Recaps

After the village’s ghost case was resolved, Qu Nanzhu began a livestream reading on the ride back and exposed an influential old man’s hidden debts of human lives. The old man claimed he wanted to atone, but Qu Nanzhu urged him to confess and turn himself in as the others secretly contacted the police.

• Bai Shiyu stole the stone containing the little ghost while the family argued, and Daoming warned viewers to call the police if they noticed someone being bewitched by a ghost.
• Director Li and the others shared a meal with the villagers, and Daoming promised the village chief that the government would build a road to help them sell their pears.
• Qu Nanzhu remembered he had not done his daily readings and began a livestream from the vehicle, connecting with an old man who asked how to make amends for past harm.
• Qu Nanzhu received the old man’s birth details, while Little Eighteen sent Daoqing a message directing him to call the police.
• Qu Nanzhu accused the old man of owing human lives and told him to confess and serve his sentence, leaving the old man furious.

Qu Nanzhu exposed a fraudster who tried to buy redemption, and the police arrested him while the livestream explained how sincere repentance could reduce punishment. The next morning, Director Li revealed that the show had prompted criminals to turn themselves in, and the guests celebrated its impact.

• Qu Nanzhu rejected the fraudster’s plea for redemption, exposed his crimes, and reassured viewers that Xiao Jiu would keep him from escaping until the police arrived.
• Daoqing and Daoming explained that the fraudster faced ten thousand years of punishment in hell and that sincere surrender could reduce sins, while Qu Nanzhu began the next readings and shared news of the arrest.
• Qu Nanzhu joked with Huo Sili that his difficult business partner might be possessed, and Huo Sili considered bringing Ling Qiao to investigate.
• Director Li told the guests that police departments had reported criminals turning themselves in after watching the previous episode, and said helping people change was the show’s purpose.
• Zhou Mingzhong and the other guests expressed surprise and delight at the show’s effect, while Qu Nanzhu showed his pleasure with a slight smile.

Qu Nanzhu and the other guests investigated reports of cries and calls for help at a secondary school. Their inquiries led them to a cemetery of blank gravestones behind the school, where they sensed the source of the disturbance but could not yet explain it.

• The principal explained that students and teachers had been hearing cries and calls for help at night, and the guests began investigating the reports.
• Daoqing and Daoming said they would investigate the grounds with Qu Nanzhu while the other guests questioned students.
• Qu Nanzhu sensed an entity in the school that had recently awakened but did not seem to intend harm.
• Qu Nanzhu, Daoqing, and Daoming followed the faint aura into the woods and found a cemetery of blank gravestones behind the school.
• The principal said the school had been built on a mass burial ground, but the three celestial masters recognized the cemetery as the likely source of the problem.
• After two hours of questioning students and investigating, the ten guests reconvened in the meeting room to compare their findings.

Qu Nanzhu discovered that a Ghost Gate Pass was opening beneath the school and rushed to protect the students during an earthquake. The students escaped safely, but Qu Nanzhu disappeared in the collapse until a spectral figure led Daoqing and Daoming back inside to find him.

• Qu Nanzhu questioned the girl who first heard a voice and learned it had gently warned her to leave the school.
• After his paper figures detected danger, Qu Nanzhu ordered the principal to evacuate everyone from the school.
• As an earthquake began, Qu Nanzhu heard that it was too late and rushed toward the graves behind the school.
• Qu Nanzhu raised a golden array to protect the students from the opening Ghost Gate Pass, while a spectral senior admitted he could no longer hold it back.
• The earthquake weakened after Qu Nanzhu entered the danger, and the students escaped with only minor injuries, but Qu Nanzhu vanished.
• A spectral figure appeared to Daoqing and led him and Daoming back into the collapsed school to search for Qu Nanzhu, with the guests following.

Qu Nanzhu survived the supernatural crisis but collapsed from exhaustion, and Huo Sili rushed to the hospital to see him. While staying by Qu Nanzhu’s bedside, Huo Sili recognized that his feelings were love, and the chapter left the two sharing an intimate, food-filled reunion as their visitors watched.

• Daoqing found Qu Nanzhu unconscious in the cemetery, and the phantom reassured everyone that Qu Nanzhu had only collapsed from overexertion.
• The medical staff examined Qu Nanzhu and confirmed that he needed rest, while the production team informed viewers that he was safe.
• After hearing Qu Nanzhu was missing, Huo Sili flew from G City and arrived at the hospital, where he stayed beside the sleeping Qu Nanzhu overnight.
• Watching Qu Nanzhu sleep, Huo Sili realized that his feelings were romantic love rather than friendship or admiration.
• Qu Nanzhu woke the next morning, welcomed Huo Sili, and ate several portions of breakfast while Huo Sili cared for him.
• The production team and seven guests visited Qu Nanzhu, but Huo Sili’s attentive behavior and easy intimacy with him left them wondering if they were already settled into married life.

After overexerting himself to save 1,635 students, Qu Nanzhu reassured his fans in a livestream while recovering in the hospital. Wen Youfang visited to thank him and explained that the Investigation Bureau would establish Ghost Gate Pass near the school.

• Huo Sili helped Qu Nanzhu livestream, and Qu Nanzhu told his fans he was safe but temporarily unable to move.
• Qu Nanzhu slept until noon and woke when Huo Sili brought food.
• Wen Youfang visited with Daoqing to thank Qu Nanzhu on behalf of the nation and the 1,635 affected families, presenting a silk banner and a cash reward.
• Qu Nanzhu asked what would happen to the area around the school, and Wen Youfang said they would respect the departed and establish Ghost Gate Pass.

Wen Youfang explained how Liu Fengyun sacrificed himself to create a Ghost Gate Pass for the massacred city's lost souls, and Qu Nanzhu recovered enough to sit up and move his hands. After Qu Nanzhu was discharged, reporters swarmed him at the hospital, but bystanders formed a protective wall and helped him leave.

• Wen Youfang told Qu Nanzhu and Huo Sili how Liu Fengyun had created a Yin-Gathering Array and guarded the city until it became a Ghost Gate Pass.
• Qu Nanzhu told Huo Sili he wanted to visit Liu Fengyun again and offered to open Huo Sili's Yin-Yang Eyes.
• Qu Nanzhu woke that evening, sat up with the help of paper figures, and showed Huo Sili that he could move his hands again.
• Qu Nanzhu checked Weibo and saw that his rescue at the school had made him famous, then asked Huo Sili to help him leave the hospital for a hotel.
• Reporters surrounded Qu Nanzhu, Huo Sili, and Chen Xun in the hospital lobby, but bystanders pushed the reporters back and shielded them.

After recovering, Qu Nanzhu returned to filming and reunited with the cast before traveling back to S City. There, Huo Sili revealed that Cheng Xuanyu had been cursed, and Old President Cheng asked him to seek Qu Nanzhu’s help.

• Reporters who had mobbed Qu Nanzhu outside the hospital were condemned online, and Huo Sili carried him back to the hotel.
• Qu Nanzhu returned to the production crew, spent the remaining filming days with the cast, and received Lin Qianyu and Lu Luqing’s contact details at the farewell gathering.
• Qu Nanzhu traveled to S City with Chen Xun and waited in Huo Sili’s lounge while Chen Xun investigated a stolen project proposal.
• Qu Nanzhu offered to handle the matter for thirty million, and Huo Sili replied flirtatiously before returning to negotiations.
• Huo Sili told Old President Cheng that someone had cursed Cheng Xuanyu, and Old President Cheng asked him to approach Qu Nanzhu for help.

After Chen Xun exposed Zhao Wangcheng for stealing company documents, Qu Nanzhu read the younger schoolmate’s birth chart and warned of his troubled circumstances, while Chen Xun insisted he must still face the consequences. Qu Nanzhu agreed to help Huo Sili investigate a threat against his company and traveled to meet him, where Huo Sili warmly approached him in the arrivals hall.

• Chen Xun reported Zhao Wangcheng’s theft to the police and company, then obtained Zhao’s birth details for Qu Nanzhu.
• Qu Nanzhu divined Zhao’s current misfortune and revealed that his mother was seriously ill, but Chen Xun maintained that Zhao must face legal and company punishment.
• Qu Nanzhu agreed to help Huo Sili investigate a suspected threat against his company in exchange for thirty million.
• Qu Nanzhu arranged to travel the next day to meet Huo Sili, and Chen Xun organized his itinerary.
• Huo Sili waited at the arrivals hall and strode toward Qu Nanzhu when he spotted him.

Qu Nanzhu and Huo Sili went to the Cheng family villa to investigate Cheng Xuanyu’s violent behavior and discovered he was afflicted by a Heart-Burning Curse. After removing the curse, Qu Nanzhu found the wooden effigy tied to Cheng Xuanyu’s hair and considered how to break the curse without killing its caster.

• Huo Sili brought Qu Nanzhu to the Cheng family villa, where Mr. and Mrs. Cheng described Cheng Xuanyu’s outbursts and destructive behavior.
• Qu Nanzhu stopped Cheng Xuanyu from rushing out of his room, restrained him, and explained that a Heart-Burning Curse was amplifying his emotions.
• Qu Nanzhu used a Golden Light Impurity-Breaking Talisman to remove the curse, leaving Cheng Xuanyu unconscious.
• Little Eighteen and two older siblings brought Qu Nanzhu a wooden effigy with Cheng Xuanyu’s hair tied to it.
• Qu Nanzhu examined the effigy and wondered how to break the curse without killing the person who cast it.

After Qu Nanzhu helped the Cheng family, he deduced that the curse and the theft of Huo Sili’s documents were part of a wider effort targeting the Huo family. As Ling Qiao began investigating, Ji Pofu prepared a formation and planned to draw her out.

• Xuanyi collected the cursed wooden effigy after Qu Nanzhu handed it over, and the police arrested Zhao Wangcheng for stealing Huo Sili’s documents.
• Huo Sili told Old President Cheng about the stolen documents and proposed resuming their partnership talks, reassuring Cheng that they remained equal partners.
• Qu Nanzhu told Huo Sili that the curse and other incidents targeting his family likely came from the same group, and advised him to have Ling Qiao investigate.
• Ling Qiao agreed to investigate after Huo Sili summoned her.
• Ji Pofu learned that a master had lifted the Cheng family’s curse and ordered the old evil Taoist to put the Bai family forward and activate a formation when Ling Qiao appeared.

Huo Sili and Qu Nanzhu went for a walk before their afternoon meeting with the Cheng family and joined a crowd drawn to a fortune-telling master. Qu Nanzhu challenged the master’s free readings before Huo Sili helped him leave, teasing him as they escaped.

• Huo Sili invited Qu Nanzhu to explore H City, and Qu Nanzhu bundled up in hoodies before they set out together.
• Qu Nanzhu bought a ghost doll for Little Eighteen, while Huo Sili protected him when a crowd surged toward a fortune-telling master.
• Qu Nanzhu questioned two fans about the master’s free readings, and Huo Sili explained that fortune-telling required a fee to settle karma.
• Huo Sili led Qu Nanzhu away from the crowd and called him a little guy, prompting Qu Nanzhu to angrily call out his name.

Qu Nanzhu and Huo Sili exposed Fortune-Telling Master Cui’s free protection talismans as Life-Borrowing Talismans and called the police. When Master Cui turned the crowd against them, the policewoman requested backup, leaving his arrest unresolved.

• Qu Nanzhu recognized Fortune-Telling Master Cui from a livestream and called the police with Huo Sili.
• Qu Nanzhu sent Xiao Jiu to steal a protection talisman and identified it as a Life-Borrowing Talisman with a sinister, bloody smell.
• A policewoman arrived and challenged Master Cui for fortune-telling without official certification, warning the crowd that free readings could hide ulterior motives.
• Qu Nanzhu revealed that Master Cui’s free protection talismans contained Life-Borrowing Talismans, alarming the customers.
• Master Cui claimed he was being falsely accused and won the crowd’s sympathy, so the policewoman requested backup at Guozhong Commercial Street.

Qu Nanzhu exposed Master Cui’s Life-Borrowing Talisman scheme and helped the police take him into custody. After returning to the hotel with Huo Sili, Qu Nanzhu stayed in Huo Sili’s room, while Cheng Xuanyu woke up remembering his actions and sank into guilt.

• Master Cui tried to leave, but Little Eighteen pinned him down as Qu Nanzhu revealed that his protection talismans were child talismans of a Life-Borrowing Talisman.
• Qu Nanzhu warned the crowd to seek legitimate practitioners and reminded them that divinations were not free; police arrived and took Master Cui into custody.
• Qu Nanzhu told the policewoman that Master Cui’s mother talismans should be found and destroyed and that the Celestial Master Bureau should handle his karmic ties with the buyers.
• Qu Nanzhu accepted a ride to the hotel with Huo Sili and decided to stay in Huo Sili’s room for the afternoon.
• News of Qu Nanzhu’s appearance on Guozhong Commercial Street spread online, and people who had been unable to recognize him discussed the encounter.
• Cheng Xuanyu woke after a day and night of sleep, remembered what he had done, and felt worse when Huo Sili reminded him that he was three years younger.

Cheng Xuanyu treated Huo Sili and Qu Nanzhu to dinner, after which Huo Sili took Qu Nanzhu shopping for clothes. On the drive home, Qu Nanzhu messaged Shang Ni'en about the rumors and scandal that had enraged her, until she invited him to play a game instead.

• Qu Nanzhu accepted Cheng Xuanyu's dinner invitation and arrived wearing an ill-fitting coat, so Huo Sili wrapped it around him and offered to buy him warm clothes.
• At dinner, Cheng Xuanyu admired Qu Nanzhu's appetite and Huo Sili's speed at peeling shrimp, and the three exchanged WeChat contacts.
• Huo Sili drove Qu Nanzhu shopping and bought him seven or eight outfits, then asked who he was messaging on the way home.
• Shang Ni'en told Qu Nanzhu that a former housekeeper's daughter had spread rumors portraying her as a vicious young heiress and someone's mistress.
• The university made the girl withdraw for serious disciplinary violations, while Shang Ni'en remained furious about the incident.
• Shang Ni'en asked Qu Nanzhu to play a game with her and beat the opposing team, so he deleted his attempt to comfort her.

Qu Nanzhu spent the day exploring an amusement park, sharing updates with his followers and Huo Sili. After trying several rides and the haunted house, he headed back when Huo Sili finished work, while a fan searched the park for him.

• Qu Nanzhu posted a photo by a park lake, then wandered to an amusement park and bought a ticket.
• Qu Nanzhu tried attractions including the carousel, bumper cars, giant pendulum, and roller coaster, and sent photos and videos to Huo Sili.
• Qu Nanzhu entered the haunted house with a couple, accidentally grabbed a staff member, and left with dusty knees.
• Qu Nanzhu posted that the haunted house had no ghosts, then took a selfie in the castle garden and visited more attractions.
• Huo Sili told Qu Nanzhu he had finished work, so Qu Nanzhu headed back as a fan continued searching for him.

During his livestream, Qu Nanzhu helped Xiao Wan uncover that her family had arranged a ghost marriage for her. He advised her to contact the police and end the arrangement, while viewers offered support and practical help.

• Xiao Wan told Qu Nanzhu that a wet boy ghost had followed her in recurring nightmares and called her his wife.
• After calculating her birth details, Qu Nanzhu determined that someone had arranged a ghost marriage for Xiao Wan.
• Xiao Wan revealed that she had fled her family at sixteen because her grandmother favored boys and treated her badly.
• Qu Nanzhu suspected Xiao Wan's stepmother had given her grandmother a grandson, prompting her grandmother to arrange the marriage for money.
• Qu Nanzhu told Xiao Wan to report her family for trafficking women and have the police help her tear up the marriage contract.
• Xiao Wan thanked Qu Nanzhu and disconnected, while viewers offered her support and Qu Nanzhu expected her relatives on her mother's side to find her.

Huo Sili and Qu Nanzhu returned from their trip, discussed Zhao Wangcheng’s case, and viewed a villa. Qu Nanzhu bought the six-mu courtyard residence for 120 million, and officials made its purchase and his identity confidential.

• Huo Sili woke Qu Nanzhu for their flight, and Qu Nanzhu admitted he had stayed up playing games with Lu Qing.
• Chen Xun told Huo Sili that Zhao Wangcheng had confessed, and Qu Nanzhu said Zhao’s mother could recover from her illness.
• Qu Nanzhu chose to view the new Chinese-style courtyard villa and bought it after admiring its garden.
• Officials had Zhang Shu sign a confidentiality agreement and warned him that Celestial Master Qu’s personal information was a state secret.
• Qu Nanzhu signed the purchase contract, and the ownership transfer was completed that day.

Qu Nanzhu held a housewarming banquet at his new home, where friends brought gifts, shared a meal, and played games together. Huo Sili also told Qu Nanzhu that Bai Miaochen had targeted the Huo Family, and Qu Nanzhu urged him to investigate Bai Miaochen’s recent contacts.

• Qu Nanzhu invited his friends to a housewarming banquet, and Huo Sili told him that Bai Miaochen, head of the Bai Family, had acted against the Huo Family after once pursuing Huo Sili’s aunt.
• After seeing Bai Miaochen’s photo, Qu Nanzhu suspected someone had recently influenced him and advised Huo Sili to investigate his recent contacts.
• Qin Siyi and Su Youqin arrived with an inkstone, Shang Ni'en brought rough stones, and Cheng Xuanyu gave Qu Nanzhu Longjing tea and a jadeite bangle that might have come from a stone Qu Nanzhu had sold.
• Qu Nanzhu, Huo Sili, and Chen Xun hosted the guests for a meal, where Cheng Xuanyu got drunk and the others laughed, ate, and chatted together.
• After helping tidy the dining room, the guests joined Qu Nanzhu in the gaming room, where Lin Qianyu and Lu Luqing joined them for a game.

Qu Nanzhu agreed to teach at the Investigation Bureau one day each month after carefully reviewing its employment agreement. He planned to visit its headquarters the next day to complete the formalities and bring extra food to Huo Sili.

• After waking late, Qu Nanzhu learned that his guests had gone home and Huo Sili had gone to work.
• Zhou Liyuan invited Qu Nanzhu to teach at the Investigation Bureau one day a month, offering five thousand yuan per day.
• Qu Nanzhu read the fourteen-page agreement carefully while Zhou Liyuan waited and encountered the sunning paper figures in the garden.
• Qu Nanzhu signed the agreement, explaining that the limited schedule suited him and that he wanted to give something back to the country.
• Zhou Liyuan left to share the news, and Qu Nanzhu decided to take Chen Xun's extra food to eat with Huo Sili.

Qu Nanzhu traveled to the capital to join the Paranormal Investigation Bureau as an instructor and completed his registration. During a tour, he found that the bureau had treasured a Heavenly Lightning Talisman he had drawn, while Xiao Zhu’s rebirth remained three months away and Qu Nanzhu had yet to prepare for an infant.

• Qu Nanzhu told Huo Sili that the Paranormal Investigation Bureau had invited him to teach one class each month, then visited the Huo residence and sensed that Xiao Zhu’s soul was nearly done merging in Spirit Lake.
• Chen Xun packed Qu Nanzhu’s luggage, and Zhou Liyuan escorted him from the capital’s airport to the Paranormal Investigation Bureau.
• Qu Nanzhu completed his fingerprint and iris registration, received an employee badge, and met the bureau director, Wen Youfang.
• During a tour of the bureau’s exhibition hall, Qu Nanzhu recognized his Heavenly Lightning Talisman on display as the bureau’s prized treasure.

Qu Nanzhu taught celestial masters at the Investigation Bureau how to draw three spirit talismans that could improve their ability to fight ghosts. The class ended with everyone exhausted from using their spiritual energy, though none had produced a usable talisman yet.

• After touring the Investigation Bureau, Qu Nanzhu stayed in its housing and spoke with Huo Sili by phone after his livestream.
• The next morning, dozens of celestial masters gathered to attend Qu Nanzhu's class.
• Qu Nanzhu demonstrated the Exploding Spirit Talisman, the Blazing Yang Talisman, and the Substitution Talisman.
• Qu Nanzhu guided the students through practicing the brushwork before teaching them to infuse their talismans with spiritual energy.
• The students struggled with the infusion and used up all their spiritual energy without drawing a usable talisman.

Qu Nanzhu rushed to the hospital after learning Chen Xun and Huo Sili had been in a car accident, and used paper figures and spiritual power to help Chen Xun survive surgery. After Chen Xun was moved to intensive care, Qu Nanzhu went home with Huo Sili, where he suddenly cupped Huo Sili’s face.

• Zhou Liyuan arranged Qu Nanzhu’s return flight to S City after Qu Nanzhu taught the students about formations.
• Hao Yu picked Qu Nanzhu up at the airport and told him Huo Sili and Chen Xun had been in a car accident, with Chen Xun seriously injured.
• Qu Nanzhu sent three paper figures ahead to the Third Affiliated Hospital to sustain Chen Xun and help the surgeon during the operation.
• Qu Nanzhu reached the hospital and comforted Huo Sili, then learned the police believed the crash was an accident caused by an inexperienced driver.
• The surgeon reported that Chen Xun’s operation had succeeded, and Qu Nanzhu secretly channeled spiritual power into him while he recovered in intensive care.
• Qu Nanzhu went with Huo Sili to his villa, where he suddenly cupped Huo Sili’s face after Huo Sili showered.

Qu Nanzhu discovered that someone was stealing Huo Sili's luck and learned that Huo Sili had fallen in love with him. After Qu Nanzhu confessed he had seen their red thread, Huo Sili asked him to be his boyfriend, and Qu Nanzhu accepted.

• Qu Nanzhu saw that Huo Sili's luck was fading and noticed their marriage red thread connected them.
• Huo Sili told Qu Nanzhu that Bai Miaochen had lured Ling Qiao into a formation and tried to destroy her ghost body.
• Qu Nanzhu explained that Huo Sili's stolen luck was causing accidents and trouble, and they agreed to leave the connection intact while he investigated.
• Qu Nanzhu asked when Huo Sili had started liking him, and Huo Sili said he realized his feelings while Qu Nanzhu was hospitalized.
• Huo Sili asked Qu Nanzhu to be his boyfriend, and Qu Nanzhu accepted.

Qu Nanzhu explained how Huo Sili’s stolen fortune was replenished by draining luck from those around him, then discovered that the Ghost Pact was transferring the fortune through Ling Qiao. He began preparing an Eight Trigrams Array to trace and stop the person responsible.

• Huo Sili and Qu Nanzhu visited the Huo family home for breakfast, where Huo Sili’s stolen fortune caused Fang Pingyue and Fang Moshan to suffer bad luck.
• Qu Nanzhu explained that a defense mechanism drew fortune from people around Huo Sili to replace what had been stolen, while Qu Nanzhu was unaffected because he was not bound by the Heavenly Dao here.
• Qu Nanzhu and Huo Sili found Ling Qiao agitated at Spirit Lake and discovered she could not dive underwater.
• Qu Nanzhu determined that Huo Sili’s fortune was being transferred through the Ghost Pact with Ling Qiao, who had been affected as the conduit.
• Qu Nanzhu explained that the thieves had acted because they believed his damaged cultivation would keep him from interfering, then prepared an Eight Trigrams Array and sent the paper figures to help locate them.