Recaps

Li Xian lured Du Sha into a room and used a portrait, a hidden knife, and the curtains to set a trap that freed Dolly. Although the viewers thought the instance was nearly cleared, Lin Shiming’s continued silence suggested it was not over.

• Li Xian went upstairs, hid in a room, and used a portrait as a hammer to set up a trap.
• Du Sha searched the room and found Li Xian holding a portrait, but he threw it away to distract her and escape.
• Du Sha caught Li Xian, pinned his hand beneath her heel, and demanded to know where Dolly was.
• Dolly lunged at Du Sha and dragged her down, giving Li Xian a chance to get up.
• Du Sha noticed the knife tied to the door handle and the portrait it had pierced, which had let Dolly tear through the canvas and escape.
• Guilds donated points to Li Xian, while Lin Shiming’s lack of action suggested the instance was still ongoing.

Li Xian tried to turn Dolly against Du Sha by pointing out that Dolly had never attacked her face. Du Sha recounted her suffering and the sisters’ history, then suddenly struck Dolly with an empty picture frame.

• Du Sha urged Dolly to kill Li Xian and take his skin, claiming she had let Dolly out of the painting for that purpose.
• Li Xian told Dolly that she and Du Sha were different because Dolly had never tried to peel off her sister’s face.
• Du Sha argued that Dolly had not suffered as much as she had and recounted being shunned and locked in the attic by her family.
• Du Sha recalled asking Dolly for birthday cake and described the fork as sharp.
• Du Sha retrieved an empty picture frame and brought it down on the silent Dolly.

Li Xian tried to save Dolly from Du Sha’s portrait, but Dolly pulled Du Sha into the painting with her. After Mr. Zhang healed Li Xian’s hand, the portraits in the corridor went out of control, and Li Xian rushed downstairs to find Song Qingzhang and Liang Pei holding a shaking exhibition hall door.

• Li Xian grabbed Dolly and tried to pull her free as the frame drew her inside, while Du Sha injured his hand to make him let go.
• Dolly seized Du Sha’s wrist and dragged her into the painting, and Li Xian knocked away Du Sha’s knife with another portrait.
• Du Sha and Dolly became trapped side by side in the canvas, and Mr. Zhang took the portrait and healed Li Xian’s hand with a skill.
• The corridor portraits shook, fell, and crawled out of their frames toward Li Xian as the portrait with four raised fingers was attacked by a tentacle.
• Li Xian ran downstairs and found Song Qingzhang and Liang Pei bracing the exhibition hall doors against something trying to break through.

Li Xian found a way to burn the rampaging portraits and exposed Ji Xie’s identity by testing whether he had opened a bottle of Varnish. The chapter ended with Ji Xie pinning Li Xian against a wall and forcing something into his mouth, leaving Li Xian shocked and demanding an explanation.

• Li Xian ordered Song Qingzhang to release the portraits and had Liang Pei and Ji Xie lure the pursuing horde away while he searched the boxes under a bed with Song Qingzhang.
• Li Xian found a small box containing something that produced a flame, and he used it to set the portraits on fire without igniting anything else.
• Li Xian told Ji Xie that his manner of speaking, the portraits’ failure to chase him, and the untouched Varnish bottle had revealed his identity.
• Ji Xie pinned Li Xian against the wall and forced something wet and slippery into his mouth.
• Li Xian bit down, spat it out, and demanded to know what Ji Xie was doing.

Li Xian, Ji Xie, Song Qingzhang, and Liang Pei completed the art exhibition task and cleared Miss Dolly's Portrait Gallery with its true ending. The instance closed after Li Xian and his companions received their rewards, while Li Xian gained additional special rewards to claim after logging out.

• Ji Xie renewed his Marriage Bond with Li Xian, upgrading it to Pair for Life.
• Song Qingzhang restored Dolly's burned face, then involuntarily painted Du Sha's exposed skin to match Dolly's; the two figures in the portrait closed their eyes.
• Li Xian hung the restored portrait in the exhibition hall, completing the clearance task.
• The system awarded Li Xian, Song Qingzhang, and Liang Pei the true ending and calculated their instance rewards.
• The system granted Li Xian extra rewards for his special statuses and record-breaking viewer tips, then permanently closed the instance.

After earning a record number of tips for clearing Miss Dolly's Portrait Gallery, Li Xian received an SSS-grade card that could send him straight to an Advanced Zone Instance. A strange red pop-up urged him to use it, and Li Xian chose to advance alone, leaving Song Qingzhang behind for now.

• The system announced that Miss Dolly's Portrait Gallery had closed and that Li Xian had received a record 15,399 tip points, drawing attention from players in the Novice Zone lobby.
• Li Xian escaped the crowd, claimed an SSS-grade SVIP Promotion Card, and learned it could send him directly into an Advanced Zone Instance for five times the rewards.
• Li Xian hesitated over using the card because he would miss learning about the Advanced Zone before entering an Instance.
• A crimson pop-up appeared on Li Xian's Light Screen and urged him to use the card; when Li Xian asked who was speaking, it replied that he did not need to know.
• Li Xian told Song Qingzhang he could not enter their next Instance together because the card let him go straight to the Advanced Zone, and Song Qingzhang vowed to catch up.

Li Xian inspected the rewards from his previous Instance, then entered the S-rank No. 48 Asylum as patient 303A. He found conflicting attendance records and met another player in the corridor.

• Song Qingzhang asked Li Xian about the strange person missing from the previous Instance’s completion rewards, but Li Xian said he did not know who the man was.
• Li Xian examined an A-quality Sharp Utility Knife and an S-quality, single-use E-flat Major Nocturne that could protect someone from one instance of fatal damage.
• After eating and sleeping, Li Xian entered the No. 48 Asylum Instance, where the objective was to find the only sane character and take them out of the asylum.
• Li Xian discovered that he was patient 303A, diagnosed with homosexuality, and read the asylum’s schedule and attendance records.
• Li Xian noticed that the records did not match the apparent time and date, then stepped into the corridor and encountered another person.

Li Xian realized the players had arrived at the hospital cafeteria just before the morning deadline and saw a late patient punished with a doubled dose. During attendance, Zhuang Man gave the wrong room number and was punished too, while Li Xian noticed that patients received the same two pills.

• Li Xian found the wards empty, realized it was almost nine in the morning, and hurried everyone toward the cafeteria.
• The Head Nurse punished Li Jiantao for arriving one second late by ordering the orderlies to make him take a double dose, costing him thirty Mental Value points.
• The Head Nurse began attendance, and Zhuang Man answered to the wrong number, so the orderlies dragged her away for a double dose.
• The silent player identified as 307B answered attendance by raising his hand, and the Head Nurse accepted it.
• The patients lined up to take two pills each, which Li Xian recognized as the same pills given to the punished players.

Li Xian avoided swallowing his two pills during a disturbance, then met Jiang Qiuyue and the silent man in Ward 307B. The man introduced himself as Cheng Xin, vice guild leader of the White Night Guild.

• Doctor Ding ordered Li Xian to take two pills and inspected his mouth after he drank water.
• A manic patient attacked Doctor Ding, and orderlies subdued and injected him, creating a distraction that let Li Xian spit out his pills unnoticed.
• Li Xian noticed that Jiang Qiuyue and the silent man appeared unaffected by the loss of Mental Value, unlike players forced to take four pills.
• Jiang Qiuyue introduced herself and suggested they talk outside after breakfast, then Li Xian was led to Ward 307B.
• The man showed Li Xian and Jiang Qiuyue his chart, which listed aphasia and dementia, and they shared their assigned conditions.
• The man introduced himself to Li Xian as Cheng Xin, vice guild leader of the White Night Guild.

Li Xian agreed to work with Cheng Xin and the White Night Guild while they searched the asylum for someone. After a piercing tone sent the patients into a fearful silence, a patient attacked, and Li Xian drew the Head Nurse and an unfamiliar doctor’s attention.

• Cheng Xin recognized Li Xian from his livestream fame and invited him to work with the White Night Guild; Li Xian agreed.
• Li Xian, Cheng Xin, and Jiang Qiuyue left the ward to search the building and heard a piercing tone that silenced the patients.
• When Jiang Qiuyue spoke, a patient charged after her, and Li Xian stopped Cheng Xin from striking him as the Head Nurse approached.
• The Head Nurse questioned Li Xian and Cheng Xin about the patient who had fallen down the stairs, while an unfamiliar doctor watched Li Xian.
• The patient attacked Li Xian but stopped short of hitting him, so Li Xian pretended to be hurt and pulled them both down the stairs.
• The doctor caught Li Xian before he hit the floor, while the patient landed at the Head Nurse’s feet and passed out again.

After being sent back to his room, Li Xian cautiously met his autistic roommate, 303B, and used drawings to communicate with him. When 303B pointed out the stars he had seen beyond the window, Li Xian looked outside and was swallowed by the expanding darkness.

• Doctor Ji intervened when the Head Nurse assigned Li Xian punishment, and the Head Nurse sent Li Xian and Cheng Xin back to their rooms to await treatment.
• An orderly escorted Li Xian to his room and stood guard outside, where Li Xian discovered his roommate, 303B.
• Li Xian learned that 303B could not remember his name and had lived at the sanatorium for a long time.
• When Li Xian mentioned the afternoon treatment, 303B became frightened, but calmed down as they communicated through drawings.
• 303B drew stars and pointed to the pitch-black window, and Li Xian stared outside until the darkness expanded and engulfed his vision.

Li Xian recovered from a strange, blinding experience at the ward window and followed 303B to the asylum’s treatment floor. As treatment began, Jiang Qiuyue warned him that the building had no exit, and the first patients’ outcomes left the players uncertain about what awaited them.

• Li Xian stared into the darkness beyond the window until his vision filled with white light, then learned that 303B had been asking whether the sun was a larger star.
• Li Xian realized nearly two hours had passed at the window and followed 303B to the fourth floor for treatment.
• Li Xian noticed that patients avoided a locked, unmarked section beyond the four treatment rooms and returned to the waiting crowd.
• Jiang Qiuyue apologized to Li Xian for needing his help and told him she had discovered the building had no exit.
• The Head Nurse lined the patients up by assigned treatment room, and Li Jiantao was called into Room 402 as its first patient.
• After one patient left treatment and went downstairs, two more patients emerged, unsettling the waiting players.

Li Xian watched patients face punishment for worsening symptoms and forced discharge for recovery, then entered his own examination with Doctor Ji. Doctor Ji warned him to make his heart beat faster during the test or risk being discharged, and began the test as Li Xian met his gaze.

• Li Xian saw two patients receive painful special treatment after their conditions worsened.
• The Head Nurse escorted Li Jiantao away for discharge after a doctor assessed him as fully recovered.
• Li Xian entered consultation room 402 and recognized Doctor Ji, who examined his records and asked routine questions.
• Doctor Ji began preparing a heart-rate test, but Li Xian hurriedly unbuttoned his own shirt when the doctor’s slow touch unsettled him.
• Doctor Ji whispered that Li Xian needed to make his heart beat faster to avoid discharge, then began the test.

Li Xian bluffed his way through an examination with Ji Xie, then regrouped with Cheng Xin and Jiang Qiuyue to discuss the hospital’s hidden exit and how to find the normal person. The three split up to question patients, and Li Xian began searching the wards.

• Ji Xie tried to provoke Li Xian during the examination, but Li Xian held his breath to fake a rising heart rate and passed as unchanged.
• Li Xian left the examination room and waited for Cheng Xin and Jiang Qiuyue, who also passed their examinations.
• Jiang Qiuyue told Li Xian and Cheng Xin that the hospital had no visible exit and that two locked areas required a doctor’s or nurse’s ID badge.
• Cheng Xin proposed releasing all the patients to draw out the doctors and nurses, but Li Xian rejected the plan and suggested questioning patients instead.
• Li Xian, Cheng Xin, and Jiang Qiuyue split up to search the wards, and Li Xian found a half-open door.

Li Xian entered Patient Room 308 and was attacked by the violent, sleep-deprived 308A while 308B panicked. Cheng Xin helped restrain 308A, but the Head Nurse arrived to find the room wrecked.

• Li Xian opened the door to Patient Room 308, where a cup fell and 308A accused him of disturbing his rest.
• 308A attacked Li Xian with a stool and a coat rack while 308B screamed and fled into a corner.
• Cheng Xin entered and restrained 308A, then helped Li Xian trap him against the window bars with the coat rack.
• Li Xian explained that 308A had a sleep disorder and violent tendencies, while 308B had persecutory delusion.
• The Head Nurse appeared at the doorway and demanded to know what had happened.

Li Xian and Cheng Xin were questioned by the Head Nurse after she found the wrecked room and injured 308A, and Li Xian struggled against an ability that forced him to tell the truth. Confined to their rooms and left without dinner, Li Xian pondered who could count as “normal” before a cold gust of wind swept through the dark room.

• The Head Nurse freed 308A from the bent clothes rack, examined him, and questioned Li Xian about the damage and his injuries.
• Li Xian found himself compelled to tell the Head Nurse the truth, then claimed he had guessed what happened after stepping on 308A’s medical record card.
• The Head Nurse found no wounds on Li Xian or Cheng Xin but confined them to their rooms until eight thirty the next morning for failing to report the abnormality.
• Li Xian spent the night considering who might qualify as “normal” and planned to ask Jiang Qiuyue for information the next day.
• As the hour hand approached ten, a gust of cold wind suddenly rushed into Li Xian’s dark room.

Li Xian survived the Head Nurse’s nighttime rounds by admitting he could not sleep, but she drugged him and punished Zhuang Man for pretending to be asleep. The next morning, Li Xian concluded that staying awake during rounds was unsafe, just as someone suddenly shoved open the ward door.

• The Head Nurse checked Li Xian’s breathing and asked whether he was asleep, and Li Xian admitted he could not sleep.
• The Head Nurse gave Li Xian a sleeping pill, then gave 303B another pill and marked two checks on the May 4 form.
• The Head Nurse caught Zhuang Man pretending to sleep, forced three pills into her mouth, and carried her out of room 302.
• Li Xian woke at eight thirty with no apparent side effects and reasoned that being awake during the rounds had risked a sleeping pill.
• Someone suddenly shoved open the ward door as Li Xian considered how to avoid the nighttime rounds.

Li Xian learned that 308A’s insomnia had vanished after their encounter, but 308A insisted that Li Xian keep his recovery secret. As 308A explained the solitary confinement area, Li Xian worked out that a skybridge might lead to the medical staff building and a possible exit.

• 304B entered Li Xian’s ward to take revenge, but 308A threw him out and greeted Li Xian with a grateful handshake.
• 308A thanked Li Xian for curing his insomnia, then warned him not to reveal that he had recovered.
• 308A told Li Xian that solitary confinement lay beyond the door at the end of the fourth-floor corridor and said patients were usually released when it was time for treatment.
• Li Xian realized the corridor was likely a skybridge to the medical staff building and considered it a possible route to the exit.
• Cheng Xin saw Li Xian walking with 308A and wondered if he was seeing things.
• Li Xian asked whether 308A thought anyone in the sanatorium was normal, and 308A said there could not possibly be anyone.

Li Xian noticed the patients’ medication doses had increased, then suffered a sharp drop in Mental Value after Doctor Ding forced him to swallow three pills. After Jiang Qiuyue restored some of his Mental Value with her skill, Li Xian proposed provoking an easily angered patient.

• 308A told Li Xian that the medication schedule and dosage had been increasing, and roll call revealed that two patients were missing.
• Doctor Ding ordered Li Xian to open his mouth and swallow three pills, dropping his Mental Value to 55 and causing severe discomfort.
• Jiang Qiuyue used her skill to restore Li Xian’s Mental Value to 75 by spending Health Points.
• Jiang Qiuyue reported that the patients she and other players had interviewed were all seriously abnormal.
• Li Xian asked whether any patients were relatively safe but quick to anger, then said he planned to pick a fight with one.

Li Xian deliberately provoked Patient 203A to get sent to solitary confinement, but the encounter turned dangerous when 203A forced him to choke him. Ji Xie and the Head Nurse arrived in time, and the Head Nurse ordered 203A discharged for a serious violation.

• Jiang Qiuyue told Li Xian that Patient 203A was prone to exhibitionism, and Li Xian went to provoke him.
• When 203A became excited by Li Xian, Li Xian punched him to provoke a fight.
• 203A grabbed Li Xian's wrist and forced his hand against his own throat, making Li Xian choke him.
• Jiang Qiuyue brought the Head Nurse and Ji Xie to the room, and Ji Xie pulled Li Xian away from 203A.
• After confirming 203A was alive, the Head Nurse declared that he had committed a serious violation and ordered his discharge.

Li Xian realized that patients were disappearing through violations, making the asylum’s hidden time limit more dangerous than it first seemed. After being sentenced to ten hours in confinement, he entered a tiny, pitch-black room and discovered that its ceiling was inexplicably out of reach.

• Li Xian realized that patients disappearing after violations could steadily deprive the players of clues.
• An orderly carried the exhausted 203A out of the Patient Room after 203A mouthed, “What a pity,” to Li Xian.
• The Head Nurse sentenced Li Xian to ten hours in confinement for continuing to pursue an inappropriate relationship with a doctor, and summoned Ji Xie.
• An orderly led Li Xian across the skybridge to the confinement rooms beside an operating room.
• Li Xian explored the cramped, dark confinement room and found that he could not reach its ceiling even by jumping.

Li Xian escaped the confinement room through an air vent and found a pharmacy stocked with the medicines given to him. He switched the pills with vitamins and returned to his cell, waiting to see whether anyone had noticed his escape.

• Li Xian climbed the confinement-room walls, opened the air vent, and crawled through the duct into a pharmacy.
• He found the sleeping pills and treatment pills he had been given, then replaced their contents with vitamins.
• Two orderlies entered the pharmacy and mentioned that one of them needed to watch the security feed for Li Xian in confinement.
• After the orderlies left, Li Xian swapped his prepared bottles with the medicines they had brought in and took gummy vitamins.
• Li Xian crawled back through the duct, closed the vent, and waited in the confinement room to see whether anyone discovered his escape.

Li Xian returned from confinement, learned that a player had died after saying “leave,” and prepared to investigate the sanatorium after lights-out. When he finally looked into the corridor, he found a patient hanging motionless from a taut line.

• Li Xian slept through his confinement and returned to the patients' section, where Jiang Qiuyue reported that none of the patients seemed normal and none had mania listed in their records.
• Cheng Xin told Li Xian that a player had died after saying “leave” to a patient, and that Qian Chen was the only survivor of the other team.
• Li Xian returned to his room and waited for the Head Nurse's medication rounds, intending to sneak out after receiving his replaced medication.
• After no nurse appeared by midnight, Li Xian peered into the corridor and saw a motionless patient suspended above the floor by a taut line.

Li Xian rescued a hanging patient too late, then hid from the Head Nurse and found the man’s note warning that patients chosen for discharge became living dead. After an orderly hurried through the remaining rounds, Li Xian waited for a chance to investigate, but a piercing wail rang through the building.

• Li Xian found a patient hanging in the corridor and discovered he still had a faint heartbeat.
• The Head Nurse tried to revive the patient for half an hour, then dragged his body away while Li Xian hid in Patient Room 304.
• Li Xian hid beneath 304B’s bed and found a note saying the patient had tried to die to avoid being discharged and turned into one of the living dead.
• Li Xian returned to his room, where an orderly quickly finished checking the patients after the Head Nurse’s interrupted rounds.
• Li Xian waited for the orderly to leave so he could investigate, but a long wail suddenly rang through the building.

Li Xian's swapped medicine nearly came to light when a piercing tone sent patients into a panic, but the Head Nurse and an inexperienced orderly failed to notice it. The next morning, Li Xian arranged for Cheng Xin to test the medicine, and the group found the cafeteria filled with silent, solitary patients.

• A prolonged tone woke Li Xian's roommate, 303B, and triggered shouting and pounding throughout the patient rooms.
• Li Xian calmed 303B with Vitamin Gummies while the Head Nurse blamed the orderly for skipping the proper medication procedure and ordered her to inject patients with Tranquilizer.
• The orderly injected the screaming patients, and Li Xian realized his medicine switch had gone undetected; he also learned that the Head Nurse feared someone called the Director.
• Li Xian told Cheng Xin and Jiang Qiuyue about the switched medicine, and Cheng Xin volunteered to test it before the others took their doses.
• Li Xian, Cheng Xin, and Jiang Qiuyue entered the cafeteria and found the patients sitting alone in an eerie silence.