Chapter Summaries

Yan Huan used a second phone to evade some of Ye Shiyu’s surveillance and met An Le, who told him her studio had been invited to sign with the Golden Lion Group. At Golden Lion Entertainment, Bai Yi overheard Lemon plotting to manufacture a scandal about Yan Huan and confronted her, ending the chapter by slapping her.

• Yan Huan set up a new work phone, then hurried to reception after learning An Le had come to Ye International.
• An Le explained that Teacher Miyake’s studio had been invited to sign with the Golden Lion Group, and she and Yan Huan discussed the opportunity while his phone surveillance remained in place.
• At Golden Lion Entertainment, Bai Yi saw Hitomi Sakuramiya returning from lunch with Yatsuhashi Ki and Aishili, and heard that the president had visited Hitomi Sakuramiya the day before.
• Bai Yi overheard Lemon hiring a paparazzo to spread a misleading story about Yan Huan and realized Lemon intended to provoke online harassment.
• Lemon offered Bai Yi a chance to keep quiet, but Bai Yi slapped her and challenged her to try carrying out the plan that afternoon.

Yan Huan began his internship alongside Ye Shiyu, who claimed she wanted to make amends and act only as his older sister. After Yan Huan left on a tour of the building, Ye Shiyu crushed the phone displaying the Leaf AI, jealous of its sweet interaction with him.

• Yan Huan entered the interns’ office and nervously faced Ye Shiyu, who said she regretted her behavior and asked him to make up with her.
• Ye Shiyu encouraged Yan Huan to consider having lunch with You Anlina, then greeted department head Zhang Xiaojing when he arrived.
• Zhang Xiaojing introduced Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to their coworkers and demonstrated the customizable Version 2.0 Leaf AI.
• Zhang Xiaojing explained that Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu would coordinate with the Golden Lion Group, then took Yan Huan on a tour while Ye Shiyu stayed behind.
• Ye Shiyu saw Leaf AI’s notification that Yan Huan’s Heart-Flutter Value toward her had increased by 5%, then crushed the phone in jealousy.

Bai Yi stopped Lemon from meeting Yan Huan, but Ye Shiyu discovered Yan Huan was hiding his knowledge of the Modifier and unleashed a terrifying power. Yan Huan fled through a darkening mall and empty street, only for Ye Shiyu to catch him in the darkness and say she would take him home.

• Bai Yi slapped Lemon twice and made her cancel her lunch with Yan Huan, then learned Ye Shiyu would accompany him instead.
• Ye Shiyu hypnotized the paparazzo watching the restaurant, destroying his camera and leaving him unconscious.
• At lunch, Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu he liked her as a woman, but she called him a liar and revealed her hypnosis had failed against his mask.
• Ye Shiyu's power darkened the restaurant and mall as Yan Huan fled, escaping just before the mall's rolling shutter closed.
• On the empty street, Ye Shiyu pursued Yan Huan as the daylight went out around them, caught him in the darkness, and said she would take him home.

Hitomi Sakuramiya was summoned by Elvira, who challenged her relationship with Yan Huan and warned that he would be punished for seeing several girls. Hitomi Sakuramiya overcame her doubts and firmly declared that she was Yan Huan’s girlfriend.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya arrived at Golden Lion Group with Aishili and Yatsuhashi Ki, where Bai Yi passed by without recognizing her.
• Elvira dismissed a business proposal after Aria Spencer used her lie-detecting ability to judge the presenter, then decided to confront Hitomi Sakuramiya about Yan Huan.
• Elvira questioned Hitomi Sakuramiya about dancing with Yan Huan and argued that Aria had a stronger claim because Yan Huan had invited her to dance earlier.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya considered denying her relationship to protect Yan Huan, but remembered his choice of her and admitted that she had wasted chances with him.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Elvira that she was Yan Huan’s girlfriend and that there was no question about it.

Yan Huan survived Ye Shiyu’s question by admitting his confusion and persuading her to wait, but a bad-ending vision showed her that he would eventually marry Hitomi Sakuramiya and offer Ye Shiyu only secret desire. When Ye Shiyu tried to hypnotize him, Yan Huan’s prepared parry rang out.

• Yan Huan returned from a Defeat CG in which Ye Shiyu learned about modifiers and made him disappear, and he realized the vision had lasted less than a second.
• Ye Shiyu asked whether Yan Huan liked her, and Yan Huan used Demon’s Mind Reading but could not hear her thoughts clearly.
• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu he was confused about his feelings and questioned whether her own feelings were romantic or possessive; Ye Shiyu believed him and agreed to wait.
• Years later, Ye Shiyu learned Yan Huan was marrying Hitomi Sakuramiya, then saw a Defeat CG in which he admitted he had lied and offered to keep her as a secret mistress.
• Ye Shiyu’s eyes turned purple as she tried to hypnotize Yan Huan, but his prepared parry rang out.

Hitomi Sakuramiya stood up to Elvira over her relationship with Yan Huan, but Aria unexpectedly defended Hitomi Sakuramiya and Elvira assigned Aria to intern alone with Yan Huan. Later, Yan Huan encountered his childhood friend Takimura Rika at Golden Lion Entertainment, while Bai Yi watched them with jealousy.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Elvira that she and Yan Huan mutually loved each other and that she would accept retaliation but would not give him up.
• Aria took Hitomi Sakuramiya's hand and defended her as a friend, then bluntly told her mother that she did not need to dance to prove Yan Huan liked her.
• Elvira arranged for Aria to intern with Yan Huan in a department staffed only by the two of them, then met Bai Yi, who insisted she had dumped Yan Huan and refused the money Elvira had prepared.
• Yan Huan visited Golden Lion Entertainment and found Bai Yi having her makeup done while she muttered that he was to blame for her troubles.
• Takimura Rika, now a famous performer known as Lemon, recognized Yan Huan as the older boy she had known at the orphanage and excitedly reunited with him.
• Bai Yi saw Yan Huan talking with Rika and lost her composed demeanor, silently calling him stupid.

Yan Huan survived Ye Shiyu’s hypnosis by manipulating his heart-flutter value, and she kissed him before pretending nothing had happened. As the live variety show began, Lemon’s Assistant redirected the paparazzo to investigate Bai Yi’s mother, Zuo Jiangqin.

• Yan Huan faked being hypnotized while Ye Shiyu checked his heart-flutter value, and he raised it by recalling memories of her.
• Ye Shiyu grew suspicious when Yan Huan’s value fell, then kissed him and lifted the hypnosis.
• Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu resumed their meal as the live Girl Group Face-Off began, and Bai Yi introduced herself before the episode’s love theme was revealed.
• The paparazzo woke to find his camera equipment smashed and blamed Lemon for missing their appointment.
• Lemon’s Assistant offered the paparazzo five times his previous pay to investigate Bai Yi’s mother, Zuo Jiangqin.

Yan Huan reunited with Lemon and later met Hitomi Sakuramiya, who asked him on a date while they ran an errand near Totsuki Academy. As they prepared to meet, a gale and heavy rain swept in, leaving Yan Huan worried about Hitomi Sakuramiya.

• Lemon met Yan Huan in the makeup area and planned to use their childhood connection as a storyline for the variety show, while Bai Yi secretly grew jealous of their interaction.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya started work at Golden Lion Entertainment and was assigned to check goods at a warehouse near Totsuki Academy.
• Yan Huan agreed to accompany Hitomi Sakuramiya on her errand, and she turned it into a date to make up for their canceled plans.
• Meow-chan secretly collected poisonous fragments and became visibly poisoned, but insisted the fragments were worth it.
• After Hitomi Sakuramiya finished checking the goods, Yan Huan headed toward the factory to meet her, but a severe storm warning appeared and he worried about her safety.

Yan Huan watched Bai Yi’s variety-show appearance and accepted a key card to the employee dormitory from Ye Shiyu, unaware that hypnosis was steering him there after work. When he arrived, he discovered a handwritten list of unsettling dormitory rules, beginning with a ban on bringing women into his room except for his older sister.

• Yan Huan watched Bai Yi react angrily to the love questions on the livestream while Ye Shiyu gave him a key card to a private room in the employee dormitory.
• Lemon offered to help Bai Yi with acting work, then manipulated Zuo Jiangqin into fetching Bai Yi’s new song score and reviewed files detailing Zuo Jiangqin’s and Bai Letian’s records.
• Yan Huan left work intending to go home, but Meow-chan realized he had been hypnotized into entering the dormitory Ye Shiyu had arranged.
• Yan Huan found himself on the dormitory’s top floor after the elevator vanished, and he and Meow-chan noticed a handwritten notice listing rules for residents.
• Yan Huan read the first rule, which prohibited inviting women into his room but made an exception for his older sister.

During a torrential storm, Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya took refuge in a love hotel, where Ye Shiyu’s upgraded Hypnosis repeatedly blocked Yan Huan from seeing or desiring Hitomi Sakuramiya. After Hitomi Sakuramiya confessed her feelings and said she wanted to become his wife, Yan Huan’s love for her shattered the Hypnosis, and they promised to stay together forever.

• Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya went to the Factory Building separately to pick each other up, then reunited in the storm and struggled with their flimsy umbrellas.
• Yan Huan noticed Ye Shiyu’s Hypnosis was still active even though Leaf AI had lost its connection, and he took Hitomi Sakuramiya to a nearby love hotel to keep her from catching a cold.
• At the hotel, Hitomi Sakuramiya tried to show Yan Huan she liked him, but Ye Shiyu’s Hypnosis kept replacing her with a phantom and suppressing his desire.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Yan Huan that dancing with him had felt like the wedding she had imagined as a child, and she said she wanted to become his wife and stay with him forever.
• Yan Huan admitted he wanted to stay with Hitomi Sakuramiya forever too, breaking Ye Shiyu’s Hypnosis, and Hitomi Sakuramiya accepted his promise.

Yan Huan found himself confined to Ye Shiyu’s dormitory under a set of contradictory rules, while An Le learned Ye Shiyu had cut him off from her and grew furious. Ye Shiyu watched Yan Huan take one of her stockings and discovered a plot to spread rumors about him as Leaf AI reported that Linmen App coverage had reached 45%.

• Yan Huan entered Room Two, found conflicting rules about the dormitory, and used an acrostic message to tell An Le that Ye Shiyu had locked him up.
• An Le received no reply from Yan Huan, and Ye Shiyu sent her an online shopping link for a sex toy, which convinced An Le that Ye Shiyu had taken him away from her.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya arrived at An Le’s apartment looking for Yan Huan, and An Le invited her inside despite their awkward meeting.
• Ye Shiyu watched Yan Huan take a black stocking from Room One and learned through Leaf AI that Lemon and an accomplice planned to spread rumors about Yan Huan.
• Leaf AI reported that Linmen App coverage had reached 45%, but Ye Shiyu chose to wait longer.

Yan Huan maneuvered Ye Shiyu into agreeing to join his lunch with Lemon while trying to evade her surveillance, but Ye Shiyu discovered his heart-flutter value was only 1% and realized he was not obeying her. Lemon learned Yan Huan would bring his older sister to lunch and accepted the arrangement.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya woke beside Yan Huan after their night together, and he helped her clean up before telling her that Ye Shiyu could use Leaf AI to hypnotize and monitor them.
• Yan Huan realized he needed a way to stop Ye Shiyu's monitoring without deleting the Leaf App, then returned to work at Ye International the next morning.
• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu that Lemon had invited him to lunch and asked her to come along, using a strained relationship with Hitomi Sakuramiya as his explanation.
• Ye Shiyu agreed to join Yan Huan for lunch and believed his warm embrace showed that her plan was working.
• After Yan Huan left, Ye Shiyu saw that his heart-flutter value was only 1%, realized he was deceiving her, and warned that he was not obedient.
• Lemon's assistant told her Yan Huan had agreed to lunch but would bring his older sister, and Lemon accepted.

An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya learned Ye Shiyu had sent them an insulting shopping link and tried to reach Yan Huan, while Aria went to find him with Ye Lan. Yan Huan expected Ye Shiyu to attack him, but she crawled out from under the bed and simply cuddled up to sleep beside him; Aria and Ye Lan arrived at his door.

• An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya discovered Ye Shiyu had sent them a link advertising a pacifier for crybabies, then learned Bai Yi had deleted Hitomi Sakuramiya and asked Aria to contact Yan Huan.
• Aria learned Yan Huan was nearby, ignored An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya's warnings, and went to find him with Ye Lan.
• Yan Huan tried to outsmart the room's rules by having Meow-chan drink his sleep-aid milk, but Meow-chan was unaffected.
• Ye Shiyu crawled out from under Yan Huan's bed, kissed him, and cuddled him to sleep instead of making a move on him.
• Meow-chan noticed Aria and Ye Lan arrive, and Aria asked Ye Lan whether Yan Huan lived there.

Yan Huan met An Le at Ye International and learned that her comics studio had been invited to join the Golden Lion Group, while Bai Yi discovered Lemon was arranging a smear campaign against Yan Huan. The chapter ended with Bai Yi slapping Lemon and challenging her to carry out the plan.

• Yan Huan bought a second phone to evade Ye Shiyu's surveillance and hurried to reception after hearing An Le was there.
• An Le explained that Teacher Miyake's studio had been invited to sign with the Golden Lion Group, and she planned to join it.
• Meow-chan and Little Finger argued over Meow-chan's poison and the fragments she had gathered for Yan Huan's modifier.
• Bai Yi saw Hitomi Sakuramiya happily walking with Yatsuhashi Ki and Aishili, then overheard Lemon arranging a media smear campaign portraying Yan Huan as harassing his childhood friend.
• Lemon warned Bai Yi that she had no evidence and offered friendship in exchange for silence, but Bai Yi slapped her and challenged her to proceed with the plan.

Ye Shiyu nearly triggered her Modifier by refusing to hypnotize Ye Lan, but Yan Huan helped hide her when Ye Lan and Aria entered the room. After they left, Yan Huan found a Spider Silk Fragment and learned that only one Defeat CG remained.

• Ye Lan and Aria went to Yan Huan’s room, where they found Ye Shiyu beside the apparently unconscious Yan Huan and Ye Lan called the police.
• Ye Shiyu’s emergency mission urged her to hypnotize Ye Lan, but she refused and relived a failure ending in which she was sent home after prison.
• As Ye Lan opened the door, Yan Huan woke, pulled Ye Shiyu under the covers, and pretended to sleep while Ye Lan searched the room.
• Aria kissed Yan Huan and lifted his hypnotic restriction, while Ye Shiyu’s Modifier created a false video call showing her elsewhere.
• After Ye Lan and Aria left, Yan Huan uncovered Ye Shiyu and discovered a glowing Spider Silk Fragment; his Modifier reported that one Defeat CG remained.

Bai Yi confronted Lemon over her threats against Yan Huan, then learned he was meeting Ye Shiyu and regretted intervening. During their lunch, Ye Shiyu discovered Yan Huan knew about the Modifier, and he fled as her supernatural power plunged the mall and street into darkness; she caught him and declared she would take him home.

• Bai Yi slapped Lemon twice and made her cancel lunch with Yan Huan, though Lemon warned Bai Yi she would regret it.
• Bai Yi heard that Ye Shiyu was joining Yan Huan and angrily swore she would stop meddling in his affairs.
• Ye Shiyu hypnotized the paparazzo watching Yan Huan and destroyed his camera, then asked Yan Huan whether he liked her as a woman.
• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu he did like her, but she saw through his lie and began using hypnosis; his Blade Parry blocked it, revealing that he knew about her ability.
• Yan Huan escaped into the mall as Ye Shiyu's power shut down the lights and sealed the exits, then found the surrounding street deserted and darkening.
• Ye Shiyu appeared behind Yan Huan in the darkness, told him she would love him until he mended his ways, and said it was time to go home.

After catching Ye Shiyu in his bed, Yan Huan manipulated her fear and affection to persuade her not to repeat her stalking, while she discovered that Leaf AI had assigned her a frightening task and sent predictions she dismissed as lies. Yan Huan returned to his apartment, where An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya were waiting, and realized An Le had learned what happened between him and Hitomi Sakuramiya.

• Yan Huan confronted Ye Shiyu about sneaking into his bed, then made her promise not to repeat her frightening behavior toward him and his friends.
• Ye Shiyu saw Leaf AI’s task to hypnotize her mother and became wary of the app, but dismissed its future projections as lies after seeing one that showed Bai Yi with Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan left Ye Shiyu’s room and returned to his South District apartment, where Leaf AI crashed when he tried to open it.
• Yan Huan found An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya waiting for him, realized An Le knew he had slept with Hitomi Sakuramiya, and hesitated at the doorway as An Le invited him inside.

Yan Huan survived Ye Shiyu’s question by admitting his feelings were confused and persuading her to trust him, but a future Defeat CG showed him marrying Hitomi Sakuramiya and later offering Ye Shiyu a secret affair. Back in the present, Ye Shiyu tried to hypnotize him, and Yan Huan parried the attack.

• Yan Huan returned from a Defeat CG in which Ye Shiyu exposed his lies, learned about the Modifier, and made him disappear, and he realized Meow-chan had never appeared in any Defeat CG.
• Yan Huan used Demon's Mind Reading on Ye Shiyu, but the Modifier’s effects made her thoughts too quiet to understand.
• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu he was confused about his feelings and questioned whether her attachment to him was romantic or possessive; she accepted his explanation and agreed to wait.
• A future Defeat CG showed Ye Shiyu discovering that Yan Huan had married Hitomi Sakuramiya, then hearing him confess he had lied and offer her a secret affair.
• Back in the present, Ye Shiyu’s eyes turned purple as she tried to hypnotize Yan Huan, but he parried the attack.

Yan Huan returned to the apartment, where An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya discussed Ye Shiyu’s dangerous expansion of Leaf AI and Hitomi Sakuramiya stayed the night. After An Le joined Yan Huan under the covers, Hitomi Sakuramiya repeatedly rolled over to interrupt them, then fell from the bed and ended up asleep beside Yan Huan.

• Yan Huan stalled An Le’s anger with a takeout excuse, then learned Hitomi Sakuramiya had come because she could not reach him.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya warned Yan Huan that Leaf AI was spreading rapidly and its success was driving up Golden Lion Group’s and Ye International’s share prices.
• An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya exchanged pointed remarks while Hitomi Sakuramiya explained that Ye International’s goal in Linmen was not expansion.
• An Le invited Hitomi Sakuramiya to stay over, and Hitomi Sakuramiya agreed to share the bed with her while Yan Huan slept on the floor.
• After the lights went out, An Le got out of bed, moved Meow-chan aside, and tried to join Yan Huan under the covers.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya repeatedly rolled over to interrupt them, then fell off the bed and landed asleep beside Yan Huan.

Yan Huan deceived Ye Shiyu during hypnosis by forcing his Heart-Flutter Value to rise, but she remained wary and kissed him before lifting the hypnosis. As Girl Group Face-Off began, a paparazzo accepted a new assignment to investigate Bai Yi’s mother, Zuo Jiangqin.

• Yan Huan pretended to be hypnotized while Ye Shiyu used Leaf AI to check his Heart-Flutter Value, which initially stayed at 1% and then rose to 2%.
• When Ye Shiyu demanded proof of his feelings, Yan Huan recalled moments with her and raised the value to 10%, but it fell again after she doubted him.
• Ye Shiyu apologized, held Yan Huan’s hand, kissed him, and ended the hypnosis; they resumed acting like an affectionate older sister and younger brother.
• Yan Huan watched Girl Group Face-Off begin as Bai Yi introduced herself and read the episode’s theme, love, while Lemon and Bai Yi’s mother, Zuo Jiangqin, watched from the set.
• The paparazzo discovered his camera equipment smashed below the building and blamed Lemon for missing their appointment.
• Lemon’s Assistant offered the paparazzo five times his usual pay to investigate Bai Yi’s mother, Zuo Jiangqin, and he accepted.