Chapter Summaries

At the amusement park, Qiu Chengye pushed himself through thrill rides to avoid looking weak in front of Liu Woxing, while she grew increasingly unimpressed. When he claimed men were superior to women, Liu Woxing dismissed him and said she saw no point in arguing with him.

• Qiu Chengye nervously rode a vertical roller coaster with Liu Woxing, then insisted he had only fallen asleep when the ride briefly knocked him unconscious.
• Qiu Chengye kept claiming the thrill rides were nothing, even as his legs trembled and he collapsed after one of them.
• After the rides, Liu Woxing told Qiu Chengye she looked down on him because he pushed himself out of the belief that she was inferior to him.
• Qiu Chengye argued that men were superior to women, and Liu Woxing calmly said she did not need to discuss values with someone she barely knew.

Liu Woxing and Qiu Chengye ended their argument by agreeing they had no relationship beyond being colleagues, then returned to the villa in a tense silence. Meanwhile, Lai Bingxuan and Yu Jinche prepared dinner, and Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi came back after their online scandals took another turn.

• Liu Woxing told Qiu Chengye they were only colleagues, then left the amusement park without looking back; Qiu Chengye fumed and kicked a pillar.
• Liu Woxing and Qiu Chengye rode back to the villa without speaking, while Lai Bingxuan and Yu Jinche enjoyed a quiet wellness-center date.
• Lai Bingxuan and Yu Jinche began cooking dinner, and Liu Woxing stopped Yu Jinche from adding edible ant eggs to the soup.
• Qiu Chengye saw Liu Woxing working comfortably with Lai Bingxuan and Yu Jinche, slammed his glass down, and returned to his room.
• Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi returned exhausted after dealing with rumors, and Xiao Jingxi's physical-exam report debunked one rumor while revealing his severe hair loss.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing revisited the plaster-doll shop on their date, where their playful closeness delighted the Love Watch crew and viewers. Back at the villa, Xie Mi declared dinner edible, but Lai Bingxuan insisted someone physically weak should test it next, and Xie Mi nominated Qiu Chengye.

• Xie Mi asked Shen Yeqing for half of their old date keepsakes, and he suggested they make new ones together at the plaster-doll shop.
• Director Niu let Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing continue their date, and they painted plaster dolls, took photo-booth pictures, and did other activities.
• Xie Mi wondered if Shen Yeqing had called her Liu Liu, but he denied it in their messages, so she decided she had misheard.
• Xie Mi tested the villa dinner and declared it edible after waiting five minutes without feeling ill.
• Lai Bingxuan called for someone physically weak to test the food, and Xie Mi nominated Qiu Chengye, citing his irritability and short temper.

Xie Mi’s late-night plans to meet Shen Yeqing kept getting derailed as she secretly crossed paths with several housemates, so the two played a mobile game together from neighboring rooms instead. The next morning, she learned that all the male guests had gone out for a special activity, though Director Niu had not yet explained what was planned.

• At dinner, Lai Bingxuan revealed that Qiu Chengye had argued with Liu Woxing after getting scared on amusement park rides, and she and Qiu Chengye traded insults until the meal descended into chaos.
• After Director Niu privately called away the four male guests and the livestream ended, Xie Mi tried to meet Shen Yeqing in the study, screening room, kitchen, and garden, but each location was occupied.
• Xie Mi finally canceled the meeting and played a mobile game with Shen Yeqing from their neighboring rooms, using Cheng Yaojin and Yao.
• The next morning, Xie Mi found the villa unusually quiet and learned from Liu Woxing that the male guests had gone out for a special activity that Director Niu would reveal later.

The female guests learned that they would visit two male guests at work or school, then watched footage meant to reveal the men’s daily lives. They identified Yu Jinche in the second video, while the first man’s identity remained uncertain.

• Director Niu announced set visit day, explaining that the female guests would visit the male guests in their work and study environments.
• The women watched a video of a man driving to an upscale office, where employees reported to him and he met business partners, but they could not tell whether he was Shen Yeqing or Qiu Chengye.
• The women watched a second video of a man traveling to a mountain site and hiking with a group to collect stream water.
• Xie Mi recognized that Yu Jinche’s biology studies could explain the trip, and the women concluded that the second man was Yu Jinche.

The guests watched the remaining workplace videos, submitted their choices, and began a heart-rate challenge to decide who would get first pick. The first two ideal-type videos left all four women unmoved, and the challenge continued.

• The third video showed a person jumping from a high-rise, and Xu Shuangrong guessed he was a film actor wearing a safety harness.
• The fourth video showed a protagonist inspecting a high-tech factory and a robot, but the guests could not identify him.
• The four women submitted their first and second workplace choices, and Xie Mi chose workplace four as her first choice.
• Director Niu started the Don't Fall in Love Challenge, in which the first guest whose heart rate exceeded 120 would lose and the last remaining guest would choose first.
• The first two ideal-type videos showed a smiling fresh-faced young man and a scarred school delinquent, but none of the four guests' heart rates changed.

Xie Mi and the other women watched a video of potential romantic types, but Xie Mi only showed strong interest in a flashy meme singer and a muscular man before recognizing swimmer You Hongxuan. She learned You had already joined the National Team and wondered whether her return in time had changed his future.

• The video showed handsome men whose appearances failed to raise most of the women’s heart rates, while a domineering CEO reminded them of Qiu Chengye and made their heart rates drop.
• A flashy singer performed a remix about Marco Polo, and Xie Mi sang along, raising her heart rate and making Liu Woxing laugh.
• The video showed a shirtless, muscular man, and Xie Mi applauded while all four women’s heart rates rose.
• Footage of swimmer You Hongxuan winning a race surprised Xie Mi, who realized he had become an athlete ahead of the timeline in the original novel.
• Director Niu said You had declined the show because of a closed training camp, and Liu Woxing explained that a mysterious conglomerate had funded his training after he overcame limited family resources.

The female guests finished the Don't Fall in Love Challenge, with Lai Bingxuan winning after her heart rate stayed completely steady. The work visits were assigned, and Xie Mi headed to an enormous industrial park for her first visit.

• Xie Mi came last in the challenge, while Xu Shuangrong placed second-to-last after her heart rate briefly spiked at You Hongxuan's video.
• Lai Bingxuan took first place, leaving Liu Woxing behind after Xie Mi made her laugh.
• The Production Team assigned the four women their work visits, and Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and Xu Shuangrong explained their choices during the drive.
• Xie Mi's car interview started late because she had been assigned the remaining visits, though those were the two she had wanted anyway.
• Xie Mi arrived at an industrial park and was amazed by the enormous factories.

Xie Mi visited 666 Technology Industrial Park and discovered that Shen Yeqing was the company’s boss, who had built a private VR game for them to play together. The chapter ended when she recognized the three photos displayed beside a Holographic Game Pod as the ones Shen Yeqing had posted on his Moments feed.

• Xie Mi arrived at 666 Technology Industrial Park and received a bouquet of broccoli from a robot.
• Xie Mi toured the park and learned its robots did not normally greet visitors unless someone interacted with them.
• The park manager told Xie Mi that Shen Yeqing had personally designed an unreleased VR game based on real places and was its only player.
• The park manager sent Xie Mi into a workshop, where Shen Yeqing welcomed her as “six... Liu Liu.”
• Xie Mi noticed three photographs beside a Holographic Game Pod and recognized them from Shen Yeqing’s Moments feed.

Shen Yeqing brought Xie Mi into a recreated world built from the moments they had shared, showing her the memories he had preserved in his photos. The final scene revealed his wish for them to stay together and welcome autumn with Xiao You.

• Xie Mi entered the Holographic Game Pod with Shen Yeqing and found herself in a lifelike recreation of a familiar street.
• Shen Yeqing showed Xie Mi their first remembered breakfast together, when his eight-year-old self begged her not to leave.
• Xie Mi recognized herself in the park photo and wondered if she had frightened children while dressed as a robber, but Shen Yeqing said she had been his hero.
• Shen Yeqing recreated the dessert-shop scene where his sixteen-year-old self confessed to Xie Mi, and her other self agreed to stay with him.
• The recreated Shen Yeqing, Xie Mi, and Xiao You walked home together, making plans to go on an autumn outing that year.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing reflected on how he created technology to find her after she vanished from photographs, then spent the day together at 666. Shen Yeqing gave Xie Mi a portable holographic gaming pod so they could meet in their game world whenever they were apart.

• In a park, Shen Yeqing explained that he created his inventions to find Xie Mi even if she disappeared from the world, and she promised to wait for him wherever she was.
• Xie Mi woke from the gaming pod, joined Shen Yeqing for lunch, and viewers reacted online to learning he founded 666 and had made a VR game for her.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing enjoyed the lavish staff cafeteria buffet together, recalling an earlier meal they had shared after escaping a factory.
• Shen Yeqing showed Xie Mi new technology and unreleased games at his office, and she received several company gadgets as gifts.
• Shen Yeqing gave Xie Mi a portable holographic gaming pod so they could enter their game world and find each other whenever they could not meet.

Lai Bingxuan visited Qiu Chengye at his company and used recordings of Xie Mi’s voice to puncture his performative CEO act. Meanwhile, Liu Woxing watched Xiao Jingxi repeat a rooftop stunt and pointed out that the crew had been filming the same scene for hours.

• Lai Bingxuan arrived at a Qiu Group subsidiary and was escorted to Qiu Chengye’s office.
• Qiu Chengye staged an elaborate display of working before Lai Bingxuan played recordings of Xie Mi asking if he was showing off and calling him a dumbass.
• Lai Bingxuan sat on the sofa while Qiu Chengye pretended to work, typing gibberish and private complaints into a document.
• Liu Woxing arrived at Xiao Jingxi’s rooftop film set and watched him leap from the rooftop for another take.
• Liu Woxing remarked that the crew had been filming the same scene for two hours, prompting viewers to question Xiao Jingxi’s performance and motives.

The female guests visited the male guests’ workplaces, where Xu Shuangrong tried to manipulate Yu Jinche’s interest and the others had very different experiences. At the café, Lai Bingxuan complained about Qiu Chengye’s staged workplace, while Xie Mi summed up Shen Yeqing’s workplace as “pretty tasty.”

• Xiao Jingxi greeted Liu Woxing on set, and she socialized with the crew while gathering information.
• Xu Shuangrong joined Yu Jinche’s group and tried to make him curious about her by claiming Xie Mi had chosen to visit him.
• Xie Mi enjoyed Shen Yeqing’s technology park, Lai Bingxuan argued with Qiu Chengye, Liu Woxing watched Xiao Jingxi film, and Xu Shuangrong endured Yu Jinche’s bug-filled jungle trip.
• The four female guests met at a café, where Lai Bingxuan called Qiu Chengye a poser and complained that his workplace was staged.
• Xie Mi told Director Niu that Shen Yeqing’s workplace was “pretty tasty” because of its food and drinks.

Xie Mi visited Qiu Chengye at a dinner with his friends, where she mocked the men who insulted her and kept Qiu Chengye nervous with her leverage over him. After the dinner, Qiu Chengye secretly agreed to her offer of a specialist referral, and Xie Mi immediately used his reply to gain more leverage.

• Lai Bingxuan asked Xie Mi to insult Qiu Chengye on his behalf before the visits began.
• Xie Mi arrived at Qiu Chengye's dinner and answered two guests' mockery with a taunt about their ears slapping them like a pig's head.
• Xie Mi offered Qiu Chengye sea cucumber, prompting him to scold his friends and stop them from antagonizing her.
• Qiu Chengye's friends assumed his submissive behavior was an act for the show, while he privately resolved to find a specialist and get revenge on Xie Mi.
• Xie Mi messaged Qiu Chengye about a men's health specialist, and he replied that he wanted a referral.
• Xie Mi took a screenshot of Qiu Chengye's reply and announced that she had gained another piece of leverage.

Xie Mi used a screenshot and a scallion to intimidate Qiu Chengye, while the other pairs finished their workplace visits. Xu Shuangrong failed to get Shen Yeqing to talk and lost her chance to speak with him on the ride back when Qiu Chengye rushed into their car.

• Xie Mi showed Qiu Chengye a screenshot, then smacked him with a scallion on Lai Bingxuan's behalf.
• Lai Bingxuan confronted Xiao Jingxi about the cheating allegations during dinner with his film crew, and he denied them.
• Liu Woxing and Yu Jinche ate at the campus cafeteria, met Liu Woxing's fans, and tried school club activities together.
• Xu Shuangrong watched two science fiction films with Shen Yeqing, but he kept their conversation to a minimum.
• Qiu Chengye hurried into Shen Yeqing and Xu Shuangrong's car to avoid riding with Xie Mi, leaving Xu Shuangrong unable to talk to Shen Yeqing on the drive back.

Xu Shuangrong failed to speak privately with Shen Yeqing, while the show arranged promotional photo shoots for its three most popular pairings. Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing began planning their shoot, and Xie Mi proposed a bizarre concept involving a bodybuilder and an elderly man.

• Xu Shuangrong checked online chatter and decided she needed to talk properly with Xiao Jingxi after her feud with him hurt both their reputations.
• Director Niu announced that the three most popular pairings would shoot promotional photos, while Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and Yu Jinche would receive a secret assignment.
• Director Niu told Xie Mi that her two photo shoots would compete against the other pairings, with the group receiving the fewest votes punished at the roadshow.
• Shen Yeqing browsed romantic photo references, and Director Niu hinted that he and Xie Mi could choose any theme or styling.
• Xie Mi argued that a bizarre concept would attract votes and described a comedic story in which a bodybuilder's apparent pursuit of an elderly man led to an elder-abuse arrest and a community effort to help seniors.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing filmed an absurd promotional shoot before Qiu Chengye replaced him as Xie Mi’s partner. To avoid competing with another bizarre photo set, Xie Mi chose a monkey-themed concept, leaving Qiu Chengye dressed as a monkey beneath a tree.

• Xie Mi pitched an outlandish story for the promotional photos, and Shen Yeqing agreed to play an old man while she played a bodybuilder.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing filmed their bizarre scene, while Director Niu and the crew struggled to keep up with the spectacle.
• After the morning shoot, the Production Team took Shen Yeqing back to the villa and brought Qiu Chengye in as Xie Mi’s new partner.
• Xie Mi warned Qiu Chengye that the pair with the fewest votes would face a public punishment, prompting him to agree to do whatever it took to win.
• Xie Mi explained that they needed a different concept from the other pair’s bizarre photos and took Qiu Chengye to Monkey Mountain for an animal-themed shoot.
• Qiu Chengye realized Xie Mi had dressed him as a monkey and made him squat beneath a tree.

During a secret-agent photo shoot, Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi argued while System L proposed teaming up with Xu to defeat Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing. Back at the villa, the guests edited their photos, and Qiu Chengye recoiled from Xie Mi’s monkey-like edit of him.

• Xu Shuangrong warned Xiao Jingxi that he could not defeat Shen Yeqing and urged him to consider working with her, but Xiao accused her of using him and refused.
• System L offered to cooperate with Xu Shuangrong, explaining that Xiao Jingxi was her equal and that it would be her partner; Xu accepted until they defeated Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing.
• The guests returned to the villa after the shoot and began editing their photos.
• Xie Mi wrote a loving message for Shen Yeqing’s photo, and he added decorative text that gave it a CEO romance-novel feel.
• Xie Mi edited Qiu Chengye into a monkey-like pose, and Qiu panicked when he saw the result.

Liu Woxing, Yu Jinche, and Lai Bingxuan were tasked with organizing at least ten roadshow acts and finalizing the program that day. They chose to make a sequel to their previous play, and Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing agreed to join it.

• The PD assigned Liu Woxing, Yu Jinche, and Lai Bingxuan to organize and host the roadshow performances, with authority to choose acts for the other guests.
• Liu Woxing suggested they perform a creative act rather than rely on singing or dancing, and Lai Bingxuan proposed a sequel to their previous play.
• Lai Bingxuan contacted Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing, who agreed to participate, while she left the other three guests unasked.
• Lai Bingxuan confirmed that Xiao Jingxi would direct the sequel and that everyone would discuss the plot together.

Liu Woxing, Lai Bingxuan, and Xie Mi finalized the promotional event program and began the first rehearsal day, but Qiu Chengye discovered he had been assigned multiple acts without realizing it. A mistaken program briefly made him think he had to saw someone in half without magic props before Liu Woxing gave him the corrected version, which still left him performing another act.

• The performers gathered early for rehearsal, and Xie Mi explained that medicated oil in her eyes had kept her wide awake after a late night editing photos.
• Liu Woxing distributed the program, and Qiu Chengye learned that Lai Bingxuan had sent his notice through Weibo, where he had not seen it.
• Qiu Chengye and Xiao Jingxi protested being assigned to Dance of the four little swans, while Yu Jinche and Shen Yeqing had already agreed to perform.
• Qiu Chengye found himself listed with Lai Bingxuan for a disappearing-person magic act and panicked when the program appeared to say it had no magic props.
• Liu Woxing replaced the misprinted program with the correct version, which included magic props, but Qiu Chengye realized he still had to perform another act.