Recaps

Xu Su lamented his lack of protagonist plot armor and confused the guests with his complaints and wordplay. After Zhuang Luo tried to learn which director Xu Su was working with, Xu Su revealed that he meant the heavens when he called the director a bastard.

• Xu Su listed several ordinary problems as upsetting thoughts, while Huo Yuchen waited in vain for him to respond to his romantic hint.
• The guests built a fire despite the warm night, and Xu Su said his heart was ice before wondering where his protagonist plot armor had gone.
• Gu Xingfan pressed Xu Su to explain himself, but Xu Su trapped him in a circular argument about whether explanation would help.
• Zhuang Luo asked whether Xu Su was reciting a new script and then tried to find out which director had written it.
• Xu Su teased Zhuang Luo by explaining that the “bastard director” was the unfair heavens.

Xu Su woke in the night to find Huo Yuchen, who startled him before asking whether he wanted to get married. The next morning, Director Ye tried to rally the guests for shore foraging, but Xu Su immediately suspected the production team had a scheme.

• Xu Su encountered Huo Yuchen in the dark, mistook him for a ghost, and joked with him about dressing up and transferring money.
• Huo Yuchen asked Xu Su whether he wanted to get married, leaving Xu Su bewildered enough to slap himself and then Huo Yuchen to test whether he was dreaming or sleepwalking.
• Huo Ruhui and the man surnamed Gu watched drone footage of Xu Su and Huo Yuchen, and Huo Ruhui defended their playful hitting as affection.
• Before daybreak, Director Ye gathered the guests and urged them to forage along the shore, claiming it was the best time and that the production team had prepared tools.
• Xu Su interrupted Director Ye and accused her of trying to trick the guests into going shore foraging.

Xu Su and the other guests confronted Director Ye about food, but she could offer only dipping sauce until new supplies arrived that afternoon. As they waited, Huo Yuchen and Gu Xingfan bickered, and Director Ye announced a game segment to entertain the guests and viewers.

• Xu Su accused Director Ye of trying to take the guests’ foraged food, and she admitted she could provide tools but not food outright.
• Director Ye offered Imported Cookies, but she brought out only dipping sauce because the cookies were gone and new supplies would not arrive until afternoon.
• Huo Yuchen steadied Xu Su and teased him, while Gu Xingfan mistook Huo Yuchen’s reddening ears for an effort to hide laughter at Xu Su’s complexion.
• Xu Su defended his appearance, and Huo Yuchen called Gu Xingfan sick, prompting Gu Xingfan to start a fight before tripping and hurting himself.
• Director Ye arranged a game segment to entertain the guests and viewers while they waited for supplies.

The guests began the livestream’s Life Q&A, where viewers asked questions and scored their answers. Li Weizhou and Fang Han endured prank callers, and Gu Xingfan was about to take his turn.

• The production team introduced a Q&A segment in which guests answered viewers’ questions for points redeemable for supplies, and the livestream audience doubled.
• Li Weizhou called [Desperate Househusband], who asked what to do about a partner’s cheating; his advice about fate was used by the caller to excuse her own cheating to her partner.
• [Desperate Househusband] gave Li Weizhou a score of 10, leaving him uneasy about his answer.
• Fang Han called [Baby, Kneel], who asked whether someone could start a business without money and revealed that the answer was begging.
• [Baby, Kneel] gave Fang Han a score of 1, and Fang Han threatened to fight before the staff pulled him away to calm him down.
• Gu Xingfan began his turn by selecting [A Dumb Shark in the Desert].

Gu Xingfan declared he would give Xu Su his life, only for a disguised Huo Family Army member to mock his offer and expose his lack of money. Zhuang Luo then took a call from a viewer whose tale of betrayal and losing a boyfriend sounded suspiciously like his own situation.

• Gu Xingfan told a caller that he would give his life to marry Xu Su.
• The caller revealed he was a Huo Family Army member disguised as a Su Fan and urged Xu Su to ignore Gu Xingfan’s worthless offer.
• Gu Xingfan confronted Huo Yuchen, then quickly forgave him after Huo Yuchen told him to get lost.
• Zhuang Luo answered a call from I’m Very Unhappy, who described being betrayed by a friend, losing his career, and having his boyfriend fall for that friend.

Zhuang Luo struggled to comfort an unhappy viewer, while Huo Yuchen used his Huo Group connection to earn a perfect score. Xu Su entertained a caller with risqué jokes before offering advice for dealing with job interviews.

• Zhuang Luo failed to cheer up [I'm Very Unhappy], who gave him a score of 5 because they were not comforted.
• Huo Yuchen called [Huo Group General Affairs Department 03], arranged a meeting date, and received a perfect 10.
• Xu Su connected with [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ], whose excited screaming prompted him to crack risqué jokes.
• [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ] asked Xu Su for job-hunting advice after interviewers repeatedly asked what advantages they had over a Qingbei graduate.
• Xu Su suggested using reverse PUA on the interviewer and began to explain the method.

Xu Su won a mock interview by pitching his willingness to work cheaply, then faced criticism for encouraging applicants to deceive employers. He brushed off the criticism with taunts, leaving Fang Han and Li Weizhou angry.

• Xu Su role-played a job interview and persuaded [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ] to hire him by offering to work for half of six thousand and emphasizing his long hours and limited career prospects.
• [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ] gave Xu Su a score of one hundred, and Director Ye reminded her that the maximum was ten.
• Zhuang Luo accused Xu Su of teaching viewers to commit fraud, while Fang Han, Li Weizhou, and some viewers criticized his advice.
• Xu Su mocked Zhuang Luo and the others, defusing the tense atmosphere with taunts.
• Fang Han and Li Weizhou objected to Xu Su's insults, and Xu Su replied that he had not yet said anything nastier.

Xu Su called out Zhuang Luo for trying to damage his public image, while Huo Yuchen backed him up. After Director Ye announced the contestants’ tiny cookie rewards, an argument over violence and family relationships broke out and ended with Zhuang Luo asking Xu Su whether they would just watch Fang Han and Gu Xingfan argue.

• Huo Yuchen threatened to cripple Fang Han’s pointing hand, and Xu Su told Huo Yuchen to let him finish showing off.
• Xu Su accused Zhuang Luo of steering public opinion against him, and viewers recognized the segment as entertainment rather than fraud.
• Director Ye announced that one point earned one cookie, prompting Fang Han and Gu Xingfan to demand their supplies.
• Zhuang Luo tried to mediate peacefully, but Gu Xingfan argued that violence had solved problems in his family.
• Fang Han and Gu Xingfan turned their argument on each other, and Xu Su called their situation a mess before Zhuang Luo asked if they would just watch.

Xu Su exposed Zhuang Luo’s attempt to guilt him into intervening, then openly insulted him until Zhuang Luo burst into tears. Huo Yuchen told Zhuang Luo to stop crying because his ugly crying would hurt the ratings.

• Zhuang Luo urged Xu Su to help stop the others from arguing, but Xu Su refused and guessed the manipulative script in Zhuang Luo’s head.
• Zhuang Luo denied being as vile as Xu Su suspected and said they should help because they all knew each other.
• Xu Su mocked Zhuang Luo’s claim about judging a gentleman, then insulted him as a dog and said he was worse than an animal.
• Zhuang Luo protested with an innocent, hurt expression and began to cry, prompting some viewers to sympathize with him.
• Huo Yuchen told Zhuang Luo to stop crying because his ugly crying would hurt the ratings.

Xu Su mocked Gu Xingfan for declaring sincere feelings instead of acting like the fickle rich young master Xu Su expected. As the guests prepared to leave the show, Gu Xingfan was left speechless by Xu Su’s scolding.

• Xu Su and Huo Yuchen joked about reading apps after Zhuang Luo ran off, and Director Ye lamented the looted supplies and vowed not to invite the guests again.
• Gu Xingfan asked Xu Su to return to T City with him after filming, but Xu Su refused, and Huo Yuchen pointed out that Xu Su had no ties there.
• Xu Su and Fang Han made sarcastic remarks about Gu Xingfan before shaking hands, prompting Gu Xingfan to kick Fang Han and insist his feelings for Xu Su were sincere.
• Li Weizhou tried to persuade Xu Su to stay in Y City, but Xu Su told him to scram, then told Gu Xingfan to scram as well.
• Xu Su scolded Gu Xingfan for having sincere feelings and declared that a rich young master should chase pretty faces, sleep around, and be fickle, leaving Gu Xingfan speechless.

Xu Su told Gu Xingfan to return to his actual job, then planned to quit entertainment and travel after the show. On the beach, Zhuang Luo confronted him and provoked a slap, but Xu Su revealed he had been recording the encounter on a phone.

• Xu Su scolded Gu Xingfan for neglecting his actual job, amusing the viewers and alarming Director Ye.
• Xu Su decided to terminate his contract with Cheng Nan after returning and retire from celebrity life.
• Zhuang Luo confronted Xu Su on the beach, accusing him of ruining his career and threatening to take Weizhou away.
• When Zhuang Luo grabbed his hand, Xu Su warned him to let go, then slapped him to the ground.
• Zhuang Luo hinted that the slap was part of a game, and Xu Su revealed a phone he had hidden among the stones.

Xu Su exposed Zhuang Luo’s plan to secretly film a fake apology and frame him, then spent the night beside Huo Yuchen. The next morning, the guests discovered Zhuang Luo had been turned into a pig, and he cried while insisting nothing had happened.

• Xu Su explained that Zhuang Luo’s unusual behavior revealed the phone recording and his plan to edit footage portraying Xu Su as abusive.
• Xu Su told Zhuang Luo that the woman who gave him the phone was Huo Yuchen’s bodyguard, then joked that he had a God’s-eye view.
• Xu Su and Huo Yuchen sat together by the sea, and Xu Su fell asleep in Huo Yuchen’s arms.
• The next morning, Xu Su asked whether he had done anything to Huo Yuchen, who replied that Xu Su had better not trust his character.
• Director Ye and the other guests found Zhuang Luo transformed into a pig, and Zhuang Luo tearfully denied that anything had happened.

Zhuang Luo arrived with a badly swollen face and appeared to accuse Xu Su of beating him, prompting Fang Han to confront Xu Su while Li Weizhou tried to protect Xu Su for his own plans. The confrontation ended with Gu Xingfan and Fang Han wrestling over their family ties and Gu Xingfan’s claim that Xu Su was his future cousin-in-law.

• Fang Han saw Zhuang Luo’s swollen face and demanded to know who had hurt him, while Li Weizhou and the viewers reacted with concern.
• Xu Su suspected Zhuang Luo was setting him up, and Director Ye asked whether Xu Su had caused the injuries.
• Fang Han accused Xu Su, who demanded evidence and traded insults with him.
• Li Weizhou promised Zhuang Luo he would get justice later, then urged him to stop making a scene for now.
• Zhuang Luo tearfully implied Xu Su had hit him, and Fang Han insisted Xu Su was responsible.
• Gu Xingfan attacked Fang Han for questioning his future cousin-in-law, and the two began wrestling.

Xu Su refused to let the Production Team leave until Zhuang Luo explained himself, then exposed Zhuang Luo’s fake collapse by stripping off his trousers in front of everyone. The chapter ended with Zhuang Luo’s swollen face and pink Hello Kitty briefs on full display.

• Li Weizhou tried to defuse the conflict, but Xu Su insisted no one would leave until the matter was cleared up and said Huo Yuchen could control the Production Team’s schedule.
• Huo Yuchen dismissed Li Weizhou and showed no sympathy when Zhuang Luo turned to him for help.
• Zhuang Luo pretended to faint, and Xu Su gave a bogus diagnosis before joking that Zhuang Luo should be buried alive.
• Xu Su counted down, then made Zhuang Luo’s trousers disappear, revealing his pink Hello Kitty briefs and stunning everyone.

Huo Yuchen pressed Zhuang Luo to explain how he had been injured while Xu Su rejected attempts to dismiss the dispute. Zhuang Luo kept up his evasive act, and the chapter left him poised to answer Huo Yuchen's question.

• Zhuang Luo revealed that he had faked fainting, and Xu Su claimed his dramatic revival had been guaranteed.
• Director Ye's farewell ceremony turned into a hearing over Zhuang Luo's injury, and Zhuang Luo tried to dismiss the matter while emphasizing his pain.
• Huo Yuchen challenged Zhuang Luo to clarify whether he truly wanted to forget the incident, while Fang Han defended him and Xu Su accused him of bad acting.
• Li Weizhou tried to smooth things over, but Xu Su rejected his appeal, and Gu Xingfan began fighting Fang Han after Fang insulted Xu Su.
• Huo Yuchen returned the discussion to Zhuang Luo's injury and demanded to know exactly how he had gotten it.

Zhuang Luo accused Xu Su of beating him, but Huo Yuchen exposed contradictions in his story and Xu Su hinted that Zhuang Luo’s own left hand would reveal the truth. Zhuang Luo tried to maintain his innocence as the group turned their attention to his hidden hand.

• Zhuang Luo tearfully claimed Xu Su had attacked him by the sea, and Xu Su mocked his story.
• Huo Yuchen questioned Zhuang Luo about which hand struck him, why he had not escaped, and why he had not sought help afterward.
• Huo Yuchen pointed out that Xu Su’s right hand showed no injuries and that Zhuang Luo had no marks from being restrained.
• Zhuang Luo denied lying and suggested Xu Su had recovered overnight or received treatment from Dr. Chen, who insisted he had stayed in his tent.
• Xu Su asked whether Zhuang Luo’s injuries could also have healed overnight, and Zhuang Luo instinctively tried to hide his left hand.

Huo Yuchen presented drone footage proving Zhuang Luo had staged the assault allegations against Xu Su. Zhuang Luo denied the evidence and continued to accuse Huo Yuchen of helping Xu Su, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Huo Yuchen brought over a drone while Xu Su explained to Yu Daniu that it held evidence he had been framed.
• Zhuang Luo considered admitting the truth but instead accused Huo Yuchen of fabricating evidence.
• Huo Yuchen and Director Ye showed footage of Zhuang Luo following Xu Su, hiding a phone, getting slapped once, then repeatedly slapping himself.
• Viewers condemned Zhuang Luo after the footage revealed his scheme to ruin Xu Su and win public sympathy.
• Li Weizhou watched in shock as Zhuang Luo dismissed the video as fake and implied Xu Su had paid Huo Yuchen to support him.
• Huo Yuchen warned Zhuang Luo about the consequences of his accusations, but Zhuang Luo answered with a defiant, pitiful smile.

Xu Su threatened to expose evidence against Zhuang Luo during the livestream, prompting Zhuang Luo to beg him to stop. When Zhuang Luo realized he could not prevent the footage from being shown, he apologized and tried to win Xu Su’s forgiveness.

• Huo Yuchen denied that he would break the law for Zhuang Luo, while Xu Su said he wanted to share Zhuang Luo’s love story.
• Xu Su revealed that he had a USB drive of evidence and said he would upload it online for the public to judge.
• Xu Su asked Director Ye to play the USB footage, and the livestream audience speculated about Zhuang Luo’s alleged cheating.
• Zhuang Luo stopped Director Ye from playing the footage and pleaded with Xu Su to discuss the matter privately.
• Zhuang Luo decided to apologize before the footage played, admitted he had falsely accused Xu Su, and claimed he had acted out of hurt over being slapped.

Xu Su rejected Zhuang Luo’s manipulative apology, and Alexia played photos revealing Zhuang Luo’s affair with Fang Han. The slideshow stunned Li Weizhou and the returning Fang Han and Gu Xingfan.

• Xu Su called out Zhuang Luo’s schemes and refused to forgive him, even after Zhuang Luo admitted to framing him.
• Xu Su signaled Huo Yuchen, who prompted Director Ye to show the evidence, and Alexia started the slideshow.
• The photos revealed Zhuang Luo’s affair with Fang Han, sending the news trending and leaving Li Weizhou too stunned to respond.
• Fang Han and Gu Xingfan returned, saw the photos, and reacted with identical shock.

After a scandal exposed Zhuang Luo and Fang Han’s affair, Li Weizhou beat Fang Han, and the production team evacuated the guests from Nameless Island. On the way back, Huo Yuchen asked Xu Su to repay his help and invited him to stay at his place, but Xu Su refused.

• Fang Han discovered Director Ye restrained and asked Zhuang Luo what was happening, but Fang Han’s teammate admitted that the bedroom photos were real.
• Li Weizhou accepted the evidence of Zhuang Luo’s betrayal and beat Fang Han, while viewers reacted to the scandal.
• The authorities stopped the broadcast, and the production team evacuated the guests from Nameless Island.
• Huo Yuchen asked Xu Su how he planned to thank him, and Xu Su recalled that Huo Yuchen had helped him despite Xu Su never asking for it.
• Huo Yuchen invited Xu Su to stay at his place, but Xu Su objected that he already rented a home, and Huo Yuchen asked again whether he would come.

Xu Su returned to his rented room, decided to buy a villa and terminate his agency contract, and learned that Li Weizhou had been arrested after assaulting Fang Han. The chapter left Xu Su stunned as he checked the news about the fallout from the airport confrontation.

• Xu Su refused Huo Yuchen’s offer to return to the Huo Family, then called a real estate agent about finding a villa.
• Cheng Nan yelled at Xu Su over the trouble caused by his actions on the variety show, and Xu Su asked to terminate his contract.
• Xu Su told Cheng Nan to prepare the termination agreement and planned to sign it the next day.
• After waking from a twenty-three-hour sleep, Xu Su ate takeout and received a call from Lu Jing, who praised his revenge and mentioned a book of Xu Su’s quotes.
• Xu Su checked Weibo and learned Fang Han had provoked Li Weizhou by embracing Zhuang Luo, after which Li Weizhou broke two of Fang Han’s ribs and was arrested.

Xu Su checked the public reaction to Li Weizhou and Zhuang Luo’s scandals, then went to his agency to end his contract. The boss and Cheng Nan tried to persuade him to stay, but Xu Su remained determined to leave.

• Xu Su read the trending posts and found that fans supported him, while Li Weizhou received mixed reactions and Zhuang Luo was heavily abused.
• Xu Su went to his agency office and demanded the termination agreement, insisting he would pay the full penalty.
• The boss and Cheng Nan tried to keep Xu Su by offering him the company’s best resources and a path to becoming a top star.
• Xu Su rejected their offer and said his attachment to the mortal world was exactly why he needed to terminate his contract.
• The boss and Cheng Nan mistakenly assumed a woman named Wanwan had bewitched Xu Su, and Cheng Nan urged him to save money for her before leaving the industry.

Xu Su refused to stay with his agency and confronted the boss over an agreement that inflated his departure penalty from five hundred thousand to fifty million. After unleashing a furious stream of insults, he began unzipping his jacket, leaving the men stunned and unsure what he would do next.

• Xu Su rejected Cheng Nan and the others' pleas to remain in the industry and reminded Cheng Nan of how he had mistreated him when he was a newcomer.
• Xu Su warned the boss to produce a termination agreement, and the boss eventually ordered his assistant to fetch it.
• Xu Su checked the agreement, found the penalty had been changed from five hundred thousand to fifty million, and demanded the boss explain the discrepancy.
• The boss admitted he wanted to make Xu Su pay before leaving, and Xu Su replied with a torrent of insults that stunned everyone in the room.
• Xu Su began unzipping his jacket after revealing he wore a white tank top beneath it, leaving his next move unclear.

Xu Su used fake bombs to make his employer waive his 500,000 termination penalty, then returned home to pack for a trip. Huo Ruhui and Huo Yuchen arrived, and Huo Yuchen manipulated the conversation until Xu Su had to invite them inside.

• Xu Su frightened his boss and coworkers with a fake bomb, secured a termination agreement without paying the penalty, and went home to pack for a vacation.
• Huo Ruhui and Huo Yuchen visited Xu Su after Huo Ruhui worried that Yuchen had bullied him into refusing to move back to the Manor.
• Xu Su insisted he barely knew Huo Yuchen, but Yuchen framed his answers as proof that Xu Su wanted nothing to do with them.
• Huo Yuchen claimed Xu Su was reluctant to be around him, prompting Huo Ruhui to worry and Xu Su to invite them inside.
• Xu Su seated Huo Ruhui on his sofa and kicked Huo Yuchen when he tried to sit down.

Xu Su visited Huo Ruhui, who tried to persuade him to move back to the Manor while Huo Yuchen and Old Mao backed him up. After Xu Su served Huo Ruhui bubble milk tea, Huo Ruhui offered him a housing development in Linxi District, and Xu Su eagerly accepted the gift.

• Xu Su gave Huo Ruhui brown sugar bubble milk tea, and Old Mao explained what it was and reminded Huo Ruhui to limit how much he drank.
• Huo Ruhui suggested Xu Su move back to the Manor, while Huo Yuchen and Old Mao joked that Xu Su wanted to live in a doghouse.
• A call mentioning a housing development reminded Huo Ruhui that he had transferred a development in Linxi District into Xu Su's name.
• Huo Ruhui showed Xu Su the Osmanthus Willows and Clear Breeze development and offered it as a return gift for the milk tea.
• Xu Su was overwhelmed by the offer, then knelt before Huo Ruhui and declared him his own grandpa, promising to obey him.