Chapter Summaries

Qi Si regretted agreeing to join a variety show, but Qi Wang had already secured his place and planned to take him to meet the chief director. Troubled by his deception and Qi Wang’s intense dependence on him, Qi Si decided the show might give them some distance and wondered whether Qi Wang could fall in love.

• Qi Si woke up regretting that he had agreed to join a variety show, but found Qi Wang still at home.
• Qi Wang told Qi Si the show had been arranged and that he would take him to meet the chief director, who owed him a favor.
• Qi Si considered backing out, but told Qi Wang he still wanted to participate after Qi Wang teased him about changing his mind.
• Qi Wang reassured Qi Si that he would support him, making Qi Si feel cherished before he remembered that he was an impostor replacing Qi Wang’s dead brother.
• Qi Si worried that revealing the truth could make Qi Wang collapse and thought the variety show might give them time apart.
• Qi Si wondered whether he could help Qi Wang fall in love so that his brother would build a life beyond him.

Qi Si joined the variety show after Qi Wang arranged his participation and negotiated him considerable freedom. A rumor that he was entering entertainment to pursue Lin Weiwei prompted a jealous-sounding exchange with Bo Yanqi, and Qi Si found his and Lin Weiwei’s names trending again.

• Qi Wang introduced Qi Si to director Xiang Qianchong, who agreed to the arrangement after Qi Wang invoked a favor and secured Qi Si freedom on the show.
• Qi Wang drove Qi Si home, then assembled a dedicated team to handle his variety-show affairs.
• Augus sent Qi Si a gossip article claiming he was joining the entertainment industry to get closer to Lin Weiwei, and Qi Si denied still liking her.
• Qi Si asked Augus whether he was jealous, but Bo Yanqi left the message unanswered and went to a meeting.
• Qi Si went to clarify his relationship with Lin Weiwei on Weibo, then noticed their names trending together again and opened the topic.

Qi Si discovered that Lin Weiwei and Shen Shuyu had both joined the variety show he had signed up for, while Qi Wang learned Bo Fuyu had arranged Lin Weiwei’s place. Qi Wang tried to withdraw Qi Si from the show, but Xiang Qianchong warned that doing so would breach the contract.

• Qi Si saw Lin Weiwei and Shen Shuyu on the guest list for Go! All-Round Charge Forward! and messaged Augus to insist he had not known Lin Weiwei would participate.
• Qi Si considered whether he could help Shen Shuyu escape her abusive relationship with Bo Fuyu, then decided to keep his distance if she would not change her fate.
• Qi Wang confronted Xiang Qianchong about Lin Weiwei joining the show, and Xiang Qianchong explained that Bo Fuyu’s people had arranged her appearance.
• Qi Wang declared Qi Si’s contract void because Lin Weiwei would be on the show, but Xiang Qianchong argued that canceling it would constitute a breach of contract.

Qi Wang reluctantly let Qi Si stay on the variety show after Qi Si swore he was over Lin Weiwei. On filming day, Qi Si hurried to get ready before the production crew arrived to inspect his luggage and introduce viewers to his home.

• Xiang Qianchong persuaded Qi Wang to ask Qi Si whether he still wanted to appear on the show, and Qi Wang warned him about Lin Weiwei.
• Qi Si swore he no longer had feelings for Lin Weiwei and promised Qi Wang he would freeze his cards if he went back to her.
• Qi Wang agreed to let Qi Si join the show, relieving Xiang Qianchong, who hoped Qi Si's presence would keep Qi Wang from interfering.
• Qi Wang woke Qi Si early on filming day, and Qi Si panicked when he realized he had eaten breakfast before brushing his teeth.
• Qi Si rushed upstairs to get ready as the production crew arrived to check his luggage and show viewers his home.

Qi Wang welcomed the production team to his home while the livestream viewers reacted to his first public face reveal and his close bond with Qi Si. When the crew prepared to inspect Qi Si’s suitcase before departure, Qi Wang frowned at the prospect of restrictions, leaving the inspection about to begin.

• Qi Wang appeared on the livestream, prompting viewers to marvel at his looks and recognize him as Qi Si’s older brother.
• Qi Wang welcomed the production team and confirmed that he and Qi Si lived alone in the villa, with housekeeping staff visiting regularly.
• Qi Wang allowed the production team to follow him upstairs, where he found Qi Si packed and ready to leave.
• The PD told Qi Si that the crew would inspect his suitcase and prohibit everything except daily necessities and certain medications.
• Qi Wang frowned at the luggage rules while viewers noticed his reaction.

Qi Si discovered that Qi Wang had secretly packed an enormous second suitcase for him, full of prohibited comforts and supplies. After the production team inspected and pared down the luggage, Qi Si left with one suitcase and the medicines his brother insisted he bring.

• Qi Si was stunned to find Qi Wang had packed a second huge suitcase while he slept.
• The production team rejected the food, most daily necessities, and skincare products, and Qi Si agreed to leave them behind.
• Qi Si threw aside the humidifier and denied that it had been packed for any particular reason.
• Qi Wang insisted Qi Si bring his medical kit and explained that his younger brother had been frequently ill since childhood.
• Qi Si agreed to bring only specialized medicines after the production team offered to provide common ones, but Qi Wang overruled him.
• The production team consolidated the permitted items into one suitcase, leaving Qi Si relieved and Qi Wang displeased.

Qi Si joined Go! All-Round Charge! and openly denied coming because of Lin Weiwei, while Shen Shuyu and Lin Weiwei’s rival fanbases clashed during their livestreams. The production team’s pointed questions left Qi Si making clear that he would have refused to join if he had known Lin Weiwei would be there.

• Qi Si told the PD that his brother Qi Wang was his only family and admitted he had watched the show, though he complained about how it tormented its guests.
• Viewers speculated about the two mystery guests as Qi Si joked that the production team might have invited another bored rich young master.
• Shen Shuyu and Lin Weiwei answered questions about joining the show, and their fans fought in both livestreams.
• Lin Weiwei denied that Qi Si joined because of her and asked her fans not to make that claim.
• The PD asked Qi Si whether he had joined because of Lin Weiwei, and Qi Si said he would not have come if he had known she was on the show.

Qi Si denied joining the show for Lin Weiwei, then arrived at the filming location and greeted Shen Shuyu warmly. Lin Weiwei watched them together, growing visibly upset as the livestream audience speculated about their relationship.

• Qi Si joked with the cameraman about sleeping naked and denied that he had joined the show for Lin Weiwei.
• Qi Wang watched Qi Si's livestream and was pleased that Qi Si seemed to have no feelings for Lin Weiwei, though he threatened to remove her if that proved false.
• Qi Si slept during the drive and arrived at the filming location, where Jiang Han and Xu Zhening were already waiting.
• Lin Weiwei and Shen Shuyu arrived, and Shen Shuyu greeted Qi Si and asked whether he had recovered from his illness.
• Livestream viewers reacted to Qi Si and Shen Shuyu chatting, while Lin Weiwei grew upset that Qi Si had ignored her and was friendly with Shen Shuyu.

Qi Si challenged Lin Weiwei’s attempts to portray him as a bully, then revealed that he had withdrawn a spot meant for her. The mysterious guests arrived as Zhou Linzhe and Best Actress Yang Yi, sending the show’s livestream and popularity soaring.

• Lin Weiwei’s fans cursed Qi Si after she gave him a wounded look, but the hostile comments and their accounts quickly disappeared.
• Qi Si told Shen Shuyu that he had kept a show spot from Lin Weiwei, and Xu Zhening realized Lin Weiwei had likely gained a powerful new backer.
• Jiang Han redirected the conversation to the mysterious guests, and Zhou Linzhe arrived, troubling Shen Shuyu.
• Best Actress Yang Yi arrived, shocking the guests and viewers as the show’s popularity surged.
• Xiang Qianchong watched the episode’s buzz rise and reflected that Qi Si, Lin Weiwei, and Zhou Linzhe had joined through separate connections or arrangements.

The guests on Go! All-Round Dash! traveled for two hours to a remote mountain village that turned out to be their filming location. Qi Si tried to escape back onto the departing bus rather than drag his suitcase through the muddy village entrance.

• The livestream froze when Yang Yi appeared, then resumed to show Qi Si standing apart from Lin Weiwei and beside Yang Yi.
• Xiang Qianchong told the guests to board a bus without revealing their destination, and they traveled for two hours.
• Qi Si woke up, questioned Xiang Qianchong about the remote route, and threatened him to make sure the guests would be safe.
• The bus arrived at a backward mountain village, where the guests saw they would have to drag their luggage along a muddy, uneven path.
• Qi Si carried his suitcase back toward the bus and said he would leave with it when Xiang Qianchong announced it was departing.

The guests arrived at Cloudgrain Village and struggled with the muddy, remote filming location, while Qi Si stayed calm and asked about food and lodging. They chose room arrangements for the night, leaving Shen Shuyu and Lin Weiwei sharing a room as viewers wondered whether the two would clash.

• The guests entered Cloudgrain Village with mud covering their shoes and luggage, while Xiang Qianchong secretly started the livestream.
• Xiang Qianchong announced that the village was the filming location and explained that the seven guests had four rooms to divide among themselves.
• Qi Si proposed that the men share rooms in pairs and the three women work out their own arrangement.
• Xu Zhening and Jiang Han agreed to share a room, while Qi Si and Zhou Linzhe agreed to share another.
• Lin Weiwei pointed out that Yang Yi slept poorly, and Yang Yi took the single room while Shen Shuyu and Lin Weiwei shared one.

Xiang Qianchong led the guests through Cloudgrain Village to inspect their accommodations, while Qi Si challenged Lin Weiwei to turn her sympathy for the villagers into real help. The guests learned they would be lodging separately in villagers’ homes, leaving them startled as they faced their first house.

• Xiang Qianchong led the guests through Cloudgrain Village, where Yang Yi reminisced about her grandmother’s home and Qi Si recognized the village from a past filming job.
• Lin Weiwei expressed pity for the villagers, and Shen Shuyu challenged her to do more than talk.
• Qi Si pressed Lin Weiwei to help the village, and Xiang Qianchong publicly thanked her for becoming its first philanthropist, leaving her unable to back out.
• Shen Shuyu enjoyed Lin Weiwei’s predicament, while Zhou Linzhe admired Lin Weiwei even more.
• Xiang Qianchong showed the guests a wooden cabin and explained that they would lodge in four villagers’ homes, one room per household.

The guests had to choose their accommodations one by one without knowing whether the next option would be better. Qi Si chose the first place for himself and Zhou Linzhe, while Zhou Linzhe’s defense of Lin Weiwei strained Shen Shuyu; the others moved on to inspect the next accommodation.

• Xiang Qianchong told the guests they had to choose each accommodation immediately, without seeing the next one.
• Qi Si volunteered to take the first place when the director warned that choosing late could mean missing lunch, and the others agreed.
• Lin Weiwei tried to make Zhou Linzhe’s opinion part of the decision, but Qi Si challenged her for speaking on Shen Shuyu’s behalf too.
• Shen Shuyu answered Lin Weiwei pointedly, and Zhou Linzhe’s reproachful look left Shen Shuyu hurt.
• Zhou Linzhe agreed to stay with Qi Si, who called him a “male beauty who brings disaster”; afterward, the other guests continued to the next place while Zhou Linzhe followed them, worried about Lin Weiwei.

Qi Si enjoyed a lavish homemade meal at the first household while the other guests inspected increasingly varied accommodations. After Xu Zhening and Jiang Han reluctantly chose the foul-smelling second house, the women found the third household was a two-story brick-and-tile home and eagerly accepted it.

• Grandma Yu served Qi Si a home-cooked meal, and he ate enthusiastically while Zhou Linzhe left to inspect the other houses.
• The guests found the second household's chicken coop unbearably smelly, so Xu Zhening and Jiang Han chose to stay there after the women declined.
• Xu Zhening and Jiang Han met Lin Xiuyun and sat down to eat the meal she had prepared.
• Yang Yi, Shen Shuyu, and Lin Weiwei reached the third household and were surprised to find a two-story brick-and-tile house.
• When Xiang Qianchong offered an unoccupied thatched hut as an alternative, the three women quickly accepted the third household.

Yang Yi let Lin Weiwei take the better residence and followed the director to a dilapidated thatched hut, while Shen Shuyu tried to take her place. Yang Yi refused the switch and settled into the hut, leaving Shen Shuyu to follow her inside.

• Shen Shuyu suggested that Yang Yi stay in the spacious residence, but Lin Weiwei argued that its noise might bother Yang Yi and chose it herself.
• Yang Yi let Lin Weiwei and Shen Shuyu have that residence, then continued with the director toward the final household.
• Shen Shuyu caught up with Yang Yi, and they discovered that the final residence was a small, dilapidated thatched hut.
• Shen Shuyu offered to switch places with Yang Yi, but Yang Yi teased her, declined, and said she could manage the hut.
• Yang Yi carried her luggage inside, and Shen Shuyu followed her into the house.

Yang Yi and Shen Shuyu shared lunch at Granny Jiang’s home, where Yang Yi’s kindness left Shen Shuyu flustered and fans began shipping them. After returning to Wang Jianmin’s house, Shen Shuyu told Wang Guifang she had already eaten, while Qi Si settled in for a nap and Zhou Linzhe remained uneasy about sharing a room.

• Yang Yi and Shen Shuyu entered Granny Jiang’s clean but modest home, and Granny Jiang invited them to lunch.
• Yang Yi praised Granny Jiang’s cooking, and Shen Shuyu chose to stay and eat with them.
• Yang Yi served Shen Shuyu meat, making her blush; livestream viewers speculated that Shen Shuyu liked her, and Xiang Qianchong let the crew encourage the pairing.
• Shen Shuyu returned to Wang Jianmin’s house and told Wang Guifang she had eaten at Granny Jiang’s, despite Lin Weiwei’s comment that no food had been saved for her.
• The director gave the guests time to rest; Qi Si fell asleep, while Zhou Linzhe hesitated beside their shared bed.

Qi Si watched Zhou Linzhe replace the bedding and learned he had traded away his warm clothes to bring it, then defended Grandma Yu’s food when Lin Weiwei worried about Zhou. Xiang Qianchong called Qi Si a “bottomless pit,” but Qi Wang appeared in the livestream chat, forcing the director to take it back.

• Zhou Linzhe replaced the bedding with his own and revealed he had traded away necessities, including warm clothes, to bring it.
• Qi Si and the other guests discussed the delicious lunch, while Zhou Linzhe admitted he had not eaten because he disliked the food.
• Lin Weiwei worried about Zhou Linzhe, and Qi Si pointed out that Grandma Yu had saved him a meal; Xiang Qianchong said guests could withdraw if they could not adapt.
• Zhou Linzhe thanked Lin Weiwei for caring, while Qi Si dismissed the romantic tension and urged Xiang Qianchong to announce the task.
• Xiang Qianchong teased Qi Si for eating so much, but Qi Wang commented in the livestream that he was watching, prompting Xiang Qianchong to retract the insult.

Xiang Qianchong told the guests they had to earn compensation through village work to pay for every meal, and Qi Si and Zhou Linzhe led the others off to find a way to make money. The chapter ended with Xiang Qianchong shouting after them as they ignored him and left.

• Xiang Qianchong announced that the guests had to repay their prepared lunch through labor for villagers.
• Xiang Qianchong clarified that future meals also had to be earned in the village without using the guests’ own money.
• Qi Si questioned the rules and considered how to avoid going hungry, while Xiang Qianchong anticipated the young masters’ reactions.
• Yang Yi asked whether the task was simply to avoid starving, and Xu Zhening suspected there were more tasks.
• Qi Si left to make money, Zhou Linzhe followed, and the other guests ran after them while Xiang Qianchong shouted in vain.

Qi Si refused to earn money for dinner and tried to get Zhou Linzhe to share his food, but Zhou refused. As Zhou went out, Qi Si reflected on the novel’s plot and his infatuation with Lin Weiwei.

• Qi Si suggested that Zhou Linzhe could feed him, but Zhou Linzhe refused and told him to earn his own food money.
• Qi Si stayed in the room playing on his phone while Zhou Linzhe left by himself.
• Qi Si suspected Zhou Linzhe was going to find Lin Weiwei and recalled that Zhou had only just met her in the novel’s timeline.
• Qi Si thought about how Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe chose Lin Weiwei but still tormented Shen Shuyu, and angrily condemned the novel.
• Qi Si’s phone vibrated with a message on Green Bubble.

Qi Si was thrilled when Augus unexpectedly messaged him during the livestream, and he realized Augus was watching him on the show. Bo Yanqi teased him about earning money for dinner, while Qi Si tried to confirm that Augus was worried about him.

• Qi Si opened a message from Augus and excitedly replied that he was filming a variety show.
• Qi Si hurriedly fixed his appearance after realizing Augus might be watching the livestream, prompting Qi Wang to wonder who had messaged him.
• Bo Yanqi discovered Qi Si's livestream, remembered he had not replied to Qi Si's earlier messages, and began chatting with him.
• Qi Si smiled at his phone while viewers criticized him for neglecting the show's money-making tasks.
• Bo Yanqi asked whether Qi Si was going to earn money or feared missing dinner, and Qi Si asked if he was worried about him.