Recaps

During the dating-show challenges, Lu Zhi chose to follow Shen Ranxin and whisked him out of the inflatable castle, while Jiang Ye captured Gu Yifei. In the pool, Cheng Cheng hinted that he knew about the system and asked Shen Ranxin to meet him that night, leaving Shen Ranxin stunned as Cheng Cheng moved in to kiss him.

• Lu Zhi kicked Gu Yifei aside, declared he was willing to follow Shen Ranxin, and carried him out of the castle on a zip line.
• Shen Ranxin kicked Lu Zhi after they landed, while the livestream audience reacted to their flirtatious behavior.
• Jiang Ye shot Gu Yifei in the forehead, admitted it was intentional, and—with Fang Yu’s help—took him away.
• Cheng Cheng entered the pool with Shen Ranxin but focused on holding him rather than rescuing Lu Zhi.
• Cheng Cheng told Shen Ranxin to meet him that night if he wanted to learn about the system, then climbed onto his shoulders and leaned in to kiss him.

During the pool game, Cheng Cheng hinted that he knew about Shen Ranxin’s system, leaving Shen Ranxin dazed while Lu Zhi drove Cheng Cheng away and marked Shen Ranxin with a bite. The game ended with both teams’ rescues successful, and Director Chen revealed that the ultimate gift pack was seven days on a deserted island.

• Cheng Cheng kissed Shen Ranxin’s cheek and hinted that he knew about the system, but Lu Zhi threatened him with a high heel.
• Shen Ranxin briefly saw the little white sphere in the darkness as Cheng Cheng climbed onto the floating mat and Lu Zhi shoved him back into the water.
• Lu Zhi pulled Shen Ranxin from the water, cleaned his cheek, then bit him and called him his.
• Jiang Ye and Fang Yu surfaced after a long underwater standoff, and Jiang Ye later sat apart in silence after the rescue game ended.
• Fang Yu collected the ultimate gift pack, and Director Chen announced that the guests would spend seven days on a deserted island.

After the dating show’s chaotic day, Shen Ranxin decided to investigate why the plot had gone off course, while Jiang Ye and Fang Yu grew closer. Fang Yu later told his agent they were only having fun and that their connection would end with the show.

• Director Chen sent everyone back to the villa to rest after the day’s events.
• Shen Ranxin wondered whether Lu Zhi knew about the system and decided to investigate the plot’s changes.
• Jiang Ye fought his impulses after returning, then asked Fang Yu for a kiss in the kitchen; Fang Yu gave him a brief kiss on the corner of his lips.
• Jiang Ye wrote in his notes that he thought he had found his omega and always wanted to kiss him.
• Fang Yu’s agent asked whether the company should coordinate publicity for a relationship with Jiang Ye, and Fang Yu said there was no need because they were only having fun and it would end when the show did.

Shen Ranxin learned part of Lu Zhi’s painful past and the secret task Lu Zhi had completed in Cheng Cheng’s place. Seeking the full story, Shen Ranxin called Cheng Cheng, who suspected he was being tricked.

• Gu Yifei rescued Cheng Cheng’s fish soup, and Shen Ranxin rewarded him with an extra bowl while ignoring Lu Zhi.
• Jiang Ye followed Fang Yu into the kitchen to help with the dishes, despite Fang Yu’s refusal.
• Shen Ranxin asked Lu Zhi why Gu Yifei looked devastated, and Lu Zhi said he had told Gu Yifei he bought two million copies of his poorly selling album.
• Lu Zhi revealed that he was an orphan adopted by Lu Yeshan and had completed a task that Cheng Cheng was originally meant to do.
• After Lu Zhi fell asleep, Shen Ranxin called Cheng Cheng and claimed Lu Zhi had told him everything about the task.
• Cheng Cheng asked Shen Ranxin whether he was trying to trick him.

Shen Ranxin tried to learn from Cheng Cheng what Lu Zhi was hiding, but Lu Zhi interrupted and carried him to the bedroom. Lu Zhi said he would tell Shen Ranxin everything later, while Shen Ranxin pleaded with him not to mark him.

• Cheng Cheng warned Shen Ranxin that Lu Zhi had approached him with an ulterior motive and was hiding the truth about the Shen family's treasure.
• Lu Zhi interrupted Shen Ranxin before he could go to Cheng Cheng's dorm, took his phone, and ended the call while kissing him.
• Lu Zhi carried Shen Ranxin to the bedroom and said he would explain everything after ensuring no one could take Shen Ranxin away.
• Lu Zhi restrained Shen Ranxin with a tie, and Shen Ranxin tearfully begged him not to mark him.

Lu Zhi’s escalating loss of control frightened Shen Ranxin, who stopped him from taking another sedative and later spoke with him by phone to help him endure his pheromones. While recovering, Shen Ranxin read Cheng Cheng’s information about his father, Shen Ziqing, whose death in a fire coincided with Shen Ranxin leaving the entertainment industry, and was left with fragments of memories he could not grasp.

• Lu Zhi soothed the frightened Shen Ranxin, but stopped preparing a fourth sedative when Shen Ranxin asked him not to take any more.
• Lu Zhi covered Shen Ranxin with a blanket, untied his wrists, and left to air out his overpowering pheromones.
• Shen Ranxin read Cheng Cheng’s messages about Shen Ziqing, learning of his classified research project and his death in a fire in the year Shen Ranxin left the entertainment industry.
• Shen Ranxin’s memories surfaced in fleeting fragments as he looked over Shen Ziqing’s résumé.
• Lu Zhi called Shen Ranxin and asked him to talk, so Shen Ranxin read from the résumé and called him “Zhizhi” before ending the call to remind him they had filming the next day.

Lu Zhi told Shen Ranxin how they first met at an underground slave market, where Shen Ranxin rejected him as a dull playmate and chose another slave-born instead. The story ended with young Shen Ranxin asking Shen Ziqing if he could take the other child home.

• Lu Zhi asked Shen Ranxin whether he could like him even when he was not crazy, and Shen Ranxin admitted that Lu Zhi had already kissed and held him.
• Lu Zhi began telling Shen Ranxin that he had been born to a slave and first met him at age six, when Shen Ziqing brought Shen Ranxin to choose a playmate.
• At the market, young Shen Ranxin objected when a trafficker hurt Lu Zhi and asked the quiet boy his name.
• Shen Ranxin called the boy Zhi Zhi, but rejected him because he seemed too boring and could not talk.
• A nearby slave-born offered to tell stories, and Shen Ranxin pointed to him and asked Shen Ziqing if he could take him home.

Lu Zhi told Shen Ranxin how he got his name, then the guests gathered at dawn to hear Director Chen announce a ten-kilometer cross-country run. The chapter ended with Cheng Cheng blaming Shen Ranxin for driving Director Chen insane.

• Shen Ranxin learned that he had given Lu Zhi the name Zhi Zhi when Lu Zhi was a child.
• Lu Zhi recalled that Lu Yeshan adopted him at sixteen and named him Lu Zhi after mishearing his name.
• At dawn, Shen Ranxin and the other guests gathered outside the villa as the production crew prepared for the next stage of Instant Heartbeat.
• Director Chen announced that the guests would change into outdoor gear and run ten kilometers cross-country.
• Fang Yu protested the dating show's challenge, while Cheng Cheng sighed that Shen Ranxin had driven Director Chen insane.

The six guests reached their wilderness camp after a ten-kilometer hike, then split up to find food when the production team announced they would receive none for six days. Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi searched the forest together, where Lu Zhi pointed out a cave and asked if Shen Ranxin wanted to try cave play.

• Shen Ranxin, Fang Yu, Jiang Ye, Lu Zhi, Cheng Cheng, and Gu Yifei changed into camouflage uniforms, and the three Alphas shouldered forty-pound backpacks.
• The guests hiked ten kilometers to a bare camp beside a stream, where Director Chen announced that the production team would provide no food for six days.
• Shen Ranxin asked whether he could use his points for food, and Director Chen explained that the points would later convert to star coins before Lu Zhi claimed them as his money.
• Fang Yu mediated the teams: Cheng Cheng and Gu Yifei stayed at camp, while Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi and Jiang Ye and Fang Yu went into the forest to find food.
• Lu Zhi pointed out a small cave to Shen Ranxin and asked whether he wanted to try cave play.

Shen Ranxin agreed to let Lu Zhi kiss him for every minute of prey Lu Zhi caught, and Lu Zhi used a radio chicken call to attract a flock of pheasants. They returned to camp with fifty-three pheasants, where Shen Ranxin found Gu Yifei setting up the tent and learned that Cheng Cheng was washing his shoes after stepping in shit.

• Lu Zhi lifted Shen Ranxin's leg and proposed trading each piece of prey for a minute of kisses, and Shen Ranxin agreed.
• Lu Zhi used a radio to play a chicken call, drawing wild pheasants out of the bushes.
• Lu Zhi killed and counted fifty-three pheasants, earning fifty-three minutes of kisses from Shen Ranxin.
• Shen Ranxin returned to camp with Lu Zhi and found Gu Yifei struggling to set up the tent while Cheng Cheng was away at the stream.
• Shen Ranxin found Cheng Cheng washing his shoes alongside Jiang Ye and Fang Yu, who were washing mushrooms and wild fruit.

The group set up camp after washing, but Director Chen ordered the crew to confiscate most of the wild chickens Lu Zhi had caught. Shen Ranxin let the crew take them, then planned to raid the production camp for food that night.

• Lu Zhi finished setting up the tents, and Jiang Ye decorated his tent with wild chicken feathers.
• Shen Ranxin started a fire by rubbing sticks together, only to learn Jiang Ye had a blowtorch.
• Director Chen ordered the staff to take fifty of the group’s wild chickens, prompting Shen Ranxin and Fang Yu to object.
• Cheng Cheng suggested using wild chickens to lure centipedes into Director Chen’s tent, but Shen Ranxin declined the plan.
• Shen Ranxin agreed to give the crew the chickens and told the group they would sneak into the production camp to get food that night.

While camping, Lu Zhi and Shen Ranxin shared a kiss after Lu Zhi grew jealous over Shen Ranxin sharing chocolate. The chapter ended with Lu Zhi publicly announcing to the camp that he was Shen Ranxin’s dog.

• Cheng Cheng grilled the wild chickens while Lu Zhi revealed he had brought a foldable barbecue grill.
• Lu Zhi shared his chocolate with Shen Ranxin, who gave half to Gu Yifei before taking it back and following Lu Zhi to the stream.
• Lu Zhi kissed Shen Ranxin and told him not to share what Lu Zhi gave him with anyone else.
• Shen Ranxin teased Lu Zhi about his public image, and Lu Zhi turned the banter into an announcement in front of the camp.
• Lu Zhi climbed onto a rock and declared, “I'm Shen Ranxin's dog!”

Shen Ranxin led the group to the production crew’s camp, where they staged a humiliating food raid and returned with supplies. On the way back, Fang Yu realized Gu Yifei was missing.

• Shen Ranxin stopped Lu Zhi from showing off and sent the others to finish setting up camp.
• Shen Ranxin took the group to the production crew’s camp to find food.
• Shen Ranxin distracted Director Chen by pleading for food while Lu Zhi, Cheng Cheng, Jiang Ye, and Fang Yu grabbed supplies.
• Shen Ranxin and the others returned to their camp with food, and the production crew moved its base elsewhere.
• Fang Yu noticed Gu Yifei was missing as the group headed back.

Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi searched for the missing Gu Yifei, and Lu Zhi triggered an apparent loss of control to summon the Anomaly Management Center’s help. After Gu Yifei was found safe, Shen Ranxin woke from a strange dream of a younger Lu Zhi and learned that Lu Zhi had named him his partner.

• Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi returned to the production camp to find Gu Yifei missing, then joined the staff in searching the mountain forest.
• When the search failed, Lu Zhi asked Shen Ranxin to release his pheromones and used the resulting loss of control to call the Anomaly Management Center.
• A suppressant knocked Shen Ranxin unconscious, and he dreamed of a younger Lu Zhi telling him that only Shen Ranxin could control him.
• Shen Ranxin woke to officers from the Anomaly Management Center, who said they had rescued Gu Yifei after he nearly drowned in a hot spring.
• Lu Zhi called Shen Ranxin his partner, rejected the Center’s attempts to investigate him, and told Shen Ranxin he would have to wear a Bite Guard for three days.
• Shen Ranxin recognized the Bite Guard from his dream, and Lu Zhi asked him to visit a hot spring together after it was removed.

Shen Ranxin secretly removed Lu Zhi's Bite Guard and kissed him before putting it back when someone arrived to question Lu Zhi. After Shen Ranxin challenged the visitor's authority, the group reunited with Gu Yifei, who explained how he had gotten lost and fainted.

• Shen Ranxin unlocked Lu Zhi's Bite Guard, and Lu Zhi kissed him passionately until hurried footsteps interrupted them.
• Lu Zhi replaced his earring and asked Shen Ranxin to fasten the Bite Guard before a uniformed man entered and warned that another alert would lead to isolation monitoring.
• Shen Ranxin confronted the man over restricting Lu Zhi's freedom, and the visitor left without taking Lu Zhi away.
• Lu Zhi told Director Chen that the visitors were old friends, and Director Chen learned that they had found Gu Yifei in three minutes by a hot spring.
• Gu Yifei returned crying, explained that he had gotten lost while carrying a box of food and fainted after washing at the hot spring, and blamed the production crew for his low blood sugar.

After Gu Yifei apologized for the accident that injured Lu Zhi’s gland, Shen Ranxin told him to be more careful and the group returned to camp. Two days later, Lu Zhi came back to find the others warding off a supposed ghost, then discovered Shen Ranxin huddled in a corner of their tent.

• Gu Yifei cried and apologized to Lu Zhi, while Fang Yu took some responsibility for what had happened.
• Shen Ranxin reminded Gu Yifei that he could have drowned in the hot spring and told everyone to return.
• Director Chen restarted the livestream, and Lu Zhi stayed with the production team for two days before returning to camp.
• Lu Zhi found the camp eerily quiet and dodged a basin of foul-smelling black liquid thrown from his tent.
• Gu Yifei, Fang Yu, Jiang Ye, and Cheng Cheng emerged from the tent after Fang Yu told Gu Yifei that the supposed ghost was Lu Zhi.
• Lu Zhi rushed inside and found Shen Ranxin huddled in a corner.

Lu Zhi returned to find Shen Ranxin restrained after several frightening nights at the mountain camp, where food vanished and everyone heard a child crying. The guests fled when their SUV stalled, but Shen Ranxin’s threats seemed to frighten the ghost into letting them go—until they learned the car had simply run out of gas.

• Lu Zhi freed Shen Ranxin from the ropes and learned that the camp had been plagued by disappearing food and a child’s cries.
• Lu Zhi decided the disturbances were not the production crew’s doing and arranged for Director Chen to evacuate the guests.
• The SUV stalled in the dark, and Shen Ranxin climbed onto its hood to curse at whatever was blocking their way.
• The engine started after Shen Ranxin threatened to dig up the culprit’s bones and make soup, so the guests sped down the mountain.
• At the villa, the production crew discovered that the SUV had run out of gas, leaving Shen Ranxin and the other guests baffled.

After Lu Zhi kissed Shen Ranxin on camera, Shen Ranxin went to buy him water and discovered that Lu Zhi had secretly arranged a propeller prank to convince him he was stronger than ghosts. Two Anomaly Management Center workers then explained why Lu Zhi had been monitored for five years, leaving Shen Ranxin to confront the danger posed by Lu Zhi’s damaged glands.

• Lu Zhi kissed Shen Ranxin, who instinctively slapped him before they went into the villa.
• Lu Zhi asked Shen Ranxin to buy him water while he carried Shen Ranxin’s luggage back to the villa.
• Shen Ranxin caught two Anomaly Management Center workers removing a propeller and learned Lu Zhi had arranged the prank to make him believe he could defeat ghosts.
• Shen Ranxin questioned the workers and learned Lu Zhi had been isolated and monitored for five years because his pheromone concentration was extreme.
• The workers explained that Shen Ranxin’s father had damaged Lu Zhi’s glands through illegal experiments, making Lu Zhi dangerously volatile.

Shen Ranxin learned that his parents died in the fire five years ago and wondered whether it had been deliberately set and connected to Lu Zhi. While the others gathered at the mugwort hot spring, Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi waited alone at a different pool after Lu Zhi threw away the slip showing their assigned pool number.

• Shen Ranxin learned from the Anomaly Management Center representatives that his parents, confidential employees of the Imperial Research Institute, had died in the fire five years earlier, when Lu Zhi was found holding a woman nearby.
• Shen Ranxin returned to the villa and found Lu Zhi on his bed, joking that he had been smelling Shen Ranxin’s pillow.
• Gu Yifei told Shen Ranxin that the production crew had arranged mugwort hot springs for everyone, and the group went to soak together.
• At the hot spring, Jiang Ye asked Fang Yu for a kiss by tracing the word into his palm, but Fang Yu wrote “get lost” on Jiang Ye’s back and swam away.
• Gu Yifei and Cheng Cheng arrived at the pool where Fang Yu and Jiang Ye were waiting, but Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi did not appear.
• Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi waited at pool nineteen while Lu Zhi discarded a slip marked 61, leaving them separated from the others.

At the hot spring, Lu Zhi revealed that the Anomaly Management Center’s earring had monitored his increasingly unstable gland and said Shen Ranxin could always control him. Shen Ranxin accepted Lu Zhi’s invitation to spend the night together, and Lu Zhi pulled him back into the pool.

• Shen Ranxin entered the hot spring and Lu Zhi surprised him from underwater, teasing and kissing him.
• Lu Zhi told Shen Ranxin that his monitoring earring had flashed because of him and that he feared becoming a ghost controlled by attack pheromones.
• Lu Zhi said Shen Ranxin could control him and urged him not to leave his side.
• Shen Ranxin kissed Lu Zhi and told him not to speak of his possible future loss of control.
• Shen Ranxin agreed to let Lu Zhi do as he pleased that night, and Lu Zhi pulled him back into the hot spring.

After a private hot-spring encounter left Shen Ranxin exhausted and sore, Lu Zhi carried him out and reunited with the others. The group headed back, while Lu Zhi asked Cheng Cheng for points to buy ointment for Shen Ranxin.

• Lu Zhi carried the exhausted Shen Ranxin out of hot spring room 61, and Shen Ranxin scolded him for choosing the wrong room.
• Gu Yifei, Cheng Cheng, Fang Yu, and Jiang Ye wondered where Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi had gone and joked about what they might have been doing.
• Shen Ranxin struggled to his feet, told the group they had gone to the wrong hot spring, and hurried away, claiming his pants were uncomfortable.
• Jiang Ye noticed that Shen Ranxin had been wearing a bathrobe, while Fang Yu commented on Lu Zhi's youth.
• Lu Zhi asked Cheng Cheng for points to buy ointment for Shen Ranxin's injured leg, and Cheng Cheng fell silent.

Shen Ranxin returned to the dormitory injured after his encounter with Lu Zhi, who apologized and applied ointment to him. As Lu Zhi said intimacy could stabilize his glands, Shen Ranxin gave him two pairs of his worn underwear and let him sleep beside him.

• Shen Ranxin hurried to the bathroom to tend to his painful injury, and Lu Zhi returned and teased him after finding him changing.
• Lu Zhi revealed that he had borrowed Points Mall points to buy ointment, and Shen Ranxin learned several people had witnessed the purchase.
• Lu Zhi insisted on applying the ointment, and Shen Ranxin let him treat the injury after the pain eased.
• Shen Ranxin recalled what the Anomaly Management Center had said about Lu Zhi’s escape and injuries, then asked whether intimacy could stabilize Lu Zhi’s glands.
• Shen Ranxin gave Lu Zhi two pairs of underwear he had worn, and Lu Zhi placed them beneath his pillow before climbing into bed beside him.

Shen Ranxin struggled with his growing feelings for Lu Zhi, then dreamed of a woman he recognized as his mother singing him the same lullaby. He woke unsettled by the dream and kicked Lu Zhi off the bed, but Lu Zhi quickly softened when he saw who had woken him.

• Lu Zhi teased Shen Ranxin with offers of nighttime services, then held him as he tried to sleep.
• Shen Ranxin lay awake wrestling with conflicting thoughts about whether he could love Lu Zhi.
• Lu Zhi hummed a lullaby that soothed Shen Ranxin to sleep.
• Shen Ranxin dreamed that his mother called him an omega and sang him the same lullaby.
• Shen Ranxin woke, rejected the dream's claim that he was an omega, and kicked Lu Zhi off the bed.
• Lu Zhi crushed a bedside vase in anger before realizing Shen Ranxin had kicked him, then greeted him sweetly.

Shen Ranxin questioned Lu Zhi and Cheng Cheng about their shared past, his erased memories, and the fire that killed his parents. Cheng Cheng admitted hypnotizing him but claimed he did not know what caused the fire, leaving Shen Ranxin determined to uncover the truth himself.

• Lu Zhi told Shen Ranxin that he had once marked an omega he loved, but lost him and was waiting for him to remember.
• Cheng Cheng claimed Lu Zhi had caused Shen Ranxin's father's death, and Lu Zhi interrupted their conversation by pulling them apart.
• Shen Ranxin kicked Lu Zhi out of the kitchen and pressed Cheng Cheng about his past and the five-year-old fire.
• Cheng Cheng admitted he had hypnotized Shen Ranxin and adjusted his memories, but said he did not know what started the fire.
• Shen Ranxin rejected Cheng Cheng's attempt to control his choices and said he would uncover the truth, while Lu Zhi watched him leave the kitchen.

Shen Ranxin discovered that Gu Yifei had been secretly watering Lu Zhi's Paperbush tree with boiling water, prompting Lu Zhi to retaliate against Gu Yifei's tree. After the guests and online viewers reacted to their absurd rivalry, Shen Ranxin learned the animal behind the camp's strange noises and food theft had been captured.

• Shen Ranxin watered the guests' Paperbush trees and ran into Lu Zhi, who tried to kiss him after hearing he had spoken with Cheng Cheng.
• Gu Yifei admitted he had scalded Lu Zhi's Paperbush tree with boiling water once a week, so Lu Zhi poured boiling water over Gu Yifei's tree in revenge.
• Fang Yu, Jiang Ye, and Cheng Cheng arrived and reacted to the two damaged trees as viewers joked about the guests' rivalry online.
• Shen Ranxin learned that staff had caught a White-browed Gibbon that had been stealing food and making crying sounds near the camp.
• Shen Ranxin told the staff member that the monkey looked delicious and asked to try a piece, despite being told it was protected and tasted bad.