Chapter Summaries

Lu Xiaoxiao encouraged the reserved doctor Xiao Yichen and resolved to protect him from the tragedy that had ruined his career in the original story. After the group prepared their ingredients, Su Miaohan and Lin Aofan argued over how to start a fire.

• Lu Xiaoxiao praised Xiao Yichen for showing compassion, teased him into smiling, and encouraged him while he prepared ingredients.
• Lu Xiaoxiao recalled how Xiao Yichen's mentor had died after a bereaved family spread false accusations and an attacker stabbed the chief, leaving Xiao Yichen traumatized and later fired.
• Lu Xiaoxiao vowed to stand by Xiao Yichen and prevent the tragedy from happening again, while viewers praised their interaction and speculated about his identity.
• The guests finished preparing the ingredients and received crude stone pots, but still needed to start a fire.
• Su Miaohan asked Lu Xiaoxiao how to light the fire, and Lin Aofan mocked her before Su Miaohan snapped back.

Lin Aofan struggled to make a fire by friction, then boasted after finally succeeding and refused to share it. Lu Xiaoxiao used Xiao Yichen’s glasses to start her own fire faster and mocked Lin Aofan for relying on brute force rather than tools.

• Lin Aofan spent a long time rubbing wood together before producing a spark and lighting his own fire.
• Lin Aofan refused to let Lu Xiaoxiao and Su Miaohan use his fire, and Ye Xinglan offered to help them.
• Lu Xiaoxiao asked Xiao Yichen to lend her his farsighted glasses and focused sunlight through a lens to ignite the firewood.
• Lu Xiaoxiao explained that she had used tools to catch game and start a fire, then taunted Lin Aofan for not doing the same.

Su Miaohan used wild perilla to roast flavorful meat for the group while Lin Aofan struggled to cook his rabbit alone. The others enjoyed their meal together as Lin Aofan grew increasingly irritated by their laughter and the food’s aroma.

• After being embarrassed, Lin Aofan returned to his fire and began roasting the rabbit he had caught.
• Su Miaohan showed the group the wild perilla leaves she had gathered and explained how they could season meat.
• Su Miaohan roasted pork with perilla, and Lu Xiaoxiao praised the result and urged her to cook for everyone.
• Su Miaohan roasted the remaining meat and shared tips about natural seasonings such as wild mint and wild scallions.
• Lin Aofan bit into his undercooked, unplucked rabbit and continued roasting it while the others ate and laughed nearby.

Lin Aofan grew furious when Lu Xiaoxiao shared surplus grilled meat with the Hero Team instead of him, while Lu Xiaoxiao brought food to her siblings and teased Lan Ruolin by claiming to be a Pirate Team mole. Lan Ruolin suspected the claim was a trick, leaving Lu Xiaoxiao's loyalty unresolved.

• Lin Aofan overheard Lu Xiaoxiao offer extra grilled meat to her brother and the crew, then angrily ate his own meat and vowed to teach her a lesson.
• The Hero Team struggled to find food because Bai Xinyan and Lan Ruolin gathered only a few fallen fruits, Lu Jiaoyue refused to hurt animals, and Qin Zixuan released a rabbit he had caught.
• Lu Xiaoxiao surprised Lu Shiyan with grilled meat, and he offered to let her try scaring him again after he turned around in time to hear her thoughts.
• Lu Jiaoyue asked how Lu Xiaoxiao had made the meat, and Lu Xiaoxiao concealed Su Miaohan's use of perilla leaves as a seasoning.
• Bai Xinyan questioned whether the Pirate Team would mind Lu Xiaoxiao sharing food, and Lan Ruolin asked if she was a mole; Lu Xiaoxiao said she was, but Lan Ruolin dismissed her claim as misdirection.

Lu Xiaoxiao teased Lan Ruolin by claiming to be a mole, then realized Lan suspected everyone indiscriminately. Qin Zixuan returned with a beehive and played up his bee stings to win Lu Jiaoyue’s concern, but Lu Xiaoxiao’s thoughts made her question his sincerity.

• Lu Xiaoxiao jokingly claimed she was the mole, but Lan Ruolin grew more suspicious and dismissed her as an ordinary Pirate Team member.
• Lu Xiaoxiao decided Lan Ruolin was unlikely to be the Hero Team’s mole and prepared to return to her own team.
• Lu Xiaoxiao noticed Qin Zixuan was missing, and Lan Ruolin speculated that he might be the mole.
• Qin Zixuan emerged from the woods carrying a beehive and told Lu Jiaoyue he had collected it to bring her honey.
• Lu Jiaoyue noticed the welts on Qin Zixuan’s hands, while he insisted he had been stung only because he wanted to make her happy.
• After Lu Xiaoxiao silently accused Qin Zixuan of deliberately flaunting his injuries, Lu Jiaoyue withdrew her hands and began to doubt his act.

Qin Zixuan tried to coax Lu Jiaoyue into comforting him, but Lu Xiaoxiao’s thoughts made Jiaoyue refuse and then encourage him to share honey with her sister. After the commentator announced that the teams were running low on drinking water, Xiao Yichen proposed desalinating seawater by distillation.

• Qin Zixuan asked Lu Jiaoyue to blow on his sore hand, but she refused after hearing Lu Xiaoxiao’s angry thoughts.
• Lu Xiaoxiao stayed to watch Qin Zixuan harvest honey, and Lu Jiaoyue suggested he give some to her sister.
• Qin Zixuan handed Lu Xiaoxiao a coconut shell of honey, which she accepted after a polite show of refusing.
• The commentator announced that the teams needed to find fresh water because their supplies would last only until the next day.
• Xiao Yichen explained how the team could distill seawater to obtain fresh water.

Lu Xiaoxiao left the group under the pretense of searching for fresh water, while Xiao Yichen grew suspicious of her reason for asking about the deer. Deep in the woods, she revealed that she was following a treasure-hunt clue.

• Ye Xinglan asked Su Miaohan and Lu Xiaoxiao to find shells for collecting distilled water while she and Doctor Xiao built the apparatus.
• Lu Xiaoxiao decided to search the woods for a natural source of fresh water and asked Xiao Yichen where he had seen deer.
• Xiao Yichen offered to accompany Lu Xiaoxiao, but she hurried into the woods alone after insisting he stay and help Ye Xinglan.
• Lu Xiaoxiao checked that no one had followed her, then unfolded the clue reading “Deer in the Deep Woods.”
• Lu Xiaoxiao explained to the system that the clue was only the first step in the treasure hunt, then tore up the paper.

Lu Xiaoxiao hid the crucial part of a clue from her Pirate Team teammates, then searched the forest for a deer and found a wounded doe with a fawn and a parchment scroll. She was left wondering how to retrieve the scroll without provoking the doe.

• Lu Xiaoxiao tore the note in half and decided to show her teammates only the vague “Deep Forest” fragment, discarding “See a deer.”
• Lu Xiaoxiao searched the forest for water, followed moss toward damp ground, and discovered a clear stream.
• Lu Xiaoxiao spotted a deer drinking at the stream and chased it into a thicket among large boulders.
• Lu Xiaoxiao found the fawn beside a wary doe whose hind leg was bleeding, and noticed a parchment scroll partly hidden beneath the doe.

Lu Xiaoxiao brought Lu Jiaoyue to help an injured doe and its fawn, since the animals reacted badly to her. After Lu Jiaoyue calmed and bandaged the doe, Lu Xiaoxiao found a hidden animal trap nearby.

• Lu Xiaoxiao failed to approach the injured doe and went to fetch Lu Jiaoyue.
• Lu Xiaoxiao secretly led Lu Jiaoyue into the woods and claimed to be the Pirate Team’s undercover traitor to explain asking for her help.
• Lu Jiaoyue approached the doe calmly, examined its wound, and used her hair ribbon to bandage its leg.
• When Lu Xiaoxiao stepped closer, the doe began struggling again, so she backed away and accidentally kicked a concealed animal trap.

Lu Xiaoxiao realized the map fragments were designed to encourage the traitor to steal and transfer the completed map, so she told Lu Jiaoyue to carry the fragment back openly. At the Pirate Team’s base, the team worked to distill fresh water while Lu Xiaoxiao praised her companions, and the map’s arrival stirred the Hero Team.

• A cameraman stopped Lu Xiaoxiao from examining an injured doe and admitted that someone on the production team had hurt it to keep it near a clue; Lu Jiaoyue bandaged the animal and retrieved a map fragment.
• Lu Xiaoxiao deduced that the traitor was meant to steal the collected map and pass it to the opposing team, then told Lu Jiaoyue to return with the fragment openly.
• Lu Xiaoxiao returned to the Pirate Team’s base, where Su Miaohan, Xiao Yichen, and Ye Xinglan were distilling fresh water from seawater.
• Lu Xiaoxiao praised Su Miaohan, Xiao Yichen, and Ye Xinglan as they worked, prompting laughter from the livestream viewers.
• Lu Jiaoyue brought the map fragment to the Hero Team, and Bai Xinyan questioned where she had found it.

Lu Jiaoyue presented the map she had found and claimed she might lose it, while Lu Shiyan recognized signs that she was lying and offered to safeguard it. Qin Zixuan stopped the handoff, voiced suspicion of Lu Shiyan based on intuition, and persuaded Lu Jiaoyue to keep the map herself.

• Lu Jiaoyue lied about finding the map in the grass and said she was too careless to keep it safe.
• Lu Shiyan noticed Lu Jiaoyue's suspicious eye movements and inferred that Lu Xiaoxiao had privately given her the map.
• Lu Shiyan offered to take the map, and Lu Jiaoyue grew suspicious of him because Lu Xiaoxiao had warned her that someone eager to hold it might be the traitor.
• Qin Zixuan stopped Lu Jiaoyue from handing the map to Lu Shiyan and said his intuition made him suspect Lu Shiyan.
• Bai Xinyan defended Lu Shiyan, but he calmly asked who Qin Zixuan thought should hold the map.
• Qin Zixuan encouraged Lu Jiaoyue to keep the map, praising her carefulness.

Qin Zixuan admitted to Lu Shiyan that he had fallen in love with Lu Jiaoyue at first sight and asked whether Lu Shiyan was his romantic rival. Meanwhile, Lu Xiaoxiao shared the Pirate Team’s vague clue with the others, then panicked when the commentator announced that the Hero Team had already found an item.

• Lu Shiyan suggested that Lu Jiaoyue keep the scroll, and the girls went to gather fruit while Qin Zixuan prepared the game.
• Qin Zixuan told Lu Shiyan he loved Lu Jiaoyue at first sight and asked whether Lu Shiyan was his rival in love.
• Lu Shiyan denied being Qin Zixuan’s rival and said he had only been curious.
• Lu Xiaoxiao gathered Ye Xinglan, Su Miaohan, and Xiao Yichen to share the clue, while Su Miaohan accused Lin Aofan of possibly being the traitor.
• Ye Xinglan read the clue, which said “Deep in the woods,” and the group discussed how vague it was.
• The commentator announced that the Hero Team had found the item indicated by the first clue-map fragment, leaving Lu Xiaoxiao shocked and worried.

Lu Xiaoxiao feigned outrage and heartbreak after the announcement revealed that the Hero Team had found the item connected to a clue, deflecting the Pirate Team’s suspicions. Ye Xinglan and Xiao Yichen comforted her, and Xiao Yichen awkwardly offered his sleeve while viewers began shipping them.

• Su Miaohan wondered what the announcement about map fragment No. 1 and the Hero Team’s item meant, while Lin Aofan accused Lu Xiaoxiao of losing the clue.
• Ye Xinglan revealed that he had Lu Xiaoxiao’s note and asked whether she wanted to explain, as Xiao Yichen also turned his attention toward her.
• Lu Xiaoxiao burst into dramatic sobs and complained about her bad luck, distracting Su Miaohan and making Ye Xinglan feel guilty for suspecting her.
• Ye Xinglan reassured Lu Xiaoxiao that no one would call her a mole, and Xiao Yichen agreed after abandoning his questions.
• Xiao Yichen offered Lu Xiaoxiao his sleeve to wipe her tears; she used it briefly, and livestream viewers flooded the comments with messages shipping them.

Lu Xiaoxiao made wild greens soup and learned about mushroom safety from Ye Xinglan, then helped Xiao Yichen solve a problem with his fishing rod. She revealed to the system that her kindness toward everyone was meant to make them less likely to suspect her, though she refused to appease Lin Aofan.

• Lu Xiaoxiao helped Su Miaohan prepare dinner and made wild greens soup for the group.
• Ye Xinglan praised the soup and told Lu Xiaoxiao about his childhood in a mountain town.
• Ye Xinglan explained warning signs of poisonous mushrooms, and Lu Xiaoxiao listened carefully.
• Lu Xiaoxiao brought soup to Xiao Yichen and suggested sharpening a stone to make a fishhook.
• Lu Xiaoxiao got Xiao Yichen to smile, then told the system she was using kindness to discourage future suspicion.
• Lu Xiaoxiao said she would not try to appease Lin Aofan.

The Hero Team and Pirate Team competed in tug-of-war to decide who would sleep in the cave. The contest was interrupted when Bai Xinyan fell and badly scraped her leg, leaving everyone gathered around to check on her.

• The commentator announced a tug-of-war contest, and the teams chose Ye Xinglan and Lu Xiaoxiao for the Pirates and Lu Shiyan and Bai Xinyan for the Heroes.
• Lu Xiaoxiao worried that Bai Xinyan would use the contest to get close to Lu Shiyan, so he discreetly kept his distance from her.
• The tug-of-war began, with both teams pulling hard as Lu Xiaoxiao prepared to pretend to slip.
• The rope suddenly went slack, and Lu Xiaoxiao stumbled backward as Bai Xinyan fell heavily to the ground.
• Lan Ruolin and Xiao Yichen helped assess Bai Xinyan and found a large, bloody scrape on her leg with grit embedded around it.

After Bai Xinyan injured her knee, her assistant accused Xiao Yichen of touching her inappropriately while he tried to treat her. Lu Xiaoxiao defended Xiao Yichen and pressed Bai Xinyan to make her assistant apologize, while Lu Shiyan backed his sister; her thoughts then left him wondering whether Lu Xunli had started dating.

• Bai Xinyan's fans blamed the production team for her knee injury, and Xiao Yichen brought out his medical kit to treat her.
• Bai Xinyan's assistant shoved Xiao Yichen's hand away and accused him of touching Bai Xinyan improperly, prompting fans to attack him online.
• Lu Xiaoxiao stopped Xiao Yichen from treating Bai Xinyan and challenged the assistant over the accusation and its likely effect on Xiao Yichen.
• Bai Xinyan told her assistant to step aside and said she trusted Xiao Yichen, then appealed to Lu Shiyan while complaining that her knee hurt.
• Lu Xiaoxiao demanded an apology for Xiao Yichen, and Lu Shiyan agreed that she had a point instead of taking Bai Xinyan's side.
• After hearing Lu Xiaoxiao think that Lu Xunli was lovesick, Lu Shiyan wondered whether his eldest brother had started dating.

Lu Xiaoxiao defended Xiao Yichen from Bai Xinyan’s accusation, and Xiao Yichen treated Bai Xinyan’s scrape while remembering the death of his department chief. After the teams disputed who should get the cave, Lin Aofan sided with Bai Xinyan and accused Su Miaohan of being unkind.

• Lu Xiaoxiao made Bai Xinyan’s companion give Xiao Yichen a louder apology, and Xiao Yichen accepted it.
• Xiao Yichen treated Bai Xinyan’s wound carefully while reflecting on his department chief’s murder and the nightmares that still troubled him.
• Lan Ruolin argued that Bai Xinyan’s injury made the match result unfair and asked for the Hero Team to get the cave.
• Su Miaohan defended the rules, saying the Pirate Team had won and deserved the cave.
• Bai Xinyan acted as though she would graciously let the Pirate Team keep the cave, and Lu Xiaoxiao silently criticized her.
• Lin Aofan rebuked Su Miaohan for refusing to give up the cave to the injured Bai Xinyan.

Lin Aofan defended Bai Xinyan and scolded Su Miaohan, but Lu Xiaoxiao challenged Bai Xinyan’s injury and proposed that she trade places with Lin Aofan. Bai Xinyan denied faking the fall and walked briskly, only for Lu Xiaoxiao to call her spry.

• Lin Aofan accused Su Miaohan of being selfish and hostile toward Bai Xinyan, while Su Miaohan rejected his claims about women competing for male attention.
• Bai Xinyan tried to mediate, and Lu Xiaoxiao mocked her for calling Lin Aofan her big brother and questioned how she had fallen forward.
• Lu Xiaoxiao suggested Bai Xinyan might be an undercover agent and offered for her to trade places with Lin Aofan.
• Bai Xinyan denied acting or needing to trade places, pulled away from Lan Ruolin, and walked briskly to show she was fine.
• Lu Xiaoxiao said Bai Xinyan should have mentioned how spry she was sooner, leaving Bai Xinyan privately offended by the word.

The Pirate Team settled into the cave after winning the right to use it, with Lu Xiaoxiao organizing their work and plans despite Lin Aofan’s reluctance. Once the cave was prepared for the night, they agreed to gather water, improve their hunting tools, and find food the next day.

• Lu Xiaoxiao led the Pirate Team to the cave while Lin Aofan lagged behind, grumbling about the outcome.
• Lu Xiaoxiao, Ye Xinglan, Su Miaohan, and Xiao Yichen cleared the cave floor and spread dry grass for bedding.
• Lu Xiaoxiao threatened to leave Lin Aofan alone outside with the wild animals and mosquitoes, so he joined in helping.
• Ye Xinglan blocked the cave entrance with vines after Su Miaohan worried that snakes might get inside.
• Lu Xiaoxiao, Ye Xinglan, Xiao Yichen, and Su Miaohan planned to collect water, prepare hunting tools, catch fish, and gather fruit and seasonings the next day.

The Hero Team lost access to the cave, so Qin Zixuan built Lu Jiaoyue a hammock and Lu Shiyan helped the team make a shelter. That night, Lu Xiaoxiao woke in the cave and realized Dr. Xiao was missing.

• Lu Jiaoyue focused on hoping Lu Xiaoxiao could sleep well in the cave while Bai Xinyan and Lan Ruolin complained about having to sleep outside.
• Qin Zixuan built a hammock between two trees and invited Lu Jiaoyue to try it.
• Qin Zixuan told Bai Xinyan he liked Lu Jiaoyue most and offered to teach Bai Xinyan and Lan Ruolin to make their own hammocks.
• Lu Shiyan suggested building a shelter, and the Hero Team worked together to finish one and settle down for the night.
• Lu Xiaoxiao woke when Su Miaohan put an arm over her, then noticed Dr. Xiao was missing.