Chapter Summaries

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.

Kexi arrived at Daswei House with Carlotta to annul his engagement, only to discover that Danika remembered him as her childhood sweetheart and that Rosinante was the elder he had come to face. The chapter ended with Kexi formally asking Rosinante to cancel the marriage agreement, saying his heart belonged to someone else.

• Carlotta brought Kexi and a carriage of gifts to Daswei House while Kexi rehearsed an exaggerated engagement-breaking speech, and Carlotta hit his knee to make him speak properly.
• Danika greeted Kexi as someone she had loved since childhood, but he admitted he did not remember her; she invited him inside and mistook the gifts for betrothal presents.
• Kexi entered the hall and was stunned to find Rosinante, whom he recognized as Old Master Daswei and the person he had come to see.
• Kexi bowed to Rosinante and asked him to annul the engagement, explaining that they no longer followed the same path and that his heart belonged to another.

Kexi’s engagement to Danika was called off after he revealed that he loved Aemeath and planned to marry her. Danika concealed her heartbreak until she was alone, where she turned toward a dark plan against Aemeath.

• Kexi told Rosinante and Danika that he loved someone else, and Carlotta kicked him in disbelief.
• Danika calmly agreed to end the engagement, and Rosinante accepted the Montelli family’s gifts as a contribution to her dowry.
• Kexi invited Rosinante and Danika to his wedding to Aemeath, and Rosinante agreed to attend.
• After Kexi and Carlotta left, Danika kept up a cheerful front for Rosinante before retreating to her darkened room.
• Danika retrieved her childhood rag doll named Brother Kexi, vowed that Aemeath would disappear, and traced Aemeath’s name on the wedding invitation.

Kexi reunited with Cioccolata and told her he planned to marry Aemeath, despite knowing the world was fictional. He brought Cioccolata to meet Aemeath, whose enthusiastic eating left her with a complicated impression.

• Carlotta scolded Kexi for giving Cioccolata a wedding invitation after breaking off their engagement and told him to stay away from Cioccolata.
• Kexi spotted Cioccolata buying preserved fruit and learned Christopher had tricked her into coming to Ragunna City by claiming Kexi was dying.
• Kexi told Cioccolata that Yaoyue and Rosinante were under Christopher's mental control, while Cioccolata explained her Resonance Ability gave her some resistance.
• Kexi told Cioccolata he was marrying Aemeath the next day, and Cioccolata called him sick for wanting to marry someone in the fake world.
• Cioccolata followed Kexi to meet Aemeath and found her eating voraciously beside Yaoyue; after studying Aemeath, Cioccolata gave Kexi a complicated look.

Cioccolata met Aemeath and learned why Aemeath was marrying Kexi despite wanting to kill him. She tried to break Yaoyue’s memory control with a song, but Yaoyue still did not recognize Kexi.

• Kexi introduced Cioccolata to Aemeath, who said she intended to kill Kexi herself once she grew stronger and would not let anyone else touch him.
• Cioccolata asked why Aemeath was marrying Kexi, and Aemeath explained that he had caused her family's deaths but offered to become her family and provide food and shelter.
• Cioccolata told Kexi she would tell Carlotta about the marriage, then said she would try to break Yaoyue's memory control.
• Cioccolata played her lute for Yaoyue beneath a banyan tree, but Yaoyue praised the music without recognizing Kexi.
• Cioccolata stopped Kexi from speaking and told Yaoyue to go back and rest.

Kexi and Cioccolata discussed their false world, and Cioccolata reminded him that he had people waiting for him in reality. They promised to marry if they remained trapped, while Kexi resolved to face Christopher and the end of the script after his wedding to Aemeath the next day.

• Yaoyue left after reminding Kexi to return early, and Cioccolata learned that her Resonance Ability did not work on her.
• Kexi said he could accept staying in the false world, so Cioccolata slapped him and urged him to remember the people who cared for him in reality.
• Cioccolata revealed that she had killed twenty-seven people in a false version of her family estate after realizing they were not real.
• Kexi agreed that neither he nor Cioccolata belonged in the false world, then said he would marry her there if they could not escape.
• Cioccolata said she might rest with Kexi after finishing an important task, and he returned to find Aemeath still eating ahead of their wedding.
• Aemeath told Kexi that Snowy Velvet Seals did not wear wedding dresses, then said they wore nothing to marry.

Kexi and Aemeath went through preparations for their supposedly fake wedding, while Danika transformed Rosinante into a cloth doll and brought him to the ceremony. The wedding reached its vows before an unidentified guest objected.

• Kexi carried the sleeping Aemeath to bed, and Carlotta secretly listened outside their door before insulting him.
• Carlotta dressed and groomed Kexi for the wedding while Yaoyue helped Aemeath prepare.
• Danika asked Rosinante if he loved her, transformed him into a cloth doll, and set off for Kexi's wedding.
• Kexi and Aemeath exchanged their vows before the assembled guests, and someone objected when Yaoyue invited objections.

Danika attacked Aemeath during Kexi and Aemeath's wedding, killing her and turning Yaoyue and several Montelli guards into cloth dolls. As Cioccolata and Carlotta fought Danika, Kexi held Aemeath as she died and heard her tell him he was not allowed to die before she had killed him.

• Danika arrived at the wedding in black and told Kexi she wanted to know whether he truly loved Aemeath.
• Danika stabbed Aemeath in the chest, then fired at Kexi and turned Yaoyue into a cloth doll when Kexi dodged.
• Cioccolata attacked Danika with her gun, but Danika blocked her shots and transformed five Montelli guards into cloth dolls.
• Carlotta joined Cioccolata and exchanged gunfire with Danika, who deflected the bullets with her claws.
• Aemeath died in Kexi's arms after telling him he was not allowed to die before she had killed him.
• Danika declared that Kexi would return to her and become her doll as Cioccolata continued firing.

After Aemeath died, Kexi transformed and nearly killed Danika, but Christopher intervened and used his story to heal her. Kexi and Cioccolata fled Montelli Manor with Aemeath’s body as Danika pursued them, and they headed for Kexi’s senior sisters.

• Holding Aemeath’s cooling body, Kexi transformed into a Super Saiyan and attacked Danika, shattering her defenses and battering her into the manor’s rubble.
• Christopher appeared, bound Kexi with chains, and wrote Danika’s wounds healed and her power awakened into a new form.
• Carlotta broke Kexi’s chains and stayed behind to cover his escape while Cioccolata led Kexi away; Kexi returned for Aemeath’s body before they fled on a flying sword.
• As they escaped, Kexi blamed Christopher and the Fractsidus for his family’s deaths, while Cioccolata stayed silent about Yaoyue.
• Danika pursued them through the clouds, and Kexi accelerated the flying sword before deciding to seek help from his senior sisters.

Kexi reached the Mystic Sect with the dying Aemeath as Danika pursued him, and his senior sisters confronted the attacker at the mountain gate. As the fight began, Jinhsi found Master Qiuyuan dressed and coiffed like a married woman.

• Kexi arrived at the Mystic Sect carrying the wounded Aemeath, while Danika chased him to the mountain gate.
• Jinhsi ran inside to summon the senior sisters and Master, and Yangyang began healing Aemeath.
• Chisa confronted Danika, who attacked her with a barrage of claws and grazed her side.
• Changli joined Chisa and attacked Danika with a fireball, but Danika released a dark red force that scattered their attacks.
• Jinhsi rushed into Clear Heart Hall and found Qiuyuan wearing an elegant bun and silver hairpin, then remarked that she looked like a mother.

Danika and Christopher overwhelmed Kexi and the Mystic Sect disciples, leaving Kexi injured and helpless. Qiuyuan arrived and struck Christopher with a gigantic sword from her sky-spanning formation.

• Danika defeated Chisa and Changli, and Yangyang confirmed that Aemeath could not be saved.
• Yangyang and Suisui attacked Danika, but Danika sent them flying, then knocked Cioccolata aside when she tried to shoot her.
• Danika restrained Kexi and tried to take him home, but Christopher arrived and confronted him about the pain and suffering of his world.
• Kexi broke free and lunged at Christopher, who bound him with a chain and slammed him into the ground before ordering Danika to keep him by her side.
• Jinhsi arrived with Qiuyuan, who formed a vast golden sword formation and drove an enormous sword into Christopher.