Recaps

Lu Xingchen accompanied Huo Chuyun to the Huo Family Old Residence after Huo Chuyun received a message offering him his childhood photo album, which he needed to reclaim what his grandfather had left him. Huo Junchi appeared and insulted Lu Xingchen, who answered with a jab at Huo Junchi’s mother.

• Lu Xingchen watched Huo Chuyun’s film The Vanished Murderer and became distressed when Shen Jie died in the line of duty.
• Huo Chuyun received messages inviting him back to the Huo Family Old Residence and claiming his childhood photo album was there.
• Lu Xingchen encouraged Huo Chuyun to visit the residence with him, and Huo Chuyun agreed.
• At the residence, Huo Chuyun introduced Lu Xingchen to Uncle Huo as his partner.
• Huo Junchi came out of the villa and called Lu Xingchen Huo Chuyun’s little lover, and Lu Xingchen insulted Huo Junchi’s mother in reply.

Lu Xingchen defended Huo Chuyun against the Huo family’s insults and demands for his shares, while Huo Chuyun came to retrieve a photo album. Huo Junchi challenged whether the family would accept Lu Xingchen, leaving the others to answer.

• Huo Junchi attacked Lu Xingchen after learning he knew Huo Junchi was illegitimate, but Lu Xingchen dodged and swept him to the ground.
• Song Zhihua and Zhou Fenghe confronted Huo Chuyun and Lu Xingchen, and Lu Xingchen defended their relationship while taunting them about Huo Junchi’s parentage.
• Huo Chuyun asked Song Zhihua for the photo album, but she delayed and Zhou Fenghe asked him to give Huo Junchi some of his Huo Corporation shares.
• Huo Chuyun refused to give up his shares, and Lu Xingchen rebuked Huo Zhiyuan for trying to guilt him into handing them over.
• Lu Xingchen challenged Huo Junchi’s claim to the Huo family, and Huo Junchi asked Huo Zhiyuan, Song Zhihua, and Zhou Fenghe whether they would accept Lu into the family.

Lu Xingchen confronted the Huo family while Huo Chuyun demanded his separation from them and refused to give Huo Junchi shares. After Lu Xingchen threatened Song Zhihua with a cleaver, she revealed where she had hidden the photo album, and Huo Chuyun went to retrieve it.

• Huo Chuyun said he would only put Lu Xingchen on his household register and refused to join the Huo family or give Huo Junchi shares in exchange for the photo album.
• Song Zhihua appealed to Huo Chuyun for forgiveness and asked him to give Huo Junchi two percent of his shares, but Lu Xingchen confronted her about how she had hurt Huo Chuyun.
• Lu Xingchen threatened Song Zhihua with a cleaver and demanded the album's location, prompting her to reveal it was in the safe in her room and Zhou Fenghe to give the code.
• Huo Chuyun rejected Huo Zhiyuan's demand that he stop Lu Xingchen and declared he had no relationship with the Huo family beyond sharing their surname.
• Lu Xingchen stayed behind to denounce the family while Huo Chuyun went upstairs to retrieve the album.

Huo Chuyun severed ties with the Huo family and ordered his parents and Huo Junchi out of the old residence, while Lu Xingchen agreed to let Huo Junchi take his engagement. The chapter ended with Huo Chuyun and Lu Xingchen relaxing together at home after a meal.

• Huo Chuyun declared that he no longer recognized Song Zhihua and Huo Zhiyuan as family and ordered them to leave the old residence.
• Huo Junchi demanded Huo Chuyun's engagement to Lu Yichen, and Lu Xingchen told Huo Chuyun to let them have it.
• Huo Chuyun reassured Steward Huo and promised to visit him after the Huo family moved out.
• Huo Chuyun and Lu Xingchen shared a meal, and Lu Xingchen praised himself for taking on four people.
• Huo Chuyun and Lu Xingchen returned home and joked about the dating show's male guests.

Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun exchanged gifts and discussed moving in together before revealing how their lives and the novel’s events had intertwined. They discovered that Lu Xingchen’s protection charm had reached Huo Chuyun, and Lu Xingchen asked when he had received it.

• Huo Chuyun gave Lu Xingchen a blue Lykan sports car and a black card, then asked him to move in.
• Lu Xingchen told Huo Chuyun that he had transmigrated into the novel after dying in a car accident and explained the original characters’ fates.
• Huo Chuyun revealed that he regained memories of his past life after Song Zhihua slashed him and had changed events by acquiring Huo Junchi’s shares.
• Lu Xingchen explained that he had long cared for Huo Chuyun while reading the novel and had tried to persuade the author to change his ending.
• Huo Chuyun found a protection charm and asked Lu Xingchen if it belonged to him.
• Lu Xingchen explained that he had prayed for the charm on Huo Chuyun’s behalf and asked when it had reached him.

Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun discovered that a protection charm connected their past lives, then moved in together with their pets. Later, Lu Xingchen joined the second episode of the live-recorded game on a university campus, where the contestants began investigating reports of a haunting.

• Huo Chuyun learned that Lu Xingchen had prayed for the protection charm after his staged car accident, and the two shared an emotional reconciliation.
• Lu Xingchen agreed to move in with Huo Chuyun, who welcomed Xiao Huang and Tofu into their home.
• Lu Xingchen fell asleep after asking Huo Chuyun whether he had received his gift, and Huo Chuyun carried him to bed.
• Director Song began the second episode's campus game, scattering the contestants and giving them ninety minutes to finish tasks while evading hunters.
• Su Tianle asked to stay with Lu Xingchen because he was afraid of ghosts, and Lu Xingchen told him to silence his phone.
• Lu Xingchen and Su Tianle received the first task about strange nighttime winds and flickering lights at the school.

Lu Xingchen and Su Tianle hunted for QR-code clues while trying to identify the central figure in the campus haunting and lock the Hunter Boxes. Near the girls’ dormitory, Lu Xingchen confronted Lu Yichen and Lu Yihao over the Lu family’s treatment of him and their abuse of his pets.

• Lu Xingchen called Huo Chuyun, who reported his location and planned to scan a hunter’s QR code near Teaching Building One.
• Lu Xingchen and Su Tianle followed a hunter through the boys’ dormitory, scanned his QR code, and obtained the clue “Girls' dormitory.”
• The contestants received a shared notification naming Lu Xingchen and Su Tianle as the pair who found the clue.
• At the girls’ dormitory, Lu Yichen invited Lu Xingchen to his engagement banquet while Lu Yihao accused him of ingratitude.
• Lu Xingchen defended himself, condemned the Lu family for mistreating him and abusing Xiao Huang and Tofu, and mocked Lu Yichen’s hypocrisy.

Lu Xingchen followed a clue to Girls' Dormitory Building 4, where Room 404 was missing and a locked, haunted corridor led him to the only lit room, 414. Inside, he and Su Tianle found three wary students and signs that a fourth roommate had been absent for some time.

• After Lu Yichen announced his engagement, Lu Xingchen insulted him, and a clue directed the group to Building 4 and Room 404.
• Lu Xingchen went to the girls' dormitory with Su Tianle, while Lu Yichen and Lu Yihao followed them.
• On the dark fourth floor, they found rooms numbered 401 through 403 and 405 through 407, but no Room 404; Lu Yichen claimed a shadow was following them.
• Lu Xingchen noticed the spotless Room 414 had lights and voices inside, while the stairway door locked and dark shadows appeared in the corridor.
• Lu Xingchen knocked on Room 414 and persuaded Girl A to let him and Su Tianle inside.
• Lu Xingchen saw that one bed was unused and dusty, and that the absent student's books differed from those of the three remaining residents.

Lu Xingchen investigated Xiao Qian’s death and discovered that the girls in Room 414 were cursed with terrifying nightmares. After the curse struck and the dormitory door sealed shut, Girl B described the brutal punishments she and the others suffered in their dreams.

• Lu Xingchen questioned the residents of Room 414 about Xiao Qian, learned she had died after online bullying, and found pages filled with the number 666 among her belongings.
• Girl B said Xiao Qian had cursed the dormitory, and Girl C’s complaint triggered a supernatural attack that trapped everyone inside and left the room short of air.
• Girl C apologized to Xiao Qian, ending the attack, while Lu Xingchen received Huo Chuyun’s message that the Hunter Box code was 110; Su Tianle passed the code to Jingyi and Anran, who opened their box.
• Lu Yichen and Lu Yihao begged for help outside the locked dormitory, while Girl A raved about being punished and gouged in her nightmares.
• Girl B explained that she dreamed of an ancient prison and suffered torture, including being torn apart by five horses, while Girl C had endured death by a thousand cuts.

Lu Xingchen and Su Tianle learned that Xiao Qian had died after the university pressured her to withdraw and silenced her roommates, but Lu Xingchen suspected the account was incomplete and that Xiao Qian might still be alive. As the group began searching for mission clues, Huo Chuyun was caught by a hunter on the sports field.

• Girl B said Xiao Qian had become pregnant, contracted HIV, and was expelled before graduating, then died by suicide after online abuse; the university threatened her roommates into silence with postgraduate recommendations.
• Lu Xingchen concluded that mission two’s reference to the incident’s true central figure suggested Xiao Qian might still be alive.
• Lu Xingchen found Lu Yichen and Lu Yihao unconscious outside the room, then reunited with Huo Chuyun, who mentioned a strange sand-covered area near the cafeteria.
• Lu Xingchen, Su Tianle, and Huo Chuyun searched for balloons and found pink heart-shaped ones tied at the center of the soccer field.
• Huo Chuyun ran toward the balloons but was pursued across the open field and caught by a hunter.

Lu Xingchen and Su Tianle investigated Xiao Qian’s death and found an online forum post that exposed the abuse and false rumors surrounding her. They watched a video of Xiao Qian on the rooftop, where she cursed the crowd before jumping.

• Lu Xingchen rescued Huo Chuyun from the hunter’s notice and found a clue reading “Public Opinion Is Fearsome.”
• Lu Xingchen and Su Tianle considered how the masked figures might be connected to Xiao Qian and headed toward the sand-covered area by the cafeteria.
• Lu Xingchen found a black balloon with a link to the school forum and read a viral post spreading false claims about Xiao Qian.
• Lu Xingchen discovered a video post showing Xiao Qian on the rooftop as people jeered at her.
• Xiao Qian cursed the crowd, calling them accomplices and wishing them sleepless nights and torment from ghosts and monsters.

Lu Xingchen traced Xiao Qian’s death to her roommates’ online harassment and found her on the cafeteria rooftop, earning a revival card to save Huo Chuyun. As Xiao Qian’s supernatural revenge continued across campus, her three former roommates were dragged before her, and she refused to forgive them.

• Lu Xingchen traced the anonymous harassment video to girl B in room 414 and found bloodstains beneath the sand by the cafeteria.
• Lu Xingchen, Su Tianle, Jiang Jingyi, and Song Anran reached the rooftop, where Lu Xingchen found Xiao Qian sitting at the edge.
• Lu Xingchen chose a revival card and used it to revive Huo Chuyun, while Jiang Jingyi received an exemption card.
• Xiao Qian said A Kai was punishing everyone at the school, and black shadows began dragging fleeing students away.
• Xiao Qian’s three roommates were brought to the rooftop with severe injuries, and Xiao Qian rejected girl C’s plea for forgiveness.

Xiao Qian revealed how Girl B and her accomplices had ruined her life, then killed Girl B before accepting the group’s offers of help. As Xiao Qian said someone named A Kai was coming to take her, a tall man in a purple python robe appeared amid swirling black shadows.

• Girl B admitted to framing Xiao Qian, spreading rumors and nude photos, and using her death to seek postgraduate admissions.
• A black shadow repeatedly strangled Girl B before stabbing her in the heart, killing her.
• Xiao Qian grieved over her family’s hardships and the school’s decision to make her withdraw over a fake medical record.
• Jiang Jingyi, Song Anran, Su Tianle, and Lu Xingchen offered Xiao Qian friendship, legal help, financial support, and evidence against her tormentors.
• Xiao Qian said A Kai would soon take her away, and a tall man in a purple python robe appeared with black shadows around him.

Xiao Qian’s imagined reunion with her virtual lover A Kai ended with him vanishing, and she jumped from the rooftop. After the campus haunting disappeared, Lu Xingchen realized the revenge story had never happened and the dead were gone; the group then faced the hunters released after mission three failed.

• A Kai dissolved into digital fragments after urging Xiao Qian to keep living, and Xiao Qian admitted that she knew he was not real before leaning off the rooftop.
• Lu Xingchen rushed to stop Xiao Qian, but Huo Chuyun pulled him back and pointed out the rescue cushion below.
• The bloody campus scene and the Room 414 girls vanished, and a message announced that mission three had failed and twenty hunters would pursue the group.
• At least ten hunters reached the rooftop, and Jiang Jingyi’s Amnesty Card made only one hunter leave before the rest captured the group.
• Lu Xingchen concluded that the haunting had been Xiao Qian’s imagination and that the villains remained alive while the dead were gone.
• Huo Chuyun promised to look for another ending with Director Song after the game, and Lu Xingchen happily clung to him.

Lu Xingchen and the others learned that Xiao Qian’s story was adapted from a real account of bullying, an attempted murder, and supernatural-seeming revenge. The episode ended with Director Song donating funds to an anti-bullying foundation, while Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun cherished their relationship.

• Lu Xingchen asked Director Song about Xiao Qian’s ending, and she explained that the original account described the victim surviving a rooftop fall and reporting her bullies to the police.
• Song Zhiyan said the school was ordered to apologize, the withdrawal notice was revoked, the bullies paid compensation, and the submitter received an anonymous donation.
• Song Zhiyan revealed that A Kai was a character from a romance game the submitter later bought, and Lu Xingchen wished them happiness.
• Lu Xingchen and Huo Chuyun were moved by Xiao Qian’s story and felt grateful for the love they had found across the boundary between worlds.
• Director Song donated the episode’s Speed-Up Coins and the cast’s additional contributions to the Blue Tree Foundation, which worked to prevent and treat school bullying.

Lu Xingchen teased Huo Chuyun over a fox costume he had bought, then flirted with him until Huo Chuyun retreated to the kitchen. After a stylist arrived to prepare Lu Xingchen for a hair-color change, Lu Xingchen recalled that he used to have blue hair and went to get styled while Huo Chuyun stayed nearby.

• Lu Xingchen found the fox costume Huo Chuyun had bought and teased him about wearing it, but Huo Chuyun fled to the kitchen when Lu Xingchen flirted with him.
• After dinner, Lu Xingchen opened the door to Tony, a stylist Huo Chuyun had hired, and traded sharp jokes with him.
• Tony and his assistants set up their styling equipment while Huo Chuyun explained that Lu Xingchen had asked to dye his hair the previous night.
• Lu Xingchen remembered that his hair used to be blue, and Huo Chuyun encouraged him to let Tony style him while he stayed in the living room.

Lu Xingchen chatted with Tony while Tony styled his hair, teasing him about his taste in men and hearing about his dishonest idol boyfriend. After Tony finished, Lu Xingchen wondered how the styling had gone so quickly.

• Tony admired Xiao Huang's loyalty, and Lu Xingchen explained that the dog was protecting him.
• Tony admitted he was jealous of Huo Chuyun and asked Lu Xingchen how he had won him over; Lu Xingchen joked that he had slept with him and given him flowers.
• Tony told Lu Xingchen that his current boyfriend had lied about being an obscure actor and was actually a boy-band idol who had taken advantage of Tony's styling skills.
• Lu Xingchen mocked Tony's choices in boyfriends, urged him to dump and block his current one, and offered to review future prospects before Tony dated them.
• Tony teased Lu Xingchen about the fox-tail outfit and Huo Chuyun's height, then finished styling Lu Xingchen's hair.

After Lu Xingchen revealed his blue hair, Huo Chuyun showered him with praise, then carried him to the bedroom. Their teasing turned intimate as Huo Chuyun reminded Lu Xingchen that he had asked to try a new position.

• Lu Xingchen admired his blue-haired reflection and rushed to show Huo Chuyun his new look.
• Huo Chuyun praised Lu Xingchen and kissed the mole beneath his eye, while Lin Yufan interrupted their video meeting.
• Lu Xingchen felt embarrassed after realizing the executives had seen them, and Huo Chuyun carried him toward the bedroom while sweet-talking him.
• Lu Xingchen worried Huo Chuyun only liked his appearance, but Huo Chuyun reassured him that he would love him as he aged.
• Huo Chuyun brought the fox tail and costume pieces into the bedroom, and their playful teasing became intimate.
• Huo Chuyun pulled Lu Xingchen back and said they would try the position Lu Xingchen had asked about.

With Huo Chuyun away on a business trip, Lu Xingchen met Cheng Zitao for drinks and heard about the puppy boyfriend Cheng had started dating online. Lu Xingchen approved of the boyfriend’s looks and considerate gestures, while Cheng decided to keep seeing him.

• Lu Xingchen invited Cheng Zitao out for drinks because he was bored while Huo Chuyun was away.
• Lu Xingchen picked Cheng Zitao up in his sports car, and Cheng explained the story behind his Chinese name and childhood nickname, Peach.
• Cheng Zitao told Lu Xingchen how his younger online boyfriend defended him in a game and won him over with voice messages and money.
• Lu Xingchen examined the boyfriend’s photo and said the man was handsome, contradicting Cheng Zitao’s judgment that he looked slapdash.
• Cheng Zitao said he planned to keep dating the considerate boyfriend, who had transferred ten thousand yuan to his Alipay when they became official.

Lu Xingchen and Cheng Zitao went to Nightfall Bar, where they spotted Lu Yichen and Jiang Haoran before a drunken man harassed Cheng Zitao. Lu Xingchen and Song Anran intervened, and after the man was thrown out, Song Anran befriended Cheng Zitao despite mistaking him for a woman.

• Lu Xingchen joked with Cheng Zitao about his custom clothes and the money he earned as a hacker.
• Lu Xingchen recognized Lu Yichen and Jiang Haoran across the bar and teased Cheng Zitao about his ex-boyfriend.
• A drunken man propositioned Cheng Zitao, then insulted and grabbed his hair when Cheng rejected him.
• Lu Xingchen kicked the man away and threatened him while Song Anran smashed a bottle over his head.
• Song Anran called for bodyguards to remove the man, then learned Cheng Zitao was a man and suggested they become friends.

Lu Xingchen and his friends clashed with Lu Yichen and Jiang Haoran, while Gu Lingchuan asked how Lu Xingchen had acquired a rare Lykan and its prized license plate. Lu Yichen’s claim to be engaged to the Huo family heir was challenged, leaving the truth about the engagement exposed as a source of confusion.

• Lu Yichen insulted Lu Xingchen for being alone, and Lu Xingchen threatened that he could join their dead parents.
• Jiang Haoran defended Lu Yichen and mocked Cheng Zitao, who revealed that he had dated Jiang briefly and dumped him over his poor hygiene.
• Song Anran called out Jiang Haoran for hiding his relationships with men from his boy-band fans, and Lu Xingchen said Jiang had deceived Cheng Zitao too.
• Lu Yichen tried to mock Cheng Zitao, but Cheng asked why his former partners had always pursued him if he was undesirable.
• Gu Lingchuan asked Lu Xingchen about the limited-edition Lykan and its Capital A8888888 plate, then apologized after learning the Huo heir had acquired them.
• Lu Yichen claimed the Huo heir was his fiancé, and Gu Lingchuan doubted him because he knew nothing about the heir’s purchase of the car.

Lu Xingchen rejected Lu Yichen’s demand to hand over his sports car and let Gu Lingchuan insult him before revealing that his powerful benefactor outranked the Huo family’s crown prince. The chapter left Gu Lingchuan terrified that his father would make him apologize in person.

• Lu Yichen claimed that his fiancé Huo Junchi had never collected the sports car and urged Lu Xingchen to give it to Gu Lingchuan.
• Lu Xingchen refused, mocked Lu Yichen’s attempt to get back into the Lu family, and dismissed his claim that he was about to become engaged to the Huo family’s crown prince.
• Song Anran questioned Lu Yichen’s engagement story, noting that she had received no invitation and the Huo Group had made no announcement.
• Cheng Zitao asked to borrow Lu Xingchen’s car for a date, and Lu Xingchen agreed in exchange for two free styling sessions.
• Gu Lingchuan accused Lu Xingchen of being kept by an old man and offered to replace him, but Lu Xingchen said his benefactor was even more powerful than the Huo family’s crown prince.
• Lu Xingchen warned Gu Lingchuan to expect his father to bring him over to apologize, leaving Gu Lingchuan afraid of his father’s reaction.

Lu Xingchen humiliated Gu Lingchuan and Lu Yichen after Huo Chuyun intervened, then left the bar with Cheng Zitao. He celebrated how powerless Gu Lingchuan was against him and joked about Huo Chuyun’s devotion.

• Gu Lingchuan and Lu Yichen insulted Lu Xingchen, but Lu Xingchen mocked Lu Yichen for taking his place in the Lu family and offered him the Huo family engagement.
• Gu Lingchuan received a call from his eldest brother, then chased after Lu Xingchen and apologized after learning he had offended someone important.
• Gu Lingchuan demanded to know why Lu Xingchen had such influence, while Lu Yichen clung to his engagement to the Huo family's crown prince before leaving.
• Lu Xingchen refused to accept Gu Lingchuan’s apology, invited him to touch his limited-edition Lykan, and insisted that Gu Lingchuan’s father apologize in person.
• Lu Xingchen drove away with Cheng Zitao, explaining that he had complained to Brother Chu and boasting about Huo Chuyun’s love for him.

Huo Chuyun and Gu Zichu offered Pei Xuan a way to return home by bringing him onto Huo Corporation’s Country A project. After Gu Lingchuan insulted someone, Huo Chuyun told Gu Zichu to make his brother apologize, leaving Gu Lingchuan hurrying after Lu Xingchen to do so.

• Pei Xuan complained that his parents had sent him to Country A and confiscated his passport, and Huo Chuyun told him he could get home by working on the Country A project.
• Gu Zichu explained that Huo Corporation had secured the project, and Pei Xuan eagerly agreed to join in hopes his father would let him return.
• Lu Xingchen called Huo Chuyun, and Huo Chuyun’s mood darkened as he read the messages.
• Gu Zichu recognized Gu Lingchuan’s voice insulting someone and apologized to Huo Chuyun for his brother’s behavior.
• Huo Chuyun told Gu Zichu to make Gu Lingchuan apologize, so Gu Zichu called and ordered his brother to do it immediately.
• Gu Lingchuan, anticipating a beating from his family, hurried after Lu Xingchen to apologize.

Huo Chuyun told Gu Zichu and Pei Xuan that Gu Lingchuan had insulted Lu Xingchen and demanded a personal apology, then revealed how deeply he cared for his partner. After the friends teased him and asked to see Lu Xingchen, Huo Chuyun showed them a family photo before returning home.

• Huo Chuyun demanded that Gu Zichu bring Gu Lingchuan to apologize personally because Gu Lingchuan had insulted Lu Xingchen and tried to steal him.
• Pei Xuan and Gu Zichu learned that Huo Chuyun had a partner named Lu Xingchen and that Huo Chuyun had not proposed to him yet.
• Huo Chuyun exchanged affectionate messages and a loud kiss voice message with Lu Xingchen, prompting Pei Xuan and Gu Zichu to tease him.
• Pei Xuan and Gu Zichu admitted they had believed rumors that Huo Chuyun was frigid and had imagined his partner, then apologized.
• Huo Chuyun showed Pei Xuan and Gu Zichu a family photo of himself, Lu Xingchen, Xiao Huang, and Tofu.