Chapter Summaries

Xue Ci was rescued from A Fei’s stronghold by Qin Wuzhen and Xie Qiaosi, then recovered at home as Qin Wuzhen and Xie Qiaosi competed for his affection. During his birthday celebration, Xue Ci vanished into a protected area and chose to enter the final world to recover the Virus Fragment left there.

• A Fei decided to marry Xue Ci, but Qin Wuzhen and Xie Qiaosi found the stronghold with Xiao Bai and rescued him before the wedding.
• Qin Wuzhen discovered that Xue Ci had accidentally drunk Hehuan wine and stayed with him through the night; afterward, Xue Ci rejected his request to become his husband.
• Xie Qiaosi kissed Xue Ci and refused to leave his room, while Qin Zhuo returned from Jiangnan and continued spending his wages on Xue Ci.
• Xue Ci learned from Eleven that the Quick Transmigration Bureau was hunting the Virus Fragments, and the three men celebrated his birthday before he disappeared.
• Eleven explained that Xue Ci was in the invading virus’s protected area, and Xue Ci chose to enter the final world to find the Fragment there.

Song Xueci awakened as a maid-outfitted manservant NPC in a castle game, tasked with guiding three players while secretly finding his dead husband's corpse and memories. After using Fragment's help to play chess and drawing the players' attention, he learned his clues and duties, then was overheard discussing his thighs as Qin Zhou and Lu Min talked about him.

• Song Xueci woke in the castle beside Qin Zhou, Lu Min, and Fu Chengsi, and learned he was an NPC expected to help players while secretly retrieving his dead husband from the game.
• Xueci followed Fragment's advice during a chess game, while Qin Zhou teased him and Lu Min lost after getting distracted by Xueci.
• Lu Min drew a card requiring twenty sit-ups, and Xueci held down his ankles with his thighs as he completed them.
• After the players returned upstairs, Xueci read his tasks and learned the castle clues, his servant duties, and the warning to conceal that he had a husband.
• Lu Min saw Xueci examining his reddened thighs and warned Qin Zhou not to go downstairs; their conversation about Xueci was overheard by Fu Chengsi, while Xueci stood nearby, embarrassed.

Xue Ci explored the castle, noticed clues about Mrs. West’s violin teacher, and tried to build his relationship with Lu Min. After a stocking went missing, a new task prompted him to ask the players if they had taken it, while Fu Chengsi watched and judged their interaction.

• Xue Ci warned Qin Zhou and Lu Min that people could die in the castle, then returned to his room as Fu Chengsi noticed his smile.
• Xue Ci found maid outfits and stockings in his wardrobe, explored the castle, and noted that Mrs. West’s violin teacher had died the year she won her major award.
• Xue Ci visited the garden and held the affectionate white rabbit before returning to the living room, where the butler scolded him over a missing stocking.
• Lu Min brought Xue Ci ointment, and Xue Ci’s progress bar advanced before a task instructed him to ask the players who had taken his stocking.
• Xue Ci asked Lu Min about the stocking, and Lu Min denied taking it and offered to help search.
• Fu Chengsi saw Xue Ci lean close to Lu Min, judged Lu Min’s reaction, and shut his door.

Xue Ci asked the guests whether they had taken his missing white stockings, while the players searched for clues in the West Family castle. After Fu Chengsi found Xue Ci’s underwear, they struggled over it until it tore, and Xue Ci threw it in Fu Chengsi’s face.

• Lu Min accidentally touched Xue Ci’s ears, then Xue Ci asked whether Qin Zhou had stolen his white stockings.
• Qin Zhou offered to help search for the stockings and teased Xue Ci about Fu Chengsi before the guests ate dinner.
• Joel warned the guests not to leave their rooms after midnight, and Qin Zhou triggered a hidden storyline task to live happily with Xue Ci’s husband.
• Qin Zhou searched for the stockings while Xue Ci went to bathe and discovered his underwear was missing.
• Fu Chengsi showed Xue Ci the missing underwear and questioned him about Lu Min; they tugged at it until it tore, and Xue Ci flung it at Fu Chengsi.

After a gardener was found dead in the castle, Xue Ci and the other players learned that Booth had been killed for informing on someone and were warned to stay in their rooms between midnight and two. Xue Ci arranged for Lu Min to stay in his room, but Fu Chengsi arrived with replacement underwear and left after a jealous, mocking remark.

• Xue Ci fled to his room after tearing Fu Chengsi's underwear, and later woke with unexplained bruises on his thighs and a strange mark on his abdomen.
• The players found gardener Booth dead in the living room, and Xue Ci told them that someone had entered his room during the night and touched him.
• Butler Joel warned the players not to call the police, said Booth had brought his death on himself by informing on someone, and instructed them to remain in their rooms from midnight to two.
• The players searched the castle and learned that its servants had all been born orphans, while Xue Ci told Qin Zhou about his clothes and the suspected ghost.
• Xue Ci turned down Qin Zhou's offer to stay overnight and persuaded Lu Min to sleep in his room instead.
• Fu Chengsi brought Xue Ci a new pair of pink underwear, then left after hearing Lu Min inside and telling Xue Ci not to let another man tear them up.

Lu Min stood up to Fu Chengsi when he brought Xue Ci underwear at night, then shared Xue Ci’s room. The next day, Xue Ci went to town with Fu Chengsi, where a stranger accosted him and Xue Ci called Fu Chengsi “husband” to get his help; Fu Chengsi later saw a hickey on Xue Ci’s neck.

• Fu Chengsi brought Xue Ci a pair of underwear, but Xue Ci shut the door on him, and Lu Min challenged him from the room.
• Lu Min slept in Xue Ci’s room, secretly kept a stocking he had found, and earned Xue Ci’s praise by neatly folding the bedding.
• Joel stopped Xue Ci from visiting Mrs. West and sent him to town to buy ingredients, asking him to keep an eye on Fu Chengsi.
• A blond stranger grabbed Xue Ci at the market and insulted him, so Xue Ci clung to Fu Chengsi and called him “husband” to make the man back off.
• Fu Chengsi accompanied Xue Ci around town, bought him egg cakes and ice cream, and questioned locals about the West Family’s haunted castle and a girl’s midnight cries.
• Fu Chengsi waited for Xue Ci to make a move after they returned, but Xue Ci did not come to him; the next day, Fu Chengsi noticed a deep hickey on Xue Ci’s neck.

Xue Ci spent the day working with Lu Min and Qin Zhou while the players investigated the castle, unaware that Lu Min had driven off the ghost that assaulted him overnight. Fu Chengsi grew jealous after seeing Xue Ci’s hickey and giving the mosquito repellent to Qin Zhou, who offered to check whether Xue Ci had other marks.

• Xue Ci learned that Bill had appeared as a new character and noted the hidden-story clue about meeting his husband in Gleri Town.
• Lu Min helped Xue Ci in the garden and recalled driving away the invisible ghost that had assaulted him during the night; he discovered Xue Ci’s silver mark and resolved to find a way to take him out of the game.
• Xue Ci told Qin Zhou that Mrs. West had kept rabbits since childhood, then learned that Fu Chengsi’s game progress was 40%, while Lu Min’s was 30%.
• Xue Ci offered Fu Chengsi mosquito repellent, but Fu Chengsi sarcastically questioned why Xue Ci called him husband despite choosing Lu Min.
• Xue Ci gave the repellent to Qin Zhou, who showed him a magic rose that caught fire; Fu Chengsi watched and grew more jealous.
• Qin Zhou noticed Xue Ci’s hickey, blamed Lu Min, and offered to check places Xue Ci could not see.

Xue Ci protected Lu Min from the castle’s vines and kissed him, raising Lu Min’s progress bar and drawing him into a relationship. The next morning, Xue Ci realized the little girl he had encountered was likely a ghost connected to the West Family, while Qin Zhou confronted him about kissing Lu Min.

• Qin Zhou warned Xue Ci to avoid sharing a room with Lu Min, but Lu Min denied harming him and said he had driven away a ghost with a talisman.
• Xue Ci reviewed the players’ progress, planned to delay their escape while searching for his husband’s corpse, and arranged to sneak out to Gleri Town.
• Lu Min stole Xue Ci’s underwear, then protected him from attacking vines; Xue Ci stopped the vines and kissed Lu Min, increasing Lu Min’s progress bar by ten.
• Xue Ci met a mysterious little girl in the castle, and after she vanished, vines attacked him until Lu Min shielded him.
• Joel said the West Family would not arrive for two days, leading Xue Ci to suspect the girl was a ghost and that Joel had harmed the relatives.
• Qin Zhou accompanied Xue Ci to the market and accused him of kissing Lu Min, saying he had watched Lu Min eat Xue Ci’s tongue.

Xue Ci questioned Joel’s story about the West family and encountered Bill, whom he had apparently cheated out of his savings. He gave Bill food and money and told him to wait at an inn, leaving Bill suspicious of his motives.

• Qin Zhou questioned Xue Ci jealously about kissing Lu Min, and Xue Ci told him to stop asking and focus on buying the ingredients.
• Xue Ci checked the inn register and learned that no mother and daughter named West had stayed there recently, despite Joel’s claim.
• Xue Ci met Bill outside a pizza shop, bought him a pizza, and learned that Bill believed Xue Ci had taken his savings meant for marriage.
• Xue Ci gave Bill his remaining money and told him to stay at an inn until Xue Ci came back in a few days.
• After Xue Ci left, Bill wondered whether he wanted an affair and ate the slice of pizza Xue Ci had bitten.

Xue Ci borrowed money from Lu Min, used affectionate promises to make him keep pursuing the game, and tried unsuccessfully to get time off from Joel. As the players’ progress advanced, Xue Ci kept them occupied with a board game, where a swapped card forced him to describe an intimate experience.

• Qin Zhou told Xue Ci that he had seen Xue Ci and Lu Min come downstairs after kissing, but he had not noticed when Fu Chengsi opened his door.
• Xue Ci praised Lu Min for tending the garden, then borrowed money from him and let him kiss him after promising he would repay him.
• Joel refused Xue Ci’s request for time off and assigned him to clean the storeroom, where Xue Ci told Lu Min to take him along if he ever left the game; the task progress reached 35%.
• Over the following days, Joel again refused to let Xue Ci take time off, while Fu Chengsi’s progress bar climbed to 60%; Xue Ci bought board games to keep the players occupied.
• During a game, Xue Ci drew a card demanding that he describe an intimate experience, and Fu Chengsi insisted that he read it aloud.

Xue Ci tried to learn more about his dead husband, Erland, from Bill while Lu Min investigated Xue Ci’s origins and planned to take him away from the game world. Bill revealed that he had seen Xue Ci with Erland and ended the encounter by asking whether Xue Ci would let him finish inside him.

• Fu Chengsi teased Xue Ci into describing his kiss with Lu Min, and the group continued playing their suggestive truth-or-dare game.
• Lu Min gave Xue Ci clothes and jewelry, told him he was modifying the game code, and promised to take him away; Xue Ci asked him to find his birth parents.
• Xue Ci dreamed of an unknown man who called him “Xiao Ci” and “wife,” then woke to Lu Min saying he had talked in his sleep.
• Xue Ci visited Bill to ask about his dead husband, and Bill identified the man as Erland, a wealthy nobleman, and said he had once seen Xue Ci with him.
• Bill refused Xue Ci’s money, accepted a candy, and asked whether Xue Ci would let him finish inside him after Xue Ci discovered a condom in Bill’s pocket.

Xue Ci’s encounter with Bill deepened Lu Min’s jealousy, and Lu Min later overwhelmed Xue Ci with an intimate advance. Afterward, Xue Ci and Qin Zhou encountered Jenny, then headed toward the top floor as Qin Zhou’s progress advanced, leaving Lu Min watching jealously as Qin Zhou flirted with Xue Ci.

• Xue Ci explained to Bill that he had asked him to stay for an important reason, but Lu Min arrived and heard Bill’s teasing remarks.
• Lu Min worried that Xue Ci was ashamed of him, then that night pinned Xue Ci down and stimulated his belly; Xue Ci later noticed a strange pattern there, but it had disappeared.
• Xue Ci and Qin Zhou met Jenny playing the violin downstairs, and Jenny said she was going to find her daughter in the yard.
• Qin Zhou’s game progress advanced, so he suggested investigating the top floor; Xue Ci distracted him by asking whether he was a virgin and saying virgins were not very good at sex.
• Lu Min, who had been watching unseen, saw Qin Zhou lean toward Xue Ci and grew jealous.

Xue Ci discovered that his strange stomach mark was connected to succubus traits and suspected his dead husband was tied to the castle mystery. After falling onto Fu Chengsi and breaking down in tears, he accepted Fu Chengsi’s help getting four days off, then said he wanted to find a husband who would dote on him.

• Xue Ci learned from Eleven that his stomach mark came from nearly removed succubus attributes and that his hidden-mission progress had increased.
• Xue Ci tried to question Qin Zhou and investigate the violin, but Joel scolded him and assigned him to clean a guest room.
• Fu Chengsi asked whether Xue Ci knew he was an NPC, startling him into falling from a ladder; Fu Chengsi caught him, and Xue Ci landed on his face.
• Xue Ci cried after Fu Chengsi blocked his way, and Fu Chengsi gave him a code that secured four days of leave and treated his scraped knee.
• Fu Chengsi told Xue Ci to keep his distance from Qin Zhou and Lu Min, then asked why he wanted to leave; Xue Ci said he wanted to find a husband who would dote on him.

Xue Ci accepted Fu Chengsi’s offer to stay at his home while he looked for a husband, then left with Bill to visit his family. At the inn, Bill invited him to try having sex after Xue Ci was frightened by a suggestive television program.

• Fu Chengsi treated Xue Ci’s scraped arm, offered to help him leave, and invited him to stay at his place; Xue Ci agreed.
• Lu Min tended to Xue Ci’s injuries and helped pack his luggage, while secretly intending to keep track of where he went.
• Xue Ci went to Bill’s room and asked him to take him home, but Bill said he did not know where Xue Ci lived.
• Bill gave Xue Ci food and turned on the television before showering, but Xue Ci rushed into the bathroom after being startled by its program.
• Bill realized Xue Ci had forgotten sexual intimacy and offered to try it with him, showing him a new condom.

Xue Ci and Bill traveled to the slums to look for clues about Xue Ci’s husband, while Bill’s jealousy and lingering affection grew more apparent. They settled in their old room, where Bill began recounting how they first met.

• Bill turned off the TV, then grew hurt when Xue Ci told him to throw away the intimate item he was holding.
• Bill paid for their day-long carriage ride, and Xue Ci eventually rested in his arms as Bill questioned him jealously about his husband.
• After they arrived, Bill carried the tired Xue Ci through the slums, and Xue Ci asked how much money he had cheated Bill out of.
• Bill brought Xue Ci to their old room, where Xue Ci recognized that the pajamas fit him and asked how they had met.
• Bill said he had met Xue Ci outside a church, where Xue Ci followed him and offered to let him touch him.

Xue Ci stayed at Bill’s cramped home, where Bill cared for him despite his resentment and jealousy. After Xue Ci dreamed of meeting a stern stranger and an intimate encounter, he woke to Bill touching him, and Bill began to push past his refusal.

• Bill teased and crowded Xue Ci, then showed him the bathroom and gave him clothes and toiletries.
• Xue Ci searched Bill’s home for clues about his husband and found a handwriting book filled with his name and an angry insult.
• Bill bought dinner for Xue Ci and beat men who mocked him, then returned home relieved to find Xue Ci waiting.
• Xue Ci dreamed of stealing a wallet from a stern man who later called him baby, then woke as Bill held his foot.
• Bill told Xue Ci he was wet and had not bought protection, but pushed him onto the bed and began touching him anyway.

Bill and Xue Ci grew closer while Xue Ci searched for memories of his late husband, but their search found no clues at the church or hotel. When Xue Ci returned home, his husband’s younger brother Lucius appeared and condemned him for wearing another man’s clothes.

• Bill and Xue Ci spent the night together, and Xue Ci promised to help Bill next time.
• Xue Ci asked Bill to stay beside him while he showered, and they slept through the rest of the night.
• The next morning, Xue Ci and Bill questioned churchgoers about Xue Ci’s late husband, then visited a hotel where the receptionist found no record of their meeting.
• Bill carried the exhausted Xue Ci home and went out to buy dinner and ask his friends about the husband.
• Lucius arrived while Xue Ci was searching for shorts and reproached him for wearing Bill’s clothes so soon after his husband’s death.

Xue Ci went with Lucius to the home he had shared with his deceased husband, Erland, hoping to find clues about his forgotten past. There, he found Erland’s gifts and intimate diary, while Lucius revealed how much he had overheard of their married life.

• Lucius accused Xue Ci of moving on quickly, but Xue Ci explained that he had amnesia and asked Lucius about Erland.
• Lucius told Xue Ci that Erland had been a devout former heir who gave up his position to marry him, and that Erland had died in an accident.
• Xue Ci left Bill a note and went with Lucius to the villa he had shared with Erland; Bill returned, found him gone, and angrily vowed not to trust him again.
• At the villa, Xue Ci found Erland’s gifts, a necklace, and a diary filled with intimate accounts of their marriage.
• Lucius told Xue Ci that he had heard the couple together at night and had seen Erland carry him to the bath.

Xue Ci stayed overnight at the villa with Lucius, read more of Erland’s diary, and dreamed of their first meeting. The memory ended with Erland taking Xue Ci away to verify whether he had truly never invited another man to be with him.

• Lucius offered to let Xue Ci stay at the villa, carried a blanket to the bedroom, and agreed to sleep on the floor in his room.
• Xue Ci read Erland’s diary and found entries about a contract, his growing desire, and a past quarrel that led Erland to bring him back from the slums.
• After Xue Ci fell asleep, Lucius quietly returned and held his hand beneath the blanket.
• Xue Ci dreamed of meeting Erland while trying to steal a wallet and claiming he was willing to be with him to avoid the police.
• Erland caught Xue Ci stealing again, questioned his claims, and took him away, saying he would check for himself whether Xue Ci had never said those things to another man.

Erland took Xue Ci to a hotel, discovered he was a succubus, and began a relationship that quickly led to marriage. When Xue Ci’s succubus curse activated and threatened to consume him, Erland vowed to cure him, while Xue Ci’s mention of Bill provoked Erland’s jealousy.

• Erland took the hungry Xue Ci to a restaurant, then brought him to a hotel and pursued intimacy despite Xue Ci’s attempts to escape.
• Erland learned that Xue Ci was named Song Xueci and realized he was an innocent succubus experiencing his first time.
• Erland formally courted Xue Ci, and they married a month later, building a comfortable life together.
• Xue Ci’s memories shifted between their married life and the slums as his lower abdomen heated and his succubus curse began taking hold.
• Erland promised to cure Xue Ci, but Xue Ci mentioned Bill, triggering Erland’s jealousy and his vow to satisfy Xue Ci forever.