Chapter Summaries

Xue Ci began an academy painting course, where Xie Yishu joined him and took him to lunch. After Xue Ci fled a group of Alphas whose boss seemed to enter a susceptible period, Xie Yishu dragged him into an empty classroom and warned him about what could happen.

• Gu Xu lost his nerve to confront Gu Ling about his feelings for Xue Ci and continued avoiding the issue.
• Xue Ci practiced painting at home before leaving for the academy, where Xie Yishu joined the course and sat beside him.
• Xie Yishu took Xue Ci to lunch, then returned their trays while Xue Ci waited in the studio for the Alphas from his task.
• Several Alphas approached Xue Ci to ask for his WeChat, but their boss reacted to Xue Ci's scent and seemed to enter a susceptible period.
• Xue Ci ran from the studio, but Xie Yishu pulled him into an empty classroom and warned him about an Alpha's susceptible period.

Xue Ci’s skin hunger worsened, and while he sought comfort from Xie Yishu, Xie Yishu secretly kissed him and left him sore and confused. Xin Yue comforted Xue Ci and took him on a date, but Gu Ling confronted them when they returned to the dorm.

• Xie Yishu protected Xue Ci from the Alphas’ pheromones, then shielded his painting when a classmate spilled paint and helped him clean up.
• Xue Ci began sharing Xie Yishu’s dorm to escape messages from a harasser, and his skin hunger led him to sneak close to Xie Yishu during naps.
• Xie Yishu pretended to sleepwalk and forcefully kissed Xue Ci, who fled afterward with sore lips and tongue.
• Xin Yue visited Xue Ci, suspected Xie Yishu had kissed him, admitted he wanted to kiss him too, and took him out to eat and play games.
• When Xin Yue accompanied Xue Ci back to the dorm, Gu Ling confronted Xue Ci for ignoring his calls and glared at Xin Yue.

Xue Ci grew closer to Xie Yishu while managing his skin hunger, unaware that Xie Yishu was using his injury and concern to get intimate with him. As Xue Ci prepared for the painting competition, Xie Yishu offered his jacket for protection and suggested a way to transfer his pheromones.

• Xin Yue left after Gu Ling found Xue Ci, and Gu Ling questioned Xue Ci about his afternoon before treating his skin hunger.
• Xie Yishu noticed a mark on Xue Ci's neck and later arrived with a cast, prompting Xue Ci to care for him and help him change clothes.
• When Xue Ci's skin hunger flared during the clothes change, he kissed Xie Yishu, who then offered to help treat the condition.
• Xie Yishu held Xue Ci during regular treatment and encouraged him to study photography for inspiration before the competition.
• Xue Ci replied to Gu Xu's good-luck message, advancing the progress bar to 70%, while Xie Yishu grew jealous.
• Xie Yishu lent Xue Ci a jacket for the competition and claimed that an Alpha's saliva could help a Beta pick up his pheromone scent.

Xue Ci finished the painting competition, moved into the Gu Family home with help from the Gu brothers, and placed higher than expected. As he exchanged gifts with the family, Duan Xingyan received a meaningful necklace from him, leaving Gu Xu jealous.

• Xue Ci comforted Xie Yishu before the competition, and Xie Yishu later asked to be with him in secret after learning he liked Gu Xu.
• Xue Ci finished the competition, then Gu Ling, Duan Xingyan, and Gu Xu helped him move out of the dorm.
• Gu Xu showed Xue Ci his improved English grade, while Gu Ling and Duan Xingyan interrupted his attempt to kiss Xue Ci.
• Xue Ci placed higher than expected and received six-figure prize money, then celebrated with the Gu Family and exchanged gifts with them.
• Xue Ci gave Duan Xingyan a star necklace, and Gu Xu grew jealous when he saw Duan Xingyan helping Xue Ci put it on.

During summer vacation, Xue Ci accepted an invitation to a hot spring trip and agreed to model in a vintage-dress photo shoot, while Gu Xu and the other Alphas grew increasingly jealous and attentive. The chapter ended with Gu Ling, Duan Xingyan, and Gu Xu crowding into the changing room to help Xue Ci dress, leaving him struggling to breathe and asking one of them to leave.

• Duan Xingyan treasured Xue Ci's necklace gift, while Gu Xu felt jealous that he had not received a meaningful present.
• Xue Ci spent his vacation at home, and Gu Xu invited him to go out and joined the hot spring trip Xue Ci had arranged with Xin Yue and Duan Xingyan.
• Gu Xu trimmed the garden with Xue Ci, but Hu Shenglan interrupted their planned amusement-park outing by inviting Xue Ci to dinner and a photography shoot.
• Xue Ci agreed to model in Li Man's vintage court-style dress, and Duan Xingyan, Gu Ling, and Gu Xu all accompanied him to the villa.
• When Xue Ci struggled to zip the dress, Gu Ling, Duan Xingyan, and Gu Xu squeezed into the changing room to help him, and Xue Ci asked one of them to go out.

Xue Ci modeled in a princess dress for Li Man’s photoshoot, drawing the attention of Gu Ling, Duan Xingyan, Gu Xu, and Xin Yue. After he realized one of his stockings was missing, Gu Ling offered to take his measurements for a replacement, while Gu Xu secretly kept the lost stocking.

• Gu Ling and Duan Xingyan helped Xue Ci put on the dress and stockings, and Gu Xu waited outside the changing room.
• Li Man photographed Xue Ci and Duan Xingyan together, while Gu Xu watched them jealously.
• Xin Yue met his teammate to see photos of Xue Ci in the dress and insisted that his teammate delete them.
• Xue Ci searched for a missing stocking and asked Gu Ling to help look for it in his car.
• Gu Ling began measuring Xue Ci for a custom stocking, while Gu Xu saw them together and secretly put the missing stocking back in his pocket.

Xue Ci went with Xin Yue, Gu Xu, and Duan Xingyan to a hot spring resort, while Gu Ling secretly followed to keep an eye on him. After Xue Ci invited Xie Yishu to join them, he received a disturbing message from his harasser.

• Gu Ling measured Xue Ci for clothes, asked about his skin hunger, and said he would never marry anyone else.
• Xue Ci told Xin Yue that Gu Ling would drive them to the hot springs, and Gu Ling joined the trip under the pretense of visiting a client.
• Gu Ling and Duan Xingyan helped Xue Ci get ready, and Xin Yue, Gu Xu, and Duan Xingyan accompanied him to the resort.
• Gu Ling booked a room at the resort, while the others escorted Xue Ci to his room and made a group chat.
• Xue Ci invited Xie Yishu to join their board-game plans, and Xie Yishu accepted.
• Xue Ci received a message asking whether he could handle three Alphas.

Xue Ci tried to complete a mission by asking Chen Ze how to pursue Gu Xu, then accidentally sent a suggestive photo to the hot spring group chat before sending it to Gu Xu. Gu Xu and the other Alphas came to his door, each apparently believing the photo was meant for him.

• Xin Yue found Gu Xu leaning close to Xue Ci on the balcony, while Duan Xingyan and Xin Yue later left the room and Gu Xu agreed to stay with Xue Ci.
• Xue Ci tried to send Gu Xu away, prompting Gu Xu to accuse him of treating him like a dog and angrily confront him before leaving.
• Xue Ci joined the group for lunch and games, drank a cocktail, and went to the restroom with Xie Yishu, who helped clean his shirt.
• 11 issued Xue Ci a mission to provoke Gu Xu with bad dating advice, so Xue Ci asked Chen Ze how to pursue an Alpha.
• Xue Ci sent a photo of his legs to the hot spring group chat by mistake, then sent it to Gu Xu; when Gu Xu arrived, other Alphas were outside arguing too.

After Xue Ci accidentally sent a suggestive leg photo to a group chat, the Alphas questioned him, while Gu Ling comforted him and grew increasingly close. Gu Xu misread the photo as a sign of Xue Ci’s interest, decided to pursue him, and made a plan to confess after placing in the top ten on the monthly exam.

• Gu Xu, Xin Yue, and Duan Xingyan confronted Xue Ci about the photo, and Xue Ci said he had sent it to the wrong place.
• Gu Ling took Xue Ci away from the crowd, warned him about strangers online, and had him delete the contact.
• Gu Ling held the sleepy Xue Ci on his lap in the study, then gave him custom-made white stockings.
• Gu Xu asked why Xue Ci had stopped sending him leg photos, but Xue Ci thought he disliked them and promised not to send more.
• Gu Xu sought advice from Li Xun, then decided to study hard, spend more time with Xue Ci, and confess if he reached the top ten on the monthly exam.
• Xue Ci’s progress bar reached 80%, and he secretly slipped encouraging notes to Gu Xu.

Xue Ci discovered that Xie Yishu had secretly photographed, followed, and harassed him, and Gu Xu rescued him before his family brought him home. As Xue Ci tried to keep the plot on track, Gu Xu confessed his feelings, and Xue Ci’s attempts to make him lose interest instead left both Gu brothers watching him with desire.

• Xue Ci found compromising photos and keepsakes in Xie Yishu’s desk, and Xie Yishu admitted to stalking him, sending harassing messages, and stealing kisses.
• Gu Xu burst into the dorm, confronted Xie Yishu, and took Xue Ci to the Gu Family villa; Xue Ci later asked the family not to call the police.
• Xie Yishu took an extended leave, while Xue Ci returned to school with bodyguards and rumors about his beauty spread widely.
• After Gu Xu achieved his exam goal, he gave Xue Ci his bank card and confessed, causing the progress bar to move backward.
• Xue Ci tried to make Gu Xu lose interest by dressing and acting provocatively, then sat on Gu Ling’s lap; both brothers watched him intensely.

Xue Ci went to an amusement park with Gu Xu, then helped Gu Ling through his susceptibility period by kissing him. Gu Xu confronted Xue Ci afterward, revealed his feverish jealousy, and was caught by Gu Ling as he moved toward Xue Ci.

• Gu Xu asked Xue Ci to study with him, and Xue Ci agreed to return to the villa with him on Fridays so he could spend time with Gu Ling.
• Xue Ci welcomed Gu Ling home, fed him pastries, and worked on a puzzle with him while Gu Xu watched jealously.
• Gu Xu invited Xue Ci to an amusement park, and they spent the day riding attractions and shopping together.
• Gu Ling entered his susceptibility period and asked Xue Ci to kiss him; Xue Ci agreed, and Gu Ling kissed him repeatedly before helping him clean up.
• Gu Xu confronted Xue Ci in the bathroom, accused him of leading Gu Xu on, and confessed his jealousy while revealing that he had a fever.
• Gu Xu moved toward Xue Ci, but Gu Ling appeared at the doorway and demanded to know what he was doing.

After Gu Xu recovered from his fever, Xue Ci avoided Gu Ling and completed most of his task by messaging Xin Yue. When Xue Ci’s relatives called to lure him back to the countryside, Gu Ling accompanied him, confronted the family’s deception, and shared a bed with him, where Xue Ci’s skin hunger led to an intimate encounter.

• Gu Xu fainted from a fever, and Xue Ci stayed up with Gu Ling to care for him until the fever broke.
• Xue Ci avoided Gu Ling while messaging Xin Yue for over a month; Xin Yue returned to visit him, and the progress bar reached 98%.
• Xue Ci’s relatives called claiming Song Chengzu was sick and asked him to return, so Xue Ci packed and left for the countryside without telling the Gu Family.
• Gu Ling caught up with Xue Ci at the bus and traveled with him to the village, where Li Jianming and Song Cui tried to curry favor with Gu Ling after learning his surname.
• Xue Ci told Gu Ling that his relatives had mistreated him, and Gu Ling promised the Gu Family would care for him.
• That night, Xue Ci pressed against Gu Ling because of his skin hunger, and Gu Ling began helping him through it.

Xue Ci completed his countryside tasks, withdrew from school, and returned to a repaired home while the Gu family and Xie Yishu remained involved in his life. When the progress bar reached 100%, Gu Ling asked whether Xue Ci would hate him for never letting go, and Xue Ci realized he probably did not hate him.

• Xue Ci visited his parents' graves with Gu Ling, and the Gu family later stayed overnight at his relatives' crowded home before bringing him back to Fog City.
• Xue Ci told his friends and the Gu family he planned to leave school and return to the countryside, and Gu Ling confessed that he liked him before helping him withdraw.
• Xue Ci visited Xie Yishu and persuaded him to return to school and see a doctor, then found that Li Jianming's family had moved out and his own cottage had been repaired.
• Gu Ling pursued Xue Ci in the countryside, while Xie Yishu sent him messages; after Gu Ling's jealous and rough visit, Xue Ci joined a residential art course and stopped responding to him.
• The progress bar reached 100% when Gu Ling came to see Xue Ci, and Xie Yishu watched them leave together before writing possessively in his diary.
• Gu Ling returned Xue Ci's lost dog charm and asked whether Xue Ci would hate him if he never let go; Xue Ci decided he probably did not hate him.

Song Liu arranged a meeting between Song Xueci and Zhao Ying, and the two began getting acquainted despite Zhao Ying's nervousness. Xue Ci tried to win Zhao Ying over while a possessive voice from the virus fragments interrupted him, and the chapter left their marriage plans unsettled.

• Song Liu showed Zhao Ying Song Xueci's photo and persuaded him to meet her nephew that evening.
• Zhao Ying met Song Xueci, gave him wood carvings, and accepted Song Liu's invitation to dinner.
• A Hui arrived with peaches for Song Xueci, and Song Xueci explained that they traded flowers for food.
• Zhao Ying noticed Song Xueci's food preferences and helped with the dishes before leaving.
• Song Xueci worried about getting Zhao Ying to marry him, while the virus fragments' voice demanded that he not marry another man.

Xue Ci agreed to marry Zhao Ying, and the two registered their marriage in the provincial capital. The chapter ended with Xue Ci calling Zhao Ying “Husband” and asking for food.

• Xue Ci paid A Hui two yuan for lunch, but A Hui left the money behind when he hurried home through the rain.
• Song Liu told Zhao Ying that Xue Ci liked him and urged him to propose, so Zhao Ying finished carpentry work overnight and collected his wages early.
• Zhao Ying brought proposal gifts to Xue Ci, and Xue Ci agreed to marry him the next day; Zhao Ying accepted and brought over an old freezer for Xue Ci’s food.
• Xue Ci and Zhao Ying met at the bus station, traveled to the provincial capital, and registered their marriage.
• After leaving the civil affairs bureau, Xue Ci called Zhao Ying “Husband” and said he was hungry.

After marrying Zhao Ying, Xue Ci settled into their life together as Zhao Ying cared for him and reclaimed his family’s farmland. When Zhao Ying left for the provincial capital to buy varnish, a badly injured stranger climbed into Xue Ci’s bedroom, and Xue Ci mistook him for his husband.

• Zhao Ying bought Xue Ci fried cakes and new clothes, then later helped Song Liu reclaim Xue Ci’s farmland from Sun Xingming.
• Zhao Ying moved in with Xue Ci, took care of the housework, and became increasingly flustered by Xue Ci’s affectionate dependence.
• Xue Ci brought Zhao Ying lunch at the factory, where Zhou Qize noticed him and later helped him when Zhao Ying did not return from the city.
• Xue Ci tied a protective strip of red cloth around Zhao Ying’s wrist before Zhao Ying left to buy varnish in the provincial capital.
• After two days without Zhao Ying, Xue Ci searched for him and met Zhou Qize, who offered him refreshments and promised to help look for Zhao Ying.
• That night, an injured Lu Xiunan climbed through Xue Ci’s window, hid in his wardrobe from approaching footsteps, and heard Xue Ci call him husband.

After escaping an assassination attempt, Lu Xiunan hid in Xue Ci’s home, where he mistook Xue Ci’s concern for romantic dependence and decided to lie low. When Lu Xiunan returned with food and clothes, he found Xue Ci walking beside A Hui and wrongly concluded that Xue Ci had found another husband.

• Xue Ci hid Lu Xiunan from people searching outside, then discovered he had amnesia and treated his forehead wound.
• Lu Xiunan assumed Xue Ci was a widower who mistook him for his husband, and he chose to stay in the village while recovering.
• After Lu Xiunan left in the morning, Xue Ci searched for him and told Zhou Qize he had not returned; Zhou offered to help look for him.
• Xue Ci accepted A Hui’s invitation to eat breakfast, while Lu Xiunan met Fu Yun and asked him for money and supplies.
• Lu Xiunan returned to Xue Ci’s home, washed the clothes he had dirtied, and saw Xue Ci walking with A Hui, whom he mistook for a rival husband.

Xue Ci tried to care for Zhao Ying, who was actually Lu Xiunan, while Lu Xiunan grew jealous and increasingly attracted to him. The chapter ended with Lu Xiunan privately aroused and asking Xue Ci how often they used to have sex.

• Xue Ci sent A Hui home and confronted Zhao Ying, who accused him of seeking attention from another man.
• Lu Xiunan admitted he had bought expensive clothes with compensation from the accident and gave Xue Ci the money.
• Xue Ci cried after Lu Xiunan criticized his worn clothes, and Lu Xiunan awkwardly comforted him and washed Zhou Qize's coat.
• Xue Ci and Lu Xiunan spent several peaceful days together, but Lu Xiunan did not regain his memory.
• Lu Xiunan tried to help the sleeping Xue Ci remove his shirt, and Xue Ci woke and slapped him.
• Lu Xiunan went into the bathroom to deal with his arousal, then asked Xue Ci how many times a day they used to have sex.

While Lu Xiunan grew increasingly jealous and attracted to Xue Ci, he helped him in the fields and kissed him in the moonlit cornfield. The kiss triggered Zhao Ying to awaken from his coma, leaving the story at the hospital as doctors rushed to examine him.

• Lu Xiunan struggled with his attraction to Xue Ci, cooked him a poor breakfast, and found him eating at A Hui's house, where A Hui agreed to provide meals.
• Xue Ci received handicraft work from Ruan Siyu and planned to ask A Hui for help weeding his family's cornfield, but Lu Xiunan insisted on going with him.
• At the cornfield, Lu Xiunan sent Xue Ci home, then pulled him close and warned him about the dangers of being alone before kissing him until his lips were swollen.
• Zhao Ying dreamed that another man was kissing Xue Ci and tried to attack him, then awoke in the hospital as a doctor hurried to his bedside.

Lu Xiunan grew increasingly possessive of Xue Ci while they lived together, and Xue Ci tried to keep his memory loss secret from the villagers. The chapter ended with Fu Yun meeting Xue Ci and reacting strongly to him, while Lu Xiunan shielded Xue Ci from his friend.

• Lu Xiunan questioned Xue Ci about refusing his kiss, finished weeding to earn an answer, and later tied lace around Xue Ci’s ankle before backing off when Xue Ci asked him to sleep on the floor.
• In the hospital, Zhao Ying woke from a week-long coma after a car accident, asked the nurse to contact Song Xueci, and worried about Xue Ci’s safety.
• Zhou Qize visited Xue Ci, who explained that his husband had lost his memory and asked Zhou to keep it secret; Zhou agreed to help and arranged to meet Xue Ci at the market for flowers.
• Lu Xiunan grew jealous when Xue Ci agreed to go out with Zhou Qize, then collected ice cream and supplies from Fu Yun, who followed him back to the house.
• Fu Yun discovered Lu Xiunan washing Xue Ci’s underwear and teased him about pursuing someone; when Xue Ci appeared and called Lu Xiunan husband, Fu Yun stared at him as Lu Xiunan stepped in front of him.