Chapter Summaries

Fu Qingxiao returned from his business trip with gifts for Xue Ci and Fu Zhouxuan, while Fu Yang apologized and tried to repair his relationship with Xue Ci. That night, Fu Qingxiao’s alternate personality coaxed Xue Ci into sharing his bed and began touching him; Fu Zhouxuan arrived at the villa and overheard them.

• Fu Qingxiao returned from his trip, kissed Xue Ci, and unpacked gifts for him and Fu Zhouxuan.
• Xue Ci reminded Fu Qingxiao about Fu Zhouxuan’s coming-of-age banquet, and Fu Zhouxuan accepted his gift with gratitude.
• Fu Yang apologized to Xue Ci, gave him a model motorcycle, and asked him to keep replying to his messages.
• Fu Qingxiao persuaded Xue Ci to sleep in his room by claiming Xue Ci had previously promised they would share a bed.
• Fu Qingxiao’s alternate personality woke Xue Ci with a kiss and touched him despite his protests, while the main personality struggled to regain control.
• Fu Zhouxuan came to check on Xue Ci and overheard Fu Qingxiao speaking to him suggestively from the bedroom.

Fu Qingxiao kissed and touched Xue Ci, while Fu Yang and Fu Zhouxuan grew jealous of their closeness. After celebrating Fu Zhouxuan’s birthday with a cake and gifts, Xue Ci fell asleep on the sofa, and Fu Zhouxuan kissed his finger before Fu Yang arrived.

• Fu Qingxiao kissed Xue Ci intensely, and Xue Ci escaped to bathe while the virus teased him about being treated like a little wife.
• Fu Qingxiao secretly smelled and washed Xue Ci’s underwear, while Fu Zhouxuan struggled with his feelings for Xue Ci and called him about the upcoming birthday banquet.
• Fu Yang visited Xue Ci, confronted him about Fu Qingxiao’s kisses, and stayed until Fu Qingxiao returned, leaving the two men tense and jealous.
• Xue Ci made Fu Zhouxuan a birthday cake, met him at a mall, and let him buy matching sweatshirts with his scholarship money.
• Fu Zhouxuan celebrated with Xue Ci at home, then kissed and sucked cream from Xue Ci’s finger while he slept, just as Fu Yang arrived.

Fu Yang and Fu Zhouxuan visited Xue Ci, and Fu Qingxiao later agreed to let Fu Zhouxuan stay with them for winter break after making Xue Ci keep an intimate diary. Fu Zhouxuan grew jealous watching Fu Qingxiao monopolize Xue Ci and overheard an embarrassing moment between them in the bathroom.

• Fu Yang found Fu Zhouxuan licking cream from Xue Ci’s fingers, then wiped Xue Ci’s hand himself after Xue Ci woke.
• Xue Ci asked Fu Yang to bring Song Tanhai home for New Year, and Fu Yang agreed while warning Xue Ci to contact him if Song made demands.
• Fu Yang and Fu Zhouxuan left with Xue Ci’s birthday presents, and Fu Yang showed Xue Ci that he still wore the protective amulet he had given him.
• Fu Qingxiao picked Xue Ci up, kissed him repeatedly, and handed him his salary card, increasing the progress bar.
• Xue Ci asked Fu Qingxiao to let Fu Zhouxuan stay for winter break, and Fu Qingxiao agreed after making Xue Ci write in his detailed diary of their intimate encounters.
• Fu Zhouxuan moved into the villa, watched Fu Qingxiao monopolize Xue Ci, and later overheard Xue Ci being helped in the bathroom.

After Fu Qingxiao’s aggressive alter personality embarrassed and upset Xue Ci, Fu Qingxiao tried to make amends by cooking for him, while Fu Zhouxuan quietly grew more attached to Xue Ci. The chapter ended with the alter personality revealing that he was distinct from Fu Qingxiao and asking Xue Ci which of them he preferred.

• Fu Qingxiao’s alter personality held Xue Ci while he used the toilet and offered to bathe him, then Fu Qingxiao regained control, apologized, and tried to stop Xue Ci from sleeping separately.
• Fu Qingxiao cooked for Xue Ci the next day, and Xue Ci softened toward him after tasting the food.
• Fu Zhouxuan worried that he could not compete with Fu Qingxiao for Xue Ci’s affection and invited Xue Ci to watch a horror movie with him.
• Fu Qingxiao interrupted Xue Ci’s time with Fu Zhouxuan, then later kissed Xue Ci and brought him to bed.
• Fu Qingxiao wrote his name in Xue Ci’s diary and revealed that the forceful personality was not Fu Qingxiao; the alter personality then asked whether Xue Ci preferred him or Fu Qingxiao.

Xue Ci spent winter break with Fu Qingxiao, Fu Zhouxuan, and Fu Yang while his story’s progress bar advanced. After baking cookies for Fu Yang, Xue Ci overheard him complain that they tasted awful, leaving the chapter on Xue Ci’s hurt reaction.

• Fu Qingxiao’s secondary personality teased Xue Ci, demanded to know which personality he liked more, and vanished so Fu Qingxiao could take over.
• Fu Qingxiao arranged tutoring in every subject for Fu Zhouxuan, who resolved to work harder so Xue Ci would notice him.
• Xue Ci baked animal-shaped cookies, and Fu Qingxiao and Fu Zhouxuan praised them as the progress bar advanced.
• Fu Yang returned to the country, but Fu Qingxiao claimed to have an upset stomach, so Xue Ci stayed home and sent the cookies with the driver.
• Fu Yang called Fu Qingxiao and complained that the cookies tasted awful, and Xue Ci overheard him.

After Xue Ci’s bitter cookies embarrassed him and Song Tanhai’s gambling scheme was exposed, the Fu Family brought Xue Ci back for the New Year. Fu Qingxiao then took Xue Ci to the bedroom and suggested they become intimate before marriage, leaving Xue Ci stunned that Fu Qingxiao himself had made the request.

• Fu Yang returned from abroad, misunderstood Xue Ci’s bitter cookies as expired, and learned that Xue Ci had made them for him.
• Xue Ci discovered that Fu Yang, Fu Qingxiao, and Fu Zhouxuan had pretended to like his bitter cookies to spare his feelings, then gave them store-bought cookies as an apology.
• Xue Ci went to spend the New Year with Song Tanhai, who gambled away money and later staged a fake five-million-yuan debt to extort him.
• Xue Ci took Song Tanhai’s card to the meeting place, exposed the scheme, and ran before Fu Family bodyguards stopped the group and Fu Yang, Fu Zhouxuan, and Fu Qingxiao brought him back.
• After the Fu Family celebrated the New Year with Xue Ci, Fu Qingxiao carried him to the bedroom and asked whether he would like to inspect the goods before they married.

Xue Ci learned more about Fu Qingxiao’s secondary personality while trying to keep his distance from the possessive Fu Qingxiao. As Fu Zhouxuan’s college entrance exam approached, Xue Ci attended his parent-teacher meeting and later rushed to comfort him after a fight, where Fu Zhouxuan confessed his feelings.

• Fu Qingxiao’s secondary personality took control and became intimate with Xue Ci before the primary personality regained control and cared for him.
• Xue Ci asked Fu Qingxiao about his secondary personality, learned it had appeared during his childhood, and received the hidden-task points.
• Fu Yang grew jealous of Xue Ci’s closeness with Fu Qingxiao and Fu Zhouxuan, while Fu Zhouxuan became increasingly attached to Xue Ci.
• As the college entrance exam neared, Xue Ci attended Fu Zhouxuan’s parent-teacher meeting and praised him for ranking near the top of his year.
• After Fu Zhouxuan got into a fight, Xue Ci returned to the villa and treated his injuries, then scolded him for acting as if they did not hurt.
• Fu Zhouxuan blushed and told Xue Ci, “I want you, Brother Xue Ci.”

Xue Ci tried to keep Fu Zhouxuan focused on his college entrance exam after the younger man confessed, then struggled to manage Fu Qingxiao’s jealousy and the progress bar. The chapter ended with Xue Ci taking the initiative to satisfy a task, only for Fu Qingxiao to grab him as he tried to get up.

• Fu Zhouxuan confessed that he liked Xue Ci and explained that he had fought classmates for speaking about Xue Ci behind his back.
• Xue Ci avoided answering Fu Zhouxuan’s confession and urged him to recover and return to school, then promised they could discuss his feelings after the college entrance exam.
• Fu Qingxiao confronted Xue Ci in his dorm, grew jealous of his distance, and took him back to the villa, where Xue Ci’s concern for him eased his mood.
• Fu Qingxiao brought Xue Ci to the bedroom, and the progress bar dropped when Xue Ci did not take the initiative to please him.
• Xue Ci acted on the task and the progress bar rose, but Fu Qingxiao grabbed his waist as he tried to get up.

After Fu Qingxiao and Xue Ci became official, Fu Qingxiao introduced him to his circle while Fu Yang waited for the college entrance exams to end. Fu Zhouxuan scored highly, went on a date with Xue Ci, and confessed his feelings by promising to earn money and care for him.

• Fu Qingxiao helped Xue Ci bathe after their intimate encounter, then gently put him to bed while admitting he was jealous.
• Fu Qingxiao began bringing Xue Ci to formal events and treating him like his cherished fiancée, while his jealousy over Song Ran’s friendship with Xue Ci caused a brief quarrel.
• Fu Yang spent the weeks before the college entrance exams working hard and waiting for the promised chance to pursue Xue Ci afterward.
• Fu Zhouxuan finished his exams, earned higher scores than in the original plot, and later invited Xue Ci on a date during summer vacation.
• Fu Zhouxuan and Xue Ci spent the day shopping and visiting an arcade, where they took photo-booth pictures and brought home stuffed toys.
• Fu Zhouxuan kissed Xue Ci and promised to earn more than Fu Yang and Fu Qingxiao so he could take care of him, while the two older men watched angrily from upstairs.

Xue Ci’s planned death was prevented when Fu Qingxiao and the others uncovered a plot against him, and he learned he was the Song Family’s son, swapped at birth with their unruly fake heir. After reuniting with the Song Family, Xue Ci faced their objections to his engagement with Fu Qingxiao, while Fu Yang’s recording exposed Fu Qingxiao’s deception and Song Ran called off the engagement.

• Xue Ci prepared to die in a staged car accident, but Fu Qingxiao, Fu Zhouxuan, and Song Ran intercepted him before it happened.
• Fu Qingxiao explained that Song Tanhai had revealed Xue Ci’s origins, and Song Ran told Xue Ci he might be his younger brother.
• Fu Qingxiao’s investigation revealed that a Song Family driver and his wife had swapped Xue Ci with their own son, while Song Tanhai had later learned the secret and extorted money from them.
• Xue Ci confirmed his identity through a DNA test and reunited with Father and Mother Song, who welcomed him and worried about his engagement to Fu Qingxiao.
• Song Ran brought Xue Ci to end the engagement, but Fu Yang played a recording of Fu Qingxiao admitting that deceiving Xue Ci had taken no effort.
• Song Ran defended Xue Ci and urged him to wait until he was thirty before dating, leaving Fu Yang alarmed by the prospect.

Xue Ci left the Fu Family to live with the Song Family, where he was cherished, while Fu Qingxiao accepted their separation and let him go. As Xue Ci tried to understand love and favoritism, Fu Yang grew jealous and possessive, and the chapter ended with him reading Xue Ci’s diary and making an explicit promise to outdo Fu Qingxiao.

• Song Ran took Xue Ci home after Xue Ci ended things with Fu Qingxiao, who agreed to leave him free and said he could pursue him again someday.
• The Song Family welcomed Xue Ci, and he spent the summer enjoying their care while the Virus Fragment touched him and Eleven explained that the progress bar depended on Fu Zhouxuan.
• Fu Zhouxuan met Xue Ci before leaving the country, gave him a snowflake necklace, and became upset when Xue Ci said he might date someone in the future.
• Fu Yang claimed to be sick and drew Xue Ci to his apartment, where he broke down over Xue Ci sharing cotton candy with Fu Zhouxuan; Xue Ci promised not to buy it for anyone else again.
• Fu Yang began driving away Xue Ci’s admirers and followed him to his new apartment, where he found and read Xue Ci’s diary before pulling him onto his lap and boasting that he could outdo Fu Qingxiao.

Fu Yang continued pursuing Xue Ci, who stayed uncertain about romance as their circle of friends and family shifted around them. At Fu Yang’s birthday banquet, Xue Ci left with a fellow student, while Fu Yang, drugged by a glass of wine, went to a lounge and told his assistant to inform Xue Ci what had happened.

• Fu Yang read aloud from Xue Ci’s diary, then covered Xue Ci’s eyes and touched and kissed him until Xue Ci fell asleep in his arms.
• The next morning, Xue Ci found breakfast waiting and noted Fu Yang’s messages; afterward, Fu Yang behaved more cautiously and pursued him with gifts and attention.
• Xue Ci saw Fu Zhouxuan off at the airport and gave him a piece of jade; after Fu Zhouxuan went abroad, the progress bar reached 99%.
• Fu Yang asked Xue Ci to give him a birthday present at his banquet, and Xue Ci bought him perfume because it smelled a little like Fu Yang.
• At the banquet, a fellow university student recognized Xue Ci’s drawing of a Banksia rose and led him to the hotel garden while Fu Yang watched from across the room.
• After drinking a glass of red wine, Fu Yang felt drugged and went to the lounge, telling his assistant to tell Xue Ci what had happened if he came looking.

At Fu Yang’s birthday banquet, Xue Ci found him drugged and used a system-shop medicine to calm his symptoms. The medicine’s opposite effect then took hold, and Eleven warned Xue Ci that Fu Yang’s aphrodisiac had become three times stronger.

• Song Ran tried to take Xue Ci home, but Xue Ci left to deliver Fu Yang’s birthday present himself.
• Fu Yang’s assistant told Xue Ci that Fu Yang had been drugged and was waiting in the lounge.
• Xue Ci entered the lounge, called a doctor, and was pulled onto Fu Yang’s lap as Fu Yang struggled with the drug’s effects.
• Xue Ci used a system-shop medicine on Fu Yang, and Fu Yang’s symptoms subsided enough for them to leave for the villa.
• Fu Yang fell asleep against Xue Ci in the car, and Eleven warned that Fu Yang’s immunity had made the medicine’s opposite effect intensify the aphrodisiac threefold.

Fu Yang and Xue Ci spent a drug-fueled night together, after which Fu Yang tried to turn their closeness into a relationship and marriage while Xue Ci dodged his advances. When Fu Zhouxuan’s growth arc reached completion, Xue Ci prepared to leave the world, but Fu Yang found him at the night market and called him his cotton candy princess.

• Fu Yang, overwhelmed by the aphrodisiac, kept Xue Ci with him through the night and later cared for him while he recovered.
• Fu Yang secretly replaced Xue Ci’s necklace pendant with a proposal ring, but Xue Ci said they were not even dating and stalled his attempts to define their relationship.
• Fu Yang pestered Xue Ci to visit a hot spring, while Xue Ci hid in his school dorm; Fu Qingxiao and Fu Zhouxuan continued sending him gifts and messages.
• Fu Yang posted a vague photo of himself wearing a ring, completing Fu Zhouxuan’s growth arc, and the system told Xue Ci to leave the world before the next day.
• Xue Ci arranged to meet Fu Yang after dinner with his roommates, but Fu Yang appeared at the night market and announced he was looking for the cotton candy princess.

Xue Ci returned to a new small world as a frail young master whose family planned to marry him to Qin Zhuo to ward off illness, while he hoped to see Qin Wuzhen, the man he loved. After persuading Qin Wuzhen to take him herb-gathering, Xue Ci met Qin Zhuo and began plotting how to handle their marriage.

• Eleven told Xue Ci that headquarters had ordered it to hand over the collected fragments so they could destroy the virus, but Xue Ci and the fragment agreed to hide it, and the fragment promised to keep following him.
• In Cloud Maple Town, Xue Ci bought rouge for Qin Wuzhen and visited him at Returning Edge Hall, where he completed his first task by giving him the gift.
• Xue Ci asked to accompany Qin Wuzhen and his apprentices to gather herbs; Qin Wuzhen agreed after Xue Ci called him Brother Zimu, completing the second task.
• Xue Ci collided with Qin Zhuo at the pharmacy and learned that the muscular young man was Qin Wuzhen's younger brother and the protagonist he was meant to marry.

Xue Ci accompanied Qin Wuzhen and Qin Zhuo into the mountains to gather herbs, using the outing to grow closer to Qin Zhuo before their planned marriage. After Qin Zhuo stared at Xue Ci while he tried to remove his outer robe, Qin Wuzhen stepped in to help and accidentally touched Xue Ci's sensitive chest.

• Qin Zhuo mistook Xue Ci for a pretty young lady, then joined Qin Wuzhen and Xue Ci on their trip into the mountains.
• Qin Zhuo carried the exhausted Xue Ci up the mountain, while Qin Wuzhen followed close behind.
• Qin Wuzhen went to search for herbs and left Xue Ci with Qin Zhuo, who watched as Xue Ci struggled to remove his outer robe.
• Qin Zhuo admitted he had been looking at Xue Ci's exposed chest, and Qin Wuzhen moved between them to block his view.
• Xue Ci asked Qin Wuzhen to help him undress, and Qin Wuzhen accidentally brushed a sensitive spot on his chest.

Xue Ci spent a day gathering herbs with Qin Wuzhen and Qin Zhuo, then fell ill with a cold that took weeks to treat. As his family considered finding him a husband to ward off illness, Xue Ci told Qin Wuzhen he wanted to marry and spend a lifetime with someone.

• Qin Wuzhen helped Xue Ci dress and tie his hair, while Xue Ci completed a task by getting Qin Wuzhen to say he did not know what kind of woman he liked.
• Qin Wuzhen taught Xue Ci about medicinal herbs on the mountain, and Qin Zhuo helped him gather them and received a wildflower from him.
• Qin Wuzhen escorted Xue Ci home, then spent a sleepless night thinking about Xue Ci's talk of finding a husband.
• After Xue Ci caught a cold, Qin Wuzhen treated him daily for nearly a month while the Song Family searched unsuccessfully for a suitable match.
• The Song Family considered a male spouse for Xue Ci, and Xue Ci told Qin Wuzhen he wanted to find a husband and spend a long lifetime with him.

After Xue Ci and Qin Zhuo agreed to marry, Qin Wuzhen wrestled with his feelings while helping arrange their wedding. The marriage feast ended with Xue Ci exhausted in the bridal room, where Qin Zhuo’s arousal startled him.

• Xue Ci told Madam Liu he wanted a tall, strong husband with darker skin, and Qin Wuzhen overheard them discussing his marriage.
• The Song Family proposed Qin Zhuo as Xue Ci’s match; after Qin Zhuo revealed he loved Xue Ci, the families arranged the marriage.
• Qin Zhuo agreed to the match once he learned it was Xue Ci, and he gave Xue Ci his saved money and a flower during their meeting.
• Qin Wuzhen added his own savings to Qin Zhuo’s betrothal gifts and helped prepare for the wedding, despite his private distress.
• At the wedding feast, Qin Wuzhen praised Xue Ci while drunk, and Qin Zhuo took his exhausted husband to their room.
• Xue Ci fell asleep without consummating the marriage, then woke to Qin Zhuo’s heavy breathing and felt his semen splash onto his thigh.

On their wedding night, Qin Zhuo accidentally covered Xue Ci’s legs with bodily fluid, leaving Xue Ci embarrassed and upset. After helping him bathe and settling him into bed, Qin Zhuo decided to sleep on the floor and wondered how to make his wife feel good without consummating the marriage.

• Qin Zhuo apologized after Xue Ci woke to find his legs and the sheets soiled, and Xue Ci told him to fetch bathwater.
• Qin Zhuo dressed Xue Ci, brought him a tub of hot water, and cleaned up the bed while Xue Ci bathed.
• Xue Ci told Qin Zhuo to keep what happened private, then returned to bed after bathing.
• Qin Zhuo asked to call him Xue Ci and awkwardly discussed their differences, while Xue Ci gave an answer that satisfied the system’s plot requirements.
• Qin Zhuo slept on the floor and believed that lying in the same bed counted as consummating the marriage, then resolved to ask his eldest brother how to make Xue Ci feel good.

After their wedding, Xue Ci and Qin Zhuo grew closer as Qin Zhuo cared for and doted on his frail husband. A new task sent Xue Ci to Qin Wuzhen’s home to obtain his writing brush, and he persuaded Qin Zhuo to take him there by promising to soothe Qin Zhuo’s arousal.

• Xue Ci woke in Qin Zhuo’s arms, and Qin Zhuo admitted he had stolen a kiss before helping Xue Ci wash and dress.
• Madam Liu noticed Xue Ci had a better appetite and warned him to put his health first in married life.
• Qin Zhuo took Xue Ci to a clothing shop, where they met his schoolmate Xie Qiaosi, who stared at Xue Ci and mocked Qin Zhuo’s marriage.
• Xue Ci and Qin Zhuo settled into affectionate routines at home, with Qin Zhuo tending to Xue Ci and helping him dress.
• After Qin Zhuo licked Xue Ci’s calf, Xue Ci received a task to spend the next night at the Qin Family home and secretly obtain Qin Wuzhen’s writing brush.
• Xue Ci asked Qin Zhuo to visit Qin Wuzhen and promised to use his foot to ease Qin Zhuo’s discomfort.