Recaps

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing spent their heart-to-heart session playing games before Shen Yeqing showed her an album of his childhood photos. The album ended in high school, and he said he had stopped taking photos because he became busy with his studies.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing played several games on the terrace, while Director Niu urged them to have a heart-to-heart.
• Shen Yeqing brought out an album of his childhood and showed Xie Mi photos spanning elementary school through high school.
• Xie Mi recognized the four children in a photo with twelve-year-old Shen Yeqing as the robbers he had confronted, and Shen Yeqing said he had kept the picture to show off.
• Xie Mi asked why the album ended after high school, and Shen Yeqing said his studies had kept him too busy to take more photos.

Xie Mi asked Shen Yeqing whether his feelings for her were truly romantic, and he said he had never mistaken them and that she would soon understand. Shen Yeqing revealed that Xie Mi’s current romantic interest was herself, while Xiao Jingxi reacted with distress and the male lead awakening progress reached 1%.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing teamed up to play a game, hiding when Diao Mao asked to join them.
• Xie Mi asked Shen Yeqing if he was certain his feelings for her were romantic, and he said he had never confused them and that she would know soon.
• Shen Yeqing revealed that Xie Mi’s card named herself as the person she was currently attracted to, and he recalled her advice to love herself before loving someone else.
• Xiao Jingxi saw that Xie Mi’s card bore her own name and brooded over how her values about love had changed.
• As Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing prepared to leave the terrace, a mechanical voice announced that male lead awakening progress had reached 1%.

Xie Mi heard that Xiao Jingxi’s male lead awakening had begun, while Liu Woxing firmly rejected Qiu Chengye and learned that Xie Mi was the person who made her heart flutter. Qiu Chengye misunderstood Liu Woxing’s choice and fled, leaving the chapter on the show’s friendship-focused results.

• Xie Mi heard a mechanical voice announce Xiao Jingxi’s male lead awakening progress at 1%, then left with Shen Yeqing.
• Liu Woxing told Qiu Chengye she would no longer pretend to be a gentle, virtuous young lady and rejected him as a potential partner.
• Qiu Chengye drank angrily while Liu Woxing waited for Director Niu’s reminder to check the card naming the person who made her heart flutter.
• Qiu Chengye found Xie Mi’s name on Liu Woxing’s card, misunderstood her feelings, and ran out of the room.
• The experts’ analysis showed that friendship and admiration could make someone’s heart flutter, while Xie Mi’s own answer had been herself.

The guests discovered that the cruise ship seemed empty of staff and had to figure out breakfast for themselves. Shen Yeqing returned from the supermarket with food, while Xie Mi remained baffled by Xiao Jingxi’s negative awakening progress.

• Shen Yeqing was first to leave his room and found the ship deserted while he exercised.
• Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong met in the hallway and exchanged a noticeably cold greeting.
• The guests gathered at the restaurant, realized there were no staff, and Xie Mi pointed out that the cameras were still recording.
• Xu Shuangrong saw breakfast in the kitchen and tried to test Xie Mi, but Xie Mi hid her reaction.
• Xie Mi watched Xiao Jingxi, whose awakening progress dropped to negative ten percent, leaving her confused.
• Lai Bingxuan found only frozen steaks and vegetables, and Shen Yeqing arrived with groceries he had taken from the supermarket.

The guests realized the empty cruise ship let them take food and enjoy its amenities, but the production team redirected them to Greenwood Island before they could explore. There, Director Niu announced they would learn local recipes, prepare food, and compete at the island’s Food Festival.

• Shen Yeqing suggested getting food from the supermarket, and the guests agreed they could take supplies from the apparently empty ship.
• Xie Mi proposed enjoying the ship’s bars, pools, shops, and activities at the production team’s expense, prompting the guests to make plans.
• The production team announced the ship had reached Greenwood Island and told the guests to disembark.
• Xiao Jingxi acted as though he had figured out the production team’s plan, and Xie Mi’s teasing raised his male lead awakening progress to 2%.
• Director Niu told the guests to sample Greenwood Island’s food, learn to make it, and compete with their own stalls at the afternoon Food Festival.

Director Niu explained the food festival competition and its disguise rules, while the guests reacted to the challenge and prepared to be made unrecognizable. The chapter ended as they faced a rack of outrageous bargain-bin costumes, with Xie Mi delighted and several others horrified.

• Director Niu announced that the eight guests would learn an island dish, run individual stalls, and compete for customers to win first choice of dinner and accommodations.
• Director Niu said guests would lose points whenever an island resident recognized them, and Xiao Jingxi objected that the rule disadvantaged famous performers.
• Director Niu assured Xiao Jingxi that the crew would disguise the guests and told him to rely on his acting skills, leaving him with no grounds to object.
• The guests entered the dressing room and found racks of bizarre clothes, wigs, and accessories for their disguises.
• Xie Mi eagerly praised the costumes, while Xu Shuangrong hesitated and Qiu Chengye balked at wearing them; Shen Yeqing cooperated and said Teacher Xie would make any look work.

The guests entered Greenwood Island in disguises for a production-team challenge, with their looks ranging from a schoolgirl and delivery workers to a gangster girl. The chapter ended as the Crime Boss and his woman made a dramatic entrance and declared the island belonged to her.

• Xu Shuangrong entered a dessert shop disguised as a schoolgirl, and the owner did not recognize her.
• Xiao Jingxi arrived in a delivery uniform without hiding his face, drawing attention and starting a feud between his and Xu Shuangrong's fans.
• Yu Jinche rode through town in a milk delivery uniform, while Lai Bingxuan strode in dressed as a direct-sales powerhouse.
• Qiu Chengye appeared as an old man but startled passersby with his unconvincing trembling walk.
• Liu Woxing entered as a gangster girl in a red suit, performing the swagger and wrist-twirling dance Xie Mi had taught her.
• The Crime Boss and his woman emerged through white smoke, and he announced that the island was all hers.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing joined the disguised group as they sampled food around town, while several celebrities were recognized. After Qiu Chengye secretly tipped off passersby about Xie Mi, she drove the crowd away by acting like a violent gangster.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing completed their Crime Boss and woman disguises and set out with the others to sample local food and choose a competition dish.
• A fan recognized Xiao Jingxi, who quietly gave them an autograph and posed for a photo.
• Yu Jinche, Xu Shuangrong, Liu Woxing, and Lai Bingxuan were recognized one after another, leaving Qiu Chengye, Xie Mi, and Shen Yeqing unidentified.
• Qiu Chengye secretly told people entering the restroom that Xie Mi was in the neighboring shop, drawing a crowd to the café where Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing were sitting.
• Xie Mi pretended to attack the onlookers with nunchucks, frightening them into fleeing as she chased after them.

Qiu Chengye’s disguise failed after a town broadcast described him as a missing elderly man, and he exposed the other guests while fleeing the crowd. The guests returned to the lounge, where Director Niu announced their deductions before they moved on to prepare for the Food Festival.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing left the broadcasting station after secretly arranging for a missing-person announcement to target Qiu Chengye.
• Passersby recognized Qiu Chengye, chased him, and called out his name, costing him points as he ran.
• Qiu Chengye exposed Lai Bingxuan, Xiao Jingxi, Yu Jinche, Xu Shuangrong, and Liu Woxing, then pointed the crowd toward Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing.
• The Production Team’s bodyguards restored order and escorted the guests to a lounge, where Director Niu switched filming indoors and outlined the next activities.
• Director Niu announced that Qiu Chengye lost 324 points, Xie Mi 298, Shen Yeqing 219, Xu Shuangrong 178, Liu Woxing 163, Lai Bingxuan 149, Xiao Jingxi 132, and Yu Jinche 130.

The guests prepared dishes for Greenwood Island’s Food Festival, hoping to attract customers and recover points. As the cooking session ended, the contestants’ wildly different ideas ranged from efficient service to bizarre, potentially inedible creations.

• After the group mocked Qiu Chengye for losing the most points, he fought with Lai Bingxuan before the Production Team hurried everyone to the cooking classroom.
• The Production Team told the guests to choose dishes based on the island residents’ tastes and finalize their menus by one thirty.
• Xu Shuangrong planned an innovative dish inspired by the islanders’ unusual food combinations, while Qiu Chengye chose a simple menu he believed would let him serve customers quickly.
• Yu Jinche poured edible scorpions into milk, and the PD tried to tactfully warn him to consider what customers would eat.
• The PD witnessed Xiao Jingxi’s pancake land on a cameraman, Lai Bingxuan’s dessert produce a mushroom cloud, Liu Woxing retch at his own experiment, and Shen Yeqing vanish amid matcha powder.
• Xie Mi announced her menu: Pork Intestine Chocolate Coffee with Brain and Fish-Eye Cake.

Xie Mi prepared grotesque dishes that terrified the crew, while the Food Festival opened and revealed the contestants’ unusual menus. The guests began serving customers, but the chapter ended before the festival’s results were known.

• Xie Mi made intestine coffee and brain-and-fish-eye cake, then blended the intestines into the coffee after the PD objected to how they looked.
• Director Niu equipped the crew with gas masks, but the crew fled outside when Xie Mi invited them to taste her dishes.
• The Food Festival opened at two in the afternoon, and eight Love Watch guests took their assigned stalls as customers streamed into the Food Plaza.
• Qiu Chengye served cotton candy, Xu Shuangrong offered grilled durian sandwiches, Yu Jinche made scorpion protein milk, and Liu Woxing prepared bitter melon and cilantro frozen lemon tea.
• Xiao Jingxi plated tiny vegetable pancakes, Lai Bingxuan improvised cocktails, and Shen Yeqing’s matcha cakes produced a cloud of powder when the wind blew.

The guests ran food stalls at the Greenwood Island Food Festival, where Xie Mi's revolting dishes drew the biggest crowds and sold out. After the business period, the guests shared their experiences, and Director Niu began announcing the rankings.

• Director Niu started the two-hour stall challenge, and customers flocked to the more outrageous dishes.
• Xie Mi's Large Intestine Coffee and other dark cuisine drew the longest line, though customers gagged after eating.
• Xie Mi sold out every dish and decided to study cooking after mistaking the customers' reactions for delight.
• Liu Woxing said she hoped to join Xie Mi's team next time, prompting Qiu Chengye to accuse everyone of going crazy.
• Director Niu joked that Qiu Chengye gained repair experience after his Cotton Candy Machine broke and he sold nothing.
• Director Niu announced that he was about to reveal the competition rankings after subtracting the morning's penalties.

Xie Mi won the Food Festival with her large intestine coffee as the guests received their rankings and chose where to sleep at the seaside guesthouse. Shen Yeqing gave up his room to Liu Woxing and began pitching his tent indoors, surprising Xie Mi.

• Director Niu announced the Food Festival rankings, with Xie Mi first, Yu Jinche second, Lai Bingxuan third, Shen Yeqing fourth, Liu Woxing fifth, Xu Shuangrong sixth, Xiao Jingxi seventh, and Qiu Chengye last.
• The guests arrived at the seaside guesthouse, where only four rooms were available and the rest would have to sleep in tents or sleeping bags.
• Xie Mi chose a second-floor room and told Yu Jinche she would watch a horror movie with him if he got scared during the night.
• Shen Yeqing chose a tent instead of a room, allowing Liu Woxing to take the final room.
• Xie Mi found Shen Yeqing pitching his tent in the living room and asked if he was camping indoors.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing prepared barbecue while the other guests’ cooking ended in a kitchen fire. Xie Mi recruited the hungry guests to help grill her food and supervised from a recliner.

• Shen Yeqing set up his cramped tent and said he would keep watch outside Teacher Xie’s tent.
• Director Niu distributed dinner ingredients according to rank, and Qiu Chengye got cotton candy and a scallion with one flatbread wrap.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing skewered meat and vegetables together while teasing each other.
• The guests’ cooking caused a kitchen fire, and they lost their ingredients as the staff put out the flames.
• Xie Mi offered to share her barbecue if the guests helped, then lounged in a recliner while assigning them tasks.

After Xiao Jingxi was blown from his beach campsite, the guests faced a second guests-versus-directors showdown, with a vacation or genuine deserted-island survival at stake. The guests chose Qiu Chengye as captain, leaving him to face the directors’ intimidating team.

• Xie Mi deduced that fierce winds had blown Xiao Jingxi and his tent off the beach, and medical staff carried him away before he rejoined the guests with an IV.
• The Assistant Director announced a second guests-versus-directors competition and claimed the directors would win this time.
• Director Niu said the winning team would choose whether the cruise ship went to Vacation Island or Deserted Island for forty-eight hours.
• The guests agreed to work together and held an anonymous vote to choose their captain.
• Liu Woxing announced that Qiu Chengye had won the vote, and he stared in dismay at the directors’ seven muscular teammates.

Qiu Chengye led his team in a beach boat-building competition, ordering Xie Mi and her group to serve as a disposable distraction while his boat raced for the flag. Xie Mi accepted the assignment and began turning their boat into a weapon, leaving their plan for interfering with the opposing team underway.

• Qiu Chengye reluctantly accepted the captain role after the vote and heard the opposing assistant director order his burly teammates to target their rival captain.
• Director Niu announced that both teams had one hour to build two boats and reach a flag at sea, with only one boat needing to make it.
• Qiu Chengye split his team and assigned Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Lai Bingxuan, and Xiao Jingxi to build a boat meant to interfere while his own group raced for the flag.
• Liu Woxing argued that both boats should try to reach the flag, but Qiu Chengye overruled her and insisted on his plan.
• Xie Mi persuaded Lai Bingxuan that their group could focus on causing trouble, then searched for weapons and picked up a toilet plunger to stick onto the opposing boat.

The teams built improvised boats for Love Watch’s competition, while Xie Mi’s team focused as much on gearing up as on assembling a junk-built craft. After all four boats launched and floated without capsizing, Director Niu started the race.

• The production teams dismantled a bed and table for a raft, while Qiu Chengye’s soaking-tub idea sank before his team settled on surfboards.
• The four men on production Team B prepared an inflatable mattress reinforced with yoga balls.
• Xie Mi accidentally roped in the PD while practicing, then revealed her team’s armor-like protective gear and their makeshift junk boat.
• Director Niu ended the building period, and the teams hurried to the beach with their boats.
• Yu Jinche tripped Qiu Chengye into the sand, and Xie Mi led her armored team out chanting.
• All four boats floated with their teams aboard, and Director Niu officially began the race.

Xie Mi’s team used improvised tricks to eliminate the Assistant Director’s boat and sabotage the other boat during the race. When the four burly men boarded Xie Mi’s ramshackle boat, it fell apart, sending all eight contestants underwater.

• Qiu Chengye’s team fell behind the directors’ boats, while Xie Mi’s team caught up by paddling with their feet.
• Xie Mi lassoed the Assistant Director, and Shen Yeqing knocked his paddle away before Xie Mi trapped his boat under a fishing net.
• Lai Bingxuan poured water into the trapped boat, and the Assistant Director jumped toward Xie Mi’s boat, fell into the water, and was eliminated with Director Team A.
• Xie Mi tethered the remaining burly men’s boat with a toilet plunger and punctured its inflatable mattress with a pole.
• The four burly men boarded Xie Mi’s boat, which broke apart, sending all eight contestants sinking into the water.

After their boats sank, Xie Mi’s team learned that Qiu Chengye’s group had capsized first, leaving the competition tied. Yu Jinche became the new captain before the cast gathered at a cave for the next contest, a treasure hunt.

• Xie Mi discovered that Qiu Chengye and his group had already capsized, making the boat contest a tie.
• Xie Mi and Lai Bingxuan carried Qiu Chengye to the courtyard and threw him into the water after Liu Woxing explained why his boat had capsized.
• The group chose Yu Jinche as their new captain, with Xu Shuangrong supporting him.
• The sixteen cast members gathered at a limestone cave, where Director Niu announced a treasure hunt as the next contest.

Xie Mi and Yu Jinche explored a dark cave together after Yu Jinche became team captain, and he used the pairing to try to grow closer to her. Their conversation was interrupted by Shen Yeqing calling over the walkie-talkie to say he wanted to hear Xie Mi’s voice.

• The teams prepared for cave exploration, and Xie Mi teased the frightened Yu Jinche by whispering that she would always creep on him.
• Yu Jinche calmed down and asked Xie Mi to stay beside him, then invoked his authority as captain to have the team split into pairs.
• Xie Mi and Yu Jinche searched the cave together, where Yu Jinche asked her to be his friend and pay more attention to him.
• Shen Yeqing contacted Xie Mi over the walkie-talkie and said he had called because he wanted to hear her voice.

Xie Mi’s off-key song made Lai Bingxuan think she was summoning spirits, while Shen Yeqing kept reaching Yu Jinche over the walkie-talkie. As the guests searched the caves for treasure, Xie Mi realized Yu Jinche had deliberately separated them from their cameraman and asked what he wanted to say in private.

• Xie Mi sang into the walkie-talkie, and Lai Bingxuan mistook her voice for a spirit-summoning song until Shen Yeqing explained she had been singing a normal song.
• Yu Jinche changed channels to cut off Shen Yeqing, but Shen Yeqing kept reaching them; Yu Jinche then dropped his walkie-talkie into a cavern, and Xie Mi revealed she had her own.
• The teams explored the dark underground caves, and Shen Yeqing reported finding an empty, palm-sized treasure chest with a pale green glow.
• Xie Mi crawled ahead while Yu Jinche and the cameraman fell behind, and Yu Jinche claimed the cameraman had become separated from them.
• Xie Mi accused Yu Jinche of arranging to be alone with her and asked what he wanted to tell her off camera.

Yu Jinche confronted Xie Mi about Xu Shuangrong’s strange behavior and suspected both women shared a secret about him. Xie Mi invented a story about them being readers trapped in his novel, then blamed Xie Lian for what she seemed to know, leaving Yu Jinche confused and no closer to the truth.

• Yu Jinche told Xie Mi that Xu Shuangrong showed him a side of herself that contradicted her public image and suspected she knew him unusually well.
• Yu Jinche said Xu Shuangrong and Xie Mi seemed to share an omniscient perspective and asked whether they had the same secret.
• Xie Mi claimed she and Xu Shuangrong had been readers who entered the novel Run, Yu Jinche, and said she avoided him because she had been his anti-fan.
• Yu Jinche rejected the story as a lie but said Xie Mi had predicted his pranks and knew him too well.
• Xie Mi blamed Xie Lian for telling her about Yu Jinche and insisted she knew nothing about Xu Shuangrong.
• Yu Jinche grew bewildered, while Xie Mi resolved not to let him discover the truth through her.

Xie Mi reunited with Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong while stranded underground, then toyed with Xiao Jingxi until his awakening system glitched out. As Xu Shuangrong tried to test whether Xie Mi could hear her thoughts, Yu Jinche turned the tables by questioning Xu Shuangrong about “Run, Yu Jinche.”

• Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong emerged from the darkness and joined Xie Mi and Yu Jinche, explaining that they had fallen into the opening and become separated from their cameraman.
• Xiao Jingxi apologized to Xie Mi for his failings in their relationship and asked her to give him another chance.
• Xie Mi alternated between praising and insulting Xiao Jingxi, repeatedly shifting his awakening progress until his system glitched and went silent.
• Yu Jinche asked whether Xie Mi and Xiao Jingxi were doing a comedy routine, while Xiao Jingxi stayed silent because he believed he had bad breath and food stuck in his teeth.
• Xu Shuangrong repeatedly tried to make Xie Mi answer her thoughts, but Yu Jinche began testing Xu Shuangrong by asking if she had heard of “Run, Yu Jinche.”

Xie Mi and the others fell into a deeper cavern while scheming against one another, then she frightened them by pretending to be possessed. Shen Yeqing arrived at the opening and teased Xie Mi, leaving the group awaiting rescue.

• Xu Shuangrong tested whether Xie Mi reacted to her spoken words or thoughts, then followed her into a nearby cavern.
• Xu Shuangrong tripped Xie Mi and pretended to rescue her, but Yu Jinche shoved them both into a deeper cavern.
• Xiao Jingxi slipped while checking on them and dragged Yu Jinche down with him, leaving all four trapped below a steep opening.
• Xie Mi suggested they stay quiet until rescuers arrived, but Xiao Jingxi confessed that she had fallen for her, prompting Xie Mi to pretend to be possessed and scare the group.
• Shen Yeqing appeared above the opening and joked that he would have run slower if he had known they were having fun.

After Shen Yeqing rescued Xie Mi and the other trapped guests, the Tough Guy Team won the cave round, and Qiu Chengye argued with his teammates about the loss. The guests then faced a mud pit relay that would decide whether their cruise ship headed to a deserted island, and Xiao Jingxi asked to lead their team.

• Shen Yeqing found Xie Mi in the cave, and she climbed out with his help before he rescued the remaining guests.
• The Tough Guy Team found the Production Team’s treasure chest on the cave’s third underground level and won the round.
• Qiu Chengye criticized Yu Jinche’s captaincy, but Liu Woxing pointed out that Qiu had made little contribution himself.
• Director Niu announced a mud pit relay in which all eight members of each team had to run across the pit and back.
• Director Niu warned that if the guests lost, the cruise ship’s next destination would be the Deserted Island.
• Xiao Jingxi said the guests still had to try to win and asked to be captain for the final round.