Chapter Summaries

Yu Qing explained that the Sanatorium was a dream shaped by Xu Han’s experiences, and he and Qian Lai concluded that breaking out of it might lead them to the Dream Core and the key. As Qian Lai smashed at a thin wall, the unseen presence following Yu Qing drew close, and the chapter ended as he turned toward it.

• Yu Qing used Xu Tang’s Diary and the ghosts’ reactions to explain how Xu Han’s memories and trauma had shaped the Sanatorium dream.
• Yu Qing told Qian Lai that he had seen dark purple light beneath a shattered wall and in the bathtub where Xu Han had tried to kill him.
• Qian Lai recognized the signs of a dream and proposed breaking through the Sanatorium’s walls to find the Dream Core and the key.
• Qian Lai bought a sledgehammer and, with help from the female ghosts, began smashing a thin wall on the third-floor mezzanine.
• As the red outfit drifted around the group, Yu Qing felt the slimy presence close in behind him and slowly turned toward it after the female ghosts screamed.

Yu Qing and Qian Lai entered the dark purple void to find the Dream Core, while the director restored the sealed wall and left Xue Ziyi behind. As strange noises and the smell of blood surrounded them, Yu Qing realized that something about their search was wrong.

• Yu Qing discovered that the Ghost-Sealing Talismans in the wall formed a powerful Ghost-Exorcism Formation, then used a viewer task’s cash envelope to gain enough points to enter the dark purple void with Qian Lai.
• The director emerged after Yu Qing and Qian Lai left, replaced the talismans, and restored the broken wall while Xue Ziyi trembled nearby.
• Xue Ziyi confronted the director about the useless Keycard, then collapsed after the director left.
• Qian Lai grew increasingly frightened as he and Yu Qing walked through the void, eventually gripping the hem of Yu Qing’s clothes.
• Yu Qing stopped when he heard strange chittering and gurgling sounds and smelled blood, then declared that everything was wrong.

Yu Qing found the corrupted Dream Core and confirmed that its key was gone, then asked Qian Lai to carry him as they fled the spreading corruption. The director believed the two could never escape, but their footsteps charged straight toward his office.

• Yu Qing told Qian Lai that they had passed the Dream Core several times and led him toward it while distracting him with conversation.
• Yu Qing found the corrupted Dream Core and learned from Qian Lai that someone had taken control of Xu Han's dream and removed the key.
• As the corruption engulfed Yu Qing, he asked Qian Lai to pull him away, and Qian Lai carried him through the darkness while following his directions.
• The director heard their footsteps approaching and assumed they could not escape his control.
• The footsteps grew faster and closer to the director, then a crash sounded.

Yu Qing and Qian Lai uncovered that the director had polluted Xu Han’s dream, then returned to the Sanatorium and confronted Xue Ziyi. After the livestream closed, Yu Qing approached the beautiful BOSS and kissed him.

• Yu Qing confronted the director with a fake bomb and accused him of polluting Xu Han’s Dream Core and using the dream for a sacrificial ritual.
• The director fled in terror, and Qian Lai discovered that Yu Qing’s bomb was an alarm clock.
• Yu Qing and Qian Lai returned to the lobby, where Yu Qing wondered who was sealed inside the Angel Statue and what the director’s sacrifice was for.
• Qian Lai punched Xue Ziyi for his words while Yu Qing realized the red-envelope task was next.
• The livestream shut down, but Yu Qing approached the beautiful BOSS, pulled down one of his tentacles, and kissed him.

Yu Qing survived the BOSS’s test by flirting with him, then revealed that he had secretly marked the BOSS with an incantation that let him control the tentacles. After refusing to stay, Yu Qing bound the BOSS and approached him with an item from the system.

• Yu Qing kissed the BOSS until the task-complete notification sounded, then pretended to be affectionate while recovering his strength.
• Yu Qing told the BOSS he understood that he was being tested, and the BOSS ordered him to stay.
• Yu Qing refused to remain, explaining that the BOSS had no feelings for him and would eventually kill him.
• Yu Qing revealed a red heart-shaped mark on the BOSS’s ear and used it to force a tentacle to strike the BOSS.
• Yu Qing tied back his hair, used the tentacles to bind the BOSS, and advanced while retrieving something from the system.

Yu Qing discovered that the director had sealed his mother inside the Angel Statue, raising his Sanatorium story exploration progress to 91%. When the flayed mother attacked him, he stayed calm and tapped something on his screen as screams filled the room.

• Yu Qing cut off a tentacle from the BOSS and stored it as a memento before leaving the Detention Room.
• The BOSS called Yu Qing “Darling” and warned that he could not leave.
• Yu Qing realized the Angel Statue resembled the director’s mother and found a photograph showing the same woman in the Director’s Office.
• The system announced that Yu Qing had discovered the key clue “The Sealed Mother,” bringing his story exploration progress to 91%.
• The director’s flayed mother emerged from the photograph and trapped Yu Qing’s feet in flesh.
• Yu Qing scrolled and tapped on his screen as agonized screams rang out, though they came from neither him nor the flayed mother.

Yu Qing found the Director’s Diary while keeping the blood-soaked figure at bay, then read aloud the director’s crimes and his plan to stay with his mother. The diary’s final entry stunned Yu Qing, leaving the last clue to the dungeon’s full exploration unresolved.

• Yu Qing used recordings of the director’s cries and Qian Lai’s Ghost-Exorcising Talisman to distract and repel the blood-soaked figure while searching the office.
• Yu Qing found the Director’s Diary, bringing plot exploration to 99%, but discovered someone had locked the office door from outside.
• As the blood-soaked figure began devouring him, Yu Qing taunted her with the diary and read the director’s hateful words about her, forcing her to retreat.
• Yu Qing read that the director had sealed his mother in a stone statue, used patients as sacrifices, killed Xu Han, and planned to live with his mother in a sanatorium by selling his soul to the Deity.
• Yu Qing turned to the diary’s final page and froze in shock.

Yu Qing learned the director’s tragic history from his mother’s ghost, who faded away at dawn, but the escape key remained missing. He and Qian Lai found a hidden mirror in the Director’s Office and waited for night, where the director emerged and trapped Yu Qing inside.

• Yu Qing heard the blood-soaked woman recount how she had sacrificed everything for her son, only for him to kill her and take over the Sanatorium.
• At dawn, the woman faded away after Yu Qing bowed to her, but he realized the story exploration rate was only 99 percent and the key was still missing.
• Yu Qing and Qian Lai searched the Director’s Office and found a mirror concealed behind a hollow wall.
• After night fell, Yu Qing and Qian Lai waited by the mirror with items ready to restrain the director.
• At midnight, the mirror shattered and Yu Qing’s Restraint Rope snapped; he tried to flee, but the door slammed shut and an icy tentacle pressed against his shoulder.

The BOSS carved half a red spider lily into Yu Qing’s neck as part of a mark that would bind him to the BOSS and make him dependent on his blood. Yu Qing resisted and broke down, but then gathered himself and answered the BOSS’s question before the BOSS took control of him again.

• The BOSS pinned Yu Qing down and carved half a blood-red spider lily into the back of his neck.
• Yu Qing realized the completed mark would imprison him and require him to drink the BOSS’s blood every two weeks or die.
• Yu Qing bit the BOSS’s shoulder and the BOSS asked what “Dar-ling” meant, then coaxed him as he cried.
• The BOSS bound his own hands with tentacles and asked whether that made Yu Qing happy, calling him “Baby.”
• Yu Qing touched the unfinished mark, answered “Mm,” and the BOSS pinned his hands against the wall and told him to open his mouth.

Yu Qing failed to find the key before the Dungeon’s countdown neared its end, then lured the BOSS back to his ward with a staged surrender. As the livestream viewers believed he had given up, Yu Qing launched a surprising reversal beneath the blanket.

• Yu Qing left the BOSS and searched the Sanatorium with Qian Lai for the director, but found no useful lead before discovering him in a coffin beneath the Angel Statue.
• Qian Lai pulled the director from the coffin and searched him, but they found no key, and Yu Qing sealed him back inside as the countdown reached two hours.
• Yu Qing realized where the key might be, sent Qian Lai away, and returned alone to his ward.
• Yu Qing called for the BOSS and pretended he wanted to stay as his lover, drawing hostile reactions from the livestream viewers.
• The BOSS appeared, and Yu Qing took control of their encounter, leaving the viewers cheering for his reversal.