Recaps

After transmigrating into the novel as Xiao Jingxi’s girlfriend, Xie Mi retaliated against his cruelty and began publicly provoking him and his fans. She ended the chapter by breaking up with Xiao Jingxi and blocking him.

• Xie Mi slapped and kicked Xiao Jingxi, then reported him for making excessive noise, and hospital security carried him away.
• Xie Mi reviewed the plot and realized that Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong were due to appear together on a dating show.
• Xie Mi posted that she was looking for a man to play with, then fought with commenters and insulted shipper fans during a livestream.
• Xu Shuangrong posted that she was tired, and Xie Mi told her to piss off; Xiao Jingxi reiterated that he and Xie Mi were not close, and she told him to piss off too.
• After declining Xiao Jingxi’s seventh call, Xie Mi texted him that they were breaking up and blocked him.

After breaking up with Xiao Jingxi, Xie Mi joined a dating show to pursue You Hongxuan, the six-foot-one sports student with eight-pack abs she remembered from the novel. The guests’ first dates were assigned, but Xie Mi was surprised to find herself at a seaside restaurant instead of the garden restaurant where she expected to meet You Hongxuan.

• Xie Mi photographed Xiao Jingxi outside her apartment and posted the picture on Weibo, then ran off as he threatened her.
• Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong were announced as guests on Human Love Observation Room, prompting shippers and netizens to speculate about the show.
• Xie Mi joined the show wearing a salted fish mask and filled out an ideal-partner questionnaire describing a six-foot-one sports student with eight-pack abs.
• The show assigned the guests their first dates, and Xie Mi headed to a seaside restaurant, puzzled because she had expected to be paired with You Hongxuan at a garden restaurant.

The first-round dates paired Xie Mi with chauvinistic Mr. Tiger, while Mr. Panda left Xu Shuangrong bewildered and Mr. Fox and Miss Peacock got along. During a hidden-camera test, Xie Mi effortlessly caught a falling server and teased Mr. Tiger, who lost his temper.

• The first-round pairings placed Mr. Panda with Miss Rabbit, Mr. Fox with Miss Peacock, and Mr. Tiger with Miss Salted Fish.
• Mr. Panda told Miss Rabbit that she was not his type, then repeatedly failed to hear her attempts at conversation.
• Xie Mi defied Mr. Tiger's complaints about her posture, and he backed down when she challenged him to fight.
• The director paused the apparent filming for equipment trouble, but the livestream continued as the crew secretly staged a test.
• When a server pretended to spill red wine, Xie Mi caught him and the glass, then called him a silly girl.
• Mr. Tiger complained that Xie Mi acted more manly than a man, and Xie Mi called him kitty and told him not to feel inferior because she could out-man him.

Xie Mi beat Qiu Chengye during the dating show’s staged encounter, and the guests later rejected their assigned partners before revealing their identities. Xie Mi removed her mask and announced herself to the stunned livestream audience.

• Qiu Chengye charged at Xie Mi, but she dodged and kicked him down before the crew intervened.
• The guests chose whether to continue dating their assigned partners, and all six chose no.
• Liu Woxing and Xiao Jingxi revealed their identities, while Xu Shuangrong revealed she was Miss Rabbit.
• The remaining guests revealed that Mr. Tiger was Qiu Chengye, prompting viewers to worry about Miss Salted Fish.
• Xie Mi removed her mask, surprised the livestream audience, and declared, "Your daddy's here."

Xie Mi crashed into the dating show's opening, knocking the guests down and trading barbs with Xiao Jingxi. She set off to find her intended male guest, but hit a man in a panda mask, who asked to be revived.

• Xie Mi charged into the parking lot and sent Xu Shuangrong, Qiu Chengye, Liu Woxing, and Xiao Jingxi tumbling.
• Qiu Chengye recognized Xie Mi and nervously told her to call him Mimi.
• Xiao Jingxi wished Xie Mi luck finding romance, and she teased him for acting overly familiar.
• Xie Mi said she was going to find her heartbeat male guest and drove off.
• Xie Mi's car struck a man wearing a panda mask, who raised his hand and said, “Press 1 to revive me.”

Xie Mi discovered that the masked Mr. Panda was the handsome philanthropist Shen Yeqing, then paired with him for the trip to the villa. Their chaotic flirting and bickering continued during the first group game, leaving Xiao Jingxi visibly jealous.

• Shen Yeqing revealed his face after Xie Mi threatened to run him over, and Liu Woxing recognized him as the mysterious philanthropist.
• Shen Yeqing asked Xie Mi to pay compensation, so she knocked him unconscious by slamming on the car’s accelerator and brakes.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing were paired together and arrived at the villa with the other guests.
• During the icebreaker, Shen Yeqing joked about scamming people, and Xie Mi grabbed his collar after he misread her remark about them going at it.
• Xiao Jingxi slammed his glass down and urged everyone to start the game, though Director Niu had not given any cue.

Xie Mi turned a finger-folding game into a chance to reveal embarrassing gossip about the crew and guests. When she nearly exposed Qiu Chengye, Shen Yeqing stopped him, and Qiu Chengye begged Xie Mi to keep quiet by calling her Dad.

• Qiu Chengye claimed he owned fifty buildings, and Xie Mi kept her fingers raised by declaring that her buildings in Mole's World counted.
• Liu Woxing proposed that anyone who kept a finger raised share three unknown pieces of gossip about people they all knew, and Xie Mi accepted.
• Xie Mi revealed embarrassing stories about Director Niu and the assistant director, sending crew members after her while Shen Yeqing laughed.
• Xie Mi began to reveal gossip about Qiu Chengye, but he rushed toward her at extraordinary speed.
• Shen Yeqing tripped Qiu Chengye, who begged Xie Mi not to finish the story and called her Dad; Xie Mi happily called him her son.

During the dating-show icebreaker, Xie Mi repeatedly confused the cast and viewers while Xiao Jingxi mistook her answers for signs of interest in him. She began recounting how she fought off the person who stabbed her, but Director Niu’s attempt to cut the camera failed to stop her from finishing the story.

• A trending video showed Xie Mi spilling secrets, two directors chasing her, and Qiu Chengye crawling after her while crying out “Dad!”
• Xu Shuangrong said she liked someone present, and Xiao Jingxi watched her as the cast and viewers celebrated their apparent romance.
• Xie Mi folded a finger during Xu Shuangrong’s declaration, then clarified that she had come for You Hongxuan, who was absent.
• Xiao Jingxi said he had joined the show for one person, while Shen Yeqing revealed that he had staged an accident to scam Xie Mi.
• Xie Mi began describing the stabbing incident, and Director Niu turned off one camera before she finished by saying she had shoved an automatic umbrella into the attacker’s butthole and opened it.

After her livestream was banned for revealing that she had stabbed an obsessive fan, Xie Mi received a secret mission to feed cookies to three male guests before nine. She fed Qiu Chengye first and headed to the study to approach Shen Yeqing, while Xiao Jingxi spotted them and rushed inside.

• The livestream resumed to rising viewership, and Director Niu ended the game and sent Qiu Chengye and Liu Woxing to buy groceries.
• The assistant director called Xie Mi down from the villa roof and accidentally announced her secret mission to the livestream audience.
• Xie Mi accepted the mission to feed cookies to three male guests without revealing it and chose Shen Yeqing as her next target.
• When Qiu Chengye returned, Xie Mi fed him a bite, completing the first part of her mission and prompting the hashtag #XieMiBecomesADad to trend.
• Xie Mi carried cookies to the second-floor study to approach Shen Yeqing, and Xiao Jingxi spotted them together and suggested that he and Xu Shuangrong go rest in the study.

Xie Mi completed her hidden mission by feeding cookies to three male guests, while Shen Yeqing played along and defended her from Xiao Jingxi. Xu Shuangrong guessed Xie Mi’s task and took first place, but Xie Mi began to guess in return.

• Xiao Jingxi entered the study and confronted Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing, who were making a scene over cookies.
• Shen Yeqing cut off Xiao Jingxi’s passive-aggressive remarks in defense of Xie Mi, and Xiao Jingxi left with Xu Shuangrong.
• Shen Yeqing let Xie Mi feed him a cookie, completing her mission to feed three male guests.
• Director Niu announced the hidden-mission results, and Xu Shuangrong guessed Xie Mi’s task to take first place and push Xie Mi to last.
• Xie Mi calmly announced that she would begin guessing other guests’ tasks.

Xie Mi correctly guessed every guest’s hidden task, won first choice of rooms, and became Shen Yeqing’s neighbor. The next day, veteran actor Ruan Feng accused her of ignoring him, and Xie Mi replied that she had even held him when he was little.

• Xie Mi guessed Xu Shuangrong’s task, then correctly named the tasks assigned to Qiu Chengye, Liu Woxing, Xiao Jingxi, and Shen Yeqing, winning first place.
• Xie Mi chose a luxury room, and Shen Yeqing took the other luxury room and greeted her as his new neighbor.
• Xie Mi blocked an unknown texter who accused her of trying to make Xiao Jingxi jealous by interacting with Shen Yeqing.
• Xiao Jingxi appeared tired the next morning, while Xu Shuangrong’s concern for him fueled their shippers’ excitement.
• Ruan Feng arrived at the villa and criticized Xie Mi for not greeting him, so Xie Mi said she had held him when he was little.

Xie Mi confronted Ruan Feng after he demanded an apology and threatened to quit the show, exposing his alleged past harassment and intimidation. When Ruan Feng smashed her phone to stop her from playing evidence, the room and viewers began to suspect her accusations were true.

• Ruan Feng demanded that Xie Mi apologize and threatened to stop filming, while Xu Shuangrong and Director Niu urged her to relent.
• Xie Mi turned their argument against Ruan Feng, pointing out that he was refusing to do his paid job and holding up the crew.
• Xie Mi stepped on Ruan Feng's trousers, then accused him of previously pressuring her to meet privately, retaliating against her, and harassing a young actress.
• Ruan Feng called Xie Mi's claims slander and threatened legal action, but she said she had recorded evidence on her phone.
• Ruan Feng smashed Xie Mi's phone, prompting the room and live chat to question his guilt and reconsider their views of Xie Mi.

As Xie Mi’s reputation recovered, Xiao Rong CP fans revived accusations that she was a homewrecker, and the dating show paired her with Xiao Jingxi for a three-legged race. Xiao Jingxi tried to make her fall into him, but Xie Mi caught on and prepared to return the trick.

• Online commenters praised Xie Mi for exposing Ruan Feng, while Xiao Rong CP fans pushed the trending tag #Xie Mi, a homewrecker# to attack her.
• Director Niu announced a three-legged race and paired Xie Mi with Xiao Jingxi instead of pairing Xiao Jingxi with Xu Shuangrong.
• Xiao Jingxi handed Xie Mi the strap, and when she refused to tie it, he crouched down and tied their legs together himself.
• Shen Yeqing watched Xie Mi and silently mouthed an offer to help, but she smiled and looked away.
• At the start of the race, Xiao Jingxi moved his left foot with Xie Mi, causing her to fall; she punched him in the back to steady herself and called out his scheme.
• Xiao Jingxi tried the same trick again, but Xie Mi moved her right foot instead and realized he was still trying to make her fall.

Xie Mi won the three-legged race by dragging Xiao Jingxi across the finish line, overturning the rumors that she was pursuing him. Later, heart rate monitors stirred new speculation when Shen Yeqing said he was very interested in her.

• Xie Mi charged across the race course on all fours, dragging Xiao Jingxi behind her and winning first place while he was badly injured.
• Netizens revisited the evidence and realized the rumors linking Xie Mi to Xiao Jingxi had been based on speculation.
• Xu Shuangrong and Shen Yeqing both sprained their ankles during the race, so the production team paused filming for half a day.
• Director Niu introduced heart rate monitors that rang when a guest's pulse exceeded 120, and Xiao Jingxi's heart rate was already above 100.
• Xie Mi's heart rate stayed at 65 while Shen Yeqing's rose as he watched her, and he told her he was very interested in her.

Xie Mi accepted a secret mission to make someone’s bell ring, then drove the guests to their date while their attempts at flirting failed. She finally sent everyone’s heart rates soaring by speeding up and pretending to be suicidal, leaving Shen Yeqing calm amid the ringing bells.

• Shen Yeqing told Xie Mi he was interested in her in every way, prompting fans to create a new ship community.
• The assistant director gave Xie Mi a secret mission to make one person’s bell ring, and she agreed.
• Xie Mi took the wheel for the group’s special date, with Shen Yeqing choosing to ride in the front passenger seat.
• Qiu Chengye tried cheesy pickup lines on Liu Woxing, while Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong attempted romantic gestures without reaching the bell-ringing threshold.
• Xie Mi accelerated and sighed that she was sorry for being born, frightening the passengers until their bells rang repeatedly; Shen Yeqing calmly closed his eyes and said, “Amen.”

After Xie Mi completed a frightening vehicle mission and earned a Privilege Card, the guests gathered for a romantic pool date. Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing both wore full-body wetsuits and turned the event into a swimming race, leaving the production team soaked and frustrated.

• Xie Mi returned safely with the other guests, earned a Privilege Card, and learned that Shen Yeqing had kept his heart rate steady during the mission.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing traded jokes about their matching life philosophies and greeted each other as kindred spirits.
• The production team brought the guests to a rooftop infinity pool for a six-person date, and four guests appeared in stylish swimwear.
• Xie Mi bounded into the pool in a black wetsuit and announced herself as the Great Monkey King.
• Shen Yeqing arrived in a matching black wetsuit, and the two raced through the pool, splashing Director Niu while the other guests watched.

Director Niu replaced the show’s planned dates with a location-sharing hide-and-seek game to choose the guests’ date partners. Xiao Jingxi became the seeker and raced toward Xie Mi, but after their locations overlapped, he questioned whether she had disappeared.

• Director Niu announced that the six guests would play location-sharing hide-and-seek, with the winner choosing a date partner who could not refuse.
• Shen Yeqing asked Xie Mi to pick him if she won, and she agreed; Xiao Jingxi watched their exchange.
• The guests spread out across the estate, and Director Niu randomly chose Xiao Jingxi as the seeker.
• Xiao Jingxi ignored nearby Xu Shuangrong and headed for Xie Mi, the guest farthest away.
• After Shen Yeqing said he would pick Xie Mi if she lost, Xiao Jingxi sprinted toward her; when their locations overlapped, he asked whether she had vanished.

Xiao Jingxi struggled to find the contestants whose locations appeared to place them in impossible hiding spots. The search ended with Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi revealing that they had hidden underwater and underground using clever means.

• Xiao Jingxi searched Xie Mi’s location but found no one, then switched targets after Director Niu warned that time was running out.
• Xiao Jingxi reached Shen Yeqing’s location at a lake, but Shen Yeqing confirmed he was hiding there without appearing above the water.
• Xiao Jingxi found Liu Woxing, and Liu Woxing found Xu Shuangrong; the two joined the search while Xiao Jingxi pursued Qiu Chengye.
• Xiao Jingxi tackled Qiu Chengye on a narrow bridge, and both fell into the water, where they discovered Shen Yeqing hiding underwater with a reed for air.
• The group returned to Xie Mi’s location, where Xie Mi emerged from underground with an oxygen tank, and Director Niu explained that she had used a privilege card to bring the prop.

After winning hide-and-seek, Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing chose each other as dating partners and selected a thrilling date. They arrived at an escape room, where both calmly signed the waiver and showed no concern about the horror level.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing won hide-and-seek by hiding until the end, and their antics became a trending topic.
• Shen Yeqing chose Xie Mi as his partner, and she enthusiastically agreed despite Xiao Jingxi’s attempt to challenge the pairing.
• The three couples chose their date types, with Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing selecting thrills while Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong chose romance and Liu Woxing and Qiu Chengye chose wellness.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing arrived at an escape room and signed the safety agreement after hearing the staff explain the horror options.
• Xie Mi said she was fine with any difficulty, and Shen Yeqing told her to choose whatever she liked.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing stumble through an extreme-horror escape room, revealing themselves as terrified but chaotic investigators. After Shen Yeqing turns the tables on a ghost, he admits he joined the show to fall in love with Xie Mi.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing lose their flashlight in the toilet, and Xie Mi retrieves it along with the bathroom key by plunging her hand into the black water.
• Xie Mi mistakes Shen Yeqing's ghost-repelling talisman for her own and is captured by a ghost after the pair encounter one in the mansion.
• Shen Yeqing searches the next room alone, but a ghost in red binds him to a chair and interrogates him.
• Shen Yeqing breaks free, catches the ghost in red, and tells her he joined the show to fall in love with Xie Mi.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing revealed that neither had been afraid in the Ancient House, and Xie Mi confronted him about why he had joined the show for her. Meanwhile, their staged scares went viral as a romance edit, prompting Xiao Jingxi to make a show of affection toward Xu Shuangrong.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing discovered that they had both been pretending to be scared, then hugged as viewers realized they had been fooled.
• Xie Mi asked Shen Yeqing why he had come on the show for her, and he said he admired her as a public figure.
• Xie Mi accepted Shen Yeqing's explanation outwardly while deciding to investigate him later.
• Liu Woxing and Qiu Chengye enjoyed spa treatments, while Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi visited an art museum and a couples' café.
• Xiao Jingxi saw trending topics and a popular fan edit shipping Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing, then asked Xu Shuangrong to hold hands to promote their own pairing.

After Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong’s hand-holding moment sent their fans scrambling to outdo the Xie Yeqing Kills Donkey ship, Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing were attacked by masked haters who smashed the show’s camera. The livestream resumed on a phone, where Xie Mi teased viewers with a promise of a revenge drama.

• Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong’s hand-holding footage boosted their ship, but Xie Yeqing Kills Donkey remained more popular as fans clashed online.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing arrived at their next date location and found masked haters waiting with rotten eggs and spoiled cabbages.
• Xie Mi ducked to tie her shoe, causing an egg to hit the assistant director, and the haters smashed the production camera before fleeing.
• Xie Mi told the distraught assistant director to get ready to move up in the world, while Shen Yeqing predicted the incident would bring peak viewership.
• After the livestream resumed with phone footage, Xie Mi invited viewers to stay for a satisfying revenge drama.

Xie Mi exposed and raided a group of haters who had posed as Shen Yeqing's fans and vandalized the production team's equipment, turning the incident into a viral livestream. The raid ended the haters' organization and revealed that Xie Mi had filmed it to cheer up the assistant director after they made him cry.

• Xie Mi and the Love Watch crew confronted the haters as police arrived and arrested them for causing trouble and damaging equipment.
• The haters discovered Xie Mi had infiltrated their group chats and exposed their plans on her livestream, prompting them to disband their groups.
• Xie Mi's raid went viral, her and Shen Yeqing's fans reconciled, and the Xie-Shen Slaughter ship took first place in the supertopic rankings.
• The assistant director celebrated the success, but Shen Yeqing explained that Xie Mi had allowed him to film the raid to cheer him up.

Xie Mi dominated the show's supertopic interaction with jokes and a sharp comeback to a hater, earning the first sponsored segment. Later, she shut down Xiao Jingxi when he tried to talk to her privately, leaving him furious.

• Shen Yeqing gave Xie Mi matcha chocolates, and Director Niu announced the audience interaction session.
• Xie Mi traded jokes with viewers in the show's supertopic and replied to a hater with a funeral-service offer.
• Xie Mi became the top-ranked guest in the interaction, and the assistant director told her she had won the first sponsored segment.
• Xu Shuangrong congratulated Xie Mi and went to bed while Xie Mi noticed her hands hidden in her sleeves.
• Xiao Jingxi waited by the refrigerator for Xie Mi, but she dodged his touch and mocked him before telling him to send money if he missed her.

Xie Mi rejected Xiao Jingxi’s attempt to win her back, then filmed a bizarre milk advertisement before the guests set off for a mock blind-date segment. On the way, Xiao Jingxi unexpectedly adjusted the air vent blowing on Xie Mi, leaving the others and viewers bewildered.

• Xiao Jingxi claimed he would stop promoting himself with Xu Shuangrong, but Xie Mi told him she had broken up with him because he was trash and left him behind.
• Xie Mi got up early to film a sponsor’s milk advertisement and delivered its crude slogan for the cameras.
• Liu Woxing offered Xie Mi coffee, and Director Niu announced that the guests would go on mock blind dates with people matched to their ideal-partner questionnaires.
• Xie Mi fell asleep in the van, and Shen Yeqing covered her with a blanket when the air conditioning blew cold air at her.
• Xiao Jingxi claimed he was cold, then tilted the vent away from Xie Mi, startling Xu Shuangrong, Qiu Chengye, Liu Woxing, and the viewers.