Recaps

Yang Jian confronted Paul at his company, discovered a hidden vault, and forced Paul to surrender while investigators searched the premises. As Paul played a mysterious cassette to plead his case, Yang Jian destroyed it, but its eerie sound continued from the wreckage.

• Yang Jian snapped the record Paul had kept and found that its unusual sensation disappeared with it.
• Yang Jian exposed a vault hidden behind the liquor cabinet, and Zhang Hua ordered his subordinates to open it.
• Yang Jian used his power to confine Paul to a sofa and warned him that leaving would make him disappear.
• Paul admitted that his company had sent the group that attacked Yang Jian's home and offered the company and its services as compensation.
• Yang Jian rejected Paul's offer and destroyed the cassette player and tape, but the rustling sound continued from the fragments.

Yang Jian faced Paul, who tried to force him to retreat with a cursed cassette recording. Yang Jian neutralized the threat and drowned Paul in the blood pool, then left the site after Headquarters approved his actions.

• Paul played a recording by the Preacher that threatened to kill everyone who heard it after a second beep, and he demanded that Yang Jian surrender and return his legs.
• Yang Jian dismissed Paul's confidence in the recording and opened the Ghost Eye, warning that Paul had turned the case into a supernatural incident.
• Yang Jian revealed that he and Paul were standing above the blood pool where Yan Li had revived, then threw the cassette fragments into it before they could produce a second beep.
• Yang Jian dropped Paul into the blood pool, where bloody hands dragged him under despite his offer to trade a ghost for his life.
• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that Headquarters had recorded the incident and approved his handling of Paul, and Yang Jian used the Ghost Domain to leave.

Yang Jian rescued Zhang Hua, then entered Paul's vault and killed the armed mercenaries inside. He seized three ghosts for a possible trade with the Ghost Cabinet and left the company’s investigation to Zhang Hua.

• Yang Jian found Zhang Hua badly wounded after Paul’s men opened fire from the vault, then used Ghost Shadow to remove two bullets and stitch his wounds closed.
• Zhang Hua warned Yang Jian that the vault held hostages and gold boxes containing ghosts.
• Yang Jian entered the vault through the gunfire and killed the two men and one woman who attacked him.
• Yang Jian found three occupied ghost boxes, reassured two hostages, and took the boxes with him.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Hua to investigate and shut down Paul’s company, claimed the vault building for his future use, and returned to Guangjiang Residential Area.

Yang Jian traded a sealed ghost to the Ghost Cabinet for Zhao Lei’s location, then received a new demand tied to a disturbing photograph. He left with the address of Zhao Lei’s room and one year to find the woman in the image.

• Yang Jian brought a golden box to the Ghost Cabinet and used the Ghost Shadow to place the bound corpse of a Ghost Tamer inside.
• The Ghost Cabinet gave Yang Jian a plaque identifying room 13 at the Caesar Hotel in Z City as Zhao Lei’s location.
• The Ghost Cabinet issued a demand for Yang Jian to find a woman within one year and gave him her photograph.
• Yang Jian recognized the photograph’s old house and red lanterns as the place where the ghost bus had stopped for the mummified bride, but he could not tell whether the woman was the bride.

Yang Jian learned that the ghost capable of altering memories was likely behind the crisis in Z City, where Tong Qian and five supporting Ghost Tamers had gone missing. He agreed to travel there the next morning with Xiong Wenwen, then learned that a plate from Ghost Cabinet dated back to the Republican Era.

• Yang Jian called Qin Meirou and learned that Tong Qian had disappeared during a supernatural incident in Z City, where five Ghost Tamers had been sent to support her.
• Yang Jian warned Qin Meirou that a ghost in Z City could alter memories and turn Ghost Tamers into Ghost Slaves.
• Zhao Jianguo told Yang Jian that the five supporting Ghost Tamers had also lost contact and that Headquarters still intended to send help for the ongoing A-class incident.
• Yang Jian agreed to fly to Z City the next morning with Xiong Wenwen, but refused additional teammates.
• Zhang Liqin told Yang Jian that the plate from Ghost Cabinet was made about seventy years earlier, and he connected it to the Republican Era.

Yang Jian reviewed the Z City Head Balloon Incident and prepared to investigate the memory-altering ghost, taking special equipment and deciding to bring the human skin paper. Before leaving, he found conflicting clues pointing to Rooms 13 and 31 at the Caesar Hotel, leaving him unsure which information to trust.

• Yang Jian reviewed the files on the Z City incident and learned that Feng Quan, Guo Fan, and three Supernatural Forum members had joined the search for the missing Tong Qian.
• Yang Jian prepared his equipment for the trip and decided to bring the face-covering cloth and the human skin paper because the memory-altering ghost made the investigation unusually dangerous.
• Jiang Yan showed Yang Jian the notebook pages she had reassembled from Zhao Lei's records, and he found characters that formed the message, “Room 31, Caesar Hotel, Z City.”
• Yang Jian compared the notebook’s Room 31 clue with the ghost cupboard’s message naming Room 13 and questioned whether either source was trustworthy.

Yang Jian arrived in Z City to investigate Tong Qian’s disappearance and the Head Balloon Incident, while distrusting the local Ghost Tamers because of a ghost that could alter memories. He landed safely and prepared to begin the operation with Xiong Wenwen.

• Yang Jian listened to Tong Qian’s final recording, which led him to suspect that the Caesar Hotel was connected to her disappearance.
• Yang Jian ordered Headquarters to keep Feng Quan and Guo Fan away from the Caesar Hotel because he could not trust anyone in Z City.
• The helicopter nearly struck a floating human head as it entered Z City airspace, and Yang Jian saw at least a hundred head balloons above the city.
• Yang Jian landed at a temporary command center in a park and met Z City liaison Zhang Gao.
• Yang Jian learned that Xiong Wenwen had arrived and asked Zhang Gao to take him to the boy so they could discuss the operation.

Yang Jian arrived in Z City with Xiong Wenwen to investigate the supernatural incidents centered on Caesar Hotel. At the hotel, he unexpectedly found Guo Fan and Feng Quan waiting for him, despite believing they had been transferred away.

• Yang Jian gave Zhang Gao orders to prepare a pickup, seal off Caesar Hotel, and identify the floating heads.
• Yang Jian took Xiong Wenwen's phone and told him to prepare for the mission, promising to keep him alive if possible.
• Yang Jian and Xiong Wenwen drove to Caesar Hotel, where Yang Jian explained that Tong Qian's disappearance might be separate from the Head Balloon Incident.
• Yang Jian arrived at the cordoned hotel carrying a body bag and found Guo Fan and Feng Quan waiting on the steps.

Yang Jian tried to keep Guo Fan and Feng Quan out of the Caesar Hotel because he suspected the ghost might alter their memories, but they entered anyway and agreed to investigate separately. Yang Jian followed with Xiong Wenwen, and the group encountered a smiling receptionist in the hotel lobby.

• Yang Jian warned Guo Fan and Feng Quan that they might have been affected by the memory-altering ghost and demanded that they leave the incident to him.
• Guo Fan refused to back down, while Feng Quan proposed that they investigate separately and offer support if needed.
• Guo Fan and Feng Quan entered the Caesar Hotel, and Yang Jian decided not to stop them by force.
• Yang Jian instructed Xiong Wenwen not to use his ability unless told, then led him into the hotel.
• The group saw a receptionist at the front desk despite the hotel having been sealed, and Feng Quan stopped Guo Fan from testing her rashly.

Yang Jian ignored Feng Quan and Guo Fan's argument and led Xiong Wenwen to investigate the hotel's second floor, where corpse-fluid footprints suggested a ghost was hiding. He entered the dark floor and traced the sound of someone eating to a restaurant, but his attempt to capture the unseen ghost with his Ghost Domain failed.

• Feng Quan warned Guo Fan against attacking the receptionist, while Guo Fan insisted they should deal with her before she became a danger.
• Yang Jian chose to investigate the hotel's second floor and found corpse-fluid footprints leading from the stairs to a sealed door.
• Yang Jian broke through the glass doors and entered the second floor with Xiong Wenwen, concluding that a ghost was inside.
• Yang Jian followed the sound of cutlery to a restaurant and spread his three-layer Ghost Domain across it to seize the ghost.
• The sound stopped, and Yang Jian saw through his Ghost Domain that his attempt had failed.

Yang Jian failed to capture the identity-less ghost that could alter memories and suspected it was a conceptual existence. He lit a white ghost candle to lure it back, and its black flame spread darkness through the Ghost Domain.

• Yang Jian found a freshly severed human face on a dining table and wondered how the ghost had escaped his brief Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian concluded the ghost might have no physical form or identity and recalled that it had appeared as his dead father and as Zhao Lei.
• Xiong Wenwen urged Yang Jian to leave and warned that the white ghost candle could attract other ghosts, but Yang Jian decided to search for the ghost nearby.
• Yang Jian lit the white ghost candle, whose black flame covered the surrounding Ghost Domain in darkness.

Yang Jian used a ghost candle to draw out the ghost hiding in the hotel, but his attempt to attack triggered a swarm of corpses bearing Tong Qian’s eerie smile. He realized the hotel held a composite supernatural threat and ordered Xiong Wenwen to foresee what would happen next as the corpses began laughing.

• Yang Jian lit the white ghost candle, drawing a tall shadow to the restaurant door and a man hiding behind a newspaper into the room.
• More figures appeared at the restaurant tables, and Yang Jian decided to fight after the candle burned past its limit.
• Yang Jian extinguished the candle and released the ghost rope, which hanged the figures and revealed them as corpses with Tong Qian’s smiling face.
• Yang Jian recognized that the face-taking ghost had gained Tong Qian’s power and ordered Xiong Wenwen to use his ability to foresee the future.
• A chilling wind swept bloodstained newspapers toward Yang Jian as the hanging corpses stared at him and laughed.

Yang Jian and Xiong Wenwen tried to identify the corpse carrying the real ghost face while the restaurant’s ghosts overwhelmed Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain. Yang Jian lit a red ghost candle to halt the attack, leaving them temporarily safe amid the spreading supernatural danger.

• Yang Jian activated the third layer of his Ghost Domain and asked Xiong Wenwen to identify the corpse whose ghost face caused the fatal laughter.
• Xiong Wenwen warned that bloodstained red newspapers were invading the Ghost Domain and used his foresight to rule out the first several corpses Yang Jian targeted.
• As the Ghost Domain collapsed and another ghost entered the restaurant, Xiong Wenwen foresaw their deaths and urged Yang Jian to flee.
• Yang Jian withdrew the Ghost Domain and lit a red ghost candle just as the newspapers, laughter, and approaching ghost threatened them.
• The candlelight stopped the newspapers and laughter from reaching Yang Jian and Xiong Wenwen, and the tall black shadow turned and left.

Yang Jian and Xiong Wenwen escaped the restaurant with the ghost candle after Yang Jian recovered the ghost rope, but they also discovered signs of an unknown ghost from the hotel's second floor. Back in the lobby, Yang Jian found Feng Quan and Guo Fan missing and concluded they had probably gone to the fourth floor.

• Yang Jian used the ghost candle to leave the restaurant with Xiong Wenwen and retrieved the ghost rope from a corpse, causing the hanging bodies to fall.
• Yang Jian and Xiong Wenwen found black footprints that suggested an unknown second-floor ghost had waited for them, then followed the trail toward the corridor.
• Yang Jian led Xiong Wenwen back to the lobby, where he extinguished the candle after its flame slowed and the danger seemed distant.
• Yang Jian noticed Feng Quan and Guo Fan were missing and inferred from the elevator's position that they had likely gone to the fourth floor.

Yang Jian located Tong Qian’s missing phone in the hotel lobby and concluded that the smiling receptionist was Tong Qian beneath a stolen face. He used his ghost shadow to take control of her and cautiously approached.

• Yang Jian reviewed what the team had learned and warned that the hotel ghost had suppressed his Ghost Domain and that they should not use the white ghost candle again.
• Yang Jian’s satellite phone showed Tong Qian’s phone was less than ten meters away, apparently inside the lobby.
• At Yang Jian’s request, Liu Xiaoyu played an alert through Tong Qian’s phone, and the sound came from the receptionist.
• Yang Jian concluded that the receptionist was Tong Qian with a replacement face and explained that the ghost could steal and replace faces.
• Yang Jian sent his ghost shadow into the receptionist, took control of her body, and approached after confirming she did not react.

Yang Jian found Tong Qian alive beneath a ghost face that had replaced her own and took her to the hospital. After learning that the ghost face had already been removed, he left the Caesar Hotel with Xiong Wenwen to plan their next move while Feng Quan and Guo Fan remained inside.

• Yang Jian found Tong Qian's satellite locator phone inside the female receptionist and realized the receptionist's face might be a mask covering Tong Qian.
• Yang Jian used the ghost shadow to tear off the human-skin face, revealing Tong Qian beneath it.
• Yang Jian found that Tong Qian was still breathing and had a heartbeat, though her scalp was badly injured and she was unconscious.
• Xiong Wenwen contacted Zhang Gao, and Yang Jian carried Tong Qian out of the Caesar Hotel to an ambulance.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Gao to notify him if Tong Qian woke, then left with Xiong Wenwen to rest and prepare a new plan while Feng Quan and Guo Fan stayed at the hotel.

Dai Yong’s disbelief in Z City’s hauntings ended when a floating head resembling his wife entered his home and his son lost his head. Inside the Caesar Hotel, Feng Quan and Guo Fan remained trapped on the fourth floor and chose to investigate a strange corridor and its open room.

• Dai Yong dismissed his friend’s warnings about the Head Balloon Incident while cooking dinner for Lele.
• Dai Yong found Lele at the balcony window, then saw a floating head resembling his wife drift into their home; Lele’s head rose from his neck and floated away.
• Feng Quan and Guo Fan admitted they had been lost in a looping fourth-floor corridor for four hours and discussed asking Yang Jian for help.
• Feng Quan and Guo Fan followed the sound of a door into a corridor with unfamiliar room numbers, including a half-open room numbered 31.
• Feng Quan and Guo Fan saw a figure moving inside room 31 and agreed to confront whatever was there together.

Yang Jian went to Z City's Third Hospital to investigate Tong Qian's condition after learning she remained unconscious despite her injuries stabilizing. He learned that her main problem was supernatural and centered on her head, leaving her recovery uncertain.

• Yang Jian reviewed the failed hotel operation and suspected the memory-altering ghost was combining supernatural incidents to thwart his investigations.
• Zhang Gao told Yang Jian that Tong Qian could not wake and might become vegetative, so Yang Jian decided to visit her at the hospital.
• Yang Jian arranged for two people to guard Xiong Wenwen before leaving with Zhang Gao for the Third Hospital.
• At Tong Qian's ward, attending physician Qian Zhiqiang explained that her physical injuries were not the main concern and pointed to her head.

Yang Jian learned that Tong Qian’s brain had no detectable activity because a ghost had taken her memories, then consulted the human skin paper for a way to wake her. The paper revealed that Yang Jian could recover her memories only after restraining the source ghost, and suggested a way to make Tong Qian tame two ghost faces if he succeeded.

• Doctor Qian told Yang Jian that Tong Qian’s body was healing, but her brain showed no activity and she remained in a brain-death-like state.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Gao to leave the ward and concluded that Tong Qian could be awakened only by restoring her memories, which a ghost had taken.
• Yang Jian opened the golden box, took out the human skin paper, and threatened to abandon it until it revealed information about Tong Qian and the Caesar Hotel.
• The human skin paper explained that Yang Jian needed to find Tong Qian’s newspaper, restrain the source ghost, and then restore her memories without letting the ghost alter them.
• The human skin paper revealed that Tong Qian could potentially tame two ghost faces and gave Yang Jian a special method, leaving him shocked.

Yang Jian suspected the human-skin paper was luring him into a dangerous plan involving Tong Qian, then discovered that the ghost had infiltrated her family and might be monitoring Z City through informants. He left Zhang Gao to secure the hospital while realizing that Zhao Lei’s intelligence had made the ghost far more dangerous.

• Yang Jian considered the human-skin paper’s proposal to use a memory-altering ghost to change Tong Qian’s personality, but distrusted the paper’s motives.
• Zhang Gao told Yang Jian that Tong Qian’s relatives had arrived, and Yang Jian spotted a smiling middle-aged man among them who resembled the figure he had seen at the hotel.
• Yang Jian seized the man, ordered Zhang Gao to detain him and restrict access to Tong Qian, then fired a warning shot when her relatives tried to interfere.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Gao that the ghost might be trying to contact Tong Qian and left him to handle the family and hospital security.
• Yang Jian suspected that the ghost had informants throughout Z City and had become more capable under Zhao Lei’s direction.

Yang Jian listened to Tong Qian’s damaged recording and refused to rescue Guo Fan, believing the distress signal was a trap at the Caesar Hotel. He left to find allies who could help locate the source, but encountered a smiling man whose expression matched the ghost face.

• Yang Jian heard Tong Qian describe a maze-like third floor and a man-made signal jammer before interference erased the rest of her recording.
• Qin Meirou told Yang Jian that Guo Fan was trapped in Room 31 and Feng Quan had lost contact, but Yang Jian refused to provide support.
• Yang Jian explained that the ghost could alter memories and use intelligent Ghost Slaves, making the hotel rescue a dangerous trap that could worsen the incident.
• Yang Jian told Qin Meirou to follow his lead and ended the call, then decided to recruit a woman who could locate people with ghost sound and Xiong Wenwen.
• A suited man with a smile like the ghost face stopped beside Yang Jian, who used his Ghost Domain to vanish without firing.

Luo Suyī decided to flee Z City with Huang Fei and Lin Luomei, fearing the worsening supernatural incident. Yang Jian found their mansion and, after Lin Luomei’s companions refused to help him locate a ghost, ordered him to requisition the ghost inside her body.

• Luo Suyī urged Huang Fei and Lin Luomei to leave Z City after learning that Guo Fan and Feng Quan were trapped and the incident remained unresolved.
• A doorbell rang at 1:30 in the morning, and Yang Jian appeared inside the mansion after Luo Suyī found no one outside.
• Yang Jian asked Lin Luomei to help him locate a ghost that was hiding from him, promising to handle it himself.
• Luo Suyī refused, saying the task was too dangerous and Lin Luomei was close to ghost resurgence.
• Yang Jian said he would requisition the ghost inside Lin Luomei and declared that it was an order.

Yang Jian requisitioned Lin Luomei to help with the Z City supernatural incident, and Luo Suyī joined to protect her while Huang Fei stayed behind. As Yang Jian prepared for the next day's operation, Tong Qian unexpectedly awoke in the hospital and began smiling like the ghost face.

• Yang Jian used Zhao Jianguo's support to compel Lin Luomei to join the operation and warned her group that refusing could bring consequences.
• Lin Luomei agreed to go with Yang Jian, and Luo Suyī joined to protect her; Huang Fei stayed behind so one of them might survive.
• Yang Jian took Luo Suyī and Lin Luomei to the temporary resettlement center and told them to avoid contact with others until the operation began at eight the next morning.
• Tong Qian opened her eyes in the hospital ward and soon wore the same stiff, emotionless smile as the smiling ghost face, while no one noticed.

Yang Jian arrived at the Caesar Hotel to begin a second operation, but found it enveloped in expanding Ghost Fog that had appeared overnight. After hearing the security report, he faced the fog while Luo Suyī urged him to retreat, leaving the operation’s next move uncertain.

• Yang Jian drove to the Caesar Hotel with Luo Suyī, Lin Luomei, and Xiong Wenwen, assuring them that he would try to get them out if danger arose.
• Xiong Wenwen noticed that dense fog covered only the hotel, and Yang Jian suspected it might be Feng Quan’s Ghost Fog or the result of Feng Quan’s death.
• Zhang Gao reported that cries for help had come from the hotel around 1:40 a.m., silhouettes had appeared in lit windows, and the fog had begun spreading around 4 a.m.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Gao to leave the site and prepare for the worst if the incident could not be resolved.
• Luo Suyī urged Yang Jian to retreat, but Yang Jian stood before the fog and considered the changed situation without abandoning the operation.

Yang Jian sent Luo Suyī, Lin Luomei, and Xiong Wenwen back to the cordon while he entered the ghostly fog alone to prepare for the hotel operation. Inside the fog, he discovered it behaved like a Ghost Domain and spotted a mysterious figure following him before it vanished.

• Yang Jian decided the hotel was too dangerous to enter with the group and warned them to wait at the next cordon.
• Yang Jian entered the ghostly fog alone, losing his bearings as the hotel disappeared from view.
• Yang Jian opened his Ghost Eye and expanded his Ghost Domain, pushing back some of the fog and improving his visibility.
• Yang Jian noticed a motionless humanoid figure following him and prepared his Ghost Candle, but the figure vanished into the mist.
• Yang Jian continued toward the hotel through the fog, maintaining his Ghost Domain and staying alert for further danger.