Chapter Summaries

Yan Huan and the Student Council traveled to Sakuramiya Liang’s seaside villa for her birthday, where Liang surprised them by greeting them as a gracious young lady despite Hitomi Sakuramiya’s warning that she disliked celebrations. The chapter ended as Hitomi Sakuramiya recognized Liang’s elaborate act and struggled to confront her in front of the guests.

• You Anlina and Aishili mocked each other’s outfits, while Yatsuhashi Ki criticized both before Yan Huan gave You Anlina a flattering rating.
• Yatsuhashi Ki made a crude remark about girls, prompting Hitomi Sakuramiya to strike him with her bag; Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya then shared a charged glance, and Yan Huan resisted using his mind-reading ability on her.
• The Student Council rode to Liang’s villa with Nara, whose neck tattoo resembled an emblem Yan Huan had seen at Tong Yingying’s Earrings; his attempt to read Nara’s thoughts failed because he did not know her real name.
• Yan Huan noticed that You Anlina did not seem to hate Spencer, like An Le and Aunt Ye, and wondered whether she shared their protection from Spencer’s Modifier.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya told the others that Liang disliked birthdays and might greet them in pajamas, but they arrived to find the villa decorated and Liang dressed elegantly to welcome them.
• Liang greeted the guests with formal courtesy and invited them inside, leaving Hitomi Sakuramiya visibly displeased by her cousin’s sudden act.

At Sakuramiya Liang’s birthday gathering, Hitomi Sakuramiya uncovered Liang’s trick during the stick-drawing game and learned she had staged the party to thank Yan Huan. Later, Hitomi Sakuramiya shared a quiet moment with Yan Huan by the sea, but his attempt to read her feelings revealed a startlingly obsessive thought.

• Sakuramiya Liang repeatedly won the king role by using a magnet and a weighted stick, making Yan Huan feed her cake and perform other requests.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya noticed the sticks’ weight differences and exposed Liang’s cheating method, prompting Liang to run upstairs in tears.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya confronted Liang, who admitted she had wanted to thank Yan Huan for helping her after their visit to Totsuki and asked Hitomi Sakuramiya to thank him for her.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya found Yan Huan alone by the sea, where he gave her a folding fan and she proposed that they someday visit a warm, blue sea together.
• Yan Huan used Mind Reading to learn whether Hitomi Sakuramiya liked him, but the voice in her mind said she wanted to install a surveillance camera in his home.

Yan Huan struggled to interpret the Demon’s ambiguous Mind Reading and accepted Hitomi Sakuramiya’s invitation to visit the seaside again. Later, both Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya worried about whether the other truly liked them, and Nara urged them to seek the truth.

• Yan Huan considered the possible meanings of the Demon’s three thoughts and wondered whether Hitomi Sakuramiya liked him or had a voyeuristic fetish.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya reminded Yan Huan why she had become vice president and teased him about smiling more; Yan Huan agreed to visit the seaside with her again.
• Yan Huan returned to his apartment and told Meow-chan he was distressed by the uncertainty; Meow-chan urged him to look for evidence and asked whether he would still like Hitomi Sakuramiya if his fears proved true.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya admitted to Nara that she feared Yan Huan might not like her or might reject her if he learned the truth about her; Nara asked whether she would still like him either way.

Yan Huan struggled to understand why Sakuramiya had been spying on him, while Spencer went to the Student Council office to make amends for stealing his first kiss. Spencer uncovered a hidden collection of Yan Huan’s photos and surveillance equipment, and Yan Huan recognized Sakuramiya Hitomi as the owner of the laptop.

• Yan Huan told Meow-chan that Sakuramiya’s spying could come from a desire for control, sexual interest, or both, and he remained unsure of her motives.
• Spencer brought An Le expensive food out of guilt over stealing Yan Huan’s first kiss, then went to the Student Council office to find him and settle the matter.
• Spencer entered the office, found a laptop, discarded cameras, and a journal filled with secretly taken photos of Yan Huan, and tried to offer the journal to him as compensation.
• Yan Huan opened the journal, examined the surveillance equipment, and saw Sakuramiya Hitomi’s name on the laptop’s lock screen.

Yan Huan discovered that Hitomi Sakuramiya had been using her Modifier on him, but Spencer broke the Barrier before it could fully overwhelm him. Hurt and shaken, he went to Tong Yingying’s tavern, where she began to suspect he had learned about her private hobby.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya used her Modifier to make Yan Huan accept her behavior as normal, and Yan Huan struggled to resist as despair weakened his will.
• Spencer burst into the Student Council office and broke the Barrier, freeing Yan Huan before the medical team took Hitomi Sakuramiya away for examination.
• Yan Huan left the office without looking back, and Spencer followed him, thanked for interrupting Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Modifier.
• Yan Huan went to Tong Yingying’s tavern in the rain, changed into dry clothes, and drank her vodka while she tried to find out what had upset him.
• Yan Huan described someone close to him who had a strange private fetish involving him, and Tong Yingying wondered guiltily whether he had discovered her hobby.

After Hitomi Sakuramiya’s spying and manipulation shattered Yan Huan’s idealized feelings for her, Tong Yingying comforted him and secretly arranged to investigate cameras around the Tavern and employees’ homes. Meanwhile, Hitomi Sakuramiya asked Nara for help repairing her relationship with Yan Huan and grew determined to confront Spencer after the Club War.

• Yan Huan told Tong Yingying about his admiration for Hitomi Sakuramiya and how her watching and manipulation had spread through his life, prompting Tong Yingying to realize how disturbing the situation was.
• Tong Yingying stopped Yan Huan from drinking more, carried him to her room, comforted him, and kissed him before leaving him to sleep with Meow-chan beside him.
• Tong Yingying asked an associate to investigate secretly installed cameras, then refused to abandon her search for Sakede Mina after hearing that the Linmen police had identified the culprit who attacked Mama Bai.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya admitted to Nara that she had not confessed everything to Yan Huan, and Nara agreed to plan a way to repair their relationship while ordering the cameras removed.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya blamed Spencer for disrupting her Barriers and vowed to make her leave after the Club War.

Yan Huan learned that the intelligent white-snake Modifier had once chosen Tong Yingying as its host, while Meow-chan urged him to oppose the Modifiers without treating their hosts as enemies. At Totsuki Academy, An Le and Spencer discovered that the Doujin Club had been placed at the center of the Club War preliminaries, and Spencer set out to confront Hitomi Sakuramiya.

• Yan Huan woke beside Tong Yingying, and Meow-chan told him that Tong Yingying had kissed him while he was drunk.
• Meow-chan revealed that the white-snake Modifier had chosen Tong Yingying as its host, but she rejected it and badly injured it; Meow-chan advised Yan Huan to focus on the Modifiers and guide their hosts back toward normality.
• Yan Huan reasoned that the injured white snake had likely chosen a host who would find it difficult to abandon the Modifier, then Tong Yingying walked into the bathroom half-asleep and startled him.
• An Le watched Bai Yi's music video while Little Finger urged her to use her Superpower on Yan Huan, but An Le said she wanted to improve through honest effort.
• Spencer showed An Le that the Doujin Club had been assigned a central Club War location that could force its members into repeated matches, and they saw Hitomi Sakuramiya's name on the approved document.
• Spencer refused An Le's offer to ask Yan Huan for help and ran toward the classroom buildings to confront Hitomi Sakuramiya.

Hitomi Sakuramiya fought Spencer over the Club War placements, but Spencer’s taunts about Yan Huan’s feelings left Hitomi Sakuramiya devastated. Yan Huan returned to the wrecked Student Council office and found her kneeling over the fan he had given her.

• Hitomi Sakuramiya heard from Nara that Nara had helped her that morning but needed to hide because a dangerous enemy had picked up her trail.
• Spencer confronted Hitomi Sakuramiya about the Doujin Club’s assigned location, and Hitomi Sakuramiya admitted she was targeting Spencer before using her barrier to trip and disorient her.
• Spencer charged Hitomi Sakuramiya, and the two wrecked the office; Hitomi Sakuramiya accidentally threw Yan Huan’s gift box, knocking its fan open.
• Spencer taunted Hitomi Sakuramiya by saying Yan Huan had liked her and had waited for her to explain herself, prompting Hitomi Sakuramiya to cry over the fan’s inscription.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya told Spencer the club placements could no longer be changed, and Spencer backed toward the door as Yan Huan arrived.
• Yan Huan saw the ruined office and Hitomi Sakuramiya kneeling, then reassured her that he had returned to the Student Council office.

Hitomi Sakuramiya confessed that she had used her Barrier to alter Yan Huan’s common sense and apologized, while Yan Huan kept her on as vice president on probation. The chapter revealed that Nara had secretly visited Yan Huan to explain Hitomi Sakuramiya’s insecurity and urge him to give her a chance.

• Spencer left the Student Council office after upsetting Hitomi Sakuramiya, who remained kneeling beside Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan told Hitomi Sakuramiya that her earlier actions were normal and acted as though her Barrier’s common-sense alteration had kept him from being upset.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya rejected the chance to keep pretending, undid the modification, and admitted she had been wrong to use her Barrier on Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan asked Hitomi Sakuramiya to remove the cameras and their recordings, then kept her as vice president on a probationary period.
• The chapter flashed back to Nara telling Yan Huan that Hitomi Sakuramiya felt insecure and loved him, before she fled from people who recognized her as Sakede Mina.

You Anlina interviewed Yan Huan and several students about who he liked before the Club War began. Yan Huan let Hitomi Sakuramiya deliver the opening address, and the clubs’ procession ended with Spencer’s Doujin Club facing widespread hostility as the competition started.

• You Anlina questioned Yan Huan about his supposed crush, but he denied saying he liked anyone and sent her to water his roses.
• You Anlina interviewed Ye Shiyu, Bai Yi, and Hitomi Sakuramiya, who each reacted to rumors about Yan Huan’s love life; Hitomi Sakuramiya flicked You Anlina’s forehead when she guessed he might like her.
• You Anlina interviewed Spencer, who declared that the Doujin Club would win and took Ouyang’s camera after noticing the club lacked one.
• Yan Huan handed the opening address to Hitomi Sakuramiya, who declared the forty-seventh Club War officially open.
• The clubs paraded along Central Axis Avenue, and Spencer’s Doujin Club was booed by the crowd as Spencer taunted the students and drew even more anger.

The Club War began, and Spencer’s Doujin Club dominated its first challenges as she used stolen spoils to keep fighting. Ye Shiyu challenged Spencer on behalf of the Sewing Club, and the chapter ended with them drawing a scavenger race.

• Yan Huan took charge of overseeing the competition while Hitomi Sakuramiya spoke with Nara, who advised her to rebuild her relationship with Yan Huan patiently.
• Spencer defeated the Taekwondo Club, the Martial Arts Club, and other challengers, taking their belongings as spoils and restoring her stamina.
• Spencer defended An Le and the other Doujin Club members from insults, then delegated an astronomy quiz to Jiang Yun, whose score helped the club win again.
• Yan Huan considered how Spencer treated people differently depending on whether they were affected by her Modifier.
• Ye Shiyu challenged Spencer for the Sewing Club, and Yan Huan drew a scavenger race as their event.

Ye Shiyu and Spencer competed in a three-round scavenger race, with Spencer taking the first round and the two tying the second. As they began the deciding round, both drew slips reading “Student Council President,” revealing that Spencer may have cheated too.

• You Anlina explained the scavenger-race rules, and Spencer won the first round by finishing far ahead of Ye Shiyu.
• Ye Shiyu completed a connected call with her mother, while Spencer’s call to her mother went unanswered, tying the score at one round each.
• Ye Shiyu activated her hypnosis and secretly presented You Anlina with a prepared slip, while Yan Huan suspected she had tampered with the draw.
• Ye Shiyu and Spencer both drew slips reading “Student Council President,” and Ye Shiyu realized Spencer might also have cheated.

Ye Shiyu and Spencer competed to borrow Yan Huan for a 400-meter race, but their rivalry escalated into a physical fight before they agreed to carry him around the track. Ye Shiyu outlasted Spencer through careful pacing, and the chapter ended with Yan Huan calling for medical help as Ye Shiyu received her mission reward.

• Ye Shiyu and Spencer drew identical slips naming the Student Council president, refused to redraw, and fought over taking Yan Huan along.
• Spencer accused Ye Shiyu of being a perverted big sister, and the two exchanged blows until Yan Huan intervened and persuaded Spencer to draw again in exchange for advice about getting her mother to answer her calls.
• Spencer drew the same slip again, so Ye Shiyu proposed that they each carry Yan Huan around the 400-meter track and compete for the faster time.
• Ye Shiyu carried Yan Huan around the track at a controlled pace, then Spencer sprinted with him but collapsed 50 meters from the finish after exhausting herself.
• Yan Huan summoned medical help for Spencer, while Ye Shiyu received repeated notifications that her mission to make Spencer suffer a setback was complete.

After losing the day’s matches, Spencer resolved to use her power to take more from others and recover the Doujin Club’s points. The next morning, she ambushed Bai Yi in a corridor and reached for the gift Bai Yi had prepared for Yan Huan.

• Jiang Yun explained that Nino was ostracized after pursuing a girl who had started dating an Inner Court student, while the Doujin Club lost its matches and fell back to even points.
• Yan Huan explained the time difference between Linmen and New York, leaving Spencer to realize her mother could call in the evening but still did not; he also returned the Taekwondo Club President’s black belt.
• Spencer insulted Hitomi Sakuramiya when she entered the infirmary, and Yan Huan led Hitomi Sakuramiya away before the two could escalate their confrontation.
• Nino returned injured after an Inner Court opponent targeted him, and Jiang Yun warned that the Doujin Club needed to reach the top eight to keep Spencer from being expelled.
• The next morning, Spencer followed Bai Yi through Totsuki Academy, grabbed her shoulder, and demanded the gift bag she was carrying for Yan Huan.

After Spencer stole belongings from students to strengthen her power, Yan Huan confronted her and angrily denounced her selfishness, leaving her shaken. At the afternoon Club War match, Spencer tentatively offered him a cookie, while the students she had made amends to revealed that one of them had planned to exploit the compensation.

• Bai Yi and several other students went to the Student Council office to report that Spencer had taken their belongings, and Yan Huan learned that the Doujin Club had won more than a dozen matches.
• Yan Huan found Spencer at Forest Park, ordered her to return everything and apologize, and threatened to have her expelled if she stole again.
• Spencer accused Yan Huan of targeting her, and he unleashed his anger, condemning her for taking from others and calling her pitiful; she was left trembling and distressed.
• At the Doujin Club's match against the Swimming Club, Spencer repeatedly stole glances at Yan Huan before leaving a Golden Bomb Pig cookie on his chair.
• Students thanked Yan Huan after Spencer returned their things, but he overheard Yasaka admit that he planned to use the compensation as an excuse to end his relationship; Yan Huan ate Spencer's cookie.

Yan Huan uncovered that Yelena was sent by Spencer’s mother to care for her and learned more about Spencer’s medical history and unusual sensitivity to people. Meanwhile, the Doujin Club advanced through the Club War with An Le’s help, until Owen beat Spencer in a sprint and provoked her just as Yan Huan arrived.

• Yan Huan searched the infirmary and found Spencer’s medical and daily-life reports, along with documents suggesting Yelena had been posing as an AI to care for her.
• Yelena confirmed that Spencer had been treated for a congenital neurodegenerative disease as a child, described her sensitivity to other people, and said she had no school records from the Eagle Nation.
• An Le helped the Doujin Club coordinate its efforts, and the team won through the morning while Spencer celebrated their progress.
• Ye Shiyu received a Modulator App task about Yan Huan and secretly accepted it after the app changed its subject from Owen.
• Owen challenged Spencer to a hundred-meter sprint, beat her by a second, and taunted her by saying he was not taking disciples.
• An Le restrained the furious Spencer, and Yan Huan approached and greeted Owen.

Yan Huan intervened after Owen beat Spencer in a race and confronted him over his hostility, while Meow-chan explained that Owen’s talent came from providence. The chapter then shifted to Tong Yingying hunting down Nara, whose employer Hitomi Sakuramiya revealed herself before Yan Huan’s call interrupted their standoff.

• Yumiko told Ye Shiyu that Owen resented Yan Huan after losing the Student Council election, and Meow-chan explained to Yan Huan that Owen’s extraordinary running ability reflected his providence.
• Owen admitted he had raced Spencer because he disliked her and challenged her to settle things in the Club War; Yan Huan intervened, and Spencer thanked him by giving him a pig-shaped cookie.
• Yan Huan learned Hitomi Sakuramiya was absent from school, then the story shifted to Nara fleeing through a hotel on Vermilion Bird Outer Island as Tong Yingying tracked her down.
• Tong Yingying overpowered Nara and accused her of spying on Yan Huan, while Nara insisted she had been working for Hitomi Sakuramiya and was not responsible for the surveillance.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya arrived with bodyguards, admitted she had hired Nara and ordered the cameras installed, and faced off with Tong Yingying until Yan Huan’s call appeared on her phone.

Tong Yingying held Nara at gunpoint while Hitomi Sakuramiya struggled to protect her and keep Yan Huan from learning their secrets. After Hitomi Sakuramiya nearly told Yan Huan she did not like him, Tong Yingying stopped her, released Nara, and demanded answers about Mama Bai’s assassination.

• Tong Yingying confronted Hitomi Sakuramiya over her relationship with Yan Huan while holding Nara down, and Nara urged Hitomi Sakuramiya to answer Yan Huan’s incoming call.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya answered on speaker, and Yan Huan checked that she was all right after she missed Club War; Tong Yingying threatened her when she nearly revealed their situation.
• Nara accused Tong Yingying of using Mama Bai’s death as an excuse to torment her, and exposed Hitomi Sakuramiya’s feelings for Yan Huan and her secret monitoring of him.
• Tong Yingying offered to spare Nara if Hitomi Sakuramiya told Yan Huan she did not like him, and Hitomi Sakuramiya began to comply despite Nara’s warning.
• Tong Yingying interrupted Hitomi Sakuramiya and ended the call, then demanded every detail about the night Mama Bai died and gave Hitomi Sakuramiya one month to capture the assassin.

After Nara survived Tong Yingying’s attack, she told Hitomi Sakuramiya about their shared history in the Feather Gang and revealed that Tong Yingying had once been Mama Bai’s successor. Yan Huan later unlocked the Demon’s Mysterious Shop and received a free Silence Ring that could disable a Modifier host’s power for a day.

• Tong Yingying left Nara and Hitomi Sakuramiya after receiving a call from Yan Huan, and Hitomi Sakuramiya checked that Nara was safe.
• Nara explained that she and Tong Yingying had worked under Mama Bai in the Feather Gang, and that Tong Yingying became its successor after demonstrating her fighting ability.
• Nara told Hitomi Sakuramiya that an unknown woman had contacted her and likely called Yan Huan as well, then agreed to return and help her.
• Yan Huan and Meow-chan discussed Nara, Tong Yingying, and the properties of Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Modifier Fragment before Yan Huan drew three rewards.
• Yan Huan fused the rewards and chose the Demon’s Mysterious Shop over risky teleportation.
• The Demon gave Yan Huan a free Silence Ring that could disable any Modifier host’s Modifier for one day.

Yan Huan acquired a ring from the Demon shop and later encountered Spencer, You Anlina, and Jiang Nuannuan in the greenhouse as they discussed Ye Shiyu. Ye Shiyu arrived nearby with a new Forced Hypnosis ability and a mission targeting Yan Huan, leaving him and Spencer hiding inside.

• Yan Huan received the Silence ring, inspected the Demon’s other costly wares, and returned to reality with the ring hidden in his possession.
• A week later, Yan Huan watered a struggling rose at Totsuki Academy and found Spencer hiding from men sent by her family.
• Spencer told Yan Huan that the Doujin Club planned to train for the Club War instead of relying on plundering other clubs.
• You Anlina and her Xiuzhi Academy friend Jiang Nuannuan joined them and claimed Ye Shiyu was preparing to confess to Yan Huan.
• Ye Shiyu arrived outside the greenhouse with a new Forced Hypnosis ability and a mission to use it on Yan Huan, while he and Spencer stayed hidden.