Chapter Summaries

After Jian Ran ended Wei Yuxi’s possession and revealed the livestream’s hidden goal of finding the Prince of Zhennan’s imperial heirloom seal, Wang Pangzi tried to recruit him for the search. Jian Ran refused, then discussed the seal’s history with Lu Yanting, whose advances led Jian Ran to agree to kiss him.

• Jian Ran told Wei Yuxi that she had been possessed, then declared the group safe for the night and went to sleep with Lu Yanting.
• Lu Yanting wondered whether Jian Ran came from another world, and Jian Ran reacted nervously when Lu said he was interested in his soul.
• Wang Pangzi revealed that the livestream’s objective was to find the Prince of Zhennan’s imperial heirloom seal, which was said to command the souls of the dead.
• Jian Ran suspected the earlier research team had come to find the seal and refused Wang Pangzi’s offer to hire him, despite the promised two hundred million.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting discussed whether the Empress’s father had committed the atrocities blamed on the Prince of Zhennan.
• Lu Yanting pressed Jian Ran to take the initiative and kiss him, and Jian Ran agreed.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting nearly clarified their feelings before Liu Ying's father appeared outside their tent and interrupted them. The next morning, Jian Ran accepted extra payment to guide the production crew into the jungle, where he led them away from a route marked in Wang Pangzi's notebook and toward a place that smelled of blood.

• Jian Ran realized he might like Lu Yanting, but he shoved him away after spotting Liu Ying's father peering through the tent window.
• The next morning, Wang Pangzi asked Fu Haidong when the crew could enter the Mass Grave, and Fu Haidong told him to ask Jian Ran for a reading.
• Jian Ran agreed to guide the crew for extra pay, then noticed someone in the jungle with Lu Yanting before leading everyone onward.
• When Wang Pangzi tried to follow the route in his notebook, Jian Ran called it a trap and pointed the crew in another direction.
• Jian Ran sniffed the soil in the cold, foggy jungle and said that many people had likely died nearby, exciting Wang Pangzi that they had found the right place.

Lu Yuhuan received Zhong Fanrui’s offer of evidence against Qin Hong while Old Master Lu and Lu Zhendong confronted their family’s expectations for him. Meanwhile, Jian Ran and the production crew uncovered a palace made of skulls at the Mass Grave, where Liu Yuheng took Fu Donghai hostage and accused Jian Ran of causing the danger.

• Zhong Fanrui offered Lu Yuhuan evidence that Qin Hong had misappropriated the Jian Family’s assets and asked for a way out, but Lu Yuhuan said he would ask Jian Dan first.
• Old Master Lu showed Lu Zhendong photographs of Lu Yuhuan with Jian Dan, and Lu Zhendong said he would no longer force his son to carry on the family line.
• Fu Haidong found bloodied dirt at the Mass Grave, and Jian Ran revealed a huge pit beneath the ground.
• Wang Pangzi and the production crew descended into the pit and discovered a palace built from human skulls.
• Liu Yuheng held Fu Donghai at knifepoint and insisted they had to leave the Mass Grave.
• Liu Yuheng called Jian Ran a walking disaster and a seductress, and Jian Ran realized who was behind the supernatural tricks.

Jian Ran explained that the skull palace had been built by rebels to frame the Prince of Zhennan, then triggered a hidden mechanism that opened a great door. Meanwhile, Zhong Fanrui sent Lu Yuhuan evidence that Qin Hong had framed the Jian Family, and the livestream cut off just as the door opened.

• Jian Ran frightened Liu Yuheng into collapsing, and the production team and Fu Donghai passed the incident off as a joke after Liu Yuheng regained consciousness.
• An anti-fan gave up trying to smear Jian Ran, while Zhong Fanrui sent Lu Yuhuan evidence that Qin Hong had framed the Jian Family.
• Lu Yuhuan forwarded Zhong Fanrui's evidence to his father and asked him to pass it to the police.
• Jian Ran identified the skull arrangement as a curse and explained that rebels had built the palace to sever the dragon vein and frame the Prince of Zhennan.
• Jian Ran touched the glowing skull table, triggering a rumble and opening a great door before the livestream went black.

Jian Ran agreed to join Yu Shan’s archaeological team to help legitimize the show, then rescued Wang Pangzi from a skeletal hand in the passage. He prepared to livestream an explanation, but reassured Lu Yanting that he would do anything for him.

• Online backlash against Extreme Survival spread, and Yu Shan proposed hiring Jian Ran onto the archaeological team to explain the operation.
• Yu Shan offered Jian Ran an official post and an annual salary starting at ten million, and Jian Ran accepted so he could take part in archaeological work.
• Jian Ran told Wang Pangzi to turn on the camera once they reached level ground and clear up questions about the show’s legitimacy.
• A skeletal hand seized Wang Pangzi and began pulling him into the wall, but Jian Ran snapped it off and urged everyone to escape.
• Jian Ran asked the cameraman to start the livestream, but Lu Yanting stopped him, and Jian Ran said he would do anything for him.

Jian Ran defied the system and chose to protect Lu Yanting, then used talismans to save the production crew and revealed an official role with the Cultural Relics Bureau during a livestream. After the broadcast was cut, a supernatural force disabled his talismans, and a coffin opened to reveal an armored corpse.

• Jian Ran agreed to Yu Shan's request despite the system's warning that changing the plot would prevent the Villain's death, declaring that he would keep Lu Yanting alive.
• Jian Ran used talismans to destroy the skeletal hands attacking the production crew in the secret chamber.
• Jian Ran ordered the crew to start a livestream and claimed he worked under the Cultural Relics Bureau to protect cultural relics, but the feed abruptly cut off.
• The lamps went out and the livestream connection failed, so Jian Ran took Lu Yanting's hand and tried to use a talisman, which did not work.
• Jian Ran drew a glowing sword and threatened the supernatural force, causing the lamps to flare and revealing a dragon-and-phoenix-carved coffin that opened to release a green-eyed corpse in dark-iron armor.

Jian Ran sealed the green-eyed corpse back inside its coffin, then touched its blood and witnessed how Zhong Zehui was betrayed and killed by his father, Chancellor Zhong Shenglu. The vision revealed a connection to Zhong Fanrui and left Jian Ran facing a generations-old feud.

• Wang Pangzi and the others fled as the green-eyed corpse attacked Jian Ran.
• Jian Ran outmaneuvered the corpse, sealed it inside the coffin with talismans, and stabbed it with his sword.
• After touching the black blood, Jian Ran saw Zhong Shenglu order Zhong Zehui to kill prisoners, but Zhong Zehui refused.
• Zhong Shenglu arranged to have Zhong Zehui poisoned and ordered the prisoners killed while his son lay incapacitated.
• Zhong Zehui witnessed the massacre before collapsing, and Jian Ran felt the resentment left behind.

After witnessing how Zhong Shenglu and the Imperial Preceptor planned to imprison Zhong Zehui’s risen corpse, Jian Ran realized the supposed Prince of Zhennan’s Tomb concealed a darker purpose. When a spell awakened Zhong Zehui again, Jian Ran sent the production crew toward the exit and confronted the force controlling the corpse.

• Zhong Zehui rose as a vicious ghost and slaughtered everyone around him while Zhong Shenglu watched.
• The Imperial Preceptor ordered Zhong Shenglu to build a tomb from human bones to suppress Zhong Zehui, and Zhong Shenglu planned to blame the Prince of Zhennan.
• Jian Ran woke beside Lu Yanting and explained that the tomb was meant to imprison Zhong Zehui, while the Imperial Seal was likely a fabricated distraction.
• A spell reached the secret chamber and made Zhong Zehui thrash inside his coffin, so Jian Ran directed Wang Pangzi and the crew to escape through an exit to the southeast.
• Zhong Zehui burst from the coffin and attacked Jian Ran, who kicked the corpse away and challenged whoever controlled it to fight him directly.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting fought Old Zhong and the summoned bones after Old Zhong tried to seize Lu Yanting. Jian Ran and Lu Yanting escaped as Zhong Zehui turned on Old Zhong and the palace collapsed behind them.

• Old Zhong seized Lu Yanting by the throat, prompting Jian Ran to confess that Lu Yanting was the person he wanted to spend his life with.
• Lu Yanting broke free and revealed his combat skills, while Jian Ran kicked Zhong Zehui’s corpse back into submission.
• Old Zhong unleashed the bones trapped in his palace and pursued Jian Ran and Lu Yanting as they made their way toward the exit.
• Jian Ran struck Zhong Zehui with Talisman Paper, causing him to rise and attack Old Zhong.
• Jian Ran grabbed Lu Yanting and fled through the exit as the palace collapsed, burying everything behind them.

After Jian Ran and Lu Yanting escaped the Mass Grave, Jian Ran used Golden Light Rain to lay the trapped souls to rest, and their relationship became public during the journey home. At the Lu residence, Jian Ran agreed to stay with Lu Yanting, while the system failed to persuade him to return to his original world and unbound itself.

• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting came out of the Mass Grave as the ground shook, and Jian Ran urged the production crew to flee while he prepared to guide the remaining souls to rest.
• Jian Ran used Golden Light Rain over the Death Forest, clearing its white mist, and viewers speculated online that he and Lu Yanting were a couple after seeing them leave hand in hand.
• On the way home, Lu Yanting refused to let Wang Pangzi get Jian Ran's contact details, but Jian Ran convinced him to allow it because he wanted to keep selling Talisman Paper.
• At the Lu family residence, Old Master Lu celebrated Jian Ran and Lu Yanting's relationship and proposed sending them abroad to register their marriage; Jian Ran agreed to take responsibility for Lu Yanting.
• After Lu Yanting led Jian Ran into the bathtub, the system urged Jian Ran to complete his mission and return to his original world, but Jian Ran threatened to destroy its company and it agreed to unbind itself.
• Lu Yanting returned with clean clothes and promised Jian Ran he could have a turn next time, leaving Jian Ran suspicious that he was being set up again.

After Lu Zhendong’s team explained that Jian Ran’s actions had resolved their department’s major problems, Jian Ran declined their medal and focused on leaving with Lu Yanting to register their marriage. At the airport, Jian Ran’s mother celebrated the judgment against Qin Hong and rejected the Lu family’s betrothal gifts, while Lu Yanting ended the chapter by teasing Lu Yuhuan about lasting longer.

• Lu Zhendong and his team waited at the Lu Family Old Residence to present Jian Ran with the Department's Highest Honor Medal, but Jian Ran refused it and asked them to explain what had happened.
• Lu Zhendong told Jian Ran that the Imperial Preceptor’s departed soul had stopped showing electrical fluctuations, the Prince of Zhennan and Sheng Le remained asleep beneath the Tomb, and the Lu Family’s curse was gone.
• Jian Ran declined the medal and told Lu Zhendong and the others to leave so he could eat.
• Old Master Lu brought Jian Ran’s mother from the hospital and offered her betrothal gifts, including money and shares, but she refused them and rejoiced that Qin Hong’s assets would repay the victims.
• At the airport, Lu Yuhuan complained that Lu Yanting had beaten him to marrying Jian Dan, and Lu Yanting replied that he lasted longer than his brother, prompting Jian Ran to scold him.

Zhong Fanrui found comfort in Top Rapper's sincere love, while Jian Ran and Lu Yanting celebrated their wedding amid jealousy, apologies, and teasing. The ceremony ended with Lu Yanting pressing Jian Ran to explain the system and Taixu, leaving their story together to continue beyond the wedding.

• Zhong Fanrui saw Jian Ran and Lu Yanting's wedding announcement, then accepted Top Rapper's flowers and embraced him after he said Zhong was irreplaceable.
• Jian Dan promised Lu Yuhuan they would marry after Jian Dan graduated, then they prepared to return for Lu Yanting and Jian Ran's wedding.
• Jian Ran's three ex-boyfriends, Yu Fengyi, Ji Yuanming, and Bai Jingchuan, brought him gifts and apologized before Lu Yanting angrily sent them away.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting walked down the aisle together and kissed as their friends celebrated their marriage.
• Lu Yanting revealed he had heard Jian Ran mention the system and Taixu in his sleep, and Jian Ran tried to flee before Lu Yanting stopped him.