Chapter Summaries

Yan Huan and Yatsuhashi Ki discovered that Spencer knew almost no mathematics during her first study-group assessment, while Principal Hermes decided to use Yan Huan to influence her. Hitomi Sakuramiya then intervened, arranged club options for An Le, and summoned club recruitment officers as she began moving against Spencer.

• Yan Huan and Yatsuhashi Ki assessed Spencer, who could not solve basic equations and did not know what an equation was.
• Yan Huan realized that Spencer's family had donated the lavish new teaching building after seeing the Spencer Golden Lion Group emblem outside.
• Hermes watched the study group and decided to play matchmaker between Spencer and Yan Huan to make Spencer behave.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya confronted Hermes about Spencer's admission and warned that poor performance could still lead to expulsion.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya arranged for An Le to join the Anime Club or Video Game Club, intending to use her connection to Spencer to gather information.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya summoned the club recruitment officers to seminar room L502, including Hua Zhaofeng of the Track and Field Club.

Ye Shiyu and Hitomi Sakuramiya clashed over Yan Huan before forming a temporary alliance against Spencer after she ate Ye Shiyu’s cookies. Yan Huan sent everyone to the club meeting, but Spencer cornered him in the men’s restroom and offered to make amends.

• Ye Shiyu arrived at the library and exchanged barbed remarks with Hitomi Sakuramiya while looking for Yan Huan.
• Ye Shiyu gave Yan Huan handmade cookies, and Spencer snatched and ate several, prompting Ye Shiyu and Hitomi Sakuramiya to turn against her.
• Yan Huan insulted Spencer and Hitomi Sakuramiya mocked her, giving Ye Shiyu and Hitomi Sakuramiya an opening to agree to work together against Spencer.
• Yan Huan sent Spencer to retrieve study materials and told Ye Shiyu and Hitomi Sakuramiya to go into the club meeting before he went to the restroom.
• Meow-chan told Yan Huan that the Modifiers had conflicting desires and were hostile toward one another.
• Spencer cornered Yan Huan in the men’s restroom and offered to make up for eating his cookies.

Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu watched club recruitment expose how outsiders were being rejected and mocked, while Spencer offered to help An Le pursue Yan Huan. After the Track and Field Club rejected Spencer and accused her of violence, she hurled a desk at Hua Zhaofeng and Piao Shuwen.

• Yan Huan warned Spencer that their agreement would end if she endangered Sakuramiya again, and Spencer teased him as they returned to classroom L502.
• Ye Shiyu learned that Principal Hermes had arranged for Spencer to join the Track and Field Club, while students mocked Zuochuan and the club recruitment process rejected several applicants.
• Spencer offered to use her money to help An Le get closer to Yan Huan, and An Le struggled to answer her.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya announced that the Track and Field Club had rejected Spencer, and Hua Zhaofeng and Piao Shuwen accused her of being violent.
• An Le defended Spencer by saying Piao Shuwen and her friends had bullied her first, but Hua Zhaofeng dismissed her and called Spencer a violent maniac.
• Spencer threw a desk across the classroom at Hua Zhaofeng and Piao Shuwen.

Spencer was taken into custody after attacking students who had bullied An Le, while Yan Huan warned her that the incident could lead to suspension and expulsion. He told her she could try to avoid expulsion by starting a club and winning the Club War, but made clear he was only offering the idea because she had once helped An Le.

• Hua Zhaofeng was struck by the desk Spencer threw and was rescued by classmates as Spencer confronted Piao Shuwen and defended An Le.
• Spencer broke a desk and threatened classmates who tried to defend Piao Shuwen, until Yan Huan ordered her to stop and security arrived to take her away.
• Ye Shiyu questioned Hitomi Sakuramiya about Piao Shuwen's bullying and pointed out that An Le had known Xiao Huan before.
• Yan Huan explained that Spencer could be suspended and might be expelled, then suggested she start her own club and enter the Club War.
• Spencer learned that she needed four members and a Club War victory, but Yan Huan refused to join and said he had only advised her because she had helped An Le.

After Aria Spencer received a one-week suspension for assaulting Hua Zhaofeng, An Le sought Yan Huan’s help and used her modifier’s pleasure effect to temporarily relieve his curse-related pain. Their handholding was witnessed by Ye Shiyu, whose glowing purple phone suggested a new threat as she arrived and addressed Yan Huan.

• Totsuki Academy announced Aria Spencer’s penalties, prompting students to criticize the punishment as too lenient.
• An Le decided to ask Yan Huan for help protecting Spencer, and he invited her to lunch on the shopping street.
• Yan Huan asked An Le about Piao Shuwen’s bullying, and An Le explained that she had been excluded and mocked.
• An Le used her modifier through touch to send pleasure into Yan Huan, temporarily easing his pain and exhaustion.
• Yan Huan released An Le’s hand after learning the effect was temporary, while Meow-chan warned him about relying on modifiers.
• Ye Shiyu appeared beside their table with her phone glowing purple, looked coldly at An Le, and greeted Yan Huan.

Yan Huan tried to manage the growing tension between Ye Shiyu and An Le, while Little Finger recognized Ye Shiyu as a terrifying threat and urged An Le to flee. After lunch, Ye Shiyu secretly used her newly upgraded Hypnosis App on Yan Huan through a nearby TV screen, then ordered him to follow her somewhere private.

• Yan Huan introduced An Le and Ye Shiyu, but Ye Shiyu grew more hostile when An Le called her Shiyu and described sleeping over at Yan Huan’s home as a child.
• Little Finger saw a purple vortex on Ye Shiyu’s phone, panicked, and persuaded An Le to leave Commercial Street.
• An Le refused Little Finger’s suggestion to stop liking Yan Huan, and Little Finger despaired at the strength of Ye Shiyu’s Modifier.
• Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu walked through Commercial Street, where he avoided looking at her phone and worried about her using the Modifier on him again.
• Ye Shiyu activated her level-two Hypnosis App through a nearby promotional TV, hypnotized Yan Huan, and told him to go somewhere private with her.

Ye Shiyu hypnotized Yan Huan and dragged him into an alley, where jealousy over An Le led her to bite and mark his shoulder. Yan Huan briefly brought Ye Shiyu back to her senses by telling her she had hurt him, but she soon tried to justify marking him in return; a call from Bai Yi interrupted her as she reached for Yan Huan’s phone.

• Ye Shiyu used her evolved Modifier to hypnotize Yan Huan and lead him to a secluded alley, where she asked whether An Le was his childhood friend.
• After Yan Huan confirmed it, Ye Shiyu embraced him, questioned where An Le had touched him, and bit his shoulder to leave her mark.
• Meow-chan tried to distract Ye Shiyu with its cuteness, but she drove it away, leaving it unable to rescue Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan told Ye Shiyu that his shoulder hurt from exercising, prompting her to realize she had ignored his well-being and step back in remorse.
• Ye Shiyu decided Yan Huan should mark her too so she could justify possessing him, but Bai Yi’s phone call interrupted her as she reached for Yan Huan’s phone.

Spencer recruited An Le and began organizing a club to avoid expulsion, while Yan Huan returned to the Student Council office after Ye Shiyu’s hypnosis and learned Hitomi Sakuramiya had already investigated Piao Shuwen. Hitomi Sakuramiya then noticed a suspicious red mark beneath Yan Huan’s collar.

• Spencer told An Le she needed to form a club and win the Club War to avoid expulsion, and An Le agreed to join.
• An Le contacted prospective members, while Spencer proposed a Doujin Club before agreeing to reconsider its theme; Jiang Yun agreed to meet them.
• Yan Huan recovered memories altered by Ye Shiyu’s Modifier and returned to school with her bite mark on his shoulder, while Ye Shiyu left wanting the hypnosis to have lasted longer.
• Yan Huan returned to the Student Council office, where Hitomi Sakuramiya had completed his paperwork and submitted a statement about Piao Shuwen bullying An Le.
• Yan Huan explained that Spencer would start a club to compete in the Club War, and Hitomi Sakuramiya noticed a red mark beneath his collar.

Hitomi Sakuramiya investigated Yan Huan’s apparent memory gaps and concluded that Ye Shiyu had used a supernatural ability to control him, adding Ye Shiyu to her threats. Meanwhile, Spencer formed the Doujin Club with An Le, Jiang Yun, Zuochuan Tatsuya, and Nino, then learned how unlikely it was that they could win the Club War and prevent her expulsion.

• Yan Huan dismissed the mark on his collar as an accident, and Hitomi Sakuramiya secretly reviewed camera footage after he left.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya followed Yan Huan’s movements on camera, saw his interaction with Ye Shiyu, and concluded that Ye Shiyu had used a supernatural ability on him.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya filed the footage and notes in Ye Shiyu’s threat folder, while also worrying about Bai Yi and Spencer.
• Spencer agreed to leave an expensive restaurant after An Le and the others objected to the prices, and the group ate at Burger Queen instead.
• Spencer invited Jiang Yun, Zuochuan Tatsuya, and Nino to join her new Doujin Club, and all three agreed.
• Jiang Yun explained the Club War’s rules and warned that their small, inexperienced club would likely be eliminated, leaving Spencer facing the prospect of expulsion.

Spencer agreed to try the Club War and gathered three potential clubmates, while Yan Huan considered how to counter the Modifiers and arranged to visit Ye Lan and Ye Shiyu. After planning to use Ye Lan to disrupt Ye Shiyu’s possessiveness, Yan Huan resumed training and encountered Tong Yingying at the gym, where her reaction to hurting him hinted at an unusual interest.

• Spencer traded burgers with An Le, agreed to try the Club War, and said she would not blame the others if she was expelled; Jiang Yun agreed to try joining her club, while Zuochuan Tatsuya and Nino hesitated over its theme.
• Yan Huan rejected Spencer’s request to register the Doujin Club as proposed, but told An Le that the club might be approved if its registration form explained the theme and avoided prohibited content.
• Yan Huan assessed the Modifiers and decided Ye Shiyu’s possessiveness might be countered through Ye Lan, so he asked Ye Lan if he could stay at her place for the weekend.
• Ye Lan agreed that Yan Huan could ride back with Ye Shiyu on Friday, and Yan Huan told her he simply missed her and Ye Shiyu.
• Tong Yingying arrived at the gym and pinched Yan Huan’s shoulder after he teased her; she briefly showed an inscrutable excitement at his pain before letting him go.

Yan Huan trained at Tong Yingying’s gym, where her acquaintances Chi Yuan and Bai Lu flirted with him and were promptly driven off by Tong Yingying. The chapter ended with Bai Yi agonizing over how to message Yan Huan about the important matter she had raised earlier.

• Tong Yingying offered to coach Yan Huan and teased him after noticing him look at her legs, while Yan Huan wondered whether his attraction was caused by a bonus from Meow-chan.
• Chi Yuan and Bai Lu approached Yan Huan and invited him to work at their nightclub, but Tong Yingying seized them by the shoulders and made them leave.
• Tong Yingying warned Yan Huan about female creeps, then pinched his back while he trained; outside, Chi Yuan and Bai Lu decided to help her get closer to him.
• Bai Yi stared at her chat with Yan Huan, repeatedly drafted and deleted messages, and fretted over how to ask him about the MV.

Bai Yi fretted over Yan Huan’s delayed reply, then learned he had agreed to appear anonymously in her music video in exchange for her singing at the Club War ceremonies. Her excitement was tempered by the continuing cold war with her mother, Zuo Jiangqin, and the pocket watch power she had forgotten returned as she thought about their conflict.

• Bai Yi plucked petals from fake flowers to decide whether to ask Yan Huan about his unanswered messages, and Jiang Xiong came home and asked what was wrong.
• Bai Yi told Jiang Xiong about her invitation to Yan Huan and her hints of affection; he warned her that other girls might pursue Yan Huan and advised her to learn more about him.
• Bai Yi imagined Tong Yingying trying to keep Yan Huan at work, then received Yan Huan’s messages and learned he had agreed to film her music video without showing his face.
• Bai Yi learned Yan Huan wanted her to sing at the Club War’s opening and closing ceremonies instead of taking money, and she planned to delay her reply while doing skincare.
• Jiang Xiong urged Bai Yi and Zuo Jiangqin to talk, but Bai Yi said she believed her mother secretly disapproved of her singing and feared she would criticize her if she failed.
• Bai Yi recalled her late father and acknowledged Jiang Xiong’s place in their family; as she thought about her conflict with Zuo Jiangqin, her pocket watch reappeared and began ticking.

Yan Huan coordinated the Student Council’s preparations for the Club War while struggling with the hunger and soreness caused by his training. Spencer and An Le arrived to discuss the Doujin Club’s participation, leaving Hitomi Sakuramiya uneasy about their presence.

• Yan Huan shared bread with the Student Council members, then assigned You Anlina, Yatsuhashi Ki, and Aishili tasks for the Club War and warned You Anlina not to repeat her past misconduct.
• You Anlina discovered the unapproved Doujin Club on the participating clubs list, and Yan Huan told her the club could decide its own event later.
• Spencer burst into the office with An Le and accused Yan Huan of treating An Le better because they were childhood friends, prompting You Anlina to narrate the encounter as a romantic scandal.
• Yan Huan threatened to call security, and Spencer obediently sat down while An Le joined the meeting.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya offered Spencer and An Le tea so they could discuss the Doujin Club’s participation, but she privately felt uncomfortable with both girls inside her Barrier.

Hitomi Sakuramiya assessed An Le’s vulnerability and reviewed information on Ye Shiyu and Spencer while explaining her desire to secretly protect Yan Huan. After helping the lost Sakuramiya Liang find the campus exit, Yan Huan met Ye Shiyu at the gate and left with her for the weekend.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya guided visiting students through Totsuki’s history and defended its student government, while Sakuramiya Liang criticized the system and mocked Yan Huan before learning he had scored a perfect mark on the national examination.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya comforted her lonely cousin Sakuramiya Liang, then discussed An Le’s weakness and her own reasons for protecting Yan Huan with Nara, who delivered files on Ye Shiyu and Aria Spencer.
• Sakuramiya Liang got lost after the tour, hurt herself, and found her phone dead, so she reluctantly accepted help from Yan Huan, who charged her phone and showed her the exit.
• Sakuramiya Liang realized her rescuer was Yan Huan, called Hitomi Sakuramiya after charging her phone, and apologized to her cousin before hanging up.
• Yan Huan met Ye Shiyu at the campus entrance, and she invited him to go home with her for the weekend.

Yan Huan brought Meow-chan to the Ye residence and tried to keep Ye Shiyu from using her remaining hypnosis by relying on Ye Lan’s affection for cats. After Yan Huan locked himself in his room for the night, Ye Shiyu used a key to undo both locks and opened the door.

• Yan Huan brought Meow-chan home with Ye Shiyu, hoping the cat would help him carry out his plan to involve Ye Lan.
• Meow-chan won Ye Lan over, and Yan Huan stayed near her through dinner and a movie to avoid being alone with Ye Shiyu.
• Ye Shiyu asked Yan Huan where he wanted to go the next day, then returned to her room and packed a camera in a suitcase with bottles and other items.
• Yan Huan went to bed with Meow-chan keeping watch and locked his bedroom door twice.
• Ye Shiyu approached in the night, used a key to unlock both turns, and pushed open Yan Huan’s door.

Ye Shiyu secretly hypnotized and tormented Yan Huan in his room while Ye Lan searched the house for her. Yan Huan resisted the hypnosis and concealed what happened, but Ye Lan spotted Ye Shiyu leaving his room and silently followed her upstairs.

• Meow-chan led Ye Lan to notice that Ye Shiyu was missing from her bedroom, and Ye Lan called her.
• Ye Shiyu told Ye Lan she was outside for a walk while she applied a medicinal oil to Yan Huan in his locked guest room.
• Ye Lan found Ye Shiyu's outdoor shoes by the entrance and went to check Yan Huan's room, while Yan Huan briefly overpowered Ye Shiyu before her hypnosis command made him return to bed.
• Ye Shiyu cleaned Yan Huan, told him to sleep and forget the night, took a photograph, and left his room.
• Ye Lan secretly watched Ye Shiyu return to her bedroom, then went upstairs to investigate.

Ye Lan discovered Ye Shiyu had secretly entered Yan Huan’s room and embroidered her name onto his clothes, then confronted her after sending Yan Huan away. Ye Shiyu admitted she had acted out of possessiveness, and the chapter ended with Meow-chan telling Yan Huan that Ye Lan had knocked a Modifier fragment out of Ye Shiyu and that his plan was only at its second step.

• Ye Lan questioned Yan Huan at breakfast and learned that he had locked his door and knew nothing about what happened during the night.
• Meow-chan knocked over Yan Huan’s laundry, and Ye Lan found Ye Shiyu’s embroidered name hidden on his clothes.
• Ye Lan sent Yan Huan back to the South District, then confronted Ye Shiyu about entering his room and marking his clothes.
• Ye Shiyu confessed that she liked Yan Huan and had acted from guilt and possessiveness; Ye Lan punished her, banned her from contacting him, and ordered her to remove the embroidery.
• Meow-chan told Yan Huan that Ye Lan had knocked Ye Shiyu’s Modifier fragment loose, and Yan Huan said the plan had only reached its second step.

Yan Huan learned that Tongyao Tavern had been losing customers and offered to help Tong Yingying revive its business. At midnight, the Modifier’s new rewards left him with a major boost to his reproduction attribute, and he chased Meow-chan around his room in frustration.

• Tian Li and Guan Rong told Yan Huan that Tongyao Tavern had recently been getting fewer customers.
• Yan Huan showed Tong Yingying online posts complaining about the tavern while praising its former college-boy worker, and he offered to help bring business back.
• Yan Huan learned from Meow-chan that Ye Shiyu’s Modifier Fragment still was not enough to upgrade his Modifier.
• When the weekly rewards refreshed, Yan Huan rejected the Bloodthirsty Berserker and Ascetic options and chose the blessing that granted attribute fragments and points.
• Yan Huan received stamina and strength fragments plus two reproduction attribute points, then chased Meow-chan around his rented room.

Yan Huan accompanied Bai Yi toward the club building while Lin Wanwan accepted a lucrative offer to advise Spencer’s new club. When Lin Wanwan opened the clubroom door and was buried in a flood of doujinshi, she wanted to quit.

• Ye Shiyu avoided Yan Huan all day, so he planned to contact her on Plane about joining a club.
• Bai Yi came to Totsuki Academy and joined Yan Huan on his way to the club building, hoping to discuss her music video and meet his friends.
• Lin Wanwan spoke with Yatsuhashi Ki and Aishili about student bullying and told them she had become a club adviser.
• Lin Wanwan had accepted the adviser position after Golden Lion Group employees offered her a large payment and warned her to keep Spencer from being expelled.
• Aishili tried to warn Lin Wanwan that Spencer’s club was the Doujin Club, but Lin Wanwan opened the door and was knocked down by a torrent of doujinshi.

An Le and Hitomi Sakuramiya drew inspiration from the doujin they read, while Bai Yi struggled with her mother’s doubts about her singing career. Yan Huan went to Ye Shiyu’s mansion late at night and messaged her that he was waiting downstairs, leaving her startled by his arrival.

• An Le told Little Finger she had helped create Pleasure Purgatory, and Little Finger revealed it could teleport within about fifteen meters of her.
• Little Finger made a potion inspired by the doujin and told An Le it could improve her parents’ relationship; An Le nearly poured it away but left it on her desk.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya said she wanted to confine Yan Huan in a controlled artificial world, and Nara warned her against the idea.
• Bai Yi received filming instructions for her music video at Golden Lion Tower and overheard Zuo Jiangqin questioning whether her singing could succeed.
• Yan Huan traveled to Ye Lan's Western-Style Mansion, messaged Ye Shiyu that he was waiting downstairs, and heard something fall in her room.