Chapter Summaries

Yan Huan discovered that the future IF Route had left him missing while Bai Yi was rescued from Golden Lion Group operatives by Tong Yingying. As Bai Yi recovered and joined Tong Yingying’s Anti-Spencer Alliance, You Anlina arrived as its unexpected final member.

• Yan Huan found Golden Lion Group personnel posing as medical staff and realized they planned to take the unconscious Bai Yi away without properly treating her.
• Tong Yingying attacked the fake medical team in the elevator and escaped with Bai Yi in an ambulance driven by Nara.
• Nara told Tong Yingying that Yan Huan had gone missing and the Golden Lion Group suspected the people who had secretly returned to Linmen.
• Bai Yi learned that this IF Route took place when Yan Huan was twenty-six and that she had met him before his nineteenth birthday; she then agreed to join the Anti-Spencer Alliance.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya arrived at the warehouse with You Anlina, leaving Bai Yi and Yan Huan shocked to see her as the alliance’s final member.

Yan Huan and Bai Yi landed in an IF Route where Bai Yi was married to Yan Huan, and her phone revealed a tangled future involving Ye Shiyu and a pregnancy. As Bai Yi opened up about her loneliness and family, she and Yan Huan prepared to return to Linmen, where a message reported that Xiao Huan had gone missing.

• Yan Huan urged Bai Yi to book a flight to Linmen, but her phone revealed wedding photos and memos about Ye Shiyu's pregnancy, prompting her to rage at Yan Huan.
• Messages from Hitomi Sakuramiya and Aria reminded Bai Yi that people cared about her, and she reflected on how isolated she had felt at school and how Yan Huan's appreciation of her songs had mattered to her.
• Bai Yi described her mother's difficult past and wondered whether it had shaped how her mother treated her, then reassured her friends that nothing had happened and booked an evening flight to Linmen.
• Yan Huan suggested they return to Linmen and seek clues from the other hosts, while Bai Yi questioned why they could not simply message them on Plane.
• Bai Yi received a message from Shiyu saying Xiao Huan had gone missing, and she wondered why Yan Huan was absent from every IF Route.

Bai Yi learned that You Anlina remembered giving up her Modifier and believed Yan Huan had once loved her, while Yan Huan noticed the route’s history differed from what he knew. At the Golden Lion Group, Aria revealed that Yan Huan had said Elvira was the real host and had deceived everyone, and Elvira’s monstrous form appeared as she asked Aria to trust her.

• Bai Yi discovered that Aria Spencer, not You Anlina, was the Index Finger’s host, and Yan Huan noticed that the others knew little about Bai Yi’s abilities.
• You Anlina told Bai Yi that Yan Huan had rejected her after they gave up their Modifiers, and Bai Yi felt relieved that Yan Huan had not treated her the same way.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya and Tong Yingying left to plan resistance for the President’s birthday, while Bai Yi and You Anlina agreed they wanted to ask Yan Huan about their feelings.
• At the Golden Lion Group, Elvira entered Aria’s wrecked apartment and claimed Hitomi Sakuramiya and Tong Yingying had taken Yan Huan away.
• Aria told Elvira that Yan Huan had said everyone was hypnotized and that Elvira was the real Modifier host, before Elvira’s appearance became that of a twisted, purple-eyed creature.

Bai Yi arrived at the Yan Family villa in an IF Route, where Ye Shiyu explained that Yan Huan’s disappearance was likely temporary and warned against changing causality recklessly. After Yan Huan vanished during an upgrade, Bai Yi woke from a nightmare and confided in Ye Shiyu, who disabled her Modifier and revealed she had never heard of Bai Yi having a Modifier Avatar.

• Bai Yi arrived at the Yan Family villa with Yan Huan disguised as a White Cat, and Ye Shiyu welcomed her inside.
• Ye Shiyu explained that worldlines could self-correct and warned Bai Yi that using Superpowers to oppose established events could have irreversible consequences.
• Yan Huan decided to investigate the IF Route for clues about his Worldline’s collapse and Ring Finger’s Third Stage, while planning to collect items from the basement secret room.
• Meow-chan began upgrading Yan Huan and caused him to vanish while Bai Yi slept.
• Bai Yi woke from a nightmare about Yan Huan’s death, discovered Yan Huan was missing, and broke down as Ye Shiyu comforted her.
• Ye Shiyu brought Bai Yi to the secret room, gave her a Silence Ring to disable her Modifier, and said she had never heard of Bai Yi having a Modifier Avatar.

Elvira hypnotized Aria after Aria discovered the truth about Yan Huan, then ordered Index Finger to find Bai Yi and help her recover Yan Huan. Unaware that Elvira was listening, Bai Yi explained why she wanted to save Yan Huan before You Anlina appeared and attacked her.

• Aria broke free of Elvira's hypnosis and tried to escape, but Elvira subdued her and Index Finger knocked her unconscious.
• Elvira blamed Yan Huan and the Former Hosts for Aria's rejection, then decided Bai Yi had taken Yan Huan and ordered Index Finger to locate her.
• Index Finger found Bai Yi's phone in an abandoned Factory in Beihai District, where Bai Yi and Yan Huan were having dinner.
• Bai Yi told Yan Huan she wanted to save him because he had once saved her, and she did not want him to suffer as she had.
• You Anlina approached Bai Yi with a dagger, struggling against the purple influence, and shouted for Bai Yi to run.

Yan Huan unlocked the Lie Fulfillment Machine, received a Divine Fragment, and used it to question the Evil God about his Worldline collapse. The Evil God confirmed that Bai Yi’s Modifier’s Third Stage was involved, but said it had occurred before Ye Shiyu imprisoned Yan Huan, leaving him unsure what to ask with his final question.

• Ye Shiyu warned Bai Yi that Yan Ye might be an Evil God or a Modifier with designs on her, and gave her a ring that could seal a Modifier.
• Yan Huan awakened in his kitty form, discovered his new abilities, and went to the Secret Room to collect Crab Coins, but could not absorb them into his Modifier.
• Yan Huan chose the Lie Fulfillment Machine, bound it to Bai Yi, and received an S-rank reward: a Divine Fragment shaped like a crab leg.
• Yan Huan ate the fragment and entered a dark ocean where five fingers rose from the sea, then asked the Evil God whether his Worldline collapse was related to Ring Finger’s Third Stage ability.
• The Evil God answered yes, then told Yan Huan that Bai Yi’s Modifier had entered the Third Stage before Ye Shiyu imprisoned him in the Villa.

Bai Yi was forced by Elvira to use the Pocket Watch, causing time and the IF Route to fracture, but she stopped the collapse by forcing Time Stop to save Yan Huan. After Index Finger’s avatar prepared to attack the exhausted Bai Yi, Yan Huan appeared and caught her as she fell.

• You Anlina and Tong Yingying attacked Bai Yi, while Yan Huan realized Index Finger still had a Host and urged Bai Yi to use her Modifier.
• Elvira revealed that she was Index Finger’s Host, released Bai Yi’s hypnosis, and took control of her to make her use Time Acceleration.
• Bai Yi’s Pocket Watch triggered a time distortion that accelerated Ring Finger’s curse and opened a Spatial Rift between the IF Route and the Real Worldline.
• Bai Yi broke free of Elvira’s control, clung to her, and forced the Pocket Watch’s hour hand to activate Time Stop, sealing the rift and restoring the IF Route.
• Index Finger’s Winged Lion revealed it had been using Elvira to weaken Ring Finger, then ordered the hypnotized Tong Yingying and You Anlina to attack Bai Yi.
• As Bai Yi collapsed, Yan Huan appeared behind her, caught her, and told her, “I’m here.”

Yan Huan learned that Ring Finger’s Third Stage ability could doom Bai Yi’s bonded Yan Huan to die on his nineteenth birthday, and he feared that the tragedy might be unavoidable. When Bai Yi insisted on changing the past, he agreed to help her return to the day before Yan Huan’s death, hoping to understand the rules behind the worldline.

• The Evil God confirmed that Ring Finger already possessed its Third Stage ability when it descended on Bai Yi, and Yan Huan suspected that forming a bond with her triggered its effect.
• The Evil God answered that the World Tuner worked without negative effects, while Bai Yi told Yan Huan she intended to travel back and save Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan told Bai Yi that knowing and bonding with Yan Huan meant he would die on his nineteenth birthday, but Bai Yi still wanted to go back.
• Yan Huan agreed to accompany Bai Yi, and he discovered that letting Ye Shiyu know his identity did not change the worldline.
• Bai Yi turned the Pocket Watch, and she and Yan Huan opened a rift to a deserted villa district in Beihai District at 4:44 p.m. on the day before Yan Huan’s death.

Yan Huan rescued Bai Yi from the Index Finger and brought her to safety, then confessed his feelings while she slept. In the morning, Bai Yi woke up believing the confession had been a dream, while Yan Ye concealed his true role in saving her.

• Yan Huan resisted the Index Finger’s hypnosis, used the Toad Talisman to reach it, and forced it to explain the Causality Bomb; it claimed killing Bai Yi was the only way to stop it.
• Yan Huan foiled Tong Yingying’s attack and destroyed the phone, freeing the hypnotized people before carrying Bai Yi away from the beach.
• At the villa, Yan Huan stayed beside the sleeping Bai Yi as she cried and spoke about saving him, then confessed that he liked her and kissed her.
• Bai Yi woke the next morning thinking Yan Huan’s confession had been a dream and excitedly told Yan Ye about it.
• Yan Ye struck Bai Yi with a paw when she described her extravagant dream, then claimed he had saved her because he was a master of love.

Yan Huan watched Bai Yi struggle through the night to find help for his past self, then returned with food and told her that her Time Stop rescue plan would fail because Yan Huan would recognize the duplicate Bai Yi. The chapter left Bai Yi stunned as her bread fell to the floor.

• Bai Yi planned to use Time Stop to rescue Yan Huan from the ambulance, while Yan Huan believed changes to the past would overwrite her attempt.
• Bai Yi watched Ye Shiyu flirt with Yan Huan during their candlelit dinner and grew jealous, then stayed hungry in a nearby villa.
• Yan Huan left to find food and followed Bai Yi as she ran toward the city to seek help for his past self, vomiting from exhaustion along the way.
• Yan Huan gave Bai Yi electrolyte water and tried to stop her from continuing, but she insisted on finding help and ran off.
• Yan Huan returned to the villa with bread and drinks, then warned Bai Yi that Time Stop would reveal her duplicate to Yan Huan because he was immune to some Modifier effects.

Bai Yi and Yan Huan rested in a bath after discussing her mistakes in the previous night's fight and the need to keep their conversations private. Bai Yi opened up about her absent father, and they planned to travel back to the time Lemon plotted against her to resolve the misunderstanding between Yan Huan and her.

• Yan Huan confronted Bai Yi about revealing that she could travel between worlds, and she agreed to keep such matters and their conversations private.
• Bai Yi teased Yan Huan by carrying him into the bath, where he became flustered as she soaked with him.
• While they bathed, Bai Yi complained about her friends' family troubles and admitted she had never met her father, though she had often wanted to.
• Yan Huan offered to take Bai Yi to meet her father in the past, but she said saving Yan Huan came first.
• Bai Yi thanked Yan Huan and said they would leave that afternoon to revisit the time Lemon plotted against her and resolve the issue between Yan Huan and her.

Bai Yi learned that Yan Huan might know about her use of Indifference and Time Stop, but reassured herself that his silence meant he liked her. The next morning, she helped divert an ambulance, only for Index Finger to attack her as a second Ring Finger host, leaving Yan Huan’s worldline still set to collapse on July 1.

• Yan Huan warned Bai Yi that her panic was destabilizing the worldlines, then calmed her by saying her upgraded Modifier concealed her actions from Yan Huan.
• Bai Yi concluded that Yan Huan’s silence about her embarrassing use of superpowers proved he really liked her, while Yan Huan chose not to correct her.
• The next morning, Bai Yi intervened in the ambulance crash, diverting the vehicle into her rented villa instead of letting it strike Yan Huan and the others.
• Index Finger identified two Ring Finger hosts and sent hypnotized nurses to kill Bai Yi and defuse the Causality Bomb.
• When Bai Yi could not use Time Acceleration and was pinned down, she opened her eyes and used the Silence Ring to incapacitate the nurses, then fled with Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan arrived too late to understand what had happened and saw the worldlines fall into disorder, while his own still collapsed on July 1, his nineteenth birthday.

Bai Yi and Yan Huan traveled into the past to retrieve the Sheet Music Lemon had taken, but Hitomi Sakuramiya warned Bai Yi about Lemon’s inquiries into her family. While searching Lemon’s dressing room, Bai Yi found files about Zuo Jiangqin and Bai Letian and secretly kept them.

• Bai Yi explained her plans to stop Lemon and retrieve the Sheet Music, then ran into Hitomi Sakuramiya at Golden Lion Entertainment.
• Bai Yi tried to maintain her aloof past persona around Hitomi Sakuramiya, but accidentally called her “Loser-chan.”
• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Bai Yi that Lemon had approached her mother and that Lemon’s assistant had investigated her family.
• Bai Yi activated Indifference and entered Lemon’s temporary dressing room with Yan Huan to search for the Sheet Music.
• Bai Yi heard someone outside unable to summon a Pocket Watch and found files stating Zuo Jiangqin had entered the country illegally and Bai Letian was imprisoned for fraud and illegal fundraising.
• Bai Yi hid both files, while Yan Huan found a sheet of music.

After learning that they had to undo the important bonds between Bai Yi and Yan Huan to prevent the Causality Bomb, Yan Huan and Bai Yi traveled through the Worldline to revisit their past. They were pulled into a scarlet IF Route where Bai Yi had attempted suicide, and Yan Huan found a diary revealing her lingering feelings and the pressure that had driven them apart.

• Yan Huan saw that his Worldline still collapsed on July 1, and he told Bai Yi they needed to avoid contact until then and undo their important bonds in reverse order.
• Bai Yi agreed to the plan after Yan Huan promised he could restore Yan Huan’s memories, and they identified their first destination as the day he helped her confront Lemon’s plagiarism accusation.
• After resting in a shopping mall, Yan Huan and Bai Yi left the Worldline, but its golden light and nearby IF Routes turned scarlet and dragged them into one.
• Yan Huan found Bai Yi bleeding in a bathtub with no Pocket Watch, called an ambulance from the hotel room, and discovered her diary beside the bed.
• Yan Huan read that Bai Yi still loved him despite his marriage to Aria, that Aria’s mother had forced them to leave Linmen and cut contact, and that Bai Yi wondered whether he would have chosen her if he could go back.

In the past, Bai Yi overheard An Le explain why Yan Huan had chosen Hitomi Sakuramiya at the High Table Banquet and convinced herself that Yan Huan truly loved her. She danced and sang the song she had prepared for him, while in the future Yan Huan vanished and the others found his memorial portrait, their Modifiers gone, and their memories altered.

• Bai Yi and Yan Huan confirmed that only one of them could use the Pocket Watch’s time-stopping ability at a time.
• Bai Yi overheard An Le tell Miyake Huhu that the High Table Banquet dance did not determine her feelings for Yan Huan, and Bai Yi decided his choices had been compromises to handle the Modifiers.
• Bai Yi and Yan Huan stole Lemon’s phone, and Bai Yi planned to expose its compromising videos before resolving to invite Yan Huan to dance and sing her prepared song for him.
• Bai Yi danced and sang for Yan Huan, who wondered whether he could prevent her disappearance and considered a costly alternative.
• On Yan Huan’s nineteenth birthday in the future, Ye Shiyu watched him disappear, then found his memorial portrait and learned that the Hosts’ Modifiers and memories had changed.
• Ye Shiyu discovered the Hypnosis App was gone and asked the others where Bai Yi was.

Yan Huan discovered that this future IF Route had no Causality Bomb and that the Golden Lion Group was targeting Bai Yi, whom Tong Yingying rescued. Bai Yi joined Tong Yingying and Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Anti-Spencer Alliance, then was stunned when You Anlina arrived as its supposed final member.

• Yan Huan found that Golden Lion Group staff planned to take Bai Yi away without treating her, but Tong Yingying attacked them and rescued Bai Yi with Nara’s help.
• Yan Huan learned that Elvira had married him to Aria and was using the Golden Lion Group against the women close to him, while the group suspected Tong Yingying of his disappearance.
• Tong Yingying told Bai Yi that Yan Huan was twenty-six in this Worldline, leaving Yan Huan stunned that the Causality Bomb had not activated.
• Bai Yi agreed to join Tong Yingying and Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Anti-Spencer Alliance, hoping to learn why this Worldline had no Causality Bomb.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya arrived with You Anlina, and Bai Yi and Yan Huan were shocked to find her joining the alliance.

The Hosts realized Bai Yi’s trip into the past had left the world in an unfinished, editable state, and Aria awakened Thumb’s power to reach Yan Huan through time. The power surged toward Bai Yi and Yan Huan as they arrived at the Comic Convention, the second-to-last knot Bai Yi intended to undo.

• At Wang Yulu's Villa, Ye Shiyu and the other Hosts discussed their confused memories, vanished Modifiers, and Yan Huan’s disappearance, which they connected to Bai Yi.
• Aria described the altered world as a phone screen still in editing mode, and Hitomi Sakuramiya reasoned that Bai Yi and Yan Huan were still in the past and might be reachable.
• At Hitomi Sakuramiya’s urging, Aria recalled her Modifier and awakened Thumb, whose power revealed a bubble of thoughts and sent a wave toward Yan Huan’s worldline.
• The wave passed through Yan Huan’s past, where Bai Yi and Yan Huan had already undone their bonds in several earlier moments.
• Bai Yi and Yan Huan arrived at the Golden Lion Group Convention Center for the Comic Convention, the second-to-last knot Bai Yi planned to undo.

Bai Yi and Yan Huan investigated the Anti-Spencer Alliance and discovered that their memories of Modifier hosts differed, while You Anlina revealed her painful history with Yan Huan. At the Golden Lion Group, Aria confronted Elvira with Yan Huan’s claim that Elvira was the real host, and saw her mother transform into a monstrous creature.

• Bai Yi learned from Hitomi Sakuramiya that Aria Spencer, not You Anlina, had been the Index Finger’s host, and Yan Huan urged Bai Yi to test what others knew about her abilities.
• Bai Yi asked You Anlina about her powers and her relationship with Yan Huan; You Anlina said she had once believed he liked her, but he rejected her after they gave up their Modifiers.
• You Anlina said she had joined the Anti-Spencer Alliance because Elvira drove her from Linmen, and Bai Yi admitted she also wanted to ask Yan Huan how he felt.
• Yan Huan resolved to confess his feelings to Bai Yi after saving her.
• At the Golden Lion Group, Aria asked Elvira where Yan Huan was, and Elvira claimed Hitomi Sakuramiya and Tong Yingying had taken him away.
• Aria told Elvira that Yan Huan had said Elvira was the real Modifier host who had deceived everyone; Elvira denied it, and Aria saw her transform into a monstrous birdlike creature.

Yan Huan planned to stop the Causality Bomb by sending Bai Yi back and dying before it detonated, while Bai Yi traveled to the past to undo another knot. At the Comic Convention, Bai Yi learned her mother had hidden her imprisoned father’s letters, then tried to encourage her past self by pretending to be a fan, but her awkward approach failed.

• Yan Huan told Meow-chan that he had a plan to prevent the Causality Bomb from destroying the world, while privately considering a last-resort plan to die before it detonated.
• Bai Yi noticed a police officer from Linmen Second Prison buying a ticket to her performance and declined Yan Huan’s suggestion that she approach him about her father.
• The next day, Bai Yi used Indifference to enter the Comic Convention backstage and overheard Zuo Jiangqin admit that she had thrown away the letters Bai Yi’s imprisoned father had sent.
• Bai Yi reached the Lounge and found her gloomy past self alone, then disguised herself and tried to encourage her by pretending to be an enthusiastic fan.
• Past Bai Yi pulled her hand away and questioned how the disguised Bai Yi had entered the Lounge, leaving Yan Huan unimpressed with her acting.

Elvira hypnotized Aria and, after Aria rejected her, had Index Finger render her unconscious and searched for Bai Yi, believing she could recover Yan Huan and restore their relationship. At the abandoned factory, Bai Yi explained why she was determined to save Yan Huan, just before You Anlina attacked her under apparent hypnosis.

• Aria confronted Elvira over her manipulation of Yan Huan, but Elvira hypnotized her and restrained her when she tried to escape.
• Index Finger knocked Aria unconscious, and Elvira rejected its suggestion to erase or brainwash her memories while insisting she could bring Yan Huan back.
• Elvira blamed Bai Yi for Yan Huan's disappearance and ordered Index Finger to locate her; Index Finger found Bai Yi's phone at an abandoned factory in Beihai District.
• Elvira and Index Finger overheard Bai Yi mention the IF Route and reality, and Index Finger persuaded Elvira that killing Bai Yi could let her use Ring Finger's power to reach another Worldline.
• Bai Yi told Yan Huan she wanted to save him because he had once saved her, and Yan Huan warned her to duck as You Anlina approached with a dagger and urged her to run.