Recaps

During a university entrance exam, Yan Huan discovered that the famous student Bai Yi could enter the classroom unseen by everyone but him. After Bai Yi’s fifteen-minute visit ended, she left him with a warning that they had plenty of time ahead, while the consequences of her mischief became visible to the room.

• Yan Huan finished his mathematics exam early and wondered whether his reincarnated life would ever involve anything fantastical.
• A mysterious voice warned Yan Huan not to respond, then announced that a correction plan had begun as Bai Yi appeared translucent in the doorway.
• Bai Yi entered the examination room unnoticed by everyone except Yan Huan and drew on teacher Zhou Bin’s face with a marker.
• Bai Yi approached Yan Huan, asked whether he could see her, and raised a translucent gel pen toward him before a countdown forced her to stop.
• Bai Yi returned the pen, told Yan Huan they had plenty of time ahead, and left the room.
• Zhou Bin and the examinees discovered the marker graffiti on his face, while Yan Huan felt a delayed tickle where Bai Yi’s hair had brushed him.

After the exams, Yan Huan learned from a talking black cat that five desire-feeding modifiers were invading the world and that he had to persuade their hosts to give them up without exposing what he knew. He accepted a random ability, then discovered that someone claiming to be his mother had come to the school, despite his belief that his parents had died years earlier.

• Yan Huan slipped into an empty classroom and met a black cat that revealed itself as the god of his world.
• The cat explained that Bai Yi’s Indifference was one of five invading modifiers and warned Yan Huan that he had to make each host willingly give theirs up without revealing he knew about them.
• Yan Huan asked for his weekly random reward and chose Perfect Facial Expression Control from three options.
• Yatsuhashi Ki found Yan Huan and told him that the principal wanted him because his mother had come to school looking for him.
• Yan Huan froze at the news, since he believed his parents had died in a plane crash and that he had grown up in an orphanage.

Yan Huan met Ye Lan, a friend of his late parents who had come to find him and treated him like family. The chapter ended with Ye Lan planning to take him home for dinner and introduce him to her daughter, his new older sister.

• Yan Huan entered Principal Hermes's office and met Ye Lan, who became tearful after seeing how much he resembled his mother, Wang Yulu.
• Ye Lan explained that she had been Wang Yulu's close friend and apologized for not finding Yan Huan sooner; he began addressing her as Aunt Ye.
• Ye Lan promised to help Yan Huan and suggested taking him home for dinner, while Principal Hermes thanked her for supporting Totsuki Academy through Ye International.
• Ye Lan said her daughter had recently arrived in Linmen and planned to introduce her to Yan Huan that evening; Yan Huan agreed despite an ominous feeling.

Yan Huan went home with Ye Lan and met her withdrawn daughter, Ye Shiyu, who collected and made dolls. Ye Lan hoped Yan Huan would live with them and keep Ye Shiyu company, while Ye Shiyu silently considered a strange purple-heart app before going down to dinner.

• Yan Huan took the evening off from work and left Totsuki with Ye Lan, who told him she worried that Ye Shiyu was isolated and struggled to make friends.
• Ye Lan brought Yan Huan to her home, where Auntie Chen welcomed him and prepared Dragon Nation dishes.
• Yan Huan met Ye Shiyu on the stairs and greeted her as his big sister, but she responded stiffly before returning to her room with a pair of scissors.
• Ye Shiyu entered her crowded doll-filled room and put away the scissors she had been using to make clothes labeled with her own name.
• Ye Shiyu checked her phone, saw her unanswered chat with Ye Lan about Yan Huan possibly moving in, and stared at an unnamed purple-heart app before going downstairs for dinner.

Ye Lan invited Yan Huan to move in with her and Ye Shiyu, but he only agreed to stay for the weekend while he considered it. After Ye Shiyu came to exchange contact details, her phone activated a hypnosis app and began dragging Yan Huan's consciousness into darkness.

• Ye Lan invited Yan Huan to live with her and Ye Shiyu, and Ye Shiyu said she did not mind.
• Yan Huan asked for time to consider moving in and agreed to stay at the house for the weekend.
• Aunt Chen prepared a spacious second-floor room for Yan Huan, where Meow-chan discussed his plan to investigate the modifiers.
• Ye Lan asked Ye Shiyu to exchange contact details with Yan Huan, and Ye Shiyu went to his room with her phone.
• Ye Shiyu showed Yan Huan a spinning purple vortex instead of a contact code, activating an app that began fifteen minutes of individual hypnosis.

Ye Shiyu used her Modifier to hypnotize Yan Huan, intending to keep him from getting close to Ye Lan, but his painful account of his past unsettled her plans. After the hypnosis ended, Yan Huan recognized the fabricated memory and began considering what Ye Shiyu truly wanted, while acting as if nothing had happened when she checked on him.

• Ye Shiyu hypnotized Yan Huan, brought him into her room, and struggled to decide what to command him to do.
• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu he feared being hurt again by people connected to his parents, disrupting her plan to make Ye Lan dislike him.
• Ye Shiyu used Yan Huan's phone to add him on plane, accidentally declined a call from Vice President Sakuramiya, and then ended the hypnosis.
• Yan Huan realized the Modifier had inserted a convincing memory that concealed the hypnosis, and suspected Ye Shiyu wanted to prevent his contact with Ye Lan.
• Aunt Chen brought Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu warm milk, and Ye Shiyu left after seeing that Yan Huan seemed unaware of what had happened.
• Yan Huan messaged Ye Shiyu and Vice President Sakuramiya, then cuddled Meow-chan and said he needed to make a move soon to survive.

Yan Huan spent the morning trying to avoid upsetting Ye Shiyu after she hypnotized him, then accompanied her and Ye Lan to an aquarium. While Ye Lan took a call, Ye Shiyu and a golden-haired girl both grabbed the same jellyfish keychain, and neither would give it up.

• Yan Huan woke after a nightmare about falling from a cliff and resolved to leave Ye Lan's home as soon as he could without making Ye Shiyu suspicious.
• Ye Lan invited Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to shop and visit an aquarium, and Yan Huan tried to keep Ye Shiyu from becoming jealous or angry.
• Ye Lan, Yan Huan, and Ye Shiyu traveled to the aquarium, where Ye Lan stepped away to take a work call and asked Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to wait.
• Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu moved into the souvenir shop, where Ye Shiyu spotted an azure jellyfish keychain she wanted.
• A golden-haired girl grabbed the keychain at the same time as Ye Shiyu and offered to buy her another souvenir, but Ye Shiyu refused to let go.

Yan Huan stopped Ye Shiyu from using her Modifier during a dispute over a Jellyfish Keychain, and the two left the gift shop with the item. Meanwhile, Spencer activated her Plunder Mode, stole a child’s pinwheel, and fled when the girl’s mother and security guards confronted her.

• Yan Huan stepped in as Ye Shiyu argued with Spencer over the last Jellyfish Keychain, keeping Ye Shiyu from being alone with her opponent and unable to use her hypnosis Modifier.
• Yan Huan asked a clerk to fetch another keychain, allowing Ye Shiyu and Spencer to each buy one; Ye Shiyu labeled hers with her name and thanked Yan Huan.
• Spencer revealed that she had wanted the keychain only because Ye Shiyu wanted it, then traded it to Wenwen for her pinwheel and took the toy without Wenwen’s consent.
• Spencer activated Plunder Mode, but Wenwen cried to her mother that Spencer had stolen the pinwheel, bringing the woman and security guards after her.
• Spencer ran away with the pinwheel spinning in her hand and decided the voice in her head was a hallucination.

Yan Huan spent the day at the aquarium and shopping with Ye Lan and Ye Shiyu, taking photos and learning that Ye Shiyu loved jellyfish. On the drive home, Ye Shiyu realized her new jellyfish keychain was missing and asked to return to look for it, triggering the family’s ominous “Level One Alert.”

• Ye Lan met Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu at the aquarium, where she told Yan Huan about her personal investment in a film starring Bai Yi, a student at their school.
• Yan Huan photographed the aquarium and took pictures of Ye Lan and Ye Shiyu, then posed for a photo with Ye Shiyu at Ye Lan’s request.
• Ye Lan bought Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu new clothes, and she repeatedly admired the photo of the two of them together during dinner.
• On the drive home, Ye Shiyu searched her handbag and discovered that her newly purchased jellyfish keychain was missing.
• The car pulled over as Ye Shiyu asked Ye Lan if they could go back and look for the keychain.

Ye Shiyu lost a cherished jellyfish keychain, and Yan Huan helped her and Ye Lan search the Shopping Center without finding it. After discussing why people love the things they do with Hitomi Sakuramiya, Yan Huan formed a theory about Ye Shiyu’s fascination with jellyfish, while Ye Shiyu went upstairs with something else on her mind.

• Ye Lan drove Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan back to the Shopping Center, where they searched for Ye Shiyu’s missing keychain but found nothing.
• Ye Lan explained to Yan Huan that she helped because Ye Shiyu cherished the keychain, and she did not want to impose on the driver or other people.
• Ye Shiyu became unusually angry when she considered giving up the search, and the glow from her phone turned deep purple.
• At home, Aunt Chen told Yan Huan that Ye Shiyu made her dolls’ clothes herself and planned to sew her name into her own clothes.
• Yan Huan asked Hitomi Sakuramiya why she liked cats, and her explanation inspired him to connect Ye Shiyu’s love of jellyfish to qualities she might lack.
• Ye Shiyu approached Yan Huan’s room with milk but hesitated and went upstairs to the third floor instead.

Ye Shiyu searched online for hypnosis after using the phone app on Yan Huan and watched a provocative fictional story about a girl hypnotizing her stepbrother. The story stirred her jealousy and curiosity, and she nearly entered Yan Huan’s room before finding the door locked and returning to her own room.

• Ye Shiyu found that her hypnosis app had only one use remaining that week and searched the web to learn more about hypnosis.
• Ye Shiyu ignored a browser security warning and watched a story about a girl using hypnosis to make her stepbrother belong to her.
• Ye Shiyu connected the story to Yan Huan’s closeness with Ye Lan and worried that he was taking her mother’s attention away from her.
• After watching the story, Ye Shiyu went downstairs for water and then approached Yan Huan’s room, intending to enter without knocking.
• Yan Huan slept behind his locked door as Meow-chan watched Ye Shiyu try the handle; Ye Shiyu realized what she was doing and returned to her room.

Yan Huan found Ye Shiyu’s lost jellyfish keychain and realized another Modifier might have affected it, leading him to fear the hosts would be forced into a simultaneous struggle. Meanwhile, Spencer’s Plunder Mode began granting her power, and she embraced its effects as she prepared to return to school.

• Meow-chan told Yan Huan that Ye Shiyu had tried to open his bedroom door during the night, and Yan Huan later encountered her while changing clothes downstairs.
• Yan Huan took Meow-chan to the aquarium area, where she tracked Ye Shiyu’s scent to a jellyfish keychain hidden in bushes.
• The keychain trembled after Yan Huan picked it up, and Meow-chan said another woman’s scent had overtaken Ye Shiyu’s, prompting Yan Huan to suspect a Modifier was involved.
• Yan Huan concluded that the Modifiers might force their hosts into a simultaneous conflict, then bought a jellyfish gift box and plush toy at the aquarium shop.
• Spencer’s Plunder Mode appeared while she spoke with a psychologist, increased her strength, and led her to dismiss the psychologist and say she would return to school.

Yan Huan spent the day bonding with Ye Lan and Ye Shiyu, then learned from Ye Lan about her lifelong friendship with his late mother, Wang Yulu. When Ye Lan asked him to stay with her, he refused and said he had to return to the South District.

• Yan Huan made caramel pudding and helped Ye Lan and Ye Shiyu choose their university electives, while Ye Shiyu grew increasingly uneasy watching him draw her mother's attention.
• Ye Lan took Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to buy groceries in her tiny electric car, but her erratic driving made Yan Huan carsick.
• After dinner, Ye Lan showed Yan Huan an album of old photographs and told him how Wang Yulu had supported her when they were university friends.
• Yan Huan saw a photo of his mother meeting baby Ye Shiyu and learned that Wang Yulu and Ye Lan had promised to be each other's children's godmothers.
• Ye Lan tearfully asked Yan Huan to live with her and let her care for him, but he said he could not stay and had to return to the South District.

Ye Shiyu went after Yan Huan to bring him back, but his kindness and the gifts he gave her left her conflicted and unable to stop him from leaving. On the bus, Yan Huan admitted to Meow-chan that he had deliberately acted considerate to stir Ye Shiyu’s remorse and restrain her from using the modifier.

• Ye Shiyu found Ye Lan crying after Yan Huan left and promised to go convince him to return.
• At the bus stop, Yan Huan explained that he was leaving because he was uncomfortable living in Jinghe District, then told Ye Shiyu he understood her jealousy and did not want to cause her pain.
• Yan Huan gave Ye Shiyu her lost jellyfish keychain and two jellyfish gifts, and Ye Shiyu remembered how he had cared for her throughout the past few days.
• Ye Shiyu tried to use her phone’s hypnosis modifier on Yan Huan, but its battery was dead; Yan Huan lent her his jacket and got her a power bank instead of boarding the first bus.
• Ye Shiyu returned home without Yan Huan, messaged him that she was safe, and privately called herself despicable for trying to hypnotize him.
• Yan Huan told Meow-chan that his considerate behavior had been a deliberate act to provoke Ye Shiyu’s remorse and use her conscience to curb her desire to use the modifier.

Yan Huan returned to his apartment with Meow-chan, learned how modifier fragments strengthened his rewards, and chose a risky evolution path that granted him a powerful learning ability with a temporary curse. As he went to sleep, Meow-chan warned him that other modifiers carried a real, unknown cost, but refused to say whether its own modifier had a price.

• Yan Huan settled into his apartment with Meow-chan and learned that fragments from Ye Shiyu's modifier could strengthen his own rewards.
• At midnight, Yan Huan's modifier reached level two, and he chose the Demon Contract evolution path and a Charm Fragment.
• Yan Huan chose Learning Conqueror from the higher-level rewards, accepting five days of mild drowsiness as its curse.
• Meow-chan told Yan Huan that other modifiers were destructive tumors with a real, unknown cost, and Yan Huan felt reassured by the warning.
• Yan Huan asked whether Meow-chan's modifier also had a price, but Meow-chan refused to answer, prompting him to pinch its cheeks.

Yan Huan attended the Student Council meeting, where members discussed school events and a directive on preventing bullying. Meanwhile, An Le endured mockery in Class 1-C, which welcomed transfer student Aria Spencer.

• Yan Huan rode to school with Yatsuhashi Ki, who accepted gifts from girls hoping to give them to the sleeping Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan, Yatsuhashi Ki, Hitomi Sakuramiya, You Anlina, and Aishili met to discuss exam results, the upcoming Club War, and the Education Bureau's campus-bullying directive.
• Yan Huan worried that Ye Shiyu might clash with her new classmates after transferring to school.
• In Class 1-C, An Le was mocked by Piao Shuwen and other girls, then noticed Piao Shuwen's secretly taken photo of Yan Huan.
• The teacher introduced Aria Spencer as a new student in Class 1-C.

Yan Huan visited Ye Shiyu in the upper-year section and took her to lunch, where she saw how warmly he treated his Student Council friends and wondered if he was simply kind to everyone. Hitomi Sakuramiya returned to the Student Council Office and reviewed her extensive surveillance of Yan Huan before activating a level-two Modifier called Room Barrier.

• Yan Huan declined Aishili's lunch invitation and went to check on Ye Shiyu, worried that she might encounter bullying or use her Modifier.
• Ye Shiyu asked Yumiko about Yan Huan, then accepted his invitation to lunch when he arrived and introduced himself as her older brother.
• Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu ate together, and he explained that he had come to check on her and had gotten home late the night before.
• You Anlina interrupted their lunch, and Yan Huan fed her cantaloupe before introducing Ye Shiyu to the Student Council members.
• Ye Shiyu watched Yan Huan's easy warmth toward his friends and concluded that he might treat everyone kindly, not just her.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya reviewed nearly a hundred surveillance folders on Yan Huan, noticed Ye Shiyu was absent from them, and invoked the level-two Room Barrier Modifier.

Hitomi Sakuramiya reflected on her obsessive surveillance of Yan Huan and the Room Barrier ability she had secretly deployed in the Student Council Office. After the Equipment Room door trapped her and Yan Huan inside, a note demanded they hold hands, hug, and kiss to escape, leaving Yan Huan wondering who had used a Modifier to set them up.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya recalled how her feelings for Yan Huan had led her to secretly monitor him and record his words and movements.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya remembered activating a Room Barrier in the Student Council Office, which had since reached level two.
• During cleanup after volleyball class, Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya entered the Equipment Room, where the door slammed shut and resisted their attempts to open it.
• A note appeared, instructing Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya to hold hands, hug, and kiss for ten minutes each to get out.
• Yan Huan suspected someone had used a Modifier to trap them, while Hitomi Sakuramiya backed away cautiously and he wondered whether she or someone else was responsible.

Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya were trapped in a sealed Equipment Room, where he suspected a modifier was at work while she secretly maintained the Barrier and hoped to draw him closer. Their forced embrace ended when Aria Spencer broke through the door and shattered the Barrier, then prepared to photograph them.

• Yan Huan found that he and Hitomi Sakuramiya had no phone signal and could not escape the sealed Equipment Room, so he waited rather than follow the note’s instructions.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya secretly kept the Barrier active while Yan Huan tested her by pretending to sleep, then tried unsuccessfully to break down the door.
• Yan Huan suggested following the note, and he held Hitomi’s hand and embraced her while she hoped they would continue to kissing.
• A second note demanded a tighter hug, and Yan Huan drew Hitomi closer before the Equipment Room door crashed open and the Barrier shattered.
• Aria Spencer appeared in the doorway, recognized Yan Huan and Hitomi, and took out her phone to photograph them.

Yan Huan tracked down Aria Spencer, the Modifier Host who had taken a compromising photo of him and Hitomi Sakuramiya, and tricked her into deleting it while learning about her powers. The chapter ended with Sakuramiya identifying Spencer to the school security guards, who escorted her away for breaking into the Equipment Room.

• Spencer photographed Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya in the Equipment Room, then ran off while Sakuramiya pretended to have a headache and memory loss.
• Yan Huan summoned Meow-chan to track Spencer to the girls' Changing Room, where he discovered that she could influence his thoughts and feelings.
• Spencer threatened to release the photo, but Yan Huan claimed Sakuramiya was the only person he liked and offered to fulfill one condition in exchange for its deletion.
• Spencer accepted Yan Huan's offer, introduced herself as Aria Spencer of first-year Class C, and deleted the photo, including from the recently deleted folder.
• Yan Huan reunited with Hitomi Sakuramiya outside the Teaching Building, where Sakuramiya pointed out Spencer to security guards and had her escorted away.

Yan Huan returned to Tong Yingying’s tavern to make up missed shifts and found her drinking heavily while dealing with pressure from her mother to go on a blind date. When a mysterious white snake offered Tong Yingying power, she stomped it out, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Yan Huan left school early, caught the South District bus, and headed to Tong Yingying’s tavern to make up for his missed weekend shifts.
• Yan Huan and Tong Yingying traded jokes before he changed for work, and Tian Li and Guan Rong arrived to help at the tavern.
• As the tavern grew busy, Tong Yingying drank alone and sent angry messages to her mother about being pressured into a blind date.
• Tong Yingying became sick in the restroom, where a snake-shaped tattoo emerged from her body as a small white snake.
• The white snake offered Tong Yingying power to manipulate sensations, but she dismissed it as a drunken hallucination and stomped on it until it vanished.

Yan Huan helped the drunken Tong Yingying upstairs and advised her to change her habits instead of pretending to date him to satisfy her parents. After he left, Tong Yingying considered quitting smoking and drinking, while a mysterious injured white snake appeared at An Le’s window and she brought it inside.

• Yan Huan found Tong Yingying drunk in the restroom, helped her upstairs, and stopped her from making a drunken advance on him.
• Tong Yingying offered Yan Huan money to pretend to be close to her during calls with her parents, but he explained that changing her lifestyle might ease their worries.
• Yan Huan accepted extra pay from Tong Yingying and left, while she wondered whether she should quit smoking and drinking.
• An Le browsed adult games in her room and noticed an injured white snake on the windowsill.
• An Le put on bite-resistant gloves and carried the white snake into her room.

Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya watched Totsuki Academy's first-year results go up, then met with Principal Hermes about summer placements and a mandatory study group. Yan Huan took charge of the program after spotting Bai Yi and Aria Spencer on the list, while Hitomi grew suspicious of Spencer; in class, Spencer found a bookmark connecting Yan Huan and An Le.

• You Anlina posted the first-year rankings, with Yan Huan first, Hitomi Sakuramiya second, and Aria Spencer last with 66 points.
• Principal Hermes gave Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya details about company placements and asked the Student Council to relaunch academic assistance through a Study Group.
• Yan Huan agreed to oversee the program after seeing Bai Yi recommended and Aria Spencer marked for mandatory participation.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya suspected that Spencer had done something to Yan Huan and privately resolved to keep him to herself.
• In class, Spencer borrowed An Le's textbook and found a bookmark that read, "Yan Huan and An Le must stay together forever."

An Le accepted the help of the talking snake Little Finger, which promised her power over pleasure and pain, but she remained timid and focused on reconnecting with her childhood friend Yan Huan. After Spencer returned An Le’s treasured bookmark, she told her that Yan Huan was already with Hitomi Sakuramiya, leaving An Le pale and shaken.

• An Le heard classmates discussing how they used Student Council treasurer Yatsuhashi to deliver gifts to Yan Huan, then Little Finger appeared and offered her an ability to manipulate pleasure and pain.
• Little Finger warned An Le to keep the ability secret and urged her to stand up to bullies and pursue what she wanted, while An Le reluctantly accepted its help.
• An Le recalled meeting Yan Huan at a neighborhood orphanage, their promise to stay together forever, and how she found him again at Totsuki but never dared approach him.
• An Le returned late to class and discovered Spencer holding the old bookmark she had made with Yan Huan; Spencer handed it back and said Yan Huan was already with Hitomi Sakuramiya.
• Spencer hinted that Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya had been intimate, and An Le turned pale as she imagined them together.

At Totsuki Academy, Yan Huan planned a Study Group while Hitomi Sakuramiya tried to join, but he kept her out because Spencer's Modifier might affect her. Later, he agreed to inspect Ye Shiyu's slow laptop and triggered her purple phone's Individual Hypnosis effect as he was about to open a browser.

• You Anlina blamed the Student Council members for her poor exam result, and Yatsuhashi Ki invited her to join the revived Study Group.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya offered to help with the Study Group, but Yan Huan declined because he worried Spencer's Modifier could harm her.
• Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya parted at the Teaching Building, and he returned to his classroom planning to nap and play mahjong.
• Ye Shiyu brought Yan Huan cookies and asked him to fix her sluggish laptop, which he suspected had a virus after finding a system process using all the CPU.
• As Yan Huan moved to open the browser, Ye Shiyu's phone activated Individual Hypnosis for fifteen minutes.