Recaps

Jian Ran secured a place on Lucky Inn with Lu Yanting and faced a string of supernatural events at the remote villa. After confronting ghosts and attracting the attention of officials investigating anomalies, he led the cast down the mountain toward town.

• Jian Ran persuaded Lu Yanting to join Lucky Inn by warning him of danger and offering him a talisman, while Xu Xuda secured Jian Ran a place on the show.
• Jian Ran joined the cast at a remote mountain villa, where he warned that unusual guests would arrive and Li Zongsheng appeared despite the closed entrance.
• Jian Ran served Li Zongsheng noodles and repelled his attack, then kept him trapped in a guest room overnight with talismans.
• Ji Yuanming joined the cast, and Jian Ran led Du Yunmeng and Lu Yanting to an abandoned village where they found Li Zongsheng’s gravestone among more than a hundred graves.
• When a ghost attacked the villa during a blackout, Jian Ran sealed a wardrobe, confronted a female ghost, and drove her away as Lu Yanting and Ji Yuanming watched.
• Officials at a secret base reviewed Jian Ran’s connection to events such as averting a mudslide and suspected he was an unnatural creature.
• Jian Ran warned the cameraman that the family Buddhist shrine had dubious origins, then led the guests down the mountain, where an old man fled after learning they came from the villa.

Jian Ran investigated the story of Liu Ying and uncovered the guests’ connection to the village as the Mountain Villa became surrounded by paper figures. With the Ghost Festival approaching, Du Yunmeng revealed that Liu Ying had given birth to a corpse-born child, and Jian Ran prepared to defend the group.

• Jian Ran learned from an old couple that a village beauty had become pregnant by a visiting playboy and been abandoned, then punched Ji Yuanming when he grabbed his arm.
• Jian Ran forced Li Zongsheng’s ghost to answer questions and learned that the woman who had appeared the previous night was an old flame who had rejected their breakup.
• Jian Ran fought the red-veiled ghost that possessed Ji Yuanming, and he and Lu Yanting later returned dragging Ji Yuanming through the fog.
• Jian Ran investigated the old woman’s account of Liu Ying’s punishment and found an iron wardrobe in her home, while Lu Yanting explained that villagers had sealed Liu Ying inside with sand and mud.
• Jian Ran entered Liu Ying’s Resentment Domain and witnessed the villagers bury her alive, then confronted her after being pulled back out and refused to spare her for killing innocent villagers.
• Jian Ran treated Ji Yuanming after sand appeared in his blood, while rain, mudslides, and miasma cut off the Mountain Villa and 107 paper figures gathered outside.
• Jian Ran accused Du Yunmeng of burning his talismans, and she admitted it before warning that everyone would die on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month and asking about a corpse-born child.
• Jian Ran deduced that Liu Ying’s shaman mother had made her half-human and half-ghost, then prepared talismans with Lu Yanting’s blood as a paper figure pressed against the window and spoke of the guests as food.

Jian Ran ended the Mountain Villa crisis by uncovering Liu Mother's deception, defeating her, and sending the trapped spirits onward. After returning to city life, he joined Pure Romance One-on-One, where a campus haunting put Bai Jingchuan in danger and the guests faced a chilling warning at their dorm.

• Jian Ran discovered that Liu Mother had intercepted Li Zongsheng’s letters and fabricated his betrayal, while Liu Ying’s child died protecting her from Liu Mother.
• Jian Ran defeated Liu Mother and used a massive talisman to dispel the paper figures and send Li Zongsheng and the child away, then collapsed into Lu Yanting’s arms.
• Lu Yanting carried the unconscious Jian Ran to the hospital, and Jian Ran later agreed to join Pure Romance One-on-One as Lu Yanting signed on too.
• Jian Ran rejected Zhong Ruoxi’s attempts to belittle him, helped Sun Meizhou secure the apartment, and negotiated a three-million fee for the show at Yandong University.
• At the university, Bai Jingchuan arrived late and was ordered to clean the men’s restroom, where Jian Ran found him unconscious beside a ghost wearing his face.
• Jian Ran slapped the ghost until it collapsed, and Zheng Huai revived Bai Jingchuan with water while Lu Yanting made Bai clean the restroom afterward.
• Jian Ran and the other guests traveled through a sandstorm to the dorms, where Wei Xiaoxue warned them not to leave their rooms or open the door, then said no one would inspect a room full of dead people.

Jian Ran uncovered the truth behind Yandong University's vengeful spirits, reunited Li Xinyi and Wang Meng, and rescued Bai Jingchuan before leaving with the guests. He then accepted a dangerous film job tied to the Bai patriarch's search for Yun Ying and arrived at the abandoned hospital with Lu Yanting and the crew.

• Jian Ran investigated the dormitory haunting, survived the board game's scenarios, and discovered that Li Xinyi's resentment came from the bullying that preceded her death.
• Jian Ran confronted Li Xinyi and Wang Meng, who confessed their feelings and burned their souls to end the curse as Li Mo dissipated in remorse.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting found Bai Jingchuan, and Jian Ran carried him from the burning school as dawn broke.
• The guests chose Jian Ran as their partner on the ride back, and the Bai patriarch invited him to help rescue Yun Ying from the Sixth People's Hospital.
• Jian Ran investigated the hospital's history, accepted Feng Xianghui's film contract for ten million, and learned Lu Yanting had joined the production.
• Jian Ran noticed that the script's Huo Yun Ying might be connected to the woman the Bai patriarch sought, while Lu Yanting pushed for more romantic scenes.
• Jian Ran traveled with the film crew to the dark hospital and saw motionless patients standing in its courtyard.