Recaps

Ji Nanshu led the group to Ange Village to rescue Tao Ai and confront the Brain-Devouring Gu infestation. He destroyed the infected man and removed the Gu from Tao Ai’s mother, leaving Shu Cheng stunned and humiliated after she slapped him.

• Ji Nanshu and the others reached the Tao family home, forced their way inside, and searched for Tao Ai.
• Ji Nanshu slapped the infected middle-aged man twice and learned that the people of Ange Village belonged to him now.
• Pei Qi and Chunlu rescued Tao Ai and her mother, while the infected man’s head exploded and released a swarm of Gu worms.
• Ji Nanshu used a spiritual-power talisman to burn the headless man and the Gu worms without damaging the body.
• Ji Nanshu ordered Pei Qi to remove Tao Ai’s Gu and began treating her mother, whose struggles left Shu Cheng holding her down and taking a slap.
• Ji Nanshu expelled the Gu from Tao Ai’s mother with talismans, and Shu Cheng burned the worms she vomited.

After Pei Qi removed Tao Ai’s gu, Ji Nanshu confronted the Brain-Devouring Gu King outside the courtyard while Shu Cheng and the others fought its swarm. Ji captured the Gu King, but an angry woman appeared and accused him of hurting her Nana.

• Pei Qi finished removing Tao Ai’s gu, and he and Chunlu moved Tao Ai and her daughter to safety.
• Ji Nanshu spotted Brain-Devouring Gu covering the courtyard walls, warned that the Gu King was beyond the gate, and went to face it while Ji Xingyu and the others cleared the swarm.
• Ji Nanshu used a talisman on a rake to injure the Gu King, then set fire to the gu-controlled villagers with another talisman.
• Ji Nanshu captured the Gu King, and an alluring woman cried out, demanding to know how he dared hurt her Nana.

Ji Nanshu and Shu Cheng’s team stopped the short-haired woman from escaping with the Brain-Devouring Gu King, though she fled after Ji Nanshu wounded her. After saving Tao Ai and her mother, they learned that a couple had brought the gu to Ange Village and that the pair had often visited the mountain behind it.

• The short-haired woman tried to free the Brain-Devouring Gu King, but Ji Nanshu’s Bind held it, and she fled after his talisman wounded her.
• Shu Cheng ordered his team to check on the villagers and arrange for help with the aftermath.
• Pei Qi told Shu Cheng and Ji Nanshu that Tao Ai and her mother had awakened, and Ji Nanshu went to meet them.
• Tao Ai recognized Ji Nanshu, and he told her that her father had died because the gu had taken too deep a hold.
• Tao Ai’s mother told Shu Cheng that a short-haired woman and a bearded man had stayed in Ange Village before residents began acting strangely.
• Tao Ai’s mother recalled that the two visitors had often gone to the mountain behind the village.

Ji Nanshu identified a tattoo as the Blood God Cult's totem and learned that Tao Ai's mother had only about ten years left to live. He then investigated a neglected temple on the mountain behind Ange Village and suspected someone was extracting yin energy from ghosts.

• Tao Ai's mother recognized part of the red flaming skull tattoo as matching a design on two people, and Ji Nanshu identified it as the Blood God Cult's totem.
• Ji Nanshu told Tao Ai that her mother had at most around ten years left to live, and suggested that doing good deeds might extend her life.
• Ji Nanshu set out for the mountain behind Ange Village with Ji Xingyu and Shu Cheng, while the village's Gu outbreak had killed 2,789 people.
• The three found a dilapidated temple that had not appeared in the village investigation, then discovered a dry well in its courtyard.
• Ji Nanshu and Shu Cheng noticed that the temple had no yin energy and Ji Nanshu suspected someone was extracting it from ghosts.

After returning from the ruined temple, Ji Nanshu teased Chu Mo and spent the night with him before waking in the afternoon. He drew protection talismans for fans, leaving Chu Mo playfully jealous.

• Ji Nanshu, Shu Cheng, and Ji Xingyu searched the ruined temple but found nothing, then Ji Nanshu returned to Hai City.
• Ji Nanshu came home and provoked Chu Mo, who carried him to the bathroom; after their night together, Ji Nanshu fell asleep before his hair dried.
• Ji Nanshu woke in the afternoon, asked Chu Mo for beef noodles, and played with Chiyu before joining Chu Mo downstairs.
• Ji Nanshu posted a giveaway for five protection talismans on Weibo and chose five fans from his messages.
• Ji Nanshu drew a talisman for Chu Mo and five for his fans, teased Chu Mo for being jealous, and agreed to have him mail them.

Ji Xingyu suspected that Ji Nanshu might be the Ji Family’s long-lost youngest son after seeing how closely he resembled their grandmother, and he told Ji Xingchi. As filming for the third episode began at a seaside villa, Ji Nanshu clashed with Bai Nanyu and Bai Nanchen.

• A buzz-cut man told Uncle Xia that Yu Yao had failed because the authorities intervened and an unfamiliar Innate Realm expert appeared; Uncle Xia ordered him to watch the situation and proceed more cautiously.
• Ji Xingyu visited Old Master Ji, heard stories about his grandmother, and realized that Ji Nanshu resembled her.
• Ji Xingyu told Ji Xingchi that Ji Nanshu might be their missing youngest brother, and Ji Xingchi agreed to investigate quietly.
• Bai Nanyu admired the seaside villa and declined Bai Nanchen’s offer to buy it, then glanced provocatively at Ji Nanshu.
• Ji Nanshu mocked Bai Nanyu for relying on his family and sponsorship to appear on the show, prompting Bai Nanchen to accuse Ji Nanshu of taking Bai Nanyu’s place and causing him to suffer.

Ji Xingyu arrived on the show and defended Ji Nanshu against Bai Nanchen, while the guests explored an eerie old villa. Director Yang announced the episode’s overnight rules and introduced Shu Cheng, who revealed that the villa was famously haunted.

• Ji Xingyu confronted Bai Nanchen for blaming Ji Nanshu and explained that his family had sent him on the show to make friends.
• Ji Xingyu reunited with Jian Yuanjia, while Chu Mo and Ji Xingyu both sensed something watching them inside the villa.
• Director Yang told the guests they had two hours to shop, then had to remain in the living room until midnight and complete tasks or face individual punishments.
• Director Yang introduced Shu Cheng as a celestial master, and Shu Cheng greeted Ji Nanshu and Ji Xingyu as acquaintances.
• Shu Cheng began explaining why he had joined the episode and revealed that the villa was famously haunted.

At the murder house, Ji Nanshu sold protection talismans to the guests, then Bai Nanchen accused him of mistreating Bai Nanyu. Ji Xingyu fiercely rebutted Bai Nanchen, and the guests moved on to find their rooms and prepare to shop for groceries.

• Director Yang chose a house where its previous owner had died by suicide as the filming location, and Ji Nanshu offered the guests protection talismans for a hundred thousand each.
• Jian Yuanjia and the other guests bought talismans, while Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu refused; Shu Cheng vouched for Ji Nanshu's talismans.
• Bai Nanchen accused Ji Nanshu of being jealous of Bai Nanyu and reminded him of the Bai Family and He Jingyi; Ji Xingyu answered with a fierce defense of Ji Nanshu.
• Ji Nanshu saw dark signs between Bai Nanyu's and Bai Nanchen's brows and wished them luck, while Shu Cheng noticed but did not warn them.
• Jiang Yue and Li Lan steered the guests toward their rooms before the group went shopping, and Bai Nanchen insisted that Bai Nanyu share a room with him.

The guests split up to buy groceries and supplies before Director Yang assigned the previous losing team two hours of daily beach cleanup. Jian Yuanjia’s live-streamed rant about hiring people for eight hundred a day went viral as the cleanup party returned to the villa.

• Jiang Yue divided the guests into supermarket and food-market teams, and Bai Nanchen chose to go shopping with Bai Nanyu.
• Both teams returned with food and supplies, and Director Yang ordered the previous losing team to pick up beach trash for two hours each day.
• Ji Xingyu and Shu Cheng joined Ji Nanshu, Chu Mo, Jian Yuanjia, and Cen Yan for the cleanup, prompting Chu Mo to plan to send Ji Xingyu away on a difficult assignment.
• Jian Yuanjia complained about the tourists littering the beach and announced he would hire people to pick up trash for eight hundred a day.
• The hashtag about Jian Yuanjia’s offer trended, and the cleanup party returned to the villa after two hours, with Jian Yuanjia alone suffering from an aching back.

The guests began a haunted-house key search, with Ji Nanshu driven by his hatred of bitter melon juice to find a key quickly. After Bai Nanyu and Bai Nanchen screamed from the cellar, the other guests gathered at its entrance and Ji Nanshu went inside.

• Jian Yuanjia won a Monopoly game and teased the other guests with their exercise penalties.
• Director Yang announced a mission to find ten hidden keys in the house, with bitter melon juice as punishment for each missing key.
• Ji Nanshu rushed to search with Chu Mo and Ji Xingyu because he dreaded drinking bitter melon juice, and he found a key beneath a dining chair cushion.
• Chu Mo found a key under the kitchen sink, and Ji Xingyu found one beneath the front-entryway cabinet.
• Bai Nanyu and Bai Nanchen screamed from the cellar, prompting the other guests to gather at its entrance.
• Ji Nanshu stepped into the cellar to investigate while the others wondered whether ghosts were inside.

Ji Nanshu and the others found Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu terrified in a haunted cellar, where a woman’s photograph seemed to move. After they returned to the living room, Ji Nanshu refused to give the Bai brothers protection talismans for free and called on Director Yang to punish them for failing to find their keys.

• Ji Nanshu, Shu Cheng, and the others found Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu trembling before a photograph in the cellar, and Bai Nanyu said the picture had moved.
• Ji Nanshu mocked Bai Nanyu, while Shu Cheng agreed to examine the photograph later and the other guests urged everyone to leave the cellar.
• Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu left without finding their keys, and Ji Nanshu paused to look back at the photograph with a smile before closing the cellar door.
• Bai Nanchen demanded two protection talismans from Ji Nanshu, claiming the Bai Family had supported him.
• Ji Nanshu demanded two hundred thousand for each talisman, refused to let Bai Nanchen pay after Bai Nanyu appealed to their family ties, and asked Director Yang to punish the brothers for not finding their keys.

After the cellar scare, Ji Nanshu refused to get involved with the Bai family, while Shu Cheng and Ji Xingyu argued over whether to help them. That night, a pair of haunted red high heels frightened the Bai brothers, and Ji Nanshu sold them protection talismans at a steep price.

• Bai Nanchen drank all six glasses of bitter melon juice to spare Bai Nanyu, and Director Yang ended the livestream after the guests returned from the cellar.
• Ji Nanshu said no one would die and refused Shu Cheng's request to help the Bai brothers, while Ji Xingyu also declined to follow Shu Cheng.
• Shu Cheng rebuked Ji Xingyu for abandoning his duty to protect the public, and Ji Xingyu went to his room, leaving Shu Cheng feeling jealous and dejected.
• A pair of red high heels appeared at the Bai brothers' doorway; Bai Nanchen screamed and Bai Nanyu fainted.
• Shu Cheng burned the high heels with a talisman, and Ji Nanshu told the guests the ghost only wanted to have fun.
• Bai Nanchen paid Ji Nanshu six hundred thousand for two protection talismans after Ji Nanshu raised their price to three hundred thousand each.

Director Yang woke the guests with a suona and introduced Jin Shi, the villa’s owner, who asked them to investigate rumors that the house was haunted in exchange for free use of the property. As Ji Nanshu sensed something strange about Jin Shi, the group set out to collect beach trash, with Jian Yuanjia inadvertently dragging Jin Shi along.

• Director Yang woke the guests with a loud suona performance and announced that Jin Shi, the villa’s owner, had arrived.
• Jin Shi explained that his family had lent the villa to the production team on the condition that they uncover the truth behind its haunting rumors.
• Ji Nanshu sensed that Jin Shi carried both golden light and blood aura, while Chu Mo wondered why he had come and what he wanted.
• Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu objected to the production team’s decision to use the supposedly haunted villa, but Director Yang dismissed their concerns and ordered the guests to collect trash.
• Jian Yuanjia enthusiastically grabbed Jin Shi and brought him along to pick up trash, while Jin Shi privately admitted that he had come to observe Ji Nanshu.

The guests rebelled against Director Yang over the lack of clues and demanded a reward before splitting up to investigate the haunting. Upstairs, Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo found signs of a missing qipao and shoes, while Jin Shi warned Chu Mo that the Xia Family had targeted Ji Nanshu.

• Jian Yuanjia and the other guests refused to search without clues, then demanded a reward until Director Yang promised one for the next episode.
• The guests split up, with one group heading to the cellar and Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo going upstairs.
• Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo found a pair of shoes and a qipao missing from a bedroom, and Ji Nanshu sensed stronger yin energy while Chu Mo felt watched.
• Jin Shi arrived and teased Chu Mo about protecting Ji Nanshu, then warned that the Xia Family had set its sights on Ji Nanshu.
• Chu Mo acknowledged the warning and silently promised to explain the Xia Family to Ji Nanshu when they got home.

Ji Nanshu and the others searched the Western-style house and found heavy yin energy, missing shoes, and a qipao, then decided to investigate again that night. After the cellar door slammed shut and a female voice spoke, Ji Nanshu ordered the woman in a picture frame to come out.

• Jian Yuanjia reported that Celestial Master Shu had found only heavy yin energy, and Ji Nanshu revealed that shoes and a qipao were missing from an upstairs room.
• Bai Nanchen argued that the ghost’s visit to his and Nanyu’s room counted as a clue, and Ji Nanshu mocked him before agreeing with Shu Cheng to continue the investigation at night.
• Jian Yuanjia suggested another board game, while Ji Xingyu secretly took Ji Nanshu’s used chopsticks and later made up with Shu Cheng.
• The guests decided to stay together and followed Ji Nanshu and Shu Cheng into the cellar, where the door slammed shut and the room went dark.
• A female voice complained about the noise, and Ji Nanshu silenced the guests before ordering the woman in the picture frame to come out.

Ji Nanshu and the guests encountered Du Lanwan, a vengeful ghost who revealed the truth behind the villa’s haunting and the missing concubine. After Director Yang blamed the guests for ruining his show, Du Lanwan frightened him until he fainted.

• When Ji Nanshu refused to hear Du Lanwan’s explanation, he opened the cellar door and led the guests back to the living room.
• Du Lanwan followed the guests and told Jian Yuanjia that she had driven noisy partygoers out of the villa and helped a concubine escape with her lover.
• Jian Yuanjia announced that the guests had completed their mission, and Director Yang angrily complained that their behavior was ruining his show.
• Du Lanwan introduced herself to Director Yang and teased him until he fainted.

Du Lanwan frightened Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu after Bai Nanchen insulted her, and Ji Nanshu sealed her inside a wooden plaque. Bai Nanyu fled in tears after everyone realized he had wet himself.

• Du Lanwan explained that Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu had been unlucky, while Bai Nanyu hinted that Ji Nanshu had caused their misfortune.
• Bai Nanchen accused Du Lanwan and Ji Nanshu of conspiring against the Bai brothers and called Du Lanwan an unlucky ghost.
• Du Lanwan revealed her terrifying form and slapped Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu, leaving the guests frightened.
• Bai Nanchen demanded that Ji Nanshu kill Du Lanwan, and Bai Nanyu begged Ji Nanshu to save them.
• Ji Nanshu used Bind to restrain Du Lanwan and sealed her inside a wooden plaque Shu Cheng provided.
• Jian Yuanjia noticed the smell of urine, and Bai Nanyu realized he had wet himself and ran upstairs while Bai Nanchen followed.

Ji Nanshu learned that a scandal had erupted after a video from Bai Nanyu’s engagement party was leaked, falsely painting him as a homewrecker. Chu Mo began investigating the leak, and the chapter ended with him determined to confront whoever had targeted his wife.

• Ji Nanshu told Du Lanwan to watch the family of the two people she had slapped and report to him every three days.
• Liang You called Ji Nanshu to warn him that a leaked engagement-party video had sparked accusations that he seduced He Jingyi.
• Ji Nanshu read the hostile Weibo comments, while Mei Liang publicly supported him through Boheng Technology’s account.
• Chu Mo asked Yun Sheng to handle public relations, then carried Ji Nanshu to the bathroom after Ji Nanshu flirted with him.
• Chu Mo learned that a waiter had received two hundred thousand before leaking the video and told Yun Sheng to keep the waiter under close watch.

Ji Nanshu learned that a waiter had been paid to send his video to the Entertainment Gossip Society, then discovered a new smear campaign accusing him of being kept by wealthy men. Meanwhile, Ji Xingyu stole Ji Xianzhi’s hair for a paternity test, leaving the Ji brothers too distracted to help Ji Nanshu.

• Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo questioned the waiter, who admitted he had filmed Ji Nanshu and accepted two hundred thousand to send the video to the Entertainment Gossip Society.
• The waiter described the buyer as a limping man with a mole on his chin, and Ji Nanshu let him go with compensation.
• Liang You told Ji Nanshu that another rumor claimed he was being kept by multiple wealthy businessmen.
• Ji Nanshu saw the nine-image post and recognized that most of the photos showed someone else, then decided to approach Bai Nanzheng.
• Ji Xingyu returned to the Imperial Capital, yanked hair from Ji Xianzhi, and took it to a Ji Family medical facility for a paternity test.
• Ji Xingyu called Ji Xingchi, and the brothers became so focused on the test that they missed a chance to help clear Ji Nanshu’s name.

Li Lan learned that Xiao Lin was married, had a baby, and had been secretly taking her money, so she joined forces with his wife, Huo Zi, to bring him down. Meanwhile, Xu Quan’s plans continued to unravel, and he ordered Xiaodong to investigate who was sabotaging him.

• Jiang Feng showed Li Lan evidence that Xiao Lin was married, had a four-month-old child, and was transferring her money into his own name.
• Li Lan examined photos revealing Xiao Lin’s sexual affairs and decided to meet his wife and expose him.
• Li Lan gave Huo Zi the photos, and Huo Zi agreed to work with her to take Xiao Lin down.
• Huo Zi answered Xiao Lin’s call sweetly while pretending everything was normal, then hung up and joined Li Lan’s plan.
• Xu Quan spat blood as his injuries worsened and ordered Xiaodong to investigate who had been sabotaging his affairs.

After online users attacked Ji Nanshu, he posted a talisman and warned them to watch their steps. He confronted Bai Nanzheng, defeated the thugs sent to attack him, and left Bai Nanzheng facing a terrifying voice in his car.

• Ji Nanshu read the insults on Weibo, posted a talisman, and warned commenters who cursed him to be careful outside.
• Ji Nanshu visited Bai Nanzheng at his company and accused him of arranging the online attacks, but Bai Nanzheng denied it.
• Bai Nanzheng called accomplices to attack Ji Nanshu after he left the company.
• Ji Nanshu dodged the thugs, knocked all three down, and sent Bai Nanzheng a warning about a bloody calamity.
• Bai Nanzheng heard an unseen child complain about a cigarette butt in his underground parking garage, and he turned toward the voice.

Ji Nanshu visited Chu Mo at work, where their public affection and private office encounter stirred up the company. Yun Sheng confirmed to employees that Ji Nanshu was Chu Mo’s partner, and the chapter ended with Chu Mo continuing to tease an exhausted Ji Nanshu.

• A frightened Bai Nanzheng promised the little ghost he would not litter again and hurried home.
• Ji Nanshu went to Chu Mo’s company, waited in the lobby, and joined him for lunch after Chu Mo came downstairs.
• Chu Mo grew jealous when employees stared at Ji Nanshu, then took him to his office and locked the door.
• Yun Sheng told a curious employee that Ji Nanshu was the company’s madam, and word spread throughout the company.
• Chu Mo kept pursuing Ji Nanshu in the office despite Ji Nanshu’s protests.

Ji Nanshu faced a public fraud accusation and a hostile press scrum, but he and Liang You got the man who attacked him taken to the police. At Ruicheng Media, Ji Nanshu identified Bai Nanzheng as the person behind the smear campaign and hinted that he had sent a little ghost to trouble him.

• A man accused Ji Nanshu online of swindling 150,000 yuan intended for his daughter's leukemia treatment, prompting netizens to flood Ji Nanshu's Weibo with abuse.
• Chu Mo tried to calm Ji Nanshu and left for the office, while Ji Nanshu went out and was confronted by reporters outside Qingyan Garden.
• A man threw an unidentified liquid at Ji Nanshu, but Liang You pulled him out of the way and ordered a bodyguard to seize the attacker.
• Liang You and Ji Nanshu took the attacker to the police station, submitted evidence, and then went to Ruicheng Media.
• Ji Nanshu told Liang You and Lin Kai'an that Bai Nanzheng was behind the allegations, though he had no evidence yet.
• Bai Nanzheng called offering help, but Ji Nanshu asked whether he had slept well and suggested he knew about the little ghost; Bai Nanzheng angrily hung up.

As rumors about Ji Nanshu spread, friends and acquaintances publicly supported him while Bai Nanyu helped fuel the scandal. Ji Nanshu checked Mei Liang’s company and returned home to find Chu Mo angry with him, leaving him searching for a way to make up.

• Yan Chengyue questioned Ji Nanshu about handling the scandal, but Ji Nanshu said he could manage it and left with Liang You.
• Tao Ai and her mother, along with Mei Liang and his family, posted videos supporting Ji Nanshu as online calls to boycott him grew.
• Bai Nanyu liked malicious comments using an alternate account, then posted a public message pretending to defend Ji Nanshu; Jian Yuanjia replied by accusing Bai Nanyu of being a hypocrite.
• At Boheng Technology, Mei Liang and Qian Xinya reassured Ji Nanshu that they believed him, and Ji Nanshu advised Mei Liang to move the money tree and add a fitness and recreation area.
• Chu Mo scolded Ji Nanshu for going out, stayed cold toward him at home, and Ji Nanshu searched online for advice on how to coax an angry boyfriend.

Ji Nanshu learned that the Bai Family was behind the online rumors and decided to pay for Tang Zhengyi’s daughter’s treatment. He left Tang Zhengyi with evidence about the fraud and promised help as the girl prepared for surgery.

• Ji Nanshu dismissed Director Yang’s concerns about the Bai Family’s threats and offered to cover the sponsor’s shortfall.
• Chu Mo told Ji Nanshu that Bai Nanzheng had orchestrated the smear campaign and that an impersonator had committed the fraud.
• Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo went to Hai City Second Hospital, where Ji Nanshu paid for Tang Zhengyi’s daughter’s medical expenses.
• Ji Nanshu showed Tang Zhengyi documents about the fraud, gave him a protection talisman, and promised further support for his daughter’s treatment and recovery.
• Ji Nanshu told Tang Zhengyi that his daughter would soon have a chance at surgery and a long life, leaving Tang Zhengyi overwhelmed with gratitude.