Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi restrained Yang Tuo and Yang Hai, then revealed that Yang Hai’s declining intelligence and misfortune came from Undead Baleful Energy earned by killing innocent people, not from his Devouring ability. He explained that Merit was the only way to dispel it, leaving Yang Tuo, Yang Hai, and Lin Yue stunned by the truth.

• Ling Yi froze Yang Tuo and Yang Hai before they could escape and questioned them about the Demonic Box and their ties to the Three Gods Hall.
• Yang Hai accidentally exposed their spy identities and suggested killing Ling Yi and Lin Yue, while Yang Tuo tried to silence him.
• Ling Yi explained that Yang Hai’s Karmic Luck had once promised him a brilliant future, but his intelligence and fortunes declined after he began accumulating Undead Baleful Energy.
• Ling Yi named Yang Xiaocui and other victims, including the people killed in South Village, Baling Township, and Tianhai Town, as the source of Yang Hai’s misfortune.
• Ling Yi said Merit was the only way to dispel Undead Baleful Energy, and his golden eyes displayed a sacred presence that made the others confront what their past deeds meant.

Ling Yi questioned Yang Tuo about the Demonic Box and learned that it held the Chaos Origin Stone, a Key tied to the awakening of abilities and the rise of a new era. After revealing that he had taken and broken the Key, Ling Yi discovered a fragment was glowing and saw that it contained Karmic Luck, Undead Baleful Energy, and Merit.

• Ling Yi spared Yang Tuo and Yang Hai for seven days, giving them a chance to prove that the Undead Baleful Energy affecting them could be removed.
• Yang Tuo explained that the Chaos Origin Stone had awakened the first Ability Users, later became dangerous as it absorbed energy, and was sealed inside the Demonic Box.
• Yang Tuo said a powerful woman stole the Demonic Box eight years earlier, and Ling Yi suspected she was Mama Zhang.
• Ling Yi admitted he had taken the Chaos Origin Stone and broken it into six pieces, then brought out one fragment.
• Lin Yue felt her ability growing stronger near the fragment, while Ling Yi's Golden Eyes revealed its intertwined Karmic Luck, Undead Baleful Energy, and Merit.

Ling Yi discovered the strange balance of energy surrounding the Chaos Origin Stone fragment, then gained a new Bond Target module when Lin Yue reached ten Heartthrob Points. After copying her Charm Demon physique and fleeing their mutual attraction, he tasked Yang Tuo and Yang Hai with finding an elderly orphanage director and clearing their Undead Baleful Energy.

• Ling Yi used Money Power to reveal that the Chaos Origin Stone fragment held high levels of Karmic Luck, Merit, and Undead Baleful Energy, while Lin Yue had no Undead Baleful Energy.
• Lin Yue gained Heartthrob Points and unlocked the Bond Target module, which raised her Looks score to 100 and her Charm Demon ability to level seven.
• Ling Yi copied Lin Yue's Charm Demon physique with a Pika Ball, but their abilities intensified their mutual attraction instead of canceling it out.
• Ling Yi teleported himself, Yang Tuo, and Yang Hai to his office at Linquan Entertainment in Dafeng City, then lifted their Immobilization Spell.
• Ling Yi gave Yang Tuo and Yang Hai private system interfaces to track their Undead Baleful Energy and Merit, and ordered them to find the former Fenghai Orphanage director and eliminate their Undead Baleful Energy within seven days.

Ling Yi examined the upgraded Heartthrob Points System and discovered its new Bond Target feature, then turned his attention to Zheng Huihui’s approaching crisis. That night, Zheng Huihui heard someone enter her teahouse.

• Ling Yi wondered why the Universal Heart-Clearing Mantra had not worked on Lin Yue, then blamed her Charm Demon physique when her Heartthrob Points increased again.
• Ling Yi inspected the updated system, noted that his lifespan had reached 5,000 years, and found thirty-three bound targets in danger, including Zheng Huihui.
• Ling Yi opened the Bond Target feature and saw Lin Hao, Lin Wan, and Lin Yue listed with options to teleport, summon, or guard them.
• Zheng Huihui watched online discussion about Ling Yi’s acting roles and looked forward to seeing his costume photos.
• Zheng Huihui heard a car outside her teahouse, then sat up when her wind chime sounded, signaling that someone had entered.

Zheng Huihui’s ex-husband broke into her home with a knife, but Chouchou killed him and rescued her. Chouchou questioned Zheng Huihui about Ling Yi, who then appeared and offered to answer her himself.

• Zheng Huihui saw her ex-husband on the teahouse surveillance feed and tried to call Ling Yi when she realized he had broken into her home with a knife.
• Chouchou appeared behind Zheng Huihui’s ex-husband and killed him with a streak of white light, causing Zheng Huihui to faint.
• Chouchou revived Zheng Huihui, who recognized her as the childhood acquaintance she had once called Auntie Chouchou.
• Chouchou asked Zheng Huihui how Ling Yi had changed, but Zheng Huihui avoided revealing anything that might cause him trouble.
• Ling Yi appeared behind Chouchou and told her she could ask him directly, and they greeted each other after a long time apart.

Ling Yi confronted Zhang Chouchou and discovered she was an immortal cultivator bound as a Subsystem puppet, while Mother Zhang had lived for over 150 years. Their clash began above the clouds, where Zhang Chouchou suggested their world was a novel and Ling Yi offered to free her from the system’s enslavement.

• Ling Yi recalled his childhood at the orphanage and used Probe on Zhang Chouchou, finding her status marked her as a level-10 immortal cultivator and Subsystem puppet bound by a Soul Contract.
• Zhang Chouchou revealed Mother Zhang was still alive and over 150 years old, while Ling Yi questioned whether she was in Dafeng City and whether the Demonic Box had injured her.
• Ling Yi and Zhang Chouchou argued over whose turn it was to ask questions, then agreed to fight before continuing their conversation.
• Zhang Chouchou attacked Ling Yi with three lightning bolts above the clouds, but the strikes barely affected him.
• Zhang Chouchou asked whether Ling Yi had guessed they lived in a novel world, and Ling Yi inferred Mother Zhang had granted her power through the system.
• After noticing Zhang Chouchou's reaction, Ling Yi offered to free her from the system's enslavement.

Ling Yi discovered that removing Zhang Chouchou's Enslavement System would cost one trillion, then exploited Money Power's rules to rapidly earn the required cash. After restoring Zheng Huihui's ex-husband from a mosaic and ordering him to turn himself in, Ling Yi prepared to remove Zhang Chouchou's system, but she stopped him.

• Zhang Chouchou offered to acknowledge Ling Yi as her master if he freed her from the Enslavement System, but removing it required one trillion in cash.
• Ling Yi revealed that he had Money Power, and Zhang Chouchou said she could obtain a trillion by hacking foreign banks within three days.
• Ling Yi tried to transfer money from Amai Chou, then exploited Money Power by buying an intelligent system that earned him two hundred billion in ten minutes.
• Ling Yi returned with Zhang Chouchou to Zheng Huihui's bedroom, where he used Golden Eyes to restore her ex-husband from the mosaic by the doorway.
• Zheng Huihui's ex-husband charged at her, but Ling Yi snapped his fingers and ordered him to turn himself in.
• Ling Yi prepared to remove Zhang Chouchou's Enslavement System, but Zhang Chouchou stopped him.

Ling Yi gave Zhang Chouchou a disguised Sign-In System that freed her from the Main System, then discussed whether ordinary people were safer without ability users. Zhang Chouchou revealed that Mother Zhang’s system might be the real cause of Special Ability Users appearing, and said awakenings stopped when Mother Zhang stopped signing in.

• Zhang Chouchou asked Ling Yi to preserve her subsystem’s functions while hiding it from the Main System, and Ling Yi created a disguised Sign-In System for her.
• Zheng Huihui questioned Ling Yi about ability users and refused his offer to make her a Special Ability User, saying she would rather live in a world without them.
• Ling Yi said he could use Money Power to eliminate the Three Gods Hall and prevent the dangers ability users posed.
• Zhang Chouchou explained that Mother Zhang’s Sign-In System could be responsible for Special Ability Users appearing and that Mother Zhang’s daily sign-ins coincided with a rise in awakenings.
• Zhang Chouchou said Mother Zhang later noticed that no Special Ability Users awakened whenever she stopped signing in.

Zhang Chouchou explained that Mother Zhang had transmigrated into the novel’s world 150 years earlier and had spent years trying to return to her original world. Ling Yi offered to help her, but he concealed that the Key had shattered, and Zheng Huihui asked Mother Zhang’s real name.

• Zhang Chouchou said Mother Zhang had become wealthy after taking control of a princely household, and later killed Radiant Water Country’s leaders and Special Ability Users.
• Zhang Chouchou explained that Mother Zhang had left the Key in a basement to help awaken Ninth Tier powerhouses, then secretly pushed the Three Gods Hall to create a million Pseudo Ability Users as an alternative way to activate it.
• Zhang Chouchou said Mother Zhang had bound her, Meimei, and another person with an Enslavement Subsystem and contract, and might be rushing to return because her mother was seriously ill.
• Zhang Chouchou said the world had become real after Mother Zhang broke the Plot Rules, and she could not explain Jiang Qing'er.
• Ling Yi asked Zhang Chouchou to tell Mother Zhang he could send her home, while hiding that the Key had shattered.
• Zhang Chouchou asked whether Ling Yi had the Key, and Zheng Huihui asked Mother Zhang’s name.

Ling Yi rose to stardom while Special Ability Users and genetic potions pushed the world toward chaos. As his closest companions gathered in his office, Jiang Qing'er revealed she had already become intimate with him and insisted she remained his main wife.

• Zhang Chouchou asked to work as Ling Yi's secretary after escaping Mother Zhang's enslavement, and Ling Yi said he was not ready to seek Mother Zhang out.
• Ling Yi filmed three dramas, using temporary acting skills and Crisis Alert to save bound targets and earn Heartthrob Points.
• The dramas premiered over several months, making Ling Yi famous and raising his bound targets above eight thousand and his Total Heart Flutter Points to forty-five thousand.
• Lin Yue, Zhang Chouchou, and Lin Wan discussed the Three Gods Hall's infiltration, rising Special Ability User incidents, and the danger of genetic potions as Pseudo Ability Users appeared worldwide.
• Lin Wan teased Jiang Qing'er about losing her place as Ling Yi's main wife, and Jiang Qing'er admitted she had slept with him and claimed the position for herself.

Ling Yi confronted Zhang Mei about the Chaos Origin Stone, restored its shattered pieces, and learned that their world was a novel. Zhang Mei reclaimed the stone and began explaining how she had transmigrated into the book.

• Ling Yi heard that Zhang Mei had prepared for the Three Gods Hall's worship ceremony and expected her to come seeking the Chaos Origin Stone.
• Zhang Mei arrived with Zhang Meimei and Zhang Huanhuan, and Ling Yi recognized her as a level 99 book transmigrator and Ability User.
• Ling Yi revealed that he had broken the Chaos Origin Stone into six fragments, and Zhang Mei unleashed pressure that Ling Yi immediately dispelled.
• Ling Yi used Repair Oil to reassemble the Chaos Origin Stone, which Zhang Mei reclaimed after checking it.
• Zhang Mei told Ling Yi that their world was a novel called "Real and Fake Heiresses: After Her Rebirth, the Fake Heiress Decides to Slack Off!" and described being electrocuted while reading it before she transmigrated.

Mother Zhang explained how she entered the world inside the book, obtained the Chaos Origin Stone, and built the Three Gods Hall to gather enough power to return home. She revealed that her mother had collapsed in the real world and said she would do anything to get back, while Lin Yue questioned whether the stone could truly take her there.

• Mother Zhang told Ling Yi that she had followed the Chaos Origin Stone into the book’s world and survived as Zhang Mei with help from her Sign-In System.
• Mother Zhang explained how the system’s monitoring function helped her track Special Ability Users, and how she later stole the Chaos Origin Stone from the Special Ability Bureau.
• Mother Zhang said she had sealed Jiang Qing'er’s memories and Holy Body after discovering its dangerous power, then secretly created the Three Gods Hall to gather energy for activating the stone.
• Mother Zhang revealed that time passed one hundred times faster in the book’s world and that her mother had collapsed a week earlier in the real world.
• Mother Zhang declared that she would destroy the world if necessary to return home, and Lin Yue questioned whether the Chaos Origin Stone could take her back to a world it did not come from.

Mother Zhang and the others questioned whether the Chaos Origin Stone could return her to her original world, then turned their attention to Ling Yi and his system. Ling Yi confessed his history and explained that the system did not control their feelings, leaving the women to blame him for his relationships and demand answers about his other women.

• Mother Zhang considered whether the Chaos Origin Stone could safely return her to her original world, while Jiang Qing'er and Ling Yi debated whether their world was real or fictional.
• Ling Yi suggested their lives resembled a novel, and the women agreed it sounded like a scumbag male-audience story with him as the protagonist.
• Zhang Chouchou, Jiang Qing'er, and the others grilled Ling Yi about his system and accused it of manipulating their feelings.
• Ling Yi surrendered and explained that he had transmigrated from another world and described what had happened to him.
• Lin Yue and Lin Wan concluded that the system only kept their Heartthrob Points from falling, and that Ling Yi himself was responsible for his relationships.
• Lin Hao asked how many other women Ling Yi had, while Mother Zhang asked whether his Money Power really let him do anything if he had enough money.

Ling Yi sent Mother Zhang back to her world after she agreed to the conditions, then erased the powers of all Special Ability Users and Ability Users. As Ling Yi began another transmigration, his original body revealed that his memories had been unsealed.

• Ling Yi told Mother Zhang he could send her home, and she agreed to pay one hundred thousand Merit after learning the conditions.
• Ling Yi explained that Mother Zhang’s return would destroy her Sign-In System, prevent new Special Ability Users from appearing, and let him erase the powers of those already present.
• Lin Yue asked whether Mother Zhang was a bad person, and Ling Yi said he would make up for her mistakes while she dealt with her own Undead Baleful Energy.
• Mother Zhang handed the Special Ability Bureau control methods for the Three Gods Hall, donated her assets to the Ancient Country, and removed Enslavement Subsystems from Zhang Chouchou and two other women.
• Ling Yi sent Mother Zhang home with Money Power, then erased the powers of every Special Ability User, Ability User, and Pseudo Ability User in the world.
• Ling Yi’s original body revealed that his memories had been unsealed and started a new transmigration using the Infinite Passive Transmigration Aura.

After waking in a hotel suite with Xia Qianran, Ling Yi discovered that he could see strange countdown numbers above people’s heads. He watched a girl marked with an ominous number die in a traffic accident, then saw events rewind to just before she left the hotel.

• Ling Yi recalled getting drunk at his class reunion, spending the night with Xia Qianran, and leaving after she ordered him to go.
• Xia Qianran identified herself as the daughter of Dafeng City’s richest man and vowed to deal with Xia Hao for trying to ruin her.
• Ling Yi saw a scarlet 0 above a woman near the elevator and noticed similar numbers above people in the hotel lobby.
• Ling Yi spotted a round-faced girl with an eerie black-and-red number above her head and watched her walk toward the road.
• A speeding sports car struck the girl, but the scene rewound until she was again about to exit the revolving door.

Ling Yi discovered that he could see a person's future death and simulate an attempt to save them, but he chose not to save the woman who had slapped him. After she was struck by a sports car driven by Liu Ruyan, Ling Yi noticed numbers above the crowd and began investigating what they meant.

• Ling Yi tried to stop the round-faced woman after seeing her future death, but she slapped him and walked away.
• Ling Yi realized his vision let him see one person's future death and simulate saving them, then chose to let the woman continue toward the road.
• Ling Yi watched and recorded as the woman crossed against the traffic countdown and was hit by a speeding white sports car.
• Liu Ruyan fled the crash, and Ling Yi recognized her as his former university sweetheart who had mocked him at a class reunion.
• Ling Yi felt a brief burning sensation in his right eye, then noticed numbers from zero to three above people in the crowd and wondered whether they counted down to death.

Ling Yi blocked the road to Wangtian Mountain after a Death Preview showed it collapsing, but the mountain stayed intact at the predicted time and he was arrested. An hour later, it collapsed as predicted, triggering his Simulation Rescue and leaving him back at the Dihao Hotel with a clearer understanding of his ability.

• Ling Yi blocked the Wangfeng Mountain expressway exit and persuaded a Dafeng City official to keep it closed until after 9:36, despite experts finding no danger at Wangtian Mountain.
• At 9:36 and 25 seconds, Wangtian Mountain remained standing, and the official confronted Ling Yi as traffic resumed and tourists entered the scenic area.
• An hour later, Ling Yi was being escorted to a patrol car when Wangtian Mountain collapsed, and he realized what had gone wrong.
• Ling Yi's Simulation Rescue rewound events and returned him to the Dihao Hotel, where he reviewed the eight Death Previews and Simulation Rescues he had conducted.
• Ling Yi concluded that staring at a target's number for five seconds triggered a Death Preview, that each preview allowed one Simulation Rescue, and that the number showed days remaining until the target's death within three days.

Ling Yi tried to convince Xia Qianran and Su Mu that he could foresee their deaths by predicting calls from Qiao Xin and Xia Wanhao. After his predictions came true, he warned them they would die that night and led them out to collect money.

• Xia Qianran and Su Mu met Ling Yi in the hotel, where he predicted Qiao Xin would invite Xia Qianran to a birthday party, and the call came as he said it would.
• Ling Yi warned Xia Qianran and Su Mu that they would die at 10:15:33 that night, but Su Mu dismissed his claim as a trick.
• Ling Yi predicted that Xia Qianran's father, Xia Wanhao, would call, and Xia Qianran received his call as the countdown ended.
• Ling Yi revealed that Guxia New Energy's shares had plunged during a coordinated stock-market attack, which Xia Qianran confirmed after speaking with her father.
• Ling Yi noticed a young man with a life countdown of two days, then told Xia Qianran and Su Mu he was taking them to pick up money.

Ling Yi told Xia Qianran and Su Mu how a lottery winner and his wife would betray each other and die, revealing that Simulation Rescue let him see other people’s Death Previews while his target’s countdown ran. As the countdown ended, a young man died in a bizarre road accident, and Su Mu screamed at the sight.

• Ling Yi, Xia Qianran, and Su Mu bought lottery tickets with identical numbers, and Xia Qianran deduced that a fourth man had bought the same numbers.
• Ling Yi described how the man and his wife planned to steal the prize from each other, divorced, and ended up dead or imprisoned after fighting over the ticket.
• Ling Yi explained that during Simulation Rescue he could see other people’s Death Previews, allowing him to glimpse up to six days into the future.
• Xia Qianran asked what would happen when Ling Yi’s countdown ended, and Ling Yi pointed out a young man crossing the road.
• The young man’s jacket caught on the road barrier, and a passing van crushed his head as he fell beneath its wheel.
• Ling Yi and Xia Qianran covered their ears, but Su Mu screamed at the gruesome accident.

Ling Yi explained that he would not keep rescuing people who were determined to risk their lives, then showed Xia Qianran and Su Mu how he had prevented a little girl from drowning. He revealed that a tour bus carrying 33 people was about to crash into the Black River and told the two women they would need to help save them.

• Ling Yi told Xia Qianran and Su Mu that he had saved the young man who climbed the railing once, but the man would die three days later, so he would not keep trying to save people who courted death.
• Ling Yi reassured Xia Qianran that she would not die, then waited beside the artificial lake for a little girl whose death countdown was about to end.
• The little girl stayed away from the dangerous wooden platform, her red “0” vanished, and Ling Yi’s left eye briefly burned as he realized he had saved her.
• Ling Yi explained that the girl would have fallen into the lake and been sucked into its water-exchange outlet, then told Xia Qianran and Su Mu that they would save the next people themselves.
• Ling Yi warned that a sports car would force a tour bus carrying 33 people off Black River Bridge and gave Su Mu its license plate: Feng F942S0.