Chapter Summaries

Ren Suo struggled to keep the Rebel alive while protecting Daughter of Phantom for thirty minutes, then found inspiration while comforting Lin Xianyu. He equipped the Rebel with two abilities and an item, leaving her to face the pain of his new strategy.

• Ren Suo tested ways to drive off the Buriers but found that the Rebel could not defeat them, and the strategy hint told him to keep Daughter of Phantom at the venue for thirty minutes.
• Ren Suo went to the Back Mountain to experiment with abilities and saw Lin Xianyu blasting rocks with wind-infused punches.
• Ren Suo treated Lin Xianyu’s injured arms and learned that she had flipped her roommates’ meal trays after they gossiped about Gu Yueyan.
• Ren Suo offered to buy Lin Xianyu another meal, and her hunger sparked an idea for overcoming the trial.
• Ren Suo equipped the Rebel with two abilities and one item, and she warned that every joy came with a corresponding pain.

Ren Suo used the Rebel’s speed and healing to kill Burying Person Q, but the other Burying Persons retaliated and killed the Daughter of Phantom, ending the attempt. After restarting, the Rebel independently bought a red windbreaker that hid the blood from his self-injuring tactic.

• Ren Suo lured Burying Person Q into the women's restroom and used the Rebel’s speed to wear him down and kill him.
• The Rebel suffered severe injuries, but Ren Suo healed him with Pain Relief Therapy and realized the Self-Harm Speed Kill Style could be repeated.
• Three Burying Persons arrived, forcing the Rebel to flee while Burying Person R entered the restroom and killed the Daughter of Phantom.
• Ren Suo failed the mission and restarted the game, after which the Rebel bought a red windbreaker on his own.
• The Rebel used the windbreaker to keep blood from splashing while he attacked Burying Person Q again.

Ren Suo learned Finger Lock to help Rebel defeat a Burying Person in My Life Is Not Your Game. After provoking the enemy into predictable attacks, Rebel knocked him unconscious and survived with help from healing spells.

• Ren Suo bought and learned Finger Lock, prompting Yu Kuangtu to call and warn him against trying to fight alone.
• Yu Kuangtu marked Ren Suo as an interesting guest for an upcoming visit after reviewing his profile and English test score.
• Ren Suo equipped Rebel with Finger Lock and used it to pierce a Burying Person’s Iron Armor, but Rebel died after the enemy anticipated his teleportation.
• Ren Suo had Rebel repeatedly ask the Burying Person, “Are you mad?”, provoking him into turning around until Rebel knocked him unconscious.
• Rebel entered a near-death state, healed himself, and received a Resolve Value increase when Daughter of Phantom thanked him.

Sterly set out to sabotage the Cards’ assassination operation while Ren Suo struggled to get past Burying Person R in the game. Ren Suo discovered that a Rebel clone could bait R into using his ultimate, then sent a clone of himself to pick up lunch for Jian Ji.

• Sterly rejected Spade K’s warning and headed for Ontario International Airport after incapacitating several would-be robbers.
• Rebel defeated Burying Persons Q, W, and E, but Burying Person R killed Daughter of Phantom with Black White Extreme Flash and caused the mission to fail.
• Ren Suo repeatedly failed to defeat Burying Person R, who killed Rebel with powerful attacks.
• Ren Suo had a Rebel clone wear Rebel’s bloodstained trench coat and provoke Burying Person R into killing the clone with Black White Extreme Flash.
• Ren Suo equipped the clone ability and sent his clone to fetch Braised Beef Brisket Noodles with Fried Sauce for Jian Ji.

Rebel and Daughter of Phantom escaped the exchange venue while Explorer, Three Thousand Li, and the Order Guardians kept Burying Person R and his allies occupied. Daughter of Phantom left after fusing with the Supreme Treasure, and Ren Suo cleared the game.

• Three Thousand Li and Red Chariot arrived with Order Guardians to confront Burying Person R, prompting the strategy prompt to tell Rebel to entangle them and escape with Daughter of Phantom.
• Ren Suo summoned Explorer, who kicked Burying Person R away, took two divine blades, and claimed the Immortal Palace was conducting business.
• Burying Person R summoned eight hidden Burying Persons, while Red Chariot’s Order Guardians engaged them and Explorer and Three Thousand Li held off Burying Person R.
• Rebel and Daughter of Phantom slipped out among the crowd and passed an Order Guardian checkpoint after Ren Suo spent Merit Points to move the guards away.
• Daughter of Phantom thanked Rebel, said she would digest the Supreme Treasure, and left alone; Rebel then departed as the game confirmed she had fused with it.
• Ren Suo chose to clear the game at its highest difficulty and received the message that the real battle was only beginning.

After clearing “My Life Is Not Your Game,” Ren Suo collected his rewards and went to dinner with Zhao Huo. Zhao Huo recruited him to play Zhang Fei in an alternate-history Three Kingdoms stage play, and Ren Suo agreed in exchange for a seafood buffet.

• Ren Suo received 300 Merit Points and a Four-Star Treasure Chest after finishing the game, while his exclusive reward remained in transit and a duplicate Clear Spring Echo fused.
• After sleeping, Ren Suo accepted Zhao Huo’s invitation to Skewered Hot Pot and learned Zhao Huo’s fiancée had lent him a car after Xiao Meng visited.
• Ren Suo joined Zhao Huo and his friends for dinner, ordered plenty of skewers and Sprite, and heard that Zhao Huo wanted him to join a stage play.
• Zhao Huo offered Ren Suo the role of Zhang Fei in an alternate-history Three Kingdoms battle, and Ren Suo agreed after negotiating a seafood buffet as payment.

Ren Suo learned about secret realm disappearances and a mysterious purple gemstone after advancing to Level 3 Researcher and browsing the confidential internal network. An invitation to the Heavenly Lotus International Exchange Dinner reminded him to message Dong Chengling, who unexpectedly asked him the same question at the same time.

• Ren Suo rehearsed Zhao Huo’s stage play as Zhang Fei, relying on his Gauze Robe spell to withstand staged attacks.
• Ren Suo advanced to Level 3 Researcher and read a confidential report about a vanished secret realm, a fleeing purple gemstone, and unusual Federation Transcendent behavior.
• Ren Suo browsed confidential plans on the internal network, including the Xuan Kingdom’s Main God Space experiment.
• Huo He invited Ren Suo to the Heavenly Lotus International Exchange Dinner on September 12 and told him to wear formal attire.
• Ren Suo messaged Dong Chengling to ask whether she had bought formal attire, and discovered she had sent him the exact same question.

Ren Suo and Dong Chengling went shopping for formalwear with Gu Yueyan, Lin Xianyu, and Ren Xingmei, where they met Li Ke'er, an Awakened student who preferred earning money through tailoring to joining the cultivator system. After rehearsal, Zhao Huo told Ren Suo he would regret dismissing the next evening’s exchange dinner.

• Gu Yueyan advised Ren Suo and Dong Chengling to buy ready-made formalwear, while Ren Xingmei asked Ren Suo about Qin Lian and Dong Chengling decided to include Qin Lian in her upcoming cultivation class.
• At a clothing store, Ren Suo recognized Li Ke'er, whom he had met on a blind date, and learned she worked there while making custom clothes for customers.
• Dong Chengling recognized that Li Ke'er was Awakened and said there was nothing wrong with her choosing a quiet life outside the state cultivator system.
• Ren Suo bought formalwear for himself and Dong Chengling, then joined the others as they continued shopping.
• At rehearsal, Ren Suo noticed Zhao Huo and Sun Shu’s closeness, and Zhao Huo asked whether Ren Suo knew English before warning him he would regret dismissing the exchange dinner.

Yu Kuangtu assigned the Seventh Team to protect the visiting guests while the Sixth Team remained at the bureau. Ren Suo prepared for the exchange banquet with Ren Xingmei’s help, reflecting on how his Little World games gave him rewards that ordinary games could not match.

• Li Dan reported that the guests had made no suspicious moves, and Yu Kuangtu assigned the Seventh Team to handle their security the next day.
• Yi Zhao argued that one team was enough, so Yu Kuangtu kept the Sixth Team at the bureau to recuperate.
• Yu Kuangtu reflected on the bureau’s limited manpower and the need to protect Lianjiang City while the guests were in town.
• Ren Xingmei tightened Ren Suo’s tie and urged him to hurry to the banquet so he would not keep Teacher Dong waiting.
• Ren Suo left Ren Xingmei playing Tenchu 4 and thought about how Little World games gave him powerful rewards and advantages beyond ordinary games.

Ren Suo attended the academy’s international exchange dinner and learned that the guests were the Lamperouge sisters, Yuffie and Kallen, whose arrival left him overwhelmed by Kallen’s attraction. After spotting vomit in the restroom, he recognized the layout as resembling a map he had seen ten days earlier.

• Ren Suo arrived at the banquet with Dong Chengling, where Zhao Huo and Bai Ji revealed that the academy was expecting British princesses.
• Qiao Muyi led Countermeasures Bureau members into the hall, and Bai Ji explained that Yuffie and Kallen Lamperouge had been granted princess-like status by the British Queen.
• Ren Suo saw Kallen and became so overwhelmed by the Key Search System’s attraction that his legs weakened and he could not approach her.
• Ren Suo spilled a waiter’s juice, went to the restroom to wash his hands, and found a puddle of matcha-colored vomit in a stall.
• Ren Suo surveyed the restroom and realized its layout resembled the 2D map he had seen ten days earlier.

Ren Suo realized that he had become the Rebel, the protagonist of the game he had cleared and uploaded, and that the Little World Game Console was now controlling his body. As he began wandering through the restroom against his will, he understood the Rebel’s warnings and blamed Zhao Huo for his bad luck.

• Ren Suo recognized that the Rebel’s fate in "My Life Is Not Your Game" was now his own, but realized he could not stop the game because he had already uploaded it.
• Ren Suo reasoned that the Little World Game Console had concealed the truth by changing the game’s world and the Rebel’s speech.
• Ren Suo’s body moved on its own as he struggled against the Console’s control and felt numbness and pain whenever he tried to take charge.
• Ren Suo understood that the Rebel had been cursing him through warnings about pain following joy, and saw his own choices as the cause of his predicament.
• Ren Suo could think of no one to blame except Zhao Huo, whom he angrily vowed to remember.

At a banquet hosted for the Lamperouge sisters, Qiao Muyi and Bai Ji both headed toward the washroom for their own reasons. Meanwhile, an international force of Killers prepared to attack Heavenly Lotus Academy and assassinate Kallen Lamperouge.

• Qiao Muyi disciplined Countermeasures Team Members who were distracted by the Lamperouge sisters and recalled Yu Kuangtu's request to introduce Ren Suo to them.
• Bai Ji deflected questions about his love life, then decided to seek out Ren Suo and tell him how he felt.
• A disguised group of Killers surveyed Heavenly Lotus Academy and planned to begin their operation in thirty-three minutes.
• The operation's leader ordered the Killers to obey him and declared that he would personally kill Kallen Lamperouge.
• The leader revealed that Cards and killers and Transcendents sent by nations around the world had gathered to attack the banquet, believing they outnumbered the sisters' guards.

Ren Suo tried to avoid a coming battle, but Bai Ji found him in the washroom and began to confess his feelings through a story. Qiao Muyi interrupted them, and Ren Suo recognized her as the Female Devil from the game just before Bai Ji embraced him.

• Ren Suo remembered that a fierce battle was approaching and decided to leave rather than reveal his combat abilities.
• Bai Ji found Ren Suo in the washroom and asked whether Ren Suo would reject someone over their hobbies.
• Ren Suo reassured Bai Ji that he would not distance himself from him, and Bai Ji said he wanted to tell him a long story.
• Qiao Muyi entered after listening in with the Vibration Listening Technique and interrupted Bai Ji.
• Ren Suo identified Qiao Muyi as the Female Devil from the game, and Bai Ji stepped forward to hug him.

At the banquet, Bai Ji thanked Ren Suo and tried to grow closer to him, while Qiao Muyi repeatedly teased and interrupted him. After Ren Suo’s resolve surged, he left with Dong Chengling, then turned back toward Zhao Huo, determined to protect his friends.

• Bai Ji hugged Ren Suo to thank him for saving his life, and Qiao Muyi interrupted Bai Ji’s attempts to deepen their relationship.
• Ren Suo’s pain and numbness transformed into warm energy as he worried that the attackers might endanger his friends and sister.
• Dong Chengling checked Ren Suo and offered to support him, but Ren Suo told her to return while he settled a score.
• Ren Suo’s resolve reached its peak, and he decided not to run away from the danger.
• Ren Suo walked toward Yuffie and identified Zhao Huo as the person who had offended him.

Ren Suo used lines and conversation he had learned through a game to impress Yuffie Lamperouge with his fluent English and knowledge of Immortal Palace. As he drew Yuffie’s attention, Dong Chengling arrived, and Zhao Huo realized Ren Suo had already arranged to pin the blame on him.

• Zhao Huo watched Vice Principal Yuan Chu discuss cultivation and teaching with Yuffie, then encountered Ren Suo, who seemed newly confident.
• Ren Suo called Zhao Huo a spiritual virgin for being too timid to approach someone who interested him, then said he would talk to Yuffie because Zhao Huo had urged him to go.
• Ren Suo joined Yuffie and Yuan Chu’s conversation, used his knowledge of Immortal Palace and Ren Nesser, and impressed them with jokes and fluent English drawn from a game.
• Yuffie recognized Ren Suo and asked what else he wanted to tell her, prompting him to nearly deliver a romantic confession before swallowing the words.
• Zhao Huo admired Ren Suo’s conversation with Yuffie until Dong Chengling appeared and he realized Ren Suo had already shifted responsibility for approaching Yuffie onto him.

Ren Suo struggled to follow the game’s forced flirtatious dialogue while surrounded by Heavenly Lotus Academy staff and guests. He delivered the required declarations as an apparent performance, and Yuffie invited him to talk somewhere nearby.

• Ren Suo whispered a romantic confession to Yuffie, avoiding a public declaration for the first line.
• Ren Suo realized the game required him to loudly deliver three more declarations while Bai Ji, Qiao Muyi, and Dong Chengling watched.
• Ren Suo theatrically declared that he would become Yuffie’s “Square Fire,” stand against the world for her, and accompany her into the future.
• Yuffie interpreted Ren Suo’s words as a serious confession and invited him to talk somewhere nearby.
• Ren Suo noticed Bai Ji, Qiao Muyi, Dong Chengling, and Zhao Huo reacting to his performance, then accepted Yuffie’s invitation.

Ren Suo entertained Karen and Yuffie with stories about the Immortal Palace, while Karen sensed they would encounter it soon. Their conversation was interrupted by an attack on Yuffie and Karen, and Ren Suo secretly touched his azure ring as the assassins entered.

• Karen shared custard buns with Yuffie, who told Ren Suo that his words had inspired her to pursue love again.
• Yuffie asked Ren Suo to tell Karen about the Immortal Palace, and he shared stories and details researched by Xuan Kingdom.
• Karen said she felt they would soon see the Immortal Palace, and Ren Suo reflected on why the game repeatedly made protecting her a main objective.
• A barrier appeared around Ren Suo, Karen, and Yuffie as bullets and a shadow attack struck the banquet hall.
• Transcendent assassins stormed the hall, led by a Crimson Masked man with a giant black paintbrush, while Ren Suo secretly touched his azure ring.

Assassins attacked a banquet at Heavenly Lotus Academy, and the cultivators fought to protect the Lamperouge sisters and the ordinary guests. As their defenses began to strain, the Immortal Palace Assassin appeared and turned the battle with his gunfire and close-combat kills.

• Bai Ji, Liao Yonghai, and other cultivators countered the assassins’ opening attack, with Liao Yonghai causing their firearms to explode.
• Zhao Huo wounded a charging assassin with an enchanted broom, and Dong Chengling killed the attacker before he could strike back.
• Heavenly Lotus’s cultivators and the United Kingdom Transcendents fought to protect the guests, while Bai Ji’s spells were repeatedly neutralized by the masked brush-wielder.
• Bai Ji realized the defenders might be overwhelmed and looked toward Ren Suo as the battle intensified.
• The Immortal Palace Assassin seized an assassin’s submachine gun, shot several attackers, and killed another in hand-to-hand combat.

Ren Suo’s summoned Immortal Palace Assassin turned the tide against the attackers targeting Kallen and Yuffie, while his nonstop chatter amused and exasperated Ren Suo. As the assassins regrouped for another assault, Ren Suo’s call for reinforcements was answered by Yu Kuangtu, who was rushing to the academy.

• The Immortal Palace Assassin evaded the attackers’ fire, killed an assassin, and forced the masked freak and the others to take cover.
• Yuffie thanked the Immortal Palace Assassin and confessed that she wanted to share her life with him, but he gently rejected her and told her to cherish the person before her.
• The Immortal Palace Assassin shot down bullets aimed at the defenders and disabled the snipers’ scopes, then warned that the assassins’ reserve force had arrived.
• Ren Suo stayed behind Kallen’s barrier and contacted the Countermeasures Bureau; Yu Kuangtu replied that their forces were flying over.

The defenders struggled against Monet’s assassins until Sterly intervened and Karen spent her strength blessing the fighters, turning the battle back in their favor. As Karen collapsed from the effort, Ren Suo began restoring her stamina while the fight continued.

• The Immortal Palace Assassin teleported through the attackers, killed several, and escaped their magical assault, while Monet used his brush to restore the assassins’ guns after Liao Yonghai’s Iron Riot disabled them.
• Sterly Gule appeared, revealed himself as the Blood Devil, and attacked the assassins with explosive blood before Monet sent fighters to contain him and pressed the attack on the Lan Peilu Ji sisters.
• Karen dropped the sisters’ barrier and bestowed a powerful blessing on the defenders, replenishing their strength before collapsing into Yuffie’s arms.
• The renewed defenders counterattacked as the assassins escalated with grenades and destructive abilities, while Ren Suo treated Yuan Chu’s shoulder wound.
• Ren Suo entered the sisters’ barrier and used his energy to help restore Karen’s stamina.