Chapter Summaries

After Gu Zhi met Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, Xue Qinghe’s envoy invited him to discuss Suotuo City’s unexplained disappearances. Gu Zhi joined Xue Qinghe, who admitted he needed Gu Zhi’s help investigating the cases.

• Liu Erlong politely turned down Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling’s offer to accompany Gu Zhi, and they left disappointed.
• An envoy from the First Prince’s Residence invited Gu Zhi to meet Xue Qinghe, and Gu Zhi accepted.
• The comments speculated that an Evil Soul Master might be behind the disappearances as Liu Erlong and Meng Yiran shared their information with Gu Zhi.
• Gu Zhi noticed someone following his group as they arrived at the hotel where Xue Qinghe was staying.
• Gu Zhi asked Xue Qinghe whether the invitation concerned the disappearances, and Xue Qinghe admitted he needed Gu Zhi’s help.

Gu Zhi accepted Qian Renxue’s invitation to discuss the mysterious disappearances in Suotuo City. At their meeting, Qian Renxue admitted she had run out of options and needed his help.

• Liu Erlong turned away Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling after they tried to spend more time with Gu Zhi.
• A messenger from Xue Qinghe’s residence invited Gu Zhi to meet with his lord, and Gu Zhi agreed.
• Gu Zhi and his companions discussed the disappearances, while the bullet comments speculated that an Evil Soul Master might be responsible.
• Gu Zhi noticed someone following the group as they traveled to the hotel where Qian Renxue was staying.
• Gu Zhi asked Xue Qinghe whether the meeting concerned the disappearances, and Qian Renxue said she needed his help.

Qian Renxue told Gu Zhi that thousands of people had vanished in Suotuo City, and the comments identified the disappearances as Rules Horror Tales. After Huo Wu shared what she had witnessed, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu set out to warn Shrek Academy and find Gu Zhi, but the world suddenly shifted around them.

• Qian Renxue described the unexplained disappearances in Suotuo City and asked Gu Zhi to help investigate.
• Gu Zhi declined to commit immediately, then led Liu Erlong and Meng Yiran away from the banquet.
• Gu Zhi and the others confronted Huo Wu after she followed them, and she revealed she had witnessed a person vanish.
• Huo Wu recounted the incident, but she had little information about how the Rules Horror Tales appeared.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu discussed warning Shrek Academy and seeking Gu Zhi's help.
• As the three Shrek students stepped outside, the world spun and their surroundings changed.

Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu found themselves trapped in a Rules Horror Tale, where they uncovered five rules and drew the attention of a powerful uncanny presence. They searched for an exit and a safe place to rest, but a figure appeared before they could investigate further.

• Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu gathered five rules posted on the doors and learned they must stay below five meters, obey the lamplighter, ignore people in red, leave the streets within an hour, and avoid rooms with open doors.
• Ning Rongrong used Earth God's Power to test the height restriction, provoking a powerful gaze from above, and Zhu Zhuqing concealed the group with Wind God Law.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu decided to search for an exit while looking for Tang San, Flender, and the others.
• Ning Rongrong chose a southeast branch at random, and the three passed open rooms whose tempting food was bait while seeking a closed room to rest in.
• Ning Rongrong told Zhu Zhuqing to wait for their Law Power to recover, but Zhu Zhuqing spotted a figure flash past ahead.

Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu searched for a way to obtain fuel without entering the dangerous open rooms, then explored a lounge and narrowly avoided a trap from a man in red. The chapter ended as a strange elderly woman emerged from the opposite room.

• Zhu Zhuqing used her law-level speed enhancement to reason that the open rooms might close if they stopped thinking about what they feared or desired, but the three women failed to close one.
• Ning Rongrong suggested checking a room with a closed door, and the women found a lounge with a rule limiting it to one person at a time.
• A man in red demanded that they leave and warned them about Ghost Granny, but Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong stopped Xiao Wu from responding in violation of Rule Three.
• The man ran away, turning transparent and leaving bloody footprints behind him.
• An elderly figure in half-white, half-red clothing emerged from the opposite open room and greeted the newcomers with a chilling laugh.

Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong faced Ghost Granny’s offer of a stone and decided not to take it, then chose to follow her from a distance. Meanwhile, Gu Zhi questioned Huo Wu but let her go, and after returning to the hotel he noticed someone had moved his cup and wine jug and was watching him from outside.

• Ghost Granny left a bluish-black stone by Zhu Zhuqing’s door and walked away after warning the three women that either she or the Lantern Bearer might be lying.
• Zhu Zhuqing reasoned that taking the stone could violate the rules, so she and the others left it untouched and focused on finding open rooms and places to rest.
• Ning Rongrong suggested following Ghost Granny, and Zhu Zhuqing agreed to track her from a distance despite Xiao Wu’s misgivings.
• Gu Zhi questioned Huo Wu about her sudden appearance in Suotuo City, then let her return to her hotel after Liu Erlong and Meng Yiran spoke up for her.
• Huo Wu watched Gu Zhi and the others leave and came up with a new idea, while Gu Zhi later noticed that someone had moved his cup and wine jug and sensed a watcher outside his window.

Gu Zhi suspected Huo Wu had a hidden motive when she climbed through his window, but her wine-drugging scheme left him scrambling to restrain her and explain himself to Liu Erlong. Meanwhile, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu followed Ghost Granny through a strange phenomenon and learned from the comments that Gu Zhi was occupied elsewhere.

• Gu Zhi pretended to drink Huo Wu's wine, then revealed that he had forced it out through his fingertips when she confronted him.
• Gu Zhi demanded that Huo Wu drink the wine before leaving, and she reluctantly drained the pot.
• Huo Wu became delirious and pressed herself against Gu Zhi, who restrained her and reached for an antidote as Liu Erlong entered the room.
• Liu Erlong told Gu Zhi to see the excitement through, and the livestream screen went black.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu followed Ghost Granny through the strange phenomenon and saw comments about Gu Zhi, upsetting Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong while Xiao Wu focused on finding a way out.

Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong followed Ghost Granny and discovered that she was using the street’s rules to control Imposters and collect human hearts as rent. After Ning Rongrong covered her clothes in blood and became unable to communicate with her companions, they devised a plan for her to search the open room for fuel while Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu kept watch.

• Ghost Granny demanded rent from an Imposter hiding in an open room and killed him when he could not pay, leaving his heart behind.
• The barrage explained how Ghost Granny used the rooms and rules to control Imposters and urged the girls to make use of the blood outside the room.
• Ning Rongrong smeared blood on her clothes and sensed a growing connection to the rooms with open doors.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu stopped responding to Ning Rongrong because she was now wearing red, and the three planned for Ning Rongrong to search the room while they guarded her.

Ning Rongrong used her damage-reflection mechanic to kill the Imposters attacking her in a room with an open door. After searching the room and the corpses, she removed an Imposter’s heart, suspecting it might be a clue.

• Ning Rongrong entered the open room with layered defenses and reflected the first Imposter’s infinite attack back at it, killing it.
• The bullet comments explained that open rooms spawned Imposters to attack intruders, while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing realized how dangerous the rules were.
• A second Imposter appeared and charged Ning Rongrong, only to die from her damage reflection as she searched the room between blinding effects.
• Ning Rongrong found supplies in the room but no useful items on the Imposter corpses, then recalled that Ghost Granny had taken the Imposters’ hearts.
• Ning Rongrong removed a heart from one of the corpses, hoping it would reveal a clue.

Ning Rongrong gathered Imposter hearts to test whether they could fuel the Lantern Bearer, while she, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu hid in separate rooms and waited out the rules. Meng Yiran interrupted Gu Zhi and told him about the crisis at Shrek Academy, and he rushed there with her to find Qian Renxue had already cordoned off the area.

• Ning Rongrong collected five or six Imposter hearts and carried them toward the Lantern Bearer while Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu guarded her.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu each hid in a room with a closed door as they waited for the one-hour limit to pass.
• Zhu Zhuqing wondered why her Law Power seemed to counter the supernatural rules and whether Xiao Wu's Love God Law could help as well.
• Meng Yiran learned that Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu were trapped in a supernatural crisis and went to confront Gu Zhi at his room.
• Meng Yiran told Gu Zhi about the event at Shrek Academy, and he hurried there with her and Wang Qiu'er.
• Gu Zhi and Meng Yiran arrived at Shrek Academy and saw that Qian Renxue had cordoned off the area.