Chapter Summaries

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.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting faced the paper figures besieging the Mountain Villa, while the staff’s defenses initially held off the attackers. When the figures found another way inside, Jian Ran rushed upstairs to fight them, and Lu Yanting followed, hoping Jian Ran would rescue him.

• Jian Ran guessed that the paper figures’ hunger came from being eaten alive and asked Lu Yanting what he knew about coffin births.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting went downstairs holding hands, where the paper figures crowded the windows and chanted that they wanted to eat.
• A paper figure exploded through the entrance, but the glutinous rice on the floor set the figures that entered alight and reduced them to ash.
• Jian Ran learned that the second floor had not been protected and warned everyone that the paper figures were climbing the walls.
• Jian Ran cut down a paper figure with his peachwood sword, gave Li Yuan talismans to hand out, and rushed upstairs.
• Lu Yanting dodged Li Yuan’s offer of a talisman and followed Jian Ran upstairs, intending to get Jian Ran to rescue him.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting fought off the paper figures attacking the Mountain Villa while Jian Ran discovered his talismans were empowered with Lu Yanting’s blood and teased him as an old virgin. A scream from Li Zongsheng’s room revealed the night’s real threat, and Jian Ran went to confront it.

• Jian Ran protected Lu Yanting from a lunging paper figure and urged him to stay inside while he fought outside.
• Lu Yanting returned to the lobby, then secretly fought paper figures barehanded as Li Yuan and the others hid.
• Jian Ran used blood-empowered talismans to destroy paper figures and realized Lu Yanting’s blood burned with unusual purity.
• Jian Ran laughed that Lu Yanting was an old virgin, and Lu Yanting asked whether his virginity mattered to Jian Ran.
• A woman screamed from Li Zongsheng’s room, and Jian Ran kicked open the door to face a mangled, bloody creature.

Jian Ran overpowered the bloodied creature in the guest room and was about to free it when Liu Ying’s fierce ghost intervened and carried him to the Deserted Village. There, Jian Ran witnessed the past events that led to Liu Ying’s death, while Lu Yanting followed after him.

• Jian Ran entered the guest room, subdued the humanoid creature with the Peachwood Sword, and offered to set it free.
• Liu Ying’s fierce ghost attacked the room, and Jian Ran ordered Du Yunmeng and the other guests to escape.
• Lu Yanting kicked Du Yunmeng aside and followed Jian Ran out the window toward the Deserted Village.
• Jian Ran entered the Deserted Village and saw a vision of Liu Mother discovering Liu Ying’s body in an iron cabinet.
• Liu Mother accused the Clan Leader of breaking his promise and warned him that Liu Ying would have her child and retribution would come.

Jian Ran watched Mother Liu use shamanistic rites to resurrect her dead daughter, Liu Ying, despite the dangerous price involved. Liu Ying rose from the bathing tub at dawn, and a neighbor mistook her for a risen corpse and raised the alarm.

• Mother Liu took Liu Ying’s body from the ancestral hall after the clan chief and villagers condemned the dead girl and her unborn child.
• Mother Liu prepared ritual implements and ordered Father Liu to place Liu Ying in a wooden tub, then promised that both Liu Ying and her child would live by dawn.
• Mother Liu performed a soul-summoning ritual as a sinister wind and ghostly faces gathered around the house.
• At dawn, Liu Ying opened her eyes and slowly rose from the tub, while Jian Ran warned that Mother Liu might not be able to bear the price.
• Father Liu rushed to fetch clothes for Liu Ying, and a neighbor saw her and shouted that the corpse had risen.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting went to the hillside graves to investigate Li Zongsheng’s story, and Jian Ran threatened to blast open a grave until Li Zongsheng agreed to continue. Li Zongsheng recounted returning to the village and finding it deserted and gruesome before seeing a figure he believed was Liu Ying turn its head all the way around.

• Mother Liu intimidated a neighbor who called Liu Ying a reanimated corpse, while Father Liu accepted that his daughter was alive despite her cold skin.
• Jian Ran saw that Liu Ying’s life would last only a short time and that the child in her belly fed on yin energy.
• Lu Yanting followed Jian Ran into the Deserted Village, where Jian Ran warned him not to turn around if anyone called him.
• Jian Ran chose one of the 107 graves to dig and threatened to use a Five Thunders Talisman unless Li Zongsheng told the rest of his story.
• Li Zongsheng recounted returning to a silent village, finding a mutilated villager, and fleeing when the figure hanging children’s clothes turned its head unnaturally toward him.

Li Zongsheng recounted his return to the Taihang Mountains, where he encountered the monstrous Liu Ying and fled from the village. After escaping, he secretly returned to watch Liu Mother torment and devour the clan chief, then ran again when she spotted him.

• Li Zongsheng described how he defied his parents and endured a hunger strike to leave home and find Liu Ying.
• Liu Ying chased Li Zongsheng through the village, pleaded with him for abandoning her, and revealed that they had a child; Li Zongsheng fled again after seeing their monstrous son.
• Li Zongsheng told Jian Ran that he had escaped the village, seen it shrouded in fog, and climbed back up the mountain to investigate.
• From a cliff, Li Zongsheng saw Liu Mother torment the clan chief and then devour him.
• Liu Mother spotted Li Zongsheng, who scrambled away, prompting Jian Ran to call him a coward.

Li Zongsheng returned to marry Liu Ying, but Liu Mother manipulated Liu Ying into killing him before she realized what she had done. Jian Ran then confronted Liu Mother at Liu Ying’s grave and exposed her lies, as Liu Ying appeared behind her and accused her of deception.

• Liu Mother blamed Li Zongsheng for Liu Ying’s suffering and urged Liu Ying to kill him.
• Liu Ying, controlled by her mother, strangled Li Zongsheng, then regained her senses and mourned his death.
• Liu Ying accused Liu Mother of turning her and her child into monsters, while Liu Mother refused to let her go.
• Jian Ran ordered Li Zongsheng to dig up Liu Ying’s grave, drawing Liu Mother out to confront them.
• Jian Ran revealed that Liu Mother had intercepted Li Zongsheng’s loving letters and fabricated his betrayal to keep Liu Ying by her side.
• Liu Ying appeared behind Liu Mother, grabbed her by the neck, and asked whether her mother had lied to her.

Jian Ran forced Li Zongsheng to explain why he had never betrayed Liu Ying, exposing Liu Mother's role in keeping them apart. As Liu Ying confronted her mother, her child sacrificed itself to save Liu Mother, and the chapter ended with Liu Mother attacking Lu Yanting while Jian Ran protested that they had nothing between them.

• Jian Ran stopped Li Zongsheng from fleeing and made him explain how Liu Mother's family had imprisoned him and prevented him from returning to Liu Ying.
• Li Zongsheng swore that he had never betrayed Liu Ying, and Liu Mother revealed that she had intercepted his letters.
• Liu Ying accused Liu Mother of turning her into a walking corpse and making her kill the person she loved, then struck at her.
• Liu Ying's child blocked the attack and was fatally wounded, telling Liu Ying it was glad to finally see her.
• Liu Mother blamed Jian Ran and charged at Lu Yanting, while Jian Ran shouted that there was nothing between them.

Jian Ran fought Liu Mother while protecting Lu Yanting, and the Mountain Villa’s defenses weakened as the battle distracted whatever was behind them. When the paper figures returned, the people inside fled toward Jian Ran, and a livestream broadcast his fight, causing a scandalous hashtag about Lu Yanting to trend.

• Jian Ran confronted Liu Mother with his Peachwood Sword and shielded Lu Yanting, who had a bleeding wrist wound.
• Lu Zhendong learned the second barrier had weakened and guessed that something inside had been distracted.
• The paper figures returned to the Mountain Villa, prompting Li Yuan and Qi Rui to panic.
• Du Yunmeng and the others fled through a window toward the Deserted Village to find Jian Ran, while the cameraman ran with his camera.
• The livestream captured Jian Ran fighting Liu Mother and protecting Lu Yanting, and viewers posted screenshots that sent a hashtag about Lu Yanting trending.

Jian Ran defeated the evil forces haunting the Deserted Village and Mountain Villa, but collapsed from the strain. As the survivors discovered that the entire ordeal had been livestreamed, Li Yuan tried to pass it off as scripted.

• Lu Yanting took Liu Mother's flying stones to protect Jian Ran, and Jian Ran attacked her with a golden talisman.
• Liu Ying shielded Liu Mother from the talisman, forgave her, and asked her to stop hurting people and join her after death.
• After Liu Ying vanished, Li Zongsheng asked Jian Ran to send him after his wife, while Jian Ran saw that Liu Mother had died and paper figures were closing in.
• Jian Ran cast a massive talisman over the Deserted Village and Mountain Villa, dispelling the paper figures and sending Li Zongsheng and the child away.
• Jian Ran collapsed into Lu Yanting's arms, and Li Yuan learned the night's events had been livestreamed and announced that season one of Lucky Inn had ended.