Chapter Summaries

At a filmed parents’ dinner, Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang protected Constantine from A-Yi and A-Er, whose deliberate provocation triggered the child’s trauma. Fan Hui confronted the twins and left Constantine in their care, while Qiao Huan quietly kept an old key she had forgotten.

• At a hospital, Wei Zhuogang found Qiao Tang’s Tata Martial Arts School brochure and spoke with him after learning Qiao Tang had undergone a tonsillectomy.
• Before the dinner, Qiao Huan and Ye Yiwei discussed their assignments, and Xiao Yue warned Qiao Huan to watch out for A-Yi and A-Er.
• A-Yi and A-Er tried to provoke the children, but Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang turned their demand for a performance into a lively group song and dance.
• A-Yi and A-Er triggered Constantine’s distress by drawing on the table, and Fan Hui slapped A-Yi and threatened to expose the twins’ scandal.
• Fan Hui asked Lin Xiangnan to transfer the twins’ resources to Xiu Si, apologized to Constantine, and asked Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang to care for him.
• After Fan Hui left, Qiao Huan noticed she had forgotten an old cherry-decorated key and put it in his pocket.

After Constantine’s outburst during filming, Qiao Huan looked after him, learned village rumors about a supposedly possessed child, and returned home to investigate the keys he had found. He and Zhuo Yang played hide-and-seek with Constantine as a pretext to search Fan Hui’s villa, but Qiao Huan found no hidden room or safe.

• After A-Yi and A-Er left filming, the remaining guests finished the episode, and the director arranged counseling for Constantine.
• Qiao Huan packed the leftover food and sold it cheaply to farmers working late in a rice field, where he heard that Fan Hui’s child was rumored to be possessed and that a similar case had occurred in the village.
• Qiao Huan returned to the Platinum Coast and planned to investigate the keys while Zhuo Yang and Constantine slept, but found them wrestling in the brightly lit living room.
• Qiao Huan suggested hide-and-seek so he could search the villa, while Zhuo Yang searched the other side of the house.
• Qiao Huan found Constantine hiding behind a bookshelf, left him safely there, and searched several rooms without finding a hidden door or safe.

Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang spent the night trying to get Constantine to sleep, then took him to a city sports meet where Qiao Huan challenged a troublemaking local to a crayfish-catching contest. Constantine eventually asked to join in, hinting that he had been left out of something before.

• Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang searched the house for different reasons, then took Constantine to the attic, where they told stories beneath the stars until he fell asleep.
• Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang stayed awake all night with Constantine, and they found nothing unusual about the attic painting.
• At the sports meet, a local man provoked Zhuo Yang and Qiao Huan, then tried to film Constantine while insulting them.
• Qiao Huan proposed a team crayfish-catching contest, and the referee approved it as a new event to help nearby farmers.
• Constantine asked Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang if he could join the contest because he did not want to just watch again.
• An old man called out that Apple Boy had arrived with boxed meals, leaving Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang confused.

Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang took Constantine to a crayfish-catching contest, where their patient guidance helped reveal possible signs of Asperger syndrome. When a rogue and his son tried to frame Zhuo Yang and steal Constantine’s catch, Qiao Huan exposed them with a recording and called the police.

• An old man recognized Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang from their fruit endorsements, and A Fang awkwardly greeted him after he recognized Constantine as a Fan family child.
• Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang took Constantine into the rice paddies and helped him overcome his fear of crayfish, while the rogue and his son struggled nearby.
• The female referee explained that Constantine had long seemed unusually smart and struggled with routines and communication, and the psychologist suggested he might have Asperger syndrome.
• The rogue accused Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang of favoritism while his son tried to take Constantine’s bucket and pushed him aside.
• The rogue and his son staged a fall and accused Zhuo Yang of attacking them, but Qiao Huan revealed he had recorded their actions and contacted the police.
• Qiao Huan stopped the rogue from leaving and demanded payment for the damaged rice plants and Constantine’s examination.

Qiao Huan learned the tragic history behind Fan Hui’s film "Dreamship" and helped her reconnect with Constantine, while Zhuo Yang tried to secretly investigate Fan Hui’s phone. The chapter ended with Qiao Huan catching him and asking to talk.

• Qiao Huan took Constantine to the hospital after Chubby knocked him down, then gave a statement at the police station and secretly searched its networked system.
• A Fang told Qiao Huan how her daughter Dreamship had died by suicide and how Fan Hui’s film had changed from Dreamship’s story into a commercial project.
• Fan Hui revealed that Lin Xiangnan had invited her to the dinner party and admitted she had left Qiao Huan the key to Dreamship’s manuscripts.
• Qiao Huan advised Fan Hui about Constantine’s trauma, and Fan Hui entered the ward and promised to hold her son from then on.
• Back at Platinum Coast, Qiao Huan tended the garden while Zhuo Yang decided to steal Fan Hui’s phone for information about his old captain’s daughter.
• Qiao Huan caught Zhuo Yang reaching for Fan Hui’s phone and told him they needed to talk.

Qiao Huan stopped Zhuo Yang from snooping on a phone, then revealed that he was investigating a sex-for-money case at Star Radiance Company. After learning that Zhuo Yang was also undercover, the two joined forces with Ye Yiwei to investigate the company and the death of Zhuo Yang’s old captain’s daughter, Yuan Yuan.

• Qiao Huan led Zhuo Yang away from the cameras and disclosed his investigation into a Star Radiance trainee’s attempted suicide; Zhuo Yang then explained that he had come to investigate Yuan Yuan’s unexplained death.
• Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang discovered that Ye Yiwei was undercover too, and Zhuo Yang verified Ye Yiwei’s identity by sparring with him.
• The three agents compared their clues and suspected that Yuan Yuan’s death might be connected to the drinking-party cases; Zhuo Yang found that Yuan Yuan had worked at Fan Hui’s company before joining Star Radiance.
• Fan Hui told Qiao Huan and the others that Yuan Yuan had been a capable employee who abruptly quit without explaining why, and she provided contact information for Yuan Yuan’s former coworkers.
• Zhuo Yang and Qiao Huan wondered why Yuan Yuan had left a promising job for Star Radiance, while Zhuo Yang asked them to help find the person who might explain her decision; Ye Yiwei agreed.

A-Yi and A-Er signed on to a variety-show opportunity tied to their livestream following, while Xiu Si agreed to a promotional livestream and began gathering ingredients with the children. The livestream boosted Zhuo Yang’s popularity, and Qiao Huan prepared a new plan as Constantine watched A-Yi and A-Er with contempt.

• Jiang Ji offered A-Yi and A-Er a chance to join a B-Rank Variety Show if they proved their commercial value, and the brothers signed the proposal.
• Jiang Ji asked Qiao Huan, Zhuo Yang, Ye Yiwei, and Bai Jike for permission to hold a livestream, and all four agreed.
• The Production Team began the livestream with a challenge to find ingredients for a parent-child meal, while A-Yi and A-Er threatened the girl in their care to make her behave.
• Zhuo Yang helped Bai Jike catch a fish, but viewers focused on Zhuo Yang’s physique and his gentle handling of Constantine.
• Qiao Huan promised Constantine they would find crayfish, and Constantine stared down A-Yi and A-Er when they watched him.

Bai Jike gained attention for his knowledge and quick actions, but Constantine fell into the river after overhearing rumors about Fan Hui, and Bai Jike rescued him. As the group took the children to the hospital, Qiao Huan agreed to face A-Yi and A-Er in a livestream showdown while a woman in sunglasses prepared legal documents against them.

• Zhuo Yang handed Constantine over to Bai Jike, who kept him and Xiaomi occupied and explained that apple snails were invasive and dangerous unless thoroughly cooked.
• Bai Jike burned an apple snail and its eggs after they spilled onto his hand, then reminded the livestream viewers to extinguish fires safely.
• Constantine overheard staff gossip that Fan Hui was using him to promote her film and fell into the river while trying to find her.
• Bai Jike used a basin to keep Constantine afloat and swam him to shore, where Qiao Huan arranged for Constantine and Xiaomi to go to the hospital.
• A-Yi and A-Er taunted the group and challenged Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang to settle matters in a livestream, and Qiao Huan accepted.
• A woman in sunglasses told her assistant to prepare legal documents against A-Yi and A-Er.

Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang accepted A-Yi and A-Er’s livestream cooking challenge, then won viewers over with their teamwork, crayfish, and promotion of a local pear farmer. At the hospital, Bai Jike discovered that someone was suppressing their livestream’s popularity and began investigating who was behind it.

• A-Yi and A-Er challenged Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang to a livestream cooking contest, with the losers agreeing to leave the show and apologize to Constantine.
• Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang made grass crayfish traps, gathered ingredients, and traded labor at a pear orchard for oil and chilies.
• The twins used bought fish and prepared fans to boost their livestream, while Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang worked smoothly together and cooked crayfish at the farmer’s home.
• Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang’s lively meal and the farmer’s stories attracted viewers, while A-Yi and A-Er argued and struggled with their cooking.
• At the hospital, Bai Jike received a cryptic warning about a giant python and learned that Constantine was out of danger but still asleep.
• After Jiang Ji asked him to check the livestream data, Bai Jike found signs that forces were suppressing Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang’s viewer count and began tracing the interference.

Bai Jike reversed the suppression of Slow Yangyang's livestream and paid for nationwide promotion of Xiu Si, but A-Yi and A-Er turned the resulting attention into an attack on the group. Bai Jike exposed paid trolls, Fan Hui and Constantine released an explanation of the accident, and Qiao Tang's team struggled to contain the livestream's popularity.

• Bai Jike discovered that the code suppressing Slow Yangyang's popularity came from an automated program he had written and that Qiao Huan had been its original target.
• Bai Jike bypassed the suppression and paid to play a fan-made Xiu Si video on plaza screens nationwide, drawing public attention to the group.
• A-Yi and A-Er turned off gifts in their livestream and encouraged criticism of Qiao Huan and Zhuo Yang for accepting them.
• Qiao Huan limited gifts, while Bai Jike sent marketing accounts the real names and offenses of paid trolls attacking the group.
• Fan Hui and Constantine released a video explaining how Constantine fell into the water, and the broadcast director admitted she had acted on someone else's orders.
• A-Shui told Qiao Tang that their Anti-Hate Station could not suppress the livestream against a stronger opponent.