Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan connected with Guo Xiao, a disgraced lawyer who had lost a highly publicized case and withdrawn from work. Guo Xiao’s girlfriend defended his abilities, while Lin Fan explained that viewers hated him for representing a woman they believed was a murderer; Guo Xiao insisted his client, Miss Mi, was innocent.

• Lin Fan selected the viewer Useless Person three times before the third invitation connected, revealing Guo Xiao and his girlfriend, Jiu'er.
• Lin Fan described Guo Xiao’s legal career and his recent defeat, which left his client sentenced to thirteen years in prison and Guo Xiao isolated at home.
• Guo Xiao said an unexpected development had ruined the case and that Lin Fan’s insight could not serve as legal evidence or undo the outcome.
• Viewers criticized Guo Xiao for representing the woman accused of killing her daughter, while Jiu'er defended his professional skill.
• Lin Fan said viewers’ main objection was that Guo Xiao had volunteered to represent someone they considered a murderer.
• Guo Xiao comforted Jiu'er and maintained that Miss Mi was neither a bad person nor a murderer.

Lin Fan told Guo Xiao and the livestream audience that Mi Yun was innocent and that her husband had staged the crime and created an alibi. After viewers questioned his motives, Pingzhou’s Captain Uncle Cop joined the livestream, and Lin Fan asked whether he had come to arrest Mi Yun’s husband.

• Lin Fan recounted how Guo Xiao had represented Mi Yun after she was accused of killing her daughter, and Guo Xiao insisted that Mi Yun was innocent.
• Lin Fan confirmed that Mi Yun was not the murderer and said Guo Xiao had lost because he had not used his reserved trump card.
• Pingzhou Uncle Cop described the evidence against Mi Yun and her husband’s workplace alibi, while Guo Xiao admitted that he had suspected the husband.
• Lin Fan identified Mi Yun’s husband as the murderer and explained that he had staged the scene and arranged his alibi.
• Viewers accused Lin Fan and Guo Xiao of making a shady deal, and Lin Fan rejected their suspicions.
• Captain Uncle Cop joined the livestream, and Lin Fan asked whether he wanted to arrest Mi Yun’s husband.

Lin Fan argued that Mi Yun’s husband had faked his office alibi by sending a plastic-surgery double to work, and Captain Uncle Cop sent investigators to check a private hospital. Lin Fan also revealed that the husband had contradicted himself about whether the apartment door was open, while Guo Xiao maintained Mi Yun was innocent.

• Captain Uncle Cop admitted that police had initially suspected Mi Yun’s husband but accepted his coworkers’ account that he had stayed in his office.
• Lin Fan proposed that Mi Yun’s husband had used a plastic-surgery double to appear at work while he committed the murder.
• Captain Uncle Cop said the husband had claimed to be sick and wore a scarf and hat, then dispatched officers to search a private hospital.
• Captain Uncle Cop asked Lin Fan for evidence beyond the possible false alibi, while Guo Xiao said he knew Mi Yun had not committed the crime.
• Lin Fan recalled that the husband had first told Guo Xiao the apartment door was open, but later testified that it had been locked from inside when he returned.

Lin Fan helped police uncover that Mi Yun’s husband had killed their daughter and framed Mi Yun, leading to his arrest and confession. He said the husband acted after winning five million, while Captain Uncle Cop added that resentment toward Mi Yun’s parents had contributed to his changed mindset.

• Lin Fan identified Jin Xiaomu as the husband’s plastic-surgery double and told police where to find a hidden voice recorder.
• Police found records showing Mi Yun’s husband had paid for Jin Xiaomu’s surgery, then arrested both men and recovered the recorder.
• After hearing the recording, Mi Yun’s husband confessed to killing his daughter and framing Mi Yun.
• Lin Fan said the husband had learned his daughter was terminally ill and later won five million, which he did not want to share with Mi Yun.
• Captain Uncle Cop explained that Mi Yun’s parents had long looked down on her husband, affecting his mindset.

After Mi Yun’s husband confessed, Guo Xiao and Captain Uncle Cop left to handle her case, while Lin Fan focused on Xiao Tuantuan’s chance to save Hu Sanjin. Lin Fan then connected with An Xing, whose fate he said he would not reveal or change, and invited him to ask about his other concerns.

• Guo Xiao and Captain Uncle Cop thanked Lin Fan, then disconnected to work on Mi Yun’s case.
• Lin Fan told viewers he cared about Heavenly Secrets Points and discussed the danger Hu Sanjin faced if Xiao Tuantuan failed to become a medical cultivator in time.
• After a quick meal, Lin Fan selected An Xing for a livestream call and divined that his fate was already set.
• Lin Fan refused to reveal or change An Xing’s fate, saying it suited what he had in mind.
• An Xing recalled the questions that had brought him to the livestream, and viewers waited for him to ask them.

An Xing told Lin Fan that his family had acted strangely since they moved, and Lin Fan revealed details that showed his brother was hiding a secret. The chapter ended with Lin Fan explaining that An Xing’s mother had warned his father that An Xing might have uncovered the truth, and his father stopped him from escaping.

• An Xing described his brother’s kidnapping and unexplained return, after which his brother often vanished at night.
• An Xing followed his brother and saw him dressed in a black suit, driving an expensive car, and lecturing tattooed men in black.
• Lin Fan revealed that An Xing’s brother had tested whether An Xing was asleep with a mechanical pencil, and An Xing recalled finding pencil lead on his desk.
• An Xing described discrepancies in his brother’s limp and eyesight, while Lin Fan said his brother had used unconventional methods but was also kindhearted.
• Lin Fan said An Xing overheard his mother warn his father that he might have found out the truth, and that his father blocked him when he tried to leave.

Lin Fan revealed that An Xing was actually Liu Xing, a forty-five-year-old missing man, and that An Ran was not his brother. As Liu Xing fled and was expected to recover his memories in an accident, Lin Fan told An Ran that Liu Xing had murdered An Ran’s family.

• Lin Fan identified An Xing’s real name as Liu Xing, and Dongzhou Uncle Cop found that Liu Xing was forty-five, had gone missing six months earlier, and had a younger sister searching for him.
• An Xing saw his reflection, suffered a painful flashback of being beaten, and opened the door to find An Ran, who asked Lin Fan to stop revealing more.
• Lin Fan offered to tell the truth, while An Xing learned that his supposed family was not his real family and fled after imagining An Ran attacking him with a dagger.
• Lin Fan told An Ran that Liu Xing would have a traffic accident but survive and recover his memories, so An Ran stopped pursuing him.
• Lin Fan revealed that Liu Xing had killed An Ran’s mother, older sister, and father, shocking An Ran, who had believed his father died in a hiking accident.

Lin Fan explained that An Ran had used hypnosis and a staged family to try to restore An Xing’s memories, and An Xing regained them after a traffic accident. An Ran asked why An Xing had murdered his family, but Lin Fan warned that learning the truth would destroy An Ran’s remaining familial affection and lead to his death.

• Lin Fan revealed that An Ran had staged An Xing’s family and used hypnosis because An Xing denied the murders and did not recognize him.
• An Xing was struck by a vehicle outside the hotel and taken to the hospital, where An Ran waited for him to recover his memories.
• Lin Fan explained that An Ran had recreated the murder scene to trigger An Xing’s memories, but An Xing had noticed something was wrong.
• An Ran described how his family had been killed and asked Lin Fan to divine An Xing’s motive, suspecting it might involve his father’s work as a surgeon.
• Lin Fan refused to reveal the truth, telling An Ran that even asking An Xing would not get an answer.
• An Ran begged Lin Fan to tell him, and Lin Fan warned that the truth would erase An Ran’s last trace of familial affection and lead to his death.

Lin Fan revealed that An Ran's father had hired An Xing to kill An Ran's mother for insurance money, and An Ran learned the truth he had pursued for twenty years. The police stayed with An Ran as he broke down, while Lin Fan ended the livestream hoping he would keep living.

• An Ran promised Lin Fan that he would keep living if he learned the truth, and Lin Fan confirmed he would keep his promise.
• Lin Fan revealed that An Ran's father had hired An Xing to kill An Ran's mother, but An Xing accidentally killed An Ran's sister as well and spared the young An Ran.
• Lin Fan explained that An Xing had been coerced because An Ran's father promised to pay for his seriously ill sister's treatment, then tried to kill An Xing, who accidentally pushed him off a cliff.
• An Ran broke down in anguish, and the cops at the hospital comforted him and watched over him.
• Lin Fan told Captain Uncle Cop that An Xing would regain his memories and tell the police what happened, then ended the calls and hoped An Ran would keep living.

Hu Sanjin arrived seeking Lin Fan’s help, but his survival depended on Xiao Tuantuan becoming a medical cultivator within two hours. Lin Fan then connected with Honest Ah Huang, a fish seller whose past actions involving a tomb had brought danger to his family, and urged him to confess.

• Hu Sanjin knelt before Lin Fan, who said Xiao Tuantuan had two hours to become a medical cultivator if Hu Sanjin was to survive.
• Lin Fan continued the livestream and connected with Honest Ah Huang, a forty-six-year-old fish seller who had struggled to save money.
• Honest Ah Huang said an expert had advised him to confess what he had done to protect his family from worsening misfortune.
• Lin Fan confirmed that confessing was the simplest way to spare Honest Ah Huang’s family from disaster and warned that he sent bad people to prison.
• Lin Fan revealed that Honest Ah Huang’s situation involved a tomb and warned that refusing to confess would leave his family to face misfortune while his own baleful qi protected him.

Lin Fan exposed Honest Ah Huang’s murder and helped the cops arrest him and the wealthy man who hired him. The chapter ended with Hu Sanjin anxiously waiting to learn whether Xiao Tuantuan would become a medical cultivator in time to save him.

• Honest Ah Huang confessed that he had killed an intellectually disabled man for a wealthy man who wanted a substitute corpse for his father.
• Lin Fan told Honest Ah Huang that the victim’s spirit would spare his family if he confessed, and the Nanzhou cops arrived to arrest him.
• Captain Uncle Cop confirmed that the wealthy man had also been arrested, while Lin Fan explained the man’s plan to disguise the victim as his father.
• Lin Fan predicted the wealthy man would spend the rest of his life in prison and said that was a worse punishment than death.
• Hu Sanjin asked whether Xiao Tuantuan had become a medical cultivator, and Lin Fan said she would succeed that day but might need another hour.

Lin Fan told Wu Huanhuan that her crush, Zhou Qi, was pursuing her roommate Wang Zihan and would treat Wu Huanhuan as a backup. After Wang Zihan confirmed the pursuit but said she had no feelings for Zhou Qi, Lin Fan reassured Wu Huanhuan that she might meet someone more suitable, while his mission to change her fate remained unresolved.

• Lin Fan selected Wu Huanhuan for a livestream call and received a system mission to change her fate because she did not have long to live.
• Wu Huanhuan asked whether she would end up with Zhou Qi, and Lin Fan said Zhou Qi liked her roommate Wang Zihan and was keeping Wu Huanhuan as a backup.
• Lin Fan identified Wang Zihan as the roommate Zhou Qi was pursuing, and Wu Huanhuan asked her about it during the call.
• Wang Zihan confirmed Zhou Qi was pursuing her but said she had no feelings for him and had warned Wu Huanhuan not to pursue him.
• Lin Fan comforted Wu Huanhuan by saying she might meet someone more suitable, and her roommates gathered around to recognize him as Master Lin.

Lin Fan revealed that Wu Huanhuan would die in three years, and she explained that young people in her family had died mysteriously every three years for decades. Lin Fan confirmed that a spell was affecting the family, not a curse, and left the cause unresolved as Wu Huanhuan asked him to help.

• Lin Fan read the fortunes of Wu Huanhuan's three roommates and said their futures were favorable, though their choices could change their fates.
• Wang Zihan asked whether Wu Huanhuan faced a serious problem, and Lin Fan revealed that she would lose her life in three years.
• Wu Huanhuan explained that eleven young relatives had died inexplicably in a repeating three-year pattern, and said she expected to be next.
• The Village Doctor Spirit Body said she could not detect a curse, and Lin Fan confirmed that the deaths were not caused by one.
• Lin Fan described how each victim's skin turned black and hair turned white, then said a spell was affecting Wu Huanhuan's family.
• Wu Huanhuan said her family had tried changing the feng shui and offered Lin Fan ten million and a favor if he could stop the deaths.

Lin Fan traced Wu Huanhuan’s family curse to a jar buried beneath her great-grand-aunt’s old house and revealed that removing its talisman would likely kill the over-130-year-old woman. The family uncovered twelve walnuts inside, but the chapter ended before they decided whether to open the jar.

• Lin Fan told Han Bing that breaking Wu Huanhuan’s spell would cause the caster to die from backlash, then asked whether her family had an unusually long-lived elder.
• Wu Huanhuan called her father, who identified her grandfather’s younger sister as an elder over 130 years old who returned to the family home once every three years.
• Lin Fan asked Wu Huanhuan’s father to gather relatives and dig beneath the locust tree at the old woman’s house, where they found a jar sealed with Yellow Talisman Paper.
• Lin Fan told the family to remove the talisman and take out the twelve walnuts, warning that the elder would probably die as soon as the talisman was removed.
• Wu Huanhuan’s relatives argued over whether the elder was responsible for the curse and whether they should notify her before opening the jar.

Huanhuan's family uncovered proof that their great-grandmother had sacrificed younger relatives to extend her life, and Lin Fan helped ensure the spell could not harm anyone again. Xiao Tuantuan became a medical cultivator and learned the first steps toward treating Hu Sanjin, though she still needed to carry out the treatment.

• Huanhuan's father removed the talisman from the jar and found twelve bloodstained walnuts bearing birth details for Huanhuan and eleven young relatives who had died.
• Lin Fan explained that Huanhuan's great-grandmother had used a spell to trade a young relative's life for three more years of her own.
• Huanhuan's relatives learned that the great-grandmother had died when the jar was opened, and Lin Fan told them to burn the talisman papers in her safe.
• Lin Fan received a mission reward for changing Wu Huanhuan's fate, and Wu Huanhuan thanked him before ending the call.
• Xiao Tuantuan reached the initiation level as a medical cultivator, and the Village Doctor Spirit Body taught her how to begin diagnosing and treating Hu Sanjin.

Xiao Tuantuan began using the Spirit Insect Technique to remove the decay aura from Hu Sanjin, while Lin Fan arranged for villagers to gather the herbs needed to treat him. As Xiao Tuantuan struggled to sustain the spell, Lin Fan gave her an Essence-Restoring Pill to help her continue.

• The Village Doctor Spirit Body explained that Hu Sanjin could survive if Xiao Tuantuan used the Spirit Insect Technique and the needed herbs were found within five hours.
• Lin Fan told Hu Sanjin to hire villagers to search the mountains, then gave the village chief the herbs' locations and promised a reward for each one found.
• Lin Fan reminded the village chief that the villagers had to apologize to the Village Doctor Spirit Body and build her a shrine as promised.
• Xiao Tuantuan began the Spirit Insect Technique, sending spirit insects into Hu Sanjin's body as she struggled to maintain the spell.
• Lin Fan placed an Essence-Restoring Pill on Xiao Tuantuan's thigh and told her to take it when her spiritual power ran low.

Lin Fan resolved the curse in Xiaoyao Village and helped Xiao Tuantuan clear Hu Sanjin’s decaying energy, then resumed his livestream and called university student Pu Lili. Pu Lili described rumors and a strange surveillance video involving a girl in a nearby dormitory, and Lin Fan questioned whether the girl was truly keeping a spirit.

• The Village Doctor Spirit Body agreed to stop targeting Xiaoyao Village’s villagers and to teach Xiao Tuantuan before leaving.
• Xiao Tuantuan removed all the decaying energy from Hu Sanjin, though he still needed a medicinal decoction within five hours to survive.
• Lin Fan let Hu Sanjin rest, encouraged Xiao Tuantuan to recover, and began taking viewer calls while the villagers gathered medicinal ingredients.
• Lin Fan called Naive Girl, identified her as Pu Lili, and learned that she was a Jiangzhou University student troubled by strange events.
• Pu Lili described a girl in the dormitory across from hers who danced and recited strange things, along with campus rumors about a little spirit and a video showing a white figure in a corridor.
• Lin Fan asked Pu Lili whether she had evidence that the girl was keeping a spirit or whether the story might be imagined.

Lin Fan exposed the supposed little spirit at Jiangzhou University as a false rumor created by Pu Lili’s friend to retaliate against a rival for winning a theater role. He then warned Pu Lili against taking an internship, while the viewers debated whether he should identify the company where she would face workplace harassment.

• Pu Lili showed the livestream a blurry surveillance video and cited campus rumors as evidence that a student was keeping a little spirit.
• Lin Fan explained that the student was rehearsing for a play, her roommates had moved out to avoid disturbing her, and the video and online posts were fabricated.
• Lin Fan revealed that Pu Lili’s friend had created the video and spread the rumors after losing a role to the student; Pu Lili realized her friend had used her to fuel the gossip.
• Jiangzhou Uncle Cop said colleagues had gone to Jiangzhou University to question the person spreading the rumors.
• Lin Fan advised Pu Lili to stay in school rather than take an internship, warning that she would face workplace harassment and lose her virginity if she did.

Lin Fan told Little Sister Looking for Her Brother that her missing brother was alive and being held captive by his wife at their home. She struggled to believe him because her brother and sister-in-law had seemed happy together.

• Lin Fan confirmed that the medicinal herbs Xiaoyao Village residents gathered were all high quality, and spoke with the Village Doctor Spirit Body about her past and her medical legacy.
• Lin Fan's call invitation to Love Someone was rejected, and he agreed with viewers that he could examine the fates of people who refused future calls.
• Little Sister Looking for Her Brother connected to Lin Fan and said her brother had been missing for three months, though he periodically messaged the family that he was safe.
• Lin Fan revealed that her brother was alive, held captive at his home, and eating well, then said his wife was the one keeping him there.
• Little Sister Looking for Her Brother said she had recently visited her sister-in-law and seen no signs of trouble, and she doubted Lin Fan's claim.

Xiao Ling went to her brother and sister-in-law Lian Yun’s villa after Lin Fan said her missing brother was there. The Uncle Cops searched the villa and found her brother chained to a bed, leaving him on the verge of rescue.

• Xiao Ling visited Lian Yun and asked whether she had heard from her missing brother.
• Xiao Ling entered the villa and found signs in the bathroom that someone else had recently used the household items.
• Lian Yun grew suspicious when Xiao Ling hinted that her brother might be imprisoned, but the Uncle Cops arrived with a Search Warrant.
• The Uncle Cops restrained Lian Yun and searched the villa while Xiao Ling explained how she had confirmed her brother was living there.
• The Uncle Cops found Xiao Ling’s brother chained to a bed, and he cried out for help.