Recaps

Xie Ji found Lu Xunji in a mecha simulation room, where he was reopening a badly burned wound, and treated it after stopping him. Realizing Lu Xunji’s self-destructive behavior came from seeking love, Xie Ji kissed him and asked if he could take back his earlier rejection.

• Xie Ji called Zhuang Huan to ask whether Lu Xunji had contacted him, and Zhuang Huan located Lu Xunji in mecha simulation training room 303.
• Xie Ji rushed to the training room and found Lu Xunji deliberately pressing on a deep, crudely cauterized wound.
• Xie Ji stopped Lu Xunji from pulling away, slapped him when he resisted, and bandaged the wound with supplies from Lu Xunji’s medical kit.
• Lu Xunji said he had not been trying to die or hiding, and insisted that his fate was his own responsibility.
• Remembering Zhuang Huan’s explanation that Lu Xunji sought love rather than death, Xie Ji took his hand and kissed him.
• Xie Ji asked Lu Xunji, “Can I take it back?”

Xie Ji agreed to date Lu Xunji, and the two grew closer as Lu Xunji coaxed him into showing affection. After Xie Ji threw away the razor blade and invited Lu Xunji to dinner, Jin Li arrived with class notes but hurried off when Lu Xunji offered him fish to kill and scale.

• Xie Ji changed his answer and agreed to date Lu Xunji, who doubted his sincerity until Xie Ji apologized and gave him affection.
• Lu Xunji persuaded Xie Ji to kiss the silver lion in the training room, then held and kissed him afterward.
• Back in their dorm room, Xie Ji threw away the razor blade and invited Lu Xunji to dinner at the cafeteria, but Lu Xunji offered to cook instead.
• Jin Li brought Xie Ji notes from the classes he had attended for him and accepted Lu Xunji's invitation to stay for dinner.
• Lu Xunji suggested Jin Li kill and scale a fish, so Jin Li nervously made an excuse and rushed out.

Xie Ji turned into a calico cat after Lu Xunji’s favorability fell below -200, and he learned the punishment would last about a week. The chapter ended with Lu Xunji entering the bedroom and finding a cat circling his feet, unaware that it was Xie Ji.

• Lu Xunji went shopping after asking Xie Ji for a kiss and a declaration of love.
• Xie Ji fell asleep and heard a system notification that Lu Xunji’s favorability had dropped below -200, triggering a random punishment.
• Xie Ji woke up as a male calico cat and learned from Little Black that the punishment had transformed him according to Lu Xunji’s will.
• Xie Ji checked Lu Xunji’s favorability and saw it had risen to -199; Little Black explained that Lu Xunji’s self-loathing likely caused the low score.
• Little Black said Xie Ji would probably remain a cat for about a week, then hid under the bed when Lu Xunji entered the bedroom.
• Lu Xunji found a calico cat circling his feet, while Xie Ji tried to get his attention.

Xie Ji turned into a kitten and used a tablet to tell Lu Xunji he would be stuck that way for a week. Lu Xunji cared for him and took him out for a walk, where they ran into Ji Shi, who kept demanding to know where Xie Ji was.

• Lu Xunji found the calico kitten in the room and realized Xie Ji had transformed after he typed that he would be a cat for one week.
• Lu Xunji fed Xie Ji, kept him from eating spicy food, and carried him around while he studied.
• Xie Ji grew bored, so Lu Xunji offered to take him outside, and Xie Ji eagerly climbed onto his shoulder.
• Ji Shi confronted Lu Xunji about Xie Ji's disappearance, but Lu Xunji denied knowing where he was and told Ji Shi to leave.
• Xie Ji jumped into Ji Shi's arms to stop him from provoking Lu Xunji, then Lu Xunji took the kitten away and walked off.

Xie Ji remained a kitten in Lu Xunji’s care, while Lu Xunji indulged his possessiveness and affection. After Lu Xunji left for class, he returned almost immediately to demand that Xie Ji tell him he loved him again.

• Lu Xunji carried Xie Ji around campus, refused to let him play with stray cats, and distracted him with a strawberry cake.
• Lu Xunji drove off the stray cats with his intimidating gaze and refused the cake shop assistant’s request to pet Xie Ji.
• Lu Xunji’s campus photos and video spread online, attracting admirers who tried to approach him on the way back to the dorm.
• Xie Ji scratched Ji Shi after mistaking his lollipop for a cigarette, and Lu Xunji told Ji Shi that Xie Ji was away at special training.
• Lu Xunji fed and cleaned Xie Ji, then asked him to say he loved him before leaving for class.
• Xie Ji began missing Lu Xunji, who returned to the room and asked him to keep saying he loved him.

Xie Ji escaped the dorm and spent the day exploring campus, where he accidentally became the leader of a stray-cat group before Lu Xunji took him home. After bathing Xie Ji, Lu Xunji discovered that he had uncovered an intimate recording, leaving Xie Ji horrified.

• Xie Ji slipped out of the ground-floor dorm and fought off an orange cat that mistook him for a female calico.
• The orange cat followed Xie Ji around campus, protecting him from other strays, and declared that the cats of the military academy would serve him as their cult leader.
• Xie Ji let the cats line up for blessings from his tail, then ran to Lu Xunji after class and rubbed his scent onto him.
• Lu Xunji brought Xie Ji home, bathed him, and warned him against playing with stray cats while preparing fish for dinner.
• Xie Ji changed the music on Lu Xunji's speaker and accidentally played an intimate recording of Lu Xunji, who picked him up and admitted that he liked it.

As a cat, Xie Ji wondered whether he had fallen in love with Lu Xunji and grew concerned when Lu Xunji came home exhausted after secretly visiting the command department. Unable to get answers from him, Xie Ji went to Zhou Heyu’s dorm to ask about the command department and found him awake.

• Xie Ji resisted Lu Xunji’s requests for affection while privately realizing that he wanted to kiss him, then questioned whether he had fallen in love with him.
• Xie Ji noticed Lu Xunji coming home late and tired, and saw him leave the command department building with a girl who discussed an assessment and competition partner with him.
• Lu Xunji took Xie Ji home, fed him, and fell asleep before answering his questions about the command department and competition.
• Xie Ji slipped out to visit Zhou Heyu, while Big Orange told him a newcomer had taken over the cats’ park territory; Xie Ji promised to lead them to reclaim it the next day.
• Xie Ji and Big Orange reached Zhou Heyu’s dorm, where Xie Ji found a tablet and tried to get Zhou Heyu to open it for him.

After Xie Ji learned that Lu Xunji was preparing for a command assessment, he turned back from a kitten into a human and reunited with Lu Xunji. He watched Lu Xunji win the National Mecha Command and Single-Soldier Competition with Shen Ting, while classmates began speculating that the partners were dating.

• Xie Ji used Zhou Heyu’s tablet to explain that he had turned into a cat and learned that Lu Xunji was taking a command department assessment.
• Xie Ji returned to Lu Xunji’s room, where he woke the next morning back in human form and kissed Lu Xunji before Lu Xunji left for his assessment.
• Jin Li visited Xie Ji, and the two went to class while Jin Li told him that Lu Xunji had passed the command department’s third-year assessment with an excellent grade.
• Xie Ji watched Lu Xunji compete with Shen Ting in the National Mecha Command and Single-Soldier Competition and saw them win through precise teamwork.
• Students praised Lu Xunji and Shen Ting online, and campus headlines began pairing their names and speculating about a romance.

After Lu Xunji rejected Shen Ting and returned to the dorm with Xie Ji, he asked Xie Ji to show that he cared about him. Xie Ji reassured and kissed him, raising Lu Xunji’s favorability to 10%, before Big Orange appeared at the window and Lu Xunji agreed to let Xie Ji keep him.

• Jin Li dragged Xie Ji to the competition venue, where he watched Lu Xunji reject Shen Ting’s advances and partnership proposal.
• Lu Xunji took Xie Ji home, then asked him to say he loved him and prove it with a kiss.
• Xie Ji asked Lu Xunji about Shen Ting’s letter, reassured him that he was loved, and kissed him, increasing his favorability by 10%.
• Big Orange scratched at the bedroom window, and Xie Ji brought him inside and asked Lu Xunji if they could keep him.
• Lu Xunji agreed, and Xie Ji made Big Orange a bed while the cat panicked over being adopted.

Xie Ji tried to hide his plans to attend a party with Mu Yao from Lu Xunji after Lu Xunji secretly took Big Orange to be neutered. Lu Xunji questioned Xie Ji about his outing and asked him to be honest while maintaining boundaries in their relationship.

• Lu Xunji affectionately teased Xie Ji before bed, and Xie Ji recorded a brief lullaby that finally helped him sleep.
• Xie Ji checked on Big Orange the next morning, then went to class while Big Orange ate the food he had left behind.
• Mu Yao gave Xie Ji energy-core cuff links and asked him to attend his department party as his dance partner, and Xie Ji agreed.
• Lu Xunji returned with Big Orange after having him neutered without asking Xie Ji, admitting that he had done it partly out of personal jealousy.
• Xie Ji avoided telling Lu Xunji about the party and said he would be out the next evening, but Lu Xunji asked him to be honest and maintain proper boundaries.

Xie Ji attended the maintenance department party with Mu Yao, where he questioned whether he and Lu Xunji were truly dating and fought a rude guest. When a former bully appeared, terrified by a string of accidents, Xie Ji sold him a peace talisman and hinted that he could do the same to the red-haired guest.

• Xie Ji told Lu Xunji that Mu Yao had invited him to a party, and Lu Xunji let him go but required him to return before midnight.
• Xie Ji and Jin Li arrived at the party in outfits Mu Yao had prepared, and Jin Li asked whether Xie Ji and Lu Xunji were dating.
• Xie Ji wondered what counted as dating before a red-haired guest insulted him and tried to grab his collar; Xie Ji kicked him, and Mu Yao kicked him again.
• Xie Ji asked the red-haired guest who was spreading rumors about him and Lu Xunji, but the guest said he simply disliked Xie Ji.
• A former bully rushed into the party, knelt before Xie Ji, and blamed him for several days of frightening accidents.
• Xie Ji sold the former bully a peace talisman for 88,888 and told the red-haired guest to come find him in three days.

At the repair department party, Xie Ji became the subject of campus gossip while Mu Yao asked to speak with him privately. Mu Yao confessed that he liked Xie Ji and explained how his reputation as a playboy began, asking Xie Ji not to think badly of him.

• Chen Ou left after Xie Ji gave him talisman paper, and partygoers spread stories about Xie Ji’s apparent ability to ward off ghosts.
• Students posted photos of Xie Ji and debated his relationships with Mu Yao and Lu Xunji, while a rumor that Xie Ji and Lu Xunji were biological brothers circulated online.
• Xie Ji focused on eating as Mu Yao guarded him, then Mu Yao asked him to dance and revealed that he had something important to say.
• Xie Ji followed Mu Yao into the garden, where Mu Yao confessed that he liked him; Xie Ji checked Mu Yao’s affection bar and found it had risen to eighty percent.
• Mu Yao told Xie Ji that childhood rejection had led him to seek out attractive people, and that rumors had twisted his unusual dating habits into a false reputation for promiscuity.
• Mu Yao pleaded with Xie Ji not to misunderstand him or think he was dirty.

After Xie Ji got drunk with Mu Yao, Lu Xunji took him home and confronted him for breaking his promise to return by midnight. Lu Xunji revealed he had secured a noble title for Xie Ji as a birthday gift, and Xie Ji realized he might have fallen in love with him.

• Xie Ji rejected Mu Yao’s confession but told him he still wanted to be his friend.
• Jin Li found Xie Ji drunk beside Mu Yao and tried to stop Mu Yao from taking him home.
• Lu Xunji arrived, took Xie Ji away, and warned Mu Yao not to let this happen again.
• Lu Xunji confronted Xie Ji about returning late and about repeatedly promising to love him.
• Lu Xunji revealed that he had earned a noble title for Xie Ji and planned to give it to him for his birthday.
• Xie Ji heard Lu Xunji’s hurt and realized he might truly have fallen for him.

Xie Ji admitted that he loved Lu Xunji, then fell asleep after their first night together. He used Divine Sense Fruits to recover his memories and dreamed of Ji Qing taking young Di Mang under his care, ending with Di Mang identifying Lu Shu as his other parent.

• Xie Ji told Lu Xunji that he liked him and had wanted their intimacy, and Lu Xunji stayed with him until he fell asleep at dawn.
• Xie Ji worried that he had entered Lu Xunji's destined path, then drew Divine Sense Fruits to restore his divinatory power and recover more memories.
• In the memory, Ji Qing was ordered to teach young Di Mang, the child of Bai Ze and Lu Shu, and reluctantly agreed to keep him from being sent back to Zhouhuang.
• Ji Qing welcomed Di Mang and learned how he had narrowly escaped the demons after failing to ascend as their venerable.
• Ji Qing showed Di Mang a portrait of Bai Ze and began to introduce his other parent, and Di Mang identified the figure as Lu Shu.

Ji Qing’s playful memories of raising Di Mang ended with Shang Yan warning that the immortal realm had sent the young dragon to him as a disposable political problem. Xie Ji woke from the dream after a night with Lu Xunji and found his affectionate messages and explicit photos waiting, which he secretly saved.

• Ji Qing teased Di Mang about his Lu Shu ancestry, offered to feed him sweet pear blossom soup, and learned that his true form was a black flood dragon.
• Ji Qing left for Kunlun Academy, but Shang Yan caught him trying to skip class and warned that the sovereign emperor had sent Di Mang to him because the immortal realm might let him die.
• Ji Qing realized Shang Yan believed Di Mang had been sent to his home as a pretext for his death, then woke as Xie Ji in his military academy dormitory.
• Xie Ji read Lu Xunji’s many messages about missing him, making dinner, and wanting him, while recovering from their night together.
• Lu Xunji sent Xie Ji explicit photos, which Xie Ji saved to a private album before Lu Xunji asked if he was saving them.

Xie Ji and Lu Xunji discussed the rules of their new relationship, Lu Xunji’s jealousy, and his despair without Xie Ji before reuniting in person. Lu Xunji celebrated Xie Ji’s birthday with a cake and revealed that a medal he had earned would grant Xie Ji a small fief in the Empire.

• Xie Ji asked Lu Xunji to stop giving him the silent treatment, while Lu Xunji explained that he was jealous of Xie Ji’s close friendships but would not make him choose.
• After Xie Ji joked about breaking up, Lu Xunji eventually reassured him, said he was learning to love him, and admitted that life felt meaningless without him.
• Xie Ji worried that he was not good enough for Lu Xunji, who explained that joining the special assessment had also been a way to save himself from his weariness with life.
• Lu Xunji arrived at Xie Ji’s dormitory with a birthday cake, and Xie Ji kissed him and told him, “I love you.”
• Lu Xunji told Xie Ji that the medal he had earned could give him a small fief in the Empire and declared himself Xie Ji’s most valuable bargaining chip.

Xie Ji let Lu Xunji inspect his light brain, but Lu Xunji uncovered his private photos and set an embarrassing picture as his lock screen. Xie Ji got him to change it, and the two ended the chapter teasing each other about their intimate life.

• Xie Ji asked for Lu Xunji’s light brain, and Lu Xunji handed it over before asking to inspect Xie Ji’s device in return.
• Lu Xunji searched Xie Ji’s social apps, pinned his own contact, and renamed himself “That darling hubby who needs coaxing.”
• Lu Xunji guessed Xie Ji’s private album password and found saved photos of himself, including one taken after they had sex.
• Lu Xunji set the suggestive photo as Xie Ji’s lock screen, and Xie Ji snatched the device back in alarm.
• Xie Ji persuaded Lu Xunji to replace the photo with an image of the swing on their dorm balcony, then kicked him for joking about their sex life.

Lu Xunji thanked Xie Ji for accepting his need for control, and Xie Ji gave him access to monitor his whereabouts and communications. After Jin Li discovered the couple’s relationship was no secret, he told Xie Ji that Shen Ting wanted to see him.

• Lu Xunji thanked Xie Ji for loving and accepting him, and Xie Ji gave him monitoring software that allowed him to track her activities and access her light brain.
• Xie Ji reassured Lu Xunji about their relationship, and Lu Xunji cried as they stayed together until evening.
• Lu Xunji cooked dinner and tutored Xie Ji before Jin Li arrived at their dorm.
• Lu Xunji startled Jin Li, who pretended to faint, and Xie Ji dragged him outside.
• Xie Ji told Jin Li that he and Lu Xunji were together, and Jin Li said Shen Ting wanted to see him.

Shen Ting asked Xie Ji to read her fortune after learning that the academy was sending students to the front lines, and his chart suggested she might die on the mission. Xie Ji learned Lu Xunji had also received orders and wanted to go with him, but Lu Xunji refused because he feared losing him.

• Jin Li told Xie Ji that Shen Ting had asked to meet him, and they found her at a café.
• Shen Ting explained that a close senior had vanished after taking a secret academy mission and that she had received orders to deploy to the war zone in three days.
• Xie Ji read Shen Ting’s natal chart and saw signs of an early death, but Shen Ting said she would go because the Empire needed her.
• Shen Ting left to prepare for deployment, and Xie Ji returned to the dorm to find Lu Xunji had prepared dinner.
• Xie Ji confronted Lu Xunji about hiding his mission assignment and asked to accompany him, but Lu Xunji refused because Xie Ji meant too much to him.
• Xie Ji agreed not to go with Lu Xunji.

Xie Ji learned that the military academy was sending students to the front lines to face an unidentified alien species, and discovered that Lu Xunji and Ji Shi were among those deploying. After revealing that he and Lu Xunji were together, Xie Ji checked his friends’ destiny charts and found that nearly all of them had shattered.

• Xie Ji agreed to try the mecha simulation pods with Lu Xunji, and they kissed before Lu Xunji left for training.
• Jin Li told Xie Ji that many damaged mechas were arriving at the school and that Senior Shen Ting would leave the next day with other top students.
• Zhou Heyu, Mu Yao, Ji Shi, and Shang Yan told Xie Ji that Ji Shi and Lu Xunji were deploying to the front lines amid reports of an unidentified alien species near the empire’s borders.
• Xie Ji revealed that he and Lu Xunji were together, upsetting Ji Shi, who was leaving for the front lines the next day.
• Xie Ji read Ji Shi’s destiny chart and found it shattered, then checked Mu Yao, Zhou Heyu, Shang Yan, and Jin Li and discovered their charts had shattered too.

Xie Ji saw signs of disaster in the fate charts of those around him and decided he wanted to accompany Lu Xunji to the front lines. After they reconciled over his choice, Lu Xunji took him aboard the starship bound for the front lines.

• Xie Ji noticed fissures in the fate charts of his acquaintances and worried that a catastrophe threatened them.
• Ji Shi suspected Xie Ji planned to sneak to the battlefield, while Shang Yan reminded him they were leaving for the front lines the next day.
• During mecha simulation training, Xie Ji’s simulated mecha was destroyed after two minutes, and Lu Xunji comforted him.
• Lu Xunji agreed to take Xie Ji with him, and Xie Ji said he wanted to stand beside him; Lu Xunji apologized for limiting his choices.
• Lu Xunji took Xie Ji back to their dorm, and the next morning he packed their things and brought Xie Ji aboard the starship bound for the front lines.

Xie Ji traveled toward the front lines with Lu Xunji under official deployment orders, while Ji Shi joined the expedition and worried about his safety. Before parting, Xie Ji gave Ji Shi a protective talisman, then reassured Lu Xunji with a kiss as they continued their journey.

• Lu Xunji told Xie Ji that he had secured deployment orders for him and kept him close aboard the crowded starship.
• Xie Ji encountered Ji Shi aboard the ship, and they discussed who else might be heading to the front lines.
• Xie Ji gave Ji Shi a protective talisman that would let him call for help in danger, and Ji Shi joked that he wanted to be Xie Ji's side piece.
• Lu Xunji admitted that he had been afraid to listen to Xie Ji and Ji Shi's conversation because of his jealousy.
• Xie Ji kissed his fingers and pressed them to Lu Xunji's lips, and Lu Xunji kissed them in return.

Xie Ji joined Lu Xunji aboard the Second War Zone commander's starship, reassured him about their relationship, and helped him review the front-line reports. They discovered that strange creatures were emerging from a rapidly collapsing black hole near the Empire's borders, and Little Black warned that the world was going to collapse.

• Lu Xunji told Xie Ji he would stay with him in the Second War Zone commander's office under family transfer orders, and Xie Ji admitted that Lu Xunji was his boyfriend.
• Lu Xunji explained that he had told the principal Xie Ji was his little brother, and Xie Ji reassured him that he was not ashamed of their relationship.
• Lu Xunji took command of the Second War Zone and read reports about a black hole near the Empire's borders and creatures that were attacking mechas and starships.
• Lu Xunji explained that only mechas equipped with thermal ion guns could kill the creatures, while researchers still did not know what they were.
• Xie Ji asked Little Black to use the system to discover where the creatures came from, and Little Black said the world was going to collapse.

Xie Ji learned that the world was nearing collapse because Lu Xunji’s affection for himself remained too low, and he faced a choice between abandoning the world or letting Lu Xunji die to reset it. As Lu Xunji managed the worsening war, Xie Ji helped around Combat Zone Two, and the chapter ended with Lu Xunji kissing him in his office and telling him to get on the bed.

• Little Black warned Xie Ji that the world was close to collapse and offered him a choice: leave the world or have Lu Xunji willingly die so it could reset.
• Xie Ji refused to decide whether Lu Xunji or the rest of the world should be sacrificed, then left the commander's office to help wherever he could.
• Lu Xunji organized Combat Zone Two's defenses and worked without sleep while Xie Ji distributed food, repaired mechas, and helped salvage battlefield equipment.
• After an unfamiliar man brought Xie Ji to the commander's office, Lu Xunji pinned him against the door and kissed him.
• Xie Ji urged Lu Xunji to rest and said he was dirty, but Lu Xunji told him to take off his clothes and get on the bed.

Xie Ji tried to comfort the exhausted Lu Xunji while they worked on the crisis of multiplying unidentified creatures and a collapsing black hole. As Lu Xunji let Xie Ji stay beside him, Xie Ji asked whether he would keep fighting if he knew his efforts were futile.

• Xie Ji helped Lu Xunji relax, then watched him sleep before returning to the repair department.
• Lu Xunji woke to an urgent call and worked for more than ten hours as the unidentified creatures multiplied and the black hole continued collapsing.
• Xie Ji visited Lu Xunji during his brief break and helped ease his tension before preparing to leave.
• Lu Xunji asked Xie Ji to sleep in his office, and Xie Ji agreed to stay beside him.
• After watching Lu Xunji work, Xie Ji told him he loved him and asked whether he would continue if he knew everything he was doing was futile.