Recaps

Gu Xiao drank with Feng Ji, Ji Chuan, and Fu Huai while questioning their ties to Gu Yun and the tensions among their families. As Feng Ji’s drunken behavior turned dangerous, Gu Xiao caught an omega he had shoved aside.

• Feng Ji tried to persuade Gu Xiao to drink until he was drunk, but Gu Xiao refused and told Feng Ji to drink with Ji Chuan instead.
• Fu Huai apologized for bringing up Gu Yun, and Ji Chuan revealed that Gu Yun was also present at the venue.
• Gu Xiao wondered whether Fu Huai’s mentions of Gu Yun signaled divided loyalties among their families, then agreed to leave with Feng Ji.
• Feng Ji pretended he was too drunk to stand and asked Fu Huai to help him sober up.
• When Feng Ji shoved away the omega Fu Huai had summoned, Gu Xiao caught the omega before he hit the table.

Gu Xiao left Feng Ji and Ji Chuan with Fu Huai, then rejected the omega who tried to thank him outside T-C. He woke in a dim car with Gu Yun, who revealed an iris tattoo over an old gunshot wound and confronted Gu Xiao about refusing to acknowledge his sacrifice.

• Fu Huai dragged the frightened omega away from Gu Xiao and scolded Feng Ji for nearly hurting him.
• Gu Xiao left Feng Ji and Ji Chuan to sober up under Fu Huai’s watch.
• An omega thanked Gu Xiao outside T-C, but Gu Xiao frightened him until he fainted and ordered someone to remove him.
• Gu Xiao woke in a car with Gu Yun, who turned on the light and showed him his pink hair.
• Gu Yun exposed an iris tattoo over a gunshot wound and said he had been shot protecting Gu Xiao, but Gu Xiao had refused to comfort him.

Gu Yun abducted Gu Xiao and revealed his resentment over being kept at a distance, while making clear that he intended to die in Gu Xiao’s place. In the car, Gu Yun restrained and bit Gu Xiao, then became furious after noticing another person’s scent on him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Gu Yun complained that Gu Xiao had never given him the attention he wanted and said he was only meant to die in Gu Xiao’s place.
• Gu Xiao rejected Gu Yun’s advances and suspected that a strange force inside him was connected to the abduction.
• Gu Yun tied up his bangs, pinned Gu Xiao’s wrists above his head, and bit his arm while calling him big brother.
• Gu Yun smelled someone else on Gu Xiao and angrily demanded to know who it was.
• Gu Xiao mocked Gu Yun as a stupid, inexperienced boy, burning away what little reason Gu Yun had left.

Gu Xiao subdued Gu Yun after Gu Yun attacked him in the car, then had him taken to the basement for questioning. Gu Yun refused to explain who had sent him and instead teased Gu Xiao, who again offered to help him become an omega.

• Gu Xiao recovered from Gu Yun's attack, pinned him with mental power, and ordered Lin An to take him to Gu Xiao's place and destroy the car.
• Gu Xiao told Lin An to put the unconscious Gu Yun in the basement and keep the incident from the three people searching for him at school.
• After waking, Gu Yun saw Gu Xiao in a bathrobe and asked what he wanted to know, but dodged the question of who had sent him.
• Gu Yun flirted with Gu Xiao and broke the bed frame while using it for support.
• Gu Xiao offered to help Gu Yun become an omega, but Gu Yun challenged him to become one instead.

Gu Yun confessed that he had sought revenge on Gu Xiao and tried to provoke him, but also revealed his desire to stay by his side. The chapter ended with Gu Yun throwing himself onto Gu Xiao and begging to become his sharpest blade.

• Gu Xiao questioned Gu Yun about who had sent him, and Gu Yun said he had waited at T-C to take revenge but had failed because Gu Xiao used his pheromones as an antidote.
• Gu Yun taunted Gu Xiao, who used his mental power to make him cough up blood before stopping when Gu Yun said he would be happy to die by his hand.
• Gu Yun recalled escaping the sanatorium where he had been confined and obtaining the identity of Gu Xiao's butler's son.
• Gu Xiao said he would have someone take care of Gu Yun and prepared to leave, but Gu Yun staggered after him and asked to become his sharpest blade.
• Gu Yun threw himself onto Gu Xiao, staining his bathrobe, and Gu Xiao shouted that he had a death wish.

Gu Xiao had Gu Yun treated after knocking him unconscious and ordered Fu Huai to send him back to the sanatorium and replace his caregivers. That night, Fu Huai secretly drugged Gu Xiao’s injection and lay beside him while he slept.

• Fu Huai found Gu Yun unconscious, and Gu Xiao explained that he had knocked him out after Gu Yun bit him.
• Gu Xiao told Fu Huai how Gu Yun had come to his home, and Fu Huai offered to kill him.
• Gu Xiao warned that Gu Yun might have help escaping the sanatorium and ordered Fu Huai to return him and replace the people responsible for his care.
• Gu Yun, barely conscious, remembered hugging Gu Xiao and resolved to become the only blade at his side.
• After bringing the doctor, Fu Huai added something to Gu Xiao’s evening injection, then watched over him as he slept.

Fu Huai stayed beside Gu Xiao through the night and helped him dress the next morning, while Gu Xiao woke from violent dreams of the apocalypse. Downstairs, Gu Xiao found Ji Chuan and Feng Ji waiting and questioned why they were there.

• Fu Huai watched over Gu Xiao and thought about the mark on his neck, then quietly told him he would always be his best friend.
• Gu Xiao woke from a dream of killing people in the apocalypse and found Fu Huai beside his bed.
• Gu Xiao asked Fu Huai to put on his shoes, and Fu Huai dressed him and denied being frigid when Gu Xiao teased him.
• Gu Xiao met Ji Chuan and Feng Ji at the staircase, and Feng Ji complained that Fu Huai had been the only one to help Gu Xiao the previous night.
• Gu Xiao dismissed Feng Ji's complaint and said it sounded as if Feng Ji's wife had run off with someone else.

Gu Xiao confronted his friends over his freedom to date and let Fu Huai wait on him while Feng Ji and Ji Chuan argued about Lu Keyan. The group learned Gu Yun had escaped, and Feng Ji ended by noticing a mark on Gu Xiao’s arm and asking whether Fu Huai had bitten him.

• Fu Huai asked whether Gu Xiao wanted to date, and Gu Xiao challenged Feng Ji’s assumptions about their status.
• Ji Chuan explained that Gu Yun had been fired from T-C after spending three days with a beta supervisor, while Gu Xiao let Fu Huai change his shoes and arrange breakfast.
• Gu Xiao agreed to have bodyguards accompany him after Feng Ji reminded him that he had been attacked at T-C.
• Feng Ji discussed Lu Keyan and Murong Xuan with Gu Xiao, needling Ji Chuan about keeping Lu Keyan confined.
• Fu Huai returned and told Gu Xiao that Gu Yun had escaped the previous night; Gu Xiao dismissed the news as inevitable.
• Feng Ji spotted a mark on Gu Xiao’s arm and asked whether Fu Huai had bitten him.

Gu Xiao returned to school after two days of turmoil, while Ji Chuan grew suspicious that Fu Huai had been in Gu Xiao’s bedroom. The chapter ended with students discussing and sharing a photo of an injured “His Lordship” before the forum posts were deleted.

• Feng Ji questioned Gu Xiao about his bitten lip, and Gu Xiao said a mad dog had bitten him; Ji Chuan asked whether Gu Yun had done it.
• Ji Chuan found a faint trace of magnolia mixed with Gu Xiao’s iris scent in the master bedroom and suspected Fu Huai had been there the previous night.
• Ji Chuan fetched shoes for Gu Xiao, put them on him, and was told to wash and disinfect his hands before breakfast.
• After returning to school, Feng Ji and Fu Huai urged Gu Xiao not to go anywhere alone, and Gu Xiao told them to be quieter.
• Students posted about a wound on His Lordship’s arm and shared a photo on the forum, but the posts were deleted.

Gu Xiao learned that Aisili Family heirs had transferred into Aisili Noble Academy and chose to meet them rather than remove them. As Lu Keyan grew more violent and the twins declared war, Gu Xiao prepared to face his new challengers.

• Gu Xiao discussed the blue-haired and purple-haired Aisili Family twins with Feng Ji and ordered Lu Keyan's and Murong Xuan's red cards revoked.
• Murong Xuan celebrated the revocation, but Lu Keyan dismissed him before agreeing to let him remain as a servant.
• Lu Keyan handled a doll resembling Gu Xiao and beat an alpha who had taken photos of Gu Xiao, forcing him underwater until he begged for mercy.
• Feng Ji showed Gu Xiao a video of Lu Keyan, but Gu Xiao dismissed him and asked how the twins had reacted.
• Feng Ji told Gu Xiao that the twins had declared war on them.

Gu Xiao dismissed the Aisili twins’ declaration of war, while Fu Huai warned that Hill Aisili and Shelley Aisili were capable opponents and minority shareholders. The academy’s students followed the looming race between F4 and the twins, while Gu Xiao and his companions went to see them.

• Gu Xiao called the Aisili twins Blue Hair and Purple Hair, and said he would see whether they had any just cause to declare war.
• Fu Huai told Feng Ji that Hill Aisili and Shelley Aisili had spent five years acquiring minority shares and were not easy to deal with.
• Ji Chuan joined the conversation, and Gu Xiao told everyone to stop arguing and go see the twins.
• Gu Xiao recalled that the twins were cannon fodder in the protagonist’s future story, while their older brothers would later join the protagonist’s harem.
• Students discussed the twins’ challenge on the academy forum, where the final post reported that F4 were racing them.

Gu Xiao subdued Hill after Hill provoked him, while Feng Ji lost a mountain-road race to Shelley Aisili. Shelley challenged Gu Xiao to race next, and Gu Xiao went to change into a racing suit.

• Hill flirted with Gu Xiao and offered to spare Feng Ji if Gu Xiao gave up his place in F4, so Gu Xiao knocked him unconscious.
• Gu Xiao and Fu Huai discussed Feng Ji's chances, and Gu Xiao said he would race if Feng Ji lost.
• Shelley Aisili arrived and claimed victory over Feng Ji, who said he had been too sleepy to race at full speed.
• Shelley accused Gu Xiao of mistreating Hill and challenged either Gu Xiao or Fu Huai to race him.
• Gu Xiao accepted Shelley's challenge and went with Feng Ji to change into a racing suit.
• Shelley watched Gu Xiao leave and told Fu Huai to look after Hill, but Fu Huai reminded him that Hill was his brother.

Gu Xiao changed into the custom racing suit Feng Ji had made for him and joined Shelley for a nighttime race, with Feng Ji riding as his passenger. The two cars launched into the night, and the race began.

• Feng Ji teased Gu Xiao while helping him change, then admired the iris-patterned racing suit he had commissioned for him.
• Feng Ji complained that Ji Chuan had not resolved things with He Shuyu, and Gu Xiao questioned why he cared about them.
• Shelley offered to provide Gu Xiao with custom clothes, but Gu Xiao refused and called him Mr. Purple Hair.
• Feng Ji asked to ride with Gu Xiao, and Shelley taunted him by suggesting he would have a better chance of winning with Shelley.
• Gu Xiao and Feng Ji got into the black sports car, lined up beside Shelley's silver car, and sped off after the starting whistle.

Gu Xiao won a dangerous race against Shelley, leaving Feng Ji exhilarated and desperate for his attention. After the group left, Hill woke and declared he wanted Gu Xiao as his subordinate, but Shelley warned that Gu Xiao was beyond their reach.

• Gu Xiao drove at extreme speed and beat Shelley, while Feng Ji clung to him after the race and Fu Huai removed his helmet.
• Feng Ji tried to hug Gu Xiao, who pushed him away; Shelley asked to join them, and Gu Xiao declared himself the winner.
• Feng Ji threatened Shelley over Hill, and Fu Huai urged everyone to leave because it was past midnight.
• Gu Xiao, Feng Ji, and Fu Huai walked away, leaving Shelley resentful as he watched them go.
• Four hours later, Hill woke at his residence and told Shelley he wanted to take Xiao's place and make Gu Xiao his subordinate.
• Shelley warned Hill that Gu Xiao was not someone they could covet, and Hill realized others had also become interested in him.

Ji Chuan secretly watched Gu Xiao through a hidden bathroom camera, while Gu Xiao realized he was being spied on and tried to identify the culprit. Later, Gu Xiao discussed Ji Chuan, Lu Keyan, and Fu Huai’s returning cousin Fu Sinian, leaving the watcher’s identity unconfirmed.

• Ji Chuan woke, thought about Lu Keyan’s strength and his guilt over Gu Xiao’s treatment, then watched Gu Xiao through a hidden camera in his bathroom.
• Gu Xiao sensed someone spying on him, called the watcher a coward, and resolved to track down and kill the culprit if they were not a female omega.
• Ji Chuan trembled with excitement when he realized Gu Xiao had noticed him watching.
• Gu Xiao told Fu Huai that the hidden watcher had nothing to do with the twins and wondered what Ji Chuan was doing with Lu Keyan.
• Gu Xiao warned Fu Huai that his older cousin Fu Sinian was returning to the country, but Fu Huai dismissed him as no threat.

Gu Xiao humiliated Hill Aisili after Hill tried to court him, while Fu Huai warned that Gu Xiao’s former fiancé was returning as an alpha. At the hospital, Hill told Shelley that Lu Keyan wanted to work with them as they plotted a change of dynasty at Aisili Noble Academy.

• Hill Aisili confronted Gu Xiao over being knocked unconscious and asked to date him, but Gu Xiao forced him to his knees until he passed out.
• Fu Huai told Gu Xiao that his former fiancé would return next week and planned to break off their engagement after undergoing a second differentiation into an alpha.
• Gu Xiao questioned Fu Huai about what he knew, then told him to deal with the twins.
• At the hospital, Shelley scolded Hill for provoking Gu Xiao and warned him not to contact Gu Xiao again.
• Hill told Shelley that they had come to bring about a change of dynasty at Aisili Noble Academy and that Lu Keyan wanted to work with them.

Gu Xiao humiliated Hill and Lu Keyan, but Lu Keyan willingly endured his cruelty and left Gu Xiao questioning his motives. After Gu Xiao departed with Lin An, Shelley discovered that Lu Keyan had broken fingers and seemed disturbingly pleased by the pain.

• Hill apologized to Gu Xiao, who demanded that Hill or Shelley kneel and bark like a dog; he then suggested Lu Keyan take Hill's place.
• Lu Keyan knelt before Gu Xiao and accepted his insults, while Hill mistakenly believed Lu was helping him and Shelley wondered why Lu would submit.
• Gu Xiao stomped on Lu Keyan's hand, breaking two fingers, and grew suspicious when Lu treated the act as praise.
• Lin An protested when Lu offered to wipe Gu Xiao's shoes, and Gu Xiao left with Lin An after telling Hill he could kneel too.
• Shelley told Lu he could stand and pointed out his injury, but Lu sucked on his broken fingers and called the sensation Gu Xiao's taste.

Gu Xiao discussed his engagement with Feng Ji as Fu Rong, his fiancé, returned to the country after becoming an alpha. Fu Rong arrived at the school but reconsidered breaking off the engagement, while a forum revealed the news to Gu Xiao’s admirers.

• Feng Ji urged Gu Xiao to break off his engagement before his fiancé returned, but Gu Xiao pointed out how costly it would be for the families.
• Gu Xiao and Feng Ji walked together beneath Gu Xiao’s umbrella as a storm began.
• Fu Rong watched Gu Xiao and Feng Ji from an empty classroom while his beta attendant said Gu Xiao already knew he had returned.
• Fu Rong said he wanted to see how Gu Xiao’s admirers would react if he refused to end the engagement, then chose to visit his dorm room.
• People on a forum discussed Fu Rong’s return and learned that he had become an alpha after a second differentiation.

Gu Xiao found Fu Sinian and asked him to deal with cameras installed in Gu Xiao’s school residence. He decided to have Fu Sinian stay with him, alarming Feng Ji and Fu Huai, who suspected Gu Xiao was about to expose Ji Chuan next.

• Gu Xiao closed off the library’s fifth floor and had Fu Huai identify his cousin, Fu Sinian.
• Gu Xiao took Fu Sinian to the tenth floor and asked him to remove cameras installed in Gu Xiao’s residence.
• Gu Xiao told Fu Huai he had hit it off with Fu Sinian and planned to have him stay over.
• Feng Ji objected to Fu Sinian staying near Gu Xiao, while Fu Huai assured him Gu Xiao could not be interested in a beta.
• Fu Huai suggested asking Ji Chuan for help, then privately worried that Ji Chuan might be the next person Gu Xiao exposed.

Fu Sinian agreed to stay in Gu Xiao’s bathroom and was tasked with finding the hidden cameras, but an anonymous hacker threatened him using his private photos of Gu Xiao. Meanwhile, Lu Keyan destroyed the camera feed and confronted Ji Chuan, while hinting that Gu Xiao might already know his true nature.

• Gu Xiao told Fu Sinian to stay in his bathroom and trusted him to find the hidden cameras.
• Fu Sinian received an anonymous message containing photos from his private album and was warned to stop investigating.
• Lu Keyan revealed that he had destroyed the camera feed, and Ji Chuan demanded to know his terms.
• Ji Chuan admitted he had sought Lu Keyan’s help because he could not stop Gu Xiao or take Fu Sinian away himself.
• Lu Keyan said he did not want anyone spying on Gu Xiao and suggested that Gu Xiao might already know what he was really like.

Gu Xiao dismissed the search for the bathroom cameras and replaced everything in the room, while Feng Ji and Ji Chuan argued over Gu Xiao’s attention. Ji Chuan then showed them Fu Rong’s livestream, revealing that Gu Xiao’s fiancé had appeared online and leaving Feng Ji displeased.

• Fu Sinian reported that he could not identify who had destroyed the bathroom cameras, and Gu Xiao sent him away before replacing everything in the bathroom.
• Feng Ji complained that he was bored, and Gu Xiao dismissed the Aisili brothers and suggested Feng Ji go racing.
• Feng Ji rested his head on Gu Xiao’s thigh and said they did not need marriage, but Gu Xiao grabbed his neck and forced him up when Ji Chuan arrived.
• Ji Chuan opened a livestream showing Fu Rong, then told them that Fu Rong was Gu Xiao’s fiancé.
• Feng Ji recognized Fu Rong as the Fu Family alpha who had undergone a second differentiation and wondered if he was livestreaming to break off the engagement.

Fu Rong publicly declared that he loved Gu Xiao and would not break off their engagement, despite becoming an alpha. Gu Xiao and his companions questioned Fu Rong’s motives, and Gu Xiao revealed that a video showed Fu Rong fighting in underground boxing matches five years earlier.

• Pietro warned Fu Rong that the Fu Family would punish him for keeping his engagement to Gu Xiao, but Fu Rong ignored him.
• Fu Rong livestreamed on Aisili Noble Academy’s official website, called himself Gu Xiao’s fiancé, and declared that he loved Gu Xiao.
• Feng Ji smashed the screen displaying Fu Rong’s livestream, and Gu Xiao said Fu Rong’s reaction to becoming an alpha was interesting.
• Ji Chuan noted that Fu Rong’s behavior did not match what they knew about the Fu Family, and Gu Xiao said something was wrong with the family’s plans.
• Gu Xiao told Feng Ji and Ji Chuan that Lin An had found a video of Fu Rong fighting in underground boxing matches five years earlier.

Gu Xiao dismissed Fu Rong’s love confession and said he had no interest in omegas or alphas, then decided to meet his fiancé. At the sanatorium, Fu Rong confronted Gu Yun, disarmed him, and revealed that Lu Keyan had become loyal to Gu Xiao instead of seeking revenge.

• Feng Ji and Ji Chuan questioned Gu Xiao about Fu Rong’s declaration of love, but Gu Xiao said he liked neither omegas nor alphas and had never met his fiancé.
• Gu Xiao stood up and agreed to go meet Fu Rong, while Feng Ji and Ji Chuan joined him.
• At the sanatorium, Fu Rong taunted Gu Yun about his adoption by the Gu Family’s butler and reminded him that he was Gu Xiao’s fiancé.
• Gu Yun threatened Fu Rong with a dagger, but Fu Rong swiftly took it from him and mocked him for acting like Gu Xiao’s loyal dog without being acknowledged as his master.
• Fu Rong told Gu Yun that Lu Keyan had become loyal to Gu Xiao instead of avenging him.

Fu Rong tracked down Gu Yun, then joined Gu Xiao and his companions for dinner dressed as a woman and claimed he was still Gu Xiao’s fiancé. Gu Xiao insisted their engagement had ended, but Fu Rong left drunk and vowed to make him agree to marry him.

• Gu Yun reluctantly treated Fu Rong to instant noodles, and Fu Rong promised not to tell Gu Xiao where he was hiding.
• Fu Rong arrived late to dinner with Gu Xiao, Feng Ji, and Ji Chuan dressed in a red dress and makeup.
• Gu Xiao told Fu Rong their engagement had become invalid after Fu Rong differentiated into an alpha, and Fu Rong realized Pietro had misled him about the families’ plans.
• Fu Rong claimed Gu Xiao had promised to marry him after they performed Cinderella in kindergarten, then drank ten glasses of wine.
• Fu Rong staggered away on high heels, saying he would make Gu Xiao agree to marry him.

Gu Xiao and the others found a ten-year-old newspaper linking the Fu Family to a psychiatric hospital, but Gu Xiao dismissed it as irrelevant. At the cafeteria, he became interested in the omega arguing with Ji Chuan after hearing a voice call him a host and direct him to pursue F1.

• Fu Huai showed Gu Xiao and Feng Ji a newspaper about Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital and suspected the Fu Family had invested in it.
• Gu Xiao said he did not care whether Fu Rong was sick and declined to check surveillance for whoever had left the newspaper.
• Gu Xiao wondered whether Fu Rong becoming an alpha and other changes meant the story had gone off course, then went to the cafeteria with Fu Huai and Feng Ji.
• Gu Xiao noticed an omega arguing with Ji Chuan, and Fu Huai reacted tensely when Gu Xiao went to watch.
• Gu Xiao dismissed the omega as an unlikely protagonist, then heard a voice instruct the host to fall in front of F1 and make him take responsibility.