Chapter Summaries

Tang Shiba uncovered the hospital’s nightly parties and arranged a barbecue to get the doctors drunk. The next morning, Du Xiaotian, poisoned by Ouyang Xuan’s lies, confessed his love to her, was rejected and attacked, then cut his own throat with a razor.

• Tang Shiba brought Fang Cheng, Yang Xin and Sun Qian to a hospital barbecue and had Fang Cheng get the doctors drunk.
• Tang Shiba knocked out the two sober nurses, injected them, and woke them to escort the group back.
• Fang Cheng told Tang Lin and Tang Xiao about the barbecue, and they asked whether Emperor Si had gone too.
• Tang Shiba realized Ouyang Xuan was manipulating Du Xiaotian with false claims about Du Wei favoring another son.
• Du Xiaotian declared his love for Ouyang Xuan, but she rejected him, and her fans beat him.
• Du Xiaotian threatened to make Ouyang Xuan remember him and cut his neck with a razor blade.

Han Feng stopped Du Xiaotian from killing himself and took him, Ouyang Xuan, Tang Lin, and Tang Xiao to the Third Floor for questioning. Tang Shiba and Yang Xin announced a planned escape, prompting the hospital director to arm his guards while Tang Shiba prepared to protect the others.

• Han Feng grabbed Du Xiaotian's hand before he could use a razor blade, then ordered his men to take him to the Third Floor for questioning.
• Han Feng ordered Ouyang Xuan taken upstairs and seized Tang Lin, but Tang Shiba also sent Tang Xiao along with them.
• Yang Xin announced a plan to escape Changde Psychiatric Hospital, and the madwoman volunteered to join her.
• After nurses reported the escape plan, the hospital director ordered guards to retrieve twenty shotguns from the cellar.
• Tang Shiba learned the hospital staff were armed and resolved to use the measures she had kept in reserve.

Han Feng questioned Du Xiaotian about the razor blade and the murders, but Du Xiaotian’s confused memories left his guilt uncertain. After Ouyang Xuan urged him to die for her, he snapped out of her influence and accused her of pushing him to kill himself, making her the main suspect.

• Han Feng woke Du Xiaotian and questioned him, but Du Xiaotian insisted Ouyang Xuan had not rejected him and claimed the razor blade was his.
• Han Feng pressed Du Xiaotian about the blade and the murders, and Du Xiaotian said he had found it in his bag and had been in the yard when Hua Yingying and Wang Hao died.
• Han Feng locked Du Xiaotian and Ouyang Xuan together despite Du Wei’s objections.
• Ouyang Xuan told Du Xiaotian she would be with him if he proved he would die for her, then urged him to throw himself against the window and wall.
• Du Xiaotian regained his senses, fled to Du Wei, and said Ouyang Xuan had been whispering suggestions that he live and die for her.
• Han Feng asked whether Ouyang Xuan had killed the victims, and Du Xiaotian said he did not know but confirmed that she had urged him to kill himself.

Han Feng detained Ouyang Xuan while Tang Shiba and the patients exposed the hospital doctors’ plan to drug and inject them, sparking a revolt. Tang Shiba discovered Si Wuyu had received the dangerous injections too, but learned the doctors possessed an antidote.

• Han Feng sent Du Xiaotian and the others downstairs and ordered Ouyang Xuan kept on the third floor after confirming she was suspected of attempted murder.
• Tang Shiba and the others searched for somewhere to dig an escape tunnel, but guards watched every possible spot.
• The doctors tried to persuade the patients to accept injections, but Fang Cheng and the crazy woman exposed their nutrient-solution trick, and the patients rebelled.
• The doctors planned to drug the patients’ dinner, but Tang Shiba warned them, so the patients dumped their meals and charged the gate.
• Si Wuyu gave Tang Shiba candy, and Tang Shiba noticed his injection marks and learned he had taken the dangerous injections to get it.
• Tang Shiba learned the injections could cause mental confusion and that the doctors had an antidote.

Tang Shiba and the patients broke through the hospital’s iron doors as wild animals gathered outside and the director armed the guards. The patients celebrated their escape, but they had no plan for what to do next.

• The patients battered the doors while the director refused to let them out and ordered guards to prepare shotguns.
• The director and staff saw wild animals surrounding the hospital, and Wild Bull was knocked unconscious by the electric fence.
• Tang Shiba used a Strength Card to dent the doors, while Han Feng and Su Chen’s groups chose to join the escape.
• Tang Lin and the others used a bed to ram the weakened doors, and the director fired a shotgun to scare the animals back.
• Tang Shiba and the patients finally broke open the iron doors, then asked her what they should do next.

Tang Shiba’s Anti-Fans secretly shifted to other accounts, leaving her with genuine followers and helping them rally public support as rumors spread that the show’s cast was in trouble. Meanwhile, Tang Shiba and her companions remained trapped at Changde Psychiatric Hospital, where the director aimed a gun at her and ordered them back inside.

• Tang Shiba’s Anti-Fans unfollowed her en masse and moved to other accounts, leaving five million followers who were genuine fans.
• The Has-Been Celebrity Group leader told the Anti-Fans to support Tang Shiba covertly while publicly criticizing her, and directed them to let genuine fans defend her.
• As rumors that Tang Shiba and the others were in trouble spread online, Tang Xuan and his family worried about her, while his assistant suspected another fandom had poached her followers.
• The Anti-Fans posted boasts about following wealthier celebrities, prompting Tang Shiba’s Sugar Babies to share positive videos and evidence of her donations.
• Director Li’s Production Crew, Qiao Family Village, and Water City’s official account publicly supported Tang Shiba, and her genuine-fan count began rising again.
• After breaking through an iron gate, Tang Shiba and her companions faced the hospital director, who aimed his gun at Tang Shiba and ordered them inside.

Tang Shiba exposed the director’s crimes through gossip while the group stalled his armed doctors. As the director aimed at Tang Shiba, she counted down and ordered everyone to get down.

• Tang Lin and the others refused the director’s offer to stay, while Tang Xiao and the group revealed their wealth and influential backgrounds.
• Tang Shiba sat down to wait for animals to arrive, and her gossip exposed the director’s malpractice, crimes, and escape from prosecution.
• Tang Shiba’s gossip revealed that the director abused nurses and patients and sold his newborn children, enraging the people around him.
• Tang Shiba learned that animals had entered and were chewing through the electric fence’s switch mechanism, then interrupted negotiations by pouring out a cup of water.
• The director pointed his gun at Tang Shiba, Si Wuyu and Su Chen stepped in front of her, and she counted down before shouting, “Down!”

Tang Shiba and the others subdued the doctors and prepared to escape the clinic, but three guards opened fire when the animals broke through the outer defenses. Si Wuyu was shot while shielding Tang Shiba, and she rushed him back inside for treatment.

• Tang Shiba used the catalyst to knock out the doctors, had them tied up, and sent two patients to prepare more antidote.
• Tang Shiba's group agreed to leave the limited antidote for the patients who needed it most, while Tang Shiba gave Si Wuyu a dose because he had been injected and was acting strangely.
• Tang Shiba, Si Wuyu, Tang Lin, Tang Xiao, and Fang Cheng went outside as the animals broke through the electric fence and collapsed the wall.
• Tang Shiba distracted three guards by telling them the director had surrendered, but the guards fired after venomous snakes bit them.
• Si Wuyu shielded Tang Shiba and was shot in the thigh; Tang Lin collected the guns while Tang Shiba helped Si Wuyu back inside, and the others dragged the snake-bitten guards indoors.

Tang Shiba removed the bullet from Si Wuyu’s thigh after he refused treatment from the young woman, then went outside and found the patients cheering as the animals performed in the hospital corridor. The animals had attacked the building rather than the people, but the patients’ excitement left Tang Shiba baffled.

• Tang Shiba helped Si Wuyu into a treatment room, where he clung to her and refused to let the young woman treat his gunshot wound.
• Tang Shiba agreed to remove the bullet herself, gave Si Wuyu a local anesthetic, and followed the system’s instructions to extract it and bandage his thigh.
• Si Wuyu wiped Tang Shiba’s sweat while she worked, then obediently let her leave to check on the animals.
• Tang Shiba found patients gathered in the corridor, cheering as Tiger, Wild Boar, Big Bad Wolf, and Bear wrecked the hospital and performed stunts.

Tang Shiba prepared to leave the facility with the patients after frightening the director and his accomplices and giving everyone the antidote. When Si Wuyu fell unconscious with a fever, she decided to take a small group to find the phones while Fang Cheng stayed to care for him.

• Tang Shiba and Bear scared the people who had gathered outside into hiding, while Tang Shiba injected the three restrained murderers with a serum.
• Tang Shiba had the director and the others tied together to take along, and Strongwoman kissed the men as she helped rope them up.
• Su Chen finished preparing the antidote, and Tang Shiba checked it before the patients received their injections.
• Fang Cheng told Tang Shiba that Si Wuyu had a fever and was unconscious; Tang Shiba examined him and found his body was fine.
• Tang Shiba decided to take Tang Lin and Tang Xiao to find the phones, while Fang Cheng stayed behind to care for Si Wuyu.

Tang Shiba found a satellite phone and arranged for a rescue, but trouble erupted at the hospital while she and her companions were away. She hurried back to confront the patients trying to leave.

• Tang Shiba left Tang Xiao behind to watch Si Wuyu and took Tang Lin, Strongwoman, and the Trainee Nurse to find the phone.
• Tang Shiba recovered a satellite phone, called Tang Mother, and had Strongwoman and the Trainee Nurse record a message asking Director Wang to send a plane, police, and an ambulance.
• Tang Mother played the recording for Director Wang, who arranged a plane to rescue the group.
• The system warned Tang Shiba that trouble had broken out at the hospital, so she and her companions rushed back.
• Han Feng beat the patient leading the attempted split, while Fang Cheng and Tang Xiao suspected the man and his allies were hiding something.

Fang Cheng exposed the director’s crimes while Tang Shiba returned and confronted the people trying to escape the hospital. Tang Shiba let them leave, despite knowing they were heading to their deaths.

• Fang Cheng tricked the director into revealing a hidden stash of money, then exposed his alleged abuse and sale of the nurses’ children.
• Tang Shiba and the others returned, and the would-be escapees stopped resisting when they heard her voice.
• Tang Shiba agreed that the escapees could leave and challenged them to cut off a finger first; the ringleader injured his finger with a blunt knife.
• Tang Shiba opened the door and told anyone who wanted to leave to go immediately, while the system warned that they would die in the forest.

Tang Shiba led the survivors out of Changde Psychiatric Hospital and reached an open area where they waited for rescue. Suitcases and phones delivered by the animals raised questions about who Tang Shiba and her companions were, and the chapter ended as armed rescuers surrounded the group.

• Tang Shiba gathered the survivors, including the injured Si Wuyu, and led them out while the sleeping animals secretly followed.
• The group reached sunlight in an open area, where the patients celebrated their escape and waited for rescue.
• A suitcase and several more bags fell from the bushes; Tang Shiba learned that Big Sister Bear had carried the luggage and planned to get the animals an alarm to warn them of poachers.
• Yang Xin found their phones, prompting Han Feng and the others to question Tang Shiba's group, while Tang Lin claimed they were vacationers who had been kidnapped.
• A helicopter arrived, and armed men surrounded the group and ordered everyone to put down their weapons.

Tang Shiba left the forest with Si Wuyu and Ouyang Xuan, then visited Si Wuyu at the hospital, where she discovered he had recovered his memories. After he paid her three times what she had lost, Si Wuyu realized she disliked the other side of his personality and wondered whether her promise to let him hug her still stood.

• Police took the injured Si Wuyu and Ouyang Xuan to the hospital, while Tang Shiba accompanied them and officers mistakenly assumed she was Si Wuyu's family.
• After Tang Shiba left, the animals fought in the forest, and police later learned another group was missing; they found only a few survivors, who blamed Tang Shiba for what happened.
• At the hospital, Tang Shiba teased Chang Hua about Si Wuyu's condition, then went to see Si Wuyu when he was wheeled out.
• Si Wuyu complimented Tang Shiba, and she tested him by asking what he remembered; he recalled their competition and her promise to let him hug her.
• Tang Shiba demanded repayment for the ten million she had lost, and Si Wuyu transferred three times that amount.
• Si Wuyu heard Tang Shiba think that she disliked his other personality and wondered whether her promise to let him hug her still counted.

Tang Shiba fled Si Wuyu after learning he had regained his memories, then clashed with his Second Aunt Tao Wanyu and sent her flying. She hid under Si Wuyu’s covers when Si Ming came looking for her, and Si Wuyu protected her from his uncle before she left the bed.

• Tang Shiba learned Si Wuyu had recovered his memories but remained the same person, so she hurried out to go home.
• Tang Shiba bumped into Tao Wanyu and Si Ming, identified them as Si Wuyu’s scheming relatives, and refused to apologize after Tao Wanyu accused her of causing an injury.
• Tang Shiba slammed into Tao Wanyu and sent her flying, leaving her unconscious while Si Ming called for a doctor.
• Tang Shiba spotted her parents arriving, ran back into Si Wuyu’s room, and hid beneath his covers as Si Ming searched for her.
• Si Wuyu teased Tang Shiba under the covers, and she bit his hand until he stopped; he then sent Chang Hua away with Si Ming and offered to cover Tao Wanyu’s medical bills.
• Tang Shiba emerged from the covers and defended herself, while Si Wuyu told her she could hit Tao Wanyu if she tried to bully her again.

Tang Shiba punished Director Wang, discovered that her remaining Weibo followers were genuine fans, and considered stealing Ouyang Xuan’s system once her own system recovered. Fang Cheng fled to Tang Shiba’s house, while Si Wuyu let Fang Cheng’s childhood friend inside, leaving her stunned to find him instead.

• Tang Shiba left the hospital, and Si Wuyu hoped he could make their relationship official while Chang Hua reported that his second aunt would be bedridden after her injuries.
• The production team apologized for losing the episode’s footage, and Director Wang fled before Tang Shiba could find him.
• Fang Cheng abducted Director Wang and tied him naked to a tree covered in written apologies, making him a viral sensation after he was found the next day.
• Tang Shiba saw that she had a little over six million Weibo followers, learned they were genuine fans, and asked her system about taking Ouyang Xuan’s system after it recovered.
• Tang Mother mistook Tang Shiba’s dry-heaving for a sign of pregnancy, but Tang Xiao reassured her that no one could take advantage of his sister.
• Fang Cheng sought refuge at Tang Shiba’s house, and Si Wuyu let Fang Cheng’s childhood friend in; she mistook Si Wuyu for Fang Cheng before realizing who he was.

Fang Cheng hid at Tang Shiba’s house to escape his childhood friend Chris, who tracked him there and tried to climb the Electric Fence. After Chris was shocked and confronted, she attacked Tang Shiba, who prepared to fight back.

• Fang Cheng arrived at Tang Shiba’s house in the middle of the night, claimed a stalker fan was harassing him, and sneaked into Tang Lin’s bed.
• Fang Cheng explained that his childhood friend was pursuing him, and Tang Shiba learned that the woman was coming to find him.
• Chris and Li Ba reached the residential compound, and Chris entered while Li Ba stayed outside to keep watch.
• Chris heard Fang Cheng laughing inside Tang Shiba’s home, then climbed the wall and was knocked down by the Electric Fence.
• Tang Shiba confronted Chris, while Fang Cheng hid and Tang Lin came out to see her.
• Chris attacked Tang Shiba, and the system warned that Chris was an accomplished fighter.

Tang Shiba defeated Chris with a trick, then foiled Chris’s nighttime attempt to break into her house. The next morning, Tang Mother discovered the damaged electric fence and cursed furiously.

• Tang Shiba paralyzed Chris with pressure-point strikes and had Er Gou lick her face, driving her away in tears.
• Chris told Li Ba to gather helpers and blow up Tang Shiba’s house, while Fang Cheng recognized that Chris was a pervert who had pursued him.
• That night, Chris and Li Ba pried open the electric fence and threw poisoned bones into the yard, but Tang Shiba knocked out the intruders who climbed inside.
• Tang Shiba warned Er Gou not to eat food offered by strangers and planned to make Fang Cheng pay for the fence damage and her lost sleep.
• The next morning, Tang Mother saw the breach in the electric fence and cursed in the yard.

Tang Shiba caught Tang Lin and Fang Cheng watching a locked video on Tang Xuan’s computer, then frightened them into fleeing to Golden Pond Bar. Meanwhile, Ouyang Xuan remained comatose as her system reported her side mission failed and the main mission off course.

• Tang Shiba charged Fang Cheng four million for the damaged electric fence, and Fang Cheng got five million from Si Wuyu before paying her.
• Tang Lin and Fang Cheng broke into Tang Xuan’s room to snoop, and Tang Shiba caught them watching a video on his computer.
• Tang Lin smashed the computer in a panic, and Tang Shiba made him believe she had told Tang Xuan before returning the repairable computer to its place.
• Fang Cheng stopped Tang Lin from leaving through the front gate, and the two escaped over the back gate to Golden Pond Bar while Li Ba alerted Chris.
• At the hospital, Si Wuyu ordered Ouyang Xuan moved to a better room for treatment, and her system announced her side mission had failed and her main mission had deviated.

The system revealed that Ouyang Xuan had fabricated the plotlines to make herself the female lead and ruin the original characters, while Tang Shiba was the original female lead and Si Wuyu her canon love interest. Earlier, Chris took Fang Cheng to the Si Family home, Tang Lin escaped Han Feng, and Tang Shiba was left to reckon with the revelation.

• Chris and Li Ba tried to take Fang Cheng from Golden Pond Bar, where Fang Cheng had been discussing Rise of the True Fans with Tang Lin and Susan.
• Han Feng intervened to confront Chris, but when she spotted Tang Lin, she broke away and chased him; Tang Lin fled home by car.
• Chris took Fang Cheng to the Si Family home after he claimed Si Wuyu had called him back for dinner.
• Tang Lin found Tang Shiba absent, locked himself in his room, and went to sleep.
• The Gossip-Watching System returned and told Tang Shiba that Ouyang Xuan had fabricated the plotlines to become the female lead and harm the original main characters.
• The system revealed that Tang Shiba was the original female lead and Si Wuyu her canon love interest, but said Ouyang Xuan was grooming Emperor Si as a villain.