Recaps

Xu Su joined Return to a Simple Life determined to escape his debt and sever his ties to Li Weizhou, while trading barbs with the cast and growing closer to Huo Yuchen. When Xu Su exposed Li Weizhou and Zhuang Luo’s hidden relationship on the livestream, Li smashed his phone and the scandal forced filming to stop.

• Xu Su agreed to join Return to a Simple Life, then arrived at Miemeng Village and shocked viewers by openly arguing with Li Weizhou and refusing to play along with Zhuang Luo’s expectations.
• Xu Su and Huo Yuchen repeatedly derailed the cast’s games with insults and jokes, while Xu Su revealed that he owed fifty million and pleaded with Huo Yuchen for money.
• Director Yu assigned the guests wasteland plots based on a quiz, where Xu Su and Huo Yuchen tied for the top score and received the smallest plots.
• Xu Su and Huo Yuchen confronted Director Yu over the meager lunch, then earned points by picking apples, where Xu Su treated Huo Yuchen’s cut hand and later threatened him into working.
• Huo Yuchen let Xu Su order dinner ingredients with his points and cooked for him, while Xu Su clashed with Zhuang Luo over his relationship with Li Weizhou.
• Xu Su accused Zhuang Luo of hiding his two-year relationship with Li Weizhou while encouraging Xu Su to pursue Li, and Zhuang Luo denied it and threatened to sue.
• Li Weizhou demanded an apology, but Xu Su claimed he had recordings and footage proving the relationship, and Li smashed Xu Su’s phone as viewers watched and the agency suspended filming.
• Huo Yuchen served Xu Su dinner and insisted Li Weizhou discuss the matter at the table, which Xu Su agreed to do.

Xu Su and Huo Yuchen grew closer through the variety show, while Xu Su clashed with Zhuang Luo and Fang Han over a jewelry endorsement. After Huo Yuchen intervened on Xu Su’s behalf, the pair learned they would join the other guests on an unpowered deserted island.

• Xu Su recovered his blue diamond and ten million from Li Weizhou and Zhuang Luo, then revealed he had deleted the phone’s evidence long ago.
• Xu Su and Huo Yuchen paired up for the Lotus Village challenges, where Huo Yuchen carried Xu Su out of the mud and later cooked for him.
• Masked assailants attacked the guests after their late-night work, prompting the show to suspend filming and send them to the hospital.
• Huo Yuchen took Xu Su to meet Huo Ruhui, who welcomed him and gave him his late grandmother’s diamonds and agates.
• At the jewelry endorsement shoot, Xu Su clashed with Fang Han and Zhuang Luo, and Zhuang Luo falsely accused him of slapping him.
• Huo Yuchen confronted Fang Han and Zhuang Luo, then ordered Zhuang Luo to kneel and kowtow to Fang Han ten times.
• Fang Han canceled the endorsements but agreed to pay Xu Su in full, while Huo Yuchen took Xu Su back to the Villa.
• Yu Daniu told Xu Su and Huo Yuchen they would switch to a show on an unpowered deserted island, where they would have to provide for themselves for a week.

Xu Su and the other guests struggled through a week on a remote island, where poisonous mushrooms, scarce supplies, and clashing relationships repeatedly disrupted their survival efforts. The guests found food and shelter but remained hungry as Xu Su and Huo Yuchen’s closeness kept fueling viewers’ speculation.

• Ye Yuan welcomed the six guests to See You Beyond the Rainbow, where Li Weizhou and Zhuang Luo apologized to viewers while Xu Su turned his introduction into a song and a joke about funeral services.
• After learning they had to gather their own supplies, the guests set off for food, but Li Weizhou and Gu Xingfan ate poisonous mushrooms and began acting erratically.
• Xu Su led the group to a tiny pool that refilled with fresh water, then assigned roles in a plan to steal supplies from the production crew and helped build a shelter.
• The guests argued over sleeping arrangements and their tangled relationships, while Xu Su tried to give Zhuang Luo a sleeping bag and later described how Li Weizhou, Gu Xingfan, and Fang Han ended up sleeping together after another mushroom-toxin episode.
• Xu Su suggested ways to forage for shellfish, then slapped Zhuang Luo and Li Weizhou after they blamed him for their problems.
• While the crew filmed the guests gathering food, Zhuang Luo and Gu Xingfan passed out after arguing, and Xu Su and Huo Yuchen got tangled together while dealing with octopuses.
• The guests’ shellfish haul mostly fell apart during rinsing, so they ate the few octopuses they had and went back into the jungle for food.
• Xu Su asked whether Huo Yuchen was hungry after he gave Xu Su his portion, and Huo Yuchen teased him about getting rich by coming closer and kissing him.

Xu Su exposed Zhuang Luo’s attempt to frame him and the affair between Zhuang Luo and Fang Han, then left his agency and prepared to retire from celebrity life. The arc ended with Huo Ruhui offering Xu Su a housing development, prompting Xu Su to declare him his grandpa.

• Xu Su sparred with the guests and exposed Director Ye’s plan to send them shore foraging, then joined a viewer Q&A that turned into a series of chaotic calls and arguments.
• Xu Su rejected Gu Xingfan’s pleas to return to T City and decided to terminate his agency contract, while Zhuang Luo tried to secretly record him and frame him as abusive.
• Xu Su revealed that Zhuang Luo had staged his injuries, and Huo Yuchen showed drone footage of Zhuang Luo slapping himself after Xu Su struck him once.
• Xu Su and Huo Yuchen presented evidence that Zhuang Luo had been having an affair with Fang Han, Li Weizhou attacked Fang Han, and authorities stopped the broadcast and evacuated the guests from Nameless Island.
• Xu Su refused Huo Yuchen’s invitation to move back to the Huo Family, demanded to leave his agency, and used a fake bomb to secure a termination agreement without paying the penalty.
• Huo Ruhui and Huo Yuchen visited Xu Su, and Huo Ruhui offered him the Osmanthus Willows and Clear Breeze development after remembering he had transferred it into Xu Su’s name.
• Xu Su accepted Huo Ruhui’s generosity by kneeling before him and declaring him his own grandpa.