Chapter Summaries

Shi Jihan's antics at the audition embarrassed Xiao Yuan, and a stairway accident sent both of them to the hospital. After Shi Jihan recovered at home, he learned Xiao Yuan had been cast as the male lead and questioned the choice.

• Shi Jihan and the others pressured Xiao Yuan to make one more sound at the audition, earning Malice Points and completing the task of obstructing his entry into the production crew.
• Shi Jihan raced down the emergency stairs, fell, and kicked Xiao Yuan into the seventh-floor hallway, where the watching crowd further embarrassed him.
• Zhou Jingcheng carried the injured Shi Jihan to the hospital, and the examination found no fracture, though Shi Jihan remained sore for several days.
• Shi Jihan learned that Xiao Yuan had been selected as the male lead and asked Shi Zhongye why he had been cast.

Shi Jihan used Xiao Yuan and Shi Zhongye’s university history to make a bizarre ship video and post it as a celebrity first-love scoop. The video went viral on the anonymous forum, leaving viewers horrified and demanding their eyes back.

• Shi Jihan searched for Xiao Yuan’s scandals and found records of Xiao Yuan and Shi Zhongye’s university friendship and later falling-out.
• Shi Jihan edited their old photos into a dramatic romance video and teased the scoop on an anonymous forum.
• Netizens and Xiao Yuan’s fans waited for Shi Jihan to release the promised evidence, while commenters discussed Xiao Yuan’s return and his time away from the industry.
• Shi Jihan uploaded a ten-minute video that distorted Xiao Yuan and Shi Zhongye into a chaotic, melodramatic love-and-fight sequence.
• The video’s viewers reacted with shock and anger, and the anonymous forum erupted with complaints about the so-called ship content.

Shi Jihan’s edited video humiliated Xiao Yuan and Shi Zhongye during their interview, while Shi Jihan accidentally interrupted Zhou Jingcheng’s meeting. The chapter ended when Xiao Yuan’s manager rushed in, saying Xiao Yuan was threatening to kill himself with chocolate.

• Shi Jihan watched his edited video flood Xiao Yuan and Shi Zhongye’s interview livestream, where it showed embarrassing clips of both men.
• Shi Zhongye laughed at Xiao Yuan, then reacted furiously when the video displayed his own face and mocked his past persona.
• Shi Jihan arrived early at Universe and accidentally entered Zhou Jingcheng’s meeting room, interrupting the gathered staff.
• Zhou Jingcheng ended the meeting and took Shi Jihan aside, asking whether his injuries had healed.
• Xiao Yuan’s manager rushed over and told Zhou Jingcheng that Xiao Yuan was threatening to slit his wrists with chocolate.

Shi Jihan, Zhou Jingcheng, Shi Zhongye, and Xiao Yuan shared a meal while Shi Zhongye discussed his film’s funding troubles and threatened to track down the CP video’s uploader. After Zhou Jingcheng left to change his shirt, Shi Jihan followed him to the Universe office, where Zhou joked that he still had not acquired Shi Corporation.

• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng found Xiao Yuan pretending to attempt suicide over a CP video, but Shi Zhongye caught him and dragged him into the restaurant.
• Zhou Jingcheng discussed investment problems for Shi Zhongye’s comedy film while Shi Jihan eagerly ate the chef’s Southwestern dishes.
• Shi Jihan offered Xiao Yuan bitter melon juice as poison, but Xiao Yuan said he would rather stay alive.
• Shi Zhongye said he would use detective Old Wang to find the CP video’s uploader, and Shi Jihan accidentally splashed tomato juice on Zhou Jingcheng’s shirt.
• Shi Jihan followed Zhou Jingcheng to his office, praised his management of Universe, and heard Zhou say he still had not acquired Shi Corporation.

Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng shared an awkwardly intimate moment in Zhou Jingcheng’s office, while Shi Jihan later learned that Zhou Zeyang had been cast in Shi Zhongye’s low-budget movie. The chapter ended with Shi Zhongye dragging Shi Jihan off the sofa to give him a task.

• Zhou Jingcheng invited Shi Jihan to touch his bare chest, and Shi Jihan nervously poked him before Zhou hurriedly changed clothes.
• Secretary Sun misunderstood Zhou Jingcheng’s warning to Shi Jihan about walking too fast, and Old President Zhou caught Zhou Jingcheng blushing after the two men left.
• Shi Jihan learned that the movie had lost its investment and that his employee Zhou Zeyang had been cast to help save money.
• Shi Jihan mocked Zhou Zeyang’s résumé and lounged at home while Shi Zhongye worked to keep the movie project going.
• Shi Zhongye found Shi Jihan relaxing on the sofa and hauled him up to handle a task, alarming Shi Bochuan.

Shi Zhongye tasked Shi Jihan with recruiting cheap stagehands, but Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang filled the crew with twenty college students seeking internship credits and bearing bizarre usernames. Shi Zhongye first panicked at the recruits, then learned they would work for little or no pay and eagerly embraced the savings.

• Shi Zhongye gave Shi Jihan recruitment standards and told him to bother Zhou Jingcheng’s work account, while Shi Bochuan warned him to endure his troubles.
• Shi Jihan got detailed hiring criteria and Zhou Jingcheng’s workout plan from Workmate, then teamed up with Zhou Zeyang to recruit students seeking internship stamps.
• Shi Jihan added twenty students with bizarre usernames to the crew group chat, and Shi Zhongye angrily confronted the assistant director and Zhou Jingcheng over their approval.
• Shi Zhongye complained to Shi Jihan about the recruits, but changed his tune after learning some wanted no pay and celebrated the savings.
• Shi Jihan told Shi Zhongye he had promised the recruits the highest stagehand wage.

Shi Jihan watched the cast and crew begin filming, while Zhou Jingcheng’s attempts to turn bad luck into good fortune and travel comfortably were repeatedly thwarted. The chapter ended with Zhou soaked by two sudden stops on the drive to the filming location.

• Shi Jihan learned that Xiao Yuan had been confirmed as the lead actor and resigned himself to Zhou Jingcheng remaining involved in the production.
• At the temple, Zhou Jingcheng drew the worst fortune, then removed the bad sticks and drew the best one instead.
• Shi Jihan and Zero-Zero-Zero celebrated the bad fortune before Zhou changed the sticks and declared that people could conquer fate.
• Shi Zhongye tried to arrange rides to the filming location, but Xiao Yuan squeezed into the back seat alongside him and Zhou Jingcheng.
• The bespectacled stagehand braked twice, splashing Zhou Jingcheng’s water over his pants and shirt while Shi Zhongye laughed.

Shi Jihan drove Shi Zhongye, Zhou Jingcheng, and Xiao Yuan to the filming location, turning the trip into a series of chaotic water-soaking mishaps. The group arrived at a remote unfinished development, where Shi Zhongye revealed they would be staying in nearby abandoned farmhouses.

• Shi Jihan took over driving and jolted Shi Zhongye with water over three speed bumps, while Xiao Yuan tried unsuccessfully to catch the spill in his hoodie.
• Zhou Jingcheng splashed Shi Zhongye with the empty bottle, and the bespectacled guy complained about the chaos in the crew's logistics group chat.
• Shi Zhongye wedged himself between the front seats to confront Shi Jihan, who admitted he had forgotten to release the handbrake before assuring everyone it was now released.
• At the filming location, Shi Jihan teased Zhou Jingcheng into revealing most of his bank card PIN, then covered his mouth before anyone else could hear.
• Shi Zhongye told Shi Jihan, Zhou Jingcheng, and Xiao Yuan that the crew would stay in nearby empty farmhouses because the filming location was a remote, unfinished residential development.

Shi Jihan joined the rural filming crew, revised the screenplay into increasingly absurd material, and endured an early morning of rooster noise and mistaken slap attacks. The crew was hurried to breakfast and the filming location as they prepared to shoot the first scene.

• Shi Jihan eagerly proposed eating the chickens, fishing in the reservoir, and roasting sweet potatoes, while Xiao Yuan looked forward to fishing.
• A passerby's video of Zhou Jingcheng and Shi Jihan at a temple spread online, and Universe announced that Shi Jihan was the screenwriter Teacher AAA for Shi Zhongye's show.
• Shi Jihan rewrote the opening scene with Lin An making instant noodles under a waterfall, then dreamed about building a house and buying clothes for his grandparents.
• Roosters woke the crew before dawn, and Shi Jihan complained until Zhou Zeyang told him it was the first day of filming.
• Shi Jihan mistook Xiao Yuan for Zhou Jingcheng and slapped him, then traded jokes and compliments with Zhou Jingcheng.
• Shi Zhongye grabbed Xiao Yuan and rushed the group to breakfast and the filming location.

Shi Jihan’s improvised script sent Lin An’s first scene into chaos, while the crew turned a burst water pipe into a communal wash-and-meal stop. After Shi Zhongye chased his brother around the set, Zhou Jingcheng backed the chaos and ordered filming to continue with a new script, leaving 000 worried about Dianjia Bro’s career.

• Shi Zhongye tried to brief the crew, but Shi Jihan’s jokes and suggestions made everyone consider skipping work and having hot pot.
• Shi Zhongye filmed Lin An’s introduction, but Auntie Li, Uncle Wang, and the neighbors used Lin An’s burst water pipe to wash vegetables, make tea, and wash their hair.
• Xiao Yuan collected water from the pipe for instant noodles, while Shi Zhongye struggled to keep the scene on script.
• Shi Jihan tried to sneak away, but Shi Zhongye chased him and the Zhou brothers lifted him into the air before setting him down.
• Zhou Jingcheng ordered the crew to follow a new script, and 000 worried that the plan would harm Dianjia Bro’s career.

Shi Jihan watched Shi Zhongye endure chaotic filming and take a lucrative advertising job with Xiao Yuan, then tried to sabotage their promotion. When an editor turned the serious car ad into a viral scooter-and-hot-pot parody, Shi Zhongye responded with an elaborate anger-relief dance, and Shi Jihan began editing the other advertisements.

• Shi Zhongye filmed the burst-pipe scene as Lin An's apartment filled with neighbors, while the Demolition Crew arrived and Xiao Yuan got drenched.
• The stagehands rushed the boxed lunches, and Shi Jihan decided to expand his cost-cutting plans to costumes, makeup, and set design.
• Zhou Jingcheng told Shi Zhongye that Xiao Yuan's agent had offered them lucrative advertisements, and Shi Zhongye agreed to shoot them.
• Shi Jihan received a mission to make the advertisements have the opposite promotional effect, but the luxury off-road vehicle ad was released before he could interfere.
• An editor posted a comic parody of the ad featuring an electric scooter and hot-pot ingredients, prompting Shi Zhongye to perform an anger-relief dance.
• Shi Jihan began editing the other advertisements after Zhou Jingcheng suggested Shi Zhongye get his brain checked.

Shi Jihan’s outrageous edit of Shi Zhongye and Xiao Yuan’s watch commercial went viral, while Shi Zhongye vowed to uncover the editor’s identity. After forgetting his cold medicine, Shi Jihan visited Zhou Jingcheng, where their flirtatious exchange ended with Shi Jihan grabbing Zhou Jingcheng’s cheeks before fleeing.

• Shi Jihan edited the watch commercial into a ridiculous parody, and netizens made it trend alongside the pair’s older videos.
• The marketing team found that sales and client reactions remained strong, while Shi Zhongye angrily began searching his industry contacts for the editing master.
• After realizing he had left his cold medicine behind, Shi Jihan asked Zhou Zeyang and then Zhou Jingcheng for some.
• Zhou Jingcheng petted Shi Jihan’s hair and chin, checked his forehead, and suggested Shi Jihan take advantage of him in return.
• Shi Jihan took the cold medicine, returned to pull Zhou Jingcheng’s cheeks, and fled; Zhou Jingcheng smiled and then encountered Zhou Zeyang on his way out.

Shi Jihan tried to escape after Shi Zhongye discovered that the video editor was Detective Old Wang, but he used system items to make his legs run uncontrollably fast. He left Shi Zhongye behind, only to lose control of his body as his legs raced on without his torso keeping pace.

• Zhou Jingcheng avoided Zhou Zeyang's question about where to buy cold medicine and brooded on set, while Shi Zhongye told Xiao Yuan he had traced the video editor's IP to their area.
• Shi Jihan and Zhou Zeyang filmed a comic scene in which Cheng Yangguang tried to recruit Auntie Li and a big orange cat for fitness training.
• Shi Zhongye spotted a Barbie-pink watch delivery box in the trash and found that it was addressed to Detective Old Wang in Room A02, revealing Shi Jihan as the video editor.
• Shi Jihan fled from the furious Shi Zhongye and exchanged Malice Points for system items that sped up and controlled his legs.
• Shi Jihan outran Shi Zhongye and high-fived Zhou Jingcheng and Zhou Zeyang, but his legs continued running so fast that his torso bent backward.

Shi Jihan’s runaway skill left him exhausted in a cornfield, where his struggle with Shi Zhongye became a viral spectacle and earned him more enemies. Back at the courtyard, he learned the production team needed a new buyer and decided to recruit Workmate to help him sabotage the project rather than ask Zhou Jingcheng for the job.

• Shi Jihan’s legs kept running until he fell in a cornfield, where Shi Zhongye found him and tried to pull free as a farm worker mistook their scuffle for something scandalous.
• Passersby uploaded videos of the brothers, and netizens mocked Shi Jihan while learning he had edited the CP videos of Shi Zhongye and Xiao Yuan.
• At dinner, Shi Jihan faced the disapproving looks of his companions, then cheered up when Zhou Jingcheng staged a birthday-like moment with the last fry.
• Zhou Jingcheng told Shi Zhongye that an investor was being negotiated with and that the production team’s buyer was resigning.
• Shi Jihan rejected a mission to bribe the incoming buyer and decided to ask Zhou Jingcheng for the position, but he lost his nerve and planned to enlist Workmate instead.

Shi Jihan used Workmate to try to take over the production crew’s purchasing manager role, while Zhou Jingcheng mistook the scheme for concern about his workload. On set, Shi Jihan disrupted Shi Zhongye’s scripted night scene by turning it into a lively neighborhood comedy, and Lin An was pulled away from his planned suicide.

• Shi Jihan asked Workmate to help him rise through the ranks and take over the purchasing manager position, and Zhou Jingcheng agreed to think of a way.
• Zhou Jingcheng interpreted Shi Jihan’s offer as an attempt to give him a vacation and went to the set to see the new manager at work.
• Shi Zhongye started filming a scripted scene in which Lin An’s power was cut, leaving him alone with a fruit knife.
• Cheng Yangguang burst into Lin An’s room with a fill light and took him to the Neighborhood Committee, where the residents improvised ways to restore electricity.
• Shi Zhongye realized Shi Jihan had sidelined him as the cast and crew continued the chaotic scene, and Lin An was pulled into pedaling a stationary bike to power the lights.

Shi Jihan took charge of the production budget and made drastic changes to the crew’s spending, while Zhou Jingcheng defended his schemes to Shi Zhongye. Xiao Yuan’s chaotic performance during a filmed job interview earned him a position, but he refused to take it.

• The Demolition Crew discovered that the residents had spent the night playing mahjong, and Shi Jihan received a new badge naming him Chief Screenwriter, Lifestyle Producer.
• Shi Jihan raised the food budget, cut Shi Zhongye’s salary to one percent, and slashed the budgets for costumes, makeup, and props.
• Shi Zhongye confronted Zhou Jingcheng about Shi Jihan’s budget changes, and Zhou Jingcheng argued that Shi Jihan’s schemes had brought good results before.
• Shi Jihan gave Xiao Yuan the new costume, and Xiao Yuan’s manager arrived to watch his scene.
• During a filmed online interview, Xiao Yuan revealed his Patrick Star pajama shorts and spun around like a ballet dancer, earning Malice Points as the interviewer watched.
• The interviewer offered Xiao Yuan a job, but Xiao Yuan pulled up his mask and said he was not going.

Shi Jihan continued sabotaging the film’s production while Shi Zhongye struggled to keep the crew on track. The chapter ended with Shi Jihan’s chickens playing demolition-crew actors in a night scene, where the frightened birds caused chaos on set.

• Shi Jihan’s costume choices left Xiao Yuan hiding in embarrassment, while Shi Zhongye tried to comfort him.
• Shi Zhongye inspected the student crew’s continuity notebooks and found them full of academic analyses and jokes instead of filming records.
• Shi Jihan replaced extra actors with his named chickens and prepared them for a night scene depicting the Demolition Crew’s raid.
• Shi Zhongye took over the morale speech and started filming as the demolition crew crept toward the apartment complex and began smashing its wall.
• A chicken’s scream frightened the actors and other chickens, and Shi Chicken Fry laid eggs while running away.

Shi Jihan’s nighttime antics with the Demolition Crew led to Lin An being recruited into the neighborhood committee under an embarrassing code name, while Shi Jihan later tried to make amends to Zhou Jingcheng with a scarf and a late-night snack. He then turned the production crew’s cost-cutting efforts into Malice Points, ending with Zhou Jingcheng helping a little girl with homework and demanding praise from Shi Jihan.

• Shi Jihan’s chickens exposed the Demolition Crew’s break-in, and Lin An startled the captain into retreating before the neighborhood director recruited him as “Lin Your-Mom.”
• After filming, Shi Jihan saw Zhou Jingcheng waiting for him and ordered him a scarf before rushing back to share Zhou Jingcheng’s oden balls.
• Shi Jihan had Zero-Zero-Zero report the production crew’s cost savings to the Main System, earning 30 Malice Points and another 10 after obtaining Lin An’s comic manuscript from a little girl.
• Shi Jihan asked Zhou Jingcheng to help the girl with her homework, and Zhou Jingcheng answered one problem with “Diabetes” before demanding that Shi Jihan call him smart.

Shi Jihan was swept into a chaotic day on the film set, where his memory helped the crew and earned him a mountain of continuity-log work. After borrowing Zhou Jingcheng’s laptop, he returned to the little dark room to write while its nonstop business notifications kept interrupting him.

• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng left the little girl and fled a flock of geese that had invaded the set and stolen food.
• Shi Jihan’s flying wooden spoon hit Shi Zhongshu Tu, and Shi Zhongye tried to put him to work before ordering him to stay away from the workstation.
• Shi Jihan recited detailed shot-continuity information with Zero-Zero-Zero’s help, so Shi Zhongye assigned him tens of thousands of words of continuity logs.
• Shi Jihan copied the logs until his laptop keyboard broke, then borrowed Zhou Jingcheng’s laptop and promised not to look at Universe’s business secrets.
• Shi Jihan returned to writing in the little dark room, where Zhou Jingcheng’s constant message notifications repeatedly interrupted him.

Shi Jihan discovered that Zhou Jingcheng’s small WeChat account was on his computer and panicked after accidentally making a video call from it. He returned the laptop in disguise, while Zhou Jingcheng teased him and left him wondering whether the point between them was his face; Shi Jihan then unexpectedly settled down to revise the script and fill out shooting logs.

• Shi Jihan saw Secretary Sun’s messages on Zhou Jingcheng’s small account and realized Zhou Jingcheng could know about his past deception, then accidentally video-called Secretary Sun for two seconds.
• Zhou Jingcheng noticed the call record, went to check on Shi Jihan, and found him hiding behind a sign on his guest-room door.
• Shi Jihan returned Zhou Jingcheng’s laptop while wearing a black plastic bag over his head, and Zhou Jingcheng questioned him about the call and his attempts to bargain for a title.
• Zhou Jingcheng pinched Shi Jihan’s cheek and said their conversation was not about something trivial, leaving Shi Jihan to wonder if his face was the point.
• Shi Zhongye suspected Shi Jihan was plotting because he had stopped making trouble and was spending his time revising the script and completing shooting logs; Xiao Yuan pointed out that script revisions could still count as trouble.