Recaps

Ye Jiang uncovered the time loop around Ye Yanran, joined the Special Affairs Office, and helped protect the humans caught in the illusion. After finding Ming Chun alive, she confronted Ghost Mother, whose porcelain masks were destroyed by Ye Jiang and Xiao Pei.

• Ye Jiang learned that time had rewound for the local humans but not for her, Ming Chun, or Rong Yin, then pursued the transmigrators Cao An and Wang Zhiqiang.
• Ye Jiang captured Cao An, but he escaped and Xiao Yu killed him, and Yan Ran and her colleagues investigated his death and later encountered a Polluted infant in a villa.
• Ye Jiang returned to the villa, stopped the infant’s attacks, and discovered that a woman in black had manipulated the Polluted child and its mother before killing the child and attacking Ye Yanran.
• Xiao Pei explained that Ye Yanran’s death triggered the illusion’s rewinds and that Ye Yanran might be its protagonist, and Ye Jiang then lost consciousness and awakened in the body of a powerful being.
• Ye Yanran and Xiao Pei encountered a conscious Living Dead, while Ye Jiang left to find the woman responsible, and Ye Yanran brought the Living Dead to the hospital and began teaching it, eventually suggesting the name Jiang Ye.
• Ye Jiang remembered how Ye Yanran had taken her in, while a flower seller told a child a story about a girl transformed into a monster, and Ye Jiang later helped Xiao Pei and Ming Xia find Ming Chun alive.
• Ye Jiang confronted the flower-selling girl in a garden and forced her to withdraw her Pollution, and the girl recognized Ye Jiang as a monster and recalled that an elegant woman had transformed her.
• Xiao Pei identified the elegant woman as Ghost Mother and tried to make Ye Jiang retreat, but Ye Jiang refused, and Ghost Mother sent porcelain masks at them, and Ye Jiang and Xiao Pei shattered them.