Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan explained Su Jiaojiao’s condition and offered Su Wanwan a chance to live normally by joining Han Bing’s organization, while deciding to send Su Jiaojiao’s Spirit Bodies to the world below. He warned that the Soul-Refining Rite would also end the life Su Jiaojiao’s Cursed Power was sustaining in their mother, leaving Su Wanwan to decide whether to trust him.

• Lin Fan considered changing Su Jiaojiao’s fate by performing a Soul-Refining Rite and sending her Spirit Bodies to the world below.
• Su Wanwan entered the room, and Lin Fan identified her as Su Jiaojiao’s older sister and a Thousand-Layer Person.
• Su Wanwan expected Lin Fan to be affected by touching Su Jiaojiao, but he revealed that he had sealed the Cursed Power and could control it.
• Lin Fan told Su Wanwan she could join Han Bing’s organization and still live a normal life, but Su Wanwan said she had to care for her sister and mother.
• Lin Fan explained that the rite would send away Su Jiaojiao’s twenty-three Spirit Bodies and end the Cursed Power sustaining their mother, while Han Bing confirmed Lin Fan’s identity and abilities.

Lin Fan revealed that Su Tong had torn off Su Jiaojiao’s skin because she wanted her daughter to return to the six-year-old state she remembered, triggering the curse that left Su Tong near death. He then began recounting how Su Wanwan interrupted the abuse, leaving her own role in what happened unresolved.

• Lin Fan offered Su Wanwan a place on his team or lifelong confinement, then went with Han Bing and the others to see her mother.
• Lin Fan found Su Tong badly injured and used talismans to slow the loss of her life force.
• Lin Fan explained that Su Tong had learned Su Jiaojiao’s body contained layers of skin and that removing them made her look a year younger.
• Lin Fan revealed that Su Tong had torn off Su Jiaojiao’s skin while she slept, hoping to bring back the six-year-old version of her daughter.
• Lin Fan said Su Wanwan had entered the room during the abuse and pushed Su Tong away, while viewers debated whether she had been forced to take part.

Lin Fan explained how Su Tong and Su Jiaojiao became cursed, and Su Wanwan chose to live while agreeing to let him perform the Soul-Refining Rite on Jiaojiao in three days. Lin Fan rescued Han Bing’s missing subordinate and decided to stay at the villa with Han Bing until the rite.

• Lin Fan revealed that Su Tong had torn off her own skin after wrongly believing she was a Thousand-Layer Person, while Su Wanwan had helped her tear away Su Jiaojiao’s skin.
• Lin Fan told Su Wanwan that he would perform the Soul-Refining Rite on Jiaojiao’s twenty-three Spirit Bodies, and Su Wanwan chose to survive and give Jiaojiao peace.
• Lin Fan said Su Tong had about three days left, and Su Wanwan bowed to him and prepared to spend that time with her mother.
• Lin Fan remembered Han Bing’s missing subordinate and found him unconscious on the third floor after the Cursed Power made him tear at his skin.
• Lin Fan applied talismans to the young man and sent him to the hospital with Han Bing, telling her to arrange further treatment.
• Lin Fan returned to the villa, told Han Bing they would stay there until he performed the rite in three days, and she hesitated because of the danger.

Lin Fan stayed at the Su Family villa to watch over Su Jiaojiao, absorbed much of its cursed power, and began a livestream to answer viewers’ questions. He then connected with Yu Qin, who said her boyfriend had abandoned her while she was pregnant, and Lin Fan prepared to help find him.

• Lin Fan explained that he had to remain at the villa for three days to keep watch over Su Jiaojiao, while Han Bing and Young Taoist Acolyte slept after exposure to cursed power.
• Lin Fan absorbed the cursed power inside the villa overnight and told Dao Tianji that he had also cleared the power from his body.
• Lin Fan started a livestream and explained that he could not divine who had cursed the Su Family, while Su Tong had escaped becoming a Thousand-Layer Person because the curse targeted unborn descendants.
• Lin Fan randomly connected with Yu Qin, who said she had come seeking help finding her missing boyfriend.
• Yu Qin told Lin Fan and the viewers that her boyfriend had abandoned her while she was carrying his child.

Lin Fan exposed Yu Qin’s real motives and revealed that her baby was not her boyfriend’s and that she had infected him with diseases. Yu Qin’s boyfriend joined the livestream and confirmed Lin Fan’s account.

• Yu Qin asked Lin Fan to help her find her boyfriend, claiming he and his family had disappeared after she refused to abort their baby.
• Lin Fan advised Yu Qin not to pursue her boyfriend or have the baby, prompting her and some viewers to criticize him.
• Lin Fan revealed that Yu Qin and her mother had planned to use public pressure to demand a breakup payment from her boyfriend.
• Lin Fan accused Yu Qin of cheating, carrying another man’s baby, and passing diseases to her boyfriend; Yu Qin denied his claims and accused him of colluding with her boyfriend.
• Lin Fan contacted Yu Qin’s boyfriend, who joined the livestream and confirmed that Lin Fan’s account matched the facts.

Lin Fan exposed Yu Qin’s affair with Wang Next Door and warned that she would exploit her unborn child for money, leaving Yu Qin frightened by the livestream audience’s reaction. Yu Qin and her mother planned to demand money from Wang Next Door and abort the baby, while Lin Fan realized ending the call had changed Yu Qin’s fate.

• Yu Qin demanded 150,000 from her boyfriend, but Lin Fan told him to refuse and seek the return of his betrothal money.
• Lin Fan revealed that Wang Next Door was the baby’s father, and Yu Qin said she would keep the baby to obtain money from him.
• Lin Fan predicted Yu Qin would mistreat the child and warned that viewers might target her after learning about her behavior.
• Lin Fan ended the call, and Yu Qin became frightened as viewers discussed her and her address.
• Yu Qin told her mother what had happened, and they planned to get money from Wang Next Door and then abort the baby.
• Lin Fan calculated that Yu Qin’s fate had changed and concluded that ending the call had been the right choice.

Lin Fan connected with Qu Wan'er, an aloof influencer who dismissed fortune-telling and assumed he had profiled her through psychology. After discovering a mission to change the fate of her younger brother, Lin Fan invited her to livestream with him, leaving her response pending.

• Lin Fan advised a young man to sue Yu Qin, and the man sent him a Rocket before disconnecting.
• Xiao Tuantuan offered Han Bing a prescription to help regenerate the skin of her severely injured subordinate.
• Lin Fan connected with Qu Wan'er and revealed that she had joined his livestream to study his methods and attract traffic.
• Qu Wan'er questioned Lin Fan's abilities and explained that she did not believe in fortune-telling, prompting viewers to argue over her attitude.
• Lin Fan received a mission to change the fate of Qu Wan'er's younger brother and invited her to start her first livestream with him.

During a livestream PK, Lin Fan challenged Qu Wan'er’s claim that her parents favored her brother, revealing that her family had supported her education and that much of the money and property her brother received came from his own earnings. Viewers turned against Qu Wan'er, but she continued defending herself and insisted she could care for her parents after moving overseas.

• Qu Wan'er connected her livestream with Lin Fan after he asked her to stay, and Lin Fan said she had planned to discuss being treated unfairly by her parents.
• Qu Wan'er claimed her parents favored her brother by giving him most of their savings and two of their three homes, and she said he should never have been born.
• Lin Fan pointed out that Qu Wan'er had received better care and education growing up, then revealed her brother had worked to fund her studies and that half the money he received had been his own earnings.
• Qu Wan'er argued that money her brother gave their parents had become family money and that she deserved half, prompting viewers to criticize her and sympathize with her brother.
• Qu Wan'er insisted she could care for her parents despite planning to work overseas, and said she could bring them abroad with her.

Lin Fan exposed Qu Wan’er’s resentment toward her younger brother and sent him the livestream recording, helping him recognize how she treated him and changing his fate. After gaining major attainment in the Heart-Knowing Codex, Lin Fan rested and connected with a new viewer, Light in My Life.

• Qu Wan’er ended her call with Lin Fan after he revealed her private history, then secretly returned to his livestream and defended her belief that her parents favored her brother.
• Lin Fan advised Qu Wan’er that love could not be measured in money and said he would send her younger brother the recording so he could understand her attitude.
• Lin Fan sent the edited livestream recording to Qu Wan’er’s brother, who watched it and reconsidered how he had been supporting his sister.
• Qu Wan’er’s brother’s fate changed, completing Lin Fan’s task and earning him major attainment in the Heart-Knowing Codex and one thousand Heavenly Secrets Points.
• After a ten-minute break, Lin Fan connected with a random viewer named Light in My Life, whose call revealed a young woman.

Lin Fan revealed that Jiang Yao was framed when someone remotely controlled her phone and posted damaging remarks through her company's account. He identified the culprit as Nan Feng, a recent acquaintance who had installed the phone's backdoor, while police officers waited outside Jiang Yao's home.

• Lin Fan told Jiang Yao that she had been fired after someone used her phone to post damaging remarks, and confirmed she had not posted them herself.
• Jiang Yao said the phone's backdoor let someone monitor her and send threatening messages, and that she had already called the police.
• Lin Fan revealed that He Yingxiong and another officer were guarding Jiang Yao's home, and said the case was connected to other investigations.
• Lin Fan warned that the culprit would soon visit Jiang Yao and that she would not recognize him as the person spying on her.
• Lin Fan identified the culprit as Nan Feng, the repair technician who had recently befriended Jiang Yao and claimed to discover the backdoor on her phone.

Lin Fan revealed that Nan Feng had isolated Jiang Yao, kidnapped her father, and was the serial killer linked to a string of murders. He explained how Nan Feng had compromised Jiang Yao’s phone, while the police prepared to protect her and gather evidence.

• Lin Fan said Nan Feng had planned to estrange Jiang Yao from her colleagues, father, and best friend, and revealed that her father had been abducted and locked in the family’s outlying villa.
• The Jiangzhou police sent officers to rescue Jiang Yao’s father while Lin Fan urged them to protect Jiang Yao and wait for evidence of Nan Feng’s crimes.
• He Yingxiong told Lin Fan that investigators suspected Jiang Yao was the next target in a series of murders whose victims had been cut off from friends and family.
• Lin Fan confirmed that Nan Feng was the serial killer, but said he destroyed evidence after each murder.
• Lin Fan explained that Nan Feng had used Jiang Yao’s lost phone and a fake repair story to install a backdoor and replace its camera, allowing him to monitor her.

Lin Fan devised a plan to catch Nan Feng and secure evidence of his crimes, while warning Jiang Yao and He Yingxiong about the danger. The chapter ended as Nan Feng arrived at Jiang Yao’s home, unaware that they were preparing to trap him.

• Lin Fan told Jiang Yao to turn off her phone and connected with He Yingxiong after realizing Nan Feng had also compromised her backup phone.
• Lin Fan instructed Jiang Yao to pretend to argue with her best friend, then provoke Nan Feng after he drugged and restrained her, while He Yingxiong recorded his confession.
• Lin Fan warned He Yingxiong to break both of Nan Feng’s hands, keep his black phone within three meters of him, and prevent him from speaking so he could not erase the evidence.
• Jiang Yao agreed to cooperate, and He Yingxiong and his colleague hid in her home after placing a voice recorder in the bathroom.
• Nan Feng noticed that Jiang Yao’s phones were off, arrived at her door, and was greeted by Jiang Yao as she concealed her panic.

Jiang Yao pretended to suspect her best friend to keep Nan Feng from realizing she was acting, and the two women staged a convincing falling-out. Nan Feng drugged Jiang Yao and began torturing her, while Lin Fan and He Yingxiong waited nearby to rescue her; Jiang Yao managed to remove the tape over her mouth just as Nan Feng noticed.

• Jiang Yao told Nan Feng that her best friend might have installed the backdoor program, and Nan Feng concealed his surprise while probing her reaction.
• Jiang Yao bad-mouthed her best friend, who overheard, argued with her, packed her belongings, and left the house.
• Nan Feng comforted Jiang Yao, added powder to her tea, and waited for her to pass out.
• Lin Fan told He Yingxiong to wait for his signal and to stop Nan Feng from speaking or reaching his phone during the rescue.
• Nan Feng dragged the unconscious Jiang Yao into a bathtub, tied her up, and threatened to torture her for photographs.
• Jiang Yao woke in the cold water and pushed the tape off her mouth, prompting Nan Feng to turn around and notice.

Jiang Yao kept Nan Feng talking while He Yingxiong waited outside the bathroom for Lin Fan’s signal to intervene. Nan Feng revealed evidence of his murders and his plan to make Jiang Yao choose between her life and her father’s, while Lin Fan continued to wait for the right moment.

• Jiang Yao pretended to beg for her life and questioned Nan Feng about the people he had killed and his interference in her life.
• Nan Feng showed Jiang Yao photos of his victims and offered to spare her if she helped him kill someone.
• Jiang Yao recognized her father in a video Nan Feng showed her and demanded that he release him.
• Nan Feng revealed that he had kidnapped Jiang Yao’s father and proposed taking them both to a villa so one could choose to die for the other.
• He Yingxiong waited outside the bathroom, while Lin Fan told him not to rush in yet.

Jiang Yao drew Nan Feng into confessing to murdering a dozen young women, giving He Yingxiong and his partner the chance to arrest him and secure evidence from his phone. With Jiang Yao’s father already rescued, she left to check on her best friend, while He Yingxiong took responsibility for keeping Nan Feng and the evidence in custody.

• Jiang Yao challenged Nan Feng’s claim that he was a killer, and he showed her photos and described how he had murdered a dozen or so young women.
• After Nan Feng put away his phone and picked up a candle, Lin Fan ordered He Yingxiong and his partner to rush into the bathroom and subdue him.
• Nan Feng tried to reach or escape with his phone, but He Yingxiong stopped him and restrained him despite the interference of an unseen force.
• Lin Fan warned He Yingxiong that Nan Feng’s phone would destroy its data if anyone else unlocked it, so He Yingxiong used Nan Feng’s finger to open it and copy the evidence.
• Reinforcements arrived and secured the phone’s data, and He Yingxiong told Nan Feng that Jiang Yao’s father had already been rescued.
• Jiang Yao thanked Lin Fan and went to check on her best friend, while Lin Fan told He Yingxiong to keep Nan Feng in custody and protect the evidence.

Lin Fan explained how viewers could detect phone backdoor programs, then exposed and helped police arrest a viewer who had committed robbery years earlier. He later connected with Charity Bro, identified as Wang Shan, and began revealing the story behind his fundraiser for an injured girl, leaving viewers questioning its millions in donations.

• Lin Fan advised viewers that backdoor programs often caused unusually fast battery drain and took a ten-minute break.
• Lin Fan divined why Prosperity and Fortune had rejected his call, traced his changing escape routes, and alerted Pingzhou Uncle Cop, who arrested him for a robbery committed ten years earlier.
• Lin Fan followed viewers' suggestions and randomly initiated a PK with the popular charity streamer Charity Bro.
• Charity Bro introduced his fundraiser for an injured girl, and Lin Fan identified him as Wang Shan and recounted the family's circumstances and their agreement.
• Lin Fan noted that donations had reportedly exceeded three million and questioned whether the girl's treatment could cost as much as five hundred thousand.

Lin Fan exposed Charity Bro for planning to divert most of the donations and revealed that he had hidden past charity surpluses in his wife's accounts. As Charity Bro's supporters defended him, Han Bing questioned why no one he had helped had ever spoken against him.

• Charity Bro claimed he had wanted to keep only five hundred thousand yuan from the donations, and Lin Fan called it a half-truth.
• Lin Fan said Charity Bro planned to raise ten million yuan, spend one million on the girl's treatment, and pocket nine million.
• Lin Fan revealed that Charity Bro's past charity work had helped people, but he had kept the surplus instead of going into debt as he claimed.
• Charity Bro denied taking the money for himself, and viewers defended him based on his modest public image and charitable work.
• Lin Fan revealed that Charity Bro had put surplus funds in his wife's account, which she used to buy apartments and designer clothes.
• Han Bing asked why none of the people Charity Bro had helped had publicly complained about him.

Lin Fan explained why Charity Bro’s fundraising scheme was harmful, and the police arrested him during the livestream. Lin Fan then connected with Tang Wanjun, a university psychologist, and began revealing details about her life.

• Lin Fan told viewers that people Charity Bro had helped could not speak out because their agreements let him keep excess donations.
• Lin Fan warned that tolerating Charity Bro’s conduct could encourage widespread abuse of charity and named several streamers who genuinely helped people.
• Police arrived with a search warrant and took Charity Bro away for questioning.
• Lin Fan said Charity Bro had illegally raised funds and intended to exploit women in need.
• Lin Fan connected with Tang Wanjun and revealed that she was a thirty-one-year-old psychologist at Jiangzhou University who had had several short-lived relationships.

Lin Fan identified Xiaolin’s depression and confronted her parents, Wang Li and Huang Lingling, over blaming psychologist Tang Wanjun for their daughter’s condition. The parents rejected his claims and defended their scientific education as Lin Fan blamed Xiaolin’s problems on their parenting.

• Lin Fan told Tang Wanjun that her student Xiaolin had moderate depression and was isolated and unable to eat or drink.
• Xiaolin’s parents arrived at Tang Wanjun’s office and accused her of causing their daughter’s mental problems with her counseling and medication.
• Tang Wanjun explained that Xiaolin had shown signs of distress since freshman year and that her condition had worsened after she stopped attending classes.
• Lin Fan accused Wang Li and Huang Lingling of refusing to acknowledge their role in Xiaolin’s suffering and shifting blame onto Tang Wanjun.
• Huang Lingling dismissed Lin Fan as a charlatan, while Wang Li said they were highly educated and opposed anything unscientific.
• Lin Fan said Xiaolin’s problems had been caused by her parents’ way of raising her, and Tang Wanjun agreed.

Lin Fan confronted Huang Lingling and Wang Li over their controlling parenting, explaining how they had crushed Xiaolin’s interests and contributed to her depression. He revealed that Huang Lingling had herself been denied the chance to pursue drawing, leaving her shaken as the confrontation continued.

• Lin Fan described how Huang Lingling and Wang Li had scolded Xiaolin for losing a single point, suppressed her musical interests, and continued controlling her after promising to stop once she entered university.
• Huang Lingling defended their parenting and accused Tang Wanjun of harming Xiaolin, while Tang Wanjun explained that Xiaolin’s hobbies and clubs had once improved her mood.
• Lin Fan argued that Xiaolin could not recover fully unless her parents changed, but Huang Lingling refused and said she had stopped Xiaolin’s medication.
• Lin Fan revealed that Huang Lingling’s own parents had prevented her from pursuing drawing despite her talent and awards, and Huang Lingling reacted with shock.