Recaps

Qi Si rejected his former devotion to Lin Weiwei, rebuilt his closeness with Qi Wang, and became acquainted with Bo Yanqi while keeping away from the novel’s dangerous entanglements. He agreed to join a variety show despite Lin Weiwei’s presence, and filming began at the Qi brothers’ home.

• Qi Si woke in the body of a novel’s cannon-fodder character, promised Qi Wang he would stop hurting himself for Lin Weiwei, and decided to avoid the novel’s leads.
• When Lin Weiwei asked to borrow five hundred thousand, Qi Si demanded an IOU, and Qi Wang backed his decision while Lin Weiwei’s team tried to edit the incident in her favor.
• Qi Si reconnected with Xiao Chou, warned him against racing for the Wangjiang development rights, and met Bo Yanqi at West Mountain Racetrack.
• Qi Si mistook Bo Yanqi for the racer Augus, cheered for him as Number Seventeen, and later began messaging Bo Yanqi after he won the race.
• Qi Si told Qi Wang he no longer liked Lin Weiwei and agreed to join Go! All-Round Charge!, while privately wondering whether he could help Qi Wang build a life beyond him.
• Qi Wang arranged Qi Si’s appearance on the show, but Lin Weiwei and Shen Shuyu were also added to the guest list, prompting Qi Wang to reconsider the contract.
• Qi Si assured Qi Wang that he had no feelings for Lin Weiwei, and Qi Wang allowed him to participate despite the risk of seeing her.
• On filming day, Qi Wang welcomed the production crew into their villa, and the crew began inspecting Qi Si’s packed suitcase as viewers watched.

Qi Si and the other guests arrived in Cloudgrain Village and had to earn their meals by working for villagers. Qi Si’s unexpected closeness with Zhou Linzhe drew viewers’ attention, while the next morning brought a new man tasked with waking the guests.

• Qi Si arrived at Cloudgrain Village, chose to stay with Zhou Linzhe, and challenged Lin Weiwei to follow through on her offer to help the villagers.
• The guests divided among four households, with Yang Yi and Shen Shuyu settling at Granny Jiang’s home while Lin Weiwei chose the larger residence.
• Xiang Qianchong required the guests to repay their meals through village labor, and Qi Si took Zhou Linzhe’s store job after teasing him about Lin Weiwei.
• Qi Si collected Zhou Linzhe’s unpaid wages, while the other guests tackled tasks including harvesting sweet potatoes, feeding pigs, herding ducks, and picking apples.
• Yang Yi helped Shen Shuyu feed the pigs, and Zhou Linzhe helped Lin Weiwei find the ducks that had wandered away.
• Qi Si gave Zhou Linzhe his ten-yuan earnings, and the two bickered over dinner and dishes as viewers began shipping them.
• Qi Si helped Yu Doudou with homework, and Xiang Qianchong cut the livestream after viewers complained before assigning a newly arrived man to wake the guests the next morning.

Qi Si tried to win Bo Yanqi over while navigating tensions among the show’s guests and his growing closeness with Zhou Linzhe. At the Bo family patriarch’s birthday banquet, Qi Si mistook Bo Yanqi for his online confidant Augus, then paid Bo Yanqi 900,000 to accept his invitations and answer his messages, though Bo Yanqi refused Qi Si’s first request for a favor.

• Bo Fuyu joined the show, and Qi Si decided to win over Bo Yanqi after suspecting Bo Fuyu might be his son.
• Qi Si and the others fished for meal money, and Qi Si nearly fell while trying to haul in a large fish before later catching several more.
• Qi Si intervened when Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe fought over Shen Shuyu, then claimed they were fighting over Lin Weiwei to distract the others.
• Qi Wang took Qi Si to the Bo family patriarch’s eightieth birthday banquet, where Qi Si asked Augus whether Bo Yanqi would attend.
• Bo Yanqi arrived at the banquet, and Qi Si followed his assistant Zhong Ming to a lounge to talk with him about dating.
• Qi Si flirted with Bo Yanqi, then transferred him 900,000 in exchange for answering his messages and accepting his invitations.
• Qi Si asked why Bo Yanqi had chosen Bo Fuyu as his successor, declared that his orientation was Bo Yanqi, and asked him to date.
• Qi Si asked Bo Yanqi for a favor without explaining what it was, but Bo Yanqi refused, prompting Qi Si to protest that he had no power in their arrangement.

Qi Si tried to weaken Bo Fuyu’s position while growing closer to Bo Yanqi, and a confrontation at the banquet drove a wedge between Qi Si and Qi Wang. After Qi Wang left on a business trip, Qi Si fell ill, and Bo Yanqi brought him to the hospital and called his brother back.

• Qi Si persuaded Bo Yanqi not to support Bo Fuyu, then watched Bo Fuyu’s conflict with Lin Weiwei and Shen Shuyu unfold at the banquet.
• Bo Yanqi explained Liu Qin’s ambitions and Bo Fuyu’s position in the family, and Qi Si kissed Bo Yanqi before Bo Yanqi kissed him back.
• Zhong Li rescued Ning Jia from Zhao Qiang at a bar and made sure the police were called.
• Qi Wang found Qi Si with Bo Yanqi and accused Bo Yanqi of seducing him, but Qi Si admitted he had pursued Bo Yanqi himself.
• Qi Wang confronted Qi Si about his distance and offered him a house, then grew angry when Qi Si explained that he had approached Bo Yanqi willingly.
• Qi Wang left for a business trip, and Bo Yanqi took feverish Qi Si to the hospital after Qi Si could not reach his brother.
• Bo Yanqi called Qi Wang to report Qi Si’s high fever, and Qi Wang returned while Bo Yanqi cared for Qi Si at the hospital.