Recaps

Yang Jian discovered that the man he remembered as his father was a ghost and fought off its bloodstained newspaper attack using the ghostly eyes in his body. He escaped the apartment, but the ghost reassembled the newspaper with Yang Jian’s face and later took on a damaged version of his appearance.

• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that his father had died when Yang Jian was a child, leading him to realize the newspaper-reading man in his room was a ghost.
• The faceless ghost attacked Yang Jian by sticking a bloodstained newspaper to his face and pulling it tight.
• Yang Jian used the eyes in his hand, face, forehead, and neck to tear the newspaper apart and weaken the ghost’s attack.
• Yang Jian fled his home, leaving the ghost and shredded newspaper behind.
• The ghost reassembled the newspaper, which now bore Yang Jian’s face, and later appeared with a damaged version of that face.

Yang Jian escaped the memory-altering ghost and discovered that the red newspaper could suppress the eyes growing on his body. After a confrontation with street punks, he tested his Ghost Domain and set out to master its power before returning home for the newspaper.

• Yang Jian told Liu Xiaoyu that the ghost had altered his memories and asked her to investigate his parents and the ghost’s history.
• When Yang Jian removed the red paper from his hand, an eye emerged; covering it again suppressed the eye and calmed the strange movement in his body.
• Yang Jian decided he needed to return home to retrieve the red newspaper, but A Fei and several punks confronted him outside the restroom.
• A knife-wielding punk pulled a red eye from Yang Jian’s pocket, and Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to frighten the group into fleeing.
• Yang Jian found he could use the Ghost Domain with five uncovered eyes and decided to practice controlling it.

Yang Jian tested the Ghost Domain on A Fei and his thugs, learning how it distorted space and reality while discovering that using it strained his body. After borrowing money from the terrified thugs, he returned home to find the red newspaper and the ghost gone, and resolved to find it.

• A Fei and his companions fled from Yang Jian but looped back to the restroom, where Yang Jian appeared before them again.
• Yang Jian experimented with the Ghost Domain, moving through it instantly and forcing a thug’s head through a restroom wall vent.
• Yang Jian narrowed the Ghost Domain around himself, passed through a wall, and realized the power could last only five minutes before his body reached its limit.
• Yang Jian borrowed money from A Fei and the other thugs and warned them to stop extorting people.
• Yang Jian returned home, found the red newspaper and the ghost missing, and decided to search for the ghost.

Yang Jian chose to wait at home for the ghost, while Wang Shanshan’s family discovered signs that a supernatural presence had followed her home. The chapter ended with Wang Bin finding child-sized handprints throughout the bathroom and Zhang Wei staying awake after his father beat him.

• Yang Jian decided to remain at home and wait for the ghost to return so he could obtain the red newspaper.
• Wang Shanshan frantically scrubbed the handprints beside her neck, but they remained as her skin bled.
• Wang Bin and Wang Haiyan discussed the disappearances at Shanshan’s school and considered asking Yang Jian what had happened.
• Wang Shanshan screamed that a ghost was outside the bathroom window, begged to go to Yang Jian’s home, and named Su Lei, Zhao Yan, and Liu Jiayi as dead.
• Wang Bin found tiny handprints covering the bathroom window, walls, and ceiling, and Wang Shanshan’s family spent the night awake.
• Zhang Wei returned home, was beaten by Zhang Xiangui, and spent the night on the balcony wondering who had set him up.

Yang Jian tried to sell his classmates’ phones and learned that Wang Shanshan might be pursued by the Ghost Infant, so he demanded a large payment from her father to help. After a phone dealer tried to cheat him, Yang Jian threatened him with his eerie, bloodshot eyes.

• Yang Jian left home to sell the phones his classmates had left behind, wary that ghosts could appear even in daylight.
• Wang Bin called on Wang Shanshan’s phone and told Yang Jian that his daughter felt something was following her; Yang Jian suspected the Ghost Infant.
• Yang Jian offered to resolve Wang Shanshan’s problem for five hundred thousand and warned Wang Bin that waiting could be fatal.
• The phone shop owner offered Yang Jian only five thousand for the phones, claiming one was fake after taking it apart.
• Yang Jian accused the owner of switching the phone and grabbed him by the collar, threatening him with his unnatural eyes.

Yang Jian punished a crooked phone shop owner who had tried to cheat him by using a supernatural ringtone to torment him until he paid. Yang Jian continued demanding money and left the owner facing another payment deadline.

• The shop owner accused Yang Jian of selling stolen phones and threatened to call the police, so Yang Jian used the eye on his hand to make a phone disappear and planted its ringtone inside the owner's head.
• Yang Jian demanded ten thousand yuan, and when the owner hesitated to transfer it, Yang Jian called and made the ringtone cause him severe pain.
• The owner transferred ten thousand yuan, but Yang Jian lied that it had not arrived and demanded twenty thousand more; the owner paid again and then sent further payments to stop the calls.
• Yang Jian told the owner he would call again after ten minutes and suggested borrowing money when the owner said his account was empty.

Yang Jian followed a flyer offering a large reward to a closed shopping mall, suspecting it was connected to a supernatural incident. He applied for a security job and learned that the mall had hired a master to drive away evil spirits, but Sister Li avoided explaining further.

• Yang Jian intimidated a crooked phone merchant into paying compensation and then searched for ways to earn money for his mother.
• Yang Jian found a torn flyer offering more than a million yuan and took a taxi to the shopping mall listed on it.
• Yang Jian entered the cordoned-off mall, smelled a decomposing corpse, and encountered a young security guard in the darkness.
• Yang Jian told the guard he wanted to apply for a job, and the guard introduced him to Sister Li.
• Yang Jian accepted a security position and asked about the mall's hired master, but Sister Li avoided the subject.

Yang Jian began patrolling the mall with fellow guard Liu Qiang, investigating its strange odors and history of disappearances. After a mannequin reappeared in the walkway, Yang Jian returned to the security room and received a call from Wang Bin.

• Yang Jian warned Zhang Wei that the mall might be haunted and told him to alert their friends because the Ghost Infant might target Wang Shanshan.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qiang began their patrol and discussed the mall's missing people and the boss's attempts to hire a master.
• Yang Jian spotted a mannequin in the walkway, and Liu Qiang moved it into a shop full of broken mannequins.
• After the guards left, the mannequin stood in the shop entrance again, facing the direction they had gone.
• Yang Jian decided to finish his three-day probation before quitting if the job proved fruitless, then received a call from Wang Bin.

After a Ghost Infant appeared in Wang Shanshan’s home, Wang Bin called Yang Jian for help and tried to get his family out. Yang Jian rushed to them, but the infant entered the apartment, leaving Wang Bin, Wang Haiyan, and Shanshan trapped in the bedroom.

• Wang Bin and Wang Haiyan dismissed Yang Jian’s warning until a bluish-black child appeared in Shanshan’s room, where Wang Bin touched its icy hand and found dirty footprints on the walls and ceiling.
• Wang Bin called Yang Jian, agreed to negotiate the price, and said he would go to Furen Mall, but the Ghost Infant blocked the front door.
• Wang Bin saw the child through the peephole and begged Yang Jian to save his family, so Yang Jian immediately set off for their home.
• Wang Bin bolted and locked the door, then took Wang Haiyan and Shanshan into the master bedroom as the front door opened from the living room.
• Wang Bin realized his family had no safe escape from the sixteenth-floor apartment and feared they could only wait for the Ghost Infant.

Yang Jian used the Ghost Domain to drive a taxi at impossible speed to Wang Shanshan’s neighborhood, risking further revival of the ghost inside him. He called Wang Bin for the family’s location and hurried to reach them before it was too late.

• Yang Jian decided to spend another use of the Ghost Domain rather than arrive too late to save Wang Bin’s family.
• Yang Jian covered the taxi with the Ghost Domain, took the driver’s seat, and drove through traffic and obstacles at extreme speed.
• A rich sports-car driver challenged Yang Jian, crashed while trying to keep up, and mistook Yang Jian’s reckless driving for extraordinary skill.
• Yang Jian reached the neighborhood entrance within a minute, while the taxi driver escaped and vomited in terror.
• Yang Jian called Wang Bin to ask which building and floor the family was in, hoping they were still alive.

Yang Jian arrived at Wang Shanshan’s home and drove the growing Ghost Infant out of the bedroom, then dropped it from the sixteenth floor to buy time. He left to evacuate Wang Shanshan’s family, while the Ghost Infant survived and stood back up.

• The Ghost Infant entered Wang Shanshan’s bedroom and lunged at her as Wang Bin tried to attack it.
• Yang Jian appeared, knocked the Ghost Infant away, and agreed to protect the family after Wang Bin raised his payment to one million.
• The Ghost Infant revealed a spreading bluish-black aura that Yang Jian recognized as a Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian followed the Ghost Infant through the building and dropped it from the sixteenth floor to the ground floor.
• Yang Jian left to get Wang Shanshan’s family out, and the Ghost Infant recovered and stood up.

Yang Jian rescued Wang Shanshan and her family from the Ghost Infant, then demanded and received one million yuan before helping them flee. As they drove away, he called his operator, Liu Xiaoyu, to ask for advice about the handprints marking Wang Shanshan.

• Yang Jian warned Wang Bin and Wang Haiyan that the growing Ghost Infant could return and urged them to leave.
• Yang Jian confronted Wang Haiyan over payment, explained that the Ghost Infant had targeted Wang Shanshan, and received one million yuan from Wang Bin.
• Yang Jian led Wang Bin, Wang Haiyan, and Wang Shanshan out of the residential complex while his Ghost Domain kept the Ghost Infant from finding them.
• Yang Jian told the family to get farther away and said he would ask for advice about the handprints on Wang Shanshan's neck.
• Yang Jian called Liu Xiaoyu and began describing the situation to seek her advice.

Yang Jian learned that Wang Shanshan had been marked by the Ghost Infant and that a Ghost Tamer’s mark might counter a powerful ghost’s mark. He discovered his own Ghost Slave Mark on Wang Shanshan’s wrist and realized it had protected her, while Headquarters opened a file on him as an unrecruited Ghost Tamer.

• Liu Xiaoyu explained that the Ghost Infant’s trigger was contact, its method of killing was eating, and Wang Shanshan’s palm prints were likely Ghost Slave Marks.
• Liu Xiaoyu described a theory that a Ghost Tamer with a Ghost Domain could overwrite a powerful ghost’s mark, though no one had tested it.
• Yang Jian told Liu Xiaoyu about the eye inside his body, and she realized his memories of his father had been altered again.
• Yang Jian found a faint eye-shaped mark on Wang Shanshan’s wrist and learned it had appeared after he grabbed her while saving her.
• Yang Jian realized his mark had protected Wang Shanshan from the Ghost Infant, though the Infant’s growing power was making the mark fade.
• Ghost Tamer Headquarters created a file for Ghost Eye Yang Jian and labeled him not recruited.

Yang Jian replaced the mark on Wang Shanshan with a Ghost Eye mark, temporarily saving her from the Ghost Infant's immediate pursuit. The Ghost Infant lost her as its target and began following a young man instead.

• Wang Bin agreed to let Yang Jian place a new mark on Wang Shanshan, accepting that it might only delay her death.
• Yang Jian used the eye in his palm to make the dark handprints on Wang Shanshan's neck disappear and left a Ghost Eye mark on her wrist.
• Wang Shanshan said she felt better, while Yang Jian sensed that part of his ghostly power had remained inside her.
• The Ghost Infant lost its clear target when Wang Shanshan's mark disappeared and began choosing pedestrians at random.
• The Ghost Infant followed a young man who had accidentally bumped into it in the shopping district.

After resolving the Wang family incident, Yang Jian returned to his night shift at the mall and patrolled with Liu Qiang. He noticed signs of something strange on the upper floors, and after they left, the mall’s escalators began moving one by one from the fifth floor down to the first.

• Yang Jian declined Wang Shanshan’s offer to follow him, then left the Wang family and returned to the mall.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qiang began their midnight patrol, checking the underground parking lot and the lower floors.
• Yang Jian heard an escalator running between the fourth and fifth floors, but Liu Qiang switched it off and they continued their patrol.
• On the fifth floor, Yang Jian smelled decay but found no obvious disturbance among the closed shops and damaged mannequins.
• After returning to the dormitory, Yang Jian questioned why the sensor-activated escalator had run when nobody else was in the mall.
• Once Yang Jian and Liu Qiang had left, the escalators activated in sequence from the fifth floor down to the first, then the mall fell silent.

Yang Jian investigated the Human-Skin Parchment and returned to patrol the mall, where the owner brought in a self-proclaimed master to investigate disappearances. The corpse stench returned, stronger and close by, though Yang Jian could not see its source.

• Yang Jian noticed that the red paper suppressing his Ghost Eye had developed a crack and asked the Human-Skin Parchment how Ghost Tamers could survive, but it offered no useful answer.
• Yang Jian tried to burn the Human-Skin Parchment, failed, and put it away after it suggested using it to capture a ghost.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qiang began patrolling the mall, which had been reopened and fully lit, but Yang Jian remained uneasy about the disappearances.
• Boss Tang arrived with Master Luo, who claimed he would investigate the mall and entered through a delivery entrance with the staff.
• Yang Jian smelled the corpse stench again and sensed that it was stronger and nearby.

Master Luo tried to convince Boss Tang to alter the mall’s entrance to deal with its disappearances, but Yang Jian’s laughter disrupted his ritual. The appearance of a headless corpse brought Yan Li, a specialist in supernatural incidents, into the mall and left Yang Jian wondering whether he was another Ghost Tamer.

• Master Luo told Boss Tang the mall was haunted and proposed sealing its main entrance and opening a new one on the south side.
• Master Luo’s apprentice brought ritual items, and Yang Jian helped close and lock the mall’s main doors despite warning that people might be trapped inside.
• Yang Jian laughed at Master Luo’s dancing movements twice, prompting Master Luo to abandon his ritual and Manager Li to fire Yang Jian.
• A headless, naked corpse fell from upstairs, frightening everyone in the mall.
• Yan Li arrived from the fourth floor, introduced himself as a specialist in supernatural incidents, and offered to work with Boss Tang.
• Yang Jian suspected that Yan Li might be a Ghost Tamer who had come to take the job.

Yan Li confronted Boss Tang and offered to deal with the mall’s ghost for five million, while Yang Jian recognized Yan Li as a Ghost Tamer. When the mall plunged into darkness, Yan Li rushed toward a headless figure on the fifth floor, but the corpse on the first floor vanished.

• Yan Li offered to catch the ghost in the mall for five million, and Master Luo challenged him as a fraud.
• Yan Li grabbed Master Luo and threatened him, while Yang Jian refused Manager Li’s orders because he had been fired.
• Boss Tang stalled Yan Li’s demand as Sister Li called the police.
• The mall’s lights went out, and Yan Li spotted a headless figure on the fifth floor before running up the escalator.
• Wei Xiaohong pointed out that the corpse on the first floor had vanished, though the stench of decay remained and grew stronger.

Yang Jian and the mall employees faced a ghost after the corpse vanished and the lights went out, while Yan Li encountered a headless mannequin on the fifth floor. The employees fled toward an emergency exit as Yang Jian stayed behind, and Yan Li destroyed the mannequin only to find it appeared ordinary.

• Master Luo ordered everyone to flee, but they discovered the mall’s doors were locked and Yang Jian said he did not have the keys.
• A severed head identified as Wei Xiaohong’s rolled toward the group, and Yang Jian found it looked as though it had been dead for days.
• Yang Jian told the others they could escape through the fifth-floor emergency exit; Manager Li and several employees ran there, while Yang Jian stayed to use the bathroom.
• Yan Li found a headless mannequin on the fifth floor, then saw it vanish and reappear behind him.
• Yan Li grabbed the mannequin’s arms with his blood-covered hands, causing its body to fall apart, but he found nothing unusual about it.

Yang Jian found Jiang Yan hiding in the mall restroom and learned that she had seen cashier Wei Xiaohong remove her own head. As footsteps approached the dark restroom, Yang Jian suspected Wei Xiaohong might be nearby, despite knowing she was already dead.

• Yang Jian avoided helping Boss Tang's group and went to the restroom, where he found an unconscious woman hiding in a stall.
• Yang Jian woke Jiang Yan, learned she was the mall accountant, and brought her food in exchange for information about the ghost.
• Jiang Yan said she had hidden in the men's restroom for four days after seeing Wei Xiaohong take off her own head and then wait outside.
• Yang Jian insisted Wei Xiaohong could not be the ghost because he had seen her headless corpse.
• Yang Jian heard calm footsteps approaching the restroom and suspected Wei Xiaohong was outside.

Yang Jian and Jiang Yan hid from a ghost in a restroom as it forced open the stalls and nearly broke into theirs. After noticing that turning Jiang Yan around stopped its attacks, Yang Jian photographed the ghost as it left and discovered it wore a security uniform identical to his.

• Yang Jian and Jiang Yan hid in a restroom stall while a ghost opened the other stalls one by one.
• The ghost struck Yang Jian and Jiang Yan’s stall door, but paused with the door slightly open and did not immediately attack them.
• When Jiang Yan turned around, the ghost’s renewed blows stopped, leading Yang Jian to deduce that he had identified its killing condition.
• The ghost left the restroom, and Yang Jian used his phone camera to photograph it as it went.
• Yang Jian examined the partial image and was shocked to see the ghost wearing a security uniform like his own.

Yang Jian concluded that Liu Qiang might be a ghost, but he suspected the haunting could change identities and decided to check the mall’s surveillance footage. He led Jiang Yan toward the fifth-floor surveillance room, promising to get her out alive if she followed his instructions.

• Yang Jian identified Liu Qiang in his phone photo and considered why the possible ghost had not attacked him earlier.
• Yang Jian gave Jiang Yan a sausage and left the restroom, noticing that a stall door damaged by the ghost had become intact.
• Yang Jian refused Jiang Yan’s pleas for protection until she offered to be his girlfriend, then continued searching the mall.
• Yang Jian found Wei Xiaohong’s rotten head and reasoned that the ghost might have taken the identities of several employees or visitors.
• Yang Jian asked Jiang Yan where the surveillance room was, then promised to help her survive if she obeyed him and headed with her toward the fifth floor.

Yang Jian and Jiang Yan reached the monitoring room and found Liu Qiang, whose appearance matched a suspicious figure Yang Jian had photographed in the restroom. While Yan Li and the others hid from a ghost on the fifth floor, Yang Jian watched Liu Qiang closely as he pulled up the surveillance footage.

• Yan Li sealed the storage room door with blood, warning Boss Tang and the others that the ghost outside would keep attacking.
• Yang Jian and Jiang Yan reached the fifth floor, where Yang Jian found the severed head of one of Master Luo's men by the emergency exit.
• Jiang Yan led Yang Jian to the monitoring room, where they found Liu Qiang sitting at the console.
• Yang Jian showed Jiang Yan his restroom photo, and she recognized that the uniformed figure resembled Liu Qiang.
• Yang Jian questioned Liu Qiang about the restroom and asked him to retrieve earlier surveillance footage, while suspecting he was a ghost.

Yang Jian watched the mall’s surveillance footage and discovered that Wei Xiaohong had become a ghost by switching heads, while other head-switched people were also tied to the haunting. The footage revealed a group of ghosts surrounding Yan Li’s companions, and Yang Jian realized Liu Qiang was one of them.

• Yang Jian and Liu Qiang watched footage showing an unfamiliar woman remove Wei Xiaohong’s head and replace it with her own, becoming Wei Xiaohong.
• Yang Jian concluded that Wei Xiaohong had become a ghost five days earlier and searched the recordings for more evidence.
• Footage showed Wei Xiaohong trying to take Sister Li’s head, then switching heads with her after Sister Li turned away.
• Yang Jian found footage of people gathering outside the fifth-floor storage room where Yan Li and his companions had hidden, then dispersing after the group went inside.
• Yang Jian realized the mall contained a group of ghosts and noticed a thin red line around Liu Qiang’s neck.

Yang Jian discovered that Liu Qiang had been replaced by a ghost and died when his head fell off. He left Jiang Yan in the surveillance room to track the ghosts while he went to rescue the others, as pale figures began emerging around him.

• Yang Jian showed Liu Qiang surveillance footage proving that Liu Qiang had cut the power and entered the restroom while possessed, though Liu Qiang could not remember doing so.
• Liu Qiang touched the rotting wound on his neck, realized he was already dead, and lost his head before he could call his family.
• Yang Jian checked Jiang Yan's neck, found no wound, and ordered her to identify the ghost on the surveillance feeds while he went to find Sister Li and the others.
• Yang Jian gave Jiang Yan a phone and warned her to keep him informed and never turn her back on anyone before leaving the surveillance room.
• Yang Jian headed toward Boss Tang and the others as pale, closed-eyed figures emerged throughout the mall, and Jiang Yan reported their approach.