Chapter Summaries

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.

Sun Zhufeng exposed Jiang Honghu’s calculated marriage into the Zhong Family and Yang Jiali’s pursuit of wealth, while Yang Yi privately confronted the truth about her parents’ neglect. The chapter ended by asking how Yang Yi and Jiang Zhijie had come to work together, followed by an author’s note clarifying the timeline around Sun Jiajia, Bo Yanqi, and Qi Si.

• Sun Zhufeng told the livestream that Jiang Honghu had deliberately won Zhong Xinyao’s love and seized power in the Zhong Family after Zhong Zhong died.
• Sun Zhufeng described Yang Jiali as Jiang Honghu’s former girlfriend, and Gu Yun and Jiang Han criticized both parents and defended Zhong Xinyao.
• Yang Yi recognized that the accusations about Yang Jiali’s greed and her parents’ motives were true, despite the story she had told earlier.
• Yang Yi recalled being abandoned at an orphanage, learning her parents favored Jiang Zhijie, and discovering that Yang Jiali claimed to have only one son.
• Yang Yi developed an interest in psychology and Jiang Zhijie’s research while secretly observing him, leaving unexplained how the two later began working together.
• The author clarified the timeline of Sun Jiajia’s death, Bo Yanqi’s investigation, Qi Si’s rescue, and the Jiang Family’s later identification of Sun Jiajia.

Qi Si challenged Jiang Zhijie's confidence in his experiment and questioned whether he was mentally ill. Jiang Zhijie insisted he was normal, while Qi Si remained trapped and hoped Bo Yanqi would find them before Jiang Zhijie killed him.

• Qi Si asked Jiang Zhijie why he had arranged the livestream, and Jiang Zhijie said he expected his experiment's success to make people remember his achievements.
• Jiang Zhijie revealed that he believed he could succeed by using Qi Si as his test subject.
• Qi Si argued that success with him would prove nothing because he was an exception and everyone else had failed.
• Jiang Zhijie excitedly insisted that success with Qi Si would help him identify the variable preventing the experiment from working on others.
• Qi Si asked whether Jiang Zhijie had taken his medicine, and Jiang Zhijie solemnly denied having a mental illness.
• Qi Si stopped provoking Jiang Zhijie and silently hoped Bo Yanqi would find them before Jiang Zhijie killed him.

Bo Yanqi and Yu Zhen searched for the missing Qi Si, while Yu Zhen identified hospital locations that might conceal him. During a livestream, Qing Yaole asked Yang Yi why he had helped his family commit evil, and Yang Yi began to answer.

• Bo Yanqi searched the area around the hospital with Zhong Ming but found no sign of Qi Si.
• Bo Yanqi trusted his feeling that Qi Si was nearby and returned to search the hospital.
• Yu Zhen and Bai Hanzhou discussed possible hiding places and decided to check the parking lot, storage rooms, and morgue.
• Qing Yaole asked Yang Yi why he had helped his mother and younger brother commit evil.
• Qi Si chose to keep watching the livestream instead of asking Jiang Zhijie about Yang Yi's answer, irritating Jiang Zhijie.
• Yang Yi laughed softly and replied, "Perhaps."

Shen Shuyu confronted Yang Yi over her connection to the experiment that had harmed the kidnapped children, while Sun Zhufeng condemned Yang Yi and Jiang Zhijie for trying to create a god. As viewers unearthed records of an eighteen-year-old kidnapping case in A City, they began to suspect that the wrong culprit had been caught.

• Yang Yi said she had wanted to see whether Jiang Zhijie's experiment could create a god, enraging Sun Zhufeng.
• Shen Shuyu remembered the orphanage basement and Qi Si's sacrifice, then grabbed Yang Yi and demanded to know where Jiang Zhijie was.
• Yang Yi denied responsibility for the past but stayed silent when Shen Shuyu accused her of helping trap them and hypnotizing her.
• Netizens uncovered reports about the kidnapping of Shen Shuyu, Bo Fuyu, and Qi Si, noting that Qi Si had been found more than a year after the others.
• Viewers questioned why the old case had been closed and suspected that Yang Yi's brother had committed the kidnappings while someone else had been caught.

Netizens uncovered evidence that the eighteen-year-old kidnapping case may have involved a wrongful conviction, and the authorities announced a reinvestigation. Jiang Zhijie revealed his obsession with Qi Si and prepared to inject him with an improved version of the drug he had used in the past.

• Netizens connected livestream remarks with old newspaper reports and pressured the authorities to reopen the kidnapping case.
• The authorities announced a reinvestigation and began releasing fuller details about the old case.
• Jiang Zhijie remained calm about the case reopening, while Qi Si concluded that Jiang did not expect to escape punishment.
• Jiang Zhijie told Qi Si that he had waited long enough and praised him for being unusually resilient.
• Jiang Zhijie took out a syringe containing an improved drug, and Qi Si feared losing control if he was injected.

Jiang Zhijie dismissed Qi Si’s appeal to research rules and prepared to drug him for his experiment. Meanwhile, Bo Yanqi and the others searched the hospital for Qi Si, and Bo Yanqi spotted a location on the map they had not checked.

• Qi Si tried to stop Jiang Zhijie from injecting him by arguing that experiments using a prohibited drug could never earn academic recognition.
• Jiang Zhijie said his experiment had been illegal from the start and moved the syringe closer as Qi Si struggled and cursed him.
• Bo Yanqi met Yu Zhen and learned they had searched the hospital while she had lied to Qi Wang that Qi Si was asleep in his room.
• Bo Yanqi reasoned that Qi Si could not be hidden in the cold morgue, and Bai Hanzhou returned without finding anyone there or nearby.
• Bo Yanqi studied the hospital map, stopped at one location, and asked whether it had been searched.

Bo Yanqi searched the hospital for Qi Si and followed his instincts to an abandoned medical waste storage room. He found Qi Si inside and carried him out, though the reason no one had heard him remained unexplained.

• Bo Yanqi led Bai Hanzhou and Yu Zhen to the medical waste area marked on his map, convinced Jiang Zhijie had hidden Qi Si there.
• Bai Hanzhou stopped Bo Yanqi from opening the active storage units without protective gear, and hospital staff searched them but found no one.
• Yu Zhen noticed a battered, abandoned storage room, and Bo Yanqi rushed inside despite Bai Hanzhou's doubts.
• Bo Yanqi emerged carrying Qi Si, shocking Yu Zhen and the others.
• Bo Yanqi left with Qi Si while everyone examined the abandoned room to understand how it had concealed him without anyone hearing movement.

Yu Zhen and Bo Yanqi worried that Jiang Zhijie had hypnotized Qi Si during his abduction, while Qi Si remained unconscious in the hospital. As they kept vigil and feared what might happen when he woke, Li An struggled toward Qi Si’s room and encountered Zhong Ming.

• Bai Hanzhou and Yu Zhen found Jiang Zhijie's hidden, soundproofed storage room and questioned its staff, who appeared genuinely confused about it.
• Yu Zhen returned to the hospital, where doctors said Qi Si had serious external injuries and traces of a low-dose hallucinogen but expected him to wake by night.
• Yu Zhen told Bo Yanqi she suspected the storage-room staff had been hypnotized, though they could also have been bribed.
• Bo Yanqi feared Jiang Zhijie's hypnosis might change Qi Si, and he and Yu Zhen pleaded for Qi Si to wake safely.
• Li An struggled toward Qi Si's room, where Zhong Ming arrived just as he was about to open the door.

Zhong Ming caught Jiang Zhijie outside the hospital, and Bo Yanqi went to confront him while Qi Si remained unconscious. Jiang Zhijie showed no fear after being captured, leaving Bo Yanqi and the others to question what he had planned.

• Li An nearly struck Zhong Ming when he tried to support him, then learned that Zhong Ming had found no useful clues around the hospital.
• Zhong Ming told Bo Yanqi that he had recognized and captured Jiang Zhijie, who had been disguised in a hat and backpack and had offered no resistance.
• Yu Zhen warned that Jiang Zhijie might escape, so Bo Yanqi went to the director's office while Yu Zhen stayed with Qi Si and Li An.
• Yu Zhen supported Li An into Qi Si's room, where she said Qi Si's external injuries were not the main danger and Li An reassured her.
• Bo Yanqi and Zhong Ming found Jiang Zhijie tied to a chair in the director's office, and Bo Yanqi sent Director Zhang away before confronting him.
• Jiang Zhijie calmly greeted Bo Yanqi, saying he had not expected them to meet under these circumstances.

Bo Yanqi confronted the captured Jiang Zhijie and demanded to know what he had done to Qi Si, but Jiang Zhijie continued provoking him and hinted that he had tampered with Qi Si. Bo Yanqi nearly killed him, then let him go, leaving Jiang Zhijie surprised by his restraint.

• Bo Yanqi questioned Jiang Zhijie about whether he expected to be caught, and Jiang Zhijie said he cared more about achieving his goal than being captured.
• Bo Yanqi grabbed Jiang Zhijie by the throat after Jiang Zhijie mentioned Jiang Nantian, but Zhong Ming persuaded him to loosen his grip.
• Jiang Zhijie taunted Bo Yanqi by suggesting he had tampered with Qi Si, and Bo Yanqi threatened to make him a test subject if Qi Si was harmed.
• Jiang Zhijie mocked Bo Yanqi's threats and said he would welcome being used in the experiment, prompting Bo Yanqi to tear away part of his scalp.
• Bo Yanqi released Jiang Zhijie and asked whether he had expected Bo Yanqi to kill him in a blind rage.