Chapter Summaries

Vivian begged Lu Yingheng not to hate or abandon her, and he agreed to keep her in his life if she stopped hurting others. Unable to accept anyone’s version of his past, Lu Yingheng left to recover his memories, promising to return in a week; afterward, Hoshimi Kariichi studied a book about human emotions and quietly reflected on what Lu Yingheng had taught her.

• Vivian panicked and clung to Lu Yingheng, pleading with him not to hate or abandon her.
• Lu Yingheng promised Vivian he would never hate her if she stopped hurting anyone else.
• Lu Yingheng told the girls he could not accept their accounts without his memories and would leave to recover them, returning once a week.
• Alice protested Lu Yingheng’s departure, while Hoshimi Miyabi urged him to discuss their wedding; he gave them his contact information and left.
• At the Hoshimi Family residence, Remiel teased Hoshimi Kariichi about her performance, and Hoshimi Kariichi said Lu Yingheng had taught her.

After Long Yi warned Grace away from the Dragon Emperor’s affairs, Lu Yingheng went to Mount Yunkui and staged a serious injury to meet Xiaoguang. Xiaoguang found him collapsed in her courtyard.

• Long Yi appeared before Grace, revealed that she was not qualified to join the struggle, and warned her off the Dragon Emperor.
• Lu Yingheng considered future story events and decided to visit Mount Yunkui to reconnect with Xiaoguang, Yixuan, and Yijiang.
• Lu Yingheng chose to approach Xiaoguang first and cut his chest with Fury to fake a grave injury.
• Xiaoguang cried over a character in Dragon Raja and joked that her destined partner might fall from the sky.
• Xiaoguang heard a thud, went into the courtyard, and found Lu Yingheng lying there with a wound across his torso.

Xiaoguang rescued the badly wounded Lu Yingheng and brought him into her room, where his [Succubus Physique] and osmanthus scent left her increasingly flustered. She wondered if they were destined to meet, while Lu Yingheng decided to keep his distance from her to avoid drawing her into the Asura field.

• Xiaoguang and Xiaobai noticed Lu Yingheng’s good looks and osmanthus scent before Xiaoguang carried him inside.
• Xiaoguang laid Lu Yingheng on the floor, discovered his physique while preparing to bandage him, and blushed as she treated his wounds.
• Lu Yingheng decided to take a more distant approach to raising Xiaoguang so she would not get caught up in the Asura field.
• Xiaobai teased Xiaoguang about falling for Lu Yingheng, while Xiaoguang worried that his pursuers might bring trouble to the sect.
• Xiaoguang wondered whether Lu Yingheng was her destined match, then forced herself to sleep.

Xiaoguang woke embarrassed after dreaming about Lu Yingheng, but he soon confronted her with his claws at her throat and demanded to know what she had done to him. After she claimed she had wet the bed, he gave the alias Wang Xing, refused to leave because he was being hunted, and revealed a sect elder’s token.

• Xiaoguang woke from an intimate dream about Lu Yingheng and realized she had to change her sheets, which she had given him the night before.
• Lu Yingheng woke and held his dragon claws to Xiaoguang’s neck, demanding to know who she was and what she had done to him.
• Xiaoguang insisted she had saved and bandaged Lu Yingheng, then claimed she had accidentally wet the bed to explain the situation.
• Lu Yingheng gave Xiaoguang the alias Wang Xing and refused to leave because someone was hunting him.
• Lu Yingheng began cultivating with Xiaoguang’s sect technique and tossed her a gold-stamped token engraved with “elder.”

Xiaoguang discovered that the injured, amnesiac Lu Yingheng carried Mount Yunkui’s gilded elder’s token and believed he was an exceptionally powerful senior. Lu Yingheng persuaded her to keep his presence secret and let him stay in her room, while Xiaoguang’s growing attraction made her suspect he was a succubus.

• Xiaoguang recognized Lu Yingheng’s gilded elder’s token and explained that only someone who had helped save Mount Yunkui from annihilation could receive it.
• Lu Yingheng claimed he had lost his memory and asked Xiaoguang not to report him to Sect Master Yijiang, saying he would handle his pursuers himself.
• Xiaoguang interpreted Lu Yingheng’s request as a responsible effort to protect Mount Yunkui and agreed to keep his whereabouts secret.
• Lu Yingheng said he needed to stay in Xiaoguang’s room to conceal himself, and Xiaoguang agreed despite her flustered feelings.
• Xiaoguang wondered whether Lu Yingheng was a succubus who specialized in seducing girls.

Lu Yingheng hid in Xiaoguang’s room when Ye Shiyuan and the others arrived, while Xiaoguang struggled to keep his presence secret. After Ye Shiyuan found an empty wardrobe, Lu Yingheng watched the group from the doorway under the cover of Word Spirit: Meishō.

• Xiaoguang and Lu Yingheng panicked when Ju Fufu and Ye Shiyuan knocked at the door, and Xiaoguang begged Lu Yingheng to hide.
• Xiaoguang opened the door, and Ju Fufu pounced on her before noticing the damp bedsheet; Xiaoguang used the Azure Nether Sword’s power and quickly silenced her.
• Ju Fufu, Ye Shiyuan, and Pan Yinhu noticed different scents in Xiaoguang’s room, and Ye Shiyuan suspected she had hidden someone in the wardrobe.
• Ye Shiyuan charged at the wardrobe and found it empty, leaving Xiaoguang confused about where Lu Yingheng had gone.
• Lu Yingheng watched the others from the doorway after using Word Spirit: Meishō to become invisible.

Yixuan learned that Lu Yingheng might still be alive and wrestled with guilt over her role in his falling out with her sister. Meanwhile, Lu Yingheng took Xiaoguang out for fun, expecting her to refuse his offer to carry her, but she agreed.

• Yixuan obtained information suggesting Lu Yingheng was alive and wondered why he had not gone to Mount Yunkui to see her sister.
• Yixuan blamed herself for causing her sister and Lu Yingheng to quarrel, then mistook a passing figure for him in the crowd.
• Lu Yingheng waited outside a bedsheet shop while Xiaoguang picked something inside, thinking about Yixuan and his old grievance over being forcibly kissed.
• Earlier, Xiaoguang asked Lu Yingheng to take her down the mountain, and he agreed that he could fly her there.
• Lu Yingheng offered to carry Xiaoguang, expecting her to refuse, but Xiaobai encouraged her and she agreed.

As Lu Yingheng carried Xiaoguang through the air, she wondered whether he was the black-haired boy who had given her osmanthus cake as a child and tried to cheer him up. When Xiaoguang followed Xiaobai’s advice and kissed his cheek, the two suddenly plunged from the sky.

• Lu Yingheng lifted Xiaoguang into a princess carry and flew with her, while she secretly savored the osmanthus fragrance around him.
• Xiaoguang and Xiaobai wondered whether Lu Yingheng was the black-haired boy from her childhood who had given her osmanthus cake.
• Lu Yingheng said he could not remember his past, and Xiaoguang apologized for asking about it; he reassured her and blushed.
• Xiaoguang asked Xiaobai how to make Lu Yingheng happier, and Xiaobai suggested kissing him.
• Xiaoguang kissed Lu Yingheng’s cheek, and they suddenly plummeted from the sky.

Lu Yingheng brought Xiaoguang leftover osmanthus cake, and she interpreted the gesture as proof that he liked her. Meanwhile, Vivian’s obsession with Lu Yingheng escalated into a plan to drug and imprison him.

• Lu Yingheng returned to the shop with leftover osmanthus cake and gave it to Xiaoguang.
• Xiaoguang decided Lu Yingheng had bought the cake especially for her and wondered if he liked her.
• Vivian entered a hidden room covered with photographs of Lu Yingheng and mourned that he did not belong to her alone.
• Vivian stabbed photographs of Hoshimi Miyabi and Alice, then panicked that Lu Yingheng would hate her.
• Vivian messaged Lu Yingheng and resolved to drug and lock him up so he would look at and love only her.

Yijiang confronted Alice about marrying Lu Yingheng and realized Alice believed he had been manipulated after something happened to him. On Mount Yunkui, Xiaoguang found comfort beside Lu Yingheng under a magically blooming osmanthus tree and began to confess her feelings.

• Yijiang visited Alice and learned that Alice was preparing to marry the man she liked, Lu Yingheng.
• Yijiang accused Alice of tricking Lu Yingheng and making him distrust others, then left to look for him.
• Alice admitted to herself that she liked Lu Yingheng and recalled that his lips tasted sweet.
• Lu Yingheng created a courtyard full of osmanthus blossoms, and Xiaoguang lay beside him beneath the falling petals.
• Xiaoguang felt her gloom ease as she watched Lu Yingheng sleeping, then began to tell him she liked him.

Lu Yingheng received a call from Vivian and told Xiaoguang she was his sister, which only renewed Xiaoguang’s determination to win him over. At Suibian Temple, Yixuan kept the truth about her past with Lu Yingheng from her sister Yijiang and resolved to confess when the time was right.

• Lu Yingheng answered Vivian’s call just as Xiaoguang was about to confess her feelings, and Xiaoguang grew jealous when Vivian called him Brother Yingheng.
• Vivian asked Lu Yingheng to return and spend a day shopping with her, and he agreed to come the next day.
• Lu Yingheng told Xiaoguang that Vivian was his sister, but Xiaoguang took this as a sign that she still had a chance with him.
• Yijiang complained that Lu Yingheng had kissed Yixuan and was now being misled by a girl into becoming her husband.
• Yixuan hid her guilt from Yijiang and decided she would eventually tell her sister and Lu Yingheng the truth about what happened between them.

Lu Yingheng spent the day shopping with Vivian, who clung to him and asked for more time together. The outing ended with Vivian hiding her reaction after hearing Lu Yingheng call her his little sister, while she quietly planned to wait until tonight.

• Vivian met Lu Yingheng at the subway station and insisted he hold her hand and grant her requests for the day.
• Lu Yingheng and Vivian scratched lottery cards, and both won the same grand prize.
• Lu Yingheng chose purple irises for Vivian and told flower shop owner Lan that Vivian was his little sister, not his girlfriend.
• Vivian overheard Lu Yingheng call her his little sister, crushed her milk tea cups, and told herself to wait until tonight.
• Vivian returned with milk tea, and Lu Yingheng gave her the bouquet of irises.