Recaps

Yang Jian used an eighth-layer Ghost Domain to restart the graveyard and save Zhang Wei, while Ye Zhen endured the Marriage Certificate’s backlash and waited inside the village courtyard as the bride’s procession arrived.

• Yang Jian forced the eight Ghost Eyes to overlap, expanding his Ghost Domain before drawing it back to cover only the graveyard.
• Yang Jian restarted the area, reversing events and restoring Zhang Wei while the female corpse walked away toward the bridal sedan chair.
• Yang Jian ended the restart and told Zhang Wei that the female ghost had gone to find Ye Zhen.
• Ye Zhen survived the Marriage Certificate’s attacks but found himself unable to leave the room.
• The synchronized footsteps and suona stopped outside the courtyard, and a voice announced that the bride had arrived.

Dahai City was devastated by a supernatural attack while headquarters struggled to respond because its forces were already stretched thin. Half an hour before the disaster, Yang Jian concealed Zhang Wei in a gold body bag and followed the eerie wedding procession toward the courtyard holding the marriage contract.

• People's heads began exploding across Dahai City, and a speeding train crashed in its tunnel.
• A Wu tried to alert headquarters, but the second wave of attacks struck him before he could get through.
• Cao Yanhua ordered support for Dahai City, but Wang Xiaoming explained that headquarters could not spare enough personnel without risking other emergencies.
• Cao Yanhua ordered the available rescue forces to search inward from the city's outskirts and retreat at signs of danger.
• Half an hour earlier, Yang Jian sealed Zhang Wei inside a gold body bag and followed the wedding procession toward the marriage contract's courtyard.

Yang Jian found two post office tenants in the bridal chamber and forced them to explain why they had come to the village. After learning about their letters and a bracelet that redirected ghost attacks, he left them there while promising that at least one would survive.

• Yang Jian followed two living figures into the bridal chamber and demanded to know who they were and why they were there.
• When the pair stayed silent, Yang Jian beheaded the man, and the woman revealed that they were Liu Qingqing and Li Yi, tenants on the post office's third floor.
• Liu Qingqing explained that a man with a large saber had killed the other tenants and forced them to deliver letters to the bride after she entered the bridal chamber.
• Li Yi revived, and Yang Jian learned that his bracelet could transfer a malicious ghost's attack to another bracelet wearer.
• Li Yi gave Yang Jian his bracelet, and Yang Jian promised that at least one of the pair would leave safely before departing.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen tried to stop the supernatural wedding by using Ye Zhen’s Substitute Ghost to redirect the Ghost Lake’s revival onto the bride. As the bride absorbed the repeated attacks, Yang Jian focused on the Marriage Certificate, and the outcome remained uncertain.

• Ye Zhen and the bride were forced to kowtow, while the attack also cracked Yang Jian’s skull until his Ghost Shadow stopped the damage.
• Ye Zhen’s body shattered and then recovered through the Substitute Ghost, emerging with a changed presence and a Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian decided to risk a plan to deal with the bride, and Ye Zhen asked him to put the dark red bracelet on his wrist.
• Yang Jian used the Ghost Lake against the Marriage Certificate, while Ye Zhen transferred the lake’s revival risk through himself and onto the bride.
• Lake water repeatedly poured from the bride’s wedding gown and seeped back into her body as Yang Jian concentrated on the Marriage Certificate.

Yang Jian used the Marriage Certificate to manipulate the wedding rules and create a chance to save Ye Zhen, while Liu Qingqing completed the post office’s mission and returned. Ye Zhen was restored, but the Ghost Bride began moving again, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Yang Jian wrote instructions into the Marriage Certificate, directing Liu Qingqing to enter the coffin and making whoever entered after the wedding bows count as the bride.
• Yang Jian wrote that Liu Qingqing had kept her letter and would return to the post office after completing the mission, but the bracelet shattered as he finished.
• Yang Jian told Ye Zhen not to resist, and Ye Zhen and the female corpse completed the third bow together.
• Liu Qingqing appeared in a wedding dress inside the coffin, and Li Yi carried her out along the eerie path until they disappeared.
• Yang Jian used the Ghost Eyes to restart Ye Zhen after the female corpse released him, restoring his living appearance.
• Yang Jian warned Ye Zhen that the plan might not be complete as the Ghost Bride began moving again.

Yang Jian trapped the female corpse in an endless loop by making the Marriage Certificate, Ghost Post Office, and her killing rules conflict. After returning to the city, he left with Zhang Wei while Ye Zhen departed alone, vowing to eradicate every vicious ghost.

• Yang Jian’s plan caused the female corpse to alternate endlessly between approaching the Ghost Post Office and kneeling under the Marriage Certificate’s influence.
• Yang Jian explained to Ye Zhen that the corpse had become an incomplete bride and would remain trapped in the loop unless another supernatural force intervened.
• Yang Jian and Ye Zhen left the courtyard as people in the Ghost Post Office watched the corpse loop; a Republican-era man with a saber observed it from the top floor and then disappeared.
• Yang Jian opened Zhang Wei’s gold body bag and told him it was time to return, while explaining that Ye Zhen had transferred the Ghost Lake’s fourth layer onto the female corpse, letting Yang Jian control the lake more completely.
• Ye Zhen declined Yang Jian’s invitation to return to Dachang City and left, saying he would sweep every last vicious ghost from the world.

Yang Jian and Zhang Wei returned to Dachang City after the disaster in Dahai City, while news of the city’s destruction spread through rumors. Back at Guanjiang Residential Complex, Jiang Yan tried to comfort Yang Jian, who then went to the modern temple he had built on the vacant lot.

• Yang Jian and Zhang Wei saw the news of Dahai City’s lockdown at Dachang Airport, where Zhang Wei told nearby travelers that ghosts had caused the disaster.
• Jiang Yan greeted Yang Jian and Zhang Wei at the arrivals exit, and they left the airport together.
• Lin Bei, a bald man carrying broken mirror fragments beneath his trench coat, arranged a flight to DQ City and left with airport staff after showing his person-in-charge ID.
• At Guanjiang Residential Complex, Zhang Wei went to his esports office while Jiang Yan asked Yang Jian if he was all right.
• Yang Jian warned Jiang Yan that talking about supernatural matters could get people killed, and she returned to manage the company.
• Yang Jian went to the vacant lot behind the residential complex, where a modern-style temple now stood.

Yang Jian returned to his disguised temple, considered Wang Shanshan’s strange connection to his injuries, and agreed to take her home to meet his mother. When they reached Meishan Village, a girl appeared behind them and called him her cousin, startling him because he had not sensed her approach.

• Yang Jian visited Wang Shanshan and the Ghost Child, and Wang Shanshan told him that cracks had appeared in her head after he nearly died in Dahai City.
• Yang Jian suspected that injuries from supernatural attacks on him might be transferred to Wang Shanshan, and he said he would confine the Ghost Child in a gold box if needed.
• After Zhang Fen urgently called and ordered Yang Jian to bring a girlfriend home for the New Year, Yang Jian agreed to take Wang Shanshan with him, partly because he wanted to learn more about his father’s suspected connection to a supernatural incident.
• Yang Jian locked the Ghost Child inside the gold safe house, then traveled with Wang Shanshan to Meishan Village.
• As Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan walked into the village, a girl behind them called Yang Jian her cousin, and Yang Jian opened his Ghost Eye in alarm.

Yang Jian returned to Meishan Village with Wang Shanshan and encountered his cousin Liang Yuan, whose strange behavior suggested a connection to the supernatural. After finding no clues about his father at the family home, Yang Jian learned that the man who saved him in the hurricane was Li Yang, and decided to go to DQ City to visit Li Yang’s seriously ill mother.

• Liang Yuan told Yang Jian that Wang Shanshan was almost dead, then abruptly ran off, prompting Yang Jian to suspect she had encountered the supernatural.
• Yang Jian asked Liu Xiaoyu to investigate Liang Yuan and followed up on the unidentified man who had saved him in the hurricane.
• Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan reached his family home, where Yang Jian searched his father's memorial room for clues but found nothing unusual.
• Liu Xiaoyu reported that the hurricane rescuer was Li Yang, a young man who disappeared during the Ghost Painting incident while still an ordinary person.
• Yang Jian learned that Li Yang's mother was seriously ill in DQ City and arranged a flight there to visit her.

Yang Jian traveled to DQ City and used his Ghost Domain to remove Liu Jing’s tumor, saving her life. After noticing that the falling snow could make his Ghost Hand feel cold, he warned Li Jie to leave the city and sent him to Shangtong Building in Dachang City.

• Yang Jian left Wang Shanshan with his mother and drove to DQ City after concluding that Li Yang had come from the future and might eventually join his team.
• Yang Jian learned from Li Jie that Liu Jing’s tumor and complications made surgery too risky, then entered her hospital room alone.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain and Ghost Hand to remove Liu Jing’s tumor, and Li Jie summoned medical staff to examine her.
• Yang Jian felt an abnormal chill when a snowflake touched his Ghost Hand, then confirmed that Liu Jing was recovering.
• Yang Jian advised Li Jie to leave DQ City and go to Shangtong Building in Dachang City, then shut the window against the strange falling snow.

Yang Jian questioned Liu Jing about Li Yang and searched her home, where he unexpectedly met Lin Bei. Lin Bei told him how he had left the supernatural bus and described the old man who drove its passengers off, leading Yang Jian to connect the driver to Elder Qin and his father's death.

• Yang Jian questioned Liu Jing about Li Yang's behavior before he went abroad and learned that he had seemed like an ordinary student.
• Yang Jian arranged for Liu Jing to recover in Dachang City and noticed that the snow outside seemed to carry supernatural power.
• Yang Jian searched Liu Jing's dusty apartment but found nothing unusual before someone knocked at the door.
• Yang Jian recognized Lin Bei, who had come to thank him for sending money to his family.
• Lin Bei told Yang Jian that an old man had driven the bus's passengers off and killed those who resisted, and Yang Jian suspected the man was Elder Qin.
• Yang Jian connected Elder Qin's past as a bus driver to the bus's role in killing his father and suppressing a dangerous ghost.

Yang Jian learned that Lin Bei had come to DQ City to investigate its strange snowfall, then received an urgent call that Xiao Yuan was killing people. Before he could leave, a supernatural attack pulled him into shifting dreamlike scenes where his powers were gone, and he suspected the ghost Nightmare was involved.

• Lin Bei told Yang Jian that headquarters had sent him to investigate DQ City, and Yang Jian advised him to leave because the supernatural snowfall covered the city.
• Wang Shanshan called Yang Jian and reported that Xiao Yuan had stabbed a child, so Yang Jian ordered Liu Xiaoyu to send staff to stop her.
• As Yang Jian prepared to leave, a wave of drowsiness struck him, and his Ghost Domain expanded while Lin Bei raised his guard.
• Yang Jian found himself in a hospital ward where Liu Jing was hanged by a straw rope, and discovered that his left hand and supernatural powers were gone.
• Yang Jian entered a shifting scene on a country lane, where Xiao Yuan smiled as she stabbed a corpse, and he suspected the ghost Nightmare.

Yang Jian realized he was trapped in a dream attacked by the ghost his father had controlled, and followed Xiao Yuan to find and kill it. Their path beside the Ghost Lake was soon overwhelmed by falling corpses, one of which began to rise as they fled.

• Yang Jian noticed Xiao Yuan was missing an eye and learned that supernatural things like his incomplete left hand could not be brought into the dream.
• Yang Jian connected the attack to his father's ghost and asked Xiao Yuan to take him out of the dream.
• Xiao Yuan said they had to find and kill the ghost before dawn, then led Yang Jian along a country path.
• Yang Jian recognized the rivers beside the path as the Ghost Lake and saw countless female corpses hanging from Ghost Ropes overhead.
• Yang Jian grabbed Xiao Yuan and ran as the corpses fell into the lake and a female corpse landed beside the path and began to rise.

Yang Jian and Xiao Yuan fought their way through a nightmare filled with manifestations of Yang Jian’s past supernatural encounters before falling into a vast mirror-lined space. They landed beneath an enormous, eerie Buddha statue, leaving Yang Jian wondering whether his memories had been altered.

• Xiao Yuan fought off the rising female corpses with knives and a handgun while she and Yang Jian ran along the narrowing path.
• Yang Jian realized the nightmare’s anomalies seemed tied to his own experiences and wondered whether the bloodstained old newspaper had altered Xiao Yuan’s memories.
• The cousins fought together as corpses fell from the sky, but the path beneath them became a mirror and shattered.
• Yang Jian and Xiao Yuan fell into a vast space lined with mirrors and discovered an enormous Buddha statue at its center.
• Xiao Yuan and Yang Jian landed on a bench, and Yang Jian questioned whether his memories of the Buddha statue had been altered.

Yang Jian, Xiao Yuan, and Lin Bei found themselves together in a dream world, where Yang Jian identified the Knocking Ghost and tried to determine whether Lin Bei was real. After confirming Lin Bei’s identity, Yang Jian explained that the dream involved a ghost his father had once controlled.

• The Knocking Ghost appeared beside Yang Jian and offered food, but Lin Bei pinned it to the wall with a glass shard.
• Xiao Yuan attacked Lin Bei, and Yang Jian stopped her and explained that she was his cousin.
• Lin Bei described being chased by headless corpses in a mall before escaping through a mirror and arriving in the dining room.
• Yang Jian beat and stabbed the Knocking Ghost, convincing Lin Bei that he was the real Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian told Lin Bei that the dream world involved a ghost his father had once controlled.

Yang Jian and Lin Bei determined that they had to find and kill the ghost behind the nightmare, while Lin Bei revealed that his mirror-linked Buddha statue was colliding with the dream. After Yang Jian and Xiao Yuan saw the Buddha in a mirror, Lin Bei warned that each person who saw it could multiply its copies, threatening to overwhelm the dream and invade reality.

• Yang Jian explained that the dream's ghost could be killed, and Lin Bei said he had no supernatural abilities there but could use mirrors to evade the ghost haunting his dreams.
• Lin Bei described the growing room and Buddha statue in his World in the Mirror, and Yang Jian deduced that the Buddha's power was clashing with the nightmare.
• Yang Jian opened the doorway and found himself, Lin Bei, and Xiao Yuan in a speeding taxi; he took the wheel and narrowly stopped it beside a gloomy lake.
• Yang Jian recognized the Ghost Painting's Ghost Domain in the gray sky, while Lin Bei explained that the mirrored scene could imitate its appearance but not its true power.
• Xiao Yuan and Yang Jian saw the Buddha statue in the taxi's rearview mirror, and Lin Bei warned that every observer could cause more copies to appear.
• Yang Jian realized the Buddha might eventually multiply beyond the dream's ability to suppress it and suspected someone had once imprisoned it in the World in the Mirror.

Yang Jian recognized the ghosts surrounding the group as manifestations of his past fears and devised a plan using mirrors that reflected the Buddha. As the ghosts closed in, he pulled Xiao Yuan onto the mirrored floor and attacked a reflected corpse.

• Yang Jian, Lin Bei, and Xiao Yuan found themselves trapped in headquarters as the Ghost Painting and other ghosts emerged from the darkness.
• Yang Jian explained that the ghosts seemed to embody his fears and asked Xiao Yuan if she could identify the real one, but she could not.
• Yang Jian proposed a risky plan, and Lin Bei agreed to trust him and spread his collected mirror shards across the floor.
• While Xiao Yuan held off the ghosts, Yang Jian and Lin Bei joined the mirror shards into a large surface reflecting the Buddha.
• Yang Jian called Xiao Yuan back onto the mirrors as the ghosts surrounded them, then stabbed a reflected corpse and tore off its red veil.

Yang Jian realized the nightmare’s source was hidden among the great Buddhas invading the World in the Mirror. As the mirror began to crack and Lin Bei’s supernatural power threatened to return, Yang Jian told him to use it to kill the source ghost.

• The Mummified Bride’s reflected face became Zhao Kaiming’s, and a great Buddha appeared in the World in the Mirror, making the female corpse vanish.
• More Buddha statues invaded the mirror world, while reflected ghosts disappeared and Lin Bei began showing a Buddha-like expression and suffering.
• Yang Jian restrained Lin Bei with Xiao Yuan as the chanting grew louder, then deduced that the nightmare’s source was among the Buddha statues.
• With the mirror cracking and their plan failing, Yang Jian told Lin Bei that his returning supernatural power was their chance to find and kill the nightmare’s source.

Yang Jian and Lin Bei escaped the dream after Lin Bei confronted the Buddha that was attacking them, and Yang Jian brought the dream’s source back to Meishan Village sealed in a gold body bag. After keeping watch through the night, Yang Jian left the house at dawn as a car arrived with a capable-looking middle-aged man.

• Yang Jian identified the first Buddha to attack as the dream’s source, and Lin Bei tried to kill it as it crushed them both.
• Yang Jian woke in reality and used his scarlet light to restart himself and Lin Bei, then went to Meishan Village and confirmed Xiao Yuan was safe.
• Yang Jian put Yang Xiao’s memorial portrait into a gold body bag and kept watch over it through the night while Lin Bei guarded the village entrance.
• At dawn, Yang Jian left the house carrying the body bag, and a car arrived outside with a capable-looking middle-aged man leading its occupants.

Yang Jian settled the village dispute and began questioning Xiao Yuan about her killings, but her explanation made him realize he was still trapped in a dream. The dream then shifted into a surreal highway scene, leaving him facing a figure and a wolfdog as the chanting grew louder and he struggled to stay awake.

• Yang Jian ordered Liu Feng to keep personnel in the village and offered ten million to settle the child’s death, after which the angry villagers dispersed.
• Yang Jian asked Lin Bei about anything unusual and told Zhang Fen he had to leave for headquarters to speak with Elder Qin.
• Yang Jian ordered Xiao Yuan to surrender her daggers, and she explained that she killed people in dreams because ghosts appeared as familiar faces.
• Yang Jian realized Xiao Yuan’s ability to distinguish dreams from reality meant Wang Shanshan’s earlier call might have occurred within a dream, and he suspected the mirror’s supernatural power had shaped the false events.
• Yang Jian saw Wang Shanshan’s sinister face in the rearview mirror as the car plunged through a passenger plane and fell from the sky.
• The dream shifted to a rain-soaked road where Yang Jian saw a figure beside an enormous wolfdog and grew drowsy as the chanting and wails intensified.

Yang Jian drifted through school in a daze after a strange dream, while new teacher Zhang Xianguang taught the class about investigating supernatural incidents. After school, Miao Xiaoshan gave Yang Jian her notes, and he went home feeling unwell.

• Yang Jian woke from a strange dream and helped Wang Shanshan hand out test papers that felt unnaturally cold.
• Zhang Xianguang introduced himself as the new teacher and called attendance, while Yang Jian and the late Zhang Wei drew the class's attention.
• Zhang Xianguang taught the students to trust their instincts and investigate the source of supernatural phenomena.
• Zhang Wei invited Yang Jian to an internet café, but Zhao Lei and Liu Qi chose to go home and study.
• Miao Xiaoshan gave Yang Jian her notes and said she hoped they would attend the same university.
• Yang Jian went home to sleep because he felt muddled and unwell, while Zhang Wei reconsidered going to read.

Yang Jian returned home, studied Miao Xiaoshan’s strange notebook, and experienced unsettling signs that his ordinary surroundings might be affected by the supernatural. In class, he instinctively recited Zhang Xianguang’s lessons before strange rules appeared on his blank test paper.

• Yang Jian ate dinner with Yang Xiao and Zhang Fen, noticed ominous news stories, and read Miao Xiaoshan’s notebook about Zhang Wei and the supernatural.
• Yang Jian slept poorly, left for school, and caught icy gray clumps falling from the sky despite the warm weather.
• Yang Jian saw the school’s giant Buddha appear to look at him, then entered school with Zhang Wei.
• When Zhang Xianguang questioned him, Yang Jian instinctively recited lessons about observing supernatural phenomena and discovering their rules.
• Three lines appeared on Yang Jian’s blank, yellowed test paper: ghosts could not be killed, only ghosts could counter ghosts, and people had to discern the rules of ghosts.

Yang Jian noticed contradictions in the world around him and realized he was trapped in a dream. After recognizing Zhang Xianguang as the man in an old photograph who resembled him, Yang Jian recalled being attacked by the dream’s source and demanded to know whether the man was human or a ghost.

• Yang Xiao interrupted Yang Jian’s thoughts at school and took him home, while the words on Yang Jian’s test paper changed to “There’s a ghost!”
• Yang Jian noticed a strange shard of glass near the school’s Buddha statue and found Zhang Fen ill at home, though Yang Xiao’s account of taking her to the hospital did not fit the timing.
• Yang Jian discovered that Yang Xiao’s face was hidden behind a newspaper in every family photograph and realized he could not remember what his father looked like.
• Zhang Xianguang visited Yang Jian at night, showed him a photograph of a man resembling Yang Jian, and revealed that his own face matched the man’s.
• Yang Jian remembered being in a car with Lin Bei and Xiao Yuan when the ghost behind him attacked, then asked Zhang Xianguang whether he was human or a ghost.

Yang Jian learned that the man claiming to be his father was an anomaly carrying his father’s memories, and that a self-aware black dog could help exploit the ghost dream’s rules. He devised a plan to draw the ghost and its body parts into the dream, but the man left him to act on his own judgment.

• The man explained that he was an anomaly with Yang Jian’s father’s memories and revealed that the newspaper-covered Yang Xiao was a ghost whose body he had once occupied.
• The man said the black dog possessed part of the dream’s power, and that Lin Bei’s Buddha had confused the ghost and made the dream begin invading reality.
• Yang Jian realized he could use the dream’s overlap with reality to bring the ghost’s three dismembered body parts into the dream and have the dog consume them, taking control of the nightmare.
• The man urged Yang Jian to follow his decade-old plan, but Yang Jian rejected it and said he trusted no one but himself when facing the supernatural.
• The man promised to help Yang Jian control the dog after the incident, mentioned that the name Yang Jian had been chosen long ago, and identified Zhang Xianguang as an old friend and enemy before leaving.

Yang Jian fought the ghost and its black dog in the dream, then watched Yang Xiao gather the ghost’s three parts in reality. Yang Xiao used mirror shards to briefly restrain the Ghost Dream before bringing the ghost’s and his own heads into the dream, leaving the real world overturned as he entered it.

• Yang Jian attacked the ghost at his home, but its black dog knocked him down and nearly killed him.
• Yang Jian wounded the dog and grabbed the ghost’s ankle, causing the dog to attack the ghost and tear out its neck; Yang Jian did not wake.
• As rain made the dream overlap with reality, Yang Jian saw Yang Xiao retrieve human legs from a fishpond and a wooden chest from the woods.
• Yang Xiao revealed mirror shards under his coat and touched the approaching ghost, making it vanish temporarily.
• Yang Xiao took the ghost’s head and his own head from a small temple, then stepped into a puddle and entered the dream.