Chapter Summaries

Su Bai asked Su Xuan to identify the Administrator who had helped him, and Su Xuan began to suspect the Administrator had left something with Su Bai. When Su Bai asked why the Administrator aided Players despite being linked to the Red Moon Society, Wu Heng revealed that the Administrator had deceived everyone into thinking he was dead.

• Su Bai asked Su Xuan about the Administrator and described his encounters with Wu Heng and the Red Moon Society.
• Su Xuan said he could guess the Administrator's identity and wondered why the Administrator considered Su Bai a coordinate.
• Su Bai defended Wu Heng, and Su Xuan recalled sensing someone nearby during her previous loss of control and guessed Wu Heng had left the Doll with Su Bai.
• Su Bai asked why an Administrator associated with the Red Moon Society helped him and covered up his rule violation.
• Wu Heng answered that no one would suspect a dead fish could still flop around, but the Administrator had successfully deceived them.

Su Bai pressed Su Xuan to explain the secret scam, and Wu Heng urged him to reveal the truth behind the Red Moon Society’s experiment. Su Xuan began explaining that the Administrator was the key to a server connecting the players, and that the Society had used merfolk as material to build it.

• Su Bai inferred that the secretive people opposing the Red Moon Society might be connected to the scam and persuaded Su Xuan to tell him what he knew.
• Yao appeared beside Su Bai, and Su Xuan realized the doll was not what he had assumed; Wu Heng then called for them to focus on the scam.
• Wu Heng said the Administrator had once belonged to Su Xuan’s people, and Su Xuan explained that the Administrator had contacted him while he investigated the Society’s experiment.
• Su Xuan described how the Society brought humans into the Nightmare World as players and connected their consciousnesses through the Administrator, the experiment’s key.
• Su Xuan explained that the Society needed suitable material for its server and had used merfolk, including their remains.

Su Xuan explained that the Red Moon Society built the Nightmare Game’s server from Merfolk Remnant corpses and used a supposedly broken Merfolk Remnant as its core. The Remnant had remained lucid and secretly sought to use the Society’s deception for the opposition, prompting Su Xuan to question Wu Heng about his ties to them.

• Su Xuan told Su Bai that Red Moon power lingered in Remnant corpses and recalled burning his own body after escaping it.
• Su Bai learned that the Red Moon Society had built the Nightmare Game’s server from Merfolk Remnant corpses and made a Merfolk Remnant its core.
• Su Xuan revealed that the Merfolk Remnant had remained lucid despite the Society’s experiments and the agony of the server.
• Wu Heng said the Remnant had contacted the opposition and was willing to serve as their pawn to accomplish something.
• Su Xuan asked Wu Heng why he had abandoned his usual neutrality and begun working with the opposition.

Wu Heng explained that the Red Moon Society’s plan to make the Red Moon a fixed point would trap the world in repeated destruction and time rewinds, while the Opposition Faction preferred letting the world end for good. He proposed turning Su Xuan’s Honghuai City into the faction’s base, leaving Su Xuan troubled over the fate of his safe haven.

• Wu Heng explained that civilizations repeatedly collapsed as the Red Moon returned, driving most remnants mad with its power.
• Wu Heng said the Red Moon Society wanted to make the Red Moon a fixed point so its members could endure, while the Opposition Faction did not share its devotion.
• Wu Heng warned that a fixed Red Moon would cause the world to be destroyed and time to rewind repeatedly, eventually risking catastrophic changes.
• Su Bai considered Wu Heng’s explanation and felt uneasy at the prospect of time repeatedly rewinding.
• Wu Heng suggested using Honghuai City as the Opposition Faction’s meeting place, and Su Xuan realized his safe haven might become its base.

Wu Heng proposed expanding Su Xuan's Honghuai City into a communications base and fortress for the opposition, using the Director's help and replacing the City's crude Dolls with the weapons from Fog Mountain. Su Xuan questioned Wu Heng's sudden urgency to oppose the Red Moon Society, and Wu Heng said there was still time.

• Wu Heng suggested expanding Honghuai City with roads and bridges, and said the Director would help Su Xuan build it.
• Wu Heng criticized the City's repetitive Dolls and proposed replacing them with the Dolls from Fog Mountain.
• Su Xuan warned that Fog Mountain's Dolls were killing weapons and asked whether Wu Heng wanted a communications base or a fortress.
• Su Xuan questioned why Wu Heng suddenly wanted to gather the opposition and destroy the Red Moon Society, expressing concern for his friend.
• Wu Heng fell silent, then said there was still time.

Su Bai returned to his childhood home after Wu Heng took Su Xuan aside to talk, only to hear his brother angrily confront Wu Heng about the Marriage Contract. Su Xuan embraced Su Bai, agreed to Wu Heng’s proposal on the condition that they destroy the Red Moon Society quickly, and said there was still time.

• Wu Heng took Su Xuan away to discuss something privately, calling him Su Bai’s brother-in-law.
• Su Bai realized Wu Heng and Su Xuan had gone to their childhood home and headed there.
• Su Bai overheard Su Xuan angrily accuse Wu Heng of making him sign a Marriage Contract.
• Su Xuan embraced Su Bai and told Wu Heng he agreed to the plan for the base, expansion, and dolls, provided they quickly wiped out the Red Moon Society.
• Su Xuan patted Su Bai’s head and said there was still time.

Su Xuan argued with Wu Heng over his relationship with Su Bai, while Su Bai tried to stop their childish bickering. Su Xuan then changed the subject to the Dream Weaver building Su Bai had encountered in the game.

• Su Xuan challenged Wu Heng for hugging Su Bai, and Wu Heng defended his right as Su Bai's partner under their Marriage Contract.
• Su Xuan reflected on how his fear of Wu Heng had changed after he gained a family to worry about.
• Su Bai reminded them that they were still in the game and that their other matter was connected to it.
• Su Xuan asked whether Su Bai had encountered a building left behind by the Dream Weaver.

Su Bai consulted Su Xuan and Wu Heng about the worsening Nightmare Spiral Building, and they agreed that Su Bai’s safety mattered most while he continued to act. After they returned to the building, Wu Heng kissed Su Bai, and Su Bai accepted the kiss.

• Su Bai told Su Xuan about the Nightmare Spiral Building and the Blood Clan Remnants, and Su Xuan explained that he had once left the unstable Blood Clan members there.
• Su Xuan told Su Bai he could destroy the building but urged him to stay safe, while Wu Heng insisted that Su Bai would be fine and that keeping him on Fog Mountain would not make him happy.
• Su Xuan opened a wooden door for Su Bai and Wu Heng, then stayed behind in Honghuai City to get to work.
• Su Bai and Wu Heng returned to their dormitory on the 44th Floor of the Nightmare Spiral Building, where Su Bai began asking about contacting Chiliu.
• Wu Heng pulled Su Bai close and kissed him, and Su Bai hesitated briefly before closing his eyes and leaning into the embrace.

Su Bai and Wu Heng returned to the Special Comprehensive Department after sharing an intimate moment, while Wu Heng explained that the intermediary was called Fish and that the hidden space distorted time. As Su Bai began answering the Players’ questions, a tremendous crash from a lower floor announced Chiliu’s arrival.

• Wu Heng’s doll neck joint came loose during a kiss, and Su Bai gently fixed it before they left the dormitory.
• Wu Heng told Su Bai that the Opposition Faction’s intermediary was called Fish, possibly the last living member of the Merfolk Remnants.
• Wu Heng explained that Su Xuan’s independent space and altered passage of time hid it from the Red Moon Society’s surveillance.
• Su Bai and Wu Heng returned to the 44th Floor, where the Players reacted to their closeness and asked Su Bai about his summoning and recent task.
• A deafening crash shook the building, and Wu Heng identified the cause as Chiliu.

Su Bai warned the Players that the monsters sealed on the 66th Floor were breaking loose and that resolving the crisis would probably end the game. As everyone debated how to use their points, something powerful forced its way out of the elevator.

• Su Bai explained that the building’s defenses had failed and that the arriving people had come to deal with the monsters on the 66th Floor.
• Su Bai told the Players that the game would probably end once the crisis was resolved, prompting them to consider spending their saved points to strengthen themselves.
• Xiong Yi asked whether the Players would have time to redeem their points, but Su Bai could not promise anything.
• A crash interrupted Su Bai, and the Players saw huge dents appear in the elevator doors.
• A pair of pale, withered hands tore the elevator doors apart.

Chiliu arrived at the 44th Floor after climbing the elevator shaft, reunited with Su Bai and the other Players, and thanked Su Bai for helping him and Jing. He said the lord who sent him had a message for Su Bai, but the chapter ended before he revealed it.

• Chiliu forced open the elevator doors and emerged, looking healthier and more composed than when Su Bai had last seen him.
• Jing's enormous, shattered mirror frame appeared behind Chiliu and was secured to his body with strips of cloth.
• Chiliu explained that he had climbed the elevator shaft because he did not know how to use the elevator, then followed the scent of living people to Su Bai and the Players.
• Chiliu thanked Su Bai for helping Jing return to his side and for finding his clansmen, and promised to repay him.
• Chiliu told Su Bai that the lord who sent him had asked him to pass along a message.

After Chiliu headed to the 66th Floor to deal with the Blood Clan Remnants, Su Bai urged the players to wait and decide how to spend their remaining points. Wen Ya invited the group to meet in Qingliu City after returning to the Real World, and the players began using the vending machines before time ran out.

• Chiliu thanked Su Bai, then entered the Elevator Shaft and leaped toward the 66th Floor to search for his kin.
• Su Bai told Wen Ya and the others that Chiliu would handle the 66th Floor and advised them to consider practicing the meditation method published by the Relevant Authorities.
• Wen Ya invited the players to gather in Qingliu City and offered tickets to Su Ye's concert, and Su Bai accepted her invitation.
• The players agreed to spend their remaining points gaining strength from the vending machines, while Xiong Yi stayed behind calculating a possibility.
• An excited player shouted that they had gotten something by the ability vending machine.

Lu Jinyan drew an S-Rank Ability Blind Box and sensed the flow of power, while Su Bai advised him to wait before opening it. As the internship ended, a strange voice welcomed Su Bai to Director ￥%#￥'s Special Theater.

• Lu Jinyan drew an S-Rank Ability Blind Box, which entered his body, and realized he could sense the flow of power.
• Su Bai advised Lu Jinyan to wait until he developed his own ability before opening the blind box, and Lu Jinyan agreed.
• Pei Zhan chose a short sword from the Weapon Vending Machine instead of drawing a blind box, while Xiong Yi hesitated over whether to seek another ability.
• The Administrator announced that the internship had ended and offered the residents the choice of staying in the Nightmare World or returning to the Real World.
• A burst of static interrupted the Administrator, and Su Bai heard a voice welcome him to Director ￥%#￥'s Special Theater.

Su Bai entered the Director’s Special Theater to uncover truths about his past, after Wu Heng explained that the Director could weave Scripts from memories and dreams only with a person’s consent. The Director welcomed Su Bai as the production’s sole lead and directed him toward the first film set.

• Su Bai appeared alone in a dim theater before an enormous, partly open door, and contacted Wu Heng.
• Wu Heng explained the Director’s Script-weaving ability and said Su Bai had to enter willingly before the Director could begin.
• Su Bai asked whether the Red Moon Society could spy on what happened inside, received Wu Heng’s assurance that it could not, and passed through the door.
• The Director welcomed Su Bai to the Special Theater as the sole lead and named Mr. Fish as one of the two audience members.
• The Director said the Script might help Su Bai recover lost memories or glimpse the future, then told him to proceed through another door to the Film Set for Act One.

Su Bai relived a childhood memory in Su Xuan’s bedroom and realized that the strange mirror had led him into another world before his fall. The chapter ended with him stranded in the gray space, unable to reach Wu Heng.

• Wu Heng warned Su Bai that the Director’s visions showed possibilities, not certain futures, and Su Bai entered the Rift.
• Su Bai awoke in a memory of Su Xuan’s bedroom and recognized the black-patterned mirror that had later disappeared.
• Su Bai recalled that he had fallen from the bedroom window and realized Wu Heng had seen his fall through the mirror and rushed to save him.
• Young Su Bai touched the mirror and crossed into a gloomy space of stone walls and black tiles.
• Su Bai suspected he had entered while the passage was still open after Su Xuan used it, but Wu Heng did not respond when he tried to contact him.

Su Bai relived a forgotten childhood memory inside Fog Mountain, where he wandered through a corridor lined with motionless Dolls. At the corridor’s end, a heavy door opened to reveal a silent gathering around a long table and a figure seated at its far end.

• Little Su Bai found himself in an unfamiliar stone room and discovered that the mirror no longer responded to his touch.
• Little Su Bai opened the room’s door and entered a long corridor lined with motionless Dolls.
• Little Su Bai searched the corridor, grew frightened, and finally reached a heavy door at its far end.
• The heavy door opened by itself after Little Su Bai failed to push it farther.
• Little Su Bai saw a spacious hall with dozens of silent figures seated around a long table and another person at its far end.

Su Bai relived his first meeting with Wu Heng, when he had been a child and found Wu Heng seated among lifelike dolls. The memory ended with Su Bai promising the frozen Wu Heng that he would come keep him company.

• Wu Heng recognized young Su Bai as Su Xuan's little brother and admitted that he was Su Xuan's friend.
• Young Su Bai walked to Wu Heng and asked about the motionless dolls surrounding the dining table.
• Wu Heng warned Su Bai not to eat the unfamiliar fruit and explained that the dolls were lifeless toys.
• Wu Heng told Su Bai that the dolls represented the family he had once had, while Su Bai invited him to eat with his family.
• As the scene froze and Su Bai regained his adult body, he kissed Wu Heng and promised to come keep him company.

Su Bai passed through memories of his past, including a devastating battle between humans and Strange Creatures, while searching for details the Director wanted to see. He entered the Human-Faced Forest and heard a warning not to touch its trees.

• Su Bai opened a series of doors and relived memories of entering the Nightmare World and meeting A Xi, Yao, and other Puzzle Pieces.
• Su Bai revisited a brutal battle where human Players and Strange Creatures fought, and recalled secretly using Puzzle Pieces to reduce human casualties.
• Su Bai watched Lin Wenhua defend the front line, while Su Ye and other Healers tended to the wounded and the human teams fought together to survive.
• Su Bai stayed on the battlefield to search for an event that the Director or Mr. Fish wanted to see, then continued through the next door.
• Su Bai entered the Red Moon-lit Human-Faced Forest and heard a familiar voice warn him not to touch the trunks or branches.

Su Bai recalled how the Nameless Society and other teams entered the Human-Faced Forest seeking a chance to save humanity, only to find that the forest drained their power and killed them. Wu Heng revealed that the Red Moon Society had built an experimental site beneath the forest, which had depleted its abundant power.

• Su Bai remembered that Feng Ling, Yu Jin, and the Nameless Society had entered the Human-Faced Forest alongside other teams following a prophecy.
• Yu Jin and Feng Ling explained that the forest’s conditions had grown more dangerous than the guides described, with human-faced trees growing denser and the forest draining their power.
• Su Bai recalled that everyone in the forest, including himself, had died there after their abilities and other sources of power failed.
• Wu Heng explained that he had come from Fog Mountain after the Doll in the Puzzle Piece could not break free of its restraints.
• Wu Heng revealed that the Red Moon Society had hidden an experimental site beneath the forest and consumed nearly all the power that once filled it.

Wu Heng recalled how he lost Su Bai in the Human-Faced Forest and nearly unleashed his power in grief before Su Xuan’s final message stopped him. He told Su Bai about Su Xuan’s actions in the previous life, and Su Bai realized he had never truly been reborn.

• Wu Heng remembered treating Su Bai as a responsibility and realizing too late that he had become his only true attachment.
• After losing contact with Su Bai, Wu Heng rushed to the Human-Faced Forest and killed the Red Moon Society members who blocked his way.
• Wu Heng found Su Bai lying motionless and, overwhelmed by grief, began to unleash destructive power against everything around him.
• Su Xuan’s final message reminded Wu Heng that he had left a method to give Su Bai another chance, stopping Wu Heng before his power erupted.
• Wu Heng told Su Bai what Su Xuan had done in the previous life, and Su Bai concluded that there had never been any rebirth.