Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi tried to prevent her past self from giving Yan Huan the USB drive, but the Worldline resisted her attempts and forced the original events toward repeating. As Bai Yi and Yan Ye tried to stop the backing track from playing, Yan Ye suffered a severe backlash, while Bai Yi escaped with Yan Huan’s phone.

• Bai Yi praised her past self and asked for an unreleased song, but her past self refused and Zuo Jiangqin ordered her to leave.
• Yan Huan explained that the stable Worldline might be disrupted by stopping him from playing the backing track, so Bai Yi and Yan Ye prepared to interfere backstage.
• Bai Yi distracted her past Yan Huan by pretending to be a student and fan while Yan Ye entered the Media Room to stop Meow-chan from inserting the USB drive.
• Yan Ye defeated Meow-chan and called it by name, but the Worldline still caused the USB drive to appear in the port and made Yan Huan’s phone dial Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi snatched Yan Huan’s phone and ran, while Yan Ye pulled the USB drive free and collapsed with cracks across his body and golden blood flowing from them.

Bai Yi was forced by Elvira and Index Finger into using her Pocket Watch, which destabilized the IF Route and opened a rift toward the Real World. She stopped the distortion at great cost, but collapsed as Index Finger moved to attack her; Yan Huan appeared and caught her.

• You Anlina and Tong Yingying attacked Bai Yi, while Yan Huan deduced that Index Finger still had a Host and that Bai Yi had not lost her Modifier.
• Elvira revealed that she was Index Finger’s Host, rejected the Winged Lion’s demand to kill Bai Yi, and hypnotized Bai Yi into trying to travel to the Worldline where Aria still loved her.
• Bai Yi’s Pocket Watch triggered Time Distortion, opening a Spatial Rift and causing Ring Finger’s Counterattack Curse to strike Elvira; Bai Yi fought to stop Elvira from crossing into the Real World.
• Bai Yi overcame her weakness and used Time Stop to close the rift, but Index Finger survived and re-hypnotized Tong Yingying and You Anlina to attack her.
• Bai Yi collapsed before she could save Yan Huan, but a young man identified as Yan Huan appeared and caught her.

Yan Huan defeated the Index Finger on the beach and stayed beside the unconscious Bai Yi, confessing that he liked her while she slept. The next morning, Bai Yi woke safely and told Yan Ye about what she believed was a romantic dream.

• The Index Finger tried to hypnotize Yan Huan, but he resisted, teleported to it with the Toad Talisman, and threatened to attack Elvira until it surrendered.
• The Index Finger claimed killing Bai Yi was the only way to stop the Causality Bomb, but Yan Huan rejected its advice and destroyed its phone after Tong Yingying ambushed him.
• Yan Huan carried Bai Yi to the abandoned villa, comforted her as she called for him in her sleep, and sincerely confessed that he liked her.
• Bai Yi dreamed that Yan Huan had confessed to her, then woke the next morning and realized she had survived.
• Bai Yi excitedly described her dream to Yan Ye, who slapped her and denied that Yan Huan would have made such an elaborate promise.

Bai Yi and Yan Huan visited Bai Yi’s father, Bai Letian, in prison, where she found him kinder than she had expected. They then used Time Acceleration to enter an IF Route, arriving in a tentacle-covered Linmen where Ye Shiyu warned that An Le might have noticed them.

• Officer Zhou brought Bai Yi and Yan Huan to the prison visiting room, where Bai Yi nervously waited to meet Bai Letian.
• Bai Yi and Bai Letian spoke about her life and her mother, Zuo Jiangqin, before Bai Letian apologized and urged her to rest.
• Bai Yi told Yan Huan that Bai Letian seemed nice, then proposed changing the past so her younger self would learn Yan Huan was her fan and would not activate Indifference.
• Bai Yi used Time Acceleration to travel to an IF Route, where she and Yan Huan found a ruined Linmen filled with flesh and writhing tentacles.
• Ye Shiyu appeared, warned that An Le might have heard them, and led Bai Yi and Yan Huan toward the Port.

Bai Yi and Yan Huan rested after the previous night’s battle, and Yan Huan scolded her for revealing that they could travel between worlds. While bathing together, Bai Yi spoke about her family and her absent father; Yan Huan offered to take her back in time to meet him, but she chose to prioritize saving Yan Huan and planned to leave that afternoon to confront the events involving Lemon.

• Yan Huan held a post-battle reflection and apology meeting, reprimanding Bai Yi for discussing their ability to travel between worlds and reminding her to communicate with him mentally.
• Bai Yi carried Yan Huan into the bath to tease him, and he was startled by her nakedness before relaxing in the warm water with her.
• Bai Yi complained that Spencer, Ye Shiyu, Hitomi Sakuramiya, and others had supportive families, then explained that she had never met her father and had often wondered about him.
• Yan Huan offered to take Bai Yi back in time to meet her father, but Bai Yi said saving Yan Huan came first and thanked him for the offer.
• Bai Yi said they would set off that afternoon to return to when Lemon plotted against her and resolve the issue between her and Yan Huan.

Bai Yi and Yan Huan reached the true past, where Bai Yi learned Yan Huan had been her fan and let go of her grudge against him. Although Yan Ye concealed that Yan Huan’s real Worldline remained shattered, he agreed to let Bai Yi make one more trip to try to change her father’s fate.

• In a disastrous IF Route, Bai Yi promised Ye Shiyu she would save Yan Huan before traveling back to the Spring Semester entrance exam.
• At the exam, Bai Yi received the Moment Pocket Watch and overheard that Yan Huan had repeatedly listened to her songs, causing her to reconsider her resentment toward him.
• Bai Yi’s past self returned to the exam room without using the watch, and Yan Ye told Bai Yi the final knot in Yan Huan’s Worldline had vanished.
• Bai Yi saw that Yan Huan’s Worldline appeared smooth again, and Yan Ye let her believe she had saved him, though his view of the real Worldline showed it had shattered.
• Bai Yi asked to travel back once more to help her father, and Yan Ye agreed after she explained she wanted a normal family life as well as Yan Huan’s survival.

Bai Yi and Yan Huan traveled into the past, where Hitomi Sakuramiya warned Bai Yi that Lemon had secretly met with her mother and that Lemon’s assistant was investigating her family. As Bai Yi searched Lemon’s dressing room for the sheet music, she discovered files about Zuo Jiangqin and Bai Letian and secretly took them.

• Bai Yi laid out three plans to stop Lemon’s plot and chose to steal the sheet music her mother had given Lemon.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya recognized Bai Yi, then led her to a break room and warned her about Lemon’s meeting with her mother and the investigation into her family.
• Bai Yi and Yan Huan went to Lemon’s dressing room under Indifference, where Bai Yi heard her past self unable to summon her Pocket Watch.
• Bai Yi found files stating that Zuo Jiangqin had entered the country illegally and that Bai Letian was imprisoned for fraud and illegal fundraising, then hid both files.
• Yan Huan found a sheet of music in the dressing room.

Bai Yi traveled with Yan Huan to the day her father, Bai Letian, was arrested, hoping Officer Zhou had uncovered evidence that could clear him. Instead, she learned that Bai Letian had accepted blame to protect her mother and keep Bai Yi from being left alone, and the revelation triggered a dangerous change in her Pocket Watch as she glimpsed Yan Huan’s collapsing future worldline.

• Bai Yi chose November 11, the day Bai Letian was arrested, as their destination, and Yan Huan anchored the time despite realizing it was only months after his own birth.
• At Linmen Airport, Bai Yi saw young Bai Letian drop a family photograph, returned it to him, and watched Officer Zhou’s team arrest him.
• Bai Yi and Yan Huan entered the room where Officer Zhou played recordings showing that Zuo Jiangqin had pressured Bai Letian to obtain legal status and money for their daughter, while Bai Letian had taken the blame to protect them.
• Officer Zhou confronted Bai Letian about giving Zuo Jiangqin the stolen money and using Bai Yi as leverage, then lost his temper and knocked Bai Letian to the floor.
• Bai Yi realized that her mother had lied about Bai Letian and saw Yan Huan’s worldline still collapsing; her Pocket Watch changed, her eyes turned gold, and she fled in despair.
• Bai Yi ran into Yulu at the airport, who comforted her, while Yan Huan arrived and recognized the man accompanying Yulu as a shocking threat.

Bai Yi recovered the sheet music and, after overhearing An Le explain her feelings about the High Table Banquet, mistakenly concluded that Yan Huan truly loved her. She danced and sang the song she had prepared for him, while Yan Huan considered a costly way to change the future; the chapter ended with him disappearing on his nineteenth birthday and the others finding his memorial portrait and altered memories.

• Bai Yi and Yan Huan discovered that only one of them could use the Pocket Watch at a time, then Bai Yi secretly followed her past self and confirmed it.
• Bai Yi overheard An Le tell Miyake Huhu that she did not need the High Table Banquet dance to prove her feelings for Yan Huan, and she interpreted this as evidence that Yan Huan's compromises hid genuine love for her.
• Bai Yi and Yan Huan stole Lemon's phone and found explicit videos, then Bai Yi said she would invite Yan Huan to dance privately and sing him her prepared song after saving him.
• Bai Yi danced while holding Yan Huan and sang the song she had written for him, as Yan Huan weighed a possible solution to her disappearance and the golden Worldline stirred.
• On Yan Huan's nineteenth birthday, he vanished at 4:44 p.m.; at 4:45 p.m., Ye Shiyu found his memorial portrait, and the Hosts realized their Modifiers were gone and their memories had changed.

After learning that her parents’ tragedy had still happened and believing Yan Huan remained unsaved, Bai Yi tried to use the Pocket Watch to erase herself. Yan Ye stopped her and revealed evidence that Yan Huan had pretended to be her fan to deal with her Modifier; devastated, Bai Yi agreed to return with Yan Ye instead of traveling through time again.

• Bai Yi broke down after learning that her parents’ return journey had ended in disaster, while Bai Letian was taken away in handcuffs.
• Bai Yi said she would go back to the past to save Yan Huan, and Yan Ye bit her wrist to stop her from using the Pocket Watch.
• Bai Yi blamed herself for Yan Huan’s suffering and insisted she had to save him, while Yan Ye argued that she should not disappear for his sake.
• Yan Ye showed Bai Yi the date on Yan Huan’s playlist and claimed Yan Huan had only pretended to be her fan to deal with her Modifier.
• Bai Yi cried over the revelation but did not condemn Yan Huan, and she promised Yan Ye she would go back with him.

The Hosts realized Bai Yi’s time travel had left the world in an unfinished, altered state, and Aria used Thumb to send a pulse toward Yan Huan’s past. The pulse raced toward Bai Yi as she and Yan Huan arrived at the Comic Convention, the second-to-last knot she planned to undo.

• Ye Shiyu and the other Hosts discussed Yan Huan’s disappearance and their missing Modifiers, while Aria said the world resembled a phone screen still in editing mode.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya reasoned that Aria could affect the past from outside Bai Yi’s changes, and Aria summoned Thumb by wishing to take Yan Huan back.
• Aria’s ability exposed imagined scenes that upset Ye Shiyu, An Le, Tong Yingying, and Hitomi Sakuramiya, but Hitomi Sakuramiya urged them not to interfere.
• Aria’s golden pulse pierced the Timeline and traveled along Yan Huan’s worldline toward Bai Yi’s past, passing the knots Bai Yi had already undone.
• Bai Yi and Yan Huan arrived at the Golden Lion Group Comic Convention, where Bai Yi prepared to undo the second-to-last knot despite her hesitation.

Yan Huan fought off Aria’s Thumb and escaped with Bai Yi from a collapsing IF Route, but they returned to a later point than he expected. Bai Yi set out to confront Zuo Jiangqin while Yan Huan, back in the present, discovered he owed a Fragment and received a message from An Le.

• Bai Yi pulled Yan Huan back from Aria’s Thumb, and they used Time Acceleration to escape the destroyed IF Route and return to reality.
• Bai Yi realized they had returned several days after she began time traveling, then decided to confront Zuo Jiangqin and cut ties with her.
• Bai Yi went to the Golden Lion Building, asked William to terminate her contract, and handed him a note for Zuo Jiangqin.
• In the present, Yan Huan examined Spider Silk Fragments with Ye Shiyu and fed them into the Fragment Refiner.
• Yan Huan’s Modifier showed that he still owed one Fragment, and a message from An Le arrived.

Yan Huan planned to undo Bai Yi’s past bonds while keeping a secret contingency for the Causality Bomb, and Bai Yi began a new attempt at the Comic Convention. There, she learned her mother had hidden her father’s letters, then tried to encourage her past self by pretending to be a fan, but her performance failed to win her over.

• Yan Huan considered faking the Worldline Observer saw and secretly planned to ensure Bai Yi returned to the present, while Meow-chan questioned his intentions.
• Bai Yi noticed a police officer from Linmen Second Prison buying a ticket and learned he was likely connected to her father, but decided not to approach him.
• The next day, Bai Yi used a disguise and Indifference to enter the backstage area, intending to prevent the event that had once led Yan Huan to replace her background music.
• Bai Yi overheard the officer ask Zuo Jiangqin about her father’s letters and realized her mother had thrown them away without showing them to her.
• Bai Yi tried to imitate Yan Huan’s enthusiastic praise as she introduced herself to her past self as a fan, but her past self awkwardly pulled away and questioned how she had entered the Lounge.

Bai Yi severed ties with Zuo Jiangqin after learning why her mother resented her, then chose to save Yan Huan despite his betrayal and her ruined life. When Bai Yi traveled into an unknown IF route at 4:44, Yan Huan stopped Aria from taking him away and fell into a shattered route filled with white cat corpses as Bai Yi’s disappearance at 4:45 drew near.

• Bai Yi hid outside William’s office and overheard Zuo Jiangqin admit she regretted marrying Bai Letian and having Bai Yi, then left the Golden Lion Building with Yan Ye.
• Yan Huan called Bai Yi’s name, followed the sound of her Pocket Watch into an alley, and collapsed after touching a Modifier Fragment that brought on a curse.
• Bai Yi decided she would save Yan Huan even if it was not worth it, while Yan Ye failed to persuade her to abandon him.
• At 4:44, Bai Yi used the Pocket Watch to enter an unknown IF route, and Thumb’s golden light began carrying Yan Huan away.
• Yan Huan shouted for Aria to stop, disrupting the golden light and sending him into a destroyed IF route where white cat corpses fell around him as Bai Yi’s disappearance approached.

Bai Yi and Yan Huan tried to break the worldline knot by preventing the past Yan Huan from playing Bai Yi’s backing track, but the timeline resisted their interference. Bai Yi fled with Yan Huan’s phone while Yan Ye suffered a severe backlash after removing the USB drive, leaving the attempt unresolved.

• Bai Yi failed to persuade her past self to give her the USB drive, and Meow-chan explained that the worldline was resisting changes to the crucial event.
• Yan Huan suggested stopping his past self from playing the backing track, and Bai Yi agreed to distract him while Yan Ye handled the USB drive.
• Bai Yi confronted the past Yan Huan outside the media room, while Yan Ye entered and fought the past Meow-chan over the USB drive.
• The past Meow-chan recognized Yan Ye, but the worldline still made the USB drive appear in the port and caused the past Yan Huan’s phone to call Bai Yi.
• Bai Yi snatched the phone and ran, while Yan Ye pulled out the USB drive and collapsed with cracks and golden blood across his body.

With the IF Route collapsing and Bai Yi about to disappear, Yan Huan uncovered how her time travel had created the Causality Bomb and found the first knot between their Worldlines. He entered the past alone to undo it, accepting that the journey could cost him his safety, memories, and restored parents.

• Meow-chan warned Yan Huan that the IF Route would collapse at 4:45, and he forced himself to analyze why the Causality Bomb remained after their later knots had been undone.
• Yan Huan realized that future Bai Yi had brought the Ring Finger’s third-stage ability back to the moment of her birth, creating a causal loop in which attempts to prevent the bomb helped cause it.
• Yan Huan rejected the Ring Finger’s closed-loop logic and identified his childhood talent contest at Yasaka Company as the first knot between him and Bai Yi.
• Yan Huan located the Causality Bomb on their Worldlines and decided to travel into the past, despite the risks and the possibility that his parents would return to their original fate.
• With Meow-chan agreeing to stabilize the Worldlines, Yan Huan used his Crab Coins to open the doorway and entered the past, determined to take responsibility for Bai Yi.

Yan Huan and Bai Yi changed the past, but the failed performance left Bai Yi distressed and Yan Huan suffering backlash. Officer Zhou drove Bai Yi to visit her father, whom she had never met, and called him a fool.

• Yan Huan suffered severe backlash from changing his own past and saw past Bai Yi flee the stage after her performance collapsed.
• Bai Yi reunited with Yan Huan, and the Observer Pendulum Clock showed their knot dissolving as past Bai Yi left the stage.
• Bai Yi found Yan Huan’s playlist and photos on his phone, then agreed to visit her father after Yan Huan pointed out Officer Zhou.
• Bai Yi asked Officer Zhou to take her to see her father before 4:40, and he drove her toward Second Prison.
• Bai Yi asked what kind of person her father was, and Officer Zhou answered that he was a fool.

Bai Yi confronted her newborn self and her parents in a distorted hospital, believing her death could undo their suffering and save Yan Huan. At the same time, Yan Huan tried to stop his younger self from entering a child-star competition, but the Worldline’s correction resisted him as Bai Yi’s song and desperate cries carried across the timelines.

• Bai Yi disguised herself as a nurse and asked Zuo Jiangqin whether she regretted giving birth to her; Zuo Jiangqin said she regretted it, and Bai Yi revealed herself and raised a dagger over the baby.
• Zuo Jiangqin knocked Bai Yi away and shielded the infant, while Ring Finger’s arrival turned Linmen eerie and cut the hospital off from help.
• Bai Letian returned and begged Bai Yi not to harm his family, while Bai Yi demanded to know why her parents had made choices that left her suffering.
• Yan Huan confronted his younger self at the child-star audition and tried to keep him from competing, but the Worldline prevented him from explaining himself and erased the money he offered.
• Yan Huan attacked the boy to stop him from going inside, enduring worsening injuries until the next contestant, Bai Yi, began singing.
• Bai Yi cried that her parents’ choices, her father’s imprisonment, and Yan Huan’s death had made her life unbearable, and pleaded to be let go.

Bai Yi visited her imprisoned father, Bai Letian, and left feeling he was kinder than she had expected. She and Yan Huan then used Time Acceleration to enter a ruined IF Route, where Ye Shiyu appeared and hurried them toward the port as An Le might have noticed them.

• Officer Zhou brought Bai Yi and Yan Huan to the prison visiting room, where Bai Yi met her father, Bai Letian, for the first time.
• Bai Yi and Bai Letian talked about her life and her mother, Zuo Jiangqin, before Officer Zhou ended their visit.
• Outside the prison, Bai Yi decided her father seemed decent and discussed the final Worldline knot with Yan Huan.
• Bai Yi used Time Acceleration to travel to the IF Route, arriving in a Linmen overrun by tentacles and pink mist.
• Ye Shiyu found Bai Yi and Yan Huan, warned that their commotion could attract An Le, and led them toward the port.

Bai Yi and Yan Huan reached the true timeline, where Bai Yi used the Moment Pocket Watch to change her first meeting with Yan Huan and restore his worldline. Though they planned to return, Bai Yi asked Yan Huan for one more trip to investigate whether her father had been framed, and he reluctantly agreed.

• Bai Yi arrived at the start of the spring semester exam and discovered that the Moment Pocket Watch let her act undetected for fifteen minutes; its first effect turned Zhou Bin’s exam papers into hair-growth ads.
• Bai Yi overheard Miao Qing and Zhen Mei say Yan Huan repeatedly listened to her song, which softened her resentment and led her to leave him alone, removing the final knot in his worldline.
• Yan Huan revealed that Yan Huan’s worldline had been restored, and Bai Yi hugged him in relief after he admitted his earlier alarm had been a joke.
• Bai Yi asked to travel back one more day to investigate her father’s possible innocence and prevent her family’s hardships; Yan Huan reluctantly agreed.
• Bai Yi promised not to keep changing the past if she could not alter her father’s fate, and she imagined returning to celebrate Yan Huan’s birthday and confessing to him if he did not confess first.