Chapter Summaries

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.

Yang Jian suspected Zhao Kaiming had arranged Yan Li’s death to provoke a conflict between him and the club, and he instructed Ma Youcai to watch Wang Xiaoqiang. After learning Wang Xiaoqiang had revived and was plotting revenge, Yang Jian set out to contact Zhao Kaiming through Captain Liu.

• Yang Jian decided to wait two days before approaching Wang Yue and considered whether Zhao Kaiming had used the club to target him.
• Ma Youcai called Yang Jian and reported that Wang Xiaoqiang had come back to life and demanded one billion from the club to deal with Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian told Ma Youcai to warn Wang Xiaoqiang that Zhao Kaiming might be manipulating him, report what Wang did, and refuse to give him the money.
• Yang Jian concluded that a third party, likely Zhao Kaiming, had killed Yan Li and decided to contact Zhao Kaiming.
• After Zhang Wei texted that he was at the detention center, Yang Jian realized it was under Captain Liu’s jurisdiction and turned the car around to go there.

Zhang Wei sat in detention insisting he had been wrongly arrested, while Yang Jian met Captain Liu Jianguo to contact Zhao Kaiming and ask about getting Zhang Wei released. Captain Liu gave Yang Jian Zhao Kaiming’s satellite phone number and ordered someone to check Zhang Wei’s case.

• Zhang Wei listened as the other detainees explained their supposedly accidental or misunderstood offenses, then wondered whether Yang Jian would come to help him.
• Yang Jian arrived at the station and saw Captain Liu Jianguo handling a heavy caseload amid unusual incidents and public-safety concerns.
• Yang Jian told Captain Liu that he wanted to contact Zhao Kaiming to confirm something and asked for his number.
• Yang Jian asked Captain Liu to help release Zhang Wei if his detention was only due to a minor misunderstanding.
• Captain Liu gave Yang Jian Zhao Kaiming’s satellite phone number and instructed someone to investigate Zhang Wei’s case.

Yang Jian confronted Zhao Kaiming about Yan Li’s death and learned that Zhao had orchestrated the killings to turn him against the Xiaoqiang Club. Yang Jian ended their call by using the Ghost Knocking incident against Zhao, leaving Zhao targeted by the ghost.

• Yang Jian called Zhao Kaiming and explained why he suspected Zhao had killed Yan Li and his family to provoke a conflict with the Xiaoqiang Club.
• Zhao Kaiming admitted arranging the murders and said he wanted Yang Jian and Wang Xiaoqiang to keep fighting while he stayed hidden.
• Zhao Kaiming warned Yang Jian that Wang Xiaoqiang and the surviving Ghost Tamers would seek revenge for the club’s losses.
• Yang Jian heard knocking through the phone, told Zhao about the Ghost Knocking incident, and hung up after making him a target.
• Zhao Kaiming read the Seventh High School incident file and realized he would have to face the ghost even if Yang Jian died.

Yang Jian agreed to help Captain Liu investigate a colleague trapped inside a reflective panel. He recognized the incident as connected to the mirror ghost and suspected another Zhang Yuan was present, leaving him searching for the source.

• Yang Jian told Captain Liu he would help with future supernatural incidents but would avoid working openly with Zhao Kaiming.
• A staff member reported that a colleague was trapped inside a reflective panel, and Captain Liu asked Yang Jian to help.
• Captain Liu evacuated the lobby and cordoned off the panel while Yang Jian accompanied him to the scene.
• The staff identified the trapped colleague as Zhang Yuan and said surveillance suggested the incident had begun that morning.
• Yang Jian explained that another Zhang Yuan must be present, confirmed that the trapped man could see but not hear them, and began searching for the duplicate.

Yang Jian deduced that the ghost impersonating Zhang Yuan appeared only in places Zhang Wei had visited, then spotted it inside the bureau. He alerted Captain Liu and urged him to seal off the upper floors and search for the ghost.

• Yang Jian explained to Captain Liu that the ghost had replaced Zhang Yuan, leaving the real Zhang Yuan trapped inside a mirror.
• Captain Liu ordered the staff to search the bureau’s surveillance footage and warned everyone to avoid contact with Zhang Yuan.
• Yang Jian stayed outside the bureau to watch for the ghost and reasoned that it had been following Zhang Wei.
• Yang Jian sensed a ghost nearby and spotted the pale-faced impostor walking through the fourth-floor corridor toward the fifth floor.
• Yang Jian told Captain Liu to seal the stairs and elevators and search upward, while Captain Liu confirmed the impostor had been inside the bureau all day.

Yang Jian and Captain Liu tracked the mirror ghost posing as Zhang Yuan to the archives room, where it ignored orders and shrugged off a gunshot. Yang Jian exposed it as a ghost, making it vanish, though he said the problem was only temporarily dealt with.

• Captain Liu’s staff located the Zhang Yuan apparition in the fifth-floor archives room and sealed off the area while they waited for Yang Jian.
• The apparition walked out of the archives room and repeatedly asked Captain Liu what was wrong, ignoring his orders to stop.
• Captain Liu shot Zhang Yuan in the arm, but the bullet caused no pain or blood, confirming that he was facing a ghost.
• Yang Jian arrived and told Captain Liu that guns could not stop the ghost, then asked it for its name.
• Yang Jian called Zhang Yuan a ghost, and the figure turned pale and vanished as the guards watched.

Yang Jian discovered that the ghost existed in reflections and took Zhang Wei from the detention center to lure it away. The ghost appeared inside Yang Jian’s car as Zhang Wei remained oblivious to the danger.

• Yang Jian spotted the ghost in the corridor windows and warned Captain Liu that Zhang Yuan was likely trapped in a mirror.
• Yang Jian followed the ghost’s reflection downstairs, then realized he could lure it by taking Zhang Wei, whom it had been following.
• Captain Liu authorized Xiao Liu to release Zhang Wei, and Yang Jian drove him away from the crowded area.
• Yang Jian questioned Zhang Wei about his contact with the ghost, and Zhang Wei said he had encountered it at home.
• A pale figure appeared in the road, then the ghost appeared motionless in the car’s back seat while Zhang Wei played with a golden pistol.

Yang Jian brought Zhang Wei to his villa, which Captain Liu’s team had sealed off under the cover of a gas leak. Yang Jian explained that a ghost in a mirror was following Zhang Wei and urged him to use a makeup mirror to see it for himself.

• Yang Jian drove Zhang Wei into an upscale residential compound after Zhang Wei persuaded the guard to let them through.
• Yang Jian found Zhang Wei’s villa sealed off by officers and told them he was the Ghost Tamer sent to handle the incident.
• Yang Jian entered the villa and urged Zhang Wei to come inside, then asked him where he had first encountered the ghost.
• Yang Jian handed Zhang Wei a makeup mirror and told him to sweep it around himself to reveal the ghost following him.
• Zhang Wei hesitated and asked whether he really had to look in the mirror.

Yang Jian confirmed that an invisible mirror ghost had followed Zhang Wei to his villa and searched for the reason it was there. Their investigation ended when they discovered Zhang Wei's father and Aunt Huang in a compromising situation.

• Yang Jian explained that a ghost had been following Zhang Wei and told him to look for it in a mirror.
• Zhang Wei saw the ghost reflected behind the sofa, dropped the mirror, and learned it had followed him since the class reunion.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Wei to think about unusual events at home while they listened to faint noises upstairs.
• Yang Jian and Zhang Wei went upstairs and found a naked middle-aged man with Aunt Huang, who was holding a whip.
• Zhang Wei recognized the man as his father and asked Aunt Huang what they were doing.

Yang Jian visited Zhang Wei’s villa and told Zhang Xiangui that a supernatural incident was inside. Zhang Xiangui used a mirror to glimpse the ghost and realized Yang Jian’s warning was true.

• Zhang Xiangui and Zhang Wei awkwardly discussed Aunt Huang after Yang Jian caught Zhang Xiangui with her.
• Zhang Wei introduced Yang Jian as the classmate he had brought to investigate the haunting at the villa.
• Yang Jian explained that the villa had been sealed off because of a supernatural incident, and Zhang Xiangui revealed he had entered through an escape passage.
• At Zhang Xiangui’s request, Aunt Huang brought a mirror, and Yang Jian explained that it could reveal the ghost.
• Zhang Xiangui first saw nothing in the mirror, then spotted a figure by the second-floor railing that turned and disappeared into the corridor.