Recaps

Su Li learned that the school’s haunted bridge had claimed lives for decades and decided to investigate it with Fan Xiaolei as bait. He arrived at the shoot with Tang Wanwan and Yuan, while Lin Chuan recognized Tang Wanwan as the Ghost Doll and the makeup artist noticed Su Li’s affectionate glances at Yuan.

• Fan Xiaolei resented Su Li after Zhao He defended him, while Fan Xiaolei’s manager warned him to stop provoking Su Li.
• Yuan told Su Li that a student had died at the bridge thirty years earlier and that deaths continued despite talismans and attempts to seal or demolish it.
• Su Li decided to investigate the bridge the next day and bring Fan Xiaolei as bait, then asked Yuan to join him as his assistant.
• Su Li arrived at the set with Tang Wanwan, introduced her as his little sister, and let her play while the cast and crew welcomed her.
• Lin Chuan recognized Tang Wanwan as the Ghost Doll from Su Li’s livestream and cautiously greeted Su Li and Yuan.
• The makeup artist noticed Su Li repeatedly smiling at Yuan and suspected they were in love.

Fan Xiaolei lured Tang Wanwan into an empty classroom and locked her inside, but she escaped and exposed him to the production crew. Su Li and the others confronted Fan Xiaolei, who was thrown off the production and faced a police call as he protested.

• A makeup artist realized Su Li and Yuan were in love, and Su Li asked her to keep their relationship secret.
• Fan Xiaolei tricked Tang Wanwan into an empty classroom, locked the door, and planned to use her disappearance to get back at Su Li.
• Tang Wanwan vanished and returned to the Ghost Ring, then reappeared at the filming location and told Zhao He that Fan Xiaolei had locked her up.
• Tang Wanwan identified Fan Xiaolei, and Zhao He and the crew accused him of trying to harm her.
• Su Li arrived with Lin Chuan and others, and Tang Wanwan confirmed Fan Xiaolei had taken her.
• Lin Chuan kicked Fan Xiaolei, and Zhao He ordered him off the production and called for the police while Fan Xiaolei threatened to post about the incident online.

After Fan Xiaolei was arrested for abducting Tang Wanwan, Su Li brought him to Ghost Bridge, where the ghosts tore him apart. When the ghosts tried to attack Su Li, he swept them into his ring.

• Zhao He called the police, but officers initially said there was not enough evidence until Lin Chuan showed them a video of Fan Xiaolei taking Tang Wanwan to a secluded classroom.
• The officers arrested Fan Xiaolei, and the video spread online as people condemned him; after giving statements, Su Li and the others returned to filming.
• At the hotel, Su Li sent Tang Wanwan to bring Fan Xiaolei to Ghost Bridge, then went there with Yuan, Zheng Xing, and Tan Qian.
• Tang Wanwan revealed her ghostly form to Fan Xiaolei and brought him, unconscious, to the center of Ghost Bridge.
• Fan Xiaolei begged Su Li to release him, but the ghosts appeared and tore him apart; when they attacked Su Li, he swept them into his ring.

Fan Xiaolei vanished from police custody and was found torn apart at Ghost Bridge, where the Demon-Suppression Bureau concluded that ghosts had killed him and then disappeared. Lei Shizhong suspected Su Li had destroyed the ghosts and arranged to question Lin Chuan, who was filming with Su Li at the university.

• Police discovered that Fan Xiaolei had disappeared from the detention center, then identified his remains at Ghost Bridge.
• Lin Chuan learned from an officer that Fan Xiaolei had been found dead and suspected Su Li might be connected to the incident.
• Lei Shizhong and Xu Wenyue examined the scene, where the Bureau detected ghostly energy but found no ghosts remaining.
• Liang Rui proposed that Fan Xiaolei had been used as bait to draw out the ghosts, and Lei Shizhong suspected Su Li had eliminated them.
• Lei Shizhong learned that Lin Chuan was filming with Su Li and asked Xu Wenyue to summon him for questioning.

Lin Chuan concealed his knowledge of Su Li’s actions when the Demon-Suppression Bureau questioned him about Fan Xiaolei’s death. After telling Su Li that the Bureau suspected him, Lin Chuan asked to follow him.

• Lin Chuan went to meet Lei Shizhong and claimed he had noticed nothing unusual about Su Li.
• Lei Shizhong told Lin Chuan that Fan Xiaolei had died at the Ghost Bridge and that the Bureau suspected Su Li had used him as bait to destroy the ghosts.
• Liang Rui and Lei Shizhong decided to investigate other possibilities while continuing to examine Su Li’s movements.
• Lin Chuan visited Su Li’s Nanny Van with food and told him the Bureau suspected him of killing Fan Xiaolei.
• Su Li admitted that he had killed Fan Xiaolei, and Lin Chuan said he had kept quiet before asking to follow him.

Su Li turned Lin Chuan into a Wizard Apprentice and kept him at the Demon-Suppression Bureau as an informant, then celebrated a successful cosmetics endorsement and began a livestream. The stream ended with viewers speculating that someone else lived with Su Li.

• Su Li replaced Lin Chuan's Spirit Energy with Witch Power, marked him with a binding spell, and told him to remain at the Demon-Suppression Bureau to locate ghosts.
• YK Cosmetics announced Su Li as its global ambassador, and his lipstick commercial drew enthusiastic attention from fans and the brand.
• Three months after Chasing Crime wrapped filming, Su Li and YK Cosmetics announced a livestream to promote his new lipstick line.
• Before the livestream, Yuan kissed Su Li, leaving his lips rosy and swollen.
• Su Li welcomed viewers to his bedroom livestream, turned off gifts, and left comments questioning whether he shared the bedroom with someone unanswered.

Su Li promoted YK's three new lipstick shades in a livestream, attracting attention from fans and overseas viewers alike. The lipsticks sold out within two minutes of launch, while Su Li ended the livestream in Yuan's arms.

• Su Li demonstrated YK's three lipstick shades and answered viewers' questions about his ideal partner, while Yuan watched beside him.
• Viewers noticed Yuan's hand passing Su Li a lipstick and speculated about the person offscreen.
• After ending the livestream, Su Li teased Yuan as his ideal partner, and Yuan pulled him into his arms.
• Su Li's livestream and advertisements drew international attention, and YK added his recommendation and shade-testing clips to its product listing.
• YK's three lipstick shades sold out within two minutes of going on sale, surprising the product team.

Su Li’s YK Cosmetics promotion gained international attention, and he opened a verified Yesbook account after overseas fans requested one. He gave An Hui two songs for December, setting up an unexpected challenge in the year-end music charts.

• YK Cosmetics’ lipstick sold out within two minutes, and Su Li’s work attracted millions of overseas views and widespread discussion.
• Su Li gave An Hui the songs “Ice Rain” and “Congratulations and Get Rich,” and An Hui resolved to practice singing again.
• Zhou Jing told Su Li that Yesbook wanted him to join its overseas platform, and he registered an account and posted a selfie.
• An Hui announced that he would release Su Li’s two songs in December, surprising singers who had expected to compete without Cheng Sirong or Chen Zhuo.
• Other singers questioned whether An Hui could still compete after years away from singing, and the December chart contest remained undecided.

An Hui’s songs written by Su Li became chart-topping hits and earned him the title of King of Pop. After Lin Chuan warned Su Li that the Demon-Suppression Bureau planned to investigate ghosts at a hotel in B City, Su Li arranged to stay there and meet a magazine interviewer, setting up a surprise for the bureau.

• An Hui’s “Ice Rain” and “Congratulations and Get Rich” won over listeners, and “Congratulations and Get Rich” climbed to the top of the music chart.
• An Hui was nominated for and then officially named a King of Pop, and he thanked Su Li for helping him earn the title.
• Lin Chuan visited Su Li and reported that the Demon-Suppression Bureau planned to send a team to investigate ghosts at the Haoya Hotel in Zhining District, B City.
• Su Li accepted an interview with Shining Star Magazine and told Zhou Jing to arrange it at the Haoya Hotel, where he planned to see how the bureau reacted when it found no ghosts.

Su Li made Lin Chuan his student and reassured Yuan that he was still the most important person in his life, then went with Yuan to the Haoya Hotel to investigate its ghosts. After capturing ghosts in rooms 1403 and 1414, Su Li noticed unusual cracks in a wall.

• Su Li gave Lin Chuan a Demon Crystal and accepted him as his student, promising to guide him in witchcraft each week.
• After Yuan showed jealousy over Lin Chuan, Su Li reassured him and decided they would stop hiding their relationship in public.
• Su Li and Yuan checked into the Haoya Hotel, spent the evening together while paparazzi followed them, and went to investigate the hotel's ghosts after midnight.
• Su Li had Xie Zhirou drag the ghost from room 1403 into the bathroom, then captured it in his ring.
• In room 1414, Xie Zhirou brought a male ghost to Su Li, who absorbed it before noticing cracks in the wall and sensing two other ghosts nearby.

Su Li and Yuan’s relationship was exposed after paparazzi photographed them together, and Su Li publicly confirmed Yuan was his partner. Earlier, Su Li recruited two murdered ghosts to help them take revenge on the man who killed them.

• Su Li learned that two female ghosts had been murdered and sealed inside a hotel wall by Geng Hui, whose wealthy family had escaped justice.
• Su Li offered the sisters a chance to take revenge if they worked for him, and they agreed before he took them into the Ghost Ring.
• The next morning, Zhou Jing warned Yuan that paparazzi had exposed his relationship with Su Li online.
• Su Li woke, reviewed the photos and videos of himself with Yuan, and posted pictures publicly identifying Yuan as his partner.
• Fans reacted to Su Li’s announcement as the pair’s relationship became a trending topic.

Yuan publicly announced his relationship with Su Li, drawing attention to his identity as chairman of Liyuan Technology, while Su Li’s popularity grew. After an interview and their trip back to City A, the Demon-Suppression Bureau searched the hotel room but found no ghost, and Lei Shizhong called Lin Chuan, who answered with a cold smile.

• Yuan posted photos of Su Li and the two of them together on Feibo, and Su Li’s heart comment confirmed their relationship to fans.
• Fans discovered Yuan was the chairman of Liyuan Technology and that Su Li held most of the company’s shares, while Su Li’s follower count rose.
• Su Li told Shining Star Magazine that his feelings for Yuan had grown over time, and Yuan earnestly told him he loved him after the interview.
• Yang Yihang and his team searched room 1414 at Haoya Hotel but found only a damaged wall and no ghost.
• Lei Shizhong suspected Su Li might have known about the Demon-Suppression Bureau’s operation, dismissed the possibility that Lin Chuan had helped him, and called Lin Chuan.
• Lin Chuan received Lei Shizhong’s call while rehearsing with his assistant and gave a cold smile.

Su Li learned that the Demon-Suppression Bureau suspected he had targeted the Geng Family but lacked evidence, then spent the New Year with Yuan. After Su Li’s romantic interview delighted fans, Chen Zhuo rejected his manager’s renewal offer and chose to join Fated Beginning Entertainment.

• Lin Chuan told Su Li that the Demon-Suppression Bureau suspected he had gone after the Geng Family, while the family’s destruction had left the Bureau worried.
• Su Li criticized the Demon-Suppression Bureau, and Lin Chuan described his own unhappy time there before praising Xu Wenyue as an exception.
• Su Li spent the New Year with Yuan, and his Shining Star Magazine interview showed his affection for his boyfriend.
• Chen Zhuo’s manager offered him an A-tier renewal contract, but Chen Zhuo said he would not renew.
• Chen Zhuo told his manager he planned to join Su Li’s Fated Beginning Entertainment and confronted him for trying to replace him with He You on Brave Challenge.

Chen Zhuo left DX Boy Group and Lianxing Entertainment to join Su Li’s company, announcing an album of songs written by Su Li as Su Li’s drama gained attention. Meanwhile, the Demon-Suppression Bureau sought Su Li’s help with a dangerous haunting, and he arrived at a meeting with Yuan.

• Chen Zhuo announced that he was leaving DX Boy Group and terminating his contract with Lianxing Entertainment, then joined Fated Beginning Entertainment.
• Chen Zhuo revealed that he would release an album called “Unparalleled” the following month, featuring four new songs written and composed by Su Li.
• Su Li’s role as Ye Cheng in “Chasing Crime” drew praise as the drama topped the ratings.
• Lin Chuan contacted Su Li on behalf of the Demon-Suppression Bureau, which had lost a squad and failed to contain at least twenty ghosts.
• Su Li and Yuan arrived at the restaurant, where Lei Shizhong studied Yuan and felt unsettled by his cold gaze.

Su Li agreed to help the Demon-Suppression Bureau investigate a haunted building, insisting that his own companions enter without bureau members. At the building, Yuan seized Yang Yihang after he threatened Su Li’s group, and Su Li left Yang’s fate hanging after the others pleaded for mercy.

• Su Li agreed to join Lei Shizhong’s operation without payment, on the condition that only his own people accompany him inside.
• Lei Shizhong brought Su Li, Yuan, Zheng Xing, Tan Qian, and Tang Wanwan to an abandoned building containing at least thirty powerful ghosts.
• Su Li led his group toward the building, but Lei Shizhong tried to send bureau operatives along to observe and help.
• Tan Qian and Tang Wanwan insulted the bureau’s operatives, and Yang Yihang threatened Su Li’s group when they objected to his rebuke.
• Yuan grabbed Yang Yihang by the throat after Yang threatened him, and Su Li named Yang as the bureau member who would enter with them.
• Lei Shizhong, Xu Wenyue, and Lin Chuan pleaded for Yang Yihang, and Su Li suggested he might release him rather than seem heartless.

After Su Li cleared the building of ghosts, Lin Chuan visited the recovering Yang Yihang and revealed his intent to kill him for insulting Su Li. Yang Yihang realized Lin Chuan was Su Li’s ally but still underestimated the threat.

• Yuan released Yang Yihang, and Su Li’s group entered the building to eliminate the ghosts.
• Su Li told Lei Shizhong the building had been cleared, and Liang Rui and Xu Wenyue confirmed that no ghosts or ghostly energy remained inside.
• Lei Shizhong learned that Yang Yihang’s spiritual power was intact and ordered him to recover at the Demon-Suppression Bureau.
• Lin Chuan brought Yang Yihang a meal and listened as he boasted about his abilities and threatened to ruin Su Li’s reputation.
• Lin Chuan warned Yang Yihang that he would not live to celebrate the New Year because he had provoked Lin Chuan’s teacher, Su Li.

Lin Chuan killed Yang Yihang with Su Li’s Demon Flame Art, then disguised himself and left the recovery room. The Demon-Suppression Bureau discovered Yang Yihang’s ashes and began investigating the masked man captured on surveillance.

• Lin Chuan trapped Yang Yihang with black flames and burned him until only ash remained.
• Lin Chuan used the Face-Changing Art, opened the window to scatter the ashes, and left the recovery room disguised and masked.
• A medical worker found the empty room and notified the Operations Department; tests confirmed the ashes matched Yang Yihang’s genes.
• Lei Shizhong and Liang Rui reviewed surveillance footage showing a masked man entering with food containers and leaving about twenty minutes later.
• Liang Rui and the other officials considered whether Su Li was responsible, but judged it unlikely.
• Lei Shizhong ordered an investigation into the masked man’s identity and movements and tightened security at the Demon-Suppression Bureau.

Lin Chuan learned that the Demon-Suppression Bureau was on alert after Yang Yihang’s death, while Su Li accepted an audition for a Phyllis film and later released four songs for Chen Zhuo’s album that sent both artists’ popularity soaring.

• Lin Chuan visited the Demon-Suppression Bureau and learned from Xu Wenyue that Yang Yihang had died, hiding his amusement at the news.
• An Hui showed Su Li’s photos to director Phyllis, who wanted him to audition for the second male lead, Ariel, in his new film.
• Su Li agreed to audition, and Zhou Jing began arranging his preparations and visa.
• Su Li teased Yuan about traveling abroad with him, and Yuan pulled him onto the sofa as the living-room curtains closed.
• Chen Zhuo released four new songs written for him by Su Li, and listeners and critics praised the album, especially “Nocturne.”
• Chen Zhuo’s popularity surged, leaving his former bandmates jealous and other singers envious of Su Li’s songs.

Chen Zhuo thanked Su Li for bringing him close to his dream of becoming the king of pop, while Su Li and Yuan celebrated the New Year together and learned that the Eye of Emotion was part of Yuan. The chapter ended with Su Li and Yuan spending New Year's Eve awake together.

• Chen Zhuo told his parents that Su Li had brought him close to becoming the youngest king of pop, then posted his gratitude to Su Li on Feibo.
• Su Li asked Yuan to shop for New Year supplies with him, and they enjoyed a discreet outing before buying groceries together openly and posing for fans.
• Su Li celebrated the New Year in his own home and rewarded all the ghosts under him with Soul Crystals as the floral pattern on his Eye of Emotion fully bloomed.
• Yuan told Su Li that the Eye of Emotion was part of him and that its energy had helped him become human after it separated from him on the Rod Continent.
• Su Li teased Yuan about carrying his mark and urged him to call him something other than Master, and they stayed awake together on New Year's Eve.

Su Li traveled to France with Yuan to audition for Phyllis’s film, won the role of Eric, and signed the contract. The casting announcement made Su Li famous overseas and sparked excitement in Dragon Nation as filming was set to begin in three days.

• Su Li and Yuan flew to France, where crew member Blake greeted them and posted photos of the couple on Yesbook.
• Photos of Su Li and Yuan spread across Yesbook and Feibo, prompting speculation that Su Li would appear in Phyllis’s film.
• At the audition, Su Li impressed Phyllis with his acting and martial arts skills, and he and the crew signed a contract for him to play Eric.
• Phyllis announced the cast, naming An Hui as the lead and Su Li as a supporting actor, and the news became a trending topic in Dragon Nation.
• Zhou Jing called Su Li to discuss his safety and support during filming, and Su Li told Yuan that his manager had asked him to protect her.

Su Li and Yuan encountered and killed Cyril, a vampire who had followed Su Li while he filmed in France. Days later, John, the Rot Family’s butler, arrived with two young vampires to question Su Li about Cyril’s disappearance.

• Su Li sensed that a man watching him at the castle was a vampire, and Yuan killed him while he followed them back to the hotel.
• Su Li learned the vampire was Cyril, a junior member of a vampire family, and dismissed the threat posed by vampires on Blue Star.
• After catching more ghosts at the castle, Su Li received a visit from John, the Rot Family’s butler, accompanied by two young vampires.
• John told Su Li that Cyril had disappeared and said he had come to ask questions about the missing family member.

Su Li and Yuan confronted the Rot Family after John came to investigate a dead family member, then teleported to the family’s manor. Su Li defeated the family head and ordered him taken to Liyuan Technology for research.

• John confronted Su Li, who admitted Yuan had killed the Rot Family junior; Zheng Xing and Tan Qian restrained John and his two companions.
• Su Li extracted the Rot Family’s location from John’s memories and sent the three vampires’ bodies to Liyuan Technology.
• Yuan opened a portal, and he and Su Li arrived at the Rot Family manor, where a patrolling vampire vanished and the household raised an alarm.
• Su Li confronted the family head in his castle room and revealed that his subordinates were killing the family’s elders and juniors.
• Yuan incapacitated the family head, and Su Li ordered him taken to Liyuan Technology before heading downstairs with Yuan to check on Xie Zhirou and the others.

After Su Li rescued vampire captives in France and returned to the Dragon Nation, Cheng Sirong left her agency for Fated Beginning Entertainment with several other artists. Su Li gave Cheng Sirong three more songs for an upcoming album, prompting other singers to avoid releasing music the same month.

• Su Li ordered Yuan to erase the captives’ memories and arrange for Liyuan Technology’s France branch to send them home.
• After three months of filming, Su Li and Yuan prepared to return to the Dragon Nation, and Su Li’s team told fans that he would travel by private jet.
• Cheng Sirong terminated her contract and joined Fated Beginning Entertainment with her manager Gao Yiqing and several artists after Liyuan Technology pressured her former company.
• Su Li gave Cheng Sirong three songs to add to her previous five for an album titled "Bravely Love," scheduled for release the following month.
• Singers planning to release music that month changed their dates to avoid competing with Su Li’s songs.

After Cheng Sirong’s new songs topped the charts, Su Li arranged physical albums and visited Chen Zhuo’s lounge. There, he discovered Cheng Sirong’s student Huang Xicheng had a voice suited to songs he wanted to write, and began composing for him.

• Cheng Sirong’s three newly released songs claimed the top three chart spots, and fans asked her, Chen Zhuo, and Su Li to release physical albums.
• Su Li met Cheng Sirong and Chen Zhuo at the company and finished discussing plans for their physical albums with their managers.
• Chen Zhuo invited Su Li and Cheng Sirong to his lounge to play board games, and Cheng Sirong brought along her student Huang Xicheng.
• Huang Xicheng admitted that people considered his voice ordinary and worried he had disappointed Cheng Sirong, but she praised his potential.
• Su Li listened to Huang Xicheng sing and decided his voice suited several songs, then began writing them for him.

Huang Xicheng released Su Li’s song “Ten Years,” which became a chart-topping hit and brought him sudden fame. Su Li then asked Yuan when they would register their marriage, and Yuan happily produced two rings.

• Su Li gave Huang Xicheng the song “Ten Years” and promised to guide him through recording it.
• Huang Xicheng announced that he would release a song written by Su Li, drawing public attention and speculation about his ability.
• “Ten Years” topped the Music Chart after its release, and Huang Xicheng thanked Cheng Sirong, Su Li, and Chen Zhuo for supporting him.
• Huang Xicheng received Chen Zhuo’s congratulations and wondered what snacks to buy for him.
• Su Li listened to Huang Xicheng’s song while Yuan cooked, then asked when they would register their marriage.
• Yuan joyfully agreed and brought out two diamond-set rings.