Recaps

Xiao Ling carried the drunk Lynae home, but she woke up and confronted him about treating her like a brother, then kissed him and pushed their relationship forward. By four in the morning, Dania found the barbecue Xiao Ling had left outside her room and guessed he had gone off somewhere to fool around.

• Xiao Ling brought Lynae back to her bedroom and tucked her into bed, but she woke and grabbed his wrist.
• Lynae pulled Xiao Ling under the covers, kissed him, and demanded to know whether he had feelings for her.
• Xiao Ling admitted he was attracted to Lynae but tried to slow things down; Lynae kissed him again and began undressing him.
• Xiao Ling turned the tables and pinned Lynae beneath him, and the encounter continued.
• Dania found warm barbecue outside her room, noticed Xiao Ling was gone, and returned to enjoy the food without investigating further.

After waking up naked beside Xiao Ling, Lynae struggled to remember their drunken night and felt unsure about how it changed their relationship. Roccia reassured her that Xiao Ling’s other partners would accept her and that she could decide how to proceed at her own pace.

• Lynae woke with Xiao Ling beside her, and he teased her about having been forward and demanding the night before.
• Lynae kicked Xiao Ling out of bed and threw things at him until he fled her room.
• Dania photographed Xiao Ling as he emerged from Lynae’s room, but he carried her off to his bedroom before she could use the picture against him.
• Lynae tried to piece together the night and worried about facing Xiao Ling and his other partners after their relationship changed.
• Roccia reassured Lynae that Dania and the others would accept her, and advised her to let her relationship with Xiao Ling develop in whatever way felt comfortable.

At the villa’s pool party, Lynae joined her friends for water basketball after telling them she and Xiao Ling had gotten together. Meanwhile, Yangyang and Liang Yu’s plan to prank Suisui turned into an intimate ambush with Xiao Ling, ending with Suisui slapping him into the pool.

• Lynae told Dania and the others that she and Xiao Ling had gotten together, and they welcomed her before joining a water basketball game.
• Roccia, Crimson Snow, Iuno, and Augusta arrived, and the girls agreed to play in pairs before a four-on-four match, with dark cuisine as the losing team’s punishment.
• Suisui relaxed on a floating mat while thinking over her plan to help Yangyang win Xiao Ling’s heart.
• Yangyang and Liang Yu plotted to prank Suisui, and Xiao Ling joined them and devised an underwater approach.
• The trio flipped Suisui’s mat, and Xiao Ling caught her from behind and teased her about her weight.
• Suisui formed a hand from the water and slapped Xiao Ling into the pool.

At the pool, Xiao Ling returned drenched after Suisui punished him, then dodged Heartfox’s question about whose figure was better before giving her a massage with sunscreen. Changli and other girls soon joined the queue for massages, turning Xiao Ling’s relaxing afternoon into a busy stall.

• Heartfox teased Xiao Ling about Suisui’s figure, and he refused to choose between them, narrowly satisfying her.
• Heartfox asked Xiao Ling to apply sunscreen to her back, and he gave her a massage until she fell asleep.
• Changli arrived and asked Xiao Ling for a massage, praising his technique afterward.
• Several other girls gathered and lined up for massages, while Xiao Ling agreed to serve them.

Xiao Ling organized a floating-platform competition for the pool party, where teams battled to keep players on a central platform. The Lahai-Roi Squad won when Sigrika knocked Jinhsi into the water, and the party ended amid laughter.

• Xiao Ling proposed a team game in which players crossed floating bridges and fought to remain on a platform.
• The Lahai-Roi Squad chose Little Ai to enter first as the teams planned their order.
• Aemeath, Augusta, Camellya, Heartfox, and later contestants fought across the crowded platform as players were eliminated.
• Carlotta slipped off a floating bridge before reaching the platform and drifted in the pool.
• Sigrika faced Jinhsi as the final two players and sent her flying into the water.
• The Lahai-Roi Squad won the competition, bringing the pool party to a cheerful close.

The group prepared a barbecue party while Suisui learned that Xiao Ling had feelings for Yangyang. At the indoor bar, Cartethyia served drinks and readied her secret plan to get the Righteous One drunk and use a potion to bring their relationship closer.

• Dania complained that she was hungry, and Suisui washed soot from her hands after Xiao Ling drew whiskers on her cheek.
• Suisui asked Xiao Ling how he felt about Yangyang, and he admitted he had feelings for her.
• Cartethyia mixed drinks for Lupa, adjusted a recipe to suit her taste, and made several more for her to sample.
• Cartethyia revealed that she had obtained a special potion from Cantarella and planned to use it on the Righteous One after the barbecue.
• Cartethyia touched the sealed vial in her pocket, worried that the Righteous One might be angry, then resolved to go ahead with her plan.

Cartethyia secretly spiked Xiao Ling’s special drink, but accidentally switched the drink meant for him with an untainted one before he drank it. She got drunk at the barbecue and kissed Xiao Ling, leaving Yangyang wondering whether she should have joined Cartethyia’s plan.

• Cartethyia added Cantarella’s secret drug to a special drink for Xiao Ling, but Aemeath nearly took it before Cartethyia stopped her.
• Cartethyia asked Sigrika to help carry the cold drinks to the backyard, unaware that her drink for Xiao Ling had been switched.
• Xiao Ling drank the special drink and ate with the others as the barbecue party began.
• Cartethyia drank fruit wine and became drunk, while Xiao Ling questioned who had given her alcohol.
• Cartethyia amused the guests by reminiscing, role-playing with Aemeath, and dancing with Sigrika, Lynae, Roccia, and Crimson Snow.
• Cartethyia wrapped her arms around Xiao Ling and kissed him, while Yangyang watched and regretted not joining her plan.

Cartethyia pretended to be unconscious after the party so she could sneak into Xiao Ling’s room and use a sedative to take advantage of him. Xiao Ling woke before she could go further, learned what she had planned, and carried her back to her room after punishing her.

• Xiao Ling carried the apparently drunken Cartethyia to her room and tucked her into bed.
• After Xiao Ling left, Cartethyia revealed she had faked being unconscious and waited for a sedative to take effect.
• Aemeath told Xiao Ling that Rover had refused to let her visit, and Xiao Ling suggested asking her again the next day.
• In the middle of the night, Cartethyia entered Xiao Ling’s room and began kissing him, believing the sedative had left him asleep.
• Xiao Ling woke and caught Cartethyia before she could go further, and she confessed that Cantarella had supplied the sedative for her plan.
• Xiao Ling punished Cartethyia, wrapped her in a blanket, and carried her back to her room.

Rover accidentally drank Cartethyia’s drugged drink and, unable to endure its effects, went to Hajiling for help while he slept. He caught her kissing him, and the chapter ended as he kissed her back and her reason began to fail.

• Rover drank Cartethyia’s special cold drink at the barbecue and later became lightheaded and overheated.
• Rover realized the drink had caused her symptoms, showered to cool down, and hid her condition from Aemeath.
• After Hajiling fell asleep, Rover slipped into his bed and kissed him, hoping it would ease her discomfort.
• Hajiling woke, caught Rover, and recognized that Cantarella’s concoction had caused her condition.
• Hajiling offered to help Rover, then kissed her before she could respond.

Xiao Ling and the others celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncakes and a night out, while Heartfox remembered her lost friend. A song led Heartfox to Xuanqing, who had been reborn, and the two reunited beneath the full moon.

• Dania ate most of the mooncakes, but the others defended her and she shared the remaining ones with the rooftop guests.
• Xiao Ling brought Heartfox a lotus-paste mooncake and encouraged her to hold on to hope of meeting her old friends again.
• Iuno welcomed Phrolova and Funuo Nuo into the villa, and Phrolova playfully made Xiao Ling eat her five-nut mooncake.
• Xiao Ling and Heartfox explored festival stalls together, but Heartfox admitted she was thinking of her friend who had died saving her.
• Heartfox heard a familiar song and ran through the crowd, where she found Xuanqing alive and reunited with her beneath the full moon.

Rover confronted Xiao Ling about taking responsibility after he helped her with her bodily problem, and he pulled her back into bed to continue their encounter. By noon, the others had discovered what was happening, and Aemeath realized the voice inside Xiao Ling’s room belonged to Rover.

• Rover woke beside Xiao Ling and demanded that he take responsibility for what had happened between them.
• Xiao Ling teased Rover, then pulled her back under the covers and continued their encounter.
• At noon, Aemeath noticed that Rover and Xiao Ling still had not appeared, so Dania went upstairs to check on them.
• Dania, Xixi, Heartfox, and Sigrika each visited the room and returned visibly shaken or embarrassed.
• Aemeath went upstairs to investigate, heard moans from Xiao Ling’s room, and recognized Rover’s voice.

Rover woke up sore and exhausted after spending the night with Xiao Ling, while Xiao Ling felt unusually refreshed and discovered his eyes had turned gold. Aemeath brought Rover breakfast and considered teaming up with her for ranked trios.

• Rover struggled to get out of bed and tried to hide from Aemeath, but Aemeath used her electronic-ghost abilities to enter the room and check on her.
• Aemeath told Rover that Xiao Ling seemed full of energy and that his eyes had turned completely gold.
• Xiao Ling woke refreshed, saw his golden eyes in Sigrika's phone, and went to the kitchen to make breakfast for Rover.
• Roccia kicked Xiao Ling and discovered that his body had become much sturdier, while Jinhsi and the other women inferred that Rover had spent the night with him.
• Aemeath brought red bean rice to Rover in bed and thought they could team up for ranked trios.

Yangyang returned from an outing without Suisui, and the household feared that Suisui had disappeared. Xiao Ling suspected she had staged the incident, and an arrow-delivered note signed with a cat pointed him toward Jing.

• Yangyang and Suisui left for an outing, while Xiao Ling stayed home with Dania.
• Yangyang returned that evening and learned that Suisui had not come home or contacted anyone since 6:30.
• Yangyang worried about her sister, and Lynae suggested calling the police.
• Xiao Ling argued that Suisui was probably acting out a scheme, since ordinary people could not overpower her and Phrolova lacked a reason to target her.
• An arrow flew through the window, and Qingxiao safely guided it onto the table.
• Xiao Ling read a note claiming Lady Chongming Zhehua was being held and recognized Jing from the signature.

Yangyang and Xiao Ling traveled to the address in Suisui’s note, and Xiao Ling suspected Suisui was trying to set them up. On the way, he told Yangyang how he had grown close to Xiao Xue and helped her leave an unfaithful boyfriend, before they reached their destination.

• Yangyang and Xiao Ling set out to find Suisui, following her note’s instruction that only two people could come.
• Yangyang asked Xiao Ling to explain how he and Xiao Xue had gone from being at odds to becoming close.
• After Xiao Yue brought Xiao Ling back to the Xiao family, Xiao Ling adjusted Xiao Xue’s echoes and helped her clear the Tower of Adversity.
• Xiao Ling told Yangyang how he had recorded evidence of Xiao Xue’s boyfriend cheating and urged Xiao Xue to see the truth for herself.
• Xiao Xue caught her boyfriend with another woman, then deleted and blocked him without starting a fight.
• Xiao Ling and Yangyang reached their destination and wondered what kind of plan Suisui had arranged.

Xiao Ling and Yangyang entered an unstable Sonoro while searching for Suisui, but the passage separated them and sent Xiao Ling into the Yang Sui sisters’ childhood courtyard. He introduced himself to their father as a street singer and performed a long-lost folk song, leaving the teacher shocked by the song and Xiao Ling’s appearance.

• Yangyang sensed that Suisui had disappeared inside the ruined house, and Xiao Ling identified a crudely made Sonoro beyond its door.
• Xiao Ling and Yangyang entered the unstable passage, which engulfed them in darkness and separated them.
• Xiao Ling landed in the childhood courtyard of Yangyang and Suisui, where the young sisters spotted him and Suisui demanded to know who he was.
• The Yang Sui sisters’ father confronted Xiao Ling, who claimed to be a street singer and agreed to perform for him.
• Xiao Ling sang "Tale of the Azure Plume," and the teacher reacted with shock at hearing the long-lost folk song.

Xiao Ling realized the courtyard scene had frozen and used his perception to search for the next stage, while Yangyang and Suisui arrived in Xiao Ling’s childhood and met him as a boy. They entered his family home and learned Xiao Yue was resting in her room.

• The schoolteacher thanked Xiao Ling for preserving the old folk song, then the courtyard froze around him.
• Xiao Ling observed the frozen scene and used his perception to look for the next stage.
• Yangyang reunited with Suisui and confronted her for arranging a scheme to bring her and Xiao Yu together.
• Yangyang opened the door marked 609, where she and Suisui found a child Xiao Ling and realized they had reached his childhood.
• Xiao Ling invited the sisters into his home, where they saw his childhood achievements and a photograph of Xiao Yue dancing.
• Suisui introduced herself and Yangyang to Xiao Ling’s father as Xiao Yue’s friends and learned Xiao Yue was resting in her room.

At midnight, Xiao Ling caught Yangyang sneaking into the kitchen to eat pastries and helped her make a replacement batch so her sister would not find out. Before leaving, he shared that he loved someone and took Yangyang’s advice to pursue her more boldly, while Yangyang immediately considered eating more pastries.

• Yangyang secretly ate all the pastries in the kitchen, and Xiao Ling startled her by pretending to be a ghost.
• Xiao Ling discovered Yangyang had eaten the pastries and offered to help her make an identical batch before her sister noticed.
• While they prepared the batter, Yangyang learned Xiao Ling’s name and heard that he loved a woman who had taught him to help people and make pastries.
• Yangyang urged Xiao Ling to be bold and pursue the woman he loved, and Xiao Ling made a fresh batch of pastries with her help.
• Xiao Ling gave Yangyang a pastry to taste and left after warning her not to eat the replacements all at once.
• Yangyang eyed the new pastries and decided she would have just one more.

Xiao Yue met Yangyang and Suisui, who explained how they had arrived from another time, before they returned to Xiao Ling’s past and found him struggling to cook. Yangyang taught Xiao Ling to make peppers and scrambled eggs, but tasting the dish reminded him that his father had died four years earlier and that the food no longer tasted the same.

• Xiao Yue pretended to recognize Yangyang and Suisui as former schoolmates, then asked them who they really were and heard how they had come to her home.
• Xiao Yue accepted their explanation and sent them off with Xiao Ling, but the sisters fell through the doorway and returned to room 609.
• Yangyang and Suisui found Xiao Ling in the kitchen after an explosion ruined his cooking, and Xiao Ling remembered them from four years earlier.
• Yangyang offered to teach Xiao Ling to cook while Suisui helped prepare ingredients, and together they made several dishes and soup.
• Xiao Ling tasted the peppers and scrambled eggs he had cooked and recalled that his late father used to make the dish for him, but the familiar taste was gone.

Xiao Ling joined Suisui and Yangyang on their secret trip to see a performance and used Little Ai's divine power to help them slip past the guards. After watching a female general fight onstage, Yangyang and Suisui asked about their futures, but Xiao Ling told them to discover their own paths.

• Suisui woke Yangyang so they could sneak out to see a show, but Xiao Ling surprised them in Yangyang's room.
• Suisui threatened to accuse Xiao Ling of improper intentions toward Yangyang unless he cooperated and kept their outing secret.
• Xiao Ling used Little Ai's divine power to make the three of them invisible to the guards and led the sisters to the performance.
• Yangyang watched the female general onstage and asked Xiao Ling if she could become a heroine like her someday; he encouraged her.
• Suisui asked whether she would make something of herself, and Xiao Ling declined to reveal either sister's future, telling them to follow their own paths.

Yangyang and Suisui visited Xiao Ling and his gravely ill mother, Xiao Yue, in the hospital during a severe epidemic. Seeing how exhausted Xiao Ling was, Suisui decided to contact Professor Xiao Ji so Xiao Yue and her son would have support.

• Yangyang and Suisui found Xiao Ling at the hospital, and he gave them masks before taking them to see Xiao Yue.
• Xiao Ling explained that Xiao Yue was recovering from the epidemic and described how the old man in the neighboring bed had died.
• Xiao Yue woke to greet Yangyang and Suisui, then fell asleep again after Xiao Ling urged her to rest.
• Xiao Ling told the sisters to go home, but Yangyang sensed how tired he was beneath his relaxed manner.
• Suisui pulled Yangyang away and said she would ask a nurse who knew Professor Xiao Ji to tell her that Xiao Yue was ill.

Xiao Ling found Suisui struggling to protect the Zhaoming Chamber of Commerce and encouraged her to trust her resolve before leaving the collapsing Sonoro. Yangyang and Suisui later reunited with Xiao Ling in his apartment, then returned with him to the waking world as a new day began.

• Xiao Ling followed Dumpling to Suisui's study in Dreamland and found her considering an agreement that would surrender the Zhaoming Chamber of Commerce's trade routes and interests.
• Xiao Ling helped Suisui rest, then reminded her of her original ambitions and urged her to follow her heart as the chamber faced pressure from rival businesses.
• As the Sonoro neared collapse, Xiao Ling told Suisui he was leaving to witness her future, and Yangyang and Suisui reached the final segment of his story.
• Yangyang and Suisui visited Xiao Ling in apartment room 609, where he told them he was living alone, writing novels, and meeting friends to pull a gacha.
• Yangyang and Suisui left Xiao Ling's apartment as the Sonoro collapsed, then woke beside him by the sea, with Suisui still asleep on his shoulder.

Xiao Ling returned home after spending the night away with Yangyang and Suisui, and Dania welcomed him before warning that trouble was coming. The girls interrogated the three of them, and Xiao Ling tricked Xin into confessing that she had arranged their disappearance; he then prepared to punish her.

• Dania hugged Xiao Ling, forgave him with a kiss, and warned him that he was in big trouble.
• Xiao Ling, Yangyang, and Suisui discussed how the girls would react to their story about being pulled into a Sonoro.
• Lupa found no suspicious scent on Xiao Ling as the girls questioned him and the Yang sisters about their night away.
• The group suspected Xin had caused the Sonoro to appear, and Cantarella and Jinhsi pointed to Xin's history of bringing people together.
• Xiao Ling showed Xin a cheap Suijing model and tricked her into confessing, then announced that she would be punished.

Suisui teased Yangyang into joining her in making their relationship with Xiao Ling official, and the three became intimate. The chapter ended with Xin exhausted after watching them, while the author announced a break in updates due to a hand injury.

• After returning to her room, Suisui teased Yangyang about her feelings for Xiao Ling and persuaded her to act on them together.
• Yangyang and Suisui went to Xiao Ling's room, where they kissed him at the same time and declared their affection.
• Xiao Ling pulled Yangyang and Suisui into bed, and the three became intimate.
• Heartfox watched the scene with her ability, while exhausted Xin fell asleep again.
• The author announced a temporary update break after an e-bike rider injured their right hand.

Yangyang and Suisui woke after spending the night with Xiao Ling and compared notes on their exhaustion before heading downstairs. They found Suoming dressed in a cat-eared maid outfit, then joined the others for lunch.

• Yangyang woke early, but Xiao Ling pulled her back into bed, and she fell asleep again in his arms.
• Yangyang and Suisui woke later, laughed about Xiao Ling's stamina, and helped each other get up to wash.
• Yangyang and Suisui met Suoming downstairs in a maid outfit with cat ears, which Xiao Ling and Xin had chosen for her.
• Suoming blessed the sisters' relationship with Xiao Ling, and they all went to join the others for lunch.

Dania and Aemeath unlocked Xiao Ling’s password-protected folder and discovered his collection of revealing pictures of the girls, then shared it in their group chat. When Xiao Ling returned home, the girls confronted him in coordinated outfits, leaving him to face the consequences of his exposed hobby.

• Dania found a locked folder on Xiao Ling’s computer, and Aemeath failed to crack its password before Dania opened it with her birthday, 0521.
• Dania and Aemeath discovered revealing pictures of Dania and forwarded the files to everyone involved.
• Roccia, Crimson Snow, and Xin opened the shared files, while the group chat filled with the girls’ reactions and teasing.
• Xiao Ling saw the group chat and realized his collection had been exposed, then hesitated before entering the villa.
• Dania, Iuno, Heartfox, and the other girls greeted Xiao Ling in seductive outfits, and he realized he could not avoid their confrontation.