Recaps

Ye Xunzhi dreaded returning to school for final exams, but her family sent her to a new class after arranging protections against her former classmates and teachers. She arrived at Class 26, where Teacher Shi welcomed her and gave her a sunny, inconspicuous seat by the window.

• Ye Qi'an told Ye Xunzhi she had to return to school for finals, and she failed to persuade Ye Lan to let her spend the time on his film set instead.
• Ye Qi'an attempted a French princess hairstyle on Ye Xunzhi, left hair scattered on the floor, and proudly shared a photo of his work with the family group chat.
• Ye Qi'an drove Ye Xunzhi to school, where she reported to Teacher Shi and introduced herself to Class 26.
• Teacher Shi seated Ye Xunzhi beside a sunny window overlooking the sports field, and she decided the spot was ideal for slacking off.

After Yu Yuan narrowly escaped being struck by a falling kitchen knife, Ye Xunzhi discovered that the red envelope from his eldest uncle was Life-Buying Money, which had caused his recent string of bad luck. Yu Yuan had not spent the money yet, and Ye Xunzhi began explaining how he could deal with it.

• Ye Xiao and Yu Yuan offered to celebrate Ye Xunzhi joining her new class with hot pot.
• Ye Xunzhi pulled Yu Yuan out of the way of a kitchen knife that fell from a nearby building.
• Yu Yuan told Ye Xiao and Ye Xunzhi about his recent accidents and worsening health.
• Ye Xunzhi examined Yu Yuan's red envelope and found his birth date and time written on it.
• Ye Xunzhi identified the envelope as Life-Buying Money and explained its effects to Yu Yuan.
• Yu Yuan confirmed he had not spent the money, and Ye Xunzhi began telling him how to handle it.

Ye Xunzhi helped Yu Yuan escape the life-buying curse by redirecting the payment to a vengeful ghost, whose revenge soon killed Yu Yuan’s grandfather. As Yu Yuan thanked her at breakfast, Ye Xunzhi realized she had final exams and asked to be called Guo'er.

• Ye Xunzhi took Yu Yuan and Ye Xiao to the Public Cemetery and told Yu Yuan to burn money for a dead man with heavy yin energy, making himself a middleman instead of the target of the life-buying curse.
• Ye Xunzhi identified Yu Yuan’s bedridden grandfather as the person who had tried to borrow his life and warned that the grandfather or the vengeful ghost would face consequences within three days.
• Yu Yuan returned the next morning and said his grandfather had died after demanding that his family burn money, but his eldest uncle refused.
• Ye Xunzhi told Yu Yuan to warn his mother to leave and pray at a temple, and Yu Yuan called her with the advice.
• At breakfast, Yu Yuan offered to buy Ye Xunzhi a meal to thank her, and Ye Xunzhi suddenly remembered her final exams and asked to be called Guo'er.

After the final exams, Ye Xunzhi was kidnapped by a gang working for a client, but she stayed composed and learned that Xu Qi and Nie Chu had both bid to buy her. The chapter ended with Ye Xunzhi loudly scolding the gang's boss for choosing the wrong deal.

• Ye Xunzhi lamented her poor performance on the humanities exams in the family chat, where her brothers offered to help her study.
• Ye Xunzhi was seized at a secluded intersection and taken to an abandoned warehouse.
• Ye Xunzhi pretended to pass out, then revealed she was carsick and asked her kidnappers for water.
• The gang's boss told Ye Xunzhi that a client would pay ten million for her and named Xu Qi and Nie Chu as buyers.
• Ye Xunzhi shouted that the gang's boss was being foolish after he explained that he had chosen Xu Qi's higher offer.

Ye Xunzhi persuaded her kidnappers to double-cross their employers and sell her to Xu Qi, while Ye Xiao discovered she had been abducted and alerted Special Assistant Zhou. Xu Qi paid the kidnappers and entered the private room, unaware Ye Xunzhi and the kidnappers were preparing to target him next.

• Ye Xunzhi escaped her ropes and convinced the kidnappers to take Xu Qi’s money, rescue her, and demand another ransom from her family.
• Ye Xiao realized Ye Xunzhi had not come home and could not reach her, so he and Lu Nan found surveillance footage showing someone pulling her into an alley.
• Ye Xiao contacted Special Assistant Zhou and told him that his little sister had gone missing.
• Ye Xunzhi’s kidnappers took her to a nightclub and staged her as bound and unconscious while she waited for Xu Qi.
• Xu Qi confirmed Ye Xunzhi was in the private room, transferred the money, and went inside as the kidnappers smiled.

Ye Xunzhi escaped Xu Qi’s attempt to exploit her, sent her eldest brother information about the kidnapping, and moved on to confront the next target. Nie Chu arrived at a warehouse believing the kidnappers had delivered Ye Xunzhi, only for her to recognize his revenge plan.

• Xu Qi explained that Bai Zhao had funded Ye Xunzhi’s kidnapping so he could extort money from her brothers and flee abroad.
• Ye Xunzhi broke Xu Qi’s wrist, incapacitated him, and used his phone to message Ye Yunhuai with his location and a warning that she was moving to another target.
• Ye Yunhuai read Ye Xunzhi’s message in a police car with Captain Liu and prepared to respond to the locations she provided.
• Nie Chu agreed to pay the kidnappers nine million and drove to their warehouse after they claimed they had captured Ye Xunzhi.
• Nie Chu found Ye Xunzhi tied to a chair, and she accurately guessed that he had arranged the kidnapping to take revenge and demand money from her second brother.

Ye Xunzhi escaped her kidnappers, beat Nie Chu, and was rescued by the police. As she left with Ye Yunhuai, Captain Liu learned that she had also badly injured Xu Qi at a nightclub.

• Ye Xunzhi freed herself from her ropes and beat Nie Chu until he called for help.
• Captain Liu and the police arrived, and Ye Xunzhi claimed she was the hostage while Nie Chu accused her of attacking him.
• Ye Yunhuai checked that Ye Xunzhi was unharmed, and she argued that everyone had broken the law at some point, prompting Captain Liu to stop her.
• Ye Xunzhi confronted the captured kidnappers about the innocent people they had sold before leaving with Ye Yunhuai.
• Captain Liu learned that Xu Qi had been arrested at a nightclub and asked Ye Xunzhi what she had done to him.
• Ye Xunzhi said Xu Qi had lunged at her and that she had accidentally struck him with her Foshan Shadowless Kick, leaving him potentially unable to perform sexually.

After Ye Xunzhi escaped her kidnappers, she and Ye Yunhuai gave statements at the police station, where an officer urged her to join the National Defense University. The kidnapping became a trending topic, and back at the Ye Family Villa, Old Master Ye and her brothers argued over how to protect her and what to do if she ever had a crush.

• Ye Xunzhi told the police everything about the kidnapping, and an officer tried to recruit her for the National Defense University while Ye Xiao arrived to check on her.
• The police posted a carefully edited interview with Ye Xunzhi, and Ye Lan's repost helped the story trend online.
• Old Master Ye scolded Ye Yunhuai and Ye Xiao for failing to keep Ye Xunzhi safe and considered assigning her several bodyguards.
• Ye Xunzhi rejected the bodyguard plan, while Old Master Ye and her brothers warned, joked, or threatened what they would do if she ever liked someone.

Ye Xunzhi enjoyed dinner with her family, then went with Ye Lan to the hotel ahead of the second episode of "Burn Bright, Family Bonds!". The next morning, she recognized actor Chen Zuo and recalled that he would later abuse his wife and assistant, leaving Ye Lan aware of a future scandal and danger.

• Ye Xunzhi served Old Master Ye and her brothers food during dinner, while Old Master Ye smugly claimed the special treatment he received as her grandfather.
• Ye Lan carried Ye Xunzhi home, then took her to the production team's hotel and reminded her to wash up before bed.
• Ye Lan woke Ye Xunzhi the next morning and styled her hair into twin ponytails before they went to breakfast.
• Ye Xunzhi met Chen Zuo in the hotel corridor and recognized him as a future abuser whose assistant would expose his crimes with other victims.

Chen Zuo took out his anger on Assistant Li, but Ye Xunzhi quietly helped the assistant after overhearing the abuse. Later, Zhang Gui arrived with his godson An Yuan, who announced that he had joined the show to beat Ye Xunzhi at their game.

• Chen Zuo berated Assistant Li, forced him to pick up broken glass, and threatened him with their service contract.
• Ye Xunzhi found Assistant Li in the hallway and gave him tissues to handle the glass shards safely.
• Ye Lan met Zhang Gui, while Ye Xunzhi’s thoughts revealed Zhang Gui’s wife kept other men and he knowingly tolerated it.
• An Yuan arrived with Zhang Gui, and Ye Xunzhi recognized him as the board-game opponent she had beaten before.
• An Yuan told Ye Xunzhi that he had come for her and would not leave until he beat her.

At the livestream’s second episode, Ye Xunzhi rejected Chen Ze’s attempt to buy her friendship and teamed up with Shi Yao instead. Lin Ranran tried to use Ye Xunzhi’s bluntness to make herself look better, but viewers argued over whether older children should have to give in to younger ones.

• Director Mi introduced Chen Zuo and Chen Ze, announced replacement guardians for three returning guests, and set a three-person teamwork challenge with different meals for winners and losers.
• Shi Yao eagerly asked Ye Xunzhi to team up, and Ye Xunzhi agreed while finishing her breakfast.
• Chen Ze tried to recruit Ye Xunzhi by boasting about his wealthy father, but she ate the red bean cakes he wanted and gave her last one to Shi Yao, making Chen Ze cry.
• Lin Ranran offered Chen Ze candy and criticized Ye Xunzhi for not giving in to him, but Ye Xunzhi insulted Lin Ranran in response.
• Livestream viewers split over Ye Xunzhi’s behavior and whether older children should be expected to yield to younger ones.

Ye Xunzhi, Shi Yao, and An Yuan escaped an amusement-park Escape Room and searched for clues and a communication device. After Shi Yao uncovered what looked like hand grenades and artillery shells, Ye Xunzhi brought one to Director Mi as a “gift,” leaving him screaming in the Broadcast Control Room.

• Director Mi explained that the children had to escape their rooms, contact their parents, and find task-location clues before the time limit triggered water-spraying punishment.
• Shi Yao and An Yuan struggled with the study’s elementary-school riddles, so Ye Xunzhi kicked down the door instead of solving them.
• Ye Xunzhi, Shi Yao, and An Yuan searched the corridor rooms for clues, while Ye Xunzhi sent Shi Yao to guard an unfinished room.
• Shi Yao showed Ye Xunzhi oval objects she had dug out, and Ye Xunzhi told her to keep others out while she took a gift to Director Mi.
• Ye Xunzhi entered the Broadcast Control Room through a ventilation duct and offered Director Mi what appeared to be a hand grenade in exchange for food, making him scream.

Ye Xunzhi calmly held a live grenade until bomb disposal experts removed it, then the guests faced a new challenge to earn dinner and accommodation. After the guests drew partners for the task, Ye Xunzhi paired with Chen Ze and privately considered him a promising investment.

• Shi Yao’s digging uncovered a grenade in an unfinished house, and Ye Xunzhi held it steady while Director Mi panicked and the crew evacuated.
• Ye Lan and Shi Che rushed in, Ye Lan lifted Ye Xunzhi down, and bomb disposal personnel took the grenade away.
• Experts discovered a buried layer of detonatable artillery shells, and the grenade incident became a top trending search.
• Director Mi announced that guests had to spend their earnings on dinner and accommodation, and Ye Lan and Ye Xunzhi chose a luxury villa and plain dinner.
• The guests drew lots for partners, pairing Lin Ranran with An Yuan and Ye Xunzhi with Chen Ze.
• Ye Xunzhi smiled at Chen Ze and thought of him as a promising investment, making Ye Lan stop as he came to pull Chen Ze away.

Ye Xunzhi made sure the parents would have to work while the children shopped, then helped Shi Yao bargain for a dress and bought groceries on a tight budget. Chen Ze gave money to an online contact and spent the rest on trading cards, while Ye Xunzhi continued shopping.

• Ye Xunzhi asked Director Mi what the parents would do while the children went grocery shopping, and he explained they would earn money at task locations until eight that night.
• Shi Yao asked Ye Xunzhi to look at a dress, and Ye Xunzhi bargained its price down from 108 yuan to nineteen yuan.
• While Ye Xunzhi haggled, Chen Ze sent ten yuan to someone saved as Big Brother and shared his location when asked.
• Chen Ze spent his remaining hundred yuan on Ultraman Trading Cards while Ye Xunzhi bought a chili pepper.
• Ye Xunzhi compared prices at several stalls, haggled, and continued shopping for the ingredients on Ye Lan's list.

Ye Xunzhi challenged Chen Ze’s belief that money could buy everything by rewarding his help with a mung bean cake, and he admitted that money was all he had. When Chen Ze slipped away from the cameraman, a group of boys demanded money from him, but a girl in sportswear interrupted them.

• Ye Xunzhi made Chen Ze carry her vegetables in exchange for calling him boss, then shared a mung bean cake with him after he sulked.
• Chen Ze admitted that his parents neglected him and that he believed money could buy him friends and love.
• Ye Xunzhi gave Chen Ze a mung bean cake as a reward for helping her, then asked him to carry the vegetables again.
• Chen Ze pretended to have a stomachache and ran off alone, then met Big Brother and several boys in a secluded corner.
• Big Brother demanded that Chen Ze transfer money, and a girl in red-and-white sportswear appeared and challenged the group.

Ye Xunzhi fought off a gang of thugs after their boss crushed her tomato, then cooperated with the police while her livestream viewers offered absurd testimony. The officers began investigating the scene as Ye Xunzhi sat unhurt, with her groceries mostly intact.

• The gang leader mocked Ye Xunzhi, claimed her groceries, and crushed one of her tomatoes underfoot.
• Ye Xunzhi handed Chen Ze her phone to call the police, then used a stun baton and martial-arts moves to defeat the leader and his lackeys.
• Ye Xunzhi checked that her groceries were intact and relaxed while the police arrived to investigate the fallen thugs.
• Ye Xunzhi told an officer that the thugs had been clenching their buttocks when they arrived, and her livestream viewers posted increasingly ridiculous witness claims.
• Ye Xunzhi joked that she had spent her life doing good and accumulating virtue, while her fans protested in the livestream comments.

Chen Zuo lashed out and kicked Chen Ze after the boy tried to defend their meager dinner, then refused Ye Lan’s offer to share food. Ye Xunzhi exposed Chen Zuo as a wife-beater who had kept his son from his mother, leaving the livestream audience stunned.

• Ye Lan asked Ye Xunzhi whether she had put a gu curse on Chen Ze, and Ye Xunzhi spun an elaborate tale about her past in Miaojiang.
• Chen Zuo discovered that Chen Ze had spent their money on trading cards and complained when the production team offered them only plain congee.
• Chen Ze said he was willing to eat congee with pickled cucumbers, but Chen Zuo shouted at him and kicked him to the ground.
• Ye Lan invited Chen Ze to eat with the other guests, but Chen Zuo refused the offer.
• Ye Xunzhi publicly accused Chen Zuo of beating his wife and preventing her from seeing their son, shocking the guests and livestream viewers.

Ye Xunzhi exposed Chen Zuo’s abuse and deception, then gave Chen Ze a chance to choose between his father’s wealth and standing up for his mother. After Chen Ze rejected the wealth, Ye Xunzhi arranged to have Madam Chen rescued and turned her attention to Chen Zuo’s assistant.

• Ye Xunzhi revealed that Chen Zuo had lied to Chen Ze about his mother abandoning him and claimed his mistress had an STD, while Ye Lan restrained Chen Zuo after he attacked.
• Chen Ze recalled his mother’s warmth and the bedtime story she told him before disappearing, and Ye Xunzhi asked whether he would stand up for her even if he lost his wealth.
• Chen Ze chose his mother over his luxurious life, and Madam Chen watched the exchange from the villa and broke down sobbing.
• Ye Xunzhi called Chen Zuo’s mistress while mimicking his voice, elicited her confession that she had found someone else to get back at him, and told viewers to call the police to rescue Madam Chen.
• Ye Xunzhi announced that Chen Zuo also abused his assistant, leaving the assistant wondering whether he had to save him.

Assistant Li exposed Chen Zuo’s abuse, and police arrested Chen Zuo after finding Madam Chen fighting off the men sent to take her away. Later, Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan sneaked out for food, only for their grilled-squid vendor to flee when city enforcement officers arrived.

• Assistant Li showed his injuries and described Chen Zuo’s violence, while Chen Zuo’s former assistant and other victims shared their own accounts online.
• Police found Madam Chen fighting five men, and they took Chen Zuo away as Director Mi watched.
• Ye Lan arrived at Ye Xunzhi’s room, removed her livestream equipment, and persuaded her to sneak out for food.
• Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan ordered grilled squid from an elderly street vendor, who fled on his scooter after warning them that city enforcement officers were coming.
• Ye Lan urged Ye Xunzhi to keep running, and she joked that a moon rushing toward them would be a meteor.

Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan returned from a late-night squid run, while Lin Ranran resolved to keep targeting Ye Xunzhi after speaking with her teacher. The next morning, Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan learned they had been assigned to the outnumbered white team in the production's new mission.

• Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan ran with an old man's squid cart, ate grilled squid, and showed their agent a photo as proof they had gone running.
• The agent checked Ye Lan's weight and let them off when he had lost a little.
• Lin Ranran called her teacher, who urged her to suppress Ye Xunzhi so she could become the world's female lead, and Lin Ranran vowed not to give up.
• The production team brought the guests to an abandoned building and assigned them to a three-team mission with hidden items and elimination goals.
• Ye Lan read the mission rules and saw that Ye Xunzhi and he were the white team's only two members.

Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan entered a campus game and discovered that the black team consisted of people Ye Xunzhi believed were criminals or otherwise involved in wrongdoing. Ye Xunzhi grew eager to confront them and told Ye Lan to find the white team's door while she handled the black team.

• Ye Xunzhi tried to abandon the mission and rest, but Ye Lan persuaded her to keep playing after the assistant director offered gold bars.
• Ye Lan and Ye Xunzhi explored the campus and found that the principal's office door required a black team's metal card.
• The siblings hid in an empty office and watched Zhang Yi's black team pass by.
• Ye Xunzhi identified members of the black team as human traffickers, scammers, drug users, and other wrongdoers through her thoughts, alarming Ye Lan.
• Ye Xunzhi gave Ye Lan the metal card and told him to find the white team's door while she dealt with the black team.

Ye Xunzhi disguised herself as a student and tricked the black team into helping her find the gold card. After the director revealed her identity, she taunted the team and ran off with the key item.

• Ye Xunzhi disguised herself as a gloomy boy and convinced Zhang Yi's black team that she was an important NPC.
• Ye Xunzhi claimed she needed the student council teachers with the Black Card to retrieve a forgotten item from the principal's office.
• Zhang Yi's team used their card to enter the principal's office and found a box containing the gold card.
• Ye Xunzhi took the gold card from Qiran, and the director announced that both Qiran and Ye Xunzhi had obtained the key item.
• Ye Xunzhi revealed her identity as a white team member, taunted Zhang Yi's team, and fled with the gold card.

Ye Xunzhi escaped Zhang Yi, coordinated with Ye Lan as the golden cards were found, and then took Lin Ranran hostage to confront Jiang Qi. She left Jiang Qi cornered and threatened to hurt Lin Ranran unless he cooperated.

• Zhang Yi chased Ye Xunzhi, who evaded her by climbing out a window and dropping into the floor below.
• After Ye Lan found a golden card, Ye Xunzhi called him and told him to hide while she checked the Bright Splendor Building.
• Director Mi announced that Ye Lan, Ye Xunzhi, and Jiang Qi had each found one of the three golden cards.
• Ye Xunzhi encountered Lin Ranran outside the dean's office, seized her gun, and restrained her with the gun aimed at her elimination target.
• Jiang Qi raised his gun and demanded that Ye Xunzhi release Lin Ranran, but she used Lin Ranran as a shield and threatened him into cooperating.

Ye Xunzhi turned a chaotic showdown into a White Team victory, then faced a police investigation before Ye Lan received word that they were heading to Capital City for Second Grandpa’s sixtieth birthday. The chapter ended with Ye Xunzhi recognizing the timing but withholding what she remembered as they packed for the trip.

• Jiang Qi handed Ye Xunzhi his Golden Card, but she tossed the newly won Golden Cards out the window when the Red Team and Black Team surrounded her.
• Ye Xunzhi revealed accusations about the Black Team to Shi Che, prompting him to turn his Paint Gun on them, while Ye Lan collected the discarded cards below and won the game for the White Team.
• Captain Liu asked Ye Xunzhi to cooperate with an investigation, and Ye Lan pushed her forward to deal with him.
• Director Mi was kept at the Police Station again, while Ye Lan received a call from Ye Yunhuai telling him to fly straight to Capital City for Second Grandpa’s birthday.
• Ye Xunzhi struggled to fit her belongings into her suitcase, then recognized the timing of the birthday but decided to keep packing.