Recaps

Xiao Jingxi’s male lead awakening progress increased as he realized his life no longer followed the protection of his original halo. Meanwhile, Xie Mi rejected Xu Shuangrong’s attempt to make her captain and take the blame for a likely loss, leaving the team to run the relay without a captain.

• Xiao Jingxi proposed becoming captain, but Liu Woxing, Lai Bingxuan, Qiu Chengye, and Shen Yeqing all called him unreliable.
• Xiao Jingxi questioned why his life had changed, and his awakening progress rose from 10% to 20%.
• Xie Mi realized Xiao Jingxi’s awakening progress rose when events contradicted the male lead halo he was losing.
• Xu Shuangrong urged Xie Mi to captain the team, while Liu Woxing recognized that the praise could set Xie Mi up to take blame for losing.
• Xie Mi challenged Xu Shuangrong’s pressure tactics and argued that a relay needed no captain, and Liu Woxing agreed.

Xie Mi used a powerful fan and the other contestants’ taunts about Xiao Jingxi’s hairpiece to spur him through the mud relay, letting the guest team take the lead. Qiu Chengye dreaded facing the same tactic next, while Muscleman B began his leg of the race to the sound of another roar.

• Muscleman A charged through the mud ahead of Xiao Jingxi, who was initially stuck beside him.
• Xie Mi blew Xiao Jingxi’s hairpiece off with a fan as the others taunted him, driving him to race past Muscleman A.
• Xie Mi blew the hairpiece away again when Xiao Jingxi tried to put it back on, making him chase it across the mud.
• Xiao Jingxi reached the starting line first, restored his hairpiece, and collapsed unconscious as Qiu Chengye feared his turn was next.
• Muscleman B took the baton, but an earth-shattering roar erupted beside him before he could finish boasting.

Xie Mi used a stolen amplifier and a chant to embarrass Yu Jinche into speeding up during the third leg of the muddy relay. Yu Jinche kept their team from losing ground, and the race moved on to its final leg with the teams neck and neck.

• Qiu Chengye fled after Xie Mi shouted something that made him howl, then collapsed beside Xiao Jingxi after finishing the second leg.
• Yu Jinche started the third leg at a leisurely pace despite warnings that the other team would overtake him.
• Xie Mi rallied everyone to chant “Run, Yu Jinche,” embarrassing Yu Jinche and making him crawl faster through the mud.
• Yu Jinche finished the leg and regretted believing Xie Mi’s claim that “Run, Yu Jinche” was his autobiography.
• The race announcer introduced the fourth-leg runners as the teams remained neck and neck.

Shen Yeqing raced through the mud pit and returned first, then Xie Mi taught Lai Bingxuan and Liu Woxing to crawl on all fours so they could cross the mud more easily. As Xu Shuangrong prepared for her turn, she watched the two high-society ladies crawl through the mud and refused to imitate them.

• Xie Mi cheered Shen Yeqing on as he raced past Hunk D and returned to the starting point first.
• Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi celebrated with a high five before Lai Bingxuan took the fifth leg.
• Xie Mi showed Lai Bingxuan how to crawl on all fours, and Lai Bingxuan copied her technique through the mud.
• Liu Woxing learned the same crawling technique from Xie Mi and used it for her leg of the race.
• Xu Shuangrong watched Lai Bingxuan and Liu Woxing crawl through the mud but decided she could not do the same.

Xu Shuangrong overcame her reluctance to crawl, while Xie Mi used a mud-pit swimming technique to win the relay for the guests. The score remained tied overall, and Director Niu announced a tiebreaker without yet revealing the event.

• After the system urged her to act more boldly, Xu Shuangrong copied Xie Mi’s crawl and completed the course in the mud.
• As the decisive relay began, Xie Mi surged past the Assistant Director by swimming through the mud.
• The Assistant Director tried to defend the production team’s lead, but the guests won the relay.
• Shen Yeqing translated Xie Mi’s mud-filled victory speech as her saying she was a fisherwoman.
• Director Niu said the teams still needed a tiebreaker and began to announce the event.

The guests chose a representative for a Rock-Paper-Scissors match by holding a dice tournament, but Xu Shuangrong lost to the Assistant Director. After a night aboard the cruise ship, the guests were taken to an uninhabited island, where the Production Team began a 48-hour survival challenge with no help or supplies.

• Director Niu announced that a guest and a director would play Rock-Paper-Scissors for the prize, and the guests chose their representative through a dice tournament.
• Liu Woxing rolled a five, Xie Mi lost her die in the mud, and Xu Shuangrong rolled a six to become the final contestant.
• Xu Shuangrong lost the Rock-Paper-Scissors match to the Assistant Director, and Xie Mi tried to claim his good luck.
• Director Niu gave the guests compressed biscuits aboard the cruise ship and warned them that the deserted island challenge would begin the next day.
• The Production Team took the eight guests to an uninhabited island and announced a 48-hour survival challenge with no assistance or starting supplies.

After the guests were stranded on a deserted island without supplies, Xie Mi divided them into teams to gather food and make a fire. Xiao Jingxi failed to start a fire with sticks, while Shen Yeqing secretly used flint with Xie Mi's help, leaving Xiao Jingxi aware of their deception.

• Director Niu refused the guests' requests for basic supplies and confiscated Xie Mi's survival backpack.
• Xie Mi proposed gathering seafood and fruit and starting a fire for their forty-eight-hour stay.
• Xie Mi assigned Qiu Chengye and Yu Jinche to shore foraging, Xu Shuangrong, Liu Woxing, and Lai Bingxuan to fruit picking, and herself, Shen Yeqing, and Xiao Jingxi to fire-making.
• Xiao Jingxi tried to impress Xie Mi by starting a fire with sticks, but blistered his hands and blamed damp wood for his failure.
• Shen Yeqing secretly lit the tinder with flint while Xie Mi blocked the camera's view, and Xiao Jingxi witnessed their trick.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing subdued Xiao Jingxi, then tested unidentified mushrooms by eating them and briefly collapsed from poisoning. After the Production Team identified every mushroom as inedible, Xie Mi tried to comfort the hungry group with bleak jokes, leaving everyone stunned.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing stuffed dry grass into Xiao Jingxi's mouth and dragged him into the woods until he stopped trying to accuse them.
• The beachcombing and fruit-picking groups returned with a shriveled starfish and unidentified mushrooms, which Xie Mi warned might be poisonous.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing ate a mushroom to test it, collapsed, and were revived by the medical team.
• The Production Team identified the gathered mushrooms, revealing that none were edible.
• Xie Mi told the hungry group that forty-eight hours without food would not kill them and joked that they might die tomorrow instead.

Qiu Chengye led Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Xu Shuangrong into the forest to find food, where Xie Mi outdid Qiu while gathering fruit. The group discovered a rabbit marked with the Love Watch logo, and Director Niu confirmed that the Production Team had released domestic animals for them to hunt legally.

• Qiu Chengye set off to find food, and Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Xu Shuangrong joined him while Yu Jinche and two others stayed behind to watch the fire.
• Xu Shuangrong spotted fallen fruit, and Qiu Chengye climbed a tree to gather more.
• Xie Mi climbed above Qiu Chengye and dropped fruit onto his head, then convinced him that he had helped cushion it.
• Shen Yeqing found a rabbit, and Xie Mi noticed the Love Watch logo on a cloth tied around its leg.
• Xu Shuangrong identified the rabbit as an animal released by the Production Team, and Director Niu confirmed that the group could hunt the released livestock legally.

The guests hunted poultry and livestock in the forest, and Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing caught two rabbits by working together. Back at camp, Xu Shuangrong gave Qiu Chengye eggs and nudged him to offer them to Liu Woxing, but she rejected them; the group then faced the problem of cooking the rabbits without tools.

• The hungry guests raced through the forest hunting animals, while Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing caught two rabbits by driving them into Shen Yeqing’s pits.
• Qiu Chengye returned exhausted, Xiao Jingxi came back with a chicken-kick mark, and Xu Shuangrong brought back eggs.
• Xu Shuangrong handed the eggs to Qiu Chengye and told him Liu Woxing might appreciate them because she was defying the Liu Family.
• Qiu Chengye claimed the eggs were his and offered them to Liu Woxing, but she returned them and said she did not eat eggs.
• Liu Woxing asked Xie Mi how to cook the rabbits, and Xie Mi asked how they could prepare them without tools.

The group received one mystery package after completing the hunting mission, but it contained a request for Xie Mi’s autograph instead of supplies. After preparing a meager lunch without tools, they learned a torrential downpour was expected that night and needed to build shelters.

• Director Niu let the eight contestants choose one mystery package, and Xu Shuangrong picked a box containing a photo of Xie Mi and an autograph request from the Assistant Director.
• Director Niu recognized the address on the note as the Assistant Director’s and kicked him across the beach.
• Xie Mi assigned the group tasks and suggested Shen Yeqing gather firewood, but he chose to prepare rabbits alongside her and Yu Jinche.
• Yu Jinche killed the rabbits with a sharp stone, and the group ate roast rabbit, eggs, and fruit for lunch.
• The Production Team warned the contestants that a torrential downpour would hit the island that night.

As a storm approached, Xie Mi led the guests in building a cramped shelter that looked like a doghouse. When Yu Jinche and Xiao Jingxi argued over who should sleep beside her, Xie Mi proposed that the men and women lie on opposite sides, feet to feet.

• Director Niu admitted that the Production Team had brought the guests to the island despite the forecasted downpour to make survival harder.
• Xie Mi claimed her construction experience came from building a doghouse for her Wangcai and took charge of the shelter project.
• The guests built a small shelter together, and Xie Mi staged a ribbon-cutting ceremony before biting through the vine ribbon.
• Yu Jinche suggested that he and Xie Mi sleep in the middle, and Xiao Jingxi accused him of having ulterior motives.
• Xie Mi proposed that the four men and four women lie on opposite sides of the shelter with their feet facing each other.

The Love Watch cast searched for water after building a shelter, while Xie Mi chose to pair with Shen Yeqing and dismissed Xiao Jingxi. Xu Shuangrong then heard a system notification revealing Xiao Jingxi’s awakening progress had reached 50%.

• Love Watch’s wilderness survival antics became a Hot Search, and Director Niu lamented that the cast had turned the dating show into a survival show.
• Xie Mi asked what the cast would drink, and Liu Woxing suggested searching for water in pairs.
• Xie Mi rejected Xiao Jingxi’s attempt to partner with her and left with Shen Yeqing, while Liu Woxing paired with Lai Bingxuan.
• Qiu Chengye and Yu Jinche left together, leaving Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi to search for water as a pair.
• Xu Shuangrong heard a system notification announce Xiao Jingxi’s male lead awakening progress had reached 50%, and the system explained he could become the novel’s second awakened character.

Xu Shuangrong learned that déjà vu could awaken characters to the truth of their novel world and hoped Xiao Jingxi would awaken and join her against Xie Mi. The system revealed that multiple systems existed to maintain the novel’s order and that another would guide Xiao Jingxi if he awakened.

• Xu Shuangrong approached Xiao Jingxi and invited him to search the forest for water, but he walked past her and she followed.
• Viewers speculated that Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi might be trying to revive their relationship for publicity.
• Xu Shuangrong asked the system what triggered a character’s awakening, and it explained that déjà vu arose when events matched a character’s buried original storyline.
• The system told Xu Shuangrong that it had revealed the novel’s truth to her to prevent mental turmoil and help restore the plot.
• Xu Shuangrong learned that the systems were a collective and that another system would tell Xiao Jingxi the truth if he awakened.

Xu Shuangrong decided to hasten Xiao Jingxi’s awakening so they could challenge Xie Mi together. Meanwhile, Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing shared a romantic moment in the forest that went viral online.

• Xu Shuangrong learned that people awakened when their lives diverged from the original plot and their suffering made them question the world.
• Xu Shuangrong resolved to speed up Xiao Jingxi’s awakening and use his potential system to help her oppose Xie Mi.
• Shen Yeqing gave Xie Mi a flower crown he had woven from wildflowers.
• Xie Mi returned his gesture with a wildflower and called it a magic trick, leaving Shen Yeqing visibly moved.
• Viewers celebrated their interaction, and the forest scene surged to the top of online hot searches.

Xie Mi openly declared that she and Shen Yeqing were bonding, provoking Xiao Jingxi’s jealousy and driving his male lead awakening progress to 99%. Xu Shuangrong realized Xie Mi could hear the system notification but could not figure out what was keeping the progress from reaching 100%.

• Xie Mi gave Shen Yeqing a bouquet and flirted with him, while Xiao Jingxi watched with bloodshot eyes and his awakening progress reached 60%.
• Xu Shuangrong inferred that Xie Mi could hear the system notification and deliberately goaded Xiao Jingxi by suggesting he and Xie Mi had interrupted a romantic moment.
• Xie Mi calmly agreed that she and Shen Yeqing were bonding, raising Xiao Jingxi’s awakening progress to 90%.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing ran off arm in arm, while Xiao Jingxi’s assigned PD tripped him as he tried to chase them.
• Xiao Jingxi declared that Xie Mi could only love him, and his awakening progress climbed to 99%, leaving Xu Shuangrong puzzled by the stall.

Xu Shuangrong concluded that Xie Mi could hear her conversations with the system and might be connected to the altered trips into the past. During a rainstorm on the island, the group began playing truth or dare, and Xiao Jingxi drew a question about facing a rival for someone he liked.

• Xu Shuangrong told the system that Xie Mi could hear their conversations, and they discussed whether Xie Mi had been present during the trips into the past.
• Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan found a forest stream, and Qiu Chengye drank from it before a crew member warned him to boil the water.
• The group boiled the stream water, then took shelter together when a drizzle turned into a torrential downpour.
• Director Niu proposed truth or dare, offering mystery package draws as a reward for playing.
• Xie Mi spun the bottle, which flew off and struck Xiao Jingxi in the forehead, making him the first player.
• Xiao Jingxi chose truth and drew a question about what he would do if a rival appeared beside the person he liked.

Xiao Jingxi and Shen Yeqing clashed over Xie Mi, who rejected Xiao Jingxi’s claim and said his lingering attachment would make her sick. Later, Xu Shuangrong revealed that she had called the police on her father when she was twelve, prompting guests and viewers to wonder what had happened.

• Xiao Jingxi warned Shen Yeqing that his seven years of memories with Xie Mi could not be intruded upon, and Shen Yeqing replied that Xiao would have no place in her future.
• Xie Mi sided with Shen Yeqing, then told Xiao Jingxi that he should not cling to their memories because it would make her sick.
• Xiao Jingxi spun the bottle toward Xu Shuangrong, who chose truth and drew a question about the craziest thing she had ever done.
• Xu Shuangrong said that at twelve she had called the police on her father and had him arrested, shocking the guests.
• Netizens began investigating Xu Shuangrong’s childhood and found information about her stepfather and his five-year sentence.

After Xu Shuangrong’s abuse history became public, she confronted Xie Mi on the island and revealed that she knew Xie Mi was a transmigrator. Xie Mi challenged Xu Shuangrong’s account of her past, arguing that the original novel’s author had described her as ambitious and evil by choice, not shaped by tragedy.

• Online commenters discussed Xu Shuangrong’s childhood abuse and debated whether it explained or excused her later actions.
• The cast ended their game and went to bed early after a tiring day on the island.
• Unable to sleep and hungry, Xie Mi went to the beach at night to forage, where she encountered Xu Shuangrong.
• Xu Shuangrong told Xie Mi she knew she was a transmigrator and asked her to stop obstructing her ambition.
• Xie Mi said the novel’s author had intended Xu Shuangrong to be evil by choice, not because of a tragic childhood.

Xie Mi confronted Xu Shuangrong with her theory that Xu had fabricated abuse by her stepfather to escape their fishing village and advance her career. She left Xu accused of harming people who had never wronged her, even after learning how their stories would end.

• Xie Mi told Xu Shuangrong a story in which a clever girl framed her kind stepfather for abuse and used the resulting sympathy to leave her village and pursue fame.
• Xu dismissed the story as speculation and challenged Xie Mi to provide evidence that her stepfather had been innocent.
• Xie Mi argued that Xu’s stepfather never sought revenge or support after prison, suggesting he had been a good man who cut ties with her.
• Xie Mi explained that the original author had left clues and a Weibo post hinting at the truth, and said her own interactions with Xu had convinced her of Xu’s cruelty.
• Xie Mi accused Xu of exploiting Liu Woxing, Lai Bingxuan, and the original Xie Mi, and of knowingly forcing events back onto their predetermined paths after learning the novel’s plot.

Xie Mi confronted Xu Shuangrong about her manipulative schemes, while Xu declared that she would reclaim what she believed was hers. Xu then tried to provoke Xie Mi with her system, which revealed itself as Xie Mi’s fan before Xu and the system resumed their plotting.

• Xu Shuangrong dropped her disguise and accused Xie Mi of hiding that she could hear the system and travel into the past.
• Xie Mi argued that Xu had lost opportunities because she used Xiao Jingxi, Liu Woxing, and You Hongxuan for her own plans, then went off with a razor clam.
• Xu insisted that using people was a valid shortcut and declared that her life was only about herself.
• Xu claimed Xie Mi was a transmigrator without a system and invited her to meet Xu’s system, but the system nervously professed its admiration for Xie Mi.
• After Xu left, the system claimed its cowardly act had been a strategy to make Xie Mi lower her guard, and Xu told it that it did not need to pretend.

On the second day of the deserted-island show, the hungry guests searched for food while Xie Mi encouraged Qiu Chengye to confront Director Niu and stopped the group from eating bark or ants. Shen Yeqing then took Xie Mi to explore the island, while a panicked field PD's radio call ended with a claim that everything was normal.

• The guests woke exhausted and hungry after a stormy night, and Xu Shuangrong reported that the storm had ruined the fruit and driven away the animals.
• Qiu Chengye demanded food from Director Niu, then charged at him after Xie Mi encouraged him and was subdued by the cameramen.
• The group searched the forest for food without success, rejected Xie Mi's idea of eating bark, and rejected Yu Jinche's idea of eating ants.
• Back at camp, Shen Yeqing invited Xie Mi to explore the other side of the island, and she accepted while Liu Woxing stayed behind to make weapons.
• Director Niu heard a panicked, garbled radio call from PD Ma, followed by a commotion; PD Ma then said everything was normal.

Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi raided the Production Team's supplies while the Assistant Director helped them evade detection. When Director Niu caught on and cornered them, they escaped inside a tent with four legs and ran off, leaving the crew in pursuit.

• Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi stuffed the Production Team's pockets and supplies with food while the Assistant Director restrained PD Ma.
• Director Niu realized PD Ma had been prevented from warning him and rushed back to the base with the crew.
• Director Niu found the Assistant Director tickling PD Ma and learned that Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi were inside the tent.
• The crew surrounded the tent, but Xie Mi zipped it shut and the tent sprouted four legs and ran away.
• Director Niu ordered the crew to chase the fleeing tent as the Assistant Director cheered for it.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing fled in a tent with legs after stealing food, while the other guests fought the Production Team to help them escape. Amid the chaos, Xu Shuangrong struck Xiao Jingxi in the head with an iron pot, knocking him unconscious.

• A tent carrying Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing ran into the campsite, and Director Niu and the staff chased after it.
• The guests realized the tent held Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing and suspected they had stolen food from the Production Team.
• Qiu Chengye charged into the pursuers, while Lai Bingxuan tried to block them and Yu Jinche threw his tree bark soup at another group of staff.
• Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong joined the fight as the tent fled and the campsite descended into chaos.
• Xu Shuangrong hurled an iron pot at Xiao Jingxi, hitting him in the back of the head and knocking him unconscious.

After waking from his injury, Xiao Jingxi accused Xu Shuangrong of hitting him on purpose and revisited their past. Yu Jinche tried to convince Xiao Jingxi that he lived in a novel, but Xie Mi exposed the prank, and Xiao Jingxi’s awakening progress fell.

• Xie Mi’s funeral talk startled Xiao Jingxi awake in the cruise ship infirmary.
• Director Niu explained that the deserted-island segment had ended early after Xiao Jingxi was injured.
• Xu Shuangrong said she had accidentally dropped a pot on Xiao Jingxi, who accused her of doing it deliberately and argued with her about their past.
• Xu Shuangrong considered recreating scenes from the original story, and her system announced that Xiao Jingxi’s awakening progress had reached 80%.
• Yu Jinche told Xiao Jingxi that he was the protagonist of a novel and that Shen Yeqing had taken the woman meant for him.
• Xie Mi shouted “Run, Yu Jinche,” exposing Yu Jinche’s prank, and Xiao Jingxi realized the story was nonsense as his awakening progress dropped to 50%.