Chapter Summaries

Xiao Jingxi tried to use their strawberry-picking date to get closer to Xie Mi, but she spent the time evading and mocking him. When he finally made an emotional appeal, Xie Mi answered with an absurd monologue about being a sealed demon, leaving him bewildered.

• Xie Mi ignored Xiao Jingxi and ate strawberries while he followed her around the patch.
• Bird droppings landed on Xiao Jingxi’s jacket, and Xie Mi called him “Little Bro Poop” before elbowing him aside.
• Xiao Jingxi tried to grab Xie Mi and talk to her, but she dodged his attempts and ran between the strawberry rows.
• Xiao Jingxi stopped chasing Xie Mi and asked her to give him a chance to become someone she liked.
• Xie Mi laughed and delivered a dramatic speech about being a Buddha with a demon sealed inside, leaving Xiao Jingxi confused.

Xiao Jingxi’s attempts to stage a heroic rescue and win Xie Mi’s attention were thwarted when Shen Yeqing arrived disguised as a Love Security Guard. Shen stayed by Xie Mi’s side at the strawberry patch, leaving Xiao Jingxi sidelined as Shen flirted with her.

• Xie Mi’s oversized shoe slipped free when Xiao Jingxi’s snare trap hoisted it, and Xiao Jingxi then pushed her to create an excuse to catch her.
• Shen Yeqing rushed in, caught Xie Mi, and exposed himself as the Love Security Guard who guarded his own love.
• Shen Yeqing carried Xie Mi’s basket as she picked and ate strawberries, while Xiao Jingxi repeatedly failed to get involved.
• Shen Yeqing offered Xie Mi a heart-shaped strawberry and asked her to give it to him, leaving Xiao Jingxi wondering if he had become the Love Security Guard.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing ended their strawberry-farm date together, while Xiao Jingxi was left paying the bill. When Shen Yeqing invited Xie Mi on another date, Xiao Jingxi volunteered as their Love Security Guard and found himself protecting them from fans in a crowded plaza.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing's matching alarms ended their date, and they left the farm with baskets of strawberries.
• Xiao Jingxi paid to book the farm and cover the cost of the fifty jin of strawberries Xie Mi had picked.
• Xie Mi refused to ride with Xiao Jingxi, and Shen Yeqing offered her a key and invited her on another date.
• Xiao Jingxi volunteered to be their Love Security Guard, and Shen Yeqing warned him that the job was not easy.
• In a crowded downtown plaza, Xiao Jingxi joined the Production Team's bodyguards to keep fans away from Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing.

Xie Mi joined a mall singing competition to win Shen Yeqing a pair of couples’ bracelets, which he had wanted as a symbol of their relationship. She took the stage confidently, leaving Shen Yeqing admiring her and Xiao Jingxi jealous, and told the host her surname was Wang when he misspoke.

• Shen Yeqing showed Xie Mi the mall’s singing competition post and told her he wanted the couples’ bracelets offered as a special prize.
• Xie Mi promised to win the bracelets for Shen Yeqing, and he happily accepted her offer.
• Xiao Jingxi complained that Xie Mi treated Shen Yeqing better than she treated him, but Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing dismissed him.
• When the host called for another singer, Xie Mi raised her hand by climbing onto Shen Yeqing’s shoulders, then hopped down and went onstage.
• The host recognized Xie Mi and asked what song she wanted to sing; after he accidentally called her Teacher Wang Xie, she replied that her surname was Wang.

Xie Mi performed the thunderously off-key song “Give Him a Knockout Punch,” turning a mall singing event into a joyful spectacle. She won a pair of wristbands for Shen Yeqing, who thanked her warmly and made her happy too.

• Xie Mi chose to perform “Give Him a Knockout Punch,” briefly alarming the host, who thought she meant to fight someone.
• Xie Mi belted out the song so loudly that the host and audience were stunned, while livestream viewers and Xiao Jingxi reacted to her performance.
• The crowd laughed affectionately and joined the event, and the host praised Xie Mi for bringing everyone joy.
• Xie Mi received a pair of wristbands, which Shen Yeqing had wanted, and he thanked her with a sincere smile.
• Xie Mi told Shen Yeqing that she was happy too.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing extended their date by playing with their matching bracelets, while Xiao Jingxi struggled to get her attention. Yu Jinche arrived to claim his turn for a date with Xie Mi, leaving the story with a new love triangle taking shape.

• Xie Mi fastened a bracelet on Shen Yeqing, and they tested its sensing function by running apart along the river.
• Xiao Jingxi watched the couple and tried repeatedly to join their conversation as their date ended.
• Xie Mi told Xiao Jingxi he could leave and invited Shen Yeqing to get cake with her.
• Xiao Jingxi began to take out a Love Key, but Yu Jinche arrived and announced that it was his turn for a date.
• Back at the villa, Lai Bingxuan showed Liu Woxing candid photos of Xie Mi with the three men and reassured her that Xie Mi could handle herself.

Qiu Chengye accidentally caused a kitchen fire and became trapped in the smoke, but Liu Woxing calmly guided him out and extinguished the flames. Lai Bingxuan then ordered him to stop blocking the way as the danger passed.

• Qiu Chengye tried to cook with the oven, triggering an explosion and setting the kitchen on fire.
• Liu Woxing noticed the smoke and rushed to the kitchen with a fire extinguisher while Lai Bingxuan realized Qiu Chengye was inside.
• Qiu Chengye became disoriented in the smoke as the staff rushed over from a neighboring building.
• Liu Woxing covered Qiu Chengye's face with a wet towel, directed him out, and extinguished the flames.
• Lai Bingxuan threw another wet towel at Qiu Chengye and told him to get out of the way.

A kitchen fire brought Liu Woxing, Lai Bingxuan, and Xu Shuangrong together to rescue Qiu Chengye, whose growing heart rate suggested his feelings for Liu Woxing had changed. Afterward, Liu Woxing told Xie Mi she was happy because she had managed to do something she previously could not.

• Xu Shuangrong cut the power and fetched the staff while Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan extinguished the kitchen fire and helped Qiu Chengye to safety.
• Liu Woxing treated Qiu Chengye's burns, and Xu Shuangrong noticed his heart rate climbing as he watched her.
• Qiu Chengye claimed he had not needed rescuing, but Liu Woxing refused to accept that he owed her anything, and Lai Bingxuan rebuked him for not simply saying thank you.
• After Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan left, Qiu Chengye regretted his words, while Xu Shuangrong suspected he had developed feelings for Liu Woxing.
• Liu Woxing returned Xie Mi's call, listened to her advice about treating burns, and told her she was happy to have done something she had previously been unable to do.

Xie Mi went on a date with Yu Jinche, who confessed his interest during a space experience and tried to woo her with a romantic dinner. After their date ended, Xie Mi danced by the roadside and summoned ten taxis for herself and the staff.

• After Liu Woxing called, Xie Mi joined Yu Jinche for a date at a space experience center.
• Yu Jinche called Xie Mi his kindred soul and asked her to consider him, but she told him to stop being horny.
• At an aquarium restaurant, Yu Jinche tried to cut Xie Mi's steak into a heart, but she cut it herself and offered to eat another serving.
• When they could not find a taxi after the date, Xie Mi danced by the roadside and attracted ten taxis.

After her date with Yu Jinche, Xie Mi suspected he was using a hallucinogenic perfume to make her dependent on him, so she repelled it with medicated oil. Back at the villa, she noticed Qiu Chengye acting lovesick around Liu Woxing, then received a message assigning her the seer role in a dating-show game of Werewolf.

• Yu Jinche tried to touch Xie Mi's face in the taxi, but she slapped his hand away and suspected his fragrance was the perfume he had once developed to make people dependent on him.
• Yu Jinche sprayed perfume onto his wrist, and Xie Mi rubbed medicated oil beneath her nose to block the scent.
• Lai Bingxuan and Xie Mi mocked Qiu Chengye's kitchen mishap, while Xie Mi noticed he seemed lovestruck when Liu Woxing returned from the garden.
• The Production Team told Xie Mi that she was the seer in a dating-show Werewolf game and could check one person's identity.

Xie Mi was assigned the seer role in the dating-show Werewolf game, but the Production Team told her she had been eliminated after she checked Shen Yeqing, a werewolf. She was taken to a comfortable prison where eliminated players would wait to be rescued for a 24-Hour Couple Challenge, then watched the surviving players begin their discussion.

• Xie Mi checked Shen Yeqing and learned from the Production Team that he was a werewolf.
• The Production Team announced that Xie Mi had been eliminated, and PD Ma and the Assistant Director hauled her out of the villa.
• The Production Team took Xie Mi to a hotel for the night, then locked her in a flower-covered cage the next morning.
• The PD explained that eliminated players would wait in prison until a surviving player rescued them for a 24-Hour Couple Challenge.
• Xie Mi watched Lai Bingxuan claim to be the seer and accuse Qiu Chengye of being a werewolf.

During a Werewolf game, Lai Bingxuan and Shen Yeqing lost after their schemes backfired, leaving Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong as the surviving good-team players. As the next matching segment began, Xie Mi escaped her cage and set off to rescue the others herself.

• Lai Bingxuan claimed to be the seer and accused Qiu Chengye, who was voted out despite protesting.
• Lai Bingxuan revealed herself as Shen Yeqing’s wolf teammate, and they chose to eliminate Xiao Jingxi.
• Xiao Jingxi used his witch poison to kill Shen Yeqing, leaving Lai Bingxuan to be voted out by Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong.
• The Production Team explained that the losing wolves would be chained up and need a key to be rescued before matching.
• Xie Mi picked the lock on her cage with a hair tie and ran off to become the rescuer, skipping the planned prison-break segment.

Xie Mi escaped her cage by picking its lock and raced through the maze to find Shen Yeqing, who was chained inside a cage guarded by Director Niu. She took on the challenges to rescue him, and the first synchronization question ended with both of them answering “Xie Mi.”

• Xie Mi ate all the fruit clue and picked her cage lock with a hair tie and a bobby pin, skipping the planned jailbreak procedure.
• Xie Mi navigated the maze by following footsteps, then admitted she had invented her claims about identifying the people ahead by sound.
• Xie Mi found Shen Yeqing chained inside a cage and faced Director Niu, who challenged her to rescue him and become his twenty-four-hour couple.
• Xie Mi gave three reasons for teaming up with Shen Yeqing: she did not want to pair with Xiao Jingxi, Qiu Chengye, or Yu Jinche.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing answered the first synchronization question in unison with “Xie Mi,” and Xie Mi defended her answer by saying she was the main character in her world.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing passed Director Niu’s relationship quiz by giving matching answers, then Xie Mi refused the final Rock-Paper-Scissors challenge. She freed Shen Yeqing from the cage and his chains with two bobby pins, leaving Director Niu stunned.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing answered that Apricot Blossom Street was their first date, and Shen Yeqing said their shared answer showed how connected they were.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing both named the summer of their second year of high school as when they first fell in love, and Shen Yeqing backed Xie Mi when Director Niu challenged her.
• Director Niu challenged Xie Mi to beat ten staff members at Rock-Paper-Scissors in a row to win the key to Shen Yeqing’s cage.
• Xie Mi quit the challenge and declined Director Niu’s offer of another chance through a punishment.
• Xie Mi picked the cage and chain locks with two bobby pins, then walked out with Shen Yeqing free of his restraints.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing began a 24-hour couple challenge, earning points by staying linked and completing couple tasks. They headed downtown to get started, and Shen Yeqing chose “Mimi” as Xie Mi’s nickname while she called him “Shenzi.”

• Director Niu paired Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing with a tether called the Red Thread and explained that they could earn points by staying linked and completing couple tasks.
• Xie Mi learned that Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong’s teams had an extra hour, then hurried with Shen Yeqing toward downtown to complete tasks.
• Xie Mi linked arms with Shen Yeqing in the car to fulfill a task requiring close physical contact.
• Xie Mi stopped herself from using their private nickname and agreed to call Shen Yeqing “Shenzi” after he called her “Mimi.”

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing formed the Qingqing-Mimi Duo and began a 24-hour nickname challenge to earn 1,000 points. They completed a flower-wrapping task quickly, leaving the shopping street to continue collecting rewards.

• Director Niu made Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing’s Qingqing-Mimi nicknames mandatory for the next 24 hours and promised them 1,000 points if they avoided any mistakes.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing linked arms and headed to a nearby flower shop to complete an easy task.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing found Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche waiting while the shop owner wrapped their bouquets.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing chose sunflowers and broccoli for each other, then wrapped them using kraft paper and a plastic bag.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing finished the flower task in under five minutes and left the shop still linked arm in arm.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing realized their team was falling behind because the leading couples had earned tether points for an extra hour, so they set out to slow their rivals down. They caught Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche during a task, seized their tether, and argued that the tether symbolized love and needed protecting.

• Director Niu announced that Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche were in first place, Liu Woxing and Xiao Jingxi were second, Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing were third, and Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye were fourth.
• Xie Mi worked out that the leading couples had gained an extra 3,600 tether points, and she and Shen Yeqing decided to slow their rivals' progress instead of only completing their own tasks.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing charged at Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche, who were doing the feed-each-other-ice-cream task, and Xie Mi grabbed their tether to stop them leaving.
• Xie Mi questioned why the Production Team required couples to stay tethered and claimed the tether symbolized love, which they had to protect.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing turned the couples’ task into a strap-snatching battle, sending every team into a chaotic chase. Xu Shuangrong fell to last place, then realized she might be able to use the strap she had stolen.

• Xie Mi took Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche’s strap, stopping their points, and escaped with Shen Yeqing.
• The Assistant Director endorsed Xie Mi’s new strategy, and Xu Shuangrong began hunting for the pair.
• Xu Shuangrong stole Liu Woxing and Xiao Jingxi’s strap while searching for Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing.
• Yu Jinche chased Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye as the teams’ strap-snatching battle spread.
• The updated rankings put Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing first and Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche fourth, prompting Xu Shuangrong to wonder if she could use Liu Woxing and Xiao Jingxi’s strap.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing stole straps to stop their rivals from earning points, then cornered Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye. Lai Bingxuan used the promise of money to persuade Xie Mi to spare them, while Shen Yeqing left the decision to Xie Mi.

• Xu Shuangrong reattached her and Yu Jinche's strap, but Xie Mi appeared and stole it again with Shen Yeqing.
• Xie Mi revealed that she had been hiding with Shen Yeqing as mannequins and had collected two straps by stealing them.
• Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye argued in an alley about their partnership and dared each other to remove their strap.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing found Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye, and Lai Bingxuan realized they had been stealing straps too.
• Lai Bingxuan showed Xie Mi a bank transfer screen and added another zero, prompting Xie Mi to admit defeat.
• Lai Bingxuan asked whether Shen Yeqing would spare them, and he said he would do whatever Xie Mi wanted.

After Xie Mi’s team kept the stolen straps, Director Niu secretly turned the Production Team into moles to help the other teams recover them and separate the couples. The plan failed when a convenience store owner helped Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing escape, leaving their pursuers searching for them.

• Director Niu ordered Production Team staff to secretly help Xu Shuangrong’s and Liu Woxing’s teams retrieve their straps and send each team away once it succeeded.
• Xie Mi questioned the suspicious PD and camera operator while Shen Yeqing’s team stayed inside the convenience store.
• Xu Shuangrong, Yu Jinche, Liu Woxing, and Xiao Jingxi arrived at the store and agreed to retrieve their straps from Xie Mi’s team.
• The store owner mistook the arriving guests for thieves and lowered the roller shutter, trapping them outside.
• After the owner let the guests in, he denied that anyone had been inside and secretly helped Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing escape through a concealed back door.