Light and Night invites you into a world of glamour, romance, and mystery, where you play as a talented fashion designer whose choices shape her story alongside five male love interests. Every decision influences your story, relationships, and unique endings. This ultimate beginner guide covers the best tips and tricks for managing resources, building a strong team, raising Affection Levels, and progressing efficiently, helping you enjoy a rewarding journey from the very start.

 

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Starting Your Romance Adventure

First, you need to know the best way to start your Light and Night journey. Follow these steps to get started:

• Complete the tutorial and prologue to meet the main characters and learn the basic game mechanics.

 

• Follow the main story chapters while making your choices. This will help you understand the game's systems, rewards, and resources while unlocking key features such as the card system, gacha system, and intimacy system.

Tip: Push through the story chapters quickly to unlock the core gameplay features and progress faster. However, as you continue, take some time to read the conversations and story scenes to better understand the world of Light and Night. This is one of the most enjoyable ways to experience the game.

Light and Night Core Gameplay and Story Tips

The best way to keep progressing in your gameplay is by understanding the core gameplay of Light and Night and how the story unfolds.

Light and Night Story: The storyline progresses through chapters and stages, and your choices shape your path. With branching routes, multiple endings, and deep lore involving light and dark forces, past lives, and mysteries, the story offers a rich and immersive experience.

Core Gameplay: For the early chapters, the gameplay revolves around:

Note: What are Bonds? Bonds are character cards that represent your love interests and are used in battle stages.

• Collect cards by progressing through the story or through the gacha system.

• Build a team with up to 5 cards to engage in Inspiration Stages (arrange your cards strategically).

• In battles, or Inspiration Stages, drag cards toward the Inspiration Fragments.

• Match attributes for each card with the corresponding Fragment colors to deal bonus damage.

• Level up your cards to increase their attributes.

• Clear Inspiration Stages to continue progressing through the story chapters.

 

Explore Side Content: The game also features phone messages, dates, more interactions with your love interests, different events, and character-specific stories for a fully immersive experience.

Choose Your Light and Night Male Lead

There are five characters for you to choose from as you progress through your storyline. Each character has unique vibes, backstories, and story routes that shape your journey. So, your choice will decide the kind of romance experience you have.

Below are all the Light and Night male love interests with their unique details to help you make your choice:

• Xiao Yi: A rebellious racer with a secret bounty hunter life. He loves teasing others, stays reliable in danger, and brings action-packed romance.

 

• Lu Chen: The calm and elegant CEO of Warson Group. He is polite and caring but keeps his feelings hidden, creating a deep slow-burn romance.

 

• Qi Sili: A famous designer and strict mentor. He may seem cold and blunt, but his warm side appears as you grow closer.

 

• Zha Lisu: A skilled surgeon with a charming personality. Although he seems perfect, he also has a playful and surprisingly cute side.

 

• Xia Mingxing: The cheerful musical actor and childhood friend. His shared history with the protagonist creates a warm and comforting romance.

 

Each character has independent routes, cards, and exclusive content. Focus on one or two favorites early to maximize both enjoyment and progression efficiency.

Raise Affection Level with Your Male Lead

Raising the Affection Level is one of the major ways to keep progressing through your gameplay in Light and Night. Higher Affection Levels unlock exclusive stories, voice lines, dates, and deeper relationship events. So, here are some tips and tricks to increase your Affection Level:

• Interact with Moments posts through comments.

• Participate in daily video calls whenever available.

• Send and reply to phone messages and calls from the love interests.

• Join special character-focused events, such as birthday events.

• Use their cards in battles and enhance them regularly.

 

Tip: Affection Level is especially important for players who want to unlock every romance scene, special interaction, and character story. Make affection progression part of your daily routine to experience more relationship content.

The Designer Part: Customize Your Look

The MC's role within the Light and Night story is that of a fashion designer. So, within your gameplay, you will have a deep customization process. This is one of the most fun parts of the game, allowing you to make your journey more unique with your own personalized fashion style.

Your progress as a designer is reflected by your Designer Level, which unlocks different outfits, hairstyles, makeup, and other accessories as it increases. To level up your Designer Level:

• Push through the story to earn early outfits and accessories.

• Complete side story activities.

• Do your dailies and participate in events.

• Prioritize upgrading the Tailoring and Shoemaking branches in the crafting tree.

 

Tip: Keep working on leveling up your Designer Level to unlock unique outfits and customization options, allowing you to make your look more unique and personal.

Understand the Light and Night Card System

Light and Night gameplay mainly revolves around the card-focused battle system. You will engage in card battles, known as Inspiration Stages, by creating a card deck and dragging cards toward the Inspiration Fragments to unlock Inspiration and progress through the story.

Here are some tips and tricks for managing your cards from this Light and Night guide:

• Light and Night Cards: These cards are central to the gameplay. They feature different battle actions of your love interests, and each card has a star rating (up to 6★).

 

• Upgrade Cards: You can upgrade cards by using the Heart Potions collected throughout your gameplay progression. This increases Bond Attributes such as Trust, Courage, Resolution, Focus, and overall Bond Levels.

• Build Your Teams: You can create a team by deploying up to 5 cards. Always check the deployment order and attributes before entering an Inspiration Stage, then adjust your card lineup to gain bonus effects.

Tip: You can use the Auto Battle feature to automatically deploy your cards, making progression easier and more convenient.

Different Currencies and Resource Management Tips

There are multiple currencies that you can obtain during your romance adventure in Light and Night. As a beginner, you will collect different currencies through rewards and gameplay. Here are some tips to manage them effectively:

• Ursa Minor: This is the primary currency used throughout your gameplay. You can earn it easily from story progression. It is useful for card upgrades and crafting.

• Ursa Constellations: This is the summoning currency that you can use to obtain cards from the gacha system.

• North Stars: North Stars are a valuable premium currency, so spend them wisely. Save them for limited-time packs, special event bundles, stamina refills, and important progression materials.

More Beginner Tips & Tricks for Better Progress

For an even better romance adventure in Light and Night, you can follow these tips and tricks:

 

• Finish the early tutorial and main story chapters to unlock all core features.

• Interact with your favorite male leads regularly to build Affection and unlock more story content  and unlock more story content.

• Always check the Bond Attribute order before each Inspiration Stage and adjust your team accordingly.

• Make sure to use your 6-Star cards in your team whenever possible.

• Upgrade your cards regularly to enhance their attributes and gain more damage bonuses against Inspiration Fragments.

Conclusion

That's the wrap-up of our Light and Night beginner guide. This guide helps you understand the core systems of Light and Night, including early progression, card battles, Affection Levels, resource management, and choosing different stories. Follow the tips and tricks for making your own story and enjoy the gameplay in a better way. And if you want to explore different story paths and manage multiple accounts easily, OSLink’s Multi-Instance Manager helps control everything in one place for a smoother experience.