Chapter Summaries

Xie Mi led the hungry group to a cheap noodle shop, where she fed them knockoff instant noodles and teased Qiu Chengye about the food and water prices. Later, while the group took shelter from the rain in a mall, Qiu Chengye was thrown off a massage chair as Xie Mi watched.

• Xie Mi took the group to a shop selling three-yuan Kang Shuaifu noodles and charged them for the meal and Qiu Chengye’s water at inflated rates.
• Xie Mi explained that the noodles were knockoffs, and Shen Yeqing and Lai Bingxuan upset Qiu Chengye further by discussing reports about pickled greens being stomped by workers.
• The group returned to the mall to shelter from the rain, and Qiu Chengye settled into a coin-operated massage chair, intending to rest there until closing.
• The massage chair flipped over and dumped Qiu Chengye onto the floor while Xie Mi stood nearby and laughed.

After surviving their first day with almost no money, the seven guests slept on park benches. In the middle of the night, Qiu Chengye was startled by a strange man asking for water, and their frantic chase ended with two people falling into the lake.

• Xie Mi revealed that the massage chairs had thrown Qiu Chengye and Lai Bingxuan out because they had not paid.
• The group counted their remaining forty-four yuan and realized it would cover only two more meals and a bottle of water.
• The seven guests settled down to sleep on park benches, keeping warm with the belongings they had brought.
• A hoarse, staggering man approached Qiu Chengye and murmured for water.
• Qiu Chengye fled from the man, and their struggle ended with two bodies splashing into the lake.

After Xiao Jingxi was found penniless and soaked alongside Qiu Chengye, the group learned how he had been repeatedly overcharged and spent his entire thousand yuan. The next morning, with only 44 yuan left for eight people, Xie Mi prepared to teach everyone survival skills.

• Staff pulled Qiu Chengye and Xiao Jingxi out of the lake, where Qiu Chengye blamed Xiao Jingxi for frightening him.
• Xiao Jingxi explained how hotel fees, overpriced food and water, and unlicensed taxis had drained his thousand yuan in a day.
• The group scolded Xiao Jingxi for his spending, while the Production Team refused to help the two men warm up or change.
• Xiao Jingxi changed into Xie Mi's pink cosplay outfit, while Qiu Chengye wore the monkey costume again.
• At seven the next morning, Xie Mi noted that the group had only 44 yuan for eight people and offered to teach them survival skills.

Xie Mi organized the group into a street performance troupe to earn money, using paper cups for donations and a suona and gong for music. She left Qiu Chengye facing a choice between performing as a monkey or wearing Xiao Jingxi’s women’s clothes, while several others volunteered to be the monkey’s trainer.

• Xie Mi handed out cleaned paper cups and proposed that the group beg at a busy intersection, but Xu Shuangrong objected.
• Xie Mi produced a suona, and Shen Yeqing revealed that he had brought a gong so he could accompany her.
• Shen Yeqing explained that he had guessed Xie Mi would bring the suona after hearing her play it in the hotel.
• Xie Mi proposed that Qiu Chengye perform as a monkey while Lai Bingxuan and Liu Woxing held up a jacket as a hurdle.
• Shen Yeqing suggested that Qiu Chengye swap clothes with Xiao Jingxi, and Xie Mi then called for a trainer to make the monkey jump.
• Yu Jinche, Xu Shuangrong, and Xiao Jingxi all volunteered to be the trainer.

Xie Mi organized the guests into a masked street-performance troupe, which drew a crowd and earned a large haul of food by noon. Director Niu watched in disbelief as their performance succeeded despite the Production Team’s precautions.

• Xie Mi assigned Xiao Jingxi to train Qiu Chengye as a hurdle-jumping monkey, Xu Shuangrong to promote animal welfare, and Yu Jinche to attract an audience.
• Director Niu ordered the troupe to wear masks and sunglasses so passersby would not recognize them.
• Xiao Jingxi, Qiu Chengye, Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and Xu Shuangrong put on a street show that drew growing crowds.
• Yu Jinche collected food from the audience after people stopped to watch the performance.
• The troupe performed all morning and finished with a large haul, leaving Director Niu sour-faced.

The eight guests enjoyed an easy final stretch of their street-life challenge, while Director Niu worried that the relaxed filming was producing too few highlights. After the guests spent the night sleeping in a KFC, Xie Mi discovered something alarming when she opened her backpack the next morning.

• Xie Mi, Lai Bingxuan, Shen Yeqing, Qiu Chengye, and Liu Woxing teased Director Niu and suggested that the Production Team live on the streets next season.
• The eight guests spent their days browsing shops and eating food from their supplies, making their street life comfortable and uneventful.
• Director Niu and the other PDs simultaneously wiped the lenses of all eight livestream cameras, leaving viewers suspicious of a conspiracy.
• The guests slept overnight in a KFC, then woke on their final day as Liu Woxing reflected on the experiences she had gained.
• Xie Mi opened her backpack to get breakfast and suddenly froze.

Director Niu’s crew secretly stole the guests’ food, but Xie Mi accepted their demand for proof and led the group away. When Shen Yeqing stopped beside a five-star restaurant, Xie Mi and the others suddenly lunged at the camera operators.

• Director Niu’s crew carefully stole food from the four female guests while they slept, including Xie Mi, who never woke up.
• The guests discovered their food was missing, and Director Niu denied responsibility until Xie Mi spotted that the camera lenses had been wiped during the night.
• Xie Mi said they could not accuse the Production Team without proof, then led the group away with Shen Yeqing, Liu Woxing, Xu Shuangrong, and Yu Jinche following.
• The group passed a luxurious five-star restaurant, where Shen Yeqing stopped and Xie Mi suddenly lunged at the camera operators, joined by Liu Woxing, Xu Shuangrong, and Yu Jinche.

Xie Mi and the other guests disrupted the production crew and staged a chaotic fight to cover Shen Yeqing’s rule-breaking. Director Niu confronted Shen over arranging a free meal, but the guests demanded evidence as they prepared to enter the restaurant.

• Xie Mi charged Director Niu, seized two cameras, and joined the guests as they obstructed the crew’s filming.
• Shen Yeqing and the Assistant Director became involved in a scuffle with Director Niu while Xie Mi tried to break up the fight.
• The cameramen resumed filming, and Director Niu scolded the guests before the restaurant manager invited them inside for a free meal.
• Director Niu accused Shen Yeqing of arranging the meal in advance, but Shen, Xie Mi, Liu Woxing, and Yu Jinche asked him to provide evidence.

Director Niu tried to torment the guests with staged mishaps, but Xie Mi and the others turned each setback into a chance to enjoy themselves. After the crew got soaked and covered in mess, the eight guests received free bathhouse passes, leaving Director Niu and his staff outside.

• After the guests finished their lavish meal, Director Niu declared a truce and warned them to follow the rules during their remaining ten hours.
• Director Niu arranged a series of staged accidents in the plaza, and the guests dodged many of them by breakdancing.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing avoided the attacks, but a fountain suddenly drenched them both.
• When Director Niu pretended the attacks came from hostile livestream viewers, Xie Mi urged him to call the police, so he claimed the attackers were random passersby instead.
• A bathhouse manager offered the eight guests free passes, fruit, and dinner, then stopped Director Niu and the crew from entering without paying.

The guests relaxed at a luxury bathhouse until Director Niu launched a final six-hour game of mimicry hide-and-seek, with a phase-three perk for the winner. Yu Jinche became the seeker, and the guests began hiding before the imitation rules took effect.

• Xie Mi teased Director Niu about contacting businesses while the cameras were blocked, and the guests enjoyed their bathhouse stay.
• Director Niu announced a six-hour hide-and-seek game in the bathhouse, with the winner receiving a phase-three perk.
• Director Niu explained that everyone would imitate a drawing, redraw every twenty minutes, and join the hunt after being caught.
• The guests drew their imitation slips, and Xie Mi dramatically reacted to hers while the others suspected she was putting on an act.
• Yu Jinche drew the seeker role, and Director Niu gave the guests twenty minutes to hide before the game began.

The contestants began a hide-and-seek game in a recreation center, with each person required to imitate an animal while hiding or searching. Yu Jinche carefully searched the cinema and closed in on Lai Bingxuan, who tried to escape sideways while keeping her crab pose.

• The seven contestants scattered to hide while Yu Jinche waited blindfolded and wearing headphones.
• When the game began, Xie Mi convulsed in an aerial yoga sling and explained that she was imitating a goldfish flopping without water.
• Xiao Jingxi, Liu Woxing, Xu Shuangrong, Lai Bingxuan, Qiu Chengye, and Shen Yeqing began imitating their assigned animals, and Qiu Chengye finally got down on all fours like a tiger after three warnings.
• Yu Jinche started searching while imitating an ostrich, passing close to Shen Yeqing, who was camouflaged beside a plant.
• Yu Jinche searched the cinema methodically, and Lai Bingxuan tried to flee sideways while keeping her hands in peace signs.

In the second round of the imitation challenge, Lai Bingxuan and Yu Jinche drew Xiao Jingxi and Xie Mi and performed strikingly accurate impressions of them. They became pursuers and searched for the others while keeping up their imitations.

• Yu Jinche caught Lai Bingxuan by headbutting her, and she became a pursuer.
• The guests drew names for the imitation round, with Lai Bingxuan drawing Xiao Jingxi and Yu Jinche drawing Xie Mi.
• Lai Bingxuan used tissues to imitate Xiao Jingxi’s height and hair, then reenacted his dramatic confession to Xie Mi.
• Yu Jinche imitated Xie Mi’s catchphrase and chaotic running style, earning Lai Bingxuan’s praise.
• As the pursuers searched for the others, Yu Jinche sang off-key to keep up his impression, while Lai Bingxuan switched between aloofness, sweetness, and calling for Xie Mi.

Yu Jinche and Lai Bingxuan found Xu Shuangrong, who let Lai Bingxuan capture her and join the hunters. As the hunters searched the floors and the impersonation game grew increasingly absurd, Xie Mi revealed she was impersonating shit with a foul-smelling concoction.

• Yu Jinche and Lai Bingxuan found Xu Shuangrong hiding under a table, and Xu Shuangrong deliberately let Lai Bingxuan capture her so she could join the hunters and limit Yu Jinche’s lead.
• The three hunters caught Liu Woxing in the Children’s Playground and Qiu Chengye in the Gym, then searched the third floor for Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, and Xiao Jingxi.
• Lai Bingxuan collapsed while impersonating a washing machine, and Xu Shuangrong forfeited rather than impersonate a toilet.
• Xie Mi ran past Xu Shuangrong and Qiu Chengye wearing bags of foul-smelling food mixtures, and the PD explained that she was impersonating shit.

Xie Mi evaded the pursuers on the third floor through several rounds of chaotic games before agreeing to join them after Qiu Chengye caught her. Just as the hunt resumed, a crew member reported that something had happened on the first floor.

• Xie Mi climbed the walls to escape Yu Jinche, Lai Bingxuan, and Liu Woxing, while Xu Shuangrong quietly slipped away and followed two figures.
• The group played several rounds of pursuit games, but Xie Mi kept evading capture with help from the bystanders.
• Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and Yu Jinche persuaded Xie Mi to join the pursuers, and Director Niu said three winners would split the prize equally.
• Xie Mi rammed Qiu Chengye to count as captured, then joined the pursuit and charged after the others like a bull.
• A crew member rushed from the elevator and told Director Niu that something had happened on the first floor.

After Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Xu Shuangrong were injured in the bathing area, the Production Team took them to the hospital and ended the second phase of filming at their bedside. Xie Mi suspected the incident was deliberate, and the chapter ended with Lai Bingxuan handing her a notebook.

• Medical staff carried Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Xu Shuangrong from the bathhouse after they were hurt, and Director Niu followed them to the hospital.
• A doctor said the three guests would recover after a few days of IV treatment and rest, but the Production Team could not determine what happened because there were no recordings from inside the bathing area.
• Director Niu filmed the second phase's closing segment in the hospital ward while the three guests remained unconscious.
• After the livestream ended, Liu Woxing comforted Xie Mi, who wondered how all three guests could have fallen and hit their heads at once.
• Lai Bingxuan walked over to Xie Mi and handed her a notebook.