Recaps

The guests arrived at a book café for mock blind dates, while Director Niu revealed to viewers that the dates were designed to test their patience. The guests entered their private rooms unaware that their dates would deliberately provoke them, and their heart-rate monitors would help measure their reactions.

• Xiao Jingxi offered Xie Mi a hand getting out of the car, but she mocked him and refused it, prompting Shen Yeqing to explain her insult.
• Xu Shuangrong appeared upset that Xiao Jingxi had not offered her a hand, and Liu Woxing comforted her.
• Director Niu told the guests their mock blind dates would assess their views on marriage and sent them to assigned private rooms.
• After the guests went upstairs, Director Niu revealed that six ordinary people would provoke them to test whether they lost their tempers on camera.
• Director Niu explained that the guests' heart-rate monitors would track changes caused by anger.

Xie Mi dismantled Wang Yaozu’s arrogant marriage demands with a string of sharp retorts, then spotted Liu Woxing being provoked on her blind date. Xie Mi covered Liu Woxing’s racing heart-rate watch and stepped in to quiz the man about classic literature.

• Xie Mi met Wang Yaozu, who boasted about his wealth and demanded that she quit the entertainment industry if she married him.
• Xie Mi mocked Wang Yaozu’s ideas about betrothal gifts and having children until he fainted from anger.
• Xie Mi heard Qiu Chengye flee his blind date in a panic after encountering a possessive woman.
• Xie Mi saw Liu Woxing’s date patronize her about corporate management while Liu Woxing’s anger pushed her heart rate toward the alarm threshold.
• Xie Mi covered Liu Woxing’s watch and challenged her date to a quiz after he claimed to enjoy classic literature.

Xie Mi derailed Liu Woxing’s mock blind date, preserving Liu’s composed public image, while the other guests’ dates ended in anger or awkwardness. Back at the villa, Xiao Jingxi asked Xu Shuangrong to stop their promotional interactions, leaving the status of their relationship uncertain.

• Xie Mi challenged Liu Woxing’s blind date with jokes about giving literary classics webnovel-style titles, distracting him and making Liu laugh.
• The mock blind dates ended with Xie Mi, Qiu Chengye, Xiao Jingxi, Xu Shuangrong, Liu Woxing, and Shen Yeqing each having very different encounters.
• On the ride back, Xie Mi learned Shen Yeqing could deliberately act hard of hearing, while Xu Shuangrong asked whether he had considered speaking to her pointless socializing.
• Liu Woxing took the seat beside Xie Mi, leaving Xiao Jingxi unable to sit near her, and viewers argued over whether Xiao and Xu were really a couple.
• At the villa, Xiao Jingxi took Xu Shuangrong to the back garden and told her they could stop their promotional interactions now that their drama had finished airing.

Xiao Jingxi ended his romantic promotion with Xu Shuangrong on the livestream, while Xu Shuangrong appeared to accept the decision but quietly turned public sympathy against him. She later told Liu Woxing that Xiao Jingxi and Xie Mi had met privately, but Liu Woxing refused to blame Xie Mi.

• Xiao Jingxi said he and Xu Shuangrong had only interacted to promote their drama and proposed that they stop, and Xu Shuangrong agreed.
• After Xiao Jingxi left, Xu Shuangrong let herself cry, prompting viewers to sympathize with her and condemn him.
• Xie Mi watched from the roof and reflected that Xu Shuangrong was using the breakup to build sympathy, as she had done in the original novel.
• Liu Woxing found Xu Shuangrong sobbing in the bathroom and comforted her after removing her microphone.
• Xu Shuangrong told Liu Woxing that she had seen Xiao Jingxi and Xie Mi meet privately, but Liu Woxing insisted that Xiao Jingxi was at fault and Xie Mi was not to blame.

Xu Shuangrong failed to turn Liu Woxing against Xie Mi, while online fan wars escalated around Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong. Xie Mi discovered that the mysterious college guy who had messaged her was Shen Yeqing, and she joined him to play VR games.

• Xu Shuangrong tried to make Liu Woxing believe Xie Mi had seduced Xiao Jingxi, but Liu blamed Xiao Jingxi instead.
• Xiao Jingxi's and Xu Shuangrong's fans fought online, and Xie Mi's fans joined in to call both sides dumbasses.
• Xie Mi accepted a friend request from 185-Centimeter Pure-Hearted College Guy, flirted with him, and asked to see his abs.
• After he sent a photo and shared his location, Xie Mi realized he was Shen Yeqing, who was inside the villa.
• Xie Mi looked through Shen Yeqing's old WeChat Moments, then went to the screening room to play VR games with him.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing played VR together, where her chaotic fighting accidentally knocked Xiao Jingxi unconscious. Later, Xie Mi agreed to use Xu Shuangrong’s fresh mushrooms for dinner and planned to stew them.

• Xie Mi tried the VR world, repeatedly stumbled into Shen Yeqing, and chose a sultry Ultraman skin while he dressed as a uniformed security guard.
• Xie Mi charged through the game’s monsters with her fists while Shen Yeqing used a special attack.
• Xiao Jingxi entered the screening room, and Xie Mi mistook him for an enemy and knocked him unconscious with an uppercut.
• Xie Mi crawled down the hallway in a frenzy as Shen Yeqing followed her, and the afternoon passed.
• Xu Shuangrong offered Xie Mi freshly delivered mushrooms for dinner, and Xie Mi agreed to cook them.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing failed to cook a proper dinner, and the guests ate wild mushrooms that caused mass hallucinations. The chapter ended with the whole crew behaving wildly as Shen Yeqing and Xu Shuangrong also developed symptoms.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing competed with Xiao Jingxi over cooking, but their mushroom dishes turned out disastrously.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing served boiled mushrooms with assorted seasonings, and everyone sat down to eat.
• Xiao Jingxi began hallucinating, and Qiu Chengye and Liu Woxing started acting strangely as well.
• Xie Mi realized the food might be poisoned, flipped the table, and chased the assistant director with a banana.
• Shen Yeqing learned the mushrooms came from Cloud City, a region known for wild mushrooms, and he and Xu Shuangrong soon developed symptoms too.

After waking in the hospital, Xie Mi realized Xu Shuangrong had brought poisonous wild mushrooms, and the guests’ chaotic hallucinations had made Love Watch a viral hit. She learned her wealthy family had sent her stepmother and stepbrother to collect her, so she forced them to take her back to their mansion, where she vowed to make their home their hell.

• Xie Mi woke in the hospital, figured out Xu Shuangrong had brought wild mushrooms, and saw that the poisoning footage had made the guests popular online.
• Li Meiyan and Xie Lian arrived to take Xie Mi home, and Xie Mi remembered that she had a wealthy family and that they had treated her badly.
• Xie Mi overheard Li Meiyan plotting to scare her away and threatened to call the police until Li Meiyan agreed to take her home immediately.
• Xie Mi arrived at the family estate and told Xie Lian she would turn the place into his hell.

Xie Mi toured her family’s villa and uncovered clues about her past, then confronted her stepmother Li Meiyan and asserted her place in the household. Xie Lian took her to the greenhouse, where Xie Mi mistook his eerie behavior for a mental episode.

• Li Meiyan led Xie Mi to a disturbing room that had been arranged to resemble her childhood bedroom, but Xie Mi calmly asked to see the study instead.
• Xie Mi found a photograph of the original Xie Mi with her father and concluded that he cared for her, while Li Meiyan had likely worsened her distress.
• Xie Mi threatened to tell her father that Li Meiyan had recreated her traumatic room, and Li Meiyan hurried off to clean it.
• Xie Lian arrived to show Xie Mi around, and she followed him through the back garden to the greenhouse.
• Xie Lian asked whether Xie Mi missed the flowers, and Xie Mi told him to take his medication because he seemed to be having an episode.

Xie Mi exposed Xie Lian’s secret torture room and kept both him and Li Meiyan under her thumb. When Xie Zhengde returned with Shen Yeqing, Xie Mi appealed to her father and saw signs that he cared for her; the chapter ended with Li Meiyan and Xie Lian kneeling and begging her for mercy.

• Xie Lian showed Xie Mi his hidden torture room, but she threatened to expose it, making him panic and plead with her not to tell.
• Xie Mi caught Xie Lian putting dead bugs in her juice and slapped him, then slapped Li Meiyan when she asked to be spared.
• Xie Mi mistook Shen Yeqing for her father and launched into a plea about being mistreated before Xie Zhengde appeared behind him.
• Xie Zhengde took Xie Mi’s hand and pulled her up, showing her a rare hint of affection as Old Bai remarked that he had smiled.
• Xie Zhengde questioned Li Meiyan and Xie Lian about Xie Mi’s claims, and Li Meiyan kicked Xie Lian to his knees to beg for forgiveness.
• Xie Zhengde and Shen Yeqing went to the study while Li Meiyan and Xie Lian knelt before Xie Mi and pleaded with her.

Xie Mi returned to Xie Zhengde’s home, chose the best room, and got five million yuan from her father. That night, she foiled Li Meiyan and Xie Lian’s attempt to scare her, leaving both of them injured.

• Xie Zhengde asked Xie Mi about her plans, and she chose the sunny second-floor room with a large terrace.
• Xie Mi asked Xie Zhengde for gold, and he transferred five million yuan to her.
• Xie Mi questioned Shen Yeqing about his connection to Xie Zhengde, and he admitted he had told her father about her difficult past because he wanted her to have a good life.
• Xie Mi struggled to sleep in her new home and discovered Li Meiyan and Xie Lian climbing toward her window to frighten her.
• Xie Mi shone her powerful flashlight at Li Meiyan and Xie Lian, causing Li Meiyan to fall and Xie Lian to land on her back.

Xie Mi went shopping with Xie Lian and Old Bai, where she outwitted her rival Jiang Huaiting after Jiang tried to shame her for not buying anything. The confrontation ended when Old Bai announced that the entire mall belonged to the Xie family.

• Xie Zhengde sent Xie Mi to shop with Xie Lian, whose expenses for the day were assigned to him.
• Xie Mi noticed a clerk taking down a poster of Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong, then encountered her old rival Jiang Huaiting.
• Jiang Huaiting bought everything Xie Mi touched to flaunt her wealth, and her credit card was maxed out.
• Jiang Huaiting accused Xie Mi of pretending to be wealthy, but Xie Mi responded with exaggerated enthusiasm and refused to be embarrassed.
• Old Bai rushed in and declared that the entire mall belonged to the Xie family.

Xie Mi and Xie Lian flaunted the family’s wealth to crush Jiang Huaiting’s pride, then Xie Mi learned that Xie Lian’s classmate Yu Jinche was the original novel’s dangerous villain. After the Love Watch production team launched an extravagant outdoor shoot in South Sea City, Xie Mi arrived and fled from an over-the-top welcome.

• Xie Lian paid for every item in a luxury store, and Jiang Huaiting left after seeing Xie Mi’s lavish display.
• Xie Mi met Yu Jinche, recognized him as the original novel’s villain, and watched him arrange to visit Xie Lian before changing his plans.
• Director Niu blamed Xie Mi for the show’s chaotic trending topics and announced an outdoor filming plan.
• Xie Mi arrived in South Sea City and ran away when a man greeted her with a personalized sign and a thunderous welcome.

Xie Mi met her new assistant, Maomao, and joined the other guests on a pink love-themed bus for a three-day trip in Nanhaishi. Her eccentric outfit and blunt choices disrupted Director Niu’s attempts to create a romantic atmosphere, and the group prepared to play Guardian Angel.

• Xie Mi learned that the dark-skinned man was her company-hired assistant, discovered his nickname was Maomao, and heard that he would stay with her in Nanhaishi.
• Xie Mi and Maomao went to a local market and salon, where she changed into a flashy outfit and got her hair styled before heading to the bus stop.
• Director Niu reacted to Xie Mi’s spiky hairstyle, and she followed up with tacky romantic poetry that made Qiu Chengye spit out his water.
• Xie Mi ignored Xiao Jingxi’s invitation, stepped over Shen Yeqing’s legs, and sat beside Xu Shuangrong, while Shen Yeqing asked if she was looking down on him.
• Director Niu welcomed the guests to Nanhaishi and announced that they would play Guardian Angel on the bus before heading to the beach.

Xie Mi drew Shen Yeqing as her Guardian Angel, then helped the guests earn their first camping funds by charging into the production crew during the tug-of-war. After she woke in Shen Yeqing’s arms, she flirted with him while Xiao Jingxi tried to pull her away.

• Xie Mi wrote that she wished to reap the rewards without working, then drew Shen Yeqing’s name in the Guardian Angel Game.
• Director Niu announced that the guests had to win three contests against the production crew to earn money for camping supplies.
• Xu Shuangrong pushed Xie Mi to the front, and Xie Mi accepted the challenge against the crew’s muscular competitors.
• During the tug-of-war, Xie Mi charged the assistant director with her gel-stiffened hairstyle, knocking the opposing team down and winning the guests one thousand yuan.
• Xie Mi woke in Shen Yeqing’s arms and reached for him, but Xiao Jingxi tried to pull her away.
• Shen Yeqing pulled Xie Mi back into his embrace and told Xiao Jingxi that she was lusting after his body.

Xie Mi took over the beach volleyball match after Xiao Jingxi’s strategy failed, revealing her skill and scoring against the opposing team. The game continued with Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye competing against her and each other, while Xu Shuangrong watched Xie Mi and Liu Woxing grow closer.

• Xiao Jingxi ordered the women to stay in front and leave receiving to the men, but the opposing team’s serve sent him flying into the sand.
• Xiao Jingxi’s serve drifted past Xu Shuangrong, who followed his order not to receive it, and Xie Mi challenged the team to change strategies.
• After Shen Yeqing switched places with Xie Mi, Xie Mi knocked Xiao Jingxi down and spiked the ball to score a point.
• Xie Mi praised Liu Woxing’s smile, and Xu Shuangrong watched them with a darkened gaze.
• Xie Mi repeatedly targeted the assistant director, while Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye collided trying to receive the ball and lost another point.
• Xie Mi sent Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye away with a spinning flying kick.

Xie Mi led her team to victory in the swimming-for-flags round through chaotic teamwork, and the guests earned money for camping supplies. As the group rode electric scooters to shop, Shen Yeqing fell off when Xie Mi took a sharp turn.

• Xie Mi’s team won the swimming-for-flags match after Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Qiu Chengye disrupted the opposing swimmers while Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong tickled them.
• The guests’ antics sent the livestream and Weibo into a frenzy, and the team won three thousand yuan for camping supplies.
• Xiao Jingxi offered to drive Xie Mi, but she chose Shen Yeqing as her passenger; Xiao Jingxi then drove the injured Xu Shuangrong.
• Qiu Chengye and Liu Woxing went to rent camping equipment while Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Xu Shuangrong headed to the supermarket for barbecue ingredients.
• Xie Mi told Shen Yeqing to raise both hands on the scooter, then flung him off when she took a sharp turn.

After Shen Yeqing was rescued, Xie Mi tried to secretly give him a flower as his guardian angel, but ended up fighting another mascot before he discovered her and accepted it. Back at the beach, Shen Yeqing showed how well he knew Xie Mi’s favorite snacks, while Xiao Jingxi’s attempt to impress her fell flat.

• After Shen Yeqing praised her driving, Xie Mi bandaged his hand, and he asked whether she was his guardian angel.
• Xie Mi slipped away at the supermarket and put on a Luckin Coffee mascot costume so she could give Shen Yeqing a flower unseen.
• Xie Mi fought the Snow King mascot until Shen Yeqing ordered drinks from both shops to clear the employees away.
• Shen Yeqing removed Xie Mi’s mascot head, and she gave him the flower, which he treasured.
• At the beach, Xiao Jingxi brought Xie Mi preserved plums and iced oolong tea, but Shen Yeqing replaced them with her favorite chips and cola.

Xie Mi watched Xiao Jingxi’s barbecue attempt turn into a fire and delivered a blunt answer during the group’s emotional-intelligence test. As the group relaxed over dinner, Shen Yeqing and Xiao Jingxi both tried to keep her warm.

• Xie Mi sat back while Xiao Jingxi took over grilling, but his excessive use of oil caused the grill to flare up and left the group scrambling to put out the fire.
• Xu Shuangrong took charge of cooking, explaining that she usually cooked for herself because it was cheaper than ordering takeout.
• Director Niu asked how they would respond to a crush who ran into an ex on the way to the hospital, and Xie Mi suggested asking whether the crush or his mother was sick in the head.
• The group ate barbecue and drank beer as Shen Yeqing put a blanket over Xie Mi’s legs and Xiao Jingxi draped his jacket over her shoulders.

At a seaside drinking party, Xie Mi brawled with Qiu Chengye and drunkenly rejected Xiao Jingxi’s confession before disappearing into the night. Shen Yeqing searched for her, and she surprised him in the woods with the shower of apricot blossoms he had wished to see.

• Xie Mi refused Qiu Chengye’s invitations to drink until he knelt and toasted her as his “Dad,” then joined him in drinking.
• Qiu Chengye threatened Xie Mi, and Xiao Jingxi tried to intervene before Xie Mi headbutted him and angrily rejected his advice to be grateful to her harassers.
• Qiu Chengye flipped the table and threatened to ruin Xie Mi, so she chased him with a chair and knocked him down.
• Drunk Xiao Jingxi confessed his love to Xie Mi, but she disappeared before the others could stop her.
• Shen Yeqing searched the woods for Xie Mi, who surprised him with falling petals and revealed his written wish to see another shower of apricot blossoms.

After the guests woke up, Xie Mi agreed to put on makeup for the dating show and arrived in a wildly mismatched outfit and heavy makeup, leaving the crew and viewers stunned. Director Niu confronted the assistant director over the promised surprise.

• Director Niu’s crew filmed the guests waking up, and Xie Mi’s energetic stretching struck viewers as relatable.
• The assistant director asked Xie Mi whether she wore makeup, and she said she usually went bare-faced to save time.
• Xie Mi agreed to put on makeup, and the assistant director promised Director Niu a huge surprise.
• Xie Mi arrived in a green shirt, floral shorts, straw hat, and heavily applied makeup, intending to look like a tan bombshell.
• Director Niu recognized Xie Mi and angrily told the assistant director that he had certainly delivered a huge surprise.

Lai Bingxuan joined the dating show and immediately clashed with Xu Shuangrong, while Xie Mi took Lai’s side after being paid to help her walk. The guests continued their aquarium date amid signs that Xu and Lai’s old rivalry was resurfacing.

• Director Niu introduced Lai Bingxuan, the Lai Group heiress and Xu Shuangrong’s former classmate, as a new guest.
• Xu Shuangrong hid behind Xiao Jingxi when Lai arrived, and Xiao offered to support her.
• During the aquarium outing, Lai mistook Xie Mi for a local staff member and tossed her ten thousand to help her walk in her heels.
• Xu Shuangrong criticized Lai’s treatment of Xie Mi, prompting the other guests and viewers to turn against Lai.
• Xie Mi defended Lai, saying Lai had paid her and accusing Xu of trying to drive a wedge between them.

Xie Mi and the other guests became caught up in a fan war after Xu Shuangrong tried to frame Lai Bingxuan, then joined a beluga interaction arranged by the production team. The beluga appeared to choose Qiu Chengye as Liu Woxing’s love interest, though the result was clearly staged.

• Shen Yeqing mocked Xu Shuangrong for claiming she had been protecting Xie Mi, and Lai Bingxuan eventually realized Xu had tried to frame her.
• Liu Woxing mediated the argument, but online revelations about Xu Shuangrong and Lai Bingxuan’s high school relationship sparked a fierce fan war that dragged Xu into the center of it.
• At Beluga Hall, Little White splashed its trainer during a supposed performance, and the trainer turned the mishap into an advertised hidden-edition act.
• The trainer invited the seven Love Watch guests to interact with Little White, and Xie Mi shouted back at an audience member who mistook her for an indigenous person.
• Liu Woxing whispered to the beluga during a staged confession game, and it swam to Qiu Chengye even though Liu had said nothing to it.

At the Aquarium, Xie Mi was shoved into the pool, but the beluga took a liking to her and turned the incident into a crowd-pleasing performance, disrupting Xu Shuangrong’s attempt to frame Lai Bingxuan. After Xie Mi confronted Xu, the guests headed to a Summer Music Festival, where the production team announced randomly paired dates in multiple rounds.

• Xu Shuangrong accused Lai Bingxuan of pushing Xie Mi into the pool, and Lai angrily denied it.
• The beluga splashed Xu Shuangrong, then carried Xie Mi around the pool as the audience cheered.
• Xu Shuangrong tried to apologize to Xie Mi and blame Lai, but Xie warned her not to use her as a shield again.
• Xie Mi arrived at the hotel in a Y2K outfit, then put on her ugly green sunglasses and bantered with Shen Yeqing.
• Director Niu announced that the guests would draw lots for one-hour date pairings at the Summer Music Festival.

Director Niu arranged three rounds of hourly dates and challenged the guests to make their partners’ hearts flutter for a breakfast voucher. Xie Mi sat out the first round and watched the dates, where Xu Shuangrong drew closer to Xiao Jingxi and Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing began messaging; Xie Mi’s phone then quacked twice.

• Director Niu explained the rotating date pairings and the heart-fluttering task, with breakfast vouchers as the reward.
• Xie Mi eagerly joined the first draw for the sake of breakfast but was left out while Shen Yeqing paired with Liu Woxing, Qiu Chengye with Lai Bingxuan, and Xiao Jingxi with Xu Shuangrong.
• Xie Mi settled into the monitoring room with sunflower seeds, unfazed by Director Niu’s attempt to overwhelm her with romantic date footage.
• Xu Shuangrong told Xiao Jingxi their promotional interactions were over, then offered to help him get together with Xie Mi if he helped her meet the other male guests.
• Xiao Jingxi’s heart rate rose as Xu Shuangrong made a pinkie promise, while Xie Mi watched and recalled his earlier interest in Xu Shuangrong.
• Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing quietly took out their phones during a loud performance and began messaging, then Xie Mi’s phone quacked twice.