Recaps

Xie Mi watched Qiu Chengye and Lai Bingxuan turn their disastrous date into a public brawl, then drew Qiu as her partner for the next round. With breakfast on the line, she set out to make his heart race while he tried to stop her from completing the task.

• Xie Mi received messages from Liu Woxing and Shen Yeqing during their dates, prompting viewers to speculate about new pairings.
• Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye argued, wrecked each other's shoes, and chased each other through the music festival until the assistant director intervened and was slapped.
• Director Niu noted that both bracelets had rung from the pair's anger and banned raising heart rates through brawling.
• The next pairings put Xie Mi with Qiu Chengye, left Lai Bingxuan out, paired Shen Yeqing with Xu Shuangrong, and matched Xiao Jingxi with Liu Woxing.
• Director Niu warned that the guests needed to make their partners' hearts race to earn breakfast, and Xie Mi smiled at Qiu Chengye as he vowed to thwart her.

Xie Mi took Qiu Chengye to a music festival, where a singer drenched him and knocked him unconscious with a stage dive. After the other pairs had their dates, Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi were paired for the final round, and he credited a forwarded lucky-koi post for making it happen.

• Xie Mi dragged Qiu Chengye to the front row of a band’s performance, where the lead singer repeatedly splashed him with water and then stage-dived onto him, knocking him unconscious.
• Xie Mi checked Qiu Chengye’s heart-rate watch as Director Niu announced that Qiu Chengye had gone into shock, and she told the PD she had only meant to get him excited at the show.
• Shen Yeqing and Xu Shuangrong played a silent game after she complained that he had ignored her, while Liu Woxing made pointed remarks during her date with Xiao Jingxi.
• Shen Yeqing sent Xie Mi a lucky-koi post, and Director Niu paired them together for the final round of dates.
• Shen Yeqing told Xie Mi that the lucky-koi post had worked, while Qiu Chengye was paired with Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi with Lai Bingxuan.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing tried to make each other's alarms go off during their festival date, but Shen rejected her plan to run laps and gave her the trinkets he had bought earlier. At the fireworks, Xie Mi tested Shen by asking whether he remembered Liu Liu, and his alarm sounded as she wondered what had triggered it.

• Xie Mi proposed that she and Shen Yeqing run laps together to raise their heart rates, but Shen rejected the idea and gave her several gifts he had bought at the night market.
• Shen draped his jacket over Xie Mi and challenged her to make his heart race if she wanted to win.
• Xie Mi refused to make a wish at the romance tree but bowed to the God of Wealth, then watched the festival fireworks with Shen.
• When the crowd jostled Xie Mi, Shen caught her hand, and she quietly asked whether he remembered Liu Liu.
• Shen's alarm rang, and afterward he told Xie Mi that she had won as she wondered whether the alarm had been triggered by attraction or by his panic.

The guests were woken before dawn for a punishing day of foraging and fishing, and Qiu Chengye mistakenly accused breakfast of being poisoned before Xie Mi could eat. At the beach, Xu Shuangrong encouraged everyone to stop complaining, but Xie Mi challenged her reasoning.

• Director Niu woke the exhausted guests at five and announced that only Xie Mi, Qiu Chengye, and Lai Bingxuan had earned breakfast.
• Shen Yeqing woke Xie Mi by whispering “breakfast,” and she rushed toward the table, hitting his chin as she stood up.
• Qiu Chengye saw Lai Bingxuan faint from low blood sugar, shouted that the food was poisoned, and flipped the table before Xie Mi kicked him.
• Director Niu told the guests they had to forage and fish for their lunch ingredients, while Xiao Jingxi protested the demanding schedule.
• At the beach, Xu Shuangrong urged the guests not to complain about the early start, and Xie Mi replied that the sudden change from an eight o’clock start to five was the problem.

Xie Mi’s blunt speech about letting workers complain went viral, while Xu Shuangrong’s attempt to appear sympathetic backfired. At the beach, the group prepared to gather seafood, and Xie Mi chose to team up with Shen Yeqing after he revealed his diving certification; Xu Shuangrong then approached Shen to ask to join them.

• Xie Mi urged exhausted workers to vent their frustration, and her speech inspired commuters to quit jobs or report people who had been taking advantage of them.
• Xu Shuangrong was condemned for moral blackmail, and Director Niu hurried the crew into the seafood-gathering activity.
• Xie Mi discovered that their instructor, Maomao, was her assistant and had taken the job for ten yuan an hour.
• Director Niu explained that the three teams would keep only the ingredients they gathered, and Shen Yeqing invited Xie Mi to partner with him.
• Xiao Jingxi tried to persuade Xie Mi to team up with him, but Shen Yeqing showed his AOW Diving Certificate and Xie Mi chose Shen instead.
• Xu Shuangrong offered to help Xiao Jingxi and then asked Shen Yeqing if she could join his team.

Shen Yeqing rebuffed Xu Shuangrong’s attempt to split him from Xie Mi, and the guests formed teams before beginning a shore-foraging challenge. Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing rushed off to forage with crab tongs, while the other teams struggled to find seafood and tempers flared.

• Xu Shuangrong invited Shen Yeqing to team up, but he called out her attempt to use him and made clear that Xie Mi was leaving him because of her actions.
• Xu Shuangrong teamed up with Xiao Jingxi, and Lai Bingxuan chose their team because she and Xu Shuangrong were old classmates.
• Maomao explained the three foraging tools, and the teams chose a shovel, salt powder, or crab tongs.
• Xie Mi grabbed the crab tongs and ran to the shore with Shen Yeqing following with a bucket, while Maomao taught the others how to forage.
• Qiu Chengye failed to find seafood and argued with Lai Bingxuan, prompting the assistant director to step in and separate them.

Xie Mi proved she had caught the team’s fish herself after Xiao Jingxi implied Maomao had helped her, then set off with the others for the diving segment. As Shen Yeqing led her deeper underwater, Director Niu was thrilled by the romantic scene.

• Xie Mi showed that she had caught the fish herself by kicking Xiao Jingxi into the shallows, where he saw the fish and crab she had been catching.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing's team had the best shore catch, while the other teams found only a starfish and two razor clams.
• Xiao Jingxi bragged that he would do better at diving and fishing, and Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing mocked him to his face.
• The guests entered the water for the diving segment, and Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye hurried ahead while Xie Mi learned from the instructor.
• Shen Yeqing took Xie Mi's hand and led her farther underwater as Director Niu filmed them.

Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi collected plenty of seafood while the others fought underwater, but Director Niu announced that the guests would spend a day and night on an uninhabited island without food. After the crew rushed away to protect their equipment during a downpour, Lai Bingxuan wondered where they had gone.

• Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi escaped with a scallop while Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye fought, and Lai Bingxuan joined the brawl with Xu Shuangrong.
• Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi returned with a net full of seafood, and Xie Mi gave Liu Woxing a large fish before kicking Qiu Chengye.
• The diving instructor broke up the fight, and Director Niu refused to provide lunch to the four guests who had caught no ingredients.
• Director Niu announced that the guests would spend a day and night on an uninhabited island and have to find their own food.
• Heavy rain hit the island, and the crew rushed off to protect the production equipment, leaving the guests under a canopy.
• After the crew failed to return for half an hour, Lai Bingxuan asked where they had gone.

After a storm made the cast believe they had been stranded on an island, Xie Mi led them to ration seafood and forage for bark and grass roots. The crew revealed the survival crisis was a prank, and Xie Mi admitted she had known the truth all along.

• The cast found both boats and the production crew missing, and Xie Mi convinced them the storm had swept the crew away.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing divided their seafood among the seven cast members, then Xie Mi led everyone into the woods to eat bark and grass roots.
• Xu Shuangrong noticed that Xie Mi was not eating, and a camouflaged cameraman appeared to reveal the hidden-camera shoot.
• Qiu Chengye took the cameraman's phone and saw the livestream viewers laughing at the cast chewing bark.
• Xie Mi explained that she had seen the forecast and knew the storm would last only two hours, while Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing admitted they had been in on the prank.
• Lai Bingxuan complained that Xie Mi had tricked her with chocolate, and Xie Mi said she had given it to her because her blood sugar was low.

After the viral South Sea City trip, the Love Watch production team tried to restore control of the dating show by introducing a new male guest. He chose Xie Mi for a private dinner, leaving her dressed up and wondering if the show’s timeline had changed.

• The production team argued over Xie Mi’s antics and vowed to get the dating show back on track.
• A new male guest joined Love Watch and told the PD he had never dated and liked an older woman on the show.
• The new guest received the privilege of inviting one female guest to dinner, and the broadcast cut off before he revealed his choice.
• The PD invited Xie Mi to a secret dinner, and she eagerly went along because she expected to get extra food.
• The production team took Xie Mi to a salon for a makeover, and she recognized the setup from the novel but wondered how the new male guest had arrived early.

Xie Mi went on a dinner date with Yu Jinche, the obsessive, grudge-holding villain who unexpectedly joined the dating show. She brushed off his eerie attempts to unsettle her and left him stunned by her appetite and confidence.

• Yu Jinche appeared as a new guest and told Xie Mi that she interested him most, revealing he had invited her because he resented her ignoring him before.
• Xie Mi explained that she had been distracted when they met, while the viewers speculated about their relationship and argued over their preferred pairings.
• Yu Jinche served Xie Mi blue-rare steak and tried to discourage her from requesting it well done, but she insisted until the waiter cooked it to her preference.
• Xie Mi ate her steak with gusto, learned the production team was paying, and asked the waiter to cook everything on the menu, leaving Yu Jinche speechless.

Xie Mi waited for Yu Jinche after dinner, but he drove off without her and later tried to unsettle her on the highway. She kicked him out at a rest stop and took the wheel, turning his own excuse back on him.

• Xie Mi introduced herself to passersby, who dismissed her as an unconvincing imitation.
• Yu Jinche drove past Xie Mi, so she took a taxi and told the driver a wild story to get him to chase the car.
• Xie Mi caught up with Yu Jinche, confronted him, and got into his car after he apologized for leaving her behind.
• Yu Jinche sped along the highway and opened the windows to wake Xie Mi, but she told him to pull over at a rest stop.
• Xie Mi kicked Yu Jinche out of the car, took the driver's seat, and repeated his excuse about not blaming her.

Xie Mi brought new guest Yu Jinche to the villa after making him sick with her reckless driving, and Yu Jinche announced that he wanted to pursue her. At the entrance, Shen Yeqing had dug a pit beneath a tree and Yu Jinche fell into it; Xie Mi and Shen left him behind to play video games, and he later met the other guests.

• Xie Mi drove Yu Jinche wildly along the country road until he was sick, but he recovered and said he could pursue her because they were on a dating show.
• Xie Mi warned Yu Jinche that she could slap him, and he said he looked forward to living with her at the villa.
• Yu Jinche fell into a pit by the villa entrance, where Shen Yeqing appeared with a shovel and claimed he had been planting a tree.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing left Yu Jinche in the pit and went inside to play video games.
• Yu Jinche climbed out and entered the villa, where Xu Shuangrong introduced him to the other guests and apologized for Xie Mi overlooking him.

Xie Mi humiliated Xiao Jingxi after he tried to persuade her to leave the show, and the villa’s guests woke to find him injured and bandaged. The next morning, Yu Jinche made breakfast for everyone, while Xie Mi sensed something was wrong.

• Xu Shuangrong tried to provoke Yu Jinche by implying he and Xie Mi had enjoyed their date, but he said he would work harder to earn Xu Shuangrong's attention.
• Xiao Jingxi brought Xie Mi a plate of ribs and urged her to leave the show and return to their old relationship.
• Xie Mi shoved a hair dryer into Xiao Jingxi's mouth, blasted him with alternating hot and cold air, and the Robot Vacuum sent him tumbling down the stairs.
• Xie Mi shouted that Xiao Jingxi had fallen, waking the villa; the guests found him unable to speak and bandaged his mouth.
• The production team said Xiao Jingxi had rehearsed until his mouth developed sores, while Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing mocked him.
• Yu Jinche made breakfast for the villa, and Xie Mi suspected something was wrong.

Yu Jinche’s unusual breakfast and a cockroach prank caused chaos at the villa, while Shen Yeqing quietly countered his tricks. Yu Jinche’s attempt to lure Shen Yeqing into a garden date instead led Xie Mi and Yu Jinche to find Xiao Jingxi trapped in a pit, with Shen watching from above.

• Yu Jinche served milk containing ants, making Qiu Chengye and the others spit out their food and drawing online attention.
• Shen Yeqing found cockroaches hidden among his novels, and Yu Jinche discovered a pile of dead cockroaches beneath his duvet; the production technician said someone had hacked the villa’s cameras.
• After waking, Yu Jinche messaged Shen Yeqing from Director Niu’s phone, telling him to go to the garden for a date with Xie Mi.
• Yu Jinche led Xie Mi to a large pit, where they found Xiao Jingxi trapped with his mouth bandaged.
• Shen Yeqing watched from the third-floor balcony and asked Yu Jinche if he was going to save Xiao Jingxi.

Yu Jinche rescued Xiao Jingxi from the pit, and their fans clashed online before the two men made peace on camera. Later, the guests began a story relay that ended with Lai Bingxuan derailing the tale.

• Xie Mi teased Yu Jinche as Xiao Jingxi struggled in the pit, and Yu Jinche offered to pull him out.
• Xiao Jingxi's fans and Yu Jinche's fans fought in both livestream chats while Xie Mi watched the drama and Shen Yeqing invited her to play a game.
• Yu Jinche calmed Xiao Jingxi by saying he was a fan of his films, and the two acted politely toward each other.
• The guests ate a seafood dinner, though Xiao Jingxi had to drink liquid food through a straw.
• Director Niu started a story relay, and Xu Shuangrong, Xiao Jingxi, and Qiu Chengye added lines about a couple visiting their parents.
• Lai Bingxuan continued the story by having the narrator flip the table, slap the others, and shout, “In your dreams!”

The guests turned a romantic storytelling game into comedy, prompting Director Niu to abandon his attempts to make the dating show work. He announced that the group would instead visit Severed Love Temple for a monastic-life special.

• Lai Bingxuan pushed Liu Woxing to continue a story, while Yu Jinche, Xie Mi, and Shen Yeqing added jokes that made Director Niu restart the game.
• Director Niu changed the prompt to “my crush and I,” but Xie Mi ended the amusement-park romance story by saying she escaped a frightened crush between his legs.
• After the guests derailed the dating-show activities, Director Niu worked overnight to prepare a new plan.
• Director Niu gathered the eight guests and announced they would travel to Severed Love Temple for a monastic-life special.
• Xie Mi interrupted Director Niu’s villainous laughter to tell him he had a leaf stuck in his teeth.

The Love Watch production team arrived at Severed Love Temple, where Master Man-Slayer imposed strict rules against interaction between men and women. After Qiu Chengye broke a rule, a monk attacked him, and the withdrawal test began.

• The production team reached Severed Love Temple, and the local resident explained why its monastics had renounced romance.
• Master Man-Slayer introduced herself and warned the guests that they had to follow the temple’s rules.
• Master Man-Slayer banned men and women from coming within five meters, making eye contact, touching, or talking for more than three exchanges.
• Qiu Chengye ignored the rules and reached for Liu Woxing, so a monk kicked him down and performed a painful attack.
• The withdrawal test began, requiring the guests to avoid interaction between male and female guests for three days and two nights.

Xie Mi stopped Lai Bingxuan from striking Xu Shuangrong, then slapped Xu Shuangrong herself, shocking everyone in the temple room. The chapter ended with Xie Mi declaring the fight satisfying.

• The guests followed the temple's rules and separated into men's and women's rooms, where Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong made up their beds while Xie Mi spread straw on hers.
• Xu Shuangrong offered to make Lai Bingxuan's bed, but Lai Bingxuan shoved her, and Liu Woxing defended Xu Shuangrong.
• Lai Bingxuan moved to strike Xu Shuangrong, but Xie Mi stopped her and said she believed Lai Bingxuan.
• Xie Mi recalled Lai Bingxuan and Xu Shuangrong's history, including how Xu Shuangrong's accusations had helped brand Lai Bingxuan a bully.
• Xie Mi lowered Lai Bingxuan's hand, slapped Xu Shuangrong, and called it a satisfying fight.

Xie Mi slapped Xu Shuangrong, then staged a dramatic reaction to Xu Shuangrong’s push to expose the double standard surrounding their earlier conflict with Lai Bingxuan. She left Xu Shuangrong without an ally as Liu Woxing defended her actions.

• Xie Mi slapped Xu Shuangrong twice and said she did not need a reason to do it.
• Xu Shuangrong pushed Xie Mi, who flew across the room and pretended to be unconscious.
• Xie Mi revealed she had faked her fall and compared Xu Shuangrong’s reaction to her earlier fall after Lai Bingxuan pushed her.
• Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan understood Xie Mi’s point as viewers argued over who had provoked the conflict.
• Xu Shuangrong sought Liu Woxing’s support, but Liu Woxing again said Xie Mi must have her reasons.

After Liu Woxing’s defense of Xie Mi sparked a wave of fan edits, Xu Shuangrong grew furious and the guests attended a chaotic meditation session at the Temple of Severed Love. Xiao Jingxi tried to pass Xie Mi a note, but Shen Yeqing intercepted it and exposed him to the abbot.

• Liu Woxing’s repeated defense of Xie Mi went viral, and viewers began shipping the two women.
• Xu Shuangrong checked the online reaction and resented Liu Woxing for growing closer to Xie Mi.
• The guests meditated while Masters Woman-Slayer and Man-Slayer chanted anti-romance slogans, then broke into a fight.
• Xiao Jingxi wrote a note for Xie Mi, but Shen Yeqing intercepted it and told the abbot that Xiao Jingxi was passing notes to a female guest.

During the temple retreat, Shen Yeqing exposed Xiao Jingxi’s secret note, and Xiao Jingxi was punished before the guests began their chores. Qiu Chengye fled rather than collect manure, leaving Xiao Jingxi to haul it alone for Xie Mi’s vegetable patch.

• Shen Yeqing told the abbot that Xiao Jingxi had passed a note to a female guest, and the abbot read aloud a cheesy message addressed to Xie Mi.
• Xiao Jingxi admitted the note was his after being questioned, and a monk kicked him out of the meditation room as punishment.
• After the guests endured a vegetarian lunch and a phone-free nap, Master Man-Slayer assigned them temple chores, including manure collection for Qiu Chengye and Xiao Jingxi.
• Qiu Chengye protested the manure assignment, defied Director Niu, and ran downhill while crew members chased him.
• Master Man-Slayer ordered Xiao Jingxi to collect the manure alone and deliver it to the vegetable patch where Xie Mi and Lai Bingxuan were working.

Xie Mi’s quick thinking and strength helped every group finish their temple chores before the deadline, while the guests endured two days of strict temple life. That night, she tried to sneak into the locked dining hall for food and defended her midnight cravings to Shen Yeqing.

• Xie Mi and Lai Bingxuan hoed the vegetable garden to avoid missing dinner, and the production crew assigned each group a distracting problem.
• Xie Mi carried an elderly woman around the temple, helping resolve the other groups’ problems before reuniting the woman with her husband.
• Every group finished their work before four, and Xiao Jingxi realized Qiu Chengye had pretended to escape to avoid carrying manure.
• The guests endured two days of vegetarian meals, meditation, labor, and early bedtimes while viewers speculated about their relationships.
• At night, Xie Mi found the dining hall locked and ran into Shen Yeqing, then claimed midnight eating showed her heroic bloodline was awakening.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing sneaked out to steal snacks, but they escaped after framing Xiao Jingxi, who was caught by the monks. After the guests left Merciless Temple and returned to the villa, the Love Watch cast was invited to appear on Stars on the Run.

• Shen Yeqing persuaded Xie Mi to continue their snack heist, and they climbed over a wall to reach a hidden stash of food.
• Xie Mi ate snacks while Shen Yeqing watched her, and she punctured the romantic moment by pointing out that fireflies lit up with their butts.
• Xiao Jingxi caught Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing sneaking back, but they fled in opposite directions after giving him chips and a lollipop, leaving him to be caught by the monks.
• The guests ended their three-day stay at Merciless Temple and returned to the villa, where they behaved peacefully for two days.
• The Love Watch cast was invited to take part in the first episode of Stars on the Run.

On the first day of Stars on the Run, Xie Mi avoided Xiao Jingxi after recalling his deadly role in the original story, then clashed with veteran host Li Yingwu when he insulted her. Xie Mi’s blunt comeback sent the show and its cast trending online.

• Xie Mi recalled that Xiao Jingxi’s team members would die in the original story and decided to stay away from him.
• Sangzan introduced himself as Xie Mi’s fan, and she amused herself by teaching him nonsensical sayings.
• Li Yingwu insulted young celebrities and seemed to target Xie Mi, prompting Shen Yeqing to mock him with a remark about the birth rate.
• Xie Mi confronted Li Yingwu and called herself first-rate while dismissing him as second-rate.
• Xie Mi’s comeback and Shen Yeqing’s remark sparked trending topics, drawing netizens to the show.