Arc 12Chapters 276–300
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After the guests tried to avoid the extreme-horror escape room, Qiu Chengye jokingly claimed he was pregnant, and Xie Mi pretended to confirm it before the group was sent inside. They uncovered school bullying as the first truth behind the abandoned school's haunting.
Xie Mi’s team tackled a terrifying escape room, where she vanished through a trapdoor and the others searched for her in panic. The crew ended the game early, and the shaken contestants emerged vowing never to return.
After the escape room, the guests voted to eat at an internet-famous restaurant, only to discover its owner was famous for yelling at customers. Yu Jinche volunteered to take the abuse so everyone else could eat, while Xie Mi realized he secretly enjoyed it.
The guests went rock climbing for their afternoon date after viewers overwhelmingly voted for it, and Qiu Chengye showed off his climbing and physique. Xie Mi paired up with Shen Yeqing, who played helpless to draw her close, while Xiao Jingxi watched in frustration.
After a grueling day of viewer-chosen activities, the guests learned that their nighttime date was a climb up Xiqing Mountain to watch a rare meteor shower. Xie Mi wondered whether it was the same mountain from the original novel.
Xie Mi recalled how Liu Woxing’s childhood trauma at Xiqing Mountain had once made her abandon the idea of resisting her family, but Liu now seemed eager to hike there. As the guests set off to watch a meteor shower, Liu told Xie that she loved hiking.
Xie Mi and the others raced up Xiqing Mountain before setting up camp to watch a meteor shower. Xu Shuangrong tried to provoke Xiao Jingxi into scheming against Xie Mi, while Yu Jinche told Xie Mi that Lai Bingxuan had gone off feeling unwell and had not returned.
Yu Jinche lured Xie Mi away from camp as part of Xiao Jingxi’s scheme to ambush her, but Xie Mi saw through the setup and knocked Xiao Jingxi out. After dealing with both men, she returned to help Lai Bingxuan pitch her tent, while Xiao Jingxi and Yu Jinche later returned to camp in disarray.
After the meteor shower failed to appear, Xie Mi stayed outside with Shen Yeqing and overheard Xu Shuangrong planning to travel twelve years into the past to stop Liu Woxing from joining the show. Xie Mi was swept along to a park near Apricot Blossom Elementary School and began searching for the young Liu Woxing.
Xie Mi searched for Liu Woxing and found Shen Yeqing being bullied by four classmates, whom she drove away. Shen Yeqing recognized her as the older girl who had rescued him four years earlier, and Xie Mi asked him to help find Liu Woxing.
Xie Mi reached Apricot Blossom Elementary School with young Shen Yeqing’s help, then learned Liu Woxing had already been taken to a family banquet. After Xu Shuangrong revealed that Liu Woxing would get lost on Xiqing Mountain later, Xie Mi headed there with young Shen Yeqing, who asked to watch the meteor shower with her.
Xie Mi went to Xiqing Mountain to stop Xu Shuangrong from attacking Liu Woxing and found young Shen Yeqing had secretly followed her. Meanwhile, young Liu Woxing sat trapped in her family’s broken-down car, longing to see the stars as the chapter left her unable to go.
Xie Mi stopped little Liu Woxing from running away and helped her face the choice to grow up before confronting her family. As a meteor shower crossed the sky, little Liu Woxing found hope, while little Shen Yeqing wrote something that Xie Mi recognized.
Xie Mi helped little Shen Yeqing and little Liu Woxing escape traffickers, watched a meteor shower with them, and vanished when she was pulled back to her own time. Back at the summit, she found herself leaning on Shen Yeqing’s shoulder as dandelion seeds drifted like snow.
Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing watched the meteor shower and silently wished to stay in their world together. Liu Woxing reflected on how Xie Mi had helped her fulfill a wish planted by a police officer twelve years earlier, while Xu Shuangrong wondered why her attempts to follow the original plot had failed; the next morning, Director Niu announced the guests’ sea voyage.
The guests boarded a lavish cruise ship for a seven-day romantic journey, touring its amenities and enjoying a generous lunch. The meal was secretly part of the production team’s experiment to identify which guest each person liked most using upgraded heart-rate wristbands and hidden observers.
The production team prepared a masquerade ball where each guest would invite the person they liked to a private conversation. Before the ball, Xie Mi raced Xu Shuangrong and realized Xu had challenged her to test whether she could hear her conversations with the system.
Xu Shuangrong tested whether Xie Mi could hear her conversations with the system, but Xie Mi gave nothing away, leaving Xu Shuangrong determined to test her further and investigate the system. Meanwhile, Diao Mao finished preparing Xie Mi for the masquerade party in a dark, mysterious look.
The guests arrived at the masquerade ball in striking outfits, and Xie Mi made a dramatic entrance in a Gothic black gown. She maintained her elegant persona for the cameras while secretly eating a cherry in one bite to keep her lipstick intact.
During the masked ball’s first-dance invitation, Shen Yeqing partnered with Xie Mi after knocking Xiao Jingxi to the floor. The lights revealed the other couples too, including Qiu Chengye and Lai Bingxuan, who both disliked their match.
Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing danced together on the deck, beginning with Xie Mi’s comically misguided lessons before Shen Yeqing guided her through a graceful waltz. Their flirtation left Shen Yeqing blushing and Xie Mi determined to keep looking him in the eye.
At the ball, Liu Woxing and Xie Mi thwarted Xiao Jingxi’s attempt to approach Xie Mi, turning the dance floor into a chaotic group dance. Xu Shuangrong stayed with Yu Jinche and believed she was gradually drawing him back to her side.
At the ball, Yu Jinche invited Xu Shuangrong to a private heart-to-heart and said she was the female guest he was most interested in. Xu Shuangrong discovered his card named Xie Mi and realized Yu Jinche might have been pretending to pursue her, leaving her wary of his motives.
Xie Mi confronted Xiao Jingxi during their late-night talk, rejecting his attempt to revive their relationship and exposing how he had hidden their dating from view. Director Niu then reminded them that cards on the table revealed who each was most attracted to, leaving them to decide whether to look.
Xie Mi rejected Xiao Jingxi’s hope of winning her back, while Shen Yeqing arrived to take her away and treated her with care. Director Niu revealed that Xie Mi’s heart rate barely changed around Xiao Jingxi, leaving him to accept that she no longer liked him.