Recaps

After transmigrating into the frail stepfather Su Huaiming, Su Huaiming decided to enjoy his second life and avoid the doomed entertainment-industry plot. He confronted his stepson Fu Xiaoxiao’s demand to stop hiring teachers, but Fu Xiaoxiao’s tantrum was still unfolding.

• A teacher quit after Fu Xiaoxiao repeatedly teased her, and Su Huaiming struggled to stand because his new body was weak and malnourished.
• Su Huaiming recalled the original owner’s grim future and resolved to slack off until he could leave the entertainment industry with a divorce settlement.
• Fu Xiaoxiao stormed into the bedroom and demanded that Su Huaiming stop hiring teachers.
• Su Huaiming refused, challenged Fu Xiaoxiao’s claim that he was not an idiot with a difficult arithmetic problem, and warned that refusing to study would make him one.
• Fu Xiaoxiao stamped his feet in anger, and when the butler tried to calm him, Fu Xiaoxiao turned his anger on the butler.

Su Huaiming ignored Fu Xiaoxiao’s tantrum, and the exhausted child eventually climbed into bed and fell asleep beside him. After waking, Su Huaiming went downstairs to eat, while Fu Xiaoxiao stormed off in anger and Su Huaiming left the family’s plans to care for him to the nannies.

• Fu Xiaoxiao ordered everyone out, then threw a floor tantrum when Su Huaiming refused to indulge him.
• Su Huaiming lay down and fell asleep, leaving Fu Xiaoxiao to get up, climb onto the bed, and fall asleep under a corner of the quilt.
• Su Huaiming woke with Fu Xiaoxiao nestled in his arms and teased him about smelling like milk.
• Fu Xiaoxiao declared that he hated Su Huaiming and ran out of the room, prompting the household staff to chase after him.
• Su Huaiming went downstairs and saw Fu Xiaoxiao refusing to eat properly before the child ran off again.
• Su Huaiming ate nearly all the elaborate dishes prepared for the meal, delighted to enjoy food with his healthy body.

After recovering at home, Su Huaiming was summoned by his agent and learned he was still expected to appear on a childcare variety show despite the agency’s past exploitation. He accepted the job for its pay, recorded his agent admitting to broken promises, and went to Fu Group at Secretary Zhou’s request, where he ran into Zhang Zhixuan.

• Su Huaiming recovered his health at home, then received his agent’s order to come to the agency.
• Su Huaiming recalled how his agent and the production team had exploited the original host, and decided he wanted to escape the agency.
• Su Huaiming recorded his agent admitting he had made promises that were not legally binding, then agreed to appear on the childcare variety show because he could not afford the breach-of-contract penalty.
• Secretary Zhou asked Su Huaiming to visit Fu Group, and he agreed to go there after leaving the agency.
• Zhang Zhixuan mocked Su Huaiming outside Fu Group and bragged about his own prospects, while Su Huaiming calmly challenged him.
• A woman from Fu Group emerged as Su Huaiming smiled at Zhang Zhixuan’s boast.

Su Huaiming visited Fu Jingfan’s company, where Zhang Zhixuan was embarrassed after failing to get inside without an appointment, then waited in a reception room and fell asleep before Fu Jingfan could meet him. After they spoke by phone and agreed that Su Huaiming would take Fu Xiaoxiao on a childcare variety show, the show’s announcement drew heavy online criticism of Su Huaiming.

• Secretary Zhou greeted Su Huaiming at the company entrance, and Su Huaiming taunted Zhang Zhixuan after learning he had no appointment.
• Su Huaiming waited in Fu Jingfan’s reception room, fell asleep, and left after Secretary Zhou told him Fu Jingfan had been called away.
• Fu Jingfan called Su Huaiming, agreed not to interfere with his career or his plans to take Xiaoxiao on the show, and asked him to spend more time with Xiaoxiao and manage the villa.
• Su Huaiming saw the official announcement for Let's Grow Together on Weibo and read netizens’ harsh criticism of his participation and parenthood.

Su Huaiming invited Fu Xiaoxiao to join a parenting variety show, then mistakenly scheduled dozens of affectionate emails to Fu Jingfan. As filming began, Su Huaiming’s livestream drew millions of viewers, most of them eager to criticize him.

• Trending searches debated Su Huaiming’s marriage, child, and fitness to appear on a parenting show.
• Su Huaiming invited Fu Xiaoxiao to the show, and Fu Xiaoxiao eagerly agreed after learning he could appear on TV.
• Su Huaiming guessed that the original owner’s daily emails to Fu Jingfan were romantic, then scheduled dozens of messages saying “I miss you so much.”
• Song Hanyu found the emails on Fu Jingfan’s computer and teased Fu Jingfan, who said he had no time to go home and was not worried if Su Huaiming left.
• The parenting show began livestreaming from the participating families’ homes, and Su Huaiming’s stream quickly drew over ten million viewers as the crew’s car headed toward his sparsely populated neighborhood.

The production crew arrived at Su Huaiming’s vast estate and discovered that the supposedly poor actor owned the entire property. They met his adorable but tantrum-prone child, Fu Xiaoxiao, before Su Huaiming appeared and unexpectedly began to cry after being struck by a LEGO piece.

• Online viewers mocked Su Huaiming for supposedly living in the countryside until the production crew reached a grand estate and learned that it all belonged to him.
• The director arranged extra platform traffic for Su Huaiming’s livestream as the viewer count surged.
• The crew found Fu Xiaoxiao playing with LEGO, and he threw a tantrum that scattered the pieces and struck a nanny.
• Su Huaiming came downstairs, refused to help Fu Xiaoxiao with the LEGO, and was hit on the foot by pieces the child threw.
• Su Huaiming raised his tearful face toward the camera, leaving the viewers stunned.

Su Huaiming stopped Fu Xiaoxiao’s tantrum by mimicking him, then got him to apologize to him and the nannies. The next day, Fu Xiaoxiao gathered the villa’s staff on the lawn and announced his performance, leaving the livestream viewers wondering what he would do next.

• Su Huaiming fake-cried and threw a tantrum until Fu Xiaoxiao quieted down and agreed to stop demanding his help.
• Su Huaiming made Fu Xiaoxiao blow on his foot, apologize for hitting him with LEGO pieces, and promise not to do it again.
• Su Huaiming told Fu Xiaoxiao to apologize to the nannies for hitting one of them, and Fu Xiaoxiao apologized to them.
• Su Huaiming’s livestream drew widespread attention, and his clips and related topics rose on trending searches.
• On the second day of filming, Fu Xiaoxiao assembled the villa’s staff on the lawn and announced that he would perform “Little Rabbit, Be Good.”

Fu Xiaoxiao kept the villa staff watching his marathon of songs, poems, and snack-eating performances until Su Huaiming redirected the show to screens and became his audience. Meanwhile, online rumors accused Su Huaiming of flaunting his wealth, but he stayed in his room eating, watching shows, and sleeping.

• Fu Xiaoxiao sang, danced, recited poetry, and performed eating snacks while the staff stood in the sun and watched.
• The butler asked Su Huaiming for help, and Su Huaiming had Fu Xiaoxiao's performance shown on every screen in the house.
• Su Huaiming persuaded Fu Xiaoxiao to let the staff return to work and continued watching the show with him in the greenhouse.
• Su Huaiming's haters and rival contestants' fans spread rumors that he was using the show to flaunt his wealth, drawing critics into the livestream.
• After Su Huaiming stayed in his room for hours, a staff member knocked, and Su Huaiming said he had been eating, binge-watching shows, and sleeping.

On the third day of filming, Su Huaiming finally left his villa with Fu Xiaoxiao and took him to an upscale mall, where Su Huaiming became more interested in playing than supervising the child. The chapter leaves Fu Xiaoxiao confronting Su Huaiming after his stepfather keeps disrupting his trampoline fun.

• The staff toured Su Huaiming’s enormous bedroom, and Su Huaiming refused to show them around the villa because he might get lost and found walking exhausting.
• The production team styled Su Huaiming for an outing, but he went back inside to use the bathroom just after striking a dramatic pose for the cameras.
• Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao went to an upscale mall, where Su Huaiming persuaded Fu Xiaoxiao to hold his hand so he would not get lost.
• Fu Xiaoxiao ran into the mall’s play area, and Su Huaiming joined him, excited to try equipment he had never used before.
• Su Huaiming played on the slide and trampoline, repeatedly disrupting Fu Xiaoxiao’s bouncing until Fu Xiaoxiao pointed at him to complain.

Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao bonded during playtime, then prepared to leave home for the next leg of filming. At the filming villa, they met rock singer Yu Ruicheng, whose arrival excited the livestream viewers.

• Su Huaiming kept playing on the trampoline until Fu Xiaoxiao coaxed him out, then accepted Fu Xiaoxiao's offer to hold hands so he would not get lost.
• Su Huaiming limited Fu Xiaoxiao to two suitcases, and Fu Xiaoxiao insisted on pulling them himself after Su Huaiming challenged his strength.
• Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao traveled to the filming location, where Fu Xiaoxiao arrived dressed in a little suit and detective hat.
• Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao entered the villa and met Yu Ruicheng, a popular, aloof rock singer whose appearance thrilled the livestream viewers.

Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao met Yu Xuanxuan, Ji Mingzhe, and Ji Youyou after arriving at the villa, while the children quickly became friendly. After giving Ji Youyou his last milk candy, Su Huaiming's blood sugar suddenly dropped, leaving him to struggle upstairs for more candy.

• Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao settled into the villa, where Yu Xuanxuan greeted Su Huaiming and quickly befriended Fu Xiaoxiao.
• Ji Mingzhe arrived with his shy daughter Ji Youyou, and the children introduced themselves, with Fu Xiaoxiao confusing Ji Youyou while trying to teach her his name.
• Yu Xuanxuan pulled Yu Ruicheng into the introductions and revealed that his cool older brother wanted company, embarrassing Yu Ruicheng into leaving for some air.
• Su Huaiming offered Ji Youyou his last milk candy, and Ji Mingzhe noted that his daughter liked Su Huaiming.
• After sitting alone in the living room, Su Huaiming felt weak and his heart raced when his blood sugar dropped; with no candy left in his pocket, he tried to go upstairs for more.

Sun Siyuan arrived as a trainee parent and ordered Su Huaiming to carry his luggage, but quickly panicked when Su Huaiming collapsed from low blood sugar and cared for him until he recovered. After Su Huaiming showered, he found everyone gathered in the living room, where Yu Xuanxuan introduced him to his reluctant older brother, Yu Ruicheng.

• Sun Siyuan arrived without a child partner and met Su Huaiming, then asked him to carry his heavy suitcase upstairs.
• Su Huaiming, weakened by low blood sugar, stumbled and collapsed, prompting Sun Siyuan to fetch chocolate, desserts, and fruit.
• Su Huaiming recovered, and Sun Siyuan apologized through his attentive care and offered to help if he felt unwell again.
• Su Huaiming showered and returned to find everyone gathered in the living room.
• Yu Xuanxuan brought his older brother, Yu Ruicheng, over to meet the others, though Yu Ruicheng wanted to escape.

The families completed a drawing challenge to earn starting funds, then drew prizes before the production team emptied the fridge. Su Huaiming won a silk quilt as the first prize, and Sun Siyuan asked him for it as the chapter ended.

• Sun Siyuan accompanied Su Huaiming and brought him hot water before the director introduced the week’s challenges in Dongjiang.
• Ji Youyou, Yu Xuanxuan, Fu Xiaoxiao, and Sun Siyuan each entered a room to draw portraits, but Fu Xiaoxiao spent the task playing with the camera.
• Ji Mingzhe, Yu Ruicheng, and Sun Siyuan passed the drawing challenge and earned 66 yuan each, while Su Huaiming’s team received no funds.
• The adults drew prizes, and Su Huaiming alone won first prize: a silk quilt; the others received third-prize choices from the fridge.
• After the production team emptied the fridge, the families planned to go shopping, and Sun Siyuan asked Su Huaiming to give him the quilt.

Su Huaiming sold Sun Siyuan a silk comforter for 66 yuan after Sun Siyuan mistook his payment QR code for a friend request. The group headed to a supermarket, where Su Huaiming bought himself two ice creams and teased Fu Xiaoxiao, leaving the child angry and close to tears.

• Su Huaiming showed Sun Siyuan a payment QR code, and Sun Siyuan realized he had mistaken it for a friend request when a payment screen appeared.
• Sun Siyuan offered 100,000 yuan for Su Huaiming's silk comforter, but the director limited the purchase to Sun Siyuan's 66 yuan in starting funds, and Su Huaiming sold it to him.
• The livestream viewers reacted to the awkward sale, and related topics about the show, Su Huaiming's illness, and the 66 yuan transaction rose in the trending searches.
• The group went to a nearby supermarket and stopped at an ice cream stand, where Su Huaiming warned Fu Xiaoxiao that their budget allowed only five yuan for ice cream.
• Su Huaiming bought himself chocolate and matcha ice creams, ate them in front of Fu Xiaoxiao, and left the child jumping for a taste and demanding to know how he could do that.

Su Huaiming won a 1,000-yuan supermarket voucher and treated everyone to more shopping. On the walk back, Sun Siyuan became unusually protective of him, leaving Ji Mingzhe and Yu Ruicheng watching in silence.

• Fu Xiaoxiao asked Su Huaiming politely for a bite of ice cream, then promised to earn money and buy treats for his friends.
• The group carefully budgeted for dinner and breakfast, and Su Huaiming unexpectedly received a 1,000-yuan voucher as the supermarket's ten-thousandth customer.
• Su Huaiming invited everyone to use the voucher, and the children rushed to buy snacks as livestream viewers celebrated his luck.
• On the walk back, Sun Siyuan noticed Su Huaiming carrying heavy bags and took them from him, then kept him away from the road.
• Sun Siyuan hurried alongside Su Huaiming and scolded him with concern, while Ji Mingzhe and Yu Ruicheng exchanged a glance.

Su Huaiming returned to the villa with the children and Sun Siyuan, where he handled Fu Xiaoxiao and Sun Siyuan’s hunger without giving in to their tantrums. After dinner, Yu Xuanxuan embarrassed his shy older brother Yu Ruicheng by promoting him to the livestream viewers as a potential boyfriend.

• Ji Youyou and Yu Xuanxuan each took Su Huaiming’s hand on the walk back, while Fu Xiaoxiao reluctantly held Ji Youyou’s hand.
• At the villa, Fu Xiaoxiao followed Yu Xuanxuan to wash his hands, then refused dinner because there was no pizza.
• Su Huaiming ignored Fu Xiaoxiao and Sun Siyuan when they claimed they would not eat, so Ji Mingzhe offered them teriyaki chicken and they eagerly joined the meal.
• Yu Ruicheng volunteered to wash the dishes, and Yu Xuanxuan told the viewers that his brother was single and would make a good boyfriend.
• Yu Ruicheng heard Yu Xuanxuan’s matchmaking pitch, told him to stop, and fled back into the kitchen.

Su Huaiming relaxed with a medicinal foot soak before the families set out to help sanitation workers clean a road. As the children swept their assigned areas, Fu Xiaoxiao refused Su Huaiming’s help so he could keep his earnings, but grew frustrated when more leaves appeared.

• Su Huaiming used a portable foot bath and medicinal soak to relax upstairs, amusing the livestream viewers.
• The director announced that the children would help sanitation workers clean up and earn money, but Sun Siyuan protested that Su Huaiming’s voucher meant they did not need to work.
• Ji Mingzhe persuaded the children to take part, and the teams chose their cleaning areas; Fu Xiaoxiao let Ji Youyou have the blue area and took the pink one.
• Ji Youyou asked Sun Siyuan to carry her supplies, and he agreed, while Ji Mingzhe and Yu Ruicheng went to help the children.
• Fu Xiaoxiao suspected Su Huaiming would take his earnings, ordered him not to help, and swept on his own until the growing pile of leaves frustrated him.
• Su Huaiming picked up a leaf and offered to show Fu Xiaoxiao a game he had enjoyed as a child.

Fu Xiaoxiao finished cleaning the fallen leaves after Su Huaiming comforted him and helped him deal with a leaf that hit him. When Fu Xiaoxiao got hungry, a sanitation worker gave him chocolate and spoke proudly about his son.

• Su Huaiming taught Fu Xiaoxiao to play leaf-stem tug-of-war, and Fu Xiaoxiao treasured the leaf he won.
• Fu Xiaoxiao scolded the tree for dropping leaves, then felt upset when one struck his forehead; Su Huaiming slapped the leaf and helped him promise not to hit others.
• Fu Xiaoxiao cleaned the whole area first and proudly showed Su Huaiming the ground he had swept.
• Fu Xiaoxiao asked for chocolate, but Su Huaiming realized he had forgotten to bring any.
• A sanitation worker gave Fu Xiaoxiao two pieces of chocolate, and Fu Xiaoxiao thanked him before they sat down together.
• The sanitation worker explained that his son had bought him the chocolate and asked Fu Xiaoxiao whether it tasted good.

After the children cleaned up, Fu Xiaoxiao fell asleep in the car and accidentally bit Su Huaiming while dreaming about chocolate. That evening, Su Huaiming introduced Ji Mingzhe, Yu Ruicheng, and Sun Siyuan to medicinal foot soaks, and Sun Siyuan secretly hoped to be invited again the next night.

• Fu Xiaoxiao praised the sanitation worker's chocolate, then wondered whether his father would ever speak about him as warmly as the worker spoke about his son.
• After the children finished cleaning, Fu Xiaoxiao fell asleep in the car, nearly fell when it braked, and bit Su Huaiming's chest while dreaming about chocolate.
• The children slept until dinner, then woke and played while the adults rested.
• Ji Mingzhe asked Su Huaiming for medicinal foot-soak packets, and Yu Ruicheng joined them after Su Huaiming explained the benefits.
• Sun Siyuan initially refused to soak his feet, but joined the others five minutes later and enjoyed it.
• The next day, Sun Siyuan secretly signaled Su Huaiming to invite him to soak his feet again that evening.

Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao handed out flyers together while wearing mascot costumes, and Su Huaiming bet that he could get their flyers distributed. The chapter left the viewers wondering whether Su Huaiming’s fans had come to help after several people approached him for selfies and took flyers.

• Sun Siyuan got stuck in the elevator in his mascot costume, and Yu Ruicheng accidentally knocked him over while trying to help.
• Su Huaiming ran through the elevator doors in his bulky costume, astonishing the production crew and livestream viewers.
• Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao began handing out flyers, with Fu Xiaoxiao eager to earn money for ice cream.
• Fu Xiaoxiao grew discouraged when few people took flyers, and Su Huaiming teased him before proposing a bet.
• Several young people approached Su Huaiming for selfies and took flyers, prompting viewers to wonder if they were his fans.

Su Huaiming turned handing out flyers into a photo attraction, then protected Fu Xiaoxiao from a husky and left him embarrassed by his antics. After returning home, Fu Xiaoxiao impressed Yu Xuanxuan and Ji Youyou by matching two squares on a Rubik’s Cube.

• Su Huaiming attracted a crowd by posing as Cocky Bear, and he and Fu Xiaoxiao handed out half the flyers in just half an hour.
• Su Huaiming made Fu Xiaoxiao bark like a dog, and Fu Xiaoxiao reluctantly did so to keep Su Huaiming from telling his friends he had broken his promise.
• When a husky approached, Fu Xiaoxiao hid behind Su Huaiming and called him Daddy for help; Su Huaiming scared the dog away with an exaggerated mascot performance.
• Fu Xiaoxiao felt embarrassed and upset when Su Huaiming’s antics shattered his image of a protective father, then avoided him as they returned home.
• Fu Xiaoxiao matched two green squares on Yu Xuanxuan’s Rubik’s Cube, impressing Yu Xuanxuan and Ji Youyou.

Su Huaiming stunned everyone by solving a Rubik’s Cube one-handed, boosting his popularity and attracting an invitation from the Rubik's Cube Association. His agent tried to fill his break with work, but Su Huaiming refused and insisted on resting.

• Fu Xiaoxiao and Sun Siyuan argued over whether adults or kids were better after none of the adults could solve the Rubik’s Cube.
• Su Huaiming solved the cube in seconds, astonishing Sun Siyuan, the children, and the livestream viewers.
• Su Huaiming demonstrated the trick again, and clips of him solving the cube spread online as his popularity rose.
• Su Huaiming’s agent scheduled a commercial, a survival variety show, and acting work for his ten-day break.
• Su Huaiming refused the schedule, told his agent he planned to rest, and ended the call before the agent could respond.

Zhang Zhixuan and Su Huaiming’s agent arranged to spread an anonymous scandal that made viewers suspect Su Huaiming was involved with a married man. Su Huaiming stayed silent as online commenters wrongly identified Fu Zhongli as his partner, while Sun Siyuan worried about him and left food and water outside his room.

• Zhang Zhixuan persuaded Su Huaiming’s agent to spread vague rumors about a celebrity supposedly kept by a married man.
• Gossip accounts posted the allegations, and Su Huaiming read them before realizing commenters were accusing him.
• Su Huaiming searched for Fu Jingfan’s photo, decided not to disclose their relationship, and later called him without getting an answer.
• Netizens speculated that the supposed older lover was Fu Zhongli, and Su Huaiming read up on the Fu family gossip before trying to contact Fu Jingfan.
• Sun Siyuan worried that Su Huaiming might be distressed, left food and water at his door, and messaged him to check that he was conscious.

The children watched a cartoon and talked about their fathers, while Su Huaiming’s online scandal turned around after Fu Zhongli publicly apologized and defended him. At the new filming location, Fu Xiaoxiao struggled to change into his uniform but thanked Su Huaiming for covering up an embarrassing moment.

• Fu Xiaoxiao praised his father as handsome and capable, and Ji Youyou introduced the others to her idol Feng.
• Sun Siyuan offered Su Huaiming food and water, while livestream viewers misread his concern as flirtation.
• Fu Zhongli posted an apology defending Su Huaiming and his husband, prompting netizens to speculate that the husband was Fu Jingfan.
• The production team brought everyone to a new filming location and handed the children uniforms for their next jobs.
• Fu Xiaoxiao insisted on dressing himself, then accidentally made a pfft sound when Sun Siyuan poked his cheek; the adults helped hide his embarrassment from the other children.
• Fu Xiaoxiao thanked Su Huaiming, who held out his fist in response.

Fu Xiaoxiao and the other children worked as little security guards at a university, where students overwhelmed them with affection and snacks. After the group returned, Fu Jingfan told Su Huaiming that Zhang Zhixuan had been identified as the person behind the incident, and Su Huaiming decided to leave his company and pursue legal action.

• Su Huaiming asked what his role would be, and Fu Xiaoxiao called him the dog the security guard walked.
• Fu Xiaoxiao, Yu Xuanxuan, and Ji Youyou began checking student IDs, but students crowded around them, kissing and touching them until the adults helped maintain order.
• A student pinched Su Huaiming's cheek, so he pulled Fu Xiaoxiao behind Ji Mingzhe for protection.
• After the group returned, Fu Jingfan called Su Huaiming and told him Zhang Zhixuan from his company was responsible.
• Su Huaiming said he wanted to terminate his contract and hold both the company and Zhang Zhixuan legally accountable.