Chapter Summaries

The Great Wall prepared to confront the Gatekeeper, expecting him to target Chief Ren, but the trial began elsewhere with unfamiliar opponents. Meanwhile, Ren Suo returned to Dong Chengling’s home, where their reunion ended with her slapping him.

• You Jian demonstrated his new Common Clothing Sword and urged the Great Wall members to stand firm against other countries, while Chief Ren explained that the Gate of Truth would introduce a new power system.
• The Great Wall gathered in the Scattering Spirits Space and waited for the Gatekeeper, expecting the trial to bring him to Chief Ren so they could seize the Gate of Truth.
• At midnight, the Gatekeeper’s livestream began with unfamiliar masked opponents, including the Black Coffin Demon King, leaving Chief Ren stunned that the trial had not come to him.
• Dong Chengling sensed someone entering her home and teleported into the living room, where she recognized Ren Suo and struck his cheek.
• Ren Suo embraced Dong Chengling and told her she was one of the eternal owners of his promise, so she slapped his other cheek.

Ren Suo visited Ren Xingmei, Lin Xianyu, and Gu Yueyan after recovering his old feelings, rekindling his romance with Gu Yueyan while revealing that he had also visited other women. He then asked Dong Chengling to teleport him to Qiao Muyi, leaving Dong Chengling displeased and Lin Xianyu sensing Ren Suo’s scumbag aura.

• Ren Xingmei recognized Ren Suo when he appeared on the balcony, and they embraced and shared a three-hundred-second kiss outside ordinary time.
• Ren Suo bribed Lin Xianyu with White Lover cookies to meet Gu Yueyan, and Lin Xianyu let him stay while warning Gu Yueyan that he was there.
• Ren Suo told Gu Yueyan he had recovered his stationery and wanted to continue their relationship exam, then embraced her before leaving to visit Teacher Dong and Little Xingxing.
• Ren Suo used Dong Chengling’s Aura Space Coordinate to appear in her bedroom and asked her to teleport him to Qiao Muyi.
• Dong Chengling realized Ren Suo had come to see Qiao Muyi and fell silent, while Lin Xianyu sensed an evil aura spreading through the air.

Qiao Muyi watched the Gatekeeper defeat the Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Happiness Quartet while suspecting their identities were tied to Ren Suo and alternate versions of his life. Ren Suo reassured her of his love, and Qiao Muyi took him home, determined not to settle for fourth place in his affections.

• Qiao Muyi rushed out to watch Ren Nesser's livestream and recognized the Black Coffin Demon King's aura as familiar.
• Qiao Muyi guessed that the Quartet reflected Ren Suo in different lives and felt hurt that her version of him was associated with Sorrow.
• Ren Suo met Qiao Muyi, explained that the Quartet were projection avatars, and described the Black Coffin Demon King as strict but kind.
• Ren Suo confessed that Qiao Muyi held a unique place in his heart, and she agreed to follow him into the abyss and face Angel Zach together.
• The Gatekeeper defeated the Quartet and entered the Gate of Truth while Ren Suo and Qiao Muyi avoided Yu Kuangtu's call to return to duty.
• Qiao Muyi asked Ren Suo to come home with her after learning he had no ID, and privately resolved not to be fourth in everything.

Ren Suo enjoyed a restful morning with the black cat before playful affection and rivalry among his friends turned into a confrontation over his visits the previous night. Qiao Muyi challenged Dong Chengling at lunch, and Ren Suo was left cowering as all four women demanded answers.

• Ren Suo decided to keep Pandora's Box, then watched a Japanese VTB livestream with the black cat.
• At Dong Chengling's home, Lin Xianyu demanded snacks, and Ren Suo used his moonlight bond with Gu Yueyan to summon her for a kiss.
• Ren Xingmei joined Ren Suo in an affectionate display that silenced Lin Xianyu's threats, while Lin Xianyu ate ice cream and joined their game.
• Qiao Muyi arrived through the balcony and accused Dong Chengling of keeping her from contacting Ren Suo and teleporting him away the previous night.
• Dong Chengling, Gu Yueyan, and Ren Xingmei confronted Qiao Muyi over how long they had spent with Ren Suo, and all four women shouted him down when he tried to speak.

Ren Suo defended his promise to spend time with Luna, and the women agreed not to stop them from dating. When they argued over Ren Suo’s other promises and Dong Chengling’s ability to teleport him away, he proposed buying more tickets so everyone could travel together.

• Ren Suo explained that Luna had helped him recover and insisted on keeping his promise to spend time with her every day.
• Dong Chengling agreed Luna could go home with Ren Suo, while Luna said she wanted to become a virtual streamer.
• Qiao Muyi, Ren Xingmei, and Gu Yueyan reminded Ren Suo of promises he had made to them, and Dong Chengling asserted her freedom to take him away whenever she wanted.
• As tensions rose around the dining table, Ren Suo proposed buying more airplane tickets so everyone could go to Sakura together.
• Lin Xianyu enthusiastically supported the proposal, asking if everyone who heard about it could join.

After the Girlfriends' Court restricted Ren Suo to his home, he advanced to Level 4 researcher and received the evaluation for Gate of Truth, earning 99 points and unlocking hidden side missions. He obtained the Gate of Truth as a passive ability and discovered that four portraits had appeared in the Black Coffin Demon King's section, leaving him to investigate the change.

• The women confined Ren Suo to home and required him to report his outings so he would not meet anyone new.
• Ren Suo learned that his article had earned enough points to promote him to Level 4 researcher and grant mobile access to the Internal Network.
• Ren Suo used discussions about the Four Demon Heads to develop their character settings and answer questions about their speech.
• Ren Suo received a 99-point Great Merit evaluation for Gate of Truth, along with hidden Absolute Sensibility side missions, and wondered whether maxed-out bonds could help him clear them.
• Ren Suo obtained the Gate of Truth as a passive Six-Star ability and found four portraits in the Black Coffin Demon King's section.

Ren Suo reviewed the new characters and services unlocked after the Gate of Truth, then received his Level 6 player privileges and investigated the Mysterious Tavern option. He ended the chapter having paid to learn that he could send a clone to work there, along with the Tavern Owner’s cryptic maxim.

• Ren Suo examined Darkness Advances, Los’s Diedra legion, and the Gatekeeper, but realized his Level 5 rank and limited Merit Points kept him from using most of them.
• Ren Suo received notice that he had advanced to Level 6, gained another Equipment Interface backup slot, and was offered three player privileges: free Merit Point spending, a guaranteed evaluation bonus, or work in the Mysterious Tavern.
• Ren Suo questioned the Tavern Owner about the work privilege and learned it could earn Merit Points and improve game characters’ favorability, though customers could give poor evaluations.
• Ren Suo asked whether a clone could work in his place, paid the Tavern Owner 33 Merit Points, and learned that using a clone was allowed.
• The Tavern Owner whispered, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”

After Ren Suo left, Qiao Muyi and the others joked about their rivalry and debated whether their shared history made them fall for him. Their attention turned to Lin Xianyu, whose denial of romantic interest was immediately undercut by Ren Suo inviting her to dinner.

• Qiao Muyi noticed that Luna preferred Ren Xingmei's embrace, while Gu Yueyan's hugs left the cat struggling to breathe.
• Qiao Muyi, Dong Chengling, Ren Xingmei, and Gu Yueyan each claimed Ren Suo had accepted her proposal or confession, then teased Gu Yueyan for confessing after the agreed deadline.
• Lin Xianyu defended Gu Yueyan and won her gratitude, but Qiao Muyi pointed out that Ren Suo's close circle might include girls who had not yet fallen for him.
• Dong Chengling, Ren Xingmei, and Gu Yueyan each suggested that Lin Xianyu might be interested in Ren Suo, citing her closeness to him and her past remarks about marrying him.
• Lin Xianyu insisted that Ren Suo would be glad if she skipped dinner, but the group chat showed that Ren Suo had invited everyone to eat with Zhao Huo that night and told her not to snack beforehand.

Ren Suo worked a shift at Mysterious Tavern, where customers tricked him into mincing meat while Cook and Moon Chanter teased him about his lovers and future workload. Back in reality, he celebrated the Merit Points his daily tavern work could earn, then joined Zhao Huo and the others for dinner—only to be left behind when the SUV drove off.

• The Explorer and Zhao Zili ordered Ren Suo to mince large quantities of lean meat, fat, and Golden Soft Bone while claiming the work was necessary for five-star reviews.
• Cook visited the tavern, flirted with Ren Suo, drew out his confession that he had five lovers, and explained that she and the others usually avoided him because he typed too slowly.
• Moon Chanter warned Ren Suo that his four-hour daily tavern shifts would eventually become twenty-four-hour shifts.
• Ren Suo returned to reality after earning 24 Merit Points for his four-hour shift and decided that investing in Mysterious Tavern suited his clone skill.
• Zhao Huo arrived to take Ren Suo and the girls to dinner, but his SUV lacked enough seats, so Ren Suo and Zhao Huo were left standing by the roadside as it drove away.

Ren Suo agreed to help Zhao Huo handle a dinner with his three estranged confidantes, while both men secretly planned to use the gathering to expose the other as a scumbag. They left the subway convinced their own schemes would succeed, unaware that the passengers had been listening to their absurd boasts.

• Ren Suo told Zhao Huo that his three confidantes had likely arranged a joint confrontation to make him choose among them.
• Zhao Huo asked Ren Suo to bring his female friends to dinner to ease the tension, and Ren Suo agreed while secretly anticipating Zhao Huo's downfall.
• Zhao Huo privately planned to expose Ren Suo's relationships and present himself as the responsible man who would protect his own three confidantes.
• Ren Suo privately planned to let Zhao Huo's dinner collapse so he could watch with his girlfriends and enjoy a free meal.
• Ren Suo and Zhao Huo changed subway lines, while the passengers they had entertained complained that they had missed their stops listening to them.

Zhao Huo tried to use a group dinner to reconcile with his confidantes, while he and Ren Suo turned the awkward gathering into a rivalry over their relationships. The meal ended with the two men banished to a couples’ room after they broke the table, while the women exchanged knowing looks at Lin Xianyu.

• Zhao Huo invited Ren Suo and their friends to an upscale buffet, and Xiao Jiu joined after leaving a classmate’s birthday party early for the food.
• The women quickly bonded over conversation and food, leaving Ren Suo and Zhao Huo unable to join in or influence the ordering.
• Zhao Huo and Ren Suo began asking pointed questions about their friends’ marriages and relationships, and Zhao Huo learned that Xiao Meng and Sun Shu admired his sunny, dependable nature.
• Ren Suo and Zhao Huo escalated their teasing into a struggle beneath the table, then destroyed half the dining table when their fight spilled over.
• The restaurant moved Ren Suo and Zhao Huo to a cramped couples’ room, while the women shared knowing looks at Lin Xianyu, who insisted she had only come to eat.

Qiao Muyi and the others discussed their relationships with Ren Suo and advised Zhao Huo’s fiancée, childhood sweetheart, and junior schoolmate on how to handle their own love triangle. They proposed taking turns on exclusive dates to test whether jealousy would drive anyone away, but Lin Xianyu’s final remark suggested the plan might bring lasting pleasure instead.

• Qiao Muyi and the others admitted that they loved Ren Suo, while Lin Xianyu denied being among his romantic partners.
• Young Miss Fan, Xiao Meng, and Sun Shu explained that they wanted Zhao Huo to make a proper choice, and Qiao Muyi advised them to issue an ultimatum if they wanted to force his hand.
• Dong Chengling, Gu Yueyan, and Ren Xingmei explained why they could not leave Ren Suo and said they believed he would treat them well.
• Qiao Muyi and the others revealed their plan to arrange separate, exclusive dates with Ren Suo in hopes that jealousy would eventually make someone withdraw.
• Dong Chengling and the others urged Zhao Huo’s three romantic interests to consider his family pressure, daily habits, and hobbies before deciding what to do.
• Young Miss Fan questioned what would happen if none of the women withdrew, and Lin Xianyu blurted out that the dates would then bring more than temporary pleasure.

Ren Suo and Zhao Huo celebrated their friendship after discussing their complicated romantic lives, but their girlfriends soon set very different challenges for them. Zhao Huo faced a visit to his parents and an inspection of his private collection, while Ren Suo’s so-called test was a kiss from Qiao Muyi.

• Ren Suo and Zhao Huo ate together, joked about each other’s relationships, and agreed they had helped one another.
• Zhao Huo apologized to Young Miss Fan, Xiao Meng, and Sun Shu, and they forgave him.
• Ren Suo’s friends scolded him for interfering in Zhao Huo’s love life, while Zhao Huo’s girlfriends planned to inspect his collection, stay at his home, and visit his parents.
• Zhao Huo asked whether Ren Suo would face similar tests, prompting Qiao Muyi to kiss Ren Suo as his test.
• Ren Suo smugly embraced Qiao Muyi while Zhao Huo stared in disbelief at their vastly different trials.

Ren Suo endured Qiao Muyi’s deliberately provocative date while Dong Chengling, Gu Yueyan, and Ren Xingmei watched, then Luna took her turn and pushed the gathering into chaos. He woke up alone at home and learned from Qiao Muyi’s timetable that their group planned to intensify the ordeal.

• Qiao Muyi sat on Ren Suo’s lap and kissed him in front of Dong Chengling, Gu Yueyan, Ren Xingmei, Lin Xianyu, and Xiao Jiu, provoking jealousy and earning negative emotions.
• When Qiao Muyi’s allotted time ended, Dong Chengling, Gu Yueyan, and Ren Xingmei announced that Luna could take part for half an hour.
• Luna transformed and cuddled Ren Suo while the others restrained Qiao Muyi and watched, until the gathering’s spiritual energy erupted into chaos.
• Ren Suo woke up alone at home, bathed, and realized he had survived the night.
• Ren Suo saw the timetable Qiao Muyi had sent and understood that the group planned to make the ordeal more intense.

Ren Suo spent the day enduring his girlfriends’ increasingly intimate trials while cultivating and learning about researchers using Truth Images to glimpse the future. The chapter ended with Qiao Muyi taking everyone to White Cloud City to meet Ren Suo’s parents, where the second stage of the Jealousy Trial was set to begin.

• Ren Suo reflected on his domestic dreams, his cultivation gains, and his need to build up strength to survive his girlfriends’ trials.
• Ren Suo read about the Truth Research Group, whose members had used Truth Images to create a picture that appeared to show the future.
• The Moon Chanter told Ren Suo’s tavern clone that she would make him experience terrifying nightmares about future disasters as revenge for making Luna happy.
• Ren Suo fed Dong Chengling breakfast, then rode with his girlfriends toward White Cloud City while Gu Yueyan cuddled against him.
• Qiao Muyi revealed they were going to meet Ren Suo’s parents and announced that the second stage of the Jealousy Trial would continue and become more interesting.

Ba Gu tried to outshine the Ren family by boasting about her pregnant daughter-in-law, but Little Jiu's arrival left her defeated once again. Ren Suo brought his companions home to meet his parents, where Ren Ma reluctantly welcomed them and a pregnancy checklist in Ren Suo's old bedroom left everyone wondering what his parents were hinting at.

• Ba Gu bragged to the neighborhood aunties about her pregnant daughter-in-law and housekeeper, then saw Little Jiu arrive with Ren Suo and hurried home, conceding defeat.
• Ren Xingmei rang the doorbell while clinging to Ren Suo, and Ren Ma's stern expression softened when Little Jiu greeted her as Grandma.
• Qiao Muyi, Gu Yueyan, and Dong Chengling greeted Ren Ma and presented gifts, while Ren Ma scolded Ren Suo for neglecting Little Jiu and welcomed everyone inside.
• Ren Xingmei kissed Ren Suo in front of Ren Ma and revealed their relationship, and Ren Ma postponed discussing it until after lunch while muttering about rat poison.
• Ren Suo and his companions discovered that Ren Ma had turned his bedroom into a room for snacks, cosmetics, drawings, and a pre-pregnancy checklist.
• Gu Yueyan suggested that Ren Suo's parents had left the checklist to send him a message, and Ren Suo wondered if his test was entering a second stage.

Ren Suo’s family lunch turned into an affectionate contest, and Ren Ba and Ren Ma’s devotion left his partners reflecting on their complicated relationship. Ren Ma challenged them to face its risks, then accepted their commitment and offered to help them build a future with Ren Suo.

• Ren Suo’s sister, Gu Yueyan, Qiao Muyi, and Dong Chengling took turns feeding him until Ren Ma and Ren Ba playfully countered their display of affection.
• After lunch, Ren Ba took Ren Suo aside while Ren Ma questioned the others about whether their love could endure jealousy, family opposition, and the risks of sharing him.
• Ren Xingmei declared her love for Ren Suo, and Gu Yueyan, Qiao Muyi, and Dong Chengling each affirmed that they would work to accept one another and stay together.
• Ren Ma accepted the women as her family, offered to mediate with their relatives, and told them to take Ren Suo home.

Ren Ba urged Ren Suo to reconsider his complicated romantic life, but Ren Suo insisted that he could change and fulfill his responsibilities to the women he loved. The chapter ended with Ren Suo leaving with Qiao Muyi, Gu Yueyan, Ren Xingmei, and Chengling, while his parents accepted that his happiness was his own to define.

• Ren Ba warned Ren Suo that keeping pace with four ambitious women would exhaust him and asked whether he was happy with the life he had chosen.
• Ren Suo said he would change for the women he loved and explained that his experiences had taught him to honor his responsibilities.
• Ren Ba recalled Ren Suo's stubbornness, and the two joked about Ren Suo and Ren Xingmei before Ren Suo prepared to leave.
• Qiao Muyi, Gu Yueyan, and Ren Xingmei came to take Ren Suo away, and Ren Ba asked him whether he was happy.
• Ren Ma joined Ren Ba on the bench, and they discussed their son's happiness before she planned an April Fool's Day prank.

Ren Suo prepared to play the Little World Game Console’s Level 6 critical exclusive game and chose to consume all three promotion opportunities, unlocking the six-star++++ strategy game Tomorrow’s Calamity. At the Third Underground Research Institute, Li Wenxin parsed a truth image showing a golden-boned young man seated on a Frozen Throne amid a devastated moon and dying stars.

• Ren Suo discovered that Zhao Huo had posted a search for a tall, combat-skilled female student, then learned Zhao Huo wanted to find her to learn martial arts and defeat his father, who had broken his leg.
• Ren Suo equipped the Listening Earphones and opened the World Store after midnight on April 1.
• Ren Suo used the April Fool’s Day, Qingming, and Grain Rain promotion opportunities to strengthen his critical exclusive game, receiving Tomorrow’s Calamity, a six-star++++ tower defense game.
• Li Wenxin noticed a newly parsed truth image at the Third Underground Research Institute and enlarged it to inspect the planets and damaged moon.
• Li Wenxin saw a young man seated on a Frozen Throne, his hands reduced to golden bones, smiling as he faced the distant universe.

Ren Suo began a futuristic tower-defense game in which its protagonist commanded powerful cultivators against the Eternal Civilization. After learning the plan to send the enemy forces fifty years into the past, Ren Suo discovered that the protagonist himself was the ultimate weapon.

• Ren Suo started the game and woke in a lunar bedroom in 2049, where Blazing Flame War Wolf, Crystal Maiden, and All-Seeing Listener told him that Ark's scouting forces had reached Alpha Centauri.
• All-Seeing Listener explained that the Eternal Civilization sought to drain immortal sources, and that the group planned to send its legions to Earth fifty years earlier, when Aura had not yet revived.
• Blazing Flame War Wolf, Crystal Maiden, and All-Seeing Listener gave Ren Suo their crystals and prepared to hold off the enemy while he activated Proxima Centauri's immortal source and formed the Space-Time Inversion Grand Formation.
• Ren Suo entered the cosmic battlefield tutorial and learned that he had to spend spellcasting points to deploy the three Eight-Cycle Cultivators onto Aura Points before the countdown ended.
• Crystal Maiden told Ren Suo that any enemies who passed the cultivators would have to be defeated by him, revealing that the protagonist could personally tear apart star-sized enemies.