Chapter Summaries

At Old Master Mo Ye’s banquet, Ye Xunzhi’s thoughts helped the family elders avoid a nasty douzhi trick and led to Ye Lan being forced to drink it. Later, her advice to Xi Rongrong about choosing a gift moved Ye Jie when she overheard how Ye Xunzhi had been deprived of childhood kindness.

• Ye He brought Old Capital City douzhi for Old Master Mo Ye, and Ye Xunzhi’s thoughts taught him how to prepare it while warning him away from drinking it.
• Old Master Mo Ye tried to trick Old Master Ye into tasting cooked douzhi, but Ye Xunzhi’s thoughts warned him that raw douzhi tasted worse too.
• Old Master Ye and Old Master Mo Ye tricked Ye Lan into drinking the douzhi, while the family watched and the butler welcomed the elders’ lively mood.
• After the banquet, Ye Xunzhi received a message from Xi Rongrong asking what car she should choose as a coming-of-age gift.
• Ye Xunzhi suggested asking for a stroller, bicycle, or candy instead, explaining that she had missed out on such childhood gifts, and Ye Jie overheard the exchange.

After returning home with Old Master Ye, Ye Xunzhi found an unconscious boy in an alley and called for an ambulance. She left before it arrived, convinced that keeping her distance would make her his unforgettable ideal rather than the heroine of a misery romance.

• Ye Xunzhi woke near evening and learned that her brothers had flown home without her after she refused to get out of bed.
• Ye Xunzhi and Old Master Ye flew home, where Ye Yunhuai had arranged a car to pick them up.
• Lin Ranran's teacher told her that the Ying Family's true heir would be in danger and warned her not to comment on his looks.
• Ye Xunzhi bought a cake, heard someone breathing faintly in an alley, and found an unconscious boy there.
• Ye Xunzhi called emergency services and slapped the boy when his pulse weakened, then left with Old Master Ye before the ambulance arrived.

After surviving a car bomb, Ying Ci was rescued by an unknown passerby, but Lin Ranran falsely claimed credit and was secretly encouraged by her teacher to keep the truth hidden. Meanwhile, Ye Xunzhi was scolded for bizarre mistakes on her exams, leaving her grandfather and brother baffled by her answers.

• Ying Ci escaped the bombed car and his attackers, then collapsed in an alley after his bodyguard died and the police arrived.
• Lin Ranran found Ying Ci, pretended she had rescued him, and gave him her contact information as an ambulance arrived.
• Ying Ci suspected Lin Ranran had not saved him and resolved to remember her slap while investigating the real passerby who called the ambulance.
• Lin Ranran told her teacher what happened, and the woman warned her not to reveal that someone else might have saved Ying Ci.
• Old Master Ye scolded Ye Xunzhi for absurd basic mistakes on her exam, including food-themed answers and claiming Little Japan Island was Country Z's largest island.
• Ye Xiao joined Ye Xunzhi in applauding her patriotic explanation, leaving Old Master Ye speechless.

Ye Xunzhi finished her homework, wrote a cheeky letter to her parent, and went off to earn money as a zombie extra while Old Master Ye attended her parent-teacher meeting. The chapter ended with Old Master Ye being called to speak about Ye Xunzhi’s top grades and parenting methods after reading a letter that contained no real message.

• Ye Xiao helped Ye Xunzhi finish her overdue homework on the drive to school, and she handed it in before learning that classes would end at noon.
• Teacher Shi announced the afternoon parent-teacher meeting and asked the students to write letters to their parents; Ye Xunzhi quickly wrote a playful note.
• Ye Yunhuai and other family members argued in the parents’ group chat over who would attend, and Old Master Ye was chosen.
• Ye Xunzhi accepted Lan’s offer to work as a zombie extra for 800 and spent the rest of the school day thinking about the job and dreading her summer worksheets.
• Old Master Ye attended the meeting and opened Ye Xunzhi’s letter, which asked him to pretend to read it and improvise if asked to speak.
• Teacher Shi invited Old Master Ye to discuss the letter and his methods for raising Ye Xunzhi, who had ranked first in her class and grade.

Ye Lan and Ye Xunzhi took zombie extra roles in a doomsday film, then went out together after being photographed by fans. Ye Xunzhi opened a stuck armored truck lock for a thousand yuan, and she and Ye Lan were taken in for questioning as Old Master Ye read her message claiming she had become a technical consultant.

• Ye Lan and Ye Xunzhi played zombie extras in a doomsday film, earning Ye Xunzhi a 1,600-yuan red packet and drawing attention from fansite photographers.
• Ye Lan invited Ye Xunzhi to attend a fashion show with their mother, and they set off together after promising the manager not to cause trouble.
• Ye Xunzhi spotted a crowd near a bank and went with Ye Lan to find SWAT officers and a locksmith struggling to open an armored truck.
• Ye Xunzhi picked the truck's lock with a wire, opened its door, and collected a thousand yuan from the bank manager.
• A SWAT officer took Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan along, while Ye Xunzhi messaged Old Master Ye that she had become a technical consultant for an armored-truck lock factory.

Ye Xunzhi, Ye Lan, and Yan Qingqing arrived at a fashion show, where Yan Qingqing encountered her rival Qi Heng and introduced Ye Xunzhi to their history. Ye Xunzhi remembered that Qi Heng’s junior was involved in a disaster about to unfold that night, but she left Ye Lan waiting for the details.

• Old Master Ye dropped Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan off at the fashion show, where they reunited with Yan Qingqing.
• Yan Qingqing traded insults with designer Qi Heng, who was attending as a specially invited judge.
• Ye Lan explained that Qi Heng resented Yan Qingqing for rejecting his advances and later surpassing him professionally.
• Ye Xunzhi noticed that Qi Heng’s junior seemed unwell, and Yan Qingqing said the young man’s design sketches showed promise.
• Ye Xunzhi recalled that Qi Heng’s empire would collapse that night and told Yan Qingqing he would suffer a bloody calamity, but she withheld the rest from Ye Lan.

Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan attended a fashion show with Yan Qingqing, while Ye Xunzhi's gossip revealed shocking secrets about the people there. When news spread that Designer Qi Heng was being beaten in the lobby, Ye Lan carried Ye Xunzhi off to watch, and Yan Qingqing wished she could follow.

• Designer Luo visited Yan Qingqing and shared milk tea with her, while Ye Xunzhi's thoughts revealed how the two friends had once run an online dating scam together.
• Yan Qingqing, Ye Xunzhi, and Ye Lan took their seats at the fashion show, where Ye Xunzhi recognized a model and a guest through their family scandals.
• The event organizer's boss learned that a man had attacked Designer Qi Heng in the lobby, and Ye Xunzhi thought that Qi Heng had forced a junior into a relationship despite already having a partner.
• Ye Lan lifted Ye Xunzhi over the crowd and carried her toward the lobby to see the fight, while Yan Qingqing watched them leave and longed to join them.

After Ye Lan left her outside the venue, Ye Xunzhi got Ye Qi'an to pick her up and went back to his dorm, where his disastrous cow chyme hot pot forced them to order food. As they cleaned up, Ye Qi'an named the colleague who had given him the hot pot, and Ye Xunzhi reacted with sudden surprise.

• Ye Lan left Ye Xunzhi outside the venue, but she messaged Ye Qi'an, who came to collect her on his electric bicycle.
• Ye Lan discovered Ye Xunzhi had left with Ye Qi'an and received her message teasing him for abandoning her to watch the brawl.
• At Ye Qi'an's dorm, he tried to cook cow chyme hot pot, and Ye Xunzhi recognized it as cow dung hot pot.
• Ye Xunzhi paid a delivery worker to throw out the foul-smelling hot pot, and the siblings ate takeout after airing out the dorm.
• While they washed dishes, Ye Qi'an said the colleague who gave him the hot pot was a man named Song Wei, and Ye Xunzhi looked up in surprise.

Ye Xunzhi recognized Song Wei as the man who would kill Ye Qi'an in the future and struggled to understand his motive, while Ye Qi'an tried to comfort her without revealing that he could hear her thoughts. The next morning, she went to the institute with him and joked about his poor treatment of her.

• Ye Xunzhi asked Ye Qi'an for his senior colleague's name, then realized Song Wei was the future culprit who would blow up her brother.
• Ye Xunzhi recalled confronting and stabbing Song Wei after he confessed to killing Ye Qi'an, and wondered whether she should attack him again.
• Ye Qi'an learned from Ye Xunzhi's thoughts that she still did not know why Song Wei wanted him dead, and sent her to bed to stop her brooding.
• Ye Qi'an tried to prepare a bedtime story, but found Ye Xunzhi already asleep.
• Ye Xunzhi accompanied Ye Qi'an to the institute, where Group Leader Zhu invited her to breakfast and teased Ye Qi'an about being a poor choice of partner.
• Ye Xunzhi joked that Ye Qi'an would make someone miss nine meals in three days and get beaten with a steel rod, while he pretended not to hear her.

Ye Xunzhi discovered a bomb hidden in the institute’s Medicine Warehouse, while Song Wei prepared to exploit her return by targeting Ye Qi'an. She and Ye Qi'an called Ye Chuyan for help, and her expert analysis of the bomb finally convinced him she was serious.

• At lunch, Ye Xunzhi told Group Leader Zhu that his son was destined to shovel shit, and learned he had become a colorectal surgeon.
• Song Wei recognized Ye Xunzhi and later retrieved a hidden vial, intending to use Ye Qi'an’s death to get close to her.
• Ye Xunzhi and Ye Qi'an entered the Medicine Warehouse through its ventilation ducts and found a powerful homemade bomb concealed behind medicine.
• Ye Qi'an video-called Ye Chuyan, who initially thought Ye Xunzhi wanted to play at defusing a bomb.
• Ye Xunzhi identified the bomb as a Mercury Detonation Device with attached C4, prompting Ye Chuyan to take her seriously and admit he was becoming fond of her.

Ye Xunzhi defused the bomb with Ye Chuyan’s help, then secretly confronted Song Wei at an abandoned school. After Song Wei realized she had found him, Ye Xunzhi attacked him with a tranquilizer gun while Ye Chuyan arrived to watch.

• Ye Xunzhi defused the bomb, and Ye Chuyan agreed to tell Ye Qi'an that he had guided her.
• Ye Qi'an and Ye Xunzhi returned to the Research Lab, where Ye Qi'an later found her asleep on the couch.
• After Ye Qi'an left for the institute, Ye Xunzhi slipped out and went to the abandoned school where Song Wei was watching the Research Institute.
• Ye Xunzhi used a phone call and violin music to draw Song Wei’s attention before revealing herself and accusing him of plotting against Ye Qi'an.
• Ye Xunzhi fired repeated shots from a tranquilizer gun at Song Wei as Ye Chuyan arrived at the school.

Ye Xunzhi defeated Song Wei by wrapping him in explosives and escaping before the blast, but she was stunned to learn he had survived. As she returned to the Research Institute with Ye Qi'an, a woman whose alternate identity had been destroyed vowed revenge, while Ye Xunzhi recalled a photograph that made her suspicious.

• Ye Xunzhi incapacitated Song Wei, wrapped him in the activated explosives, and left the rooftop before the bomb exploded.
• Ye Xunzhi ran into Ye Chuyan while fleeing, took his car keys, and drove away as emergency crews and onlookers gathered at the Abandoned School.
• A beautiful woman escaped through an emergency exit, blamed Ye Xunzhi for destroying her alternate identity, and called Ranran to pick her up.
• Ye Xunzhi rode with Ye Chuyan to Ye Qi'an's home, where Ye Qi'an found them playing cards and sent Ye Chuyan to sleep on the sofa.
• The next day, Ye Xunzhi heard researchers say Song Wei had survived the explosion and was in the hospital, leaving her and Ye Qi'an shocked.

Ye Xunzhi learned that Song Wei had been trapped in a supernatural body-leasing contract for ten years and urged him to keep practicing medicine to save people. That evening, Ye Lan brought her back for filming the third episode of "Burn Bright, Family Bonds!"

• Ye Xunzhi accompanied Ye Qi'an to the clinic and learned that Song Wei had survived the explosion and had not implicated her.
• Song Wei told Ye Xunzhi that a woman had leased his body for ten years, leaving him unable to control it while his reputation was restored.
• Ye Xunzhi refused to forgive Song Wei for nearly getting her brother killed but urged him to keep working as a doctor and save lives.
• Ye Qi'an praised Ye Xunzhi's words, while she privately revealed that she hoped Song Wei would work hard enough to go bald.
• Ye Lan took Ye Xunzhi back that evening for filming the third episode of "Burn Bright, Family Bonds!"

The production crew tried to wake Ye Lan and Ye Xunzhi for an early livestream, only to learn they were trapped inside Clumsy Bird Delivery Station. After the crew rescued them, Ye Xunzhi’s ghostlike appearance terrified everyone, and she explained she had used highlighter powder to make her face glow.

• Director Mi sent the assistant director to wake the guests with a suona, but Ye Xunzhi told him over the phone that she and Ye Lan were not home.
• Ye Lan posted that they were locked inside Clumsy Bird Delivery Station, and viewers joked about their predicament and suggested items they could use.
• The production crew brought the station’s owner and opened the shutter to rescue Ye Lan and Ye Xunzhi.
• Ye Xunzhi appeared pale and disheveled in the dark warehouse, frightening the crew as she chased Director Mi because she had not heard what he said.
• Ye Lan caught Ye Xunzhi and scolded her for scaring people, while she explained she had used highlighter powder to make her face glow.

Ye Xunzhi completed a borrowing task by tricking Old Master Ye into sending money through Ye Lan’s WeChat, while Ye Lan struggled to understand their grandfather’s generosity toward her. During a fan question, Ye Xunzhi claimed she would choose Capital City University over 30 billion, though her private thoughts revealed she valued the university’s land far more.

• Director Mi assigned Ye Xunzhi a task to borrow 2,000 yuan by impersonating Ye Lan and messaging one of his WeChat contacts.
• Ye Xunzhi messaged Old Master Ye, who mocked Ye Lan’s excuses for needing money and initially refused to send any.
• Ye Xunzhi pretended she had given up buying a phone and planned to transfer her money to Old Master Ye, prompting him to send 2,500 yuan.
• Old Master Ye told his butler he recognized Ye Xunzhi behind the messages because Ye Lan would not have kept arguing with him for so long.
• Ye Lan said Ye Xunzhi would choose 30 billion over Capital City University, but she answered that she would choose the university.
• Ye Xunzhi privately calculated that selling Capital City University’s land could be worth more than 80 billion, leaving Ye Lan exasperated.

Ye Lan and Ye Xunzhi joined the other guests in Yaojia Village for a lodging challenge that required them to gather mushrooms from the mountain. They suspected the village chief was pretending to be lame, and the guests could exchange their earlier earnings for only five supplies.

• Director Mi introduced veteran actor Wu Chengshan and his son, Wu Jia, as well as artist Mu Yang and his daughter, Mu Tong.
• Lin Ranran greeted Mu Tong warmly, while Ye Xunzhi failed to recognize her.
• Director Mi explained that five guest groups would compete for one village chief's courtyard, two places in an elderly lady's house, and two places in a dilapidated temple.
• The village chief asked guests to bring him lion's mane mushrooms, while the elderly lady asked them to gather five kinds of mushrooms for her sauce.
• Ye Lan noticed makeup on the village chief and concluded from his gait that he was probably pretending to be lame.
• The guests learned they could exchange their earlier earnings for supplies, but were limited to five items.

The guests split into teams to search the wilderness, where Ye Xunzhi exposed Lin Ranran’s supposed fruit as wombat poop and warned her companions away from poisonous mushrooms. After Lin Ranran’s group got lost, they reunited with Ye Xunzhi’s team by the river, where Wu Chengshan switched sides to get food.

• Lin Ranran suggested the guests stay together until they found a river, and the group showed off their supplies, including Ye Lan’s hot pot seasonings and cooking gear.
• Lin Ranran mistook cube-shaped wombat poop for fruit, and Ye Xunzhi corrected her; Ye Xunzhi and Ye Lan then traded barbs with Jiang Qi and Ning Chu.
• The guests split into two teams, with the Shi siblings following the Ye family and the Mu family following Lin Ranran; Ning Chu backed away after Ye Xunzhi hinted she knew her scandals.
• Lin Ranran’s team wandered in circles, while Ye Xunzhi’s group gathered food and Ye Xunzhi warned Shi Yao and Ye Lan that the mushrooms they had found were poisonous.
• The two teams met by the river, where Ye Xunzhi was cooking instant noodles; after she refused Wu Jia a bite, Wu Chengshan joined her team in hopes of getting food.

Ye Xunzhi recognized Mu Tong and recalled how her father, Mu Yang, had abused and controlled her in private. The group went fishing, while Ye Lan learned the extent of Mu Yang’s cruelty.

• Wu Chengshan denied defecting, and he and his son ate Ye Xunzhi’s noodles.
• Mu Tong followed the tempting smell toward Ye Xunzhi, but Mu Yang stopped her and sent her fishing with Lin Ranran.
• Ye Lan warned Ye Xunzhi not to get close to Mu Yang’s family after noticing Mu Tong’s distressed expression.
• Ye Xunzhi remembered that Mu Tong had later exposed her father’s abuse at a banquet and jumped from a rooftop.
• Ye Xunzhi recalled that Mu Yang had forced Mu Tong to suffer so he could use her emotions as inspiration for his paintings.

Ye Xunzhi’s team feared a distant figure was a bear and tried to escape by running downwind. Lin Ranran and her companions accidentally drew the bear toward them, leaving everyone facing an immediate charge.

• After gathering enough mushrooms for lodging, Ye Xunzhi’s team and Lin Ranran’s team raced separately toward Old Granny’s house as night approached.
• Wu Jia spotted a figure waving nearby, but Ye Xunzhi warned that it might be a bear and told the group not to call out.
• Ye Xunzhi explained that running downwind through the forest could help them escape, then led everyone away from the bear.
• Lin Ranran’s team approached the figure to ask for directions, and the bear roared and chased them toward Ye Xunzhi’s group.
• Lin Ranran and her companions ran into view screaming for help, and Ye Xunzhi shouted for everyone to run.

As a black bear chased the group, Lin Ranran tried to save herself by throwing others into its path, while Ye Xunzhi and the others turned back to face the danger. Ye Lan drew the bear away from Wu Chengshan, and the chapter ended with the bear preparing to attack him.

• Jiang Qi tried to use Ye Lan as a shield, but Ye Xunzhi kicked Jiang Qi into the bear's path, and he crashed into a tree and passed out.
• Lin Ranran slowed Ye Xunzhi and then threw Wu Jia toward the bear, prompting Wu Chengshan, Ye Lan, and Shi Che to turn back and confront it.
• Lin Ranran fled down the mountain, while Ye Xunzhi told Wu Jia and Shi Yao to hide and wait for her.
• Wu Chengshan stalled the bear by shouting at it, but it charged until a branch struck its head.
• Ye Lan taunted the bear into chasing him, while Shi Che struck it with another branch; the bear chose to go after Ye Lan.