Chapter Summaries

Yan Huan accepted Ye Shiyu’s key card for a private staff dorm room, then unknowingly found himself there after work, apparently drawn by hypnosis. He discovered a handwritten list of horror-like dormitory rules, beginning with a ban on inviting women except his older sister.

• Yan Huan watched Bai Yi and Lemon answer questions about love on a livestream, while Ye Shiyu gave him a key card to a private room on the dormitory’s top floor.
• Bai Yi puffed out her cheeks while thinking about Yan Huan, then said she liked someone who supported her ambitions and chose her without wavering.
• Lemon offered to help Bai Yi pursue film work, used Yan Huan as her explanation, and persuaded Zuo Jiangqin to bring her Bai Yi’s new-song score.
• After Zuo Jiangqin left, Lemon reviewed files about Zuo Jiangqin and Bai Letian and vowed to make Bai Yi pay for hitting her.
• Yan Huan took the key card to the dormitory after work, realized Meow-chan had not warned him he was going there, and suspected Ye Shiyu had hypnotized him.
• Yan Huan found a notice with dormitory rules that barred women from his room except his older sister.

Bai Yi learned that Lemon intended to help her and, believing Yan Huan had quietly intervened for her sake, began reconsidering their relationship. The chapter ended with Bai Yi discovering that her mother had apparently given her sheet music to an online singer, who then released a suspiciously similar song, and confronting Zuo Jiangqin in a furious rampage.

• Bai Yi and Zuo Jiangqin met Yan Huan in the Golden Lion Group elevator, where Zuo Jiangqin thanked him for persuading Lemon to support Bai Yi.
• Yan Huan praised Bai Yi's songwriting, and Bai Yi privately interpreted his actions as evidence that he still cared about her.
• Yan Huan left the elevator and arranged to go home with An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya, while a rising video criticizing Bai Yi caught his attention and sent him running back into the Golden Lion Building.
• Bai Yi watched a video accusing her of plagiarism and found an online singer's song, "That Person," closely resembled her own music.
• Bai Yi realized Zuo Jiangqin had shown her sheet music to the singer, then smashed the mahjong table with her guitar while confronting her mother.

Yan Huan became trapped in Ye Shiyu’s rule-filled dormitory, while An Le learned that he could not return home and confronted Hitomi Sakuramiya. Ye Shiyu monitored Yan Huan, uncovered a plot to spread rumors about him, and delayed acting on Leaf AI’s calculations as Linmen App coverage reached 45%.

• Yan Huan entered Room Two and found conflicting rules that steered him toward Ye Shiyu while restricting his movements and contact with An Le.
• Yan Huan sent An Le a coded message over Wi-Fi, but received no reply and suspected Ye Shiyu had interfered with his phone or network.
• An Le received a shopping link for a sex toy from Ye Shiyu, realized Ye Shiyu had confined Yan Huan, and grew furious.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya arrived at An Le’s apartment looking for Yan Huan, then discovered An Le lived with him and was invited inside.
• Ye Shiyu watched Yan Huan take one of her stockings from Room One and used Leaf AI to identify people involved in a plan to spread rumors about him.
• Leaf AI reported that Linmen App coverage had reached 45%, but Ye Shiyu told it to wait longer.

Bai Yi left home after clashing with Zuo Jiangqin, while Yan Huan confronted Lemon and forced her to agree to confess to framing Bai Yi. As the signing approached, Bai Yi disguised herself as a fan and challenged the plagiarism accuser in a livestream.

• Bai Yi packed her belongings and left the villa after arguing with Zuo Jiangqin, and Jiang Xiong gave her the ID she had forgotten.
• Lemon spoke with Kubo Tetsuyuki, then panicked at strange apparitions before Yan Huan confronted her about Bai Yi.
• Yan Huan played Lemon a recording of her private call and made her choose between admitting she stole Bai Yi's song or having the recording released.
• Ye Shiyu used an interface to remove hypnosis from Kubo Tetsuyuki while Yan Huan waited for Lemon's signing downstairs.
• Bai Yi joined the plagiarism accuser's livestream in disguise and angrily challenged her, revealing personal heartbreak as she defended herself.

An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya tried to locate Yan Huan while he waited for Ye Shiyu at the dormitory, expecting her to attack him. Ye Shiyu instead climbed into bed to cuddle and sleep beside him, just as Aria arrived with Ye Lan.

• An Le recognized Ye Shiyu’s embarrassing pacifier link, then asked Hitomi Sakuramiya to contact Bai Yi while she contacted Aria; Bai Yi had deleted Hitomi Sakuramiya, and Aria learned where Yan Huan was staying.
• Yan Huan searched the black stockings for Ye Shiyu’s name, then had Meow-chan drink the sleep-aid milk while he pretended to sleep.
• Ye Shiyu crawled out from under the bed, kissed Yan Huan, and wrapped herself around him to sleep, leaving him and Meow-chan stunned.
• Meow-chan heard the elevator arrive and spotted Aria with Ye Lan, who had brought her to Yan Huan’s room.

Bai Yi confronted the blogger accusing her of plagiarism, then went to Lemon’s signing event to take revenge. Lemon confessed that she had stolen Bai Yi’s song, and Yan Huan protected Bai Yi from Lemon’s angry fans before revealing a video recording that exposed Lemon.

• Bai Yi accused the blogger of using a score stolen on Lemon’s orders, then vanished from the livestream as Yan Huan sensed her nearby.
• Bai Yi approached Lemon at the signing event, but Lemon publicly admitted that she had arranged for Bai Yi’s score to be stolen and given to the blogger.
• Bai Yi’s pocket watch stopped after a fragment broke, making her visible as she insulted Lemon and enraged the fans.
• Yan Huan pulled Bai Yi away from the crowd and stopped the fans who tried to attack them.
• Yan Huan showed the crowd a video of Lemon admitting her actions and revealed that he had lied when he promised not to post it.
• Bai Yi taunted Lemon from behind Yan Huan, and Lemon fainted.

Ye Shiyu faced an emergency mission to hypnotize Ye Lan or be sent away, but she could not bring herself to do it, and Yan Huan hid her from the people entering the room. After Ye Lan and Aria left, Yan Huan discovered that Ye Shiyu had dropped a Spider Silk Fragment, leaving one Defeat CG attempt available.

• Aria and Ye Lan arrived at Yan Huan’s room, and Ye Shiyu panicked when she realized her mother was outside with a key card.
• Ye Shiyu received an emergency mission to hypnotize Ye Lan, but she failed to act before the door opened and relived a defeat ending in which she was arrested and sent home.
• Yan Huan woke and hid Ye Shiyu beneath the covers as Ye Lan and Aria entered, then pretended to sleep while Ye Lan searched the room.
• Aria kissed Yan Huan, lifting his hypnotic restraint, while Ye Shiyu reacted beneath the covers and Aria noticed a goshawk feather.
• Ye Lan showed Aria a video call with Ye Shiyu, concealing that the apparent image of Ye Shiyu was actually a finger, and then left with Aria.
• Yan Huan uncovered Ye Shiyu after they left and found that she had dropped a Spider Silk Fragment, raising his remaining Defeat CG count to one.

Yan Huan helped Bai Yi expose Lemon’s theft of her song, then left Bai Yi at a hotel without resolving their relationship. Back at his apartment, he apologized to An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya and suggested they move somewhere larger, leaving them to consider the idea.

• Yan Huan and Bai Yi escaped reporters after Lemon was taken away, and Bai Yi excitedly praised him before he took her to a nearby hotel.
• Yan Huan left after saying he wanted to hear Bai Yi’s other original song, and Bai Yi secretly added him back as a Plane friend.
• A reporter used Leaf AI to generate a sensational headline about Bai Yi and her supposed mystery boyfriend.
• Yan Huan returned to his apartment, where An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya questioned him about leaving them waiting at the Golden Lion Building.
• Yan Huan explained that he had intervened to stop Lemon from using the Modifier, apologized, and suggested that he, An Le, and Hitomi Sakuramiya move to a larger place.

Yan Huan escaped Ye Shiyu’s bed and tried to calm her fears without revealing that he had broken her hypnotic suggestion. Ye Shiyu questioned her Superpower after Leaf AI showed her dubious future projections, while Yan Huan returned home to find An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya waiting for him.

• Yan Huan confronted Ye Shiyu about sneaking into his bed, then threatened to leave; Ye Shiyu’s affection reading rose after she realized his body had reacted to her.
• Yan Huan asked Ye Shiyu to stop transferring people, sneaking into his bed, and mistreating his female friends, and she agreed to change her behavior.
• Ye Shiyu discovered that her Superpower had assigned her a task to hypnotize her mother, then dismissed Leaf AI’s future projections as lies after seeing images of Yan Huan with Hitomi Sakuramiya and Bai Yi.
• Yan Huan left Jinghe District and returned to his South District apartment, where Leaf AI crashed when he opened it.
• Yan Huan found An Le waiting angrily with Hitomi Sakuramiya, realized they knew his hypnotic suggestion had been lifted, and hesitated as An Le invited him inside.

Yan Huan considered moving to a larger home while An Le admitted she needed time to accept leaving their apartment. Tong Yingying returned to Linmen with her mother and saw a report linking Bai Yi to Yan Huan, while Ye Shiyu found evidence that Leaf AI’s predictions might be accurate and decided to visit Yan Huan.

• Yan Huan browsed homes and realized he wanted a larger place, but An Le confessed she was unhappy about moving and asked him to keep their apartment as a place she could return to.
• Nara warned Yan Huan that someone was coming back, and Tong Yingying arrived in Linmen with her mother, who wanted to meet the boyfriend Tong Yingying had claimed to be dating for years.
• Tong Yingying’s mother showed her a newspaper report about Bai Yi and her handsome boyfriend, prompting Tong Yingying to suspect Yan Huan had become involved with another woman while she was away.
• Ye Shiyu saw that a photo Leaf AI had sent days earlier matched a newly published picture of Bai Yi and Yan Huan, making her fear that Leaf AI’s other image of Yan Huan with two women might also be real.
• Ye Shiyu rejected Leaf AI’s offer to predict the future and told her mother she would go to the South District to meet Xiao Huan that night.

Yan Huan returned to the apartment to find An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya tense over his attention and the danger posed by Ye Shiyu’s Leaf AI hypnosis. An Le invited Hitomi Sakuramiya to stay the night, and the chapter ended with An Le sneaking toward Yan Huan while Hitomi Sakuramiya pretended to sleep, rolled off the bed, and landed beside him.

• Yan Huan came home and tried to defuse An Le’s anger while Hitomi Sakuramiya explained how Leaf AI’s popularity and Ye Shiyu’s remote hypnosis made the app dangerous.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya shared that Ye International’s goal in Linmen was not expansion, leaving Yan Huan uncertain about Ye Shiyu’s motives.
• An Le invited Hitomi Sakuramiya to stay over, and the two women shared the bed while Yan Huan slept on the floor.
• After the lights went out, An Le climbed beside Yan Huan and said Hitomi Sakuramiya was asleep, while Hitomi Sakuramiya silently tried to stop them by repeatedly turning over.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya finally rolled off the bed and landed beside Yan Huan, leaving him and An Le staring at her in silence.

Hitomi Sakuramiya and An Le argued over whether Yan Huan should move, while Tong Yingying brought them a newspaper report about Bai Yi. When Ye Shiyu arrived at the apartment and discovered the three women living with Yan Huan, the room went silent as Yan Huan received a mysterious prompt about using the Universal Key to duplicate a key.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya challenged An Le's reasons for opposing Yan Huan's move, and the two clashed over who had control of the apartment.
• Tong Yingying arrived and showed An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya a newspaper report claiming Bai Yi had privately pledged herself in marriage.
• An Le warned that Ye Shiyu might see the report, and Ye Shiyu arrived at the apartment moments later.
• An Le opened the door for someone she thought was Yan Huan, but Ye Shiyu stood there and saw the women and signs of their shared home.
• Tong Yingying reached for a stun baton, Hitomi Sakuramiya pressed a hand to the floor, and the apartment fell silent.
• Yan Huan left the supermarket with groceries and received a prompt offering to use the Universal Key to duplicate a key.

Hitomi Sakuramiya agreed to give up her superpower to deal with the Modifier, but feared losing Yan Huan to the other hosts; An Le maneuvered her into accepting their shared relationship, and Yan Huan woke between them. Days later, Bai Yi performed her new original song on a livestream, where a viewer recognized its melody.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya and An Le discussed giving up their abilities, and Hitomi Sakuramiya worried that Yan Huan might not choose her after the Modifier was dealt with.
• An Le staged a flirtatious encounter to make Hitomi Sakuramiya reconsider insisting that Yan Huan cut ties with the other women, and Yan Huan revived Hitomi Sakuramiya with a kiss when she nearly fainted.
• Yan Huan woke with Hitomi Sakuramiya and An Le asleep beside him, while Meow-chan had fled the room.
• At Golden Lion Entertainment, Bai Yi performed her self-written song "He" on the second episode of "Girl Group Face-Off" as Zuo Jiangqin watched the livestream comments.
• A viewer posted that Bai Yi's melody sounded familiar.

Ye Shiyu confronted An Le, Hitomi Sakuramiya, and Tong Yingying over their relationships with Yan Huan, then revealed a bleak possible future and tried to take him away. After Tong Yingying and Hitomi Sakuramiya sealed themselves inside a Barrier, Ye Shiyu found Yan Huan’s phone and used it to mislead Hitomi Sakuramiya while heading toward his villa.

• Ye Shiyu arrived at Yan Huan’s house, learned that the women had been intimate with him, and used Hypnosis on An Le when she tried to attack.
• Ye Shiyu told An Le that Future Sight showed Yan Huan would marry Hitomi Sakuramiya while An Le and Ye Shiyu might become his lovers or family, leaving the women shaken.
• Ye Shiyu declared that she would take Yan Huan away, but Tong Yingying attacked her with a Stun Baton and initially knocked her down.
• Ye Shiyu hypnotized herself into resisting electric shocks, overpowered Tong Yingying’s attack, and unleashed a growing aura across Linmen.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya activated a Barrier around the apartment, trapping herself, An Le, and Tong Yingying inside as they worried about the futures Ye Shiyu had described.
• Ye Shiyu found Yan Huan’s dropped phone, saw his villa listing and its basement, then messaged Hitomi Sakuramiya that she would hide somewhere safe.

Bai Yi’s song went viral, and Zuo Jiangqin revealed that Lemon planned to help her after Yan Huan’s intervention, prompting Bai Yi to imagine that Yan Huan still cared for her. Later, a video accused Bai Yi of plagiarizing an online singer, and she realized Zuo Jiangqin had shared her sheet music before storming into the mahjong room to confront her mother.

• Bai Yi saw her song trending after her variety show performance, while Zuo Jiangqin urged her to seek bigger opportunities.
• Yan Huan met Bai Yi and Zuo Jiangqin in the elevator, where Zuo Jiangqin thanked him for persuading Lemon to support Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi suspected Yan Huan had protected her career for her sake, but Yan Huan praised her songwriting and left without pursuing her.
• Yan Huan noticed suspicious comments about Bai Yi’s performance, watched a related video, and hurried back into Golden Lion Building to find Lemon.
• Bai Yi watched a video accusing her of borrowing an online singer’s song and realized Zuo Jiangqin had shown Lemon her sheet music.
• Bai Yi found Zuo Jiangqin playing mahjong and smashed the table with her guitar while confronting her.

Yan Huan woke bound and blindfolded in Ye Shiyu’s basement, where she revealed she had captured An Le and Hitomi and demanded he stay with her. After a Defeat CG showed the consequences of provoking her, Yan Huan rejected her demand, confronted her with the truth, and grabbed her while preparing to use Sparkling Fireworks; when he removed the blindfold, Ye Shiyu only wept, and the imagined defeat scene shattered.

• Yan Huan woke in Ye Shiyu’s basement and learned she had taken him from his apartment and captured An Le and Hitomi.
• Ye Shiyu accused Yan Huan of knowing about her Hypnosis and offered to release the others if he agreed to stay with her and stop seeing other girls.
• A Defeat CG warned that insulting Ye Shiyu could lead to her taking over Yan Huan’s mind and turning him into a nameless pet, but Yan Huan chose to fight rather than endure her demand.
• Meow-chan freed Yan Huan’s hands, and he seized Ye Shiyu and planted Sparkling Fireworks while admitting he had always feared her and had only pretended to care for her.
• Yan Huan expected Ye Shiyu to hypnotize him when his blindfold came off, but he saw her crying instead; he released her, and the imagined Defeat CG shattered.

Bai Yi left home after a violent fight with Zuo Jiangqin, while Yan Huan confronted Lemon over the alleged theft of Bai Yi’s song and forced her to agree to confess. The chapter ended with Bai Yi confronting the plagiarism accuser on a livestream, defending her song through an angry, personal outburst.

• Bai Yi packed her belongings and left the villa after Zuo Jiangqin accused her of ingratitude, and Jiang Xiong gave her the ID she had forgotten.
• Lemon spoke with Kubo Tetsuyuki about returning to Sakura Nation, then was frightened by Yan Huan, who confronted her over Bai Yi’s song.
• Yan Huan played a recording of Lemon’s private call and made her choose between confessing at the signing and having the recording released; Lemon agreed to confess.
• Ye Shiyu watched Yan Huan leave and removed the hypnosis on Kubo Tetsuyuki, while Yan Huan waited for Lemon’s signing to begin.
• Bai Yi joined the plagiarism accuser’s livestream under the username Scumbag Yan and challenged her by describing her own painful experiences.

Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu each experienced a Defeat CG that showed the consequences of their choices, leaving them separated by a locked door and convinced they could not let the other go. Ye Shiyu began using Leaf AI to view the future as Yan Huan decided to stay put and wait for her.

• Yan Huan confronted Ye Shiyu, who released him, but a Defeat CG showed her being arrested and dying by suicide after he left; he realized the scene differed from what he had seen before.
• Ye Shiyu locked the door again, and Yan Huan questioned whether the Defeat CGs showed reliable futures while considering whether An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya were safe.
• A new Defeat CG showed Ye Shiyu returning with supplies, hypnotizing An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya into forgetting Yan Huan, and chaining him up so he would remain with her.
• Yan Huan chose to stay in the basement and sent Meow-chan to check the first floor, where it found Ye Shiyu sitting and crying on the other side of the door.
• Ye Shiyu activated Leaf AI's future projection, and she and Yan Huan separately concluded that she could not let him leave and he could not leave.

Bai Yi went to confront Lemon at her signing event, where Lemon admitted she had framed Bai Yi for plagiarism. After Bai Yi’s Modifier failed and the crowd turned against her, Yan Huan protected her and revealed a recording that exposed Lemon, who fainted.

• Bai Yi confronted Lemon during her signing event, and Lemon publicly confessed that she had arranged for stolen sheet music to be used against Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi’s Modifier broke as she imagined reconciling with Yan Huan, making her visible while she insulted Lemon and her fans.
• Lemon’s fans surrounded Bai Yi, but Yan Huan intervened and fought them back when they tried to attack her.
• Yan Huan showed the crowd a video of Lemon admitting her scheme, despite having promised not to release it if she confessed publicly.
• Lemon saw Bai Yi gloating behind Yan Huan and fainted.

After Ye Shiyu abducted Yan Huan, his friends split up to seek help while Aria headed to the dormitory to find him. The chapter ends with Yan Huan persuading Ye Shiyu to let him leave the basement, as long as he stays where she can see him.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, Spencer, and Tong Yingying discussed rescuing Yan Huan and agreed to seek help from Ye Lan and Bai Yi, while Aria went to Ye International alone.
• Aria used a mysteriously summoned employee card to enter the dormitory, where a worker's Leaf AI appeared to watch her through the phone.
• Ye Lan spoke with Hitomi Sakuramiya and agreed to check on Ye Shiyu the next day, while An Le received a message from her father asking why she was away from home.
• Bai Yi met Ning Xue, who offered to help her rent a quiet villa in Beihai District, and they encountered An Le's Mother at the postpartum care center.
• Ye Shiyu returned to the villa with supplies, and Yan Huan asked to leave the basement; after he challenged her to hypnotize him to keep him there, she agreed to let him upstairs if he stayed where she could see him.