Chapter Summaries

The group found themselves stranded in a deserted place, and Xie Mi drove Xiao Jingxi away by persuading everyone that he owed them compensation. Qiu Chengye offered rides in exchange for three days of help, but discovered his car was over fifty kilometers away, leaving the group without a way out.

• Xie Mi convinced the others that Xiao Jingxi should compensate them, so Xiao Jingxi left alone to protect his cash.
• Qiu Chengye offered four seats in his car to anyone willing to serve as his drivers and assistants for three days.
• Xie Mi asked where Qiu Chengye’s car was, and Qiu Chengye realized he had only brought the keys.
• Director Niu explained that Qiu Chengye’s car remained at the hotel parking lot more than fifty kilometers away.
• Qiu Chengye put Director Niu in a headlock while the others watched, and Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing joked about their shouting duet.

After being left without supplies, Xie Mi led the group to sleep beneath the overhang at a closed tourist attraction, while Qiu Chengye resisted joining them until he gave in and was mocked. As the group lay awake, thirst became their next problem, and they wondered whether the Production Team would provide water.

• Qiu Chengye argued that his ID card could be useful, but Xie Mi and the others mocked him for having no money or supplies.
• Xie Mi suggested spending the night at a nearby tourist attraction, and Shen Yeqing led the group there with Liu Woxing's flashlight.
• Xie Mi and five others settled on the marble floor beneath the ticket hall overhang, while Qiu Chengye refused to lie down and stood aside.
• After ten minutes, Qiu Chengye gave in and lay down, prompting the others to tease him for breaking his resolve.
• The seven of them struggled to sleep, and Lai Bingxuan and the others wondered whether the Production Team would give them water.

The cast grew thirsty when the Production Team refused to provide water, but Shen Yeqing shared his bottle with them in exchange for thanks or other favors. Qiu Chengye eventually humbled himself for a mouthful, then secretly considered keeping the remaining water for himself.

• Xie Mi told the thirsty cast about a plum grove, but the Production Team refused to give them water under the show's rules.
• Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan defended Xie Mi and asked the Production Team for water, but Director Niu said the cast could survive three days without it.
• Shen Yeqing offered Xie Mi water in exchange for something, and she gave him a thank-you before sharing the bottle with the others.
• Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, Yu Jinche, and Xu Shuangrong offered thanks or use of their items for a mouthful of water.
• Qiu Chengye initially refused to ask for water, but later bowed to Shen Yeqing and agreed to follow the team's instructions in exchange for a drink.
• Qiu Chengye took the bottle and began plotting to drink from it directly so he could keep the rest for himself.

After spending the night outside the scenic area, Xie Mi and the others woke up sore and hungry, with three more days of street life ahead. Xie Mi proposed a plan based on the scenic area's reward for reporting public urination or defecation, and singled out Qiu Chengye.

• Qiu Chengye tried to steal water from Shen Yeqing, but Xie Mi smacked him with a shoe while Shen Yeqing took the bottle away.
• Qiu Chengye tried to seize water from the Production Team, was subdued, and eventually went to sleep with the others outside the scenic area.
• During the night, Qiu Chengye repeatedly tried to steal water, while Xie Mi kicked and punched Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing in her sleep.
• The seven woke up sore after sleeping on the ground, and Xie Mi told Lai Bingxuan they would get used to it over the next two nights.
• When the group realized they needed food, Xie Mi pointed out the scenic area's 500 reward for reporting public offenders and turned her gaze toward Qiu Chengye.

The guests searched for ways to get food while living on the street, but the Production Team blocked a promising barter deal. Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan then gathered the courage to ask for free samples at a café.

• Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, and Yu Jinche joked about making Qiu Chengye pay to use a restroom, until the Production Team intervened and told everyone to seek food through other means.
• The seven guests split up to explore different ways of getting food in the scenic area.
• Xu Shuangrong proposed bartering, and Qiu Chengye offered his phone to a tourist in exchange for meals.
• Director Niu warned Qiu Chengye that the phone still held private information, so Qiu took it back and ended the deal.
• Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan hovered near a café's free samples before asking the employee whether they could try some without money.

After Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing set off together, the hungry contestants heard that she had eaten her fill and went to investigate. They found a crowd gathered around her, suspected she was using her fame to get food, and headed closer to learn what was happening.

• Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan left the café after sharing a little pumpkin bread and hot water, while Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing set off for a tourist attraction.
• Liu Woxing's and Xu Shuangrong's groups met while still hungry, and a staff member told them Xie Mi had eaten and drunk her fill.
• Qiu Chengye accused Xie Mi of keeping food for herself and decided to go find her, while Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan defended her.
• The groups reached a crowded scenic spot where people in line and in the audience held food and drinks, prompting Qiu Chengye to accuse Xie Mi of using her fame to get food.
• Viewers argued over whether Xie Mi had broken the rules, and the Production Team members admitted they did not know what was happening and suggested the contestants take a look.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing used a Sun Wukong disguise and a snack stall to draw a crowd at a tourist attraction, surprising the others who had joined the line to find her. They reunited after the crowd dispersed, with Xie Mi pleased by how well their scheme worked.

• Liu Woxing, Lai Bingxuan, Qiu Chengye, and Xu Shuangrong joined the queue and recognized Shen Yeqing disguised as the snack vendor.
• Qiu Chengye asked a child about Xie Mi, and the child praised her and repeated one of her catchphrases.
• The group reached the attraction’s artificial Five-Finger Mountain and discovered Xie Mi dressed as Sun Wukong, inviting visitors to feed her snacks.
• A staff member told the group that Sun Wukong would be full soon, and they left the queue as the crowd continued feeding Xie Mi.
• After the crowd dispersed, Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing emerged from the public restrooms in their regular clothes, and Xie Mi said she was full.

After Xie Mi’s monkey act earned her and Shen Yeqing fifty yuan each and a ride downtown, she offered the group loans at a steep markup. The group pooled one hundred yuan to find lunch but discovered that even bread at their luxury mall cost more than they could afford.

• Director Niu explained that the tourist attraction had supplied food for Shen Yeqing to sell, paid both him and Xie Mi fifty yuan each, and offered the group a bus downtown.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing joined the others on the bus, and Qiu Chengye shamelessly tagged along.
• At the mall, Xie Mi offered to exchange one yuan for a promise to repay five thousand yuan after the show, and the others accepted.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing agreed to exchange their money and proposed using one hundred yuan to buy lunch for the group.
• The group entered the luxury mall but found that its cheapest bread cost twenty yuan, leaving them unable to afford seven pieces.

Xie Mi led the hungry group to a cheap noodle shop, where she fed them knockoff instant noodles and teased Qiu Chengye about the food and water prices. Later, while the group took shelter from the rain in a mall, Qiu Chengye was thrown off a massage chair as Xie Mi watched.

• Xie Mi took the group to a shop selling three-yuan Kang Shuaifu noodles and charged them for the meal and Qiu Chengye’s water at inflated rates.
• Xie Mi explained that the noodles were knockoffs, and Shen Yeqing and Lai Bingxuan upset Qiu Chengye further by discussing reports about pickled greens being stomped by workers.
• The group returned to the mall to shelter from the rain, and Qiu Chengye settled into a coin-operated massage chair, intending to rest there until closing.
• The massage chair flipped over and dumped Qiu Chengye onto the floor while Xie Mi stood nearby and laughed.

After surviving their first day with almost no money, the seven guests slept on park benches. In the middle of the night, Qiu Chengye was startled by a strange man asking for water, and their frantic chase ended with two people falling into the lake.

• Xie Mi revealed that the massage chairs had thrown Qiu Chengye and Lai Bingxuan out because they had not paid.
• The group counted their remaining forty-four yuan and realized it would cover only two more meals and a bottle of water.
• The seven guests settled down to sleep on park benches, keeping warm with the belongings they had brought.
• A hoarse, staggering man approached Qiu Chengye and murmured for water.
• Qiu Chengye fled from the man, and their struggle ended with two bodies splashing into the lake.

After Xiao Jingxi was found penniless and soaked alongside Qiu Chengye, the group learned how he had been repeatedly overcharged and spent his entire thousand yuan. The next morning, with only 44 yuan left for eight people, Xie Mi prepared to teach everyone survival skills.

• Staff pulled Qiu Chengye and Xiao Jingxi out of the lake, where Qiu Chengye blamed Xiao Jingxi for frightening him.
• Xiao Jingxi explained how hotel fees, overpriced food and water, and unlicensed taxis had drained his thousand yuan in a day.
• The group scolded Xiao Jingxi for his spending, while the Production Team refused to help the two men warm up or change.
• Xiao Jingxi changed into Xie Mi's pink cosplay outfit, while Qiu Chengye wore the monkey costume again.
• At seven the next morning, Xie Mi noted that the group had only 44 yuan for eight people and offered to teach them survival skills.

Xie Mi organized the group into a street performance troupe to earn money, using paper cups for donations and a suona and gong for music. She left Qiu Chengye facing a choice between performing as a monkey or wearing Xiao Jingxi’s women’s clothes, while several others volunteered to be the monkey’s trainer.

• Xie Mi handed out cleaned paper cups and proposed that the group beg at a busy intersection, but Xu Shuangrong objected.
• Xie Mi produced a suona, and Shen Yeqing revealed that he had brought a gong so he could accompany her.
• Shen Yeqing explained that he had guessed Xie Mi would bring the suona after hearing her play it in the hotel.
• Xie Mi proposed that Qiu Chengye perform as a monkey while Lai Bingxuan and Liu Woxing held up a jacket as a hurdle.
• Shen Yeqing suggested that Qiu Chengye swap clothes with Xiao Jingxi, and Xie Mi then called for a trainer to make the monkey jump.
• Yu Jinche, Xu Shuangrong, and Xiao Jingxi all volunteered to be the trainer.

Xie Mi organized the guests into a masked street-performance troupe, which drew a crowd and earned a large haul of food by noon. Director Niu watched in disbelief as their performance succeeded despite the Production Team’s precautions.

• Xie Mi assigned Xiao Jingxi to train Qiu Chengye as a hurdle-jumping monkey, Xu Shuangrong to promote animal welfare, and Yu Jinche to attract an audience.
• Director Niu ordered the troupe to wear masks and sunglasses so passersby would not recognize them.
• Xiao Jingxi, Qiu Chengye, Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and Xu Shuangrong put on a street show that drew growing crowds.
• Yu Jinche collected food from the audience after people stopped to watch the performance.
• The troupe performed all morning and finished with a large haul, leaving Director Niu sour-faced.

The eight guests enjoyed an easy final stretch of their street-life challenge, while Director Niu worried that the relaxed filming was producing too few highlights. After the guests spent the night sleeping in a KFC, Xie Mi discovered something alarming when she opened her backpack the next morning.

• Xie Mi, Lai Bingxuan, Shen Yeqing, Qiu Chengye, and Liu Woxing teased Director Niu and suggested that the Production Team live on the streets next season.
• The eight guests spent their days browsing shops and eating food from their supplies, making their street life comfortable and uneventful.
• Director Niu and the other PDs simultaneously wiped the lenses of all eight livestream cameras, leaving viewers suspicious of a conspiracy.
• The guests slept overnight in a KFC, then woke on their final day as Liu Woxing reflected on the experiences she had gained.
• Xie Mi opened her backpack to get breakfast and suddenly froze.

Director Niu’s crew secretly stole the guests’ food, but Xie Mi accepted their demand for proof and led the group away. When Shen Yeqing stopped beside a five-star restaurant, Xie Mi and the others suddenly lunged at the camera operators.

• Director Niu’s crew carefully stole food from the four female guests while they slept, including Xie Mi, who never woke up.
• The guests discovered their food was missing, and Director Niu denied responsibility until Xie Mi spotted that the camera lenses had been wiped during the night.
• Xie Mi said they could not accuse the Production Team without proof, then led the group away with Shen Yeqing, Liu Woxing, Xu Shuangrong, and Yu Jinche following.
• The group passed a luxurious five-star restaurant, where Shen Yeqing stopped and Xie Mi suddenly lunged at the camera operators, joined by Liu Woxing, Xu Shuangrong, and Yu Jinche.

Xie Mi and the other guests disrupted the production crew and staged a chaotic fight to cover Shen Yeqing’s rule-breaking. Director Niu confronted Shen over arranging a free meal, but the guests demanded evidence as they prepared to enter the restaurant.

• Xie Mi charged Director Niu, seized two cameras, and joined the guests as they obstructed the crew’s filming.
• Shen Yeqing and the Assistant Director became involved in a scuffle with Director Niu while Xie Mi tried to break up the fight.
• The cameramen resumed filming, and Director Niu scolded the guests before the restaurant manager invited them inside for a free meal.
• Director Niu accused Shen Yeqing of arranging the meal in advance, but Shen, Xie Mi, Liu Woxing, and Yu Jinche asked him to provide evidence.

Director Niu tried to torment the guests with staged mishaps, but Xie Mi and the others turned each setback into a chance to enjoy themselves. After the crew got soaked and covered in mess, the eight guests received free bathhouse passes, leaving Director Niu and his staff outside.

• After the guests finished their lavish meal, Director Niu declared a truce and warned them to follow the rules during their remaining ten hours.
• Director Niu arranged a series of staged accidents in the plaza, and the guests dodged many of them by breakdancing.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing avoided the attacks, but a fountain suddenly drenched them both.
• When Director Niu pretended the attacks came from hostile livestream viewers, Xie Mi urged him to call the police, so he claimed the attackers were random passersby instead.
• A bathhouse manager offered the eight guests free passes, fruit, and dinner, then stopped Director Niu and the crew from entering without paying.

The guests relaxed at a luxury bathhouse until Director Niu launched a final six-hour game of mimicry hide-and-seek, with a phase-three perk for the winner. Yu Jinche became the seeker, and the guests began hiding before the imitation rules took effect.

• Xie Mi teased Director Niu about contacting businesses while the cameras were blocked, and the guests enjoyed their bathhouse stay.
• Director Niu announced a six-hour hide-and-seek game in the bathhouse, with the winner receiving a phase-three perk.
• Director Niu explained that everyone would imitate a drawing, redraw every twenty minutes, and join the hunt after being caught.
• The guests drew their imitation slips, and Xie Mi dramatically reacted to hers while the others suspected she was putting on an act.
• Yu Jinche drew the seeker role, and Director Niu gave the guests twenty minutes to hide before the game began.

The contestants began a hide-and-seek game in a recreation center, with each person required to imitate an animal while hiding or searching. Yu Jinche carefully searched the cinema and closed in on Lai Bingxuan, who tried to escape sideways while keeping her crab pose.

• The seven contestants scattered to hide while Yu Jinche waited blindfolded and wearing headphones.
• When the game began, Xie Mi convulsed in an aerial yoga sling and explained that she was imitating a goldfish flopping without water.
• Xiao Jingxi, Liu Woxing, Xu Shuangrong, Lai Bingxuan, Qiu Chengye, and Shen Yeqing began imitating their assigned animals, and Qiu Chengye finally got down on all fours like a tiger after three warnings.
• Yu Jinche started searching while imitating an ostrich, passing close to Shen Yeqing, who was camouflaged beside a plant.
• Yu Jinche searched the cinema methodically, and Lai Bingxuan tried to flee sideways while keeping her hands in peace signs.

In the second round of the imitation challenge, Lai Bingxuan and Yu Jinche drew Xiao Jingxi and Xie Mi and performed strikingly accurate impressions of them. They became pursuers and searched for the others while keeping up their imitations.

• Yu Jinche caught Lai Bingxuan by headbutting her, and she became a pursuer.
• The guests drew names for the imitation round, with Lai Bingxuan drawing Xiao Jingxi and Yu Jinche drawing Xie Mi.
• Lai Bingxuan used tissues to imitate Xiao Jingxi’s height and hair, then reenacted his dramatic confession to Xie Mi.
• Yu Jinche imitated Xie Mi’s catchphrase and chaotic running style, earning Lai Bingxuan’s praise.
• As the pursuers searched for the others, Yu Jinche sang off-key to keep up his impression, while Lai Bingxuan switched between aloofness, sweetness, and calling for Xie Mi.