Chapter Summaries

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.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan fled the woods as a ghostly fog rolled in, then concealed from Da Qiang that they had encountered a hairy child. Back at the cabin, Jiang Nuo and Si Yan worked together to knock Da Qiang unconscious, leaving Jiang Nuo free to inspect a strange wooden sculpture.

• Jiang Nuo killed the red snake, but he and Si Yan hurried the group out of the woods when a sinister fog rushed toward them.
• Da Qiang met the group on the path and questioned Chu Xiu about what they had seen, but Jiang Nuo denied they had encountered anything.
• Su Hen told Da Qiang that the group had seen a hairy feral child, while Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Chu Xiu, Zhou Ling, and Qian Sen denied it.
• Da Qiang led everyone to the cabin, where Jiang Nuo noticed fresh signs of a ritual and a new deer-head sculpture with a moon carved between its antlers.
• Jiang Nuo struck the sculpture with a teacup as Si Yan pulled the rug, causing the sculpture to hit Da Qiang and Si Yan to kick him unconscious.
• Jiang Nuo picked up the sculpture and began examining it.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan explored their room, found cursed cloth strips, and sneaked out toward the Bone Witch Tribe after the fog cleared. At a fork, Jiang Nuo ignored a shadow’s directions, but a mud wall blocked their chosen path, so they turned back.

• Jiang Nuo memorized the unfamiliar writing on the wooden sculpture, and Chu Xiu photographed it before they returned it and woke Da Qiang.
• Da Qiang told the guests to choose rooms and promised a sightseeing trip after the fog cleared, mentioning that each room held a souvenir.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan chose to share a room, while the other guests searched their rooms for souvenirs.
• Jiang Nuo sensed a curse on the cloth strips tied to the bamboo bed and placed a talisman on them.
• Si Yan noticed that the fog had cleared along the road toward the Bone Witch Tribe, so he and Jiang Nuo removed the window and slipped outside.
• Jiang Nuo ignored a shadow that waved them toward the right-hand path, but a wall of mud rose ahead, prompting Si Yan to ask to take the other way.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan entered the Bone Witch Tribe's territory with Ma Ye, who shared what he had learned about the tribe's sacrifices. They found a ritual arrangement in the village square, and Si Yan realized it might explain the surviving tourists' condition.

• Jiang Nuo touched a supposed standing corpse, which toppled over and proved to be a hollow human skin; he and Si Yan met Ma Ye, a paranormal forum member investigating the Bone Witch Tribe.
• Ma Ye told Jiang Nuo and Si Yan that the tribe worshipped the Bone Deer God and sacrificed whenever mist spread and a sunset appeared at noon; Si Yan invited him to travel with them.
• The three followed Ma Ye through a boulder formation and reached a village of domed bamboo houses decorated with blood-soaked cloth and animal bones.
• Jiang Nuo noticed a floral scent in the village, and the group approached its square without being seen by the tribespeople.
• Jiang Nuo identified bones, incense ash, candles, and flags arranged in the square as part of a soul-swapping ritual; Si Yan explained that it exchanged a deceased person's fate with a living person's and connected the ritual to the surviving tourists.

Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Ma Ye disrupted a suspected soul-reversal ritual and escaped with help from A Man, a witch doctor’s descendant. A Man left to stop the tribe’s ritual singing, while the song made Si Yan and Ma Ye dizzy.

• Jiang Nuo smashed the offering dish with a stone, and the tribespeople rushed out as the worshipper raised an alarm.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Ma Ye fled; Ma Ye discovered a bleeding scratch on his arm but dismissed it.
• A Man found the three and hid them in a cave, warning that the tribe would punish them for damaging the array and hurting the Bone Deer God.
• A Man identified himself as a witch doctor’s descendant and began to explain the tribe’s secrets, but ritual singing made Si Yan and Ma Ye dizzy.
• A Man ran out to stop the singers and told the others to deliver his basket to his grandmother if he did not return.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan delivered incense to A Man’s grandmother, who was the Bone Witch Tribe’s witch doctor. After Granny recognized Ma Ye’s thorn wound, she seized his injured arm and began examining it.

• Jiang Nuo left Si Yan and Ma Ye in the cave to scout the square, where Nuo ritual women restrained a tourist and Ma Ye intervened.
• Jiang Nuo obtained a communication headset by accepting a side quest about the Bone Witch Tribe, then returned to Si Yan and removed his earplugs.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Ma Ye followed A Man’s directions to his grandmother’s home and delivered the incense.
• Granny recognized Ma Ye’s thorn injury, grabbed his injured arm, and started treating him despite his reluctance.