Chapter Summaries

At the fishpond, Lin Chuan publicly tore into Han Xuan'er after she tried to take his shaded seat beside Su Li, quickly earning online fame as Trash-Talk Chuan. Han Xuan'er ran off in tears, and Su Li rewarded Lin Chuan and the others with chilled sour plum drink as they continued fishing.

• The guests arrived at the fishpond, where Zheng Xing set up a sun umbrella for Su Li and Lin Chuan took the seat beside him before Han Xuan'er could claim it.
• Han Xuan'er asked Lin Chuan to switch seats, but he refused and accused her of seeking publicity by clinging to Su Li.
• Lin Chuan continued insulting Han Xuan'er when she protested, stunning the guests and earning praise and criticism in the livestream comments.
• Han Xuan'er burst into tears and ran off, while clips of Lin Chuan's insults spread online and earned him the nickname Trash-Talk Chuan.
• Su Li praised Lin Chuan and had Zheng Xing serve chilled sour plum drink to the guests and production crew.

During a fishing competition in Huai Village, Han Xuan'er saw ghostly heads rise from the pond while Su Li revealed that five ghosts lurked in the water. Han Xuan'er mistook Su Li’s suggestion that she rest for concern and kept fishing, unaware that he sent strange energy toward her.

• Su Li asked Lin Chuan whether he sensed ghosts nearby, then told him they would find out soon.
• Han Xuan'er returned to filming after her manager said the incident had boosted her popularity, and she resumed fishing.
• Han Xuan'er saw two pale heads surface in the pond and screamed, but the others saw nothing.
• Su Li told Han Xuan'er to rest, but she interpreted his words as concern and insisted on continuing to fish.
• Su Li told Lin Chuan there were five ghosts in the pond, frightening him away from fishing.
• As Han Xuan'er imagined winning Su Li over, he sent a wisp of strange energy toward her, and it attached itself to her.

Han Xuan'er was pulled into the pond by ghosts, but Su Li secretly drew them into the Ghost Ring and the crew rescued her. After Han Xuan'er left the show, Lin Chuan was told to keep in contact with Su Li and investigate the woods outside the village, while Su Li told Chen Zhuo that his good-looking partner was not in the industry.

• Ghosts grabbed Han Xuan'er by the ankles and tried to drag her underwater as the crew struggled to pull her out.
• Su Li drew the ghosts from the pond and locust tree into the Ghost Ring, allowing the crew to rescue Han Xuan'er.
• Wang Xiang stopped the livestream and arranged for Han Xuan'er to go to the hospital before announcing her withdrawal from the show.
• Lin Chuan told his team leader that Su Li had identified five ghosts in the pond, and the team leader ordered him to stay away from the pond and investigate the woods outside the village.
• Su Li confirmed to Chen Zhuo that ghosts had dragged Han Xuan'er into the water and said his good-looking partner was not in the industry.

Su Li visited the chief of Huai Village to question him about his deal with the ghost outside the village. After threatening the chief’s family, Su Li got him to agree to tell the story, but the chapter ended before he revealed anything.

• Yuan cooked dinner for Su Li, and Su Li shared a photo of the meal on Moments.
• Su Li told Yuan he planned to visit the village chief that night and collect materials from the woods the next night.
• Xie Zhirou brought the village chief to Su Li, who asked how long the chief had been dealing with the ghost outside the village.
• Zheng Xing restrained the chief when he tried to escape, and Su Li threatened his family until the chief agreed to talk.

The village chief confessed that he had sacrificed villagers and outsiders to a ghost in exchange for wealth and that the ghost had cursed villagers who tried to leave Huai Village. Su Li spared him and went to the woods, where Lin Chuan and his assistant were overwhelmed by glowing ghost heads as the Demon-Suppression Bureau watched helplessly.

• The village chief told Su Li that he had sacrificed people to a ghost for years, enriching Huai Village while the ghost cursed its residents and forbade them from leaving.
• Su Li said the ghost would disappear the following night and let the village chief live, warning him to keep his promise to stop the sacrifices.
• Su Li, Yuan, and Zheng Xing walked through the village, and Yuan told Su Li that Lin Chuan had gone to the woods outside Huai Village.
• Lin Chuan and his assistant entered the woods to investigate, where glowing heads appeared on pagoda trees and surrounded them.
• Lin Chuan and his assistant used several specialized bullets to destroy two heads, but more attacked until Lin Chuan ran out of ammunition and faced imminent death.

Su Li rescued Lin Chuan and another Demon-Suppression Bureau agent, then entered the woods alone to confront the ghosts. After capturing several spirits and defeating the guards around a coffin, he faced the strongest ghost as it rose to attack him.

• Su Li approached Lin Chuan and the Demon-Suppression Bureau team, and the terrifying heads vanished before him.
• Lin Chuan thanked Su Li for saving his life, while Su Li told the team to leave the area.
• Lei Shizhong spoke with Su Li through the assistant’s device, but Su Li refused the Bureau’s help and went deeper into the woods alone.
• Su Li captured resentful spirits and had Xie Zhirou defeat the ghosts carrying a bridal sedan chair; the female ghost revealed that the strongest ghost was in a nearby coffin.
• Xie Zhirou and Zheng Xing subdued the six ghosts guarding the coffin, and its occupant emerged in a rage and attacked Su Li.

Su Li captured a Ghost Zombie and later refused Lei Shizhong’s invitation to join the Demon-Suppression Bureau. When Li Xin insulted Su Li and Lin Chuan, Zheng Xing seized him, and Su Li warned that he would kill anyone who provoked him.

• Su Li restrained the Ghost Zombie, forced it to submit, healed it with a Soul Crystal, and stored it in his ring.
• Su Li sent Zheng Xing and Xie Zhirou to search for more ghosts, then left the woods satisfied with the day's haul.
• After Han Xuan'er withdrew from the show, the remaining guests finished filming and celebrated with a barbecue.
• Lei Shizhong invited Su Li to become a Special Operations Consultant for the Demon-Suppression Bureau, but Su Li declined.
• Li Xin insulted Su Li and Lin Chuan, so Zheng Xing appeared beside him and lifted him by the neck with black energy.
• Lei Shizhong asked Su Li to spare Li Xin, and Su Li warned the group that he was willing to kill.

Su Li crippled Li Xin’s spiritual power after Li Xin provoked him, and Lei Shizhong decided the Demon-Suppression Bureau should avoid confronting Su Li. After Su Li returned to City A, he introduced his boyfriend Qi Yuan to his friends, who discovered Qi Yuan was the mysterious chairman of Liyuan Technology.

• Su Li ordered Zheng Xing to spare Li Xin’s life but strip him of his spiritual power, leaving him an ordinary person.
• Lei Shizhong took Li Xin to the Demon-Suppression Bureau, where physicians confirmed his powers were gone, and the group leaders decided not to provoke Su Li.
• Su Li told the Four-Person Group that he had a boyfriend, startling An Hui, Cheng Sirong, and Chen Zhuo.
• Fans crowded around Su Li at the airport, where Yuan and Su Li’s assistants protected him.
• Su Li brought Qi Yuan to meet An Hui, Cheng Sirong, and Chen Zhuo, who learned that Qi Yuan chaired Liyuan Technology.

Su Li and Yuan shopped together before encountering Demon-Suppression Bureau captain Xu Wenyue and her squad struggling with a ghost possessing a child. Su Li offered to help exorcise the ghost, and Xu Wenyue led them to the mission while warning her team to behave.

• Yuan doted on Su Li during their meal, and they went to the mall to buy matching outfits.
• A saleswoman recognized Su Li, took a photo with him, and realized Yuan was the man seen beside him in an airport photo.
• Su Li spotted Xu Wenyue and her squad on the road, stopped the car, and asked why they were there.
• Xu Wenyue explained that the squad did not know how to handle a ghost possessing a child, and Su Li offered to help.
• Xu Wenyue led Su Li and Yuan to the mission and warned her squad that Su Li had crippled Li Xin.

Xu Wenyue brought Su Li to the Wu family villa to treat Mr. Wu’s possessed son, and Su Li pulled a ghost from the boy and destroyed it. The boy recovered, and the Wu family suspected Mr. Wu’s younger brother had arranged the attack; Xu Wenyue’s team left to report that the person who wielded the ghost was still at large.

• Xu Wenyue and Su Li visited the Wu family villa after promising they could treat Mr. Wu’s son, whose strange symptoms had baffled doctors.
• Su Li pulled a blue-black ghost from the bound boy and crushed it, restoring the child to normal.
• Xu Wenyue showed Mr. Wu a toy containing ghostly energy, and Mr. Wu concluded that his younger brother had arranged the attack to secure the family inheritance for his own child.
• Su Li left without accepting payment, and Xu Wenyue suggested that Mr. Wu could repay him by offering him an endorsement.
• Xu Wenyue told her team that the younger brother’s ghost-wielding accomplice was the true mastermind and led them back to report to Team Leader Lei.

Su Li killed the ghost keeper who had possessed the Wu Family heir’s child with a ghost, and the Demon-Suppression Bureau later found the man dead. Meanwhile, Su Li’s Heard Illusion perfume ad went viral, selling out its first 150,000 bottles in seconds and turning the niche brand into a national sensation.

• Su Li arrived at the abandoned factory with Yuan, where a red-clad woman killed the ghost keeper before Su Li collected the weak ghosts and left.
• Xu Wenyue and her Demon-Suppression Bureau team found the ghost keeper’s body and took it away for examination.
• Heard Illusion released Su Li’s perfume ad, and viewers flooded the comments with reactions to his striking transformation from elegant prince to seductive figure.
• Su Li watched the ad with Yuan, who held him tightly, and Su Li soothed him with a kiss.
• Heard Illusion’s first 150,000 bottles sold out within three seconds, prompting the founder to offer Su Li a permanent ambassadorship and raise his fee.
• Heard Illusion added another 50,000 bottles the next day, and they also sold out instantly.

Zhou Jing brought Su Li endorsement offers and auditions, and learned that he was dating his personal bodyguard, Yuan. Su Li accepted several opportunities and announced his new company, Fated Beginning Entertainment, before he and Yuan shared an intimate moment.

• Zhou Jing visited Su Li and found him cuddling with Yuan, whom Su Li introduced as his personal bodyguard and boyfriend.
• Zhou Jing showed Su Li offers, including a lucrative YK Cosmetics endorsement connected to the Wu Group, whose family he had recently helped.
• Su Li accepted an audition for a criminal investigation drama and an interview and magazine shoot.
• Su Li told Zhou Jing that he had founded Fated Beginning Entertainment, and the news sparked discussion on Feibo.
• An Hui, Your Sister Cheng, and Zhuo Zhuo Zhuo congratulated Su Li and expressed interest in joining his company.
• Su Li explained the meaning behind the company name to Yuan, kissed him, and Yuan carried him into the next room.

Su Li auditioned for and won the role of Ye Cheng, while his acting and songwriting brought him even greater fame. He ended the chapter at home with Yuan, amused that fans were guessing they were dating.

• Zhou Jing took Su Li to audition for a drama backed by Wu Corporation, where he met Lin Chuan, who had also come to audition.
• Su Li used gold-rimmed glasses to transform his appearance and successfully auditioned for Ye Cheng.
• Lin Chuan later told Su Li that he had passed his audition too, so they would appear in the same production.
• Scheming for the Realm set a viewership record, and viewers praised Su Li's portrayal of Xiao Mo after the character's death.
• Chen Zhuo released Su Li's song “Blue and White Porcelain,” prompting widespread acclaim and requests from singers for Su Li to write songs for them.
• At home, Su Li and Yuan cuddled as fans speculated that Su Li was dating someone, and Yuan said they could wait to see when the fans figured it out.

Su Li began filming Zhao He's drama, Chasing Crime, where Fan Xiaolei tried to smear him after Lin Chuan rebuffed his insults. Evidence exposed Fan Xiaolei's lies, and Su Li decided to keep him on the production so he could use him as bait at their next, supposedly haunted filming location.

• Su Li arrived on set, where Lin Chuan welcomed him with sweets and milk tea before Fan Xiaolei insulted them and Lin Chuan sharply retorted.
• After filming, paid trolls spread a rumor that Su Li and Lin Chuan had bullied Fan Xiaolei, who posed online as a frightened victim.
• A promotional account released footage of the encounter and records of Fan Xiaolei hiring trolls, prompting netizens to mock him.
• Director Zhao He offered to remove Fan Xiaolei, but Su Li told him to let the actor finish filming.
• Su Li told Yuan he planned to use Fan Xiaolei as bait at D City Medical University, where Yuan had found rumors of ghosts; they kissed that night.

Su Li filmed at D City Medical University, where he learned about a supposedly haunted bridge and handled Fan Xiaolei’s attempts to provoke him. After Fan Xiaolei mysteriously began choking when he tried to trip Su Li, Su Li defended him and the crew praised his kindness.

• Su Li and the crew arrived at D City Medical University, where Lin Chuan worried about the university’s rumored supernatural history.
• Zheng Xing told Su Li that students called a bridge near the lake Ghost Bridge and that strange incidents had also been reported in the laboratory building.
• During a scene, Fan Xiaolei added unscripted lines to challenge Su Li, who answered calmly and outperformed him.
• Fan Xiaolei tried to trip Su Li, but an unseen force choked him until the scene ended.
• Fan Xiaolei claimed a ghost had choked him, and Su Li persuaded Zhao He to give him another chance.
• The crew criticized Fan Xiaolei and praised Su Li for defending him despite his repeated provocations.

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.