Chapter Summaries

Xie Mi took over the beach volleyball match after Xiao Jingxi’s strategy failed, revealing her skill and scoring against the opposing team. The game continued with Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye competing against her and each other, while Xu Shuangrong watched Xie Mi and Liu Woxing grow closer.

• Xiao Jingxi ordered the women to stay in front and leave receiving to the men, but the opposing team’s serve sent him flying into the sand.
• Xiao Jingxi’s serve drifted past Xu Shuangrong, who followed his order not to receive it, and Xie Mi challenged the team to change strategies.
• After Shen Yeqing switched places with Xie Mi, Xie Mi knocked Xiao Jingxi down and spiked the ball to score a point.
• Xie Mi praised Liu Woxing’s smile, and Xu Shuangrong watched them with a darkened gaze.
• Xie Mi repeatedly targeted the assistant director, while Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye collided trying to receive the ball and lost another point.
• Xie Mi sent Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye away with a spinning flying kick.

Xie Mi led her team to victory in the swimming-for-flags round through chaotic teamwork, and the guests earned money for camping supplies. As the group rode electric scooters to shop, Shen Yeqing fell off when Xie Mi took a sharp turn.

• Xie Mi’s team won the swimming-for-flags match after Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Qiu Chengye disrupted the opposing swimmers while Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong tickled them.
• The guests’ antics sent the livestream and Weibo into a frenzy, and the team won three thousand yuan for camping supplies.
• Xiao Jingxi offered to drive Xie Mi, but she chose Shen Yeqing as her passenger; Xiao Jingxi then drove the injured Xu Shuangrong.
• Qiu Chengye and Liu Woxing went to rent camping equipment while Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, and Xu Shuangrong headed to the supermarket for barbecue ingredients.
• Xie Mi told Shen Yeqing to raise both hands on the scooter, then flung him off when she took a sharp turn.

After Shen Yeqing was rescued, Xie Mi tried to secretly give him a flower as his guardian angel, but ended up fighting another mascot before he discovered her and accepted it. Back at the beach, Shen Yeqing showed how well he knew Xie Mi’s favorite snacks, while Xiao Jingxi’s attempt to impress her fell flat.

• After Shen Yeqing praised her driving, Xie Mi bandaged his hand, and he asked whether she was his guardian angel.
• Xie Mi slipped away at the supermarket and put on a Luckin Coffee mascot costume so she could give Shen Yeqing a flower unseen.
• Xie Mi fought the Snow King mascot until Shen Yeqing ordered drinks from both shops to clear the employees away.
• Shen Yeqing removed Xie Mi’s mascot head, and she gave him the flower, which he treasured.
• At the beach, Xiao Jingxi brought Xie Mi preserved plums and iced oolong tea, but Shen Yeqing replaced them with her favorite chips and cola.

Xie Mi watched Xiao Jingxi’s barbecue attempt turn into a fire and delivered a blunt answer during the group’s emotional-intelligence test. As the group relaxed over dinner, Shen Yeqing and Xiao Jingxi both tried to keep her warm.

• Xie Mi sat back while Xiao Jingxi took over grilling, but his excessive use of oil caused the grill to flare up and left the group scrambling to put out the fire.
• Xu Shuangrong took charge of cooking, explaining that she usually cooked for herself because it was cheaper than ordering takeout.
• Director Niu asked how they would respond to a crush who ran into an ex on the way to the hospital, and Xie Mi suggested asking whether the crush or his mother was sick in the head.
• The group ate barbecue and drank beer as Shen Yeqing put a blanket over Xie Mi’s legs and Xiao Jingxi draped his jacket over her shoulders.

At a seaside drinking party, Xie Mi brawled with Qiu Chengye and drunkenly rejected Xiao Jingxi’s confession before disappearing into the night. Shen Yeqing searched for her, and she surprised him in the woods with the shower of apricot blossoms he had wished to see.

• Xie Mi refused Qiu Chengye’s invitations to drink until he knelt and toasted her as his “Dad,” then joined him in drinking.
• Qiu Chengye threatened Xie Mi, and Xiao Jingxi tried to intervene before Xie Mi headbutted him and angrily rejected his advice to be grateful to her harassers.
• Qiu Chengye flipped the table and threatened to ruin Xie Mi, so she chased him with a chair and knocked him down.
• Drunk Xiao Jingxi confessed his love to Xie Mi, but she disappeared before the others could stop her.
• Shen Yeqing searched the woods for Xie Mi, who surprised him with falling petals and revealed his written wish to see another shower of apricot blossoms.

After the guests woke up, Xie Mi agreed to put on makeup for the dating show and arrived in a wildly mismatched outfit and heavy makeup, leaving the crew and viewers stunned. Director Niu confronted the assistant director over the promised surprise.

• Director Niu’s crew filmed the guests waking up, and Xie Mi’s energetic stretching struck viewers as relatable.
• The assistant director asked Xie Mi whether she wore makeup, and she said she usually went bare-faced to save time.
• Xie Mi agreed to put on makeup, and the assistant director promised Director Niu a huge surprise.
• Xie Mi arrived in a green shirt, floral shorts, straw hat, and heavily applied makeup, intending to look like a tan bombshell.
• Director Niu recognized Xie Mi and angrily told the assistant director that he had certainly delivered a huge surprise.

Lai Bingxuan joined the dating show and immediately clashed with Xu Shuangrong, while Xie Mi took Lai’s side after being paid to help her walk. The guests continued their aquarium date amid signs that Xu and Lai’s old rivalry was resurfacing.

• Director Niu introduced Lai Bingxuan, the Lai Group heiress and Xu Shuangrong’s former classmate, as a new guest.
• Xu Shuangrong hid behind Xiao Jingxi when Lai arrived, and Xiao offered to support her.
• During the aquarium outing, Lai mistook Xie Mi for a local staff member and tossed her ten thousand to help her walk in her heels.
• Xu Shuangrong criticized Lai’s treatment of Xie Mi, prompting the other guests and viewers to turn against Lai.
• Xie Mi defended Lai, saying Lai had paid her and accusing Xu of trying to drive a wedge between them.

Xie Mi and the other guests became caught up in a fan war after Xu Shuangrong tried to frame Lai Bingxuan, then joined a beluga interaction arranged by the production team. The beluga appeared to choose Qiu Chengye as Liu Woxing’s love interest, though the result was clearly staged.

• Shen Yeqing mocked Xu Shuangrong for claiming she had been protecting Xie Mi, and Lai Bingxuan eventually realized Xu had tried to frame her.
• Liu Woxing mediated the argument, but online revelations about Xu Shuangrong and Lai Bingxuan’s high school relationship sparked a fierce fan war that dragged Xu into the center of it.
• At Beluga Hall, Little White splashed its trainer during a supposed performance, and the trainer turned the mishap into an advertised hidden-edition act.
• The trainer invited the seven Love Watch guests to interact with Little White, and Xie Mi shouted back at an audience member who mistook her for an indigenous person.
• Liu Woxing whispered to the beluga during a staged confession game, and it swam to Qiu Chengye even though Liu had said nothing to it.

At the Aquarium, Xie Mi was shoved into the pool, but the beluga took a liking to her and turned the incident into a crowd-pleasing performance, disrupting Xu Shuangrong’s attempt to frame Lai Bingxuan. After Xie Mi confronted Xu, the guests headed to a Summer Music Festival, where the production team announced randomly paired dates in multiple rounds.

• Xu Shuangrong accused Lai Bingxuan of pushing Xie Mi into the pool, and Lai angrily denied it.
• The beluga splashed Xu Shuangrong, then carried Xie Mi around the pool as the audience cheered.
• Xu Shuangrong tried to apologize to Xie Mi and blame Lai, but Xie warned her not to use her as a shield again.
• Xie Mi arrived at the hotel in a Y2K outfit, then put on her ugly green sunglasses and bantered with Shen Yeqing.
• Director Niu announced that the guests would draw lots for one-hour date pairings at the Summer Music Festival.

Director Niu arranged three rounds of hourly dates and challenged the guests to make their partners’ hearts flutter for a breakfast voucher. Xie Mi sat out the first round and watched the dates, where Xu Shuangrong drew closer to Xiao Jingxi and Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing began messaging; Xie Mi’s phone then quacked twice.

• Director Niu explained the rotating date pairings and the heart-fluttering task, with breakfast vouchers as the reward.
• Xie Mi eagerly joined the first draw for the sake of breakfast but was left out while Shen Yeqing paired with Liu Woxing, Qiu Chengye with Lai Bingxuan, and Xiao Jingxi with Xu Shuangrong.
• Xie Mi settled into the monitoring room with sunflower seeds, unfazed by Director Niu’s attempt to overwhelm her with romantic date footage.
• Xu Shuangrong told Xiao Jingxi their promotional interactions were over, then offered to help him get together with Xie Mi if he helped her meet the other male guests.
• Xiao Jingxi’s heart rate rose as Xu Shuangrong made a pinkie promise, while Xie Mi watched and recalled his earlier interest in Xu Shuangrong.
• Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing quietly took out their phones during a loud performance and began messaging, then Xie Mi’s phone quacked twice.

Xie Mi watched Qiu Chengye and Lai Bingxuan turn their disastrous date into a public brawl, then drew Qiu as her partner for the next round. With breakfast on the line, she set out to make his heart race while he tried to stop her from completing the task.

• Xie Mi received messages from Liu Woxing and Shen Yeqing during their dates, prompting viewers to speculate about new pairings.
• Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye argued, wrecked each other's shoes, and chased each other through the music festival until the assistant director intervened and was slapped.
• Director Niu noted that both bracelets had rung from the pair's anger and banned raising heart rates through brawling.
• The next pairings put Xie Mi with Qiu Chengye, left Lai Bingxuan out, paired Shen Yeqing with Xu Shuangrong, and matched Xiao Jingxi with Liu Woxing.
• Director Niu warned that the guests needed to make their partners' hearts race to earn breakfast, and Xie Mi smiled at Qiu Chengye as he vowed to thwart her.

Xie Mi took Qiu Chengye to a music festival, where a singer drenched him and knocked him unconscious with a stage dive. After the other pairs had their dates, Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi were paired for the final round, and he credited a forwarded lucky-koi post for making it happen.

• Xie Mi dragged Qiu Chengye to the front row of a band’s performance, where the lead singer repeatedly splashed him with water and then stage-dived onto him, knocking him unconscious.
• Xie Mi checked Qiu Chengye’s heart-rate watch as Director Niu announced that Qiu Chengye had gone into shock, and she told the PD she had only meant to get him excited at the show.
• Shen Yeqing and Xu Shuangrong played a silent game after she complained that he had ignored her, while Liu Woxing made pointed remarks during her date with Xiao Jingxi.
• Shen Yeqing sent Xie Mi a lucky-koi post, and Director Niu paired them together for the final round of dates.
• Shen Yeqing told Xie Mi that the lucky-koi post had worked, while Qiu Chengye was paired with Xu Shuangrong and Xiao Jingxi with Lai Bingxuan.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing tried to make each other's alarms go off during their festival date, but Shen rejected her plan to run laps and gave her the trinkets he had bought earlier. At the fireworks, Xie Mi tested Shen by asking whether he remembered Liu Liu, and his alarm sounded as she wondered what had triggered it.

• Xie Mi proposed that she and Shen Yeqing run laps together to raise their heart rates, but Shen rejected the idea and gave her several gifts he had bought at the night market.
• Shen draped his jacket over Xie Mi and challenged her to make his heart race if she wanted to win.
• Xie Mi refused to make a wish at the romance tree but bowed to the God of Wealth, then watched the festival fireworks with Shen.
• When the crowd jostled Xie Mi, Shen caught her hand, and she quietly asked whether he remembered Liu Liu.
• Shen's alarm rang, and afterward he told Xie Mi that she had won as she wondered whether the alarm had been triggered by attraction or by his panic.

The guests were woken before dawn for a punishing day of foraging and fishing, and Qiu Chengye mistakenly accused breakfast of being poisoned before Xie Mi could eat. At the beach, Xu Shuangrong encouraged everyone to stop complaining, but Xie Mi challenged her reasoning.

• Director Niu woke the exhausted guests at five and announced that only Xie Mi, Qiu Chengye, and Lai Bingxuan had earned breakfast.
• Shen Yeqing woke Xie Mi by whispering “breakfast,” and she rushed toward the table, hitting his chin as she stood up.
• Qiu Chengye saw Lai Bingxuan faint from low blood sugar, shouted that the food was poisoned, and flipped the table before Xie Mi kicked him.
• Director Niu told the guests they had to forage and fish for their lunch ingredients, while Xiao Jingxi protested the demanding schedule.
• At the beach, Xu Shuangrong urged the guests not to complain about the early start, and Xie Mi replied that the sudden change from an eight o’clock start to five was the problem.

Xie Mi’s blunt speech about letting workers complain went viral, while Xu Shuangrong’s attempt to appear sympathetic backfired. At the beach, the group prepared to gather seafood, and Xie Mi chose to team up with Shen Yeqing after he revealed his diving certification; Xu Shuangrong then approached Shen to ask to join them.

• Xie Mi urged exhausted workers to vent their frustration, and her speech inspired commuters to quit jobs or report people who had been taking advantage of them.
• Xu Shuangrong was condemned for moral blackmail, and Director Niu hurried the crew into the seafood-gathering activity.
• Xie Mi discovered that their instructor, Maomao, was her assistant and had taken the job for ten yuan an hour.
• Director Niu explained that the three teams would keep only the ingredients they gathered, and Shen Yeqing invited Xie Mi to partner with him.
• Xiao Jingxi tried to persuade Xie Mi to team up with him, but Shen Yeqing showed his AOW Diving Certificate and Xie Mi chose Shen instead.
• Xu Shuangrong offered to help Xiao Jingxi and then asked Shen Yeqing if she could join his team.

Shen Yeqing rebuffed Xu Shuangrong’s attempt to split him from Xie Mi, and the guests formed teams before beginning a shore-foraging challenge. Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing rushed off to forage with crab tongs, while the other teams struggled to find seafood and tempers flared.

• Xu Shuangrong invited Shen Yeqing to team up, but he called out her attempt to use him and made clear that Xie Mi was leaving him because of her actions.
• Xu Shuangrong teamed up with Xiao Jingxi, and Lai Bingxuan chose their team because she and Xu Shuangrong were old classmates.
• Maomao explained the three foraging tools, and the teams chose a shovel, salt powder, or crab tongs.
• Xie Mi grabbed the crab tongs and ran to the shore with Shen Yeqing following with a bucket, while Maomao taught the others how to forage.
• Qiu Chengye failed to find seafood and argued with Lai Bingxuan, prompting the assistant director to step in and separate them.

Xie Mi proved she had caught the team’s fish herself after Xiao Jingxi implied Maomao had helped her, then set off with the others for the diving segment. As Shen Yeqing led her deeper underwater, Director Niu was thrilled by the romantic scene.

• Xie Mi showed that she had caught the fish herself by kicking Xiao Jingxi into the shallows, where he saw the fish and crab she had been catching.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing's team had the best shore catch, while the other teams found only a starfish and two razor clams.
• Xiao Jingxi bragged that he would do better at diving and fishing, and Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing mocked him to his face.
• The guests entered the water for the diving segment, and Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye hurried ahead while Xie Mi learned from the instructor.
• Shen Yeqing took Xie Mi's hand and led her farther underwater as Director Niu filmed them.

Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi collected plenty of seafood while the others fought underwater, but Director Niu announced that the guests would spend a day and night on an uninhabited island without food. After the crew rushed away to protect their equipment during a downpour, Lai Bingxuan wondered where they had gone.

• Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi escaped with a scallop while Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye fought, and Lai Bingxuan joined the brawl with Xu Shuangrong.
• Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi returned with a net full of seafood, and Xie Mi gave Liu Woxing a large fish before kicking Qiu Chengye.
• The diving instructor broke up the fight, and Director Niu refused to provide lunch to the four guests who had caught no ingredients.
• Director Niu announced that the guests would spend a day and night on an uninhabited island and have to find their own food.
• Heavy rain hit the island, and the crew rushed off to protect the production equipment, leaving the guests under a canopy.
• After the crew failed to return for half an hour, Lai Bingxuan asked where they had gone.

After a storm made the cast believe they had been stranded on an island, Xie Mi led them to ration seafood and forage for bark and grass roots. The crew revealed the survival crisis was a prank, and Xie Mi admitted she had known the truth all along.

• The cast found both boats and the production crew missing, and Xie Mi convinced them the storm had swept the crew away.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing divided their seafood among the seven cast members, then Xie Mi led everyone into the woods to eat bark and grass roots.
• Xu Shuangrong noticed that Xie Mi was not eating, and a camouflaged cameraman appeared to reveal the hidden-camera shoot.
• Qiu Chengye took the cameraman's phone and saw the livestream viewers laughing at the cast chewing bark.
• Xie Mi explained that she had seen the forecast and knew the storm would last only two hours, while Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing admitted they had been in on the prank.
• Lai Bingxuan complained that Xie Mi had tricked her with chocolate, and Xie Mi said she had given it to her because her blood sugar was low.

After the viral South Sea City trip, the Love Watch production team tried to restore control of the dating show by introducing a new male guest. He chose Xie Mi for a private dinner, leaving her dressed up and wondering if the show’s timeline had changed.

• The production team argued over Xie Mi’s antics and vowed to get the dating show back on track.
• A new male guest joined Love Watch and told the PD he had never dated and liked an older woman on the show.
• The new guest received the privilege of inviting one female guest to dinner, and the broadcast cut off before he revealed his choice.
• The PD invited Xie Mi to a secret dinner, and she eagerly went along because she expected to get extra food.
• The production team took Xie Mi to a salon for a makeover, and she recognized the setup from the novel but wondered how the new male guest had arrived early.