Chapter Summaries

Yan Huan learned that Ye Shiyu was still at school and rushed back, where An Le confronted her with a blindfold and tentacles. Ye Shiyu escaped An Le’s attack but collapsed near Yan Huan, who carried her away from the pink-shrouded campus.

• Yan Huan called Ye Lan and learned Ye Shiyu had stayed at school for a supposed classmate get-together.
• An Le waited for Ye Shiyu in the First-Year Division and taunted her about Yan Huan before covering her eyes with a blindfold.
• An Le attacked Ye Shiyu with tentacles and pleasure manipulation, but Ye Shiyu’s Hypnosis App bit off a tentacle and let her escape.
• An Le’s tentacles regenerated and lashed wildly as Yan Huan returned to the First-Year Division.
• Yan Huan found Ye Shiyu collapsed and exhausted, and carried her away from the campus.

An Le used Little Finger’s power to make Piao Shuwen and her lackeys forget what happened, then planned to use the same method against other hosts to protect Xiao Huan. At lunch, Yan Huan met with Bai Yi to discuss her upcoming charity performance, but Ye Shiyu and then An Le joined them, leaving An Le seated beside Ye Shiyu in a tense confrontation.

• An Le asked Piao Shuwen whether she would give up everything for another dose of pleasure, then had Little Finger erase the memories of Piao Shuwen and her two lackeys.
• An Le told Little Finger she planned to exhaust other hosts’ mental energy with pleasure and erase their memories, and chose to approach Senior Sister Ye first.
• Yan Huan spoke with Spencer, who said she would return to school next week after going out with her mother.
• Bai Yi found Yan Huan in Forest Park and asked him to attend her charity performance at a hospital and support her first public performance of a new song.
• Ye Shiyu arrived at the milk tea shop while Bai Yi held Yan Huan’s hand, then An Le joined them and placed a chair beside Ye Shiyu despite the cramped space.

During a violent storm, Yan Huan took the unconscious Ye Shiyu to an empty love hotel, where she confessed her fears and feelings before falling asleep beside him. When Yan Huan woke, he found Ye Lan standing over him in the morning light.

• Yan Huan carried the ailing Ye Shiyu through the storm to a self-service love hotel after Meow-chan spotted its lights.
• Yan Huan rented a room and tried to warm Ye Shiyu, but her Modifier disrupted the lights and air conditioner.
• Ye Shiyu asked whether Yan Huan hated her and confessed that she feared people and did not know how to make them both happy.
• Yan Huan helped Ye Shiyu remove her wet tights, then rested beside her as they both fell asleep.
• Yan Huan woke and saw Ye Lan's face before he could check his phone.

An Le joined Yan Huan, Ye Shiyu, and Bai Yi for milk tea, where her childhood memories with Yan Huan stirred jealousy and suspicion. After An Le left, she and Yan Huan arranged to attend Bai Yi’s hospital charity performance together, while An Le and Little Finger considered whether Bai Yi might host one of the other Modifiers.

• An Le sat between Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan and recalled how Yan Huan had cared for her as a child, provoking tension at the table.
• An Le subtly challenged Ye Shiyu, and Ye Shiyu stopped herself from reaching toward her when An Le’s hand beneath the table triggered a warning instinct.
• Yan Huan followed An Le outside and invited her to Bai Yi’s charity performance at the hospital that weekend, and An Le happily agreed.
• Little Finger explained that Index Finger would likely retaliate against An Le for claiming Yan Huan, while warning that it was powerful.
• An Le wondered whether Bai Yi was connected to another Modifier and decided to look for clues at the performance; she also tucked a blindfold into her pocket.

Yan Huan explained to Ye Lan that he and Ye Shiyu had only taken shelter from the rain, and Ye Lan apologized after confirming they were safe. Ye Shiyu remained confused about what Yan Huan thought of her, while An Le woke in the infirmary and remembered her afternoon date with Xiao Huan.

• Ye Lan found Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu sharing a bed at a love hotel and accused Ye Shiyu of sneaking out and bringing Yan Huan there.
• Yan Huan told Ye Lan that he had found an unwell Ye Shiyu near the Teaching Building and brought her to shelter from the rain; Ye Shiyu backed up his explanation without revealing her encounter with An Le.
• A Linmen police officer reported that a rain-and-thunder electrical fault had erased the hotel's surveillance footage, and Ye Lan apologized after accepting Yan Huan's account.
• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu that what she had said the night before was a secret, leaving her uncertain whether he still cared for her, then declined her invitation because he had plans that afternoon.
• An Le woke in Totsuki Academy's infirmary, deactivated her tentacles, and remembered that she was supposed to go on a date with Xiao Huan that afternoon.

Yan Huan suspected Ye Shiyu might target An Le and hurried back to Totsuki, where he found Ye Shiyu defeated and fleeing from An Le. He carried the unconscious Ye Shiyu away as strange noises and a fishy scent filled the campus.

• Yan Huan chose Sakura Nation as his preferred training camp destination and called Ye Lan to ask about seeing Ye Shiyu, learning that she was supposedly at a class gathering.
• Ye Shiyu waited for An Le in an empty classroom building, but An Le revealed she had anticipated the confrontation and covered her eyes to guard against hypnosis.
• An Le provoked Ye Shiyu, then used tentacles and Pleasure Manipulation to overpower her while Little Finger realized Index Finger was still injured.
• Ye Shiyu's phone opened a vortex-like maw that bit off An Le's tentacle, allowing Ye Shiyu to escape as An Le collapsed and her tentacle began regrowing.
• Yan Huan found Ye Shiyu weakened near the First-Year Division entrance, and she warned him to run; he instead helped her leave the campus.

Yan Huan told Ye Lan that he knew about Ye Shiyu’s behavior and agreed to help her, while suspecting that modifier malfunctions were changing her personality. Later, An Le and Bai Yi met at the hospital to wait for Yan Huan, and An Le revealed that he had messaged her first.

• Ye Lan confronted Yan Huan about his knowledge of Ye Shiyu’s nighttime visits, and he admitted he knew and wanted to help Ye Shiyu become normal.
• Yan Huan recalled Meow-chan’s warning that modifiers imposed increasingly serious consequences, then asked Meow-chan what those consequences were; Meow-chan confirmed the danger.
• Ye Lan asked Yan Huan to keep Ye Shiyu in his care while she dealt with work, and they agreed to work together to help her.
• At Lily Cancer Hospital, Jiang Xiong persuaded Bai Yi to invite An Le into the car, and the two girls went inside to wait for Yan Huan.
• Bai Yi asked An Le when Yan Huan would contact them, and An Le showed that he had already messaged her, leaving Bai Yi stunned.

After An Le defeated Ye Shiyu, Yan Huan carried the unconscious, distressed Ye Shiyu through a storm to an empty love hotel and stayed with her. Ye Shiyu confessed her fears and feelings before they fell asleep; Yan Huan woke to find Ye Lan beside him.

• Yan Huan reached a bus stop with Ye Shiyu as red rain and high winds disrupted transport and electronics.
• Meow-chan spotted an open building, and Yan Huan carried Ye Shiyu through the storm to a self-service love hotel.
• Yan Huan checked into a room, but Ye Shiyu's presence caused the lights and air conditioner to malfunction.
• Ye Shiyu asked Yan Huan if he hated her and confessed that she felt unsafe with people and did not know how to make them both happy.
• Yan Huan helped Ye Shiyu remove her wet tights, then rested beside her as they fell asleep in the warm room.
• Yan Huan woke and saw Ye Lan's face backlit by morning light.

At a hospital charity performance, An Le reunited with Yan Huan and tried to reassure him that she was still the same person he had known as a child. When a strange clock-like sound reached only An Le, she and Little Finger suspected a supernatural presence near the changing room, and An Le went to investigate.

• An Le tricked Bai Yi about Yan Huan’s messages, then went to collect him after he arrived at the hospital.
• An Le accidentally entered a private ward while making room for equipment and heard a patient’s family complain about the charity performance.
• Yan Huan told An Le he had been about to message her first, making her blush and hope they might grow closer.
• Jiang Xiong noticed An Le’s closeness with Yan Huan and warned Bai Yi that she might have a rival.
• Yan Huan asked An Le about leaving the Doujin Club, but she refused to discuss Spencer and insisted she was still the same as before.
• An Le heard a strange clock-like sound that Yan Huan pretended not to hear, and Little Finger suspected it came from one of his kind near the changing room.

Yan Huan convinced Ye Lan that he and Ye Shiyu had only sheltered from the storm, while Ye Shiyu struggled to understand his feelings toward her. The chapter ended with An Le waking in the infirmary and remembering her planned date with Xiao Huan.

• Ye Lan found Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu asleep together at a Love Hotel and accused Ye Shiyu of sneaking out to meet him.
• Yan Huan explained that he had found an unwell Ye Shiyu during the storm and brought her to shelter; Ye Shiyu backed up his account while hiding what she had experienced with An Le.
• A Linmen police officer reported that the hotel’s surveillance footage had not been saved, and Ye Lan apologized for misunderstanding the situation.
• After Ye Lan left, Ye Shiyu asked Yan Huan what she had said the night before, but he told her it was a secret and declined her invitation to come over that afternoon.
• An Le woke in the Totsuki Academy infirmary, realized her tentacle ability was still active, and remembered that she was supposed to go on a date with Xiao Huan that afternoon.

Yan Huan tried to keep An Le away from Bai Yi, but An Le used a distraction to reach her, while Bai Yi's Pocket Watch drove her to activate Indifference and disappear. An Le found Bai Yi’s warm clothes in the Changing Room, but the ticking had stopped and Bai Yi was nowhere to be seen.

• Yan Huan followed An Le to the restrooms and had Meow-chan keep watch, while An Le sent Little Finger out to distract them.
• Little Finger frightened a nurse with her enormous snake form, causing a commotion that let An Le slip away as Yan Huan struggled through the crowd.
• Bai Yi read Jiang Xiong's warning about Yan Huan and, after Lucina advised her to focus on improving, became overconfident under the Pocket Watch's influence and dismissed Lucina.
• Meow-chan ran into the Changing Room to warn Bai Yi, but Bai Yi activated Indifference and vanished before An Le arrived.
• An Le picked up Meow-chan and found Bai Yi's still-warm clothes, but could no longer hear the illusory ticking.

Ye Lan confronted Yan Huan about Ye Shiyu’s attacks, and they agreed to work together to help her, while Yan Huan learned that using Modifiers carried increasingly serious consequences. At the hospital, An Le and Bai Yi competed over Yan Huan’s attention, and An Le revealed that he had messaged her first.

• Ye Lan realized Yan Huan already knew about Ye Shiyu’s past attacks, and Yan Huan admitted it and explained that he stayed because Ye Lan treated him like family and he wanted to help Shiyu.
• Ye Lan warned Yan Huan to keep his distance from Shiyu while she was busy, but Yan Huan said their training camp would keep them apart and offered to help Shiyu; Ye Lan accepted his help.
• Yan Huan asked Meow-chan about the cost of using Modifiers, and Meow-chan warned that the consequences grew more serious the more he used them.
• At Lily Cancer Hospital, Bai Yi complained to Jiang Xiong about An Le’s closeness with Yan Huan, then invited An Le into the car to wait for him together.
• An Le and Bai Yi compared how they had met Yan Huan, and Bai Yi wondered aloud which of them he would contact first; An Le showed that Yan Huan had already messaged her, leaving Bai Yi stunned.

Yan Huan rushed to Bai Yi’s changing room after learning An Le had gone there, but an encounter with an old woman delayed him. An Le’s attempt to trap Bai Yi triggered Bai Yi’s curse in retaliation, and Yan Huan arrived just as An Le lost consciousness and kissed him.

• Meow-chan warned Yan Huan that An Le was heading for Bai Yi’s changing room, but Meow-chan could not stop her because the white snake was chasing it.
• Yan Huan helped a frail old woman reach the elevator for the hospice ward, while An Le searched Bai Yi’s empty changing room with Little Finger’s help.
• An Le mocked Bai Yi while secretly surrounding herself with tentacles, and Bai Yi touched one while preparing to smear lipstick on An Le.
• An Le detected Bai Yi and attacked her with her tentacles, but Bai Yi’s Modifier countered the attack and cursed An Le with a sleep-inducing spell.
• Yan Huan arrived as An Le collapsed, and she suddenly kissed him and pulled him down to the floor.

An Le reunited with Yan Huan at the hospital charity performance, while he tried to understand whether her recent actions had come from her or her Modifier. When an illusory clock sound rang out near the Changing Room, An Le and Little Finger went to investigate as Yan Huan concealed that he had heard it too.

• An Le tricked Bai Yi about Yan Huan's messages, then messaged him herself and went to bring him into the hospital performance area.
• An Le accidentally entered a patient's private room while making way for equipment, then met Yan Huan outside the atrium.
• Yan Huan and An Le reminisced about their childhood, and he asked about her leaving the Doujin Club; An Le declined to discuss Spencer and insisted she was still the same as before.
• An illusory clock sound rang out, and Yan Huan recognized that it came from the direction of the Changing Room while pretending not to hear it.
• An Le asked Little Finger about the sound, and after it suggested the source was likely one of its kind, she told Yan Huan she was going to the restroom and left to investigate.

An Le and Yan Huan reunited after a kiss lifted her curse, while Bai Yi struggled with her own Modifier and the cancellation of the performance. Yan Huan led a search for a missing cancer patient, and An Le caught the woman at the rooftop edge and eased her pain, leaving Yan Huan newly aware of who she was.

• An Le kissed Yan Huan to lift her curse, then questioned his relationship with Spencer and learned that he had not welcomed Spencer’s stolen kiss.
• Bai Yi fled after realizing An Le had a terrifying superpower, then returned as the performance was canceled because a suicidal cancer patient was missing; Jiang Xiong scolded her for speaking selfishly about the woman.
• Yan Huan recognized the missing patient as the old woman he had escorted toward the top floor, and he and the others found her on the hospice ward rooftop preparing to jump.
• Yan Huan stopped the woman’s son from rushing toward her and urged the woman to speak with him; she described her suffering and begged her son to let her go.
• When the old woman began convulsing at the ledge, An Le caught her and used her Modifier to ease her pain, leaving the woman smiling and declaring how wonderful it was to be alive.

Yan Huan tried to keep An Le away from Bai Yi, but Little Finger’s distraction let An Le slip away while Bai Yi’s Pocket Watch drove her to activate Indifference. An Le reached the changing room after Bai Yi vanished, leaving her searching among the warm clothes as Meow-chan was captured.

• Yan Huan followed An Le to the restrooms while Meow-chan stood guard, and Little Finger distracted Meow-chan by frightening a nurse with his huge snake form.
• Yan Huan was delayed by the resulting commotion as An Le ran toward the source of the ticking sounds; nearby, a sick old woman struggled out of her hospital bed.
• In the changing room, Bai Yi received Jiang Xiong’s warning about Yan Huan and, after Lucina advised her to focus on improving, became dismissive under the Pocket Watch’s influence.
• Bai Yi activated Indifference and disappeared after Meow-chan rushed in to warn her about An Le.
• An Le entered the changing room, caught Meow-chan, and found Bai Yi gone, though the clothes she had left behind were still warm.

After helping prevent an accident at Golden Lion Entertainment’s event, Yan Huan, An Le, and Bai Yi attended a celebratory dinner, where Bai Yi began questioning her feelings and actions. An Le then led Yan Huan to a hotel and prepared to use her Superconductor on him, leaving him startled as he realized something was wrong.

• A doctor told the middle-aged man that his mother had died peacefully after surgery, and he tearfully thanked her.
• Golden Lion Entertainment’s organizer toasted Yan Huan, An Le, and Bai Yi for preventing a serious incident, while Bai Yi reflected on her behavior and wondered whether Yan Huan could like her as she was.
• Little Finger criticized An Le for helping the elderly woman and using her power in public, but An Le reminded it that she had once cared for it when it was suffering.
• An Le secretly prepared for an intimate encounter with Yan Huan and accepted his offer to accompany her home.
• An Le guided Yan Huan toward the Love Nest Hotel, gathered her Superconductor power, and made him freeze with alarm.

Yan Huan hurried to Bai Yi’s changing room after learning An Le had gone there, but An Le caught Bai Yi with her tentacles and triggered Bai Yi’s Modifier’s counterattack. The resulting curse made An Le collapse, and when Yan Huan arrived, she kissed him and knocked him to the floor.

• Meow-chan told Yan Huan that An Le was heading to Bai Yi’s changing room, while Yan Huan helped an old woman reach the elevator to the palliative care ward.
• An Le entered Bai Yi’s changing room and taunted the invisible Bai Yi, who grew angry but could not hear her through Indifference.
• An Le used her tentacles to detect and ensnare Bai Yi, then subjected her to Pleasure until Bai Yi’s passive Modifier counterattacked and dispelled An Le’s ability.
• Little Finger identified the counterattack as a curse that made An Le drowsy, while Bai Yi fled the changing room.
• Yan Huan reached An Le as she collapsed, and An Le kissed him, activated Kiss God, and pushed him to the floor.

Yan Huan agreed to get milk tea with An Le, but her evolved Modifier overwhelmed his resistance and she carried him into a hotel. She was about to book a room when her parents unexpectedly appeared, leaving An Le frozen with Yan Huan in her arms.

• Yan Huan suspected An Le might use her Modifier, but accepted her invitation to sit together at a milk tea shop after she said she wanted to help him with his troubles.
• Outside the Love Nest hotel, An Le’s evolved Modifier broke through Yan Huan’s resistance, and she comforted him as he poured out his grievances.
• An Le asked Yan Huan about Spencer, and he said he did not reject her and described their bond as sincere and unusually intimate before Meow-chan jolted him back toward awareness.
• An Le carried the groggy Yan Huan into the hotel, where he struggled to use the Silence Ring while she prepared to request a room.
• An Le’s parents arrived to check out, and her mother’s phone rang against An Le’s chest; they recognized their daughter holding Yan Huan at the reception desk.

Yan Huan and An Le reunited after An Le broke a curse with a kiss, while Bai Yi struggled with the effects of her Modifier and the cancellation of the performance. When they found a suicidal cancer patient on the hospital rooftop, An Le caught her and used her power to free her from pain, leaving Yan Huan newly aware of who An Le had become.

• An Le kissed Yan Huan to break a curse, then questioned his relationship with Spencer and learned he had not made it official.
• Bai Yi fled An Le, returned to Jiang Xiong, and lost her confidence when he rebuked her selfish response to a missing cancer patient.
• A staff member announced the performance was canceled because a suicidal patient had gone missing, and Yan Huan realized he had escorted the old woman to the hospice floor.
• Yan Huan led the patient's son and the others to the rooftop, where the old woman stood near the edge and described her unbearable pain.
• As the old woman began to fall during a bout of cancer pain, An Le appeared, caught her, and used her Modifier to fill her with joy and ease her suffering.