Recaps

Qin Manjiang opened the Eye Realm for Shen Hai, then the players faced Death as Scheduled, a curse that made them see themselves as dead. After the survivors cleared it, Qin Manjiang investigated the real-world Wedding Dress Ghost Story and followed Qiao Ziruo to her grandmother’s disturbed grave, where he resolved to resist the Eye Realm.

• Shen Hai offered his knowledge of the Eye Realm in exchange for a backup, and Qin Manjiang activated it, awakening the Ten Seats before collapsing.
• Jiang Du took control of Qin Manjiang and told Shen Hai he could help bring Ling back, while Qin Manjiang later struggled to use the Eye Realm again.
• At midnight, Death as Scheduled began, and Yue Qiuchi, Cao Xiangrong, Su Yu, Liu Jingqing, and Xia Nan faced the curse separately.
• Cao Xiangrong died in a nightclub, while Su Yu, Xia Nan, and Liu Jingqing pieced together that the curse used darkness, apparitions, and false perceptions to make players believe they were dead.
• Xia Nan accepted Li Xijiu’s soul, and he and Su Yu used the Mirror Maze to fool the Vengeful Ghost and clear the game, while Yue Qiuchi died on the way to join them.
• The group gathered at Clear Pupil Bar after the Wedding Dress Ghost Story began affecting the real world, and Xia Nan showed them a photograph of a killer resembling Qin Manjiang.
• Qin Manjiang accompanied Qiao Ziruo and Mei Sijun to her grandmother’s grave, where they found the remains tainted and learned that her soul had been lost with the Soul-Summoning Banner.
• Old Taoist warned that a Vicious Soul might return if Qiao Ziruo’s grandmother’s soul did not come back, and Qin Manjiang suspected the Eye Realm was tracking the Ghost Story and decided to resist it.

Qin Manjiang and the others investigated the Wedding Dress ghost story as it began affecting people in the real world, while Qiao Ziruo remained trapped in Soul Return. The group uncovered the wedding dress’s connection to Liu Junyan and Shen Hong and headed toward Wenshui District as the game began.

• Qiao Ziruo disappeared into the Soul Return ghost story, and the Old Taoist explained that she had to complete a funeral before dawn to save her soul.
• Xu Yi’s group entered Old Town, where the locust tree’s red strings entranced visitors and Xu Yi saw Home Flower among a vision of corpses.
• The Infinite Eye Realm selected Qin Manjiang and other players for Wedding Dress, and a bridal procession began appearing in the real world.
• Qin Manjiang and Yu Qinghuan escaped the Wedding Dress ghost’s pursuit, while the ghost left red marks on her hands and Zhong Xueran’s lips turned crimson.
• Mei Sijun and the Old Taoist entered Soul Return, where Qiao Ziruo’s grandmother tried to make her eat as her face decayed.
• Qin Manjiang and Yu Qinghuan traced the haunting to a wedding dress posted online, and Li Xijiu found Liu Junyan and Shen Hong, whose information had gone stale.
• Jiang Du contacted Nie Yunzhen through her awakened second personality, while Qin Manjiang set out with Yu Qinghuan to investigate the couple’s homes.
• Fan Cheng used his Heart of Delusion to leave his apartment, and Qin Manjiang’s group headed to Wenshui District after learning the game had begun there.

Qin Manjiang and the others tried to stop Liu Junyan from completing a ritual to revive Shen Hong as the players’ curses transformed them. The arc left Xu Yi and Fan Cheng presumed dead, while Jiang Du took control of Qin Manjiang’s body to save Yu Qinghuan.

• Xu Yi found Zhong Xueran missing and was attacked by the altered woman and an inhuman shadow, while Bai Hongdan told Qin Manjiang that the Eye Realm had entered its final settlement phase.
• Zhong Xueran brought Xu Yi to Huai'an Residential Complex and recounted how Shen Yi and Liu Junyan had flayed Shen Hong to make her wedding dress before burying her beneath the Old Locust Tree.
• Fan Cheng investigated Shen Hong and Liu Junyan’s last residence, where he found wedding dresses and a corpse, while Qin Manjiang reasoned that the players’ curse was transforming the women into brides by sacrificing the men’s life force.
• At the Old Locust Tree, skeletal ghosts surrounded Xu Yi and Zhong Xueran, and Xu Yi put on the Nuo Opera Mask to carry her to safety even after its safe-use time ran out.
• Qin Manjiang deduced that Liu Junyan was directing the ghosts and might be preparing to revive Shen Hong, while Fan Cheng discovered that the driver calling himself Xiao Shen was Liu Junyan and attacked him before losing consciousness.
• Zhong Xueran removed the mask from Xu Yi, but he was dead, and Yan Xiao carried Xu Yi’s body away as corpses approached, and Zhong Xueran learned that Fan Cheng was also dead.
• Qin Manjiang sent Nie Yunzhen to search beneath the Old Locust Tree and set out to find Liu Junyan, while Yu Qinghuan’s body transformed beneath a ghostly face.
• Jiang Du offered to save Yu Qinghuan in exchange for one hour of control over Qin Manjiang’s body each day, and Qin Manjiang agreed, and Jiang Du peeled away the ghostly face to reveal Yu Qinghuan’s bloodied face.

The players disrupted Mr. Yan’s ritual and cleared the Wedding Dress Game, but Qin Manjiang emerged with a hunger that drove him away from his friends. He left Fu City for Moon City with Flower and became entangled in a new case after a woman shattered into ice.

• Jiang Du confronted Mr. Yan, while Nie Yunzhen and Zhong Xueran found Shen Hong inside the Old Locust Tree and cut the tendrils sustaining the ritual.
• The Flesh-and-Blood Wedding Dress consumed Mr. Yan and pursued the players as Qin Manjiang rescued Yu Qinghuan, and Yu Qinghuan died before reaching the Old Locust Tree, and Liu Junyan and Fan Cheng also died.
• Zhong Xueran and Nie Yunzhen tried to reverse the sacrifice, but Jiang Du used the Doll to draw a crimson shadow into Qin Manjiang and stop the Wedding Dress.
• The Game ended, and Qin Manjiang woke with a hunger that led him to flee his friends, and Flower brought him to Kong, who invited him to join Moon City and work toward ending the Ghost Story Game.
• Yan Xiao found Qin Manjiang outside Clear Pupil Bar, explained that someone had stolen his identity, and asked him to help save the ghosts and bring down the Colosseum.
• Qin Manjiang left Fu City with Flower for Moon City, where the Doll began speaking to him and a young woman shattered into ice after he touched her.
• Qin Manjiang reported the death to Captain Wang Pingchang and Fang Xiu, identified Chen Qiu as the victim, and offered to help find the killer.