Chapter Summaries

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.

The guests arrived at a book café for mock blind dates, while Director Niu revealed to viewers that the dates were designed to test their patience. The guests entered their private rooms unaware that their dates would deliberately provoke them, and their heart-rate monitors would help measure their reactions.

• Xiao Jingxi offered Xie Mi a hand getting out of the car, but she mocked him and refused it, prompting Shen Yeqing to explain her insult.
• Xu Shuangrong appeared upset that Xiao Jingxi had not offered her a hand, and Liu Woxing comforted her.
• Director Niu told the guests their mock blind dates would assess their views on marriage and sent them to assigned private rooms.
• After the guests went upstairs, Director Niu revealed that six ordinary people would provoke them to test whether they lost their tempers on camera.
• Director Niu explained that the guests' heart-rate monitors would track changes caused by anger.

Xie Mi dismantled Wang Yaozu’s arrogant marriage demands with a string of sharp retorts, then spotted Liu Woxing being provoked on her blind date. Xie Mi covered Liu Woxing’s racing heart-rate watch and stepped in to quiz the man about classic literature.

• Xie Mi met Wang Yaozu, who boasted about his wealth and demanded that she quit the entertainment industry if she married him.
• Xie Mi mocked Wang Yaozu’s ideas about betrothal gifts and having children until he fainted from anger.
• Xie Mi heard Qiu Chengye flee his blind date in a panic after encountering a possessive woman.
• Xie Mi saw Liu Woxing’s date patronize her about corporate management while Liu Woxing’s anger pushed her heart rate toward the alarm threshold.
• Xie Mi covered Liu Woxing’s watch and challenged her date to a quiz after he claimed to enjoy classic literature.

Xie Mi derailed Liu Woxing’s mock blind date, preserving Liu’s composed public image, while the other guests’ dates ended in anger or awkwardness. Back at the villa, Xiao Jingxi asked Xu Shuangrong to stop their promotional interactions, leaving the status of their relationship uncertain.

• Xie Mi challenged Liu Woxing’s blind date with jokes about giving literary classics webnovel-style titles, distracting him and making Liu laugh.
• The mock blind dates ended with Xie Mi, Qiu Chengye, Xiao Jingxi, Xu Shuangrong, Liu Woxing, and Shen Yeqing each having very different encounters.
• On the ride back, Xie Mi learned Shen Yeqing could deliberately act hard of hearing, while Xu Shuangrong asked whether he had considered speaking to her pointless socializing.
• Liu Woxing took the seat beside Xie Mi, leaving Xiao Jingxi unable to sit near her, and viewers argued over whether Xiao and Xu were really a couple.
• At the villa, Xiao Jingxi took Xu Shuangrong to the back garden and told her they could stop their promotional interactions now that their drama had finished airing.

Xiao Jingxi ended his romantic promotion with Xu Shuangrong on the livestream, while Xu Shuangrong appeared to accept the decision but quietly turned public sympathy against him. She later told Liu Woxing that Xiao Jingxi and Xie Mi had met privately, but Liu Woxing refused to blame Xie Mi.

• Xiao Jingxi said he and Xu Shuangrong had only interacted to promote their drama and proposed that they stop, and Xu Shuangrong agreed.
• After Xiao Jingxi left, Xu Shuangrong let herself cry, prompting viewers to sympathize with her and condemn him.
• Xie Mi watched from the roof and reflected that Xu Shuangrong was using the breakup to build sympathy, as she had done in the original novel.
• Liu Woxing found Xu Shuangrong sobbing in the bathroom and comforted her after removing her microphone.
• Xu Shuangrong told Liu Woxing that she had seen Xiao Jingxi and Xie Mi meet privately, but Liu Woxing insisted that Xiao Jingxi was at fault and Xie Mi was not to blame.

Xu Shuangrong failed to turn Liu Woxing against Xie Mi, while online fan wars escalated around Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong. Xie Mi discovered that the mysterious college guy who had messaged her was Shen Yeqing, and she joined him to play VR games.

• Xu Shuangrong tried to make Liu Woxing believe Xie Mi had seduced Xiao Jingxi, but Liu blamed Xiao Jingxi instead.
• Xiao Jingxi's and Xu Shuangrong's fans fought online, and Xie Mi's fans joined in to call both sides dumbasses.
• Xie Mi accepted a friend request from 185-Centimeter Pure-Hearted College Guy, flirted with him, and asked to see his abs.
• After he sent a photo and shared his location, Xie Mi realized he was Shen Yeqing, who was inside the villa.
• Xie Mi looked through Shen Yeqing's old WeChat Moments, then went to the screening room to play VR games with him.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing played VR together, where her chaotic fighting accidentally knocked Xiao Jingxi unconscious. Later, Xie Mi agreed to use Xu Shuangrong’s fresh mushrooms for dinner and planned to stew them.

• Xie Mi tried the VR world, repeatedly stumbled into Shen Yeqing, and chose a sultry Ultraman skin while he dressed as a uniformed security guard.
• Xie Mi charged through the game’s monsters with her fists while Shen Yeqing used a special attack.
• Xiao Jingxi entered the screening room, and Xie Mi mistook him for an enemy and knocked him unconscious with an uppercut.
• Xie Mi crawled down the hallway in a frenzy as Shen Yeqing followed her, and the afternoon passed.
• Xu Shuangrong offered Xie Mi freshly delivered mushrooms for dinner, and Xie Mi agreed to cook them.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing failed to cook a proper dinner, and the guests ate wild mushrooms that caused mass hallucinations. The chapter ended with the whole crew behaving wildly as Shen Yeqing and Xu Shuangrong also developed symptoms.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing competed with Xiao Jingxi over cooking, but their mushroom dishes turned out disastrously.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing served boiled mushrooms with assorted seasonings, and everyone sat down to eat.
• Xiao Jingxi began hallucinating, and Qiu Chengye and Liu Woxing started acting strangely as well.
• Xie Mi realized the food might be poisoned, flipped the table, and chased the assistant director with a banana.
• Shen Yeqing learned the mushrooms came from Cloud City, a region known for wild mushrooms, and he and Xu Shuangrong soon developed symptoms too.

After waking in the hospital, Xie Mi realized Xu Shuangrong had brought poisonous wild mushrooms, and the guests’ chaotic hallucinations had made Love Watch a viral hit. She learned her wealthy family had sent her stepmother and stepbrother to collect her, so she forced them to take her back to their mansion, where she vowed to make their home their hell.

• Xie Mi woke in the hospital, figured out Xu Shuangrong had brought wild mushrooms, and saw that the poisoning footage had made the guests popular online.
• Li Meiyan and Xie Lian arrived to take Xie Mi home, and Xie Mi remembered that she had a wealthy family and that they had treated her badly.
• Xie Mi overheard Li Meiyan plotting to scare her away and threatened to call the police until Li Meiyan agreed to take her home immediately.
• Xie Mi arrived at the family estate and told Xie Lian she would turn the place into his hell.

Xie Mi toured her family’s villa and uncovered clues about her past, then confronted her stepmother Li Meiyan and asserted her place in the household. Xie Lian took her to the greenhouse, where Xie Mi mistook his eerie behavior for a mental episode.

• Li Meiyan led Xie Mi to a disturbing room that had been arranged to resemble her childhood bedroom, but Xie Mi calmly asked to see the study instead.
• Xie Mi found a photograph of the original Xie Mi with her father and concluded that he cared for her, while Li Meiyan had likely worsened her distress.
• Xie Mi threatened to tell her father that Li Meiyan had recreated her traumatic room, and Li Meiyan hurried off to clean it.
• Xie Lian arrived to show Xie Mi around, and she followed him through the back garden to the greenhouse.
• Xie Lian asked whether Xie Mi missed the flowers, and Xie Mi told him to take his medication because he seemed to be having an episode.

Xie Mi exposed Xie Lian’s secret torture room and kept both him and Li Meiyan under her thumb. When Xie Zhengde returned with Shen Yeqing, Xie Mi appealed to her father and saw signs that he cared for her; the chapter ended with Li Meiyan and Xie Lian kneeling and begging her for mercy.

• Xie Lian showed Xie Mi his hidden torture room, but she threatened to expose it, making him panic and plead with her not to tell.
• Xie Mi caught Xie Lian putting dead bugs in her juice and slapped him, then slapped Li Meiyan when she asked to be spared.
• Xie Mi mistook Shen Yeqing for her father and launched into a plea about being mistreated before Xie Zhengde appeared behind him.
• Xie Zhengde took Xie Mi’s hand and pulled her up, showing her a rare hint of affection as Old Bai remarked that he had smiled.
• Xie Zhengde questioned Li Meiyan and Xie Lian about Xie Mi’s claims, and Li Meiyan kicked Xie Lian to his knees to beg for forgiveness.
• Xie Zhengde and Shen Yeqing went to the study while Li Meiyan and Xie Lian knelt before Xie Mi and pleaded with her.

Xie Mi returned to Xie Zhengde’s home, chose the best room, and got five million yuan from her father. That night, she foiled Li Meiyan and Xie Lian’s attempt to scare her, leaving both of them injured.

• Xie Zhengde asked Xie Mi about her plans, and she chose the sunny second-floor room with a large terrace.
• Xie Mi asked Xie Zhengde for gold, and he transferred five million yuan to her.
• Xie Mi questioned Shen Yeqing about his connection to Xie Zhengde, and he admitted he had told her father about her difficult past because he wanted her to have a good life.
• Xie Mi struggled to sleep in her new home and discovered Li Meiyan and Xie Lian climbing toward her window to frighten her.
• Xie Mi shone her powerful flashlight at Li Meiyan and Xie Lian, causing Li Meiyan to fall and Xie Lian to land on her back.

Xie Mi went shopping with Xie Lian and Old Bai, where she outwitted her rival Jiang Huaiting after Jiang tried to shame her for not buying anything. The confrontation ended when Old Bai announced that the entire mall belonged to the Xie family.

• Xie Zhengde sent Xie Mi to shop with Xie Lian, whose expenses for the day were assigned to him.
• Xie Mi noticed a clerk taking down a poster of Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong, then encountered her old rival Jiang Huaiting.
• Jiang Huaiting bought everything Xie Mi touched to flaunt her wealth, and her credit card was maxed out.
• Jiang Huaiting accused Xie Mi of pretending to be wealthy, but Xie Mi responded with exaggerated enthusiasm and refused to be embarrassed.
• Old Bai rushed in and declared that the entire mall belonged to the Xie family.

Xie Mi and Xie Lian flaunted the family’s wealth to crush Jiang Huaiting’s pride, then Xie Mi learned that Xie Lian’s classmate Yu Jinche was the original novel’s dangerous villain. After the Love Watch production team launched an extravagant outdoor shoot in South Sea City, Xie Mi arrived and fled from an over-the-top welcome.

• Xie Lian paid for every item in a luxury store, and Jiang Huaiting left after seeing Xie Mi’s lavish display.
• Xie Mi met Yu Jinche, recognized him as the original novel’s villain, and watched him arrange to visit Xie Lian before changing his plans.
• Director Niu blamed Xie Mi for the show’s chaotic trending topics and announced an outdoor filming plan.
• Xie Mi arrived in South Sea City and ran away when a man greeted her with a personalized sign and a thunderous welcome.

Xie Mi met her new assistant, Maomao, and joined the other guests on a pink love-themed bus for a three-day trip in Nanhaishi. Her eccentric outfit and blunt choices disrupted Director Niu’s attempts to create a romantic atmosphere, and the group prepared to play Guardian Angel.

• Xie Mi learned that the dark-skinned man was her company-hired assistant, discovered his nickname was Maomao, and heard that he would stay with her in Nanhaishi.
• Xie Mi and Maomao went to a local market and salon, where she changed into a flashy outfit and got her hair styled before heading to the bus stop.
• Director Niu reacted to Xie Mi’s spiky hairstyle, and she followed up with tacky romantic poetry that made Qiu Chengye spit out his water.
• Xie Mi ignored Xiao Jingxi’s invitation, stepped over Shen Yeqing’s legs, and sat beside Xu Shuangrong, while Shen Yeqing asked if she was looking down on him.
• Director Niu welcomed the guests to Nanhaishi and announced that they would play Guardian Angel on the bus before heading to the beach.

Xie Mi drew Shen Yeqing as her Guardian Angel, then helped the guests earn their first camping funds by charging into the production crew during the tug-of-war. After she woke in Shen Yeqing’s arms, she flirted with him while Xiao Jingxi tried to pull her away.

• Xie Mi wrote that she wished to reap the rewards without working, then drew Shen Yeqing’s name in the Guardian Angel Game.
• Director Niu announced that the guests had to win three contests against the production crew to earn money for camping supplies.
• Xu Shuangrong pushed Xie Mi to the front, and Xie Mi accepted the challenge against the crew’s muscular competitors.
• During the tug-of-war, Xie Mi charged the assistant director with her gel-stiffened hairstyle, knocking the opposing team down and winning the guests one thousand yuan.
• Xie Mi woke in Shen Yeqing’s arms and reached for him, but Xiao Jingxi tried to pull her away.
• Shen Yeqing pulled Xie Mi back into his embrace and told Xiao Jingxi that she was lusting after his body.