Chapter Summaries

Li Qing returned from a dungeon mission and confronted Zhang Qin about a faulty admin backend that had exposed him in Gong Yao’s livestream. After being told not to investigate Wan Yingjun, Li Qing asked Zhang Qin to look into Gong Yao instead.

• Li Qing confronted Zhang Qin about an admin backend bug that had made him appear as a player and cost him administrator permissions in the dungeon.
• Zhang Qin agreed to investigate the recurring bug, while Miaomiao teased Li Qing about becoming famous through Gong Yao’s livestream.
• Miaomiao and Zhang Qin urged Li Qing to appear in more livestreams, but he firmly refused.
• Li Qing asked Zhang Qin what happened to his request to investigate Wan Yingjun, and learned it had been forwarded to the Central Processing Desk.
• Zhang Qin and Miaomiao advised Li Qing not to pursue Wan Yingjun, and Li Qing agreed to leave the matter alone.
• Li Qing asked Zhang Qin to investigate Gong Yao.

Li Qing entered a Dungeon Instance to investigate its unusually high survival rate, only to discover that Gong Yao was among the participants and the instance rejected his administrator tools. The chapter left Li Qing trapped in a buggy mission with instructions to proceed slowly.

• Zhang Qin showed Li Qing and Meimiao Gong Yao’s player data, which listed P001 as his linked system, and said his investigation had found nothing abnormal.
• A week later, Li Qing reluctantly took back his Administrator Console after the Technical Team refused his requests for a rollback or expanded permissions.
• Li Qing entered Dungeon Instance B0021, where seven players were listed for a fourteen-day film shoot despite the instance’s stated capacity of six.
• Li Qing met Director Li and identified himself as an administrator, but Director Li did not recognize him.
• Li Qing tried to reset Director Li’s level, but the instance rejected the command because its new version was incompatible with the maintenance tools.

Li Qing entered the film set disguised as a stagehand and summoned the cast for the opening ceremony while inspecting their player profiles. When Gong Yao arrived, he failed to recognize Li Qing, revealing that the players were roleplaying their assigned characters.

• Li Qing forged a Work ID, disguised himself as a stagehand, and began fetching the actors for the ceremony.
• Li Qing met Meng Tian, He Li, Yu Xiaohe, and An Ya, noting their player information and contrasting behavior.
• Li Qing summoned Bai Cha and discovered that the young actor was an F-rank player inside a B-rank Dungeon Instance.
• Li Qing helped the crew arrange props outside the castle and hoped to avoid Gong Yao.
• Gong Yao arrived with Tao Lele, stared at Li Qing, and mistook him for a new actor, leading Li Qing to understand the players' roleplaying status.

Li Qing watched Gong Yao and the other players gather for a horror film shoot, using Gong Yao’s livestream to observe them while investigating the unexplained extra player. After filming began at the Castle, Gong Yao claimed he had seen a ghostly child in white, leaving the crew alarmed.

• Li Qing studied Gong Yao and Tao Lele’s character introductions, then noticed that the Dungeon Instance listed seven players despite a player count of 7/6.
• Li Qing opened Gong Yao’s livestream and watched the crew’s kickoff ceremony, where Tao Lele disrupted the Taoist ritual.
• The players filmed the opening scene of their horror movie, arriving at the Castle as a group of young explorers.
• After the director called cut, Gong Yao told the crew he had seen a child dressed in white who vanished, and suggested the Castle might be haunted.

Li Qing watched a ghostly figure disrupt the crew’s Table-Turning Immortal scene, then learned that it was a level 1 NPC called the King of Hell. The King of Hell said he was waiting to collect a soul in the Castle that night.

• Gong Yao mistook white-haired production assistant Li Qing for a ghost, and Director Li cleared up the misunderstanding.
• Meng Tian and the other actors began the Table-Turning Immortal game while Gong Yao and An Ya watched from the side.
• A huge pale ghost appeared at the window, answered questions through the plate, and failed three times to possess Yu Xiaohe before leaving the room.
• Li Qing followed the ghost into a utility room and learned that it was the King of Hell, an NPC who could barely manifest in a world ruled by materialism.
• The King of Hell told Li Qing that he expected to take a soul from the house that night.

Li Qing watched a stunt double die during filming and learned that the King of Hell had originally come for Yu Xiaohe. He suspected Yu Xiaohe was the Dungeon Instance’s intended final boss, a Vengeful Ghost, rather than Bai Cha.

• Gong Yao told Li Qing that a voice in his head urged him to watch Li Qing closely, while Li Qing said a voice warned him to stay away from Gong Yao.
• At the Rooftop, Yu Xiaohe grew too frightened to perform the fall scene, so the production chose her stunt double instead.
• The safety air cushion failed, and the stunt double died after falling onto the concrete below.
• The King of Hell told Li Qing that he had meant to take Yu Xiaohe, who could have become the world’s only Vengeful Ghost.
• Li Qing concluded that Yu Xiaohe, not the suspicious Bai Cha, might be the player identity tied to the Dungeon Instance’s anomaly and its final boss.

After a stunt double’s death, filming continued while Li Qing watched the players’ livestreams and noticed Bai Cha’s unusual attention to him and Gong Yao. The King of Hell returned to claim He Li for his performance quota, but Bai Cha halted the dangerous car scene and Director Li sent Li Qing to inspect the props.

• The cast filmed the aftermath of Yu Xiaohe’s death, then moved on to scenes set five years later.
• Li Qing monitored the players’ livestreams and saw that Bai Cha’s channel was unavailable while the other players’ streams were active.
• Gong Yao and Bai Cha came to watch He Li and Meng Tian’s scene, and Li Qing noticed Bai Cha repeatedly watching him and Gong Yao.
• The King of Hell appeared beside Li Qing and insisted that He Li counted toward his performance quota.
• As He Li prepared to drive at Meng Tian, a girl’s voice came through the car speakers, and Bai Cha stopped filming to request a prop check.
• Director Li agreed and ordered Li Qing to inspect the props.

Li Qing narrowly escaped an explosion when Gong Yao pushed him out of danger, and the King of Hell collected another soul instead of his intended target, He Li. After the shoot was halted, Li Qing went into the city to eat and monitor the players, where the King of Hell appeared to urge him back.

• Gong Yao called Li Qing over to talk, while Meng Tian went to check on He Li.
• Gong Yao shoved Li Qing out of the way as the prop car exploded, injuring crew members and killing another person.
• The King of Hell admitted the dead person had not been his target and said He Li had been in danger; Li Qing submitted an urgent request for the Technical Team to investigate Bai Cha's history.
• Director Li halted filming, but he and the investors decided to publicize the fatal accident and continue the shoot.
• Li Qing went into the city, ordered a restaurant's entire menu, and watched the players' livestreams while arguing with viewers in the chat.
• The King of Hell emerged from Li Qing's plate and told him to return because he was close to meeting his quota.

He Li became convinced that An Ya had taken Meng Tian’s leading role and secretly poisoned a cup of coffee, while Li Qing watched without intervening. After Bai Cha accused Li Qing of knowing about the poison, Li Qing questioned how Bai Cha knew, then wondered why Bai Cha seemed so hostile toward him.

• Meng Tian sat with He Li and let him look at her annotated script, prompting him to realize An Ya had taken her leading role and to turn against An Ya.
• Li Qing watched He Li secretly pour something into a cup of coffee while the King of Hell circled him.
• He Li collided with Bai Cha and spilled hot coffee, then hurried away with the poisoned cup among the broken ones.
• Bai Cha accused Li Qing of seeing He Li poison the coffee, and Li Qing asked how Bai Cha knew about it.
• Gong Yao suggested Bai Cha might be jealous of Li Qing, but Li Qing dismissed the explanation and left.

Li Qing realized the King of Hell had targeted him after a rigged cleaver nearly killed him, but he dodged and survived. When Gong Yao became trapped in a rapidly descending elevator, Li Qing ran toward the control room and found Yu Xiaohe there.

• Gong Yao told Li Qing he suspected He Li had tampered with An Ya's coffee, and Li Qing admitted he had noticed something wrong with it.
• During filming at the Family Supermarket, a cleaver flew toward Li Qing, who shifted aside and avoided being struck.
• Li Qing learned the King of Hell had intended to kill him because the actors had been difficult targets.
• Gong Yao entered an elevator to film a claustrophobia scene, but it shot to the forty-fourth floor and began plunging downward.
• Li Qing ran toward the elevator control room and saw Yu Xiaohe close its door.

Li Qing confronted Yu Xiaohe about her identity as Qin Lian and the revenge she was struggling to pursue, then affirmed that the choice was hers. After they encountered Gong Yao, his manager suspected Yu Xiaohe of causing the elevator accident and demanded security footage.

• Li Qing revealed that Yu Xiaohe had once been Gong Yao's classmate, Qin Lian, and learned that she was torn between revenge and her feelings about who Gong Yao had become.
• Li Qing told Yu Xiaohe she was free to choose whether to be kind, then helped her to her feet.
• Li Qing and Yu Xiaohe encountered Gong Yao, who thanked them for saving him, while Li Qing clarified that Gong Yao had simply been lucky.
• Gong Yao's manager questioned Li Qing and Yu Xiaohe about the empty elevator control room and suggested Yu Xiaohe might have caused the malfunction.
• Gong Yao proposed checking the security footage to determine whether Yu Xiaohe had been in the control room.

Li Qing helped conceal Yu Xiaohe’s role in the production incidents while Gong Yao accepted that the broken surveillance cameras meant the incidents might have been caused by people rather than ghosts. After filming, Li Qing received the Technical Team’s report that Bai Cha had a normal identity and was in his first Dungeon Instance, along with advice to pursue a goal as production assistant Li Qing.

• Li Qing signaled Yu Xiaohe that the surveillance system would probably be broken, and Gong Yao later confirmed that the cameras had indeed failed.
• Gong Yao explained that he had used his sturdy dagger to pry open the elevator doors and escape with the cameraman.
• Gong Yao suggested that the filming incidents might have been man-made, arguing that people were easier to deal with than ghosts.
• Li Qing left the filming group to eat and read the Technical Team’s message about Bai Cha’s normal identity and first Dungeon Instance.
• Technician Zhang Qin advised Li Qing to create a goal for himself as a production assistant and integrate into the players’ story.

Li Qing decided to pose as someone with a secret crush on Yu Xiaohe so he could move around the dungeon and help her take revenge. After telling Bai Cha that Yu Xiaohe was his target, Li Qing saw his own face appear in Gong Yao's livestream.

• Li Qing settled on acting as Yu Xiaohe's secret admirer and watched He Li's livestream to study how to behave.
• Li Qing noted He Li's violent fixation on An Ya and his spying on Meng Tian as examples of secret-crush behavior.
• Li Qing watched Bai Cha dine with a middle-aged man, then confronted him about his reluctance and his interest in Gong Yao.
• Bai Cha questioned Li Qing's identity and asked why Gong Yao had changed around him.
• Li Qing told Bai Cha that he was not targeting Gong Yao and claimed to have a secret crush on Yu Xiaohe.
• A hooded passerby stared at Li Qing in surprise as Li Qing saw his own face in Gong Yao's livestream.

Li Qing sought Gong Yao’s advice on pursuing Yu Xiaohe, then tried to comfort her when she questioned her actions in the control room. The next day, a dangerous scene began with Bai Cha choking An Ya, and the chapter left An Ya struggling for breath while the director urged them to continue filming.

• Gong Yao gave Li Qing a long list of ways to pursue Yu Xiaohe, and Li Qing immediately used his phone to watch her hotel room.
• Yu Xiaohe told Li Qing that she felt unlike herself in the control room and could barely remember what had happened there.
• Li Qing tried to comfort Yu Xiaohe, but she remained confused before her manager took her to the morning shoot.
• Bai Cha and An Ya began filming a scene in which Bai Cha attacked her, and he choked her while the director called the performance realistic and told them to keep going.

Gong Yao interrupted Bai Cha strangling An Ya, but the crew’s excuses and An Ya’s violent retaliation left the room in chaos. Li Qing suggested Bai Cha was jealous of An Ya, and Bai Cha reacted with visible hatred.

• Li Qing watched as the crew stood by while Bai Cha strangled An Ya, until Tao Lele and Gong Yao returned and Gong Yao pulled Bai Cha away.
• Meng Tian and He Li claimed a ghost had possessed them, while Li Qing remained silent and Gong Yao questioned why no one had intervened.
• An Ya slapped Bai Cha repeatedly and attacked him with a lamp, accusing him and Meng Tian of conspiring against her.
• Gong Yao asked why Bai Cha would try to kill An Ya, and Li Qing asked whether Bai Cha was jealous of her.
• Bai Cha glared at Li Qing and trembled in response to the accusation.

Bai Cha and An Ya's fight exposed the resentment and secrets simmering among the film crew, while Gong Yao and Li Qing overheard Meng Tian directing Yu Xiaohe to fuel their conflict. Gong Yao warned Li Qing to be careful, but avoided asking why Li Qing had watched Bai Cha attack An Ya.

• An Ya accused Bai Cha of using his looks and wealthy patrons to advance, and Bai Cha attacked her until Gong Yao and Tao Lele separated them.
• Director Li asked Li Qing to clear the set, while Gong Yao followed him and tried to get him to offer comfort.
• Gong Yao pulled Li Qing into the Tool Room to hide from Yu Xiaohe, and they overheard Meng Tian order Yu Xiaohe to collect evidence linking An Ya and Gong Yao and show it to Bai Cha.
• Gong Yao concluded that the film crew members were not as simple as they seemed and warned Li Qing to be careful.
• Gong Yao admitted he had considered asking why Li Qing watched Bai Cha attack An Ya, but said he did not want to test his own heart.

During filming, Li Qing was injured when a ladder collapsed, and the police identified He Li as the culprit behind the switched prop jars. Li Qing realized the jars had targeted An Ya, while the broken ladder had been meant for him.

• An Ya filmed a supermarket scene in which Li Qing dropped a jar of jam, but he fell when the ladder's screw snapped and the shelves crashed down.
• Gong Yao rushed to Li Qing, and An Ya demanded an investigation after discovering the jars were real glass.
• Gong Yao agreed to call the police, who identified He Li from surveillance footage.
• He Li admitted switching the jars to avenge Meng Tian, and the police took him away.
• Li Qing told Gong Yao that the jars were meant for An Ya, but the broken ladder had been intended to hurt him.

Li Qing watched Meng Tian’s final scene turn deadly when the ghost Yu Xiaohe appeared and Meng Tian was electrocuted in the bathtub. The King of Hell collected the ghostly figure as Li Qing watched the livestream go dark.

• Gong Yao comforted An Ya after her argument with Meng Tian, while Li Qing noticed Meng Tian and Yu Xiaohe secretly taking a photo of them.
• The group learned that He Li had gone mad in detention, and Meng Tian worried about the consequences of having incited him.
• Gong Yao asked Li Qing to watch over the set, and Li Qing agreed before Meng Tian filmed her final scene.
• Yu Xiaohe’s ghost appeared to Meng Tian during the bathtub scene, frightening her into pulling a power cord into the water.
• Meng Tian was electrocuted and sank beneath the water as the crew mistook the scene for a successful take.
• The King of Hell emerged from the bathroom dragging a white figure while Li Qing watched the livestream go dark.

After Meng Tian was electrocuted, the crew suspended filming and the players left the hotel, leaving Li Qing unsure how the dungeon would continue. While he waited there, an urgent system message summoned him to resolve the players’ departure and restore the plot.

• The investigation found that an electrician had connected the dummy outlet and a broken voltage tester failed to reveal the danger that killed Meng Tian.
• Gong Yao confronted the director and assistant director for wanting to cover up the deaths, and Tao Lele persuaded the investor to suspend filming.
• Bai Cha, Yu Xiaohe, and Gong Yao left the hotel after speaking with Li Qing, while Yu Xiaohe said she had not decided about the matter Li Qing had raised.
• Li Qing checked the dungeon status, saw that the film shoot remained in progress, and stayed at the hotel while the other players were gone.
• An urgent system message told Li Qing that the players had gone beyond the dungeon script and asked him to bring the plot back on track.

Li Qing received an assignment to fix the dungeon instance bug by getting the players back to filming, and used the Admin Backend to send warnings that the game was not over. The warnings reached the actors as Bai Cha tried to flee, while Yu Xiaohe realized she still had to face her past as Qin Lian.

• Li Qing read Zhang Qin's urgent request to get the players back before the dungeon instance erased their data, then checked the actors' livestreams and learned Bai Cha had booked an international flight.
• Li Qing used the Admin Backend to send messages telling the actors that the game was not over and urging them to return.
• Gong Yao heard a sinister voice through his speakers and received a call from Tao Lele asking whether he had gotten Meng Tian's Ghost Calls.
• An Ya smashed her phone, saw a blood-red message accusing her of killing Meng Tian, and heard the voice tell her to come back.
• Yu Xiaohe realized she could not put her past as Qin Lian behind her while two people remained to remind her of it.
• Bai Cha rejected his assistant's demand to return for filming and packed to escape, while a mechanical voice in his head ordered him back to the set.