Chapter Summaries

After discovering that an online video showed him getting into a car with Fu Jingfan, Su Huaiming mistakenly believed it had revealed that he had been mistaken for a dog and pretended to faint from embarrassment. Fu Jingfan saw through the act and carried him upstairs, while Su Huaiming remained unaware that Fu Jingfan was enjoying teasing him.

• Su Huaiming learned that a video of him and Fu Jingfan getting into a car had been posted online and panicked, thinking it showed him being mistaken for a dog.
• Su Huaiming pretended to faint, and Fu Jingfan caught him while the butler called for help.
• Fu Jingfan teased the supposedly unconscious Su Huaiming by suggesting a hospital visit, then reassured him that the family doctor would come instead.
• Fu Jingfan picked Su Huaiming up and set him on the living-room sofa while they waited for the doctor.
• Fu Jingfan carried Su Huaiming upstairs, and Su Huaiming stayed still, hoping to be taken back to his room.

Su Huaiming told Fu Jingfan how he had been mistaken for a dog, then went to bed unaware of the online uproar over their marriage. He eventually started the much-anticipated livestream, where he clarified the video and answered questions about Fu Jingfan and their relationship.

• Fu Jingfan caught Su Huaiming pretending to be unconscious and promised not to call the Family Doctor or tell anyone after hearing how Su Huaiming had been mistaken for a dog.
• Su Huaiming decided not to bring Fu Jingfan late-night snacks, then went to sleep while the online debate about their marriage continued.
• Liqueur-Filled Chocolate announced Ning Lei as its new partner, prompting netizens to speculate about Su Huaiming's livestream and the parenting show.
• Su Huaiming opened his livestream three minutes after netizens assumed he had chickened out, and he explained that the video of Fu Jingfan leaving him had not been edited but lacked context.
• Su Huaiming said he and Fu Jingfan had no plans to divorce, explained that Fu Jingfan had suggested the livestream, and awkwardly acted sad about their relationship.

Su Huaiming’s livestream drew millions of viewers as he read a shoujo manga, fell asleep, and was caught by Fu Jingfan when he nearly fell. The livestream shut down, and Su Huaiming tried to send Fu Jingfan away so he could sleep, but Fu Jingfan stayed after saying his work was finished.

• Su Huaiming ignored the livestream comments and read a shoujo manga, drawing more viewers with his peaceful appearance.
• Su Huaiming fell asleep by the window, and Fu Jingfan caught his cheek when he began to slide off the seat.
• Fu Jingfan told the drowsy Su Huaiming to go to bed, and Su Huaiming stumbled into him before reaching the bed safely.
• Su Huaiming realized the livestream was still running, but Fu Jingfan said the administrator had shut it down.
• Su Huaiming hinted that Fu Jingfan should leave, but Fu Jingfan stayed and said his work was finished.

After Fu Jingfan’s visit became an online sensation, Su Huaiming received compensation from the chocolate brand and was announced as a jewelry ambassador. As Su Huaiming prepared to take Fu Xiaoxiao to film the variety show, Fu Jingfan unexpectedly drank the pigeon soup Su Huaiming had brought for himself.

• Su Huaiming sent Fu Jingfan out before going to sleep, while netizens spread a livestream clip and speculated that Fu Jingfan was pursuing him.
• The chocolate brand apologized, compensated Su Huaiming, and ended its contract with Ning Lei; a famous jewelry brand announced Su Huaiming as its ambassador and promised to design lovers’ rings for him.
• Su Huaiming packed for the variety show with Fu Xiaoxiao, who eagerly prepared gifts for Xuanxuan and Youyou.
• Su Huaiming brought pigeon soup to Fu Jingfan’s study and told him he and Fu Xiaoxiao would leave the next morning for seven days of filming.
• Fu Jingfan accepted the soup and drank the entire bowl, leaving Su Huaiming stunned and grieving over his lost supper.

Su Huaiming made peace with Fu Jingfan after receiving a bowl of pigeon soup, then traveled with Fu Xiaoxiao to film a variety show. At the destination, the guests gathered and Ning Lei arrived with a young boy, leaving Su Huaiming as the last person he had yet to greet.

• Fu Jingfan asked the butler to bring Su Huaiming pigeon soup, and Su Huaiming happily forgave him and considered bringing him late-night snacks again.
• On the long drive to the show, Su Huaiming arm-wrestled Fu Xiaoxiao twice and won, leaving the child determined to beat him the next day.
• Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao arrived and reunited with Ji Mingzhe, Ji Youyou, Yu Ruicheng, and Yu Xuanxuan.
• Sun Siyuan arrived dressed for a beach vacation, and Su Huaiming's remarks left him silently frustrated.
• Ning Lei arrived with a little boy, exchanged greetings with the guests, and faced Su Huaiming last.

Su Huaiming joined the mountain retreat variety show with Fu Xiaoxiao, calmly disarming tensions with Ning Lei and using clever flattery to stop Sun Siyuan from leaving. As the guests settled in, Ning Lei decided to create attention-grabbing moments to revive his career.

• Ning Lei greeted Su Huaiming and offered to help him during the week, but Su Huaiming kept their exchange brief.
• Fu Xiaoxiao asked what a soul was, and Su Huaiming read out a definition before Fu Xiaoxiao concluded it was something you could not eat.
• Fu Xiaoxiao complained about the mountain house, then acted sweetly toward Su Huaiming after learning his father might be watching the livestream.
• Sun Siyuan tried to leave because he disliked the remote accommodations, but Su Huaiming praised his appearance and persuaded him to stay.
• After everyone unpacked, Ning Lei resolved to create buzz and talking points, even if he had to take risks.

Su Huaiming misunderstood Ning Lei’s apology and responded with sincere advice, unintentionally humiliating him in front of the livestream. Sun Siyuan later explained that Ning Lei had been manipulating him, but Su Huaiming remained unsure whether Ning Lei had actually toyed with him.

• Ning Lei apologized to Su Huaiming for taking his endorsement, but Su Huaiming had not known Ning Lei replaced him.
• Ning Lei hinted that circumstances beyond his control had led to the endorsement, and Su Huaiming advised him to sue his agency if it had forced him.
• Ning Lei denied that his agency had pressured him, while Su Huaiming’s earnest encouragement left him flustered and Sun Siyuan laughing uncontrollably.
• Sun Siyuan told Su Huaiming that Ning Lei had been setting a trap and trying to shift blame onto him, but Su Huaiming said he had only meant to help.
• Sun Siyuan explained what a green tea was, and Su Huaiming searched the term before asking whether Ning Lei had toyed with him.

Su Huaiming studied Ning Lei’s manipulative acting so he could improve his own performance for Fu Jingfan, then joined Fu Xiaoxiao and a local woman on a strenuous mushroom-picking trip. The group continued farther up the mountain after finding no matsutake, while Su Huaiming grew visibly exhausted.

• Sun Siyuan explained to Su Huaiming how Ning Lei had acted vulnerable to avoid blame, and Su Huaiming decided to study Ning Lei’s acting.
• Su Huaiming watched Ning Lei perform remorse and memorized his techniques, intending to use them on Fu Jingfan.
• The director announced that guests would spend seven days earning supplies through work, and assigned Su Huaiming’s group to pick mushrooms on the mountain.
• Fu Xiaoxiao eagerly carried a large basket as Su Huaiming and the local woman led him up the rough mountain path.
• After searching for over an hour without finding matsutake, the woman said they would have to go farther up, and Su Huaiming stopped to catch his breath.

Su Huaiming found five matsutake mushrooms while struggling with altitude sickness, and the woman who guided him gave him a jar of her homemade mushroom sauce. Back at the cabin, the guests enjoyed the sauce with their meager provisions, and Sun Siyuan finally tried it after disparaging it.

• Su Huaiming rested on the mountain, discovered five matsutake mushrooms, and joked that they were a family reunited.
• The woman exchanged the matsutake mushrooms for supplies and gave Su Huaiming a jar of her secret-recipe mushroom sauce.
• Sun Siyuan and Ji Mingzhe welcomed Su Huaiming back to the cabin, where the guests discussed their scant provisions and the sauce.
• The guests ate the mushroom sauce with local cakes and greens, and they were impressed by its rich flavor.
• Sun Siyuan, drawn in by the sauce despite his earlier complaints, spread a large spoonful on a cake and ate it.

Yu Ruicheng’s social anxiety caused a misunderstanding when he went to fetch a hoe, and Yu Xuanxuan helped explain who they were. After Xuanxuan accidentally performed Yu Ruicheng’s embarrassing debut song, Yu Ruicheng returned to the wooden house and found himself unable to escape reminders of his past.

• Sun Siyuan and Yu Ruicheng brought tools to the village and discovered they were missing a hoe, so Yu Ruicheng went back alone to retrieve it.
• Yu Ruicheng froze when a village woman mistook him for an intruder, and Yu Xuanxuan explained that they were filming a show.
• Yu Xuanxuan praised his brother to the women and performed an impression of Yu Ruicheng’s cringeworthy debut song, leaving Yu Ruicheng mortified.
• Yu Xuanxuan helped Yu Ruicheng obtain the hoe, and they returned to the group.
• Ning Lei praised Yu Ruicheng’s debut song, then Yu Ruicheng tried to escape him but found the children in one room and Ji Mingzhe in the kitchen before returning to Ning Lei.

Yu Ruicheng found relief from the crowded house when Su Huaiming helped him relax on the cabin deck, and the two later joined the others in fetching water for the villagers. The stream’s supposed hair-thickening benefits left the guests drinking so much that they became bloated and drew attention from the village chief and livestream viewers.

• Yu Ruicheng joined Su Huaiming on the deck and admitted that solitude helped him recharge, but Su Huaiming offered to stay quietly beside him.
• Su Huaiming joked that Yu Ruicheng could think of him as a cabbage, making Yu Ruicheng laugh and easing his stress; they both relaxed and fell asleep.
• The production team sent the guests with the village chief to fetch stream water for elderly villagers who missed its taste.
• Su Huaiming asked the village chief whether the stream water explained the villagers’ thick hair, and the chief enthusiastically agreed.
• Sun Siyuan and the other guests heard the claim and drank repeated dippers of water until their bellies were swollen, amusing the livestream viewers.

Sun Siyuan watched the children bond with Jameel and his gentle black dog, then joined their game of covering one another’s ears. The children demanded that Sun Siyuan keep covering Fu Xiaoxiao’s ears so he could hear the firewood chopping, leaving Sun Siyuan unable to escape their game.

• Sun Siyuan worked on chopping firewood while Fu Xiaoxiao, Yu Xuanxuan, and Ji Youyou discovered Jameel petting a large black dog in the yard.
• The children petted the dog and listened as Jameel explained that it had guided him home after he got lost.
• Fu Xiaoxiao, Yu Xuanxuan, and Ji Youyou praised Jameel’s name and began playing together with him.
• The children covered one another’s ears to block the sound of Sun Siyuan chopping wood, and Sun Siyuan joined in by covering Fu Xiaoxiao’s ears.
• Sun Siyuan tried to return to chopping, but Fu Xiaoxiao and the other children pleaded for him to keep covering their ears.

Sun Siyuan’s frustration with the children led him to chop wood recklessly, nearly hitting Su Huaiming with flying debris. When he accidentally sent an ax handle toward Yu Ruicheng, Su Huaiming’s dance instructions prompted Yu Ruicheng to dodge with an elaborate move.

• Sun Siyuan gave up trying to make the children leave and carried the dog to the platform while they protested.
• Sun Siyuan vented his anger by chopping wood, and Ji Mingzhe asked Su Huaiming to calm him down.
• Sun Siyuan’s ax and its handle flew toward Su Huaiming, who dodged them easily and left Sun Siyuan suspecting he knew kung fu.
• Sun Siyuan apologized to Su Huaiming and tried to free the ax, but the handle flew toward Yu Ruicheng.
• Su Huaiming called out dance instructions, and Yu Ruicheng instinctively spun away from the flying handle before adjusting his pose.

Yu Ruicheng learned that Sun Siyuan had accidentally sent a stick flying toward him, and he and Sun Siyuan thanked Su Huaiming for helping him dodge it. Sun Siyuan’s firewood-chopping reward turned out to be pork fat cracklings, and the chapter ended with him and Fu Xiaoxiao fighting over the last piece until Su Huaiming said it belonged to the dog.

• Sun Siyuan told Yu Ruicheng that he had accidentally sent a stick flying toward him while trying to free an axe, and Yu Ruicheng realized Su Huaiming had helped him dodge it.
• Sun Siyuan and Yu Ruicheng promised to repay Su Huaiming, while Ning Lei watched the three of them together and felt resentful.
• The production crew delivered Sun Siyuan’s reward, and Su Huaiming opened it and recognized the pork fat cracklings inside.
• Fu Xiaoxiao joined Su Huaiming in eating the cracklings, and Sun Siyuan tried one before deciding he liked them and finishing most of the bag.
• Sun Siyuan and Fu Xiaoxiao argued over the last crackling, and Su Huaiming declared that it belonged to the dog.

Sun Siyuan and Fu Xiaoxiao fought over the last piece of pork crackling until Su Huaiming revealed that the little black dog had eaten it, leaving Sun Siyuan humiliated and Fu Xiaoxiao tearful. The livestream turned Sun Siyuan’s misunderstanding into a viral joke, and the group then headed to the fishpond for the day’s task, where Fu Xiaoxiao and Jameel insisted they could catch fish too.

• Sun Siyuan and Fu Xiaoxiao argued over the last piece of pork crackling until Su Huaiming told them the little black dog had eaten it.
• Fu Xiaoxiao comforted himself, hugged Little Black, and took the dog outside, while Su Huaiming apologized to Sun Siyuan for his humiliating remark.
• Sun Siyuan remained unaware that the livestream audience had turned his argument into a trending joke and alerted the other guests.
• The next morning, Yu Ruicheng awkwardly let slip that he had seen the incident, and Su Huaiming covered for him with a story about Fu Jingfan’s chat history.
• The director assigned the adults to help the village chief catch fish, but Fu Xiaoxiao and Jameel rushed toward the pond until the staff stopped them.

Ning Lei’s plan to use a fishing contest to improve his image fell apart when Jameel and Fu Xiaoxiao exaggerated their fathers’ abilities. Su Huaiming avoided the cold pond after Sun Siyuan pulled him back, and the group later gathered at the village chief’s house to prepare a meal.

• Ning Lei planned to catch more fish than Su Huaiming so he could promote himself online, but Jameel and Fu Xiaoxiao’s boasts exposed that neither father could match their claims.
• Ji Mingzhe, Ning Lei, and Yu Ruicheng entered the pond to catch fish, while Sun Siyuan stopped Su Huaiming from stepping into the cold water.
• Su Huaiming and Sun Siyuan joked about cruel ways to kill fish, and a carp leaped from the water and landed at Su Huaiming’s feet.
• Ji Mingzhe gave Sun Siyuan an extra fish, so both Sun Siyuan and Su Huaiming avoided fishing in the pond.
• The group brought their fish to the village chief’s house, where Ning Lei went to the kitchen with the village chief’s wife and Ji Mingzhe while the others watched the children play.

Fu Xiaoxiao and the other children turned a goose’s head-bobbing into a contest before joining Su Huaiming and the village chief’s family for dinner. After Fu Xiaoxiao stayed behind to play with the goose, he and Su Huaiming walked back to the cabin at night, where Fu Xiaoxiao tried to scare him with stories about monsters.

• Ji Youyou spotted the village chief’s goose, and Fu Xiaoxiao, Yu Xuanxuan, Jameel, and Ji Youyou competed with it by shaking their heads until Su Huaiming stopped them.
• Fu Xiaoxiao tried to outdo the goose by drawing out a long “sorry,” prompting the village chief to hold the goose’s beak shut and Su Huaiming to take Fu Xiaoxiao for water.
• Sun Siyuan explained that the children had challenged the goose because it seemed to be provoking them, and Su Huaiming and Yu Ruicheng silently agreed that Sun Siyuan was acting like a child too.
• The village chief’s family served dinner to Su Huaiming and the others, and Sun Siyuan eagerly ate an unfamiliar black dish without asking what it was.
• Fu Xiaoxiao insisted on staying to play with the goose, so Su Huaiming let the others return ahead while he waited with Fu Xiaoxiao.
• Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao walked toward the cabin by moonlight, and Fu Xiaoxiao warned him that monsters might attack grown-ups.

Fu Xiaoxiao and Su Huaiming mistook a tractor for a tiger in the dark, then returned to the cabin safely. Later, they joined the production team’s livestream to sell local specialties, where Su Huaiming noticed something odd in the comments as he waited for the purchase links.

• Fu Xiaoxiao tried to scare Su Huaiming with a monster act, then panicked when he mistook a dark shape for a tiger and asked Su Huaiming to chase it away.
• Su Huaiming ran off without Fu Xiaoxiao, realized he had left him behind, and hurried back to find him.
• Fu Xiaoxiao pointed out the supposed tiger, and he and Su Huaiming ran back toward the cabin before the cameraman revealed the shape was a tractor.
• Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao returned to the cabin exhausted, startling Sun Siyuan as they collapsed on the sofa.
• The director announced a sales livestream for local specialties and assigned Su Huaiming and Fu Xiaoxiao to present first.
• Su Huaiming introduced dried local goods during the livestream, then frowned at the comments while waiting for the purchase links.

Su Huaiming hosted a livestream that sold out the local specialties and drew attention to his relationship with Fu Jingfan. After the butler confirmed that Fu Jingfan had been watching, Su Huaiming called him “Husband” on camera, leaving the viewers excited about their marriage.

• Su Huaiming refused requests to sell locally made mushroom sauce, pork fat, and stream water, while the other guests and director agreed to help viewers obtain them.
• Su Huaiming and the director put all seven specialty products up for sale, and the livestream audience bought them out immediately.
• When Su Huaiming asked what to do next, viewers joked about buying him as a wife, and the butler objected that he belonged to Mr. Fu.
• Su Huaiming recognized the butler, who said that Fu Jingfan had been watching the livestream and missed Su Huaiming.
• Su Huaiming realized he had not acted like someone in love with Fu Jingfan, so he looked toward the camera and asked, “Husband,” if Fu Jingfan was there.

Su Huaiming’s sales livestream became a comedic exchange with Fu Jingfan, who openly admitted he had tuned in to see him. After the stream, Su Huaiming sent Fu Jingfan an exaggeratedly clingy message and was challenged to read it aloud, leaving him bracing himself for embarrassment.

• Fu Jingfan told Su Huaiming during the livestream that he had come to see him, prompting viewers to tease them about their relationship.
• Su Huaiming reassured the viewers that Fu Jingfan would not get jealous, while Sun Siyuan tried to warn him that Ning Lei was acting like a green tea.
• Jameel compared Ning Lei’s angry expression to Logger Vick, leaving Ning Lei flustered as the children gathered to watch him.
• The livestream ended after Su Huaiming and Fu Jingfan’s conversation filled out the remaining time, and Ji Mingzhe and Yu Ruicheng praised Su Huaiming while Sun Siyuan mocked Yu’s praise.
• Su Huaiming sent Fu Jingfan a sugary message imitating the viewers’ green-tea comments, and Fu Jingfan called to ask whether the message was really from him.
• Fu Jingfan asked Su Huaiming to read the message aloud in person, and Su Huaiming reluctantly prepared to do so.