Vol. 3Mirrors and Brides

Su Bai survived the Mirror Apartments and Mirror World, learned more about the Void Sea, and returned to the real world as the Mist Shop’s assistant awakened. Seeking a way to restore Lin Wan’s soul, he entered the Ghost Bride game disguised as the East Courtyard bride, where the estate’s dangers began to close in.

  • The Ghost Shaman punished the Fog City Lord, and the Mist Shop absorbed part of his power, helping the fog disperse and giving Su Bai hope of leaving Fog City.
  • Su Bai returned to the real world, visited Lin Wan, resumed school, and chose not to tell Qiu Lei the truth about their shared game.
  • Xiao Xiaodie accepted power from a smiling reflection, while Yue Zhengqing resolved to kill her if she tried to leave him.
  • Inside the Mirror World, Su Bai and Feng Ling found their powers suppressed, encountered Xiao Xiaodie and Qin Yuxuan, and faced a Blood Ghost that passed through Qin Yuxuan.
  • The Strange Creature revealed his history with Jing, and Su Bai brought the entrusted round mirror to the shattered mirror, allowing Jing to reach Chiliu.
  • Su Bai recognized Lin Wenhua and Huang Qi, accepted Lin Wenhua’s offer to leave the park with them, and sensed that the Mist Shop’s assistant had awakened.
  • Little Fire led Su Bai to an old residence, where the Administrator enrolled him in the “Ghost Bride” Beginner Game and assigned him the East Courtyard bride’s role.
  • The East Courtyard transformed as the Old Steward appeared covered in writhing mud, and Su Bai protected the rookies before the west and north gates began opening.
Chapters 201–300 Read from ch. 201

Arc 9The Mirror Apartments

After Fog City’s collapse, Su Bai returned to the real world and entered a new Nightmare Game in the Mirror Apartments. As the Players confronted the apartments’ corruption and Qin Yuxuan manipulated them, Xiao Xiaodie faced the danger emerging through a mirror.

  • The Ghost Shaman punished the Fog City Lord, and the Mist Shop absorbed part of his power, helping the fog disperse and giving Su Bai hope of leaving Fog City.
  • Su Bai returned to the real world, visited Lin Wan, and resumed school, where he chose not to tell Qiu Lei the truth about their shared game.
  • Qin Yuxuan entered the Mirror Apartments game and plotted to exploit the other Players, while Su Bai joined them and recognized Zhang Yibu.
  • Sang Sang led the Players out of a reception room overwhelmed by a terrifying force, and the group collected keys and chose their apartments.
  • Su Bai took Room 101 and helped Zhang Yibu understand his powers, then learned that the security guard was fused to a chair and heard him discuss sacrifices and an anomaly.
  • Qin Yuxuan used Mental Suggestion on Yue Zhengqing and Xiao Xiaodie, then watched their relationship turn hostile as Yue revealed his resentment and desire to humiliate her.
  • Xiao Xiaodie realized Yue Zhengqing had treated her as a trophy, then saw a pale red vortex appear behind her reflection as bloodied hostility filled the room.
Chapters 201–225 Summaries Read

Arc 10Into the Mirror World

As the apartment’s force exposed the Players’ darkest impulses, the Ghost Creatures revealed that the Mirror World was collapsing under a rampaging Strange Creature. Su Bai and Feng Ling entered the Mirror World to seek a way forward, where their powers were suppressed and a Blood Ghost approached them.

  • Xiao Xiaodie accepted power from a smiling reflection, while Yue Zhengqing resolved to kill her if she tried to leave him.
  • The Players gathered in the Reception Room, where Sang Sang urged them to reveal the dark thoughts stirred by the apartment’s force and Qin Yuxuan tried to manipulate Zhang Yibu.
  • Xiao Xiaodie’s possessor attacked Yue Zhengqing and ordered him to kill Qin Yuxuan, while a mirror appeared and revealed the creatures’ presence.
  • Feng Ling exposed Qin Yuxuan’s role in her friend’s death, and Qin Yuxuan fled into a mirror as a Strange Creature took over his body.
  • Su Bai learned that the Ghost Creatures wanted to escape a Mirror World corrupted by a rampaging Strange Creature, and he and Feng Ling agreed to enter it.
  • Yue Zhengqing confessed to past crimes as the Blood Threads Ghost Creature opened a passage, and the Administrator commissioned Su Bai to retrieve an object from the Void Sea and find the building’s only Mirror.
  • Su Bai trapped the Blood Thread Ghost Creature in Xiao Xiaodie’s body and entered the Mirror World with Feng Ling, while Zhang Yibu stayed behind to explore his time-stopping ability.
  • Inside the Mirror World, Su Bai and Feng Ling found their powers suppressed, encountered Xiao Xiaodie and Qin Yuxuan, and faced a Blood Ghost that passed through Qin Yuxuan.
Chapters 226–250 Summaries Read

Arc 11Jing and the Mirror World

Su Bai helped Chiliu reunite with Jing and escape the collapsing Mirror World, then learned more about the Void Sea and humanity’s place in the Nightmare World. Back in the Real World, he met his cousin Lin Wenhua and Huang Qi at an abandoned park and left with them as the Mist Shop’s assistant awakened.

  • Feng Ling and Su Bai encountered Grandma White and Yao, then followed the mirrors to the hidden prison where a Strange Creature had lost control.
  • The Strange Creature revealed his history with Jing, and Su Bai brought the entrusted round mirror to the shattered mirror, allowing Jing to reach Chiliu.
  • Jing thanked Su Bai and explained the Void Sea, while Chiliu became a coordinate and dissolved the Mirror World as Little Fire consumed its released blood aura.
  • Chiliu restored his body beneath the Red Moon and set out to show Jing the world and seek out his kin, while Su Bai returned to the Void Sea to question the Administrator.
  • The Administrator refused to answer Su Bai’s questions about the Red Moon and Su Xuan, but told him the White Faction could not currently defeat the Black Faction.
  • Su Bai returned to the expanded Mist Shop, then Lin Wenhua and Huang Qi encountered him at an abandoned park where Lin Wenhua could see Strange Creatures in the lake’s reflection.
  • Su Bai recognized Lin Wenhua and Huang Qi, accepted Lin Wenhua’s offer to leave the park with them, and sensed that the Mist Shop’s assistant had awakened.
Chapters 251–275 Summaries Read

Arc 12The Ghost Bride Game

Su Bai entered the Beginner Game “Ghost Bride” while searching for a way to restore Lin Wan’s damaged soul, taking the place of the East Courtyard bride. As the rookies investigated the brides’ deaths and the estate’s ghostly past, Su Bai’s disguise came under threat and his actions brought further dangers to the courtyards.

  • Su Bai opened the Mist Shop, brought Lin Wan home from the hospital, then entered the Nightmare World with Little Fire to seek a way to nourish her soul.
  • Little Fire led Su Bai to an old residence, where the Administrator enrolled him in the “Ghost Bride” Beginner Game and assigned him the East Courtyard bride’s role.
  • The rookies arrived at the Wang Residence, learned about the three brides who had drowned, and began investigating while Su Bai hid beneath his wedding veil.
  • Su Bai recognized Lin Wenhua and Huang Qi among the rookies, spoke with Wen Wen, and learned that the brides had been given meat soup before their deaths.
  • Wen Wen and the others suspected the soup had been used to drug the brides, found signs that the estate’s inhabitants were dead, and discovered they could not escape.
  • Steward Zhao tried to make Su Bai drink the soup, fled after recognizing something unusual, and told the rookies the East Courtyard bride was a ghost haunting Master Wang.
  • When Wen Wen questioned Su Bai about his identity, he released A Xi’s power and feigned confusion, while the Old Steward announced that the mansion’s workers had vanished.
  • The East Courtyard transformed as the Old Steward appeared covered in writhing mud, and Su Bai protected the rookies before the west and north gates began opening.
Chapters 276–300 Summaries Read
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