Chapter Summaries

Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi uncovered the truth about the Sea Lord and used talismans to extract the six children's remains from beneath the Sea Lord Temple. The temple remained standing, but the group had little time to help the ghosts identify their bones.

• Qi Gu led the group to the Sea Lord Temple and explained that the remains were now protecting the Sea Lord rather than restraining it.
• Qi Gu revealed that the entire island was the Sea Lord's true body and that the red coral was a decoy.
• Qi Gu and the others placed talismans at the children's burial sites, forming a hexagonal pattern that lifted their remains from the ground.
• The six ghosts followed Qi Gu to their bones, and Lin Hanzhi asked whether they could recognize their own remains.
• The temple steadied after the remains were removed, and Lin Hanzhi warned the ghosts that their time was limited.

Qi Gu destroyed Sea Lord Island from a helicopter after the group gathered and replaced the children’s remains, but the effort left him weakened. Lin Hanzhi jumped from the helicopter to inspect the ruins while Miao Yue stayed to care for Qi Gu.

• Lin Hanzhi, Qi Gu, Miao Yue, Pubu Gesang, and Mu Xingchen gathered the remains and packed them into a sack.
• A helicopter arrived, and the group boarded as the familiar fisherman took the sack and piloted them away from Sea Lord Island.
• Qi Gu asked the pilot to climb high while the six talismans lit up and Sea Lord Island began to shake.
• Qi Gu unleashed a burst of white light that destroyed Sea Lord Island, leaving him weakened and bleeding as Lin Hanzhi caught him.
• Lin Hanzhi told Miao Yue to care for Qi Gu, then leaped from the helicopter to check the ruins.

Lin Hanzhi searched the ruins of Sea Lord Island and confirmed the Sea Lord was dead, while Qi Gu waited for him to return. Lin Hanzhi recognized two locations on Wang Shi’s mysterious map, and a pulsing green dot appeared on the assembled glazed bone.

• Miao Yue offered to send the six little ghosts to the Underworld, but Qi Gu claimed he was tired so he could wait for Lin Hanzhi.
• Mu Xingchen offered to summon a ghost, but Qi Gu asked him to recite the Summoning Yin Text, which he had not learned yet.
• Lin Hanzhi searched the seabed around Sea Lord Island, found a large piece of glazed bone, and confirmed the Sea Lord had been destroyed.
• Lin Hanzhi realized that two dots on Wang Shi’s map likely marked the Sea Lord Temple and the Riverbed, and planned to compare the remaining dots with a map of Huaguo.
• Lin Hanzhi returned to the helicopter and gave the glazed bone to Qi Gu, who fitted it to his fragment and saw a pulsing green dot appear.

Qi Gu summoned the Underworld Constable to take custody of six rescued child souls and the Four-Claws, while Lin Hanzhi recognized the Glazed Bone’s final signal. The ghost official arrived, scrutinized Lin Hanzhi like a prospective son-in-law, and was quickly sent back to the Underworld.

• Lin Hanzhi told Qi Gu that he thought he knew what place the Glazed Bone’s bright dot represented.
• Qi Gu summoned the Underworld Constable after Lin Hanzhi agreed to let him meet his shifu.
• The ghost official arrived and silently appraised Lin Hanzhi, imagining their future wedding and banquet.
• Qi Gu explained that the six child souls had been rescued from the Sea Lord Temple and asked the ghost official to imprison the Four-Claws.
• The ghost official took the souls and Four-Claws to the Underworld, and Qi Gu promptly saw him off.

After the six children's remains were gathered, Qi Gu agreed to accompany Lin Hanzhi to find the Spirit Medium the next day. They checked into a sea-view hotel room together, where Qi Gu became flustered by the intimate setup and wondered what he might see while Lin Hanzhi bathed.

• Qi Gu and the others placed the six children's remains in black cloth bags, and Lin Hanzhi said they would be buried behind a rebuilt Seven Righteous Ones Temple.
• Miao Yue took Mu Xingchen and Pubu Gesang to get seafood while Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi stayed behind, and she ended the livestream.
• Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi were dropped off at the pier and rode to a hotel together.
• At reception, Lin Hanzhi confirmed they would take one room, and the receptionist handed them a key card for a sea-view room.
• Lin Hanzhi chose the bathtub while Qi Gu took the shower, and Qi Gu wondered if he would see Lin Hanzhi when he finished washing.

Qi Gu struggled to resist Lin Hanzhi’s teasing while they bathed, but eventually touched his chest and fell into the tub with him. Lin Hanzhi held Qi Gu close and asked permission to touch his inner thigh, leaving Qi Gu to decide how to respond.

• Qi Gu lowered the shower temperature and waited while Lin Hanzhi took a bath, as Lin teased him about looking at his figure.
• Lin Hanzhi persuaded Qi Gu to leave the shower and touch his chest, and Qi Gu tentatively pressed his fingertips against his pecs.
• Qi Gu slipped on the bath mat and fell against Lin Hanzhi, then accidentally touched him while trying to get up.
• Lin Hanzhi pulled Qi Gu back against his chest and asked him to help, trailing his fingers to Qi Gu’s inner thigh before asking, “May I?”

Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi spent an intimate afternoon together at a hotel, then ordered local specialties and shared a romantic meal. The chapter ended with them feeding each other and enjoying their time as a couple.

• Lin Hanzhi coaxed Qi Gu into continuing their intimacy in the bathtub, then washed him and helped him settle into bed.
• Lin Hanzhi offered to buy medicine for Qi Gu’s scraped knees, and Qi Gu asked him to order takeout as well.
• While they waited for the food, Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi cuddled close and talked about the bureau and their past experiences.
• Lin Hanzhi applied ointment to Qi Gu’s knees and collected their deliveries from the hotel front desk.
• Qi Gu enjoyed the beef rice noodles and shared a bite with Lin Hanzhi, resisting his flirtation so they could eat while the food was hot.
• Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi ate seafood and local dishes together, with Qi Gu feeding Lin Hanzhi and both savoring their affectionate meal.

Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi shared a quiet, affectionate night before their planned visit to the Spirit Medium, which Lin Hanzhi dreaded. The chapter ended with Lin Hanzhi waking to find Qi Gu asleep in his arms and feeling more alive and fulfilled than ever.

• Lin Hanzhi gently rubbed Qi Gu's belly after dinner, and the two spent hours leaning together without discussing the next day's visit to the Spirit Medium.
• Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi washed up together, kissed, and fell asleep embracing after exchanging tender good-night kisses.
• Lin Hanzhi woke and held Qi Gu closer, then noticed that Qi Gu had nestled against him while still asleep.
• Lin Hanzhi watched Qi Gu sleep and felt that their love had made him feel truly alive before drifting back to sleep.

Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu visited the home of a Spirit Medium who had foreseen their arrival and left them a letter about the Lin family’s search for eight Yin Lands. The letter named several places they knew and five unfamiliar locations, leaving them to investigate what the Lin family had been preparing for.

• Qi Gu asked whether they would stay at Floating Mist Temple or go to Lin Hanzhi’s home when they returned to Z Province, and Lin Hanzhi chose his family home.
• Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu walked through the cold rain to the Spirit Medium’s house, where Qi Gu encouraged Lin Hanzhi to face the visit together.
• The Spirit Medium’s great-granddaughter gave them a letter her great-grandmother had left for their arrival.
• Lin Hanzhi read that the Lin family had asked the Spirit Medium to divine the locations of eight Yin Lands more than thirty years earlier.
• Lin Hanzhi recognized the General's Mansion, the Sea Lord Temple, and No River among the locations, while the other five seemed unlike Yin Lands and required further investigation.

Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu visited Lin Hanzhi’s father’s photograph, and Qi Gu reassured him as they grew closer on the rainy walk back. Later, they returned to Z Province and traveled with their friends to Fang Yuanwang’s wedding banquet, where the chapter left them discussing the event.

• Lin Hanzhi found a photograph of his father among Spirit Medium Ma’s belongings, and Qi Gu suggested they pay their respects.
• Lin Hanzhi introduced Qi Gu to his father, and Qi Gu burned offerings with Spiritual Fire before the photograph.
• Qi Gu held Lin Hanzhi’s hand and comforted him as they walked through the rain, then they embraced beneath the umbrella.
• Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu returned to Z Province and visited the Lin family’s ancestral hall with the elders.
• Lin Hanzhi, Qi Gu, Mu Xingchen, Miao Yue, and Pubu Gesang traveled to Fang Yuanwang’s wedding banquet, while Weasel declined the invitation because of his fried chicken business.
• Mu Xingchen, Pubu Gesang, and Miao Yue chatted about Fang Yuanwang’s quick marriage, wedding candy, and the venue during the ride.

Forum users discussed Fang Yuanwang’s wedding and grew suspicious that Bai Yu had taken the bride’s place. The bride’s roommate found her phone unreachable and planned to contact her father, leaving the bride’s fate unknown.

• Forum users speculated that Fang Yuanwang was marrying a gentle, beautiful woman from an ordinary family.
• The bride’s college roommate said the bride had lost her ID and bank cards before a flight, then claimed she had boarded even though she had missed it.
• The roommate shared a hotel photo showing jasmine flowers, prompting users to connect the bride’s whereabouts to Bai Yu’s association with jasmine.
• Forum users noticed the bride’s account of meeting Fang Yuanwang on the plane contradicted the roommate’s account that she had stayed at a hotel.
• The roommate called the bride, found her phone unreachable, and decided to search for her father’s number and contact him.

Wang Miaomiao grew alarmed after speaking to Ma Shu’s father, and Qi Gu’s group attended Fang Yuanwang’s wedding to investigate the bride. Qi Gu suspected Ma Shu was a puppet sent by Bai Yu after fresh cinnabar stained his fingers but left hers clean.

• Wang Miaomiao called Ma Shu’s father, heard Ma Shu speak in an unfamiliar, assured voice, and reported the call to the forum.
• Forum users discussed the bride’s strange behavior and messaged people who might attend the wedding.
• Pubu Gesang, Qi Gu, and his companions arrived at Fang Yuanwang’s wedding reception and met Ma Shu and her parents.
• Qi Gu gave Ma Shu Evil-Repelling Talismans, which she accepted without any visible reaction, then gave Fang Yuanwang a separate talisman to carry.
• Miao Yue asked why the talismans had not reacted, and Qi Gu explained that Bai Yu was human and pointed out that cinnabar stained his fingertips but not Ma Shu’s.

Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu told Fang Heng that Ma Shu was a puppet controlled by Bai Yu and watched the wedding to learn when Bai Yu would appear. Bai Yu did not show up during the ceremony, and Ma Shu’s parents were forced to confront their fear that the woman before them was not their daughter.

• Lin Hanzhi warned Fang Heng that Ma Shu was Bai Yu’s puppet, and Qi Gu confirmed it with complete certainty.
• Fang Heng recalled suspicious details about Ma Shu and her parents, realizing Bai Yu had exposed flaws in her imitation.
• Qi Gu discovered that Ma Shu was still a puppet at the wedding and guessed Bai Yu would appear when Fang Yuanwang consummated the marriage.
• Qi Gu asked for a room beside the newlyweds’ and continued eating as Fang Yuanwang and Ma Shu began their wedding toasts.
• Fang Heng questioned Ma Shu’s parents, and they broke down as they acknowledged the changes in their daughter that they had tried to deny.

Qi Gu told Ma Shu’s parents that her soul was still trapped in her body while Bai Yu controlled it, and explained how Bai Yu had engineered Ma Shu’s ordeal. The chapter ended with Ma Shu remembering how Bai Yu stole her identity and began her nightmare.

• Ma Shu’s parents told Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi about the unsettling changes in their daughter, and Qi Gu said Ma Shu’s soul was separated from her body but had not disappeared.
• Qi Gu explained that Bai Yu kept Ma Shu alive to torment her and her parents, and Ma Shu’s mother recalled that Ma Shu had planned to confess to a university crush before returning home changed.
• The chapter flashed back to Ma Shu’s trip to confess: Bai Yu bumped into her at the airport, stole her ID and ticket, and arranged for Ma Shu to lose consciousness at a hotel.
• Ma Shu woke at her intended destination beside Fang Yuanwang, unable to control her body as Bai Yu pretended to be her and invited him to dinner.
• Ma Shu realized Bai Yu had stolen her body and imprisoned her soul, and remembered Bai Yu deciding not to scatter her soul yet.

Ma Shu recounted how Bai Yu took over her body and forced her to reassure her worried mother while secretly suffering. On their wedding night, Fang Yuanwang discovered that Master Qi’s talisman had transferred to his chest, while “Ma Shu” waited outside the bathroom.

• Bai Yu revealed to Ma Shu that she had stolen her body and could let Ma Shu take control only when she chose.
• Bai Yu let Ma Shu speak briefly with her mother, and Ma Shu convinced her mother that she was really herself by acting out a familiar habit.
• Bai Yu repeatedly let Ma Shu control her body to manipulate her family and watched her suffer.
• After the wedding feast, Fang Heng sent Fang Yuanwang and Ma Shu to their bridal suite while he and Ma Shu’s parents waited for Master Qi’s intervention.
• Fang Yuanwang found that the cinnabar characters from Master Qi’s talisman had transferred onto his chest and kept the mark dry as “Ma Shu” waited outside the bathroom.

Bai Yu revealed herself as an impostor, seized Fang Yuanwang, and escaped the Wedding Chamber using a prepared puppet. Qi Gu pursued her with a tracking talisman, but it vanished when he came within a little over a hundred meters of her.

• Bai Yu entered the room disguised as Ma Shu and hid the real Ma Shu in the wardrobe while Fang Yuanwang bathed.
• Bai Yu exposed Fang Yuanwang's talisman, seized him, and tried to escape through the window, but Qi Gu and the others trapped them behind barriers.
• Bai Yu switched places with a wooden puppet and escaped, while Miao Yue found the unconscious real Ma Shu in the wardrobe.
• Qi Gu marked Ma Shu's brow to protect her and led the others after Bai Yu using a tracking talisman.
• Bai Yu scraped the tracking talisman from her palm by tearing away flesh, and Qi Gu's guiding arrow vanished as he approached her.

Lin Hanzhi, Qi Gu, and their companions cornered Bai Yu, who tried to destroy a piece of glazed bone rather than be captured. A secrecy spell killed her when she began revealing Cunning Ghost’s plans, leaving the group with the clue “river” and no way to question her further.

• Mu Xingchen spotted Bai Yu in an alley, and she attacked him with black energy before fleeing.
• Lin Hanzhi, Qi Gu, Miao Yue, Pubu Gesang, and the others surrounded Bai Yu at an intersection.
• Bai Yu offered information about Cunning Ghost in exchange for her freedom, but Lin Hanzhi refused and prepared to take her to the Anomalous Affairs Bureau.
• Bai Yu tried to crush a piece of glazed bone, but Lin Hanzhi stopped her and Pubu Gesang picked it up.
• Qi Gu used a Truth-Telling Iron Pellet to question Bai Yu, who began to say “River” before a secrecy spell made her die and her soul scatter.

After Bai Yu’s death, Qi Gu reassured the survivors, checked their condition, and asked for the leftover wedding candy to be sent to Huaifeng Street. He returned to the Lin family’s Main Residence with Lin Hanzhi, who carried him home asleep, while Fang Heng eagerly offered to arrange their wedding.

• Qi Gu told the survivors Bai Yu was dead and confirmed Ma Shu and Fang Yuanwang would recover with rest.
• Qi Gu asked Fang Heng to send the remaining wedding candy to Huaifeng Street, and Fang Heng offered to handle Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi’s future wedding.
• Qi Gu rode home asleep beside Lin Hanzhi after the younger passengers got out for their escape room outing.
• Lin Hanzhi carried Qi Gu from the minivan into the building where they now lived together.

Lin Hanzhi carried Qi Gu back to their room, where the two cuddled on the sofa and recalled Lin Hanzhi’s clingy habits. After their attempt to resume a movie stirred up memories of the night before, Qi Gu suggested that they go all the way, and Lin Hanzhi fetched a strawberry-flavored condom.

• Lin Hanzhi carried Qi Gu up to their room, and Qi Gu agreed to let him hold him a little longer.
• Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu lay together on the sofa, and Qi Gu remembered how Lin Hanzhi woke whenever he left his embrace.
• Lin Hanzhi suggested they finish the movie they had abandoned the previous night, but neither of them could remember much of the plot.
• Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi became aroused while kissing, and Qi Gu suggested that they go all the way.
• Lin Hanzhi went to the side table and retrieved a strawberry-flavored condom that Qi Gu had picked.

After Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi spent the night together, Lin Hanzhi cared for him and teased him over breakfast the next morning. The chapter ended with Qi Gu questioning Lin Hanzhi’s claim that their unusually frequent intimacy was normal.

• Lin Hanzhi carried Qi Gu to the shower, where they became intimate and continued for a long time.
• Lin Hanzhi washed Qi Gu, checked his condition, applied ointment, and carried him to bed.
• Qi Gu woke feeling mostly refreshed, and Lin Hanzhi asked whether he wanted breakfast brought to the room.
• Lin Hanzhi teased Qi Gu about their night and asked him to resolve his financial problem, prompting Qi Gu to pretend he would not pay.
• Lin Hanzhi massaged Qi Gu’s back and said he wished they could wake up together every day.
• Qi Gu showed Lin Hanzhi an online recommendation for how often newlyweds should have sex, but Lin Hanzhi insisted his own frequency was normal.