Recaps

Xie Mi tried Shen Yeqing’s elaborate turtle-shaped wheelchair while he showed her its features. Xu Shuangrong attempted to stage a conflict with Lai Bingxuan, but the wheelchair’s ping-pong-ball mechanism hit Lai Bingxuan and the spilled tea scalded Xu Shuangrong instead.

• The guests recovered from the false alarm after Xie Mi prevented them from drinking Xiao Jingxi’s tea, and Director Niu thanked her.
• Shen Yeqing arrived pushing a turtle-shaped wheelchair, and Xie Mi eagerly sat in it as he explained its controls and emergency call feature.
• Xu Shuangrong’s system urged her to seize the spotlight by provoking a conflict with Lai Bingxuan.
• Xu Shuangrong deliberately knocked over scalding flower tea as Lai Bingxuan reached for dried fruit, but a ping-pong ball shot from Xie Mi’s wheelchair and struck Lai Bingxuan.
• Lai Bingxuan pulled her hand away, and the tea spilled onto Xu Shuangrong’s hand, ruining her prepared accusation.

During the livestream tea session, Xu Shuangrong hid her scalded hand while Xie Mi and the others carried on, and Liu Woxing's restrained response unsettled her. Questions from viewers then exposed Yu Jinche's feelings for Xie Mi and left Xiao Jingxi wondering about his lingering feelings for Xu Shuangrong despite his involvement with Xie Mi.

• Xu Shuangrong hid her scalded hand, accepted Liu Woxing's handkerchief, and apologized for not speaking up, while viewers argued over whether others should have noticed.
• Liu Woxing gave a brief response when Xu Shuangrong tried to answer a question about the Star Cheng pairing on her behalf.
• Yu Jinche admitted that Xie Mi was his first love after Shen Yeqing's hot tea scalded his tongue.
• Xu Shuangrong told viewers she had never dared hope for anything beyond being colleagues with Xiao Jingxi, leaving him staring at her as he wrestled with his feelings.

During a livestream, a viewer asked Lai Bingxuan whether she had bullied classmates in high school, and Xu Shuangrong defended her while hinting that something had happened between them in the past. Xie Mi stopped Lai from flipping the table and asked Xu Shuangrong to explain what she meant.

• Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi exchanged a dramatic look as Xie Mi struggled to hide her amusement and Liu Woxing broke the moment by laughing.
• Director Niu asked Qiu Chengye about his face-changing expressions, leaving him to worry that his hidden feelings toward Xie Mi had been exposed.
• Director Niu read a viewer's question asking whether Lai Bingxuan had bullied classmates in high school, and Lai demanded to know who had spread the rumor.
• Xu Shuangrong defended Lai Bingxuan, saying she had changed and that Xu had never held the past against her.
• Lai Bingxuan tried to heave up the table, but Xie Mi held it in place and urged Xu Shuangrong to explain what had happened between them.

Xie Mi challenged Xu Shuangrong to explain the old incident involving Lai Bingxuan and pointed out that the bullying accusations lacked evidence. After Xie Mi helped Lai regain her composure, Lai confronted Xu and demanded that she tell the whole story.

• Xie Mi asked Xu Shuangrong to explain what had happened between her and Lai Bingxuan, and Xu tried to avoid discussing it.
• Lai Bingxuan lost control as she imagined the staff judging her, but Xie Mi interrupted her outburst with ping-pong balls and showed her that no one was insulting her.
• Xie Mi reassured Lai that false accusations could be challenged by calmly exposing gaps in the claims, noting that no evidence supported the bullying rumors.
• Lai realized Xu Shuangrong had exploited her anger and had more reason to fear the incident being exposed.
• Lai turned to Xu Shuangrong and demanded that she recount exactly what had happened between them.

Xu Shuangrong tried to avoid explaining her past conflict with Lai Bingxuan, while Xie Mi and Lai pressed her to answer whether Lai had bullied her. Xu Shuangrong finally denied Lai was the bully and apologized for the misunderstanding, but Xie Mi questioned why she had not clarified that sooner.

• Lai Bingxuan recounted how she had been accused of bullying Xu Shuangrong after transferring schools and demanded to know whether Xu remembered.
• Xu Shuangrong acted distressed and avoided saying whether Lai had bullied her, while Xie Mi and Lai challenged her to answer directly.
• Xu Shuangrong tried to fake a faint, but Xie Mi announced her plan aloud and Lai grabbed her arm to stop her.
• Xu Shuangrong denied that Lai had bullied her, apologized for the misunderstanding, and accused an unnamed person of using her to target Lai.
• Xie Mi asked why Xu Shuangrong had not explained the truth from the start.

Xie Mi confronted Xu Shuangrong over letting Lai Bingxuan be falsely branded a bully, exposing how Xu had avoided correcting the lie for years. Faced with public backlash, Xu finally admitted that she had let Lai take the blame out of fear and selfishness, and apologized.

• Lai Bingxuan told Xie Mi that she had transferred schools because everyone insulted her after mistaking her for a bully.
• Xie Mi challenged Xu Shuangrong's claim that she had not known about the misunderstanding and accused her of letting Lai suffer unjustly.
• Xu Shuangrong tried to explain that she had been bullied and under psychological pressure, but Xie Mi pointed out that she had repeatedly avoided clearing Lai's name.
• Viewers turned against Xu Shuangrong and flooded the livestreams with demands for an honest apology.
• Xu Shuangrong admitted that the real bullies had threatened her, so she had let Lai take the blame, and apologized for her cowardice and selfishness.

After Xu Shuangrong apologized, Lai Bingxuan broke down in tears, and Xie Mi comforted her with dried fruit. Shen Yeqing teased Xie Mi for winning Lai Bingxuan's affection, then hinted that he and Xie Mi had met before, leaving her pressing him for answers.

• Xu Shuangrong apologized, and Lai Bingxuan sobbed as years of hurt surfaced.
• Xie Mi stopped Lai Bingxuan's crying by feeding her dried fruit, and Lai Bingxuan quietly admitted it was sweet.
• Xu Shuangrong decided with her system to stay silent and rely on viewers seeing her as a bullying victim.
• Shen Yeqing handed Xie Mi a macadamia nut opener and teased her about capturing Lai Bingxuan's heart.
• Shen Yeqing told Xie Mi she had not changed, but changed the subject when she asked whether they had met before.

During a variety show Q&A, Xie Mi gave workers mischievous advice for coping with a boss who yelled at them. Shen Yeqing recalled the exact moment he first knew he was in love, and the chapter revealed he had been looking at Xie Mi’s reflection as he described her.

• Xie Mi told viewers to vent their anger at work by taking petty, harmless revenge and browsing job listings.
• Director Niu asked Shen Yeqing when he first fell in love and asked him to describe his first love in one sentence.
• Shen Yeqing recalled a hot afternoon at a dessert shop near Apricot Blossom High School during his junior year, when he first knew he was in love.
• Shen Yeqing described his beloved as a breeze he could never hold but would follow for his whole life.
• Xie Mi tried to make sense of Shen Yeqing’s words, while the viewers and crew feared his first love was someone else.
• The reflection in the glass showed that Shen Yeqing had been looking at Xie Mi as he spoke.

Xu Shuangrong used Mind Reading on Liu Woxing and discovered that Liu suspected her schemes, while Xie Mi prepared for the Garden Fair and learned that a Styling Team had arrived to dress her. The chapter left Xie Mi about to greet the stylists.

• Director Niu announced that the Resort Villa would host a Garden Fair at seven, and Xie Mi hurried back to choose an outfit.
• Xu Shuangrong warned Liu Woxing to keep her distance, then used Mind Reading to uncover Liu's suspicions about her schemes.
• Xu Shuangrong blamed Liu's suspicions on her trust in Xie Mi and decided to adjust her efforts to win Liu over.
• Xie Mi asked her livestream viewers to help choose an outfit, and President Zhang told her the company had sent a Styling Team to the production site.

Xie Mi expected a professional hair and makeup team, but found Diao Mao, who had received a two-hundred-yuan raise to style her. He transformed her with a polished look that revealed her striking beauty and impressed the onlookers.

• Xie Mi opened the door expecting a hair and makeup team, then tried to flee when she saw Diao Mao making a loud entrance.
• Diao Mao explained that President Zhang had assigned him to style her and had raised his pay by two hundred yuan.
• Xie Mi let Diao Mao choose her outfit and prepare her makeup, despite his garish clothes and the odd sack he carried.
• Diao Mao removed Xie Mi’s feathers and heavy makeup, then applied a subtle look that made her appear radiant and beautiful.
• The onlookers praised Xie Mi’s looks and declared Diao Mao a true stylist.

Xie Mi let Diao Mao give her a makeover and stunned the guests when she arrived at the garden fair. Shen Yeqing worried she had been angry with him, but her cheerful invitation to play reassured him, and he told her she looked beautiful.

• Diao Mao styled Xie Mi's hair, makeup, and outfit, and her beauty drew excited reactions in her livestream.
• Shen Yeqing recalled Xie Mi wheeling away from him earlier and wondered whether she had been angry.
• Xie Mi arrived at the garden fair in a jade-green dress, leaving the guests and Xiao Jingxi astonished by her appearance.
• Director Niu stopped the Assistant Director from photographing Xie Mi as if he were making a fancam.
• Xie Mi cheerfully invited Shen Yeqing to enjoy the fair, easing his worries, and he complimented her appearance.

At the Garden Fair, Xie Mi questioned Shen Yeqing about the person he had spent the afternoon thinking about, suspecting it was her. Their conversation fueled viewers’ speculation about Shen Yeqing’s longstanding feelings, and the pair decided to try a free love tarot reading.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing enjoyed food at the Garden Fair after their tender exchange went viral.
• Xie Mi asked Shen Yeqing what he had been thinking about in the study, and he said he had wondered whether he had said something wrong to a particular person.
• Xie Mi asked if she was that person, and Shen Yeqing said she had not known him before without denying that he had known her.
• Xie Mi concluded that Shen Yeqing had been thinking about her, while livestream viewers speculated that he had liked her for years.
• Shen Yeqing offered Xie Mi an orange segment and pointed out a love tarot tent, and she agreed to try it.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing had their tarot fortunes read at the Garden Fair, receiving cryptic predictions about love and something arriving soon. They set paper boats afloat, and Shen Yeqing’s revealed message named Teacher Xie as his first love.

• Xie Mi asked the witch whether Shen Yeqing was her destined partner, then learned she had already met the man who would give her lots of money.
• Xie Mi asked whether her destined partner was happy, and the witch said he was as the livestream showed Shen Yeqing smiling at her.
• Shen Yeqing received a cryptic prediction that what he had been waiting for would arrive soon, but he joked that it was a package of Xie Mi’s favorite matcha chocolate.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing wrote messages on paper boats and set them afloat in the square’s lake.
• Xie Mi raced off toward the ring toss stall, while the camera revealed Shen Yeqing’s boat read, “My first love is Teacher Xie.”

After Shen Yeqing confessed that Xie Mi was his first love, the internet erupted over their pairing. At the Garden Fair, Xie Mi intervened when a wedding-themed game made Liu Woxing increasingly uncomfortable, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Shen Yeqing's confession that Xie Mi was his first love sent Weibo into a frenzy and pushed their ship to the top of the rankings.
• The host led Qiu Chengye and Liu Woxing through mock wedding customs, while Qiu Chengye played along and Liu Woxing grew uncomfortable with the labels imposed on her.
• Xu Shuangrong watched Liu Woxing anxiously from the crowd as the host described a brazier ritual as cleansing a bride of bad luck and blood demons.
• When Xu Shuangrong ran toward the stage to intervene, Xie Mi charged onto it in her wheelchair and knocked the electric brazier into the night.
• Xie Mi turned toward the shocked audience, apologized, and said she had been born with a nasty temper.

Xie Mi disrupted Xu Shuangrong’s plan to humiliate Liu Woxing at the evening show, leaving Liu grateful and Xu suspicious of her system. After the Garden Fair ended, Liu decided to track down the host and confront him about the staged incident.

• Xie Mi left Shen Yeqing with their sacks of prizes and rushed to the evening show after learning Xu Shuangrong had arranged a mock wedding to break Liu Woxing’s spirit.
• Xie Mi interrupted the event, gave Liu Woxing a GG Bond plush, and hinted to the host that she knew he had taken money to alter the games.
• Liu Woxing praised Xie Mi to Qiu Chengye, while the host abandoned the interactive segment and resumed the performances.
• Xu Shuangrong suspected her system had betrayed her, and Xie Mi listened to their argument while noting that she herself was the real source of the problem.
• After the Garden Fair ended, Liu Woxing declined Qiu Chengye’s offer to escort her and went to find the host for an explanation.

Liu Woxing pursued the Garden Fair host to find out who had arranged the humiliating activity, while Xu Shuangrong stole and destroyed his phone to hide her involvement. Lai Bingxuan stood up for Liu Woxing, and the chapter ended with Xiao Jingxi confronting Xu Shuangrong.

• Xu Shuangrong followed Liu Woxing, then lured the host to the water garden’s side gate and stole his phone before Liu Woxing could question him.
• Liu Woxing confronted the host about changing the activity, and he tried to justify humiliating her by claiming women needed to marry wealthy men.
• Lai Bingxuan slapped the host repeatedly, and Liu Woxing realized the people around her, rather than wealthy families themselves, had constrained her.
• Xu Shuangrong smashed the host’s phone and threw it into a stream, but Xiao Jingxi caught her and demanded to know what she had done.

Xiao Jingxi caught Xu Shuangrong destroying Liu Woxing’s phone and ended their relationship, leaving her afraid she had lost her chance to become the Female Lead. At Shen Yeqing’s villa, Xie Mi overheard Xu Shuangrong ask her system for help changing Xiao Jingxi’s opinion, and the system revealed it had another ability.

• Xiao Jingxi confronted Xu Shuangrong about destroying Liu Woxing’s phone and condemned her as a skilled pretender.
• Xiao Jingxi left and told Xu Shuangrong he wanted nothing more to do with her, while she worried her romance arc was ruined.
• Xu Shuangrong considered how to salvage her prospects as she passed Shen Yeqing’s villa and saw him with Xie Mi.
• Xie Mi overheard Xu Shuangrong ask the system how to change Xiao Jingxi’s opinion of her.
• Xu Shuangrong guessed that the system had another ability, and it admitted that she was right.

Xu Shuangrong learned that the system could send her into the past and chose to return to Xiao Jingxi’s childhood kidnapping, planning to guide her seven-year-old self into saving him. Xie Mi followed her to the abandoned factory, where they heard someone tapping an SOS.

• The system revealed its time-travel ability and suggested Xu Shuangrong go back an hour to stop Xiao Jingxi from catching her past self.
• Xu Shuangrong rejected that plan and decided to travel back to Xiao Jingxi’s kidnapping, when she was seven, and make her younger self save him.
• Xie Mi was transported with Xu Shuangrong to the abandoned factory on the third day of Xiao Jingxi’s kidnapping.
• Xu Shuangrong followed the system’s directions through the factory while Xie Mi crept after her.
• Xie Mi heard Morse code for SOS tapping from inside a room.

Xie Mi broke into a locked room in the abandoned factory and found a captive boy who turned out to be the young Shen Yeqing. After rescuing him, she got lost while trying to escape, raided the murderer’s room for supplies, and began earning the wary boy’s trust.

• Xie Mi picked the lock on a factory room and found a wounded boy hiding inside.
• Xie Mi recognized the boy as childhood Shen Yeqing and carried him out of the room.
• Xie Mi got lost in the factory and searched the murderer’s room for supplies and a weapon.
• Little Shen Yeqing considered escaping but stayed to watch Xie Mi rummage through the room.
• Xie Mi gave Shen Yeqing water and invited him to stick with her, and he began to think she seemed like a good big sister.

Xie Mi escaped the abandoned factory with little Shen Yeqing, fed him, and returned with him to witness the murderer’s arrest and the rescue of seven children. Xu Shuangrong and the system then struggled to explain why the police had arrived before the original story’s events, and Xu learned she could not travel back to try again.

• Xie Mi carried little Shen Yeqing out of the factory and took him to town, where they bought wontons with his money.
• Xie Mi reassured Shen Yeqing by pinning back his fringe and calling him a cutie, and he decided to trust her.
• Xie Mi returned with Shen Yeqing to the factory as the murderer came back and was arrested, and police rescued seven children, including Xiao Jingxi.
• Xie Mi realized Shen Yeqing and the other children had been unnamed victims who were supposed to die in the original novel.
• Xu Shuangrong and the system wondered who had alerted the police, but the system told Xu she could not travel back to that point in time again.

Xie Mi revisited Shen Yeqing’s childhood in a dream and realized she had been the mysterious older girl he remembered from the abduction case. After waking, she searched the case and confirmed the past had changed, while Xu Shuangrong and her system continued arguing over their escape.

• The police pursued Xu Shuangrong after learning a strange woman had taken her from the village, so Xie Mi brought little Shen Yeqing to the station and stayed there overnight.
• Little Shen Yeqing woke to find Xie Mi gone, then saw her beneath an apricot tree and photographed her before she vanished; the picture showed only the empty road.
• Xie Mi woke in the present and wondered how the timid child Shen Yeqing had become the man teasing her, then searched for the abduction case from sixteen years earlier.
• Xie Mi found that all seven abducted children had been rescued and realized she had been the girl Shen Yeqing remembered, understanding the witch’s words about meeting before they had met.
• Xu Shuangrong accused her system of inventing a time-travel cooldown and leaving her to flee the police, while Xie Mi laughed at their argument.

Xu Shuangrong returned from the past after discovering the system had deliberately let her flee from the police, then argued with it outside Xie Mi’s villa. The next morning, Shen Yeqing cooked breakfast while a production crew probed him about the night he spent with Xie Mi, learning she had crawled upstairs and slid down the banister.

• Xu Shuangrong realized the system had lied about its time-travel cooldown and argued with it until it brought her back just before the police found her.
• Xu Shuangrong and the system continued bickering outside Xie Mi’s villa, keeping Xie Mi awake until she gave up and logged on to her phone.
• The production crew arrived at the villa to check the guests’ accommodations and found Shen Yeqing making squid-ink breakfast while Xie Mi slept.
• The PD asked Shen Yeqing what he and Xie Mi had done after filming, hoping to uncover romantic sparks between them.
• Shen Yeqing told the PD that Xie Mi had crawled upstairs to the study and later slid down the banister.

Xie Mi discovered her ankle had healed after Shen Yeqing’s herbal soak, while the crews checked in on the other pairs and found their relationships ranging from distant to openly strained. The production team eventually located Qiu Chengye and Lai Bingxuan sleeping in inconvenient places around the resort, after the crew apologized to the disturbed guests.

• Xie Mi mistook Shen Yeqing’s cuttlefish-ink breakfast for poisoned food, then endured its saltiness to protect his confidence and rushed with him to the free breakfast buffet.
• Xie Mi realized her ankle no longer hurt and celebrated by doing a breakdance with Shen Yeqing, alarming the nearby crew.
• Xiao Jingxi exercised in his room while Liu Woxing returned from a walk with flowers, and both said they had not interacted after filming.
• Xu Shuangrong fed a reluctant stray kitten as Yu Jinche teased her, then Yu Jinche told the crew he had avoided her to prevent accusations of bullying.
• The production crew found Qiu Chengye asleep in the hotel lobby and Lai Bingxuan on a villa poolside lounger, and apologized to the guests they had disturbed.

The guests faced a chaotic morning before gathering for a live-action Counter-Strike team battle, with lunch on the line. The random draw put Xie Mi, Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and Xiao Jingxi on the short-stick team, while Qiu Chengye celebrated drawing a short stick too.

• Qiu Chengye and Lai Bingxuan were denied breakfast and asked villa guests to buy them food.
• Director Niu announced a live-action Counter-Strike team battle, with a lavish lunch for the winners and steamed buns for the losers.
• Xiao Jingxi worried about Xie Mi's ankle, but Xie Mi warmed up enthusiastically while Lai Bingxuan and Liu Woxing eagerly inspected the weapons.
• Director Niu had the guests draw sticks to form random teams, and Xie Mi teased Shen Yeqing for learning her battle plans.
• Xie Mi, Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and Xiao Jingxi revealed that they had drawn short sticks and would be teammates.
• Qiu Chengye excitedly announced that he had drawn a short stick too, and Xie Mi told him to stop shouting because the whole world knew.

The guests began a four-on-four paintball match, and Xie Mi and Liu Woxing faced off after Liu eliminated Qiu Chengye. Liu ended the chapter laughing as Xie Mi chased and hit her with red paintballs.

• Xie Mi teased Qiu Chengye after he misunderstood her advice, then traded trash talk with Shen Yeqing before the teams started the match.
• The guests chose paintball weapons, put on blindfolds, and were taken to separate locations around the Campsite.
• Xie Mi swung through the mountain on a vine while Liu Woxing shot Qiu Chengye twice, covering his face with blue paint and knocking him out.
• Xie Mi praised Liu Woxing for eliminating Qiu Chengye, then announced she would avenge her teammate and charged at Liu with two guns.
• Liu Woxing fled, but Xie Mi hit her with red paintballs, and Liu laughed as she asked Xie to go easy on her.