Chapter Summaries

Qu Nanzhu took over Xiao Zhu’s body, rescued the body’s damaged soul, and spent the night recovering. The next morning, he rejected his manager Li Mao’s probing call and blocked him, leaving their relationship openly hostile.

• Qu Nanzhu subdued Wang Qiang and his accomplice as they tried to bury a body, then called the police.
• Qu Nanzhu used merit light and a talisman on a branch to stabilize Xiao Zhu’s damaged soul before going to the hospital and a nearby guesthouse.
• Qu Nanzhu woke the next morning and realized Xiao Zhu’s soul was slowly recovering, though he lacked the money and supplies to nourish it properly.
• Li Mao called to ask about Qu Nanzhu’s night with Manager Zhong, and Qu Nanzhu said nothing had happened and hung up.
• Li Mao called again, but Qu Nanzhu had blocked him, leaving Li Mao furious.

Qu Nanzhu went to Yinxie to terminate Xiao Zhu’s contract, unnerving Li Mao with his apparent knowledge of the agent’s secrets. He confronted Manager Du Congcai about his hypocrisy and hinted that a supernatural presence was threatening him, leaving Du alarmed.

• Qu Nanzhu returned to Xiao Zhu’s rented room, protected him with blood-drawn formations, and went to Yinxie to terminate his contract.
• Li Mao blocked Qu Nanzhu and mocked him, but Qu Nanzhu named three of Li Mao’s illicit relationships and made him move aside; police took Li Mao away that evening.
• Qu Nanzhu entered Manager Du Congcai’s office and asked to terminate Xiao Zhu’s contract, while ignoring the female ghost following Du.
• Du lectured Qu Nanzhu about the company’s rules and his own supposed hard work, but Qu Nanzhu criticized Du’s appearance and mocked his claims of success.
• Qu Nanzhu warned Du that he might not live long enough to enjoy his money, then described the chills and choking sensations Du had been experiencing.

Qu Nanzhu exposed Du Congcai’s past murder and pointed the victim’s ghost toward the City God, then left Yinxie without paying a termination penalty. On the way home, he prevented a taxi driver from being caught in a massive traffic crash and began searching for survivors with the help of powerful ghosts.

• Qu Nanzhu signed an amicable contract termination agreement after Du Congcai demanded to know how he had learned about the ghost.
• Qu Nanzhu described the murdered woman, and Du Congcai fell to his knees and begged him for help.
• Qu Nanzhu told the female ghost to file a complaint with the City God, then left Du Congcai to face her and the law.
• Qu Nanzhu left Yinxie without paying penalties, while Li Mao was taken away by the police and Du Congcai stopped coming to work.
• Qu Nanzhu warned his taxi driver to stop just before a truck caused a chain-reaction crash, then told him he would enjoy good fortune after surviving the calamity.
• Qu Nanzhu cast a Protective Vajra Mantra on himself and sent powerful ghosts to search the crash scene for survivors.

Qu Nanzhu rescued people trapped in a massive traffic accident with help from two ghosts and two bystanders, then returned home to check on Xiao Zhu. The rescue drew attention online, but Qu Nanzhu had already left before firefighters and reporters could find him.

• Qu Nanzhu and two young men pulled injured people from the wreckage while the big ghost helped free Huo Sili and the driver.
• Qu Nanzhu carried Huo Sili out after the little ghost lifted the seat trapping his legs, and Huo Sili pretended to stay calm despite seeing the ghosts.
• A secondary explosion erupted just as firefighters arrived, and Xu Chenguang learned that a gauze-wrapped youth had rescued the injured before leaving.
• Qu Nanzhu returned to his apartment, gave Xiao Zhu a little merit, and checked his recovery.
• Xu Chenguang praised the rescuers during a livestream, and a witness offered reporters a video of Qu Nanzhu's rescue.

After Qu Nanzhu rescued victims in a crash, footage and the driver's account made him a viral sensation, drawing both praise and accusations of a publicity stunt. He prepared a Spirit Gathering Array for Xiao Zhu and announced that he would begin fortune-telling streams that night.

• Netizens circulated footage of Qu Nanzhu rescuing crash victims, while the driver told a reporter that Qu Nanzhu had warned him to stop before the collision.
• Netizens found Qu Nanzhu's Douyin account and debated whether the rescue and fortune-telling claims were genuine.
• Qu Nanzhu bought talisman paper and cinnabar at Heaven and Earth Studio, but could not afford the jade pendant he hoped to use as Xiao Zhu's vessel.
• Qu Nanzhu drew seven talismans and set up a Spirit Gathering Array for Xiao Zhu at home.
• Qu Nanzhu saw that his account had gained 360,000 followers and that his rescue videos had become widely viewed and reposted.
• Qu Nanzhu replied to comments by announcing his first fortune-telling stream for eight that night and calling the change a fresh start.

Qu Nanzhu began a live fortune-telling stream, drawing huge crowds and gifts as Huo Sili helped moderate the chat. After Qu Nanzhu read Huo Sili’s assistant Chen Xun’s career prospects, he questioned whether Chen Xun’s fiancée was truly his destined partner, leaving the call tense.

• Qu Nanzhu started his live stream, announced that readings cost three thousand yuan, and began drawing talismans as viewers flooded him with gifts and criticism.
• Huo Sili asked Qu Nanzhu to make his account a moderator, then removed disruptive viewers; Qu Nanzhu made the five top gifters moderators.
• After viewers hesitated to request readings, Chen Xun joined the call and asked about his career prospects.
• Qu Nanzhu read Chen Xun’s appearance and predicted steady career progress, while Chen Xun and many viewers doubted the reading.
• When Chen Xun tried to end the call, Qu Nanzhu asked about his romantic fate and challenged him by asking whether his fiancée was his destined partner.

During a livestream reading, Qu Nanzhu challenged Chen Xun’s belief in his fiancée and revealed that she might be deceiving him. Chen Xun left the call to investigate her past and the suspicious story about her parents.

• Chen Xun refused Qu Nanzhu’s offer to examine his destined partner, saying he was engaged and content with his fiancée.
• Qu Nanzhu questioned Chen Xun about the large sums of money his fiancée had recently requested and asked whether he had seen proof of her parents’ illnesses.
• Qu Nanzhu revealed that Chen Xun’s fiancée had a child, then asked him to send her photograph for a closer reading.
• After viewing the photo, Qu Nanzhu told Chen Xun to call the police, claiming his fiancée had been married three times and had improper relations with three men while engaged to him.
• Qu Nanzhu urged Chen Xun to visit her parents alone, and Chen Xun realized she had repeatedly refused his requests to visit them.
• Chen Xun thanked Qu Nanzhu and disconnected from the livestream to verify the claims in person.

Qu Nanzhu used a fortune reading to guide Qin Siyi to her missing friend, Su Youqin, whom Zhao Donghao had drugged and taken to an abandoned factory. After Qin Siyi rescued Su Youqin, Qu Nanzhu revealed that a curse was involved and said he needed to go there himself, but he had no car.

• Qin Siyi asked Qu Nanzhu to locate Su Youqin, who had vanished after a breakup, and he warned that someone had tampered with her fate.
• Qu Nanzhu directed Qin Siyi away from the woods toward an abandoned factory near water, and she drove there.
• Qin Siyi found Su Youqin drugged and barely conscious while Zhao Donghao tried to undo his belt, then kicked him away before he could assault her.
• Qin Siyi thanked Qu Nanzhu and prepared to take Su Youqin to a hospital, but he said she appeared to be cursed and the hospital would not fix it.
• Qu Nanzhu identified the problem as a peach blossom sha and said he needed to come in person, then admitted he had no car.

Qu Nanzhu arranged to help Qin Siyi’s younger sister and prepared to end his livestream after one last divination. He told Huang Fenfang that her missing son was alive and thriving with a wealthy family, leaving his birth parents to face the painful question of whether to seek him out.

• Qin Siyi asked Qu Nanzhu how to protect her younger sister, and he warned her to keep the girl away from Zhao Donghao and said she could be sedated if necessary.
• Qin Siyi arranged for a private jet to collect Qu Nanzhu that night and agreed to provide talisman paper and cinnabar.
• Huo Sili asked Qu Nanzhu in the public chat to check his private messages, and Qu Nanzhu apologized after finding them buried among many messages.
• Huang Fenfang joined the livestream and asked Qu Nanzhu to divine whether her son, missing since age three, was alive and well.
• Qu Nanzhu told Huang Fenfang that her son was nineteen, alive, healthy, loved by his parents, and living in privileged circumstances.

Qu Nanzhu finished his livestream, earned a large sum toward restoring Little Zhu, and traveled with Qin Siyi to G City to treat Su Youqin’s Peach Blossom Sha. He arrived at the Su residence and prepared to see the sleeping Su Youqin.

• Huang Fenfang and her husband thanked Qu Nanzhu for telling them their child was alive, then ended the call without paying a divination fee.
• Qu Nanzhu gave a young caller discouraging news about finding a partner, ended the stream, and discovered he had earned 768,000 after the platform’s cut.
• Qin Siyi’s people arrived to take Qu Nanzhu to G City, and he asked a meritorious bodyguard to guard Little Zhu’s branch.
• On the plane, Qin Siyi posted a photo of Qu Nanzhu and read online doubts about whether he could break Su Youqin’s Peach Blossom Sha.
• Qu Nanzhu arrived at the Su residence, learned Su Youqin had awakened but was asleep after taking sleeping pills, and asked to be taken to her.

Qu Nanzhu destroyed the chimei behind Su Youqin’s Peach Blossom Sha, killed the curse’s caster with heavenly lightning, and gave the Su family talismans to protect and heal her. After accepting the family’s 500,000 yuan payment, he left them wondering whether they had underpaid him for a priceless Heavenly Lightning Talisman.

• Qu Nanzhu found a yin talisman beneath Su Youqin’s pillow and identified a chimei as the cause of her restless sleep.
• Qu Nanzhu drew talismans in midair and used heavenly lightning to destroy the chimei and kill the person who cast the curse.
• Qu Nanzhu gave the Su family talismans to stabilize Su Youqin’s soul and ward off evil, and advised them to report the incident to the police.
• Mrs. Su invited Qu Nanzhu to stay for the night and arranged a late meal after his stomach rumbled.
• Qin Siyi learned from a friend that a Heavenly Lightning Talisman was priceless, while Qu Nanzhu accepted the Su family’s 500,000 yuan and declared that they were square.

Qu Nanzhu exposed Zhao Donghao’s scheme against Su Youqin and revealed that Zhao Donghao was not biologically related to his parents. After leaving the Su family, Qu Nanzhu returned to his rental, sent the bodyguard off to rest, and used merit to aid Xiao Zhu, whose unusual fate made his soul vulnerable to ghosts.

• Qu Nanzhu reassured the wandering ghosts that he would make jade peace pendants for them and send them to the people they had rescued.
• Zhao Donghao confessed that he had used a peach blossom curse on Su Youqin, tested it on a gay man, and tampered with surveillance footage.
• Qu Nanzhu told the Zhao family that Zhao Donghao had no blood ties to his parents, and Mr. Zhao decided to verify it while the police prepared to investigate the curse.
• Qin Siyi kicked Zhao Donghao as he begged Su Youqin for forgiveness, and Mr. Zhao dragged him out of the Su home.
• Qu Nanzhu gave the bodyguard a Spirit-Calming Talisman and permission to rest before returning to work the next day.
• Qu Nanzhu checked Xiao Zhu’s stable but unrecovered soul and sent him a wisp of golden merit, explaining that his unusual birth made him vulnerable to ghosts.

Qu Nanzhu visited a stone-gambling shop and used his ability to choose rough stones containing spiritual qi. The first stone he had cut yielded valuable ice-grade jadeite, and he left the rest with the owner to cut later.

• Qu Nanzhu rejected calls from talent agencies and went to a nearby antiques market.
• Qu Nanzhu chose nine rough stones at the shop, paid 378,000 yuan, and asked the owner to cut them.
• Qu Nanzhu picked a free three-hundred-yuan stone to cut first, and it revealed ice-grade jadeite.
• The owner estimated the jadeite was worth at least eight hundred thousand yuan and advised Qu Nanzhu to take it to a professional workshop.
• Qu Nanzhu accepted the jadeite, left his contact details, and asked the owner to cut the remaining stones.

Qu Nanzhu arranged for his ice jadeite to be made into peace buckles and spent the evening enjoying food and catching up on the messages he had ignored. He learned that his fortune-telling streams had been suppressed online, but his popularity kept growing as he began another livestream.

• Qu Nanzhu asked an antique-shop assistant to make at least six peace buckles from his ice jadeite and agreed to let the shop sell the leftover material as a bangle.
• Qu Nanzhu bought talisman paper and cinnabar, then accepted four thousand yuan from the stone-gambling shop owner for the bean jadeite.
• Qu Nanzhu discovered that trending topics about his fortune-telling had been removed and that talent agencies were trying to sign him after he terminated his contract.
• Qin Siyi thanked Qu Nanzhu for saving her younger sister and challenged a netizen who had promised to eat a keyboard.
• Qu Nanzhu started his livestream one minute late, explained that he had been eating, and answered a viewer who asked what he had eaten.

Qu Nanzhu faced off against debunking streamer Pang Du during a livestream after Pang repeatedly challenged him to prove his fortune-telling abilities. Qu refused to give Pang a free reading and left the room to fetch scissors, leaving viewers wondering what he planned to do.

• Qu Nanzhu accepted Pang Du's repeated PK invitations after viewers explained that Pang was a debunking streamer targeting him.
• Pang challenged Qu to predict when he would become wealthy, and Qu asked why Pang was not more concerned about how long he had to live.
• Qu said he would not begin without the three-thousand divination fee, and Pang tried to persuade him to read for free.
• Qu told Pang to pay for a reading or leave, then exited the PK screen and went to find scissors.
• Qu returned with scissors, leaving viewers on both streams wondering what he intended to do.

Qu Nanzhu exposed Pang Du’s animal abuse during their livestream PK, but Pang Du denied the accusations and ended the stream before viewers could verify his story. Qu Nanzhu continued his readings while official celestial masters debated whether his apparent supernatural abilities were real.

• Pang Du sent Qu Nanzhu another PK invitation and paid a divination fee, while continuing to mock him and dismiss divination as a scam.
• Qu Nanzhu told Pang Du that the wronged souls of animals he had abused haunted him, then described his bandaged hands and urged him to show his face without makeup.
• Pang Du claimed his hand scars came from a childhood accident, threatened to report Qu Nanzhu, and abruptly left the PK.
• Viewers argued over whether Pang Du was guilty as he ended his stream early, while Qu Nanzhu continued broadcasting and said he had two readings left.
• Huo Sili sent Qu Nanzhu ten Huazi gifts, and official celestial masters watching the stream discussed whether Qu Nanzhu could truly see ghosts and read faces.

Qu Nanzhu gave two more livestream readings before reconnecting with Chen Xun, who confirmed that the woman who had deceived him was arrested. The chapter left Chen Xun receiving reassurance from Qu Nanzhu as viewers learned more about the fraud.

• A wealthy woman asked about her financial fortune, and Qu Nanzhu warned her that a thief within her family was hard to guard against.
• A recent university graduate asked which job offer to take, and Qu Nanzhu pointed out that her financial fortune lay to the east before leaving the choice to her.
• Chen Xun joined Qu Nanzhu’s livestream and confirmed that the woman had three other boyfriends and had been posing as the daughter of an elderly couple she cared for.
• Chen Xun explained that he had obtained evidence from the woman’s other partners and that the police had arrested her.
• Qu Nanzhu told Chen Xun that good fortune would follow great adversity.

Qu Nanzhu entertained viewers on his livestream, agreed to meet Huo Sili for lunch, and woke to find representatives from Yinxie waiting outside his door. He confronted President Wang over the company’s attempt to negotiate with him despite his talent for reading faces.

• Huo Sili competed with another viewer to hold the top donor spot, then clarified that he was a career fan who would spend responsibly.
• Qu Nanzhu ended the livestream, accepted Huo Sili’s invitation to lunch the next day, and exchanged contact details with him.
• Eighteen animated paper figures completed their task and went to check on Xiao Zhu.
• The next morning, Qu Nanzhu found five visitors outside his apartment, including Yinxie agent and President Wang, who had come to apologize and discuss a contract.
• Qu Nanzhu pointed out that he could tell President Wang was two-faced and challenged Yinxie for sending him to negotiate.

Qu Nanzhu refused Fuchenzi and Daoqing’s invitation to join the Celestial Master Bureau, insisting that his abilities did not obligate him to give up his own life. After reconsidering his choices, he sent Fuchenzi his contact information and offered help when the bureau faced something it could not handle.

• Qu Nanzhu ignored Wang Rangquan and the others, then confronted Daoqing and Fuchenzi after they followed him home.
• Daoqing explained that Pang Du had been killed by animals matching those Qu Nanzhu had described, and that Pang Du’s soul had been devoured.
• Fuchenzi asked whether Qu Nanzhu had Yin-Yang Eyes and invited him to join the bureau, but Qu Nanzhu refused to let others dictate how he used his abilities.
• Fuchenzi accepted Qu Nanzhu’s decision and left with Daoqing, after which Qu Nanzhu sent them a paper figure bearing his contact information and an offer to help.
• Qu Nanzhu thanked the paper figure and prepared to leave for his appointment, reflecting that he could follow his instincts without forcing himself either to care or not to care.

Qu Nanzhu visited Huo Sili’s manor and discovered that its lake was a rare feng shui formation rich in spiritual qi. Huo Sili agreed to let Qu Nanzhu use it to help his injured friend recover.

• Huo Sili sent Butler Si to collect Qu Nanzhu, then met him at the manor and welcomed him inside.
• Qu Nanzhu sensed something unusual near the lake and explained that the surrounding mountains and water formed a precious natural formation.
• Huo Sili told Qu Nanzhu that the lake was unfathomably deep and had been fenced off for safety.
• Qu Nanzhu asked to place his friend, whose soul had been damaged by an evil ghost, in the lake to recuperate.
• Huo Sili readily agreed and joked that he would trust Qu Nanzhu over the feng shui master.