Chapter Summaries

Qu Nanzhu registered a Weibo account, met the fans who welcomed him at the airport, and treated them to dinner before leaving for the hotel. As the other guests privately resented his popularity, Qu Nanzhu prepared for the next morning’s livestream and chatted with Huo Sili before bed.

• Qu Nanzhu showed fans his new Weibo profile, and Chen Xun joined him after collecting the luggage, drawing recognition for his old nickname.
• Qu Nanzhu signed fans’ photos and treated the forty-three attendees to dinner, while fans posted about him online and watched him play Honor of Kings.
• Qu Nanzhu ate with the fans, confirmed they had places to stay, and left with Chen Xun for the hotel.
• Su Liyun read Qu Nanzhu’s trending posts and privately dismissed his public image, while the other six show guests shared her resentment.
• Chen Xun reminded Qu Nanzhu to wake early for the livestream, and Qu Nanzhu said he had set Little Eighteen’s alarm for six.
• Qu Nanzhu explored his hotel room, chatted with Huo Sili, and went to sleep after Huo told him to rest early.

Chen Xun watched the variety show's livestream as the crew gathered its celebrity guests and went to wake Qu Nanzhu last. Little Eighteen startled the guests and viewers when she appeared, but Qu Nanzhu explained who she was and learned the director allowed her to join the show.

• Chen Xun woke early, picked up oranges for Qu Nanzhu, and opened the livestream before it began.
• The wake-up crew gathered Lu Luqing, Su Liyun, Zhao Lin, Lin Qianyu, Zhou Mingzhong, Bai Shiyu, and Luo Wenxi before going to Qu Nanzhu's room.
• Qu Nanzhu joined the group, and Little Eighteen popped out of his collar and greeted the camera with eerie laughter.
• The guests and viewers were frightened, so Qu Nanzhu caught Little Eighteen and explained that she was his paper person named Little Eighteen.
• Qu Nanzhu asked whether Little Eighteen could appear on the supernatural show, and the director approved.

Qu Nanzhu avoided performing for the celebrities during the bus ride and refused Zhao Lin’s attempts to make him tell fortunes. At the filming location, the genuine Celestial Masters Daoqing and Daoming greeted him respectfully as their senior, overturning the guests’ and viewers’ expectations.

• The celebrities and FD rode to the filming location while Qu Nanzhu kept Little Eighteen hidden and declined Zhao Lin’s request to perform.
• Qu Nanzhu refused to tell fortunes for Zhao Lin or anyone else on the bus, saying he had no fated connection with them.
• The group arrived at an abandoned villa, where Su Liyun spotted the Celestial Masters Daoqing and Daoming in their official uniforms.
• Daoqing and Daoming approached Qu Nanzhu and respectfully greeted him as their senior, surprising the celebrities and livestream viewers.

Qu Nanzhu reunited with Daoqing and Daoming, then learned that the livestream show’s villa had a history of mysterious deaths. As tensions rose among the guests, Director Li brought the two celestial masters forward to explain what they would do next.

• Qu Nanzhu asked Daoqing and Daoming whether their masters had sent them and joked that they should pay tuition for his lessons.
• Director Li welcomed the guests at the villa, and Qu Nanzhu sensed its dense yin energy and suggested that something being wrong was to be expected.
• Director Li described how fifteen people had died in accidents at the villa, including members of its former owner’s family and twelve later residents.
• Zhao Lin dismissed the possibility of ghosts and mocked Qu Nanzhu, while Lu Luqing and Bai Shiyu challenged her comments.
• Director Li stepped in to ease the tension and brought the two celestial masters forward.

Daoming and Daoqing led the guests into the haunted villa to investigate its supernatural presence, while Qu Nanzhu noticed that its excellent feng shui did not explain why it had become a yin dwelling. The group continued searching for the cause of the deaths, but the chapter ended before they discovered it.

• Daoming confirmed that the Celestial Master Bureau had detected sinister energy around the villa, and Daoqing handed out protective jade talismans to the guests.
• Qu Nanzhu declined a talisman because he could not afford to pay for it if it broke, then joined Daoming's team after the guests split up by rock-paper-scissors.
• The two teams entered the dusty, unnaturally cold villa and found ordinary, ineffective objects that its owner had bought for protection.
• Qu Nanzhu repeatedly watched the view outside the windows, prompting Daoming to explain that the villa sat in a Twin Dragons Holding a Pearl Wealth-Gathering Formation.
• Qu Nanzhu asked why a residence with such favorable feng shui had become a yin dwelling and caused deaths, but Daoming had no answer.

Qu Nanzhu explained how the family’s supposedly auspicious feng shui formation had become a source of baleful energy, causing tragedy in the household and affecting later residents. He and the guests began preparing to break the formation at noon, with more work still planned for the afternoon.

• Daoqing’s team brought Qu Nanzhu a family photograph they had found in the villa’s basement, and Qu Nanzhu tested Daoqing and Daoming’s face-reading skills.
• Daoming and Daoqing identified the family members’ traits and recognized that the wife’s fate had been affected.
• Qu Nanzhu explained that an elderly woman’s use of black soil had turned the twin dragons wealth-gathering formation into a yin-locking and baleful energy-summoning formation.
• Daoqing and Daoming explained how the formation contributed to the family’s deaths and how accumulated yin energy affected later residents.
• Qu Nanzhu and the guests left the villa to prepare to break the formation at noon, grinding mugwort and placing peachwood swords in the mound.

Qu Nanzhu and the Celestial Masters prepared the villa for an afternoon task in which seven guests would catch ghosts. After Daoqing opened their Yin-Yang Eyes, the guests saw the black mist and ghostly silhouettes inside, then entered the villa with mulberry silk while Qu Nanzhu stayed behind to watch.

• Qu Nanzhu tossed Daoqing's yellow talisman into the air, where it burst into flames and set the mugwort-covered slope alight.
• The guests answered viewers' questions over lunch, and Daoming warned them that their afternoon task would be important.
• Daoming announced that the guests would catch ghosts, then opened their Yin-Yang Eyes and gave them braided mulberry silk and instructions for using willow switches.
• The guests saw the villa shrouded in black mist, and Daoming explained that more than a hundred harmless ghosts were inside.
• The seven guests entered the villa to catch the ghosts while Qu Nanzhu brought in a lounge chair and stayed behind to watch.

The guests caught the ghosts haunting the villa, then helped activate a formation that cleared its yin qi. After the livestream ended, Su Liyun apologized to Qu Nanzhu, who later told Huo Sili about it.

• The guests chased and caught ghosts throughout the villa, comparing their tallies after they finished.
• Qu Nanzhu, Daoming, and Daoqing prepared an eight-direction formation, and the guests took positions to help activate it.
• The formation swept away the villa's black qi, leaving the guests exhausted as the afternoon livestream ended.
• Director Li announced that the livestream had reached a record 3.6 million concurrent viewers and ranked first in popularity.
• Su Liyun apologized to Qu Nanzhu for having treated him as a fraud, and he accepted her apology.
• Qu Nanzhu messaged Huo Sili about his tiring afternoon of laughing at the ghost-catching and Su Liyun's apology.

The chapter showed officials using the livestream to introduce reliable paranormal guidance, then followed Qu Nanzhu through dinner, a brief fortune-telling stream, and the cast’s arrival at a village plagued by an evil ghost. It left the guests about to investigate the village after Daoming explained its history and urged them to reject superstition and call the police.

• The authorities used online accounts and the show to teach the public that paranormal incidents could be reported to the police.
• Qu Nanzhu ate with the cast, received fruit tea from Chen Xun, and told three fortunes during a late-night livestream.
• The production team took the guests to a village where livestock and residents had fallen ill, and Daoming handed out jade talismans.
• Daoming explained that the villagers had blamed a mountain god and prepared offerings until the village chief’s son called the police.
• Daoming urged the guests to reject blind feudal superstition and contact the police when they faced problems they could not resolve.

Qu Nanzhu’s team found an evil ghost in a graveyard and captured it after he coached the others through the fight. He warned them about facing ghosts at night and shared safety advice and information about buying protective talismans during the livestream.

• Qu Nanzhu’s team found a graveyard filled with yin energy, and Qu Nanzhu told the others to wake the evil ghost buried there.
• The evil ghost emerged and attacked, but Qu Nanzhu urged the four team members to fight it with their willow switches.
• Lin Qianyu struck the ghost, and she, Lu Luqing, Zhou Mingzhong, and Luo Wenxi beat it until Qu Nanzhu stopped them.
• Qu Nanzhu had Lin Qianyu and Lu Luqing bind the ghost with a red cord and explained that it would be taken to the station before ending up in the Underworld.
• Qu Nanzhu warned the group to stay calm, seek a crowded place, and contact the police if they encountered an evil ghost at night.
• Qu Nanzhu told Lu Luqing that state-certified Buddhist or Taoist temples sold protective talismans.

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.