Recaps

Wang Xiaoming and Wei Jing monitored Guo Fan inside the Ghost Coffin as supernatural abnormalities intensified before the music box curse was due to erupt. The Ghost Child sensed an intruder in the building and ran toward the main entrance.

• Wang Xiaoming learned that the Ghost Child resembled Yang Jian as a child and decided Headquarters should keep its files secret rather than destroy it.
• The Ghost Coffin began shaking violently, and two pale right hands emerged as Wang Xiaoming suspected a supernatural resurgence inside Yang Jian’s body.
• As the curse’s eruption neared, darkness invaded the laboratory room, blackened hands sealed the coffin’s gaps, and Yang Jian’s portrait on the memorial tablet began bleeding.
• The Ghost Coffin shattered further under the strain while Wang Xiaoming continued observing and waiting for the curse to erupt.
• The Ghost Child sensed an invisible presence inside the building and ran toward the main entrance.

As the Music Box Curse reached its midnight deadline, supernatural forces overwhelmed the laboratory’s fifth underground level, destroying the ghost coffin and leaving Yang Jian’s body motionless. Wang Xiaoming realized Guo Fan might have survived because he was a ghost, meaning the plan to remove the curse had been a trap set for the living.

• Wang Xiaoming and Wei Jing watched the ghost coffin break apart as darkness, blood, and violent impacts spread through the sealed room.
• At midnight, the Music Box Curse ended, the music box closed, and the room’s supernatural activity abruptly stopped.
• Wei Jing declared that Guo Fan had died, while Wang Xiaoming saw Yang Jian’s intact corpse lying motionless among the ruined coffin pieces.
• Wang Xiaoming suspected the blood-soaked memorial tablet had created an unnatural balance that was keeping the ghosts inside Yang Jian’s body dormant.
• Wang Xiaoming concluded that Guo Fan might still be alive because he was a ghost, and realized the curse-removal plan had been a trap for living people.

Wang Xiaoming realized that the plan to restore Yang Jian’s consciousness had led him into a ghost’s trap, but he ordered Wei Jing to place the spirit tablet on Yang Jian anyway. When Wei Jing opened the room, the real Yang Jian appeared and seized him, and Wei Jing soon showed the same strange smile as the ghost.

• Wang Xiaoming deduced that the spirit tablet’s ghost might have invaded Guo Fan and possibly Yang Jian, and feared that Yang Jian’s body was hiding a dangerous ghost.
• Wang Xiaoming decided to gamble on restoring Yang Jian’s consciousness by placing the spirit tablet against his body, and warned Wei Jing to retreat if anything went wrong.
• Wei Jing opened the sealed room and picked up the spirit tablet from the pool of blood.
• Yang Jian appeared beside Wei Jing, gripped his arm, and revealed that the motionless corpse had been an illusion created with the Ghost Domain.
• Wang Xiaoming recognized that the ghost had waited for him to open the door and shouted for Wei Jing to escape, but Wei Jing stood still and turned toward him with Yang Jian’s strange smile.

Wang Xiaoming watched as ghost-controlled Yang Jian and Wei Jing escaped the fifth underground floor, while a strange ghost pursued the Ghost Infant through the building above. He recovered Yang Jian’s portrait and spirit tablet, then sought a way to use the Ghost Infant as a countermeasure as four dangerous ghosts converged.

• The Ghost Infant chased an unfamiliar water-leaving figure through the laboratory building while Dr. Chen and Assistant Liu hid on the second floor.
• Gao Ming watched the chase from outside, recognized the fleeing figure as another ghost, and left to return later.
• Ghost-controlled Yang Jian and Wei Jing left the fifth underground floor, and Wang Xiaoming tested their behavior by using himself as bait in the safe room.
• Wang Xiaoming retrieved Yang Jian’s portrait and the spirit tablet, then asked Headquarters to contact Liu Xiaoyu for information about Yang Jian’s recent movements.
• Yang Jian’s backup plan centered on Wang Shanshan’s ability to command the Ghost Infant, while Yang Jian and Wei Jing reached the first floor as the building’s Ghost Domain spread.

Yang Jian’s expanding Ghost Domain helped the Ghost Child catch and devour the strange intruder, but the Child then confronted Yang Jian and Wei Jing as they tried to leave the building. Wang Xiaoming reached the lobby as Wei Jing approached the Child, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain spread through the building, allowing the Ghost Child to catch the strange figure fleeing through a fifth-floor window and devour it.
• The Ghost Child sensed Yang Jian and Wei Jing trying to leave through the lobby and appeared at the entrance to stop them.
• The Ghost Child’s rotten head suppressed Yang Jian, forcing him to reappear in the lobby and holding him in a temporary stalemate.
• Wei Jing walked toward the entrance while the Ghost Child chose to confront him, and Wang Xiaoming arrived to watch their impending clash.

After Headquarters identified Wang Shanshan as the person who could command Yang Jian’s Ghost Infant, Wang Xiaoming sought her help while Wei Jing’s Ghost Messenger repeatedly suppressed the Ghost Infant. Wang Shanshan agreed to make it obey Wang Xiaoming temporarily, leaving the crisis at the experimental base unresolved.

• Qin Meirou called Liu Xiaoyu for help investigating Yang Jian’s Ghost Infant, and Liu identified Wang Shanshan as the person most likely able to command it.
• Wang Xiaoming called Wang Shanshan and explained that Yang Jian had been invaded by a ghost and that he needed the Ghost Infant’s help.
• Wei Jing grabbed and threw the Ghost Child, then suppressed it again when it clung to his back, showing that the Ghost Messenger greatly outmatched it.
• Wang Xiaoming asked Wang Shanshan to make the Ghost Infant obey his orders, and she agreed to try for the day.

Wang Xiaoming used Wang Shanshan’s command to take control of the Ghost Child, which swallowed the spirit tablet and restored Yang Jian’s consciousness to his body. Yang Jian woke free of the Music Box Curse and agreed to pursue the corrupted Wei Jing in exchange for three conditions.

• Wang Shanshan ordered the Ghost Child to obey Wang Xiaoming, and it stopped attacking Wei Jing and followed Wang Xiaoming’s commands while hiding from him.
• Wang Xiaoming ordered the Ghost Child to swallow the spirit tablet and return Yang Jian’s consciousness from the portrait to his body.
• Yang Jian revived, found that the Music Box Curse was gone and his ghosts were stable, and learned that Wei Jing had been corrupted by the spirit-tablet ghost.
• Yang Jian agreed to capture the ghost and restore Wei Jing after Wang Xiaoming offered three conditions.
• Yang Jian vanished with the Ghost Child and chased after Wei Jing.

Yang Jian confronted the out-of-control Wei Jing outside the Ping An Technology Experimental Base and used the dead man's head and his Ghost Domain to suppress him. He immobilized Wei Jing with his Ghost Hand, though the chapter ended before confirming whether the suppression had succeeded.

• Yang Jian brought Ghost Child outside and found that Wei Jing had lost all consciousness while his Ghost Domain spread around him.
• Yang Jian ordered the dead man's head to stare at Wei Jing, weakening the Ghost Domain but failing to stop Wei Jing from approaching.
• Wei Jing released the Ghost Rope, which bound the Headless Ghost Shadow and began descending toward Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian broke the attacking ropes with Ghost Hand and concluded that its power could not fully suppress the original Ghost Rope.
• Yang Jian activated his four-layer Ghost Domain, appeared behind Wei Jing, and grabbed his arm with Ghost Hand.
• Wei Jing appeared to freeze under Yang Jian's suppression, but Yang Jian could not yet tell whether it had succeeded.

Yang Jian suppressed Wei Jing and prepared to kill him after Wei Jing briefly regained consciousness, but Wang Xiaoming convinced him to imprison Wei Jing in a laboratory room instead. Wei Jing’s wounds healed inside the containment room, and Yang Jian stayed to demand answers about the trap.

• Yang Jian suppressed Wei Jing, but Wei Jing turned his head and called Yang Jian by name.
• Wei Jing claimed he was still alive, and Yang Jian readied the firewood axe while considering killing him.
• Wang Xiaoming arrived and persuaded Yang Jian to lock Wei Jing in a special laboratory room so he could study him.
• After Yang Jian released him and the Ghost Infant put away the dead man's head, Wei Jing’s injuries healed and his neck returned to normal.
• Wang Xiaoming said Wei Jing might recover by achieving a new balance, but Yang Jian refused to leave until he learned more about the trap.

After leaving Wang Xiaoming’s laboratory with the music box, Yang Jian followed strange footprints through the building to investigate what Ghost Child had pursued while his consciousness was stripped away. On the fifth floor, he found the human skin paper—and Ghost Child swallowed it before he could stop it.

• Yang Jian learned what had happened during his absence, took the music box, and left the laboratory after reminding Wang Xiaoming of the three favors he owed.
• Yang Jian spotted strange footprints alongside Ghost Child’s wet tracks and followed them upstairs, avoiding the use of Ghost Domain.
• Ghost Child broke into an office, frightening Dr. Chen, Assistant Liu, and the others inside; Yang Jian identified himself and learned the intruder’s trail had reached the fourth or fifth floor.
• Yang Jian followed the footprints to the fifth floor and discovered the human skin paper beside a window.
• Ghost Child grabbed the human skin paper and stuffed it into its mouth, and Yang Jian shouted for it to spit it out.

Yang Jian discovered that the human-skin paper had moved on its own and likely manipulated the events surrounding his near-death, but he chose to keep it because its schemes still offered a chance to survive. He left the building without retrieving Wei Jing’s Ghost Rope, wary of upsetting the balance among the ghosts he controlled.

• Yang Jian found the human-skin paper covered in corpse water after the Ghost Infant spat it out, and realized the paper had relied on a ghost to enter the building while he was incapacitated.
• Yang Jian concluded that the human-skin paper had orchestrated the events involving Wei Jing, Guo Fan, and the ancestral tablet ghost, while the Ghost Infant had disrupted its plan.
• Yang Jian remembered the paper’s warning to trust Wang Xiaoming and recognized that following the warning had helped him survive the music box curse.
• Yang Jian decided to keep the human-skin paper and planned to store it in a container around the Ghost Infant’s neck so the Ghost Infant could restrain it.
• Yang Jian reconsidered retrieving Wei Jing’s Ghost Rope because his ghosts were already in a delicate balance, and he left it behind out of respect for Wei Jing.

Yang Jian returned to the suburban villa, sealed the human skin paper inside a golden sphere around the ghost child's neck, and tried to rest. After Chen Shumei asked him to rescue Xiong Wenwen from the Ghost Painting Incident, Yang Jian refused because entering the ghost painting could get him killed, leaving Chen Shumei pleading with increasingly desperate offers.

• Yang Jian made a welded golden sphere for the human skin paper, hung it around the ghost child's neck, and locked the ghost child in a room before going to sleep.
• Chen Shumei called Yang Jian and asked to meet him about Xiong Wenwen, so Yang Jian went to her home despite sensing something was wrong in the city.
• Chen Shumei told Yang Jian that Xiong Wenwen had gone with Li Jun on a mission three days earlier and had not returned or contacted her.
• Yang Jian realized Xiong Wenwen was likely trapped in the Ghost Painting Incident and refused to enter the dangerous ghost world to rescue him.
• Chen Shumei begged Yang Jian to save her son, offered to let him join Yang Jian's team, and then offered money and to become Yang Jian's girlfriend.

Yang Jian refused Chen Shumei’s plea to risk his life rescuing Xiong Wenwen, but gave her Cao Yanhua’s number and information about an exit from the Ghost Painting. He then prepared to return to Dachang City with a team, arranging help for Zhang Lei and setting out with Huang Ziya to find Feng Quan and Tong Qian.

• Yang Jian refused to enter the dangerous Ghost Painting Incident to save Xiong Wenwen, gave Chen Shumei Cao Yanhua’s number, and told her that people lost in the painting could seek the exit he controlled.
• Yang Jian went to the Ping An Hotel and offered Huang Ziya, Zhang Lei, and Wang Jiang places on his team in Dachang City.
• Huang Ziya agreed to follow Yang Jian, while Wang Jiang hesitated over giving up his city post and was refused a place on the team.
• Yang Jian offered Zhang Lei a slot to apply for a second ghost through Wang Xiaoming, and Zhang Lei agreed to contact the professor despite his rapidly worsening condition.
• Yang Jian learned that Feng Quan’s location was in a nearby county, then left with Huang Ziya to find Feng Quan and Tong Qian before returning to Dachang City.

Yang Jian left the city with Huang Ziya after spotting the Ghost Painting invading reality and suspecting the danger was spreading. Before departing, he warned Miao Xiaoshan to evacuate, and the uneasy sensation faded only after they reached the suburban highway.

• Yang Jian took Huang Ziya by taxi toward Xiao'an County and explained that Xiong Wenwen had joined Li Jun's team after his mother rejected Yang Jian's offer.
• Yang Jian noticed a blurry woman in a thirteenth-floor window and identified her as the Ghost Painting invading reality.
• Yang Jian justified leaving the city instead of joining the response to the Ghost Painting, then called Miao Xiaoshan and urged her to leave school and keep her candle safe.
• Miao Xiaoshan agreed to leave, and Liu Zi proposed that she and Sun Yujia stay with her at her family's villa in a nearby city.
• As the taxi left the urban area, Yang Jian's unease and twitching eyelid eased, revealing that the Ghost Painting's influence covered a vast area.

Yang Jian left the city and traveled to Little An County with Huang Ziya, where he found Feng Quan trapped in a grave beneath his Ghost Fog. Feng Quan survived Yang Jian’s rescue and said other Ghost Tamers had lured him there using Tong Qian’s satellite phone, though he did not know who attacked him.

• Yang Jian abandoned his plan to retrieve the Ghost Scissors and left the city, reasoning that the Ghost Painting could trap him without the music box’s protection.
• Yang Jian and Huang Ziya entered Little An County by taxi, where Feng Quan’s Ghost Fog thickened around them.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to suppress the fog and traced its source to a small hotel.
• Yang Jian found Feng Quan buried in an earthen grave and pulled him free with his Ghost Hand.
• Feng Quan told Yang Jian that other Ghost Tamers had attacked him and lured him to the hotel using Tong Qian’s satellite positioning phone.

Yang Jian and Huang Ziya joined Feng Quan to track Tong Qian’s phone in Xiao'an County, where picking it up trapped Feng Quan inside an unfamiliar Ghost Domain. A badly eroded former colleague appeared and confronted him, but Feng Quan had not yet identified the man.

• Feng Quan told Yang Jian that he had been lured by Tong Qian’s phone signal and attacked by an unknown Ghost Tamer.
• Yang Jian decided to keep searching for Tong Qian, and Feng Quan confirmed that her phone signal led to Xiao'an County.
• The three traveled to an abandoned lot, where Feng Quan found Tong Qian’s satellite positioning phone and picked it up.
• The phone dragged Feng Quan into a Ghost Domain, transforming the empty lot into a sinister landscape beneath a red sun.
• A severely eroded man appeared and recognized Feng Quan as one of Headquarters’ first-generation Ghost Tamers, while Feng Quan struggled to remember him.

Feng Quan was lured into a Ghost Domain by Pei Dong, who planned to kill him and steal the ghost inside his body with help from several accomplices. As Feng Quan was close to being killed, Yang Jian arrived and confronted Pei Dong, who was shocked to find him alive.

• Yang Jian and Huang Ziya realized Feng Quan had vanished and headed toward the Ghost Domain.
• Pei Dong revealed that he had used Tong Qian’s phone signal as bait and planned to kill Feng Quan so his accomplices could inherit the ghost inside him.
• Pei Dong’s five Ghost Tamer accomplices invaded Feng Quan’s Ghost Domain and attacked him as his ghost fog and Grave Soil protections weakened.
• Yang Jian arrived, covered the area in red light, and stopped the attack before Feng Quan died.
• Pei Dong recognized Yang Jian and reacted with disbelief, saying he had thought Yang Jian died after fighting Fang Shiming.

Yang Jian confronted Pei Dong and his group to rescue Tong Qian, refusing to accept their threats or negotiate without her return. After Yang Jian killed Zheng Long and overwhelmed Pei Dong with his Ghost Domain, Pei Dong realized Yang Jian was far stronger than he had expected.

• Feng Quan told Yang Jian that Pei Dong had controlled two ghosts and that Tong Qian was being held by his group.
• Pei Dong proposed ending the confrontation and threatened to cause paranormal incidents, but Yang Jian demanded Tong Qian and refused to back down.
• Yang Jian expanded his red Ghost Domain and killed Zheng Long, turning the supposed one-against-six fight into one against five.
• Pei Dong tried to contain Zheng Long's corpse as its ghostly screams threatened to trigger a revival.
• Yang Jian warned Pei Dong that he could suppress their Ghost Domains in less than a second and demanded that he hand over Tong Qian.
• Pei Dong recognized that Yang Jian was beyond his group's level, while Tong Qian's fate remained unresolved.

Yang Jian overwhelmed Pei Dong’s group inside their Ghost Domain and captured Zhou Jiefeng after the others fled. He demanded that Zhou Jiefeng take him to Tong Qian, and Zhou agreed.

• Yang Jian killed Zheng Long, leaving Pei Dong and the other Ghost Tamers afraid to fight him.
• Pei Dong offered to hand over Tong Qian, but Yang Jian located the source of the Ghost Domain and attacked Zhou Jiefeng instead.
• Yang Jian seized Zhou Jiefeng, suppressed the ghost inside him, and scattered the remaining Ghost Tamers.
• Feng Quan urged Yang Jian to pursue the fleeing group, but Yang Jian insisted that finding Tong Qian came first.
• Huang Ziya revealed she had been concealed nearby, and Yang Jian questioned Zhou Jiefeng until he agreed to lead them to Tong Qian.

Yang Jian interrogated Zhou Jiefeng after Pei Dong and the others escaped, learning that they had abducted Tong Qian because her unusual body might let them escape a deadly time curse and ghost resurgence. Zhou Jiefeng revealed that the curse came from an elusive pendulum clock, and the chapter ended with him explaining that strong sleeping pills had let them capture Tong Qian.

• Pei Dong and the surviving members escaped to a market near Xiao'an County, realized Zhou Jiefeng was missing, and fled to avoid Yang Jian.
• Zhou Jiefeng told Yang Jian that Tong Qian had been held in Xiao'an County because a supernatural incident had changed her body and made her valuable to the group.
• Zhou Jiefeng explained that he and others were cursed by an old pendulum clock, whose appointed time brought death, and believed changing bodies could free them from the curse and ghost resurgence.
• Zhou Jiefeng said the curse suppressed ghost resurgence but vanished when a Ghost Tamer controlled three ghosts, at which point the person died immediately.
• Zhou Jiefeng admitted that his group had incapacitated Tong Qian with strong sleeping pills before taking her.

Yang Jian and Feng Quan found Tong Qian imprisoned and badly injured in a hidden basement hospital, then rescued and healed her. Tong Qian woke up ready to take revenge, and the group left with Zhou Jiefeng’s corpse to discuss the Captain Plan.

• Zhou Jiefeng led Yang Jian, Feng Quan, and Huang Ziya to a hidden second basement, where they found Tong Qian imprisoned in a medical glass container.
• Yang Jian killed Zhou Jiefeng after condemning the torture of Tong Qian, and Feng Quan and Huang Ziya freed and healed her.
• Tong Qian woke and attacked with her ghostly laughter until Yang Jian stopped her and helped her recognize the group.
• Tong Qian told Yang Jian that she now understood the need to kill people who deserved it, and he asked about her attitude toward the Captain Plan.
• The group took Zhou Jiefeng’s corpse in the glass container and left the hospital, then bought Tong Qian clothes and brought her to a restaurant to eat.

Yang Jian recruited Tong Qian into his team and arranged for Feng Quan and Huang Ziya to join him in Dachang City. He left J City with Ghost Child, unaware that the Ghost Painting had begun moving inside the sealed villa, and returned to Dachang City safely.

• Yang Jian invited Tong Qian to join his team, and she agreed while keeping responsibility for her own city.
• Feng Quan and Huang Ziya agreed to join the team after handling personal matters, and Yang Jian entrusted Feng Quan with Zhou Jiefeng's corpse.
• Yang Jian retrieved Ghost Child from the suburban villa and disguised it before leaving for the airport.
• Crashing sounds came from the room holding the Ghost Painting, but Yang Jian left the villa and sealed it behind him.
• A blurry figure watched Yang Jian's taxi leave, then disappeared as footsteps echoed through the empty villa.
• Yang Jian flew back to Dachang City on the last flight, having resolved the ghost's resurgence problem and obtained the captain position.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City, where Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin came to pick him up. After Ghost Child frightened a pushy airport driver, Jiang Yan greeted Yang Jian with unexpected affection, while Zhang Liqin hinted that she also had feelings for him.

• Zhang Liqin told Jiang Yan that Yang Jian had texted asking them to pick him up at the airport, and the two hurried to leave.
• Yang Jian arrived with Ghost Child concealed in his travel bag and waited outside the terminal for his ride.
• A pushy driver took Yang Jian's bag, but gave it back when Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin arrived to collect him.
• The driver found a gold bar that had fallen from the bag, but Ghost Child grabbed him and reclaimed it, terrifying him into fleeing.
• Jiang Yan hugged Yang Jian and insisted she had missed him, while Yang Jian denied missing her and Zhang Liqin watched him with unusual affection.

Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area, assigned the Ghost Child to protect it, and investigated the old house’s mysterious golden door without opening it. As he recorded his recent supernatural encounters, he told Zhang Liqin that his emotions were fading, though she stayed beside him.

• Jiang Yan drove Yang Jian and Zhang Liqin home while Yang Jian learned that his mother, Zhang Fen, had returned to their hometown; he resolved to visit and settle old family disputes and investigate his father’s death.
• Yang Jian went to the Republican-era old house and ordered the Ghost Child to protect Guangjiang Residential Area from unfamiliar Ghost Tamers.
• Yang Jian noticed the old house’s golden third door and chose not to open it, suspecting it might contain a powerful ghost.
• Yang Jian recorded the supernatural incident he had encountered on the plane, and Zhang Liqin joined him in bed after her bath.
• Yang Jian explained to Zhang Liqin that his steady heartbeat reflected his fading emotions and warned that his memories might also blur; Zhang Liqin turned off the light and stayed with him.

After the first operation against the Ghost Painting failed, Li Jun stayed behind for one last attempt while Li Yang prepared to escape with Xiong Wenwen’s photograph. In Dachang City, Yang Jian found a trail of blood and a child’s footprint at his residential area, suggesting the ghost child had attacked another intruder.

• Li Jun learned that Chen Yi and Liu San were dead and Xiong Wenwen was trapped in a photograph after the team’s operation failed.
• Li Jun gave Li Yang the Ghost Door Handle and ordered him to escape at noon with Xiong Wenwen’s photograph, while Li Jun stayed behind with the ghost camera to fight the Ghost Painting.
• Yang Jian went for a morning walk in Guangjiang Residential Area and found security guards investigating a pool of blood at the entrance.
• Yang Jian identified a child’s footprint in the blood as the ghost child’s and suspected it had attacked an intruder contaminated by corpse water.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Han to investigate the surveillance footage and focus on the possibility that the latest intrusion was connected to an earlier one.