Chapter Summaries

Xie Mi went on a dinner date with Yu Jinche, the obsessive, grudge-holding villain who unexpectedly joined the dating show. She brushed off his eerie attempts to unsettle her and left him stunned by her appetite and confidence.

• Yu Jinche appeared as a new guest and told Xie Mi that she interested him most, revealing he had invited her because he resented her ignoring him before.
• Xie Mi explained that she had been distracted when they met, while the viewers speculated about their relationship and argued over their preferred pairings.
• Yu Jinche served Xie Mi blue-rare steak and tried to discourage her from requesting it well done, but she insisted until the waiter cooked it to her preference.
• Xie Mi ate her steak with gusto, learned the production team was paying, and asked the waiter to cook everything on the menu, leaving Yu Jinche speechless.

Xie Mi waited for Yu Jinche after dinner, but he drove off without her and later tried to unsettle her on the highway. She kicked him out at a rest stop and took the wheel, turning his own excuse back on him.

• Xie Mi introduced herself to passersby, who dismissed her as an unconvincing imitation.
• Yu Jinche drove past Xie Mi, so she took a taxi and told the driver a wild story to get him to chase the car.
• Xie Mi caught up with Yu Jinche, confronted him, and got into his car after he apologized for leaving her behind.
• Yu Jinche sped along the highway and opened the windows to wake Xie Mi, but she told him to pull over at a rest stop.
• Xie Mi kicked Yu Jinche out of the car, took the driver's seat, and repeated his excuse about not blaming her.

Xie Mi brought new guest Yu Jinche to the villa after making him sick with her reckless driving, and Yu Jinche announced that he wanted to pursue her. At the entrance, Shen Yeqing had dug a pit beneath a tree and Yu Jinche fell into it; Xie Mi and Shen left him behind to play video games, and he later met the other guests.

• Xie Mi drove Yu Jinche wildly along the country road until he was sick, but he recovered and said he could pursue her because they were on a dating show.
• Xie Mi warned Yu Jinche that she could slap him, and he said he looked forward to living with her at the villa.
• Yu Jinche fell into a pit by the villa entrance, where Shen Yeqing appeared with a shovel and claimed he had been planting a tree.
• Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing left Yu Jinche in the pit and went inside to play video games.
• Yu Jinche climbed out and entered the villa, where Xu Shuangrong introduced him to the other guests and apologized for Xie Mi overlooking him.

Xie Mi humiliated Xiao Jingxi after he tried to persuade her to leave the show, and the villa’s guests woke to find him injured and bandaged. The next morning, Yu Jinche made breakfast for everyone, while Xie Mi sensed something was wrong.

• Xu Shuangrong tried to provoke Yu Jinche by implying he and Xie Mi had enjoyed their date, but he said he would work harder to earn Xu Shuangrong's attention.
• Xiao Jingxi brought Xie Mi a plate of ribs and urged her to leave the show and return to their old relationship.
• Xie Mi shoved a hair dryer into Xiao Jingxi's mouth, blasted him with alternating hot and cold air, and the Robot Vacuum sent him tumbling down the stairs.
• Xie Mi shouted that Xiao Jingxi had fallen, waking the villa; the guests found him unable to speak and bandaged his mouth.
• The production team said Xiao Jingxi had rehearsed until his mouth developed sores, while Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing mocked him.
• Yu Jinche made breakfast for the villa, and Xie Mi suspected something was wrong.

Yu Jinche’s unusual breakfast and a cockroach prank caused chaos at the villa, while Shen Yeqing quietly countered his tricks. Yu Jinche’s attempt to lure Shen Yeqing into a garden date instead led Xie Mi and Yu Jinche to find Xiao Jingxi trapped in a pit, with Shen watching from above.

• Yu Jinche served milk containing ants, making Qiu Chengye and the others spit out their food and drawing online attention.
• Shen Yeqing found cockroaches hidden among his novels, and Yu Jinche discovered a pile of dead cockroaches beneath his duvet; the production technician said someone had hacked the villa’s cameras.
• After waking, Yu Jinche messaged Shen Yeqing from Director Niu’s phone, telling him to go to the garden for a date with Xie Mi.
• Yu Jinche led Xie Mi to a large pit, where they found Xiao Jingxi trapped with his mouth bandaged.
• Shen Yeqing watched from the third-floor balcony and asked Yu Jinche if he was going to save Xiao Jingxi.

Yu Jinche rescued Xiao Jingxi from the pit, and their fans clashed online before the two men made peace on camera. Later, the guests began a story relay that ended with Lai Bingxuan derailing the tale.

• Xie Mi teased Yu Jinche as Xiao Jingxi struggled in the pit, and Yu Jinche offered to pull him out.
• Xiao Jingxi's fans and Yu Jinche's fans fought in both livestream chats while Xie Mi watched the drama and Shen Yeqing invited her to play a game.
• Yu Jinche calmed Xiao Jingxi by saying he was a fan of his films, and the two acted politely toward each other.
• The guests ate a seafood dinner, though Xiao Jingxi had to drink liquid food through a straw.
• Director Niu started a story relay, and Xu Shuangrong, Xiao Jingxi, and Qiu Chengye added lines about a couple visiting their parents.
• Lai Bingxuan continued the story by having the narrator flip the table, slap the others, and shout, “In your dreams!”

The guests turned a romantic storytelling game into comedy, prompting Director Niu to abandon his attempts to make the dating show work. He announced that the group would instead visit Severed Love Temple for a monastic-life special.

• Lai Bingxuan pushed Liu Woxing to continue a story, while Yu Jinche, Xie Mi, and Shen Yeqing added jokes that made Director Niu restart the game.
• Director Niu changed the prompt to “my crush and I,” but Xie Mi ended the amusement-park romance story by saying she escaped a frightened crush between his legs.
• After the guests derailed the dating-show activities, Director Niu worked overnight to prepare a new plan.
• Director Niu gathered the eight guests and announced they would travel to Severed Love Temple for a monastic-life special.
• Xie Mi interrupted Director Niu’s villainous laughter to tell him he had a leaf stuck in his teeth.

The Love Watch production team arrived at Severed Love Temple, where Master Man-Slayer imposed strict rules against interaction between men and women. After Qiu Chengye broke a rule, a monk attacked him, and the withdrawal test began.

• The production team reached Severed Love Temple, and the local resident explained why its monastics had renounced romance.
• Master Man-Slayer introduced herself and warned the guests that they had to follow the temple’s rules.
• Master Man-Slayer banned men and women from coming within five meters, making eye contact, touching, or talking for more than three exchanges.
• Qiu Chengye ignored the rules and reached for Liu Woxing, so a monk kicked him down and performed a painful attack.
• The withdrawal test began, requiring the guests to avoid interaction between male and female guests for three days and two nights.

Xie Mi stopped Lai Bingxuan from striking Xu Shuangrong, then slapped Xu Shuangrong herself, shocking everyone in the temple room. The chapter ended with Xie Mi declaring the fight satisfying.

• The guests followed the temple's rules and separated into men's and women's rooms, where Liu Woxing and Xu Shuangrong made up their beds while Xie Mi spread straw on hers.
• Xu Shuangrong offered to make Lai Bingxuan's bed, but Lai Bingxuan shoved her, and Liu Woxing defended Xu Shuangrong.
• Lai Bingxuan moved to strike Xu Shuangrong, but Xie Mi stopped her and said she believed Lai Bingxuan.
• Xie Mi recalled Lai Bingxuan and Xu Shuangrong's history, including how Xu Shuangrong's accusations had helped brand Lai Bingxuan a bully.
• Xie Mi lowered Lai Bingxuan's hand, slapped Xu Shuangrong, and called it a satisfying fight.

Xie Mi slapped Xu Shuangrong, then staged a dramatic reaction to Xu Shuangrong’s push to expose the double standard surrounding their earlier conflict with Lai Bingxuan. She left Xu Shuangrong without an ally as Liu Woxing defended her actions.

• Xie Mi slapped Xu Shuangrong twice and said she did not need a reason to do it.
• Xu Shuangrong pushed Xie Mi, who flew across the room and pretended to be unconscious.
• Xie Mi revealed she had faked her fall and compared Xu Shuangrong’s reaction to her earlier fall after Lai Bingxuan pushed her.
• Liu Woxing and Lai Bingxuan understood Xie Mi’s point as viewers argued over who had provoked the conflict.
• Xu Shuangrong sought Liu Woxing’s support, but Liu Woxing again said Xie Mi must have her reasons.

After Liu Woxing’s defense of Xie Mi sparked a wave of fan edits, Xu Shuangrong grew furious and the guests attended a chaotic meditation session at the Temple of Severed Love. Xiao Jingxi tried to pass Xie Mi a note, but Shen Yeqing intercepted it and exposed him to the abbot.

• Liu Woxing’s repeated defense of Xie Mi went viral, and viewers began shipping the two women.
• Xu Shuangrong checked the online reaction and resented Liu Woxing for growing closer to Xie Mi.
• The guests meditated while Masters Woman-Slayer and Man-Slayer chanted anti-romance slogans, then broke into a fight.
• Xiao Jingxi wrote a note for Xie Mi, but Shen Yeqing intercepted it and told the abbot that Xiao Jingxi was passing notes to a female guest.

During the temple retreat, Shen Yeqing exposed Xiao Jingxi’s secret note, and Xiao Jingxi was punished before the guests began their chores. Qiu Chengye fled rather than collect manure, leaving Xiao Jingxi to haul it alone for Xie Mi’s vegetable patch.

• Shen Yeqing told the abbot that Xiao Jingxi had passed a note to a female guest, and the abbot read aloud a cheesy message addressed to Xie Mi.
• Xiao Jingxi admitted the note was his after being questioned, and a monk kicked him out of the meditation room as punishment.
• After the guests endured a vegetarian lunch and a phone-free nap, Master Man-Slayer assigned them temple chores, including manure collection for Qiu Chengye and Xiao Jingxi.
• Qiu Chengye protested the manure assignment, defied Director Niu, and ran downhill while crew members chased him.
• Master Man-Slayer ordered Xiao Jingxi to collect the manure alone and deliver it to the vegetable patch where Xie Mi and Lai Bingxuan were working.

Xie Mi’s quick thinking and strength helped every group finish their temple chores before the deadline, while the guests endured two days of strict temple life. That night, she tried to sneak into the locked dining hall for food and defended her midnight cravings to Shen Yeqing.

• Xie Mi and Lai Bingxuan hoed the vegetable garden to avoid missing dinner, and the production crew assigned each group a distracting problem.
• Xie Mi carried an elderly woman around the temple, helping resolve the other groups’ problems before reuniting the woman with her husband.
• Every group finished their work before four, and Xiao Jingxi realized Qiu Chengye had pretended to escape to avoid carrying manure.
• The guests endured two days of vegetarian meals, meditation, labor, and early bedtimes while viewers speculated about their relationships.
• At night, Xie Mi found the dining hall locked and ran into Shen Yeqing, then claimed midnight eating showed her heroic bloodline was awakening.

Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing sneaked out to steal snacks, but they escaped after framing Xiao Jingxi, who was caught by the monks. After the guests left Merciless Temple and returned to the villa, the Love Watch cast was invited to appear on Stars on the Run.

• Shen Yeqing persuaded Xie Mi to continue their snack heist, and they climbed over a wall to reach a hidden stash of food.
• Xie Mi ate snacks while Shen Yeqing watched her, and she punctured the romantic moment by pointing out that fireflies lit up with their butts.
• Xiao Jingxi caught Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing sneaking back, but they fled in opposite directions after giving him chips and a lollipop, leaving him to be caught by the monks.
• The guests ended their three-day stay at Merciless Temple and returned to the villa, where they behaved peacefully for two days.
• The Love Watch cast was invited to take part in the first episode of Stars on the Run.

On the first day of Stars on the Run, Xie Mi avoided Xiao Jingxi after recalling his deadly role in the original story, then clashed with veteran host Li Yingwu when he insulted her. Xie Mi’s blunt comeback sent the show and its cast trending online.

• Xie Mi recalled that Xiao Jingxi’s team members would die in the original story and decided to stay away from him.
• Sangzan introduced himself as Xie Mi’s fan, and she amused herself by teaching him nonsensical sayings.
• Li Yingwu insulted young celebrities and seemed to target Xie Mi, prompting Shen Yeqing to mock him with a remark about the birth rate.
• Xie Mi confronted Li Yingwu and called herself first-rate while dismissing him as second-rate.
• Xie Mi’s comeback and Shen Yeqing’s remark sparked trending topics, drawing netizens to the show.

Xie Mi teamed up with Sangzan and Peng Lingdang to evade hunters during the amusement park survival game. When the first mission began, she reached Rhythm World's entrance and unlocked the zone, ignoring Li Yingwu's complaints in the group chat.

• The hunters caught Huo Ziqi, Yu Xiang, and Lin Yanyan as soon as the countdown ended.
• Xie Mi hid in a trash can and accepted Sangzan and Peng Lingdang into her temporary team.
• The production team ordered the remaining guests to unlock five amusement park zones within thirty minutes or face three additional hunters.
• Li Yingwu assigned guests to zones and criticized those who had not reported their locations.
• Xie Mi pulled the lever at Rhythm World, officially opening the zone, then replied with a question mark to Li Yingwu's complaint.

Xie Mi, Peng Lingdang, and Sangzan navigated through Joyful Carnival and opened its gate while viewers laughed at their antics. When the second mission required guests to find matching passwords and contacts within thirty minutes, Xie Mi chose to keep her loyal companions together, and the three began the challenge as a team.

• Xie Mi led Peng Lingdang and Sangzan through the park’s landscaping to Joyful Carnival and pulled its gate lever.
• Shen Yeqing reposted Li Yingwu’s deleted group-chat message, exposing him to the other guests and the livestream audience.
• Shen Yeqing, Xiao Jingxi, Tian Wen, and Xu Shuangrong opened the remaining areas, while five guests were eliminated and nineteen remained.
• The second mission required guests to find password cards and matching contacts to deactivate their timed alarms within thirty minutes.
• Xie Mi suggested that the trio split up, but Peng Lingdang and Sangzan insisted on staying with her.
• Xie Mi agreed to pursue three passwords together with Peng Lingdang and Sangzan.

In the Rhythm World area, Xie Mi searched for hidden code cards while Lai Bingxuan, Qiu Chengye, and Liu Woxing fought over one and were eliminated by hunters. Xie Mi found a card hidden in a balloon, and Lai Bingxuan secretly passed her the code from her own card before leaving.

• Xie Mi climbed a tree to scout likely hiding places for the code cards.
• Lai Bingxuan and Qiu Chengye fought over a card, and Lai Bingxuan tore it up and swallowed it while Liu Woxing tried to stop her.
• Hunters caught Liu Woxing after Qiu Chengye fled, then Lai Bingxuan lured hunters to Qiu Chengye and got them both eliminated.
• Xie Mi retrieved a balloon from a bench, burst it, and found a card hidden inside.
• Lai Bingxuan spotted Xie Mi in the bushes but concealed her from Qiu Chengye and whispered the code, “Wisdom Fruit beneath the Wisdom Tree.”

Xie Mi gave her code phrases to Sangzan and Peng Lingdang, then found another card in the Fantasy Theater and escaped a hunter with Xu Shuangrong's group. Xie Mi and Sangzan deactivated their alarms, but Li Yingwu used Peng Lingdang's code phrase before she could.

• Xie Mi gave her code phrases to Peng Lingdang and Sangzan and went to search for another one.
• Xie Mi found a card beneath the Fantasy Theater seats while Xu Shuangrong and her followers searched the area.
• When a hunter entered the theater, Xie Mi escaped by climbing to the second-floor balcony, while Cai Siyuan was caught protecting Xu Shuangrong.
• Xie Mi found her contact and deactivated her alarm, and the production team announced that Sangzan had deactivated his too.
• Li Yingwu used Peng Lingdang's code phrase before Peng Lingdang could reach her contact.

Xie Mi used a bicycle and the game’s rules to get Li Yingwu eliminated after he stole Peng Lingdang’s code, then mocked his fans during the livestream. Li Yingwu’s fans attacked Xie Mi online, but their backlash helped ignite a wider wave of criticism against him.

• Li Yingwu stole Peng Lingdang’s code and disabled his alarm, but Peng Lingdang was eliminated when her alarm sounded after the deadline.
• Li Yingwu bragged to his lackeys about outsmarting Peng Lingdang as his fans flooded her livestream with abuse.
• Xie Mi drew the hunters toward Li Yingwu’s group, then cycled away while Li Yingwu was caught and eliminated.
• Xie Mi called Li Yingwu’s fans pathetic losers on camera, and her viewers pushed back against their attacks in both livestreams.
• Li Yingwu’s fans attacked Xie Mi on Weibo, prompting a trending topic compiling his past insults against popular stars and bringing their fan communities together against him.