Recaps

Yang Jian returned to his apartment, learned Jiang Yan had trapped her borrowed money in gold trading, and revealed that he had earned over five hundred million. He tasked her with buying physical gold and repaid Yan Li, leaving Jiang Yan to handle his finances while he went to sleep.

• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan that gold trading had been restricted and advised her to exchange money for physical goods after she revealed she had lost access to more than three million in borrowed funds.
• Yang Jian revealed that he had earned five hundred and fifty million, and Jiang Yan tried unsuccessfully to borrow money from him.
• Yang Jian assigned Jiang Yan four hundred million to convert into physical gold and promised her a five-million bonus if she managed the purchases honestly.
• Yang Jian instructed Jiang Yan to transfer fifty million to Yan Li as repayment for the money they had agreed to split.
• Yang Jian sent Jiang Yan to shower and fell asleep on the bed.

While Yang Jian slept, the Headless Ghost Shadow escaped his control and nearly killed Jiang Yan before he stopped it. In the following days, Yang Jian found the shadow’s relapses unpredictable and sought a way to suppress it, while the human skin paper remained silent inside its gold box.

• The Headless Ghost Shadow wandered away from Yang Jian’s bed but could not escape his range, then tried to merge with Jiang Yan.
• Yang Jian woke and used the five Ghost Eyes to pin down the Headless Ghost Shadow, saving Jiang Yan.
• Over the next few days, Yang Jian observed the shadow losing control three to six times daily and attacking people around him, including Jiang Yan.
• Yang Jian opened the gold box to inspect the human skin paper, found it unresponsive, and locked it away again.

Yang Jian attended a small class reunion and learned that Zhang Wei might have encountered a ghost in his home, so he arranged for the house to be sealed. When Wang Shanshan arrived with her parents, Yang Jian noticed that she looked deathly pale.

• Yang Jian met Zhang Wei and Zhao Lei at the reunion, but the other classmates had not shown up.
• Zhang Wei told Yang Jian that he had beaten his reflection at rock-paper-scissors and slapped himself until his face swelled; Yang Jian warned that a ghost might be in his house.
• Yang Jian called Captain Liu, who arranged to seal Zhang Wei's home and keep his parents away.
• Zhang Wei said he had other homes to stay in, so Yang Jian told him to think about what had happened with the mirror.
• Wang Bin and Wang Yan brought Wang Shanshan to the reunion, and Yang Jian saw that she was deathly pale.

Yang Jian learned that the Ghost Slave mark had left Wang Shanshan with dangerously low vital signs and a deathlike appearance, though she remained human while he lived. Wang Bin left her in Yang Jian’s care as the class reunion continued.

• Yang Jian noticed Wang Shanshan’s pale skin and corpse-like aura, then asked Wang Bin what had happened to her.
• Wang Bin explained that Wang Shanshan had started calling Yang Jian’s name, sleepwalking out of the house, and suffering a steadily falling heart rate.
• Yang Jian concluded that the Ghost Slave mark was affecting Wang Shanshan and assured Wang Bin that she would remain human while Yang Jian lived.
• Zhang Wei announced that the group’s reunion would continue at a hotel and KTV, while Sun Ren and Liu Qi would be absent.
• Wang Bin left Wang Shanshan with Yang Jian, and Zhang Wei asked whether she was sick.

Yang Jian and his classmates gathered for a meal and discussed the spread of supernatural incidents, but an unexplained fifth place setting left Yang Jian uneasy. The chapter ended with him suspecting that someone unseen had eaten at their table.

• Yang Jian, Zhang Wei, Zhao Lei, and Wang Shanshan met at a hotel and discussed their dwindling class, sealed-off locations, and the dangers of supernatural incidents.
• Yang Jian warned the others that incidents might become more common, advised them to avoid crowded areas, and suggested storing gold.
• Miao Xiaoshan arrived late with her cousin, Shangguan Yun, and Zhang Wei jokingly introduced himself and the others with fake names.
• Yang Jian noticed a used fifth place setting at a nearby seat, even though only four classmates had been in the room before Miao Xiaoshan arrived.

Yang Jian noticed an unexplained fifth place setting in the restaurant private room and hurried his classmates out, suspecting a supernatural incident. The group left safely, but a motionless figure remained at the table after the room was cleared.

• Yang Jian urged the group to leave the restaurant after noticing five sets of bowls and chopsticks despite there being no fifth diner.
• Zhang Wei paid the bill and led everyone out, though he admitted he had only left because Yang Jian said something was wrong.
• Yang Jian explained that the extra place setting might indicate a supernatural presence and said he had stayed quiet to avoid provoking it.
• Shangguan Yun dismissed the ghostly explanation, while Miao Xiaoshan defended Yang Jian and the others argued over supernatural incidents.
• After the group left, a waiter cleared the table and shut off the lights, leaving a motionless figure seated where the fifth place setting had been as bowls and plates began clattering inside.

At a KTV gathering, Yang Jian noticed that Wang Shanshan’s Ghost Slave influence was changing her mind and warned Zhao Lei against seeking the dangerous power of a Ghost Tamer. When Yang Jian counted seven beers for a group of six, he realized an unseen intruder had infiltrated them.

• Yang Jian questioned Wang Shanshan about her mental state, and she said she wanted to stay with him because being apart made her feel wrong.
• Zhang Wei sang in his unusual Cantonese style while Zhao Lei asked Yang Jian about Ghost Tamers and how people became them.
• Yang Jian warned Zhao Lei that Ghost Tamers faced deadly risks, but Zhao Lei said he still wanted the chance to become one.
• Yang Jian noticed the group had seven beers despite having only six people, recalling an extra set of bowls and chopsticks at the restaurant.
• Yang Jian stood up, realizing that an unseen person or entity had infiltrated their group.

Yang Jian suspected an invisible ghost had followed his group from the restaurant to the KTV and investigated who had brought it. He learned the attendant had counted seven people, but Yang Jian still did not know why the attendant could see the ghost.

• Yang Jian suspected the invisible presence had followed the group and considered Zhang Wei and Zhao Lei the likeliest people to have brought it.
• Yang Jian opened his Ghost Eye, but it revealed no extra person in the private room.
• Yang Jian discovered he could briefly control Wang Shanshan through the Ghost Eye imprint on her wrist.
• Yang Jian asked a KTV attendant how many people had entered the room, and the attendant confirmed that he had counted seven.
• Yang Jian learned the attendant had seen two girls among the seven and inferred that the invisible ghost was male, but he wondered how the attendant could see it.

Yang Jian intervened when Brother A Fei and his companions attacked Shangguan Yun over a phony demand for money. The fight ended with the punks apologizing after recognizing Yang Jian, and Shangguan Yun choosing not to retaliate.

• Brother A Fei and three companions barged into the KTV room, demanded money from Zhang Wei’s group, and attacked Shangguan Yun when Zhang Wei mocked them.
• Miao Xiaoshan called for Yang Jian, who arrived and recognized the punks from an earlier encounter in which he had trapped them in his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian intimidated Brother A Fei and learned that the punks had targeted Shangguan Yun because of his designer clothes.
• Yang Jian handed Shangguan Yun a pistol and urged him to kill the attackers, but Miao Xiaoshan took the gun away.
• Shangguan Yun asked Brother A Fei and his companions to apologize and admit their mistake, and Yang Jian accepted his decision.

Yang Jian realized an unseen extra person had been following the group and planned to identify who the ghost was targeting. In the restroom, Shangguan Yun encountered a figure that appeared only in the mirror.

• Yang Jian told Miao Xiaoshan that Shangguan Yun had been too merciful toward A Fei and his gang, then joked with her while Zhang Wei teased them about their feelings.
• Yang Jian explained that the restaurant had provided extra tableware and beer because an additional person had been present, and warned that the extra person might be a ghost following the group.
• Yang Jian urged everyone to stay put while he tried to identify the ghost's target and deal with it, though he warned he might fail.
• Shangguan Yun went to the restroom to wash the blood from his nose while worrying about his beating and Yang Jian's intentions toward Miao Xiaoshan.
• A pale, lifeless figure approached Shangguan Yun in the mirror, offered him tissues, and remained upright in the reflection even when he lowered his head.

Yang Jian suspected that Miao Xiaoshan's eldest cousin, Shangguan Yun, was a ghost hiding behind a human identity, and confirmed his suspicion by shooting him. The ghost vanished after its disguise was exposed, but an extra figure remained in the private room's reflection as Yang Jian and the others headed to the bathroom.

• Yang Jian warned Miao Xiaoshan not to leave with Shangguan Yun after noticing that his clothes and injuries had changed strangely.
• Yang Jian restrained Miao Xiaoshan with Wang Shanshan's help and shot Shangguan Yun twice, but Shangguan Yun remained unharmed.
• Shangguan Yun vanished after Zhao Lei identified him as a ghost, leaving two golden bullets behind.
• Yang Jian concluded that the ghost had used Shangguan Yun's identity to blend in and might still be nearby, then led everyone to the bathroom.
• The private-room door's reflection showed six figures even though only Yang Jian, Wang Shanshan, Miao Xiaoshan, Zhang Wei, and Zhao Lei had left.

Shangguan Yun became trapped inside the restroom mirror while Yang Jian and the others searched for him outside. Yang Jian realized Shangguan Yun was inside the mirror, but the call disconnected before he could learn how it had happened.

• Shangguan Yun found that he had no reflection and that a wall of darkness blocked the restroom exit.
• Shangguan Yun called Miao Xiaoshan for help, and Yang Jian questioned him about what he saw.
• Yang Jian led Miao Xiaoshan, Zhao Lei, and Zhang Wei into the restroom, but found it empty.
• Yang Jian spotted Shangguan Yun’s figure in the mirror and told him that he was the one trapped inside it.
• Shangguan Yun saw Miao Xiaoshan and the others in the mirror, panicked, and dropped his phone, disconnecting the call.
• Yang Jian wondered how Shangguan Yun had entered the mirror and where the vanished ghost had gone.

Yang Jian questioned Shangguan Yun, who was trapped inside a mirror, and tried to learn how the ghost had taken him. The chapter ended when Shangguan Yun heard someone approaching from within the mirror, though no one outside heard anything.

• Yang Jian concluded that the ghost had a limitation because it had not killed anyone, and he decided to question Shangguan Yun about it.
• Wang Shanshan suggested writing on the mirror with water, and Miao Xiaoshan volunteered to communicate with her trapped cousin.
• Shangguan Yun said he had only been washing his face in the restroom and did not know how he entered the mirror.
• Yang Jian asked Miao Xiaoshan to calm Shangguan Yun so he could think clearly, but Shangguan Yun then reported hearing someone approach from inside the mirror.

Yang Jian identified a ghost that existed in mirrors and tried to draw it out by having Miao Xiaoshan communicate with Shangguan Yun. The ghost emerged inside the mirror wearing a face resembling Zhang Wei's, leaving Yang Jian to face an unfamiliar threat.

• Shangguan Yun wrote that he had heard a sound, and Yang Jian stopped Miao Xiaoshan from warning him to run, telling her to keep him calm.
• Miao Xiaoshan and the others saw a motionless figure inside the mirror, while Shangguan Yun remained trapped there and could not hear them.
• Yang Jian concluded that the ghost existed in mirrors, warned everyone to avoid them, and told Miao Xiaoshan to keep communicating with Shangguan Yun to draw it out.
• Zhao Lei and Wang Shanshan left, while Zhang Wei rushed after Zhao Lei; Yang Jian stayed to help Miao Xiaoshan and her cousin.
• As Miao Xiaoshan continued writing to Shangguan Yun, the figure walked out from the bathroom corner inside the mirror and revealed a face resembling Zhang Wei's.

Yang Jian deduced how the mirror ghost exchanged places with people and used the moment it emerged to rescue Shangguan Yun. He escaped the KTV with Shangguan Yun and Miao Xiaoshan, leaving the ghost behind.

• The ghost in the mirror transformed into Miao Xiaoshan and approached her reflection while Shangguan Yun panicked at the sight of a ghost resembling his cousin.
• Yang Jian urged Miao Xiaoshan to keep writing on the mirror and realized that the ghost was copying her movements to replace her.
• As the ghost's movements synchronized with Miao Xiaoshan's, Yang Jian pulled her out of danger with his Ghost Domain, causing the ghost's attempted exchange to fail.
• Yang Jian used the moment the ghost emerged to extend his Ghost Domain into the mirror and rescue Shangguan Yun.
• Yang Jian took Shangguan Yun and Miao Xiaoshan away from the KTV and moved far enough to escape the ghost.

Yang Jian rescued Miao Xiaoshan and Shangguan Yun from the mirror ghost, then saw them off as Miao Xiaoshan hinted she might become his girlfriend after university. The ghost returned to a mirror in the KTV, while Zhang Wei wandered lost and was lured into a questionable establishment.

• Yang Jian brought Miao Xiaoshan and Shangguan Yun three kilometers from the KTV, where Miao Xiaoshan cried in relief and thanked him.
• Yang Jian checked that Shangguan Yun had recovered, warned him about supernatural incidents and mirrors, and told him to take Miao Xiaoshan home.
• Miao Xiaoshan told Yang Jian she would be his girlfriend after graduating if he still had no girlfriend, then left with her father and Shangguan Yun.
• Yang Jian headed home, while the ghost reappeared in the KTV restroom mirror as Zhang Wei and vanished into the mirror's darkness.
• Zhang Wei got lost after fleeing the KTV and followed a woman's invitation to a place he believed offered immersive gaming rooms.

Yang Jian returned to Jiang Yan’s apartment, reviewed her purchase of four hundred million worth of gold, and warned her that Dachang City was becoming more dangerous. He planned to move to the suburbs and arrange new cars, while Zhang Wei was unexpectedly arrested during a phone call.

• Jiang Yan told Yang Jian she had exchanged four hundred million for four hundred kilograms of gold, and he warned her to stop contacting the sellers.
• Yang Jian showed Jiang Yan the headless ghost shadow and explained the risks of controlling two ghosts.
• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan to prepare to move to the suburbs and asked her to buy two cars, including a pickup truck.
• Yang Jian called Zhang Wei, who said several workers had disappeared at his father’s construction site and offered to show Yang Jian the properties.
• Police entered Zhang Wei’s room during the call and arrested him, leaving Yang Jian to hear only the busy signal.
• Jiang Yan claimed the bed while Yang Jian teased her, and she hurried out to buy protection after he suggested they might have a child.

Yang Jian met with Yan Li, whose ghost was close to reviving, and learned that Xiaoqiang Club had taken the box Yan Li once held. Yan Li left Dachang City to die somewhere remote, but his body dissolved into blood and a human-shaped figure crawled from the resulting pool toward a nearby village.

• Yang Jian followed bloody footprints from his apartment and found Yan Li waiting by a bench.
• Yan Li warned Yang Jian that Xiaoqiang Club wanted him dead and said the club had taken the box.
• Yan Li asked Yang Jian to send his wife and child back to his hometown, and Yang Jian agreed to notify them.
• Yan Li drove out of Dachang City to keep his revived ghost away from the city.
• Yan Li's body melted into blood, causing his car to crash and leaving a pool of blood in a field.
• A human-shaped figure crawled from the blood pool toward the nearest village.

After discovering that Yan Li’s wife and children had been murdered, Yang Jian concluded that Yan Li had been targeted and set out to investigate Xiaoqiang Club. He reached the club’s estate and forced his way past the guards, intent on confronting Wang Xiaoqiang.

• Yang Jian suspected that Yan Li had been forced to use his ghost’s power and went to warn his family.
• Yang Jian found Yan Li’s wife and two children hanging dead in their villa and realized they had been killed before Yan Li died.
• Yang Jian vowed to avenge Yan Li’s family and linked their deaths to the threat Yan Li had warned him about at Xiaoqiang Club.
• Yang Jian drove to Xiaoqiang Club’s estate and threatened the guards with a pistol and his ghost’s shadow.
• The guards let Yang Jian enter to see Wang Xiaoqiang, who was in a meeting.

Wang Xiaoqiang gathered the Xiaoqiang Club to discuss Yang Jian and approved a plan to eliminate him after blaming him for the deaths of five club members. Yang Jian arrived during the meeting and discovered the club members were plotting against him, leaving them facing him with guns drawn.

• Wang Xiaoqiang showed the club members evidence that Yan Li died from a ghost's revival and that his released Ghost Blood was rapidly spreading outside Dachang City.
• Wang Xiaoqiang accused Yang Jian of causing five Xiaoqiang Club members' deaths and proposed that the club eliminate him.
• Manager Ma opposed provoking Yang Jian, but more than ninety percent of those present eventually voted to support Wang Xiaoqiang's plan.
• Wang Xiaoqiang said he would arrange Yang Jian's elimination within ten days, while Lei Hu and others offered to kill him for money.
• Yang Jian entered the conference hall, noticed his photograph and files, and realized the club had been plotting against him.
• Several men aimed pistols at Yang Jian and demanded payment to kill him, while Yang Jian waved his hand and questioned their plans.

Yang Jian confronted Wang Xiaoqiang and the Xiaoqiang Club after learning that Yan Li’s family had been murdered. When the club’s men attacked him, Yang Jian survived their gunfire and began killing them with unnerving accuracy.

• Yang Jian asked Wang Xiaoqiang why the club wanted him dead, and Wang explained that Yang threatened the city’s power holders and that the club blamed him for its losses in Huanggang Village.
• Yang accused Wang of hiding the truth about Yan Li’s murdered family, but Wang denied knowing anything about it and ordered Lei Hu and the others to attack.
• Yang warned that the shareholders who had agreed to eliminate him would share the consequences, then let the attackers shoot him without causing lasting harm.
• Yang shot the first attacker in the forehead despite the man’s evasive move, then killed a second man who had hidden beneath the conference table.

Yang Jian slaughtered the people trying to ambush him, while Wang Xiaoqiang revealed his grotesquely assembled body and moved to suppress Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain. As Wang Xiaoqiang advanced, a ghostly figure appeared in the smoke and followed him.

• Yang Jian killed two attackers and warned the rest that they would die if they did not use their abilities.
• Wang Xiaoqiang called Yang Jian’s appearance a hallucination, and Lei Hu used a gold-filled smoke grenade to reveal invisible ghosts.
• Lei Hu’s men mistook a club boss for Yang Jian, then Yang Jian appeared behind them and shot them dead.
• Wang Xiaoqiang entered the smoke and exposed his stitched-together body as Yang Jian sensed his Ghost Domain shrinking.
• Flesh fell from Wang Xiaoqiang as he advanced, and a humanoid ghost emerged from the smoke, picked up the flesh, and followed him.

Yang Jian used his Ghost Eye to move himself and Wang Xiaoqiang’s group out of the conference hall, leaving Wang Xiaoqiang’s released ghost behind. He used the Ghost Domain to turn Lei Hu against Wang Xiaoqiang and killed him, though he found no skull in Wang Xiaoqiang’s shattered head.

• Yang Jian revealed his Ghost Eye and shifted himself and the others into a red-lit location, leaving Wang Xiaoqiang’s ghost in the original conference hall.
• Wang Xiaoqiang and his companions fired at Yang Jian, unable to tell his real position from the illusions.
• Yang Jian revealed that he had secretly taken control of Lei Hu and ordered him to kill Wang Xiaoqiang.
• Lei Hu removed Wang Xiaoqiang’s head, and Yang Jian fired into it to make sure he was dead.
• Yang Jian noticed Wang Xiaoqiang’s skull was missing but left without investigating further.

Yang Jian interrogated the surviving club executives about Yan Li’s death, killing those who knew nothing and sparing Ma Youcai after he named Wang Yue as a possible source. Yang Jian left the club, while the ghost Wang Xiaoqiang had released emerged and headed for his corpse.

• Yang Jian killed the executives who could not answer his questions, refusing their offers of money and companies.
• Ma Youcai told Yang Jian that Wang Yue, the owner of Rose Bar and a Ghost Tamer, might know about Yan Li’s death.
• Yang Jian swapped Ma Youcai’s head onto another corpse’s body and warned that the new body would kill him if he had lied.
• Yang Jian gathered weapons and left the club, then shot the executive he had almost forgotten to kill.
• The ghost Wang Xiaoqiang had released emerged from the building and headed straight for Wang Xiaoqiang’s corpse.

A ghost rebuilt Wang Xiaoqiang’s corpse, bringing him back to life after Yang Jian killed him. Wang Xiaoqiang learned that Ma Youcai survived under Yang Jian’s control and demanded that he fund the club, while plotting to prepare for revenge.

• A decayed ghost gathered organs, flesh, and Wang Xiaoqiang’s head from his corpse and assembled them into a body.
• Wang Xiaoqiang revived and discovered Ma Youcai was still alive; Ma Youcai concealed what he knew about Wang Yue and explained how Yang Jian had altered his body.
• Wang Xiaoqiang concluded that Yang Jian could control Ma Youcai by removing his head and pressured him to help fund the club.
• Wang Xiaoqiang gave Ma Youcai three days to gather one billion and left, consumed by anger at Yang Jian.