Chapter Summaries

Gu Xiao, the academy’s reborn F4 leader, humiliated Lu Keyan but grew bored when Lu seemed to submit. The chapter ended with Lu offering to clean Gu Xiao’s shoe while secretly drawing closer to him.

• Gu Xiao kicked Lu Keyan, splashing wine over him and forcing him to kneel.
• Gu Xiao mocked Lu Keyan’s looks and suspected he had used them to win financial aid, while Lu concealed his SSS-rank mental power.
• Gu Xiao reflected that he had been reborn into an ABO novel as a male lead, though not its central protagonist.
• Gu Xiao told Lu Keyan to leave and kicked him again, but Lu caught his ankle and offered to wipe his shoe clean.

Gu Xiao continued to torment Lu Keyan at Aisili Academy, while Lu Keyan became fascinated by Gu Xiao’s pheromones and blamed Murong Xuan for pushing him into the confrontation. Later, Gu Xiao discussed Lu Keyan with Fu Huai and Feng Ji, while Ji Chuan remained absent.

• Gu Xiao kicked Lu Keyan aside, intimidated Lin An with his pheromones, and let Lin An punch Lu Keyan before ordering everyone to leave.
• After the hall emptied, Lu Keyan sniffed Gu Xiao’s scent on the silk scarf, and Murong Xuan arrived to check on him.
• Lu Keyan accused Murong Xuan of pushing him toward Gu Xiao and pointed out that Gu Xiao now knew him, unlike Murong Xuan.
• Gu Xiao dismissed the academy’s routine as boring and told Fu Huai that he found Lu Keyan interesting.
• Fu Huai suggested expelling Lu Keyan, but Feng Ji argued that doing so would spoil the fun and joked that Ji Chuan’s interest in alphas began with his first love, Gu Xiao.

Gu Xiao realized Lu Keyan had anonymously won the bet, then waited for him to provide fresh entertainment. After Lu Keyan destroyed a doll modeled on Gu Xiao, Murong Xuan received a red card, and Lu Keyan demanded to know what made him worthy of Gu Xiao’s attention.

• Feng Ji and Fu Huai discussed the bet over how long Lu Keyan would last, and Gu Xiao revealed he had guessed Lu Keyan was the anonymous winner.
• Two days later, Lu Keyan received his winnings but wondered why Gu Xiao had stopped bothering him and replayed Lin An’s insult in his mind.
• Lu Keyan ordered a life-size resin doll, found its appearance and scent wrong, and cut it into pieces with a knife.
• Murong Xuan entered the dorm room, saw the doll’s remains, and realized its severed head resembled Gu Xiao.
• Murong Xuan received a red card, and Lu Keyan glared at him and asked what right he had to attract Gu Xiao’s attention.

Gu Xiao ignored Murong Xuan’s frantic accusations and agreed to visit the honors students’ dorm after Murong claimed Lu Keyan had broken his doll. He left Murong to guard his iris-scented handkerchief, while Murong became captivated by its fragrance.

• Feng Ji and Fu Huai questioned Gu Xiao about putting up another red card before he had dealt with the previous target.
• Murong Xuan burst in, bloodied and begging Gu Xiao for forgiveness, then accused Lu Keyan of breaking Gu Xiao’s doll in the dorm.
• Gu Xiao was confused by Murong’s claim and asked Fu Huai what he meant, but Fu Huai said he did not know.
• At Feng Ji’s request to see the honors students’ dorm, Gu Xiao agreed to go and let Murong guide them.
• Gu Xiao gave Murong his handkerchief and ordered him to guard it until Gu Xiao returned, and Murong was overwhelmed by its iris fragrance.

Gu Xiao confronted Lu Keyan after Lu Keyan touched his waist, then offered to revoke his red card if he seduced someone. Gu Xiao left after confirming that people had become unusually prone to coveting him, while Lu Keyan stayed behind fixated on his discarded shirt.

• Feng Ji kicked Lu Keyan, who fell and grabbed Gu Xiao's waist to steady himself.
• Gu Xiao kicked Lu Keyan into a corner and demanded a sincere apology.
• Gu Xiao told Lu Keyan he could have his red card revoked if he seduced someone, but he withheld the person's identity.
• Lu Keyan accepted Gu Xiao's decision without asking about Murong Xuan, then got a nosebleed while staring at Gu Xiao's exposed arms.
• Gu Xiao left, concluding that people were unusually prone to coveting him, and Lu Keyan stayed behind wanting to keep Gu Xiao's discarded shirt.

Gu Xiao confronted Murong Xuan over his scheme against Lu Keyan and ordered him to serve his roommate properly. After Murong Xuan left, Gu Xiao joined Fu Huai and Feng Ji by the pool, while Fu Huai reflected on his growing attraction to Gu Xiao as his rut approached.

• Gu Xiao frightened Murong Xuan into admitting that he had framed Lu Keyan because he wanted him to leave their dorm.
• Gu Xiao told Murong Xuan to return and get along with Lu Keyan by serving him properly, and Murong Xuan silently accepted.
• Feng Ji and Fu Huai reacted to Gu Xiao's treatment of Murong Xuan, and Gu Xiao covered the bloodstain with his tank top before telling them to lick it themselves if they wanted to.
• Gu Xiao changed into swimming trunks and jumped into the pool, while Fu Huai watched him and privately dwelled on his growing allure and approaching rut.

After leaving the pool with Fu Huai, Gu Xiao questioned him about Ji Chuan and the scholarship student, then returned to his dorm and sensed someone secretly watching him in the bath. The watcher’s projection revealed Gu Xiao to someone on a distant island.

• Fu Huai tried to save Gu Xiao’s bloodstained tank top, but Gu Xiao told him to throw it away and declined to put on a bathrobe until Fu Huai insisted.
• Gu Xiao asked why Ji Chuan had been absent, and Fu Huai said Ji Chuan was pursuing a difficult target and would return after his fun.
• Fu Huai questioned why Gu Xiao found the scholarship student interesting, and Gu Xiao said he was intrigued by someone who dared provoke them despite having only good grades.
• Fu Huai helped Gu Xiao put on a bathrobe, and they joked about Gu Xiao’s black hair and Fu Huai’s smile.
• Gu Xiao returned to his dorm, sensed an unseen observer watching him bathe, and suspected Fu Huai, Ji Chuan, or Feng Ji.
• On an island a thousand kilometers away, someone watched a projection of Gu Xiao in his bathtub.

Lu Keyan resolved to take revenge on Gu Xiao by making him submit, while Gu Xiao celebrated his nineteenth birthday at Aisili Noble Academy and struggled with his rut. The chapter ended with Lu Keyan offering Gu Xiao a suppressant.

• Lu Keyan sent Murong Xuan away after learning that Gu Xiao had ordered him to serve Lu Keyan, then decided to use the authority Gu Xiao had given him.
• Lu Keyan revealed that he had come to Aisili Noble Academy to avenge his brother, who had died after keeping a diary filled with Gu Xiao’s name.
• At Gu Xiao’s birthday celebration, Fu Huai gave him the Heart of the Ocean, and Gu Xiao asked where Ji Chuan was.
• Gu Xiao admitted that he felt uncomfortable and, after Fu Huai warned that his strong pheromones were disrupting the cafeteria, asked for a suppressant.
• Lu Keyan appeared and offered Gu Xiao his own suppressant.

Gu Xiao humiliated Lu Keyan after rejecting his suppressant, while the academy forum spread rumors about Lu Keyan’s identity and Gu Xiao’s birthday. Ji Chuan returned for the celebration, took an interest in Lu Keyan, and invited him to be his dance partner, leaving Gu Xiao pleased as the F4 reunited.

• Lu Keyan claimed he had secondarily differentiated into an alpha, but Gu Xiao smashed his suppressant vial and ordered him to clean up the glass.
• Students discussed Gu Xiao and Lu Keyan on the academy’s private forum, where rumors identified Lu Keyan as an alpha from the Lu family.
• Lin An kicked Lu Keyan to his knees, and Lu Keyan gathered the glass shards by hand until they cut his palm.
• Ji Chuan returned with Feng Ji, recognized Lu Keyan as an alpha, and asked Gu Xiao if he could have him.
• Ji Chuan had a robot vacuum clean up the glass and invited Lu Keyan to be his dance partner at Gu Xiao’s birthday celebration.

Gu Xiao struggled through his first rut, which left him irritable and vulnerable despite taking a suppressant and soaking in cold water. Someone drugged him in the bath and whispered possessive threats through an electronic device, leaving him determined to find and kill the person who wanted him dead.

• Gu Xiao suppressed his pheromones, left Fu Huai and the others, and told Lu Keyan to serve Ji Chuan well.
• Ji Chuan slapped Lu Keyan after Lu Keyan challenged him, while Feng Ji privately struggled with his attraction to Gu Xiao.
• Gu Xiao warned Lin An not to trouble Lu Keyan without permission, then sent Lin An away at the dorm.
• Gu Xiao tried to manage his rut in a cold bathtub, but the suppressant failed and he grew groggy.
• An unseen person drugged Gu Xiao and called him “wifey” while making possessive threats and saying he wanted to kill him.

After discovering someone had dressed him in a fitted shirt with a valuable brooch and shirt stays, Gu Xiao ordered his residence searched but went to his birthday banquet without learning who had entered his room. At the banquet, he focused on Lu Keyan and called him over to drink in his place.

• Gu Xiao tore off the shirt and brooch someone had put on him, discovered the shirt stays fastened around his thighs, and ordered a thorough search of his residence.
• Fu Huai arrived, and Gu Xiao left with him for the birthday party; Fu Huai noticed Gu Xiao no longer carried the scent of irises.
• Fu Huai urged Gu Xiao to be wary of Lu Keyan, but Gu Xiao said Lu Keyan was trying to please him and questioned whether Fu Huai was defending him.
• At the banquet, Gu Xiao noticed the finger marks on Lu Keyan's face, drank a glass of wine, and beckoned Lu Keyan to drink for him.

Gu Xiao made Lu Keyan drink in his place, then set ten glasses as the price for Ji Chuan to take him away. Lu Keyan drank them while trying to hold Gu Xiao’s attention, but Gu Xiao let Ji Chuan leave with him, leaving Lu Keyan stunned.

• Gu Xiao had Lu Keyan drink in his place, while Feng Ji told Lin An that the scholarship student might replace him beside Gu Xiao.
• Ji Chuan offered to take the drunken-looking Lu Keyan away, and Gu Xiao demanded that Ji Chuan finish ten glasses first.
• Fu Huai defended Ji Chuan, but Gu Xiao challenged him to drink the ten glasses instead.
• Lu Keyan volunteered to drink ten glasses so he could stay with Gu Xiao, and Gu Xiao agreed.
• After Lu Keyan finished the drinks, Gu Xiao told Ji Chuan he could take him away, leaving Lu Keyan disbelieving.

At the clubhouse, Gu Xiao had Feng Ji and Fu Huai open the dance while they discussed their feelings for him. Outside, Lu Keyan revealed his SSS-rank mental power to Ji Chuan and proposed that they cooperate to attract Gu Xiao’s attention.

• Gu Xiao rejected Fu Huai’s invitation and told him and Feng Ji to perform the opening dance together.
• While dancing, Feng Ji asked Fu Huai whether Gu Xiao had noticed their interest in him, and Fu Huai insisted he would not give up on Gu Xiao.
• Outside the clubhouse, Ji Chuan confronted Lu Keyan about staying near Gu Xiao, and Lu Keyan said they shared the same goal.
• Ji Chuan took Lu Keyan to his dorm and threatened to force him away from Gu Xiao.
• Lu Keyan used his SSS-rank mental power to make Ji Chuan kneel, then offered to cooperate with him; Ji Chuan agreed.

Gu Xiao attended his lavish nineteenth birthday celebration, where he learned that the performer He Shuyu was an alumnus whose family Gu Xiao had bankrupted. He Shuyu returned with a mysterious birthday gift, plunging the clubhouse into darkness and embracing Gu Xiao.

• Gu Xiao watched He Shuyu perform while Feng Ji and Fu Huai discussed the singer and Ji Chuan's failed attempt to pursue him.
• Fu Huai explained that He Shuyu had entered the entertainment industry after the He family went bankrupt, and Feng Ji reminded Gu Xiao that Gu Xiao had caused the bankruptcy.
• Feng Ji and Fu Huai recalled that He Shuyu had received a red card for dyeing his hair like Gu Xiao's, giving him a reason to join Lu Keyan against Gu Xiao.
• He Shuyu finished singing, jumped down in front of Gu Xiao, and asked whether Gu Xiao liked his birthday gift.
• He Shuyu snapped his fingers, plunged the clubhouse into darkness, and someone locked an arm around Gu Xiao's waist.

During a clubhouse blackout, He Shuyu revealed that he wanted to pursue Gu Xiao and staged a romantic iris-petal surprise. Gu Xiao crushed him with mental pressure, and He Shuyu passed out while obsessing over him; Fu Huai stopped Gu Xiao from kicking him again.

• Gu Xiao felt someone touch him in the darkness, grabbed Feng Ji's hand, and asked where He Shuyu was.
• He Shuyu denied touching Gu Xiao, said he had missed him, and asked for a chance to pursue him.
• The lights came back on as iris petals filled the clubhouse, and He Shuyu called them his second gift to Gu Xiao.
• He Shuyu explained that he had arranged the blackout and dismissed Gu Xiao's threat to bankrupt the He Family.
• After He Shuyu openly declared his interest in Gu Xiao, Gu Xiao unleashed his mental pressure and forced him to his knees.
• He Shuyu passed out, and Fu Huai stopped Gu Xiao from kicking him again.

Gu Xiao suppressed He Shuyu and concealed his murderous intent, then revealed to Fu Huai and Feng Ji that he had allowed He Shuyu to perform a song. His companions were left wondering what Gu Xiao intended by agreeing to it.

• Gu Xiao ordered He Shuyu dragged away after suppressing him with his SS-rank mental power.
• Gu Xiao considered killing He Shuyu but restrained himself and joked about memory removal surgery to unsettle Fu Huai and Feng Ji.
• Fu Huai and Feng Ji pushed to investigate who had let He Shuyu in and punish them, while Gu Xiao said he was satisfied with He Shuyu's gift.
• Gu Xiao crushed an artificial flower and made the remaining flowers disappear.
• Gu Xiao told Fu Huai and Feng Ji that he had agreed to let He Shuyu perform a song.

At Gu Xiao's birthday banquet, Feng Ji and Fu Huai questioned his decision to let He Shuyu approach, but Gu Xiao dismissed the danger and showed little concern for Ji Chuan's absence. He accepted Feng Ji's estate as a gift and asked Fu Huai to investigate a gray gemstone, whose sight visibly startled him.

• Feng Ji and Fu Huai criticized Gu Xiao for allowing He Shuyu near him, but Gu Xiao said he was disappointed that He Shuyu had done nothing.
• Gu Xiao's active spiritual power agitated Fu Huai and Feng Ji, and he apologized without appearing remorseful.
• Feng Ji complained that Ji Chuan was chasing He Shuyu, had let him approach Gu Xiao, and was absent from the banquet, but Gu Xiao showed no interest.
• Feng Ji offered Gu Xiao an estate filled with irises, and Gu Xiao accepted the gift.
• Gu Xiao showed Fu Huai a gray gemstone and asked him to find out where it came from, making Fu Huai visibly tense.

At Gu Xiao’s birthday banquet, he gave away the gray gemstone brooch after questioning Fu Huai about its owner. The recipient, Lynch Leslie, treasured it until someone attacked him in his dormitory and demanded it back.

• Fu Huai said the gemstone brooch should belong to Gu Xiao, and Gu Xiao tossed it into the crowd as his return gift.
• Gu Xiao dismissed the gemstone as ordinary and told Fu Huai that the one he had given him was enough.
• The birthday banquet ended, and students on the forum speculated about who had messed up Gu Xiao’s hair and who had won his gift.
• Lynch Leslie admired the gemstone in his dorm room and kept the scar he received during the scramble as a medal.
• An arrow struck Lynch Leslie’s bed, a chandelier crashed down near him, and a voice in the dark demanded that he give the gemstone back.

Gu Xiao learned that Lin Qi, the alpha who had won the gray gemstone, had been injured in a dormitory fire and nearly suffered a mental collapse. He visited Lin Qi, apologized, and soothed his mental power, leaving Fu Huai and Feng Ji jealous and furious.

• Fu Huai told Gu Xiao he did not know the gray gemstone’s origins and worried someone might be targeting him after Lin Qi was injured and the gemstone went missing.
• Gu Xiao agreed to visit Lin Qi, explaining that Lin Qi had been hurt because of him, and asked Feng Ji to prepare a patient’s gift.
• Lin Qi recalled that a faulty water heater had caused the fire, that the gray gemstone had fallen down the drain, and that his mental power was close to collapse.
• Gu Xiao arrived at Lin Qi’s hospital room with Fu Huai and Feng Ji and apologized to Lin Qi.
• Gu Xiao gently soothed Lin Qi’s mental power, while Fu Huai and Feng Ji grew jealous and wanted to kill him.

Gu Xiao questioned Lin Qi about the attack and promised to protect him, while Fu Huai and Feng Ji investigated the contradictions in his account. Watching Gu Xiao soothe Lin Qi, Ji Chuan agreed to cooperate with Lu Keyan, though he believed Lu Keyan could never get closer to Gu Xiao than he had.

• Gu Xiao used his mental power to question Lin Qi, who recalled a blackout, pain, and someone with a bow and arrows before passing out.
• Fu Huai said Lin Qi's account conflicted with his earlier statement and suggested he had been brainwashed, while Feng Ji wondered whether someone powerful had entered their territory.
• Gu Xiao soothed Lin Qi, promised to protect him until he left the hospital, and warned that the attacker might return.
• After Gu Xiao, Fu Huai, and Feng Ji left, Lin Qi cherished the watch Gu Xiao had given him and fell asleep contentedly.
• Ji Chuan watched footage of Gu Xiao soothing Lin Qi and angrily confronted Lu Keyan, who said Fu Huai and Feng Ji had joined forces.
• Ji Chuan agreed to cooperate with Lu Keyan but privately dismissed him as unworthy and doubted he could get closer to Gu Xiao.