Chapter Summaries

At Yan Huan’s funeral, Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, and Tong Yingying learned that his body had vanished from the crematorium and suspected Ye Shiyu had taken it. Aria discovered from a news report that Yan Huan had died, and rushed to leave as a strange storm intensified over Linmen.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya concealed Yan Huan’s death from Aria and continued to impersonate him in their messages.
• As Yan Huan was taken for cremation, Tong Yingying revealed that Ye Shiyu had gone to Ye International and then disappeared into an employee dormitory.
• An Le and Tong Yingying wanted to confront Ye Shiyu, but Hitomi Sakuramiya agreed to go with them only if they followed her lead.
• When the cremation made no progress, Tong Yingying broke down the furnace door, and the three women found Yan Huan’s body missing and the staff standing motionless.
• Aria saw a news report identifying Yan Huan as dead, recognized that his messages had been false, and ran for the door as lightning blazed across the sky.

Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu escaped the collapsing phone wormhole after the Crab Medicine reset the Index Finger, but Aria accidentally struck them into lingering Spatial Turbulence. They vanished through a rift into an unknown modern city, leaving Tong Yingying, Hitomi Sakuramiya, and An Le horrified.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya escaped Ye International Tower and warned An Le and Tong Yingying that the phone wall had formed a dangerous Barrier.
• Yan Huan reached Ye Shiyu through the darkness, and she trusted him enough to take his hand.
• Yan Huan kissed Ye Shiyu and passed her the Crab Medicine, resetting the Index Finger and causing the phone wormhole to collapse.
• Tong Yingying launched Aria from the car to destroy the wormhole, but Aria crashed into Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu as they floated nearby.
• Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu were swept through Spatial Turbulence and disappeared, while Tong Yingying’s companions blamed her plan.

After Ye Shiyu returned with Yan Huan’s body, Hitomi Sakuramiya stopped An Le and Tong Yingying from attacking her and questioned whether Ye Shiyu’s Modifier had acted independently. Aria Spencer learned that Yan Huan had died while trying to reach her, awakened a terrifying power, and left the others’ Modifier abilities stalled as something approached.

• An Le and Tong Yingying pursued Ye Shiyu after she stole Yan Huan’s body, while Hitomi Sakuramiya stayed behind to conceal the cremation chamber.
• Ye Shiyu returned to the Funeral Home carrying Yan Huan’s corpse, then hid in the tool room after frightening Hitomi Sakuramiya with a burst of purple light.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya blocked An Le and Tong Yingying from entering the tool room and summoned Little Finger to ask whether Ye Shiyu’s Index Finger could be intelligent.
• Little Finger explained that Index Finger might have unusual evolutionary branches, while Hitomi Sakuramiya argued that Ye Shiyu might not be responsible for the accident that killed Yan Huan.
• Aria Spencer arrived at Yan Huan’s memorial and realized that Ye Shiyu had impersonated him and concealed his pleas for help; her phone exploded as a powerful transformation began.
• Aria’s awakening frightened Little Finger and caused Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Barrier and the others’ Modifier abilities to retreat or stall as thunder shook the area.

After the Modifier was dealt with, Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu were stranded together at the deserted hotel, where he prepared to leave her behind. Ye Shiyu overcame her fear of speaking without hypnosis, confessed her feelings through one final command, and reunited with Yan Huan, who carried her into the hotel.

• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu they had to wait before giving up the Modifier and said he would leave to contact Sakuramiya, while she planned to go separately.
• Ye Shiyu followed Yan Huan to the harbor and, hiding behind her dead phone, confessed that she had used hypnosis because she could not express her jealousy, fear, and desire for closeness.
• Yan Huan asked Ye Shiyu to use hypnosis one last time, but she slowly lowered the phone and asked him to give her happiness; he kissed her and held her as she clung to him.
• Ye Lan woke in the ruined server room, found Ye Shiyu missing, and discovered a photograph with the word "Happiness" on her desk.
• Yan Huan carried the frightened Ye Shiyu from the beach into the hotel.

Aria’s grief over Yan Huan’s death drove her Modifier to overpower the Funeral Home and rewrite the world as Aria Kingdom while she advanced on Ye Shiyu. Meanwhile, Yan Huan prepared to use a Reflecting Magic Mirror to return to the people waiting for him, leaving just before the mirror’s effect was tested.

• Aria broke Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Barrier, stole memories and names from the women, and defeated Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, and Tong Yingying as she headed for Ye Shiyu.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya realized Aria’s growing power could be part of Index Finger’s plan and feared both stopping Aria and letting her reach Ye Shiyu would end disastrously.
• Aria’s Modifier altered the world, changing Linmen’s name to Aria Kingdom and influencing people and institutions to reject or withdraw from it.
• Yan Huan prepared a Black Mirror in Ye Shiyu’s underground secret room and took Crab Medicines and Crab Coins for his return.
• Ye Shiyu asked Yan Huan to tell her past self that there was nothing to fear about the future as long as Xiao Huan was there.
• At 4:43, Yan Huan gripped the Reflecting Magic Mirror, which could block and record one Modifier effect for him to use once.

Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu discovered that no one else remembered Bai Yi, and Yan Huan began to suspect that reality had changed. The chapter then revealed Bai Yi, grieving Yan Huan’s apparent death, meeting the white cat Yan Ye and being offered a chance to change the past.

• Yan Huan charged Ye Shiyu’s phone, contacted Hitomi Sakuramiya, and learned that Ye Shiyu did not know Bai Yi despite Yan Huan’s memories of her as a modifier host.
• Yan Huan met Ye Lan and Hitomi Sakuramiya, who also did not recognize Bai Yi, and he remembered Bai Yi as her face blurred in his memory.
• At 4:43, Bai Yi appeared near the villa where Yan Huan had been struck by a car and cried while believing he had died saving her.
• Bai Yi sensed that the pocket watch could lead her to other worlds and hoped to use them to save Yan Huan.
• A white cat named Yan Ye emerged from one of the portals, identified itself as the embodiment of Bai Yi’s modifier, and offered to help her change the past.

Yan Huan used the Reflecting Magic Mirror to resist the Ring Finger’s forced return, then accelerated time through an imagined world and his resurrection. He returned to reality just as Aria was about to transform Linmen, and his restored body and Crab Medicine disrupted the purple web of Aria’s power.

• At 4:44 p.m., Yan Huan reflected the Ring Finger’s effect with the magic mirror, turning it into a pocket watch, but the world reset while his Crab Medicines, Crab Coins, and watch remained.
• Yan Huan turned the pocket watch’s hour hand backward to accelerate time, endured the pain of eight days passing, and returned to reality as Meow-chan explained that Ring Finger opened imagined IF Routes rather than parallel timelines.
• While Yan Huan’s body regenerated, he watched events unfold through the seven days, including An Le’s rampage and Hitomi Sakuramiya’s efforts to stop her.
• As Aria prepared to turn Linmen into her kingdom, An Le used Superconductor Loser to stall her, giving Yan Huan’s body time to revive.
• Yan Huan rose alive before Ye Shiyu, reassured her that he understood, and the Crab Medicine and Crab Coins in his hand tore a hole in the illusory purple web.

Yan Huan recovered in the hospital while trying to explain that another Modifier, Ring Finger, remained, but Little Finger denied its existence and accused him of making excuses. Alone afterward, he discovered his resurrection had left him owing Fragments and found new Crab Coin Shop missions, including one about Aria and another about reconciling Ye Shiyu with the other girls; he ended the chapter unable to recall more about Bai Yi.

• Yan Huan woke in the hospital with severe injuries, and You Anlina, Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, and Tong Yingying visited him.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Yan Huan that Ye Shiyu was willing to give up her Modifier, prompting discussion about whether the others would give theirs up too.
• Yan Huan argued that the still-unaccounted-for Ring Finger meant the Modifiers had not all been dealt with, but Little Finger denied Ring Finger existed and mocked his explanation.
• An Le and Tong Yingying left, and Yan Huan discovered that his weekly Modifier lottery was locked until he repaid Fragments, though he could still use the Demon Shop.
• Yan Huan opened the Crab Coin Shop and found missions to deepen his relationship with Aria and improve Ye Shiyu's standing with the other girls.
• Yan Huan saw Bai Yi's high affection rating toward Ye Shiyu, then realized he could no longer recall more information about Bai Yi.

Yan Huan returned from the dead and reunited with Aria, Hitomi Sakuramiya, and the others, then revealed that Index Finger had caused his death. As the group discovered Ye Shiyu and Ye Lan were missing and Leaf AI had taken over the Funeral Home, Index Finger resumed its evolution inside Ye International Tower and prepared to welcome God's arrival.

• Ye Shiyu mourned Yan Huan, but Aria's attack destroyed the Tool Room door before Yan Huan could open it; Yan Huan blocked Aria and stopped her Rampage when she recognized him alive.
• Aria, Hitomi Sakuramiya, and An Le embraced Yan Huan, and he gave them Crab Medicines that reduced Aria's Golden Cracks and An Le's physical symptoms.
• Yan Huan told the group that Index Finger, not Ye Shiyu, had caused his death, but the Fragments on the floor vanished and Ye Shiyu disappeared from the Tool Room.
• An Le noticed the Funeral Home was silent, and Hitomi Sakuramiya found its occupants staring at Leaf AI on their phones; she also discovered Ye Lan had gone to Ye International to look for Ye Shiyu.
• Yan Huan picked up the Crab Medicine and recognized Ye International Tower as Index Finger's next target, while Ye Lan headed there searching for her daughter.
• Inside Ye International's AI Server Room, Index Finger repaired its Modifier, reached 99.9999% Leaf AI coverage, and began preparing for Fourth Stage Evolution before Yan Huan could reach Ye Shiyu with the item.

Yan Huan struggled with his fading memories of Bai Yi and his missing Meow-chan, then discovered that his parents were alive and secretly wealthy. Wang Yulu offered to buy him a villa, while Hitomi Sakuramiya objected to its location and suggested two villas near her Western-style Mansion.

• Yan Huan carved Bai Yi’s name into a reef, realized his memories of her and Meow-chan were fading, and decided to search for Meow-chan’s Fragments and investigate Bai Yi’s family.
• Yan Huan returned to his hospital room, where Hitomi Sakuramiya insisted he stay under observation and hugged him, asking him not to worry her again.
• Wang Yulu arrived and revealed that she was Yan Huan’s mother; Yan Huan struggled to reconcile this with his memories that his parents had died in a plane crash.
• Yan Huan checked his phone and found years of messages from his parents, while Wang Yulu said she and Yan Shuhan had pretended to be poor to toughen him up.
• Wang Yulu offered to buy Yan Huan a villa near Aunt Lanlan’s home, but Hitomi Sakuramiya objected and suggested two reasonably priced villas near her Western-style Mansion.

Yan Huan reached Ye Shiyu in Ye International and tried to calm her and give her Crab Medicine before her Modifier reached the Fourth Stage. Ye Lan’s intervention triggered Ye Shiyu’s terror, and the Index Finger manifested as a deity assembled from videos and screens, greeting Yan Huan.

• Yan Huan assigned Hitomi Sakuramiya to start the USB virus, sent Tong Yingying to find Aunt Ye, and told An Le to watch Aria while he entered Ye International.
• Yan Huan survived the elevator’s fall, reached the AI Department, and found Ye Shiyu in the server room.
• Ye Shiyu refused the Crab Medicine, and Yan Huan recognized that Index Finger was manipulating her through a Defeat CG synchronized with reality.
• Yan Huan reassured Ye Shiyu and nearly got her to take the medicine, but Ye Lan appeared and told her that she and Yan Huan had both lied.
• Ye Shiyu’s terror caused her Modifier to erupt, sending threads through phones and screens as Index Finger formed a many-armed deity and addressed Yan Huan.

Yan Huan agreed to forgive his parents, recovered quickly, and prepared to move into a villa in Jinghe District, where his friends gathered to welcome him. After learning that singer Bai Yi was missing, he decided to investigate her mother, Ms. Zuo, while his mother faced the formidable auras of the women waiting outside their new home.

• Wang Yulu chose to buy a move-in-ready house near Ye Lan’s home, and Yan Huan agreed to forgive his parents.
• Yan Huan searched for Bai Yi, saved her songs, and found an unexplained track called “Fan A” in his local files.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya invited An Le, Aria, and Tong Yingying to visit Yan Huan’s new home, while An Le hesitated over whether to ask about the house in the South District.
• After leaving the hospital, Yan Huan heard that Bai Yi was missing and decided to seek out her mother, Ms. Zuo.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, and Tong Yingying dressed formally to welcome Yan Huan, while Aria arrived by jumping down from a rooftop.
• Wang Yulu hesitated to get out of the car amid the women’s auras and asked Yan Huan whether he had any male friends; he named Yatsuhashi twice.

Yan Huan and the others disrupted the Evil God's descent, while Ye Shiyu broke free of Index Finger's influence by accepting that she could not force happiness for herself or others. As Ye Shiyu and Index Finger fell into the wormhole to the Otherworld, Yan Huan plunged after her with the Crab Medicine.

• The Evil God used future phantoms to anticipate Yan Huan's actions, while Ye Shiyu's phone wormhole began drilling down through Ye International Tower.
• Yan Huan realized the phantoms were extrapolations of his thoughts, and the USB Drive's shock wave spread darkness that temporarily nullified Index Finger's power.
• In the darkness, Ye Shiyu confronted memories of her family and Yan Huan, rejected the phone's promised shortcut, and wrote “Be Happy for Me” on the boy's face.
• Ye Shiyu's resolve tore Index Finger from her, but their partial fusion pulled them both into the wormhole to the Otherworld.
• As Ye Shiyu fell, Yan Huan shouted her name and jumped into the wormhole after her, holding the Crab Medicine.

Yan Huan brought his mother, Wang Yulu, home and introduced her to his many female friends, whose awkward rivalry left her suspicious of their intentions. After learning Meow-chan may have completed her mission and disappeared, Yan Huan spotted Ye Shiyu across the road and spoke with her through their windows.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, and Tong Yingying raced to greet Wang Yulu, while Aria reached the car first and startled her by inspecting her.
• Yan Huan introduced his friends to Wang Yulu, who grew increasingly flustered as she noticed their unusual behavior and learned Tong Yingying was his boss.
• Wang Yulu welcomed everyone inside and said Ye Lan and Ye Shiyu would visit, prompting the women to fall silent; Yan Huan reminded them not to reveal the Modifier.
• Yan Huan settled into his new room, remembered Meow-chan, and wondered whether the cat had left after the Modifiers were dealt with.
• Yan Huan saw Ye Shiyu across the road, and she explained in a notebook that she would not visit because she did not want to cause him more trouble.
• Ye Shiyu forgot she could use Plane to message Yan Huan, then wrote that she could talk with him through cat-paw emoticons.

Yan Huan reached Ye Shiyu inside the collapsing phone Wormhole and gave her the Crab Medicine, resetting the Index Finger and freeing them. Just as they were about to land safely, Aria crashed into them and sent Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu through spatial turbulence to an unknown place.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya escaped Ye International Tower and warned An Le and Tong Yingying that the phone Wormhole was dangerous and resistant to their Modifiers.
• Yan Huan broke through the darkness around Ye Shiyu, urged her to trust him, and caught her as she reached for him.
• Yan Huan kissed Ye Shiyu to pass her the Crab Medicine, which reset the Index Finger and caused the Wormhole to collapse.
• Tong Yingying drove Aria toward the Wormhole and launched her through the entrance to destroy it from outside.
• Aria crashed into Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu as they floated above the first floor, sending them into spatial turbulence and making them disappear.
• An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya confronted Tong Yingying over her plan, while Aria asked where Yan Huan had gone.

Ye Shiyu overcame her hesitation and joined Yan Huan and the others at the villa, where An Le raised questions about the car accident and Ye Shiyu’s time with Yan Huan. As Yan Huan prepared to respond, he noticed Bai Yi’s affection rating toward Ye Shiyu rising despite their apparent lack of contact.

• Ye Shiyu declined Yan Huan’s invitation from across their windows, but he climbed over to her room and urged her to come to the villa.
• Yan Huan returned to the villa, where Ye Lan arrived alone and explained that Ye Shiyu was resting at home.
• An Le offered to help Wang Yulu cook, while Aria noticed a tobacco-like smell on Tong Yingying and called it stinky.
• Ye Shiyu arrived at the villa and greeted Wang Yulu, then sat beside Ye Lan as the other girls watched her warily.
• An Le asked whether Ye Shiyu’s poor health was related to the car accident, prompting Wang Yulu to ask what she and Yan Huan had been doing in Beihai District.
• Yan Huan saw that Bai Yi’s affection rating toward Ye Shiyu had reached 69% and wondered how it could be rising without contact.

After the Modifier’s defeat, Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu were stranded together at a deserted hotel, where Ye Shiyu confessed her feelings without Hypnosis and asked him to give her happiness. Yan Huan kissed her, and he carried her toward the hotel as she nervously asked him to wait.

• A spatial rift and Aria’s collision sent Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to a deserted hotel, where they discussed the Modifier and Yan Huan’s apparent death.
• Ye Shiyu apologized for using the Modifier and promised to stay out of Yan Huan’s life, while he told her to wait until everyone could give it up together.
• Yan Huan left to call Hitomi Sakuramiya, but Ye Shiyu followed him and struggled to explain her feelings without Hypnosis.
• Yan Huan invited Ye Shiyu to use Hypnosis one last time, but she pushed her unpowered phone aside and asked him to give her happiness.
• Yan Huan kissed Ye Shiyu, who clung to him, while Ye Lan found a photograph and the word “Happiness” on Ye Shiyu’s computer.
• Yan Huan carried the frightened Ye Shiyu toward the hotel as she asked him to wait.

Yan Huan and Tong Yingying kissed after discussing her shop in Jinghe District, and Yan Huan asked her to investigate a woman he thought might be connected to the Modifier. In Linmen, Bai Yi prepared to travel back through time to save Yan Huan, while Ye Shiyu helped her escape and the tentacle-devoured world rewound to the previous day.

• Ye Shiyu suggested that An Le and Tong Yingying move near her, easing Hitomi Sakuramiya and An Le's worries about her living near Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan took Tong Yingying to his room, asked whether she would move to Jinghe District, and kissed her after she demanded it.
• Tong Yingying warned Yan Huan to come work at her shop and agreed to help investigate a woman he suspected was connected to the Modifier.
• In Linmen, Ye Shiyu helped Bai Yi leave and warned her to hurry before An Le discovered her.
• Bai Yi used her pocket watch to open a gateway to the true timeline, hoping to save Yan Huan, and the world rewound to 4:45 the previous day.

Yan Huan discovered that Ye Shiyu and the others had no memory of Bai Yi, while Ye Lan believed he had been recovering in a hospital after a car accident. The story then rewound to 4:43, where Bai Yi met the white cat Yan Ye and learned it could help her change the past.

• Yan Huan found the Modifier App on Ye Shiyu's phone and learned that she did not recognize Bai Yi, whom he believed was another modifier host.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Yan Huan that Ye Lan and the others were coming to get him, and Ye Lan arrived by helicopter believing he had been in a hospital after a car accident.
• Yan Huan asked Ye Lan and Hitomi Sakuramiya whether they knew Bai Yi, and both denied knowing her as he remembered a vision of Bai Yi fading from view.
• At 4:43, Bai Yi appeared near the villa, mourned Yan Huan's apparent death, and used her pocket watch to sense other worlds where he might still be alive.
• Bai Yi's pocket watch opened a time-space gate, and a white cat named Yan Ye appeared and offered to help her change the past.

Yan Huan returned to his internship with Ye Shiyu and found You Anlina in trouble after she had caused chaos in several departments. The Spider Silk Fragments You Anlina had collected repaid nearly all of Yan Huan’s Fragment debt, just as An Le warned him that something involving Bai Yi had happened at the Golden Lion Group.

• Wang Yulu drove Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to Ye International Tower as they resumed their summer internships.
• Brother Zhang hinted that someone waiting in Yan Huan’s office cared deeply about him, but Yan Huan found You Anlina crying there instead of Bai Yi.
• You Anlina showed Yan Huan transfer notices and a request from the cleaning staff after causing problems in several departments.
• Yan Huan spotted Spider Silk Fragments in You Anlina’s dustpan, learned she had collected them throughout the building, and offered her a place on his team.
• Yan Huan fed the Fragments into the Fragment Refiner, which reduced his debt to one Fragment.
• An Le messaged Yan Huan that something had happened at the Golden Lion Group involving Bai Yi.