Recaps

Xingsu and Peruere survive the House of the Hearth’s deadly struggle at a terrible cost, then follow separate paths after Xingsu awakens in Irminsul and Peruere becomes the new Knave. In Sumeru, Xingsu discovers a power tied to memories and uses it to ease Collei’s Eleazar, though absorbing its mist begins to strain him.

• Xingsu was brought to the House of the Hearth, where he befriended Clervie and Peruere and drew Crucabena’s attention with his exceptional learning.
• As Crucabena’s Hunting Games grew deadly, Xingsu and Peruere planned to overthrow her, but Clervie could not join them and died by Peruere’s hand.
• Crucabena forced the surviving children into a final battle, and Xingsu fought her to buy Peruere time before she defeated him and left him for dead.
• Peruere killed Crucabena, buried Xingsu’s jar of paper stars, and cremated his body after reading his letter asking her to keep living.
• Nahida found Xingsu in Irminsul, took him to Sumeru, and helped him begin a new life at the Akademiya, where Lin revealed that he was a reborn creation made to collect memories.
• Xingsu discovered that he could sense and read memories, then absorbed the black mist from Collei and eased her Eleazar symptoms.
• Peruere was pardoned by the Tsaritsa, named the new Knave, and accepted control of the House of the Hearth.
• When Collei’s Eleazar worsened, Xingsu absorbed more black mist to calm her flare-up, but its pain and despair began to strain him.

Xingsu cured Collei, developed a communication network, and was forced to flee Sumeru after the Akademiya and the Doctor turned against him. In Fontaine, he found shelter with the Spina di Rosula while Arlecchino drew closer to a long-awaited meeting with him.

• Xingsu promised to help Collei if her Eleazar worsened, left Gandharva Ville, and later proved his treatment to scholars before refusing Nafis’s offer to become his student.
• Xingsu proposed reforms to the Akasha and built an independent communication network, prompting Azar and the Akademiya’s sages to see him as a threat.
• After Dori’s mercenaries attacked him over a false debt, Xingsu defeated them and learned from Lin that his combat instincts had survived his lost memories.
• Cyno and Tighnari warned Xingsu that the Akademiya and the Doctor were moving against him, then helped him escape through the desert with Dehya’s escort.
• Xingsu reached Fontaine, where Arlecchino recognized him but slipped away, and Furina later helped him after his belongings and research equipment were stolen.
• Clorinde brought Xingsu to Poisson, where Callas offered him shelter and Navia welcomed him into the Spina di Rosula.
• Arlecchino arranged supplies for Poisson and met with Callas, who told her that Xingsu had joined the Spina di Rosula and held a grievance against the Doctor.
• Xingsu agreed to meet Arlecchino after learning of her aid to Poisson, accepting that they would have to face each other sooner or later.

Xingsu recovered his memories of the House of the Hearth, reunited with Arlecchino, and began a relationship with her while helping the Hearth’s children. After exposing Daerdufu’s exploitation and mourning a child who died, Xingsu began searching for a way to preserve her memories.

• Xingsu recognized Arlecchino, recovered his necklace from his own grave, and remembered his past with Clervie and Peruere.
• Xingsu met Arlecchino again, chose to stay involved with the House of the Hearth, and promised to find a way to remove the curse spreading across her arm.
• Arlecchino welcomed Xingsu back to the House of the Hearth, where he became a special instructor and grew close to her and the children.
• Xingsu and Arlecchino kissed, and Xingsu shared his communications research with her and partnered with Sandrone on the Wisdom Network.
• Xingsu comforted a dying House of the Hearth child, then uncovered Daerdufu’s exploitation of children and his scheme to divert charity donations to nobles.
• Xingsu gave Arlecchino evidence against Daerdufu and helped arrange support for persecuted children, while Arlecchino promised to take in more homeless children.
• After the girl died, Xingsu experimented with a Ley Line Blossom to preserve memories, while Arlecchino arranged her funeral and mourned her at her unmarked grave.

Xingsu helped expose Valerius’s criminal network while reconnecting with Clervie, whose memories he restored and later traded to Lin to bring her back. As Fontaine’s sea continued to rise, he learned the truth of Furina’s role and set out to solve the prophecy, leaving Clervie restored to the House of the Hearth.

• Neuvillette brought Xingsu to the Fontaine Research Institute, where an arkhium-powered device exploded and destroyed the Callas Line.
• Xingsu learned Callas was terminally ill, promised to support Navia and the Spina di Rosula, and celebrated Navia’s birthday with them.
• Xingsu uncovered Valerius’s L㏒s operation, joined Arlecchino in confronting the threat, and led an undercover raid on Valerius’s mansion as Morning Star.
• Lyney and Lynette escaped Valerius’s mansion, while Clorinde and Chevreuse raided it and investigated Valerius’s apparent suicide.
• Xingsu helped Clervie recover her memories, and she reunited with Arlecchino before Xingsu and Arlecchino spent the night together.
• As Fontaine faced the rising sea, Xingsu met Furina and used her memories to learn that she had impersonated the Hydro Archon for five hundred years.
• Furina broke down over her inability to save Fontaine, and Xingsu left determined to solve the prophecy.
• Xingsu offered Furina’s memories to Lin in exchange for power, and Lin restored Clervie to the House of the Hearth.