Chapter Summaries

Hitomi Sakuramiya woke from a dream about marrying Yan Huan and resolved to strengthen her weak body with Nara’s help. Yan Huan discovered Ye Shiyu had apparently hypnotized him and learned from Little Finger that Index Finger was a dangerously adaptable Modifier capable of using expanding mediums.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya woke from a dream in which the children she imagined having with Yan Huan called An Le their mother, and she asked Nara to help her become stronger.
• Nara told Hitomi Sakuramiya to meet her at six the next morning for a possible training plan, explaining that Yan Huan had left after waiting for her to wake.
• Yan Huan returned home and found An Le dressed in an apron, but a vision of Ye Shiyu appeared and extinguished his desire, convincing him that Ye Shiyu had hypnotized him.
• Yan Huan and An Le secretly summoned their Modifier Avatars, and Meow-chan reported that Ye Shiyu seemed able to observe them and had suppressed Yan Huan’s physiological responses.
• Little Finger warned Yan Huan that Index Finger could hypnotize people through mediums such as flames and clapping, and that its usable mediums could gradually expand.

Yan Huan restored the ruined banquet and invited Hitomi Sakuramiya to share the opening dance beneath fireworks, while the other girls watched the livestream from across Linmen. The dance ended in applause, and every version of Hitomi Sakuramiya appeared in the fireworks as Yan Huan held her close.

• Yan Huan restored his and Hitomi Sakuramiya’s clothes, led her outside, and tied her hair with the hydrangea ribbon before fireworks lit the sky.
• Yan Huan invited Hitomi Sakuramiya to her first dance of the night, and she accepted as the students cheered.
• Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya stumbled through the waltz, but he reassured her that leading the dance together mattered more than dancing perfectly.
• Nara watched the couple from a speedboat with Tong Yingying, while Spencer, An Le, Bai Yi, and Ye Shiyu emerged from the shattered Barrier in different parts of Linmen.
• Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi saw Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya together on the livestream, and Bai Yi hurried toward the venue.
• Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya completed their dance amid applause as the fireworks revealed the many forms of Sakuramiya.

Yan Huan deleted Leaf AI and experienced a terrifying Defeat CG in which he believed An Le had vanished and everyone around him had become a monster. After the Index Finger warned him that he had only one Defeat CG trigger left, he asked Leaf AI how to make up with his older sister; the next morning, Hitomi Sakuramiya kept her promise to get up early, while Bai Yi went back to sleep.

• Little Finger explained that Modifiers could be influenced by their hosts, and An Le worried that Ye Shiyu's Hypnosis could harm Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan suspected Leaf AI was connected to Ye Shiyu and deleted the app, triggering a Defeat CG in which a doll resembling An Le and the people around him asked how he knew.
• The Defeat CG showed Yan Huan fleeing his apartment, being arrested, and later taken from the Detention Center by a girl claiming to be his older sister; the ending was titled "How did you know?"
• Yan Huan returned to the moment before deleting Leaf AI and learned he had one Defeat CG trigger remaining, with additional triggers possible when he caused an Index Finger shard to drop.
• Yan Huan messaged Ye Shiyu, then asked Leaf AI how to make up with his older sister; Ye Shiyu watched the AI respond and seemed affected by his question.
• The next morning, Hitomi Sakuramiya got up early to keep her promise, while Bai Yi ignored her manager's efforts to wake her and went back to sleep.

At the banquet, Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya slipped away together, and Yan Huan explained the Modifiers while she rested in his arms. As a storm swept over Linmen, an unfinished AI began speaking to Ye Shiyu before Leaf spread through the city’s computers and lights, forming a giant spider silhouette.

• Yatsuhashi Ki explained to Aishili that he had played Satsuki-chan’s recording to keep the USB Drive connected and distract the students, then declined her invitation to dance.
• Bai Yi returned to the banquet looking for Yan Huan, while Yatsuhashi Ki pretended not to know where he was and she began messaging him furiously.
• Yan Huan told Hitomi Sakuramiya about the Modifiers as she rested in his arms, and Meow-chan revealed it had collected fragments from Sakuramiya’s Modifier.
• Yan Huan saw Bai Yi’s messages and found no messages from Ye Shiyu, while Ye Shiyu confided her fears to an unfinished AI that suggested someone else needed to change.
• Leaf activated across the Artificial Intelligence Research Center and a security guard’s phone, then Linmen’s lights flickered into the shape of a giant spider.

Yan Huan realized Ye Shiyu’s hypnosis still made him feel desire only for her, while he prepared to start his internship at Ye International and hoped Meow-chan’s upcoming evolution would help. Ye Shiyu received the black office outfit awarded by her app mission, and the chapter ended as Yan Huan’s Modifier was about to evolve at midnight.

• Yan Huan woke from an erotic dream of Ye Shiyu and discovered that thoughts of other women still triggered a chilling suppression of his desires.
• Yan Huan inferred that Ye Shiyu was using the Leaf App to monitor and hypnotize him, then listed his plans to report for his internship, address Sakuramiya’s side effects, and reconcile with Bai Yi.
• Ye Lan learned that Ye Shiyu had been visiting the AI department, gave her and Yan Huan nearby dorm rooms, and warned Ye Shiyu not to harm him.
• Ye Shiyu received the black office-lady outfit that her mission had awarded her, while Hitomi Sakuramiya and Bai Yi each downloaded Leaf AI.
• An Le offered Yan Huan supposedly restorative late-night food, but he put his hopes in Meow-chan’s Modifier evolution as midnight approached.

Yi Weixie reflected on the changes to the volume’s outline and its focus on Hitomi Sakuramiya, then previewed the next volume centered on Ye Shiyu. The story was set to continue with Yan Huan facing a crisis during his summer internship in the AI department.

• Yi Weixie explained that Lucy Anna had been cut as the original enemy, leading Hitomi Sakuramiya to become the opposing side and slowing the heroine’s relationship development.
• Yi Weixie described the volume’s theme of accepting imperfections and recognizing that loved ones and oneself could already be good enough.
• Yi Weixie said the next volume would focus on Ye Shiyu, who had glimpsed the truth about Yan Huan’s deceptive persona before their summer internship.
• Yi Weixie previewed Hitomi Sakuramiya learning about the Modifier and Yan Huan and An Le having slept together, while Bai Yi woke from her belief that Yan Huan loved her.

Yan Huan raised his Modifier level, gained new abilities and chose the Demon Tycoon evolution before starting his internship at Ye International. He arrived at the AI Department to find that the women there had suddenly been transferred, leaving him alone among the men as the office lights flickered ominously.

• Meow-chan refined and consumed Mandible Fragments, raising Yan Huan’s Modifier level to 8 and improving Kiss God so kisses increased fragment drops and reduced Modifier side effects.
• Yan Huan chose the Demon Tycoon evolution for its benefits to Demon abilities and a 40% discount at the Crab Coin Shop, despite Meow-chan urging him to strengthen the Modifier Avatar.
• Yan Huan selected the One More Time! reward, which could restore him to peak condition seven days after death or a deathlike predicament, and received a Universal Key from the Demon Shop.
• The next morning, Yan Huan traveled to Ye International for his internship and met You Anlina, who had also joined the AI Department.
• Sister Xiaoting told Yan Huan that Ye Shiyu had already arrived and would intern under the department head alongside him.
• A sudden position-transfer notice moved the women out of the AI Department, including You Anlina, and Yan Huan entered alone as the office flickered ominously.

On the first day of summer vacation, Yan Huan worried over Ye Shiyu’s silence and Bai Yi’s anger, then went to Totsuki Academy after learning Bai Yi had used Time Stop to cheat on her exam review. He told Bai Yi his feelings had been real, but refused to make their relationship official or cut off Hitomi Sakuramiya, and Bai Yi ran away in tears, declaring them finished.

• At a Student Council get-together, Yan Huan found that Ye Shiyu had not replied to him and her Modifier poster had been completely blacked out, while Bai Yi had blocked him.
• Yan Huan learned that Bai Yi had ranked first in her class and that the Academic Affairs Office had summoned her to verify her exam results; a wave of Time Stop then swept through the area.
• Yan Huan went to Totsuki Academy and found Bai Yi sick and exhausted after she secretly used Time Stop to answer the school’s test questions.
• Bai Yi confronted Yan Huan about dancing with Hitomi Sakuramiya and asked whether his affection for her had been real; Yan Huan said it had been.
• Bai Yi demanded that Yan Huan make their relationship official and cut off Hitomi Sakuramiya, but he refused, and Bai Yi left in tears while fragments fell from her body.

Yan Huan began his internship alongside Ye Shiyu, who promised to act only as his older sister while quietly increasing his attraction to her. After Yan Huan left for a tour of the building, Ye Shiyu crushed the Leaf AI phone in a jealous fit.

• Yan Huan arrived at the office prepared for the interns and found Ye Shiyu waiting there.
• Ye Shiyu apologized for ignoring Yan Huan’s messages and asked him to make up with her as siblings while they worked together.
• Yan Huan received a message from You Anlina asking him to have lunch, and Ye Shiyu said he could go with her.
• Zhang Xiaojing introduced Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to their coworkers, demonstrated the personalized Leaf AI, and explained that they would coordinate with the Golden Lion Group.
• After Yan Huan left with Zhang Xiaojing to tour the building, Ye Shiyu read a notification reporting a 5% increase in Yan Huan’s attraction to her and crushed the phone running Leaf AI.

After refusing to lie to Bai Yi, Yan Huan learned she had blocked him and saw that she was joining a variety show, while Hitomi Sakuramiya fell mysteriously ill. He downloaded Leaf AI and arrived at Hitomi Sakuramiya’s home as Bai Yi plotted to improve herself and Ye Shiyu’s ominous call left her uneasy.

• Yan Huan admitted to Meow-chan that he had refused to lie to Bai Yi, then discovered she had removed him from her contacts.
• Yan Huan learned Bai Yi would appear on Girl Group Face-Off and received a call from Auntie Sakuramiya saying Hitomi Sakuramiya had become mysteriously ill.
• Yan Huan received an internship offer from Ye International and downloaded Leaf AI, which provided detailed information about the variety show.
• Bai Yi vowed to practice self-discipline and make Yan Huan regret rejecting her, then agreed to consider other entertainment work for the money.
• Ye Shiyu called Bai Yi to ask whether she would appear on Girl Group Face-Off, then abruptly hung up, leaving Bai Yi feeling watched.
• Yan Huan reached Hitomi Sakuramiya’s home and saw Leaf AI’s message saying it would always be watching him.

Hitomi Sakuramiya arrived at the Golden Lion Group for her internship, where Elvira summoned her to discuss Yan Huan and Aria Spencer. Under Elvira’s pressure, Hitomi Sakuramiya ended the chapter by declaring that she was Yan Huan’s girlfriend.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya, Aishili, and Yatsuhashi Ki arrived at the crowded Golden Lion Building, where fans gathered to see entertainers including Bai Yi.
• Elvira asked her assistant to bring Hitomi Sakuramiya to the top floor, while Aria Spencer helped her judge a businessman's pitch by detecting his lies.
• Elvira watched a recording of Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya leading the dance at the High Table Banquet and worried that Yan Huan was seeing multiple girls.
• Elvira confronted Hitomi Sakuramiya about her relationship with Yan Huan and argued that Aria had a stronger claim because Yan Huan had asked her to dance earlier.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya resisted Elvira’s pressure and firmly declared that she was Yan Huan’s girlfriend.

Yan Huan visited Hitomi Sakuramiya and found that Bai Yi’s curse had left her meowing and acting like a cat. As their affectionate encounter escalated, Ye Shiyu’s hypnosis abruptly interrupted them, and Hitomi Sakuramiya fainted again.

• Nara led Yan Huan to Hitomi Sakuramiya, who could only meow and was instinctively moving like a cat among her kittens.
• Yan Huan teased and comforted Hitomi Sakuramiya, then kissed her; she stayed conscious and began kissing him back repeatedly.
• Yan Huan pinned Hitomi Sakuramiya beneath him as their playful kissing intensified, but his surroundings suddenly darkened and Ye Shiyu appeared in her place.
• Yan Huan realized Ye Shiyu had hypnotized him and felt his desire vanish as her chilling presence overwhelmed him.
• The darkness lifted, and Hitomi Sakuramiya’s eyes turned into spirals before she fainted, leaving Yan Huan calling out to her.

Hitomi Sakuramiya stood up to Elvira over her relationship with Yan Huan, but Aria’s unexpected support and confidence left her rattled when Elvira arranged for Aria to intern alongside Yan Huan. Elvira failed to persuade Bai Yi to accept money to cut ties with Yan Huan, while Yan Huan encountered his childhood friend Takimura Rika at Golden Lion Entertainment, prompting a jealous reaction from Bai Yi.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Elvira that she and Yan Huan mutually loved each other and that she would not accept interference, while Elvira warned her not to regret her choices.
• Spencer returned cheerful and full from lunch, and Aria defended Hitomi Sakuramiya as her friend before casually asserting that she did not need to dance to prove Yan Huan liked her.
• Elvira arranged for Aria to intern with Yan Huan as the only two people in their department, leaving Hitomi Sakuramiya alarmed about their one-on-one proximity.
• Elvira offered to meet Bai Yi and prepared money to sever her connection to Yan Huan, but Bai Yi insisted she had dumped him and left without taking the cash.
• Yan Huan visited Golden Lion Entertainment, where he recognized Takimura Rika, now the famous performer Lemon, as a girl he had known at the South District orphanage.
• Bai Yi overheard Yan Huan talking with Takimura Rika, saw them together, and lost her aloof composure as she angrily called him stupid.

Hitomi Sakuramiya woke from a dream about having a family with Yan Huan and resolved to strengthen her frail body with Nara’s help. Yan Huan learned that Ye Shiyu had hypnotized him, and Little Finger warned him that Index Finger was a dangerous Modifier that could spread its influence through expanding mediums.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya woke from her dream, learned Yan Huan had stayed with her until evening, and asked Nara to help her become stronger.
• Yan Huan discussed Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Modifier side effects with Meow-chan and worried after thinking he had seen Ye Shiyu at the Sakuramiya Family’s house.
• At home, Yan Huan felt Ye Shiyu’s influence suppress his desire while An Le approached him wearing an apron, confirming that Ye Shiyu could observe what was happening.
• Yan Huan and An Le secretly summoned their Modifier Avatars, and Meow-chan told An Le that Ye Shiyu had apparently hypnotized Yan Huan.
• Little Finger explained that Index Finger could hypnotize people through mediums, that its possible mediums expanded over time, and that it was the most ruthless and program-like Modifier.

Yan Huan reunited with Lemon and Bai Yi at Golden Lion Entertainment, while Hitomi Sakuramiya began working there and arranged an afternoon date with him. As Yan Huan headed to meet Hitomi Sakuramiya near Totsuki Academy, a gale and heavy rain warning brought dark clouds and thunder.

• Lemon greeted Yan Huan and privately planned to use their reunion as a storyline for the variety show, while Bai Yi watched and plotted to collect evidence of his romantic entanglements.
• Lemon spotted Hitomi Sakuramiya throwing herself into Yan Huan’s arms and hid to observe them.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya learned she would be sent to check goods near Totsuki Academy, then asked Yan Huan to join her and turned the errand into a date.
• Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya finished checking the goods and planned to meet near the school before heading into the city.
• As Yan Huan walked toward Hitomi Sakuramiya, a gale and heavy rain warning appeared, and he worried about her.

Yan Huan nearly deleted Leaf AI and triggered a Defeat CG in which he mistook the people around him for monsters and was taken away, but the Index Finger intervened and warned him he had only one trigger remaining. He questioned Leaf about reconciling with his older sister, while Hitomi Sakuramiya got up early to exercise and Bai Yi went back to sleep.

• Little Finger explained that Modifiers influenced their hosts and that a Modifier could trigger a Defeat CG when its host made the wrong choice.
• Yan Huan suspected Leaf AI was connected to Ye Shiyu and tried to delete the app, triggering a horrifying vision in which An Le vanished and the people around him appeared monstrous.
• The Defeat CG showed Yan Huan being detained and later taken home by a girl claiming to be his older sister, before the Index Finger pulled him back to reality.
• The Index Finger warned Yan Huan that he had only one Defeat CG trigger remaining, though he could gain more when it caused a shard to drop.
• Yan Huan messaged Ye Shiyu without receiving a reply, then asked Leaf AI how to make up with his older sister, prompting a reaction from someone watching the app's code.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya got up early to exercise, while Bai Yi ignored her manager's efforts to wake her and went back to sleep.

Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya sought shelter from a storm at a love hotel, where Ye Shiyu’s hypnosis repeatedly blocked Yan Huan from acting on his feelings. Hitomi Sakuramiya’s confession and promise of a future together broke the hypnosis, leaving Yan Huan free to return her love.

• Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya missed each other while seeking umbrellas in the storm, then reunited and went to a nearby love hotel to keep Hitomi Sakuramiya from getting sick.
• Ye Shiyu monitored Yan Huan through Leaf AI and maintained her hypnosis, which suppressed his desire for Hitomi Sakuramiya whenever he saw her.
• At the hotel, Hitomi Sakuramiya grew insecure about Yan Huan’s lack of reaction, then confessed that she wanted to become his wife and stay with him forever.
• Yan Huan told Hitomi Sakuramiya he wanted to stay with her forever too, and Ye Shiyu’s hypnosis shattered as he looked at her.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya accepted Yan Huan’s promise, and he was left free from the hypnosis and able to feel his love for her.

Yan Huan discovered that Ye Shiyu’s hypnosis had left him feeling desire only for her, and he prepared for his internship at Ye International while hoping Meow-chan’s modifier evolution could help. Ye Shiyu received the reward for her reform mission, as Hitomi Sakuramiya, Bai Yi, and An Le each made plans connected to Yan Huan; the chapter ended just before midnight, when the modifier was due to evolve.

• Yan Huan woke from an erotic dream about Ye Shiyu and realized his hypnosis-induced chill suppressed his desire for every woman except her.
• Yan Huan suspected Ye Shiyu was using the Leaf App to monitor and hypnotize him, and he listed his plans to attend his internship, seek a remedy for Sakuramiya, and reconcile with Bai Yi.
• Ye Lan learned Ye Shiyu had been visiting the AI Department, gave her dorm keys, and warned her not to mistreat Yan Huan; Ye Shiyu then collected the black office-lady outfit awarded by her mission.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya endured Nara’s painful massage before downloading Leaf AI, while Bai Yi considered her upcoming Golden Lion Group appearance and downloaded the app to help write a motto.
• An Le served Yan Huan food she hoped might counter the hypnosis, but Yan Huan doubted it would help and pinned his hopes on Meow-chan’s upcoming modifier evolution.
• Yan Huan watched the clock approach midnight, when Meow-chan’s modifier was set to evolve.

After spending the night with Hitomi Sakuramiya, Yan Huan began planning how to evade Ye Shiyu’s phone surveillance and invited Ye Shiyu to lunch with Lemon. Ye Shiyu realized Yan Huan’s apparent affection was not genuine, while Lemon welcomed the news that he would bring his older sister.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya woke beside Yan Huan, remembered their night together, and struggled to move because she was sore; Yan Huan carried her to the bathroom to help her wash.
• After checking out, Yan Huan told Hitomi Sakuramiya that Ye Shiyu could use Leaf AI to hypnotize and monitor them, then considered how to stop the surveillance without deleting the app.
• At Ye International, Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu that Lemon had invited him to lunch and asked her to come along, explaining that he and Hitomi Sakuramiya had argued after their plans were interrupted by rain.
• Ye Shiyu agreed to join Yan Huan for lunch and believed his warm embrace showed that he was beginning to like her, while Yan Huan mentioned getting a work phone and a new Plane account.
• Ye Shiyu checked Leaf AI and saw Yan Huan’s heart-flutter value was only 1%; realizing he had deceived her, she turned cold as the building’s electrical devices flickered.
• Lemon learned that Yan Huan had agreed to lunch and would bring his older sister, and she cheerfully accepted.

Yan Huan leveled up, gained new abilities and rewards, and chose the Demon Tycoon evolution path for its Crab Coin Shop discount. On his first day at Ye International, a sudden transfer removed the women from his department, leaving him alone among the men as the office seemed to turn ominous.

• Meow-chan refined Mandible Fragments, raising Yan Huan's Modifier level and enhancing Kiss God so kisses increased fragment drops and eased hosts' side effects.
• Yan Huan chose Demon Tycoon over strengthening Meow-chan, then selected the special One More Time! reward that could restore him after a near-death predicament.
• Yan Huan received a universal key from the Demon Shop and noted that Demon Tycoon removed the shop's purchase penalty while discounting its wares.
• Yan Huan arrived at Ye International for his internship with You Anlina and learned that Ye Shiyu had already started in the AI Department.
• A sudden transfer notice moved the women out of the department, and You Anlina was transferred as well, leaving Yan Huan alone at the entrance amid flickering lights and screens.