Recaps

Qingmu uncovered Medicine Granny’s trafficking network and pursued the people behind it, while Du Juan drew him into a cave whose shared dream trapped prisoners in an older Japanese war setting. He learned the cave was controlled by a hypnosis formation tied to Situ and found a hidden mechanism beneath the river.

• Meng Yan investigated Medicine Granny, but Qingmu broke her dream influence, exposed her trafficking crimes, and left her confession and punishment to the police.
• Medicine Granny, Han Bo, and Han Laizi escaped custody, and a bomb set fire to the hotel while Qingmu and Shi Dazhuang searched for Yu Meiren.
• Qingmu tracked the suspects to a mountain hideout, where he confronted Du Juan and escaped her poppy-filled dream as the wooden house burned.
• Mu Ka arrived at the hideout, found Medicine Granny dead, and sent his men toward Mangdian as the police closed in.
• Han Bo locked the madman and Han Laizi’s family in a flooded cave, where Du Juan trapped Qingmu in a shared dream that could erode prisoners’ identities.
• Qingmu realized the cave’s dream was synchronized with his real body, then witnessed Japanese soldiers seize Du Juan inside the cave’s wartime past.
• Qingmu freed Du Juan, defeated the Japanese soldiers, and learned from a surviving soldier that Chinese prisoners had been made into suicide squads.
• Du Juan explained that Situ had used a hypnosis formation to control the cave and showed Qingmu where a hidden mechanism lay beneath the underground river.

Qingmu rescued Yu Meiren and other captives, destroyed Wu Suotun’s operation, and helped the police bring the cross-border drug network down. After Yu Gang’s burial, Qingmu recognized a possible link between Ma Fuqing and the pig cages in the cave, leaving a new suspicion to investigate.

• Qingmu awakened from Kitano Masatake’s dream, found Du Juan dead and Han Laizi’s family imprisoned, and took the cage keys for Xiaoqin.
• Bandits attacked Peng Jiahu’s team and the police station, killing officers and abducting Yu Meiren and Bai Xiaosan, while Shi Dazhuang and Qingmu pursued Mu Ka.
• Qingmu crossed into Masuba, fought through Decha’s trafficking operation, rescued three girls, and found Yu Meiren at Wu Suotun’s villa.
• Qingmu carried Yu Meiren through an assault on Wu Suotun’s camp, destroyed the residence, and killed Mu Ka after Duwa asked him to spare him.
• Duwa explained the Alliance, Kitano Masatake, and the broken dream in the cave, while Qingmu told her Du Juan would not return.
• Qingmu brought Yu Meiren and the rescued girls back across the river, and police arrested traffickers and recovered drugs as Yu Gang and other fallen officers were honored.
• After Yu Gang’s burial, Qingmu traveled to Spring City and recognized Ma Fuqing, then connected Ma’s iron cage to the cave’s pig cages and asked Shi Dazhuang to investigate him.

Qingmu rescued Yao Jingjing, confronted Ma Fuqing, and helped investigate the strange presence in Mama Yao’s dreams. After returning to Wuzhong, he learned of Mr. Lester’s death and was given a metal eye mask by Mei Yiqiu.

• Qingmu rescued Yao Jingjing from her driver’s attack, saw her off at the station, then confronted Ma Fuqing and forced him to face his crimes before Yang Baoguo extracted a confession.
• Yao Jingjing’s mother needed an expensive bone marrow transplant, and Yao Jingjing rejected Mrs. Xiang’s marriage proposal despite her offer of money.
• Qingmu questioned Mama Yao about her nightmares and hypnotized her, encountering a white cat that guarded an encrypted region of her memories.
• Qingmu arranged for Mama Yao’s operation in Wuzhong and promised Yao Jingjing they would meet again.
• Qingmu left for Wuzhong with Shi Dazhuang and Yu Meiren, while Shi Dazhuang passed Qingmu’s recording of Ma Fuqing’s confession to the Spring City police.
• Back in Wuzhong, Qingmu visited Mei Yiqiu’s laboratory and learned that Mr. Lester had died and that humanity faced an unprecedented catastrophe.
• Mei Yiqiu handed Qingmu a metal eye mask and told him to put it on.

Qingmu joined Mei Yiqiu in investigating invading consciousnesses, helped Xia Wenyuan and Hong Zhenlong confront their dream shadows, and learned of a possible connection to Ronald Cohen and the Third Space Foundation. Hong Zhenlong agreed to join Professor Mei’s foundation and prepare to leave for Los Angeles, while he continued asking Qingmu to become the Wolf family heir.

• Mei Yiqiu showed Qingmu Evans Lester’s warning, and Qingmu connected the invading consciousness to Xia Wenyuan’s condition and Mama Yao’s illness.
• Qingmu took in a ginger kitten, which tormented Boss Coal until Hu Xing arrived with its owner, Yu Meiren.
• Qingmu and Mei Yiqiu visited Xia Wenyuan, where Qingmu guided Hu Xing into Xia Wenyuan’s dream and they confirmed the shadow remained attached to him.
• Mei Yiqiu revealed Lester’s autopsy had found a virus in his brain, and Xia Wenyuan offered a sample and funds for the researchers’ project.
• Qingmu spotted Hou Biao’s ambush, accepted his challenge, defeated him in a fight, and spared him after Hou warned that Jiang Deguan wanted Qingmu dead.
• Mei Yiqiu explained that the Space Box and Dream Guide were being developed to distinguish human from alien consciousness, while Qingmu arranged hospital care and security for Mama Yao.
• Qingmu met Hong Zhenlong, whose uncontrolled mental power caused a dream to merge with reality, and entered his snowy dream to witness the white wolf king.
• Qingmu suppressed the shadow that had been tormenting Hong Zhenlong, learned Hong Kui’s history with the white wolf king, and heard Hong Zhenlong agree to join Professor Mei’s foundation and fly to Los Angeles.