Vol. 1The Progress Bar and the Outbreak
Xue Ci moved through worlds shaped by competing suitors, marriage, and a growing tangle of relationships as he completed successive progress bars. He entered a school-life scenario that turned into a zombie outbreak, where his changing body and an unseen attacker left new dangers unresolved.
- Xue Ci settled into Holy Spiral Academy and grew close to the Gu family and his classmates while Gu Xu, Gu Ling, Xin Yue, and Xie Yishu competed for his attention.
- He won a photography prize and spent vacation with the Gu family, where the rivalry over him continued.
- Gu Xu and Gu Ling pursued Xue Ci until he completed his progress bar, and Xue Ci married Zhao Ying in the countryside.
- After mistaking Zhao Ying’s twin Lu Xiunan for his missing husband, Xue Ci reunited with Zhao Ying and faced Lu Xiunan’s continued closeness in their shared home.
- Xue Ci divorced Zhao Ying but promised to remarry him once his carpentry business was running, then completed the world’s progress bar.
- In Lost Continent, Xue Ci pursued Crow while Bai Wu, Cheng Yuqing, Gu Yan, and Chu Juesheng sought his attention, and Bai Wu flew to his hotel after losing contact with him.
- Xue Ci became entangled with several suitors before completing his progress bar and entering a new school-life scenario, where he dated Lu Zhoucheng and later broke up with him as a zombie outbreak began.
- As survivors reunited and Xue Ci’s body changed, Lu Zhoucheng and Duan Zeran competed to care for him while an unseen attacker and the possibility of another fragment remained unresolved.