Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Tang Shiba can’t find Little Fatty, so she turns the hospital’s secret nightly partying into a barbecue. She gets Fang Cheng, Yang Xin, and Sun Qian to join, then has Fang Cheng help get the doctors drunk. Afterward, she knocks out the two sober nurses, injects them, and wakes them again—leaving them confused and frightened.
• Fang Cheng later tells Tang Lin and Tang Xiao about the barbecue. They are disappointed to learn Emperor Si wasn’t there, and comfort themselves that Tang Shiba’s invitation to Fang Cheng must have been a fluke.
• The next morning, Ouyang Xuan and Du Xiaotian are seen embracing. The system warns Tang Shiba that Ouyang intends to use Du Xiaotian to carry out her plan.
• Du Xiaotian publicly accuses his father, Du Wei, of favoring another son, then proposes to Ouyang Xuan. She rejects him, saying she sees him only as a younger brother. Her fanatical fans attack him, and one nearly stabs him with a spoon before the others intervene.
• Humiliated and distraught, Du Xiaotian laughs wildly, threatens to make Ouyang remember him, and slashes his neck with a razor. The chapter ends on this apparent suicide attempt.

Character development and interactions

• Tang Shiba is mischievous and enjoys unsettling the nurses, but remains alert to Ouyang Xuan’s schemes.
• Fang Cheng eagerly joins the barbecue and is pleased to have been chosen over Tang Shiba’s brothers. Tang Lin and Tang Xiao react with jealousy, especially when they learn Emperor Si was absent.
• Du Xiaotian appears devoted to Ouyang Xuan but has been poisoned—figuratively, through false information—and turns against his father before making a public confession.
• Du Wei is shocked by his son’s accusations and tries to stop the public scene.
• Ouyang Xuan appears affectionate toward Du Xiaotian, but rejects him when he proposes; her warm gestures may have been part of her manipulation.
• The patients first mistake Ouyang and Du Xiaotian for a couple, then rally to stop the fan attack.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and unreliable information: Ouyang Xuan has fed Du Xiaotian false claims, and the system realizes that the presumed “plot” may be only partly true.
• Public humiliation and obsession: Du Xiaotian’s idealization of Ouyang turns abruptly into a crisis after her rejection.
• Dark comedy amid danger: The hospital barbecue and Tang Shiba’s prankish treatment of the nurses contrast sharply with the escalating violence of the final scene.

Plot points and events

• Du Xiaotian tries to kill himself with a hidden razor, but Han Feng stops him. Both are cut. Han Feng suspects Du Xiaotian—or whoever supplied the blade—of being the murderer and orders him taken to the Third Floor for questioning.
• Han Feng also orders Ouyang Xuan taken upstairs. She resists, but Si Wuyu refuses to help her.
• To keep Tang Shiba from interfering, Han Feng grabs Tang Lin as a hostage. Tang Shiba casually allows him to take Tang Lin and Tang Xiao too, surprising Han Feng. The brothers agree to go with him.
• After Han Feng’s group leaves, Tang Shiba and Yang Xin use a public announcement to tell the patients that an escape is being planned. Most dismiss the idea as impossible, but the madwoman volunteers to join.
• The nurses report the plan to the director. He orders the hospital’s hidden shotguns brought out and resolves to prevent the patients from escaping.
• Tang Shiba learns the hospital has twenty shotguns. Though she could escape alone, she worries the others would be shot—and hints that she has prepared a countermeasure.

Character developments and interactions

• Han Feng shows unexpected concern—or at least urgency—by stopping Du Xiaotian’s suicide attempt, despite dismissing his own injury. He remains forceful and suspicious, and uses Tang Lin to restrain Tang Shiba.
• Tang Shiba stays composed and strategic. She lets Han Feng take her brothers, then helps organize an escape without insisting everyone join. Her main concern is protecting the group from the armed guards.
• Tang Lin and Tang Xiao trust their sister’s judgment and willingly go upstairs, though Tang Lin angrily objects to Han Feng’s rough handling.
• Ouyang Xuan is revealed to have attempted to kill Du Xiaotian before and privately intends to try again. Si Wuyu’s refusal to defend her leaves her isolated.
• Yang Xin takes the public role in announcing the escape plan, while the patients’ wary reactions show how resigned they have become to the hospital’s dangers.
• The director shifts from containment to open violence once he sees the escape plan as a threat to his income.

Significant themes

• Control and resistance: The patients face both the hospital’s confinement and the director’s armed effort to stop them.
• Trust and loyalty: Tang Shiba’s brothers follow her lead, while Si Wuyu’s silence marks his rejection of Ouyang Xuan.
• Hidden danger: The razor, the concealed guns, and Tang Shiba’s undisclosed preparations suggest that apparent safety and control are deceptive.

Key plot points and events

• Han Feng questions Du Xiaotian after waking him, trying to learn whether he killed Hua Yingying and Wang Hao.
• Du Xiaotian initially behaves as if his attempted suicide and Ouyang Xuan’s rejection never happened. His answers about the razor blade contradict each other: first he claims he brought it in his shoe, then says he found it in his bag.
• Han Feng threatens Ouyang Xuan to provoke a response, then has her and Du Xiaotian locked together despite Du Wei’s objections.
• Alone with Du Xiaotian, Ouyang Xuan claims she rejected him only to test his devotion and says she will be with him. She then urges him to die for her. Under her influence, he repeatedly tries to injure himself—first against a window, then by striking his head against a wall.
• Du Xiaotian suddenly regains control, begs to be released, and tells the others that Ouyang Xuan had been whispering instructions for him to live or die for her. Han Feng concludes that Ouyang Xuan is now the prime suspect, though Du Xiaotian cannot say whether she killed the victims.

Character developments and interactions

• Du Xiaotian shifts from confused, devoted denial to fear and partial clarity. He insists he did not kill anyone and says the razor was in his bag, but his conflicting recollections leave his account uncertain.
• Ouyang Xuan appears helpless while being questioned, then privately manipulates Du Xiaotian’s devotion and urges him to harm himself. Her behavior makes her seem far more suspicious.
• Han Feng remains aggressive and decisive, using threats and pressure to investigate, though his injured hand does not stop him from striking Du Xiaotian.
• Tang Lin challenges Du Xiaotian’s implausible explanations and mocks his obsessive devotion to Ouyang Xuan.
• Du Wei is distressed by his son’s condition but does not defend him when Han Feng questions him; Du Xiaotian interprets his father’s silence as rejection.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and coercive devotion: Ouyang Xuan appears able to exploit Du Xiaotian’s love, turning it into a weapon against him.
• Unreliable memory and truth: Du Xiaotian’s contradictory statements make it difficult to distinguish what he remembers from what he has been led to believe.
• Love versus self-preservation: Du Xiaotian’s willingness to die for Ouyang Xuan clashes with his eventual terror and instinct to survive.
• Suspicion and uncertain guilt: Ouyang Xuan becomes the leading suspect, but the chapter ends without proving who killed Hua Yingying and Wang Hao.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• After confirming that Ouyang Xuan was suspected of attempted murder, Han Feng orders Du Xiaotian and the others downstairs and has Ouyang kept on the third floor.
• Tang Shiba and the others look for a place to dig an escape tunnel, but every possible spot is guarded. Su Chen admits he had started digging, then filled the hole back in when he discovered guards.
• The patients return to find doctors preparing injections. Tang Shiba’s warnings have already made them suspicious, and they demand that the staff prove the vaccines are safe by taking them first. The doctors comply—but use harmless nutrient injections.
• A patient recognizes the deception, and the group turns against the staff. Yang Xin rallies everyone to escape, and they begin battering the iron gate.
• The doctors plan to drug the patients’ dinner so they can inject them while they sleep. Tang Shiba warns the patients, who refuse to eat. Fang Cheng spreads the alarm with a rat he claims to have found in his meal, further inflaming the crowd.
• Si Wuyu gives Tang Shiba candy he stole from the doctors’ office. She notices injection marks on his wrist and learns he deliberately got injected to obtain the candy. The injections may impair his mind, but the system confirms the doctors have an antidote.

Character developments

• Tang Shiba continues to manipulate events through timely warnings, turning the patients’ suspicion into organized resistance. She is also increasingly concerned about Si Wuyu’s safety.
• Si Wuyu shows his affection by giving Tang Shiba his candy, but his judgment appears impaired: he willingly exposed himself to a dangerous injection and assumes her silence means she has accepted his invitation.
• Yang Xin takes a leadership role in the escape effort, while Fang Cheng helps whip up the patients’ anger.
• Ouyang Xuan’s former ability to control Du Xiaotian is no longer effective, leaving her more exposed.

Character interactions

• The patients unite against the doctors after the fake-vaccine scheme is exposed, with Fang Cheng and Yang Xin directing the growing revolt.
• Tang Shiba sharply scolds Si Wuyu for endangering himself, while he responds with persistent, hopeful flirtation and plans to cook for her.
• Si Wuyu’s gesture of care unsettles Tang Shiba, who realizes she has missed warning signs about his condition.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and collective resistance: Tang Shiba uses information and staged revelations to turn fear into action.
• Distrust and deception: The doctors’ false vaccines and planned drugging destroy the patients’ remaining confidence in the hospital.
• Care and vulnerability: Si Wuyu’s affection is sincere but reckless, and Tang Shiba’s anger reflects concern for him.
• Control and escape: The patients’ struggle against the staff’s coercion drives the chapter’s rising conflict.

Key plot points and events

• After learning what had happened in the cafeteria, the patients lose faith in the hospital and begin attacking its iron doors. Tang Lin’s curses drive the doctors away, while the director assumes the doors will hold and refuses to bring out the guns immediately.
• Outside, the staff discover that animals have gathered around the hospital. Their attempts to test the electric fence go chaotically: Venomous Snake is knocked unconscious, Wild Bull is electrocuted, and the animals debate whether to risk trying again.
• Tang Shiba uses a Strength Card to batter the doors, then kicks them hard enough to dent them. The patients admire her and treat her as their leader, though she privately thinks they’ll turn against her once they learn she is unpopular.
• Han Feng, Su Chen, and their followers join the rebellion. Although gunfire and the animals’ cries frighten the patients, neither group’s followers abandon their leaders. Yang Xin removes those too afraid to leave.
• When Tang Lin’s group cannot dismantle a bed, they carry the whole bed to the doors and ram the weakened section. Working together, they finally break one side open.
• The animals retreat when the director fires a shotgun into the air, but Big Sister Bear stops Big Bad Wolf from eating the still-living Wild Bull. The animals then consider digging under the fence instead.
• The patients celebrate their escape, only to realize they have no plan for what to do next. Tang Shiba turns to Si Wuyu for advice.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Shiba emerges as the rebellion’s practical leader: she takes the greatest physical risk, inspires the others, and coordinates the effort. Her confidence contrasts with her comic self-deprecation about her reputation.
• Si Wuyu shows concern for Tang Shiba’s injured hands and urges her to stop hammering, while continuing to support her.
• Tang Lin helps lead the assault, and his earlier defiance of the doctors signals the patients’ refusal to be intimidated.
• Han Feng and Su Chen demonstrate the loyalty they command. Their followers choose to face the danger with them; Su Chen’s makeshift list of their names, written on a blood-marked cloth, becomes a joke at Han Feng’s expense.
• The director and staff shift from complacency to panic as the doors weaken and the animal crowd appears. The director’s claim that he wants to spare the patients a cruel death is met with disbelief.
• The animals behave as a chaotic comic counterpart to the patients: they argue over who should test the fence, while Big Sister Bear protects Wild Bull from being eaten.

Significant themes

• Collective resistance: The patients’ shared determination—and their improvised use of the bed—overcomes the hospital’s physical barrier.
• Freedom versus fear: Even after escaping the doors, the group must confront the danger outside and decide whether freedom is worth the risk.
• Leadership and loyalty: Tang Shiba gains the patients’ trust, while Han Feng and Su Chen’s followers remain committed despite the threat.
• Absurdity and dark humor: The animals’ reckless schemes, the staff’s self-serving concern, and the patients’ jokes under pressure lighten a life-threatening escape attempt.

Plot points and events

• After the Love Challenge, Tang Shiba’s Anti-Fans secretly unfollow her en masse, reducing her account from over 60 million followers to about five million. The remaining followers are mostly genuine fans and supporters.
• The Anti-Fans reorganize under the Has-Been Celebrity Group leader. They plan to keep criticizing Tang Shiba publicly while protecting her genuine fans behind the scenes, hoping to push those fans into openly supporting her.
• When rumors spread that Tang Shiba and her companions are in trouble, the leader calms the Anti-Fans and asks genuine fans to post positive material. To explain the sudden loss of followers, the Anti-Fans pretend they left for money and taunt Tang Shiba’s supporters.
• The provocation works: Sugar Babies post supportive videos and evidence of Tang Shiba’s substantial donation to build mountain roads. The production crew, Qiao Family Village residents, and Water City’s official account also voice support. Her follower count rebounds, gaining a million genuine fans.
• Meanwhile, Tang Xuan and his family worry that the mass unfollowing signals danger. Tang Xuan reassures them that Tang Shiba is with Tang Lin and the others, though he suspects the followers may have been lured away.
• Unaware of the online campaign, Tang Shiba and her companions break through an iron gate only to confront the hospital director and his armed men. He points a gun at Tang Shiba and orders them back inside.

Character developments and interactions

• The Anti-Fans show unexpected loyalty: they disguise their support as hostility and work to shield Tang Shiba’s growing genuine fanbase.
• The group leader directs the reshuffle and understands how to use public provocation to encourage fans to defend Tang Shiba.
• Shanshan admires the leader’s strategy and hopes to help train new Sugar Babies.
• Tang Xuan and his parents reveal their concern for Tang Shiba; Tang Xuan tries to reassure them despite his own unease.
• Tang Shiba and her companions remain focused on the immediate danger at the hospital, where the director confronts them with a gun.

Significant themes

• Loyalty beneath hostility: The Anti-Fans’ public attacks conceal private allegiance.
• Fan identity and community: The shift from “Black Treasures” to “Sugar Babies” reflects a growing move from antagonism to open support.
• Online reputation and collective influence: Strategic posts and public endorsements rapidly reshape Tang Shiba’s image and follower count.
• Contrasting crises: While supporters manage a social-media campaign, Tang Shiba faces a life-threatening confrontation offline.

Plot points and events

• Tang Lin challenges the director and his armed staff, while the director tries to persuade the group to stay in the hospital by claiming the outside world is dangerous.
• The group counters by revealing their wealth, public prominence, and influential families, making the director realize they could have him arrested if they escaped.
• Tang Shiba sits down instead of joining the argument, privately waiting for animals outside to break the electric fence’s switch mechanism.
• As the others negotiate, Tang Shiba’s internal gossip exposes the director’s history of malpractice, sexual abuse, and child trafficking. These revelations horrify the patients and convince them he must be brought to justice.
• Once the animals get inside, Tang Shiba creates a distraction by spilling water and pretending it was an accident. The director abandons negotiation and points his gun at her.
• Si Wuyu and Su Chen immediately shield Tang Shiba. She counts down and orders everyone to get down, setting up the next confrontation.

Character developments

• Tang Shiba remains calm and strategic, using gossip to uncover evidence and waiting for her animal allies rather than rushing into danger.
• Tang Lin aggressively confronts the director, while Fang Cheng uses joking bravado to puncture the tension.
• Si Wuyu and Su Chen show their protectiveness by stepping in front of Tang Shiba when she is threatened.
• The patients and companions shift from negotiating to outrage as they learn the extent of the director’s crimes.

Significant themes

• Abuse of power and exploitation: The director uses his position to commit medical crimes, assault, and trafficking.
• Truth as a weapon: Tang Shiba’s gossip reveals hidden crimes and turns the group against their captor.
• Solidarity and resistance: The group supports one another and refuses to accept the director’s offer of safety in exchange for remaining captive.
• Comic relief amid danger: Jokes, gossip, and Tang Shiba’s deadpan behavior contrast with the armed standoff.

Character interactions

• Tang Lin trades insults and arguments with the director, while the group’s revelations about their backgrounds unsettle him.
• Tang Shiba’s disclosures provoke disgust and anger among the patients, especially those who might have been vulnerable to the director’s abuse.
• The director targets Tang Shiba with his gun, prompting Si Wuyu and Su Chen to protect her as she signals the group to take cover.

Plot points and events

• Tang Shiba’s chemical catalyst finally activates the drug she injected into the doctors the day before, knocking them unconscious. The group ties them up, and the female patients take revenge on the director by slapping him.
• The group searches for the antidote but finds only about a dozen doses for fifty or sixty patients. Two patients who know how to prepare medicine are sent to the laboratory to make more.
• Tang Shiba leads a team to confront the guards outside, while Han Feng and Su Chen stay behind to protect the patients. The group agrees that the most severely affected patients should receive antidote first. Tang Shiba gives a dose to Si Wuyu, the only member of her team besides him who was injected.
• Outside, animals break through the electric fence and collapse the mud wall, driving the guards into a panic. Tang Shiba’s group meets three guards as they flee.
• Tang Shiba distracts the guards while snakes attack them. The bitten guards still fire their guns: two shots miss, but one hits Si Wuyu as he shields Tang Shiba. The snakes then subdue the guards. Tang Lin retrieves the guns, and Tang Shiba rushes Si Wuyu back inside for treatment.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Shiba stays resourceful and decisive, managing the antidote shortage, assigning roles, and confronting the guards. After Si Wuyu is shot, however, she freezes briefly before taking action.
• Si Wuyu insists on accompanying Tang Shiba and protects her from gunfire, demonstrating his devotion at serious cost to himself.
• Tang Lin supports his sister by carrying the guns and responding quickly after the shooting. Fang Cheng’s alarm over Si Wuyu’s worsening condition shows his concern for his brother.
• The patients move from arguing over who deserves the scarce antidote to accepting that the most severely affected should receive it. The female patients also seize the chance to retaliate against the director.

Significant themes

• Survival and cooperation: The group pools skills and resources to find and prepare medicine.
• Revenge and justice: Patients punish the director, while Tang Shiba insists the guards be brought inside rather than simply left to die.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: Si Wuyu puts Tang Shiba’s safety ahead of his own.
• Chaos and danger: The animals’ breach of the compound and the guards’ reckless gunfire show how quickly the escape can turn deadly.

• Si Wuyu is wounded protecting Tang Shiba. Tang Shiba worries that the bullet in his thigh might leave him lame—or, in her wildly overactive imagination, have injured him more seriously. Si Wuyu is more concerned with staying close to her than with getting proper care, repeatedly refusing to let her leave.
• Tang Shiba takes charge of the treatment. After a young woman brings medical supplies, Si Wuyu refuses to let her examine him and insists Tang Shiba remove the bullet instead. Tang Shiba agrees, using what she learned for a movie role and relying on the system’s instructional video. She gives him a local anesthetic, removes the bullet, and bandages the wound. Si Wuyu finally follows her instructions, even wiping the sweat from her forehead while she works.
• The group’s reactions highlight Si Wuyu’s growing attachment. Fang Cheng recognizes his brother’s efforts to cling to Tang Shiba and privately warns him not to overdo it. Tang Xiao initially tries to keep Tang Shiba away from the wound, then steps in to control the bleeding. The others trust Tang Shiba to handle the extraction, while Si Wuyu’s protectiveness and romantic interest become increasingly obvious.
• The patients turn the animal attack into a spectacle. Once Tang Shiba finishes treating Si Wuyu, she goes to check on the animals and discovers patients cheering as the escaped beasts smash through the hospital and perform bizarre feats. The animals haven’t attacked anyone; the patients’ excitement has apparently encouraged their antics. Tang Shiba is stunned by their recklessness.
  Themes: Care and devotion are played for comedy, especially through Si Wuyu’s refusal to leave Tang Shiba’s side and her anxious inner monologue. The chapter also contrasts Tang Shiba’s practical competence with everyone else’s eccentric behavior, and closes on the absurdity of people treating a dangerous animal incident as entertainment.

• The group prepares to escape: Tang Shiba warns the others that the animals are dangerous, but they insist on treating Tiger Mimi, Bear-Bear, and Wolf Chirp-Chirp as pets. To frighten them into taking shelter, Tang Shiba signals Bear, who charges and pretends to attack. The crowd flees indoors, and Bear returns to demolishing the buildings.
• Tang Shiba punishes the killers: After learning that three people responsible for a murder have been restrained, she injects them with a serum meant to make them experience the same burning pain they inflicted on someone else. She also scares the director and the others by claiming they will be used as bait, then orders everyone tied together so they can be dragged along during the escape.
• The burly woman becomes a source of comic relief: While the group is being tied up, she kisses the men and boasts about her wealth and affection. The others realize she may have been committed by her own son so he could take her fortune, and their sympathy only encourages her to offer more kisses.
• The antidote is ready: Tang Shiba checks it, and the two people administering it give the group their injections. Everyone is energized by the prospect of leaving, though the group’s mix of injured people, criminals, and patients makes the escape especially difficult.
• Si Wuyu falls unconscious: Fang Cheng tells Tang Shiba that Si Wuyu has developed a fever and passed out. She examines him, finds no physical problem, and concludes that he is caught in a dream. Since his wound has only recently been treated, she decides he should remain behind to recover while she goes ahead to find the phones.
• The party splits: Tang Lin and Tang Xiao insist on accompanying Tang Shiba. Fang Cheng stays behind to care for Si Wuyu, who will only allow Fang Cheng and Tang Shiba to touch him.
  Character developments and interactions: Tang Shiba is ruthless toward the murderers and director, but takes Si Wuyu’s condition seriously. Bear follows her plan despite disliking the effort of frightening humans. The group shifts from treating the animals as cute companions to fearing them, while the burly woman’s flirtatious confidence turns the tense preparations into comedy. Fang Cheng is anxious about his brother, and Tang Lin and Tang Xiao show their protectiveness by refusing to leave Tang Shiba.
  Themes: The chapter mixes dark humor with danger, justice, and survival. It also contrasts the group’s comic eccentricity with the consequences of violence and the practical need to make difficult choices during an escape.

Key plot points and events

• Tang Shiba leaves the hospital with Tang Lin to locate a phone, while Tang Xiao stays behind to care for the injured Si Wuyu. Han Feng and Su Chen each send one woman—Strongwoman and the trainee nurse—to accompany them.
• Using the system’s map, Tang Shiba finds a buried satellite phone. Unable to remember the production crew’s number, she calls her mother and has the group record a deliberately playful message asking for a plane, police, and an ambulance.
• Tang Mother and Tang Xuan confront Director Wang with the recording. Its odd, affectionate tone convinces Wang that Tang Shiba is angry and that the group may be in danger. He arranges an immediate air rescue.
• Before the group can relax, the system warns Tang Shiba of trouble at the hospital. Some patients are trying to leave without waiting for her return. Han Feng confronts their leader, while Fang Cheng and Tang Xiao suspect the man and his followers are hiding something.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Shiba takes charge of the rescue plan and shows both resourcefulness—finding the satellite phone—and concern for the group’s safety.
• Tang Lin insists on accompanying her, though he and Tang Xiao trade familiar, teasing judgments about whether he is dependable. His boastful confidence contrasts with his comic panic when Strongwoman flirts with him.
• Strongwoman and the trainee nurse comply with Tang Shiba’s strange scripted message, while Strongwoman is stung when Tang Lin calls her ugly.
• Tang Mother’s worry and sharp tongue emerge as she confronts Director Wang; Tang Xuan quickly helps her locate the production crew.
• At the hospital, Han Feng uses force to stop the would-be deserter, while Fang Cheng and Tang Xiao watch the group closely and suspect ulterior motives.

Significant themes

• Cooperation under danger: The characters divide responsibilities, communicate with family, and seek outside help rather than risk an unsafe evacuation.
• Suspicion and hidden motives: The attempted departure raises the possibility that some patients are concealing wrongdoing.
• Humor amid crisis: Banter, awkward flirting, and Tang Shiba’s unusual message lighten the tension without removing the danger.

Plot points and events

• After Tang Shiba’s earlier display of power, several people try to escape the hospital before she returns. Han Feng and Su Chen block the exit, and the would-be escapees’ leader urges them to force their way out, triggering a chaotic fight.
• The tied-up director offers Fang Cheng money to release him. Fang pretends to accept, obtains the address and password to one of the director’s hidden stashes, then refuses to help him escape.
• Fang publicly exposes the director’s alleged abuse and crimes—including sexual misconduct involving sheep and selling nurses’ newborns. The nurses react with horror and rage, while the director angrily denies the accusations.
• Tang Shiba and her companions return with a satellite phone. Tang hears that the escapees want to leave and agrees that they have a point: she and the others are not the police.
• A system voice reveals that the escapees were confined because legal loopholes had prevented punishment for serious abuse, including domestic violence and child abuse.
• Tang challenges them to cut off a finger in exchange for leaving. The leader tries, but the blunt knife only cuts partway through, leaving him in pain and furious.
• Tang then opens the door and lets them go, warning that their fate outside is no longer her concern. The system predicts they are heading to their deaths; Tang refuses to intervene, invoking respect for people’s choices.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Cheng shows quick thinking and a taste for exposing secrets: he tricks the director into revealing a hiding place, then taunts him with his alleged crimes.
• Tang Shiba remains provocative and unpredictable. She exposes the escapees’ wrongdoing, uses a deliberately ineffective test to frighten them, and ultimately lets them choose whether to leave.
• The director shifts from trying to bargain his way free to furious denial as his secrets are revealed. The nurses’ reaction suggests the accusations have deeply damaged their view of him.
• Han Feng and Su Chen try to maintain control while the escapees resist. When Tang returns, her authority quickly ends their opposition.

Significant themes

• Justice versus the law: The escapees’ alleged crimes went unpunished because of legal loopholes, raising the question of what should happen when formal justice fails.
• Accountability and exposure: Revealing hidden wrongdoing turns private secrets into a source of public shame and anger.
• Choice and responsibility: Tang insists that people should be allowed to make their own decisions, even when the system warns that those choices may lead to death.
• Dark humor and intimidation: Fang’s insults and Tang’s blunt-knife stunt use comedy and shock to undermine the villains’ confidence.

Plot points and events

• Tang Shiba confirms that rescue has been called and leads the survivors out of Changde Psychiatric Hospital. The people who left earlier are gone; the group jokes that they are unlikely to survive.
• Si Wuyu wakes after his fever breaks. Because he is still injured, Tang Lin finds a stretcher, and the group prepares to carry him.
• The animals, who had pretended to be asleep, secretly follow the group. A crow also keeps pace through the woods, leading Tang Lin to suspect it is reporting to Tang Shiba.
• The survivors reach an open area and are overwhelmed by the sunlight and their escape from the hospital. Tang Shiba privately expects they will first have to answer questions at the police station.
• Suitcases begin falling from the bushes. The animals have carried the group’s luggage—and phones—to them. Tang Shiba discovers a rabbit in her bag and learns that a bear cleaned it by licking it.
• Tang Shiba decides to spend points on an alarm to warn the animals about poachers, moving them deeply.
• Han Feng and the others question why Tang Shiba’s group has luggage. Tang Lin invents an explanation, while the snake-handling trio insists the others entered the hospital of their own choice.
• A helicopter arrives, but armed rescuers surround the group and order everyone to drop their weapons. Tang Lin complies, feeling unfairly treated.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Shiba remains practical and protective: she arranges rescue, checks on Si Wuyu, and plans to help the animals even after escaping.
• Si Wuyu is recovering but worries that resting will keep him away from Tang Shiba; she dismisses his reluctance to recuperate.
• Tang Lin takes charge of practical tasks, guards the group’s weapons, and improvises a cover story when questioned.
• The animals show loyalty by following the group and returning their belongings. Their bond with Tang Shiba is strengthened by her promise of protection.
• The survivors move from relief to confusion and alarm, especially when the luggage appears and armed rescuers arrive.

Significant themes

• Escape and freedom: Reaching daylight marks a powerful break from the hospital’s confinement.
• Loyalty and compassion: The animals’ help and Tang Shiba’s concern for their safety reveal a reciprocal bond.
• Humor amid danger: Jokes, exaggerated reactions, and Tang Lin’s lies lighten the tension.
• Uncertainty after rescue: Even freedom brings new complications, as the group must explain themselves and face armed authorities.

Key plot points and events

• Police secure the weapons and take the group from the forest into custody or to the hospital. Si Wuyu is injured, and Tang Shiba is mistakenly treated as his family member and sent with him.
• At the hospital, Tang Shiba clears up the misunderstanding, though the officers assume she is abandoning her injured partner. Her parents tell her to stay until they can pick her up.
• Chang Hua arrives, panics at Tang Shiba’s teasing suggestion that Si Wuyu may be unable to walk, and volunteers himself as Si Wuyu’s family. Tang Shiba eventually goes to check on Si Wuyu.
• After the police learn another group may still be in the forest, they search for them. Most of the group are missing, and the few survivors blame Tang Shiba for what happened.
• Si Wuyu appears to have recovered his memory and personality. He remembers Tang Shiba promising he could hug her, then readily pays her three times the money she says she lost when he collapsed.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Shiba remains blunt, practical, and focused on money. She rejects the idea that she and Si Wuyu are a couple, even as others read their closeness that way. She also enjoys the more agreeable version of Si Wuyu and resents his domineering side.
• Si Wuyu is affectionate toward Tang Shiba on the helicopter, quietly leaning into their closeness. Once apparently recovered, he remembers her promise and is generous with money—but is hurt to learn she dislikes his other personality.
• Chang Hua is fiercely concerned about his boss, though his panic is partly driven by unpaid wages. He eagerly claims the “family” role when Si Wuyu needs someone.
• Fang Cheng and Su Chen react to the mistaken assumption that Tang Shiba and Si Wuyu are together: Fang Cheng is baffled, while Su Chen feels disappointed. Tang Xiao and Tang Lin know the assumption is false.
• The officers repeatedly mistake Tang Shiba and Si Wuyu for a couple, creating awkward, comic misunderstandings.

Significant themes

• Miscommunication and mistaken identity: Tang Shiba’s closeness to Si Wuyu leads people to assume she is his partner, despite her emphatic denials.
• Affection and emotional vulnerability: Si Wuyu shows tenderness but is wounded by Tang Shiba’s preference for his more compliant personality.
• Comedy amid danger: The hospital misunderstandings and Chang Hua’s melodramatic panic contrast with the serious consequences of the violence in the forest.
• Responsibility and consequences: The delayed report about the remaining group leads to a search that finds most of them missing, while survivors shift blame onto Tang Shiba.

Plot points and events

• Si Wuyu has recovered his memories after being treated at the hospital, though his domineering personality remains unchanged. Tang Shiba realizes this and tries to leave quickly when her parents arrive.
• In the corridor, Tang Shiba clashes with Tao Wanyu, Si Wuyu’s Second Aunt, who accuses her of hurting her and demands an apology and compensation. Tang Shiba recognizes Tao and Si Ming as relatives who may be probing Si Wuyu’s condition for their own advantage.
• When Tao threatens to slap her, Tang Shiba deliberately knocks her flying. Si Ming rushes Tao for medical attention and then searches for the woman responsible.
• Tang Shiba hides under Si Wuyu’s covers and asks him to keep Si Ming from discovering her. Si Wuyu openly shields her and calls her “my girl,” while teasing her by touching her hair. She bites his hand until he stops.
• Si Ming is stunned by Si Wuyu’s unusual tolerance of a woman, but leaves with Chang Hua to check on Tao. Afterward, Tang Shiba defends her actions, and Si Wuyu says he will handle the matter and encourages her to fight back if Tao bullies her again.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Shiba remains bold, sharp-tongued, and physically formidable. Though she initially flees from Si Wuyu, she stands her ground against Tao and later hides with him when cornered.
• Si Wuyu is back to his old self but shows marked affection toward Tang Shiba, protecting her from his uncle and accepting her rough treatment without retaliating.
• Tao Wanyu uses a minor collision as an excuse to provoke Tang Shiba, while Si Ming tries to control the confrontation and later questions Si Wuyu’s involvement.
• Tang Shiba and Si Wuyu’s teasing, physical closeness, and bickering reveal growing intimacy; Si Ming’s surprise highlights how unusual their bond is.

Significant themes

• Power and self-assertion: Tang Shiba refuses to be intimidated or exploited.
• Family rivalry and opportunism: Si Ming and Tao’s visit is framed as potentially motivated by interest in Si Wuyu’s injury and company.
• Affection expressed through conflict: Si Wuyu’s protectiveness and Tang Shiba’s biting resistance turn their closeness into playful, combative banter.

Key plot points

• Tang Shiba leaves Si Wuyu’s hospital room to return home. Si Wuyu hopes to make their relationship official, but feels he has no standing in her life yet.
• Chang Hua reports that Si Wuyu’s second aunt was badly injured in the collision. Si Wuyu is pleased, seeing the accident as a sign that his second uncle has stopped pretending to be friendly.
• The production team for Loving and Killing Each Other: One Family posts a misleading apology, claiming a damaged drone left them without footage. Fans suspect a cover-up after Tang Shiba was injured.
• Fearing Tang Shiba will confront him, Director Wang tries to flee. Fang Cheng intercepts him, ties him naked to a tree, and covers him in written apologies. Wang becomes an internet sensation, while the police treat the incident as a bizarre prank.
• Tang Shiba checks Weibo and discovers that her follower count has fallen to just over six million. The system explains that the departed followers were anti-fans, while those remaining are genuine supporters.
• Seeing that Ouyang Xuan is still unconscious, Tang Shiba considers stealing her system. Her own system needs two more days to finish removing a virus.
• Tang Mother mistakes Tang Shiba’s gagging for a sign of pregnancy and questions Tang Xiao. He reassures her that Tang Shiba would not let anyone take advantage of her; the misunderstanding is dropped.
• Fang Cheng arrives at Tang Shiba’s home seeking refuge from his childhood friend. Meanwhile, Si Wuyu lets that friend into his home while pretending Fang Cheng is away filming. She rushes toward him for a hug, then realizes he is Si Wuyu.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Shiba remains impulsive and mischievous, but shows restraint by not physically beating Director Wang, recognizing that he is also a victim and that the show is government-run. She is surprised to learn she has a large, loyal fanbase.
• Si Wuyu continues to long for a committed relationship with Tang Shiba. He also helps Fang Cheng hide from his childhood friend, though his plan leaves him facing an awkward reunion himself.
• Fang Cheng relies on Tang Shiba for protection and expresses gratitude to Si Wuyu for helping him evade his pursuer.
• Tang Mother and Tang Xiao share a comic, protective conversation about Tang Shiba’s romantic life. Tang Xiao teases that she may be the one pursuing others, while his mother quickly realizes she jumped to conclusions.
• Director Wang is humiliated online after Fang Cheng’s retaliation, adding to the production team’s troubles.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and fandom: Tang Shiba’s remaining followers prove to be genuine fans rather than casual or hostile observers.
• Protection and family concern: Tang Shiba’s family and friends rally around her, sometimes in exaggerated or comical ways.
• Romance and awkward misunderstandings: Si Wuyu wants a recognized relationship with Tang Shiba, while Tang Mother’s pregnancy scare and the mistaken identity at Si Wuyu’s home create humor.
• Public image and online spectacle: Director Wang’s humiliation becomes viral entertainment, showing how quickly private incidents turn into public ridicule.

Plot points and events

• Fang Cheng arrives at the Tang Family home in the middle of the night, claiming a stalker fan is preventing him from returning to his hotel. Tang Mother welcomes him and offers the guest room, but Fang sneaks into Tang Lin’s bed instead.
• Tang Lin kicks Fang Cheng out of bed, then hears that Fang Cheng’s childhood friend has been pursuing him. Fang Cheng begs to hide at the house, fearing she’ll force herself on him; Tang Lin jokes that he should turn the tables.
• Tang Shiba welcomes Fang Cheng mainly because he can help walk Er Gou—and because she hopes to learn more about the drama. She discovers that the pursuer is Chris, who has already set out to find Fang Cheng.
• Chris enters the residential compound and approaches the Tang home. Though warned about the Electric Fence, she tries to climb the wall rather than knock. Tang Shiba’s household notices her but deliberately holds Er Gou quiet, letting Chris get shocked.
• Chris falls outside the gate and denies climbing the wall. Fang Cheng recognizes her voice and hides, while Tang Lin comes out to see her. Tang Shiba challenges Chris about the fence, but Chris attacks her; the system warns that Chris is a skilled fighter, and Tang Shiba prepares to respond.

Character developments

• Fang Cheng is frightened and evasive, using the Tang home as a refuge from Chris. His insistence that she threatens his “virginity” is played for comedy.
• Tang Lin is amused by the unfolding drama and joins in the household’s playful antics, though he is also curious about Chris.
• Tang Shiba remains mischievous and observant. She is excited to meet Chris and treats the confrontation as both entertainment and a challenge.
• Chris is jealous and possessive, interpreting Fang Cheng’s stay as evidence that another woman has bewitched him. Her pride leads her to trespass and then deny it; when confronted, she resorts to violence.
• Tang Mother shows her characteristic kindness by sheltering Fang Cheng without hesitation.

Themes and character interactions

• The chapter uses slapstick and mistaken assumptions: Fang Cheng’s dramatic excuses, Chris’s “accidental” fall, and the household’s fake eye-gunk prank.
• Jealousy and possessiveness drive Chris to pursue Fang Cheng, while Fang Cheng’s fear and avoidance intensify the comic pursuit.
• The Tang household’s interactions—especially Tang Shiba’s teasing, Tang Lin’s complicity, and Er Gou’s involvement—turn Chris’s intrusion into a shared spectacle.
• The chapter ends on a shift from comedy to action, as Chris attacks Tang Shiba and the system signals that she is a formidable opponent.

Plot points

• Chris attacks Tang Shiba, but Tang Shiba exploits her numb limbs and uses pressure-point strikes to immobilize her.
• Tang Shiba deliberately misunderstands Chris’s angry demands, then has Er Gou lick her face—Chris’s particular fear—until she breaks down crying and runs off.
• Chris vows revenge and orders Li Ba to gather help so she can blow up Tang Shiba’s house. Fang Cheng warns that Chris is spiteful and unlikely to let the matter go.
• Tang Shiba learns through the system that Chris has tampered with the electric fence and placed poisoned bones in the yard. Chris and her men try to sneak in with a loudspeaker, but Tang Shiba knocks them unconscious and throws them back outside.
• The next morning, Tang Mother discovers the damaged fence and angrily curses.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Shiba remains resourceful and mischievous, using Chris’s pride, temper, and fear of dogs against her rather than fighting fairly. She also warns Er Gou not to eat food from strangers.
• Chris shifts from confident aggressor to humiliated, furious would-be avenger. Her fixation on Fang Cheng and her willingness to use increasingly reckless tactics are emphasized.
• Fang Cheng recognizes Chris’s vindictive nature but still fails to understand that she is a woman, dismissing her as a pervert for pursuing him.
• Tang Lin enjoys the confrontation and tries to hint to Fang Cheng about Chris’s identity, without success.
• Er Gou plays along with Tang Shiba’s plan, helping frighten and humiliate Chris.

Significant themes

• Cunning over strength: Tang Shiba wins by exploiting openings and psychological weaknesses.
• Pride and humiliation: Chris’s obsession with saving face makes her emotional defeat especially painful.
• Comic misunderstanding: Tang Shiba’s deliberate misinterpretations and Fang Cheng’s cluelessness provide much of the humor.
• Revenge and escalating conflict: Chris’s humiliation leads quickly to a dangerous nighttime intrusion, suggesting the feud will continue.

Plot points and events

• The Tang Family upgrades its electric fence with an alarm. Tang Shiba charges Fang Cheng four million for the damage, the sleepless night, and her effort in the fight. Fang Cheng gets five million from his brother Si Wuyu, pays Tang Shiba, and keeps the extra million.
• While Tang Shiba’s system purges a virus, she explores the family property with Er Gou, then checks on Tang Lin and Fang Cheng.
• The two have snuck into eldest brother Tang Xuan’s locked room to hunt for “treasure.” Tang Lin tries to pry open the locks and starts with the computer.
• Tang Shiba catches them watching a suggestive video. When they can’t stop it, Tang Lin smashes the computer. Tang Shiba pretends to call Tang Xuan, frightening both men into fleeing; after they leave, she reveals she never called and checks that the computer can be repaired.
• The system announces it is restarting. Fang Cheng and Tang Lin leave by the back gate to avoid Chris, then head to the Golden Pond Bar to drink and meet a fan of Tang Shiba’s.
• Li Ba tells Chris where Fang Cheng is. She sets out to confront him and ask why he is avoiding her.
• At the hospital, doctors report that Ouyang Xuan’s coma has worsened because she was injected with a large quantity of drugs. Si Wuyu orders her moved to a better room and restricts access to her private doctor.
• Ouyang Xuan’s system declares her side mission failed, deducts double penalty points, and warns that the main mission is off course. With no reply from its comatose host, it considers abandoning her and choosing a new host—ideally someone as capable as Tang Shiba.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Shiba is playful, sharp, and opportunistic: she turns the fence damage into a bill, catches Tang Lin and Fang Cheng misbehaving, and enjoys frightening them without actually informing Tang Xuan.
• Fang Cheng is quick to exploit Si Wuyu’s generosity, but panics when caught and flees with Tang Lin. He also worries that Chris may be waiting outside.
• Tang Lin indulges his curiosity and greed, tries to break into Tang Xuan’s belongings, then panics over the computer and the prospect of punishment.
• Si Wuyu readily sends Fang Cheng money and takes charge of securing Ouyang Xuan’s hospital care.
• Chris is eager to confront Fang Cheng, while Li Ba helps her by revealing his whereabouts.
• Ouyang Xuan’s system grows frustrated and begins considering a new host, judging Tang Shiba a promising alternative.

Significant themes

• Mischief and consequences: Tang Lin and Fang Cheng’s snooping ends in a smashed computer and a frantic escape.
• Money and opportunism: Tang Shiba monetizes the fence incident, while Fang Cheng turns his brother’s generosity to his advantage.
• Control and vulnerability: The electric fence, locked belongings, and restricted hospital access all emphasize efforts to protect property or people.
• Systems and shifting fortunes: Ouyang Xuan’s failing mission contrasts with Tang Shiba’s apparent competence, prompting the system to consider changing hosts.

Plot points and events

• At Golden Pond Bar, Fang Cheng meets Tang Lin and Susan to discuss Rise of the True Fans. Chris arrives with Li Ba and confronts Fang Cheng for avoiding her, then tries to take him away by force.
• Tang Lin offers little help. Fang Cheng calls on Han Feng for rescue, trading Tang Lin’s whereabouts. Han Feng intervenes, but his real aim is to pursue Tang Lin. A fight breaks out between Han Feng and Chris, while Fang Cheng struggles to escape his captors.
• Tang Lin spots Han Feng and flees with Shanshan, eventually driving home alone. Han Feng cannot catch him. Fang Cheng, left without a rescuer, gives in and goes with Chris. When his brother Si Wuyu calls, Chris lets him answer; Si Wuyu asks them to return home for dinner, so Chris takes Fang Cheng to the Si Family home.
• Tang Lin returns to an empty house, finds only Er Gou in the yard, and goes to his room to sleep.
• The Gossip-Watching System returns after finishing its plot reset and reveals that Ouyang Xuan fabricated the earlier plotlines to reshape the world. She intends to become its female lead, regain her health, and turn the original protagonists into cannon fodder. Tang Shiba learns that she is the original female lead and Si Wuyu her destined love interest. She questions the pairing because they seem related; the system says Ouyang Xuan’s use of a Card on Emperor Si suggests he, too, is being groomed as a villain.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Cheng is desperate to avoid Chris, but repeatedly seeks rescue—first from Tang Lin, then by betraying Tang Lin’s location to Han Feng. Ultimately he has to go with Chris.
• Chris shows hurt and frustration over Fang Cheng’s avoidance, but is also wary of Si Wuyu, whom she remembers as a frightening authority figure from childhood. His call persuades her to take Fang Cheng home.
• Han Feng abandons his personal fight with Chris as soon as he sees Tang Lin, revealing that his grievance against Tang Lin matters more to him than helping Fang Cheng.
• Tang Lin refuses to get drawn into Fang Cheng’s predicament and flees when Han Feng appears; Shanshan follows, confused by the unfolding drama.
• Tang Shiba confronts a fundamental uncertainty about her identity: she may be the original heroine, but she is not the original Tang Shiba. The revelation also casts her apparent connection with Si Wuyu in a new light.

Significant themes

• Manipulated destiny: Ouyang Xuan has been falsifying plotlines to force the world toward her preferred role and outcome.
• Identity and agency: Tang Shiba must decide what the “original female lead” designation means for someone who is no longer the original person.
• Comedic chaos and shifting loyalties: The bar confrontation mixes coercion, fighting, fleeing, and betrayal, with characters repeatedly prioritizing their own grudges or fears.