Chapter Summaries

The film crew arrived at Sixth People's Hospital, where Jian Ran was assigned to share a room with Lu Yanting and struggled to keep him at a distance. Meanwhile, surveillance footage revealed the hospital staff forcibly injecting a patient, and the white-coated man warned that the crew would not leave.

• The crew arrived at the rundown Sixth People's Hospital and received instructions to stay orderly and begin filming that evening.
• Lu Yanting announced that he and Jian Ran would share a room, and Feng Xianghui praised Lu's dedication while confirming the arrangement.
• Feng Xianghui grew frightened by the dormitory's gloomy atmosphere and told Qin Xiao to stay with him overnight.
• Lu Yanting cornered Jian Ran and teased him about their compatible birth charts and Jian Ran's improved financial luck.
• Surveillance footage showed staff restraining and injecting a patient, while the middle-aged man watched and declared that the film crew would not leave the hospital.

Jian Ran explored the hospital grounds, learned that the former director had died after his guts spilled out, and met the stern acting director. As the cast prepared for a nighttime morgue scene, Jian Ran and Lu Yanting headed to dinner, where Jian Ran enthusiastically asked for more food.

• Jian Ran fled the dorm after seeing Lu Yanting emerge from the bathroom, then wandered into the courtyard.
• Patients surrounded Jian Ran with pruning shears, but he subdued two of them and persuaded three patients to show him around.
• Jian Ran spotted the acting director at a window and heard a patient claim that the former director had died after his guts spilled out.
• A burly nurse warned Jian Ran that the patients were dangerous, and the patients ran off when the nurse called them back to work.
• Lu Yanting asked where Jian Ran had been, and Jian Ran stopped him from questioning the patients before Special Assistant Qin called them to dinner.
• The actors discussed filming a nighttime morgue scene, while Jian Ran ate heartily in the cafeteria and asked the cafeteria lady for another chicken drumstick.

Jian Ran joined the cast and prepared to film a morgue scene with Lu Yanting, discovering that their characters’ first encounter involved a physical search. The scene ended with Lu Yanting pinning Jian Ran against a wall so convincingly that Jian Ran was left flustered.

• Jian Ran charmed the cafeteria lady into giving him two extra chicken drumsticks, then hurried to eat before the evening shoot.
• Qin Xiao gathered the crew and explained that Jian Ran’s character, Gu Fanxing, would clash with Lu Yanting’s Wang Yichuan during a morgue investigation.
• Jian Ran remembered the added script scene in which Wang Yichuan pinned Gu Fanxing against a wall and searched him.
• Yu Zhuo said she was comfortable filming around the body, and the crew began shooting in the prepared morgue.
• During the scene, Gu Fanxing argued with Wang Yichuan and tried to retaliate when Wang stopped him from leaving.
• Lu Yanting pinned Jian Ran against the wall and said he suspected Gu Fanxing was carrying something dangerous, leaving Jian Ran speechless and embarrassed.

During a suspense-thriller shoot, Jian Ran improvised a counterattack against Lu Yanting, then helped frighten director Feng Xianghui when a corpse seemed to open its eyes. After the crew left, the corpse rose for real, and Jian Ran struck it back down.

• Jian Ran elbowed Lu Yanting during a scene, and Feng Xianghui stopped filming to scold him for improvising.
• Lu Yanting praised Jian Ran’s counterattack, and Feng Xianghui accepted the take after reviewing it.
• During a morgue scene, Feng Xianghui thought the corpse had opened its eyes and collapsed into Qin Xiao’s arms.
• Jian Ran closed the corpse’s eyes, and the crew ended filming for the night.
• After most of the crew left, the corpse sat up, and Jian Ran hit it on the head and ordered it back down.

Jian Ran threatened the corpse into staying quiet, then accidentally kissed Lu Yanting while they discussed the morgue. The next morning, Qin Xiao's awkward night sharing a bed with Feng Xianghui became a dining hall misunderstanding, before news arrived that a psychiatric patient had attacked the crew.

• Jian Ran frightened the corpse with Talisman Paper and ordered it to warn the other ghosts not to cause trouble.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting accidentally brushed lips in the garden, leaving Jian Ran flustered and Lu Yanting pleased.
• Feng Xianghui, scared by the corpse, climbed into Qin Xiao's bed and insisted he share the blanket with him.
• At breakfast, Qin Xiao blurted out that he had not slept with Feng Xianghui, prompting Jian Ran to assume he slept with men indiscriminately.
• A crew member reported that a psychiatric patient had attacked their people, and Feng Xianghui demanded to know who was responsible.

Jian Ran joked with Qin Xiao and clashed with Feng Xianghui before filming moved to a fire-damaged ward, where Jian Ran suddenly jumped out a window and chased a patient. The patient pleaded for mercy after Jian Ran kicked him, and Jian Ran realized he had mistaken him for someone else.

• Feng Xianghui learned that patients had attacked crew members, then arranged compensation and better assignments for the injured staff.
• Qin Xiao asked Jian Ran how he got along with the patients, and Jian Ran said he had told them, “My rules are the rules.”
• Feng Xianghui sent Qin Xiao back to work and angrily disputed Jian Ran’s joke that Qin Xiao had sold his body for nothing.
• The crew moved filming to the fire-damaged ward, where Lu Yanting and Jian Ran acted out a tense meeting between Wang Yichuan and Gu Fanxing.
• Jian Ran spotted someone outside the window, jumped out, and kicked a young man in a patient uniform before apologizing for targeting the wrong person.

Jian Ran learned that patient 108 knew Yun Ying, then returned to filming and improvised a tense scene with Lu Yanting. He later entered a little girl’s room, where her comment about having other people’s things put in her belly and the nanny’s hostility left him with new suspicions.

• Jian Ran questioned patient 108, who said he knew Yun Ying as Aunt Yun, before a nurse ordered him back to his room.
• Jian Ran returned to the set, where he and Lu Yanting resumed filming as Gu Fanxing and Wang Yichuan and improvised a confrontational scene.
• Feng Xianghui praised the take but wondered whether Lu Yanting’s character seemed to be forcing himself on Gu Fanxing.
• Jian Ran entered a room and spoke with a sick little girl, who said she did not want other people’s things stuffed into her belly.
• A hostile nanny drove Jian Ran out, and he saw the girl peek around her with an eerie smile.

Jian Ran investigated rumors of patients disappearing at the hospital and learned that there were only 107 patients, despite his search for 108. After he and Lu Yanting planned to investigate the second floor, Qin Xiao told Jian Ran that Director Feng wanted them to film their kissing scene early, and Lu Yanting agreed.

• Jian Ran disguised himself in patient clothes and heard patients claim that people vanished from the hospital at night, possibly taken by a man-eating ghost who looked like a little girl.
• Jian Ran learned that the hospital had only 107 patients, and realized that patient 108 did not exist.
• Lu Yanting confronted Jian Ran about where he had been, and Jian Ran told him he had become a floor leader before suggesting they investigate the inpatient department's second floor that night.
• Jian Ran told Lu Yanting about the hospital ghost story, and Lu Yanting questioned whether the little girl who ate ghosts was really a ghost.
• Qin Xiao told Jian Ran that Director Feng wanted him to prepare for an early kissing scene, and Lu Yanting said he had no objection to filming it.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting filmed their hospital-corridor kissing scene, then hurried after 108, whom Jian Ran kicked down. 108 protested that he had only been passing through before noticing Jian Ran’s swollen lips.

• Jian Ran agreed to film the kissing scene early because the late-night hospital setting suited his plan.
• Wang Yichuan confessed his long-held feelings to Gu Fanxing and forcefully kissed him during the scene.
• Feng Xianghui praised Jian Ran’s performance, but Jian Ran and Lu Yanting ran off before he finished speaking.
• Jian Ran chased 108 down the corridor and knocked him to the ground with a flying kick.
• 108 insisted he had only been passing through, then asked Jian Ran why his lips were swollen.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting questioned Wraith 108, who revealed that his adoptive parents had arranged to have his heart taken for their biological daughter. After Lu Yanting sensed a powerful entity in the Patient Building, Jian Ran tried to leave him behind but turned back, and they walked away together unaware of the scarlet eyes watching them.

• Jian Ran beat 108 until the Wraith admitted he was not a patient and explained that his adoptive parents had raised him to take his heart for their daughter.
• 108 said he had become a Wraith and remained trapped in the hospital, unable to learn whether the transplant succeeded or take revenge.
• The fat nurse came to drive Jian Ran and Lu Yanting from the Patient Building, but Lu Yanting restrained Jian Ran and led him away.
• Lu Yanting sensed the entity from his dreams nearby and warned Jian Ran that they could not defeat it.
• Jian Ran started to leave Lu Yanting behind, then turned back and walked with him after complaining about his bad luck.
• A pair of scarlet, beastlike eyes watched Jian Ran and Lu Yanting from the Patient Building.

Jian Ran investigated the hospital’s mysteries while worrying about his payment, then unexpectedly became the patients’ respected Building Manager. Meanwhile, Lu Yuhuan agreed to return home with Zhong Fanrui, who mistook the arrangement for romantic interest.

• Jian Ran reviewed his questions about the hospital, then asked Lu Yanting whether Old Man Bai would pay if the person he sought was dead; Lu Yanting promised to cover the final payment and jokingly demanded a bed scene in return.
• Zhong Fanrui rejected Bai Jingchuan’s call and met Lu Yuhuan at the library, where Lu Yuhuan announced he would return home after exams and agreed to let Zhong Fanrui accompany him.
• The patients gathered at the filming location early and worried about Fat Nurse, the previous night’s crying, and the new First-Floor Building Manager.
• Jian Ran arrived, and the patients bowed to him as their Building Manager while the filming crew watched in disbelief.
• Feng Xianghui found Jian Ran lounging as patients massaged him, and Qin Xiao explained that the patients had volunteered and put Jian Ran in charge.

Jian Ran investigated the hospital’s suspicious practices, learned that a little girl was waiting for a heart and the operating room appeared only at night, and was approached by undercover police officer Yu Zhuo. The chapter ended with Lu Yanting saving Feng Xianghui from a patient’s dagger attack and demanding a bed scene in exchange.

• Jian Ran questioned patients about the fat nurse, the Hospital Director, the little girl, and the hidden operating room, learning that the girl had congenital heart disease and that the operating room appeared only at night.
• Lu Yanting caught Jian Ran when he nearly stumbled, while Feng Xianghui complained that Jian Ran was interfering with filming.
• Yu Zhuo revealed that she was an actress undercover as a police officer investigating illegal transplants and asked Jian Ran to cooperate, but he refused her offer of a commendation.
• Yu Zhuo said her brother was Yu Fengyi and offered to help Jian Ran; Jian Ran replied that he wanted Yu Fengyi dead and asked whether she could help.
• Lu Yanting negotiated with Feng Xianghui for a role in his next film, then kicked away a patient who charged at Feng Xianghui with a dagger.
• After medical staff restrained the patient, Lu Yanting asked Feng Xianghui whether he would add a bed scene.

After the Hospital Director ordered Feng Xianghui to end filming early because Yu Zhuo had been disturbing patients, Jian Ran sensed that something was about to happen and went looking for Yu Zhuo in the Emergency Department Building. He found the hospital unnaturally calm and confronted a nurse about its organ-transplant operating room, threatening to blow it up.

• Lu Yanting told Jian Ran that Feng Xianghui wanted to repay him for saving his life with a bed scene, leaving Feng and Jian Ran speechless.
• The Hospital Director told Feng Xianghui to finish filming within two days because Yu Zhuo had been entering patients' rooms and triggering their episodes.
• Feng Xianghui ordered Qin Xiao to find Yu Zhuo, and Qin Xiao reported that she had disappeared after entering the Emergency Department Building.
• Jian Ran sensed danger through divination and told Qin Xiao to protect Feng Xianghui while he investigated Yu Zhuo's disappearance.
• Jian Ran entered the Emergency Department Building, found its lobby unnaturally orderly, and threatened a nurse with blowing up the organ-transplant operating room.

Jian Ran caused a hospital evacuation while searching for Yu Zhuo, then entered the dangerous operating room after hearing her scream. Lu Yanting was trapped outside when the room sealed itself, so he seized 108 and demanded another way in.

• Jian Ran warned a nurse that he would blow up the operating room, and a real explosion soon sent patients fleeing through the hospital.
• Lu Yanting revealed that he had helped stir up the patients, prompting Jian Ran to complain that their chants made him sound like a cult leader.
• Jian Ran heard Yu Zhuo scream and raced with Lu Yanting toward the operating room.
• 108 warned them not to enter, but Jian Ran kicked open the room and vanished inside as the opening closed behind him.
• Lu Yanting failed to break through the restored entrance, grabbed 108 by the throat, and demanded to know how else to open the operating room.

Jian Ran found a vision of Yun Ying’s murder in the operating room and learned that 108 had received her heart. After rescuing Yu Zhuo, he confronted the old surgeon and turned Fat Nurse against him by asking about her working conditions.

• Jian Ran used Talisman Paper to reveal a scene of doctors removing Yun Ying’s organs while she was conscious.
• Jian Ran recognized Yun Ying from an old photograph and saw that 108 had received her heart in a transplant.
• Jian Ran found unconscious Yu Zhuo in a compartment and carried her toward the exit as the blood in the room attacked him and evaporated.
• The lead surgeon confronted Jian Ran, and Fat Nurse emerged at the surgeon’s command.
• Jian Ran asked Fat Nurse whether the hospital provided holiday benefits, and she stopped to ask the old surgeon if staff received them.

Jian Ran rescued Yu Zhuo from the Emergency Department Building and learned more about the hospital’s horrors, then set out with Lu Yanting to find the director and track down 108. In the Office Building, he encountered the little girl awaiting heart surgery, who demanded that he give her his heart.

• Jian Ran provoked the fat nurse into turning against the old monster over years of unpaid wages, while Lu Yanting beat 108 before he escaped.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting carried Yu Zhuo out of the Emergency Department Building, and Jian Ran gave Qin Xiao a talisman to use to wake her.
• Yu Zhuo regained consciousness after drinking the talisman ash, surprising Feng Xianghui.
• Jian Ran told Lu Yanting that 108 had received the transplant and that the person Old Man Bai sought was already dead, then decided to intercept the hospital director and find 108.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting entered the Office Building, where Jian Ran met the little girl awaiting surgery and told her he had moved the healthy heart.
• The little girl appeared in front of Jian Ran and demanded that he give her his heart.

Jian Ran trapped 108’s monstrous little sister and learned that 108 claimed his wealthy parents had chosen her as a heart donor, then arranged another operation involving Yun Ying. 108 led Jian Ran and Lu Yanting to the Hospital Director’s Office, where they came face-to-face with the old monster.

• Jian Ran trapped the little girl with a talisman as she tried to attack him and Lu Yanting.
• 108 begged Jian Ran to spare the girl and claimed she was his adopted little sister, chosen as a heart donor for him by his wealthy parents.
• 108 said his body rejected the transplanted heart and that Aunt Yun was involved in the next operation, then offered to take Jian Ran to Yun Ying.
• Jian Ran followed 108 to the Hospital Director’s Office despite Lu Yanting questioning whether he trusted him.
• Lu Yanting opened the office door and confronted the battered old monster, who threatened to kill 108 and turn him into specimens.

Yun Ying escaped after Fat Nurse destroyed the hospital’s formation and confronted 108, who admitted he had helped his parents use her as a transplant vessel. Jian Ran and Lu Yanting unleashed 108’s little sister against him while the freed Wraiths cornered the Hospital Director, leaving the hospital in open revolt.

• Yun Ying appeared outside the golden barrier and accused 108 of helping his parents plan to use her for a transplant.
• Fat Nurse destroyed the hospital’s formation, freeing the trapped Wraiths, who stormed the Office Building to seek revenge.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting left the old monster when they heard Yun Ying scream and found 108 attacking her.
• Jian Ran removed the Talisman Spell trapping 108’s little sister and urged her to take revenge on her brother.
• 108’s little sister tore into him while Jian Ran and Lu Yanting watched, and Yun Ying sat up nearby.
• The Wraiths blocked the old monster’s escape as Fat Nurse urged them to punish him for illegal surgeries and unpaid wages.

Jian Ran learned how the hospital’s staff and patients became Wraiths and prepared to destroy them by completing a formation. Before facing the Wraiths, Yun Ying finally asked him to deliver an apology and a message of love to Little Bai, along with the location of things she had hidden in a wall.

• The Wraiths devoured the old monster and then turned on Fat Nurse, while Jian Ran refused to intervene.
• Jian Ran told Yun Ying that Little Bai had asked him to find her, but Yun Ying initially insisted that he tell her son nothing.
• Lu Yanting confronted Yun Ying over abandoning her husband and child, and Jian Ran redirected their argument toward uncovering the hospital’s past.
• Yun Ying explained that hospital backers had arranged her final operation, framed her for a fire, and turned doctors and nurses into Wraiths to guard the site.
• As the Wraiths gathered, Yun Ying told Jian Ran to tell Little Bai she was sorry, to look for what she had buried in a wall, and that she loved him.
• Yun Ying charged toward the Wraiths to buy Jian Ran time to complete the formation.

Jian Ran and Lu Yanting escaped the Dormitory Building as golden light spread through it, and the Police uncovered evidence of the hospital’s illegal transplant operations. After Yu Zhuo apologized and asked Jian Ran for help with supernatural encounters, she called Yu Fengyi and told him Jian Ran was more than good enough for him.

• Jian Ran told the little girl she would soon be free, then golden light spread through the building as he and Lu Yanting walked out.
• Jian Ran and Lu Yanting discussed whether the world was filthy, then searched the Patient Building for what Yun Ying had left behind.
• The Police found Yun Ying’s notebook and evidence in the Hospital Director’s safe, while Jian Ran kept the notebook.
• Yu Zhuo visited Jian Ran, apologized, and asked if she could hire him or buy Talisman Paper if she encountered ghosts again.
• Yu Zhuo called Yu Fengyi and told him Jian Ran was no ordinary person and was more than good enough for him.