Chapter Summaries

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 Sakuramiya Vice President, 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 Sakuramiya Vice President, 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 a day at the aquarium and shopping with Ye Lan and Ye Shiyu, growing closer to the reserved Ye Shiyu as Ye Lan photographed them together. On the drive home, Ye Shiyu discovered her jellyfish keychain was missing and asked to return to find it, setting off a familiar Ye Shiyu Level One Alert.

• Ye Lan joined Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu at the aquarium after finishing a work call, and they admired the marine displays together.
• Yan Huan told the student council group he was at the aquarium with Ye Lan, while Ye Lan photographed him and then took a picture of him with Ye Shiyu.
• Ye Lan bought Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu new clothes, and the three ate dinner before heading home in the evening.
• Yan Huan worried Ye Shiyu might hypnotize him again that night, while Ye Shiyu remembered the warmth from the previous night's hypnosis.
• Ye Shiyu searched her handbag for the jellyfish keychain she had bought and told Ye Lan it was missing.
• The driver pulled over as Ye Shiyu asked to return to the aquarium to look for her keychain.

Ye Shiyu lost a cherished jellyfish keychain, and Yan Huan helped her and Ye Lan search the shopping center without success. After discussing Ye Shiyu’s attachment to jellyfish with Hitomi Sakuramiya, Yan Huan formed a new theory about her interests, while Ye Shiyu went upstairs with an unexplained task still ahead of her.

• Ye Lan drove back to the shopping center with Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan so they could search for Ye Shiyu’s missing keychain, but they found nothing before the mall closed.
• Ye Lan explained to Yan Huan that she searched because the keychain mattered to Ye Shiyu, while Ye Shiyu grew unusually angry and her phone glowed deep purple.
• Aunt Chen told Yan Huan that Ye Shiyu made clothes for her dolls and was skilled at sewing, before Yan Huan went upstairs and found Meow-chan waiting in his room.
• Yan Huan called Hitomi Sakuramiya to ask why she liked cats, and Hitomi Sakuramiya’s explanation helped him connect Ye Shiyu’s love of jellyfish to a quality she might lack.
• Ye Shiyu came upstairs carrying milk and her phone, paused outside Yan Huan’s room, then continued to the third floor to do something else.

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 the members discussed exam results, the upcoming Club War, and new measures against campus bullying. In Class 1-C, An Le faced exclusion from classmates as the new transfer student, Aria Spencer, introduced herself.

• Yan Huan rode to school with Yatsuhashi Ki, slept on the bus, and received gifts and a letter from girls who asked Yatsuhashi Ki to pass them along.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya, Yan Huan, Yatsuhashi Ki, You Anlina, and Aishili held their Monday Student Council meeting and assigned work for the exam results and Club War.
• The Student Council discussed the Education Bureau's anti-bullying guidance, and Yan Huan worried that Ye Shiyu might have trouble fitting into her new class.
• In Class 1-C, Piao Shuwen and her friends mocked An Le, dismissed her request to reclaim her seat, and shared a secret photo of Yan Huan.
• The homeroom teacher introduced Aria Spencer as a new transfer student, and she confidently greeted the class.

Yan Huan checked on Ye Shiyu at school, took her to lunch, and introduced her to the student council members. Ye Shiyu realized he treated everyone warmly, while Hitomi Sakuramiya secretly monitored him and activated her Room Barrier modifier in the student council office.

• Yan Huan left his class to check whether Ye Shiyu was settling in and found her speaking with Yumiko in second-year Class A.
• Yan Huan introduced Ye Shiyu as his older sister, invited her to lunch, and explained that he had come because the dining hall was far away and unfamiliar to her.
• You Anlina and the other student council members joined them, and Ye Shiyu watched Yan Huan treat his companions with the same warmth he showed her.
• Ye Shiyu concluded that Yan Huan was naturally kind to everyone, though she felt displeased when she saw Hitomi Sakuramiya looking at him strangely.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya returned alone to the student council office, reviewed her hidden surveillance files on Yan Huan, and activated the Room Barrier modifier.

Hitomi Sakuramiya recalled how her obsessive surveillance of Yan Huan began and revealed that she had secretly kept a Room Barrier active in the student council office. After the barrier’s level increased, she and Yan Huan were trapped in the gym’s equipment room and received a note demanding they hold hands, hug, and kiss to escape, leaving Yan Huan unsure who had trapped them.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya remembered becoming infatuated with Yan Huan and secretly recording his movements and words to understand him.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya recalled activating a Room Barrier in the student council office, which let her establish rules and monitor an enclosed area.
• During volleyball cleanup, Hitomi Sakuramiya tried to learn more about Yan Huan’s relationship with Ye Shiyu and invited him to get dessert with her.
• The equipment-room door slammed shut, and Yan Huan could not open it or break through it.
• A note appeared demanding that Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya hold hands, hug, and kiss for ten minutes each to get out.
• Yan Huan considered whether Hitomi Sakuramiya or another person had used a Modifier to trap them while Hitomi Sakuramiya kept her distance from him.

Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya were trapped in a sealed Equipment Room by Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Barrier, while Yan Huan tried to identify the Modifier’s host and escape. Their attempt to follow the note was interrupted when Aria Spencer kicked open the door and shattered the Barrier, then prepared to photograph them.

• Yan Huan found that he and Hitomi Sakuramiya were trapped in an isolated Equipment Room, with no phone signal and no way to contact anyone outside.
• Yan Huan pretended to sleep and tested whether Hitomi Sakuramiya would reveal herself, but she kept up her anxious, innocent act while the basketball class returned its equipment outside the Barrier.
• Yan Huan tried to break down the door with sports equipment, then suggested following the note’s instructions when he thought Hitomi Sakuramiya was unwell.
• Yan Huan held Hitomi Sakuramiya’s hand and hugged her more tightly after a second note demanded it, while Hitomi Sakuramiya secretly hoped they would kiss.
• Aria Spencer kicked open the Equipment Room door and shattered Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Barrier, then recognized Yan Huan and took out her phone to photograph them.

Yan Huan tracked down Aria Spencer, whose Modifier could influence people’s minds, and tricked her into deleting the photo of him and Hitomi Sakuramiya. The chapter ended with Hitomi Sakuramiya identifying Spencer to campus security for kicking down the equipment room door, and the guards escorting Spencer away.

• Spencer photographed Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya in the equipment room, then fled while Yan Huan stayed to check on Hitomi Sakuramiya.
• Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya both tried to pursue Spencer, but Hitomi Sakuramiya went to find security while Yan Huan followed Meow-chan to the girls’ changing room.
• Spencer used her Modifier on Yan Huan and threatened to share the photo, while Yan Huan recognized that her power influenced people’s thoughts.
• Yan Huan claimed that Hitomi Sakuramiya was the only girl he liked and offered Spencer a condition in exchange for deleting the photo; Spencer accepted, introduced herself as Aria Spencer from Class 1-C, and deleted it.
• Yan Huan reunited with Hitomi Sakuramiya, and Spencer approached them after changing; Hitomi Sakuramiya pointed Spencer out to the security guards, who escorted her away for breaking into the equipment room.