Qiu Chengye

Biodata

Background / History

Qiu Chengye comes from a wealthy, influential family and is accustomed to people flattering him rather than challenging him. Although he does not work in entertainment, netizens recognize him as a notorious rich playboy who drives sports cars through the streets and dates women comparable to female celebrities 3 4.

He distinguishes between casual partners and prospective wives: he enjoys flings with gentle, attractive female celebrities but considers marrying one beneath his social standing. He welcomes his pairing with Liu Woxing because she combines the appearance and temperament he likes with a wealthy family background 5.

Personality

Qiu Chengye is chauvinistic, status-conscious, and highly confident in his own superiority. On his first date, he criticizes Xie Mi for crossing her legs and treats her refusal to comply as a challenge to his authority. His confidence collapses when she threatens to fight him; the narration explicitly describes him as someone who backs down before a fiercer opponent 3.

His pride makes public humiliation particularly difficult for him to tolerate. After discovering that hidden cameras recorded his defeat by Xie Mi, he tries to get her drunk so she will reveal embarrassing secrets of her own. He is nevertheless willing to kneel and call her “Dad” when doing so serves his immediate goal 45.

His possessive attitudes also shape his approach to romance. During an emotional-intelligence test, he prioritizes asking what a crush discussed with her ex over asking why she was going to the hospital. Director Niu gives his answer zero points 44.

Abilities & Skills

Physical Fitness and Swimming

• Claims to have worked out for years and describes himself as athletic 13 40.
• Runs fast enough to force Xiao Jingxi into an extended chase during location-sharing hide-and-seek, though Xiao eventually tackles him 18.
• Retrieves one of the winning flags in the swimming contest, with his teammates disrupting the opposing swimmers 42.
• His boasting does not guarantee coordination: he and Liu Woxing initially remain at the starting line of the three-legged race, while his competition with Xiao Jingxi costs their volleyball team a point 13 41.

Limited Martial Arts

• Knows a few fighting moves and uses a praying-mantis stance when attacking Xie Mi 4.
• Xie Mi immediately dodges and knocks him unconscious with a kick; his limited training does not make him a match for her 4.

Driving

• Is described as a good driver with extensive experience owning luxury sports cars 15.
• Avoids driving the other guests because he considers chauffeuring people beneath him 15.

Drinking

• Has spent years frequenting bars and believes he can drink Xie Mi under the table 45.
• Becomes heavily intoxicated during his attempted drinking challenge, undermining his plan to extract her secrets 45.

Cooking

• Loses the finger-folding game alongside Liu Woxing and is assigned to prepare dinner with her 9.
• Is subsequently identified as one of the cast’s poor cooks; Xie Mi uses his cooking as a comparison when admitting her own limitations 32 44.

Assets & Items

• Fifty buildings — Claims to own them during the finger-folding game 7.
• Luxury sports cars — Owns numerous cars and is publicly associated with driving them around the streets 4 15.
• Tiger mask — Selects it for the opening date to emphasize his supposedly dominant, masculine side 4.
• Bright red swim trunks — Wears them without a bathrobe at the infinity-pool date, entering with his head high and chest out 16.

Relationships

• Xie Mi — Initial masked-date partner and recurring adversary. She defeats him physically and uses knowledge of a private sexual secret to make him call her “Dad.” His attempts to recover his dignity repeatedly end in further embarrassment 3 4 7 9 45.
• Liu Woxing — Regular dating-show partner, whom he views as a suitable marriage prospect because of her family status. His pickup lines lower rather than raise her heart rate. During mushroom-induced hallucinations, she slaps him and calls him an average, overconfident man 5 15 32.
• Xiao Jingxi — Fellow contestant who shares his objections to letting the women take over during volleyball. Their scramble for the ball causes a collision; Xiao also tackles him into a lake during hide-and-seek 18 41.
• Shen Yeqing — Fellow contestant who undercuts his wealth boast and trips him when he rushes to silence Xie Mi 7.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Masked Introduction and the “Dad” Running Joke

• Opening date: Paired with Miss Salted Fish, Qiu Chengye objects to her posture and later attacks her after she calls him “Kitty.” She knocks him unconscious. Both reject continuing the date before their identities are revealed 3 4.
• Identity recognition: He initially protests Xie Mi’s inclusion in the show, then becomes obedient when her imitation of his fighting stance makes him realize she was his masked opponent 5.
• Threatened exposure: Xie Mi begins revealing that he “can’t get hard.” Shen Yeqing trips him before he can cover her mouth, and Qiu begs her to stop by calling her “Dad.” The unfinished revelation and his frantic dash become a viral clip 7 8.
• Cookie mission: Xie Mi feeds him a cookie using “Here comes the airplane,” triggering memories of being fed by his father. His unthinking compliance strengthens the online “born son” joke and helps her complete her hidden mission 9.
• Room selection: He chooses a second-floor single room rather than the remaining luxury room beside Xie Mi 11.

Dates and Mushroom Poisoning

• Wellness date: He and Liu Woxing choose wellness activities and receive spa treatments 19 21.
• Mock blind date: He flees a possessive woman who forbids clubbing, drinking, and female friends; his heart-rate watch sounds repeated alarms 27 28.
• Poisoning: After eating wild mushrooms, he hallucinates that he is an emperor and demands that everyone kneel. Liu Woxing slaps him, leaving him crying. He is the first guest to leave the hospital and is reportedly seen kicking over a trash can and cursing the television station 32 33.

Seaside Camping and Retaliation

• Camping contests: He volunteers to captain the guests, then retreats when the muscular opposing team appears. Despite disrupting the volleyball match, he helps win the swimming round and later rents camping equipment with Liu Woxing 40 41 42.
• Barbecue mishap: Xiao Jingxi’s excessive oil causes a grill fire that nearly singes Qiu Chengye’s eyebrows 44.
• Failed revenge: Having watched the show’s recordings, he challenges Xie Mi to drink in hopes of exposing her secrets. Once drunk, he threatens to remove her from the entertainment industry; she chases and beats him with a chair 45.

Aquarium Pairing

• Staged confession: A beluga supposedly identifies Qiu Chengye as Liu Woxing’s chosen love interest, encouraging viewers to celebrate their “Star Cheng” pairing. The result is prearranged: Liu has not actually named anyone to the animal 48.