Recaps

Li Xian warned the other players away from the front row after the Jadeite Rough heated up, but one player sat beside the girl in green and became frozen. During class, Li Xian discovered that the school’s students and teacher were avoiding the players, and the chapter ended with the players still in the classroom and Zheng Xiang motionless in the front row.

• Li Xian felt the Jadeite Rough grow hot near the front row and warned two players not to sit there, but their companion remained beside the girl in green and froze rigidly.
• Li Xian, Qian Chen, and Jiang Qiuyue took seats near the back while class began, and the girl in green kept her head down.
• Li Xian noticed that students ignored him and concluded that the school’s students were ostracizing the players.
• Li Xian raised his hand to ask the teacher a question, but the teacher avoided him, dismissed the class, and hurried out.
• The students and the girl in green left, leaving the nine players in the classroom as a tall, thin female player called to Zheng Xiang, who remained frozen in his seat.

After Zheng Xiang died for sitting in the wrong seat, Li Xian’s group searched for food and information in the university instance. Their investigation led them to a blood-soaked dorm room containing a mutilated corpse, whose injuries suggested a fall from a great height.

• Wei Dong introduced himself and Zhai Shu, and the other players exchanged names after Zheng Xiang’s death.
• Li Xian led the group to the cafeteria, where the staff ignored them, so they bought food at the supermarket instead.
• Li Xian entered the dorm supervisor’s room and photographed the building’s registration sheet, which listed thirty-four students in Class 32.
• The players split into groups to visit their classmates, and Li Xian and Qian Chen went to Room 216.
• Li Xian and Qian Chen found a mutilated corpse amid blood covering the room’s walls and ceiling, and Li Xian suspected it had fallen from a great height.

Li Xian and Qian Chen discovered a corpse in Room 216, then questioned the apparent classmates living next door to learn about the incident and the dormitory keys. The classmates grew suspicious when Li Xian asked about Room 103, but Qian Chen helped ease their doubts.

• Li Xian and Qian Chen found a corpse in Room 216, and a pajama-clad young man from Room 218 invited them into his dorm.
• Li Xian asked the young man about “that incident,” but a roommate warned him not to curse the woman involved, and the young man refused to discuss it further.
• Qian Chen knocked a book off the desk, revealing its covers had been torn away because blood had stained them.
• Li Xian inferred that the three roommates had moved from Room 216 after their roommate died and learned that Room 103 kept the dormitory keys.
• The young man and his roommates became suspicious of Li Xian’s question about Room 103, but Qian Chen’s explanation eased their doubts.

Li Xian and the others found bodies in several dorm rooms and learned they had to move out of rooms with broken locks. After choosing new rooms with their teammates, Li Xian warned Qian Chen away from Bed Four, but that night a ghostly woman appeared over Zhao Minghua.

• Li Xian and Qian Chen found another dorm room containing a mangled corpse, and Li Xian learned that every player's room had a broken lock.
• The players agreed to collect new keys from Room 103 and chose to room with their original teammates.
• Li Xian moved into a former women's dorm room and suspected the bodies might be linked to a shared rule or bed assignment.
• Li Xian told Qian Chen to take Bed Three instead of Bed Four, though the jade showed no reaction during his inspection.
• After lights-out, Zhao Minghua woke to a crying woman hovering over him as He Tongtong and Jia Ruiyao lay frozen with fear.

Zhao Minghua was killed when the crying woman shoved him from his bed, leaving Jia Ruiyao and He Tongtong trapped above a blood-covered floor. The next morning, Li Xian and the others helped them escape the room, while the strange buzzing outside the door had revealed itself as flies.

• The woman shoved Zhao Minghua from his bed, and he hit the floor and died.
• After the woman left the room, Jia Ruiyao spotted the open door and asked He Tongtong to close it.
• He Tongtong left the door partly open, then warned Jia Ruiyao that someone was outside as footsteps and buzzing approached.
• Flies entered the room when the door was pushed open.
• The next morning, Li Xian and the others laid blankets across the blood-covered floor to help He Tongtong and Jia Ruiyao leave.
• Li Xian reminded Jia Ruiyao that dried blood was still on his face.

He Tongtong described the strange figures who gathered around Zhao Minghua’s body, and Li Xian suspected the deaths were linked to bed four. In class, the warning “Don’t look” proved relevant when a girl in a green dress appeared and Wei Dong met her gaze.

• He Tongtong told Li Xian and the others that a crying woman had appeared before Zhao Minghua died, then several figures had gathered around the body and made buzzing sounds.
• Li Xian suggested the deaths might have been caused by sleeping in bed four, and Qian Chen realized Li Xian had kept him from taking that bed.
• The players entered the classroom and saw red-chalk eyes above the words “Don’t look” on the blackboard.
• Li Xian questioned the short-sleeved young man, who warned him that anyone who heard crying had to pretend not to hear it.
• A pale green-dressed girl appeared at the classroom door during the video lesson, and the students lowered their heads as Li Xian warned Qian Chen to do the same.
• Wei Dong looked toward the girl and met her eyes, realizing what the warning on the blackboard meant.

Wei Dong survived looking into the green-dressed girl's eyes, while Li Xian and the other players continued through the school Instance. Li Xian recognized Ji Xie as their teacher, and Ji Xie secretly wrote a reply on Li Xian's note.

• Wei Dong looked into the green-dressed girl's red eyes, then waited in fear until she vanished without harming him.
• Li Xian photographed the attendance list and led the players toward the next classroom, where Zhai Shu claimed someone had pushed her and heard her name called.
• Li Xian recognized Ji Xie at the lectern, though the two passed without speaking.
• Ji Xie began class by asking everyone to submit notes with their class and names, and Li Xian added a greeting for him.
• Ji Xie told Li Xian not to leave, wrote a few words on his note, and handed it back.

Li Xian avoided acknowledging the girl in green when she tried to lure him into taking a supposedly dropped note, then met Ji Xie in office 1425. Ji Xie revealed the school considered Class 32 cursed and gave Li Xian a slice of strawberry cake.

• Li Xian told Jiang Qiuyue and Qian Chen to return to the dorm without him, then ignored the girl in green when she insisted he had dropped a note.
• Ji Xie dismissed class two minutes early, allowing Li Xian to leave before the girl in green could bring the note closer to his eye.
• Li Xian found the note still in his pocket and went to office 1425, where Ji Xie said the office belonged only to him.
• Li Xian asked why the school avoided Class 32, and Ji Xie explained that other teachers called it cursed because people who spoke to its students supposedly died.
• Ji Xie ruffled Li Xian's hair, told him to keep himself safe, and offered him a slice of strawberry cake.

Li Xian helped the players decide to seek clues through the school forum and private messages instead of questioning people face-to-face. As the others prepared to leave, he noticed that Zhai Shu’s teammate, Wei Dong, was missing, and Zhai Shu realized she had not noticed his absence.

• Li Xian thanked Ji Xie for the cake, then stopped him from leaning closer by giving him a gummy bear and hurried out when Ji Xie pointed out cream on his mouth.
• Li Xian returned to the dorm and found Jiang Qiuyue, Qian Chen, He Tongtong, Jia Ruiyao, and Zhai Shu discussing how to find clues.
• Li Xian suggested posting anonymously online, and the group confirmed that the players’ phones could access the school’s chat app and forum.
• Li Xian told the group to make only one forum post that day while the others privately contacted students, and Jiang Qiuyue volunteered to post.
• Li Xian asked where Zhai Shu’s teammate, Wei Dong, was, and Zhai Shu realized she had not noticed he was missing.

Li Xian pieced together that Wei Dong had vanished after likely making eye contact with the girl in the green dress, whose presence they believed was governed by a warning on the blackboard. The group left the matter unresolved and began gathering information from other students, while Li Xian used a fake female account to contact a senior.

• Zhai Shu recalled that Wei Dong’s presence had gradually faded from her awareness during the first class.
• Li Xian concluded that Wei Dong had pushed Zhai Shu on the stairs after the first class and had then vanished.
• Zhai Shu suggested Wei Dong might have failed to lower his head when the girl in the green dress entered.
• Li Xian proposed that the blackboard warned them not to look into the girl’s eyes and advised the group to ignore her.
• Jiang Qiuyue prepared a post while Qian Chen and Li Xian searched the year group chat for people to contact.
• Li Xian created a fake female account and messaged a senior who accepted his friend request.

Li Xian and Jiang Qiuyue tried to learn why Class 32 was isolated, but the online students avoided the subject and Jiang Qiuyue’s post was deleted. Comparing class records, Li Xian found Deng Hanyu missing from the dormitory register and contacted him; after Jiang Qiuyue drew him into conversation, Deng Hanyu offered to meet the next day.

• Li Xian questioned several students online, but they flirted or stopped responding whenever he brought up Class 32.
• Jiang Qiuyue’s post received views but no replies and was deleted, while Li Xian learned the university planned to deal with Class 32 by Saturday.
• Li Xian compared the class roster with the dormitory register and found that Xie Zhi and Deng Hanyu were missing from the register.
• Li Xian found Deng Hanyu’s contact information and sent him a friend request, then asked Jiang Qiuyue to draw information out of him.
• Jiang Qiuyue chatted with Deng Hanyu under the name Lin Yaoyao and asked about the strange campus atmosphere.
• Deng Hanyu suggested meeting Jiang Qiuyue the next day to talk.

Jiang Qiuyue and Li Xian planned to disguise Li Xian as a woman so he could meet Deng Hanyu without being recognized. As Li Xian tried on a dress in an empty dorm room, the Green-Dressed Girl emerged from the wardrobe.

• Jiang Qiuyue arranged to meet Deng Hanyu on the sports field after fourth period the next day.
• Li Xian told Jiang Qiuyue he planned to dress as a woman, as he had in the Stone River Village instance.
• Jiang Qiuyue explained the plan to Qian Chen and proposed finding Li Xian a complete outfit.
• Jiang Qiuyue found a dress that fit Li Xian, and he changed into it while she and Qian Chen waited outside.
• Li Xian prepared to remove the revealing dress when the wardrobe creaked open and the Green-Dressed Girl crawled out.

Li Xian escaped the girl in the green dress, then let Jiang Qiuyue dress him up to meet Deng Hanyu the next day. In the morning, he pretended to sleep while the girl sat beside him, until He Tongtong’s urgent knocking shattered the silence.

• Li Xian shut the girl in the green dress inside the dorm room and hurried back to his room with Jiang Qiuyue and Qian Chen.
• Jiang Qiuyue dressed Li Xian in makeup and a wig, then arranged for him to meet Deng Hanyu after fourth period the next day.
• Li Xian realized Ji Xie would teach fourth period and worried that Ji Xie would mock his disguise.
• The next morning, Jiang Qiuyue and Qian Chen found the girl in the green dress sitting beside Li Xian’s bed.
• Li Xian woke when the Jadeite grew hot but kept his eyes closed and pretended to sleep as the girl remained beside him.
• He Tongtong knocked loudly and called out that something had happened, forcing Li Xian to consider acting awake.

Li Xian and the others discovered that Jia Ruiyao had died after a group of people surrounded his bed and made buzzing sounds. A bloodstain on Li Xian’s hand led him to suspect that blood might be connected to Jia Ruiyao’s death.

• Jiang Qiuyue kept He Tongtong from disturbing Li Xian while the woman in the green dress was in their room.
• Li Xian and Qian Chen went with Jiang Qiuyue to find He Tongtong and learned that Jia Ruiyao was dead.
• Li Xian found Jia Ruiyao’s body on the upper bunk, with no visible wounds despite his agonized expression.
• He Tongtong said that intruders broke the dorm-room lock, surrounded Jia Ruiyao, and made buzzing sounds until his screams stopped.
• Qian Chen noticed dried blood on the back of Li Xian’s hand, and Li Xian suspected the blood might have caused Jia Ruiyao’s death.

Li Xian suspected that the blood on his hand might put him in danger, then prepared to attend Ji Xie's class in disguise. A pearl necklace changed his voice, and after drawing attention from many students on the way, he arrived at the classroom just as Ji Xie was waiting inside.

• He Tongtong suggested that Jia Ruiyao might have died because blood had gotten on him, and Li Xian washed his hand while wondering when the blood had touched him.
• Li Xian went to morning class with the others, and nothing unusual happened.
• Jiang Qiuyue dressed Li Xian as a girl and gave him a pearl necklace that changed his voice.
• Li Xian practiced speaking with the necklace and left early with Jiang Qiuyue and Qian Chen, while He Tongtong and Zhai Shu stayed behind.
• Many students approached Li Xian and asked for his contact information, so he reached Ji Xie's classroom only just in time.

Li Xian met Ji Xie before class, and Ji Xie covered his exposed back with his jacket. After class, Li Xian went to the sports field to meet Deng Hanyu while disguised as Lin Yaoyao.

• Ji Xie questioned Li Xian about his outfit and touched his necklace and neckline before draping his jacket over Li Xian's bare back.
• Qian Chen asked where Li Xian got the jacket, and Jiang Qiuyue mistakenly suspected that Li Xian had seduced Ji Xie.
• Ji Xie watched Li Xian during self-study, making him uncomfortable enough to hide behind his textbook.
• Li Xian received Deng Hanyu's message and went to the sports field, where he identified him by his black jacket and jeans.
• Deng Hanyu recognized Li Xian as Lin Yaoyao and laid his jacket over the bench before Li Xian sat down.

Li Xian met Deng Hanyu, who explained how Xie Zhi’s relationship with Teacher Shang, alleged exam cheating, and later death were connected to Class 32’s curse. The conversation ended when Li Xian and Deng Hanyu spotted a hand reaching out from beneath their seat.

• Li Xian declined Deng Hanyu’s jacket and explained that he was attending class for someone else when Deng questioned why they shared a class.
• Deng Hanyu asked about the jacket on Li Xian’s shoulders, and Li Xian said it belonged to a friend.
• Li Xian asked Deng Hanyu about Class 32, and Deng traced its troubles back to Xie Zhi’s relationship with Teacher Shang.
• Deng Hanyu said Xie Zhi had obtained a copy of the calculus final, earned the highest score and scholarship, then took leave while Teacher Shang resigned.
• Deng Hanyu recounted that Xie Zhi returned in poor condition, jumped from a school building, and was followed by a curse affecting Class 32.
• Deng Hanyu noticed a hand reaching out from beneath the seat, and Li Xian followed his gaze.

Li Xian and Deng Hanyu left the bench after Xie Zhi reached for them from underneath it, and Deng Hanyu revealed he had once been a student in Class 32. When Deng Hanyu and Ji Xie both offered to walk Li Xian back, Li Xian chose Ji Xie, leaving Deng Hanyu resentful; afterward, Li Xian noticed Ji Xie had brought him a box of chocolate cake.

• Li Xian recognized Xie Zhi’s cufflink beneath the bench, and Deng Hanyu stood on her reaching hand to help them get away.
• Deng Hanyu told Li Xian he had once studied in Class 32 but left before the accident and had escaped its strange effects.
• Deng Hanyu offered to walk Li Xian to his dorm, but Ji Xie appeared and insisted on taking him instead.
• Li Xian chose Ji Xie to walk him back, and Deng Hanyu watched them leave with a vicious expression.
• Li Xian noticed Ji Xie was carrying a familiar box of chocolate cake and asked if it was for him.

Li Xian and Ji Xie brought a cake back to the dormitory and found a way for Ji Xie to hide in his human and tentacle forms. Li Xian shared the cake with Ji Xie, who discovered he did not particularly enjoy its taste.

• Li Xian invited Ji Xie to eat cake with him, and Ji Xie teased him before hiding as a tentacle against the back of his neck.
• Li Xian ran into Jiang Qiuyue, who brought him upstairs before he could find an empty room with Ji Xie.
• Li Xian changed clothes, made Ji Xie turn human to return his phone, and then let him hide in a pocket.
• Li Xian offered Ji Xie pieces of cake, and Ji Xie swallowed the first piece so quickly that he choked.
• Ji Xie slowly ate another piece and decided the cake was not especially good.

Li Xian finished the cake with Ji Xie, then agreed to meet Deng Hanyu again while considering how to uncover the truth about Xie Zhi and Teacher Shang. After the dorm lights went out, Ji Xie crowded into Li Xian’s bed.

• Ji Xie took the fork and offered Li Xian a bite of cake, then Li Xian finished the rest and climbed into bed with Ji Xie.
• Ji Xie reacted jealously to Li Xian messaging Deng Hanyu, but Li Xian explained that Deng Hanyu still had clues and agreed to meet him again.
• Deng Hanyu asked about Li Xian’s relationship with Teacher Ji, and Li Xian said it was an ordinary teacher-student relationship.
• Li Xian doubted Deng Hanyu’s account of Xie Zhi’s past and considered seeking more information from him and Teacher Shang.
• The dorm lights went out, and Ji Xie squeezed Li Xian against the wall in bed until Li Xian pinched his arm.

Li Xian and Ji Xie playfully make up after a tickling mishap, then fall asleep together. When the Flies attack the dorm, Li Xian opens the door at the right moment and slips outside as the attackers tumble into the room, spotting someone familiar among them.

• Li Xian tries to make Ji Xie turn back into a tentacle, but Ji Xie retaliates by tickling him.
• Ji Xie realizes Li Xian is upset and turns into a tentacle, prompting Li Xian to pretend to be hurt before letting the tentacle curl around his finger as he falls asleep.
• Li Xian wakes to the Flies battering the dorm door and recognizes that they may be targeting him.
• Li Xian unlocks and yanks open the door just before another impact, sending seven or eight student-like attackers stumbling into the room.
• Li Xian slips outside and recognizes a familiar face among the attackers.

Li Xian tried to escape the Fly People pursuing him through the dormitory, but discovered that they could track him even after losing sight of him. When they cornered him, he hid in a restroom near the crying Xie Zhi, whose presence seemed to keep the Fly People at bay.

• Li Xian ran from the Fly People and led them around the dormitory stairs, then hid in a room to test how quickly they could find him.
• Li Xian realized the Fly People could track his location and resumed leading them through the building while conserving his strength.
• The Fly People split up and trapped Li Xian near the stairwell, but stopped before reaching him.
• Li Xian entered the restroom, found Xie Zhi crying in a stall, and hid in the last stall.
• Li Xian concluded that the Fly People feared Xie Zhi and stayed hidden between Xie Zhi and the buzzing students.

Li Xian hid from Xie Zhi and the fly people in a restroom stall, using a mop to keep her from finding him and a recording of her sobbing to drive the creatures away. The threat remained outside as he and Ji Xie stayed trapped in the stall.

• After Xie Zhi stopped crying and left her stall, she turned back and tried to open Li Xian's stall.
• Li Xian wedged a mop against the door and climbed onto the toilet while Xie Zhi searched beneath the door with her eye.
• After Xie Zhi left, Ji Xie lowered Li Xian from the tentacles holding him up as the fly people approached.
• Li Xian played a recording of crying, making the fly people retreat from their stall.
• Ji Xie withdrew his hand from Li Xian's waist and claimed he had been too scared to move.

Li Xian spent the night hiding in a toilet with Ji Xie, who helped him sleep until morning. After they left, Li Xian asked Ji Xie to find the contact information of a former teacher, but their planned meeting conflicted with Li Xian’s appointment with Deng Hanyu.

• Li Xian replied to Jiang Qiuyue and Qian Chen that he was safe but could not return until dawn, then decided to wait out the night in the toilet.
• Ji Xie spread his jacket over the toilet lid and invited Li Xian to sleep on his lap; Li Xian accepted and fell asleep in his arms.
• Li Xian woke at 9:35 and realized he had slept through the night while Ji Xie stayed awake supporting him.
• Li Xian urged Ji Xie to get to his first-period class, and Ji Xie agreed to go despite having little time left in the period.
• Li Xian asked Ji Xie to find contact information for a former teacher surnamed Shang, and Ji Xie arranged to meet him at one that afternoon.
• Li Xian remembered he was meeting Deng Hanyu at one thirty and realized he would need to change into women's clothes beforehand.

Li Xian returned safely to the Dormitory and shared how he had survived the night, including a recording of the Green-Dress Woman’s sobbing that could keep the Fly People away. While listening to the recording, he and the others noticed she seemed to say “Lu,” leaving them searching for what the word might mean.

• Li Xian met He Tongtong and Zhai Shu in the corridor, agreed to let them accompany him, and returned to the Dormitory.
• Li Xian reassured Jiang Qiuyue and Qian Chen, then recounted how he had escaped danger during the night while leaving out Ji Xie.
• Li Xian shared a recording of the Green-Dress Woman’s sobbing so the others could use it to keep the Fly People away.
• He Tongtong accidentally played the recording, and Li Xian asked her to replay its first two seconds after noticing a strange sound.
• Jiang Qiuyue, Qian Chen, and Li Xian listened closely and suspected the Green-Dress Woman was saying “Lu.”
• Li Xian checked the class roster for anyone with a surname pronounced Lu, but found no match.