Recaps

Liuli visited Huyan Lan with Huyan Ya and Jiang Sui, but Lan reacted to Liuli with violent fear and anger. After learning that the hospital planned to remove Lan’s cerebral cortex, Liuli vowed to find another treatment, while Lan secretly clung to a jewelry box and declared her loyalty to Senior.

• Huyan Ya opened Huyan Lan’s hospital room, where Lan appeared frail and emotionally numb while watching Armor Hero.
• Huyan Lan recognized Liuli and angrily drove her from the room, then calmed down once Liuli, Huyan Ya, and Jiang Sui left.
• Huyan Ya and Jiang Sui explained that Lan had anxious paranoia and had treasured an unknown object since she found it ten years earlier.
• Huyan Ya told Liuli that White Emperor Hospital planned to remove Lan’s cerebral cortex within a day or two, which would erase her old memories.
• Liuli urged Huyan Ya to stop the surgery and promised to seek a psychiatrist, then went to question Lan’s attending physician.
• Huyan Lan caressed an old DR jewelry box and vowed that she would never forget Senior.

Yin Long and Hu Xiao compared the impossible memories that surfaced when they saw Su Sui’s killing intent and concluded that someone had erased Imperial Emperor from the world’s history. They suspected Liuli kept her memories because of the Imperial Ring, and decided to try finding Imperial Emperor through a Ghost Match.

• Yin Long and Hu Xiao discovered that they both remembered lives in which they had been close members of Imperial Crown and leaders of rival alliances.
• Hu Xiao explained that Su Sui had knocked Yin Long unconscious with a punch, and they guessed the memories surfaced because they had feared for their lives.
• Yin Long and Hu Xiao concluded that Imperial Emperor’s disappearance had led someone to erase his existence and rewrite the lives of those connected to him.
• They suspected Liuli retained her memories because she possessed the Imperial Ring, and wondered whether a god or system had altered the world.
• Yin Long and Hu Xiao decided to queue for a Ghost Match near midnight in hopes of being matched with Imperial Emperor.

Yin Long and Hu Xiao entered a season 1 Ghost Match and contacted Imperial Emperor, whose real name was Su Hang and who was 18. After learning that Su Hang refused to commercialize his personal IP and had a strained relationship with Yousu Team’s management, they asked why, and his reply stunned them.

• Yin Long and Hu Xiao queued together and matched into a season 1 ranked game with Imperial Emperor.
• Hu Xiao used Chou Ox’s earlier match with Imperial Emperor to start a conversation and introduce himself as Hu Xiao.
• Imperial Emperor said his name was Su Hang and that he was 18, which surprised Yin Long and Hu Xiao.
• Yin Long introduced himself and called Imperial Emperor the captain of Yousu Team, prompting Imperial Emperor to ask how he knew.
• Imperial Emperor said he avoided public appearances and personal IP commercialization, then admitted his relationship with Yousu Team’s management was strained.
• Hu Xiao asked why he refused commercialization, and Imperial Emperor’s next reply stunned both men.

Yin Long and Hu Xiao befriended Imperial Emperor during a match and told him he might transmigrate into their world as Su Hang. As Imperial Emperor guessed the name and purpose of a possible King's Rise System, Yin Long and Hu Xiao suspected it had erased him and rewritten their memories, leaving Imperial Emperor asking whether he was going to die.

• Yin Long and Hu Xiao discussed Imperial Emperor’s rejection of commercialization before the match began.
• Yin Long helped Imperial Emperor’s Musashi Miyamoto ambush the enemy marksman and support, deliberately giving him both kills.
• Yin Long told Imperial Emperor he might transmigrate to 2015 in another world and become Su Hang.
• Imperial Emperor guessed he would receive a Honor of Kings-related system, which he called the King's Rise System, and said he hoped it would awaken only after he had tested his own talent.
• Yin Long and Hu Xiao suspected the system had erased Imperial Emperor from their world and altered their memories.
• Imperial Emperor asked whether he was going to die.

Hu Xiao and Yin Long tested Imperial Emperor for mental illness and concluded that he might have suicidal tendencies, then sent Zhou Keyu their findings. Zhou Keyu revealed that the hospital had received the Imperial Ring’s DNA comparison results, but the chapter ended before he shared them.

• Hu Xiao and Yin Long asked Imperial Emperor a mental illness self-test, and he answered its first three questions correctly and said he did not believe in gods.
• Hu Xiao and Yin Long interpreted the test as diagnosing Imperial Emperor as mentally ill and suspected that conflict with Yousu Team’s management could lead him to suicide.
• A game announcement interrupted them before they could tell Imperial Emperor the test result, and the match ended with the opposing team surrendering.
• Yin Long sent Zhou Keyu a detailed account of their Ghost Match, Imperial Emperor’s answers, and their deductions.
• Zhou Keyu replied that the hospital had received the Imperial Ring’s DNA comparison results half an hour earlier, but the results were not revealed.

Liuli discovered evidence that Huyan Lan remembered Su Hang and might not be mentally ill, but Huyan Lan had already been taken to surgery. Liuli realized she had to stop the cerebral cortex removal operation before it erased Huyan Lan’s memories.

• The doctors restrained Huyan Lan and prepared to perform cerebral cortex removal surgery after her condition worsened.
• Huyan Lan broke her leather restraints, swallowed the accessory box, and was secured with steel chains before being wheeled toward the operating room.
• Liuli found a Sovereign Dominion team uniform Huyan Lan had made and suspected she still remembered Su Hang.
• Liuli searched the hospital attic and found an Emperor Hero costume and a mannequin dressed like Su Hang, holding sugar-free cola.
• Liuli concluded Huyan Lan remembered Su Hang and had no mental illness, then realized the surgery was already underway.

Huyan Lan was rescued before doctors could erase her memories of Su Hang, and she learned that Yugong Liuli remembered him too. Liuli showed her a hand-drawn portrait of Su Hang, leaving Huyan Lan stunned by the image.

• On the operating table, Huyan Lan recalled Su Hang and feared that surgery would make her forget him forever.
• A masked figure broke into the operating room as Huyan Lan lost consciousness, and she wondered if the rescuer was Su Hang.
• Huyan Lan woke at the Imperial Fortress on Imperial Crown Island, where Yugong Liuli told her the surgery had been stopped.
• Huyan Lan vomited up her heart-shaped diamond earrings and angrily stopped Liuli from touching them.
• Liuli said she remembered Su Hang, showed Huyan Lan the Imperial Ring, and revealed that she had commissioned a portrait of him.
• Huyan Lan took Liuli's portrait and froze as she looked at it.

Huyan Lan recovered her memories of Su Hang, and Zhou Keyu revealed that the script Imperial Emperor's Counterattack Glory was based on real events. He identified Su Hang as the founder and captain of Imperial Crown, the Imperial Emperor, setting up an explanation of the team's forgotten past.

• Huyan Lan recognized Su Hang in the photograph and vowed with Liuli to find him.
• Zhou Keyu showed that DNA from the Imperial Ring matched the blood of Imperial Crown's veterans, Huyan Lan, and Lin Ying.
• Zhou Keyu gathered everyone to discuss the script Imperial Emperor's Counterattack Glory and argued that its events had really happened.
• Zhou Keyu introduced Su Hang as an eighteen-year-old from Huaxia and revealed that he founded Imperial Crown as its captain, the Imperial Emperor.

Zhou Keyu reconstructed Su Hang’s life, revealing that he was a transmigrator who founded the Imperial Crown and later returned as Exalted Emperor before his memories were erased. He suggested that Huyan Lan and Liuli remembered Su Hang because they were absolutely loyal to him, then asked whether either would give her life to bring him back.

• Zhou Keyu recounted how Su Hang founded the Imperial Crown, later formed the Sovereign Dominion, rescued Liuli, and lost control of the Imperial Crown after Jueying’s betrayal.
• Zhou Keyu revealed that Su Hang had come from a parallel Earth after being betrayed by the Yousu Team and ending his life there.
• The Imperial Crown members realized that the ghost player Imperial Emperor was Su Hang and questioned whether their memories of him had been erased.
• Liuli said Su Hang had created the Imperial Crown to find teammates who would remain loyal to him after his past betrayal.
• Zhou Keyu conjectured that Huyan Lan and Liuli retained their memories because their loyalty to Su Hang was absolute, unlike the other members’.
• Zhou Keyu asked Huyan Lan and Liuli whether either would sacrifice her life to bring Su Hang back.

Zhou Keyu persuaded the Imperial Crown members to reenact the Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor competition to help find Su Hang, while Nurarihyon and Su Sui arranged military support for operations near Imperial Crown Island. The operations were postponed to October 7, and Su Sui secured the deployment of a Huaxia carrier group.

• Liuli and Huyan Lan agreed they were willing to die to find Su Hang, prompting the Imperial Crown members to join Zhou Keyu's planned reenactment.
• Zhou Keyu explained that, despite lacking memories of Su Hang, he felt compelled to find him because Su Hang's blood supposedly flowed through his veins.
• Nurarihyon persuaded General William to postpone the Hundred Demons Operation to October 7 by promising to support his promotion, then vowed revenge on Su Hang.
• Su Sui asked Commander Chen Zhen to postpone the Imperial Crown Operation and considered deploying the No. 03 carrier group to guard against Nurarihyon's possible use of a weapon of mass destruction.
• Chen Zhen arranged for the carrier group to head for waters near Imperial Crown Island, with an estimated arrival of October 7, 2025.

Zhou Keyu used his immersion talent to reconstruct Su Hang’s perspective and concluded that the King's Rise System was Su Hang’s previous self, Imperial Emperor, and that using it meant death. After recovering from the experience, Zhou Keyu set out to deduce where Su Hang had died.

• Zhou Keyu entered the lounge after Su Hang lost the recreated first match and tried to understand why Su Hang had been confident of winning.
• A chandelier fell and plunged the lounge into darkness, prompting Zhou Keyu to suspect that activating the King's Rise System came at the cost of death.
• Zhou Keyu tried to immerse himself in the perspective of a sugar-free cola and witnessed Su Hang speaking with a golden figure he identified as Imperial Emperor, Su Hang’s previous self.
• Zhou Keyu saw Su Hang say “Level-max-out!” before the scene changed, and he woke on the floor, soaked in cold sweat.
• Zhou Keyu concluded that Imperial Emperor was Su Hang’s system and that using it caused death, then decided to deduce where Su Hang had died.

Zhou Keyu deduced that Su Hang had gone to Tiananmen Square before his death, then realized Liuli’s Imperial Ring connected her to Su Hang’s final moments. He asked Liuli whether she thought Su Hang loved her.

• Zhou Keyu performed the script as Su Hang forgave the Three Champion Emperors and the Imperial Crown’s core members, then expelled Nurarihyon.
• Zhou Keyu deduced that Su Hang had wandered to Tiananmen Square, where he had wanted to confide his secrets to someone loyal before dying.
• Liuli told Zhou Keyu how she had met Su Hang online at age eight and had once run away from home hoping to find him.
• Zhou Keyu noticed the Imperial Ring on Liuli’s hand and inferred that she had been with Su Hang at Tiananmen Square and received the ring from him.
• Zhou Keyu gathered the clues and asked Liuli whether she thought Su Hang loved her.

Liuli learned Zhou Keyu believed she was the only one who could save Su Hang, then discovered the Ghost Match bug would be fixed at midnight and rushed to match with Su Hang before the connection closed. The chapter ended as she spotted a familiar fifth-floor player in the match lobby.

• Zhou Keyu deduced that Su Hang had entrusted the Imperial Ring for Huyan Lan, but someone had given it to Liuli because she might be able to bring him back.
• Zhou Keyu privately suspected that the person who delivered the ring was Yugong Liuli from the future, and hoped her theory was wrong.
• Liuli cried alone, grieving that Su Hang loved Huyan Lan and wondering why the ring's giver had not explained how to save him.
• Liuli read that an update would fix the Ghost Match bug at midnight on October 7 and realized she might lose contact with Su Hang before his reincarnation.
• Liuli entered ranked matchmaking on her Yugong alt just before midnight, and her match found a lobby where she recognized the fifth-floor player.

Liuli matched with Su Hang from before his reincarnation in a Ghost Match and offered to guide him through the unfamiliar S41 version. As they began talking over voice chat, she hid her identity by introducing herself as Yugong Hu, and Su Hang called her “Fox God.”

• Liuli recognized [Imperial Emperor] as Su Hang from the parallel world's 2015 and confirmed he had only played the S1 version.
• Liuli promised to guide Su Hang through his 100-star promotion match and persuaded him to turn on his microphone.
• Liuli heard Su Hang's voice and became emotional, then told him she was a girl.
• Liuli avoided giving Su Hang her real name and introduced herself as Yugong Hu instead.
• Su Hang suggested calling Liuli “Fox God” because of her support rankings.

Su Hang told Liuli that Bai Miaomiao, the support player on his Yousu Team, planned to confess to him, and Liuli grew jealous as she questioned his feelings. Liuli remembered Zhou Keyu’s deduction that the Yousu Team had betrayed Su Hang before his reincarnation and suspected Bai Miaomiao had betrayed him too.

• Liuli coached Su Hang through choosing Sun Ce and persuaded him to equip the Vow of True Love skin while she chose Da Qiao and a matching wedding skin.
• Su Hang realized their heroes were a couple and said he felt uneasy because a girl in his world was going to confess to him the next day.
• Liuli demanded the girl’s identity, and Su Hang named Bai Miaomiao, the gentle support player on his Yousu Team.
• Su Hang admitted that he liked Bai Miaomiao but was unsure whether her kindness was special to him, and he said she had told him she would confess at the team club.
• Liuli urged Su Hang not to accept, then recalled Zhou Keyu’s deduction about the Yousu Team’s betrayal and suspected Bai Miaomiao had betrayed him.

Liuli and Su Hang played Honor of Kings together, and Su Hang explained why he would remain loyal to Bai Miaomiao and hoped to start a team of his own. After they named the team Imperial Crown, they rescued Hou Yi and scored a double kill, but Han Xin and Zhuge Liang ambushed them.

• Liuli and Su Hang took Sun Ce and Da Qiao to the top lane, where they killed Cheng Yaojin for First Blood.
• Su Hang told Liuli that Bai Miaomiao’s loyalty would make her his only choice, and he revealed that he wanted to start a team based on loyalty.
• Liuli suggested the name Imperial Crown, and Su Hang praised the name while asking about her education.
• Liuli and Su Hang rushed to the bottom lane and helped kill Baili Shouyue and Cai Wenji, earning Sun Ce a Double Kill.
• Han Xin and Zhuge Liang suddenly emerged from the river brush as Liuli was about to praise Su Hang.

Su Hang and Fox God won their ranked match, and Fox God promised herself to save him after recognizing his unchanged gentle heart. Meanwhile, Delta Special Forces attacked the Imperial Fortress with anesthetic gas, forcing Su Sui to act before the Imperial Crown Operation began.

• Fox God teleported Sun Ce to safety, protected Su Hang, and taught him hero combos and tactics during their match.
• Su Hang learned that the match was a Ghost Match and likely his last chance to play with Fox God, then wished her happiness as their team destroyed the enemy crystal.
• Liuli recognized Su Hang as her senior and vowed to save him after he was reincarnated.
• Delta Special Forces surrounded the Imperial Fortress, cut off communications, and released anesthetic gas into the building.
• Su Sui discovered the attack, put on the Imperial Emperor mask, and threw a grenade downstairs to protect Liuli and the fortress's occupants.

Su Sui fought off a Delta Tactical Squad at the Imperial Fortress, but discovered Liuli had been taken by Nurarihyon. She tracked Liuli toward the island’s east and went to find help, while Huyan Lan and the others opened the basement door to confront someone outside.

• Su Sui killed the Delta Tactical Squad after an explosion struck the Imperial Fortress lobby.
• Huyan Lan led the frightened Imperial Crown members into the basement, and Su Sui discovered Liuli was missing from her room.
• Su Sui concluded Nurarihyon had taken Liuli and used a tracker to follow her signal toward the eastern part of Imperial Crown Island.
• Su Sui observed that Delta Special Forces were surrounding the fortress without attacking and decided to find help and identify Nurarihyon.
• Huyan Lan, Hu Xiao, and Yin Long opened the sealed basement door to confront the armed person outside, then froze when they saw who it was.

Su Sui recruited Huyan Lan, Yin Long, and Hu Xiao to help rescue Liuli from the Imperial Fortress after identifying Nurarihyon as the kidnapper. At the lighthouse, Nurarihyon revealed that he believed Liuli could bring Su Hang back and asked whether she would develop a time machine.

• Su Sui revealed her identity to Huyan Lan and explained that she had come from the future in Su Sui's body.
• Su Sui learned that all the Imperial Crown elders were in the basement and concluded that Nurarihyon had kidnapped Liuli.
• Huyan Lan, Yin Long, and Hu Xiao agreed to help Su Sui break out of the Imperial Fortress, and Su Sui explained her plan.
• Liuli awoke bound in the lighthouse, where Nurarihyon told her that she was the only person who could bring Su Hang back.
• Nurarihyon discovered that Liuli was illiterate and asked whether she would develop a time machine if it could save Su Hang.

Liuli resisted Lin Ying’s attempt to force her to build a time machine, but he regained control after her stolen gun ran out of bullets. Su Sui arrived wearing an Emperor Hero mask, rescued Liuli, and confronted Lin Ying.

• Liuli agreed to research a time machine to bring Senior Su Hang back, then refused when she realized Lin Ying wanted to use it to take revenge on him.
• Liuli pretended to cooperate while wearing through her restraints, seized Lin Ying’s Desert Eagle, and fired a warning shot.
• Lin Ying revealed the gun had only one bullet, took it back, and threatened to kill Liuli unless she came with him.
• Liuli refused to go with Lin Ying and braced herself to die, but Su Sui burst in and tossed her a handgun.
• Su Sui aimed her submachine gun at Lin Ying and declared that his Hundred Demons Plan had failed.

Su Sui confronted Lin Ying, who revealed he was Nurarihyon and planned to use Liuli’s time-machine research to rule the world. The confrontation ended with Lin Ying pressing a controller to launch a Tomahawk cruise missile from Guam.

• Lin Ying and Su Sui revealed their identities as future travelers and discussed when they recovered their memories.
• Lin Ying explained that he wanted Liuli to build a full-powered time machine so he could seek revenge on Su Hang and rule the world.
• Lin Ying described his plans to raise money, recruit forces, seize nuclear launch codes, and use time travel to escape failure.
• Su Sui realized Lin Ying’s real goal was to use Liuli’s machine to return to the past and raised her gun against him.
• Lin Ying revealed a heart-triggered bomb and a controller connected to a Tomahawk missile at Guam, then pressed the launch button.

Lin Ying threatened to destroy Imperial Crown Island with Tomahawk missiles unless Su Sui killed herself, but Huyan Lan, Hu Xiao, and Yin Long interrupted him. Just as the missiles seemed unstoppable, Su Sui revealed that the No. 3 aircraft carrier fleet had arrived to intercept them.

• Lin Ying revealed that he had ordered Tomahawk missiles launched at Imperial Crown Island and threatened to make them self-destruct only if Su Sui shot herself.
• Hu Xiao and Yin Long crashed onto Lin Ying, and Huyan Lan arrived, joining Su Sui and Liuli.
• Su Sui tried to stop the missiles, but Lin Ying explained that the self-destruct sequence had become unavailable.
• Huyan Lan, Hu Xiao, Yin Long, Su Sui, and Liuli watched the incoming missiles as Lin Ying counted down to their impact.
• The No. 3 aircraft carrier fleet appeared offshore and fired at the missiles after Su Sui revealed she had arranged for it to stand by.

After Huaxia’s fleet saved Imperial Crown Island, Su Sui ordered the Imperial Crown Assault Team to execute Lin Ying, and the survivors boarded a warship for home. The team’s captain, Hang, then drew attention for his extraordinary strength and unexplained past as he drank a sugar-free cola.

• Huaxia’s Hongqi Missiles intercepted the Tomahawks, and Su Sui and the others saw the aircraft carrier fleet arriving.
• Su Sui removed Lin Ying’s bomb and ordered Captain Hang’s team to empty their magazines into him after the others had left.
• Captain Hang reported that the enemy at the Imperial Fortress had been defeated and everyone there rescued without casualties.
• Su Sui, Liuli, Huyan Lan, and the others left the lighthouse and boarded the warship for home.
• Captain Hang’s team fired thousands of bullets into Lin Ying, then departed by helicopter.
• The team members discussed Hang’s incredible strength and missing identity records before he opened a sugar-free cola.

Su Sui revealed that she came from 2035 and explained her mission to protect Liuli and the Imperial Crown. A year later, as exam scores were announced, Zhejiang’s Cao Andi appeared to lead the nation until Jiangsu Province announced its top scorer.

• Su Sui told Huyan Lan, Liuli, Yin Long, and Hu Xiao that she was Jiang Sui from 2035, sent back through the damaged Imperial Crown time machine.
• Su Sui explained that Nurarihyon had come from the future to kill Liuli or destroy the Imperial Crown, while she had been sent to protect Liuli and her research.
• Liuli committed to developing a time machine to bring Su Hang back, while Huyan Lan agreed to rebuild Imperial Crown as a top King of Glory team.
• A year later, college entrance exam scores were released, and Cao Andi of Zhejiang’s Zhenhai High School took the apparent national lead with 721 points.
• Jiangsu Province announced its top scorer, startling the internet just as Cao Andi was being hailed as the national champion.

Su Liuli scored 749 on the gaokao, celebrated with her friends, and prepared to leave for three years of physics study in the United States. She left determined to develop a time machine by 2035 and bring back Su Hang.

• Su Liuli's 749-point gaokao score went viral, and netizens learned how she had risen from 300 points on a mock exam to national champion.
• Jiang Sui, Huyan Lan, Yin Long, Hu Xiao, and the others celebrated Su Liuli's admission to Peking University's physics program and her publicly funded studies in the United States.
• Su Sui arrived to take Su Liuli to the airport, teased Jiang Sui about her feelings for Huyan Ya, and gave Jiang Sui a gold pocket watch containing a photo of Su Sui kissing Huyan Ya on the cheek.
• Jiang Sui opened the pocket watch after Su Sui and Su Liuli left, saw the photo, and shouted that she would kill Su Sui.
• Huyan Lan told Su Liuli that Imperial Crown was organizing major tournaments, while Su Liuli admitted she had no time-machine research ideas yet and vowed to build one by 2035.
• Su Liuli left for the United States and waved goodbye to Huyan Lan, who said they would meet again in 2029.