Chapter Summaries

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.

Yan Huan learned that Bai Yi had secretly terminated her contract with Golden Lion Entertainment and severed ties with her mother, Zuo Jiangqin. Realizing Bai Yi might have just left the building, he searched for her and spotted a masked girl with a white cat, then chased after her when she did not turn around.

• Yan Huan found Golden Lion Entertainment in disarray and hid in a break room with An Le and Miyake Huhu while Zuo Jiangqin caused a scene.
• Yatsuhashi Ki and Aishili told Yan Huan that Bai Yi had signed a contract termination agreement and returned her earnings, while Hitomi Sakuramiya added that Bai Yi had also sent Zuo Jiangqin a declaration severing their mother-daughter relationship.
• Yan Huan realized Bai Yi might have been the figure he sensed leaving in the elevator, then accidentally struck Zuo Jiangqin with the break-room door as he rushed out.
• Yan Huan searched the crowded lobby and building entrance for Bai Yi, then shouted her name into the crowd.
• Yan Huan spotted a girl in a baseball cap carrying a white cat; she kept walking, so he sprinted after her and called out to Bai Yi again.

Yan Huan recovered in the hospital while trying to explain that one Modifier, Ring Finger, remained and that he had not yet resolved Bai Yi’s situation. After discovering his weekly Modifier draws were locked until he repaid his Fragments, he explored the Crab Coin Shop and ended the chapter unable to recall anything else about Bai Yi.

• Yan Huan woke in the hospital with severe injuries, and You Anlina admitted she wanted him to recover so he could handle her internship work.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Yan Huan that Ye Shiyu was willing to give up her Modifier, prompting An Le to worry about what that would mean for her relationship with him.
• Yan Huan argued that Ring Finger was still unaccounted for, but Little Finger denied that it existed and teased him about using the idea to justify a harem.
• After An Le and Tong Yingying left, Yan Huan discovered that his weekly Modifier draws were locked until he repaid his Fragments, then entered the Demon Shop and found one Crab Coin had been added to his stockpile.
• Yan Huan checked the Crab Coin Shop’s new missions, which asked him to take his relationship with Aria further or improve Ye Shiyu’s standing with the other girls.
• Yan Huan noticed Bai Yi’s high affection for Ye Shiyu, but as he wrote Bai Yi’s name on the ground, he realized he could not recall anything else about her.

Yan Huan chased the elusive Bai Yi, collapsed after touching a Modifier fragment, and awoke with his memories of the day confused and incomplete. After tracking down another fragment and unlocking the Modifier, he reunited with Meow-chan, who warned him that Bai Yi was in trouble.

• Yan Huan followed a ticking sound into a dead-end alley, lost sight of Bai Yi, and found a Modifier fragment that caused him to collapse.
• Yan Huan awoke at home after midnight and discovered his messages and memories did not match what he thought had happened that day.
• Yan Huan asked Tong Yingying to investigate Bai Yi and Zuo Jiangqin, learning that Zuo Jiangqin had no daughter and finding no records of Bai Yi.
• Yan Huan returned to the Golden Lion Building and found another Modifier fragment in the alley, which cleared his fragment debt and unlocked the Modifier.
• Meow-chan reunited with Yan Huan and urgently told him that Bai Yi was in trouble.

Yan Huan struggled with fading memories of Bai Yi and Meow-chan while discovering that his parents were alive and secretly wealthy. After his mother returned to the hospital and offered to buy him a villa, Hitomi Sakuramiya objected to the proposed location and suggested homes near her family’s mansion instead.

• Yan Huan carved Bai Yi’s name into a reef, realized his memories of her were fading, and decided to search for her family while gathering Fragments to bring Meow-chan back.
• Yan Huan confirmed that he could still use the weekly Palm’s Treasure draw despite his Modifier’s failure, then returned from the Demon Shop to his hospital bed.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya hugged Yan Huan and asked him not to frighten her with another injury, before Wang Yulu appeared at the doorway and identified herself as his mother.
• Yan Huan discovered that Wang Yulu and his father, Yan Shuhan, had never died and had concealed their wealth while letting him believe his family was poor.
• Wang Yulu offered to buy Yan Huan a villa near Ye Lan’s home, but Hitomi Sakuramiya objected and suggested two villas near her family’s Western-style Mansion.

Yan Huan learned that Bai Yi had changed the past and vanished from the timeline, while Ring Finger had disappeared as well. Though Meow-chan warned him that the resulting timeline might be the best one, Yan Huan resolved to find a better one, then went home with Ye Shiyu.

• Meow-chan explained that Bai Yi had altered the real timeline, leaving Yan Huan with conflicting memories because his Modifier gave him resistance to changed outcomes.
• Meow-chan said Bai Yi and Ring Finger seemed to have vanished, and Yan Huan realized Bai Yi might have gone back in time to save him.
• Yan Huan regretted telling Bai Yi about his troubles and asked Meow-chan how she had traveled into the past; Meow-chan suspected her method involved IF Route projections.
• Meow-chan warned that the current timeline might be the best Bai Yi could secure, but Yan Huan insisted there had to be a better one.
• Ye Shiyu found Yan Huan in the alley, comforted him, and agreed to head back with him after he claimed he had gone out looking for Meow-chan.
• When Yan Huan turned away to book a car, Ye Shiyu kicked Meow-chan in the belly.

Yan Huan remembered the love and security his parents had given him, then agreed to forgive them as his mother arranged a new home near Ye Shiyu. After he was discharged, he learned that Bai Yi had gone missing and arrived at the villa to find Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, Tong Yingying, and Aria waiting to meet his mother.

• Wang Yulu explained why she wanted to buy a house near Ye Lan, and Yan Huan agreed to forgive his parents.
• Yan Huan found Bai Yi's songs online, downloaded them, and discovered an unfamiliar track titled "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 messaging him about his old place.
• Several days later, Yan Huan signed the police report for his traffic accident and heard Bai Yi's mother, Ms. Zuo, tell officers that Bai Yi was missing.
• Wang Yulu drove Yan Huan to their new villa, where Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, Tong Yingying, and Aria waited; Wang Yulu asked whether he had any male friends, and Yan Huan named Yatsuhashi.

Yan Huan learned from Meow-chan that Bai Yi could travel through time because her constitution rivaled a deity’s, and Meow-chan promised to prepare a way for him to follow. Fearing Ring Finger had made all four Modifier Hosts disappear, Yan Huan searched for them until Tong Yingying brought him home, where they surprised him with a birthday party.

• Yan Huan introduced Meow-chan to Wang Yulu, then heard Meow-chan explain how IF Routes could allow travel between points in the worldline and why Bai Yi could survive the journey.
• Meow-chan said it could prepare a method to help Yan Huan travel back, and Yan Huan set out to warn the others and look for An Le and Ye Shiyu.
• Yan Huan failed to reach An Le, Ye Shiyu, Hitomi Sakuramiya, or Aria, then met Tong Yingying and searched for the missing hosts near the Golden Lion Group.
• Yan Huan and Tong Yingying drove home as Yan Huan continued worrying about Ring Finger and waited for Meow-chan to return.
• Tong Yingying led Yan Huan inside, where Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, Aria, Ye Shiyu, Wang Yulu, Ye Lan, and Student Council members surprised him with a party for his nineteenth birthday.

Yan Huan returned to his new home with Wang Yulu, where his female friends competed to make a good impression on his mother while Aria bewildered her. After remembering Meow-chan’s disappearance, Yan Huan saw Ye Shiyu across the street, and she explained that she was staying away to avoid causing him trouble before they exchanged playful messages through her notebook.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, and Tong Yingying raced to greet Wang Yulu, but An Le and Tong Yingying sabotaged each other along the way.
• Aria introduced herself to Wang Yulu and called her “Piggy Auntie,” while Hitomi Sakuramiya, An Le, and Tong Yingying each greeted her and revealed their interest in Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan brought his friends inside and asked them not to reveal the Modifier before Wang Yulu showed him his spacious new room.
• Wang Yulu suggested buying Yan Huan a cat, prompting him to remember Meow-chan and suspect that it had left after the Modifiers’ mission ended.
• Yan Huan spotted Ye Shiyu across the street as they both went to close their curtains, and she wrote that she would not visit because she did not want to cause him more trouble.
• Ye Shiyu forgot to use Plane to chat, then told Yan Huan through her notebook that she could send cat-paw emoticons, making him laugh.

Yan Huan discovered that his nineteenth-birthday gathering was a surprise and learned that the others were willing to give up their Modifiers. Still determined to return to the past and save Bai Yi, he used two Universal Keys at 4:44 and opened a door to the IF Route.

• Yan Huan confronted Tong Yingying about her birthday-surprise plan, then received presents and heard You Anlina reminisce about the Student Council.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Yan Huan that the others were ready to give up their Modifiers, but he chose to leave before the celebration to investigate what had happened to Bai Yi.
• Yan Huan bought two Universal Keys and waited for 4:44, explaining to Meow-chan that he wanted to return to the past and save Bai Yi.
• Ye Shiyu climbed in through Yan Huan's window with a birthday present, and Yan Huan noticed that she had learned makeup techniques despite Bai Yi's disappearance.
• Yan Huan took Ye Shiyu's continued knowledge of makeup as a hopeful sign, then opened a doorway with a Universal Key as 4:44 arrived and set out with Meow-chan.

Ye Shiyu overcame her hesitation and joined Yan Huan and the others at the villa, where An Le prompted Wang Yulu to ask about Ye Shiyu’s connection to Yan Huan’s car accident. As Yan Huan prepared to respond, he noticed Bai Yi’s affection for Ye Shiyu had risen to 69% despite their having no contact, leaving him puzzled.

• Ye Shiyu declined Yan Huan’s first invitation, but he climbed to her window and urged her to come over before returning to the villa.
• Ye Lan arrived alone, and Wang Yulu worried about Ye Shiyu, whom Ye Lan said was feeling unwell.
• An Le offered to help Wang Yulu cook, while Aria sniffed out a trace of tobacco on Tong Yingying and called her stinky.
• Ye Shiyu arrived at the villa, and Yan Huan escorted her inside as the other girls watched her warily.
• An Le brought up the car accident, prompting Wang Yulu to ask what Ye Shiyu and Yan Huan had been doing together in Beihai District.
• Yan Huan saw that Bai Yi’s affection level toward Ye Shiyu was 69% and wondered how it had increased without contact between them.

Yan Huan entered an IF Route where Hitomi Sakuramiya attacked him, then used Meow-chan’s Worldline Observer and last Universal Key to travel back to the day of his accident. He arrived in rainy Linmen as a white cat and found Bai Yi still there, grieving over him.

• Yan Huan learned from Meow-chan how IF Routes differed from real timelines and received a ring that let him observe worldlines.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya came to Yan Huan’s apartment with a knife, but he disarmed her and knocked her unconscious.
• Meow-chan fused with Yan Huan, turning him into a white cat so he could withstand travel through time and space.
• After Hitomi Sakuramiya left, Yan Huan waited until 4:44 and used his last Universal Key to select the day of his accident.
• Yan Huan traveled to rainy Linmen and found Bai Yi collapsed and crying, then arrived safely beside her as a white cat.

Yan Huan reassured his mother about the women living nearby, then privately discussed Tong Yingying opening a shop in Jinghe District and asked her to investigate a woman connected to the Modifier. In a ruined Linmen, Bai Yi prepared to travel back to the true past timeline to save Yan Huan, and the world rewound to the previous day.

• Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu explained that the group had considered renting nearby, and Ye Shiyu offered to help An Le and Tong Yingying move close by.
• Yan Huan asked Tong Yingying if she would open a Tongyao branch in Jinghe District, and she agreed to use an available shop while warning him to keep working for her.
• Yan Huan asked Tong Yingying to investigate a woman he vaguely remembered as important and possibly connected to the Modifier, and she kicked him for saying so.
• In a ruined Linmen, Ye Shiyu helped Bai Yi leave before An Le could find her, and Bai Yi vowed to save Yan Huan.
• Bai Yi used her pocket watch to open a gateway to the true past timeline, and the world rewound from 4:45 to 4:45 the previous day.

Yan Huan disguised himself as a talking white cat named Yan Ye and persuaded Bai Yi to travel to the future instead of trying to change the past. They passed through the time gate together and arrived in an IF Route, where Bai Yi found herself in a villa room filled with trophies and Yan Huan realized he had successfully traveled with her while still in the cat’s body.

• Yan Huan recognized Bai Yi and concealed his identity after realizing that revealing his future origin could destabilize the world lines.
• Yan Huan claimed to be the Modifier’s avatar, named himself Yan Ye, and offered to help Bai Yi travel through time.
• Bai Yi insisted on returning to the past to save Yan Huan, so Yan Huan urged her to visit the future and see that he was alive.
• Bai Yi agreed to follow Yan Huan’s instructions and entered the time gate with him, holding him in her arms.
• Ring Finger opened the route to the IF Route, and Yan Huan traveled alongside Bai Yi in his white cat body.
• Bai Yi and Yan Huan arrived in a villa room filled with trophies and photos of an older Bai Yi, leaving them disoriented.

Yan Huan returned to his internship with Ye Shiyu and discovered that You Anlina had been transferred repeatedly after causing trouble in several Ye International departments. When You Anlina revealed that she had collected glowing Spider Silk Fragments, Yan Huan used them in his Fragment Refiner, then learned from An Le that trouble involving Bai Yi had broken out at the Golden Lion Group.

• Wang Yulu drove Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu to Ye International, where they resumed their internships after recovering from a car accident.
• Brother Zhang hinted that someone was waiting for Yan Huan in his office, but Yan Huan found You Anlina instead of Bai Yi.
• You Anlina showed Yan Huan a string of transfer notices and explained that her antics had gotten her removed from department after department, including the Cleaning Department.
• Yan Huan noticed glowing Spider Silk Fragments in You Anlina's dustpan, and she explained that she had swept them up throughout the building and pulled them from pipes.
• Yan Huan collected the Fragments in his Fragment Refiner, which displayed that he still owed one Fragment, then received An Le's message about trouble at the Golden Lion Group involving Bai Yi.

Yan Huan and Bai Yi arrived in an IF Route depicting a possible future, where they discovered that the future Bai Yi had a newborn with Ye Shiyu. They set out to visit Yan Huan, but Bai Yi’s teasing of Yan Ye ended with Yan Huan slapping her paw away.

• Bai Yi mistook the IF Route for the future and excitedly admired her expensive pajamas and awards until Yan Huan explained their situation.
• Bai Yi checked an alternate Plane account and found Yan Huan’s post showing Ye Shiyu with their newborn daughter, which shocked and enraged her.
• Yan Huan suggested visiting his IF Route home, and Bai Yi worried that Ye Shiyu would attack her.
• Bai Yi noticed that her future home seemed empty, checked her main account without opening a chat from Zuo Jiangqin, and changed clothes while Yan Huan waited outside.
• Bai Yi questioned Yan Ye about his powers and teased him by asking whether he was a boy cat or a girl cat.
• Bai Yi reached to inspect Yan Huan, and he slapped her paw away.

Yan Huan learned that Bai Yi had secretly terminated her contract with Golden Lion Entertainment and left a letter severing ties with her mother, then realized she had just passed him in disguise. He spotted Bai Yi carrying a white cat and chased after her as she hurried away without turning back.

• Yan Huan arrived at Golden Lion Entertainment and found Zuo Jiangqin causing a disturbance while An Le and Miyake Huhu hid in the break room.
• Yatsuhashi Ki and Aishili told Yan Huan that Bai Yi had terminated her contract, returned her earnings, and signed a letter ending her relationship with Zuo Jiangqin.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya revealed that William had shown Zuo Jiangqin Bai Yi’s handwritten contract termination and delivered her letter severing ties with her mother.
• Yan Huan realized Bai Yi had likely just left the building in disguise, and accidentally knocked Zuo Jiangqin unconscious when he flung open the break-room door.
• Yan Huan searched the lobby and called Bai Yi’s name outside, then recognized a girl in a baseball cap carrying a white cat and ran after her as she hurried away.

Yan Huan and Bai Yi entered an IF Route to visit Ye Shiyu, but Yan Huan’s arrival made the route’s Yan Huan disappear. After Ye Shiyu revealed she was searching for her missing husband, Ye Lan confronted Bai Yi and displayed the same purple Hypnosis light associated with Ye Shiyu.

• Yan Huan and Bai Yi went to Ye Shiyu’s villa, where Bai Yi used Indifference to sneak inside.
• Yan Huan lost his intangibility and Ye Shiyu mistook him for a stray cat, nearly kicking him before Bai Yi intervened.
• Bai Yi discovered that Ye Shiyu did not know about Indifference or Hypnosis and was not a Modifier Host in this IF Route.
• Ye Shiyu told Bai Yi that her husband Yan Huan had vanished after leaving work, and Yan Huan realized his arrival had caused his IF Route self to disappear.
• As Bai Yi left with Yan Huan, Ye Lan arrived, grabbed Bai Yi’s wrist, and warned her to stay away from Ye Shiyu and Xiao Huan.
• Ye Lan’s eyes turned deep purple, showing the same Hypnosis power associated with Ye Shiyu.

Yan Huan pursued a mysterious girl in a baseball cap, remembered her name as Bai Yi, and collapsed after touching a Modifier fragment. He later followed fragmented memories back to the alley, repaid his fragment debt, unlocked the Modifier, and reunited with Meow-chan, who urgently told him that Bai Yi was Yan Huan.

• Yan Huan chased the girl in the baseball cap through the streets but lost her in an alley after following the sound of ticking.
• Yan Huan found a Modifier fragment, touched it, and collapsed as the girl appeared and promised to save him.
• Yan Huan awoke at home with blurred memories, found Bai Yi's name in the Demon Shop, and learned from Tong Yingying that Zuo Jiangqin had no daughter.
• Yan Huan realized his memories and the day's events did not add up, rushed to the Golden Lion Building, and found another Modifier fragment in the alley.
• Yan Huan absorbed the fragment, repaid his fragment debt, and unlocked the Modifier as Meow-chan reappeared.
• Meow-chan warned Yan Huan that something terrible had happened and identified Bai Yi as Yan Huan.

Ye Lan summoned the Modifier Hosts to investigate Yan Huan’s disappearance, and the meeting exposed their past manipulations of him and Bai Yi’s career. The Hosts began suspecting Bai Yi of taking Yan Huan, leaving her in immediate danger.

• Ye Lan summoned Bai Yi to a secret Modifier Host Association meeting, where they found Elvira, Sakuramiya Yuri, and Tong Yingying waiting.
• Ye Lan accused Yuri and Tong Yingying of secretly manipulating Yan Huan, and Yuri revealed that the Hosts had helped Bai Yi become famous in exchange for her staying away from him.
• Bai Yi became furious at the Hosts’ treatment of Yan Huan, but Yan Huan calmed her by assuring her that her singing talent was real.
• Elvira invoked the association’s laws and explained why the Hosts had no reason to take Yan Huan, prompting Ye Lan to wonder who had made him disappear.
• The Hosts turned their suspicion toward Bai Yi, reasoning that her unused Modifier powers could have let her take Yan Huan without anyone noticing.