Chapter Summaries

After discovering that Yu Jinche had used the Asset Transfer Card on her, Xie Mi stopped spying on him and began roaming Love Watch Town as a street loafer. When Qiu Chengye learned that his money had also been transferred, Xie Mi rushed to investigate.

• A viral video showed Xie Mi secretly watching Yu Jinche around Love Watch Town until he confessed that he had transferred her assets.
• Yu Jinche offered to pay Xie Mi’s expenses, but she declined and warned him that she would act soon.
• Xie Mi robbed Shen Yeqing of bites from his burger while Xiao Jingxi passed by collecting trash.
• Qiu Chengye stormed into the directors’ monitoring room demanding to know who had transferred his money, and Director Niu could not reveal the culprit.

After losing their money to Yu Jinche, Xie Mi recruited Qiu Chengye into a victims’ alliance and proposed using a Hidden Mission skill card to get revenge. They began working together on Qiu Chengye’s mission to sing complete love songs to four female guests.

• Xie Mi found Qiu Chengye after he failed to recover his missing money and persuaded him that someone had taken both their assets.
• Xie Mi told Qiu Chengye that Yu Jinche had transferred their money using a Hidden Mission reward and proposed that they seek a useful skill card to reclaim it.
• Xie Mi exposed that Qiu Chengye had secretly picked up a Hidden Mission after finding one of his slippers, and he agreed to join her plan.
• Qiu Chengye revealed that his mission required him to sing full love songs to four female guests, and he and Xie Mi began their joint operation.

Xie Mi helped Qiu Chengye complete a mission by making him sing across Love Watch Town, but his Dinner Invitation Card was useless because he had no money. Earlier, she had uncovered Shen Yeqing’s hidden mission and joined forces with him to find a way to recover the money Yu Jinche transferred away.

• Xie Mi handed Qiu Chengye a slipper and taught him to sing a love song over the town’s broadcasting system, completing his mission.
• Qiu Chengye drew a Dinner Invitation Card, but Xie Mi reminded him that he had no money to pay for dinner.
• Xie Mi revealed that Shen Yeqing had used a fake Director Niu account to get the guests to pin his chat and proposed they work together to recover her money.
• Shen Yeqing gave Xie Mi his Replication Card, which could copy Yu Jinche’s Asset Transfer Card but could not target Yu Jinche.
• Shen Yeqing told Xie Mi the details of his new Hidden Mission, and she realized it could solve their problem.

Xie Mi helped Shen Yeqing complete his Hidden Mission by arranging for Qiu Chengye to finish his, then joined Shen to claim their skill-card reward. Xie Mi and Shen outsmarted Director Niu to obtain an Asset Transfer Card and escaped before he could stop them.

• Xie Mi persuaded Shen Yeqing to predict that Qiu Chengye would complete his Hidden Mission, linking their missions and giving her a chance to benefit from both card draws.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing collected their reward, and Shen offered Xie a burger while Xiao Jingxi gathered trash nearby.
• Xie Mi paused Shen before his draw, claiming she needed the bathroom, then secretly climbed a tree and used a mirror to see the cards in Director Niu's hands.
• Shen Yeqing selected an Asset Transfer Card, and Director Niu discovered Xie Mi's mirror-assisted trick.
• Xie Mi fled, while Shen stepped on Director Niu's shoe to delay his chase, and the pair escaped.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing returned to the villa after using an Asset Transfer Card, exposing Yu Jinche’s attempt to hide his money and leaving the guests eyeing the next Hidden Missions. As the Mission Shop’s 5 a.m. opening approached, the villa’s guests prepared for the Wake-Up War.

• Qiu Chengye confronted Yu Jinche over losing his money, while Yu Jinche dodged him and Liu Woxing explained the Skill Cards to Lai Bingxuan.
• Yu Jinche kicked Qiu Chengye as he slipped past, and Xie Mi stepped aside so Qiu Chengye and Yu Jinche collided while Liu Woxing took photos.
• Yu Jinche offered to pay Xie Mi’s expenses, but she revealed that she and Shen Yeqing had already used the Asset Transfer Card on Xu Shuangrong instead of him.
• Xie Mi explained that Yu Jinche had transferred his money elsewhere to trick them into wasting their card, but their move had already succeeded and left him broke.
• The guests realized Skill Cards could drastically change their fortunes and prepared to compete for the three daily Hidden Missions when the Mission Shop opened at five.

Qiu Chengye chained the villa shut before the Mission Shop opened, hoping to keep the other guests from getting missions. Several guests discovered his sabotage and gathered in the living room, where Lai Bingxuan and Xu Shuangrong argued over how to escape; Liu Woxing tried to smooth things over.

• At 4:35 a.m., Qiu Chengye crept outside and chained the villa's front door and ground-floor windows shut.
• Xiao Jingxi and Liu Woxing met while sneaking toward the exit and realized someone had locked the villa to keep the guests from reaching the Mission Shop.
• Xiao Jingxi and Liu Woxing tested the windows, then Lai Bingxuan, Xu Shuangrong, and Yu Jinche joined them in the living room.
• Lai Bingxuan suggested ramming the door open, but Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong objected because someone could get hurt.
• Lai Bingxuan took offense at Xu Shuangrong's warning, and Liu Woxing held her back and urged both women not to misinterpret each other's intentions.

After the guests split up to escape the locked villa, Xie Mi woke and used a power drill to dismantle a window, inspiring the others to try increasingly destructive escape plans. With the five o’clock deadline approaching and Qiu Chengye already outside, the guests raced to get out and claim the remaining Hidden Mission spots.

• Lai Bingxuan ended the argument and went to inspect a ventilation duct while the others searched the villa for ways out.
• Yu Jinche took a small box into Qiu Chengye’s bathroom, then came out without it as the staff watched the guests on the monitors and Director Niu praised the conflict.
• At 4:50, Xie Mi came downstairs carrying a power drill and began dismantling a locked window.
• Liu Woxing fetched a wrench to take apart another window, and the other guests abandoned their cautious approaches to try more drastic escape plans.
• Xiao Jingxi began digging beneath the garden wall, Xu Shuangrong made a rope from bedsheets, and Lai Bingxuan ordered a loader to break down the door.

The guests demolished parts of the villa to escape and reach the Mission Shop before five, while Xie Mi chased Qiu Chengye after leaping from the roof with a parachute. Shen Huai revealed that he had camped outside the shop and was already positioned to claim the first spot.

• Xie Mi refused to let Yu Jinche benefit from her drilling and left him unable to lift the heavy drill.
• Xie Mi jumped from the villa roof with a parachute, landed on Qiu Chengye's quilts, and chased him toward the Mission Shop.
• Liu Woxing, Xu Shuangrong, Lai Bingxuan, and Yu Jinche escaped as the guests damaged the villa, while Xiao Jingxi got stuck in a hole he had dug.
• Director Niu arrived to find the villa's door, window, and ventilation ducts wrecked and collapsed in despair.
• Shen Huai emerged from a tent outside the Mission Shop at five and greeted Xie Mi, revealing he had secured an early position there.

Shen Yeqing, Xie Mi, and Lai Bingxuan won Hidden Missions after a chaotic early-morning race that left the villa wrecked and Qiu Chengye furious. Later, Director Niu opened the Magic Hut, where guests could buy Skill Cards, and the others challenged the point of having fought for missions.

• Shen Yeqing, Xie Mi, and Lai Bingxuan claimed the three Hidden Missions, while Qiu Chengye returned to his room empty-handed.
• Qiu Chengye found his bed stripped down to a hard board and a flying cockroach in the bathroom, then blamed Xie Mi and shouted loud enough to shock the livestream viewers.
• The guests went back to sleep, and Love Watch resumed its broadcast at eight in the morning.
• Xie Mi read her Hidden Mission to protect a guest of the opposite sex for an entire day, then stood beside Shen Yeqing when the guests gathered outside number 1029.
• Director Niu unveiled the Magic Hut and announced that guests could buy Skill Cards there, prompting the guests to complain that the new shop made the Hidden Missions pointless.

Xie Mi protected Shen Yeqing during her Hidden Mission and discovered he often spent time alone. He invited her to try his homemade matcha cake, which turned out to be a powder-filled disaster.

• Xie Mi spun the Lucky Wheel, but it landed on a result that gave her nothing.
• Xie Mi guarded Shen Yeqing as he drank coffee, sat by the sea, and read, and noticed he sometimes gazed into the distance without reading.
• Shen Yeqing messaged Xie Mi to offer her matcha cake, then served it with black tea in the garden gazebo.
• Xie Mi tasted the cake and tried to warn Shen Yeqing before he ate it, but matcha powder sprayed across his face when she coughed.
• Xie Mi called the cake a superb concealed weapon, and Shen Yeqing wryly thanked her for the compliment.

Xie Mi realized Shen Yeqing was waiting for the parts of their shared past she had yet to experience, while the two of them joked about his Protection Card saving her money from an Asset Equalization Card. The chapter ended with Xu Shuangrong, Qiu Chengye, and Yu Jinche discovering that Xie Mi had been protected from the card they bought.

• Xie Mi connected Shen Yeqing’s knowledge of her favorite flavors to their repeated meetings in the past and understood that he was still waiting for her to experience their shared history.
• Xie Mi hesitated as if she might say something important to Shen Yeqing, but Director Niu’s announcement about an Asset Equalization Card interrupted them.
• Xie Mi saw that her balance was unchanged while Shen Yeqing’s had fallen to 8,186.15, and deduced that someone had used a Protection Card on her.
• Xie Mi teased Shen Yeqing about who had protected her before guessing that he was responsible, and he joked that she had hurt his heart.
• Xu Shuangrong, Qiu Chengye, and Yu Jinche revealed that they had pooled money to buy the Asset Equalization Card, and Xu Shuangrong realized Xie Mi’s Protection Card had kept her assets out of the division.

After Qiu Chengye used an Asset Transfer Card to take Xie Mi’s money, she calmly waited outside the Magic Hut while he fled with his fortune. A Random Asset Shuffle Card then redistributed everyone’s balances, leaving Liu Woxing with fifty thousand and the town in chaos.

• Xu Shuangrong tried to recruit Yu Jinche to help her approach Xie Mi, while Xie Mi overheard her plans.
• Xie Mi faked low blood sugar to slip past Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche and enter the Magic Hut.
• Qiu Chengye used an Asset Transfer Card to take Xie Mi’s money, then blamed Xiao Jingxi when Xie Mi caught him.
• Xie Mi calmly lay outside the Magic Hut, and Qiu Chengye left with the stolen fortune.
• Lai Bingxuan used a Random Asset Shuffle Card, leaving Qiu Chengye with one thousand, Xiao Jingxi with twenty thousand, and Liu Woxing with fifty thousand.

Xie Mi waited until the other guests had exhausted their Skill Cards, then used a Mutual Destruction Card to set everyone's living expenses to 500. Later, she pretended to feel guilty about the others' lack of food and invited Liu Woxing upstairs to share a feast she had hidden with Shen Yeqing.

• Liu Woxing used a Call for Backup Card to make Xiao Jingxi transfer away the money he had taken from the guests.
• The guests used a string of bizarre Skill Cards that repeatedly changed their balances, while Xie Mi rested and secretly saved her cards.
• Just before the Magic Shop closed, Xie Mi used a Mutual Destruction Card, reducing all eight guests' living expenses to 500.
• The guests cooked dinner with their limited money, and Xie Mi claimed she would skip the meal to make amends.
• Liu Woxing went upstairs to persuade Xie Mi to eat, but found her sharing hot pot, snacks, milk tea, and cake with Shen Yeqing.

Xie Mi revealed that she had spent her money stockpiling food before the Skill Cards could make her a target. Later, she ignored Xu Shuangrong’s increasingly dramatic attempts to lure her to the rooftop, leaving Xu Shuangrong to explain why she had staged her apparent suicide.

• Xie Mi showed Liu Woxing the food and drinks she had stockpiled, explaining that tangible supplies were safer than money.
• Xie Mi accepted that her Hidden Mission to protect Shen Yeqing had failed after her Mutual Destruction Card also hurt him.
• Xu Shuangrong tried to get Xie Mi’s attention by crying above her balcony and dropping a handkerchief and several slippers, but Xie Mi stayed seated.
• Xie Mi went to the rooftop and watched Xu Shuangrong jump into the pool without attempting to rescue her.
• Xu Shuangrong climbed out and admitted she had jumped in herself, claiming she could find no reason to keep living, and Xie Mi replied, “Who asked you?”

Xu Shuangrong's attempt to gain Xie Mi's sympathy failed when Xie Mi advised her to quit showbiz. The eight Love Watch guests then headed to an escape room chosen by viewers, where their reports of strange events at the villa left the production crew baffled.

• Xu Shuangrong told Xie Mi she felt lost and exhausted, but Xie Mi advised her to quit showbiz and said she was in the industry to make money.
• Director Niu announced that viewers had chosen an escape room for the guests' outing date.
• Qiu Chengye, Xiao Jingxi, and Lai Bingxuan described strange crying, a falling white shape, and a pile of slippers at the villa, while the production crew denied knowing anything about them.
• The coach arrived at the escape room venue, where Director Niu introduced an extreme-horror scenario and asked the guests to sign liability waivers.

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.

• Yu Jinche, Xiao Jingxi, Lai Bingxuan, and Qiu Chengye each claimed a condition that should keep them out of the escape room, but Director Niu produced medical reports and insisted they participate.
• Xie Mi pretended to check Qiu Chengye's pulse and declared that he had a pregnancy pulse, prompting the group and viewers to laugh.
• The eight guests entered the abandoned-school escape room, where several guests kept their blindfolds on to avoid seeing anything frightening.
• When a female ghost appeared behind Xie Mi, she calmly clipped the ghost's hair away from her face, and the ghost bashfully ran off.
• Shen Yeqing pointed out signs of bullying near the ghost's desk, and Xie Mi identified school bullying as the truth behind the haunting.
• The guests saw red words appear on the stained desktop, and the announcement confirmed they had uncovered the first truth: school bullying.

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.

• Xie Mi teased the frightened contestants into scrambling for a chair, then sat in it herself and dropped through a hidden mechanism.
• While the others wailed and searched the escape room for Xie Mi, she landed safely on foam and laughed as she watched them on the surveillance feed.
• Shen Yeqing, Liu Woxing, and Xu Shuangrong each entered mechanisms and escaped the room, while the remaining contestants continued to endure its scares.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing realized the contestants had not understood that entering a mechanism let them out, but the production crew ended the game early to keep the schedule moving.
• Qiu Chengye, Xiao Jingxi, Yu Jinche, and Lai Bingxuan staggered out exhausted, and Lai Bingxuan threatened to buy and demolish the escape room.

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.

• Lai Bingxuan blamed Xiao Jingxi for her chocolate, which Xie Mi had secretly given her.
• Director Niu announced a viewer vote between eating at an internet-famous restaurant and cooking for themselves, and Xie Mi, Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and Shen Yeqing performed a ritual to sway it.
• The viewers chose the internet-famous restaurant, and the guests found it was known for its foul-mouthed owner.
• Yu Jinche offered to take the owner's scolding, earning the guests' gratitude and fans' praise.
• Xie Mi noticed that Yu Jinche was enjoying the insults as he endured them for the group.

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.

• Director Niu announced that viewers had voted for rock climbing, and the guests headed to an indoor climbing gym.
• Qiu Chengye climbed ahead of the others to show off, but the guests moved far away from him because of his exposed armpit hair.
• Director Niu offered deluxe afternoon tea if everyone reached the top and encouraged the guests to help each other climb.
• Xiao Jingxi asked Xie Mi to pair up with him, but she rejected him and agreed to guide Shen Yeqing instead.
• Shen Yeqing repeatedly pretended to need Xie Mi's help, while Xiao Jingxi stayed nearby and grew furious.

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.

• Xiao Jingxi tried to imitate Shen Yeqing's innocent act, but Xie Mi kicked him away, and he accused her of pretending not to recognize manipulators.
• The viewers sent the exhausted guests boating and then archery; Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing enthusiastically tried every target while the others struggled through the activities.
• The guests ate calorie-heavy burgers and endured a scorching sauna before expecting the day's events to end.
• Director Niu announced that the real date was a nighttime climb up Xiqing Mountain to see a meteor shower that appeared once every twelve years.
• After hearing the mountain's name, Xie Mi wondered whether it was the Xiqing Mountain from the original novel.