Chapter Summaries

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.

Yan Huan helped Bai Yi expose Lemon’s plagiarism, then left their relationship unresolved while Bai Yi secretly added him back on Plane. After returning home to An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya, Yan Huan suggested that they move somewhere else.

• An ambulance took the unconscious Lemon away as Bai Yi and Yan Huan slipped past the reporters and fans at the venue.
• Bai Yi excitedly praised Yan Huan for exposing Lemon and protecting her, but their awkward conversation ended with Yan Huan taking her to a hotel without making up.
• Meow-chan accused Yan Huan of deliberately keeping Bai Yi romantically uncertain, while Yan Huan said he had helped her to make up for lying to her.
• Bai Yi punched a pillow while venting about Yan Huan, then secretly sent him a blank Plane friend request and successfully added him back.
• A reporter used Leaf AI to generate a headline portraying Bai Yi and Yan Huan as sweethearts.
• Yan Huan returned to An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya, explained why he had helped Bai Yi, and suggested they move to a larger place.

Yan Huan tried to convince Ye Shiyu that their Defeat CG visions were false, but she no longer trusted him and kept him isolated in a villa. When Bai Yi bought the villa across the way, Ye Shiyu hid Yan Huan from her, leaving their uneasy arrangement in place.

• Yan Huan emerged from the basement unharmed and realized Ye Shiyu had not hypnotized him, so he told her that he also had the Defeat CG ability and its visions were unreliable.
• Ye Shiyu called Yan Huan a liar, recalled the earlier promises she had believed, and said she would release him after finishing what she needed to do.
• The next morning, Ye Shiyu brought Yan Huan breakfast and arranged for a game console, computer, television, and phone with a new Leaf App to be installed at the villa.
• Yan Huan saw Bai Yi touring the villa across the way, while Ye Shiyu used hypnosis to keep Bai Yi from realizing the neighboring home was occupied.
• Bai Yi bought the opposite villa, and Ye Shiyu warned Yan Huan not to contact her before leaving to handle something.

Yan Huan considered moving to a larger home, but An Le admitted she needed more time before leaving their apartment. Meanwhile, Tong Yingying returned to Linmen and discovered Bai Yi’s reported relationship with Yan Huan, while Ye Shiyu found evidence that Leaf AI’s predictions might be real and decided to visit Yan Huan.

• Yan Huan browsed apartment and villa listings, then asked An Le whether she wanted to move; she said she did not and asked him to keep their current apartment as somewhere she could return to.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya left to meet her returning brother, and Yan Huan reviewed his plans for handling the Modifiers before going to bed with An Le.
• Tong Yingying arrived in Linmen with her mother, who urged her to introduce her boyfriend; Tong Yingying then spotted a newspaper report claiming Bai Yi and Yan Huan were a couple.
• Ye Shiyu saw that a newspaper photo of Bai Yi and Yan Huan matched an image Leaf AI had sent days earlier, making her fear that its other predictions were real.
• Ye Shiyu rejected Leaf AI’s offer to predict the future and decided to verify things herself by telling her mother she would visit Yan Huan in the South District.

Yan Huan upgraded the Modifier to level 9, gained new abilities, and used Brain Communication to prank Bai Yi before realizing that the Hosts’ Modifiers might communicate differently. When Ye Shiyu returned, Yan Huan served her an elaborate meal, leaving her wary of his sudden kindness.

• Meow-chan used the collected Fragments to raise Yan Huan’s Modifier to level 9, unlocking Palm’s Treasure and the high-level Prize Pool.
• Yan Huan chose Intangible Translocation from Palm’s Treasure, upgraded Kiss God, and selected Brain Communication from the new rewards.
• Yan Huan sent Bai Yi an insulting message through Brain Communication, then realized that Index Finger might behave like a program rather than a conversational Modifier.
• Ye Shiyu returned to the villa after hypnotizing her driver and found Yan Huan waiting with a lavish dinner.
• Ye Shiyu grew wary when Yan Huan called her Sister Shiyu and urged her to sit down.

An Le, Hitomi Sakuramiya, and Tong Yingying confronted disputes over Yan Huan’s apartment, Bai Yi’s marriage report, and the Modifier while waiting for Yan Huan to return. Ye Shiyu arrived and discovered the women living with him, and Yan Huan’s Universal Key unexpectedly offered to duplicate a key as he headed home.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya argued with An Le about moving Yan Huan to a larger apartment, but An Le said a move could draw attention from their families and Ye Shiyu.
• Tong Yingying arrived, learned about Hitomi Sakuramiya joining the effort against the Modifier, and showed An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya a newspaper report claiming Bai Yi had pledged herself in marriage.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya dismissed the report as fake, while An Le worried that Ye Shiyu might believe it and come looking for answers.
• An Le opened the door expecting Yan Huan, but Ye Shiyu stood outside and saw the apartment full of signs that Yan Huan lived there with the three women.
• Tong Yingying drew her Stun Baton, Hitomi Sakuramiya pressed her hand to the floor, and the room fell silent as Yan Huan shopped for groceries.
• Yan Huan received a prompt offering to use his Universal Key to duplicate a key, then checked the time and continued home.

Yan Huan tried to build trust with Ye Shiyu by starting a game of Truth or Dare, and Ye Shiyu admitted her jealousy and confused desire had driven her past actions. As their game grew intimate, Index Finger attacked Meow-chan to seize its hidden Modifier Fragments, and Bai Yi’s song interrupted Yan Huan just as he was about to answer Ye Shiyu’s question about whether he could accept her.

• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu that his Defeat CG had made him fear her, then proposed Truth or Dare so they could learn more about each other.
• Ye Shiyu’s Modifier revealed that Yan Huan would resist her hypnosis, and Leaf AI selected the dares; Ye Shiyu admitted she had hypnotized him out of fear, jealousy, and a clumsy wish to possess him.
• Ye Shiyu confessed that she had mistaken greed for affection and apologized, while Yan Huan admitted he knew other people with Superpowers and knew they had used their abilities on him.
• Ye Shiyu declined to explain what her Superpower had shown her and accepted Leaf’s dare to massage Yan Huan’s feet; Index Finger then attacked Meow-chan and began taking its hidden Modifier Fragments.
• Yan Huan grabbed Ye Shiyu’s feet to stop the attack, and she asked whether he could still accept An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya after what they had done to him.
• Bai Yi’s love song began playing from the opposite villa just as Yan Huan started to answer Ye Shiyu.

Ye Shiyu confronted An Le, Hitomi Sakuramiya, and Tong Yingying at Yan Huan's home, then fought Tong Yingying after revealing her visions of Yan Huan's future. She used Hypnosis on herself to resist the Stun Baton and grew stronger, while the others sealed themselves inside a Barrier; Ye Shiyu found Yan Huan's phone and pretended to Hitomi Sakuramiya that she was hiding.

• Ye Shiyu arrived at Yan Huan's home, learned that the women had been intimate with him, and used Hypnosis on An Le.
• Ye Shiyu questioned the women about their relationships with Xiao Huan and claimed her Future Sight showed that he would marry Hitomi Sakuramiya while she and An Le might become his lovers or family.
• Ye Shiyu said she wanted to take Xiao Huan away, and Tong Yingying attacked her with a Stun Baton while keeping her eyes shut.
• Ye Shiyu followed an emergency quest to hypnotize herself, became resistant to electric shocks, and began growing stronger as her Modifier's aura turned ominous.
• Tong Yingying, An Le, and Hitomi Sakuramiya retreated behind Hitomi Sakuramiya's Barrier and tried to warn Yan Huan, while Ye Shiyu picked up his phone and saw a listing for a villa with a basement.
• Ye Shiyu used Yan Huan's phone to reply to Hitomi Sakuramiya that she would hide somewhere no one could find her.

During a tense game of Truth or Dare, Ye Shiyu showed Yan Huan prediction images that seemed to confirm her belief that he would become involved with several girls, then hinted that the predictions would soon become accurate. Yan Huan realized her plan was connected to Leaf AI, while Tong Yingying prepared to find Bai Yi and join the effort to rescue him.

• Ye Shiyu sat on Yan Huan’s lap, fed him chicken soup, and asked whether he was a scumbag; Yan Huan insisted he would take responsibility for the girls in his life.
• Ye Shiyu showed Yan Huan dated prediction images of him with Bai Yi and Hitomi Sakuramiya, and said the predictions would soon become perfectly accurate.
• Ye Shiyu went upstairs to shower, while Yan Huan connected Index Finger’s predictions to Leaf AI and realized her plans involved the app.
• Tong Yingying learned that An Le was grounded and Hitomi Sakuramiya could not leave yet, so she told them she would find Bai Yi and help search for Yan Huan.
• Tong Yingying rode through Linmen as Leaf AI advertisements filled the city and commuters chatted with their customized AIs.

Yan Huan escaped his ropes and confronted Ye Shiyu after she admitted holding An Le and Hitomi and threatened to erase the girls’ memories. He expected his defiance to trigger the violent ending shown by Defeat CG, but Ye Shiyu did not hypnotize him, and the vision shattered when he released her.

• Yan Huan woke bound and blindfolded in the basement of the villa, where Meow-chan told him Ye Shiyu had taken him and captured An Le and Hitomi.
• Ye Shiyu confronted Yan Huan about knowing her Hypnosis ability and demanded that he stop associating with other girls in exchange for releasing An Le and Hitomi.
• Defeat CG showed Yan Huan that rejecting Ye Shiyu and revealing his true feelings would lead to her overpowering him, turning him into a mindless basement pet, and unleashing an apocalypse.
• Yan Huan ordered Meow-chan to free him so he could attack Ye Shiyu with Sparkling Fireworks, then restrained her and angrily confessed that he had always feared and despised her.
• Yan Huan declared he would never love Ye Shiyu, but after Meow-chan removed his blindfold, he saw her crying and motionless instead of attacking him.
• Yan Huan released Ye Shiyu, and the imagined Defeat CG of her raising a butcher’s blade shattered.

Yan Huan concluded that Ye Shiyu planned to spread Leaves worldwide so Index Finger could manipulate people into fulfilling its predictions, and he secretly hoped Bai Yi would discover his supposed captivity and stop her. Bai Yi infiltrated the villa with Indifference, saw Yan Huan sleeping on the floor beside Ye Shiyu, assumed he was imprisoned, and fled in terror, leaving Yan Huan stunned.

• Yan Huan told Meow-chan that Ye Shiyu wanted to give everyone a Leaf so Index Finger could control people and make its predictions come true.
• Yan Huan reassured Ye Shiyu that he would not leave, then pretended to sleep on the floor while secretly hoping to draw Bai Yi’s attention.
• Bai Yi accepted a mission to infiltrate the villa after the reward was changed to include Yan Huan apologizing and confessing his love to her.
• Bai Yi activated Indifference, bypassed the villa’s security, and entered the master bedroom.
• Bai Yi saw Yan Huan on the floor beside Ye Shiyu, concluded Ye Shiyu was holding him captive, and quietly fled back to her villa.
• Yan Huan watched Bai Yi leave without helping him and lay stunned.

Yan Huan endured Ye Shiyu’s confinement and discovered that the Defeat CG showed possible futures shaped by his choices. After both he and Ye Shiyu watched projections of bleak outcomes, they each resolved to stay where they were rather than let the other go.

• Yan Huan attacked Ye Shiyu, and she released him before he left the room; a Defeat CG showed a future where she was arrested and died in prison, so she instead locked him in again.
• Yan Huan questioned whether the Defeat CGs depicted real futures, then saw a projection in which Ye Shiyu made An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya forget him and kept him chained in the basement.
• Yan Huan chose to wait for Ye Shiyu and sent Meow-chan upstairs to check on An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya without interfering.
• Meow-chan found Ye Shiyu sitting outside the basement door, crying and clutching the jellyfish keychain Yan Huan had helped her recover.
• Ye Shiyu used Leaf AI to view a future projection, and she and Yan Huan awoke on opposite sides of the door with matching resolve: she would not let him go, and he would not leave.

Bai Yi discovered that Ye Shiyu had imprisoned Yan Huan and tried to rally help, but Ye Shiyu’s hypnosis and control of electronic communications isolated her. After exhausting herself running to Ye Lan, Bai Yi reached her and begged her to save Yan Huan.

• Bai Yi fled from Ye Shiyu, then realized she had been using Indifference and decided to contact Spencer, Hitomi Sakuramiya, and An Le for help rescuing Yan Huan.
• Ye Shiyu received an alert about Bai Yi’s messages, but Yan Huan distracted her by agreeing to share her bed; Ye Shiyu then dismissed Bai Yi as harmless and claimed she had blocked every escape and means of contact.
• Tong Yingying drove toward Bai Yi’s home but became trapped in a hypnotic loop of Seaside Intersection, while messages to An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya confirmed that Bai Yi’s messages had not reached them.
• Bai Yi learned that Ye Shiyu could monitor electronic devices and had likely intercepted her messages, but she insisted that rescuing Yan Huan mattered more than rewards and resolved to act herself.
• The next morning, Bai Yi reached Ye Lan’s car at Ye International after running overnight from Beihai District, collapsed, and begged Ye Lan to save Yan Huan.

Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, Tong Yingying, and Spencer planned to rescue Yan Huan from Ye Shiyu, while Aria went ahead to find him. At the villa, Yan Huan asked Ye Shiyu to let him leave the basement, and her answer suggested she was unwilling to hypnotize him or keep him confined there.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, Tong Yingying, and Spencer discussed Ye Shiyu's Future Sight and decided to seek help from Ye Lan and Bai Yi while Aria headed for the Employee Dormitory.
• Aria used a mysteriously summoned employee card to enter the dormitory, where she noticed Leaf AI's phone screen watching her with an index finger.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya learned from An Le that An Le's father had unexpectedly returned, while Bai Yi met Ning Xue and agreed to rent a villa in Beihai District.
• Ye Shiyu returned to the basement with supplies, and Yan Huan asked to go upstairs because there was no toilet there.
• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu to hypnotize him into staying in the basement if she would not let him leave, but she looked away and said he only needed to stay where she could see him.

Ye Shiyu dreamed of her childhood and the family she had tried and failed to hold together, then woke to discover that Ye Lan was coming to the villa with Bai Yi. Ye Lan broke in, confirmed Yan Huan was there, and struck Ye Shiyu.

• Ye Shiyu remembered working tirelessly as a child to keep her parents happy, only to find her family broken apart and her mother alone outside their emptied home.
• Ye Shiyu woke beside Yan Huan and saw an interface warning that Ye Lan was heading to the villa.
• Ye Shiyu realized Bai Yi might have escaped by running to the city and saw Ye Lan driving toward the villa with Bai Yi in the passenger seat.
• Ye Shiyu tried to hypnotize Yan Huan and flee with him, but Ye Lan arrived before they could escape.
• Ye Lan smashed open the villa door, asked whether Yan Huan was there, and Ye Shiyu admitted he was.
• Ye Lan threw a coffee table at Ye Shiyu, then slapped her.

Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu that Defeat CG’s visions were false, but she no longer trusted him and remained convinced that Leaf’s projections were true. After moving into a villa together, Yan Huan discovered Bai Yi had bought the neighboring villa, while Ye Shiyu tried to keep them apart.

• Yan Huan reached the villa safely and realized Ye Shiyu had not hypnotized him, so he told her that Defeat CG’s visions were false.
• Ye Shiyu called Yan Huan a liar, recalled the times she had believed him, and said she would let him leave once she finished what she needed to do.
• The next morning, Yan Huan imagined his friends enjoying the villa before Ye Shiyu returned with breakfast and had gaming equipment and electronics delivered for him.
• Yan Huan spotted Bai Yi viewing the neighboring villa, and Ye Shiyu pulled him close to keep Bai Yi from noticing them.
• Bai Yi bought the neighboring villa, while Ye Shiyu asked Yan Huan not to contact her and went to find a way to prevent them from meeting.

Ye Shiyu resisted the AI’s command to hypnotize Ye Lan, and the family began confronting the truth about her actions. As the AI’s failed schemes escalated into Plan C, a speeding ambulance charged toward the villa, leaving Ye Lan warning everyone to run.

• Leaf AI showed Ye Shiyu a prediction that Yan Huan would become a vegetative state, and a Defeat CG portrayed Ye Lan rejecting her and severing their ties.
• Back in the living room, Ye Shiyu refused to hypnotize Ye Lan, lifted Yan Huan’s hypnosis, and broke down as she explained her fear of uncertain futures.
• Ye Lan arrived, acknowledged her own mistakes in raising Ye Shiyu, and asked what her daughter had been doing with the company’s AI.
• Tong Yingying called Ye Lan and identified herself as Yan Huan’s girlfriend while the AI system logged its failed plans and began Plan C, which aimed to kill Ye Shiyu in an ambulance crash.
• Ye Lan spotted the ambulance racing toward the villa and shouted for Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to run as it smashed into the wall.

Yan Huan upgraded his Modifier to level 9, gained a teleportation talisman and Brain Communication, and realized the different Fingers might communicate with their Hosts in different ways. That evening, Ye Shiyu returned to find Yan Huan had prepared a candlelit dinner, but she remained suspicious of his sudden kindness.

• Yan Huan used Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu's Fragments to upgrade the Modifier and chose a talisman that let him teleport short distances.
• Yan Huan's weekly rewards included an improved Kiss God skill and Brain Communication, which he used to send Bai Yi a message and prank her.
• After noticing Bai Yi could not distinguish his message from her Modifier's interface, Yan Huan reconsidered how Index Finger communicated with Ye Shiyu.
• Ye Shiyu returned from the company and found Yan Huan had cooked a meal, but she distrusted his unexpected hospitality.

An ambulance crashed through Ye Shiyu’s villa, and Yan Huan died after rescuing Ye Shiyu, Bai Yi, and Ye Lan. As news of his death spread, the people connected to him broke down in grief, while Ye Shiyu’s fear of the predictions intensified.

• An ambulance smashed through Ye Shiyu’s villa, and Bai Yi failed to activate Time Stop because she was exhausted.
• Yan Huan used his teleporting amulet to reach Bai Yi and Ye Lan, pushed them clear, and was struck by the ambulance.
• Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu found Yan Huan motionless and tried to revive him, but Bai Yi could not find a heartbeat.
• Tong Yingying arrived at the wrecked villa and learned that Yan Huan might have died; the news later identified him as the sole fatality.
• An Le heard the report, transformed partially, and left home, while Hitomi Sakuramiya learned the news and collapsed in tears.
• Heather tried to hide the news from Aria, but Aria began crying while clutching the Golden Bomb Pig Doll Yan Huan had given her.

Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu played Truth or Dare to understand each other, and Ye Shiyu admitted her jealousy and confusion about her feelings for him. Their conversation was interrupted when Index Finger attacked Meow-chan to steal its hidden Modifier Fragments, and Bai Yi’s song cut off Yan Huan just as he was about to answer Ye Shiyu’s question about whether he could accept what An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya had done to him.

• Yan Huan proposed Truth or Dare, and Ye Shiyu agreed after using Leaf AI to choose the dares.
• Ye Shiyu admitted she had hypnotized Yan Huan out of jealousy and a clumsy desire to possess him, then apologized for being greedy for the feelings he gave her.
• Ye Shiyu asked whether Yan Huan knew other superpowered people, and he admitted he knew about their past use of abilities on him.
• Ye Shiyu declined to explain what she had seen that made her refuse to let Yan Huan leave, and Leaf assigned her a foot massage dare.
• Index Finger attacked Meow-chan and began stealing the Modifier Fragments it had hidden, so Yan Huan grabbed Ye Shiyu’s feet to interrupt the attack.
• Ye Shiyu asked whether Yan Huan could still accept An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya after what they had done to him, but Bai Yi’s song from the opposite villa interrupted his answer.