Recaps

Jian Ran chased down an old man who had mistaken him for a ghost, then learned the tragic story behind the Deserted Village. Ji Yuanming interrupted their conversation and grabbed Jian Ran, who punched him and warned him not to touch him again.

• Jian Ran ran after the old man with the abandoned hoe and caught up to him in his courtyard.
• Jian Ran reassured the old couple, advised the old woman to move her Guanyin statue, and asked about the Deserted Village.
• The old couple told Jian Ran that a beauty from the village had fallen for a visiting playboy, become pregnant before marriage, and been abandoned.
• Ji Yuanming barged into the courtyard and drove the old couple to end their conversation with Jian Ran.
• Ji Yuanming grabbed Jian Ran's arm, and Jian Ran punched him and warned that he would hit him again if he touched him.

Jian Ran punched Ji Yuanming after Ji Yuanming provoked him, while Lu Yanting made clear that he only meddled in Jian Ran’s business. Back at the inn, Li Yuan announced that tycoon Yu Fengyi was joining the show with funding, and Jian Ran reacted with anger.

• Jian Ran stormed off after hitting Ji Yuanming, and the livestream audience argued over who was at fault.
• Lu Yanting asked whether Ji Yuanming was hurt, then said he would tell Jian Ran that Ji Yuanming wanted to be hit again.
• Bai Jingchuan learned that Jian Ran was appearing on a variety show and questioned his assistant about why she had not told him.
• Jian Ran returned to the Lucky Inn carrying heavy supplies, and Qi Rui fell when he tried to help lift the rice sack.
• Li Yuan announced that Yu Fengyi was joining the show and bringing a million, but Jian Ran warned that inviting him would attract more unclean things.

Jian Ran demanded reimbursement for supplies and confronted the ghost Li Zongsheng about his past relationships and the woman who had visited him. Their conversation was interrupted by a call from International Racer C, and Li Zongsheng mistook Jian Ran for a fellow womanizer.

• Jian Ran insisted that Li Yuan reimburse him for rice, soybean oil, and delivery, and Li Yuan agreed.
• The guests returned with food, and Lu Yanting told Li Yuan that Ji Yuanming had been hit by Jian Ran after Jian Ran thought he was being molested.
• Jian Ran went to Li Zongsheng’s dark room and used a talisman to make the ghost surrender and answer his questions.
• Li Zongsheng said he had had many partners and identified the woman from the previous night as an old flame who would not accept their breakup.
• Jian Ran asked for the woman’s name, but his phone rang, and Li Zongsheng saw the caller ID and teased him about juggling lovers.

Jian Ran’s supernatural influence kept the Lucky Inn guests obedient as Ji Yuanming learned that Yu Fengyi was joining the show. When Lu Yanting admitted he had never dated anyone, Jian Ran teased that he would teach him a few tricks.

• Li Zongsheng mistook the contact labels in Jian Ran’s phone for evidence that Jian Ran was juggling lovers, then vanished when a sinister gust blew through the window.
• Bai Jingchuan grew angry that Jian Ran had hung up on him, spotted Ji Yuanming on the Lucky Inn livestream, and correctly guessed that Yu Fengyi was the incoming guest.
• Jian Ran arrived in the kitchen and sent the nervous guests back to their tasks, while Ji Yuanming felt ignored and resented Lu Yanting’s smug approach toward Jian Ran.
• Li Yuan told Ji Yuanming that Yu Fengyi was joining the show, and Jian Ran scoffed that Yu Fengyi would get lost on the way.
• Jian Ran told Lu Yanting that Yu Fengyi was an ex-boyfriend, teased him for being jealous, and offered to teach him player tricks after Lu Yanting admitted he had never dated anyone.

Jian Ran waited up for Yu Fengyi, then used himself as bait to lure out a female ghost possessing Ji Yuanming. He beat the ghost away and ended by discovering the livestream camera in the lobby.

• Jian Ran sent Li Yuan and Qi Rui to bed, then questioned Qi Rui about whether Lu Yanting had ever been in a relationship.
• Jian Ran waited alone in the lounge and lured a ghost wearing a red bridal veil into the lobby.
• The ghost revealed that she had mistaken Jian Ran for Li Zongsheng and attacked him while possessing Ji Yuanming.
• Jian Ran punched the possessed Ji Yuanming and hurled the ghost away after it fled toward the kitchen.
• Jian Ran noticed the personal camera and asked who had put it there.

Jian Ran shut down the livestream after confronting a supernatural threat, then stayed out in the fog with Lu Yanting to search for Ji Yuanming. The next morning, the crew found a bloodied room and discovered Jian Ran and Lu Yanting returning with a filthy, blood-covered figure, prompting Li Yuan to fear they had committed murder.

• Jian Ran turned off the livestream and found the lobby empty after Ji Yuanming disappeared.
• Jian Ran encountered Lu Yanting, and the two went out into the fog to look for Ji Yuanming.
• Li Yuan found a bloodied, disordered room and raised the alarm when he could not call for help.
• The crew realized Jian Ran, Lu Yanting, and Ji Yuanming were all missing, and Du Yunmeng wondered if the three had gone on a date.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting returned dragging a blood-covered figure, and Li Yuan urged them to turn themselves in.

Jian Ran’s companions discovered that Ji Yuanming had survived the night, while Yu Fengyi arrived at the villa and insisted on staying near Jian Ran. Lu Yanting answered by announcing that he would move into Jian Ran’s room.

• Jian Ran’s companions panicked over Ji Yuanming’s apparent death, but Ji Yuanming woke up alive and remembered going to find Jian Ran after midnight.
• Lu Yanting suggested on camera that Ji Yuanming had gone to the cemetery out of guilt, prompting livestream viewers to reconsider their suspicions about Jian Ran.
• Yu Fengyi arrived at the villa, asked about Jian Ran, and learned that the guests were resting.
• Yu Fengyi asked to stay in the room beside Jian Ran’s, but Qi Rui told him Lu Yanting occupied it.
• Lu Yanting opened his door and told Yu Fengyi that he would move into Jian Ran’s room instead.

Yu Fengyi and Lu Yanting clashed over who would share a room with Jian Ran, but Ji Yuanming’s complaints interrupted them. At lunch, Jian Ran questioned the other guests about their reasons for staying and asked what connection they had to the Deserted Village behind the Mountain Villa.

• Yu Fengyi challenged Lu Yanting’s request to share a room with Jian Ran, and Lu Yanting dismissed concerns about Jian Ran’s reputation.
• Ji Yuanming complained about bloodied sheets, and Jian Ran yelled at him to stop making noise and leave him alone.
• Lu Yanting called Ji Yuanming a “Giant baby,” while Yu Fengyi laughed, and Yu chose the room diagonally opposite instead.
• Jian Ran woke hungry and joined Du Yunmeng, Yang Ruoxi, and Shen Jiafei for lunch.
• Jian Ran asked the three guests why they had not quit the dangerous show and whether they had come willingly.
• Jian Ran asked what connection the three guests had to the Deserted Village behind the Mountain Villa.

Jian Ran confronted Du Yunmeng about her connection to the Deserted Village, then rebuffed Yu Fengyi while Lu Yanting showed him concern. As conspirators debated their plan in secret, a sinister gust attacked Yu Fengyi in the corridor, and Jian Ran kicked him out of its path.

• Jian Ran questioned Du Yunmeng about her eyes and possible ties to the Deserted Village, but Yu Fengyi's interruption cut the conversation short.
• Lu Yanting asked Jian Ran whether he had eaten enough, and Jian Ran privately decided to give him a discount on their next transaction.
• Yu Fengyi accused Jian Ran of avoiding him, and Jian Ran mocked him in front of the cameras before walking away.
• Li Yuan worried that the inn had no customers while conspirators upstairs argued over whether to proceed with their plan before the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.
• Yu Fengyi offered Jian Ran a blank check, but a sinister gust rushed through the corridor, and Jian Ran kicked Yu Fengyi out of its path.

Jian Ran drove back a sinister presence while Lu Yanting confronted Yu Fengyi over his claim to be Jian Ran’s boyfriend. Yu Fengyi pursued Jian Ran into an eerie, deserted building and froze when he encountered paper figures outside.

• Jian Ran kicked Yu Fengyi into the corridor and ran out, using hand seals to force back a mass of white mist.
• Lu Yanting blocked Yu Fengyi and called himself Jian Ran’s current boyfriend, accusing Yu Fengyi of failing to defend Jian Ran from online rumors.
• Lu Yanting stepped aside, and Yu Fengyi chased after Jian Ran, only to find both Jian Ran and Lu Yanting had disappeared.
• Yu Fengyi descended to the lobby and found its furnishings covered in thick dust, as though the building had been abandoned for ages.
• Yu Fengyi opened the entrance door and froze at the sight of paper figures staring at him with hollow black eyes.

At the research base, Lu Zhendong investigated Jian Ran’s role in the Taihang Mountains anomalies and sought Lu Yanting’s number. After Jian Ran rescued Yu Fengyi from moving paper figures, he demanded higher pay for dealing with the supernatural incidents, and Lu Yanting offered to quit alongside him.

• Lu Zhendong reviewed livestream evidence that Jian Ran had repeatedly stopped electromagnetic waves and discussed recruiting him to the institute.
• Paper figures approached Yu Fengyi outside the Mountain Villa, and Jian Ran dragged him away before the figures could reach him.
• Yu Fengyi passed out, the livestream abruptly cut off, and viewers noticed Lu Yanting walking downstairs.
• The next morning, Jian Ran demanded more pay from Li Yuan or threatened to quit, saying the contract did not cover exorcising ghosts for idiots.
• Yu Fengyi accused Jian Ran of causing the previous night's events, but Jian Ran dodged him and set Li Yuan a half-hour deadline to answer.
• Lu Yanting pulled Jian Ran away from Ji Yuanming and said he would quit too if Jian Ran left.

Jian Ran resolved to keep his distance from Lu Yanting, then negotiated a higher fee for protecting the Guests on the variety show. After Lu Zhendong told Lu Yanting to get close to Jian Ran because he was talented and could protect him, Lu Yanting decided they would become very well acquainted.

• Jian Ran pulled away from Lu Yanting and left, while Li Yuan went to contact the director about pay.
• Lu Yanting insulted Ji Yuanming and Yu Fengyi, revealed what he knew about their relationships, and warned them of the Lu Family's power.
• Jian Ran wondered if Lu Yanting was trying to seduce him and decided to stay away from him.
• Li Yuan told Jian Ran he could earn the standard rate, and Jian Ran negotiated his payment up to two hundred and fifty thousand per season.
• Lu Zhendong called Lu Yanting and told him to get to know Jian Ran because Jian Ran was talented and could protect him.
• After the call, Lu Yanting decided he and Jian Ran would get to know each other very well.

Jian Ran sold Du Yunmeng premium talisman paper while Lu Yanting grew jealous and asked him to become his exclusive consultant. As they prepared breakfast, they discussed trouble expected at the Abandoned Graves on the Back Hill during the Ghost Festival, and Lu Yanting asked whether Jian Ran’s fate could clash with his.

• Jian Ran caught Du Yunmeng approaching him with a knife at his throat, then learned Du Yunmeng wanted to buy premium Talisman Paper before Seventh Month Fifteenth.
• Lu Yanting objected to Jian Ran’s closeness with Du Yunmeng and asked him to work exclusively as his consultant, but Jian Ran refused to turn away people seeking help.
• Jian Ran realized the Ghost Festival was two days away, and Lu Yanting offered to train him for free if he stopped putting his arm around other people.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting predicted trouble at the Abandoned Graves on the Back Hill and wondered which faction would cause it.
• Jian Ran said his fate currently clashed with the people getting in his way, and Lu Yanting asked whether their fates could clash.

Jian Ran left the Mountain Villa with Lu Yanting, Yu Fengyi, and Ji Yuanming to investigate the village and resumed hearing the old woman’s story. Her account revealed how the pregnant village girl was tortured for refusing to identify her lover, and Lu Yanting named the punishment she faced next.

• Jian Ran told Li Yuan he was going into town with Lu Yanting, but Yu Fengyi and Ji Yuanming joined them to keep Jian Ran from being alone with Lu Yanting.
• Jian Ran noticed Shen Jiafei, Yang Ruoxi, and Du Yunmeng watching from the Mountain Villa, along with indistinct drifting black shadows.
• Jian Ran returned to the old woman’s home, told Ji Yuanming to wait outside, and asked her to continue the village girl’s story.
• The old woman said the girl became pregnant, was confined by her parents, and endured the pig-cage punishment rather than reveal where her lover lived.
• Lu Yanting asked whether the elders’ cruelest method was locking the girl in an iron chest and pouring sand and mud into it.

Jian Ran listened to an older woman recount Feng Village’s cruel punishment for an unmarried pregnant woman, while Lu Yanting and Yu Fengyi traded barbed remarks. Jian Ran then spotted an old iron wardrobe inside the woman’s house and questioned her about where it came from.

• Lu Yanting explained that he knew about Feng Village’s punishment from reading, and Yu Fengyi mocked him for it.
• The older woman condemned Yu Fengyi as a scumbag, and Jian Ran joined in teasing him.
• The older woman described villagers sealing the pregnant woman inside an iron cabinet with sand and mud until she could no longer speak.
• Jian Ran noticed the older woman had moved her Guanyin statue and saw an old iron wardrobe inside her house.
• Jian Ran asked the older woman where the wardrobe had come from and why he had not seen it before.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting questioned the old woman’s account after finding her metal cabinet moved, then returned to the Mountain Villa as darkness sealed the guests inside. A ghostly woman’s voice threatened them, the lights shattered, and someone leaped into the air while ordering the camera off.

• Jian Ran, Lu Yanting, and Yu Fengyi confronted the old woman about her moved metal cabinet, but she drove them out before they could investigate further.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting discussed whether the old woman’s story was half true and whether Li Zongsheng had lied to them.
• Jian Ran returned to the Mountain Villa, accepted Du Yunmeng’s payment, and promised to draw something for her before the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.
• The Mountain Villa plunged into darkness despite the afternoon sun, and the guests realized they could not contact the director.
• A woman’s voice sobbed upstairs, accused everyone of wanting to hurt her, and threatened to kill them all.
• The lobby lights shattered as someone leaped into the air and shouted for the camera to be turned off.

Jian Ran confronted a supernatural disturbance at the Mountain Villa while the livestream crew discovered a camera and several guests were missing. Lu Yanting and Yu Fengyi went upstairs after him, and the chapter ended with Ji Yuanming crawling into a metal cabinet.

• Li Yuan found that a camera, Lu Yanting, Ji Yuanming, and Yu Fengyi were missing from the first floor.
• Three people in the kitchen worried that the disturbance had begun before the expected date and that they had not received their Talisman Paper.
• Lu Zhendong observed the white miasma around the Taihang Mountains and chose to keep watching rather than report the abnormal fluctuations.
• Lu Yanting found Jian Ran in a golden glow after a scream rang out, but Jian Ran vanished and told him to return downstairs.
• Ji Yuanming dismissed the disturbance as a trick and went looking for a camera, while Lu Yanting left and Yu Fengyi continued upstairs.
• Yu Fengyi saw Ji Yuanming crawling into a metal cabinet and shouted for him to get out.

Jian Ran inhabited Liu Ying as her family and village clan tried to force her to reveal Li Zongsheng’s address by burying her in mud and sand. After discovering Li Zongsheng had deceived other women too, Liu Ying swore to return as a vengeful ghost, while Jian Ran struggled to breathe inside the cabinet.

• Jian Ran entered the sheet-metal cabinet and found himself trapped in Liu Ying’s body as villagers poured mud and sand around her.
• The Clan Leader tried to make Liu Ying reveal Li Zongsheng’s address, while her mother and father pleaded with her to cooperate.
• A heavily made-up woman claimed Li Zongsheng was her lover and said she had borne him two children, exposing his repeated lies to Liu Ying.
• Liu Ying’s mother fainted, and her father left with her after telling Liu Ying he no longer considered her his daughter.
• The Clan Leader ordered the villagers to keep pouring mud and sand because he wanted money from Li Zongsheng, despite Liu Ying’s pregnancy.
• As the mud rose to her neck, Liu Ying swore that she would become a vengeful ghost and never let anyone there off.

Jian Ran was pulled from Liu Ying’s Resentment Domain and confronted the vengeful ghost inside a metal wardrobe. He left Yu Fengyi and Ji Yuanming downstairs while he beat Liu Ying, insisting that her tragic past did not excuse the villagers she had killed.

• Jian Ran was forcibly pulled out of Liu Ying’s Resentment Domain by golden talisman light.
• Jian Ran dragged Ji Yuanming out of the metal wardrobe and ordered Yu Fengyi to take him away.
• Yu Fengyi realized Lu Yanting had known Jian Ran was exceptional, while Lu Yanting announced that it was his turn to take the stage.
• Jian Ran stayed behind and repeatedly punched the metal wardrobe, refusing to spare Liu Ying because she had killed innocent villagers.
• Jian Ran told Liu Ying that he had an antisocial personality and called himself a psycho.

Jian Ran subdued Li Zongsheng’s ghostly attack, then told the group they should be safe for the night but warned them to wait until the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. As he discussed waiting for the insiders to expose themselves with Lu Yanting, someone reported that Ji Yuanming was bleeding and might be dying.

• Jian Ran was interrupted while dragging the vengeful ghost from the metal cabinet when a newborn-like wail sounded and Li Zongsheng attacked, causing the cabinet to vanish.
• Li Zongsheng dropped to his knees and begged Jian Ran to spare him, while Lu Yanting remarked that Jian Ran was not a good person.
• Jian Ran returned to the lobby, demanded water, and told Li Yuan that the group should be fine tonight but should wait until the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.
• Jian Ran told Lu Yanting that he would wait for the ghosts to come to them and for the insiders to reveal themselves.
• A crew member rushed downstairs to report that Ji Yuanming was bleeding for no apparent reason and looked close to death, but Jian Ran said it had nothing to do with him.

Jian Ran went to help Ji Yuanming after he collapsed, despite his reluctance to risk losing his pay. He discovered sand in Ji Yuanming’s blood and revived him, then warned Yu Fengyi to behave carefully in the Mountain Villa.

• The crew urged Jian Ran to help Ji Yuanming, and Jian Ran agreed after hearing the show might be taken down and he could lose his pay.
• Lu Yanting offered Jian Ran a lucrative job as a feng shui master for the Lu Family, but Jian Ran refused after his divination turned uncertain.
• Jian Ran arrived at Ji Yuanming’s room and sent the gathered guests away, leaving Yu Fengyi behind.
• Jian Ran found sand in the blood at Ji Yuanming’s eye and treated him by pressing several acupuncture points.
• Ji Yuanming began coughing and spewing filth, and Jian Ran warned Yu Fengyi that he needed to behave carefully in the Mountain Villa.

After Ji Yuanming survived the metal wardrobe, Lu Yanting ordered Su Yuan to investigate and recruit Jian Ran. As the crew remained trapped at the Mountain Villa ahead of the Seventh Month Fifteenth, paper figures appeared outside, and Jian Ran warned they might charge in that night.

• Ji Yuanming learned Jian Ran had saved him, but Lu Yanting and Yu Fengyi blamed him for causing trouble and ordered him to clean up.
• Lu Yanting called Su Yuan and demanded that he investigate Jian Ran and bring him over from Maple Blue Company within a day.
• Li Yuan learned that rain, mudslides, and miasma had cut off the Mountain Villa, leaving the crew unable to escape.
• A crew member told Li Yuan that dry paper figures had appeared at the entrance, staring into the Mountain Villa.
• Jian Ran emerged from his room and asked whether the paper figures would charge in that night.

Jian Ran prepared talismans for the coming battle while Lu Yanting tried to recruit him and followed his grandfather’s advice to win him over. When paper figures invaded the Mountain Villa, Lu Yanting stopped Jian Ran and asked whether he recognized the messenger’s voice.

• Jian Ran frightened Li Yuan by suggesting the paper figures might be connected to the 107 abandoned graves, and Qi Rui confirmed there were 107 figures outside.
• Lu Yanting found a puddle outside Jian Ran’s room and suspected Ji Yuanming had been there before he knocked on the door.
• Lu Yanting offered Jian Ran a million-yuan starting salary to join another entertainment company, and Jian Ran agreed to hear the proposal after learning it supposedly had no connection to the Lu Family.
• Jian Ran drew talismans and gave one to Lu Yanting, who wondered where Jian Ran had learned the craft and heard his grandfather’s advice to coax, trick, or force him into staying close.
• Someone announced that the paper figures had charged inside, and when Jian Ran moved to help, Lu Yanting grabbed his arm and asked whether he recognized the messenger’s voice.

Jian Ran exposed Du Yunmeng as the person who had been testing him and burning his talisman paper, while Lu Yanting outlined her suspected motives. Du Yunmeng dropped her timid act and, on the Seventh Month Fifteenth, began to reveal her connection to the Deserted Village by asking Jian Ran about a corpse-born child.

• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting went downstairs after someone claimed paper figures had entered the villa, and found them staring in through the fog-covered windows.
• The group discovered smoke rising from Jian Ran's room and put out a fire that had ruined the talisman paper.
• Jian Ran accused Du Yunmeng of starting the fire, and Lu Yanting described how she had tested Jian Ran and set up cameras to expose him or the village's past.
• Jian Ran asked what Du Yunmeng, Yang Ruoxi, and Shen Jiafei had to do with the village, and Du Yunmeng admitted burning the talismans and declared that everyone would die on the Seventh Month Fifteenth.
• Du Yunmeng asked Jian Ran whether he had ever heard of a corpse-born child.

Jian Ran investigated Liu Ying’s corpse-born child and prepared the Mountain Villa for an attack, while Lu Zhendong received orders from his father to protect Jian Ran. As night fell, the paper figures began moving and one pressed against the window, calling the people inside delicious.

• Jian Ran deduced that Liu Ying’s shaman mother had turned her into a half-human, half-ghost being and that Liu Ying had given birth to a corpse-born child.
• The livestream viewers speculated about the guests and a possible ghost among them, while Lu Zhendong’s subordinate failed to find the single-story house.
• Lu Zhendong’s father ordered him to keep Jian Ran safe and bring him back to the Lu Family, claiming Jian Ran might be key to lifting the family curse.
• Jian Ran had the guests prepare defenses downstairs and drew talismans upstairs using blood; Lu Yanting stopped him and supplied his own blood instead.
• Night fell, the paper figures moved, and one pressed its face to the window and said, “They all look so delicious,” prompting Qi Rui to call for Jian Ran.