Recaps

During auditions, Xi Zi proposed reworking the story to focus on the complicated bond between Si Yan’s emperor and the general, while making Consort Li his political ally. The director approved the changes, but the team learned that the auditions were already trending online.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan’s second take as Consort Li and the emperor veered into revolutionary camaraderie, prompting the director to stop them.
• Xi Zi argued that Consort Li’s role was underdeveloped and that her scenes disrupted the political intrigue.
• Xi Zi suggested exploring the emperor’s emotional conflict with the general and recasting Consort Li as an ally who hoped to reunite with her childhood sweetheart.
• The screenwriter, Si Yan, and the producer supported Xi Zi’s proposals, and the director ordered Screenwriter Song to revise the script.
• A staff member announced that the film’s auditions were trending online.

Lin Yu's fans accused Jiang Nuo of stealing a role in "Brocade Rivers and Mountains," sparking a fierce online feud. Si Yan chose to publicly help Jiang Nuo, and the production team prepared to clarify what happened.

• Yu Today posted that Jiang Nuo had stolen Lin Yu's role and kept him out of the audition, sending the accusation trending on Weibo.
• Fans of Lin Yu, Jiang Nuo, and Si Yan argued online, while Lin Yu's fans expanded their attacks to the production and other cast members.
• Yang Hong and Cui Ming joined Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and the director to discuss how to stop the controversy from harming the film.
• The director explained that Lin Yu had come to audition for the general's role without an invitation, while Jiang Nuo had been invited to audition.
• Cui Ming proposed that the production confirm its invitation to Jiang Nuo, but Si Yan objected and asked Jiang Nuo to let him help.
• Jiang Nuo agreed, and the director arranged for the production staff to coordinate with Si Yan on a statement.

Si Yan and the production team confirmed that Jiang Nuo was the only actor considered for the general, and footage of his audition shifted attention to his acting and chemistry with Si Yan. Lin Yu’s manager tried to contain the backlash before taking Lin Yu to a dinner, while the cold, incense-filled apartment and the unseen person in Lin Yu’s bedroom continued to unsettle him.

• Si Yan and the Brocade Rivers and Mountains official account denied that Lin Yu had been considered for the general and posted Jiang Nuo’s audition footage.
• Viewers praised Jiang Nuo’s performance and discussed his tension with Si Yan, while Feathers fans continued to attack them and the production team.
• After learning that the clarification had gained traction, Lin Yu’s manager told the paid fan to claim a marketing account had supplied the tip and posted retouched photos of Lin Yu.
• At Lin Yu’s apartment, the manager noticed the strong incense smell and unusually cold water, but Lin Yu refused to discuss the place and went to get ready.
• Lin Yu left with his manager for the dinner, while the manager again wondered why Lin Yu’s supposed older brother never came out of the bedroom.

Lin Yu arranged for a failing streetwear brand to offer its endorsement to Jiang Nuo, while Si Yan moved into the apartment across the hall from him. After settling in beside Jiang Nuo, Si Yan asked him to go shopping at the mall.

• Lin Yu told Da Zhuang to give Jiang Nuo the streetwear endorsement as a gift, and Da Zhuang agreed.
• Cui Ming panicked when Jiang Nuo explained that Si Yan was moving into the apartment across the hall, not moving in with him.
• Si Yan arrived with his belongings and pastries, and Jiang Nuo noticed that Si Yan's body was abnormally cold before warming him under the blanket.
• Si Yan said he had moved nearby so he could see Jiang Nuo every day, and Jiang Nuo teased him while keeping him close.
• When the assistants pointed out items missing from Si Yan's new apartment, Si Yan coaxed Jiang Nuo into going shopping with him.

At the mall, Jiang Nuo protected Si Yan from a stalker fan who attacked them with scalding water and a fruit knife, but he realized Si Yan had deliberately allowed himself to be stabbed. In an emergency stairwell, Si Yan admitted he had feared Jiang Nuo did not care about him, and the two remained intimately close.

• Jiang Nuo spotted a masked man following them at the mall, and the man threw scalding water at him and Si Yan before revealing himself as a stalker fan.
• The stalker fan abused Jiang Nuo, approached Si Yan, and charged at them with a concealed fruit knife, stabbing Si Yan as Jiang Nuo dodged.
• Jiang Nuo disarmed and subdued the stalker fan, marked his neck with silver light, and took the injured Si Yan away from the crowd.
• In an emergency stairwell, Jiang Nuo recognized that Si Yan had deliberately let himself be stabbed and confronted him about getting hurt on purpose.
• Si Yan told Jiang Nuo he had feared Jiang Nuo did not care about him, then kissed his fingers and clung to him.

After Si Yan confessed that he wanted Jiang Nuo to care for him beyond his spiritual power, they kissed and became boyfriends. The police arrested the stalker, while videos of the incident spread online and Cui Ming urgently called the couple back from shopping.

• Jiang Nuo stopped Si Yan's wound from bleeding and washed the blood off him.
• Si Yan asked Jiang Nuo to care about him more, and Jiang Nuo warned him about the danger of attracting his attention.
• Si Yan kissed Jiang Nuo, who returned the kiss and agreed to make their relationship official.
• Police officers brought Jiang Nuo and Si Yan out and arrested the stalker; Si Yan noted that online videos would show them together.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan went shopping for bedding while videos of Jiang Nuo protecting Si Yan won over Ink Wash fans.
• Cui Ming urgently called the two back while they were still shopping.

After Si Yan and Jiang Nuo returned from the mall, they revealed that they had made their relationship official. Yang Hong warned them about public scrutiny and security, while Jiang Nuo earned quest points for protecting Si Yan; the chapter ended with the couple sharing a kiss as Yang Hong looked on.

• Cui Ming reassured Yang Hong that Si Yan's stab wound had been treated, while Jiang Nuo and Si Yan kept Si Yan's Spiritual Power secret from her.
• Cui Ming misread the couple's closeness and thought Si Yan was physically uncomfortable, but Si Yan clarified that he and Jiang Nuo had made their relationship official.
• Yang Hong warned Si Yan to bring security when going out and cautioned that their CP publicity agreement could cause trouble if they revealed their relationship later.
• Si Yan asked to destroy the agreement, Jiang Nuo agreed, and Cui Ming went to prepare lunch while Yang Hong checked online public opinion.
• Jiang Nuo gained 200 quest points for increasing his progress in changing Si Yan's tragic ending, then kissed Si Yan as Yang Hong watched.

Si Yan tried to cook sweet-and-sour shrimp for Jiang Nuo but was repeatedly driven out of the kitchen, while Yang Hong warned Jiang Nuo about the danger surrounding Si Yan’s family. Jiang Nuo promised to protect Si Yan, and Si Yan took him home to change before dinner.

• Si Yan asked Jiang Nuo what food he liked, then confidently headed into the kitchen to make sweet-and-sour shrimp despite not knowing how to cook.
• Yang Hong told Jiang Nuo that members of the Si Family had tried to kill Si Yan and explained she had made him a child star to protect him; Jiang Nuo promised no one would hurt him.
• Si Yan nearly caused a kitchen accident with too much oil, then resisted mixing the shrimp and was eventually told by Cui Ming to leave.
• Si Yan complained to Jiang Nuo that Cui Ming had kicked him out, and Jiang Nuo reassured him that they both lacked cooking aptitude.
• Si Yan noticed he smelled of cooking fumes and asked Jiang Nuo to go home with him to change, while Yang Hong reminded them to return for dinner.

Jiang Nuo felt his soul stir while kissing Si Yan, then learned that Zhou Bapi had accepted a risky endorsement deal for him. The chapter ended with Jiang Nuo discovering that leaving his company would cost eighty million.

• Jiang Nuo sensed a brief soul stirring near Si Yan and tested his suspicion by kissing him, feeling his own soul become nourished.
• Si Yan stopped kissing Jiang Nuo to remind him that it was time to eat, and the two returned to Jiang Nuo's home.
• Cui Ming told Jiang Nuo that Zhou Bapi had secured him an endorsement for Winter at Dusk, a Chinese-style fashion brand facing scandals and closure.
• Yang Hong explained that Winter at Dusk's owners were divorcing, employees had reported strange incidents, and the boss planned to close the brand.
• Si Yan urged Jiang Nuo to leave his company and join his studio, but Cui Ming revealed that Jiang Nuo's contract imposed an eighty-million termination fee.

Jiang Nuo left for Jiangnan to film an advertisement after turning down Si Yan’s offer to help end his endorsement contract. He warmly met his fans at the airport, while Si Yan grew jealous from afar, and the chapter ended with Jiang Nuo arriving at a haunted filming location.

• Jiang Nuo rejected Si Yan’s offer to help terminate his contract, and Zhou decided he should continue the endorsement because solving the brand’s haunting might earn them more money.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan staged a tearful goodbye before Jiang Nuo flew to Jiangnan for a three-day shoot.
• Jiang Nuo greeted fans waiting at the airport, accepted their letters, posed for photos, and arranged warm milk tea for them.
• Si Yan saw the airport visit on Jiang Nuo’s fan Super Topic, tagged Jiang Nuo asking for milk tea, and later received his own drink and a promised love letter.
• Jiang Nuo arrived at the Republican-era filming site, sensed dense ghost qi, and went upstairs to change after noticing a painting of a beautiful woman.

Jiang Nuo encountered a pervert ghost while changing and learned that Miss Yinghong was the strongest ghost at the venue. After he clashed with Winter at Dusk’s managing director Shao Hui, a fierce woman arrived to defend Jiang Nuo as the company’s chosen ambassador.

• Jiang Nuo spotted a pervert ghost peeping from the ceiling, punched it when it stretched its neck toward him, and threatened it with a talisman.
• The pervert ghost revealed that Miss Yinghong was the most powerful ghost and warned Jiang Nuo that minor ghosts feared her and Miss Dujuan.
• Jiang Nuo left the changing area, kicked the pervert ghost away when it tried to scare a staff member, and placed a talisman on the door.
• Shao Hui tore up Jiang Nuo’s talisman, dismissed his spiritual work as superstition, and angrily canceled the ambassador shoot after Jiang Nuo demanded fifty thousand for the talisman.
• A woman in a red dress rushed in, declared that she had personally chosen Jiang Nuo, and threatened to remove Shao Hui if he threw him out.

During a photo shoot, Jiang Nuo and the crew discovered that the ghost in the qipao was real and had mistaken Shao Hui for her long-dead boss. Jiang Nuo stopped her from attacking the Shao family and asked her to explain her story.

• Xu Jin directed the shoot and scolded Jiao Qianqian and Shao Hui when their interactions failed to match the desired style.
• The photographer saw a bloodstained strip of silk in the camera image where the beauty painting should have appeared, and the qipao-clad ghost manifested at the studio doors.
• The frightened crew crowded behind Jiang Nuo while the ghost confronted Shao Hui, who begged Jiang Nuo to save him and offered to increase his endorsement fee by five million.
• Jiang Nuo reasoned that the ghost had been waiting for over a hundred years and Shao Hui could only be a descendant of the boss she remembered.
• The ghost accused the boss of killing her and having children with Yinghong, then vowed to wipe out the Shao family line.
• Jiang Nuo shattered the ghostly energy gathering around her and asked her to tell her story before taking revenge.

Jiang Nuo heard Du Juan explain how a former lover stole her designs, murdered her, and trapped her soul in the inn. After Xu Jin promised to restore Du Juan’s name, the ghost withdrew, but strange noises and a frightened call from Cui Ming suggested the inn still held danger.

• Du Juan told Jiang Nuo that a clothing businessman had stolen her designs, taken up with Yinghong, and murdered her before using her soul and body to protect the Shao Family and anchor the inn.
• Jiang Nuo asked about the Spirit-Suppressing Stone and encouraged Du Juan to take revenge on the dead businessman, while Shao Hui objected.
• Xu Jin asked Du Juan’s name and promised to spread her story and rename Winter at Dusk after her; Du Juan agreed not to kill anyone and returned to the painting.
• After the group abandoned filming for the night, Cui Ming insisted on sleeping in Jiang Nuo’s room, but Jiang Nuo sent him away with talismans.
• In the middle of the night, Jiang Nuo ignored thumping above his ceiling and sleepily dismissed Cui Ming’s panicked call about a ghost in his room.

Jiang Nuo fended off ghosts at the inn and discovered that one had stolen his shoe. During filming, a ghost attacked the monk Shao Hui had hired to exorcise the inn, and Jiang Nuo demanded an extra three million to intervene.

• A mud-like ghost rammed Jiang Nuo’s door, but his talisman stopped it, and he kicked it away after it splattered his shoe.
• A little shadow ghost turned off Jiang Nuo’s light, then tried to attack him and was flung out of the room.
• Jiang Nuo found his slipper missing and called Cui Ming, who told him to hurry downstairs for filming.
• Jiang Nuo learned that Shao Hui had hired monks to exorcise the inn, and the lead monk claimed the ghosts had passed on.
• A burning portrait revealed a ghostly arm that seized the lead monk by the throat, and Shao Hui called for Jiang Nuo to save him.
• Jiang Nuo demanded an extra three million while continuing to eat his bun.

Jiang Nuo stopped Yinghong from killing the fat monk, then learned why she and Du Juan were trapped at the inn. He ordered everyone to evacuate so he could burn the inn down and free the wronged ghosts, leaving Shao Hui protesting as Jiang Nuo conjured flames.

• Jiang Nuo used a teacup to drive Yinghong off the fat monk, then placed a talisman on him to break the ghostly rope choking him.
• Jiang Nuo confronted Yinghong with a bell-strung red cord and stopped her from retreating into her portrait.
• Du Juan intervened, and Yinghong explained that the inn's owner had deceived and tortured her and sold revolutionary intelligence to Wa Country.
• A little shadow ghost asked Jiang Nuo to help Yinghong reincarnate, and Jiang Nuo decided to burn down the inn to free the trapped souls.
• Jiang Nuo ordered everyone to evacuate within five minutes, while Yinghong supported him and Shao Hui objected that the inn was his family's ancestral business.
• Xu Jin challenged Shao Hui over his family's history, and Jiang Nuo warned him to leave as flames appeared at his fingertips.

Jiang Nuo helped the inn’s ghosts move on by burning the inn, then left with the Spirit-Suppressing Stone as Xu Jin settled matters with Shao Hui. After a busy stretch of work, Jiang Nuo visited Si Yan on set in Hengdian, where they reunited affectionately.

• Xu Jin promised to clear Yinghong and Du Juan’s names, and the ghosts thanked Jiang Nuo before the flames consumed the inn and released their souls.
• Jiang Nuo accepted the Spirit-Suppressing Stone from Du Juan and questioned system 0732 about why it had not been counted as a reward.
• Xu Jin presented Shao Hui with a divorce agreement and planned to start a new business with Winter at Dusk’s core team, while Jiang Nuo agreed to work with her again.
• Jiang Nuo returned to a busy schedule before traveling to Hengdian to visit Si Yan as he filmed his final scenes.
• Si Yan spotted Jiang Nuo at the set and embraced him, while Chu Ci and Yang Hong noticed their affectionate reunion.
• Cui Ming arrived carrying gifts for the crew and Jiang Nuo’s luggage, prompting Si Yan to ask whether he planned to stay in Hengdian.

Si Yan finished filming his villain’s death scene, then hurried to shower because he was covered in mud. While he was away, Jiang Nuo accepted Su Hen’s challenge and watched him bring a haunted doll to life.

• Chu Ci teased Si Yan and Jiang Nuo about their relationship, and Si Yan openly admitted they were together.
• Jiang Nuo noticed unusual power coming from a doll carried by Su Hen, the streamer cast as the spirit medium.
• Si Yan and Chu Ci performed the villain’s final fight, and the director called cut after Si Yan’s character died in the rain.
• Jiang Nuo followed Si Yan toward the lounge, where Si Yan kissed him before shutting himself in the bathroom to shower.
• A crew member told Jiang Nuo that Su Hen wanted to spar, and several actors gathered to watch.
• Su Hen used his blood to enlarge and animate a creepy doll, which pointed at Jiang Nuo as its target; Jiang Nuo greeted it as cute.

Jiang Nuo defeated Su Hen’s soul doll and stopped his ambush, then reunited with Si Yan and blow-dried his hair. Wang Ping called to invite Jiang Nuo back to the revived variety show Weird and Strange Adventure.

• Su Hen sent a soul doll to attack Jiang Nuo, but Jiang Nuo tore through its soul net and subdued it, discovering it was made with an animal bone.
• Su Hen launched another attack from behind, and Jiang Nuo lifted him with an invisible force before warning him not to attack again.
• Jiang Nuo left for the lounge, while the director and others praised his abilities and discussed casting him in a production.
• Si Yan came out freshly cleaned and embraced Jiang Nuo, who called him “Fragrant Princess” before taking him to blow-dry his hair.
• Wang Ping called Jiang Nuo to say Weird and Strange Adventure would resume airing in partnership with the Dao Xuan Association and invited him back as a guest.

Jiang Nuo agreed to join the variety show again with Si Yan, while Lin Yu received an invitation and sought greater power. A mysterious being named An Yin chose Lin Yu as his agent, tasking him with collecting powerful souls.

• Jiang Nuo accepted the production team's invitation to the show, and Si Yan confirmed he had heard the call.
• Jiang Nuo reassured Si Yan about the remote location and promised to protect him from ghosts and monsters.
• Lin Yu decided he would pursue Si Yan and find a chance to get rid of Jiang Nuo.
• Lin Yu offered blood at the shrine inside the coffin, then dreamed that An Yin chose him and offered him the power of his soul in exchange for collecting powerful souls.
• Lin Yu agreed to An Yin's terms and awoke with new power, determined to gather souls to grow stronger.

Weird and Strange Adventure returned with state sponsorship and announced an investigation into tourist disappearances in the Bone Witch Tribe’s territory. The seven guests began their trip by bus, where Jiang Nuo spotted a strange skull after the director announced a hidden-object challenge.

• The official account announced the show’s return, introduced its guests, and revealed that the new episode would investigate disappearances in the Bone Witch Tribe’s territory.
• Three days later, Chu Xiu greeted the livestream and thanked Jiang Nuo for the talisman that had saved Xiaoxiao’s life.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan boarded together, and Si Yan clung to Jiang Nuo while pretending to feel dizzy after noticing Jiang Nuo exchange a look with Zhou Ling.
• Lin Yu watched Jiang Nuo and Si Yan’s intimate interaction with suspicion as the bus set off with all seven guests aboard.
• The director asked the guests to choose a team leader by finding something unusual on the bus, and Jiang Nuo spotted a large animal skull carved with strange writing.

Jiang Nuo and the other guests entered the Bone Witch Tribe to investigate tourists’ disappearances and deaths, receiving strict rules for their visit. As the bus arrived at their guide’s home, Jiang Nuo learned that the world’s protagonist had grown stronger and resolved to find and kill them after leaving the tribe.

• Su Hen correctly identified the bone during the livestream challenge and was named captain, while Lin Yu took note of his dislike of Jiang Nuo.
• Zhou Ling warned that the area’s magnetic field was chaotic and pulled Chu Xiu back just before the bus entered a hidden tunnel.
• After the bus emerged, the speaker explained the investigation and told the guests to conceal their entertainer identities and memorize the Bone Witch Tribe’s visitor rules.
• Jiang Nuo noticed fog forming outside, while Lin Yu secretly used black mist to increase the protagonist’s power through Su Hen.
• 0732 told Jiang Nuo that his plan had regressed and deducted 50 points, leading him to decide he would find and kill the protagonist after leaving the tribe.
• The bus stopped in front of a row of wooden houses in the Bone Witch Tribe.

Jiang Nuo and the other guests arrived at the Bone Witch tribe, ate an unsettling local breakfast, and chose the Bones on Trees attraction for their first activity. As they reached it, Zhou Ling detected evil power near the strange rune-covered boulders, while Jiang Nuo still could not sense his Love Soul.

• Da Qiang welcomed the seven guests, served them strange local dishes, and stopped Su Hen from using a doll inside the tribe’s territory.
• Su Hen chose Bones on Trees as the group’s first activity, and Da Qiang warned them to carry their green flags and avoid residents without flags.
• The group walked through the woods and saw rune-covered boulders surrounded by slimy worms; Da Qiang claimed the runes were prayers for safety.
• Zhou Ling’s astrolabe detected evil power beneath the boulders, but Da Qiang hurried the guests onward.
• Jiang Nuo failed again to sense his Love Soul, and Da Qiang stopped at the Bones on Trees attraction.

At Bones on Trees, Su Hen broke off a bone despite the Bone Witch Tribe’s rules, causing bloodlike sap and a foul stench to pour from the trunk. After Jiang Nuo sealed the wound with Soul Power, Si Yan read the taboo forbidding damage to the trees and told Su Hen he was done for.

• Da Qiang led the guests beneath the deer heads, then abruptly left them to read the information board and told them not to split up.
• Su Hen secretly pried a bone from a tree, causing bloodlike sap to gush from the trunk.
• Jiang Nuo told Su Hen to put the bone back, and Su Hen used Soul Power to seal the opening.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan read the third taboo, which declared that anyone who damaged Bones on Trees would be put to death by a thousand cuts.
• Su Hen denied the taboo was real and accused Si Yan of making it up, so Si Yan took Jiang Nuo’s hand and said he was sad.

Jiang Nuo punished Su Hen for insulting Si Yan, then the Divine Tree attacked the group and singled out Su Hen until he returned the bone. Jiang Nuo burned back the vines, while dark energy seeped into Su Hen again and fueled his hatred of Jiang Nuo.

• Jiang Nuo exploded a boulder into fragments that battered Su Hen after Su Hen insulted Si Yan and refused to return the bone.
• A shadow lured the group into striking the black Divine Tree, whose blood flowed again as its vines and human hands came alive.
• The tree’s hands and vines seized Su Hen, and Jiang Nuo told him to return the bone if he wanted to come down.
• Su Hen used Soul Power to release the bone, which a hand snatched before the tree’s arms withdrew.
• Jiang Nuo burned the attacking vines with a talisman, while Lin Yu helped Su Hen up and dark energy burrowed into him again.
• Su Hen blamed Jiang Nuo and glared at him, so Jiang Nuo threatened to gouge out his eyes and ordered him to look away.

Zhou Ling used magic to reveal a hairy child, who led the group to the gruesome remains of two tourists. Jiang Nuo suspected the child had lured them there, but Qian Sen discovered he was only a shadow puppet, leaving the group wondering whether he had ever been human.

• Zhou Ling illuminated the woods with magic and exposed a small, filthy, hairy child hiding among the trees.
• The child approached Si Yan, then Qian Sen, and pointed the group toward another path; Jiang Nuo agreed to follow.
• Jiang Nuo and Qian Sen found two recently killed tourists in a pit, their bodies badly mutilated and covered in yellowish mucus.
• Jiang Nuo found a blood-filled snake inside the female tourist's abdomen and suggested the child had lured the victims there as he had lured the group.
• Qian Sen casually pushed the child, revealing that he was a paper-thin shadow puppet, and Jiang Nuo questioned whether he had ever been human.