Chapter Summaries

Xie Mi cleared the third stage by being flung all the way to the finish, astonishing the contestants and crew. Shen Yeqing and Xiao Jingxi began the next race together, but Xiao fell into the sea at the starting line after lunging at Shen.

• Xie Mi let go of the spinning platform, flew through the air, and landed at the finish line in three minutes and forty-eight seconds.
• Xie Mi returned to shore on the yacht, baffled Lai Bingxuan with her explanation, and watched Yu Jinche, Xu Shuangrong, and Liu Woxing fail to complete the course.
• Director Niu started Shen Yeqing and Xiao Jingxi together, and Xiao chased Shen toward the single-log bridge.
• Xiao Jingxi lunged at Shen Yeqing but missed and fell into the sea, finishing at the starting line.

Xie Mi won the obstacle race, while Shen Yeqing’s spectacular fall sent him back to the start and left the others amused. After the top three received Love Keys, the guests prepared for the season’s real opening banquet in Hai City.

• Xiao Jingxi failed to clear the first obstacle, and Xie Mi embarrassed Qiu Chengye with a livestream meme of him being restrained by security.
• Shen Yeqing was flung from the spinning third obstacle and landed back at the start, while Xie Mi cheered him on.
• The final rankings placed Xie Mi first, Lai Bingxuan second, and Xu Shuangrong third, earning each of them a Love Key.
• The guests left the hotel, changed into glamorous evening outfits, and headed to the real opening banquet in Hai City.

Xie Mi arrived at the lavish filming-start banquet and discovered a strange head-card game that seemed to tell guests what they had to do. She tested her theory by baiting Xiao Jingxi into approaching her, then confronted him about how he had controlled her eating habits.

• Xie Mi reached the banquet hall, where a server tied a card to her forehead and told her not to remove it.
• Xie Mi found Qiu Chengye and Xiao Jingxi struggling to exchange the words on their head-cards without saying them aloud.
• Xie Mi saw that Qiu Chengye's card said “sing” and Xiao Jingxi's said “eat,” then tested her theory by eating cake near Xiao Jingxi.
• Xiao Jingxi tried to charm Xie Mi by praising her for enjoying cake and saying he wanted to get to know her again.
• Xie Mi accused Xiao Jingxi of pressuring her to eat light meals and pretending to accept her choices, so he ate cake and claimed he wanted to put her first.

At a mysterious banquet, Xie Mi realized the guests had to avoid performing the actions written on the cards above their heads. After Xiao Jingxi was hit with a cream projectile for eating cake, the guests gathered and silently began trying to understand the game.

• Xie Mi coaxed Xiao Jingxi into eating cake, then left to eat fruit.
• A cloaked staff member named Zhao Hong shot Xiao Jingxi in the face with a cream projectile after he took a glass of wine.
• Xie Mi deduced that the guests would be attacked if they performed the actions written on their cards.
• Qiu Chengye tried to mislead Xiao Jingxi about why he had been attacked, but his explanation quickly fell apart.
• Liu Woxing noticed the cards and followed Xie Mi's silent warning not to speak about them.
• The guests gathered, saw the words on one another's cards, and silently began to assess the game.

At the kickoff banquet, the guests tried to navigate mysterious prompts above their heads while avoiding punishments. Xie Mi chose Shen Yeqing for the first dance, and Xu Shuangrong agreed to dance with Qiu Chengye to test whether her prompt was involved.

• Xie Mi read the prompts above the guests and noticed Yu Jinche had to smile with his teeth showing.
• A Chi announced the first dance, prompting guests to find partners while they tried not to reveal their prompts.
• Shen Yeqing invited Xie Mi to dance, but Xiao Jingxi interrupted; Xie Mi rejected Xiao Jingxi and went with Shen Yeqing.
• Liu Woxing invited Lai Bingxuan to dance, and Xie Mi pulled them into a four-person hula dance.
• A Chi urged Qiu Chengye to find a partner, so he asked Xu Shuangrong to dance; Xu Shuangrong accepted to see if it would trigger a punishment.

The guests discovered that their banquet game punished them for doing the hidden actions written above their heads, after Xu Shuangrong, Lai Bingxuan, and Yu Jinche were hit with cream cannons. The host revealed that the guest who lost the most points would be sent to a surprise cabin, and that naming another guest’s hidden phrase would cost five points and replace their card.

• Xiao Jingxi and Yu Jinche paired up to dance, while Xu Shuangrong also danced and unknowingly triggered her hidden phrase.
• Qiu Chengye tricked Lai Bingxuan into saying numbers, triggering her hidden phrase as the host interviewed the guests.
• Yu Jinche admitted he smiled when asked about being shipped with anyone, unknowingly triggering his hidden phrase four times.
• Staff members fired cream cannons at Xu Shuangrong, Lai Bingxuan, and Yu Jinche, while Xie Mi helped Lai clean the cream from her eyes.
• Xu Shuangrong worked out that her hidden phrase was likely “dance,” while Yu Jinche could not figure out why he had been punished.
• The host revealed the Don’t Do It Challenge, explained that the guest with the most points deducted would stay in a surprise cabin, and warned that saying another guest’s phrase would cost five points and replace their card.

The Love Watch cast learned that revealing another person's prompt cost points, and the loser would spend the night in the Surprise House. At the banquet, Xie Mi drew Qiu Chengye into a singing challenge, then recited her lyrics instead of singing, leaving him furious.

• The host explained that revealing another person's prompt cost five points and that the lowest-scoring contestant would stay at the Surprise House.
• Xiao Jingxi asked about the punishment, and the host confirmed the loser would not return to the villa that night.
• Yu Jinche sang The Most Dazzling Ethnic Wind with Xu Shuangrong, and Qiu Chengye criticized his performance before refusing to take the microphone himself.
• Xie Mi challenged Qiu Chengye to settle who was Love Watch's real singing champion, and he agreed after she pretended to lose interest.
• Qiu Chengye sang his section enthusiastically but off-key, while Xie Mi recited her section's lyrics and thanked the audience.
• Qiu Chengye angrily demanded to know whether Xie Mi considered that singing.

Xie Mi used her discovery that duplicate [Singing] tags were in play to trap Qiu Chengye, while the punishments revealed more about the cast’s tags. As the group began greeting the international audience, Xiao Jingxi spoke first in fluent English, leaving Shen Yeqing to follow his example.

• Xie Mi recited instead of singing, making Qiu Chengye the sole performer and earning him the title of Love Watch’s “king of singing.”
• The applause triggered the tags: Yu Jinche received three shots, Liu Woxing received six, and Qiu Chengye received twelve, updating their scores to 7, 6, and 12.
• Liu Woxing suspected clapping was her tag and tested her theory with one soft clap.
• The host announced that viewers overseas were watching and invited the cast to greet them.
• Xiao Jingxi greeted the audience in fluent English, then Shen Yeqing prepared to speak after him.

At the guests’ introductions, Xiao Jingxi tried to exploit Shen Yeqing’s English-speaking trigger, but Shen avoided it by using a translator to speak German and confess his interest in Xie Mi. The introductions turned into a multilingual contest, and the chapter ended with Liu Woxing pointing out that Shen could at least read his translated lines aloud, unlike Xie Mi.

• Xiao Jingxi nudged Shen Yeqing to speak English, but Shen introduced himself in Chinese and promoted his ship with Xie Mi.
• After Xiao Jingxi pressed him to greet overseas viewers in English, Shen used an online translator to deliver a German introduction confessing he wanted to pursue Xie Mi.
• Xie Mi gave a Japanese introduction, and Liu Woxing, Lai Bingxuan, Qiu Chengye, Xu Shuangrong, and Yu Jinche followed with introductions in other languages or sign language.
• Xie Mi asked Shen how he had learned German, and Shen showed her the translation webpage on his phone.
• Liu Woxing remarked that Shen could read and speak his translated lines aloud, leaving Xie Mi embarrassed about her own language skills.

After the host left the dinner party, Qiu Chengye tried to escape last place by forcing other contestants to trigger their prompts. He succeeded in making Yu Jinche and Xiao Jingxi lose points, but the chapter ended with the group overpowering Xiao Jingxi to make him eat cake.

• Qiu Chengye asked the departing host for more cues, but the host told the guests to continue on their own.
• Xie Mi suggested that contestants could force others to trigger their prompts, and Shen Yeqing encouraged Qiu Chengye to find a target.
• Qiu Chengye grabbed Yu Jinche and forced him to smile with his teeth, but Yu Jinche pretended to pass out and the Production Team carried him away.
• Qiu Chengye targeted Liu Woxing, then changed course and grabbed Xiao Jingxi after realizing his prompt was [Eating].
• Qiu Chengye offered to transfer Xie Mi money to help put Xiao Jingxi in last place, and Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, and Xu Shuangrong joined in to force cake into Xiao Jingxi’s mouth.

The Love Watch guests arrived at the Flower Cottage villa and met Little Ox, a robot butler sponsored by Shen Yeqing’s company. The chapter ended with Little Ox embarrassing Qiu Chengye by reciting his habits and reputation.

• After the kickoff banquet, Xiao Jingxi went alone to the Surprise House while the other seven guests traveled to the villa.
• Xie Mi and the guests arrived at Flower Cottage and met Little Ox, a robot speaking in Director Niu’s unexpectedly cutesy voice.
• Director Niu introduced Little Ox as the villa butler and explained that 666 Technology sponsored the season, while Shen Yeqing said he mainly wanted a share of the show’s popularity.
• Qiu Chengye questioned Little Ox’s usefulness, and the robot identified him and listed his hobbies, dislike of Xie Mi, and reputation among netizens.

Little Ox defended itself from Qiu Chengye and revealed its household features before the cast began choosing rooms. Since Xiao Jingxi was absent, he was assigned the last room and arrived at a remote, frightening thatched hut.

• Qiu Chengye tried to shut off Little Ox, but its self-defense robot vacuum knocked him onto the sofa.
• Director Niu explained that Little Ox had powerful safety protocols, and the robot demonstrated a mechanical arm that could handle many kitchen chores.
• Director Niu said Xiao Jingxi could not choose a room because he was absent, so he would receive the last one after the others chose.
• Xiao Jingxi woke during the ride and found himself abandoned outside a dilapidated thatched hut, with the Production Team filming from a distance.

Xiao Jingxi spent a frightened night in a dilapidated thatched hut while the other guests chose rooms at the villa through a game of chance. Qiu Chengye confidently picked the piano-keys picture, but the others concluded his choice had backfired when he stayed unusually quiet.

• Xiao Jingxi mistook a rat outside the thatched hut for a frightening shadow, then turned off the light and went to bed in the cold.
• Director Niu announced that the guests would choose rooms by selecting pictures of furnishings, with luck determining the results.
• Qiu Chengye identified the piano-keys picture as a clue to a spacious room and chose it first.
• Qiu Chengye went upstairs with the key to Room Five, while the other guests waited for him to return and boast.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing inferred from Qiu Chengye's silence that his room choice had backfired.

Qiu Chengye, Xie Mi, and Shen Yeqing discovered that their room choices had left them with cramped or nearly empty accommodations. Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing became neighbors in matching bare rooms, each with only one bedding item.

• Qiu Chengye opened his chosen room and found a grand piano and a bed crammed into the tiny space.
• Xie Mi ruled out the vase photo she had first noticed, then chose the pillow photo while Shen Yeqing chose the comforter photo.
• Xie Mi found that her room contained nothing but a pillow on the floor.
• Shen Yeqing arrived at the room opposite hers, which contained only a comforter.
• Xie Mi greeted Shen Yeqing as her poor neighbor, and he accepted the joke.

After the guests discovered the bizarre rooms they had chosen, Xiao Jingxi returned from a miserable night in a thatched hut and was startled by Little Ox, the robot pretending to be a ghost. He expected to get the worst remaining room, but the chapter ended as he opened the door to a spacious, luxurious suite overlooking a lake.

• Liu Woxing, Lai Bingxuan, Yu Jinche, and Xu Shuangrong discovered that their chosen rooms were an art studio, a glass sunroom, a horror-book study, and a plant-filled forest, respectively.
• Xiao Jingxi returned exhausted after a burst shower pipe and a drafty, mosquito-filled night in the thatched hut.
• Little Ox called to Xiao Jingxi like a ghost, startled him, then introduced itself as the villa's robot butler and slapped him while saying hello.
• Little Ox gave Xiao Jingxi the key to room eight, the only room left after the other seven guests had chosen.
• Xiao Jingxi opened room eight and found a spacious, elegant suite with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a lake.

Xiao Jingxi discovered that his room was the only comfortable one and offered it to Xie Mi, who had missed her chance to choose it. Shen Yeqing admitted he was jealous, and Xiao Jingxi tried to draw Xie Mi into the exchange.

• Xiao Jingxi woke in the best room and assumed the Production Team had furnished every room well.
• After seeing Xiao Jingxi’s room, Xie Mi realized she had nearly chosen it, then rushed downstairs to confront Shen Yeqing.
• Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, Yu Jinche, Xu Shuangrong, and Shen Yeqing came to see the room, while Xie Mi hauled Shen Yeqing over from his garden tent.
• Xiao Jingxi learned the room-selection rules and offered Xie Mi his room, saying he could stay anywhere.
• When Xiao Jingxi asked whether Shen Yeqing would be angry, Shen Yeqing said he was angry and jealous.
• Xiao Jingxi feigned confusion and asked Xie Mi what she thought of Shen Yeqing’s jealousy.

Xie Mi rejected Xiao Jingxi’s attempt to win her over and chose to remain paired with Shen Yeqing as poor neighbors. The guests then drew kitchen-duty lots, and Xie Mi was selected to help prepare breakfast, alarming everyone who remembered her disastrous cooking.

• Shen Yeqing admitted that he was jealous and asked Xie Mi not to agree to Xiao Jingxi’s offer.
• Xie Mi told Shen Yeqing she would not swap rooms with Xiao Jingxi, leaving Xiao Jingxi to return to his luxurious room in anger.
• Lai Bingxuan read the kitchen-duty rules, and Little Ox brought out the lots for the guests to draw.
• Lai Bingxuan checked whether the guests had passed the cooking test and worried about the unpredictable cooks, especially Yu Jinche.
• Xie Mi revealed that she had drawn kitchen duty, and Qiu Chengye grabbed Yu Jinche as a human shield while warning everyone not to eat her food.

Xie Mi impressed the group by making tasty soups while paired with Xiao Jingxi for breakfast duty, but Xu Shuangrong discovered that Xie Mi had used instant noodle seasoning packets. The others remained unaware as Shen Yeqing praised Xie Mi's cooking.

• Liu Woxing defended Xie Mi's cooking, and Xiao Jingxi revealed that he had drawn the other breakfast-duty assignment.
• Several cast members tried to leave, but Shen Yeqing, Liu Woxing, and Lai Bingxuan sat down to eat Xie Mi's breakfast.
• Xie Mi kicked Xiao Jingxi out of the kitchen and prepared several soups by herself.
• Lai Bingxuan, Qiu Chengye, Liu Woxing, and Shen Yeqing tasted the soups and praised them, while Xu Shuangrong noticed their familiar flavor.
• Xu Shuangrong found several instant noodle seasoning packets in the trash and realized they explained Xie Mi's improved cooking.

Xie Mi and the other contestants received upgraded heart rate wristbands that measured affection scores, a feature intended to help them recognize their feelings. After checking everyone’s scores, Xie Mi found that her affection score toward Shen Yeqing was 82.

• Xie Mi defended her cooking after the others learned she had used instant noodle seasoning packets.
• Director Niu introduced wristbands that tracked heart rates and calculated contestants’ affection scores toward one another.
• Director Niu explained the score ranges and said the wristbands were only a reference for the contestants as they approached the final confession day.
• Viewers discussed the new feature online and suggested it could help people recognize feelings they were unsure about.
• Xie Mi checked her affection scores and found that her score toward Shen Yeqing was 82.

Xie Mi worried that her affection for Shen Yeqing was still only 82, even after her heart rate rose when he showed concern for her. At the Heart Restaurant, the eight contestants learned they had to run the restaurant for a day and earn 23,000 by closing time.

• Xie Mi checked her affection for Shen Yeqing again after he gave her chocolate, but the reading remained 82.
• The contestants arrived at the Heart Restaurant and saw a poster presenting them as chefs.
• Director Niu assigned all eight contestants to handle every restaurant job, from cooking and service to cashier duties and attracting customers.
• Director Niu set a revenue target of 23,000 by nine that night, warning that the contestants would all face punishment if they failed.
• Liu Woxing asked about the menu prices, and Director Niu explained that they could create dishes and set reasonable prices of their own.