Chapter Summaries

Baichen woke in Inazuma after being transported from his world and was taken to Tenshukaku by Ei, who treated his injury and placed him under her supervision. After meeting Yae Miko and exploring the palace, Baichen shared a dango with Ei, and she said she would introduce him to someone the next day.

• Baichen woke injured beside a stream, recognized Inazuma City, and met Ei, who questioned him and took him to Tenshukaku.
• The Love Treasure System appeared and assigned Baichen a quest to raise Ei’s affection; Ei healed his ankle, increasing her affection to 5%.
• Kujou reported that the Resistance had ambushed the Shogunate Army on Yashiori Island, and Ei left to respond after giving Baichen an Electro Sigil.
• Baichen explored Tenshukaku and met Yae Miko, who noticed traces of his travel through time and space and warned him away from the western library.
• Ei returned, accepted a tricolor dango from Baichen, and told him to stay in the side hall before promising to introduce him to someone the next day.

Baichen joined the Raiden Shogun for breakfast, gained basic Electro resistance, and helped secure a limited allowance for healing Visions on Watatsumi Island. After Yae Miko secretly brought him into the library, the Shogun told him he would accompany her to inspect Tatarasuna the next day.

• Baichen ate breakfast with the Raiden Shogun, whose Electro strengthened his unusual ability to accept Electro and earned her approval.
• Kujou Sara reported that Sangonomiya Kokomi had arrived, and Kokomi asked the Shogun to reconsider the Vision Hunt Decree.
• Baichen argued that Watatsumi Island should retain healing Visions to protect Inazuma's stability, and the Shogun allowed them if they were registered.
• Kokomi thanked Baichen and gave him a carved seashell, while the Shogun praised his willingness to voice his beliefs.
• Yae Miko helped Baichen bypass the library barrier and showed him a forbidden book, but they hid when Kujou Sara checked the disturbance.
• The Shogun told Baichen he would accompany her to Tatarasuna the next day to see how he reacted on the battlefield.

Baichen accompanied the Raiden Shogun to Tatarasuna, where he gained the ability to absorb Electro and helped her survive a Tatarigami explosion that opened a spatial rift. After returning to Tenshukaku, he learned from Yae Miko that the Resistance had not brought the crystal that exploded.

• The Raiden Shogun took Baichen to Tatarasuna aboard the Thunder Soaring, where they fought off a Resistance raiding party at sea.
• The Shogun and Baichen encountered Electro phantoms, and Baichen discovered he could absorb their attacks.
• They found Resistance soldiers handling a Tatarigami crystal, which exploded and opened a spatial rift; Baichen pulled the Shogun away from a falling boulder.
• The Shogun ordered the troops to withdraw, then healed Baichen's wound aboard the ship and raised his Electro affinity to intermediate.
• Yae Miko approached Baichen at Tenshukaku with a similar crystal and said the Resistance had not brought the one that exploded.

Baichen toured Inazuma City under escort, where he received warnings and gifts from Yae Miko, Yoimiya, and Thoma before La Signora ambushed him. The Raiden Shogun drove the Fatui Harbinger away, then ordered Baichen to report before going out, while Miko’s hidden message warned that someone wanted him.

• Baichen received permission to tour Inazuma City with the Okuzumeshuu and visited Yae Publishing House, where Yae Miko gave him an omamori and a book containing a concealed letter.
• At Naganohara Fireworks, Yoimiya passed Baichen a shell earring from Sangonomiya Kokomi, and Kujou Sara joined his escort.
• Kamisato Ayaka invited Baichen to the Kamisato Estate, and Thoma warned him that La Signora and Fatui reinforcements were in Inazuma.
• La Signora ambushed Baichen, but Yae Miko intervened and the Raiden Shogun forced the Harbinger to retreat.
• The Raiden Shogun ordered Baichen to report before going out again, and Baichen later discovered Miko’s warning hidden in the book she had lent him.

Baichen spent a supervised day in Inazuma City, where Ayaka warned him that La Signora had been asking about him, and Ei promised to handle the Fatui. After a quiet moment of connection with Ei, she brought him warm milk that night and admitted his soul reflected something she had long forgotten, while a blood moon rose over the city.

• Kujou Sara allowed Baichen to visit Inazuma City under Okuzumeshuu escort, where he tried strawberry daifuku and received an embarrassing special edition of Yae Miko's novel.
• Kamisato Ayaka met Baichen outside Yae Publishing House, invited him to visit the Kamisato Clan's sword training hall, gave him a calming sachet, and warned him about La Signora.
• At dinner, Ei learned Baichen had heard about the Fatui and said she would handle them while he focused on training.
• During a moonlit walk, Ei recalled killing a giant serpent five hundred years earlier and admitted that eternity had always been lonely; Baichen brushed a blossom from her shoulder, and Electro passed between them.
• That night, Ei brought Baichen warm milk, noticed someone had visited his room, and said his soul was like a mirror reflecting something she had forgotten long ago.
• Ei told Baichen to rest because the next day might be long, as a blood moon rose over Inazuma City.

Baichen attended a tea party at the Kamisato Estate, where Yae Miko confronted Ayaka with evidence of a secret envoy to Watatsumi Island before an attack threw the gathering into chaos. Yoimiya led Baichen through a hidden passage to Ayaka’s secret villa, where Ayaka revealed she had staged the escape and trapped him for a private conversation.

• Baichen traveled to the Kamisato Estate under Kujou Sara’s protection after learning that Raiden Shogun would not attend and that several factions were watching him.
• Ayaka hosted Baichen and Yae Miko for tea, and Miko presented a letter about a Kamisato envoy sent to Watatsumi Island.
• Thoma warned that assassins had entered the estate, crossbow bolts struck the tea room, and Baichen fell through a trapdoor.
• Yoimiya rescued Baichen from a hidden passage and led him to a secluded garden, explaining that “that lady” had arranged the plan.
• Ayaka revealed that her tea-party double had helped fool Miko, then bound Baichen’s wrist with a red cord as masked ninjas surrounded them.

Kamisato Ayaka kept Baichen captive in a secluded villa, treating him as her beloved while tightening her control over him. After a nightmare made Ayaka fear losing him, Baichen comforted her and recognized that he was growing accustomed to his beautiful cage.

• Ayaka told Baichen she had wanted him since he spoke up for Watatsumi Island at Tenshukaku, shackled him, and declared that he would remain with her until he loved her or she tired of him.
• Ayaka dressed and fed Baichen, showed him the villa, bathed him, and locked him to the bed for the night before kissing his forehead.
• The next day, Ayaka read Baichen a story about a princess who imprisoned her beloved, then gave him a collar marked as her property before leaving him with the maids.
• Thoma visited Baichen and explained that Ayaka had planned the villa after meeting him, but Ayaka sent Thoma away and kissed Baichen possessively.
• Ayaka fantasized with Baichen about their wedding, secretly drugged his tea to weaken him if he left the villa, and warned him not to escape.
• Ayaka woke from a nightmare, kissed Baichen desperately, and sobbed that he must not leave her; Baichen comforted her and realized he was becoming accustomed to his captivity.

Kamisato Ayaka spent the day controlling Baichen’s routine, rewarding his obedience with affection and marking him as hers. That night, Baichen realized he was growing used to his captivity, while a blood moon and a pair of coral-colored eyes hinted at another secret in the villa.

• Ayaka noticed Baichen’s nightmares, then personally washed, dressed, and fed him, increasing her affection to 28%.
• Ayaka made Baichen study the Kamisato Clan’s rules, share tea with her, and practice swordsmanship under her close supervision.
• Ayaka showed Baichen a private room she had prepared, including a diary of his habits, and declared that he belonged to her.
• Ayaka fed Baichen dinner after making him repeat that he was hers, then pierced his ear with a Kamisato Clan crest stud and bathed him.
• Ayaka stopped their intimate advances for the night and slept embracing Baichen, who recognized that he was becoming accustomed to his captivity.
• A blood moon rose outside, and Baichen glimpsed coral-colored eyes in the trees despite Ayaka sleeping beside him.

The Raiden Shogun rescued Baichen from Ayaka’s captivity and brought him to Tenshukaku, where she placed him under close protection and began drawing him into her personal life and government work. Ayaka remained confined but sent Baichen a letter promising to return, leaving him caught between the two women as their struggle over him continued.

• Ayaka tightened Baichen’s shackles and ordered him to stay put when a signal sounded, but the Raiden Shogun broke into the residence and freed him.
• Ayaka attacked the Shogun as she carried Baichen away, and Yae Miko intervened before the Shogun ordered Ayaka confined for three months.
• At Tenshukaku, physicians examined Baichen, and the Shogun stayed beside him until he fell asleep before ordering him to live in the room next to hers.
• Baichen told the Shogun about his captivity and received her orders to report to her morning and evening; Yae Miko then gave him a protective charm and revealed she had supplied the rescue clue.
• Kujou Sara delivered Ayaka’s letter to Baichen, and he found that the stud she had given him released her familiar camellia scent.
• The Shogun marked Baichen’s other earlobe with her teeth, invited him to call her Ei, and assigned him sword practice and government studies as Baichen wondered what Ayaka would do next.

Baichen’s newly activated Romance Reward System granted him swordsmanship talent, and his training with Ei brought the two closer while exposing a risk in Ayaka’s stamina-restoring earring fragrance. After Kokomi sent Baichen a protective pendant and Miko watched from the shadows, Baichen ended the day sensing that several factions were taking an interest in him.

• Baichen activated the Romance Reward System and chose swordsmanship talent, then trained with Ei and gained her approval.
• Ayaka sent Baichen lunch and revealed that the fragrance in his earring restored stamina; Miko took the note, treated his bruises, and warned him to seek her if the scent grew too strong.
• Ei examined the earring and warned that prolonged use could cause dependence, limiting Baichen to wearing it for two hours after training.
• Kujou Sara announced that Sangonomiya Kokomi had sent Baichen a shell pendant and invited him to visit Watatsumi Island, and Ei let him keep it after checking it was safe.
• Ei found a strand of Miko’s fur outside Baichen’s window, while Baichen felt empty after removing the earring and used Ei’s bite mark to ease the discomfort.

Baichen trained under Ei, received gifts and attention from Yae Miko and Sangonomiya Kokomi, and learned that Ayaka’s Camellia Love fragrance could influence his feelings. After secretly meeting Miko at the tower, he obtained an antidote, while Ei asserted that her Electro mark was the more effective remedy.

• Ei trained Baichen with a real sword, and Yae Miko gave him a strength bracer and invited him to a book launch.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi secretly visited Baichen in the library, gave him stamina-restoring candy and an elemental reaction chart, then slipped away when Kujou Sara arrived.
• Yae Miko told Baichen that Ayaka’s Camellia Love fragrance could influence his feelings and offered him a sachet in exchange for meeting her to stargaze.
• Ei caught Baichen with sakuramochi crumbs, wiped them from his mouth, and unlocked his intermediate Electro Affinity; she then warned him not to go stargazing with Miko.
• Baichen went to the tower at midnight, where Miko showed him the night sky and gave him antidote powder to counteract Camellia Love.
• Ei confronted Baichen in his room, acknowledged the need for an antidote, and claimed that her Electro mark was the most effective one.

Baichen’s first outing from Tenshukaku brought him together with Yae Miko and the visiting Liyue adeptus Ganyu, provoking Ei’s jealousy. After Ei kissed him and his antidote reached full progress, Baichen received a mysterious message from Kokomi asking to meet at Ritou the next morning.

• Baichen took the third dose of Miko’s antidote and went out with Kujou Sara under Ei’s permission.
• Miko took Baichen to Uyuu Restaurant, where they met Ganyu, who was visiting Inazuma for a cultural exchange about tax administration.
• Ganyu gave Baichen almond tofu and a peace bell, while Miko’s closeness with him made Ganyu wonder whether they were lovers.
• Ei confronted Baichen and Miko, took Baichen back to Tenshukaku, and later kissed him after asking whether he liked Miko or Ganyu.
• Baichen completed the antidote course, and Kokomi sent a paper crane shikigami inviting him to meet at the Ritou docks the next morning.

Baichen met Sangonomiya Kokomi, received evidence of Fatui troop deployments, and was pulled into the growing tension between Watatsumi Island and the Shogunate. Over the following weeks, he trained with Ei, Kujou, and Ganyu, gaining new combat skills as the system tracked their rising affection; he wondered how the women would react once he could stand on his own.

• Baichen met Sangonomiya Kokomi aboard the Sea Moon, received a conch to ease his mark sensitivity, and was asked to deliver Watatsumi Island’s trade proposal and Fatui intelligence to the Shogun.
• Ei interrupted their meeting, took Baichen back to Tenshukaku, and accepted the document for verification after he explained Kokomi’s request.
• Baichen trained with Ei, unlocked Adversity Burst, and received swordsmanship experience and increased affection from Ei.
• Ganyu offered Baichen a jade apology gift and advice on elemental training, while Yae Miko joined them and helped him practice Electro control.
• Ei accepted the verified intelligence as largely accurate, assigned Baichen to learn archery from Kujou, and told him to grow stronger for himself.
• Baichen trained with Kujou and Ganyu, unlocked Electro Arrow and Electro-Charged Reaction, and received armor from Ei before beginning Tenryou Commission combat drills.

After La Signora invited Baichen to Snezhnaya, Ei reluctantly let him go for two weeks because of an old promise to the Tsaritsa. In the Winter Capital, Bronya welcomed Baichen, gave him basic Cryo mastery, and left him wondering whether his visit was really a carefully planned imprisonment.

• Baichen survived Kujou Sara's combat drill, but La Signora arrived and invited him to Snezhnaya on the Tsaritsa's behalf.
• Ei revealed that she had promised the Tsaritsa a future favor five hundred years earlier, then agreed to let Baichen travel under strict conditions and gave him an Electro Archon's Talisman.
• Baichen boarded La Signora's ship and reached Snezhnaya, where Bronya personally welcomed him and hosted him at a banquet.
• Bronya told Baichen of a prophecy about an outlander who could change Teyvat's fate and granted him basic Cryo mastery.
• The Fatui Harbingers examined Baichen, while the Tsaritsa promised to teach him Cryo and kissed his forehead.
• Baichen discovered that the palace blocked his reporting talismans and worried that he might not be allowed to return to Inazuma.

Baichen trained with Bronya in Snezhnaya, grew closer to her, and received a Cryo-enhancing necklace and a heart-shaped ice crystal. Kujou Sara delivered Ei’s letter and said a ship would come in three days, leaving Baichen uncertain whether his ties to Ei were weakening or whether Bronya would let him leave.

• Baichen met Bronya in the Ice Blossom Court, where she taught him to shape Cryo and helped him form an ice shield.
• Bronya gave Baichen a necklace that increased his Cryo control, then showed him books about controlling two elements in the royal library.
• Rosalyne announced that Kujou Sara had arrived with a letter from the Raiden Shogun, and Kujou told Baichen to be ready to leave in three days.
• Bronya provoked Kujou over Baichen’s bite mark, while Baichen insisted that his relationship with Ei was private.
• At a tea party, several Fatui Harbingers showed interest in Baichen, and later Bronya led him to find a heart-shaped ice crystal in the garden.
• Baichen noticed Ei’s amulet glowing and worried that his growing Cryo ability was weakening his connection with Ei as his departure date approached.

Baichen endured Bronya’s increasingly possessive attention in Zapolyarny Palace while Ei’s affection continued to fall. After meeting Ganyu at a banquet and being kissed by Bronya, he received a message from Ei promising to come to Snezhnaya.

• Bronya interrupted her intimate moment with Baichen when Rosalyne reported that the Liyue delegation had arrived, then told him they would continue later.
• Columbina brought Baichen almond tofu, but the system detected a mild hypnotic ingredient before he ate it, and Dottore measured his changing elemental affinity.
• Arlecchino helped Baichen dress for the banquet and let him keep Ei’s amulet beneath an ice-rose brooch.
• Bronya introduced Baichen to Ganyu, kept him close throughout the banquet, and danced with him while Ganyu watched with concern.
• Bronya kissed Baichen in the corridor, then left him after saying she wanted him to belong to her willingly; her affection rose to 53% as Ei’s fell to 47%.
• Ei’s talisman heated up and displayed a message promising that she would come to Snezhnaya.

Baichen was caught between Bronya’s possessive advances and the Raiden Shogun’s approach, but urgent military news led Bronya to arrange his return to Inazuma. He prepared to leave with hidden Cryo marks, while the reason Ei changed her plans remained unknown.

• Bronya discovered that Ei had sent Baichen a message, grew jealous, and dragged him to her bedchamber, where she marked him with Cryo and confessed that his Electro warmth had thawed her emotions.
• Baichen asked why Bronya treated him differently, and she explained that his two elements and innocence made him special before questioning him about Ei.
• Bronya kissed Baichen, but Arlecchino interrupted with news that Ei’s fleet was gathering near Snezhnaya’s border, prompting Bronya to order stronger defenses and arrange Baichen’s return the next day.
• Bronya told Baichen that her marks would last three days and promised they would meet again, while the system reported that Ei had canceled her spatial jump for an unknown reason.
• Baichen redeemed advanced Cryo Resistance, making the marks transparent, then noticed his disheveled clothes and hickeys as he prepared to return to Inazuma.

Baichen returned from Snezhnaya to Inazuma after Bronya gave him a tracking pendant and parting kiss, and Ei confronted him about the ice marks before easing her anger. At Ritou, Ganyu delivered Ningguang’s gift, and Baichen met the unfamiliar traveler Lumine before continuing toward Tenshukaku to see Ei.

• Bronya gave Baichen a snowflake pendant, kissed him goodbye, and sent him back to Inazuma aboard the Aurora with Arlecchino.
• Kujou Sara met Baichen at sea and escorted him to Ei, who took the pendant and questioned him about Bronya’s Cryo marks.
• Ei’s anger softened when she learned the marks would fade, and she gave Baichen new Inazuman clothes before the fleet reached Ritou.
• At Ritou, Ganyu gave Baichen a jade clasp from Ningguang, but Kujou took it for the Shogun to inspect.
• At the main island’s dock, Baichen met the traveler Lumine and her companion Paimon, then continued toward Tenshukaku to meet Ei.

After returning from Snezhnaya, Baichen reassured Ei about Bronya’s Cryo marks and spent a day visiting Inazuma’s friends, who welcomed him with gifts. Ei grew jealous of the attention he received but softened when he praised her ointment, while Bronya’s mark and promise remained on his mind.

• Baichen told Ei that Bronya had left Cryo marks on him, and Ei’s anger subsided into self-reproach as she gave him Thunder Sakura ointment and a day off.
• Kujou Sara accompanied Baichen around Inazuma City, where Yae Miko gave him scent-removing water and light novels.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi gave Baichen a Calming Conch, and Yoimiya welcomed him with an Ice and Snow Phoenix firework and Cold Light Fireworks.
• Kamisato Ayaka apologized for the confinement incident and gave Baichen a calming camellia sachet.
• Ei listed the gifts Baichen had received, and he reassured her that her ointment mattered most; she declared that he belonged to her as Bronya’s mark reminded him of their unfulfilled promise.

Baichen enjoyed a day of freedom in Inazuma as his ice markings faded, received an invitation from Ningguang to visit Liyue, and gained Ei’s permission to go under strict conditions. He was set to leave in five days with Ganyu, while Bronya’s pendant remained missing and the system warned that Liyue held new dangers.

• Baichen learned that his ice markings were nearly gone, received new clothes and permission to explore Inazuma for the day, and discovered that Bronya’s pendant was still with Kujou.
• Baichen visited Yae Publishing House, read Miko’s embellished manuscript about him and Bronya, and fled after hearing about a planned hot-spring scene.
• Ganyu gave Baichen Ningguang’s invitation to visit Liyue as Inazuma’s representative and secretly presented him with a jade thumb ring, while Kujou watched them.
• Baichen met Miko and Kokomi at Uyuu Restaurant, received Miko’s bath salts, tested Yoimiya’s new fireworks, and accepted calming incense powder from Ayaka.
• Ei approved Baichen’s trip to Liyue with Tenryou Commission guards, daily reports, and a two-week limit, then told him he would leave in five days with Ganyu.
• The system announced that Liyue Harbor was about to unlock and warned Baichen that Ningguang was especially dangerous, while Bronya’s pendant remained missing.