Chapter Summaries

Jian Ran returned to the Bai Family with Yun Ying’s diary and learned she had been Old Man Bai’s younger half brother’s mother, while Lu Yanting struggled to keep close to him. Lu Yanting’s grandfather urged him to pursue Jian Ran at the upcoming Death Cruise.

• Feng Xianghui ended filming after the police intervened and said the Bai Family would cover the production’s losses.
• Jian Ran learned he had received the Zhonghua Good Citizen Award and told his agent he needed to collect a final payment.
• Lu Yanting drove Jian Ran to the Bai Family Villa, where Jian Ran handed Old Man Bai Yun Ying’s diary and confronted him about her death.
• Old Man Bai revealed Yun Ying had been the mother of his younger half brother, prompting Jian Ran to realize the men were not Gu Fanxing.
• Lu Yanting returned to the Lu Family Old Residence, and his grandfather told him to use the upcoming Death Cruise to get closer to Jian Ran.

Lu Yanting and Old Master Lu discussed the growing competition to recruit Jian Ran, while Lu Zhendong asked his father not to block Jian Ran from choosing an organization. At home, Jian Ran enjoyed his new fame and initially refused an invitation to the Famous Cruise Banquet, but changed his mind when he learned its grand prize was fifty million.

• Old Master Lu warned Lu Yanting that wealthy families and secret organizations were already pursuing Jian Ran, and Lu Yanting recognized that Jian Ran could not easily avoid their attention.
• Lu Zhendong returned to the Lu home and asked Old Master Lu not to interfere if Jian Ran had the chance to choose an organization; Old Master Lu dismissed him and criticized his priorities.
• Jian Ran stayed home, prepared talismans for clients, and happily signed an autograph for a delivery worker who praised him.
• Jian Ran’s manager, Xu Xuda, told him he had been invited to the Famous Cruise Banquet, but Jian Ran refused after divining that it was dangerous.
• Xu Xuda mentioned the banquet’s fifty-million prize, and Jian Ran immediately changed his mind and said he was ready to go.

Jian Ran agreed to attend the Cruise Ship Gala after hearing about its prize money, then read about the gala’s mysterious history. At a tense Lu family dinner, Lu Yuhuan returned and hinted that he was interested in Jian Ran, prompting Lu Yanting to warn that Jian Ran would not be easy to win over.

• Xu Xuda confirmed that Jian Ran would attend the Cruise Ship Gala, while Jian Ran divined misfortune and researched the event.
• Jian Ran read that a reporter had disappeared after sneaking into an early Cruise Ship Gala, and that the annual event continued despite rumors of murder.
• At the Lu family dinner, Old Master Lu challenged Lu Yuhuan’s return, and Lu Yuhuan claimed he had repented and would not hurt his family again.
• After dinner, Lu Yuhuan threatened the relatives who judged him, then asked Lu Yanting to speak with him in the garden.
• Lu Yuhuan said he was interested in Jian Ran and might see him at the Cruise Ship Gala, while Lu Yanting warned that Jian Ran would not be easy to win over.

Lu Yanting and Jian Ran attended the Cruise Ship Gala together as companions, where Jian Ran drew attention from the powerful families and clashed with Zhong Fanrui. Their exchange was interrupted by Jian Ran’s former partner, who challenged his public breakup announcement.

• Lu Yanting told Su Yuan he would bring him to the Cruise Ship Gala, then returned home and agreed to attend the gala with Jian Ran as companions.
• Three days later, Jian Ran reluctantly joined Lu Yanting aboard the gala cruise ship and agreed to protect him if anything happened.
• Guests noticed Jian Ran arriving with Lu Yanting and speculated about which powerful family he would join.
• Zhong Fanrui greeted Lu Yuhuan to display his closeness to the Lu Family, then confronted Jian Ran and asked whether he had broken up with his previous boyfriend.
• Jian Ran said he had announced the breakup on a variety show and called his former partner a scumbag, prompting the man to demand to know who Jian Ran meant and deny agreeing to break up.

Jian Ran boarded the lavish cruise ship with Lu Yanting and avoided Zhong Fanrui’s attempt to provoke a scene. As the banquet continued, Jian Ran spotted a ghost beneath the buffet table, but it screamed and fled before he could ask it for lottery numbers.

• Ji Yuanming left Zhong Fanrui behind after admitting nothing was wrong, confused by his possessiveness toward Jian Ran.
• Jian Ran boarded the cruise ship with Lu Yanting and marveled at its extravagant interior, despite sensing sinister energy around him.
• Zhong Fanrui confronted Jian Ran, but a manager warned him to stop causing trouble, so he apologized to the guests.
• Jian Ran sampled the caviar while Lu Yanting watched him and noticed a pale hand reaching for cake beneath the buffet table.
• Jian Ran ducked under the table and came face-to-face with a blood-eyed ghost girl, who screamed and ran away before he could ask for lottery numbers.

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.