Chapter Summaries

Yin Chao witnessed Yin Rui’s childhood and her encounters with Shang Yi, learning that Shang Yi had once served as her maid before disappearing. The chapter ended with an older Shang Yi introducing himself to Yin Rui in an underground tavern.

• Yin Chao saw the infant Yin Rui chosen as Priest, then watched her grow into a mischievous and gifted child at the Central Hall.
• Yin Rui befriended a boy named Shang Yi, who gave her a white rose before disappearing.
• Shang Yi arrived at the Central Hall as Yin Rui’s maid, and Yin Rui promised to remember his name after defending him from bullies.
• Shang Yi vanished from the Central Hall, while Yin Rui later investigated the missionaries’ secret activities at an underground tavern.
• Yin Rui defeated Count Kendra’s son’s bodyguards, and the tavern’s owner stopped her from setting the place alight.
• The tavern owner told Yin Rui that his name was Shang Yi.

Yin Chao witnessed memories revealing how the Pastor and other church officials tried to weaken Yin Rui and keep her tied to the City-State. After Yin Rui destroyed the Pastor’s sacrificial chamber and rescued one survivor, she asked the young man his name.

• Yin Rui received a note from the former tavern owner warning her about the Pastor’s sacrificial basement, then wondered whether a black cat named Shang Yi was connected to the man she had loved.
• Yin Chao watched the Pastor lead believers into a blood-drawn array, where tentacles emerged from the Pastor and killed them all.
• The Pastor confessed that he, the Father, the Deacon, the Archbishop, and the Nun had conspired to break Yin Rui’s wings and prevent her from becoming a god, claiming they did it for the City-State.
• As the Pastor transformed and begged for death, Yin Rui summoned flames and burned down the basement.
• Yin Rui found a sick young man alive near the doorway and rescued him; when he asked whether the Pastor’s confession was true, she instead asked his name.

Yin Chao witnessed Yin Rui’s final days as the City-State’s people turned against her and killed her, while Shang Yi was revealed as the god who had followed her in countless forms. The vision ended in darkness, and Yin Chao faced what he knew was the prelude to his own death.

• Yin Rui confronted the Archbishop, burned him with Black Flame, and learned that his death was meant to keep her from becoming a god.
• As a plague spread through the City-State and acne covered Yin Rui, she reunited with Shang Yi, who willingly accepted the disease to stand by her.
• Yin Rui danced in the Central Hall to pray for the plague to end, but the crowd blamed her and dragged her to the Execution Platform.
• After Yin Rui was beheaded, she saw Shang Yi among the crowd and heard him tell her that she could kill those who made her unhappy.
• Yin Rui died, and a mechanical voice declared that she would become the new Evil God; Yin Chao realized Shang Yi had been the god behind the curse.
• Shang Yi’s reflections on the indifference of the gods returned to Yin Chao as the vision faded into darkness.

Yin Chao proposed killing everyone in the city-state to stop the curse, and the group began slaughtering its inhabitants. He learned that Shang Yi had cast the curse out of his obsessive love for Yin Rui, then watched Shang Yi die again in the looping world.

• Moqi Xinsi and Feng Fangfeng fought after Feng Fangfeng objected to Moqi Xinsi’s willingness to die for the Evil God, but Midnight and Luo Lingyue stopped them.
• Yin Chao suggested killing the city-state’s people before they could kill the priest and trigger the curse again.
• Feng Fangfeng began killing passersby, and the others joined him; Bai Xu questioned whether the group had become like the ghost monsters before joining the attack.
• Yin Chao summoned Anna to help kill while Shang Yi admitted that he had cast the curse and described how every incarnation fell in love with Yin Rui.
• Shang Yi leaped from the window and died, and Yin Chao recognized the death as the one-million-three-hundred-fourteenth-thousand-five-hundred-twenty-first time.

The Priest’s vines overwhelmed the City-State as the players struggled to survive, but Yin Chao stopped her by telling her that Shang Yi still believed in her. The vines turned into roses, and the system declared Yin Chao both the new Evil God and the new Supreme God.

• The Priest danced and sent parasitic vines across the City-State, killing Feng Fangfeng when he charged at her.
• Luo Lingyue froze the Main Hall briefly, while Moqi Xinsi shot the vine-infested hand off his own arm to escape.
• Bai Xu realized the vines grew only while the Priest danced, and Yin Chao told the Priest that Shang Yi had sacrificed himself for her countless times.
• The Priest teleported to Yin Chao and embraced him after he reminded her of Shang Yi and their shared past; Yin Rui then vanished as her Barrier shattered.
• White roses bloomed across the vines, and the system announced that Yin Chao had passed the trial and become both the new Evil God and the new Supreme God.

After completing the trial, Yin Chao became both the Evil God and the Supreme God and contracted Feng Fangfeng as his ghost servant. Back in the real world, Yin Chao and Midnight kissed in a parking garage, but Feng Fangfeng interrupted them.

• The system declared Yin Chao the new Evil God and Supreme God and showed his updated status.
• Yin Chao learned that Feng Fangfeng had become his ghost servant and sealed their contract with his blood.
• Feng Fangfeng explained that he treated life and the instances like games, but insisted that Yin Chao let him go home for school.
• Yin Chao and the others returned to the plaza, where Midnight questioned him about Feng Fangfeng and asked who had received a photo.
• Yin Chao kissed Midnight in an underground parking garage, and Feng Fangfeng interrupted when he noticed Yin Chao's racing heartbeat.

Yin Chao experimented with God's Scrolls, accidentally meddling in Bai Xu's feelings for him, before Mo Nan arrived with a request and began revealing his troubled past. The chapter ended as Mo Nan asked Yin Chao whether he had ever killed his own family.

• Midnight left Yin Chao in the underground parking garage, and Feng Fangfeng found Yin Chao looking strangely satisfied.
• Yin Chao used the black God's Scroll to tell Moqi Xinsi to eat vegetarian, prompting the Wanqi Guild to go vegetarian for a day.
• Yin Chao answered Bai Xu's confession through the white scroll by telling him that he and Yin Chao were not suited, then visited Bai Xu in the hospital.
• Mo Nan came to Yin Chao's home and showed him the self-inflicted scars on his wrists.
• Mo Nan began describing his childhood in a war-torn country and asked Yin Chao whether he had ever killed his family with his own hands.

Mo Nan confessed to Yin Chao that he feared losing control and asked Yin Chao to kill him if he became a danger to Bai Yu. Yin Chao entered the A-rank instance “I Had a Dream” with Mo Nan and Bai Yu, where the players were led through a strange wooden house and found mysterious wet footprints.

• Mo Nan told Yin Chao about his wartime killings, murdering his family, and fear that he would become a beast, then asked Yin Chao to kill him if he lost control.
• Yin Chao agreed to help Mo Nan and joined him and Bai Yu in the A-rank instance “I Had a Dream.”
• The players arrived in a storm-lashed wooden house, where a boy's voice described a dream about a wooden house and a Ghost Exorcist mother.
• A strange middle-aged woman led the players into another room, locked the door, and told them to retire, hinting that something could escape.
• Yin Chao noticed soaking-wet footprints on the floor, and Bai Yu grew frightened when she realized the players could not have made them.

Yin Chao resisted the ghost’s bell and entered the boy’s dream, where he learned about the pregnant woman who had sought help from Yuri. The chapter left Yin Chao listening as the woman panicked when the silver bell’s red string snapped.

• A woman rang a silver bell outside the players’ rooms, sending them into dreams while a boy laughed in the darkness.
• Bai Yu dreamed of her childhood with Bai Xu and Bai Tan until Yin Chao appeared and helped her recognize the dream.
• Bai Yu woke and found Mo Nan still trapped in a nightmare; Tang Shi reported that a player had died after someone tried to wake the sleepers.
• The bell rang again, knocking Bai Yu and Tang Shi unconscious, while Yin Chao entered the empty room and spoke with the ghostly boy.
• The boy showed Yin Chao a memory of a pregnant woman visiting Yuri for help with her thirst and strange voices.
• Yuri tied a silver bell to the pregnant woman’s wrist, but its red string snapped, and the woman screamed that something had come for revenge.

Yuri learned that the pregnant woman had been eating rotting animal corpses and had delivered her baby by cutting open her own belly. Yuri discovered that the aura of death came from the baby, and she postponed burying him when heavy rain began.

• Yuri led the woman's husband to a secluded room, where he described her strange behavior after a monk accused her unborn child of being a demon and later died.
• The husband revealed that his wife had eaten rotten animal corpses during her first pregnancy, which ended in the loss of their child, and that she had resumed the behavior while pregnant again.
• The woman cut open her belly and removed her premature baby, then passed out as her husband wept over her.
• Yuri agreed to take the baby and later carried him outside, intending to bury him beneath a tree.
• Yuri realized the death aura came from the baby rather than the woman, but heavy rain made her wait before burying him.

Yin Chao witnessed Jar Man’s life in a dream, from Yuri’s decision to raise him to his death after she abandoned him in the rain. Back in the wooden house with the other players, Yin Chao realized the couple in Jar Man’s dream had called Yuri “Mrs. Yuri.”

• Yuri tried to bury the baby but relented when he grasped her thumb, then raised him without giving him a name.
• When the boy was eight, Yuri put a clay jar over his head and rejected him, and guests began calling him Jar Man.
• Two guests smashed Jar Man’s jar and saw his decaying face; afterward, his presence drove away Yuri’s customers.
• Yuri left the wooden house during heavy rain, abandoning Jar Man, who died waiting for her and became a ghost.
• Yin Chao returned from the dream to find Bai Yu, Tang Shi, the newcomer girl, and the burly man awake, and they discussed Jar Man and Yuri.
• Yin Chao recalled the couple in Jar Man’s dream calling Yuri “Mrs. Yuri” and realized the title meant she was married.

Yin Chao lit the candlestick, revealing the decayed cabin outside Jar Man’s dream, and discovered that Yuri’s stitched-together son, You Qi, had been hidden there. You Qi began recounting Jar Man’s birth and the warning that he was a demon, leaving his story unfinished.

• Yin Chao used his blood to light the candlestick, exposing the cabin’s ruined reality.
• A stitched boy appeared, and Yin Chao inferred that he was Yuri’s son rather than Jar Man.
• The boy introduced himself as You Qi and agreed to tell Yin Chao about Jar Man.
• You Qi described Yuri receiving a monk, a pregnant woman, and a frightened man in the cabin.
• You Qi recounted how the Old Monk warned that Jar Man was a demon and urged Yuri to kill him.
• You Qi explained that Yuri later covered Jar Man with a clay jar after visitors who saw his face died unnatural deaths.

You Qi recounted how Jar Man killed him and how Mom tried to keep Jar Man from regenerating by eating his pieces. Yin Chao realized Jar Man had manipulated the players into killing Yuri, and You Qi offered to help them enter their companions’ dreams.

• You Qi described how Mom planned to flee with him, but Jar Man killed him and trapped his body in jars.
• Mom chopped Jar Man apart, but when his pieces began regenerating, she ate them to prevent his return.
• Yin Chao deduced that Jar Man had lured players into killing Yuri because her body contained part of him.
• The burly man cried over You Qi’s story, while Yin Chao explained that he had no mother.
• You Qi offered to help the group enter their companions’ dreams, then asked Yuri for permission to help them.

Yin Chao entered a series of dreams, helping Wang Yong confront the inner demons haunting his childhood home before leaving a second dream when its owner could not be awakened. In the third dream, fragments of Yin Chao’s own memories surfaced, and he then arrived on a silent battlefield.

• Yin Chao helped Wang Yong recognize that the arguing figures outside his room were inner demons, then encouraged him to smash the television and room until Wang Yong overcame his fear and woke laughing.
• Yin Chao entered a dream filled with living painted plants, learned that its owner had become one with the dream, and left without waking her.
• Yin Chao found himself in a room resembling a test facility and recalled fragments about being Test subject 001 and Subject 002 before the memories abruptly stopped.
• Yin Chao entered a fourth dream set on a silent battlefield strewn with corpses.

Yin Chao witnessed Mo Nan’s memories of war, the destruction of his squad, and his revenge on the children who killed them, before the dream revealed that Mo Nan had killed his own family. Mo Nan rejected Yin Chao’s attempts to wake him and chose to die in the burning dream, vowing to atone for his sins.

• Yin Chao watched Mo Nan recall his commander sparing a village of elderly and disabled people and giving him chocolate.
• Mo Nan’s squad was ambushed, and he escaped after seeing the village children attack them.
• Mo Nan set traps for the children and killed the wounded girl who had begged him for help.
• The forest changed into a house where Mo Nan realized he had killed his own family, and Yin Chao told him it was a dream.
• Mo Nan set the curtains on fire and declared that he would atone for his slaughter and sins as the flames consumed the dream.

Yin Chao defeated Jar Man and escaped the collapsing dream instance with the others, then attended Mo Nan’s funeral. There, Moon Shadow told Yin Chao she loved Bai Tan and revealed a prophecy that he would die for love, though their futures held no place for each other.

• Yin Chao found Mo Nan dead, comforted Bai Yu, and went alone to confront Jar Man with Anna and Feng Fangfeng.
• Feng Fangfeng cut Jar Man’s jar from his head while Yin Chao’s Long-Handled Lamp protected them, and Yin Chao returned safely with Anna.
• Yin Chao completed the dream instance, received the Good Dream Bell, and argued with the system over its fawning treatment of him.
• The Bai Guild held a seaside funeral for Mo Nan, and Yin Chao noticed Bai Tan standing silently among the mourners.
• Moon Shadow told Yin Chao that Bai Tan had saved her in her first instance, confessed her love for him, and shared a prophecy that he would die for love.

After Mo Nan’s funeral, Yin Chao and Midnight spent the day together, and Midnight admitted that blood frightened him but refused to explain why. On the ride home, Yin Chao dreamed of being Experiment Subject No. 001 and seeing a younger Midnight as No. 002, then woke shaken and told Luo Lingyue the dream felt real.

• After Mo Nan’s funeral, Yin Chao left with Midnight, and they shopped, watched a movie, and rode the Ferris Wheel together.
• At the top of the Ferris Wheel, Yin Chao kissed Midnight, who confessed that he was scared of blood and would not reveal the reason.
• On the ride home, Yin Chao recalled how quickly Midnight’s attitude toward him had changed and fell asleep.
• In his dream, Yin Chao relived being Experiment Subject No. 001 and saw a collared No. 002 whose face was identical to Midnight’s.
• Yin Chao woke from the dream and told Luo Lingyue that it had felt as though it really happened.

Yin Chao entered the A-rank Orpheus instance with Bai Guild members and learned they had to rescue Eurydice from hell without defying the ghost monsters. After arriving in Ancient Greece and meeting the other players, the group heard Bai Tan recount Orpheus's myth, while Yin Chao noticed Zhong Mingnan among the team.

• Bai Yu persuaded Yin Chao to lead a Bai Guild team into an instance, and he agreed after she bribed him with mango shaved ice.
• Yin Chao found Bai Tan, Luo Lingyue, and other Bai Guild members waiting at the plaza, then entered an A-rank instance with them.
• The instance announced that the players had to rescue Orpheus's wife, Eurydice, from hell and return safely without defying the ghost monsters.
• Yin Chao and the other players arrived in Ancient Greece, where Bai Tan greeted Moon Shadow and the seven players introduced themselves.
• Bai Tan explained Orpheus's myth and criticized him for looking back at Eurydice, while Zhong Mingnan quietly acknowledged Yin Chao's gaze.

Zhong Mingnan reflected on Cheng Meihe’s kindness before Yin Chao and the others attended Orpheus’s concert, where Yin Chao heard a woman’s sobs that he suspected belonged to Eurydice. They visited Eurydice to learn about her relationship with Orpheus, but Orpheus arrived angrily before they could continue.

• Zhong Mingnan told Yin Chao that Cheng Meihe had considered him a good person and wondered whether humans could spare good monsters.
• Yin Chao and the others went to Orpheus’s concert after hearing the announcement that he would play that night.
• As Orpheus played, Yin Chao heard a woman asking whether Orpheus loved her soul or her body, and Bai Tan also heard crying.
• Yin Chao led the group to Eurydice’s home and asked whether she knew Orpheus and planned to marry him.
• Eurydice admitted that she and Orpheus loved each other, and Orpheus arrived and angrily asked who the visitors were.

Moon Shadow and the others tried to help Eurydice recognize Orpheus’s controlling behavior before their wedding, but her family took her home before they could persuade her. The group reunited at the inn, where Bai Tan, Li Hua, and Zhong Mingnan reported that Orpheus’s admirers had driven them away.

• Orpheus dragged Eurydice away from Moon Shadow and called her his possession, while she tried to explain that the visitors were her friends.
• Moon Shadow proposed splitting the group so one team could approach Eurydice and another could seek out Orpheus; Yin Chao joined the team she jokingly called the breakup team.
• Eurydice’s maid refused the visitors entry and told them the wedding feast would take place in three days, but Eurydice secretly climbed over the wall and invited them to a candy shop.
• Moon Shadow told Eurydice that love should give someone room to grow rather than imprison and control them, but Eurydice remained unsure despite questioning whether Orpheus truly loved her.
• Eurydice’s family maids found her and took her home, while Ding Ning reflected on Eurydice as a person beyond the myth’s usual focus on Orpheus.
• Bai Tan, Li Hua, and Zhong Mingnan returned to the inn after Orpheus accused them of being thieves and his admirers drove them away.