Chapter Summaries

Xin Lan rejected Xuan Jia’s offer to move to District K1, despite his explanation of the Federation Government’s plans for an interstellar war. She agreed to join the fighting when it began, but planned to pursue her own goal of conquering the Yota Galaxy.

• Xin Lan refused to discuss work at night and returned to the Sanctuary, while Yun Jin and the others blocked Xuan Jia from following her.
• Xuan Jia argued that District K1 could offer Xin Lan safety and autonomy, but left after she declined to meet with him that night.
• Xin Lan bathed and slept, then learned the next day that Xuan Jia and the others had waited for her in the central council chamber.
• Xin Lan greeted Xuan Jia warmly at first, then rejected his offer again after he explained the Federation Government’s needs and the benefits of joining the war.
• Xin Lan said she would take part in the interstellar war when it began and decided she would aim to conquer the Yota Galaxy for herself.

Xuan Jia offered Xin Lan a place in District K1, but she reassured the K9 District sentinels that nobody was coercing her and refused to retake her spiritual power test. After she left, the five men worried over her differing treatment of them and Xuan Jia, while Chi Ming admitted he still had no promise of becoming her exclusive sentinel.

• Xuan Jia offered to help Xin Lan and invited her to contact him if she changed her mind about going to District K1, but Xin Lan told him the sentinel guards were not coercing her.
• Mo Xiao suggested Xin Lan retake her spiritual power test in case her rank had been measured incorrectly, but she declined and went to work.
• Wu Xi claimed Xin Lan’s willingness to let Xuan Jia kiss the back of her hand meant she liked him, prompting Yun Jin and Mo Xiao to question their own standing with her.
• Chi Ming reminded the others that Xin Lan had kissed him while helping purify his Mental Landscape, but said she had not chosen him as her exclusive sentinel.
• Wu Xi wondered whether Xin Lan was uninterested in men after noting that she remained cold toward all five sentinels.

Mo Xiao brooded over Xin Lan’s closeness with Chi Ming before a wristband notification interrupted him. Meanwhile, Xin Lan purified Kui Sha, whose admiration for her grew, as the pink-haired sentinel waiting next began asking questions with suspicious enthusiasm.

• Mo Xiao realized Xin Lan had tacitly accepted Chi Ming calling her “Lanlan” and wondered why she treated Chi Ming differently from him.
• Xin Lan noticed a new warning sign and chibi bear paw prints outside the soothing room.
• Kui Sha arrived for purification, strapped himself into the restraint chair, and Xin Lan quickly purified and soothed his Mental Landscape.
• Kui Sha asked to kiss the back of Xin Lan’s hand to thank her, but she refused and sent him out so the next sentinel could enter.
• A pink-haired sentinel questioned Kui Sha about Xin Lan’s abilities, and Kui Sha praised her before the sentinel reacted with a sinister smile.

Xin Lan questioned Mo Yilai, a suspicious sentinel who came to be purified, after noticing his probing attitude and confidence. When he refused to explain how he entered the Sanctuary, she attacked his Mental Landscape and demanded an answer.

• Xin Lan realized the sentinels in K9 District tended to sit in the chair before being soothed.
• Mo Yilai introduced himself, questioned Xin Lan about her methods, and sat on the sofa instead of the chair.
• Xin Lan suspected Mo Yilai was not from K9 District and asked how he had entered the Sanctuary, but he avoided answering.
• Mo Yilai reacted intensely to Xin Lan’s guide pheromones and eagerly asked her to begin purification.
• Xin Lan struck Mo Yilai’s Mental Landscape with her mental power, leaving him writhing in pain as she again demanded answers.

Xin Lan forced Mo Yilai to reveal that he belonged to the Free Alliance and had come to take her away, but he instead offered himself and the Alliance’s wealth as her exclusive sentinel. After accepting his submission with a kiss, she was left hearing his boast that his assets exceeded Mo Xiao and the others’ combined wealth several times over.

• Xin Lan used her mental power to subdue Mo Yilai and thwarted his attempt to possess her with his Spirit Body.
• Mo Yilai begged Xin Lan to accept him as her exclusive sentinel and admitted he had originally planned to take her away.
• Mo Yilai revealed he belonged to the Free Alliance, explained its reach, and offered Xin Lan control of its assets and decisions.
• Xin Lan learned the Freedom Auction House belonged to the Free Alliance, and Mo Yilai declared it hers.
• Xin Lan kissed Mo Yilai as a reward, and he continued pleading for her acceptance while boasting about his wealth.

Xin Lan accepted Mo Yilai’s assets and took control of the Free Alliance, then entered his Mental Landscape to purify it. She destroyed the hidden vortices but accidentally battered his Spirit Body, leaving him pleading for resuscitation.

• Mo Yilai transferred his assets and the Free Alliance’s accounts to Xin Lan, who became the organization’s leader.
• Mo Yilai changed his contact name on Xin Lan’s wristband to Baby Yilai, but she refused to call him that.
• When Mo Yilai’s riot level rose, Xin Lan entered his Mental Landscape and used her vines to expose and destroy its invisible vortices.
• Xin Lan’s vines also struck Mo Yilai’s Spirit Body, and he cried out for her to stop hitting him by mistake.
• Xin Lan withdrew from the Mental Landscape and teased the curled-up Mo Yilai by asking whether he needed resuscitating; he eagerly agreed.

Xin Lan finished purifying the sentinels, while Mo Xiao confronted her after suspecting she had deep linked with Mo Yilai and revealed his jealousy. She left the Sanctuary to try to restore the fox’s consciousness, hoping it was still alive and could be sold again.

• Mo Yilai begged Xin Lan to touch his face after she purified his Mental Landscape, then left the soothing room infatuated with her.
• Mo Xiao noticed Xin Lan’s scent on Mo Yilai and went to confront her, claiming he had recognized the sentinel as someone resembling an abductor and was worried for her safety.
• Xin Lan challenged Mo Xiao’s excuse, asking whether he was jealous of her deep linking with other sentinels; he apologized and left.
• Xin Lan treated the remaining four sentinels, then shut the soothing room and hurried away in her hovercar.
• Xin Lan planned to restore the fox’s consciousness and hoped it had survived so she could auction it again.

Xin Lan tested how quickly the Azure Dragon and Nine-Tailed Demon Fox healed and began investigating mutant regeneration. After the Azure Dragon showed signs of developing a Mental Landscape, she sent her mental power into its brain to examine it.

• Xin Lan found the Azure Dragon pinning down the rampaging Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and used vines to injure both mutants as control subjects.
• Xin Lan watched both mutants’ wounds heal rapidly and wondered whether pollutants shared the same regenerative ability.
• Xin Lan told Mo Xiao to have Chi Ming, Wu Xi, Cang Leng, and Yun Jin move into the Sanctuary when its ninety-first floor was ready the next day.
• Xin Lan let her vines gently bind the Azure Dragon and Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, which then played together for several hours.
• Xin Lan sensed a brief surge of mental power from the Azure Dragon, investigated its brain, and discovered an unstable region that she recognized as its Mental Landscape.

Xin Lan purified Yu Yuan’s Mental Landscape, restored him to human form, and claimed him as hers. After she left, Yu Yuan became infatuated with her and tried to drive away the nine-tailed fox, which refused to leave.

• Xin Lan purified the Azure Dragon’s Mental Landscape, revealing its magnificent mountains, skybridge, and diamond towers.
• The Azure Dragon transformed back into a naked man, and Xin Lan slapped him awake.
• Yu Yuan learned that Xin Lan had bought him and restored him, then agreed to belong to her and obey her.
• Xin Lan promised to bring Yu Yuan clothes the next afternoon, gave him her name, and left.
• Yu Yuan tried to scare off the nine-tailed fox, but it retreated into the bedroom and stayed there.

Xin Lan returned home exhausted and went straight to her bath, leaving the sentinels thrilled that she seemed comfortable around them. After Chi Ming fought Yun Jin and the others, Yun Jin imagined Xin Lan in his bathtub and was embarrassed to discover he had mistaken a softened potion bottle for her wrist.

• Xin Lan returned to the ninetieth floor with the sentinels, ignored Mo Xiao’s offer of help, and went to bathe without realizing they had followed her inside.
• Wu Xi and Cang Leng celebrated Xin Lan’s apparent lack of reserve around them, while Fuxi asked the group to leave her alone and assured Mo Xiao she was safe.
• On the eighty-ninth floor, Yun Jin taunted Chi Ming, and the two began fighting until Wu Xi and Cang Leng joined in.
• Chi Ming gained the upper hand after his Mental Landscape had been purified, but Mo Xiao stopped the fight before Yun Jin’s riot level spiraled out of control.
• Alone in his room, Yun Jin imagined Xin Lan beside him in the bath, then realized the object in his hand was only a softened potion bottle and threw it in embarrassment.

Xin Lan learned about the Joint Combat Exercise, then bought clothes and supplies for the two men staying at a run-down house. Yun Jin saw her shopping and convinced the Sanctuary sentinels that she had other sentinels on the side, while Xin Lan arrived to find that the clothes she bought for Yu Yuan did not fit.

• Qian Che explained the Joint Combat Exercise to Xin Lan while she purified his Mental Landscape.
• Xin Lan bought two sets of men's clothes and underwear, shoes, socks, and nutrient solutions before heading to the run-down house.
• Yun Jin saw Xin Lan buy the men's items and returned to the Sanctuary convinced she had two other sentinels.
• Yun Jin told Chi Ming, Wu Xi, Mo Xiao, and the others that Xin Lan had wild sentinels and might abandon them, leaving the group anxious and silent.
• Xin Lan gave Yu Yuan the clothes and supplies she had bought, but the pants were too small to pull over his hips.

Xin Lan purified the nine-tailed demon fox’s Mental Landscape while Yu Yuan struggled with jealousy and tried to understand her affection for him. After the fox recovered, a white-haired youth awakened and called Xin Lan “Fairy sister.”

• Xin Lan praised Yu Yuan in his new casual outfit, then touched his abs and kissed him while her Spirit Body linked with the nine-tailed demon fox.
• Yu Yuan worried that Xin Lan did not truly like him, but cheered himself up by deciding she might have kissed him because she liked him a little.
• The nine-tailed demon fox cried out as its Mental Landscape reappeared, interrupting Xin Lan and Yu Yuan.
• Xin Lan purified the fox’s mirror maze and the dark den hidden inside a mirror, after which the fox recovered and approached her affectionately.
• A white-haired youth began writhing in pain, and Yu Yuan said his pants were probably too small; the youth opened his eyes and called Xin Lan “Fairy sister.”

Xin Lan learned that the nine-tailed demon fox sentinel was Chao Bai and brought him and Yu Yuan under her protection. Mo Yilai warned her to keep her power to reverse mutations secret, but she stayed confident and left Chao Bai wearing leopard-print underwear, much to Mo Yilai’s jealousy.

• Xin Lan attacked Chao Bai’s Mental Landscape until he claimed his name was Chao Bai and described his past as an SSS-rank sentinel in District K2.
• Xin Lan contacted Mo Yilai and told him that Yu Yuan and Chao Bai were now her people, asking him to bring them underwear and arrange a place for them to stay.
• Mo Yilai arrived and warned Xin Lan that revealing her ability to turn mutants back into humans would put her in danger.
• Xin Lan reassured Mo Yilai, kissed him, and admired the leopard-print underwear he had brought.
• Chao Bai tried on his underwear and drew Xin Lan’s attention, leaving Yu Yuan uncertain and Mo Yilai jealous.

Xin Lan learned that Mo Xiao had committed her to the Joint Combat Exercise without asking and left in anger. After she confronted him and moved Wu Xi and the others to her home, Mo Xiao realized why she was upset and went to the ninety-first floor to speak with her.

• Xin Lan learned from Mo Yilai that K9 District would compete in the Joint Combat Exercise and that Mo Xiao had arranged for her to bring a sentinel team without consulting her, so she drove away in anger.
• Mo Yilai took Yu Yuan and Chao Bai away from the shabby house and warned them to cut ties with their past and keep Xin Lan's rescue secret; Yu Yuan declared his absolute devotion to her.
• Chi Ming welcomed Xin Lan home and prepared her a meal, after which the others arrived carrying luggage and Mo Xiao came empty-handed.
• Xin Lan taunted Wu Xi about his promises, prompting him to punch Mo Xiao, then took Wu Xi and the others with her to the ninety-first floor.
• Mo Xiao realized Xin Lan was angry because he had not told her about the competition and had let public discussion assume she would participate, so he went after her.

Xin Lan refused Mo Xiao a bedroom on the 91st floor but left him a chance to earn her trust by understanding her value. After teasing Mo Yilai over a video call, she let Chi Ming into her room, where he appeared in a bunny-eared maid outfit to cheer her up and asked her not to stop wanting him.

• Xin Lan sent Mo Xiao back to the 90th floor, telling him he might earn a place beside her if he learned where his value lay.
• Mo Yilai told Xin Lan that Yu Yuan and Chao Bai were settled at a Free Alliance base, then grew jealous when she teased him about seeing her only once every few months.
• Xin Lan ended the video call after frightening Mo Yilai with the possibility of having to wait his turn.
• Chi Ming visited Xin Lan in a bunny-eared maid outfit, explaining that he wanted to cheer her up.
• Xin Lan praised Chi Ming's outfit, and he knelt beside her sofa and asked her to keep wanting him.

Xin Lan let Chi Ming sleep beside her but refused to physically link with him, leaving him thrilled and frustrated. Outside her room, Cang Leng, Wu Xi, and Yun Jin stayed awake, envying Chi Ming and struggling with their rampage levels and headaches.

• Xin Lan kissed Chi Ming, told him to wait in bed, and let him believe he might become her first exclusive sentinel.
• Xin Lan cuddled Chi Ming through the night but refused to physically link with him, while teasing him before falling asleep in his arms.
• Cang Leng and Wu Xi speculated about what Xin Lan and Chi Ming were doing in her room, then admitted they envied Chi Ming.
• Yun Jin returned to his room, failed to sleep because of his headache, and went to the gym, where Cang Leng and Wu Xi were already exercising and lamenting that Chi Ming could hold Xin Lan.

Xin Lan woke early and decided to improve her weak constitution by exercising, despite Chi Ming and Wu Xi worrying that training would be difficult for her. After an examination confirmed her severe physical depletion and stomach condition, she insisted on starting basic training that afternoon.

• Xin Lan woke up before ten, teased Chi Ming, and told him to wear his male servant outfit while cooking.
• Xin Lan learned that Wu Xi had worked out all night and completed a mission, then pulled his ear and ordered him to help arrange an exercise plan.
• Chi Ming warned Xin Lan that guides had weak constitutions, but she insisted on training and went with Wu Xi for a physical examination.
• Ruisi found that Xin Lan's physical indicators were far below ordinary levels and advised her to restore her health with a sensible diet, routine, and basic exercise.
• Xin Lan left without looking at the report and declared that she would start training that afternoon.

Xin Lan began an exhausting exercise routine and let Wu Xi massage her, choosing him to help her bathe while Chi Ming prepared afternoon tea. When Wu Xi’s Rampage Level neared ninety-four percent and his bear ears emerged, Xin Lan asked why he needed Guide Pheromones when he had her.

• Xin Lan started her six-month workout plan with Wu Xi and Chi Ming, pushing herself through stretches and brisk walking despite her exhaustion.
• Mo Xiao arrived to see Xin Lan, but Wu Xi carried her away to rest and promised to massage her before bed.
• Wu Xi massaged Xin Lan’s legs, and she asked him to continue while she bathed; Chi Ming returned and helped massage her shoulders and arms.
• Xin Lan chose Wu Xi to accompany her to the bath, leaving Chi Ming to prepare afternoon tea.
• While massaging Xin Lan in the bathtub, Wu Xi grew flustered until his bear ears popped out, and he said his Rampage Level was close to ninety-four percent because he had forgotten his Guide Pheromones.
• Xin Lan pinched Wu Xi’s bear ear and asked why he needed Guide Pheromones when he had her.

Xin Lan purified Wu Xi’s Mental Landscape, leaving him overwhelmed with affection and eager to cuddle with her. After she slept, Wu Xi emerged from her room and drew the others’ attention, then spotted that Xin Lan had messaged Xuan Jia and received a message from a contact saved as “Baby Yilai.”

• Xin Lan purified the black filth in Wu Xi’s Mental Landscape, and Wu Xi thanked her while gushing about his feelings.
• Wu Xi clung to Xin Lan and sobbed, then happily joined her in bed after she told him to clean up and sleep.
• Xin Lan fell asleep cuddling Wu Xi, while he stayed awake until she woke two hours later.
• Yun Jin and Cang Leng returned from a bloody mission and saw Wu Xi tiptoeing out of Xin Lan’s room.
• Wu Xi massaged Xin Lan’s shoulders as she used her wristband, then noticed she had messaged Xuan Jia and received a message from “Baby Yilai.”

Xin Lan spoke privately with Xuan Jia, who warned her about threats to guides in the Joint Combat Exercise. She asked him to become her exclusive sentinel, then challenged him to explain why he wanted the role and why he had sent her an intimate photo.

• Xin Lan ignored Wu Xi and went to her room to take Xuan Jia’s video call, while Cang Leng and Chi Ming stopped Wu Xi from following her.
• Wu Xi told Cang Leng and Chi Ming that Xin Lan had a pinned contact named Baby Yilai, and Chi Ming insisted they should not question her about it or Xuan Jia.
• The men asked Mo Xiao whether Xin Lan planned to leave for District K1, but he said he did not know and believed she would tell them if she intended to go.
• Xuan Jia warned Xin Lan that guides might be targeted during the Joint Combat Exercise and suspected the Free Alliance or spies from other planets were responsible.
• Xin Lan asked Xuan Jia whether he wanted to become her exclusive sentinel, and he said yes.
• Xin Lan asked what he would have to give up, then confronted him for wanting the role despite not knowing her well and for deliberately sending her an intimate photo.