Recaps

Lu Mi inspected the captured ghosts in Liang Mafeng’s wooden box and grew suspicious of Liang Mafeng and Gong Tan. After Lü He and Shunzi went to catch a ghost, they returned with a green ball in the box, and Lu Mi identified it as Snake Woman.

• Huihui showed Lu Mi the wooden box containing the captured Box Woman, Under-Bed Guest, and Spider Man.
• Liang Mafeng explained how to use the box, but Roman grabbed his shoulder when he reached toward Lu Mi.
• Lu Mi challenged Lü He to try catching a ghost, and Lü He left with Shunzi to use the box.
• Lu Mi watched Liang Mafeng and Gong Tan, noticing Gong Tan’s corpse-pale face and a faint trace of blood on Liang Mafeng.
• Lü He and Shunzi returned with a green ball in the box, and Lu Mi identified the captured ghost as Snake Woman.

Lu Mi and Roman encountered a vicious little girl while retrieving a ghost-catching box and learned that she claimed to be Fanfan. Lu Mi brought the box safely into the elevator, but Huihui and Xiao Ru were likely dead, and he wondered whether the little girl had killed them.

• Lu Mi noticed Huihui and Xiao Ru had been gone for an hour and set out with Roman to investigate.
• Lu Mi and Roman encountered Skeleton Man and Bottle Woman before finding a blood-stained box and a little girl with twin ponytails outside the elevator.
• Lu Mi burned the little girl with a fireball and asked whether she had seen two older girls; she claimed to be Fanfan and demanded that he come out and play.
• Lu Mi used a breeze to pull the wooden box into the protected elevator, then escaped as the little girl tried to force her way inside.
• Lu Mi opened the box and guessed its black ball belonged to the hair ghost, then wondered whether the little girl had killed Huihui and Xiao Ru.

Lu Mi returned to the Hall claiming Roman had died while trying to capture Bottle Woman, then joined the players in debating the risks of catching more ghosts. As night fell, Gong Tan suddenly smashed the food Liang Mafeng offered him and threatened to kill himself if Liang Mafeng disliked him.

• Lu Mi found that the room numbers on the tenth floor had changed, realizing Mirror Spirit had taken control of the floor, then returned to the Hall alone with the bloodstained box.
• Lu Mi told the players that Roman had died when Bottle Woman escaped capture, and suggested that using the box twice in a row might cause a death.
• The players refused to risk catching more ghosts until they understood the death conditions, but Lu Mi urged Liang Mafeng to accompany him to find Bottle Woman.
• Liang Mafeng declined to go that night, and the players later shared food after no one delivered a meal.
• Gong Tan knocked Liang Mafeng's plate of Pasta to the floor and cried that he would kill himself if Liang Mafeng did not like him.

Lu Mi manipulated Liang Mafeng into staying in his room, where the Mirror Spirit emerged at one o’clock. Liang Mafeng opened the wooden box to capture it, leaving Lu Mi’s plan poised to unfold.

• Gong Tan slashed his own artery and died, while Liang Mafeng acted grief-stricken and Lü He and the others removed the body.
• Liang Mafeng joined Lu Mi in the elevator and tested whether Lu Mi blamed him for Gong Tan’s death; Lu Mi pretended to forgive him.
• Lu Mi brought Liang Mafeng to Room 1004 and waited beside the mirror for the Mirror Spirit’s signal.
• When the mirror began glowing, Lu Mi urged Liang Mafeng to take out the wooden box and warned him that the ghost was about to emerge.
• At one o’clock, the Mirror Spirit crawled out of the mirror, and Liang Mafeng opened the wooden box toward it.

Lu Mi exposed Liang Mafeng’s scheme and helped the Mirror Spirit kill him, then Roman lured the Two-Faced Girl into the mirror. Lu Mi and Roman planned to enter the mirror the next night to find Fanfan, while Roman confessed he sometimes wished he could die in a moment of happiness.

• Lu Mi revealed that Liang Mafeng had manipulated the clock and used Gong Tan as a pawn, and the Mirror Spirit tore off Liang Mafeng’s head.
• Liang Mafeng escaped as black fog, but the Two-Faced Girl captured and swallowed him after Roman ordered her to eat him.
• The Two-Faced Girl asked to eat Roman as their deal required, but Roman instead led her to the mirror, where she entered after seeing her mother.
• The Mirror Spirit told Lu Mi to come into the mirror the next night, and Lu Mi explained that Fanfan was inside it.
• Lu Mi checked Roman for injuries, and Roman told him he sometimes wished he could die while feeling so happy.

Lu Mi and Roman entered the mirror world and discovered Qiu Bufan’s past, witnessing a man cruelly belittle the young girl and urge her to change her appearance. The man then suggested selling the antique mirror, while Lu Mi and Roman watched the events that may have led to Fanfan’s tragedy.

• Shen Yiwen’s revised translation confirmed that the Heart of Hell needed pure souls, and Lu Mi and Roman grew closer that night.
• Lu Mi led the players in voting Liang Mafeng out, then he and Roman used the wooden box to capture the Bottle Woman and Painting Ghost.
• The Old Lady attacked Kong Susu when she tried to comfort her, showing that the ghost had become more dangerous.
• Lu Mi and Roman entered the mirror together and followed a man to Qiu Bufan’s apartment in the past.
• The man criticized Qiu Bufan’s appearance and urged her to get money for makeup, while Lu Mi realized she was the girl in the photograph.
• The man suggested that Qiu Bufan sell the antique mirror in her room.

Qiu Bufan accepted the Mirror Spirit’s offer and woke to find herself beautiful and wealthy, while Lu Mi and Roman watched from inside the mirror. Lu Mi suspected Qiu Bufan was the missing Fanfan and began considering how to bring her out.

• After a visitor left, Qiu Bufan lamented her appearance and finances until she saw a beautiful version of herself in the mirror.
• The Mirror Spirit promised to fulfill Qiu Bufan’s wishes, and she pressed her hand against the mirror to accept its offer.
• Lu Mi and Roman discussed whether Qiu Bufan was Fanfan, and Lu Mi realized they could affect objects in the room.
• During the night, the room grew dark and cold as a strange sound came from Qiu Bufan’s direction.
• The next morning, Qiu Bufan found that her face had changed and that her account held much more money, then frowned as she sensed something was strange.

Qiu Bufan made increasingly extravagant wishes to the Mirror Spirit, which was taking on her appearance, while Lu Mi and Roman followed her beyond the building. At the chapter’s end, Roman removed his mask for Lu Mi and gently wiped away his tears.

• Qiu Bufan asked the Mirror Spirit to change her body, attract a boy, improve her abilities, and give her more money as its form began to resemble her.
• Qiu Bufan prepared to move out, discarded an old photograph, and kept the rented room so she could return to make more wishes.
• Lu Mi and Roman followed Qiu Bufan into the city, where Lu Mi recognized the pale-green sweater Roman had once wanted to give him.
• Lu Mi apologized for hurting Roman and forcing his wishes on him in past Dungeon Instances, and Roman forgave him and admitted his own mistakes.
• Roman asked Lu Mi to close his eyes, removed his mask, and wiped away Lu Mi’s tears before apologizing.

Qiu Bufan returned from the salon furious after being rejected and asked the Mirror Spirit to ruin the appearance of the woman she blamed. The Mirror Spirit trapped her and explained that her desires came from society’s standards, then began to reveal why it had chosen Qiu Bufan’s appearance.

• Lu Mi and Roman wandered through the night market together, admiring the lights and sharing the evening breeze by the river.
• Qiu Bufan returned to her apartment and asked the Mirror Spirit to make the woman she blamed break out in pimples and wrinkles.
• After praising the Mirror Spirit and dismissing who she used to be, Qiu Bufan found that she could not pull her hands away from the mirror.
• The Mirror Spirit emerged from the mirror and confronted Qiu Bufan about her pursuit of money, beauty, status, and love.
• The Mirror Spirit revealed that it looked like Qiu Bufan because it liked its original appearance, and began explaining its choice.

Lu Mi and Roman rescued Qiu Bufan from the Mirror Spirit, but Lu Mi realized they were still trapped in the Mirror World. He watched Qiu Bufan return to the start of the loop, where the Mirror Spirit again offered to change her appearance.

• The Mirror Spirit attacked Qiu Bufan and tried to take her place, but Lu Mi and Roman helped Qiu Bufan escape into the white fog.
• Lu Mi returned to the Hall with Qiu Bufan and noticed that the players accepted her altered appearance and identity without question.
• Lu Mi followed Qiu Bufan upstairs and confirmed they were still in the Mirror World when she entered room 4001.
• Qiu Bufan returned to her original appearance and repeated the encounter with the heavily made-up man, who criticized her looks.
• After the man left, Qiu Bufan wondered if she was ugly, and the mirror asked whether she wanted to change herself.

Lu Mi shattered the mirror and received a vision revealing what happened during his first Dungeon Instance and how 2044 had become involved in his life. The vision ended with 1044 proposing to use Lu Mi to resolve a crisis, while 2044 remained silent beside the injured boy.

• Lu Mi realized that Fanfan and Qiu Bufan had exchanged roles, then smashed the mirror and caught a key among the shards.
• The Mirror Spirit thanked Lu Mi and showed him a memory of Ghost Mom's house during his first Dungeon Instance.
• The elderly woman walked toward the deadly singing, and the tabby cat Lu Mi transformed into a boy too late to save her.
• Lu Mi watched the memory with Roman as the scene froze and Administrators 1044 and 2044 arrived.
• 1044 accused 2044 of letting an unqualified person enter the game, then suggested using Lu Mi to get them out of trouble.

Lu Mi and Roman escaped the dungeon’s final scene, but a hidden tunnel separated them. At its center, Lu Mi discovered a stele revealing Roman’s tragic past and the curse that kept him from confessing his feelings, just as a cloaked figure called his name.

• 1044 arranged for Lu Mi to replace the old woman, while 2044 asked for Lu Mi’s memories to be deleted so they could meet again from the beginning.
• Lu Mi grieved over Grandma and cut his hand on a mirror shard; Roman comforted him and bandaged the wound.
• Lu Mi found a rune-covered tunnel beyond Room 1004, but Roman could not enter, so Lu Mi went ahead alone.
• Lu Mi reached a spiral altar and read the dungeon stories carved on its steles, including the tale of Jian Di and the instance called “Five Thousand Vortices.”
• At the central stele, Lu Mi read that Roman had been cursed after refusing the Spring Water Fairy and had been burned by villagers before he could become a guardian deity.
• Lu Mi sank to his knees in shock as a cloaked figure crouched beside him and called his name.

Lu Mi and Roman escaped the dungeon and reunited with Shen Yiwen, while Lu Mi confessed his feelings and Roman returned them without breaking his taboo. Lu Mi learned that his points exceeded 1,000, making him eligible to leave the game, but he postponed choosing because he still had an unfinished task.

• Lu Mi confessed his love to Roman and told him he could express both their feelings, while Roman could not speak without violating his taboo.
• Roman used a mirror shard to open an exit, and he and Lu Mi returned to the Public Rest Area, where they reunited with Shen Yiwen.
• Cheng Cheng and Zhong Zixian emerged with a captured ghost, then embraced Shen Yiwen; Lu Mi noticed 2044 watching from the crowd.
• 2044 announced that Lu Mi had surpassed 1,000 points and offered him the choices of returning to the real world, entering a tailored Utopia, or giving up his player status.
• Lu Mi said he needed time to decide because he still had an unfinished task, and 2044 told him to visit the Central Control Building when he chose.

Lu Mi and his friends matched all thirty keys to the Formation Diagram and waited for the dungeon exits to open, but the keys did not react. Roman led Lu Mi aside and pressed him for what he had said before, prompting Lu Mi to realize Roman wanted to kiss him and worry that revealing his face would destroy his soul.

• Xuanxuan brought Lu Mi twenty-nine keys, and Lu Mi supplied the thirtieth key he had taken from the mirror.
• Lu Mi, Xuanxuan, and their friends entered Wonderful Dream, where they matched the keys to the Formation Diagram and used Cheng Cheng’s captured ghost to provide the final key.
• When the Formation Diagram failed to react, Shen Yiwen suggested waiting for a dungeon exit to open, and the group stayed overnight at Farewell Kiss.
• Cheng Cheng started a late-night singalong, and Shen Yiwen ended it by whacking everyone with a pillow before ordering them to sleep.
• Roman led Lu Mi to another private room and pinned him against the door, and Lu Mi realized Roman wanted to kiss him but feared that removing his mask would destroy his soul.

Lu Mi and Roman shared an intimate moment before Roman disappeared with the key and Formation Diagram, leaving Lu Mi to suspect he planned to sacrifice himself. After learning Roman might have a pure soul, Lu Mi rushed to find him as Roman began a mysterious ritual in the Public Rest Area.

• Roman covered Lu Mi’s eyes, let him feel his face, and kissed him; Lu Mi comforted Roman by acknowledging the suffering in his past.
• Lu Mi and Roman returned to their friends, and Lu Mi fell asleep with his head on Roman’s lap.
• Roman vanished the next morning with the key and Formation Diagram, prompting Lu Mi and his friends to worry about his intentions.
• The little ghost revealed that Roman resembled the Lord of Evil and had a pure heart, so Lu Mi, Zhong Zixian, and Shen Yiwen set out to find him.
• Cheng Cheng opened the bottle and stabbed the little ghost with a Peachwood Sword, saying he lacked a pure soul.
• Roman stood in the Public Rest Area beside a glowing parchment and raised a dagger, but stopped when Lu Mi transformed into a tabby cat and ran toward him.

Roman prepared to sacrifice himself to repair the Heart of Hell, while Lu Mi faced the choice of entering Utopia or returning to the real world. After Roman revealed his face and confessed he was dying for love, Lu Mi entered Utopia as a tabby cat, leaving Roman behind.

• Lu Mi stopped Roman from using the dagger, but Roman insisted that losing Lu Mi would be like dying and began to reveal his story’s title.
• The Lord of Evil appeared, praised Roman’s plan to sacrifice himself, and promised to release everyone; 2044 offered Lu Mi the choice of Utopia or the real world.
• Roman chose Utopia for Lu Mi and sent him through its entrance to be with Grandma before he could return to the real world.
• Lu Mi turned back, kissed Roman after seeing his face, and heard him say he was sacrificing himself for love.
• Lu Mi entered Utopia as a tabby cat and walked toward Grandma’s farmhouse courtyard.