Chapter Summaries

During the puppet challenge, Liu Jinjian saw a puppet wink and later watched it grotesquely fall apart, but everyone else saw only an ordinary puppet. He blamed the production team and Su Li, leaving viewers to condemn his behavior.

• Liu Jinjian claimed he had found the unusual puppet, but it vanished before he could point it out, and he chose the wrong one instead.
• Su Li quietly asked the puppet to scare Liu Jinjian again, then left as the music stopped and the lights dimmed.
• Liu Jinjian watched a puppet approach him, smile, and disintegrate into bloody chunks, then screamed and collapsed after bumping into another puppet.
• When the lights came on, the guests and crew saw only intact props, and Wang Xiang said the puppets could not fall apart.
• Liu Jinjian accused the production team of using a projection and blamed Su Li, while viewers criticized him in the livestream and on his Feibo posts.

After Liu Jinjian insulted Su Li and accused the show of rigging the challenge, An Hui, Chen Zhuo, Cheng Sirong, and Wang Xiang defended Su Li and the production team. Su Li then identified the different mannequin by explaining that its wounds contradicted its actual cause of death, leaving the guests impressed and Liu Jinjian disgruntled.

• Chen Zhuo tried to confront Liu Jinjian, but Su Li held him back as Cheng Sirong and An Hui defended Su Li, and Song You told Liu Jinjian he had gone too far.
• Liu Jinjian accused Su Li of tripping him and claimed the production team had staged the projection, but Wang Xiang denied there were projections and reminded him that the show offered no assistance.
• The guests lost interest in continuing the challenge, but Su Li announced that he had found the different mannequin.
• Su Li explained that the mannequin's bloody wounds were not fatal and that its swollen, purple face and bloodshot eyes showed it had died of suffocation.
• Wang Xiang confirmed Su Li's answer, while Chen Zhuo, Cheng Sirong, An Hui, and Song You praised him.

After the challenge, Su Li relaxed while Zheng Xing massaged him and discussed his emotional power with Yuan, who admitted he wanted to massage Su Li himself. Meanwhile, Liu Jinjian fumed over online criticism and heard strange noises in his room before his assistant Fan Ping knocked at the door.

• Wang Xiang congratulated the guests on completing the challenge and announced the next stream would begin at two that afternoon.
• Zheng Xing massaged Su Li, who told Yuan that emotional power had driven Liu Jinjian to lose control; Yuan praised Su Li and confessed he wanted to massage him too.
• Su Li sent Zheng Xing to fetch the Under-Table Ghost, the headless female ghost, and a ghost doll for a task.
• Liu Jinjian read the trending topics and comments criticizing him, then posted on Feibo accusing others of abusing their power to bully him.
• Liu Jinjian heard thumping beneath his floor, then heard knocking at the door as Fan Ping called for him to open it.

Liu Jinjian complained about his lunch and asked Fan Ping whether the Manor was haunted, while Su Li gave fruit tea to the other guests. Steward Li led the guests into the eerie Toy House and told them to find the hidden young mistress before playing her game.

• Liu Jinjian rejected the production team's lunch, then accepted it after Fan Ping explained that deliveries were difficult to arrange.
• Liu Jinjian asked Fan Ping about rumors that the Manor was haunted, and Fan Ping reassured him.
• Su Li gave fruit tea to the other guests, and Liu Jinjian realized they had received courier deliveries after all.
• Steward Li led the guests to the Toy House and opened its door with a key assembled from three fragments.
• Steward Li told the guests to find the hidden young mistress and handed each of them a flashlight before leaving.

Su Li and the other guests searched the dark Toy House for its little mistress and found a notebook hinting at the girl’s strange life and the dolls. After Su Li smashed a pink crystal ball, the dolls suddenly changed, leaving the group facing an unknown threat.

• Su Li told the guests to stay together after the Toy House’s lights went out, and they searched it by flashlight for the little mistress.
• Song You found a notebook describing a girl brought home by a woman she called Mother, strange dolls, two other children, and a pink ball.
• Su Li asked the group to keep the notebook as a possible clue, while Liu Jinjian challenged his decisions and the others ignored him.
• The guests found a spotless pink crystal ball among the dark-eyed dolls, and an eerie childlike laugh startled them.
• Su Li smashed the crystal ball and said the little mistress would appear, as Liu Jinjian protested and Chen Zhuo and An Hui defended Su Li.
• The dolls on the shelves suddenly changed.

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.