Chapter Summaries

Xie Mi’s off-key song made Lai Bingxuan think she was summoning spirits, while Shen Yeqing kept reaching Yu Jinche over the walkie-talkie. As the guests searched the caves for treasure, Xie Mi realized Yu Jinche had deliberately separated them from their cameraman and asked what he wanted to say in private.

• Xie Mi sang into the walkie-talkie, and Lai Bingxuan mistook her voice for a spirit-summoning song until Shen Yeqing explained she had been singing a normal song.
• Yu Jinche changed channels to cut off Shen Yeqing, but Shen Yeqing kept reaching them; Yu Jinche then dropped his walkie-talkie into a cavern, and Xie Mi revealed she had her own.
• The teams explored the dark underground caves, and Shen Yeqing reported finding an empty, palm-sized treasure chest with a pale green glow.
• Xie Mi crawled ahead while Yu Jinche and the cameraman fell behind, and Yu Jinche claimed the cameraman had become separated from them.
• Xie Mi accused Yu Jinche of arranging to be alone with her and asked what he wanted to tell her off camera.

Yu Jinche confronted Xie Mi about Xu Shuangrong’s strange behavior and suspected both women shared a secret about him. Xie Mi invented a story about them being readers trapped in his novel, then blamed Xie Lian for what she seemed to know, leaving Yu Jinche confused and no closer to the truth.

• Yu Jinche told Xie Mi that Xu Shuangrong showed him a side of herself that contradicted her public image and suspected she knew him unusually well.
• Yu Jinche said Xu Shuangrong and Xie Mi seemed to share an omniscient perspective and asked whether they had the same secret.
• Xie Mi claimed she and Xu Shuangrong had been readers who entered the novel Run, Yu Jinche, and said she avoided him because she had been his anti-fan.
• Yu Jinche rejected the story as a lie but said Xie Mi had predicted his pranks and knew him too well.
• Xie Mi blamed Xie Lian for telling her about Yu Jinche and insisted she knew nothing about Xu Shuangrong.
• Yu Jinche grew bewildered, while Xie Mi resolved not to let him discover the truth through her.

Xie Mi reunited with Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong while stranded underground, then toyed with Xiao Jingxi until his awakening system glitched out. As Xu Shuangrong tried to test whether Xie Mi could hear her thoughts, Yu Jinche turned the tables by questioning Xu Shuangrong about “Run, Yu Jinche.”

• Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong emerged from the darkness and joined Xie Mi and Yu Jinche, explaining that they had fallen into the opening and become separated from their cameraman.
• Xiao Jingxi apologized to Xie Mi for his failings in their relationship and asked her to give him another chance.
• Xie Mi alternated between praising and insulting Xiao Jingxi, repeatedly shifting his awakening progress until his system glitched and went silent.
• Yu Jinche asked whether Xie Mi and Xiao Jingxi were doing a comedy routine, while Xiao Jingxi stayed silent because he believed he had bad breath and food stuck in his teeth.
• Xu Shuangrong repeatedly tried to make Xie Mi answer her thoughts, but Yu Jinche began testing Xu Shuangrong by asking if she had heard of “Run, Yu Jinche.”

Xie Mi and the others fell into a deeper cavern while scheming against one another, then she frightened them by pretending to be possessed. Shen Yeqing arrived at the opening and teased Xie Mi, leaving the group awaiting rescue.

• Xu Shuangrong tested whether Xie Mi reacted to her spoken words or thoughts, then followed her into a nearby cavern.
• Xu Shuangrong tripped Xie Mi and pretended to rescue her, but Yu Jinche shoved them both into a deeper cavern.
• Xiao Jingxi slipped while checking on them and dragged Yu Jinche down with him, leaving all four trapped below a steep opening.
• Xie Mi suggested they stay quiet until rescuers arrived, but Xiao Jingxi confessed that she had fallen for her, prompting Xie Mi to pretend to be possessed and scare the group.
• Shen Yeqing appeared above the opening and joked that he would have run slower if he had known they were having fun.

After Shen Yeqing rescued Xie Mi and the other trapped guests, the Tough Guy Team won the cave round, and Qiu Chengye argued with his teammates about the loss. The guests then faced a mud pit relay that would decide whether their cruise ship headed to a deserted island, and Xiao Jingxi asked to lead their team.

• Shen Yeqing found Xie Mi in the cave, and she climbed out with his help before he rescued the remaining guests.
• The Tough Guy Team found the Production Team’s treasure chest on the cave’s third underground level and won the round.
• Qiu Chengye criticized Yu Jinche’s captaincy, but Liu Woxing pointed out that Qiu had made little contribution himself.
• Director Niu announced a mud pit relay in which all eight members of each team had to run across the pit and back.
• Director Niu warned that if the guests lost, the cruise ship’s next destination would be the Deserted Island.
• Xiao Jingxi said the guests still had to try to win and asked to be captain for the final round.

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.