Recaps

The guests fled the moving dolls until Su Li confronted the ghost doll that blamed them for breaking Little Pink. Su Li restrained her and sent her to question Liu Jinjian, who began a truth-or-dare game under threat.

• The dolls came to life and chased the guests, while Wang Xiang refused to stop the livestream because of its record audience.
• Su Li led the group to the red sofa, where a ghost doll appeared and demanded they play a game because they had broken Little Pink.
• Liu Jinjian blamed Su Li, but Su Li used the ghost doll’s diary to restrain her and pointed her toward Liu Jinjian.
• The ghost doll ordered Liu Jinjian to sit on the sofa and asked whether he had ever loved his ex-wife.
• Liu Jinjian answered yes, but the ghost doll declared that he was lying.

Liu Jinjian confessed that he had married his ex-wife for money and cheated on her with four people, while Su Li freed the Ghost Doll and recruited her. After the guests left the doll room, Wang Xiang grew wary of Su Li and faced his questions about the next day's challenge.

• The Ghost Doll frightened Liu Jinjian into admitting he had married his ex-wife for money and divorced her after cheating with four people.
• Su Li told the Ghost Doll that he could kill her, freed her from the room's restriction, and persuaded her to follow him.
• Su Li sent the Ghost Doll away with the Shadow Servant, then told the guests and viewers that she had been a projection.
• Wang Xiang realized Su Li knew the Ghost Doll was real and decided not to antagonize him, then offered the guests whatever they needed.
• Su Li asked Wang Xiang for a preview of the next day's challenge.

Su Li pressured Wang Xiang into holding the next day's livestream, then learned Ghost Doll's history and her connection to the Mirror Ghost on the Manor's fourth floor. He planned to confront the Mirror Ghost while it was dormant, bringing Ghost Doll and relying on Xiaoxue and Xiaohan.

• Su Li intimidated Wang Xiang into promising that the production team would livestream again the next day.
• After the broadcast ended, Ghost Doll told Su Li that her adoptive mother had served a Mirror Ghost by bringing orphans to the Toy House, where they died and strengthened it with their resentment.
• Ghost Doll revealed that she was the forty-second orphan and had become a vengeful ghost instead of turning into a toy, so the Mirror Ghost imprisoned her to draw on her resentment.
• Su Li learned that the Mirror Ghost went dormant for a month each year and arranged to visit the fourth floor with Ghost Doll the next day.
• After Ghost Doll left, Su Li told Zheng Xing that Xiaoxue and Xiaohan would handle the Mirror Ghost and said he had a job for him.

Su Li ordered Zheng Xing to intimidate Wang Xiang into following his plans for the next livestream, while Liu Jinjian faced a surge of public backlash over his cheating. After hearing knocking beneath his floor, Liu Jinjian found blood seeping through the gaps and discovered he could not open his door.

• Su Li told Zheng Xing to warn Wang Xiang that the morning livestream could be arranged on the fourth floor, but Su Li would choose the afternoon location.
• Zheng Xing frightened Wang Xiang by revealing his ghostly appearance, and Wang Xiang agreed to obey Su Li and not contact the police.
• Su Li told Zheng Xing that Wang Xiang was more useful alive, while Zheng Xing said he had wanted to kill him.
• Liu Jinjian saw his cheating become a trending topic and ordered Fan Ping to hire paid commenters, but Fan Ping left to write a resignation letter instead.
• Liu Jinjian heard knocking beneath his floor, saw blood gush through its gaps, and fled to the door, which would not open.

Liu Jinjian was terrified by the Headless Female Ghost and was left unconscious in a wardrobe after Zheng Xing staged a message canceling his appearance on the show. Su Li rewarded his ghosts and gave Zheng Xing a mark of power, while Yuan took on a humanoid form that was still too insubstantial to touch.

• Liu Jinjian hid in a wardrobe from the Headless Female Ghost, then screamed when he found her severed head beside him and fainted when she appeared again.
• The Headless Female Ghost put her head back on, and Zheng Xing used Liu Jinjian's phone to tell Wang Xiang that Liu would miss the next day's show.
• Zheng Xing told Su Li what he had done, and Su Li increased the strength of the Headless Female Ghost and the Under-Table Ghost.
• Su Li gave Zheng Xing a Black Strange Pattern that concealed his identity from people with special abilities, and ordered him to have the Under-Table Ghost watch Wang Xiang.
• Yuan formed a hooded humanoid body and told Su Li that increased Emotional Power had helped him take shape, though he was still intangible.

Su Li spent time with Yuan before joining the final day of the show, where the guests completed a challenge in the mistress’s bedroom. The afternoon challenge was set for a locked storage room, and Zheng Xing met Yuan as Su Li’s powerful subordinate.

• Su Li learned Yuan could maintain his current form for about three hours, and Xiaoxue and Xiaohan tried to cuddle him before passing through him.
• Chen Zhuo told Su Li that Liu Jinjian had skipped the final day because he was unwell, and Wang Xiang began the livestream with five guests.
• The guests explored the mistress’s bedroom, found a secret room with an actress and prop dolls, and completed the challenge without encountering a ghost.
• Wang Xiang asked Zheng Xing where to hold the afternoon livestream, and Zheng Xing directed him to the locked storage room on the fourth floor.
• Zheng Xing entered Su Li’s room, met Yuan, and bowed after Su Li explained that seeing Yuan was the same as seeing him.

Su Li led the guests into a sealed storeroom filled with mirrors and skeletons, where he secretly captured vengeful spirits in his Ghost Ring. When five skeletons rose and advanced on the group, he had An Hui retrieve a black-eyed doll, but its purpose remained unknown.

• The butler led Su Li and the other guests into a fourth-floor storeroom filled with mirrors and skeletons.
• Ghost Doll told Su Li that the bones belonged to the Manor's former servants, while Su Li secretly drew a vengeful spirit into his Ghost Ring.
• Song You saw a white figure in a mirror, and Su Li comforted her before collecting another spirit.
• Cheng Sirong pointed out a skeleton that moved its head, then five skeletons stood up and began closing in on the guests.
• Su Li pointed out a black-eyed doll, and An Hui retrieved it and handed it to him as the skeletons approached.

Su Li and the guests entered the hidden chamber, where the Manor’s former mistress attacked them and Ghost Doll restrained her. Su Li stopped Ghost Doll from killing the mistress and turned her into candy, then confronted the mirror that had manipulated her.

• Su Li raised Ghost Doll and made the surrounding skeletons collapse, opening a hidden chamber behind a mirror.
• The guests entered the chamber and encountered the floating ghost of the Manor’s former mistress, whom Ghost Doll identified as a victim of Mirror Ghost.
• Ghost Doll summoned dozens of resentful dolls to bind the mistress and began taking revenge on her.
• The livestream feed cut out during the fight, and Wang Xiang posted that the connection and equipment had failed.
• Su Li stopped Ghost Doll from killing the mistress, then had her turn the restrained ghost into candy.
• Su Li and Ghost Doll concluded that Mirror Ghost was still asleep and that the former mistress had been manipulated by it.

Su Li and the other guests finished the show after he freed the Ghost Doll and destroyed the Brass Mirror, while his friends accepted him despite realizing he was no ordinary person. As the production crew prepared to leave the haunted Manor, they found Liu Jinjian unconscious in a wardrobe, and Wang Xiang was confronted by a familiar voice.

• Su Li had the Ghost Doll smash the Brass Mirror, then absorbed the Mirror Ghost into the Ghost Ring.
• An Hui, Chen Zhuo, and Cheng Sirong accepted Su Li as their friend, and they agreed to celebrate the show's end with hot pot.
• Wang Xiang declared the third installment of 'Brave Challenge' over, and the livestream ended.
• Fan Ping alerted Wang Xiang that Liu Jinjian had not answered his door, and the crew found him unconscious in a wardrobe.
• A doctor said Liu Jinjian had fainted from fright and had been unconscious for over ten hours; Wang Xiang suspected Su Li was behind the incidents and hurried to pack.
• A familiar voice asked Wang Xiang where he was going.

After forcing Wang Xiang to work for him, Su Li joined his friends for hot pot and revealed that Zheng Xing was a powerful ghost. Hearing Cheng Sirong lament her lack of hit songs, Su Li began writing music, leaving the others wondering what he was composing.

• Wang Xiang begged Zheng Xing for mercy, and Zheng Xing ordered him to serve Su Li because Master considered him useful.
• Su Li and his companions gathered at a hot pot restaurant, where Zheng Xing brought drinks and desserts for them.
• Su Li told An Hui, Cheng Sirong, and Chen Zhuo that Zheng Xing was a ghost who was strong enough to withstand sunlight.
• Su Li said he wanted to open his own studio, while Cheng Sirong explained that she needed better songs to restore her standing as a queen of song.
• Su Li asked for pen and paper, then began writing music, and Chen Zhuo recognized that he seemed to be composing songs.

Su Li wrote three songs for Cheng Sirong, who eagerly agreed to record and promote them. After returning home, Su Li told his manager Zhou Jing that he planned to end his contract and start his own studio.

• Su Li gave Cheng Sirong the songs "Later," "Painted Heart," and "Kiss Everywhere," and Cheng Sirong and the others praised them.
• Cheng Sirong offered Su Li an eighty-twenty revenue split and promised to promote him, while Su Li agreed to guide her during recording.
• Cheng Sirong showed the songs to her manager Gao Yiqing, who supported the deal but worried about the company's executives.
• Su Li posted photos from the hot pot gathering on Feibo and received thousands of comments.
• Zhou Jing called Su Li to discuss his expiring contract, and Su Li said he would leave and start his own studio.

Su Li went to Feiyuan Entertainment to terminate his contract, but Manager Feng referred him to President Wei Junior, who threatened to block his career and eyed him with lecherous intent. The chapter ended as Su Li faced Wei Peng, his ring glowing faintly red.

• Su Li decided to visit Feiyuan Entertainment after Zhou Jing warned that the agency might resist ending his contract, and he told Zheng Xing to look for a larger villa.
• Su Li gave Xiaoxue and Xiaohan soul candies, then rewarded Tang Wanwan with a Soul Crystal that restored her living appearance and asked Zheng Xing to take her shopping.
• Su Li told Yuan that Tang Wanwan had great potential and asked about Yuan's progress toward becoming corporeal.
• At Feiyuan Entertainment, Su Li told Manager Feng he would not renew his contract and insisted that he wanted to terminate it.
• Manager Feng took Su Li to meet President Wei Junior, who threatened to ruin his career and began to imply that Su Li could stay only on other terms.

Su Li forced Wei Peng to terminate his contract after Tang Wanwan frightened him, then treated her to ice cream and reflected on his past lives. After Su Li announced the termination online, Wei Peng returned home, fell asleep, and woke to a figure behind his curtains.

• Tang Wanwan stopped Wei Peng from assaulting Su Li and terrified him with her ghostly appearance and dolls.
• Su Li made Wei Peng sign the contract termination and call Manager Feng to confirm it.
• Su Li took Tang Wanwan for ice cream, and she resolved to protect him.
• Su Li posted a statement on Feibo announcing that his contract with the company had ended, prompting fans to debate the news.
• Wei Peng went home, slept, and woke to see a figure behind his bedroom curtains.

Wei Peng died in a car crash after being terrorized by ghosts, and evidence of his abuses and Feiyuan Entertainment’s misconduct went public. Su Li settled into his new villa, welcomed Zhou Jing as his manager, and looked forward to Yuan becoming solid enough to accompany him outside.

• Wei Peng fled his villa after seeing a ghost, then crashed his car into a tree when more ghosts appeared on the highway.
• Reports and evidence of Wei Peng’s abuse of artists and Feiyuan Entertainment’s illegal practices spread online, causing the company’s stock to fall and artists to speak out.
• Yuan told Su Li he had exposed Wei Peng’s misconduct to avenge the insult, while Su Li reassured him and asked when he could remove his hood.
• Su Li moved into his new villa, gave Tang Wanwan a choice of rooms, and invited Zheng Xing to stay on the third floor.
• Su Li decided to keep Zhou Jing as his manager, and she arrived with screened endorsement and television offers for him to consider.

Su Li chose endorsement deals and an audition while asking Tang Wanwan to help Zhou Jing assess potential staff. Cheng Sirong announced three songs written by Su Li, and the release of “Later” moved listeners with its lyrics about lost love and regret.

• Su Li selected a perfume endorsement, a juice endorsement, a clothing brand partnership, and an audition for Scheming for the Realm.
• Su Li told Zhou Jing that Zheng Xing would serve as his assistant and instructed her to bring Tang Wanwan along when recruiting staff.
• Cheng Sirong announced that she would release three songs written and composed by Su Li, prompting celebrities and fans to promote and debate the songs.
• Listeners played Cheng Sirong's first release, “Later,” and were moved by its nostalgic lyrics about missed chances and lingering heartbreak.

Cheng Sirong released three songs written by Su Li, and they surged to the top of the music charts while earning him widespread acclaim. Su Li absorbed the listeners’ emotional energy and saw the flower on his Eye of Emotion half-open, bringing Yuan closer to solidifying.

• Cheng Sirong’s performance of “Later” moved listeners to tears, and the song rapidly climbed the rankings.
• Listeners praised “Painted Heart” and “Kiss Everywhere,” impressed by Su Li’s ability to write songs in different styles.
• Singers, composers, and entertainment companies reacted with shock and jealousy as they sought to contact Su Li’s manager, Zhou Jing.
• By evening, Su Li’s three songs held the top three places on the season chart, and his Feibo following surpassed seven million.
• Cheng Sirong thanked Su Li publicly, and Su Li sensed the listeners’ emotional energy as the flower on his Eye of Emotion opened halfway.

Su Li auditioned for Director Tian Zhang’s drama and won the role of Xiao Mo after delivering a chilling performance. A few days later, he arrived on set to shoot character photos and began getting ready in his dressing room.

• Cheng Sirong received Su Li’s offer of another song for next month, and Gao Yiqing urged her to accept.
• Zhou Jing explained the demands of Director Tian’s drama as she accompanied Su Li to audition for Xiao Mo.
• Su Li performed a threatening scene that impressed Tian Zhang and secured him the role.
• Rumors about Su Li joining the drama spread on Feibo, and Zhou Jing discussed the upcoming filming schedule with him.
• Su Li and Zheng Xing arrived on set for character photos, where a staff member led Su Li to his dressing room.
• Su Li waited in the dressing room until the makeup artist and stylist arrived.

Su Li’s costume photos impressed the crew and fans, and he discovered that Yuan would soon be able to take physical form. On the first day of filming, Su Li sensed powerful malevolent ghosts at the historic residence and met lead actor Shi Yunle.

• Su Li wore pale-blue historical robes for costume photos, and the crew praised his looks and camera presence.
• The production team posted the cast announcement and costume photos, prompting fans and Su Li’s friends to compliment him.
• Yuan revealed his face to Su Li and said he would soon be able to make his body solid; Su Li asked him to become his personal assistant.
• Su Li arrived at the historic filming residence and sensed heavy ghostly energy, while Zheng Xing warned that a powerful presence there surpassed Mirror Ghost.
• Shi Yunle praised Su Li’s songwriting, exchanged WeChat details with him, and offered to help him with acting.

Su Li learned that the filming estate was haunted by spirits tied to a general’s household, then witnessed Yang Qi fall into the lake under suspicious circumstances. After impressing the crew with his acting, he agreed to write the show’s theme song and finished a draft on the spot.

• Shi Yunle’s assistant told Su Li and Shi Yunle that the estate had belonged to a General Yin whose household was mysteriously wiped out, and that tourists had died there.
• Zheng Xing told Su Li that he and the Headless Female Ghost had caught resentful spirits who said they were servants killed by the general’s wife after she became a vicious ghost.
• On the second day of filming, Yang Qi fell from the bridge into the lake during a scene, and Su Li told Zheng Xing they would return that night to investigate what had caused it.
• Su Li delivered an excellent scene, prompting a veteran actor to praise his talent and Shi Yunle to highlight his songwriting.
• Director Tian asked Su Li to write a theme song for the show, and Su Li agreed, wrote for a little over ten minutes, and handed the finished draft to Tian Zhang.

Su Li captured the vicious ghosts in the lake and learned how the General's wife became a ghost. The steward revealed that she had vowed revenge after her child was poisoned, and that deaths in the manor began soon after her suicide.

• Tian Zhang chose Su Li's song "True Hero" as the theme song for Scheming for the Realm and said he would select its singer.
• Su Li checked Feibo, replied to friends in a group chat, and posted a selfie after filming.
• Su Li and Zheng Xing returned to the bridge at night, where Zheng Xing bound the lake ghosts and Su Li turned them into Soul Crystals.
• Su Li gave Soul Crystals to Zheng Xing and Headless Female Ghost, then asked the steward about the General's wife.
• The steward said the wife's child had been poisoned by the general's favorite concubine, and the general had ignored her pleas and ordered her maid killed.
• The steward said the wife killed herself in red clothes and vowed to become a vicious ghost; a few days later, someone in the manor died.

Su Li learned that Xie Zhirou had been sustaining her unstable son’s soul with the estate’s ghostly energy, then stabilized him and recruited her. After collecting the estate’s resentful souls, Su Li returned to the hotel and fell asleep listening to Yuan.

• The butler told Su Li how Xie Zhirou had avenged herself on the general and was using the estate’s energy to preserve her son.
• Su Li found a hidden chamber beneath Xie Zhirou’s quarters and discovered the unstable soul of her child, Xuan’er.
• Su Li used his power to stabilize the boy’s soul, and Xie Zhirou reunited with him and named him Xie Tingxuan.
• Xie Zhirou agreed to work for Su Li and helped him gather the estate’s remaining resentful souls.
• Su Li returned to the hotel, told Yuan he had not helped Xie Zhirou out of kindness, and fell asleep as Yuan told him stories.

Su Li’s new songs for Cheng Sirong topped the charts again, and he wrapped filming at Director Tian’s manor. After seeing online attacks against Chen Zhuo, Su Li invited his friends to a meal.

• Shi Yunle and Yang Qi told Su Li that the manor had felt eerie and that something had dragged Yang Qi into the water.
• Cheng Sirong released Su Li’s songs “Courage” and “Ningxia,” which won praise and dominated the Music Chart.
• Fans speculated that Su Li had written the songs for someone he liked, and Su Li privately thought of Yuan.
• Su Li wrapped filming, attended the crew’s send-off party, and posted a group photo on Feibo.
• Su Li saw gossip accounts attack Chen Zhuo and invited their four-person group chat to a meal.

Su Li gave Chen Zhuo two songs, “Fairy Tale” and “Back-to-Back Embrace,” and guided him through recording them for release. After Chen Zhuo’s manager tried to secure songs for the rest of the group, Su Li made clear he had written for Chen Zhuo because they were friends.

• At a barbecue dinner, Su Li offered Chen Zhuo two songs, and Chen Zhuo agreed to sing them and share revenue with Su Li.
• A few days later, Su Li arrived at Chen Zhuo’s company to help record the songs, prompting online speculation and jealousy among the DX Boy Group members.
• The manager told the group that Chen Zhuo’s success could benefit them, and the members hoped he would ask Su Li for songs on their behalf.
• Chen Zhuo worked hard for a week to record “Fairy Tale” and “Back-to-Back Embrace,” while Su Li encouraged him.
• After recording, the manager asked Su Li to write for Chen Zhuo’s groupmates, but Su Li said he wrote for Chen Zhuo because he was his friend.
• Chen Zhuo thanked Su Li for believing in him, and Su Li affirmed that Chen Zhuo had talent.

Chen Zhuo released two songs written by Su Li, and listeners were moved by his performances. The songs won widespread praise online, with many saying Chen Zhuo’s vocal skills had reached a new level.

• Chen Zhuo announced that his two solo songs, written by Su Li, would be released the next day, sparking mixed reactions online.
• Li Lin listened to “Fairy Tale” and was so moved by Chen Zhuo’s singing that he and his coworker ended up sobbing together.
• Listeners praised Chen Zhuo’s performance of “Fairy Tale,” and Chen Zhuo silently celebrated that he had done Su Li’s song justice.
• Li Lin listened to “Back-to-Back Embrace,” admired its arrangement and Chen Zhuo’s delivery, and downloaded it as his ringtone.
• Both songs topped Feibo’s trending searches, and commenters praised Chen Zhuo’s vocals while calling Su Li a depression-inducing composer.

Chen Zhuo defended Su Li from his jealous groupmates, while Su Li attended a promotional event for “Scheming for the Realm” that drew widespread attention to his looks and theme song. After the drama premiered, viewers praised Su Li’s acting as the Prince of Qi and wondered whether his character was hiding something.

• Chen Zhuo rebuffed He You and the other group members when they asked him to introduce them to Su Li, then left to buy Su Li gifts.
• Tian Zhang invited Su Li to the promotional event for “Scheming for the Realm,” where Su Li introduced himself as Xiao Mo, the Prince of Qi, and said he had written and composed the theme song.
• Zhang Chengfang performed “True Hero” at the event, and the audience and online fans praised the song and looked forward to the drama.
• The promotional event made headlines across Feibo, and Su Li admired the photos of himself with Yuan in the car.
• When “Scheming for the Realm” premiered with its first three episodes on Yiguo, viewers praised Su Li’s acting and speculated about the Prince of Qi’s true nature.