Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan dressed up to meet Yang Jian at a fried chicken restaurant, but he teased her instead of responding to her flirtation. When her university classmate Qian Feng arrived and tried to undermine Yang Jian, their strange relationship left him confused, and he stepped away to answer a call.

• Jiang Yan met Yang Jian at the restaurant in a short dress, but Yang Jian joked that she seemed abnormal and asked her to buy him ice cream.
• Qian Feng arrived looking for Jiang Yan, and she introduced Yang Jian as her boyfriend.
• Yang Jian refused Qian Feng's attempted handshake and mocked his questions about work and income by claiming he made a living through extortion and blackmail.
• Qian Feng insulted Yang Jian and demanded that he leave Jiang Yan, but Yang Jian said Jiang Yan was his employee and denied being her boyfriend.
• Jiang Yan insisted that she and Yang Jian lived together and had slept together, while Yang Jian said their relationship was only employment and safety arrangements.
• Qian Feng received a phone call and got up to answer it.

Yang Jian intimidated Qian Feng into abandoning his pursuit of Jiang Yan, then sensed a nearby supernatural incident and prepared to leave. He told Jiang Yan what was happening, and she asked to go with him.

• Jiang Yan urged Yang Jian to get rid of Qian Feng, while Yang Jian said he might kill him if he kept provoking him.
• Qian Feng resumed insulting Yang Jian and urging him to leave Jiang Yan, so Yang Jian put a loaded golden handgun on the table.
• Qian Feng panicked and changed his tune, praising Yang Jian and promising not to rent the place across from Jiang Yan.
• Yang Jian sensed a supernatural disturbance nearby, packed his things, and told Jiang Yan to leave with him.
• Jiang Yan grabbed Yang Jian's arm and asked him to take her along.

Yang Jian and Jiang Yan witnessed a supernatural incident engulfing the fifteenth floor of a high-rise in Dachang City, where terrified employees tried to escape an unseen ghost. As emergency vehicles arrived, Yang Jian concluded the incident was too dangerous to resolve easily and decided he needed to prepare for the coming outbreak.

• People on the street watched as employees smashed the fifteenth-floor windows and cried for help, while a female employee was pulled back inside after trying to jump.
• Yang Jian sensed a powerful ghost affecting the floor and told Jiang Yan that the employees there would not survive; he stayed to observe the incident.
• Yang Jian reflected that supernatural incidents were increasing and resolved to settle his affairs and prepare for survival.
• A man jumped from the broken window and died on impact, and Yang Jian said the employees' best chance would have been to flee together when the ghost was distracted.
• Special vehicles rushed to the building, but Yang Jian doubted they could help against the supernatural incident.

Captain Liu responded to a deadly supernatural incident in Dachang City, but Yang Jian refused to interfere after identifying the ghost inside the building as the rapidly growing Ghost Infant. As Yang Jian prepared to leave with Jiang Yan, a special vehicle charged directly at him.

• Captain Liu ordered evacuations and asked Yang Jian for help, but Yang Jian told him to notify Zhao Kaiming and declined to intervene.
• People trapped inside the office building jumped to their deaths or were dragged back into the darkness as the screams gradually stopped.
• Yang Jian spotted a corpse-like figure at a window and recognized it as the Ghost Infant that had escaped from Zhou Zheng.
• Yang Jian realized the Ghost Infant had grown into a young man and was close to developing a Ghost Domain.
• As Yang Jian started to leave with Jiang Yan, a special vehicle rammed onto the sidewalk and charged at him, prompting him to open a Ghost Eye and summon his headless shadow.

Yang Jian confronted Zhao Kaiming after returning from Huanggang Village, rejecting his offer to make peace and using his ghostly shadow to sever one of Zhao’s legs. Yang Jian left after warning Zhao to handle the danger in the nearby building, while Zhao suspected he had controlled a second ghost.

• Zhao Kaiming drove a riot-control vehicle toward Yang Jian but swerved at the last moment, then invited him to hotpot and proposed discussing Dachang City’s security.
• Yang Jian rejected Zhao’s offer and said he would accept an apology only on Zhao’s funeral day.
• Yang Jian’s shadow grabbed Zhao’s ankle and severed his leg, then Yang Jian sarcastically apologized and invited Zhao to eat the next day.
• Yang Jian warned Zhao that he was ready to fight and told him to deal with the danger in the building before leaving with Jiang Yan.
• Zhao watched Yang Jian drive away and wondered whether he had controlled a second ghost.

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.