Chapter Summaries

Su Yi and his companions entered Fengjing Town, where countless Human Realm Immortals had taken over local bodies and established their own settlement. As Wu Wenze led the group to negotiate with the Tang Family, Su Yi decided he would try deterrence first and use force if the immortals refused to obey the laws.

• A childlike Human Realm Immortal warned Su Yi’s group to leave town, then directed Wu Wenze to the Tang Family when he asked to negotiate.
• Wu Wenze restrained Gu Tongtong and led the group toward the Tang Family’s old residence.
• Zhang Luolin discovered that more than a hundred people they passed were Human Realm Immortals, including former colleagues in stolen bodies.
• Wu Wenze feared the Thirteenth Bureau and the human world’s forces could not control the immortals, while Su Yi remained confident.
• Su Yi resolved to let Wu Wenze negotiate first, but planned to use force or eliminate the immortals if they would not comply with current laws.

Wu Wenze and his companions entered the Tang Family's old residence to negotiate with the hundreds of Human Realm Immortals gathered in Fengjing Town. Su Yi took charge of the talks, then had Ye Xiaxuan draw Soul Severing, whose sword spirit forced the immortals throughout town to kneel.

• Wu Wenze called Old Yang, who warned him to avoid conflict with the Human Realm Immortals and protect the town's ordinary residents.
• Wu Wenze urged Gu Tongtong and Zhang Luolin to hold back, but Su Yi insisted on joining the group and handling negotiations.
• Su Yi and the others entered the Tang Family's residence, where Wu Wenze counted 326 Human Realm Immortals and Su Yi demanded to speak with their leader.
• When one immortal threatened them, Su Yi told Ye Xiaxuan to draw Soul Severing, and its sword spirit released terrifying sword intent across the town.
• Soul Severing ordered the immortals to kneel, and those still resisting fell to their knees.

Su Yi used Ye Xiaxuan’s sword spirit to force the Human Realm Immortals in Fengjing Town to negotiate with the Thirteenth Bureau. Tang Yue agreed to register the immortals and isolate the town, and Su Yi ordered everyone to gather for registration.

• The sword spirit’s aura forced the Human Realm Immortals to their knees, and Su Yi had Ye Xiaxuan seal it again after they agreed to call their leader.
• Tang Yue arrived and recognized Ye Xiaxuan, but Su Yi demanded to know his relationship with the Human Realm Immortals.
• Su Yi required the immortals to register with the Thirteenth Bureau and have their movements recorded; Tang Yue agreed to the first condition.
• Su Yi demanded that Fengjing Town be isolated from ordinary people and monitored, and Tang Yue agreed after Su Yi threatened the town.
• Tang Yue asked whether Su Yi was really in the Qi Refining Realm, and Su Yi ordered everyone in town to gather on the east side for registration.

Su Yi and the Thirteenth Bureau registered and contained the Human Realm Immortals in Fengjing Town, then traveled to Qingzhou to meet Lin Yiyun. After reading her novel, Su Yi realized that Lin Yiyun was the reincarnation of Guo Shengtong, who had mistaken herself for Yin Lihua.

• Su Yi imposed registration and collective-responsibility rules on the 1,388 Human Realm Immortals in Fengjing Town, and Tang Yue agreed after Ye Xiaxuan warned him not to attack.
• Zhang Luolin learned that Tang Yaowen had died, while Tang Yue concealed that he had killed his father.
• After Fengjing Town was secured, Su Yi and Wu Wenze headed to Qingzhou to meet Lin Yiyun, whose company had bought Xinrui Tower.
• Wu Wenze asked whether Su Yi and Lin Yiyun were a couple, and Su Yi said they were not.
• After reading Lin Yiyun's novel, Su Yi recalled his past life as Liu Xiu and concluded that Lin Yiyun was Guo Shengtong's reincarnation, not Yin Lihua's.

Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan met Ren Lanyue at the Ruixin Building, where wealthy business owners waited to meet Lin Yiyun, who was rapidly expanding her company across Qingzhou. Su Yi called Lin Yiyun, and she agreed to come down to see him, leaving Ren Lanyue curious about his connections to the beautiful women around him.

• Su Yi encountered Ren Lanyue at the Ruixin Building, and Ren Lanyue recognized Ye Xiaxuan after she introduced herself.
• Ren Lanyue told Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan that Lin Yiyun was taking over Qingzhou's livestreaming industry and that wealthy business owners were waiting to meet her.
• Su Yi considered Lin Yiyun's political abilities and cultivation the reasons behind her rapid business success.
• Su Yi called Lin Yiyun, who agreed to come downstairs and meet him.
• Ren Lanyue asked about Su Yi's relationships with Lin Yiyun, Yu Huiyin, and Ye Xiaxuan, and Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan said they were only friends.

Lin Yiyun arrived at the Yiyun Group headquarters and dismissed the businessmen seeking to sell or work with her, then welcomed Su Yi and his companions. She invited Su Yi to speak privately, leaving Gu Tongtong and the others waiting as he followed her.

• Lin Yiyun arrived with two bodyguards and told the businessmen to register their requests and return another day.
• Lin Yiyun recognized Su Yi, invited him upstairs, and told Gu Tongtong to wait while she spoke with her friend.
• Gu Tongtong introduced herself as the Thirteenth Bureau's director and said the group needed Lin Yiyun's cooperation; Lin Yiyun agreed to speak with them later.
• In the elevator, Lin Yiyun recognized Su Yi as an immortal cultivator and invited him to join her company, but he refused.
• Lin Yiyun asked Su Yi to come with her to discuss something, and he told Gu Tongtong and the others to wait.

Lin Yiyun told Su Yi she believed they were reincarnations of Yin Lihua and Liu Xiu and asked him to be with her, but he rejected her and insisted they leave the past behind. She agreed to register the Human Realm Immortals in her company, then began to suspect Gu Tongtong and Ye Xiaxuan were Su Yi’s romantic rivals.

• Lin Yiyun asked Su Yi whether he believed in reincarnation and claimed she was Yin Lihua while he was Liu Xiu.
• Lin Yiyun confessed her feelings and offered Su Yi wealth, power, and cultivation techniques, but Su Yi refused and told her to remember she was Lin Yiyun, not Yin Lihua.
• Su Yi asked Lin Yiyun to have the Human Realm Immortals around her register and warned her to obey the law.
• Lin Yiyun agreed to register her company’s people, and Su Yi said he would send Thirteenth Bureau colleagues to handle it.
• After Wu Wenze greeted them, Lin Yiyun studied Gu Tongtong and Ye Xiaxuan and suspected one of them was close to Su Yi.

Lin Yiyun invited Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan to the Golden Needle Banquet, and Su Yi agreed to go after hearing what it was. At the wardrobe room, Su Yi offered to make Ye Xiaxuan a set of hanfu himself.

• Lin Yiyun joked with Ye Xiaxuan about returning to work at the bookstore and invited her to the Golden Needle Banquet.
• Ye Xiaxuan declined at first, but Su Yi expressed interest in the banquet and agreed to attend with them.
• Lin Yiyun took the group to the wardrobe room on the forty-second floor, where designers made custom formalwear for her employees.
• Su Yi offered to make Ye Xiaxuan a set of hanfu, and she eagerly accepted.
• Aiweixier asked Su Yi whether he knew how to make clothes.

Su Yi made Ye Xiaxuan a chest-high ruqun in less than half an hour, astonishing the master designer Aiweixier and leaving Ye Xiaxuan smitten. Lin Yiyun watched Su Yi with quiet sorrow, while he remained unwilling to return her feelings merely because she resembled Yunxiao.

• Aiweixier questioned Su Yi's tailoring experience, and Su Yi said he had studied for only three or four days before asking for fabric and tools.
• Su Yi chose gambiered silk and rapidly cut and sewed a pink-and-white chest-high ruqun without taking Ye Xiaxuan's measurements.
• Lin Yiyun emerged from the changing room and watched Su Yi work, while Ye Xiaxuan gazed at him in a lovestruck daze.
• Su Yi finished the outfit, including a dudou, in under half an hour and told Ye Xiaxuan to try it on.
• Aiweixier was stunned by Su Yi's speed and workmanship, and Lin Yiyun looked at Su Yi with sorrowful reproach.
• Ye Xiaxuan changed into the outfit, blushed over the dudou Su Yi had made, and tried to suppress her wild thoughts about him.

Su Yi corrected Ye Xiaxuan’s hanfu and styled her hair, while she nervously misread his intentions. After seeing the finished look, Aiweixier asked Su Yi to teach him hanfu-making, but Su Yi declined and directed him to study Huaxia culture and seek a local expert.

• Su Yi brought Ye Xiaxuan into the changing room and untied the silk shawl she had mistaken for a sash, while she nervously imagined his intentions.
• Su Yi adjusted Ye Xiaxuan’s clothes, styled her hair with two hairpins, and draped the shawl over her shoulders.
• Ye Xiaxuan admired her transformed appearance in the mirror and joked that Su Yi could make money as a stylist.
• Aiweixier and Lin Yiyun admired Ye Xiaxuan’s appearance after she came back out.
• Aiweixier asked Su Yi to teach him how to make hanfu, but Su Yi declined and advised him to learn about Huaxia culture and seek another expert.

Lin Yiyun picked up Ding Miaomiao on the way to the Golden Needle Banquet, where Su Yi questioned modern celebrities and watched one of Ding Miaomiao’s favorite actor’s dramas. He remained unimpressed as the group continued toward the banquet.

• Lin Yiyun took Su Yi, Ye Xiaxuan, and her driver to Qingzhou University’s east gate to pick up Ding Miaomiao.
• Ding Miaomiao joined Lin Yiyun in the car and talked excitedly about meeting Brother Zhan at the Golden Needle Banquet.
• Ding Miaomiao exchanged brief greetings with Ye Xiaxuan and continued to ignore Su Yi, who played with his phone.
• Su Yi searched for celebrities online and questioned whether the three men shown in the results deserved the label.
• Ye Xiaxuan explained that celebrated scientists and public servants also counted as celebrities, while Ding Miaomiao urged Su Yi to watch Brother Zhan’s dramas.
• Su Yi watched part of the drama and concluded that he could not appreciate the actor or the show.

Su Yi and his companions arrived at the Three Leaves Club for the Golden Needle Banquet, where celebrity fans mistook their car for a star’s and were stunned by the group’s appearance. As they headed inside, Su Yi reflected on celebrity worship and asked Ye Xiaxuan about her idols.

• Su Yi recognized the Three Leaves Club as the former Shanhe Club and learned from Ye Xiaxuan that celebrity fans had crowded the streets for the Golden Needle Banquet.
• Fans and media surrounded Lin Yiyun’s car in the parking garage, but security guards cleared a path for the group.
• Lin Yiyun, Ding Miaomiao, Su Yi, and Ye Xiaxuan stepped out, leaving the crowd speechless because they did not recognize the striking group.
• Su Yi questioned Ye Xiaxuan about her favorite celebrities, and she named Academician Zhong Nanshan as her idol and showed him a picture of Jay Chou.
• Su Yi puzzled over Jay Chou’s appeal and criticized the popularity of makeup-wearing male celebrities as he and the others entered the private elevator.

At the Golden Needle Banquet, Lin Yiyun asserted her strength while discussing the Tang Family’s return with Ye Jingguo. The chapter left Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan heading to meet Ding Miaomiao’s Brother Zhan after Su Yi declared Lin Yiyun was no longer his future wife.

• Ye Jingguo greeted Lin Yiyun and asked about her connection to Ye Xiaxuan, and Lin Yiyun presented herself as Ye Xiaxuan’s close friend.
• Ye Jingguo questioned Lin Yiyun about the Tang Family’s past withdrawal, and she asked whether it had been connected to Sword-Washing Mountain.
• Lin Yiyun refused to visit Yu Guoan and warned that anyone who treated her as an enemy could come after her.
• Lin Yiyun released a trace of her aura, frightening Ye Jingguo, but Su Yi cautioned her and she withdrew it.
• Lin Yiyun took Ding Miaomiao to meet her Brother Zhan, while Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan followed.

At the Golden Needle Banquet, screenwriter Yang Dong clashed with Qin Yuanlong and Zhou Zhan over Zhou Zhan being cast as the lead in Yang Dong’s drama. After refusing to back down, Yang Dong noticed Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan and wondered if Su Yi was an actor.

• Ding Miaomiao nervously asked Lin Yiyun whether she could get Zhou Zhan’s WeChat, and Lin Yiyun confidently assured her she could.
• Qin Yuanlong introduced Yang Dong to Zhou Zhan, but Yang Dong rejected Zhou Zhan as the lead and criticized his appearance and acting.
• Qin Yuanlong reminded Yang Dong that his contract gave him only the right to suggest casting, not to decide it.
• When Zhou Zhan demanded an apology, Yang Dong cursed at him, gave him the middle finger, and walked away.
• Yang Dong spotted Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan, thought they suited the leads in his xianxia script, and asked Su Yi if he was an actor.

At a banquet, Lin Yiyun introduced Ding Miaomiao to Zhou Zhan and encouraged them to get acquainted, while Su Yi warned that Ding Miaomiao might get hurt. Lin Yiyun left the matchmaking to fate and insisted that Miaomiao’s feelings were enough.

• Yang Dong left after Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan said they were only attending for fun, not seeking acting work.
• Lin Yiyun introduced Ding Miaomiao to Zhou Zhan, who exchanged WeChat contacts with her and asked Lin Yiyun for contact information.
• Lin Yiyun gave Zhou Zhan her driver’s phone number and stepped away so he and Ding Miaomiao could talk.
• Lin Yiyun asked Su Yi whether he wanted to become a celebrity, but he said he was not interested.
• Su Yi warned Lin Yiyun that her matchmaking could hurt Ding Miaomiao, but Lin Yiyun insisted that Miaomiao’s liking Zhou Zhan was what mattered.

At the Golden Needle Banquet, Lin Yiyun brushed off Cai Kunkun and used her influence to crush Xinli Media after its owner confronted her. She demanded that Yang Yuan sell her the company for fifty million and make sure Cai Kunkun disappeared from her sight.

• Lin Yiyun met with Su Yi and Ye Xiaxuan at the banquet while negotiating billion-yuan acquisition deals with Qingzhou businesspeople.
• Cai Kunkun approached Lin Yiyun with wine, but she told him to get lost.
• Yang Yuan confronted Lin Yiyun and demanded that she apologize to Cai Kunkun in exchange for help entering the entertainment industry.
• Lin Yiyun called someone and ordered Xinli Media bankrupted within ten minutes, then deflected Yang Yuan's attempt to splash wine back onto her.
• Yang Yuan returned within minutes, apologized to Lin Yiyun, and begged her to spare the company.
• Lin Yiyun ordered Yang Yuan to keep Cai Kunkun away from her and sell Xinli Media to her for fifty million.

Lin Yiyun humiliated Xinli Media’s representative and arranged to acquire the company, while Cai Kunkun was blacklisted and publicly disgraced. Zhou Zhan tried to pursue Ding Miaomiao, but after she rejected him, he found something on her phone that he believed would let him control her.

• Lin Yiyun forced Yang Yuan to take Cai Kunkun away and said she intended to acquire Xinli Media.
• Zhou Zhan watched Cai Kunkun’s downfall and decided Ding Miaomiao could help him enter elite circles.
• That night, revelations about Cai Kunkun’s private life spread, and media companies announced they would blacklist him.
• Zhou Zhan kissed Ding Miaomiao in his car, but she bit him, escaped, and rejected him.
• Zhou Zhan picked up Ding Miaomiao’s unlocked phone, browsed her photos, and smiled as he thought he could use what he found against her.

After the Golden Needle Banquet, Su Yi read online as a scandal involving Yang Dong and Zhou Zhan spiraled into a fierce fan war. He went to sleep after watching the fight spread from social media to a webnovel platform, where readers’ reports got authors’ books banned.

• Su Yi returned to Wutong Street and saw himself dubbed the hottest bodyguard of the year.
• Su Yi read a sensational article about Yang Dong refusing to cast Zhou Zhan and watched commenters turn public opinion against Yang Dong.
• Su Yi downloaded a novel app and found Yang Dong’s pinned review explaining that he opposed Zhou Zhan playing Xiao Wu but had no final say over casting.
• Zhou Zhan’s fans reported Yang Dong’s novel, but when it remained available, they reported books by authors who supported Yang Dong instead.
• The platform banned books by some of those authors, prompting their readers and writers to join the online fight.
• Su Yi read reviews for over an hour, checked Yang Dong’s novel, and went to sleep without commenting.

Su Yi returned home, reunited with Xu Diandian, and learned more about the online backlash surrounding Yang Dong and Zhou Zhan. At school, he followed Ding Miaomiao and Wang Qing to the west gate, where Zhou Zhan blackmailed Ding Miaomiao and propositioned her in exchange for her phone.

• Su Yi saw that Yang Dong's novel had gained tens of thousands of reviews and learned that Zhou Zhan's supporters and paid commenters were overwhelming the discussion.
• Xu Diandian visited Su Yi, told him she had been feeding his rabbit, and asked that they spare it; Su Yi agreed.
• Wang Junlin and the others asked Su Yi about the Golden Needle Feast and his connection to Lin Yiyun.
• Su Yi and Wang Junlin followed Ding Miaomiao and Wang Qing to the west gate after Ding Miaomiao hurried away in distress.
• Ding Miaomiao got into Zhou Zhan's Mercedes, where he demanded that she arrange a meeting with President Lin in exchange for keeping her photos private.
• Zhou Zhan asked Ding Miaomiao to have sex with him in the car as payment for returning her phone.

Su Yi intervened when Zhou Zhan threatened Ding Miaomiao with private photos, overpowering Zhou Zhan’s bodyguard and forcing his way into the car. He demanded Ding Miaomiao’s phone from Zhou Zhan, who resisted and threatened Su Yi with prison.

• Zhou Zhan threatened to leak Ding Miaomiao’s photos unless she submitted to him, leaving her afraid to leave the car.
• Su Yi told Wang Junlin and the others they were going to beat someone up, then headed for Zhou Zhan’s Mercedes.
• Su Yi crushed Zhou Zhan’s bodyguard’s wrist and left him playing unconscious.
• Su Yi pulled open the locked car door, got Ding Miaomiao out, and took her place in the car with Zhou Zhan.
• Su Yi demanded Ding Miaomiao’s phone and squeezed Zhou Zhan’s arm when he denied knowing about it.
• Zhou Zhan endured the pain and threatened that Su Yi would go to prison if he let him leave alive.