Recaps

Lu Mi and Roman grew closer in the rest area, where Roman bought Lu Mi a smartphone after seeing him admire one. As Lu Mi prepared to enter another instance with Jin Bi and He Shengguang, he learned that his popularity ranking had made him a sought-after teammate.

• Roman returned the catnip and toys, then bought a guide to getting closer to tabby cats.
• Roman saw Lu Mi chatting with Jin Bi and grew jealous when she pinched Lu Mi’s cheek.
• Roman bought Lu Mi a smartphone, and Lu Mi thanked him while Roman asked him to stop letting other people pinch his cheeks.
• Lu Mi learned that he could team up with Jin Bi by holding hands before entering an instance, and Roman accepted that Jin Bi was his new friend.
• Lu Mi met Jin Bi and He Shengguang beneath the plaza screen, where Jin Bi showed him that he topped the Rising Popularity Star ranking.
• The instance countdown began as Lu Mi prepared to enter with Jin Bi and He Shengguang.

Lu Mi and Roman arrived at Bart Manor with a group of players and discovered the region was caught in a war, where soldiers killed people and Mr. Bart was apparently shot dead. The manor’s butler welcomed them and introduced the young mistress, whose eyes were covered by living butterflies.

• Lu Mi and Roman rode toward Bart Manor in a carriage and learned from the driver that they were hired as tutors for Miss Noel.
• Soldiers stopped the carriages, killed a fleeing player, and left Mr. Bart dead after overturning his carriage.
• The players reached Bart Manor, where the butler showed no grief when told that Mr. Bart had been killed.
• Li Fan asked to stay near Lu Mi, who warned her to keep quiet and remain cautious.
• The butler welcomed the group inside the disordered castle and introduced the young mistress, whose eyes were covered by fluttering butterflies.

Lu Mi and the other players began their duties as tutors in the Bart household, where Noel’s strange rules and sudden outbursts hinted at danger. After finding only filthy bedrooms, Lu Mi and Roman slept in a storage room, where Roman pulled Lu Mi into an embrace and told him not to open his eyes.

• The butler introduced Noel, handed out her class schedule, and warned the players to feed her fully and play with her until ten or face severe punishment.
• The players chose Akun and Zhao Xiaoye to stay with Noel that night, then drew lots for the next day’s lessons; Lu Mi was assigned horseback riding.
• When Zhao Xiaoye said it was winter, Noel accused her of lying and insisted that it was spring.
• Lu Mi and Roman found the upstairs bedrooms filthy and settled in a storage room, where Lu Mi shared his thick comforter with Roman.
• Lu Mi woke feeling inexplicably cold, and Roman pulled him close, telling him not to open his eyes.

Lu Mi and Roman discovered that Noel had killed and eaten several players during the night, but she claimed to remember nothing. They left for the stables to practice riding, where Lu Mi focused on the butler’s pale face.

• Roman stopped Lu Mi from speaking when a bloodied little girl appeared outside their window, and Lu Mi turned into a cat at midnight.
• Lu Mi, Roman, and the other players found a middle-aged man dead in his bedroom and the young couple mutilated in the children's room.
• He Shengguang identified the couple's injuries, while Jin Bi recalled that Noel had knocked on her and He Shengguang's door during the night.
• Roman questioned Noel, but she said she remembered nothing and insisted everything was fine before the butler called her to breakfast.
• Lu Mi and Roman bought meat buns and went to the stables to practice riding, where Lu Mi scrutinized the butler's pale face.

Lu Mi and Roman investigated Noel’s behavior at the manor and suspected the butterflies over her eyes affected how she saw the world and controlled her emotions. They ended the chapter questioning whether the manor’s rules needed to be followed at all.

• Lu Mi and Roman discussed the butler’s lies and the war’s damage to the manor while recovering from their horseback-riding lesson.
• Roman pointed out that Lu Mi was comparing Jin Bi with Ning Zhuangzhuang, and Lu Mi realized he had been searching for traces of Ning Zhuangzhuang in Jin Bi.
• Lu Mi and Roman found Noel eating raw flesh after she attacked a maid, and they saw her calm down when the butterflies returned to her eyes.
• During Noel’s riding lesson, Lu Mi noticed that she described the gray, withered field as a bright spring landscape.
• Lu Mi and Roman theorized that the butterflies altered Noel’s perception and behavior, then questioned whether the manor’s rules were truly necessary to follow.

Lu Mi and the other players watched Noel eat, then Lu Mi volunteered for the night watch and took Noel to her bedroom with Roman. After Noel fell asleep, Roman apologized for his words about Ning Zhuangzhuang and revealed what he had done in the Central Control Building; as Lu Mi approached Roman’s sleeping face, he reached for his black mask.

• Lu Mi and He Shengguang stopped the players from fleeing as Noel ate dog meat, and Lu Mi persuaded He Shengguang to stop her before she ate too much.
• Yu Shaoqiang refused to draw a lot for the night watch, arguing that the players who taught Noel deserved rest, so Lu Mi volunteered to take the watch.
• Lu Mi and Roman took Noel to her bedroom, replaced the filthy bedding, and settled her into bed with a lullaby.
• After Noel fell asleep, Roman apologized to Lu Mi for criticizing Ning Zhuangzhuang and explained how he had kept her alive within the instance.
• At ten o’clock, Noel’s butterflies flew away, and Lu Mi approached Roman as he slept and gently reached for his black mask.

Lu Mi and the other players learned from Noel’s dream that the butterflies left her eyes when it was late or she ate too much, and they changed how they cared for her. They believed they had found a way to keep her calm, but Lu Mi warned them not to dismiss the butler.

• Lu Mi entered Noel’s dream and saw her playing happily with her father, then watched Mrs. Bart rehearse singing in the western tower and heard that Noel tended to overeat under pressure.
• Roman told Lu Mi that he had seen a different moment in Noel’s dream, including her grandmother and the butler without his pale makeup.
• Lu Mi shared the players’ dream discoveries and reasoned that Noel became violent when the butterflies left her eyes, either after ten at night or after overeating.
• The players agreed to put Noel to bed before ten, limit her portions, and cook with ingredients from the Panel Mall rather than serve food that might have come from her dog.
• Noel ate the players’ meals without becoming violent, while Yu Shaoqiang neglected his teaching and other players dismissed the butler as unimportant.

The butler killed Yu Shaoqiang and several other players after revealing he knew they had ignored his instructions, then ordered the survivors to keep Noel company. Lu Mi locked Noel in a chest when she began to go berserk, but a chilling scream sounded from the next room around two in the morning.

• Yu Shaoqiang accused the butler of setting them up, and the butler killed him with a dagger while Zhang Zhizhang watched.
• Roman hid Lu Mi in the stables, and the survivors later returned to the castle to find several players dead.
• The butler ordered the surviving players to play with Noel at ten, leaving them to choose between obeying him and provoking her frenzy.
• Lu Mi led Noel upstairs and locked her in a chest as the butterflies flew away and she became violent.
• Lu Mi settled in a room and stayed awake in cat form, then heard a chilling scream from next door around two in the morning.

The butler forced the players to play with Noel in their dogskin coats, then triggered her rage by telling her the coats were made from Feili. The players fled, but Noel and the butterflies overwhelmed He Shengguang, leaving him mutilated in the snow.

• Noel ate two people during the night, and the butler told the players their lessons were canceled but they had to make up for not playing with Noel.
• The butler made everyone wear dogskin coats and wait outside for Noel, whose butterflies shut their wings when she approached.
• The butler pushed Noel against Jin Bi's coat and told her it was made from Feili's skin, while He Shengguang tried to keep Jin Bi calm.
• Lu Mi shouted for everyone to run when Noel's butterflies opened their wings, and Jin Bi shoved He Shengguang toward Noel before fleeing.
• The butler told a story about butterflies devouring a girl's eyes as Noel and a swarm attacked He Shengguang, leaving him bloodied and partly eaten.

Lu Mi and the remaining players kept Noel contained as her episodes grew more dangerous, while Lu Mi struggled with the strain of locking her up. A visit to the ruined west tower led Lu Mi to realize the butterflies might hide reality from Noel, and that seeing the truth could be what drove her berserk.

• He Shengguang survived being pushed toward Noel, while the remaining players continued forcing Noel to eat dog meat and locking her away before she became dangerous.
• Lu Mi observed that the butterflies left Noel's eyes earlier each day and that she broke out of her sealed room faster, increasing the danger for everyone.
• Lu Mi and Roman visited the ruined west tower, where Lu Mi remembered Noel's dream and reflected on how different her life had become.
• Lu Mi realized that Noel might see reality when the butterflies flew away, and suggested that the contrast between her dream world and the ruined present caused her to lose control.
• Roman agreed that the discovery mattered, and Lu Mi recalled Noel's efforts to restrain herself when He Shengguang was harmed before suddenly thinking of something.

Lu Mi realized they could use an afternoon nap to re-enter the dream and recovered the Olive Crown to give Roman. After Zhang Zhizhang attacked him over Yu Shaoqiang’s death, Lu Mi went to sleep beside Noel, while Roman confronted Zhang Zhizhang alone.

• Lu Mi and Roman suspected the castle butler was an impostor and decided to try entering the dream during the afternoon.
• Lu Mi secretly retrieved and cleaned the Olive Crown while Roman went to bring Noel upstairs.
• Zhang Zhizhang confronted Lu Mi with a kitchen knife, blaming him for Yu Shaoqiang’s death, but Lu Mi dodged and escaped to Roman.
• Roman brought Noel to the top-floor room, where Lu Mi tucked her into bed and then fell asleep to enter the dream.
• Zhang Zhizhang hid in the tower, plotting to kill Lu Mi, until Roman approached and quietly said Lu Mi was asleep and Zhang should not scream.

Lu Mi uncovered how the impostor butler had taken the real butler’s place and helped bring ruin to the manor, then woke from Noel’s dream and told Roman what he had learned. He and Roman planned another trip into the dream, while Lu Mi gave Roman the Olive Crown he had found.

• Lu Mi explored Noel’s dream and saw Mr. and Mrs. Bart arguing over love letters from Michel, while Noel hid nearby and cried.
• Lu Mi searched for the butler and followed a man into a secluded room, where he watched him use a disguise mixture to transform into the pale-faced butler.
• The disguised man said he would destroy everything Mrs. Bart loved, and Lu Mi realized the real butler had been replaced before the war reached the manor.
• Lu Mi woke near two o’clock, returned Noel to Jin Bi, and rejected Jin Bi when she asked if they were friends.
• Lu Mi told Roman about the impostor and planned another dream trip with him, then gave him the scratched Olive Crown.

Lu Mi searched the castle for clues and tried to help Noel eat less without alerting the butler. After the butler watched Noel finish her meal and leave, Jiang Chunyan panicked, expecting Noel to attack them.

• Roman accepted the Olive Crown from Lu Mi and secretly rubbed a bloodstained human fingernail hidden in his palm.
• Lu Mi searched the castle and Noel’s dreams for clues, then volunteered for tasks that let him spend more time teaching and caring for Noel.
• Jiang Chunyan worried that Lu Mi was reducing Noel’s food and breaking the butler’s rules, while Mo Yu reassured her that Lu Mi had a plan.
• Lu Mi told Jiang Chunyan that a player had tried to kill him and said the player might have been eaten by Noel.
• Lu Mi served Noel a full bowl of dog meat while Jiang Chunyan watched, and the butler stayed to observe Noel eating.
• The butler left after Noel showed signs of going berserk, and Jiang Chunyan urged Lu Mi to run before Noel attacked them.

Lu Mi uncovered clues in Noel’s dreams while trying to help her control herself and avoid the butler’s suspicion. In the latest dream, he saw soldiers escorting Noel and Mrs. Bart from a ruined manor and recognized the men who had killed Mr. Bart.

• Lu Mi told Jiang Chunyan that Noel’s dreams showed the fake butler taking control of the manor and that war was approaching.
• Lu Mi explained that Noel could restrain herself when the butler did not provoke her, and Jiang Chunyan offered to help with the cooking.
• Roman secretly pulled growing fingernails from his palm and buried them in the snow.
• Lu Mi and Roman put Noel down for a nap, then heard He Shengguang call for the butler outside their hiding place.
• Roman stopped Lu Mi from rushing out, and Lu Mi entered Noel’s dream after she fell asleep.
• Lu Mi saw soldiers escorting Noel, Mrs. Bart, and Noel’s grandmother from the ruined manor, and recognized them as the soldiers who had killed Mr. Bart.

Lu Mi witnessed Michel's murder of Mrs. Bart and Noel, then helped Noel briefly escape the illusion created by the Butterfly Eyes. Back in the hall, he asked Mo Yu about a book describing face-changing powder, seeking a clue about the Butler's disguise.

• In Lu Mi's vision, Michel revealed his identity to Mrs. Bart, blinded Noel, and shot Mrs. Bart after recounting their past.
• Lu Mi woke beside Noel and Roman, comforted Noel, and urged her to abandon the false world created by the Butterfly Eyes.
• He Shengguang called Lu Mi and the others over to show them something, but the Butler summoned him to class before he could explain.
• Mo Yu and Jin Bi argued about their efforts to find clues, while Roman silenced Jin Bi.
• Lu Mi asked Mo Yu about books on white powder that could disguise someone's face, and Mo Yu recalled a book called Dark Arts.

Lu Mi discovered that Michel’s dark art required scheduled blood sacrifices and realized the manor’s twelfth day marked a deadly milestone. After uncovering a hidden face in the ceiling, he and Roman rushed to intervene as the Butler confronted He Shengguang.

• Lu Mi found a handwritten dark arts manual describing how to steal someone’s appearance and learned the preparation had to be replaced every seven days.
• Lu Mi saw that Roman had sharp fingernails growing across his body and urged him to seek treatment after they escaped.
• Lu Mi found instructions for the dark art called Deification and realized Michel had been collecting blood from victims according to a schedule on the instance’s twelfth day.
• Lu Mi and Roman searched for what He Shengguang had seen with his Butterfly Eyes, then washed away a ceiling disguise and found a bloodied face behind ice.
• The Butler confronted He Shengguang while Lu Mi and Roman rushed in different directions toward the upper floors as snow buried the manor.

Lu Mi exposed the real Butler, freed Noel from the manor’s past, and opened the gates for the survivors to leave. Noel planned to go to the capital with the Butler and restore the manor when she grew up, while Lu Mi and Roman stepped into the light.

• Lu Mi melted the ice disguising the real Butler and freed him, while Roman kept the fake Butler occupied by carrying He Shengguang and Mo Yu around the hall.
• The real Butler attacked Michel, and Lu Mi said Noel was still the key to resolving the manor’s curse.
• Lu Mi melted the snow outside the castle with a powerful wall of fire, then led Noel to the weeping angel statue to retrieve her eyes.
• Noel put her eyes back in without going mad, saw the ruined manor, and agreed to leave with the Butler for the capital before restoring it as an adult.
• The butterflies transformed into a key, Lu Mi opened the manor gates, and Mo Yu, Jiang Chunyan, He Shengguang, Jin Bi, Lu Mi, and Roman left through the light.

Lu Mi recovered his spiritual power during a healing session, alarming the staff until 2044 recognized him and stopped them from treating him as a threat. Afterward, Lu Mi and Roman went to the cafeteria, where Lu Mi offered to buy Roman a meal with popularity points.

• Lu Mi and Roman entered the Healing Area, where the staff insisted Lu Mi receive treatment too.
• During healing, Lu Mi summoned a glowing ball of water, triggering an alarm and sending staff into a panic.
• 2044 identified Lu Mi as a harmless kitty who had recovered his spiritual power, shut off the alarm, and told staff to memorize the ranked players’ faces.
• Lu Mi asked 2044 about the growths on Roman’s skin, but 2044 hinted that Roman knew more than he admitted.
• Lu Mi and Roman found the cafeteria accepting popularity points and ordered food, with Lu Mi offering to pay for Roman’s meal.
• Lu Mi asked whether Roman could eat despite not needing food, hoping to share the fried chicken with him.

Lu Mi learned that Cheng Cheng had a message for him from Shen Yiwen, then discovered the Divine Punishment Game's upgrade had added viewer messages and a plaza job listing. Jin Bi came to his dorm to offer him a chance to earn gold coins, but Lu Mi turned her down.

• Cheng Cheng approached Lu Mi in the cafeteria and gave him a card with a number, but Roman carried him away after he admitted he didn't know who the woman was.
• Lu Mi called Shen Yiwen, who apologized for bumping into him in an instance and explained that her friend had died.
• Lu Mi learned that he and his profile were displayed on the plaza screen because he ranked first in popularity.
• The game upgrade let players who had cleared at least two instances receive viewer messages, and Lu Mi enabled the feature before regretting the lewd messages he found.
• Jin Bi knocked on Lu Mi's dorm door and offered him a plaza job, but he refused.

Jin Bi tried to win Lu Mi over, but he rejected her and agreed to stay in Roman’s room for a few days. As they shared a bed, Lu Mi found a cat-care book Roman had been studying and offered to teach him to read.

• Jin Bi pleaded with Lu Mi to help her, but he told her to leave and not return.
• Roman asked Lu Mi to sleep in his room so he could keep Roman from attacking Jin Bi, and Lu Mi agreed.
• Roman prepared a bath and bed for Lu Mi, but Lu Mi had already showered and brought his own comforter.
• Lu Mi dried Roman’s hair and eventually let him share the bed.
• Lu Mi found a well-worn guide to bonding with tabby cats hidden under his pillow and offered to teach Roman to read.

Lu Mi and Roman spent several days studying and practicing before visiting a new shop, where Lu Mi ran into Shen Yiwen and her former college classmate Jin Bi. Lu Mi and Shen Yiwen entered a dungeon together, leaving Roman behind in the Public Rest Area.

• Roman was too excited to sleep after Lu Mi promised to teach him, and Lu Mi asked why Roman always wore a face covering, but Roman did not answer.
• Lu Mi taught Roman to read while practicing spells, and Roman's notebook was soaked by Lu Mi's summoned water for the third time.
• Lu Mi and Roman visited the crowded Wonderful Dream shop, where Shen Yiwen warned that the new popularity-point activities seemed suspicious.
• Shen Yiwen and Jin Bi traded hostile remarks, revealing their old college grudge, while Jin Bi mocked Lu Mi and Shen Yiwen in front of the crowd.
• Lu Mi announced he was about to enter a dungeon, clearing the crowd around him, and Shen Yiwen joined him before the countdown ended.

Lu Mi and the other players arrived as transfer students at Bo'ai Academy, where the teacher and classroom hinted at something sinister. When Roman was injured during class and the teacher turned hostile, Lu Mi calmed him by showing his carefully written lecture notes, leaving the group with a possible way to manage the teacher.

• Lu Mi, Roman, Shen Yiwen, and the other players joined Class Four at Bo'ai Academy, where Cheng Cheng pretended to be a newcomer.
• Shen Yiwen asked how many students had originally been in the class, and the teacher insisted there had been twenty despite forty desks.
• During a lesson, Roman smelled burning and found that something had badly burned through his forearm.
• Roman grabbed a bespectacled boy, and the teacher grew sinister as he scolded the class for fighting and neglecting their studies.
• Lu Mi showed the teacher his lecture notes, and the teacher praised them as his sinister energy receded.

Lu Mi and Roman were punished with a night patrol after class, while Lu Mi investigated the academy and found a way to earn meals by working in the cafeteria. As evening study ended, they stayed behind for their patrol, and Lu Mi hoped he would get a chance to test his ability against the instance’s ghosts and monsters.

• The teacher quizzed Lu Mi, then assigned him and Roman to patrol the teaching building that night as punishment.
• Roman told Lu Mi that Zhao Xiaoxiang had arranged for Han San to throw sulfuric acid at him, and Lu Mi treated Roman’s injury.
• Zhao Xiaoxiang and Han San apologized, then Cheng Cheng led the group to the cafeteria and entertained Lu Mi with stories about his background.
• Lu Mi realized he needed to save his gold coins, so he persuaded the cafeteria staff to let him work for free meals, and Roman worked beside him.
• After evening study hall, Shen Yiwen and the other players returned to the dorms while Lu Mi and Roman stayed behind for their patrol; Lu Mi hoped to test his ability on the instance’s monsters.

Lu Mi and Roman began their night patrol in Teaching Building No. 3, where a school-uniformed figure watched them. In the girls’ dormitory, Xiaoyi encountered a ghost in the shower room and fled to room 509, but the door opened from the inside just as she called for help.

• Zhong Zixian warned Lu Mi that the first night usually had the most deaths, and Lu Mi hurried with Roman to the gatehouse to begin patrol.
• Roman tied Lu Mi’s scarf while a figure in a school uniform watched them from a classroom window.
• Shen Yiwen reminded Xiaoyi about the dormitory rules, but Xiaoyi laughed in the shower room and encountered a ghost with a fruit knife embedded in its head.
• Xiaoyi fled to room 509 and repeatedly pounded on the door, breaking the room’s entry-code rule.
• Xiaoyi called Shen Yiwen, and the steel door opened a crack from the inside.

Xiao Yi was dragged into her dorm room and killed while Shen Yiwen reviewed the dormitory rules. In Teaching Building No. 3, Lu Mi and Roman escaped a violent ghost with help from Cheng Cheng, but the ghost’s question left Lu Mi facing an eerie change in his surroundings.

• Xiao Yi was seized through her dorm doorway, and her phone call ended with her screams and faint chewing sounds.
• Shen Yiwen read the warning against lingering in Teaching Building No. 3 after evening study hall.
• A burned ghost attacked Lu Mi and Roman, and Lu Mi used fire to slow it as they fled.
• Cheng Cheng immobilized the ghost with Yellow Talismans, but Lu Mi accidentally burned one while freeing the ghost’s head so he could question it.
• The ghost repeatedly asked Lu Mi whether he could see it, and Lu Mi noticed that the moonlight had vanished and neither Cheng Cheng nor Roman cast a shadow.