Chapter Summaries

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.

Xiao Ling joined Sigrika’s beach volleyball game with Heartfox, but Heartfox’s powerful serve quickly turned the casual match into a clash of Resonance abilities and transformed forms. The game ended in a sand-filled disaster, leaving Xiao Ling to consider giving the players a lesson afterward.

• Sigrika invited Xiao Ling to play beach volleyball, and he brought Heartfox along as his partner.
• After Suisui explained the basics, Heartfox’s first serve smashed into the sand behind Lynae and Sigrika, so Xiao Ling taught her how to serve properly.
• The match grew intense as Heartfox, Jinhsi, Aemeath, and Cartethyia played, with Xiao Ling moving the other girls to safety.
• Aemeath accused Sigrika of cheating when Sigrika used Resonance Power to help Heartfox return a spike, and Jinhsi argued that no rule forbade it.
• Cartethyia transformed into Fleurdelys, Heartfox took her giant golden fox form, and the match resumed amid explosions and clouds of sand.

Encore, Roccia, Suoming, and Carlotta played beach volleyball, then rested with Shorekeeper and Camellya. After Shorekeeper heard from Xiao Ling that the group was heading back to prepare dinner, Encore eagerly hurried off with Roccia to return to the villa.

• Encore, Roccia, Suoming, and Carlotta played a volleyball match, and Roccia's team scored before they took a break.
• Shorekeeper gave the players cold drinks, and Encore asked Camellya for milk to share with Roccia.
• Suoming and Carlotta discussed whether drinking milk helped people grow taller while Encore and Roccia drank their milk.
• Shorekeeper received a message from Xiao Ling saying the group was preparing to head back and make dinner.
• Shorekeeper told Encore it was time to leave, and Encore pulled Roccia toward the villa to get back for Xiao Ling's cooking.

Xiao Ling and Shorekeeper slipped away to walk along the beach, where they shared music and quiet moments as sunset approached. Shorekeeper confessed that she loved him, and they kissed beneath the fading light.

• Shorekeeper invited Xiao Ling to take a walk by the sea and led him out through the window without telling the others.
• Xiao Ling and Shorekeeper walked barefoot along the shore, explored a sand crab, and listened to music through shared earbuds.
• Shorekeeper remembered the dangers she had faced while waiting for Xiao Ling’s return and treasured their ordinary time together.
• Xiao Ling told Shorekeeper he preferred enjoying the sea with companions rather than looking at it alone.
• Shorekeeper kissed Xiao Ling and confessed that she had always loved him, and Xiao Ling kissed her in return.

On the final morning of their midsummer trip, Xiao Ling and Shorekeeper woke late and prepared to fly home with their friends. They said goodbye to Jinhsi and the others, took a group photo, and settled in for the flight, with Xiao Ling looking forward to returning home and school starting again.

• Shorekeeper woke in Xiao Ling's bed, and Xiao Ling added more hickeys to her neck while they were supposed to be getting ready for their flight.
• Little Ai, Aemeath, and the others noticed Shorekeeper's hickeys as Xiao Ling and Shorekeeper joined them in the living room.
• Xiao Ling asked Jinhsi and her group about their plans, and they explained they would part ways for now but hoped to meet again.
• Xiao Ling led the group out of the villa, and Sigrika organized a group photo before they left.
• On the plane, Xiao Ling exchanged messages with Lahai-Roi and joked with Dania and Honey Peach about returning home and starting school.
• Dania fell asleep on Xiao Ling's shoulder, and Xiao Ling put on his sleep mask, expecting to wake near home.

Xiao Ling and his friends returned to school for the new semester, where they reunited with Suisui and discovered that Delpha and Zahra had joined their class. He arranged to explore the campus with several girls during lunch, hoping to find out which other familiar faces had arrived.

• Xiao Ling joked about meeting beautiful new classmates, and Rover hit him while Dania and Little Ai teased him.
• Xiao Ling and his friends arrived at class and reunited with Suisui, who welcomed him and led him to the seats saved for them.
• Xiao Ling asked about Qingxiao and learned that she had become the kendo club adviser and declined to attend school with them.
• Xiao Ling spotted Delpha and Zahra in the classroom and wondered how many other familiar classmates had arrived.
• Xiao Ling invited the girls to explore campus with him during lunch, and they agreed to meet at the classroom after eating.