Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into a novel as a minor character, Shen Ting confronted Si Chen over his demand that Shen delete posts about Su Yu. Shen Ting returned to the wealthy Shen Family villa and began adjusting to his new life and extravagant surroundings.

• Shen Ting woke to find Si Chen demanding that he delete false information about Su Yu and recalled the novel's plot and his minor role in it.
• Shen Ting insulted Si Chen and refused to comply, driving Si Chen to leave in anger.
• Shen Ting arrived at the Shen Family estate and surprised the bodyguards by not ranting about Si Chen or Su Yu.
• Shen Ting rode in Bodyguard B's new supercar, learned how enormous the estate was, and reached the Shen Family villa.

Shen Ting reunited with his mother, smashed a diamond portrait of Si Chen, and used the diamonds to launch a giveaway that drew millions of entrants. The chapter ended with Yan Yi entering the giveaway while his mother urged him to take the dating show seriously.

• Shen Ting's mother rushed out to welcome him and brought him inside to see his eldest brother's diamond portrait of Si Chen.
• Shen Ting smashed the portrait, removed the diamonds, and asked his mother about the online criticism against him.
• Shen Ting liked hostile comments, replied to them with insults and a greasy Si Chen meme, and quickly became a trending topic.
• Shen Ting photographed the diamonds and launched a giveaway, which attracted ten million entrants.
• Yan Yi entered Shen Ting's giveaway as his mother urged him to take the dating show seriously and bring someone home.

Shen Ting prepared for the dating show's filming at his family home and urged his parents not to retire from running their company. He left satisfied after Father Shen promised to keep working, while his parents wondered whether he had gone mad or finally become sensible.

• Shen Ting showed Mother Shen that the online insults had stopped, and she praised him for it.
• Mother Shen asked whether the dating show would film Shen Ting at home, and he confirmed that it would.
• Father Shen came home, and Shen Ting watched his parents switch from their public personas to their affectionate behavior at home.
• Father Shen urged Shen Ting to join the family company, but Shen Ting warned that his older brother might sacrifice the business for love.
• Shen Ting asked Father Shen to keep working and protect the company, and Father Shen agreed before Shen Ting returned to his room.
• After Shen Ting left, Father Shen asked Mother Shen if their son had gone mad, and she said he had finally wised up.

Shen Ting prepared for a variety show and greeted the filming crew with an energetic, eccentric morning routine. He rode his converted electric suitcase into the airport, where the production staff lost sight of him.

• Shen Ting packed three suitcases for the variety show and went to sleep in his luxurious room.
• Love in the Next Moment staff arrived at the Shen family home and filmed Shen Ting waking up by doing broadcast gymnastics.
• Shen Ting greeted the audience with “Good morning, fans” and “Bad morning, little haters.”
• At the airport, Shen Ting transformed his electric suitcase into a small vehicle, attached his other suitcases, and rode into the airport.
• The production staff realized Shen Ting had disappeared from view.

Shen Ting and Yan Yi were mistakenly handed off between camera crews and met at a fried chicken shop near the dating show’s gathering point. When Si Chen complained about Shen Ting, Shen Ting answered with a megaphone, and Yan Yi joined in as “daddy two.”

• Shen Ting and Yan Yi’s camera crews found the missing guests and switched who they were following.
• Shen Ting bought bubble tea and fried chicken, where he crossed paths with Yan Yi at the shop beside the meeting point.
• Su Yu thanked Si Chen for lending him a massager, while the other dating-show guests gathered and Shen Rui defended his absent younger brother.
• Yan Yi criticized Su Yu for emphasizing his connection with Si Chen and his injury to attract attention, and Shen Ting admired Yan Yi’s bluntness.
• As the meeting time approached, Si Chen complained that Shen Ting was making everyone wait, and Shen Ting called himself “daddy one” through a megaphone.
• Yan Yi leaned in to announce “daddy two,” and Shen Ting realized he was the other minor cannon fodder.

Shen Ting and Yan Yi publicly mocked Su Yu’s childhood embarrassment, prompting Si Chen to lead Su Yu away. After the group arrived at the villa, Su Yu offered to cook while Si Chen praised his cooking and recalled a late-night meal they had shared.

• Su Yu approached Shen Ting and tried to blame his online comments on a misunderstanding between former friends.
• Shen Ting reminded Su Yu that he had wet himself as a child, and Yan Yi added that Su Yu had also pooped himself.
• Si Chen pulled Su Yu away, while Shen Ting and Yan Yi joked together about finding another man.
• The guests arrived at the villa after a day of travel, and Meng Yun complained that they still had not eaten.
• Su Yu offered to make dinner, and Si Chen praised his cooking while recalling the late-night snack Su Yu had made for him.

At the dating show, Shen Ting refused Su Yu’s request to share his apples and later watched Su Yu and Shen Rui turn a bread offer into a contest over him. He ended their indecision by flattening the bread with a hammer, leaving the guests and viewers stunned.

• Shen Ting ate an apple and told Su Yu he would share only if Si Chen called him Daddy.
• The show’s host introduced Love in the Next Moment and announced that the guests would divide up squashed bread, with meals and group funds to be handled starting the next day.
• Su Yu offered Shen Ting an intact roll, but Si Chen gave it to Su Yu instead; Shen Ting then shared ham sausages with Yan Yi.
• Shen Rui offered Su Yu his bread, and Su Yu insisted Shen Rui give it to Shen Ting, prompting the two to argue over who should get it.
• Shen Ting took Shen Rui’s bread, smashed it flat with a hammer, and handed it back while declaring himself an agent of justice.

Shen Ting mocked Su Yu’s staged livestream and used a deep-voiced livestream to parody Si Chen, drawing a flood of amused viewers. Su Yu learned Shen Ting’s company had been acquired by the Shen Corporation, then prepared to confront him at his room.

• Shen Ting watched Su Yu’s deliberately embarrassed bathrobe livestream and criticized his acting on camera.
• Shen Ting watched Si Chen sit motionless, then spent sixty yuan to play a burly streamer’s flirtatious voice-over for Si Chen’s fans.
• Shen Ting laughed with viewers and played a mobile game until he scored a penta kill.
• Su Yu’s assistant showed him Shen Ting’s livestream, and Su Yu learned his manager could not control Shen Ting because the Shen Corporation had acquired his company.
• Su Yu told his assistant to prevent damaging trends, got ready with wine, and went to knock on the next-door room.

The guests revealed their ideal types before drawing partners for their dates, and Shen Ting clashed with Si Chen over an accusation. Shen Ting and Si Chen were paired for the day, and Shen Ting made clear he wanted nothing to do with his partner.

• Xiaoyue asked the guests to describe their ideal types, and Su Yu and Si Chen hinted at their feelings for each other.
• Shen Ting gave an unusual answer, slapped Si Chen after he accused him of snooping, and argued that he disliked people who meddled in his affairs.
• Yan Yi said his mother would accept anyone human as his ideal type.
• The guests drew date partners: Bai Yuanyuan and Yan Yi, Su Yu and Meng Yun, Shen Rui and Su Weiwan, and Shen Ting and Si Chen.
• At an amusement park, Shen Ting took half the date money and told Si Chen that his mother would not let him play with idiots.

Shen Ting turned his date with Si Chen into a string of humiliating contests, winning both a balloon-shooting match and a goose ring-toss. The chapter ended with Si Chen chased and pecked by geese before Shen Ting declared it was time to go home.

• Shen Ting agreed to film with Si Chen after the assistant director reminded him that he had requested the pairing.
• Shen Ting and Si Chen wagered that the loser would have to apologize to Su Yu or call the winner Big Daddy, and Shen Ting won by popping twenty-two balloons to Si Chen's eighteen.
• Si Chen called Shen Ting Big Daddy, then promised to catch as many geese as Shen Ting managed to ring.
• Shen Ting landed rings on several geese, including two rings on one goose, and Si Chen entered the enclosure to catch them.
• The geese chased and pecked Si Chen until the stall owner caught four geese and handed them to him, and Shen Ting called an end to the outing.

After the couples’ dates mostly failed, the production team sent the guests into a horror theater to encourage more physical contact. Shen Ting and Yan Yi turned their first encounter with the theater’s NPCs into a robbery and set off deeper inside with a chainsaw.

• The production team decided to make the guests brave a horror theater and rank them by how loudly they screamed.
• The guests arrived at Midnight Horror Theater and learned that higher decibel rankings would earn them a more lavish dinner.
• Shen Ting and Yan Yi entered a dark room together, joking as they prepared to face the scares.
• When two NPCs pretended to threaten them, Shen Ting acted frightened while Yan Yi demanded compensation from them.
• Shen Ting and Yan Yi took the NPCs’ outer garments, an imitation chainsaw, and a speaker, then headed into the haunted house.

The guests panicked as Shen Ting chased them through the haunted house with a chainsaw, while Shen Rui carried Su Weiwang to escape. Bai Yuanyuan slapped Meng Yun awake and made him run from Shen Ting, who decided that playing a ghost suited him best.

• Meng Yun jumped into Bai Yuanyuan's arms, while Su Weiwang stayed calm and Shen Rui nervously reassured him.
• Yan Yi followed Shen Ting's directions to the wrong side of an intersection, then ran into Bai Yuanyuan and Meng Yun as Shen Ting startled them with his chainsaw.
• Bai Yuanyuan ran while carrying Meng Yun, then set him down and dragged him along when he became too heavy.
• Shen Rui saw Shen Ting approaching and carried Su Weiwang away at a run.
• Bai Yuanyuan slapped Meng Yun awake, climbed onto his back, and ordered him to run from Shen Ting.
• Shen Ting said that playing ghosts suited him best, and Yan Yi silently agreed.

Shen Ting and Yan Yi dragged a terrified Si Chen out of the haunted house after Su Yu fled without him, and Shen Ting later stopped Shen Rui from comforting Su Yu over a tiny kitchen cut. The group returned to the villa, where Yan Yi challenged Su Yu's exaggerated reaction to the injury.

• Shen Ting startled Su Yu and Si Chen with his chainsaw, causing Su Yu to run while Si Chen collapsed in fear.
• Shen Ting and Yan Yi dragged Si Chen to the haunted-house exit, where Su Yu apologized and Si Chen blamed Shen Ting.
• Shen Ting wished he could become an octopus and slap eight people at once as Si Chen and Su Yu bickered.
• Su Yu volunteered to cook at the villa, then cried out after a kitchen knife fell into the sink and he cut his finger.
• Shen Ting kicked Si Chen away from Su Yu and Shen Rui, then sent Yan Yi to help in the kitchen.
• Yan Yi pointed out that Su Yu's injury was only a tiny break in the skin on his index finger.

Shen Ting served the group ready-made meals and instant noodles, which impressed some guests and made others wary. The next morning, two new guests appeared in the kitchen, and the director revealed he had invited them to create pressure for the troublemaking contestants.

• Shen Ting used ready-made meals, preserved eggs, and instant noodles to prepare dinner while Yan Yi and Shen Rui watched in dismay.
• Su Yu and Si Chen praised the meal, while Shen Rui and Su Weiwang declined to eat; Yan Yi chose cucumber instead.
• The director and his staff watched the livestream and decided to invite two guest stars to make the contestants feel threatened.
• The next morning, a baby-faced young man offered Shen Ting water, while a young woman offered him toast.

Shen Ting recognized the two troublesome new guests and watched the cast choose teams for a game. He intervened to pair Shen Rui with Su Weiwang, leaving Su Yu and Mao Jingjing together.

• Mao Jingjing and Qian Duoduo introduced themselves, and Shen Ting recognized them as influencers who had caused chaos on the show in the original story.
• Xiaoyue announced a rock-paper-scissors game whose winning pair would earn a request card and whose losing pair would handle the meals and kitchen cleaning.
• Meng Yun chose Bai Yuanyuan as his teammate, while Shen Ting and Yan Yi paired up.
• Qian Duoduo reached Si Chen before Su Yu and teamed up with him, so Su Yu turned toward Shen Rui.
• Shen Ting knocked Shen Rui into Su Weiwang's arms and called himself the Justice Envoy, leaving Su Yu to pair with Mao Jingjing.

The teams competed in a water-splashing rock-paper-scissors match, and Si Chen and Shen Rui were soaked while Su Yu tried to win Shen Rui’s attention. Meng Yun then lost to Su Yu, leaving the story with the tournament continuing and three players drenched.

• Meng Yun beat Si Chen in all three rounds, and Bai Yuanyuan splashed Si Chen each time.
• Shen Ting accidentally slapped Yan Yi, then offered his arm for Yan Yi to hit back, but Yan Yi missed.
• Shen Rui won the first round against Su Yu, and Su Weiwang splashed Su Yu while Shen Rui tried to hand him a towel.
• Shen Rui gave Su Yu the towel, and Su Yu accepted it while thinking he could use Shen Rui to make Shen Ting serve as his foil.
• Mao Jingjing splashed Shen Rui after Su Yu won a round, and Shen Ting laughed at Shen Rui’s soaked appearance.
• Meng Yun lost to Su Yu three rounds to none and became the third drenched player.

Shen Ting and Yan Yi won the water game and saved their request card for later. Afterward, Jin Wang told Su Yu that Yan Yi was Ji Wan’s son and the head of Yan Corporation Technology’s son, and urged Su Yu to pair up with him for publicity, while Mao Jingjing overheard them.

• Shen Ting and Yan Yi defeated Su Yu in the final round of the water game and won a request card.
• Shen Ting and Yan Yi chose to save their request card for later before the guests returned to their rooms.
• Su Yu covered his camera, left the room, and complained to Jin Wang that Shen Ting’s popularity was overtaking his own.
• Jin Wang revealed that Yan Yi was the son of Ji Wan and the head of Yan Corporation Technology, then told Su Yu to cultivate a relationship with Yan Yi and promote them as a couple.
• Su Yu agreed to seek opportunities to interact with Yan Yi and use paid commenters to steer the conversation, while Mao Jingjing overheard them from a nearby room.

Shen Ting and Yan Yi teamed up in a game, where their teasing and victory brought them closer. Mao Jingjing tried to sit beside Yan Yi, and Su Yu asked him for a game, but Yan Yi rejected him.

• Shen Ting complained about his losing game until Yan Yi offered to carry him, and Shen Ting massaged Yan Yi’s shoulders in exchange.
• Shen Ting and Yan Yi added each other in the game under the usernames “Next-Door Wang the CEO” and “Zhu Ganglie Solo Debut.”
• Bai Yuanyuan misunderstood Shen Ting and Yan Yi’s excited gaming banter, while Meng Yun explained that they were playing a game.
• Mao Jingjing tried to squeeze beside Yan Yi, but Shen Ting pushed her away and rebuked her.
• Shen Ting and Yan Yi won the match, and Shen Ting threw himself into Yan Yi’s arms.
• Su Yu asked Yan Yi to carry him in a game, but Yan Yi refused, prompting Shen Ting and Meng Yun to laugh.

Meng Yun’s gaming session ended in a humiliating defeat, and a confrontation between Mao Jingjing and Qian Duoduo exposed their carefully crafted public images. The director rushed in to stop their fight, insisting the program was a dating show.

• Meng Yun suggested a group game, but the players ignored him and his team lost badly.
• Mao Jingjing collided with Qian Duoduo, spilling hot food onto a borrowed bag and revealing that she attended socialite training classes.
• Qian Duoduo accused Mao Jingjing of deceiving her fans, and she hit him with the bag, bending his nose and knocking loose his hairpieces.
• Mao Jingjing and Qian Duoduo fought while exposing each other’s accessories, shoulder pads, height-boosting insoles, and fake abs.
• The director ran into the living room and shouted for the crew to pull them apart, reminding everyone that they were on a dating show.

Shen Ting’s antics and the chief director’s retaliation kept the villa’s variety-show filming in an uproar. Later, Shen Rui paired with Su Weiwang for dinner money, and their eye-contact challenge brought out Shen Rui’s softer side.

• Shen Ting clung to the chief director’s leg while Yan Yi blocked his path, buying time as Qian Duoduo and Mao Jingjing fought until their assistants dragged them away.
• Shen Ting told the director he was moving up in the world, and the director fainted before the assistant director revived him.
• The director announced that the production team would pay for dinner that night, but the first-place team would have to cook the next day, pointedly targeting Shen Ting and Yan Yi.
• Shen Rui invited Su Weiwang to pair up, and Su Weiwang questioned his mixed behavior toward Su Yu before accepting.
• Shen Rui and Su Weiwang completed the director’s twenty-second eye-contact challenge, and Shen Rui’s expression softened as Su Weiwang struggled to hold his gaze.