Recaps

Shen Yu decided to enter the suspicious building, hoping that its creature and the one watching him would fight over him. Inside, he encountered Meiling, a resident who seemed to recognize that he had come from outside.

• Shen Yu saw that the building had been posted as the location of the person claiming to be trapped in the same day, and realized the post was luring people inside.
• Shen Yu chose to enter the building and gamble that its creature would fight the thing watching him.
• Shen Yu entered the stairwell, where the dim interior suddenly seemed lively, and climbed to the second floor.
• Meiling came downstairs to run errands and play cards, then asked Shen Yu if he had come in from outside.

Shen Yu entered a building trapped in a repeating day and met Wen Zhishu and Huo Wujìu, who explained that several newcomers were caught in the loop. The group had learned that Zhao Yongqiang lost his family whenever the day repeated, leaving Shen Yu facing the building’s cruel mystery.

• Meiling warned Shen Yu that Zhao Yongqiang had changed after something happened to his wife and child, and Shen Yu learned which floor he lived on.
• On the stairs, Shen Yu met Wen Zhishu, who said he and others were trapped repeating the same day.
• Wen Zhishu brought Shen Yu to Room 401, where Huo Wujìu explained that the loop trapped the building’s residents and newcomers alike.
• Huo Wujìu said that six newcomers had entered the building and that Zhao Yongqiang’s attempts to change the first day made each loop worse.
• Huo Wujìu revealed that Zhao Yongqiang lost his family every time the loop repeated.

Shen Yu explained that the building was a sealed-off area where time passed differently, and the people inside could not interact with the outside world. Huo Wujìu realized that the post had lured them into a trap, leaving them caught in the building.

• Huo Wujìu recounted how Zhao Yongqiang’s attempts to change the past only worsened what happened to his wife and child.
• Shen Yu asked whether Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu could leave the building, then explained that an outside resident had not seen anyone emerge for days.
• Shen Yu revealed that only one day had passed outside despite several days passing for them inside.
• Shen Yu concluded that the building was a sealed-off world and that the post had served as bait to draw them in.
• Huo Wujìu realized they had entered a trap and had never truly left the building.

Wen Zhishu realized Zhao Yongqiang had lured them into danger and nearly rushed off to confront him, but Shen Yu stopped him. Huo Wujìu then questioned how much Shen Yu had known about the trap from the start.

• Wen Zhishu cursed Zhao Yongqiang for luring them into danger and accused Huo Wujìu of being too calm.
• Wen Zhishu tried to rush out, but Shen Yu threw him onto the sofa and stopped him.
• Wen Zhishu admired Shen Yu's fighting skill and promised not to seek trouble while still angry.
• Huo Wujìu asked whether Shen Yu had known the place was dangerous from the beginning.
• Shen Yu pointed out that Huo Wujìu had also come to investigate whether the Post Author's time loop was real.

Shen Yu studied Huo Wujìu’s notes about the repeating loops and warned everyone against eating the food there. Huo Wujìu found a Greek myth suggesting that eating food from the Underworld could make someone unable to leave, leaving the group worried about what they had already eaten.

• Huo Wujìu gave Shen Yu a document summarizing the loop patterns and their changes.
• Wen Zhishu offered Shen Yu fruit, but a red thread twisted beneath Shen Yu’s wrist when he touched a strawberry.
• Shen Yu told Wen Zhishu and Huo Wujìu to avoid eating anything there if possible.
• Huo Wujìu searched for the myth of the Underworld’s queen and learned that anyone who ate or drank its food could never leave.

Shen Yu concluded that the food in the building was bait designed to trap anyone who ate it, leaving Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu fearing they could no longer escape. Huo Wujìu placed his hope in Shen Yu finding a way out.

• Wen Zhishu panicked after realizing he had eaten the food and tried to make himself vomit.
• Shen Yu explained that the entity had no reason to keep feeding its prey after luring it into the trap, suggesting the food served another purpose.
• Huo Wujìu asked how Shen Yu had reached his conclusion, and Shen Yu reasoned that the food had been tampered with to keep them trapped.
• Wen Zhishu lamented that they had all eaten the food and feared they could never leave.
• Huo Wujìu watched Shen Yu think and hoped he could find a way to escape.

Huo Wujìu wondered whether Shen Yu had entered the building deliberately because he had seemed unusually calm about being trapped. Shen Yu and Wen Zhishu left to buy supplies and look for clues while Huo Wujìu stayed behind to investigate.

• Huo Wujìu questioned whether Shen Yu had known about the danger before entering the building.
• Shen Yu asked where the other three people were, and Wen Zhishu said they were too frightened to leave the next room.
• Wen Zhishu remembered he needed to buy food and daily necessities, and Shen Yu agreed to go with him.
• Huo Wujìu stayed behind to investigate while Shen Yu and Wen Zhishu left.
• Wen Zhishu told Shen Yu that the money on their phones could still be spent.

Shen Yu took Wen Zhishu to investigate the blurry boundary around their confined area, then returned to the supermarket after the Red Thread on his wrist burned. He realized that something had targeted him and might already have marked his body.

• Shen Yu had Wen Zhishu bring a motorcycle and drive toward the edge of the area.
• Wen Zhishu explained that attempts to leave always led them back, and he had not recorded where the scenery began to blur.
• Shen Yu and Wen Zhishu reached the indistinct boundary and could not drive farther.
• Shen Yu returned to the supermarket, where the Red Thread on his wrist burned again.
• Shen Yu concluded that something had set its sights on him and might have already marked his body.

Shen Yu endured the love letter’s painful attack while buying and eating food from the supermarket, testing whether the two mysterious forces would cancel each other out. Wen Zhishu rushed in after him, and the chapter ended with Shen Yu realizing Wen Zhishu trusted him because he was both clever and strong.

• Shen Yu returned to the supermarket and bought a bag of milk-flavored wafers while the love letter’s force caused him intense pain.
• Shen Yu paid for the wafers and ate one despite the pain.
• Wen Zhishu ran after Shen Yu and tried to stop him, fearing he had been controlled.
• Wen Zhishu explained that he had stayed because he trusted Shen Yu’s abilities and did not want him facing danger alone.
• Shen Yu reflected that Wen Zhishu was willing to follow him, then said he really was kind of useless.

Shen Yu and Wen Zhishu met Zhong Xun, Ye Ran, and Su Nian, who had been trapped in the time loop for days. Su Nian explained how she had been lured to the place and described recurring nightmares in which an old man knocked on her door.

• Wen Zhishu noticed Shen Yu’s twitching hand and shouted that a Red Thread might mean something was targeting him.
• Wen Zhishu and Shen Yu went upstairs and found Huo Wujìu with Zhong Xun, Ye Ran, and Su Nian.
• Zhong Xun asked whether Shen Yu and Wen Zhishu had found a way out of the loop.
• Ye Ran said the group had been trapped for several days and Su Nian had suffered another nightmare.
• Su Nian explained that a top donor had persuaded her to livestream at the place, and that she had repeatedly dreamed of an old man knocking on her door.

Su Nian told Huo Wujìu and the others that her recurring nightmare had become more frightening, while Huo Wujìu struggled to reassure her after his past attempts had failed. Shen Yu observed Zhong Xun and Ye Ran and began assessing their personalities.

• Zhong Xun said Su Nian had experienced the nightmare again and brought her to find Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu.
• Su Nian described the knocking growing louder and closer, and asked whether something would happen if it came through the door.
• Huo Wujìu stayed silent, remembering that his reassurances in earlier loops had not helped.
• Zhong Xun pressed Huo Wujìu to explain how they would escape, and Wen Zhishu confronted Zhong Xun when he challenged him.
• Ye Ran pointed out Shen Yu's presence, while Zhong Xun and Ye Ran showed hostility toward him because of his appearance.
• Shen Yu silently judged Zhong Xun and Ye Ran as insecure, domineering men who relied on each other to suppress others.

Shen Yu assessed the personalities of the people gathered while Zhong Xun and Ye Ran pressed for help finding clues to their nightmares. Wen Zhishu rebuked them, and Su Nian offered to investigate with the others while Zhong Xun and Ye Ran returned.

• Shen Yu analyzed the personalities of the people around him from their behavior and expressions.
• Zhong Xun demanded to know whether the others had found any clues, and Su Nian struggled with how to respond.
• Wen Zhishu mocked Zhong Xun and told him to stop yapping or go search for clues himself.
• Ye Ran offered to help investigate, while Zhong Xun said they would not refuse if asked.
• Su Nian told Zhong Xun and Ye Ran to go back and said she would follow the others.

Su Nian agreed to join the others in exploring, hoping to keep them safe and prevent them from turning against one another. The six survivors settled on sleeping arrangements, with Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu both insisting Shen Yu share a room with them, leaving Su Nian uneasy about how familiar they seemed with him.

• Su Nian offered to help explore, and Zhong Xun and Ye Ran promised to stay with her while Wen Zhishu allowed them to join.
• Su Nian apologized for not helping earlier and offered to take over the shopping.
• The group discussed how to fit six people into three rooms, and Huo Wujìu refused to squeeze in with someone else.
• Zhong Xun proposed that he, Ye Ran, and Shen Yu sleep on the floor, but Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu both said Shen Yu would sleep with them.
• The group agreed to leave a room for Su Nian, who wondered why Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu seemed to know Shen Yu so well.

Huo Wujìu and Shen Yu discussed the Time Loop and Su Nian’s nightmare, while the others struggled to follow their reasoning. Shen Yu suspected the forces behind both phenomena might be connected and wondered whether they could find and defeat the source.

• Huo Wujìu and Shen Yu analyzed the situation while Wen Zhishu, Zhong Xun, and Ye Ran listened, unable to keep up.
• Su Nian asked whether Shen Yu had found a connection between her nightmare and the Time Loop.
• Shen Yu considered whether the person behind the events had multiple or evolving abilities, and whether the source was a ghost or something else.
• Shen Yu concluded that killing the thread author would not break the Time Loop and questioned whether the group could handle its true source.

Su Nian was overcome by the strange sleepiness again and begged the others for help. Zhong Xun reached for her, but recoiled from her ice-cold hand, leaving her hurt and accusing him of treating her like a monster.

• Su Nian felt the abnormal drowsiness return, grabbed the sofa, and pleaded with Huo Wujìu and Shen Yu for help.
• Wen Zhishu, Zhong Xun, and Ye Ran recognized that Su Nian was being affected by an anomaly but did not know how to help her.
• Ye Ran pushed Zhong Xun to approach Su Nian, and Zhong Xun took her hand.
• Zhong Xun recoiled when he felt how cold Su Nian's hand was, and Su Nian accused him of looking at her like a monster.
• Zhong Xun apologized and tried to explain, while Ye Ran defended him by saying Su Nian's hands were probably cold because she was scared.

Su Nian collapsed, and Shen Yu entered a dream to investigate whether her strange condition was connected to the Time Loop. He found himself sharing her dream as something pounded on the front door, leaving them armed but still uncertain what was outside.

• Su Nian collapsed, and Zhong Xun tried unsuccessfully to wake her.
• Shen Yu suspected Su Nian's condition was linked to the Time Loop and fell asleep while holding her hand.
• Shen Yu woke in a dream where the other people had vanished, and Su Nian realized he was there with her.
• Something knocked and then pounded violently on the front door, terrifying Su Nian.
• Shen Yu brought knives from the kitchen and gave Su Nian a fruit knife for self-defense.

Su Nian and Shen Yu escaped a dangerous dream by jumping from a bathroom window, then woke up safely. Su Nian was grateful to Shen Yu, but he stopped her from rushing at him.

• Su Nian chose to jump from a height rather than face the creature outside the door.
• Shen Yu led Su Nian to the bathroom window after explaining that waking from the dream was uncertain.
• Su Nian hesitated on the windowsill, and Shen Yu helped her jump before leaping after her.
• Su Nian and Shen Yu woke up, and Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu asked how they were and whether they had seen the creature.
• Su Nian cried with relief and thanked Shen Yu, who held her back and told her not to repay his kindness by causing him trouble.

Su Nian explained how Shen Yu saved her from the thing that broke through the door in her dream, and Zhong Xun thought they had found a way to deal with it. Shen Yu took Huo Wujìu aside to talk, while Wen Zhishu followed them and joked angrily about being left out.

• Su Nian told Zhong Xun and Ye Ran that Shen Yu had pushed her off a building in her dream to wake her before the thing broke through the door.
• Zhong Xun realized Su Nian might have been in danger and suggested she repeat Shen Yu’s actions if the thing appeared in her dreams again.
• Shen Yu asked Huo Wujìu to speak with him in the back room.
• Wen Zhishu nearly got hit by the door, so Shen Yu pulled him into the room with them.
• Wen Zhishu accused Huo Wujìu of coming between him and Shen Yu, and Shen Yu asked what he wanted to discuss.

Wen Zhishu learned why Shen Yu had come into their room: he wanted to avoid getting caught in the romantic rivalry surrounding Su Nian. Huo Wujìu explained the feelings among Zhong Xun, Ye Ran, and Su Nian, while Wen Zhishu struggled to see why Shen Yu needed to hide.

• Huo Wujìu told Wen Zhishu that Zhong Xun and Ye Ran both had feelings for Su Nian.
• Huo Wujìu explained that Zhong Xun resented Shen Yu for saving Su Nian and receiving her gratitude.
• Huo Wujìu said Su Nian wanted to stay close to Shen Yu after he saved her, while Shen Yu wanted to avoid their romantic entanglements.
• Huo Wujìu suggested Ye Ran also liked Su Nian, and Shen Yu confirmed he had noticed it himself.

Wen Zhishu demanded that Shen Yu and Huo Wujìu explain their plans plainly instead of expecting him to read between the lines. Shen Yu admitted he could account for Wen Zhishu’s actions and guide events without telling him, leaving both men startled by how calculating he was.

• Wen Zhishu complained that Shen Yu and Huo Wujìu kept speaking in riddles and insisted they tell him clearly what to do.
• Shen Yu reassured Wen Zhishu that his plans already accounted for Wen Zhishu acting without knowing what was planned.
• Wen Zhishu and Huo Wujìu questioned whether Shen Yu was serious and were startled by his ability to control outcomes.
• Shen Yu fell silent, realizing he had revealed too much about his calculating nature as his mind raced for a way out of his curse.

Shen Yu reflected on finding unexpected companionship with Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu, while Huo Wujìu considered Shen Yu’s dislike of being treated as a monster. Wen Zhishu asked if they could stay in touch after escaping, and Shen Yu questioned whether he resented being used in Shen Yu’s scheme.

• Shen Yu recognized that he enjoyed spending time with both Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu.
• Huo Wujìu realized Shen Yu disliked being treated as a monster and thought about how Shen Yu treated people differently depending on whether he accepted them.
• Wen Zhishu described being trapped in the time loop and said meeting the others felt like fate had brought them together.
• Wen Zhishu asked whether they could keep in touch if they escaped.
• Shen Yu asked Wen Zhishu whether he resented that Shen Yu had factored his actions into a scheme.

Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu told Shen Yu they understood and accepted him, then asked to be his friends. Shen Yu tried to shrug them off as Wen Zhishu pressed him to say yes.

• Huo Wujìu put an arm around Shen Yu and said his intelligence and foresight could make him difficult for others to understand.
• Wen Zhishu joined in, agreeing that Shen Yu was gentle and promising to protect him.
• Huo Wujìu said he was glad they had met and asked to be Shen Yu's friend.
• Wen Zhishu also asked to be Shen Yu's friend and leaned against him.
• Shen Yu complained that they were hot and tried to pull their hands away while Wen Zhishu chanted for him to agree.

Shen Yu accepted Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu as his friends, then told them about his dream and discussed the Post Author’s changing loop. After a man jumped to his death, Shen Yu noticed the Red Thread on his wrist had darkened.

• Shen Yu agreed that Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu were his friends.
• Shen Yu recounted his dream, and Huo Wujìu and the others discussed the door-knocking presence, the time loop, and the Post Author’s wife and child.
• A scream drew Shen Yu, Huo Wujìu, Wen Zhishu, and the others outside, where they learned someone had jumped.
• Shen Yu examined the horrific scene and felt his wrist throb as the Red Thread darkened.

Shen Yu suspected that Su Nian had died in an earlier loop and returned to life when the loop restarted. He shared his theory with Wen Zhishu and Huo Wujìu, who acknowledged that her unusually low body temperature could have gone unnoticed.

• After another person died, Shen Yu wondered whether the thing was trying to kill everyone and recalled Su Nian's ice-cold body.
• Zhong Xun and Ye Ran vomited after seeing the corpse, then led Su Nian upstairs to their room.
• Shen Yu told Wen Zhishu and Huo Wujìu that Su Nian might already be dead.
• Huo Wujìu and Wen Zhishu considered how Su Nian's low body temperature could have escaped notice because she acted like a living person.

Shen Yu connected Su Nian’s death to the unknown former owners of the rooms, raising the possibility that the people staying in them were also being targeted. He began investigating who in the building was still alive before the next time loop.

• Wen Zhishu and Huo Wujìu realized Su Nian might die if the time loop ended, which could make the dead residents oppose breaking it.
• Shen Yu asked who had originally owned the rooms Wen Zhishu and Huo Wujìu were staying in, and they discovered they could not remember.
• Huo Wujìu suspected the original owner of Su Nian’s room had killed her and might target Zhong Xun, Ye Ran, and the others.
• Wen Zhishu checked beneath the bed and pressed the mattress, fearing the missing room owners might be hidden there.
• Shen Yu wondered who in the building was still alive and said he could not wait until the next loop to find out.
• Shen Yu told Wen Zhishu and Huo Wujìu that something might happen and urged them not to be too scared.