Chapter Summaries

During the water-park hunt, Shen Yeqing eliminated Xu Shuangrong and Liu Woxing, leaving only him and Xie Mi for the final showdown. He tried to catch Xie Mi on the Super Giant Wheel, where a private whisper and their interlaced hands made her heart rate rise.

• Xu Shuangrong shoved Xie Mi toward Shen Yeqing, but Xie Mi slipped out of his arms across the wet floor.
• The production team selected Shen Yeqing as the sixth hunter after Xu Shuangrong's turn ended without an elimination.
• Shen Yeqing eliminated Xu Shuangrong and Liu Woxing, leaving Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing as the only contestants in the park.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing agreed to an ultimate showdown in the central plaza.
• Shen Yeqing took Xie Mi onto the Super Giant Wheel and interlaced his fingers with hers in a dark tunnel, causing her heart rate to climb.

Xie Mi won Heart-Rate Hide-and-Seek after Shen Yeqing’s hunting period ended just as hers began, and his heart-rate alarm revealed that he had been eliminated. The guests then learned their living-money totals, with vouchers changing several balances and leaving Xiao Jingxi and Lai Bingxuan deeply in debt.

• Shen Yeqing confessed that he liked Xie Mi in the tunnel, but his heart rate rose above the limit just as Xie Mi became the seeker, eliminating him and making her the round’s winner.
• Xie Mi celebrated her third consecutive game victory and declared that she would win every game this season.
• Director Niu announced the guests’ living-money totals, including negative balances for Xiao Jingxi and Lai Bingxuan.
• Xiao Jingxi redeemed a voucher worth minus 5,000 yuan, bringing his final total to minus 9,500 yuan.
• Liu Woxing redeemed five vouchers worth 1,050 yuan, while Lai Bingxuan’s four vouchers raised her total to minus 3,983.1 yuan.

Xie Mi and the other guests received their living allowances, with Xie Mi’s haul of vouchers leaving her with a comically small total. The guests then began guessing the Secret Couple, and Liu Woxing accused Shen Yeqing as the deliberation continued.

• A staff member counted Xie Mi’s twelve vouchers, leaving her with a final living allowance of 55,106.99 yuan, while the other guests collected their own winnings.
• Lai Bingxuan asked why Xie Mi had given her a 1,000-yuan voucher, and Xie Mi explained that eliminating Lai Bingxuan had earned her five thousand yuan.
• Director Niu announced that the Secret Couple had earned a 30,000-yuan bonus and gave the guests ten minutes to submit their accusations.
• Lai Bingxuan accused Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi, while Qiu Chengye argued that Liu Woxing and Shen Yeqing were the undercover pair.
• Yu Jinche confessed to Xie Mi that he and Lai Bingxuan were the undercover players, and Xie Mi said she already knew.
• Liu Woxing told Shen Yeqing that his unusual decision to approach her made her suspect he was one half of the Secret Couple.

The guests reported their suspects after a tense discussion, but nobody correctly identified the undercover players. Director Niu announced that the Secret Couple had won, and the chapter ended with Lai Bingxuan hilariously guessing that Xiao Jingxi had been Xie Mi’s electric-scooter dog-walking task partner.

• Qiu Chengye and Lai Bingxuan argued over their suspicions before each privately reported two suspects to Director Niu.
• Xu Shuangrong followed Xiao Jingxi’s suggestion and reported Xie Mi and Yu Jinche, while Liu Woxing reached her own conclusion and submitted her guesses.
• Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi made joking reports, with Shen naming Director Niu and the assistant director and Xie singing a lullaby to Director Niu.
• Director Niu announced that nobody had identified the undercover players and that the Secret Couple had won.
• Qiu Chengye guessed Xie Mi and Yu Jinche, while Lai Bingxuan guessed Xie Mi and Xiao Jingxi based on the electric-scooter incident.

Liu Woxing explained how Xie Mi used layered reverse psychology to conceal her and Shen Yeqing’s secret missions, while Yu Jinche realized he had been outmaneuvered. The guests then learned they were heading to a seaside accommodation instead of the old villa.

• Liu Woxing revealed that she had suspected Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi but was misled by Xie Mi’s deliberate gesture into changing her final guess.
• Xie Mi accepted Liu Woxing’s praise, while Shen Yeqing proudly enjoyed the revelation of their psychological trick.
• Director Niu announced that Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing had earned their final living allowances and sent the guests back to the hotel to clean up.
• Yu Jinche sat gloomily on the bus after learning that Xie Mi had seen through his tricks, as viewers teased him in the live chat.
• Xu Shuangrong and Liu Woxing noticed the bus was taking a different route, and Director Niu announced that the guests would stay by the sea.

The guests arrived at the seaside Love Watch Town, where they learned they would need to pay for their own food and toured their luxurious new villa. The guests examined the sharply different bedrooms, and Xie Mi suspected the room assignments would involve an even sneakier challenge than last season.

• Director Niu introduced Love Watch Town and told the guests they would have to buy their own ingredients, prompting Xie Mi to joke that penniless guests could expect a lavish funeral.
• The Assistant Director led the guests past the town’s shops and recreation facilities to their three-story villa with an infinity pool.
• Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye complained about the cramped, damp first-floor rooms, while Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi considered the more comfortable second-floor bedrooms.
• Xu Shuangrong suggested she and Xiao Jingxi share a floor and discuss acting, but Xiao Jingxi left without agreeing, and Xu Shuangrong lowered her eyes forlornly.
• Qiu Chengye claimed one of the two luxurious third-floor suites, while Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi predicted that the room assignments would depend on a tricky challenge.

Director Niu held an auction for the villa rooms, with guests bidding using their available funds. Liu Woxing won Room 201 with a bid that used all of Qiu Chengye’s money, leaving the auction underway.

• Director Niu announced that the guests would bid for rooms, with their service and funds determined by their available money.
• Director Niu revealed that Xie Mi had the most funds and Xiao Jingxi had the least, leaving Xiao without even a drink.
• Qiu Chengye objected to the auction rules but stopped after Director Niu threatened to disqualify him from bidding.
• Director Niu opened the bidding for Room 201 at 1,000 yuan, and Qiu Chengye raised the bid to 2,000 yuan.
• Liu Woxing bid 5,001 yuan, using all of Qiu Chengye’s funds, and won Room 201.

The guests auctioned for rooms, and Qiu Chengye lost every chance to avoid the first floor as others outbid him. Xie Mi explored her luxurious room 301 until Shen Yeqing caught her doing parkour.

• Liu Woxing won room 201 for 5,001, then Yu Jinche outbid Qiu Chengye for room 202 by claiming he had claustrophobia.
• Xu Shuangrong bid 5,002 for the last second-floor room, leaving Qiu Chengye without one.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing won rooms 301 and 302 for 5,001 each, while Qiu Chengye, Xiao Jingxi, and Lai Bingxuan were assigned rooms on the first floor.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing took the remaining fruit platters, leaving Xiao Jingxi without any.
• Xie Mi excitedly scrambled around her luxurious room 301, and Shen Yeqing watched from the doorway and asked if she was doing parkour.

Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, and Liu Woxing discovered that the town’s shops charged wildly inflated prices, while the grocery store discounted ingredients after 7 p.m. They realized the production team was pushing the guests to cook for themselves, then rushed into the grocery store and froze at what they saw inside.

• Xie Mi invited Shen Yeqing to dinner, and Liu Woxing joined them as they theatrically flapped her trench coat tails.
• Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, and Liu Woxing toured the town’s shops and found food, drinks, and coffee priced several times higher than usual.
• The trio noticed that the grocery store offered steep evening discounts on ingredients, and Xie Mi deduced that the production team wanted the guests to cook for themselves.
• After Liu Woxing saw that the discounts had begun, Xie Mi charged into the grocery store with Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing following, and all three froze at the sight inside.

At the grocery store, Xie Mi and her companions exposed Xu Shuangrong’s attempt to guilt her into helping Lai Bingxuan. Xie Mi then treated Lai to dinner, leaving Xiao Jingxi behind as the group happily walked away.

• Lai Bingxuan argued with Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi over a discounted cabbage she could not afford.
• Xu Shuangrong hinted that Xie Mi should help Lai Bingxuan, but Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing called out her guilt-tripping and warned her not to make viewers blame Xie Mi.
• Xu Shuangrong apologized, and Xie Mi accepted without making a fuss.
• Lai Bingxuan asked Xie Mi to lend her two yuan for the cabbage, but Xie Mi announced she would treat her to dinner instead.
• Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Liu Woxing, and Lai Bingxuan left together, while Xie Mi refused Xiao Jingxi’s request to join them.

After dinner, the eight guests gathered to prepare for Love Watch’s first debate tournament, with teams and topics to be decided by drawing lots. The debate was scheduled for the next morning, and the guests still had to discover who would be teammates and what they would argue.

• Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong returned to the villa with groceries, where Xiao Jingxi blew up the microwave and Xu Shuangrong cooked dinner.
• Yu Jinche made French toast, while Qiu Chengye spent 4,500 yuan on dinner at a French restaurant.
• Director Niu announced that the guests would split into two debate teams, with each winner receiving 1,000 yuan.
• Xu Shuangrong expressed a hope to team up with Liu Woxing, while Yu Jinche hinted that he wanted to join Xie Mi’s team.
• The guests prepared to draw colored lots for their teams and debate topics, with the debate set to begin at nine the next morning.

The teams drew debate positions on whether people should reason with a dumbass, and Xie Mi’s team took the negative side against Qiu Chengye’s affirmative team. While the blue team prepared to research, Xie Mi proposed an unexplained plan that left her teammates intrigued about the next day’s debate.

• Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Yu Jinche, and Lai Bingxuan formed the red team, while Xu Shuangrong, Liu Woxing, Qiu Chengye, and Xiao Jingxi formed the blue team.
• Xie Mi and Qiu Chengye drew the topic “should you reason with a dumbass,” with the red team arguing no and the blue team arguing yes.
• Liu Woxing avoided Qiu Chengye after he mistook her glance for interest, and the teams went to separate rooms to prepare for the debates.
• Qiu Chengye boasted that his team would win, prompting Lai Bingxuan to argue with him before he left with his teammates.
• Xie Mi suggested that her team sleep instead of researching, then whispered a secret plan to Lai Bingxuan that made her excited.

The guests prepared for a debate about whether people should reason with “fucking idiots,” but Qiu Chengye’s argument was interrupted when Lai Bingxuan stormed in and slapped him. The next morning, the guests assembled for the show’s first “fun” debate, whose outcome remained to be seen.

• Qiu Chengye, Xu Shuangrong, Xiao Jingxi, and Liu Woxing discussed arguments for the Affirmative Team while livestream viewers reacted to Qiu’s shouting and Liu challenged Xu’s framing.
• Xiao Jingxi argued that people should reason with everyone, but Qiu Chengye questioned how that would work with Lai Bingxuan.
• Lai Bingxuan burst into the study and slapped Qiu Chengye, who declared that force was needed before the two began fighting.
• Xu Shuangrong and Liu Woxing separated Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye, and Qiu later discovered that the opposing team had gone to sleep instead of preparing.
• Liu Woxing suspected Teacher Xie had an unexpected plan, while Qiu Chengye assumed the opposing team had given up.
• Director Niu introduced the first “fun” debate competition the next morning and promised a fair result.

Xie Mi’s team used the debate’s negative position to skip the first round, winning the point after arriving just after the deadline. The next debate began with the question of whether dating shows should deliberately hype up couples, and Yu Jinche struck back at Qiu Chengye’s personal attack by pointing out that Qiu had not paired up with anyone.

• Qiu Chengye mocked the absent negative team, but Director Niu revealed that their refusal to debate argued that people should not reason with idiots.
• Xie Mi’s team arrived after the ten-minute deadline, and Director Niu awarded the first point to Qiu Chengye’s blue team under the rules.
• Director Niu announced the next topic, whether dating shows should deliberately hype up couples, and the red team drew the affirmative position while the blue team drew the negative.
• Lai Bingxuan argued that dating shows needed couples, then challenged Xiao Jingxi by asking what would happen if a director like Niu Bi could not produce any.
• Qiu Chengye argued that people who failed to pair up lacked charm and confidence, and Yu Jinche rebutted him by asking why Qiu himself had not paired up with anyone.

Xie Mi challenged Qiu Chengye over his fixation on Liu Woxing, forcing him to admit he had been hyping their ship before his teammates silenced him. She then questioned Xiao Jingxi about the difference between promoting a drama ship and a dating-show ship, and began probing whether his own ship with Xu Shuangrong had crossed the line.

• Xie Mi accused Qiu Chengye of pursuing Liu Woxing while criticizing her, then confronted him with screenshots showing him repeatedly standing beside her.
• Liu Woxing rolled her eyes at Qiu Chengye, while Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Lai Bingxuan, and Yu Jinche mocked his claims of coincidence.
• Qiu Chengye blurted out that he was hyping a ship, but Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong covered his mouth and dragged him aside; he later refused to answer questions.
• Xie Mi asked Xiao Jingxi whether he had ever hyped a ship, and he admitted he had promoted one with Xu Shuangrong for a television drama.
• Xiao Jingxi argued that dating-show ship promotion deceived viewers, and Xie Mi challenged him by asking whether his own ship with Xu Shuangrong had stayed within normal publicity bounds.

Xie Mi challenged Xiao Jingxi’s claim that he and Xu Shuangrong had only behaved like ordinary friends, presenting old Xiao Rong CP trends and fan comments as evidence of how their promotion affected others. She pressed him over why he addressed rumors that threatened his own interests while ignoring attacks by extreme shippers, leaving him unable to answer as the debate grew tense.

• Xie Mi showed the old Xiao Rong CP Hot Search topics and fans’ hostile comments, making Xiao Jingxi and the others uncomfortable.
• Xiao Jingxi said his interactions with Xu Shuangrong were normal and that marketing accounts had pushed the rumors.
• Xu Shuangrong explained that Xiao Jingxi had bought her a diamond ring after seeing her post about wanting one.
• Xie Mi contrasted Xiao Jingxi’s quick denial of his connection to her with his failure to address extreme shippers’ attacks on other artists.
• Xiao Jingxi tried to return the debate to its original topic, but Xie Mi called him spineless and left him without a response.

Xie Mi confronted Xiao Jingxi about his and Xu Shuangrong’s role in encouraging the Xiao Rong CP craze, while online users revisited the harm its fans had caused her and others. Xiao Jingxi tried to pin the promotional tactics on his team and the production, but Thousandfold TV Series denied responsibility.

• Xie Mi and Xiao Jingxi faced off as the livestream controversy sent related topics soaring on Weibo.
• Weibo users unearthed past Xiao Rong CP promotions, attacks on other celebrities, and the fan harassment that followed Xie Mi’s hospitalization.
• Xiao Jingxi tried to concede, but Qiu Chengye and Liu Woxing pressed him to answer the question for their team.
• Xiao Jingxi said his responsibility had been limited to cooperating with promotion and that his team usually managed his Weibo account.
• Shen Yeqing asked whether Xiao Jingxi meant his team and the production had planned the promotion without his involvement.
• Thousandfold TV Series denied asking the actors to promote excessively and said it knew nothing about activity beyond office visits and roadshows.

Xiao Jingxi tried to defend himself by claiming he had promoted the ship with Xu Shuangrong to help her career, but Xu Shuangrong accused him of shifting blame and raised questions about his connection to Xie Mi. The confrontation left the people present suspecting a major scandal was about to come to light.

• The production team publicly denied responsibility for promoting Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong's ship, and Xiao Jingxi faced a wave of ridicule online.
• Xie Mi told Xiao Jingxi that the production team had contradicted his explanation, and he admitted he had promoted the ship to make Xu Shuangrong famous.
• Xiao Jingxi accused Xu Shuangrong of deceiving him, but Xu Shuangrong said he had proposed the ship and described how their time together had felt real to her.
• Xiao Jingxi let slip that he had broken things off with Xie to promote the ship, and Xu Shuangrong questioned him about his rumored relationship with Xie Mi.
• Xu Shuangrong broke down in tears and demanded the truth, while the others looked between her, Xiao Jingxi, and Xie Mi; Xie Mi realized Xu Shuangrong was ready to reveal the scandal.

Xu Shuangrong publicly confronted Xiao Jingxi over whether he had been single while promoting their ship, exposing rumors that he and Xie Mi had dated. Xiao Jingxi was taken off the livestream, while Xie Mi joked that the relationship was an embarrassing mistake.

• Xu Shuangrong asked Xiao Jingxi whether he had been single while promoting their ship, and viewers connected the question to evidence that he and Xie Mi had been involved.
• Xiao Jingxi panicked and glanced at Xie Mi, but she did not defend him; his manager interrupted the livestream and pulled him away.
• Xu Shuangrong cried and was taken away by her assistant as the remaining guests reacted to the revelations.
• Xie Mi told the others she had been blind in the relationship and asked them not to tease her about it.
• Shen Yeqing laughed at Xie Mi's embarrassment, and viewers joked that her ex-boyfriend was like a criminal record.

After Xiao Jingxi’s departure confirmed their past relationship, Xie Mi lamented that the public now knew how lovestruck she had been. She left the debate with Shen Yeqing, and their relaxed drink-sharing left viewers eager to ship them as online attention focused on Xiao Jingxi’s expected response.

• Netizens condemned Xiao Jingxi and sympathized with Xie Mi, while Xie Mi felt humiliated that their relationship had exposed how much she had sacrificed for him.
• Xie Mi dragged Shen Yeqing to a bubble tea shop after the debate, and he offered to treat her.
• Xie Mi asked why Shen Yeqing had not been surprised by her past with Xiao Jingxi, and he said he accepted things about her and that the relationship was in the past.
• Xie Mi monitored Weibo as viewers and the production team awaited Xiao Jingxi’s response to the scandal.
• Shen Yeqing ordered Xie Mi’s second-choice drink, then suggested they share both drinks, making her smile and prompting viewers to ship them.