Chapter Summaries

After the show became a hit, it raised awareness of human trafficking and brought Lu Xingchen sudden fame. As he confirmed his relationship with Huo Chuyun to Wang Pengfei, a wave of scandals about the Lu Group and other major companies broke online.

• The show's popularity prompted authorities to strengthen penalties for trafficking and investigate police in remote areas, while safety advice for women spread across the country.
• Lu Xingchen gained two million Weibo followers, and he named his fans Moons because he wanted to protect them.
• Wang Pengfei told Lu Xingchen that Lu Yichen's and Lu Yihao's fans were attacking him, but Director Song had posted chat logs showing the production had notified their assistants.
• Lu Xingchen told Wang Pengfei that he and Huo Chuyun were in a relationship, had slept together willingly, and that he had liked Huo Chuyun for years.
• Wang Pengfei saw a flood of scandalous trending topics about the Lu Group and other major companies, including allegations involving trafficking and embarrassing rumors about the Lu family.

After the first episode aired, Lu Xingchen livestreamed and answered fans’ questions while trading insults with haters. He explained the show’s trafficking storyline and welcomed fans shipping him with Huo Chuyun, then noticed a viewer sending him lavish gifts.

• Wang Pengfei told Lu Xingchen to livestream after the first episode aired, and Lu Xingchen texted Huo Chuyun about it.
• Lu Xingchen started streaming, switched off the beauty filter, and greeted more than a hundred thousand viewers.
• Lu Xingchen mocked hateful comments and defended his actions on the show, including hitting Chenchen and blaming Chenchen and Haohao for ignoring the assistant’s instructions.
• Lu Xingchen explained that Tuanjie Village’s extras were trafficking victims or their relatives and that the show’s story was adapted from real events.
• Lu Xingchen agreed that fans could ship him with Huo Chuyun, then asked Loves Tomato Egg Rice Bowl to stop sending lavish gifts or transfer the money directly to his bank account.

Huo Chuyun relived the abuse and betrayal that had left him badly injured, then woke from a nightmare in Lu Xingchen’s arms. Lu Xingchen promised to support him and asked to accompany him to the Huo family’s old residence, where Huo Chuyun planned to settle several matters.

• Huo Chuyun’s memories showed his mother favoring Xiao Chi, striking and threatening him, and forcing him to give up what he wanted.
• After Huo Chuyun refused to surrender the assets his grandfather had left him, his mother arranged a car crash that cost him his legs and damaged one eye.
• Lu Xingchen woke Huo Chuyun from a nightmare and comforted him as he cried and relived his family’s betrayal.
• Huo Chuyun woke in Lu Xingchen’s embrace, and Lu Xingchen asked to accompany him on his next visit to the Huo family’s old residence.
• Huo Chuyun agreed and said he would rely on Lu Xingchen’s support while dealing with matters at the Huo family home.

Lu Xingchen gave Huo Chuyun twenty sunflowers and promised his love would never change, then the two spent the day together. That night, Huo Chuyun learned that scandals about rival bidders for the Country A project could not be removed, while Country A had offered Huo Corporation a better deal.

• Lu Xingchen brought Huo Chuyun twenty sunflowers and told him they represented his unchanging love.
• Huo Chuyun and Lu Xingchen kissed and became intimate.
• Huo Chuyun noticed malicious text messages on his phone but relaxed when he saw Lu Xingchen sleeping.
• Lin Yufan told Huo Chuyun that Country A had agreed to concede the profit margin they had previously disputed.
• Huo Chuyun learned that scandals about rival bidders had spread across VB and that no one had found a way to remove them.

Huo Chuyun learned that Lu Xingchen had secretly helped Huo Corporation, then cared for him through breakfast the next morning. As Lu Xingchen reflected on Huo Chuyun’s family and the changes his presence had caused in the novel’s world, Huo Chuyun wondered what mischief he was thinking up.

• Lin Yufan told Huo Chuyun that the hidden helper’s IP address led to the apartment where Lu Xingchen lived, and Huo Chuyun ordered the tech department to conceal it.
• Huo Chuyun told Lin Yufan to pursue the Country A partnership and tripled his bonus.
• The next morning, Huo Chuyun carried Lu Xingchen to breakfast and promised to stop smoking after Lu Xingchen said he disliked it.
• Lu Xingchen felt sorry for Huo Chuyun and thought about his difficult family history, the Song family, and how the world seemed to be changing since his arrival.
• Huo Chuyun watched Lu Xingchen’s animated expression and thought of the absurd rumors Lu Xingchen had spread about him online.

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.