Recaps

Xie Mi and Yu Jinche won silver in the barrel-pushing contest, while Shen Yeqing’s high heart rate during his celebration with Xie Mi helped Xu Shuangrong and him take gold. After the medals were awarded, the sports meet moved on to a 4 × 100-meter relay.

• Qiu Chengye exceeded the preparation time limit and was eliminated, costing Liu Woxing her chance to compete.
• Xie Mi startled Yu Jinche into setting off his heart-rate alarm, then pushed him into the circle.
• Lai Bingxuan pushed Xiao Jingxi into the circle after he watched Xie Mi celebrate with Shen Yeqing.
• Xu Shuangrong and Shen Yeqing won gold, Xie Mi and Yu Jinche won silver, and Lai Bingxuan and Xiao Jingxi won bronze.
• The heart-rate results showed Shen Yeqing had reached 109 while celebrating with Xie Mi, and the hosts announced the 4 × 100-meter relay as the next event.

The cast watched their morning interviews before learning that the relay teams had been assigned by the same random system as before, despite the show claiming they were balanced by ability. Team A began planning its lineup, and Qiu Chengye challenged Xie Mi to race for the first leg.

• Director Niu announced a four-person relay and said the medals would be decided after the team event.
• The cast watched interviews in which Liu Woxing, Yu Jinche, Xu Shuangrong, Lai Bingxuan, Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, Qiu Chengye, and Xie Mi answered questions.
• Lai Bingxuan realized the interviews had been recorded that morning, but Director Niu said they were only meant to help the audience get to know the cast.
• The system assigned Xie Mi, Yu Jinche, Qiu Chengye, and Liu Woxing to Team A, and Xu Shuangrong, Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Lai Bingxuan to Team B.
• Team A discussed its relay lineup, and Qiu Chengye claimed he should run first before Liu Woxing reminded him that Xie Mi had been faster.
• Qiu Chengye challenged Xie Mi to compete for the first leg.

Xie Mi’s team lost the relay race after Qiu Chengye broke the rules, but the losing team was spared the winners’ embarrassing-experience challenge. Xu Shuangrong began sharing her memory of being tricked by Xie Mi into eating tree bark, prompting Qiu Chengye to confront her.

• Xie Mi took the first leg and kept Team A ahead, then caught the baton after Yu Jinche deliberately fumbled the handoff and made him continue running.
• Yu Jinche tried to disrupt the next handoff, but Liu Woxing snatched the baton and passed it to Lai Bingxuan, who raced neck and neck with Team B’s runner.
• Xie Mi taunted Qiu Chengye before the final leg, provoking him to run on all fours and get his team disqualified.
• Qiu Chengye bragged that he had deliberately lost to avoid the challenge, while Xie Mi and Liu Woxing mocked him and Xie Mi kicked Yu Jinche down.
• Director Niu announced that the winning team had to share embarrassing experiences, and Lai Bingxuan forfeited before Xu Shuangrong described Xie Mi’s tree-bark prank.
• Qiu Chengye confronted Xu Shuangrong after she recalled feeling embarrassed and helpless when she ate the bark.

Shen Yeqing won the embarrassment event with a bizarre serenade, and the guests began an individual eight-person tug-of-war. As the ropes shifted, Yu Jinche offered to help Xie Mi win if she agreed to have dinner alone with him.

• Qiu Chengye challenged Xu Shuangrong over her comments about eating tree bark, and Xie Mi brought up Xiao Jingxi's accidental sheep-poop incident.
• Shen Yeqing serenaded Xie Mi, earning the highest embarrassment score and winning gold, while Xiao Jingxi took silver and Xu Shuangrong took bronze.
• The guests began an eight-person tug-of-war, each tied to a rope pulling in a different direction.
• Xie Mi noticed Yu Jinche was not pulling, and he offered to join her direction in exchange for a private dinner with her.

Xie Mi won the tug-of-war event by tearing up every finish line and dragging all seven contestants across the field, while Shen Yeqing and Xiao Jingxi took silver and bronze in the next round. Back at the villa, Xie Mi settled into her new aerial yoga sling and received an unsettling text from an unknown number asking if she wanted to go home.

• Xie Mi ripped up all seven finish lines, then hauled the other contestants over by brute force to win the gold medal.
• Shen Yeqing won silver and Xiao Jingxi won bronze after contestants repeatedly switched sides in the second round, leaving Qiu Chengye dragged back and forth.
• Director Niu announced the contestants’ medals and prizes, and Qiu Chengye, Liu Woxing, Yu Jinche, and Lai Bingxuan received cushions printed with their own distorted faces.
• Liu Woxing supervised Yu Jinche as he prepared lunch, and Xie Mi received a quilt, a beanbag chair, and an aerial yoga sling.
• Xie Mi relaxed in her new sling and received a text from an unknown number asking, “Do you want to go home?”

Xu Shuangrong tested whether Xie Mi wanted to return to her original world, while Xie Mi learned that Love Keys could force participants to accept dates and set out to earn more. Xie Mi prepared to frighten Yu Jinche for a mission, but Xu Shuangrong interrupted her outside his room.

• Xu Shuangrong texted Xie Mi asking if she wanted to go home, and Xie Mi replied that she was not buying a house.
• Xu Shuangrong learned her mission had failed and concluded that Xie Mi did not seem to want to return to her original world.
• Xie Mi asked Little Ox about Love Keys and learned that they could be used to invite someone on a date that the person could not refuse.
• Xie Mi chose Yu Jinche for a heart-rate mission, predicted a rate of 130, and went to his room with a mask to frighten him.
• Xu Shuangrong stopped Xie Mi before she could knock and asked why she had come to see Yu Jinche.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing both tried to predict Yu Jinche’s heart rate for missions, but their predictions failed after they frightened him. Xu Shuangrong realized the livestream audience was seeing through her attempts to turn them against Xie Mi, while Qiu Chengye kept asking Liu Woxing about his missing jacket.

• Xu Shuangrong accused Xie Mi of targeting Yu Jinche, but Xie Mi scared Xu Shuangrong with help from Shen Yeqing, and Yu Jinche opened his door and was frightened too.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing compared their failed missions and revealed they had predicted Yu Jinche’s heart rate would reach a certain level; Shen Yeqing’s prediction had been 200.
• Xu Shuangrong checked the livestream comments and saw that most viewers criticized her for stirring up conflict and recognized her attempts to act innocent.
• Qiu Chengye asked Liu Woxing again whether she had seen his jacket, then posed in a sleeveless designer top as she stared at his muscles.

Qiu Chengye failed his heart-rate mission with Liu Woxing, and the cast began the Love Triangle segment with a detailed relationship chart. Director Niu explained that Love Keys could force a date, while each guest also received one chance to join another pair as a Love Security Guard.

• Qiu Chengye tried to raise Liu Woxing's heart rate, but the Production Team told him his mission had failed because she seemed to be having a heart attack.
• The guests' private missions were revealed to involve raising heart rates, with Love Keys as rewards, though most people failed.
• The cast gathered around a relationship chart that mapped their romantic connections, rivalries, friendships, and other ties.
• Director Niu explained that guests could spend a Love Key to require anyone to go on a date lasting at least two hours.
• Director Niu announced that each guest also received one use of the Love Security Guard skill to join another pair's date.

After Director Niu announced a rule allowing contestants to become “love security guards,” Xie Mi ignored her concerns about Xiao Jingxi’s key and joined Shen Yeqing for a VR game. She accidentally punched Xiao Jingxi when he approached her, then asked him to pay her medical expenses despite his insistence that he was fine.

• Director Niu announced that contestants could volunteer as “love security guards,” and Xie Mi recalled that Xiao Jingxi had one key.
• Shen Yeqing invited Xie Mi to play the third installment of “Ultraman Fights the Little Monsters,” and she eagerly joined him.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing attacked the game’s mysterious man in black with moves Xie Mi had taught them.
• Xiao Jingxi entered the room and approached Xie Mi, who mistook him for the game’s target and punched him repeatedly.
• Xie Mi removed her VR headset, saw Xiao Jingxi recovering nearby, and asked him to pay her medical expenses.

Xiao Jingxi invited Xie Mi on a date, and the show's rules forced her to go despite her resistance. He took her to a strawberry farm he had booked for them, while security followed to ensure she could not escape.

• Xie Mi claimed she was the victim after punching Xiao Jingxi, and Shen Yeqing mocked him while presenting himself as responsible.
• Xiao Jingxi invited Xie Mi on a date, and Little Ox sent men in black to escort her into his car when she hesitated.
• Xiao Jingxi reminisced about wanting a roomier car for road trips with Xie Mi, but she ignored his overture and mocked his finances and business troubles.
• Xiao Jingxi drove Xie Mi to a strawberry farm, saying he had booked the whole place because she liked strawberries.
• Xie Mi noticed the security guards watching them and resigned herself to getting out of the car under surveillance.

Xiao Jingxi tried to use their strawberry-picking date to get closer to Xie Mi, but she spent the time evading and mocking him. When he finally made an emotional appeal, Xie Mi answered with an absurd monologue about being a sealed demon, leaving him bewildered.

• Xie Mi ignored Xiao Jingxi and ate strawberries while he followed her around the patch.
• Bird droppings landed on Xiao Jingxi’s jacket, and Xie Mi called him “Little Bro Poop” before elbowing him aside.
• Xiao Jingxi tried to grab Xie Mi and talk to her, but she dodged his attempts and ran between the strawberry rows.
• Xiao Jingxi stopped chasing Xie Mi and asked her to give him a chance to become someone she liked.
• Xie Mi laughed and delivered a dramatic speech about being a Buddha with a demon sealed inside, leaving Xiao Jingxi confused.

Xiao Jingxi’s attempts to stage a heroic rescue and win Xie Mi’s attention were thwarted when Shen Yeqing arrived disguised as a Love Security Guard. Shen stayed by Xie Mi’s side at the strawberry patch, leaving Xiao Jingxi sidelined as Shen flirted with her.

• Xie Mi’s oversized shoe slipped free when Xiao Jingxi’s snare trap hoisted it, and Xiao Jingxi then pushed her to create an excuse to catch her.
• Shen Yeqing rushed in, caught Xie Mi, and exposed himself as the Love Security Guard who guarded his own love.
• Shen Yeqing carried Xie Mi’s basket as she picked and ate strawberries, while Xiao Jingxi repeatedly failed to get involved.
• Shen Yeqing offered Xie Mi a heart-shaped strawberry and asked her to give it to him, leaving Xiao Jingxi wondering if he had become the Love Security Guard.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing ended their strawberry-farm date together, while Xiao Jingxi was left paying the bill. When Shen Yeqing invited Xie Mi on another date, Xiao Jingxi volunteered as their Love Security Guard and found himself protecting them from fans in a crowded plaza.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing's matching alarms ended their date, and they left the farm with baskets of strawberries.
• Xiao Jingxi paid to book the farm and cover the cost of the fifty jin of strawberries Xie Mi had picked.
• Xie Mi refused to ride with Xiao Jingxi, and Shen Yeqing offered her a key and invited her on another date.
• Xiao Jingxi volunteered to be their Love Security Guard, and Shen Yeqing warned him that the job was not easy.
• In a crowded downtown plaza, Xiao Jingxi joined the Production Team's bodyguards to keep fans away from Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing.

Xie Mi joined a mall singing competition to win Shen Yeqing a pair of couples’ bracelets, which he had wanted as a symbol of their relationship. She took the stage confidently, leaving Shen Yeqing admiring her and Xiao Jingxi jealous, and told the host her surname was Wang when he misspoke.

• Shen Yeqing showed Xie Mi the mall’s singing competition post and told her he wanted the couples’ bracelets offered as a special prize.
• Xie Mi promised to win the bracelets for Shen Yeqing, and he happily accepted her offer.
• Xiao Jingxi complained that Xie Mi treated Shen Yeqing better than she treated him, but Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing dismissed him.
• When the host called for another singer, Xie Mi raised her hand by climbing onto Shen Yeqing’s shoulders, then hopped down and went onstage.
• The host recognized Xie Mi and asked what song she wanted to sing; after he accidentally called her Teacher Wang Xie, she replied that her surname was Wang.

Xie Mi performed the thunderously off-key song “Give Him a Knockout Punch,” turning a mall singing event into a joyful spectacle. She won a pair of wristbands for Shen Yeqing, who thanked her warmly and made her happy too.

• Xie Mi chose to perform “Give Him a Knockout Punch,” briefly alarming the host, who thought she meant to fight someone.
• Xie Mi belted out the song so loudly that the host and audience were stunned, while livestream viewers and Xiao Jingxi reacted to her performance.
• The crowd laughed affectionately and joined the event, and the host praised Xie Mi for bringing everyone joy.
• Xie Mi received a pair of wristbands, which Shen Yeqing had wanted, and he thanked her with a sincere smile.
• Xie Mi told Shen Yeqing that she was happy too.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing extended their date by playing with their matching bracelets, while Xiao Jingxi struggled to get her attention. Yu Jinche arrived to claim his turn for a date with Xie Mi, leaving the story with a new love triangle taking shape.

• Xie Mi fastened a bracelet on Shen Yeqing, and they tested its sensing function by running apart along the river.
• Xiao Jingxi watched the couple and tried repeatedly to join their conversation as their date ended.
• Xie Mi told Xiao Jingxi he could leave and invited Shen Yeqing to get cake with her.
• Xiao Jingxi began to take out a Love Key, but Yu Jinche arrived and announced that it was his turn for a date.
• Back at the villa, Lai Bingxuan showed Liu Woxing candid photos of Xie Mi with the three men and reassured her that Xie Mi could handle herself.

Qiu Chengye accidentally caused a kitchen fire and became trapped in the smoke, but Liu Woxing calmly guided him out and extinguished the flames. Lai Bingxuan then ordered him to stop blocking the way as the danger passed.

• Qiu Chengye tried to cook with the oven, triggering an explosion and setting the kitchen on fire.
• Liu Woxing noticed the smoke and rushed to the kitchen with a fire extinguisher while Lai Bingxuan realized Qiu Chengye was inside.
• Qiu Chengye became disoriented in the smoke as the staff rushed over from a neighboring building.
• Liu Woxing covered Qiu Chengye's face with a wet towel, directed him out, and extinguished the flames.
• Lai Bingxuan threw another wet towel at Qiu Chengye and told him to get out of the way.

A kitchen fire brought Liu Woxing, Lai Bingxuan, and Xu Shuangrong together to rescue Qiu Chengye, whose growing heart rate suggested his feelings for Liu Woxing had changed. Afterward, Liu Woxing told Xie Mi she was happy because she had managed to do something she previously could not.

• Xu Shuangrong cut the power and fetched the staff while Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan extinguished the kitchen fire and helped Qiu Chengye to safety.
• Liu Woxing treated Qiu Chengye's burns, and Xu Shuangrong noticed his heart rate climbing as he watched her.
• Qiu Chengye claimed he had not needed rescuing, but Liu Woxing refused to accept that he owed her anything, and Lai Bingxuan rebuked him for not simply saying thank you.
• After Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan left, Qiu Chengye regretted his words, while Xu Shuangrong suspected he had developed feelings for Liu Woxing.
• Liu Woxing returned Xie Mi's call, listened to her advice about treating burns, and told her she was happy to have done something she had previously been unable to do.

Xie Mi went on a date with Yu Jinche, who confessed his interest during a space experience and tried to woo her with a romantic dinner. After their date ended, Xie Mi danced by the roadside and summoned ten taxis for herself and the staff.

• After Liu Woxing called, Xie Mi joined Yu Jinche for a date at a space experience center.
• Yu Jinche called Xie Mi his kindred soul and asked her to consider him, but she told him to stop being horny.
• At an aquarium restaurant, Yu Jinche tried to cut Xie Mi's steak into a heart, but she cut it herself and offered to eat another serving.
• When they could not find a taxi after the date, Xie Mi danced by the roadside and attracted ten taxis.

After her date with Yu Jinche, Xie Mi suspected he was using a hallucinogenic perfume to make her dependent on him, so she repelled it with medicated oil. Back at the villa, she noticed Qiu Chengye acting lovesick around Liu Woxing, then received a message assigning her the seer role in a dating-show game of Werewolf.

• Yu Jinche tried to touch Xie Mi's face in the taxi, but she slapped his hand away and suspected his fragrance was the perfume he had once developed to make people dependent on him.
• Yu Jinche sprayed perfume onto his wrist, and Xie Mi rubbed medicated oil beneath her nose to block the scent.
• Lai Bingxuan and Xie Mi mocked Qiu Chengye's kitchen mishap, while Xie Mi noticed he seemed lovestruck when Liu Woxing returned from the garden.
• The Production Team told Xie Mi that she was the seer in a dating-show Werewolf game and could check one person's identity.

Xie Mi was assigned the seer role in the dating-show Werewolf game, but the Production Team told her she had been eliminated after she checked Shen Yeqing, a werewolf. She was taken to a comfortable prison where eliminated players would wait to be rescued for a 24-Hour Couple Challenge, then watched the surviving players begin their discussion.

• Xie Mi checked Shen Yeqing and learned from the Production Team that he was a werewolf.
• The Production Team announced that Xie Mi had been eliminated, and PD Ma and the Assistant Director hauled her out of the villa.
• The Production Team took Xie Mi to a hotel for the night, then locked her in a flower-covered cage the next morning.
• The PD explained that eliminated players would wait in prison until a surviving player rescued them for a 24-Hour Couple Challenge.
• Xie Mi watched Lai Bingxuan claim to be the seer and accuse Qiu Chengye of being a werewolf.

During a Werewolf game, Lai Bingxuan and Shen Yeqing lost after their schemes backfired, leaving Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong as the surviving good-team players. As the next matching segment began, Xie Mi escaped her cage and set off to rescue the others herself.

• Lai Bingxuan claimed to be the seer and accused Qiu Chengye, who was voted out despite protesting.
• Lai Bingxuan revealed herself as Shen Yeqing’s wolf teammate, and they chose to eliminate Xiao Jingxi.
• Xiao Jingxi used his witch poison to kill Shen Yeqing, leaving Lai Bingxuan to be voted out by Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong.
• The Production Team explained that the losing wolves would be chained up and need a key to be rescued before matching.
• Xie Mi picked the lock on her cage with a hair tie and ran off to become the rescuer, skipping the planned prison-break segment.

Xie Mi escaped her cage by picking its lock and raced through the maze to find Shen Yeqing, who was chained inside a cage guarded by Director Niu. She took on the challenges to rescue him, and the first synchronization question ended with both of them answering “Xie Mi.”

• Xie Mi ate all the fruit clue and picked her cage lock with a hair tie and a bobby pin, skipping the planned jailbreak procedure.
• Xie Mi navigated the maze by following footsteps, then admitted she had invented her claims about identifying the people ahead by sound.
• Xie Mi found Shen Yeqing chained inside a cage and faced Director Niu, who challenged her to rescue him and become his twenty-four-hour couple.
• Xie Mi gave three reasons for teaming up with Shen Yeqing: she did not want to pair with Xiao Jingxi, Qiu Chengye, or Yu Jinche.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing answered the first synchronization question in unison with “Xie Mi,” and Xie Mi defended her answer by saying she was the main character in her world.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing passed Director Niu’s relationship quiz by giving matching answers, then Xie Mi refused the final Rock-Paper-Scissors challenge. She freed Shen Yeqing from the cage and his chains with two bobby pins, leaving Director Niu stunned.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing answered that Apricot Blossom Street was their first date, and Shen Yeqing said their shared answer showed how connected they were.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing both named the summer of their second year of high school as when they first fell in love, and Shen Yeqing backed Xie Mi when Director Niu challenged her.
• Director Niu challenged Xie Mi to beat ten staff members at Rock-Paper-Scissors in a row to win the key to Shen Yeqing’s cage.
• Xie Mi quit the challenge and declined Director Niu’s offer of another chance through a punishment.
• Xie Mi picked the cage and chain locks with two bobby pins, then walked out with Shen Yeqing free of his restraints.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing began a 24-hour couple challenge, earning points by staying linked and completing couple tasks. They headed downtown to get started, and Shen Yeqing chose “Mimi” as Xie Mi’s nickname while she called him “Shenzi.”

• Director Niu paired Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing with a tether called the Red Thread and explained that they could earn points by staying linked and completing couple tasks.
• Xie Mi learned that Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong’s teams had an extra hour, then hurried with Shen Yeqing toward downtown to complete tasks.
• Xie Mi linked arms with Shen Yeqing in the car to fulfill a task requiring close physical contact.
• Xie Mi stopped herself from using their private nickname and agreed to call Shen Yeqing “Shenzi” after he called her “Mimi.”