Chapter Summaries

Bo Yi escaped Master Kang’s restraint and killed him before he could use Bo Yi to brew a new liquor. Bo Yi waited beside the vat, and Master Kang’s corpse revived with red eyes.

• Master Kang explained that he planned to use Bo Yi as the ingredient for a new liquor called Beauty's Tipsy.
• While Master Kang showed him the knives, Bo Yi secretly cut through his bindings with a hidden blade.
• Bo Yi turned the tables, killed Master Kang, and dropped his body into the vat.
• Bo Yi waited beside the vat until Master Kang’s corpse twitched and opened its red eyes.
• Bo Yi asked the newly awakened Master Kang if he was finally awake.

Bo Yi explored the winery’s back courtyard for clues while the red-eyed Mitian followed him, then returned with him to the Kang Residence for dinner. The players noticed them arriving together and realized two people were missing.

• Bo Yi confronted Mitian in the wine vat about disappearing, and Mitian eventually recognized him.
• Bo Yi searched the winery’s back courtyard, spotted servants dumping pale red liquid, and found no useful clues.
• Mitian teased Bo Yi, who sold stolen wine jars to buy water at a tea stall.
• Bo Yi and Mitian returned to the Kang Residence, where their arrival together shocked the other players.
• When Master Kang announced that everyone was present, the players counted the people at dinner and discovered two were missing.

Bo Yi investigated the disappearance of Huang Xiaolu and Sun Er, then set out at night to revisit the rear courtyard. Master Kang intercepted him, while two players secretly followed behind.

• The players noticed Huang Xiaolu and Sun Er were missing, and Bo Yi remembered hearing agonized screams in the study.
• Servants served freshly brewed Beloved Wine; Bo Yi recognized it as different from the wine in the study, while two players drank heavily and were carried back to their rooms.
• Bo Yi searched for Miss Wang near the Wang Family Rice Shop but could not learn where she lived, so he returned to his room to wait for nightfall.
• Bo Yi slipped out at night, but Master Kang appeared behind him and asked where he was going.
• Two players spied on Bo Yi and Master Kang, then followed them; Master Kang noticed the pair and called them two little 'bugs.'

Bo Yi discovered that the women in the rear courtyard had suffered the same bloody fate and confirmed that the man posing as “Master Kang” was an impostor. He attacked the impostor and demanded to know where the real man was and what had happened to him.

• Bo Yi saw that the opera-costumed woman carried an empty swaddling blanket and realized the courtyard’s women had lost their babies.
• “Master Kang” lured Fang Jun and his girlfriend out of the bushes, prompting the opera-costumed woman and the concubines to appear.
• Bo Yi saw that the concubines also had flat bellies and left bloody trails, confirming his suspicion about the women.
• Bo Yi stabbed “Master Kang,” accusing him of being an impostor, but the man caught the blade in his hand.
• Bo Yi explained that the impostor’s behavior at the Kang Family Distillery and his failure to ask about Bo Yi’s wound had aroused suspicion.
• Bo Yi pulled his knife free and attacked again, demanding to know where the real man was and what the impostor had done to him.

Bo Yi discovered that the Instance killed the players who drank the most wine each day, while searching for the vanished Master Kang. Fang Jun then accused Bo Yi of causing Xiao Xiao’s death.

• Bo Yi fought Master Kang through the trees, but Master Kang vanished before Bo Yi could find out where he was.
• Two more players died in the same way as the previous victims, and Bo Yi inspected their teapots.
• Bo Yi realized that the players who drank the most wine each day were being killed, and that the lack of water forced them to drink wine.
• The players counted themselves and discovered that only seven remained, fewer than expected.
• Fang Jun arrived and said Xiao Xiao had died during the night, then accused Bo Yi of getting her killed.

Fang Jun accused Bo Yi of causing Xiao Xiao’s death and stirred the players into demanding Bo Yi reveal his clues. Bo Yi challenged their assumption that the Instance was cooperative.

• Fang Jun claimed he and Xiao Xiao had followed Bo Yi to protect the players and accused Bo Yi of luring an NPC to them, causing Xiao Xiao’s death.
• The players focused on Fang Jun’s claim that Bo Yi had spoken with Master Kang and pressed him for details about the back courtyard.
• Fang Jun said Bo Yi had thrown a stone that exposed their hiding place to an NPC, and the players began to suspect Bo Yi had found a clue about the Instance’s death conditions.
• The players surrounded Bo Yi and demanded that he explain what happened and reveal his clues, while Fang Jun urged them on.
• Bo Yi refused to give them the clue and asked who had said the Instance was cooperative.

Bo Yi revealed that exactly two players died each night and pointed them toward wine as the reason, then accepted a servant’s request to deliver wedding attire to Miss Wang. He reached her isolated maiden’s tower and found the attic door opening after he knocked, leaving him about to discover what was inside.

• Bo Yi told the players that exactly two people died every night and asked why the Kang Residence provided wine but no water.
• The players went to inspect the wine in the dead players’ rooms, while a servant asked Bo Yi to deliver a box of wedding attire to Miss Wang.
• Bo Yi accepted the delivery, suspecting the Kang family’s master had arranged it as a clue.
• Bo Yi climbed the dim, creaking staircase to the attic of the maiden’s tower and knocked at Miss Wang’s door.
• The attic door swung open slightly, and Bo Yi noticed it had not been locked.

Bo Yi discovered Miss Wang's corpse in her attic and was framed for her murder by Boss Wang, who brought him to the Kang Residence. With the wedding put on hold and the players' objective in jeopardy, Master Kang suggested they find him another bride.

• Bo Yi entered Miss Wang's room to deliver her wedding clothes and found a paper figure on the bed and Miss Wang's body hanging above it.
• Bo Yi laid Miss Wang's body on the bed, and Boss Wang arrived, accused Bo Yi of killing her, and had him taken to the Kang Residence.
• The players saw Miss Wang's corpse and Bo Yi under guard, and struggled to understand how the Instance had changed.
• Master Kang announced that the wedding was on hold because the bride was dead, alarming the players about their objective.
• Master Kang hinted that the players could resume the wedding by finding him another bride.

The players discussed how to clear the instance before the daily drinking rule killed two of them. They realized the wedding banquet could begin if they found another bride, and Fang Jun suggested making the person responsible for the original bride’s disappearance take her place.

• A player reminded the group that Master Kang would not hold the wedding without a bride, preventing them from attending the banquet and clearing the instance.
• The players recalled Bo Yi’s warning that the two people who drank the most each day would die the following morning.
• One player said they could avoid that death rule by clearing the instance before tomorrow, but admitted he could not bypass the rule itself.
• The players remembered Master Kang saying the wedding banquet would begin as soon as they found a bride.
• Fang Jun suggested that whoever had gotten rid of the original bride should take her place.

Liang Pingkang lured Bo Yi into opening his door, and the other players trapped him in Master Kang’s Wedding Garment as part of Fang Jun’s plan to make him the bride. Fang Jun tried to stab Bo Yi, but someone knocked the dagger from his hand, leaving the attacker’s identity unknown.

• Liang Pingkang warned Bo Yi that Fang Jun was urging the players to make him the bride, then offered Master Kang’s Wedding Garment as a clue.
• When Bo Yi opened the door, Liang Pingkang and the other players ambushed him and draped the Wedding Garment over him, rendering him unable to move.
• The players carried Bo Yi to his bedside and arranged him in a seated pose while Fang Jun confronted him.
• Fang Jun accused Bo Yi of killing Xiao Xiao, drew a dagger, and lunged at him.
• Someone struck the dagger from Fang Jun’s hand, and it landed beside Bo Yi.

The players confronted Bo Yi after Fang Jun tried to kill him, insisting he should be sacrificed as the bride. Bo Yi exposed their hypocrisy and explained how the instance’s clues pointed to selling alcohol for water, but Fang Jun covered his head with the bridal veil to prepare him for the ritual.

• Fang Jun tried to stab Bo Yi, but Liang Pingkang knocked the dagger away and told him not to ruin their plan to make Bo Yi the bride.
• The players accused Bo Yi of hiding the drinking rule and blamed him for the deaths of four players, while Bo Yi challenged their claim that he owed them his clues.
• Liang Pingkang accused Bo Yi of getting clues from an NPC, but Bo Yi pointed out that Liang had noticed his abstaining and still kept drinking alcohol.
• Bo Yi explained that the streets outside the Kang Residence had shops where players could sell their room’s alcohol and buy water, revealing a way to avoid the death rule.
• Bo Yi questioned why the NPC had given Liang Pingkang the wedding robes if Bo Yi had made a deal with him, but Liang dismissed his argument.
• Fang Jun grabbed the red bridal veil and threw it over Bo Yi’s head so the players could prepare the bride and leave the instance.

Bo Yi waited beneath the bridal veil in a Wedding Garment that was supposed to immobilize anyone who wore it, then used a dagger to attack Liang Pingkang, who had come to the room as “Master Kang.” After Liang Pingkang fell, he revealed how he had escaped the garment’s restraint and rejected his enemy’s interest in him.

• Liang Pingkang entered Bo Yi’s room and approached him beneath the bridal veil.
• Bo Yi stabbed Liang Pingkang in the chest with Fang Jun’s discarded dagger.
• Bo Yi explained that he had stabbed himself and soaked the Wedding Garment with his blood until its restraining effect faded.
• Liang Pingkang praised Bo Yi’s resolve and said that he had begun to take an interest in him.
• Bo Yi twisted the dagger in Liang Pingkang’s chest, pulled it out, and told him he had no interest in him.

After killing Master Kang, Bo Yi hid the body and disguised himself as the bride when the estate's servants arrived. They dragged him into the bridal sedan chair, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Bo Yi confirmed that Master Kang was dead, bandaged his own wounds, and found a bridal sedan chair outside his room.
• Hearing the estate's servants approach, Bo Yi hauled Master Kang's body onto the bed and covered it with a quilt.
• Bo Yi dressed in the red Wedding Garment and sat veiled on the bed to disguise himself as the bride.
• The servants entered, seized Bo Yi, and shoved him into the bridal sedan chair.

The players waited uneasily at the Kang Residence’s eerie wedding banquet, unsure whether the male bride they had chosen would be accepted. When Bo Yi’s sedan arrived, a familiar figure appeared and revealed he had come for his “bride.”

• The players sat among pale, paper-like guests while Liang Pingkang dismissed their fears that the NPCs would reject Bo Yi because he was a man.
• The courtyard gates opened, and servants carried Bo Yi’s bridal sedan to the front hall as the assembled guests rose.
• As a servant prepared to help Bo Yi alight, a familiar voice objected that the groom had not arrived.
• Bo Yi attacked the tall figure who swept aside the sedan curtain, but saw the figure’s familiar red eyes and heard him say he had come for his bride.

Mitian returned to find Bo Yi gravely wounded and carried him away, postponing the wedding. As the players worried that the ceremony might demand a new bride, the servants opened a jar of wine that drew both guests and players toward it.

• Mitian recognized that Bo Yi was injured, caught him as he collapsed, and carried him away from the wedding courtyard.
• Mitian told a servant to delay the wedding and serve a special jar of wine to the guests.
• The players panicked over the interrupted wedding, while Liang Pingkang wondered whether Master Kang would choose another bride.
• The servants opened the jar, and its fragrant wine compelled the guests and players to move toward it.

Bo Yi woke in Mitian’s room, still weak from losing a great deal of blood. Mitian tried to help him recover with a strange blood-scented liquid, and when Bo Yi refused, Mitian cut himself and offered his own blood instead.

• Bo Yi woke beside Mitian in the Evil God’s room and realized he had finally been able to rest after Mitian returned.
• Bo Yi tried to get up and search for clues, but collapsed from weakness, so Mitian caught him and scolded him for losing so much blood.
• Mitian brought Bo Yi a small cup of liquid extracted from a jar of wine and urged him to drink it to restore his health.
• Bo Yi refused because the liquid smelled of blood, so Mitian drank the cup himself rather than force him.
• Mitian cut his own skin and returned with a cup of bright red liquid, telling Bo Yi to drink.

After drinking Mitian’s blood-scented medicine, Bo Yi regained enough strength to leave the room and found the wedding courtyard devastated, with the guests and players lying among shattered tables and the eighteen women wandering through the wreckage. He noticed a broken wine jar by his foot and seemed to realize what he needed to do next.

• Mitian coaxed Bo Yi into drinking the blood-scented medicine, and Bo Yi’s strength returned.
• Mitian wiped the blood from Bo Yi’s lips and secretly licked it from his thumb.
• Bo Yi left the room and found the wedding guests and players sprawled across the wrecked courtyard.
• The eighteen women stopped wandering and turned toward Bo Yi when he appeared.
• Bo Yi spotted the broken wine jar beside his foot and realized what to do next.

Bo Yi gave the rear-courtyard women wine, then searched the wreckage and found Liang Pingkang and another player alive beneath the guests. Liang Pingkang begged for forgiveness, and Bo Yi agreed to let him repay him immediately.

• Bo Yi had Mitian’s servants divide the wine among eighteen jars and give them to the women, who carried the jars away while humming.
• Bo Yi searched the wreckage and noticed that two player corpses were missing.
• Mitian had the servants move the guests aside, revealing Liang Pingkang and another injured player hiding underneath them.
• Liang Pingkang claimed he had been forced to betray Bo Yi and begged him for forgiveness.
• Bo Yi said he would let Liang Pingkang repay him immediately.

Bo Yi had Liang Pingkang and Fang Jun dragged into the wedding hall and prepared to make one of them wear the Wedding Garment so he could clear the Instance. The chapter ended with both men pointing at each other when Bo Yi asked whom he should choose.

• Bo Yi ordered Mitian to send servants to drag Liang Pingkang into the wedding hall.
• Bo Yi also had the wounded Fang Jun dragged into the hall, where Fang Jun landed on Liang Pingkang.
• Bo Yi brought out the Wedding Garment and said he would hold the wedding to clear the Instance.
• Bo Yi asked whether he should choose Liang Pingkang or Fang Jun, and both men pointed at each other.

Bo Yi turned Fang Jun and Liang Pingkang against each other, then used the two Wedding Garments to make them the bride and groom for the Kang Residence wedding. Fang Jun realized too late that their objective did not require Master Kang to be the one getting married.

• Fang Jun and Liang Pingkang blamed each other for setting Bo Yi up, while Bo Yi pretended he could not tell who was lying.
• Fang Jun argued that Liang Pingkang had physically put the Wedding Garment on Bo Yi, and Bo Yi draped a red Wedding Garment over Liang Pingkang.
• Fang Jun apologized to Bo Yi and asked to work with him, and Bo Yi agreed.
• Mitian handed Bo Yi a second Wedding Garment, and Fang Jun realized the wedding required two participants.
• Bo Yi dressed Fang Jun in the second Wedding Garment and explained that any wedding banquet at the Kang Residence fulfilled their objective.