Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi learned that his sister’s protective charm had grown hot at Minqing Film Studio, then discovered she was missing when a stranger answered her phone. He sought help from Chen Xiaoqiu, Ye Qing, Gu Mo, and Nangong Yao as he rushed to the studio.

• Lin Qi told his sister to leave Minqing Film Studio and travel to their planned meeting place after she reported that her protective charm had heated up.
• His sister realized she had become separated from her classmates and ended the call to contact them.
• Lin Qi later called his sister, but a Minqing Film Studio employee answered and said he had found her phone, prompting Lin Qi to ask him to search for her.
• Lin Qi told Chen Xiaoqiu that his sister was missing and asked for Ye Qing’s help finding her.
• Lin Qi asked Gu Mo to investigate celebrity Mo Wen, and Nangong Yao said he was heading to the film studio.

The narrator entered a dream to find Mo Wen and stop him, hoping to protect their sister. Mo Wen recognized the narrator as a wandering ghost, and a scream from the film crew revealed that something had happened nearby.

• The narrator learned that Nangong Yao would help search for their sister, while Chen Xiao Qiu and Chen Yi Han also tried to locate her.
• The narrator used their ability to enter a dream and possessed Mo Wen at the film studio, but arrived at the wrong time to find their sister.
• The narrator shifted the dream back to 11:57 and followed Mo Wen into an alley, where Mo Wen noticed and spoke to them.
• Mo Wen described encountering a female ghost and a girl with a talisman, then a scream came from the film crew.
• The narrator tried to run toward the commotion but was restrained by an invisible force, and Mo Wen wondered whether the narrator could alter memories or travel through time.

The narrator tried to ambush Mo Wen to learn about an ancient evil ghost, but Mo Wen transformed into yin energy and trapped the narrator. Mo Wen questioned the narrator about their ability and connection to a protective talisman and a surviving girl.

• The narrator flew indoors and planned to ambush Mo Wen after hearing him speculate about the ancient lunatic's memories and reincarnation.
• A ringing telephone distracted Mo Wen, who answered a call from a female ghost and dismissed her threats.
• The narrator seized Mo Wen, but Mo Wen's body turned into yin energy and filled the hallway, trapping the narrator.
• Mo Wen asked whether the narrator could travel through time and space and change the time of other things, and the narrator confirmed it.
• Mo Wen said he had not killed anyone besides the Ge family in over ten years, then asked how the narrator was connected to a protective talisman and a girl who was still alive.

The narrator experienced a vision of Mo Wen and the female ghost before learning that the Love's Allure crew had been involved in an accident and his sister Lin Yun was missing. Gu Mo and Nangong Yao arrived to search for her, and Nangong Yao revealed that his younger brother Nantian had taken a role in the show, raising fears of a high death toll.

• The narrator relived a vision in which he pursued Mo Wen, saw the female ghost, and heard the Ge family's curses before waking in a taxi outside the film studio.
• The narrator learned that the Love's Allure crew had been involved in an accident and pushed into the studio to search for his missing younger sister, Lin Yun.
• Lin Yun's classmates said she had disappeared after leaving Huakang Palace and heading toward the old town.
• Gu Mo and Nangong Yao arrived in a police car and picked up the narrator at the visitor center.
• The narrator told Gu Mo and Nangong Yao about his vision and insisted that the female ghost had appeared.
• Nangong Yao revealed that his younger brother Nantian had taken a role in the show and warned that the death toll could be high.

The narrator, Nangong Yao, and Gu Mo investigated the strange events on the set of Love Has Conquered the City and learned that a female ghost had blanketed the area. Gu Mo revealed that she had once been a pitiful woman who had passed on after Director Chu tried to help her, and the search for her and missing actor Mo Wen continued.

• Nangong Yao drove the narrator and Gu Mo to the scenic area to find the female ghost and investigate Mo Wen’s disappearance.
• Officer Zhang Xiong told them that blood messages had appeared on scripts and filmed footage, while Mo Wen’s clothes were found in a damaged building with no trace of him.
• Nangong Yao examined the evidence and said they would join the search for Mo Wen.
• Nangong Yao sensed the female ghost’s location, and Gu Mo said she had blanketed the area and seemed injured by Mo Wen.
• Gu Mo explained that twenty years earlier the female ghost had begged Director Chu not to film a false accusation, and that her grave was at Anxi Cemetery in Minqing.

Qi-ge, Nangong Yao, and Gu Mo followed the female ghost’s traces through the scenic area while searching for Qi-ge’s missing younger sister. At the ghost’s lair, Mo Wen appeared, consumed the female ghost, and vanished, leaving Nangong Yao to suspect that Mo Wen was a rational evil ghost with a purpose.

• Qi-ge learned that the female ghost could return despite having been exorcised because some souls remained bound to their past.
• Nangong Yao and Gu Mo followed traces of yin energy, and the police car radio carried the female ghost’s threats and distant screams.
• Gu Mo directed Nangong Yao into a narrow alley, where the female ghost appeared with scissors but passed through them without harming anyone.
• Nangong Yao identified a nearby empty building as the female ghost’s lair, and the group rushed upstairs after hearing a woman scream.
• Qi-ge briefly saw a vision of a furnished room before Mo Wen’s black yin energy consumed the female ghost and then vanished.

The narrator entered a vision of the female ghost before she met Mo Wen and followed her through the film studio, hoping to find a chance to destroy Mo Wen. The female ghost followed director Ning Shanshan and actress Luo Huihui, then headed toward the place where she would meet Mo Wen as the narrator prepared to strike.

• The narrator appeared in a furnished Republic-era room and recognized the woman there as the female ghost.
• The narrator followed the female ghost through the studio and learned that the film crew was expecting director Ning Shanshan, Luo Huihui, Nantian, and Mo Wen.
• The female ghost watched Ning Shanshan and Luo Huihui, remarking that Luo Huihui did not look like her.
• After hearing that Nantian and Mo Wen had arrived, the female ghost followed Ning Shanshan and Luo Huihui outside.
• The narrator moved into position near the expected meeting place and prepared to attack Mo Wen while his attention was on the female ghost.

Lin Yun fought Mo Wen with the Ge family’s souls, but Mo Wen drained Lin Yun’s strength and harmed the people at the film shoot. After losing consciousness, Lin Yun found himself back at the attraction as visitors approached the danger, and Mo Wen turned his red eyes toward Lin Yun’s sister.

• Lin Yun attacked Mo Wen and reversed his time, but Mo Wen threatened the nearby people and used a strange force to injure them.
• Lin Yun summoned the Ge family’s souls, whose hands tore Mo Wen’s body apart and drove black yin energy out of him.
• Mo Wen’s body repeatedly re-formed as the Ge family’s souls attacked, while Lin Yun grew weak and saw Nantian, the film crew, and his sister in danger.
• Lin Yun lunged at Mo Wen again, but his strength failed and he lost consciousness.
• Lin Yun awoke as visitors headed toward the Republic-era attraction and tried to stop them, but they could neither hear nor touch him.
• Lin Yun’s sister called him after her protective charm grew hot, and Mo Wen turned his red eyes toward her.

Lin Qi recovered after using his ability to save his sister, but Mo Wen attacked again and Nangong Yao confronted him. Gu Mo revealed that Nan Tian’s fate-seeing ability caused those he saw to die soon and sent the skinny guy to seal much of it with a bloodied tissue.

• Lin Qi woke to find his sister alive and heard that the group had found her body before he used his ability to bring her back.
• A blast struck the group, and Lin Qi saw Mo Wen emerge with the Ge family souls attacking him.
• Nangong Yao stood between Mo Wen and the others, and Mo Wen fled as thunder and blinding light struck from above.
• Gu Mo told Nan Tian that his eyes saw threads of fate, but that the people he saw would soon die because fate turned against them.
• Gu Mo gave the skinny guy a bloodied tissue and told him to stick it on Nangong Yao’s back to seal much of his ability.

After the danger at the film studio passed, Lin Qi reunited with his sister and learned that Chen Xiao Qiu remembered three different outcomes. Nangong Yao suggested that Lin Qi’s soul fragments had not merged, leaving the cause of the conflicting memories unresolved.

• Gu Mo’s makeshift talisman suppressed Nangong Yao’s ability, and Lin Qi reunited with his crying sister.
• Nan Tian confronted Nangong Yao about why their family had driven him away, but Nangong Yao warned him to stay back and helped Gu Mo to a chair.
• Masked police officers arrived, reported a possible infectious disease at the film studio, and sent the injured survivors for treatment and quarantine.
• Chen Xiao Qiu described three sets of memories involving Lin Qi’s sister, the sealed district, and Nangong Yao and Gu Mo leading the group into the building.
• Lin Qi questioned Nangong Yao and Gu Mo about the differing memories, and Nangong Yao suggested that Lin Qi’s two soul fragments had not merged.

As the group questioned the altered events and the Thin Man’s newly revealed ability, Nangong Yao explained that it could affect supernatural objects. Nantian confronted his older brother, who warned that his family and friends were endangered by the curse surrounding him, and Chen Xiaoqiu arranged to move Nantian to an isolated tent.

• The Thin Man questioned why Gu Mo had chosen him to use the talisman, and Chen Xiaoqiu suggested that his ability made what he believed in come true.
• Nangong Yao said the Thin Man’s power was limited to supernatural objects and would require deliberate training now that he knew about it.
• Nantian confronted Nangong Yao for recognizing him without reaching out and asked why he had been treated as dead.
• Nangong Yao told Nantian to stay away, explaining that a ghost connected to him had endangered his family and that his second uncle had died after one of Nangong Yao’s predictions changed.
• Chen Xiaoqiu told Nantian to keep the events secret and said she would have him moved to an isolated tent.

After Mo Wen’s death, Lin Qi learned that he may have been trying to change the past and restore Heaven to sanity. As Lin Qi fell asleep, he heard a memory in which an unknown speaker spoke to Mo Wen about reincarnation and a future without ghosts.

• Gu Mo told Lin Qi that Mo Wen had killed the female ghost and could devour other evil spirits.
• Nangong Yao explained that ancient cultivators heard the laws of the world directly from Heaven before it went mad.
• Nangong Yao said he had seen Mo Wen surrounded by dead Ge family ghosts, while Lin Qi and the others died and Lin Qi’s sister was taken away.
• Lin Qi wondered whether Mo Wen had wanted him to use his ability to restore the world, then fell asleep while worrying about his sister.
• Lin Qi heard a memory of an unknown speaker telling Mo Wen that the world once had no ghosts and discussing reincarnation and a future when someone would accomplish their goal.

Qi-ge relived Mo Wen’s memories, learning that Mo Wen had hoped to see a world without ghosts before being mysteriously destroyed. He woke in the hospital and began to feel responsible for pursuing that world, despite Mo Wen’s erasure.

• Qi-ge witnessed Mo Wen’s past, including his imprisonment by an ancient clan that tried to dissolve his obsession.
• Mo Wen attacked people at the film studio to repair his damaged soul but spared Qi-ge’s sister as she waited to call her brother.
• Mo Wen remembered the human who had named and protected him, then was struck by an unknown force before he could see Qi-ge arrive.
• Qi-ge woke in the hospital beside his sleeping sister and wondered what had happened when Mo Wen encountered him in reality.
• Qi-ge resolved that Mo Wen’s dream of a world without ghosts had become a responsibility, though Mo Wen had been erased by the Heavenly Lord after he went mad.

After a week of isolation following the deadly film-studio outbreak, Chen Yihan and Daoist Master Xuanqing arrived to investigate. Nangong Yao recounted how the evil spirit Mo Wen escaped from Gejiamu, and Xuanqing revealed that the name meant something to him.

• The narrator reassured her worried parents and kept in touch with her sister as their spirits improved in isolation.
• The Fatty reported that officials had linked the outbreak to the Gejiamu case, whose victims were related and may have carried a mutated virus in their DNA.
• A week later, Chen Yihan and Daoist Master Xuanqing entered the ward at night to investigate the outbreak.
• Nangong Yao calmly described what had happened at the film studio, including the escape of the evil spirit Mo Wen from Gejiamu.
• Daoist Master Xuanqing reacted with complicated emotion to Mo Wen's name, and Gu Mo asked whether he knew him.

Lin Qi learned how Liu Che was connected to Mo Wen and the origins of several sects, while Perfected Master Xuanqing urged the survivors to accept what had happened. Nangong Yao revealed that Mo Wen's death may have prevented a future in which ghosts and monsters preyed on everyone.

• Perfected Master Xuanqing explained that his sect's records named Liu Che as its founder, that Liu Che had raised Mo Wen, and that Liu Che's ideas had influenced other sects.
• Perfected Master Xuanqing said Mo Wen was destined to die and advised Lin Qi and the others to follow their hearts and avoid regrets.
• After Perfected Master Xuanqing and Chen Yihan left, Nangong Yao said Mo Wen's death might be an earlier node in the future he had seen.
• Nangong Yao described a future where Mo Wen kidnapped Lin Qi and his younger sister, killed people, and prepared a strange formation after changing his plans.
• Nangong Yao said Lin Qi and the others had died in the future he saw, leaving the world overrun by ghosts and monsters that hunted the living.

Qi-ge woke from a nightmare that echoed the Guide’s final moments and told Nangong Yao about the similarities. They feared the Guide might have come from a future devastated by monsters, and the chapter left them in hospital isolation after Guo Yujie asked what the female ghost looked like.

• Qi-ge dreamed that Mo Wen forced him to bring Liu Che to the present while his sister suffered, then relived a nightmare resembling the Guide’s encounter with a giant wolf and a ghost.
• Qi-ge woke in the hospital and recalled that the Guide had run through unfinished buildings before a ghost pulled out his soul and mirror shards entered his eyes.
• Qi-ge told Nangong Yao about the Guide, and Nangong Yao said the Guide might have lived in a future where society eventually collapsed.
• Fatty suggested the Guide was another version of Qi-ge from the future, and Nangong Yao agreed it was possible.
• Nangong Yao found that nothing about Huixiang had changed, suggesting their actions had not altered the feared future if their theory was correct.
• After the group underwent checks and ate breakfast during isolation, Guo Yujie messaged them asking what the female ghost looked like.

After the group discussed the female ghost and how to stop the production, the narrator asked Nangong Yao how to become more composed when facing supernatural events. A search into Nangong Yao’s family revealed Four Seas’ long history and a possible inheritance struggle, and Nangong Yao offered to explain his family’s situation.

• Guo Yujie confirmed she had met the female ghost, and the group decided to ask Chen Xiao Qiu’s uncle to seek help from Master Xuanqing to cancel the show.
• Nangong Yao told the narrator that experience helped people face supernatural events calmly, while the others reacted uneasily.
• Skinny searched for Nangong Yao’s background and found that the Nangong family controlled Four Seas Fund and Four Seas Wealth.
• The narrator learned that Nangong Yong had founded Four Seas and that the family’s younger branches might challenge Nangong Xun for control after their fathers died.
• Nangong Yao noticed the group’s curiosity and offered to tell them about his family’s unusually supernatural situation.

Nangong Yao explained how his visions led his relatives to blame and reject him, eventually driving him to leave home and join Ye Qing’s agency. After hearing his story and Gu Mo’s advice, Qi-ge decided not to give up on protecting his family and resolved to grow stronger.

• Nangong Yao recounted how his warnings about his second uncle’s accident and his grandfather’s secret son’s death caused his family to suspect him.
• Nangong Yao described how his grandfather, his grandfather’s mistress, and his illegitimate son died after a ghost targeted them, and how his third uncle later drowned despite Nangong Yao having foreseen the accident.
• Nangong Yao explained that accusations from his relatives and fear for his parents and younger brother led him to leave home and join Ye Qing’s agency.
• Qi-ge wondered whether he should leave his family to protect them from his ability.
• Gu Mo told Qi-ge that his ability gave him a chance to save his family if he became stronger, and Qi-ge thanked him.

Shen Luochuan reported seeing blood, a human touch, and an eyeball at Big World Water Park, followed by a horrific scene of bloodied riders, and asked for an investigation. The investigators visited the park, where Liu Miao and Wu Ling spoke with a couple about the rides and rumors of blood in the water.

• Shen Luochuan told the investigators that she found a streak of blood in a wading pool during her visit to Big World Water Park.
• Shen Luochuan said she touched something like cold human skin inside the Giant Octopus ride and later slipped on what looked and felt like an eyeball in Big World.
• Shen Luochuan recounted seeing riders emerge from the Giant Octopus covered in blood, then leaving the park with her classmates and suffering nightmares afterward.
• The investigators went to Big World Water Park and filmed the crowds waiting at the entrance.
• Liu Miao asked a young couple about the park, its rides, and rumors of blood in the water, and the man suggested it might come from a woman in a shallow pool.

Liu Miao, Wu Ling, and Ye Qing investigated strange activity at Big World Water Park after a raft ride revealed hair and flesh in the water. Ye Qing found weak yin energy throughout the park but no source, leaving them to investigate its history.

• Liu Miao, Wu Ling, Ye Qing, and Zhu Zhu rode the giant octopus water slide, where the raft jolted through the tunnel and fragments appeared in the water.
• After the ride, the group saw an overturned raft carrying a clump of hair tangled with red flesh, and a staff member rescued the girls in the water.
• An unfamiliar staff member apologized to Liu Miao and the others, who accepted and left the building.
• Liu Miao asked Ye Qing about the hair, and Ye Qing said weak yin energy was everywhere but they could not find its source.
• On July 25, investigators found that Big World Water Park had opened in 2008, had no recorded injuries or fatalities, and had no known paranormal rumors.