Chapter Summaries

Tang Shiba and her companions clashed with a jade shop that tried to force them to buy, then fled when the shop manager called for backup. Tang Shiba revealed in her thoughts that she had meant to lure out the boss, leaving Tang Lin to realize Han Feng had spoiled her plan.

• Tang Shiba offered to buy the entire shop, then kicked an assistant who mocked her, prompting the staff to threaten the group with cleavers and a curse.
• Tang Lin and Han Feng fought and smashed the shop, so the manager ordered the assistants to seize everyone and threatened to send them to the House of Joy.
• Su Chen led Shanshan out, Si Wuyu fled with Tang Shiba, and Fang Cheng and Director Wang joined the chaotic escape after Tang Lin claimed they were going to call the Police.
• Tang Lin complained that Tang Shiba had abandoned him, but she reassured him while thinking she had intended to lure out the boss.
• Tang Lin realized Han Feng had disrupted Tang Shiba's plan and decided to keep an eye on him, while Yang Hua caught up with the group.

After Yang Hua led the group into trouble at Swipe It All, Tang Shiba and her companions evaded the shop’s workers and made Yang Hua pay for dinner. The shop manager later cornered them with a gang, and Tang Shiba started a fight by punching him.

• Fang Cheng confronted Yang Hua about taking them to Swipe It All, and she accepted a thousand Dragon Country Currency deduction.
• Yang Hua led the group away from the shop’s searching employees, but Han Feng knocked down the ones who found them.
• Tang Shiba stopped Yang Hua from slipping away before dinner and reminded her that she had promised to pay.
• Yang Hua messaged her accomplices to prepare for their move, while Tang Shiba learned they planned to lure the group to a milk tea shop.
• After dinner, the Swipe It All manager and his gang surrounded the group, and Tang Lin traded insults with them.
• Tang Shiba kissed Si Wuyu to taunt the gang, then charged the manager and punched his nose crooked.

Tang Shiba and the others fought off the manager and his employees, then followed Yang Hua to a hotel, unaware that she had drugged their milk tea. Shanshan made Yang Hua taste the drink, and Su Chen identified it as a sleeping drug, leaving the group alerted to the plan.

• Tang Shiba beat the manager and his employees until they fled, while Tang Lin asked what to do with them.
• Yang Hua offered to take the group to a hotel and bought them more than twenty cups of milk tea.
• Director Wang booked a presidential suite, and Si Wuyu carried the sleepy-acting Tang Shiba to their room.
• Yang Hua urged Shanshan to drink the spiked milk tea, but Shanshan persuaded Yang Hua to take a sip first.
• Su Chen tasted the milk tea and warned that it contained a sleeping drug, while Fang Cheng realized Tang Lin had warned him in advance.

Tang Shiba and her companions prepared for Yang Hua’s attempted trafficking scheme, then captured her when she came to their room at night. Tang Shiba crippled Yang Hua’s leg and claimed they were robbers, while Yang Hua begged them to spare her.

• Director Wang and Tang Lin disposed of the milk tea, and Tang Lin warned Han Feng to follow his sister’s plan.
• Tang Lin overheard Tang Shiba’s thoughts about Yang Hua checking doors and using poison gas, then warned Fang Cheng by phone.
• Tang Shiba and Si Wuyu decided to use a fake person in place of the real Yang Hua and told their companions to pretend to sleep.
• Yang Hua found that no one answered her knocks, and Tang Shiba and Si Wuyu dragged her into their room and gagged her.
• Tang Shiba tied Yang Hua up, took her phone, broke her leg, and dragged her into the bathroom.
• Tang Shiba told the terrified Yang Hua that they were robbers, and Yang Hua begged them to let her go in exchange for her money.

Tang Shiba replaced Yang Hua with a doll and let the traffickers carry her and the others away while they pretended to sleep. When the traffickers began eyeing the captives, Tang Shiba sat up and prepared to attack them while pretending to sleepwalk.

• Tang Shiba inflated a doll identical to Yang Hua and sent it out after checking Yang Hua's phone.
• Doll Yang Hua sold the traffickers' group for five million, and the traffickers broke into the room and carried Tang Shiba, Si Wuyu, and the others away on a stretcher.
• The livestream fans heard the traffickers and feared for the group, while Madam Fang urged Mr. Fang to find a way to rescue their son.
• Tang Shiba fell asleep in the truck with Si Wuyu, and Tang Lin followed her example.
• When the traffickers considered touching the women, Tang Shiba sat up and rose like a zombie, pretending to sleepwalk as she prepared to beat them.

Tang Shiba sleepwalked through the van and beat the traffickers unconscious while the group continued toward a scam compound in Jade Country. After a checkpoint standoff with the armed driver, they reached their destination, where the bruised traffickers blamed their injuries on Tang Shiba.

• Tang Shiba mistook the traffickers for melons and beat them unconscious while Fang Cheng and Tang Lin watched.
• Si Wuyu comforted Tang Shiba and massaged her wrists, and Fang Cheng asked whether they should throw the traffickers out.
• Tang Lin needed to urinate, and when the van stopped at a checkpoint, he, Fang Cheng, and Director Wang ran into the bushes.
• The driver drew his pistol and threatened the group, but the three men returned to the van and everyone continued onward.
• At their destination, the traffickers woke up and told the driver that a sleepwalking woman had beaten them.

Tang Shiba and her companions were sold to an armed scam compound, where she tried to defuse the danger by claiming she could perform gender reassignment surgery for the compound’s leader. The chapter ended with Fang Cheng and Tang Lin backing up her bluff as the leader considered her offer.

• Tang Shiba and the others crossed the river and arrived at the scam compound, while the livestream audience learned that authorities were arranging a rescue.
• Tang Shiba’s companions heard her thoughts again, and she worried that Han Feng and Tang Lin might provoke the armed criminals.
• The compound’s leader paid the traffickers twenty million Dragon Country Currency for Tang Shiba and her companions.
• The leader threatened Tang Shiba and fired her gun into the air, but Tang Shiba calmly pushed the weapon aside.
• Tang Shiba offered to perform gender reassignment surgery for the leader, and Fang Cheng and Tang Lin supported her claim that she was a medical genius.

Tang Shiba and her companions used wild lies and taunts to resist the Scammers, while Si Wuyu disarmed one of them and refused to retrieve the weapon from the crocodile-filled river. The Scammers tried to force him into the water, but the group’s antics left everyone on the boat shouting at one another.

• Shanshan, Su Chen, and Director Wang backed Tang Lin and Fang Cheng’s absurd claims, confusing the woman and her Scammers.
• Si Wuyu threw a Scammer’s weapon into the river, and the woman threatened him when he refused to retrieve it.
• Tang Shiba taunted the Scammers and pushed aside the woman’s weapon, while Shanshan pretended a lackey had shoved her.
• The woman fired a shot into the air and ordered Si Wuyu into the river, where crocodiles waited to devour anyone who fell in.
• Fang Cheng mistook the crocodiles for cute fish, and Tang Lin, Tang Shiba, and Shanshan laughed and joked about catching and roasting them.

Tang Shiba and the others were taken to a scam compound in Jade Country, where she used fortune-telling to keep the guards wary of her. The livestream viewers found the compound’s address and sent it to the police, while Director Wang faced the challenge of assessing the hundreds of people inside.

• Tang Shiba recovered a lackey’s weapon from the bank and convinced the guards she was a powerful metaphysical practitioner by predicting the woman leader’s family situation.
• Tang Shiba thought about the compound’s six districts and identified the Fourth District as the easiest place to work and the most profitable for scams.
• The Black Treasures used livestream screenshots to locate the compound in an industrial park in western Jade Country and sent its address anonymously to the police.
• The police received the address, invited the anonymous informant to consider a permanent government job, and told Wang Gang to map the compound’s interior.
• Tang Shiba and the others reached the compound during shift change, where hundreds of people were gathered and Director Wang looked troubled.

Tang Shiba and the others were brought into the Compound’s Basement, where the boss prepared to assign them jobs. When he reached for Shanshan, Su Chen stopped him, drawing the armed guards’ attention.

• Tang Shiba and the others arrived at the Compound and were greeted by its victims, while Tang Lin, Fang Cheng, and Shanshan joked around.
• The group was taken through the Basement corridor, and the System recorded the route so Tang Shiba could make a map for the police.
• The woman led the newcomers into a smoky room where the Compound’s boss was waiting.
• The boss approached Shanshan, but Su Chen grabbed his hand and warned him not to touch her as armed guards aimed their weapons at Su Chen.

Tang Shiba exposed the boss’s secret illness and his corpse-based scheme for attracting wealth, prompting him to lock the newcomers in the Small Black Room. There, she explained the corpse’s role to the group while the boss left to seek a medical examination.

• Su Chen humiliated the boss by flinging away his hand and wiping his own, so the boss ordered his people to seize the newcomers.
• Tang Shiba challenged the boss to a fortune-telling bet, then revealed that he had itchy dark spots and was infected by a dangerous virus.
• Tang Shiba hinted that she knew the boss slept with a corpse, and he ordered Xiao to take the group to the Small Black Room.
• The boss went to the hospital for a full examination and warned his managers to stay away from the newcomers.
• Tang Shiba told the group that the boss slept with a revered abbot’s corpse to draw wealth from the offerings made to it.

Tang Shiba shared gossip about the people running the dungeon while her companions were trapped in a dark room. When Director Wang was taken away to dance for vicious dogs, Tang Shiba handed him a sachet containing a redeemed item and promised to visit him.

• Fang Cheng panicked when Tang Shiba made him think he was standing beside a ghost, while Tang Lin and Han Feng tussled in the darkness.
• Tang Shiba explained that a recently deceased corpse had been bought before it could be embalmed, and Fang Cheng and Shanshan vomited at the story.
• Six managers entered, and a woman tried to take Su Chen away; Tang Shiba revealed that the woman tortured men by whipping them and making them crawl and bark.
• A second woman grabbed Director Wang, who fled until he learned the managers meant to make him dance for vicious dogs.
• Tang Shiba redeemed Peach Blossom Madness Powder and Soul-Transferring Incense, then gave Director Wang a sachet as he was taken away.

Tang Shiba and Shanshan were taken to the women-only Zone Two of the scam compound, while Su Chen and Si Wuyu stayed behind and waited for a chance to act. Tang Shiba remained confident as she prepared to explore the new zone and find food.

• Tang Shiba sent Director Wang away with the woman, then Su Chen agreed to leave and received a lighter from her.
• At Cloud City Police Station, the captain learned that Tang’s eldest brother had donated a hundred million and ordered preparations to attack the compound.
• Tang Shiba stopped Si Wuyu from acting before they had the layout map, then left with Shanshan after telling Tang Lin that Han Feng would protect him.
• Tang Shiba jabbed a manager with a needle when he tried to put his arm around her, and the managers took her and Shanshan to Zone Two.
• The managers assigned Tang Shiba and Shanshan to a six-person dorm and warned them not to run; the two decided to visit the convenience store for food.

Tang Shiba and Shanshan returned hungry to their dorm, where their roommates refused to let them in. Tang Shiba kicked the door down and helped Shanshan overpower the women inside, leaving the dorm in chaos.

• Tang Shiba and Shanshan failed to find food at the convenience store and returned to find their dorm door locked against them.
• After Shanshan's kick failed to open the door, Tang Shiba kicked it off its hinges, pinning one of the women beneath it.
• Shanshan entered the dorm and traded insults with the woman, then grabbed and bit her when four women moved to attack.
• Tang Shiba pulled the other women away from Shanshan and slapped them until they backed down.
• Tang Shiba stopped Shanshan from continuing to bite the woman, warning that her eyes were rolling back.

Tang Shiba and Shanshan fought off the supervisors who tried to drag them to confinement, then settled into the dorm and shared instant noodles with the other women. Tang Shiba promised the women they could go home in a few days and startled Xiao Xin by claiming her husband was cheating on her.

• Shanshan panicked after seeing blood on her hand, and Tang Shiba reassured her that the woman she had bitten would survive.
• Two supervisors arrived and tried to take Tang Shiba and Shanshan to the confinement room, but Tang Shiba fought them off with a slipper and drove them away.
• Tang Shiba told the other women to fix the broken door, and they tightened its loose screws while she and Shanshan made their beds.
• Xiao Mei shared her instant noodles with Tang Shiba and Shanshan, who ate while Tang Mother and Tang Dad worried about their children watching the show.
• Xiu'er cried because she missed home, and Tang Shiba said the women would be able to go home in a few days.
• Tang Shiba told Xiao Xin that her husband was cheating on her and had a child, leaving Xiao Xin unable to sleep until late in the night.

Director Wang entered Zone One, where disabled prisoners were forced to beg and punished with vicious dogs. When he was ordered to dance, he used Tang Shiba’s sachet, but the dogs attacked him in a bizarre and sexual way, leaving everyone stunned.

• Director Wang learned from his roommate that Zone One’s disabled prisoners were forced to beg and made to dance for vicious dogs if they brought in too little money.
• The overseer arrived with two vicious dogs and announced that the three lowest earners, including newcomers, had to dance or face the dogs.
• Director Wang poured the sachet’s contents over himself before dancing on the platform.
• The dogs became frenzied as Director Wang danced, and the overseer released them despite their not barking.
• Director Wang shielded two terrified prisoners, but the dogs knocked him down and began acting sexually toward him.

Director Wang killed the supervisor’s vicious dogs, was beaten, and was sent to the isolation room. The story then shifted to Su Chen, who used his charm to persuade another supervisor to talk instead of whipping him.

• Director Wang secretly stabbed both vicious dogs, angering their owner, who ordered her subordinates to take them to the hospital.
• The woman attacked Director Wang, had him beaten, and sent him to the isolation room.
• The woman threatened the crowd, but Director Wang’s defiance inspired some prisoners to believe the supervisors could be challenged.
• News of the incident reached Su Chen, and a woman took him to her isolation room with a whip.
• Su Chen smiled, told the woman he would listen, and invited her to sit and talk.

After leaving the Small Black Room, Si Wuyu, Han Feng, Tang Lin, and Fang Cheng fought their way through the Fourth District’s guards and demanded better food. The chapter ended as they surrounded the four managers upstairs, preparing to confront them.

• Su Chen charmed the female sadist while Si Wuyu, Fang Cheng, and Tang Lin emerged from the Small Black Room with Xiao.
• Tang Lin and Fang Cheng provoked Xiao until she attacked Fang Cheng, and Si Wuyu stepped in and defeated her.
• Si Wuyu and Han Feng identified themselves as proud citizens of Dragon Country, and Xiao reluctantly took them to the cafeteria.
• Tang Lin and Fang Cheng rejected the watery rice, drove Xiao away, and learned that the managers ate upstairs.
• Han Feng and Si Wuyu flanked the four managers while Tang Lin and Fang Cheng approached them, demanding to know why they could not eat upstairs.

Fang Cheng, Tang Lin, Si Wuyu, and Han Feng raided the managers’ meal, then were taken to the Detention Room. There, Si Wuyu mapped the Compound and identified the boss’s room as the route to the other districts, while the group realized one of their companions was in the First District.

• Fang Cheng, Tang Lin, Si Wuyu, and Han Feng knocked out four managers, ate their lavish meal, and called the hungry people downstairs up to share what remained.
• The group slipped away from the cafeteria, but Ladyboy found them and ordered them to the Detention Room, revealing that their effeminate companion was in the First District.
• In the Detention Room, Fang Cheng worried about Director Wang, while Han Feng suggested escaping through the ventilation opening.
• Si Wuyu explained that the Compound had six districts arranged in a six-pointed star and deduced that a passage between districts was in the boss’s room.
• The four decided to stay and question the managers about the boss’s location, but when the managers returned with a weapon and ropes, the newcomers stood their ground.

Tang Lin, Fang Cheng, Si Wuyu, and Han Feng subdued the guards and learned that their target was in basement room six. Tang Lin and Han Feng hid beneath the bed as the boss entered to pray to a rotting corpse for riches.

• Tang Lin and Fang Cheng distracted three guards while Han Feng disarmed their armed supervisor and Si Wuyu took down the others.
• The group tied up the four guards and learned that the boss's room was basement room six and the two girls were in section two.
• Tang Lin helped Han Feng climb into the ventilation duct, and the two searched the basement until they found room six.
• Tang Lin opened the iron door, and he and Han Feng slipped inside when they heard the boss and his assistant approaching.
• Tang Lin and Han Feng hid under the bed as the boss entered, knelt, and begged a rotting corpse for a windfall of riches.