Chapter Summaries

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.