Chapter Summaries

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing took Production Team staff hostage while protecting their lead in the couples' game, then negotiated their release after Director Niu found them. They returned the other teams' bands but kept their first-place advantage and won a seafood feast.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing hid in an alley with four bound Production Team staff members while the Production Team lost contact with them.
• Director Niu's assistant deciphered PD Ma's distress call, prompting the Production Team to search for the missing staff.
• Director Niu found Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, and the staff playing cards, and the group staged a mock hostage standoff.
• Xie Mi argued that stealing the other teams' bands was a valid way to secure points, while Shen Yeqing backed her up as her boyfriend.
• Xie Mi agreed to return the bands in exchange for a seafood feast, and Director Niu added a rule forbidding guests from taking other teams' bands.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing kept their commanding lead while completing a matching-outfit task in ridiculous, freezing costumes. When Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche suddenly rose from last place to second, Xie Mi suspected something was up and decided they needed to tackle a major task.

• Director Niu announced that Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing were in first place and forbade the guests from removing one another’s tethers.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing reached a seaside town and bought matching yellow outfits covered with imperial memes, then drew heavenly eyes on each other’s foreheads.
• The matching-outfit task forced Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing to shiver in the autumn wind all day, so they drank hot ginger tea while insisting they were not cold.
• Director Niu announced new rankings that placed Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche second, despite their having been in last place an hour earlier.
• Xie Mi suspected the sudden jump in points and decided that she and Shen Yeqing should take on a major task.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing finished their bungee-jumping task while playfully warming each other up, and Director Niu hoped to make their heart rates rise for the top-scoring challenge. They hesitated over the simultaneous 130-heart-rate task until Director Niu taunted Xie Mi by revealing someone had already completed it.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing jumped from the bungee platform without screaming, then denied being cold as Shen Yeqing warmed Xie Mi's ears and she returned the gesture.
• Director Niu checked the guests' heart rates and noted Xie Mi's peak was 112, below the threshold for triggering the heart-rate chime.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing reviewed their remaining tasks, and Xie Mi doubted they could both reach a heart rate of 130 at exactly the same time.
• The viewers explained that Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche had completed the three-thousand-point task by repeatedly scaring each other at an extreme sports amusement park.
• Director Niu told Xie Mi that someone had already completed the task and taunted her for calling it unreasonable because she could not do it.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing worked through missions to hold first place, but Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche unlocked a hidden high-score mission and overtook them. Xie Mi decided they had to attempt the three-thousand-point mission, while she and Shen Yeqing prepared to keep their wrist straps connected overnight.

• Xie Mi brushed off Director Niu’s attempt to goad her and planned to clear the eight-hundred-point missions with Shen Yeqing.
• The teams completed missions for four hours, and Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing held first place at seven in the evening.
• Director Niu revealed that Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche had completed the three-thousand-point mission and unlocked a hidden high-score mission, moving them into first place.
• Xie Mi resolved to attempt the three-thousand-point mission after she and Shen Yeqing finished more tasks and fell behind Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche.
• Xie Mi rejected the Production Team’s luxury accommodation options and chose two sleeping bags to avoid disconnecting her wrist strap from Shen Yeqing’s.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing exhausted the filming crew trying to raise Xie Mi’s heart rate to 130, but her monitor remained at 127 even as Shen Yeqing’s reached 147. They accepted their loss and settled down together on the shore to sleep, planning to watch the sunrise.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing led Director Niu, PD Ma, PD Zhang, Little Wang, and Little Wei through increasingly grueling exercises to raise their heart rates.
• Director Niu’s heart rate reached 200 while Xie Mi’s stayed at 127, and Shen Yeqing’s reached 147.
• Xie Mi worried that her body might be unusually different, but Shen Yeqing reassured her and took her hand.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing accepted their defeat, arranged their sleeping bags side by side on the shore, and wished each other good night.

As the contestants settled in for the night, Shen Yeqing stayed awake beside Xie Mi, overwhelmed by his feelings for her. Xie Mi kissed him to raise their heart rates, and they listened as their hearts raced together.

• Director Niu and the staff went to rest while the night cameraman watched the sleeping contestants, and viewers stayed up chatting in the livestreams.
• Xu Shuangrong and Yu Jinche slept on a hotel lobby sofa, Liu Woxing and Xiao Jingxi slept in separate tents linked by their tether, and Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye argued over the bedroom until neither would sleep.
• Shen Yeqing watched Xie Mi sleep and tucked her hair behind her ear, unable to settle his racing heart.
• Xie Mi woke and told Shen Yeqing she had thought of a way to raise both their heart rates to 130.
• Xie Mi kissed Shen Yeqing, then asked whether her heart was fluttering; he replied that their hearts were beating together as their wristband readings rose.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing completed the beach heart-rate mission, won the couples’ competition, and rested after two exhausting days. The next morning, Director Niu welcomed them to a two-day, one-night autumn outing at the Love Watch High School garden fair.

• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing’s heart rates reached 130 while they slept cuddled together on the beach, completing their mission and sparking a shipping frenzy online.
• Director Niu announced that the hidden high-score mission required both heart rates to reach 150, and Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing joked about raising his heart rate instead.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing finished first in the competition, while Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye ended up last after their wrist tether snapped as they slept.
• The Production Team gave Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing half a day to rest, and they returned to the villa to recover.
• Director Niu arrived dressed as a school dean and announced the start of a two-day, one-night autumn outing.

Director Niu began a living-expenses game during the guests’ autumn outing, challenging them to decide whether to get off the bus for a chance at ten yuan. With the guests blindfolded, Xu Shuangrong went first, followed by Qiu Chengye and Yu Jinche, who both announced they were getting off; the remaining guests still had to make their choices.

• Director Niu announced that the eight guests would play poor college students on an autumn outing and compete for living expenses during the bus ride.
• Director Niu confiscated the guests’ phones and wallets and explained that the smaller group—those who got off or stayed aboard—would each receive ten yuan, unless the groups tied.
• The Assistant Director blindfolded all eight guests, and Director Niu sent them off the bus one at a time to make their choices without seeing who else had moved.
• Xu Shuangrong took a long time to make her choice, and sounds suggested she might have gotten off the bus.
• Qiu Chengye announced that he was getting off and claimed Xu Shuangrong had gone before him, then made his way toward the bus door noisily.
• Yu Jinche announced he would also get off, reasoning that three people would already be off and any further person who left would not earn money.

Lai Bingxuan tried to fake getting off the bus but was caught sitting on Xie Mi, while the remaining players weighed the risks of leaving or staying. Xiao Jingxi failed to recruit Xie Mi, but Shen Yeqing and Xie Mi agreed to split the winnings by taking opposite sides as Director Niu prepared to reveal the results.

• Yu Jinche's argument made Lai Bingxuan hesitate, and she pretended to get off before Xie Mi revealed that she had only sat back down on her.
• Lai Bingxuan stayed on the bus, while Liu Woxing chose to get off and gambled that someone among the first three had stayed aboard.
• Xiao Jingxi asked Xie Mi to team up, but she refused his offers, so he stayed on the bus.
• Shen Yeqing agreed to stay on the bus while Xie Mi got off, and Director Niu announced that the results were about to be revealed.

Xie Mi and Liu Woxing were the only guests to get off the bus and earn living expenses in the first game, while Qiu Chengye was repeatedly eliminated during the second. The group arrived at a shabby country cottage for their Autumn Outing, where Xie Mi threatened to call the police over the supposed guesthouse.

• Xie Mi and Liu Woxing got off the bus, while the other six guests had only pretended to leave and stayed aboard.
• Director Niu awarded Xie Mi and Liu Woxing ten yuan each, and Xie Mi returned to the bus after eating her fill.
• Director Niu started the wrong-answer game and eliminated Qiu Chengye after he gave a fitting answer, then counted that round as practice.
• Xie Mi and Liu Woxing answered with song lyrics, while Director Niu eliminated Qiu Chengye again for answering with a lyric when asked to sing one.
• The bus arrived at a country cottage with a partly missing courtyard gate, and Xie Mi questioned whether it was really their guesthouse before saying she would call the police.

The guests settled into the rundown guesthouse and divided up chores to prepare lunch. Qiu Chengye unexpectedly volunteered to clean the kitchen with Liu Woxing, while the others took on the remaining tasks.

• Xie Mi and Xu Shuangrong drew room one and found its bed bare and its light broken, then cleaned it and made it usable.
• The guests learned they would have to cook for themselves over a wood fire, and they gathered in the yard to plan lunch.
• Liu Woxing organized the work, assigning Xiao Jingxi and Yu Jinche to shop while Xie Mi handled the fire and Shen Yeqing gathered firewood.
• Lai Bingxuan volunteered to pick vegetables, and Qiu Chengye assigned her and Xu Shuangrong to the garden while he and Liu Woxing cleaned the kitchen.

Xie Mi helped the others divide chores, tended the kitchen fire, and searched for Xu Shuangrong after she disappeared while picking vegetables. She found Xu Shuangrong crouched in a dusty storeroom, focused on something unseen.

• Liu Woxing proposed drawing lots, and Qiu Chengye and Liu Woxing were paired to clean the kitchen while Lai Bingxuan and Xu Shuangrong picked vegetables.
• Xie Mi tended the fire as Qiu Chengye rushed to shield Liu Woxing from a falling spider, only for the spider to land on his head.
• Shen Yeqing took over watching the fire, and Xie Mi drew water from the courtyard well before Lai Bingxuan returned alone from the backyard.
• Lai Bingxuan told Xie Mi that Xu Shuangrong had gone to get another basket but never returned, so Xie Mi offered to find her.
• Xie Mi brought water to Shen Yeqing and Liu Woxing, then searched the cottage and found Xu Shuangrong crouched in a dim, dusty storeroom.

Xie Mi noticed Xu Shuangrong hiding something in a storage room and heard her ask about Mu Yihe, while the group’s disastrous grocery trip led to a terrible vegetable stew. Qiu Chengye acted unusually attentive toward Liu Woxing, then collapsed after tasting the stew, leaving the group unsure whether it was poisoned.

• Xie Mi caught Xu Shuangrong hiding something in a storage room, and Xu Shuangrong asked whether she knew someone named Mu Yihe.
• Yu Jinche and Xiao Jingxi returned with bread and biscuits instead of the groceries on the list, so Xie Mi proposed that they pay for them themselves.
• Qiu Chengye followed Liu Woxing into the kitchen and accepted her complaints without arguing, prompting the others to suspect he had fallen in love.
• The group cooked a pot of foul-smelling vegetable stew with their limited ingredients.
• Qiu Chengye gulped down a bowl of the stew, collapsed, and began to say that it was poisoned.

The group split up to forage, and Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing eventually caught enough fish for a feast after their fishing rods failed. As everyone prepared dinner together, Xu Shuangrong uncovered a secret about their world, while Xie Mi's thoughts turned to Mu Yi He.

• Xu Shuangrong said her stomach hurt and stayed behind while the others split into groups to forage for fruit and fish.
• Xie Mi and Liu Woxing tried fishing, while Qiu Chengye posed and failed to catch anything; Shen Yeqing joined in teasing him.
• Xu Shuangrong read a tattered book in her dark room and realized she had discovered the world's secret.
• The hill group returned with sour fruit, while Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing caught eight fish by diving and spearing them.
• The group divided up dinner preparations and worked together by the light of the courtyard fire.

After the cast finished dinner and went to bed, Xu Shuangrong confronted Xie Mi in secret and revealed that she had found a novel featuring a character named Xie Mi. She left Xie Mi with a question about which version of her was real.

• The cast ate, washed up, and settled down for the night while Director Niu ended the livestream.
• Once the courtyard was quiet, Xu Shuangrong told Xie Mi she wanted to talk.
• Xu Shuangrong said she had discovered that Xie Mi came from a novel too.
• Xu Shuangrong explained that a novel's Xie Mi painted lifelike butterflies, reminding her of Xie Mi's painting for Shen Yeqing.
• After reading the book, Xu Shuangrong noted that its Xie Mi otherwise seemed completely different and asked which one was the real Xie Mi.

Xu Shuangrong revealed that Xie Mi had once been controlled by the plot of another novel, and the memories of her former life returned. Xie Mi explained how she awakened after being struck by a car, while Xu Shuangrong questioned why she had entered another story’s world.

• Xu Shuangrong read aloud a passage describing Xie Mi as a gentle, endlessly tolerant character and contrasted it with the outspoken woman before her.
• Xie Mi remembered her former personality, her childhood, and how she had changed after meeting Mu Yihe under the novel’s control.
• Xie Mi recalled reading a novel that stirred her anger and made her sense that the plot was controlling her.
• Xie Mi remembered rushing to save Mu Yihe from a car, being struck, and awakening with the truth before arriving in another world.
• Xu Shuangrong accused Xie Mi of entering someone else’s world and disrupting its plot for selfish reasons.

Xie Mi questioned why she had come to this world, then joined the cast in a task to sell mangoes in town. The group set off on cargo tricycles, with Qiu Chengye choosing to ride with Xie Mi after pushing Liu Woxing toward another vehicle.

• After Xu Shuangrong told Xie Mi that pawns should stay where they belonged, Xie Mi returned to her room and wondered why she had transmigrated and whether she could sense the system.
• The next morning, Xie Mi chased Director Niu through the courtyard after mistaking a chicken for breakfast.
• Director Niu assigned the cast to sell eight baskets of mangoes in town, requiring them to earn at least four thousand yuan to get dinner.
• Xie Mi, Shen Yeqing, and Xu Shuangrong took charge of the three cargo tricycles, but Liu Woxing tried to avoid riding with Xie Mi.
• Qiu Chengye pushed Liu Woxing toward Xu Shuangrong's tricycle and climbed aboard Xie Mi's, insisting that dangerous driving was a man's responsibility.

The guests struggled to sell 400 kilograms of mangoes at a market stall after Director Niu set a higher price than a neighboring vendor. When ordinary calls failed to attract buyers, Xie Mi finished painting a mysterious sign.

• Qiu Chengye vomited after Xie Mi’s reckless electric-tricycle ride to town.
• Director Niu assigned the eight guests a small stall and set a goal of selling 4,000 yuan worth of mangoes at five yuan per half kilogram.
• Xie Mi pointed out that a neighboring stall sold mangoes for four-fifty per half kilogram, and the guests challenged Director Niu’s pricing.
• Qiu Chengye struggled to call out to customers, so Lai Bingxuan began advertising the mangoes while Liu Woxing defended her from his criticism.
• Passersby glanced at the stall but kept walking, and Xie Mi completed a colorful sign and announced that her mission was accomplished.

Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, and the others sold all four hundred tickets by offering performances and two jin of mangoes for ten yuan. After intimidating Director Niu into finding a venue, they prepared to begin their show for the town’s elderly residents.

• Lai Bingxuan and Liu Woxing advertised tickets with free mangoes while the group performed at the market, drawing elderly residents to buy.
• Xie Mi organized the ticket sales and mango distribution, and all four hundred tickets and eight baskets of mangoes sold out in one morning.
• Xie Mi and the others pressured Director Niu, who agreed to find a venue and spread the word about their performance.
• The group set up a stage and four hundred seats at the town activity center beneath an old banyan tree.
• At two in the afternoon, music played and a woman called for the show to begin.

After the guests completed their countryside task with a lively variety show for the town’s elderly residents, they enjoyed dinner and headed back to the village. Qiu Chengye insisted on driving a three-wheeler despite having no experience, and the chapter ended with his vehicle overturned in a field, trapping him and Lai Bingxuan beneath it.

• Xie Mi, Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, Xu Shuangrong, and Qiu Chengye performed a square-dance number that delighted the elderly audience and completed the task.
• Director Niu treated the audience to extra snacks, then helped the crew pack up after the show ended.
• The Production Team treated the guests to dinner at a local restaurant, where the elderly owners gave them two dishes for free.
• Qiu Chengye rushed to drive one of the three-wheelers back to the village, rejecting Xu Shuangrong’s warning that he lacked experience.
• Xie Mi drove Shen Yeqing while Qiu Chengye sped along with Lai Bingxuan as his passenger.
• Qiu Chengye’s three-wheeler crashed and overturned in a field, pinning him and Lai Bingxuan underneath as Director Niu called for help.