Chapter Summaries

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.

Shen Ranxin, Lu Zhi, and Cheng Cheng pressured Director Chen into compensating them with points instead of eating the protected monkey. Meanwhile, Gu Yifei regretted targeting Lu Zhi’s Paperbush, and the chapter ended with Lu Zhi taunting the furious Cheng Cheng over the points he had taken.

• Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi pretended they might eat the protected monkey, then demanded compensation from Director Chen.
• Gu Yifei reflected on his jealousy of Lu Zhi and regretted pouring boiling water on the Paperbush Shen Ranxin had planted for Lu Zhi.
• Fang Yu and Jiang Ye stayed behind to comfort Gu Yifei while Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi each received six hundred points and Cheng Cheng received three hundred.
• Lu Zhi intercepted two hundred points from Cheng Cheng, claiming young people should show filial piety to their parents.
• Lu Zhi taunted Cheng Cheng about his green face and the still-yellow Paperbush, and Cheng Cheng snapped his points coin in anger.

Gu Yifei struggled to leave the dating show for a world tour, while Lu Zhi prepared to help Shen Ranxin restrain him if he lost control again. Shen Ranxin discovered that Lu Zhi had secretly kept his discarded belongings, revealing how much Lu Zhi cherished everything of his.

• Shen Ranxin warned Lu Zhi that Gu Yifei could be taken away by the Anomaly Management Center if he lost control three times, and Lu Zhi decided to get Gu Yifei out of there.
• Gu Yifei’s manager told him the dating show had been suspended and urged him to return for a sponsor-funded world tour; Gu Yifei wondered whether Shen Ranxin would wait for him.
• Lu Zhi took Shen Ranxin upstairs and searched for the Restraint Straps and Bite Guard they had used before, saying he wanted to protect his paperbush.
• Shen Ranxin found a box beneath the bed filled with his discarded bottles, cartons, underwear, and wrappers, and realized Lu Zhi had treasured them because they carried his scent.
• Shen Ranxin took out his communicator.

Shen Ranxin contacted the Anomaly Management Center for help with Lu Zhi and learned that his own missing memories might be restored only if a stimulus broke the hypnosis. The chapter left Shen Ranxin teasing Lu Zhi with a pistol as they waited for the Center’s help.

• Shen Ranxin called the Anomaly Management Center and asked for a botanical expert to help stabilize Lu Zhi’s glands.
• Shen Ranxin admitted that he was the friend with memory problems, and the director said the Center could not restore his memories directly but a stimulus might break the hypnosis.
• Shen Ranxin ended the call when Lu Zhi approached, hiding that he had contacted the Center.
• Lu Zhi found the box beneath the bed and explained that he had kept it because he missed Shen Ranxin’s scent.
• Lu Zhi gave Shen Ranxin a silver pistol to use if he broke free of the Restraint Straps before help arrived.
• Shen Ranxin pressed the pistol beneath Lu Zhi’s chin, teased him about the paperbush tree, and told him to shut up.

Shen Ranxin teased and humiliated Lu Zhi while they waited for the botany expert arranged by Shen Ranxin to arrive. Shen Ranxin left Lu Zhi alone with half an hour to compose himself before the visitor came.

• Shen Ranxin pulled away when Lu Zhi gripped his thighs and checked the time, expecting the Anomaly Management Center to arrive soon.
• Shen Ranxin pushed Lu Zhi down, wiped a silver pistol on his clothes, and returned it to the suitcase.
• Lu Zhi pleaded with Shen Ranxin and called him Teacher Shen as Shen Ranxin continued teasing him.
• Shen Ranxin told Lu Zhi the botany expert would arrive soon and that he had about half an hour to deal with private matters.
• Shen Ranxin left the room, reminding Lu Zhi that the bathroom ventilation was on.

Gu Yifei prepared to leave the dating show for a concert, apologized to Lu Zhi for damaging his Paperbush, and asked him to look after it. After Gu Yifei departed, Director Chen spotted the botanist sent by the Anomaly Management Center, while Shen Ranxin and Lu Zhi remained at the villa.

• Gu Yifei rushed into Shen Ranxin’s arms and announced that he was leaving for a concert.
• Gu Yifei whispered to Shen Ranxin, who reassured him before teasing him about being less mature than Jiang Ye.
• Gu Yifei’s agent arrived and arranged for the staff to pack his belongings.
• Gu Yifei asked Jiang Ye to record an apology video for Lu Zhi, offering him all his points and asking him to care for the Paperbush.
• Shen Ranxin stayed silent when Gu Yifei wondered why Lu Zhi had not come to see him off, knowing Lu Zhi was in the bathroom.
• Director Chen noticed the botanist sent by the Anomaly Management Center and immediately became interested.