Chapter Summaries

Yu Qing killed the attacking skeletons and uncovered that the Doctor had murdered Xu Han and taken his identity. As the fake Xu Han turned on him, Yu Qing appeared to have found a way to kill him despite the hospital’s rule that patients could not harm doctors.

• Yu Qing dodged a skeleton’s axe, spotted the tiny brain inside its skull, and killed it with his golden needle before the other skeletons fled.
• Yu Qing attacked the Doctor with an axe, but the blade struck the doorframe and the Doctor escaped with only his white coat pulled off.
• The Nurse arrived as a skeleton and called the Doctor “Honey”; after he reclaimed his coat and identified himself as Xu Han, she left with the crying rabbit girl.
• Yu Qing learned that the Doctor had killed Xu Han and impersonated him while abusing Xu Han’s wife and daughter, earning 20% plot exploration.
• The fake Xu Han became murderous after the Nurse and her daughter left, while Yu Qing calmly appeared to figure out how to kill him.

Yu Qing was trapped by the BOSS and surrounded by ghosts, but he realized the BOSS wanted to play with him and used a female ghost’s sympathy to turn the spirits against the doctor. He asked the ghosts to strip the doctor of his clothes and badge so he could use the Sanatorium’s identity rules to escape.

• Yu Qing heard tapping at the door, then discovered at least fifty ghosts hanging from the ward ceiling as the BOSS restrained him and took his Golden Needle.
• The doctor whipped one ghost with his belt and ordered the others to kill Yu Qing.
• Yu Qing called the approaching ghost “big sister” and recognized a broken Ultraman toy at her waist, guessing that she had lost a younger brother.
• Yu Qing promised the ghost he could help her and the other spirits get revenge, while claiming his husband, the BOSS, was only playing with him.
• Yu Qing urged the ghosts to strip the doctor of his clothes and badge and bring them to him.

Yu Qing used an Obedience Potion to make the tentacles and female ghosts turn against the Doctor, then beat him and sent him into Qian Lai’s Ghost-Attracting Formation. The potion wore off just as the Doctor landed in the formation, leaving the ghosts ready to take revenge.

• Yu Qing used a drop of Obedience Potion to make the tentacles release him and obey his commands.
• Yu Qing ordered the female ghosts to attack the Doctor, took his white coat, and put on gloves before beating him.
• Qian Lai returned after setting up a Ghost-Attracting Formation and was stunned to find the ghosts obeying Yu Qing.
• Yu Qing earned the livestream title Newcomer King after the stream surpassed 50,000 viewers.
• As the potion and boss-game countdowns ran out, Yu Qing kicked the Doctor into Qian Lai’s formation and urged the female ghosts to take revenge.

Yu Qing survived the BOSS’s game and received a one-hour mission to explore the Sanatorium’s top floor. As he considered the mysteries of Xu Han’s family, an angel’s sacrificial ritual began, and Qian Lai urged him to look at what he had seen.

• Yu Qing endured the BOSS’s black mist and declared that he would kill it before the game ended.
• The system assigned Yu Qing a mission to explore the Sanatorium’s top floor within one hour or his HP would drop to zero.
• Yu Qing learned that the BOSS could start its exclusive game only once per day and considered the dungeon’s rebirth clue and the gaps in his story exploration.
• Qian Lai entered and stared out the window as a heavy thudding sound continued.
• The system announced that the angel’s sacrificial ritual was about to begin, and Qian Lai told Yu Qing to look at what he had seen.

Yu Qing escaped the first-floor attack with Qian Lai and reached the Sanatorium’s ninth floor, where he learned Qian Lai’s luck stat and shared a strawberry lollipop with him. With only an hour to search the top floor for clues, Yu Qing opened a locked room using a one-point item and found a strong smell of blood inside.

• Yu Qing bit his tongue to break free of the old woman’s spell, dodged her corrosive water, and called the female ghosts to attack the skeleton orderlies blocking the exit.
• Yu Qing and Qian Lai rode the elevator to the ninth floor, and Yu Qing explained that he knew Qian Lai’s luck stat was 103 after trying to link their systems.
• Qian Lai gave Yu Qing a strawberry lollipop as hush money for keeping his hobby secret, and the candy stirred a hazy memory in Yu Qing of someone giving him strawberry candy before.
• Yu Qing and Qian Lai split up to search the Sanatorium’s top floor for story clues before the one-hour deadline.
• Yu Qing bought a one-point item to unlock the Princess Room, and the door opened onto a room filled with the stench of blood.

Yu Qing found Xu Tang’s diary, learned of her family’s history, and triggered her grief when she read it. Her cries awakened the deceased Xu Han, who identified Yu Qing as his kill target as the ninth floor began collapsing.

• Yu Qing dissolved a lock, searched the room, and found Xu Tang’s locked diary beneath a pillow.
• The diary revealed Xu Tang’s memories of her parents, her father’s disappearance, and her abuse by a fake father and the sanatorium director.
• Xu Tang returned, accused Yu Qing of snooping, and attacked him; Yu Qing struck her with the diary and locked her in the room.
• Xu Tang’s cries and the worsening supernatural disturbance drove the streamers from their rooms as the survivor count fell to four.
• Yu Qing opened another room and saw a figure in a black coat before the ninth-floor lights went out and the building began to collapse.
• The system announced that Yu Qing had activated the deceased Xu Han, who was reawakening and targeting the impostor; Yu Qing identified the locked room and morgue as the only intact places.

Yu Qing exploited the director’s mistaken identity to search the ninth floor and uncover patient diaries, while Xue Ziyi and Zhang Yi struggled to find clues below. The chapter ended as NPC Xu Han awakened and the hunt began.

• The director stopped the corridor’s collapse, threatened the streamers, and sent Xue Ziyi and his lackey off the ninth floor.
• The director mistook Yu Qing for Xu, gave him the ninth-floor keys, and ordered him to burn the patient diaries.
• Yu Qing found the diaries, reached 50% story exploration, set an instance record, and completed the ninth-floor mission with Qian Lai.
• Xue Ziyi struck Zhang Yi for panicking, then returned to the ninth floor and approached Yu Qing.
• The system announced that NPC Xu Han had awakened and that the hunt had begun.

Yu Qing refused to share his clues with Xue Ziyi and Zhang Yi, then overtook Xue Ziyi in the rankings after the system updated them. As exploration time ran out, Yu Qing gave Zhang Yi his Doctor’s badge and coat to help him enter safely, while a VIP watched Yu Qing from across the lobby.

• Yu Qing refused to share his information after Xue Ziyi and Zhang Yi demanded it, and Qian Lai helped him resist Zhang Yi’s grasp.
• The system announced that Xue Ziyi had fallen to second on the Newcomer Rich List and thirty-first on the Worthless Streamer List.
• The system announced that Yu Qing ranked first on the Newcomer Rich List, eighty-seventh on the Overall Rich List, first on the Newcomer Popularity List, and fifty-sixth on the Bizarre Streamer List.
• As exploration time ran short, Zhang Yi tried to strike Yu Qing, but Yu Qing gave him the Doctor’s badge and white coat so the monsters would not attack him.
• A VIP in the lobby watched Yu Qing intently through silver-rimmed glasses.

Yu Qing pieced together the Sanatorium’s sacrificial ritual and realized Xu Han was the only male victim, leaving his intended purpose unclear. He decided to use the bell to find Xu Han and asked Qian Lai for a talisman that could cripple a ghost without killing it.

• A man sketched Yu Qing’s portrait and labeled it “Yu Meiren,” while Yu Qing sensed a chill inside the instance.
• Qian Lai backed away after seeing Yu Qing’s hobbies field, and Yu Qing told him he had a husband: the instance boss.
• Yu Qing reviewed the diaries and learned that the Sanatorium brainwashed women and girls into zodiac animals before skinning them for the Angel’s ritual.
• Yu Qing wondered why Xu Han, the only male victim, had been taken to the morgue and regretted giving away the clothes that might have drawn Xu Han closer.
• Yu Qing removed the bell from his wrist and asked Qian Lai for a nonlethal Ghost-Exorcising Talisman; a scream rang out behind them.

Zhang Yi died after fleeing the ninth floor, and Yu Qing tried to lure Xu Han out to question him. Xu Han attacked Yu Qing in a nightmare but vanished before Yu Qing could get any information, leaving the survivors with six days and one night to find the key.

• Zhang Yi returned Rabbit Girl’s Diary, the Lab Coat, and the Name Badge to Yu Qing’s room, then died when a grotesque face appeared at his window.
• Yu Qing put on the Name Badge and, with Qian Lai’s help, planned to draw Xu Han out and confront him.
• At three in the morning, Xu Han appeared and strangled Yu Qing while he was trapped in a nightmare; Qian Lai’s talismans and bell failed to stop him.
• A freezing force pulled Xu Han away, and Yu Qing woke with the strangulation marks gone but no new clues about the key.
• The next morning, the survivors followed the broadcast to breakfast, and someone suddenly put a hand on Yu Qing’s shoulder in the lobby.

Yu Qing went to the director’s office to get an access card, knocked the director unconscious, and found the nurse being abused there. As the nurse began explaining the bells she shared with her husband Xu Han, she abruptly froze mid-sentence.

• Yu Qing saw a headless red dress serving food in Granny Ghost’s voice and noticed the director eating a normal meal in the cafeteria.
• Qian Lai obtained a clean white coat, and Yu Qing went to the seventh-floor Director’s Office under the pretense of delivering documents.
• Yu Qing found the director having sex with the receptionist nurse and pretended to be blind to request an access card.
• When the director tried to stab Yu Qing’s eye with the card, Yu Qing punched him unconscious and took a box of access cards.
• Yu Qing removed his name badge and gave the nurse the white coat, and she recognized the bells as ones her husband Xu Han had given her.
• The nurse froze mid-sentence as she began explaining the bells.

Yu Qing tried to escape the director’s office before the system’s corrections ended, but the director caught him and sent him to the Detention Room. There, the BOSS overpowered him and demanded to know whom he had called his husband.

• Yu Qing learned that the system was correcting the instance and recruited Qian Lai and Xue Ziyi to try the Keycards during the ten-minute pause.
• Yu Qing and the others tested most of the Keycards, but the director approached as the countdown neared its end.
• One Keycard worked just as the system corrections finished, but the director appeared behind Yu Qing and ordered that the disobedient patients be locked in the Detention Room.
• Orderlies subdued Yu Qing and dragged him into the Detention Room; he thought Qian Lai and Xue Ziyi had been caught as well.
• Yu Qing encountered the BOSS, who pinned him to the wall, knocked away his Golden Needle, and asked who he had called his husband.

Yu Qing fought the level-seven BOSS, subdued him by secretly making him drink Dizzy Water, and discovered the potion’s side effect was affecting him. The chapter left Yu Qing flushed and burning as he realized he had taken the potion himself.

• Yu Qing taunted the BOSS, who strangled him with a tentacle until Yu Qing struck him in the chest with a Golden Needle.
• Yu Qing spent 5,000 points on Dizzy Water and tricked the BOSS into swallowing it by drinking it himself and kissing him.
• The Dizzy Water knocked the BOSS unconscious, and Yu Qing examined his true form and kicked him while calling him a beautiful monster.
• Yu Qing reopened the livestream comments to ask about Qian Lai, then learned Dizzy Water had a side effect for streamers who drank it.
• Yu Qing’s throat and body began to burn as the potion’s side effect took hold.

Yu Qing suffered the effects of the Dizzy Water until a little shadow man emerged from the BOSS’s heart wound and held him, soothing his torment. After waking beside the BOSS, Yu Qing used a Suppression Chain to demand cooperation, but the BOSS repeatedly kissed him, stirring the potion’s effects again.

• Yu Qing asked the system to stop the livestream, and it shut down temporarily after claiming its control chip had malfunctioned.
• Yu Qing bought and melted several blocks of ice, but the Dizzy Water’s effects continued to torment him.
• Black mist seeped from the BOSS’s heart wound, formed a little shadow man, and held Yu Qing until he calmed down.
• Yu Qing woke beside the BOSS, bought a Suppression Chain with nearly all his points, and demanded that the BOSS work with him and accept him as master.
• The BOSS threw Yu Qing down, but the chain pulled him back; he kissed Yu Qing repeatedly, and the Dizzy Water’s effects overwhelmed Yu Qing again.

Yu Qing lost the Control Ring to the BOSS, who used the advantage to overpower him in the Detention Room. Afterward, Yu Qing accused the BOSS of cheating and called them both despicable, just as orderlies entered the room.

• The BOSS distracted Yu Qing with endearments and seized the Control Ring from his hand.
• The BOSS carried Yu Qing in his arms and offered him a choice, while Yu Qing sobbed in the Detention Room.
• The director ordered three skeletal orderlies to dispose of the dead Keycard thief and keep the body out of the lobby.
• After the drug wore off, the BOSS fed Yu Qing ten drops of black blood.
• Yu Qing told the BOSS that using sex to force intimacy was cheating and declared that they were both despicable.
• The orderlies entered the room, and the BOSS felt Yu Qing move in his arms.

Yu Qing used the BOSS’s temporary mark to make himself the BOSS’s possession and turn the monster’s violence against the orderlies. After the BOSS disappeared and the livestream resumed, the director suddenly appeared before Yu Qing.

• Yu Qing received a temporary mark after drinking ten drops of the BOSS’s blood, then called the BOSS “Master” and claimed himself as the BOSS’s possession.
• Yu Qing told the BOSS that the orderlies had damaged his knees and disrespected the BOSS, prompting the BOSS to crush their knees and decay their bodies into dust.
• The BOSS vanished, leaving Yu Qing dressed in his black coat as the system repaired the livestream and viewers reacted to what they saw.
• The director wiped the angel statue at night, and after the lights flickered, he suddenly appeared in front of Yu Qing.

Yu Qing returned to his ward after calmly dismissing the director and greeting the female ghosts, then finally relaxed in a hot bath. His black coat suddenly covered him as the livestream viewers watched, and Yu Qing flushed in surprise.

• The director tried to frighten Yu Qing, but Yu Qing brushed him off and walked back to his ward.
• Yu Qing warmly greeted the female ghosts in the corridor and shut himself inside his room.
• Yu Qing struggled to the bathroom, found hot water, and climbed into the bathtub while the viewers watched his archived beginner trial footage.
• As Yu Qing relaxed and the bath bubbles faded, his black coat landed over him and covered him completely.
• Yu Qing splashed in the tub and blushed as the livestream viewers reacted.

Yu Qing endured the BOSS’s control, used his understanding of the BOSS’s desire to survive, and escaped the invisible thread. When the bathroom plunged into darkness, he saw a ghostly woman in an operating room reflected on the ceiling, turning toward him.

• The BOSS manipulated Yu Qing’s arm with an invisible thread, cutting his wrist, but Yu Qing kept calm and spoke to the BOSS about its desire for vibrant life.
• Yu Qing’s words eased the BOSS’s anger, and the spider lily mark and invisible thread vanished, freeing him from control.
• Yu Qing explained that the BOSS believed people were most alive when struggling before death, revealing how he had found a way to avoid being killed.
• The bathroom light went out, but Yu Qing could still see a strange scene overhead: a bloodied woman in an operating room combing her hair.
• The woman twisted toward Yu Qing as a cold drop of blood landed on his forehead, and he cried out.

Yu Qing was attacked by Xu Han’s transformed wife and other female ghosts as the Dungeon rose to level five, but he halted their assault by invoking the BOSS’s mark. As he nearly suffocated, he provoked Xu Han with the truth about his wife and daughter, and spotted a glimmer of dark purple light.

• A pale hand dragged Yu Qing under the bathtub water, where he discovered that the attackers had become animalistic female ghosts and one raised an axe to strike him.
• The system announced that Yu Qing had provoked further changes in Xu Han and raised the Dungeon to level five, drawing a huge audience to his livestream.
• Yu Qing showed the Red Spider Lily mark on his hand and claimed his master would not let the ghosts hurt him, making the female ghosts freeze in fear.
• With his stamina down to three points and Xu Han’s hands tightening around his neck, Yu Qing called Xu Han useless and asked whether he had turned Xu Han’s wife and daughter into monsters.
• Yu Qing blamed the director for transforming Xu Han’s daughter into a rabbit and assaulting his wife; Xu Han’s grip loosened, and Yu Qing noticed a faint dark purple glimmer.

Yu Qing survived Xu Han’s attack after identifying the room as Xu Han’s dream, then pieced together clues about the ritual and the missing key. After Qian Lai returned drunk from the Detention Room, Yu Qing told him he knew where the key to clearing the game was.

• Yu Qing concluded that he was inside Xu Han’s dream, and the vengeful ghost vanished after releasing him.
• Yu Qing found that the access card opened only the inner wooden door and noticed an empty place among the Twelve Zodiac Animals opposite the entrance.
• Yu Qing deduced that the ritual needed a priest and suspected Xu Han, then saw the angel statue crack open and reveal the woman without skin sealed inside.
• Yu Qing fled to his room as the instance reached danger level five, where Qian Lai arrived drunk with four female ghosts.
• Yu Qing frightened Qian Lai with a black tentacle and told him he knew where the key to clearing the game was.