Recaps

Zhuang Yushu learned that Zhuang Yuefeng’s leg could be saved, but overheard the doctor plotting with Lin Shi to keep the patient from recovering and take him as experimental material. Meanwhile, Yan Xianjue reviewed Lei Xuan and Yao Weiran’s travel-show proposal, then recruited Shen Fangli as a guest, leaving her to face more acting lessons.

• Zhuang Yushu heard the doctor explain that Zhuang Yuefeng would not need an amputation, then left and reported his visit to his mother.
• The doctor called Lin Shi, complained about Zhuang Yuefeng, and asked to take him along as experimental material when he was transferred.
• Yan Xianjue criticized Lei Xuan and Yao Weiran’s travel-show proposal, including its month-long shoot and the title “The Young Master and His Friends.”
• Yan Xianjue called Shen Fangli and told her she had been chosen as the Young Master’s first friend and would join the show.
• Shen Fangli protested that she had only just started acting lessons, but Yan Xianjue told her she could take them online.

Shen Fangli learned that Yan Xianjue had arranged for her to join a labor-heavy travel show, then clashed with her mother over entering entertainment and her future marriage. The chapter ended with Shen Fangli confronting her mother about whether she had given her birth chart to Second Aunt.

• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli that she would join the travel show with Ji Xi and another guest, while he would serve as the pampered young master.
• Shen Fangli packed for the show after hanging up on Yan Xianjue.
• Mother Shen questioned Shen Fangli’s distance from her and objected to her entering the entertainment industry.
• Shen Fangli challenged her mother for worrying about her marriage prospects and rejected her mother’s defense of arranging a marriage alliance.
• Shen Fangli asked Mother Shen whether she had given her birth chart to Second Aunt.

Shen Fangli confronted her mother about considering a marriage alliance with the Lin Household, while Father Shen intervened and later apologized for allowing his wife's family to put Shen Fangli in difficult positions. Shen Fangli told her father to decide whether to remain married based on his own heart, leaving their family's future unresolved.

• Shen Fangli challenged her mother over the possible marriage alliance with the Lin Household and asked whether her mother would have been swayed by Second Aunt without her intervention.
• Father Shen appeared and ended the confrontation by asking Shen Fangli to prepare for a shopping trip before filming a variety show.
• Shen Fangli recalled Yan Xianjue's warning that her parents' marriage showed signs of falling apart, with her caught in the conflict over Second Aunt's family.
• Father Shen apologized for failing to handle matters with the Fang Household and admitted he had stayed married partly to protect his reputation.
• Shen Fangli acknowledged her father's efforts to protect her and told him to choose whether to stay with her mother according to his own heart.

Shen Fangli traveled with the production team to Yan Xianjue’s beach villa for the show, where she discovered that he had arranged a punishing system of work, rent, and escalating debt for the guests. The group arrived and faced their first dispute over how they would earn food and pay rent.

• Father Shen dropped Shen Fangli at the airport and told her to stay with the group, keep her phone, and call him if she wanted to leave filming.
• Shen Fangli waited at the airport with Ji Xi until Lei Xuan arrived with his father, who asked Ji Xi to look after Lei Xuan and recognized Shen Fangli from a banquet.
• The cast traveled to Yan Xianjue’s beach villa, where he greeted them with an order to hunt for their dinner.
• Lei Xuan found the task card, and Shen Fangli and Ji Xi learned that they had to complete tasks for meals while paying rent to Yan Xianjue.
• Shen Fangli objected to the rent and its rapidly increasing interest, comparing Yan Xianjue’s terms to Wang Xifeng’s.

Shen Fangli and the other guests negotiated the cost of staying at Yan Xianjue’s villa while Lei Xuan set their first task: fishing for ingredients under Jiang Miaomiao’s guidance. The guests learned they also had to prepare dinner and gather ingredients for Yan Xianjue’s breakfast, leaving Shen Fangli asking who could cook.

• Shen Fangli argued that the production team should pay rent too, but Lei Xuan said they had brought tents.
• Ji Xi proposed sleeping in the living room to reduce the guests’ rent, and Yan Xianjue agreed while refusing to provide bedding before renaming the show The Young Master and His Laborers.
• Yan Xianjue joked that he was short on virtue in the five elements and threatened to raise the rent, prompting Shen Fangli to ask how they could earn money.
• Lei Xuan assigned the guests to go fishing with Jiang Miaomiao, where ten jin of fish could be exchanged for three jin of lobster or two crabs.
• Lei Xuan revealed the guests’ dinner requirements and said they also had to prepare ingredients for Yan Xianjue’s crab roe buns the next morning.
• Shen Fangli asked who among them knew how to cook.

Jiang Miaomiao, Ji Xi, and Shen Fangli hired Yan Xianjue’s chef for dinner, then went fishing to earn money while Yan Xianjue surfed. Their catch was only a tiny fish fry until they realized they had forgotten bait, which Lei Xuan offered for twenty yuan a bag.

• Jiang Miaomiao, Ji Xi, and Shen Fangli discussed their cooking skills, and Yan Xianjue offered to hire them his chef for three hundred a day.
• Ji Xi negotiated a trial meal, and Yan Xianjue agreed despite Lei Xuan’s protests.
• The group set out to earn money for dinner, but Yan Xianjue went surfing while the others caught only a tiny fish fry.
• Jiang Miaomiao realized they had forgotten to use bait, and Lei Xuan offered the group a small packet for twenty yuan.

Yan Ci watched Yan Xianjue’s fishing trip with his parents and recalled stories of his younger brother’s strange popularity with animals. As the group struggled to catch enough fish, Shen Fangli used a megaphone to call Yan Xianjue over for help.

• Yan Ci came home and joined Father Yan and Mother Yan in watching Yan Xianjue’s variety show, despite claiming he had no interest in it.
• Yan Ci told his parents that Yan Xianjue had once played beside Grandpa’s fishing pond, where the fish jumped onto him.
• Mother Yan recalled a fawn pinning Yan Xianjue down and licking his face, and Yan Ci recorded the story in his notes.
• Lei Xuan, Ji Xi, Jiang Miaomiao, and Shen Fangli struggled to catch fish despite buying bait, and they refused Lei Xuan’s offer to buy more.
• Shen Fangli took Lei Xuan’s megaphone and shouted for Yan Xianjue to come help them before they went hungry.

Yan Xianjue joined Shen Fangli, Ji Xi, and Jiang Miaomiao after they struggled to catch fish, then demonstrated that fish gathered eagerly in his net. The livestream viewers accused him of cheating and joked that he should be banned.

• Viewers watched Yan Xianjue relax on his boat while Shen Fangli, Ji Xi, and Jiang Miaomiao failed to catch fish.
• Yan Xianjue scooped up a fish barehanded, stunning Yao Weiran and the livestream viewers.
• Yan Xianjue sailed over to inspect the others’ empty buckets after Shen Fangli called for help.
• Yan Xianjue took a larger fishing net and questioned whether he needed bait, despite Shen Fangli, Jiang Miaomiao, and Ji Xi insisting he did.
• Lei Xuan arranged an exclusive livestream angle that showed fish eagerly swimming into Yan Xianjue’s net, prompting viewers to accuse him of cheating and demand that he be banned.

Yan Xianjue caught enough fish to feed everyone, and the group returned to the villa, where Jiang Miaomiao's young admirer arrived with food and bedding. As everyone prepared dinner together, someone suggested they watch the sunrise the next morning.

• Yan Xianjue filled a net with fish, kept several for dinner, and released the rest before agreeing the group had enough.
• The group returned to the villa and spotted a young man waiting there with a large pile of supplies.
• The young man explained that he had brought vegetables, tofu, rice, sauce, and quilts for Jiang Miaomiao, whom he called Six-Water Sis.
• Yan Xianjue invited the young man inside to rest and help Jiang Miaomiao prepare the fish.
• The group struggled to cook dinner together, and someone suggested they watch the sunrise tomorrow.

Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue sneaked out to climb the hill and watch the sunrise, talking about her new acting career along the way. After Yan Xianjue playfully scared her with a branch, they continued their climb with his bodyguards following, and he explained that the protection was necessary while they were away from Qianhai City.

• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue climbed over the wall so they would not wake Ji Xi, who had worked late into the night.
• Yan Xianjue asked Shen Fangli what she thought of the entertainment industry and reminded her she could change paths if she disliked it; Shen Fangli said acting felt right for her.
• Yan Xianjue brushed a branch against Shen Fangli's neck to make her think a bug had touched her, then apologized when she got angry.
• Uncle Lu remarked that Yan Xianjue seemed inexperienced at pursuing a girl, and Yan Xianjue insisted he had stopped pulling pigtails in third grade.
• Shen Fangli heard a bodyguard making noises in the woods, and Yan Xianjue explained that his guards were following them because they were outside Qianhai City.

Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue discussed their security arrangements as they climbed toward the summit, then raced and bickered through the final stretch. They reached the platform just as the sunrise began, and Yan Xianjue offered Shen Fangli his hand.

• Shen Fangli said she accepted her father’s plan to hire bodyguards, and Yan Xianjue told her the company would arrange them instead.
• Yan Xianjue led the exhausted Shen Fangli farther up the mountain while they talked about her fitness classes and Zhou Ye.
• Yan Xianjue teased Shen Fangli by refusing to explain why Zhou Ye called him “Brother Yan,” then ran ahead and prompted her to chase him.
• Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue reached the summit platform as the sun rose, while Uncle Lu’s bodyguard chose not to interrupt them.
• Yan Xianjue walked back toward Shen Fangli, extended his hand, and told her, “Pull me.”

At sunrise, Shen Fangli and Yan Xianjue shared a charged moment, but Yan stopped her from confessing impulsively and made clear he would tell her his feelings in time. As they descended the mountain, Yan explained how Zhao Siji had been pressured to expose Zhao Jiazheng and admitted he had given the evidence to the police.

• Yan Xianjue pulled Shen Fangli up the final stone step, where they watched the sunrise over the sea.
• Shen Fangli covered Yan Xianjue's eyes and nearly told him she loved him, but he stopped her and asked her not to speak impulsively.
• Yan Xianjue told Shen Fangli that he had invited her because he wanted to spend time with her, whether or not the sunrise was beautiful.
• As they walked down the mountain, Yan Xianjue explained that Zhao Siji had received an anonymous email threatening to expose evidence against him unless he reported Zhao Jiazheng.
• Yan Xianjue admitted he had handed the evidence to the police and said Lin Shi had been the one who threatened Zhao Siji.

Yan Xianjue, Shen Fangli, and Lei Xuan returned with breakfast, while Ji Xi and Jiang Miaomiao prepared toast at the villa. Shen Fangli learned from Yan Xianjue’s thoughts that Jiang Miaomiao’s cooking would later send a dating-show guest to the hospital, so she avoided trying the toast.

• Lei Xuan questioned Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli about their early-morning trip, then agreed to eat the breakfast Yan Xianjue had bought.
• Ji Xi explained that he was eating toast because the previous night’s crowded team dinner had left little food, and Lei Xuan carried the breakfast to the table.
• Jiang Miaomiao revealed that she had made the toast and said she was pretty decent at cooking.
• Yan Xianjue thought about how Jiang Miaomiao’s cooking would later give a dating-show guest food poisoning and send him to the hospital.
• Shen Fangli declined Ji Xi’s toast and went to change, wary of Jiang Miaomiao’s cooking.

Ji Xi discovered that Yao Weiran was absent because he had become absorbed in recording storyboards. The livestream guests went to Jiang Miaomiao’s family fish farm to catch squid for their travel funds, where Yan Xianjue struggled and Lei Xuan got sprayed with ink.

• Ji Xi asked Lei Xuan where Yao Weiran was and learned that he was recording storyboards and scenes after finding inspiration.
• Lei Xuan began the livestream and announced that the guests would visit Jiang Miaomiao’s family fish farm to try squid fishing.
• Father Jiang demonstrated how to catch squid with a fishing rod, and Mother Jiang explained that using a net was faster.
• Lei Xuan set the task of filling a bucket with squid in exchange for the day’s travel funds.
• Yan Xianjue wondered whether he could only catch fish as he struggled to catch squid.
• Lei Xuan caught a squid, then got sprayed in the face with ink while showing it off.

After Lei Xuan changed into Yan Xianjue’s clothes, Shen Fangli realized she had feelings for Yan Xianjue, though his blunt teasing quickly embarrassed her. The fishing trip ended with everyone’s buckets full except Yan Xianjue’s, who caught ribbonfish with a wooden squid jig instead of squid.

• Jiang Miaomiao’s mother helped Lei Xuan wash up, and Lei Xuan changed into a spare set of Yan Xianjue’s clothes.
• Yan Xianjue teased Lei Xuan about his newly visible face, while Shen Fangli reflected on Yan Xianjue’s care for her and realized she had fallen for him.
• Shen Fangli blushed and hid her face, and Ji Xi moved away to fish elsewhere as Yan Xianjue wondered why he seemed more upset than the man who had caught no squid.
• Lei Xuan admired Yan Xianjue’s clothes and asked where to buy them, while Yan Xianjue and Shen Fangli joked about Lei Xuan’s distinctive fashion.
• By noon, everyone except Yan Xianjue had filled their buckets; Yan Xianjue caught ribbonfish with his wooden squid jig and was teased by Jiang Miaomiao’s father.

As the group prepared lunch on the Jiang Family Fish Raft, Yan Xianjue and Lei Xuan discussed Tourmaline Entertainment and the livestream comments. Yan Xianjue let Jiang Miaomiao volunteer to handle a future PR response, saying they could blame any failure on the intern.

• Yao Weiran arrived at the Jiang Family Fish Raft and helped Mama Jiang prepare squid and ribbonfish.
• Lei Xuan told Yan Xianjue that livestream commenters had mentioned Tourmaline Entertainment, and Yan Xianjue chose to keep streaming without intervening.
• Ji Xi took the oysters from Jiang Miaomiao and sent her to ask Yan Xianjue how he wanted the ribbonfish cooked, while he and Shen Fangli hid their concern about her cooking.
• Yan Xianjue and Lei Xuan watched commenters debate Tourmaline Entertainment, Director Zhao, and the director's new movie, and Yan Xianjue rejected blocking keywords.
• Jiang Miaomiao volunteered to handle a response if paid trolls appeared, and Yan Xianjue agreed, joking that the company could hire her if she succeeded and blame the intern if she failed.

Jiang Miaomiao outlined how to handle rumors and keep the variety show's livestream focused on the show, then joined the others for a meal and an afternoon outing. After Ji Xi negotiated the guests’ right to earn money independently, he began using his phone to find a way to make money.

• Jiang Miaomiao explained that rumors should be clarified quickly outside the livestream and urged the production team to keep the show's comments focused on the program.
• Shen Fangli came to call Yan Xianjue and Jiang Miaomiao to eat, teasing Yan Xianjue about the fried hairtail while pulling Jiang Miaomiao away from the kitchen.
• The guests enjoyed a meal made with Jiang Miaomiao’s family’s seafood, and her mother gave them dried squid to take along.
• Lei Xuan revealed that the guests had already spent all the money they earned that morning, prompting Jiang Miaomiao to realize her parents had quietly sponsored their snacks.
• Ji Xi criticized the production crew’s prices and negotiated the right for guests to earn money on their own, then began working on his phone as viewers noticed his plan.

Ji Xi turned Lei Xuan’s challenge into a booming business selling branded, customizable self-criticisms, leaving Lei Xuan overwhelmed as the others joined in writing. Yan Xianjue assigned Jiang Miaomiao to coordinate with the PR department, and Ji Xi welcomed her to the long-term workforce without pretending to be pleased.

• Ji Xi explained his self-criticism order link and told Shen Fangli that he had templates customers could fill in.
• Viewers discovered Ji Xi’s school-forum shop, where he sold electronic and handwritten self-criticisms, and orders quickly surged.
• Yan Xianjue warned Lei Xuan that he could not beat Ji Xi, while Lei Xuan collapsed in mock tears.
• Shen Fangli, Jiang Miaomiao, and even production crew member Yao Weiran began writing self-criticisms to offset expenses.
• Yan Xianjue told Ji Xi to arrange a computer for Jiang Miaomiao and have her coordinate with the PR department.
• Ji Xi shook Jiang Miaomiao’s hand and welcomed her to the long-term labor force, then admitted he did not really welcome her.

Jiang Miaomiao decided to work with Yan Xianjue after seeing how much freedom and support he gave his employees. Yan Wan confronted Yan Ci about his and Yan Xianjue’s attack on Zhuang Yuefeng, then revealed she would send Zhuang Yuefeng abroad for treatment and deal with him if he returned.

• Jiang Miaomiao reconsidered her career plans and chose to join Yan Xianjue after observing his management style.
• Yan Wan showed Yan Ci her chat history with Zhuang Yuefeng and asked what he and Yan Xianjue had done after the banquet.
• Yan Ci confessed how he and Yan Xianjue had arranged for Zhuang Yuefeng to be injured, and explained that he thought Yan Xianjue had handled the aftermath.
• Yan Wan told Yan Ci that she and his eldest brother had already made arrangements and ordered him to stay out of the matter.
• Yan Wan said she would send Zhuang Yuefeng abroad for treatment, but would have him dealt with if he returned and caused trouble.

Yan Xianjue returned home from the variety show and was reunited with his second sister, Yan Shan, who had come back after three years away. He learned that she could stay until he started university and planned to work at Yan Yi'an’s company lab, though the siblings’ work together remained confidential.

• Yan Xianjue and the variety-show guests gave away their balloons, then spent the week touring local attractions and enjoying their time off from filming.
• Lei Xuan ended the livestream for the weekend, and Yan Xianjue hurried home after learning that Yan Shan had returned.
• Yan Shan gave Yan Xianjue a fountain pen that doubled as a concealed self-defense device, and he complained that she had been away for three years.
• Yan Xianjue told the family he wanted to stop filming and stay home, but Yan Shan said she would be working at Yan Yi'an’s company lab.
• Yan Xianjue discovered that Yan Shan and Yan Yi'an had been in contact about confidential work, and Mother Yan redirected the family to dinner.

Yan Shan returned to the Yan Household on a business trip to discuss battery research, and Yan Xianjue agreed to visit the laboratory with Yan Yi'an. When Yan Shan heard Yan Xianjue’s inner thoughts, she mistook them for auditory hallucinations and learned that her family could hear them too.

• Yan Xianjue asked to help with dinner, but the family refused to let him near the kitchen.
• Yan Shan explained that her trip involved exploring collaboration between her institute and Yan Yi'an’s company on battery technology.
• Yan Xianjue wondered why Yan Shan was researching batteries instead of bombs, and Yan Yi'an invited him to visit the laboratory as the subsidiary’s second-largest shareholder.
• Yan Shan realized she could hear Yan Xianjue’s thoughts and called to book an appointment with a psychologist.
• Yan Wan stopped the call, and Mother Yan explained that everyone in the family could hear Xianjue’s inner thoughts.

Yan Shan returned home with her research team, and Yan Xianjue’s inner thoughts led her to suspect her assistant Gan Lin was a spy. Yan Shan kept Gan Lin under watch while Yan Yi'an humored Yan Xianjue’s suspicions, leaving the family to wait for evidence.

• Yan Xianjue mistook Yan Shan’s assistant Gan Lin for a spy and imagined that Yan Shan had planted explosives in her laboratory to protect her research.
• Yan Shan told her guard to stay vigilant but refused to accuse Gan Lin without evidence.
• Yan Yi'an corrected Gan Lin when he called Yan Xianjue “young master,” insisting he use “Young President Yan.”
• Yan Shan sent Gan Lin to calibrate equipment instead of assisting her with the data, prompting a researcher to caution her against being too harsh on him.
• Yan Xianjue told Yan Yi'an that Gan Lin looked like a spy, and Yan Yi'an pretended to agree while noting that researchers were watching him.

Yan Xianjue learned that Yan Wan had taken Zhuang Yuefeng from Lin Shi and panicked over whether to confess his involvement to her. Lin Shi remained locked in Lin Ancestral Hall, refusing to leave until he could see his mother, while Yan Yi'an watched Yan Xianjue fret and ask him for help.

• Lin Shi called Yan Xianjue to report that Yan Wan had taken Zhuang Yuefeng, assuring him that Zhuang Yuefeng would be dismissed as a madman if he spoke.
• Yan Xianjue questioned Lin Shi about Zhuang Yuefeng's legs, then threatened to deduct his bonus and hung up after learning Lin Shi was calling from Lin Ancestral Hall.
• Lin Shi told the butler he would not leave the ancestral hall until Old Master Lin let him see his mother, rejected the butler's attempt to provoke a conflict with Lin Lang, and demanded crispy hundred-flavor chicken for dinner.
• Yan Xianjue agonized over whether to confess to Yan Wan and blamed Lin Shi for the trouble.
• Yan Xianjue begged Yan Yi'an to save him, and Yan Yi'an pointed out that Yan Wan would already have acted if she truly intended to deal with him.

Yan Yi'an questioned Yan Xianjue about arranging for a baseball bat to injure Zhuang Yuefeng and having him treated at the Lin Family Hospital. Yan Xianjue admitted he wanted to keep his family from getting their hands dirty, and Yan Yi'an revealed that Yan Wan had gone abroad and may have taken Zhuang Yuefeng with her.

• Yan Xianjue claimed a baseball bat had accidentally struck Zhuang Yuefeng, then admitted that he and Yan Ci had caused it and prepaid one million in medical expenses.
• Yan Yi'an confronted Yan Xianjue about the prank and revealed that Yan Wan had applied for an international flight.
• Yan Xianjue admitted he had instructed the bat to strike Zhuang Yuefeng and said he sent him to the Lin Family Hospital because Lin Shi was suited to handling the matter.
• Yan Xianjue thought he had wanted to keep his family from getting their hands dirty, leaving Yan Yi'an unable to continue reprimanding him.
• Yan Xianjue asked why Yan Wan had gone abroad, and Yan Yi'an said Lin Shi had reported that she took a man away, possibly Zhuang Yuefeng.

Yan Wan arranged for Zhuang Yuefeng to be killed abroad and was held in the country while police investigated the apparent accident. Meanwhile, Yan Xianjue was taken hostage by Gan Lin at Yan Shan’s laboratory, where Yan Shan’s trap to expose the spy turned dangerous.

• Yan Yi'an told Yan Xianjue that Yan Wan had sent Zhuang Yuefeng abroad for treatment, then made him process documents instead of going to rescue her.
• Yan Wan hired mercenaries to set up Zhuang Yuefeng’s apparent death, reunited with Mary, and cooperated with police investigating the incident.
• Yan Xianjue and Yan Ci learned that Zhuang Yuefeng had died in an apparent accident, while Yan Xianjue prepared breakfast to bring to Yan Shan.
• Gan Lin held Yan Xianjue at gunpoint outside Yan Shan’s laboratory, interrupting her plan to expose him as a spy and obtain the experimental results.
• Yan Shan considered exchanging herself for Yan Xianjue, while Yan Xianjue calmly questioned Gan Lin about why he had not simply stolen the research data.