Chapter Summaries

While Shen Miaomiao struggled with Golden Wind’s workload, she reunited with her old friend Kamikawa Yuki, who revealed that Gu Sheng kept Shen’s photo in his wallet. In Neon, anticipation grew for the Dongjin International Game Festival, where Gu Sheng’s Silent Hill rivaled Yamamoto Tsuna’s Yakuza Rampage and left Yamamoto jealous.

• Shen Miaomiao reviewed Golden Wind’s promotions, sales, and project proposals before admitting that she was exhausted and missed Gu Sheng’s help.
• Shen Miaomiao found Kamikawa Yuki’s message and learned that Yuki worked with Gu Sheng in Neon.
• Kamikawa Yuki showed Shen Miaomiao a photo of her and Gu Sheng that she had found in his wallet, and the two old friends began a long phone call.
• As the Dongjin International Game Festival approached, Komeila promoted Yakuza Rampage and Silent Hill as its two most anticipated games.
• Yamamoto Tsuna grew jealous that Gu Sheng’s niche horror game had attracted nearly as much attention as his heavily funded flagship, and he considered using his position to maneuver against Gu Sheng.

As P.T. neared completion, Yuki suggested making its unexplained protagonist a journalist, inspiring Gu Sheng to connect the demo to another horror game. Gu Sheng returned home from Japan, but found his apartment dark and apparently empty.

• The P.T. supervisors playtested the demo and emerged terrified, while Yuki asked why its protagonist would enter the haunted house.
• Yuki proposed that the protagonist be a journalist investigating the Silent Hill murder, and Gu Sheng imagined linking him to Miles Upshur and Mount Massive Asylum.
• Gu Sheng celebrated Yuki’s idea with the team and urged them to polish P.T. before its exhibition.
• Gu Sheng returned from Japan with Lu Bian and Da Jiang, telling them his plans while warning them to keep the full-game and spin-off proposals from Komeila.
• Lu Bian and Da Jiang declined to go upstairs with Gu Sheng, and he entered his dark apartment alone.

Gu Sheng returned from Neon and surprised Shen Miaomiao with a Polaroid, then took the initiative to embrace her. Three days later, at the Dongjin Game Festival, Pewdiepee began a demo of Silent Hill P.T. after expressing doubts about the horror game.

• Gu Sheng returned home and found Shen Miaomiao waiting with flowers and dinner.
• Gu Sheng gave Shen Miaomiao a Polaroid and hugged her, leaving her flustered.
• At the Dongjin Game Festival, Pewdiepee tried Komeila's Yakuza Rampage demo and rated it an eight.
• Pewdiepee voiced low expectations for Silent Hill P.T., despite admiring its creator Sam.
• Pewdiepee followed the crowd to the P.T. demo area and entered an immersive pod to play the game.

pew explored a murder house in Sam Gu’s horror game, where a radio broadcast and increasingly disturbing details revealed the family’s brutal deaths. Trapped in a corridor that reset with every door, pew realized the house was changing around him and feared what awaited as he pressed onward.

• pew entered a dim storage room, then explored the villa’s narrow corridors while livestream viewers watched.
• pew found psychiatric medication and family photographs, then heard a radio report describing the murders of a pregnant woman and her daughter.
• pew became increasingly frightened by the swaying chandelier and oppressive atmosphere, then descended a staircase and found himself back at the starting corridor.
• pew repeated the route several times and noticed the clock, medication, insects, family photographs, and smell of blood growing more disturbing with each loop.
• pew concluded that the house’s psychological pressure was forcing him forward toward an unknown terror.

pew encountered a bloodied door, heard a baby crying, and was forced out of the immersive game when Lisa suddenly appeared. Chun Hei returned to Silent Hill P.T. for another try, spotted Lisa in the foyer, and had the lights go out just as he prepared to approach her.

• pew followed the smell of blood to a door where impacts sounded from inside, then heard a baby crying through a narrow opening.
• pew touched the doorknob, saw Lisa's decomposed face in the crack, and screamed until the immersive system disconnected him for his safety.
• Chun Hei recovered from being kicked out of the game and reconnected while viewers teased him in the livestream chat.
• Chun Hei heard Lisa sobbing, peered around the hallway corner, and saw her tall figure standing beneath the foyer chandelier.
• Chun Hei gathered his courage to approach Lisa, but the lights went out before he could move forward.

Chun Hei endured Lisa’s lights-out scare by charging blindly through the corridor, then was automatically disconnected when his breathing exceeded the immersion pod’s safety limit. Meanwhile, reviewer Xu Xiaolin resumed exploring the villa and found the bloodstained room open, entering a bathroom as a baby cried nearby.

• The foyer lights went out, Lisa disappeared from view, and Chun Hei froze as her sobbing echoed through the dark corridor.
• Chun Hei gathered his courage, charged blindly down the corridor, and stopped when he hit a wall; the lights came back and Lisa’s crying ceased.
• The immersion pod automatically disconnected Chun Hei after his breathing exceeded its safety limit, and he left to rest.
• Xu Xiaolin reflected on Gu Sheng’s psychological-horror design and resumed exploring the villa.
• Xu Xiaolin found the blood-scented room open, heard a baby wailing, and approached the doorway despite his fear.
• Xu Xiaolin used the flickering flashlight to identify the room as a filthy bathroom.

Streamer Xiao Jie entered the restroom in Silent Hill P.T. and was terrorized by a malformed fetus and Lisa pounding on the door. The demo’s psychological horror drew crowds at the expo, while streamers and players struggled to endure it.

• Xiao Jie tried to avoid the dark restroom but returned after finding the hallway door locked.
• Xiao Jie found a crying, malformed fetus in the sink and panicked as its wails grew louder.
• Lisa turned the restroom doorknob and pounded on the door while Xiao Jie cowered in the corner.
• Qiezi, A Yin, Liu Liu, Brother Shu, and Chun Hei also screamed and panicked as they played the demo.
• A crowd gathered around the Silent Hill P.T. booth as the Yakuza Rampage line dwindled and pew shivered in a bathtub during his stream.

Qiezi, A Yin, Liu Liu, Brother Shu, and Chun Hei tried to laugh off their fear, but Lisa’s jumpscare ended Chun Hei’s run and drove the streamers from the game. The chapter then outlined later loops and puzzles that hardcore players and reviewers still had to solve, ending as the malformed fetus began speaking.

• Qiezi, A Yin, Liu Liu, and Brother Shu mocked the game and tried to convince themselves and their viewers that they were fearless.
• Chun Hei entered a darker corridor, ignored Lisa’s cries, and followed the radio’s warning to watch his back.
• The radio then warned Chun Hei not to turn around, and Lisa’s enormous ghostly face appeared in a jumpscare that made him scream and end his run.
• Gu Sheng’s P.T. demo was described as having a zero percent first-attempt clear rate, while Chun Hei later posted that he was taking two days off because his throat had given out.
• The chapter described the ninth through twelfth loops, including the blood-filled refrigerator, the HELL message and murder reveal, and the blood-red corridor.
• The player entered the bathroom, where the malformed fetus in the sink began speaking in the radio announcer’s voice.

Xu Xiaolin solved the final puzzle, learned the truth behind Lisa’s murder, and escaped the haunted house in Silent Hill P.T. As he drove away, he saw a mysterious man enter the fog and received an email hinting at another case before the screen went black.

• Xu Xiaolin and Pew realized the clock had to pass from 23:59 to 00:00, and Xu Xiaolin waited until it changed.
• After hearing the second baby laugh, Xu Xiaolin encountered Lisa and apologized to her for what she had suffered.
• The third baby laugh rang out, Lisa disappeared, and the front door unlocked, allowing Xu Xiaolin to escape after thirteen loops.
• Xu Xiaolin found his press pass identifying him as Miles Upshur and drove toward the Silent Hill exit, reflecting on Lisa’s innocence.
• Xu Xiaolin saw a worried man enter the fog carrying a letter, then received an email titled “The truth needs to be exposed” before the screen went black.

Silent Hill P.T. became a major hit at the Dongjin Game Festival, overtaking Yakuza Rampage and earning Gu Sheng the title King of Horror. Shen Miaomiao challenged Gu Sheng to a bet that she could last five minutes in the demo, but she fled the VR pod in tears and agreed to do the housework and laundry.

• Xu Xiaolin praised P.T.'s psychological horror and speculated that the biker was the full game's protagonist and Miles's email would lead into a larger horror universe.
• P.T. drew widespread acclaim and reached a 38% first-day login rate on the KMN-3, more than double Yakuza Rampage's 14.21%.
• Shen Miaomiao questioned how a horror demo had beaten a popular action game, and Gu Sheng said P.T.'s quality made its success understandable.
• Gu Sheng bet that Shen Miaomiao would not last five minutes in P.T., wagering that the loser would handle housework and laundry for a month.
• Shen Miaomiao quickly quit the demo, admitted defeat, and asked Gu Sheng for a chip.

Komeila planned to cut Golden Wind out of the full version of Silent Hill, despite its developers warning that the proposed story would damage the game’s reputation and sales. The chapter ended with Moriya opposing the plan at a private meeting, where Jouetsu Kagemasa dismissed Yamamoto Tsuna after Moriya rebuked him.

• Yuki joined Sato and Okura in a private meeting with Moriya, where they read a draft proposal for Silent Hill’s full version.
• Yuki, Sato, and Okura judged the proposal too ordinary to match P.T., and Sato warned it could cut sales by at least twenty percent or even half.
• Moriya confirmed that Komeila’s upper management intended to develop Silent Hill without Golden Wind, provoking Yuki’s anger.
• The chapter flashed back to Moriya warning Jouetsu Kagemasa that replacing Sam would endanger the game, while Yamamoto Tsuna argued he could take over.
• Moriya shouted down Yamamoto, and Jouetsu slapped him and ordered him to leave the meeting.

Yuki and Sato discussed KOMINA’s plan to develop Silent Hill without Golden Wind, and Yuki called Shen Miaomiao to warn Gu Sheng. Gu Sheng revealed that he had already anticipated the betrayal and prepared a backup plan.

• Yuki and Sato met to discuss signing the non-disclosure agreement for KOMINA’s secret Silent Hill project, and Sato warned her that she could not stay at KOMINA while also opposing its plan.
• Sato hinted that Yuki could leave Japan’s game industry, and Yuki decided to call Shen Miaomiao and Gu Sheng.
• Yuki told Gu Sheng that KOMINA was preparing to develop the main Silent Hill game on its own, but Gu Sheng calmly said he already knew.
• Gu Sheng explained that he had suspected Komeila’s delays during the Dongjin Game Festival meant the partnership would fall through, and that he had prepared a backup plan.

After Komeila canceled the Silent Hill project, Gu Sheng recruited Sato and Yuki to Golden Wind, while Shen Miaomiao offered them generous salaries and planned raises across the company. The chapter ended with Gu Sheng accepting a vice president position and Golden Wind preparing to expand its team and budgets.

• Komeila canceled Silent Hill, but Gu Sheng explained that P.T. had strengthened his reputation and helped him establish Miles Upshur as part of his own horror game universe.
• Gu Sheng asked Yuki and Sato to join Golden Wind, then let Shen Miaomiao negotiate their salaries.
• Shen Miaomiao offered Sato eight hundred thousand and Yuki six hundred thousand, prompting both to accept and plan to visit Golden Wind.
• Gu Sheng objected that their salaries exceeded his own, so Shen Miaomiao announced company-wide raises and offered him an annual salary of 1.5 million and a vice president position.
• Shen Miaomiao viewed the salary increases and larger project budgets as a way to raise costs, retain talent, and help Golden Wind grow.

After Komeila’s Silent Hill team lost its core members, Golden Wind promoted its staff and Shen Miaomiao learned that the interrupted project still carried a hundredfold rebate. She approved a new horror game based on P.T.’s ending text message and declared that Golden Wind would clash head-on with Komeila.

• Yamamoto Tsuna received resignation letters from Kamikawa Yuki and Sato Muneki and a medical leave notice from Okura Kazu, then called for a Silent Hill project approval meeting.
• Golden Wind promoted Gu Sheng, Lu Bian, Xu Dajiang, Jiang Yun, Sato, and Yuki, while raising salaries across the company.
• Shen Miaomiao received a system settlement for Silent Hill that preserved its 100x rebate multiplier and activated the option to launch a derivative project.
• Gu Sheng proposed making an independent horror game based on the text message at the end of Silent Hill P.T., rather than reusing his original Silent Hill story.
• Gu Sheng warned that the new game might release alongside Komeila’s Silent Hill, and Shen Miaomiao approved the project and vowed to crush Komeila.

After Komeila betrayed Golden Wind by taking over the full Silent Hill project, Gu Sheng rallied the company to compete with it by developing Outlast, a new horror game following journalist Miles. The chapter ended with the team reacting to Gu Sheng’s terrifying pitch about Miles infiltrating Mount Massive Asylum.

• Gu Sheng weighed Golden Wind’s disadvantage against Komeila’s far larger motion-sensing-pod user base and its refusal to collaborate on Silent Hill.
• Shen Miaomiao traveled to Zhongjing with Chu Qingzhou after Huayudian chairman Jiang Yingcai invited Golden Wind to its Charity Week conference, leaving Gu Sheng to chair the project approval meeting.
• Gu Sheng told the team that Komeila had begun developing its own full Silent Hill game, then declared that Golden Wind would clash with the company and run it over.
• The Golden Wind staff enthusiastically backed Gu Sheng, fired up by Shen Miaomiao’s anger and the raises she had recently given them.
• Gu Sheng unveiled Outlast, explaining that journalist Miles would investigate an email about horrific experiments at Mount Massive Asylum and face deranged patients with only a battery-limited camcorder.

Golden Wind approved Outlast with an open-ended budget while Komeila quietly began developing Silent Hill on its own. The chapter ended with pew confirming that Sato and Yuki had joined Golden Wind, prompting the livestream chat to condemn Komeila.

• Gu Sheng approved Outlast and told the team to spend what they needed to make it good, reigniting Sato's enthusiasm for game development.
• Golden Wind and Komeila began developing Outlast and Silent Hill in secret as players demanded news about the full Silent Hill game.
• A social media post claimed Komeila had removed Sam from Silent Hill and that Sato and Yuki had joined Golden Wind.
• Moriya Tetsuya briefly liked the post, drawing media attention and strengthening the rumors.
• pew called a Komeila insider, who confirmed that Sato and Yuki had joined Golden Wind, and the livestream chat responded, “Fxxk KOMINA.”

Players erupted in anger after Komeila removed Golden Wind from Silent Hill, and the backlash forced Jouetsu Kagemasa and Yamamoto Tsuna to confront the public-relations crisis. Meanwhile, Shen Miaomiao returned from Zhongjing to find Komeila in turmoil, and Gu Sheng thanked Moriya Tetsuya for exposing the company’s decision.

• pew denounced Komeila during his livestream, and players flooded the company’s social media with angry messages.
• Jouetsu Kagemasa rejected Yamamoto Tsuna’s plan to blame Golden Wind because Moriya Tetsuya’s public like had confirmed the news.
• Jouetsu ordered Koizumi Yuichi to invite Moriya to the conference room and warned Yamamoto to remain silent.
• Shen Miaomiao returned from Zhongjing, joked with Gu Sheng over dinner, and learned that Komeila had lost much of the original PT team and faced a furious backlash.
• Gu Sheng answered Moriya’s call on speaker and thanked him for speaking up, while Moriya modestly apologized on Komeila’s behalf.

After Komeila publicly confirmed that Yamamoto Studio would develop Silent Hill, Gu Sheng’s sarcastic response and a liked anti-Komeila image sent players into an uproar. Worried that Komeila’s damaged reputation would reduce the chance of a major loss, Shen Miaomiao decided to pursue a charity game, and the chapter ended as she began explaining the plan to Gu Sheng.

• Moriya told Gu Sheng that Komeila apologized for failing to notify Golden Wind about the director change and asked for a public statement; Gu Sheng agreed to cooperate with Moriya but ruled out future work with Komeila.
• Komeila announced that its partnership with Golden Wind had ended and that Yamamoto Studio would develop Silent Hill; Gu Sheng replied with a smiling emoji and briefly liked an anti-Komeila shirt, prompting players to flood the post with jokes and slogans.
• Shen Miaomiao recalled a Charity Week proposal from Huayudian chairman Jiang Yingcai, who had urged game companies to create new charity games as well as sell bundles of older titles.
• Shen Miaomiao asked her system about charity projects and learned that their rebate would equal one percent of the charitable donation, rather than being calculated from ordinary costs and profits.
• Fearing that Komeila’s public-relations crisis would weaken Silent Hill’s promotion and disrupt her plan to lose money, Shen Miaomiao decided to launch a charity game and approached Gu Sheng about participating in Charity Week.

Shen Miaomiao persuaded Gu Sheng to make a charity game, and he agreed on the condition that it stay small, be outsourced, and have her lead it. Their coworkers overheard their conversation and misunderstood it, leaving Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao puzzled by everyone’s strange behavior.

• Lu Bian and Da Jiang went to find Gu Sheng for their regular project meeting but overheard him and Shen Miaomiao talking in her office and assumed they were discussing an intimate encounter.
• Gu Sheng explained that Outlast’s workload made it impossible to spare the project department for a charity game, but Shen Miaomiao’s persistent pleas finally won his agreement.
• Gu Sheng set three conditions for the charity game: it had to be small in scope, fully outsourced, and led by Shen Miaomiao.
• Shen Miaomiao hesitated about leading the project until Gu Sheng promised to build its framework and guide her through managing the outsourcing teams.
• Chu Qingzhou overheard Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao discussing the project and also misunderstood their conversation.
• At the end of the workday, Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao wondered why Lu Bian, Da Jiang, and Chu Qingzhou had acted strangely toward them.

Shen Miaomiao chose to lead a small, pixel-art story-driven RPG as a charity project and spent three days learning how Golden Wind's teams developed games. Gu Sheng then revealed the proposal, titled "To the moon," and left Shen Miaomiao eager to see the game take shape.

• Shen Miaomiao proposed a pixel-art, story-driven RPG after rejecting the idea of making a Vampire Survivors sequel, and Gu Sheng agreed to prepare its framework.
• Shen Miaomiao visited the project department to study how its programming, planning, and art teams worked, taking notes and learning from their staff.
• Shen Miaomiao spent three days learning about game development while Gu Sheng worked on the proposal.
• Gu Sheng teased Shen Miaomiao with a C++ textbook before revealing the projected cover and title of the charity game, "To the moon."