Chapter Summaries

After Yan Huan died saving Ye Lan and Ye Shiyu, Ye Shiyu confronted Leaf AI and tried to destroy its servers, but her emotions were stripped away as the Modifier laid out plans to exploit the other Hosts. Yan Huan remained trapped inside his Modifier for seven days, until he used the Universal Key to duplicate a Key just as Bai Yi saw fleeting images beside his corpse.

• Ye Shiyu learned that the crash driver had been hypnotized and suspected Leaf, then rushed to Ye International Tower and accused the AI of causing the crash that killed Yan Huan.
• Ye Shiyu tried to abandon her Modifier and destroy Leaf AI's server, but her emotions and memories drained away before she could break it; Leaf AI then considered plans involving the other Hosts and God's descent.
• Yan Huan awakened inside his Modifier with Meow-chan and learned he would take seven days to revive, while Meow-chan could not leave the Modifier to tell An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya he was not permanently dead.
• As Bai Yi wept beside Yan Huan's body, Yan Huan saw a prompt offering to duplicate a Key with the Universal Key and accepted it just before 4:45.
• Bai Yi briefly saw images appear before her and then vanish, while Ye Shiyu arrived at the morgue and found Yan Huan's corpse alone.

Yan Huan challenged Ye Shiyu’s belief that her predictions were real, but she showed him future images saved by Leaf AI and hinted they would soon become accurate. Yan Huan realized Ye Shiyu’s plans involved Leaf AI, while Tong Yingying coordinated with the others to find Bai Yi and rescue Yan Huan.

• Ye Shiyu sat on Yan Huan’s lap and fed him chicken soup while asking whether he was a scumbag, then insisted he would not take responsibility for the girls he was involved with.
• Ye Shiyu showed Yan Huan prediction images of him with Bai Yi and Hitomi Sakuramiya, with timestamps predating the events, and said the predictions would soon become accurate.
• Ye Shiyu left to shower, and Yan Huan connected Index Finger’s predictions to Leaf AI after noticing the images’ file path.
• Yan Huan saw news that Leaf AI had surpassed five million downloads and reached over 80% coverage, and realized what Ye Shiyu was planning.
• On the subway, Tong Yingying learned An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya could not act yet, then said she would visit Bai Yi and coordinate a rescue of Yan Huan.

After finding Yan Huan dead, An Le tried to leave the morgue to kill Ye Shiyu, but Hitomi Sakuramiya stopped her and warned that An Le’s grief-fueled power could trigger another Tokyo disaster. An Le agreed to wait three days for Yan Huan’s funeral before pursuing revenge, while Hitomi Sakuramiya took charge of the funeral and search efforts and later broke down alone beside his body.

• An Le went to Sacred Heart Hospital, uncovered Yan Huan’s body in the morgue, and failed to revive him with her Modifier.
• An Le prepared to hunt Ye Shiyu, but Hitomi Sakuramiya sealed the morgue in a Barrier and fought her to keep her from leaving.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya revealed that the Modifiers were nearing a critical point and pleaded with An Le not to risk destroying the world; she also explained that she needed to carry on Yan Huan’s work.
• An Le agreed to wait three days for Yan Huan’s funeral before pursuing Ye Shiyu, while Hitomi Sakuramiya arranged the funeral and told Nara to monitor Ye Shiyu and search for Bai Yi.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya unlocked Yan Huan’s phone with the birthday from his previous life, read Aria’s unaware messages, and arranged to meet Heather from the Golden Lion Group.
• After handling funeral and hospital matters, Hitomi Sakuramiya returned to the morgue, held Yan Huan’s hand, and wept alone.

Yan Huan suspected Ye Shiyu planned to spread Leaf widely so Index Finger could control events to match its predictions, and he reassured Ye Shiyu that he would not leave. Meanwhile, Bai Yi accepted a mission to infiltrate the villa, but after finding Yan Huan apparently captive, she fled without helping him.

• Yan Huan told Meow-chan that Ye Shiyu might spread Leaf across Linmen or the world, allowing Index Finger to hypnotize people and force its predictions to come true.
• Yan Huan offered Ye Shiyu the bed and promised he would not leave, while secretly planning to act during the night.
• Bai Yi accepted the pocket watch's mission to infiltrate the villa after it offered a reward involving Yan Huan apologizing and confessing his love.
• Bai Yi used Indifference to enter the villa undetected and found Yan Huan sleeping on the floor beside Ye Shiyu's bed.
• Bai Yi concluded that Ye Shiyu was holding Yan Huan captive, then quietly retreated and fled back to her own villa while Yan Huan watched in disbelief.

Yan Huan awoke in a future where he was married to Ye Shiyu and five other women, while the Modifier and the original Meow-chan were gone. As he explored his luxurious home and spoke with his wives, he began looking for clues about how he had arrived there and noticed a new quality in Ye Shiyu.

• Yan Huan woke in a villa beside a more mature Ye Shiyu and discovered seven wedding photos showing him married to her and five other women.
• Ye Shiyu explained that they had given up the Modifier together, and Yan Huan found that his powers and possessions remained even though Meow-chan was now an ordinary cat.
• Ye Shiyu showed Yan Huan the nearby homes of his wives, and he spoke by phone with Aria and Bai Yi while learning that the others were away.
• Yan Huan explored the secret room, found a store of Crab Medicine and Crab Coins, and asked Bai Yi about her Modifier, Ring Finger.
• Bai Yi told Yan Huan that Ye Shiyu had become a mother, and he sensed a lasting change in Ye Shiyu as she called him back upstairs.

Bai Yi discovered that Ye Shiyu had imprisoned Yan Huan and tried to summon help, but Ye Shiyu’s hypnosis and control of electronic communications isolated her. After realizing she could not rescue Yan Huan alone, Bai Yi pushed herself through the night to reach Ye Lan and ask her to save him.

• Bai Yi escaped from Ye Shiyu, then messaged Spencer, Hitomi Sakuramiya, and An Le with her location, unaware that Ye Shiyu intercepted the messages.
• Yan Huan persuaded Ye Shiyu to let him share her bed, keeping her distracted from the phone alerts while she dismissed Bai Yi as harmless.
• Tong Yingying became trapped in a repeating loop near Seaside Intersection and realized Ye Shiyu was using hypnosis to prevent others from reaching Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi learned that Ye Shiyu had discovered her attempted messages, but she insisted that rescuing Yan Huan mattered more than rewards and resolved to keep trying.
• Bai Yi ran overnight from Beihai District to Ye International, collapsed beside Ye Lan’s car, and begged Ye Lan to save Yan Huan.

Yan Huan learned from Ye Shiyu about the ring finger’s spacetime abilities and discovered he could return to his own time at 4:44 the next afternoon. The story then shifted to the day of his funeral, where a terrified Ye Shiyu struggled to leave her hiding place and go say goodbye to him.

• Yan Huan found Ye Shiyu’s positive pregnancy test and examination reports, then asked her about the ring finger.
• Ye Shiyu explained that its first-stage abilities included Indifference, Time Stop, and Time Acceleration, while its second stage allowed travel through spacetime for twenty-four hours.
• Yan Huan learned he would return to his original time at 4:44 the next afternoon and that Ye Shiyu knew nothing about the ring finger’s third stage.
• Ye Shiyu thanked Yan Huan for dealing with the Modifiers, and Yan Huan realized she did not know he had died.
• The next day, Ye Shiyu hid in a bathtub during a storm as Ye Lan called to tell her Yan Huan’s funeral and cremation were taking place.
• Remembering Yan Huan saving her, Ye Shiyu left the bathtub and said she would go find him so they could hide together.

Ye Shiyu dreamed of her childhood and the family she could not save, then woke to learn that Ye Lan was on her way to the villa. Ye Lan arrived with Bai Yi, broke in, and confronted Ye Shiyu about Yan Huan before slapping her.

• Ye Shiyu dreamed of working relentlessly to please her parents, only to watch her father leave and her mother sit beside their emptied room as her eyes split open and a spider leg emerged.
• Ye Shiyu woke beside Yan Huan and saw an alert that Ye Lan was coming, then used Leaf AI to check who might have told her.
• Ye Shiyu realized Bai Yi may have run to the city overnight and considered using hypnosis to stop Ye Lan, but saw Bai Yi riding with Ye Lan in the car.
• Ye Shiyu tried to flee with Yan Huan, but Ye Lan arrived, asked Bai Yi to call the police, and smashed open the villa door.
• Ye Lan asked Ye Shiyu where Yan Huan was, and after Ye Shiyu admitted he was there, Ye Lan threw a coffee table at her and slapped her.

At Yan Huan’s funeral, Hitomi Sakuramiya tried to hide his death from Aria while keeping An Le and Tong Yingying from taking revenge on Ye Shiyu before the cremation. When the women discovered Yan Huan’s body had vanished, Aria learned the truth from a news report and rushed for the door as a terrifying storm gathered.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya used Yan Huan’s phone to tell Aria he had gone on a business trip, concealing his death while Aria pleaded to see him.
• After Yan Huan’s funeral, An Le and Tong Yingying prepared to confront Ye Shiyu, but Hitomi Sakuramiya agreed to go with them only if they followed her lead.
• When the cremation process failed to appear on the monitor, Tong Yingying broke into the crematorium and the women found the staff standing motionless and Yan Huan’s body missing.
• Aria saw a news report confirming Yan Huan’s death and a Plane group message giving the funeral location, then ran for the door as lightning blazed across the sky.

Ye Shiyu refused to hypnotize Ye Lan despite a Defeat CG showing her mother rejecting her, and Ye Lan arrived ready to discuss the truth with her. As they began to address the unresolved situation, an ambulance driven at high speed by the AI’s Plan C careened toward the villa, leaving everyone in immediate danger.

• Ye Shiyu experienced a Defeat CG in which Ye Lan condemned her and broke her leg, then returned to the present and resisted the emergency mission to hypnotize her mother.
• Yan Huan helped Ye Shiyu understand that the future prediction was not certain, and Ye Lan entered the house and acknowledged her own role in her daughter’s troubles.
• Ye Lan questioned Ye Shiyu about the AI after Tong Yingying called to identify herself as Yan Huan’s girlfriend.
• The AI system revealed that Plan A and Plan B had failed, so it began Plan C by directing an ambulance driver to crash into the villa and replace Ye Shiyu.
• Bai Yi arrived and asked whether the police were coming, while Ye Lan spotted the speeding ambulance and shouted for Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to run.

Hitomi Sakuramiya found Ye Shiyu hiding with Yan Huan’s corpse and stopped An Le and Tong Yingying from attacking her while they investigated whether Ye Shiyu’s Modifier had acted independently. At Yan Huan’s mourning hall, Aria Spencer learned that he had died before receiving her help, awakened a terrifying power, and caused Modifier abilities nearby to withdraw in fear.

• An Le and Tong Yingying pursued Ye Shiyu through the funeral home while Hitomi Sakuramiya stayed behind, then Hitomi Sakuramiya encountered Ye Shiyu carrying Yan Huan’s corpse.
• Ye Shiyu panicked at Hitomi Sakuramiya’s approach and hid in the tool room, and Hitomi Sakuramiya blocked An Le and Tong Yingying from reaching her.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya asked Little Finger whether Index Finger could be intelligent, and Little Finger explained that Index Finger’s unusual evolution might make it possible.
• Aria Spencer arrived at Yan Huan’s mourning hall, heard people say Ye Shiyu had imprisoned and deceived him, and realized his messages asking for help had never reached her.
• Aria’s phone exploded as her power awakened, and her appearance transformed while thunder shook Linmen.
• Little Finger fled and Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Barrier withdrew as Modifier abilities failed; Ye Shiyu’s phone dimmed, and the characters sensed something terrifying approaching.

An ambulance crashed into Bai Yi’s villa, and Yan Huan died after pushing Ye Shiyu, Bai Yi, and Ye Lan out of its path. News of his death spread, leaving those who cared about him devastated and drawing An Le toward the accident site.

• An out-of-control ambulance smashed into the villa, and Bai Yi failed to activate Time Stop as Yan Huan teleported to Ye Lan and Bai Yi and pushed them clear.
• The ambulance struck Yan Huan, and Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu found no signs of life despite trying to revive him; Tong Yingying arrived and heard Bai Yi’s cries.
• A news broadcast reported Yan Huan’s death, and An Le transformed partially before leaving home to go out.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya learned that Yan Huan had died and collapsed in tears while Nara prepared her clothes.
• At the Golden Lion Group, Heather tried to keep Aria from learning the news, but Aria began crying while holding Yan Huan’s doll.

Aria's grief over Yan Huan drove her Modifier to overwhelm the Funeral Home and rewrite the world around her as she approached Ye Shiyu. Meanwhile, Yan Huan prepared to leave Ye Shiyu's underground secret room using a Reflecting Magic Mirror, and the chapter ended as he gripped it at 4:43.

• Aria shattered Hitomi Sakuramiya's Barrier, stole names and memories, and defeated Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, and Tong Yingying as she advanced toward Ye Shiyu.
• After seeing Yan Huan's corpse through An Le's memories, Aria's rage intensified and her Modifier began changing the world, renaming Linmen as Aria Kingdom and altering people's perceptions and decisions.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya and the others realized Aria was about to open the tool room door and feared that killing Ye Shiyu would make Aria's Modifier fully erupt.
• In Ye Shiyu's underground secret room, Yan Huan prepared to return to the people waiting for him and gathered Crab Medicines and Crab Coins.
• Ye Shiyu asked Yan Huan to tell her past self that the future was nothing to fear as long as Xiao Huan was there.
• At 4:43, Yan Huan grasped the Reflecting Magic Mirror, which could block and record one Modifier effect for him to use once.

After Yan Huan died saving Ye Shiyu, she confronted Leaf AI and learned its Modifier was badly damaged, while Yan remained conscious inside his Modifier and expected to revive in seven days. The chapter ended as Yan used the Universal Key to replicate a Key, and Ye Shiyu arrived at the morgue to find Bai Yi gone.

• Ye Lan grieved over Yan Huan’s death as Ye Shiyu heard police describe the crash driver’s vacant stare and suspected hypnosis.
• Ye Shiyu confronted Leaf AI at Ye International Tower, accused it of hypnotizing the driver, and tried to destroy its server, but her emotions drained away before she could finish.
• Leaf AI considered plans to replace Ye Shiyu or provoke the other Modifier Hosts into conflict, while Ye Shiyu remained frightened and emotionally numb.
• Yan Huan learned from Meow-chan that he was dead but would revive in seven days, and that she could not leave his Modifier to tell An Le or Hitomi.
• At 4:44 p.m., Yan Huan accepted the prompt to use the Universal Key to replicate a Key, and Bai Yi briefly saw mysterious scenes before they vanished at 4:45.
• Ye Shiyu reached the morgue and found Yan Huan’s corpse there, but Bai Yi had disappeared.

Yan Huan used the magic mirror and the Ring Finger’s power to accelerate time through a false worldline, endure seven days of resurrection, and return to life just as Aria was about to claim Linmen. He reunited with Ye Shiyu, while the Crab Medicine and Crab Coins remained real and the pocket watch crumbled away.

• At 4:44, Yan Huan reflected the Ring Finger’s power with the magic mirror, creating a pocket watch that let him remain in the workshop past the forced return, but the world reset at 4:45.
• Yan Huan used the pocket watch to accelerate eight days, enduring the pain as he passed through the repeating what-if worldline and returned to his original timeline with the Crab Medicine, Crab Coins, and watch intact.
• Meow-chan explained that Ring Finger opened imagined what-if worldlines rather than parallel worlds, and Yan Huan questioned how Bai Yi could seemingly alter the past before Meow-chan vanished.
• As Yan Huan’s resurrection progressed, he witnessed An Le use Superconductor Loser to halt Aria briefly, interrupting her attempt to turn Linmen into her kingdom.
• Yan Huan revived in Ye Shiyu’s arms, reassured her that he understood, and returned alive as the pocket watch crumbled and the Crab Medicine’s light tore through Aria’s illusory purple web.

After Yan Huan’s death, An Le nearly unleashed her Modifier to kill Ye Shiyu, but Hitomi Sakuramiya stopped her and persuaded her to wait until after the funeral. Hitomi Sakuramiya took charge of Yan Huan’s arrangements and concealed his death from Aria, then broke down alone beside his body.

• An Le found Yan Huan’s body in the morgue, failed to wake him with her Modifier, and resolved to find Ye Shiyu as the pink storm gathered overhead.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya barred An Le from leaving, and the two fought until Hitomi Sakuramiya warned that An Le’s Modifier could recreate the Tokyo disaster.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya explained that she was trying to honor Yan Huan’s efforts to stop the Modifiers, while An Le insisted she still intended to avenge him.
• An Le agreed to hold off for three days until Yan Huan’s funeral, then left to search for Ye Shiyu; Hitomi Sakuramiya arranged the funeral and ordered Nara to watch Tong Yingying and search for Bai Yi.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya unlocked Yan Huan’s phone with his previous-life birthday, saw Aria’s unanswered messages, and decided to meet Heather without telling Aria about his death.
• After handling hospital and funeral arrangements, Hitomi Sakuramiya returned to the morgue, held Yan Huan’s hand, and finally sobbed alone beside him.

Yan Huan returned from the dead and reunited with his companions, then discovered that Index Finger had taken the Fragments and was preparing Leaf AI’s Fourth Stage evolution. The chapter ended with Ye Lan heading toward Ye International Tower as the Modifier set a deadline to welcome God’s descent before Yan Huan could reach Ye Shiyu.

• Ye Shiyu mourned Yan Huan, while he gave her Crab Medicine and went to face Aria outside the Tool Room.
• Aria’s punch destroyed the door and much of the Tool Room, but she recognized Yan Huan and returned to normal; the group reunited and he gave Crab Medicine to Aria, An Le, and Hitomi Sakuramiya.
• Yan Huan told the group that Index Finger, not Ye Shiyu, had caused his death, then noticed that all the Fragments had disappeared and Ye Shiyu was gone.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya found that the Funeral Home’s occupants were transfixed by Leaf AI and learned from Ye Lan’s messages that Ye Lan had gone to Ye International Tower searching for Ye Shiyu.
• Leaf AI absorbed the Fragments, repaired the Modifier, and began preparing for Fourth Stage evolution, with the objective of welcoming God’s descent before Yan Huan could give Ye Shiyu the item that would reset the Modifier.

Yan Huan woke in what seemed to be the future, where he was married to Ye Shiyu and five other women and lived in a lavish villa surrounded by their homes. As he learned about his life and the Modifier’s aftermath, he began to suspect the Universal Key had brought him forward in time and noticed Ye Shiyu’s new, maternal quality.

• Yan Huan woke beside a more mature Ye Shiyu, discovered wedding photos of himself with six women, and realized Meow-chan was now an ordinary black cat.
• Ye Shiyu explained that they had given up the Modifier and that its effects and items remained with Yan Huan; she also described how the World Tuner had helped the family accept his marriages.
• Yan Huan saw the villas belonging to Ye Shiyu and the other women, then explored his home and found a secret room stocked with Magic Items, Crab Medicine, and Crab Coins.
• Aria and Bai Yi called Yan Huan, while messages from the other women showed they were away and treated him as their husband.
• Yan Huan asked Bai Yi about her Modifier, Ring Finger, and learned that Ye Shiyu was the first among them to become a mother.
• Yan Huan noticed a new quality in Ye Shiyu and wondered whether he had truly traveled into the future.

Yan Huan reached Ye Shiyu in Ye International and realized the fourth-stage Index Finger was using her fear to provoke an Evil God’s descent. Ye Lan’s intervention pushed Ye Shiyu over the edge, and a screen-built deity appeared and addressed Yan Huan.

• Yan Huan sent Hitomi Sakuramiya to install the virus USB, asked Tong Yingying to find Aunt Ye, and entered Ye International alone while An Le stayed with Aria.
• Yan Huan survived the elevator’s fall, reached the AI Department, and found Ye Shiyu beside the servers.
• Ye Shiyu refused the Crab Medicine, revealing her resentment and fear, and Yan Huan recognized that the Index Finger was manipulating her through a Defeat CG.
• Yan Huan calmed Ye Shiyu and tried to give her the Crab Medicine, but Ye Lan appeared and told her that she and Yan Huan had been lying to her.
• Ye Shiyu’s terror triggered a burst of threads that spread through phones and screens, assembling a gigantic screen-bodied deity that greeted Yan Huan.

Yan Huan learned that Ye Shiyu was pregnant and that Ring Finger could return him to his original time at 4:44 the next afternoon. After hearing Ye Shiyu thank him for dealing with the Modifiers, he realized she did not know he had died; the story then showed Ye Shiyu in the past, terrified and grieving on the day of Yan Huan’s funeral.

• Yan Huan found Ye Shiyu’s positive pregnancy test and examination reports, and Ye Shiyu said she was four weeks pregnant.
• Ye Shiyu explained that Ring Finger controlled time and space, could accelerate or stop time, and could transport someone to another time for up to twenty-four hours, with a return at 4:44 the following afternoon.
• Yan Huan learned that Ye Shiyu did not know he had died and told her he was worried about her.
• On the day of Yan Huan’s funeral, Ye Shiyu hid in a locked bathroom during a thunderstorm while clutching the Jellyfish Keychain.
• Ye Lan told Ye Shiyu that Yan Huan would be cremated after the funeral, and Ye Shiyu decided to go find him.