Chapter Summaries

Xu Su and Huo Yuchen clashed with Gu Xingfan over Xu Su, while Fang Han stirred up a tense rivalry with Li Weizhou over Zhuang Luo. The group reached Xu Su’s water source, only to find a tiny puddle, and Xu Su left them complaining as he tried to scoop it up.

• Gu Xingfan clung to Xu Su and declared his love until Huo Yuchen kicked him away, then offered to teach Xu Su to defend himself.
• Fang Han teased Li Weizhou about his interest in Xu Su and implied that he had a relationship with Zhuang Luo, making Li Weizhou jealous.
• Fang Han said he was going to check whether his uncle was dead yet.
• After an hour-long trek, Xu Su led everyone to a fist-sized puddle that he identified as a freshwater source.
• Xu Su used a wild taro leaf as a spoon to scoop the scarce water while the others complained, and he snapped that everyone should stop talking.

Xu Su showed the others that the small pool refilled itself, solving their concerns about the water supply. After Gu Xingfan praised him and Zhuang Luo tried to turn his teasing into a grievance, Xu Su mocked Zhuang Luo and rejected Li Weizhou’s attempt to smooth things over.

• Xu Su’s fans argued online with viewers who accused him of misleading everyone about the water source.
• Xu Su pointed out that the small pool refilled itself, and the others realized they would not have to worry about water.
• Gu Xingfan praised Xu Su and offered to prepare a bride price, prompting Xu Su to retch.
• Zhuang Luo claimed Xu Su had put him in a difficult position, but Xu Su dismissed him and imitated his wounded act.
• Li Weizhou tried to defend Zhuang Luo, but Xu Su insisted he would take Zhuang Luo’s words to heart and told Li Weizhou not to tell him what to do.

Zhuang Luo tried to make Xu Su look like a bully, but Xu Su turned the argument into a farce before a sudden downpour left the guests needing shelter. When Director Ye offered only tiny bowls as supplies, Xu Su proposed robbing the production team’s tents again.

• Zhuang Luo apologized to Xu Su, and Fang Han demanded that Xu Su forgive him, prompting Xu Su to dramatically protest his innocence.
• Gu Xingfan scolded Fang Han while Li Weizhou tried to comfort both Xu Su and Zhuang Luo, and the argument ended when heavy rain began.
• Director Ye ordered the guests to build a shelter and gave them six tiny bowls, which Xu Su joked could be used to beg a shark for food.
• Xu Su pointed to the production team’s tents and asked whether everyone remembered how they had robbed Director Yu before.

Xu Su and the other guests distracted the production crew while Huo Yuchen quietly stole their supplies, then used them to build a temporary shelter. The shelter was finished by sunset, though Director Ye complained that it was shoddy and might collapse or blow away.

• Xu Su assigned roles for a plan to take supplies from the production crew, while Huo Yuchen was left without a task.
• The guests distracted the crew as Huo Yuchen slipped behind them and took fishing gear, bedding, a kitchen knife, rope, and steamed buns.
• The guests ate the stolen buns, and the show’s legal department warned viewers not to imitate the theft.
• The guests divided up the work and built a shelter from poles, banana leaves, and branches.
• Director Ye criticized the shelter’s weak supports, flimsy walls, and shallow foundations.

After the rain stopped, the cast divided up to dry their clothes, while Xu Su rejected Gu Xingfan’s offer to team up with a bizarre fortune-telling excuse. That night, Director Ye tried to film the contestants warming themselves by the fire, but she stopped Xu Su before he could strip too far.

• Xu Su interrupted Director Ye with a warning about robbing the tents, and Director Ye disappeared in a gust of wind as the rain stopped.
• Zhuang Luo volunteered to watch the fire, but the group decided to split into teams and dry their own clothes instead.
• Gu Xingfan asked Xu Su to team up, but Xu Su claimed a fortune-teller had warned him to avoid anyone surnamed Gu; Gu Xingfan offered to defy fate so they could marry.
• Huo Ruhui mocked Gu Xingfan over the phone, then told Butler Mao to hide the cancer medication before Gu arrived in Y City.
• Director Ye ordered the cameraman to film the contestants removing clothes to warm themselves, then shouted for Xu Su to stop when he began stripping.

Huo Yuchen used his investor privilege to get Xu Su dry clothes after Xu Su threatened to strip, then the six guests returned to the cabin and faced a shortage of sleeping bags. Li Weizhou unexpectedly insisted Xu Su needed one because of his poor health, leaving everyone questioning how he knew that.

• Huo Yuchen persuaded Director Ye to fetch clean clothes by invoking his investor privilege, and Xu Su admitted he had only been provoking the production team.
• Huo Yuchen scolded Xu Su for threatening to strip in public, and the two traded insults while the other guests watched.
• Gu Xingfan repeatedly made bizarre accusations at Fang Han, Zhuang Luo, and Li Weizhou as they discussed gathering seafood.
• Zhuang Luo offered to sleep on the ground when the guests discovered they had only four sleeping bags for six people.
• Li Weizhou said Xu Su should get a sleeping bag because he was in poor health, prompting Xu Su, Zhuang Luo, and Gu Xingfan to question how he knew.

Li Weizhou tried to rekindle Xu Su’s affection by recalling how Xu Su once waited for him in the winter cold, but Xu Su angrily rejected him. Huo Yuchen challenged Li Weizhou’s motives, while off camera Director Ye saw the unstable relationship between Li Weizhou and Zhuang Luo as a chance to film a breakup.

• Li Weizhou recalled that Xu Su had waited outside his set in the winter cold until he developed a high fever, prompting Xu Su and his fans to condemn him for bringing up the painful memory.
• Li Weizhou insisted he wanted Xu Su to have a better life, but Xu Su told him to stop looking at him with disgustingly lovesick eyes.
• Fang Han joked that Xu Su, Li Weizhou, and Zhuang Luo could share a bed of leaves, and Gu Xingfan insisted that Xu Su would sleep in a sleeping bag under his protection.
• Huo Yuchen asked whether Li Weizhou wanted Xu Su to return to fawning over him, exposing Li Weizhou’s hope that Xu Su would interpret his remembered kindness as proof of love.
• Director Ye told Yu Daniu that Li Weizhou and Zhuang Luo’s relationship was unstable and said he hoped to film how it changed, but Yu Daniu asked what would happen if they did not break up.

Director Ye argued with Yu Daniu about the conflicts on her dating show, then the cabin descended into arguments while Zhuang Luo felt abandoned and went to the sea. Xu Su mistook Zhuang Luo’s rejection of Li Weizhou for a request to leave, and after offering him a sleeping bag, threw it away on his way back.

• Director Ye explained that Colorful Encounter featured relationship conflicts, then yelled at Yu Daniu for never watching her show.
• Xu Su attacked Gu Xingfan, Huo Yuchen pressed Li Weizhou for answers, and Fang Han stirred up trouble between them.
• Zhuang Luo ran to the sea, lamenting that nobody had comforted him, while viewers sympathized with him.
• Xu Su arrived with a sleeping bag, but Zhuang Luo mistook him for Li Weizhou and told him to leave.
• Xu Su left and threw the sleeping bag away, leaving both livestream audiences arguing over his actions.

Xu Su’s spiteful sleeping-bag scheme left Li Weizhou without one, and the guests woke to a chaotic livestream after Li Weizhou, Fang Han, and Gu Xingfan were found tangled together with their pants partly down. Xu Su hinted he knew how the trio ended up that way, but refused to explain and promised to make the story even longer.

• Xu Su explained neither why he offered Zhuang Luo a sleeping bag nor why he discarded it after Zhuang Luo refused, while Huo Crown Prince realized Xu Su had wanted to keep Li Weizhou from sleeping comfortably.
• Xu Su took Li Weizhou’s sleeping bag to Zhuang Luo, who refused it, and Xu Su threw it away; Yu Daniu later retrieved it.
• Director Ye’s crew entered the cabin early to livestream, and the camera revealed Li Weizhou wedged between Fang Han and Gu Xingfan with all three men’s pants partly down.
• Li Weizhou, Fang Han, and Gu Xingfan woke, covered themselves, and questioned how they had ended up together; Fang Han also complained that the back of his head hurt.
• Xu Su appeared and hinted that he knew what had happened, but refused Director Ye’s request to explain briefly.

Xu Su recounted how Li Weizhou and Gu Xingfan, still affected by mushroom toxins, went wild and accidentally knocked Fang Han out before sleeping beside him. The courtroom-style hearing ended with Fang Han and Gu Xingfan arguing, while the audience watched their antics unfold.

• Director Ye arranged a makeshift tribunal while Xu Su ate breakfast, with Huo Yuchen as Xu Su's attorney and Zhuang Luo attending as a spectator.
• Xu Su gave a brief account of Li Weizhou and Gu Xingfan acting strangely, waking Fang Han, and ending up asleep together after they beat him up.
• At Director Ye's urging, Xu Su described how Li Weizhou and Gu Xingfan tugged at each other's clothes and recited bizarre rhymes during another mushroom-toxin episode.
• Fang Han tried to pull them apart, but they mistook him for joining in; Li Weizhou knocked him down, and the two lay beside him holding on to each other.
• Fang Han and Gu Xingfan fought over Xu Su's overly detailed account, then traded insults and kicked their chairs as the viewers laughed.

The guests prepared to forage along the shore, but Xu Su’s jokes and insults repeatedly left Fang Han and Li Weizhou speechless. Zhuang Luo confronted Li Weizhou over his attention to Xu Su and his failure to seek him out, and Li Weizhou responded coldly.

• Fang Han and Gu Xingfan traded insults about how to forage without any tools.
• Xu Su argued with Fang Han, who became dizzy with anger and had to be checked by the doctor.
• Xu Su suggested digging for shellfish, catching creatures in rock crevices, and prying oysters off rocks with a kitchen knife.
• Xu Su mocked Li Weizhou by telling him to see a specialist about his eyesight.
• Zhuang Luo confronted Li Weizhou for ignoring him and failing to look for him, and Li Weizhou told him to calm down.

Xu Su stopped Zhuang Luo and Li Weizhou’s argument, while Huo Yuchen arranged the guests into pairs to gather food. The cameramen then left their teams under Director Ye’s orders, leaving the guests without their usual filming companions.

• Xu Su complained that Zhuang Luo and Li Weizhou were blaming him for their problems, and Huo Yuchen reassured him that meeting him had been their bad luck.
• Xu Su slapped Zhuang Luo and Li Weizhou and told them to stop barking, while Huo Yuchen watched him affectionately.
• Director Ye urged the guests to prepare food, and Huo Yuchen assigned himself with Xu Su, Gu Xingfan with Zhuang Luo, and Li Weizhou with Fang Han.
• Director Ye ordered the cameramen to carry out a plan, then docked the Team A cameraman’s bonus and Yu Daniu’s pay after their confused radio exchange.
• The three cameramen each made an excuse and left their assigned guest pairs, and Xu Su accepted their sudden departure.

Director Ye secretly showed viewers how the guests behaved without cameras, revealing Fang Han and Li Weizhou trading insults and Zhuang Luo and Gu Xingfan unconscious on the beach. After the two recovered from brief concussions, they each refused to explain what had happened, leaving Director Ye without answers.

• Director Ye took control of the livestream feeds and introduced the guests with mocking descriptions before sending the camera to spy on them.
• Fang Han and Li Weizhou traded increasingly childish insults about each other’s status, wealth, and intelligence.
• The production crew found Zhuang Luo and Gu Xingfan lying motionless on the beach and rushed them to the makeshift infirmary.
• Director Ye prayed outside the infirmary, then learned that Zhuang Luo and Gu Xingfan were awake and had no serious injuries.
• Director Ye asked why they had passed out, but Zhuang Luo and Gu Xingfan each insisted that the other should explain.

Director Ye struggled to keep the beach segment under control as guests’ awkward attempts to collect seafood turned into a string of suggestive mishaps. Two hours later, the groups returned to base camp with mostly unusable hauls, leaving Director Ye wondering whether the show was worth filming.

• Zhuang Luo accused Gu Xingfan of acting with bad intentions after Gu Xingfan tried to help remove sand from his eye, and their argument filled the livestream with innuendo.
• Director Ye found Xu Su and Huo Yuchen tangled together while dealing with octopuses and tried to stop the scene, eventually intervening herself.
• Xu Su explained in an interview that octopuses had crawled into their clothes and that he had knocked Huo Yuchen over while helping remove them; Huo Yuchen agreed with his account.
• The guests returned to base camp with damaged octopuses, empty shells, and oyster meat mixed with debris, and Director Ye sarcastically criticized their efforts.

After the guests’ shellfish fell apart during rinsing, they ate their few octopuses and searched the jungle for more food. Xu Su worried about Huo Yuchen, who had given him his portion, then daydreamed about inheriting Huo Yuchen’s fortune; Huo Yuchen teased him, while viewers read their exchange as romantic.

• Gu Xingfan, Fang Han, and Li Weizhou argued over whose shellfish haul was worse until Xu Su silenced them by saying he had finished speaking fairly.
• The guests rinsed their shellfish, but the oyster meat and tiny shellfish meat disintegrated, leaving only a few octopuses.
• Xu Su reassured the hungry guests that they would not starve, then pointed out they might end up half-dead and at death’s door, frustrating Director Ye.
• The guests ate the octopuses and went into the jungle to find more food.
• Xu Su asked Huo Yuchen if he was hungry because Huo Yuchen had given him his portion, then admitted he had been imagining getting rich.
• Huo Yuchen teased Xu Su about getting rich by coming closer and kissing him, while the viewers excitedly interpreted their exchange as love.

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.