Chapter Summaries

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.

Jiang Sui arrived at Huyan Ya’s nineteenth birthday party with a diamond ring, only for Su Sui to return after three years and give Huyan Ya a matching DR ring first. Huyan Ya embraced Jiang Sui and promised to treasure her gift, and the reunion continued when Liuli arrived.

• Jiang Sui joked with the Honor of Kings assistant Imperial Emperor before heading to Huyan Ya’s birthday party.
• Su Sui returned after three years and gave Huyan Ya a DR diamond ring engraved with their initials.
• Jiang Sui revealed that she had also planned to give Huyan Ya a diamond ring, and Su Sui teased her about it.
• Huyan Ya hugged Jiang Sui and said she would treasure Jiang Sui’s ring for the rest of her life.
• Liuli arrived at the party, and Huyan Lan welcomed her with delight.

Liuli returned as a renowned physicist and revealed that her time-machine research was stalled by one impossibly difficult function in the Time Reversal Formula. After Imperial Emperor’s answer inspired her to recognize a heart-shaped function as the missing piece, she rushed back to the lab to verify it, hoping to complete the formula in three years.

• Liuli reunited with Jiang Sui and told everyone she had earned a doctorate in physics, founded MIT’s Time Research Institute, and received major prizes.
• Liuli explained that her team had derived twenty-nine of the Time Reversal Formula’s thirty functions, but the last could take hundreds of millions of computers a century to calculate.
• Jiang Sui showed Liuli Imperial Emperor, an AI developed by the Imperial Crown Team and Tencent, and Liuli asked it for the formula for reversing time.
• Imperial Emperor gave a simple formula, which Liuli dismissed as an ordinary heart function; she explained that Su Hang’s love had filled the world of someone loyal to him with “I love you.”
• Liuli realized the heart function was the missing part of the Time Reversal Formula and left with Su Sui to verify it at the lab, telling Huyan Lan she would see her in 2032.

Liuli won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her Time Reversal Formula, but missed the ceremony to attend Jiang Sui and Huyan Ya’s wedding. She accepted that Su Sui could never return to her original world and promised Huyan Lan that she would finish building a time machine by 2035.

• The Royal Academy of Sciences awarded Liuli the Nobel Prize in Physics, and the president of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences accepted it on her behalf.
• Jiang Sui and Huyan Ya married in a Maldives garden ceremony while Liuli and Su Sui watched.
• Liuli realized that Su Sui’s consciousness transmigration was a one-way journey, and Su Sui promised to protect Liuli, Jiang Sui, and Huyan Ya.
• Huyan Lan reunited with Liuli, and they teased each other about their appearances, status, and Liuli’s time-machine project.
• Liuli hugged Huyan Lan and promised to have the time machine ready in three years, and Huyan Lan agreed to await her news in 2035.

In 2035, Huyan Lan was abducted along with Jiang Sui, Yin Long, and Hu Xiao and taken to Imperial Crown Island. There, the group met Eve, a holographic supercomputer created by Su Liuli, who sent them plunging toward the Time Research Institute beneath the sea.

• Huyan Lan read a top-secret report about the twenty-eight-year-old Corps Commander Su and wondered how Su Hang might have fared in the military.
• Military personnel sedated Huyan Lan and transferred her to Imperial Crown Island, where she woke beside Jiang Sui, Yin Long, and Hu Xiao in the Imperial Fortress.
• Eve appeared as a holographic projection, introduced herself as the Time Research Institute's supercomputer, and said Su Liuli was her mother.
• Su Sui ordered Eve to take the group to the institute, and Eve sent them downward in a steel-encased room toward a point a thousand meters beneath the sea.

Yin Long and the others reached the undersea Time Research Institute and saw the Imperial Crown, Liuli’s time machine. Its first crewed reverse time-travel test ended in failure, leaving Liuli in tears.

• Eve revealed that she had hacked into Yin Long’s phone and exposed a saved video, while the others laughed at his embarrassment.
• Huyan Lan and the others saw the Leviathan Nuclear Reactor powering the institute and learned it could supply energy for a megacity.
• The group entered the laboratory and saw the Imperial Crown, which Liuli had built over ten years.
• Liuli began the machine’s first crewed reverse time-travel test, setting August 31, 2025, as the destination.
• After the machine powered down, Liuli emerged and said the test had failed.

Liuli discovered that the Imperial Crown could not bring Su Hang back from the parallel world, but it could travel to his past life and try to stop him from taking his own life. Huyan Lan gave Liuli her heart-shaped diamond drops and sent her off as the Imperial Crown departed for October 8, 2015.

• Liuli explained that returning someone intact to the past required endless energy, which would take more than seventy years to develop, so the Imperial Crown could not bring Su Hang back.
• Liuli said she could travel to the parallel world's 2015 to persuade Su Hang to live, but bringing him to 2035 would cause a cosmic paradox.
• Eve revealed that the strongest solar storm of the century would open the passage that day, while the next such opportunity would not come until 2135.
• Huyan Lan accepted that she could not see Su Hang, then told Liuli to make sure he lived and to punch him if he tried to kill himself.
• Huyan Lan gave Liuli the heart-shaped diamond drops Su Hang had given her, and Liuli began the Imperial Crown's journey to Earth on October 8, 2015.

Su Hang lent his aunt Su Guihua all 100,000 yuan he had saved to help pay his cousin’s bride price, then went to the Yousu Team training base, where Bai Miaomiao asked whether he would attend her confession. He left her answer unresolved, and Luo Yan teased him after noticing their private moment.

• Su Hang transferred his 100,000 yuan savings to Su Guihua, recalling how she had raised him after his parents and younger sister died.
• Su Hang ate instant noodles, paid respects to his deceased family, and arrived early at the Yousu Team training base to clean.
• Bai Miaomiao joined Su Hang in the training room and asked if he had considered her confession, which she had planned to make in the auditorium that afternoon.
• Su Hang hesitated to promise he would accept Bai Miaomiao’s confession because he feared his poverty would make her life difficult.
• Luo Yan arrived, interrupted their conversation, and later teased Su Hang about secretly making progress with Bai Miaomiao.

Luo Yan encouraged Su Hang to attend Bai Miaomiao’s afternoon confession and sold him a suit while advising him to bring flowers. Su Hang spent the morning thinking about the mysterious Yugong Hu and grinding ranked matches before Dapang and Erpang tried to get him to pay for their lunch.

• Luo Yan told Su Hang that Bai Miaomiao would confess to him that afternoon and urged him to attend, then sold him a secondhand suit and recommended bringing flowers.
• Su Hang resolved to attend Bai Miaomiao’s confession but remained focused on leading the Yousu Team to the King of Glory secondary league championship.
• Su Hang recalled Yugong Hu, a skilled player from a parallel-world 2025 whom he had met in a ranked match, and hoped to encounter her again.
• Su Hang failed to match with Yugong Hu and spent the morning climbing the King of Glory rankings.
• Dapang and Erpang asked Su Hang to lend them his meal card after claiming they had exceeded their food allowance, and Su Hang called them back as they started to leave.

Su Hang faced an ultimatum from the Yousu Team to surrender his Imperial Emperor account or risk losing his place and owing a million yuan in damages. As he considered leaving with his friends and accepting Bai Miaomiao’s confession, an unfamiliar Imperial Crown Team invited him to become its captain, but he suspected the offer was a scam.

• Erpang asked Su Hang for food money, and Su Hang gave the brothers his last hundred yuan.
• Pixiu told Su Hang that Yousu’s management demanded he hand over the Imperial Emperor account or be benched and potentially sued for one million yuan.
• Su Hang resolved to leave Yousu with Luo Yan, Dapang, and Erpang, accept Bai Miaomiao’s confession, and pursue a championship with his friends.
• Eve, the Imperial Crown Team’s supercomputer, invited Su Hang to join as captain and said its vice captain would come to collect him.
• Su Hang doubted the invitation was genuine and decided to pick wildflowers for Bai Miaomiao before her confession.

Liuli investigated Su Hang’s past and discovered that his aunt had squandered his inheritance and that Bai Miaomiao’s confession was a setup orchestrated with Luo Yan. She prepared to intervene as Su Hang headed to the Yousu Team’s base.

• Liuli used Eve to retrieve Su Hang’s records and learned his parents and younger sister had died in a car accident when he was eight.
• Eve uncovered that Su Guihua spent only 100,000 yuan of Su Hang’s 2 million yuan inheritance on him, used most of the rest on her son Su Xiao, and had just taken Su Hang’s remaining savings for Su Xiao’s bride price.
• Liuli vowed to settle accounts with anyone who threatened Su Hang’s happiness.
• Eve found that Bai Miaomiao had been flirting with Luo Yan and that they had checked into a couples’ suite shortly before Bai sent Su Hang a confession message.
• Liuli learned the confession ceremony was meant to humiliate Su Hang, ordered Eve to prepare everything, and set out for the Yousu Team’s base.