Chapter Summaries

Che Quan, the last pureblood vampire, entered a deadly escape-game instance set in a villa hosting a reunion party. He ignored the viewers and system warnings, entered first, and surveyed the uncanny party as the other players followed.

• Che Quan awoke in a crystal coffin as the Future Empire watched, then received an escape-game scenario in which everyone in a villa had died.
• Che Quan silenced the system's warning with a glare and headed into the villa, while the five other players hesitated before the spreading black fog drove them inside.
• The players found a crowded, brightly lit party with loud music, despite the villa having appeared dark and deserted from outside.
• The other players looked to Che Quan as he watched the dancers with cold displeasure and distilled three useful pieces of information from the instance rules.

Che Quan entered the {Haunting} survival-game instance, where he had to escape before four in the morning while coping with skin hunger syndrome. After the housekeeper assigned rooms to him and five other players, Che Quan rejected Mr. Chang’s request to investigate the mystery together and prepared to enter his room alone.

• Che Quan reviewed the {Haunting} instance’s deadly deadline and his character’s skin hunger syndrome, then went upstairs to avoid the dance floor.
• Five frightened players rushed onto the second floor and described the strange figures on the dance floor, while Che Quan remained calm.
• A housekeeper appeared, assigned each player a room and role, and warned Mr. Chang that he had to be in his room after midnight.
• Che Quan turned toward his assigned room, but Mr. Chang asked him to work with the others on solving the mystery.
• Che Quan refused to help, intending to deal with the dangers himself when the figures revealed their true forms.

Che Quan’s skin hunger syndrome flared up in his room, and the instance system warned him to take part in solving the mystery. He joined the other players, learned their identities, and heard that they had little time before the supernatural threats began.

• Che Quan suffered an intense skin hunger attack, and the instance system warned that passivity would make it worse.
• Che Quan left his room and met the five players, who introduced their identities in the instance.
• Che Quan identified himself as the nameless class nobody, while the others discussed their roles connected to Miao and Class Four.
• Ning Dantong explained that ghosts and monsters would reveal themselves at midnight and kill the players after four in the morning.
• Yuan Zhou suggested searching the rooms for clues.

Che Quan entered Chang Jianfeng’s room despite the others’ warnings, and his icy gaze frightened off the ghostly housekeeper. The group followed him inside to investigate, with Ning Dantong guessing that Chang Jianfeng’s permission let them enter safely.

• The group debated whether they could investigate Chang Jianfeng’s room together, while Che Quan stayed silent and apart from them.
• At eleven o’clock, the instance warned Che Quan that his skin hunger syndrome buff had risen and gave him five minutes before its next episode.
• Che Quan strode into Chang Jianfeng’s room, ignoring the group’s cries that it could be dangerous.
• The housekeeper ghost appeared and challenged Che Quan for entering a room without its owner’s permission, but froze in terror when he faced her.
• Ning Dantong claimed that Chang Jianfeng had allowed everyone to enter, and the housekeeper vanished without attacking anyone.
• Ning Dantong followed Che Quan into the room and explained that she suspected the owner’s permission had satisfied the instance rules.

Che Quan helped the group realize the villa did not belong to Miao’s family, then went alone to investigate the dark third floor. A system warning told him his skin hunger syndrome had intensified and urged him to seek help from his crush.

• Che Quan stopped the group’s blind search and pointed out that the villa’s owner was not surnamed Miao.
• Ning Dantong and Chen Yuxiang worked out that the housekeeper’s young mistress was not Miao Rouning and that the group was in someone else’s villa.
• The five decided to search the rooms for clues about the villa’s owner while Che Quan headed to the third floor.
• Che Quan sensed killing intent on the stairs, counted eighteen steps, and entered the ajar room on the left.
• A system warning told Che Quan that his skin hunger syndrome buff had increased by 300% and that he needed help from his crush or risk losing consciousness and dying.

Che Quan suffered a flare-up of skin hunger syndrome when he encountered Jiang Cong, a mysterious player whose touch soothed his symptoms. Jiang Cong introduced himself, leaving Che Quan wary and wondering why he had been hiding on the villa’s third floor.

• Che Quan’s skin hunger syndrome flared as a silver-haired young man appeared before him without warning.
• Che Quan’s blood repelled the third-floor instance boss, but Jiang Cong remained unaffected and approached him.
• Jiang Cong wrapped his hair ribbon around Che Quan’s injured finger, and the wound healed instantly.
• Jiang Cong touched Che Quan’s wrist and eased his symptoms, but the discomfort surged back after he withdrew his hand.
• Jiang Cong told Che Quan that he was a player, prompting Che Quan to question how long he had been on the third floor and what he intended.

Che Quan’s skin hunger syndrome flared, but Jiang Cong’s touch soothed it as he carried Che Quan downstairs. The group examined a threatening note from Teacher Chang’s room, and Che Quan deduced that someone with a grudge over an equation might be targeting him.

• Che Quan asked Jiang Cong for help after twisting his ankle, and Jiang Cong carried him despite saying he disliked supporting people.
• Jiang Cong’s touch suppressed Che Quan’s skin hunger syndrome, and Che Quan jumped from his arms before they reached the second floor.
• Chang Jianfeng showed Che Quan and the others a crumpled sheet covered with calculations and the words “I’m right!”
• Che Quan deduced that a student or colleague who had argued with Teacher Chang over an equation might harbor murderous intent.

The group investigated clues linking Chen Yuxiang to a girl named Qiao Qiao and discovered a ghostly presence in a graduation photo. Che Quan was forced by the Instance System to participate and identified the ghost’s black shoes as a clue, then pressed Jiang Cong to reveal what he knew.

• Chen Yuxiang showed the group a bloodstained diary scrap that said Chen Chen and Qiao Qiao would be best friends forever.
• Miao Rouning shared a graduation photo whose class list contained no student named Qiao, though it included labels such as Teacher Chang, Campus Belle Miao, and Chen's Best Friend.
• Yuan Zhou spotted a pair of feet in the photo, and Chang Jianfeng confirmed they wore dripping-wet black shoes.
• The Instance System warned Che Quan that his Skin Hunger Syndrome buff would rise to 500% unless he participated more actively.
• Che Quan examined the photo, saw the black shoes pressed beside Chen's Best Friend, and told the group to look for black shoes.
• Che Quan asked Jiang Cong whether he had something to tell the group.

Che Quan led the players to the villa’s ground floor to question the shadowy dancers for clues about Qiao and the villa guests. The dancers turned monstrous when questioned, but Che Quan insisted they were harmless before midnight, and the others began searching as Yuan Zhou watched the time.

• Jiang Cong introduced himself as a student in Class Four, while the other players admitted they had found no useful clues upstairs.
• Che Quan went downstairs, followed by Chang Jianfeng and the others, while Jiang Cong brought up the rear.
• On the ground floor, Che Quan asked a faceless dancer whether she knew a girl with Qiao in her name, and she convulsed in terror.
• Che Quan questioned another dancer about who had invited it to the villa, and it twisted into a rope-like shape before he kicked it aside.
• Che Quan told the others to question the dancers because they would not attack before midnight, and Yuan Zhou stayed behind to keep track of the time.

As midnight approached, the group questioned the ballroom’s transforming figures and uncovered clues about bullying at their school, including the possible involvement of Miao Rouning and Ning Dantong. With several shadows going berserk and only nine minutes left, Chang Jianfeng asked Che Quan whether they should go upstairs.

• Che Quan demonstrated how to question the figures, then rested on a sofa while Jiang Cong watched him.
• Chang Jianfeng questioned a shadow who identified herself as Chen Qi, but her resentment toward him made her grow more violent, so he backed away.
• Chen Yuxiang learned that Campus Belle Miao had sought her out, and Ning Dantong heard that Yuan Zhou had helped bully a student known as “the Invisible Man.”
• A shadow named Campus Belle Miao and her best friend as the people who bullied the Invisible Man, then went berserk when Chen Yuxiang asked whether girls had also been bullied.
• The group retreated to the stairs as Miao Rouning’s shadow also became violent, and Yuan Zhou called down that nine minutes remained.
• Chang Jianfeng asked Che Quan whether they should go to the second floor.

Che Quan and the others pieced together clues suggesting Qiao Qiao’s revenge stemmed from bullying and a possible plot by Campus Belle Miao to steal Qiao Qiao’s identity and college place. With midnight approaching and the villa’s exits and rooms seeming dangerous, Che Quan brought a subdued ghost upstairs, while his gaze settled on Jiang Cong.

• Ning Dantong, Chen Yuxiang, and Chang Jianfeng shared clues linking the victims to bullying Qiao Qiao, and Chang Jianfeng suspected Qiao Qiao had returned as a vengeful ghost.
• Miao Rouning reported that a ghost accused her of ruining everyone, prompting Chen Yuxiang to suspect Campus Belle Miao had tried to take Qiao Qiao’s place at a top school.
• As midnight neared, the group considered hiding upstairs, but Jiang Cong warned that the rooms had been prepared for the guests, and Chang Jianfeng stopped them from entering.
• Ning Dantong revealed that the villa’s outside was surrounded by watching eyes, leaving the group with nowhere safe to flee.
• Che Quan arrived upstairs dragging a transformed ghost, easing the group’s despair, then looked toward Jiang Cong.

Che Quan led the group to Jiang Cong’s former room on the third floor and waited out midnight as a water-dripping monster passed outside. After Che Quan opened the door to investigate, Jiang Cong refused to stay behind and told him he would need help.

• Che Quan took the group and the seemingly unconscious ghostly figure to the room where Jiang Cong had awakened, and they shut themselves inside before midnight.
• A chime signaled that the ghosts’ restrictions had ended, and the group heard a door open in the room across the hall.
• The water-dripping monster walked past their room toward the second floor, and Chang Jianfeng suspected it was Qiao Qiao.
• Che Quan opened the door and told everyone to stay inside, then warned Jiang Cong not to follow him.
• Jiang Cong refused to stay behind and whispered to Che Quan that he would need him.

Che Quan sent a terrified ghostly shadow into the boss’s room to retrieve something while Qiao Qiao slaughtered the mutated shadows downstairs. As Qiao Qiao approached the third floor, Che Quan’s skin hunger warning intensified, and he smashed a hole in the wall in frustration.

• Che Quan forced the ghostly shadow through the gap in the boss’s room door and ordered it to retrieve something.
• Screams rose from the first floor as Qiao Qiao killed the mutated ghostly shadows, while Chang Jianfeng urged the others to stay hidden.
• Jiang Cong watched Che Quan closely as the screams faded and Qiao Qiao’s heavy, dripping footsteps climbed to the second floor.
• Che Quan received a warning that his skin hunger episode had intensified and would last fifteen minutes, then punched a hole in the wall.
• The noise silenced everyone nearby, and the ghostly shadow hurried its search, fearing Che Quan’s impatience.

Che Quan's skin hunger syndrome flared, and Jiang Cong steadied him by holding his hand, easing the episode before the boss reached the third floor. As Chang Jianfeng and the others watched, they discovered the pursuing boss was the drowned, grotesquely swollen Qiao Qiao and prepared to support Che Quan and Jiang Cong.

• A tremendous crash startled the boss searching the second floor, and she hesitated to approach the third floor because she remembered being burned by Che Quan's golden-tinged blood.
• Che Quan's skin hunger syndrome left him weak and trembling after he punched, so Jiang Cong caught him and pressed their palms together, easing his symptoms.
• Ghost Shadow found the thing Che Quan had requested and respectfully brought it to him as the boss stormed the third floor.
• Chang Jianfeng glimpsed Qiao Qiao through the door and told the others that she was a drowned, swollen corpse covered in mud, moss, algae, and weeds.
• Chang Jianfeng covered Yuan Zhou's mouth and nose, then joined Chen Yuxiang and Ning Dantong at the door to watch and prepare to help.

Che Quan restrained the monstrous “Qiao Qiao” and used her diary to uncover the betrayals and humiliations that preceded her transformation. As Ghost Shadow read the entries aloud, Qiao Qiao’s fury surged, and the chapter ended with her diary revealing that she had failed to get into any school after her exams.

• Che Quan found Qiao Qiao’s diary and dodged her attacks while Jiang Cong quietly entered her room.
• Che Quan gave the diary to Ghost Shadow and used his vampire blood to pin Qiao Qiao in place.
• Ghost Shadow read entries describing Qiao Qiao’s teacher humiliating her and her family favoring her cousin Ning.
• Qiao Qiao erupted in rage when Ghost Shadow read that Chen Chen had watched her assault and fled without helping.
• Ghost Shadow read that Qiao Qiao believed she had done well on her exams, then discovered she had not qualified for even the lowest-ranked school.

Che Quan used Qiao Qiao’s diary to pressure her into transferring her aggro to Jiang Cong and agreeing to let him help her get revenge. Qiao Qiao then shifted the scene to Yunliang Academy, where Che Quan appeared in a student’s uniform without his fangs.

• Ghost Shadow read diary entries describing Miao XX’s betrayal and Qiao Qiao’s death, while Qiao Qiao laughed hysterically.
• Che Quan offered to help Qiao Qiao take revenge if she transferred her aggro to Jiang Cong, and threatened to share her diary with the other guests.
• Che Quan had Ghost Shadow read an entry about Qiao Qiao’s past victims, then told Qiao Qiao he could help her.
• Qiao Qiao changed the surroundings from the haunted villa to Yunliang Academy, where Che Quan found himself in a school uniform with his fangs gone.

Che Quan entered Yunliang Academy as the invisible student in Class (4), where he found several classmates seemingly absorbed into their instance identities and Chen Yuxiang secretly signaling for help. As his skin hunger syndrome episode began, Jiang Cong found him in a dark storage room and relieved his symptoms through touch, leaving Che Quan furious and intent on killing him later.

• Che Quan entered Class (4) and observed Chang Jianfeng, Yuan Zhou, and Miao Rouning acting as though they belonged in the school, while Chen Yuxiang secretly wrote “SOS” on her desk.
• Che Quan noticed Jiang Cong was absent from Class (4), then received an alert that his skin hunger syndrome would trigger in three minutes and that he needed to find his crush.
• Che Quan left without responding to Chen Yuxiang’s pleading look, spotted Ning Dantong watching him fearfully in Class (3), and went to an abandoned storage room to endure the episode alone.
• Jiang Cong pulled Che Quan into his arms in the dark and eased his symptoms through skin contact, then asked whether this was how vampires bit people.
• Viewers discussed the instance’s sudden scene change and learned that the Haunting instance’s actual survival rate was 0.00%, despite its theoretical rate of 0.79%.

After enduring skin hunger syndrome in the dark, Che Quan returned to class and used Teacher Chang’s fear of exposure to stand up to him. He left behind his identity as an invisible student and became the center of attention.

• Jiang Cong held Che Quan in the dark, but Che Quan recovered, pushed away from him, and left the storeroom.
• Che Quan tripped Teacher Chang and revealed that he was in Class Four, prompting the teacher to threaten him with punishment.
• Chen Yuxiang defended Che Quan, and Teacher Chang threatened to punish her too.
• Che Quan privately threatened to expose Teacher Chang’s assault on Ying Jiajia, making the teacher apologize and ask him to return to class.
• Che Quan returned to his seat, while Teacher Chang and the students remained unsettled by the confrontation.

Che Quan learned that the others were likely being overwhelmed by their instance characters rather than killed, then told Chen Yuxiang to stay beside Qiao Qiao. Teacher Chang singled Qiao Qiao out to solve a problem, setting up the danger Che Quan had anticipated.

• Chen Yuxiang told Che Quan that Chang Jianfeng, Yuan Zhou, and Miao Rouning were alive but might be suppressed by their instance characters’ consciousnesses.
• Che Quan told Chen Yuxiang to keep an eye on Qiao Qiao, noting that the blackboard date matched the day Teacher Chang targeted her in Ghost Shadow’s diary.
• Chen Yuxiang noticed a faint burn mark on Qiao Qiao’s neck and realized the bullying by Miao Rouning and the others had likely begun.
• Teacher Chang returned to class and decided to use Qiao Qiao as an example because Miao Rouning and her friends disliked her.
• Teacher Chang pointed at Qiao Qiao and ordered her to come to the front to solve a problem.

Teacher Chang humiliated Qiao Qiao by falsely declaring her correct solution wrong, but Principal Zheng intervened and condemned him. The principal took Teacher Chang, Miao Rouning, and Yuan Zhou away for investigation, then asked Che Quan to keep Qiao Qiao calm.

• Qiao Qiao solved Teacher Chang's problem correctly, but he called her work wrong and ordered her to stand as punishment.
• Chen Yuxiang rose to defend Qiao Qiao, but Principal Zheng entered and told Teacher Chang to be quiet.
• Principal Zheng said he had witnessed Teacher Chang deliberately mistreat Qiao Qiao and rejected the teacher's excuse that he had misread the problem.
• Principal Zheng called Miao Rouning and Yuan Zhou animals, then led all three of them out to investigate.
• Principal Zheng returned to tell Che Quan to keep Qiao Qiao from getting too worked up while he investigated the three.