Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan exposed Huang Lingling and Wang Li’s secrets and confronted them about how their strict parenting had worsened their daughter Xiaolin’s depression. The couple finally recognized some of their mistakes and began reconsidering how they treated their adult daughter, though viewers questioned whether their change would last.

• Lin Fan revealed private details about Huang Lingling and Wang Li, convincing them that he could tell fortunes.
• Lin Fan and Tang Wanjun explained how the couple’s pressure, restrictions, and interference with Xiaolin’s medication had harmed her.
• Lin Fan reminded Huang Lingling and Wang Li that they had enjoyed university clubs and activities while denying Xiaolin similar freedom.
• Lin Fan said Xiaolin had moderate depression and could still recover if her parents changed their behavior.
• Wang Li apologized and said he and Huang Lingling should let Xiaolin make her own choices.
• Lin Fan defended Tang Wanjun, explaining that she had repeatedly supported Xiaolin and urged her parents to ease the pressure.

Lin Fan advised Huang Lingling and Wang Li to support Xiaolin’s recovery by apologizing, encouraging her music, and following Tang Wanjun’s counseling and medication plan. After processing the distress he felt from Xiaolin’s experiences, Lin Fan resumed his livestream, connected with Flexible Little Chubby, and saw that the young man faced a serious problem.

• Lin Fan told Huang Lingling and Wang Li to speak with Xiaolin, apologize for their harsh parenting, support her interest in music, and follow Tang Wanjun’s treatment plan.
• Huang Lingling and Wang Li agreed to change their behavior, and Tang Wanjun said she would continue visiting Xiaolin for counseling.
• Tang Wanjun revealed that Xiaolin had formed a school band and won first place among the campus’s top ten bands, but hid it from her parents because she feared their response.
• Lin Fan ended the call after seeing that Xiaolin’s fate had changed, then rested and discussed the emotional toll of experiencing her life with Han Bing.
• Lin Fan returned to his livestream, selected Flexible Little Chubby for a call, and recognized from the young man’s features that his problem was serious.

Lin Fan discovered that Hong Yun had only three days left to live because most of his lifespan had been borrowed away, and he began guiding him through a Fortune-Transfer Technique to change his fate. After learning Hong Yun could not wake at 3:30 a.m., Lin Fan adjusted the first step to 7:07 the next morning.

• Lin Fan divined that Hong Yun, also known as Flexible Little Chubby, would die in three days, though he had originally been fated to live to ninety.
• Lin Fan received a system mission to change Hong Yun's fate, with the Incense Cultivation Technique and 10,000 Heavenly Secrets Points as rewards.
• Lin Fan said Hong Yun's remaining years had been borrowed away and that he needed to turn his fortune around to gain a chance at survival.
• Lin Fan instructed Hong Yun to prepare paper, nail clippings, and a lock of hair, while warning viewers not to copy the method because it depended on individual circumstances.
• When Hong Yun said he could not wake at 3:30 a.m., Lin Fan recalculated and told him to get up at 7:07 the next morning.

Lin Fan gave Flexible Little Chubby detailed instructions to follow the next day and promised to check in on him, while warning that unseen forces were interfering with his fate. He then connected with Xu Zhixin, a late-night radio host, and revealed that his missing coworker Xiao Qiang was near death after choosing to become a spirit body for a girl.

• Lin Fan told Flexible Little Chubby what to do after waking, arranged to connect with him at eleven the next morning, and said he might need to find him in person if he survived.
• Lin Fan resumed his livestream and connected with Xu Zhixin, a twenty-seven-year-old late-night radio host at Jiangzhou FM 5.20 Radio Station.
• Xu Zhixin explained that strange incidents had plagued the station since a girl called in about a breakup, and that his fellow host Xiao Qiang had disappeared.
• Lin Fan said Xiao Qiang was alive but near death, having lost nearly all his souls and chosen to become a spirit body to stay with a girl.
• Xu Zhixin rejected the idea that Xiao Qiang had fallen for the girl, recalling that Xiao Qiang had called her stupid.

Lin Fan revealed that radio host Xiao Qiang had fallen in love with Nian Xiaoqian’s spirit and was dying from prolonged exposure to yin energy. He explained that Xiao Qiang’s cruel response to Nian Xiaoqian’s suicidal hotline call preceded her death, then revealed that her spirit had brought her ex-boyfriend back as a spirit to keep her company.

• Lin Fan told the viewers that Nian Xiaoqian was already dead and that Xiao Qiang’s obsessive love for her spirit was draining his life.
• Lin Fan confirmed that Nian Xiaoqian loved both Xiao Qiang and her ex-boyfriend, while Xu Zhixin admitted that he and others had been involved in the circumstances of her death.
• Lin Fan explained that Nian Xiaoqian had called Late-Night Radio from a rooftop after a breakup, but Xiao Qiang dismissed her as a prank and told her he would join her if she jumped.
• After Xiao Qiang later found Nian Xiaoqian’s body, Lin Fan revealed that she had not sought revenge on him and had instead clouded her ex-boyfriend’s mind, turning him into a spirit who now kept her company.

Lin Fan explained how Xiao Qiang fell in love with Nian Xiaoqian through her diary, which had become a magical artifact, and why her spirit began haunting Xu Zhixin and the radio station’s floor manager. He told Xu Zhixin to take the floor manager to his shop for safety, but Xu Zhixin found Xiao Qiang in the manager’s bed and heard that Nian Xiaoqian was there.

• Lin Fan said Xiao Qiang visited Nian Xiaoqian’s mother, took Nian Xiaoqian’s diary, and gradually fell in love with her while reading it.
• Lin Fan revealed that yin energy had turned the diary into a magical artifact that intensified Xiao Qiang’s feelings after he had already become attached to Nian Xiaoqian.
• Lin Fan explained that Xiao Qiang saw Nian Xiaoqian’s spirit after using bull’s tears, and that she then decided to take Xu Zhixin and the radio station’s floor manager with him when he died.
• Lin Fan described how Nian Xiaoqian had begun appearing and calling into the late-night radio show, and told Xu Zhixin to bring the floor manager to his shop for protection.
• Xu Zhixin went to wake the floor manager, but found Xiao Qiang in the bed instead, and realized Nian Xiaoqian was there.

Lin Fan confronted Nian Xiaoqian through Xu Zhixin’s livestream and stopped her from killing Xu Zhixin and the Radio Station Operator. Nian Xiaoqian fled under Lin Fan’s Soul-Refining Rite but vowed to attack them when they were no longer under his protection.

• Lin Fan used the Soul-Deliverance Canon to reveal Nian Xiaoqian and restore Xu Zhixin’s perception of the room.
• Nian Xiaoqian argued that Xu Zhixin and the Radio Station Operator shared blame for her suicide and said Xiao Qiang wanted them to join him underground.
• Lin Fan warned Nian Xiaoqian to leave, while Xu Zhixin apologized and pleaded to live.
• When Nian Xiaoqian refused to go, Lin Fan recited a Daoist scripture that forced her to flee.
• Nian Xiaoqian vowed to kill Xu Zhixin and the Radio Station Operator once Lin Fan could no longer watch over them, while Xu Zhixin collapsed in fright.

Lin Fan warned Xu Zhixin that Nian Xiaoqian would return to kill him and Radio Station Operator, so the two men hurried to Lin Fan’s shop for refuge. Xu Zhixin entered because he had a connection to Lin Fan, but Radio Station Operator could not, leaving Lin Fan to open the shop’s magic array for him.

• Lin Fan told Xu Zhixin that Nian Xiaoqian would attack again after the livestream ended and would descend within half a month to preserve her chance at reincarnation.
• Xu Zhixin woke Radio Station Operator, explained the danger, and left with him for Lin Fan’s shop while Lin Fan tracked Nian Xiaoqian’s location.
• Xu Zhixin entered the shop, but Radio Station Operator repeatedly failed to cross its threshold because he lacked a strong enough connection to Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan opened a small gap in the shop’s magic array and told Radio Station Operator to enter quickly.

Lin Fan discovered that Su Jiaojiao’s cursed power was overwhelming her talismans and reinforced them before preparing to help Flexible Little Chubby change his fate. The next morning, Flexible Little Chubby completed Lin Fan’s instructions, and Lin Fan began calling other viewers while waiting until 11:30 to call him.

• Lin Fan arranged for Xu Zhixin and the Radio Station Operator to stay at his shop for half a month, while Nian Xiaoqian decided to watch the shop for a chance to attack them.
• Lin Fan ended his livestream early and found that cursed power was turning the talismans on Su Jiaojiao black.
• Lin Fan drew and attached around a hundred Evil-Suppressing Talismans to Su Jiaojiao, stopping them from immediately turning black.
• The next morning, Lin Fan started his livestream and confirmed that Flexible Little Chubby had clipped all his fingernails and toenails and wrapped his birth details in red paper.
• Lin Fan said he would call Flexible Little Chubby at 11:30 and sent a call invitation to another randomly selected viewer.

Lin Fan connected with Yao Meiwei and learned that her daughter, Yao Yu, had become disfigured by strange tattoos and shut herself away. After Yao Meiwei showed Yao Yu to the livestream, the viewers saw that the blood-red flower tattoos covering her body were bleeding.

• Lin Fan explained that Yao Meiwei had struggled to use her phone and connected with her after she tried to visit his shop.
• Yao Meiwei described how her daughter stayed locked in her room and revealed that Yao Yu was twenty-eight and disfigured by strange, bleeding tattoos.
• Yao Meiwei entered Yao Yu's dark room and pulled back the covers and curtains so Lin Fan and the viewers could see her.
• Yao Yu covered her face, rejected Lin Fan's help, and said she did not want anyone to see her.
• The viewers noticed that Yao Yu's blood-red flower tattoos were bleeding.

Lin Fan explained how Yao Yu’s tattoo resisted removal, returned with her skin, and spread across her body, leaving viewers wondering whether a spirit body was involved. Yao Yu admitted she did not know what was happening as the livestream discussion continued.

• Lin Fan told Yao Yu that her tattoo had been made with an ex-boyfriend and that its troubles began soon after she started dating someone new.
• Lin Fan recounted how doctors and a tattoo artist failed to remove the infected tattoo, and how Yao Yu’s boyfriends repeatedly broke up with her over it.
• Yao Yu scrubbed the tattoo away with steel wool thirteen times, but it returned whenever her skin grew back and spread across her face, arms, and torso.
• Yao Yu said she did not know what was happening while viewers speculated about the supernatural cause of her tattoo.

Lin Fan explained that Yao Yu’s bleeding tattoos housed the spirit of her former boyfriend, A Guai, whose obsessive love and resentment had been intensified by her broken promises. He offered to save her at the cost of her beauty and ability to experience true love, leaving Yao Yu to decide as the tattoos suddenly bloomed.

• Yao Yu recalled that she and A Guai had tattooed each other’s names and birth details and smeared blood on the designs as a promise to stay together forever.
• Lin Fan explained that their birth details, blood ritual, Yao Yu’s vows, and A Guai’s suicide had caused his spirit to dwell in her tattoo and grow angry when she found a new boyfriend.
• Yao Yu apologized to A Guai, but the flowers in her tattoos grew more vivid and began bleeding, while Yao Meiwei begged Lin Fan to save her daughter.
• Lin Fan said Yao Yu might have to bear the consequences of how she had treated A Guai, and Yao Yu admitted she had wronged him.
• Lin Fan offered to save Yao Yu if she accepted becoming less beautiful and never experiencing true love; as she weighed the choice, the tattooed flowers burst into bloom.

Lin Fan severed Yao Yu’s connection to the spirit body attached to her tattoo, making her lose her beauty and capacity for romantic love in order to survive. He then performed the Soul-Refining Rite, and the spirit body vanished, leaving Yao Yu relieved but devastated by her changed appearance.

• Lin Fan explained that forcing the spirit body out could make it kill Yao Yu, and she chose to live even if she lost her beauty and ability to love again.
• Lin Fan used a spell from the Wraith Codex to separate the spirit body from Yao Yu, while the tattoo faded and her appearance changed.
• After the tattoo nearly disappeared, Lin Fan saw Yao Yu’s former boyfriend’s spirit and told him he could reunite with her in the afterlife.
• Lin Fan performed the Soul-Refining Rite, and the spirit body vanished.
• Yao Yu felt the pressure lift, then looked in a mirror and cried over her altered appearance, though all her tattoos were gone.

Lin Fan cured Yao Yu’s tattoo Spirit Body, but warned that she had permanently lost the ability to love, then rested and resumed his livestream. He connected with Race Car Driver A Li, a Jiangzhou television postproduction worker and underground racer, while privately wondering why almost all his recent callers came from Jiangzhou.

• Lin Fan told Yao Yu that surviving had cost her the ability to love and ended the call with her and Yao Meiwei.
• Lin Fan rested, recovered his Spiritual Power, and sensed that he was close to breaking through to Middle Foundation Establishment.
• Lin Fan reminded Flexible Little Chubby to memorize the arrangements for their upcoming call, while Flexible Little Chubby struggled with his worsening memory.
• Lin Fan connected with Race Car Driver A Li and learned that A Li raced on underground circuits as a hobby while working in television postproduction with Xu Zhixin.
• Lin Fan explained that the many recent callers from Jiangzhou were a coincidence, then returned his attention to A Li after briefly worrying that something was wrong.

Lin Fan revealed that A Li had killed a woman in red by hitting her on Marriage Road and was now being targeted by her spirit body. A Li asked how he could survive, but Lin Fan had not yet answered.

• Lin Fan told A Li that he would die within three days unless he stayed home after getting an Evil-Warding Talisman, but Nian Xiaoqian was waiting outside the shop.
• Lin Fan said A Li's danger came from a woman whose death he had caused, rather than Nian Xiaoqian, and A Li denied knowing he had killed anyone.
• Lin Fan reminded A Li that he had hit a woman in red on Marriage Road last Wednesday and driven away without finding her.
• A Li recalled braking after seeing the woman, then searching for her and assuming she had been a spirit body because no one was reported missing or found dead.
• Lin Fan explained that the woman's body had landed in roadside bushes and that her spirit body was now full of resentment toward A Li.
• A Li asked what he should do, while viewers debated whether the spirit body could claim his life and whether A Li should face legal punishment.

Lin Fan revealed that Wang Xiaoguai had fled three men who tried to assault her before A Li struck her with his car, and that she might have survived if someone had searched for her. He left the decision of whether to kill A Li to Wang Xiaoguai, while hinting that the three men knew A Li.

• Han Bing advised Lin Fan to let Wang Xiaoguai decide A Li’s fate, and Lin Fan said A Li would face prison, madness, and lifelong torment if he lived.
• Wang Xiaoguai appeared beside A Li and confronted him, while Lin Fan discovered that she was one of his devoted livestream fans.
• Lin Fan revealed that three young men had tried to assault Wang Xiaoguai, who escaped onto the road before A Li hit her and drove away without checking the slope.
• Wang Xiaoguai became furious after learning she could have survived if someone had searched for her, and A Li said he would rather die than endure the punishment awaiting him.
• Lin Fan told Wang Xiaoguai she could kill A Li in three days and hinted that the three men who attacked her knew him, but A Li said he did not know who they were.

Lin Fan found a way to bring the three A-Sheng Brothers to justice without letting Wang Xiaoguai kill them, then left A Li’s fate to her. Wang Xiaoguai chose to spare A Li and planned to visit her parents before Lin Fan performed a ritual for her.

• A Li explained that the Three A-Sheng Brothers were his rivals and had arranged a private race with him three days later.
• Lin Fan learned that the police were trying to arrest the brothers and divined that they would avoid the race, changing their fates.
• Lin Fan discovered that the brothers had abducted, assaulted, and killed several people, and gave Jiangzhou Uncle Cop information to find one victim’s body.
• Lin Fan warned Wang Xiaoguai against killing anyone, and she agreed to let A Li live despite believing his future would be miserable.
• Lin Fan told Wang Xiaoguai to decide A Li’s fate and promised to perform a ritual for her in person; she chose to spare A Li.

Lin Fan ended the call with A Li after advising him to do good deeds, and the police arrested A Li and A Sheng with his two brothers. He then connected with security guard Zhuang Ran, who described a frightening incident at the Central Building, while viewers offered ordinary explanations for what had happened.

• Lin Fan told A Li that doing good deeds might change his fate, then ended the call.
• Jiangzhou police arrested A Sheng and his two brothers after finding bodies along the mountain road, and they took A Li into custody for killing Wang Xiaoguai.
• After resting, Lin Fan connected with Zhuang Ran and divined that the young man worked as a security guard at Pingzhou's Central Building.
• Zhuang Ran recounted how restroom doors and stalls had moved by themselves during a night shift, followed by a chilling gust that sent him and his coworkers fleeing.
• Zhuang Ran said they heard footsteps approaching after they reached the security office, while viewers including Boss Xiu suggested wind or faulty toilets might explain the incident.

Zhuang Ran described the frightening incidents he had encountered in Central Building, and Lin Fan revealed that the old cleaner was a harmless spirit who had died three days earlier. Lin Fan then connected Zhuang Ran’s impossible fourteenth-floor experience to his unknown father, who was the spirit haunting the building.

• Zhuang Ran recounted how the old cleaner warned him and his coworkers about spirits in Central Building, then appeared on the sixteenth floor without visible feet.
• Lin Fan explained that the cleaner had died of old age three days earlier and had returned as a spirit to warn Zhuang Ran about the building’s danger.
• Zhuang Ran described getting trapped on a nonexistent fourteenth floor, where a room with an empty rocking chair appeared before he escaped through the emergency stairs.
• Lin Fan pointed out that Zhuang Ran’s mother had reacted strangely to his story and revealed that she and Zhuang Ran’s two uncles had come to Central Building.
• Lin Fan told Zhuang Ran that the spirit in Central Building was probably his father, leaving Zhuang Ran stunned because he had never known who his father was.

Lin Fan revealed that Zhuang Ran's father had died when Zhuang Ran was three and that his spirit had lingered at the Central Building to apologize to his family. He began explaining that the apartment Zhuang Ran's family owned there had been bought to secure a future school district, leaving the reason for the family's painful estrangement unrevealed.

• Zhuang Ran went to the thirteenth floor and confronted his mother about his father's death and spirit.
• Zhuang Ran's mother admitted she had hidden the past because she feared Zhuang Ran would hate his father, then let Lin Fan explain.
• Lin Fan told Zhuang Ran that his father's spirit had remained at the building to apologize to him and his mother.
• Lin Fan revealed that the apartment belonged to Zhuang Ran's family and that his father had bought it when Zhuang Ran was three.
• Lin Fan explained that Zhuang Ran's father had scraped together money to buy the haunted apartment as a school-district home for his son.