Recaps

The guests explored the General's Mansion, where the black cat created a terrifying illusion of bloody hands emerging from the stone tablet for Jiang Haojie. Jiang Haojie dismissed the vision as a hallucination and took the cat back into his arms.

• Qi Gu held Lin Hanzhi's hand despite Lin Hanzhi insisting he had become braver.
• Jiang Haojie found the black cat at the mansion and carried it with him as Miao Yue suggested it could ward off evil.
• The black cat clouded Jiang Haojie's vision, and he saw bloody hands reach out from the stone tablet.
• Jiang Haojie screamed and threw the cat away, but it landed safely and dispelled the illusion.
• Qi Gu and the cameraman said they had seen nothing unusual, so Jiang Haojie blamed his strained nerves and picked up the cat again.

Qi Gu’s group encountered Fat Cat and a skeletal ghost in the General’s Mansion, then continued searching for the missing tourists. As they left the front assembly hall, the mansion’s eerie operatic singing began behind them.

• Fat Cat asked to join the crew, but Song An refused.
• Qi Gu revealed that Fat Cat’s quiet companion was a skeleton and used spiritual power to retrieve Fat Cat’s camera.
• Fat Cat thanked Qi Gu with a livestream tip and hurried out through the east side gate, where police were waiting to take him in for questioning.
• Qi Gu searched the front assembly hall and confirmed that no missing tourists were there.
• The eerie operatic singing began behind Qi Gu as he was leaving the hall.

Qi Gu and the others discovered that three missing tourists had been forced to perform as opera puppets in the General’s Mansion. After Qi Gu cleared the ghostly energy from them, one woke and revealed that a ghost had carried the students from their dorm back to the mansion.

• Three costumed performers appeared behind a screen and acted out Mo Zhou’s farewell to his mother while Qi Gu protected the crew.
• Lin Hanzhi spotted the performers’ modern shoes, and Qi Gu and Miao Yue pulled off their costumes to reveal three male tourists.
• Qi Gu checked the men and removed the ghostly energy from their bodies, waking the fashionably dressed student first.
• The student said he and his roommates had returned to their dorm, and Miao Yue explained that a ghost had carried them back to the General’s Mansion.
• Qi Gu told the student to wake his roommates, leaving him confused by the others’ claims that he had missed a television appearance.

Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi took in three college students who had blacked out, then continued exploring the General's Mansion. At the stable, Jiang Haojie’s cruelty toward animals surfaced as the Cat Ghost prepared to trap him in another hallucination.

• Lin Hanzhi offered to guide the three college students and send them out if they showed no problems, and Qi Gu agreed.
• Qi Gu learned that the students had not visited the artificial hill, so he concluded that entering it was not why the Opera Ghost selected people.
• The students ignored Jiang Haojie and crowded around the Cat Ghost, then joined Pubu Gesang and Mu Xingchen at the kids' table.
• Qi Gu's group explored the main hall and learned about Mo Zhou's faithful horse, Chasing Clouds, before continuing toward the stable.
• Jiang Haojie recalled abusing animals and killing a rabbit for a film, while the Cat Ghost stroked by him began weaving his next hallucination.

At the reconstructed stable, Jiang Haojie hallucinated a warhorse and brutally tortured it, then suffered the same abuse at the hands of an imagined version of himself. He woke to the production team’s staff and realized the horse and his attacker had been hallucinations, but the pain and a loose tooth were real.

• Jiang Haojie imagined a proud warhorse in the stable and tied it up while the others watched him handle empty air.
• Jiang Haojie beat and tortured the imaginary horse with stable tools, then raised a stone to strike its head.
• Jiang Haojie found himself facing an imagined version of himself, who tied him up and inflicted the same brutal treatment on him.
• Jiang Haojie woke when a staff member from the Explore the Supernatural Production Team checked on him, but his injuries and pain remained.

Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi led Jiang Haojie to another stable, where the Opera Ghost showed the childhood romance between Mo Zhou and Zeng Qinghuan. After Qi Gu freed two possessed tourists, they joined the group but nervously declined the trendy guy’s invitation.

• Jiang Haojie accused Qi Gu of letting him suffer, but Qi Gu denied that there had been a ghost in the stable.
• Despite his unexplained pain, Jiang Haojie went with the group to the stable on the right to help rescue more tourists.
• The Opera Ghost revealed Mo Zhou and Zeng Qinghuan as childhood sweethearts who had shared a brief, happy moment with the horse Chasing Clouds.
• Miao Yue removed the girls’ costumes, and Qi Gu dispelled the ghostly energy inside them.
• The two girls introduced themselves as best friends on vacation, then shyly declined the trendy guy’s invitation to join the group.

Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu found Steward Yi inside the General's Mansion after following sticky-note maps he had left to help people escape. Steward Yi joined them, and his eagerness to impress Qi Gu unsettled Jing Ping watching the livestream.

• The group found panda-shaped sticky notes with a crude map of the General's Mansion and realized someone else might be inside.
• Lin Hanzhi called Anonymous Butler No. 2, learned he was at the General's Mansion, and asked him to meet them without revealing his connections to Pubu Gesang and Miao Yue.
• Steward Yi arrived and communicated with the group using sticky notes, while Lin Hanzhi explained his past and Qi Gu told the crew not to film him.
• Steward Yi explained that he had escaped his room and stayed to leave directions in case others needed help getting out.
• Steward Yi enthusiastically asked Qi Gu about his service, prompting Jing Ping to resent his efforts to impress him.

Qi Gu, Lin Hanzhi, and the others explored Mo Zhou’s General’s Mansion while the Cat Ghost tormented Jiang Haojie for his cruelty toward animals. The visit ended with Qi Gu inviting Lin Hanzhi to Osmanthus Garden, and Lin Hanzhi eagerly accepted.

• Steward Yi joined Qi Gu and the socially anxious girls as they found six people, and Lin Hanzhi offered Qi Gu an orange Sucking Jelly.
• Jiang Haojie mocked Qi Gu for eating, but Lin Hanzhi challenged him, and the Cat Ghost caused Jiang Haojie sudden pain.
• Qi Gu led the group toward Mo Zhou’s parents’ main house and mentioned the golden osmanthus tree he remembered from the courtyard.
• Lin Hanzhi mused about planting the tree at home, and Qi Gu suggested they choose a peach tree together at the Flower and Bird Market.
• The group found the osmanthus tree had not yet bloomed, so Qi Gu invited Lin Hanzhi to Osmanthus Garden next time, and Lin Hanzhi happily agreed.

Qi Gu and the group encountered a despondent ghost in the General's Mansion after Jiang Haojie photographed its shadow outside a window. Qi Gu rescued Jiang Haojie from being dragged away, but the ghost remained a threat as the group learned what its touch could do.

• Jiang Haojie photographed a shadowy figure outside the window, though nothing was visible when he looked up.
• Qi Gu told everyone to move away from the window, and Jiang Haojie revealed the ghost had appeared in his photos.
• The despondent ghost emerged through a second, hidden window and touched Jiang Haojie, leaving him too weak to resist.
• Qi Gu struck the ghost with spiritual light and knocked it away before it could drag Jiang Haojie out.
• Qi Gu explained that the despondent ghost drained people's strength and fighting spirit, and could steal their will to live if it dragged them away.

Qi Gu sent the crew and rescued tourists toward the east gate while he, Lin Hanzhi, and Mu Xingchen stayed behind. Miao Yue’s group encountered and captured a half-bodied old woman, then exposed Jiang Haojie’s animal abuse to the livestream audience as evidence against him began trending online.

• Qi Gu agreed to have Miao Yue and Pubu Gesang escort the crew and tourists out while Mu Xingchen carried the equipment and Jiang Haojie was taken along with the Cat Ghost.
• Miao Yue led the group toward the east gate, where they heard an old woman’s cane tapping in the darkness.
• Miao Yue warned the group not to approach the old woman, then slashed at her when she turned and revealed that she was only half a body.
• Miao Yue knocked the half-bodied ghost down, captured her in a Purple-Gold Gourd, and led everyone out through the east gate.
• At the gate, Miao Yue told the livestream audience that Jiang Haojie had tortured animals, as the Cat Ghost’s blogger released gathered evidence online.

The Cat Ghost used what it learned from a mother and daughter at an internet café to help a former reporter expose Jiang Haojie's animal abuse and fraud. With evidence spreading online and sent to the police, Jiang Haojie faced public outrage, while netizens praised the black cat that had thwarted him.

• The Cat Ghost watched a middle-aged woman learn office software at an internet café and picked up computer skills and knowledge of social platforms from her and her daughter.
• The Cat Ghost used an old computer to contact a rights-focused blogger and gave him detailed information about Jiang Haojie's animal abuse, group chat, and Foundation.
• The blogger infiltrated Jiang Haojie's Foundation and group chat, then identified Jiang Haojie from a wrist wound visible in a kitten-torture video.
• The blogger published evidence linking Jiang Haojie to animal abuse and Foundation fraud, and gave financial evidence to the police.
• Netizens uncovered more evidence, flooded Jiang Haojie's Weibo with accusations, and thanked the black cat for helping it escape.

Jiang Haojie was punished for animal abuse and fraud, both by the law and by the Cat Ghost, which trapped him in a nightmare of the suffering he had inflicted. Months later, his accomplices were exposed, the surviving animals were adopted, and the Cat Ghost continued visiting him in prison.

• Jiang Haojie's fans confronted him, and one fan beat him before calling the police and an ambulance.
• At the hospital, Jiang Haojie insisted he was gravely injured, but officers told him his injuries were minor and questioned him about misused Foundation funds and animal abuse videos.
• The Cat Ghost appeared in Jiang Haojie's ward and trapped him in an illusion where he suffered the tortures he had inflicted on animals.
• Months later, Jiang Haojie was imprisoned for misappropriating public funds and producing and distributing illegal videos, while the rest of the group was caught and the surviving animals were adopted.
• The Cat Ghost visited Jiang Haojie in prison and continued making him repay his cruelty, leaving its soft meow as his nightly nightmare.

Miao Yue and Pubu Gesang pursued a half an old woman while Qi Gu waited outside the Main House with Lin Hanzhi and Mu Xingchen. Qi Gu blushed after leaning against Lin Hanzhi, and Mu Xingchen mistook it for an allergic reaction before Qi Gu distracted him with a memorization task.

• Miao Yue carried Pubu Gesang through the Corridor, where they encountered a half an old woman pursuing them.
• Miao Yue cut the ghost into a quarter of an old woman and stored it in the Mini Purple-Gold Gourd.
• Outside the Main House, Qi Gu nearly sat on an antique Grandmaster's Chair and instead fell into Lin Hanzhi's arms.
• Qi Gu recalled Lin Hanzhi's muscles and grew red-faced while Lin Hanzhi held him close.
• Mu Xingchen worried that Qi Gu was allergic to Lin Hanzhi's Seahorse-Hair Sweater, so Qi Gu told him to recite a passage while they waited for Miao Yue and the others.

Qi Gu and the others encountered another half-bodied ghost at the General's Mansion, while Lin Hanzhi revealed startling strength by kicking the Despondent Ghost into a stream. Qi Gu remained convinced Lin Hanzhi was frail and scolded him for the risky move, leaving Mu Xingchen baffled.

• Miao Yue arrived carrying Pubu Gesang and dragging a half-bodied male ghost, which Qi Gu admitted he had never seen before and sealed in his Purple-Gold Gourd.
• A black hand reached toward Qi Gu, and Lin Hanzhi kicked the Despondent Ghost through a window and into the ornamental stream.
• Qi Gu worried that Lin Hanzhi had hurt his leg, while Miao Yue and Pubu Gesang struggled to hide their reactions to his strength.
• Lin Hanzhi hinted that he was stronger than ordinary people, but Qi Gu credited the Incense Pouch with protecting him and warned him not to kick a Despondent Ghost again.
• Lin Hanzhi promised not to kick that kind of ghost next time, and Mu Xingchen silently wondered how Qi Gu could still see him as helpless.

Qi Gu and the others found evidence that one ghost was harming tourists while the Opera Ghost protected them, and they realized another stage revealed the Actor’s Wife, Zeng Qinghuan, had returned home disguised as Mo Zhou. The chapter ended with viewers questioning whether Zeng Qinghuan could truly have impersonated a celebrated general.

• Miao Yue captured a Despondent Ghost and explained that the half-ghosts had incomplete souls and attacked without consciousness.
• Qi Gu concluded that two powerful ghosts had affected the tourists: one captured them, while the Opera Ghost intervened to save them.
• Qi Gu and his companions corrected the count of tourists still trapped in the General’s Mansion and determined that seven remained.
• The Opera Ghost abruptly staged a scene of Mo Zhou returning home to Mother Mo, with the actors hurriedly dressed and the dialogue sounding like a farewell.
• Qi Gu deduced that Zeng Qinghuan had impersonated Mo Zhou after something happened to him, and explained how Mother Mo’s questions about Chasing Clouds tested the disguise.
• Viewers questioned whether an actor could convincingly pass as a general, given the demands of Mo Zhou’s role and the differences in their appearance.

Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi deduced that the trapped Opera Ghost had been protecting tourists from another ghost and headed toward the artificial hill to find it. Along the way, Qi Gu used the injured Despondent Ghost to train Mu Xingchen, who eventually managed to hurt it with his spiritual light.

• Qi Gu dispelled the ghostly energy in seven unconscious tourists and learned that entering the artificial hill had not been required for them to be chosen.
• Lin Hanzhi explained how the Opera Ghost had used the artificial hill and its skeleton assistant to protect tourists, and he and Qi Gu concluded that the Opera Ghost was trapped inside the hill.
• Miao Yue and Pubu Gesang carried the rescued tourists away while Qi Gu, Lin Hanzhi, and Mu Xingchen headed for the artificial hill.
• Qi Gu subdued the Despondent Ghost and gave Mu Xingchen the chance to practice against it.
• Mu Xingchen gradually strengthened his spiritual light enough to make the Despondent Ghost shudder, and Lin Hanzhi persuaded Qi Gu to let him stop for the day.

Qi Gu freed Zeng Qinghuan from the formation inside the General's Mansion's artificial hill and introduced him to the modern world, where the livestream viewers learned that the Opera Ghost was a man. Zeng Qinghuan's memories revealed his childhood bond with Mo Zhou, the destruction of his family, and his years in an opera troupe, ending with Mo Zhou preparing to leave for the northern frontier.

• Qi Gu entered the artificial hill alone, weakened the formation with his tongue-tip blood, and helped Zeng Qinghuan crawl out.
• Qi Gu explained the camera, livestream, and modern history to Zeng Qinghuan, who was stunned by how much the world had changed.
• Zeng Qinghuan recalled growing up with Mo Zhou and how both children had resolved to become generals after witnessing wounded soldiers return from war.
• The Empress Dowager's birthday test led to Zeng Qinghuan's father being executed and the Zeng household being enslaved, while Mo Zhou secretly brought Zeng Qinghuan supplies.
• Years later, Mo Zhou told Zeng Qinghuan he was leaving for the northern frontier, and Zeng Qinghuan offered to sing for him in costume as a farewell gift.

Mo Zhou and Zeng Qinghuan reunited, confessed their love, and built a life together while serving as military partners. After Mo Zhou died from a poisoned arrow, Zeng Qinghuan assumed his identity, won the war, and returned to the capital to carry out their shared hopes for peace.

• Mo Zhou realized he loved Zeng Qinghuan while serving in the northern campaign, then reunited with her after three years and learned she had kissed him first.
• Mo Zhou and Zeng Qinghuan arranged for her to take the identity of a deceased woman, married, and later rode north together so she could serve as his military adviser.
• Mo Zhou rose to become a powerful general and secured the Little Emperor's promise to clear the Zeng family's name and restore Zeng Qinghuan's recognition.
• A poisoned arrow mortally wounded Mo Zhou, and he asked Zeng Qinghuan to disguise herself as him and protect the army until she could reclaim her identity.
• Zeng Qinghuan assumed Mo Zhou's identity, won the campaign, and returned to the General's Mansion, where Mother Mo embraced her and mourned Mo Zhou.

After Zeng Qinghuan died, she learned the Regent Prince and Empress Dowager were hunting Mo Zhou’s soul, so she fought the Underworld Constables and trapped herself with them in a magical artifact to protect him. A thousand years later, the artifact was opened and the two enemies overpowered her, then began searching for Mo Zhou’s reincarnation to end their curse.

• The Regent Prince and Empress Dowager’s covert guard forced poisoned wine down Zeng Qinghuan’s throat, and she died thinking of Mo Zhou.
• As a lingering soul, Zeng Qinghuan overheard that the Regent Prince and Empress Dowager had become evil ghosts and were seeking Mo Zhou to take revenge.
• Zeng Qinghuan resisted the Underworld Constables, defeated them, and fought the two evil ghosts at Fallen Phoenix Slope.
• A hermit sealed Zeng Qinghuan, the Regent Prince, and the Empress Dowager inside a magical artifact hidden in the General’s Mansion’s artificial hill.
• For a thousand years, Zeng Qinghuan and her enemies remained trapped together until a tourist dropped a blue-green bone into the artifact, empowering the Regent Prince and Empress Dowager.
• The Regent Prince and Empress Dowager broke the seal, imprisoned Zeng Qinghuan again, and searched for Mo Zhou’s reincarnation so they could escape the torment of their oath.

After Zeng Qinghuan revealed the truth about her life with Mo Zhou, Qi Gu tried to draw out the ghosts searching for Mo Zhou’s reincarnation. He tricked one of their half-ghost underlings into reporting Mo Zhou’s name, then waited with Lin Hanzhi and Zeng Qinghuan.

• Viewers reacted to Zeng Qinghuan’s story, and the hashtags about Mo Zhou and Zeng Qinghuan trended online.
• Qi Gu asked Zeng Qinghuan if she could find the two powerful ghosts, and she explained that they had left to search for Mo Zhou’s reincarnation.
• Qi Gu claimed to know where Mo Zhou was, but the ghosts were too far behind the times to receive information through the livestream.
• At Zeng Qinghuan’s suggestion, Qi Gu released a half-ghost from his Gourd and repeated that he knew Mo Zhou’s whereabouts.
• The half-ghost reported Mo Zhou’s name to its superiors, while Lin Hanzhi shared snacks with Qi Gu and Zeng Qinghuan.
• Zeng Qinghuan watched Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi share food and told them they were deeply in love.

After Zeng Qinghuan suggested that Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi were a couple, Qi Gu recognized that he liked Lin Hanzhi and decided to think carefully about his feelings before acting. He tried to return his attention to finding Mo Zhou, though he was eager to leave and reflect in private.

• Zeng Qinghuan said Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi seemed to be in love, and Qi Gu blushed and struggled to respond.
• Miao Yue encouraged the idea that Qi Gu treated Lin Hanzhi differently, while Mu Xingchen insisted they were only good friends.
• Qi Gu realized his unusual reactions and willingness to spend time with Lin Hanzhi meant that he liked him.
• Qi Gu decided to consider his feelings seriously after returning to his lodgings, wanting to be responsible toward Lin Hanzhi.
• Qi Gu impatiently tipped out another blind-box ghost and said he knew where Mo Zhou was.

Lin Hanzhi’s damaged arm began to hurt, and Qi Gu immediately caught him and gently massaged it. As Qi Gu realized how differently he treated Lin Hanzhi, he abruptly told him not to talk, leaving Lin Hanzhi confused.

• Lin Hanzhi’s damaged arm started hurting, and Qi Gu noticed his gasp and grabbed his wrist.
• Lin Hanzhi asked Qi Gu to massage his arm, and Qi Gu gently pressed it while urging him to book a medical appointment.
• Miao Yue stopped Pubu Gesang from booking an appointment, while Zeng Qinghuan and the others watched Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi.
• Lin Hanzhi asked Qi Gu to hold his warm hand against his arm instead, and Qi Gu kept it there as the pain eased.
• Qi Gu realized that he treated Lin Hanzhi differently from everyone else and suddenly told him not to talk.

Qi Gu reassured Lin Hanzhi, then offered to use his Underworld connections to help Zeng Qinghuan find her reincarnated old friend, Mo Zhou. He left the viewers with a warning that paranormal games could damage their luck and finances.

• Qi Gu apologized for snapping at Lin Hanzhi, who happily took his concern as proof that Qi Gu cared about him.
• Zeng Qinghuan mourned not knowing where Mo Zhou had been reborn, and Mu Xingchen offered to take her to a shrine that might help her see old friends.
• Qi Gu said he could ask a ghost officer to help Zeng Qinghuan, revealing that he knew someone in the Underworld.
• Lin Hanzhi redirected questions about Qi Gu's master, and Qi Gu warned viewers against obsessing over paranormal topics or playing summoning games.
• Qi Gu explained that games such as Pen Fairy, Dish Fairy, and the Four-Corners Game could harm a person's luck, prompting viewers to worry about their lost fortune.

Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu prepared for the half-ghost chief’s return, and the Empress Dowager and Regent Prince appeared fused together as one grotesque ghost. Their past revealed how ambition and an evil ritual bound them together and left them seeking to kill Mo Zhou.

• Lin Hanzhi smiled at Qi Gu, who blushed and glared at him while viewers teased them online.
• Dark clouds gathered, and Qi Gu pushed Mu Xingchen and Lin Hanzhi into the artificial hill to hide as the half-ghost chief approached.
• Zeng Qinghuan warned the viewers before flashlights revealed the half-ghost chief as the fused Empress Dowager and Regent Prince.
• The Empress Dowager’s past showed how she married the late emperor, pursued power, and grew to despise the Regent Prince.
• The Empress Dowager and Regent Prince performed an evil ritual that fused them and condemned them to punishment unless they killed Mo Zhou, only to discover Mo Zhou was a fake and his wife had been the one they sought.

Zeng Qinghuan, Miao Yue, and Pubu Gesang fought the fused Empress Dowager and Regent Prince while Qi Gu prepared a ritual to undo their fusion. Qi Gu separated the ghosts and took the Glazed Bone, leaving them weakened and struggling in their original forms.

• The Empress Dowager and Regent Prince confronted Zeng Qinghuan, their minds increasingly deranged after centuries of fusion.
• Zeng Qinghuan drew the sword Mo Zhou had forged for her, and she, Miao Yue, and Pubu Gesang engaged the ghosts while Lin Hanzhi secretly used Bone Blades to restrain them.
• Qi Gu prepared a dispelling ritual as the Bone Blades wounded the ghosts and kept them from escaping.
• Qi Gu cast a Reverse-Written Talisman onto the fused mass, breaking the evil spell while Miao Yue and Zeng Qinghuan held it in place.
• The two ghosts separated but fought over the Glazed Bone, which Qi Gu easily took from their weakened hands.