Recaps

Cen Xia tries to avoid the original story’s conflicts, but the World Will repeatedly pushes him into helping its characters as their relationships change. The stretch leaves him waking in Lu Mian’s home after drunkenly confessing that he likes him.

• Cen Xia recognizes Shi Su’s isolation from the story he remembers, but learns that interfering with the plot brings him unbearable heart pain.
• Cen Xia repeatedly encounters Lin Jiandu in distress and protects him from Ling Xian, then grows close to him as Lin Jiandu begins sharing his daily life.
• Cen Xia befriends Shi Su, Ding Yiheng, and Fang Sheng, while Shi Su falls out with Zhou Zanli and later joins the Student Council.
• Cen Xia meets Lu Mian in Go class and discovers that Lu Mian knows Gomoku rather than Go, while Lu Mian faces pressure over his family’s medical bills.
• The World Will tells Cen Xia he can return home after the book ends if he stops interfering with the main plot, but Cen Xia continues getting drawn into its events.
• Cen Xia accompanies Lin Jiandu to dinner and meets Huo Jinran, Chi Zhao, and Pei Huaiyi, then takes Lin Jiandu away when Huo Jinran asks him to stay.
• Cen Xia visits an Archery Club party, waits for Lu Mian after his shift, and accepts a ride to Lu Mian’s home.
• Cen Xia falls asleep at Lu Mian’s home after saying he likes him, and Lu Xiao tells him the next day that he claimed to be pursuing Lu Mian.

Cen Xia restored disrupted plot events while growing closer to Lu Mian, Shi Su, and his friends, and the story ended with Lu Mian missing after being drugged. With the World Will warning that Lu Mian was in danger, Cen Xia and the others searched the He Family estate for him.

• Lu Xiao drew Cen Xia into her family’s life, and Cen Xia helped restore the altered bar encounter that brought Wen Xingzhou into contact with Lu Mian.
• Cen Xia befriended Lu Mian and reassured Grandma Lu, while joining the basketball team and defeating Qian Yuan in an archery match.
• He Wangsheng asked Cen Xia to model for him, but Cen Xia refused, and He Wangsheng privately vowed that Cen Xia would return to him.
• Cen Xia rescued Shi Su from Shen Si’s rooftop assault and comforted him as he recovered, while Chi Zhao stopped Shen Si and the storm eventually ended.
• Shen Si later confronted Cen Xia in a dark equipment room, but Cen Xia fought back and left after Shi Su came to check on him.
• Cen Xia agreed to have dinner and see a movie with Shi Su, while Pei Huaiyi befriended him and He Wangsheng drew attention during basketball practice.
• Fang Sheng learned that Lu Mian was the He Family’s newly discovered second son, and Cen Xia left Shi Su at the cinema after Lu Mian called to say he had been drugged and was hiding.
• The World Will warned Cen Xia that Lu Mian was in danger, and Cen Xia entered the He Family estate, where He Qi and Wen Xingzhou’s circle began searching the west courtyard.