Chapter Summaries

Luo Beishi settled into Quinn’s residence near the Academy of Sciences and began planning to explore interests he had long been unable to pursue. After Quinn left for work, Luo Beishi asked Ma Que to order seeds and kitchenware so he could try farming and cooking.

• Luo Beishi woke in Quinn’s arms and learned they were staying at Quinn’s residence near the Academy of Sciences.
• Quinn offered to let Luo Beishi use the Star Network and encouraged him to do what he wanted while staying safe.
• After Quinn went to work, Ma Que showed Luo Beishi around the estate, where Luo Beishi decided to use an empty patch of land for farming.
• Luo Beishi asked Ma Que to gather information about available plants and order seeds, insisting he would pay with his own money.
• Luo Beishi also requested kitchenware and began writing down plans for the things he wanted to try.

Luo Beishi welcomed Quinn home, cooked him a dinner of natural food, and spent the evening growing closer to him. As they talked about growing vegetables and Quinn’s work at the Academy of Sciences, Luo Beishi changed into a hamster and teased Quinn on the rooftop.

• Quinn returned home covered in other beastmen’s blood, and Luo Beishi rushed to embrace him before Quinn stopped him from touching the blood.
• Luo Beishi led Quinn to dinner and served him steak, borscht, and cuttlefish balls, which Quinn praised as the most delicious food he had ever eaten.
• Quinn cleaned the kitchen with his Spiritual Power, then carried Luo Beishi to the rooftop to enjoy the evening breeze.
• Luo Beishi told Quinn he wanted to grow edible vegetables, and Quinn explained how the Academy of Sciences’ innovations challenged noble families’ interests.
• Luo Beishi changed into a hamster on Quinn’s lap, brought out a milk-scented chestnut, and teased Quinn for smelling him and calling him sweet.

Lia worried that the marshal would separate him from Quinn, while Quinn suggested binding their identities together; Lia chose to wait until he felt worthy and resolved to improve himself. The marshal’s wife wanted to meet Lia, but the marshal persuaded her to wait, leaving Lia unaware of their plans.

• Quinn told the marshal that Lia was named Luo Beishi Emilia, and his father criticized him for keeping a hamster beastman at home.
• Lia asked Quinn to protect him from being driven away, and Quinn proposed binding their identities so they could stay together.
• Lia declined to commit to marriage yet, explaining that he wanted to become worthy of Quinn and planned to improve his constitution and spiritual power.
• After Quinn left for work, Lia sat among the dark purple energy stones and absorbed their energy to level up in secret.
• At the Huo Family residence, the marshal’s wife wanted to meet Lia, but the marshal warned that the fragile hamster might be frightened, and she agreed to wait.

Lia discovered his healing Spiritual Power and practiced an ancient breathing technique before demonstrating his ability to rapidly grow plants. Quinn explained his unusual energy-stone absorption, while the chapter revealed that he had killed Minister Yi Min and the conspirators who plotted against him; Lia's seedlings left Quinn amazed.

• Lia cooked egg fried rice, found an ancient breathing technique, and practiced until he fell asleep.
• Quinn worried when Lia seemed unresponsive, then heard that Lia's constitution had recovered and discussed how they could both absorb energy stones.
• Quinn revealed that he had killed over a hundred beastmen who plotted against him, including Minister Yi Min, while the emperor concealed the killings to protect his throne.
• Lia used his Spiritual Power to grow seedlings in half an hour, astonishing Ma Que, who hurried off to report the result.
• Quinn saw the seedlings and marveled that Lia had achieved in one day what ordinary plant tamers needed at least a month to do.

Lia and Quinn became lovers after Quinn proposed with a chip containing his genetic sequence. Their relationship was left official, though Lia worried about how much Quinn had spent on the grand gesture.

• Quinn offered to get a Spiritual Power tester for Lia, who said he could use a testing site instead, and agreed to let someone collect data on his ability to make plants grow instantly.
• Lia asked Quinn whether he would bring home someone else he liked, and Quinn insisted he would never betray him.
• After Lia pointed out they had never made their relationship official, Quinn prepared a house full of pink roses and asked Lia to be his lover, giving him a chip with his genetic sequence.
• Lia accepted Quinn's proposal and said he hoped to become someone Quinn could rely on, while Quinn teased him that he could not take back his answer.
• News spread that Quinn had spent ten billion star coins buying pink roses, and Lia found the flowers filling the backyard and scolded Quinn for being a spendthrift.

Lia and Quinn grew closer as they talked about their relationship, Lia’s future, and Quinn’s strange dreams. After Quinn shot down a spying device, his dreams revealed that he knew Lia’s name, Luo Beishi, before they met, leaving both of them with questions about their shared past.

• Lia asked Quinn if he could dry the roses for his bath, and Quinn confessed that he thought they had been lovers in past lives.
• Quinn reassured Lia that he had rejected matchmaking attempts and revealed that the emperor was his uncle.
• Quinn asked whether Lia wanted to attend school, but Lia said he had finished learning everything he needed before he was six.
• Quinn noticed someone photographing them, formed an ice bow with his Spiritual Power, and shot down a white sphere.
• Quinn told Lia that he had dreamed about him before they met and had heard someone call him Luo Beishi in a dream.

The noble faction discussed how to exploit Huo Cixiao’s attachment to Lia, while Lia repaired a testing device and discovered his Spiritual Power was S-rank and his physical constitution A+. Quinn exposed the faction’s meetings to the emperor after destroying their secret base, and Thor prepared to hide while planning his next move against Huo Cixiao.

• Kolai Thor and the noble faction’s ministers discussed targeting Huo Cixiao’s residence and using marriage schemes, while Qiao offered the Huo Family’s old debt as a possible advantage.
• Lia repaired a testing device and learned that his Spiritual Power was S-rank and his physical constitution was A+.
• Lia answered Quinn’s call and told him he would wait at home, while Quinn took Academy of Sciences beastmen out in combat hovercraft.
• Quinn destroyed the noble faction’s secret base, collected footage of its meetings, and sent the evidence to the emperor.
• Thor learned that Huo Cixiao had bombed the base and ordered that he be left alone while he stayed behind closed doors to recuperate.

Emperor Ris discussed the plotting nobles with Andy, who affirmed he wanted only to stay by Ris’s side. At home, Lia secretly trained his newfound strength, destroying surveillance orbs and drawing the attention of the Cain Family.

• Ris questioned Andy about the people plotting against him and offered to help Andy seek revenge, while Andy said he wanted to remain by Ris’s side.
• Quinn returned home to find the bedroom door broken, and Lia blamed his improved strength; Quinn comforted him and worried about his safety.
• After Quinn left the next day, Lia trained in the garden and threw stones that destroyed five surveillance orbs.
• The Cain Family’s surveillance team reported that a boy had smashed the orbs with stones thrown by hand, and Count Cain ordered them to send him the image they had captured.

After mastering Rippling Waves, Subtle Steps, Lia learned that Quinn had captured Kane and exposed the Cain Family’s unsafe nutrient solutions, while Quinn tried to shield Lia from public attention and his enemies. The chapter ended with Lia revealing his A+ physique and newfound strength, leaving Quinn astonished as Lia took charge at home.

• Quinn publicly warned the beastmen who had crossed him, while Lia mastered Rippling Waves, Subtle Steps in half a day.
• Quinn pursued and captured Kane, and the star police accused the Cain Family of using substandard ingredients in nutrient solutions.
• His Majesty ordered the Cain Family’s businesses closed, and Quinn instructed Bai Ze to remove information about Lia and considered acting against Lia’s stepmother’s clan.
• Lia told Quinn that he had knocked down the surveillance orbs and tested his physique at A+ with a repaired Spiritual Power tester.
• Lia pushed Quinn away when he tried to hug him and let him help with dinner instead.

Lia discovered that interstellar pork’s strange smell might be avoided by using castrated pigs, then learned his spiritual power and physique both tested at S+. After Bai Ze left, Quinn carried Lia off to discuss something, and the chapter ended as Quinn began a two-item meeting at work the next day.

• Lia suggested that interstellar pork smelled strange because the pigs had not been castrated, and Quinn wrote down the idea.
• Bai Ze revealed that Lia’s photo had been made public, and Quinn promised to explain the situation to him.
• Bai Ze tested Lia and found his healing-type spiritual power and physique were both S+.
• Lia asked Bai Ze to keep his test results secret, and Bai Ze agreed to protect his privacy under Quinn’s protection.
• Quinn carried Lia away to discuss something, and Lia teased him about treating him differently now that he knew Lia was strong.
• Quinn called a meeting the next day and announced that he had two things to discuss.

Quinn’s colleagues noticed his Spiritual Mark, while Lia practiced his abilities, cooked lunch for Quinn and his coworkers, and raised a defensive shield around their home. A spy sent by Duke Thor failed to get close enough to observe the backyard and left without information.

• After the meeting, Quinn teased Feng Ming about Bai Ze pursuing him, and Feng Ming fled in embarrassment.
• Lia practiced holding his breath in the bath, then decided to cook extra food and send lunch to Quinn.
• At lunch, Quinn shared Lia’s dishes with Bai Ze and Feng Ming, who praised the food while teasing Quinn about his marriage.
• Lia used Spiritual Power to cook and clean quickly, then raised a broad defensive shield over Quinn’s home.
• A cicada beastman spying for Duke Thor could not approach the property or see the backyard clearly, so he left without a report.

Lia agreed to help Quinn develop machine-based plant production in exchange for funding reforms and jobs for displaced tamers. After sharing an affectionate moment over Quinn’s spiritual mark, Quinn returned to the Academy of Sciences, where Bai Ze teased him about his neck marks and Quinn brought up Feng Ming’s upcoming beauty pageant.

• Lia planted the entire backyard and accelerated the vegetables’ growth.
• Quinn explained that his team could use Lia’s active factor data to domesticate plants quickly, and Lia agreed to help if half the patent earnings funded academy reforms and career changes for unemployed tamers.
• Quinn showed Lia the glowing python mark on his back, and the two teased and kissed before Lia bit Quinn’s neck.
• The next day, Quinn arrived at the Academy of Sciences with teeth marks on his neck, and Bai Ze told him to cover them up.
• Quinn suggested Bai Ze and Feng Ming get together, then mentioned that Feng Ming would soon compete in a beauty pageant.

At a capital meeting, Ris crushed the noble faction’s attempts to criticize Quinn with his Spiritual Power. That night, Quinn and Lia grew closer before Quinn told Lia they would meet Ris at the palace the next day, and their intimate moment continued on the sofa.

• Noble ministers criticized Quinn at the imperial meeting, but Ris warned them not to provoke his son and forced them to the floor with his Spiritual Power.
• The noble faction begged Ris for mercy, and the meeting ended without them daring to report Quinn again.
• After bathing, Quinn invited Lia to watch a movie, but Lia sat on his lap and kissed him instead.
• Lia asked to call Quinn “A-Xiao,” and Quinn asked Lia to call him “hubby” next time.
• Quinn told Lia that Ris had summoned them to the palace, then explained that expensive Spiritual Power suppressors and absorbers had been used in the ambush against him.
• Lia asked whether Quinn could read minds, and Quinn laid him down on the sofa.

Lia agreed to marry Quinn, and they registered their marriage before heading to the palace. On the way, Lia learned how wealthy Quinn was and asked him to help retrieve his own spatial buttons from Central Star Bank.

• Quinn asked Lia to marry him, and Lia agreed after warning him not to wrong him.
• Quinn and Lia dressed in formalwear he had prepared and went to register their marriage.
• Quinn carried Lia to the registration counter as other beastmen recognized them and filmed them; a streamer’s livestream comments erupted before the streamer shut it off.
• Quinn and Lia completed the registration and received their marriage certificates, which quickly became known across the Star Network.
• On the way to the palace, Lia asked Quinn to help retrieve his nine spatial buttons from Central Star Bank, and he urged Lia to spend his money instead.
• Lia looked at their joint assets and was astonished by Quinn’s wealth; Quinn explained that his family kept its riches private.

Quinn brought Lia to the imperial palace, where they encountered Zhaxika Halley and met Ris. Ris discussed Quinn’s marriage, a palace wedding, and the plan to name Quinn heir, while Lia said they did not intend to have a child for now.

• Quinn carried Lia through the palace and warned Zhaxika Halley to stay away from them.
• Quinn spared Halley because of his grandfather’s service, while Lia secretly used his Spiritual Power to suffocate him after the group left.
• Quinn and Lia met Ris, who welcomed Lia and teased Quinn for holding him protectively.
• Ris explained that Halley’s family wanted to marry him to Quinn and that their political schemes could eventually cause trouble.
• Ris insisted that Quinn and Lia hold their wedding at the palace, where he planned to announce Quinn as heir to the throne.
• Ris probed Lia with his Spiritual Power, but Quinn blocked him, and Ris noted that the two had formed a spiritual mark.

Lia visited Ris and discovered that he had been poisoned, then promised to research a treatment. Back home, Lia and Quinn arranged wedding rings and Lia began studying ancient medical texts, ending the chapter with Quinn returning to comfort him.

• Lia told Ris that his physique and Spiritual Power might be S+ and diagnosed lingering poison as the cause of Ris's headaches and insomnia.
• Ris invited Lia to live in the palace, but Quinn objected, and Lia said he needed time to study a treatment.
• Lia admired the treasures Ris had given him, and Quinn offered to have wedding rings made; Lia eagerly agreed.
• Lia pressed Quinn to tell him about his parents so he could prepare gifts, then fell asleep in Quinn's arms.
• Lia and Quinn selected wedding rings the next day, and Lia spent the afternoon reading ancient medical texts to identify Ris's poison.
• Quinn returned to find Lia exhausted from reading, comforted him, and kissed him.

After registering their marriage, Lia and Quinn discussed their future and met Quinn’s parents at a restaurant on Central Star. Lia charmed the marshal and Klein, then was delighted when Klein gave him a miniature New Moon mecha, leaving Quinn jealous and regretting he had not thought to give Lia one himself.

• Lia asked Quinn to wait until his physique reached 3S before they became intimate, while Quinn admitted that reaching 3S was extremely difficult.
• Quinn told Lia he had bought two agricultural planets with technology, and they agreed to try a restaurant on Central Star.
• Quinn introduced Lia, using the name Luo Beishi Emilia, to his parents at a restaurant in the City in the Sky.
• Lia praised the marshal and Klein with ancient expressions, winning the marshal’s laughter and Klein’s approval.
• Klein gave Lia a miniature New Moon mecha, and Quinn grew jealous and wished he had thought of giving Lia a mecha first.

Lia gave Quinn’s parents valuable books and designs, while discussing how to share their benefits with society. He left the family eager for the meal he had arranged, with a surprise in store for Quinn.

• Quinn and his parents learned that Lia could pilot New Moon, an S-rank mecha made by Klein, and Quinn grew jealous when Lia gave Klein fashion and sewing books.
• Lia asked Klein to use the books to establish a fashion design academy and create jobs, and advised her on introducing the designs gradually.
• Lia gave the marshal translated military strategy books, earning his admiration and a promise to defend Lia if Quinn mistreated him.
• Lia explained that he trusted Quinn’s family with his inherited knowledge and proposed using recipes and machine-grown plants to gain public support for Quinn’s plans.
• Lia and Quinn waited for the food to arrive, and Lia anticipated Quinn’s reaction to the surprise.

Lia impressed Quinn and his parents with a homemade strawberry cream cake, then discussed a simple imperial palace wedding with them. More than a week later, Lia visited the palace alone, where he confronted Halley and sent him flying with a blow of Spiritual Power.

• Quinn found the restaurant's food nearly inedible, so Lia served his parents and Quinn a strawberry cream cake that delighted them.
• The marshal praised Lia's cooking and said he saw a future for the interstellar culinary industry.
• Lia discussed wedding plans with his parents, who said preparations would take two months, while he pushed to keep the ceremony simple.
• More than a week later, Lia drove alone to the imperial palace at high speed, unaware that his speeding would appear on the Star Network the next day.
• Andy escorted Lia toward the reception room, but Halley blocked their path despite being forbidden from entering the palace.
• Andy suppressed Halley, and Lia struck him in the stomach with Spiritual Power, sending him flying dozens of meters.

Lia brought detoxifying pills to His Majesty Ris, who had been poisoned with a slow-acting neurotoxin, and the treatment unexpectedly caused both Ris and Andy to spit up blood. The chapter ended with Ris feeling much better and Andy recovering after Lia’s protective barrier hurled him into a wall.

• Lia followed Andy to Ris’s enormous fish tank and admired the merman’s tail while Ris splashed Andy with water.
• Lia gave Ris a bottle of detoxifying pills, and Ris swallowed one before Andy could stop him.
• Ris thanked Lia for his work and for helping protect Quinn’s marriage, then suddenly coughed blackening, smoking blood onto a table.
• Andy tried to attack Lia, but the golden python mark activated Quinn’s Spiritual Power barrier and sent Andy flying into a wall.
• Ris laughed at Andy’s misfortune and said he felt much lighter, while Andy knelt and spat up blood.