Chapter Summaries

After waking in an unfamiliar parallel-world bedroom, Fang Xiu realized he had transmigrated into another man’s body and briefly saw a warning written in blood-red letters. When a beautiful woman appeared and called him her husband, he discovered she was absent from his new memories and asked who she was, prompting her to exclaim that he could see her.

• Fang Xiu woke to blood-red writing on the ceiling that warned him never to let them know he could see, and the writing vanished after he read it aloud.
• Fang Xiu discovered he was in an unfamiliar bedroom and absorbed memories showing that he had transmigrated into the body of a similarly named orphan who worked in real estate sales.
• A woman in a white silk nightdress entered and called Fang Xiu her husband, but he found no memories of her in the original owner’s life.
• Fang Xiu noticed the woman’s smile never changed and asked who she was.
• The woman’s smile widened grotesquely as she exclaimed, “You can see me!”

Fang Xiu discovered that he returned to the start whenever his wife killed him, but each attempt to hide that he could see her failed. His wife killed him again by devouring him bite by bite.

• Fang Xiu's wife revealed her monstrous form and bit off his head after he saw her.
• Fang Xiu woke beneath a bloody warning and realized he needed to pretend he could not see his wife.
• His wife caught Fang Xiu looking at her and killed him again, triggering another rollback.
• Fang Xiu tried to hide behind his phone, but a video of his wife made him look at her.
• Fang Xiu punched his wife, broke his hand, and was eaten alive as she bit off his arm.

After dying again, Fang Xiu kept his eyes shut to avoid acknowledging his wife, a supernatural entity, and used the quiet to study his memories and plan his escape. When he finally opened his eyes and found the bedroom empty, his wife appeared from inside the pillow beneath him.

• Fang Xiu cursed at his wife and charged her, but she killed him again.
• On his fourth attempt, Fang Xiu kept his eyes closed and ignored his wife as she tried to wake him.
• Fang Xiu reasoned that his wife might be unable to touch him until she knew he could see her, then reviewed his memories and learned this world had many supernatural rumors.
• After waiting until he urgently needed to pee, Fang Xiu slowly opened his eyes and found the bedroom empty.
• Fang Xiu decided to pee in the trash can, but his wife’s face emerged from the pillow beneath him and told him he could see her.

After dying eighteen times while trying to ignore his wife, Fang Xiu regained his composure through hatred and finally escaped their home. He stepped into the sunlight outside, only to freeze at the sight of the world and wonder if he had entered hell.

• Fang Xiu repeatedly died when his wife's eerie appearances forced him to react, and his attempts to flee or ignore her failed.
• After eighteen deaths, Fang Xiu's madness gave way to a cold resolve for revenge against his wife.
• Fang Xiu ignored his wife, made himself breakfast, and walked out through the front door despite her plea to stay home.
• Fang Xiu descended from his fifth-floor apartment and opened the building's entrance to the sunlight.
• Fang Xiu froze at the sight of the outside world and wondered whether it was hell.

Fang Xiu saw the world’s countless anomalies and discovered that a little girl could see him seeing her. As she transformed and attacked, he laughed and vowed to kill all the anomalies before she smashed him into a pulp.

• Fang Xiu gazed at the anomalies filling the world and laughed as their corrupting presence intensified his madness.
• A little girl asked Fang Xiu if he was sick, then realized he could see her.
• Fang Xiu laughed, patted the girl’s head, and said he would have no burdens when he killed her.
• The little girl transformed into a huge flesh anomaly and raised a bone club to strike Fang Xiu.
• Fang Xiu declared that all the anomalies must die, and the little girl smashed him into a pulp.

Fang Xiu explored Green Vine City to study the eerie creatures and decided to visit his former workplace to collect unpaid commission. He theorized that the creatures tried to become part of people’s lives so they could make humans perceive them, and concluded that people should never respond to their signals.

• Fang Xiu ignored the creatures around him as he rode a shared bicycle through the city to study them.
• After seeing a message from manager Wu Dahai, Fang Xiu decided to quit and collect the commission owed for a villa sale.
• Fang Xiu told the work group chat he would visit Hundred Willows Academy that afternoon, then closed the chat and rode toward the sales office.
• As he traveled, Fang Xiu observed that some creatures attacked without reason while humanoid creatures acted like people’s coworkers, classmates, and relatives.
• Fang Xiu theorized that humanoid creatures tried to integrate into people’s lives to make them perceive their existence and eventually become vulnerable to attack.
• Fang Xiu concluded that people should never respond when they heard a voice or sensed an eerie creature.

Fang Xiu found that Hundred Willows Academy had been replaced by Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital, a place he alone seemed able to see. When an invisible wall blocked his way in, the academy’s security guard appeared beside him, along with a familiar pavilion that had not been there moments before.

• Fang Xiu arrived near Hundred Willows Academy and saw that the villa area had become a dilapidated psychiatric hospital.
• Fang Xiu called Zhao Hao and learned that his colleagues were still at the office, apparently unaware of the hospital.
• Fang Xiu turned off his phone and tried to enter the hospital, but an invisible wall blocked him.
• Brother Zhao, the academy’s security guard, approached Fang Xiu and asked why he was feeling the wall.
• Fang Xiu saw a familiar pavilion appear where there had been nothing moments earlier.

Fang Xiu discovered that Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital overlapped with Hundred Willows Academy and explored the hospital, finding evidence that its supernatural entities might have once been human. He searched for the director’s office but found that its location overlapped with the academy’s sales office, where he worked.

• Fang Xiu realized that Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital and Hundred Willows Academy occupied the same space, with the hospital intangible unless certain conditions were met.
• Fang Xiu entered the hospital through a wall and explored its bloodstained halls, encountering a featureless girl in Ward 104 and numerous hostile supernatural entities in other wards.
• Fang Xiu found Wards 162, 169, and 177 open and empty, suggesting their entities had escaped.
• Fang Xiu discovered a bloodstained medical report describing a failed supernatural transformation and spotted a monstrous female doctor watching him from the ceiling.
• Fang Xiu searched the administrative area for the director’s office and found that it overlapped with Hundred Willows Academy’s sales office.

Fang Xiu searched the sales office for the psychiatric hospital director’s office, ignoring Wu Dahai’s attempts to stop him. He found Wang Ziteng and Li Feifei in the office, where a sheet of parchment lay on the desk, and Wu Dahai tried to explain away Fang Xiu’s intrusion.

• Fang Xiu arrived at the sales office, dismissed Zhao Hao’s warning, and headed upstairs to search for the hospital’s administrative area.
• Wu Dahai confronted Fang Xiu and declared that he had fired him, but Fang Xiu shoved him aside and continued to the third floor.
• Wu Dahai tried to rally colleagues to stop Fang Xiu, then hurried after him when Fang Xiu reached the third floor.
• Fang Xiu entered the director’s office and found Wang Ziteng and Li Feifei dressing in disarray, with a sheet of parchment on the desk.
• Wang Ziteng berated Wu Dahai for allowing anyone onto the third floor, and Wu Dahai blamed Fang Xiu while pleading for forgiveness.

Fang Xiu discovered a letter from Zhou Qingfeng directing him to Room 520 in Building C, but the psychiatric hospital vanished when the lights went out. As supernatural darkness swallowed the office, Zhang Bo and then Zhao disappeared into it.

• Fang Xiu shoved Wang Ziteng and Li Feifei aside and found Zhou Qingfeng's letter directing him to Room 520 in Building C.
• The power went out, and Fang Xiu realized the psychiatric hospital had vanished from his vision.
• Fang Xiu searched the second floor with his phone flashlight while Wang Ziteng, Wu Dahai, and Li Feifei followed him.
• Fang Xiu noticed the employees' flashlights could illuminate only a small area, with darkness cutting off all light beyond it.
• Zhang Bo screamed and fell in the darkness after going to check the power, and Zhao went to investigate but did not return.

After Zhao disappeared and the phones lost signal, Wang Ziteng told the employees they were trapped in a Ghost Domain and warned them to follow his orders. Fang Xiu recognized the danger and focused on learning about Spirit Tamers, until someone calmly announced that the Ghost had appeared.

• Wu Dahai searched for Zhao, and the employees discovered they had no phone signal and could not call the police.
• Wang Ziteng declared that they had entered a Ghost Domain and explained that they needed to observe the Ghost’s killing rules to survive.
• Fang Xiu believed Wang Ziteng and realized that Spirit Tamers might be able to see and fight Ghosts.
• Wang Ziteng ordered everyone to stay together, avoid moving or touching things, and inspect their surroundings for anything unusual.
• As the employees began doubting him and considering leaving, a calm voice announced that the Ghost had appeared.

Fang Xiu and his coworkers discovered that a ghost was making people disappear in the darkness, while Wang Ziteng explained how people became Spirit Tamers. Fang Xiu reasoned that becoming a Spirit Tamer might offer him a path to revenge, just as another person vanished.

• Fang Xiu told his coworkers that Wang Xiaoli had disappeared, and they discovered she was gone.
• Wang Ziteng suspected Fang Xiu was a Spirit Tamer and explained that Spirit Tamers awakened their Spirituality by enduring a near-death ordeal and letting a ghost's power invade their minds.
• Fang Xiu wondered whether Death Rollback was his unique ability, then concluded that he had not awakened his Spirituality because his contact with ghosts had been undone by the rollback.
• Fang Xiu connected the Ghost Domain, the unseen ghost, and Spirit Tamers, and saw becoming a Spirit Tamer as a chance for revenge.
• Fang Xiu noticed that another person had disappeared.

After Jia Liang disappeared, Fang Xiu deduced the Ghost was taking people at timed intervals and went into the darkness to find an escape. He and Zhao Hao reached Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital, which Fang Xiu realized had become physically real and swallowed the sales office.

• Jia Liang disappeared, and Fang Xiu estimated that the Ghost killed one person every two or three minutes.
• Fang Xiu left to search for a way out and threatened to kill Wang Ziteng if he tried to stop him; Zhao Hao followed.
• Another person disappeared, so Wang Ziteng and the remaining coworkers decided to follow Fang Xiu.
• Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao walked through an unnaturally long corridor until they found an eerie green light.
• Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao entered the dilapidated corridor of Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital, and Fang Xiu realized the hospital had physically overlapped with reality.

Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao found the remains of two colleagues in Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital, then joined Wang Ziteng’s group as they moved down the corridor. When the female doctor Ghost appeared, everyone fled, but Fang Xiu stayed to observe her.

• Fang Xiu examined the blood and remains and concluded that the female doctor Ghost had killed and eaten the missing colleague and security guard.
• Wang Ziteng and his group emerged into the hospital corridor, recognized the victims’ clothing, and followed Fang Xiu deeper into the building.
• Fang Xiu stopped when three minutes had passed, and Wang Ziteng realized the Ghost could reappear.
• The female doctor crawled toward the group from the ceiling, prompting everyone to run in panic.
• Wang Ziteng shoved Li Feifei aside as he fled, while Fang Xiu remained still and Zhao Hao froze in fear.

Fang Xiu watched the female doctor Ghost kill and eat Li Feifei, then tested the Ghost’s strength and decided to stay near her to absorb her power and become a Spirit Tamer. The chapter ended with Fang Xiu calmly stroking the Ghost’s long legs while Zhao Hao watched in horror.

• Wang Ziteng and the other coworkers fled as the female doctor approached, leaving Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao behind with Li Feifei.
• The female doctor killed Li Feifei with her scalpel, dismembered her, and began eating her.
• Fang Xiu inferred that the Ghost killed one nearby person at a time, then punched her and found that her body was as hard as steel.
• Fang Xiu told Zhao Hao that they were safest while the Ghost was eating and said he wanted to stay near her to absorb her power.
• Fang Xiu reached out and stroked the female doctor’s icy, spider-like legs while Zhao Hao trembled nearby.

Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao tried to escape the Female Physician in Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital, but Fang Xiu died after mistaking Li Feifei’s silicone implants for real flesh. Death Rollback returned him to the moment he touched the Ghost, and he led Zhao Hao toward the stairs, where they encountered Wang Ziteng’s group trapped in a looping stairwell.

• Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao touched the Female Physician’s leg, then ran when their time was up.
• The Female Physician caught Fang Xiu after Li Feifei’s body vanished, revealing that her breasts and buttocks had been silicone, and killed him.
• Death Rollback returned Fang Xiu to the start of the encounter, and he left with Zhao Hao before the Female Physician could catch up.
• Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao ran downstairs and met Wang Ziteng’s group, who said they had descended more than twenty floors.
• Wang Ziteng suspected Ghost Hitting the Wall, and the group dropped objects as markers before finding those same objects again on the stairs.

Fang Xiu found a way out of Ghost Hitting the Wall by feeling along the stairwell wall until an iron door appeared. The group fled through it, but the female doctor caught up as they reached a fork, and she attacked the person at the rear.

• Wang Ziteng urged everyone to awaken their Spirituality, while Fang Xiu searched the stairwell wall for a way out.
• Fang Xiu felt a change in the wall and opened an iron door; Wang Ziteng and the others rushed through after him.
• Fang Xiu ran near the back of the group, knowing other Ghosts might be loose in the hospital and hoping the female doctor would give him another chance to awaken his Spirituality.
• At a fork in the corridor, Fang Xiu chose the right passage, and the group followed him.
• The female doctor appeared upside down on the ceiling and lashed her hair toward the last person in the group.

Fang Xiu led the survivors into a dead-end storage room while fleeing the female doctor, but he remained calm, planning to use Death Rollback and try another route. Wang Ziteng blamed Fang Xiu and shoved him toward the Ghost, hoping to sacrifice him so the others could escape.

• Wu Dahai pulled someone behind him as they fled, and the female doctor decapitated that person.
• The survivors reached a dining hall and followed a corridor to a dead end, then crowded into a storage room.
• Fang Xiu decided to trigger Death Rollback and take the other route, while Wang Ziteng and Wu Dahai blamed him for their predicament.
• Wang Ziteng proposed sacrificing one person to distract the Ghost and shoved Fang Xiu, calling on the others to help him.
• Zhao Hao charged at Wang Ziteng to protect Fang Xiu, and Wang Ziteng called on Wu Dahai for help.

After being decapitated by the female doctor, Fang Xiu rolled back and repeated his escape route, then used his knowledge of the Ghost’s timing to prepare for its arrival. He injured Wang Ziteng and Wu Dahai so they could not flee, explaining that he was saving everyone and keeping a spare.

• Fang Xiu watched Wang Ziteng and Wu Dahai barricade the storeroom door, then the female doctor appeared and decapitated him as Wang Ziteng fled.
• Fang Xiu rolled back, repeated his earlier actions with Zhao Hao, and led the group to the exit after breaking through the ghost hitting the wall.
• At the fork, Fang Xiu told the others the Ghost would appear in one minute, but said he had one more thing to do before leaving.
• Fang Xiu kicked Wang Ziteng in the crotch, leaving him unable to move, and said that would ensure the Ghost killed him instead of someone else.
• Fang Xiu kicked Wu Dahai the same way, then explained he was keeping Wu Dahai as a spare.

Fang Xiu killed Wang Ziteng and used contact with the female doctor to try to ignite his Spirituality, while explaining to Zhao Hao why he had attacked. The chapter ended with Fang Xiu continuing to touch the Ghost's thigh after Wu Dahai was killed, hoping to awaken his Spirituality before time ran out.

• Fang Xiu warned the others that the right corridor was a dead end and approached the female doctor to touch her thigh.
• Fang Xiu pinned Wang Ziteng's hand, taunted him, and killed him with a silver flash.
• Fang Xiu invited Zhao Hao to join him, and Zhao Hao chose to trust him and touch the female doctor's thigh alongside him.
• Fang Xiu told Zhao Hao that he had attacked Wang Ziteng and Wu Dahai because they might sacrifice Fang Xiu or Zhao Hao to buy time.
• Fang Xiu sensed a chill entering his body and believed his Spirituality was close to igniting, though Zhao Hao felt nothing.
• Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao resumed touching the female doctor's thigh after she dismembered Wu Dahai, and Fang Xiu continued trying to awaken his Spirituality.