Chapter Summaries

Meng Zizheng confronted his belief that he was unworthy of the Meng family and reclaimed his own name, while Meng Jingxiu left after his deception was exposed. As filming continued, the group discovered a new page in the study diary that might help solve the mystery.

• Meng Zizheng spent the night replaying the staff member's criticism and reflecting on why he had tried so hard to earn the Meng family's love.
• Su Shangting went to pull Meng Zizheng out, but Meng Zizheng opened the door and declared that he liked his own name: Zizheng.
• Meng Jingxiu left after being disqualified from the remaining filming, while online attention shifted toward Meng Zizheng and public sympathy for him grew.
• Wen Feiran and the others continued investigating the clues and found a new page in the study diary.
• Zou Yuxing examined the page using various methods to uncover its contents.

Wen Feiran and the others read a newly appeared diary page and theorized about the bell and Wooden Man’s origins. Song Lindi then accused Wen Feiran of being suspiciously skilled at opening combination locks and appealed to Gu Suian for his judgment.

• Wen Feiran reopened the diary, and the group read an entry about a child who wanted human skin to make the sound of bells.
• Zou Yuxing theorized that the Wooden Man was the older sister in the diary and the bell-ringing ghost was the murdered young master, and the others largely agreed.
• Song Lindi questioned why a new diary page had appeared, but Wen Feiran and Zou Yuxing said nobody had found it earlier.
• Song Lindi accused Wen Feiran of opening combination locks too easily, while Zou Yuxing and Su Shangting defended him.
• Song Lindi appealed to Gu Suian, who looked at Wen Feiran without answering.

After Gu Suian locked Wen Feiran in his room, the group struggled to make progress without him. Wen Feiran tried to escape using a Go board, and restoring its game position stirred a mysterious familiarity in him.

• Gu Suian told Wen Feiran to stay in his room, and Wen Feiran accepted without challenging him.
• The others explored the castle, but Song Lindi failed to find clues while the group remained stuck at a door.
• Wen Feiran searched his room for a way out and concluded that the Go board might hold the key.
• Wen Feiran accidentally knocked the stones off the board, then accurately replayed the game from memory as a strange familiarity surfaced.

Wen Feiran recognized the reconstructed Go game as one he had played in a past quick-transmigration world and feared that his hidden identity would be exposed. After the group returned from failing to open Song Lindi’s door, Su Shangting used his police identity to eliminate Song Lindi, but Song Lindi’s witch curse eliminated Su Shangting as well.

• Wen Feiran remembered playing the famous Go game in a past world, then worried that others might uncover the truth about him.
• Online viewers discussed Wen Feiran’s reconstruction of the lost game record and speculated about his hidden identity.
• Zou Yuxing and Su Shangting returned after failing to open Song Lindi’s door and found Wen Feiran sitting dazed in the lockup.
• Song Lindi accused Wen Feiran of finding the password too easily, while Su Shangting grew suspicious of Song Lindi’s motives.
• Su Shangting revealed that he was a police officer and used his role to eliminate Song Lindi.
• Song Lindi revealed that his witch role cursed whoever eliminated him, and Su Shangting was marked for elimination too.

After Su Shangting revealed he was a cop, Meng Zizheng admitted he had been absorbing the others’ health and showed them their remaining health bars. Zou Yuxing then told Wen Feiran that netizens had uncovered another identity of his, leaving Wen Feiran terrified as Zou began to name it.

• Zou Yuxing confronted Su Shangting, who explained that he had hidden his identity as a cop to avoid being kicked out.
• Meng Zizheng gave Wen Feiran and Zou Yuxing cards showing their health, revealing that Zou had 100 points left while Wen Feiran had only 15.
• Meng Zizheng confessed that he had stopped absorbing health after realizing how much damage he had caused Wen Feiran, and Zou Yuxing offered to let him absorb more of his own health.
• Zou Yuxing and Wen Feiran claimed they had no special identities, but Gu Suian watched Wen Feiran with suspicion.
• Zou Yuxing told Wen Feiran that netizens had uncovered another identity of his, then began calling him White Dragon.

Wen Feiran used his old Go account, White Dragon Tail, to explain his connection to the legendary White Dragon and played a game with Gu Suian. As the group neared escape from the castle, the livestream revealed Wen Feiran returning alone to the underground cell, where a strange altar had replaced the chains.

• Wen Feiran told Zou Yuxing that he had chosen the name White Dragon Tail because he admired White Dragon and had inherited a game record from his grandfather.
• Wen Feiran kept Zou Yuxing talking about Go, then played a game with Gu Suian when Zou Yuxing gave up his seat.
• Meng Zizheng refused to absorb anyone else's life points and died in the game when his points reached zero.
• Zou Yuxing, Wen Feiran, and Gu Suian returned to their rooms, expecting to leave the castle the next morning.
• After the livestream screen went dark, Wen Feiran walked back to the underground cell and stopped before a patterned circular altar bearing a devil's symbol.

Wen Feiran placed Zou Yuxing’s Life Card on the altar, but Gu Suian arrived and revealed that he had suspected Wen Feiran was the diary’s owner. Wen Feiran explained how he had identified and eliminated Meng Jingxiu, leaving his betrayal exposed to the livestream audience.

• Wen Feiran placed Zou Yuxing’s Life Card on the altar before Gu Suian interrupted him.
• Gu Suian explained that the chain and the bell’s pursuit of Wen Feiran had led him to suspect Wen Feiran was the diary’s owner and the dead person’s target.
• Wen Feiran revealed that the diary’s handprint had exposed his identity and that he tore out the page to keep it secret.
• Wen Feiran explained that he had identified Meng Jingxiu as the only person able to eliminate him and chose to send Meng Jingxiu away first.
• The livestream audience and online commentators pieced together Wen Feiran’s strategy and the roles of Zou Yuxing, Meng Jingxiu, and Song Lindi.

After the recording ended, Wen Feiran slept for twenty hours before waking and returning to his overdue fanfiction. Writing a romance scene inspired by Gu Suian embarrassed him, and after sending the story to Strawberry Bobo at dawn, he waited for a reply.

• Wen Feiran woke after twenty hours of sleep and realized his fanfiction deadline was approaching.
• Wen Feiran sat down to write, and a scene featuring Gu Suian bound to a chair came vividly to mind.
• Wen Feiran blushed and called himself a pervert as he reflected on privately writing fanfiction while spending time with Gu Suian.
• Wen Feiran wrote through the night and sent the finished fanfiction to Strawberry Bobo at six in the morning.
• Wen Feiran received no immediate reply and expected Strawberry Bobo might respond around ten.

Wen Feiran went to a brand shoot after unexpectedly receiving several endorsement offers, and he met Song Lindi at the studio. Song Lindi left to film a Gu Corporation ad, while Wen Feiran and a staff member wondered about his influential family connections.

• Wen Feiran accepted a brand shoot arranged by the assistant director and took a taxi to the studio without an agent or assistant.
• A staff member was surprised that Wen Feiran had arrived by taxi, and Wen Feiran explained that he could not drive.
• The staff member told Wen Feiran that Song Lindi was reshooting footage for a Gu Corporation ad and that President Gu was absent.
• Song Lindi came over, gave Wen Feiran coffee, and joked about Wen Feiran's scheme on the show before they made peace.
• A Gu Corporation executive greeted Song Lindi and asked him to pass along regards to his grandfather, who had told him to cooperate with the shoot.
• After Song Lindi left to film, the staff member speculated that Song Lindi's grandfather had ties to the Gu family.

Wen Feiran finished his reshoot and overheard Song Lindi threatening a young woman with a theft accusation over a missing necklace. Remembering how Song Lindi’s assistant had once falsely accused him, Wen Feiran decided to intervene and get the woman out of the situation.

• Wen Feiran completed his shoot smoothly and went upstairs to use a quieter restroom.
• Wen Feiran heard Song Lindi accuse a young woman of taking his missing necklace and demand that she find it within an hour.
• Song Lindi threatened to report the woman to her supervisor and warned that she could be blacklisted, while she insisted she had not taken the necklace.
• Wen Feiran recalled that Song Lindi’s assistant had falsely accused him of stealing a ring, which had later been found in the assistant’s bag.
• Wen Feiran felt unable to leave the young woman alone and chose to get her out before he had a foolproof plan.

Wen Feiran helped a staff member prove through surveillance footage that she had not stolen Song Lindi’s necklace, then confronted Song Lindi after he pulled him aside. The chapter ended with Wen Feiran staring behind Song Lindi and calling out to Teacher Gu, while Song Lindi dismissed it as another trick.

• Wen Feiran pretended to call Teacher Gu, prompting Song Lindi to flee, then asked a tearful staff member to take him to the surveillance room.
• Wen Feiran arranged for the footage to be checked and confirmed that the staff member had stayed beside Song Lindi’s bag and had not stolen the necklace.
• Wen Feiran had Song Lindi brought to the group so the staff member could clear herself publicly and offer to help find the necklace.
• Song Lindi tried to hire the staff member, then took Wen Feiran to the lounge and warned him not to meddle in other people’s affairs.
• Wen Feiran reminded Song Lindi that he had also lost a ring, and Song Lindi grew angry before dismissing Wen Feiran’s call to Teacher Gu as a repeated bluff.

Gu Suian confronted Song Lindi over his treatment of Wen Feiran and announced that the company would terminate Song Lindi’s contract. Song Lindi left after realizing Gu Suian’s attention was on Wen Feiran, while Wen Feiran sat quietly, unsettled by what had happened.

• Gu Suian arrived and told Song Lindi to thank Wen Feiran for warning him.
• Song Lindi challenged Gu Suian’s interest in Wen Feiran, but Gu Suian asked what Song Lindi had done.
• Song Lindi tried to present himself as Wen Feiran’s friend and invoked his grandfather when speaking to Gu Suian.
• Gu Suian said he would inform Song Lindi’s grandfather and that the company would terminate Song Lindi’s contract.
• Song Lindi left in a daze, and Wen Feiran remained silent as Gu Suian watched him.

Wen Feiran set aside the cake from Song Lindi and shared a meal with Gu Suian, who thanked him for helping during the elevator accident. After Gu Suian took him home, Wen Feiran read Strawberry Bobo’s praise of his romance writing and dismissed the idea that he had fallen in love.

• Wen Feiran asked Gu Suian whether he should eat Song Lindi’s cake, and Gu Suian suggested leaving it for the assistant and taking him out for dessert instead.
• Gu Suian brought Wen Feiran to a restaurant, where they shared a meal and Gu Suian cut up his steak for him.
• Gu Suian told Wen Feiran he had long wanted to thank him for helping during the elevator accident, and Wen Feiran said he had been busy making money for the past two years.
• Gu Suian took Wen Feiran home, and Wen Feiran said they would see each other at the variety show recording next Wednesday.
• Wen Feiran read Strawberry Bobo’s enthusiastic praise of his romance writing and decided he had only reached the point of being happy to spend time with his idol.

After finishing his fanfic, Wen Feiran became caught up in an online scandal when a celebrity’s past bullying was exposed. A staff member and former classmates cleared Wen Feiran’s name and revealed Song Lindi as the culprit, leaving Song’s reputation in ruins.

• Wen Feiran finished writing his fanfic and finally settled down to rest.
• Former classmates accused a well-connected celebrity of bullying them in high school by falsely claiming his belongings had gone missing.
• Netizens suspected Wen Feiran after a video showed him taking a sobbing staff member to a security room, but questioned whether he could have been the bully.
• The staff member identified Song Lindi as the person who had lost his necklace and thanked Wen Feiran for helping her review the surveillance footage.
• The Gu Corporation terminated its contract with Song Lindi, and the staff member released footage that supported her account.
• Song Lindi’s former classmates shared more evidence, while netizens praised Wen Feiran for helping expose the truth.

After Wen Feiran’s messages about Gu Suian sparked online speculation, he worried he had caused trouble for him. During filming, the arrival of Zhou Lei worsened Wen Feiran’s mood, but Gu Suian comforted him with homemade milk candy and revealed he remembered their earlier elevator conversation.

• Zou Yuxing shared chat logs supporting Wen Feiran, and netizens began speculating about Wen Feiran’s closeness with Gu Suian.
• Wen Feiran worried that his public message about Gu Suian would cause him trouble when they filmed again.
• The production team introduced Zhou Lei as a guest, and Wen Feiran reacted with resentment because of their personal grudge.
• As the group walked along the beach, Gu Suian gave Wen Feiran a piece of homemade milk candy.
• Gu Suian reminded Wen Feiran that he had once offered him snowflake crisp in an elevator, and Wen Feiran wondered if Gu Suian had made the candy because of him.

Wen Feiran recognized Zhou Lei as the singer who had stolen credit for his work and blocked him from getting other jobs, reigniting his anger and his desire to pursue the matter legally. The group learned that a ranking game would decide their sleeping arrangements, and Zou Yuxing hoped Wen Feiran would let him win.

• Zou Yuxing slid into the sea and soaked Su Shangting, who had to be held back by Wen Feiran.
• Zhou Lei called himself a genius singer, while Wen Feiran recalled how Zhou Lei had stolen credit for his songs and prevented him from getting work.
• Wen Feiran checked his phone and grew furious as he thought about taking Zhou Lei to court.
• The director announced that the lowest-ranked guests would sleep in the cramped attic, while the top-ranked guest would get the luxury single room.
• Zou Yuxing said he could win if Wen Feiran went easy on him, and Su Shangting mocked his chances.

Wen Feiran and Gu Suian teamed up in a charades game, where Wen Feiran guessed clues about Gu Suian’s past works with ease and revealed how closely he followed the actor’s movies. After his friends helped explain his enthusiasm, the other contestants allied against the pair in the next round.

• Wen Feiran and Gu Suian drew the same number and became partners for the game.
• Zou Yuxing and Su Shangting bickered through their charades round, while Zhou Lei and Meng Zizheng earned only one point.
• Gu Suian acted out clues from his past works, and Wen Feiran guessed all three quickly, putting their team far ahead.
• Zou Yuxing realized Wen Feiran was a fan of Gu Suian, and Su Shangting defended him by saying he liked Gu Suian’s movies.
• Wen Feiran clarified that he had watched Teacher Gu’s movies extra times, while Gu Suian watched him with a smile.
• The other four contestants silently allied against Wen Feiran and Gu Suian to try to win the king-bed room.

Wen Feiran failed to complete Zou Yuxing’s embarrassing task and lost ten points, leaving him with a negative score. Gu Suian was then assigned a tango, while the others anticipated that he and Wen Feiran might end up in the attic.

• Zou Yuxing assigned Wen Feiran the task of shouting an exaggerated boast at the sea.
• Wen Feiran tried three times but could not get the words out, and the livestream viewers laughed at his attempts.
• Wen Feiran gave up and lost ten points, leaving him dejected as Zou Yuxing tried to comfort him.
• Su Shangting assigned Gu Suian a tango, and the livestream viewers joked that he and Wen Feiran would end up at the bottom of the rankings.

Wen Feiran and Gu Suian spent the seaside vacation sharing the cramped attic, where a quiet night under the stars brought them closer. The chapter left them watching the sky together as Gu Suian asked whether Wen Feiran had ever wished on a star.

• After Gu Suian surrendered, the room assignments sent Wen Feiran and Gu Suian to the cramped attic while the others got more comfortable rooms.
• Wen Feiran and the group enjoyed the seaside setting, activities, and a seafood dinner before bedtime.
• Wen Feiran spread bedding on the attic floor and watched the stars through a small roof window.
• Gu Suian joined Wen Feiran in the attic and draped his coat over him when he noticed the night was cold.
• Wen Feiran gave Gu Suian his own coat, and the two watched the stars in silence as Wen Feiran grew flustered by their closeness.
• Gu Suian asked Wen Feiran whether he had ever wished on a star.

Wen Feiran realized his feelings for Gu Suian had changed from admiration into love, then tried to hide them while spending the night beside him. He woke the next day feeling refreshed, accepted his feelings privately, and found Gu Suian gone.

• Gu Suian told Wen Feiran that a shooting star had brought someone back to him, and Wen Feiran promised that the stars would keep watching over him.
• Gu Suian said he hoped Wen Feiran would be happy whenever he was by his side, making Wen Feiran realize his feelings had become more than those of a fan.
• Wen Feiran stayed awake for much of the night to avoid sharing a bed with Gu Suian, but eventually fell asleep against him.
• Gu Suian laid Wen Feiran down, tucked him in, and quietly thanked him for coming back to his side.
• Wen Feiran woke up refreshed, accepted that he liked Gu Suian, and decided to keep the feeling secret as he went downstairs to wash up.