Recaps

Lin Ze, Hu Tao, and Paimon investigated Yvette’s house and discovered a ghost upstairs, while Yvette told Chongyun about her years searching for Simon and her relationship with Cook Rodney. Lin Ze and Hu Tao revealed that Simon’s voice had been warning Yvette and urged her to call the police because Rodney was dangerous.

• Hu Tao explored Yvette’s house with Lin Ze and Paimon, then learned from her ghost that a spirit was upstairs.
• Lin Ze climbed upstairs with Paimon and sensed an unnatural cold as he activated Elemental Sight.
• Yvette told Chongyun that she had searched for Simon for five years, then developed feelings for Cook Rodney, who had proposed to her.
• Lin Ze told Yvette that Simon loved her and had been trying to protect her by warning her with his voice.
• Hu Tao warned Yvette that Rodney was not a good man, and Lin Ze urged her to call the police.

Lin Ze and his companions called the police after finding Yvette’s husband’s body sealed beneath her floor, but the officers doubted their account. Paimon and a mischievous ghost proved that the supernatural was real, leaving both officers terrified.

• Yvette told Officer Ryan that her missing husband’s body should be beneath the second-floor hallway, and Lin Ze explained that it had been sealed in concrete.
• Officer Ryan and Officer Nelly found no visible evidence and suspected the group had made a false report.
• Paimon flew into view and frightened Officer Nelly, while Lin Ze showed Officer Ryan the Paranormal Affairs Research Institute’s business card.
• Hu Tao’s little ghost appeared behind the officers, and Officer Ryan saw it before Officer Nelly turned around and screamed.

Chongyun and Hu Tao helped the police uncover a body hidden beneath the floorboards, likely identifying it as Simon and prompting the arrest of Cook Rodney. Hu Tao then overwhelmed Officer Nelly with a sales pitch until he agreed to buy a funeral package.

• Officer Nelly saw Hu Tao's pet ghost and accepted that ghosts and Chongyun's explanation were real.
• Officer Ryan called for forensic and demolition teams, who found a body wrapped in vacuum-sealed packaging beneath the second-floor floorboards.
• Officer Ryan told Yvette that the body was likely Simon's, though DNA testing was still needed, and said Cook Rodney was in custody.
• Hu Tao handed the officers Wangsheng Funeral Parlor brochures and pitched its funeral products and services.
• Hu Tao's relentless pitch left Officer Nelly bewildered, and he agreed to buy a package and asked whether he could pay by cash or card.

Lin Ze explained Simon’s death and his last message to Yvette, who broke down in grief. As the group set off for the city, they tried to flag down a taxi driven by Du Mingde with Deadpool riding along, and the chapter ended as the taxi reversed back toward them.

• Lin Ze told Yvette that Rodney had murdered Simon and revealed Simon’s final message of love and hope for her.
• Yvette wept over Simon’s death while Lin Ze and Chongyun left her to grieve, and Hu Tao reassured Chongyun that she would recover.
• Lin Ze declined to call Tony for a ride, and the group tried to hail a passing taxi instead.
• Deadpool told Du Mingde about his lost loves and recognized the golden-haired hitchhiker as his first love, Aether.
• Du Mingde sped past Lin Ze and the others, then reversed the taxi toward them as Lin Ze recognized the red head leaning out the window.

Deadpool reunited with Lin Ze, but his obnoxious embrace earned him a blast from Chongyun’s icy sword. After Hu Tao pretended he was dying, Lin Ze tricked taxi driver Du Mingde into uncovering Deadpool’s puckered lips, leaving Du Mingde horrified as Wade revived to kiss him.

• Deadpool leaped out of Du Mingde’s taxi, hugged Lin Ze, and ignored his protests about the smell.
• Paimon tried to free Lin Ze, and Chongyun struck Deadpool with his ice-infused greatsword, sending him flying.
• Lin Ze, Paimon, and Chongyun found Deadpool unresponsive, so Hu Tao pretended his heart had stopped and urged Lin Ze to perform CPR.
• Lin Ze had Du Mingde uncover Deadpool’s mask, and Wade began to rise toward him with puckered lips.
• Du Mingde screamed as Deadpool’s lips approached him.

Lin Ze and his companions drove off with Wade, whose strange dream hinted at familiar figures from their world. Wade then began recounting a painful memory about his ex-girlfriend Vanessa, leaving the story mid-anecdote.

• Lin Ze made Wade sit in the front passenger seat after the others roughed him up for trying to squeeze into the back.
• Wade told Lin Ze he had dreamed that Lin Ze and Paimon walked through a door, then described Lin Ze as a busty girl and Paimon as a tall man who beat him.
• Lin Ze suspected Wade's dream had involved Lumine and Dainsleif, while Paimon, Hu Tao, Chongyun, and Du Mingde laughed at Wade's story.
• Wade began crying as he remembered his former girlfriend Vanessa and their anniversary, then started describing the gift she gave him.

Wade told Lin Ze and the others how Vanessa had died, and they offered him their support before he left. While Lin Ze and Paimon rested, Zhongli received a call asking the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor to clean up a grisly incident at the Central Park Zoo.

• Wade recounted how an enemy’s gunshot had killed Vanessa and blamed himself for her death.
• Lin Ze and the others comforted Wade, who thanked them with awkward hugs before leaving in Du Mingde’s taxi.
• Paimon said she had obtained Wade’s address, and Lin Ze planned to visit him with her; the group then realized they had forgotten to pay the taxi fare.
• Lin Ze and Paimon returned to their room and fell asleep after a sleepless night.
• Officer Nelly called the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor about a man who had fed himself to a polar bear, and Zhongli agreed to send help.

Hu Tao and Zhongli collected the remains of a man who had jumped into a polar bear enclosure, then arranged to keep him at the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor while the police confirmed his identity. As Zhongli started to reminisce about an old friend, something inside the bag grabbed his thigh, and he flung it away.

• Officer Nelly led Hu Tao and Zhongli to the zoo’s crime scene, then became sick and stayed outside while Hu Tao went in alone.
• Hu Tao quickly gathered the scattered remains into her bag, and Officer Nelly arranged payment and asked her to keep the client until his identity was confirmed.
• Zhongli remembered past directors of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and began recalling an old friend as he and Hu Tao left.
• Something inside the bag grabbed Zhongli’s thigh, so he hurled the bag through the air as Hu Tao shouted that her client was still inside.

Hu Tao recovered Wade after polar bears had eaten most of his body and worked on his head in her basement. Wade bought several funeral services for his remains, just as Paimon and the Traveler arrived to see Hu Tao.

• Hu Tao washed and applied makeup to Wade’s regrown head while he insisted he had approached the polar bears only to observe them.
• Wade saw his makeup in a mirror, protested the result, and explained that the polar bears had eaten his other body parts.
• Wade told Hu Tao he had greeted Zhongli from inside a bag by rubbing his lips against Zhongli’s leg, prompting Zhongli to throw him away.
• Hu Tao burned Wade’s recovered body parts, and Wade ordered the value package, special offers, and a gold coffin for his souvenirs.
• Paimon and the Traveler knocked at the basement window to visit Hu Tao.

Lin Ze and Paimon visited Wade’s blind roommate Alicia, who told them Wade had attempted suicide after Vanessa’s death and had not returned home. Lin Ze used his mental energy to learn that Wade was at the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, and he and Paimon set off to find him.

• Lin Ze and Paimon visited Alicia, who mistook them for Wade’s children before learning they were concerned friends.
• Alicia recounted how Wade overdosed after Vanessa’s death, briefly stopped breathing, then left to do terrible things.
• Lin Ze and Paimon asked Alicia where Wade might be, but she had no other useful leads.
• Lin Ze used his mental energy to search for Wade, and Venti sensed the wind’s news while resting in a park.
• Lin Ze learned that Wade had gone to the Zoo to kill himself and had been taken to the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor by Hu Tao.
• Lin Ze told Paimon they should go find Hu Tao.

Lin Ze found Wade at the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor after Wade tried to die by jumping into a zoo, and urged his friend to stop hiding his grief over Vanessa behind dirty jokes. Hu Tao told Wade that he might be able to see Vanessa without resorting to death, leaving him stunned and asking what she meant.

• Hu Tao opened the door for Lin Ze and pointed him toward Wade, who was hiding naked behind a sofa.
• Wade teased Lin Ze with crude jokes, and Paimon kicked him off the sofa before Hu Tao took her out for food.
• Lin Ze told Wade that he did not want to see him die and asked whether staying alive was really so hard.
• Wade admitted that he wanted revenge for Vanessa and believed death was the only way to see her again.
• Hu Tao said people should respect death and suggested Wade could see Vanessa without taking an extreme path, leaving him stunned.

Hu Tao took Wade and Lin Ze to Stark Tower to find Vanessa in the Ordinary Place, but she got sidetracked by Qiqi and tried to take her along. After Tony stopped the apparent kidnapping, he explained that he was suffering from food poisoning, and Hu Tao tried to recruit him as a funeral parlor client.

• Hu Tao explained that the Ordinary Place could form where spirits with lingering attachments gathered and said the casualties from the New York battle had opened an easy way in.
• Lin Ze brought Hu Tao, Wade, and Paimon to Stark Tower, where Hu Tao spotted Qiqi in the elevator and carried her off over her protests.
• Mark Armor suits surrounded the elevator, and Tony ordered Hu Tao to release Qiqi before Lin Ze explained that she and Wade were his friends.
• Tony revealed that food sent by Bennett had given him food poisoning, and he sent Qiqi to find Potts and ask for her apple pie.
• Hu Tao offered Tony a Wangsheng Funeral Parlor brochure, but Lin Ze and Paimon took it away, and Hu Tao protested that Tony could not be recruited.

Lin Ze, Hu Tao, Paimon, and Wade entered Hu Tao’s remodeled border between life and death to help Wade find Vanessa. They found her among the wandering souls, but Vanessa mistook Wade’s antics with Lin Ze for evidence he had become gay and chased him as Paimon misunderstood her questions.

• Barbara’s song distracted the group, allowing Lin Ze to take Hu Tao and Wade to the rooftop, where Hu Tao opened a border into the afterlife.
• Hu Tao led the group through a landscape resembling the place Wade had come from, while Wade failed to notice the clues and complained about being made to run around.
• Wade chased after Lin Ze, Hu Tao, and Paimon, fell into shallow water, and finally followed them to a glowing cloud-filled area crowded with wandering souls.
• Wade recognized Vanessa, but she accused him of turning gay and questioned Lin Ze about whether he was on top or bottom.
• Paimon mistook Vanessa’s question for one about fighting ability, prompting Vanessa to chase Wade and Hu Tao to offer Lin Ze a discount on her funeral services.

Wade reunited with Vanessa in the afterlife, but she refused to let him stay with her or keep chasing death to be together. Vanessa departed to reincarnate, leaving Wade confused and grieving.

• Vanessa and Wade discovered they could not touch each other, and Wade tried to comfort her with a mistaken reference to Titanic.
• Wade asked Hu Tao to let Vanessa remain beside him forever, but Hu Tao refused to interfere with the order of life and death.
• Vanessa explained that she was angry because Wade kept pursuing death to see her and told him the living and dead belonged to different worlds.
• Vanessa urged Wade to live properly and announced she was leaving to reincarnate as a woman in twenty years.
• Vanessa faded away, and Wade searched for her before asking what she meant by putting his heart in the right place.

Lin Ze, Hu Tao, and Paimon helped Wade interpret Vanessa’s advice, and Paimon’s words inspired him to become a good person. Elsewhere, Russell was brought to Essex’s facility, where the injured children and a warning from one of them revealed its cruelty.

• Wade asked Lin Ze, Hu Tao, and Paimon what Vanessa meant by putting his heart in the right place.
• Paimon said Vanessa wanted Wade to live meaningfully and find his own worth, and Lin Ze and Hu Tao praised her advice.
• Paimon admitted she had heard those words from Tony when he refused to let her eat cupcakes.
• Wade decided to do good deeds, protect world peace, and show Vanessa how much he loved her.
• A balding old man brought Russell into Essex’s facility and claimed the children stayed because they belonged there.
• Russell saw the children’s injuries, and a boy hiding under a bed warned him that the facility was hell.

Wade quit doing small good deeds with Lin Ze because he found them boring, while Lin Ze planned to check on Chongyun with Paimon. Wade then came upstairs and flirted with Zhongli.

• Wade complained to Lin Ze about the trivial errands and meager rewards that had made him stop helping people.
• Lin Ze suggested Wade fight crime with Diluc, and Wade recounted how Diluc had chased him from the tavern after he sang to cover an unpaid bill.
• Lin Ze told Wade that the green-clad singer in white stockings was his male friend Venti, and Wade joked about wanting stockings of his own.
• Lin Ze told Wade to take a few days off while he and Paimon went to check on Chongyun, who had run into a problem.
• Wade left his coffin, saw Zhongli drinking tea, and offered him a passionate kiss of friendship.

Hu Tao returned to the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor to find its ceiling smashed and learned that Zhongli had injured Wade in a sparring match. Wade sought treatment at a hospital, where a commotion about fires and mutants erupted outside his room.

• Hu Tao came back to the parlor and found a hole in the ceiling after Zhongli and Wade had sparred.
• Zhongli crushed his teacup when Hu Tao asked what had angered him, then said Wade had injured his tailbone and left.
• Hu Tao left to look for Wade and arrange repairs, while Zhongli stayed behind and called the fight a small punishment.
• Wade refused a doctor's suggestion to remove his badly injured testicles and received medication to ease the pain as they regrew.
• Wade saw a severely burned patient on a stretcher and heard people outside shout that mutants were causing trouble and setting fires.

Wade learned that a fire-wielding child at the Aethas Estate had injured several people and left the hospital to find the X-Men. Hu Tao arrived looking for him, but the officers discovered that Wade had registered under Paimon’s name as Paimon sneezed while walking with Lin Ze.

• Wade disrupted an emergency room and asked Officer Ryan what had injured the patients.
• Officer Ryan told Wade that a child who could shoot fire from his hands at the Aethas Estate had caused the injuries and that the X-Men had been called.
• Wade called Du Mingde for a ride and left the hospital to watch what happened at the estate.
• Hu Tao arrived searching for Wade, and Officer Ryan told her that Wade had already left after registering under the name Paimon.
• Paimon sneezed and wondered what had made her nose itch as she walked with Lin Ze.

Deadpool arrived at the Aethas Estate mutant rehabilitation facility during Russell’s dangerous meltdown and tried to convince the X-Men and police to let him talk to the boy. Just as he was about to approach Russell, someone in the crowd called out that Wade had not paid, revealing that his creditor had caught up with him.

• Eileen Merryweather reported that Russell had injured people and set fires while the police tried to contain him.
• Deadpool arrived in a taxi, claimed to be a child negotiation specialist, and exchanged insults with Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus.
• Colossus and Negasonic questioned Deadpool’s motives, and Wade said he wanted to become a good guy.
• The police officer argued Russell should be sent to the Icebox, while Colossus proposed sending him to the Xavier Institute and Daniel insisted the facility had things under control.
• Deadpool offered to talk to Russell, but someone called out that he had run off without paying, and Wade recognized his creditor.

Hu Tao confronted Deadpool over the damage he caused to Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and joined the X-Men as they tried to handle Russell. Deadpool’s reckless attempts to negotiate and perform a superhero landing ended with him splattered on the ground, while Hu Tao prepared a sack.

• Hu Tao demanded that Deadpool pay $99,990 for a coffin, but agreed to waive the roof repair costs after hearing how Zhongli injured him.
• Deadpool introduced Hu Tao to Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus, and Hu Tao offered to help before taking a place to watch the fight.
• Deadpool approached Russell and tried to negotiate, but Russell blasted Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus with fireballs.
• Russell sent Deadpool flying through a window, and Deadpool leapt back out to demonstrate a superhero landing.
• Deadpool splattered on the ground, and Hu Tao pulled out a sack while watching him lie there.

Deadpool and Hu Tao discovered that Russell had been abused at the Mutants Rehabilitation Center, and Deadpool killed the director before he could be sent to the Icebox. Colossus and the armed personnel restrained Deadpool, but Hu Tao stood between them and tried to stop them from taking him away.

• Deadpool knocked Russell down and let the armed personnel put a Power-Dampening Collar around his neck.
• Hu Tao noticed Russell's fear and bruises, realized he had been abused, and raised her spear against the director and his men.
• Deadpool stopped Hu Tao, proclaimed that he had come to uphold justice, then shot the director in the forehead.
• Colossus tackled Deadpool, and the armed personnel fitted him with a Power-Dampening Collar.
• Hu Tao blocked the personnel with her spear when they tried to take Deadpool to the Icebox.

Lin Ze, Paimon, and Chongyun investigated a freezing manor where a family had vanished, but Lin Ze realized their companion might not really be Chongyun. He sent Paimon away and continued searching cautiously while Hu Tao set out to investigate Wade’s capture at the Icebox.

• Lin Ze and Paimon entered the abandoned manor, where a wave of unnatural cold and a frost-covered mirror greeted them.
• Chongyun appeared behind them and explained that the manor’s owner, wife, and two children had disappeared, and that the owner had failed to meet him.
• Lin Ze, Paimon, and Chongyun searched the manor together as Paimon hiccupped and Lin Ze tried to persuade her to drink Barbara’s Spicy Drink.
• Hu Tao called to report that Wade had been taken to the Icebox, and Lin Ze told her to investigate with someone else while he stayed at the manor.
• Lin Ze sent Paimon into the Serenitea Pot and continued exploring with the suspicious figure posing as Chongyun.

Hu Tao and Bennett traveled toward the Icebox to rescue Wade and Russell, while the prisoners struggled with life inside the facility. The chapter left Russell retrieving a hidden pen as the Icebox’s imprisoned monster made the prison shake.

• Hu Tao and Bennett trudged through the snow, and Bennett explained that JARVIS had spotted her taking Qiqi from Stark Tower.
• Bennett recalled that Steve had drawn them a map, flown them to the Icebox, and promised to follow behind them.
• Wade and Russell were placed in a transparent cell where their collars suppressed their powers, and Wade vomited from his cancer.
• Russell told Wade he envied the way Hu Tao had stood up for him, while Wade joked that they would not be in the Icebox for long.
• The Icebox shook as its imprisoned monster stirred, and Russell went to retrieve the pen he had hidden on himself.

A Winter Soldier-armed man attacked the Icebox and confronted Russell as Wade tried to escape, while Hu Tao and Bennett arrived outside and watched Wade tumble down the mountain. Hu Tao and Bennett rescued Wade from the snow, and he woke inside a makeshift coffin, furious about the cloth Bennett had put over his face.

• An explosion disabled the Icebox's control system, and Wade tried to flee with Russell as a Winter Soldier-armed man attacked them.
• The armed man caught up with Wade and Russell and greeted Russell by name.
• Hu Tao and Bennett reached the Icebox entrance, but another explosion sent Wade and the armed man tumbling out of a hole in the mountain.
• Wade rolled toward the frozen lake and stopped breathing, while Bennett gave him a thumbs-up instead of helping immediately.
• Hu Tao and Bennett placed Wade in a snow coffin, and he woke up and complained about the dirty cloth over his face.

Wade recruited a team to rescue Russell from a transfer to Supermax Prison, while Lin Ze uncovered that the person posing as Chongyun was an evil spirit. The chapter ended with Lin Ze confronting the spirit after exposing its lack of breath mist.

• Wade told Weasel he planned to save Russell and learned that the mutants would soon be transferred to Supermax Prison.
• Wade decided to recruit a team for the rescue and asked Hu Tao and Bennett to call people, then tried to contact Little Aether.
• Lin Ze noticed in a mirror that the Chongyun accompanying him behaved differently from his reflection and concealed his discovery.
• Lin Ze pointed out that Chongyun had produced no breath mist in the cold, exposing him as an evil spirit.
• The spirit admitted that Lin Ze had caught it and blamed a light-blue-haired man for its failure.