Chapter Summaries

Ye Jiang watched a public employee lie where two people had died and was mistaken for someone about to jump from the roof. After the employees rescued her and she explained the misunderstanding, they left the scene together.

• Ming Chun left, while Rong Yin stayed with Ye Jiang as she climbed onto a rooftop to watch employees clean up after two deaths.
• Yan Ran lay on the ground where the bodies had been, then spotted Ye Jiang and shouted for her not to jump.
• Sister Xiu rushed up and pulled Ye Jiang away from the edge, while she and her colleague tried to comfort her.
• The employees escorted Ye Jiang downstairs, where she saw Yan Ran lying on the ground again and heard her say that it was cold there.
• Ye Jiang explained she had gone to the roof only to watch Yan Ran, and the employees realized they had misunderstood her.
• Ye Jiang refused to help Yan Ran up because her hands were dirty, and Yan Ran stood on her own before calling her colleagues to go home.

After witnessing Yan Ran and her companions die in an explosion, Ye Jiang found herself back in time at the central square, while she and Rong Yin remained unaffected. Rong Yin identified two men near the police station as transmigrators, and Ye Jiang questioned whether the humans would face the same deaths again and which city she had arrived in.

• Yan Ran brought Ye Jiang to a police station for counseling, but an explosion destroyed their car and killed Yan Ran, Sister Xiu, and the middle-aged man.
• As Ye Jiang prepared to act against one of the men responsible, the fireworks resumed, a figure fell from a building, and an announcement began sealing off the central square.
• Ye Jiang appeared at the square during the earlier evacuation and realized that time had reversed for the local humans but not for her, Ming Chun, or Rong Yin.
• Rong Yin told Ye Jiang that one of the two men near the police station had a Blood Moon mark and that both men were transmigrators.
• Ye Jiang wondered whether the humans would die again and reconsidered her assumption that she had arrived in City M.

Ye Jiang tracked down Cao An and his fellow transmigrators to stop them before they could harm Yan Ran and the others. Cao An summoned a destructive rainstorm to impress the city’s mayor, while Ye Jiang approached and a sharp-toothed girl welcomed the chaos.

• Ye Jiang used her ability to locate the two transmigrators and set out with Rong Yin to confront them before they could kill anyone.
• Cao An called the municipal hotline, claimed he foresaw humanity’s extinction, and demanded that the mayor meet him at the central square.
• Cao An argued with his speed-type ability-user companion and revealed that he had many powerful items despite lacking an ability himself.
• Cao An activated an item that created a vast sphere above the city, which burst and unleashed torrential rain.
• Cao An expected the mayor to come meet him the next day, while Ye Jiang traveled through the rain toward him and a flower seller grinned and welcomed the spectacle.

Ye Jiang confronted Cao An after he threatened to punish the customer service girl and attacked him with an A-Rank item. She proved immune to his shadow ability and recognized Wang Zhiqiang, then left Cao An pinned against a wall as she reconsidered what Rong Yin had told her about the people who killed Yan Ran and the others.

• Cao An planned to make the mayor wait and demand that the customer service girl be fired, but Ye Jiang appeared behind him and slammed his head against a display window.
• Cao An used an A-Rank shadow item to escape and claimed its shadow would dissolve Ye Jiang's body, but it vanished harmlessly after merging with her skin.
• Wang Zhiqiang recognized Ye Jiang as the big shot he had met in City S and excitedly recalled searching for her after the Pollution-Hunting Competition.
• Cao An mocked Wang Zhiqiang and Ye Jiang, so Ye Jiang overtook Wang Zhiqiang and drove Cao An headfirst into a wall.
• Ye Jiang held Cao An down as he asked why she could still move, and she realized only one member of the group was an ability user, despite Rong Yin's account.

Ye Jiang restrained Cao An and questioned him and Wang Zhiqiang about the attack on an official vehicle, then used Cao An’s memories to confirm he was responsible. After revealing that Ye Jiang was the famous champion, she silenced both men and asked a young man whether Cao An’s crime warranted the death penalty.

• Ye Jiang questioned Cao An and Wang Zhiqiang about the burned official vehicle and used her ability to reconstruct the incident from Cao An’s memories.
• Ye Jiang confirmed that Cao An alone had caused the incident and confined him in a cage.
• Cao An raged at Ye Jiang, while Wang Zhiqiang identified her as the Pollution-Hunting Competition champion who had defeated an S-Rank polluter.
• Cao An challenged Ye Jiang’s identity, and Ye Jiang sealed his mouth before also silencing Wang Zhiqiang.
• Ye Jiang asked the young man whether Cao An’s circumstances warranted the death penalty.

Ye Jiang pursued Cao An after he escaped, while the mayor’s forces tried to take him into custody. Cao An found Xiao Yu and begged her for help, but she killed him by piercing his heart, leaving Ye Jiang watching.

• Rong Yin told Ye Jiang that Cao An could be sentenced to death, but she had no authority to carry out the sentence.
• Cao An used an A-Rank transportation item to escape to the central plaza, where the mayor’s armed forces confronted him and ordered him to city hall.
• Cao An used another item to escape the plaza, and Ye Jiang followed him into an alley to recover his bracelet.
• Xiao Yu appeared in Cao An’s path, and Cao An recognized her as the girl who had protected him and given him a bracelet of items.
• Cao An begged Xiao Yu to save him, but Xiao Yu pierced his heart from behind and complained that her hand was dirty.

Ye Jiang and Rong Yin witnessed a flower-selling girl kill Cao An with her poisonous ability, then watched the mayor hand the mysterious death investigation to Yan Ran. Yan Ran took custody of Cao An’s body and began assembling her team, while Ye Jiang remained uncertain where to go next.

• The girl harvested a moth orchid grown from Cao An’s poisoned, rotting chest, and Cao An died as Ye Jiang watched.
• Rong Yin threw violets toward the girl, who dodged them and asked whether they disliked her flowers.
• The mayor arrived with armed personnel, assessed Cao An’s unusual death, and ordered a call to Yan Ran’s department.
• Yan Ran examined Cao An’s body and agreed to investigate the ability users and his prophecy that humanity would be corrupted within a year.
• Yan Ran called Sister Xiu and Pang Wen for assistance, and their car left with armed troops accompanying it.
• After the journey went smoothly, Pang Wen teased Yan Ran for taking another job after she had asked for time off.

Ye Yanran, Qin Xiu, and Pang Wen entered a villa after sensing a powerful living dead inside. They traced its chilling aura to a bedroom upstairs and approached with daggers drawn.

• Yan Ran persuaded Ye Jiang to open the villa, then locked Ye Jiang outside after she and her colleagues entered.
• Ye Yanran sensed a living dead upstairs whose aura was stronger than any the Special Affairs Office had encountered before.
• Qin Xiu and Pang Wen joined Ye Yanran on the stairs despite her claim that she could handle the danger alone.
• The chandelier flickered and a potted plant fell down the stairs, prompting the trio to hurry upstairs so they could find surveillance footage and avoid paying for damages.
• The three located the aura's source in a bedroom and approached it with sharp daggers drawn.

Ye Jiang insisted on joining the Special Affairs Office and climbed into Ye Yanran’s car as Ye Yanran prepared to leave with the mutated baby. As they drove away, Ye Jiang told Ye Yanran she was not going to the police station.

• Ye Yanran and two Special Affairs Office staff found a severely mutated baby in a stroller and decided to take him away before his parent returned.
• Ye Jiang restored a dying flower in the garden while Rong Yin kept her company, and Ye Yanran came out alone after her companions left through the back door.
• Ye Yanran got into her car, but Ye Jiang joined her and announced that she wanted to work for the Special Affairs Office.
• Ye Jiang recalled learning from Wang Zhiqiang that the unstable spacetime repeatedly looped and shifted, but she had chosen to stay because of her memories of Ye Yanran.
• Ye Yanran refused Ye Jiang’s application, started driving, and heard Ye Jiang say she was not going to the police station.

Ye Jiang discovered that the two identical Living Dead babies were not both real: one was a puppet, while the other had hypnotized Ye Yanran and Qin Xiu inside the villa. After disabling the puppet and returning inside, Ye Jiang found the two women running up and down the stairs under the real Living Dead’s hypnosis.

• Ye Yanran and Qin Xiu found an identical Living Dead baby crawling behind the villa’s back door while another remained in the stroller.
• Pang Wen took Ye Jiang away from the danger, but Ye Jiang put him to sleep with a Sweet Dream Spell and returned to the villa.
• Ye Yanran and Qin Xiu were hypnotized by the Living Dead and hallucinated that they had returned inside the villa.
• Ye Jiang recognized that the stroller’s Living Dead was a lifelike puppet and touched its forehead, causing it to become inert.
• Ye Jiang entered the villa and found Ye Yanran and Qin Xiu repeatedly running up and down the stairs; Qin Xiu demanded to know why she had returned and where Pang Wen was.

Ye Jiang joined the Special Affairs Office provisionally and found a Polluted infant manipulating Ye Yanran and Qin Xiu in the villa. When the infant’s mother tried to protect it, Ye Jiang saw memories showing Ye Yanran, Qin Xiu, and Pang Wen had come to the villa three hundred years earlier to search for the same child.

• Ye Yanran hired Ye Jiang provisionally after realizing she could resist the Living Dead’s Pollution, then explained that she and Qin Xiu were trapped by a ghost wall on the stairs.
• Ye Jiang saw the Polluted infant on the landing and used a psychic spell to put Ye Yanran and Qin Xiu to sleep before preparing to destroy it.
• A Polluted young woman emerged from the basement elevator and pleaded with Ye Jiang not to hurt her baby; a woman in a black formal hat watched from the elevator and spoke to Ye Jiang.
• The young woman rushed to shield the infant from Ye Jiang’s dagger, and Ye Jiang stopped her with a current of air before halting the dagger.
• The young woman’s fierce love for her child brought Ye Jiang visions of her past, including Ye Yanran, Qin Xiu, and Pang Wen entering the villa three hundred years earlier to find the Polluted child.

Ye Jiang learned that a mysterious woman had released the real Polluted and secretly hidden a living mask inside it, then rushed to save Ye Yanran when the mask attacked her. Xiao Pei arrived as space and time destabilized, leaving Ye Jiang treating Ye Yanran amid the growing crisis.

• Ye Jiang watched the villa footage and learned how the mother lost her child after the woman in black released the real Polluted and the fake was taken away.
• The woman in black revealed a porcelain mask and claimed she would kill the Polluted, but Ye Jiang stopped her; the woman agreed and left.
• Ye Jiang caged the Polluted, put the young woman to sleep, and searched the basement, where she found many of her own energy particles but no puppet maker.
• The mask emerged from the Polluted's body, killed it, and attacked Ye Yanran while space and time grew unstable.
• Xiao Pei rushed into the villa and called for Ye Jiang to save Ye Yanran; Ye Jiang crushed the mask and began healing her.

Xiao Pei explained to Ye Jiang that the Watch Mountain Range’s magnetic field had trapped them in reconstructed illusions of the past, where each world’s protagonist had to reach their destined ending. Ye Jiang learned that Ye Yanran was likely the protagonist of their current illusion, while the woman who had tricked her remained at large.

• Ye Jiang healed Ye Yanran, and Xiao Pei explained that Ye Yanran’s death had triggered a rewind in the illusion.
• Xiao Pei told Ye Jiang how the Watch Mountain Range’s magnetic field sent people into memory-based illusions and described the time loop she had endured in a previous world.
• Xiao Pei explained that each illusion had a protagonist whose destined ending had to occur for the story to conclude.
• Xiao Pei revealed that she and Ming Xia suspected Ye Yanran was this illusion’s protagonist because she led the Special Affairs Office and her death caused time to rewind.
• Ye Jiang recalled that a woman had secretly killed a Polluted after agreeing not to, then admitted she could only locate the woman’s rough direction.

After Ye Jiang erased the villa owner's memories and cured her Pollution, she lost consciousness as the one-eyed figure in the basement moved. Ye Jiang then awoke in the figure's unfamiliar body and recalled that an immense being had crossed into this world and made itself an antlike body.

• Ye Jiang carried the villa owner upstairs and erased her memories of her child while curing her Pollution.
• Ye Yanran woke and repeatedly insisted on going to the basement, as the illusion corrected her actions.
• Xiao Pei followed Ye Yanran into the basement, where they encountered a thin, one-eyed figure that stared at Ye Yanran.
• Ye Jiang suddenly collapsed upstairs as the figure moved its fingers.
• Ye Jiang regained consciousness in the figure's body and remembered an immense being entering the world and shaping itself into an antlike form.

Ye Jiang recovered memories of descending into the Surface World as a powerful deity, then watched those memories fade as she stored Tang Su’s body and left a note. In the memory, the deity encountered a human mother and a polluted child, revealed itself to authorities, and faced a monster; in the present, Ye Yanran questioned Xiao Pei about resisting Living Dead aura.

• Ye Jiang recognized that she had once descended in her true form and realized her current body-making ability and power were far weaker.
• Ye Jiang sensed Xiao Pei nearby, felt her memories fading, stored Tang Su’s body in her space, and left a note.
• The deity entered a villa after sensing Pollution and watched a mother protect her polluted child until the child’s head separated from its body and the mother became deranged.
• The deity revealed itself to investigating authorities and noticed a young man watching it with amusement, making it question its own emotions.
• Ye Yanran urged Xiao Pei to flee from the Living Dead, but Xiao Pei said she could resist its aura.
• Ye Yanran challenged Xiao Pei to explain how she knew she could resist Living Dead aura and asked where she had encountered one.

Ye Yanran discovered that the Living Dead in the basement could understand her, raising hopes for a breakthrough in treatment. Jia Le then revealed that the stroller outside held only a puppet, leaving the identity of the basement Living Dead uncertain.

• Xiao Pei asked how the Special Affairs Office handled the Living Dead, and Ye Yanran insisted they were admitted for treatment rather than dealt with as threats.
• The Living Dead turned toward the elevator and looked back at the humans, prompting Ye Yanran to realize it understood her.
• Jia Le arrived, and Ye Yanran excitedly told him the Living Dead was conscious.
• Jia Le questioned how the Living Dead had entered the villa, since its owner’s child was the only known Living Dead there.
• Ye Yanran asked about the Living Dead in the stroller, and Jia Le said he had found only a puppet inside.

Ye Yanran brought a lucid Living Dead to the Special Affairs Office’s hospital and tried to make her comfortable, while the monster’s young companion stayed with her and left her a bouquet. The chapter ended with Ye Yanran decorating the monster’s room and becoming excited when the monster stopped her from placing a lamp.

• Ye Yanran discovered that the villa’s owner had lost her memory and chose not to tell her about the Living Dead child who had died.
• Xiao Pei showed Ye Yanran a note saying Ye Jiang had left to find a woman, disappointing Ye Yanran because Ye Jiang had promised to join the Special Affairs Office.
• Ye Yanran brought the lucid Living Dead to the hospital and introduced her to a specially reinforced room.
• After Ye Yanran left, the monster’s young companion placed a bouquet beside the bed and said he owed her flowers, though she did not seem to remember him.
• Ye Yanran and her technician decorated the monster’s room, and the monster stopped Ye Yanran from setting a table lamp on the bedside table.

The monster told the humans it was not a Living Dead, but they assumed it was confused and took it for an examination. After the tests produced no usable results, Ye Yanran offered to give it a name, suggesting Jiang Ye after the wild ginger it had watched.

• Pang Wen persuaded the experts to leave and entered the room, where the monster returned to its puppet and said it was not a Living Dead.
• Ye Yanran and Pang Wen interpreted the monster’s words as confusion and persuaded it to undergo an examination.
• The examination produced only gibberish, and the Special Affairs Office members discussed the strange results while the monster watched wild ginger.
• Jia Le gave the monster a book, and it refused to return it when he reached for it.
• Ye Yanran asked the monster’s name, got no answer, and suggested Jiang Ye after the wild ginger.

The monster learned to read and write from Ye Yanran, while Rong Yin showed Her how to write their names. She followed Ye Yanran upstairs and discovered that Ye Yanran was also teaching the other Living Dead, confirming that she treated them equally.

• Ye Yanran brought books to teach the monster, started with her own name, then taught Her pinyin and more than a hundred characters.
• Rong Yin wrote Ye Jiang and his own name, telling the monster what each said.
• Ye Yanran taught the monster common knowledge, laws, and stories about heroes, while the monster listened selectively.
• The monster followed Ye Yanran upstairs and watched her teach the violent Living Dead in their rooms.
• Pang Wen, Qin Xiu, and Jia Le watched Ye Yanran teach before leaving and stopping silently in the stairwell.

Ye Jiang recovered her memories and accepted the name Ye Yanran had given her, while remembering that Ye Yanran had not become a hero. Three hundred years later, a flower seller told a lost child a frightening story about a girl and an elegant lady, ending as the lady emerged from the house.

• Ye Jiang remembered how Ye Yanran had taken her in, taught her to read, and eventually moved her to accept the name Ye Jiang.
• Ye Jiang recalled that Ye Yanran had not become a hero and remembered the human’s ultimate fate.
• A flower seller tried to sell flowers to a lost child, then began telling her a story to scare her.
• The flower seller’s story followed a girl who ran away from home to prove she could become a hero and met an elegant lady who offered to help her.
• The girl waited outside while the lady went into her home, heard strange creaking sounds, and watched the lady finally come out.