Chapter Summaries

Yu Jinche and Lai Bingxuan found Xu Shuangrong, who let Lai Bingxuan capture her and join the hunters. As the hunters searched the floors and the impersonation game grew increasingly absurd, Xie Mi revealed she was impersonating shit with a foul-smelling concoction.

• Yu Jinche and Lai Bingxuan found Xu Shuangrong hiding under a table, and Xu Shuangrong deliberately let Lai Bingxuan capture her so she could join the hunters and limit Yu Jinche’s lead.
• The three hunters caught Liu Woxing in the Children’s Playground and Qiu Chengye in the Gym, then searched the third floor for Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, and Xiao Jingxi.
• Lai Bingxuan collapsed while impersonating a washing machine, and Xu Shuangrong forfeited rather than impersonate a toilet.
• Xie Mi ran past Xu Shuangrong and Qiu Chengye wearing bags of foul-smelling food mixtures, and the PD explained that she was impersonating shit.

Xie Mi evaded the pursuers on the third floor through several rounds of chaotic games before agreeing to join them after Qiu Chengye caught her. Just as the hunt resumed, a crew member reported that something had happened on the first floor.

• Xie Mi climbed the walls to escape Yu Jinche, Lai Bingxuan, and Liu Woxing, while Xu Shuangrong quietly slipped away and followed two figures.
• The group played several rounds of pursuit games, but Xie Mi kept evading capture with help from the bystanders.
• Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and Yu Jinche persuaded Xie Mi to join the pursuers, and Director Niu said three winners would split the prize equally.
• Xie Mi rammed Qiu Chengye to count as captured, then joined the pursuit and charged after the others like a bull.
• A crew member rushed from the elevator and told Director Niu that something had happened on the first floor.

After Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Xu Shuangrong were injured in the bathing area, the Production Team took them to the hospital and ended the second phase of filming at their bedside. Xie Mi suspected the incident was deliberate, and the chapter ended with Lai Bingxuan handing her a notebook.

• Medical staff carried Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Xu Shuangrong from the bathhouse after they were hurt, and Director Niu followed them to the hospital.
• A doctor said the three guests would recover after a few days of IV treatment and rest, but the Production Team could not determine what happened because there were no recordings from inside the bathing area.
• Director Niu filmed the second phase's closing segment in the hospital ward while the three guests remained unconscious.
• After the livestream ended, Liu Woxing comforted Xie Mi, who wondered how all three guests could have fallen and hit their heads at once.
• Lai Bingxuan walked over to Xie Mi and handed her a notebook.

Xiao Jingxi dreamed about how he and System L had tried to uncover Shen Yeqing’s secrets, then switched their target to Xie Mi. The memory revealed that Xiao Jingxi had followed Shen Yeqing into the bathhouse to discuss Xie Mi, though the chapter did not explain what happened next.

• Lai Bingxuan showed Liu Woxing a sketch of three people falling together in the bathroom, and Xie Mi recognized what it depicted.
• Xie Mi and Diao Mao returned with food to find the hospital room empty and learned that the injured people had transferred to another hospital.
• Xie Mi and Diao Mao ate by the roadside while she wondered why the three had transferred and how they had all been injured at once.
• Xiao Jingxi dreamed that System L had urged him to gather secrets about Shen Yeqing, then suggested targeting Xie Mi instead.
• Xiao Jingxi recalled following Shen Yeqing into the bathhouse and telling him he wanted to talk about Xie Mi.

After discovering that Shen Yeqing had awakened years earlier, Xiao Jingxi concealed the full truth from Xu Shuangrong and questioned his system about how it had missed the revelation. The story then shifted to eight years earlier, where a boy saw a high school student named Xie Mi whose face and voice resembled Sister Liu's.

• Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong pinned Shen Yeqing down while System L transmitted Shen Yeqing's memories to Xiao Jingxi.
• Xiao Jingxi discovered that Shen Yeqing had awakened long ago, and Shen Yeqing knocked him and Xu Shuangrong unconscious with a brick.
• Xiao Jingxi woke in a hospital and told Xu Shuangrong only that Xie Mi had interfered with Shen Yeqing's fate.
• After Xu Shuangrong left, Xiao Jingxi asked his system whether Shen Yeqing's memories were real and why it had not noticed his early awakening.
• Eight years earlier, a boy who missed Sister Liu saw a girl resembling her enter a bookstore and learned from the owner that her name was Xie Mi.

Shen Yeqing’s memories revealed that he had awakened to the novel’s plot long before the others and had uncovered Xiao Jingxi’s connection to the kidnapping. In the hospital, Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong discovered their systems had disappeared and wondered who could erase them.

• Shen Yeqing secretly observed Xie Mi, tested whether she was Sister Liu, and eventually accepted that she was not.
• Shen Yeqing watched Xie Mi fall for Xiao Jingxi and recognized him as someone connected to the kidnapping and the abandoned factory.
• Shen Yeqing learned he was a character in a novel and that Xiao Jingxi was the Male Lead while Xie Mi was destined to die.
• System S introduced itself to Shen Yeqing as a system that existed to maintain the book’s plot.
• In the hospital, Xiao Jingxi realized Shen Yeqing had awakened first and could hear the others’ system conversations, then tried to summon his own silent system.
• Xu Shuangrong arrived and told Xiao Jingxi that her system had also disappeared.

Xu Shuangrong traced the missing systems to the hospital Shen Yeqing’s assistant had arranged, where a disturbing poster revealed Shen’s apparent control over events. Seven years earlier, Shen learned that his survival had disrupted the protagonists’ story and resolved to resist the system’s demand that he disappear.

• Xu Shuangrong confronted Xiao Jingxi about what he had seen, but he concealed the truth, and they ended their partnership.
• Xu Shuangrong learned that Shen Yeqing’s assistant had arranged their transfer to 3S Hospital and realized the hospital was connected to the systems’ disappearance.
• Xu Shuangrong found a sinister poster portraying Shen Yeqing as an organ-transplant surgeon, and Xiao Jingxi fainted when he saw it.
• Seven years earlier, System S told seventeen-year-old Shen Yeqing that his survival had disrupted the protagonists’ plot and ordered him to disappear.
• Shen Yeqing pretended to comply with System S but decided to resist because someone was waiting for him in the future.

Shen Yeqing endured years of System S’s attempts to keep him away from the story’s key characters, then secretly developed technology to destroy it while holding on to the hope of seeing Liu Liu again. At 3S Hospital, Xie Mi arrived to find Xiao Jingxi collapsed before Xu Shuangrong and a poster naming Shen Yeqing as a living-donor organ transplant specialist.

• System S punished Shen Yeqing with electric shocks whenever he approached Xie Mi or Xiao Jingxi, and after a year he gave up and went overseas to study.
• Shen Yeqing secretly developed technology capable of destroying System S and finally heard it scream and beg for mercy.
• Shen Yeqing recalled seeing a novel’s words change to show supporting characters resisting a protagonist, and he continued programming a game while planning to reunite with Liu Liu.
• Xie Mi and Diao Mao visited 3S Hospital, where Xie Mi stayed overnight and sent Diao Mao home.
• Xie Mi stepped out of the elevator and found Xiao Jingxi sprawled on the floor before Xu Shuangrong, beside a poster listing Shen Yeqing as an attending physician specializing in living-donor organ transplants.

Xie Mi discovered Shen Yeqing had knocked out Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi, then trusted his claim that he had done it to get even for her. She joined him in planning more revenge, leaving the two of them running through the hospital corridor.

• Xie Mi mistook Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi's hospital gowns and a transplant poster for evidence that they had been kidnapped for organ harvesting, then chased Xu Shuangrong with metal skewers.
• Xu Shuangrong collapsed unconscious while fleeing Xie Mi, and Xiao Jingxi fainted after seeing the skewers and Xu Shuangrong on the floor.
• A nurse led Xie Mi to Shen Yeqing's room, where she exposed his fake injury by ripping off his clean forehead gauze.
• Shen Yeqing admitted that he had knocked out Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi, and Xie Mi accepted his explanation that he had done it to get even for her.
• Xie Mi pulled Shen Yeqing from bed and set off to find Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi, asking him for a marker that would be difficult to wash off.

Xie Mi discovered that Li Meiyan and Xie Lian were acting warm and affectionate toward her to impress Xie Zhengde, after their behavior helped create a rift between her and her father. The chapter ended with Xie Mi smiling as she questioned their claims, ready to expose their deception.

• Reporters photographed Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi leaving 3S Hospital with black moles arranged to form the Big Dipper, and the internet mocked them as a couple.
• Xie Mi laughed at the online reaction during her ride home after promoting mosquito repellent in a mosquito costume.
• Xie Mi returned to the villa and found Li Meiyan and Xie Lian unusually welcoming while Xie Zhengde was present.
• At lunch, Li Meiyan served Xie Mi food and Xie Lian praised her show and asked for an autograph, both checking Xie Zhengde's reactions.
• Xie Mi realized they were performing for Xie Zhengde and questioned whether Li Meiyan had cooked the meal and whether Xie Lian's classmates really liked her.

Xie Mi exposed Li Meiyan’s fake cooking and forced Xie Zhengde to confront how she had deceived him. She then turned to Xie Lian and revealed that Old Bai had brought his computer, threatening to expose his alternate WeChat account.

• Xie Mi used Old Bai to bring back Li Meiyan’s discarded ready-made meal packets and showed them to Xie Zhengde.
• When Li Meiyan tried to stop Old Bai, Xie Mi forced a raw green bean into Xie Lian’s mouth, distracting her as the packets fell onto Xie Zhengde.
• Xie Zhengde realized Li Meiyan had been serving him preserved ready-made food and demanded that she cook broccoli in shrimp oil.
• Xie Lian tried to defend Li Meiyan, but Xie Mi had Old Bai bring over his computer and pointed out that his alternate WeChat chat history could be synced.

Xie Mi exposed Xie Lian’s secret WeChat messages about plotting against her, forcing Xie Zhengde to confront his son and Li Meiyan. Over a meal, Xie Mi told Xie Zhengde that his neglect and misplaced trust had led him to dismiss her complaints, leaving him faced with his past failure as a father.

• Xie Mi revealed Xie Lian’s WeChat messages describing his plans to torment her and his follower’s harassment of her online.
• Li Meiyan dismissed the messages as a childish prank, but Xie Zhengde ordered Old Bai to have the technicians recover the full chat history.
• Xie Zhengde invited Xie Mi to eat with him, and she chose a busy restaurant where she could get more value from his money.
• Xie Zhengde asked why Xie Mi had rejected the restaurant he remembered her loving as a child, and she explained that her tastes had changed.
• Xie Mi told Xie Zhengde that he had trusted Li Meiyan’s false account of her and dismissed her complaints instead of believing her.

Xie Mi refused to forgive Xie Zhengde, accepted his money, and punished Li Meiyan and Xie Lian while ordering changes to their rooms. During an autumn outing, the pair tried to win her favor so she would ask Xie Zhengde to unfreeze their bank cards.

• Xie Zhengde left for the airport after sending Xie Mi a message and transferring her a huge sum of money.
• Xie Mi slapped Xie Lian once and Li Meiyan twice, while Xie Zhengde stripped them of household authority and froze their bank cards.
• Xie Mi gave Old Bai instructions to renovate her childhood room and the rooms belonging to Xie Lian and Li Meiyan.
• Li Meiyan and Xie Lian arranged an autumn outing and waited on Xie Mi, who made them stand while she and Old Bai watched a movie.
• Li Meiyan asked Xie Mi to get her bank card unfrozen while blaming Xie Lian, and Xie Lian countered by accusing Li Meiyan of serving expired food.

Xie Mi saw through Li Meiyan and Xie Lian’s scheme to win back access to their bank cards and made them serve her instead. When Shen Yeqing joined her, she tried to hide her interest in shirtless movie leads from him, but Xie Lian’s movie collection made the ruse difficult to sustain.

• Li Meiyan and Xie Lian pretended to quarrel so Xie Mi would unfreeze one of their bank cards, but Xie Mi called them both untrustworthy and ended their act.
• Li Meiyan poured tea and Xie Lian shelled nuts for Xie Mi as she watched movies in the Three Flavors Study.
• Shen Yeqing sat beside Xie Mi and teased her about enjoying the movie, prompting her to praise its cinematography instead.
• Xie Lian presented Xie Mi with a collection of movies featuring muscular male leads, and she claimed she was studying them as a future director.
• Shen Yeqing pointed out that Xie Mi had noticed everything except the male lead, and she feigned surprise when he appeared on screen.

Xie Mi tried to reassure Shen Yeqing that she only looked at him, but he revealed that he had been jealous of her closeness with You Hongxuan eight years earlier. He already knew she had asked You Hongxuan to remain Shen Yeqing’s friend, yet wanted to hear her admit she had worried about him.

• Xie Mi hurried to turn off the movie and pulled Shen Yeqing aside to reassure him that she only looked at him.
• Shen Yeqing brought up Xie Mi’s old admiration for You Hongxuan, her conversations with him, and the ideal type she had once described.
• Xie Mi remembered asking You Hongxuan to stay friends with Shen Yeqing if she later left, and You Hongxuan had promised to remain his friend for life.
• Xie Mi realized Shen Yeqing’s old jealousy had made him sulk alone in the backyard, then joked that You Hongxuan might have liked her too.
• Shen Yeqing told Xie Mi that You Hongxuan had already told him what she said, but asked her to say herself that she had worried about him.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing tried to resume their heartfelt conversation, but You Hongxuan’s video call interrupted them. Xie Mi reunited with You Hongxuan and caught up with him, ending the call stunned by his blunt question about her age.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing pretended to fight when Li Meiyan and Xie Lian caught them together, then Xie Mi told Shen Yeqing she wanted both him and the money she would lose to the penalty.
• Shen Yeqing repeatedly rejected a persistent call until Xie Mi recognized the caller as You Hongxuan and stopped him from rejecting it again.
• You Hongxuan answered the video call with an excited shout of “Eighth Sister,” and Xie Mi greeted him by shouting back.
• Xie Mi and You Hongxuan caught up after he explained he had just finished a closed training camp and recognized her from Shen Yeqing’s show.
• You Hongxuan asked Xie Mi whether she was thirty, leaving her speechless.

Xie Mi confessed her feelings to Shen Yeqing in a maple grove, and he asked if he could kiss her. Just as they leaned toward each other, two people began spying on them from behind a tree.

• Xie Mi told You Hongxuan she had been fifteen when they first met, and he was shocked that she had been younger than him.
• You Hongxuan revealed that Shen Yeqing had insisted he call Xie Mi “Eighth Sister” after she left, and said he had missed her and looked up to her.
• After ending the call, Xie Mi told Shen Yeqing she had encouraged You Hongxuan to keep him company because she worried he would be lonely.
• Xie Mi confessed that she liked Shen Yeqing, and he said he had waited for her to come back as they reunited in the maple grove.
• Shen Yeqing asked Xie Mi if he could kiss her, and they leaned toward each other before unseen onlookers whispered from behind a tree.

After Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing shared a kiss, Xie Mi punished Li Meiyan and Xie Lian by making their rooms frightening and restricting their privileges. Li Meiyan and Xie Lian tried to scare Xie Mi with overnight knocking, but they were the ones left exhausted by morning.

• Xie Mi shooed away Li Meiyan and Xie Lian, then kissed Shen Yeqing and teased him about watching him work out in gray sweatpants.
• Li Meiyan and Xie Lian returned to find their rooms transformed into frightening spaces, while Old Bai enforced Xie Mi’s rules keeping them there.
• Li Meiyan and Xie Lian held an emergency meeting and decided to torment Xie Mi with eerie knocking at her door.
• Xie Mi ignored the knocking and fell asleep while Li Meiyan and Xie Lian continued their plan through the night.
• At six in the morning, Xie Lian collapsed from exhaustion as Li Meiyan kept knocking, and he complained that they were the ones being tormented.

Xie Mi went to the gym to spend time with Shen Yeqing, where her strength and shameless flirting amused him. Their workout was interrupted by You Hongxuan’s arrival, and he recognized Shen Yeqing’s old habit of covertly competing for Xie Mi’s attention.

• Xie Mi woke refreshed while Li Meiyan and Xie Lian complained that their attempts to wake her had failed, and Li Meiyan told her son never to admit defeat.
• Xie Mi met Shen Yeqing at the residents-only gym and stunned him by lifting a forty-kilogram barbell.
• Xie Mi watched Shen Yeqing exercise and teased him about taking off his shirt.
• You Hongxuan arrived at the gym, recognized Xie Mi as Sis Eight, and hurried over to greet her.
• Shen Yeqing stopped Xie Mi and You Hongxuan from getting close, then asked Xie Mi if he had not worked out enough for her.
• You Hongxuan realized Shen Yeqing had long played innocent to compete for Xie Mi’s affection.

Xie Mi reunited with Shen Yeqing and You Hongxuan at the gym, where their playful workout left Shen Yeqing jealous when You Hongxuan joined in. Afterward, You Hongxuan explained he had trusted Shen Yeqing that Xie Mi would return, and the trio celebrated their reunion before Shen Yeqing insisted You Hongxuan call her Teacher Xie.

• You Hongxuan arrived at the gym to find Shen Yeqing, and Xie Mi watched the two men work out while admiring their physiques.
• Xie Mi asked Shen Yeqing to bring her along to future workouts, and You Hongxuan joined their clasped hands to propose that all three go together, reviving Shen Yeqing's jealousy.
• As they left the gym, You Hongxuan told Xie Mi that Shen Yeqing had explained her departure and promised she would return.
• You Hongxuan tried to call Xie Mi Little Mi, but Shen Yeqing pulled him away and insisted he address her as Teacher Xie.
• You Hongxuan remembered Xie Mi beating up a hater in the show's first episode and stopped arguing, while Shen Yeqing praised him for using the title.