Chapter Summaries

After persuading Zhao Ying to stay with the Lu family and help establish the furniture factory, Xue Ci was drugged and nearly kidnapped by relatives seeking revenge on Lu Xiunan. A Hui hid him in a cornfield, where the drug’s effects overwhelmed them.

• Lu Xiunan pressured Xue Ci to marry him, but Xue Ci called Fu Yun to take Lu Xiunan back to the city and went home with A Hui.
• Song Liu warned Xue Ci that Sun Xingmin had been detained, and Xue Ci stayed home under A Hui’s protection.
• Mother Lu brought Xue Ci to the Lu family home, where he persuaded Zhao Ying to remain and promised they would remarry after the furniture factory was running.
• After drinking a drugged beverage at the Lu home, Xue Ci learned that relatives of the Lu family were waiting to kidnap him and ran away from home.
• A Hui pulled Xue Ci into a cornfield and kept the searchers from finding him, but the drug’s effects intensified and Xue Ci clung to him.

After escaping the men pursuing him, Xue Ci hid with A Hui, but Zhao Ying found him and brought him home, where their strained relationship resumed. Xue Ci completed his final task by giving Zhao Ying a lucky red cord, reached 100% progress, and left the world after Zhao Ying reaffirmed his unconditional loyalty.

• A Hui sheltered Xue Ci after the drugged Xue Ci spent the night with him, and Lu Xiunan and Zhao Ying found Xue Ci at A Hui's house the next morning.
• Xue Ci hid in A Hui's mountain cabin to escape his pursuers, but Zhao Ying found him there and carried him home.
• Zhao Ying confronted Xue Ci about A Hui, then cared for him and asked him never to leave again.
• As the men continued competing for Xue Ci's attention, Xue Ci found Zhao Ying's wood carvings and later asked Lu Xiunan to take him to Zhao Ying's furniture factory.
• Xue Ci gave Zhao Ying a red cord with luck points, and 11 announced that the progress bar had reached 100%.
• Zhao Ying covered Xue Ci's ears during the factory's New Year firecrackers and told him he would never be angry because he was Xue Ci.

Xue Ci entered a game-themed world as a frugal office worker and expected to avoid the online romance scammer, but his first encounter with Crow went off-script. After Crow ignored him, someone stole Xue Ci’s herbs and stool, and Crow watched him sadly gather the scraps.

• 11 upgraded while Xue Ci waited and played an online game, then chose a holographic gaming world for his next mission.
• Xue Ci moved into No. 7 Apartments, where he met his handsome neighbor Chu Juesheng after retrieving his clothes from the bathroom.
• Xue Ci entered Lost Continent as Little Snowman and set up a stall, waiting for the scammer Crow to approach him.
• Crow walked past Xue Ci’s stall and refused to look at his herbs when Xue Ci followed and asked him to buy some.
• A thief stole Xue Ci’s herbs and stool, and Crow watched through a telescope as Xue Ci crouched to pick up the fallen leaves.

Xue Ci tried to lure Crow into another herb sale while Bai Wu secretly followed him and struggled with his growing attraction. After Xue Ci met his new housemate Chu Juesheng and endured a day at work, he found Crow in the game and invited him to do a couples’ mission, leaving Bai Wu flustered and refusing on the grounds that marriage was no joke.

• Xue Ci gathered more herbs to attract Crow, while Bai Wu followed him under an invisibility cloak and watched the plant NPCs guide him to rare herbs.
• Bai Wu learned that Song Xueci had been the man he was destined to catfish, and his old condition flared as he watched Xue Ci approach him in the forest.
• Xue Ci met Chu Juesheng in the shared kitchen, received strawberries from him, and continued to doubt that the young man was a villain.
• At work, Xue Ci avoided having Brother Zhang dump a report on him after Cheng Yuqing intervened, then invited Cheng Yuqing to lunch to repay his help.
• Xue Ci logged into the game and rushed toward Crow after he became the first player to defeat the hidden boss High Priest; Crow caught him and brought him to a forest cabin.
• Xue Ci gave Crow his herbs and asked him to do a couples’ mission, but Bai Wu stiffly refused, thinking about his attraction and his difficult-to-discuss illnesses.

Xue Ci partnered with Crow to complete the couples’ task, unaware that Crow was Bai Wu using a female account. After they entered a dangerous forest to hunt a hidden boss, a vine mistook Xue Ci for a woman and grabbed him, leaving Bai Wu furious and startled by what he saw.

• Xue Ci added Crow as a friend, then played with other people while Bai Wu watched him and forced a man who was asking for Xue Ci’s WeChat offline.
• Cheng Yuqing brought Xue Ci coffee at work, heard office gossip about their relationship, and told Xue Ci he had never been in a relationship.
• Cheng Yuqing visited Gu Yan and reported Zhang Cong’s bullying, while Gu Yan noticed Xue Ci’s nameplate during an inspection.
• Xue Ci accepted Crow’s invitation to become partners and fell asleep in the hotel room while they waited for the task requirement to pass.
• Bai Wu took Xue Ci to fight a hidden forest boss, but a vine caught Xue Ci and tore his robes before Bai Wu rescued him.

After a game bug left Xue Ci affected by plant sap, Bai Wu cared for him and began wrestling with unexpected attraction. Later, Xue Ci grew closer to Cheng Yuqing at work and in the game, where Cheng Yuqing’s teasing ended with a startlingly explicit remark.

• Bai Wu defeated the mini-boss, gave Xue Ci the quest rewards, and carried him to a safe room after realizing plant sap had left him feverish.
• Bai Wu guarded Xue Ci while he applied ointment and logged off, then told Cheng Yuqing and Xu Wei to investigate the plants; the three modified the game after testing them.
• Cheng Yuqing brought Xue Ci breakfast and cookies, while Xue Ci befriended his neighbor Chu Juesheng and asked him for advice about pursuing an aloof man.
• Xue Ci accepted Cheng Yuqing’s game friend request, and Cheng Yuqing lent him wizard robes and took him to a black dragon’s lair to level up.
• Cheng Yuqing frightened Xue Ci with a story about what the dragon would do to him, then admitted he would do the same if he were the dragon.

Xue Ci continued his game quests with Cheng Yuqing, then met Crow, who was revealed to be Bai Wu. After learning Xue Ci had been told dragons wanted humans to bear their young, Bai Wu confronted him about who had said it.

• Cheng Yuqing caught Xue Ci when he nearly fell into a stream, dried his wet foot, and later used the cave vines as an excuse to pull him close before defeating them.
• Cheng Yuqing led Xue Ci to the black dragon’s treasure, where Xue Ci absorbed a pearl and reached level 35, then gave Cheng Yuqing a braided ring before leaving to meet his friend.
• Xue Ci met Bai Wu, who restored his stolen herbs, gave him an improved wizard’s outfit, and switched to a knight account to take him questing.
• When Bai Wu led Xue Ci toward a dragon, Xue Ci said dragons liked humans to give birth to baby dragons, prompting Bai Wu to demand to know what else someone had told him.

Bai Wu grew jealous when Xue Ci received gifts from Cheng Yuqing, but he agreed to exchange WeChat details with him and sent him expensive holographic glasses. As Bai Wu and Xue Ci explored a castle together, Cheng Yuqing discovered they were on a couples’ quest, and Bai Wu insisted he was straight but “slightly top.”

• Bai Wu warned Xue Ci about bad people online, then grew jealous when Xue Ci explained that his male coworker had apologized and sent him gifts.
• Cheng Yuqing wondered whether Xue Ci’s handmade ring meant he liked him, asked Gu Yan for advice about buying a necklace, and Gu Yan requested information about Song Xueci.
• Xue Ci hinted that he wanted Bai Wu’s WeChat ID, and Bai Wu agreed; afterward, Xue Ci sent him regular messages and shared his address, real name, and phone number.
• Bai Wu sent Xue Ci expensive holographic glasses, and Xue Ci thanked him before joining him in the game to explore the castle.
• Bai Wu and Xue Ci held hands as they walked toward the castle, while Cheng Yuqing questioned Bai Wu about going there with a man and Bai Wu replied that he was straight and slightly top.

Bai Wu and Xue Ci cleared a castle challenge, where Bai Wu exploited Xue Ci’s succubus-potion symptoms and realized he had developed feelings for him. After Xue Ci logged off, Bai Wu messaged him about what had happened, leaving Xue Ci stunned by his explicit question.

• Cheng Yuqing wondered what Bai Wu meant by calling himself a slight top, then reassured himself that his generous gifts to Xue Ci did not make him a simp.
• Xue Ci praised the game’s creator without knowing Bai Wu had made it, and Bai Wu was deeply moved by his sincerity.
• In the castle, Xue Ci gave Bai Wu his resurrection potion and was caught by an invisible force before Bai Wu freed him with his sword.
• After a succubus potion affected Xue Ci, Bai Wu claimed he had to touch and lick Xue Ci’s wings and tail to undo its effects, while recognizing his own growing attraction.
• Xue Ci returned to normal and logged off, and Bai Wu later messaged him to ask whether his body was naturally sensitive because he had gotten wet three times.
• Cheng Yuqing wondered whether he might want to be intimate with Xue Ci, while Xue Ci received Bai Wu’s question and stared at it in shock.

Xue Ci’s online relationship with Crow grew closer while his new office assignment and interactions with Cheng Yuqing and Gu Yan complicated his life. At the company retreat, Gu Yan stopped a drunk Cheng Yuqing from kissing Xue Ci, then carried the sleeping Xue Ci to a suite and began touching his lips.

• Xue Ci confronted the fragments after they reacted angrily to Crow’s crude message, and they apologized before Crow sent him further messages.
• Xue Ci ate with Chu Juesheng, who asked about Xue Ci’s online partner, while Bai Wu read a forum post about the popular game newcomer Little Snowman and asked Xu Wei to delete it.
• Xue Ci was transferred to the president’s office, where Gu Yan dismissed Cheng Yuqing’s objections; Xue Ci settled into the job and continued messaging Crow.
• At a company hot spring retreat, Cheng Yuqing gave Xue Ci a necklace, then got drunk and tried to kiss him after asking to share a room.
• Gu Yan pulled Cheng Yuqing away, put him in his room, and brought the drowsy Xue Ci to a penthouse suite; after Xue Ci fell asleep, Gu Yan removed Cheng Yuqing’s necklace and touched Xue Ci’s lips.

Xue Ci returned from the company trip and resumed playing the game with Crow, while Chu Juesheng grew jealous after mistaking marks on Xue Ci’s neck for evidence of a new lover. The chapter ended when Xue Ci realized his holographic glasses’ microphone was still on as Chu Juesheng confronted him.

• Gu Yan watched over the sleeping Xue Ci, who woke in his suite the next morning and returned to Cheng Yuqing’s room.
• Cheng Yuqing apologized for his drunken behavior, and Xue Ci gave back the necklace before returning to his apartment.
• Chu Juesheng questioned Xue Ci about working overtime, then noticed marks on his neck and assumed his partner had kissed him.
• Xue Ci logged into the game, accepted Crow’s lop-eared rabbit skin, and explored the Furball Roaming map with him.
• Chu Juesheng confronted Xue Ci, accusing him of lying about the team-building trip and warning that his partner might be using him.
• Xue Ci realized his holographic glasses’ microphone was still on while Chu Juesheng spoke to him.

Xue Ci pursued Crow online and received gifts and new clothes, while Bai Wu grew increasingly possessive after seeing his photos. At the Halloween event, Cheng Yuqing found Xue Ci feeling unwell and suggested he might be in heat, then offered to help him.

• Xue Ci explained his bruises to Bai Wu, who teleported him to a hidden room and warned him not to let anyone else see him that way.
• Xue Ci spent the weekend playing Fluffy Roaming with Bai Wu, declined an invitation to join Wu City, and returned to work with President Gu.
• Xue Ci received a task to pursue Crow by buying him a dress, ordered two dresses, and then received many gifts and household upgrades from Crow.
• Bai Wu asked Xue Ci for photos in a sailor suit, became intensely attracted to him, and persuaded him to send more pictures and his old clothes.
• At the Halloween event, Cheng Yuqing found Xue Ci feeling hot, let him stroke his werewolf ears, and told him he might be in heat before offering to lick him.

Cheng Yuqing helped Xue Ci through the rabbit skin’s heat by licking his tail, then learned the skin could cause a false pregnancy and watched Xue Ci restart the map. When Xue Ci finally met Crow, Crow admitted he had given him the rabbit skin on purpose because he wanted Xue Ci to seek his help.

• Cheng Yuqing took overheated Xue Ci to a hotel and licked his rabbit tail until the symptoms eased, then accompanied him to defeat a boss.
• Xue Ci gave Cheng Yuqing bear cookies and waited at a restaurant for Crow, but Cheng Yuqing revealed the rabbit skin could cause a false pregnancy.
• Xue Ci accused Cheng Yuqing of hiding the skin’s side effect, logged off, and decided to restart the map without a skin.
• Bai Wu, who played Crow, panicked when Xue Ci did not come online, then saw Cheng Yuqing showing off the cookies Xue Ci had given him.
• Xue Ci met Bai Wu, questioned why he had given him the rabbit skin, and heard Bai Wu admit he had chosen it deliberately because he wanted Xue Ci to ask him for help.

Xue Ci forgave Bai Wu in the game, while Bai Wu’s attraction and possessiveness intensified as he secretly collected Xue Ci’s old clothes. In the real world, Chu Juesheng realized he liked Xue Ci and resolved to pursue him, while Bai Wu ended the chapter longing to meet Xue Ci in person.

• Bai Wu told Xue Ci he was sick, and Xue Ci comforted and forgave him; Bai Wu kissed his hand and offered to help him level up.
• Xue Ci logged off to soothe 11 after the fragments wrecked its room, then promised to visit their space weekly.
• After his band’s performance, Chu Juesheng rushed home to see Xue Ci and shared dinner with him, asking about dating and pursuing someone younger.
• Xue Ci prepared for a business trip and gave Bai Wu a bundle of old clothes, which Bai Wu secretly kept and used to soothe his fixation.
• Bai Wu grew distressed while Xue Ci was away from his phone, called him, and secretly repeated Xue Ci’s name after hearing his voice.

Xue Ci traveled on a business trip with Gu Yan, who secretly pursued him and staged chances for physical contact while Xue Ci continued messaging Crow. The chapter ended with Bai Wu arriving at Xue Ci’s hotel and seeing him in person for the first time, noticing his reddened lips.

• Xue Ci accidentally sent Cheng Yuqing a message saying he would miss him, and Cheng Yuqing offered to join his trip before Xue Ci talked him out of it.
• Bai Wu admitted to Xu Wei and Cheng Yuqing that he had just started a relationship, while hiding that Xue Ci still believed he was a woman.
• Chu Juesheng’s bandmates visited Xue Ci, and their encouragement convinced Chu Juesheng to plan a song and performance as a confession.
• Gu Yan picked Xue Ci up, took him to lunch, and arranged a business-class flight, where he deliberately spilled a drink so Xue Ci would help him change.
• At the hotel, Crow asked Xue Ci for revealing photos and a video call, while Gu Yan brought him to a meeting, carried him to bed when he fell asleep, and secretly put a ring on his finger.
• Bai Wu flew to the hotel after losing contact with Xue Ci, encountered him in the hallway, and watched him hurry into his room.

Xue Ci navigated a business trip, an unnerving encounter with Bai Wu, and a work meeting where he discovered Cheng Yuqing was a Lost Continent producer. Back in the game, Crow revealed he was a man, and Xue Ci agreed to date him, prompting Crow to forcefully kiss him as Bai Wu’s desire to possess Xue Ci intensified.

• Xue Ci attended a meeting with Gu Yan wearing their matching watches, then watched a movie after Crow invited him; Bai Wu followed him and Xue Ci mistook him for a pervert.
• Gu Yan met Xue Ci at the theater, and Bai Wu changed his flight after seeing Xue Ci leave with him.
• Chu Juesheng welcomed Xue Ci home, and Xue Ci agreed to go out with him the next day.
• At work, Xue Ci learned that Cheng Yuqing was a producer of Lost Continent and met Bai Wu and Xu Wei; Bai Wu joined Xue Ci for lunch while Cheng Yuqing acted possessively toward him.
• Crow embraced Xue Ci in the game and confessed that he liked him, then refused to arrange an in-person meeting until Xue Ci promised to date him even if he was a man.
• Xue Ci kissed Crow to keep their progress from falling, and Bai Wu seized him, tore off his robe, and demanded a deeper kiss.

Xue Ci agreed to meet “Crow” at a hotel, unaware that Bai Wu was waiting there rather than planning to stand him up. After accidentally sending “Crow” a provocative swimsuit photo meant for his top donor, Xue Ci arrived at the dark room and was seized and kissed by someone whose identity he could not confirm.

• Bai Wu passionately kissed Xue Ci in the game, while Chu Juesheng invited Xue Ci to his band’s Sunday show and asked him to teach him how to kiss.
• Xue Ci agreed to marry “Crow” in their messages, then completed a livestreaming task and attracted thousands of followers and a lavish top donor.
• The top donor pressured Xue Ci into wearing a women’s school swimsuit and sending a photo; Xue Ci accidentally sent the picture to “Crow” before deleting it.
• “Crow” arranged to meet Xue Ci at a hotel on Saturday and asked him to accept several unusual requests, which Xue Ci agreed to so he could complete his task.
• Xue Ci arrived at the hotel room, where someone grabbed him in the darkness, kissed him fiercely, carried him to the bed, and began biting at his chest.

Xue Ci discovered that Crow was Bai Wu, who had recognized him and treated him as his boyfriend, while their encounter derailed Xue Ci’s planned mission. After 11 advised Xue Ci to date Bai Wu briefly before breaking up, Bai Wu accompanied him home and clashed with Chu Juesheng.

• Bai Wu kept Xue Ci at the hotel for two days, then cared for him and revealed that his real name was Bai Wu.
• Xue Ci learned that calling Bai Wu “wife” lowered his progress bar, while refusing to break up left the plot stalled.
• 11 advised Xue Ci to date Bai Wu for ten days or half a month before ending things by saying he could not be bent.
• Bai Wu accepted Xue Ci’s request to stay in his apartment and let him go to work alone, then followed him inside.
• Chu Juesheng saw Xue Ci return with Bai Wu and later challenged Bai Wu, who declared that they were lovers.

Xue Ci’s relationship with Bai Wu became known to Cheng Yuqing and Chu Juesheng, while both men struggled with their feelings for him. As Bai Wu took Xue Ci on a date to see a possible new home, Gu Yan watched footage of Xue Ci and resolved that he alone should be Xue Ci’s boyfriend.

• Chu Juesheng waited for Xue Ci to return, then met Bai Wu and learned that Xue Ci planned to move out with his boyfriend.
• Cheng Yuqing arrived looking for Xue Ci, saw marks on him, and punched Bai Wu before Xue Ci stopped the fight and explained that Bai Wu was his boyfriend.
• Cheng Yuqing left in distress, while Chu Juesheng stayed behind, invited Xue Ci to seek comfort from him, and asked him to attend another performance.
• Xue Ci went to work, ate lunch with Gu Yan, and left to meet Bai Wu; Gu Yan watched surveillance footage of him and decided Xue Ci’s boyfriend should be him.
• Bai Wu showed Xue Ci a large stuffed dog and a place near the company, then kissed him in the car after Xue Ci tried to distract him from an explicit message from his fan.

Xue Ci dealt with an unknown harasser, sought comfort from Chu Juesheng, and spent time caring for Cheng Yuqing before a game bug exposed him to an attack by a vine creature. Bai Wu protected Xue Ci and then learned Cheng Yuqing had requested the recording of the incident, while Xue Ci remained a week away from his planned breakup.

• Bai Wu took Xue Ci to his apartment, urged him to move in, and talked about their future together while Xue Ci received obscene messages from his top donor.
• After Xue Ci blocked the donor, the stranger entered his room at night and assaulted him; Xue Ci fled to Chu Juesheng's apartment, and Chu let him stay.
• Xue Ci installed a surveillance camera and changed his lock, then visited the sick Cheng Yuqing and reassured him that their friendship still mattered.
• Cheng Yuqing joined Xue Ci and Bai Wu in the game over the weekend, where a vine creature bound and attacked Xue Ci before Bai Wu rescued him.
• Bai Wu asked Xu Wei to send him the screen recording and delete it, then learned Cheng Yuqing had also requested a copy.