Chapter Summaries

Ye Chu was forced into a livestreamed survival game with eight other players and learned that failure meant immediate death. The first instance began as a nine-player game of Real Werewolf, leaving the players to face their roles and rules.

• Ye Chu awoke in a wooden room with eight other players and realized they had been pulled into a deadly survival game.
• The system introduced the players, including Su Fengzi, Wu You, Pei Yanchuan, and Ye Chu, while unseen viewers commented on the livestream.
• Player Three tried to leave, but the system threatened to erase him, and Su Fengzi persuaded him to return to his seat.
• The system announced the rules of Real Werewolf, assigning nine players to three werewolves, three special roles, and three ordinary villagers.

Ye Chu discovered that he was the Witch and entered a strange forest for the game’s first night. After meeting Su Fengzi, who claimed to be the Seer and called Ye Chu good, the two found an unusual tree marked by its bent branches.

• Ye Chu learned that he was the Witch before the system transported him to a dark forest.
• Ye Chu threw a stick at Player One, Su Fengzi, when he approached quietly, then declined to use his poison vial.
• Ye Chu told Su Fengzi that he was a Villager, and Su Fengzi claimed to be the Seer who had checked Ye Chu and found him on the good side.
• Su Fengzi told Ye Chu that the trees could not be marked, and Ye Chu confirmed that he could not scratch a trunk.
• Ye Chu and Su Fengzi found a tree with its branches pulled to one side, revealing that another player had used it as a marker.

Ye Chu saved Player Eight with his antidote, and the players returned to the cabin for their first day of discussion. Su Fengzi and Wu You both claimed to be the seer and accused each other’s allies, while Ye Chu laid out competing possibilities and left Player Eight and Player Nine under suspicion.

• Ye Chu accepted the prompt to use his antidote on Player Eight and declined to use his poison.
• The system announced that the night had been peaceful, and all nine players gathered in the cabin to speak.
• Su Fengzi claimed to be the seer, said Ye Chu was good, and argued that Wu You was suspicious.
• Wu You counterclaimed as the seer, accused Player Three of being a wolf, and urged the group to vote him out.
• Player Three protested and accused Wu You, while Yang Shu backed Wu You and Xie Fei and Player Six backed Su Fengzi.
• Ye Chu compared the two competing seer claims and named Player Eight and Player Nine among his wolf suspects.

Pei Yanchuan and Lu Rui both argued that Player Three was a wolf, and the vote eliminated him; he died after trying to escape. In the forest round, Ye Chu reunited with Pei and began to suspect the eighteen-year-old was more calculating than he seemed.

• Pei Yanchuan questioned Ye Chu’s reasoning, urged the players to keep both seers, and voted for Player Three.
• Lu Rui backed Player Two, suspected One and Three, and also voted for Three.
• The players voted out Player Three, who tried to escape and died by strangling himself.
• After darkness fell, Ye Chu returned to the forest and nearly hit Pei Yanchuan with a stick before recognizing him.
• Pei told Ye Chu that everyone who survived would face more instances, leading Ye Chu to suspect Pei was not as innocent as he appeared.

Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan bonded over university and music before Ye Chu began to suspect Pei Yanchuan was lowering his guard deliberately. They found Wu You leaving clues, and Ye Chu grew suspicious of her wolf claim and Pei Yanchuan’s defense of her.

• Pei Yanchuan said he might apply to Peking University and talked with Ye Chu about his love of rock music and his plans after university.
• Ye Chu reconsidered his assumptions about Pei Yanchuan, then grew wary of the possibility that Pei Yanchuan had deliberately built trust with him.
• Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan followed a trail of branches and found Wu You leaving clues in the forest.
• Ye Chu asked Wu You who she had checked, and she said No. 4 was a wolf; Ye Chu questioned her claim and received a poison-use prompt.
• Pei Yanchuan defended Wu You, and Ye Chu challenged his loyalty before Pei Yanchuan asked whether Ye Chu was jealous.

After player 6 was killed, the remaining players debated the competing Seer claims and player 4’s identity. Ye Chu named 1, 4, and 8 as the wolves and urged the group to vote out 4.

• Ye Chu woke in the cabin and learned that player 6 had been killed.
• Xie Fei and Yang Shu discussed the kill and questioned Pei Yanchuan, while Yang Shu suggested voting out one of the Seers.
• Wu You claimed he had checked Yang Shu, player 4, and found her to be a wolf; Su Fengzi then claimed the same result and accused players 2 and 4.
• Lu Rui weighed the competing claims, and Pei Yanchuan argued that player 4 should be voted out while speculating about the Witch and other roles.
• Ye Chu accused players 2, 4, and 8 of being wolves, warned that Pei Yanchuan was probing for power roles, and called for a vote against player 4.

Ye Chu poisoned Xie Fei, the Hunter, instead of Pei Yanchuan, leaving no Villagers alive and giving the werewolves the win. The five surviving players then learned that Real Werewolf was a livestreamed show and would enter their next scenario after two days of rest.

• Ye Chu voted to eliminate Yang Shu, and the other players followed, causing her to explode.
• During the next night, Ye Chu searched for No. 5 and found Su Fengzi and Xie Fei before Pei Yanchuan confronted them.
• Pei Yanchuan revealed he was a werewolf and threatened to eliminate either the Villagers or special roles, depending on Ye Chu's allegiance.
• Ye Chu used his poison potion on Xie Fei, eliminating the last Villager and securing the werewolves' victory.
• The five survivors returned to a rest house, where the system explained the livestream show, viewer tips, and their next scenario in two days.

After surviving Real Werewolf, Ye Chu and the others ate, discussed their roles and choices, and named their group the 12789 Squad. They spent their tips on a dishwasher and went to rest.

• Pei Yanchuan, Lu Rui, Su Fengzi, Wu You, and Ye Chu shared their roles and discussed how Ye Chu’s poison had ended the game while limiting deaths.
• Pei Yanchuan explained that he had trusted Ye Chu’s intelligence, and Ye Chu teased him about not trusting him before reassuring him.
• Su Fengzi suggested naming their group, and the five agreed to call themselves the 12789 Squad.
• The group checked their tips and Lu Rui bought a dishwasher for their house.
• After thanking Lu Rui, the players returned to their rooms, and Ye Chu quickly fell asleep.

Ye Chu discovered that Pei Yanchuan and Wu You had transformed into wolves after waking, while the system explained that a bug had granted the players abilities tied to their Werewolf roles. The system promised a fix but said the abilities could be kept in future instances, leaving Ye Chu to wonder whether Pei Yanchuan should stay a wolf.

• Ye Chu went to wake Pei Yanchuan and found him transformed into a large black wolf, who startled awake and pinned him to the floor.
• Ye Chu called for help, and Lu Rui made Pei Yanchuan release him with a stern command.
• Lu Rui found Wu You transformed into a smaller white wolf and stayed with her while she woke.
• Su Fengzi asked the system about the transformations, and it blamed a bug and promised players could retain their Werewolf-role abilities in later instances.
• Ye Chu took Pei Yanchuan downstairs and affectionately rubbed his head, joking that he should remain a wolf.

After a system bug gave the group abilities from their last Werewolf round, Ye Chu and the others learned that Pei Yanchuan and Wu You could turn into wolves, while Su Fengzi could foresee the future. The group settled in to play Fight the Landlord, with Pei Yanchuan and Su Fengzi sharing a controller and puzzling over Ye Chu’s card choices.

• Pei Yanchuan changed back from a wolf, and Ye Chu checked that he was unharmed before going upstairs to see Wu You.
• Su Fengzi explained that the system’s bug had granted them abilities from their previous Werewolf round, including wolf transformations for Pei Yanchuan and Wu You and future sight for Su Fengzi.
• Wu You changed back into a human and learned what had happened, then asked everyone to leave so she could get changed.
• Ye Chu chose Fight the Landlord, and Su Fengzi agreed to play after Ye Chu looked disappointed when he initially refused.
• Ye Chu played alone while Pei Yanchuan and Su Fengzi shared a controller and wondered why anyone would calculate probabilities during the game.

Ye Chu and his companions entered the instance “Illusion Paradox,” where players had to spot contradictions to escape illusions. Separated from the others, Ye Chu encountered a false version of his childhood home and narrowly avoided stepping out of a window before falling asleep under his blanket.

• The system sent Ye Chu and his companions into the “Illusion Paradox” instance after breakfast.
• Ye Chu found himself alone in a room that appeared to be his bedroom, then heard his mother call him Xingxing and invited him to breakfast.
• Ye Chu noticed contradictions in the room: his mother said it was eight o’clock, but the wall clock showed three and the sky outside was dark.
• Ye Chu saw that the steamed bun was a severed hand and escaped to his bedroom while his mother pursued him as a monster.
• Ye Chu nearly stepped out of the window while reaching for a star, then backed away, hid beneath his blanket, and fell asleep.

Ye Chu and Su Fengzi discovered they were trapped in an illusion and contacted each other through Su Fengzi’s livestream. With monsters surrounding their homes, they devised a plan to use obvious paradoxes to recognize and escape the illusion, leaving Ye Chu ready to go to Su Fengzi’s room.

• Ye Chu recognized Su Fengzi on a livestream, and Su Fengzi explained that he was trapped in the same illusion with a ghost under his chair.
• Ye Chu and Su Fengzi exchanged their locations and learned they had not heard from the other three people.
• Ye Chu opened his curtains and saw a crowd of red-eyed monsters staring up at him, then shut them after Su Fengzi warned him.
• Ye Chu suggested using paradoxes to recognize the illusion and escape their rooms, and he began writing incorrect mathematical formulas.
• Ye Chu left an envelope addressed to his illusory self with a note claiming his boyfriend was at 235 Peace Street, then told Su Fengzi he would come to him.

Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan escaped the illusion by triggering a paradox and discovered that the same kind of paradox could only work once. They headed to the hospital to investigate Granny Wang, where Su Fengzi was likely waiting.

• Ye Chu followed a smudged letter to address 238, where he accidentally told Pei Yanchuan he had come to see his boyfriend and triggered a paradox that turned the crowd into monsters.
• Pei Yanchuan pulled Ye Chu into his room and explained how he had escaped earlier illusions by challenging an implausible exam score and refusing to accept accusations of cheating.
• Ye Chu realized the letter had meant address 235, where he planned to meet Su Fengzi, and told Pei Yanchuan that Su Fengzi was helping him investigate.
• Pei Yanchuan tried to create another paradox with misspelled words, but his pen left no marks, confirming that the method could not be reused.
• Ye Chu checked Su Fengzi's Bilibili update and saw that he was heading to the hospital, so he and Pei Yanchuan set out to investigate Granny Wang.

Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan rode toward the hospital with Pei Yanchuan transformed into a black wolf, but Pei lost consciousness and became a threat after they reached the entrance. Ye Chu barricaded the doors and found himself trapped among monsters inside and out, with the wolf still attacking him.

• Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan prepared to fight their way to the hospital, and Pei transformed into a black wolf for Ye Chu to ride.
• Ye Chu fought off approaching monsters with a baseball bat and a broken tree branch as Pei raced north.
• Near the hospital, Pei lost consciousness, his eyes turned red, and his howl attracted more monsters.
• Ye Chu struck Pei with the branch to rouse him, and the wolf charged through the hospital doors.
• Ye Chu barricaded the entrance, but the irrational wolf pinned him down and sniffed him until Ye Chu shoved him away.

Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan searched the deserted hospital for Granny Wang Chunhua and found her in Room 25. Granny Wang told Ye Chu she did not have much longer to live and asked him to fulfill one last wish.

• Pei Yanchuan changed back from a black wolf, and Ye Chu reassured him that he was not angry about what had happened.
• Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan decided to investigate the hospital without waiting for Brother Fengzi.
• Nurse Li directed them to Granny Wang Chunhua's bed in Room 25.
• Granny Wang welcomed Ye Chu, whom she called Star, and Pei Yanchuan, then offered them rotten oranges.
• Granny Wang said she had not seen her children for over a year and asked Ye Chu to fulfill one last wish.

Granny Wang asked Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan to take her home after she died, then vanished before explaining what she meant. As Ye Chu searched for clues and reunited with Su Fengzi and Pei Yanchuan, they encountered an illusion of Pei and escaped after Ye Chu spotted the telltale mistake.

• Granny Wang asked Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan to take her home after her death, then disappeared in a flash of white light.
• Ye Chu found photographs of Wang Chunhua as a child and with a man, along with messages from her busy children.
• Su Fengzi arrived and said he had come to investigate supernatural incidents at the hospital after a viewer contacted him.
• Ye Chu and Su Fengzi realized the Pei Yanchuan who had entered the ward was an illusion because he called them by their full names, so they fled downstairs.
• Ye Chu found the real Pei Yanchuan at the front desk and told him that they had encountered a monster impersonating him.

Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan discovered that Granny Wang had no serious illness and had tried to end her life, then found strange keepsakes hidden in a box. Their investigation led them to Tian Fuguo, who had been visiting his son in the room next to Granny Wang’s, and Ye Chu realized Tian Fuguo was her son.

• Ye Chu found a bottle of paraquat beside Granny Wang and realized she had attempted suicide despite having no serious illness.
• Pei Yanchuan opened Granny Wang’s box, releasing a swarm of bugs, then recovered a family photo, a headless cloth doll, and a floral dress.
• Ye Chu wondered why Granny Wang had insisted on returning to her own home as he and the others examined the keepsakes.
• Pei Yanchuan stopped Tian Fuguo as he tried to run, and Su Fengzi confirmed Tian Fuguo was telling the truth about visiting his son in Room 24.
• Ye Chu checked the hospital records and discovered Tian Fuguo was Wang Chunhua’s son, though he had been staying next door to her without visiting.

Ye Chu, Pei Yanchuan, and Su Fengzi entered Room 24 despite Li Jiayi’s warnings and discovered a terrified boy who could see his mother’s ghost. After fleeing the room, they reunited with Wu You and Lu Rui, who introduced a girl named Tian Yatou.

• Li Jiayi desperately tried to stop Ye Chu from entering Room 24, so Pei Yanchuan suggested they listen at the door instead.
• Pei Yanchuan overheard Tian Fuguo abusing his son Tian Guangzong and kicked open the door to confront him.
• Tian Guangzong said his mother was beside the cabinet, and a female ghost crawled out with a group of similar figures, forcing the men to flee.
• Li Jiayi told them that the third floor had checkup rooms and the fourth floor was the morgue, and Ye Chu led the group toward the third floor.
• Ye Chu’s group met Wu You and Lu Rui by the elevator, and Lu Rui introduced the little girl hiding behind her as Tian Yatou.

Lu Rui and the others tried to bring Tian Yatou to her hospitalized brother, but Tian Fuguo used her as a shield against her monstrous mother. Ye Chu saved Tian Yatou, and the ghost let them leave, leaving the group puzzled about her intentions.

• Lu Rui found Tian Yatou hiding under a desk, comforted her, and took her toward the hospital with Wu You.
• The group met up at the hospital and learned more about Tian Fuguo’s extreme preference for his son.
• When the elevator stopped, Tian Fuguo entered with Tian Guangzong, and Tian Yatou’s ghostly mother appeared behind him.
• Tian Fuguo threw Tian Yatou toward the ghost, but Ye Chu caught her and fled after her mother let them go.
• Pei Yanchuan beat Tian Fuguo in the elevator, then reunited with Ye Chu on the third floor.
• Ye Chu told the others that Tian Yatou’s mother seemed to have wanted him to take her daughter away.

Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan searched the third floor, where Ye Chu exposed and killed a monster disguised as Pei Yanchuan and found a Death Records book tied to three dead women. When Zhong Xiaoli’s ghost appeared and attacked the page marked “must die,” Pei Yanchuan drew her away while Ye Chu fled to find the others, leaving the sound of a blade striking flesh behind him.

• Ye Chu and Pei Yanchuan split from the others to search the right side of the third floor.
• Ye Chu realized the Pei Yanchuan beside him was an illusion, then killed the monster wearing his face with a bayonet.
• Ye Chu and the real Pei Yanchuan found a register that had become Death Records, listing Wang Chunhua, Zhong Xiaoli, and Li Jiayi.
• Zhong Xiaoli’s ghost appeared at the window and reacted violently to the page covered in “must die.”
• Pei Yanchuan opened the door to lure Zhong Xiaoli away while Ye Chu ran left, and Ye Chu heard a blade pierce flesh.