Recaps

Qing Yaole suggested splitting up to find Gu Yun and Sun Zhufeng, then secretly ran off alone while the others stayed together. His livestream disappeared after he followed the same route Gu Yun and Sun Zhufeng had taken before they vanished.

• Qing Yaole reminded the group that Gu Yun and Sun Zhufeng were still missing and proposed splitting up to search for them.
• Qing Yaole persuaded the others to stay together while he went alone, promising to regroup in the first hospital room.
• Qi Si and Bo Yanqi watched Qing Yaole’s livestream after he left the storage room.
• Qing Yaole checked that no one was following him, changed direction, and sprinted along a targeted route instead of searching for clues.
• Qing Yaole’s livestream disappeared, and Bo Yanqi recognized that he had taken the same route as Gu Yun and Sun Zhufeng.

Qing Yaole met Sun Zhufeng and Gu Yun in the confinement room and revealed that he was an undercover police officer working with Sun Zhufeng. They disclosed that they were investigating the escape room and that Yang Yi was an undercover agent connected to the case.

• Qing Yaole slipped past the NPCs, used a coded knock to enter the confinement room, and met Sun Zhufeng and Gu Yun.
• Qing Yaole confirmed that the room's medical equipment was real, and he and Sun Zhufeng discussed their investigation while Gu Yun struggled to understand their hidden identities.
• Qing Yaole told Sun Zhufeng that one guest was confirmed to be an undercover agent, while another woman seemed suspicious but was difficult to assess.
• Sun Zhufeng explained that Qing Yaole meant one of the guests was an undercover agent, and Qing Yaole identified Yang Yi.
• Qing Yaole explained that he and Sun Zhufeng were investigating a case whose clues connected the escape room to Yang Yi.

Qing Yaole explained that Stian Psychiatric Hospital was a front for human experimentation, and the group suspected the escape-room scenario was based on real cases connected to an old kidnapping investigation. Gu Yun began to connect the hospital’s crimes to the kidnapping case as they prepared to continue toward the game’s ending.

• Gu Yun asked whether Qing Yaole’s information was connected to the kidnapping case, and Sun Zhufeng confirmed it was.
• Sun Zhufeng told Qing Yaole about the strange person in the corridor who seemed to know their actions, raising the possibility of an informant inside the production team or the police.
• Qing Yaole said only Sun Zhufeng, Third Master, and Gu Yun knew his identity, and Gu Yun objected when he suggested they might betray him.
• Qing Yaole explained that wealthy families had sent children to Stian Psychiatric Hospital under false pretenses, and the patients there were used as human test subjects.
• Qing Yaole said the game script was based on real cases, and Gu Yun began connecting the hospital to the old kidnapping investigation.

Yu Zhen contacted Bo Yanqi after rescuing the badly injured Li An and hiding with him from the people hunting him. Bo Yanqi and Bai Hanzhou rushed to their location to bring them to safety.

• Yu Zhen called Bo Yanqi and told him that Li An was with her, badly injured, and being hunted.
• Bo Yanqi arranged extra guards for Qi Si, then contacted Bai Hanzhou and headed toward the address Yu Zhen provided.
• Bai Hanzhou gathered men and hurried to Li An's location ahead of Bo Yanqi.
• Yu Zhen recalled rescuing Li An from the City-Encircling River, where he had been left blind and seriously wounded after a staged accident.
• An old woman sheltered Yu Zhen and Li An, and they later escaped after she cleared away signs that they had been there.
• Yu Zhen and Li An kept moving between hiding places until Yu Zhen found a chance to contact Bo Yanqi.

Yu Zhen and the injured Li An escaped their pursuers with help from Old A, who said Bai Hanzhou had sent him to find them. After Yu Zhen confirmed the story with Bai Hanzhou by phone, Old A led them to a safe place in an old residential complex.

• Yu Zhen searched for a place to hide as pursuers closed in, and Old A pulled her and Li An out of sight.
• Old A told Yu Zhen he had helped them because he knew Li An and had been sent by Bai Hanzhou to find him.
• Yu Zhen demanded proof, and Old A called Bai Hanzhou, who confirmed that Old A would take them somewhere safe.
• Old A led Yu Zhen and Li An through narrow alleys and into the residential complex through a gap he had made in its wall.

Yu Zhen helped Li An reach safety, and Bai Hanzhou took him to the hospital after discovering he was badly injured and blind. Yu Zhen stayed behind with Bo Yanqi to retrieve the evidence Li An had taken from Saint An Mental Hospital.

• Old A brought Yu Zhen and Li An to an apartment, where he warned that Li An's infected wounds and head injury needed urgent treatment.
• Bai Hanzhou met Yu Zhen and Li An, realized Li An could not see, and rushed him to the hospital.
• Bai Hanzhou left people to wait with Yu Zhen while he took Li An away, and Bo Yanqi arrived soon afterward.
• Yu Zhen told Bo Yanqi that she had hidden an item Li An brought from Saint An Mental Hospital and asked him to help retrieve it.
• Yu Zhen led Bo Yanqi and his people back to the old woman's house where she had hidden the item.

Yu Zhen and Bo Yanqi returned to Granny’s home to retrieve the documents Yu Zhen had hidden nearby, but found Granny missing. After Bo Yanqi read the documents, they left for the hospital, hoping his people would find her.

• Yu Zhen and Bo Yanqi found Granny’s home empty, and Bo Yanqi sent his people to search for her.
• Yu Zhen led Bo Yanqi to a buried waterproof bag containing the documents, which he read and found troubling.
• Bo Yanqi asked Yu Zhen about her investigation into Jiang Zhijie, and she explained that she had gone to Saint An Mental Hospital before rescuing Li An.
• Bo Yanqi’s people returned without finding Granny, so Yu Zhen and Bo Yanqi headed back to the hospital, worried about Granny and Qi Si.

Bai Hanzhou rushed the injured, unconscious Li An to the hospital, where a doctor explained that a blood clot was temporarily pressing on Li An’s optic nerve and his vision should recover with time. After Li An woke blind and tried to navigate the room alone, Bai Hanzhou caught him and carried him to keep him from getting hurt further.

• Bai Hanzhou brought Li An to the hospital, where Li An passed out after finally relaxing from the strain of escaping with Yu Zhen.
• A doctor told Bai Hanzhou that Li An’s head injury had caused temporary blindness and that medication and rest should allow the blood clot to dissipate.
• Bai Hanzhou sat beside Li An’s hospital bed and realized he feared losing Li An through death as well as separation.
• Li An woke up blind, felt his way around the hospital room, and bumped into furniture and other objects while searching for the bathroom.
• Bai Hanzhou rushed in after Li An kicked over a thermos, picked him up, and scolded him for wandering around blind.
• Li An told Bai Hanzhou to stop talking and take him to the bathroom because he urgently needed to pee.

Bai Hanzhou secretly watched over Li An in the bathroom, but Li An discovered him and attacked him. Their scuffle aggravated Li An’s wound, leaving Bai Hanzhou anxiously checking on him as Li An insisted he was fine.

• Bai Hanzhou stayed outside the bathroom door while Li An carefully found and used the toilet, then pretended he had just come in.
• Li An realized Bai Hanzhou had never left, shouted at him, and swung at him; Bai Hanzhou dodged into the punch and was beaten by Li An.
• Bai Hanzhou caught Li An’s hand, carried him back toward the hospital bed, and warned him to behave when he struggled.
• Li An kicked at Bai Hanzhou after being put on the bed, toppled backward, and turned pale as pressure on his wound caused pain.
• Bai Hanzhou called for a doctor and checked Li An’s wounds; Li An said he was fine and complained about Bai Hanzhou touching him.

Qi Si learned that Li An had been rescued and visited him, while Bo Yanqi went with Yu Zhen to retrieve information hidden at Saint An Mental Hospital. Qi Si returned to his room and resumed watching the livestream as Shen Shuyu's group and Sun Zhufeng's group drew closer.

• Qi Si heard that Li An had been injured and hurried to his hospital room, where Bai Hanzhou was anxiously overseeing his treatment.
• After the doctors left, Qi Si spoke with Li An and Bai Hanzhou and learned that Li An's eyes were expected to recover.
• Bai Hanzhou explained that Bo Yanqi had gone with Yu Zhen to retrieve information Li An had hidden after leaving Saint An Mental Hospital.
• Qi Si returned to his room, received Bo Yanqi's message that he was on his way back, and resumed watching the livestream.
• Qi Si saw that Shen Shuyu's group and Sun Zhufeng's group were moving closer to each other.

Yang Yi, Shen Shuyu, Xu Zhening, and Jiang Han left the storage room and headed toward the ward, while Xu Zhening warned Jiang Han to be ready to escape. The two groups reunited at the ward, where Sun Zhufeng eyed Yang Yi and Shen Shuyu with suspicion.

• After Qing Yaole left, Yang Yi, Shen Shuyu, Xu Zhening, and Jiang Han stayed motionless in the storage room for about ten minutes before Shen Shuyu led them out.
• Jiang Han asked Xu Zhening about Shen Shuyu’s strange behavior, and Xu Zhening told him to run if things went wrong.
• Viewers speculated that the escape room game had changed and that Shen Shuyu was acting unlike her scripted character.
• Yang Yi followed Shen Shuyu without hesitation as their group made its way back toward the ward where the game began.
• At the ward, Xu Zhening and Jiang Han reunited excitedly with Sun Zhufeng, Gu Yun, and Qing Yaole.
• Sun Zhufeng studied Shen Shuyu’s delirious state, then exchanged wary looks with Yang Yi, who smiled calmly at him.

Back in the original hospital ward, Sun Zhufeng questioned the guests about their discoveries and focused on Shen Shuyu and Yang Yi. Yang Yi began to reveal that the story went back forty-nine years, leaving the group poised to hear what had happened.

• Sun Zhufeng gathered the guests in the ward and asked them to share what they had discovered.
• Shen Shuyu struggled to recall her time in the confinement room and said the head nurse had injected her, after which she remembered little.
• Sun Zhufeng and Qing Yaole suspected Yang Yi had triggered Shen Shuyu’s shift in behavior, while Shen Shuyu concealed that she knew what the injection was.
• Sun Zhufeng asked Yang Yi to begin with events from eighteen years ago, and Shen Shuyu reacted uneasily to the date.
• Yang Yi answered that they should start from forty-nine years ago, stunning everyone.

As Yang Yi’s livestream helped Qi Si connect her to the affair surrounding his family, Bo Yanqi secretly summoned him to the director’s office. Qi Si was abducted there, and Bo Yanqi discovered he had vanished from the hospital and began searching for him.

• Yang Yi said that a boy and a girl had been born into a family that could not see the light of day forty-nine years earlier, and Qi Si suddenly understood how she fit into the affair.
• Bo Yanqi messaged Qi Si to meet him in the director’s office without telling Bai Hanzhou or Li An, saying the matter concerned Li An’s injuries.
• Qi Si showed Bo Yanqi’s message to the bodyguards, then went to the director’s office, where someone struck his neck and knocked him unconscious.
• Bo Yanqi and Yu Zhen returned to the VIP floor, found Qi Si’s room and the bodyguards empty, and realized Qi Si was missing.
• Bo Yanqi asked Bai Hanzhou and Li An about Qi Si, then left to search for him; Li An urged Bai Hanzhou to help.

While Qi Si lay unable to wake, Yang Yi told a distorted story that echoed the Jiang family’s past, and Qi Si realized she was involved in the scheme surrounding the production team. The chapter ended with Sun Zhufeng challenging Yang Yi about why her story mattered.

• Yang Yi told the livestream viewers that a man and his first lover were forced apart by his wealthy wife, then continued their relationship in secret and had twins.
• Yang Yi claimed the wealthy wife’s children were kidnapped by enemies when the twins were one year old, while Qi Si recognized that she was twisting the truth about the Jiang family.
• Qi Si recalled that Yang Jiali had given birth to twins and concluded that Yang Yi was one of the people involved in the events surrounding the family.
• Qi Si suspected Yang Yi had recruited people on the production team, including the planner, to arrange the escape room filming in G City.
• Yang Yi said the wealthy wife’s missing daughter had been found decades later through her son, but was already dead.
• Sun Zhufeng scoffed and asked Yang Yi why she was telling the story and whether it had anything to do with their situation.

Yang Yi explained how the man brought his mistress’s daughter to the rich young lady after her own child disappeared, while Qi Si woke in a replica of the confinement room where he had been experimented on as a child. The man kept Qi Si captive and watched Yang Yi’s account, leaving Qi Si uncertain whether Yang Yi was one of the fraternal twins.

• Qi Si woke restrained and recognized the voice of the man who had experimented on him in childhood.
• The man taunted Qi Si, refused to reveal where they were, and pointed out that the room resembled the confinement room from Stian Psychiatric Hospital and the orphanage basement.
• Qi Si asked why the man had caused trouble and led them back to the old kidnapping case, while the man watched him with pride.
• Yang Yi recounted how the man brought his mistress’s daughter home and claimed he had adopted her from an orphanage to distract the rich young lady from her missing child.
• Gu Yun criticized the man’s plan, and Yang Yi explained that the rich young lady rejected the baby and began to suspect him.
• Qi Si watched Yang Yi’s detached narration and wondered whether he had been wrong about her being one of the twins.

Qi Si confronted the man who had abducted him about Yang Yi, the man's motives, and his experiments on children. The man admitted that he had erased the children's memories and replaced their personalities, leaving Qi Si convinced that he had effectively killed them.

• Qi Si suspected the man might be Yang Yi's twin and asked how they were related, but the man avoided answering.
• Qi Si questioned why the man had resurfaced after eighteen years, and the man said he wanted to revisit people and things from his past before dying.
• The man confirmed that a planner in the production crew was his informant in addition to Yang Yi.
• Qi Si asked whether the children returned after the man's experiments were still themselves, and the man compared their minds to blank sheets he had erased and marked anew.
• Qi Si concluded that the man had destroyed the children's original selves, while the man defended his actions as a form of mercy.

Qi Si reflected on the experiments that had changed Bo Fuyu and Shen Shuyu, then turned his attention to Yang Yi’s livestream story about a wealthy heiress sending her husband’s baby daughter to an orphanage. Viewers spotted contradictions in Yang Yi’s account, and Qi Si suspected she had left the gaps deliberately.

• Qi Si recalled that Bo Fuyu and Shen Shuyu had undergone the madman’s experiments and considered the harm caused by his own alternate personality.
• Yang Yi explained that the wealthy heiress sent the baby girl to a distant orphanage and prevented the man and his childhood sweetheart from taking her back.
• Jiang Han and Gu Yun reacted in surprise, while livestream viewers questioned the heiress’s motives and the man’s failure to intervene.
• Netizens suspected the childhood sweetheart had arranged the wealthy heiress’s child’s kidnapping and that the man had felt guilty about it.
• Qi Si noticed the flaws in Yang Yi’s version and wondered whether she had left them intentionally.

The man believed Qi Si was the only test subject who could make his experiments succeed and planned to resume them, while Yang Yi’s livestream story prompted viewers and guests to suspect it reflected her own life. Yang Yi claimed her game script had been adapted from her experiences, but Qi Si dismissed her explanation as a lie.

• The man watched Yang Yi’s livestream and believed he had recovered the only test subject capable of completing his experiments: Qi Si.
• The man recalled his failed experiments on other people and remained convinced that Qi Si was essential to his research.
• Viewers noticed that Yang Yi’s story about a girl sent to an orphanage and entering the entertainment industry resembled Yang Yi’s own background.
• Shen Shuyu and the other guests recognized familiar details, and Gu Yun asked Yang Yi whether she was telling her own story.
• Yang Yi said her script had been adapted from her life experiences and suggested the others’ scripts had been adapted from theirs too.
• Qing Yaole questioned whether Yang Yi’s character was custom-made, while Qi Si called her explanation bullshit.

Qi Si deduced that the man behind the escape-room game was Jiang Zhijie and that Yang Yi was likely his twin sister. Meanwhile, Yang Yi challenged Sun Zhufeng to explain his claim that he was a victim’s family member, leaving Qi Si wondering who in his family had been caught up in the old experiment.

• Qi Si questioned the man about why he kept showing him the livestream, then inferred that Yang Yi’s story reflected her own background as Jiang Honghu and Yang Jiali’s illegitimate daughter.
• Qi Si identified the man as Jiang Zhijie and reasoned that the Jiang Family had hidden him at Saint An Mental Hospital, possibly under several identities, including Doctor Yang.
• On the livestream, Sun Zhufeng challenged Yang Yi over the inconsistencies in her claims, and she fell silent under his questioning.
• Yang Yi asked whether Sun Zhufeng was questioning her as a police officer or in another capacity, and he said he was also speaking as a victim’s family member.
• Qi Si was stunned by Sun Zhufeng’s claim and wondered whether one of his relatives had been forced into the experiment.

Yang Yi’s fabricated family history began unraveling during the livestream, while Sun Zhufeng revealed that his younger sister had disappeared. Qi Si connected Sun Zhufeng’s story to the old kidnapping cases and the game’s script, but the reason their experiences matched remained uncertain.

• Netizens discovered that Yang Yi’s story about her grandmother had originated with a fansite manager arranged by her agent, and some fans turned against her.
• Sun Zhufeng told Yang Yi that his younger sister had disappeared, prompting questions about whether her disappearance was connected to her.
• Qi Si reasoned that Jiang Zhijie might have kidnapped Sun Zhufeng’s sister and that Sun Zhufeng had investigated the old kidnapping case with Bo Yanqi.
• Qi Si wondered why Qing Yaole’s scripted backstory matched Sun Zhufeng’s real experience, while the narration noted that the match might be coincidence or the game might have drawn on real events.

Bo Yanqi, Yu Zhen, and Bai Hanzhou investigated Qi Si’s disappearance and discovered that someone had stolen Bo Yanqi’s Green Bubbles account to lure Qi Si to the director’s office. They found Qi Si’s unconscious bodyguards there, but Qi Si was gone, leaving the group to suspect his abduction was meant to disrupt Qi Wang’s efforts in A City.

• Bo Yanqi, Yu Zhen, and Bai Hanzhou searched for Qi Si but found no trace of him in the hospital surveillance footage.
• An investigator recovered footage showing Qi Si’s phone and chat avatars, prompting Bo Yanqi to discover that someone had stolen his Green Bubbles account.
• Bo Yanqi restored his chat records and found that the impostor had directed Qi Si to the director’s office.
• Bo Yanqi and the others reached the director’s office and found Qi Si’s bodyguards unconscious, but Qi Si was missing.
• Yu Zhen slapped one of the unconscious bodyguards to wake him, while she worried that Qi Si’s abduction was intended to prevent Qi Wang from acting in A City.

Bo Yanqi and Yu Zhen learned that Jiang Zhijie, disguised as the hospital psychologist Yang Yang, had taken Qi Si to continue his experiments. They divided their forces to search the hospital and its surroundings, believing Qi Si might still be nearby.

• Bo Yanqi and Bai Hanzhou woke Director Zhang, who recalled that Yang Yang had knocked him unconscious after asking him to call Qi Si over.
• Yu Zhen revealed that Yang Yang was Jiang Zhijie, whose identity records had been changed with the Jiang Family's help.
• Director Zhang said Jiang Zhijie had not explained why he wanted Qi Si, and Yu Zhen suspected he had taken him to resume his experiments.
• Bo Yanqi reasoned that the short time since Qi Si's signal disappeared meant Jiang Zhijie had likely not taken him far from the hospital.
• Bo Yanqi sent his subordinates to search the surrounding area while Yu Zhen took people to search inside the hospital.

Bo Yanqi searched the hospital for Qi Si while the livestream exposed Yang Yi as Jiang Youyou and Qing Yaole accused her of hypnotizing Shen Shuyu. Yang Yi dismissed Shen Shuyu as useless, leaving Shen Shuyu hurt and questioning why Yang Yi had cared for her.

• Bo Yanqi concluded that Qi Si was still somewhere in the hospital and searched while monitoring the livestream.
• Qi Si asked whether Jiang Zhijie had taken Sun Zhufeng's younger sister, and learned she might have been sent to Jiang Zhijie by someone else.
• Sun Zhufeng accused Yang Yi's family of being connected to his sister's disappearance, and Qing Yaole revealed that Yang Yi was really Jiang Youyou, daughter of Jiang Honghu and Yang Jiali.
• Qing Yaole accused Yang Yi of using hypnosis and hidden suggestions to make Shen Shuyu an unwitting informant, and Shen Shuyu realized she could not remember what had happened earlier.
• Yang Yi said Shen Shuyu had no value to exploit, and Shen Shuyu tearfully asked why Yang Yi had treated her so well.

Sun Zhufeng and Qing Yaole exposed that Yang Yi had approached Shen Shuyu to use her against Qi Si, then began piecing together how Jiang Zhijie’s crime eighteen years earlier was connected to Jiang Nansi. The chapter ended with Qi Si asking whether their theory was correct.

• Gu Yun tried to comfort Shen Shuyu, while Yang Yi ignored her questions.
• Sun Zhufeng revealed that Shen Shuyu had been a marked test subject, making it easier for Yang Yi to approach and manipulate her.
• Sun Zhufeng explained that Yang Yi had targeted Shen Shuyu to get to Qi Si, and Shen Shuyu realized she had been used from the start.
• Qing Yaole asked whether Yang Yi had been involved in the incident eighteen years earlier, but Sun Zhufeng suspected her younger brother Jiang Zhijie had acted alone.
• Qing Yaole and Sun Zhufeng theorized that Yang Jiali’s search for the missing Jiang Nansi had led Jiang Zhijie to an unmanaged orphanage in A City.
• Qi Si asked the person behind him whether Qing Yaole and Sun Zhufeng’s theory was right.

Qi Si confronted Jiang Zhijie, who had disguised himself as the psychologist Yang Yang, and tried to memorize his face in case the fugitive escaped again. Jiang Zhijie admitted Yang Yi could hypnotize people, leaving Qi Si convinced that both siblings posed a danger as he watched the livestream.

• Jiang Zhijie approached Qi Si in a white lab coat and let him choose whether to call him Jiang Zhijie or Doctor Yang.
• Qi Si studied Jiang Zhijie's face, said he wanted to remember the man who had ruined him, and warned that Jiang Zhijie might escape and target him again.
• Jiang Zhijie laughed at Qi Si's confidence that he would keep causing trouble, while Qi Si said he trusted Jiang Zhijie's shamelessness and lack of limits.
• Qi Si asked whether Yang Yi could hypnotize people, and Jiang Zhijie said she knew only the basics.
• Qi Si condemned the Jiang and Yang family, recalling Jiang Zhijie's experiments and the harm Jiang Honghu and Yang Jiali had done to Zhong Xinyao's family.