Recaps

Shen Ranxin’s attempts to follow the show’s plot kept colliding with Lu Zhi’s possessive attention and Cheng Cheng’s efforts to keep them apart. After the guests tied red strings to the trees of the people they liked, Lu Zhi and Shen Ranxin grew closer, while the arc ended with a mysterious delivery call for Nicholas Iron Pillar.

• Shen Ranxin arrived at Instant Heartbeat, where he clashed with Lu Zhi, sparred with the other guests, and was assigned to share a room with Lu Zhi.
• Lu Zhi and Shen Ranxin’s teasing and confrontations drew attention online, while Cheng Cheng repeatedly tried to keep Lu Zhi away from Shen Ranxin.
• The guests planted Paperbush trees, and Shen Ranxin organized their points and hired Cheng Cheng to cook before Lu Zhi dragged him upstairs and injured him in a jealous outburst.
• Lu Zhi hid the severity of his broken ribs, then the guests tied red strings to the trees of the people they liked, with Lu Zhi rearranging the ribbons and tying his own to Shen Ranxin’s tree.
• After someone soaked Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi’s bedding, they bought one replacement set and shared a bed, where Lu Zhi held Shen Ranxin and asked why he had not used Cheng Cheng’s gene toxin on him.
• Fang Yu’s attempt to wake the guests brought him into Jiang Ye’s room, where Jiang Ye’s pheromones affected him and Jiang Ye explained his attachment to his childhood toys.
• Fang Yu and Jiang Ye found Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi asleep in each other’s arms, and Lu Zhi later displayed the hickey Shen Ranxin had left on his collarbone.
• Cheng Cheng and Gu Yifei returned from the garden after damaging Lu Zhi’s tree, and Lu Zhi replanted it and rehung Shen Ranxin’s ribbon before a delivery driver called for Nicholas Iron Pillar.

Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi’s volatile attraction deepened through a series of challenges, while Lu Zhi tried to reach Shen Ranxin despite his forgotten past. The guests began a role-playing rescue game with Shen Ranxin and Gu Yifei as princesses, Lu Zhi and Jiang Ye as dragons, and Cheng Cheng and Fang Yu as warriors.

• Shen Ranxin teamed with Gu Yifei for a mall challenge, where Gu sang and Shen sold overpriced earplugs to the crowd.
• After splitting their earnings, Shen Ranxin found Lu Zhi injured and learned he had beaten Cheng Cheng, then went to visit Cheng Cheng despite Lu Zhi’s threat.
• Cheng Cheng confessed his love to Shen Ranxin at the hospital, attacked him when he refused, and had him drugged, but Lu Zhi rescued him and kept himself from taking advantage of him.
• The production team paired Shen Ranxin with Lu Zhi for a physical-labor challenge, and they ended up locked in a room together, where Lu Zhi declared his love and Shen Ranxin fought him off.
• Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi came last and drew a haunted-house punishment, where Lu Zhi carried Shen Ranxin through the manor and calmed him when his pheromones spread.
• After Shen Ranxin injured an NPC, Lu Zhi paid compensation and struck the man, then offered Shen Ranxin a black card that he refused.
• Lu Zhi kissed Shen Ranxin in his room and told him he feared both Shen Ranxin’s memories returning and his never remembering their past, while Shen Ranxin wondered what he had forgotten.
• The guests drew roles for a rescue game, and Shen Ranxin and Gu Yifei became princesses, Cheng Cheng and Fang Yu warriors, and Lu Zhi and Jiang Ye dragons.
• Lu Zhi changed into a maid outfit and then a black cheongsam, while Shen Ranxin showed jealousy when Cheng Cheng entered the changing room.
• The rescue game began, and Shen Ranxin entered the inflatable castle with a water gun as Lu Zhi kicked the pink-dressed princess away.

Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi grew closer during the deserted-island filming as Shen Ranxin uncovered Lu Zhi’s past and the Anomaly Management Center’s role in monitoring him. After learning Cheng Cheng had altered his memories, Shen Ranxin resolved to discover the truth about the fire that killed his parents.

• Lu Zhi told Shen Ranxin how they had first met as children, while the guests began a six-day survival challenge on a deserted island.
• Shen Ranxin led the group in gathering food and raiding the production camp, while Lu Zhi publicly declared himself Shen Ranxin’s dog.
• After Gu Yifei went missing, Lu Zhi used Shen Ranxin’s pheromones to contact the Anomaly Management Center, which found Gu Yifei at a hot spring and ordered Lu Zhi to wear a Bite Guard.
• Lu Zhi staged the camp’s supposed haunting to reassure Shen Ranxin, but Shen Ranxin learned that the Center had monitored Lu Zhi for five years because Shen Ranxin’s father had damaged his glands in illegal experiments.
• At the hot springs, Lu Zhi confessed that Shen Ranxin could control him and asked him not to leave, and Shen Ranxin comforted him and stayed with him.
• Shen Ranxin asked Cheng Cheng about the five-year-old fire, and Cheng Cheng admitted he had hypnotized Shen Ranxin and altered his memories but did not know what caused the fire.
• Gu Yifei admitted he had repeatedly scalded Lu Zhi’s Paperbush tree, so Lu Zhi retaliated by pouring boiling water over Gu Yifei’s tree.
• Shen Ranxin learned that a White-browed Gibbon had caused the camp’s missing food and crying sounds, then asked to taste it despite being told it was protected.

Shen Ranxin helped Lu Zhi through a pheromone crisis while Shen Qi returned and offered to restore Shen Ranxin’s memories. As the guests filmed couple photos, Cheng Cheng and Shen Qi began plotting around Lu Zhi’s surveillance, but Cheng Cheng threatened Shen Qi to keep him away from Shen Ranxin.

• Shen Ranxin contacted the Anomaly Management Center for help with Lu Zhi, then hid his call and found that Lu Zhi had kept his discarded belongings for their scent.
• Shen Qi arrived as the new guest and treated the Paperbush, provoking Lu Zhi’s jealousy and revealing Lu Zhi’s fear of being a replacement for him.
• Shen Ranxin chose Lu Zhi as his partner, but the room-assignment game paired Shen Ranxin with Shen Qi, and Lu Zhi later sought Shen Ranxin out during a painful pheromone episode.
• Shen Ranxin spent the night with Lu Zhi, then rejected Shen Qi’s interference and agreed to let him use equipment to recover memories of their past.
• Shen Ranxin recovered memories of Shen Ziqing forcing a gland transplant, Shen Qi disappearing, and Lu Zhi sacrificing his own gland to save him.
• Shen Ranxin told Shen Qi they should remain separate and confessed that he liked Lu Zhi, while Lu Zhi overheard and answered with a declaration of love.
• Shen Ranxin intervened when Jiang Ye’s pheromones went out of control around Fang Yu, and the guests later paired up for a couple-photo competition.
• Lu Zhi and Shen Ranxin posed together, while Shen Qi proposed using Shen Ranxin’s memories to trigger Lu Zhi’s removal by the Anomaly Management Center, and Cheng Cheng threatened him.