Chapter Summaries

Yu Zhen and Qi Si investigated whether Jiang Zhijie had been involved in a kidnapping case from fifteen years earlier, but they still lacked proof. After Bo Yanqi and Qi Wang arrived at the hospital, Qi Wang confronted Qi Si for fighting his kidnappers and hinted that he might take revenge for him.

• Yu Zhen told Qi Si that Jiang Zhijie was a suspect because his accident and psychiatric hospitalization had followed Qi Si's discovery, though they needed to find two people from that time to confirm the connection.
• Qi Si and Yu Zhen discussed why the kidnapping might have happened in A City rather than G City, and Yu Zhen suggested Jiang Zhijie might have been avoiding Jiang Nantian.
• Bo Yanqi and Qi Wang entered the ward, and Yu Zhen greeted Qi Wang while Qi Si nervously hid under his blankets.
• Qi Wang demanded to know why Qi Si had fought his kidnappers, and Qi Si defended himself by saying he had been unlucky to hail the wrong taxi.
• Qi Si pretended to be pitiful until Qi Wang threatened to get revenge for him, leaving Dun Dun unable to guess what Qi Wang meant.

Qi Wang learned why Jiang Honghu had targeted Bo Yanqi and resolved to retaliate for Qi Si, while Yu Zhen revealed that Jiang Zhijie might have been involved in the old kidnapping case. Bo Yanqi realized the case might connect to his mother's past, and regretted not investigating further at the time.

• Qi Wang confirmed Qi Si's injuries were minor, then asked Bo Yanqi and Qi Si what had happened.
• Bo Yanqi explained his conflict with Jiang Honghu and revealed the truth behind his mother's disappearance; Qi Si said Jiang Honghu had captured him to force Bo Yanqi to return to the Jiang Family and oppose Jiang Nantian.
• Qi Wang said he would not let the Jiang Family get away with harming someone from the Qi Household, and Bo Yanqi mentioned that Jiang Nantian had found Jiang Honghu's hidden mistress.
• Yu Zhen revealed that her investigation into the old kidnapping had led her to suspect Jiang Zhijie, who had appeared at a suspicious time and later been admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
• Bo Yanqi recalled that he had investigated the orphanage after discovering his mother had been sent there, but had stopped after finding his uncle and learning the truth about that year.

Yu Zhen, Qi Wang, and Bo Yanqi investigated whether Jiang Zhijie and two missing men were connected to Qi Si’s kidnapping. Bo Yanqi sent a team to Saint An Mental Hospital to find Jiang Zhijie, while Qi Si watched the show’s livestream and wondered whether Yang Yi had feelings for Shen Shuyu.

• Yu Zhen told Qi Wang and Bo Yanqi that Jiang Zhijie and two men whose movements and bank transfers matched the kidnapping needed further investigation.
• Bo Yanqi agreed to find the two men and learned from Jiang Nantian that Jiang Zhijie might be hiding at Saint An Mental Hospital with his mother.
• Bo Yanqi ordered Li An to search Saint An Mental Hospital for Jiang Zhijie, and Yu Zhen and Qi Si said the lead could help them narrow their investigation.
• While recovering in the hospital, Qi Si watched the livestream and saw the guests discover they would enter a horror-themed escape room.
• Qi Si noticed Yang Yi comfort Shen Shuyu and wondered whether Yang Yi liked her.

The guests learned that their next challenge was a two-day, one-night survival escape room themed around Stian Psychiatric Hospital. After changing into costumes and receiving identity files, they prepared to enter while being told to conceal their real identities.

• Xiang Qianchong announced the psychiatric hospital theme and revealed that the escape room would last two days and one night, alarming Gu Yun and the other guests.
• Xiang Qianchong led the guests to the changing room, where they were assigned explorer roles and outfits based on the order in which they had drawn lots.
• The guests learned the legend of Stian Psychiatric Hospital, where children had disappeared and the demolished building supposedly reappeared on cloudy nights.
• Xu Zhening protested that his school uniform made him look ridiculous, while the livestream viewers and Qi Si watched with amusement.
• A staff member handed out identity files and warned the guests to conceal their true identities inside the psychiatric hospital.

The guests entered Stian Psychiatric Hospital after choosing whether to keep their secret identity cards, while Qi Wang discovered someone had tampered with Qi Si’s room. The chapter ended with Qi Si and Qi Wang finding both a listening device and a signal jammer, leaving them to wonder whether opposing parties were involved.

• Yang Yi, Shen Shuyu, Xu Zhening, and Qing Yaole returned their identity cards, while Gu Yun and Jiang Han tried to memorize theirs.
• Qi Si searched online and learned the guests’ roles, including Qing Yaole and Yang Yi’s searches for missing family members who vanished at Stian Psychiatric Hospital.
• Qi Wang found Qi Si watching the livestream and called Cao Yu to inspect Qi Si’s room after hearing that its signal had worsened.
• Qi Si decided to stay in G City with Qi Wang rather than return to A City, and Cao Yu’s team searched the building.
• Qi Wang’s team found a listening device under the bed and a signal jammer inside the bathroom water tank, prompting Qi Si to wonder whether there was infighting.

Qi Wang and Bo Yanqi investigated a bug and signal jammer planted in Qi Si’s hospital room, while Qi Si suspected the incidents were connected to Qi Wang and events in A City. The nurse who planted the bug was caught, but the jammer’s culprit remained unknown as the group began investigating a production planner who had arranged the crew’s sudden trip to G City.

• Qi Wang ordered Cao Yu to investigate everyone who had entered Qi Si’s room and had the hospital floor searched for more devices.
• Bo Yanqi increased security after searches found no other devices, and he told Qi Si that a nurse had confessed to planting the bug for a masked person, while the jammer’s planter was still being investigated.
• Qi Si suspected the devices targeted Qi Wang and asked whether Brother Zhou was safe in A City; Qi Wang said there had been a minor disturbance there.
• Qi Si questioned why the production team had suddenly come to G City, and Bo Yanqi said he had already sent people to investigate the planner who proposed the trip.

Qi Si, Qi Wang, and Bo Yanqi suspected someone on the production team was connected to the listening device after the show chose a psychiatric hospital escape room. They watched the livestream from the hospital, where Bo Yanqi’s jealousy surfaced as he pinched Qi Si’s cheek.

• Bo Yanqi explained that the production team submitted its destination plan only the night before departure, making the psychiatric hospital location seem suspicious.
• Qi Si, Qi Wang, and Bo Yanqi suspected the planner or another production team member had ordered the listening device installed, and Bo Yanqi said he was investigating everyone.
• Qi Si asked Qi Wang to buy a projector, and an hour later they watched the guests enter Stian Psychiatric Hospital for the escape room.
• The guests panicked in the shared ward, while Yang Yi protected Shen Shuyu and explained that she was there to livestream an exploration.
• Bo Yanqi told Qi Si that Qing Yaole had passed a background check, then pinched Qi Si’s cheek when Qi Wang looked away.
• Qi Si hid his discomfort from Qi Wang and left the room under the pretense of going to the bathroom, while Bo Yanqi watched him go with a smile.

The group prepared to leave their ward in Stian Psychiatric Hospital, but a ward inspection forced everyone to hide in beds marked with their names. Qing Yaole hid beneath a bed after giving Jiang Han the last named bed, while the observers questioned how the hospital had known the guests would arrive and why there was one fewer bed than people.

• Qing Yaole asked whether the group could leave the ward, and Yang Yi agreed to lead them toward the door.
• High heels sounded in the corridor, and a woman announced a ward inspection, sending the patients scrambling into their beds.
• Qing Yaole told the guests to find their beds, and Yang Yi helped Shen Shuyu into hers while the others searched.
• Qing Yaole noticed that only one bed remained and gave the bed marked with Jiang Han's name to Jiang Han.
• As the ward door opened, Qing Yaole hid beneath a bed, while Qi Si and the others questioned why the beds bore the guests' names and why there was one bed missing.

Qi Si, Qi Wang, and Bo Yanqi discovered that Sun Zhufeng had entered the hospital escape-room scenario as an unannounced NPC. During the head nurse’s rounds, Shen Shuyu was caught moving and dragged away, while Sun Zhufeng remained safe.

• Qi Si and Qi Wang concluded that the extra person in the ward had been deliberately arranged, and viewers noticed Qing Yaole’s named bed was occupied by someone else.
• The head nurse stopped beside the bed assigned to Qing Yaole, where Sun Zhufeng was lying, surprising Qi Si and Bo Yanqi.
• Bo Yanqi called Xiang Qianchong, who learned that Sun Zhufeng had taken a part-time job as an important NPC at the escape room.
• The head nurse turned from Sun Zhufeng toward Shen Shuyu after hearing her heavy breathing.
• Two male nurses dragged Shen Shuyu from the ward as she screamed for help, and the remaining guests stayed still until the head nurse left.

After Shen Shuyu was taken away, Sun Zhufeng startled the guests and was beaten by Gu Yun before revealing that he was a police officer and fellow player. He explained that he had spent a year investigating the Psychiatric Hospital but had not found an exit, though he believed escape might still be possible.

• After the nurse took Shen Shuyu away, Qing Yaole confirmed she was gone, and the guests discussed how to find her.
• Sun Zhufeng sneaked up behind Gu Yun and imitated the head nurse, causing Gu Yun to panic and punch him several times.
• Xu Zhening and Qing Yaole stopped the fight, and Sun Zhufeng revealed that he was a police officer investigating the hospital's missing-person cases.
• Yang Yi questioned why Sun Zhufeng had arrived before the others, and Sun Zhufeng explained that his identity card said he had entered the hospital a year earlier.
• Sun Zhufeng said the hospital was surrounded by thick fog and he had found no exit, but he told Gu Yun that escape was not necessarily impossible.

Shen Shuyu was strapped into an electric chair in a solitary confinement room that resembled the basement where she and Qi Si had once been experimented on. Qi Si recognized the room as a deliberate attempt to revive their memories, and the chapter left him watching Shen Shuyu closely as Sun Zhufeng led the others toward her.

• Shen Shuyu was taken to the solitary confinement room and forcibly strapped into its electric chair.
• Qi Si recognized the room's furnishings as an exact replica of the orphanage basement, and the sight triggered a reaction he struggled to hide.
• Qi Si insisted on continuing to watch the livestream, believing it held the truth about his past and the person targeting him.
• Qi Si urged Bo Yanqi to send people to protect Shen Shuyu and the other guests, and Bo Yanqi left to arrange help.
• Sun Zhufeng led the guests toward Shen Shuyu while Qi Si watched her sitting motionless and worried that her unusual quietness meant something was wrong.

Qi Wang left G City to deal with a crisis threatening Qi Corporation, entrusting Bo Yanqi with protecting Qi Si as the escape-room game continued. While Shen Shuyu relived a traumatic childhood memory and fell under the influence of a pocket-watch-like trigger, the other guests headed toward the confinement room to find her.

• Qi Wang learned that Bo Fuyu had led the other families out of the North Suburb Project and that Zhuang Hong had fled, leaving Qi Corporation in a dangerous position.
• Qi Wang warned Bo Yanqi that the mastermind might be connected to the Bo Household, then returned to A City while Bo Yanqi promised to protect Qi Si.
• Qi Si learned the escape room had a separate overseas livestream, so stopping the production crew's broadcast would not halt the game or conceal what happened.
• Shen Shuyu relived a childhood memory of being locked in a dark room and hypnotized by a man using a pocket watch.
• Sun Zhufeng led the other guests out of the ward and guided them toward the confinement room to find Shen Shuyu.

Sun Zhufeng led the group astray while they searched for Shen Shuyu, and they ended up trapped in an open-plan shower room as a patrol approached. Gu Yun came up with a plan to let the patrol lead them to the isolation room, but Sun Zhufeng explained they would be separated, so everyone hid atop the lockers instead.

• Sun Zhufeng led Gu Yun, Qing Yaole, Yang Yi, Xu Zhening, and Jiang Han to the women's shower room instead of the isolation room, then realized he had navigated from the wrong starting point.
• As a patrol approached, Sun Zhufeng rushed the group into the empty shower room, where they found no cubicles or other hiding places.
• Gu Yun suggested letting the patrol take them to the isolation room, but Sun Zhufeng warned that patients who broke rules were sent to separate isolation rooms on each floor.
• Sun Zhufeng helped Gu Yun climb onto the lockers, climbed up himself, and the others followed to hide from the patrol.

Gu Yun and the other guests hid atop the shower-room lockers until the patrol staff left, then continued their search despite Yang Yi twisting her ankle. Meanwhile, Qi Si and Bo Yanqi learned that a man had escaped Saint An Mental Hospital and that investigators had found research materials related to dissociative identity disorder.

• The guests hid on top of the lockers as patrol staff entered the shower room, and the staff left without noticing them.
• Gu Yun realized he had been gripping Sun Zhufeng's hand and nearly fell while jumping down before Sun Zhufeng caught him.
• Yang Yi twisted her ankle while climbing down, and Xu Zhening supported her as the group left the shower room.
• Qi Si worried that Sun Zhufeng's group would end up locked in the isolation room while searching for Shen Shuyu.
• Bo Yanqi received a call from Li An and learned that the target had escaped Saint An Mental Hospital, though investigators found research materials related to dissociative identity disorder.

After Li An found research materials on multiple personalities, Qi Si suspected their enemy had deliberately left them behind to guide him. When the livestream showed a new scene with a tray in Shen Shuyu’s isolation room, Qi Si lost his voice, and the doctors suspected a psychological cause.

• Bo Yanqi learned that Li An had found research materials on multiple personalities after their quarry escaped, and Qi Si suspected the materials had been left for him to find.
• Qi Si predicted that the players searching for Shen Shuyu might get caught before they found her.
• The head nurse entered Shen Shuyu’s isolation room carrying a tray in a scene the livestream viewers said was new.
• Qi Si stared at the tray, then suddenly became unable to speak, though doctors found no physical damage to his throat.
• Bo Yanqi demanded that the hospital find an answer by the next day, and the medical staff considered calling psychologist Yang Yang, who was on leave.

Qi Si lost his voice after seeing the tray in the livestream and told Bo Yanqi that a medicine from his forgotten past had made him feel he must not speak. As Shen Shuyu was injected with glucose on camera, Qi Si insisted it was not glucose, and the chapter ended with her image disappearing from the livestream.

• Qi Si lost his voice and used Bo Yanqi’s phone to explain that seeing the tray had triggered a reaction tied to a medicine he could not remember.
• Bo Yanqi watched Shen Shuyu’s subdued response and chose not to pressure Qi Si to recall his traumatic past.
• The head nurse injected Shen Shuyu, prompting Xiang Qianchong and the livestream viewers to worry until the production team said the NPC was certified and the injection was ordinary glucose.
• Qi Si told Bo Yanqi that the injection was not glucose, while Bo Yanqi said the production team likely would not risk using a prohibited drug under the cameras.
• Qi Si learned that Bo Yanqi and the others had long cooperated with the authorities and wondered how the person behind the events had evaded capture.
• Shen Shuyu’s image suddenly disappeared from the livestream, leaving Sun Zhufeng and the others on screen.

Qi Si and Bo Yanqi investigated Shen Shuyu's disappearance from the livestream and suspected the show's planner, Dong Fang, was tied to the plot against them. In A City, Liu Qin confronted Bo Fuyu over his attack on Qi Corporation, and her fury deepened when he silently accepted her violence.

• Qi Si asked Bo Yanqi to check on Shen Shuyu, and Xiang Qianchong said she had triggered a hidden storyline that could not be shown on the livestream.
• Bo Yanqi warned Xiang Qianchong for signing the guests up without knowing the game, then told Qi Si that planner Dong Fang had proposed both suspicious locations.
• Qi Si wondered whether Dong Fang knew Yang Yi and suspected Yang Yi had planted suggestions in Shen Shuyu and that someone had manipulated Bo Fuyu into targeting Qi Corporation.
• Bo Yanqi reassured Qi Si that his people were helping Qi Wang in A City and expressed concern about Qi Si's unrecovered voice.
• Liu Qin berated Bo Fuyu for scheming against Qi Corporation and struck him with a cup, but Bo Fuyu did not dodge as blood ran down his forehead.

Bo Fuyu confronted Liu Qin over her lifelong abuse and revealed that he remembered being abducted eighteen years earlier, when she had trackers that could have led her to him but did not come to his rescue. The chapter ended with him demanding to know why his birth mother had loathed him enough to leave him in danger.

• Liu Qin raged at Bo Fuyu and destroyed things after he defied her, while he recalled the beatings and punishments she had inflicted since childhood.
• Bo Fuyu told Liu Qin that he had used his own methods to seize control of the Bo Household and was willing to destroy it if he could not inherit it.
• Liu Qin ordered Bo Fuyu to leave and disowned him, but he challenged her by asking whether she had ever truly treated him as her son.
• Bo Fuyu demanded to know why Liu Qin had not rescued him eighteen years earlier, despite trackers in his car and necklace.
• Bo Fuyu accused Liu Qin of being willing to let him die until his abductor contacted the Bo Household for ransom, and wondered why she hated him.

Bo Fuyu confronted Liu Qin over her resentment and neglect, including her failure to respond when he was kidnapped. He rejected her claim on him as her son and left, intent on destroying the power and inheritance she had pursued.

• Bo Fuyu accused Liu Qin of never treating him as her son and resenting him for costing her the chance to inherit the Liu Household.
• Liu Qin's past was revealed: after she was forced to marry Bo Zhao'an, she neglected Bo Fuyu while focusing on her ambitions.
• Bo Fuyu reminded Liu Qin that the Bo Household had missed the chance to find him after his kidnapping, deepening the rift between his parents.
• Liu Qin told Bo Fuyu to leave like Bo Zhao'an, but Bo Fuyu said she was the one who should leave the Bo Household.
• Bo Fuyu walked away as Liu Qin shouted after him, deciding to destroy the inheritance and influence she wanted.

Bo Fuyu revealed that his plan to attack Qi Corporation was driven by revenge, while Qi Wang prepared to use the crisis to expose the company’s internal mole. In G City, Bo Yanqi continued investigating Saint An Mental Hospital and treating Qi Si, as Jiang Nantian tortured Yang Jiali to force her to reveal Jiang Zhijie’s whereabouts.

• Bo Fuyu admitted he never intended to claim the Bo Household inheritance and had targeted Qi Si and Qi Corporation for revenge.
• Qi Wang learned Zhuang Hong had disappeared into Northern Myanmar and told Zhou Zhi that Qi Corporation could not take on the troubled project alone.
• Qi Wang revealed he had found a partner, with help from his younger brother, and planned to conceal the deal while watching for the company’s mole.
• Bo Yanqi continued investigating Saint An Mental Hospital and working to restore Qi Si’s voice.
• Jiang Nantian held Jiang Honghu and Yang Jiali under house arrest, tortured Yang Jiali, and demanded that they disclose Jiang Zhijie’s location; both refused.