Recaps

Yang Jian survived the ghost bus and left its secrets with Headquarters before returning to Dachang City. He tested the Ghost Cabinet, prepared to investigate Shangtong Technology, and confronted Paul at Shangtong Building.

• Yang Jian boarded the ghost bus while tracking Xu Feng, then discovered that it was carrying ghosts and could not be escaped by ordinary means.
• At the bus's first stop, the Grave-Crying Ghost killed passengers, and Yang Jian warned the survivors to return aboard.
• Yang Jian escaped the bus's darkness with Zhang Hao and two women, but Zhang Hao became the Mummified Bride's Ghost Slave and the women died.
• Yang Jian restrained the Grave-Crying Ghost, encountered Lin Bei and the revived Xu Feng, and rode through a graveyard before the bus reached a city.
• Yang Jian got off the bus, reported its dangers to Headquarters, arranged help for Lin Bei's family, and ordered Xu Feng investigated.
• Yang Jian returned to Dachang City, learned the Ghost Cabinet answered his question with “Ghost,” and traded dog blood for egg fried rice before moving the cabinet to a clock tower.
• Yang Jian refused the cabinet's demand for a ghost, let Zhang Liqin stay, and began preparing a company while pursuing the Shangtong Building investigation.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to reach Paul's office with Zhang Hua, accused Paul of targeting him, and broke a record he found in Paul's desk drawer.

Yang Jian uncovered Paul’s attack, then traveled to Z City to find Tong Qian and investigate the memory-altering ghost at the Caesar Hotel. After Tong Qian was rescued but remained unconscious and Feng Quan and Guo Fan became trapped, Yang Jian returned with a new team and entered the spreading ghostly fog alone.

• Yang Jian destroyed Paul’s recording and cast him into the blood pool, then entered the vault, killed his attackers, rescued two hostages, and took three ghost boxes.
• Yang Jian consulted the Ghost Cabinet, received a photograph and a demand to find a woman, then learned that Tong Qian and five Ghost Tamers had vanished in Z City.
• Yang Jian arrived in Z City with Xiong Wenwen, entered the Caesar Hotel, and confronted a face-stealing ghost whose corpses wore Tong Qian’s smiling face.
• Yang Jian found Tong Qian disguised as the receptionist and carried her unconscious body out of the hotel, while Feng Quan and Guo Fan remained inside.
• Yang Jian learned Tong Qian’s brain showed no activity and used the human skin paper to discover that her memories had been taken and that her newspaper was key to restoring them.
• Yang Jian detained a smiling man he suspected was connected to the ghost, refused to rescue Guo Fan and Feng Quan, and recruited Lin Luomei and Luo Suyī to help locate the hidden ghost.
• Tong Qian woke with the ghost’s stiff smile as dense fog spread around the Caesar Hotel, and Yang Jian returned with Luo Suyī, Lin Luomei, and Xiong Wenwen.
• Yang Jian sent the group to wait at the cordon, entered the fog alone, expanded his Ghost Domain, and continued toward the hotel as a humanoid figure vanished into the mist.

Yang Jian uncovered the hotel’s footprint-based killing rule, rescued Feng Quan, and learned that a ghost had taken Tong Qian’s identity and face. After the ghost’s laughter reached Headquarters, Yang Jian subdued it at Third Central Hospital and began considering whether Tong Qian’s face could give Zhao Lei a new body.

• Yang Jian broadcast the Door-Knocking Ghost’s recording inside Caesar Hotel, then returned with his group and searched its dangerous floors for Zhao Lei.
• Yang Jian found Zhao Lei alive and faceless in Room 13, while Xiong Wenwen foresaw the group’s deaths at the hands of a corpse ghost carrying a machete.
• Yang Jian discovered that the corpse ghost killed by completely covering a person’s footprint, and he protected the group by flipping the carpet and removing the hotel’s carpets and lobby tiles.
• Yang Jian found the Ghost Newspaper in Room 31, suppressed it, and learned that the ghost had taken Tong Qian’s identity while Tong Qian’s real face remained among the faces on the wall.
• Yang Jian found Feng Quan in Room Five, used the Ghost Newspaper to alter his memories, then helped him balance the Grave Soil with the fog ghost and sealed the separated Grave Soil in a gold body bag.
• The ghost’s laughter killed operators at Headquarters, so Yang Jian and Feng Quan led a team to Third Central Hospital, where Yang Jian removed Tong Qian’s ghost face and sealed it in a gold box.
• Yang Jian stayed at Luo Suyī’s villa and considered attaching Tong Qian’s face to Zhao Lei’s living, faceless body, but hesitated over whether Tong Qian would accept the taboo rebirth.

Yang Jian revived Tong Qian, strengthened his ties in Dachang City, and confronted his deteriorating body while preparing for Headquarters' support in J City. On the flight there, a ghost began killing passengers, and Yang Jian entered the dim cabin to investigate.

• Yang Jian revived Tong Qian in Zhao Lei’s body by joining her face with two ghost faces, and she learned to control their dangerous abilities.
• Yang Jian handed Tong Qian’s case and the captured ghost to Shen Liang, secured a pinned rag doll as compensation, and returned to Dachang City.
• Yang Jian discovered a Ghost Infant in Wang Shanshan and chose to raise it, altering its memories before Wang Shanshan took it to the temple.
• Yang Jian organized a company with his allies, settled a dispute with Shangtong Building’s tenants, and arranged for others to manage the business while he traveled to J City.
• After a hospital expert warned that his body might last only months, Yang Jian flew to J City with the human skin paper and Ghost Rope.
• A ghost killed a woman aboard Yang Jian’s plane, and Yang Jian identified the threat as Ghost Pinching Person and agreed to handle the incident onboard.
• As the cabin lights dimmed, Zhou Hao saw corpse-like hands twisting a passenger’s head, and Yang Jian declared that the ghost had begun killing again.
• Yang Jian warned the first-class passengers, told Qin Meirou to leave supernatural-incident communications to Liu Xiaoyu, and entered the dim cabin to reach the second victim.