Recaps

An Ying and Qin Rang explored the castle at night, where An Ying was given a gardener’s identity and Qin Rang recruited Bai Yang to investigate with him. They hid in a room when heavy footsteps and a dragging, thudding sound stopped outside the door.

• After dinner, An Ying searched for Kane and found the castle unnaturally silent, then encountered a servant who addressed him as a gardener and felt the force of Rules around him.
• An Ying took pruning tools from the tool room and left the castle, while Wang summoned the servant and prompted her to search for a lazy worker.
• Qin Rang collected mud and possible petal fragments from footprints left by a child born out of wedlock, then went to invite Bai Yang to explore with him.
• Bai Yang agreed after Qin Rang promised to let him inspect the Weird Containment Center through normal procedure.
• Qin Rang and Bai Yang entered a room that had been locked earlier, then hid inside when strange footsteps and a dragging, head-like thud approached and stopped outside.

Qin Rang and Bai Yang were attacked by a corpse outside Bai Yang’s door and fought it as it separated into a head and a headless body. They gained the upper hand with the Evil Ghost Mask and Bai Yang’s plush toys, but a glimpse of a figure behind a nearby door hinted at another mystery in the castle.

• Qin Rang and Bai Yang found blood seeping beneath the door and discovered a corpse deliberately slumped outside it.
• When Qin Rang opened the door, the corpse’s head attacked; Bai Yang’s Puppy Plush Toy bit Qin Rang to boost his energy, while the headless body tried to grab him.
• Qin Rang used the Evil Ghost Mask to resist the corpse’s death rule and tore a hole through its empty body.
• Bai Yang and the Rabbit Plush Toy caught the flying head, and Bai Yang kicked it into a nearby door, where he glimpsed a figure and light.
• Bai Yang told the Puppy Plush Toy to catch the head, and the dog leaped at it while the head cried for help.

Bai Yang, Qin Rang, and the others fled through the castle as pursuing Weirds multiplied and blocked their route. They escaped the Mud Weird on the fifth floor by changing stairways, while Bai Yang spotted the Black Cat nearby.

• Qin Rang regained control of himself and led Bai Yang downstairs, where Bai Yang's puppy doll knocked a ceiling-crawling Servant Weird aside.
• Bai Yang and Qin Rang met Tao Yuan, Tang Pin, and Mi Chuchu fighting Weirds on the second floor, and the group fled together as the corpse Weirds multiplied.
• The group reached the first floor, but Qin Rang turned back when he found dozens of Servant Weirds pursuing him, forcing everyone to run upstairs again.
• Wang Ding and Bai Ao joined the fleeing group, and on the fifth floor they encountered the powerful Mud Weird identified as the Eldest Miss.
• Qin Rang led the group down another stairway while Bai Yang spotted the Black Cat watching the Mud Weird pass.

The group fought the pursuing creatures on the castle’s first floor while Bai Yang and Qin Rang discovered a way to turn the mud creature into a doll. Tao Yuan went to search for a safe area, and Bai Yang’s improvised doll could only hold the creature for ten minutes.

• Qin Rang directed the group to fight the creatures, and Tao Yuan, Mi Chuchu, Wang Ding, Tang Pin, and Bai Ao attacked them.
• Bai Ao cut away Tao Yuan and Tang Pin’s cumbersome skirts, letting them fight more freely.
• Qin Rang struggled with the mud creature as the Evil Ghost Mask’s influence intensified, while Bai Yang’s cat dolls tore into the creature and distracted it.
• Qin Rang used Colorless Fire to dry and pin the mud creature as Bai Yang controlled it with threads and wrapped it in cloth.
• Bai Yang transformed the mud creature into a doll and said his improvised creation would last only ten minutes, while Tao Yuan went to search the castle for a safe area.

Bai Yang and the others restrained four Weirds while trying to understand why they could not kill them, as Qin Rang struggled with the Evil Ghost Mask and accepted the Eldest Miss’s doll. The Young Master unexpectedly appeared and left without acknowledging the corpses, and Bai Yang revealed that his rabbit had gone to find reinforcements.

• Tao Yuan and the others examined the restrained Weirds and speculated about their identities and how they had died.
• Qin Rang tried to tear off the Evil Ghost Mask, but its grip tightened and its ravings overwhelmed him.
• Bai Yang handed Qin Rang the Eldest Miss’s doll, trusting the mask to protect him from her Rules.
• The Young Master appeared in the hall, commented on Tao Yuan and Tang Pin’s outfits, and left without reacting to the bodies.
• The group wondered where An Ying, Sheng Qingqiao, and Luo Jiayu were, and Bai Yang said his rabbit had gone to find reinforcements.

Bai Yang brought Ji Fengbai to help with the Instance’s Rules, but Ji Fengbai discovered Qin Rang could not remove the revived Evil Ghost Mask. As the group feared Qin Rang would become its vessel, Ji Fengbai began writing a response to Bai Yang’s demand for help.

• Bai Yang explained that his colleagues had also entered the Instance, and Ji Fengbai arrived with Little Rabbit pushing his wheelchair.
• Ji Fengbai gave Tao Yuan and the others a greeting, then asked Bai Yang in a note why he had dragged him out of bed.
• Ji Fengbai noticed Qin Rang hiding behind the group and asked whether he could remove his Evil Ghost Mask; Qin Rang admitted that he could not.
• Tao Yuan and the others backed away from Qin Rang, while Wang Ding proposed restraining him and removing the mask; Ji Fengbai warned that it had fused with Qin Rang’s face.
• The group worried the mask had revived too soon, and Bai Yang asked Ji Fengbai if he could help; Ji Fengbai began writing before a severed hand stuck a piece of paper onto Bai Yang.

Ji Fengbai helped the group remove Qin Rang’s Evil Ghost Mask and gave them a page that created a temporary Safe House. The group escaped the immediate threat and rested inside the barrier, though its rules could fail if an Ancient Castle NPC appeared.

• Ji Fengbai warned that removing Qin Rang’s mask could have side effects and that losing control again would make it harder to remove.
• The group used the page marked [Fall] to remove Qin Rang’s mask, leaving his face badly damaged and his body exhausted.
• Tao Yuan used her Bubble Machine to heal Qin Rang’s wounds, while Wang Ding warned that the Eldest Miss’s doll was about to break free.
• Bai Yang tore the second page, creating a temporary Safe House that kept the Ancient Castle Weirds at bay under three stated rules.
• The doll revived as a mud-covered Weird, circled the barrier, and went upstairs, allowing the group to rest.

Qin Rang and the others recovered in the temporary Safe House, discussed dream points and the castle’s clues, then split into teams to search different floors. Qin Rang, Tao Yuan, and Bai Yang found An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao missing from their rooms and continued searching the second floor.

• Qin Rang reviewed the rules and discussed with the others their dream points, strange nighttime clues, and suspicions about the killer.
• Qin Rang divided the group into three teams and ordered everyone to return to the Safe House in two hours.
• Bai Yang, Qin Rang, and Tao Yuan searched the second floor and found An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao absent from their rooms.
• Bai Yang noticed an open window and suggested An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao might be outside, while Qin Rang said they should search for clues.
• Tao Yuan examined the banquet paintings in the corridor as the team continued searching.

Bai Yang, Qin Rang, and Tao Yuan entered a room that revealed a glimpse of its past, while Wang Ding and Bai Ao uncovered evidence about Kane and Qing Ge. The chapter ended with Wang Ding realizing that Dream Points were earned by finding key clues and spent when replaying important events.

• Bai Yang stopped Qin Rang from opening a random door and chose a room to search instead.
• Bai Yang, Qin Rang, and Tao Yuan saw a past scene in which a frightened young master demanded that an old woman lock his door, then searched the dusty room.
• Wang Ding and Bai Ao found photographs of Kane and Qing Ge hidden beneath the floor, along with a bloodstained glove under the bed.
• Wang Ding and Bai Ao triggered a dream scene in which Qing Ge revealed that she had come to Ravenhall to free Kane from the Eldest Miss, while Kane warned her that the Eldest Miss would kill her.
• Wang Ding concluded that Dream Points were gained for discovering key clues and consumed when key plot events were replayed.

Tang Pin and Mi Chuchu overheard the Eldest Miss admitting she had killed Kane and Qing Ge, while An Ying discovered corpses buried beneath the garden and encountered a pursued Sheng Qingqiao. The chapter left An Ying facing a cluster of thick flowering branches chasing Sheng Qingqiao.

• Tang Pin and Mi Chuchu sneaked toward the Eldest Miss's room to eavesdrop.
• The Eldest Miss told her servant that she had killed Kane and Qing Ge and planned to summon her youngest brother.
• The butler caught Tang Pin and Mi Chuchu outside the room and asked if they were looking for the Eldest Miss.
• An Ying failed to prune the garden branches and found disturbed soil that smelled of blood.
• An Ying dug into the soil, heard something rushing toward him, and saw Sheng Qingqiao burst from the bushes with a wooden bucket.
• An Ying caught Sheng Qingqiao and saw a cluster of thick flowering branches pursuing him.

An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao were attacked by a black cat that transformed into Cat Boy and split into five copies. As the group watched from the castle, Bai Yang explained that Cat Boy belonged to his organization, but Tao Yuan questioned why he had cat ears.

• An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao fled from the flowering branches, then discovered that the shears slowed the plants while Sheng Qingqiao's flaming Broadsword could cut them.
• A black cat attacked An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao, knocking them down and breaking Sheng Qingqiao's bucket, while the cat demanded the fish.
• The black cat transformed into Cat Boy and created four clones, then chased and attacked Sheng Qingqiao and An Ying.
• Tao Yuan, Qin Rang, and Bai Yang saw Cat Boy pursuing the two from the window, and Bai Yang said Cat Boy belonged to his organization.
• Tao Yuan asked Bai Yang why Cat Boy had cat ears and whether they were an aftereffect of a Weird Object.

Bai Yang, Qin Rang, and Tao Yuan discovered a hidden passage containing empty rooms that looked like prison cells, then regrouped with the others to compare their findings. Tang Pin and Mi Chuchu reported that Luo Jiayu was in the kitchen killing fish, while Qin Rang began reviewing everyone’s information.

• Bai Yang showed Qin Rang a drawing in a book that revealed a hidden room and earned the group a key clue and a Dream Point.
• Qin Rang deduced that a secret passage lay behind the table, and Tao Yuan broke through the wall with her Chainsaw.
• The group explored the passage’s empty, locked rooms, which Bai Yang thought resembled prison cells, then concealed the entrance and returned the table to its place.
• Wang Ding and Bai Ao returned to the hall, and Tang Pin and Mi Chuchu arrived late after the butler detained them with a long talk about etiquette.
• Tang Pin and Mi Chuchu said they had found Luo Jiayu in the kitchen killing fish, but the group decided they could not take her away without breaking the Rules.
• After the group reported that they had not encountered the supernatural creatures again, Qin Rang reviewed Wang Ding’s notes and spoke quietly with Tao Yuan.

The group pieced together the Ravenhall family’s tangled history, the deaths connected to the Eldest Miss, and the likely role Darren played in hiding the bodies. They ended by splitting up to investigate the Young Master and the kitchen.

• Qin Rang and the others reviewed what they knew about the Count’s children, the illegitimate sons, and the conflict between the Eldest Miss and the Young Master.
• Wang Ding suspected Kane was involved in Qing Ge’s death, while the group debated whether the Young Master had been a powerless witness or something more.
• Qin Rang recalled seeing Darren return from the garden with dirt and flower petals on his shoes, and the group concluded he may have helped bury the bodies.
• The group identified the four unkillable Weirds as the dead illegitimate sons, Qing Ge, and a woman who had served the Eldest Miss.
• Qin Rang decided to visit the Young Master with a ruby after hearing the butler planned to check on him, while Mi Chuchu went to investigate the kitchen.

Bai Yang and Qin Rang eavesdropped on Wang and the butler discussing Darren’s death, while Tao Yuan’s group searched the ruined Garden for buried corpses. The chapter left An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao exhausted after Cat Boy stopped chasing them, with An Ying having disastrously completed his gardening task.

• Qin Rang persuaded Bai Yang to accompany him, and the two followed the Little Mouse Doll to spy on Wang and the butler.
• Wang told the butler he had only helped Darren and suggested the Eldest Miss was more likely to be suspected; he then wondered if the guests were eavesdropping outside.
• Tao Yuan, Tang Pin, Wang Ding, and Bai Ao found the Garden in disarray and noticed a patch of disturbed soil that might conceal a corpse.
• Tao Yuan and Tang Pin went farther into the Garden to find the missing pair, while Wang Ding and Bai Ao began digging.
• An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao stopped running when Cat Boy gave up the chase, and An Ying realized he had completed his gardening task by ruining the Garden’s branches.

Cat Boy gave Sheng Qingqiao a fish after chasing him and An Ying, then the two headed to the castle kitchen, where they reunited with Luo Jiayu. As the three compared their tasks and clues, Luo Jiayu urgently warned An Ying not to investigate the body in the garden.

• Cat Boy decided that chasing Sheng Qingqiao and An Ying for an hour entitled them to two fish, and he gave Sheng Qingqiao another one.
• Sheng Qingqiao told An Ying that he had felt something was wrong with the Instance and the lake, so they avoided the water and went to the kitchen.
• Sheng Qingqiao delivered the fish to the kitchen, while An Ying slipped in through another door after a servant turned him away.
• Sheng Qingqiao and An Ying recognized Luo Jiayu working in the kitchen, where she was processing fish to complete her task.
• The three discussed their tasks, and An Ying said he had spotted what might be a body in the castle garden.
• Luo Jiayu told An Ying not to go near the garden, saying she had heard everything the servants had discussed.

Luo Jiayu told An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao about the Count of Ravenhall’s murderous history and the garden’s buried bodies before a sheep-headed monster attacked them in the kitchen. As the kitchen monsters surrounded them, the three fought to reach the staff changing room, and Luo Jiayu’s water snakes began disabling the pig-headed monster blocking the exit.

• Luo Jiayu explained that servants had been killed and buried in the former forest and garden, and began recounting what she had heard about the lake before a sheep-headed monster interrupted her.
• The sheep-headed monster attacked, and Sheng Qingqiao knocked it down with his enlarged broadsword as the trio fled into the kitchen, where other monsters turned on them.
• An Ying used his Bamboo Umbrella to block cleavers while Luo Jiayu revealed that her hair could become venomous water snakes and used them against a deer-headed monster.
• An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao decided to reach the staff changing room for clean clothes, while Sheng Qingqiao held back the monsters and An Ying cleared a path.
• Luo Jiayu’s water snakes slipped into the pig-headed monster’s head and attacked its eyes and nerves, making it clutch its head and shriek.

Sheng Qingqiao, Luo Jiayu, Mi Chuchu, and An Ying were overwhelmed by the mutated food creatures, while Wang Ding and Bai Ao were killed after uncovering Ravenhall’s buried bodies. The squad began its third run in a newly unlocked Special Dream, where Tao Yuan awoke in a maid’s uniform and was summoned by the Second Young Master.

• Sheng Qingqiao, Luo Jiayu, and Mi Chuchu escaped the dining room as An Ying held back the mutated food creatures, but the creatures’ strange rules injured all four of them.
• Mi Chuchu used her Holy Staff to pull the group together, and they joked that they might not survive as the creatures closed in.
• Wang Ding and Bai Ao unearthed skeletons and recently buried corpses, identified Kane, Darren, and two women, and were confronted by Wang and the Butler with Qin Rang in their custody.
• Wang ordered the Butler to kill the intruders, while hidden corpses attacked Wang Ding and Bai Ao; the kitchen group was also overwhelmed, and the squad received a death notice with ten Dream Points remaining.
• The squad spent its Dream Points to begin the third run, which the system identified as a newly unlocked Special Dream.
• Tao Yuan awoke in a maid’s uniform in a dim, altered Ravenhall and followed the Second Young Master out after he called for her.

Wang manipulated the Second Young Master into approaching their mother and provoked Gui Ding into losing her temper in front of her. That night, Gui Ding began torturing servants and ordered Sheng Qingqiao and Bai Ao to continue, leaving them to choose between cruelty and disobedience.

• Wang suggested that the Second Young Master use the possibility that Darren was their mother's illegitimate son to gain influence, and the Second Young Master hurried off to approach her.
• Wang warned Qin Rang to stay blind, deaf, and mute if he wanted to survive, then baited Gui Ding into kicking over his tea and attempting to slap him.
• Wang Ding blocked Gui Ding's slap, and their mother arrived and reprimanded Gui Ding in front of the Second Young Master.
• That night, Qin Rang awoke to find himself and the others caged while Gui Ding tortured servants and handed Sheng Qingqiao and Bai Ao a knife, ordering them to take over.

The Eldest Miss forced Bai Ao and Sheng Qingqiao to carry out her orders under the crushing power of the Rules, then chose An Ying as the next victim. As the Rules clouded Bai Ao’s mind, he stabbed An Ying, who narrowly survived and reached for a healing Weird Object.

• Sheng Qingqiao struggled against strange thoughts urging him to side with the Eldest Miss, while Bai Ao stopped him from raising his knife against the captive.
• The Eldest Miss used the Rules to overpower Bai Ao and Sheng Qingqiao, but Bai Ao persuaded her that the captive was too ugly to flay, so she ordered other servants to kill and bury her outside.
• The Eldest Miss selected An Ying as the next person to be flayed, and the Rules suppressed his energy and prevented him from activating his Weird Object.
• Under the Eldest Miss’s pressure, Bai Ao’s thoughts became confused, and he stabbed An Ying in the back; An Ying avoided a fatal wound and grabbed a healing Weird Object.
• Sheng Qingqiao regained his senses after the first stab but was too overwhelmed by the Rules to stop Bai Ao.

Qin Rang and the others secretly freed the prisoners while Wang manipulated the Eldest Miss into taking the blame for the deaths. After the Eldest Miss killed the Second Young Master, Tao Yuan struck her down, and Sheng Qingqiao escaped with Wang.

• Qin Rang used Colorless Fire to open the cell, but Wang made him forget that he had used it.
• A servant announced that Madam had returned, and Wang warned the Eldest Miss that her family might discover her secret chamber.
• The Eldest Miss revealed her plan to blame Wang for the killings and stabbed the Second Young Master to death with a blade hidden in her shoe.
• Wang slipped free of his ropes, thanked the Eldest Miss for taking the blame, and exchanged a glance with the person behind her.
• Tao Yuan struck the Eldest Miss with a Chainsaw, and Sheng Qingqiao grabbed Wang and ran for the door.

Tao Yuan and her companions escaped the Eldest Miss and followed Wang through the Castle’s Secret Chambers to a Safe House where she could not enter. Wang served them wine, then revealed that he had poisoned every cup.

• Tao Yuan’s group fled after her Chainsaw attack failed to stop the Eldest Miss, and Wang led them through the Castle’s maze of Secret Chambers.
• Wang brought the group into the Safe Passage in Father and Mother’s room, where the Eldest Miss’s pursuit stopped and the Rules’ binding force receded.
• Qin Rang and the others rested in a lavish room while Wang poured wine and reassured them that they were safe.
• The group sampled the wine, and Wang revealed that he had put poison in all of it.

After the Countess rescued Wang and the others, she and the count confined the servants and the Calamity Crossing Squad, who suspected they would be silenced. Trapped and unable to find clues, the squad faced a looming death until Sheng Qingqiao questioned whether they were in a dream or reality.

• Wang admitted that his claim about the drink had been a lie, and Qin Rang joined in his cheerful act.
• The Countess arrived and rescued Wang, then the count and Countess gathered the servants and other witnesses in a guarded sitting room.
• Wang told Darren and Kane that the Eldest Miss would not kill both him and Second Brother, and Kane considered seeking her favor while Darren wondered who would win the family’s power struggle.
• The Calamity Crossing Squad realized the count and Countess intended to silence them, and Tao Yuan said their only chance was to escape the Secret Chamber and leave the Castle.
• The squad searched for clues and discussed the Young Master’s strange influence, but found nothing until Sheng Qingqiao asked whether they were in a dream or reality.

Tao Yuan and the others began the Fourth Loop, dug up the dead in the Garden, and helped the undying entities recognize their corpses. The group then overheard the Eldest Young Master accuse the Eldest Miss of murdering his brothers and trying to poison him.

• Tao Yuan and the others completed their tasks and survived the first night of the Fourth Loop, then found an old photograph of the Second Young Master.
• The group dug up corpses in the Garden, discussed who had killed the family, and speculated that they needed to identify the killer before the Count and Countess died.
• Bai Ao matched the corpses to the weird entities, causing the entities to lose their undying state and dissipate.
• After resting, Qin Rang and the others heard the Eldest Young Master accuse the Eldest Miss of killing Kane and Darren and trying to poison him.
• The Eldest Miss denied that she stood to gain from killing the Eldest Young Master, but privately acknowledged that she had considered doing so.

Wang tried to prevent the Eldest Young Master and Eldest Miss from fighting by delaying their hunting competition, while Qin Rang and the others helped protect the servants. As the contest approached, Qin Rang learned that a writer staying on the fifth floor used a wheelchair, and that the black cat belonged to the Dune family.

• The Eldest Miss accused the Eldest Young Master of improper ties to Darren, and he answered that he would challenge her to a hunting competition.
• Wang sent the Butler to hurry the parents home and planned to buy time, then concealed his amusement when the Butler left.
• Qin Rang and his companions were discovered listening in, and they offered to help Wang delay the contest.
• Wang replaced the servants chosen for the competition with Mi Chuchu, An Ying, Sheng Qingqiao, Luo Jiayu, and Tang Pin, while Bai Ao and Wang Ding served as his Noble Attendants.
• Before the contest, Sheng Qingqiao warned Qin Rang that something felt wrong, and Qin Rang asked Wang about the upstairs wheelchair and the black cat.

Qin Rang and Wang delivered silver arrows to the Eldest Young Master and Eldest Miss before their deadly contest began, while Mi Chuchu and the other servants were forced to flee as nobles shot at them. Mi Chuchu tried to protect the targeted servants, and the Eldest Miss turned her bow toward her as the Eldest Young Master continued to toy with Luo Jiayu.

• Wang told Qin Rang that the Butler had taught him to polish the silver arrows, then delivered them to the Eldest Young Master and Eldest Miss.
• The Eldest Young Master and Eldest Miss began their contest by chasing and shooting the servants released onto the Racetrack.
• The Eldest Young Master's arrow killed a servant, and Mi Chuchu clenched her fists while Qin Rang and Tao Yuan looked away.
• Mi Chuchu used her defensive ability to shove a little girl out of an arrow's path, drawing the Eldest Miss's displeased attention.
• Luo Jiayu dodged the Eldest Young Master's arrows while a fellow slave used her as a shield, and she realized the Eldest Young Master was deliberately toying with her.