Chapter Summaries

After the guests traded for their ingredients, Bo Fuyu sought out Shen Shuyu before leaving, while Qi Si dragged Zhou Linzhe outside under the pretense of helping him get closer to Lin Weiwei. Qi Si then ditched Zhou Linzhe and secretly headed toward Bo Fuyu and Shen Shuyu to eavesdrop.

• Xu Zhening and Jiang Han returned covered in mud with only a few loaches, and their fans spread edited clips of their embarrassing fishing attempts online.
• The guests used their traded ingredients for dinner, and Bo Fuyu chose to leave rather than stay overnight.
• Before departing, Bo Fuyu went to speak with Shen Shuyu beneath a jujube tree, where Qi Si saw them apparently arguing from a window.
• Qi Si pushed Zhou Linzhe outside, claiming he should create opportunities to get closer to Lin Weiwei, and their overheard conversation fueled speculation among viewers.
• Qi Si sent Zhou Linzhe toward Lin Weiwei's lodging, then secretly headed toward Bo Fuyu and Shen Shuyu.

Zhou Linzhe and Bo Fuyu fought over Shen Shuyu, hurting her wrists until Qi Si intervened. After they released her, Shen Shuyu backed away in fear, leaving Qi Si questioning whether she truly loved Bo Fuyu.

• Zhou Linzhe followed Qi Si toward Bo Fuyu and Shen Shuyu after seeing them argue.
• Bo Fuyu grabbed Shen Shuyu when she tried to leave, and Zhou Linzhe pulled her in the opposite direction.
• Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe ignored Shen Shuyu's pleas as they fought over her and squeezed her wrists.
• Qi Si intervened, warning the men that they could injure Shen Shuyu and cause trouble for the show.
• Zhou Linzhe and Bo Fuyu released Shen Shuyu after noticing her injured wrists, and she retreated from them in fear.

Qi Si watched Bo Fuyu threaten Shen Shuyu and then fight Zhou Linzhe, while reconsidering why Shen Shuyu might be unable to leave Bo Fuyu. The chapter ended with Qi Si shouting for help and claiming the two men were fighting over Lin Weiwei.

• Bo Fuyu blamed Shen Shuyu for his own actions and raised his hand as if to hit her, but Zhou Linzhe stepped between them.
• Qi Si considered that Shen Shuyu might want to leave Bo Fuyu but feel trapped by her family’s financial troubles and their engagement.
• Bo Fuyu punched Zhou Linzhe, and Shen Shuyu tried to stop them.
• Qi Si grabbed Shen Shuyu to keep her from intervening and advised her to call for help.
• Before Shen Shuyu could act, Qi Si shouted that Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe were fighting over Lin Weiwei.

Qi Si interrupted a tense confrontation between Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe, then stirred up trouble by claiming they were fighting over Lin Weiwei. Shen Shuyu denied being the woman they were fighting over just as Lin Weiwei and Yang Yi arrived, leaving Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe unable to explain themselves.

• Qi Si called for help when he feared Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe might fight, drawing Xiang Qianchong and the production crew to the scene.
• Xiang Qianchong urged Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe to talk things out, while Qi Si privately resented the director for failing to intervene earlier.
• Qi Si loudly claimed that Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe both liked Lin Weiwei and should compete fairly, making them furious.
• Zhou Linzhe said they had only been messing around, and Bo Fuyu did not contradict him when Xiang Qianchong asked if it was true.
• Shen Shuyu said she was fine and denied being the female lead the two young masters were fighting over.
• Lin Weiwei and Yang Yi approached, and Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe stopped before they could deny Qi Si's claim.

Qi Si teased Zhou Linzhe and Bo Fuyu about their bet, exposing Zhou Linzhe’s feelings for Lin Weiwei and provoking an awkward exchange with Shen Shuyu. He decided to approach Bo Yanqi after filming ended the next day, hoping to secure his support before Bo Fuyu could cause trouble.

• Yang Yi and Lin Weiwei joined the group, and Qi Si nearly revealed that Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe had been arguing over a girl.
• Bo Fuyu explained that he and Zhou Linzhe had bet on how long it would take for the girl Zhou Linzhe liked to accept him.
• Lin Weiwei deflected Yang Yi’s teasing by suggesting Shen Shuyu would suit Zhou Linzhe, and Zhou Linzhe rejected the idea of being paired with Shen Shuyu.
• Qi Si called Zhou Linzhe’s taste alternative, while Yang Yi redirected the conversation to keep Zhou Linzhe from losing his temper.
• Qi Si decided to seek out Bo Yanqi after filming the first episode ended the next day.

After filming ended, Qi Si reunited with Qi Wang, who took him straight to a styling studio and brought him to a banquet. Qi Si arrived without knowing what kind of event it was.

• Bo Fuyu left before nightfall, and the guests finished the first three days of filming and boarded the bus back.
• Qi Si traded jokes and insults with Zhou Linzhe over how he had earned meal money by playing chess with the village elders.
• Qi Wang came to pick up Qi Si, welcomed him warmly, and called him “Dun Dun the Little Princess.”
• Qi Wang invited Qi Si to a banquet and urged him to start helping at the company, but Qi Si tried unsuccessfully to avoid going.
• Qi Wang took Qi Si to a styling studio, then brought him to the banquet venue, where Qi Si still did not know what kind of event it was.

Qi Si attended the Bo family patriarch’s birthday banquet with Qi Wang, who introduced him to influential guests and changed how the upper class viewed him. While waiting to see whether Bo Yanqi would appear, Qi Si messaged Augus, whose teasing suggestion that he wanted to discuss dating left Qi Si stunned.

• Qi Si learned that the banquet was for the Bo family patriarch’s eightieth birthday and asked whether Bo Yanqi would attend.
• Qi Wang warned Qi Si not to provoke Bo Yanqi, then brought him around the banquet to meet influential guests.
• Qi Si grew tired of following Qi Wang and slipped away to a balcony while Qi Wang was occupied with a business partner.
• Qi Si messaged Augus to ask whether Bo Yanqi would attend the banquet.
• Augus asked whether Qi Si wanted to discuss dating with Bo Yanqi, and Qi Si replied that Augus must have been drinking.

Qi Si criticized Bo Fuyu to Augus while insisting that he liked Augus, and Bo Yanqi secretly read their messages. Bo Yanqi decided to attend the birthday banquet, where Qi Si mistook Augus’s arrival for the appearance of the person he had been waiting for.

• Qi Si questioned Augus about dating Bo Yanqi and asked whether Bo Fuyu had to be the Bo Household’s next heir.
• Qi Si condemned Bo Fuyu’s treatment of Shen Shuyu, and Bo Yanqi asked whether Qi Si liked her.
• Qi Si reaffirmed that he liked Augus, making Bo Yanqi smile as he read the messages.
• Bo Yanqi told Zhong Ming to turn the car around and take him to the birthday banquet.
• Qi Si waited for Bo Yanqi, then saw Augus arrive and realized he might have misunderstood who was coming.

Qi Si met Bo Yanqi in person at a banquet after realizing that the man he had chatted with online was the same person. Bo Yanqi summoned him to a private room upstairs, where Qi Si found him waiting in a deliberately disheveled state.

• Qi Wang identified Bo Yanqi for Qi Si and offered to introduce them.
• Qi Wang spoke with Bo Yanqi while Qi Si stood by awkwardly, and Bo Yanqi acted as though they had never chatted online.
• Bo Yanqi messaged Qi Si to come to the second floor, teasing him about being scared.
• Qi Si followed Bo Yanqi's assistant Zhong Ming to a lounge and found Bo Yanqi waiting there with his jacket off and shirt collar open.

Qi Si confronted Bo Yanqi about dating and boldly flirted with him in person, convinced that Bo Yanqi had feelings for him. The chapter ended with Bo Yanqi warning Qi Si of the danger while Qi Si challenged him to find out what would happen.

• Bo Yanqi asked Qi Si why he had wanted to talk, and Qi Si bluntly brought up dating.
• Bo Yanqi teased Qi Si for speaking without restraint, while Qi Si joked that Bo Yanqi might have someone beat him up.
• Qi Si told Bo Yanqi that he believed Bo Yanqi could not bear to hit him, then sat on his lap and wrapped Bo Yanqi's arm around his waist.
• Bo Yanqi warned Qi Si that provoking him could leave Qi Si with no bones, but Qi Si challenged him to try.

Qi Si teased Bo Yanqi at Bo Yanqi’s father’s birthday banquet, but Bo Yanqi turned the tables and caught him off guard. Qi Si stopped Bo Yanqi from undressing him by reminding him where they were, leaving their flirtation unresolved.

• Qi Si sat on Bo Yanqi’s lap, flirted with him, and licked his Adam’s apple before slipping away to the opposite chair.
• Bo Yanqi ordered Qi Si to come closer, then pulled him onto his lap, where Qi Si accidentally ripped open Bo Yanqi’s shirt.
• Bo Yanqi teased Qi Si about admiring his chest and began reaching for Qi Si’s clothes.
• Qi Si panicked and stopped Bo Yanqi, reminding him that they were at his father’s birthday banquet.

Qi Si tried to escape Bo Yanqi’s advances at the birthday banquet, but their teasing turned into a negotiation over keeping Bo Yanqi. Qi Si transferred Bo Yanqi nine hundred thousand, leaving Bo Yanqi with a complicated look and confirming Qi Wang had been right to keep a close eye on him.

• Bo Yanqi overpowered Qi Si and ignored his pleas to stop, but Qi Si softened his approach and asked him to go somewhere private.
• Bo Yanqi suggested Qi Si could come home with him, and Qi Si misunderstood him as offering to keep him.
• Qi Si offered to keep Bo Yanqi instead, and Bo Yanqi proposed a monthly maintenance fee of nine hundred thousand.
• Qi Si confirmed that keeping Bo Yanqi meant Bo Yanqi would answer his messages and accept his invitations, then transferred the money.
• Bo Yanqi received the payment and watched Qi Si with a complicated expression, thinking Qi Wang had been right to keep such a tight rein on him.

Qi Si paid Bo Yanqi nine hundred thousand to keep him, then tried to assert his authority by biting Bo Yanqi’s Adam’s apple. Bo Yanqi warned him not to play with fire, but later teased him by undressing until Qi Si blushed and turned away.

• Qi Si accepted Bo Yanqi’s agreement to be kept and stayed sitting on his lap, convinced that Bo Yanqi had to obey him.
• Qi Si bit Bo Yanqi’s Adam’s apple, and Bo Yanqi pushed him off and warned him not to play with fire.
• Qi Si accused Bo Yanqi of breaking his promises, but Bo Yanqi dismissed the agreement as merely theoretical and insisted he would still honor it.
• Zhong Ming brought Bo Yanqi a fresh shirt, noticed the scene, and hurried away to share gossip with his older brother.
• Bo Yanqi changed clothes in front of Qi Si and teased him by slowly undoing his belt, making Qi Si blush and turn around.

Qi Si argued with Bo Yanqi over the money Bo Yanqi had given him, then the two laughed together and teased each other over sharing a wineglass. Qi Si realized Bo Yanqi was still treating his confession as a joke, and the chapter ended with him calling Bo Yanqi all talk.

• Qi Si turned around while Bo Yanqi was changing, stumbled into his arms, and was teased about his waist.
• Bo Yanqi refused to return Qi Si's nine hundred thousand, saying his money only left his pocket when it came back doubled.
• Qi Si accused Bo Yanqi of bullying a child, and their argument turned into mutual laughter.
• Qi Si drank from Bo Yanqi's wineglass and challenged him when Bo Yanqi pointed it out.
• Qi Si asked why Bo Yanqi was staying upstairs, and Bo Yanqi said Qi Si was more interesting than anyone downstairs.
• Qi Si decided Bo Yanqi was only teasing him and called him all talk.

Qi Si questioned Bo Yanqi’s choice of Bo Fuyu as heir, then realized he did not know whether Bo Yanqi shared his orientation and openly pressed him to date. Bo Yanqi teased him over their 900,000 maintenance arrangement and refused to grant a favor without hearing what it was.

• Qi Si asked why Bo Yanqi had chosen Bo Fuyu as his successor, and Bo Yanqi said he had simply needed an heir and found Bo Fuyu reasonably pleasing.
• Bo Yanqi asked Qi Si who he thought he would have children with, making Qi Si realize he had assumed Bo Yanqi was bisexual because he had mistaken him for Augus.
• Qi Si nervously asked whether Bo Yanqi shared his orientation, then declared that his own orientation was Bo Yanqi and urged him to date.
• Bo Yanqi reminded Qi Si that he was his patron and had paid 900,000 in maintenance fees.
• Qi Si asked Bo Yanqi for one favor without revealing what it was, but Bo Yanqi refused, leaving Qi Si to protest that the arrangement gave him no power.

Qi Si asked Bo Yanqi to reconsider his choice of successor, insisting that Bo Fuyu not be chosen. As Bo Yanqi withheld his answer, Qi Si recalled the family’s bitter history and wondered why Bo Yanqi treated Bo Fuyu differently from the rest of the Bo Household.

• Bo Yanqi teased Qi Si during their discussion, then challenged him to state his request before agreeing to anything.
• Qi Si shifted into a serious negotiating manner and asked Bo Yanqi to reconsider his successor choice.
• Qi Si said Bo Yanqi could choose anyone as successor as long as it was not Bo Fuyu.
• Qi Si recalled that Bo Yanqi’s mother had died by suicide when he was ten and that the eldest Bo brother had sent him abroad.
• Qi Si remembered Bo Yanqi’s return as an adult with power of his own and the eldest brother’s subsequent stroke, which many blamed on Bo Yanqi.
• Qi Si wondered why Bo Yanqi had repeatedly compromised for Bo Fuyu despite his hostility toward the Bo Household.

Qi Si urged Bo Yanqi to reconsider choosing Bo Fuyu as the Bo Household’s heir, citing Bo Fuyu’s behavior toward women and showing Bo Yanqi footage of his treatment of Shen Shuyu. Bo Yanqi watched in silence, and Qi Si asked whether the planned marriage alliance with the Shen Household had to involve Bo Fuyu.

• Bo Yanqi said he had chosen Bo Fuyu because he found him pleasing and wanted an heir he could control, while Qi Si urged him to pick someone else.
• Qi Si recalled Bo Fuyu and Lin Weiwei’s abuse of a supporting actress and secured Bo Yanqi’s promise not to retaliate against Qi Si, Qi Wang, or Qi Corporation.
• Qi Si told Bo Yanqi that Bo Fuyu acted differently around him and criticized his disrespectful treatment of Shen Shuyu.
• Qi Si played Bo Yanqi the footage of Bo Fuyu’s dispute with Shen Shuyu and Zhou Linzhe, and Bo Yanqi watched with darkening eyes.
• Qi Si asked whether the Bo-Shen marriage alliance had to pair Bo Fuyu with Shen Shuyu or could involve another member of the Bo Household.

Qi Si questioned Bo Yanqi about Bo Fuyu and Shen Shuyu’s marriage and urged him to replace Bo Fuyu as heir. He then pressed Bo Yanqi to say whose side he would take if Qi Si and Bo Fuyu clashed.

• Qi Si noticed that Shen Shuyu’s fear and disgust toward Bo Fuyu contradicted the original story’s portrayal of their romance.
• Bo Yanqi told Qi Si that the Shen Household had sought the marriage alliance, prompting Qi Si to suspect Shen Shuyu had not wanted to marry Bo Fuyu.
• Qi Si urged Bo Yanqi to replace Bo Fuyu as heir, but Bo Yanqi challenged him to explain why he should interfere in the family’s affairs.
• Qi Si reminded Bo Yanqi of his earlier question on Green Bubbles and demanded to know whether he would side with Qi Si or Bo Fuyu in a fight.

Qi Si persuaded Bo Yanqi not to help Bo Fuyu, then left their private meeting when Qi Wang came looking for him. Seeing Bo Fuyu arrive at the banquet, Qi Si realized Bo Yanqi might have abandoned him as a successor, and decided Bo Fuyu was no longer a threat to Qi Wang.

• Bo Yanqi told Qi Si he would help neither him nor Bo Fuyu, and Qi Si made him promise not to give Bo Fuyu any help or money.
• Qi Wang called Qi Si, so Qi Si ended his private meeting with Bo Yanqi and hurried downstairs.
• Qi Wang found Qi Si and told him to stay by his side, while Qi Si hid that he had met Bo Yanqi.
• Bo Fuyu arrived at the banquet with Shen Shuyu, prompting Qi Si to realize Bo Yanqi's promise could mean he had stopped supporting Bo Fuyu.
• Qi Si concluded Bo Fuyu could not rival Qi Wang without Bo Yanqi's backing and stopped worrying about him.

At the Bo family patriarch’s birthday banquet, Qi Si talked with Qi Wang about Bo Fuyu and learned that his brother would immediately defend him if Bo Fuyu caused trouble. Xiao Chou then joined them, and Qi Wang left the two friends alone to talk.

• Qi Wang asked whether Qi Si was close to Shen Shuyu and Bo Fuyu, then said they did not need to greet them.
• Qi Si asked whether Qi Wang would be angry if he fought with Bo Fuyu, and Qi Wang instead worried that Bo Fuyu might bully him.
• Qi Si told Qi Wang that Bo Fuyu might hold a grudge over their disagreements on a variety show, and Qi Wang eyed Bo Fuyu with hostility.
• Qi Si predicted that Qi Wang could swallow up the Bo Household if Bo Fuyu became its heir, while Qi Wang acknowledged that Bo Fuyu was the most capable of the younger generation.
• Xiao Chou appeared and joked with Qi Si, while Qi Wang admonished Qi Si for speaking improperly.
• Qi Wang gave Qi Si and Xiao Chou space, and Xiao Chou watched him leave enviously before Qi Si told him to stop staring at his brother.