Recaps

Rosinante shared the meaning of his song with Yaoyue and taught Cioccolata how to play it. Christopher discovered Kexi had written the letter and used his book to pull Kexi, Cioccolata, Yaoyue, and Rosinante out of the real world.

• Rosinante explained why he had refused to marry Yaoyue's mother and said their life together had made his song worthwhile.
• Yaoyue asked Rosinante if she could call him Grandpa Luo, and he gently accepted her affection.
• Rosinante guided Cioccolata as she played the song, teaching her how to shape its parting and final verse.
• Christopher recognized Cioccolata's letter as matching one Napomo had shown him, then read it and asked who wrote it.
• Kexi admitted he had written the letter, and Christopher revealed that someone wanted him dead.
• Christopher opened his book and used its dark red chains to draw Kexi, Cioccolata, Yaoyue, and Rosinante out of the real world.

Kexi woke in a cultivation world as a disciple who had drugged and defiled his master, Qiuyuan, then jumped off a cliff. Yangyang and Suisui brought him back to the Mystic Sect, while Christopher watched and wondered why Kexi was not under his script’s control.

• Kexi woke in an unfamiliar forest and met Yangyang and Suisui, who identified him as their junior brother.
• Yangyang explained that Kexi had offended their master, Qiuyuan, by giving her a drugged spirit fruit and then jumping off a cliff.
• Kexi realized Christopher had placed him in a scripted cultivation world and resolved to find Cioccolata, Yaoyue, and Rosinante and escape.
• Yangyang and Suisui took Kexi back toward the Mystic Sect, warning that he would likely face punishment from Qiuyuan.
• Christopher appeared after they left, checked his book, and noted that Kexi was not under his script’s control.

Kexi returned to the Mystic Sect and reunited with his worried senior and junior sisters, whose bizarre accents and speech left him bewildered. He arrived at Clear Heart Hall to face his master and explain the spirit fruit he had used to drug her.

• Yangyang and Suisui brought Kexi to the Mystic Sect's mountain gate, where Chisa greeted him in a thick Japanese-colonel accent and scolded him for acting impulsively.
• Jinhsi ran out to welcome Kexi, calling him “senia bwother” in a Zhuang-accented voice and showing him a small scrape from searching for him.
• Chisa told Kexi that Jinhsi had gone to the back mountain every day to look for him, and Kexi patted Jinhsi's head in thanks.
• Suisui warned Kexi that his master was in a bad temper over the spirit fruit he had used to drug her.
• Kexi walked with his sisters to Clear Heart Hall and announced his return to his master outside the closed doors.

Kexi returned to Clear Heart Hall and faced Qiuyuan after fleeing following his offense against her. She punished him before explaining that his real mistake was running away and making his family and disciples worry, then ordered him to kneel and reflect.

• Kexi admitted that he had offered Qiuyuan a spirit fruit without checking it and had jumped off a cliff to escape punishment.
• Qiuyuan slapped Kexi, knocked him down, and demanded that he identify his mistake, rejecting his guesses.
• Kexi cried and begged Qiuyuan to tell him what he had done wrong.
• Qiuyuan explained that Yangyang, Chisa, Jinhsi, Suisui, and she had worried and searched for him after he disappeared.
• Qiuyuan told Kexi that he should have stayed to face the consequences and ordered him to kneel until he had thought it through.

Qiuyuan punished Kexi for his disobedience but secretly tended to his injuries and arranged private lessons with him. After he left, she struggled to control the lingering effects of the spirit fruit and her feelings toward him.

• Qiuyuan said the spirit fruit had improved her cultivation, ordered Kexi to keep its side effects secret, and sentenced him to three months of confinement and extra sword practice.
• Qiuyuan asked whether Kexi had been hurt when he jumped off the cliff, then gave him ointment and told him to apply it twice a day.
• Qiuyuan told Kexi to come to her room at the hour of the boar to make up missed lessons, warning him not to tell anyone, especially Yangyang.
• After Kexi left, Qiuyuan tried to calm herself by playing the guqin and meditating, but the spirit fruit’s effects and thoughts of Kexi overwhelmed her.

Kexi emerged from Master’s hall and reunited with his senior and junior sisters, then met Changli, the pink-haired Second Senior Sister. He hoped she would be normal, but her repeated casual “'Kay” showed that even she had a distinctive quirk.

• Kexi told Jinhsi, Chisa, Suisui, and Yangyang that Master had given him three months of confinement and extra sword practice, but had not hit or scolded him.
• Yangyang straightened Kexi’s robe and blushed when she touched his neck, while Suisui teased her.
• Changli arrived, and Yangyang introduced her as Kexi’s Second Senior Sister.
• Changli warmly welcomed Kexi and offered to help him with any difficulties, but her “'Kay” made him realize she was not entirely ordinary.
• Changli asked Yangyang to prepare a room and medicinal soup for Kexi, then asked Chisa to manage the sect while she gathered herbs; she ended both exchanges with “'Kay.”

Kexi tried to make sense of his unexpectedly comfortable life in the script world and suspected Christopher’s claim that someone wanted him dead was foreshadowing a hidden danger. That night, Qiuyuan’s planned make-up lesson remained on his mind as someone quietly knocked at his door.

• Kexi learned Changli had grown up in Luo City and endured her distinctive use of the word “zhong,” while Suisui hinted that she might have a hidden accent too.
• Kexi replayed Qiuyuan’s invitation to come to her room during the hour of the pig and struggled to interpret her concern and faint blush.
• Jinhsi startled Kexi as he worried about Qiuyuan, and he claimed he was thinking about sword practice.
• That night, Kexi questioned Christopher’s warning that someone wanted him dead, since everyone he had met had treated him kindly.
• Kexi concluded that his comfortable life must be foreshadowing and heard someone knock softly, asking whether he was asleep.

Yangyang brought Kexi a calming decoction and recalled their shared past, breaking down over his cliff jump. Kexi comforted her and promised not to jump again, then went to Qiuyuan's residence, where her trembling voice and a faint gasp came from behind the closed door.

• Yangyang gave Kexi calming broth and recounted childhood memories he could not remember.
• Yangyang cried over Kexi's cliff jump and asked whether he had thought about those he left behind.
• Kexi embraced Yangyang, reassured her that he was alive, and promised never to jump again.
• Yangyang fell asleep in Kexi's arms, and he tucked her into bed before leaving for Qiuyuan's residence.
• Kexi heard faint, broken sounds behind Qiuyuan's door, and she warned him not to come in.

Qiuyuan struggled with her heart demon, which accused her of feeling desire for her disciple Kexi and challenged her to admit it. The chapter ended with Qiuyuan raging against the demon in the dark.

• Qiuyuan's heart demon urged her to kill Kexi, arguing that she had treated him far more leniently than other rebellious disciples.
• Qiuyuan defended Kexi's punishment and claimed the spirit fruit had improved her cultivation.
• The heart demon recounted how Qiuyuan's body had reacted when she touched and punished Kexi, insisting she found his vulnerability cute.
• Qiuyuan denied the accusations, drew her sword, and attacked the heart demon, which turned to smoke and reappeared behind her.
• The heart demon pointed to Qiuyuan's snapped zither string, disordered breathing, and trembling hand as proof of her turmoil.
• Qiuyuan roared and swept her sword, extinguishing every candle and plunging the room into darkness.

Qiuyuan’s heart demon forced her to confront her desire for Kexi and then merged with her, transforming her into a languid, alluring version of herself. When Kexi entered her room, she greeted him with a dangerous new presence and asked why he thought she had called him.

• The heart demon taunted Qiuyuan until she collapsed, unable to deny that she wanted Kexi.
• The other Qiuyuan embraced her and dissolved into black threads that entered and merged with her body.
• Qiuyuan rose with red-lit eyes and adopted the heart demon’s languid manner.
• Kexi entered the darkened room and sensed that Qiuyuan’s aura had changed.
• Qiuyuan pressed his chin up and asked whether he knew why she had called him.

Qiuyuan cornered Kexi in her room after summoning him to make up missed lessons, then revealed that the spirit fruit he had given her had left her uncomfortable. Kexi ended up pinned to her bed as she told him he would have to deal with the trouble he had caused.

• Qiuyuan told Kexi to remove his outer robe so she could inspect his injuries, while her suggestive behavior made him increasingly uneasy.
• Qiuyuan pressed her hand to Kexi's chest and asked whether he knew all the effects of the spirit fruit he had given her.
• Kexi denied knowing about the fruit's side effects and tried to insist that he was innocent.
• Qiuyuan pulled Kexi away from the door, kicked the backs of his knees, and pinned him to the bed.
• Qiuyuan told Kexi that she had not felt this uncomfortable in hundreds of years and that he had to deal with the trouble he caused.

Kexi tried to resist Qiuyuan’s intimate advances but ultimately lost himself in the encounter, after which Qiuyuan regained control and was horrified by what she had done. She nearly killed him, then ordered him to leave the Mystic Sect and never return.

• Kexi reminded himself that the tenderness from Qiuyuan and the concern from his senior and junior sisters were part of Christopher’s fake script, and reached for the bed’s edge to escape.
• Qiuyuan caught Kexi’s wrist, intertwined their fingers, and pulled him back; Kexi eventually gave in completely.
• Qiuyuan’s eyes cleared, and she realized that her inner demon had only brought her hidden desires to the surface.
• Qiuyuan picked up her sword and pointed it at Kexi’s throat, but she could not bring herself to kill him.
• Qiuyuan turned away and told Kexi to get out, leave the mountain, and never come back.

After Qiuyuan drove Kexi from the Mystic Sect following their night together, he left the mountain while hiding the truth from his worried companions. He descended carrying gifts and farewells from the sisters, especially Yangyang, whose silent concern stayed with him.

• Qiuyuan ordered Kexi out after their night together, and he fled her room before dawn.
• At the mountain gate, Yangyang and the other sisters questioned Kexi about why Qiuyuan had sent him away.
• Kexi claimed he and Qiuyuan had a purely academic disagreement, then blamed the mark on his neck on mosquitoes.
• Yangyang let Kexi's lie pass and told him to take care of himself as he left the mountain.
• Chisa, Suisui, Changli, and Jinhsi gave Kexi money, supplies, medicine, food, and a talisman for his journey.
• Kexi looked back at the sisters before continuing down the steps, and he read Yangyang's silent farewell: “Take care.”

Christopher heard Aleph-1’s offer to help free it from its seal in exchange for Leviathan and the promise of knowledge and escape from Solaris. Meanwhile, Kexi traveled toward Ragunna City, but after landing beside a lake, he was attacked by white seals and prepared to relieve himself.

• Aleph-1 told Christopher how the Tuner had killed it and offered him information and passage off Solaris if he helped it escape Lahai-Roi.
• Christopher took Aleph-1’s crystal and planned to discuss the bargain with the president, unaware that Aleph-1 intended to summon its true form and consume Solaris.
• Kexi used Changli’s map and Yangyang’s account of his past to decide to search Ragunna City for clues and possibly his missing companions.
• Kexi descended into a valley to find a secluded place to urinate and landed beside what he mistook for pebbles.
• A pack of white seals charged Kexi, and he knocked them unconscious with his sword before turning toward the lake.

After taking human form, Aemeath heard her family being slaughtered and hid in the lake, convinced Kexi was the killer. She attacked him as he urinated by the shore, and the chapter ended with her choking him.

• Aemeath completed her transformation at the sacred lake and admired her human appearance.
• Aemeath heard her family crying out in danger and realized they were being slaughtered while she was too weak to fight.
• Kexi arrived at the lake, and Aemeath mistook the white fluff on his clothes as proof he had killed her family.
• Kexi urinated by the shore, and Aemeath interpreted it as a deliberate humiliation before leaping out of the water to attack him.
• Aemeath pinned Kexi to the grass and tightened her grip around his throat until he struggled to breathe.

Kexi escaped Aemeath after she failed to kill him, leaving her to mourn her family and swear revenge. Weak with hunger after taking human form, Aemeath cooked the Snowy Velvet Seals and tried to justify eating them as strength for her revenge.

• Kexi broke Aemeath’s grip, mistook her attack for anger over his peeing in the lake, and apologized while she wept about being too weak to kill him.
• Kexi noticed Aemeath was naked, and she screamed and dove into the bushes; he pulled up his pants and fled on his flying sword.
• Aemeath dressed, found the Snowy Velvet Seals’ bodies, and vowed to kill Kexi to avenge her family.
• Aemeath grew ravenously hungry after taking human form, struggled with the thought of eating her family, then cooked the Snowy Velvet Seals and said they would give her strength for revenge.

Kexi reached Ragunna City and collapsed into an inn bed, hoping to find clues about his scripted home and escape. Aemeath tracked him there and began strangling him in his sleep, demanding revenge for her family.

• Kexi crossed the mountains and entered Ragunna City, believing it might hold clues about his home or a way out of the script.
• Kexi rented a room at an inn and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Aemeath followed Kexi to the inn after swearing revenge and believing he had killed her family.
• Aemeath entered Kexi's unlocked room and began strangling him as he slept.
• Kexi woke to Aemeath's golden eyes as she shouted, "Pay for my family's lives!"

Kexi realized that the white animals he had knocked out at the lake were Aemeath’s family, and that she had mistaken him for their killer. After he explained that he had used the back of his sword and they might still be alive, Aemeath stopped struggling and wondered what she had done.

• Kexi recognized Aemeath as the girl he had accidentally urinated on at the lake and pieced together why she believed he had killed her family.
• Aemeath lunged to bite Kexi’s throat, but he pushed her away and pinned her wrists when she continued attacking.
• Kexi told Aemeath that he had struck the white seals with the back of his sword and only knocked them unconscious.
• Aemeath stopped struggling as Kexi insisted her family was alive, then began to question what she had done.

Aemeath realized she had mistakenly eaten her family, believing Kexi had killed them, and broke down in despair. Kexi gave her osmanthus cake, and the chapter ended with him recognizing her as Aemeath of the Snowy Velvet Seal clan.

• Aemeath realized Kexi had not killed her family and confessed that she had eaten them, then blamed him for not killing her too.
• Kexi offered Aemeath osmanthus cake, and she snatched it and ate ravenously.
• Kexi tried to explain that Aemeath had chosen to eat her family, reigniting her anger, but he backed down.
• Aemeath admitted to herself that she needed someone to hate and quietly ate another piece of cake.
• Aemeath introduced herself as Aemeath of the Snowy Velvet Seal clan, and Kexi reacted in shock.

Kexi recognized Aemeath and treated her like his beloved wife, but she insisted they were strangers and threatened to kill him. After following him out to eat because she was hungry, Aemeath finished more than a dozen bowls of noodles and grew fed up with Kexi’s lovestruck attention.

• Kexi recognized Aemeath and rushed to embrace her, but she shoved him away and denied knowing him.
• Kexi claimed they had never met while growing up, and Aemeath warned him not to act familiar.
• Aemeath followed Kexi to a noodle stall in Ragunna City because she was hungry.
• Aemeath struggled to use chopsticks, then ate more than a dozen bowls of beef noodles while Kexi watched adoringly.
• Aemeath threatened to kill Kexi and avenge her family, then demanded to know whether he was listening when he kept staring at her.

Kexi stopped Aemeath from falling and let her tire herself out attacking him. After explaining that he had not killed her family, he offered her food and shelter, and she agreed to come with him while still insisting she would eventually kill him.

• Kexi caught Aemeath's wrist as she swung at him, then caught her around the waist when she lost her balance.
• Aemeath furiously punched Kexi until she was exhausted, but he remained unharmed and enjoyed the attention.
• Aemeath mourned her inability to avenge her family, and Kexi told her he had only knocked them out, but she ordered him to stop talking.
• Kexi pointed out that Aemeath needed food and a place to stay, then offered to take her in until she grew stronger.
• Aemeath asked why Kexi was kind to her, and he said he wanted to be her family.
• Aemeath agreed to go with Kexi while claiming she was only holding his wrist to make walking easier.

Kexi forced Aemeath to share his bed after she shivered on the cold floor, then held her close beneath the quilt. Aemeath stopped struggling as she warmed up, but grew annoyed when she noticed Kexi was aroused.

• Kexi offered Aemeath a place beside him on the bed, but she refused and lay down on the cold stone floor.
• Kexi carried the shivering Aemeath onto the bed and climbed under the quilt with her.
• Kexi wrapped his arms around Aemeath and held her against him despite her protests.
• Aemeath gradually stopped struggling as Kexi's warmth eased her chill.
• Aemeath felt Kexi's erection against her and told him to put it away, but Kexi said he could not.

Christopher created Danika and scripted her to kill Kexi’s loved ones, then taunted Cioccolata with news that Kexi was dying in Ragunna City. Cioccolata shot at Christopher, but his shield stopped the bullet, and she hurried toward the city hoping to save Kexi.

• Christopher wrote Danika into existence and ordered her to turn those she loved into rag dolls and kill anyone who opposed her, especially the person who took Kexi away.
• Cioccolata confronted Christopher, and he realized she had escaped his control by killing the people in his false world.
• Cioccolata said the Toccata Family was gone and that she would carry on their will by spreading the truth through song.
• Christopher told Cioccolata that Kexi was dying and directed her to Ragunna City.
• Cioccolata fired at Christopher, but a red shield blocked the bullet as he vanished, leaving her to rush toward the city.

Kexi brought Aemeath to the Montelli Family estate, where the guards mistook him for an impostor until Carlotta recognized him. Carlotta led him to meet an unfamiliar eldest sister, whose identity stunned him.

• Kexi took Aemeath to the Montelli Family gate, where the guards refused to believe he was their young master and prepared to attack him.
• Carlotta arrived and asked Kexi for proof of his identity; he began reciting an embarrassing secret, so she stopped him and believed him.
• Carlotta dismissed the guards and questioned Kexi about Aemeath, who denied being his wife and called him her enemy.
• Carlotta said she would take Kexi to see their eldest sister, leaving him confused because he did not remember having one.
• Carlotta brought Kexi and Aemeath into the sitting room, where Kexi saw the woman and dropped his jaw in shock.

Kexi returned to his family’s home, where Yaoyue and Carlotta treated him as their younger brother and Francis lay dying. To fulfill Francis’s last wish, Kexi and Aemeath agreed to marry, and Kexi set off to break his engagement to the Daswei House Clan.

• Kexi found Yaoyue and Carlotta at home, but Yaoyue did not recognize his memories of their real world.
• Yaoyue told Kexi that Francis was dying and wanted to see him, so Kexi met the bedridden old man with Aemeath.
• Francis welcomed Aemeath as Kexi’s wife and asked Kexi to give his fiancée from the Daswei House Clan a better ending by explaining or ending their engagement.
• Kexi agreed to marry Aemeath to fulfill Francis’s last wish, and Aemeath reluctantly said she would marry him.
• Francis told Kexi to break off his engagement immediately, so Kexi left with Carlotta while Yaoyue took Aemeath to get food.