Chapter Summaries

Dania grew increasingly clingy with Lu Guan and pressured him to take their relationship further, while he insisted on waiting until things had settled down. Meanwhile, Augusta used the Furnace Heart to strengthen herself and traveled to Stardust Academy, where she stumbled upon Lu Guan and Dania’s intimate game and watched in shock.

• Dania stayed close to Lu Guan throughout the day and admitted she feared another girl might win his affection, then asked him for something to reassure her.
• Lu Guan refused Dania’s request to take their relationship further, saying he wanted to wait until everything had settled down, and Dania’s Star Desire Points continued to rise.
• In the Luminous Forest, Augusta used the Furnace Core with the Sun Sprites’ help to strengthen her power and prepared to return to Stardust Academy.
• Dania pulled Lu Guan into a café and started a grape-eating game inside a Void Matter Bubble, turning it into a punishment game and unlocking her special CG 3.
• Augusta entered the Void Matter Bubble, saw Lu Guan and Dania’s game, and watched their increasingly intimate second round in stunned fascination.

Lu Guan made an Oath with Dania to turn her dangerously high Star Desire Points into Affection, and the pair woke the next day together with a new ring on Dania’s hand. Dania’s enthusiasm left Lu Guan facing another exhausting morning in her dorm.

• Over two months, Lacerta used Lu Guan’s information to eliminate several Fractsidus spies at the academy, while Dania increasingly reduced her own Star Desire Points.
• Worried that Dania’s Star Desire Points could lead to a BAD END, Lu Guan went to her dorm to make an Oath with her.
• Lu Guan entered Dania’s dim room while she was adjusting her Star Desire Points and told her he wanted to make an Oath with her.
• Dania embraced Lu Guan, and after they spent the night together, the system confirmed their Oath and converted her Star Desire Points into Affection.
• The next morning, Dania admired the ring on her hand, and Lu Guan joined her for another round of morning exercise.

Lynae skipped Professor Mornye’s class to test her modified research motorcycle on the Etching Plain, where she collided with Sigelika, a new student from the Rinascita Royan Tribe. After apologizing, Lynae offered to take Sigelika to the academy to register.

• Professor Mornye marked Lu Guan, Dania, and Lynae absent, while Lacerta learned that Lu Guan and Dania had skipped class together.
• Lacerta called Lu Guan, whose conversation with her was interrupted by Dania, and then tried to reassure herself about being single.
• Lynae sped across the Etching Plain on her modified research motorcycle and struck Sigelika, who punched the motorcycle away to stop it.
• Lynae woke beside Sigelika, apologized, and learned that Sigelika was an adult who had come to the academy to register.
• Lynae offered Sigelika a ride to the academy, claiming it would not delay her.

As the semester ended, Lu Guan weighed his future pursuit of Augusta and Phrolova while Dania chose to vacation with him in Jinzhou. Dania also asked him to plant a booby-trapped birthday cake in Darkhollow for the returning president.

• After Lu Guan ended a call with Professor Mornye, Dania comforted him and worried that the president's plan would destroy the academy; Lu Guan promised the plan would fail.
• Lynae brought Sigelika to Stardust Academy, where Teacher Voss caught Lynae skipping class and processed Sigelika's enrollment.
• By the end of the semester, Lu Guan had raised Dania's affection to 100, gained favor with other characters, and unlocked the Peerless Best Friends bond between Sigelika and Dania.
• Lu Guan noticed Augusta had become a romanceable character with a special reward and wondered whether pursuing Phrolova would also be necessary for a perfect ending.
• Dania chose to travel to Jinzhou with Lu Guan during vacation rather than meet his parents or stay at the academy.
• Dania asked Lu Guan to put a birthday cake bearing her name in Darkhollow's underground laboratory and hide a trigger-activated Void Matter bomb inside it for the president.

Dania and Lu Guan returned to the underground facility where she had been experimented on, and Lu Guan pressed her to explain what would happen if her connection to Aleph-1 ended. Dania kept the truth secret, while Lu Guan discovered that losing Aleph-1’s power would cause the Void Matter inside her body to consume her.

• Dania reunited with Shaye, then led Lu Guan through the facility where she had once been held and experimented on.
• Dania remembered her abuse and told Lu Guan that she expected the Tacet Discord of Nihility’s gaze to leave her, but she refused to explain what that would mean.
• Three days earlier, Dania asked Nastassja whether she should leave Lu Guan, worrying about what would happen to him if she suddenly disappeared.
• Lu Guan promised to find Dania and bring her back if she ever left, and Dania tried to dismiss the possibility with a joke.
• After Dania placed a Void Matter bomb in the facility and left, Lu Guan read Hydra’s report stating that severing Dania’s connection to Aleph-1 would make Void Matter irreversibly consume her body and frequency.

Lu Guan realized Dania planned to sacrifice herself after her connection to Aleph-1 began weakening, but he reached the Void Matter chamber too late to stop her from entering the Void Matter space. He found only her doll and a note thanking him for giving her the heart she had wanted.

• Lu Guan worried that Dania's weakening connection to Aleph-1 could make the Void Matter inside her uncontrollable, and he searched his unclaimed rewards for a way to save her.
• Lu Guan concluded Dania had never intended to travel to Jinzhou with him and rushed to find her.
• Dania secretly entered the Fractsidus underground laboratory, drank the remaining doses made from Threnodian fragments, and suppressed the rampant Void Matter with her Resonance Ability.
• Dania ate a piece of cake beside the Void Matter chamber, coughed blood mixed with Void Matter, and entered the chamber in the Form of Disillusionment.
• Lu Guan reached the chamber as Dania opened the passage to the Void Matter space, but he found only her stitched doll and a note thanking him.

Lu Guan overclocked his Tacet Mark and summoned the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to destroy Aleph-1’s creation of Dania. After a mysterious blonde woman healed him, she revealed that she had brought him to this world.

• Lu Guan overclocked his Tacet Mark and demanded to speak with Aleph-1, which summoned a creation resembling Dania.
• Lu Guan rejected the creation as the real Dania and fought it while asking Aleph-1 what it had done to her.
• Lu Guan summoned the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and destroyed Aleph-1 with help from a surge of energy that restored his Resonance Power.
• A blonde woman revived Lu Guan in a white space and healed the pain caused by Overclocking.
• The blonde woman told Lu Guan that she was the reason he had come to this world.

Lu Guan confronted the blonde woman behind his system and learned that she was the will of the planet Solaris, who had brought him from another world and chosen him to re-anchor the world's course. The chapter ended with him asking why she had chosen him.

• The blonde woman brought up Lu Guan's system and offered to answer his questions, but he first challenged her use of affection values despite her having no relationship experience.
• Lu Guan asked who she was, and the woman claimed to be his resonance source and, in a sense, his mother.
• The woman explained that Lu Guan's Tac Tacet Mark had gained a sixth star and asked whether she was a Sentinel or a Threnodian, then revealed she was neither.
• The woman identified herself as the manifestation of Solaris's will and said she had chosen Lu Guan from another world to re-anchor the world's course.
• The woman explained that Lu Guan's Command All Things with Words was an authority, not merely a resonance ability, and that she had brought his soul across worlds and arranged for him to be born.
• Lu Guan set aside her claims about being his mother and asked why she had chosen him.

Sora explained that she had brought Lu Guan from another world because only an otherworlder could counter the effects of another otherworlder, and revealed that she had saved him and Dania during the fight with Aleph-1. After warning Lu Guan that he was now Dania’s Resonance Source and that she could not hold back Desolation much longer, Sora disappeared, leaving Lu Guan and Dania at the port as they boarded a ship to Huanglong.

• Sora told Lu Guan a story about a town that stole a dragon egg to stop a spreading fire, then admitted she had chosen him because an otherworlder’s influence could only be eliminated by another otherworlder.
• Lu Guan said he did not resent Sora bringing him to this world, and reluctantly called her Mom after she revealed she had supplied energy during his fight with Aleph-1.
• Sora brought out the sleeping Dania and explained that the World Origin Fragment could have destroyed Aleph-1, but Lu Guan had instead charged at Him with Overclocking active.
• Sora warned Lu Guan not to use Overclocking again, revealed that he had become Dania’s Resonance Source, and urged him to treat her well.
• Sora said her power was mostly occupied sealing Desolation and that she could not hold on much longer, then vanished after asking Lu Guan to keep their meeting secret.
• Lu Guan and Dania reappeared at an ice-free port, where Lu Guan led her aboard a ship bound for Huanglong.

Lu Guan and Dania arrived at Gunchao Port, where Dania worried about whether his family would accept her, while Yangyang prepared to meet her cousin. Lu Guan spotted Yangyang after he and Dania disembarked.

• Lu Guan reassured Dania about his white hair and the risks he took to save her, and she teased him about using his Void Matter body before they reached Jinzhou.
• As the ship neared Gunchao Port, Dania fretted that Lu Guan’s family might reject her because she could no longer bear children; Lu Guan gave her ice cream and eased her worries.
• Yangyang told Chixia she was going to meet her younger cousin, and Chixia agreed to accompany her after Yangyang warned her not to mention the feather fan.
• Baizhi caught Chixia and confronted her about putting chili powder in her coffee, while Chixia begged her to make peace.
• Lu Guan and Dania disembarked at Gunchao Port, where Lu Guan explained Jinzhou’s supply needs and its ongoing fight against Jué.
• Dania pointed out a tall, black-haired woman waiting nearby, and Lu Guan recognized her as his cousin Yangyang.

Lu Guan reunited with his cousin Yangyang at Jinzhou’s harbor and introduced her to his girlfriend, Dania, while the two cousins traded insults. At the city gate, Baizhi’s detector twice identified Dania as carrying a Lament energy signature, prompting the guards to surround her and Lu Guan.

• Lu Guan teased Yangyang until she recognized him, then introduced Dania as his girlfriend.
• Yangyang tried to stay polite to Dania while exchanging hostile looks and jabs with Lu Guan.
• Chixia drove Lu Guan and Dania to Jinzhou’s gate, where they met Baizhi in the back seat.
• Baizhi scanned Dania, and the detector alarmed; the guards drew their weapons and surrounded Lu Guan and Dania.
• Baizhi repeated the scan, triggering the alarm again, and Yangyang began to suspect they were disguised Tacet Discords.

Lu Guan and Dania were stopped at Jinzhou’s gate when the guards detected Lament energy, but Changli vouched for them and escorted them into the city. Changli revealed that her intelligence network had kept her informed about Lu Guan, while Dania stayed close to him.

• Lu Guan used his Resonance ability to calm the guards and asked Yangyang to find someone with authority to hear their explanation.
• Yangyang suspected Lu Guan might be a disguised Tacet Discord, but he proved his identity by recalling embarrassing childhood memories, prompting her to fetch Officer Taoqi.
• Changli arrived, recognized Lu Guan, and asked why Dania carried Lament energy; Lu Guan explained that Dania was a threnodian Resonator and that her threnodian had temporarily left Solaris.
• Changli vouched for Dania, and the guards registered Lu Guan and Dania before letting them enter Jinzhou with her.
• Changli asked after Lu Guan’s father and studies, then revealed that her wide-ranging network of correspondents had informed her about his mischief at Stardust Academy.

Lu Guan and Dania met Changli and Jinhsi in Jinzhou, where Sanhua sensed their unusual frequencies and Jinhsi ordered them monitored and housed at the Frontier Court for a week. Jinhsi also met Lu Guan and discovered that he was far goofier than she had expected.

• Sanhua saw Dania's frequency as an impossible form of near-nihility, then found Lu Guan's frequency unusually clear and human.
• Lu Guan explained that the Fractsidus had forced Dania to accept Aleph-1's power, and Changli said Jinzhou would monitor them under Frontier Court regulations.
• Changli asked how Lu Guan and Dania became a couple, and Dania kissed him to stake her claim while Changli delighted in their affection.
• Jinhsi arrived, heard Dania's story, and ordered staff to monitor and protect the pair for a week while arranging rooms for them at the Frontier Court.
• Jinhsi met Lu Guan and was surprised when his awkward jokes and nut-cake seller impression shattered her image of him as a serious young prodigy.

Lu Guan and Dania met Jinhsi at the Frontier Court, where his strange behavior made Jinhsi laugh and briefly loosen the restraint of her duties. After they were shown to their room, Lu Guan and Dania teased each other and settled down for a nap.

• Changli’s stories had led Jinhsi to picture Lu Guan as a remarkable young prodigy, but his comical accent shattered that impression.
• Jinhsi laughed at Lu Guan, who encouraged her to smile more and then hurried to end their conversation when his face flushed.
• Dania insisted that she and Lu Guan share one room, and Lu Guan claimed he needed to look after her during their stay.
• After Sanhua showed them to their room, Dania pinched Lu Guan’s waist over his compliment to Jinhsi, and he yelped in pain.
• Lu Guan told Dania about Jinhsi becoming Magistrate at thirteen, praised Dania’s resilience, and agreed to nap with her.

Lu Guan dined with Dania, Changli, and Jinhsi, who tried to recruit him by praising his talents. Later, Lu Guan recognized Dania’s insecurity and possessiveness, but their conversation ended with her pushing him toward the bed.

• Dania delighted in Changli’s cooking and shared a bite with Lu Guan.
• Jinhsi joined the meal and asked Lu Guan about his experiences studying overseas.
• Jinhsi praised Lu Guan and tried to win him over, while Changli interrupted their conversation.
• Lu Guan asked Dania what she thought of Jinhsi’s approach, and Dania recognized that Jinhsi was trying to recruit him.
• Dania clung to Lu Guan and threatened not to have little Yayas with him if he left her.
• Dania wrapped her arms around Lu Guan’s neck and pushed him toward the bed.

During the seven-day surveillance period in Jinzhou, Lu Guan played chess with Changli and learned that she had reported Dania to Huanglong’s Ming Court without Jinhsi’s knowledge. The chapter ended with Lu Guan and Dania waiting in their room as a FliChat notification arrived.

• Lu Guan spent his restricted stay walking around Jinzhou with Dania under Sanhua’s protection and playing chess with Changli.
• Changli described how Jinhsi had taken responsibility for Jinzhou after the Battle of the Crescent and gradually earned the people’s trust.
• Lu Guan interrupted Changli’s attempt to recruit him with a joke, then asked whether Dania’s case had reached Huanglong’s upper ranks.
• Changli admitted that she had reported Dania to the Ming Court because a Threnodian resonator’s presence had implications beyond Jinzhou, though Jinhsi had wanted to protect Dania if Jinzhou remained safe.
• Lu Guan accepted that the report was expected and worried that the case could become a weapon in political conflicts involving his father.
• After conceding the chess game, Lu Guan returned to Dania, and a FliChat notification sounded on his terminal.

Lu Guan waited in Jinzhou for the Ming Court visitors while Professor Lacerta promised to protect Dania during the committee’s review. Jinhsi joined him for a conversation, while Changli met a delegation that included Director Lin, Chiliarch Zhao, and Black Shores flower bearer Chengxia.

• Professor Lacerta told Lu Guan that the Deep Space Union committee was discussing Dania’s situation and urged him to enjoy the next two months with her.
• Changli left Jinzhou to meet the expected Ming Court delegation, while Lu Guan waited in the reception room and saw updated affection levels for several characters.
• Jinhsi arrived and asked Lu Guan to continue telling her about his experiences at Stardust Academy.
• Changli greeted Director Lin and Chiliarch Zhao, then met Chengxia, who said the Black Shores had come because Aleph-1 was involved.
• Lu Guan entertained Jinhsi with a story about a student influenced by a Sonoro and claimed he had foiled the Fractsidus leader’s plan.

Lu Guan and Dania passed a Black Shores frequency check, ending the surveillance on them, and Lu Guan told Director Lin he intended to marry her after graduation. Director Lin warned that the Deep Space Union might threaten Dania’s freedom, then discussed Huanglong’s plans and Lu Guan’s recent fight before Lu Guan asked about Chengxia.

• Changli brought Director Lin, Chiliarch Zhao, and the Black Shores Bloom Bearer Chengxia to meet Jinhsi and Lu Guan, who learned that they needed to examine Dania.
• Dania appeared and let Chengxia check her frequency; Chengxia found it unusually stable and confirmed there was no risk of Overclocking.
• Jinhsi lifted surveillance on Lu Guan and Dania, then left the reception room with the others at Director Lin’s request.
• Director Lin asked about Lu Guan and Dania’s relationship, and Lu Guan said he would marry her after graduation if she agreed.
• Director Lin warned that the Deep Space Union and New Federation might seek to control Dania, while explaining that Huanglong’s Special Talent Recruitment Plan was under discussion.
• Director Lin asked about Lu Guan’s fight with the Fractsidus leader, then explained how Chengxia had joined the delegation; Lu Guan asked whether Director Lin knew her.

Lu Guan and Director Lin devised a trap to lure the Fractsidus president, Napomo, into revealing herself by disguising Lu Guan as Dania. The ambush succeeded, and Lu Guan revealed his true appearance just as he prepared to attack Napomo.

• Lu Guan connected Napomo and the Fractsidus overseer Balanophora to the Dongyuan case and proposed using Dania as bait.
• Lu Guan used his Resonance Ability to take Dania’s appearance, and Dania joined the plan to lure Napomo into an ambush with Jinhsi and Director Lin’s help.
• During their days sightseeing in Jinzhou, Lu Guan practiced imitating Dania while she coached him and flirted with him.
• Napomo spotted the disguised Lu Guan leaving Jinzhou with snacks, then chased him into a trap after mistaking him for Dania.
• Jinhsi attacked Napomo with Celestial Incandescence, Dania struck with the Form of Disillusionment, and Lu Guan changed back to himself and prepared Hollow Technique: Purple.

Lu Guan, Dania, and Jinhsi defeated the Fractsidus president’s clone through Lu Guan’s shameless Cursed Speech tactics and a Binding Vow that reached her true body. After the clone exploded, Lu Guan revealed he could alter his powers and evade the vow’s apparent cost.

• Lu Guan used Cursed Speech to immobilize the president, then struck her with Hollow Technique: Purple as Dania prepared to attack.
• Lu Guan kept the president occupied with Cursed Speech while Dania hit her with Meltdown, leaving her defeated and covered in filth.
• Lu Guan used a Binding Vow to make his next Cursed Speech affect the president’s true body, causing her clone to swell and explode.
• Lu Guan carried Dania and Jinhsi away from the blast, but Chiliarch Zhao and Director Lin were splattered by the explosion.
• Lu Guan told Director Lin that he could not use Cursed Speech again, then made another Binding Vow to rename it Cursed Speech: Modified.