an elaborate medieval-inspired game song, and Nan Zhou agreed while asking whether Cui Heng could sing it.

• Xiang Yang chose School Bullying, while Zhao Shen chose Sweet First Love and Zhou Zhengchuan chose Fields of Hope.
• Nan Zhou wrote “anything works” on his card, so the production team arranged for every singer to visit his room.
• Xiang Yang met three songwriters for School Bullying before reaching Nan Zhou’s room, where all the other singers had gathered.
• Xue Hui bowed out, Hou Qingqing asked Nan Zhou about his style and work, and Zhao Shen suggested he write about first love.
• Cui Heng asked Nan Zhou to create grand medieval-style game music blending classical and electronic sounds.
• Nan Zhou agreed and asked Cui Heng whether he could sing it.

Nan Zhou teamed up with Cui Heng to create a song for the War and Peace theme, despite Zhao Shen also wanting to work with him. After six hours of songwriting, Cui Heng took the stage to perform their song, whose overblown title drew mockery from the livestream viewers.

• Cui Heng pitched his grandiose War and Peace lyrics to Nan Zhou, while Zhao Shen tried to recruit Nan Zhou and Xiang Yang left after Nan Zhou denied having an agreement with him.
• Nan Zhou quoted Cui Heng a price, and the two successfully teamed up, disappointing Zhao Shen and relieving Xiang Yang.
• Nan Zhou asked Cui Heng about foreign languages, then incorporated French into a melody to evoke a medieval Church style alongside Cui Heng's desired game and electronic elements.
• Nan Zhou rejected Cui Heng's demand for both first place and wider fame, telling him he was not a god.
• After six hours of songwriting and a brief rehearsal, Cui Heng performed the pair's song, titled 'War Song of the Absolute Realm: The End of Peace and the Apocalypse of War,' and viewers mocked its title.

Nan Zhou and Cui Heng performed their wildly unconventional song, which placed fourth but became a viral hit. Afterward, Nan Zhou rejected new offers and said he would retire once he finished his current work.

• Cui Heng and Nan Zhou performed “Battle Hymn of the Ultimate Realm: The End of Peace and the Apocalypse of War,” drawing surprise and laughter from the studio audience and livestream viewers.
• Cui Heng praised the song as an unparalleled masterpiece, while Nan Zhou joked about Cui Heng being the internet’s big wild boar.
• Xue Hui and her songwriter took first place, Zhao Shen and his collaborator took second, and Cui Heng and Nan Zhou placed fourth.
• The song went viral on Weibo before the show ended, with clips and lyrics spreading across social media.
• Hao Jia worried that Nan Zhou had offended industry veterans, but Nan Zhou said he chose Cui Heng because his voice and technique suited the song.
• Hao Jia told Nan Zhou about several new offers, and Nan Zhou said he would turn them down and announce his retirement after completing his current work.

Nan Zhou told Hao Jia he planned to leave the entertainment industry and produce music behind the scenes, while Wen Yu learned that Nan Zhou was Terra Australis, the producer of “Copulate.” The chapter ended with Lu Zhou confronting Nan Zhou outside his apartment and asking why he had changed.

• Nan Zhou told Hao Jia that leaving the industry was his decision and offered him a role managing Nan Zhou’s future music studio.
• Wen Yu listened to Nan Zhou’s demo for Liang Feng’s martial arts drama and recognized its quality and potential.
• Liang Feng told Wen Yu that the demo had been sent from Terra Australis’s email address, and they agreed to keep Nan Zhou’s identity confidential for now.
• Nan Zhou returned to his apartment after two in the morning and found Lu Zhou emerging from the neighboring apartment.
• Lu Zhou blocked Nan Zhou’s door and pleaded with him to return, while Nan Zhou mocked Lu Zhou’s idea of their future family.
• Lu Zhou asked Nan Zhou why he had become so negative and unlike his former self.

Nan Zhou dealt with Lu Zhou’s attempt to reconnect, then agreed to move into Huo Xingye’s house in West City. Their video call ended with flirtatious promises before Nan Zhou planned to move the next day.

• Lu Zhou pressured Nan Zhou to unblock him, but Nan Zhou scanned him a payment QR code and slipped inside before Lu Zhou realized he had been asked to pay.
• Huo Xingye called Nan Zhou after filming, and Nan Zhou complained that Lu Zhou had moved in next door.
• Huo Xingye offered Nan Zhou his quiet house in West City, describing its courtyard, stray cats, squirrels, and weasels.
• Nan Zhou agreed to move in and said he would go the next day, with Luo Nan helping him.
• Huo Xingye asked whether Nan Zhou was jealous, and Nan Zhou playfully told him to come home when he was done because Nan Zhou would be in bed.

Nan Zhou moved out of his company-provided apartment and into Huo Xingye’s house, where he settled in and told Huo he would mess up his home as payback for making him fall in love. Alone that night, Nan Zhou missed Huo Xingye so much that he could not sleep.

• Luo Nan and Huo Xingye’s publicity assistant arrived with lunch and were shocked by the mess in Nan Zhou’s apartment.
• Nan Zhou casually explained that he had once eaten food off the floor after swearing at it, leaving Luo Nan and the assistant stunned.
• After lunch, Luo Nan and the assistant helped Nan Zhou pack his few belongings and move out of the apartment provided by his former company.
• On the drive, Nan Zhou joked about hiring Luo Nan for a hundred yuan, and the group shared a laugh.
• Luo Nan gave Nan Zhou the door code to Huo Xingye’s house, and he and the assistant helped carry in Nan Zhou’s luggage.
• Nan Zhou sent Huo Xingye a selfie from beneath the eaves and said he would mess up Huo’s home as payback; later, he missed Huo and could not fall asleep.

Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye shared an intimate late-night call, and Huo Xingye confessed that he wanted to be close to him too. After learning Huo Xingye was filming in the northwest, Nan Zhou secretly traveled to visit him, only to discover that Huo Xingye had gone to dinner with the crew.

• Nan Zhou answered Huo Xingye’s call and reassured him that keeping a robot dog was not strange.
• Nan Zhou thought the call had ended and murmured that he missed Huo Xingye, but Huo Xingye heard him before Nan Zhou hung up in shock.
• Huo Xingye messaged Nan Zhou that he wanted to hold, kiss, and touch him, and Nan Zhou wondered whether Huo Xingye missed him as much as he did.
• Nan Zhou got Luo Nan to reveal Huo Xingye’s filming schedule and hotel, then flew to the northwest to visit him.
• Nan Zhou waited in the hotel lobby until crew members told him Huo Xingye had gone to dinner with Director Zhou and Producer Liu.

Nan Zhou visited Huo Xingye at his hotel during a demanding filming schedule, and Huo Xingye left dinner with the director and producer to see him. Their reunion turned into a passionate kiss in Huo Xingye’s room, interrupted by the doorbell.

• Nan Zhou asked two crew members not to tell Huo Xingye he was there, but Huo Xingye learned about the visit and headed back to the hotel.
• The crew members told Nan Zhou that Huo Xingye had been working grueling hours and had kept his distance from other people on set.
• Huo Xingye met Nan Zhou in the lobby, said his backer came first, and led him toward the elevator while a live camera crew secretly filmed them.
• Nan Zhou kissed Huo Xingye in the elevator, and Huo Xingye warned him that there was a camera before someone entered and quickly left.
• Huo Xingye brought Nan Zhou into his room and kissed him passionately after admitting he had been drinking.
• The doorbell rang while Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye were kissing.

Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye were interrupted by Tang Tang and a livestream crew while they were being intimate, then resumed their night together. Before falling asleep, Huo Xingye told Nan Zhou about the doctor's suggestion, which Nan Zhou found too outrageous to believe.

• Nan Zhou opened the door to Tang Tang and her camera crew after Huo Xingye urged him to answer the persistent doorbell.
• Huo Xingye blocked Nan Zhou from view, greeted the livestream, and sent Tang Tang and the crew away.
• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye showered together and spent the rest of the night together.
• Huo Xingye told Nan Zhou about the option the doctor had mentioned after Nan Zhou's allergic reaction.
• Nan Zhou dismissed the suggestion as far-fetched and said it sounded like something Gu Zheng would come up with.

Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye grew closer after spending the night together, and Huo Xingye revealed the Gu Family had once approached him about a marriage alliance to treat Nan Zhou’s gland. Nan Zhou reacted jealously to the thought of Huo Xingye meeting him earlier, then wondered about the identity of the person he had been three years ago.

• Nan Zhou said he did not want Huo Xingye to bite him to treat his gland, and Huo Xingye quietly agreed.
• Nan Zhou woke late and cuddled with Huo Xingye, who had stayed in bed beside him instead of following his usual routine.
• Huo Xingye told Nan Zhou that three years earlier the Gu Family had sought a high-ranking Alpha for a marriage alliance to treat Nan Zhou’s gland, and that he had refused.
• Nan Zhou insisted that a loveless marriage would not have lasted, then grew jealous at the thought they might have met sooner and stormed into the bathroom.
• Nan Zhou calmed down and wondered who he was three years ago, then blushed as he noticed the marks on his legs.

Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye reconciled after their morning disagreement, then appeared together on the You Make My Heart Flutter show as Nan Zhou accompanied Huo Xingye to the film set. On the ride, Nan Zhou dismissed Lu Zhou’s attempt to describe their relationship as close, and Tang Tang asked Huo Xingye about the stuffed Tibetan mastiff he had given Nan Zhou.

• Nan Zhou apologized to Huo Xingye and kissed him, and Huo Xingye reassured him that he would only ever love him.
• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye met Tang Tang and the You Make My Heart Flutter crew outside the elevator, where Tang Tang apologized for the previous night’s filming.
• Nan Zhou joked with Tang Tang and went with Huo Xingye to the set while the crew filmed their journey.
• Tang Tang asked Nan Zhou about Lu Zhou’s Weibo post, and Nan Zhou said he wanted distance between them, with one of them dead and the other alive.
• Tang Tang asked Huo Xingye why he had given Nan Zhou a stuffed Tibetan mastiff.

Nan Zhou told Huo Xingye that he liked the plush toy but liked him more, then watched Huo Xingye work on his film set. Seeing actors scramble for food stirred memories of Nan Zhou’s life after his accident, which ended with a mysterious message asking if he was in trouble.

• Nan Zhou told Huo Xingye he liked the plush toy but liked him more.
• Nan Zhou received attention from the film crew and joked with Huo Xingye before filming began.
• Nan Zhou watched Huo Xingye work on a film about people living in hardship in the far northwest.
• A scene of actors grabbing fallen food reminded Nan Zhou of his own past after waking from a car accident three years earlier.
• Nan Zhou recalled his amnesia, his family’s unanswered messages, and how he struggled to afford daily necessities while recovering from a broken leg.
• Nan Zhou remembered receiving a WeChat message that asked, “Are you having some kind of trouble?”

Nan Zhou remembered how a strange WeChat contact had become the first light in his life after his accident, then parted from Huo Xingye at the airport after Huo promised to take the first steps toward him next time. The livestream of "You Make My Heart Flutter" resumed with substitute guests Chen Heng and Ye Xiaoyin, and Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye received the framed photograph they had missed out on before.

• Nan Zhou recalled that he had messaged a mysterious WeChat contact while hungry and exhausted after a rehabilitation fall, and that the reply had become a source of comfort.
• Huo Xingye drove Nan Zhou to the airport, promised to make the first move in their relationship next time, and kissed him goodbye.
• The production team announced that Zhang Shi and Gu Tang would sit out the recording and introduced Chen Heng and Ye Xiaoyin as substitute guests.
• Ye Xiaoyin gave Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou cotton dolls, and the production team delivered their framed photograph from the previous livestream.
• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye admired the photograph, which showed them smiling together beside a grand piano among hydrangeas.

The production team announced the guests’ new roles and a charity fundraising performance, giving Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou the power to choose another pair’s act. After exchanging contacts with Chen Heng, Nan Zhou hinted that he distrusted him, then remembered it was Crazy Thursday.

• Pei Feng announced that Huo Xingye had become a bar owner, prompting Nan Zhou to boast that Huo Xingye’s success was his own because they were lovers.
• Pei Feng introduced new neighbors Chen Heng and Ye Xiaoyin and announced a charity performance to raise money for children in mountain villages.
• Pei Feng gave Huo Xingye and Nan Zhou the privilege of choosing another pair’s performance, while Lu Zhou and Wen Yu were required to recruit an outsider for their act.
• Nan Zhou asked to choose the outsider’s performance too, and Pei Feng reluctantly agreed in theory.
• Chen Heng asked Nan Zhou to write him a song, and Nan Zhou agreed before later telling Huo Xingye that people were like QR codes whose true colors had to be scanned.
• Huo Xingye settled Nan Zhou against his chest in the car, and Nan Zhou suddenly announced that it was Crazy Thursday.

Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye performed and flirted during the livestream, then Nan Zhou teased the apartment’s Automatic Camera before staging a suggestive moment and cutting its feed. The audience was left listening as Huo Xingye dried Nan Zhou’s hair.

• Nan Zhou slacked through his first-day performance while Huo Xingye watched from the bar’s best seat, and Nan Zhou blew him a kiss from the stage.
• After they returned to the apartment, Nan Zhou tested the Automatic Camera and teased it with a mock demand for fifty cameras in exchange for an exciting show.
• Nan Zhou pulled out a glow-in-the-dark watch, pushed Huo Xingye onto the couch, and straddled him before quickly climbing off and unplugging the camera.
• The livestream audience heard Nan Zhou urge Huo Xingye to hurry while Huo Xingye dried his wet hair, then fetch the hair dryer and finish drying it before letting him change.

Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye secretly went for a late-night snack, where they ran into Wen Yu and Nan Zhou asked him to help with a plan involving Lu Zhou. On the walk back, Nan Zhou asked what Huo Xingye would do if he became a star and could not return, and Huo Xingye promised to wait for him.

• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye went hand in hand to a late-night food stall and found Wen Yu drinking alone.
• Nan Zhou sat with Wen Yu, teased him about being romantic rivals, and shared food and drinks with him.
• Nan Zhou explained his request involving Lu Zhou, and Wen Yu agreed after asking whether Nan Zhou would otherwise approach Lu Zhou.
• Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye walked back to the apartment, where Nan Zhou asked if Huo Xingye would still look for him if he became a star and could not return.
• Huo Xingye said he would wait for Nan Zhou and told him that being with him had made him who he was today.

Nan Zhou visited Xu Xiao after learning that Jiang Zhen had injured him during her rut and felt guilty. Their conversation about Alpha-Beta relationships and marking left Nan Zhou wondering what it meant when an Alpha could not mark an Omega.

• Nan Zhou shared a gentle kiss with Huo Xingye, then spent the next day writing songs and critiquing submissions for the show.
• Nan Zhou spotted Xu Xiao returning to the apartment with gauze around his neck while Jiang Zhen stayed in the car.
• Nan Zhou learned from Jiang Zhen that she had injured Xu Xiao while in rut and agreed to check on him.
• Nan Zhou visited Xu Xiao, who said he had accepted the bite and admitted he felt glad that Jiang Zhen had been jealous.
• Xu Xiao explained how marking affected Alpha-Beta and Alpha-Omega couples, prompting Nan Zhou to ask what it meant if an Alpha could not mark their Omega.