Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi woke from a dream about Yan Huan and her mother’s past, then agreed to join a Golden Lion Group variety show after learning it would film at the Golden Lion Building. Later, An Le reunited with Yan Huan, and Meow-chan used collected fragments to begin evolving the Modifier.

• Bai Yi dreamed that Yan Huan chose Hitomi Sakuramiya and that her mother, Zuo Jiangqin, refused to leave for Linmen with the man who would have become Bai Yi’s father; she woke in the Infirmary at 4:45.
• Bai Yi learned that Ye Shiyu had brought her to the Infirmary and that the Golden Lion Group had raised her appearance fee by ten percent.
• Bai Yi accepted the variety-show offer after learning it would be filmed at the Golden Lion Building, where Yan Huan might spend time with Ye Shiyu and Hitomi Sakuramiya.
• An Le returned to Yan Huan’s South District apartment, and the two ate noodles together while Meow-chan and Little Finger watched them.
• Meow-chan explained that fragments could not be deliberately made to drop, then swallowed the collected fragments and activated the Modifier Fragment Refiner.
• Meow-chan spat out a brilliant golden light as the Modifier began to upgrade.

An Le and Spencer went to the shopping district to interrupt Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan’s date, while Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan walked by the sea. When Yan Huan went to find dry shoes for Ye Shiyu, Aria ambushed and kissed him, and Ye Shiyu asked An Le about Yan Huan’s childhood, leaving An Le feeling guilty about her plan.

• An Le told Spencer to lure Xiao Huan away from Ye Shiyu, and Spencer eagerly planned to snatch him back during the date.
• An Le and Spencer arrived at a luxury shopping district, where An Le worried that her presence would make Ye Shiyu suspicious.
• Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan finished their meal, walked along an artificial beach, and got caught by a wave that soaked Ye Shiyu’s stockings.
• Yan Huan went to find dry shoes for Ye Shiyu, and Aria pulled him behind a pillar and kissed him while An Le distracted Ye Shiyu below.
• Ye Shiyu asked An Le about her childhood with Yan Huan and admitted that she wanted to understand him better and stop fighting with An Le.
• An Le believed Ye Shiyu was sincere and panicked over the plan she had set in motion with Spencer.

Yan Huan’s Modifier leveled up, unlocking a Demon Bank, a Crab Coin shop, and new rewards, while he chose an ability upgrade and took on two Crab Coin missions. He then exchanged an unused ability for 50,000 Linmen Legal Tender as he settled into bed with An Le and Meow-chan.

• Yan Huan gained three Reproduction Attribute Points, unlocked random ability upgrades and the Demon Bank evolution, and chose the Demon Bank over the Crab Deity Statue.
• Yan Huan selected the Electronic U-shaped Virus reward and used his expiring Crab Coin to upgrade Sparkling Fireworks.
• Yan Huan inspected the Crab Coin shop and its missions, which offered coins for following the Student Council’s High Table Banquet plan and interning with Ye Shiyu after a date.
• Yan Huan returned from the Demon Shop and joined An Le and Meow-chan in bed, where An Le showed him her new artist account and growing following.
• Yan Huan exchanged his unused level 3 Painting Gene through the Demon Bank and received notice that 50,000 Linmen Legal Tender would arrive within three days.

Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu spent time together while An Le covered for his absence and concealed Aria’s encounter with him. Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu then visited Ye International to learn about their internship department, where they discovered its AI project, Leaf, and Ye Shiyu’s phone glowed purple.

• Yan Huan struggled to explain his feelings to Aria, who admitted she felt lonely and warm around him and flirted with him in secret.
• An Le stalled Ye Shiyu by telling her about Yan Huan’s past and pretending she had come to scout the High Table Banquet venue.
• Ye Shiyu received a call from Ye Lan, then showed off that Yan Huan had invited her out and bought her comfortable shoes.
• Yan Huan returned, and he and An Le exchanged explanations while Ye Shiyu invited him to visit Ye International with her.
• An Le reunited with Spencer outside a restroom and asked her not to explain what had happened.
• Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu arrived at Ye International, where a secretary showed them the new AI department and its Leaf model; Ye Shiyu’s phone began glowing purple.

Yan Huan approved Hitomi Sakuramiya’s elaborate plan for the High Table Banquet and arranged a date with Ye Shiyu after school. His signature triggered an unknown countdown inside the Barriers, set to end when the banquet dance began.

• Yan Huan discussed the limits of his upgraded ability with Meow-chan on the way to the Student Council meeting.
• Yan Huan found Hitomi Sakuramiya planning an extravagant High Table Banquet, with Yatsuhashi Ki, Aishili, and You Anlina waiting in the crowded office.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya explained that she wanted the Student Council’s final banquet to be memorable and offered to use her own money to cover the expanded budget.
• Yan Huan approved Hitomi Sakuramiya’s plan after agreeing to review the draft and submit it to the Principal’s Office.
• Ye Shiyu told Yan Huan she was free that afternoon and agreed to meet him outside Commercial Street after school.
• Yan Huan signed the banquet draft, causing a countdown to appear throughout the Barriers and end when the banquet dance began.

Cool Sakuramiya and Petite Sakuramiya encountered a shadowy monster while trying to find a way to contact Yan Huan, while Yan Huan returned home and reconciled with An Le. Their private moment was interrupted when Petite Sakuramiya’s voice came through a camera in Yan Huan’s room, leaving An Le confused.

• Sakuramiya warned that a monster had appeared in the shared corridors between Barriers, and Insecure Sakuramiya told the others to stay inside while she investigated Perfect Sakuramiya’s Barrier.
• Cool Sakuramiya challenged Insecure Sakuramiya to give up her chance to dance with Yan Huan if she found Hitomi first, but Insecure Sakuramiya avoided answering.
• Cool Sakuramiya revealed a hidden camera they could use to contact Yan Huan, and she and Petite Sakuramiya set off to retrieve it.
• A shadowy humanoid creature appeared above Cool Sakuramiya and Petite Sakuramiya, who fled without noticing other similar figures lurking overhead.
• Yan Huan returned home, kissed An Le, and apologized for not telling her the truth; An Le asked him to be more direct with her in the future.
• Petite Sakuramiya’s voice came through the camera in Yan Huan’s room, and An Le sat up and asked why Vice President Sakuramiya’s voice was there.

Jiang Yun defended the Doujin Club against classmates’ mockery, only to find An Le and Spencer studying risqué material when she arrived. Spencer then used her Modifier to lead An Le to Yan Huan, where they saw him meeting Ye Shiyu for a date, leaving An Le jealous and Jiang Yun wary of what she had uncovered.

• Jiang Yun rebuked classmates who mocked the Doujin Club and defended Spencer’s efforts to change.
• Ye Shiyu stopped a girl from insulting her younger brother, Yan Huan, then left in a strikingly dressed-up outfit.
• Jiang Yun discovered An Le was teaching Spencer about physiology, and Spencer asked for help choosing stylish clothes.
• Spencer’s Modifier drove her to take An Le to find Yan Huan, while Jiang Yun suspected An Le had feelings for him.
• Spencer and An Le saw Ye Shiyu meet Yan Huan and straighten his collar, then An Le pulled Spencer out of sight when Ye looked their way.

Yan Huan heard from Petite Sakuramiya that strange Humanoid Monsters had appeared in the Barrier, then met Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya there the next day. After Cool Sakuramiya destroyed one of the monsters, Yan Huan realized it had left behind a unique, newly formed mask and wondered whether Insecure Sakuramiya had created a new Sakuramiya.

• Petite Sakuramiya told Yan Huan that a countdown, an earthquake, and Humanoid Monsters had appeared in the Barrier, and they arranged to meet at Sickly Sakuramiya's Barrier.
• At Totsuki Academy, Yan Huan noticed Hitomi Sakuramiya taking charge of Student Council duties and rushing to the High Table Banquet venue to supervise more preparations.
• Yan Huan found a golden countdown in the Equipment Room Barrier and realized it marked the start of the High Table Banquet dance.
• Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya fled into the Barrier as a humanoid figure followed them, but Cool Sakuramiya struck it with her baseball bat and it crumbled into ash.
• Yan Huan picked up the figure's unusually small, plain Blank Mask, and Petite Sakuramiya said it belonged to a newly born Sakuramiya rather than one of the known dead Sakuramiyas.
• Yan Huan wondered whether Insecure Sakuramiya had created the new Sakuramiya instead of Hitomi.

An Le and Spencer began plotting to win Yan Huan back from Ye Shiyu, while Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu grew closer during their date at an underwater restaurant. The chapter ended with Yan Huan watching Ye Shiyu smile at a jellyfish and quietly calling her beautiful.

• Spencer admitted to An Le that seeing Yan Huan with Ye Shiyu made her jealous, and An Le suggested secretly taking Yan Huan back.
• An Le explained a plan for Spencer to lure Yan Huan away while she distracted Ye Shiyu, and Spencer agreed to help.
• In the ride-hailing car, Yan Huan agreed to call Ye Shiyu by her name, then held her hand as she leaned against his shoulder.
• Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu arrived in Beihai District and went to an underwater restaurant overlooking the sea.
• Ye Shiyu shielded Yan Huan from other diners' stares, and Yan Huan appreciated her considerate, protective manner.
• Ye Shiyu smiled at a jellyfish outside the window, and Yan Huan watched her reflection and said it was beautiful.

Yan Huan learned that Hitomi would disappear when the High Table Banquet dance began unless he found her or stopped the dance, and he sent Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya to search for her. Meanwhile, An Le stirred suspicion between Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu by claiming Hitomi Sakuramiya had used a Modifier to become Yan Huan’s dance partner, leaving the two girls heading to confront her.

• Yan Huan explained that Insecure Sakuramiya might replace Hitomi and inherit her barrier authority, and he said Hitomi would disappear when the High Table Banquet dance began.
• Yan Huan agreed to let Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya search the barrier for Hitomi while he prepared to stop the dance if necessary.
• Yan Huan contacted An Le for help preventing Insecure Sakuramiya from using her Modifier to ensure the dance went ahead.
• An Le summoned Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu, then claimed Hitomi Sakuramiya had used a Modifier to get ahead and become Yan Huan’s dance partner.
• Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu agreed to confront Hitomi Sakuramiya in the Student Council office and took the Pocket Watch with them.

An Le and Spencer went to the shopping district to interrupt Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan’s date, while Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan enjoyed dinner and a walk by the sea. As An Le distracted Ye Shiyu, Aria intercepted Yan Huan, and An Le began to regret the scheme when Ye Shiyu sincerely asked to learn about Yan Huan’s past.

• An Le instructed Spencer to lure Xiao Huan away from Ye Shiyu, and they went to the shopping district to find them.
• Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan finished dinner, walked along the beach, and Ye Shiyu soaked her stockings in a wave.
• Yan Huan went to find dry shoes and stockings for Ye Shiyu, but Aria grabbed him from behind a pillar and kissed him.
• An Le approached Ye Shiyu to keep her occupied while Aria was with Yan Huan.
• Ye Shiyu told An Le she wanted to understand Yan Huan’s childhood and no longer wanted to fight her.
• An Le realized Ye Shiyu’s change seemed genuine and panicked that Spencer might already have carried out their plan.

Hitomi Sakuramiya confronted Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi over their anger about her becoming Yan Huan’s dance partner, then proposed that he could be with all the girls so they could avoid conflict. After they rejected her offer and left, Hitomi Sakuramiya suspected Yan Huan had revealed their partnership, while Yan Huan secured Principal Hermes’s assurance that the banquet organizers would overlook any problems.

• Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi demanded to know whether Hitomi Sakuramiya had used her Superpower to become Yan Huan’s dance partner, and Bai Yi accused her of secretly relying on it.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya challenged Bai Yi’s and Ye Shiyu’s claims that they had changed, then proposed that Yan Huan could be with several girls, including them, An Le, and Spencer.
• Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi rejected Hitomi Sakuramiya’s proposal, and Hitomi Sakuramiya used her Barrier to forbid Superpowers, hostility toward her, and speech while increasing gravity before letting them leave.
• Ye Shiyu warned Hitomi Sakuramiya that they might ruin her High Table Banquet, and Hitomi Sakuramiya wondered how they had learned about her and Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan asked Principal Hermes to change the banquet proceedings, but Hermes said the approved proposal already included Yan Huan’s signature.
• Hermes told Yan Huan the organizers would turn a blind eye if anything went wrong, and Yan Huan eagerly thanked him, leaving Hermes bewildered about what he had agreed to.

Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu spent time together while An Le and Spencer kept their own encounter secret, leaving Ye Shiyu pleased with her progress in winning Yan Huan over. Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu then visited Ye International to learn about their internship department, where they discovered its AI project, Leaf, and Ye Shiyu’s phone began glowing purple.

• Aria told Yan Huan that she felt lonely when he went out with Ye Shiyu, then hugged him and secretly flirted with him.
• An Le stalled Ye Shiyu by talking about Yan Huan’s past and the High Table Banquet, while Ye Shiyu believed An Le did not know about her dance invitation.
• Yan Huan returned with comfortable shoes for Ye Shiyu, and Ye Shiyu left with him to visit Ye International rather than eating with An Le.
• An Le met Spencer near the women’s restroom and asked her not to explain what had happened before they left together.
• A secretary showed Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu the new joint department at Ye International and introduced its in-house AI model, Leaf.
• Ye Shiyu’s phone suddenly lit up with a faint purple glow as she stood beside Yan Huan.

Yan Huan discovered that Hitomi Sakuramiya was building the High Table Banquet hall with powerful mask-body clones, then borrowed Sakuramiya Liang’s beach to prepare his own plans. As he left, he learned that armed Feather Gang members had come to kill an undercover investigator hiding in the villa, and he turned back inside.

• Yan Huan saw the mask-body clones working on the island and asked Sakuramiya Liang to use her beach on the night of the High Table Banquet.
• Sakuramiya Liang’s mother arrived with armed Feather Gang members, ordered Yan Huan to leave, and sent her daughter to her room.
• Meow-chan searched the men’s bags and discovered they contained guns as Yan Huan left the villa grounds.
• Yan Huan overheard that the gang members planned to eliminate an investigator hiding in the villa, who had collected evidence of their deal with Sakuramiya Liang’s mother.
• Yan Huan stopped at the entrance and told the guard he needed to go back inside to use the bathroom.

Tong Yingying retrieved documents revealing that a woman planned to kidnap Sakuramiya Liang, but Yan Huan returned to help her escape. When armed men found them in the beach cabin, Yan Huan and Meow-chan attacked, leaving the fight underway.

• Tong Yingying found Sakuramiya Liang hiding in the beach cabin and restrained her, then learned from Sakede Mina that the documents concerned a kidnapping plot against Liang.
• Yan Huan entered the cabin, and Liang mistook him for Tong Yingying's boyfriend before Tong Yingying argued with him about ignoring his messages and putting himself in danger.
• Tong Yingying explained that she had planned to use Liang as a hostage until Sakede Mina arrived, while Yan Huan hid with her in a cabinet as armed men approached.
• Three armed men discovered Liang and aimed their guns at the cabinet, but Yan Huan's Sparkling Fireworks burned two of them while Meow-chan stopped the third from aiming at Tong Yingying.
• Meow-chan transformed into Spinosaurus Form and lunged at the remaining gunman.

Cool Sakuramiya and Petite Sakuramiya tried to contact Yan Huan while avoiding a monster in the corridors between Barriers, but the creature appeared and chased them toward a hidden camera. Later, Yan Huan returned home and reunited with An Le, only for Petite Sakuramiya’s voice to come through a camera in his bedroom, leaving An Le confused.

• Loli Sakuramiya described being chased by a humanoid monster in the communal corridor, and Insecure Sakuramiya warned the Sakuramiyas to stay inside their Barriers while she investigated.
• Cool Sakuramiya challenged Insecure Sakuramiya about whether she would surrender her chance to dance with Yan Huan if they found Hitomi, and Insecure Sakuramiya avoided answering.
• Cool Sakuramiya revealed that she had hidden one of Insecure Sakuramiya’s cameras in Mom Sakuramiya’s Barrier, and she and Petite Sakuramiya set off to retrieve it.
• A pitch-black humanoid monster appeared above Cool Sakuramiya and Petite Sakuramiya in the corridor, so they fled toward the hidden camera as more figures watched from the ceiling.
• Yan Huan returned to his apartment and kissed An Le, then apologized for not telling her the truth; An Le asked him to be direct with her in the future.
• Petite Sakuramiya’s voice suddenly came from the camera in Yan Huan’s bedroom, and An Le asked why Vice President Sakuramiya’s voice was coming from the computer desk.

Yan Huan and Tong Yingying helped Sakede Mina’s group deal with the attackers at the beach, while Sakuramiya Liang grew suspicious of Yan Huan’s relationships. Meanwhile, Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi agreed to a plan to disrupt Hitomi Sakuramiya’s dance, as Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya entered Insecure Sakuramiya’s barrier and found her Inferiority taking shape from her memories.

• Tong Yingying killed one attacker with a surfboard and knocked out two more, while Meow-chan helped Yan Huan fend them off.
• Sakede Mina arrived with a group by speedboat, and Liang’s mother gave Yan Huan fifty thousand in hush money; Yan Huan asked Sakede Mina for help two weeks later.
• Sakuramiya Liang showed Yan Huan Hitomi Sakuramiya’s accepting message and accused him of manipulating her sister, but Yan Huan promised to bring back the sister who would want to slaughter him.
• Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi agreed not to use their superpowers and planned to destroy Hitomi Sakuramiya’s barrier shortly before the High Table Dance; An Le explained that the barrier could make its influence on Yan Huan permanent.
• Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya entered Insecure Sakuramiya’s barrier and watched black monsters emerge from memories of Hitomi Sakuramiya struggling with etiquette, profit, and social acceptance.
• Insecure Sakuramiya appeared behind them and looked ashamed that they had seen her Inferiority.

Yan Huan met Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya inside the Barrier, where they encountered and killed a strange figure that became a blank mask. Yan Huan realized the figure was a newly born Sakuramiya and wondered whether Insecure Sakuramiya had created her.

• Petite Sakuramiya told Yan Huan that Humanoid Monsters had appeared during a countdown and an earthquake inside the Barrier, so they arranged to meet at Sickly Sakuramiya's Barrier.
• Yan Huan noticed a countdown in the Equipment Room and concluded it marked the start of the High Table Banquet dance in about twenty days.
• Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya fled into the Barrier with a faceless figure close behind them, and Cool Sakuramiya struck it down with her baseball bat.
• Yan Huan picked up the figure's blank mask and learned from Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya that each Sakuramiya had a unique mask and that this one looked newly born.
• Yan Huan wondered whether Insecure Sakuramiya, rather than Hitomi, had created the new Sakuramiyas.

Insecure Sakuramiya transformed into Perfect Sakuramiya and trapped Petite and Cool Sakuramiya in her Barrier as the High Table Banquet approached. Yan Huan learned the truth, but Sakuramiya escaped his attempt to reach her Barrier and flew off with a promise to dance with him at the banquet.

• Insecure Sakuramiya revealed she planned to let the Barriers collapse, then shed her mouse features and became Perfect Sakuramiya, sealing Petite and Cool Sakuramiya inside her abandoned Barrier.
• Petite Sakuramiya realized Perfect Sakuramiya's Barrier was on her body and urged Cool Sakuramiya to send the discovery to Yan Huan through the Camera.
• During his final exam, Yan Huan received enough of the garbled message to understand that kissing Sakuramiya could let him enter her Barrier, then ran to her classroom.
• Yan Huan learned Sakuramiya had left early and chased her across the school grounds as students watched and cheered.
• Sakuramiya boarded a helicopter to avoid letting Yan Huan enter her Barrier, gave him a formal suit, and promised to share the first dance with him at the High Table Banquet.

Yan Huan learned that Hitomi would disappear when the High Table Banquet Dance began unless they found and awakened her or stopped the dance. As Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya searched the Barrier, Yan Huan recruited An Le to help prevent the dance from proceeding; An Le then set Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu against Hitomi Sakuramiya by claiming she had used the Modifier to secure Yan Huan as her dance partner.

• Yan Huan explained that Insecure Sakuramiya could replace Hitomi and take control of the Barrier, causing Hitomi to disappear when the High Table Banquet Dance began.
• Yan Huan sent Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya to search the Barrier for Hitomi while he prepared to stop the dance if necessary.
• Yan Huan messaged An Le for help, and An Le summoned Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu to meet her in the Small Garden.
• Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu both claimed Yan Huan had chosen them, but their confusion turned to suspicion when An Le accused Hitomi Sakuramiya of using the Modifier to get ahead.
• Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi agreed to confront Hitomi Sakuramiya at the Student Council Office.