Chapter Summaries

Shen Luolun helped Xiangling prepare ingredients for her Cuisine Machine Test, then spent the evening writing before she came to borrow his hair dryer. The chapter ended with him offering to dry her hair himself.

• Xiangling told Shen Luolun she planned to make Adeptus' Temptation for the competition and asked him to soak its dried ingredients overnight.
• After dinner, Shen Luolun prepared the ingredients and then wrote ten thousand words using inspiration from Before Sun and Moon.
• Xiangling, wearing a bath towel, knocked on Shen Luolun's door to borrow his hair dryer.
• Shen Luolun found a golden hair dryer in his storage device and gave it to Xiangling.
• Shen Luolun stopped Xiangling as she turned to leave and offered to dry her hair for her.

Shen Luolun styled Xiangling’s hair and complained about having to care for his unreliable mother, while Xiangling insisted that his devotion showed how much he loved her. Meanwhile, Lumine and an injured Yelan survived a trap-filled route and pressed on toward the mastermind’s lair, leaving One-Eye shocked by their superhuman strength and worried about its own safety.

• Shen Luolun finished styling Xiangling’s hair, and she admired her new look.
• Shen Luolun told Xiangling that his mother had made him learn to style hair and complained about taking care of her, while Xiangling said he clearly loved her.
• Lumine and Yelan escaped a deadly gauntlet of traps and suspected the mastermind had altered the supposedly safe route to ambush them.
• Yelan decided to continue toward the lair despite her injuries, and Lumine offered to help her.
• One-Eye watched footage of Lumine and Yelan surviving its traps and panicked after seeing their extraordinary strength.

Alice and Zhongli joined Paimon and Lan Yan at the ruins after discovering that the mastermind they were pursuing was Alice’s escaped research specimen, the Miniature One-Eyed Tyrant. The group entered the ruins together, while One-Eye saw Alice on a surveillance feed and began preparing to flee.

• A group of Treasure Hoarders encountered Alice and Zhongli, and Zhongli restrained them with Geo energy.
• Alice and Zhongli persuaded the Treasure Hoarders to lead them to their base near the ruins at Cuijue Slope.
• Alice, Zhongli, Paimon, and Lan Yan exchanged information and identified the mastermind as Alice’s escaped Miniature One-Eyed Tyrant.
• The group agreed to enter the ruins together and dealt with the guards outside.
• One-Eye spotted Alice on a surveillance feed, panicked, and began packing his valuables to escape.

Lumine and Yelan fought their way through the ruins, where they found Yinyue’s daughter under mind control, but the Miniature One-Eyed Tyrant escaped. Alice tracked him toward Chenyu Vale, and the group split up to pursue him while Yelan and Lan Yan handled the ruins.

• Lumine defeated the giant robot, then rested with Yelan while One-Eye opened an escape route and dumped a girl from a nutrient chamber.
• Lan Yan, Paimon, Alice, and Zhongli followed a devastated passage into the ruins as Lumine and Yelan entered a surveillance room and encountered the girl.
• The mind-controlled girl attacked Lumine and Yelan, but Zhongli blocked her with a Geo shield and Alice knocked her unconscious.
• Lan Yan confirmed the girl was alive, and Lumine and Yelan concluded that Alice’s escaped pet, the Miniature One-Eyed Tyrant, was the mastermind.
• Alice used a tracking scroll to reveal that the Tyrant was heading toward Chenyu Vale, so Lumine, Paimon, Alice, and Zhongli set off after him.
• Yelan and Lan Yan stayed behind to summon the Millelith, bind the Treasure Hoarders, and release the young men who had guided Alice.

Shen Luolun exercised and took a morning stroll through Yilong Wharf while wondering whether Lumine and the others had caught their target. He unknowingly flattened the fleeing One-Eye under his shoe, and One-Eye planned to become a capitalist before Alice found him again.

• Shen Luolun finished his calisthenics, then left home with his thermos for a walk through Yilong Wharf.
• Shen Luolun worried that Lumine, Yelan, and Lan Yan had not sent word after going to Cuijue Slope, but trusted their strength and Zhongli's help.
• Shen Luolun stepped on One-Eye, mistook him for chewing gum, and rubbed him against the ground before walking away.
• One-Eye recovered, vowed to enslave humans by becoming a capitalist, and boasted about his plan.
• Alice found One-Eye and called him a Miniature One-Eyed Tyrant.

Shen Luolun helped Xiangling get ready for the Cuisine Machine Test, then set off with her and Guoba. Meanwhile, after capturing the one-eyed creature, Lumine and Paimon left to rest as Alice told Zhongli she wanted to visit a relative’s child in Yilong Wharf.

• Shen Luolun helped Xiangling wash her face without disturbing her hairstyle, then fixed her hair and collar.
• Xiangling and Guoba gathered their ingredients, and Xiangling linked arms with Shen Luolun as they headed for the competition.
• Paimon shook the captured one-eyed creature in a glass jar, and Alice stored it away after promising not to release it.
• Lumine and Paimon thanked Alice and Zhongli, then left to find an inn and rest.
• Alice told Zhongli she would return to Mondstadt after visiting a relative’s child in Yilong Wharf, and Zhongli offered to accompany her.

Shen Luolun accompanied Xiangling to the Cuisine Machine Test and tried to protect her from an lecherous contestant, then caused a public spectacle when he ordered Guoba to deal with the man. The contest began with Xiangling cooking while Shen Luolun and Guoba’s antics drew attention from contestants and spectators.

• Shen Luolun, Xiangling, and Guoba arrived at the Cuisine Machine Test, where Xiangling found her assigned stove at number fifteen.
• Shen Luolun blocked a lecherous contestant’s view of Xiangling by tying his outer shirt around her waist as an apron.
• After helping Xiangling light her stove, Shen Luolun watched the contestant and told Guoba to ambush him when he went to the bathroom.
• Guoba breathed fire at Shen Luolun, and the two chased each other through the audience seats.
• Xiangling noticed the crowd watching Shen Luolun and Guoba, grew embarrassed, and returned her attention to the stove.