Recaps

Chen Mo recovered Li Fuguang’s memories and realized that he had been abducted and killed as a child to extend Chen Mo’s life. After Du Yuwei vanished and Du Ruhai attacked, Chen Mo killed him and freed An Ning before collapsing.

• Chen Mo remembered being abducted as Li Fuguang, comforted by Xiao Jing for three days, and murdered so Chen Mo could live.
• Chen Mo recognized Du Yuwei as Xiao Jing and watched her vanish after she urged him to appreciate the world.
• Du Ruhai stabbed Chen Mo in the shoulder, but Chen Mo realized the fading Evil Buddha was sustaining him.
• Chen Mo attacked Du Ruhai with his teeth and bit him to death.
• Chen Mo freed An Ning from her ropes, then lost consciousness.

After waking in the hospital, Li Fuguang remembered Du Yuwei’s revelation that he was not Chen Mo but had somehow come to live in Chen Mo’s body. He learned that Zhao Laoqi was critically injured, then discovered that provoking the unconscious Seventh Master could make him respond.

• Li Fuguang woke in the hospital after being unconscious for a day and realized his true identity was Li Fuguang, not Chen Mo.
• Meng Yifan told Li Fuguang that An Ning had left the hospital after he came out of surgery and had not been seriously hurt.
• Song Xiaotian explained that Seventh Master had beaten him badly before collapsing, and Meng Yifan said Zhao Laoqi was on a ventilator in the next room.
• Li Fuguang, Meng Yifan, and Song Xiaotian visited Zhao Laoqi, who did not respond until Song Xiaotian feared aloud that he might die and seek revenge.
• Li Fuguang told Song Xiaotian to provoke Zhao Laoqi, and Zhao Laoqi raised his middle finger after Song Xiaotian called him too old to win.

After leaving the hospital, Li Fuguang told Meng Yifan and Song Xiaotian that he was not Chen Mo, and Zhao Laoqi used their fate charts to explain how both souls had survived in one body. The chapter ended with Li Fuguang stunned by the revelation that he was both Chen Mo and Li Fuguang.

• After twenty days in the hospital, Li Fuguang, Song Xiaotian, Meng Yifan, and Zhao Laoqi were discharged and met at a hot pot restaurant.
• Li Fuguang told Meng Yifan and Song Xiaotian that he was Li Fuguang, whose life Lü Zhengxian had taken to extend Chen Mo's.
• Zhao Laoqi explained that both Chen Mo and Li Fuguang had fate charts showing childhood deaths, but both destinies continued after age eleven.
• Zhao Laoqi said Chen Guowen and Chen He had transferred Li Fuguang's soul into Chen Mo's body, where Chen Mo's soul had remained alongside it.
• Li Fuguang realized that both Chen Mo's and Li Fuguang's souls lived within him.

Chen Mo learned that he also carried Li Fuguang’s soul and discovered that Li Fuguang’s father, Li Yanzhou, had died after spending years searching for him. Zhao Laoqi revealed that Li Yanzhou’s ghost had continued searching for his son, and promised to arrange a meeting before Li Yanzhou moved on.

• Chen Mo realized that Li Fuguang’s memories and feelings were part of him, and understood that the ashes he had found belonged to Li Yanzhou.
• Zhao Laoqi explained that Li Fuguang’s mother had lost her sanity after her son was taken, later regained her senses, and then died by suicide.
• Zhao Laoqi said Li Yanzhou searched for his missing son until a construction-site accident killed him, after which the site owner secretly buried him to avoid paying compensation.
• Zhao Laoqi recounted that Li Yanzhou’s ghost kept looking for his son and refused to reincarnate, so Zhao Laoqi helped him search.
• Chen Mo begged to see Li Yanzhou, and Zhao Laoqi said he would arrange a meeting in a few days because it might be their last chance to see each other.

After reading Six Lines Mysteries, Li Fuguang found himself calmer and better able to sleep, then went to Seventh Master's home to see off his father, Li Yanzhou. He sat with his father for a final meal as Li Yanzhou asked whether Xiaoguang still remembered him.

• Unable to sleep, Li Fuguang read the opening of his grandfather's Six Lines Mysteries and learned about its account of the universe, the trigrams, and divination.
• Li Fuguang unexpectedly fell asleep while reading and woke feeling refreshed, leading him to regard the book as miraculous.
• Seventh Master called and told Li Fuguang that his father, Li Yanzhou, would be leaving in the next few days.
• Li Fuguang went to Seventh Master's home, where Seventh Master urged him to see his father and help him let go in peace.
• Li Fuguang joined Li Yanzhou for a final meal, and Li Yanzhou joyfully asked whether Xiaoguang still remembered him.

Li Fuguang shared a final meal with his father, Li Yanzhou, and said goodbye as his father departed for the afterlife. His father’s words and Seventh Master’s encouragement gave him hope to live well, and he returned inside to learn from Seventh Master.

• Li Fuguang recalled childhood memories with Li Yanzhou as they shared a meal and apologized to each other for their pain and separation.
• Seventh Master burned spirit money for Li Yanzhou and told him his past-life debts were settled and he could go in peace.
• Li Yanzhou urged Li Fuguang to stay strong, value his life, and go forth and be wounded with honor before bravely healing himself.
• Li Yanzhou departed, and Li Fuguang kowtowed to him as Seventh Master burned the Death Writ and sent him toward the underworld.
• Seventh Master reminded Li Fuguang that many people cared about him, including Song Xiaotian, and Li Fuguang promised to live well.
• Seventh Master brought Li Fuguang inside to wash dishes and learn about yin and yang, the five elements, and the Eight Trigrams.

The narrator spent two weeks studying with Seventh Master while worrying about An Ning, Du Yuwei’s child, and whether Du Ruhai was truly dead. After dinner with Song Xiaotian, he discovered Meng Yifan’s girlfriend, Tao Xiaoyu, on a date with another man, leaving Meng Yifan being cheated on.

• The narrator learned from Seventh Master and worried about finding An Ning and Du Yuwei’s child.
• Seventh Master reassured the narrator that Du Ruhai had died, while the narrator wondered why Du Yunting had taken control of Weihai Group.
• Meng Yifan and Song Xiaotian watched over the narrator, and Song Xiaotian moved into his rented place.
• The narrator and Song Xiaotian went to dinner with the young man who had bought Huang Haiquan’s house.
• The narrator spotted Tao Xiaoyu on a date with another man and realized Meng Yifan was being cheated on.

After catching Tao Xiaoyu cheating on Meng Yifan, Chen used her name to cast a Six-Line Hexagram and predicted that she would die seven days later. Song Xiaotian feared Meng Yifan might kill her, but Chen could not determine how she would die.

• Chen and Song Xiaotian saw Tao Xiaoyu cheating and discussed how much money Meng Yifan had spent on her.
• Song Xiaotian stopped Chen from calling Meng Yifan, warning that he might attack Tao Xiaoyu and her lover if he caught them in the act.
• At Song Xiaotian’s suggestion, Chen cast a hexagram using Tao Xiaoyu’s name and interpreted the result as her death.
• Chen repeated his calculations and concluded that Tao Xiaoyu would die on the Yiyou day during the hour of Zi, seven days later.
• Song Xiaotian wondered whether Meng Yifan would hack Tao Xiaoyu to death.

Chen Mo interpreted the hexagram as predicting that Meng Yifan would kill Tao Xiaoyu and go to prison, then joined Song Xiaotian in confronting her about cheating. Song Xiaotian threatened to beat Tao Xiaoyu after she blamed her affair on Meng Yifan's neglect.

• Chen Mo explained that the hexagram showed Tao Xiaoyu suppressed to death and Meng Yifan entering the Day Tomb, which he interpreted as a killing followed by prison.
• Song Xiaotian suggested calling Tao Xiaoyu outside and making her break up with Meng Yifan, and Chen Mo agreed.
• Chen Mo called Tao Xiaoyu and demanded that she come outside the restaurant, where she had been dining with another man.
• Song Xiaotian confronted Tao Xiaoyu about the roses and physical affection, and she admitted she was wrong and begged them not to tell Meng Yifan.
• Tao Xiaoyu blamed Meng Yifan's absence and work for her affair, prompting Song Xiaotian to threaten to beat her to death.

The narrator and Song Xiaotian caught Tao Xiaoyu cheating but kept it from Meng Yifan, hoping she would break up with him. Instead, Tao Xiaoyu arrived at Meng Yifan’s shop with an expensive gift and accused the narrator of harassing her, leaving Meng Yifan stunned.

• The narrator stopped Song Xiaotian from hitting Tao Xiaoyu and warned her to break up with Meng Yifan or they would expose her affair.
• The narrator and Song Xiaotian expected Tao Xiaoyu to have ended her relationship with Meng Yifan, but he arrived at the shop cheerful and excited about business.
• Meng Yifan said he had invited Su Qian back to study and planned to take Tao Xiaoyu to Chongqing before proposing to her.
• Tao Xiaoyu came to the shop and gave Meng Yifan an Armani belt worth two thousand yuan, making him overjoyed.
• Tao Xiaoyu accused the narrator of sending her harassing messages and trying to sleep with her, shocking Meng Yifan.

Chen Mo and Song Xiaotian confronted Tao Xiaoyu with evidence of her infidelity, but she accused Chen Mo of harassing her and Meng Yifan sided with her despite the proof. After Chen Mo and Song Xiaotian left, they discovered the man Tao Xiaoyu had met was an influential figure connected to Du Ruhai’s Weihai Group.

• Tao Xiaoyu showed Meng Yifan fabricated chat screenshots and accused Chen Mo of seducing her, but Meng Yifan defended Chen Mo.
• Song Xiaotian showed Meng Yifan photos of Tao Xiaoyu meeting another man, and Tao Xiaoyu claimed the man was her boss who was pursuing her.
• Tao Xiaoyu threatened to leave Meng Yifan, then he apologized and persuaded her to stay.
• Meng Yifan apologized to Chen Mo but continued to believe Tao Xiaoyu’s explanation, and Chen Mo and Song Xiaotian left to show clients properties.
• Song Xiaotian showed Chen Mo a news article identifying Tao Xiaoyu’s companion as a powerful figure connected to Du Ruhai’s Weihai Group.

The narrator and Song Xiaotian investigated Tao Xiaoyu’s affair with Xiang Kai, the chairman of the Jiangling Group, and brought Meng Yifan to catch them together. Meng Yifan saw Tao Xiaoyu in a hotel room with Xiang Kai and erupted in rage.

• The narrator learned that Xiang Kai’s Jiangling Group was competing against the weakened Weihai Group for a major Lanjiang City project.
• The narrator and Song Xiaotian decided to expose Tao Xiaoyu’s affair and watched her meet Xiang Kai at a five-star hotel for two days.
• On the third day, the narrator and Song Xiaotian tricked Meng Yifan into coming to the hotel and prepared him for bad news.
• Song Xiaotian claimed they were police to get Xiang Kai to open the room, then brought Meng Yifan inside.
• Meng Yifan found Tao Xiaoyu in a bathrobe and shouted that he would kill the cheating pair.

Meng Yifan learned that Tao Xiaoyu had betrayed him, but his friends stopped him from attacking her and Xiang Kai. Days later, Tao Xiaoyu was found dead and police took Meng Yifan in for questioning, leaving the narrator afraid that Meng Yifan might have killed her while drunk.

• Meng Yifan confronted Tao Xiaoyu and Xiang Kai after catching them together, but Song Xiaotian and the narrator restrained him and took him away.
• Song Xiaotian and the narrator comforted Meng Yifan, helped him clear Tao Xiaoyu’s belongings, and stayed close while he recovered.
• Xie Peng called the narrator to report that police had taken Meng Yifan in as a suspect after Tao Xiaoyu was found dead.
• The narrator recalled that his divination had predicted Tao Xiaoyu’s death between eleven at night and one in the morning.
• The narrator realized Meng Yifan had been drinking the night before and might have returned home late, prompting him to fear that Meng Yifan had killed Tao Xiaoyu.

The narrator and Song Xiaotian sought Brother Liu’s help after Meng Yifan was taken to the South City Precinct over Tao Xiaoyu’s death. Brother Liu agreed to help after the narrator used a hexagram to predict details about his mother’s illness.

• The narrator worried that Meng Yifan might have killed Tao Xiaoyu and confessed to Song Xiaotian that his divination had predicted Meng Yifan would go to prison.
• The narrator and Song Xiaotian learned that Meng Yifan was being held at the South City Precinct and asked Brother Liu to meet them.
• Brother Liu refused to help because the narrator and Song Xiaotian had threatened him before.
• The narrator offered to divine something Brother Liu wanted to know and cast a hexagram about his mother’s illness.
• The narrator predicted that Brother Liu’s mother did not have bowel cancer but had another significant intestinal illness, and Brother Liu agreed to help them.

The narrator and Song Xiaotian feared Meng Yifan had killed Tao Xiaoyu and Xiang Kai after Brother Liu revealed that Meng had been near the murder scene. Seventh Master examined the narrator’s divination and said it could not determine Meng Yifan’s ultimate fate, leaving his guilt unresolved.

• Brother Liu told the narrator that Meng Yifan would be detained for 48 hours, and the narrator asked him to urge Meng to confess if he was guilty.
• The narrator and Song Xiaotian returned to Meng Yifan’s home and worried about how they would help him if he had killed someone.
• Brother Liu reported that Meng had appeared outside Tao Xiaoyu’s villa at 11:35 p.m., near the time she and Xiang Kai were killed, and that both victims had suffered more than twenty chop wounds.
• The narrator and Song Xiaotian suspected Meng, called Seventh Master, and showed him the narrator’s divination notes.
• Seventh Master said the Day Tomb could correspond to Meng’s 48-hour detention rather than prison, but warned that the reading could not reveal Meng’s ultimate outcome.

Seventh Master’s Yin Pan Qimen reading showed Meng Yifan trapped in an uncertain situation, so the group decided to summon Tao Xiaoyu’s spirit for clues about her murder. They met Xiao Qing near Tao Xiaoyu’s villa compound but realized they had no way to get her inside.

• Seventh Master explained that his reading about Meng Yifan was compromised by his involvement and described a Dragon-Trapped Formation with an uncertain outcome.
• Seventh Master said Meng Yifan might be guilty but lack evidence against him, or innocent but unable to clear suspicion.
• The narrator decided to summon Tao Xiaoyu’s Yin Soul, and Seventh Master agreed to hire Xiao Qing as the Spirit Medium.
• The narrator assigned work at the shop, told Xie Peng to recruit more staff, and paid Xiao Qing her full ten-thousand fee.
• Song Xiaotian, Seventh Master, the narrator, and Xiao Qing met near Tao Xiaoyu’s villa compound and wondered how to get past its guards.

The narrator and his companions used fake food deliveries to enter Tao Xiaoyu’s villa compound and summoned her soul. Tao Xiaoyu possessed Xiao Qing, but her terrified reaction suggested she still believed she was alive and that someone was trying to kill her.

• The narrator sent Song Xiaotian and Xiao Qing through the compound entrance by claiming they were delivering food to Villa 23, then frightened the guards into fleeing with a fabricated order for them.
• The narrator, Seventh Master, Song Xiaotian, and Xiao Qing entered the villa by climbing over its perimeter wall and prepared a summoning formation.
• The narrator recited the invocation while burning joss paper, and the living-room candles turned green as Tao Xiaoyu’s soul arrived.
• Tao Xiaoyu possessed Xiao Qing, then panicked, hid under the table, and begged not to be killed.
• Seventh Master concluded that Tao Xiaoyu did not know she was dead and that her reaction proved Xiao Meng was not the murderer.

Chen Mo realized Meng Yifan had not killed Tao Xiaoyu, but when he questioned her spirit, she accused him of causing her death and lunged at him. The blow to Chen Mo’s head showed him Tao Xiaoyu’s memory of Du Yunting hacking Xiang Kai to death, revealing Du Yunting as the killer.

• Chen Mo and Song Xiaotian concluded that Meng Yifan was not Tao Xiaoyu’s killer because she had reacted to her attacker like a stranger.
• Chen Mo asked the possessed Xiao Qing who had tried to hurt her, but Tao Xiaoyu became enraged at hearing his name and accused him of getting her killed.
• Tao Xiaoyu lunged at Chen Mo, knocking him down and leaving him dazed as he saw a memory from before her death.
• Chen Mo watched Du Yunting visit Xiang Kai to demand that he withdraw from a bidding contest, while Xiang Kai mocked and refused him.
• Du Yunting put on gloves, retrieved a cleaver, and attacked Xiang Kai, hacking him to death as Tao Xiaoyu watched from behind a door.

After witnessing Du Yunting kill Xiang Kai in a vision, the narrator realized Du Ruhai had returned by taking over his nephew’s body. The group took Xiao Qing to the hospital, where they learned she had only about a month to live, and worried that Meng Yifan would be framed because they had no evidence against the powerful Du Yunting.

• The narrator woke after Song Xiaotian and the Seventh Master revived him and told them Du Ruhai had possessed Du Yunting and killed Xiang Kai.
• The group learned that Xiao Qing had been injured after Tao Xiaoyu’s Yin Soul was driven from her body, so they carried her to the hospital.
• Xiao Qing refused to contact her family, and the Seventh Master told her that she had about a month to live.
• Song Xiaotian warned that Meng Yifan would likely take the blame because the police had named him their prime suspect despite Du Yunting being at the scene.
• The group realized that Du Yunting’s gloves and Du Ruhai’s precautions left them without conclusive evidence to prove the murders.

After visiting Xiao Qing in the hospital, the narrator, Song Xiaotian, and Seventh Master searched for a way to prove Meng Yifan’s innocence. The narrator noticed that the murder timeline and the villa’s surveillance footage could undermine the case against Meng Yifan.

• Seventh Master and the narrator urged Xiao Qing to stop working and spend her remaining time with her family, while Song Xiaotian helped Zhang Bin collect her medication.
• After leaving the hospital, the narrator said they had to keep looking for a way to save Meng Yifan from execution.
• The narrator questioned why Du Yunting would leave the lights off while searching the villa and why he would slash Tao Xiaoyu repeatedly if he had killed her only to silence her.
• The narrator pointed out that Du Yunting’s time inside the villa could conflict with the police’s theory that Meng Yifan committed the murders, since the two men might have encountered each other.
• The narrator proposed obtaining surveillance footage from the villa complex and nearby roads to establish when Du Yunting and Meng Yifan entered and left, and Song Xiaotian agreed they had to find it.

Chen Mo tried to obtain surveillance footage that could help prove Meng Yifan’s innocence, bribing Brother Liu to make a copy after Song Xiaotian failed to get access. Meng Yifan was released after forty-eight hours but was immediately taken away again for a drunk-driving investigation, leaving Chen Mo and Song Xiaotian desperate to save him.

• Chen Mo met Brother Liu and insisted that Du Yunting, not Meng Yifan, had killed Tao Xiaoyu and Xiang Kai.
• Brother Liu refused to help at first, but Chen Mo offered him three hundred thousand for a copy of the villa surveillance footage, and Brother Liu agreed to consider it.
• Song Xiaotian told Chen Mo he could not obtain any surveillance footage, even with his father’s help.
• After Meng Yifan was released from detention, traffic officers took him back for questioning over suspected drunk driving on the night Tao Xiaoyu and Xiang Kai were killed.
• Meng Yifan pleaded with Chen Mo and Song Xiaotian to save him, and they promised they would find a way as the officers drove him away.

After reviewing surveillance footage, the narrator, Song Xiaotian, and Seventh Master realized Du Yunting had only been inside the villa for thirty-one minutes, too little time to kill both Xiang Kai and Tao Xiaoyu. They concluded there may have been a second killer and suspected Xiang Kai’s wife had arranged Tao Xiaoyu’s murder.

• Brother Liu obtained surveillance footage showing Du Yunting entering the villa at 11:20 p.m. and leaving at 11:51 p.m., while Meng Yifan appeared at the entrance and then left.
• The narrator, Song Xiaotian, and Seventh Master reasoned that Du Yunting could not have killed both Xiang Kai and Tao Xiaoyu in the thirty-one minutes he was inside.
• The narrator proposed that a second killer had killed Tao Xiaoyu and inflicted multiple wounds to disguise the fact that there were two killers.
• Song Xiaotian argued that the second killer was more likely targeting Tao Xiaoyu, since the villa was a secret place where she met Xiang Kai.
• The narrator, Song Xiaotian, and Seventh Master suspected Xiang Kai’s wife had hired someone to kill Tao Xiaoyu.

The narrator and Song Xiaotian went to confront Xiang Kai’s wife, Pan Xiaorou, after deducing that she had hired the second killer. Song Xiaotian accused her of arranging Tao Xiaoyu’s murder and threatened to expose her, leaving Pan Xiaorou facing the risk of losing her position.

• The narrator and Song Xiaotian reviewed their suspicions overnight and decided to approach Pan Xiaorou.
• Song Xiaotian and the narrator went to Jiangling Group and secured a meeting with Pan Xiaorou by claiming to be police officers.
• After dismissing her assistant, Pan Xiaorou asked them for an update on her husband’s case.
• Song Xiaotian revealed that he was not a police officer and accused Pan Xiaorou of hiring someone to kill Xiang Kai and Tao Xiaoyu.
• Song Xiaotian said Pan Xiaorou’s hired killer had killed Tao Xiaoyu after another killer killed Xiang Kai, then staged the scene to implicate the first killer.
• Song Xiaotian warned Pan Xiaorou that exposing her could cost her the chairwoman’s position.

Song Xiaotian pressured Pan Xiaorou with evidence of her involvement in Tao Xiaoyu’s death and revealed that Du Yunting had killed Xiang Kai. He persuaded Pan to consider helping expose Du Yunting, leaving her with the task of pressuring the police to release the scapegoat and name Du as a suspect.

• Song Xiaotian used Pan Xiaorou’s reaction and the threat of implicating her in Xiang Kai’s death to gain leverage over her.
• Pan Xiaorou denied knowing who killed her husband, so Song Xiaotian told her Du Yunting had hacked Xiang Kai to death after an argument over a major project bid.
• Pan Xiaorou asked whether Song Xiaotian’s group intended to use her against Du Yunting, and he confirmed that they did.
• Song Xiaotian asked Pan Xiaorou to pressure the police to name Du Yunting as a suspect, explaining that they first needed to get the scapegoat released.

Song Xiaotian persuaded Pan Xiaorou to help get Meng Yifan released and keep Du Yunting from attending the bidding. That night, Pan Xiaorou called to say she had seen her dead husband, Xiang Kai, leaving Song Xiaotian and Chen Mo alarmed.

• Song Xiaotian showed Pan Xiaorou surveillance footage and convinced her to pressure the police to release Meng Yifan and detain Du Yunting before the bidding.
• Pan Xiaorou agreed to partner with Song Xiaotian and Chen Mo, and Song Xiaotian flirted with her before they left.
• Song Xiaotian told Chen Mo that Pan Xiaorou's hatred of Du Yunting would make their alliance stronger.
• Chen Mo reported the partnership to Seventh Master, who praised Song Xiaotian.
• Pan Xiaorou called Song Xiaotian and said she had seen Xiang Kai, so Song Xiaotian told Chen Mo to call Seventh Master.