Chapter Summaries

Pei Heng exposed Lu Xingchuan’s misunderstanding and teased him about having a crush on him, while Shen Yan and Pei Heng escaped the chase together. The game continued with four cast members pursuing the pair around the villa.

• Xie Li admitted he had used the durian to distract the others during tag, while Lu Xingchuan blamed Pei Heng for misleading him.
• Pei Heng explained why he had hidden a durian for Shen Yan, then mocked Lu Xingchuan by suggesting he had a crush on him.
• When Lu Xingchuan charged at him, Pei Heng grabbed Shen Yan and escaped through a window; Shen Yan complained that he had missed his durian.
• Pei Heng told Shen Yan the durian had been a dud, prompting Shen Yan to chase him while Bai Jing watched them fondly.
• Lu Xingchuan decided ghosts could hit humans and teamed up with Xie Li to pursue Pei Heng and Shen Yan, while Bai Jing went after Sister Shanshan.
• Thirty minutes later, the director watched Lu Xingchuan, Xie Li, Bai Jing, and Sister Shanshan exhaust themselves chasing the energetic Pei Heng and Shen Yan.

The director changed the chase game so Pei Heng became the ghost, leading him to catch Shen Yan and kiss the tip of his nose. After the game, Lu Xingchuan confronted Pei Heng, and Xie Li followed Lu Xingchuan into his room to tell him something.

• After the other guests failed to catch Shen Yan and Pei Heng, the director made Pei Heng the ghost.
• Pei Heng chased Shen Yan onto the rooftop, caught him, and kissed the tip of his nose while mentioning Orange-Petal Candy.
• Lu Xingchuan shoved Pei Heng away, but Shen Yan defended the kiss and teased Lu Xingchuan about being jealous.
• Pei Heng told Shen Yan he wanted to kiss him again, then warned Lu Xingchuan not to deceive Shen Yan.
• After the game ended and the guests were given an hour to rest, Xie Li followed Lu Xingchuan into his room to tell him something.

Pei Heng dragged Shen Yan into the bathroom after using a durian prank as an excuse to make him wash his hair, and their teasing grew intimate before Xie Li interrupted them. Xie Li then showed Pei Heng disturbing photos of Shen Yan and asked where he was.

• Bai Jing dropped durian on her clothes and asked Song Qianshan to wipe it off, inspiring Pei Heng to drop durian on Shen Yan.
• Shen Yan smeared durian on Pei Heng's hair, and Pei Heng dragged him upstairs to wash it.
• In the bathroom, Shen Yan and Pei Heng teased each other, and Pei Heng asked whether Shen Yan wanted him to wash him too.
• Xie Li entered Pei Heng's room and showed him photos of Shen Yan lying disheveled and injured on a bed.
• Xie Li asked Pei Heng where Shen Yan was.

Xie Li showed Pei Heng photos of Shen Yan injured, but Pei Heng sent them to himself and dismissed Xie Li. While teasing Pei Heng, Shen Yan tasted Orange-Petal Candy and remembered fragments of a childhood encounter; the photos then revealed him lying wounded in tattered clothes, an event he could not recall from the novel’s plot.

• Pei Heng transferred Xie Li’s photos to his own phone, deleted them from Xie Li’s phone, and sent Xie Li away after warning him about glycerin enemas.
• Shen Yan came out of the bathroom, and Pei Heng carried him to the bed while they playfully tussled.
• Pei Heng offered Shen Yan Orange-Petal Candy, prompting Shen Yan to remember fragments of a beautiful older boy sharing the candy with him as a child.
• Pei Heng showed Shen Yan the photos Xie Li had brought, and Shen Yan froze at an image of himself injured and wearing tattered clothes.

Pei Heng ordered an investigation into the residents of Maple Grove, while Shen Yan and the other guests prepared for a haunted-house game on the show. The guests drew their pairings and arrived at the haunted house, where Xie Li said he was already scared.

• Pei Heng stared at a photo and told his secretary to investigate the people living at Maple Grove.
• Xie Li ate the durian Bai Jing had saved, and Lu Xingchuan learned that Pei Heng had ordered all the durians removed.
• Bai Jing pointed out that Shen Yan and Pei Heng wore matching outfits, and Shen Yan and Pei Heng mocked Lu Xingchuan after he scoffed at them.
• The director announced a haunted-house rescue game, and the lottery paired Shen Yan with Lu Xingchuan, Xie Li with Pei Heng, and Song Qianshan with Bai Jing.
• At the haunted house, Xie Li admitted he was frightened, and Pei Heng told him to quit.

The guests entered a haunted-house challenge, where Pei Heng clung to Shen Yan and Xie Li failed to get Lu Xingchuan’s attention. After a staged abduction played out in a lit room, Bai Jing realized Xie Li had disappeared.

• Xie Li hoped Pei Heng would investigate Shen Yan’s past, but Pei Heng focused on Shen Yan instead.
• The six guests dressed as brides and grooms and gathered outside the haunted house, where Pei Heng dodged Xie Li and clung to Shen Yan after a scare.
• The guests entered the courtyard, and Pei Heng stayed close to Shen Yan while Xie Li tried unsuccessfully to get comfort from Lu Xingchuan.
• Lu Xingchuan found the courtyard’s opposite door locked, and Shen Yan suggested climbing the wall before the director forbade it.
• A room lit up and showed a shadow abducting a woman, after which Bai Jing noticed Xie Li was missing.

The group entered a haunted chamber, where Shen Yan disrupted a ghost actor and Pei Heng clung to him while pretending to be frightened. When Lu Xingchuan inspected a bed chest, a female ghost grabbed him, leaving him struggling for help as Song Qianshan watched and Pei Heng continued rubbing against Shen Yan.

• A ghost actor dropped from an underground mechanism, and Shen Yan pulled him partly out before the director ordered him to stop.
• The group entered an ancient lady's chamber and debated why its main room had a bed larger than the one in the bedroom.
• Shen Yan knocked on the bed chest, which opened, and Pei Heng fell on top of him while claiming to be scared.
• Lu Xingchuan looked inside the chest and found a red-clad female ghost, who grabbed his throat and tried to drag him inside.
• The female ghost lashed her tongue toward Lu Xingchuan, while Song Qianshan sat down and Pei Heng continued clinging to Shen Yan.

Lu Xingchuan, Pei Heng, and Song Qianshan searched the haunted rooms for clues and keys after Shen Yan and Bai Jing were taken by ghosts. Pei Heng found a key and evidence of a bloody murder, then asked Song Qianshan to search a fallen corpse for another key, but Lu Xingchuan volunteered instead.

• Lu Xingchuan escaped the female ghost, while another ghost seized Shen Yan and vanished with him; Song Qianshan reported that Bai Jing had also been taken.
• Pei Heng tied the tongue of the ghost in the bed enclosure to a bedpost and found a key inside it.
• The key failed to open the courtyard gate or the room where another ghost sat, so the group returned to search for clues.
• Song Qianshan found a letter reading “Yue Niang, save me!” and Pei Heng uncovered bloodstained wedding bedding and an axe.
• Pei Heng compared the axe with the wounds on a fallen corpse and asked Song Qianshan to search it for another key, but Lu Xingchuan volunteered.

Pei Heng, Song Qianshan, and Lu Xingchuan searched the haunted rooms and collected keys, while Pei Heng’s rough tactics revealed that the female ghost was the director. A split-screen showed Shen Yan and Bai Jing chasing the Ghost King and tying up the other ghosts as Lu Xingchuan arrived without a key.

• Lu Xingchuan recoiled from the real maggots on a fake corpse, and Song Qianshan searched it and found a key.
• Pei Heng used an axe to break the next room’s lock, then grabbed the charging female ghost and shook a key out of her.
• Pei Heng identified the ghost as the director by his slippers, and the director angrily demanded to know how Pei Heng had recognized him.
• The split-screen showed Shen Yan and Bai Jing chasing the Ghost King while seven female ghosts were tied up, as Xie Li urged Shen Yan to follow the game’s rules.
• Lu Xingchuan arrived after Pei Heng broke the courtyard gate’s lock, and Pei Heng pointed out that he had two keys while Lu Xingchuan had none.

The director forced Shen Yan, Bai Jing, and Xie Li into cages and made Lu Xingchuan, Pei Heng, and Song Qianshan trade their most precious possessions to rescue them. Pei Heng and Song Qianshan began their exchanges, while Lu Xingchuan’s choice remained unresolved.

• The director announced a forced-love challenge, ordered Shen Yan, Bai Jing, and Xie Li to pretend to faint, and locked them in cages.
• The director demanded that Lu Xingchuan, Pei Heng, and Song Qianshan surrender what they valued most within three minutes to save their lovers.
• Lu Xingchuan asked Pei Heng for a key, but Pei Heng split open his treasure chest with his axe and found a card requiring him to give up his money and stroke his lover three times.
• Pei Heng handed his money to the director, then chopped open Song Qianshan’s chest and revealed a card requiring her to give up her health and kiss her lover three times.
• Song Qianshan gave the director her health, while the camera turned to Lu Xingchuan.