Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi, retaining his memories through repeated resets, left Miao Yun and met celebrity Bai Yunxi at a lamb offal shop, where he used his knowledge of her private information to draw her into his improvised script for the day. He revealed that he knew the passwords to her phone and accounts, then claimed he had only three days to live.

• Ling Yi ignored Miao Yun, left their home, and saved a child from stepping into traffic before crossing to his usual breakfast shop.
• Ling Yi recognized Bai Yunxi, threatened to expose her relationship and damage her career, and persuaded her to follow him by taking her phone and showing her a private photo.
• Ling Yi led Bai Yunxi to private room 08, where he introduced himself as an unlucky man with a terminal illness and said he wrote himself a script each day.
• Ling Yi returned Bai Yunxi's phone but warned that he had uploaded her photos and knew her platform passwords, including the secret folder in her cloud drive.

Ling Yi brought Bai Yunxi to Villa No. 27 in the Imperial Venerable Villa District and explained that its owner, Wu Tianhao, had died, leaving behind an ownerless property deed. He offered Bai Yunxi the deed in exchange for cooperating with his plan, then tied her to a chair as part of a staged kidnapping and went to prepare props.

• Ling Yi led Bai Yunxi to Villa No. 27, which he had entered using a password during earlier resets.
• Bai Yunxi explained that the Imperial Venerable Villa District admitted only people who passed its residents’ tests and vote, and that its property deeds carried no owner’s name.
• Ling Yi showed Bai Yunxi the deed and said the villa’s former owner, Wu Tianhao, had died half a month earlier.
• Ling Yi offered Bai Yunxi the deed if she cooperated with him, and she became interested in claiming it.
• Ling Yi declared that Bai Yunxi had been kidnapped, tied her to a chair, and told her to act frightened.
• After Bai Yunxi struggled to act like a real kidnapping victim, Ling Yi decided to prepare some props.

Ling Yi livestreamed himself threatening Bai Yunxi with a gun, revealing his history of betrayal and revenge while the growing audience mistook the kidnapping for a performance. He exposed Miao Yun and Guo Kai's affair and his supervisor's theft of a major order, then fired three shots through the window as Bai Yunxi pleaded for viewers to call the police.

• Ling Yi started a livestream on Bai Yunxi's phone and aimed a gun at her while viewers assumed they were acting.
• Ling Yi told the audience that his wife Miao Yun had cheated on him with his longtime friend Guo Kai and said he wanted to kill them.
• Miao Yun and Guo Kai watched the livestream from Baijia Hotel room 3301, where Ling Yi revealed their location and affair.
• Ling Yi accused Supervisor Wang Yunquan of firing him and stealing his thirty-million order, which he had earned after saving the Dingsheng Group's heiress.
• Bai Yunxi told viewers she had really been kidnapped and asked them to call the police, but Ling Yi fired three shots through the window behind her.

After kidnapping Bai Yunxi during a livestream, Ling Yi explained that he was trapped in endless resets and had terminal brain cancer, then set demands for her release. The police tracked him to a villa, and as he ate with Bai Yunxi, Ling Yi sensed danger outside.

• Ling Yi showed Bai Yunxi and the livestream viewers his hospital notice confirming terminal brain cancer and described how repeated resets had left him desperate to escape June 7.
• Ling Yi demanded that Miao Yun and Guo Kai slap themselves on a video call, Supervisor Wang donate six million, and Bai Yunxi's agency prepare a hundred million by eight that night.
• Bai Yunxi requested tripe-wrapped chicken to help the police locate them, and the police traced the delivery order to Villa 27 in the Imperial Venerable Villa District.
• Ling Yi recognized a disguised police officer delivering the food, then untied Bai Yunxi and let her eat while keeping a handgun nearby.
• As Ling Yi ate with Bai Yunxi, he felt an intense sense of danger and looked out the window.

Ling Yi faced a police rescue while his illness worsened, but he was captured before he could restart by shooting himself. After the cycle's deadline passed, he restarted and discovered that his next loop would last one minute longer.

• Ling Yi watched Bai Yunxi leave the villa during his nap, then woke as police helped her escape.
• As Bai Yunxi reached safety, Ling Yi pointed both guns at his head, but distant shots knocked the weapons away and police subdued him.
• Ling Yi lost awareness during a severe episode and later woke restrained in a hospital room with Zhao Jun watching him.
• Ling Yi watched the clock pass the usual restart time, then restarted at 7:26:30 a.m. on June 7 beside Miao Yun.
• Ling Yi realized his restart cycle had extended from twenty-four hours to twenty-four hours and one minute.

Ling Yi tested whether kidnapping Bai Yunxi or livestreaming could explain the longer restart cycle. After the kidnapping failed to add time, he began a livestream to test that instead, predicting an old man’s arrival at an intersection.

• During the 103rd restart, Ling Yi kidnapped Bai Yunxi and kept her in a hotel suite, but the restart cycle did not extend because of it.
• Ling Yi’s cycle still gained one minute, and he restarted on June 7 at 7:25:30 a.m.
• At the start of the 104th restart, Ling Yi slapped Miao Yun, saved the child at the intersection, and put his phone on airplane mode.
• Ling Yi bought livestreaming equipment and set up a stream at an intersection, claiming an old man running a collision scam would arrive.
• Ling Yi counted down on camera, and a furtive-looking old man appeared at the intersection as predicted.

Ling Yi used his knowledge from repeated resets to expose accident scammer Zhao Hu and help him take out online loans from shady platforms. He then headed to a bank, where he expected a toy-gun robbery to happen soon.

• Ling Yi cursed out and blocked viewers who accused him of staging the accident scam.
• Zhao Hu pretended to be struck by a white SUV, but Ling Yi stole his phone and ran, prompting Zhao Hu to chase him.
• Ling Yi used Zhao Hu’s face to unlock his phone and showed him that he had taken out two hundred thousand in online loans.
• Ling Yi explained that he had spent more than twenty resets learning Zhao Hu’s background and figuring out how to pull off the loans; Zhao Hu eagerly accepted the shady platforms’ money.
• Ling Yi’s livestream passed ten thousand viewers, and he predicted that someone would rob a bank with a toy gun on Binjiang East Road.
• At 12:10, Ling Yi entered the Ancient Agriculture Bank on Binjiang East Road.

Ling Yi livestreamed Bai Dongzi’s attempted bank robbery with a homemade toy gun, while inspectors prepared to arrest the streamer. Bai Dongzi revealed that he wanted to go to prison to escape his wife, and inspector vehicles arrived as Ling Yi warned him to drop the gun.

• Zhao Jun watched Ling Yi’s livestream and ordered inspectors to bring him in while keeping the broadcast running.
• Bai Dongzi entered the bank, fired a gun loaded with firecrackers, and ordered everyone to get down.
• Bai Dongzi took a customer’s phone and demanded that someone livestream him; Ling Yi stood up and showed him his broadcast.
• Bai Dongzi revealed himself and shouted at Wang Xiaohui that he was a man and wanted a divorce.
• Bai Dongzi demanded one million in cash, then admitted he was robbing the bank to get imprisoned and escape his wife.
• Inspector vehicles arrived, and Ling Yi warned Bai Dongzi to discard his toy gun.

Ling Yi was arrested with Bai Dongzi after investigators mistook his livestream for a staged bank robbery, but he insisted he could predict the future. He left Zhao Jun shaken after accurately predicting an imminent crash, and Zhao Jun sent Peng Ruonan to prevent it and dispatched help for another predicted emergency.

• Peng Ruonan arrested Ling Yi alongside Bai Dongzi and announced that the bureau would keep the livestream running as a lesson for streamers.
• During questioning, Ling Yi denied staging the robbery and predicted several future incidents, including a deadly crash at 224 Yuanqiao Road.
• Zhao Jun ordered Peng Ruonan to take Ling Yi's phone and verify the prediction at the crash site.
• Peng Ruonan reached Yuanqiao Road and stopped a red sports car driving the wrong way before it collided with a sand truck and nearby traffic.
• After watching Peng Ruonan prevent the crash, Zhao Jun called for officers to find a white SUV carrying a woman in difficult labor.

Ling Yi explained his June 7 time loop to Zhao Jun and Peng Ruonan, revealing that the cycle had extended after he kidnapped Bai Yunxi and later livestreamed. After the lunar palace was reported on the news, Ling Yi and the inspectors considered whether it was connected to the loop, and the chapter ended with Ling Yi resetting at 7:36:30 on June 8.

• Ling Yi told Zhao Jun and Peng Ruonan that he had experienced the same day 104 times and that the cycle had first extended after his 102nd loop.
• Ling Yi explained that he had kidnapped Bai Yunxi in two loops and livestreamed the kidnapping in one, then tested livestreaming in the next.
• Zhao Jun's phone played news about an ancient palace found beneath the moon's surface, and Ling Yi and Peng Ruonan wondered whether it was connected to the loop.
• Zhao Jun told Ling Yi that a leader from the Special Incident Handling Bureau would visit and gave him the leader's phone number for a future loop.
• Peng Ruonan stayed with Ling Yi through the night, and Ling Yi told her that his illness would likely kill him within days and that he knew his wife had cheated on him.
• Ling Yi's vision blurred at 7:36:30 on June 8, and he awoke back in his own bed.

Ling Yi realized that causing a major public stir could extend his restart cycle and planned to find more scenarios while investigating why he was trapped in the same day. He approached Bai Yunxi and began livestreaming with her, then challenged her to decide whether to stop an accident scam he said would kill a pregnant woman and her unborn child.

• Ling Yi slapped Miao Yun, threatened to expose her affair with Guo Kai, and told her he would file for divorce.
• Ling Yi saved a child who ran a red light, then planned to extend his restart cycle to seven days and investigate the loop’s connection to the ancient palace on the moon.
• Ling Yi went to the lamb offal shop and pressured Bai Yunxi into joining his livestream, threatening to expose her private information if she refused.
• Ling Yi brought Bai Yunxi to an intersection and asked whether ordinary people should intervene in suspected accident scams.
• Ling Yi identified Zhao Hu as a habitual accident scammer and warned Bai Yunxi that a white SUV would soon be involved in a crash that would kill a pregnant woman and her unborn child.

Ling Yi saved Li Hongyun from an accident scam that could have delayed him during his wife’s difficult delivery, but his livestream was banned after mass reports. He decided to use his infinite resets to master useful skills, beginning with hacking, and discovered he had a photographic memory.

• Ling Yi and Bai Yunxi stopped Zhao Laizi from staging an accident, and Li Hongyun drove on to reach his wife while Ling Yi exposed the scammer to millions of viewers.
• Zhao Laizi fled after learning that his scam could have cost two lives, and Bai Yunxi returned to Ling Yi for her stolen phone.
• Ling Yi’s livestream was banned after mass reports, prompting him to decide that he would learn hacking and other useful skills through infinite resets.
• Ling Yi bought a computer and programming books, while Bai Yunxi followed him to Villa No. 27 and chose to stay there after getting her phone back.
• Ling Yi began studying programming and discovered that he now had a photographic memory, which he suspected might be connected to his brain cancer or his endless resets.

After 1,050 restarts, Ling Yi mastered hacking and studied numerous scientific fields, but the short restart cycle prevented him from carrying out experiments and advancing his plan to treat his brain cancer. He sought access to a top-level laboratory by contacting Bao Ruoguo, head of the Ancient Country's Special Incident Bureau, and ended the chapter revealing he had sent him more information.

• Ling Yi resolved to use his photographic memory and endless restarts to learn medicine and find a way to treat his brain cancer.
• Ling Yi's restart cycle extended by thirty minutes, and he told Bai Yunxi he would pursue her if they met outside Dafeng City.
• Across many restarts, Ling Yi mastered hacking and studied fields including genetic engineering, medicine, and quantum physics.
• On his 1,050th restart, Ling Yi concluded that the restart cycle blocked the experiments he needed and that he required a level-five laboratory to pursue treatment for his cancer.
• Ling Yi contacted Bao Ruoguo, sent him information, and claimed he had access to secrets from every country.
• After Bao Ruoguo asked what he wanted, Ling Yi told him to check his email.

Ling Yi tested whether he or the entire world was being reset by scheduling videos exposing celebrities to publish after the usual reset point. The reset came three hours later than usual, leading him to conclude that he was trapped in a parallel timeline and wonder how it could affect the main timeline.

• Ling Yi began a livestream to test whether delayed events could distinguish a world reset from his own reset, while using it to probe the authorities’ response.
• Ling Yi hacked into celebrities’ devices, collected compromising material, and prepared more than a thousand videos for release after 8:06 a.m. on June 8.
• Ling Yi kept the stream’s audience capped and scheduled the videos to publish at point A, then waited to see whether the reset would occur on time.
• Ling Yi passed the usual reset time and remained awake until 11:06:30, when dizziness finally returned him to his bed.
• Ling Yi realized the reset had been delayed by three hours and wondered how his parallel timeline could influence the main timeline.

Ling Yi theorized that his looping parallel timeline might affect the main timeline, then decided to create a major crisis to extend his reset cycle. As his attacks on Radiant Water Country escalated, he used the hackers trying to stop him to complete the Intelligence Algorithm, then resumed his assault with two meteor strikes.

• Ling Yi researched time and parallel-world theories for nearly twenty-nine hours, then reset into his 1,052nd loop and decided to focus on taking action.
• After saving the child at Villa 27, Ling Yi told Director Bao he planned to attack Radiant Water Country, but Bao Ruoguo opposed the plan.
• Ling Yi livestreamed his threats, hacked Radiant Water Country's official website, shut down its power grid, and reduced the country's account balances to zero.
• When more than a hundred thousand hackers blocked him, Ling Yi used their attacks as the external force needed to complete his Intelligence Algorithm, which drove the intruders out and improved itself.
• Ling Yi memorized the completed algorithm, hacked Radiant Water Country's website again, and declared that he was angry.
• Two meteors struck Radiant Water Country, where they exploded in enormous bursts of light.

Ling Yi used the Intelligence Algorithm to cripple Radiant Water Country and drive Amai Chou’s warship away, but his brain cancer caused him to restart before he could end the livestream. In the extended restart cycle, he realized that sleep would trigger another restart and asked the internet how to rest his brain without sleeping.

• Ling Yi exposed Miao Yun as a paid online shill, warned her that the authorities would investigate her, and threatened Radiant Water Country with more fireworks if it did not destroy Toilet.
• When Radiant Water Country refused and Amai Chou’s warship arrived, Ling Yi launched thirty-two enormous fireworks across the country and shut down the warship’s power reactor until it turned back.
• Radiant Water Country destroyed Toilet, and Ling Yi collapsed from dizziness before he could end the livestream, restarting in his bed beside Miao Yun.
• Ling Yi slapped Miao Yun, fought with her, and left with scratches on his face and neck before remembering he had missed the chance to save the child who ran the red light.
• Ling Yi spent the extended cycle testing the Intelligence Algorithm and waiting as June 8 passed without a restart, then realized that sleeping would trigger one and posted online asking how to rest his brain without sleep.

Ling Yi sought ways to cope with his sleeplessness and brain cancer, then used the extended restart cycle to contact Director Bao and reach the Special Incident Bureau. He explained his theory for treating the cancer with Volcano Blue-Green Algae and described the Sun Tree disaster, leaving Director Bao and Professor Bai Jinshan stunned.

• Ling Yi rejected brain surgery and long-term medication, studied hypnosis and martial arts, and concluded that sleep and brain cancer were his urgent problems.
• After restarting on July 10, Ling Yi repeated his routine, sent Director Bao the Intelligence Algorithm, and received an agreement to meet under supervision.
• Director Bao arranged military transport to the Special Incident Bureau's headquarters, where Ling Yi met Professor Gu Yun and Professor Bai Jinshan.
• Ling Yi agreed to help Gu Yun record data during future restarts, then told Bai Jinshan that Volcano Blue-Green Algae could help treat his brain cancer.
• Ling Yi explained that Danshui Country's experiments had created the intelligent Sun Tree, which released corrosive gas and burned down its laboratory, shocking Bai Jinshan and Director Bao.

Ling Yi and Bai Jinshan began extracting the ancient genes from volcanic blue algae, hoping to use their gene-fusing abilities against Ling Yi’s brain cancer. While the extraction ran, Ling Yi told Gu Yun that his time-loop experiments suggested time was an arc, and that actions taken during a reset could affect the main timeline.

• Ling Yi explained that he planned to use volcanic blue algae’s ancient genes to try to treat his brain cancer, and Bai Jinshan and Director Bao discussed the genes’ possible origins.
• Ling Yi started the experiment, and the team lowered the laboratory temperature to minus 255 degrees to separate the ancient genes.
• The computer model showed that the ancient genes formed tai-chi-like double helices linked into a genetic web, and the extraction began.
• Ling Yi, Bai Jinshan, Director Bao, and Gu Yun ate while the extraction ran, and Gu Yun said he had prepared equipment for Ling Yi’s next reset.
• Ling Yi told Gu Yun that time seemed to be an arc because major actions during his reset cycles could affect the main timeline, citing his delayed release of entertainment-industry scandals as evidence.

Ling Yi learned that the Special Incident Bureau had Daoist cultivation methods and successfully used a Visualization Technique to restore his mental strength without sleeping. After the ancient gene extraction finished, he drank a sample himself to test its effects, relying on the coming restart to mitigate the danger.

• Gu Yun and Ling Yi discussed how restarting parallel timelines could affect the main timeline, and Gu Yun rushed off after grasping Ling Yi’s Time Arc theory.
• Director Bao gave Ling Yi a Daoist Visualization Technique, which Ling Yi successfully practiced and used to recover his mental strength.
• Bai Jinshan said nobody else had managed to visualize the diagram and suggested Ling Yi might have a talent for Daoist cultivation.
• Ling Yi decided to test an ancient gene sample on himself rather than use a lab mouse, since the timeline would restart if he died.
• The volcanic blue-green algae extraction finished, and Ling Yi explained that the algae had likely died during freezing before drinking a tube containing the ancient genes.

Ling Yi drank the ancient genes and discovered they had fused with his human genes and infected his brain cancer cells, though neither showed immediate effects. While isolated for safety, he practiced the Visualization Technique and triggered a mental-energy reading above ten units, prompting Gu Yun to test whether he could levitate a cup.

• Ling Yi drank the ancient genes and told Bai Jinshan that the main timeline would reset seventy-five hours later, just before Ling Yi's next reset.
• Bai Jinshan tested Ling Yi's cells and found that the ancient genes had fused with his genes and infected his brain cancer cells, but no changes had yet appeared.
• Director Bao ordered Ling Yi isolated, and Gu Yun arranged to monitor the energy around him during his coming reset.
• At 7:22 p.m., Ling Yi entered a sealed metal apparatus while Bai Jinshan went to test the ancient genes on lab mice.
• Gu Yun detected a mental-energy response as Ling Yi practiced the Visualization Technique, and he urged Ling Yi to try making a cup float.