Recaps

Jian Ran mocked Su Yuan’s bad luck at the banquet, then Su Yuan encountered a ghost while changing aboard the cruise ship. Jian Ran and Xu Xuda arrived in time to interrupt the encounter, and Su Yuan collapsed in terror as Jian Ran teased him.

• Jian Ran asked Lu Yanting, who had been born able to see supernatural phenomena, whether he could predict lottery numbers.
• Su Yuan insulted Xu Xuda, then spilled wine on his own bespoke suit when he knocked into a waiter.
• Lu Yanting told Su Yuan to borrow a suit and said the replacement would come out of his salary.
• Xu Xuda asked Jian Ran to help Su Yuan’s luck, and Jian Ran joked that Su Yuan’s nasty mouth ruined his fortune.
• Su Yuan entered a changing room on the cruise ship and froze when a child’s voice offered to help him find clothes.
• Jian Ran knocked on the door, scaring off the ghost, and Su Yuan collapsed as Xu Xuda helped him out.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting attended a cruise gala where Su Yuan panicked after a frightening encounter and was unable to leave the ship. As the first prize draw began, Jian Ran spotted a resentful ghost onstage and saw Guest number 38 win the grand prize.

• Xu Xuda helped the shaken Su Yuan, but a waiter refused to let them disembark and directed them to the ship’s medical facilities.
• Su Yuan begged Jian Ran for talismans and asked Lu Yanting to speak on his behalf, accidentally calling Jian Ran Lu Yanting’s missus.
• Jian Ran noticed Bai Jingchuan among the guests and realized that several male leads from the melodramatic novel had gathered on the ship.
• Lu Yanting leaned close to Jian Ran, but the host’s announcement of the prize draw interrupted their moment.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting saw a pale, resentful figure gripping the host’s neck as Guest number 38 was announced as the grand-prize winner.

Jian Ran confronted the ghost who had rigged the prize draw, then faced his cousin Zhong Fanrui in the restroom. Zhong Fanrui taunted Jian Ran about Yu Fengyi, only for Yu Fengyi to appear and challenge him over calling him leftovers.

• Host Zhang Xin mistakenly announced Jian Ran as the winner, and Jian Ran demanded prize money before learning he had won a candlelit dinner voucher.
• Zhang Xin realized Jian Ran was the variety-show celebrity he admired and asked whether the cruise ship was haunted, while Jian Ran told him the strange number reading had revealed the ghost's presence.
• Jian Ran entered a restroom stall and beat the ghost until it promised to choose him again in the next draw, then let it escape when footsteps approached.
• Jian Ran found Zhong Fanrui in the restroom, where Zhong Fanrui claimed Yu Fengyi was one of his many suitors and called Jian Ran a poor imitation.
• Yu Fengyi appeared at the restroom entrance and asked Zhong Fanrui if he was surprised to see his leftovers there.

Jian Ran exposed Zhong Fanrui’s manipulative behavior, then began plotting to change the cursed villain’s fate by staying close to Lu Yanting. The chapter left them preparing for a masked hide-and-seek game aboard the cruise ship, where the last guest found would win the grand prize.

• Jian Ran backed Yu Fengyi as he confronted Zhong Fanrui and ended their relationship.
• Zhong Fanrui tried to slap Jian Ran, but Jian Ran struck him first and ignored his threats.
• Jian Ran worried that the vacationing system might punish him later, then recalled that the villain could defy fate.
• Jian Ran decided to identify the villain and help him avoid his early death, telling Lu Yanting he had his back.
• The host announced a masked hide-and-seek game, with a punishment for the first guest caught and a grand prize for the last one remaining.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting entered a dangerous hide-and-seek game aboard the Cruise Ship, where Guests who were found were eliminated and the one who stayed hidden until the end went missing. They slipped into a dark room to hide, and Jian Ran suspected it might be a mortuary.

• The broadcast announced that every Guest had to participate in the game and warned that fighting or disturbing the Ship Cabin's furnishings would lead to disqualification.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting joined the line for Guests whose numbers ended in eight, and Lu Yanting bribed a server to let him enter with Jian Ran.
• Lu Yanting told Jian Ran that a Guest who stayed hidden until the end went missing, while Jian Ran focused on winning the prize.
• Jian Ran suggested hiding in the birthday girl's room, then hurried with Lu Yanting to find a hiding place before the countdown ended.
• Jian Ran opened a dark red door and entered with Lu Yanting, but they found themselves in darkness and smelled something that made Jian Ran wonder if they had entered a mortuary.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting investigated strange noises in a specimen storeroom aboard the cruise ship, where Jian Ran destroyed an animated severed hand with a Five Thunder Spell. A ghostly girl confronted them over her broken specimens, and Jian Ran warned her to stop threatening them.

• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting hid in the organ specimen storeroom and overheard two volunteers searching nearby.
• Lu Yanting explained that volunteers could take the place of unwilling participants, and Jian Ran suspected they could disappear without official records.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting followed strange noises into the storeroom and found preserved human specimens said to belong to a medical prodigy.
• A severed hand escaped its broken jar and charged at Jian Ran, who struck it with Talisman Paper and detonated it with a Five Thunder Spell.
• A ghostly girl in a princess dress appeared and demanded payment for her broken specimens, threatening to turn Jian Ran into one.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting evaded the ship’s pursuers and hid in a mortuary, where they discussed a deadly incident from the cruise ship’s past. Lu Yanting suggested the Chaebol Family might have poisoned the cake that killed many guests, then the lights went out as he hinted at brutal sacrifices involving family members.

• Jian Ran teased the little girl until she vanished, then left the Specimen Room with Lu Yanting after they noticed a hidden camera.
• Jian Ran told Lu Yanting he suspected an organization was arranging the supernatural shows and asked whether he worked for them; Lu Yanting denied it.
• The announcement said Guests 12, 27, and 49 had been found, so Jian Ran pulled Lu Yanting into a dark room to hide.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting found an empty mortuary and discussed reports that poisoned cake had killed many people aboard the ship.
• Lu Yanting suggested the Chaebol Family might have poisoned the cake and spoke of cult sacrifices before the mortuary lights suddenly went out.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting uncovered the truth behind the annual birthday banquet and suspected the little girl’s Wraith wanted help finding her parents. After Lu Yanting deliberately revealed his location to protect Xu Xuda, Jian Ran searched the Cruise Ship for the girl’s room while Lu Zhendong’s crew watched him on the cameras.

• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting deduced that the birthday banquet had been a cult sacrifice in which the little girl and her guests were poisoned, and Lu Yanting explained that her dying curse forced families to attend each year.
• Jian Ran guessed that the little girl’s parents were hiding from her and that she had designed the ship’s game to make guests find them.
• The broadcast announced that Xu Xuda, number 39, would be punished for revealing his location, and Jian Ran suspected someone had set him up.
• Jian Ran asked Lu Yanting to reveal his location so they could track him, and Lu Yanting agreed, called out that he wanted to be eliminated, and left the mortuary.
• Jian Ran felt his heart pound as Lu Yanting left, then searched the Cruise Ship for the little girl’s room while Lu Zhendong’s worker complained that Jian Ran seemed able to see the surveillance crew.

Jian Ran questioned Diana in the pink room and used her memory to uncover how her mother led her into a bloody ritual. The memory ended with Diana being forced to watch people offer their organs to a mysterious Lord, while her mother claimed their faith kept them from feeling pain.

• Jian Ran found a room filled with pink human organ models and angered Diana by wiping dust from her vanity.
• Jian Ran learned that the girl was named Diana and that she believed her parents would take her to become an angel.
• Jian Ran touched Diana's forehead and asked to see what had happened to her.
• In Diana's memory, her mother reassured her that becoming an angel would not hurt and spoke of serving a new Lord.
• Diana's mother brought her to a room where people with their chests and bellies cut open shouted that they would offer their organs to the Lord.
• Diana's mother forced her to watch, insisting that the people felt no pain because they had faith.

Jian Ran witnessed the memory of Diana’s birthday, when her parents betrayed her during a cult ritual and turned her into an evil spirit. He stopped Diana from running off to find them and promised to look for her parents himself, leaving her waiting with him.

• Diana’s mother reassured her that she would become a whole angel after her birthday, and Diana changed into a party dress for the celebration.
• At the masked guests’ banquet, Diana wished for one last happy birthday, cut the cake, and began bleeding and collapsing in pain.
• Diana’s father arrived pushing a cart of organs while her mother stabbed her and removed her organs for the ritual.
• Diana watched her organs being placed on the altar and became an evil spirit, while Jian Ran later asked whether she had killed her parents and ruined the ritual.
• Diana insisted that her parents were still playing hide-and-seek, but Jian Ran held her back and offered to find them; she agreed to wait.

Jian Ran tracked down a hidden chamber aboard the ship, broke through its sealed door, and found Xu Xuda and other captives awaiting a sacrifice. He left Xu Xuda behind to search for Lu Yanting, while masked cultists arrived and began operating on a figure in the chamber.

• Jian Ran followed a compass to a hidden chamber, and Lu Zhendong watched as the staff discussed the unusual handmade compass.
• Jian Ran ignored a warning about restricted areas and blasted a hole through the sealed iron door with talisman paper.
• Jian Ran found Xu Xuda and other captives hanging in the chamber, and Xu Xuda explained that masked people had captured him.
• Jian Ran asked about Lu Yanting and Su Yuan, then discovered a hidden passage and left Xu Xuda behind to investigate.
• Xu Xuda pretended to be unconscious as a man and a woman entered and began drilling into a human-shaped figure on a chopping block.

Jian Ran rescued Lu Yanting from a secret chamber and confronted the demon’s human servants after Lu Yanting was badly injured protecting him. Jian Ran seized the woman and threatened to crush her, though he had promised Diana to take the pair back to the past.

• Jian Ran freed Lu Yanting, discovered the demon mural, and set it on fire to provoke the creature.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting fled the shaking chamber, but Lu Yanting pulled Jian Ran clear of a demon’s claw and was severely wounded protecting him.
• Jian Ran used Talisman Paper to drive the demon back, rescued the unconscious Lu Yanting, and treated his bleeding.
• A blond man and a woman carrying chainsaws approached, while Xu Xuda remained unconscious nearby.
• Jian Ran confronted the woman about Diana and seized her by the throat, warning that he could crush her if he had not promised to take them back to the past.

Jian Ran sacrificed Diana and the Demon to save her parents from the Cruise Ship, then woke in a hospital and learned Lu Yanting was in surgery but out of danger. As Jian Ran waited for him, the system returned and panicked at what its host had been doing.

• Diana agreed to destroy the Demon even if she and her parents disappeared, and Jian Ran used a blood-fueled seal to trap the Demon as the Cruise Ship shook.
• Jian Ran woke in a hospital and learned Lu Yanting had been taken into surgery and was expected to survive.
• Lu Zhendong introduced himself as the Director of the Non-Natural Creature Research Institute, but Jian Ran demanded his grand prize and rejected his attempt to recruit him.
• Jian Ran learned Lu Yanting had lost a lot of blood but suffered no internal injuries, and he waited anxiously outside the operating room.
• The system returned from vacation, reviewed Jian Ran’s recent experiences, and screamed in shock at what he had done.

After Lu Yanting woke in the hospital, Jian Ran agreed to visit the Lu Family home, while the system urged him to help change Lu Yanting’s fate. Lu Yuhuan then claimed Lu Yanting wanted to marry Jian Ran only to break the Lu Family curse, and Jian Ran concluded that this explained his ominous divinations.

• Jian Ran confronted the system about its absence, and it admitted it had skipped work after a customer service agent from the Transmigration-into-a-Book Bureau broke its heart.
• The system told Jian Ran that Lu Yanting was in danger and that Jian Ran had a chance to change his fate.
• Lu Yanting woke and asked Jian Ran if he was hurt, while Old Master Lu thanked Jian Ran and invited him to the Lu Family home.
• Lu Yanting asked Jian Ran to reconsider his proposal, and Jian Ran promised to visit the Lu Family home when Lu Yanting threatened to move despite his wound.
• Lu Yuhuan told Jian Ran that Lu Yanting needed a partner surnamed Jian to break the Lu Family curse and was using him for that purpose.
• Jian Ran realized Lu Yanting wanted to marry him, which explained why his divinations had always been ominous.

After rejecting Lu Yuhuan and learning that Ji Yuanming had fallen for Jian Ran, Zhong Fanrui broke down in grief. Jian Ran refused Gu Feng’s attempt to warn him away from Lu Yanting and left after rejecting an early contract renewal, declaring that Lu Yanting could live a long life with him by his side.

• Jian Ran rejected Lu Yuhuan, who then insulted Zhong Fanrui and told him that the people he had kept close were now devoted to Jian Ran.
• Zhong Fanrui called Ji Yuanming, who admitted that he had fallen for someone else, and Zhong Fanrui hung up and wept.
• Gu Feng offered Jian Ran a contract renewal worth fifty million a year and invited him to a family dinner.
• Gu Feng warned Jian Ran that Lu Yanting was not expected to live past thirty, but Jian Ran insisted Lu Yanting would live long with him beside him.
• Jian Ran refused to discuss renewing his contract and left Gu Feng’s office.

Gu Feng fumed over losing Jian Ran, while Bai Jingchuan finally let go of Zhong Fanrui and continued longing for Jian Ran. As Jian Ran investigated the Lu Family curse, he reunited with Lu Yanting and bluntly told Su Yuan he was destined to have no descendants.

• After Jian Ran left, Gu Feng complained that Lu Yanting had won him over, then learned from his grandmother that Old Master Lu expected Jian Ran to visit and celebrated a coming wedding.
• Bai Jingchuan regretted losing Jian Ran, suspected he had broken the Cruise Ship’s curse, and later left the hospital without comforting Zhong Fanrui as Lu Yuhuan berated him.
• Jian Ran searched for information about the Lu Family curse and asked Lu Yanting for his exact birth date and eight characters.
• Lu Yanting waited for Jian Ran and told Su Yuan to ask him directly for forgiveness and talisman paper.
• Jian Ran joined Lu Yanting and warned him about his stitched wound before Su Yuan asked for help with his marriage prospects.
• Jian Ran told Su Yuan that his face showed he was destined to have no descendants.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting arrived at the Lu Family villa for dinner, where Old Master Lu warmly welcomed Jian Ran and the family members watched with unease. When Lu Yuhuan arrived uninvited and insulted Jian Ran, Jian Ran warned him to beware of bloodshed, provoking him into anger.

• Jian Ran teased Su Yuan about his fate, while Lu Yanting said he did not want children either.
• The Lu Family gathered to welcome Jian Ran, and Old Master Lu personally escorted him toward the banquet hall.
• Lu Yuhuan arrived uninvited and accused Old Master Lu of favoritism, but Lu Yanting avoided a confrontation to keep the dinner calm.
• At dinner, an older woman questioned whether Jian Ran would quit acting after marriage, and Old Master Lu rebuked her for interfering.
• Lu Yuhuan mocked the Lu Family's short lives, so Jian Ran warned him that he might face bloodshed and called him an idiot; Lu Yuhuan sprang to his feet in anger.

After Jian Ran drove Lu Yuhuan away, Old Master Lu confided that the Lu Family’s fate was tied to a complicated curse and offered Jian Ran a role in a dangerous film. Jian Ran learned Lu Yanting would also be at risk during the shoot and promised to bring him back safely.

• Lu Yuhuan threatened Jian Ran and stormed out, while the Lu Family members praised Jian Ran and toasted him.
• Jian Ran stopped Lu Yanting from drinking because his wound had not healed, delighting Old Master Lu with their closeness.
• In the study, Jian Ran demanded that Old Master Lu reveal everything about Lu Yanting’s situation and said the Lu Family’s fate needed to be changed at its root.
• Old Master Lu discussed Lu Yuhuan’s jealousy and Lu Yanting’s reluctance to become his successor, then offered Jian Ran a hundred-million-yuan role in the film A startling dream in Southern City.
• Old Master Lu warned that supernatural incidents could endanger Lu Yanting during filming, and Jian Ran promised to bring his grandson back in one piece.

Lu Yuhuan met the new security guard, Jian Dan, and wondered about his connection to Jian Ran after an accidental kiss. Jian Ran visited his critically ill mother at the hospital and faced Jian Dan's anger, while deciding he would not be blamed for the original owner's past.

• Lu Yuhuan had Jian Dan escort him home, then wondered aloud what Jian Dan's relationship to Jian Ran was after they accidentally kissed.
• Jian Ran received a call from his younger brother and learned their mother was critically ill at Qingtan Hospital.
• Jian Ran went to room 306 and reunited with his mother, who was overjoyed to see him.
• After their mother fell asleep, Jian Dan told Jian Ran to leave, and Jian Ran challenged him not to judge whether he deserved respect.

Jian Ran arranged better treatment for his mother, Wei Qin, and gave Jian Dan money for her care before meeting Lu Yanting at the hospital. Lu Yanting called himself Jian Ran’s boyfriend, while Wei Qin mistook him for a male friend and asked him to look after Jian Ran for life.

• Jian Ran learned that Jian Dan was struggling to pay Wei Qin’s hospital fees and revealed he had already paid them.
• Jian Ran arranged Wei Qin’s transfer to a better hospital and told Jian Dan to use the money he sent for her medicine and living expenses.
• Jian Ran warned Jian Dan that he might soon have romantic luck with a dangerous risk, then Lu Yanting arrived and questioned their closeness.
• Lu Yanting said he had come to get his dressing changed and asked to visit Wei Qin, while Jian Dan told him she was awake.
• Lu Yanting introduced himself to Wei Qin as Jian Ran’s boyfriend, but she understood him to be a male friend and asked him to take care of Jian Ran for the rest of his life.

Jian Ran left the hospital with Lu Yanting, who offered him a black card and a job changing his dressings as they headed to Southern City. Meanwhile, Jian Dan was working at a bar when he unexpectedly came face-to-face with Lu Yuhuan, who had noticed him.

• Jian Dan questioned whether Jian Ran was trying to redeem himself, but Jian Ran said he was not seeking forgiveness and left the hospital.
• Lu Yanting told Jian Ran he did not believe Jian Ran had once been heartless, then offered him a job changing his dressings and gave him a black card.
• Jian Ran wondered aloud about burial grounds in Southern City, and Lu Yanting warned him not to do anything illegal.
• Liu Qi and other wealthy men arranged a bar gathering for Lu Yuhuan, and Jian Dan served drinks there.
• Lu Yuhuan spotted Jian Dan and watched him, while Liu Qi ordered Jian Dan to sit beside Lu Yuhuan and pour him a drink.

Jian Dan was rescued from a drunk patron by Lu Yuhuan, who then rode with him on his electric scooter. Meanwhile, Jian Ran’s divination hinted that Jian Dan’s romantic prospects involved the Lu Family, and Jian Ran and Lu Yanting left for the airport to film a movie connected to breaking the Lu Family curse.

• Lu Yuhuan asked Jian Dan whether he knew Jian Ran, and Jian Dan denied it.
• When a drunk patron tried to force himself on Jian Dan, Lu Yuhuan punched the man and had Liu Qi’s group deal with him.
• Jian Dan thanked Lu Yuhuan and prepared to leave for class, but Lu Yuhuan asked for a ride on Jian Dan’s electric scooter.
• Jian Ran cast a divination that suggested Jian Dan’s romantic prospects were connected to the Lu Family, then asked Lu Yanting whether the family had any eligible daughters.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting headed to the airport with the production crew, and Lu Yanting explained that the movie was a less obvious way to address his grandfather’s curse while avoiding people and guarding against them.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting arrived in Southern City to film Old Stories of Southern City, where the crew reviewed strict safety rules. Jian Ran spotted the old man from the foot of the Taihang Mountains following them, and the assistant presented the actors with an agreement disclaiming responsibility for anything that happened during filming.

• Online discussion erupted after Old Stories of Southern City announced Jian Ran and Lu Yanting as its leads.
• Jian Ran woke on the plane to Lu Yanting watching him, and Lu Yanting said Jian Ran might feel safer by his side.
• The film crew arrived in Southern City by luxury coaches while Yu Fengyi, back at a meeting, suspected Jian Ran was cursing him.
• The director's assistant warned the crew about Southern City's rules, including a ban on going outside after eight at night.
• Jian Ran spotted the old man from the foot of the Taihang Mountains and told Lu Yanting that the man had followed them.
• The director's assistant asked Lu Yanting and Jian Ran to sign an agreement making them responsible for their own lives during filming.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting arrived at Southern City to begin filming, where Jian Ran sensed danger and asked Lu Yanting to share his room. After Lu Yanting defended their relationship from gossip, Jian Ran joked that an ancient corpse resembled him, and Lu turned the remark into flirtation.

• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting signed the production's advance safety agreement along with the other actors, and the crew arrived at Southern City.
• Jian Ran used divination and, sensing danger, asked Lu Yanting to share a room with him; Lu happily agreed.
• Director Yu Hong warned the actors not to wander or damage artifacts, while the assistant director stopped them from gossiping about their co-stars.
• Jian Ran ignored the actors' chatter and hurried toward the city, thinking of the money he hoped to earn; Lu Yanting warned one actress not to call them a publicity stunt or marketing campaign.
• Cultural Heritage Bureau staff opened Southern City's gate and gave the crew brochures showing an ancient burial; Jian Ran said the handsome corpse resembled Lu Yanting.
• Lu Yanting replied that he would have to become a corpse first and asked whether Jian Ran could bear that, leaving Jian Ran flustered by the flirtatious response.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting arrived at the guesthouse, where Lu insisted on sharing a twin room with him, provoking Yu Hong. After Jian Ran spotted and confronted a female ghost in red, she attacked him and tore off his Talisman Paper.

• Lu Yanting rejected a single room and said he would share a twin room with Jian Ran, while Yu Hong objected.
• Yu Hong canceled special single-room arrangements for the cast and crew, who then went to the shabby guesthouse.
• Jian Ran noticed something unusual between Lu Yanting and Yu Hong, but stopped Lu from looking when he spotted a female ghost in red.
• Jian Ran confronted the ghost in the corridor, slapped Talisman Paper over her mouth, and threatened her.
• The female ghost clawed at Jian Ran, dodged his grasp, and tore the Talisman Paper from her mouth, burning her hand with its golden light.