Chapter Summaries

Qi Si and Bo Yanqi traced a suspicious limited-edition figurine to Shen Shuyu, raising the possibility that someone among the kidnapping victims had betrayed them. After Bo Yanqi explained why Bo Shengan might not hate him despite his family history, Qi Si wondered whether Bo Yanqi would inherit Bo Yonghao’s cheating ways.

• Bo Shengan told Bo Yanqi that Shen Shuyu had given him the figurine, but he did not know where she had obtained it.
• Qi Si reconsidered his assumptions about Shen Shuyu and warned that Bo Shengan might have reasons to mislead Bo Yanqi because he was Bo Lin’s son.
• Bo Yanqi explained that Bo Shengan and his mother, Zhou Xinfang, both hated Bo Lin, making Bo Shengan’s circumstances unusual.
• Qi Si joked that Bo Yanqi might inherit Bo Yonghao’s tendency to cheat, and Bo Yanqi smacked his forehead and asked him to think of another inherited trait.

While Qi Si recovered in the hospital, Bo Yanqi explained how Bo Shengan’s identity had been concealed: Bo Lin believed his daughter was a son because Zhou Xinfang and her family forged the birth records. The revelation left Qi Si marveling at the Bo Household’s absurd history and reflecting on how differently Bo Yanqi had turned out.

• Qi Si stopped Bo Yanqi from teasing him and urged him to continue explaining Bo Shengan’s background.
• Bo Yanqi told Qi Si that Bo Lin had been unfaithful to Zhou Xinfang but kept her as his wife because she had supposedly given him a son.
• Qi Si learned that Bo Shengan was actually a girl and that Bo Lin had never fathered a son.
• Bo Yanqi explained that Zhou Xinfang’s family bribed the hospital and forged a birth certificate after Bo Lin ignored her during her pregnancy.
• Qi Si called the Bo Household absurd and quietly felt relieved that Bo Yanqi had not inherited much from his father.

Bo Yanqi explained how he discovered Bo Shengan’s secret and why he had helped her at a banquet. His teasing with the injured Qi Si turned intimate, leaving Qi Si furious and flustered.

• Qi Si asked how Bo Yanqi had learned that Bo Shengan was a woman, and Bo Yanqi said he had accidentally discovered she was menstruating at a banquet.
• Bo Yanqi explained that he had mistaken Bo Shengan’s bleeding for a miscarriage and took her away after seeing how desperately she wanted help.
• Qi Si teased Bo Yanqi about liking men, and Bo Yanqi said his sexual orientation depended on whether Qi Si was male or female.
• Qi Si bit Bo Yanqi’s hand, so Bo Yanqi pinned him down and teased him until Qi Si’s eyes and lips were red.
• Bo Yanqi moved away and said Qi Si looked healthier, while Qi Si remained angry and unable to speak clearly.

Bo Yanqi and Qi Si discussed Bo Shengan’s motives and the figurine connected to Shen Shuyu, but the guests remained trapped after the livestream ended. Bo Yanqi learned that the game’s organizers refused to release them until they played through its ending.

• Bo Yanqi explained that Bo Shengan had withdrawn from the Bo Household’s power struggle by accepting her disability, partly to conceal her identity and avoid danger.
• Qi Si suggested Bo Shengan might resent the Bo Household or be cooperating with someone, and Bo Yanqi considered why Shen Shuyu had given her the figurine.
• Bo Yanqi said he would bring Shen Shuyu to the hospital after the livestream, while Qi Si doubted that would be easy.
• After the livestream ended without the escape room scenario being cleared, viewers demanded the ending and the production team promised an edited version.
• Xiang Qianchong told Bo Yanqi that the guests were still inside the game, whose organizers refused to let them out before they completed the ending.

Bo Yanqi and Qi Si discovered that the escape room was livestreaming the trapped guests overseas, while the guests realized the production had ended without letting them leave. The guests began planning how to uncover the truth about Stian Psychiatric Hospital, as viewers and Bo Yanqi and Qi Si grew suspicious of Shen Shuyu.

• Bo Yanqi showed Qi Si the escape room’s live overseas stream after explaining that local authorities could not easily intervene.
• The production team monitored the guests through the stream while Xiang Qianchong continued trying to negotiate their release.
• Xu Zhening, Jiang Han, Yang Yi, Shen Shuyu, and the others realized filming should have ended but no one had told them they could leave.
• Qing Yaole suggested that the guests had to clear the scenario by uncovering the truth about Stian Psychiatric Hospital, and Xu Zhening stopped Jiang Han from rushing out recklessly.
• Livestream viewers debated Shen Shuyu’s behavior, and Bo Yanqi and Qi Si discussed how she had changed after solitary confinement.

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.