Recaps

The Celestial Masters Association and the police cleared Ji Nanshu of the fraud allegations, while Bai Nanzheng remained hostile and suffered nightly visits from a ghost. After Ji Nanshu’s verbal-karma warning seemed to bring bad luck to an online troll, the troll apologized and other netizens followed suit.

• Si Dai posted Ji Nanshu’s Fifth-Level Celestial Master certificate through the Celestial Masters Association’s official account to explain his photo with Elder Zhang.
• Ji Nanshu thanked his supporters and said he had reported the impersonation and fraud to the police.
• The Hai City Police Bureau announced that Jin had impersonated Ji Nanshu to defraud Tang and had been placed under criminal detention.
• Ji Nanshu called Bai Nanzheng to taunt him about the case being resolved, then blocked him again; Bai Nanzheng continued to be haunted by a ghost in his dreams.
• Li Wei suffered a traffic accident after cursing Ji Nanshu, realized his misfortune might be connected to his abuse, and posted an apology that prompted other netizens to apologize too.

Bai Nanyu urged Bai Nanzheng to find a celestial master, while the Ji family learned that Ji Xingyu had found their missing youngest brother, An'an. Ji Xingchi showed them a livestream of the Ghost Hotel episode, where An'an appeared among the contestants.

• Bai Nanzheng angrily sent Bai Nanyu away, then softened when Bai Nanyu expressed concern about his sleeplessness and suggested that Ji Nanshu might use mystic arts against him.
• Bai Nanzheng told Bai Nanyu he had already arranged for a celestial master to examine the family, and the two went to meet him.
• Ji Xingyu gave the Ji family paternity-test results, prompting them to suspect an illegitimate child until he announced that he had found their youngest brother.
• Ji Xingchi showed the family a livestream of Ideal Life's fourth episode at the Ghost Hotel, where they saw An'an among the guests.
• Director Yang explained that the guests would experience two horror escape rooms each day and receive lavish meals without completing tasks.

Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo persuaded Director Yang to join the filming, and Director Yang introduced Jin Shi as the episode’s guest star. Ji Nanshu’s family recognized him on the livestream and set out to bring him home, while the guests entered a psychiatric-hospital escape room and Chu Mo clung to Ji Nanshu’s hand.

• Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo agreed to Director Yang’s filming plan on the condition that he stayed with them throughout the shoot, and the other guests supported them.
• Director Yang agreed to film alongside the guests and introduced Jin Shi, whom Jian Yuanjia greeted by throwing himself into his arms.
• Ming Yi, Ji Xianzhi, and the rest of the Ji family recognized Ji Nanshu on the livestream and rushed to prepare a trip to bring him home.
• Jian Yuanjia panicked when a skull fell in the escape room and stayed in Jin Shi’s arms as Jin Shi found a note, a key, and a medical record book before kicking open the door.
• Bai Nanyu tried to get close to Chu Mo, who rejected him, while Chu Mo took Ji Nanshu’s hand and pretended to be scared.

Ji Nanshu led the group through the escape room, brushed off Bai Nanyu’s accusations, and reunited with Jian Yuanjia and Jin Shi. After the clues brought them into a locked room, Ji Nanshu prepared to break through another door.

• Ji Nanshu teased Chu Mo for pretending to be scared, then kicked open a combination-locked iron door.
• Bai Nanyu accused Ji Nanshu of targeting him and fighting him for He Jingyi, but Ji Nanshu rejected the idea and insulted them both.
• Jian Yuanjia ran into Ji Nanshu, complained about Director Yang, and traded curses with the director before Jin Shi led him toward the clues.
• The group followed the clues into a small room whose door slammed shut, and Ji Nanshu had Chu Mo move a cabinet to reveal a low locked door.
• When Director Yang warned Ji Nanshu not to kick the low door open, Ji Nanshu asked for a hammer and told them to smash it.

Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu’s group smashed their way out of the first escape room, leaving Director Yang fretting over the damage. In the zombie-themed room, Jin Shi accidentally injured Bai Nanchen, who argued with the group and left with Bai Nanyu, while the remaining guests continued.

• Chu Mo used an iron cabinet to smash open doors in the first escape room, and the startled NPC hid in a ventilation duct as Director Yang watched the damage mount.
• After the group escaped, Ji Nanshu asked Director Yang whether the NPCs were insured before they entered the zombie-themed escape room.
• Chu Mo dodged a lunging zombie and pulled Ji Nanshu aside, while Jin Shi kicked the zombie NPC and it fell onto Bai Nanchen, spraining his ankle.
• Bai Nanchen blamed Jin Shi for his injury, and Jian Yuanjia defended Jin Shi and rebuked Bai Nanchen.
• Bai Nanyu helped Bai Nanchen leave with the injured NPC, while the remaining guests continued through the escape room and Director Yang worried about more damages.

Bai Nanchen sought a celestial master's contact while vowing revenge, and Jian Yuanjia and Jin Shi's teasing turned into a first kiss and a struggle over changing rooms. Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo also flirted before Chu Mo carried him into the bathroom, where they were left together.

• Bai Nanyu told Bai Nanchen that a celestial master had given him a lucky pendant, then sent Bai Nanchen the master's contact information.
• Jian Yuanjia admired Jin Shi's muscles, and Jin Shi pinned him down and kissed him after Jian Yuanjia touched him.
• Jian Yuanjia tried to change rooms, but Jin Shi carried him back to their room over his shoulder.
• Ji Nanshu kissed Chu Mo, teased him, and told him to take a shower, but Chu Mo carried him into the bathroom with him.

Bai Nanchen obtained Mother-and-Child Pendants to siphon luck from the guests and secretly spiked a glass of lemonade for Ji Nanshu. Ji Nanshu used an Illusion Technique to switch the drinks, and Bai Nanchen drank the spiked glass himself, leaving the guests alarmed.

• Bai Nanchen called a master and asked for a way to bring someone bad luck, so the master offered Mother-and-Child Pendants that could siphon another person's luck.
• Bai Nanchen received five sets of pendants and poured the child pendant's dark red liquid into a glass of lemonade.
• Bai Nanchen and Bai Nanyu placed the spiked glass beside Ji Nanshu, who refused to drink it.
• Jian Yuanjia defended Ji Nanshu and insulted the Bai brothers, while Ji Nanshu used an Illusion Technique to switch his glass with Bai Nanchen's.
• Ji Nanshu pretended to accept the drink, and Chu Mo warned that sour drinks made him vomit.
• Bai Nanchen drank the spiked lemonade himself, prompting the guests to cry out in alarm.

After Bai Nanchen caused a soup accident and clashed with a hotel server, Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo arrived at the Ji family home, where the family revealed that Ji Nanshu was their long-lost youngest son. Ji Nanshu met his brothers and niece as the family welcomed him.

• Bai Nanchen tripped into Li Siyi and spilled tomato and egg soup over himself, then cursed at the server.
• Li Siyi threw water over Bai Nanchen and the hotel manager, quit his job, and left while Bai Nanchen berated the manager.
• Ming Yi anxiously waited to meet Ji Nanshu, and Ji Xingyu arrived with Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu.
• Ji Xingchi told Ji Nanshu that he was the Ji family's youngest son, who had been missing for nineteen years.
• Ji Nanshu greeted his brothers, sister Ji Ying, and niece Yu Niuniu.

Ji Nanshu reunited with the Ji Family, who confirmed through a DNA test that he was their missing son, though he struggled with accepting affection meant for the original owner. After returning to Hai City with Chu Mo, Ji Nanshu dreamed of meeting the original Ji Nanshu and woke up confused and shaken.

• Ji Ying celebrated being called big sister, then threw Ji Xingyao over her shoulder when he lunged at her, and Ji Xingxu tripped him as he got up.
• Ming Yi asked whether Ji Nanshu minded his childhood nickname, and he said he liked it.
• Ji Xianzhi showed Ji Nanshu the DNA report and apologized for the years they had spent searching for him.
• Ji Nanshu suggested mystic arts had concealed him, and Old Master Ji explained that a snake-shaped jade ring had been made for him before he went missing.
• Chu Mo took Ji Nanshu back to Hai City, where Ji Nanshu worried that accepting the Ji Family's love would mean taking what belonged to the original owner.
• Ji Nanshu dreamed that the original Ji Nanshu said they had both always been there, then woke in confusion as Chu Mo comforted him.

Ji Nanshu learned that Bai Nanchen’s attempt to smear Jian Yuanjia had backfired, then accepted Si Dai’s invitation to investigate deaths in Huaining Village. He joined Team Three and members of the relevant department and Celestial Masters Association on the journey, where Wu Rushuang privately dismissed the young team members as useless.

• Ji Nanshu saw Bai Nanchen’s restaurant outburst exposed online and recognized that Bai Nanchen had tried to harm him by spiking his water.
• Si Dai invited Ji Nanshu to join a mission in Huaining Village, where several people had died under suspicious circumstances, and Chu Mo agreed to let him go.
• Chu Mo ended his meeting when Ji Nanshu came to find him, packed for him, and told Yun Sheng to take over the meeting.
• Ji Nanshu met the mission group, including Team One leader Xu Yongnian, and watched Ji Xingyu nervously carry his luggage while Shu Cheng smiled.
• Wu Rushuang complimented Team Three’s looks, then privately judged the young members incompetent as Ji Nanshu took pictures from the train for Chu Mo.

Ji Nanshu and his group learned that Xu Xiu had been repeatedly raped and died by suicide, after which men in Huaining Village began dying by drowning. Ji Nanshu went to investigate the Wang family home and found a pale, blue-lipped man holding a baby girl.

• The village chief told Ji Nanshu's group how Xu Xiu was assaulted by men while her husband, Wang Chuan, was away, then died by throwing herself down a well.
• On the seventh night after Xu Xiu's death, Zhao Qi and Li Can were found drowned, and reports spread of a woman in red haunting the village.
• Wu Rushuang, Si Dai, and Shu Cheng discussed the deaths, while Ji Nanshu decided to inspect the Wang family home.
• Ji Xingyu followed Ji Nanshu, and Shu Cheng joined them after sensing that yin energy covered the village and could endanger its innocent residents.
• At the Wang family home, Ji Xingyu knocked, and a pale man with bluish lips opened the door while holding a baby girl.

Ji Nanshu confronted Wang Chuan and discovered that Xu Xiu’s spirit was hidden in his house, then learned that villagers had sealed her after wronging her. The group set out with Wang Chuan to visit Xu Xiu’s grave, despite his ominous warning.

• Ji Nanshu entered Wang Chuan’s courtyard, calmed his baby daughter, and offered to speak with Xu Xiu that night.
• A woman accused Xu Xiu of seducing her husband, and Ji Nanshu struck her while Ji Xingyu restrained her.
• Ji Nanshu told Shu Cheng that Xu Xiu was inside Wang Chuan’s house and that she and her family deserved justice.
• The village chief admitted that villagers had hired a celestial master to seal Xu Xiu after burying her, but her resentment broke the seal.
• The village chief agreed to have Wang Chuan lead them to Xu Xiu’s grave, and Ji Nanshu gave Wang Chuan’s daughter a protective charm.
• Wang Chuan agreed to guide them to the grave and warned them that they might die.

Ji Nanshu and the others discovered that black sand had strengthened the seal around Xu Xiu’s grave, and Wan Xin accidentally revealed he had been involved in her death. When Wan Xin refused to confess, Ji Nanshu used a Truth Talisman, leaving Wan Xin compelled to reveal what he had done.

• Xu Yongnian and Ding Huarong found black sand in the incorrectly drawn formation at Xu Xiu’s grave, and Ji Nanshu explained how it increased her yin energy.
• Wan Xin’s reaction revealed he had helped cause Xu Xiu’s death, while Wang Chuan vowed to bring him to her and make him atone.
• Xu Xiu appeared in her wedding dress and lunged at Wan Xin, but a golden talisman stopped her attack and Xu Yongnian’s counterattack.
• Wan Xin called Xu Xiu a seductress and tried to rely on his father’s influence, so Wang Chuan beat him until Ji Nanshu intervened.
• Ji Nanshu cast a Truth Talisman on Wan Xin, who began confessing that Xu Xiu’s appearance and clothing had supposedly invited his advances.

Ji Nanshu and the celestial masters exposed Wan Xin’s crimes and helped Xu Xiu punish him before delivering him to the village chief. Xu Xiu then vanished to terrorize the village, while Ji Nanshu returned Wang Chuan’s daughter to him.

• Wan Xin confessed under the Truth Talisman, naming his accomplices and those who covered up the crime, and Ji Nanshu sent the recording to Ji Xingyu.
• Xu Xiu moved to kill Wan Xin, but Shu Cheng stopped her and suggested punishments; Xu Xiu severed Wan Xin’s manhood, tendons, and tongue.
• Ji Nanshu told the celestial masters to pretend they had been defeated, and they carried Wan Xin down the mountain while stepping on him as they fled.
• Ding Huarong misled the village chief about what had happened to Wan Xin until the chief called an ambulance and passed out.
• Ji Nanshu suggested further revenge, and Xu Xiu vanished to make the village scream while Wang Chuan watched in horror.
• Ji Nanshu placed Wang Chuan’s sleeping daughter back in his arms.

Xu Xiu described the skull-shaped flames worn by the people who had manipulated her, and Ji Nanshu recognized the Blood God Cult before discussing her choices for moving on. Meanwhile, Shu Cheng kissed Ji Xingyu after mistaking his affection for his younger brother as proof that Ji Xingyu could never love him back.

• Xu Xiu returned and told Ji Nanshu she had mutilated the men who wronged her, then described their skull-shaped flames.
• Ji Nanshu recognized the flames as the Blood God Cult's and offered Xu Xiu the choices of reincarnation or the destruction of her soul.
• Xu Xiu worried about leaving her four-month-old daughter, then decided to return to torment the men with aphrodisiacs and movies.
• Ji Xingyu went to Shu Cheng's room, where Shu Cheng asked whether he liked Ji Nanshu and Ji Xingyu immediately said yes.
• Shu Cheng kissed Ji Xingyu and decided to seek a team transfer, while Ji Xingyu wondered if his captain might like him.

Ji Xingyu and Shu Cheng admitted their feelings and agreed to try dating, while Ji Nanshu called Chu Mo and learned he was in Country M. Their call ended after Chu Mo rejected Burns’s attempt to send six young men to his room.

• Ji Xingyu kissed Shu Cheng back, accused him of trying to dodge responsibility, and asked him to teach him what it meant to like someone.
• Shu Cheng agreed to try dating Ji Xingyu, and they kissed again on the bed.
• After waiting for Ji Xingyu, Ji Nanshu called Chu Mo because he could not sleep and asked him to come pick him up the next day.
• Chu Mo told Ji Nanshu he was in Country M, then answered a knock at the door and rejected Burns’s offer of six young men.
• Chu Mo told Burns he had a partner and kicked him out, but Ji Nanshu disconnected their call before Chu Mo could soothe him.

Ji Nanshu exposed two Blood God Cult members he had turned into stone and handed them over to Shu Cheng’s team for questioning. As the group prepared to return to the Imperial Capital with Xu Xiu’s remains and their captives, someone ran toward them from a helicopter.

• Chu Mo sent Ji Nanshu affectionate messages after their video call, and Ji Nanshu privately looked forward to the trouble awaiting intruders in the mountains.
• Ji Xingyu openly held Shu Cheng’s hand the next morning, while the group teased them and Shu Cheng invited Ji Nanshu to breakfast.
• Ji Nanshu led everyone back to Xu Xiu’s grave, where he revealed two men he had trapped with Petrification Talismans.
• Ji Nanshu identified the men as members of the Blood God Cult and asked what they were collecting yin energy for, but they refused to answer.
• The group collected Xu Xiu from Wang Chuan’s home and prepared to return to the Imperial Capital with the captives.
• At the entrance to Huaining Village, the group saw a helicopter and watched someone run toward them.

Ji Nanshu reunited with Chu Mo in Country M, and the two prepared to attend a banquet after Chu Mo explained that Burns kept pursuing him. At the castle, Burns interrupted them again just as Chu Mo was tending to Ji Nanshu.

• Yun Sheng brought food and milk tea to Ji Nanshu before he boarded a plane to Country M, while Ji Xingyu suspected his youngest brother had a lover.
• Ji Nanshu arrived at Chu Mo's hotel room, fell asleep in his bed, and later reunited with Chu Mo, who returned after dealing with Burns.
• Chu Mo persuaded Ji Nanshu to accompany him to a banquet, and staff dressed and styled them while Chu Mo fed Ji Nanshu.
• At the castle, Burns tried to flirt with Ji Nanshu, but Chu Mo introduced him as his partner and led him inside.
• Ji Nanshu leaned against Chu Mo on the third floor as Chu Mo massaged his aching lower back, until Burns burst into their room.

At a special dinner auction, Ji Nanshu sensed deadly supernatural forces and joined Chu Mo in investigating a blood-soaked castle. They found a hidden entrance in the rear courtyard, but a bodyguard drove them away and warned his master that Chu Mo had arrived ahead of schedule.

• Burns brought Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu three young men and explained that the special dinner was an auction with a major third round.
• Ji Nanshu sensed yin energy, blood energy, and the souls of the unjustly dead, then warned Burns to summon his bodyguards because a bloody calamity threatened the guests.
• Ji Nanshu placed Aura-Concealing Talismans on himself and Chu Mo, and Chu Mo carried him toward the rear courtyard to investigate the strong smell of blood.
• Ji Nanshu identified the gazebo as the source of the strongest yin energy, and he and Chu Mo realized the entrance to a hidden area lay beneath it.
• When bodyguards confronted them, Ji Nanshu demanded an apology and left with Chu Mo, while the lead bodyguard called his master and reported that Chu Mo had arrived ahead of schedule.

Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo discovered a hidden dungeon and a Blood Sacrifice Array beneath the pavilion during an armed attack on the auction. After returning to the hotel, Ji Nanshu warned Chu Mo’s teammates that the Blood God Cult was involved and gave them Safety Talismans.

• Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo returned to the castle during a shooting and found Burns, his companion, and a teenage boy hiding in a private room.
• Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu searched the pavilion, found a concealed entrance, and located the imprisoned undercover officer Fei Ning in the dungeon.
• Ji Nanshu recognized a Blood Sacrifice Array and explained that it consumed the blood of people or livestock, accounting for the missing blood at the venue.
• Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu left the array undisturbed so they would not alert the cult and returned to the hotel.
• Ji Nanshu met Chu Mo’s teammates, gave them Safety Talismans, and warned them to be cautious of the Blood God Cult and its evil sorcerers.

After Chu Mo returned from rescuing Fei Ning, he spent the day with Ji Nanshu, picked up the rings he had ordered when they first met, and introduced Ji Nanshu as his partner to Lin Kailuo and Lin Kai'an. They returned to the hotel, where Ji Nanshu teased Chu Mo about being called old and initiated an intimate evening.

• Chu Mo returned to the hotel at daybreak, woke Ji Nanshu, and took him out after he showered.
• Chu Mo brought Ji Nanshu to Adonis's studio to collect the rings he had ordered on the day they first met, and Ji Nanshu kissed him after putting one on.
• Ji Nanshu ran into Lin Kailuo and Lin Kai'an at dinner, where Lin Kailuo thanked him for saving his life and Ji Nanshu introduced Chu Mo as his partner.
• Lin Kai'an teased Chu Mo for being eight years older than Ji Nanshu, while Chu Mo promised to show through his actions how important Ji Nanshu was to him.
• Back at the hotel, Ji Nanshu reassured Chu Mo that he was not old and began seducing him.

After rumors falsely claimed Ji Nanshu was vacationing with two men, he and Chu Mo decided to go public with their relationship. Their matching Weibo announcements sent the platform crashing within minutes.

• Entertainment Gossip Society posted photos that sparked rumors about Ji Nanshu, prompting Liang You to call Lin Kai'an for an explanation.
• Lin Kai'an told Liang You that the photos showed his brother and Chu Mo, and confirmed that Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo were dating.
• Yun Sheng called Liang You and asked her not to respond online while Chu Mo and Lin Kai'an coordinated their response.
• After reading the gossip, Ji Nanshu agreed to go public with Chu Mo, though he said he was too young to register a marriage.
• Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu posted relationship announcements on Weibo, and the site crashed less than five minutes later.

After Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu announced their relationship, fans and their families reacted with shock, jealousy, and support. Meanwhile, Jin Shi confessed his interest in Jian Yuanjia, who hinted that he wanted a proper face-to-face confession.

• Fans celebrated Chu Mo and Ji Nanshu's relationship, while a few extreme solo fans threatened to abandon Chu Mo.
• Ji Xianzhi and the Ji family worried about Chu Mo's age gap with Ji Nanshu, and Ji Xingchi tried to call Chu Mo but could not reach him.
• Bai Nanyu pretended to worry that Chu Mo might be tricked, prompting Liu Yanshuang to promise she would deal with the situation.
• Ideal Life's guests congratulated Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo in Jian Yuanjia's group chat, where Chu Mo sent twelve red packets.
• Jin Shi asked Jian Yuanjia if he wanted to date and said he would be a candidate; Jian Yuanjia replied that people should not confess over the phone.

Ji Nanshu overcame his fear and returned to the Ji Family, where his relatives welcomed him with affection and chaotic enthusiasm. He settled into the family home as Old Master Ji took him to see his room, while questions about his past remained unanswered.

• Ji Nanshu hesitated outside the Ji Family gates as he wondered about his connection to the original Ji Nanshu and considered visiting the place where his grandmother had lived.
• Chu Mo rang the bell and reassured Ji Nanshu that he would be there for him, and Ji Nanshu went inside with Butler Ren.
• Butler Ren welcomed Ji Nanshu and explained that the family had been shown his photograph so they would recognize him.
• Ji Nanshu entered the living room and found Ji Ying, Ji Xingyao, Ji Xingxu, and Ji Xingyu wrestling as the family prepared to greet him.
• Ming Yi welcomed Ji Nanshu tearfully, and Old Master Ji comforted him and led him upstairs to see his room.

Ji Nanshu spent the day at the Ji Family home, where his family welcomed him with gifts and asked about his relationship with Chu Mo. After Ji Nanshu agreed to stay overnight, Chu Mo climbed onto his balcony to see him and left after he fell asleep, only to encounter someone waiting below.

• Old Master Ji showed Ji Nanshu the room his family had prepared and the birthday gifts they had saved for him over the years.
• Ji Nanshu thanked Butler Ren, shared lunch with the Ji Family, and agreed to stay the night at their home.
• Ji Xingchi asked whether Ji Nanshu was dating Chu Mo, and Ji Nanshu confirmed that he was and said Chu Mo treated him well.
• Ming Yi persuaded Ji Nanshu to agree to a banquet, and he called Chu Mo from his room that evening.
• Chu Mo climbed from his grandfather's balcony to Ji Nanshu's, comforted him until he fell asleep, and then encountered someone waiting below when he climbed back down.