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Zhao Danshi and Li Ping drove to X City with Dou Dou for a paternity test, but their trip turned tense when Li Suilun confronted them about their relationship. Li Suilun’s insults triggered Zhao Danshi’s memories of being rejected and thrown out by his family as a teenager.

• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping promised the old man they would return within a week, then drove to X City with Dou Dou and arrived late at night.
• The next morning, Zhao Danshi and Li Ping took Dou Dou to Shun Medical University's paternity testing center and arranged to collect the results that afternoon.
• While Zhao Danshi waited with Dou Dou, Li Ping left the company to meet them for lunch, but Li Suilun stopped him and confronted him about Zhao Danshi.
• Li Ping told Li Suilun that he and Zhao Danshi were together, and Li Suilun brought them into his office to question their relationship.
• Li Suilun criticized Zhao Danshi’s background and Dou Dou’s birth, prompting Zhao Danshi to relive the memory of his father striking him and driving him from home after discovering he was gay.

Zhao Danshi left after Li Suilun berated him and demanded that Li Ping end their relationship. Li Ping defied his father, resigned from the family company, and returned to Zhao Danshi, offering to join him in farming and raising Dou Dou as a partner.

• Zhao Danshi rejected Li Suilun's attempts to interfere in his life and left with Dou Dou while Li Ping promised to visit him at the hotel.
• Li Ping confronted Li Suilun about controlling his life, refused to end his feelings for Zhao Danshi, and said he would resign from the company.
• Li Ping told Li Sheng that he was tired of living in their father's shadow and planned to leave his position and make his own way.
• Li Ping returned to the hotel and apologized to Zhao Danshi, who said he planned to return to his hometown and farm with Dou Dou.
• Li Ping offered to become Zhao Danshi's farming and childcare partner, and Zhao Danshi neither accepted nor refused.

Zhao Danshi registered Dou Dou as his son while Li Ping chose to pursue a life with Zhao despite his parents’ opposition. After handing over his work, Li Ping returned with Zhao and Dou Dou to the village, where they began planning their farming and settled into their new life together.

• Zhao Danshi completed Dou Dou’s household registration, officially recording Dou Dou as his son.
• Li Ping told his parents he would resign and pursue Zhao, and he left after they refused to support his choice.
• Li Ping asked Zhao Danshi to become his partner, and Zhao agreed despite realizing Li Ping had concealed the family conflict.
• After finishing his work handover, Li Ping returned to the village with Zhao Danshi and Dou Dou, and Zhao showed the old man the completed household registration.
• Zhao Danshi met Yazi Mei in the fields, and she asked him to save some seeds from his vegetables for her.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping planned to inspect the fields and decide what to grow that year.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping planned their spring crops, arranged fertilizer and hired help to get the fields planted. Zhao Danshi also explored raising livestock and decided to apply to dig a fish pond on the mountain behind their home.

• Zhao Danshi showed Li Ping the family's fields and discussed renting more land and growing a range of vegetables, staple crops, and fruit.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping made a detailed planting schedule, and Grandpa helped correct their harvest estimates and advised them on the crops.
• Zhao Danshi bought and fermented manure, used Watcher's farming advice, and hired villagers to help plant the crops.
• After Yazi Mei returned with chicks, Zhao Danshi considered raising chickens and pigs, but Grandpa warned him and Li Ping against taking on too much work.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping asked village chief Zhao Huayong about digging a pond, and Zhao Danshi wrote an application to dig one for raising fish.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping finished planting their fields and prepared to film videos promoting Zhao Danshi’s vegetables. After their first morning shoot, they headed into the misty mountains to gather wild vegetables and bamboo shoots for a spring-roll video.

• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping finished planting their land after a month of work and discussed making online videos, with Li Ping offering to film and edit.
• Li Ping ordered camera equipment, and Zhao Danshi’s tender greens sold out to villagers and buyers from nearby villages for over two thousand yuan.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping began filming breakfast footage, and Li Ping privately took a photo of Zhao Danshi checking on Dou Dou.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping went up the mountain to gather ingredients for spring rolls, and Li Ping filmed Zhao Danshi picking wild vegetables along the misty paths.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping filmed a video of Zhao Danshi gathering spring ingredients and cooking spring rolls, while caring for Dou Dou and helping around the household. After editing the footage, they decided to reshoot the vegetable-picking scene the next day.

• Zhao Danshi gathered scallions, garlic leaves, wild greens, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots, then bought pork while Li Ping filmed him.
• Zhao Danshi returned home, greeted Dou Dou, and prepared ingredients for spring rolls as Li Ping filmed the cooking.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping ate the spring rolls with the old man, then cleaned up and looked after Dou Dou.
• The old man prepared lunch, and Zhao Danshi and Li Ping planned to work in the fields after eating.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping edited their footage, and Li Ping suggested they reshoot the crowded vegetable-picking scene the next day.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping began sharing rural-life videos, took Dou Dou to the city for medical care and a swimming outing, and built a pond for fish and lotus roots. After finishing the pond, Zhao Danshi planned to plant local loquat trees and asked around for saplings and fish fry.

• Zhao Danshi showed the villagers his video with Li Ping, then uploaded it to his old Weibo account and received two comments over the next two days.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping took Dou Dou to the city for his scheduled medical care and vaccines, then brought him swimming and ordered an inflatable pool for him.
• After their pond application was approved, Zhao Danshi and Li Ping hired an excavator operator to dig a pond and decided to plant local loquat trees beside it.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping finished the pond, diverted water from a nearby stream, and planted deep-water lotus roots.
• Zhao Danshi asked the old man and Zhao Huayong about buying loquat saplings and fish fry, and Zhao Huayong asked him to arrange two saplings for his family as well.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping planted loquat trees, stocked their pond with fish, and filmed a cooking video while Watcher persuaded them to buy Spirit Spring Water. After Zhao Danshi uploaded the video, Watcher criticized their food content and Zhao Danshi asked for suggestions.

• Zhao Danshi bought fifteen loquat saplings, and he and Li Ping negotiated with Watcher to buy ten jin of Lower-grade Spirit Spring Water for twenty-five Bio-Energy per jin.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping planted the loquat trees, stocked their pond with one thousand fingerlings, and filmed the work for their next video.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping cooked boiled fish with pickled mustard greens and edited footage of the pond and their village into a video.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping uploaded the video and planned to collect stone snails for a future episode, but Zhao Danshi stopped checking the page when no new activity appeared.
• Watcher told Zhao Danshi that their food videos were too basic to attract viewers, and Zhao Danshi asked it for suggestions.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping negotiated with Watcher over recipe sales and Spirit Spring Water while caring for Dou Dou. They agreed to split Bio-Energy earned from cooking videos, secured an unlimited supply of Lower-grade Spirit Spring, and then set out to catch river snails.

• Watcher offered Zhao Danshi recipes and cooking videos, but Zhao Danshi deferred the business discussion to Li Ping.
• After Dou Dou finished his milk and settled into bed, Li Ping and Zhao Danshi learned Watcher wanted to sell recipes to help grow Zhao Danshi’s self-media following and earn Bio-Energy from his fans.
• Zhao Danshi proposed splitting the Bio-Energy they earned from cooking videos fifty-fifty, and Watcher was about to accept.
• Li Ping bargained for discounted Spirit Spring Water and obtained Watcher’s agreement to provide Lower-grade Spirit Spring without limit.
• After working in the fields, Zhao Danshi prepared to catch river snails, and Li Ping brought him fishing waders to keep him warm.

Zhao Danshi gathered stone snails and cooked a meal with Watcher guiding his skills, while Dou Dou rolled over for the first time. Zhao Danshi and Li Ping planned to sell their strawberries to a county fruit shop, and Zhao Danshi began stir-frying the stone snails.

• Zhao Danshi collected stone snails and garlic shoots, then asked his grandfather to buy pork shank bones for a soup to use in the recipe Watcher had given him.
• Zhao Danshi cooked breakfast with Watcher’s real-time guidance, and Li Ping and the others praised the meal.
• Li Ping noticed that Dou Dou had rolled over, and the family encouraged him to roll over several more times.
• While watering their fields, Zhao Danshi and Li Ping decided to approach a county fruit shop about buying their strawberries wholesale.
• Zhao Danshi prepared pork belly, sour bamboo shoots, chilies, and seasonings, then added the cleaned stone snails to the hot wok.

Zhao Danshi cooked river snails for a video, then launched a giveaway that earned him Bio-Energy and prompted plans to grow their audience. The next morning, Zhao Danshi and Li Ping picked strawberries and brought them to a county fruit shop, where the owner tasted one and was astonished by its flavor.

• Zhao Danshi finished filming a river-snail cooking video, then shared the meal with Shaozi and Zhao Luxing while Dou Dou watched and tasted a little bone broth.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping posted the video on Weibo and announced a giveaway of wild river snails to ten winners.
• Watcher told Zhao Danshi that the reposts had earned 13.86 Bio-Energy, and Li Ping suggested buying a Weibo Hot Search after they posted ten videos.
• Zhao Danshi proposed filming a picnic among the peach blossoms on Oxhead Mountain, and Li Ping agreed before they went to bed.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping picked four and a half foam boxes of strawberries, then drove with Dou Dou to sell them in the county town.
• Li Ping offered their strawberries to a fruit shop owner, who tasted one and was struck by how delicious it was.

Li Ping negotiated a consignment deal with a fruit shop owner, and the strawberries sold so well that the owner agreed to stock them regularly. Li Ping and Zhao Danshi left with payment and plans to pick more strawberries each morning.

• Li Ping rejected the owner's offer of ten yuan per jin, then proposed either a lower wholesale price for a small quantity or a higher price for exclusive stock.
• Li Ping arranged for the owner to sell the strawberries on commission, weighed the fruit with him, and signed a contract.
• Customers were initially deterred by the thirty-yuan price, but a regular customer tasted the strawberries, bought two jin, and spread the word.
• Li Ping and Zhao Danshi spent the day taking Dou Dou around town while the owner sold nearly all the strawberries.
• Li Ping agreed to a flexible supply contract that let the owner end cooperation and return unsold strawberries that had not spoiled.
• The owner paid Li Ping and Zhao Danshi 1,836 yuan after commission, and they agreed to wake earlier to pick more strawberries.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping arranged daily strawberry deliveries and discussed expanding their farm work, including hiring help and raising ducks. They began filming Zhao Danshi catching a chicken, and Yazi Mei agreed to buy them fifty ducks.

• Zhao Danshi hired Zhao Chengjia to deliver their strawberries to the Essence Source Fruit Shop each morning for nine yuan per trip.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping picked and delivered forty-eight pounds of strawberries, earning twelve hundred yuan, then discussed improving irrigation and raising ducks.
• The old man recommended Uncle Wende as a farmhand, and Zhao Danshi and Li Ping offered him two thousand yuan a month to care for poultry and harvest vegetables.
• While filming at Yazi Mei's home, Zhao Danshi chased and caught a rooster for their video.
• Zhao Danshi asked Yazi Mei to bring him fifty local shelducks, including forty-five females and five males, and she agreed.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping filmed a picnic among the peach blossoms at Oxhead Mountain, where they cooked Lotus-Leaf Dry-Fragrant Chicken and took photos with Dou Dou. After posting the video and arranging a river-snail giveaway, Zhao Danshi exchanged Bio-Energy for Spirit Spring and continued sending food and vegetables to both families.

• Zhao Danshi chose Watcher's Lotus-Leaf Dry-Fragrant Chicken recipe, and the old man slaughtered and cleaned the chicken before Zhao Danshi marinated and wrapped it in lotus leaves.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping took Dou Dou to Oxhead Mountain, filmed among the peach blossoms, and shared the chicken on a picnic cloth.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping photographed themselves with Dou Dou, then Zhao Danshi fell asleep in the car as Li Ping drove them home.
• Zhao Danshi selected ten fans for his river-snail giveaway, and he and Li Ping uploaded their picnic video to enthusiastic comments.
• Zhao Danshi learned that they had collected 78.86 energy and exchanged his 67 Bio-Energy for Lower-grade Spirit Spring.
• Zhao Danshi sent pastries made with Spirit Spring Water and homegrown vegetables to both families, while the old man and Li Ping said nothing.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping hired Zhao Luxing, Blackie, and three other boys to help with farm work after buying the river snails they collected. The boys began their first workday at the household, where they shared breakfast, while Dou Dou started teething.

• Zhao Danshi offered Zhao Luxing and his friends five yuan per jin for river snails, and the boys brought him twenty-one jin that evening.
• Zhao Danshi paid the boys 105 yuan and offered them farm work for fifty yuan a day, asking them to discuss it with their parents.
• Dou Dou bit Zhao Danshi's finger, and Li Ping and the old man spotted a new tooth coming through his lower gums.
• Blackie, Zhao Luxing, Chengtou, Maolin, and Zhenglian arrived the next morning and began clipping the river snails' tails before starting work.
• Zhao Danshi prepared a large breakfast, and the boys gathered around the table while the old man remarked that the house had not been so lively in a long time.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping had the teenagers help with farm work, then cooked river snails and vegetables for them. Zhao Danshi sent river snails to fans and friends, agreed to take on more helpers, and told Ran Yuanyao that he and Li Ping were still close to acknowledging their feelings.

• Zhao Danshi assigned Blackie and the other teenagers to weed two mu of fields and collect bugs, and they finished the work before noon.
• Zhao Danshi cooked river snails and vegetables while explaining to the teenagers how his university education helped him succeed both as a designer and a farmer.
• After lunch, Zhao Danshi recruited the teenagers to return the following week and allowed Blackie to bring up to eight reliable friends.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping packed and shipped river snails to fans, their parents, and Ran Yuanyao.
• Ran Yuanyao praised Zhao Danshi's cooking and offered to send Dou Dou a recommended formula, while Zhao Danshi said he and Li Ping were nearly ready to take the next step in their relationship.

Zhao Danshi hired Zhao Wende to help with the farm after firmly declining Grandpa’s plan to have him live in the family home. After a successful first day of work, Zhao Danshi asked Li Ping for feedback and blushed when Li Ping teased him about sharing a room.

• Zhao Wende arrived, and Grandpa asked Zhao Danshi to make room for him to stay at the house.
• Zhao Danshi refused to let Zhao Wende move in, explaining that the house was full and that living together could make Zhao Wende uncomfortable.
• Zhao Danshi offered Zhao Wende a job for two thousand a month with lunch included, and Zhao Wende agreed to try it.
• Zhao Wende proved skilled at farm work, and Zhao Danshi felt he had found a valuable worker.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping played with Dou Dou during the midday break, and Dou Dou bit Zhao Danshi’s finger.
• Zhao Danshi asked Li Ping whether he had handled the hiring conversation well, and Li Ping praised him for holding his ground before teasing him about blushing.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping began harvesting their vegetables and shared a celebratory dinner with Zhao Wende and the old man. After Dou Dou tried spicy sauce and wanted more, Zhao Danshi reflected on their growing farm income and wondered what Li Ping planned to do in the future.

• Zhao Danshi inspected his crops, picked tender vegetables, and cooked a large dinner to celebrate the first harvest.
• Li Ping and Zhao Wende returned from chopping wood for the duck-pond fence and joined Zhao Danshi's family for dinner.
• Zhao Danshi gave Dou Dou a taste of spicy sauce, making him cry at first before he eagerly asked for more.
• The old man recalled that Zhao Danshi had also cried while eating spicy food as a child, embarrassing Zhao Danshi in front of Li Ping.
• Zhao Danshi agreed to start selling vegetables at the next market and realized he needed to ask Li Ping about his plans for the future.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping became a couple while expanding their strawberry and farm businesses, and Zhao Danshi organized the teenagers to harvest baby corn and build a pond fence. The chapter ended with Zhao Danshi getting ready to film a video as he and the teenagers prepared to catch stream fish.

• Li Ping asked Zhao Danshi to become his husband-and-wife business partner, and Zhao Danshi agreed to be with him.
• Zhao Danshi refused to sell strawberry seedlings to his cousin-in-law, then delivered six boxes of strawberries and discussed future farm and shop plans with Li Ping.
• After fans praised Zhao Danshi's river-snail video, Zhao Danshi worried about earning enough Bio-Energy to pay Watcher for Spirit Spring Water.
• Blackie and four other teenagers helped Zhao Danshi harvest baby corn, husk it, and build a fence around the pond in exchange for meals.
• The teenagers asked Zhao Danshi to cook stream fish, and he agreed to go catch some with them the next morning and film a video.
• Zhao Danshi showered and changed for filming while the teenagers waited to go catch fish.

Zhao Danshi took Dou Dou and Li Ping into the valley to film catching fish, then planned to sell vegetables the next day. The chapter ended when Watcher alerted him that someone had sneaked into his fields, prompting Zhao Danshi and Li Ping to hurry outside.

• Zhao Danshi brought Dou Dou and the boys into the valley, where they caught fish for a video.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping discussed selling their vegetables at the market and picked produce to take home.
• Zhao Danshi reflected that common summer vegetables would earn little and that he should grow more profitable crops in the future.
• Watcher woke Zhao Danshi with an alarm that someone had entered his fields.
• Zhao Danshi left Dou Dou with the old man, told Dahei to guard them, and hurried out with Li Ping.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping caught thieves damaging their strawberry field, then tried Spirit Spring Water on the injured plants and harvested the remaining ripe fruit. They skipped strawberry deliveries to make preserves and sold vegetables at the town market, where Zhao Danshi promoted them as premium organic produce.

• Watcher alerted Zhao Danshi and Li Ping to three thieves stealing strawberries, and the two chased them off after beating two of them.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping asked Watcher to monitor the family around the clock, then returned home and shared a kiss before sleeping.
• Li Ping called Boss Li and Zhao Chengjia to cancel that day's strawberry deliveries, while Zhao Danshi and Li Ping inspected the field and soaked damaged seedlings in Spirit Spring Water.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping harvested the ripe strawberries and decided to make sun-dried preserves using Watcher's recipe.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping took vegetables to Renfu Supermarket's market stall, where returning customers quickly bought most of their produce.
• Zhao Danshi told Miao Yingzhuo that the vegetables were carefully grown organic produce intended for sale in bigger cities, and Li Ping listened with amusement.

Zhao Danshi bought rice grain from Spoon’s family and made candied strawberries at home while Li Ping filmed. Dou Dou smelled the strawberries and eagerly ate strawberry puree, leaving the family to continue preparing the candied fruit overnight.

• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping visited Spoon’s house to arrange to buy rice grain, and Spoon agreed to have a hundred jin milled for them at the next market.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping washed and sliced strawberries, then laid them out to dry while Zhao Wende fed the chickens and ducks.
• Zhao Danshi cooked batches of strawberries in sugar syrup as Li Ping filmed the process for a possible Weibo video.
• Dou Dou became eager after smelling the strawberries, so Zhao Danshi mashed fresh strawberries into puree and fed him spoonfuls.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping ended their strawberry arrangement with Boss Li and rented a shop in the county town to sell their produce. They prepared to open a market-day stall selling vegetables and cold dishes, while Zhao Danshi planned recipes and videos for the new venture.

• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping realized Boss Li was trying to reduce his strawberry orders and lower the wholesale price, so Li Ping ended their partnership.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping rented a shop near the county town's central vegetable market and signed a one-year lease under Zhao Danshi's name.
• Zhao Danshi decided to sell cold dishes at market days while waiting for the shop's permits, and he bought supplies to prepare them.
• Zhao Danshi asked the old man to weave vegetable baskets, but the old man offered to weave them himself.
• Zhao Danshi persuaded Watcher to provide cold-dish recipes and promised to make his own seasonings next month.
• Zhao Danshi went up the mountain with Li Ping to pick mushrooms for a meat sauce and planned to film the trip as a video.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping filmed Zhao Danshi gathering mushrooms and making mushroom sauce and cold vegetable dishes to sell at the market. After sharing the food online and responding to fans, Zhao Danshi worried that their new ideas and work would leave them with little free time.

• Li Ping got up to change Dou Dou's diaper and prepare his formula while Zhao Danshi gradually woke up.
• Zhao Danshi gathered mushrooms, vegetables, and meat for a cooking video, telling Zhao Mingzhi that he planned to sell cold dishes at the market.
• Zhao Danshi made mushroom sauce and noodles, then prepared cold vegetable dishes with help from Zhao Wende as Li Ping filmed.
• The family tasted the food, and Zhao Danshi planned several dozen pounds of cold dishes to sell the next day.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping posted the video, and Zhao Danshi answered fans' questions about the food, his partner, and his future shop.
• After Zhao Danshi complained about being tired and worried they would never have free time, Li Ping reassured him that things might improve next year.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping brought a large selection of homemade cold dishes to the market, where the food sold out quickly. After customers asked to buy his vegetable seeds, Zhao Danshi explained that they were treated and could not yet be saved for reliable planting, leaving open the possibility of sharing seeds if he stabilized them later.

• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping prepared cucumbers, eggplants, long beans, tofu puffs, eggs, and braised meat, then hired a tricycle to take them to the market.
• Miao Yingzhuo tried Zhao Danshi's cucumber salad, praised it, and took home several dishes for his family.
• Zhao Danshi handed out samples and held firm on his prices as customers began ordering cold dishes.
• The market crowd formed a long line, and Zhao Danshi and Li Ping sold out their food in about an hour.
• Customers asked Zhao Danshi to sell them seeds, but he said the treated seeds could not be saved reliably and that he might share some if he stabilized them in future years.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping packed up, put away the cash, and called Zhao Liwei to pick them up.