Chapter Summaries

Xie Mi and Lai Bingxuan helped Liu Woxing retaliate against Qiu Chengye with a series of pranks, leaving him injured and the company buzzing with rumors. Qiu Chengye later confronted Liu Woxing to deny the rumors, while she kept her distance and concealed her amusement.

• Xie Mi had Lai Bingxuan water Qiu Chengye’s money tree and enlisted Liu Woxing to unplug his network cables, replace his mineral water with Laoshan Snake Grass Soda, and spray chili water on his toilet paper.
• Liu Woxing put on headphones and returned to work while Qiu Chengye’s employees erupted into gossip after he screamed and was rushed for medical attention.
• Liu Woxing found a photo of Qiu Chengye clutching his backside and shared it with Lai Bingxuan and Xie Mi in their group chat.
• Xie Mi said she had taken care of something big, hinting that she planned a more lasting solution to Qiu Chengye’s harassment.
• Qiu Chengye returned from the hospital and came to Liu Woxing’s office, where he denied the rumors and said he had not been at work that morning.
• Liu Woxing told Qiu Chengye that his affairs did not concern her.

Liu Woxing watched Qiu Chengye receive a humiliating delivery and continued working as the incident spread through the company. After finding Xie Mi's note and discovering the package contained chili powder and water, Qiu Chengye realized Xie Mi had targeted him and was visiting the Secret News Agency.

• Qiu Chengye insulted Liu Woxing, but a courier interrupted them with an anonymous delivery of male sexual health products and a book.
• Qiu Chengye tried to hide the contents, then signed for the package and insisted his friends had sent it as a prank.
• After Qiu Chengye ordered the package thrown away, Liu Woxing saw a company group-chat photo of him rummaging through the trash and shared it with Lai and their three-person group.
• Qiu Chengye retrieved the package and found a note asking, "Ready to behave?" along with chili powder and water.
• Qiu Chengye connected the contents to Xie Mi's earlier pranks and saw her Moments post showing that she, Lai Bingxuan, and Liu Woxing were visiting the Secret News Agency.

Love Watch announced that its third phase would debut Saturday at 8 a.m. and launched a cooking special to test whether its eight guests could prepare proper food. The livestream visited Xie Mi at an advertising shoot, where an unexpected moment was about to unfold.

• Qiu Chengye stopped troubling Liu Woxing, kept the building lit late, and increased security after the previous incident.
• Love Watch announced the start date and new concept for its third phase after ten days of preparation.
• The Production Team told the guests to learn two signature dishes, warning that anyone who failed the tasting would have to eat only their own cooking next season.
• The Production Team began its cooking-special livestream at Xie Mi's filming location, where she was acting in a family-themed commercial.
• The livestream showed Xie Mi sitting with an elderly grandmother on a sofa as the crew praised her acting, just before something unexpected happened.

Xie Mi filmed an anti-fraud PSA before Love Watch’s cooking special put her cooking skills to the test. Her smashed cucumber mash passed the staff tasting, and she moved on to her second dish.

• Xie Mi played a senior scammer in an anti-fraud PSA and earned praise from the director for her performance.
• The Love Watch Production Team visited Xie Mi and introduced a cooking test requiring her to make two dishes that at least six of ten staff members would find tasty.
• Xie Mi smashed a cucumber into scraps, seasoned it, and named the dish smashed cucumber mash.
• Xie Mi claimed the extra smashing was her deliberate innovation and called it an accident on purpose when the PD asked if it was intentional.
• Six staff members approved the smashed cucumber mash, so Xie Mi passed her first dish.

Xie Mi passed the cooking challenge by serving a hot-pot-style vegetable stew, and the Love Watch Season Three livestream began three days later with all eight guests receiving their first task cards. The chapter left the guests about to read their new assignments.

• Xie Mi made smashed cucumber mush, then poured hot oil over it as a joke hot dish before preparing a vegetable stew with hot pot soup base.
• Xie Mi called the stew Magical Stew, and the staff ate it together and passed her second dish.
• The Love Watch preview livestream ended, and the production team noted that most of the other guests had also taken shortcuts.
• Three days later, filming for the final season of Human Love Observation Room began, and all eight guests went live from their hotel rooms.
• A PD handed Xie Mi her first task card and asked her to open it.

Xie Mi and the other guests received invitations to a beach banquet meant to begin the final season’s dating-focused activities. As Qiu Chengye arrived and the orchestra shifted into suspenseful music, Director Niu started a timer, hinting that the apparently pleasant banquet had a catch.

• Xie Mi read the Production Team’s invitation and learned the guests were expected at a beach banquet to get to know one another more deeply.
• Diao Mao dressed Xie Mi in a black suit and styled her with a commanding look, while Xie Mi grew suspicious of the warning against skirts.
• Qiu Chengye arrived at the beach in an elaborate navy suit and picked up a glass of champagne as the orchestra played.
• Director Niu told Qiu Chengye to look out at the sea, counted down, and started a timer.

The production team surprised Qiu Chengye and Lai Bingxuan with an ocean obstacle race instead of the promised banquet. Qiu failed at the starting line, while Lai reached the third obstacle before falling into the sea.

• Director Niu revealed the ocean race rules, and Qiu Chengye rushed forward in his tight suit but fell into the sea at the first obstacle.
• Staff took the soaked Qiu to a temporary shower room, and Lai Bingxuan arrived dressed in a purple evening outfit.
• Director Niu started Lai's race, and she removed her shoes before running barefoot toward the obstacles.
• Lai crossed the rotating log bridge with a leap, surprising Qiu Chengye, who had expected her to fall.
• Lai used skills from her secret acrobatics classes to progress, but she was eliminated halfway through the third obstacle.