Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi confronted Jiang Ruyun about the danger of her cultivation and traded spiritual liquid that could save her for her pendant. After he left, Jiang Xianxian told her mother she knew what the pendant was.

• Jiang Ruyun opened the door to find Ling Yi, who said he could save her life and help her advance her cultivation.
• Ling Yi sealed Jiang Ruyun’s power and explained that her Nine Revolutions Heavenly Origin Art was consuming her Qi and Blood, leaving her a month to live.
• Ling Yi offered spiritual liquid as a way for Jiang Ruyun to cultivate with Spiritual Power instead of Internal Energy.
• Jiang Ruyun tested the spiritual liquid’s effects, then gave Ling Yi her pendant in exchange for it.
• Jiang Xianxian listened from her room as Ling Yi and her mother spoke, then ran out after he left and said she knew what the pendant was.

Lin Chen escaped prison and turned evil after using the Chaos Yin and Yang Technique, prompting Su Qinghuan to fly out and investigate. Ling Yi learned that the system had secured his chance to become the new protagonist, but the world’s ascension would erase all awakened characters, leaving him conflicted about what would happen to Liu Ruyan and the others.

• Lin Chen escaped prison with a teleportation talisman, hid in Dafeng City’s Sixth District, and vowed to kill Ling Yi after reaching the Golden Core Realm.
• Su Qinghuan sensed that something had happened to Lin Chen, divined the danger, and flew out of Thousand Secrets Mountain.
• Ling Yi brought Liu Ruyan to meet his parents while following the plot, and the system told him Lin Chen had escaped and turned evil.
• The system revealed that it had communicated with the World Consciousness, which would make Ling Yi the new protagonist if he dealt with Lin Chen and the world reset.
• Ling Yi worried that a reset and the world’s ascension would erase Liu Ruyan and the other awakened characters, and the system confirmed that ascension would end the plot.

Ling Yi learned that Liu Ruyan and the other women knew he was a transmigrator and had been resisting the plot after an awakened one warned them. He argued that completing the plot would free them, but Jiang Wan'er questioned whether his system could be trusted and asked what he planned to do next.

• Liu Ruyan left Ling Yi's parents with him, then tried and failed to tell him that she could hear his inner voice.
• At the Dafeng Hotel, Qin Wanwan told Ling Yi that an awakened one had revealed the short-drama world, his role as a transmigrator, and parts of their scripts.
• Ling Yi's system told him that other transmigrators from Thousand Mountains Company were enemies who had come to sabotage the plot.
• Ling Yi explained that completing the plot would free the women, while Jiang Wan'er challenged his reasoning and asked whether the plot might loop.
• Jiang Wan'er said she distrusted Ling Yi's system and asked what he planned to do next.

Ling Yi agreed to delay dealing with Lin Chen until after Qin Wanwan’s birthday, while Jiang Wan'er and the other women sought a way to avoid another world reset. Ling Yi tracked down Lin Chen and pursued him after he fled with Earth-Escape Talismans.

• Jiang Wan'er asked Ling Yi to wait until after Qin Wanwan’s birthday before dealing with Lin Chen, and he agreed.
• Jiang Wan'er explained that the women wanted to learn more about the system and avoid being reset, then revealed she had found Qin Yu in Baihai City.
• Ling Yi drove to the Sixth District of Dafeng City, where the system located Lin Chen for him.
• Ling Yi found Lin Chen outside a hair salon, and Lin Chen escaped underground with an Earth-Escape Talisman.
• Ling Yi caught up with Lin Chen after each escape, and Lin Chen saw him hovering above after using another talisman.

Ling Yi crippled Lin Chen, sealed Su Qinghuan’s cultivation, and sent her back to Thousand Secrets Sect after she arrived to protect her disciple. Ling Yi drove toward Thousand Secrets Mountain, while Jiang Ruyun and Jiang Xianxian headed there separately, hoping to learn whether his inner voice was true.

• Lin Chen’s Earth-Escape Talisman failed because Ling Yi had trapped the area in a Formation, and Ling Yi struck him, crippling his Spiritual Root and destroying his cultivation.
• Su Qinghuan arrived too late to stop Ling Yi and heard his inner voice reveal that Lin Chen would abandon her and had already fallen onto the demonic path.
• Su Qinghuan attacked Ling Yi to avenge Lin Chen, but Ling Yi confined her with spatial power and sealed her Spiritual Power with three talismans.
• Ling Yi put Lin Chen in the jade pendant space and sent Su Qinghuan back to Thousand Secrets Sect, telling her to stay there and cultivate her character.
• Ling Yi drove toward Thousand Secrets Mountain, while Jiang Ruyun and Jiang Xianxian traveled there in another car to investigate the ancient immortal’s cave abode and Ling Yi’s inner voice.

Liu Ruyan asked the Ling Clan to punish people who had slandered Ling Yi, while Ling Yi arrived at Thousand Mechanisms Town and questioned his system about the Thousand Mountains Company. The system left its origins unexplained until Ling Yi returned to the real world.

• Liu Ruyan confronted Zhu Xiaoxiao for spreading accusations about Ling Yi and called Uncle Shui to request punishment for her and the others.
• Uncle Shui said the Ling Clan would sue Zhu Xiaoxiao and described the financial damage caused by the rumors; Zhu Xiaoxiao collapsed after Liu Ruyan left.
• Liu Ruyan went to meet Xu Zhiyi and the others, leaving the Ling Clan to deal with Li Lei, Zhu Xiaoxiao, and their companions.
• Ling Yi checked into a hotel in Thousand Mechanisms Town to wait for the full moon three nights later.
• Ling Yi asked the system about the Thousand Mountains Company, and the system said it and Ling Yi had once been pawns of the company but had escaped its control for certain reasons.

Ling Yi gathered supplies while Qin Wanwan and the others found Qin Yu, who explained how characters awakened and how transmigrators disrupted the plot. Qin Yu revealed that he had awakened after helping a transmigrator kill a former protagonist and had fallen in love with her.

• Ling Yi followed the system's advice and went out to gather supplies for future worlds.
• Jiang Wan'er used her father's private access key to locate Qin Yu, and Qin Wanwan and the others met him at his home.
• Qin Yu explained that plot characters could awaken by killing a protagonist or witnessing one die, while protagonists and female leads could not awaken.
• Qin Yu said he had been reset seventy-three times and that transmigrators with varied tasks had repeatedly prevented the plot from being completed.
• Qin Yu revealed that he had helped his secretary, Huo Weiwei, who had transmigrated into Zhou Qiaoqiao, kill the protagonist Ye Fan and had fallen in love with her.

Qin Yu explained how he and Weiwei disrupted Ye Fan’s plot, killed him, and endured seventy-three resets while waiting for Weiwei to return. Liu Ruyan proposed that Ling Yi knew an earlier version of the script, but the group still faced the possibility of a reset and Qin Yu’s erasure if Ling Yi took over as protagonist.

• Qin Yu recounted how he and Weiwei ruined Ye Fan’s first two romantic pursuits, weakened him with a Power-Dispersing Pill, and killed him.
• Qin Yu revealed that Weiwei had left after completing her mission and might return once she earned enough points, though seventy-three resets and 130 years had passed.
• Jiang Wan’er asked whether Qin Yu knew that completing the plot would erase the Awakened, and Qin Yu said Weiwei had warned him the company would prevent the plot from reaching its end.
• Liu Ruyan identified Thousand Mountains Company and suggested that Ling Yi might be part of the plot or might have learned the original script.
• Jiang Wan’er and Qin Wanwan concluded that Ling Yi knew an earlier version in which Qin Yu was the number two cannon fodder, while the later script named Jiang Yun.
• Qin Wanwan explained that Ling Yi could become the protagonist after Lin Chen died, leaving the women worried about a reset and Qin Yu’s erasure; Qin Yu questioned how a transmigrator could follow the plot and become protagonist.

Qin Yu explained how Awakened people gained random abilities and revealed that an organization of them opposed the plot, while Liu Ruyan guessed their powers came from Thousand Mountains Company. Meanwhile, Ling Yi ran into Jiang Ruyun and Jiang Xianxian at a restaurant and warned them away from the ancient immortal’s cave abode, then wondered whether the reset would refresh it and the Twin Fish Jade Pendant.

• Qin Yu told the women that Awakened people gained random world-bug abilities, and that an organization of Awakened secretly worked to prevent the plot from succeeding.
• Liu Ruyan proposed that Awakened abilities came from Thousand Mountains Company rather than from the world itself, and the group decided to seek out other Awakened people.
• Ling Yi encountered Jiang Ruyun and Jiang Xianxian at a restaurant in Thousand Mechanisms Town as they came to raid his base.
• Ling Yi warned Jiang Ruyun and Jiang Xianxian to abandon their plan to seek the ancient immortal’s cave abode.
• Ling Yi wondered whether a world reset would refresh the Twin Fish Jade Pendant and the cave abode.

Ling Yi suspected Jiang Ruyun and Jiang Xianxian were hiding information about the ancient immortal's cave abode, while Jiang Xianxian heard his thoughts and realized they could not escape his surveillance. After Ling Yi confronted them, Jiang Ruyun gave him the real key, and he began questioning Jiang Xianxian about how she knew so much.

• Ling Yi learned from the system that he could farm opportunities only twice before taking the protagonist's place after a world reset.
• Ling Yi stopped Jiang Ruyun and Jiang Xianxian from leaving, then let them go while planning to follow them secretly.
• Jiang Xianxian warned Jiang Ruyun by text that Ling Yi was watching them, and they left Thousand Mechanisms Town before turning back because his Divine Sense could reach a thousand li.
• Ling Yi appeared in the mother and daughter's back seat, and Jiang Ruyun handed him the real key to the ancient immortal's cave abode.
• Ling Yi asked Jiang Xianxian how she knew so much, and she said she could not explain but agreed to answer what she could.

Jiang Xianxian falsely claimed an Awakened had told her about Ling Yi’s secrets, while Ling Yi learned from his system that Awakened could alter plot characters’ memories and settings. After Jiang Ruyun took Jiang Xianxian back to Dafeng City, Ling Yi searched for Awakened, while Qin Yu brought Liu Ruyan and the others to meet Wu Yunsheng in Red Maple City.

• Jiang Xianxian denied hearing Ling Yi’s inner voice and said an Awakened had revealed what she knew.
• Ling Yi’s system explained that Awakened could leave messages or alter plot details, and promised it could analyze and copy their bug abilities.
• Ling Yi warned Jiang Ruyun and Jiang Xianxian that the ancient immortal’s inheritance would soon be reset, so Jiang Ruyun drove her daughter back to Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi returned to his hotel, called the system Dum-E, and used his Divine Sense to search for Awakened.
• Qin Yu brought Liu Ruyan, Qin Wanwan, and Xu Zhiyi to a bar in Red Maple City to meet Wu Yunsheng, Wu Yunqi’s younger half-brother.
• Liu Ruyan noticed a bug in Wu Yunsheng’s situation, and Qin Yu praised her for spotting the problem.

Wu Yunsheng revealed that Thousand Mountains Company created the Virtual-Dimensional Worlds to harvest Origin Energy by keeping their plots unfinished, and that the company’s home world might be at war. He and Qin Yu believed the situation could give them and the Awakened their only chance, just as the women heard Ling Yi questioning Wu Yunqi’s name-swapping ability.

• Qin Yu explained that Wu Yunqi’s bug ability let him swap names, not identities, and that Wu Yunsheng and Wu Yunqi had exchanged names.
• Liu Ruyan asked Wu Yunsheng how the Virtual-Dimensional Worlds began, and he revealed that Thousand Mountains Company created them after an accident while developing a virtual game.
• Wu Yunsheng said the company recruited transmigrators to disrupt plots and prevent the worlds from becoming True-Dimensional Worlds, preserving its supply of Origin Energy.
• Wu Yunsheng explained that Origin Energy came from audiences’ emotions and would keep flowing as long as people watched, but he did not know what the company used it for or what happened when a world became true-dimensional.
• Wu Yunsheng said the company’s True-Dimensional World might be at war, prompting him to tell Qin Yu that this could be their only chance.
• The four women heard Ling Yi criticize Wu Yunqi’s ability and wondered whether Ling Yi had come there instead of going to Thousand Secrets Mountain.

Liu Ruyan, Xu Zhiyi, Qin Wanwan, and Jiang Wan'er met with Qin Yu and Wu Yunsheng, learned that heroines could only be reset and never awaken, and left with complicated feelings. Meanwhile, three women in different parts of the city heard of Thousand Secrets Mountain and set out toward it.

• Ling Yi's inner voice overwhelmed the four heroines with thoughts about Awakened people and Thousand Mountains Company's bug abilities before abruptly stopping.
• Qin Yu refused to reveal his plans, and Wu Yunsheng confirmed that heroines could not be replaced, killed, or awakened, only reset.
• Jiang Wan'er led the heroines out of the bar, while Qin Yu and Wu Yunsheng agreed to pursue their plan despite the risk of being erased.
• A woman in sunglasses decided to visit Thousand Mechanisms Town, fired her manager Guan Hong, and left the bar.
• A woman in a white business suit ended a video conference and told Xiaoxiao to prepare a car for a trip to Thousand Secrets Mountain.
• A tall woman at Bai Hai University decided to visit Thousand Secrets Mountain, brushed off her senior brother's offer to protect her, and drove away in a red Prado.

Ling Yi encountered Chen Xue, the domineering president of the Chen Long Group, at a breakfast shop in Thousand Mechanisms Town and gave her a jade slip containing the story she wanted to understand. He discovered that seven other heroines had also arrived in town, leaving him to prepare to explain the plot to them as well.

• Chen Xue approached Ling Yi at the breakfast shop, and he learned from his system that he had to protect the heroines from being killed before the plot ended.
• Ling Yi followed Chen Xue to her car, where she asked about cultivators, male leads, transmigrators, and Awakened.
• Ling Yi made a jade slip and gave it to Chen Xue, who pressed it to her forehead to experience the short drama and its story.
• Ling Yi made eight more jade slips while Chen Xue watched the drama.
• Ling Yi sensed that seven other heroines had arrived in Thousand Mechanisms Town, while Su Qinghuan remained trapped in the Thousand Secrets Sect and Jiang Xianxian was in Dafeng City.

Ling Yi gave the heroines jade slips containing the short drama and went on to claim the ancient immortal’s inheritance and the protagonist’s third fortuitous encounter. At Qin Wanwan’s birthday banquet, Ling Yi arrived with Su Qinghuan and Liu Ruyan, and the system detected a company employee.

• Chen Xue learned that the reset would happen about a week after Qin Wanwan’s birthday banquet and asked Zhu Xiaoxiao to get an invitation.
• Ling Yi met Guan Xuanxuan, gave her a jade slip, and sent jade slips and instructions to all the heroines.
• Ling Yi entered the ancient immortal’s cave abode, claimed the Shadow Heart Armor and Shadow Heart Sword, and returned to Dafeng City.
• The day before the banquet, Ling Yi brought Su Qinghuan from the Thousand Secrets Sect and obtained the Blood-Burning Yin and Yang Art.
• Ling Yi arrived at Qin Wanwan’s birthday banquet with Su Qinghuan and Liu Ruyan, where the system detected a company employee.

At Qin Wanwan’s birthday banquet, Ling Yi’s system detected thousands of Awakened and hundreds of transmigrators gathered in Dafeng City. While the hall was dark, Ling Yi secretly took many people into the Twin Fish Jade Pendant Space, but more than fifty attackers struck at the female leads.

• Ling Yi’s system detected 522 transmigrators and 3,705 Awakened in Dafeng City and began analyzing them.
• Chen Xue, Shen Wanyi, Jiang Xianxian, Guan Xuanxuan, and Jiang Wan'er joined Ling Yi’s table, where Su Qinghuan and Guan Xuanxuan sensed hostility in the banquet hall.
• Su Qinghuan showed Ling Yi the Female Lead Group chat, and Ling Yi sent Liu Ruyan the Blood-Burning Yin and Yang Art to share with the women.
• Qin Wanwan’s birthday banquet began, and the guests watched the celebration unfold.
• When the lights went out, Ling Yi took numerous guests into the Twin Fish Jade Pendant Space, while more than fifty people attacked the female leads.

Ling Yi rescued Jiang Xianxian from an attempted assassination, then used his newly analyzed Behavior Control ability to torment Lin Chen before killing him. As the company began closing in, Ling Yi left the world and appeared at the Thousand Secrets Sect, where he discovered Su Qinghuan still remembered him after the reset.

• Ling Yi told the women to memorize the Blood-Burning Yin and Yang Art and said he would begin in an hour and a half, while Liu Ruyan lamented that she might forget him.
• Ling Yi released Lin Chen from the jade pendant's space and used Behavior Control to make him kneel and call Ling Yi “Dad.”
• Lin Chen begged Ling Yi to spare him, but Su Qinghuan arrived and asked what would change if the world became a True-Dimensional World.
• Su Qinghuan explained that Liu Ruyan had already planned for the possibility that people who died would stay dead, then asked Ling Yi whether he could take people with him.
• The system warned Ling Yi that the company had discovered the anomaly and would hunt them, so Ling Yi killed Lin Chen and was transported away.
• Ling Yi arrived at the Thousand Secrets Sect dressed as a Daoist, where he greeted Su Qinghuan and realized her memories had not reset.

After eighty years of battling disruptions and deciphering the world’s Space-Time Anchor, Ling Yi completed the plot and helped Su Qinghuan ascend. The World Consciousness then tried to erase Ling Yi and his system, but Ling Yi woke up back in his rented room.

• Ling Yi told Liu Ruyan he could return to the world after deciphering its Space-Time Anchor, and she warned him not to abandon her.
• Ling Yi sent the other women away as the Ascension Passage opened, while Su Qinghuan insisted on ascending to the Immortal Realm.
• Ling Yi and the system discussed the World Consciousness’s promised origin energy and the cost of taking his gains back with him.
• The World Consciousness tried to erase Ling Yi and the system, and Ling Yi vanished before waking in his familiar rented room.

Ling Yi returned to the real world after the World Consciousness tried to kill him, but he and the system escaped with the Twin Fish Jade Pendant Space and a backup plan. He moved into a new home and began investigating Thousand Mountains Company as he prepared to earn enough origin to return to Liu Ruyan’s world.

• Ling Yi learned that the World Consciousness had tried to reclaim the origin it paid him, but the system saved him with ten thousand units remaining.
• Ling Yi chose to manifest the Twin Fish Jade Pendant Space, tested his cultivation there, and learned that the system’s abilities would not help him in the real world.
• The system revealed that its Anchor Virus could paralyze the World Consciousness, but returning to No. 1 World would require an anchor point and more origin.
• Ling Yi resolved to keep transmigrating and earning origin so he could return to Liu Ruyan, then sold gold and moved into a furnished house.
• Ling Yi asked the system about Thousand Mountains Company and learned that it had shifted from struggling game development to profitable short dramas before announcing a virtual game in 2021 and disappearing from public view.

Ling Yi learned how Thousand Mountains Company’s Origin Energy threatened the barriers between Virtual-Dimensional Worlds and True-Dimensional Worlds, then chose to transmigrate to earn more origin. He entered After Divorce, I Became Everyone's Heartthrob as the villain Ji Zefeng, with a mission reward of 200,000 units of origin and a possible bonus for helping the world ascend.

• Ling Yi learned that Thousand Mountains Company’s Origin Energy could erode world barriers and trigger Virtual-Dimensional Worlds to invade.
• The system explained that turning Virtual-Dimensional Worlds into True-Dimensional Worlds could stop the invasion, while Ling Yi decided to focus on becoming stronger and gathering origin.
• Ling Yi browsed popular short dramas and let the system select one, which chose After Divorce, I Became Everyone's Heartthrob and assigned him the role of Ji Zefeng.
• The system negotiated a reward of 200,000 units of origin for completing Ji Zefeng’s plot and an additional one million for helping the world ascend.
• Ling Yi agreed to the mission, told the system to set up anchor poison, and prepared to transmigrate.