Chapter Summaries

Ye Ruan recovered at home, prepared shrimp and dried scallop congee for Gu Cheng, and visited him after his brain surgery. Gu Cheng woke up confused by memories of his past behavior, then collapsed to his knees as he tried to explain himself.

• Ye Qingman let Ye Ruan shower, checked his lingering fever, and told him to eat congee before taking his medicine.
• Ye Ruan learned to make shrimp and dried scallop congee and told his mother he wanted to bring it to Gu Cheng while he waited for him to wake.
• Ye Ruan brought the congee to the Research Institute and sat beside Gu Cheng as he recovered from surgery.
• Yu Jingjing and the others visited the ward, and Li Rang eyed the congee while Ye Ruan guarded it for Gu Cheng.
• Gu Cheng woke, remembered embarrassing things he had said, tried to explain himself to Ye Ruan, and dropped to his knees when his legs buckled.

Gu Cheng proposed to Ye Ruan in the hospital, and Ye Ruan accepted. After Gu Cheng recovered and was discharged, the two left the Research Institute hand in hand.

• Gu Cheng proposed to Ye Ruan in front of the hospital crowd, apologized for hurting him, and Ye Ruan agreed to marry him.
• Tang Tang cried with joy while Yu Jingjing hinted she had something serious to tell her in private.
• Gu Cheng joked with Xu Chu about wedding candy and asked whether he could have a soul union while recovering; Xu Chu confirmed he was fine and kicked Gu Cheng out three days later after his bandage was removed.
• Gu Cheng kissed Ye Ruan passionately after his discharge, and Ye Ruan warned him he would get even.
• Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan left the Research Institute together, walking hand in hand beneath the stars on W Island.

With their wedding approaching, Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan were kept apart by their friends and family, but Ye Ruan secretly sent Gu Cheng a love letter arranging a midnight meeting. As their friends kept watch, Ye Ruan persuaded Yang Xiaomian to help him sneak out.

• Gu Cheng gave up smoking because Ye Ruan disliked the smell, then discussed their wedding plans with his teammates.
• Si Ning delivered Ye Ruan's love letter to Gu Cheng, while he and Jiang Qing exchanged tense glances over their unresolved relationship.
• Gu Cheng read the letter repeatedly and prepared himself to meet Ye Ruan beneath the third coconut tree at midnight.
• Ye Ruan's friends stayed awake to stop him from sneaking out, but he quietly persuaded Yang Xiaomian to help him.

On the night before their wedding, Ye Ruan sneaked out to meet Gu Cheng, and the two shared a tender farewell beneath the stars. The next morning, they exchanged vows and rings, beginning their married life together.

• Yang Xiaomian helped Ye Ruan slip out of the house, and Ye Ruan met Gu Cheng beneath a tree for a secret date.
• Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng shared kisses, talked about their feelings, and promised to spend their lives together before Ye Ruan returned home before dawn.
• Ye Ruan returned to his room, where Lou Yu teased him about his date while Yang Xiaomian slept.
• Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan stood together in white suits at their wedding and eagerly agreed to marry each other.
• Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan exchanged rings, kissed, and declared their love as their family and friends celebrated.
• Ye Ruan told Gu Cheng that they would face the road ahead together.

After their wedding, Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng settled into their bridal suite, shared dinner, and looked forward to their first night as a married couple. Ye Ruan then confronted Gu Cheng about their past in Murmansk, leaving Gu Cheng kneeling on a softened washboard and jokingly urging him to call the police.

• Ye Ruan gave Yu Jingjing his wedding bouquet and encouraged her to win Tang Tang's heart.
• Gu Cheng massaged Ye Ruan's legs, then stopped their kissing when Ye Ruan said he was hungry and cooked him coconut rice.
• Ye Ruan wore Gu Cheng's jasmine-scented pajamas, and they ate dinner together before Gu Cheng cleaned up and carried him to bed.
• Ye Ruan told Gu Cheng to shower, then confronted him about what happened in Murmansk and asked who he was and whom he had thrown the ring to.
• Gu Cheng knelt on the softened washboard and apologized, while Ye Ruan handed him the Communicator and told him to call the police.

Ye Ruan teased Gu Cheng over his memory loss, and the newlyweds enjoyed their last days of leisure before the Booster Shot was ready. As they went to care for Ye Ruan’s younger siblings, Ye Ruan advised heartbroken Yu Jingjing to give Tang Tang space.

• Ye Ruan pretended to cry until Gu Cheng abandoned the washboard and joined him in bed.
• Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng spent their half-month of marriage together while the vaccine team developed the second dose ahead of missions against the zombies.
• Yu Jingjing told the group that Tang Tang had turned down her confession, and she regretted telling Tang Tang they should either date or be strangers.
• Ye Ruan advised Yu Jingjing not to pressure Tang Tang and encouraged her to let Tang Tang come closer in her own time.
• Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng left to watch Ye Ruan’s younger siblings and joked about Gu Cheng’s old comment that Ye Ruan was only halfway evolved.

After Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan returned home, Ye Ruan reunited with his five younger siblings and helped care for them. Gu Cheng suggested an outing, and Ye Ruan invited the children to a movie, ending by reassuring Ye Ting that he would never let them return to the underground research facility.

• Gu Cheng apologized to Ye Ruan on the way home, and Ye Ruan decided he would make him sleep on the living room floor.
• Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng arrived home, where Ye Ruan's five younger siblings eagerly crowded around him.
• Gu Cheng made formula for Ye Dangdang and promised the children candy while Ye Ruan and Ye Ting looked after the others.
• Gu Cheng suggested taking the children to a new burger place, and Ye Ruan invited Ye Ting to see an animated movie with them.
• Ye Ting mentioned that the children had once been locked in a dark room at the underground research facility, and Ye Ruan promised he would never let them return.

Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan spent a family outing with the five children, then returned home and waited for Ye Qingman. After she came back, they chose to head home rather than stay the night.

• Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan watched a movie with the children, shared a kiss, and planned a date alone after the New Year.
• Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan took the children to the island amusement park and spent the afternoon looking after them.
• At home, Ye Ruan showed Gu Cheng the Communicator Xu Chu had given him, and they joked about having children together.
• Ye Qingman returned home after Nan Han brought her back, then gathered the sleeping bunnies into a basket.
• Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng decided to go home instead of staying overnight at Ye Qingman's house.

Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng recovered from a tiring day caring for children, then joined their friends and family to prepare for Lunar New Year's Eve. At Ye Qingman's home, the little ones turned into bunnies and began romping over Black Cat.

• Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng went to bed after joking about their stamina, and Gu Cheng woke early to make Ye Ruan coconut chicken soup.
• Gu Cheng carried and pampered Ye Ruan through his morning routine, and Ye Ruan kicked him before they headed out to help prepare dinner.
• Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng met Fang Ci and the others, who brought seafood, meat, toys, and formula for the New Year's gathering.
• At Ye Qingman's home, Sansan and Dingding examined Lou Yu's face while the younger children crowded around Ye Ruan.
• Yu Jingjing and the others offered toys and snacks to the children, who revealed their bunny ears and romped over Black Cat as Ye Ting returned to his English practice.

During a New Year gathering on W Island, the group celebrated Xia Yue and Lu Jiayi’s pregnancy, while Ye Ruan worried about their upcoming adventure and Gu Cheng reassured him they would face it together. The chapter ended with their friends welcoming the new year beneath the fireworks and wishing for peace.

• Xia Yue and Lu Jiayi revealed that Xia Yue was nearly two months pregnant, surprising their friends.
• Ye Ruan joked that Gu Cheng could have a baby, and everyone laughed at Gu Cheng’s expense.
• As the group prepared a New Year’s feast, Ye Ruan offered to help Gu Cheng barbecue, and Gu Cheng teased him.
• Ye Ruan admitted he was uneasy about setting out on another adventure after the Lantern Festival, and Gu Cheng promised to stay by his side.
• The friends gathered for dinner and watched fireworks as they celebrated the new year and wished for peace.

Lou Yu and Ye Ruan abducted Lu Yao in Germania and brought him back to the base, where Lou Yu’s rough treatment of their captive ended with Lu Yao overpowering him. The chapter left Lou Yu pinned facedown on the bed, cursing as he fought for air.

• Lou Yu and Ye Ruan leaped from a skyscraper, tranquilized Lu Yao, and escaped with him in vehicles driven by Song Ting and He Zhou.
• The team blocked pursuing mercenaries with a grenade and planned to bring Lu Yao back under surveillance to work for the base.
• Lu Yao woke during the escape and traded hostile remarks with Lou Yu, who threatened him when he challenged the team.
• After the team returned, Lou Yu brought Lu Yao a meal and dismissed his request for hot water, suspecting he was pretending to be sick.
• Lu Yao began coughing, then flipped Lou Yu onto the bed and pinned him down by the neck.

Lu Yao and Lou Yu continued their hostile standoff while Ye Ruan explained Lu Yao’s dangerous history and tried to keep Fox from provoking him. After Lou Yu brought Lu Yao food and medicine, another fight ended with both of them tranquilized and sprawled together on the bed.

• Lu Yao nearly strangled Lou Yu until Ye Ruan shot him with a tranquilizer dart and explained that Lu Yao had killed two former colleagues after leaving a United Association Research Team.
• Lou Yu kept antagonizing Lu Yao, then brought him a bowl of spicy hot pot before replacing it with congee and dumplings when Lu Yao struggled with the heat.
• Lou Yu tried to force stomach medicine on Lu Yao, but Lu Yao pinned him to the table and touched his fox ears.
• Lou Yu grabbed his Tranquilizer Gun and attacked Lu Yao, who seized the weapon and shot him with three darts.
• Before passing out, Lou Yu stabbed a tranquilizer dart into Lu Yao’s arm, and both men collapsed on the bed.

Lu Yao grew jealous of Lou Yu’s affection for Ye Ruan and, after Lou Yu rejected Ye Ruan’s proposal, took advantage of Lou Yu’s drunken confusion to force himself on him. Lu Yao revealed that he had offered to join Huaxia’s Special Person Base unconditionally if Lou Yu married him, while Lou Yu cursed him as a twisted freak.

• Lou Yu repeatedly courted Ye Ruan, who turned him down and said he wanted to find someone he liked.
• Lou Yu proposed to Ye Ruan with diamond rings, but Ye Ruan rejected him again, leaving Lou Yu heartbroken.
• Lu Yao realized he was jealous of Ye Ruan for receiving Lou Yu’s affection and hurried back to his room.
• Lou Yu drank alone on the balcony, mistook Lu Yao for Ye Ruan, and invited him to sleep with him.
• Lu Yao pinned Lou Yu down and forced himself on him despite Lou Yu’s struggles and protests.
• Lu Yao told Lou Yu he had promised to join Huaxia’s Special Person Base unconditionally if Lou Yu married him, and Lou Yu called him a twisted freak.

Lu Yao and Lou Yu’s relationship deteriorated after Lu Yao forced himself on Lou Yu and tried to keep him from leaving. When D Country’s Organization attacked their team, Lou Yu saved Lu Yao, but the badly wounded survivors were left hiding with their mission in jeopardy.

• After waking, Lou Yu rejected Lu Yao’s demand that he marry him and went to Ye Ruan for painkillers.
• Lou Yu and Lu Yao continued to clash, and the Second Team prepared to leave the next day.
• D Country’s Organization found the team’s hideout after a teammate helped an injured middle-aged woman.
• A Tracking Bomb landed among the team, and Ye Ruan knocked He Zhou and Tang Tang out of its path while Lou Yu pulled Lu Yao to safety.
• Around a hundred mercenaries and a squad of special people attacked, leaving almost everyone in the Second and Third Teams wounded as they fled to an abandoned place.
• Lou Yu and Ye Ruan lay gravely injured as Song Ting said the mission looked doomed, while Lou Yu joked to Ye Ruan about dying for love together.

After escaping D Country, Lou Yu learned that Lu Yao had asked Headquarters to arrange their partnership, and officials forced him to sign a marriage application. Lou Yu confronted Lu Yao, and their relationship ended in a violent clash that left them both hurt.

• Ye Ruan realized he had lost the Rabbit Recorder, but refused to let He Zhou return for it as the First Team rescued both teams and escorted them home.
• On the plane, Chi Yuan described being frightened by a First Team member, and Fox mocked the Third Team before waking and recoiling from Lu Yao.
• After they reached the base, Headquarters sent a commander to pressure Lou Yu into accepting Lu Yao as his partner, and Lou Yu struck the commander.
• The commander threatened Lou Yu with prison and forced him to sign an agreement and marriage application.
• Lu Yao tried to give Lou Yu a ring and promised him everything he gained, but Lou Yu accused him of ruining his life and threw the ring away.
• Lou Yu and Lu Yao fought; Lou Yu eventually collapsed against Lu Yao, bit his shoulder, and told him he hated him.

Lou Yu provoked Lu Yao by flirting with another Special Person, and Lu Yao responded with possessive, often forceful attempts to keep him close. Over the next three years, their volatile relationship continued through missions and arguments, leaving Lou Yu tied to the bed while Lu Yao tried to feed him.

• At a Christmas dinner, Lou Yu flirted with a young First Team Special Person, and Lu Yao snapped his stylus in anger.
• After the Third Team left the banquet, Lu Yao dragged Lou Yu home, pierced his earlobe with an ear stud, and kissed him despite his resistance.
• When Lou Yu nearly fell through a window during their struggle, Lu Yao caught and protected him, but Lou Yu flinched from his touch and said he was afraid of pain.
• Over the next three years, Lou Yu often left on long missions, and he and Lu Yao repeatedly fought when he returned.
• After a month of research and three sleepless days, Lu Yao, sick with a fever, tied Lou Yu to the bed and brought him porridge and custard buns.
• Lou Yu refused to eat and demanded a divorce, so Lu Yao kissed him to silence his complaints.

Lou Yu stayed with Lu Yao through his fever, but later betrayed Ye Ruan by taking the USB drive Ye Ruan needed to save his mother. After Ye Ruan disappeared on a dangerous mission, Lu Yao and Lou Yu confronted their jealousy, guilt, and the coercion that had trapped their relationship; Lu Yao asked Lou Yu to give him a chance to start over.

• Lou Yu freed himself from the ropes, gave feverish Lu Yao medicine, and stayed when Lu Yao called his name.
• Lou Yu took Ye Ruan's USB drive to use as leverage with his superiors, despite knowing Ye Ruan needed it for his mother's surgery.
• After Lou Yu secured a chance to negotiate with his superiors, he heard that Ye Ruan had disappeared after falling from a helicopter during a mission in City H.
• Lu Yao mocked Lou Yu over Ye Ruan, and Lou Yu lashed out before admitting that he hated being kept against his will.
• Lu Yao confessed that he loved Lou Yu, acknowledged that his possessiveness had become a cage, and asked him for a chance to start over.

After days of estrangement, Lu Yao waited for Lou Yu to return and threw away the poison he had kept for him. Lou Yu came home intending to talk, but Lu Yao mistook his words for a plan to divorce and their misunderstanding ended in another fight.

• Lu Yao cooked Lou Yu's favorite dishes, but Lou Yu left for City H without permission, and Lu Yao waited for him all night.
• After learning Lou Yu had gone to City H, Lu Yao considered a poison meant for special people but threw it away.
• Lou Yu met Ye Ruan and saw how happy he was with Gu Cheng, then returned home after worrying about Lu Yao.
• Lu Yao found Lou Yu outside their apartment and gently took his hand as they went upstairs together.
• Lou Yu tried to tell Lu Yao something, but Lu Yao assumed he wanted a divorce and carried him to the bedroom.
• Lou Yu insisted he was not leaving, but Lu Yao did not believe him, and they fought through the night.

Lou Yu reflected on his feelings for Lu Yao after seeing Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng reunite, then grieved Chi Yuan’s death and learned that Lu Yao had chosen to stay behind with him rather than evacuate. Lu Yao confessed his love and asked Lou Yu to give him a chance, leaving Lou Yu overwhelmed and in tears.

• Lou Yu went to field training with Ye Ruan and the others while Lu Yao remained at camp, and Ye Ruan told him that Gu Cheng had played the piano piece she had treasured since childhood.
• Lou Yu remembered Lu Yao’s quiet acts of care and began to understand that Lu Yao had been clumsily trying to love him.
• Zombies broke through the defenses, and Chi Yuan died protecting someone he admired, leaving Lou Yu and the others devastated.
• Lu Yao told Lou Yu that nearly thirty people from the Three Teams would be left behind and that he had chosen to stay with them, alongside Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan.
• Lu Yao confessed that he loved Lou Yu, asked him to give him a chance, and admitted that forcing Lou Yu against his will three years earlier was his greatest regret.

Lu Yao and Lou Yu left the base together, admitted their love through teasing and jealousy, and settled briefly at the Research Institute. When Ye Ruan was infected, Lou Yu grieved but still teased the zombie rabbit, while Lu Yao kept him from getting bitten.

• Lu Yao and Lou Yu left the base together, and Lou Yu admitted that he no longer hated Lu Yao and had fallen for him.
• Lou Yu teased Lu Yao with jealousy and later reassured him that he would only love him.
• Ye Ruan was infected and asked to be tied up, leaving Lou Yu heartbroken as the group cared for him.
• Lou Yu tried to comfort himself with Lu Yao's promise that Xu Chu would find a way to help Ye Ruan.
• Lou Yu teased the restrained zombie Ye Ruan by petting his ears and feigning that he would let him bite, before Lu Yao led him away.