Chapter Summaries

Lu Guan left his family estate to travel to Stardust Academy, where he reflected on how he had died on Earth and been reborn in Solaris with a conquest system and an unusual resonance ability. The chapter left him aboard the ship, heading toward the academy with his powers and system still largely unexplained.

• Yu Lan fussed over Lu Guan before his departure, while Lu Yi scolded him for his irreverent remarks.
• Lu Guan caught his parents laughing behind the gates and began to invoke his resonance ability before Lu Yi stopped him.
• Lu Guan boarded a ship for Stardust Academy and watched the continent disappear before returning to his cabin.
• Lu Guan recalled that a strange pop-up had appeared while he was playing Wuthering Waves, and he died of cardiac arrest after answering that he desired boobs.
• Lu Guan remembered that he had been reborn as Yu Lan and Lu Yi's son with a conquest system and the resonance ability Command All Things with Words.
• Lu Guan recalled that the system had never responded to him and had made no progress toward his childhood conquest targets.

Lu Guan awakened the Conquest System, gained a burst of Resonance power, and accidentally caused a shipwreck before being released from the Pacification Bureau. His cousin Suisui bailed him out and took him to a teahouse, where she began teasing him.

• Lu Guan activated the Conquest System, which listed Changli, Suisui, and Yangyang as conquerable characters and awarded him a 10% increase in Resonance ability development.
• Lu Guan tested his new power with a shouted technique, causing a gigantic golden finger to appear and a ship to wreck, though rescue teams reported no casualties.
• The Pacification Bureau chiliarch questioned Lu Guan about his sudden Resonance development, then released him after someone paid his bail.
• Lu Guan left the bureau after asking whether the incident would affect his admission to Stardust Academy and taking a box of staff meals.
• Suisui met Lu Guan outside the bureau, explained that she had bailed him out, and invited him to a teahouse.

Lu Guan told Suisui that he had gained more control over his resonance ability, while she teased him about his old feud with Yangyang and warned him not to cause another disaster. After Lu Guan fought off a bizarre thought about Suisui, he declared that his battle with the evil spirit in his heart had simply ended.

• Suisui praised Lu Guan and teased him about plucking Yangyang's feathers, revealing that Yangyang had kept the feather fan as a memento.
• Lu Guan explained that his resonance ability could now activate under less intense conditions, though he still could not reliably summon the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heavenly Finger.
• Lu Guan recalled that his earlier Mahoraga summoning and giant air vortex had alarmed Huanglong's leaders, who sent him to Stardust Academy to develop his ability and avoid further trouble.
• Suisui misunderstood Lu Guan's thanks and warned him not to pluck her feathers, threatening to hit him with her fan if he tried.
• Lu Guan's lewd thoughts about Suisui triggered no response from his Supreme Bone, and he slapped his forehead before telling Suisui that his inner battle had ended.

Lu Guan traveled to Lahai-Roi under the Jinzhou Security Bureau’s escort, healing Chiliarch Zhao and his men with oranges produced by his Resonance ability. After reaching the Royan Frostlands, he accidentally created and hurled a dangerous black sphere toward the sea, where it flew toward Principal Lacerta.

• Lu Guan used an orange to cure Shen Lang’s seasickness and heal Chiliarch Zhao’s hidden injuries, then gave oranges to the other Jinzhou Security Bureau personnel.
• Chiliarch Zhao and his men accepted Lu Guan’s gift and continued escorting him, though he refused to help with Lu Guan’s proposed experiment.
• After several days at sea, the ship reached the ice-free port in the Royan Frostlands, and Chiliarch Zhao’s party wished Lu Guan success before parting ways.
• Lu Guan unexpectedly formed a powerful black sphere, called the Great Spiraling Ring of Yu, and threw it toward the distant sea when he could not stop it from activating.
• Principal Lacerta arrived with the Star Torch Academy welcoming party and saw the sphere flying toward her.

Dania read a forum post about Lu Guan accidentally injuring Professor Lacerta before he had enrolled, while Mornye and Voss struggled to decide how to handle his uncontrolled resonance ability. After Lacerta met with Lu Guan in the infirmary, she forgave him and made him her temporary teaching assistant, but he suddenly disappeared as she finished explaining the role.

• Dania read a pinned forum post describing how Lu Guan’s accidental explosion injured Lacerta and left her in the infirmary.
• Mornye and Voss concluded that academy rules did not apply to Lu Guan because he had not officially enrolled when the incident happened, and they decided to wait for Lacerta to wake up.
• Voss discovered that Lu Guan’s speech-triggered resonance ability was uncontrollable and rated extremely dangerous, while Lu Guan managed to keep himself from accidentally activating it.
• Mornye brought Lu Guan to the infirmary, where Lacerta spoke with him alone and said she had changed her mind about him after he honestly admitted his mistake.
• Lacerta assigned Lu Guan to serve as her temporary teaching assistant for the Rinascita Royan Tribe Culture and History course as a small punishment, then noticed he had vanished.

Lu Guan struggled to control his resonance ability at Stardust Academy, where an accidental complaint transformed the dining hall’s food into baked stinky socks. The chapter ended with a student who had eaten the socks collapsing after recommending them, while Lu Hes ordered his stomach pumped.

• Lu Guan returned to his dorm, reviewed his newly added romanceable characters, and activated the Earthshaking Three Figures bond with Changli, Lacerta, and Suisui.
• Lu Guan settled into routine student life, but his resonance ability caused trouble when he complained that academy food tasted like an old sock and transformed the dining hall meals into stinky socks.
• Lu Guan fled the dining hall at high speed, crashed into the infirmary window, and asked Lu Hes if he could hide there.
• Lu Hes reassured Lu Guan that the academy was used to unusual incidents, but a student arrived with food poisoning after eating the sock-like food.
• The student praised the socks as delicious before passing out, and Lu Hes told N.A.N.A to arrange for his stomach to be pumped.

After Lu Guan ruined Dania’s lunch with his resonance ability, she confronted him and demanded compensation. He agreed to get her a birthday cake, and his attempt to connect her name to a phrase earned him a small increase in affection, though he still had to find a cake.

• Dania watched Lu Guan leave after his resonance ability turned her meal into foul-smelling socks.
• At the infirmary, Lu Hes offered Lu Guan waffles and said Principal Lacerta had gone to find a teacher who could help him control his ability.
• Walking back to the dormitory, Lu Guan felt watched, and the system added Dania to his romanceable-character list with affection at -25.
• Dania confronted Lu Guan in an alley and demanded compensation for the lunch he had ruined.
• Lu Guan offered to buy Dania a cake after she claimed it was her birthday, then joked that her name meant “until we meet again.”
• Dania’s affection rose to -15, and Lu Guan began wondering where he could get a birthday cake.

Lu Guan gave Dania a birthday cake and raised her affection through singing and flirtatious conversation. After accepting her breakthrough quest, he discovered he had three days to caress the Tacet Mark on her chest for ten minutes.

• Lu Guan sang Dania's song, then produced a birthday cake for her, and Dania secretly cried as she accepted it.
• Dania ate the cake and thanked Lu Guan, while his compliments raised her affection despite her protests.
• Dania said she had attended the academy for two years and had learned about Lu Guan on the Star Torch Forum.
• Lu Guan accepted Dania's breakthrough quest, which required him to caress her chest's Tacet Mark for ten minutes within three days.
• Dania caught Lu Guan staring at her, and he claimed he had merely lost his way while appreciating beauty.

Lu Guan met Chisa, the teacher Losera found to help him control his Resonance Ability, and she used her power to glimpse his possible futures. After seeing his tragic futures and a puzzling vision of herself among brides surrounding his memorial tablet, Chisa passed on a cryptic hint that Lu Guan could not fully explain.

• Daniya teased Lu Guan about her Tacet Mark, then fled in embarrassment when he said he admired her.
• Lu Guan rejected the idea of secretly completing his quest while Daniya slept and decided to win her over willingly.
• Losera called Lu Guan and told him she had found a teacher to help him control his Resonance Ability.
• Lu Guan went to classroom 306 and met Chisa, the Blazing Sakura Miko of Ashihara.
• Chisa used her bell to seek Lu Guan's future, seeing several disastrous possibilities before pain forced her to stop.
• Chisa glimpsed herself among girls in wedding gowns surrounding a memorial tablet bearing Lu Guan's name, then told him the hint: "Perfect ending... must not fail... lies in one's heart..."

Lu Guan demonstrated his borrowed resonance power to Chisa, who analyzed its limitations and advised him to practice at the academy’s simulated training grounds. Chisa offered to arrange higher-level access for him, while Dania saw them together and felt inexplicably disappointed.

• Lu Guan suggested that Chisa could use lessons from her future selves to help understand his resonance ability, and Chisa agreed to begin training him.
• Dania spotted Chisa and Lu Guan heading out late at night, then returned to her room feeling disappointed without understanding why.
• At the Etching Plain, Lu Guan sang “Rainie Love (DJ version)” and unleashed Hollow Technique: Purple, which Chisa split apart with her blade.
• Chisa explained that Lu Guan’s borrowed power was weakened by its source, the atmosphere, and his resonance energy, and advised him to practice using it more.
• Chisa offered to raise Lu Guan’s access to the simulated training grounds so he could use his full power safely.

After returning from seeing Chisa, Lu Guan unknowingly completed Dania’s affection mission when she snuck into his dorm to prank him and ended up trapped in his arms. The next morning, he used the newly unlocked Recollection Room to learn what had happened.

• Lu Guan returned to the academy exhausted, washed up, and fell asleep in his dorm.
• Dania sneaked into Lu Guan’s room, teased him while he slept, and was accidentally pulled into his embrace.
• Dania waited until Lu Guan was sleeping deeply, slipped free, and left a cup of water by his pillow as a prank.
• Lu Guan woke to find spilled water and a strand of pale pink hair, then received the system’s notification that Dania’s mission was complete.
• Lu Guan opened the Recollection Room and watched the unlocked CG, learning that Dania had spent three hours sleeping in his arms.

Lu Guan and Dania grew closer over lunch, but Napomo caught them acting intimate and prompted them both to deny their relationship. Dania hurried away, leaving Napomo to warn Lu Guan that she might slip through his fingers.

• Lu Guan listened to exaggerated rumors about the academy incident while Dania briefly sat at his desk and fell asleep.
• After class, Dania asked Lu Guan to repeat what he had said the day before and invited him to lunch; he took her hand, and she bit his arm when he teased her.
• At the cafeteria, Dania fed Lu Guan cake and asked him to help finish it before Napomo arrived and questioned whether they were dating.
• Lu Guan and Dania both called themselves ordinary classmates, causing Dania's affection to drop by four points before she hurried away.
• Napomo asked Lu Guan whether he liked Dania, then warned him that she might quietly slip through his fingers before following her.

Napomo threatened Dania in Lahai-Roi's Darkhollow, insisting that she remain useful and warning that her new feelings could be taken away. Enraged by Dania's unstable affection, Lu Guan tested his Resonance Ability in the simulation training ground, destroyed a Clang Bang projection, and challenged Hecate next.

• Napomo confronted Dania, accused her of developing a heart through her contact with Lu Guan, and threatened to take everything from her if she lost her value.
• Lu Guan blamed the Fractsidus president for Dania's distress and selected a Clang Bang projection to test his Resonance Ability.
• Lu Guan claimed rewards that increased his Resonance Ability development and control, then transformed into a yellow-and-purple form and unleashed a meteor attack that wrecked the simulation.
• Lacerta and Chisa watched Lu Guan's performance on a monitor and decided to keep observing him before making an assessment.
• Lu Guan entered the training ground again and chose Hecate as his next opponent.

After Lu Guan collapsed from exhausting his resonance power, Lacerta and Chisa checked on him while rumors about him spread through the academy. Lu Guan learned Dania was suffering a mental breakdown and hurried to find her.

• Lu Guan ran out of mana after defeating Hecate, and Lacerta stopped the projection before Hecate could reach him.
• Rumors about Lu Guan, Lacerta, Chisa, and Dania spread around the academy as Dania struggled with whether to reveal her true personality to Lu Guan.
• Lu Hes examined Lu Guan in the infirmary, where Lacerta and Chisa advised him to rest and helped him activate FliChat.
• The system reported increases in Lacerta, Lu Hes, and Chisa's affection, then warned Lu Guan that Dania was undergoing extreme emotional fluctuations and a mental breakdown.
• Lacerta messaged Lu Guan about the academy rumors, but he decided to find Dania first.

Lu Guan confronted Dania about her distress and discovered that she feared becoming a Tacet Discord resonator under Aleph-1’s influence. After he accepted her eroded true appearance and Dania returned his affection, she regained her usual disguise and sent him away, leaving their relationship’s status uncertain.

• Dania sat alone in her dim dorm room, struggling with her feelings for Lu Guan and the president’s pressure.
• Lu Guan entered Dania’s room and told her he was worried about her, but she repeatedly asked him to leave.
• Lu Guan guessed that Dania feared a future in which she became a Tacet Discord resonator, and Dania broke down over the threat of being abandoned.
• Lu Guan kissed Dania, saw the Void Matter erosion on her hands and feet, and told her he liked her real self.
• Dania returned to her disguised form, pushed Lu Guan out, and shut the door while blushing.

After the walkthrough system upgraded, Lu Guan defeated Hecate by overwhelming its database, then learned from Principal Lacerta that the Academy Dark Side was influencing students. Lacerta said the adults would handle the threat, while Lu Guan suspected someone was controlling it.

• The walkthrough system completed its repairs and upgraded to version 2.0 while Lu Guan trained against Hecate.
• Lu Guan used Imaginary Technique: "Purple" and Domain Expansion-Unlimited Void to crash Hecate by flooding its database with corrupted information.
• Researchers took Lu Guan to Principal Lacerta, where he argued that the damaged database resulted from the researcher's flawed program design.
• Lacerta explained that the Academy Dark Side collected students' emotions and that its puzzles were meant to help them confront and release those feelings.
• Lacerta revealed that students' mental states were being affected and that she had detected an unidentifiable frequency in the Dark Side; Lu Guan proposed someone was controlling it.

Lu Guan received Jinzhou pastries from Yangyang and used the newly awakened walkthrough system to discover Dania’s affection had reached 100. Though the system offered an oath and special CG, he postponed it until the crisis in Lahai-Roi was resolved and Aleph One was no longer a threat.

• Losera gave Lu Guan a gift from Huanglong and warned him away from the simulation training ground while the academy’s dark side remained unresolved.
• Lu Guan opened Yangyang’s gift of Jinzhou pastries and suspected her invitation to Jinzhou was a scheme to shave his head.
• Lu Guan checked Dania’s profile, tested whether she was nearby, and raised her affection by offering her a pastry.
• Dania joined Lu Guan at the café, shared a pastry with him, and reached 100 affection as they kissed.
• The walkthrough system offered an oath and a special CG, but Lu Guan refused to proceed until the Lahai-Roi crisis was resolved and Aleph One was no longer a threat.

After Daniya's affection reached 100, Lu Guan unlocked an oath reward that could increase his Echo Energy, but hesitated to take the oath while questioning his feelings for her. As Daniya's Star Desire Points repeatedly surged, Lu Guan confronted a dark version of himself that appeared in a vision and survived their clash.

• Lu Guan received the system's Star Desire Points warning and claimed Daniya's affection reward, which increased his maximum Echo Energy by 20%.
• Lu Guan saw the oath rewards available for Daniya, including a World Origin Fragment, the Gaze of the Nihility Threnodian, and Daniya's resonance ability, but did not take the oath.
• Daniya reflected on her feelings for Lu Guan and tried to relieve her worries alone, causing her Star Desire Points to rise and fall.
• Lu Guan refused to treat relationships like a game and questioned whether he truly loved Daniya, prompting the system to accuse him of emotional emptiness.
• A dark version of Lu Guan appeared in a dim classroom, and the two clashed with Hollow Technique: Purple before the dark side warned that it could not be destroyed until Lu Guan overcame his inner demon.

Lu Guan defeated Napomo’s avatar through Mahoraga and his shameless Resonance abilities, then was left trapped in the academy’s dark side. As Lacerta and Lu Hes searched for the disturbance, they heard Lu Guan singing for help.

• Lu Guan exposed Napomo’s disguise and summoned Mahoraga, which struck him down before fighting Napomo in her Charon form.
• Napomo defeated Mahoraga but was badly weakened, and Lu Guan revealed that being hit had helped him master the core of Resonance Power.
• Napomo offered Lu Guan a high-ranking role in Fractsidus, but he refused and used his abilities to force her back into Napomo’s form and humiliate her.
• Napomo threatened revenge, transformed into a grotesque shape, and exploded, leaving Lu Guan covered in filth.
• Lu Guan washed himself and wandered the academy’s dark side, then sang “Remembering Teacher Luo” to attract attention.
• Lacerta and Lu Hes heard Lu Guan’s singing while searching for the disturbance.

After being caught up in the Fractsidus president’s scheme, Lu Guan was told he would need to remain in Lahai-Roi under supervision. He later confessed his encounter to Dania, who grew affectionate and used an illusion bubble to pursue him in the library.

• Lacerta and Lu Hes found Lu Guan, and Lacerta explained that he would have to stay in Lahai-Roi so the academy and Deep Space Union could monitor and protect him.
• Lu Guan checked the system, learned that certain characters had special rewards tied to a perfect ending, and decided to improve his strength and favorability with others.
• At breakfast, Lu Guan told Dania that he had fought a clone of the Fractsidus president, and Dania worried that the president had targeted him because of her.
• Dania’s Star Desire Points rose as she sat with Lu Guan in the library and offered him a lap pillow.
• Dania used Void Matter to create an illusion bubble, then went under the table as Lu Guan protested and the system announced that her special CG had unlocked.