Recaps

Xue Ci moved through a series of relationships, breakups, and system-driven tasks, leaving former partners behind as he sought a life with Fragment. After clearing another game, he ended the arc held by Fragment in front of a wall of affectionate photographs.

• Xue Ci accepted Bai Wu's confession, but after they began dating and Bai Wu proposed, Xue Ci refused to move forward and broke up with him.
• Xue Ci dated Cheng Yuqing and then Gu Yan, but ended both relationships and left for the orphanage, where he rejected all his exes.
• As Song Xueci, Xue Ci married Lu Bo'an and lived with Lu Zhoucheng, whose feelings for him grew as the brothers became entangled in their relationship.
• Xue Ci divorced Lu Bo'an, briefly lived with Duan Zeran, and then accepted the Lu brothers' offer before completing his mission and leaving the men waiting outside.
• Xue Ci completed a task with Bill in a locked room, then left and later woke beside Fu Chengsi in another room governed by a task.
• Xue Ci drugged Fu Chengsi but stopped before forcing himself on him, and the two completed the task amid their argument and growing attraction.
• Xue Ci returned to the castle and later told his roommates that Fragment was his boyfriend, while Fragment asked him to stop talking to them.
• Months later, Xue Ci refused Fragment's marriage suggestion because he was too young, then showed him that he had cleared the game as Fragment held him before their photo wall.